nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: deflate Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From de- + (in)flate. Coined in 1891, in reference to balloons. Equivalent to Latin dē- (“away, from”) + Latin flō (“blow”) + -ate (verb-forming suffix). Pronunciation: /diːˈfleɪt/, /dɪˈfleɪt/ 1. To remove air or some other gas from within an elastic container, e.g. a balloon or tyre. Labels: transitive 2. To cause an object to decrease or become smaller in some parameter, e.g. to shrink Labels: transitive 3. To reduce the amount of available currency or credit and thus lower prices. Labels: transitive 4. To become deflated. Labels: intransitive 5. To let (someone) down, disappoint them, or put them in their place. Labels: transitive Example: deflate someone's ego Example: Scotland's first match at a men's major finals in 23 years ended in anguish after Patrik Schick's incredible halfway-line goal helped the Czech Republic inflict a deflating opening Euro 2020 defeat at Hampden. 6. To compress (data) according to a particular algorithm. Labels: transitive Example: Never had a problem, guess I've never had to deflate multiple files! 7. To belch or flatulate Labels: slang
Word: gilsonite Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Gilson + -ite. Named after American rancher S. H. Gilson who discovered it. Pronunciation: /ˈɡɪl.səˌnaɪt/ 1. A form of asphalt from the Uintah Basin of Utah. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: loogie Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Unknown; possibly from Luger, Lou, Lue or Louie; possibly from the name of the baseball player Lou Gehrig (from the habit of baseball players of spitting); possible variant of booger. Pronunciation: /ˈluːɡi/ 1. A thick quantity of sputum, usually containing phlegm. Labels: US, slang Example: to hock a loogie Example: I steal doobies, spit loogies when I puff on it 2. Any thick, disgusting liquid. Labels: US, slang
Word: fifth gear Part of Speech: noun 1. The fifth of the gears of a transmission; in many motor vehicles built in the 1970s or later, it is the top gear, being the overdrive gear, although in the 21st century some vehicles have transmissions with yet more gears (e.g., 6, 7, 8), among both manual transmissions and automatic transmissions. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: third gear Part of Speech: noun 1. The third of the available gears in a transmission or other gearbox. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: bro Part of Speech: noun Etymology: PIE word *bʰréh₂tēr Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *bʰréh₂tēr Proto-Germanic *brōþēr Proto-West Germanic *brōþer Old English brōþor Middle English brother English brotherclip. English bro Spelling pronunciation and clipping of brother. (Contrast bruh, which is a clipping of the pronunciation of brother rather than the spelling.) Compare Swedish bror. Pronunciation: /ˈbɹəʊ̯/, [ˈbɹʷəʊ̯], /ˈbɹɵʊ̯/, [ˈbɹʷɵʊ̯], /ˈbɹəʉ̯/ 1. Brother (a male sibling). Labels: slang Example: My mom took my lil' bro to soccer practice now and she wanted me to pick him up. 2. Brother (a comrade or friend; one who shares one’s ideals). Labels: slang Example: Bro, you good? You've been lookin' kinda out of it lately. Example: Let’s not kid ourselves – there are plenty of men saying that Will has been emasculated by Jada, because hurr durr why would he hit a bro over a woman. 3. Brother, my man, good sir; a friendly term of address for typically men. Labels: slang Example: Near-synonym: man Example: don't tase me, bro 4. A frat boy or someone who espouses the fraternity bro culture. Labels: slang 5. Someone, usually male, who aggressively evangelizes a person, concept or technology. Labels: derogatory, in-compounds, slang, usually Example: Pfeiffer's partners at Pod Save America — the audio outpost of the resistance that had made a collection of Obama Bros niche superstars, had invested as producers in a documentary about the Senate run. Example: One of these cars has 707 horsepower, performs amazingly well on a drag strip, and is popular among performance car bros. The other car is about to easily win a drag race.
Word: first gear Part of Speech: noun 1. The first gear of a transmission or other gearbox, which usually is the one that provides the lowest output speed and greatest mechanical advantage, except in setups in which there is a granny gear. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Near-synonym: low gear (synonymous except when a creeper gear is present)
Word: bird of prey Part of Speech: noun 1. A carnivorous bird that hunts for its food, especially one that preys on land vertebrates.
Word: agouti Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From French agouti, from Old Tupi akuti. The name of the acouchi is probably from the same source. Pronunciation: /əˈɡuːti/ 1. A rodent of the genus Dasyprocta, similar in appearance to a guinea pig but having longer legs, mainly native to Central and South America. Example: Akin looked around to be certain he was unobserved, then went out to watch the agouti. He had not seen one close up before. Lilith claimed they looked like a cross between deer and rats. 2. A fur containing a pattern of pigmentation in which individual hairs have several bands of light and dark pigment with black tips; any of several genes responsible for this pigmentation.
Word: amphibian Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin amphibius [from Ancient Greek ἀμφίβιος (amphíbios), from ἀμφίς (amphís, “of both kinds”) + βίος (bíos, “life”)] + -an. Pronunciation: /æmˈfɪbɪən/ 1. Of or relating to the class Amphibia. Labels: not-comparable 2. Capable of operating on both land and water; amphibious. Labels: not-comparable 3. Having two natures. Labels: not-comparable, obsolete
Word: amphibian Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin amphibius [from Ancient Greek ἀμφίβιος (amphíbios), from ἀμφίς (amphís, “of both kinds”) + βίος (bíos, “life”)] + -an. Pronunciation: /æmˈfɪbɪən/ 1. An animal of the Amphibia; any vertebrate that does not have amniotic eggs, typically living both on land and in water. 2. A vehicle which can operate on both land and water. 3. A person with two distinct characters, qualities or identities. Labels: uncommon Example: The prime exemplar of such a cast of mind must be Johann Ladislas Pyrker, a definite amphibian and ‘Austro-Hungarian’ in his literary and in his public life. The son of another estate bailiff in Transdanubia, Pyrker became successively a Hungarian official, an Austrian monk and at length a fairly worldly abbot at Lilienfeld, then a bishop in Hungary, patriarch of Venice, and archbishop in Hungary again.
Word: barge Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English barge, borrowed from Old French barge (“boat”), from Vulgar Latin *barga, a variant of Late Latin barca, a regular syncope of Vulgar Latin *barica, from Classical Latin bāris, from Ancient Greek βᾶρις (bâris, “Egyptian boat”), from Coptic ⲃⲁⲁⲣⲉ (baare, “small boat”), from Demotic Egyptian br, from Egyptian bꜣjrb-bA-A-y:r*Z1-P1 (“transport ship”). Doublet of bark, barque and baris. Pronunciation: /ˈbɑːd͡ʒ/, [ˈbɑːd͡ʒ], /ˈbɑɹd͡ʒ/, [ˈbɑɹd͡ʒ] 1. A large flat-bottomed towed or self-propelled boat used mainly for river and canal transport of heavy goods or bulk cargo. Example: Not far from the station can be seen one of the old barges of the Nar Navigation Company which has become so much a part of the bank it has a tree growing in it. 2. A richly decorated ceremonial state vessel propelled by rowers for river processions. 3. A large flat-bottomed coastal trading vessel having a large spritsail and jib-headed topsail, a fore staysail and a very small mizen, and having leeboards instead of a keel. 4. One of the boats of a warship having fourteen oars 5. The wooden disk in which bread or biscuit is placed on a mess table. 6. A double-decked passenger or freight vessel, towed by a steamboat. Labels: US 7. A large bus used for excursions. Labels: US, dated, dialectal, historical
Word: barge Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English barge, borrowed from Old French barge (“boat”), from Vulgar Latin *barga, a variant of Late Latin barca, a regular syncope of Vulgar Latin *barica, from Classical Latin bāris, from Ancient Greek βᾶρις (bâris, “Egyptian boat”), from Coptic ⲃⲁⲁⲣⲉ (baare, “small boat”), from Demotic Egyptian br, from Egyptian bꜣjrb-bA-A-y:r*Z1-P1 (“transport ship”). Doublet of bark, barque and baris. Pronunciation: /ˈbɑːd͡ʒ/, [ˈbɑːd͡ʒ], /ˈbɑɹd͡ʒ/, [ˈbɑɹd͡ʒ] 1. To intrude or break through, particularly in an unwelcome or clumsy manner. Example: I mean I couldn't sit there on that desk for the rest of my life, and besides, I was afraid my parents might barge in on me all of a sudden and I wanted to at least say hello to her before they did. Example: In making this extension, the Metropolitan also built a connection from Farringdon Street towards an overground railway that had just barged its way into the City from Kent. This railway was the London, Chatham & Dover. 2. To push someone. Labels: transitive Example: The home side were professionally going about their business and were denied a spot-kick when Dunne clumsily barged Nani off the ball.
Word: dik-dik Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Imitative of the sound made by the animal when alarmed. 1. A small antelope of the genus Madoqua, native to southern and eastern Africa, having an elongated snout, a brown or grey/gray coat with a white belly, and an upright tuft on the crown.
Word: kudu Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Ultimately Khoekhoe kudu-b, through Afrikaans koedoe and French koudou. Pronunciation: /ˈkuːduː/ 1. A large, striped, African antelope of the species Tragelaphus imberbis (lesser kudu) or Tragelaphus strepsiceros (greater kudu). Example: Martha, on a hot, wet, steamy afternoon, had spent two hours wriggling on her stomach through the undergrowth to reach a point where she might shoot a big koodoo that was grazing in a corner of the Hundred Acres. Example: I watched from a distance as rangers left a kudu carcass to entice the lions to walk through the gates.
Word: klipspringer Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Afrikaans klipspringer, from Dutch klipspringer, both literally meaning "rock-jumper". Pronunciation: /ˈklɪpˌsprɪŋə/, /ˈklɪpˌsprɪŋər/ 1. A small antelope native to eastern and southern Africa having a dense, brown, speckled coat (Oreotragus oreotragus).
Word: springbok Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Afrikaans springbok, from Dutch springbok, from springen (“to jump, spring”) + bok (“buck, billy goat, antelope”). Pronunciation: /ˈspɹɪŋ.bɒk/, /ˈspɹɪŋ.bɔk/ 1. A small, fast antelope native to southern Africa, Antidorcas marsupialis.
Word: bittern Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English bitour, botor, from Old French butor, from Gallo-Roman *butitaurus, a blend of Latin būtiō (“bittern”) and taurus (“bull, ox”). Pronunciation: /ˈbɪtən/, /ˈbɪtəɹn/ 1. Several bird species in the Botaurinae subfamily of the heron family Ardeidae. Example: It is a great rock or cliff on the loneliest part of the mountains, and […] is known by the name of the Garden Rock. Near the foot of it is a small lake, the haunt of the solitary bittern, with water-snakes basking in the sun on the leaves of the pond-lilies which lie on the surface.
Word: bittern Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From bitter with an unclear suffix, perhaps a dialect form of -ing. Pronunciation: /ˈbɪtən/, /ˈbɪtəɹn/ 1. The liquor remaining after halite (common salt) has been harvested from saline water (brine). Labels: countable, uncountable 2. The saline substance added to soy milk to coagulate it as a primary step in the production of tofu. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Now we add the bittern. 3. A very bitter compound of quassia, cocculus indicus, etc., used by fraudulent brewers in adulterating beer. Labels: archaic, countable, uncountable
Word: Sodom Part of Speech: name Etymology: Partially from Old English Sodome, Sodoma, partially from Ancient Greek Σόδομα (Sódoma), from the Biblical Hebrew סְדֹם (s'dóm). (Wadham College): Chosen for the rhyme. Pronunciation: /ˈsɒ.dəm/, /ˈsɑ.dəm/ 1. A city in the Middle East which, according to the Bible and Islamic tradition (but not specifically named in the Qur'an), was destroyed by God (along with Gomorrah) for the sins of its inhabitants (especially the implied homosexuality of the men). 2. Wadham College, Oxford. Labels: obsolete
Word: Sodom Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Partially from Old English Sodome, Sodoma, partially from Ancient Greek Σόδομα (Sódoma), from the Biblical Hebrew סְדֹם (s'dóm). (Wadham College): Chosen for the rhyme. Pronunciation: /ˈsɒ.dəm/, /ˈsɑ.dəm/ 1. A city or place full of sin and vice. Example: Take all idea of retribution and punishment out of the hearts and minds of men, and it would not be long before Brooklyn and New York and Boston and Charleston and Chicago became Sodoms.
Word: carnivore Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from French carnivore, from Latin carnivorus. In the zoological sense, coined by William Whewell in 1840 as an adaptation of Cuvier's coinage, French carnivore. Pronunciation: /ˈkɑː.nɪ.vɔː/, /ˈkɑɹ.nɪ.voɹ/, /ˈkaː.nɪ.voː/ 1. An organism that feeds chiefly on animals; an animal that feeds on meat as the main part of its diet. Example: As juveniles the crocodiles are frequently predated by larger carnivores. 2. A mammal belonging to the order Carnivora. Example: The panda and the panther are both carnivores. 3. A person who is not a vegetarian. Labels: informal Example: Well, she has now gone / From this unhappy planet / With all the carnivores / And the destructors on it 4. A follower of the carnivore diet. Labels: informal
Word: dinosaur Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Ancient Greek δεινός (deinós, “terrible, awesome, mighty, fearfully great”) + σαῦρος (saûros, “lizard, reptile”). Coined as Dinosaur(s) and Dinosauria by paleontologist Richard Owen in 1841/1842. Pronunciation: /ˈdaɪnəsɔː(ɹ)/, /ˈdaɪnəsoɹ/, /ˈdʌɪnəsɔːɹ/ 1. Those animals of the clade Dinosauria that existed during the Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous periods and are now extinct. Labels: usually Example: Despite what some cartoons portray, no humans were around when dinosaurs roamed the Earth. 2. Any of the animals belonging to the clade Dinosauria, including its sole surviving lineage: Neornithes. Example: Many people love their backyard birds, but some of us may not realize that those feathery friends are also literally dinosaurs, in a biologically accurate sense of that word. 3. Any extinct reptile, not necessarily belonging to Dinosauria, that existed between about 230 million and 65 million years ago, as well as the stem-mammal Dimetrodon. Labels: broadly, informal, proscribed Example: Pterosaurs, plesiosaurs, icthyosaurs — I don't know, they're all dinosaurs to me! Example: "Not a bird, my dear Roxton - not a bird." "A beast?" "No; a reptile - a dinosaur." 4. Someone or something that is very old or old-fashioned, especially someone who is not willing to change and adapt. Labels: colloquial, figuratively Example: She may be a tough old bird, but it's a mistake to write her off as a dinosaur; you do so at your own risk. Example: [The OS/360 linkage editor] is the culmination of years of development of static overlay technique. Yet it is also the last and finest of the dinosaurs, for it belongs to a system in which multiprogramming is the normal mode and dynamic core allocation the basic assumption. 5. Anything no longer in common use or practice. Labels: colloquial, figuratively Example: I couldn't believe it when I saw the equipment that they were still using. Those machines were all dinosaurs, but they were busily cranking out production.
Word: disclude Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English discluden, from Latin disclūdō, disclūdere (“separate or keep apart”). 1. To disclose, make known. Labels: nonstandard, transitive 2. To separate, keep apart. Labels: nonstandard, transitive Example: If it ſeeme that by the waters, I muſt helpe euen ſtrangers that neede my help, that are far off and diſcluded by the Sea, then I reaſon; […] Example: Thirdly, that theſe principall faculties are diſcluded or ſeparated by their manſions theſe things doe demonſtrate; […] 3. To exclude, not include; to remove from inclusion. Labels: nonstandard, transitive Example: Please disclude me from further discussions on this topic. Example: Whence ſome conceit, that theſe reſult, as it were, from that Diviſion; only they change their Office, and are become Terminative now, whereas they were before Continuative; and that they were potentially in that Former Whole before, and are only of late Diſcluded. 4. To cause (teeth) to not meet when the jaw is closed. Labels: transitive Example: During the eccentric movements, the cellophane strip readily pulls out as the anterior teeth disclude the posterior teeth. Example: Cuspid protected occlusion is that type of occlusal function in which there are even centric stops around the arch in the maximum intercuspation position but any lateral or protrusive movement of the mandible immediately discludes the posterior teeth, with the lower cuspid occluding against the lingual surface of the upper cuspid.
Word: burke Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Eponymous, from William Burke. Pronunciation: /bɜː(ɹ)k/ 1. To murder by suffocation. Labels: Australia, Ireland, New-Zealand, UK, slang Example: As soon as the executioner proceeded to his duty, the cries of ‘Burke him, Burke him—give him no rope’... were vociferated... ‘Burke Hare too!’ 2. To murder for the same purpose as Burke, to kill in order to have a body to sell to anatomists, surgeons, etc. Labels: Australia, Ireland, New-Zealand, UK, historical, slang Example: "I don’t know that," interrupted the landlady; "Williams is a good hanging name: there was Williams who murdered the Marr's family, and Williams who burked all those poor dear children; I dare say he is some relation of theirs; but to think of his coming to the White Hart—it's no place for his doings, I can tell him: he sha'n't poison his wife in my house; out he goes this very night—I'll take the letter to him myself." Example: Perhaps he is Burked, and his body sold for nine pounds. 3. To smother; to conceal, hush up, suppress. Labels: Australia, Ireland, New-Zealand, UK, slang Example: The reporters left it out... Those who spoke in favour of the poor men, were what the reporters call burked. Example: He put away—burked—the Directors' letter, and went in to talk to Riley
Word: burke Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /bɜː(ɹ)k/ 1. Alternative form of berk. Labels: UK, alt-of, alternative, slang
Word: dot Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English *dot, dotte, from Old English dott (“a dot, point”), from Proto-West Germanic *dott, from Proto-Germanic *duttaz (“wisp”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Dot, Dotte (“a clump”), Dutch dot (“lump, knot, clod”), Low German Dutte (“a plug”), dialectal Swedish dott (“a little heap, bunch, clump”). Pronunciation: /dɒt/, /dɑt/, /dɔt/ 1. A small, round spot. Example: a dot of colour Example: Long stood Sir Bedivere / Revolving many memories, till the hull / Look’d one black dot against the verge of dawn / And on the mere the wailing died away. 2. A punctuation mark used to indicate the end of a sentence or an abbreviated part of a word; a full stop; a period. Example: The homepage of English Wiktionary is en.wiktionary.org. [read aloud: E-N-dot-wiktionary-dot-org] 3. A point used as a diacritical mark above or below various letters of the Latin script, as in Ȧ, Ạ, Ḅ, Ḃ, Ċ. 4. A symbol used for separating the fractional part of a decimal number from the whole part, for indicating multiplication or a scalar product, or for various other purposes. 5. in musical notation, a symbol in the form of a small point placed after a note, indicating that its duration is to be augmented by 50%. 6. One of the two symbols used in Morse code. Example: The alphabetical signals are made up of combinations of dots and of lines of different lengths. 7. A lump or clot. Labels: obsolete 8. Anything small and like a speck comparatively; a small portion or specimen. Example: a dot of a child 9. A dot ball. Labels: informal Example: That left 15 needed from Boult's final set. Two dots were followed by a heave over deep mid-wicket, then came the outrageous moment of fortune. 10. buckshot, projectile from a "dotty" or shotgun Labels: Multicultural-London-English Example: Can’t miss no dots Every shot let caused I’m hittin Used to bag it up in the toilet My mumsie thought I was shittin 11. Clipping of dotty (“shotgun”). Labels: Multicultural-London-English, abbreviation, alt-of, clipping Example: We got rambos, glocks and dots, It takes two armed jakes to sum off the block 12. confinement facility Labels: Multicultural-London-English, rare, slang Example: The feds want me in the dot I got luck for selling them drugs But when I come out I’m still building a spot 13. Clipping of dotfile Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, clipping
Word: diameter Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁ Proto-Indo-European *dwísder. Ancient Greek διά (diá) Ancient Greek δῐᾰ- (dĭă-) Proto-Indo-European *meh₁- Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr Proto-Indo-European *-trom Proto-Hellenic *-tron Ancient Greek -τρον (-tron) Ancient Greek μέτρον (métron) Ancient Greek διάμετρος (diámetros)bor. Latin diametros Old French diametre English diameter From Old French diametre (French diamètre), from Latin diametros, from Ancient Greek διάμετρος (diámetros) (γραμμή (grammḗ)) (diametros grammē, “line measuring across”), from διά (diá, “across”) + μέτρον (métron, “measure”). By surface analysis, dia- + -meter. Pronunciation: /daɪˈæmɪtə(ɹ)/, /daɪˈæmɪdɚ/, /daɪˈæmədɚ/ 1. Any straight line between two points on the circumference of a circle that passes through the center of the circle; a chord that passes through the center of the circle. 2. The length of such a line. Example: In cases without good face contact, the diameter of the toolholder at the front of the flange or the tool itself should not be any larger than the gage diameter of the toolholder shank from a bending stiffness viewpoint. Example: Viable non-malformed singleton pregnancies were selected for cerebellar measurements; transcerebellar diameter, (TCD), left and right cerebellar diameters (LCD, RCD). 3. The maximum distance between any two points in a metric space. 4. The maximum eccentricity over all vertices in a graph.
Word: bilabial Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁ Proto-Indo-European *dwi- Proto-Italic *dwi- Latin bi-bor. English bi- English labial English bilabial From bi- + labial. Pronunciation: /baɪˈleɪ.bi.əl/ 1. Articulated with both lips. Labels: not-comparable Example: "Oh, yes. He talks a lot about phonemes and semantemes and bilabial fricatives. He has a van with recording apparatus in it. He's a good chap."
Word: bilabial Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁ Proto-Indo-European *dwi- Proto-Italic *dwi- Latin bi-bor. English bi- English labial English bilabial From bi- + labial. Pronunciation: /baɪˈleɪ.bi.əl/ 1. A speech sound articulated with both lips.
Word: bacitracin Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From translingual Baci(llus subtilis) + Tracy + -in. Named after American child Margaret Tracy (1936–1994), in whose leg infection the compound was first found. Pronunciation: /ˌbæs.ɪˈtɹeɪ.sɪn/ 1. A nonprescription polypeptide antibiotic isolated from a bacillus (Bacillus subtilis or Bacillus licheniformis), usually provided in topical ointment form especially against gram-positive bacteria. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: þ Part of Speech: character Pronunciation: /θ/, /t̪/ 1. Replaces th for an archaic style. Labels: letter, lowercase
Word: Old English Part of Speech: name 1. The ancestor language of Modern English, also called Anglo-Saxon, spoken in most of Britain from about 400 to 1100. 2. Archaic English (Early Modern English) or Middle English speech or writing, or an imitation of this: "old" English. Labels: colloquial, nonstandard, proscribed Example: Those who claim that they've been reading Shakespeare in Old English betray their ignorance: they haven't. 3. The form of black letter used by 16th-century English printers. Labels: historical 4. A historical ethnic group in Ireland descended from Norman invaders from Britain from the 12th century to the 17th century. Labels: Ireland
Word: ʀ Part of Speech: symbol 1. Indicates non-English R sounds (e.g. IPA [r, ʁ]) in unassimilated loans.
Word: ə Part of Speech: symbol 1. schwa, e.g. \sō′fə\ for sofa. Example: (superscript ⟨ᵊ⟩) optional schwa, e.g. \băt′ᵊl\ for battle. Example: (superscript ⟨ᵊ⟩) French final schwa, as in \bᴀstôn′yᵊ\ for Bastogne.
Word: ð Part of Speech: character Pronunciation: /ð/, /d̪/ 1. Replaces th for an archaic style. Labels: letter, lowercase
Word: crane Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English crane, from Old English cran (“crane”), from Proto-West Germanic *kran, *kranō, from Proto-Germanic *kranô (“crane”), from Proto-Indo-European *gerh₂- (“to cry hoarsely”). Cognate with Scots cran (“crane”), Dutch kraan (“crane”), German Low German Kroon (“crane”), German Kran (“crane”). The mechanical devices are named from their likeness to the bird. Pronunciation: /kɹeɪn/, /kɹæɪn/, /kɾen/, /kɾeːn/ 1. Any bird of the family Gruidae, large birds with long legs and a long neck which is extended during flight. Example: Aquatic birds of various kinds are very numerous, such as geese, darters (Flotus melanogaster), scissor-bills (Rhynchops nigra), adjutants (Leptoptilos argala), pelicans, cormorants, cranes (Grus antigone, in Burmese gyoja), whimbrels, plovers, and ibises. 2. Ardea herodias, the great blue heron. Labels: US, dialectal 3. A mechanical lifting machine or device, often used for lifting heavy loads for industrial or construction purposes. Example: Large cranes were virtually non-existent in the areas I worked with this truck, so we jacked everything on and off[.] 4. An iron arm with horizontal motion, attached to the side or back of a fireplace for supporting kettles etc. over the fire. 5. A siphon, or bent pipe, for drawing liquors out of a cask. 6. A forked post or projecting bracket to support spars, etc.; generally used in pairs.
Word: crane Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English crane, from Old English cran (“crane”), from Proto-West Germanic *kran, *kranō, from Proto-Germanic *kranô (“crane”), from Proto-Indo-European *gerh₂- (“to cry hoarsely”). Cognate with Scots cran (“crane”), Dutch kraan (“crane”), German Low German Kroon (“crane”), German Kran (“crane”). The mechanical devices are named from their likeness to the bird. Pronunciation: /kɹeɪn/, /kɹæɪn/, /kɾen/, /kɾeːn/ 1. To extend (one's neck). Labels: ambitransitive Example: and my bachelor's hearth is imbedded where by much craning of head and neck I can catch sight of a sycamore in the Square garden, Example: Didcot had one definite pleasure. We knew that little boys would be going up and down the platform singing out, "Banbury cakes! Banbury cakes!" And mother would crane out and buy some, just to encourage the crew. 2. To raise or lower with, or as if with, a crane. Labels: transitive Example: What engines, what instruments are used in craning up a soul, sunk below the centre, to the highest heavens. Example: an upstart craned up to the height he has 3. To pull up before a jump. Labels: intransitive
Word: crane Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English crane, cranee, from Old French cran, from Medieval Latin crānium. Pronunciation: /kɹeɪn/, /kɹæɪn/, /kɾen/, /kɾeːn/ 1. The cranium. Labels: obsolete
Word: crane Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /kɹeɪn/, /kɹæɪn/, /kɾen/, /kɾeːn/ 1. Alternative form of cran (“measure of herrings”). Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: finch Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *(s)ping- Proto-Germanic *finkiz Proto-Indo-European *(s)ping- Proto-Germanic *finkô Old English finċ Middle English fynch English finch From Middle English fynch, from Old English finċ, from Proto-West Germanic *finki, from Proto-Germanic *finkiz (compare Dutch vink, German Fink), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)pingos (“chaffinch”). Compare Welsh pinc (“finch”), Ancient Greek σπίγγος (spíngos, “chaffinch”), Russian пе́нка (pénka, “wren”), Sanskrit फिङ्गक (phiṅgaka, “drongo, shrike”). Pronunciation: /fɪnt͡ʃ/ 1. Any Eurasian goldfinch (of species Carduelis carduelis, syn. Fringilla carduelis). 2. Any bird of the family Fringillidae, seed-eating passerine birds, native chiefly to the Northern Hemisphere and usually having a conical beak. 3. Any bird of other families of similar appearance to members of family Fringillidae. 4. A woman. Labels: UK, dated, slang Example: "Well, she could have put it across me for that matter if Dodger, who'd seen her up there, didn't happen to call round to do with the business," admitted George simply. "All these finches seem to get themselves up in the same way nowadays, till I can't tell one sort of tart from another. But I suppose there's something you go by."
Word: finch Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *(s)ping- Proto-Germanic *finkiz Proto-Indo-European *(s)ping- Proto-Germanic *finkô Old English finċ Middle English fynch English finch From Middle English fynch, from Old English finċ, from Proto-West Germanic *finki, from Proto-Germanic *finkiz (compare Dutch vink, German Fink), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)pingos (“chaffinch”). Compare Welsh pinc (“finch”), Ancient Greek σπίγγος (spíngos, “chaffinch”), Russian пе́нка (pénka, “wren”), Sanskrit फिङ्गक (phiṅgaka, “drongo, shrike”). Pronunciation: /fɪnt͡ʃ/ 1. To hunt for finches, to go finching.
Word: ʜ Part of Speech: symbol 1. Used in the digraphs ⟨ᴄʜ ᴋʜ sʜ ᴛʜ ᴛ͟ʜ ᴢʜ⟩ for the sounds /t͡ʃ, x, ʃ, θ, ð, ʒ/. 2. Indicates the Scottish or unassimilated German /x/ – e.g. \lôʜ\ for loch or \bâʜ\ for Bach.
Word: ʏ Part of Speech: symbol 1. Indicates IPA [y, ʏ] in unassimilated French or German loans.
Word: ʉ Part of Speech: symbol 1. An element of the digraph ʉr, a dictionary transcription for the NURSE vowel Example: + r
Word: ɶ Part of Speech: symbol 1. Indicates IPA [ø, œ] in unassimilated French or German loans.
Word: herbivore Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From French herbivore, from Latin herbivorus. By surface analysis, herb (“herbage”) + -i- + -vore. Pronunciation: /ˈhɜːbɪvɔː(ɹ)/, /ˈ(h)ɜːɹbɪvɔːɹ/ 1. An organism that feeds chiefly on plants; an animal that feeds on herbage or vegetation as the main part of its diet. Example: It is unlikely that any member of the hominin clade was either an obligate herbivore or an obligate carnivore
Word: ɴ Part of Speech: symbol 1. Indicates nasal vowels in unassimilated French loans, e.g. \văɴ blâɴ\ for vin blanc. 2. Used in the digraph ⟨ɴɢ⟩ for the /ŋ/ sound.
Word: marsupial Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin marsupium, marsuppium (“pouch, purse”), from Ancient Greek μαρσύπιον (marsúpion) or μαρσύππιον (marsúppion), variants of μαρσίππιον (marsíppion), diminutive of μάρσιππος (mársippos, “bag, pouch”); with English -al. Pronunciation: /mɑːˈsuː.pi.əl/, /mɑɹˈsu.pi.əl/ 1. A mammal of the infraclass Marsupialia, including those where the female has a pouch in which it rears the young through early infancy, such as kangaroos, koalas, wombats and opossums, as well as the pouchless shrew opossums.
Word: marsupial Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin marsupium, marsuppium (“pouch, purse”), from Ancient Greek μαρσύπιον (marsúpion) or μαρσύππιον (marsúppion), variants of μαρσίππιον (marsíppion), diminutive of μάρσιππος (mársippos, “bag, pouch”); with English -al. Pronunciation: /mɑːˈsuː.pi.əl/, /mɑɹˈsu.pi.əl/ 1. Of or pertaining to a marsupial. Example: Showing that this animal is marsupial, consists of the following characters. Example: It seemed to me, meandering around Earls Court, that motors should be more marsupial. 2. Of or relating to a marsupium. Example: the marsupial bones
Word: mink Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Late Middle English mynk (“fur of the European mink”), apparently from Swedish mink, mänk, menk (“stinking animal in Finland, mink”). Compare Danish mink (“mink”), Icelandic minkur (“mink”). Pronunciation: /mɪŋk/ 1. Any semi-aquatic, carnivorous mammal in the Mustelinae subfamily, similar to weasels, with dark fur, native to Europe and America, of which two species in different genera are extant: the American mink (Neogale vison) and the European mink (Mustela lutreola). Example: The Minx […] frequents the water like the Otter, and very much reſembles it in ſhape and color, but is leſs; will abide longer under the water than the muſk quaſh, muſk rat, or little beaver: […] Example: [Friday 7.] I ſhot three brace of grouſe, and found a mink in one of the traps which I tailed yesterday. [Saturday 8.] The ſame trap caught another mink to-day. 2. The fur or pelt of a mink, used to make apparel. Example: From Michaelmas 1739. to Michaelmas 1740. Skins. […] Mink at 2s. 4d. Elk at 8s. Deer at 2s. 7½ per Skin. Example: H. H. Young, district manager, is the proud possessor of a fine mink fur, which he found in his hen house. The mink, while wearing the fur, visited Young's hen house once too often and was cornered there a few mornings ago. 3. An article of clothing made of mink. Example: At one point, money was stolen from one of the bedrooms. […] Afte that, the family employees were often tested. [Katherine] Jackson would leave the alarm on the closet unarmed, the one in which she kept her minks, chinchillas, and other expensive furs. Example: He had noticed Marilyn putting a flask into the coat of her mink after she talked to the Gent, and he was sure there had been nothing in the pockets earlier, when he helped her into it before she sang "Happy Birthday." 4. A person with poor personal hygiene; a smelly person. Labels: Scotland, derogatory, slang
Word: mink coat Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Compound of mink + coat. 1. A fur coat made from the fur of the mink, symbolic of membership in a social class of wealthy people. Example: We think we will in no time parlay our abundant love into abundant riches of the mink coat type, so it comes as a major surprise that we could be so poor... for so long. Example: Richard Nixon attempted to clear himself of charges that he had a tapped a secret slush fund by exploiting that symbol of decadent luxury, the mink coat. His wife, Nixon boasted, did not own a mink coat, but rather she owned 'a respectable Republican cloth coat...'
Word: osprey Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Late Middle English ospray, from Anglo-Norman ospriet, from Medieval Latin avis praedae (“bird of prey”), a generic term apparently confused with this specific bird in Old French on its similarity to ossifrage. Pronunciation: /ˈɑspɹi/, /ˈɒspɹeɪ/, /ˈɔspre/ 1. A bird of prey of genus Pandion that feeds on fish and has white underparts and long, narrow wings each ending in four finger-like extensions. Example: 1594, George Peele (attributed), The Battle of Alcazar I will provide thee of a princely osprey. Example: But (oh Jove!) your actions, / Soon as they move, as ospreys do the fish, / Subdue before they touch. 2. Aigrette (ornamental feather).
Word: chappy Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From chap + -y. Pronunciation: /ˈt͡ʃæpi/ 1. A chap; a fellow. Labels: UK, informal
Word: chappy Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From chap + -y. Pronunciation: /ˈt͡ʃæpi/ 1. Full of chaps; cleft; gaping; open. 2. Chapped, dry. Labels: rare Example: The application was followed at once by terrible pain in the wound; furthermore, there appeared a dry and chappy tongue, intolerable thirst, colics, cramplike contractions of the legs and back, and a weak and irregular pulse.
Word: crappy Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Old Dutch krappender. Old French crappe Middle French crapebor. Middle English crappe English crap Proto-Indo-European *-kos Proto-Germanic *-gaz Proto-West Germanic *-g Old English -iġ Middle English -y English -y English crappy From crap + -y. Pronunciation: /ˈkɹæpi/ 1. Of very poor quality; unpleasant; distasteful. Labels: Canada, US, colloquial, mildly, vulgar Example: That is such a crappy car. Example: The referee just made a really crappy call. 2. Bad, sick, or depressed. Labels: Canada, US, colloquial, especially, mildly, vulgar Example: I'm feeling really crappy - I think I need some fresh air. 3. Covered in crap (faeces/feces). Labels: Canada, US, colloquial, mildly, vulgar Example: Put the crappy diapers in the brown pail and the wet ones in the yellow pail.
Word: faeces Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of feces. Labels: Commonwealth, alt-of, alternative, plural, plural-normally Example: This paper reports on ingestion of soil by dairy cows using titanium analysis of faeces by the X-ray fluorescence technique, and gives the range of soil intakes of a year on both an individual and a herd basis. Example: The fact that dogs have a well developed sense of smell suggests that they might be able to use the odour of faeces as a means of communicating.
Word: nappy Part of Speech: noun Etymology: A diminutive in -y. The base is probably napkin but possibly French nappe directly (note that napkin is already a diminutive). Pronunciation: /ˈnæpi/ 1. An absorbent garment worn by a baby or toddler who does not yet have voluntary control of their bladder and bowels or by someone who is incontinent; a diaper. Labels: Australia, Ireland, New-Zealand, South-Africa, UK Example: You will notice that disposable nappies are sold in boy and girl versions. They vary in where the thickest padding is provided. Example: Other equipment required was soap for hand washing and washing of nappies, a washing line for the drying of nappies,[…].
Word: nappy Part of Speech: verb Etymology: A diminutive in -y. The base is probably napkin but possibly French nappe directly (note that napkin is already a diminutive). Pronunciation: /ˈnæpi/ 1. To put a nappy on. Labels: transitive Example: The mother nappied the baby.
Word: nappy Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree English nap Proto-Indo-European *-kos Proto-Germanic *-gaz Proto-West Germanic *-g Old English -iġ Middle English -y English -y English nappy From nap + -y. Pronunciation: /ˈnæpi/ 1. Having a nap (of cloth etc.); downy; shaggy. Example: 1950, US District Courts, US Court of Claims, US Court of Customs and Patent Appeals, Federal Supplement, Volume 89, page 438, The original accused device, as was the patented device, was made of cotton flannel with a nappy surface on each side, […] . 2. Of hair: tightly curled or twisted; frizzy (often specifically in reference to Afro textured hair) Labels: US, informal, offensive, sometimes Example: They could scarcely bear their knowledge, nor could they have borne the sight of Rufus, but they knew why he was in the streets tonight, why he rode subways all night long, why his stomach growled, why his hair was nappy, his armpits funky, his pants and shoes too thin, and why he did not dare to stop and take a leak. Example: We would talk about each other′s ugly, big lips and flat noses. We would call each other pickaninnies and nappy-haired so-and-so′s. 3. Inclined to sleep; sleepy. Labels: rare Example: After supper I felt nappy and dropped right off to sleep.
Word: nappy Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English nap, from Old English hnæp, hnæpp, hnæpf (“cup, bowl”), from Proto-West Germanic *hnapp, from Proto-Germanic *hnappaz (“bowl, goblet, cup”). See hanaper. Pronunciation: /ˈnæpi/ 1. A shallow, flat-bottomed earthenware or glass bowl with sloping sides. Example: Suppose you advertise a “five-inch glass nappy.” It doesn′t tell a reader anything — a woman especially. She can′t tell how big five inches are anyway ; but just say, “large imitation cut glass fruit saucers at thirty cents a dozen,” and get your packers ready. Example: The use of a glazed earthenware nesting-dish, or “nappy, ” 9 inches in diameter across the top, is strongly advised.
Word: nappy Part of Speech: adj Pronunciation: /ˈnæpi/ 1. Foamy; having a large head. 2. Nervous, excitable. Example: ‘He's a mutton-fisted beggar; but the horse is a bit nappy, and young Roger'll be the man to keep him going at his fences.’ Example: I do feel, however, that in talking lightheartedly of making rearing, pulling or nappy horses into useful members of equine society I am treading on very dangerous ground.
Word: nappy Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈnæpi/ 1. A kind of strong ale; nappy ale. Labels: obsolete, uncountable Example: 1827, R. Charlton, Newcastle Improvements, in T. Thompson, et al. A Collection of Songs, Comic and Satirical, Chiefly in the Newcastle Dialect, page 151, Aw′ve seen when we′ve gyen iv a kind, freenly way / To be blithe ower a jug o′ good nappy Example: 1857, Hugh Miller, The Cruise of the Betsey, 2009, Echo Library, page 248, Weel do I mind that in a′ our neeborly meetings—bridals, christenings, lyke-wakes an′ the like,—we entertained ane anither wi′ rich nappy ale; […] . But the tea has put out the nappy; an′ I have remarked, that by losing the nappy we lost baith ghaists an′ fairies.
Word: nappy Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Related to knap. Pronunciation: /ˈnæpi/ 1. Brittle. Labels: Scotland
Word: diaper Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁ Proto-Indo-European *dwísder. Ancient Greek διά (diá) Ancient Greek δια- (dia-) Proto-Indo-European *h₂esp-der.? Latin asperbor. Ancient Greek ἄσπρος (áspros) Byzantine Greek δίασπρος (díaspros)bor. Medieval Latin diasprabor. Old French dyaprebor. Middle English dyaper English diaper From Middle English dyaper, diapre, dyapre, from Old French diapre, dyapre, a variant of dyaspre, diaspre (“ornamental silk cloth embellished with decorative patterns”), from Medieval Latin diaspra, diasprum (“a type of rich, valuable silken cloth”), probably from Byzantine Greek δίασπρος (díaspros, “very white; pure white”, adjective), from δια- (dia-, “across”) + ἄσπρος (áspros, “white”). Pronunciation: /ˈdaɪ(ə).pə/, /ˈdaɪ(ə).pəɹ/ 1. To put diapers on someone. Labels: transitive Example: Diapering a baby is something you have to learn fast. Example: It is pretty hard to make a mistake when diapering a baby. About the only way a person can go wrong is to put the diaper on backward, a condition that neither the diaperer nor the diaperee is likely to notice. 2. To draw geometrical or floral patterns, as upon cloth. Labels: transitive Example: If you diaper upon folds, let your work be broken.
Word: yappy Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From yap + -y. Pronunciation: /ˈjæ.pi/ 1. Of a dog, yapping in an annoying manner. Example: yappy puppy 2. Very talkative; talking foolishly or at length.
Word: yap Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Probably of imitative origin. Alternatively, from dialectal yap, yaup, yalp (“to yap, yelp”). More at yelp. Pronunciation: /jæp/ 1. The high-pitched bark of a small dog, or similar. Labels: countable 2. Casual talk; chatter. Labels: slang, uncountable Example: Had I taken his accusations seriously I might have recommended a change in my under-managership, but I never could translate our jammy products into gas or explosives or even poison. Still yap, at least as concerned Beldite's. Example: They couldn’t rise above their calls for peace. Those who weren’t “defenders of the fatherland” were incapable of anything except yap and blather about “stopping the war.” 3. The mouth, which produces speech. Labels: countable, derogatory, slang Example: Shut your yap! 4. A badly behaved person, especially a child. Labels: Geordie, countable 5. A fool. Labels: countable, dated, slang, uncountable
Word: yap Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Probably of imitative origin. Alternatively, from dialectal yap, yaup, yalp (“to yap, yelp”). More at yelp. Pronunciation: /jæp/ 1. Of a small dog, to bark. Labels: intransitive 2. To talk, especially excessively; to chatter. Labels: intransitive, slang Example: You’re always yapping, I wish you’d shut up. 3. To rob or steal from (someone). Labels: slang, transitive Example: Ante up! Yap that fool!
Word: shortening Part of Speech: noun 1. Fat that is solid at room temperature, especially hydrogenated vegetable oil (known as vegetable shortening), used to make shortcrust pastry and in deep fat frying. Labels: US, countable, uncountable 2. verbal noun of shorten: the process by which something is made shorter; a reduction in length. Labels: countable, form-of, noun-from-verb, uncountable
Word: shortening Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of shorten Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: pais Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Old French, equivalent to French pays (“country”). Pronunciation: /ˈpeɪ/ 1. The country (ie: the jury); also, the people living in the district from where the jury is taken. Labels: obsolete, uncountable
Word: necessary Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English necessarye, from Old French necessaire, from Latin necessārius (“unavoidable, inevitable, required”), variant of necesse (“unavoidable, inevitable”), probably from ne or non cessum, from the perfect passive participle of cēdō (“yield; avoid, withdraw”); see cede. Older use as a noun in reference to an outhouse or lavatory under the influence of English and Latin necessārium, a medieval term for the place for monks’ “unavoidable” business, usually located behind or attached to monastic dormitories. Pronunciation: /ˈnɛs.ə.sɹi/, /ˈnɛs.əˌsɛ.ɹi/, /ˈnɛs.ə.ɹi/, /nᵻˈsɛsᵊ.ri/, /ˈnɛs.ə.sə.ri/ 1. Required, essential, whether logically inescapable or needed in order to achieve a desired result or avoid some penalty. Example: Although I wished to think that all was false, it was yet necessary that I, who thus thought, must in some sense exist. Example: It is absolutely necessary that you call and confirm your appointment. 2. Unavoidable, inevitable. Example: If it is absolutely necessary to use public computers, you should plan ahead and forward your e-mail to a temporary, disposable account. Example: Cæs. Cowards dye many times before their deaths, The valiant neuer taste of death but once: Of all the Wonders that I yet haue heard, It seemes to me most strange that men should feare, Seeing that death, a necessary end Will come, when it will come. 3. Determined, involuntary: acting from compulsion rather than free will. Labels: obsolete Example: But that a necessary being should give birth to a being with any amount, however limited, of moral freedom, is infinitely less conceivable than that parents of the insect or fish type should give birth to a perfect mammal.
Word: necessary Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English necessarye, from Old French necessaire, from Latin necessārius (“unavoidable, inevitable, required”), variant of necesse (“unavoidable, inevitable”), probably from ne or non cessum, from the perfect passive participle of cēdō (“yield; avoid, withdraw”); see cede. Older use as a noun in reference to an outhouse or lavatory under the influence of English and Latin necessārium, a medieval term for the place for monks’ “unavoidable” business, usually located behind or attached to monastic dormitories. Pronunciation: /ˈnɛs.ə.sɹi/, /ˈnɛs.əˌsɛ.ɹi/, /ˈnɛs.ə.ɹi/, /nᵻˈsɛsᵊ.ri/, /ˈnɛs.ə.sə.ri/ 1. A place to do the "necessary" business of urination and defecation: an outhouse or lavatory. Labels: Maine, UK, archaic, euphemistic, usually Example: It soon became fashionable for even the poorest families to have a necessary not far from their cabin. […] The more affluent settlers painted their necessarys in bright colors and carved their names on the doors. 2. Necessity. Labels: obsolete Example: […] loss of that whole dominion of New England, and consequently of their Majesties' other American Plantations, endangered not only by the want of provisions, but by the many ships, vessels, seamen and other necessarys in New England, ...
Word: pre- Part of Speech: prefix Etymology: From Middle English pre-, borrowed from Latin prae-, from the preposition prae (“before”). Pronunciation: /pɹɛ/, /pɹiː/, /pɹi/, /pɹɪ/ 1. Before; physically in front of. Labels: morpheme 2. Before; physically in front of. Labels: morpheme 3. Before; earlier in time; beforehand. Labels: morpheme
Word: sorbitol Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From earlier sorbite (from sorb + -ite) + -ol. By surface analysis, sorb + -itol. Pronunciation: /ˈsɔː.bɪ.tɒl/, /ˈsɔɹ.bɪˌtɔl/ 1. A faintly sweet alcohol C₆H₁₄O₆ that occurs in some fruits, is made synthetically, and is used especially as a humectant and softener and in making ascorbic acid. Labels: countable, uncountable