nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: wage Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English wagen (“to pledge”), from Anglo-Norman, Old Northern French wagier, a northern variant of Old French guagier (whence modern French gager), itself either from guage or from a derivative of Frankish *waddī, possibly through a Vulgar Latin intermediate *wadiō from *wadium (see the noun above). See Medieval Latin wadiō and wadium for more. Pronunciation: /weɪd͡ʒ/ 1. To wager, bet. Labels: obsolete, transitive Example: My life I never held but as a pawn / To wage against thine enemies 2. To expose oneself to, as a risk; to incur, as a danger; to venture; to hazard. Labels: obsolete, transitive Example: I fear the power of Percy is too weak / To wage an instant trial with the King. Example: to wake and wage a danger profitless. 3. To employ for wages; to hire. Labels: obsolete, transitive Example: Thenne said Arthur I wille goo with yow / Nay said the kynges ye shalle not at this tyme / for ye haue moche to doo yet in these landes / therfore we wille departe / and with the grete goodes that we haue goten in these landes by youre yeftes we shalle wage good knyghtes & withstande the kynge Claudas malyce Example: [B]etter it as for him to trie the vttermoſt pointe of fortunes happe, than with diſhonour ſo to yeelde at the firſt blow of hyr frowarde hande, conſidering the abundance of treaſure whiche he had in ſtore, wherewith hee might wage ſouldiers and menne of warre out of Germanie and other places, in number ſufficient to matche with his enimies. 4. To conduct or carry out (a war or other contest). Labels: transitive Example: pond'ring which of all his Sons was fit / To Reign, and wage immortal War with Wit Example: The two are waging war, and the one triumphs by the destruction of the other. 5. To adventure, or lay out, for hire or reward; to hire out. Labels: transitive Example: Thou that doest liue in later times, must wage / Thy workes for wealth, and life for gold engage. 6. To give security for the performance of. Labels: UK, obsolete
Word: currently Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree English current Middle English -ly English -ly English currently From current + -ly. Pronunciation: /ˈkʌɹ.ənt.li/, /ˈkʌɹ ənt.li/, /kɝ.ənt.li/ 1. At this moment, at present, now. Example: All the beds of the hotel are currently occupied, but we have a free room tomorrow. Example: I'm currently living with my parents while I find a new job.
Word: now Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English nou, nu, from Old English nū, from Proto-West Germanic *nū, from Proto-Germanic *nu (“now”), from Proto-Indo-European *nū (“now”). Doublet of nu ("well?"). Cognates Cognate with Scots noo, nou, now (“now”), Yola neow, now, nowe (“now”), North Frisian nü (“now”), West Frisian no (“now”), Dutch nu, nou (“now”), German nu, nun (“now”), Limburgish noe, Nuu (“now”), Danish and Swedish nu (“now”), Elfdalian nų (“now”), Faroese nú, núgv (“now”), Icelandic nú, núna (“now”), Norwegian Bokmål and Norwegian Nynorsk no, nu, nå (“now”), Gothic 𐌽𐌿 (nu, “now”); also Gaulish nu (“now”), Latin num (“now”), Greek νυν (nyn, “currently, now”), Albanian ni, tani (“now”), Bulgarian ни́не (níne, “currently, now”), Czech nyní (“now”), Old Polish ninie (“now”), Russian но́не (nóne), ны́не (nýne, “now, today”), Ukrainian ни́ні (nýni, “nowadays; today”), Avestan 𐬥𐬏 (nū, “currently, now”), Baluchi نون (nún, “now”), Persian اکنون (aknun / aknūn), کنون (konun), نون (nun / nūn, “now”), Northern Kurdish ana, anaka, anêka, aniha, anika, naga, naha, naka, niha, niho, nika, noke, ئانا (ana), نکا (nka, “now”), Ossetian ныр (nyr, “now”), Hittite 𒆠𒉡𒌦 (ki-nu-un, “now”), Luwian 𒈾𒀀𒉡𒌦 (nānun, “now”), Tocharian A nuṃ (“again, once more”), Tocharian B nano (“again, once more”), Sanskrit नु (nu, “now”). Pronunciation: /naʊ/, /nuː/, /næʊ/, /nɛʊ/ 1. Present; current. Labels: not-comparable Example: […] to my now wife Mabell, my child Elisabeth, & my child now begotten, &c., and they to be joint Exõrs, & if all die, then the same jointly to my brother William Every & my sisters Sarah Skibbowe & Joan Brice. Example: Defects seem as necessary to our now happiness as their Opposites. 2. Fashionable; popular; up to date; current. Labels: informal, not-comparable Example: I think this band's sound is very now. Example: ADAM: I was just thinking, I... (sees the lyre) Hey, brother, do you play? Is it Vulcan? Can I try it? // (Spock gestures his permission and Adam strums a chord) // ADAM: Ho ho, that's now! That's real now! I reach that, brother. I really do. // (He hands the lyre to Spock who plays it briefly)
Word: now Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From Middle English nou, nu, from Old English nū, from Proto-West Germanic *nū, from Proto-Germanic *nu (“now”), from Proto-Indo-European *nū (“now”). Doublet of nu ("well?"). Cognates Cognate with Scots noo, nou, now (“now”), Yola neow, now, nowe (“now”), North Frisian nü (“now”), West Frisian no (“now”), Dutch nu, nou (“now”), German nu, nun (“now”), Limburgish noe, Nuu (“now”), Danish and Swedish nu (“now”), Elfdalian nų (“now”), Faroese nú, núgv (“now”), Icelandic nú, núna (“now”), Norwegian Bokmål and Norwegian Nynorsk no, nu, nå (“now”), Gothic 𐌽𐌿 (nu, “now”); also Gaulish nu (“now”), Latin num (“now”), Greek νυν (nyn, “currently, now”), Albanian ni, tani (“now”), Bulgarian ни́не (níne, “currently, now”), Czech nyní (“now”), Old Polish ninie (“now”), Russian но́не (nóne), ны́не (nýne, “now, today”), Ukrainian ни́ні (nýni, “nowadays; today”), Avestan 𐬥𐬏 (nū, “currently, now”), Baluchi نون (nún, “now”), Persian اکنون (aknun / aknūn), کنون (konun), نون (nun / nūn, “now”), Northern Kurdish ana, anaka, anêka, aniha, anika, naga, naha, naka, niha, niho, nika, noke, ئانا (ana), نکا (nka, “now”), Ossetian ныр (nyr, “now”), Hittite 𒆠𒉡𒌦 (ki-nu-un, “now”), Luwian 𒈾𒀀𒉡𒌦 (nānun, “now”), Tocharian A nuṃ (“again, once more”), Tocharian B nano (“again, once more”), Sanskrit नु (nu, “now”). Pronunciation: /naʊ/, /nuː/, /næʊ/, /nɛʊ/ 1. At the present time. Labels: not-comparable Example: Now I am six. Example: Stop that now, Jimmy! 2. Used to introduce a point, a qualification of what has previously been said, a remonstration or a rebuke. Labels: not-comparable Example: Now, we all want what is best for our children. Example: Now, Jimmy, stop that. 3. Differently from the immediate past; differently from a more remote past or a possible future; differently from all other times. Labels: not-comparable Example: Now I am ready. Example: We all now want the latest toys for our children. 4. At the time reached within a narration. Labels: not-comparable Example: Now he remembered why he had come. Example: He now asked her whether she had made pudding. 5. Used to indicate a context of urgency. Labels: not-comparable Example: Now listen, we must do something about this. 6. At the present point of a recurring cycle or event. Labels: informal, not-comparable Example: I always used to do my shopping now, to avoid the rush. 7. Very recently; not long ago; up to the present. Labels: not-comparable, obsolete Example: They that but now, for honour and for plate, / Made the sea blush with blood, resign their hate. 8. Used to address a switching side, or sharp change in attitude from before. Labels: not-comparable Example: Now, you want to protect me. An hour ago, you were mercilessly bullying me! 9. Sometimes; occasionally; used to list a series of often assumed states. Labels: not-comparable Example: His face fit his roles: now smiling, now earnest, now glowering, now raging. Example: And then they stood about, as soldiers do; now, with their hands loosely clasped before them; now, resting a knee or a shoulder; now, easing a belt or a pouch; now, opening the door to spit stiffly over their high stocks, out into the yard.
Word: now Part of Speech: conj Etymology: From Middle English nou, nu, from Old English nū, from Proto-West Germanic *nū, from Proto-Germanic *nu (“now”), from Proto-Indo-European *nū (“now”). Doublet of nu ("well?"). Cognates Cognate with Scots noo, nou, now (“now”), Yola neow, now, nowe (“now”), North Frisian nü (“now”), West Frisian no (“now”), Dutch nu, nou (“now”), German nu, nun (“now”), Limburgish noe, Nuu (“now”), Danish and Swedish nu (“now”), Elfdalian nų (“now”), Faroese nú, núgv (“now”), Icelandic nú, núna (“now”), Norwegian Bokmål and Norwegian Nynorsk no, nu, nå (“now”), Gothic 𐌽𐌿 (nu, “now”); also Gaulish nu (“now”), Latin num (“now”), Greek νυν (nyn, “currently, now”), Albanian ni, tani (“now”), Bulgarian ни́не (níne, “currently, now”), Czech nyní (“now”), Old Polish ninie (“now”), Russian но́не (nóne), ны́не (nýne, “now, today”), Ukrainian ни́ні (nýni, “nowadays; today”), Avestan 𐬥𐬏 (nū, “currently, now”), Baluchi نون (nún, “now”), Persian اکنون (aknun / aknūn), کنون (konun), نون (nun / nūn, “now”), Northern Kurdish ana, anaka, anêka, aniha, anika, naga, naha, naka, niha, niho, nika, noke, ئانا (ana), نکا (nka, “now”), Ossetian ныр (nyr, “now”), Hittite 𒆠𒉡𒌦 (ki-nu-un, “now”), Luwian 𒈾𒀀𒉡𒌦 (nānun, “now”), Tocharian A nuṃ (“again, once more”), Tocharian B nano (“again, once more”), Sanskrit नु (nu, “now”). Pronunciation: /naʊ/, /nuː/, /næʊ/, /nɛʊ/ 1. Since, because, in light of the fact. Labels: often Example: Now all the children have grown up and left, the house is very quiet. Example: Now that my sister has gotten rid of their cat, we can go to her house this coming Thanksgiving.
Word: now Part of Speech: intj Etymology: From Middle English nou, nu, from Old English nū, from Proto-West Germanic *nū, from Proto-Germanic *nu (“now”), from Proto-Indo-European *nū (“now”). Doublet of nu ("well?"). Cognates Cognate with Scots noo, nou, now (“now”), Yola neow, now, nowe (“now”), North Frisian nü (“now”), West Frisian no (“now”), Dutch nu, nou (“now”), German nu, nun (“now”), Limburgish noe, Nuu (“now”), Danish and Swedish nu (“now”), Elfdalian nų (“now”), Faroese nú, núgv (“now”), Icelandic nú, núna (“now”), Norwegian Bokmål and Norwegian Nynorsk no, nu, nå (“now”), Gothic 𐌽𐌿 (nu, “now”); also Gaulish nu (“now”), Latin num (“now”), Greek νυν (nyn, “currently, now”), Albanian ni, tani (“now”), Bulgarian ни́не (níne, “currently, now”), Czech nyní (“now”), Old Polish ninie (“now”), Russian но́не (nóne), ны́не (nýne, “now, today”), Ukrainian ни́ні (nýni, “nowadays; today”), Avestan 𐬥𐬏 (nū, “currently, now”), Baluchi نون (nún, “now”), Persian اکنون (aknun / aknūn), کنون (konun), نون (nun / nūn, “now”), Northern Kurdish ana, anaka, anêka, aniha, anika, naga, naha, naka, niha, niho, nika, noke, ئانا (ana), نکا (nka, “now”), Ossetian ныр (nyr, “now”), Hittite 𒆠𒉡𒌦 (ki-nu-un, “now”), Luwian 𒈾𒀀𒉡𒌦 (nānun, “now”), Tocharian A nuṃ (“again, once more”), Tocharian B nano (“again, once more”), Sanskrit नु (nu, “now”). Pronunciation: /naʊ/, /nuː/, /næʊ/, /nɛʊ/ 1. Indicates a signal to begin. Example: Now! Fire all we've got while the enemy is in reach!
Word: now Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English nou, nu, from Old English nū, from Proto-West Germanic *nū, from Proto-Germanic *nu (“now”), from Proto-Indo-European *nū (“now”). Doublet of nu ("well?"). Cognates Cognate with Scots noo, nou, now (“now”), Yola neow, now, nowe (“now”), North Frisian nü (“now”), West Frisian no (“now”), Dutch nu, nou (“now”), German nu, nun (“now”), Limburgish noe, Nuu (“now”), Danish and Swedish nu (“now”), Elfdalian nų (“now”), Faroese nú, núgv (“now”), Icelandic nú, núna (“now”), Norwegian Bokmål and Norwegian Nynorsk no, nu, nå (“now”), Gothic 𐌽𐌿 (nu, “now”); also Gaulish nu (“now”), Latin num (“now”), Greek νυν (nyn, “currently, now”), Albanian ni, tani (“now”), Bulgarian ни́не (níne, “currently, now”), Czech nyní (“now”), Old Polish ninie (“now”), Russian но́не (nóne), ны́не (nýne, “now, today”), Ukrainian ни́ні (nýni, “nowadays; today”), Avestan 𐬥𐬏 (nū, “currently, now”), Baluchi نون (nún, “now”), Persian اکنون (aknun / aknūn), کنون (konun), نون (nun / nūn, “now”), Northern Kurdish ana, anaka, anêka, aniha, anika, naga, naha, naka, niha, niho, nika, noke, ئانا (ana), نکا (nka, “now”), Ossetian ныр (nyr, “now”), Hittite 𒆠𒉡𒌦 (ki-nu-un, “now”), Luwian 𒈾𒀀𒉡𒌦 (nānun, “now”), Tocharian A nuṃ (“again, once more”), Tocharian B nano (“again, once more”), Sanskrit नु (nu, “now”). Pronunciation: /naʊ/, /nuː/, /næʊ/, /nɛʊ/ 1. The present time. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: Now is the right time. Example: There is no better time than now. 2. The state of not paying attention to the future or the past. Labels: often, uncountable, usually Example: She is living in the now. 3. A particular instant in time, as perceived at that instant. Labels: countable, usually Example: Forever is composed of Nows— / 'T is not a different time, / Except for infiniteness / And latitude of home. Example: Time is not thrust together and summed up out of nows, but the reverse: with reference to the now we can articulate the stretching out of time always only in specific ways.
Word: now Part of Speech: verb Etymology: See know. Pronunciation: /naʊ/, /nuː/, /næʊ/, /nɛʊ/ 1. Misspelling of know. Labels: alt-of, misspelling Example: I don't now.
Word: bank Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *bʰeg-der. Proto-Germanic *bankiz Proto-West Germanic *banki Lombardic bankbor. Italian bancabor. Middle French banqueder. English bank Inherited from Middle English banke, from Middle French banque, from Italian banca (“counter, moneychanger's bench or table”), from Lombardic bank (“bench, counter”), from Proto-West Germanic *banki, from Proto-Germanic *bankiz (“bench, counter”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeg- (“to turn, curve, bend, bow”). Doublet of bench, banc, and banco. For the bench-bank relation, compare typologically Russian ла́вка (lávka), прила́вок (prilávok). Pronunciation: /ˈbæŋk/, [ˈbæŋk], /ˈbaŋk/, [ˈbaŋk], /ˈbɛŋk/ 1. An institution where one can place and borrow money and take care of financial affairs. Labels: countable Example: Finance is seldom romantic. But the idea of peer-to-peer lending comes close. This is an industry that brings together individual savers and lenders on online platforms.[…]Banks and credit-card firms are kept out of the picture. Talk to enough people in the field and someone is bound to mention the “democratisation of finance”. 2. A branch office of such an institution. Labels: countable 3. An underwriter or controller of a card game. Labels: countable 4. A fund from deposits or contributions, to be used in transacting business; a joint stock or capital. Labels: countable Example: Let it be no bank or common stock, but every man be master of his own money. 5. The sum of money etc. which the dealer or banker has as a fund from which to draw stakes and pay losses. Labels: countable 6. Money; profit. Labels: slang, uncountable Example: Military dude was working for a drug dealer, right? and making good bank with it—he was making good money. 7. In certain games, such as dominos, a fund of pieces from which the players are allowed to draw. Labels: countable 8. A safe and guaranteed place of storage for and retrieval of important items or goods. Labels: countable, in-compounds Example: blood bank; data bank; sperm bank 9. A device used to store coins or currency. Labels: countable Example: If you want to buy a bicycle, you need to put the money in your piggy bank. 10. A collection of instrument data on a digital synthesizer. Labels: countable Example: All of the drum kits are on bank 1.
Word: bank Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *bʰeg-der. Proto-Germanic *bankiz Proto-West Germanic *banki Lombardic bankbor. Italian bancabor. Middle French banqueder. English bank Inherited from Middle English banke, from Middle French banque, from Italian banca (“counter, moneychanger's bench or table”), from Lombardic bank (“bench, counter”), from Proto-West Germanic *banki, from Proto-Germanic *bankiz (“bench, counter”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeg- (“to turn, curve, bend, bow”). Doublet of bench, banc, and banco. For the bench-bank relation, compare typologically Russian ла́вка (lávka), прила́вок (prilávok). Pronunciation: /ˈbæŋk/, [ˈbæŋk], /ˈbaŋk/, [ˈbaŋk], /ˈbɛŋk/ 1. To deal with a bank or financial institution, or for an institution to provide financial services to a client. Labels: intransitive Example: He banked with Barclays. Example: the sort of face you would happily bank with 2. To put into a bank. Labels: transitive Example: I’m going to bank the money. 3. To conceal in the rectum for use in prison. Labels: slang, transitive Example: Johnny banked some coke for me. 4. To provide banking services to. Labels: transitive Example: They proposed an ambitious plan to bank people in remote rural communities. Example: For quotations using this term, see Citations:bank.
Word: bank Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English bank, banke, from Old English *banca (“bench”) (attested in Old English hōbanca (“couch”) and Old English banc (“bank, hillock, embankment”), from Proto-West Germanic *bankō, from Proto-Germanic *bankô. Akin to Old Norse bakki (“elevation, hill”), Norwegian bakke (“slope, hill”). Pronunciation: /ˈbæŋk/, [ˈbæŋk], /ˈbaŋk/, [ˈbaŋk], /ˈbɛŋk/ 1. An edge of river, lake, or other watercourse. Example: Tiber trembled underneath her banks. Example: On the opposite bank of the river other Chinese units attacked Taoshih and Yunmeng north-west of Hankow. 2. An elevation under the sea; a shallow area of shifting sand, gravel, mud, and so forth Example: the banks of Newfoundland 3. A slope of earth, sand, etc.; an embankment. 4. The incline of an aircraft, especially during a turn. 5. An incline, a hill. Example: This is the hardest duty on the railway, for the trains are heavy and there are some long 1 in 40 banks. Example: It's just as quick out of the blocks. The five-car unit has three engines, giving it 2,820hp to play with, so the once-'feared' Devon banks of Hemerdon, Rattery and Dainton are child's play to these trains. 6. A mass of clouds. Example: The bank of clouds on the horizon announced the arrival of the predicted storm front. 7. The face of the coal at which miners are working. 8. A deposit of ore or coal, worked by excavations above water level. 9. The ground at the top of a shaft. Example: Ores are brought to bank.
Word: bank Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English bank, banke, from Old English *banca (“bench”) (attested in Old English hōbanca (“couch”) and Old English banc (“bank, hillock, embankment”), from Proto-West Germanic *bankō, from Proto-Germanic *bankô. Akin to Old Norse bakki (“elevation, hill”), Norwegian bakke (“slope, hill”). Pronunciation: /ˈbæŋk/, [ˈbæŋk], /ˈbaŋk/, [ˈbaŋk], /ˈbɛŋk/ 1. To roll or incline laterally in order to turn. Labels: intransitive 2. To cause (an aircraft) to bank. Labels: transitive 3. To form into a bank or heap, to bank up. Labels: transitive Example: to bank sand 4. To form a bank; to gather in masses. Labels: intransitive Example: […] clouds banking above the gravel road, their flat slate-blue bottoms threatening freezing rain or an early snowfall. 5. To cover the embers of a fire with ashes in order to retain heat. Labels: transitive 6. To raise a mound or dike about; to enclose, defend, or fortify with a bank; to embank. Labels: transitive Example: Aristoma∣chus would haue them to be stript from their leaues in winter, & in any hand to be banked well about, that the water stand not there in any hollow furrow or hole lower than the other ground 7. To pass by the banks of. Labels: obsolete, transitive Example: Have I not heard these islanders shout out / Vive le roi! as I have banked their towns? 8. To provide additional power for a train ascending a bank (incline) by attaching another locomotive. Labels: UK Example: Some interesting facts have recently been made known by the L.N.E.R. concerning the 178-ton Garratt 2-8-0 + 0-8-2 engine No. 2395, which since construction in 1925 has spent the whole of its working life banking coal trains up the 3 miles of 1 in 40 between Wentworth junction and West Silkstone, on the Worsborough branch, near Barnsley. Example: [...] the 4-4-0 unhappily stalled after a stop on Reading Old Bank with its eight-coach load and the Reading Up Line pilot, a "Hall", had to bank the train into Reading General.
Word: bank Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English bank, banke, from Old French banc (“bench”), from Frankish *banki, from Proto-Germanic *bankiz (“bench”). Akin to Old English benċ (“bench”). Pronunciation: /ˈbæŋk/, [ˈbæŋk], /ˈbaŋk/, [ˈbaŋk], /ˈbɛŋk/ 1. A row or panel of items stored or grouped together. Example: a bank of switches Example: a bank of pay phones 2. A row of keys on a musical keyboard or the equivalent on a typewriter keyboard. 3. A contiguous block of memory that is of fixed, hardware-dependent size, but often larger than a page and partitioning the memory such that two distinct banks do not overlap. 4. A set of multiple adjacent drop targets.
Word: bank Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English bank, banke, from Old French banc (“bench”), from Frankish *banki, from Proto-Germanic *bankiz (“bench”). Akin to Old English benċ (“bench”). Pronunciation: /ˈbæŋk/, [ˈbæŋk], /ˈbaŋk/, [ˈbaŋk], /ˈbɛŋk/ 1. To arrange or order in a row. Labels: transitive
Word: bank Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Probably from French banc. Of Germanic origin, and akin to English bench. Pronunciation: /ˈbæŋk/, [ˈbæŋk], /ˈbaŋk/, [ˈbaŋk], /ˈbɛŋk/ 1. A bench, as for rowers in a galley; also, a tier of oars. Example: Placed on their banks, the lusty Trojans sweep / Neptune's smooth face, and cleave the yielding deep. 2. A bench or seat for judges in court. 3. The regular term of a court of law, or the full court sitting to hear arguments upon questions of law, as distinguished from a sitting at nisi prius, or a court held for jury trials. See banc 4. A kind of table used by printers. Labels: archaic 5. A bench, or row of keys belonging to a keyboard, as in an organ.
Word: deficit Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From French déficit, from Latin dēficit. Related to defect. Pronunciation: /ˈdɛfɪsɪt/, /ˈdɛfəsɪt/ 1. Deficiency in amount or quality; a falling short; lack. Example: The crop output this year has been comparatively small, owing to the deficit in rainfall. 2. A situation wherein, or amount whereby, spending exceeds (e.g. government) revenue. Example: Dr. Beeching's obvious intent is that if Scottish—and similarly unprofitable English and Welsh—railways are to be maintained, it must be done by an unconcealed subsidy; he is determined that the railways shall no longer be preoccupied with—and derided for—immense deficits which include the burden of social services the State must openly underwrite, if it wants them. Example: But Wall Street, which has a case of deficit-attention disorder, is no longer focused on a balanced budget. "The bond market only worries about one thing at [a time.]
Word: fiscal Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle French fiscal, from Latin fiscus (“treasury”) – see fiscus and fisc. Pronunciation: /ˈfɪskəl/ 1. Related to the treasury of a country, company, region or city, particularly to government spending and revenue. Example: fiscal matters Example: fiscal lawyer 2. Pertaining to finance and money in general; financial. Labels: proscribed 3. Being a fiscal year. Example: The allotment is $22 million less than the Pentagon spent on military bands in fiscal 1990.
Word: fiscal Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle French fiscal, from Latin fiscus (“treasury”) – see fiscus and fisc. Pronunciation: /ˈfɪskəl/ 1. A public official in certain countries having control of public revenue. Example: ‘There I was interrogated by the Fiscal, who was making out a proces verbal […].’ 2. Procurator fiscal, a public prosecutor. 3. In certain countries, including Spain, Portugal, the Netherlands, and former colonies of these countries and certain British colonies, solicitor or attorney general.
Word: fiscal Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Spanish fiscal, ultimately from Latin fiscus (“treasury”). Pronunciation: /ˈfɪskəl/ 1. A public prosecutor (UK) or a district attorney (US). Labels: Philippines
Word: fiscal Part of Speech: noun Etymology: After Afrikaans fiskaal (“public official, hangman”). Pronunciation: /ˈfɪskəl/ 1. Any of various African shrikes of the genus Lanius.
Word: tax Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English taxe, from Middle French taxe, from Medieval Latin taxa, from Latin taxō (“to appraise, value, estimate; (medieval) to tax”). Doublet of task. Displaced native Old English gafol, which was also the word for “tribute” and “rent”. Pronunciation: /tæks/ 1. Money or goods collected by a government (or an entity to whom the government has delegated this power, e.g. in tax farming) to fund itself and its services, for example by levying a charge on income, purchases (sales), property or harvest, other than that money which is collected by the government in exchange for specific goods (e.g. the purchase of surplus vehicles). Labels: countable, uncountable Example: [They paid a] "mushroom tax" in addition to their regular tax of butter and meat. They had to give 1 dre of dried mushrooms annually to the district administrative centres. Example: The [General Farm] organization collected a tax on salt (gabelle) and another on alcohol and tobacco (aide), along with customs duties (traites) and duties on goods entering Paris from elsewhere in France (entrées). Evasion of all of these taxes through smugglign and other fraud was epidemic[…] 2. A charge (of money, food, labor, etc) collected by a person, organization, etc; something required (exacted) from someone who is (really or notionally) under the control of the taxer, such as a contribution or service. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Flie far from hence All private taxes, immodest phrases, What e'r may but shew like vicious. Example: Scrambled egg with cheese [...] careful with the cheese here because it is the main reason for Roxie's runs... [but] We pay a lot of cheese tax in the house [i.e., when we eat cheese, the dog demands to also be given some]. 3. A burdensome demand Labels: figuratively, uncountable Example: a heavy tax on time or health Example: In the expectation that such would be the case, I came but slightly attended, sending most of my people with the heavy baggage by sea to the Indus, and I took every precaution to render the tax of my support as light as possible, by furnishing a memorandum of the number of persons composing my suite, and limiting the amount of supplies each should receive.
Word: tax Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English taxen, from Anglo-Norman taxer (“to impose a tax”), from Latin taxāre (“to handle, to censure, to appraise, to compute”). Pronunciation: /tæks/ 1. To impose and collect a tax from (a person or company). Labels: transitive Example: Some think to tax the wealthy is the fairest. Example: Taxing the food and chemical industries, which make billions off our food consumption, could be another way to generate revenue for the program. 2. To impose and collect a tax on (something). Labels: transitive Example: Some think to tax wealth is destructive of a private sector. 3. To make excessive demands on. Labels: transitive Example: Do not tax my patience. Example: The people of the southeasterly clusters—concerning whom, however, but little is known—have a bad name as cannibals; and for that reason their hospitality is seldom taxed by the mariner. 4. To accuse. Labels: transitive 5. To examine accounts in order to allow or disallow items. Labels: transitive
Word: economics Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From economic (noun) (obsolete) + -s (suffix forming pluralia tantum, and regular plural forms of nouns). Economic is derived from Middle English economike, iconomique (“household management”), and then: * from Middle French iconomique, oeconomique, and Old French iconomike (“(noun) household management; person in charge of household management; (adjective) relating to household management; relating to domestic or family matters; relating to management of a state; reducing costs or expenses, economical”) (modern French économique); and * from their etymon Latin oeconomicus (“(noun) household manager, housekeeper, steward; (adjective) relating to orderly arrangement of written material”) (whence Late Latin economicus (“relating to (management of) a household”)), and economica (“household management”), both from Ancient Greek οἰκονομῐκός (oikonomĭkós, “skilled in household management; frugal, thrifty, economical”) (whence Koine Greek οἰκονομῐκός (oikonomĭkós, “relating to orderly arrangement of written material”)); from οἰκονόμος (oikonómos, “master of a house; household manager, steward; administrator, manager”) + -ῐκός (-ĭkós, suffix meaning ‘of or relating to’ forming adjectives). Οἰκονόμος (Oikonómos) is derived from οἶκος (oîkos, “dwelling place, house; estate”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *weyḱ- (“(verb) to enter in; to settle; (noun) settlement”)) + νόμος (nómos, “law, ordinance”) (from νέμω (némō, “to distribute; to possess”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *nem- (“to distribute; to give; to take”)) + -ος (-os, suffix forming o-grade action nouns from verbs)). By surface analysis, econom(y) + -ics (suffix forming nouns denoting fields of knowledge or practice). Pronunciation: /ˌiːkəˈnɒmɪks/, /ˌɛ-/, /ˌɛkəˈnɑmɪks/, /ˌi-/, /ˌiːkəˈnɔmɪks/ 1. plural of economic (“one who is skilled in household management; (Christianity, historical) one who manages the income of a vacant benefice”). Labels: form-of, obsolete, plural
Word: urban Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French urbain (“belonging to a city, urban; courteous, refined, urbane”) (modern French urbain), or from its etymon Latin urbānus (“of or belonging to a city, urban; of manners or style: like those of city dwellers: cultivated, polished, refined, sophisticated”) + English -an (suffix meaning ‘of or pertaining to’ forming adjectives). Urbānus is derived from urbs (“city; walled town; Rome”) (further etymology uncertain, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *gʰerdʰ- (“to encircle, enclose; a belt; an enclosure, fence”) or *werbʰ- (“to enclose”)) + -ānus (suffix meaning ‘of or pertaining to’ forming adjectives). For the euphemistic or proscribed term, it was coined by New York radio DJ Frankie Crocker in the early to mid-1970s as a synonym for Black music. Pronunciation: /ˈɜː.bən/, /ˈɝ.bən/, /øˈː.bən/ 1. Of, pertaining to, characteristic of, or happening or located in, a city or town; of, pertaining to, or characteristic of life in such a place, especially when contrasted with the countryside. Example: urban life Example: urban traffic 2. Living in a city or town. Example: Inſomuch, as thoſe citizens vvere reputed for cheeſe and principall, vvho vvere poſſeſſed of land and living in the countrey: and theſe made the State, called the Ruſtick Tribes, in Rome: vvheras contrarivviſe the other eſtate, reputed the meaner in degree, vvas named the Vrbane Tribes; conſiſting of Artiſanes & ſuch like as vvere not landed perſons: into vvhich, if a man vvere transferred from any of the reſt, it vvas thought a great ſhame and diſgrace, as if hee vvere reproched for idleneſſe and negligence in husbandrie. Example: The Epithets of myce are thes; ſhort, ſmall, fearful, peaceable, ridiculous, ruſtik, or country mouſe, vrbane, or citty mouſe, […] 3. Having authority or jurisdiction over a city or town. Example: All theſe Magiſtrats are but temporary, and have a time limited them; the Urbane or Citty Magiſtrats ſome of them continue in office 6. months, others 8. months, others are annuall; […] 4. Relating to contemporary African American culture, especially in music. Labels: US, archaic, proscribed 5. Of an inhabitant or resident: black; African-American. Labels: UK, US, euphemistic, offensive
Word: open Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Adjective from Middle English open, from Old English open (“open”), from Proto-West Germanic *opan, from Proto-Germanic *upanaz (“open”), from Proto-Indo-European *upo (“up from under, over”). Cognates * Scots apen (“open”) * Saterland Frisian eepen (“open”) * West Frisian iepen (“open”) * Cimbrian offe (“open”) * Dutch open (“open”) * German offen (“open”) * Vilamovian ufa, uffa (“open”) * Yiddish אָפֿן (ofn, “open”) * Danish åben (“open”) * Icelandic opinn (“open”) * Norwegian Bokmål åpen (“open”) * Norwegian Nynorsk open (“open”) * Swedish öppen (“open”) Compare also Latin supinus (“on one's back, supine”), Albanian hap (“to open”). Related to up. Verb from Middle English openen, from Old English openian (“to open”), from Proto-West Germanic *opanōn, from Proto-Germanic *upanōną (“to raise; lift; open”), from Proto-Germanic *upanaz (“open”, adjective). Cognate with Saterland Frisian eepenje (“to open”), West Frisian iepenje (“to open”), Dutch openen (“to open”), German öffnen (“to open”), Danish åbne (“to open”), Swedish öppna (“to open”), Norwegian Bokmål åpne (“to open”), Norwegian Nynorsk and Icelandic opna (“to open”). Related to English up. Noun from Middle English open (“an aperture or opening”), from the verb. In the sports sense, however, a shortening of “open competition”. Pronunciation: /ˈəʊ.pən/, /ˈɒ.pɪn/, /ˈoʊ.pən/, /ˈəʉ.pən/ 1. Open or unobstructed space; an exposed location. Example: I can't believe you left the lawnmower out in the open when you knew it was going to rain this afternoon! Example: Wary of hunters, the fleeing deer kept well out of the open, dodging instead from thicket to thicket. 2. Public knowledge or scrutiny; full view. Example: We have got to bring this company's corrupt business practices into the open. 3. A defect in an electrical circuit preventing current from flowing. Example: The electrician found the open in the circuit after a few minutes of testing. 4. A sports event in which anybody can compete, especially or originally irrespective of amateur or professional status. Example: the Australian Open 5. The act of something being opened, such as an e-mail message. Example: The total number of opens from original, or unique, subscribers.
Word: consensus Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Latin cōnsēnsus (“agreement, accordance, unanimity”), from cōnsentiō (“feel together; agree”); see consent. Pronunciation: /kənˈsɛnsəs/ 1. A process of decision-making that seeks widespread agreement among group members. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. General agreement among the members of a given group or community, each member of which exercises some discretion in decision-making and follow-up action. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: reach consensus Example: After years of debate over the best wine to serve at Thanksgiving, no real consensus has emerged. 3. An agreement on some data value that is needed during computation. Labels: countable, uncountable 4. Average projected value. Labels: attributive, countable, uncountable Example: a financial consensus forecast
Word: consensus Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Borrowed from Latin cōnsēnsus (“agreement, accordance, unanimity”), from cōnsentiō (“feel together; agree”); see consent. Pronunciation: /kənˈsɛnsəs/ 1. To seek consensus; to hold discussions with the aim of reaching mutual agreement. Labels: ambitransitive Example: I think we are a strongly consensused society. There was a consensus during the 1950's, the Eisenhower years, in our society. Then in the 1960's came a period of division. Example: None of this consensusing was done with the Manual. There were no national workshops, forums, etc.
Word: slow Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English slaw, slow, from Old English slāw (“lazy; inert, slow”), from Proto-West Germanic *slaiw, from Proto-Germanic *slaiwaz (“blunt; dull; exhausted, faint, sluggish, weak, weary; listless, torpid; dim-witted, slow; lazy, slack”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *sleyH-u- (“bad”). Cognates Cognate with Dutch slee, sleeuw (“cramped, stiff; blunt; sour”), Danish sløv (“blunt; dull; apathetic, lethargic, listless, sluggish, torpid; drowsy”), Icelandic sljór (“dim-witted; blunt; jaded”), Norwegian Nynorsk sljo, slø, sløv (“blunt; weak; lazy”), Swedish slö (“dull; lazy, lethargic, slow, sluggish”). Pronunciation: /sləʊ/, /slaː/, /sloʊ/ 1. Taking a long time to move or go a short distance, or to perform an action; not quick in motion; proceeding at a low speed. Example: a slow train; a slow computer Example: Turkey should always be cooked in a slow oven. 2. Not happening in a short time; spread over a comparatively long time. Example: Theſe changes in the Heav’ns, though ſlow, produc’d / Like change on Sea and Land, ſideral blaſt, / Vapour, and Miſt, and Exhalation hot, / Corrupt and Peſtilent: […] Example: Similar studies of rats have employed four different intracranial resorbable, slow sustained release systems—surgical foam, a thermal gel depot, a microcapsule or biodegradable polymer beads. 3. Of reduced intellectual capacity; not quick to comprehend. Labels: derogatory, informal Example: Experienced classroom teachers are well acquainted with the attention-seeker, the shy girl, the aggressive boy, the poor concentrator, the slow student,[…] Example: Hey, don't yell at Homer, just because he's a little slow. 4. Not hasty; not tending to hurry; acting with deliberation or caution. Example: He that is slow to wrath is of great understanding. Example: And even after the emotional cast comes off, we need to be slow about getting deeply involved in a relationship again. 5. Behind in time; indicating a time earlier than the true time. Example: That clock is slow. 6. Lacking spirit; deficient in liveliness or briskness. 7. Not busy; lacking activity. Example: It was a slow news day, so the editor asked us to make our articles wordier. Example: I'm just sitting here with a desk of cards, enjoying a slow afternoon.
Word: slow Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English slaw, slow, from Old English slāw (“lazy; inert, slow”), from Proto-West Germanic *slaiw, from Proto-Germanic *slaiwaz (“blunt; dull; exhausted, faint, sluggish, weak, weary; listless, torpid; dim-witted, slow; lazy, slack”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *sleyH-u- (“bad”). Cognates Cognate with Dutch slee, sleeuw (“cramped, stiff; blunt; sour”), Danish sløv (“blunt; dull; apathetic, lethargic, listless, sluggish, torpid; drowsy”), Icelandic sljór (“dim-witted; blunt; jaded”), Norwegian Nynorsk sljo, slø, sløv (“blunt; weak; lazy”), Swedish slö (“dull; lazy, lethargic, slow, sluggish”). Pronunciation: /sləʊ/, /slaː/, /sloʊ/ 1. To make (something) run, move, etc. less quickly; to reduce the speed of. Labels: transitive Example: slow the process 2. To keep from going quickly; to hinder the progress of. Labels: transitive Example: slow the traffic 3. To become slow; to slacken in speed; to decelerate. Labels: intransitive Example: After about a minute, the creek bed vomited the debris into a gently sloped meadow. Saugstad felt the snow slow and tried to keep her hands in front of her. Example: As he passed though the station, he slowed to yell to the signalman, Frank 'Sailor' Bridges: "Sailor - have you anything between here and Fordham? Where's the mail?" Gimbert knew the mail train was due, and he didn't want to endanger another train with his burning bomb wagon.
Word: slow Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English slaw, slow, from Old English slāw (“lazy; inert, slow”), from Proto-West Germanic *slaiw, from Proto-Germanic *slaiwaz (“blunt; dull; exhausted, faint, sluggish, weak, weary; listless, torpid; dim-witted, slow; lazy, slack”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *sleyH-u- (“bad”). Cognates Cognate with Dutch slee, sleeuw (“cramped, stiff; blunt; sour”), Danish sløv (“blunt; dull; apathetic, lethargic, listless, sluggish, torpid; drowsy”), Icelandic sljór (“dim-witted; blunt; jaded”), Norwegian Nynorsk sljo, slø, sløv (“blunt; weak; lazy”), Swedish slö (“dull; lazy, lethargic, slow, sluggish”). Pronunciation: /sləʊ/, /slaː/, /sloʊ/ 1. Someone who is slow; a sluggard. 2. A slow song.
Word: slow Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From Middle English slaw, slow, from Old English slāw (“lazy; inert, slow”), from Proto-West Germanic *slaiw, from Proto-Germanic *slaiwaz (“blunt; dull; exhausted, faint, sluggish, weak, weary; listless, torpid; dim-witted, slow; lazy, slack”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *sleyH-u- (“bad”). Cognates Cognate with Dutch slee, sleeuw (“cramped, stiff; blunt; sour”), Danish sløv (“blunt; dull; apathetic, lethargic, listless, sluggish, torpid; drowsy”), Icelandic sljór (“dim-witted; blunt; jaded”), Norwegian Nynorsk sljo, slø, sløv (“blunt; weak; lazy”), Swedish slö (“dull; lazy, lethargic, slow, sluggish”). Pronunciation: /sləʊ/, /slaː/, /sloʊ/ 1. Slowly. Example: That clock is running slow. Example: I want to dance with you nice and slow.
Word: policy Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English policie, from Old French policie, pollicie and police, from Late Latin politia (“citizenship; government”), classical Latin polītīa (in Cicero), from Ancient Greek πολιτεία (politeía, “citizenship; polis, (city) state; government”), from πολίτης (polítēs, “citizen”). Doublet of police, polis (“police”), and polity. Pronunciation: /ˈpɒl.ə.si/, /ˈpɒl.ɪ.si/, /ˈpɑ.lə.si/, /ˈpɑl.si/, /ˈpɔl.ə.si/ 1. To regulate by laws; to reduce to order. Labels: transitive Example: Policying of cities.
Word: policy Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle French police, from Italian polizza, from Medieval Latin apodissa (“receipt for money”), from Ancient Greek ἀπόδειξις (apódeixis, “proof, declaration”). Doublet of apodixis. Pronunciation: /ˈpɒl.ə.si/, /ˈpɒl.ɪ.si/, /ˈpɑ.lə.si/, /ˈpɑl.si/, /ˈpɔl.ə.si/ 1. A contract of insurance. 2. A document containing or certifying this contract. Example: Your insurance policy covers fire and theft only. 3. An illegal daily lottery in late nineteenth and early twentieth century USA on numbers drawn from a lottery wheel (no plural) Labels: obsolete 4. A number pool lottery
Word: mandapa Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Sanskrit मण्डप (maṇḍapa), मण्टप (maṇṭapa, “pavilion, mandapa”), a non-native word likely from the same source as मठ (maṭha, “hut, hermit's cottage”). Probably also borrowed from Hindi मंडप (maṇḍap) or another New Indo-Aryan language. Pronunciation: /ˈmʌndəpə/ 1. A pillared hall or porch fronting a Hindu temple. It may be attached or detached from the building. Labels: India, South 2. A temporary platform or sacred tent used for a wedding or other religious ceremony. Labels: India, South-Asia Example: She led the way inside the house to the mandap. Example: When she takes her place next to Lakshaya at the wedding mandap, both of them smile at each other.
Word: scarp Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Apheretic form of escarp. Doublet of escarp. Pronunciation: /skɑːp/, /skɑɹp/ 1. The steep artificial slope below a fort's parapet. Example: —I would throw out the earth upon this hand towards the town for the scarp,—and on that hand towards the campaign for the counterscarp.—Very right, Trim, quoth my uncle Toby:—And when I had sloped them to your mind,——an’ please your Honour, I would face the glacis, as the finest fortifications are done in Flanders, with sods,——and as your Honour knows they should be,—and I would make the walls and parapets with sods too. 2. A cliff at the edge of a plateau or ridge caused by erosion or faulting; the steeper side of an escarpment. Example: 2014, Paul Salopek, Blessed. Cursed. Claimed., National Geographic (December 2014)https://web.archive.org/web/20150212214621/http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2014/12/pilgrim-roads/salopek-text Sweating under the sun, we scale the barren eastern scarp of the Great Rift Valley (Area B), edging carefully around controversial, razor-wired Israeli settlements (Area C). 3. Obsolete spelling of scarpe, scrape. Labels: alt-of, obsolete Example: [...] as in the seventh, which is Argent a Scarp Azure. Example: He beareth Argent, a Scarp, Azure.
Word: scarp Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Apheretic form of escarp. Doublet of escarp. Pronunciation: /skɑːp/, /skɑɹp/ 1. to cut, scrape, erode, or otherwise make into a scarp or escarpment Labels: transitive Example: to scarp the face of a ditch or a rock Example: From scarped cliff and quarried stone
Word: AM Part of Speech: name 1. Abbreviation of Amazonas: a state of Brazil. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of 2. Initialism of Aston Martin. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism 3. Initialism of Arctic Monkeys. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Word: AM Part of Speech: adv 1. Initialism of anno mundi Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, not-comparable
Word: AM Part of Speech: adv 1. Alternative form of a.m. (“before noon”). Labels: alt-of, alternative, not-comparable
Word: AM Part of Speech: noun 1. Initialism of Master of Arts. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable 2. Initialism of Assembly Member, a title similar to MP, placed after the name of a Member of the Welsh National Assembly. Labels: UK, abbreviation, alt-of, countable, historical, initialism, uncountable 3. Initialism of automated mapping, used in conjunction with Facilities Managements abbreviations (AM/FM). Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable 4. Member of the Order of Australia. Labels: countable, uncountable 5. Initialism of amplitude modulation; radio programming broadcasted in this form. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable Example: That station is available on both AM and FM. Example: They were listening to AM and complaining about the static. 6. Initialism of additive manufacturing. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable Example: The system, says Freeman is currently being used to assess exactly how AM powders pack and flow to ensure process efficiency and consistent product quality.
Word: fruit Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *bʰruHg- Proto-Italic *frūgjōr Latin fruor Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Italic *-tus Latin -tus Latin frūctus Old French fruitbor. Middle English fruyt English fruit From Middle English fruyt, frut (“fruits and vegetables”), from Old French fruit (“produce, fruits and vegetables”), from Latin fruitus (“enjoyment, proceeds, profits, produce, income”), frūctus and frūx (“crop, produce, fruit”) (compare Latin fruor (“have the benefit of, to use, to enjoy”)). Cognate with English brook (“to bear, tolerate”) and German brauchen (“to need”). Partially displaced native Old English wæstm, ofett and æppel (whence modern ovest and apple). Compare Dutch vrucht, German Frucht, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish frukt, Danish frugt. In the derogatory senses of “crazy person” and “homosexual or effeminate man”, possibly a shortening of fruitcake, or of independent origin, compare Fruit (slang). Pronunciation: /fɹuːt/, /fɹʉwt/, /fɹut/, /fɾʉt/, /fɹʉt/ 1. To produce fruit, seeds, or spores. Labels: intransitive Example: It may be said, however, that the percentage of green apples among the Fameuse seedlings is much less than among the others as out of 33 Fameuse seedlings which had fruited up to this year, none was green and we recollect but one light coloured Fameuse seedling fruiting this year. Example: For example, chanterelles and russulas can start fruiting in early to mid summer given sufficient moisture, but other species, such as matsutake, rarely fruit until temperatures cool in the autumn, even if moisture is available earlier.
Word: gratuitous Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin grātuītus (“free”), from Latin grātia (“favor”), grātus (“showing favor”). Pronunciation: /ɡɹəˈtjuː.ɪt.əs/, /ɡɹəˈtu.ɪt.əs/ 1. Given freely; unearned. Example: Also mentioned is the Rev. T. Stock, who has a tablet in St John's church [Gloucester] and "who with Raikes established the four original Sunday schools in this parish ... in 1780. From this small beginning sprung that gratuitous system of Christian instruction which has covered the face of England and Wales with schools." 2. Unjustified or unnecessary; not called for by the circumstances. Example: gratuitous violence Example: Good to see you Mr. Bond. Things've been awfully dull 'round here. […] Now you're on this. I hope we're going to have some gratuitous sex and violence! 3. extraneous, interpolated.
Word: mammal Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Modern Latin Mammalia, coined 1758 by Linnaeus for the class of mammals, from neuter plural of Late Latin mammalis (“of the breast”), from Latin mamma (“breast”), perhaps cognate with mamma (mother). Pronunciation: /ˈmæməl/ 1. A vertebrate animal of the class Mammalia, characterized by being warm-blooded, having fur or hair and producing milk with which to feed their young. 2. A vertebrate with three bones in the inner ear and one in the jaw.