nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: cursor Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Borrowed from Latin cursor (“runner”), from currō (“run”) + -or (agentive suffix). Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European. Pronunciation: /ˈkɜːsə/, [ˈkʰɜːsə], /ˈkɜɹsəɹ/, [ˈkʰɝsɚ] 1. To navigate by means of the cursor keys. Labels: intransitive Example: The only other problem is that there's a nagging tendency for the highlight to overrun when cursoring through file lists.
Word: crocodile tear Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From the ancient belief that crocodiles shed tears while consuming their prey. Pronunciation: /ˈkɹɒ.kə.daɪl ˌtɪə(ɹ)/ 1. A tear shed insincerely, in a false display of sorrow or some other emotion. Labels: idiomatic Example: At last he contrived to squeeze out one of his little hysterical tears, and drop it on her hand. Now, the girl was not butter, like some of her sex; far from it: but neither was she wood—indeed, she was not old enough for that—so this crocodile tear won her for the time being. 2. A display of tears that is forced or false. Labels: idiomatic, in-plural Example: And in all her letters since, she had spoken of her aunt as a silly, vain, worldly woman, weeping crocodile tears, for an old husband whose death had released her from the tedium of his company.
Word: abyssus Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Latin abyssus. 1. Archaic form of abyss. Labels: alt-of, archaic Example: He was, when there were yet no Abyssi, no depths, nor no mountaines vpon the Earth, nor the Earth it selfe […]
Word: rip Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Uncertain; perhaps a variant of rep (“reprobate”). Pronunciation: /ɹɪp/ 1. A worthless horse; a nag. Labels: colloquial, dated, regional 2. An immoral man; a rake, a scoundrel. Labels: colloquial, dated, regional Example: Miss Compton, in 'Other People's Worries,' asks rhetorically whether a young rip was not in the Blank divorce case. Example: If there were, in clubs and places where men talk, unpleasant rumours as to himself he preferred it to be thought that he was the rip, not his wife the strumpet.
Word: rip Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ɹɪp/ 1. A handful of unthreshed grain. Labels: Scotland
Word: rip Part of Speech: intj Pronunciation: /ɹɪp/ 1. Alternative letter-case form of RIP. Labels: Internet, alt-of Example: lmfao rip your dms
Word: tilde Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish tilde, from Latin titulus (“superscript”) or from tildar. Doublet of titer/titre, title, titlo, tittle, and titulus. Compare Portuguese til. Pronunciation: /ˈtɪldə/, /ˈtɪldi/ 1. A diacritical mark ⟨˜⟩ placed above a letter to modify its pronunciation. Example: California, like several other states, prohibits the use of diacritical marks or accents on official documents. That means no tilde (~), no accent grave (`), no umlaut (¨) and certainly no cedilla (¸). 2. A diacritical mark ⟨˜⟩ placed above a letter to modify its pronunciation. Example: The tilde was used similarly in Portuguese on vowels to show that the letter bearing the tilde should be pronounced nasally. 3. A diacritical mark ⟨˜⟩ placed above a letter to modify its pronunciation. 4. A diacritical mark ⟨˜⟩ placed above a letter to modify its pronunciation. 5. A symbol ⟨~⟩, with various names and uses, also known as swung dash or wave dash. In the computer industry, various other names may be used, such as squiggle and twiddle. Example: swung dash A stock keyboard character, used in mathematics as the sign of similarity (a ~ b) and in lexicography as a sign of repetition. The same sign has been used in symbolic logic to indicate negation, but to avoid confusion, the angular negation symbol (¬) is preferred. Not to be confused with the tilde. 6. A symbol ⟨~⟩, with various names and uses, also known as swung dash or wave dash. In the computer industry, various other names may be used, such as squiggle and twiddle. 7. A symbol ⟨~⟩, with various names and uses, also known as swung dash or wave dash. In the computer industry, various other names may be used, such as squiggle and twiddle. 8. A symbol ⟨~⟩, with various names and uses, also known as swung dash or wave dash. In the computer industry, various other names may be used, such as squiggle and twiddle. 9. A symbol ⟨~⟩, with various names and uses, also known as swung dash or wave dash. In the computer industry, various other names may be used, such as squiggle and twiddle. 10. A symbol ⟨~⟩, with various names and uses, also known as swung dash or wave dash. In the computer industry, various other names may be used, such as squiggle and twiddle.
Word: smorgasbord Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Swedish smörgåsbord (“buffet with many small dishes; smorgasbord”), from smörgås (“sandwich”) + bord (“table”). Smörgås is from Swedish smör (“butter”) + gås (“goose”), a reference to pieces of butter which float to the surface of milk when churned. Pronunciation: /ˈsmɔːɡæs(ˌ)bɔːd/, /ˈsmɔːɡəs(ˌ)bɔːd/, /ˈsmɜːɡəs(ˌ)bɔːd/, /ˈsmɜːɡəʊs(ˌ)bʊəd/, /ˈsmɔɹɡəsˌbɔɹd/ 1. A Swedish-style buffet comprising a variety of cold sandwiches and other dishes; (by extension) any buffet with a wide selection of dishes. Example: In the middle of the saloon they observed a small table set out with little dishes, containing bread and butter, sardines, pickled herrings, cheese, large baskets filled with rye biscuit, dark and untempting to Mabel's English eye, and the never failing brandy. Gathered around the smorgasbord were all the Swedes talking and eating most earnestly (all standing). Example: In carrying out the Swedish luxury theme, tasty Scandinavian food will be served from the Stratocruiser galley. The lower-deck cocktail bar will feature smorgasbord snacks and drinks. 2. An abundant and diverse collection of things. Labels: figuratively Example: “Every time you went into the library,” said the book, “the Creator of the Universe held His breath. With such a higgledy-piggledy cultural smorgasbord before you, what would you, with your free will, choose?” Example: If you have an appetite for education statistics, consider the above an appetizer for the smorgasbord you'll find in the Digest of Education Statistics 1990.
Word: buffet Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Inherited from Middle English buffet (“stool”), from Middle French buffet (“side table”), from Old French buffet, of unknown origin. The modern pronunciation is remodelled after modern French buffet. Pronunciation: /ˈbʊf.eɪ/, /ˈbʌf.eɪ/, /bəˈfeɪ/, /bʌˈfeɪ/, /ˈbə.feː/ 1. A counter or sideboard from which food and drinks are served or may be bought. Example: They stayed together during three dances, went out on to the terrace, explored wherever they were permitted to explore, paid two visits to the buffet, and enjoyed themselves much in the same way as if they had been school-children surreptitiously breaking loose from an assembly of grown-ups. 2. Food laid out in this way, to which diners serve themselves. Example: We'll be serving supper buffet style. Example: "We got a big buffet coming up soon. Bacon, eggs, fresh fruit you wouldn't believe." 3. A small low stool; a hassock.
Word: buffet Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English buffet (“buffet”), from Old French buffet, diminutive of buffe, cognate with Italian buffetto. See buffer, buffoon, and compare German puffen (“to jostle, to hustle”). Pronunciation: /ˈbʌf.ɪt/, /ˈbʌf.ət/ 1. A blow or cuff with or as if with the hand, or by any other solid object or the wind. Labels: countable Example: On his cheek a buffet fell. Example: October 30, 1795, Edmund Burke, letter to Lord Auckland those planks of tough and hardy oak that used for years to brave the buffets of the Bay of Biscay 2. The vibration of an aircraft when flying in or approaching a stall, caused by separation of airflow from the aircraft's wings. Labels: uncountable Example: The aircraft configuration was such that there was little or no warning of the stall onset. The inboard slats were extended, and therefore, the flow separation from the stall would be limited to the outboard segment of the left wing and would not be felt by the left horizontal stabilizer. There would be little or no buffet. The DFDR also indicated that there was some turbulence, which could have masked any aerodynamic buffeting. Since the roll to the left began at V₂ + 6 and since the pilots were aware that V₂ was well above the aircraft's stall speed, they probably did not suspect that the roll to the left indicated a stall. In fact, the roll probably confused them, especially since the stickshaker had not activated.
Word: buffet Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English buffeten, from Old French buffeter, from the noun (see above). Pronunciation: /ˈbʌf.ɪt/, /ˈbʌf.ət/ 1. To strike with a buffet; to cuff; to slap. Labels: transitive Example: They spit in his face and buffeted him. 2. To aggressively challenge, denounce, or criticise. Labels: figuratively, transitive Example: Is Burns obscure because he was gay and therefore ignorable until the Gay Rights Movement began? Or does he largely deserve his neglect? An answer requires that one examine not only Burns' books, but also the critical environment in which he was much buffeted — which, we are told, drove him to an early grave. Example: Buffeted by criticism of his policy on Europe, battered by rebellion in the ranks over his bill to legalize same-sex marriage and wounded by the perception that he is supercilious, contemptuous and out of touch with mainstream Conservatism, Mr. Cameron earlier this week took the highly unusual step of sending a mass e-mail (or, as he called it, “a personal note”) to his party’s grass-roots members. 3. To affect as with blows; to strike repeatedly; to strive with or contend against. Example: to buffet the billows Example: The sudden hurricane in thunder roars, / Buffets the bark, and whirls it from the shores. 4. To deaden the sound of (bells) by muffling the clapper. 5. To struggle, contend; also in figurative or extended use: to move as if driven by force. Labels: intransitive Example: Again the chirpy tone did nothing to pacify the woman holding on to her ankles. Soon Zoe was buffeting back and forward through the hole.
Word: Farsi Part of Speech: name Etymology: Apparently first used widely in English in the late 1960s or early 1970s. From Persian فارسی (fârsi), meaning "relating to Fars", the Arabicized form of the name of the province of Pars (Early New Persian پَارْس (pārs)) which was adopted in Iran following the Arab conquest of Persia in the 7th century. The sense for the hijra argot is from Hindi फ़ारसी (fārsī) from the same word. Pronunciation: /ˈfɑː(ɹ)si/ 1. Synonym of Persian (the language). Labels: proscribed Example: That the Farsi or Persian is not a language derived from the Pehlevi, but a collateral and independent tongue, seems to be sufficiently certain. Example: In July 1984, Radio Iran Toilers began broadcasting in Farsi from Afghanistan; by the end of 1988 it was transmitting twenty-one hours a week. 2. Iranian Persian, as opposed to Dari (Afghan Persian) and Tajik (Tajik Persian). Labels: informal, proscribed
Word: Farsi Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Apparently first used widely in English in the late 1960s or early 1970s. From Persian فارسی (fârsi), meaning "relating to Fars", the Arabicized form of the name of the province of Pars (Early New Persian پَارْس (pārs)) which was adopted in Iran following the Arab conquest of Persia in the 7th century. The sense for the hijra argot is from Hindi फ़ारसी (fārsī) from the same word. Pronunciation: /ˈfɑː(ɹ)si/ 1. An argot of hijras, or catamites, in North India and Pakistan. Labels: uncountable
Word: Farsi Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Apparently first used widely in English in the late 1960s or early 1970s. From Persian فارسی (fârsi), meaning "relating to Fars", the Arabicized form of the name of the province of Pars (Early New Persian پَارْس (pārs)) which was adopted in Iran following the Arab conquest of Persia in the 7th century. The sense for the hijra argot is from Hindi फ़ारसी (fārsī) from the same word. Pronunciation: /ˈfɑː(ɹ)si/ 1. Persian Labels: proscribed
Word: influenza Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Italian influenza (“influence”), from Latin influentia. Doublet of influence. Pronunciation: /ˌɪn.fluˈɛn.zə/ 1. An acute contagious disease of the upper airways and lungs, caused by a virus, which rapidly spreads around the world in seasonal epidemics. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: In early 1919 the Board also issued a film, Dr Wise on Influenza, in which a character called 'Brown' spreads the disease by enacting poor behaviours. This did address transport - by boarding a crowded omnibus, "Brown may be scattering germs throughout the carriage and giving influenza to a number of people". Example: Israel has recorded the first case of a rare mixture of two diseases, influenza and coronavirus, dubbed “flurona”.
Word: miraculous Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle French miraculeux. Displaced native Old English wundorlīċ. Pronunciation: /mɪˈɹæk.jʊ.ləs/, /mɪˈɹæk.jə.ləs/, /məˈɹæk.jə.ləs/ 1. By supernatural or uncommon causes, e.g. by a god; that cannot be explained in terms of normal events. 2. Very surprising; amazing. Example: If Moldova harboured even the slightest hopes of pulling off a comeback that would have bordered on miraculous given their lack of quality, they were snuffed out 13 minutes before the break when Oxlade-Chamberlain picked his way through midfield before releasing Defoe for a finish that should have been dealt with more convincingly by Namasco at his near post.
Word: miracle Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English miracle, from Old French miracle, from Latin mīrāculum (“object of wonder”), from mīror (“to wonder at”), from mīrus (“wonderful”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)meyh₂- (“to smile, to be astonished”). Doublet of milagro and miraculum. Partially displaced native wonder, from Old English wundor (“miracle, wonder”). Pronunciation: /ˈmɪɹ.ə.kəl/, [ˈmɪɹ.ə.kl̩], /ˈmiɹ.ə.kəl/, [ˈmiɹ.ə.kl̩], /ˈmiɹ.ə.ɡəl/ 1. An event that appears inexplicable by the laws of nature and so is held to be supernatural in origin. Example: Many religious beliefs are based on miracles. Example: An example of a miracle associated with Muhammad is the splitting of the moon. 2. A fortunate outcome that prevails despite overwhelming odds against it. Example: Secondly, it was a miracle that a document hammered out with such difficulty, satisfying very few of its authors completely and satisfying some of them very little, would turn out to be the most successful political invention in history. Example: It was a miracle that I survived that ditching in the high waves because I had my seat belt and shoulder harness unbuckled in anticipation of bailing out. 3. An awesome and exceptional example of something. Example: economic miracle Example: engineering miracle
Word: miracle Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English miracle, from Old French miracle, from Latin mīrāculum (“object of wonder”), from mīror (“to wonder at”), from mīrus (“wonderful”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)meyh₂- (“to smile, to be astonished”). Doublet of milagro and miraculum. Partially displaced native wonder, from Old English wundor (“miracle, wonder”). Pronunciation: /ˈmɪɹ.ə.kəl/, [ˈmɪɹ.ə.kl̩], /ˈmiɹ.ə.kəl/, [ˈmiɹ.ə.kl̩], /ˈmiɹ.ə.ɡəl/ 1. To affect by a miracle; to work a miracle upon. Labels: transitive Example: When a patient declares that he has been "miracled," the other pilgrims are apt to rush to him (or her) and ask details; this is not permitted; the miracled invalid is borne or carted away to the Bureau of Medical Certification […] Example: Deleuze and Guattari are right in miracling fleas into the bestiary, but it is already rich enough to do without them.
Word: corpse Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English, from earlier corse, from Old French cors, from Latin corpus (“body”). Displaced native English likam and lich. The ⟨p⟩ was inserted due to the original Latin spelling. Doublet of corps and corpus, and distantly of riff (via Proto-Indo-European). The verb sense derives from the notion of being unable to control laughter while acting as dead body. Pronunciation: /kɔːps/, /koɹps/, [kʰo̞ɹps], /koːps/, /kɔːɹps/ 1. A dead body, especially that of a human as opposed to an animal. Example: I saw battle-corpses, myriads of them, / And the white skeletons of young men, I saw them, / I saw the debris and debris of all the slain soldiers of the war, […] 2. The dead body of any animal with flesh; the dead body of a vertebrate; a carcass. Example: Cantharidin, although readily decomposed by chemical agents, is so permanent in the body that it has been detected in the corpse of a cat eighty-four days after death. Example: Near Smeinogorsk an octagonal tumulus has been found containing the corpse of a horse near a rectangular one with a human corpse, both within stone circles. 3. A human body in general, whether living or dead. Labels: archaic, derogatory, sometimes
Word: corpse Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English, from earlier corse, from Old French cors, from Latin corpus (“body”). Displaced native English likam and lich. The ⟨p⟩ was inserted due to the original Latin spelling. Doublet of corps and corpus, and distantly of riff (via Proto-Indo-European). The verb sense derives from the notion of being unable to control laughter while acting as dead body. Pronunciation: /kɔːps/, /koɹps/, [kʰo̞ɹps], /koːps/, /kɔːɹps/ 1. To laugh uncontrollably during a performance. Labels: intransitive, slang Example: The rest of the day and the week were spent blocking and learning the lines. The only drama was the predictable one of being ticked off for corpsing. Rupert was quite as bad as me when it came to giggling and the tea-party scene which took place between Rupert, David Parfitt, Piers Flint-Shipman and I, was too much. Example: There were still moments when she would halt suddenly, like an actor stranded in the middle of the stage, lines forgotten, staring goggle-eyed and making fish-mouths...Corpsing: that was the word. 2. To cause another actor to do this. Labels: slang, transitive
Word: dung Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English dung, dunge, donge, from Old English dung (“dung; excrement; manure”), from Proto-West Germanic *dungu, from Proto-Germanic *dungō (“dung”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰengʰ- (“to cover”). Superseded non-native Middle English fen (“dung, excrement, filth”), from Old French fien, fiente (“dung, manure”). Pronunciation: /ˈdʌŋ/, /dʊŋ/, /dʊŋɡ/ 1. Manure; animal excrement. Labels: uncountable Example: Poor Tom, that eats the swimming frog, the toad, the todpole, the wall-newt, and the water; that in the fury of his heart, when the foul fiend rages, eats cow-dung for sallets; swallows the old rat and the ditch-dog; drinks the green mantle of the standing pool[…] Example: Behold, I will corrupt your seed, and spread dung upon your faces, even the dung of your solemn feasts; and one shall take you away with it. 2. A type of manure, as from a particular species or type of animal. Labels: countable 3. A tailor's employee, usually one who is paid by the piece rather than by the day. Labels: UK, countable, obsolete, slang
Word: dung Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English dung, dunge, donge, from Old English dung (“dung; excrement; manure”), from Proto-West Germanic *dungu, from Proto-Germanic *dungō (“dung”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰengʰ- (“to cover”). Superseded non-native Middle English fen (“dung, excrement, filth”), from Old French fien, fiente (“dung, manure”). Pronunciation: /ˈdʌŋ/, /dʊŋ/, /dʊŋɡ/ 1. To fertilize with dung. Labels: transitive Example: a cart he found, That carry'd compost forth to dung the ground Example: She had been dunging the roses and was fairly covered in muck. 2. To immerse or steep, as calico, in a bath of hot water containing cow dung, done to remove the superfluous mordant. Labels: transitive 3. To release dung: to defecate. Labels: intransitive Example: […] for hungry birds have devoured ſeeds, and having moiſtened and warmed them in their bellies, a little after have dunged in the forky twiſtes of Trees, and together with their dung excluded the ſeed whole which erſt they had ſwallowed: and ſometimes it brings forth there where they dung it, […]
Word: dung Part of Speech: verb Etymology: See ding Pronunciation: /ˈdʌŋ/, /dʊŋ/, /dʊŋɡ/ 1. past participle of ding Labels: form-of, obsolete, participle, past
Word: dung Part of Speech: verb Etymology: unknown Pronunciation: /ˈdʌŋ/, /dʊŋ/, /dʊŋɡ/ 1. To discard (especially rubbish); to chuck out. Labels: colloquial
Word: dung Part of Speech: intj Etymology: Onomatopoeic. Pronunciation: /ˈdʌŋ/, /dʊŋ/, /dʊŋɡ/ 1. Alternative spelling of dong (“sound of a bell”). Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: doo Part of Speech: noun Etymology: 1950s, from child speak. Pronunciation: /duː/, /du/, /dʉː/ 1. feces, particularly that of a dog. Labels: childish
Word: doo Part of Speech: intj Pronunciation: /duː/, /du/, /dʉː/ 1. Used as a scat word in singing. Example: (Ever feel like you've just entered... The Twilight Zone? Doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo....) Example: […] the bloke who sang about coloured girls going 'doo de doo de doo doo d'de doo de doo de doo' had once had this thing with the guy who produced the debut albums by the Stooges and Patti Smith.
Word: doo Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Clipping of Skidoo. Pronunciation: /duː/, /du/, /dʉː/ 1. A snowmobile. Example: If you know what it means to be a “fidlet” going for a “jolly” in your “doo”, then you are part of an exclusive club that speaks colloquial Antarctic English.
Word: OFries Part of Speech: name 1. Abbreviation of Old Frisian. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of
Word: phantasmophobia Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Based on the Ancient Greek roots φάντασμα (phántasma, “ghost”) + φόβος (phóbos, “fear”). 1. An abnormal or irrational fear of ghosts and phantoms. Labels: uncountable
Word: clairvoyant Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From French clairvoyant, from clair (“clear”) + voyant (“seeing”), present participle of voir (“see”). Pronunciation: /ˌklɛəˈvɔɪ.ənt/, /ˌklɛɹˈvɔɪ.ənt/ 1. Of, relating to, or having clairvoyance. Example: Then there is the very large class of casual clairvoyant visions which have no traceable cause — which are apparently quite meaningless, and have no recognizable relation to any events known to the seer. 2. Able to see things that cannot be perceived by the normal senses. 3. Able to foresee the future. 4. Having great insight; sagacious. Example: …his vision of the future so far-reaching and clairvoyant as that of many who have lived before him and since… 5. Relating to a form of parallel processing algorithm given advance information about the problem.
Word: clairvoyant Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From French clairvoyant, from clair (“clear”) + voyant (“seeing”), present participle of voir (“see”). Pronunciation: /ˌklɛəˈvɔɪ.ənt/, /ˌklɛɹˈvɔɪ.ənt/ 1. A person able to see things that cannot be perceived by the normal senses 2. A person able to foresee the future
Word: apian Part of Speech: adj Etymology: 19th century, from Latin apiānus, from apis (“bee”). Pronunciation: /ˈeɪpi.ən/ 1. Relating to bees. Example: In fact, apian, formican, vespal, and termital government is not a monarchy, but a pure democracy. The queens of ants, bees, wasps, and termites wear the crown of maternity — no other.
Word: apian Part of Speech: noun Etymology: 19th century, from Latin apiānus, from apis (“bee”). Pronunciation: /ˈeɪpi.ən/ 1. A bee. Labels: rare Example: The largest of all the apians is the humble-bee, or humming-bee (Bombus). Example: Whether in the world of apians or Homo sapiens, this highly concentrated super-food is indeed fit for a queen.
Word: pipis Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of pipi Labels: form-of, plural
Word: treble Part of Speech: adj Etymology: PIE word *tréyes From Middle English treble, from Old French treble, from Latin triplus. Doublet of triple. Pronunciation: /ˈtɹɛbəl/ 1. Pertaining to the highest singing voice or part in harmonized music. Labels: not-comparable Example: He put his cigar in his mouth, and, with his right hand, up in the treble keys, he began to play, in octaves, the melody of a song called "The Kinkajou," which, somewhat notably, had shifted into and ostensibly out of popularity before he was born. 2. Threefold, triple. Labels: dated, not-comparable Example: A lofty tower, and strong on every side / With treble walls. Example: Every subscriber of one penny per week, who is sixty years of age, or upwards, and under four-score, to be entitled to receive treble his subscription at the end of the year; that is, his own subscription, and twice as much more.
Word: treble Part of Speech: adv Etymology: PIE word *tréyes From Middle English treble, from Old French treble, from Latin triplus. Doublet of triple. Pronunciation: /ˈtɹɛbəl/ 1. Trebly; triply. Labels: dated, not-comparable Example: Whose deserts might buy him treble
Word: treble Part of Speech: noun Etymology: PIE word *tréyes From Middle English treble, from Old French treble, from Latin triplus. Doublet of triple. Pronunciation: /ˈtɹɛbəl/ 1. The highest singing voice (especially as for a boy) or part in musical composition. Example: He starts out by saying that there are three sights, the mene, treble, and quadreble, but actually he discusses only two, the treble and quadreble, both of which are read at the transposition of an octave. Example: The voices include a counter (always below the tenor), a countertenor (moving above and below the tenor), mene, treble, and quadreble. 2. A person or instrument having a treble voice or pitch; a boy soprano. 3. The highest tuned in a ring of bells. 4. Any high-pitched or shrill voice or sound. 5. A threefold quantity or number; something having three parts or having been tripled. Labels: dated 6. A drink with three portions of alcohol; a triple Labels: dated 7. Any of the narrow areas enclosed by the two central circles on a dartboard, worth three times the usual value of the segment. 8. Three goals, victories, awards etc. in a given match or season. Example: As for City, a domestic treble is off the cards and they must haul themselves off the floor quickly with the second leg of their last-16 Champions League tie against Barcelona on Wednesday. 9. Three goals, victories, awards etc. in a given match or season.
Word: treble Part of Speech: verb Etymology: PIE word *tréyes From Middle English treble, from Old French treble, from Latin triplus. Doublet of triple. Pronunciation: /ˈtɹɛbəl/ 1. To multiply by three; to make into three parts, layers, or thrice the amount. Labels: dated, transitive Example: There is increasing evidence that cannabis use can act as a risk factor for the development of bipolar as well as psychotic disorders. A recent systematic review by Gibbs and colleagues identified several studies supporting a link between cannabis use and subsequent relapse of manic symptoms. This review also included a meta-analysis of two large prospective cohort studies, which found that cannabis use almost trebled the risk of new-onset subthreshold manic symptoms after adjusting for potential confounding factors. Example: German climate minister says speed of carbon cuts needs to be trebled [title] 2. To become multiplied by three or increased threefold. Labels: dated, intransitive Example: I am more ſerious then my cuſtome; you Muſt be ſo too, if heed me: which to do Trebbles thee o're. 3. To make a shrill or high-pitched noise. Labels: intransitive 4. To utter in a treble key; to whine. Labels: transitive Example: He outrageously / (When I accused him) trebled his reply.
Word: treble Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈtɹɛbəl/ 1. Alternative form of tribble (“frame for drying paper”). Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: cattleman Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From cattle + man. 1. A man who raises or tends cattle, as: 2. A man who raises or tends cattle, as:
Word: boar Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English bor, boor, from Old English bār, from Proto-West Germanic *bair. Pronunciation: /bɔː(ɹ)/, /boɹ/, /bo(ː)ɹ/, /boə/ 1. A wild boar (Sus scrofa), the wild ancestor of the domesticated pig. Example: And drivers on local roads have encountered traveling boars, which can run at up to 30 miles an hour, according to one local resident, who said a friend’s car collided with a 132-pound animal, totaling the vehicle, as well as killing the boar. 2. A male pig. Example: "Bull hogs," or boars, which are uncastrated male pigs, tend to have a dark, gamy flesh not appreciated by everyone. 3. A male boar (sense 1). 4. A male bear. 5. A male guinea pig.
Word: rival Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin rīvālis (literally “person using the same stream as another”). By surface analysis, Latin rīvus + -al. Pronunciation: /ˈɹaɪvəl/ 1. A competitor (person, team, company, etc.) with the same goal as another, or striving to attain the same thing. Defeating a rival may be a primary or necessary goal of a competitor. Example: Chris is my biggest rival in the 400-metre race. Example: Every day is like survival / You're my lover, not my rival 2. Someone or something with similar claims of quality or distinction as another. Example: As a social historian, he has no rival. 3. One having a common right or privilege with another; a partner. Labels: obsolete Example: If you do meet Horatio and Marcellus, / The rivals of my watch, bid them make haste.
Word: rival Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin rīvālis (literally “person using the same stream as another”). By surface analysis, Latin rīvus + -al. Pronunciation: /ˈɹaɪvəl/ 1. Having the same pretensions or claims; standing in competition for superiority. Labels: not-comparable Example: rival lovers Example: rival claims or pretensions
Word: rival Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin rīvālis (literally “person using the same stream as another”). By surface analysis, Latin rīvus + -al. Pronunciation: /ˈɹaɪvəl/ 1. To oppose or compete with. Labels: transitive Example: to rival somebody in love 2. To be equal to, or match, or to surpass another. Example: But the Waverley is still the best-placed station of any British city, and gives the arriving stranger a first impression rivalled in Europe only by the exclusively watery station approach at Venice. Example: The original family who had begun to build a palace to rival Nonesuch had died out before they had put up little more than the gateway, […]. 3. To strive to equal or excel; to emulate. Example: to rival thunder in its rapid course
Word: guide Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *weyd-der. Proto-Germanic *wītaną Frankish *wītanbor. Old Occitan guidar Old Occitan guidabor. Old French guidebor. Middle English guide English guide c. 1325–75. From Middle English guide, from the Old French guide, from Old Occitan guida, from guidar, from Frankish *wītan (“to show the way, lead”), from Proto-Germanic *wītaną (“to see, know; go, depart”), from Proto-Indo-European *weyd- (“to see, know”). Cognate with Old English wītan (“to see, take heed to, watch after, guard, keep”). Related also to English wit. Pronunciation: /ɡaɪd/ 1. Someone who guides, especially someone hired to show people around a place or an institution and offer information and explanation, or to lead them through dangerous terrain. Example: The guide led us around the museum and explained the exhibits. Example: He will be our guide, even unto death. 2. A document or book that offers information or instruction; guidebook. 3. A sign that guides people; guidepost. 4. Any marking or object that catches the eye to provide quick reference. 5. Synonym of legend, a key to symbols, abbreviations, and terms on a map, chart, etc. 6. A device that guides part of a machine, or guides motion or action. 7. A device that guides part of a machine, or guides motion or action. 8. A device that guides part of a machine, or guides motion or action. Labels: dated 9. A spirit believed to speak through a medium. Example: The familiars of the magicians, on the other hand, were not in all cases evil, and often may have approximated the "guides" with whom present-day spiritualists are well acquainted. 10. A member of a group marching in formation who sets the pattern of movement or alignment for the rest.
Word: guide Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *weyd-der. Proto-Germanic *wītaną Frankish *wītanbor. Old Occitan guidarbor. Old French guiderbor. Middle English guiden English guide From Middle English guiden, from Old French guider, from Old Occitan guidar, from Frankish *wītan (“to show the way, lead”), from Proto-Germanic *wītaną (“to see, know; go, depart”), from Proto-Indo-European *weyd- (“to see, know”). Pronunciation: /ɡaɪd/ 1. To serve as a guide for someone or something; to lead or direct in a way; to conduct in a course or path. Example: And that you'd guide me to your Soueraignes Court, Example: Kolyat: I brought a prayer book, Commander. Would you care to join me? Kolyat: Kalahira, this one's heart is pure, but beset by wickedness and contention. Shepard: Guide this one to where the traveler never tires, the lover never leaves, the hungry never starve. Shepard: Guide this one, Kalahira, and she will be a companion to you as she was to me. 2. To steer or navigate, especially a ship or as a pilot. 3. To exert control or influence over someone or something. Example: A good man sheweth fauour and lendeth: he will guide his affaires with discretion. 4. To supervise the education or training of someone. 5. To act as a guide. Labels: intransitive
Word: trench Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed into Middle English from Old French trenche. Doublet of tranche and traunch. Possible doublet of English: truncate Pronunciation: /ˈtɹɛnt͡ʃ/, [ˈtɹ̝̊ʷɛnt͡ʃ], [ˈt̠ɹ̠̊˔ʷɛnt͡ʃ], /ˈtɹɪnt͡ʃ/, [ˈtɹ̝̊ʷɪ̟nt͡ʃ] 1. A long, narrow ditch or hole in the ground; either manmade, or formed naturally through erosion or tectonic plate movement. Example: The trenches for installing the underground cables were dug with a trencher. Example: The milling action of the bucket line enables the trencher to cut through difficult materials, such as stone rubble and brick filling, and to leave a good trench with clean side walls. 2. A narrow excavation as used in warfare, as a cover for besieging or emplaced forces. Example: The soldiers in the trenches rely on logistical support. Example: Following in the tank's wake, the cameliers reached the first line of Turkish trenches, where they confronted a handful of Ottoman soldiers too wounded to retreat. 3. A pit, usually rectangular with smooth walls and floor, excavated during an archaeological investigation. 4. A trench coat. Labels: informal Example: I was the first person in my high school to wear a trench and fedora constantly, and Ben was one of the first to wear a black trench. Example: A classic trench can work in any kind of weather and goes well with almost anything.
Word: trench Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Borrowed into Middle English from Old French trenche. Doublet of tranche and traunch. Possible doublet of English: truncate Pronunciation: /ˈtɹɛnt͡ʃ/, [ˈtɹ̝̊ʷɛnt͡ʃ], [ˈt̠ɹ̠̊˔ʷɛnt͡ʃ], /ˈtɹɪnt͡ʃ/, [ˈtɹ̝̊ʷɪ̟nt͡ʃ] 1. To invade, especially with regard to the rights or the exclusive authority of another; to encroach. Labels: usually Example: Shee is the Judge, Thou Executioner, Or if thou needs would'st trench upon her power, Thou mightst have yet enjoy'd thy crueltie, With some more thrift, and more varietie. Example: Does it not seem as if for a creature to challenge to itself a boundless attribute, were to trench upon the prerogative of the divine nature? 2. To excavate an elongated pit for protection of soldiers and or equipment, usually perpendicular to the line of sight toward the enemy. Example: No more shall trenching war channel her fields. Example: Advanc'd upon the field there stood a mound Of earth congested, wall'd , and trench'd around 3. To excavate an elongated and often narrow pit. 4. To have direction; to aim or tend. Example: the reason and consequence thereof may trench to point of estate 5. To cut; to form or shape by cutting; to make by incision, hewing, etc. Example: The wide wound that the boar had trenched / In his soft flank. Example: This weak impress of love is as a figure / Trenched in ice, which with an hour's heat Dissolves to water, and doth lose its form. 6. To cut furrows or ditches in. Example: to trench land for the purpose of draining it 7. To dig or cultivate very deeply, usually by digging parallel contiguous trenches in succession, filling each from the next. Example: to trench a garden for certain crops
Word: ditch Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Germanic *dīkaz Proto-West Germanic *dīk Old English dīċ Middle English dich English ditch From Middle English dich, from Old English dīċ (“trench, moat”) from Proto-Germanic *dīkaz (compare Swedish dike, Icelandic díki, West Frisian dyk (“dam”), Dutch dijk (“dam”), German Teich (“pond”)), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeygʷ- (“to stick, set up”) (compare Latin fīgō (“to affix, fasten”), Lithuanian diegti (“to prick; plant”), dýgsti (“to geminate, grow”)). Doublet of dike. Pronunciation: /dɪt͡ʃ/ 1. A trench; a long, shallow indentation, as for irrigation or drainage. Example: Digging ditches has long been considered one of the most demanding forms of manual labor. Example: The truck careered off the road into a ditch. 2. A raised bank of earth and the hedgerow on top. Labels: Ireland Example: You flung a ditch on my vision Of beauty, love and truth. O stony grey soil of Monaghan You burgled my bank of youth! Example: The original ditches were created by digging trenches, as boundaries and/or irrigation. But to the English, the ditch is the trench. Whereas in Ireland, the ditch is the raised bank of earth and the hedgerow on top. (As for the trench, where I come from that’s a sheugh).
Word: ditch Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Germanic *dīkaz Proto-West Germanic *dīk Old English dīċ Middle English dich English ditch From Middle English dich, from Old English dīċ (“trench, moat”) from Proto-Germanic *dīkaz (compare Swedish dike, Icelandic díki, West Frisian dyk (“dam”), Dutch dijk (“dam”), German Teich (“pond”)), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeygʷ- (“to stick, set up”) (compare Latin fīgō (“to affix, fasten”), Lithuanian diegti (“to prick; plant”), dýgsti (“to geminate, grow”)). Doublet of dike. Pronunciation: /dɪt͡ʃ/ 1. To discard or abandon. Labels: transitive Example: I wanted to see Phil. I didn't. Mom didn't want to drive in this bad weather. I started to cry. Phil probably thinks I'm ditching him. I want to see him sooo bad. Example: Once the sun came out we ditched our rain-gear and started a campfire. 2. To deliberately crash-land an airplane on water. Labels: ambitransitive Example: When the second engine failed, the pilot was forced to ditch; their last location was just south of the Azores. 3. To deliberately not attend classes; to play hookey. Labels: ambitransitive Example: The truant officer caught Louise ditching with her friends, and her parents were forced to pay a fine. Example: "No, instead, it just had enough power to transform me, overload, and force me to wait to change back! I had to ditch school!" 4. To dig ditches. Labels: intransitive Example: Enclosure led to fuller winter employment in hedging and ditching. 5. To dig ditches around. Labels: transitive Example: The soldiers ditched the tent to prevent flooding. 6. To throw into a ditch. Labels: transitive Example: The engine was ditched and turned on its side.
Word: ditch Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From earlier deche, from Middle English dechen, from Old English dēcan (“to smear, plaster, daub”). More at deech. Pronunciation: /dɪt͡ʃ/ 1. Alternative form of deech. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: ditch Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From earlier deche, from Middle English dechen, from Old English dēcan (“to smear, plaster, daub”). More at deech. Pronunciation: /dɪt͡ʃ/ 1. Alternative form of deech. Labels: alt-of, alternative, uncountable, usually
Word: discard Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From dis- + card. Compare Spanish descartar. Pronunciation: /dɪsˈkɑːd/, /dɪˈskɑːd/, /dɪsˈkɑɹd/, /dɪˈskɑɹd/ 1. To throw away, to reject. Labels: transitive Example: A man discards the follies of boyhood. Example: My next stop is Oxford, which has also grown with the addition of new platforms to accommodate the Chiltern Railways service to London via Bicester - although, short sightedly, the planned electrification from Paddington was canned. Evidence of the volte-face can be seen along the line at places such as Radley, where mast piles are already sunk or lie discarded at the lineside. 2. To make a discard; to throw out a card. Labels: intransitive 3. To dismiss from employment, confidence, or favour; to discharge. Example: […] They blame the Favourites in point of Policy, and think it nothing extraordinary, that the Queen ſhould be at an end of Her Patience, and reſolve to diſcard them.
Word: discard Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From dis- + card. Compare Spanish descartar. Pronunciation: /ˈdɪskɑːd/, /ˈdɪskɑɹd/ 1. Anything discarded. 2. One or more discarded playing cards in a card game. Example: "Stroll across and see how the game is going," suggested Carrados. "Have a look at Crediton's discard and then come back." 3. The act of discarding. Example: Spinola was hovering about the external fittings of the figure with unusual fussiness. When at length he released the left hand it seemed for an almost perceptible moment that the action hung. Then the arm descended and carried out the discard. 4. A temporary variable used to receive a value of no importance and unable to be read later. Example: Discards can be used with out parameters, with tuples, with pattern matching (Chapters 6 and 8), or even as stand-alone variables.
Word: discord Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Circa 1230, Middle English descorde, discorde; from Anglo-Norman, Old French descort (derivative of descorder), descorde (“disagreement”); from Latin discordia, from discors (“disagreeing, disagreement”), from dis- (“apart”) + cor, cordis (“heart”). Verb derives from Middle English discorden, from Anglo-Norman, Old French descorder, from Latin discordāre, from discord-, as above. Pronunciation: /ˈdɪskɔɹd/, /ˈdɪskɔːd/ 1. Lack of concord, agreement, harmony; disaccord. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: A false witnesse that speaketh lies; and him that soweth discord among brethren. Example: The proposition is peace. Not peace through the medium of war; not peace to be hunted through the labyrinth of intricate and endless negotiations; not peace to arise out of universal discord, fomented from principle, in all parts of the empire; […] 2. Tension or strife resulting from a lack of agreement; dissension. Labels: countable, uncountable 3. Any harsh noise, or confused mingling of sounds. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: […] For a Diſcord it ſelfe is but a Harſhneſſe of Diuers Sounds Meeting. 4. An inharmonious combination of simultaneously sounded tones; a dissonance. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: discord Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Circa 1230, Middle English descorde, discorde; from Anglo-Norman, Old French descort (derivative of descorder), descorde (“disagreement”); from Latin discordia, from discors (“disagreeing, disagreement”), from dis- (“apart”) + cor, cordis (“heart”). Verb derives from Middle English discorden, from Anglo-Norman, Old French descorder, from Latin discordāre, from discord-, as above. Pronunciation: /dɪsˈkɔɹd/, /dɪsˈkɔːd/ 1. To disagree; to fail to agree or harmonize; clash. Labels: archaic, intransitive Example: […] Sometimes the one Iarring and diſcording with the other, and making a Confuſion; […]
Word: discord Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁ Proto-Indo-European *d(w)is- Proto-Italic *dis- Latin dis- Old French des-bor. ▲ Latin dis-bor. Middle English dis- English dis- English cord English discord From dis- + cord (“tie, bind”). Pronunciation: /dɪsˈkɔɹd/, /dɪsˈkɔːd/ 1. To untie things which are connected by a cord. Labels: rare, transitive
Word: discordant Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Late Middle English discordaunt (“(adjective) not in accord or harmony; dissonant; (noun) element not in accord or harmony”), from Anglo-Norman descorda(u)nt, discorda(u)nt, Middle French descordant, discordant, and Old French descordant, discordant (“of people: quarrelsome; of things: in disagreement, at variance”) (modern French discordant), an adjective use of the present participle of descorder, discorder (“to fail to agree or harmonize, clash, disagree, discord”), from Latin discordāre, the present active infinitive of discordō (“to disagree, quarrel with”), from discors (“discordant, different, inharmonious”) + -ō (suffix forming regular first-conjugation verbs). Discors is derived from dis- (“prefix meaning ‘apart, in two’”) + cor (“heart; (figurative) mind; soul”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ḱḗr (“heart”)). By surface analysis, discord (noun) + -ant (suffix forming adjectives from nouns with the sense ‘exhibiting [the condition or process described by the noun]’). Pronunciation: /dɪsˈkɔːdn̩t/, /dɪsˈkoɹdənt/ 1. A thing which is not in accord or harmony with one or more other things. Labels: in-plural Example: In the process of dismemberment it must often happen that the true individuality of a soil is lost, so that schemes of laboratory classification sometimes arbitrarily separate agricultural similars and unite agricultural discordants.
Word: love child Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From love + child. 1. A child born as a result of a romantic liaison between parents not married to one another; an illegitimate child. Labels: euphemistic Example: Nobody ever came to see her, nobody spoke of her, nobody cared about her. Mr Brass had said once, that he believed she was a ‘love-child’ (which means anything but a child of love). Example: Love child, never meant to be / Love child, born in poverty 2. Something that includes influences of multiple predecessors. Example: The grunge genre was the love child of punk and metal.
Word: lovechild Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From love + child. 1. Alternative form of love child. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: matrices Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈmeɪtɹɪsiːz/ 1. plural of matrix Labels: form-of, plural
Word: matrices Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈmeɪtɹɪsɪz/ 1. plural of matrice Labels: form-of, plural
Word: depict Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English depicten, from Latin dēpictus, from dēpingō. Pronunciation: /dɪˈpɪkt/, [dɪˈpɪkt], /dəˈpɪkt/, [dəˈpɪkt] 1. To render a representation of something, using words, sounds, images, or other means. Example: And by [these Embassadours] he sent to their master a Tent, wherein the history of the Bible was as richly as curiously depicted in needle-work; Example: The Spring, when all its beauties rise, I see depicted in your eyes
Word: depict Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English depicten, from Latin dēpictus, from dēpingō. Pronunciation: /dɪˈpɪkt/, [dɪˈpɪkt], /dəˈpɪkt/, [dəˈpɪkt] 1. Depicted. Labels: not-comparable, obsolete Example: Early 1400s, John Lydgate, “The Concords of Company” in James Orchard Halliwell (ed.), A Selection from the Minor Poems of Dan John Lydgate, London: The Percy Society, 1840, p. 177, I fond a lyknesse depict upon a wal, Armed in vertues, as I walk up and doun, The hed of thre ful solempne and roial, Intellectus, memorye, and resoun;
Word: depiction Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From French dépiction, from Latin dēpictiō. By surface analysis, depict + -ion. Pronunciation: /dɪˈpɪkʃən/, [dɪˈpɪkʃən] ~ [dɪˈpɪkʃn̩], /dəˈpɪkʃən/, [dəˈpɪkʃən] ~ [dəˈpɪkʃn̩] 1. A lifelike image of something, either verbal or visual. Labels: countable Example: If Demandt's essay served as a strident example of the German desire for normalcy, a more subtle example was provided by a brief allohistorical depiction of a Nazi victory in World War II written by German historian Michael Salewski in 1999. 2. A drawing or painting. Labels: countable 3. A representation. Labels: countable 4. The act of depicting. Labels: uncountable Example: It is nevertheless true that, whereas the teaching of music and literature is established on a scientific basis, the art of depiction is still taught in a primitive and inefficient way. Example: But since "realism" or representational depiction is itself a mode of art, it can never escape some degree of formal removal from the raw data of experience; […]