nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: surface Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French surface. By surface analysis, sur- + face. Doublet of superficies. Pronunciation: /ˈsɜːfɪs/, [ˈsɜːfɪs], /ˈsɜːfəs/, [ˈsɜːfəs], /ˈsɝfɪs/ 1. To provide with a surface; to apply a surface to. Labels: transitive Example: The crew surfaced the road with bitumen. 2. To rise to the surface. Labels: intransitive Example: There was great relief when the missing diver finally surfaced. 3. To bring to the surface. Labels: transitive Example: Sage went immediately to work; Damien surfaced the submarine and readied the group to meet outside the hatch. 4. To come out of hiding. Labels: figuratively, intransitive Example: The company believes the stolen chocolate bars could surface through unofficial sales channels across European markets. 5. To become known or apparent; to appear or be found; to come to light. Labels: intransitive Example: Subordinate clauses, by contrast, exhibit V1 or V2 only around 35% of the time, with the verb usually surfacing later. Example: They're not growing. Why would I surface them to new people? [...That] makes our video surface less, and that makes the next video surface less. 6. To make (information, facts, content, etc) known. Labels: transitive Example: They're not growing. Why would I surface them to new people? [...That] makes our video surface less, and that makes the next video surface less. 7. To work a mine near the surface. Labels: intransitive
Word: data Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Latin data, nominative plural of datum (“that is given”), neuter past participle of dō (“to give”); by surface analysis, dat(um) + -a. Doublet of date. Pronunciation: /ˈdɑːtə/, /ɖɑʈɑ/, [ˈdäːɾə], /ˈdeɪtə/, /ˈdɛjtə/ 1. plural of datum Labels: form-of, plural Example: Holonym: data set Example: These data show that the new policy is not working as intended.
Word: data Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Latin data, nominative plural of datum (“that is given”), neuter past participle of dō (“to give”); by surface analysis, dat(um) + -a. Doublet of date. Pronunciation: /ˈdɑːtə/, /ɖɑʈɑ/, [ˈdäːɾə], /ˈdeɪtə/, /ˈdɛjtə/ 1. A representation of information in a computer (as symbols, quantities, sound, images or videos) which is stored, processed or transmitted in the form of electrical signals, records on magnetic tape or punched cards, etc. Labels: collective, uncountable Example: Data can be sent through email. 2. Material recorded and known or assumed as facts and used as a basis for reasoning, discussion, or calculation, represented especially in the form of numbers, and usually structured (such as statistics). Labels: collective, uncountable Example: Near-synonyms: dataset, data set, data points Example: This data shows that X is correlated with Y. 3. Ellipsis of mobile data (“digital information transmitted using the cellular telephone network rather than Wi-Fi”). Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis, uncountable Example: run out of data
Word: wolf down Part of Speech: verb 1. To consume (food) quickly or greedily, without regard for table manners. Labels: idiomatic, informal Example: He wolfed down a ham sandwich. Example: Carefully choosing a seat that gave him a good view of the action in the lobby, he started a non-stop barrage of questions as he wolfed down cups of coffee.
Word: canned Part of Speech: adj Pronunciation: /kænd/, [keənd] ~ [kɛənd], /kand/, /kæːnd/, [keːnd] ~ [kɛeːnd] 1. Preserved in cans. Labels: not-comparable Example: canned tomatoes Example: If you don't have fresh cardoon I'll take canned. 2. Previously prepared; not fresh or new; standardized, mass-produced, or lacking originality or customization. Labels: broadly, not-comparable Example: canned laughter Example: The form letter included a canned answer stating that what I asked was against policy. 3. Drunk. Labels: not-comparable, slang 4. Terminated, fired from a job. Labels: not-comparable 5. Cancelled or thrown away, said of a project or news article. Labels: not-comparable Example: The raider story was canned by the censor on instructions from the naval authorities.
Word: canned Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /kænd/, [keənd] ~ [kɛənd], /kand/, /kæːnd/, [keːnd] ~ [kɛeːnd] 1. simple past and past participle of can Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: cheep Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Onomatopoeic. Pronunciation: /t͡ʃiːp/ 1. Of a small bird, to make short, high-pitched sounds. Example: […] a brood of ducklings, which had lost their mother, filed into the barn, cheeping feebly and wandering from side to side […] 2. To express in a chirping tone. Example: O Swallow, Swallow, if I could follow, and light / Upon her lattice, I would pipe and trill, / And cheep and twitter twenty million loves.
Word: cheep Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Onomatopoeic. Pronunciation: /t͡ʃiːp/ 1. A short, high-pitched sound made by a small bird. 2. A similar-sounding short high-pitched sound Example: The radiation trackers clipped to our protective overalls let off soft cheeps, their frequency varying as radioactivity levels changed around us.
Word: cheep Part of Speech: intj Etymology: Onomatopoeic. Pronunciation: /t͡ʃiːp/ 1. The short, high-pitched sound made by a small bird.
Word: courgette Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from French courgette, diminutive of courge (“vegetable marrow, marrow squash”). Ultimately related to zucchini through Latin cucurbita. Pronunciation: /kʊɚˈʒɛt/, /kɔɹˈʒɛt/, /kʊəˈʒɛt/, /kɔːˈʒɛt/ 1. A particular variety of Cucurbita pepo, a small marrow/squash. Labels: Ireland, UK, uncountable 2. The edible fruit of this marrow/squash. Labels: countable
Word: zucchini Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Italian zucchini, plural of zucchino, diminutive of zucca (“squash”). Ultimately related to courgette through the original Latin cucurbita. Compare Sicilian cucuzza. Pronunciation: /zuːˈkiː.ni/ 1. A courgette; a variety of squash, Cucurbita pepo, which bears edible fruit. Labels: Australia, Canada, New-Zealand, Philippines, US 2. The edible fruit of this variety of squash. Labels: Australia, Canada, New-Zealand, Philippines, US
Word: zucchini Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Italian zucchini, plural of zucchino, diminutive of zucca (“squash”). Ultimately related to courgette through the original Latin cucurbita. Compare Sicilian cucuzza. Pronunciation: /zuːˈkiː.ni/ 1. plural of zucchino Labels: form-of, plural
Word: zucchino Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Italian zucchino, singular of zucchini. Pronunciation: /zuˈkinoʊ/, /zuˈkiːnəʊ/ 1. Alternative form of zucchini. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: After a prolonged session with a cookbook, she selected two or three recipes she considered promising, went to her grocer’s, and read off her list of ingredients: a quarter pound of white seedless grapes, three oranges, two tart apples, three cloves, the breast of a chicken, a can of pigs’ feet, a spring onion, a zucchino, three leeks, and a half pint of dried black-eyed peas. The grocer paled as he listened. “Lady,” he said, “what are you making—a painting?” Example: Two members of another family became ill after eating a zucchino—a marrow-like plant grown in their garden; a bitter ether-soluble substance was extracted from a sample of the vegetable (Frizelle 1961).
Word: placenta Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Elision for phrases such as New Latin placenta uterī (“womb cake”), placenta uterina (“uterine cake”), from Latin placenta (“flat cake”), because of the flat round shape of the afterbirth. Pronunciation: /pləˈsɛntə/, [pʰl̥əˈsɛntʰə], /pləˈsɪntə/, [pʰl̥əˈsɪ̟ntʰə] 1. An organ in most mammals during gestation that supplies food and oxygen to the foetus and passes back waste. It is on the wall of the uterus and links to the foetus through the umbilical cord. It is expelled after birth. 2. In flowering plants, the part of the ovary where ovules develop; in non-flowering plants where the spores develop.
Word: zucchina Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Italian zucchina, alternative form of zucchino (plural zucchini). 1. Alternative form of zucchini. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: The squashes are used by Italians for frying and other purposes are very small, and for this reason they are called “Zucchine” or small squashes.[…]The “Zucchine” are an extremely tasty vegetable and they are especially good when fried. Example: Mr. Robinson notes that all through Italy the zucchina is picked when it is about the size of a small cucumber—generally before the flower has opened, and that this early cutting causes the plants to produce very freely.
Word: antique Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Borrowed from French antique (“ancient, old”), from Latin antiquus (“former, earlier, ancient, old”), from ante (“before”); see ante-. Doublet of antic. Pronunciation: /ˌanˈtiːk/, /ˌænˈtik/, /ˌænˈtiːk/, /ˌɛnˈtiːk/, /ˌanˈtik/ 1. Having existed in ancient times, descended from antiquity; used especially in reference to Greece and Rome. Example: […] Phillip the younger issue of the king, / Coting the other hill in such arraie, / That all his guilded vpright pikes do seeme, / Streight trees of gold, the pendant leaues, / And their deuice of Antique heraldry, / Quartred in collours seeming sundy fruits, / Makes it the Orchard of the Hesperides, […] Example: Not that great Champion of the antique world, / Whom famous Poets verse so much doth daunt, / And hath for twelue huge labours high extold, / So many furies and sharp fits did haunt, / […] 2. Belonging to former times, not modern, out of date, old-fashioned. Example: Some traditions of this antiquer system may have passed into Van Eyck's method, from distemper into oil, and thence downwards, gradually more vague, into the modern process, till they at length disappeared altogether about Rubens's time. Example: A lonesome traveler might have been seen, / On the turnpike road near the village green, / In a grotesque suit of ultra-marine / And a hat broad-brimmed and conical, / Awkwardly perched in a family cart— / The very antiquest kind / Of an umbrella arching o'er him, / A long black trunk behind / And a short white pony before him, / That ambles on with a jerk and a start, / As though it were taking an active part / In a piece of German machinery. 3. Designating a style of type. 4. Embossed without gilt. 5. Synonym of old (“of color: subdued, as if faded over time”). 6. Synonym of antic, specifically Labels: obsolete 7. Synonym of antic, specifically: Labels: obsolete
Word: antique Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from French antique (“ancient, old”), from Latin antiquus (“former, earlier, ancient, old”), from ante (“before”); see ante-. Doublet of antic. Pronunciation: /ˌanˈtiːk/, /ˌænˈtik/, /ˌænˈtiːk/, /ˌɛnˈtiːk/, /ˌanˈtik/ 1. In general, anything very old; specifically: 2. In general, anything very old; specifically: 3. In general, anything very old; specifically: Labels: singular 4. In general, anything very old; specifically: Labels: derogatory, figuratively, mildly 5. In general, anything very old; specifically: Labels: obsolete Example: They supposed that they had seene those most beutyfull Dryades, or the natyue nymphes or fayres of the fountaynes whereof the antiques spake so muche. Example: Wee eas'ly limme, some louely-Virgin face, / And can to life, a Lantscip represent, / Afford to Antiques, each his proper grace, / Or trick out this, or that compartement : / […] 6. A style of type of thick and bold face in which all lines are of equal or nearly equal thickness. 7. Synonym of antic, specifically: Labels: obsolete Example: […] I do implore secretie, that the King would haue me present the Princesse (sweete chuck) with some delightfull ostentation, or show, or pageant, or antique, or fierworke : […] 8. Synonym of antic, specifically: Labels: obsolete
Word: antique Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Borrowed from French antique (“ancient, old”), from Latin antiquus (“former, earlier, ancient, old”), from ante (“before”); see ante-. Doublet of antic. Pronunciation: /ˌanˈtiːk/, /ˌænˈtik/, /ˌænˈtiːk/, /ˌɛnˈtiːk/, /ˌanˈtik/ 1. To search or shop for antiques. Labels: intransitive Example: Once our daughter-in-love, Janis, went antiquing with us because she and our firstborn, Matthew, were in the market for some bedroom furniture. 2. To make (an object) appear to be an antique in some way. Labels: transitive 3. To emboss without gilding. Labels: transitive
Word: bugger Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Turkic *bulga-der. Proto-Turkic *bulgar Old Turkic 𐰉𐰆𐰞𐰍𐰀 (b¹ul¹ǧa) Proto-Indo-European *-nós Proto-Indo-European *-iHnos Proto-Slavic *-inъ Old Church Slavonic -инъ (-inŭ) Old Church Slavonic блъгаринъ (blŭgarinŭ)der. Medieval Latin Bulgarusder. Old French bogrebor. Middle English bougre English bugger From Middle English bougre (“heretic”), from Old French bougre, from Medieval Latin Bulgarus (“Bulgar”), from Old Church Slavonic блъгаринъ (blŭgarinŭ, “Bulgarian”), used in designation of heretics (especially the Bogomils, who arose around the 10th century AD in the First Bulgarian Empire), to whom various sexual practices such as anal sex were ascribed. Doublet of Bulgar. Pronunciation: /ˈbʌɡə/, /ˈbʌɡəɹ/ 1. A heretic. Labels: obsolete 2. Someone who commits buggery; a sodomite. Labels: UK Example: The British Sexual Offences Act of 1967 is a buggers’ charter. 3. A foolish or worthless person or thing; a despicable person. Labels: Commonwealth, Hawaii, derogatory, slang Example: He's a silly bugger for losing his keys. Example: The bugger’s given me the wrong change. 4. A situation that is aggravating or causes dismay; a pain. Labels: Commonwealth, Hawaii, slang Example: So you're stuck out in the woop-woop and the next train back is Thursday next week. Well, that's a bit of a bugger. 5. Someone viewed with affection; a chap. Labels: Commonwealth, Hawaii, slang Example: How are you, you old bugger? Example: 1946, Olaf Stapledon, Arms Out of Hand, in Collected Stories, Gutenberg Australia eBook #0601341, Good luck, you old bugger! 6. A damn, anything at all. Labels: dated, slang Example: I don't give a bugger how important you think it is. 7. Someone who is very fond of something Labels: Commonwealth, slang Example: I'm a bugger for Welsh cakes. 8. A whippersnapper, a tyke. Labels: UK, US, slang Example: What is that little bugger up to now?
Word: bugger Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Turkic *bulga-der. Proto-Turkic *bulgar Old Turkic 𐰉𐰆𐰞𐰍𐰀 (b¹ul¹ǧa) Proto-Indo-European *-nós Proto-Indo-European *-iHnos Proto-Slavic *-inъ Old Church Slavonic -инъ (-inŭ) Old Church Slavonic блъгаринъ (blŭgarinŭ)der. Medieval Latin Bulgarusder. Old French bogrebor. Middle English bougre English bugger From Middle English bougre (“heretic”), from Old French bougre, from Medieval Latin Bulgarus (“Bulgar”), from Old Church Slavonic блъгаринъ (blŭgarinŭ, “Bulgarian”), used in designation of heretics (especially the Bogomils, who arose around the 10th century AD in the First Bulgarian Empire), to whom various sexual practices such as anal sex were ascribed. Doublet of Bulgar. Pronunciation: /ˈbʌɡə/, /ˈbʌɡəɹ/ 1. To have anal sex with, sodomize. Labels: Commonwealth, transitive, vulgar Example: To be buggered sore like a hobo's whore (Attributed to Harry Mclintock's 1920s era Big Rock Candy Mountain) 2. To break or ruin. Labels: Commonwealth, slang, transitive, vulgar Example: This computer is buggered! Oh no! I've buggered it up. 3. Expressing contemptuous dismissal of the grammatical object. Labels: Commonwealth, slang, transitive, vulgar Example: Bugger Bognor. (Alleged to be the last words of King George V of the United Kingdom in response to a suggestion that he might recover from his illness and visit Bognor Regis.) Example: Oh, bugger this! I'm going out for a beer instead.
Word: bugger Part of Speech: intj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Turkic *bulga-der. Proto-Turkic *bulgar Old Turkic 𐰉𐰆𐰞𐰍𐰀 (b¹ul¹ǧa) Proto-Indo-European *-nós Proto-Indo-European *-iHnos Proto-Slavic *-inъ Old Church Slavonic -инъ (-inŭ) Old Church Slavonic блъгаринъ (blŭgarinŭ)der. Medieval Latin Bulgarusder. Old French bogrebor. Middle English bougre English bugger From Middle English bougre (“heretic”), from Old French bougre, from Medieval Latin Bulgarus (“Bulgar”), from Old Church Slavonic блъгаринъ (blŭgarinŭ, “Bulgarian”), used in designation of heretics (especially the Bogomils, who arose around the 10th century AD in the First Bulgarian Empire), to whom various sexual practices such as anal sex were ascribed. Doublet of Bulgar. Pronunciation: /ˈbʌɡə/, /ˈbʌɡəɹ/ 1. An expression of annoyance or displeasure. Labels: Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, slang, transitive, vulgar Example: Bugger, I've missed the bus. Example: Dear Lord, forgive me for what I am about to, ah, say in this magnificent place of worship. Bugger. Bugger! Bugger-bugger-bugger-bugger!
Word: bugger Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English bug Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzios Latin -āriusnom. Latin -āriusbor. Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz Proto-West Germanic *-ārī Old English -ere Middle English -ere English -er English bugger From bug (noun) + -er. Pronunciation: /ˈbʌɡə/, /ˈbʌɡəɹ/ 1. One who sets a bug (surveillance device); one who bugs. Labels: Commonwealth, transitive, vulgar
Word: ma'am Part of Speech: noun Etymology: The noun is a contraction of madam, and represents a regional pronunciation of that word in the United Kingdom. The verb is derived from the noun. Pronunciation: /ˈmæm/, [ˈmæm], /ˈmɑːm/, [ˈmɑːm], /ˈmeə̯m/ 1. A form of address for a woman: contraction of madam. Example: Madam me no Madam, but learn to retrench your vvords; and ſay Mam; as yes Mam, and no Mam, as other Ladies VVomen do. Madam! 'tis a year in pronouncing. Example: Gad take my Soul, Mame, I hope I ſhall pleaſe you now— […] I vovv to Gad, Mame, I vvas ſo taken up vvith my good Fortune, I did not obſerve the extream Fancy of your Ladiſhip's VVedding-Cloaths— […] 2. A polite and formal way to address a woman. Example: Ma'am, will you be attending the dinner this evening? 3. A respectful term of address to a woman of higher rank or position. Example: – Sergeant, have the platoon in formation and ready for inspection at 0800. – Aye aye, ma'am. 4. A title for a married woman. Labels: archaic Example: That is Ma'am Smith, the matriarch of the Smith families. Example: Yes, my dravving-room is an abſolute regiſter-office for candidate actors, and poets vvithout character;—then to be continually alarmed vvith Miſſes and Ma'ams piping hiſteric changes on Juliets and Dorindas, Pollys and Ophelias; […] 5. A female schoolteacher; a schoolmarm. Labels: US, archaic
Word: ma'am Part of Speech: verb Etymology: The noun is a contraction of madam, and represents a regional pronunciation of that word in the United Kingdom. The verb is derived from the noun. Pronunciation: /ˈmæm/, [ˈmæm], /ˈmɑːm/, [ˈmɑːm], /ˈmeə̯m/ 1. To address (a woman) as "ma'am". Labels: informal, transitive Example: ["]And, fellas, I've got to tell you that your Texas manners are perfect. Y'all have about ma'amed me to death. But you can call me Lucy from here on out. Got it?" / "Yes, ma'am—I mean, Lucy," Joseph complied, taking the sledgehammer and grinning as he looked from it to the blue wall.
Word: madam Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English madame, from Old French madame, from ma (“my”) + dame (“lady”), from post-classical Latin mea domina. Doublet of Madonna. Pronunciation: /ˈmædəm/, [ˈmædəm] ~ [ˈmædm̩], /mɐˈdam/, [mɐˈdam], /ˈmeɪdəm/ 1. A polite form of address for a woman or lady. Example: Mrs Grey wondered if the outfit she was trying on made her look fat. The sales assistant just said, “It suits you, madam”. Example: Later, Mrs Grey was sitting in her favourite tea shop. “Would madam like the usual cream cakes and patisserie with her tea?” the waitress asked. 2. The mistress of a household. 3. A conceited or quarrelsome girl. Labels: colloquial Example: Selina kept pushing and shoving during musical chairs. The nursery school teacher said she was a bad-tempered little madam. 4. A woman who runs a brothel, particularly one that specializes in finding prostitutes for rich and important clients. Labels: slang Example: After she grew too old to work as a prostitute, she became a madam. Example: I sneaked into the house and stole my sister’s Hudson-seal fur coat out of the closet, then I beat it down to a whorehouse and sold it to the madam for $150. 5. A hated or contemptuous woman; used as a general term of abuse Labels: India, derogatory, slang
Word: madam Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English madame, from Old French madame, from ma (“my”) + dame (“lady”), from post-classical Latin mea domina. Doublet of Madonna. Pronunciation: /ˈmædəm/, [ˈmædəm] ~ [ˈmædm̩], /mɐˈdam/, [mɐˈdam], /ˈmeɪdəm/ 1. To address as "madam". Labels: transitive Example: Madam me no Madam, but learn to retrench your vvords; and ſay Mam; as yes Mam, and no Mam, as other Ladies VVomen do. Madam! 'tis a year in pronouncing. Example: In Houſes where great Numbers of theſe Wretches are lodg’d it is both merry and melancholy to hear what a Maiding and Madamming there is all Day long, from the top of the Houſe to the bottom. 2. To be a madam; to run (a brothel). Labels: ambitransitive, rare Example: The writer has never accepted the criterion “will it make money?” He has known that the application of such an irrelevancy to any of the arts and sciences resulted in sterility, error and waste. But what is more important, the writer will not pretend that this is not so. He will not pretend that the money criterion is a valid point of reference. The result has been that the writer has been kicked around from furnished room to the luxurious offices of advertising agencies and those palaces of prostitution which are madamed by public relations counsellors. Example: Margaret Long’s freudianized Louisville does not have the local color of the famous Lexington bordello madamed by the late Belle Breezing (in the process of being fictionized); […]
Word: med Part of Speech: adj Pronunciation: /mɛːd/ 1. Clipping of medical. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, informal, not-comparable Example: I'm in med school. 2. Clipping of median Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, not-comparable
Word: med Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /mɛːd/ 1. Medications, especially prescribed psychoactive medications. Labels: countable, in-plural, informal, uncountable Example: He's been very strange. I wonder if he's not been taking his meds. Example: Shepard: What's wrong with your assistant? Dr. Warren: Manuel has a brilliant mind, but he's always been a bit... unstable. Genius and madness are two sides of the same coin. Dr. Manuel: Is it madness to see the future? To see the destruction rushing towards us? To understand there is no escape? No hope? No, I am not mad. I'm the only sane one left! Dr. Warren: I gave him an extra dose of his meds after the attack. 2. Clipping of medicine, as an academic subject. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, informal, uncountable Example: My brother studied med at Cambridge. 3. A medic; a doctor. Labels: countable, informal Example: A stray dachshund the meds are keeping as a mascot.
Word: med Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /mɛːd/ 1. Clipping of medicate Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, clipping
Word: med Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /mɛːd/ 1. Pronunciation spelling of might. Labels: UK, alt-of, dialectal, pronunciation-spelling Example: You med be religious, or you med not, but you can't help striking in your homely note with the rest.
Word: madame Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from French madame, from Old French ma dame (“my lady”). Doublet of madam and Madonna. Pronunciation: /məˈdæm/, /məˈdɑːm/, /ˈmæ.dəm/, /məˈdɑm/, /mæˈdæm/ 1. Alternative form of madam. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: monsieur Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From French monsieur. Doublet of monseigneur and monsignor. Pronunciation: /məˈsjʊə(ɹ)/, /məˈsjɜː(ɹ)/ 1. A man, especially a French gentleman. Labels: dated Example: Pass round the decanters; glad to see ye; fill up, monsieurs!
Word: senex Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin senex. Pronunciation: /ˈsɛnɛks/ 1. An older or old man, chiefly as a stock character. Example: 6. Old Men or Senexes. Frequently these characters have a beautiful young ward who, often, they wish to marry (or wish to marry off to someone the ward doesn’t like) and it is the task of the hero, the male lead, often helped by a shrewd servant or slave (or similar figure) to outwit the senex and marry the girl. Sometimes the senex figure is actually married to a young wife and that poses numerous complications: the old husband is jealous, the young wife unsatisfied in various ways with a different perspective on life. Example: Now for more about the four birds, explicitly identified with the four evangelists as the four old men or Senexes. Notice the repetition on four as the four Gospel books repeat much of the same history of Christ, perhaps as a result of an editorial effort to achieve uniformity.
Word: senate Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English senat, from Old French senat, from Latin senātus (“council of elders; a senate”), from senex (“old”). Pronunciation: /ˈsɛnɪt/, /ˈsɛnət/, /ˈsenət/ 1. In some bicameral legislative systems, the upper house or chamber. 2. A group of experienced, respected, wise individuals serving as decision makers or advisors in a political system or in institutional governance, as in a university, and traditionally of advanced age. Example: Before the Tyrant's throne All night his aged Senate sate. 3. In Germany, the executive branch of government in the city states of Berlin, Bremen, and Hamburg; the governments of cities that were part of the Hanseatic League; and the bench in a higher appellate court.
Word: interval cycle Part of Speech: noun 1. That which unfolds a single recurrent interval in a series that closes with a return to the initial pitch class.
Word: basso Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Italian basso, from Latin bassus (“short, low”). Doublet of base and bass. 1. A bass singer, especially in opera. 2. An instrumental part written for a bass instrument. 3. The double bass, or contrabasso.
Word: basso Part of Speech: noun 1. Obsolete spelling of bashaw and pasha. Labels: alt-of, obsolete Example: Great Kings of Barbary, and my portly Baſſoes, we heare, the Tartars & the Eaſterne theeues: Under the conduct of one Tamburlaine, Preſume a bickering with your Emperour: […]
Word: haircut Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From hair + cut. Pronunciation: /ˈhɛə(ɹ)kʌt/ 1. The act of cutting of the hair, often done professionally by a barber, hair stylist, or beautician. 2. The style into which the hair is cut. 3. A partial loss, financially: thus, in a bankruptcy proceeding, the proportional reduction in the debt that will be paid to each creditor (based on an evaluation of the total debt owed and the total assets of the debtor); among investors, the negative return on investment from a losing proposition. Example: to take a haircut Example: And he needs to make sure that any American bank that was involved in loans to Asia, and now wants to share in the I.M.F. bailout, takes a haircut. And I'm not just talking about a trim. 4. The difference between the value of a loan and the value of its collateral. Example: Government securities having high credit rating such as Treasury bonds and Treasury bills are usually subjected to 1% to 10% haircut, while for more risky, volatile or illiquid securities, such as a stock option, the haircut might be as high as 30%.
Word: haircut Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From hair + cut. Pronunciation: /ˈhɛə(ɹ)kʌt/ 1. To reduce the value assigned to an asset. Example: But whereas in the past it has been possible for a brokerage house to credit a customer’s account for 100 percent of the value of a commodity, we have required that that value be haircutted significantly. Example: That is because the future stream of income is discounted to present value at perhaps as much as two to three percentage points above the prime rate and then haircutted by as high as 33½%.
Word: erection Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Latin ērectiō, ērectiōnis, noun of action from perfect passive participle ērectus, from verb erigō, from prefix ē- (“out of”) + regō, + action suffix -iō. Pronunciation: /ɪˈɹɛkʃən/ 1. The act of building or putting up or together of something. Labels: uncountable 2. Anything erected or built. Labels: countable Example: The Empire State Building was once the world's tallest erection. Example: If any serious number of deck erections have been left unfaired, these percentages will be too low. 3. Formal approval and official establishment of an institution such as a society or a monastery by higher church authorities. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: There is some obscurity attaching to the only other one of those alleged erections of parishes, the case of Foot Dee, near Aberdeen. Example: If the erection of a society is made with pontifical authority, then the society is one of pontifical legal status from its inception. 4. The physiological process by which erectile tissue, such as a penis or clitoris, becomes erect by being engorged with blood. Labels: uncountable Example: I think that the case also demonstrates some singular aspects of the penis as a narrator of tales, specifically the way in which the erection of a penis falls outside a man's conscious control and therefore threatens a carefully constructed master legal narrative in which bodily self-control graphically represents the self-government contemplated by a democratic legal society. Example: There are men who say they cannot bear to show themselves naked before women unless in a state of erection; and indeed through erection the flesh becomes activity, potency, […] 5. The state or quality of being erect from engorgement with blood. Labels: uncountable Example: […] but our experienc'd matron very soon, by chafing it with her hands, brought it to swell to that size and erection I had before seen it up to. Example: Older men typically require longer periods of time to achieve erection and reach orgasm. 6. A penis or clitoris that is erect. Labels: countable Example: He placed his newspaper on his lap to hide his erection. Example: Nothing is more short-lived than the erection; like the crocus of spring, it is there for a moment, and then it is gone; one moment the penis is small, soft, and insignificant, and then in the next it is hard, rigid, and three and four times its previous size.
Word: fractus Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin fractus. 1. A cloud species which consists of broken shreds of cloud; scud. Example: FIGURE 5.17[…]The ragged-appearing clouds beneath the nimbostratus are stratus fractus, or scud.
Word: repent Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English repenten, from Old French repentir, from Vulgar Latin *repaenitīre, from Late Latin paenitīre, from Classical Latin paenitēre. Compare Modern French repentir. Pronunciation: /ɹɪˈpɛnt/ 1. To feel pain, sorrow, or regret for what one has done or omitted to do; the cause for repenting may be indicated with "of". Labels: intransitive Example: Marry in haste, repent at leisure. Example: Then said he unto the disciples, It is impossible but that offences will come: but woe unto him, through whom they come! It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea, than that he should offend one of these little ones. Take heed to yourselves: If thy brother trespass against thee, rebuke him; and if he repent, forgive him. And if he trespass against thee seven times in a day, and seven times in a day turn again to thee, saying, I repent; thou shalt forgive him. 2. To be sorry for sin as morally evil, and to seek forgiveness; to cease to practice sin and to love. Labels: intransitive Example: ... Jesus came into Galilee, preaching the gospel of the kingdom of God, And saying, The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand: repent ye, and believe the gospel. Example: Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost. For the promise is unto you, and to your children, and to all that are afar off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call. And with many other words did he testify and exhort, saying, Save yourselves from this untoward generation. 3. To feel pain on account of; to remember with sorrow. Labels: transitive Example: If Aljunied decides to go that way (to vote for the Workers' Party), well Aljunied has five years to live and repent. 4. To be sorry for, to regret. Labels: transitive Example: I repent my sins. Example: And what I ſaid in time of our buſines I repent not, And if it were to ſpeake againe, Euerie word ſhould be a whole ſermon, So much I repent me. 5. To cause to have sorrow or regret. Labels: archaic, transitive Example: at that time she wolde nat, she seyde, for she was syke and myght nat ryde. "That me repentith," seyde the kynge[…]. Example: And it repented the Lord that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart. 6. To cause (oneself) to feel pain or regret. Labels: obsolete, reflexive Example: But if that I knewe what his name hight, For clatering of me I would him ſone quight; For his falſe lying, of that I ſpake never, I could make him ſhortly repent him forever: […] 7. To change one's mind. Labels: archaic, intransitive Example: The Lord hath sworn, and will not repent, Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchizedek.
Word: repent Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin rēpēns, present participle of rēpō (“to creep”). Pronunciation: /ˈɹiːpənt/ 1. Creeping along the ground. Example: The pennated, repent and ferine entities of the boscage, are ousels, shellducks, […] and ursine quadrupeds.
Word: duet Part of Speech: noun Etymology: PIE word *dwóh₁ From Italian duetto (“short musical composition for two voices”), diminutive of due (“two”). Pronunciation: /djuˈɛt/, /duˈɛt/ 1. A musical composition in two parts, each performed by a single voice (singer, instrument or univoce ensemble). 2. A song composed for and/or performed by a duo. 3. A pair or couple, especially one that is harmonious or elegant. Example: The fare is Caribbean with an Asian touch — millefeuille of sun-dried tomato, Paris mushrooms and chargrilled local asparagus followed by a duet of chicken and shrimp...
Word: duet Part of Speech: verb Etymology: PIE word *dwóh₁ From Italian duetto (“short musical composition for two voices”), diminutive of due (“two”). Pronunciation: /djuˈɛt/, /duˈɛt/ 1. To perform a duet. Labels: intransitive Example: 1822, Lord Byron, Letter to Mr. Moore, Pisa, July 12, 1822, in The Letters of George Gordon Byron, edited by Mathilde Blind, London: Walter Scott, 1887, p. 277, https://books.google.ca/books?id=-DF4Zs_eezUC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false When you can spare time from duetting, coquetting, and claretting with your Hibernians of both sexes, let me have a line from you. Example: He was about as accordantly coupled with Dr. Middleton in discourse as a drum duetting with a bass-viol […] 2. To communicate (warnings, mating calls, etc.) through song. Labels: intransitive Example: 1975, Edward O. Wilson, Sociobiology: The New Synthesis, Belknap Press, p. 223, Duetting species are typically monogamous. Example: In several dozen species of birds there has been found a phenomenon known as duetting, or antiphonal singing: the first part of a song is executed by one partner of a pair, then the other partner very promptly chimes in to sing the second part. 3. To perform (sing, play, etc.) as a duet. Labels: transitive Example: Peena and Queena are duetting a giggle-for-giggle […] Example: After the Lord's Prayer the Missionaries duetted a hymn while the children stared at me. 4. (of two people) To say at the same time, to chorus. Labels: transitive Example: “My dear papa!” duetted the girls; but there was something in the husband and father's face, that told the three ladies it would be worse than useless to raise that question at present. Example: 1884, Anonymous, A Speculation, Denver: D. M. Richards, Chapter 12, p. 50, https://books.google.ca/books?id=RsFQAQAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false “A bear!” exclaimed the Major, jumping up and coming forward. “A bear!” dueted the Doctor and Right Rev., pressing hastily to the front.
Word: imbroglio Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Italian imbroglio (“tangle, entanglement, muddle”) (im-, alternative form of in- (prefix forming verbs denoting derivation) + broglio (“confusion; intrigue, fraud, rigging, stuffing”); see also imbrogliare (“to tangle”)), cognate with and probably from an earlier form of French embrouiller (“to embroil, muddle”) (em- (“em-”), a form of en- (“en-”, prefix meaning ‘caused’) + brouiller (“to confuse, mix up”)). Doublet of embroil. Pronunciation: /ɪmˈbɹəʊljəʊ/, /ɪmˈbɹoʊljoʊ/ 1. A complicated situation; an entanglement. Example: Into the drawers and china pry, / Papers and books, a huge imbroglio! / Under a tea-cup he might lie, / Or creased, like dogs-ears, in a folio. Example: Your trip here will never quite go as planned. […] There may be strikes, mixed-up reservations, maddening imbrogli of all sorts. But they will be charming imbrogli because the Italian people are charming, down to the whimsical tone of their language.
Word: Minnesota Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Lakota mní šóta (literally “cloudy water”). Pronunciation: /ˌmɪnɪˈsoʊtə/, [ˌmɪnɪˈsoʊɾə] 1. A state in the Upper Midwest region of the United States. Capital: Saint Paul. Largest city: Minneapolis. Example: “I think allowing this moniker, ‘Defund the police,’ to ever get out there, was not a good thing,” Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison (D) told The Washington Post’s Dave Weigel on Thursday. Example: The vote was 213-209 along party lines. Republican members of the House Ethics Committee – Michael Guest of Mississippi, Dave Joyce of Ohio, Andrew Garbarino of New York, John Rutherford of Florida and Michelle Fischbach of Minnesota – voted present. GOP Rep. Ken Buck of Colorado also voted present but he is not on the Ethics Committee. 2. A tributary of the Mississippi River in southern Minnesota. 3. A former territory (1849–1858) of the United States, encompassing the modern state and part of the Dakotas. Capital: Saint Paul. Labels: historical 4. The University of Minnesota, Twin Cities.
Word: yonks Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Unknown. First seen in print around 1960. One theory is that it comes from donkey's ears; another is that it is an abbreviation of years, months and weeks. Pronunciation: /jɒŋks/ 1. A long time (especially a longer time than expected); ages Labels: Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, plural, plural-only, slang Example: Haven’t seen him in yonks! Example: I’ve been a teacher for yonks–I should really try another career.
Word: possessive Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle French possessif, from Latin possessivus (“of or pertaining to possession”), from possessiō (“possessing”), from possidēre (“to possess”). By surface analysis, possess + -ive. Pronunciation: /pəˈzɛs.ɪv/, /pəˈzes.ɪv/, /pəˈzes.əv/ 1. Of or pertaining to ownership or possession. 2. Indicating ownership, possession, origin, etc. 3. Unwilling to yield possession of. Example: He is very possessive of his car.
Word: possessive Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle French possessif, from Latin possessivus (“of or pertaining to possession”), from possessiō (“possessing”), from possidēre (“to possess”). By surface analysis, possess + -ive. Pronunciation: /pəˈzɛs.ɪv/, /pəˈzes.ɪv/, /pəˈzes.əv/ 1. The possessive case. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. A word used to indicate the possessive case. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Take the rule about pronouns and possessives that Mr. Keegan cited in his challenge to the testing service. Example: The New York Times, The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal all do the opposite, opting for ’s to mark a singular possessive and a simple apostrophe for plural possessive (Harrises’ and Walzes’).
Word: Purmerend Part of Speech: name 1. A city in North Holland, Netherlands. 2. A municipality of North Holland, Netherlands.
Word: syncretic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Back-formation from syncretism: by surface analysis, syncret(ize) + -ic. Pronunciation: /sɪnˈkɹɛtɪk/, [sɪŋ-], [siŋ-] 1. Combining disparate elements in one system, especially as in forms of religious observance, philosophical systems, or artistic creations. Example: In Islamic villages below Tengger, however, more syncretic communities still celebrate annual village ritual festivals (slametan desa, slametan tuyo) designed to give homage to the spirits of the mountains and insure the flow of their waters. Example: 1999, John B. Henderson, Imagining Boundaries: Changing Confucian Doctrines, Texts, and Hermeneutics, Kai-wing Chow, On Cho Ng, John B. Henderson (editors), Imagining Boundaries: Changing Confucian Doctrines, Texts, and Hermeneutics, State University of New York Press, page 112, From the point of view of many late Ming and Ch'ing scholars, the most syncretic, as well as the most threatening heretic of all was a nominal Confucian, Wang Yang-ming (1472-1528).
Word: insufflate Part of Speech: verb Etymology: First attested in 1670; borrowed from Latin īnsufflātus, perfect passive participle of īnsufflō (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)) from in- + sufflō (“to blow on”). Cognate with French insuffler. Pronunciation: /ˈɪnsʌfleɪt/ 1. To breathe or blow into or on. Labels: transitive 2. To treat by blowing a gas, vapor, or powder into a body cavity. Labels: transitive 3. To inhale (a powder etc.). Labels: transitive Example: 2001: Cocaine is usually taken by insufflating the white powdered cocaine sulphate into the nose, which leads to rapid absorption of the drug into the bloodstream. — Leslie Iversen, Drugs: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford 2001, p. 98) 4. To exhale upon baptismal water, or the one being baptised, as a ritual act. Labels: transitive
Word: chamber Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English chambre, borrowed from Old French chambre, from Latin camera, from Ancient Greek καμάρα (kamára, “vaulted chamber”). Doublet of camera. Pronunciation: /ˈt͡ʃeɪ̯mbə/, [ˈt͡ʃʰeɪ̯mbə], /ˈt͡ʃeɪ̯mbɚ/, [ˈt͡ʃʰeɪ̯mbɚ] ~ [ˈt͡ʃʰeɪ̯mbɹ̩] 1. A room or set of rooms Example: Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, / Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore, / While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, / As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door. 2. A room or set of rooms 3. A room or set of rooms 4. A room or set of rooms 5. A room or set of rooms Labels: UK 6. A room or set of rooms Labels: dated, plural-normally Example: A committee of marriageable ladies, or of any Christian persons interested in the propagation of the domestic virtues, should employ a Cruikshank or a Leech, or some other kindly expositor of the follies of the day, to make a series of designs representing the horrors of a bachelor's life in chambers, and leading the beholder to think of better things, and a more wholesome condition. 7. Ellipsis of chamber pot (“a container used for urination and defecation in one's chambers”). Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis, obsolete Example: "Jesus Christ! Was my folks refined. My mam she wouldn't think-a lettin' us young'uns call a pee pot a pee pot. A chamber's what she called it... And by God! Us young'uns had ter call the pee pot a chamber or git our God damn necks wrang." 8. The legislature or division of the legislature itself. Labels: figuratively Example: The resolution, which speedily passed the Senate, was unable to gain a majority in the lower chamber. 9. Any enclosed space occupying or similar to a room. Example: A canal lock chamber; a furnace chamber; a test chamber 10. An enlarged space in an underground tunnel of a burrowing animal. 11. The area holding the ammunition round at the initiation of its discharge. Example: Dianne loaded a cartridge into the chamber of the rifle, then prepared to take aim at the target. 12. One of the bullet-holding compartments in the cylinder of a revolver. 13. A short piece of ordnance or cannon which stood on its breech without any carriage, formerly used chiefly for celebrations and theatrical cannonades. Labels: historical 14. One of the two atria or two ventricles of the heart.
Word: chamber Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English chambre, borrowed from Old French chambre, from Latin camera, from Ancient Greek καμάρα (kamára, “vaulted chamber”). Doublet of camera. Pronunciation: /ˈt͡ʃeɪ̯mbə/, [ˈt͡ʃʰeɪ̯mbə], /ˈt͡ʃeɪ̯mbɚ/, [ˈt͡ʃʰeɪ̯mbɚ] ~ [ˈt͡ʃʰeɪ̯mbɹ̩] 1. To enclose in a room. Labels: transitive Example: She had chambered herself in her room, and wouldn't come out. 2. To reside in or occupy a chamber or chambers. Example: I chambered with Alexander Preston. 3. To place in a chamber, as a round of ammunition. Labels: transitive Example: The hunter fired at the geese and missed, then shrugged his shoulders and chambered another cartridge. 4. To create or modify a gun to be a specific caliber. Labels: transitive Example: The rifle was originally chambered for 9mm, but had since been modified for a larger, wildcat caliber. 5. To prepare an offensive, defensive, or counteroffensive action by drawing a limb or weapon to a position where it may be charged with kinetic energy. Labels: transitive Example: Bob chambered his fist for a blow, but Sheila struck first. 6. To be lascivious. Labels: obsolete
Word: chambre Part of Speech: noun 1. Obsolete spelling of chamber. Labels: alt-of, obsolete
Word: chamber of commerce Part of Speech: noun 1. An association of businesses to promote their interests in a community. Example: The US Chamber of Commerce represents Big Business nationally, but state and local chambers of commerce are for smaller businesses locally.
Word: enjoy Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English enjoyen, from Old French enjoier, anjoier, enjoer (“to give joy, receive with joy, rejoice”), equivalent to en- + joy. Pronunciation: /ɛnˈd͡ʒɔɪ/, /ɪnˈd͡ʒɔɪ/, /ənˈd͡ʒɔɪ/, /enˈd͡ʒoɪ/, /ɪnˈd͡ʒoɪ/ 1. To receive pleasure or satisfaction from something. Labels: transitive Example: Enjoy your holidays! I very much enjoy dancing. Example: I've really enjoyed you and your sister showing me around. 2. To have the use or benefit of something. Labels: transitive Example: I plan to go travelling while I still enjoy good health. Example: that the children of Israel may enjoy every man the inheritance of his fathers 3. To be satisfied or receive pleasure; to have fun. Labels: India, intransitive Example: I enjoyed a lot. 4. To have sexual intercourse with. Labels: transitive Example: Never did thy Beautie[…]so enflame my sense With ardor to enjoy thee.