nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: blah Part of Speech: verb Etymology: * Sense “Idle, meaningless talk” (1940), probably imitative or echoic in origin. Compare Ancient Greek βαρ-βαρ (bar-bar, “unintelligible sounds”), of which the word barbarian derives from. * Adjective sense “bland, dull” (1919), perhaps influenced by French blasé (“bored, indifferent”). * The blahs (“boredom, mild depression”) first attested 1969; probably a blend of the blues + blah (adjective). * Also may be connected with bleat Pronunciation: /blɑː/, /bla/ 1. To utter idle, meaningless talk. Labels: intransitive Example: Ooh, I feel so guilty, I've got far too much money — […] So give it away, endow a charitable foundation, burn it, but stop blahing on about it […] Example: Someone else said to me: “If you’re writing something again, don’t blah on about winning elections; it really offends them.”
Word: toss off Part of Speech: verb 1. To drink up rapidly. Labels: dated, transitive Example: Let me toss off this beer first. Example: A mandrill baboon, at Wombwell's menagerie, was very partial to fermented liquors and ginger beer; the large dog-faced baboon, that died at the Tower in 1828, would toss off a pot of porter with great relish, and was such an excessive toper that he at last sunk under a confirmed dropsy; a young ruffed lemur, at the Paris Museum of Natural History, was partial to spirits; […] 2. To assemble hastily. Labels: transitive Example: I tossed off a letter to the local council. 3. To masturbate. Labels: UK, ambitransitive, slang, vulgar 4. To deliver (a remark, suggestion, etc.) in an offhand manner. Labels: transitive Example: He tossed off a few platitudes and then ignored any further questions. Example: Tyrion tells him a great house (the Tyrells) has already been wiped out of history. “Don’t let it happen again.” But he says it like a trusted authority, a casual command, not taking the boy seriously. Basically, he tosses off the line, expecting that to be the end of the conversation
Word: flip Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Alteration of earlier fillip, from Middle English filippen (“to make a signal or sound with thumb and right forefinger, snap the fingers”), an attenuated variation of flappen (“to flap, clap, slap, strike”). Cognate with Dutch flappen (“to flap”), German flappen (“to flap”). Pronunciation: /flɪp/ 1. A maneuver which rotates an object end over end. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: We'll decide this on a flip of a coin. Example: The diver did a couple of flips before landing in the pool. 2. A complete change of direction, decision, movement etc. Labels: countable, uncountable 3. A fillip or light blow. Labels: archaic, countable, uncountable Example: […] who looked at Dean a moment, crossed over the stage to him, raised himself on his toes, dashed his own hat firmly down to his ears, and every one on the stage supposed Dean was about to receive a flip on the ear or nose. 4. A whit or jot; the tiniest amount. Labels: countable, dated, uncountable Example: I don't care a flip for what he says. 5. A short flight. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: "While that was going on, we were getting organized. There were some fifty or sixty of us to begin with. I took flips in the helicopter, and when I saw signs of a group anywhere, I'd go down and issue a general invitation to come along." 6. A slingshot. Labels: US, countable, slang, uncountable Example: He loaded his flip and took careful aim at what he considered to be Emily's most vulnerable spot […] 7. A hairstyle popular among boys in the 1960s–70s and 2000s–10s, in which the hair goes halfway down the ears, at which point it sticks out Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Justin Bieber and Zac Efron are among the celebrities who wore a flip. 8. The purchase of an asset (usually a house) which is then improved and sold quickly for profit. Labels: countable, informal, uncountable Example: What they bring to the table is hard-won brass-tacks knowledge from over fifteen years of personal investing as well as riding shotgun on over 1,000 flips with their clients. 9. The tendency of a gun's barrel to jerk about at the moment of firing. Labels: uncountable Example: In the case of rifles flip is counteracted by the sighting of the weapons, and it is because of flip that the sights cannot be set so that the line of sight is exactly parallel to the axis of the bore. Example: A small, lightweight round, such as a .22 LR, generates very manageable recoil and muzzle flip (how much the nose of the gun flips up when you fire it).
Word: flip Part of Speech: intj Etymology: Non-vulgar euphemism for fuck. Pronunciation: /flɪp/ 1. Used to express annoyance, especially when the speaker has made an error. Labels: UK, colloquial, euphemistic Example: What the flip just happened? Example: Impossible. He's dining out and coming on here after. He can't be reached. / Oh, flip!
Word: flip Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Clipping of flippant. Pronunciation: /flɪp/ 1. Having the quality of playfulness, or lacking seriousness of purpose. Labels: UK, informal Example: I hate to be flip, but perhaps we could steal a Christmas tree. 2. Sarcastic. 3. Disrespectful, flippant. Labels: informal Example: Don't get flip with me or I'll knock you into next Tuesday!
Word: flip Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Compare English dialect flip (“nimble, flippant, also, a slight blow”). Pronunciation: /flɪp/ 1. A mixture of beer, spirit, etc., stirred and heated by a hot iron (a "flip dog"). Labels: uncountable Example: [H]e had provided vast quantities of strong beer, flip, rumbo, and burnt brandy, with plenty of Barbadoes water for the ladies […]. Example: I frequently took of large potations, though not of champagne certainly, but port, strong ales, and punch, and when our funds were low as sometimes happened, hot flip […] .
Word: big cheese Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From big + cheese (“wealth, fame, importance”). Earliest use to mean importance from 1910. 1. A very important figure, especially a high-ranking person in an organization. Labels: dated, idiomatic Example: He’ll be meeting with the big cheese first thing tomorrow, to present his proposal. Example: I know. But it's his ship now, his command; he's in charge, he's the boss, the head man, the top dog, the big cheese, the head honcho, number one...
Word: slip knot Part of Speech: noun 1. A knot which attaches a line to an object and tightens when pressure is applied. 2. A knot which attaches a line to the middle of another, allowing it to slide.
Word: lionize Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree English lion Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)bor. Late Latin -izōder. Middle French -iserbor. Middle English -isen English -ize English lionize From lion + -ize. Pronunciation: /ˈlaɪənaɪz/ 1. To treat (a person) as if they were important, or a celebrity. Labels: British, English, Oxford, US, transitive Example: Flare-riding is one of the most exotic and exhilarating sports in existence, and those who can dare and afford to do it are amongst the most lionized men in the Galaxy. Example: He [Li Wenliang] died of COVID-19 in February, lionized by the Chinese public as a hero and whistleblower. 2. To visit (a famous place) in order to revere it. Labels: British, English, Oxford, US, transitive
Word: entre Part of Speech: verb 1. Archaic spelling of enter. Labels: alt-of, archaic Example: And whosoever doth not suffer corruption to entre, by the five gates unto his soule, is rekoned amongest ... Example: Thus warlikely accoutred she rode immediately to Blois, where Forces and Provisions lay for the Relief of Orleans, with which she and the Marshal and Admiral of France entred.
Word: hulk Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English hulk, hulke, holke (“hut; shed for hogs; type of ship; husk, pod, shell; large, clumsy person; a giant”) (probably reinforced by Middle Dutch hulk, huelc, and Middle Low German hulk, holk, hollek (“freighter, cargo ship, barge”)), from Old English hulc (“light ship; heavy, clumsy ship; cabin, hovel, hut”), from Proto-West Germanic *huluk, *hulik, from Proto-Germanic *hulukaz, *hulikaz (“something hollowed or dug out, cavity”), equivalent to hole/hollow + -ock. Cognate with Old High German holcho (“cargo or transport ship, barge”) (whence Middle High German holche, modern German Holk), Old Norse hólkr (“metal tube, ring”), dialectal Norwegian holk, hylke (“wooden barrel”), Middle English holken (“to dig out, gouge”). Relation to Medieval Latin hulcus (“ship”) is uncertain, as Old English may have borrowed from Latin or vice versa, but the form holcas rather points to borrowing from Ancient Greek ὁλκάς (holkás, “ship being towed; cargo ship, ship used for trading, holcad”) (compare Ancient Greek ἕλκω (hélkō, “to drag”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *selk- (“to draw, pull”)). See more at the Old English entry hulc. The verb is derived from the noun. Pronunciation: /hʌlk/, /hʊlk/ 1. A large ship used for transportation; (more generally) a large ship that is difficult to manoeuvre. Labels: archaic Example: Light boates ſaile ſwift, though greater hulkes draw deepe. Example: Their ſhips thus ſet on ſhore (to fruſtrate their deſire) / Thoſe Daniſh Hulkes became the food of Engliſh fire. 2. A non-functional but floating ship, usually stripped of equipment and rigging, and often put to other uses such as accommodation or storage. Labels: broadly Example: They could see the lighthouse shining on Quarantine Island, and the green lights on the old coal hulks. Example: A sister ship, originally the Patriotic, and later renamed Lady Leinster and finally the Lady Connaught, was badly damaged by a mine between Liverpool and Belfast; the British & Irish Steam Packet Company next brought [sic] the hulk back from the Belfast Steamship Company and converted her into a livestock carrier. 3. A large structure with a dominating presence. Labels: figuratively Example: The sturdy trunk of Central Park Tower is rising nearby – a great glass hulk that will soon steal the crown for the most vertiginous residences on the planet. Example: Among its findings, the report says: "In recent years we have seen more stations transformed from run-down Victorian hulks, or spartan bus-sheltered platforms, into places that people can take pride in, feel comfortable in using, and which are fulfilling more of their wider potential. 4. A big (and possibly clumsy) person. Labels: figuratively 5. A big (and possibly clumsy) person. Labels: figuratively
Word: hulk Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English hulk, hulke, holke (“hut; shed for hogs; type of ship; husk, pod, shell; large, clumsy person; a giant”) (probably reinforced by Middle Dutch hulk, huelc, and Middle Low German hulk, holk, hollek (“freighter, cargo ship, barge”)), from Old English hulc (“light ship; heavy, clumsy ship; cabin, hovel, hut”), from Proto-West Germanic *huluk, *hulik, from Proto-Germanic *hulukaz, *hulikaz (“something hollowed or dug out, cavity”), equivalent to hole/hollow + -ock. Cognate with Old High German holcho (“cargo or transport ship, barge”) (whence Middle High German holche, modern German Holk), Old Norse hólkr (“metal tube, ring”), dialectal Norwegian holk, hylke (“wooden barrel”), Middle English holken (“to dig out, gouge”). Relation to Medieval Latin hulcus (“ship”) is uncertain, as Old English may have borrowed from Latin or vice versa, but the form holcas rather points to borrowing from Ancient Greek ὁλκάς (holkás, “ship being towed; cargo ship, ship used for trading, holcad”) (compare Ancient Greek ἕλκω (hélkō, “to drag”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *selk- (“to draw, pull”)). See more at the Old English entry hulc. The verb is derived from the noun. Pronunciation: /hʌlk/, /hʊlk/ 1. To reduce (a ship) to a non-functional hulk. Labels: transitive Example: In Fremantle very few vessels appear to have been reduced to hulks, and only one figure head Samuel Plimsoll, [Fig. 62] survives from a sailing ship hulked in 1904. [...] The Sarah Burnyeat was hulked in Albany in 1886, [...] Example: No further additions were made to this group, and by 1729 the Rank was extinct (the last to be struck was the Ludlow, which had been hulked in 1719). 2. To temporarily house (goods, people, etc.) in such a hulk. Labels: transitive 3. To move (a large, hulking body). Labels: transitive Example: This hearty, willing man had hulked his 354 pounds about the world, faithfully and deftly running presidential errands in Cuba, Panama, the Philippines, Rome, Russia, and Japan and China. Example: A man with four children crowding like saplings around him whistles to wake up the elephant seal who has hulked his impossible body onto the beach. 4. To be a hulk, that is, a large, hulking, and often imposing presence. Labels: intransitive Example: After one trip with them, he decided he couldn't stand to have bodyguards hulking around him wherever he went. He felt like an idiot walking along the aisles of the supermarket with eight lumpy men standing around [...] Example: As the occupants stepped out, he hulked at them menacingly and asked them the traditional question. 'Can Ah help youse?' 5. Of a (large) person: to act or move slowly and clumsily. Labels: intransitive Example: After a while he hulked up to where Erland sat, putting his hairy fist on the table and watching the boy work. Example: Instead he hulked his way towards Kruger again as the crowd ooohd and aaahd at the prowess. The two men were about equal in height, but Matusak outweighed Kruger by about fifty pounds.
Word: hulk Part of Speech: verb Etymology: A variant of holk (“to dig out, hollow out, make hollow; to dig up, excavate; to dig into, investigate”), from Middle English holken (“to dig out, hollow out; to dig up, excavate”) (compare holk (“a hollow; body cavity”)), perhaps from Middle Low German hȫlken (“to hollow out, gouge”), ultimately from Proto-Germanic *hulaz (“hollow”, adjective); further etymology uncertain, perhaps either from Proto-Indo-European *ḱel- (“to cover”), or *ḱewh₁- (“to swell; to be strong”). Compare also Old English āhlocian (“to dig out”). Pronunciation: /hʌlk/, /hʊlk/ 1. To remove the entrails of; to disembowel. Labels: dialectal, transitive Example: And with this ſwaſhing blow, do you ſwear Prince; / I could hulk your Grace, and hang you up croſs-legg'd, / Like a Hare at a Poulters, and do this with this wiper.
Word: huddle Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English *hudelen, alteration (due to hudels, hidels (“hiding place”), see hiddle) of *huderen, hoderen (“to cover; press together; huddle”), a frequentative form of Middle English huden, hiden (“to hide”), equivalent to hide + -le and/or hide + -er. Compare Low German huderken (“to brood; coddle; nurse; lull children to sleep”). Pronunciation: /ˈhʌdəl/ 1. A dense and disorderly crowd. Labels: obsolete 2. A small group of individuals in very close proximity to one another. Example: It’s about as riveting as listening to a huddle of ents discuss the finer points of deciduous shedding. 3. A small group of individuals in very close proximity to one another. Example: The post-PMQs huddle takes place just outside the press gallery, and all the journalists swarm first around the Prime Minister's press team[…] 4. A small group of individuals in very close proximity to one another. 5. A hesitation during play to think about one's next move.
Word: huddle Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English *hudelen, alteration (due to hudels, hidels (“hiding place”), see hiddle) of *huderen, hoderen (“to cover; press together; huddle”), a frequentative form of Middle English huden, hiden (“to hide”), equivalent to hide + -le and/or hide + -er. Compare Low German huderken (“to brood; coddle; nurse; lull children to sleep”). Pronunciation: /ˈhʌdəl/ 1. To crowd together. Labels: intransitive Example: The sheep huddled together seeking warmth. Example: During all these operations the apes who had entered sat huddled near the door watching their chief, while those outside strained and crowded to catch a glimpse of what transpired within. 2. To curl one's legs up to the chest and keep one's arms close to the torso; to crouch; to assume a position similar to that of an embryo in the womb. Labels: intransitive Example: Just south of Wamphray station they overtook the runaway. The dim figure of Mitchell could be seen sitting huddled behind the stormboard. They shouted and whistled. He paid no attention. 3. To get together and discuss a topic. Example: George Hirsch, chairman of the board of Road Runners, said officials huddled all day Friday, hoping to devise an alternate race. They considered replacing the marathon with a race that would comprise the final 10 miles of marathon, starting at the base of the Queensboro 59th Street Bridge on the Manhattan side. But that was not deemed plausible, Mr. Hirsch said. 4. To form a huddle. Labels: intransitive 5. To crowd (things) together; to mingle confusedly; to assemble without order or system. Labels: transitive Example: Our adversary, huddling several suppositions together,[…]makes a medley and confusion. 6. To do, make, or put, in haste or roughly; hence, to do imperfectly; usually with a following preposition or adverb (huddle on, huddle up, huddle together). Labels: transitive Example: Huddle up a peace. Example: Let him forecast his work with timely care, / Which else is huddled when the skies are fair. 7. To hesitate during play while thinking about one's next move. Labels: intransitive
Word: huddle Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English *hudelen, alteration (due to hudels, hidels (“hiding place”), see hiddle) of *huderen, hoderen (“to cover; press together; huddle”), a frequentative form of Middle English huden, hiden (“to hide”), equivalent to hide + -le and/or hide + -er. Compare Low German huderken (“to brood; coddle; nurse; lull children to sleep”). Pronunciation: /ˈhʌdəl/ 1. Huddled, confused, congested. Labels: not-comparable Example: There was in Sicilie a certaine fisherman who resembled in all points Sura the pro-consull, not onely in visage and feature of the face, but also in mowing with his mouth when he spake, in drawing his tongue short, and in his huddle and thicke speech. Example: The evangelists are easily distinguished from the rest, by a passionate zeal and love which the painter has thrown in their faces; the huddle group of those who stand most distant, are admirable representations of men abashed with their late unbelief and hardness of heart.
Word: entrench Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From en- + trench. First attested in the 1550s. Pronunciation: /ɪnˈtɹɛnt͡ʃ/, /ɛnˈtɹɛnt͡ʃ/, /ɪnˈtɹɪnt͡ʃ/, /ɪnˈtɹent͡ʃ/, /ənˈtɹent͡ʃ/ 1. To cut in; to furrow; to make trenches in or upon. Labels: ambitransitive, literally Example: It was this very sword entrenched it. Example: His face Deep scars of thunder had entrenched. 2. To cut in; to furrow; to make trenches in or upon. Labels: ambitransitive, literally 3. To cut in; to furrow; to make trenches in or upon. Labels: ambitransitive, literally Example: The army entrenched its camp, or entrenched itself. Example: To the south were the Varden and the men of Surda, entrenched behind multiple layers of defense, where they displayed a fine panoply of woven standards, ranks of proud tents, and the picketed horses of King Orrin's cavalry. 4. To become completely absorbed in and fully accept one's beliefs, even in the face of evidence against it and refusing to be reasoned with. Labels: ambitransitive, figuratively 5. To establish a substantial position in business, politics, etc. Labels: ambitransitive, figuratively Example: Senator Cornpone was able to entrench by spending millions on each campaign. Example: Given these entrenched ideological assumptions about the colonial order, it is no wonder that the state and those groups with an interest in the status quo viewed with suspicion and hostility any challenges to the fixed and "natural" boundaries between different sorts of people. 6. To invade; to encroach; to infringe or trespass; to enter on, and take possession of, that which belongs to another; usually followed by on or upon. Labels: ambitransitive, figuratively
Word: hazardous Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle French hasardeux, equivalent to hazard + -ous. Pronunciation: /ˈhæ.zɚ.dɪs/, /-dəs/ 1. Risky; dangerous; with the nature of a hazard. Example: But out of sight is out of mind. And that[…]means that many old sewers have been neglected and are in dire need of repair. If that repair does not come in time, the result is noxious and potentially hazardous. 2. Of or involving chance. Labels: rare
Word: endorse Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Alteration influenced by Medieval Latin indorsare of Middle English endosse, from Old French endosser (“to put on the back”), from Latin dossum, alternative form of dorsum (“back”), from which also dorsal (“of the back”). That is, the ‘r’ was dropped in Latin dossum, which developed into Old French and then Middle English endosse, and then the ‘r’ was re-introduced into English via the Medieval Latin indorsare, which had retained the ‘r’. Note that the alternative spelling indorse also uses the initial ‘i’ from Latin (in-, rather than en-), but this form is now rare. Pronunciation: /ɪnˈdɔːs/, /ɪnˈdoɹs/, /ɛnˈdoɹs/, /ɪnˈdoːs/, /ənˈdoːs/ 1. To express support or approval, especially officially or publicly; to give an endorsement. Labels: transitive Example: The president endorsed John Smith as senator. 2. To write one's signature on the back of a cheque, or other negotiable instrument, when transferring it to a third party, or cashing it. Labels: transitive 3. To add penalty points to one's driving licence as a result of a road traffic offence. Labels: UK, transitive Example: The court endorsed his driving record with three penalty points for the drink-driving. Example: On 25th January, 1968, Mrs. Weston was convicted by the Sheffield Magistrates of driving without due care and attention. She was fined £10 and her driving licence was endorsed. 4. To report (a symptom); to describe. Labels: transitive
Word: endorse Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Alteration influenced by Medieval Latin indorsare of Middle English endosse, from Old French endosser (“to put on the back”), from Latin dossum, alternative form of dorsum (“back”), from which also dorsal (“of the back”). That is, the ‘r’ was dropped in Latin dossum, which developed into Old French and then Middle English endosse, and then the ‘r’ was re-introduced into English via the Medieval Latin indorsare, which had retained the ‘r’. Note that the alternative spelling indorse also uses the initial ‘i’ from Latin (in-, rather than en-), but this form is now rare. Pronunciation: /ɪnˈdɔːs/, /ɪnˈdoɹs/, /ɛnˈdoɹs/, /ɪnˈdoːs/, /ənˈdoːs/ 1. A diminutive of the pale, usually appearing in pairs on either side of a pale.
Word: endorsement Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English endorse Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥ Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥tom Proto-Italic *-mentom Latin -mentum Old French -mentbor. Middle English -ment English -ment English endorsement From endorse + -ment. 1. The act or quality of endorsing Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The association announced its endorsement of the policy. Example: The bank required that cheque endorsement be witnessed by a cashier. 2. An amendment or annotation to an insurance contract or other official document (such as a driving licence). Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Mr. Jones paid extra for the flood damage endorsement on his house insurance. 3. An instructor's signed acknowledgement of time practising specific flying skills. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Once she obtained the endorsement of her night flying hours, Joanna was approved to take the pilot's examination. 4. Permission to carry out a specific skill or application in a field in which the practitioner already has a general licence. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Wanted: Accredited teacher with Grade 12 mathematics endorsement. Example: To transport gasoline, truckers must have a valid licence and the hazardous materials endorsement. 5. Sponsorship, in means of money, by a company, business or enterprise. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: After the Olympics, he was hoping to get an endorsement deal. 6. Support from an important, renowned figure of a media (celebrity, politics, sports, etc.), to get back up. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: I'm not sure whether an endorsement from Donald Trump will help or hurt.
Word: twixt Part of Speech: prep Etymology: From Middle English tuix, twyx (“among; between”) + English -t (excrescent ending). Tuix, twyx is an aphetic form of atwix, atwixen, atwixt (“between”), or bitwix, bitwixe, bitwixen, bitwixt (“among; between”): * Atwixt is derived from a- (prefix forming adverb (and derived adjectives and prepositions) expressing activity, condition, position, etc.) + bitwixt. * Bitwixt is derived from Old English betwix, betweox (“between”), from be- (intensifying prefix) + tweox (“twofold”) (from Proto-Germanic *twiskaz (“double, twofold”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁ (“two”)). Pronunciation: /twɪkst/ 1. Synonym of betwixt (“between”). Labels: archaic, literary, poetic Example: The roote of Hyachinthe is drie in the firſt degree, and colde in the ſeconde: but the ſeede is drie in the thirde degree, Yet temperate twixt heate and colde. Example: Since I haue your good leaue to go avvay, / I vvill make haſt. But till I come againe, / No bed ſhall ere [e'er] be guilty of my ſtay, / Nor reſt be interpoſer tvvixt vs tvvain.
Word: wickerwork Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From wicker + -work (“made of specified material”). Pronunciation: /ˈwɪk.ə.wɜːk/, /ˈwɪk.ɚ.wɚk/ 1. A thing or things made of wicker. Labels: uncountable, usually 2. The craft of making things out of wicker. Labels: uncountable, usually
Word: twitter Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English twitren, twiteren, from Old English *twiterian, from Proto-West Germanic *twitwiʀōn, from Proto-Germanic *twitwizōną (“to chirp; twitter”). Cognate with Low German twitteren (“to twitter”), German zwitzern, zwitschern (“to twitter”). Compare also Dutch kwetteren (“to twitter”), Danish kvidre (“to twitter”), Swedish kvittra (“to twitter”), dialectal Swedish tittra (“to twitter”). Pronunciation: /ˈtwɪtə/, [ˈtʰwɪtʰə], /ˈtwɪtɚ/, [ˈtʰwɪtʰɚ] ~ [ˈtʰwɪtʰɹ̩], /ˈtwɪɾɚ/ 1. The sound of a succession of chirps as uttered by birds. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: I often listen to the twitter of the birds in the park. 2. Unwanted flicker that occurs in interlaced displays when the image contains vertical detail that approaches the horizontal resolution of the video format. Labels: uncountable Example: Interline twitter occurs on interlaced displays at half the field-rate. 3. A tremulous broken sound. Labels: countable 4. A slight trembling of the nerves. Labels: countable 5. Chiefly in the form in a twitter: a state of excitement or nervousness; a twit. Labels: UK, countable, informal, regional
Word: twitter Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English twitren, twiteren, from Old English *twiterian, from Proto-West Germanic *twitwiʀōn, from Proto-Germanic *twitwizōną (“to chirp; twitter”). Cognate with Low German twitteren (“to twitter”), German zwitzern, zwitschern (“to twitter”). Compare also Dutch kwetteren (“to twitter”), Danish kvidre (“to twitter”), Swedish kvittra (“to twitter”), dialectal Swedish tittra (“to twitter”). Pronunciation: /ˈtwɪtə/, [ˈtʰwɪtʰə], /ˈtwɪtɚ/, [ˈtʰwɪtʰɚ] ~ [ˈtʰwɪtʰɹ̩], /ˈtwɪɾɚ/ 1. To utter a succession of chirps. Labels: intransitive Example: The breezy call of incense-breathing Morn, / The swallow twittering from the straw-built shed, Example: The swallows, which had been tempted here in great numbers on account of the quantity of insects to be found in proximity to the wood, and had established themselves in the barn and under the eaves, were gambolling, circling, and twittering fearlessly about in the sunshine. 2. (of a person) To talk in an excited or nervous manner. Labels: intransitive, transitive 3. To make the sound of a half-suppressed laugh; to titter; to giggle. Example: Oh, the young handsom wenches, how they twitter'd, / When they but saw me shake my ware, and sing too! 4. To have a slight trembling of the nerves; to be excited or agitated. 5. To twit; to reproach or upbraid. Labels: obsolete, transitive Example: I have repented of it many’s the good time and oft. And if he was so good to forgive me a word spoken in haste or so, it doth not become such a one as you to twitter me. He was a husband to me, he was; and if ever I did make use of an ill word or so in a passion, I never called him rascal […] 6. Alternative form of Twitter. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: In addition to listing specific earmarks he finds the most reprehensible, McCain said he has been twittering the “top ten” most egregious
Word: twitter Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Origin unknown; possibly related to twine, twist, and twirl. Pronunciation: /ˈtwɪtə/, [ˈtʰwɪtʰə], /ˈtwɪtɚ/, [ˈtʰwɪtʰɚ] ~ [ˈtʰwɪtʰɹ̩], /ˈtwɪɾɚ/ 1. A knot or other defect in a thread or yarn which hinders spinning or weaving; a twit. Labels: Northern-England, Scotland, archaic
Word: attacca Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd Proto-Italic *ad Proto-Italic *ad- Latin ad- Italian a- Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁ Proto-Indo-European *d(w)is- Proto-Italic *dis- Latin dis- Old French des- Proto-Indo-European *(s)teyg- Proto-Germanic *stikaną Proto-West Germanic *stekander. Old French atachier Old French destachier Middle French destacherbor. Italian distaccare Italian staccare Italian attaccarebor. English attacca Borrowed from Italian attaccare (“to attach”). Pronunciation: /əˈtɑːkə/, /əˈtækə/ 1. Without any break between the current movement and the next movement of the work. Labels: not-comparable Example: They played the remaining sections attacca.
Word: imminent Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From the present participle of Latin imminēre (“to overhang”), from mineō ("to project, overhang"), related to minae (English menace) and mons (English mount). Compare with eminent. Pronunciation: /ˈɪmɪnənt/, /ˈɪmənənt/ 1. About to happen, occur, or take place very soon, especially of something which won't last long. Example: To courageous, self-reliant men, with confidence in the power of free and fearless reasoning applied through the processes of popular government, no danger flowing from speech can be deemed clear and present unless the incidence of the evil apprehended is so imminent that it may befall before there is opportunity for full discussion. Example: The Second World War was reaching fever pitch, with the entire Allied effort in top gear for the imminent invasion of Europe, while later that month buzz bombs would start falling on London.
Word: Bronze Age Part of Speech: name Pronunciation: /ˈbɹɒnz eɪd͡ʒ/, /ˈbɹɑnz eɪd͡ʒ/ 1. A period in a civilization's development when the most advanced metalworking has developed the techniques of smelting copper from natural outcroppings and alloys it to cast bronze. 2. One of the classical Ages of Man, associated with warfare.
Word: Freiburg Part of Speech: name Etymology: From German frei (“free”) + Burg (“fortification”). Pronunciation: /fɹaɪ.bɜː(ɹ)ɡ/ 1. A canton of Switzerland. (the German name) 2. The capital city of Fribourg canton, Switzerland. (the German name) 3. A German city in Baden-Württemberg located in the Black Forest. The population is around 200,000.
Word: fæces Part of Speech: noun 1. Dated spelling of faeces. Labels: plural, plural-only
Word: stool Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin stolo. See stolon. Pronunciation: /stuːl/, /stʉl/ 1. Alternative form of stole (“plant from which layers are propagated by bending its branches into the soil; stolon.”). Labels: alt-of, alternative, rare Example: The process of layering is well known: it consists in bending a young branch […] into the soil to a certain depth, and elevating the top part of it out of the soil in an upright direction; in time the buried part takes root, and the shoot becomes a perfect plant. The root which produces the young shoots for layering is called the stool. Stools are planted about six feet apart every way in a deep fresh soil. […] Stool. – The root of a tree which has been left in the ground, the produce of another tree, or shoot for saplings, underwood, &c. Example: Soon after harvest, new shoots emerge from axillary buds on the stubble and give rise to the ratoon crop. Initially the young shoots are dependent upon the roots of the previous crop (stool roots) but these are replaced by new shoot roots […].
Word: stool Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Latin stolo. See stolon. Pronunciation: /stuːl/, /stʉl/ 1. To ramify; to tiller, as grain; to shoot out suckers. Example: I worked very hard in the copse of young ash, with my billhook and a shearing-knife; cutting out the saplings where they stooled too close together, making spars to keep for thatching, wall-crooks to drive into the cob, stiles for close sheep hurdles, and handles for rakes, and hoes, and two-bills, of the larger and straighter stuff. Example: The plants stooled out well, and yielded a heavy cutting of rather tough cane. In its young state it should make good silage.
Word: armrest Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From arm + rest. Pronunciation: /ˈɑɹmˌɹɛst/ 1. Part of the seat of a chair that is designed to support the arm. Example: Each comes in a carrying case that keeps the devices together with their accessories: the miniplug cable for your music or DVD player, for example, and the adapters for quarter-inch phono jacks and dual-pronged airplane armrest jacks.
Word: headrest Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree substratebor.? Proto-Indo-European *kap-? Proto-Indo-European *kap- Proto-Indo-European *káput Proto-Germanic *haubudą Old English hēafod Middle English heed English head Proto-Germanic *rastō Proto-West Germanic *rastu Old English ræst Middle English reste English rest English headrest From head + rest. Pronunciation: /ˈhɛdˌɹɛst/ 1. The part of a seat designed to support the sitter's head. Example: Similarly, the biotech giant Cargill has begun manufacturing a polymer from vegetable oils that is used in polyurethane foams, which is found in beddings, furniture and car-seat headrests. Example: He rose up to sit on Jared's headrest, facing the back of the van and me. Once he was balanced, his cuticles became the focus of his attention. “Where is everybody?” “Peeing. Getting snackage.” “What kind of snackage?” “Nougat, […]”
Word: concertina Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From concert + -ina. Pronunciation: /ˌkɒnsəˈtiːnə/, /ˌkɑnsɚˈtinə/ 1. A musical instrument, like the various accordions, that is a member of the free-reed family of musical instruments, typically having buttons on both ends. Example: That concertina was a wonder in its way. The handles that was on it first was wore out long ago, and he'd made new ones of braided rope yarn. And the bellows was patched in more places than a cranberry picker's overalls. Example: Elsewhere, professionals could enthuse over new precision instruments capable, for instance, of measuring weights down to a tenth of a milligram, or over a host of self-registering thermometers and barometers, microscopes, typewriters, calculators and all sorts of technical and musical devices, including automatic concertinas, edeophones, auto-harps, bigophones and other long-forgotten objects. 2. Something multiply folded like a concertina, such as a folded book, a bus door or a set of picture frames that are folded together. 3. Coiled barbed wire for use as an obstacle. 4. A type of booklet label, consisting of up to 32 pages of booklet as an insert.
Word: concertina Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From concert + -ina. Pronunciation: /ˌkɒnsəˈtiːnə/, /ˌkɑnsɚˈtinə/ 1. To become compressed into a shape reminiscent of a concertina. Example: The car concertinaed into the wall. Example: Millions of years ago the mica schists surrounding the old Brandberg West Mine became folded and concertinaed by enormous horizontal pressures. 2. To be drawn closer and farther apart repeatedly, or up and down, as if situated on a working concertina's folds. Example: This resulted in some fragmentation of the line as the boats in some cases closed to just 50 metres as they concertinaed in and out of sight of each other.
Word: KVCD Part of Speech: name 1. Initialism of K Video Compression Dynamics, a video codec. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Word: allargando Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Borrowed from Italian allargando, present participle of allargare (“to broaden”). See also al-. 1. Decreasing in tempo; getting slower.
Word: tenuto Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Italian tenuto. 1. A tempo mark directing that a note or passage is to be held for the full time 2. A passage having this mark
Word: tenuto Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Borrowed from Italian tenuto. 1. In a sustained manner
Word: tenuto Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Borrowed from Italian tenuto. 1. Having this tempo mark. Labels: not-comparable
Word: tremolo Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Italian tremolo, first-person present indicative of tremolare (“to shake, to tremble”). Origin: 1715-25. Pronunciation: /ˈtrɛmələʊ/, /ˈtrɛməloʊ/ 1. A rapid repetition of the same note, or an alternation between two or more notes. It can also be intended to mean a rapid and repetitive variation in pitch for the duration of a note. It is notated by a strong diagonal bar across the note stem, or a detached bar for a set of notes (or stemless notes). Labels: countable, uncountable Example: It commenced with a slow crescendo, so irresistibly lugubrious that two of our dogs at once raised their heads and swelled their voices into a responsive tremolo, which may have been heard and appreciated by their distant relatives. 2. A variation in the volume of a note or a chord, evoking a tremor or quiver. Labels: countable, uncountable 3. The device in an organ that produces a tremolo effect. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: desolate Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English desolat(e). See Etymology 2 and -ate (adjective-forming suffix) for more. Pronunciation: /ˈdɛs.ə.lət/ 1. Deserted and devoid of inhabitants. Example: a desolate isle; a desolate wilderness; a desolate house Example: I will make Jerusalem […] a den of dragons, and I will make the cities of Judah desolate, without an inhabitant. 2. Barren and lifeless. 3. Made unfit for habitation or use because of neglect, destruction etc. Example: desolate altars 4. Dismal or dreary. 5. Sad, forlorn and hopeless. Example: He was left desolate by the early death of his wife. Example: voice of the poor and desolate
Word: desolate Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English desolaten (“to desolate”), from desolat(e) (“desolate”), from Latin dēsōlātus, perfect passive participle of dēsōlō (“to leave alone, make lonely, lay waste, desolate”), see -ate (verb-forming suffix) for more. Pronunciation: /ˈdɛsəleɪt/ 1. To deprive of inhabitants. Example: If you consider well of the People of the West-Indies, it is very probable, that they are a newer or younger People, than the People of the old World. And it is much more likely, that the destruction that hath heretofore been there, was not by Earthquakes, […] but rather, it was Desolated by a particular Deluge: For Earthquakes are seldom in those Parts. Example: O Righteous Themis, if the Pow’rs above By Pray’rs are bent to pity, and to love; If humane Miseries can move their Mind; If yet they can forgive, and yet be kind; Tell how we may restore, by second birth, Mankind, and people desolated Earth. 2. To devastate or lay waste somewhere. Example: Then Moath pointed where a cloud Of Locusts, from the desolated fields Of Syria, wing’d their way. Example: But in Utopia there will be wide stretches of cheerless or unhealthy or toilsome or dangerous land with never a household; there will be regions of mining and smelting, black with the smoke of furnaces and gashed and desolated by mines, with a sort of weird inhospitable grandeur of industrial desolation, and the men will come thither and work for a spell and return to civilisation again, washing and changing their attire in the swift gliding train. 3. To abandon or forsake something. Example: It is not to be supposed that when Cush left Armenia, he left it desolate, and that a rich and long settled country was abandoned altogether; for it would be an absurd way of founding an universal empire, to desolate one country in order to people another. Example: This completion of the Temple and attack upon Christians is the event that marks the apostasy that causes desolation, the detestable act that causes God to desolate (abandon) and destroy the Temple for the last time. 4. To make someone sad, forlorn and hopeless. Example: It is not altogether uncommon to hear a reader whose heart has been desolated by the poignancy of a narrative complain that the writer is unemotional. Example: Kumalo stood shocked at the frightening and desolating words.
Word: remedy Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English remedie, from Old French *remedie, remede, from Latin remedium (“a remedy, cure”), from re- (“again”) + mederi (“to heal”). Doublet of remeid. Pronunciation: /ˈɹɛmədi/ 1. Something that corrects or counteracts. 2. The legal means to recover a right or to prevent or obtain redress for a wrong. 3. A medicine, application, or treatment that relieves or cures a disease. Example: Beautie alone is a ſoveraigne remedy againſt feare,griefe,and all melancholy fits; a charm,as Peter de la Seine and many other writers affirme,a banquet it ſelfe;he gives inſtance in diſcontented Menelaus that was ſo often freed by Helenas faire face: and ʰTully, 3 Tusc. cites Epicurus as a chiefe patron of this Tenent. Example: 1856: Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary, Part III Chapter X, translated by Eleanor Marx-Aveling He said to himself that no doubt they would save her; the doctors would discover some remedy surely. He remembered all the miraculous cures he had been told about. Then she appeared to him dead. She was there; before his eyes, lying on her back in the middle of the road. He reined up, and the hallucination disappeared. 4. The accepted tolerance or deviation in fineness or weight in the production of gold coins etc.
Word: remedy Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English remedie, from Old French *remedie, remede, from Latin remedium (“a remedy, cure”), from re- (“again”) + mederi (“to heal”). Doublet of remeid. Pronunciation: /ˈɹɛmədi/ 1. To provide or serve as a remedy for. Labels: transitive Example: Nor is geometry, when taken into the assistance of natural philosophy, ever able to remedy this defect,
Word: somewhat Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From some + what. Pronunciation: /ˈsʌmwɒt/, /ˈsʌmwʌt/ 1. To a limited extent or degree; not completely. Labels: not-comparable Example: The crowd was somewhat larger than expected, perhaps due to the good weather. Example: The decision to shave or not is a somewhat personal one. 2. Very. Labels: UK, not-comparable Example: That hat seems somewhat small for him. Example: Two of the coaches are still on the site of the line; one, a first class observation coach carrying the S.R. number 6991, is at Snapper Halt, where it still stands, in fair condition but somewhat weatherbeaten […]
Word: somewhat Part of Speech: pron Etymology: From some + what. Pronunciation: /ˈsʌmwɒt/, /ˈsʌmwʌt/ 1. Something. Labels: archaic Example: Proceeding to the midst he stil did stand, As if in minde he somewhat had to say […] Example: a. 1716, Robert Trail, sermon on the Lord's Prayer But this text and theme I am upon, relates to somewhat far higher and greater, than all the beholdings of his glory that ever any saint on earth received.
Word: somewhat Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From some + what. Pronunciation: /ˈsʌmwɒt/, /ˈsʌmwʌt/ 1. A certain quantity or degree; a part, more or less; something. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Somewhat of his good sense will suffer, in this transfusion, and much of the beauty of his thoughts will be lost. Example: To these ladies a man often recommends himself while he is commending another woman; and, while he is expressing ardour and generous sentiments for his mistress, they are considering what a charming lover this man would make to them, who can feel all this tenderness for an inferior degree of merit. Of this, strange as it may seem, I have seen many instances besides Mrs Fitzpatrick, to whom all this really happened, and who now began to feel a somewhat for Mr Jones, the symptoms of which she much sooner understood than poor Sophia had formerly done. 2. A person or thing of importance; a somebody. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: c. 1810-1820, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Notes on Troilus and Cressida Pity that the researchful notary has not either told us in what century, and of what history, he was a writer, or been simply content to depose, that Lollius, if a writer of that name existed at all, was a somewhat somewhere. Example: Am I to blame for this, / That here come those that worship me? Ha! ha! / They think that I am somewhat. What am I?
Word: resemble Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English resemblen, from Anglo-Norman resembler, ressembler, from re- + sembler (“to seem”). By surface analysis, re- + semble. Pronunciation: /ɹɪˈzɛmbəl/, [ɹɪˈzɛmbl̩], /ɹɪˈzembəl/, [ɹɪˈzembl̩], /ɹəˈzembəl/ 1. To be like or similar to (something); to represent as similar. Labels: transitive Example: The twins resemble each other. Example: We will resemble you in that. 2. To compare; to regard as similar, to liken. Labels: archaic, transitive Example: And th'other all yclad in garments light, / Discolour'd like to womanish disguise, / He did resemble to his Ladie bright [...]. 3. To counterfeit; to imitate. Labels: obsolete, transitive Example: They can so well resemble mans speech. 4. To cause to imitate or be like; to make similar. Labels: obsolete, transitive Example: And ſince we all haue ſuckt one wholſome aire, And with the ſame proportion of Elements, Reſolue, I hope we are reſembled, Uowing our loues to equall death and life, […] Example: they resemble themselves to the swans
Word: residence Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Inherited from Middle English residence, from Old French residence, from Medieval Latin residentia, from residēns, present participle of resideō, equivalent to reside + -ence. Doublet of residencia. Pronunciation: /ˈɹɛz.ɪ.dəns/ 1. The place where one lives (resides); one's home. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Johnson took up his residence in London. 2. A building or portion thereof used as a home, such as a house or an apartment therein. Labels: countable, uncountable 3. The place where a corporation is established. Labels: countable, uncountable 4. The state of living in a particular place or environment. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The confessor had often made considerable residences in Normandy. 5. Accommodation for students at a university or college. Labels: countable, uncountable 6. The place where anything rests permanently. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: But when a king sets himself to bandy against the highest court and residence of all his regal power, he then […] fights against his own majesty and kingship. 7. Subsidence, as of a sediment Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Separation[…]is wrought by Weight; as in the ordinary Residence or Settlement of Liquors. 8. That which falls to the bottom of liquors; sediment; also, refuse; residuum. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: waters of a muddy residence 9. Synonym of rezidentura. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: subordinate Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English subordinat, from Medieval Latin subōrdinātus, past participle of subōrdināre, from sub- + ōrdināre (“to order”). Pronunciation: /səˈbɔːdɪnət/, /səˈbɔɹdɪnət/, /səˈboːdɪnət/ 1. Placed in a lower class, rank, or position. Example: The several kinds […] and subordinate species of each are easily known. 2. Submissive or inferior to, or controlled by authority. Example: November 9, 1662, Robert South, Of the Creation of Man in the Image of God It was subordinate, not enslaved, to the understanding. 3. dependent on and either modifying or complementing the main clause Labels: not-comparable Example: In the sentence “The barbecue finished before John arrived”, the subordinate clause “before John arrived” specifies the time of the main clause, “The barbecue finished”. 4. Descending in a regular series.