nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: monopoly Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin monopōlium, from Ancient Greek μονοπώλιον (monopṓlion, “a right of exclusive sale”), from μόνος (mónos, “sole”) + πωλέω (pōléō, “to barter, sell”). By surface analysis, mono- + -poly. Pronunciation: /məˈnɒpəli/, /məˈnɑpəli/, /məˈnɔpəli/, [məˈnɔ̟pəli], /mono.poli/ 1. A situation, by legal privilege or other agreement, in which solely one party (company, cartel etc.) exclusively provides a particular product or service, dominating that market and generally exerting powerful control over it. Example: The sale of the leaves and roots was a Government monopoly, and from it the Kings of Kôr derived a large proportion of their private revenue. Example: In 1918 a Chinese company was given a monopoly to run a service between Victoria and the districts of Mong Kok and Sham Shui Po. Five years later this monopoly was transferred to the Hong Kong and Yaumati Ferry Company, together with the right to run a service to Yau Ma Tei. 2. An exclusive control over the trade or production of a commodity or service through exclusive possession. Example: A land monopoly renders its holder(s) nearly almighty in an agricultural society. Example: Монополисти́ческое облада́ние важне́йшими исто́чниками сыры́х материа́лов стра́шно увели́чило власть кру́пного капита́ла и обостри́ло противоре́чие ме́жду картелли́рованной и некартелли́рованной промы́шленностью. 3. The privilege granting the exclusive right to exert such control. Example: Granting monopolies in concession constitutes a market-conform alternative to taxation for the state, while the crown sometimes bestowed a monopoly as an outrageous gift. 4. The market thus controlled. Labels: metonymically 5. The holder (person, company or other) of such market domination in one of the above manners. Labels: metonymically
Word: profit margin Part of Speech: noun 1. The ratio of net income to net sales of a company expressed as a percentage. Example: If a company has $10,000 net income and $100,000 net sales, then the profit margin equals ($10,000 : $100,000) .10, or 10%. Example: A letter demanding payment costs her £75. A knock on the door from a company representative: another £235. Taking her car: an extra £110. Then there’s a daily storage charge, so that she pays £24 for every day she can’t drive. These were fees set by the government, using the industry’s sums. The result is that the firms chasing some of the poorest people in the country can rake in handsome profit margins.
Word: feasible Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Anglo-Norman fesable, from Latin facere, Old French fesable, faisable (“doable”), from fere, faire (“to do”) + -able. Pronunciation: /ˈfiː.zɪ.bəl/, [ˈfiː.zɪ.bɫ̩], /ˈfiː.zə.bəl/, [ˈfiː.zə.bɫ̩], /ˈfi.zə.bəl/ 1. Able to be done in practice. Example: His plan to rid Trafalgar Square of pigeons by bringing in peregrine falcons to eat them was dismissed as not feasible.
Word: education Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French éducation, from Latin ēducātiō (“a breeding, bringing up, rearing”), from ēducō (“to educate, train”), from ēdūcō (“to lead forth, to take out; to raise up, to erect”). See educate. Morphologically educate + -ion. Pronunciation: /ˌɛd͡ʒ.ʊˈkeɪ.ʃn̩/, /ˌɛd.jʊˈkeɪ.ʃn̩/, /ˌɛd͡ʒ.əˈkeɪ.ʃən/, /ˌɛd͡ʒ.ʊˈkeɪ.ʃən/ 1. The process of imparting knowledge, skill and judgment. Labels: uncountable Example: For though education, in the true sense of the word, is necessary to excellence, yet a question still lies open, What is education? Is it certain old rules of thinking which require to be forced on the individual by others, more particularly than those which, by the exercise of his own faculties, he perceives in nature and life within and around him, and seizes, concentrates, abstracts, and digests for himself? Some do this spontaneously with unaccountable facility, such as Shakespeare, Burns, and Ebenezer Elliot; while others never can be tutored into any method of it by old rules, and often, when even stuffed in "the schools" to repletion, feel only besotted from a mind full of old abstruse indigestibles. Example: One particularly damaging, but often ignored, effect of conflict on education is the proliferation of attacks on schools[…]as children, teachers or school buildings become the targets of attacks. Parents fear sending their children to school. Girls are particularly vulnerable to sexual violence. 2. Facts, skills and ideas that have been learned, especially through formal instruction. Labels: countable Example: Nuh-nuh-doin'-duh... Nuh-nuh-doin'-duh... We don't need no education... Yes, you do. You've just used a double negative. Example: It is time the international community faced the reality: we have an unmanageable, unfair, distortionary global tax regime. […] It is the starving of the public sector which has been pivotal in America no longer being the land of opportunity – with a child's life prospects more dependent on the income and education of its parents than in other advanced countries. 3. Upbringing, rearing. Labels: archaic, countable, uncountable Example: I found them [my children] all I could wish and progressing rapidly under the truly maternal care of the kind Sisters who cared for their education.
Word: awareness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English aware Proto-Germanic *-in- Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ti Proto-Germanic *-ōną Proto-Germanic *-inōną Proto-Indo-European *-dyé- Proto-Germanic *-atjaną Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Germanic *-þuz Proto-Germanic *-assuz Proto-Germanic *-inassuz Proto-West Germanic *-nassī Old English -nes Middle English -nesse English -ness English awareness From aware + -ness. Pronunciation: /əˈwɛɚ.nəs/, /əˈwɛə.nəs/, /əˈweː.nəs/, /əˈweə.nəs/, /əˈwiə.nəs/ 1. The state or level of consciousness where sense data can be confirmed by an observer. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: I gradually passed from sleep to full awareness. 2. The state or quality of being aware of something. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: raise awareness of a topic Example: The awareness of one type of idea naturally fosters an awareness of another idea
Word: Tasmanian Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Dutch Tasmanbor. English Tasman Proto-Indo-European *-(i)yós Proto-Italic *-ijos Proto-Italic *-ios Old Latin -ios Latin -ius Latin -iader. English -ia English Tasmania Proto-Indo-European *-nós Proto-Italic *-nos Latin -nus Latin -ānus Old French -ainder. Middle English -an English -an English Tasmanian From Tasmania + -an. Pronunciation: /tæzˈmeɪniən/ 1. Of, from or relating to the state of Tasmania, Australia. Labels: not-comparable
Word: Tasmanian Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Dutch Tasmanbor. English Tasman Proto-Indo-European *-(i)yós Proto-Italic *-ijos Proto-Italic *-ios Old Latin -ios Latin -ius Latin -iader. English -ia English Tasmania Proto-Indo-European *-nós Proto-Italic *-nos Latin -nus Latin -ānus Old French -ainder. Middle English -an English -an English Tasmanian From Tasmania + -an. Pronunciation: /tæzˈmeɪniən/ 1. A native or inhabitant of the state of Tasmania, Australia. Example: The engineer of the line, a young Tasmanian named Sharland, decided the best course would be to take the new railway along a chain of four deep valleys. [...].
Word: spectrum Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *speḱ- Proto-Indo-European *-yeti Proto-Indo-European *spéḱyeti Proto-Italic *spekjō Latin speciō Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr Proto-Indo-European *-trom Proto-Italic *-trom Latin -trum Latin spectrumbor. English spectrum From Latin spectrum (“appearance, image, apparition”), from speciō (“look at, view”). Doublet of specter. See also scope. Pronunciation: /ˈspɛktɹəm/, [ˈspɛktɹ̝̊əm] ~ [ˈspɛktɹ̝̊m̩], [ˈspɛkt̠ɹ̠̊˔əm] ~ [ˈspɛkt̠ɹ̠̊˔m̩] 1. A range; a continuous, infinite, one-dimensional set, possibly bounded by extremes. Example: Near-synonyms: sliding scale, continuum Example: As Mr. Obama prepared to take the oath, his approval rating touched a remarkable 70 percent in some polling — a reflection of good will across the political spectrum. 2. Specifically, a range of colours representing light (electromagnetic radiation) of contiguous frequencies; hence electromagnetic spectrum, visible spectrum, ultraviolet spectrum, etc. Example: Current 3G technologies can send roughly 1 bit of data - a one or a zero - per second over each 1 Hz of spectrum that the operator owns. 3. The autism spectrum. Labels: usually Example: He punctuated his words with a look into my eyes that might have been read as threatening or menacing by anyone who was not on the spectrum. But I am on the spectrum, and so I stared back at him. 4. A set of frequencies that are used for radio-frequency communication; not necessarily a continuous range. 5. The pattern of absorption or emission of radiation produced by a substance when subjected to energy (radiation, heat, electricity, etc.). 6. The set of eigenvalues of a matrix. 7. Of a bounded linear operator A, the set of scalar values λ such that the operator A—λI, where I denotes the identity operator, does not have a bounded inverse; intended as a generalisation of the linear algebra sense. 8. An abstract object in mathematics created from a commutative ring R and denoted operatorname Spec(R) or operatorname SpecR and said to be the spectrum of R; useful in the study of such rings for providing a geometric object which encodes many of the properties R, and in modern geometry for generalizing the notion of an algebraic variety to that of an affine scheme. Formally, the set of all prime ideals R equipped with the Zariski topology and augmented with a sheaf of rings called the structure sheaf, generated by the B-sheaf on the distinguished open sets D_f which assigns the localization of R at f to each set D_f, regarded as a ring of functions on D_f. See Spectrum of a ring on Wikipedia.Wikipedia 9. Specter, apparition. Labels: obsolete 10. The image of something seen that persists after the eyes are closed.
Word: extremes Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ɪkˈstɹiːmz/, /ɛkˈstɹiːmz/, /ɪkˈstɹimz/ 1. plural of extreme Labels: form-of, plural 2. The opposite ends of a range or scale.
Word: Buffalonian Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English Buffalo English -n- Proto-Indo-European *-nós Proto-Italic *-nos Latin -nus Latin -ānus Latin -iānusbor. English -ian English Buffalonian From Buffalo + -n- + -ian. Pronunciation: /ˌbʌfəˈləʊ.ni.ən/, /ˌbʌfəˈloʊ.ni.ən/ 1. An inhabitant or a resident of Buffalo, NY.
Word: Buffalonian Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree English Buffalo English -n- Proto-Indo-European *-nós Proto-Italic *-nos Latin -nus Latin -ānus Latin -iānusbor. English -ian English Buffalonian From Buffalo + -n- + -ian. Pronunciation: /ˌbʌfəˈləʊ.ni.ən/, /ˌbʌfəˈloʊ.ni.ən/ 1. Of or relating to the city of Buffalo, NY.
Word: things Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈθɪŋz/ 1. plural of thing Labels: form-of, plural
Word: things Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈθɪŋz/ 1. One's clothes, furniture, luggage, or possessions collectively; stuff Labels: plural, plural-only Example: Have you brought all your things with you? Example: Get your hands off my things! 2. The general state of affairs in a given context, e.g. one's relationship Labels: plural, plural-only Example: Things have been rough between lately. Example: She wants to break things off.
Word: things Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ˈθɪŋz/ 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of thing Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: perception Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English percepcioun, from Middle French percepcion, from Latin perceptiō (“a receiving or collecting, perception, comprehension”), from perceptus (“perceived, observed”), perfect passive participle of percipiō (“to perceive, observe”); see perceive. Pronunciation: /pəˈsɛpʃn̩/, /pɚˈsɛpʃ(ə)n/ 1. The organisation, identification and interpretation of sensory information. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. Conscious understanding of something. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: have perception of time 3. Vision (ability) Labels: countable, uncountable 4. Acuity Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: possiblities Part of Speech: noun 1. Misspelling of possibilities. Labels: alt-of, misspelling
Word: manifest Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English manifest, manifeste, from Latin manifestus, manufestus (“palpable, manifest”), from Latin manus (“hand”) + an uncertain second element. Doublet of manifesto. Pronunciation: /ˈmæn.ɪ.fɛst/, /ˈmæn.ə.fɛst/ 1. Evident to the senses, especially to the sight; apparent; distinctly perceived. Example: It re-envisioned Freddy Krueger in the “real world,” where the nightmare-dwelling being is made manifest in our reality, one where Freddy actor Robert Englund and original Nightmare On Elm Street star Heather Langenkamp play themselves, as does [Wes] Craven himself. Example: Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in his sight[…] 2. Obvious to the understanding; apparent to the mind; easily apprehensible; plain; not obscure or hidden. 3. Detect; convicted. Labels: rare, with-of Example: Caliſtho there ſtood manifeſt of Shame, / And turn’d a Bear, the Northern Star became[…]
Word: manifest Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English manifest, manifeste, from Latin manifestus, manufestus (“palpable, manifest”), from Latin manus (“hand”) + an uncertain second element. Doublet of manifesto. Pronunciation: /ˈmæn.ɪ.fɛst/, /ˈmæn.ə.fɛst/ 1. A list or invoice of the passengers or goods being carried by a commercial vehicle or ship. Example: Near-synonym: bill of lading Example: ship's manifest 2. A file containing metadata describing other files. 3. A public declaration; an open statement; a manifesto. Labels: obsolete Example: But you, authentick Witneſſes I bring, / Before the gods, and your ungrateful King, / Of this my Manifeſt : That never more / This Hand ſhall combate on the crooked Shore : / No, let the Grecian Powers oppreſs’d in Fight, / Unpity’d periſh in their Tyrants fight.
Word: manifest Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English manifest, manifeste, from Latin manifestus, manufestus (“palpable, manifest”), from Latin manus (“hand”) + an uncertain second element. Doublet of manifesto. Pronunciation: /ˈmæn.ɪ.fɛst/, /ˈmæn.ə.fɛst/ 1. To show plainly; to make to appear distinctly, usually to the mind; to put beyond question or doubt; to display; to exhibit. Labels: transitive Example: His courage manifested itself through the look on his face. Example: My Parts, my Title, and my perfect Soule / Shall manifeſt me rightly. 2. To become manifest; to be revealed. Labels: intransitive Example: His osteoporosis first manifested as pain in his hips. 3. To will something to exist. Labels: also, slang, transitive Example: The process of creating your treasure map is a powerful step toward manifesting your goal. Now just spend a few minutes each day looking at it[…] Example: Undaunted by poverty, I decided to manifest a new car. 4. To exhibit the manifests or prepared invoices of; to declare at the customhouse. Labels: transitive
Word: verifiable Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree English verify Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlis Proto-Italic *-ðlis Latin -bilis Latin -ābilis Old French -ablebor. Middle English -able English -able English verifiable From verify + -able. Pronunciation: /vɛɹ.ɪˈfaɪ.ə.bəl/, /ˈvɛɹ.ɪ.faɪ.ə.bəl/, /ˌvɛɹ.əˈfaɪ.ə.bəl/, [ˌvɛɹˈfaɪ.ə.bɫ̩], /ˈvɛɹ.əˌfaɪ.ə.bəl/ 1. Able to be verified or confirmed. Example: Do you have verifiable evidence to support that claim? Example: Sometimes these sagas and anecdotes are touched with ribaldry, or with excessive obscenity, according to the times, and sometimes they are rooted in obscure but still verifiable deistic concepts. 2. Able to be qualified by a Boolean expression.
Word: verifiable Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English verify Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlis Proto-Italic *-ðlis Latin -bilis Latin -ābilis Old French -ablebor. Middle English -able English -able English verifiable From verify + -able. Pronunciation: /vɛɹ.ɪˈfaɪ.ə.bəl/, /ˈvɛɹ.ɪ.faɪ.ə.bəl/, /ˌvɛɹ.əˈfaɪ.ə.bəl/, [ˌvɛɹˈfaɪ.ə.bɫ̩], /ˈvɛɹ.əˌfaɪ.ə.bəl/ 1. A statement or observation that can be verified.
Word: Boolean Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Boole + -ean, named after English mathematician, philosopher and logician George Boole (1815–1864). Pronunciation: /ˈbuːl.i.ən/, /buːˈli.ən/, /ˈbuli.ən/ 1. Of or pertaining to the work of George Boole. Labels: not-comparable 2. Pertaining to data items that can have “true” and “false” (or, equivalently, 1 and 0 respectively) as their only possible values and to operations on such values. Labels: not-comparable Example: Oh, Boolean operators! "Blue and ones"! Good idea! Example: The associativity of OR and AND is not at all obvious. It is tempting to assume that because OR and AND are commutative that they must be associative also. This is not the case, however, and some commutative Boolean operators are not associative. Examples include NAND and NOR.
Word: Boolean Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Boole + -ean, named after English mathematician, philosopher and logician George Boole (1815–1864). Pronunciation: /ˈbuːl.i.ən/, /buːˈli.ən/, /ˈbuli.ən/ 1. A variable that can hold a single true/false (1/0) value.
Word: echt Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Borrowed from German echt (“real”). The German term originates from Middle Low German echt (“lawful, genuine”), contraction of ehacht, variant form of ehaft (“lawful, pertaining to the law”) from ê(e) (“law, marriage”), from Proto-West Germanic *aiw. First use in English appears c. 1916. Pronunciation: /ɛkt/ 1. Proper, real, genuine, true to type. Example: I had heard [the phrase] in Lamb House, Rye, but it was less echt Henry James than Henry James mocking echt Meredith. Example: And yes, that's what it's about. Some punk writing about sleeping with Ginsberg, despite their fifty-year age difference and homogenous sexuality. What's echt heebish? There's your answer. A hack fag poet and the power to plant him on playlists nationwide.
Word: MBA Part of Speech: noun 1. Initialism of master's of business administration (a college degree). Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism 2. Initialism of MacBook Air. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Word: BSA Part of Speech: noun 1. Initialism of business systems analyst. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable 2. Initialism of bovine serum albumin. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable 3. Initialism of body surface area. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable 4. Initialism of Bachelor of Science and Arts. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
Word: BSA Part of Speech: name 1. Initialism of Boy Scouts of America. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism Example: BuzzFeed News previously obtained a letter reportedly from GSUSA President Kathy Hopinkah Hannan, who accused BSA of welcoming girls to help their diminished enrollment numbers. 2. Initialism of Birmingham Small Arms Company; also (cycling) a type of bottom bracket threading. Labels: UK, abbreviation, alt-of, historical, initialism 3. Initialism of Bharatiya Sakshya Act, the official evidence act of India. Labels: India, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Word: accounting Part of Speech: noun Etymology: * First attested in the late 14th century. * account + -ing Pronunciation: /əˈkaʊn.tɪŋ/ 1. The development and use of a system for recording and analyzing the financial transactions and financial status of an individual or a business. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: British Railways are beginning to reap the advantages of electronics applied to accounting. At Swindon Works, a computor, the first of its type to be used anywhere in the world, was installed recently to deal with the pay of some 10,000 employees. 2. A relaying of events; justification of actions. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: He was required to give a thorough accounting of his time. 3. An equitable remedy requiring wrongfully obtained profits to be distributed to those who deserve them. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: In contrast, an accounting for profits, or accounting— a distinct form of relief that the majority groups with disgorgement — has a well-accepted definition: It compels a defendant to account for, and repay to a plaintiff, those profits that belong to the plaintiff in equity.
Word: accounting Part of Speech: verb Etymology: * First attested in the late 14th century. * account + -ing Pronunciation: /əˈkaʊn.tɪŋ/ 1. present participle and gerund of account Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present Example: For quotations using this term, see Citations:accounting.
Word: individual Part of Speech: noun Etymology: PIE word *dwóh₁ From Medieval Latin indīviduālis, from Latin indīviduum (“an indivisible thing”), neuter of indīviduus (“indivisible, undivided”), from in + dīviduus (“divisible”), from dīvidō (“divide”). Pronunciation: /ɪndɪˈvɪd͡ʒʊəl/, /ɪndɪˈvɪd͡ʒʊl/, /ɪndɪˈvɪdjʊəl/, /ɪndɪˈvɪdjʊl/, /ˌɪndɪˈvɪd͡ʒ(u)əl/ 1. A person considered alone, rather than as belonging to a group of people. Example: He is an unusual individual. Example: “You have to be an individual,” said Ms. Smoke, a 40-year-old saleswoman, as she sipped her beverage. “You can’t just get black coffee.” 2. A single physical human being as a legal subject, as opposed to a legal person such as a corporation. Example: Every individual is equal before and under the law and has the right to the equal protection and equal benefit of the law without discrimination […]. 3. An object, be it a thing or an agent, as contrasted to a class. Example: It is typically held that chairs, trees, rocks, people and many of the so-called ‘everyday’ objects we encounter can be regarded as individuals. Example: In plants, the ability to recognize self from nonself plays an important role in fertilization, because self-fertilization will result in less diverse offspring than fertilization with pollen from another individual. 4. An element belonging to a population.
Word: individual Part of Speech: adj Etymology: PIE word *dwóh₁ From Medieval Latin indīviduālis, from Latin indīviduum (“an indivisible thing”), neuter of indīviduus (“indivisible, undivided”), from in + dīviduus (“divisible”), from dīvidō (“divide”). Pronunciation: /ɪndɪˈvɪd͡ʒʊəl/, /ɪndɪˈvɪd͡ʒʊl/, /ɪndɪˈvɪdjʊəl/, /ɪndɪˈvɪdjʊl/, /ˌɪndɪˈvɪd͡ʒ(u)əl/ 1. Relating to a single person or thing as opposed to more than one. Example: Near-synonyms: individuated, solitary, self-standing, freestanding Example: As we can't print them all together, the individual pages will have to be printed one by one. 2. Intended for a single person as opposed to more than one person. Example: individual personal pension Example: individual cream cakes 3. Not divisible without losing its identity. Example: Near-synonyms: unatomizable, indivisible, undividable
Word: developer Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English develop Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzios Latin -āriusnom. Latin -āriusbor. Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz Proto-West Germanic *-ārī Old English -ere Middle English -ere English -er English developer From develop + -er. Pronunciation: /dɪˈvɛləpə(ɹ)/, /dɪˈvɛləpɚ/, /dəˈvɛləpɚ/ 1. A person or entity engaged in the creation or improvement of certain classes of products. 2. A real estate developer; a person or company who prepares a parcel of land for sale, or creates structures on that land. Example: Across Japan, technology companies and private investors are racing to install devices that until recently they had little interest in: solar panels. Massive solar parks are popping up as part of a rapid build-up that one developer likened to an "explosion." Example: [Donald Trump] would repeat this point three more times over the course of several hours, as if pleading with his counterparties to see fiscal reason. (Religious fanatics, alas, do not always respond to the same incentives as New York developers.) 3. A film developer; a person who uses chemicals to create photographs from photograph negatives. 4. A liquid used in the chemical processing of traditional photos. 5. A reagent used to produce an ingrain color by its action upon some substance on the fiber. 6. A software developer; a person or company who creates or modifies computer software. Example: More important, when we looked at who worked in that industry, we noticed that programmers were in the minority. They’re dwarfed by, among other occupations, the software developers. The two terms are sometimes used interchangeably, but the jobs follow very different trajectories. Nationwide, software developers haven’t struggled nearly as much as their programming brethren — few other computer-related occupations have. So what makes programmers different? To answer that, we need to dive forehead first into everybody’s favorite part of any analysis: arcane occupation definitions! Upon perusing the fine print, we saw that while programmers do in fact program, they “work from specifications drawn up by software and web developers or other individuals.” That seems like a clue. In the real world, “developer” and “programmer” can seem almost interchangeable. But in the world of government statistics, where we have legal permanent residency, there’s a clear distinction. In the [US] government’s schema, programmers do the grunt work while the much more numerous — and much faster-growing — software developers enjoy a broader remit. They figure out what clients need, design solutions and work with folks such as programmers and hardware engineers to implement them. Their pay reflects this gap in responsibilities. The median programmer earned $99,700 in 2023, compared with $132,270 for the median developer. And while 27.5 percent of programming jobs vanished, jobs for developers have only fallen 0.3 percent, similar to the broader industry.
Word: fork Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Ultimately from Etymology 1, above, through use for various things with two or more branches. Attested in this sense from the 18th century. Pronunciation: /fɔːk/, /fɔɹk/, [fo̞ɹk], /fo(ː)ɹk/ 1. The bottom of a sump into which the water of a mine drains.
Word: fork Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Ultimately from Etymology 1, above, through use for various things with two or more branches. Attested in this sense from the 18th century. Pronunciation: /fɔːk/, /fɔɹk/, [fo̞ɹk], /fo(ː)ɹk/ 1. To bale a shaft dry. Labels: transitive Example: Forking the water, is drawing it all out; and when it is done, they say, “the mine or the water is forked;” and “the engine is in fork.”
Word: kosher Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Borrowed from Yiddish כּשר (kosher), from Hebrew כָּשֵׁר (kashér). Pronunciation: /ˈkəʊʃə/, /ˈkoʊʃɚ/, /ˈkɔʃə(ɹ)/, /ˈkɑʃə(ɹ)/ 1. Fit for use or consumption, in accordance with Jewish law (especially relating to food). Labels: Judaism Example: Only in New York can you find a good, kosher hamburger! Example: David's mother kept a kosher kitchen, with separate sets of dishes for meat and for dairy. 2. Observant of the rules of kashrut (of a person or establishment). Example: "Are you kosher?" "No, I love to eat scallops." Example: "Is this restaurant kosher?" "No, we serve pork." 3. In accordance with standards or usual practice. Labels: broadly, figuratively Example: Is what I have done kosher with Mr. Smith?
Word: kosher Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Borrowed from Yiddish כּשר (kosher), from Hebrew כָּשֵׁר (kashér). Pronunciation: /ˈkəʊʃə/, /ˈkoʊʃɚ/, /ˈkɔʃə(ɹ)/, /ˈkɑʃə(ɹ)/ 1. In a kosher manner; in accordance with kashrut. Labels: not-comparable Example: Just like eating halal is not a choice for our Muslim brothers and sisters, for us, eating kosher is not voluntary; it’s who we are and as necessary as the oxygen we need for sustenance.
Word: kosher Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Borrowed from Yiddish כּשר (kosher), from Hebrew כָּשֵׁר (kashér). Pronunciation: /ˈkəʊʃə/, /ˈkoʊʃɚ/, /ˈkɔʃə(ɹ)/, /ˈkɑʃə(ɹ)/ 1. To kasher; to prepare (for example, meat) in conformity with the requirements of the Jewish law. Labels: transitive
Word: pager Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From page + -er (agent noun suffix) or + -er (measurement suffix) (sense 3). Pronunciation: /peɪd͡ʒə(ɹ)/ 1. A wireless telecommunications device that receives text or voice messages. Example: Before he could bring it down, the pager clipped to his belt went off. Alan pushed the button that turned the hateful gadget off and stood indecisively in front of the shop door a moment longer […] Example: I left my cell, my pager, and my home phone at the bottom / I sent two letters back in autumn, you must not've got 'em 2. A computer program running in a text terminal, used to view (but not modify) the contents of a text file moving down the file one line or one screen at a time. Example: more is a pager. The basic purpose of a pager is that it lets you view the contents of a file without actually having to open the file. 3. Something (a document, book etc.) that has a specified number of pages. Labels: in-compounds Example: Sunday papers kept growing in bulk, however. The Boston Globes standard eight-page Sunday offering swelled to forty pages in 1895, and sixty pages soon after. The New York World issued a record-breaking hundred-pager' in 1893 to celebrate its tenth anniversary under Pulitzer's ownership. 4. One who makes up type into pages of a book; one who binds or sorts pages into a book.
Word: transparent Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Borrowed from Medieval Latin trānspārēns, trānspārēntis (“transparent”), present participle of transpareō, from Latin trans + pareō. Displaced native Old English þurhsīene. Pronunciation: /tɹænsˈpæɹənt/, /tɹænz-/, /tɹansˈpaɹənt/, /tɹanz-/, /tɾansˈpaɾənt/ 1. See-through, clear; having the property that light passes through it almost undisturbed, such that one can see through it clearly. Example: "You make the glass invisible by putting it into a liquid of nearly the same refractive index; a transparent thing becomes invisible if it is put in any medium of almost the same refractive index." Example: The waters of the lake were transparent until the factory dumped waste there. 2. See-through, clear; having the property that light passes through it almost undisturbed, such that one can see through it clearly. 3. Open, public; having the property that theories and practices are publicly visible, thereby reducing the chance of corruption. 4. Obvious; readily apparent; easy to see or understand. Example: His reasons for the decision were transparent. Example: I love playing poker with Steve, because he's so transparent. 5. Having the property of transparency, i.e. sufficiently accurate that the compressed result is perceptually indistinguishable from the uncompressed input. 6. Not noticeable because it happens automatically or in the background; invisible. Example: In order to make that transparent to the user, browsers usually cache the usernames and passwords and retransmit them automatically each time they contact the server.
Word: transparent Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Medieval Latin trānspārēns, trānspārēntis (“transparent”), present participle of transpareō, from Latin trans + pareō. Displaced native Old English þurhsīene. Pronunciation: /tɹænsˈpæɹənt/, /tɹænz-/, /tɹansˈpaɹənt/, /tɹanz-/, /tɾansˈpaɾənt/ 1. Something that is transparent. Example: The Dress Cap and Under-Sleeves are en suite. In both the puffings are separated by equal intervals, in which the transparents are uncovered. Example: They can be obtained in various thicknesses and in many colors, including beautiful imitations of pearl, mother-of-pearl, veins and mottles, stratifications, roll stratifications, imitation corals, and all colors of translucents, transparents and opaques, grained ivory, shell (plain and corrugated mottle), onyx, wood effects, plaids, checks, stripes, metallic, bronze pearl plain, bronze pearl with fancy blocks, bronze pearl in veins and stripes, and what is called “essence pearl.”
Word: transparent Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *terh₂-der. Proto-Indo-European *térh₂t Proto-Indo-European *-ónts Proto-Indo-European *tr̥h₂ónts Proto-Indo-European *tr̥h₂n̥ts Proto-Italic *trāns Proto-Italic *trāns- Latin trans-bor. English trans- English parent English transparent From trans- (“transgender or transsexual”) + parent. 1. A transgender or transsexual parent. Labels: nonstandard Example: He went to tranny day in the park. Transparents & their kids. Played baseball & cooked out; hot dogs & burgers & buns on the grill. Example: Recently the genre has expanded to consider the lives of transpersons of color as well as the experiences of transparents.
Word: paradigm Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English paradygme, from Late Latin paradīgma, from Ancient Greek παράδειγμα (parádeigma, “pattern”), from παραδείκνυμι (paradeíknumi, “I show [beside] or compare”) + -μα (-ma, suffix forming nouns concerning the results of actions). Doublet of paradigma. Pronunciation: /ˈpæɹ.ə.daɪm/, /ˈpɛɹ.ə.daɪm/, [ˈpɛɹ.daɪm], /ˈpeɪ.ɹə.daɪm/, /ˈpæɹ.ə.dɑem/ 1. A pattern, a way of doing something; especially a pattern of thought, a system of beliefs, a conceptual framework. Example: Near-synonyms: style, model, worldview Example: Thomas Kuhn's landmark “The Structure of Scientific Revolutions” got people talking about paradigm shifts, to the point the word itself now suggests an incomplete or biased perspective. 2. An example serving as the model for such a pattern; an exceptionally good or prototypical example of a pattern or group. Example: Near-synonyms: template, exemplar, archetype, poster child; see also Thesaurus:exemplar, Thesaurus:model Example: According to the Fourth Circuit, “Coca-Cola” is “the paradigm of a descriptive mark that has acquired secondary meaning”. 3. A set of all forms which contain a common element, especially the set of all inflectional forms of a word or a particular grammatical category. Example: The paradigm of "to sing" is "sing, sang, sung". The verb "to ring" follows the same paradigm.
Word: biofuel Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *gʷeyh₃-der. Ancient Greek βῐ́ος (bĭ́os) Ancient Greek βῐο- (bĭo-)der. English bio- English fuel English biofuel From bio- + fuel. Pronunciation: /ˈbaɪ.əʊˌfjʊ(.ə)l/ 1. Any fuel that is obtained from a renewable biological resource, especially from biomass. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Even second-generation biofuels, made from crop wastes or wood, are an environmental disaster, either extending the cultivated area or removing the straw and stovers which protect the soil from erosion and keep carbon and nutrients in the ground. Example: The Environmental Protection Agency announced proposed changes to its biofuels program Tuesday to spur more biofuel use and crack down on waivers issued to refineries by the Trump administration, notching a win for the biofuels industry and farmers and a blow to oil refineries.
Word: Genoese Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Latin Genuabor. Latin Genua Italian Genovader. English Genoa Proto-Indo-European *-iskos Proto-Germanic *-iskaz Proto-West Germanic *-iskbor. Late Latin -iscus ▲ Vulgar Latin -iscus Latin -ēnsis Old French -eisbor. Middle English -eys English -ese English Genoese From Genoa + -ese. Pronunciation: /ˌd͡ʒɛnəʊˈiːz/, /ˌd͡ʒɛnoʊˈiz/ 1. A native or inhabitant of the city of Genoa or surrounding province, Liguria, Italy. Example: America. One of the four parts of the world, ſo called from Americus Veſpuſius a Florentine, who with Columbus a Genoeſe, firſt diſcover'd this Country about the yeer 1492 which is moſt aptly called the New world; …. Example: However, John not liking a Partner in the Empire, left Conſtantinople, and retir'd to Tenedos, where he engag'd Francis Cataluze a Genoeſe to aſſiſt him, and with the Fleet under his Command, return'd to the Imperal City, compell'd Contacuzenus to quit the Empire; …
Word: Genoese Part of Speech: name Etymology: Etymology tree Latin Genuabor. Latin Genua Italian Genovader. English Genoa Proto-Indo-European *-iskos Proto-Germanic *-iskaz Proto-West Germanic *-iskbor. Late Latin -iscus ▲ Vulgar Latin -iscus Latin -ēnsis Old French -eisbor. Middle English -eys English -ese English Genoese From Genoa + -ese. Pronunciation: /ˌd͡ʒɛnəʊˈiːz/, /ˌd͡ʒɛnoʊˈiz/ 1. The inhabitants of Genoa, collectively. 2. The dialect of Ligurian spoken in Genoa
Word: Genoese Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Latin Genuabor. Latin Genua Italian Genovader. English Genoa Proto-Indo-European *-iskos Proto-Germanic *-iskaz Proto-West Germanic *-iskbor. Late Latin -iscus ▲ Vulgar Latin -iscus Latin -ēnsis Old French -eisbor. Middle English -eys English -ese English Genoese From Genoa + -ese. Pronunciation: /ˌd͡ʒɛnəʊˈiːz/, /ˌd͡ʒɛnoʊˈiz/ 1. Of, from or relating to the city of Genoa or surrounding province, Liguria, Italy. Labels: not-comparable
Word: co-operative Part of Speech: adj 1. Alternative spelling of cooperative. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: The "Liberation" Locomotive. Reprinted from The Railway Gazette, June 28, 1946. […] This detailed description of the 2-8-0 locomotives built by the Vulcan Foundry Limited for service in the war-ravaged countries of Europe is a record of one of the most remarkable examples of determined co-operative effort in the field of locomotive construction. Example: At Futsing, in 1915, a school for boys was established which, because of its co-operative basis, was unique.
Word: co-operative Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of cooperative. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: In Tz’u-hsi county of Chekiang Province 19.9 per cent of 640 co-operatives were reported to have committed serious waste. Example: On the Chinese vessel were Piao Heng-shun and Chu Chang-shun, staff members of rural credit co-operatives in the Hsialuho people's commune in Kuantien County, Liaoning Province.
Word: sonne Part of Speech: noun 1. Obsolete spelling of son. Labels: alt-of, obsolete Example: And when I roſe in the moꝛning to giue my childe ſucke, behold, it was dead: but when I had conſidered it in the moꝛning, beholde, it was not my ſonne, which I did beare. Example: 19th century, Jean Ingelow - The Brides of Enderby She moved where Lindis wandereth, My sonne's faire wife, Elizabeth.
Word: sonne Part of Speech: noun 1. Obsolete spelling of sun. Labels: alt-of, obsolete
Word: restaurant Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Italic *wre- Latin re- Proto-Indo-European *steh₂- Proto-Indo-European *sth₂u-ro-der. Proto-Italic *stauros Latin *staurō Latin restaurārebor. Old French restorer French restaurer French restaurantbor. English restaurant Borrowed from French restaurant, present participle of the verb restaurer, corresponding to Latin restaurans, restaurantis, present participle of restauro (“to restore”), from the name of the 'restorative' soup served in the first establishments. Pronunciation: /ˈɹɛst(ə)ɹɒnt/, /ˈɹɛst(ə)ɹɒ̃/, /ˈɹɛst(ə)ɹənt/, /ˈɹɛst(ə)ˌɹɑnt/, /ˈrɛsˌʈɔ.rᵻnʈ/ 1. An eating establishment in which diners are served food, usually by waiters at their tables but sometimes (as in a fast food restaurant) at a counter. Example: That Italian restaurant serves some of the best food I've ever had in my life. Example: By one o'clock the place was choc-a-bloc. […] The restaurant was packed, and the promenade between the two main courts and the subsidiary courts was thronged with healthy-looking youngish people, drawn to the Mecca of tennis from all parts of the country.
Word: utopia Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Ancient Greek οὐ (ou) Ancient Greek τόπος (tópos) Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-i-eh₂ Proto-Hellenic *-íā Ancient Greek -ῐ́ᾱ (-ĭ́ā) New Latin Ūtopiader. English utopia From New Latin Ūtopia, the name of a fictional island possessing a seemingly perfect socio-politico-legal system in the book Utopia (1516) by Sir Thomas More. Coined from Ancient Greek οὐ (ou, “not”) + τόπος (tópos, “place, region”) + -ία (-ía). Compare English topos and -ia. Pronunciation: /juːˈtəʊ.pi.ə/, /juˈtoʊ.pi.ə/ 1. A world in which everything and everyone works in perfect harmony. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Errors in time must be kept in mind when analyzing myths and utopiae. Utopiae are merely projections, on a less personal and wider scale, of Cinderella’s longing for a happy future. Example: « Some peoples of Central or South Africa have conceived downright utopiae which enable them to build up a reality more tolerable than that in which they have to live daily ».
Word: -sson Part of Speech: suffix 1. Alternative form of -son. Labels: alt-of, alternative, morpheme
Word: television Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From tele- + vision; first attested in 1900, probably influenced by French télévision from Constantin Perskyi's 1900 paper that was unpublished but presented at a Paris conference. Pronunciation: /ˈtɛlɪˌvɪʒən/, /ˈtɛləˌvɪʒən/, /ˌtɛlɪˈvɪʒən/, /ˌtɛləˈvɪʒən/ 1. An electronic communication medium that allows the transmission of real-time visual images, and often sound. Labels: uncountable Example: She watched television for over five hours last night. Example: Indeed, after laying into Volodymyr Zelensky, the embattled president of an embattled Ukraine, in the Oval Office last year, Mr. Trump noted with satisfaction that “this is going to be great television.” 2. An electronic home entertainment device equipped with a screen and a speaker for receiving television signals and displaying them in audio-visual form. Labels: countable Example: I have an old television in the study. 3. Collectively, the programs broadcast via the medium of television. Labels: uncountable Example: fifty-seven channels and nothing on television 4. Vision at a distance. Labels: dated, uncountable Example: Half an hour with the manager of Faith Brothers had had the effect of studding the sergeant's habitual simplicity of words and phrases with amazing jewels of technicality. He talked gladly of "lines" and "repeats" and similar profundities, so that Grant had, through his bulk, in a queer television a vivid picture of the manager himself. Example: […] the magic mirror […] which furnished him television of his family and country
Word: television Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From tele- + vision; first attested in 1900, probably influenced by French télévision from Constantin Perskyi's 1900 paper that was unpublished but presented at a Paris conference. Pronunciation: /ˈtɛlɪˌvɪʒən/, /ˈtɛləˌvɪʒən/, /ˌtɛlɪˈvɪʒən/, /ˌtɛləˈvɪʒən/ 1. To watch television. Labels: informal, neologism
Word: ejector Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From eject + -or. Pronunciation: /ɪˈd͡ʒɛktɚ/, /iːˈd͡ʒɛktɚ/ 1. One who, or that which, ejects or dispossesses. 2. A jet jump for lifting water or withdrawing air from a space. 3. ejector seat: a pilot's seat in an airplane that can be forcibly ejected in the case of an emergency; then the pilot descends by parachute. 4. That part of the mechanism of a breech-loading firearm which ejects the empty shell. 5. A lever for removing circuit boards from an electronic chassis.
Word: steam Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English steem, stem, from Old English stēam (“steam, hot exhalation, hot breath; that which emits vapour; blood”), from Proto-Germanic *staumaz (“steam, vapour, breath”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰewh₂- (“to whirl, waft, stink, shake; steam, haze, smoke”). Cognate with Scots stem, steam (“steam”), West Frisian steam (“steam, vapour”), Dutch stoom (“steam, vapour”), Low German stom (“steam”), Swedish dialectal stimma (“steam, fog”), Latin fūmus (“smoke, steam”). Pronunciation: /stiːm/ 1. The hot gaseous form of water, formed when water changes from the liquid phase to the gas phase (at or above its boiling point temperature). Labels: uncountable, usually 2. The suspended condensate (cloud) formed by water vapour when it encounters colder air. Labels: uncountable, usually 3. The suspended condensate (cloud) formed by water vapour when it encounters colder air. Labels: uncountable, usually 4. Pressurized water vapour used for heating, cooking, or to provide mechanical energy. Labels: uncountable, usually 5. The act of cooking by steaming. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: Give the carrots a ten-minute steam. 6. Internal energy for progress or motive power. Labels: figuratively, uncountable, usually Example: After three weeks in bed he was finally able to sit up under his own steam. Example: Them that puts the most steam into it will get a finnuf slipped to 'em. 7. Pent-up anger. Labels: figuratively, uncountable, usually Example: Dad had to go outside to blow off some steam. 8. A steam-powered vehicle, referring to their use. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: Among the most modern of all the Pacific stock in Great Britain is the stud of "Merchant Navy" and "West Country" Pacifics on the Southern Region, and the rebuilding which is now being carried out, preserving all the best features of the Bulleid designs—such as the free-steaming boiler—and jettisoning the features that have given trouble, in particular the chain-driven valve-motion, should give the Southern a supply of highly-competent machines able to last out the remaining life of steam on the S.R. Example: Steam also takes charge of South Eastern (former P.L.M.) trains from Paris to Marseilles and the Riviera from Lyons onwards, and of Western Region trains from Le Mans onwards, as also between Paris and Dieppe and Le Havre. 9. Travel by means of a steam-powered vehicle. Labels: uncountable, usually 10. Any exhalation. Labels: obsolete, uncountable, usually Example: a steam of rich, distilled perfumes 11. Fencing without the use of any electric equipment. Labels: uncountable, usually