nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: higher Part of Speech: adv Pronunciation: /ˈhaɪ.ə/, /ˈhaɪ.ɚ/, /həjːɜ(r)/, /haɪə/, /haɪɹ/ 1. comparative form of high: more high Labels: comparative, form-of
Word: higher Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈhaɪ.ə/, /ˈhaɪ.ɚ/, /həjːɜ(r)/, /haɪə/, /haɪɹ/ 1. A national school-leaving examination and university entrance qualification. Labels: Scotland
Word: higher Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ˈhaɪ.ə/, /ˈhaɪ.ɚ/, /həjːɜ(r)/, /haɪə/, /haɪɹ/ 1. To make higher; to raise or increase in amount or quantity. Labels: transitive Example: It is a fact that other countries have not followed our example, nay, that they have in fact, in some cases, highered the duties upon the admission of our goods. But what has been the result of that policy upon the amount of your exports? Example: I am glad also that my hon. friend the Minister of Finance had the firmness to oppose all these influences to make him change his policy, and I hope, for the good of the country and the blessing of the Dominion, that when any change takes place it will be in the direction of lowering rather than of highering the tariff. 2. To ascend. Labels: intransitive
Word: effort Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle French effort, from Old French esfort, deverbal of esforcier (“to force, exert”), from Vulgar Latin *exfortiō, from Latin ex + fortis (“strong”). Compare typologically Bulgarian усилие (usilie), Czech úsilí, Polish wysiłek, Russian уси́лие (usílije) (< Proto-Slavic *sila). Pronunciation: /ˈɛf.ət/, /ˈɛf.ɚt/, /ˈef.ət/, /ˈɛfɔrt/ 1. The work involved in performing an activity; exertion. Example: make an effort Example: take a lot of effort 2. An endeavor. Example: Although he didn't win any medals, Johnson's effort at the Olympics won over many fans. Example: But was it responsible governance to pass the Longitude Act without other efforts to protect British seamen? Or might it have been subterfuge—a disingenuous attempt to shift attention away from the realities of their life at sea. 3. A force acting on a body in the direction of its motion. Example: the two bodies between which the effort acts
Word: effort Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle French effort, from Old French esfort, deverbal of esforcier (“to force, exert”), from Vulgar Latin *exfortiō, from Latin ex + fortis (“strong”). Compare typologically Bulgarian усилие (usilie), Czech úsilí, Polish wysiłek, Russian уси́лие (usílije) (< Proto-Slavic *sila). Pronunciation: /ˈɛf.ət/, /ˈɛf.ɚt/, /ˈef.ət/, /ˈɛfɔrt/ 1. To make an effort. Labels: intransitive, uncommon 2. To strengthen, fortify or stimulate Labels: obsolete, transitive Example: When old, he lived in London where, being High-minded and Poor, he was exposed to the contempt of disingenuous persons. Yet he efforted his Spirits with a Commemoration of the Days of Old.
Word: achieving Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /əˈt͡ʃiːvɪŋ/ 1. present participle and gerund of achieve Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: achieving Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /əˈt͡ʃiːvɪŋ/ 1. An achievement; the process of achieving something.
Word: exertion Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ɪɡˈzɝʃən/, /ɪɡˈzɜːʃən/ 1. An expenditure of physical or mental effort. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Again she felt a return of that utter despondency which had fallen upon her after Guido's death: but then she could indulge in it unmolested, and that was something of relief: now she was forced into exertion, that sort of exertion of all the most tiresome, because the least interesting... Example: Liverpool have looked a little jaded from their exertions in recent weeks and there was an air of desperation about their attempts to restore equality in the closing minutes in the face of the experience and game management of opponents who are time-served masters of the Champions League art.
Word: exerting Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of exert Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: exert Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Latin exsertus, past participle of exserō (“to stretch or thrust forth or out”), from ex- + serō (“to string together”). Pronunciation: /ɪɡˈzɝt/, /ɪɡˈzɜːt/ 1. To make use of, to apply, especially of something nonmaterial; to bring to bear. Labels: transitive Example: He considered exerting his influence on John to gain an advantage for himself. Example: Meanwhile Nanny Broome was recovering from her initial panic and seemed anxious to make up for any kudos she might have lost, by exerting her personality to the utmost. She took the policeman's helmet and placed it on a chair, and unfolded his tunic to shake it and fold it up again for him. 2. To put in vigorous action. Labels: reflexive Example: I exerted myself in today's training.
Word: vigorous Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Anglo-Norman vigrus, from Old French vigoros (French vigoureux), from Medieval Latin vigorosus, from Latin vigor. Doublet of vigoroso. Pronunciation: /ˈvɪɡəɹəs/, /ˈvaɪɡɹəs/ 1. Physically strong and active. Example: a vigorous scrub Example: a vigorous search 2. Mentally strong and active. 3. Rapid of growth. Example: a vigorous shrub
Word: strength Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English strengthe, from Old English strengþu (“strength”), from Proto-West Germanic *strangiþu (“strongness; strength”), equivalent to strong + -th (abstract nominal suffix). Cognate with Dutch strengte (“strength”), German Low German Strengde, Strengte (“harshness; rigidity; strictness; severity”). Pronunciation: /ˈstɹɛŋθ/, [ˈstɹ̝̊ʷɛŋθ] ~ [ˈst̠ɹ̠̊˔ʷɛŋθ], /ˈstɹɛnθ/, [ˈstɹ̝̊ʷɛnθ] ~ [ˈst̠ɹ̠̊˔ʷɛnθ], /ˈstɹɪŋθ/ 1. The quality or degree of being strong. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: It requires great strength to lift heavy objects. Example: Our castle’s strength will laugh a siege to scorn. 2. The intensity of a force or power; potency. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: He had the strength of ten men. Example: Study gives strength to the mind; conversation, grace: the first apt to give stiffness, the other suppleness: one gives substance and form to the statue, the other polishes it. 3. The strongest part of something; that on which confidence or reliance is based. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble. Example: […] certainly there is not in the world a greater strength against temptations, then is deposited in an obedient understanding […]. 4. A positive attribute. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: to play to one's strengths Example: We all have our own strengths and weaknesses. 5. An armed force, a body of troops. Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable Example: Thou princely leader of our English strength, Never so needful on the earth of France, Example: That done, dissever your united strengths, And part your mingled colours once again; 6. A strong place; a stronghold. Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable Example: All like himself rebellious, by whose aid This inaccessible high strength, the seat Of Deitie supream, us dispossest, He trusted to have seis’d […] 7. The minimum ratio of the number of edges removed from a given graph to components created, over all possible removals. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: strength Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English strengthe, from Old English strengþu (“strength”), from Proto-West Germanic *strangiþu (“strongness; strength”), equivalent to strong + -th (abstract nominal suffix). Cognate with Dutch strengte (“strength”), German Low German Strengde, Strengte (“harshness; rigidity; strictness; severity”). Pronunciation: /ˈstɹɛŋθ/, [ˈstɹ̝̊ʷɛŋθ] ~ [ˈst̠ɹ̠̊˔ʷɛŋθ], /ˈstɹɛnθ/, [ˈstɹ̝̊ʷɛnθ] ~ [ˈst̠ɹ̠̊˔ʷɛnθ], /ˈstɹɪŋθ/ 1. To strengthen (all senses). Labels: obsolete Example: ſtrengthed with all myght / thꝛowe hys gloꝛious power / vnto all pacience / and longe ſufferynge with ioyfulnes Example: Then ſhalt thow perceave what it meaneth that the power of this wretched monſtre / muſt be ſtrengthed / by anothers power and not by his awne.
Word: muddle Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English modelen (attested in present participle modeland (“wallowing”)), from Middle Dutch moddelen (“to make muddy”), from modde, mod (“mud”) (Modern Dutch modder). By surface analysis, mud + -le. Compare German Kuddelmuddel. Pronunciation: /ˈmʌdl̩/, /ˈmʌd(ə)l/ 1. To mix together, to mix up; to confuse. Example: Young children tend to muddle their words. Example: I will not , to please hostile critics , muddle the argument by making it one of recondite learning , in which neither I nor my readers are strong . I try to lay before the reader reasons from which he can judge for himself 2. To mash slightly for use in a cocktail. Example: He muddled the mint sprigs in the bottom of the glass. 3. To dabble in mud. Example: c. 1721-1722, Jonathan Swift, The Progress of Marriage Young ducklings foster'd by a hen; But, when let out, they run and muddle 4. To make turbid or muddy. Example: He did ill to Muddle the Water. 5. To think and act in a confused, aimless way. 6. To cloud or stupefy; to render stupid with liquor; to intoxicate partially. Example: Their old master Epicurus seems to have had his brains so muddled and confounded with them, that he scarce ever kept in the right way. Example: […] I vvas for five Years often drunk, alvvays muddled, they carry'd me from Tavern to Tavern, to Alehouſes and Brandy Shops, and brought me acquainted vvith ſuch ſtrange Dogs! 7. To waste or misuse, as one does who is stupid or intoxicated. Example: They muddle it [money] away without method or object, and without having anything to show for it.
Word: muddle Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English modelen (attested in present participle modeland (“wallowing”)), from Middle Dutch moddelen (“to make muddy”), from modde, mod (“mud”) (Modern Dutch modder). By surface analysis, mud + -le. Compare German Kuddelmuddel. Pronunciation: /ˈmʌdl̩/, /ˈmʌd(ə)l/ 1. A mixture; a confusion; a garble. Example: The muddle of nervous speech he uttered did not have much meaning. Example: As a result, no single party or coalition immediately gained enough parliamentary seats to govern, thrusting Spain into a familiar political muddle and giving new life to Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez, who only days ago seemed moribund. 2. A mixture of crushed ingredients, as prepared with a muddler. 3. A muddy mess. Labels: archaic Example: I must drive as quick with a thunder-rain pelting in my face, and the roads in a muddle, and the horses starting—I can’t call it shying, I have ’em too well in hand,—at every flash, just as quick as if it was a fine hard road, and fine weather.
Word: muddle Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈmʌdl̩/, /ˈmʌd(ə)l/ 1. A servant's attendant; underservant. Labels: India, historical Example: We bought a few rugs and odds and ends and our sitting room looks quite European; then we have a bedroom with 2 beds and a dressing room, also a corridor for the muddles and servants. Example: I have an ayah (or lady's maid), and a tailor (for the ayahs cannot work); and A—84 has a boy: also two muddles—one to sweep my room, and another to bring water.
Word: mix up Part of Speech: verb 1. To mix or blend thoroughly and completely. Labels: idiomatic, transitive Example: She mixed up peat moss, humus, and compost to make potting soil. 2. To combine thoroughly. Labels: idiomatic, intransitive Example: All the smells of the food had mixed up together. 3. To prepare something from ingredients that are mixed. Labels: idiomatic, transitive Example: She mixed up a batch of her own potting soil. Example: The picture of their life that follows suggests in a few words a country kitchen—the sizzling of fish over the charcoal fire, fanned by the bellows to a hot flame, the mixing up of a Thasian sauce for the fish, the kneading of dough. 4. To confuse or reverse. Labels: idiomatic, transitive Example: I always mix up Vermont and New Hampshire on a map. Example: I always mix up Jack with Jake. 5. To become involved with, especially socially or romantically. Labels: often, transitive Example: He got mixed up with a bad crowd. Example: Then he got mixed up with an older woman. 6. To shuffle. Example: mix up this Rubik's cube
Word: mix up Part of Speech: noun 1. A mix, blend, or variety. Example: Next time, let's ask a group with a different mix up. 2. A confusion or reversal. Labels: idiomatic Example: I refuse to send them any more money until they fix this mix up.
Word: devoid Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From obsolete Middle English verb devoiden, from Old French desvuidier (“to empty out”) (compare French dévider). Pronunciation: /dɪˈvɔɪd/ 1. Completely without; having none of Labels: not-comparable Example: I went searching for a knife, but the kitchen was devoid of anything sharper than a spoon. Example: The shed, a steel-framed structure with a single-span roof devoid of intermediate support, is exceptionally well-lit by continuous glazing on the roof and along much of the sides, while there is fluorescent roof lighting for night work.
Word: devoid Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From obsolete Middle English verb devoiden, from Old French desvuidier (“to empty out”) (compare French dévider). Pronunciation: /dɪˈvɔɪd/ 1. To empty out; to remove. Labels: obsolete Example: The child will devoid the garbage after he devours his sandwich.
Word: employed Part of Speech: adj Pronunciation: /ɪmˈplɔɪd/, /ɛmˈplɔɪd/ 1. In a job; working. Example: You're just looking for a handout like every other—are you employed, Mr. Lebowski? 2. Used; in use. Example: Studies on LLS in recent decades have identified a large number of strategies which are employed by English as a foreign/second language (EFL/ESL) learners and several strategy categorisation patterns have also been established.
Word: employed Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ɪmˈplɔɪd/, /ɛmˈplɔɪd/ 1. simple past and past participle of employ Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: used Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English used, equivalent to use + -ed. Pronunciation: /juːzd/, /juzd/, /juːst/, /just/ 1. simple past and past participle of use Labels: form-of, participle, past Example: You used me! You never loved me at all! Example: In 1866 Colonel J. F. Meline noted that the rebozo had almost disappeared in Santa Fe and that hoop skirts, on sale in the stores, were being widely used. 2. In used to.
Word: used Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English used, equivalent to use + -ed. Pronunciation: /juːzd/, /juzd/, /juːst/, /just/ 1. That is or has or have been used. Example: The ground was littered with used syringes left behind by drug abusers. Example: Economics is a messy discipline: too fluid to be a science, too rigorous to be an art. Perhaps it is fitting that economists’ most-used metric, gross domestic product (GDP), is a tangle too. GDP measures the total value of output in an economic territory. Its apparent simplicity explains why it is scrutinised down to tenths of a percentage point every month. 2. That has or have previously been owned by someone else. Example: He bought a used car. 3. In used to.
Word: arrest Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English arest (noun) and aresten (verb), from Old French areste (noun) and arester (“to stay, stop”, verb), from Vulgar Latin *arrestō, from Latin ad- (“to”) + restō (“to stop, remain behind, stay back”), from re- (“back”) + stō (“to stand”), from Proto-Indo-European *steh₂- (“to stand”), equivalent to ad- + rest. Compare French arrêter (“to stop”). Pronunciation: /əˈɹɛst/, [əˈɹʷɛst] 1. A check; a stop; an act or instance of arresting something. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. The condition of being stopped, standstill. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: cardiac arrest, respiratory arrest 3. The process of arresting a criminal, suspect etc. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: State police made a total of 15 drug-related arrests across the city. 4. A confinement, detention, as after an arrest. Labels: countable, uncountable 5. A device to physically arrest motion. Labels: countable, uncountable 6. The judicial detention of a ship to secure a financial claim against its operators. Labels: countable, uncountable 7. Any seizure by power, physical or otherwise. Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable Example: The sad stories of fire from heaven, the burning of his sheep, etc., […] were sad arrests to his troubled spirit. 8. A scurfiness of the back part of the hind leg of a horse Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: arrest Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English arest (noun) and aresten (verb), from Old French areste (noun) and arester (“to stay, stop”, verb), from Vulgar Latin *arrestō, from Latin ad- (“to”) + restō (“to stop, remain behind, stay back”), from re- (“back”) + stō (“to stand”), from Proto-Indo-European *steh₂- (“to stand”), equivalent to ad- + rest. Compare French arrêter (“to stop”). Pronunciation: /əˈɹɛst/, [əˈɹʷɛst] 1. To stop the motion of (a person, animal, or body part). Labels: obsolete, transitive Example: An vncouth paine torments my grieued ſoule, And death arreſts the organe of my voyce. Example: Nor could her virtues, nor repeated vows Of thousand lovers, the relentless hand Of Death arrest; 2. To stay, remain. Labels: intransitive, obsolete Example: A white Starre[…]whiche to every mans sighte did lighte and arrest apon the Standard of Albry. 3. To stop or slow (a process, course etc.). Labels: transitive Example: To try to arrest the spiral of violence, I contacted Chief Buthelezi to arrange a meeting. Example: 1997: Chris Horrocks, Introducing Foucault, page 69 (Totem Books, Icon Books; →ISBN Knowledge replaced universal resemblance with finite differences. History was arrested and turned into tables …Western reason had entered the age of judgement. 4. To seize (someone) with the authority of the law; to take into legal custody. Labels: transitive Example: The police have arrested a suspect in the murder inquiry. Example: The suspect merchant ship has been arrested by customs officers. 5. To catch the attention of. Labels: transitive Example: There is something about this picture—something bold and vigorous, which arrests the attention. I feel sure it would be highly popular. 6. To undergo cardiac arrest. Labels: intransitive Example: Realizing the mistake immediately from the outline of the RCA on the fluoroscope screen, he rapidly removed the catheter – just as his patient arrested.
Word: assemble Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd Proto-Italic *ad Proto-Italic *ad- Latin ad- Proto-Indo-European *sem- Proto-Indo-European *sem-h₂-lo- Proto-Italic *semalis Latin similis Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti Proto-Indo-European *-h₂tiinflu. Proto-Italic *-ājō Proto-Italic *-āō Latin -ō Latin simulō Medieval Latin assimulōder. Old French assemblerbor. Middle English assemblen English assemble From Middle English assemblen, from Old French assembler (“to assemble”), from Medieval Latin assimulāre (“to bring together”), from ad- + simulō (“copy, imitate”), from similis (“like, similar”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *sem- (“together, one”). Doublet of assimilate. Pronunciation: /əˈsɛm.bəl/ 1. To put together. Labels: transitive Example: He assembled the model ship. Example: The handman reads copy and assembles type by hand, including straight composition, tables and display. 2. To gather as a group. Labels: ergative Example: The parents assembled in the school hall. Example: Thither he assembled all his train. 3. To translate from assembly language to machine code.
Word: celebrity Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English celebritē, from Old French celebrite (compare French célébrité), from Latin celēbritās. Pronunciation: /sɪˈlɛb.ɹɪ.ti/, /səˈlɛb.ɹɪ.ɾi/ 1. A rite or ceremony. Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable 2. Fame, renown; the state of being famous or talked-about. Labels: uncountable Example: Many of those that envy celebrities aspire to celebrity themselves. 3. A person who has a high degree of recognition by the general population for his or her success or accomplishments; a famous person. Labels: countable Example: "What do you put in your paper?" I asked, […] "Oh, news," said he, "and dull articles, and things about Celebrities. If you know any Celebrities, now?" Noël asked him what Celebrities were. "Oh, the Queen and the Princes, and people with titles, and people who write, or sing, or act—or do something clever or wicked." Example: I liked the man for his own sake, and even had he promised to turn out a celebrity it would have had no weight with me. I look upon notoriety with the same indifference as on the buttons on a man's shirt-front, or the crest on his note-paper.
Word: aught Part of Speech: pron Etymology: From Middle English aught, ought, from Old English āht, āwiht, from ā (“always", "ever”) + wiht (“thing", "creature”). More at wight. Pronunciation: /ɔːt/, /oːt/, /ɔt/, /ɑt/, /ɒt/ 1. Anything whatsoever, any part. Labels: archaic, dialectal Example: for aught I know/care Example: […] wouldst thou aught with me?
Word: aught Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From Middle English aught, ought, from Old English āht, āwiht, from ā (“always", "ever”) + wiht (“thing", "creature”). More at wight. Pronunciation: /ɔːt/, /oːt/, /ɔt/, /ɑt/, /ɒt/ 1. At all, in any degree, in any respect. Labels: archaic, not-comparable Example: […] and if your love Can labour aught in sad invention, Hang her an epitaph upon her tomb, And sing it to her bones [...]
Word: aught Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English aught, ought, from Old English āht, āwiht, from ā (“always", "ever”) + wiht (“thing", "creature”). More at wight. Pronunciation: /ɔːt/, /oːt/, /ɔt/, /ɑt/, /ɒt/ 1. Whit, the smallest part, iota. Labels: archaic
Word: aught Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Rebracketing of a naught. Pronunciation: /ɔːt/, /oːt/, /ɔt/, /ɑt/, /ɒt/ 1. Zero. Labels: proscribed, sometimes 2. The digit zero.
Word: aught Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English aught (“estimation, regard, reputation”), from Old English ǣht (“estimation, consideration”), from Proto-West Germanic *ahtu. Cognate with Dutch acht (“attention, regard, heed”), German Acht (“attention, regard”). Also see ettle. Pronunciation: /ɔːt/, /oːt/, /ɔt/, /ɑt/, /ɒt/ 1. Estimation. Labels: regional, uncountable Example: in my aught 2. Of importance or consequence (in the phrase "of aught"). Labels: regional, uncountable Example: an event of aught 3. Esteem, respect. Labels: obsolete, rare, regional, uncountable Example: a man of aught Example: Show some aught to your elders, boy.
Word: aught Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Originally the past tense of owe. Pronunciation: /ɔːt/, /oːt/, /ɔt/, /ɑt/, /ɒt/ 1. Obsolete or dialectal form of ought Labels: alt-of, dialectal, obsolete
Word: aught Part of Speech: num Etymology: From Middle English ahte, from Old English eahta (“eight”). More at eight. Pronunciation: /ɔːt/, /oːt/, /ɔt/, /ɑt/, /ɒt/ 1. Obsolete or dialectal form of eight. Labels: alt-of, dialectal, obsolete Example: Seven — aught — aught tines on the antlers. By G—d, a hart of aught tines, and the first of the season!
Word: askance Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Unknown. Possibly from Middle English askances (“as if”), or from Old French a escone (“hidden”) or Italian a scancio (“obliquely”). Compare asquint, Middle English askoyn (“at a slant, askance”), Dutch schuin, schuins (“sideways”), schuiven (“to shove”), schuinte (“slope”). Pronunciation: /əˈskæns/, /əˈskɑːns/ 1. With disapproval, skepticism, or suspicion. Labels: not-comparable Example: The beggar asked for change, but the haughty woman only looked at him askance. Example: The scandal of opposition died down, and the stone-carver himself, though the town-folk continued to eye him askance, was able to secure other work through the favor of discriminating patrons. 2. Sideways; obliquely. Labels: not-comparable Example: I glanced askance at this strange creature, and found him watching me with his queer, restless eyes. Example: ...the head-stones in the grave-yard beneath seemed to be holding themselves askance to keep it out of their faces.
Word: askance Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Unknown. Possibly from Middle English askances (“as if”), or from Old French a escone (“hidden”) or Italian a scancio (“obliquely”). Compare asquint, Middle English askoyn (“at a slant, askance”), Dutch schuin, schuins (“sideways”), schuiven (“to shove”), schuinte (“slope”). Pronunciation: /əˈskæns/, /əˈskɑːns/ 1. Turned to the side, especially of the eyes. Labels: not-comparable Example: My first thought was, he lied in every word, That hoary cripple, with malicious eye Askance to watch the working of his lie
Word: askance Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Unknown. Possibly from Middle English askances (“as if”), or from Old French a escone (“hidden”) or Italian a scancio (“obliquely”). Compare asquint, Middle English askoyn (“at a slant, askance”), Dutch schuin, schuins (“sideways”), schuiven (“to shove”), schuinte (“slope”). Pronunciation: /əˈskæns/, /əˈskɑːns/ 1. To look at (someone or something) with a sideways glance. Labels: rare, transitive Example: Bowed heads, Aunt Ellen's, Aunt Laura's, her sister's — bowed but askancing her yellow dress — yes, yellow, golden yellow, hue of sun and life, Dad's favorite, to see him off on this, his greatest journey. Example: "My dear sir," said Hube in an authoritative manner to the receptionist askancing Thales, "first of all, we aren't tourists. Secondly, this isn't a rat, this is the present embodiment of the spiritual leader of millions of people in India […] 2. To turn (one's eye or gaze) to the side. Labels: rare, transitive Example: The pope askanced his eye at Michael with displeasure, and after a short pause saluted him, " Instead of your coming to us, you seem to have expected that we should attend upon you."
Word: sideways Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From side + -ways. Pronunciation: /ˈsaɪdweɪz/ 1. Moving or directed toward one side. Example: Giving Mary a sideways glance, he said,[…]. Example: He gave the ball a sideways kick. 2. Positioned sideways (with a side to the front). Labels: informal Example: There was a stack of papers in front of each seat at the table, but each stack was sideways. 3. Neither moving upward nor moving downward. Labels: informal Example: Once we get out of this sideways economy, our figures will more accurately reflect what we're truly capable of. 4. In conflict (with); not compatible (with). Labels: informal, usually Example: He was constantly getting sideways with his boss till he got fired.
Word: sideways Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From side + -ways. Pronunciation: /ˈsaɪdweɪz/ 1. With a side to the front. Example: He builds houses sideways, with the front door on the side. 2. Towards one side. Example: A bishop moves only diagonally; a rook, only sideways, forward, and back. Example: He looked sideways at the new arrival, wondering who she was. 3. Askance; sidelong. 4. Neither upward nor downward. Labels: informal Example: The economy has been moving sideways for several months now. 5. Not as planned; towards a worse outcome. Labels: US, colloquial Example: We realized the project could go sideways very quickly if we didn't get the sales and marketing people on our side. Example: As we walked deeper into the darkness, we both knew this could go sideways in a heartbeat. We were sitting ducks. Birds on a wire. Canaries in a coalmine.
Word: sideways Part of Speech: noun Etymology: See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form. Pronunciation: /ˈsaɪdweɪz/ 1. plural of sideway Labels: form-of, plural Example: And he was just taking byways and sideways, travelling in the peripheries of civilization, yeah? Example: In time our way merged into a throng of cars flowing here and there on the highways and sideways of the north side of Los Angeles.
Word: obliquely Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree English oblique Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der. Proto-Germanic *līkąder. Proto-Germanic *-līkaz Proto-Germanic *-ê Proto-Germanic *-līkê Proto-West Germanic *-līkē Old English -līċe Middle English -ly English -ly English obliquely From oblique + -ly. Pronunciation: /əˈbliːkli/ 1. In an oblique manner; sideways. Example: Then, advancing obliquely towards us, came a fifth. Example: Finally I descended the hill, obliquely, towards the trees I had seen.
Word: toward Part of Speech: prep Etymology: From Middle English toward, from Old English tōweard, from Proto-West Germanic *tōward, equivalent to to + -ward. Cognate with Middle Low German tôwart, Middle Dutch toewaert (Modern Dutch toewaarts), Middle High German zuowart, zūwart (Modern German zuwärts). Compare also Middle English tilward, tillward (“toward”). Pronunciation: /təˈwɔːd/, /tɔɹd/, /ˈtwɔɹd/, /təˈwɔɹd/, /to(ː)ɹd/ 1. In the direction of. Labels: US Example: She moved toward the door. Example: [A]Nd when Balaam ſawe that it pleaſed the LORD to bleſſe Iſrael, hee went not, as at other times to ſeeke foꝛ inchantments, but hee ſet his face toward the wilderneſſe. 2. In relation to (someone or something). Labels: US Example: What are your feelings toward him? Example: So that the man that is tender among you, and very delicate, his eye ſhalbe euill toward his bꝛother, and toward the wife of his boſome, and towards the remnant of his childꝛen which he ſhall leaue: 3. For the purpose of attaining (an aim). Labels: US Example: I'm saving money toward retirement. 4. Located close to; near (a time or place). Labels: US Example: Our place is over toward the station. Example: I am toward nine years older since I left you, yet that is the least of my alterations; […]
Word: toward Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English toward, from Old English tōweard, from Proto-West Germanic *tōward, equivalent to to + -ward. Cognate with Middle Low German tôwart, Middle Dutch toewaert (Modern Dutch toewaarts), Middle High German zuowart, zūwart (Modern German zuwärts). Compare also Middle English tilward, tillward (“toward”). Pronunciation: /təˈwɔːd/, /tɔɹd/, /ˈtwɔɹd/, /təˈwɔɹd/, /to(ː)ɹd/ 1. Yielding, pliant; docile; ready or apt to learn; not froward. Labels: US, not-comparable 2. Approaching, coming near; impending; present, at hand. Labels: US, dated, not-comparable Example: Do you heare ought (Sir) of a Battell toward. Example: On the morrow, after mass, our Lord Abbot [Samson of Tottington] orders the Cellerarius to send off his carpenters to demolish the said structure brevi manu, and lay up the wood in safe keeping. Old Dean Herbert, hearing what was toward, comes tottering along hither, to plead humbly for himself and his mill. 3. Promising, likely. Labels: US, archaic, not-comparable, obsolete Example: Clif[ford] Why that is ſpoken like a toward Prince. Example: My Miſtreſs had a Daughter of nine Years old, a Child of toward Parts for her Age, very dextrous at her Needle, and ſkilful in dreſſing her Baby. 4. Future; to-come. Labels: US, not-comparable, obsolete Example: But ear that wiſhed day his beame diſcloſd, / He either enuying my toward good, / Or of him ſelfe to treaſon ill diſpoſd / One day vnto me came in friendly mood, / And told for ſecret how he vnderſtood / […]
Word: oblique arch Part of Speech: noun 1. An arch whose span is not at right angles to the face.
Word: oblique bridge Part of Speech: noun 1. Synonym of skew bridge.
Word: oblique case Part of Speech: noun 1. Any noun case except the nominative case (and sometimes the vocative case), where the noun is the object of a verb or the object of a preposition. Example: 19. Cases of Nouns are six: Nominative, Genitive, Dative, Accusative, Vocative, and Ablative. As in the Latin and Greek languages, these cases are derived from the Nominative by certain rules of inflection; the Nominative being the root of all the other cases, is termed the direct case, the others are called oblique cases.
Word: oblique circle Part of Speech: noun 1. a circle whose plane is oblique to the axis of the primitive plane
Word: oblique line Part of Speech: noun 1. A line that, meeting or tending to meet another, makes oblique angles with it.
Word: oblique motion Part of Speech: noun 1. A kind of motion or progression in which one part ascends or descends, while the other prolongs or repeats the same tone. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: oblique fire Part of Speech: noun 1. Fire whose direction is not perpendicular to the line fired at. Labels: uncountable, usually
Word: oblique flank Part of Speech: noun 1. that part of the curtain whence the fire of the opposite bastion may be discovered.
Word: oblique narration Part of Speech: noun 1. Synonym of oblique speech. Labels: uncountable
Word: oblique muscle Part of Speech: noun 1. A muscle acting in a direction oblique to the mesial plane of the body, or to the associated muscles, applied especially to two muscles of the eyeball.
Word: oblique plane Part of Speech: noun 1. A plane which declines from the zenith, or inclines toward the horizon.
Word: oblique sailing Part of Speech: noun 1. The movement of a ship when she sails upon some rhumb between the four cardinal points, making an oblique angle with the meridian. Labels: uncountable
Word: oblique speech Part of Speech: noun 1. Speech which is quoted indirectly, or in a different person from that employed by the original speaker. Labels: rhetoric, uncountable
Word: oblique step Part of Speech: noun 1. A step in marching, by which a soldier, while advancing, gradually takes ground to the right or left at an angle of about 25 degrees.
Word: oblique sphere Part of Speech: noun 1. The celestial or terrestrial sphere when its axis is oblique to the horizon of the place; or as it appears to an observer at any point on the earth except the poles and the equator.
Word: oblique system of coordinates Part of Speech: noun 1. A system in which the coordinate axes are oblique to each other. Labels: analytic
Word: rhumb Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish rumbo or Portuguese rumo, from Latin rhombus, from Ancient Greek ῥόμβος (rhómbos). Doublet of rhomb and rhombus. Pronunciation: /ɹʌm/, /ɹʌmb/ 1. A line which crosses successive meridians at a constant angle. 2. Any of the 32 points of the compass. 3. A unit of angular measure equal to 1/32 of a circle or 11.25°.
Word: eyeball Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From eye + ball. Compare Middle English balle off the eye, balle of þe eyȝe (“eyeball”, literally “ball of the eye”). Pronunciation: /ˈaɪ.bɔːl/, /ˈaɪ.bɔl/, /ˈaɪ.bɑl/ 1. The ball of the eye. Example: Near-synonym: eye Example: You'll change your mind about not bothering with safety glasses once you've injured your eyeball. That's called closing the barn door after the horse gets out. 2. An instance of eyeballing something. Example: Give this report an eyeball, will you please? 3. Surveillance. Labels: informal Example: Intelligence work is necessarily limited in scope by the capacity of national surveillance systems. […] Ultimately, it is only when you have an 'eyeball' or the electronic equivalent on a suspect that you have a reasonable chance of a preventive intervention. 4. A readership or viewership. Labels: in-plural Example: We need compelling content for the new Web site so we can attract more eyeballs. Example: When The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power debuted at the same time as House of the Dragon, much noise was made about which show attracted more eyeballs. 5. A face-to-face meeting. Labels: slang Example: We had an eyeball last year. 6. A favourite or pet; the apple of someone's eye. Labels: Caribbean
Word: eyeball Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From eye + ball. Compare Middle English balle off the eye, balle of þe eyȝe (“eyeball”, literally “ball of the eye”). Pronunciation: /ˈaɪ.bɔːl/, /ˈaɪ.bɔl/, /ˈaɪ.bɑl/ 1. To gauge, estimate or judge by eye, rather than measuring precisely; to look or glance at. Labels: informal, transitive Example: A good cook can often just eyeball the correct quantities of ingredients. Example: Each geometric construction must be exact; eyeballing it and getting close does not count. 2. To stare at intently. Labels: informal, transitive Example: Are you eyeballing my girl? 3. To roll one's eyes. Labels: intransitive Example: Guardiola strode on to the pitch at half-time to remonstrate with the Spanish referee, Antonio Mateu Lahoz, but went too far with his eyeballing and matador-like hand movements. He was “upstairs”, in the Colin Bell stand, to watch Liverpool’s second-half turnaround and a dismal seven days for City take another turn for the worse.
Word: mesial plane Part of Speech: noun 1. The plane which divides the body of an animal into similar right and left halves.
Word: chime Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English chymbe, chyme, probably from Old Northern French chimbe (“cymbal”), a back-formation from chimble, cimble, from Latin cymbalum; perhaps reinforced by a misinterpretation of a Middle English *chymbele (from Old English ċimbala, ċimbal (“cymbal”)) as chymbe belle. Pronunciation: /tʃaɪm/ 1. A musical instrument producing a sound when struck, similar to a bell (e.g. a tubular metal bar) or actually a bell. Often used in the plural to refer to the set: the chimes. Example: Hugo had a recording of someone playing the chimes against a background of surf noise that she found calming. Example: Sylvia was a chime player in the school orchestra. 2. An individual ringing component of such a set. Example: Peter removed the C♯ chime from its mounting so that he could get at the dust that had accumulated underneath. 3. A small bell or other ringing or tone-making device as a component of some other device. Example: The professor had stuffed a wad of gum into the chime of his doorbell so that he wouldn't be bothered. 4. The sound of such an instrument or device. Example: The copier gave a chime to indicate that it had finished printing. Example: Chimes sing Sunday morn. 5. A small hammer or other device used to strike a bell. Example: Strike the bell with the brass chime hanging on the chain next to it.
Word: chime Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English chymbe, chyme, probably from Old Northern French chimbe (“cymbal”), a back-formation from chimble, cimble, from Latin cymbalum; perhaps reinforced by a misinterpretation of a Middle English *chymbele (from Old English ċimbala, ċimbal (“cymbal”)) as chymbe belle. Pronunciation: /tʃaɪm/ 1. To make the sound of a chime. Labels: intransitive Example: The microwave chimed to indicate that it was done cooking. Example: I got up for lunch as soon as the wall clock began chiming noon. 2. To cause to sound in harmony; to play a tune, as upon a set of bells; to move or strike in harmony. Labels: transitive Example: And chime their sounding hammers. 3. To utter harmoniously; to recite rhythmically. Labels: transitive Example: Chime his childish verse. 4. To agree; to correspond. Labels: intransitive Example: The other lab's results chimed with mine, so I knew we were on the right track with the research. Example: Everything chimed in with such a humor. 5. To make a rude correspondence of sounds; to jingle, as in rhyming. Example: It shall not keep one settled pace of time, In the same tune it shall not always chime
Word: chime Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /tʃaɪm/ 1. Alternative form of chine (“edge of a cask; part of a ship; etc.”). Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: Let the chimes meet so that the chime of one cask shall not work into the head of the next. Example: The chime, or smooth curved surface of the cask, is produced by a dexterous use of the adze.
Word: yoof Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Respelling of youth to correspond with a nonstandard pronunciation; th-fronting, in particular. 1. youth (young person, young people or the state of being young) Labels: UK, attributive, countable, slang, sometimes, uncountable Example: Slash'n'sideburn pop is what you get when Manc yoof grows up angry and facially bristling. Example: As for the yoof question, yes, there was an attempt to inject a certain spring into Mr Punch's aged step.
Word: pooch Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Of uncertain origin. One (unsubstantiated) conjecture is that the word comes from Putzi, a common German name given to lapdogs. The name Putzi is possibly formed from German Putz + -i, influenced by German putzig (“funny, cute, small”, adjective). Pronunciation: /puːt͡ʃ/ 1. A dog. Labels: informal Example: She’s just been playing with the pooch ever since they got in the field. Example: My thoughts are disturbed by a man and pooch trying to get off the front of the train. Despite hitting the door button, they refused to open. 2. A dog of mixed breed; a mongrel.
Word: pooch Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Probably related to pouch. Pronunciation: /puːt͡ʃ/ 1. A bulge, an enlarged part. Labels: countable, informal Example: There's a pooch in the plastic where it got too hot. 2. A distended or swelled condition. Labels: countable, informal, uncountable Example: Her left sleeve has more pooch at the shoulder than the right. 3. The lower belly region; often in reference to the stubborn fat stored in the abdominal area. Labels: broadly, countable, informal, uncountable Example: See also: paunch
Word: pooch Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Probably related to pouch. Pronunciation: /puːt͡ʃ/ 1. To distend, to swell or extend beyond normal limits; usually used with out. Labels: informal, intransitive Example: Inflate that tire too much and the tube may pooch out of the cut in the sidewall. Example: There were rustling sounds from the tent and the sides pooched out as if they were trying to stand up.
Word: fuse Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Italian fuso and French fusée, from Latin fūsus (“spindle”). Pronunciation: /fjuːz/ 1. A wick or cord used to convey flame to gunpowder, a bomb, or similar explosive. Example: The Government, having lit the fuse, is not going to be allowed to flee the explosion. 2. An otherwise stable arbitrarily long repeating pattern that, when perturbed from one end, destructively carries that perturbation at a constant speed to the other end. 3. Alternative spelling of fuze, a detonator, any mechanism igniting an explosive substance or device. Labels: alt-of, alternative, proscribed, sometimes 4. A tendency to lose one's temper. Labels: figuratively Example: When talking about being laid off, he has a short fuse. 5. A kind of match for starting a fire: 6. A kind of match for starting a fire:
Word: fuse Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Italian fuso and French fusée, from Latin fūsus (“spindle”). Pronunciation: /fjuːz/ 1. To furnish with a fuse, to install a fuse on. 2. Alternative spelling of fuze, to equip with a detonator. Labels: alt-of, alternative, proscribed, sometimes
Word: fuse Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Back-formation from fusion (“to melt”), first to verbal sense, then noun. Pronunciation: /fjuːz/ 1. A device to prevent excessive overcurrent from overload or short circuit in an electrical circuit, containing a component that melts and interrupts the current when too high a load is passed through it.
Word: fuse Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Back-formation from fusion (“to melt”), first to verbal sense, then noun. Pronunciation: /fjuːz/ 1. To liquify by heat; melt. Labels: transitive Example: Pure sodium is a lustrous metal... it fuses very easily at a temperature of 97°, and distils at a bright red heat (742°...) 2. To melt together; to blend; to mix indistinguishably. Labels: transitive Example: That each, who seems a separate whole, Should move his rounds, and fusing all The skirts of self again, should fall Remerging in the general Soul, Is faith as vague as all unsweet: […] Example: All these were based broadly on the management framework of the old companies, except that the former Southern and North Eastern Areas of the old L.N.E.R. became separate management units, while the former L.M.S.R. and L.N.E.R. lines north of the Border were fused into a self-contained Scottish Region. 3. To melt together. Labels: intransitive 4. To combine through nuclear fusion. Labels: ergative 5. To furnish with or install a fuse in (a circuit) to protect against overcurrent. Labels: transitive 6. To stop operating, having been protected against overcurrent by its fuse blowing. Labels: intransitive Example: When the bath overflowed, the downstairs lights fused, so we need a torch. 7. To form a bicyclic compound from two similar or different types of ring such that two or more atoms are shared between the resulting rings.
Word: recharge Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Old French rechargier, from Old French re- + Old French chargier. Pronunciation: /ɹiːˈtʃɑː(ɹ)dʒ/ 1. To charge an electric battery after its power has been consumed. Labels: transitive Example: GWR plans to use it on the Greenford branch in west London, making use of a fast charger at West Ealing that will charge the batteries in just three and a half minutes. This fast charger is essentially a battery installed at the lineside which is trickle-charged from the electricity grid. It can then discharge quickly into the train's batteries through charging rails and then start recharging itself while the train is running in service. 2. To invigorate and revitalize one's energy level by removing stressful agents for a period of time. Labels: intransitive Example: Near-synonyms: relax, unwind Example: My body is a little bit sore from all of the practicing and playing and training, and your mind gets a little tired of it, too. It's nice to be able to recharge and come back fresh for the remainder of the year. 3. To reload a gun with ammunition. Labels: transitive 4. To add or restore water to an aquifer. Labels: transitive 5. To request payment again from. Labels: transitive Example: Customer was recharged for doing same brake work (in November) that had been done in September. QA teams believes^([sic]) this work was a rip-off. 6. To charge or accuse in return. 7. To attack again or anew. Example: They charge, recharge, and all along the sea / They drive, and squander the huge Belgian fleet
Word: recharge Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Old French rechargier, from Old French re- + Old French chargier. Pronunciation: /ˈɹiːtʃɑː(ɹ)dʒ/ 1. Water that has percolated from the ground surface to an aquifer. Labels: uncountable 2. The process of charging (an electrical device) again. Labels: countable Example: My phone has needed five recharges in the last month. 3. The process of revitalizing one's energy level by removing stressful agents for a period of time. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: fête Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from French fête. Pronunciation: /feɪt/, /fɛt/ 1. Alternative spelling of fete. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: The sexton and his companion had been employed as carpenters on the preparations for the celebrated Stratford Jubilee; and they remembered Garrick, the prime mover of the fête, who superintended the arrangements; […]
Word: fête Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from French fête. Pronunciation: /feɪt/, /fɛt/ 1. Alternative spelling of fete. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: This is not, of course, to say that the British — or even the Americans — are positively popular or fêted here.
Word: précis Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from French précis (“summary”), from a substantive use of its adjectival sense "precise". Doublet of precise. Pronunciation: /ˈpɹeɪsi/ 1. A summary or brief: a concise or abridged statement or view. Example: I know she goes in for giving a rapid precis of all her guests. Example: the computer is functioning, lights on it softly blinking as it produces on the screen beside it a series of graphs — ten years' worth of annual reports, a précis of Data General Corporation's financial history.
Word: précis Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Borrowed from French précis (“summary”), from a substantive use of its adjectival sense "precise". Doublet of precise. Pronunciation: /ˈpɹeɪsi/ 1. to write a précis of a work; to summarise, abridge Example: If the inital ^([sic]) passage consists of a series of paragraphs, each with a one-sentence summary, the individual's success in managing to précis the essential content of the message can then be assessed Example: Nevertheless, to be required to précis say 5000 words on a single sheet of A4 has the advantage of simplicity, even if it isn’t easy.