nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: marrow Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English mary, marow, marwe, marowȝ, from Old English mearg, from Proto-West Germanic *maʀg, from Proto-Germanic *mazgą, *mazgaz, from Proto-Indo-European *mosgʰos. Compare West Frisian moarch, Dutch merg, German Mark, Swedish märg, Icelandic mergur, and also Russian мозг (mozg, “brain”), Polish mózg (“brain”), Ashkun amōźã, Kamkata-viri muč, muj, Waigali muj, Persian مغز (maġz, “brain”), Sanskrit मज्जन् (majján). Doublet of maghaz. Pronunciation: /ˈmæɹəʊ/, /ˈmæɹoʊ/, /ˈmɛ(ə)ɹoʊ/ 1. The substance inside bones which produces blood cells. Labels: uncountable Example: Turning back, then, toward the basement staircase, she began to grope her way through blinding darkness, but had taken only a few uncertain steps when, of a sudden, she stopped short and for a little stood like a stricken thing, quite motionless save that she quaked to her very marrow in the grasp of a great and enervating fear. Example: Chop me up, I like to be hurt / Drink my marrow and blood for dessert 2. A kind of vegetable similar to a large courgette, zucchini or squash; the mature fruit of certain Cucurbita pepo cultivars. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The finest European vegetables, cabbages, cauliflowers, potatoes, vegetable marrow, were lying in the market-hall, awaiting purchasers. 3. The pith of certain plants. Labels: countable, uncountable 4. The essence; the best part. Labels: countable, figuratively, uncountable Example: It takes from our achievements[…]/ The pith and marrow of our attribute. Example: I cannot commend , with theefe of his marrow, for feare of ill end 5. The inner meaning or purpose. Labels: countable, figuratively, uncountable 6. Bone marrow biopsy. Labels: colloquial, countable Example: This patient will have a marrow today. 7. Semen. Labels: obsolete, uncountable Example: Parolles: He wears his honour in a box, unseen / That hugs his kicky-wicky here at home, / Spending his manly marrow in her arms / Of Mars’s fiery steed.
Word: marrow Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Old Norse margr. 1. A friend, pal, buddy, mate. Labels: Geordie, informal Example: Cheers marrow! 2. A miner's mate or assistant. Labels: obsolete, slang Example: A 'getter' or miner is paid 1½ to 2 cents per hundred weight of Coals excavated, […] but out of this sum, his "marrows" or assistants who do the business of 'putting' and 'hurrying' for him must be paid […] 3. One of a pair; a match; a companion; an intimate associate. Labels: Scotland, archaic Example: The moon’s my constant Mistresse / & the lowlie owle my morrowe. / The flaming Drake and yͤ Nightcrowe make / mee musicke to my sorrowe. Example: The dreichest saul could see he had sunlicht in his ee, / And there's no his marrow left in the toun.
Word: cantankerous Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Perhaps derived from earlier contenkerous, from contentious + rancorous. Pronunciation: /kænˈtæŋkəɹəs/, /kənˈtæŋkəɹəs/ 1. Given to or marked by an ill-tempered, quarrelsome nature; ill-tempered, cranky, crabby. Example: "She is a cantankerous old maid," added another, whom I recognised, by his voice, as a man whose attentions I had put a determined check to not six weeks before: "she is a cantankerous old maid, fretting and snarling over the loss of her beauty." Example: Murphy's Law never proved itself more accurate than at the Nov. 18 film benefit for Persephone Press. With problems ranging from a cantankerous projector to blown fuses, the presentations of Jan Oxenberg's films were blurred, disrupted and played with lapses in their soundtracks.
Word: atheism Part of Speech: noun Etymology: 16th century Middle French athéisme, from athée (“atheist”), a loan from Ancient Greek ἄθεος (átheos, “godless”, from ἀ- (a-, “without”) + θεός (theós, “deity, god”)). First English attestation dates to 1587 (OED). Pronunciation: /ˈeɪ.θi.ɪ.zəm/ 1. A non-belief in deities. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: Near-synonyms: antireligiousness, irreligion, irreligiousness Example: For atheism to be rationally justified it is only necessary that it be more probable than not or at least more probable than theism. Certainty is no more required in the case of atheism than it is in the case of scientific theories. 2. A non-belief in deities. Labels: broadly, uncountable, usually Example: Near-synonyms: irreligion, irreligiousness, nonreligion, nonreligiousness Example: The theory of Secularism is a form, not of dogmatic, but of skeptical, Atheism; it is dogmatic only in denying the sufficiency of the evidence for the being and perfections of God. It does not deny, it only does not believe, His existence. 3. A non-belief in deities. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: What can parents do, and mothers more especially, […] with regard to the atheism that is natural to all the children of men? Example: Atheism, in its basic form, is not a belief; it is the absence of belief. An atheist is not primarily a person who believes that a god does not exist; rather, he does not believe in the existence of a god. 4. neglect of one's obligations to God; behavior incongruent with belief in God (regardless of belief in the strict sense). Labels: uncountable, usually 5. Absence of belief in a particular deity, pantheon, or religious doctrine (notwithstanding belief in other deities). Labels: historical, rare, uncountable, usually Example: Domitilla, Flavia, niece of the emperor Domitian (81-96). She and her husband, Flavius Clemens (consul in 95 and cousin of Domitian), were probably Christians; charged with atheism and adoption of Jewish ways, they were punished (95) with death (Clemens) and exile (Domitilla). Example: Sacrificial religion becomes redundant – which is why Christianity did indeed have a reputation in the ancient world for atheism: it rejected the key duty humans are thought to owe to the gods, namely sacrifice. 6. A rejection of all religions, even non-theistic ones. Labels: proscribed, sometimes, uncountable, usually Example: Some worldviews are based in a belief in God; others are not. Buddhism, Taoism, atheism, Marxism, and existentialism are examples of worldviews that are nontheistic. Example: Buddhism and atheism do agree on the view that there is no God. But Buddhism and atheist materialism totally disagree on the points such as “What is life?”, “Is there any Super natural?” etc.
Word: haemorrhage Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈhɛməɹɪd͡ʒ/, /ˈhɛmɹɪd͡ʒ/ 1. British standard spelling of hemorrhage. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: We got news that he died of a haemorrhage! Example: Lan Chengzhang, who worked for the China Trade News, died of an apparent brain haemorrhage after over 20 thugs set upon him and his taxi driver on January 10 at a mine in Hunyuan county, in the northern province of Shanxi.
Word: haemorrhage Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ˈhɛməɹɪd͡ʒ/, /ˈhɛmɹɪd͡ʒ/ 1. British standard spelling of hemorrhage. Example: The company haemorrhaged money until eventually it went bankrupt. Example: In the early 1980s, the UK was gripped by a recession. A newly elected Conservative government was never going to let BR haemorrhage money if it could help it.
Word: lock Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *lewg-der. Proto-Germanic *luką Proto-West Germanic *lok Old English loc Middle English lok English lock From Middle English lok, from Old English loc, from Proto-West Germanic *lok, from Proto-Germanic *luką from Proto-Indo-European *lewg- (“to bend; turn”). Cognate with Cimbrian loch, lòch (“hole”), Dutch lok (“hole”), German Loch (“hole”), German Low German Lock (“hole”), Luxembourgish Lach (“hole”), Vilamovian łöch (“hole”), Yiddish לאָך (lokh, “hole”), Danish låg (“lid, cover”), Norwegian Bokmål lokk (“lid, cover”), Norwegian Nynorsk lok, lokk (“lid, cover”). more detail The verb is from Middle English locken, lokken, louken, from Old English lūcan, Proto-West Germanic *lūkan, from Proto-Germanic *lūkaną. Cognate with Dutch luiken (“to close, to shut”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål lukke (“to close, to shut”), Faroese lúka (“to end, to finish”), Icelandic ljúka (“to close, to shut”), Norwegian Nynorsk lukka (“to close, to shut”). Related to luxe via Latin. Pronunciation: /lɒk/, /lɑk/ 1. To become fastened in place. Labels: intransitive Example: If you put the brakes on too hard, the wheels will lock. Example: We tiptoed into the house, up the stairs and along the hall into the room where the Professor had been spending so much of his time. 'Twas locked, of course, but the Deacon man got a big bunch of keys out of his pocket and commenced to putter with the lock. 2. To fasten with a lock. Labels: transitive Example: Remember to lock the door when you leave. 3. To be capable of becoming fastened in place. Labels: intransitive Example: This door locks with a key. 4. To intertwine or dovetail. Labels: transitive Example: with his hands locked behind his back Example: We locked arms and stepped out into the night. 5. To freeze one's body or a part thereof in place. Labels: intransitive Example: a pop and lock routine 6. To furnish (a canal) with locks. 7. To raise or lower (a boat) in a lock. 8. To seize (e.g. the sword arm of an antagonist) by turning one's left arm around it, to disarm them. 9. To modify (a thread) so that users cannot make new posts in it. Labels: Internet, transitive 10. To prevent a page from being edited by other users. Labels: Internet, transitive Example: Frequently-vandalized pages are generally locked to prevent further damage. 11. To play in the position of lock. Labels: intransitive Example: Please don't disappoint me - you are female, aren't you? I have a lingering suspicion that you are 17 stone and lock for Tarankai.
Word: lock Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English lok, lokke, from Old English locc (“hair of the head, hair, lock of hair, curl, ringlet”), from Proto-West Germanic *lokk, from Proto-Germanic *lukkaz, from Proto-Indo-European *lugnó-, from Proto-Indo-European *lewg- (“to bend”). Cognate with Alemannic German lokha (“hair”), Dutch lok (“lock of hair, curl”), German Locke (“lock of hair, curl”), Danish lok (“lock of hair, curl”), Faroese, Icelandic lokkur (“lock of hair, curl”), Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk lokk (“lock of hair, curl”), Swedish lock (“lock of hair, curl”). It has been theorised that the word may be related to the Gothic verb *𐌻𐌿𐌺𐌰𐌽 (*lukan, “to shut”) in its ancient meaning "to curb". Pronunciation: /lɒk/, /lɑk/ 1. A tuft or length of hair, wool, etc. Example: Baſſ. […]Nor is the wide world ignorant of her worth, For the foure windes blow in from euery coaſt Renowned ſutors, and her ſunny locks Hang on her temples like a golden fleece, Which makes her ſeat of Belmont Cholchos-'| ſtrond, And many Iaſons come in queſt of her. Example: If I consent to burn them, will you promise faithfully neither to send nor receive a letter again, nor a book (for I perceive you have sent him books), nor locks of hair, nor rings, nor playthings? 2. A small quantity of straw etc. 3. A quantity of meal, the perquisite of a mill-servant. Labels: historical
Word: manual Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English manuel, from Old French manuel, from Late Latin manuāle (“handbook, manual”). Pronunciation: /ˈmæn.j(ʊ)əl/, /ˈmæn.j(u)əl/, /ˈmæn(j)ʊwɐl/ 1. Synonym of handbook. 2. A booklet that instructs on the usage of a particular machine or product. Example: The dishwasher isn't working; can you remember where we put the manual? 3. A drill in the use of weapons, etc. 4. An old office-book like the modern Roman Catholic ritual. Labels: historical 5. A keyboard on an organ.
Word: manual Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English manuel, from Anglo-Norman manuel, Old French manual, from Latin manuālis, from manus (“hand”). Pronunciation: /ˈmæn.j(ʊ)əl/, /ˈmæn.j(u)əl/, /ˈmæn(j)ʊwɐl/ 1. Performed with the hands. Example: She gave a wild manual brush to her locks. 2. Operated by means of the hands. 3. Performed by a human rather than a machine. Example: The teacher urged the students to do a manual check, because some errors aren't picked up by the spell checker.
Word: manual Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English manuel, from Anglo-Norman manuel, Old French manual, from Latin manuālis, from manus (“hand”). Pronunciation: /ˈmæn.j(ʊ)əl/, /ˈmæn.j(u)əl/, /ˈmæn(j)ʊwɐl/ 1. A device that is operated using the hands, or by a human rather than a machine. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Tom's transmission shop can fix both manuals and automatics. 2. A device that is operated using the hands, or by a human rather than a machine. Labels: countable, metonymically, uncountable Example: I'm not used to automatics; I've always driven manuals. 3. A device that is operated using the hands, or by a human rather than a machine. Labels: countable, uncountable 4. A device that is operated using the hands, or by a human rather than a machine. Labels: countable, uncountable 5. A procedure or operation that is done using the hands, or by a human rather than machine. Labels: colloquial, countable, uncountable Example: do a manual Example: give someone a quick manual 6. A procedure or operation that is done using the hands, or by a human rather than machine. Labels: countable, uncountable 7. A procedure or operation that is done using the hands, or by a human rather than machine. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: In short tutorials, the player learns the basics of skating: reverts, manuals and the ollie – that is, sliding round when coming out of a trick, lifting two wheels off the ground and jumping with the board. 8. Manual control or operation. Labels: uncountable Example: Put the controls to manual. Example: Leave the system on manual.
Word: Moses Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Latin Mōsēs, from Ancient Greek Μωσῆς (Mōsês), from earlier Μωυσῆς (Mōusês), from Biblical Hebrew מֹשֶׁה (mōšê). Further etymology is unclear, but it is sometimes conjectured to derive from Egyptian ms-s (msj, “to give birth to”), a common element in Egyptian names of the form ‘[name of deity] is the one who bore him’; or, alternatively, contains Egyptian N35A (mw, “water”). Pronunciation: /ˈməʊzɪz/, /-zɪs/, /ˈmoʊzəs/, /-zəz/ 1. The pharaonic patriarch who led the enslaved Hebrews out of Egypt, the brother of Aaron and Miriam described in the Book of Exodus and the Quran. Example: And the Lord came downe vpon mount Sinai, on the top of the mount: and the Lord called Moſes vp to the top of the mount, and Moſes went vp. Example: Moses supposes his toeses are roses, / But Moses supposes erroneously, / Moses he knowses his toeses aren't roses, / As Moses supposes his toeses to be! 2. A male given name from Hebrew. Example: The family tree boasts an astonishing array of celebrated historical figures from the prophet Isaiah to Sir Isaiah Berlin, from Felix Mendelssohn to Karl Marx and Moses Montefiore. The list also includes Yehudi Menuhin, Helena Rubinstein, the Rothschilds and even Rosenstein himself. 3. A surname transferred from the given name. 4. A dialect of the Columbia-Wenatchi language 5. pseudonym for Harriet Tubman Labels: US
Word: Moses Part of Speech: intj Etymology: From Latin Mōsēs, from Ancient Greek Μωσῆς (Mōsês), from earlier Μωυσῆς (Mōusês), from Biblical Hebrew מֹשֶׁה (mōšê). Further etymology is unclear, but it is sometimes conjectured to derive from Egyptian ms-s (msj, “to give birth to”), a common element in Egyptian names of the form ‘[name of deity] is the one who bore him’; or, alternatively, contains Egyptian N35A (mw, “water”). Pronunciation: /ˈməʊzɪz/, /-zɪs/, /ˈmoʊzəs/, /-zəz/ 1. An exclamation of shock.
Word: married Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English maried, imaried, mariet, past participle of Middle English marien (“to marry”), equivalent to marry + -ed. Pronunciation: /ˈmæɹ.ɪd/, /ˈmæɹ.id/, /ˈmɛɹ.id/ 1. In a state of marriage; having a wife or a husband. Labels: not-comparable Example: Are you married or single? Example: Middle-aged, married fathers make up the bulk of those who have gotten vasectomies, with less than two percent of unmarried men relying on vasectomy for contraception, according to one analysis of data between 2002 and 2015 by the Department of Health and Human Services. 2. Showing commitment or devotion normally reserved for a spouse; strongly committed or attached to something. Labels: figuratively, not-comparable Example: married to one's work Example: married to an idea
Word: married Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English maried, imaried, mariet, past participle of Middle English marien (“to marry”), equivalent to marry + -ed. Pronunciation: /ˈmæɹ.ɪd/, /ˈmæɹ.id/, /ˈmɛɹ.id/ 1. simple past and past participle of marry Labels: form-of, participle, past Example: My mom got married to her childhood sweetheart.
Word: married Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English maried, imaried, mariet, past participle of Middle English marien (“to marry”), equivalent to marry + -ed. Pronunciation: /ˈmæɹ.ɪd/, /ˈmæɹ.id/, /ˈmɛɹ.id/ 1. A married person. Example: A perfect example is life insurance. Most people starting out don't need it; you should only insure what you can't afford to lose or replace, and singles or young marrieds without a lot of assets frequently don't require coverage.
Word: great-granddaughter Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English great- English grand- English daughter English granddaughter English great-granddaughter From great- + granddaughter. 1. The daughter of someone's grandchild. Example: Her unluckier daughter and great-granddaughter have been tarred by amour's sloppy brush; but Mrs. Keppel, as her biographer Diana Souhami has written, "turned adultery into an art."
Word: bridegroom Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English brydgrome, bridegome, from Old English brȳdguma, from Proto-Germanic *brūdigumô; equivalent to Old English brȳd (“bride”) + guma (“man”). Altered by folk etymology to end with groom, with it re-analyzed as or influenced by grom, grome (“attendant”), as guma was obsolete. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Brüüdicham, Dutch bruidegom, Afrikaans bruidegom, German Low German Brödigam, Brüdigam, Brögam, Brügam, Plautdietsch Briegaum, German Bräutigam, Norwegian Bokmål brudgom, Norwegian Nynorsk brudgom, Danish brudgom, Swedish brudgum, Icelandic brúðgumi, Faroese brúðgómur. Pronunciation: /ˈbɹaɪdˌɡɹuːm/ 1. A man in the context of his own wedding; one who is going to marry or has just been married. Example: Coordinate term: bride
Word: egret Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English, from Anglo-Norman egret, aigrette (“egret”), from Old Occitan aigreta, diminutive of aigron (“heron”), from Medieval Latin hairo, from Frankish *haigro (“heron”). Cognate with Old High German heigaro (“heron”), Old English hrāgra (“heron”). Doublet of aigrette. More at heron. Pronunciation: /ˈiːɡɹɪt/, /ˈiɡɹɪt/, /ˈiˌɡɹɛt/, /iˈɡɹɛt/, /ˈɛɡɹɪt/ 1. Any of various wading birds of the genera Egretta or Ardea that includes herons, many of which are white or buff, and several of which develop fine plumes during the breeding season. Example: Egrets picked their way through the grass, attentive and showy as fussy girlfriends at the cows' sides. 2. A plume or tuft of feathers worn as a part of a headdress, or anything imitating such an ornament. 3. The flying feathery or hairy crown of seeds or achenes, such as the down of the thistle. 4. The crab-eating macaque (Macaca fascicularis) Labels: obsolete
Word: hexagon Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin hexagōnum, from Ancient Greek ἑξάγωνον (hexágōnon). By surface analysis, hexa- + -gon. Piecewise doublet of sexagon. Pronunciation: /ˈhɛk.sə.ɡən/, /ˈhɛk.sə.ɡɑn/ 1. A polygon with six sides and six angles. Example: The project was a huge, queen-size quilt made up of 100 hexagon pieces – 50 of them embroidered with a design for every US state and 50 stars. […] Once the designs are all stitched and the hexagons are returned to Downey, they will be assembled into the completed quilt. Example: If we just plopped down a dot for every observation we’d end up with an undifferentiated black blob, so the weathergami technique visualizes frequency of temperature pairs: we divide the chart area into a fine hexagonal grid, and then color each hexagon according to how many daily observations fall within it.
Word: octagon Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin octagōnon, octōgōnon (“octagon”), and from its etymon Ancient Greek ὀκτάγωνον (oktágōnon, “octagon”), probably from Koine Greek ὀκτάγωνος (oktágōnos, “having eight corners”) + -ον (-on, suffix forming nouns). ὀκτάγωνος is derived from ὀκτᾰ- (oktă-, prefix meaning ‘eight’) (from ὀκτώ (oktṓ, “eight”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *oḱtṓw (“eight”)) + γωνία (gōnía, “angle; corner”) (probably ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ǵónu (“knee”)); analysable as octa- + -gon. The English word is cognate with Middle French octogone (modern French octogone), Italian octagono (obsolete), ottagono, Spanish octágono, octógono. Sense 2 (“arena for mixed martial arts”) refers to its shape. Pronunciation: /ˈɒktəɡ(ə)n/, /ˈɑktəˌɡɑn/ 1. A polygon with eight sides and eight angles. Labels: also, attributive Example: From the Circle deſcribe the Octagon, by taking half the Quadrant of the former for each Side of the latter. [...] [B]y conjoining theſe Points with ſtrait Lines agreeable to the Shape of the Octagon, the whole Work is completed. Example: In like manner it is demonſtrated that one angle of a regular hexagon will be equal to one right angle, and one third part of one right angle; one angle of a regular octagon equal to one right angle and half a right angle; [...] 2. Often in the form Octagon: the arena for mixed martial arts.
Word: arc Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂erkʷ- Proto-Indo-European *h₂erkʷos Proto-Italic *arkuos Latin arcus Old French arcbor. Middle English ark English arc Inherited from Middle English ark, from Old French arc, from Latin arcus (“a bow, arc, arch”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂erkʷos (“bow, arrow”). Doublet of arch, arco, and arrow. Pronunciation: /ɑːk/, /ɑɹk/ 1. That part of a circle which a heavenly body appears to pass through as it moves above and below the horizon. 2. A continuous part of the circumference of a circle (circular arc) or of another curve. Example: The arc of a circle may be very little, but, given that, it is possible to construct the entire figure. 3. A curve, in general. Example: Swing it from side to side in a high arc overhead. Example: an arc of pupils around their teacher. 4. A band contained within parallel curves, or something of that shape. 5. A flow of current across an insulating medium; especially a hot, luminous discharge either between two electrodes or as lightning. 6. Ellipsis of story arc. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis Example: For while most comics have designated entry points into the story in the form of arcs, Homestuck is one elaborate, self-referencing inside joke collapsed inside its own funhouse mirror reflection. 7. Ellipsis of story arc. Labels: Internet, broadly Example: I'm hitting the gym three times a week or more at the moment. I'm in my gym bro arc. Example: I miss my drawing arc. I feel like I was much more creative back then. 8. A continuous mapping from a real interval (typically [0, 1]) into a space. 9. A directed edge. 10. The three-point line. Labels: slang 11. An arclight. Example: For all practical purposes the old carbon arcs, which were the backbone of film lighting, are no longer used.
Word: arc Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂erkʷ- Proto-Indo-European *h₂erkʷos Proto-Italic *arkuos Latin arcus Old French arcbor. Middle English ark English arc Inherited from Middle English ark, from Old French arc, from Latin arcus (“a bow, arc, arch”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂erkʷos (“bow, arrow”). Doublet of arch, arco, and arrow. Pronunciation: /ɑːk/, /ɑɹk/ 1. To move following a curved path. Labels: ambitransitive Example: A warring bloodhunter detected it and skillfully arced his sword through its spinal column before it could return to follow through with its attack. Example: Gatland's side got back to within striking distance when fly-half Jones's clever pass sent centre Jonathan Davies arcing round Shontayne Hape. 2. To shape into an arc; to hold in the form of an arc. Labels: transitive Example: His mother, her eyes raised to heaven, hands arked before her, moving, made real for John that patience, that endurance, that long suffering, which he had read in the Bible and found so hard to image. 3. To form an electrical arc. Labels: intransitive
Word: plover Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Inherited from Middle English plover, from Anglo-Norman plover, plovier, from Medieval Latin plovarius, pluviārius, of disputed origin; perhaps from Latin pluvia (“rain”). Pronunciation: /ˈplʌvɚ/, /ˈploʊvɚ/, /ˈplʌvə/ 1. Any of various wading birds of the subfamily Charadriinae. 2. A masked lapwing (Vanellus miles). Labels: Australia
Word: plover Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Inherited from Middle English plover, from Anglo-Norman plover, plovier, from Medieval Latin plovarius, pluviārius, of disputed origin; perhaps from Latin pluvia (“rain”). Pronunciation: /ˈplʌvɚ/, /ˈploʊvɚ/, /ˈplʌvə/ 1. To dote over, or, crowd or nestle with Example: Invisible twine plying merchants are unravelling the long grasses and the plovering pull of the long windstrewngrasses pluck the prince in his chest his heart his passion and love as if no tomorrow. Example: I would blanch, I would quail and, maybe in that season, I would have plovered — plovered my head deep into my feathers and plovered away on thin, wading bird's legs. 2. To hunt for plover. Example: Gentlemen often came from Dublin, and payed me for going into the Channel with them a plovering and fishing, and going aboard of Ships in the Bay; but once among the rest, some of these Chaps came to hire my Smack, to go into the Bay, which I let them have to my Sorrow; Example: There is a handsome prospect from the plains, which render very good shooting in the season of plovering. 3. To wade along the shore, examining the sand like a plover does. Example: Men with nothing to do plovered the sand - edge with clam rakes that raked nothing. Example: Blathwyte indicates the scale of another population of waders through recording an annual crop of 250 Lapwing eggs Vanellus vanellus being taken by 'plovering' gamekeepers.
Word: American golden plover Part of Speech: noun 1. A medium-sized, migratory plover of the Americas, Pluvialis dominica.
Word: black-bellied plover Part of Speech: noun 1. An Arctic bird, Pluvialis squatarola.
Word: warbler Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From warble + -er. Pronunciation: /ˈwɔːblə/, /ˈwɔɹbləɹ/ 1. Any of various small passerine songbirds, especially of the family Sylviidae (Old World warblers) and Parulidae (New World warblers). 2. One who warbles. Example: In lulling strains the feather'd warblers woo. Example: And it looked like at first she was just another pop warbler, and “Girls Just Want to Have Fun” is a great record, but nothing threatening, nothing strange. 3. A device that makes a warbling sound. Example: In electronic telephones, this ringer may be a small electronic warbler rather than a bell. 4. A hissy fit. Labels: UK, slang
Word: black and white warbler Part of Speech: noun 1. A small North American bird, Mniotilta varia, that winters in Florida and Central America.
Word: prothonotary warbler Part of Speech: noun 1. A small North American bird, Protonotaria citrea, having a yellow body and blue wings; it breeds in swampland.
Word: collage Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from French collage. Doublet of collagen, colloid, and protocol. Pronunciation: /kɒˈlɑːʒ/, /kəˈlɑːʒ/, /ˈkɒl.ɑːʒ/, /kəˈlɑʒ/, /koʊˈlɑʒ/ 1. A picture made by sticking other pictures onto a surface or juxtaposing them digitally in analogous manner. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. A composite object or collection (abstract or concrete) created by the assemblage of various media; especially for a work of art such as text, film, etc. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Near-synonyms: bricolage, montage Example: Richard Brautigan's novel So the Wind Won't Blow It All Away is a collage of memories. 3. The technique or method of producing a work of art of this kind. Labels: uncountable Example: Near-synonyms: bricolage, montage
Word: collage Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from French collage. Doublet of collagen, colloid, and protocol. Pronunciation: /kɒˈlɑːʒ/, /kəˈlɑːʒ/, /ˈkɒl.ɑːʒ/, /kəˈlɑʒ/, /koʊˈlɑʒ/ 1. To make into a collage. Labels: transitive Example: collage the picture together.
Word: Allah Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Arabic اللّٰه (allāh), contraction of اَل (al-, “the”) + إِلَه (ʔilah, “deity”); cognate with the Aramaic אלה (aláh) and אלהא (aláhâ), and Hebrew אֵל (él), אֱלוֹהַּ / אֱלֹהַּ (elóah) and אֱלוֹהִים \ אֱלֹהִים (elohím); ultimately from Proto-Semitic *ʾil-.-. Pronunciation: /əˈlɑː/, /ˈæ.lə/ 1. God, in Islamic or Arabic contexts Example: What is the Shia Islamic view on the attributes of Allah? Example: We are too much men and women; we are yet formed in the image of the Creator, and what can we say of Him with any certainty except that He, whoever He may be—Christ, Yahweh, Allah—He made us, did He not, because even He in His Infinite Perfection could not bear to be alone.
Word: priestess Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From priest + -ess. Compare Middle English preesteresse (“priestess”). Piecewise doublet of presbyteress. Pronunciation: /ˈpriːstɛs/, /priːˈstɛs/, /ˈpristɪs/ 1. A woman with religious duties and responsibilities in certain religions. Example: Sir Knight, said she (whose looks, language, and gesture create strange thoughts within me) be pleased to know, that I am (I will not say the first) of those Ladies of Honour, who wait upon the high-born, illustrious, and refulgent Maulkina, Daughter to the high and mighty Prince Paraclet, Prince of No-Land, on the confines of whose Territories we now are, so it is that the Divine Maulkina having been a vowed Votaress to Diana (whose Priestess she was, and whose Oracles she exhibited) upon a night as she sat at the feet of the Image of that chaste Deity […] Example: Among the Northern tribes also the woman was held in all moral aspects the equal of man. Alike the blue-eyed wife of the Barbarian and the proud Roman matron were, as the bearers and breeders of the race, the equals of the fighters and rulers of the race. The importance of their functions was fully recognized and respected, and the priestess at the sylvan altar, the vestals serving the fires and the temples at Rome were held worthy to speak face to face with the gods and convey their blessings to man. 2. A female Christian priest or minister, typically in a Protestant, Old Catholic, or independent Catholic denomination. Labels: slur, uncommon Example: The “extenuating circumstances” set forth by the Rev. Mr. Higgins certainly bring home not only the nature of Bishop Hall's problem but its cause; however, the problems of parish life under a deaconess are insignificant in comparison with the very grave issues raised by the ordination of a priestess. 3. A priest’s wife. Labels: colloquial, obsolete Example: As ſoon as they were parted, the Prieſteſs ﬂounced out of the Houſe, call'd for her Coachman, and bid him put in his Horſes, for away would ſhe go […]
Word: priestess Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From priest + -ess. Compare Middle English preesteresse (“priestess”). Piecewise doublet of presbyteress. Pronunciation: /ˈpriːstɛs/, /priːˈstɛs/, /ˈpristɪs/ 1. To oversee (a pagan ceremony, etc.) as priestess. Labels: transitive Example: Ye Ye Ife, a gifted feminist ritualist and priestess of Oshun from San Diego, trained in the Yoruba tradition, designed and priestessed the ritual with me. Example: Priestessing the earth is for me personally the only natural response to the awe and deep love this evokes in me.
Word: unmarried Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Germanic *un- Proto-West Germanic *un- Old English un- Middle English un- English un- English married English unmarried From un- + married. Pronunciation: /ʌnˈmæɹ.id/, /ʌnˈmɛɹ.id/ 1. Having no husband or wife. Labels: not-comparable Example: Her young parents, who worked in a pottery factory in Rongchang in present-day Chongqing municipality, conceived her while unmarried.
Word: unmarried Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Germanic *un- Proto-West Germanic *un- Old English un- Middle English un- English un- English married English unmarried From un- + married. Pronunciation: /ʌnˈmæɹ.id/, /ʌnˈmɛɹ.id/ 1. An unmarried person.
Word: axis Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂eǵ-? Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱs-der. Proto-Italic *aksis Latin axisbor. English axis Borrowed from Latin axis (“axle, axis”) in the 16th century. Via Latin cognate with ala, aisle, atelier. Via Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱs- cognate with inherited English axle and borrowed axo-, axon. Pronunciation: /ˈæksɪs/, /ˈæksəs/, /ˈɛksəs/ 1. An imaginary line around which an object spins (an axis of rotation) or is symmetrically arranged (an axis of symmetry). Example: A doorknob of whatever roundish shape is effectively a continuum of levers, with the axis of the latching mechanism—known as the spindle—being the fulcrum about which the turning takes place. Example: The Earth rotates once a day on its axis 2. A fixed one-dimensional figure, such as a line or arc, with an origin and orientation and such that its points are in one-to-one correspondence with a set of numbers; an axis forms part of the basis of a space or is used to position and locate data in a graph (a coordinate axis) 3. The second cervical vertebra of the spine 4. An imaginary, visualized plane separating two morphologically similar parts of an organism 5. A form of classification and descriptions of mental disorders or disabilities used in manuals such as the DSM (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders) 6. The main stem or central part about which organs or plant parts such as branches are arranged 7. An alliance or coalition. Example: This Berlin-Rome vertical line is not an obstacle but rather an axis around which can revolve all those European states with a will to collaboration and peace. 8. The centre of attention within a process (e.g. the axis of investigation) Labels: figuratively
Word: axis Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin, name of an Indian animal mentioned by the Roman senator Pliny. Pronunciation: /ˈæksɪs/, /ˈæksəs/, /ˈɛksəs/ 1. A deer native to Asia, of species Axis axis.
Word: nutmeg Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English notemege, notemuge, a partial translation of Medieval Latin nux muga, a variant of Medieval Latin nux muscata (“musky nut”). Compare also Old French nois mugede. For the term used in various ball sports, see Wikipedia. Pronunciation: /ˈnʌt.mɛɡ/ 1. An evergreen tree (Myristica fragrans) cultivated in the East Indies for its spicy seeds. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. The aromatic seed of this tree, used as a spice. Labels: uncountable 3. The aromatic seed of this tree, used as a spice. Labels: countable 4. A small moth, Hadula trifolii, feeding on plants and native to the Northern Hemisphere. Labels: countable, uncountable 5. A grey-brown colour. Labels: countable, uncountable 6. The playing of the ball between the legs of an opponent. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The same applied to Loftus-Cheek, who grew into the game after a quiet start and even had the impudence to slip the ball through Marcel Halstenberg’s legs in the first half. Nutmegs aside, Loftus-Cheek also came up with one of England’s best passes of the night, sending Jamie Vardy through the middle at the end of the first half.
Word: nutmeg Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English notemege, notemuge, a partial translation of Medieval Latin nux muga, a variant of Medieval Latin nux muscata (“musky nut”). Compare also Old French nois mugede. For the term used in various ball sports, see Wikipedia. Pronunciation: /ˈnʌt.mɛɡ/ 1. To flavour with nutmeg. Labels: transitive Example: She decided the eggnog was lacking in flavor, so she decided to nutmeg it heavily. 2. To play the ball between the legs of (an opponent). Labels: transitive Example: Barcelona did not just out play them, they emphatically put them in their place during that opening 45 minutes when Luis Suárez scored twice, Dani Alves struck the crossbar, Lionel Messi nutmegged David Silva and Manuel Pellegrini’s team stumbled to the interval like a side in need of smelling salts rather than half-time oranges.
Word: tuna Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Taínobor. United States Spanish tunabor. English tuna Borrowed from United States Spanish tuna, alteration of Spanish atún, from Arabic اَلتُّنّ (at-tunn, “tuna”), from Latin thunnus, itself from Ancient Greek θύννος (thúnnos). Possibly in the sense of "darter" from thynein "to dart along". Doublet of tonno. Pronunciation: /ˈtjuː.nə/, /ˈtʃuː.nə/, /ˈtu.nə/ 1. Any of several species of fish of the genus Thunnus in the family Scombridae. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Tuna was carried down by the flood; and when Maui saw him in the net he stretched forth his arm and with a blow of his stone axe smote Tuna and cut off his head, and it and the tail fell into the ocean. ... The head became fish, and the tail became the koiro (ngoiro—conger-eel). 2. The edible flesh of the tuna. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: tuna Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Taíno. Pronunciation: /ˈtjuː.nə/, /ˈtʃuː.nə/, /ˈtu.nə/ 1. The prickly pear, a type of cactus native to Mexico in the genus Opuntia. 2. The fruit of the cactus. Example: THE TUNA OR PRICKLY PEAR AS A FOOD FOR MAN
Word: tuna Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Acronym of turnt up nonaffiliate. Pronunciation: /ˈtjuː.nə/, /ˈtʃuː.nə/, /ˈtu.nə/ 1. Someone who is seen as socially successful despite not being a gang member. Labels: slang
Word: barber Part of Speech: noun Etymology: PIE word *bʰardʰéh₂ From Middle English barbour, from Anglo-Norman barbour, from Old French barbeor, from barbe (“beard”), from Latin barba. Pronunciation: /ˈbɑː.bə/, /ˈbɑɹ.bɚ/ 1. A person whose profession is cutting the hair and beards of usually male customers. Example: There's also a barber's shop and that staple of railway stations up and down the UK - a WH Smith. 2. A barber surgeon, a foot soldier specializing in treating battlefield injuries. 3. A storm accompanied by driving ice spicules formed from sea water, especially one occurring on the Gulf of St. Lawrence; so named from the cutting ice spicules. Labels: Canada
Word: barber Part of Speech: verb Etymology: PIE word *bʰardʰéh₂ From Middle English barbour, from Anglo-Norman barbour, from Old French barbeor, from barbe (“beard”), from Latin barba. Pronunciation: /ˈbɑː.bə/, /ˈbɑɹ.bɚ/ 1. To cut the hair or beard of (a person). Labels: transitive 2. (US, slang) To chatter, talk. Labels: intransitive Example: ‘I shouldn't ought to barber with you. But when I like a guy, the ceiling's the limit.’
Word: bassoon Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from French basson. Pronunciation: /bəˈsuːn/, /bəˈsun/ 1. A musical instrument in the woodwind family, having a double reed and playing in the tenor and bass ranges. Example: Higher and higher every day, / Till over the mast at noon— / The Wedding-Guest here beat his breast, / For he heard the loud bassoon. Example: The most convenient and natural order is, perhaps, the following: the upper staff may have the flute-part, because it has the highest notes, and, therefore, requires most room above the staff; then follow the parts for the hautboys, clarinets, horns, bassoons, tromboni, trumpets, and drums; the upper half of the page thus containing the wind-instruments: the lower half belongs to the violins, viola, voices, violoncello, and double base.
Word: bassoon Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Borrowed from French basson. Pronunciation: /bəˈsuːn/, /bəˈsun/ 1. To play the bassoon. 2. To make a bassoon-like sound.
Word: idolatry Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Inherited from Middle English ydolatrie, from Old French idolatrie, from Ecclesiastical Latin īdōlatrīa, from Late Latin īdōlolatrīa, from Ancient Greek εἰδωλολατρίᾱ (eidōlolatríā, “worship of idols”), back-formation from εἰδωλολάτρης (eidōlolátrēs), from εἴδωλον (eídōlon, “idol”) & λάτρις (látris, “worshipper”) or λατρεύω (latreúō, “to worship”), from λάτρον (látron, “payment”). Equivalent to idol + -latry. Cognate with Modern French idolâtrie, Italian idolatria, Occitan ydolatria, Portuguese idolatria, and Spanish idolatría. Displaced native Old English dēofolġield (literally “devil worship”). Pronunciation: /aɪˈdɒl.ə.tɹi/, /aɪˈdɑ.lə.tɹi/ 1. The worship of idols. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The parish stank of idolatry, abominable rites were practiced in secret, and in all the bounds there was no one had a more evil name for the black traffic than one Alison Sempill, who bode at the Skerburnfoot. Example: Now the great obstacle in tracing the identity of any of the basic forms of worship lies in the vast number of names which appear in the ancient idolatries and mythologies, creating the illusion of a miscellany of gods, whereas many of these different names refer to the same deity. Thus the sun has been personified and worshipped under as many different names as there are nations on the surface of the earth. 2. The excessive admiration of somebody or something. Labels: countable, figuratively, uncountable
Word: lawyer Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English lawiere, lawier, lawer, equivalent to law + -yer. Pronunciation: /ˈlɔːjə(ɹ)/, /ˈlɔɪ.ə(ɹ)/, /ˈlɔɪ.ɚ/, /ˈlɔ.jɚ/, /ˈlɔɪ.əɹ/ 1. A professional person with a graduate law degree that qualifies for legal work (such as Juris Doctor) 2. A professional person qualified (as by a law degree or bar exam) and authorized to practice law as an attorney-at-law, solicitor, advocate, barrister or equivalent, i.e. represent parties in lawsuits or trials and give legal advice. Example: His forefathers had been, as a rule, professional men—physicians and lawyers; his grandfather died under the walls of Chapultepec Castle while twisting a tourniquet for a cursing dragoon; an uncle remained indefinitely at Malvern Hill;[…]. Example: Mr. Wells was a pleasant man of middle-age, with keen eyes, and the typical lawyer’s mouth. 3. A legal layman who argues points of law. Labels: broadly 4. The burbot. Labels: UK, colloquial 5. The stem of a bramble. Labels: UK, dialectal 6. Any of various plants that have hooked thorns. Example: The species of Eugnomus are very partial to the lawyer (Rubus australis ) when in bloom. Example: In the lawyer (Rubus australis) a considerable differentiation has taken place. All the alllies of this plant (such as the true roses, brambles, rasps, &c.), exhibit a strong development of epidermal structures in the form of hooks, spines, or hairs, but in none are these structures so perfect as in our lawyer. 7. Any of various plants that have hooked thorns. Example: Besides the bags and nets common throughout the continent, these tribes have water-bags, which they make of closely-plaited “lawyer” (Calamus Australis), and also of palm-leaf sewn with the sinews of animals. Example: The nest was a foot or two from the ground, and placed in a bunch of lawyer (Calamus ) canes. 8. Any of various plants that have hooked thorns. Example: The stems of the "lawyer vine" (Flagellaria indica), buz or buzi (W.), boz (E.), are used in house-building, tying fences, etc.
Word: lawyer Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English lawiere, lawier, lawer, equivalent to law + -yer. Pronunciation: /ˈlɔːjə(ɹ)/, /ˈlɔɪ.ə(ɹ)/, /ˈlɔɪ.ɚ/, /ˈlɔ.jɚ/, /ˈlɔɪ.əɹ/ 1. To practice law. Labels: informal, intransitive 2. To perform, or attempt to perform, the work of a lawyer. Labels: intransitive 3. To make legalistic arguments. Labels: intransitive 4. To barrage (a person) with questions in order to get them to admit something. Labels: informal, transitive Example: You've been lawyered!
Word: farmer Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English fermour (“a steward, bailliff, collector of taxes”), from Old French fermier (“a farmer, a lessee, husbandman, bailliff”), from Medieval Latin firmarius (“one to whom land is rented, a collector of taxes, deputy”), from firma; equivalent to farm + -er. Compare Old English feormere (“a purveyor of a guild, a supplier of food, a grocer, farmer”). More at farm. Pronunciation: /ˈfɑɹ.mɚ/, /ˈfɑː.mə/ 1. Someone or something that farms, as: Labels: agent Example: A farmer could place an order for a new tractor part by text message and pay for it by mobile money-transfer. A supplier many miles away would then take the part to the local matternet station for airborne dispatch via drone. 2. Someone or something that farms, as: Labels: UK, agent, especially 3. One who takes taxes, customs, excise, or other duties, to collect for a certain rate per cent. Labels: historical Example: a farmer of the revenues 4. The lord of the field, or one who farms the lot and cope of the crown. Labels: historical 5. A regular person; someone who did not receive a prestigious scholarship. Labels: Singapore, slang 6. A baby farmer (operator of a rural orphanage). Labels: dated
Word: gris-gris Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Unknown. Compare juju (“a fetish or charm”); compare also Mande gerregery or Mandingo gregory, an amulet or curse-object. 1. An African, or Afro-American, charm or talisman. Example: A horn, or rude image, is sometimes made use of as a means of preserving the medicines of defense, and is worn as an amulet. These images, horns, or other articles, called greegrees, or jeujeus, are not held sacred for a moment after the medicine is found to have lost its power […]. Example: The Bambara were not Muslim, but they knew how to make gris-gris.
Word: penumbra Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From New Latin pēnumbra, from Latin paene (“almost”) + umbra (“shadow”). Pronunciation: /pəˈnʌm.bɹə/ 1. A partially shaded area around the edges of a shadow, especially an eclipse. Example: [A]ny penumbral fringe that may be detected cannot be well distinguished from the effects of the true penumbræ; […] Example: The other places see the penumbra of the moon's shadow fall on the earth, so the eclipse is partial, and part of the sun's disc is still visible. 2. A region around the edge of a sunspot, darker than the sun's surface but lighter than the middle of the sunspot. Example: The atmosphere was very clear, evidenced by the steadiness with which the mottling of the sun’s surface and the penumbræ of several spots were visible. Example: The velocities found in the penumbræ of spots generally increase with the distance from the centre of radiation, the motion being zero at some point in the umbra, and accelerating outwards. 3. An area of uncertainty or intermediacy between two mutually exclusive states or categories. Labels: figuratively Example: These firms or businesses are not illegal in the strict sense, but there is a shadowy penumbra within which they live, and it is often convenient for the government to look the other way. Example: […] God chose to descend into the realm of human imperfection, where the light of truth is spare and must exist in the penumbra of partial knowledge mixed with partial ignorance. 4. An area that lies on the edge of something; a fringe. Labels: figuratively Example: Thank God we are not all cowards, we have not all a low ambition, which would make men shades, pœnumbræ^([sic]) of their fellows. Example: Whilst the orthodox, de-charismatized churches steadily lose influence and support and the new cults develop, in the religious penumbra there have persisted, during the last century, echoes of charisma. 5. Something related to, connected to, and implied by, the existence of something else that is necessary for the second thing to be full and complete in its essential aspects. Example: The foregoing [United States Supreme Court] cases suggest that specific guarantees in the Bill of Rights have penumbras, formed by emanations from those guarantees that help give them life and substance. 6. A region of the brain that has lost only some of its blood supply, and retains structural integrity but has lost function.