nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: mare Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Inherited from Middle English mare, from Old English mare (“nightmare, monster”), from Proto-West Germanic *marā, from Proto-Germanic *marǭ (“nightmare, incubus”), from Proto-Indo-European *mor- (“feminine evil spirit”). Doublet of mara. Cognates Akin to Dutch (dial.) mare, German (dial.) Mahr, Old Norse mara ( > Danish mare, Swedish mara (“incubus, nightmare”); also Old Irish Morrígan (“phantom queen”), Albanian merë (“horror”), Polish zmora (“nightmare”), Czech mura (“nightmare, moth”), Greek Μόρα (Móra). Pronunciation: /mɛə/, /mɛɚ/ 1. A type of evil spirit formerly thought to sit on the chest of a sleeping person; also, the feeling of suffocation felt during sleep, attributed to such a spirit. Labels: historical, obsolete 2. A nightmare; a frustrating or terrible experience. Labels: Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, colloquial Example: I'm having a complete mare today.
Word: mare Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Latin mare (“sea”). Doublet of maar and mere (“a body of standing water”). Pronunciation: /ˈmɑɹ.eɪ/, /ˈmɛɚ.i/, /ˈmɑɹ.i/ 1. A large, dark plain, which may have the appearance of a sea, such as those on the Moon. 2. On Saturn's moon Titan, any of several lakes which are large expanses of what is thought to be liquid hydrocarbons. Example: Kraken Mare (a lake of liquid hydrocarbons on Titan which is slightly larger than the Caspian Sea)
Word: mare Part of Speech: noun Etymology: See mayor. 1. Obsolete form of mayor. Labels: alt-of, obsolete 2. Obsolete form of mair. Labels: alt-of, obsolete
Word: mandarin Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *men- Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr Proto-Indo-European *-trom Proto-Indo-Iranian *mántras Sanskrit मन्त्र॑ (mántra) Proto-Indo-Iranian *-in- Sanskrit -इन् (-in) Sanskrit म॒न्त्रिन् (mantrín)bor. Malay menteribor. Portuguese mandarimbor. English mandarin From Portuguese mandarim, mandarij, from Malay menteri, manteri, and its source, Sanskrit मन्त्रिन् (mantrin, “minister, councillor”), from मन्त्र (mantra, “counsel, maxim, mantra”) + -इन् (-in, an agent suffix). Pronunciation: /ˈmæn.də.ɹɪn/, /mæn.dəˈɹɪn/ 1. A high government bureaucrat of the Chinese Empire. Labels: historical Example: LIKE THE MANDARINS of old, the rulers of China live behind high walls. When they emerge, which they rarely do, they travel in cars with rear windows curtained like sedan chairs. They live in the Chung Nan Hai, a walled park adjacent to the Forbidden City from where ancient dynasties ruled the Celestial Empire. 2. A pedantic or elitist bureaucrat. 3. A pedantic senior person of influence in academia or literary circles. Labels: derogatory, sometimes Example: Its sting preserved to literature a fierce peculiar genius [Waugh] who, in the 40 years before his death last week at 62, achieved recognition as the grand old mandarin of modern British prose and as a satirist whose skill at sticking pens in people rates him a roomy cell in the murderers’ row (Swift, Pope, Wilde, Shaw) of English letters. Example: When mandarins on the court pointed to obscure language in the Constitution to overturn a century of precedent and declare the income tax unconstitutional, Harlan sided with precedent[.] 4. Ellipsis of mandarin duck. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis 5. A senior civil servant. Labels: UK, informal 6. A figurine of a Chinese person with movable head that was popular in the 1950s. (Cf. bobblehead.) Example: He lay quietly in the hydropathic bed while his heart shuddered and his eyes focused at random on objects in the room, simulating a calm he could not feel. The walls of green jade, the nightlight in the porcelain mandarin whose head nodded interminably if you touched him, the multi-clock that radiated the time of three planets and six satellites, the bed itself, a crystal pool flowing with carbonated glycerine at ninety-nine point nine Fahrenheit.
Word: mandarin Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *men- Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr Proto-Indo-European *-trom Proto-Indo-Iranian *mántras Sanskrit मन्त्र॑ (mántra) Proto-Indo-Iranian *-in- Sanskrit -इन् (-in) Sanskrit म॒न्त्रिन् (mantrín)bor. Malay menteribor. Portuguese mandarimbor. English mandarin From Portuguese mandarim, mandarij, from Malay menteri, manteri, and its source, Sanskrit मन्त्रिन् (mantrin, “minister, councillor”), from मन्त्र (mantra, “counsel, maxim, mantra”) + -इन् (-in, an agent suffix). Pronunciation: /ˈmæn.də.ɹɪn/, /mæn.dəˈɹɪn/ 1. Pertaining to or reminiscent of mandarins; deliberately superior or complex; esoteric, highbrow, obscurantist. Example: A mandarin impassivity had descended over Smiley's face. The earlier emotion was quite gone. Example: [Anatole] Broyard's columns were suffused with both worldliness and high culture. Wry, mandarin, even self-amused at times, he wrote like a man about town, but one who just happened to have all of Western literature at his fingertips.
Word: mandarin Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From French mandarine, feminine of mandarin, probably formed as Etymology 1, above, from the yellow colour of the mandarins' costume. Pronunciation: /ˈmæn.də.ɹɪn/, /mæn.dəˈɹɪn/ 1. Ellipsis of mandarin orange: 2. Ellipsis of mandarin orange: 3. An orange colour.
Word: stallion Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English stalion, from Middle French estalon (whence modern French étalon), of Germanic origin, akin to stall. Displaced native Old English henġest. Pronunciation: /ˈstæljən/ 1. An adult male horse. 2. An adult male horse. 3. A very virile and sexually-inclined man or (rarely) woman. Example: 'You stallion.' Brian patted Tom on the back, but now with mixed feelings. He was pleased for his brother, but slightly jealous that Tom had lost his virginity before him
Word: foal Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English ffoole, foale, fole, fool, foole, fowle, from Old English fola, from Proto-West Germanic *folō, from Proto-Germanic *fulô (“foal”), from pre-Germanic *pl̥Hon-, from Proto-Indo-European *pōlH- (“animal young”). Cognates Cognate with Saterland Frisian Foole (“foal”), West Frisian fôle (“foal”), Dutch veulen (“foal”), German Fohlen, Füllen (“foal”), Low German Fohl (“foal”), Vilamovian fyłn (“foal”), Danish føl (“foal”), Faroese fyl (“foal”), Icelandic foli, fyl (“foal”), Norwegian Bokmål fole, føll (“foal”), Norwegian Nynorsk fole, fyl, føl (“foal”), Swedish fåle, föl (“foal”); compare also Latin pullus (“young animal”), Greek πουλάρι (poulári, “foal”), Albanian pelë (“mare”), Armenian ուլ (ul, “kid, young of a goat”). Related to filly. Pronunciation: /fəʊl/, [fɔʊɫ], /fɒl/, /fɐʉl/, /foʊl/ 1. A young horse or other equine, especially just after birth or less than a year old. 2. A young boy who assisted the headsman by pushing or pulling the tub. Labels: historical
Word: foal Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English ffoole, foale, fole, fool, foole, fowle, from Old English fola, from Proto-West Germanic *folō, from Proto-Germanic *fulô (“foal”), from pre-Germanic *pl̥Hon-, from Proto-Indo-European *pōlH- (“animal young”). Cognates Cognate with Saterland Frisian Foole (“foal”), West Frisian fôle (“foal”), Dutch veulen (“foal”), German Fohlen, Füllen (“foal”), Low German Fohl (“foal”), Vilamovian fyłn (“foal”), Danish føl (“foal”), Faroese fyl (“foal”), Icelandic foli, fyl (“foal”), Norwegian Bokmål fole, føll (“foal”), Norwegian Nynorsk fole, fyl, føl (“foal”), Swedish fåle, föl (“foal”); compare also Latin pullus (“young animal”), Greek πουλάρι (poulári, “foal”), Albanian pelë (“mare”), Armenian ուլ (ul, “kid, young of a goat”). Related to filly. Pronunciation: /fəʊl/, [fɔʊɫ], /fɒl/, /fɐʉl/, /foʊl/ 1. To give birth to (a foal); to bear offspring. Labels: ambitransitive Example: All the time, our overfraught hearts are beating at a rate that would far outstrip the fastest gallop of the fastest horses ever foaled. Example: "Well," said John, "I don't believe there is a better pair of horses in the country, and right grieved I am to part with them, but they are not alike; the black one is the most perfect temper I ever knew; I suppose he has never known a hard word or a blow since he was foaled, and all his pleasure seems to be to do what you wish; […]
Word: filly Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Old Norse fylja (whence Danish føl), related to foal. Cognate with Dutch veulen, German Fohlen. Pronunciation: /ˈfɪli/ 1. A young female horse. 2. A young, attractive woman. Labels: dated Example: Hey, Homer, get a load of the gams on that filly! Example: Betty Lou began to think of Bobby Jo. That feisty filly still brought up sexual connotations, even though the two had been going together for almost three weeks now.
Word: colt Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English colt, from Old English colt, from Proto-Germanic *kultaz (“plump; stump; thick shape, bulb”), from Proto-Indo-European *gelt- (“something round, pregnant belly, child in the womb”), from *gel- (“to ball up, amass”). Cognate with Faroese koltur (“colt, foal”) Norwegian kult (“treestump”), Swedish kult (“young boar, piglet, boy, lad”) / Swedish kulting (“piglet”). Related to child. Pronunciation: /kəʊlt/, [kɔʊlt], /kɒlt/, /kəwlt/, [kɔwlt] 1. A young male horse. Example: The petty vices of boys are like the innocent kicks of colts, as yet imperfectly broken. 2. A young crane (bird). 3. A youthful or inexperienced person; a novice. Labels: figuratively Example: Ay, that's a colt indeed, for he doth nothing but / talk of his horse, and he makes it a great appropriation to / his own good parts that he can shoe him himself. 4. A youthful or inexperienced person; a novice. Labels: figuratively, slang Example: The bowling is more promising in the colts than in the eleven. 5. A youthful or inexperienced person; a novice. Labels: figuratively, obsolete, slang 6. A short piece of rope once used by petty officers as an instrument of punishment. Labels: historical 7. A weapon formed by slinging a small shot to the end of a somewhat stiff piece of rope. Labels: obsolete, slang 8. A young camel or donkey.
Word: colt Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English colt, from Old English colt, from Proto-Germanic *kultaz (“plump; stump; thick shape, bulb”), from Proto-Indo-European *gelt- (“something round, pregnant belly, child in the womb”), from *gel- (“to ball up, amass”). Cognate with Faroese koltur (“colt, foal”) Norwegian kult (“treestump”), Swedish kult (“young boar, piglet, boy, lad”) / Swedish kulting (“piglet”). Related to child. Pronunciation: /kəʊlt/, [kɔʊlt], /kɒlt/, /kəwlt/, [kɔwlt] 1. To horse; to get with young. Labels: obsolete, transitive Example: Never talk on't: / She hath been colted by him. 2. To befool. Labels: obsolete, transitive Example: What a plague mean ye to colt me thus? 3. To frisk or frolic like a colt; to act licentiously or wantonly. Labels: intransitive Example: They shook off their bridles and began to colt. 4. To haze (a new recruit), as by charging a new juryman a "fine" to be spent on alcoholic drink, or by striking the sole of his foot with a board, etc. Labels: obsolete, slang, transitive Example: We watched our opportunity, seized him, and, laying him across a chest, we colted him with a boot-jack until we nearly killed him, he at the time suffering from numerous boils in the nates; and for all this he obtained no redress! Example: […] his first appearance the jury duly "colted" him.
Word: calf Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English calf, kalf, from Old Norse kalfi, possibly derived from the same Germanic root as English calf (“young cow”) (above). Cognate with Icelandic kálfi (“calf of the leg”). Pronunciation: /kɑːf/, /kæf/, /kɐːf/, /kaf/, /kaːf/ 1. The back of the leg below the knee. 2. The muscle in the back of the leg below the knee. Example: Sure, his calves are a little weak, but the rest of his physique is so overwhelming, he should place high.
Word: EBU Part of Speech: name 1. Initialism of European Boxing Union Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism 2. Initialism of European Broadcasting Union Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism Example: When Klein, who was due to perform just before Israel’s contestant, Eden Golan, on Saturday night, was asked if his entry Europapa could live up to the competition’s motto, “United by music”, he said: “I think that’s a good question for the EBU.”
Word: vessel Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Italic *wāss Latin vās Proto-Indo-European *-lós Proto-Italic *-elom Latin -ulum Latin -culum Latin vāsculum Proto-Indo-European *-lós Proto-Indo-European *-elós Proto-Italic *-elos Latin -lus Late Latin vāscellum Old French vaisselbor. Middle English vessel English vessel Inherited from Middle English vessel, vessell (“small container”); from Old French vaissel (compare modern French vaisseau and Catalan vaixell), from Late Latin vāscellum, diminutive of vāsculum, diminutive of vās (“vase, vessel”). Pronunciation: /ˈvɛsəl/, [ˈvɛsɫ̩], /ˈvesəl/ 1. A craft for transportation on or in water, air, or space. Example: But my hope was, that if I stood along this coast till I came to that part where the English traded, I should find some of their vessels upon their usual design of trade, that would relieve and take us in. Example: Merchants, common sailors, captains of vessels, skippers, […] naval officers of all countries, and the Governments of several states on the two continents, were deeply interested in the matter. 2. A craft for transportation on or in water, air, or space. Example: Driven from their home system by the geth nearly three centuries ago, most quarians now live aboard the Migrant Fleet, a flotilla of fifty thousand vessels ranging in size from passenger shuttles to mobile space stations. 3. Dishes and cutlery collectively, especially if made of precious metals. Labels: dialectal, obsolete, uncountable Example: All his Vessell was of golde and siluer, pottis, basons, ewers, dysshes, flagons, barels, cuppes, and all other thyngis. 4. A container of liquid or other substance, such as a glass, goblet, cup, bottle, bowl, or pitcher. 5. A person as a container of qualities or feelings. Labels: figuratively Example: A teacher should be a vessel of knowledge. Example: But the Lord said vnto him, Goe thy way: for hee is a chosen vessell vnto me, to beare my Name before the Gentiles, and Kings, and the children of Israel. 6. A tube or canal that carries fluid in an animal or plant. Example: Blood and lymph vessels are found in humans; xylem and phloem vessels are found in plants.
Word: vessel Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Italic *wāss Latin vās Proto-Indo-European *-lós Proto-Italic *-elom Latin -ulum Latin -culum Latin vāsculum Proto-Indo-European *-lós Proto-Indo-European *-elós Proto-Italic *-elos Latin -lus Late Latin vāscellum Old French vaisselbor. Middle English vessel English vessel Inherited from Middle English vessel, vessell (“small container”); from Old French vaissel (compare modern French vaisseau and Catalan vaixell), from Late Latin vāscellum, diminutive of vāsculum, diminutive of vās (“vase, vessel”). Pronunciation: /ˈvɛsəl/, [ˈvɛsɫ̩], /ˈvesəl/ 1. To put into a vessel. Labels: transitive Example: 1577, William Harrison, The Description of England in Holinshed’s Chronicles, Volume 1, Book 3, Chapter 12 “Of venemous beastes &c.,” Our hony alſo is taken and reputed to be the beſt bycauſe it is harder, better wrought & clenlyer veſſelled vp, thẽ that which cõmeth from beyond the ſea, where they ſtampe and ſtraine their combes, Bées, & young Blow|inges altogither into the ſtuffe, as I haue béene informed. Example: 1627, Francis Bacon, Sylva Sylvarum: or, A Naturall Historie, London: W. Lee, Cent. VI, section 529, p. 137, The fourth Rule ſhall be, to marke what Herbs, ſome Earths doe put fourth of themſelves; And to take that Earth, and to Pot it, or to Veſſell it; And in that to ſet the Seed you would change […]
Word: nozzle Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English noselle, equivalent to nose + -le (diminutive suffix). Compare typologically Russian сопло (soplo) (<~ сопе́ть (sopétʹ), whence also сопа́тка (sopátka)). Pronunciation: /ˈnɒzəl/ 1. A short tube, usually tapering, forming the vent of a hose or pipe. 2. A short outlet or inlet pipe projecting from the end or side of a hollow vessel, as a steam-engine cylinder or a steam boiler. 3. The nose of an animal; muzzle. Example: At length the acme of a typical Mexican scene was reached when the burros unceremoniously raised their nozzles and brayed loud and long. 4. The part of an earbud that accommodates eartips. Example: The shape of the nozzle prevents the use of aftermarket eartips.
Word: decorticator Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From decorticate + -or. Pronunciation: /diːˈkɔːtɪkeɪtə(ɹ)/ 1. A machine that peels off the fibrous husk, bark or outer layer of some vegetable product; used in the manufacture of animal feed etc.
Word: settling Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ˈsɛtl̩ɪŋ/ 1. present participle and gerund of settle Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: settling Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈsɛtl̩ɪŋ/ 1. The act of one who, or that which, settles; the act of establishing oneself, of colonizing, subsiding, adjusting, etc. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. The reckoning or settlement of accounts; the paying out of gambling winnings. Labels: countable, uncountable 3. Dregs; sediment. Labels: countable, plural-normally, uncountable
Word: tracer Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From trace + -er. Pronunciation: /ˈtɹeɪsə(ɹ)/, [ˈtʃɹeɪsə(ɹ)], /ˈtɹeɪsɚ/, [ˈtʃɹeɪsɚ] 1. A compound, element, or isotope used to track the progress or history of a natural process. 2. A round of ammunition for a firearm that contains magnesium or another flammable substance arranged such that it will burn and produce a visible trail when fired in the dark. 3. The act or state of tracking or investigating something. Example: We have a five-man tracer on him now. He's heading for a Vorster cell on Michigan Boulevard, and he's drunk as a lord. Should we intercept him? Example: A surveyor typically conducts a tracer on his or her own and later meets up with the rest of the team to discuss findings. 4. A request to trace the movements of a person or an object, such as a shipment. Example: The next morning when she awoke, she told Darcy what had happened, and Darcy agreed that she should go to the police and this time ask them if they could put a tracer on her incoming phone calls, just in case he called again. 5. A person who traces something. 6. A device or instrument used to assist in making tracings. 7. A process that traces something, such as the path of execution of a program during debugging.
Word: chemosynthesis Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰew- Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥ Ancient Greek -μᾰ (-mă) Ancient Greek χῠ́μᾰ (khŭ́mă) Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-i-eh₂ Proto-Hellenic *-íā Ancient Greek -ία (-ía) Ancient Greek χυμείᾱ (khumeíā)bor. Arabic الْكِيمِيَاء (al-kīmiyāʔ)bor. Medieval Latin alchēmia ▲ Ancient Greek χυμείᾱ (khumeíā)influ. New Latin chēmīader. English chemo- English synthesis English chemosynthesis From chemo- + synthesis. 1. The production of carbohydrates and other compounds from simple compounds such as carbon dioxide, using the oxidation of chemical nutrients as a source of energy rather than sunlight; it is limited to certain bacteria and fungi. Labels: uncountable, usually
Word: gyre Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Latin gȳrus (“circle; circular motion”), from Ancient Greek γῦρος (gûros, “circle; ring”), from Proto-Indo-European *gew- (“to bend; to curve”). The English word is a doublet of gyro and gyrus. Pronunciation: /d͡ʒaɪ.ə/, /d͡ʒaɪ.ɚ/ 1. A swirling vortex. Labels: literary, poetic 2. A circular or spiral motion; also, a circle described by a moving body; a revolution, a turn. Labels: literary, poetic Example: Quick, and more quick he ſpins in giddy Gires, / Then falls, and in much Foam his Soul expires. Example: What is art, / But life upon the larger scale, the higher, / When, graduating up in a spiral line / Of still expanding and ascending gyres, / It pushes toward the intense significance / Of all things, hungry for the Infinite? / Art's life,—and where we live, we suffer and toil. 3. Synonym of gyrus (“a fold or ridge on the cerebral cortex of the brain”). Labels: archaic 4. An ocean current caused by wind which moves in a circular manner, especially one that is large-scale and observed in a major ocean. Example: Most ships that tried to cross the Pacific in the past would get stuck in the gyres and never make it out.
Word: gyre Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Late Middle English giren (“to turn (something) away; to cause (something) to revolve or rotate; to travel in a circle”), from Old French girer (“to turn”), and directly from its etymon Latin gȳrāre, the present active infinitive of gȳrō (“to turn in a circle, rotate; to circle or revolve around”), from gȳrus (“circle; circular motion”) (see etymology 1) + -ō (suffix forming regular first-conjugation verbs). Pronunciation: /d͡ʒaɪ.ə/, /d͡ʒaɪ.ɚ/ 1. To spin around; to gyrate, to whirl. Labels: intransitive, literary, poetic Example: The host of heauenly beautyes moue, / Depainted in their proper stories, / As well the fixd as wandring glories, / Which from their proper orbes not goe, / Whether they gyre swift or slowe: […] Example: Jabberwocky. / 'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves / Did gyre and gimble in the wa[b]e; / All mimsy were the borogoves, / And the mome raths outgrabe. 2. To make (something) spin or whirl around; to spin, to whirl. Labels: literary, poetic, rare, transitive
Word: MOR Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ɛm əʊ ˈɑː(ɹ)/ 1. A mid-ocean ridge: a submarine volcanic mountain range.
Word: MOR Part of Speech: name Pronunciation: /ɛm əʊ ˈɑː(ɹ)/ 1. Abbreviation of Morelos: a state of Mexico. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of
Word: MOR Part of Speech: phrase Pronunciation: /ɛm əʊ ˈɑː(ɹ)/ 1. Initialism of middle of the road. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, middle Example: But MOR as a programming powerhouse began to lose strength as the radio industry evolved during those decades. Example: At a hip grocery store, Maggie meets David (Kelvin Harrison Jr., from “Waves”), a handsome singer-songwriter with a rockin’ MOR vibe, and the two have a “High Fidelity” music-geek convo that dances on the edge of cringey-ness.
Word: seafloor Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From sea + floor. 1. Synonym of seabed. Example: The seafloor is often covered with sediment.
Word: upwelling Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From up- + welling. 1. An upward movement from a lower source. Example: Rather separate from the abolitionist campaign, although likewise led by anglophone Evangelicals, was a sudden upwelling of commitment to worldwide mission. 2. the oceanographic phenomenon that occurs when strong, usually seasonal, winds push water away from the coast, bringing cold, nutrient-rich deep waters up to the surface
Word: upwelling Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From up- + welling. 1. present participle and gerund of upwell Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: rate Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English rate, from Old French rate, from Medieval Latin rata, from Latin prō ratā parte (“according to a fixed part”), from ratus (“fixed”), from rērī (“think, deem, judge, estimate", originally "reckon, calculate”). Pronunciation: /ɹeɪt/ 1. The worth of something; value. Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable Example: There shall no figure at such rate be set, / As that of true and faithfull Iuliet. Example: His natural parts were not of the first rate, but he had greatly improved them by a learned education. 2. The proportional relationship between one amount, value etc. and another. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: At the height of his powers, he was producing pictures at the rate of four a year. Example: Negative responses to this program were being received by the office of the National Gay Task Force at the rate of ten to one. 3. Speed. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The car was speeding down here at a hell of a rate. Example: Many of the horse could not march at that rate, nor come up soon enough. 4. The relative speed of change or progress. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The rate of production at the factory is skyrocketing. 5. The price of (an individual) thing; cost. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: He asked quite a rate to take me to the airport. 6. A set price or charge for all examples of a given case, commodity, service etc. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Postal rates here are low. 7. A wage calculated in relation to a unit of time. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: We pay an hourly rate of between $10 – $15 per hour depending on qualifications and experience. 8. Any of various taxes, especially those levied by a local authority. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: I hardly have enough left every month to pay the rates. 9. A class into which ships were assigned based on condition, size etc.; by extension, rank. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: This textbook is first-rate. 10. Established portion or measure; fixed allowance; ration. Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable Example: The one right feeble through the evil rate / Of food which in her duress she had found. 11. Order; arrangement. Labels: obsolete, uncountable Example: Thus sat they all around in seemly rate. 12. Ratification; approval. Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable Example: c. 1610s, George Chapman, Caesar and Pompey Tis offerd, Sir, 'boue the rate of Caesar In other men, but in what I approue Beneath his merits: which I will not faile T'enforce at full to Pompey, nor forget In any time the gratitude of my seruice. 13. The gain or loss of a timepiece in a unit of time. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: daily rate; hourly rate; etc.
Word: rate Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English rate, from Old French rate, from Medieval Latin rata, from Latin prō ratā parte (“according to a fixed part”), from ratus (“fixed”), from rērī (“think, deem, judge, estimate", originally "reckon, calculate”). Pronunciation: /ɹeɪt/ 1. To assign or be assigned a particular rank or level. Labels: transitive Example: She is rated fourth in the country. 2. To evaluate or estimate the value of. Labels: transitive Example: They rate his talents highly. Example: To rate a man by the nature of his companions is a rule frequent indeed, but not infallible. 3. To consider or regard. Labels: transitive Example: He rated this book brilliant. 4. To deserve; to be worth. Labels: transitive Example: The view here hardly rates a mention in the travel guide. Example: Only two assistant district attorneys rate corner offices, and Mandelbaum wasn't one of them. 5. To determine the limits of safe functioning for a machine or electrical device. Labels: transitive Example: The transformer is rated at 10 watts. 6. To evaluate a property's value for the purposes of local taxation. Labels: UK, transitive 7. To like; to think highly of. Labels: informal, transitive Example: The customers don't rate the new burgers. 8. To take action to slow down the pace of the horse one is riding. Labels: transitive Example: Throughout the first turn is where the jockey rates the horse if the need arises. Rating a horse is where you keep it from putting out too much too soon. 9. To have position (in a certain class). Labels: intransitive Example: She rates among the most excellent chefs in the world. Example: He rates as the best cyclist in the country. 10. To have value or standing. Labels: intransitive Example: This last performance of hers didn't rate very high with the judges. 11. To ratify. Labels: transitive Example: to rate the truce 12. To ascertain the exact rate of the gain or loss of (a chronometer) as compared with true time. Labels: transitive
Word: rate Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English raten (“to scold, chide”), from Old Norse hrata (“to refuse, reject, slight, find fault with”), from Proto-Germanic *hratōną (“to sway, shake”), from Proto-Indo-European *krad- (“to swing”). Cognate with Swedish rata (“to reject, refuse, find fault, slight”), Norwegian rata (“to reject, cast aside”), Old English hratian (“to rush, hasten”). Pronunciation: /ɹeɪt/ 1. To berate, scold. Labels: obsolete, transitive Example: Then rated they hym, and sayde: Thou arte hys disciple. Example: Go, rate thy minions, proud, insulting boy!
Word: rate Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Related to, or a variant of, ret. (Found dialectally also as rait.) Pronunciation: /ɹeɪt/ 1. To cause (hay, hemp, flax, etc) to decay (whether in an injurious way, or—as retting—in a useful way) by exposure to weather, particularly wetness. Labels: UK, dialectal, obsolete Example: From the "line pit" it [flax] is carried to the “RATING GROUND;" - a piece of unbroken aftergrass, where the sheaflets are untied, and the flax spread thin upon the grass. It is calculated, that a full crop ought to cover as much ground as it grew upon. Here it lies until it be sufficiently "rated;" namely, until the more woodlike substance of the stems will separate […] Example: […] hay when it is cocked either wette or greene, for then sure it is to be rated, and beinge rated looseth both the goode smell and goode taste; and likewise the colour, as yow may perceive by the blackenesse of the cocke on the outside; for if the[…]
Word: settle Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English settle, setle, setel, setil, seotel, from Old English setl (“that upon which one sits, a seat, a settle, a place to sit”), from Proto-Germanic *setlaz (“a seat; arm-chair”), representing Proto-Indo-European *sed-lo-, from *sed- (“sit”). Cognate with Dutch zetel, German Sessel, Latin sella. Pronunciation: /ˈsɛ.təl/, [ˈsɛtəɫ], [ˈsɛtɫ̩], /ˈsɛtəl/ 1. A seat of any kind. Labels: archaic Example: sit on a settle of joy with angels Example: If hunger drive the Pagans from their dens, One, 'gainst a settle breaketh both his shins; 2. A long bench with a high back and arms, often with chest or storage space underneath. Labels: archaic Example: Beneath its shade, the place of state, / On oaken settle Marmion sate, / And viewed around the blazing hearth. Example: Let us return now to the little girl we left feigning to sleep soundly upon a settle in the kitchen. 3. A place made lower than the rest; a wide step or platform lower than some other part. (Compare a depression.) Labels: obsolete Example: And from the bottom upon the ground, even to the lower settle, shall be two cubits, and the breadth one cubit.
Word: continuous Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin continuus, from contineō (“hold together”). Displaced native Old English singal. Pronunciation: /kənˈtɪn.juː.əs/, /-(j)ɪu̯.əs/ 1. Without stopping; without a break, cessation, or interruption. Labels: not-comparable Example: a continuous current of electricity Example: the continuous roar of a waterfall 2. Without intervening space; continued. Labels: not-comparable Example: a continuous line of railroad Example: […] the Plan incorporates in proper combination every available modern technique, including extensive electrification on the new standard high-voltage a.c. system at a frequency of 50 cycles; main-line diesel traction as a half-way house to electrification; lightweight diesel trains for secondary and branch services; and a smaller wagon fleet doing more work by the use of continuous brakes in conjunction with modernised terminals and marshalling yards. 3. Not deviating or varying from uniformity; not interrupted; not joined or articulated. Labels: not-comparable 4. Such that, for every x in the domain, for each small open interval D about f(x), there's an interval containing x whose image is in D. Labels: not-comparable 5. Such that each open set in the target space has an open preimage (in the domain space, with respect to the given function). Labels: broadly, not-comparable Example: Each continuous function from the real line to the rationals is constant, since the rationals are totally disconnected. 6. Expressing an ongoing action or state. Labels: not-comparable
Word: syn Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Ancient Greek συν- (sun-, “with, together”), having the same function as co- (“synthesis, synoptic”). 1. That has a torsion angle between 0° and 90°. Labels: not-comparable
Word: syn Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Clipping of synonym. 1. Abbreviation of synonym. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of
Word: syn Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Clipping of synthetic. 1. Abbreviation of synthetic. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of
Word: MoS Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative letter-case form of MOS (“manual of style”). Labels: alt-of Example: I just thought others on this list might be as happy as I am to learn that as of September, the Chicago Manual of Style is going to be available online for a subscription fee of $25 introductory price, $30 regular fee. Example: The Manual of Style: A Guide for Authors and Editors (MoS), for example, outlines several requirements that journals could implement to prevent bias and COI from undermining the credibility of reports containing original data (Fontanarosa et al., 2011; MoS, 2007). […] For example, the MoS states that if there is an error in a published paper that can be proved with data, a correction should be published and attached to the original article in PubMed. […] MoS (Manual of Style). 2007. AMA Manual of Style: A Guide for Authors and Editors, 10th ed. New York: Oxford University Press, Inc.
Word: powder Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English poudre, pouder, pouldre, borrowed from Old French poudre, poldre, puldre, from Latin pulverem, accusative singular of Latin pulvis (“dust, powder”). Doublet of pulver. Compare pollen (“fine flour”), polverine, pulverize. Pronunciation: /ˈpaʊ.də(ɹ)/, /ˈpuː.dɐ/, /ˈpaʊ.dɚ/ 1. The fine particles which are the result of reducing a dry substance by pounding, grinding, or triturating, or the result of decay; dust. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Let me goe grin'd their Bones to powder ſmall, […] Example: Let them stop fretting about vegetables denied by the weather and eat chilli powder. Just explain to them that they really shouldn’t think about spiralising it, because that doesn’t work. 2. A mixture of fine dry, sweet-smelling particles applied to the face or other body parts, to reduce shine or to alleviate chaffing. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: She was redolent of violet sachet powder, and had warm, soft, white hands, but she danced divinely, moving as smoothly as the tide coming in. 3. An explosive mixture used in gunnery, blasting, etc.; gunpowder. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Tut, tut, good enough to toſſe: foode for Powder, foode for Powder: they'll fill a Pit, as well as better: tuſh man, mortall men, mortall men. 4. Ellipsis of powder snow; light, dry, fluffy snow. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, ellipsis, informal, uncountable 5. Ellipsis of powder blue, a color. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, ellipsis, uncountable
Word: powder Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English poudre, pouder, pouldre, borrowed from Old French poudre, poldre, puldre, from Latin pulverem, accusative singular of Latin pulvis (“dust, powder”). Doublet of pulver. Compare pollen (“fine flour”), polverine, pulverize. Pronunciation: /ˈpaʊ.də(ɹ)/, /ˈpuː.dɐ/, /ˈpaʊ.dɚ/ 1. To reduce to fine particles; to pound, grind, or rub into a powder. Labels: transitive Example: 25 October 2016, Bettina Elias Siegel writing in New York Times, Should the Food Industry Sneak Vegetables Into Food? In desperation, they dried fruits and vegetables in an old food dehydrator they had, then used their coffee grinder to powder the produce... 2. To sprinkle with powder, or as if with powder. Labels: transitive Example: to powder one's hair Example: 23 March 2016, Seth Augenstein in Laboratory Equipment, FDA Proposes Ban on Powdered Surgical Gloves, Decades after Documenting Health Dangers Gloves were powdered for more than a century to allow doctors and surgeons to slip them on more easily. 3. To use powder on the hair or skin. Labels: intransitive Example: 1778-1787, Frances Burney, The Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay If she is grave, and reads steadily on, she dismisses me, whether I am dressed or not; but at all times she never forgets to send me away while she is powdering, with a consideration not to spoil my clothes 4. To turn into powder; to become powdery. Labels: intransitive Example: Ample evidence is brought forward to show that the higher incidence of chronic interstitial nephritis in Queensland is due to lead paint on the verandahs and railings of the houses, which powders easily during the long Australian summer. 5. To sprinkle with salt; to corn, as meat. Labels: obsolete, transitive 6. To depart suddenly; to "take a powder". Labels: intransitive, slang Example: Miss Gibson appeared in the empty hall, her eyes wide and shocked. The little man who had started all the trouble with his singing telegram had powdered.
Word: imp. Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Abbreviations. Pronunciation: /ɪmp/ 1. Abbreviation of imperative. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, not-comparable Example: notā, sg. imp. form of notō, “I mark” 2. Abbreviation of imperfect. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, not-comparable Example: sate, obs. imp. form of to sit 3. Abbreviation of impersonal. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, not-comparable Example: rain: in imp. constr., “It’s raining.” 4. Abbreviation of imperial. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, not-comparable Example: 1 metric kg ≅ 2·2 imp. ℔ 5. Abbreviation of important. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, comparable Example: V. imp. — remember! 6. Abbreviation of imported. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, not-comparable Example: imp.–dom. ratio is now ~3:1 7. Abbreviation of improved. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, comparable Example: New 2.16β, much imp. on v.2.1.
Word: imp. Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Abbreviations. Pronunciation: /ɪmp/ 1. Abbreviation of import. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, uncountable Example: week 31 imp. gross: $20·6M 2. Abbreviation of importer. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, plural Example: USA now top imp. of goods 3. Abbreviation of impression. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, plural Example: 2ⁿᵈ ed., 11 ᵗʰ imp., 1907 4. Abbreviation of imprimatur. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, plural Example: imp. non obst. 5. Abbreviation of imprint. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, plural Example: Inc. imp. on 3ʳᵈ flyl. 6. Abbreviation of improvement. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, plural Example: forecast sce. shows much imp.
Word: imp. Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Abbreviations. Pronunciation: /ɪmp/ 1. Abbreviation of implement. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, imperative, usually Example: Imp. new tech at 19:00.
Word: imp. Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Abbreviation of French imprimé (“printed”) and imprimeur (“printer”). Pronunciation: /ɛ̃p/ 1. Printed. Labels: not-comparable
Word: imp. Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Abbreviation of French imprimé (“printed”) and imprimeur (“printer”). Pronunciation: /ɛ̃p/ 1. Printer.
Word: impersonal Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From French impersonnel, from Latin impersōnālis, from im- (“not”) + persōnālis (“personal”), equivalent to im- + personal. Pronunciation: /ɪmˈpɝsənəl/, /ɪmˈpɜː.sn̩.ɫ̩/ 1. Not personal; not representing a person; not having personality. Example: The great tragedians of Greece reveal to us their people's exquisite sense of beauty, and their faith in an awful, an almighty, but an impersonal power, called Fate 2. Lacking warmth or emotion; cold. Example: She sounded impersonal as she gave her report of the Nazi death camps. Example: And now it appeared that there was a mysterious Queen clothed by rumour with dread and wonderful attributes, and commonly known by the impersonal, but, to my mind, rather awesome title of She. 3. Not having a subject, or having a third person pronoun without an antecedent. Example: The verb “rain” is impersonal in sentences like “It’s raining.”
Word: impersonal Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From French impersonnel, from Latin impersōnālis, from im- (“not”) + persōnālis (“personal”), equivalent to im- + personal. Pronunciation: /ɪmˈpɝsənəl/, /ɪmˈpɜː.sn̩.ɫ̩/ 1. An impersonal word or construct.
Word: gram. Part of Speech: noun 1. Abbreviation of grammar. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, uncountable
Word: cf. Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Latin cf., abbreviation of cōnfer (“compare”), imperative of cōnferō (“to compare”). Pronunciation: /kəmˈpɛɚ ˌwɪθ/, /siːˈɛf/ 1. Compare; compare to; compare with. Labels: imperative Example: “Connexion” is the etymological (ie, “correct”) spelling. That is to say, our word is derived from an actual Latin noun, cf. deflexion, inflexion, and reflexion. […] And it might make life easier to abolish the letter “x”. But why should we cut off the fascinating roots of our words? I should carry on preferring “connexion”. 2. See; see also. Labels: imperative, nonstandard
Word: prefix Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Late Latin praefīxum, from Latin praefīxus, past participle of praefīgō (“to (fix, fasten, set up) in front”, “to fix on the (end, extremity)”) (from prae- (“before”) + fīgō (“to fix”, “to fasten”, “to affix”)), equivalent to pre- + -fix. Doublet of the archaic synonym prefixum. Pronunciation: /ˈpɹiːfɪks/, /pɹɛˈfɪks/ 1. Something placed before another Example: The chosen prefixes won the vote in part because they start with the only two letters left in the alphabet that are not already used in measurement. The b for “bronto” is already used for bytes and h for “hella” is used for hecto, the prefix for 100. 2. Something placed before another Example: in the UK, a number with an 0800 prefix is a toll-free number. Example: Add the prefix +34 to dial a Spanish number from abroad 3. Something placed before another 4. Something placed before another Example: The string "abra" is both a prefix and a suffix of the string "abracadabra".
Word: prefix Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English prefixen, from Middle French prefixer, from Latin praefīxus, past participle of praefīgō (“to (fix, fasten, set up) in front”, “to fix on the (end, extremity)”) (from prae- (“before”) + fīgō (“to fix”, “to fasten”, “to affix”)), equivalent to pre- + -fix. Pronunciation: /ˈpɹiːfɪks/, /pɹiːˈfɪks/, /pɹɛˈfɪks/ 1. To determine beforehand; to set in advance. Labels: transitive Example: They duly arrived at the prefixed hour. Example: But the danger was, that a man can hardly prefix any certaine limits unto his desire[…]. 2. To put or fix before, or at the beginning of something; to place at the start. Labels: transitive Example: His requests for money were usually prefixed by an apology. Example: You must prefix the number with the area code.
Word: gram Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From French gramme, from Ancient Greek γράμμα (grámma, “a small weight, a scruple”). Doublet of gramma. Pronunciation: /ˈɡɹæm/, /ˈɡɹeə̯m/, /ˈɡrɛə̯m/ 1. A unit of mass equal to one-thousandth of a kilogram. Symbol: g. Example: Holonyms: kilogram < megagram < gigagram Example: Meronyms: picogram < nanogram < microgram < milligram
Word: gram Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From obsolete Portuguese gram (modern Portuguese grão), from Latin grānum. Doublet of corn, grain, granum, and grao. Pronunciation: /ˈɡɹæm/, /ˈɡɹeə̯m/, /ˈɡrɛə̯m/ 1. A leguminous plant grown for its seeds, especially the chickpea. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The next class of farinaceous foods are the Pulses, as peas, beans, and lentils of this country, and the dholls and grams of India. 2. The seeds of these plants. Labels: uncountable
Word: gram Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Clipping of gramma. Pronunciation: /ˈɡɹæm/, /ˈɡɹeə̯m/, /ˈɡrɛə̯m/ 1. Grandmother. Labels: colloquial
Word: gram Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Clipping of gramophone. Pronunciation: /ˈɡɹæm/, /ˈɡɹeə̯m/, /ˈɡrɛə̯m/ 1. A gramophone recording. Labels: dated
Word: gram Part of Speech: name Etymology: Clipping of Instagram. Pronunciation: /ˈɡɹæm/, /ˈɡɹeə̯m/, /ˈɡrɛə̯m/ 1. Alternative form of 'gram (“Instagram”) Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: Keep my business off the gram / Switch my style like I switch hands / Going to war, on foreign land / Fuck out the way bitch back it up / Shit better get played in a palace
Word: gram Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Clipping of Instagram. Pronunciation: /ˈɡɹæm/, /ˈɡɹeə̯m/, /ˈɡrɛə̯m/ 1. Alternative form of 'gram (“Instagram”) Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: gram Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Clipping of Instagram. Pronunciation: /ˈɡɹæm/, /ˈɡɹeə̯m/, /ˈɡrɛə̯m/ 1. Alternative form of 'gram (“Instagram”) Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: gram Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈɡɹæm/, /ˈɡɹeə̯m/, /ˈɡrɛə̯m/ 1. Misspelling of graham. Labels: US, alt-of, misspelling
Word: selenoid Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From seleno- + -oid. 1. crescent-shaped
Word: selenoid Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From seleno- + -oid. 1. any satellite of the Earth's moon (none of which are known)
Word: flash Part of Speech: adj Etymology: In some senses, from Middle English flasshen, a variant of flasken, flaskien (“to sprinkle, splash”), which was likely of imitative origin; in other senses probably of North Germanic origin akin to Swedish dialectal flasa (“to burn brightly, blaze”), related to flare. Compare also Icelandic flasa (“to rush, go hastily”). Pronunciation: /flæʃ/ 1. Expensive-looking and demanding attention; stylish; showy. Labels: Australia, British, New-Zealand, slang Example: The barber man was small and flash, as barbers mostly are, He wore a strike-your-fancy sash, he smoked a huge cigar; 2. Having plenty of ready money. Labels: UK 3. Liable to show off expensive possessions or money. Labels: UK Example: Bit of a flash git, don't you think? 4. Occurring very rapidly, almost instantaneously. Labels: US, slang 5. Relating to thieves and vagabonds. Labels: obsolete, slang Example: the flash language: thieves' cant or slang Example: flash notes: counterfeit banknotes
Word: flash Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English flashe, flaske, also found as flosche and flushe (whence modern English flosh and flush), used in Middle and modern English for bodies of water with varying emphasis on them being "pools" or "marshes". It is not entirely clear whether these constitute a single term with varied spellings, or have distinct etymologies. The form flash, flashe is often suggested to be from Old French flache, French flaque, which is of Germanic origin, akin to Middle Dutch vlacke (“an estuary, flats with stagnant pools”). See flush for more on that form. Pronunciation: /flæʃ/ 1. A pool of water, in some areas especially one that is marshy, and/or one formed by subsidence of the ground due to mining. (Compare flush (“marsh; pool”).) Example: their hearts lie lumpish as a Log that lies in a flash of water seven years together Example: The […] woods, commons, ponds, 'flashes,' bogs, 'damp spots,' and ditches are, when the number and rarity of some of the species are taken into account, the richest botanical ground in Lincolnshire; 2. A reservoir and sluiceway beside a navigable stream, just above a shoal, so that the stream may pour in water as boats pass, and thus bear them over the shoal.
Word: crankcase Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From crank + case. 1. The part of an engine that contains the crankshaft. Example: The crankcase itself is in one piece, in the form of a tunnel into which the crankshaft is introduced from one end.