nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: noodle Part of Speech: noun Etymology: The origin of the verb is uncertain; it is possibly derived: * from noodle (“to hum or sing (a tune) at a low pitch or volume”) (Shetland) (see etymology 3); or * from German nudeln (“to make music or sing listlessly; to make music or sing at a low pitch or volume, or in an improvisatory manner”) (Leipzig), apparently from Nudel (“piece of pasta, noodle”) (see etymology 1) + -n (a variant of -en (suffix forming the infinitives of verbs)). The word was probably also influenced by doodle (“to draw or scribble aimlessly”, verb). The noun is probably derived from the verb, though the verb is first attested later. The noun was probably also influenced by doodle (“small mindless sketch”, noun). Pronunciation: [ˈnuː.dl̩], /ˈnu.dəl/, [ˈnʉː.dl̩] 1. An improvised passage of music played on an instrument; also, a series of ornamental notes played on an instrument; a trill. Labels: informal
Word: noodle Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Uncertain; possibly: * from noodle (“to fool or trick (someone)”) (obsolete) (see etymology 2); or * from nodule (“rounded mass or irregular shape”). Pronunciation: [ˈnuː.dl̩], /ˈnu.dəl/, [ˈnʉː.dl̩] 1. To search (mullock (“mining or ore processing waste”)) for opals. Labels: Australia, informal, transitive 2. To obtain (an opal) by searching through mullock. Labels: Australia, informal, transitive 3. To clear extraneous material from (an opal). Labels: Australia, also, figuratively, informal, transitive 4. To search mullock for opals; to fossick. Labels: Australia, informal, intransitive Example: On the Olympic Field the tour-group is permitted to ‘noodle’ (hunt for opals) on the waste or mullock heaps […] Example: In Coober Pedy, noodling for opals is generally discouraged, although a few tourist spots, such as the Old Timers Mine, have noodle pits open to the public.
Word: noodle Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Unknown; perhaps related to guddle (“to catch (fish) with the hands”). Pronunciation: [ˈnuː.dl̩], /ˈnu.dəl/, [ˈnʉː.dl̩] 1. To catch (fish (usually very large catfish), turtles, or other aquatic animals) with the hands; also, to catch (fish) using a gaff or fishing spear; to gaff. Labels: Australia, informal, transitive Example: Fred had several lacerations on his hands from noodling flathead in the river.
Word: mat Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Inherited from Middle English matte (“mat”), from Old English meatte (“mat”), from Late Latin matta (“mat made of rushes”), from Punic or Phoenician (compare Hebrew מיטה \ מִטָּה (mitá, “bed, couch”)). Cognate with German Matte (“mat”), Danish måtte (“mat”), Faroese and Icelandic motta (“rug, mat”), Norwegian matte (“mat, rug”), Swedish matta (“carpet, rug, mat”). Pronunciation: /mæt/, [mæʔ(t̚)] 1. A flat piece of coarse material used for wiping one’s feet, or as a decorative or protective floor covering. Example: Wipe your feet on the mat before coming in. 2. A small flat piece of material used to protect a surface from anything hot or rough; a coaster. Example: They put mats on the table during mealtimes. 3. A floor pad to protect athletes. Example: The high jumper cleared the bar and landed safely on the mat. 4. A thickly tangled mess. Example: a mat of weeds Example: But to return to where we left her, I see her still, propped up in a kind of stupor against one of the walls in which this wretched edifice abounds, her long grey greasy hair framing in its cowl of scrofulous mats a face where pallor, languor, hunger, acne, recent dirt, immemorial chagrin and surplus hair seemed to dispute the mastery. 5. A thin layer of woven, non-woven, or knitted fiber that serves as reinforcement to a material. 6. A thin surface layer; superficial cover. Example: Iceland moss growing in a mat Example: The fad for blaming all mass extinctions (such as happened at the end of the Cretaceous when the dinosaurs vanished) on impacts of objects from space was extended to the Pleistocene in 2007. That year a group of scientists proposed that the North American extinctions were due to a comet or meteorite impact over the Carolinas, near the beginning of the Younger Dryas event, about 12,900 years ago. The original evidence for this supposed impact was a "black mat" of organic material in many Clovis sites, plus microscopic nano-diamonds in deep-sea cores, and rare Platinum group metals in Greenland ice cores from around 12,900 years ago.
Word: mat Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Inherited from Middle English matte (“mat”), from Old English meatte (“mat”), from Late Latin matta (“mat made of rushes”), from Punic or Phoenician (compare Hebrew מיטה \ מִטָּה (mitá, “bed, couch”)). Cognate with German Matte (“mat”), Danish måtte (“mat”), Faroese and Icelandic motta (“rug, mat”), Norwegian matte (“mat, rug”), Swedish matta (“carpet, rug, mat”). Pronunciation: /mæt/, [mæʔ(t̚)] 1. To cover, protect or decorate with mats. Labels: transitive Example: Be careful now to keep the Doors and Windows of your Conservatories well matted 2. To form a thick, tangled mess; to interweave into, or like, a mat; to entangle. Labels: intransitive Example: And o'er his eyebrows hung his matted hair.
Word: mat Part of Speech: noun 1. Clipping of material. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, in-plural, slang Example: I used up all my mats cranking 90s and ended up getting one-pumped. Example: Using a Weapon Upgrade Bench, it's possible to upgrade a Common Shotgun, for example, all the way to Legendary provided you've harvested enough mats to do so.
Word: mat Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Compare matte. 1. An alloy of copper, tin, iron, etc.; white metal. 2. Alternative form of matte (“instrument for producing a dull, lustreless surface”). Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: mat Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Compare matte. 1. Alternative form of matte (“to produce a dull, lustreless surface on metal”). Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: mat Part of Speech: noun Etymology: A clipped form of matinee. 1. Abbreviation of matinee (“performance at a theater”). Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, dated, slang Example: A gents' toilet room might be found in a house that caters for the cheaper class of theatrical patronage, where the slangy language of the "goin' to the mat this aft?" style prevails. A gents toilet room is not found in the Southern Hotel. It either "men's" or "gentlemen's".
Word: mat Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of matte (“decorative border around a picture”). Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: the mat of a daguerreotype
Word: mat Part of Speech: adj 1. Alternative form of matte (“not reflecting light”). Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: Frons mat black, orbits slightly paler, more greyish; mesonotum distinctly mat, greyish-black, but with some subshine; […]
Word: mat Part of Speech: noun 1. Clipping of matrix. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, clipping
Word: mat Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Russian мат (mat), abbreviated from the expression ма́терная брань (máternaja branʹ), ultimately from мать (matʹ, “mother”). 1. Vulgar, obscene, or profane language in Russian and some other Slavic language communities. Labels: uncountable Example: Most teenagers go through times when they use mat "rather heavily" among themselves. I guess they associate it with being adults. In most cases though this goes away pretty fast, usually when they start dating girls. Using mat rather heavily after graduating from university is a differnet^([sic]) matter. Example: Don't you people have anything better to do than collecting mat. I still can't undestand why people in (and from) the ex-USSR like to swear so much.
Word: Bergamask Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From the Italian bergamasco (“from Bergamo”), itself from German Bergheim (“mountain home”). 1. Of or characteristic of Bergamo, Italy. Labels: not-comparable Example: "Will it please you to see the epilogue, or to hear a Bergomask dance between two of our company?"
Word: Bergamask Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From the Italian bergamasco (“from Bergamo”), itself from German Bergheim (“mountain home”). 1. A native or inhabitant of Bergamo 2. A rustic dance, supposedly typical of the region
Word: spaghettis Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of spaghetti Labels: form-of, plural
Word: spaghettis Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of spaghetti Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: sirrah Part of Speech: noun Etymology: An extended form of sir; the source of the final vowel is unclear. See also siree. Pronunciation: /ˈsɪɹə/ 1. A term of address to an inferior male or more commonly a child. A modern-day equivalent would be "little man". Labels: obsolete Example: Kemp. Yea marry, let them come before mee, what is your name, friend? / Bor. Borachio. / Kem. Pray write downe Borachio. Yours ſirra. / Con. I am a Gentleman ſir, and my name is Conrade. Example: VVhat ſay you to a leg of Beef novv, ſirha?
Word: armpit Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English armpitt, arme-pitt, armput, equivalent to arm + pit. (something unpleasant): Presumably a reference to underarm body odor. Pronunciation: /ˈɑɹmˌpɪt/ 1. The cavity beneath the junction of the arm and shoulder. Example: She stood a couple of feet away from me […] exposing an edge of brassière strap at her armpit―exposing the armpit itself, a muscular hollow shadowed with fine stubble and faintly streaked with talcum. Example: Unilever brought its Rexona deodorant to China a decade ago, dreaming of a market with 2.6 billion armpits. 2. Somewhere or something unpleasant or undesirable. Labels: colloquial, derogatory Example: the armpit of America
Word: cave Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English cave, borrowed from Old French cave, from Latin cava (“cavity”), from cavus (“hollow”). Cognate with Tocharian B kor (“throat”), Albanian cup (“odd, uneven”), Ancient Greek κύαρ (kúar, “eye of needle, earhole”), Old Armenian սոր (sor, “hole”), Sanskrit शून्य (śūnya, “empty, barren, zero”). Displaced native Old English sċræf. More at cavum, cavus and cage. Pronunciation: /keɪv/, /kæɪv/, /kev/, /keːv/ 1. A large, naturally-occurring cavity formed underground or in the face of a cliff or a hillside. Example: We found a cave on the mountainside where we could take shelter. Example: The preposterous altruism too![…]Resist not evil. It is an insane immolation of self—as bad intrinsically as fakirs stabbing themselves or anchorites warping their spines in caves scarcely large enough for a fair-sized dog. 2. A hole, depression, or gap in earth or rock, whether natural or man-made. Example: Every boy at one time or another has dug a cave; I suppose because ages and ages ago his ancestors had to live in caves, […] 3. A storage cellar, especially for wine or cheese. Example: This wine has been aged in our cave for thirty years. 4. A place of retreat, such as a man cave. Example: My room was a cozy cave where I could escape from my family. 5. A naturally-occurring cavity in bedrock which is large enough to be entered by an adult. Example: It was not strictly a cave, but a narrow fissure in the rock. 6. A shielded area where nuclear experiments can be carried out. Example: These potential radiation fields or radioactive material levels may be the result of normal operations (ie, radiation in a target cave) […] 7. Debris, particularly broken rock, which falls into a drill hole and interferes with drilling. Labels: uncountable Example: […] the casing can then be placed in the hole without encountering any cave and core drilling in rock can begin. 8. A collapse or cave-in. Example: The "breasts" of marble which unite the opposite lateral walls have been left standing in order to prevent a possible cave of the wall on either side. 9. The vagina. Labels: also, figuratively, slang Example: Then without a word she lay on her back in the bed, her dark blond pubic hair rising about her dark wet cave like dried brush about a hidden spring. 10. A group that breaks from a larger political party or faction on a particular issue. Labels: slang Example: Without joining the cave, Hyde had abstained both in December 1956 and May 1957. 11. Any hollow place, or part; a cavity. Labels: obsolete Example: the cave of the ear 12. A code cave. Example: Once a code cave is created, you can execute it using either thread injection or thread hijacking. […] Additionally, you'd need to make sure that the cave properly cleans the stack.
Word: cave Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English cave, borrowed from Old French cave, from Latin cava (“cavity”), from cavus (“hollow”). Cognate with Tocharian B kor (“throat”), Albanian cup (“odd, uneven”), Ancient Greek κύαρ (kúar, “eye of needle, earhole”), Old Armenian սոր (sor, “hole”), Sanskrit शून्य (śūnya, “empty, barren, zero”). Displaced native Old English sċræf. More at cavum, cavus and cage. Pronunciation: /keɪv/, /kæɪv/, /kev/, /keːv/ 1. To surrender. Labels: figuratively Example: He caved under pressure. Example: Eventually the NUR overplayed its hands with an all-out strike. And when Peter Parker, the then-chairman of BR, who was well regarded among his staff, called their bluff by threatening to close down the entire network, they caved in. 2. To collapse. Example: First the braces buckled, then the roof began to cave, then we ran. 3. To hollow out or undermine. Example: The levee has been severely caved by the river current. 4. To engage in the recreational exploration of caves. Example: Pam has been caving for 25 years. She and her husband Tim are among the top cavers in the country. They are passionate about the world hidden beneath our feet and they were to be my instructors and guides on my first ever foray below ground that didn't involve getting on the tube. 5. In room-and-pillar mining, to extract a deposit of rock by breaking down a pillar which had been holding it in place. Example: The deposit is caved by knocking out the posts. 6. To work over tailings to dress small pieces of marketable ore. Labels: obsolete Example: As an indication of the miners' desperation in these years, the free miners of Wensley lowered themselves to caving for scraps of ore. 7. To dwell in a cave. Labels: obsolete Example: although perhaps / It may be heard at court that such as we / Cave here, hunt here, are outlaws, and in time / May make some stronger head
Word: cave Part of Speech: intj Etymology: Borrowed from Latin cavē, second-person singular present active imperative of caveō (“to beware”). Used at Eton College, Berkshire. Pronunciation: /ˈkeɪvi/ 1. look out!; beware! Labels: UK Example: Ssh! Cave! Mum's the word! Not 'arf, or what?
Word: nest Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English nest, nist, nyst, from Old English nest, from Proto-West Germanic *nest, from Proto-Germanic *nestą, from Proto-Indo-European *nisdós (“nest”), literally "where [the bird] sits down", a compound of *ni (“down”) (whence also English nether) + the zero-grade of the root *sed- (“to sit”) (whence also English sit). Pronunciation: /nɛst/ 1. A structure built by a bird as a place to incubate eggs and rear young. 2. A place used by a monotreme, fish, amphibian or insect, for depositing eggs and hatching young. 3. A snug, comfortable, or cosy residence or job situation. 4. A retreat, or place of habitual resort. 5. A hideout for bad people to frequent or haunt; a den. Example: a nest of thieves Example: That nightclub is a nest of strange people! 6. A home that a child or young adult shares with a parent or guardian. Example: I am aspiring to leave the nest. 7. A fixed number of cards in some bidding games awarded to the highest bidder allowing him to exchange any or all with cards in his hand. Example: I was forced to change trumps when I found the ace, jack, and nine of diamonds in the nest. 8. A fortified position for a weapon. Example: a machine gun nest 9. A structure consisting of nested structures, such as nested loops or nested subroutine calls. Example: Subroutine 4 cannot jump out of the subroutine nest in one step. Each return address must be popped from the stack in the order in which it was pushed onto the stack. Example: Our analysis to this point has assumed that in a loop nest, we are only parallelizing a single loop. 10. A circular bed of pasta, rice, etc. to be topped or filled with other foods. 11. An aggregated mass of any ore or mineral, in an isolated state, within a rock. 12. A collection of boxes, cases, or the like, of graduated size, each put within the one next larger. 13. A compact group of pulleys, gears, springs, etc., working together or collectively. 14. The pubic hair near a vulva or a vulva itself. Labels: US, slang, vulgar
Word: nest Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English nesten, nisten, from Old English nistan, nistian, from Proto-West Germanic *nistijan (“to nest, build a nest”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian näästje (“to nest”), Dutch nesten (“to nest”), German Low German nüsten (“to nest”), German nisten (“to nest”). Pronunciation: /nɛst/ 1. To build or settle into a nest. Labels: intransitive 2. To settle into a home. Labels: intransitive Example: We loved the new house and were nesting there in two days! 3. To successively neatly fit inside another. Labels: intransitive Example: I bought a set of nesting mixing bowls for my mother. 4. To place in, or as if in, a nest. Labels: transitive 5. To place one thing neatly inside another, and both inside yet another (and so on). Labels: transitive Example: There would be much more room in the attic if you had nested all the empty boxes. 6. To hunt for birds' nests or their contents (usually "go nesting"). Labels: intransitive Example: After the first heavy frost, when acorns were falling, I took a friend into partnership and went nesting.
Word: joystick Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From joy + stick. First attested around 1910 (as joy-stick) as the control stick on an airplane. Its relation to the word joy is unclear. Pronunciation: /ˈd͡ʒɔɪ.stɪk/, /ˈd͡ʒoɪ.stɪk/, /ˈd͡ʒoɪ.stək/ 1. A mechanical control device consisting of a handgrip mounted on a base or pedestal and typically having one or more buttons, used to control an aircraft, computer, or other equipment. Example: If games are your life, the choice of a joystick is desperately important. 2. A penis. Labels: slang Example: She playing with my joystick All in my two seater
Word: joystick Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From joy + stick. First attested around 1910 (as joy-stick) as the control stick on an airplane. Its relation to the word joy is unclear. Pronunciation: /ˈd͡ʒɔɪ.stɪk/, /ˈd͡ʒoɪ.stɪk/, /ˈd͡ʒoɪ.stək/ 1. To maneuver by means of a joystick (noun sense 1). Labels: rare, transitive Example: Marketing your home isn't as difficult as joysticking a Mars rover through a crater, despite what many people believe. Example: Therefore, part of the errors in the localization results is due to the problem of joysticking the robot exactly onto the marked positions.
Word: elevator Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰ Proto-Indo-European *-s Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰs Proto-Italic *eks Latin ex Latin ex- Proto-Indo-European *h₁lengʷʰ- Proto-Indo-European *-us Proto-Indo-European *h₁léngʰusder. ▲ Proto-Italic *breɣʷisinflu.? Proto-Italic *leɣʷis Latin levis Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti Proto-Indo-European *-h₂tiinflu. Proto-Italic *-ājō Proto-Italic *-āō Latin -ō Latin levō Latin ēlevō Latin ēlevātusder. Middle English elevat Proto-Indo-European *-o- Proto-Indo-European *-nom Proto-Indo-European *-onom Proto-Germanic *-aną Proto-Indo-European *-yeti Proto-Indo-European *-éyeti Proto-Germanic *-janą Old English -an Middle English -en Middle English elevaten English elevate Proto-Indo-European *-tōr Proto-Italic *-tōr Latin -tor Latin -ātor Old French -eorbor. Middle English -our ▲ Latin -torlbor. English -or English elevator From elevate + -or. Pronunciation: /ˈɛləˌveɪtə/, /ˈɛləˌveɪtɚ/ 1. Anything that raises or uplifts. Example: And then the foaming flagons raised on high, with that best of all beverages, that elevator of spirits, that foaming sunshine, that grand and glorious brew of ale. Example: Bulk loading of grain in progress from road to rail at Biggleswade using a portable elevator. 2. A permanent construction with a built-in platform or cab that can be raised and lowered, used to transport people and goods, as between different floors of a building. Labels: Australia, Canada, Philippines, US 3. A silo used for storing wheat, corn or other grain (grain elevator). Labels: US Example: The harvest is now in full swing in the Great Plains and efforts are being made to rush the grain from the fields to the country elevators and then to the large terminals, such as Kansas City, Houston, Galveston and New Orleans. Example: [W]hen a group of farmers started a co-op elevator, he invested in it, and persuaded business friends to do the same. 4. A control surface of an aircraft responsible for controlling the pitching motion of the machine. 5. A dental instrument used to pry up ("elevate") teeth in difficult extractions, or depressed portions of bone. 6. Any muscle that serves to raise a part of the body, such as the leg or the eye. 7. A type of shoe having an insert lift to make the wearer appear taller.
Word: elevator Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰ Proto-Indo-European *-s Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰs Proto-Italic *eks Latin ex Latin ex- Proto-Indo-European *h₁lengʷʰ- Proto-Indo-European *-us Proto-Indo-European *h₁léngʰusder. ▲ Proto-Italic *breɣʷisinflu.? Proto-Italic *leɣʷis Latin levis Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti Proto-Indo-European *-h₂tiinflu. Proto-Italic *-ājō Proto-Italic *-āō Latin -ō Latin levō Latin ēlevō Latin ēlevātusder. Middle English elevat Proto-Indo-European *-o- Proto-Indo-European *-nom Proto-Indo-European *-onom Proto-Germanic *-aną Proto-Indo-European *-yeti Proto-Indo-European *-éyeti Proto-Germanic *-janą Old English -an Middle English -en Middle English elevaten English elevate Proto-Indo-European *-tōr Proto-Italic *-tōr Latin -tor Latin -ātor Old French -eorbor. Middle English -our ▲ Latin -torlbor. English -or English elevator From elevate + -or. Pronunciation: /ˈɛləˌveɪtə/, /ˈɛləˌveɪtɚ/ 1. To move in an elevator. Labels: informal, intransitive Example: He elevatored up to the third floor.
Word: silo Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Spanish silo, of unclear origin. See Spanish silo for more. Pronunciation: /ˈsaɪləʊ/, /ˈsaɪloʊ/, /ˈsɑe.ləʉ/, [ˈsɑe̯.lɐʉ̯] 1. A vertical building, usually cylindrical, used for the production of silage. 2. From the shape, a building used for the storage of grain. 3. An underground bunker used to hold missiles which may be launched. Example: As a rule of thumb, to reliably destroy a hardened missile silo or communications bunker, a one megaton warhead should land within a 600 foot radius of its target. This will ensure that the enemy silo lies within the crater gouged out by the nuclear blast. 4. An organizational unit that has poor interaction with other units, negatively affecting overall performance. Labels: derogatory, informal Example: A silo is created when members in one department or function do not interact with those in another department, even though there might be operational benefits to the interaction. Example: Graeme Bickerdike, a member of campaign organisation The HRE Group, told RAIL: "This infilling and demolition programme - costing much more than repair - has been conceived with no thought for its impact beyond the silos where distant, unaccountable officials manage their spreadsheets. 5. A structure in the information system that is poorly networked with other structures, with data exchange hampered. Labels: derogatory, informal Example: Our networking is organized in silos, and employees lose time manually transferring data. 6. A group of like-minded individuals who are not exposed to outside opinions or input. Labels: derogatory, slang 7. In Microsoft Windows operating systems, a kernel object for isolating groups of threads.
Word: silo Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Spanish silo, of unclear origin. See Spanish silo for more. Pronunciation: /ˈsaɪləʊ/, /ˈsaɪloʊ/, /ˈsɑe.ləʉ/, [ˈsɑe̯.lɐʉ̯] 1. To store in a silo. Labels: transitive 2. To separate; to isolate. Labels: transitive Example: Then there’s the fact that platforms like TikTok tend to silo users based on interests. Niche communities (insert hobby here plus Tok) are thriving, and so a person who may be famous on FarmTok or BookTok may have trouble breaking out of the mold. Example: Sheel Mohnot, a venture capitalist friend of Bi’s who has commissioned twiblings, said the problem is that information is siloed when “each agency has their own database of wombs.”
Word: stairway Part of Speech: noun Etymology: stair + way Pronunciation: /ˈstɛɹweɪ/, /ˈstɛəweɪ/, /ˈsteːwæɪ/, /ˈsteəwæɪ/, /ˈstiəwæɪ/ 1. A set of steps, with or without a case, that allow one to walk up or down. Example: Then came a maid with hand-bag and shawls, and after her a tall young lady. She stood for a moment holding her skirt above the grimy steps, with something of the stately pose which Richter has given his Queen Louise on the stairway,[…].
Word: WAP Part of Speech: name Etymology: The use of WAP to mean "wet-ass pussy" was popularized, if not coined, by the August 2020 Cardi B song WAP. Pronunciation: /wæp/ 1. Wireless Application Protocol, an open international standard for applications that use wireless communication, such as Internet access from a cellular phone.
Word: WAP Part of Speech: noun Etymology: The use of WAP to mean "wet-ass pussy" was popularized, if not coined, by the August 2020 Cardi B song WAP. Pronunciation: /wæp/ 1. Initialism of wireless access point. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable 2. Initialism of whey acidic protein. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable 3. Initialism of wet-ass pussy. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, slang, uncountable, vulgar Example: “You're worried about this dude? Seriously? The boy is whipped on that WAP. Whipped, I tell you.” Example: "I gotcha, Doc. I won't bother her for another week or so, but after that, I'm all in that WAP!" Jamal said, pumping the air like he was having sex.
Word: aphelion Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From New Latin aphēlium (whence English aphelium, now displaced) + -ion (used in the names of other apsides). Aphelium was formed from Ancient Greek ἀπο- (apo-, prefix meaning ‘away, from, off’) + ἥλῐος (hḗlĭos, “the sun”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *sóh₂wl̥ (“the sun”)), modelled after New Latin apogaeum (“apogee”). The plural form aphelia is from aphelion + -a (plural form of the suffix -on). Pronunciation: /əˈfiː.lɪ.ən/, /æpˈhiː.lɪ.ən/, /əˈfi.li.ən/, /əˈfil.jən/, /æpˈhi.li.ən/ 1. The point in the elliptical orbit of a comet, planet, or other astronomical object, where it is farthest from the Sun. Labels: also, figuratively Example: [I]t follows from the theory of gravity, that the aphelia of Mercury, Venus, the Earth, and Mars, slightly progress.
Word: atlatl Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Classical Nahuatl ahtlatl. Pronunciation: /ˈatlat(ə)l/ 1. A spearthrower consisting of a wooden stick with a thong or perpendicularly protruding hook on the rear end that grips a grove or socket on the butt of its accompanying spear (or dart), intended to steady the spear immediately prior to throwing, to increase its potential range when thrown, and to increase its force of penetration of the target. Example: While large game was still hunted, mainly using projectile spears but later enhanced by atlatls (spear-throwers) and bows and arrows, evidence for the exploitation of small game such as tortoises, rabbits, wild fowl and eggs increased. Example: World's oldest weapon delivery system. It's called an atlatl. Developed over 30,000 years ago.
Word: saga Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Old Norse saga (“epic tale, story”), from Proto-Germanic *sagǭ (“saying, story”), from Proto-Indo-European *sekʷ- (“to say”). Cognate with Old English sagu (“story, tale, statement”), Old High German saga (“an assertion, narrative, sermon, pronouncement”), Icelandic saga (“story, tale, history”), German Sage (“saga, legend, myth”). More at say; Doublet of saw. Compare typologically Ancient Greek ἔπος (épos) (whence epos, epic) << Proto-Indo-European *wekʷ- (“to speak”). Pronunciation: /ˈsɑːɡə/, /ˈsɑɡə/, /ˈsɐːɡə/, /ˈsaɡə/ 1. An Old Norse (Icelandic) prose narrative, especially one dealing with family or social histories and legends. 2. Something with the qualities of such a saga; an epic, a long story. Example: The latest Fire Emblem, developed by the makers of Advance Wars and available in the U.S., is the seventh game in an epic saga that began 13 years ago on the NES. Example: Manchester City put the Carlos Tevez saga behind them with a classy victory at Blackburn that keeps them level on points with leaders Manchester United.
Word: saga Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin saga, plural of sagum. 1. plural of sagum Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Anglice Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Borrowed from Latin Anglicē. Pronunciation: /ˈæŋ.ɡlɪ.siː/ 1. In the English language; in plain English. Labels: not-comparable Example: Botticelli was born in the city of Firenze, Anglice Florence. Example: An old gin (Anglice, black woman) said that in the interior - as far as she could explain it, about 200 miles S.S.W. from the head of the river - there were two large lagoons where a very old white man had been camped for years, waited upon by two old black gins.
Word: determinant Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from French déterminant, equivalent to determine + -ant. Pronunciation: /dɪˈtɜːmɪnənt/, /dɪˈtɝmɪnənt/, /dɪˈtɝmənənt/ 1. A determining factor; an element that determines the nature of something. Example: 1999, Noah P. Barsky, Stuart Bruchey (editor), Organizational Determinants of Budgetary Influence and Involvement, Taylor & Francis (Garland Publishing), page 4, Shields and Young (1993) argue that the budget participation literature "has not produced a coherent nor unified definition" of both the determinants and consequences of budget participation. Example: The field of the social determinants of health is perhaps the most complex and challenging of all. 2. A scalar that encodes certain characteristics of a given transformation matrix; the unique scalar function over square matrices which is distributive over matrix multiplication, multilinear in the rows and columns, and takes the value 1 for the unit matrix; abbreviated as: det. Example: 1966 [Allyn & Bacon], Howard Whitley Eves, Elementary Matrix Theory, 1980, Dover, Unabridged corrected republication, page 165, The determinant of a square matrix A_(n) is a function (actually a polynomial function) of the elements a_ij of A. Example: 1990, Assem S. Deif, Advanced Matrix Theory for Scientists and Engineers, Gordon and Breach Science Publishers (Abacus Press), 2nd Edition, page 18, Show that the determinant of a Hermitian matrix is real and that of a skew-Hermitian matrix is imaginary. 3. A substance that causes a cell to adopt a particular fate. 4. Something that causes a nuclease to cut at a specified point
Word: determinant Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Borrowed from French déterminant, equivalent to determine + -ant. Pronunciation: /dɪˈtɜːmɪnənt/, /dɪˈtɝmɪnənt/, /dɪˈtɝmənənt/ 1. Serving to determine or limit; determinative.
Word: eigenvalue Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From eigen- + value. Partial calque of German Eigenwert. Pronunciation: /ˈaɪ.ɡənˌvæl.juː/, /ˈaɪ.ɡənˌvæl.ju/ 1. A scalar λ, such that there exists a non-zero vector x (a corresponding eigenvector) for which the image of x under a given linear transformation A is equal to the image of x under multiplication by λ; i.e. Ax=λx. Example: In the extension, one associates eigenvalues, sets of scalars, with arrays of matrices by considering the singularity of linear combinations of the matrices in the various rows, involving the same coefficients in each case. Attention to this area was called in the early 1920's by R. D. Carmichael, who pointed out in addition the enormous variety of mixed eigenvalue problems with several parameters. Example: For many quantum-mechanical problems it is important to investigate the change of eigenvalues and eigenfunctions with the continuous change of one or more parameters. The case in which one knows the eigenvalues and eigenfunctions for two special values of the parameters, and is interested in the region in between is particularly interesting.
Word: eigenvector Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From eigen- + vector, a partial calque of German Eigenvektor. The prefix eigen- (also used in eigenvalue) was first used in 1904, by David Hilbert, and was possibly inspired by a related usage by Hermann von Helmholtz. 1. A vector that is only scaled (not rotated out of its span) under a particular linear transformation; a left or right eigenvector depending on context; (more formally) given a linear transformation A, a vector x such that Ax=λx [or xA=λx] for some scalar λ (called the eigenvalue). Example: Both equations give the relation x₁ = −x₂. Therefore the set of eigenvectors corresponding to λ = 2 is given by: […] An eigenvector corresponding to λ₁ = 2 is ( −1 1 ). 2. A right eigenvector; given a matrix A, the eigenvector of the transformation "left-side multiplication by A."
Word: irrumator Part of Speech: noun 1. One who irrumates.
Word: disappear Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English disapeeren, equivalent to dis- + appear. Displaced native Old English fordwīnan. Displaced native Old English cwincan, whose causative persists as quench (“put out (fire)”). Pronunciation: /dɪsəˈpɪə/, /dɪsəˈpɪɹ/, /dɪsəˈpiːɹ/ 1. To vanish. Labels: intransitive 2. To go missing; to become a missing person. Labels: intransitive Example: Eighteen years after Jaycee Dugard disappeared in 1991, she was found alive in the summer of 2009. 3. To go away; to become lost. Labels: intransitive Example: I corralled the judge, and we started off across the fields[…]. And thus we came by a circuitous route to Mohair,[…]. My client welcomed the judge […] and they disappeared together into the Ethiopian card-room, which was filled with the assegais and exclamation point shields Mr. Cooke had had made at the sawmill at Beaverton. Example: A turban and loincloth soaked in blood had been found; also a staff. These properties were known to have belonged to a toddy drawer. He had disappeared. 4. To make vanish; especially, to abduct or murder for political reasons. Labels: euphemistic, often, transitive Example: The Chinese government is well-known for disappearing particularly vocal political dissidents. Example: "Did they disappear him?" "I don’t know." "What will you do if they decide to disappear you?"
Word: Michal Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Hebrew מִיכַל (mikhál, “Michal”). Pronunciation: /miˈxɑl/ 1. A daughter of Saul and wife of David in the Old Testament. Example: And as the Arke of the Lord came into the citie of Dauid, Michal Sauls daughter looked through a window, and saw king Dauid leaping and dauncing before the Lord, and she despised him in her heart. 2. A female given name from Hebrew.
Word: hippy Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈhɪpi/ 1. Alternative spelling of hippie. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: hippy Part of Speech: adj Pronunciation: /ˈhɪpi/ 1. Having large or prominent hips. Example: The girls were hefty, big-breasted and strong and their blonde hair was in slight disarray. […] They were full-lipped, broad-nosed, hippy girls and they were very tired.
Word: rest Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English resten, from Old English restan, from Proto-West Germanic *rastijan (“to rest”), from Proto-Indo-European *ros-, *res-, *erH- (“rest”). Cognate with Dutch rusten (“to rest”), Middle Low German resten (“to rest”), German rasten (“to rest”), Danish raste (“to rest”), Swedish rasta (“to rest”). Pronunciation: /ɹɛst/, /ɹest/, /ɾɛst/, /ɻɛst/ 1. To cease from action, motion, work, or performance of any kind; stop; desist; be without motion. Labels: intransitive Example: My day's work is over; now I will rest. Example: I shall not rest until I have uncovered the truth. 2. To come to a pause or an end; end. Labels: intransitive 3. To be free from that which harasses or disturbs; be quiet or still; be undisturbed. Labels: intransitive Example: There rest, if any rest can harbour there. 4. To put into a state of rest. Labels: copulative, reflexive, transitive Example: We need to rest the horses before we ride any further. Example: And thereby at a pryory they rested them all nyght. 5. To stay, remain, be situated, or belong to. Labels: intransitive Example: The blame seems to rest with your father. Example: Copyright in the typographical arrangement rests with the Crown. 6. To rely or depend on. Labels: intransitive Example: The decision rests on getting a bank loan. 7. To be based on; to rely on something for proof or explanation Labels: intransitive Example: On him I rested, after long debate, / And not without considering, fixed fate. Example: Economics is a messy discipline: too fluid to be a science, too rigorous to be an art. Perhaps it is fitting that economists’ most-used metric, gross domestic product (GDP), is a tangle too.[…]But as a foundation for analysis it is highly subjective: it rests on difficult decisions about what counts as a territory, what counts as output and how to value it. Indeed, economists are still tweaking it. 8. To lean, lie, or lay. Labels: intransitive, reflexive, transitive Example: A column rests on its pedestal. Example: I rested my head in my hands. 9. To complete one's active advocacy in a trial or other proceeding, and thus to wait for the outcome (however, one is still generally available to answer questions, etc.) Labels: US, intransitive, transitive Example: The defense rests, your Honor. Example: I rest my case. 10. To sleep; slumber. Labels: intransitive 11. To lie dormant. Labels: intransitive 12. To sleep the final sleep; sleep in death; die; be dead. Labels: intransitive Example: I sing to him that rests below, ⁠And, since the grasses round me wave, ⁠I take the grasses of the grave, And make them pipes whereon to blow. 13. To be satisfied; to acquiesce. Example: to rest in Heaven's determination
Word: rest Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English reste, from Old French reste, from Old French rester (“to remain”), from Latin restō (“to stay back, stay behind”), from re- + stō (“to stand”). Replaced native Middle English lave (“rest, remainder”) (from Old English lāf (“remnant, remainder”)). Pronunciation: /ɹɛst/, /ɹest/, /ɾɛst/, /ɻɛst/ 1. That which remains. Labels: uncountable Example: She ate some of the food, but was not hungry enough to eat it all, so she put the rest in the refrigerator to finish later. 2. Those not included in a proposition or description; the remainder; others. Labels: uncountable Example: Plato and the rest of the philosophers Example: Arm'd like the rest, the Trojan prince appears. 3. A surplus held as a reserved fund by a bank to equalize its dividends, etc.; in the Bank of England, the balance of assets above liabilities. Labels: UK, uncountable
Word: rest Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English resten, from Old French rester, from Latin restō. Pronunciation: /ɹɛst/, /ɹest/, /ɾɛst/, /ɻɛst/ 1. To continue to be, remain, be left in a certain way. Example: You can rest assured that a sick child will say when it's again ready to eat, so it won't starve and doesn't need to be cajoled into eating. Example: Rest you merry. 2. To keep a certain way. Labels: obsolete, transitive Example: God rest you merry, gentlemen.
Word: rest Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Aphetic form of arrest. Pronunciation: /ɹɛst/, /ɹest/, /ɾɛst/, /ɻɛst/ 1. To arrest. Labels: colloquial, obsolete, transitive
Word: bairn Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Scots bairn, from Middle English bern, barn, from Old English bearn, from Proto-West Germanic *barn, from Proto-Germanic *barną. Doublet of barn. Compare West Frisian bern. Pronunciation: /bɛərn/, [bern], [bɛrn], [bɜːɹn], [bɛəʁn] 1. A child or baby. Labels: Scotland Example: She moved about the country like a ghost, gathering herbs in dark loanings, lingering in kirkyairds, and casting a blight on innocent bairns. Example: They say that a shag is good for an unborn child, they get the circulation of blood, or some shite. The least ah kin dae is take an interest in the bairn’s welfare.
Word: bairn Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Borrowed from Scots bairn, from Middle English bern, barn, from Old English bearn, from Proto-West Germanic *barn, from Proto-Germanic *barną. Doublet of barn. Compare West Frisian bern. Pronunciation: /bɛərn/, [bern], [bɛrn], [bɜːɹn], [bɛəʁn] 1. To get (someone) pregnant. Labels: Scotland, transitive Example: Go and kick the man that bairned your Nancy. Example: Just because he's signed up fir the fuckin army again, six bastard years this time, and bairned some slag.
Word: plat Part of Speech: noun Etymology: The noun is derived from Middle English plat, platte (“flat part of a sword; flat piece of ground, plot of ground”), probably a variant of Middle English plot, (modern English plot) and influenced by Middle English plat, plate (modern English plate) and Anglo-Norman, Middle French and Old French plat. See platy-, plaice, flat. The verb is derived from the noun. Pronunciation: /plæt/ 1. A plot of land; a lot. Example: The best ſoyle commonly yeelds the worſt Ayre, a dry ſandy plat is fitteſt to build upon, and ſuch as is rather hilly then plaine, full of Downes, a Cotſwald county, as being moſt commodious for hawking, hunting, wood, waters, and all manner of pleaſures. Example: Such pleaſure took the Serpent to behold This Flourie Plat, the ſweet receſs of Eve Thus earlie, thus alone; [...] 2. A map showing the boundaries of real properties (delineating one or more plots of land), especially one that forms part of a legal document. Example: For which cauſe I wiſh you to enter into conſideration of the matter, & to note all the Iſlands, and to ſet them downe in plat, to two ends: that is to ſay, That we may deuiſe to take the benefit by them, And alſo foreſee how by them the Sauages or ciuill Princes may in any ſort annoy us in our purpoſed trade that way. Example: A husband can not, without authority from his wife, plat her land, and the fact that the land which he assumes to plat was omitted by mistake from a previous plat made and acknowledged by her can make no difference. 3. A plot, a scheme. Labels: obsolete Example: Besides some care is taken, so far as conveniently can be, both to give regard to the further spring of any matter tending to the entry or execution of any other or evil plat, and also upon the sight thereof, to have timely recourse to the King, to warn him and others to beware and provide for the seasonable prevention of the danger; [...] Example: [S]o shall our plat in this one point be larger and much surmount that which [Richard] Stanihurst first tooke in hand by his exameters dactilicke and spondaicke in the translation of Virgills Eneidos, [...]
Word: plat Part of Speech: verb Etymology: The noun is derived from Middle English plat, platte (“flat part of a sword; flat piece of ground, plot of ground”), probably a variant of Middle English plot, (modern English plot) and influenced by Middle English plat, plate (modern English plate) and Anglo-Norman, Middle French and Old French plat. See platy-, plaice, flat. The verb is derived from the noun. Pronunciation: /plæt/ 1. To create a plat; to lay out property lots and streets; to map. Labels: transitive Example: A husband can not, without authority from his wife, plat her land, and the fact that the land which he assumes to plat was omitted by mistake from a previous plat made and acknowledged by her can make no difference. Example: He platted his land, extending the lateral lines of the lots south of Shore, or India street, indefinitely out into the river.
Word: plat Part of Speech: noun Etymology: The noun is a variant of plait. The verb is from Middle English platte, English plat, respectively archaic past and past participle forms of English pleat (a variant of plait), Middle English platten (“to braid, weave; plait; to fold”). Pronunciation: /plæt/ 1. A braid; a plait (of hair, straw, etc.). Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Her haire nor looſe nor ti'd in formall plat, / Proclaimd in her a careleſſe hand of pride; [...] Example: they also wear a cap or cup on the head formed of beargrass and cedar bark. the men also frequently attatch some small ornament to a small plat of hair on the center of the crown of their heads. 2. Material produced by braiding or interweaving, especially a material of interwoven straw from which straw hats are made. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The large silver medal and twenty guineas, were this Session given to Miss Sophia Woodhouse, (Mrs. Wells,) of Weathersfield, in Connecticut, United States, for a new Material for Straw Plat. Example: Her Ladyship, in a letter to A. Aikin, Esq., […] dated Castle Bernard, Ireland, Oct. 19, 1827, states that she has made some improvement in the mode of preparing the rye-straw, which is the material for plat employed in the school under her ladyship’s patronage.
Word: plat Part of Speech: verb Etymology: The noun is a variant of plait. The verb is from Middle English platte, English plat, respectively archaic past and past participle forms of English pleat (a variant of plait), Middle English platten (“to braid, weave; plait; to fold”). Pronunciation: /plæt/ 1. To braid, to plait. Example: And when they had platted a crowne of thornes, they put it upon his head, and a reed in his right hand: and they bowed the knee before him, and mocked him, ſaying, haile king of the Jewes. Example: A customer hailed him; he placed the stool on the ground, and the customer seated himself upon it, while the barber shaved his face, platted his hair, and washed his hands [...]
Word: plat Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English plat, plate, platte (“flat; smooth; blunt, plain”), from Anglo-Norman, Middle French, and Old French plat (“(adjective) flat, level; calm; blunt, plain; (adverb) in a flat position; directly, straight; bluntly, plainly”), from Vulgar Latin *plattus (“flat; smooth”); further etymology uncertain, but possibly from Ancient Greek πλατύς (platús, “flat; wide”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pleth₂- (“flat”). The English word is cognate with French plat, Italian piatto, Middle Dutch plat (modern Dutch plat (“flat”)), Middle High German blat, plat, Middle Low German plat (modern German platt (“flat”)), Old Danish plat (modern Danish plat), Old Occitan plat (modern Occitan plat), Old Swedish plat (modern Swedish platt); and is a doublet of flat and pleyt. Pronunciation: /plæt/ 1. Flat; level; (by extension) frank, on the level. Example: But else, hold alway^([sic]) your tail fast between your legs that he catch you not thereby; and hold down your ears lying plat after your head that he hold you not thereby; and see wisely to yourself. Example: But now, youngster, I have answered you freely, and I trow it is time that you answered me. Let things be plat and plain between us. I am a man who shoots straight at his mark.
Word: plat Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From Middle English plat, plate, platte (“flat; smooth; blunt, plain”), from Anglo-Norman, Middle French, and Old French plat (“(adjective) flat, level; calm; blunt, plain; (adverb) in a flat position; directly, straight; bluntly, plainly”), from Vulgar Latin *plattus (“flat; smooth”); further etymology uncertain, but possibly from Ancient Greek πλατύς (platús, “flat; wide”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pleth₂- (“flat”). The English word is cognate with French plat, Italian piatto, Middle Dutch plat (modern Dutch plat (“flat”)), Middle High German blat, plat, Middle Low German plat (modern German platt (“flat”)), Old Danish plat (modern Danish plat), Old Occitan plat (modern Occitan plat), Old Swedish plat (modern Swedish platt); and is a doublet of flat and pleyt. Pronunciation: /plæt/ 1. Flatly, plainly. Example: Fourth, see [that] thou hide nothing, nor dissemble, but speak plat, and plainly as much as thou knowest. Example: But single out, and say once plat and plain / That coy Matrona is a courtesan;