nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: curry Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English currayen, from Old French correer (“to prepare”), presumably from Vulgar Latin *conredare, from Latin com- (a form of con- (“with; together”)) + a verb derived from Proto-Germanic *raidaz. More at ready. Pronunciation: /ˈkʌ.ɹi/, /kɝ.i/, /ˈkʊ.ɹi/, /ˈkari/, /-ɾi/ 1. To groom (a horse); to dress or rub down a horse with a curry comb. Labels: transitive Example: Your short horse is soon curried. Example: One day I was out in the barn and he drifted in. I was currying the horse and he set down on the wheelbarrow and begun to ask questions. 2. To dress (leather) after it is tanned by beating, rubbing, scraping and colouring. Labels: transitive 3. To beat, thrash; to drub. Labels: transitive Example: I have seen him curry a fellow's carcase handsomely. Example: […]By setting brother against brother / To claw and curry one another. 4. To try to win or gain (favour) by flattering. Labels: figuratively, transitive Example: A middle-aged woman waves and calls to her, as if she, like the hungry reporters, were currying the girl's favor: Florence Aadland (Sarandon, in a wily, multilayered performance), Beverly's mother, wears an expression of maternal concern, though her self-serving motives become increasingly clear.
Word: curry Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Named after American mathematician Haskell Curry. Pronunciation: /ˈkʌ.ɹi/, /kɝ.i/, /ˈkʊ.ɹi/, /ˈkari/, /-ɾi/ 1. To perform currying upon. Labels: transitive Example: The easiest way to curry parameters is to create a function that takes a parameter block and returns a function that will call the original function with the presupplied parameters as defaults […]. Example: Next, we curry the avg function to 3 arguments and put it into an option.
Word: curry Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Possibly derived from currier, a common 16th- to 18th-century form of courier, as if to ride post, to post. Possibly influenced by scurry. Pronunciation: /ˈkʌ.ɹi/, /kɝ.i/, /ˈkʊ.ɹi/, /ˈkari/, /-ɾi/ 1. To scurry; to ride or run hastily Labels: intransitive, obsolete 2. To cover (a distance); (of a projectile) to traverse (its range). Labels: obsolete, transitive Example: I am not hee that can ... by midnight leape my horse, curry seauen miles. Example: All these shots shall curry or finish their ranges in times equal to each other. 3. To hurry. Labels: obsolete, transitive Example: A sermon is soon curryed over.
Word: curry Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈkʌ.ɹi/, /kɝ.i/, /ˈkʊ.ɹi/, /ˈkari/, /-ɾi/ 1. Obsolete form of quarry. Labels: alt-of, obsolete
Word: gab Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Inherited from Middle English gab, gabbe, from Old Norse gabb (“jest, mockery”) (whence also Old French gab, gap (“mockery, derision, scorn”)). Cognate with Icelandic gabb (“hoax”). Pronunciation: /ɡæb/ 1. Idle chatter. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Ah, find some chirk in ye, lad. Now is the time for gab and chatter. Y’best be enjoying it. Come a fortnight and the brace of us’ll be wantin’ to be ever silent as the tomb. Even to clap eyes on each other... It’ll make y’hotter than hell! 2. The mouth or gob. Labels: countable, uncountable 3. One of the open-forked ends of rods controlling reversing in early steam engines. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Loose eccentric reversing gear gave way about 1836 to the early forms of gab motion. [...] In 1840 Stephenson evolved a motion in which the gabs were connected directly to the valve spindle.
Word: gab Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English gabben, from Old English gabban (“to scoff, mock, delude, jest”) and Old Norse gabba (“to mock, make sport of”); both from Proto-Germanic *gabbōną (“to mock, jest”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰeh₁bʰ- (“to be split, be forked, gape”). Cognate with Scots gab (“to mock, prate”), North Frisian gabben (“to jest, sport”), Middle Dutch gabben (“to mock”), Middle Low German gabben (“to jest, have fun”). Pronunciation: /ɡæb/ 1. To jest; to tell lies in jest; exaggerate; lie. Labels: intransitive, obsolete Example: He would chant his own doughty deeds, and “gab,” as the Norman word was, in painful earnest, while they gabbed only in sport, and outvied each other in impossible fanfaronades” 2. To talk or chatter a lot, usually on trivial subjects. Labels: intransitive Example: "That Mrs. Mender gives a bloke the ear-ache; thinks a bloke's got all day to waste listening to her gab." 3. To speak or tell falsely. Labels: obsolete, transitive
Word: cembalo Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Italian cembalo, from Latin. Doublet of cymbal. 1. A harpsichord.
Word: harpsichord Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Early 1600s, borrowed from French harpechord (“harp string”), from New Latin harpichordium, from harpa (“harp”) + chorda (“string”). Influenced by and possibly also borrowed from Italian arpicordo, producing variant spellings. The unetymological -s-, which predominates by the 1660s, is of unclear origin. Pronunciation: /ˈhɑː(ɹ)p.sɪ.kɔː(ɹ)d/, /ˈhɑɹp.sɪˌkɔɹd/ 1. A stringed musical instrument with a keyboard, the mechanical precusor to the fortepiano, in which each key causes a plectrum to pluck a corresponding tuned string, producing a bright, sharp tone similar to that of a harp.
Word: defunct Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Borrowed from Latin dēfunctus, past participle of dēfungor (“to finish, discharge”). Pronunciation: /dɪˈfʌŋkt/, /ˌdiˈfʌŋkt/ 1. No longer in use or active, nor expected to be again. Example: [T]he engineer must solve the mysteries of boiler accidents by studying defunct structures of many different types. 2. No longer in use or active, nor expected to be again. 3. Specifically, of a process: having terminated but not having been reaped (by its parent or an inheritor), and thus still occupying a process slot. See also zombie, zombie process. 4. (of a language) No longer spoken. Example: When a language dies members of the culture of which that language was once a part may attempt to hold on to their linguistic heritage, if not by the use of the defunct language itself, at least by the preservation of its script. 5. Deceased, dead. Labels: archaic Example: The organs, though defunct and dead before, / Break up their drowsy grave and newly move Example: Morgante at a venture shot an arrow, / Which pierced a pig precisely in the ear, / And passed unto the other side quite through; / So that the boar, defunct, lay tripped up near.
Word: defunct Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Borrowed from Latin dēfunctus, past participle of dēfungor (“to finish, discharge”). Pronunciation: /dɪˈfʌŋkt/, /ˌdiˈfʌŋkt/ 1. To make defunct.
Word: defunct Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Latin dēfunctus, past participle of dēfungor (“to finish, discharge”). Pronunciation: /dɪˈfʌŋkt/, /ˌdiˈfʌŋkt/ 1. The dead person (referred to). Example: A small tablet is fixt near the Altar, upon wᶜʰ the friends of yᵉ defunct lay their offerings in mony according to their own ability and the quality of the person deceased. Example: […] he saw Robert Johnston, pannel, come out of the cott-house with the fork in his hand, and pass by Alexander Fall and the deponent; heard the pannell say, he had sticked the dog, and he would stick the whelps too; whereupon the pannell run after the defunct’s son with the fork in his hand, […]
Word: loo Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Uncertain, although usually derived in some way from Waterloo, the site of Wellington's 1815 victory over Napoleon, likely via a pun based on water closet. Other suggested derivations include corruptions of French l'eau (“water”), lieu (“place”), lieux d'aisances (“'places of convenience': a lavatory”), lieu à l'anglaise (“'English place': a British-style lavatory”), bordalou (“a diminutive chamber pot”) or gardez l'eau (“'mind the water'”), via Scots gardyloo, formerly used in Edinburgh while emptying chamber pots out of windows; the supposed use of "Room 100" as the lavatory in Continental hotels; a popularisation of lew, a regional corruption of lee (“downwind”), in reference to shepherds' privies or the former use of beakheads on that side of the ship for urination and defecation; or a clipped form of the name of the unpopular 19th-century Countess of Lichfield Lady Harriett Georgiana Louisa Hamilton Anson, who was the subject of an 1867 prank whereby her bedroom's name-card was placed on the door to the lavatory, prompting the other guests to begin speaking of "going to Lady Louisa". Pronunciation: /luː/, /lu/ 1. A lavatory: a room used for urination and defecation. Labels: Commonwealth, Ireland, UK Example: I suppose it is unreal because we have been expecting it [sc. World War II] for so long now, and have known that it must be got over before we can go on with our lives. Like in the night when you want to go to the loo and it is miles away down a freezing cold passage and yet you know you have to go down that passage before you can be happy and sleep again. Example: Ensure that the tents are well-sited and clean, rubbish bins empty, and that the loos have toilet paper. 2. A toilet: a fixture used for urination and defecation. Labels: Commonwealth, Ireland, UK Example: The lack of running water in rural areas often makes Western-style loos hygienic disasters. Suddenly the noncontact squat toilet doesn′t look like such a bad option any more (as long as you roll up your trouser legs). Example: Waterless urinals are a great way of keeping the guys out of the cubicle toilets, keeping the urine separated from the solid waste (when using composting loos) and reducing water consumption if you have flush loos.
Word: loo Part of Speech: intj Etymology: Clipped form of halloo. Pronunciation: /luː/, /lu/ 1. A cry to urge on hunting dogs. Example: Edg. Pilicock sate on pelicocks hill, a lo lo lo.
Word: loo Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Clipped form of halloo. Pronunciation: /luː/, /lu/ 1. To urge on with cries of loo or (figuratively) by other shouting or outcry. Labels: dialectal Example: And therefore next uncouple either Hound [sc. George Monck and Prince Rupert], And loo them at two Hares ere one be found.
Word: loo Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Clipped form of lanterloo. Pronunciation: /luː/, /lu/ 1. Alternative form of lanterloo: the card game. Labels: alt-of, alternative, uncountable Example: And my Intreagues ſo baſhfully diſown / That they may doubted be by few or none, / May kiſs the Cards at Picque, Hombre,—Lu, / And ſo be taught to kiſs the Lady too; [...] Example: Ev'n mighty Pam that Kings and Queens o'erthrew, And mow'd down Armies in the Fights of Lu. 2. The penalty paid to the pool in lanterloo for breaking certain rules or failing to take a trick. Labels: uncountable 3. An act that prompts such a penalty. Labels: uncountable 4. A game of lanterloo. Labels: uncountable 5. Any group of people. Labels: figuratively, uncountable
Word: loo Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Clipped form of lanterloo. Pronunciation: /luː/, /lu/ 1. To beat in the card game lanterloo. Labels: transitive Example: He was seldom indeed without two good trumps, and therefore almost invariably loo'd those who stood. 2. To pay a penalty to the pool for breaking certain rules or failing to take a trick in lanterloo. 3. To pay any penalty to any community. Labels: dialectal, figuratively
Word: loo Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From French loup (“wolf; mask, eyemask”). Doublet of lobo, lupus, and wolf. Pronunciation: /luː/, /lu/ 1. A half-mask, particularly (historical) those velvet half-masks fashionable in the 17th century as a means of protecting women's complexion from the sun. Labels: obsolete Example: Loo Mask. An half Mask.
Word: loo Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Hindi लू (lū), ultmately from Sanskrit उल्का (ulkā, “flame”). Pronunciation: /luː/, /lu/ 1. A hot dust-bearing wind found in Bihar, Uttar Pradesh and the Punjab. Labels: India Example: It was a pitchy black night, as stifling as a June night can be, and the loo, the red-hot wind from the westward, was booming among the tinder-dry trees and pretending that the rain was on its heels.
Word: loo Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Clipped form of lieutenant. Pronunciation: /luː/, /lu/ 1. A lieutenant. Labels: US, slang Example: I asked my loo to let me escort you in. I wanted a moment to thank you personally.” “There's no need.” “So you said before, but there is. And was. I'll take you in to Lieutenant Ricchio.”
Word: extragalactic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰ Proto-Indo-European *-s Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰs Proto-Indo-European *-teros Proto-Indo-European *h₁eǵʰsteros Proto-Italic *eksteros Latin exter Latin extrā English extra- English galactic English extragalactic From extra- + galactic. 1. Originating outside of the Milky Way galaxy. Labels: not-comparable Example: Extragalactic astronomy is the study of things outside the Milky Way. 2. Originating outside of any galaxy. Labels: not-comparable 3. Originating outside of the local galaxy. Labels: not-comparable
Word: follower Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English folwer, folwere, folewer, from Old English folgere (“follower; attendant; disciple”), equivalent to follow + -er. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Foulger, West Frisian folger, Dutch volger, German Folger, Swedish följare. Pronunciation: /ˈfɒləʊə(ɹ)/ 1. One who follows, comes after another. Labels: literally 2. Something that comes after another thing. 3. One who is a part of master's physical group, such as a servant or retainer. 4. One who follows mentally, adherer to the opinions, ideas or teachings of another, a movement etc. 5. An imitator, who follows another's example. 6. A pursuer. 7. An account holder who subscribes to see content from another account on a social media platform. Example: I have over 50 followers on Twitter, but all my tweets only get 10 likes. Example: Talking bout these other rappers getting old is even getting old / Worrying about your followers, you need to get your dollars up 8. A machine part receiving motion from another. 9. A machine part receiving motion from another. 10. A man courting a maidservant; a suitor. 11. Young cattle. 12. A metal piece placed at the top of a candle to keep the wax melting evenly. 13. Any of the three players (the ruckman, ruck rover, and rover) who usually follow the ball around the ground rather than occupying a fixed position. 14. A debt collector. Labels: colloquial, dated 15. A tool used to remove the core from a pin-tumbler lock without causing the driver pins and springs to fall out.
Word: foolishness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English folishnesse, follissnesse, equivalent to foolish + -ness. Pronunciation: /ˈfuːlɪʃnəs/ 1. The state of being foolish. Labels: uncountable Example: On page 297 [“Queens Not Balled Thru Robbers”], that quotation from a foreign bee-paper, about the foolishness of thinking that robber-bees ball a queen, is probably all right in the main. Robbers are indeed there for honey—not for reginacide—but perchance no one interferes, and after awhile the honey is gone, and the hive is filled with a miscellaneous crowd largely new comers, who are like a city mob, “the more part know not wherefore they are come together.” 2. A thing or event that is foolish, or an absurdity. Labels: countable
Word: rope Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English rop, rope, from Old English rāp (“rope, cord, cable”), from Proto-West Germanic *raip, from Proto-Germanic *raipaz, *raipą (“rope, cord, band, ringlet”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁roypnós (“strap, band, rope”), from *h₁reyp- (“to peel off, tear; border, edge, strip”). Cognates Cognate with Scots rape, raip (“rope”), Saterland Frisian Roop (“rope”), West Frisian reap (“rope, cord”), Dutch roop, reep (“rope, cord, ring, strip, bar”), German Low German Reep (“rope”), German Reif (“ring, hoop”), Norwegian Bokmål and Swedish rep (“rope”), Faroese and Norwegian Nynorsk reip (“rope”), Danish reb (“rope”), Icelandic reipi (“rope”), Albanian rrip (“belt, rope”). Pronunciation: /ɹəʊp/, /ɹoʊp/ 1. Thick strings, yarn, monofilaments, metal wires, or strands of other cordage that are twisted together to form a stronger line. Labels: uncountable Example: Nylon rope is usually stronger than similar rope made of plant fibers. 2. An individual length of such material. Labels: countable Example: The swinging bridge is constructed of 40 logs and 30 ropes. Example: All at once, let’s heave on the rope! 3. A cohesive strand of something. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The duchess wore a rope of pearls to the soirée. Example: Jimmy began to scream and ropes of spit shot from his mouth. 4. A continuous stream. Labels: countable, dated, uncountable Example: The principle of any such device should be to pull on the vessel by a rope of water passing in at the bow and out at the stern. 5. A hard line drive. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: He hit a rope past third and into the corner. 6. A long thin segment of soft clay, either extruded or formed by hand. Labels: countable, uncountable 7. A data structure resembling a string, using a concatenation tree in which each leaf represents a character. Labels: countable, uncountable 8. A kind of chaff (material dropped to interfere with radar) consisting of foil strips with paper chutes attached. Labels: uncountable 9. A unit of distance equivalent to the distance covered in six months by a god flying at ten million miles per second. Labels: Jainism, countable, uncountable Example: The central strip of the loka, the Middle World, represents its smallest area, being only one rope wide and one hundred thousand leagues high, […] 10. A necklace of at least one meter in length. Labels: countable, uncountable 11. Cordage of at least one inch in diameter, or a length of such cordage. Labels: countable, uncountable 12. A unit of length equal to twenty feet. Labels: archaic, countable, uncountable 13. Rohypnol. Labels: countable, slang, uncountable 14. Semen being ejaculated. Labels: countable, plural-normally, slang, uncountable Example: shooting ropes 15. Death by hanging. Labels: countable, uncountable, with-definite-article Example: The murderer was sentenced to the rope. 16. An apparatus, currently with limited use by the senior contestants and not used in world-wide tournaments. Labels: countable 17. An apparatus, currently with limited use by the senior contestants and not used in world-wide tournaments. Labels: countable, metonymically, uncountable
Word: rope Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English ropen, rope (“to form ropes”), from rop (“rope”); see above. Pronunciation: /ɹəʊp/, /ɹoʊp/ 1. To tie (something) with rope. Labels: transitive Example: The robber roped the victims. 2. To throw a rope (or something similar, e.g. a lasso, cable, wire, etc.) around (something). Labels: transitive Example: The cowboy roped the calf. 3. To climb by means of a rope or ropes. Labels: intransitive Example: We roped down to the platform selected for the bivouac; set up our bags and brewed a reasonable meal. 4. To be formed into rope; to draw out or extend into a filament or thread. Labels: intransitive Example: Let us not hang like roping icicles / Upon our houses' thatch. 5. To pull or restrain (the horse one is riding) to prevent it from winning a race. Labels: transitive Example: Others, a shade more advanced, have been known to bribe a jockey to "hold," "rope" a horse, or a stableman to poison or stupefy him. 6. To commit suicide, particularly by hanging. Labels: Internet, intransitive Example: My life is a mess; I might as well rope. Example: In figure 71, the poster Brahcel notes that he “almost roped” because he could not find the community […]
Word: rope Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English rop (“gut, intestine”), from Old English rop, ropp; compare Middle Dutch rop, roppe (“fish guts”). The modern pronunciation results from phonological assimilation to Etymology 1. Pronunciation: /ɹəʊp/, /ɹoʊp/ 1. The small intestines. Labels: in-plural Example: the ropes of birds
Word: knick-knack Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Reduplication of knack. Pronunciation: /ˈnɪkˌnæk/ 1. A small ornament or other object of minor value. Example: Our Cutler, who had now a great Stock of things of his Handy-work, gave them some little Knick Knacks, as Plates of Silver and of Iron, cut Diamond Fashion, and cut into Hearts and into Rings, and they were mightily pleased. Example: But there was no hitch in the conversation, nevertheless; for one gentleman, who travelled in the perfumery line, exhibited an interesting nick-nack, in the way of a remarkable cake of shaving soap, which he had lately met with in Germany […]
Word: ed Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Shortening. Pronunciation: /ɛd/ 1. edition Labels: countable, uncountable 2. editor Labels: countable, uncountable 3. education (uncountable) Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: killer Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English killer, kyller. By surface analysis, kill + -er. Pronunciation: /ˈkɪlə/, [ˈkʰɪlə], /ˈkɪlɚ/, [ˈkʰɪlɚ] ~ [ˈkʰɪlɹ̩] 1. Excellent, very good, cool. Labels: slang Example: killer feature Example: killer view 2. Causing death, destruction, or obliteration. Example: killer bee Example: killer robot 3. Distressing, uncomfortable. Example: I had a killer headache this morning.
Word: crapper Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From crap + -er, although possibly repopularized by barracks employing Thomas Crapper's plumbing fixtures used during the First World War. The occupational surname Crapper derives from a dialectal variant of cropper (“harvester of crops, farmer”). Pronunciation: /ˈkɹæ.pɚ/ 1. A chamber pot or toilet, particularly (dated) a flush toilet by Thomas Crapper. Labels: mildly, slang, vulgar 2. A lavatory or outhouse. Labels: mildly, slang, vulgar Example: I purchased your magazine for the first and last time. What the hell is it? (..) It wasn't even good reading material for the crapper.
Word: crapper Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From crap + -er, although possibly repopularized by barracks employing Thomas Crapper's plumbing fixtures used during the First World War. The occupational surname Crapper derives from a dialectal variant of cropper (“harvester of crops, farmer”). Pronunciation: /ˈkɹæ.pɚ/ 1. comparative form of crap: more crap Labels: comparative, form-of
Word: crapper Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Unknown. Pronunciation: /ˈkɹæ.pɚ/ 1. A half-glass of whiskey.
Word: crapper Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Blend of crap (“implying that rap music is inferior”) + rapper. Pronunciation: /ˈkɹæ.pɚ/ 1. A rapper, or a performer of rap music. Labels: derogatory, often, slang, vulgar
Word: beetles Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of beetle Labels: form-of, plural
Word: beetles Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of beetle Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: nebula Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin nebula (“little cloud, mist”). First attested in 1655. Akin to Ancient Greek νεφέλη (nephélē, “cloud”), German Nebel (“mist, nebula”), Old Norse nifl, Polish niebo (“sky, heaven”), Russian не́бо (nébo, “sky”). Pronunciation: /ˈnɛb.jə.lə/, /ˈnɛb.jʌ.lʌ/, /ˈneb.jə.lə/, /ˈnɛ(ː)b.ju.la/ 1. A cloud in outer space consisting of gas or dust (e.g. a cloud formed after a star explodes). Example: Approximately 5 billion years ago, our solar nebula was formed as gravitational forces pulled interstellar gas and dust into a swirling mass around out newly formed sun. 2. A white spot or slight opacity of the cornea. Labels: archaic 3. A cloudy appearance in the urine. Labels: obsolete
Word: dustbowl Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From dust + bowl. 1. An area which abounds in dust and which is very dry. Example: Concepts like reform, sanctions or KwaNatal indabas have little meaning in this dustbowl, which is host to more than a million people relocated from "white" farms and "black spots" in Natal, apart from the hundreds of thousands who lived there before the removals started here in the Sixties. Example: The moment they were unleashed the dogs reached the Hindu graveyard in quick time, and then reached the abandoned hockey playground, now a dustbowl, and from there they ran straight to Pandi's thatched hut and circled it twice. 2. The central region of the United States during the 1930s. Example: Because of this general situation, namely, the factor that thousands of citizens in California because of evictions and suspension of income were forced to move into squatter camps, and that these squatter camps were to some extent used by the state and county for the purpose of segregating the destitute unemployed, many such communities were actually in existence in California by 1933 when the dustbowl influx began to make itself felt in this state. Example: It was not until the end of the decade that Hollywood could take a more detached look at the social consequences of the Depression in John Ford's 1940 film of John Steinbeck's dustbowl novel The Grapes of Wrath. 3. The 1930s period.
Word: duststorm Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From dust + storm. Pronunciation: /ˈdʌst.stɔːm/, /ˈdʌst.stɔɹm/ 1. A phenomenon in which gale- to hurricane-force winds blow soil particles up into a planet's atmosphere. Example: Near-synonyms: sandstorm (broadly synonymous), haboob Example: In the 1930s, duststorms in the central U.S. were responsible for crippling damage to countless farms.
Word: hurricane Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Taíno *hurakābor. Spanish huracánbor. English hurricane Borrowed from Spanish huracán, ultimately from Taíno *hurakā. Pronunciation: /ˈhʌɹɪkən/, /ˈhʌɹɪkeɪn/, /ˈhʌɹɪkɛjn/, /ˈhɝɪkeɪn/, /ˈhʊɹɪkeɪn/ 1. To be violent, with winds of 119 km/h (74 miles per hour) or greater, usually accompanied by rain, lightning, and thunder. Labels: ambitransitive Example: Through the night it rained, hurricaned; sashes rattled; the chimney smoked; a lobby-door was ajar, and kept banging to and fro. Example: So I got inside my 'possum-skin—it hurricaned an' snowed— And I started for the Deepot, and lit out for his abode. 2. To move noisily, quickly, and dramatically, becoming the center of attention. Example: While thus employed, Mrs. Winthrop hurricaned into the room, and having received explanations, hurricaned forth again to tell her husband how dreadfully thoughtless his arrangement was, since Frank would have to take Miss Allenby into dinner. Example: They must have told him I was ready for visitors; he hurricaned into the room, slung a chair away from the wall and banged it down next to the bed. 3. To attempt to accomplish a great deal with a frenzied effort. Example: There were still spots on the mirror I had cleaned and tiny bits of newspaper were stuck in its edges where I had hurricaned through in my initial cleaning frenzy. Example: "A clean home is a good home," she'd say as she hurricaned from room to room with vacuum cleaner and feather duster, hands gauntleted in Marigolds. 4. To swirl quickly and violently. Example: A whole swirl of turnarounds hurricaned from him. Example: Kona responded as air hurricaned out of the bay and water rushed in. 5. To tear apart in a violent, destructive, and/or chaotic manner. Example: Urganda, hurricaned with violent perturbation of mind commences the fourth act; and, after a soliloquy, or rather incantation, raises a dæmon of revenge; Example: My personal life has been hurricaned in the last month, not by the war particularly, but by having to decide not to “live in sin” after trying it for a few days. 6. To cause an uproar. Example: What do they therefore but quickly get themselves into a body, and fall forthwith to hurricaning in Mansoul, as if now nothing but whirlwind and tempest should be there. Example: It blew open. It hurricaned onto shore. 7. To storm excessivly; to fume and rage violently. Example: He rang for the cook, and stormed and hurricaned and cycloned at her until the rain-clouds burst, and she wept. 8. To chase violently or rush after and force along. Example: As he hurricaned toward her, she turned and ran to the drop-off place. Example: Then they would all be in a confused clutter and cluster there, and there would be a mad stampede when The Black Watch hurricaned on their heels from behind, and several bags, boxes and barrels, if not virtually all, would fall in their wild rush for The Pra, their wounded and sick abandoned in a blood filled litter and sprawl over the raging sands.
Word: hurricane Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Coined by Jeret Peterson. Pronunciation: /ˈhʌɹɪkən/, /ˈhʌɹɪkeɪn/, /ˈhʌɹɪkɛjn/, /ˈhɝɪkeɪn/, /ˈhʊɹɪkeɪn/ 1. "full—triple-full—full" – an acrobatic maneuver consisting of three flips and five twists, with one twist on the first flip, three twists on the second flip, one twist on the third flip
Word: typhoon Part of Speech: noun Etymology: English texts mention typhon, tiphon as a Greek word for "whirlwind" since at least the 1550s, referring to Ancient Greek τυφῶν (tuphôn), τυφώς (tuphṓs, “whirlwind”) (the latter attested since Aeschylus), Τυφῶν (Tuphôn, “Typhon, father of the winds”). (French typhon (“whirlwind”) is said to be attested since 1504.) However, the first use of it as an English word for a whirlwind or storm dates to 1588, in the spelling Touffon, in the specific sense "giant storm in the Pacific"; this sense first appears in Europe in the mid 16th century in Portuguese tufão (attested since at least 1560), whence it entered English. Portuguese sailors likely got the word from Arabic طُوفَان (ṭūfān) (compare Persian طوفان (tufân), Hindi तूफ़ान (tūfān)), and some spellings of the English word (like tufan) seem to derive from that Arabic word. The Arabic word's origin is sometimes thought to be Sinitic 大風／大风 ("big wind", Mandarin dàfēng, Cantonese daai6 fung1 /taːi̯²² fʊŋ⁵⁵/, Hakka thai-fûng /tʰai̯⁵⁵ fuŋ²⁴/), and some English forms like tyfoong, tyfung are from or were modified based on Chinese. However, the Arabic word may be entirely Semitic from the native root ط و ف (ṭ w f) in the sense of the wind circling around, or it might derive from Greek. (Some sources even suggest the term originated in Greek and travelled via Arabic to Chinese before making its way back into Arabic and back to Europe.) Over time, the spelling of the word in English was influenced by the Greek word. Pronunciation: /taɪˈfuːn/, /taɪˈfun/ 1. A severe tropical cyclone; an intense, rotating storm. 2. A weather phenomenon in the northwestern Pacific that is precisely equivalent to a hurricane except for its geographical region, typically resulting in wind speeds of 64 knots (119 km/h) or above. Equivalent to a cyclone in the Indian Ocean and Indonesia and Australia. Example: Near-synonyms: cyclone (narrow sense), hurricane
Word: typhoon Part of Speech: verb Etymology: English texts mention typhon, tiphon as a Greek word for "whirlwind" since at least the 1550s, referring to Ancient Greek τυφῶν (tuphôn), τυφώς (tuphṓs, “whirlwind”) (the latter attested since Aeschylus), Τυφῶν (Tuphôn, “Typhon, father of the winds”). (French typhon (“whirlwind”) is said to be attested since 1504.) However, the first use of it as an English word for a whirlwind or storm dates to 1588, in the spelling Touffon, in the specific sense "giant storm in the Pacific"; this sense first appears in Europe in the mid 16th century in Portuguese tufão (attested since at least 1560), whence it entered English. Portuguese sailors likely got the word from Arabic طُوفَان (ṭūfān) (compare Persian طوفان (tufân), Hindi तूफ़ान (tūfān)), and some spellings of the English word (like tufan) seem to derive from that Arabic word. The Arabic word's origin is sometimes thought to be Sinitic 大風／大风 ("big wind", Mandarin dàfēng, Cantonese daai6 fung1 /taːi̯²² fʊŋ⁵⁵/, Hakka thai-fûng /tʰai̯⁵⁵ fuŋ²⁴/), and some English forms like tyfoong, tyfung are from or were modified based on Chinese. However, the Arabic word may be entirely Semitic from the native root ط و ف (ṭ w f) in the sense of the wind circling around, or it might derive from Greek. (Some sources even suggest the term originated in Greek and travelled via Arabic to Chinese before making its way back into Arabic and back to Europe.) Over time, the spelling of the word in English was influenced by the Greek word. Pronunciation: /taɪˈfuːn/, /taɪˈfun/ 1. To swirl like a hurricane. Labels: intransitive
Word: cyclone Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Coined by Henry Piddington, probably in the 1840s, and based on some term in Ancient Greek. Sources disagree on the date and on which Ancient Greek term, though it had to be something derived from either κύκλος (kúklos, “circle, wheel”) or κυκλόω (kuklóō, “go around in a circle, form a circle, encircle”), for example the present active participle κυκλῶν (kuklôn). See cycle and wheel. Pronunciation: /ˈsaɪ.kloʊn/, /ˈsaɪ.kləʊn/ 1. Any weather phenomenon consisting of a system of winds rotating around a centre of low atmospheric pressure; a low pressure system. Labels: broadly Example: Near-synonym: storm 2. A tropical cyclone occurring in the South Pacific or Indian Ocean. Labels: specifically Example: Near-synonyms: typhoon, hurricane 3. The more or less violent, small-scale circulations such as tornadoes, waterspouts, and dust devils. Labels: informal 4. A strong wind. Labels: informal 5. A cyclone separator; the cylindrical vortex tube within such a separator
Word: cyclone Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Coined by Henry Piddington, probably in the 1840s, and based on some term in Ancient Greek. Sources disagree on the date and on which Ancient Greek term, though it had to be something derived from either κύκλος (kúklos, “circle, wheel”) or κυκλόω (kuklóō, “go around in a circle, form a circle, encircle”), for example the present active participle κυκλῶν (kuklôn). See cycle and wheel. Pronunciation: /ˈsaɪ.kloʊn/, /ˈsaɪ.kləʊn/ 1. To separate using a cyclone separator. Example: The product is cycloned and overflow at 45-50% solids is pumped to primary flotation where 50-70% of the copper is removed as a 21% concentrate. Example: The Syncrude Tar Sand Mine in Alberta, Canada uses a similar hydraulic cell construction technique to raise tailings embankments, although tailings are not cycloned. 2. To storm as a cyclone. Example: What difference if it rained, hailed, blew, snowed, cycloned? 3. To whirl in spirals as a result of a cyclone or whirlwind-like force. Example: White dust was cycloning at the bottom of ravines that cut for miles into the red flatness Example: Pine needles cycloned wildly as Jan swung her car into the Institute's parking lot. 4. To storm wildly; to be in a frenzy. Example: When Whyte got an eyeful of our groundsman's Barkjano ass bouncing to a rapid beat, he exploded, not so much in words as in gestures and a rapid departure that contained far greater energy than a trifling “storm”—he cycloned-whirlwinded-squalled and thundergaled out of the house and the whole barbecue. Example: The winds of change cycloned around Rhodesia and the debris began to fall within its borders.
Word: monsoon Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Portuguese monção and Dutch moesson, from Arabic مَوْسِم (mawsim, “season”), from وَسَمَ (wasama, “to mark, to brand”). Pronunciation: /mɒnˈsuːn/, /mɑnˈsuːn/, /ˈmɔːn.suːn/, /ˈmɑːn.suːn/ 1. Any of a number of winds associated with regions where most rain falls during a particular season. 2. Tropical rainy season when the rain lasts for several months with few interruptions. Example: Floods in northern India, mostly in the small state of Uttarakhand, have wrought disaster on an enormous scale. The early, intense onset of the monsoon on June 14th swelled rivers, washing away roads, bridges, hotels and even whole villages. Rock-filled torrents smashed vehicles and homes, burying victims under rubble and sludge. 3. The rains themselves. 4. Entire meteorological systems with such characteristics. 5. Any heavy rainstorm. Labels: figuratively
Word: El Niño Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Spanish El Niño (literally “The Little Boy”), used by South American fishermen in the 17th century, referring to the Christ child, as the phenomenon is observed around Christmas time. Pronunciation: /ɛl ˈniːn.joʊ/ 1. An invasion of warm water into the surface of the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Peru and Ecuador, the positive phase of the multi-year ENSO cycle, which causes changes in local and regional climate. Example: Additionally, scientists aren’t expecting to be surprised again by El Niño, a warming of the Pacific Ocean that tends to dampen Atlantic hurricane activity. Example: The odd weather phenomenon that many blame for the suffering here — the drought and sudden storm pattern known as El Niño — is expected to become more frequent as the planet warms.
Word: Alfredo Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Alfredo alla Scrofa, an Italian restaurant in Rome where the pasta dish fettuccine Alfredo was originally served, named after its founder Alfredo Di Lelio. Doublet of Alfred. 1. The sauce made from butter and Parmesan cheese used in dishes such as fettuccine Alfredo. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. Any dish of this type. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: Alfredo Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Alfredo alla Scrofa, an Italian restaurant in Rome where the pasta dish fettuccine Alfredo was originally served, named after its founder Alfredo Di Lelio. Doublet of Alfred. 1. A male given name from Italian.
Word: lasagna Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Italian lasagna (and its plural lasagne), possibly from Vulgar Latin *lasania, from Latin lasanum (“cooking pot”), from Ancient Greek λάσανον (lásanon, “trivet or stand for a pot”). Others argue the Italian lasagna originally derived from the Arabic لَوْزِينَج (lawzīnaj, “almond cake”). Pronunciation: /ləˈzɑː.njə/, /ləˈzæn.jə/, /ləˈsɑː.njə/, /ləˈzɑ.njə/, /ləˈzɑ.ɲjə/ 1. A flat sheet of pasta. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. An Italian baked dish comprising layers of such pasta with various ingredients (usually a meat ragù (chiefly Bolognese), a fish ragù or a vegetarian/vegetable ragù with bechamel sauce). Labels: countable, uncountable Example: I’m going to fix you a cup of coffee and a plate of lasagna. 3. A combination or layering of things. Labels: broadly, countable, uncountable Example: Kristofer'd gotten it through his head shortly after their arrival to swim naked in the lake, such as it was, and his skin blemished into a lasagna of red hives, white welts, and disarming yellowish spots. Example: Unfortunately, typical mattresses are often a lasagna of nonbiodegradable synthetics, pesticides, and potentially carcinogenic toxins.
Word: Lyssa Part of Speech: name Etymology: Shortened form of Alyssa. Pronunciation: /ˈlɪsə/ 1. A female given name. Example: It was mornings like this when Lyssa really appreciated the indoor arena. Example: Anaisse sank down to the carpet in order to look her in her eye. She smiled. "My name is Anaisse. Where is your mother, Lyssa?"
Word: lust Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English lust, from Old English lust (“lust, pleasure, longing”), from Proto-West Germanic *lustu, from Proto-Germanic *lustuz. Akin to Old Saxon, Dutch lust, Old Frisian, Old High German, German Lust, Swedish lust, Danish lyst, Icelandic lyst, Old Norse losti, Gothic 𐌻𐌿𐍃𐍄𐌿𐍃 (lustus), and perhaps to Sanskrit लष् (laṣ), लषति (laṣati, “to desire”) and Albanian lushë (“bitch, savage dog, promiscuous woman”), or to English loose. Compare list (“to please”), listless. Pronunciation: /ˈlʌst/, /ˈlʊst/, /ˈlɜst/ 1. A feeling of strong desire, especially such a feeling driven by sexual arousal. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Seeing Leslie fills me with a passionate lust. 2. A general want or longing, not necessarily sexual. Labels: archaic, countable, uncountable Example: The boarders hide their lust to go home. Example: For little luſt had ſhe to talke of ought, […] 3. A delightful cause of joy, pleasure. Labels: archaic, countable, uncountable Example: An ideal son is his father's lasting lust. Example: Pompe, pryde, honour, ryches, and wordly lust, / Parrot sayth playnly, shall tourne all to dust. 4. Virility; vigour; active power. Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable Example: It is reported, that Trees will grow greater, and beare better Fruit, if you put Salt, or Lees of Wine, or Bloud to the Root. The Cauſe may be the Encreaſing the Luſt or Spirit of the Root; […]
Word: lust Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English lusten, from the noun. Pronunciation: /ˈlʌst/, /ˈlʊst/, /ˈlɜst/ 1. To look at or watch with a strong desire, especially of a sexual nature. Labels: intransitive Example: He then thought that all the sins which he had ever committed were personified, and that they all cried out against him. One cried out, I am thy lust, with which thou formerly lustedst unlawfully, and against the precepts of God: […] Example: Quoth she, “What offence have I committed?” and quoth he, “What offence can be greater than this? Thou sentest after yonder youth and broughtest him hither, on account of the lust of thy heart, so thou mightest do with him that for which thou lustedst.” Said she, “I know not carnal desire. Verily, among thy pages are those who are comelier and seemlier than he; yet have I never desired one of them.” 2. To desire. Labels: archaic, intransitive, transitive, usually Example: And I ſaye vnto you that helias ys come alredy / and they knewe hym nott: butt have done vnto him whatſoever they luſted. Example: [I]t were more conſonant with reaſon, that a man were ſuffered to take to his Proctor ſuch as he luſteth, and may beſt truſt unto of his matier, than be driven to commit the order of his cauſe, being mefortune of great weight, to ſuch a one as he never knew, ne ſaw before. For whan a man is at his choiſe to chooſe him what Proctor he luſt beſt, if his matier do delay through the default of his Proctor, than, he can blame no body but himſelf.
Word: luft Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From German Luft (“air”). Doublet of lift and loft. 1. A piece moved in front of a king to prevent a back-rank mate.
Word: accounting cost Part of Speech: noun 1. The total amount of money or goods expended in an endeavor, in which it is paid out at some time and recorded in journal entries and ledgers.
Word: glean Part of Speech: noun Etymology: The verb is derived from Late Middle English glenen (“to gather (heads of grain left by reapers), glean; to gather (things) together, collect”), from Old French glener, glainer (modern French glaner (“to gather, glean”)), from Late Latin glen(n)are, the present active infinitive of glen(n)ō (“to make a collection”); further etymology uncertain, possibly from Gaulish, from Proto-Celtic *glanos (“clean; clear”, adjective), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰleh₁- (“to glow, shine; to be glowing or shining”). The noun is derived from Late Middle English glene (“collection of heads of grain gathered by gleaning; head of grain”), from Old French glene, glane (“act of gleaning; legal right to glean”) (modern French glane (“act of gleaning”)), from glener, glainer (verb): see above. Cognate with Medieval Latin glana, glena (“bundle of ears of grain”). Pronunciation: /ɡliːn/, /ɡlin/ 1. A collection of something made by gleaning. Labels: dialectal Example: Even the greateſt, in reſpect of God, is but a gleaner. God, he is the Maſter of the Harveſt; all Gifts and Graces they are his, in an infinite meaſure; and every godly man, more or leſſe, gleanes from him. Abraham gleaned a great gleane of Faith; Moſes, of Meekneſſe; […] Example: But late at Night, vvith vveary Pinions come / The lab'ring Youth, and heavy laden home. / Plains, Meads, and Orchards all the day he plies, / The gleans of yellovv Thime diſtend his Thighs: […]
Word: glean Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Possibly a variant of clean (“(UK, dialectal; noun) the afterbirth of a cow or sheep; (verb) of a cow or sheep: to bring forth the afterbirth”), possibly from clean (“to remove dirt from an object or place”), referring to an animal’s uterus being cleaned out by the delivery of the afterbirth. Pronunciation: /ɡliːn/, /ɡlin/ 1. The afterbirth or placenta of an animal, especially a cow or sheep. Labels: obsolete Example: The gleane of a covv hauing nevvly calved, taken vvhiles it is moiſt and ſo applied, is good for any ulcers of the viſage. Example: [O]ur midvvives doe vvarrant, that if a vvoman drinke goats urine, it vvill ſtrip all fluxes of bloud be they never ſo immoderat, ſo that ſhe apply alſo outvvardly the dung of the ſaid beaſt. The pellicle or gleane vvherein a kid vvas enfolded vvithin the dams vvombe, kept untill it bee drie and drunke in vvine, putteth foorth the after-birth in vvomen.
Word: glean Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Possibly a variant of clean (“(UK, dialectal; noun) the afterbirth of a cow or sheep; (verb) of a cow or sheep: to bring forth the afterbirth”), possibly from clean (“to remove dirt from an object or place”), referring to an animal’s uterus being cleaned out by the delivery of the afterbirth. Pronunciation: /ɡliːn/, /ɡlin/ 1. Of an animal, especially a cow or sheep: to deliver its afterbirth or placenta. Labels: intransitive, obsolete Example: To make a Covv glean vvell, and keep her in Health aftervvards.— […] And as it is a Cuſtom vvith ſome to give all their Covvs a cleanſing Drink after Calving, I recommend this to be a good one for that Purpoſe.— […] A fourth is, to boil a Quart of ground Malt in tvvo Quarts of Ale, and give all vvarm. A certain Perſon gave this laſt to a Covv, vvhich, on the third Day after Calving, had not gleaned; but in five Days after it came avvay vvhole.
Word: tarantula Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Medieval Latin tarantula, from Old Italian tarantola, from Taranto (“seaport in southern Italy”), from Latin Tarentum (“Latin name of the town”), from Ancient Greek Τάρᾱς (Tárās, “Greek name of the town”), genitive Τᾰ́ρᾰντος; compare Modern Greek Τάραντας (Tárantas) and Tarantino Tarde. probably from Illyrian *darandos (“oak”). Sense 3 (“Lycosa tarantula”) is the original sense of the word, and refers to the fact that the spider was common in the Apulia region where Taranto is located. Sense 1 (“New World spider in the family Theraphosidae”), the main modern sense of the word, may have been a transferred use of Spanish tarántula (“tarantula (Lycosa tarantula)”) to describe large, hairy spiders found in the New World. Pronunciation: /təˈɹæn.t͡ʃʊ.lə/, /təˈɹæn.t͡ʃə.lə/ 1. Any of the large, hairy New World spiders comprising the family Theraphosidae. Example: Cockroaches, centipedes, tarantulas, scorpions, and mosquitoes are abundant in summer. [...] Tarantulas and scorpions are little noticed by those who have been there any length of time. Example: In the southern portions of the State we have met with specimens of brown tarantula weighing a full Troy ounce, but these were of unusual size. The wood tarantula is the largest of all, occasional specimens weighing an ounce and a half, inhabits dead wood, is very active on a warm day, is found of sunning himself, and is quite courageous, leaping on a large lizard, with a perfect recklessness of consequences. [From the Alta California.] 2. A member of certain other groups of spiders, generally characterized by large size, hairiness, or membership of infraorder Mygalomorphae to which Theraphosidae family also belongs. Labels: broadly Example: The small funnel-web tarantulas are sedentary but notable for their aggressiveness and the strong action of their venom on human beings. A. robustus and formidabilis have caused human deaths. Example: tergites: dorsal sclerites on the body; the hard plates on the abdomen of the atypical tarantulas that indicate segmentation 3. A species of wolf spider, Lycosa tarantula, native to southern Europe, the mildly poisonous bite of which was once thought to cause an extreme urge to dance (tarantism). Labels: dated Example: [I]t is better to be pained with the ſting of a Snake, and recouer, then be tickled with the venime of Tarantula and dye laughing: [...] Example: Many men catch this malady [i.e., melancholy] by [...] ſtinging with that kind of ſpider called Tarantula; [...] Their ſymptomes are merrily deſcribed by Iovianus Pontanus. Ant. dial. how they daunce alogether, and are cured by Muſick.
Word: trucker Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English *trukere (“one who disappoints, a deceiver”), from Middle English trukien (“to fail, run out, disappoint”), equivalent to truck (“to fail”) + -er (agent noun suffix). Compare trooker. Pronunciation: /ˈtɹʌkə/, /ˈtɹʌkɚ/ 1. One who has done something offensive; a deceitful, dishonest, or disreputable person; a deceiver; a cheat. Labels: UK, derogatory, dialectal 2. A rogue; rascal; miscreant; a ne'er-do-well. Labels: Scotland, UK, derogatory, dialectal