nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: audit Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Latin audītus, from audiō (“to hear”). The sense of examine is because examinations were originally presented orally, and the examiner listened. Pronunciation: /ˈɔːdɪt/, /ˈoːdɪt/, /ˈɔdɪt/, /ˈɑdɪt/ 1. A judicial examination. 2. An examination in general. 3. An independent review and examination of records and activities to assess the adequacy of system controls, to ensure compliance with established policies and operational procedures, and to recommend necessary changes in controls, policies, or procedures Example: National Assembly audit 4. The result of such an examination, or an account as adjusted by auditors; final account. Example: Yet I can make my audit up. 5. Spiritual counseling, which forms the core of Dianetics. Example: [ Werner Erhard said:] I got a lot of benefit from auditing. It was the fastest and deepest way to handle situations that I had yet encountered. Example: The trainings of Landmark, Block Training and UP Hans Schuster und Partner thus display strong similarities with the self-improvement seminars of Scientology, which are incidentally called 'auditing sessions', a term taken from the business world. 6. A general receptacle or receiver. Labels: obsolete Example: , "A Funeral Sermon" It [a little brook] paid to its common audit no more than the revenues of a little cloud. 7. An audience; a hearing. Labels: obsolete Example: With his Oriſons I meddle not, for hee appeals to a high Audit.
Word: audit Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Borrowed from Latin audītus, from audiō (“to hear”). The sense of examine is because examinations were originally presented orally, and the examiner listened. Pronunciation: /ˈɔːdɪt/, /ˈoːdɪt/, /ˈɔdɪt/, /ˈɑdɪt/ 1. To examine and adjust (e.g. an account). Labels: transitive Example: to audit the accounts of a treasure, or of parties who have a suit depending in court 2. To conduct an independent review and examination of system records and activities in order to test the adequacy and effectiveness of data security and data integrity procedures, to ensure compliance with established policy and operational procedures, and to recommend any necessary changes Labels: transitive 3. To counsel spiritually. Labels: transitive Example: In John's case, I suspect, when he lost Diana he went back to his Scientology church to be audited. 4. To attend an academic class without the opportunity to receive academic credit. Labels: transitive
Word: augend Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin augendum. Pronunciation: /ˈɔd͡ʒɛnd/ 1. A quantity to which another is added. Example: In "4 + 5", 4 is the augend
Word: auger Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From a rebracketing of Middle English a nauger (seen as an + auger), from Old English nafugār (“nave drill”, literally “nave spear”), from Proto-West Germanic *nabugaiʀ, from Proto-Germanic *nabōgaizaz. Cognate with Dutch avegaar. Pronunciation: /ˈɔː.ɡə(ɹ)/, /ˈɔ.ɡɚ/, /ˈɑ.ɡɚ/ 1. A carpenter's tool for boring holes longer than those bored by a gimlet. Example: Pete Burnett needs a fan belt for his auger. 2. A snake or plumber's snake (plumbing tool). 3. A tool used to bore holes in the ground, e.g. for fence posts 4. A hollow drill used to take core samples of soil, ice, etc. for scientific study.
Word: auger Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From a rebracketing of Middle English a nauger (seen as an + auger), from Old English nafugār (“nave drill”, literally “nave spear”), from Proto-West Germanic *nabugaiʀ, from Proto-Germanic *nabōgaizaz. Cognate with Dutch avegaar. Pronunciation: /ˈɔː.ɡə(ɹ)/, /ˈɔ.ɡɚ/, /ˈɑ.ɡɚ/ 1. To use an auger; to drill a hole using an auger. 2. To proceed in the manner of an auger. Example: It augered into the water and vanishedunder the surface only to float up again, its keel pointing skyward. Example: There was no way to measure progress inside the sphere, to know whether it spun or leapt or wobbled like a top as it augered through the years. 3. To daydream. Labels: uncommon
Word: augite Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin augītēs. 1. A variety of pyroxene, usually of a black or dark green color, occurring in igneous rocks, such as basalt. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: augur Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Latin augur, of uncertain origin; akin to augurō (“interpret omens”). Pronunciation: /ˈɔːɡə/, /ˈoːɡə/, /ˈɔɡɚ/, /ˈɑɡɚ/, /ˈɔɡəɾ/ 1. A diviner who foretells events by the behaviour of birds or other animals, or by signs derived from celestial phenomena, or unusual occurrences. Example: Augur of ill, whoſe tongue was never found / Without a prieſtly curſe, or boding ſound; [...] 2. An official who interpreted omens before the start of public events. Labels: Ancient-Rome Example: It was an ancient tradition, that when the Capitol was founded by one of the Roman kings, the god Terminus (who presided over boundaries, and was represented, according to the fashion of that age, by a large stone) alone, among all the inferior deities, refused to yield his place to Jupiter himself. A favorable inference was drawn from his obstinacy, which was interpreted by the augurs as a sure presage that the boundaries of the Roman power would never recede.
Word: augur Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Borrowed from Latin augur, of uncertain origin; akin to augurō (“interpret omens”). Pronunciation: /ˈɔːɡə/, /ˈoːɡə/, /ˈɔɡɚ/, /ˈɑɡɚ/, /ˈɔɡəɾ/ 1. To foretell events; to exhibit signs of future events; to indicate a favorable or an unfavorable outcome. Example: to augur well or ill Example: The train was well filled, with quite an amount of intermediate business; but station staff and passengers alike seemed ready enough to "look lively", and the result was a general "slickness" in working that augers^([sic]) well for the future.
Word: auk Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Icelandic álka, from Old Norse alka (“auk”), from Proto-Germanic *alkǭ, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁el- (“a kind of bird”). Cognate with Swedish alka (“auk”), Norwegian and Danish alke (“auk”), Swedish dialectal alla (“long-tailed duck”) (Clangula hyemalis, syn. Fuligula glacialis), Latin olor (“swan”), Ancient Greek ἐλέα (eléa, “marsh-bird”), Welsh alarch (“swan”). Pronunciation: /ɔːk/, /ɔk/, /ɑk/ 1. Any of several species of Arctic sea birds of the family Alcidae. Example: Further afield, these auks are also in dire straits: Norway has seen vertiginous crashes, with hundreds of thousands of adult puffins in the once-teeming colony of Røst struggling to fledge any chicks in recent years.
Word: aural Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin auralis, from auris (“ear”). Pronunciation: /ˈɔːɹəl/, /ˈɔɹəl/, /ˈoɹəl/, /aʊɹəl/ 1. Of or pertaining to the ear. Example: The aural surgeon attends Mondays and Thursdays, at half-past one. 2. Of or pertaining to sound or hearing. Example: This is Radio Clash using aural ammunition Example: The meaning of the songs transcended their subject matter; for me they are an aural history that speaks more clearly than any book ever could, not just about dancing and having sex but about being alive in the late '70s.
Word: aural Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin aura (“moving air, breeze, vital air”) + -al. Pronunciation: /ˈɔːɹəl/, /ˈoɹəl/ 1. Of or pertaining to an aura.
Word: auric Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin aurum + -ic. 1. Of or pertaining to trivalent gold. Labels: not-comparable
Word: auric Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin auris + -ic. 1. Of, or pertaining to the ear; aural. Labels: not-comparable, obsolete
Word: auric Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree English aura Proto-Indo-European *-ikos Proto-Italic *-ikos Latin -icuslbor. Old French -iquebor. Middle English -ik English -ic English auric From aura + -ic. 1. Pertaining to an aura. Labels: not-comparable Example: Interestingly, it is easiest to read the physical aspects of this auric field when the subject is "heartily" exercising in or out of bed.
Word: avers Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of aver Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: avocet Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From French avocette, from Italian avocetta. Pronunciation: /ˈævəsɛt/ 1. Any of four species of wading birds in the genus Recurvirostra, with long, slender recurved bills, long legs, and webbed feet. Example: The only diversions I recall were a pair of Avocets flying over, and a young lady who regularly each afternoon furtively crept into the dunes [...] and crouched down for a clandestine wee!
Word: axled Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From axle + -ed. 1. Having (a specified number or kind of) axles. Example: a three-axled motor vehicle
Word: axon Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂eǵ-? Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱs-der. Proto-Hellenic *aksōn Ancient Greek ἄξων (áxōn)der. English axon Derived from Ancient Greek ἄξων (áxōn, “axis”). Via Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱs- cognate with inherited English axle and other borrowed axis, aisle, ala, atelier. Pronunciation: /ˈæksɒn/ 1. A nerve fibre which is a long slender projection of a nerve cell, and which conducts nerve impulses away from the body of the cell to a synapse.
Word: Babel Part of Speech: name Etymology: Etymology tree Akkadian 𒆍𒀭𒊏𒆠 (Bābilim)der. Biblical Hebrew בָּבֶל (bāḇel)der. Latin Babelder. English Babel From Latin Babel, from Biblical Hebrew בָּבֶל (bāḇel, “Babylon”), from Akkadian 𒆍𒀭𒊏𒆠 (Bābilim); in Genesis associated with the idea of confusion. Doublet of Babylon. Pronunciation: /ˈbeɪ.bl̩/, /ˈbæb.l̩/ 1. The city and tower in the land of Shinar where the confusion of languages took place, according to the Bible. Example: Therefore is the name of it called Babel[…]
Word: Babel Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Akkadian 𒆍𒀭𒊏𒆠 (Bābilim)der. Biblical Hebrew בָּבֶל (bāḇel)der. Latin Babelder. English Babel From Latin Babel, from Biblical Hebrew בָּבֶל (bāḇel, “Babylon”), from Akkadian 𒆍𒀭𒊏𒆠 (Bābilim); in Genesis associated with the idea of confusion. Doublet of Babylon. Pronunciation: /ˈbeɪ.bl̩/, /ˈbæb.l̩/ 1. A confused mixture of sounds and voices, especially in different languages. Example: As the three were making their way through the crowds of marketers, camels, donkeys, and horses that filled the market place with a confusing babel of sounds, Abdul plucked at Tarzan’s sleeve. Example: A babel of languages could be heard in the streets and the squares, mingling with the local Provençal. 2. A place or scene of noise and confusion. 3. A tall, looming structure.
Word: bade Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /bæd/, /beɪd/ 1. simple past of bid Labels: form-of, past Example: Pancho, the major-domo, came up to say that Colonel Morales was waiting below. Appleby bade him bring out cigars and wine, and rose from his seat when Morales came in.
Word: Baldur Part of Speech: name 1. The Norse god of light and purity, a son of Odin and Frigg, known for his beauty and near-invulnerability. Labels: Norse Example: But the fate of Baldur, the most amiable and beloved of Asa gods, is, we think, by far the most pleasing of the Scandinavian Myths, although less characteristic of the warlike temper just mentioned than some of the others. Example: In the god Baldur the legend recognizes the god of the earth-sun, the earth force. No being of the earth can approach him with hostility. Hence also the god whom the German legend knew to be a straggler, namely Loki, cannot kill Baldur with anything belonging to the earth; he has to kill him with a branch of mistletoe, because this is a stranger among the creations of the earth, and for this reason can serve the straggler, Loki, who is not related to the earth gods.
Word: balk Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English balke, from Old English balca, either from or influenced by Old Norse bálkr (“partition, ridge of land”), from Proto-Germanic *balkô. Cognate with Dutch balk (“balk”), German Balken (“balk”), Italian balcone (“balcony”). Pronunciation: /bɔːk/, /bɔːlk/, /bɔk/, /bɔlk/, /bɑk/ 1. An uncultivated ridge formed in the open field system, caused by the action of ploughing. Example: How fruitfull are the ſeeming Barren places of Scripture. Bad Plow-men, which make Balkes of ſuch Ground. 2. The wall of earth at the edge of an excavation. 3. Beam, crossbeam; squared timber; a tie beam of a house, stretching from wall to wall, especially when laid so as to form a loft, "the balks". 4. A hindrance or disappointment; a check. Example: , "Concealment of Sin" a balk to the confidence of the bold undertaker 5. A sudden and obstinate stop. 6. An omission. Labels: obsolete 7. A deceptive motion. 8. A deceptive motion. 9. The area of the table lying behind the line from which the cue ball is initially shot, and from which a ball in hand must be played. 10. The area of the table lying behind the baulk line. 11. The rope by which fishing nets are fastened together.
Word: balk Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English balok, ballok (“knob”), from Old English bealluc (“testicle”, literally “little ball”). Doublet of ballock and bollocks. Pronunciation: /bɔːk/, /bɔːlk/, /bɔk/, /bɔlk/, /bɑk/ 1. A small brass ornament fixed at the top of a wand. Labels: UK, dialectal
Word: balky Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From balk + -y. 1. Refusing to proceed or cooperate. Example: a balky horse
Word: balsa Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Paleo-Hispanicder. Spanish balsabor. English balsa Borrowed from Spanish balsa, from Paleo-Hispanic, probably Basque [Term?] or Iberian [Term?]. Not related to balsam. Pronunciation: /ˈbɔːl.sə/, /ˈbæl.sə/, /ˈbɑlsə/ 1. A large tree, Ochroma pyramidale, native to tropical America, with wood that is very light in weight. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. The wood of this tree. Labels: uncountable 3. A raft or float, used principally on the Pacific coast of South America. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: bandy Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From French bander (“to bandy at tennis”), with -y, -ie added due to influence from Spanish and Portuguese bandear and/or Old Occitan bandir (“to throw”), from the same root as English band. Compare also with banter. Pronunciation: /ˈbændi/ 1. To give and receive reciprocally; to exchange. Labels: transitive Example: to bandy words (with somebody) Example: Incapable of hearing reproach or bandying invective, her husband had sunk into the indolence of pensive resignation, and, sensible that things had gone too far for effectual retrieve, tried to find a lenitive in the love of his sister, and the often disappointed hope of a son, during whose long minority wonders were to be done in the management of his property. 2. To use or pass about casually. Labels: transitive Example: to have one's name bandied about (or around) Example: Let not obvious and known Truths, or some of the most plain and certain Propositions be bandy’d about in a Disputation, for a meer Trial of Skill […] 3. To throw or strike reciprocally, like balls in sports. Labels: transitive Example: Do you bandy looks with me, you rascal? Example: For as whipp'd tops and bandied balls, / The learned hold, are animals; / So horses they affirm to be / Mere engines made by geometry […] 4. To fight (with or against someone). Labels: intransitive, obsolete Example: Brother displaie my ensignes in the field, Ile bandie with the Barons and the Earles, And eyther die, or liue with Gaueston. Example: Tybalt, Mercutio, the prince expressly hath Forbidden bandying in Verona streets:
Word: bandy Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Borrowed from Scots bandy. Pronunciation: /ˈbændi/ 1. Bow-legged, having knees bending outward. Example: 1794, William Blake, The Little Vagabond, third stanza Then the Parson might preach, and drink, and sing, / And we’d be as happy as birds in the spring; / And modest Dame Lurch, who is always at church, / Would not have bandy children, nor fasting, nor birch. Example: A black servant, who reposed on the box beside the fat coachman, uncurled his bandy legs as soon as the equipage drew up opposite Miss Pinkerton's shining brass plate, and as he pulled the bell at least a score of young heads were seen peering out of the narrow windows of the stately old brick house.
Word: bandy Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Probably from the verb bandy in the sense "toss/bat back and forth", or possibly from the Welsh word bando, most likely derived from the Proto-Germanic *bandją (“a curved stick”). Pronunciation: /ˈbændi/ 1. A winter sport played on ice, from which ice hockey developed. Labels: uncountable 2. A club bent at the lower part for striking a ball at play; a hockey stick. Labels: countable
Word: bandy Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Telugu బండి (baṇḍi). Pronunciation: /ˈbændi/ 1. A carriage or cart used in India, especially one drawn by bullocks.
Word: barded Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From bard + -ed. See bard (“horse armour”). Pronunciation: /ˈbɑːdɪd/, /ˈbɑɹdəd/ 1. Accoutered with defensive armor Labels: not-comparable Example: Grim-visag'd war hath smooth'd his wrinkled front; And now, instead of mounting barded steeds To fright the souls of fearful adversaries, He capers nimbly in a lady's chamber To the lascivious pleasing of a lute. 2. Wearing rich caparisons. Labels: not-comparable Example: Fifteen hundred men […] barded and richly trapped.
Word: barre Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from French barre. Doublet of bar. Pronunciation: /bɑː/, /bɑɹ/, [bɑɹ], [bɑ˞], /baː/ 1. A handrail fixed to a wall used for ballet exercises. 2. Ellipsis of barre chord. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis
Word: barre Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Borrowed from French barre. Doublet of bar. Pronunciation: /bɑː/, /bɑɹ/, [bɑɹ], [bɑ˞], /baː/ 1. To form a barre chord on an instrument.
Word: basal Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *gʷem- Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *gʷémtis Proto-Hellenic *gʷə́tis Ancient Greek βᾰ́σῐς (bắsĭs)bor. Latin basis Old French basebor. Middle English base English base Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.? Proto-Italic *-ālis Latin -ālisbor. Old French -albor. ▲ Latin -ālis Old French -elbor. ▲ Latin -ālisbor. Middle English -al English -al English basal From base + -al. Pronunciation: [ˈbeɪsəɫ], [ˈbeɪzəɫ] 1. Basic, elementary; relating to, or forming, the base, or point of origin. Example: This is the basal idea. Example: The organism needs more energy on basal maintenance. 2. Associated with the base of an organism or structure. Example: In the spring, basal leaves emerge from a stout taproot. 3. Of a minimal level that is necessary for maintaining the health or life of an organism. Example: a basal diet 4. In a phylogenetic tree, being a group, or member of a group, which diverged earlier. The earliest clade to branch in a larger clade. Example: Hittite is a basal Indo-European language. Example: A magnolia is a basal angiosperm.
Word: basal Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *gʷem- Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *gʷémtis Proto-Hellenic *gʷə́tis Ancient Greek βᾰ́σῐς (bắsĭs)bor. Latin basis Old French basebor. Middle English base English base Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.? Proto-Italic *-ālis Latin -ālisbor. Old French -albor. ▲ Latin -ālis Old French -elbor. ▲ Latin -ālisbor. Middle English -al English -al English basal From base + -al. Pronunciation: [ˈbeɪsəɫ], [ˈbeɪzəɫ] 1. base, bottom, minimum 2. Any basal structure or part
Word: bashaw Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Variant of pasha, several forms or relatives of which start with /b-/, e.g. Arabic بَاشَا (bāšā). Pronunciation: /bəˈʃɔː/ 1. A pasha. Labels: archaic, historical Example: Radzivilius was much taken with the bassa’s palace in Cairo […]. Example: The Bashaw notwithstanding drew together a partie of five hundred before his owne Pallace, where he intended to die […]. 2. A grandee. Labels: archaic, broadly, derogatory, often 3. A very large siluroid fish (Pylodictis olivaris) of the Mississippi valley; the goujon or mudcat.
Word: basks Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /bɑːsks/, /bæsks/ 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of bask Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: baste Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Late Middle English, from Old French bastir (“build, construct, sew up (a garment)”). Pronunciation: /beɪst/ 1. To sew with long or loose stitches, as for temporary use, or in preparation for gathering the fabric. Labels: transitive Example: He bastes the coat together with thick white thread almost like string, using stitches big enough to be ripped out easily later.
Word: baste Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English basten, of uncertain etymon, possibly from Old French basser (“moisten, soak”), from bacin (“basin”). Pronunciation: /beɪst/ 1. To sprinkle flour and salt and drip butter or fat on, as on meat in roasting. Labels: transitive 2. To coat over something. Labels: broadly, transitive Example: Ice Cold Daydream" bastes the bayou funk of the Meters in swirling psychedelia, while "Sweet Thang," a swampy blues cowritten with his dad, sounds like something from Dr. John's "Night Tripper" phase. 3. To mark (sheep, etc.) with tar. Labels: transitive
Word: baste Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English basten, of uncertain etymon, possibly from Old French basser (“moisten, soak”), from bacin (“basin”). Pronunciation: /beɪst/ 1. A basting; a sprinkling of drippings etc. in cooking. Example: "Just like a leg of mutton being roasted before a slow fire without any one to give it a baste," groaned the old man.
Word: baste Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Perhaps from the cookery sense of baste or from some Scandinavian etymon. Compare Old Norse beysta (“to beat, thresh”) (whence Danish børste (“to beat up”)). Compare also Swedish basa (“to beat with a rod, to flog”) and Swedish bösta (“to thump”). Might be related to French bâton (“stick”) (formerly baston); English baton comes from bâton; see also French bastonnade (“the act of beating with a stick”). Pronunciation: /beɪst/ 1. To beat with a stick; to cudgel. Labels: archaic, slang Example: July 1660, Samuel Pepys, Diaries One man was basted by the keeper for carrying some people over on his back through the waters.
Word: bate Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Inherited from Middle English baten (“to abate”), an apheretic form of abaten, from Old French abatre (“to knock down”). Pronunciation: /beɪt/ 1. To reduce the force of something; to abate. Labels: transitive Example: Ah, left ſome Thorn ſhoul'd pierce thy tender Foot, / Or thou ſhoul'dſt fall in flying my purſuit! / To ſharp uneven Ways thy ſteps decline; / Abate thy Speed, and I will bate of mine. 2. To restrain, usually with the sense of being in anticipation Labels: transitive Example: […] and to his dying day he bated his breath a little when he told the story of the stroke with the willow wand. 3. To cut off, remove, take away. Labels: figuratively, sometimes, transitive Example: Also about Autumne bate the earth from about the roots of Olives, and lay them bare, but in stead thereof put good mucke thereto. Example: Nay, if he be of a proud humour, […] he will not Bate an Ace of abſolute certainty, but however doubtful or improbable the thing is, coming f[r]om him it muſt go for an indiſputable truth. 4. To leave out, except, bar. Labels: archaic, transitive Example: Bate the King, and be he fleſh and blood, / He lyes that ſaies it, thy mother at fifteen / Was black and ſinful to her. Example: Bate (I beſeech you) widdow Dido. 5. To waste away. Example: Bardoll, am I not falne away vilely ſince this laſt action? do I not bate? do I not dwindle? Why, my skinne hangs about me like an old Ladies looſe gowne. 6. To deprive of. Example: When baseness is exalted, do not bate / The place its honour for the person's sake; […] 7. To lessen by retrenching, deducting, or reducing; to abate; to beat down; to lower. Example: [W]hen the Landholder's Rent falls, he muſt either bate the Labourer's Wages, or not imploy, or not pay him; which either way makes him feel the want of Money. Example: The shopkeeper is very good-natured; he will show you everything he has, and does not seem to mind if you buy nothing. He bates a little, but not so much as the Klings, who almost always ask twice what they are willing to take. 8. To allow by way of abatement or deduction. Example: Theſe are the conditions of his treating with God, to whom he bates nothing or what he ſtood upon with the Parlament: as if Commiſſions of Array could deale with him alſo.
Word: bate Part of Speech: noun Etymology: * Noun: From the verb, or directly from the noun debate. * Verb: From Middle English bate (“contention”), from Old French batre (French battre), from Latin battere. Pronunciation: /beɪt/ 1. Strife; contention. Labels: uncountable Example: […] and weares his Boot very ſmooth, like vnto the Signe of the Legge; and breedes no bate with telling of diſcreete stories: Example: So the strife redoubled and the weapons together clashed and ceased not bate and debate and naught was to be seen but blood flowing and necks bowing; […]
Word: bate Part of Speech: verb Etymology: * Noun: From the verb, or directly from the noun debate. * Verb: From Middle English bate (“contention”), from Old French batre (French battre), from Latin battere. Pronunciation: /beɪt/ 1. To contend or strive with blows or arguments. Labels: intransitive 2. Of a falcon: to flap the wings vigorously; to bait. Labels: intransitive Example: The fiꝛſt is holde faſt at all timys, and ſpecially whan ſhe batith. It is calde batyng, for ſhe batith with hiꝛ ſelfe moſt oftyn cauſeles[.] Example: I am like a hawk , that bates , when I see occasion of service , but cannot fly because I am tied to another's fist
Word: bate Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Swedish beta (“maceration, tanning”). Pronunciation: /beɪt/ 1. An alkaline lye which neutralizes the effect of the previous application of lime, and makes hides supple in the process of tanning. Example: The process of unliming hides and skins in tanning has been a slow and disgusting one, consisting in soaking the skins in a bath of manure in water, called bate. 2. A vat which contains this liquid.
Word: bate Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Borrowed from Swedish beta (“maceration, tanning”). Pronunciation: /beɪt/ 1. To soak leather so as to remove chemicals used in tanning; to steep in bate. Labels: transitive
Word: bate Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Formed by analogy with eat → ate or other Class 5 strong verbs (compare gave, obsolete spake, etc.), with which it shares an analogous past participle (eaten → beaten). Pronunciation: /beɪt/ 1. simple past of beat; = beat. Labels: form-of, nonstandard, obsolete, past Example: Fitzpatrick, now perceiving […] that he had made a very unfortunate mistake, began to ask many pardons of the lady; and then, turning to Jones, he said, “I would have you take notice I do not ask your pardon, for you have bate me; for which I am resolved to have your blood in the morning.” Example: Leonard: Penny’s taking you to the DMV; I’m going to bed. Sheldon: Why Penny? Leonard: Because rock bate scissors. Goodnight.
Word: bate Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /beɪt/ 1. Clipping of masturbate. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, intransitive, slang
Word: bate Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Variant of beat (“rhythm”). Pronunciation: /beɪt/ 1. direction, course, track Labels: Ireland, uncountable Example: What bate are you on now = where are you going and why ? The dog is on some bate = is finding or following a scent.
Word: bated Part of Speech: adj Pronunciation: /ˈbeɪtɪd/ 1. Reduced; lowered; restrained
Word: bated Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ˈbeɪtɪd/ 1. simple past and past participle of bate Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: bates Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /beɪts/ 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of bate Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: baton Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From French bâton. Doublet of baston. Pronunciation: /ˈbætɒn/, /ˈbæt(ə)n/, /bəˈtɑn/ 1. A staff or truncheon, used for various purposes. 2. A ceremonial staff of a field marshal or a similar high-ranking military office. 3. The stick of a conductor in musical performances. Example: The conductor raised his baton and the orchestra fell silent. 4. An object transferred by runners in a relay race. Example: In the relay race, the runner dropped the baton. 5. A rod twirled in a marching band's performance, in a gymnastic sport, or in juggling. 6. A short stout club used primarily by policemen. Labels: US Example: The police officer carried a baton for self-defense. 7. A bend with the ends cut off, resembling a baton, typically borne sinister, and often used as a mark of cadency, initially for both legitimate and illegitimate children, but later chiefly for illegitimate children. Example: Alternative forms: batune, baston 8. A short vertical lightweight post, not set into the ground, used to separate wires in a fence. 9. A batonnet, a long slice of a vegetable, thicker than a julienne. 10. A short baguette.
Word: baton Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From French bâton. Doublet of baston. Pronunciation: /ˈbætɒn/, /ˈbæt(ə)n/, /bəˈtɑn/ 1. To strike with a baton. Labels: figuratively, transitive Example: She passed the baton to her successor after retiring. Example: accept/refuse/receive the baton
Word: batt Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Late Middle English in the sense "piece, lump," of uncertain origin, but possibly related to the noun bat with the sense of "beaten" fabric. 1. Pieces of fabric or fibre used for stuffing; as for batting or insulation 2. A shoe. Labels: Polari, plural-normally Example: As feely homies, when we launched ourselves onto the gay scene, polari was all the rage. We would zhoosh our riahs, powder our eeks, climb into our bona new drag, don our batts and troll off to some bona bijou bar.
Word: batt Part of Speech: noun 1. Clipping of battery. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, slang Example: Kit / rapid charger, leather case, 2 NIMH slim batts, Nicad XT batt, overnite charger, RJ11 land line to cellular conversion interface, more Example: where is cheapest place to buy laptop batt?
Word: bawd Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *bʰel- Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Indo-European *bʰóltosder. Proto-Germanic *balþaz Frankish *balþbor. Old French baudbor. Middle English bawde English bawd From Middle English bawde, baude, from Old French baud (“bold, lively, jolly, gay”). Doublet of bold. An association with Welsh bawddyn (“dirty fellow, scoundrel”), from baw (“dirt”), was suggested by the Rev. Henry Todd. Pronunciation: /bɔːd/, /bɔd/, /bɑd/ 1. One who keeps a brothel, or procures women for prostitution; a procurer or madam. Labels: archaic, historical Example: Of late in the Park, a fair fancy was seen / Betwixt an old Baud and a lusty young Quean, / Their parting of Money began the uproar, / I'll have half says the Baud, but you shan't says the Whore Example: As Whores decay'd and past their Labours, / Turn Bawds, and so assist their Neighbours. 2. A person who facilitates an immoral act, especially one of a sexual nature. Labels: broadly, obsolete Example: In ſaying this thou wrongſt me Gaueſton, / Iſt not enough that thou corrupts my Lord, / And art a Bawd to his affections, / But thou muſt call mine honour thus in queſtion? 3. A lewd person.
Word: bawd Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *bʰel- Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Indo-European *bʰóltosder. Proto-Germanic *balþaz Frankish *balþbor. Old French baudbor. Middle English bawde English bawd From Middle English bawde, baude, from Old French baud (“bold, lively, jolly, gay”). Doublet of bold. An association with Welsh bawddyn (“dirty fellow, scoundrel”), from baw (“dirt”), was suggested by the Rev. Henry Todd. Pronunciation: /bɔːd/, /bɔd/, /bɑd/ 1. Joyous; riotously gay. Labels: obsolete
Word: bawd Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *bʰel- Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Indo-European *bʰóltosder. Proto-Germanic *balþaz Frankish *balþbor. Old French baudbor. Middle English bawde English bawd From Middle English bawde, baude, from Old French baud (“bold, lively, jolly, gay”). Doublet of bold. An association with Welsh bawddyn (“dirty fellow, scoundrel”), from baw (“dirt”), was suggested by the Rev. Henry Todd. Pronunciation: /bɔːd/, /bɔd/, /bɑd/ 1. To procure women for lewd purposes. Labels: archaic
Word: bawdy Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *bʰel- Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Indo-European *bʰóltosder. Proto-Germanic *balþaz Frankish *balþbor. Old French baudbor. Middle English bawde English bawd Proto-Indo-European *-kos Proto-Germanic *-gaz Proto-West Germanic *-g Old English -iġ Middle English -y English -y English bawdy From bawd + -y. Pronunciation: /ˈbɔːdi/, /ˈbɔ.di/, /ˈbɑ.di/ 1. Obscene; filthy; unchaste. 2. Sexual in nature and usually meant to be humorous but considered rude; ribald.
Word: bawdy Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *bʰel- Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Indo-European *bʰóltosder. Proto-Germanic *balþaz Frankish *balþbor. Old French baudbor. Middle English bawde English bawd Proto-Indo-European *-kos Proto-Germanic *-gaz Proto-West Germanic *-g Old English -iġ Middle English -y English -y English bawdy From bawd + -y. Pronunciation: /ˈbɔːdi/, /ˈbɔ.di/, /ˈbɑ.di/ 1. A bawdy or lewd person. Example: The Bawdies were girls who danced naked on a ramp in the middle of a room full of tables with tops the size of pie plates. Example: Our scholarly studies and discoveries about bodies and bawdies and the forbidden mysteries of S-E-X proved that participatory education had to be the very best.
Word: bayou Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Louisiana French bayou, from Choctaw bayuk (“a creek”). Doublet of bogue. Pronunciation: /ˈbaɪ.(j)uː/, /ˈbaɪ.oʊ/ 1. A slow-moving, often stagnant creek or river. Example: You natural persons old and young! / You on the Mississippi and on all the branches and bayous of the Mississippi! / You friendly boatmen and mechanics! you roughs! 2. A swamp; a marshy (stagnant) body of water. Example: At that time I had no staff officer who could be trusted with that duty. In the woods, at a short distance below the clearing, I found a depression, dry at the time, but which at high water became a slough or bayou.
Word: beck Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English bek, bekk, becc, from Old English bæc, bec, bæċe, beċe (“beck, brook”), from Proto-Germanic *bakiz (“stream”). Cognate with Old Norse bekkr (“a stream or brook”), Low German bek, beck, German Bach, Dutch beek, Swedish bäck, Doublet of batch. More at beach. Pronunciation: /ˈbɛk/ 1. A stream or small river. Labels: Norfolk, Northern-England Example: […]Whence, climing to the Cleeves, her selfe she firmlie sets / The Bourns, the Brooks, the Becks, the Rills, the Rivilets[…] Example: […] the sky is blue, and the larks are singing, and the becks and brooks are all brim full.
Word: beck Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English bekken, a shortened form of Middle English bekenen, from Old English bēcnan, bēacnian (“to signify; beckon”), from Proto-West Germanic *baukn, from Proto-Germanic *baukną (“beacon”). More at beacon. Pronunciation: /ˈbɛk/ 1. A significant nod, or motion of the head or hand, especially as a call or command. Example: Ah, knovv you not the Citie fauours them, And they haue troupes of Souldiers at their beck? Example: Haste thee nymph, and bring with thee Jest and youthful Jollity, Quips and cranks, and wanton wiles, Nods, and becks, and wreathed smiles,
Word: beck Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English bekken, a shortened form of Middle English bekenen, from Old English bēcnan, bēacnian (“to signify; beckon”), from Proto-West Germanic *baukn, from Proto-Germanic *baukną (“beacon”). More at beacon. Pronunciation: /ˈbɛk/ 1. To nod or motion with the head. Labels: archaic Example: When gold and silver becks me to come on. Example: I'll buy so many acres of old Scotland and call them by the Lockerby's name; and I'll have nobles and great men come bowing and becking to David Lockerby as they do to Alexander Gordon.
Word: beck Part of Speech: noun Etymology: See back. Pronunciation: /ˈbɛk/ 1. A vat.
Word: beck Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English bec, bek, from Old French bec (“beak”). Pronunciation: /ˈbɛk/ 1. Obsolete form of beak. Labels: alt-of, obsolete Example: Headed like owles, with beckes 4 uncomely bent
Word: bedim Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁ep-der. Proto-Indo-European *h₁épsder. Proto-Indo-European *h₁epider. Proto-Indo-European *h₁pi Proto-Germanic *bider. Proto-Germanic *bi- Proto-West Germanic *bi- Old English be- Middle English bi- English be- English dim English bedim From be- + dim. Pronunciation: /bɪˈdɪm/ 1. To make (something) dim; to darken, to obscure. Labels: transitive Example: I haue bedymn'd / The Noone tide Sun, call'd forth the mutenous vvindes, / And tvvixt the greene Sea, and the azur'd vault / Set roaring vvarre: […] Example: Now I recenter my immortal mind / In the deep sabbath of meek self-content; / Cleans'd from the vaporous passions that bedim / God's Image, sister of the Seraphim.
Word: bedims Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of bedim Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: befog Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁ep-der. Proto-Indo-European *h₁épsder. Proto-Indo-European *h₁epider. Proto-Indo-European *h₁pi Proto-Germanic *bider. Proto-Germanic *bi- Proto-West Germanic *bi- Old English be- Middle English bi- English be- English fog English befog From be- + fog. 1. To envelop in fog or smoke. Example: Clouds of the most expensive incense befog the chancel […] Example: 1953, Jean Stafford, “Cops and Robbers” (original title: “The Shorn Lamb”) in The Collected Stories of Jean Stafford, New York: Dutton, 1984, p. 432, Sad, in her covert, Hannah saw that her mother was now sitting straight against the headboard and was smoking a cigarette in long, meditative puffs; the smoke befogged her frowning forehead. 2. To confuse, mystify (a person); to make less acute or perceptive, to cloud (a person’s faculties). Example: 1871, Carl Schurz, Speech in the U.S. Senate, 27 January, 1871, in Frederic Bancroft (ed.), Speeches, Correspondence and Political Papers of Carl Schurz, New York: Putnam, 1913, Volume II, p. 151, The voice of interested sycophancy is apt to fill their ears and to befog their judgment. Example: “[…] He’s been blarneying you. You’ve let his plausible tongue and handsome face befog you.” 3. To obscure, make less clear (a subject, issue, etc.). Example: How they had managed to befog the subject! What elaborate show-structures they had built up, with no result but to obscure the horizon! Example: There is only one way to understand syphilis, and that is to give it impartial, discriminating discussion as an issue which concerns the general health. To color it up and hang it in a gallery of horrors, or to befog it with verbal turnings and twistings, are equally serious mistakes.
Word: bema Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Ancient Greek βῆμα (bêma, “a step”). Doublet of bima. Pronunciation: /ˈbiːmə/ 1. A platform from which speakers addressed an assembly. 2. A raised area of worship in a synagogue upon which rests the Holy Ark containing the Scrolls of the Torah.
Word: berate Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁ep-der. Proto-Indo-European *h₁épsder. Proto-Indo-European *h₁epider. Proto-Indo-European *h₁pi Proto-Germanic *bider. Proto-Germanic *bi- Proto-West Germanic *bi- Old English be- Middle English bi- English be- English rate English berate From be- + rate (“to scold, upbraid”). Pronunciation: /bɪˈɹeɪt/ 1. To chide or scold vehemently. Labels: transitive Example: What society tells people that they can “do whatever they want” to dissidents, and yet berates anyone for treating them well? Example: Gabord, still muttering, turned to us again, and began to berate the soldiers for their laziness.
Word: betony Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English betayny, betanie, from Medieval Latin betōnia (possibly through Old French), from Latin betōnica or ve(t)tōnica, from Vettones, a people in Lusitania. Compare French bétoine. Pronunciation: /ˈbɛtəni/ 1. Any plant of the genus Stachys. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. Any plant of the genus Stachys. Labels: countable, uncountable 3. Any plant of the genus Pedicularis (louseworts). Labels: Canada, US, countable, uncountable
Word: bey Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish بك (bey, “gentleman, chief”), from Old Anatolian Turkish بك (beg, “ruler”), from Proto-Turkic *bēg (“lord”). See there for more. Pronunciation: /beɪ/, /bæɪ/ 1. A governor of a province or district in the Turkish (e.g. Ottoman) dominions. Labels: historical Example: She was chaperoned by the widow of a Bey whose son had been at Oxford with him, and this gave him the excuse to exchange a few words with her, and then to be presented to the Princess. Example: Whether his position with the Third Circle made the difference or the fact that he ranked as a bey, life in El Iskandryia was proving easier than he'd ever dreamed possible when he stepped off the plane. 2. In various other places, a prince or nobleman.
Word: bezel Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from French bisel, a dialectal variant of biseau (“sloping edge”), a variation on bijou (“jewel”), itself from Breton bisou, bizou (“ring worn on the finger”), from biz (“finger”). Unrelated to similar bevel, which is of a different French origin. Pronunciation: /ˈbɛz.əl/ 1. The sloping edge or face on a cutting tool. 2. The oblique side or face of a cut gem; especially the upper faceted portion of a brilliant (diamond), which projects from its setting. 3. The rim and flange which encompasses and fastens a jewel or other object, such as the crystal of a watch, in the cavity in which it is set. Example: “There,” she went on, “it must be one like to it, and yet never did I see one like to it, for thereto hung a history, and he who wore it prized it much. But the scarab that I knew was not set thus in the bezel of a ring. 4. A formed external frame or cover affixed to a device for protective or aesthetic purpose Example: Modern smartphones have very thin bezels.
Word: bibb Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From bib. Pronunciation: /bɪb/ 1. Synonym of bibcock.
Word: bibber Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From bib (“drink heartily”) + -er (agent noun suffix); see bib (“clothing to prevent spills from mouth”). Bib is from Middle English bibben. First attested in the 1530s. 1. One given to drinking alcoholic beverages too freely; a tippler.
Word: bide Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English biden, from Old English bīdan (“to stay, continue, live, remain, delay; wait for, await, expect; endure, experience, find; attain, obtain; own”), from Proto-West Germanic *bīdan (“to wait”), from Proto-Germanic *bīdaną (“to wait”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰéydʰeti, from *bʰeydʰ- (“to command, persuade, compel, trust”). Latinate cognates (via PIE) include faith and fidelity. Cognates Cognate with Scots bide (“to dwell, to live; to stay”), Alemannic German beite (“to wait”), Cimbrian paiten (“to wait”), Dutch beiden (“to wait”), Danish and Norwegian Bokmål bie (“to stay, to wait”), Faroese and Icelandic bíða (“to wait”), Norwegian Nynorsk bide, bie (“to wait”), Swedish bida (“to await, to bide”), Gothic 𐌱𐌴𐌹𐌳𐌰𐌽 (beidan, “to wait”). Pronunciation: /baɪd/ 1. To bear; to endure; to tolerate. Labels: dialectal, transitive Example: And doubting naught right courteous all, in your accustomed wont: And gentle ears, our author he is prest to bide the brunt 2. To face with resistance; to encounter; to withstand. Labels: archaic, transitive Example: Tech[elles]. I heare them come, ſhall wee encounter them? / Tam[burlaine]. Keep all your ſtandings, and not ſtir a foot, / Myſelfe will bide the danger of the brunt. 3. To dwell or reside in a location; to abide. Labels: archaic, dialectal, intransitive Example: All knees to thee shall bow of them that bide / In heaven or earth, or under earth, in hell. Example: But Sir Thomas Kennedy bode little about his house in Maybole, chiefly because his lads and lasses loved most to remain at Culzean, where the cliffs are and the sea spreads wide, clattering pleasantly on the rocks, and with the birds blithely swirling and diving about it all the year round. 4. To wait; to be in expectation; to stay; to remain. Labels: archaic, dialectal, intransitive Example: And thither wending there that night they bode. Example: "Bide here," he says, "and birl the wine till I return. This is a ploy of my own on which no man follows me." 5. To wait for; to await. Labels: archaic, transitive
Word: bilk Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Uncertain; perhaps a variant form of balk. Pronunciation: /bɪlk/ 1. The spoiling of someone's score in the crib. 2. A deception, a hoax. Labels: obsolete 3. A cheat or swindler. Labels: obsolete
Word: bilk Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Uncertain; perhaps a variant form of balk. Pronunciation: /bɪlk/ 1. To spoil the score of (someone) in cribbage. Labels: transitive 2. To do someone out of their due; to deceive or defraud, to cheat (someone). Labels: transitive Example: They also perpetrate nonviolent crimes like bilking elderly couples out of their life savings and running a business with ruthless disregard for the welfare of the workforce or stakeholders. Example: Mr. Gallagher, who went by the nickname Doc, pleaded guilty on Aug. 31 to several charges connected to what prosecutors described as a Ponzi scheme that lasted nearly 10 years and bilked older people of their retirement savings. 3. To steal fuel from a self-service filling station by driving away without paying after filling the fuel tank or other container; to commit a drive-off. Labels: UK, intransitive 4. To evade, elude. Labels: archaic, transitive
Word: biopsy Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From French biopsie, from bi- + -opsy. Pronunciation: /ˈbaɪɑpsi/ 1. The removal and examination of a sample of tissue, cells, or bodily fluid from a living body for diagnostic purposes. Example: We will need to perform a biopsy to determine whether the tumour is malignant or benign. Example: All the while he was talking, he took lots of biopsies, small samples of tissue to be examined by pathologists using a microscope.
Word: biopsy Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From French biopsie, from bi- + -opsy. Pronunciation: /ˈbaɪɑpsi/ 1. To take a sample (a biopsy) for pathological examination. Example: They biopsied the lump but it turned out to be non-cancerous.
Word: biota Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From New Latin biota, from Ancient Greek βιοτή (biotḗ), from βίος (bíos). Pronunciation: /baɪˈəʊtə/ 1. The living organisms of a region. Example: Although the broad macroevolutionary consequences of mass extinctions are well known (as in the dinosaurs-mammals changeover), their long-term effects on the temporal and spatial dynamics of clades and biotas are rarely investigated. 2. A coniferous tree, Oriental arborvitae (Platycladus orientalis, syn. Biota orientalis).
Word: biotic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Ancient Greek βιωτικός (biōtikós, “of life”), from βίος (bíos, “life”). Equivalent to bio- + -otic. Pronunciation: /baɪˈɒt.ɪk/, /baɪˈɑ.tɪk/ 1. Of, pertaining to, or produced by life or living organisms. Labels: not-comparable Example: This study and others at Bolinas Lagoon show that a number of variables, both biotic and abiotic, influence individual, local and regional distribution patterns of Dunlin. 2. Misspelling of biontic. Labels: alt-of, misspelling, not-comparable Example: The biotic level involves basic, nonthoughtful adjustments made in the struggle for existence. Example: Competition, on the biotic level, as we observe it in the plant and animal communities, seems to be relatively unrestricted.