nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: thrifty Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English thrifty, threfty, thryfty, þrifti, equivalent to thrift + -y. Pronunciation: /ˈθɹɪfti/ 1. Showing thrift; economical; frugal. Example: That was a certain trade, while th' age was thrifty, / And men good husbands, look'd into their stocks, / Had their minds bounded; now the public riot / Prostitutes all, scatters away in coaches, / In footmens coats, and waiting womens gowns Example: Nor less disastrous, should his thrifty urn / Neglected leave the once well-water'd land, / To dreary wastes yon paradise would turn, / Polluted ooze, or heaps of barren sand. 2. Thriving, prosperous, successful; (of an animal or plant) growing rapidly or vigorously. Labels: dated Example: The life of religion is this water of life; where that runs, where that is received, and where things are done in this spirit, there all things are well: The church thrifty, the soul thrifty, graces thrifty, and all is well. Example: the lands on this road are of an excellent quality, and in many places light timbered, in others covered with thrifty oak, black walnut, sugar maple, beach and linden. 3. Preserved by thrift; carefully managed. Labels: obsolete Example: They han great stores, and thriftye flockes, / great freendes and feeble foes Example: But do not ſo: I haue fiue hundred Crownes, The thriftie hire I ſaued vnder your Father, Which I did ſtore to be my foſter Nurſe
Word: acology Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἄκος (ákos, “remedy”) + -logy. The first element could be from Proto-Indo-European *Hieh₂ḱ-. Or, less likely, related to Old Irish ícc (“healing, cure”). Or, of Semitic/Egyptian origin. Pronunciation: /əˈkɒ.lə.d͡ʒi/, /əˈkɑ.lə.d͡ʒi/ 1. Materia medica; the science of medical remedies, or of therapeutics. Labels: obsolete, uncountable
Word: thrive Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English thryven, thriven, from Old Norse þrífa (“to seize, grasp, take hold, prosper”), from Proto-Germanic *þrībaną (“to seize, prosper”), from Proto-Indo-European *trep-, *terp- (“to satisfy, enjoy”). Cognate with Swedish trivas, Danish trives, Norwegian Bokmål trives. Pronunciation: /θɹajv/ 1. To grow or increase stature; to grow vigorously or luxuriantly; to enjoy a state of excellent health and well-being; to flourish. Labels: intransitive Example: Not all animals thrive well in captivity. Example: to thrive upon hard work 2. To increase in wealth or success; to prosper, be profitable. Labels: intransitive Example: Since expanding in June, the business has really thrived. Example: […] Deliver me the key. Here do I choose, and thrive I as I may!
Word: thyme Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English tyme, from Old French thym, from Latin thymum, from Ancient Greek θύμον (thúmon). Displaced native Old English boþen. Pronunciation: /taɪm/, /tɑem/, [tɑe̯m], /ʈʰajm/, /t̪ʰajm/ 1. Any plant of the labiate genus Thymus, such as garden thyme (Thymus vulgaris), a warm, pungent aromatic, that is much used to give a relish to seasoning and soups. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: tint Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Alteration of earlier tinct, influenced by French teinte (“tint”), from Latin tinctus (“dyed”), past participle of verb tingō (“tinge”). Doublet of tent (“kind of red wine”). Cognate with Dutch tint, Estonian tint, French teinte, German Tinte, Hungarian tinta, Italian tinta, Luxembourgish Tintin, Portuguese tinta, and Spanish tinta. Pronunciation: /tɪnt/ 1. A slight coloring. 2. A pale or faint tinge of any color; especially, a variation of a color obtained by adding white (contrast shade) 3. A color considered with reference to other very similar colors. Example: Red and blue are different colors, but two shades of scarlet are different tints. 4. A shaded effect in engraving, produced by the juxtaposition of many fine parallel lines. 5. A vehicle window that has been darkened to conceal the occupant. Labels: informal Example: About an hour later, she noticed an all black Phantom with tints and chrome rims riding slowly through the car lot. Example: I'd watch as cars marched by like a line of ants. Cars with those cool hydraulics. Cars with tints so dark, you couldn't see anything inside.
Word: tint Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Alteration of earlier tinct, influenced by French teinte (“tint”), from Latin tinctus (“dyed”), past participle of verb tingō (“tinge”). Doublet of tent (“kind of red wine”). Cognate with Dutch tint, Estonian tint, French teinte, German Tinte, Hungarian tinta, Italian tinta, Luxembourgish Tintin, Portuguese tinta, and Spanish tinta. Pronunciation: /tɪnt/ 1. To shade, to color. Labels: intransitive, transitive Example: The half-dozen pieces […] were painted white and carved with festoons of flowers, birds and cupids. To display them the walls had been tinted a vivid blue which had now faded, but the carpet, which had evidently been stored and recently relaid, retained its original turquoise.
Word: tint Part of Speech: contraction Etymology: Contraction. Pronunciation: /tɪnt/ 1. it is not; it isn't Labels: Yorkshire, colloquial, contraction
Word: tithe Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English tithe, tythe, tethe, from Old English tēoþa, tēoða, teogoþa (in verb senses via Middle English tithen, tythen, tethen, from Old English tēoþian, teogoþian), from a proposed Proto-Germanic *tehunþô, *tehundô (“a tenth”), with its nasal consonant being lost according to the Ingvaeonic nasal spirant law. Cognate with West Frisian tsiende (“tithe”), Saterland Frisian Teeged (“tithe”), Dutch tiende, German Low German Teihnte, German Zehnt (“tithe”), Danish tiende (“tithe”), Icelandic tíund (“tithe”), Dutch tiende (“tithe”). Doublet of tenth. Pronunciation: /taɪð/ 1. A tenth. Labels: archaic Example: But really that gold was not half That a king might have hoped to compel— Not a half, not a third, not a tithe. 2. The tenth part of the increase arising from the profits of land and stock, allotted to the clergy for their support, as in England, or devoted to religious or charitable uses; a tax taking ten percent of land or stock profits, used for religious or charitable purposes. Labels: historical Example: For this is abundantly confuted by the Constitutions and Practice of these Christian States where Tithes have been variously settled, for maintenance of the Evangelical Priest-hood ; and other pious Uses, by legal and civil Tithes, which imply a Debitum Justitiæ. Example: That there is and from time immemorial has been within that part of the parish called Mablethorpe St. Mary's a laudable custom that, if any outdweller take ancient pasture ground, he shall pay a modus of 4d. an acre, and so in proportion, on the 1st of August, in lieu of all manner of tithe; and that if any of the ancient pasture be once ploughed up or meadowed, it shall, when restored to pasture again, pay 4d. the acre in the hands of such outdweller. 3. A contribution to one's religious community or congregation of worship (notably to the LDS church). 4. A small part or proportion. Example: Prayers and calling-over seemed twice as short as usual, and before they could get construes of a tithe of the hard passages marked in the margin of their books, they were all seated round, and the Doctor was standing in the middle, talking in whispers to the master. Example: I scarcely know any thing that really interests me, and I would give a great deal not to be so quick-sighted as I am; it would be so pleasant to believe only a tithe of the professions that are made me.
Word: tithe Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English tithe, tythe, tethe, from Old English tēoþa, tēoða, teogoþa (in verb senses via Middle English tithen, tythen, tethen, from Old English tēoþian, teogoþian), from a proposed Proto-Germanic *tehunþô, *tehundô (“a tenth”), with its nasal consonant being lost according to the Ingvaeonic nasal spirant law. Cognate with West Frisian tsiende (“tithe”), Saterland Frisian Teeged (“tithe”), Dutch tiende, German Low German Teihnte, German Zehnt (“tithe”), Danish tiende (“tithe”), Icelandic tíund (“tithe”), Dutch tiende (“tithe”). Doublet of tenth. Pronunciation: /taɪð/ 1. Tenth. Labels: archaic, not-comparable Example: Euery tythe ſoule, 'mongſt many thouſand diſmes,
Word: tithe Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English tithe, tythe, tethe, from Old English tēoþa, tēoða, teogoþa (in verb senses via Middle English tithen, tythen, tethen, from Old English tēoþian, teogoþian), from a proposed Proto-Germanic *tehunþô, *tehundô (“a tenth”), with its nasal consonant being lost according to the Ingvaeonic nasal spirant law. Cognate with West Frisian tsiende (“tithe”), Saterland Frisian Teeged (“tithe”), Dutch tiende, German Low German Teihnte, German Zehnt (“tithe”), Danish tiende (“tithe”), Icelandic tíund (“tithe”), Dutch tiende (“tithe”). Doublet of tenth. Pronunciation: /taɪð/ 1. To give one-tenth or a tithe of something Labels: transitive Example: He teoðode gynd eall his cyne rice ðone teoðan del ealra his landa. Example: A reply sent to a young member by the sect's letter-answering department was more precise: ‘A person working for wages is to tithe one-tenth of the total amount of his wages before income tax, national health, or other deductions are removed.’ 2. To give one-tenth or a tithe of something Labels: transitive Example: ...ge tiogoðiað eowre mintan & eowerne dile & eowerne kymen. Example: The maner of tiething pigge and gose is, yf one have vijᵗʰ, to pay one. 3. To give one-tenth or a tithe of something Labels: intransitive Example: Þe prest þe meneȝeð rihtliche teðien. Example: They went to the Six Hickories church—tithed—and behaved themselves. 4. To give one-tenth or a tithe of something Labels: figuratively, intransitive Example: These slaves are either the sonnes of Christians, tithed in their childhoods, Captives taken in the warres, or Renegadoes. Example: Former Southern officers prospered and tithed up to 50 percent for Civil War II, which never came. 5. To take one-tenth or a tithe of something, particularly Example: gif we teoðiað þas gearlican dagas, þonne beoð þær six and ðritig teoðing-dagas. 6. To take one-tenth or a tithe of something Labels: transitive Example: Leeuy, that took tithis, is tithid. Example: The cost... has been defrayed by tithing the whole Mormon Church. Those who reside at Nauvoo... have been obliged to work every tenth day in quarrying stone. 7. To take one-tenth or a tithe of something Labels: transitive Example: Þe folk of Crist was tiþed, þat is to seie, nyne slayn and þe tenþe i-kepte. Example: The multitude are tith'd, and every tenth only spar'd. 8. To take one-tenth or a tithe of something Labels: transitive Example: The Monkes the Priors and holy cloystred Nunnes, Are all in health,... Example: When the parson or Procter commeth to tythe his wooll. 9. To take one-tenth or a tithe of something Labels: obsolete, transitive Example: By decimation, and a tithed death, / ... take thou the destin'd tenth Example: The Thebane Legion... was first tithed, that is, every tenth man thereof was executed. 10. To take one-tenth or a tithe of something Labels: intransitive Example: Those who tithe and toll upon them for their spiritual and temporal benefit. 11. To compose the tenth part of something. Labels: obsolete, transitive Example: Her sorrowes did not tith her ioy.
Word: toot Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Probably onomatopoeic in origin. Compare Dutch toeteren (“to blow a horn”), German tuten, Swedish tuta, Danish tude. Noun etymology 1, noun sense 7 ("Mastodon post") and verb etymology 1, verb sense 10 ("to post on Mastodon") are influenced by tweet (“Twitter post”). Pronunciation: /ˈtuːt/, /ˈtut/, /ˈtʊt/ 1. The noise of a horn or whistle. Labels: countable Example: He gave a little toot of the horn, to get their attention. 2. A fart; flatus. Labels: broadly, countable, informal 3. Cocaine. Labels: slang, uncountable 4. A portion of cocaine that a person snorts. Labels: countable, slang Example: So he took a toot. A couple of days later he did another, then another. Soon Harry was using more coke than he had done in his whole life. 5. A spree of drunkenness. Labels: countable, informal, uncountable 6. Rubbish; tat. Labels: informal, uncountable Example: I'm not paying fifty pounds for this load of old toot! 7. A message on the social networking software Mastodon. Labels: countable Example: As for layout, Mastodon feels a little like TweetDeck, with columns for your toots, toots from the people you follow, your mentions, and (unlike Twitter) a timeline of all public posts being shared by every user on the platform. Example: Interestingly, Mastodon offers a bit more in that aspect for toots can be 500 characters long.
Word: toot Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Probably onomatopoeic in origin. Compare Dutch toeteren (“to blow a horn”), German tuten, Swedish tuta, Danish tude. Noun etymology 1, noun sense 7 ("Mastodon post") and verb etymology 1, verb sense 10 ("to post on Mastodon") are influenced by tweet (“Twitter post”). Pronunciation: /ˈtuːt/, /ˈtut/, /ˈtʊt/ 1. To stand out, or be prominent. Example: Now rise up, Master Huddypeke, Your tail toteth out behind. 2. To peep; to look narrowly. Example: In the court, in the noblemen's houses, at every merchant's house, those Observants were spying, tooting, and looking, watching and prying, what they might hear or see against the see of Rome. Example: Long wandering up and downe the land, With bowe and bolts in either hand, For birds in bushes tooting. 3. To see; to spy. 4. To produce the noise of a horn or whistle. Example: The island rang, as yet, with the tooting horns and rattling teams of mail-coaches. Example: A horn tooted to the right, and I saw the black people run. 5. To cause a horn or whistle to produce a noise. Example: "In the morning, we get deer on the line. We tend not to 'toot' them because it seems that only makes them more likely to run across the track." 6. To flatulate. Labels: slang 7. Of a queen bee, to make a high-pitched sound during certain stages of development. Labels: intransitive 8. To go on a drinking binge. Labels: slang 9. To snort (a recreational drug). Labels: slang Example: I had graduated from the simple tooting cocaine up my nose to smoking it, which was a completely different experience and animal. 10. To post a message on a Mastodon instance. Example: Only want to toot in the Animal Rights instance? You can create an account there and do that. Example: One alternative to Fist is Mastodon, which looks and behaves a bit like Twitter (you don’t tweet, you “toot”).
Word: toot Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Perhaps a contraction of toilet. Pronunciation: /ˈtʊt/ 1. A toilet. Labels: Australia, slang
Word: toupee Part of Speech: noun Etymology: 1727, from French toupet (“small tuft of hair, forelock”), from Middle French toupet (“small tuft of hair, forelock”), from Old French toupet (“small tuft of hair, forelock”), diminutive of toupe, top (“tuft of hair”), from Frankish *topp (“summit, crest, tuft of hair”), from Proto-Germanic *tuppaz (“summit, crest, tuft of hair”). Cognate with Old Dutch topp (“top”) (Dutch top), Old Frisian top (“summit, crest, tuft of hair”), Old English top (“summit, crest, tuft of hair”), Old High German zopf (“end, summit, tuft of hair”), Old Norse toppr (“tuft of hair, forelock”). More at top. Pronunciation: /tuːˈpeɪ/ 1. A wig of false hair worn to cover a bald spot, especially as worn by a man. Example: Near-synonym: hair system 2. A small tuft; a curl or artificial lock of hair. Labels: obsolete 3. A small wig, or a toppiece of a wig, worn by both sexes. Labels: obsolete Example: Her powdered hair is turned backward over a toupee.
Word: towel Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English towayle, towel, towail, towaille, from Old French toaille (“towel”) (modern French touaille), Medieval Latin toallia, from Frankish *þwahilu (“cloth”), from Proto-Germanic *þwahaną (“to wash”). Cognate with Old High German dwahila (“towel”) (modern dialectal German Zwehle), Dutch dwaal (“towel”), dweil (“mop”), Low German Dweel (“towel”), Old English þwǣle (“band; ribbon; fillet”), Old English þwēan (“to wash”). Pronunciation: /ˈtaʊ̯əl/, [ˈtʰaʊ̯l̩], /ˈtæʊ̯əl/, [ˈtæʊ̯l̩], /ˈtaːəl/ 1. A cloth used for wiping, especially one used for drying anything wet, such as a person after a bath. Example: He needed a towel for wiping the slippery floor.
Word: towel Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English towayle, towel, towail, towaille, from Old French toaille (“towel”) (modern French touaille), Medieval Latin toallia, from Frankish *þwahilu (“cloth”), from Proto-Germanic *þwahaną (“to wash”). Cognate with Old High German dwahila (“towel”) (modern dialectal German Zwehle), Dutch dwaal (“towel”), dweil (“mop”), Low German Dweel (“towel”), Old English þwǣle (“band; ribbon; fillet”), Old English þwēan (“to wash”). Pronunciation: /ˈtaʊ̯əl/, [ˈtʰaʊ̯l̩], /ˈtæʊ̯əl/, [ˈtæʊ̯l̩], /ˈtaːəl/ 1. To dry by using a towel. Labels: transitive Example: He got out of the shower and toweled himself dry. 2. To hit with a towel. Labels: transitive 3. To block up (a door, etc.) with a towel, to conceal the fumes of a recreational drug. Labels: transitive Example: We would open the windows, towel the door, and turn my bedroom into an Allman Brothers concert. 4. To beat with a stick, or "oaken towel". Labels: UK, dialectal, obsolete, transitive
Word: toxotes Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Ancient Greek τοξότης (toxótēs, “bowman, archer”). 1. Any fish of genus Toxotes, the archerfishes. 2. A Greek archer armed with a short Greek bow and a short sword. Labels: historical
Word: tracker Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English track 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 tracker From track + -er. Pronunciation: /ˈtɹækə(ɹ)/ 1. Agent noun of track; one who, or that which, tracks or pursues, as a man or dog that follows game. Labels: agent, form-of Example: On Friday night, eight US Air Force KC-135 Stratotankers took off from Altus, Oklahoma, according to data from FlightRadar24. Over Kansas the tankers refueled two groups of planes, identified on air traffic control audio by their callsigns MYTEE11 FLT and MYTEE21 FLT. The callsign MYTEE has previously been associated with special activity flights by B-2 bombers, and multiple flight trackers on social media said the planes being refueled were B-2 bombers out of Whiteman Air Force Base in Missouri. 2. Agent noun of track; one who, or that which, tracks or pursues, as a man or dog that follows game. Labels: US Example: While she and Mr. Fetterman were often in different places, she would turn up at events early so she could shoot and post photos of the crowds, the lines, the people. At most events there was a tracker: a guy from the Oz team who monitored the goings-on. 3. Agent noun of track; one who, or that which, tracks or pursues, as a man or dog that follows game. Labels: Australia Example: The police picked him up, reared him, and he had been a tracker ever since, except for periodical walk-abouts. 4. In an organ, a light strip of wood connecting (in path) a key and a pallet, to communicate motion by pulling. 5. A type of computer software for composing music by aligning notes or samples on parallel timelines. Example: Trackers have broken out of the demoscene, are are^([sic]) now in use by thousands of professional musicians. It's not uncommon to hear about people using trackers on DJ forums, and electronic music production communities[…] Example: Although there were a few game companies outside the Amiga scene that used a tracker format (Epic Mega-Games, for instance), the majority used the better-supported MIDI. 6. A musician who writes music in a tracker. Example: You can always find musicians. There are more trackers than coders, pixelers, organizers, couriers, and designers combined. 7. A computer program that monitors something. 8. A computer program that monitors something. 9. A tracker mortgage. 10. An album with the specified number of tracks. Labels: in-compounds Example: "Typical" is the best song on this nine-tracker, and ironically, the record itself is good, but typical.
Word: tractable Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English tractable, tractabel, from Latin tractābilis (“that may be touched, handled, or managed”), from tractō (“take in hand, handle, manage”), frequentative of trahō (“draw”). Pronunciation: /ˈtɹæk.tə.bəl/ 1. Capable of being easily led, taught, or managed. Example: "Tess is queer." "But she's tractable at bottom. Leave her to me." Example: But once in London Jane Porter was no more tractable than she had been in Baltimore. She found one excuse after another, […] 2. Easy to deal with or manage. Example: I have always found horses, an animal I am attached to, very tractable when treated with humanity and steadiness. Example: Of all the tractable, equal-tempered, attached, and faithful beings that ever lived, I believe he was the most so. 3. Capable of being shaped; malleable. Example: I need not point out the advantages of modelling in a material as durable as stone. . . . Mixed up with just enough water to form a stiff paste, it accommodates itself to the touch of the modelling tool. . . . There are two inherent difficulties in using it—one, it is not so tractable as clay. . . . 4. Capable of being handled or touched. Labels: obsolete Example: At leaſt five Hundred of theſe reforming Vultures are daily plundering our Pockets, and ranſacking our Houſes, leaving me ſometimes not one pair of Tractable Buttocks in my Vaulting-School to provide for my Family, or earn me ſo much as a Pudding for my next Sundays Dinner : [...] 5. Sufficiently operationalizable or useful to allow a mathematical calculation to proceed toward a solution. Example: This assumption is in the Raiffa and Schlaifer (1961, p. 72) spirit of using ‘a little ingenuity. . . to find a tractable function’ to quantify risk-preferences and probability judgments so as to make the analysis feasible. 6. Algorithmically solvable fast enough to be practically relevant, typically in polynomial time.
Word: traditional Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From tradition + -al. First attested in 1545. Pronunciation: /tɹəˈdɪʃ.ə.nəl/, [tɹəˈdɪʃ.ə.nl̩], /tɹəˈdɪʃ.nəl/ 1. Of, relating to, or derived from tradition. Example: This dance is one of the traditional customs in the area. Example: For centuries, the nomadic tribes of Central Asia used colorful textiles called suzanis as seating, prayer mats, bedding and dividers in their yurts – the traditional tents that were their homes. 2. Of, relating to, or derived from tradition. Example: traditional expositions of the Scriptures 3. Of, relating to, or derived from tradition. Example: Her traditional values are antiquated. Example: Ryoteis usually look like traditional Japanese inns or even private homes. 4. Produced with physical media, as opposed to digital art. Labels: retronym 5. In lieu of the name of the composer of a piece of music, whose real name is lost in the mists of time. 6. Relating to traditional Chinese. Example: The traditional form of the character has twice as many strokes as the simplified form.
Word: traditional Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From tradition + -al. First attested in 1545. Pronunciation: /tɹəˈdɪʃ.ə.nəl/, [tɹəˈdɪʃ.ə.nl̩], /tɹəˈdɪʃ.nəl/ 1. One with traditional beliefs. Labels: countable 2. Anything that is traditional, conventional, standard. Labels: countable, plural-normally Example: Singer Paula Elliot closed the evening's performances with a number of gospel, jazz and blues tunes. Elliot concentrated mostly on traditionals like "Motherless Child," "Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out," "God Bless the Child," and "Wild Women Don't Get the Blues." Example: While this year’s list of top names includes some traditionals — Matthew and Michael for boys, for instance, and Emily and Anna for girls — the nontraditional names are still the overwhelming favorites. 3. Art produced with physical media, as opposed to digital art. Labels: retronym, uncountable 4. Ellipsis of traditional Chinese. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis, informal, uncountable 5. Ellipsis of traditional grip. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis, informal, uncountable
Word: traitor Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English traitor, traitour, traytour, from Old French traïtor (French traître), from Latin trāditor. Displaced native Middle English swike from Old English swica (“traitor”), and Middle English proditour and traditour borrowed directly from Latin. The general Old English word denoting "traitor" was lǣwa or lǣwend. Doublet of traditor and treason. Pronunciation: /ˈtɹeɪtə(ɹ)/, /ˈtɹeɪtɚ/, [ˈtʰɹeɪɾɚ] 1. Someone who violates an allegiance and betrays their country; someone guilty of treason; one who, in breach of trust, delivers their country to an enemy, or yields up any fort or place entrusted to their defense, or surrenders an army or body of troops to the enemy, unless when vanquished. Example: After World War I, the communists and Jews were accused to be traitors by the German right wing (the "stab-in-the-back myth"), ultimately culminating in their persecution and massacre. Example: My Lord of Hereford here whom you call King, / Is a foule traitour to proud Herefords King, / And if you crowne him let me propheſie, / The bloud of Engliſh ſhall manure the ground, / And future ages groane for this foule act, [...] 2. Someone who takes arms and levies war against their country; or one who aids an enemy in conquering their country. 3. One who betrays any confidence or trust. Labels: broadly Example: It's second nature now to think myself a traitor To myself, to all I've ever burdened with my rotting visage I can't breathe, the weight of all I've disappointed crushes me If I were happy, it would feel as if I couldn't trust me Example: It took you two weeks To go off and date her Guess you didn't cheat But you're still, you're still a traitor Yeah, you're still a traitor
Word: traitor Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English traitor, traitour, traytour, from Old French traïtor (French traître), from Latin trāditor. Displaced native Middle English swike from Old English swica (“traitor”), and Middle English proditour and traditour borrowed directly from Latin. The general Old English word denoting "traitor" was lǣwa or lǣwend. Doublet of traditor and treason. Pronunciation: /ˈtɹeɪtə(ɹ)/, /ˈtɹeɪtɚ/, [ˈtʰɹeɪɾɚ] 1. To act the traitor toward; to betray; to deceive.
Word: traitor Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English traitor, traitour, traytour, from Old French traïtor (French traître), from Latin trāditor. Displaced native Middle English swike from Old English swica (“traitor”), and Middle English proditour and traditour borrowed directly from Latin. The general Old English word denoting "traitor" was lǣwa or lǣwend. Doublet of traditor and treason. Pronunciation: /ˈtɹeɪtə(ɹ)/, /ˈtɹeɪtɚ/, [ˈtʰɹeɪɾɚ] 1. Traitorous. Example: to find a subject staid and wise Already half turn'd traitor by surprise
Word: transcript Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin transcriptum, from transcribere. Pronunciation: /ˈtɹænˌskɹɪpt/, [ˈtɹ̝̊ʷænˌskɹʷɪpt] ~ [ˈt̠ɹ̠̊˔ʷænˌskɹʷɪpt], /ˈtɹeə̯nˌskɹɪpt/, [ˈtɹ̝̊ʷeə̯nˌskɹʷɪpt] ~ [ˈt̠ɹ̠̊˔ʷeə̯nˌskɹʷɪpt] 1. Something which has been transcribed; a writing or composition consisting of the same words as the original; a written copy. Example: When he had finished she held out her hand for the transcript of the message that he had already made. 2. A copy of any kind; an imitation. Example: The Grecian learning was but a transcript of the Chaldean and Egyptian. 3. A written version of what was said orally Example: the transcript of a trial 4. A molecule of RNA produced by transcription. Example: Some transcripts were exclusively expressed in specific organs, such as female protarsus, whereas others were universally expressed, this varied expression profile may provide insights into the specific functions mediated by chemoreception proteins in insects. 5. An official certified record of a student's academic performance throughtout their course of study, including all courses taken and grades received. Example: The grading policy now specifies that all students enrolled before the spring 1982 semester in classes of less than 40 students will receive written evaluations, with either a nonletter grade (honors, pass or no credit) or a letter grade on their transcripts. Under the old system, the no-credit notation did not appear on the transcript.
Word: transcript Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Latin transcriptum, from transcribere. Pronunciation: /ˈtɹænˌskɹɪpt/, [ˈtɹ̝̊ʷænˌskɹʷɪpt] ~ [ˈt̠ɹ̠̊˔ʷænˌskɹʷɪpt], /ˈtɹeə̯nˌskɹɪpt/, [ˈtɹ̝̊ʷeə̯nˌskɹʷɪpt] ~ [ˈt̠ɹ̠̊˔ʷeə̯nˌskɹʷɪpt] 1. To write a transcript; to transcribe. Labels: obsolete, rare, transitive
Word: trapeze Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From French trapèze, from Latin trapezium. Doublet of trapezium. Pronunciation: /tɹəˈpiːz/ 1. A trapezium. Labels: archaic 2. A swinging horizontal bar suspended at each end by a rope, used by circus artists. 3. The trapezium bone. Example: […] the distance between the top of the flexor retinaculum and an imaginary line drawn between the trapeze and the hamate. 4. A certain yo-yo trick. Example: I begin a roller-coaster trick by throwing a trapeze, making the yo-yo loop around the finger of my left hand and then land back on the string.
Word: trapeze Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From French trapèze, from Latin trapezium. Doublet of trapezium. Pronunciation: /tɹəˈpiːz/ 1. To swing on or as on a trapeze.
Word: trapper Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From trap + -er, compare french trappeur. Pronunciation: /ˈtɹæpɚ/ 1. One who traps animals; one who makes a business of trapping animals, for their pelts, meat, etc. Example: The trapper is amazed and disturbed because he sees that this wild man has been freeing all the animals from his traps. 2. A worker (usually a child) who opens and shuts a door in a gallery or level of a mine, to manage ventilation and access. Labels: historical 3. An ornamental covering for a horse. See trapping and caparison. 4. A drug dealer. Labels: slang Example: Wanna be a trapper? Never serve a nigga where you live 5. A performer of trap music. Labels: slang 6. Synonym of catcher.
Word: treacle Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English triacle, partly from Old French triacle, and partly from Old English tyriaca, both from Late Latin *triaca, *tiriaca, late form of theriaca, ultimately from Ancient Greek θηριακή (thēriakḗ, “antidote”), feminine form of θηριακός (thēriakós, “concerning venomous beasts”), from θήρ (thḗr, “beast”). Doublet of theriacle, equivalent to theriac + -le. Pronunciation: /ˈtɹiː.kəl/, /ˈtɹiː.ku/, /ˈtɹiː.kɯ/ 1. A syrupy byproduct of sugar refining; molasses or golden syrup. Labels: Ireland, UK, countable, uncountable Example: Didn’t you see how the cub was ashamed of the thick bread-and-butter? I dare say they’re going to have treacle if they are good. 2. Cloying sentimental speech. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The public tributes to Griffith were over-the-top in a way his acting never was, spreading treacle from the evening newscasts to the front page of the New York Times. 3. Sweetheart (from treacle tart). Labels: Cockney, countable, slang, uncountable Example: Listen, treacle, this is the last time I'll warn you! 4. Synonym of theriac: an antidote for poison, especially snakebite; a supposedly universal antidote. Labels: countable, historical, uncountable Example: CHEWING-BALLS, a kind of balls made of aſafœtida, liver of antimony, bay-wood, juniper-wood, and pellitory of Spain; which being dried in the ſun, and wrapped in a linen-cloth, are tied to the bit of the bridle for the horſe to chew: they create an appetite; and it is ſaid, that balls of Venice treacle may be uſed in the ſame manner with good ſucceſs. 5. Synonym of theriac: an antidote for poison, especially snakebite; a supposedly universal antidote. Labels: broadly, countable, figuratively, historical, obsolete, uncountable 6. Synonym of theriac: an antidote for poison, especially snakebite; a supposedly universal antidote. Labels: broadly, countable, figuratively, historical, obsolete, uncountable
Word: treacle Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English triacle, partly from Old French triacle, and partly from Old English tyriaca, both from Late Latin *triaca, *tiriaca, late form of theriaca, ultimately from Ancient Greek θηριακή (thēriakḗ, “antidote”), feminine form of θηριακός (thēriakós, “concerning venomous beasts”), from θήρ (thḗr, “beast”). Doublet of theriacle, equivalent to theriac + -le. Pronunciation: /ˈtɹiː.kəl/, /ˈtɹiː.ku/, /ˈtɹiː.kɯ/ 1. To apply treacle to a surface, so as to catch flies or moths, etc. Labels: transitive
Word: treadmill Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From tread + mill. Its figurative senses refer to the idea that running on a treadmill requires continued effort and motion to remain in the same place. Pronunciation: /ˈtɹɛd.mɪl/ 1. A piece of indoor sporting equipment used to allow for the motions of running or walking while staying in one place. 2. A mill worked by persons treading upon steps on the periphery of a wide wheel having a horizontal axis. It was used principally as a means of prison discipline. Labels: historical Example: Their paternal house of Drummington, Foker could very seldom be got to visit. He swore he had rather go on the treadmill than stay there. 3. A mill worked by horses, dogs, etc., treading an endless belt. Example: Ancient nomads, wishing to ward off the evening chill and enjoy a meal around a campfire, had to collect wood and then spend time and effort coaxing the heat of friction out from between sticks to kindle a flame. With more settled people, animals were harnessed to capstans or caged in treadmills to turn grist into meal. 4. A process or situation in which continued effort leads to or is required for remaining at a particular state or level without moving ahead. Labels: figuratively Example: 1 As a result, people can easily find themselves alternating between various treadmills: the hedonic treadmill of pursuing happiness, the status treadmill requiring conspicuous consumption, and the treadmill of work undertaken to finance one's activity on the other two treadmills.
Word: treadmill Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From tread + mill. Its figurative senses refer to the idea that running on a treadmill requires continued effort and motion to remain in the same place. Pronunciation: /ˈtɹɛd.mɪl/ 1. To exercise on a treadmill. Labels: intransitive 2. To keep busy, for example, with work or with other tasks, without being able to get ahead or make progress towards long-term goals. Labels: broadly, figuratively, intransitive Example: Most of us are so busy "earning each day our daily bread" that we have but little "open" time. […] Occasionally one wonders "What's it all for, anyway?" For years he's been treadmilling it, day in and day out, and presently the graying hair at the temples will shock him into the grim reality that he is getting old—and getting little else. Example: Back we were in the rat race, treadmilling sixty hours a week and sleeping forty, our sex life was like that of most busy cohabiters I suppose: fun, frolicky, and squeezed in haphazardly when we had a minute—or thirty.
Word: treat Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English treten, from Anglo-Norman treter, Old French tretier, traiter, from Latin tractāre (“to pull", "to manage”), from the past participle stem of trahere (“to draw", "to pull”). Pronunciation: /tɹiːt/, [t̠ʰɹiːt], [t̠ʃʰɹiːt] 1. To negotiate, discuss terms, bargain (for or with). Labels: intransitive Example: Now halting a few paces before the Captains of the West he looked them up and down and laughed. 'Is there any in this rout with authority to treat with me?' he asked. Example: After all, in this hideous war we have just passed through never forget that Halifax would have treated with Hitler: it took Churchill to refuse. 2. To discourse; to handle a subject in writing or speaking; to conduct a discussion. Labels: intransitive Example: Cicero's writing treats mainly of old age and personal duty. Example: Now of love they treat. 3. To discourse on; to represent or deal with in a particular way, in writing or speaking. Labels: transitive Example: The article treated feminism as a quintessentially modern movement. 4. To entreat or beseech (someone). Labels: intransitive, obsolete, transitive Example: Only let my family live, I treat thee. Example: To treate a tiran it is but thing in vayne. 5. To handle, deal with or behave towards in a specific way. Labels: transitive Example: You treated me like a fool. Example: She was tempted to treat the whole affair as a joke. 6. To entertain with food or drink, especially at one's own expense; to show hospitality to; to pay for as celebration or reward. Labels: transitive Example: I treated my son to some popcorn in the interval. Example: I've done so well this month, I'll treat you all to dinner (or Dinner is my treat.) 7. To commit the offence of providing food, drink, entertainment or provision to corruptly influence a voter. Labels: UK 8. To care for medicinally or surgically; to apply medical care to. Labels: transitive Example: They treated me for malaria. Example: We treated firefighters suffering from smoke inhalation, giving them oxygen to breathe and albuterol mist to help open their airways. 9. To subject to a chemical or other action; to act upon with a specific scientific result in mind. Labels: transitive Example: He treated the substance with sulphuric acid. Example: I treated the photo somewhat to make the colours more pronounced. 10. To provide (someone) with something special and pleasant. Labels: transitive Example: If good acting in movies is appealing and you enjoy live performances of theatre, you may soon be treated by the GMC's own endeavors in the theatrical arts. Example: The Chelsea captain was a virtual spectator as he was treated to his side's biggest win for almost two years as Stamford Bridge serenaded him with chants of "there's only one England captain," some 48 hours after he announced his retirement from international football.
Word: treat Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English treten, from Anglo-Norman treter, Old French tretier, traiter, from Latin tractāre (“to pull", "to manage”), from the past participle stem of trahere (“to draw", "to pull”). Pronunciation: /tɹiːt/, [t̠ʰɹiːt], [t̠ʃʰɹiːt] 1. An entertainment, outing, food, drink, or other indulgence provided by someone for the enjoyment of others. Example: I took the kids to the zoo for a treat. 2. An unexpected gift, event etc., which provides great pleasure. Example: It was such a treat to see her back in action on the London stage. 3. A snack food. Example: These coconut and marshmallow treats are easy to make. Example: Here are some healthy Halloween treats for ghouls and witches of all ages. 4. A snack food. Example: I lured the cat into her carrier by throwing a couple of treats in there. 5. A parley or discussion of terms; a negotiation. Labels: obsolete 6. An entreaty. Labels: obsolete
Word: trenchant Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Borrowed into Middle English from Old French trenchant, the present participle of trenchier (“to cut”). Pronunciation: /ˈtɹɛnʃənt/ 1. Fitted to trench or cut; gutting; sharp. Labels: archaic Example: The trenchant blade, Toledo trusty, / For want of fighting was grown rusty, / And ate into itself, for lack / Of somebody to hew and hack. 2. Fitted to trench or cut; gutting; sharp. Labels: archaic Example: The trenchant talonid is a character of some miacids and distinguishes these teeth from the hyaenodontids and oxyaenids. 3. Keen; biting; vigorously articulate and effective; severe. Labels: figuratively Example: trenchant wit Example: His eyes, of the usual blue, were perhaps remarkably cold, and he certainly could make his glance fall on one as trenchant and heavy as an axe.
Word: trend Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English trenden (“to roll about, turn, revolve”), from Old English trendan (“to roll about, turn, revolve”), from Proto-West Germanic *trandijan (“to turn, roll, revolve”), apparently derived from a strong verb Proto-West Germanic *trindan. Cognate with Dutch trent (“circumference”). Akin to Old English trinde (“ball”), Old English tryndel (“circle, ring”). More at trindle, trundle. Pronunciation: /tɹɛnd/ 1. An inclination in a particular direction. Example: the trend of a coastline Example: the upward trend of stock-market prices 2. A tendency. Example: There is a trend, these days, for people in films not to smoke. 3. A fad or fashion style. Example: Miniskirts were one of the biggest trends of the 1960s. Example: To stay on top of what's happening, a good photographer has to follow the trends by watching what's being done in fashion magazines. 4. A line drawn on a graph that approximates the trend of a number of disparate points. 5. The lower end of the shank of an anchor, being the same distance on the shank from the throat that the arm measures from the throat to the bill. 6. The angle made by the line of a vessel's keel and the direction of the anchor cable, when she is swinging at anchor.
Word: trend Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English trenden (“to roll about, turn, revolve”), from Old English trendan (“to roll about, turn, revolve”), from Proto-West Germanic *trandijan (“to turn, roll, revolve”), apparently derived from a strong verb Proto-West Germanic *trindan. Cognate with Dutch trent (“circumference”). Akin to Old English trinde (“ball”), Old English tryndel (“circle, ring”). More at trindle, trundle. Pronunciation: /tɹɛnd/ 1. To have a particular direction; to run; to stretch; to tend. Labels: intransitive Example: The shore of the sea trends to the southwest. Example: Huntsman starts out with a vision of Theron that’s specific, unique, and weighted in character, but it trends throughout toward generic fantasy tropes and black-and-white morality, and climaxes in a thoroughly familiar face-off. 2. To cause to turn; to bend. Labels: transitive Example: Not farre beneath i' the Valley as ſhe trends / Her ſiluer ſtreame, ſome VVood-nymphs and her friends / That follovv'd to her aide, beholding hovv / The Brooke came gliding, […] 3. To be the subject of a trend; to be currently popular, relevant or interesting. Labels: informal, intransitive Example: What topics have been trending on social networks this week? Example: "Puppy Bowl" was even a trending sports topic on Facebook.
Word: trend Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Compare German trennen (“to separate”). Pronunciation: /tɹɛnd/ 1. Clean wool. Labels: UK, dated, dialectal, uncountable
Word: trend Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Compare German trennen (“to separate”). Pronunciation: /tɹɛnd/ 1. To cleanse or clean (something, usually wool).
Word: tress Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English tresse, from Old French tresce, of uncertain origin; possibly from Vulgar Latin *trichia, from Ancient Greek τριχία (trikhía, “rope”), from θρίξ (thríx, “hair”). Compare French tresse, Italian treccia. Pronunciation: /tɹɛs/ 1. A braid, knot, or curl, of hair; a ringlet. Example: nor was the doom / of guilty deed, but of a hapless wight / to sudden madness stung, ere ripe to die, / therefore the Queen of Hades had not shorn / the fair tress from her forehead, nor assigned / that soul to Stygian dark. Example: “Mercy! If I had a husband whose business it was to look at women's beautiful eyes, peachy cheeks, and luxurious tresses, I should go crazy! […]” 2. A long lock of hair. 3. A knot or festoon, as of flowers. Labels: broadly
Word: tress Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English tresse, from Old French tresce, of uncertain origin; possibly from Vulgar Latin *trichia, from Ancient Greek τριχία (trikhía, “rope”), from θρίξ (thríx, “hair”). Compare French tresse, Italian treccia. Pronunciation: /tɹɛs/ 1. To braid or knot hair.
Word: trice Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English trīcen, trice, trise (“to pull or push; to snatch away; to steal”), from Middle Dutch trīsen (“to hoist”) (modern Dutch trijsen) or Middle Low German trissen (“to trice the spritsail”); further etymology uncertain. The word is cognate with Danish trisse, tridse (“to haul with a pulley”), Low German trissen, tryssen, drisen, drysen (“to wind up, trice”), German trissen, triezen (“to annoy or torment”). Pronunciation: /tɹaɪs/ 1. To pull, to pull out or away, to pull sharply. Labels: obsolete, transitive Example: The tent is made of light, close, unbleached duck, […] A window, six inches square, is fitted at the upper end with a flap to trice up or haul down. 2. To drag or haul, especially with a rope; specifically (nautical) to haul or hoist and tie up by means of a rope. Labels: transitive Example: ... the fold of his double chin hung like a bag triced up close under the hinge of his jaw. Example: One of the two men landed had shot and wounded the mate, and the other, known as "Doublin Jack," had knocked the second mate down with a handspike. Captain Low put both these men in irons, triced them up in the mizzen rigging, and gave them each four dozen lashes of ratline stuff, which they had well earned.
Word: trice Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English trīce, trise, in the phrase at a trīce (“with a single, quick motion; at once”, literally “with a pull or jerk”), later also in the phrases in a trice, on a trice, and with a trice. The word is ultimately from Middle English trīcen: see etymology 1 above. Pronunciation: /tɹaɪs/ 1. Now only in the phrase in a trice: a very short time; the blink of an eye, an instant, a moment. Example: Miſtruſtfully he truſteth, and he dreadingly did dare, / And fortie paſſions in a trice in him conſort and ſquare. Example: This is most ſtrange, that ſhe, who even but now / Was your beſt object, the argument of your praiſe, / Balme of your age, moſt beſt, moſt deereſt, / Should in this trice of time commit a thing / So monſtrous, to diſmantell ſo many foulds of fauour, […]
Word: trice Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English trīce, tryys, tryyst, from Middle Dutch trīse, trijs (modern Dutch trijs (“hoisting-block, pulley, windlass”)) or Middle Low German trīsse, trītse (“hoisting-rope, tackle”); probably related to the verb trice (see etymology 1 above), and perhaps to Old English tryndel (“roller, wheel”) (see further at trend, trindle). The English word is cognate with Danish tridse, trisse (“pulley”), Low German trissel (“dizziness; whirling”), German trieze (“crane; pulley”), Norwegian triss (“pulley”), Swedish trissa (“pulley, truckle”). Pronunciation: /tɹaɪs/ 1. A pulley, a windlass (“form of winch for lifting heavy weights, comprising a cable or rope wound around a cylinder”). Labels: obsolete, rare
Word: tripe Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English tripe, from Old French tripe (“entrails”), of uncertain origin; possibly borrowed from Spanish tripa. Pronunciation: /tɹaɪp/ 1. The lining of the large stomach of ruminating animals, when prepared for food. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: You saw only your mother die. I see them pop off every day in the Mater and Richmond and cut up into tripes in the dissectingroom. Example: Tripe: A popular dish commonly believed to be a sexual stimulant. 2. The entrails; (by extension, humorous or derogatory) the belly. Labels: in-plural, uncountable, usually Example: Next morning Miss Dolly complained of her Tripes; / Drinking cold water had given her gripes. 3. Something foolish or valueless, especially written works and popular entertainment (movies, television). Labels: derogatory, figuratively, uncountable, usually Example: No, I'm not kidding. Professor, Broadway stands for a lot of baloney; but, it will never digest a piece of tripe like this! Example: We believe that the purpose of science is to serve mankind. You, however, seem to regard science as some kind of dodge… or hustle. Your theories are the worst kind of popular tripe, your methods are sloppy, and your conclusions are highly questionable! You are a poor scientist, Dr. Venkman! 4. An edible lichen, especially rock tripe. Labels: uncountable, usually
Word: tripe Part of Speech: intj Etymology: From Middle English tripe, from Old French tripe (“entrails”), of uncertain origin; possibly borrowed from Spanish tripa. Pronunciation: /tɹaɪp/ 1. That (what has just been said) is untrue. Labels: derogatory
Word: ISTR Part of Speech: phrase 1. Initialism of I seem to recall/remember. Labels: Internet, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism