nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: President's Daily Briefing Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From president's + daily + briefing. 1. Intelligence information from the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) provided to the President of the United States (POTUS) every morning, to bring attention to pertinent information about international affairs. Labels: US
Word: PDB Part of Speech: noun 1. Initialism of protein data bank. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism 2. Initialism of President's Daily Briefing or President's Daily Brief or President's Daily Bulletin. Labels: US, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Word: entrepreneur Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from French entrepreneur (“one who undertakes or manages”), from Middle French entrepreneur, from entreprendre (“to undertake”) + -eur. Pronunciation: /ˌɒn.tɹə.pɹəˈnɜː/, /ˌɑ̃.tɹə.pɹəˈnɜː/, /ˌɑn.tɹə.pɹəˈnɝ/, /ˌɑn.tɹə.pɹəˈnʊɚ/ 1. A person who sets up a business; generally, a person who owns and manages a business and assumes its financial risks. Example: Every rail company worth its salt wanted to connect with London. Interestingly, it was largely that way around - provincial entrepreneurs wanting to connect with the capital, rather than London capitalists seeking to spread outwards. 2. A person who organizes concerts, plays, or other entertainments; the manager of a theatre or similar venue; an impresario. Labels: archaic 3. A person who serves as an intermediary; a middleman; a go-between. Labels: figuratively, rare, sometimes Example: Chicago, it was, by way of compensation, beginning to take on the cosmopolitan cast of culture that it has worn ever since, as entrepreneur between the Old World and the New. 4. A person who manages an artist or performer; an agent. Labels: obsolete
Word: pop group Part of Speech: noun 1. A musical group specializing in pop music. Example: Despite their artistic ambitions, they were never able to escape the label of a pop group.
Word: pop music Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Shortened form of popular music. 1. Music intended for or accepted by a wide audience, usually with a commercial basis and distinguished from other genres such as classical music and folk music, and nowadays also from rock music. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: Pop music, despite its commercial focus, includes many artistic gems.
Word: soda pop Part of Speech: noun 1. Any of several sweetened, carbonated beverages. Labels: US, countable, regional, uncountable Example: On a hot day, there's nothing I like more than soda pop. Example: Could you bring me a soda pop? I'm parched!
Word: padlock Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From earlier pad lock (19th c.); Middle English padlock, padlokke, from pad-, of unknown origin, + lok (“lock”). Perhaps originally a lock for a pad (“gate”), or a gate opening to a path, or a lock for a basket or pannier, from UK dialect pad (“a pannier”). Pronunciation: /ˈpæ̞dˌlɒk/, /ˈpædˌlɑk/, /ˈpæ̞dˌlɔk/ 1. A detachable lock that can be used to secure something by means of a sliding or hinged shackle
Word: padlock Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From earlier pad lock (19th c.); Middle English padlock, padlokke, from pad-, of unknown origin, + lok (“lock”). Perhaps originally a lock for a pad (“gate”), or a gate opening to a path, or a lock for a basket or pannier, from UK dialect pad (“a pannier”). Pronunciation: /ˈpæ̞dˌlɒk/, /ˈpædˌlɑk/, /ˈpæ̞dˌlɔk/ 1. To lock using a padlock. Labels: transitive Example: Janitors padlock the gates.
Word: dust devil Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From dust + devil. Pronunciation: /dʌst ˈdɛvəl/ 1. A small atmospheric vortex appearing in clear, dry conditions, made visible by swirling dust (or dirt or sand) picked up from the ground. Example: Near-synonyms: whirlwind, whirl, sandspout, sand pillar, willy willy (Australia) Example: A dust devil may look harmless, but a large one can overturn a car.
Word: funnel cloud Part of Speech: noun 1. A tapering, rapidly rotating cloud descending from a larger storm cloud, indicating the presence of an intense vortex, which potentially becomes a tornado if it reaches the ground. Example: When we saw the funnel cloud, we headed for the basement.
Word: willy-willy Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of willy willy. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: pop tart Part of Speech: noun Etymology: A genericization of the brand name Pop-Tarts. 1. A toaster pastry. Example: 2000 January 29, Peter Sagal (host), Wait, Wait...Don't Tell Me!, National Public Radio Carl Kasell will come to their house and cook his signature dish, breakfast à la Edwards, which is two pop tarts and a Benson and Hedges.
Word: pop tart Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From pop for “popular” and tart for a sexualized woman; a word play on the brand name. 1. A female pop music performer famed more for her sexuality than for her music. Labels: colloquial Example: After much effort, she was able to overcome the pop tart label and be taken seriously as a musician.
Word: devil Part of Speech: name Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁ Proto-Indo-European *dwísder. Ancient Greek διά (diá) Ancient Greek δια- (dia-) Proto-Indo-European *gʷelH-der. Proto-Hellenic *gʷəlnō Ancient Greek βάλλω (bállō) Ancient Greek διαβάλλω (diabállō) Ancient Greek διάβολος (diábolos)bor. Latin diabolusbor. Proto-West Germanic *diubul Old English dēofol Middle English devel English devil From Middle English devil, devel, deovel, from Old English dēofol, from Proto-West Germanic *diubul, from Latin diabolus, ultimately from Ancient Greek διάβολος (diábolos, “false accuser, slanderer”), also as "Satan" (in Jewish/Christian usage, translating Biblical Hebrew שָׂטָן (śātān)), from διαβάλλω (diabállō, “to slander”), literally “to throw across”, from διά (diá, “through, across”) + βάλλω (bállō, “throw”). The Old English word was probably adopted under influence of Latin diabolus (itself from the Greek). Other Germanic languages adopted the word independently: compare Saterland Frisian Düüwel (“devil”), West Frisian duvel (“devil”), Dutch duivel, duvel (“devil”), German Low German Düvel (“devil”), German Teufel (“devil”), Bavarian Teifl (“devil”), Danish djævel (“devil”), Swedish djävul (“devil”) (older: djefvul, Old Swedish diævul, Old Norse djǫfull). Doublet of diable, diablo, and diabolus. Pronunciation: /ˈdɛvəl/, [ˈdɛvəl] ~ [ˈdɛvl̩], /ˈdɛvɪl/, [ˈdɛvɪl] 1. The chief devil; Satan.
Word: devil Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁ Proto-Indo-European *dwísder. Ancient Greek διά (diá) Ancient Greek δια- (dia-) Proto-Indo-European *gʷelH-der. Proto-Hellenic *gʷəlnō Ancient Greek βάλλω (bállō) Ancient Greek διαβάλλω (diabállō) Ancient Greek διάβολος (diábolos)bor. Latin diabolusbor. Proto-West Germanic *diubul Old English dēofol Middle English devel English devil From Middle English devil, devel, deovel, from Old English dēofol, from Proto-West Germanic *diubul, from Latin diabolus, ultimately from Ancient Greek διάβολος (diábolos, “false accuser, slanderer”), also as "Satan" (in Jewish/Christian usage, translating Biblical Hebrew שָׂטָן (śātān)), from διαβάλλω (diabállō, “to slander”), literally “to throw across”, from διά (diá, “through, across”) + βάλλω (bállō, “throw”). The Old English word was probably adopted under influence of Latin diabolus (itself from the Greek). Other Germanic languages adopted the word independently: compare Saterland Frisian Düüwel (“devil”), West Frisian duvel (“devil”), Dutch duivel, duvel (“devil”), German Low German Düvel (“devil”), German Teufel (“devil”), Bavarian Teifl (“devil”), Danish djævel (“devil”), Swedish djävul (“devil”) (older: djefvul, Old Swedish diævul, Old Norse djǫfull). Doublet of diable, diablo, and diabolus. Pronunciation: /ˈdɛvəl/, [ˈdɛvəl] ~ [ˈdɛvl̩], /ˈdɛvɪl/, [ˈdɛvɪl] 1. To make like a devil; to invest with the character of a devil. 2. To annoy or bother. 3. To work as a ‘devil’; to work for a lawyer or writer without fee or recognition. Labels: intransitive Example: He did not repeat the scathing estimate of her character by Quatrefages, who at that time spent one afternoon a week devilling at the Consulate, keeping the petty-cash box in order. 4. To ghostwrite; to author while working as a ‘devil’. Example: Didn't secretaries write the speeches of Parliamentary "big-bugs"? Weren't the opinions of eminent lawyers often written by their juniors, read over and signed? Weren't briefs and pleadings devilled? 5. To prepare (food) with spices, making it spicy Example: […]; you could watch a buckwheat pancake whirled into existence under your eyes and see fowls' legs devilled, peppered, grilled, and tormented till they lost all semblance of the original Mariposa chicken. 6. To prepare (food) with spices, making it spicy: 7. To prepare (food) with spices, making it spicy: Example: She's going to devil four dozen eggs for the picnic. 8. To shred fabric into its fibres for recycling, as in the production of mungo or shoddy. Example: Tailors' clippings and remnants of fine woollen goods, such as broadcloth, etc., are devilled and spun into yarn for making cloth of nicer quality, called mungo.
Word: subversive Part of Speech: adj Etymology: See subvert and -ive. Pronunciation: /səbˈvɝsɪv/, /sʌb-/, /-vɚsɪv/, [səbˈβɝsɪv], [səb̪ˈvɝsɪv] 1. Intending to subvert, overturn, undermine or debase. Example: subversive influence Example: subversive message
Word: subversive Part of Speech: noun Etymology: See subvert and -ive. Pronunciation: /səbˈvɝsɪv/, /sʌb-/, /-vɚsɪv/, [səbˈβɝsɪv], [səb̪ˈvɝsɪv] 1. A radical supporter of political or social revolution. 2. One who subverts, a saboteur, provocateur, or propagandist.
Word: PRC Part of Speech: name 1. Initialism of Protestant Reformed Church. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism 2. Initialism of Pesticide Residues Committee. Labels: UK, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism 3. Initialism of People's Republic of China. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism Example: Near-synonym: China Example: (c) Ratification: It falls outside the scope of this calendar to describe the process of ratification for each agreement. Under the 1954 Constitution of the PRC the function of ratification is to be exercised jointly by the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress and the Chairman of the Government. Ratification is mandatory for treaties of peace, mutual non-aggression, friendship, alliance and assistance, and all other treaties which expressly provide for ratification. All other agreements may be submitted for approval by the State Council. 4. Initialism of People's Republic of the Congo, the predecessor state of the Republic of the Congo. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism 5. Initialism of Palm Resource Code, the file format for Palm OS applications. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism 6. Initialism of Professional Regulatory Commission, a commission of the Philippine government. Labels: Philippines, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism 7. Initialism of Philippine Red Cross. Labels: Philippines, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Word: PRC Part of Speech: noun 1. Initialism of planning review committee. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable 2. Initialism of protocol Review Committee. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable 3. Initialism of Preschool Referral Committee. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable 4. Initialism of Private Commercial Organisation. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable 5. Initialism of personal radio communications, e.g. the PRC-77 portable secure FM radio set. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable 6. Initialism of Police Record Check. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable 7. A person from the People's Republic of China, especially in contrast to native-born Singaporean Chinese. Labels: Singapore, countable, derogatory, sometimes, uncountable Example: "It doesn't matter," she said. "They may still think you're a PRC who obtained a British passport."
Word: rugby football Part of Speech: noun 1. The sport of rugby: either rugby league or rugby union. Labels: uncountable 2. A rugby ball. Labels: countable
Word: Travers Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Anglo-Norman traverser (“to cross”), an occupational name for a toll collector. In Ireland, used as an Anglicization of Irish Ó Treabhair. 1. A surname originating as an occupation. 2. A place name: 3. A place name: 4. A place name:
Word: wise Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *weyd- Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *wéydos Proto-Indo-European *weyd-s-ós Proto-Germanic *wīsaz Old English wīs Middle English wys, wyse English wise From Middle English wys, wyse, from Old English wīs (“wise”), from Proto-Germanic *wīsaz (“knowledgeable, wise”), from Proto-Indo-European *wéydos (“seeing; knowledge”), from *weyd- (“to see”). Cognates Cognate with West Frisian wiis (“wise”), Dutch wijs (“wise”), German weis, weise (“wise”), Low German wies (“wise; clever”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish vis (“wise”), Icelandic vís (“wise; certain”), Gothic *𐍅𐌴𐌹𐍃 (*weis, “wise”); also Irish fios (“knowledge; information”), Manx fys (“knowledge; information”), Scottish Gaelic fhios, fios (“knowledge; information”), Welsh gwys, gwŷs (“citation, summons”), Latin videō (“to look, perceive, see; to note, observe; to comprehend, understand”), Greek είδος (eídos, “form, kind, type”), Albanian vizë (“line, stripe, track; dash”), Latvian veids (“form, kind, mode, type”), Lithuanian veidas (“face; appearance, aspect, look”), Belarusian ве́даць (vjédacʹ, “to know”), Bulgarian вям (vjam, “to know”), Czech vědět (“to know”), Polish wiedzieć (“to know”), Russian ве́дать (védatʹ, “to know”), Serbo-Croatian vedeti, viedieti (“to know”), Slovak vedieť (“to know”), Slovene vedeti (“to know”), Ukrainian ві́дати (vídaty, “to know”), Armenian գիտեմ (gitem, “I know”), գիտենալ (gitenal), գիտնալ (gitnal, “to know”), Avestan 𐬬𐬀𐬉𐬛 (vaēd, “find”), 𐬬𐬌𐬛 (vid, “to know”), Persian نوید (navid / nawīd, nuwēd, “invitation; annunciation; good news”), Tocharian A ime (“awareness, consciousness, memory, thought”), Tocharian B īme (“awareness, consciousness, memory, thought”), ūwe (“educated, learned, knowledgeable”), Sanskrit वेदस् (vedas, “knowledge, science; property, wealth”). Compare wit. Pronunciation: /waɪz/ 1. Showing good judgement or the benefit of experience. Example: Storing extra food for the winter was a wise decision. Example: They were considered the wise old men of the administration. 2. Disrespectful. Labels: colloquial, ironic, sarcastic Example: Don't get wise with me! 3. Aware, informed (to something). Labels: colloquial Example: Be careful: the boss is wise to your plan to call out sick.
Word: wise Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *weyd- Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *wéydos Proto-Indo-European *weyd-s-ós Proto-Germanic *wīsaz Old English wīs Middle English wys, wyse English wise From Middle English wys, wyse, from Old English wīs (“wise”), from Proto-Germanic *wīsaz (“knowledgeable, wise”), from Proto-Indo-European *wéydos (“seeing; knowledge”), from *weyd- (“to see”). Cognates Cognate with West Frisian wiis (“wise”), Dutch wijs (“wise”), German weis, weise (“wise”), Low German wies (“wise; clever”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish vis (“wise”), Icelandic vís (“wise; certain”), Gothic *𐍅𐌴𐌹𐍃 (*weis, “wise”); also Irish fios (“knowledge; information”), Manx fys (“knowledge; information”), Scottish Gaelic fhios, fios (“knowledge; information”), Welsh gwys, gwŷs (“citation, summons”), Latin videō (“to look, perceive, see; to note, observe; to comprehend, understand”), Greek είδος (eídos, “form, kind, type”), Albanian vizë (“line, stripe, track; dash”), Latvian veids (“form, kind, mode, type”), Lithuanian veidas (“face; appearance, aspect, look”), Belarusian ве́даць (vjédacʹ, “to know”), Bulgarian вям (vjam, “to know”), Czech vědět (“to know”), Polish wiedzieć (“to know”), Russian ве́дать (védatʹ, “to know”), Serbo-Croatian vedeti, viedieti (“to know”), Slovak vedieť (“to know”), Slovene vedeti (“to know”), Ukrainian ві́дати (vídaty, “to know”), Armenian գիտեմ (gitem, “I know”), գիտենալ (gitenal), գիտնալ (gitnal, “to know”), Avestan 𐬬𐬀𐬉𐬛 (vaēd, “find”), 𐬬𐬌𐬛 (vid, “to know”), Persian نوید (navid / nawīd, nuwēd, “invitation; annunciation; good news”), Tocharian A ime (“awareness, consciousness, memory, thought”), Tocharian B īme (“awareness, consciousness, memory, thought”), ūwe (“educated, learned, knowledgeable”), Sanskrit वेदस् (vedas, “knowledge, science; property, wealth”). Compare wit. Pronunciation: /waɪz/ 1. To become wise. 2. Usually with "up", to inform or learn. Labels: ergative, slang Example: Mo wised him up about his situation. Example: After Mo had a word with him, he wised up.
Word: wise Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English wise, from Old English wīse, from Proto-Germanic *wīsō. Cognate with Dutch wijze, German Weise, Norwegian vis, Swedish visa, vis, Italian guisa, Spanish guisa. Compare -wise. Doublet of guise. Pronunciation: /waɪz/ 1. Way, manner, or method. Labels: archaic Example: In such wise that all the beasts, great and small, came to the court save Reynard the Fox. Example: Now the birth of Iesus Christ was on this wise: When as his mother Mary was espoused to Ioseph (before they came together) shee was found with childe of the holy Ghost.
Word: wise Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English wisen (“to advise, direct”), from Old English wisian (“to show the way, guide, direct”), from Proto-West Germanic *wīsōn, from Proto-Germanic *wīsōną (“to show the way, dispense knowledge”), from Proto-Indo-European *weyd- (“to know”). Compare Dutch wijzen (“to indicate, point out”), German weisen (“to show, indicate”), Danish and Norwegian Bokmål vise (“to show”), Norwegian Nynorsk visa (“to show”). Pronunciation: /waɪz/ 1. To instruct. Labels: dialectal 2. To advise; induce. Labels: dialectal 3. To show the way, guide. Labels: dialectal 4. To direct the course of, pilot. Labels: dialectal 5. To cause to turn. Labels: dialectal
Word: plurale tantum Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin plūrāle tantum (“plural as such; plural only”), from plūrāle + tantum. Pronunciation: /ˌplʊɹ.ə.leɪ ˈtæn.təm/, /plʊˌɹeɪ.li ˈtæn.təm/, /ˌplɝɹ.ə.leɪ -/ 1. A noun (either in certain of its senses or in all its senses) that does not generally have a singular form.
Word: bias Part of Speech: noun Etymology: c. 1520 in the sense "oblique line". As a technical term in the game of bowls c. 1560, whence the figurative use (c. 1570). From Middle French biais, adverbially ("sideways, askance, against the grain") c. 1250, as a noun ("oblique angle, slant") from the late 16th century. The French word is likely from Old Occitan biais, itself of obscure origin, most likely from Vulgar Latin *biaxius (“with two axes”). Pronunciation: /ˈbaɪ.əs/ 1. Inclination towards something. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Morality […] give[s] a bias to all their [men's] actions. Example: nature has pointed out a mixed kind of life as most suitable to the human race, and secretly admonished them to allow none of these biasses to draw too much 2. The diagonal line between warp and weft in a woven fabric. Labels: countable 3. A wedge-shaped piece of cloth taken out of a garment (such as the waist of a dress) to diminish its circumference. Labels: countable 4. A voltage or current applied to an electronic device, such as a transistor electrode, to move its operating point to a desired part of its transfer function. Labels: countable, uncountable 5. The difference between the expectation of the sample estimator and the true population value, which reduces the representativeness of the estimator by systematically distorting it. Labels: countable, uncountable 6. In the games of crown green bowls and lawn bowls: a weight added to one side of a bowl so that as it rolls, it will follow a curved rather than a straight path; the oblique line followed by such a bowl; the lopsided shape or structure of such a bowl. In lawn bowls, the curved course is caused only by the shape of the bowl. The use of weights is prohibited. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: there is a concealed bias within the spheroid 7. A person's favourite member of a K-pop band. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The last thing you want is for your camera to die when you finally get that selca with your bias. Example: Sweet, sensitive, and impossibly sassy, V is many fans' bias, and an integral member of the group.
Word: bias Part of Speech: verb Etymology: c. 1520 in the sense "oblique line". As a technical term in the game of bowls c. 1560, whence the figurative use (c. 1570). From Middle French biais, adverbially ("sideways, askance, against the grain") c. 1250, as a noun ("oblique angle, slant") from the late 16th century. The French word is likely from Old Occitan biais, itself of obscure origin, most likely from Vulgar Latin *biaxius (“with two axes”). Pronunciation: /ˈbaɪ.əs/ 1. To place bias upon; to influence. Labels: transitive Example: Our prejudices bias our views. Example: No doubt they overlook the L.M.R.'s allegedly faulty financial estimates for the Euston-Liverpool/Manchester scheme, which have biassed the Treasury, and perhaps the open-minded Dr. Beeching, against electrification without renewed examination of projects. 2. To give a bias to. Example: 2002, H. Dijkstra, J. Libby, Overview of silicon detectors, Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research A 494, 86–93, p. 87. On the ohmic side n⁺ is implanted to provide the ohmic contact to bias the detector.
Word: bias Part of Speech: adj Etymology: c. 1520 in the sense "oblique line". As a technical term in the game of bowls c. 1560, whence the figurative use (c. 1570). From Middle French biais, adverbially ("sideways, askance, against the grain") c. 1250, as a noun ("oblique angle, slant") from the late 16th century. The French word is likely from Old Occitan biais, itself of obscure origin, most likely from Vulgar Latin *biaxius (“with two axes”). Pronunciation: /ˈbaɪ.əs/ 1. Inclined to one side; swelled on one side. Example: Thou, trumpet, there’s my purſe; / Now cracke thy lungs, and ſplit thy braſen pipe: / Blow, villaine, till thy ſphered Bias cheeke / Out-ſwell the collicke of puft Aquilon: / Come, ſtretch thy cheſt, and let thy eyes ſpout bloud: / Thou bloweſt for Hector. 2. Cut slanting or diagonally, as cloth. 3. Synonym of biased (“exhibiting bias; prejudiced”). Labels: nonstandard Example: Tom's vitality and energy were perfect for the role and I think Milos made the perfect choice! Am I bias? Certainly ... but for good reason! Example: I wont deny I'm bias to Godzilla, and I guess that got mixed in my post, though I tried not to. But I really did mean to point out that we're getting mixed reviews on the film, and not to give up hope because of what Norman had to say.
Word: bias Part of Speech: adv Etymology: c. 1520 in the sense "oblique line". As a technical term in the game of bowls c. 1560, whence the figurative use (c. 1570). From Middle French biais, adverbially ("sideways, askance, against the grain") c. 1250, as a noun ("oblique angle, slant") from the late 16th century. The French word is likely from Old Occitan biais, itself of obscure origin, most likely from Vulgar Latin *biaxius (“with two axes”). Pronunciation: /ˈbaɪ.əs/ 1. In a slanting manner; crosswise; obliquely; diagonally. Labels: not-comparable Example: to cut cloth bias
Word: wave Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English waven, from Old English wafian (“to wave, fluctuate, waver in mind, wonder”), from Proto-West Germanic *wabōn, from Proto-Germanic *wabōną, *wabjaną (“to wander, sway”), from Proto-Indo-European *webʰ- (“to move to and from, wander”). Cognate with Middle High German waben (“to wave”), German wabern (“to waft”), Icelandic váfa (“to fluctuate, waver, doubt”). See also waver. Pronunciation: /weɪv/, /wɛjv/, /wæɪv/, /wev/, [weːv] 1. To move back and forth repeatedly and somewhat loosely. Labels: intransitive Example: The flag waved in the gentle breeze. Example: But the World Cup winning veteran's left boot was awry again, the attempt sliced horribly wide of the left upright, and the saltires were waving aloft again a moment later when a long pass in the England midfield was picked off to almost offer up a breakaway try. 2. To move one's hand back and forth (generally above the shoulders) in greeting or departure. Labels: intransitive Example: I raised my arms in a final salute. I smiled. I waved goodbye. I turned into the helicopter, the door was closed, the red carpet was rolled up. 3. To call attention to, or give a direction or command to, by a waving motion, as of the hand; to signify by waving; to beckon; to signal; to indicate. Labels: metonymically, transitive Example: I waved goodbye from across the room. Example: Look, with what courteous action / It waves you to a more removed ground. 4. To have an undulating or wavy form. Labels: intransitive 5. To raise into inequalities of surface; to give an undulating form or surface to. Labels: transitive Example: horns whelked and waved like the enridged sea 6. To style (the hair) so as to produce a wavy texture. Labels: transitive Example: There was also hairdressing: hairdressing, too, really was hairdressing in those times — no running a comb through it and that was that. It was curled, frizzed, waved, put in curlers overnight, waved with hot tongs;[…]. 7. To swing and miss at a pitch. Labels: intransitive Example: Jones waves at strike one. 8. To cause to move back and forth repeatedly. Labels: transitive Example: The starter waved the flag to begin the race. Example: His father has waved bills in front of face and said to him — see what you've cost me. 9. To signal (someone or something) with a waving movement. Labels: metonymically, transitive 10. To fluctuate; to waver; to be in an unsettled state. Labels: intransitive, obsolete Example: He waved indifferently 'twixt doing them neither good nor harm. 11. To move like a wave, or by floating; to waft. Labels: ergative, intransitive Example: But in the last, this dotted line, by the twisting as well as the bending of the horn, is changed from the waving into the serpentine line Example: the flowers will not bloom less brightly, nor the grass be less green and fresh because it is waving over the head of one who loved to look upon their tender beauty while living.
Word: wave Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English *wave, partially from waven (“to fluctuate, wave”) (see above) and partially from Middle English wawe, waghe (“wave”), from Old English wǣg (“a wave, billow, motion, water, flood, sea”), from Proto-Germanic *wēgaz (“motion, storm, wave”), from Proto-Indo-European *weǵʰ- (“to drag, carry”). Cognates Cognate with North Frisian waag (“wave”), West Frisian weach (“wave”), Dutch waag (“wave”), German Woge, Wooge (“wave”), Danish vove, våg (“wave”), Faroese vágur (“bay”), Icelandic vogur (“bay”), Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk and Swedish våg (“wave”), Gothic 𐍅𐌴𐌲𐍃 (wēgs, “wave”), French vague (“wave”) (from Old Norse vágr (“ocean, sea; wave”)). See also waw. Pronunciation: /weɪv/, /wɛjv/, /wæɪv/, /wev/, [weːv] 1. A moving disturbance in the level of a body of liquid; an undulation. Example: The wave traveled from the center of the lake before breaking on the shore. Example: O God! can I not save / One from the pitiless wave? / Is all that we see or seem / But a dream within a dream? 2. The ocean. Labels: poetic Example: 1895, Fiona Macleod (William Sharp), The Sin-Eater and Other Tales […] your father Murtagh Ross, and his lawful childless wife, Dionaid, and his sister Anna—one and all, they lie beneath the green wave or in the brown mould. Example: Whoever rules the waves rules the world... 3. A moving disturbance in the energy level of a field. Example: Gravity waves, while predicted by theory for decades, have been notoriously difficult to detect. Example: Beyond military applications, cloaking devices are drawing interest from telecommunications companies, who see them as a way to send information by light more efficiently. One idea is to use the new materials to build "superantennas" that can concentrate light and other electromagnetic waves to make laser-like beams. 4. A shape that alternatingly curves in opposite directions. Example: Her hair had a nice wave to it. Example: sine wave 5. Any of a number of species of moths in the geometrid subfamily Sterrhinae, which have wavy markings on the wings. 6. A loose back-and-forth movement, as of the hands. Example: He dismissed her with a wave of the hand. 7. A sudden, but temporary, uptick in something. Labels: figuratively Example: A wave of shoppers stampeded through the door when the store opened for its Christmas discount special. Example: A wave of retirees began moving to the coastal area. 8. Any of a series of orders to be fulfilled in one short interval of time, planned as part of wave picking. 9. A movement or trend in popular culture. Labels: figuratively Example: New Wave Example: Korean Wave 10. One of the successive swarms of enemies sent to attack the player in certain games. Labels: broadly Example: As the player eliminates each wave of 55 aliens, the next wave begins lower than the one previous. 11. A group activity in a crowd imitating a wave going through water, where people in successive parts of the crowd stand and stretch upward, then sit.
Word: wave Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English *wave, partially from waven (“to fluctuate, wave”) (see above) and partially from Middle English wawe, waghe (“wave”), from Old English wǣg (“a wave, billow, motion, water, flood, sea”), from Proto-Germanic *wēgaz (“motion, storm, wave”), from Proto-Indo-European *weǵʰ- (“to drag, carry”). Cognates Cognate with North Frisian waag (“wave”), West Frisian weach (“wave”), Dutch waag (“wave”), German Woge, Wooge (“wave”), Danish vove, våg (“wave”), Faroese vágur (“bay”), Icelandic vogur (“bay”), Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk and Swedish våg (“wave”), Gothic 𐍅𐌴𐌲𐍃 (wēgs, “wave”), French vague (“wave”) (from Old Norse vágr (“ocean, sea; wave”)). See also waw. Pronunciation: /weɪv/, /wɛjv/, /wæɪv/, /wev/, [weːv] 1. To generate a wave. Example: If the electron had wavelike properties, then what was disturbing the medium in which the wave existed? What was waving?
Word: wave Part of Speech: verb Etymology: See waive. Pronunciation: /weɪv/, /wɛjv/, /wæɪv/, /wev/, [weːv] 1. Obsolete spelling of waive. Labels: alt-of, obsolete Example: Ladies and gentlemen—I am ordered by Miss Woodhouse to say, that she waves her right of knowing exactly what you may all be thinking of, and only requires something very entertaining from each of you, in a general way.
Word: role-playing video game Part of Speech: noun 1. A genre of video game that uses gameplay elements found in a paper-and-pencil role-playing game, such as character classes and leveling up.
Word: fireman Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *péh₂wr̥ Proto-Germanic *fōr Proto-West Germanic *fuir Old English fȳr Middle English fyr English fire Proto-Indo-European *mon- Proto-Germanic *mann- Proto-West Germanic *mann Old English mann Middle English man Middle English -man English -man English fireman From fire + -man. Pronunciation: /ˈfaɪɹmən/, /-ˌmæn/, /ˈfaɪəmən/ 1. Someone (especially male) who is skilled in the work of fighting fire. Example: By February 1944 there were over two thousand women employed at the Alabama Dry Dock and Shipbuilding Company [...]. There were also female firemen on almost every shipyard crane [...]. Example: For firemen everywhere rescuing cats from trees has been as much a part of the job as tackling blazing buildings. 2. A person (originally a man) who keeps the fire going underneath a steam boiler (originally, shoveling coal by hand), particularly on a railroad locomotive or steamship. Example: He looked around his cab at his black greasy fireman, saying 'shovel on a little more coal, and when we cross that White Oak Mountain, you can watch Old 97 roll'. Example: No grass grew under a train when the engineer let Fireman McLash take the throttle. 3. An assistant on any locomotive, whether steam-powered or not. Labels: broadly 4. A relief pitcher (reflecting the figurative analogy of rescuing the situation). 5. A safety inspector in coal mines. Labels: historical
Word: firewoman Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *péh₂wr̥ Proto-Germanic *fōr Proto-West Germanic *fuir Old English fȳr Middle English fyr English fire Proto-Germanic *wībą Proto-West Germanic *wīb Old English wīf Proto-Indo-European *mon- Proto-Germanic *mann- Proto-West Germanic *mann Old English mann Old English wīfmann Middle English woman Middle English -woman English -woman English firewoman From fire + -woman. 1. A female firefighter. 2. A female fireman (person who heats a steam engine).
Word: trepanation Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From New Latin trepanatio, formed from French trépan (“a drill”), itself from Latin trepanum, ultimately from Ancient Greek τρύπανον (trúpanon, “an auger, a drill”). Pronunciation: /tɹɛpəˈneɪʃən/ 1. The practice of drilling a hole in the skull as a physical, mental, or spiritual treatment. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Creed had suffered […] a swelling to the brain that the tribe’s chief physic treated with trepanation. Example: According to the doctors, Lula, 79, underwent a trepanation: having a 3cm hole made in the skull to insert a drain to remove the bleeding.
Word: stub Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English stubbe (“tree stump”), from Old English stybb, stubb (“tree stump”), from Proto-West Germanic *stubb, from Proto-Germanic *stubbaz (compare Middle Dutch stubbe, Old Norse stubbr, Faroese stubbi (“stub”)), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)tew-; compare steep (“sharp slope”). Doublet of stob. Sense extended in Middle English to similarly shaped objects. Verb sense “strike one’s toe” is recorded 1848; “extinguish a cigarette” 1927. Pronunciation: /stʌb/, /stʊb/ 1. Something blunted, stunted, or cut short, such as stubble or a stump. Example: And prickly stubs instead of trees are found. 2. A piece of certain paper items, designed to be torn off and kept for record or identification purposes. Example: check stub Example: ticket stub 3. A placeholder procedure that has the signature of the planned procedure but does not yet implement the intended behavior. Example: Even though the stub is a dummy, it allows us to determine whether the procedure is called at the right time by the program or calling procedure. 4. A procedure that translates requests from external systems into a format suitable for processing and then submits those requests for processing. Example: The server performs the server RPC runtime library functions to accept the request and call the server stub procedure. […] After this, the server stub calls the actual procedure on the server. 5. A row heading in a table (with horizontal reference, whereas a column heading has vertical reference). 6. An article providing only minimal information and intended for later development. Example: A stub is usually long enough to serve as a quick definition, but too short to provide encyclopedic coverage of a subject (see Figure 4-2). 7. A length of transmission line or waveguide that is connected at one end only. 8. The remaining part of the docked tail of a dog 9. An unequal first or last interest calculation period, as a part of a financial swap contract 10. A log or block of wood. Labels: obsolete 11. A blockhead. Labels: obsolete Example: I doubt not but ye ſhall have more adoe to drive out dulleſt and lazieſt youth, our ſtocks and ſtubbs from the infinite deſire of such a happy nurture, then we have now to hale and drag our choiſeſt and hopefulleſt wits to that aſinine feaſt of ſowthiſtles and brambles[.] 12. A pen with a short, blunt nib. 13. An old and worn horseshoe nail. 14. Stub iron. 15. The smallest remainder of a smoked cigarette; a butt. Example: They found stubs, stubs of marijuana cigarettes.
Word: stub Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English stubbe (“tree stump”), from Old English stybb, stubb (“tree stump”), from Proto-West Germanic *stubb, from Proto-Germanic *stubbaz (compare Middle Dutch stubbe, Old Norse stubbr, Faroese stubbi (“stub”)), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)tew-; compare steep (“sharp slope”). Doublet of stob. Sense extended in Middle English to similarly shaped objects. Verb sense “strike one’s toe” is recorded 1848; “extinguish a cigarette” 1927. Pronunciation: /stʌb/, /stʊb/ 1. To remove most of a tree, bush, or other rooted plant by cutting it close to the ground. Labels: transitive 2. To remove a plant by pulling it out by the roots. Labels: transitive 3. To jam, hit, or bump, especially a toe. Labels: transitive Example: I stubbed my toe trying to find the light switch in the dark.
Word: honest Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English honest, honeste (“honourable, appropriate, excellent”), from Old French honeste, from Latin honestus, from honor. For the verb, see Latin honestāre (“to clothe or adorn with honour”), and compare French honester. Displaced native Old English sōþfæst (literally “truth-firm”). Pronunciation: /ˈɒn.ɪst/, /ˈɔː.nɪst/, /ˈɑ.nɪst/, /ˈɑ.nəst/, /ˈɔn.ɪst/ 1. Scrupulous with regard to telling the truth; not given to swindling, lying, or fraud; upright. Example: brutally honest Example: We’re the most honest people you will ever come across. 2. True, especially as far as is known by the person making the statement; fair; unbiased. Example: an honest account of events Example: honest reporting 3. In good faith; without malice. Example: an honest mistake 4. Accurate. Example: an honest scale 5. Authentic; full. Example: an honest day's work 6. Earned or acquired in a fair manner. Example: an honest dollar 7. Open; frank. Example: an honest countenance 8. Decent; honourable; suitable; becoming. Labels: obsolete Example: Behold what honest clothes you send forth to bleaching! Example: […] Vpon the verge of the Riuer there are fiue houſes, wherein liue the honeſter ſort of people, as Farmers in England, and they keepe continuall centinell for the townes ſecuritie. 9. Chaste; faithful; virtuous. Labels: obsolete Example: Wives may be merry, and yet honest too.
Word: honest Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English honest, honeste (“honourable, appropriate, excellent”), from Old French honeste, from Latin honestus, from honor. For the verb, see Latin honestāre (“to clothe or adorn with honour”), and compare French honester. Displaced native Old English sōþfæst (literally “truth-firm”). Pronunciation: /ˈɒn.ɪst/, /ˈɔː.nɪst/, /ˈɑ.nɪst/, /ˈɑ.nəst/, /ˈɔn.ɪst/ 1. To adorn or grace; to honour; to make becoming, appropriate, or honourable. Labels: obsolete Example: You have very much honested my lodging with your presence.
Word: honest Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From Middle English honest, honeste (“honourable, appropriate, excellent”), from Old French honeste, from Latin honestus, from honor. For the verb, see Latin honestāre (“to clothe or adorn with honour”), and compare French honester. Displaced native Old English sōþfæst (literally “truth-firm”). Pronunciation: /ˈɒn.ɪst/, /ˈɔː.nɪst/, /ˈɑ.nɪst/, /ˈɑ.nəst/, /ˈɔn.ɪst/ 1. Honestly; really. Labels: colloquial Example: It wasn’t my fault, honest.
Word: honesty Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English honeste (“honour, integrity”), from Old French honesté (compare modern French honnêteté). By surface analysis, honest + -y. Displaced native Old English sōþfæstnes and non-native Middle English prodonomee, from Old French prodomie. The plant is named so after the visibility of the seeds through the translucent pods. Pronunciation: /ˈɒn.ɪ.sti/, /ˈɒn.ə.sti/, /ˈɒn.ə.stɪ/, /ˈɔː.nɪstɪ/, /ˈɑ.nɪ.sti/ 1. The act, quality, or condition of being honest. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: academic / artistic / emotional / intellectual honesty Example: brutal / devastating / searing honesty 2. Honor; decency, propriety. Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable Example: Have ye no wit, manners, nor honesty, but to gabble like tinkers at this time of night? Example: Fellovves in armes faithfull and valiant, / I thanke you for your paines and honeſties, […] 3. Chastity. Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable Example: […] spend all I have; only give me so much of your time in exchange of it, as to lay an amiable siege to the honesty of this Ford’s wife […] Example: c. 1625, John Fletcher, The Fair Maid of the Inn, Act V, Scene 1, in Alexander Dyce (editor), The Works of Beaumont and Fletcher, New York: Appleton, 1890, Volume 2, p. 669, […] Oh, these vild women, That are so ill preservers of men’s honours, They cannot govern their own honesties! 4. Any of various crucifers in the genus Lunaria, several of which are grown as ornamentals, particularly annual honesty (Lunaria annua). Labels: countable Example: Various measures were taken to avoid it, most popular being the suspension of certain herbs and tree branches over the doorways of dwellings and stables. Commonly used greenery were tansy, honesty, garlic, St. John's Wort, mountain ash, roadside verbena. Example: She thought a minute, then stepped nimbly back into her cottage; and what she came out with at last was, a sprig of dry leaves, round as shillings, white as paper, quivering on a few thin stalks that looked ready to snap. / It was honesty.
Word: edifice Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English edifice, from Old French edifice, a classical borrowing of Latin aedificium (“building”), derived from aedificāre (“to build, establish”) (whence also English edify). Pronunciation: /ˈɛd.ɪ.fɪs/ 1. A building; a structure; an architectural fabric, especially a large and spectacular one. 2. An abstract structure, such as a school of thought, an argument, a theoretical position, etc. Example: The real difficulty was moral, not intellectual. Was the whole edifice of Ptolemy to be destroyed? Example: With a great thump on the table, Poirot demolished his carefully built up edifice.
Word: fixed Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /fɪkst/, /fɪks(ᵻ)ɖ/ 1. simple past and past participle of fix Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: fixed Part of Speech: adj Pronunciation: /fɪkst/, /fɪks(ᵻ)ɖ/ 1. Attached; affixed. Example: The closest affinities of the Jubulaceae are with the Lejeuneaceae. The two families share in common: (a) elaters usually 1-spiral, trumpet-shaped and fixed to the capsule valves, distally[…] 2. Unable to move; unmovable. 3. Unable to change or vary. Example: fixed assets Example: I work fixed hours for a fixed salary. 4. Unlikely to change; stable. 5. Unlikely to change; stable. 6. Supplied with what one needs. Example: She's nicely fixed after two divorce settlements. Example: How are you fixed for money? 7. Recorded on a permanent medium. Example: In the United States, recordings are only granted copyright protection when the sounds in the recording were fixed and first published on or after February 15, 1972. 8. Surgically rendered sterile (e.g. spayed, neutered, or castrated). Labels: dialectal, informal Example: a fixed tomcat Example: the she-cat has been fixed 9. Rigged; fraudulently prearranged. Example: The mob made a lot of money from fixed horse races. Example: The U.S. often relied on fixed elections to keep anti-communist dictatorships in power. 10. Resolved; corrected. 11. Repaired. 12. Being one of the signs Taurus, Leo, Scorpio, and Aquarius, associated with stability, permanence, and preservation.
Word: misdemeanor Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *mey-? Proto-Indo-European *meyth₂-der. Proto-Germanic *missaz Proto-Germanic *missa- Proto-West Germanic *missa- Old English mis- Middle English mys- English mis- English demeanor English misdemeanor From mis- + demeanor. Pronunciation: /ˌmɪsdɪˈmiːnə(ɹ)/ 1. A lesser criminal act in most common law legal systems, generally punished less severely than a felony. Labels: US, historical Example: He was charged with a misdemeanor rather than a felony. Example: The offense is treated as a minor misdemeanor. 2. Any act of misbehavior. Labels: US Example: petty misdemeanor Example: Because of the mother's lack of affection and the judgments made by everybody around her, the child is in opposition to everybody. Her misdemeanors may be partly the expression of her inner revolt.
Word: felony Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English felony, felonie, from Old French felonie (“evil, immoral deed”), from felon (“evildoer”). Ultimately of Proto-Germanic origin. More at felon. By surface analysis, felon + -y. Pronunciation: /ˈfɛləni/ 1. A serious criminal offense, which, under United States federal law, is punishable by a term of imprisonment of not less than one year or by the death penalty in the most serious offenses. Labels: US, historical Example: There ſhall be in England, ſeuen halfe peny Loaues ſold for a peny: the three hoop'd pot, ſhall haue ten hoopes, and I vvill make it Fellony to drink ſmall Beere. Example: First, as felony prosecutor, I prosecute high-level felonies including homicides; sexual assaults; child endangerings; shootings and other felonious assaults; and media cases.
Word: imprisonment Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Anglo-Norman emprisonement, from Old French emprisonnement. See imprison + -ment. Pronunciation: /ɪmˈpɹɪzn̩.mənt/ 1. A confinement in a place, especially a prison or a jail, especially as punishment for a crime. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: His sinews woxen weake and raw / Through long emprisonment and hard constraint. Example: Every confinement of the person is an imprisonment, whether it be in a common prison, or in a private house, or even by forcibly detaining one in the public streets.