nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: lima bean Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Named after the city of Lima, from which they were exported. Pronunciation: /ˈliːmə ˌbiːn/, /ˈlaɪmə ˌbin/ 1. Any of species Phaseolus lunatus of bean-bearing plants. Example: We hoed the lima bean rows last night. 2. Fruit of this plant. Example: We had lima beans with dinner last night.
Word: sangat Part of Speech: noun 1. A Sikh community. Labels: Sikhism
Word: section Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English seccioun, from Old French section, from Latin sectiō (“cutting, cutting off, excision, amputation of diseased parts of the body, etc.”), from sectus, past participle of secāre (“to cut”). More at saw. Pronunciation: /ˈsɛkʃən/ 1. A cutting; a part cut out from the rest of something. 2. A part, piece, subdivision of anything. Example: Seeing the British establishment struggle with the financial sector is like watching an alcoholic […]. Until 2008 there was denial over what finance had become. […] But the scandals kept coming, and so we entered stage three – what therapists call "bargaining". A broad section of the political class now recognises the need for change but remains unable to see the necessity of a fundamental overhaul. Instead it offers fixes and patches. 3. A part, piece, subdivision of anything. Example: The horn section is the group of symphonic musicians who play the French horn. 4. A part of a document, especially a major part; often notated with §. 5. An act or instance of cutting. 6. A cross-section (image that shows an object as if cut along a plane). Example: Japan and China also produced Noah's arks, where Noah was known as Fohi. They were of wood and beautifully decorated, the animals being bright in color and usually flat in section and fixed to flat stands. 7. A cross-section (image that shows an object as if cut along a plane). 8. A cross-section (image that shows an object as if cut along a plane). 9. A cross-section (image that shows an object as if cut along a plane). 10. A cross-section (image that shows an object as if cut along a plane). 11. An incision or the act of making an incision. 12. An incision or the act of making an incision. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, colloquial, ellipsis Example: They had planned to go into my section scar but the surgeon didnʼt think he could see well enough. 13. thin section, a thin slice of material prepared as a specimen for research. 14. A taxonomic rank below the genus (and subgenus if present), but above the species. 15. An informal taxonomic rank below the order ranks and above the family ranks. 16. A group of 10-15 soldiers led by a non-commissioned officer and forming part of a platoon. 17. A piece of residential land; a plot. Labels: New-Zealand 18. Synonym of square mile, a unit of land area, especially in the contexts of Canadian surveys and American land grants and legal property descriptions. Labels: Canada, US 19. The symbol §, denoting a section of a document. 20. A sequence of rock layers. 21. Archeological section; vertical plane and cross-section of the ground to view its profile and stratigraphy; part of an archeological sequence. 22. Angle section, L-section, angle iron, steel angle, slotted angle. 23. A class in a school; a group of students in a regularly scheduled meeting with a teacher in a certain school year or semester or school quarter year. Labels: Philippines
Word: section Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English seccioun, from Old French section, from Latin sectiō (“cutting, cutting off, excision, amputation of diseased parts of the body, etc.”), from sectus, past participle of secāre (“to cut”). More at saw. Pronunciation: /ˈsɛkʃən/ 1. To cut, divide or separate into pieces. Labels: transitive Example: Overlap spans and neutral sections have been provided at intervals along the line, which is thus sectioned electrically, not only at the feeder station and track sectioning cabins, but also by switches at certain overlap spans. 2. To reduce to the degree of thinness required for study with the microscope. Labels: transitive 3. To commit (a person) to a hospital for mental health treatment as an involuntary patient. So called after various sections of legal acts regarding mental health. Labels: Australia, New-Zealand, UK, transitive Example: Tribunals were set up as watchdogs in cases of compulsory detention (sectioning). […] Informal patients, however, could be sectioned, and this was often a fear of patients once they were in hospital. Example: The doctor then sectioned her, making her an involuntary patient, and had her moved to a secure ward. 4. To perform a cesarean section on (someone). Labels: transitive Example: "But if she's gone into active labour she could be bleeding massively and you may have to section her there and then." Example: You may hear a physician say, "I don't want to section her until the baby declares itself."
Word: foreskin Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From fore- + skin, a loose calque of Latin praepūtium. Compare German Vorhaut, etc. First attested in c. 1535. Pronunciation: /ˈfɔːskɪn/, /ˈfɔɹskɪn/, /ˈfo(ː)ɹskɪn/, /ˈfoəskɪn/ 1. The nerve-dense, retractable fold of skin which covers and protects the glans of the penis in humans and some other mammals. Example: In the female genitalia, the clitoral hood is homologous to the foreskin. Example: And the vncircumcised man-child, whose flesh of his foreskinne is not circumcised, that soule shall be cut off from his people: hee hath broken my couenant. 2. Ellipsis of clitoral foreskin. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis
Word: foreskin Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From fore- + skin, a loose calque of Latin praepūtium. Compare German Vorhaut, etc. First attested in c. 1535. Pronunciation: /ˈfɔːskɪn/, /ˈfɔɹskɪn/, /ˈfo(ː)ɹskɪn/, /ˈfoəskɪn/ 1. To remove the foreskin. Labels: intransitive, transitive Example: What she meant, of course, was young initiated men, and any such would be in short supply until after the foreskinning ceremonies at Christmas. Example: I always liked an open fire," an open wound, suppuration of silent words from somewhere, a long line of fathers foreskinning for all they were worth, unknown, unsaid, alone in ice-cold space as we're all alone in the absence of God with only His mother, the mother of God, out there in black face, alone herself, the queen of the world... 2. To sexually stimulate by manipulating the foreskin. Labels: intransitive, transitive Example: According to Scotty, who should have played the accordion, and did he, Dr. Bowles now wonders, grow up to be Scotty Boy Potty and was all this merely a terribly tropish bit of biz foreskinning the man he would becum, nuntheless, according to Scott, if one waved bye-bye up and down, i.e. flapping, versus side to side, i.e. wiping, one was a fag. Example: S'ter Penny started to go but stopped when she noticed Ivy was still standing with us. "Heh! Ivy Abankwah, jai foreskinning!" She told her to stop doing something -- I wasn't sure what "foreskinning" meant.
Word: prepuce Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English prepuce, prepuse, from Old French prepuce (“foreskin”), from Latin praepūtium (“prepuce, foreskin”), a combination of prae- (“fore-”) + Old Latin pūtos (“penis”). Pronunciation: /ˈpɹiːpjuːs/ 1. The foreskin, or retractable fold of tissue covering the glans penis. Example: Jehovah, collector of prepuces, is no more. Example: But there are a fair number of halfway Jews – you know, those who want God without having to have their prepuces torn off to get him. 2. The clitoral hood.
Word: every dog has its day Part of Speech: proverb 1. Everyone, at some point, experiences some degree of victory or success in life. Example: cæsar [...] Yes, Rufio: I am an old man—worn out now—true, quite true. [...] Well, every dog has his day; and I have had mine: I cannot complain. Example: "[T]o lose, it hurt. But I learned from that. I learned that every dog has its day. I learned patience."
Word: opium Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *sokʷós Ancient Greek ὀπός (opós) Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Ancient Greek -ῐος (-ĭos)? Ancient Greek -ῐον (-ĭon) Ancient Greek ὄπιον (ópion)bor. Latin opiumbor. ▲ Ancient Greek ὄπιον (ópion)bor. English opium Borrowed from Latin opium and Ancient Greek ὄπιον (ópion), from ὀπός (opós, “juice of a plant”), from Proto-Indo-European *sokʷós (“juice, resin”). Pronunciation: /ˈoʊ.pi.əm/, /ˈəʊ.pi.əm/, /ˈoʊp.jəm/ 1. A yellow-brown, addictive narcotic drug obtained from the dried juice of unripe pods of the opium poppy, Papaver somniferum, and containing alkaloids such as morphine, codeine, and papaverine. Labels: uncountable Example: From hence we firſt ſailed to Achin, in the iſland of Sumatra, and then to Siam, where we bartered our wares for ſome arrack and opium, the laſt of which bore a great price among the Chineſe:[…] Example: Opium is largely used by the Chinese as a sexual provocation, both by men and women. 2. Anything that numbs or stupefies. Labels: broadly, countable Example: Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, […] It is the opium of the people.
Word: yoink Part of Speech: verb Etymology: 1954. Onomatopoeic. Pronunciation: /jɔɪŋk/ 1. To make an oinking sound. Labels: onomatopoeic Example: Outside in the fog and the damp and cool air, common to County Cavan, he strode briskly along the road and when he arrived Cummings was already out and busy and the pigs—a big drove of them—were yoinking for their feed. 2. To hop or bounce. Labels: colloquial Example: Carl Solomon yoinking around so frenziedly on a pogo stick that one night he put the end of it right through the floor into the restaurant below -- and all their girls, and their friends' girls, and their friends' friends, and even nameless others who may have just heard the hubbub and walkin in the door. 3. nonce word for an action that impacts on something, especially if it is sudden. Example: All of the clout is upstairs, yoinking around with meetings and that. Example: Por supuesto, Ethan Suva yoinked the silence. 4. To kill. Labels: slang Example: I'll be going along, doing my starving-writer thing, free from the shackles of 'The Tube'; and, suddenly, my inspiration will die. Just gone, yoinked like a plug. Example: "By all indications, the closet was just where the killah left her." He flipped through his notebook and then back, verifying his info. Good cop, Bubo thought. Thorough. "Yup," he said, tapping the page. “By all indications, it looks like she got herself yoinked someplace else.”
Word: yoink Part of Speech: noun Etymology: 1954. Onomatopoeic. Pronunciation: /jɔɪŋk/ 1. An ordinary person with nothing to recommend them. Labels: slang Example: Yessir, we need you Yoinks. You're all we have, you are. Example: You are all a bunch of yoinks who insult Budda!
Word: yoink Part of Speech: intj Etymology: 1954. Onomatopoeic. Pronunciation: /jɔɪŋk/ 1. Used for emphasis or to express that one is impressed. Labels: colloquial Example: Back in a pool game, Lindsey comes by between shots and leans over my shoulder and whispers, "Don't look now, but that blonde girl is checking you out." YOINK! Example: yoink! The US will never close the border to Mexico. Politicians here don't have the political will to do such thing.
Word: yoink Part of Speech: intj Etymology: Coined by writer George Meyer for the TV show The Simpsons; perhaps from yank, or imitative of the sound effect (a quick upward slide on a violin) that accompanies something being snatched in classic comedies. Pronunciation: /jɔɪŋk/ 1. Onomatopoeic, accompanying or describing a yank, swipe, or snatch. Labels: colloquial Example: Marge: But you look better, you don't sweat when you eat any more, and look – [holds up a wad of cash] You've saved more than a hundred dollars. I found it in your pants. Homer: [snatches money] Yoink! Example: Yoink! He snatched Granny Glee's frilly pink hat with his little feet.
Word: yoink Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Coined by writer George Meyer for the TV show The Simpsons; perhaps from yank, or imitative of the sound effect (a quick upward slide on a violin) that accompanies something being snatched in classic comedies. Pronunciation: /jɔɪŋk/ 1. To yank or snatch. Labels: colloquial Example: I'm sure that there is pinching, punching, eye gouging, yoinking, hair pulling and who knows what else underneath where eyes can't follow, but he comes out and hands the referee the ball and hits the line again. Example: The first time he yoinked at my arm all three of us–me, doctor and bed –flew across the room. 2. To steal. Labels: colloquial Example: At the far end of the Shrine stands the Coronation Chair, built for Edward I; the shelf below the seat was made to house the Scottish Stone of Scone, which the sticky-fingered Edward yoinked in 1296 ... Example: I broke-and-entered the clinic last night and yoinked em.' 3. To take or win (something that others want). Labels: colloquial Example: Jonas thinks he's such a free fucking spirit for sporting that Revolutionary War–esque overcoat he yoinked from that thrift shop in Philly. Example: On my first four turns, I yoinked Australia. Playing Risk with these girls was so fun because in my whole life I've never seen two people happier.
Word: melodious Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Inherited from Middle English melodious, from Middle French melodieus, melodieux. By surface analysis, melod(i) + -ous. Pronunciation: /məˈləʊdi.əs/, /məˈloʊdi.əs/ 1. Having a pleasant melody or sound; tuneful. Example: Tremulous on the bladed graſs ſhone bright the pearly drops, like an aſſembly of ſparkling ſtars dancing on the plains of the zodiac; vocal was every bending ſpray, every reed was inſpired, each warbling throat ſeemed to emulate the melodious voice of the bird of a thouſand ſongs. Example: A lovely crisp exhaust: a feeling of almost unlimited power combined with complete freedom of running: and, to crown it all, a most melodious and wholly American chime whistle—these were my immediate impressions as we stormed rapidly out of Göttingen, intent on winning back some of the lost time.
Word: dagesh Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Hebrew דָּגֵשׁ (dagésh, dɔḡeš). 1. A symbol used in Hebrew script to denote a geminated consonant, or a consonant pronounced as a plosive as opposed to as a fricative.
Word: twister Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English twyster, equivalent to twist + -er. Pronunciation: /ˈtwɪstə/, /ˈtwɪstəɹ/ 1. One who twists. 2. One who twists. 3. An instrument used in twisting or making twists. Example: He, twirling his twister, makes a twist of the twine. 4. A ball delivered with a twist, as in cricket or billiards. 5. A tornado. Labels: colloquial 6. A girder. 7. The inner part of the thigh, the proper place to rest upon when on horseback. Labels: dated 8. A crook, a villain. Labels: UK, colloquial Example: “I don't know if it's my imagination, Kipper,” I said, “but something gives me the impression that at moment of going to press you aren't too sold on Bobbie.” He shrugged a shoulder. “Oh, I wouldn't say that. Apart from wishing I could throttle the young twister with my bare hands and jump on the remains with hobnailed boots, I don't feel much about her one way or the other.” 9. Any of species Tholymis tillarga of libellulid dragonfly, of tropical West Africa to Asia, Australia, and the Pacific Islands. 10. The party game Twister, usually capitalized, or a variant.
Word: Scots Part of Speech: name Etymology: Borrowed from Scots Scots, from Middle Scots Scottis, from Old English Scottysċ, a late variant of earlier Scyttisċ (“Scottish”). Doublet of Scottish. Pronunciation: /skɒts/, /ˈskɔts/ 1. A Germanic language closely related to English and descended from northern dialects of Middle English, spoken in parts of Scotland, now especially in the northeastern and southern regions of the country.
Word: Scots Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Borrowed from Scots Scots, from Middle Scots Scottis, from Old English Scottysċ, a late variant of earlier Scyttisċ (“Scottish”). Doublet of Scottish. Pronunciation: /skɒts/, /ˈskɔts/ 1. Scottish. Labels: not-comparable
Word: Scots Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /skɒts/, /ˈskɔts/ 1. plural of Scot Labels: form-of, plural
Word: shatter Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English schateren (“to scatter, dash”), an assibilated form of Middle English scateren ("to scatter"; see scatter), from Old English scaterian, from Proto-Germanic *skat- (“to smash, scatter”), perhaps ultimately imitative. Cognate with Dutch schateren (“to burst out laughing”), Low German schateren, Albanian shkatërroj (“to destroy, devastate”). Doublet of scatter. Pronunciation: /ˈʃætə/, [ˈʃʰætʰə], /ˈʃætɚ/, [ˈʃʰætʰɚ] ~ [ˈʃʰætʰɹ̩], /ˈʃæɾɚ/ 1. To violently break something into pieces. Labels: transitive Example: The miners used dynamite to shatter rocks. Example: a high-pitched voice that could shatter glass 2. To destroy or disable something. Labels: transitive 3. To smash, or break into tiny pieces. Labels: intransitive 4. To dispirit or emotionally defeat. Labels: transitive Example: to be shattered in intellect Example: to have shattered hopes 5. Of seeds: to disperse (become dispersed) upon ripening. Labels: intransitive Example: Harvesting is done much as with alfalfa, but alsike seed is small and shatters if it is not handled carefully. 6. To scatter about. Labels: obsolete, transitive Example: Shatter your leaves before the mellowing year. 7. To fall sometimes connoting hard, as if to smash something, other times light and dispersed. Labels: intransitive Example: Bulletlike rain shattered down. Instantly, Willy was soaked to the skin. Then her right foot skidded out before her, and she felt her balance begin to go. Inevitably and with shocking swiftness came the moment when her body obeyed gravity[…] Example: The heavens opened up, and the rain shattered down. She trailed a finger down the window, following drops of water as they splashed and wept down the pane.
Word: shatter Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English schateren (“to scatter, dash”), an assibilated form of Middle English scateren ("to scatter"; see scatter), from Old English scaterian, from Proto-Germanic *skat- (“to smash, scatter”), perhaps ultimately imitative. Cognate with Dutch schateren (“to burst out laughing”), Low German schateren, Albanian shkatërroj (“to destroy, devastate”). Doublet of scatter. Pronunciation: /ˈʃætə/, [ˈʃʰætʰə], /ˈʃætɚ/, [ˈʃʰætʰɚ] ~ [ˈʃʰætʰɹ̩], /ˈʃæɾɚ/ 1. A fragment of anything shattered. Labels: archaic, countable Example: to break a glass into shatters Example: it will fall upon the glass of the sconce, and break it into shatters 2. A (pine) needle. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: My usual habit is, as soon as I get my wheat trodden out, and my corn secured in the fall, to litter my farm yard (and if my cultivation is far off, I select some warm spot near the field) with leaves and pine shatters, (preferring the former) ... Example: They are preserved in cellars, or out of doors in kilns. The method of fixing them is to raise the ground a few inches, where they are to be placed, and cover with pine shatters to the depth of six inches or more. 3. A scattering, a smattering; a quantity of something scattered, like a sprinkling of seeds or a shower of rain. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: There's a tidy shatter of sin already in the Fee, says Parson. Ah, says I, but us can't all be saints like yourself, Parson. Example: [He] steps out into the rain. It takes his eyes a moment to adjust, to get used to the misty glow of the moon above them, to take in the wild look of their yard, and the shatter of rain. The insects have escaped it at least, hidden beneath the cover of grass and foliage, beneath the low-hanging branches of the jacarandas and poincianas. Birds huddle there as well,[…] 4. A form of concentrated cannabis. Labels: slang, uncountable
Word: holism Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From hol- (“whole, entire, total”) + -ism. Coined in 1926 by Jan Smuts. 1. A theory or belief that the whole is greater than the sum of the parts. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. A practice based on such a theory or belief. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: gibbon Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Reborrowing from French gibbon, folk etymology (compare English Gibbon) ultimately from a Northern Aslian language (compare Batek kəboɲ). Pronunciation: /ˈɡɪbən/, /ɡɪˈbɑn/ 1. A small ape of the family Hylobatidae with long limbs, which they use to travel through rainforests by swinging from branch to branch. Example: '[…] Suppose that in years to come, when the Church's troubles seem to be over, there should come an apostate of my own trade, a false historian, with the mind of Cicero or Tacitus and the soul of an animal,' and he nodded towards the gibbon who fretted his golden chain and chattered for fruit.
Word: murre Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Unknown, possibly imitative of the birds' call. Pronunciation: /mɜː/, /mɝ/ 1. Any seabird of the genus Uria in the family Alcidae (the auks). Example: It may be that in one year alone, the Farallon murre population was reduced to the level at which it stood during the mid-1990s Example: 1997, Robert Wayne Campbell, Neil K. Dawe, The Birds of British Columbia, Volume 2: Nonpasserines: Diurnal birds of prey through woodpeckers, page 296, About 2,800 pairs of Common Murres breed in the province, most of which are in the Scott Islands off northwestern Vancouver Island.
Word: tarsier Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From French tarsier, from Latin tarsus, from Ancient Greek ταρσός (tarsós, “wickerwork mat"; "broad, flat surface"”). Pronunciation: /ˈtɑ(ɹ)si.ə(ɹ)/, /ˈtaɹʃi.əɹ/ 1. An insectivorous primate of the family Tarsiidae, having very large eyes and long feet, native mainly to several islands of Southeast Asia.
Word: toy Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Inherited from Middle English toye (“amorous play, piece of fun or entertainment”), probably from Middle Dutch toy, tuyg (“tools, apparatus, utensil, ornament”) as in Dutch speel-tuig (“plaything, toy”), from Old Dutch *tiug, from Proto-West Germanic *tiugī̆, *teug, from Proto-Germanic *teugą (“stuff, matter, device, gear, lever”, literally “that which is drawn or pulled”), from Proto-Germanic *teuhaną (“to lead, bring, pull”), from Proto-Indo-European *dewk- (“to pull, lead”). Cognate with Dutch tuig (“thing”), German Zeug (“stuff”), Danish tøj (“stuff”), Icelandic tygi, Norwegian tøy (“equipment, riggings, stuff”), Swedish tyg (“cloth, textile, fabric”). Related to tug, tow, taw, tew. Pronunciation: /tɔɪ/, /taɪ/, /tɑɪ/ 1. To play (with) in an idle or desultory way. Labels: intransitive Example: to toy with a piece of food on one’s plate Example: Figo is toying with the English defence. 2. To ponder or consider. Labels: intransitive Example: I have been toying with the idea of starting my own business. 3. To stimulate with a sex toy. Labels: slang, transitive Example: He could see her hand go to her slit, and soon she was toying herself along, breathing heavily.
Word: toy Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Inherited from Middle English toye (“amorous play, piece of fun or entertainment”), probably from Middle Dutch toy, tuyg (“tools, apparatus, utensil, ornament”) as in Dutch speel-tuig (“plaything, toy”), from Old Dutch *tiug, from Proto-West Germanic *tiugī̆, *teug, from Proto-Germanic *teugą (“stuff, matter, device, gear, lever”, literally “that which is drawn or pulled”), from Proto-Germanic *teuhaną (“to lead, bring, pull”), from Proto-Indo-European *dewk- (“to pull, lead”). Cognate with Dutch tuig (“thing”), German Zeug (“stuff”), Danish tøj (“stuff”), Icelandic tygi, Norwegian tøy (“equipment, riggings, stuff”), Swedish tyg (“cloth, textile, fabric”). Related to tug, tow, taw, tew. Pronunciation: /tɔɪ/, /taɪ/, /tɑɪ/ 1. Impractical or unsuitable for real-world use, due to being unrealistically small or simple. Labels: attributive Example: Our evaluation scenarios are purposefully simplistic […] This implies that the scenarios are quite toy and not representative of real deployments.
Word: year-to-date Part of Speech: adj 1. Relating to the period from the beginning of a fiscal year to the end of a reporting period. Labels: not-comparable
Word: smoker Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English smoke Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzios Latin -āriusnom. Latin -āriusbor. Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz Proto-West Germanic *-ārī Old English -ere Middle English -ere English -er English smoker From smoke + -er. Pronunciation: /ˈsmoʊkɚ/ 1. A person who smokes tobacco habitually. Example: Even though I don't smoke, I'm not one of those fanatics you run into. In fact, I love watching cigarette smokers in their sad little sealed-off areas, sucking away, deep lines in their faces, precancerous lesions taking hold, the posture and body language of petty criminals. You know what you do with these people? Give 'em free cigarettes. Let 'em smoke. Offer them a light! 2. Someone who smokes (something). Example: a water pipe smoker Example: a smoker of cannabis 3. A smoking car on a train. Example: We had all got into a first-class smoker, and he had already lit the short and charred old briar pipe which seemed to singe the end of his long, aggressive nose. 4. An informal social gathering for men only, at which smoking tobacco is allowed. Labels: dated, informal Example: A smoker at which prizes were distributed was held at the Hotel Victory […] Example: One of the most unique athletic programs given in Tacoma for a long time, and which should furnish rare fun for the spectators, is scheduled for the smoker given tonight by company A, Second infantry regiment, N. G. W., at the company drill hall, South Twelfth and A streets. 5. A social event featuring sketches, songs, etc., whether or not smoking is carried out. Labels: UK, dated, informal Example: All grins and tuxes at some charity smoker in a city-centre hotel. 6. A vent in the deep ocean floor from which a plume of superheated seawater, rich in minerals, erupts. 7. An illicit boxing match; see Wikipedia:Battle Royal (boxing). Labels: slang 8. A device that releases smoke intended to distract bees; a bee smoker. 9. A person or an apparatus that smokes food. 10. A two-stroke engine. Labels: slang 11. Any vehicle with a two-stroke engine, especially a motorcycle, as opposed to a four-stroke motorcycle or stroker. Labels: broadly, slang 12. A fastball. Labels: informal 13. Synonym of stag film. Labels: slang 14. A tobacco pipe that produces smoke well when used. Example: Cripps selected from his store a battered pipe that looked as if it had been dug up with a corpse, and smelt worse than it looked, which he handed tenderly to the curate, with an air of conferring on him a sacred trust. "It's a beautiful smoker," he assured the curate, but the curate had still a saving remnant of caution left him.
Word: constitutional Part of Speech: adj Etymology: PIE word *ḱóm From constitution + -al (suffix meaning ‘of or pertaining to’ forming adjectives). Constitution is derived from Middle English constitucioun, constitucion (“edict, law, ordinance, regulation, rule, statute; body of laws or rules, or customs; body of fundamental principles; principle or rule (of science); creation”) from Old French constitucion (modern French constitution), a learned borrowing from Latin cōnstitūtiō, cōnstitūtiōnem (“character, constitution, disposition, nature; definition; point in dispute; order, regulation; arrangement, system”), from cōnstituō (“to establish, set up; to confirm; to decide, resolve”) (from con- (prefix indicating a being or bringing together of several objects) + statuō (“to set up, station; to establish; to determine, fix”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *steh₂- (“to stand (up)”))) + -tiō (suffix forming nouns relating to actions or the results of actions), -tiōnem (accusative singular of -tiō). Pronunciation: /ˌkɒn.stɪˈtjuː.ʃ(ə)n.(ə)l/, /ˌkɑn.stɪˈt(j)u.ʃ(ə)n.(ə)l/, /-stə-/ 1. Belonging to, or inherent in, the constitution or structure of one's body or mind. Example: a constitutional infirmity constitutional ardour or dullness 2. For the benefit of one's constitution or health. Example: a constitutional walk 3. Relating to the constitution or composition of something; essential, fundamental. 4. Relating to a legal or political constitution (“the basic law of a nation or institution; the formal or informal system of primary principles and laws that regulates a government or other institution”). Example: a constitutional right constitutional reforms Example: Brexit has rocked the foundations of the nation and plunged everyone into a state of heightened constitutional anxiety. 5. In compliance with or valid under a legal or political constitution. Example: The Supreme Court ruled against the applicant and found the statute constitutional. Example: Thai charter court rules that only heterosexual marriages are constitutional: Same-sex marriage in Thailand will have to wait, as the Constitutional Court ruled unanimously today (Wednesday) that Section 1448 of the Civil and Commercial Code, defining marriage as being a union between a man and a woman, is constitutional. 6. Of a monarch: having a purely ceremonial role, or possessing powers limited by a constitution rather than plenary or unlimited powers. Labels: also
Word: constitutional Part of Speech: noun Etymology: PIE word *ḱóm From constitution + -al (suffix meaning ‘of or pertaining to’ forming adjectives). Constitution is derived from Middle English constitucioun, constitucion (“edict, law, ordinance, regulation, rule, statute; body of laws or rules, or customs; body of fundamental principles; principle or rule (of science); creation”) from Old French constitucion (modern French constitution), a learned borrowing from Latin cōnstitūtiō, cōnstitūtiōnem (“character, constitution, disposition, nature; definition; point in dispute; order, regulation; arrangement, system”), from cōnstituō (“to establish, set up; to confirm; to decide, resolve”) (from con- (prefix indicating a being or bringing together of several objects) + statuō (“to set up, station; to establish; to determine, fix”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *steh₂- (“to stand (up)”))) + -tiō (suffix forming nouns relating to actions or the results of actions), -tiōnem (accusative singular of -tiō). Pronunciation: /ˌkɒn.stɪˈtjuː.ʃ(ə)n.(ə)l/, /ˌkɑn.stɪˈt(j)u.ʃ(ə)n.(ə)l/, /-stə-/ 1. Something that aids or fosters one's constitution (health): Example: Moments of potential transcendence, such as an afternoon constitutional through an expressionistic wonderland recalling the Fuji Velvia vividness of What Dreams May Come, ring false in light of this project's mercenary origins. Example: it was then still just possible to have a relatively normal life at the family’s 25-bedroom mansion at 145 Piccadilly, from where the baby was taken for a two-hour constitutional in her pram to Hyde Park and back every day by her governess. 2. Something that aids or fosters one's constitution (health): Labels: euphemistic Example: morning constitutional Example: For Mac McCrary and me, the Tet Offensive of 1968 begins as we sit in the outhouse. Since things are in such disorder, sergeants have been invited to use the officers' facility. We both arrive at the latrine at the same time to take a constitutional.
Word: foil Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English foyle, from Middle French fueille, from Old French fueille (“plant leaf”), from Late Latin folia, the plural of folium, mistaken as a singular feminine. The literary sense is from the practice of backing a gem with metal foil to make it shine more brilliantly. Doublet of folio and folium, distantly also with phyllo and phyllon. Pronunciation: /fɔɪl/ 1. A very thin sheet of metal. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. A very thin sheet of plastic. Labels: countable, uncountable 3. Thin aluminium/aluminum (or, formerly, tin) used for wrapping food. Labels: uncountable Example: wrap the sandwich up in foil 4. A thin layer of metal put between a jewel and its setting to make it seem more brilliant. Labels: countable, uncountable 5. In literature, theatre/theater, etc., a character who helps emphasize the traits of the main character and who usually acts as an opponent or antagonist, but can also serve as the sidekick of the protagonist. Labels: countable, figuratively, uncountable Example: Whereas the female invests heavily in the wake of conception, the male invests heavily prior to conception. Hitherto, the male has been regarded as the mere foil to the heavy investment in reproduction that renders the female the logjam (the limiting factor) in reproduction – reproduction overall is expandable by increasing the number of females, not by increasing the number of males. Example: As Puss comes to realize his legendary status is not a substitute for interpersonal connection, his interactions with Kitty and the therapy dog start to take on a surprising amount of weight, while Goldilocks serves as a well-realized foil who has more in common with Puss that is at first apparent. 6. Anything that acts by contrast to emphasise the characteristics of something. Labels: countable, figuratively, uncountable Example: As she a black silk cap on him begun / To set, for foil of his milk-white to serve. Example: 1725-1726, William Broome, The Odyssey Hector has also a foil to set regard 7. A very thin sword with a blunted (or foiled) tip. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Blunt as the fencer's foils, which hit, but hurt not. Example: 1784-1810, William Mitford, History of Greece Socrates contended with a foil against Demosthenes with a sword. 8. A thin, transparent plastic material on which marks are made and projected for the purposes of presentation. See transparency. Labels: countable, uncountable 9. A premium trading card with a glossy finish. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: I personally would collect all the foils from Base Set before this one, but the market is what the market is. 10. A stylized flower or leaf. Labels: countable, uncountable 11. Clipping of hydrofoil. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, countable, uncountable 12. Clipping of aerofoil/airfoil. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, countable, uncountable
Word: foil Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English foyle, from Middle French fueille, from Old French fueille (“plant leaf”), from Late Latin folia, the plural of folium, mistaken as a singular feminine. The literary sense is from the practice of backing a gem with metal foil to make it shine more brilliantly. Doublet of folio and folium, distantly also with phyllo and phyllon. Pronunciation: /fɔɪl/ 1. To cover or wrap with foil. Labels: transitive 2. Clipping of hydrofoil. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, clipping
Word: foil Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English foilen (“spoil a scent trail by crossing it”), from Old French fouler (“tread on, trample”), ultimately from Latin fullō (“to trample, full”). Pronunciation: /fɔɪl/ 1. To prevent (something) from being accomplished. Example: They foiled my plans. 2. To prevent (someone) from accomplishing something. Example: I was foiled by my superior Example: And at the field fought before Bebriacum, ere the battailes joyned, tvvo Ægles had a conflict and bickered together in all their fights: and vvhen the one of them was foyled and overcome, a third came at the very inſtant from the ſunne riſing and chaſed the Victreſſe avvay. 3. To blunt; to dull; to spoil. Example: they foil the scent of one another. 4. To tread underfoot; to trample. Labels: obsolete Example: King Richard […] caused the ensigns of Leopold to be pulled down and foiled underfoot. Example: Whom he did all to pieces breake and foyle, / In filthy durt, and left so in the loathely soyle.
Word: foil Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English foilen (“spoil a scent trail by crossing it”), from Old French fouler (“tread on, trample”), ultimately from Latin fullō (“to trample, full”). Pronunciation: /fɔɪl/ 1. Failure when on the point of attainment; defeat; frustration; miscarriage. Example: Fame is no plant that grows on mortal foil Example: Nor e'er was fate so near a foil. 2. One of the incorrect answers presented in a multiple-choice test.
Word: foil Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From French foulis. Pronunciation: /fɔɪl/ 1. The track of an animal. Example: […]but after giving her a dodge, here's another b— follows me upon the foil.
Word: foil Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From mnemonic acronym FOIL (“First Outside Inside Last”). Pronunciation: /fɔɪl/ 1. To expand a product of two or more algebraic expressions, typically binomials.
Word: foil Part of Speech: verb Etymology: See file. Pronunciation: /fɔɪl/ 1. To defile; to soil. Labels: obsolete
Word: foil Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /fɔɪl/ 1. A small arc in the tracery of a window, etc.
Word: taker Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English takere, equivalent to take + -er. Pronunciation: /ˈteɪkɚ/ 1. One who takes something. Example: She is known as quite a risk taker. Example: The hostage taker decided to surrender to the police. 2. A person or thing that takes or receives, often more than he or she gives. Example: I don't want to be a relationship with you anymore - you are too much of a taker. 3. One who is willing to participate in, or buy, something. Example: Are there any takers for helping me clean the garage this weekend? Example: I'm selling handmade postcards—any takers? 4. A nipper or claw of a scorpion. Labels: obsolete Example: The ſixt is like a Crabbe, & this is called by Elianus a flamant Scorpion, it is of a great body, and hath tonges and takers very ſolid and ſtrong, like the Gramuell or Creuiſh, & is therefore thought to take the beginning from that fiſh.
Word: foolish Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English folisch; equivalent to fool + -ish. Pronunciation: /ˈfuː.lɪʃ/ 1. Lacking good sense or judgement as a general trait; unwise; stupid. Example: His wife and the neighbours lamented over his strange conduct, his dullness and melancholy, and began to think that he was grown foolish. Example: Next season will, as ever, be a different matter, another problem for Conte to solve as he looks to extend his personal record of four straight league titles in club football across England and Italy. Given his hunger for more – more time, more detail, more work – only the brave or the foolish would bet against him. 2. Not based on good sense or judgement; as a fool would do or conclude. Labels: usually Example: As a political system democracy seems to me extraordinarily foolish, but I would not go out of my way to protest against it. My servant is, so far as I am concerned, welcome to as many votes as he can get. I would very gladly make mine over to him if I could. 3. Resembling or characteristic of a fool.
Word: forward Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English foreward, from Old English foreweard (“forward, inclined to the front, fore, early, former”), from Proto-Germanic *fura- (“fore-”), *warþaz (“turned”), equivalent to fore + -ward. Cognate with Dutch voorwaarts (“forward”), German vorwärts (“forward”). Pronunciation: /ˈfɔːwəd/, /ˈfɔɹwəɹd/, /ˈfoʊwəɹd/, /ˈfɔɹəɹd/, /ˈfoːwəd/ 1. Situated toward or at the front of something. Example: The fire was confined to the forward portion of the store. Example: the forward gun in a ship 2. Situated toward or at the front of something. Example: The forward battalion took a hammering. 3. Acting in or pertaining to the direction in which someone or something is facing. Example: My forward vision is fine, but my peripheral vision is poor. 4. Acting in or pertaining to the direction of travel or movement. Example: forward motion, forward thrust, forward momentum 5. Moving in the desired direction of progress. Labels: figuratively Example: This is an important forward step for the country. Example: The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today. Let us move forward with strong and active faith. 6. Having the usual order or sequence. Example: The front of the fire engine has backward writing, that can be read in a mirror, as well as forward writing. 7. Expected or scheduled to take place in the future. Example: The stock price is currently 12 times forward earnings. Example: The price for forward delivery is presently higher than the spot price. 8. Advanced beyond the usual degree; advanced for the season; precocious. Example: These students are very forward in their learning. Example: The grass is forward, or forward for the season. We have a forward spring. 9. Without customary restraint or modesty; bold, cheeky, pert, presumptuous or pushy. Example: She is a very forward young lady, not afraid to speak her mind. Example: […] the lady conceived the same desires with himself, and was on her side contriving how to give the captain proper encouragement, without appearing too forward; for she was a strict observer of all rules of decorum. 10. Prominent, emphasized (or, in combinations, emphasizing). Example: Pecan Porter […] beer is malty and rich with a very forward flavor of pecans with hints of molasses and burnt caramel and has a very great finish. Example: [Margaret Encino, seeking an Acme-Ashmun sponsorship:] And we could continue to make Acme-Ashmun forward content. 11. Ready; prompt; ardently inclined; in a bad sense, eager or hasty. Labels: obsolete Example: Only they would that we should remember the poor; the same which I also was forward to do. Example: Nor do we find him forward to be sounded.
Word: forward Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From Middle English foreward, from Old English foreweard (“forward, inclined to the front, fore, early, former”), from Proto-Germanic *fura- (“fore-”), *warþaz (“turned”), equivalent to fore + -ward. Cognate with Dutch voorwaarts (“forward”), German vorwärts (“forward”). Pronunciation: /ˈfɔːwəd/, /ˈfɔɹwəɹd/, /ˈfoʊwəɹd/, /ˈfɔɹəɹd/, /ˈfoːwəd/ 1. At, near or towards the front of something. Labels: not-comparable Example: She was sitting well forward in the railway carriage. Example: The bus driver told everyone standing up to move forward. 2. At, near or towards the front of something. Labels: not-comparable Example: Most of the men are sleeping forward, for it is near midnight, but a stout swarthy Arab, Mahomed by name, stands at the tiller, lazily steering by the stars. 3. In the direction in which someone or something is facing. Labels: not-comparable Example: I leant forward to get a better look. Example: The grandfather clock toppled forward and crashed to the ground. 4. In the desired or usual direction of movement or progress, physically or figuratively; onwards. Labels: not-comparable Example: After spending an hour stuck in the mud, we could once again move forward. Example: Wind the film forward a few frames. 5. So that front and back are in the usual orientation. Labels: not-comparable Example: Don't wear your baseball cap backward; turn it forward. 6. In the usual order or sequence. Labels: not-comparable Example: A palindrome reads the same backward as forward. 7. Into the future. Labels: not-comparable Example: From this day forward, there will be no more brussels sprouts at the cafeteria. Example: The humor of my proposition appealed more strongly to Miss Trevor than I had looked for, and from that time forward she became her old self again; for, even after she had conquered her love for the Celebrity, the mortification of having been jilted by him remained. 8. To an earlier point in time. See also bring forward. Labels: not-comparable Example: The meeting has been moved forward an hour. It was at 3 o'clock; now it's at 2 o'clock.
Word: forward Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English foreward, from Old English foreweard (“forward, inclined to the front, fore, early, former”), from Proto-Germanic *fura- (“fore-”), *warþaz (“turned”), equivalent to fore + -ward. Cognate with Dutch voorwaarts (“forward”), German vorwärts (“forward”). Pronunciation: /ˈfɔːwəd/, /ˈfɔɹwəɹd/, /ˈfoʊwəɹd/, /ˈfɔɹəɹd/, /ˈfoːwəd/ 1. To advance, promote. Labels: transitive Example: He did all he could to forward the interests of the school. Example: Mary had a suspicion that this plan had been arranged beforehand, for she knew how the lewd old woman loved to forward love affairs […]. 2. To send (a letter, email etc.) on to a third party. Labels: transitive Example: I'll be glad to forward your mail to you while you're gone. Example: One of the most important aspects of the social service operation was the maintaining of a telephone "hot line," supposedly available twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week […] This unbelievable achievement was accomplished with the expedient of "call forwarding" which made it possible for all the calls coming in to the CHAT office to be sent by means of technical magic to any other telephone in the area. 3. To assemble (a book) by sewing sections, attaching cover boards, and so on. Labels: transitive 4. To arrive, come. Labels: Caribbean, intransitive
Word: forward Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English foreward, from Old English foreweard (“forward, inclined to the front, fore, early, former”), from Proto-Germanic *fura- (“fore-”), *warþaz (“turned”), equivalent to fore + -ward. Cognate with Dutch voorwaarts (“forward”), German vorwärts (“forward”). Pronunciation: /ˈfɔːwəd/, /ˈfɔɹwəɹd/, /ˈfoʊwəɹd/, /ˈfɔɹəɹd/, /ˈfoːwəd/ 1. One of the eight players (comprising two props, one hooker, two locks, two flankers and one number eight, collectively known as the pack) whose primary task is to gain and maintain possession of the ball (compare back). 2. One of the eight players (comprising two props, one hooker, two locks, two flankers and one number eight, collectively known as the pack) whose primary task is to gain and maintain possession of the ball (compare back). (soccer) A player on a team in football (soccer) in the row nearest to the opposing team's goal, who are therefore principally responsible for scoring goals. 3. An umbrella term for a centre or winger in ice hockey. 4. The small forward or power forward position; two frontcourt positions that are taller than guards but shorter than centers. 5. The front part of a vessel. 6. An e-mail message that is forwarded to another recipient or recipients; an electronic chain letter. Labels: Internet Example: When you receive your new pen-pal's email address, do not automatically put it in your address book and use the email Addy to send 'forwards' to. Not every pen pal likes 'forwards', especially jokes and meaningless emails. Example: This method attaches the files to a new email, which is fine if you want to create a new email. The only problem with this is that it doesn't work if you'd rather send forwards or replies. 7. A direct agreement between two parties to buy or sell an asset at a specific point in the future; distinguished from a futures contract in that the latter is standardized and traded on an exchange. 8. Misspelling of foreword (“preface or introduction”). Labels: alt-of, misspelling
Word: forward Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English foreward, from Old English foreweard (“condition, bargain, agreement, contract, treaty, assurance”), equivalent to fore- + ward (“ward, keeping”). Cognate with Scots forward (“covenant, compact”), Dutch voorwaarde (“condition, terms, proviso, stipulation”). More at fore-, ward. Pronunciation: /ˈfɔːwəd/, /ˈfɔɹwəɹd/, /ˈfoʊwəɹd/, /ˈfɔɹəɹd/, /ˈfoːwəd/ 1. Agreement; covenant. Labels: dialectal, obsolete
Word: flustrated Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Blend of flustered + frustrated. Pronunciation: /fləˈstɹeɪ.tɪd/, /ˈflʌs.tɹeɪ.tɪd/ 1. Frustrated to the point of being flustered, or vice versa.
Word: cooperate Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Originated 1595–1605 from Late Latin cooperātus, perfect passive participle of cooperor (“to work with”), see -ate (verb-forming suffix) for more. Equivalent to co- + operate. Displaced native Old English efnwyrċan. Pronunciation: /kəʊˈɒp.ə.ɹeɪt/, /kuˈɒp.ə.ɹeɪt/, /kəˈwɔpəɹɛjt/, /koʊˈɑ.pəˌɹeɪt/, /kuˈɑ.pəˌɹeɪt/ 1. To work or act together, especially for a common purpose or benefit. Labels: intransitive Example: In polling by the Pew Research Center in November 2008, fully half the respondents thought the two parties would cooperate more in the coming year, versus only 36 percent who thought the climate would grow more adversarial. 2. To allow for mutual unobstructed action. Labels: intransitive 3. To function in harmony, side by side. Labels: intransitive 4. To engage in economic cooperation. Labels: intransitive 5. To obtain the cooperation of (a potential witness); to turn (someone) into a cooperating witness. Labels: jargon, transitive