nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: tableau Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from French tableau, from Old French tablel (“a surface which is used primarily for painting”). Pronunciation: /ˈtæ.bləʊ/, /tæˈbloʊ/ 1. A striking and vivid representation or scene; a picture. Example: Stefania Chlouveraki, the project leader, stands at a long sorting table. She turns the colored fragments over and over in her fingertips. She fits each one into its place: a magnificent tableau of lions, crosses, pomegranate trees. 2. A vivid graphic scene of a group of people or objects arranged as in a painting or bas relief sculpture. Example: Folding chairs had been placed at prudent distances, and masks were dutifully worn. An Australian Labradoodle belonging to the home’s owners strutted among the guests. Despite the breezy suburban tableau, the occasion was fraught. 3. An arrangement of actors in static positions on stage, having the effect of pointing up a particular moment in the drama, conventionally revealed by opening tableau curtains (known as "tabs"). Labels: UK, broadly, dated 4. A two-dimensional array or table of data, usually numbers, of various specific kinds. Example: For the tableau shown, there are three distinct procedures (one for each standard Young tableau of shape (2,1,1) with entries 1, 2, 3, and 4) for obtaining a Young tableau. 5. A table that shows constraint violations of a list of candidates given an input and a constraint ranking. 6. Mostly in solitaire card games, but also in other card and board games, the main area, where random cards can be arranged. 7. A semantic tableau. 8. A unit of a play, an opera, or a ballet with change of stage setting. Example: […] several scenes from the first act were consolidated into one tableau […] Example: As creative as it might have been, it appeared disjointed, with the sense of many things happening simultaneously, and the promenading performances jumping from one idea to the next – from a cancan to a gothic tableau featuring mock-beheaded women at the windows of the Conciergerie with red streamers that looked like macabre spurting blood.
Word: thesis Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Late Middle English thesis (“lowering of the voice”) and also borrowed directly from its etymon Latin thesis (“proposition, thesis; lowering of the voice”), from Ancient Greek θέσῐς (thésĭs, “arrangement, placement, setting; conclusion, position, thesis; lowering of the voice”), from τῐ́θημῐ (tĭ́thēmĭ, “to place, put, set; to put down in writing; to consider as, regard”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁- (“to do; to place, put”)) + -σῐς (-sĭs, suffix forming abstract nouns or nouns of action, process, or result). The English word is a doublet of deed. Sense 1.1 (“proposition or statement supported by arguments”) is adopted from antithesis. Sense 1.4 (“initial stage of reasoning”) was first used by the German philosopher Johann Gottlieb Fichte (1762–1814), and later applied to the dialectical method of his countryman, the philosopher Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770–1831). The plural form theses is borrowed from Latin thesēs, from Ancient Greek θέσεις (théseis). Pronunciation: /ˈθiːsɪs/, /ˈθɛsɪs/, /ˈθisɪs/, /ˈθiːsiːz/, /ˈθisiz/ 1. Senses relating to logic, rhetoric, etc. Labels: rhetoric Example: I submit these nine theses to Wikipedia’s community and to the world. I do this, as Martin Luther said when he posted his famous 95 theses, “Out of love for the truth and the desire to elucidate it.” […] I am confident that every thesis stands on solid ground. 2. Senses relating to logic, rhetoric, etc. Labels: broadly Example: I told them of the grave, becoming, and ſublime deportment they ſhould aſſume upon this myſtical occaſion, and read them two homilies and a theſis of my own compoſing, in order to prepare them. 3. Senses relating to logic, rhetoric, etc. 4. Senses relating to logic, rhetoric, etc. 5. Senses relating to logic, rhetoric, etc. 6. Senses relating to music and prosody. 7. Senses relating to music and prosody.
Word: vita Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin vīta (“life”). Doublet of quick and jiva. Pronunciation: /viːtə/, /vaɪtə/, /ˈvitə/ 1. A hagiography; a biography of a saint. 2. A curriculum vitae.
Word: Egipt Part of Speech: name 1. Obsolete spelling of Egypt. Labels: alt-of, obsolete Example: And now the time came had bin long foretold, He should be borne vnto the Hebrewes ioy, Whose puissant hand such fatall power should hold, As in short time all Egipt should destroy.
Word: porto Part of Speech: noun 1. An apéritif made from port. 2. Synonym of port.
Word: urbs Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Latin urbs. Pronunciation: /ɜːbz/, /ɝbz/ 1. A walled city in Ancient Rome.
Word: theses Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Latin thesēs, from Ancient Greek θέσεις (théseis). Pronunciation: /ˈθiːsiːz/, /ˈθisiz/ 1. plural of thesis Labels: form-of, plural
Word: pollex Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Latin pollex. 1. The thumb; the first, or preaxial, digit of the forelimb, corresponding to the hallux in the hind limb. In birds, the pollex is the joint which bears the alula or bastard wing. Example: The Simiidae have a man-like appearance. They possess neither tails nor bestial cheek pouches. Their arms are longer than their legs, and they have opposable pollexes and a broad sternum. Example: We came to know the curious roadside species, Hitchhiking Man, Homo pollex of science, with all its many sub-species and forms: […]
Word: pons Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Latin pōns (“bridge”). Doublet of Pontus. Pronunciation: /ˈpɑnz/, /ˈpɒnz/, /ˈpoʊnz/, /ˈpəʊnz/ 1. A bridge-like tissue connecting two parts of an organ. 2. A band of nerve fibres, from the Latin term pōns Varoliī, within the brain stem.
Word: confrontation Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle French. Morphologically confront + -ation. Pronunciation: /ˌkɒn.fɹənˈteɪ.ʃən/, /ˌkɑn.fɹənˈteɪ.ʃən/, /ˌkɔn.fɹənˈtæɪ.ʃən/ 1. The act of confronting or challenging another, especially face to face. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: During the late 1950s and throughout the 1960s, this commitment brought him into frequent critical confrontation with entrenched forms of conservative thinking (in academic areas from history and social science to the more abstract domains of ethical and political philosophy)[…] 2. A conflict between armed forces. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: vulnus Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Latin vulnus. Pronunciation: /ˈvʌlnəs/ 1. A wound. Labels: formal Example: I was once, I remember, called to a patient who had received a violent contusion in his tibia, by which the exterior cutis was lacerated, so that there was a profuse sanguinary discharge; and the interior membranes were so divellicated, that the os or bone very plainly appeared through the aperture of the vulnus or wound. Example: But for the veterans in the Pannonian legions, their vulnera were no longer their tokens of honour, but an indication of the severity of service in the army.
Word: Venetia Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Latin Venetia, from Venetī + -ia. Doublet of Venezia and Venice. Pronunciation: /vəˈniʃə/, /vɪˈniːʃə/ 1. a historical region in northeastern Italy, roughly corresponding to the modern Veneto
Word: Venetia Part of Speech: name Etymology: Uncertain. Pronunciation: /vəˈniʃə/, /vɪˈniːʃə/ 1. A female given name from Latin used since the late Middle Ages.
Word: xiphias Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from translingual Xiphias or Latin xiphiās (“swordfish”). Pronunciation: /ˈzɪfiəs/ 1. Synonym of swordfish. Example: Huge Ziffius, whom Mariners eschew / No lesse, then rockes, as travellers informe […] Example: S. Malpighi having dissected the Head of a Xiphias or Sword Fish, which hath a very big Eye, observ'd that the middle of the Optick Nerve is nothing else, but a large Membrane, folded according to its length in many Doubles almost like a Fan, and invested by the Dura Mater.
Word: pelta Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin pelta, from Ancient Greek πέλτη (péltē, “shield”). Pronunciation: /ˈpɛltə/ 1. A small shield, especially one of an approximately elliptical form, or crescent-shaped. Labels: historical Example: Xenophon also mentions bronze peltae, but probably (like hoplite shields) they were only faced with a thin covering of bronze. Example: The other subject illustrated in these scenes of silens carrying peltas appears to be a battle. 2. A crescent-shaped design used in mosaics. Labels: historical Example: A pattern of red and blue peltae on a white ground, arranged in groups of four with two peltae placed back to back and one at each end facing inward, forms the outer border on the east side of the mosaic. Example: Evidently it was a deliberate choice to select from the repertory of opus sectile, often extremely figurative, only those decorative motifs that were amenable to sixteenth-century architectural classicism, like the peltae on the Farnese tables, which were still used for the seventeenth-century pavement of the Confessio of St Peter's. 3. A flat apothecium with no rim. Example: The calyx is composed of five linear spreading sepals J inch long and attached to the sides of the inferior ovary are four bracts, two of which, the anterior and posterior, remain abortive, whilst the two lateral ones develop into large rounded flattened discs (peltae) attached at the centre. 4. A crescent-shaped sheet of microtubules that encircles the base of the flagella of a protozoan. Example: A striated parabasal fibre is closely associated with a large parabasal golgi system; a dense pre-axostylar fibre connects to the axostyle, which is a curved sheet of microtubules that encloses the nucleus and extends to (or protrudes from) the posterior end of the cell; the same pre-axostylar fibre links to the pelta, which is a sheet of microtubules that curves around within a sort of collar that encloses the flagellar bases before turning back to meet the axostyle […] Example: The pelta is a crescent-shaped sheet also formed by microtubules, and it overlaps with the axostyle in the anterior region of the cell. The pelta supports the wall of the anterior region of the cell and the flagellar canal from which the flagella emerges.
Word: aper Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English ape 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 aper From ape + -er. Pronunciation: /ˈeɪpɚ/ 1. Someone who apes something Example: Valerio ridiculed the proposal to his friends and called Cavour an aper of English customs.
Word: sum Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English summe, from Old French summe, from Latin summa (“highest point; sum”), from summus (“highest”). Pronunciation: /sʌm/ 1. A quantity obtained by addition or aggregation. Example: The sum of 3 and 4 is 7. Example: Take yee the ſumme of all the Congregation of the children of Iſrael,[…] 2. An arithmetic computation, especially one posed to a student as an exercise (not necessarily limited to addition). Labels: often, plural Example: We're learning about division, and the sums are tricky. Example: […] a large sheet of paper […] covered with long sums […] 3. A quantity of money. Example: a tidy sum Example: the sum of forty pounds 4. A summary; the principal points or thoughts when viewed together; the substance. Example: This is the sum of all the evidence in the case. Example: This is the sum and substance of his objections. 5. A central idea or point; gist. 6. The utmost degree; the greatest or most perfect realization (of some concept). Labels: literary, rare Example: Thus I have told thee all my State, and brought / My Storie to the ſum of earthly bliſs[…] Example: Our wisdom and skill cannot save us from accidents, pains, and from that sum of all fears and distresses—death. 7. An old English measure of corn equal to the quarter. Labels: obsolete Example: The sum is also used for the quarter, and the strike for the bushel.
Word: sum Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English summe, from Old French summe, from Latin summa (“highest point; sum”), from summus (“highest”). Pronunciation: /sʌm/ 1. To add together. Labels: transitive Example: when you say that stability and change are, it's because you're summing them up together as embraced by it, and taking note of the communion each of them has with being. 2. To give a summary of. Labels: transitive
Word: sum Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Kazakh сом (som), Kyrgyz сом (som), Uyghur سوم (som), and Uzbek soʻm, all of which have the core signification “pure”, used in elliptical reference to historical coins of pure gold. Pronunciation: /sʌm/ 1. The basic unit of money in Kyrgyzstan. 2. The basic unit of money in Uzbekistan.
Word: sum Part of Speech: det Pronunciation: /sʌm/ 1. Eye dialect spelling of some. Labels: Internet, alt-of, pronunciation-spelling Example: Females can smell when they nigga doing sum sneaky shit 😂
Word: sum Part of Speech: pron Pronunciation: /sʌm/ 1. Pronunciation spelling of something. Labels: Internet, alt-of, pronunciation-spelling Example: Tony hawk such a fire name bro was bound to do sum cool Example: we got a lil sum goin on over here
Word: sum Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Mongolian сум (sum), from Manchu ᠨᡳᡵᡠ (niru, “a large arrow, militia company, district”). Ultimately from Proto-Mongolic *sumun (“arrow”). Pronunciation: /sʌm/ 1. A type of administrative district used in China, Mongolia, and Russia. In Mongolia, a sum is smaller than a province. In China, it is only used in Inner Mongolia, where it is equivalent to a township.
Word: torso Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Italian torso, from Late Latin tursus, from Latin thyrsus, from Ancient Greek θύρσος (thúrsos, “Bacchic staff”). Doublet of thyrse, thyrsus, and torse. Pronunciation: /ˈtɔː.səʊ̯/, [ˈtʰɔː.səʊ̯] ~ [ˈtʰɔː.sɵ̞ʊ̯], /ˈtoɹ.soʊ̯/, [ˈtʰoɹ.soʊ̯] ~ /ˈtɔɹ.sɔʊ̯/, [ˈtʰɔɹ.sɔʊ̯] 1. The main part of the (human) body that extends from the neck to the groin, excluding the head and limbs.
Word: fish finger Part of Speech: noun 1. A rectangular stick of processed fish coated in breadcrumbs that is cooked by frying or grilling. Labels: Ireland, UK Example: “Birds Eye fish fingers,” he said, “are made from cod, and when, a short while back there was talk of some strange deep sea varieties creeping into fish fingers, we, as a company spent £500 000 reassuring the consumer[…].” Example: Next week will solve your problems / But now, fish fingers all in a line
Word: shortage Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker-der.? Proto-Germanic *skertaną Proto-Germanic *skurtaz Proto-West Germanic *skurt Old English sċort Middle English schort English short Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂tos Proto-Italic *-ātos Latin -ātus Proto-Indo-European *-ikos Proto-Italic *-ikos Latin -icus Latin -āticus Latin -āticum Old French -agebor. Middle English -age English -age English shortage From short + -age. Pronunciation: /ˈʃɔː(ɹ)tɪd͡ʒ/ 1. A lack or deficiency; an insufficient amount. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The admirable smoothness of the riding also reflected the greatest credit on those who, despite the difficulties caused by the shortage of men and materials, have succeeded in maintaining the track in such first-class order. Example: The dawn of the oil age was fairly recent. Although the stuff was used to waterproof boats in the Middle East 6,000 years ago, extracting it in earnest began only in 1859 after an oil strike in Pennsylvania.[…]It was used to make kerosene, the main fuel for artificial lighting after overfishing led to a shortage of whale blubber.
Word: ager Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂ey- Proto-Indo-European *-u Proto-Indo-European *h₂óyu Proto-Italic *aiwom Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-ts Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ts Proto-Italic *-tāts Proto-Italic *aiwotāts Latin aetātem Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂tos Proto-Italic *-ātos Latin -ātus Proto-Indo-European *-ikos Proto-Italic *-ikos Latin -icus Latin -āticus Latin -āticum Vulgar Latin *aetāticum Old French eagebor. Middle English age English age 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 ager From age + -er. Pronunciation: /ˈeɪ.dʒə/, /ˈeɪ.d͡ʒɚ/ 1. One who or that which ages something. 2. One who is aging; an elderly person. Labels: euphemistic Example: When the aging person depends on another, the control of the aged one's life space is placed in the hands of another person who may or may not contribute action energy that is appropriate or acceptable from the standpoint of the ager. Example: Inappropriate behavior then erupts from the agers involved, disturbing everyone around, including the agers themselves, who often do not understand what is happening and struggle excessively to maintain rigid control of old perceptions and self images. 3. One who belongs to a particular age or era. Labels: in-compounds Example: The Ice Agers of this time invented new tools and technology and produced magnificent art. Example: "You were just watching people without any period skills faffing about - any Iron Ager would have known that if you cook chicken in the dark, you'll end up with food poisoning. We didn't learn anything about their period at all"
Word: glut Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Inherited from Middle English glotien /glotten, probably derived from Old French gloter /glotir /glotoiier (“to eat greedily”) [compare French engloutir (“to devour”), French glouton (“glutton”)], derived from Latin gluttiō, gluttīre (“to swallow”). Compare Russian глота́ть (glotátʹ, “to swallow”). Pronunciation: /ɡlʌt/, [ɡlʊt], /ɡlɐt/, /ɡləʈ/ 1. An excess, too much. Example: a glut of the market Example: A glut of those talents which raise men to eminence. 2. That which is swallowed. Example: And all their entrails tore, disgorging foul / Their devilish glut, […] 3. Something that fills up an opening. 4. A wooden wedge used in splitting blocks. Example: The white oak is laid on the ground, then rived down the middle using first an axe to create the split in the end grain, then a maul to hammer "gluts" — iron or wooden wedges — down the log's length to split it apart. 5. A piece of wood used to fill up behind cribbing or tubbing. 6. A bat, or small piece of brick, used to fill out a course. 7. An arched opening to the ashpit of a kiln. 8. A block used for a fulcrum. 9. The broad-nosed eel (Anguilla anguilla, syn. Anguilla latirostris), found in Europe, Asia, the West Indies, etc. 10. Five goals scored by one player in a game. Labels: UK Example: Four goals scored by a single player in a match can be described as a 'haul', while five goals is unofficially a 'glut'.
Word: glut Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Inherited from Middle English glotien /glotten, probably derived from Old French gloter /glotir /glotoiier (“to eat greedily”) [compare French engloutir (“to devour”), French glouton (“glutton”)], derived from Latin gluttiō, gluttīre (“to swallow”). Compare Russian глота́ть (glotátʹ, “to swallow”). Pronunciation: /ɡlʌt/, [ɡlʊt], /ɡlɐt/, /ɡləʈ/ 1. To fill to capacity; to satisfy all demand or requirement; to sate. Labels: transitive Example: to glut one's appetite Example: Come Kings and Baſſoes, let vs glut our ſwords That thirſt to drinke the feeble Perſeans blood. 2. To provide (a market) with so much of a product that the supply greatly exceeds the demand. Labels: transitive 3. To eat gluttonously or to satiety. Labels: intransitive Example: And then we stroll'd / From room to room: in each we sat, we heard / The grave Professor. [...] / Till like three horses that have broken fence, / And glutted all night long breast-deep in corn, / We issued gorged with knowledge, [...]
Word: debate Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English debaten, from Old French debatre (“to fight, contend, debate, also literally to beat down”), from Romanic desbattere, from Latin dis- (“apart, in different directions”) + battuō (“to beat, to fence”). Pronunciation: /dɪˈbeɪt/, /di-/, /də-/ 1. To participate in a debate; to dispute, argue, especially in a public arena. Labels: ambitransitive, reciprocal Example: "Debate me, coward!" snarled the completely normal intellectual. Example: a wise council […] that did debate this business 2. To fight. Labels: intransitive, obsolete, reciprocal Example: Well knew they both his person, sith of late / With him in bloudie armes they rashly did debate. Example: […] wasteful Time debateth with Decay, To change your day of youth to sullied night 3. To engage in combat for; to strive for. Labels: obsolete, transitive Example: Volunteers […] thronged to serve under his banner, and the cause of religion was debated with the same ardour in Spain as on the plains of Palestine. 4. To consider (to oneself), to think over, to attempt to decide Labels: transitive Example: He was debating where he'd spend his holiday.
Word: debate Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English debat, borrowed from Old French debat, deverbal of debatre, see Etymology 1 for more. Pronunciation: /dɪˈbeɪt/, /di-/, /də-/ 1. An argument, or discussion, usually in an ordered or formal setting, often with more than two people, generally ending with a vote or other decision. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: After a four-hour debate, the committee voted to table the motion. 2. An informal and spirited but generally civil discussion of opposing views. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The debate over the age of the universe is thousands of years old. Example: There was a bit of a debate over who should pay for the damaged fence. 3. Discussion of opposing views. Labels: uncountable Example: There has been considerable debate concerning exactly how to format these articles. Example: Oxygen levels on Earth skyrocketed 2.4 billion years ago, when cyanobacteria evolved photosynthesis:[…]. The evolutionary precursor of photosynthesis is still under debate, and a new study sheds light. The critical component of the photosynthetic system is the “water-oxidizing complex”, made up of manganese atoms and a calcium atom. 4. A type of literary composition, taking the form of a discussion or disputation, commonly found in the vernacular medieval poetry of many European countries, as well as in medieval Latin. Labels: countable, uncountable 5. Strife, discord. Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable
Word: participate Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Borrowed from Latin participātus, the perfect passive participle of participō (“to take part in, share in, give part in, impart”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (adjective-forming suffix)), from particeps (“taking part (in), sharing (in); someone who takes part (in)”, particip- in compounds), from pars (“part”, part- in compounds) + -ceps (“which takes, taker”), literally “(someone) who takes part”; see part and capable. Compare Old English dǣlniman (“to participate”), an earlier calque of the same Latin verb. Pronunciation: /pɑːˈtɪs.ɪ.peɪt/, /pɑɹˈtɪs.əˌpeɪt/, /pɐːˈtɪs.ə.pæɪt/, /pɐːˈtəs.ə.pæɪt/ 1. To join in, to take part, to involve oneself (in something). Labels: intransitive Example: For the second year, foreign amateur runners were allowed to participate in a 10-kilometer race, a half-marathon or a full marathon in Pyongyang, the capital. The races were a part of the April 15 birthday celebration of Kim Il-sung, the former leader of North Korea and father of his successors: Kim Jong-il, a son, and Kim Jong-un, a grandson. 2. To share, to take part in (something). Labels: obsolete, transitive Example: A spirit I am indeed; But am in that dimension grossly clad Which from the womb I did participate. Example: [The Persees] are tollerated all sorts of meat; but (in obedience to the Mahomitan and Bannyan ’mongst whom they live) refraine Beefe and Hog flesh: they seldome feed together, lest they might participate one anothers impurity: each has his owne cup […]. 3. To share (something) with others; to transfer (something) to or unto others. Labels: obsolete Example: 1661, Thomas Salusbury, Galilaeus Galilaeus Lyncaeus, His Systeme of the World, Second Dialogue, in Mathematical Collections and Translations, London, p. 105, Make the Earth […] turn round its own axis in twenty four hours, and towards the same point with all the other Spheres; and without participating this same motion to any other Planet or Star, all shall have their risings, settings, and in a word, all their other appearances.
Word: participate Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Borrowed from Latin participātus, the perfect passive participle of participō (“to take part in, share in, give part in, impart”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (adjective-forming suffix)), from particeps (“taking part (in), sharing (in); someone who takes part (in)”, particip- in compounds), from pars (“part”, part- in compounds) + -ceps (“which takes, taker”), literally “(someone) who takes part”; see part and capable. Compare Old English dǣlniman (“to participate”), an earlier calque of the same Latin verb. Pronunciation: /pɑːˈtɪs.ɪ.peɪt/, /pɑɹˈtɪs.əˌpeɪt/, /pɐːˈtɪs.ə.pæɪt/, /pɐːˈtəs.ə.pæɪt/ 1. Acting in common; participating. Labels: not-comparable, obsolete Example: And, mutually participate, did minister Unto the appetite and affection common Of the whole body.
Word: opus Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₃ep- Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *h₃épos Proto-Italic *opos Latin opusbor. English opus Borrowed from Latin opus. Pronunciation: /ˈəʊpəs/, /ˈɒpəs/ 1. A work of music or set of works with a specified rank in an ordering of a composer's complete published works. Example: Beethoven's "Razumovsky" Quartets, Op. 59, are considered by many to be the beginning of the Romantic era. 2. A work, especially of art. Example: The painter's last opus was a dedication to all things living, in a surprising contrast to all of his prior work.
Word: opusculum Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Latin opusculum. Pronunciation: /oʊˈpʌs.kjuː.ləm/ 1. An opuscule; a short work.
Word: breeze Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From the earlier (nautical) term brise, brize (“breeze”), from Middle English brees (“wind”). Ultimate origin obscure. Variously supposed to derive from a Germanic source like Saterland Frisian Briese (“breeze”), West Frisian brys (“a cool wind”), Dutch bries (“breeze”), early Dutch brysen (“to blow cool and fresh”), or from Spanish brisa (“northeast wind”). The earliest attestations are in Middle English brees (1460), Catalan brisa, and Italian brezza (all in 15th century), with Spanish (1504) and Portuguese briza (16th century) following closely after. The aforementioned Dutch cognates and French brise, however, are attested later than the term in English. The only internal hypothesis for any of those languages is a modification of Old Occitan bisa (“strong wind”), which is not widely accepted. Compare also Albanian breshër (“hail”). Pronunciation: /bɹiːz/ 1. A light, gentle wind. Example: The breeze rustled the papers on her desk. Example: Into a gradual calm the breezes sink. 2. Any activity that is easy, not testing or difficult. Labels: figuratively Example: After studying Latin, Spanish was a breeze. Example: The eight-minute connection to East Midlands Railway is a breeze. The train is 170208, its First Class downrated, so I enjoy the wider seats for the hour to Ely, where I arrive a couple of minutes early. 3. Wind blowing across a cricket match, whatever its strength. 4. An excited or ruffled state of feeling; a flurry of excitement; a disturbance; a quarrel. Example: The discovery produced a breeze. 5. A brief workout for a racehorse.
Word: breeze Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From the earlier (nautical) term brise, brize (“breeze”), from Middle English brees (“wind”). Ultimate origin obscure. Variously supposed to derive from a Germanic source like Saterland Frisian Briese (“breeze”), West Frisian brys (“a cool wind”), Dutch bries (“breeze”), early Dutch brysen (“to blow cool and fresh”), or from Spanish brisa (“northeast wind”). The earliest attestations are in Middle English brees (1460), Catalan brisa, and Italian brezza (all in 15th century), with Spanish (1504) and Portuguese briza (16th century) following closely after. The aforementioned Dutch cognates and French brise, however, are attested later than the term in English. The only internal hypothesis for any of those languages is a modification of Old Occitan bisa (“strong wind”), which is not widely accepted. Compare also Albanian breshër (“hail”). Pronunciation: /bɹiːz/ 1. To move casually, in a carefree manner. Labels: intransitive, usually Example: Resting most of their first-choice players for Sunday's vital Euro 2024 qualifier against Croatia, Wales started with four debutants and breezed into an early lead thanks to headers by captain Ben Davies and Kieffer Moore. 2. To blow gently. Labels: intransitive Example: She's sitting opposite a window that's gently breezing into her face, wafting her hair into cover-girl perfection ... 3. To take a horse on a light run in order to understand the running characteristics of the horse and to observe it while under motion. Labels: intransitive 4. To swim near the surface of the water, causing ripples in the surface. Labels: intransitive Example: The first was a school of medium-sized ( 10-pound average ) fish that breezed frequently but bit poorly. Example: The Queen Mary stood by while a speedboat moved ahead of a breezing school of tuna to deploy the sound projector and a sonobuoy (Figure 6).
Word: breeze Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English brese, from Old English brēosa, variant of Old English brimsa (“gadfly”), from Proto-Germanic *bremusī (“gadfly”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰerem- (“to make a noise, buzz, hum”). Cognate with Dutch brems (“horsefly, warblefly”), German Bremse (“gadfly, horsefly”), Danish bremse (“gadfly, horsefly”), Swedish broms (“gadfly, horsefly”). Related also to Middle English brimse (“gadfly”), French brize (“gadfly”), Old English bremman (“to rage, roar”), Latin fremō (“roar, snort, growl, grumble”). See also bream. Pronunciation: /bɹiːz/ 1. A gadfly; a horsefly; a strong-bodied dipterous insect of the family Tabanidae. Labels: intransitive
Word: breeze Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English brese, from Old English brēosa, variant of Old English brimsa (“gadfly”), from Proto-Germanic *bremusī (“gadfly”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰerem- (“to make a noise, buzz, hum”). Cognate with Dutch brems (“horsefly, warblefly”), German Bremse (“gadfly, horsefly”), Danish bremse (“gadfly, horsefly”), Swedish broms (“gadfly, horsefly”). Related also to Middle English brimse (“gadfly”), French brize (“gadfly”), Old English bremman (“to rage, roar”), Latin fremō (“roar, snort, growl, grumble”). See also bream. Pronunciation: /bɹiːz/ 1. To buzz. Labels: intransitive
Word: breeze Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Probably from French braise (“burning coals”). Pronunciation: /bɹiːz/ 1. Ashes and residue of coal or charcoal, usually from a furnace. See Wikipedia article on Clinker. Labels: intransitive
Word: homo Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Clipping of homosexual. Pronunciation: /ˈhəʊ.məʊ/, /ˈhɒm.əʊ/, /ˈhoʊ.moʊ/ 1. Clipping of homosexual. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, colloquial, derogatory, often Example: I heard that he's a homo, but he hasn't come out of the closet yet. Example: "... He's a homo." "My dear Theo, at my age one can't worry about little details like that. Besides, he's got such a nice voice."
Word: homo Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Clipping of homosexual. Pronunciation: /ˈhəʊ.məʊ/, /ˈhɒm.əʊ/, /ˈhoʊ.moʊ/ 1. Of or pertaining to homosexuality. Labels: colloquial, derogatory, sometimes
Word: homo Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Clipping of homogenized. Pronunciation: /ˈhəʊ.məʊ/, /ˈhɒm.əʊ/, /ˈhoʊ.moʊ/ 1. Homogenized milk with a high butterfat content. Labels: Canada, US, countable, dated, uncountable Example: One quart of homo wholesale in glass equals one quart equivalent. Certain modifications were made in these relatives to adjust for variations in units per ...
Word: homo Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Clipping of homogenized. Pronunciation: /ˈhəʊ.məʊ/, /ˈhɒm.əʊ/, /ˈhoʊ.moʊ/ 1. Homogenized; almost always said of milk with a high butterfat content. Labels: Canada, US, not-comparable Example: Regular homo milk was being sold out of stores in half gallons for 33 cents against 44 cents on regular homo milk on home delivery.
Word: homo Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin homō̆ (“a human being, man, person”), sometimes as a shortening of Homo sapiens. Doublet of gome, hombre, ombre, and omi. Pronunciation: /ˈhəʊ.məʊ/, /ˈhɒm.əʊ/, /ˈhoʊ.moʊ/ 1. A human. Labels: nonstandard Example: John, John, if you don't go you're no homo—no! You're only a fowl, an owl, a cow, a sow,—a doll, a poll; a poor, old, good-for-nothing-to-nobody, log, dog, hog, or frog, come out of a Concord bog.
Word: homunculus Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Latin homunculus, from homō (“man”) + -culus (diminutive suffix). Pronunciation: /hɒˈmʌŋk.jʊ.ləs/, /həˈmʌŋk.jə.ləs/, /hoʊˈmʌŋk.jə.ləs/ 1. A small, artificially created human or human-like being. 2. A small human. Labels: broadly 3. A miniature adult, once imagined by spermists to be present in human sperm. Example: Ser Perth stayed near him most of the time now. The man was obviously worried, but tried not to show it. "We've managed to get some testosterone from a blond homunculus," he reported. "That should put you on your feet in no time. Don't worry, young man we'll keep you vivified somehow until the Sign changes." But he didn't sound convincing. Example: “It’s this snaggletoothed, little bird-footed homunculus caricature,” Bourneuf said. “Many artists at this time were trying to make new altarpieces. Klee tended to take a very skeptical distance from the sort of grandiose projects of many of his expressionist peers, so I think it’s actually kind of mocking those hopes.” 4. The nerve map of the human body that exists on the parietal lobe of the human brain.
Word: knock about Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From knock (verb) + about. Pronunciation: /ˌnɒk əˈbaʊt/, /ˌnɑk əˈbaʊt/ 1. To hit (someone or something) all over repeatedly; hence, to behave violently towards or mistreat (someone or something). Labels: informal, transitive Example: It was known that he would knock his wife about when he had been drinking. Example: I never saw quite so wretched an example of what a sea-faring life can do; but to a degree, I know it is the same with them all: they are all knocked about, and exposed to every climate, and every weather, till they are not fit to be seen. 2. To knock back a drink; to finish a drink. Labels: informal, transitive 3. To move or roam around aimlessly; to be in circulation. Labels: informal, intransitive Example: 'Oh, come, sir,' protested Greatorex. 'This account speaks of a few other specimens knocking about. Surely in a year or two's time this one couldn't be positively identified as stolen?' 4. To move or roam around aimlessly; to be in circulation. Labels: broadly, informal, intransitive 5. To be present at or inhabit a certain place. Labels: informal, intransitive Example: He [a hare] used to knock about here in Holleia, and they said he was nearly black. A good many were after him and had a shot at him, but they never had any luck, until this rascally Andreas came here. Example: [I]n the chart-room of the steamer Nan-Shan, he stood confronted by the fall of a barometer he had no reason to distrust. […] "That's a fall, and no mistake," he thought. "There must be some uncommonly dirty weather knocking about." 6. To be present at or inhabit a certain place. Labels: broadly, informal, intransitive Example: I like to knock about the garden on Saturdays. 7. To be present at or inhabit a certain place. Labels: broadly, informal, intransitive Example: I used to knock about with John when we were younger. Example: John and I used to knock about when we were younger. 8. To be present at or inhabit a certain place. Labels: broadly, informal, intransitive Example: I’ve got some scissors knocking about in the kitchen.
Word: sagitta Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowing from Latin sagitta (“an arrow, shaft, bolt”). Pronunciation: /səˈd͡ʒɪt.ə/ 1. The keystone of an arch. 2. The distance from a point in a curve to the chord; also, the versed sine of an arc; so called from its resemblance to an arrow resting on the bow and string. 3. The larger of the two otoliths, or earbones, found in most fishes. 4. Any arrowworm, of the genus Sagitta.
Word: goujon Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from French goujon (“gudgeon (fish)”). Doublet of gudgeon. Pronunciation: /ˈɡuːd͡ʒɒn/, /ɡuːˈʒɒn/ 1. A mudcat (fish). Example: Goujons are tiny brook-fish like the white bait which are served on the sea coast in this country; but to watch a Frenchman with an untrimmed beard as he devours schools of goujons is an experience.
Word: goujon Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from French goujon (“dowel, pin”). Pronunciation: /ˈɡuːd͡ʒɒn/, /ɡuːˈʒɒn/ 1. A thin strip of food, usually fish or chicken.
Word: pattern Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From earlier patten, paterne, from Middle English patron (“patron; example”), from Old French patron, from Medieval Latin patrōnus (“patron”). Doublet of padrone, patron, Patronus, and patroon. Pronunciation: /ˈpæ̞t(ə)n/, /ˈpætɚn/, [ˈpæɾɚn] 1. To apply a pattern. 2. To make or design (anything) by, from, or after, something that serves as a pattern; to copy; to model; to imitate. Example: [A temple] patterned […] from that which Adam reared in Paradise. 3. To follow an example. Example: Under his system, patterned after the French, the army corps became a more mobile, flexible command. 4. To fit into a pattern. Example: Although there is no direct evidence for the identification of *θi as a genuine prefix in this word, it patterns well with the other discussed instances of *θi- both morphologically and semantically. 5. To serve as an example for. Labels: transitive 6. To observe an animal closely over time in order to discern its habitual movements and behaviours. Labels: transitive 7. To arrange, to organise, to fix. Labels: Multicultural-London-English Example: MALACHI: Are you two fucking mad? Listen, you need to pattern up, you know? 8. To arrange, to organise, to fix. Labels: Multicultural-London-English Example: Pattern gang, who they patterning? Pull up, skrr, have them panicking. Example: Batteries already included, man just shoot it. Trying to pattern your bruces (all of them). 9. To arrange, to organise, to fix. Labels: Multicultural-London-English Example: The system can't pattern me out or pattern me down, I'll pattern these clowns. They tried block my path, I built my own. Ya dun know, better start patterning now. Example: Let me pattern these boys on time. 10. To arrange, to organise, to fix. Labels: Multicultural-London-English Example: Pretty girls wanna beat, wanna pattern. Example: My gal so fine, pattern her. Sorry, little nigga, better pattern up. 11. To arrange, to organise, to fix. Labels: Multicultural-London-English Example: You know man's patterned, man's still slanging. Pack just vanished, all raw, no magic. Example: Bro thinks I'm booky, cah I ain't tryna sell him shit. Gotta peb this brick, on the next one I'll pattern him. 12. To arrange, to organise, to fix. Labels: Multicultural-London-English Example: Oh, you mad? Then come at me, you prick. Make a move, better pattern it quick. Example: Me and bro tryna pattern this grow. We ain't editin' pictures but I'm still croppin'.
Word: pattern Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From earlier patten, paterne, from Middle English patron (“patron; example”), from Old French patron, from Medieval Latin patrōnus (“patron”). Doublet of padrone, patron, Patronus, and patroon. Pronunciation: /ˈpæ̞t(ə)n/, /ˈpætɚn/, [ˈpæɾɚn] 1. Of or in accordance with a usual pattern, or type; model; ideal. Labels: not-comparable Example: "Not to me," interrupted his sister. "I will have no straw-bonneted, gingham-gowned pattern wives in my acquaintance. I shall make a point of cutting you." Example: The parish duty was better attended to, and perhaps domestic duties also. At such period he was a pattern parson and a pattern husband, atoning to his own conscience for past shortcomings by present zeal.
Word: xenium Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Latin xenium, from Ancient Greek ξένιον (xénion), neuter accusative of ξένῐος (xénĭos, “pertaining to a guest”, adjective), ultimately from ξένος (xénos, “guest, stranger”). First attested in the 1700s. Pronunciation: /ˈziːnɪəm/ 1. A gift or offering. Example: At Rochester the Bishop received a xenium or pension on St. Andrew's Day from the convent. 2. A gift or offering. Labels: historical
Word: viverra Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Latin vīverra (“ferret”). 1. An animal of the genus Viverra; a civet. Labels: obsolete Example: Viverra tigrina, or yellowish-grey weasel. […] Mr. Pennant has referred it to the genus felis, but Mr. Schrader makes it a viverra. Example: That curious animal, the basset (Bassaris astuta), which has alternately been associated by zoologists with the Ursidæ and Viverridæ, has blood corpuscles more agreeing in size with those of the bears, and consequently distinctly smaller than those of the viverras.
Word: table Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Inherited from Middle English table, tabel, tabil, tabul, from Old English tabele, tabul, tablu, tabule, tabula (“board”); also as tæfl, tæfel, an early Germanic borrowing of Latin tabula (“tablet, board, plank, chart”). The sense of “piece of furniture” is from Old French table, of same Latin origin; Old English used bēod or bord instead for this meaning: see board. Doublet of tabula and tavla. Pronunciation: /ˈteɪbl̩/, [ˈt(ʰ)eɪbɫ̩], [ˈtʰeɪb(ə)ɫ], [ˈtʰæɪbəɫ], [ˈtʰeːb(ə)ɫ] 1. To tabulate; to put into a table or grid. Example: to table fines 2. To supply (a guest, client etc.) with food at a table; to feed. Labels: archaic Example: 'April 13 1638, Henry Wotton, letter to John Milton At Siena I was tabled in the house of one Alberto Scipioni 3. To delineate; to represent, as in a picture; to depict. Labels: obsolete Example: c. 1607, Francis Bacon, letter to Tobie Matthew tabled and pictured in the chambers of meditation 4. To put on the table of a commission or legislative assembly; to propose for formal discussion or consideration, to put on the agenda. Example: In a raucous Commons, the Labour leader, Jeremy Corbyn, confirmed he had tabled a formal motion of confidence in the government, backed by other opposition leaders, which MPs would vote on on Wednesday. 5. To remove from the agenda, to postpone dealing with; to shelve (to indefinitely postpone consideration or discussion of something). Labels: US Example: The legislature tabled the amendment, so they will not be discussing it until later. Example: The motion was tabled, ensuring that it would not be taken up until a later date. 6. To represent a company or organization (at an exposition, fair, etc.), usually at a booth or display. Labels: metonymically 7. To join (pieces of timber) together using coaks. Labels: obsolete 8. To put on a table. Example: 1833 Thomas Carlyle, letter to his Mother, The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson [A]fter some clatter offered us a rent of five pounds for the right to shoot here, and even tabled the cash that moment, and would not pocket it again. 9. To show one's cards face-up, especially during showdown. Labels: colloquial 10. To make board hems in the skirts and bottoms of (sails) in order to strengthen them in the part attached to the bolt-rope.
Word: paar Part of Speech: noun 1. A hypothesized shifting of four geologic blocks: northeast Africa west of Red Sea and north of the Ethiopian valley, the Arabian Peninsula, the Sinai Peninsula, and the Horn of Africa east of the rift valleys, which is used to explain the structural features of the area. Example: By the end of early Eocene time a paar developed between Africa and Arabia which caused tensional forces in the southern Red Sea area (Swartz and Arden, 1960).
Word: Sabbat Part of Speech: noun 1. Any of the eight major holy days celebrated in Wicca.
Word: hippie Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From 1953, a usually disparaging variant of hipster. See also etymology of hippie. Pronunciation: /ˈhɪpi/ 1. A teenager who imitated the beatniks. 2. One who chooses not to conform to prevailing social norms: especially one who subscribes to values or actions such as acceptance or self-practice of recreational drug use, liberal or radical sexual mores, advocacy of communal living, strong pacifism or anti-war sentiment, etc. Labels: derogatory, sometimes 3. A person who keeps an unkempt or sloppy appearance and has unusually long hair (for males), and is thus often stereotyped as a deadbeat. Labels: derogatory, modern, slang 4. Someone who dresses in a hippie style. 5. Someone who is or tries to be hip. Labels: archaic Example: Near-synonyms: hipster, hepster, trendite; see also Thesaurus:fashionable person
Word: hippie Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From 1953, a usually disparaging variant of hipster. See also etymology of hippie. Pronunciation: /ˈhɪpi/ 1. Of or pertaining to hippies. Example: That dress looks very hippie. Example: The drug-taking he's writing about is less hippie than punk: it's about speed and smack and pills as much as hallucinogens and weed, about compulsion as well as escape. 2. Not conforming to generally accepted standards. Labels: colloquial, humorous Example: They used a bunch of hippie compression formats instead of the usual RAR and ZIP.
Word: wen Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English wen, wenne, from Old English wenn, wænn (“wen”), from Proto-Germanic *wanjaz. Cognate with Dutch wen (“goiter”), Low German Ween (“wen”), dialectal German Wenne (“wen”), Danish van, væne. Pronunciation: /wɛn/ 1. A cyst on the skin; a tumor or wart. Example: There was a Fellow with a Wen in his Neck, larger than five Woolpacks, and another with a couple of wooden Legs, each about twenty foot high. Example: When I have met an immigrant tottering under a bundle which contained his all--looking like an enormous wen which had grown out of the nape of his neck--I have pitied him, not because that was his all, but because he had all that to carry.
Word: wen Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Inherited from Old English wynn. Pronunciation: /wɛn/ 1. Obsolete form of wynn (“the letter ƿ”). Labels: alt-of, obsolete
Word: wen Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Eye dialect spelling of when. Pronunciation: /wɛn/ 1. Alternative spelling of when. Labels: alt-of, alternative, not-comparable, pronunciation-spelling
Word: wen Part of Speech: conj Etymology: Eye dialect spelling of when. Pronunciation: /wɛn/ 1. Alternative spelling of when. Labels: alt-of, alternative, pronunciation-spelling
Word: wen Part of Speech: pron Etymology: Eye dialect spelling of when. Pronunciation: /wɛn/ 1. Alternative spelling of when. Labels: alt-of, alternative, pronunciation-spelling
Word: wen Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Eye dialect spelling of when. Pronunciation: /wɛn/ 1. Alternative spelling of when. Labels: alt-of, alternative, pronunciation-spelling, uncountable
Word: patress Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Alteration of pateras, from Latin patera (“dish, saucer”). 1. An adapting plate or mounting used to fix an object to a surface or a substrate where the difference in character between the object and that to which it is mounted prevents direct mounting, e.g. in fitting a flat panel to a curved surface.