nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: truth Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *drewH-der. Proto-Germanic *triwwiz Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂der. Proto-Germanic *-iþō Proto-Germanic *triwwiþō Old English trēowþ Middle English trouthe English truth Inherited from Middle English trouthe, from Old English trēowþ, from Proto-Germanic *triwwiþō, from *triwwiz + *-iþō. By surface analysis, true + -th. Doublet of troth. Cognate with Norwegian trygd (“trustworthiness, security, insurance”), Icelandic tryggð (“loyalty, fidelity”). Pronunciation: /tɹuːθ/, /tɹuθ/ 1. True facts, genuine depiction or statements of reality. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: The truth is that our leaders knew a lot more than they were letting on. Example: The truth depends on, and is only arrived at, by a legitimate deduction from all the facts which are truly material. 2. Conformity to fact or reality; correctness, accuracy. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: There was some truth in his statement that he had no other choice. Example: As in much of biology, the most satisfying truths in ecology derive from manipulative experimentation. Tinker with nature and quantify how it responds. 3. The state or quality of being true to someone or something. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: Truth to one's own feelings is all-important in life. 4. Faithfulness, fidelity. Labels: archaic, uncountable, usually Example: Alas! they had been friends in youth; / But whispering tongues can poison truth; […] 5. A pledge of loyalty or faith. Labels: obsolete, uncountable, usually 6. Conformity to rule; exactness; close correspondence with an example, mood, model, etc. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: Ploughs, […] to make them go true, […] depends much upon the truth of the ironwork. Example: The process of grinding is, in fact, regarded as indispensable wherever truth is required, yet that of scraping is calculated to produce a higher degree of truth than has ever been attained by grinding. 7. That which is real, in a deeper sense; spiritual or ‘genuine’ reality. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: The truth is what is. Example: Alcoholism and redemption led me finally to truth. 8. Something acknowledged to be true; a true statement or axiom. Labels: countable, usually Example: Hunger and jealousy are just eternal truths of human existence. Example: It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. 9. Topness; the property of a truth quark. Labels: dated, uncountable, usually 10. In the game truth or dare, the choice to truthfully answer a question put forth. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: When asked truth or dare, he picked truth.
Word: truth Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *drewH-der. Proto-Germanic *triwwiz Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂der. Proto-Germanic *-iþō Proto-Germanic *triwwiþō Old English trēowþ Middle English trouthe English truth Inherited from Middle English trouthe, from Old English trēowþ, from Proto-Germanic *triwwiþō, from *triwwiz + *-iþō. By surface analysis, true + -th. Doublet of troth. Cognate with Norwegian trygd (“trustworthiness, security, insurance”), Icelandic tryggð (“loyalty, fidelity”). Pronunciation: /tɹuːθ/, /tɹuθ/ 1. To assert as true; to declare; to speak truthfully. Labels: obsolete, transitive Example: c. 1636 John Ford, The Fancies Chaste and Noble Had they [the ancients] dreamt this, they would have truthed it heaven. Example: You were sitting with your family Thanksgiving, belly full of turkey and pie, surrounded by the love of your extended crime family, but your initial instinct was to truth a slur at Tim Walz? 2. To make exact; to correct for inaccuracy. Example: A concentrated region of the agricultural test area was intensively ground truthed, not only to identify the crop types, but equally important, also to begin to determine the parameters controlling the radar energy reflected from a crop type at a particular stage of growth. Example: As is shown in this table, APG images in the validation subset were only truthed with box models, and the 29P images in this subset were never truthed at all. 3. To tell the truth. Labels: intransitive, nonstandard Example: You keep lying, when you oughta be truthin'
Word: mysophobe Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From myso- + -phobe. 1. A person with an abnormal fear of filth or dirt.
Word: macrocosm Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle French macrocosme (from Old French macrocosme) and Medieval Latin macrocosmus, formed from Ancient Greek μακρός (makrós, “great, long”) + κόσμος (kósmos, “universe, order”). Pronunciation: /ˈmæk.ɹə(ʊ)ˌkɒz.əm/, /ˈmæk.ɹəˌkɑz.əm/ 1. A complex structure, such as a society, considered as a single entity that contains numerous similar, smaller-scale structures. 2. The universe.
Word: cognition Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English cognicion, cognicioun from Latin cognitiō (“knowledge, perception, a judicial examination, trial”), from cognitus, past participle of cognoscere (“to know”), from co- (“together”) + *gnoscere, older form of noscere (“to know”); see know, and compare cognize, cognizance, cognizor, cognosce, connoisseur. Pronunciation: /kɒɡˈnɪʃ.ən/, /kɔɡˈnɪʃ.ən/, /kɑɡˈnɪʃ.ən/, /koɡˈnɪʃ.ən/, /kɒɡˈnəʃ.ən/ 1. The process of knowing, of acquiring knowledge and understanding through thought and through the senses. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: human cognition Example: social cognition 2. A result of a cognitive process. Labels: countable 3. Knowledge; awareness. Labels: archaic, countable, uncountable
Word: augmentation Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English augmentation, augmentacion, augmentacioun, from Old French augmentacion, from Latin augmentātiō, verbal noun from augmentō (“increase”, verb). 1. The act or process of augmenting. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. An addition or extra, something that is added to something else. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: A small tablet is fixt near the Altar, upon wᶜʰ the friends of yᵉ defunct lay their offerings in mony according to their own ability and the quality of the person deceased. This custom proves a very happy augmentation to some of the very poor vicars, and is often the best part of their maintenance. 3. A particular mark of honour, granted by the sovereign in consideration of some noble action, or by favour; and either quartered with the family arms, or on an escutcheon or canton. Labels: countable, uncountable 4. A surgical procedure to enlarge a body part, as breast augmentation. Labels: countable, uncountable 5. The stage of a disease during which symptoms increase or continue. Labels: countable, uncountable 6. A compositional technique where the composer lengthens the melody by lengthening its note values. Labels: countable, uncountable 7. An increase of stipend obtained by a parish minister by an action raised in the Court of Teinds against the titular and heritors. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: eukaryote Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from French eucaryote; equivalent to eu- + karyon + -ote. Pronunciation: /juːˈkæɹi.əʊt/, /juˈkæɹi.ɒt/, /juˈkæɹi.oʊt/, /juˈkæɹi.ət/, /juˈkɛəɹi.oʊt/ 1. Any of the single-celled or multicellular organisms of the taxonomic domain Eukaryota, whose cells contain at least one distinct nucleus. Example: It is now clear that among organisms there are two different organizational patterns of cells, which Chatton (1937) called, with singular prescience, the eucaryotic and procaryotic type.
Word: Thracian Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree English Thrace Proto-Indo-European *-nós Proto-Italic *-nos Latin -nus Latin -ānus Latin -iānusbor. English -ian English Thracian From Thrace + -ian. Pronunciation: /ˈθɹeɪʃi.ən/, /ˈθɹeɪʃən/ 1. Of or pertaining to Thrace or the Thracians or the extinct Thracian language. Labels: not-comparable
Word: Thracian Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English Thrace Proto-Indo-European *-nós Proto-Italic *-nos Latin -nus Latin -ānus Latin -iānusbor. English -ian English Thracian From Thrace + -ian. Pronunciation: /ˈθɹeɪʃi.ən/, /ˈθɹeɪʃən/ 1. An inhabitant of Thrace, regardless of ethnicity. Labels: countable 2. A member of a group of tribes who spoke the language Thracian. (See Wikipedia's article on the Thracians.) Labels: countable
Word: Thracian Part of Speech: name Etymology: Etymology tree English Thrace Proto-Indo-European *-nós Proto-Italic *-nos Latin -nus Latin -ānus Latin -iānusbor. English -ian English Thracian From Thrace + -ian. Pronunciation: /ˈθɹeɪʃi.ən/, /ˈθɹeɪʃən/ 1. the extinct language formerly spoken in Thrace. Labels: uncountable
Word: Texan Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree English Texas Proto-Indo-European *-nós Proto-Italic *-nos Latin -nus Latin -ānus Old French -ainder. Middle English -an English -an English Texan From Texas + -an. Pronunciation: /ˈtɛksən/ 1. Of or pertaining to the inhabitants of the U.S. state of Texas. 2. Of or pertaining to the U.S. state of Texas in general. Labels: uncommon
Word: Texan Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English Texas Proto-Indo-European *-nós Proto-Italic *-nos Latin -nus Latin -ānus Old French -ainder. Middle English -an English -an English Texan From Texas + -an. Pronunciation: /ˈtɛksən/ 1. A native or inhabitant of the state of Texas, United States. Example: Cruz was obviously analogizing Bernie Sanders to the Bolsheviks and Hillary Clinton to the Mensheviks. The oleaginous Texan is an erudite slyboots, but his history is off-kilter. Example: In 2012, over three million Texans voted Democrat.
Word: intelligent Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle French intelligent, from Latin intellegēns (“discerning”), present active participle of intellegō (“understand, comprehend”), itself from inter (“between”) + legō (“choose, pick out, read”). Pronunciation: /ɪnˈtɛlɪd͡ʒənt/ 1. Of high or especially quick cognitive capacity, bright. Example: Anstruther laughed good-naturedly. “[…] I shall take out half a dozen intelligent maistries from our Press and get them to give our villagers instruction when they begin work and when they are in the fields.” 2. Well thought-out, well considered. Example: The engineer had a very intelligent design proposal for the new car. Example: The general devised an intelligent strategy for the southern campaign. 3. Characterized by thoughtful interaction. Example: My girlfriend and I had an intelligent conversation. 4. Having at least a similar level of brain power to humankind. Example: The hunt for extraterrestrial intelligent life continues. 5. Having an environment-sensing automatically-invoked built-in computer capability. Example: an intelligent network or keyboard
Word: intelligent Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Partly from Russian интеллиге́нт (intelligént) and partly from the adjective. 1. A member of the intelligentsia; an intelligent person. Example: Now, as all intelligents are doomed to pass probationary states, it is highly probable that many intelligents, long antecedent to the foundation of our world, may have tarnished their innocence; or worse, many may have by disobedience fallen. Example: Like many Russian intelligents, the Merežkovskijs, together with Filosofov and the young student Vladimir Zlobin, fled from Russia in 1919.
Word: assume Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Latin assūmō (“accept, take”), from ad- (“to, towards, at”) + sūmō (“take up, assume”). Pronunciation: /əˈsjuːm/, /əˈʃuːm/, /əˈsum/, /əˈzuːm/ 1. To authenticate by means of belief; to surmise; to suppose to be true, especially without proof. Example: We assume that, as her parents were dentists, she knows quite a bit about dentistry. Example: Levelling of ME /irC/ and /urC/, which Orton assumes for the whole of the North (S. Durham §§411-13), has not taken place in Dent and S.We, where ME /urC/ remains (4:46). 2. To take on a position, duty or form. Example: Mr. Jones will assume the position of a lifeguard until a proper replacement is found. Example: Trembling they stand while Jove assumes the throne. 3. To adopt a feigned quality or manner; to claim without right; to arrogate. Example: He assumed an air of indifference. Example: Assume a virtue, if you have it not. 4. To receive, adopt (a person). Example: The sixth was a young knight of lesser renown and lower rank, assumed into that honorable company. 5. To adopt (an idea or cause).
Word: tepid Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *tep- Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁ti Proto-Indo-European *-yeti Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁yeti Proto-Indo-European *t(e)péh₁yeti Proto-Italic *tepēō Latin tepeō Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-der. Proto-Italic *-iðos Latin -idus Latin tepidusbor. English tepid Borrowed from Latin tepidus. Cognate with Sanskrit तप् (tap), Proto-Slavic *teplъ. Pronunciation: /ˈtɛpɪd/ 1. Lukewarm; neither warm nor cool. Example: I'm drinking a cup of tepid water. 2. Uninterested; exhibiting little passion or eagerness; lukewarm. Example: He gave me a tepid response to the proposal. Example: But then England’s last two outings weren’t that impressive – a 1-1 draw with Uruguay and a 1-0 defeat to Japan, both at Wembley – so it’s probably best for everyone not to get too far ahead of themselves. Yet despite the generally tepid nature of pre-tournament warm-ups, and with all their concomitant line-up experiments and substitutions, this game tonight should be a shoo-in for Thomas Tuchel’s team. Hey, if they don’t win, the internet won’t explode … but it may start gently rocking and convulsing with mirth. Not that anyone should be too euphoric/embarrassed. Because let’s be honest with ourselves and each other: this really doesn’t matter that much.
Word: quick Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From Middle English quik, quic (“living, alive, active”), from Old English cwic (“alive”), from Proto-West Germanic *kwiku (“alive, lively quick”), from Proto-Germanic *kwikwaz (“alive, lively, quick”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷih₃wós (“alive”), from *gʷeyh₃- (“to live”), *gʷeyh₃w- (“to live”). For semantic development, compare lively. Cognate with Dutch kwik, kwiek (“lively, quick”), German keck (“sassy, cheeky”), Danish kvik (“lively, quick-witted, quick”), kvæg (“cattle”), Faroese kvikur (“quick”), Icelandic kvikur (“lively, quick”), Norn kvikk, hwikk (“living, swarming, teeming”), Norwegian kvikk (“quick, lively, quick-witted”), Swedish kvick (“quick, witty”), and also (from Indo-European) with Greek βίος (víos, “life”), Latin vivus (“alive”), Lithuanian gývas (“alive”), Latvian dzīvs (“alive”), Russian живо́й (živój, “alive, lively, quick”), Polish żywy (“alive”), Welsh byw (“alive”), Irish beo (“alive”), biathaigh (“to feed”), Northern Kurdish jîn (“to live”), jiyan (“life”), giyan (“soul”), can (“soul”), Sanskrit जीव (jīva, “alive”), Albanian nxit (“to urge, stimulate”). Doublet of jiva. Pronunciation: /kwɪk/, [kʰw̥ɪk] 1. Quickly, in a quick manner. Example: Get rich quick. Example: Come here, quick! 2. Answer quickly. Example: Quick, how do you spell 'Krabs'?
Word: quick Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English quik, quic (“living, alive, active”), from Old English cwic (“alive”), from Proto-West Germanic *kwiku (“alive, lively quick”), from Proto-Germanic *kwikwaz (“alive, lively, quick”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷih₃wós (“alive”), from *gʷeyh₃- (“to live”), *gʷeyh₃w- (“to live”). For semantic development, compare lively. Cognate with Dutch kwik, kwiek (“lively, quick”), German keck (“sassy, cheeky”), Danish kvik (“lively, quick-witted, quick”), kvæg (“cattle”), Faroese kvikur (“quick”), Icelandic kvikur (“lively, quick”), Norn kvikk, hwikk (“living, swarming, teeming”), Norwegian kvikk (“quick, lively, quick-witted”), Swedish kvick (“quick, witty”), and also (from Indo-European) with Greek βίος (víos, “life”), Latin vivus (“alive”), Lithuanian gývas (“alive”), Latvian dzīvs (“alive”), Russian живо́й (živój, “alive, lively, quick”), Polish żywy (“alive”), Welsh byw (“alive”), Irish beo (“alive”), biathaigh (“to feed”), Northern Kurdish jîn (“to live”), jiyan (“life”), giyan (“soul”), can (“soul”), Sanskrit जीव (jīva, “alive”), Albanian nxit (“to urge, stimulate”). Doublet of jiva. Pronunciation: /kwɪk/, [kʰw̥ɪk] 1. Raw or sensitive flesh, especially that underneath finger and toe nails. 2. Plants used in making a quickset hedge Example: The works […] are curiously hedged with quick. 3. The life; the mortal point; a vital part; a part susceptible to serious injury or keen feeling. Example: This test nippeth, […] this toucheth the quick. Example: How feebly and unlike themselves they reason when they come to the quick of the difference! 4. Synonym of living (“those who are alive”). Labels: archaic, with-definite-article Example: the quick and the dead 5. Quitchgrass. Example: Wild bird, whose warble, liquid sweet, Rings Eden thro' the budded quicks 6. A fast bowler.
Word: quick Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English quik, quic (“living, alive, active”), from Old English cwic (“alive”), from Proto-West Germanic *kwiku (“alive, lively quick”), from Proto-Germanic *kwikwaz (“alive, lively, quick”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷih₃wós (“alive”), from *gʷeyh₃- (“to live”), *gʷeyh₃w- (“to live”). For semantic development, compare lively. Cognate with Dutch kwik, kwiek (“lively, quick”), German keck (“sassy, cheeky”), Danish kvik (“lively, quick-witted, quick”), kvæg (“cattle”), Faroese kvikur (“quick”), Icelandic kvikur (“lively, quick”), Norn kvikk, hwikk (“living, swarming, teeming”), Norwegian kvikk (“quick, lively, quick-witted”), Swedish kvick (“quick, witty”), and also (from Indo-European) with Greek βίος (víos, “life”), Latin vivus (“alive”), Lithuanian gývas (“alive”), Latvian dzīvs (“alive”), Russian живо́й (živój, “alive, lively, quick”), Polish żywy (“alive”), Welsh byw (“alive”), Irish beo (“alive”), biathaigh (“to feed”), Northern Kurdish jîn (“to live”), jiyan (“life”), giyan (“soul”), can (“soul”), Sanskrit जीव (jīva, “alive”), Albanian nxit (“to urge, stimulate”). Doublet of jiva. Pronunciation: /kwɪk/, [kʰw̥ɪk] 1. To amalgamate surfaces prior to gilding or silvering by dipping them into a solution of mercury in nitric acid. Labels: transitive 2. To quicken. Labels: archaic, poetic, transitive Example: I rose as if quicked by a spur I was bound to obey.
Word: expose Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English exposen, from Old French exposer (“to lay open, set forth”), from Latin expōnō (“set forth”), with contamination from poser (“to lay, place”). Doublet of expone and expound (via Old French espondre (“to set forth, explain”)), from the same Latin term. Pronunciation: /ɪkˈspəʊz/, /ɪkˈspoʊz/, /ɛkˈspoʊz/ 1. To reveal; to uncover; to make visible; to bring to light. Labels: transitive Example: The dispatches revealed details of corruption and kleptocracy that many Tunisians suspected, […]. They also exposed the blatant discrepancy between the west's professed values and actual foreign policies. Example: Many supporters believed Donald Trump would finally expose government cover-ups once he returned to power. But more than six months into his new term, those much-hyped conspiracy theories have either been debunked or quietly fallen apart. 2. To subject photographic film to light, thereby recording an image. Labels: transitive 3. To submit to an active (mostly dangerous) substance, such as radiation, a chemical, or any other stress. Labels: transitive Example: Residents were exposed to dangerous levels of radiation. Example: You understand that by using the Services, you may be exposed to Content that might be offensive, harmful, inaccurate or otherwise inappropriate, or in some cases, postings that have been mislabeled or are otherwise deceptive. 4. To make available to other parts of a program, or to other programs. Labels: transitive Example: to expose an API Example: In the OO world, the word is to hide the structure of the data, and expose only functionality. OO designers expose an object to the world in terms of the services it provides. 5. To abandon, especially an unwanted baby in the wilderness. Labels: transitive Example: This they do, as a rule, by exposing the child or throwing it into the sea.
Word: cognitive Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Medieval Latin cognitīvus, from Latin cognitus, perfect passive participle of cognōscō (“to get to know”) + -īvus (adjective suffix). Pronunciation: /ˈkɒɡ.nɪ.tɪv/, /ˈkɑɡ.nɪ.tɪv/, [ˈkɑɡ.nɪ.ɾɪv], [ˈkɒɡ.nɪ.ɾɪv], /ˈkɔɡ.nɪ.tɪv/ 1. Relating to the part of mental functions that deals with logic, as opposed to affective which deals with emotions. Example: Recent findings in cognitive neuroscience are also beginning to unravel how the body perceives magnitudes through sensory-motor systems. Variations in size, speed, quantity and duration, are registered in the brain by electro-chemical changes in neurons. The neurons that respond to these different magnitudes share a common neural network. In a survey of this research, cognitive neuroscientists Domenica Bueti and Vincent Walsh tell us that the brain does not treat temporal perception, spatial perception and perceived quantity as different. 2. Intellectual. 3. Cognate; to be recognized as cognate. Labels: obsolete, rare Example: Wanux "white man," cognitive with Aben. awanoch, now used for "Canadian Frenchman";
Word: cognitive Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Medieval Latin cognitīvus, from Latin cognitus, perfect passive participle of cognōscō (“to get to know”) + -īvus (adjective suffix). Pronunciation: /ˈkɒɡ.nɪ.tɪv/, /ˈkɑɡ.nɪ.tɪv/, [ˈkɑɡ.nɪ.ɾɪv], [ˈkɒɡ.nɪ.ɾɪv], /ˈkɔɡ.nɪ.tɪv/ 1. A cognate. Labels: obsolete, rare Example: Abenaki awanoch, the cognitive of Penobscot awenoch, means Frenchman,
Word: vici Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of vicus Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Floridian Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree English Florida Proto-Indo-European *-nós Proto-Italic *-nos Latin -nus Latin -ānus Latin -iānusbor. English -ian English Floridian From Florida + -ian. Pronunciation: /flɔˈɹɪdi.ən/ 1. Of, or pertaining to, Florida or its culture. Labels: not-comparable Example: Recess’s website features the charms of vaporwave internet art and Lisa Frank-style nostalgia, while their Instagram account evokes the combined look of “Endless Summer” with “Floridian retiree” and the summer-camp psychedelia that has replaced “Lifestyle Lumberjack” as the default millennial style choice.
Word: Floridian Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English Florida Proto-Indo-European *-nós Proto-Italic *-nos Latin -nus Latin -ānus Latin -iānusbor. English -ian English Floridian From Florida + -ian. Pronunciation: /flɔˈɹɪdi.ən/ 1. A native or resident of the state of Florida in the United States of America. Example: [S]ince the end of September, the average daily unemployment claims for Florida have risen by 55 percent, translating into approximately 50,000 more Floridians applying for unemployment benefits. That is mind-boggling. That is staggering. Example: But there’s also a burgeoning food scene in downtown Palm Beach that’s drawing Floridians from Jupiter to Boca.
Word: online Part of Speech: adj Etymology: 1950, from on + line. Pronunciation: /ˈɒnlaɪn/, /ˈɔnlɑjn/, /ˈɑnlaɪn/, /ˈɔnlaɪn/, [ˈɒnlaɪn] 1. Of a system: connected (generally electrically) to a larger network. 2. Of a system: connected (generally electrically) to a larger network. Example: Is this modem online? 3. Available over, or delivered from, the Internet. Example: In America alone, people spent $170 billion on “direct marketing”—junk mail of both the physical and electronic varieties—last year. Yet of those who received unsolicited adverts through the post, only 3% bought anything as a result. If the bumf arrived electronically, the take-up rate was 0.1%. And for online adverts the “conversion” into sales was a minuscule 0.01%. Example: The online world was meant to be an open system but has become dominated by huge corporations. 4. Connected to the Internet. Example: I'll be online tonight, so I'll be able to reply to your email. 5. Available on a computer system, even if not networked. Example: Press the F1 key to access the online help. Example: The program comes with an online manual, supplied on compact disc. 6. Of a system: active, particularly building facilities (such as power) or a factory or power plant. Example: The power is online. Example: Once this factory comes online, it will double car production in our country! 7. Immersed in Internet culture. (Usually modified by an intensifier such as extremely or terminally) Labels: slang Example: terminally online Example: To borrow an idiom from the extremely online, late Godard is a mood.
Word: online Part of Speech: adv Etymology: 1950, from on + line. Pronunciation: /ˈɒnlaɪn/, /ˈɔnlɑjn/, /ˈɑnlaɪn/, /ˈɔnlaɪn/, [ˈɒnlaɪn] 1. While online; while in a running or active state, or connected to the Internet. Labels: not-comparable Example: He works online. Example: Well, things are getting pretty serious right now. I mean, we chat online for, like, two hours every day so I guess you could say things are gettin' pretty serious.
Word: online Part of Speech: verb Etymology: 1950, from on + line. Pronunciation: /ˈɒnlaɪn/, /ˈɔnlɑjn/, /ˈɑnlaɪn/, /ˈɔnlaɪn/, [ˈɒnlaɪn] 1. To bring (a system, etc.) online; to promote to an active or running state. Labels: transitive Example: The output in Listing 8-2 shows your disk group status prior to onlining the disks, the commands to online your disks, and the status after onlining.
Word: New Mexican Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From New Mexico + -an. 1. Of, or pertaining to, New Mexico or its culture. Labels: not-comparable
Word: New Mexican Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From New Mexico + -an. 1. A native or resident of the state of New Mexico in the United States of America.
Word: Transylvanian Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *terh₂-der. Proto-Indo-European *térh₂t Proto-Indo-European *-ónts Proto-Indo-European *tr̥h₂ónts Proto-Indo-European *tr̥h₂n̥ts Proto-Italic *trāns Proto-Italic *trāns- Latin trans- Proto-Indo-European *sel-der.? Latin silva Proto-Indo-European *-nós Proto-Italic *-nos Latin -nus Latin -ānus Latin silvānus Proto-Indo-European *-(i)yós Proto-Italic *-ijos Proto-Italic *-ios Old Latin -ios Latin -ius Latin -ia ▲ Hungarian Erdeuelucalq. Medieval Latin Trānsylvānialbor. English Transylvania ▲ Latin -ānus Old French -ainder. Middle English -an English -an English Transylvanian From Transylvania + -an. 1. From, or pertaining to, Transylvania or its people. Labels: not-comparable
Word: Transylvanian Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *terh₂-der. Proto-Indo-European *térh₂t Proto-Indo-European *-ónts Proto-Indo-European *tr̥h₂ónts Proto-Indo-European *tr̥h₂n̥ts Proto-Italic *trāns Proto-Italic *trāns- Latin trans- Proto-Indo-European *sel-der.? Latin silva Proto-Indo-European *-nós Proto-Italic *-nos Latin -nus Latin -ānus Latin silvānus Proto-Indo-European *-(i)yós Proto-Italic *-ijos Proto-Italic *-ios Old Latin -ios Latin -ius Latin -ia ▲ Hungarian Erdeuelucalq. Medieval Latin Trānsylvānialbor. English Transylvania ▲ Latin -ānus Old French -ainder. Middle English -an English -an English Transylvanian From Transylvania + -an. 1. An inhabitant or a resident of Transylvania.
Word: Piedmontese Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree English Piedmont Proto-Indo-European *-iskos Proto-Germanic *-iskaz Proto-West Germanic *-iskbor. Late Latin -iscus ▲ Vulgar Latin -iscus Latin -ēnsis Old French -eisbor. Middle English -eys English -ese English Piedmontese From Piedmont + -ese. Pronunciation: /ˌpiːdmɒnˈtiːz/ 1. Of, from or relating to Piedmont in northwest Italy. Labels: not-comparable
Word: Piedmontese Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English Piedmont Proto-Indo-European *-iskos Proto-Germanic *-iskaz Proto-West Germanic *-iskbor. Late Latin -iscus ▲ Vulgar Latin -iscus Latin -ēnsis Old French -eisbor. Middle English -eys English -ese English Piedmontese From Piedmont + -ese. Pronunciation: /ˌpiːdmɒnˈtiːz/ 1. The inhabitants or residents of Piedmont. Labels: uncountable 2. A breed of double-muscled domestic cattle that originated in Piedmont, Italy. Labels: countable
Word: Piedmontese Part of Speech: name Etymology: Etymology tree English Piedmont Proto-Indo-European *-iskos Proto-Germanic *-iskaz Proto-West Germanic *-iskbor. Late Latin -iscus ▲ Vulgar Latin -iscus Latin -ēnsis Old French -eisbor. Middle English -eys English -ese English Piedmontese From Piedmont + -ese. Pronunciation: /ˌpiːdmɒnˈtiːz/ 1. A Gallo-Italic language spoken in Piedmont.
Word: New Yorker Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From New York + -er. 1. A native or resident of the state of New York in the United States of America. 2. A native or resident of New York City. Example: This does not take into account the tens of thousands of New Yorkers who are harmlessly and charmingly insane in a peculiarly Manhattanite manner. Example: To every New Yorker in Kensington and Midwood and Hunts Point, know this: This city is your city, and this democracy is yours too. […] Hope is a decision that tens of thousands of New Yorkers made day after day, volunteer shift after volunteer shift, despite attack ad after attack ad. 3. A New York-style pizza, a type of large pizza originally eaten in New York City.
Word: Pennsylvanian Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English Penn English sylvan Latin -iader. English -ia English Pennsylvania English -an English Pennsylvanian From Pennsylvania + -an. Pronunciation: /ˌpɛn.sɪlˈveɪ.ni.ən/, /ˌpɛn.sɪlˈveɪn.jən/, /ˌpɛn.səlˈveɪ.ni.ən/, /ˌpɛn.səlˈveɪn.jən/ 1. A native or resident of the state of Pennsylvania in the United States of America.
Word: Pennsylvanian Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree English Penn English sylvan Latin -iader. English -ia English Pennsylvania English -an English Pennsylvanian From Pennsylvania + -an. Pronunciation: /ˌpɛn.sɪlˈveɪ.ni.ən/, /ˌpɛn.sɪlˈveɪn.jən/, /ˌpɛn.səlˈveɪ.ni.ən/, /ˌpɛn.səlˈveɪn.jən/ 1. Of or pertaining to the state of Pennsylvania. Labels: not-comparable 2. Of any of the three geologic epochs (lower, middle and upper) within the Carboniferous period from 318 to 299 million years ago; marked by a high oxygen atmosphere and the rise of reptiles and winged insects. Labels: not-comparable
Word: Pennsylvanian Part of Speech: name Etymology: Etymology tree English Penn English sylvan Latin -iader. English -ia English Pennsylvania English -an English Pennsylvanian From Pennsylvania + -an. Pronunciation: /ˌpɛn.sɪlˈveɪ.ni.ən/, /ˌpɛn.sɪlˈveɪn.jən/, /ˌpɛn.səlˈveɪ.ni.ən/, /ˌpɛn.səlˈveɪn.jən/ 1. Any of the three Pennsylvanian epochs.
Word: Virginian Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree English Virgin(ia) Proto-Indo-European *-nós Proto-Italic *-nos Latin -nus Latin -ānus Latin -iānusbor. English -ian English Virginian From Virgin(ia) + -ian. Pronunciation: /vɚˈd͡ʒɪnjən/, /vəˈd͡ʒɪnjən/ 1. Of, or pertaining to, Virginia or its culture. Labels: not-comparable Example: His polite demeanor instantly gave him away as being a Virginian and not a Marylander.
Word: Virginian Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English Virgin(ia) Proto-Indo-European *-nós Proto-Italic *-nos Latin -nus Latin -ānus Latin -iānusbor. English -ian English Virginian From Virgin(ia) + -ian. Pronunciation: /vɚˈd͡ʒɪnjən/, /vəˈd͡ʒɪnjən/ 1. A native or resident of the state of Virginia in the United States of America. Example: She was a Virginian of South American descent and had lived in Richmond for most of her life.
Word: West Virginian Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From West Virginia + -an. Pronunciation: /ˈwɛst vɚˈd͡ʒɪnjən/ 1. Of, or pertaining to, West Virginia or its culture. Labels: not-comparable Example: Karen Mackay's Annie Oakley Rides Again is another explicitly lesbian album. It's sprightly, low-key bluegrass in style, befitting Mackay's West Virginian roots, but has a strange, sad tone to it, perhaps because the album was inspired by the sudden death of Mackay's friend.
Word: West Virginian Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From West Virginia + -an. Pronunciation: /ˈwɛst vɚˈd͡ʒɪnjən/ 1. A native or resident of the state of West Virginia in the United States of America. Example: Another order called for the termination of all Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, or DEI, initiatives from state-run institutions, something Morrisey said he believes will protect West Virginians from racial and gender discrimination — especially “inappropriate” preferential treatment for certain groups over others.
Word: Orne Part of Speech: name Etymology: Borrowed from French Orne. 1. A department of Normandy, France. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. A river in Normandy, France, flowing through the departments of Orne and Calvados. Labels: countable, uncountable 3. A surname from French. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: alter Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Old French alterer (French altérer), from Medieval Latin alterāre (“to make other”), from Latin alter (“the other”), from al- (seen in alius (“other”), alienus (“of another”), etc.; see alias, alien, etc.) + compar. suffix -ter. Pronunciation: /ˈɒl.tə/, /ˈɔːl.tə/, /ˈɔl.təɹ/, /ˈɑl.təɹ/ 1. To change the form or structure of. Labels: ambitransitive Example: Near-synonym: tweak Example: No power in Venice can alter a decree. 2. To become different. Labels: intransitive Example: […] Passing the song of the hermit bird and the tallying song of my soul, / Victorious song, death’s outlet song, yet varying ever-altering song, […] Example: All of these statistics are expected to alter, however, as they are altering in nearly all demographic areas. 3. To tailor clothes to make them fit. Labels: transitive 4. To castrate, neuter or spay (a dog or other animal). Labels: transitive 5. To affect mentally, as by psychotropic drugs or illness. Labels: transitive Example: We don't know if he was altered on alcohol or drugs or anything […]
Word: alter Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Probably from alter ego. Pronunciation: /ˈɒl.tə/, /ˈɔːl.tə/, /ˈɔl.təɹ/, /ˈɑl.təɹ/ 1. One of the personalities, identities, or selves in a person with dissociative identity disorder or another form of multiplicity. Example: While the second goal would be best met if each alter were coconscious, the defendant should be satisfied if at least one competent alter is present to hear what transpires.
Word: alter Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈɒl.tə/, /ˈɔːl.tə/, /ˈɔl.təɹ/, /ˈɑl.təɹ/ 1. Misspelling of altar. Labels: alt-of, misspelling Example: As an alter boy he remembered that walking between the alter and the gates was prohibited for everyone except the priest. Example: The hardest part of being an alter boy was learning Latin. The mass was conducted in Latin and we had to learn to pray in Latin.
Word: tailor Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Latin tālea 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 Late Latin tāliō Old French taillierder. Old French tailleorder. Anglo-Norman taillourbor. Middle English taillour English tailor Inherited from Middle English taillour, from Anglo-Norman taillour, from Old French tailleor, from taillier, from Late Latin tāliō, from Latin tālea (“a cutting”). Doublet of tailleur. Compare typologically German Schneider (akin to English snithe); Macedonian кројач (krojač), Polish krawiec (akin to Proto-Slavic *krojiti). Pronunciation: /ˈteɪlɚ/, /ˈteɪlə/ 1. A person who makes, repairs, or alters clothes professionally, especially suits and men's clothing. Example: He works as a tailor on Swanston Street. 2. Bluefish (Pomatomus saltatrix). Labels: Australia Example: The tailor — is that a sea fish — a line fish? It is a sea fish, but not a line fish. They will bite at a line, but they are not a fish you can depend on with the line.
Word: tailor Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Latin tālea 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 Late Latin tāliō Old French taillierder. Old French tailleorder. Anglo-Norman taillourbor. Middle English taillour English tailor Inherited from Middle English taillour, from Anglo-Norman taillour, from Old French tailleor, from taillier, from Late Latin tāliō, from Latin tālea (“a cutting”). Doublet of tailleur. Compare typologically German Schneider (akin to English snithe); Macedonian кројач (krojač), Polish krawiec (akin to Proto-Slavic *krojiti). Pronunciation: /ˈteɪlɚ/, /ˈteɪlə/ 1. To make, repair, or alter clothes. Labels: ambitransitive Example: We can tailor that jacket for you if you like. 2. To make or adapt (something) for a specific need. Labels: figuratively, transitive Example: The website was tailored to the client's needs. Example: [C]aregivers from diverse backgrounds may experience variations in the emergence of depressive symptoms, necessitating distinct strategies for support tailored to their individual needs. 3. To restrict (something) in order to meet a particular need. Labels: figuratively, transitive Example: a narrowly tailored law
Word: depose Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Recorded since c.1300, from Middle English, from Old French deposer, from de- (“down”) + poser (“to put, place”). Deposition (1494 in the legal sense) belongs to deposit, but that related word and depose became thoroughly confused. Pronunciation: /dɪˈpəʊz/, /diˈpoʊz/, /dəˈpoʊz/ 1. To put down; to lay down; to deposit; to lay aside; to put away. Labels: literally, transitive Example: additional mud deposed upon it 2. To remove (a leader) from (high) office without killing (them). Labels: transitive Example: A deposed monarch may go into exile as pretender to the lost throne, hoping to be restored in a subsequent revolution. Example: a tyrant over his subjects, and therefore worthy to be deposed 3. To give evidence or testimony, especially in response to interrogation during a deposition. Labels: intransitive 4. To interrogate and elicit testimony from during a deposition, typically by a lawyer. Labels: transitive Example: After we deposed the claimant we had enough evidence to avoid a trial. Example: Depose him in the justice of his cause. 5. To take or swear an oath. Labels: intransitive 6. To testify; to bear witness; to claim; to assert; to affirm. Example: to depose the yearly rent or valuation of lands
Word: employee Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From employ + -ee. First attested in the early 19th century, possibly modeled after French employé. Pronunciation: /ˌɛm.plɔɪˈiː/, /ɛmˈplɔɪ.iː/, /ɪmˈplɔɪ.iː/, /ˌɪm.plɔɪ.iː/ 1. A person who provides labor to a company or another person. Example: One way to encourage your employees to work harder is by giving them incentives. Example: No one, however, would have anything to do with him, as Mr. Keeson's orders in those respects were very strict ; he had often threatened any one of his employés with instant dismissal if he found him in company with one of these touts.
Word: hallucination Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Derives from the verb hallucinate, from Latin hallucinatus. Compare French hallucination. The first known usage in the English language is from Sir Thomas Browne. Pronunciation: /həˌluːsɪˈneɪʃən/ 1. A sensory perception of something that does not exist, often arising from disorder of the nervous system, as in delirium tremens. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Hallucinations are always evidence of cerebral derangement and are common phenomena of insanity. Example: The authorities said that the spinach had caused “possible food-related toxic reactions” with those affected experiencing symptoms including delirium, hallucinations, blurred vision, rapid heartbeat and fever. 2. The act of hallucinating; a wandering of the mind; an error, mistake or blunder. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: This must have been the hallucination of the transcriber. 3. A confident but incorrect response given by an artificial intelligence; a confabulation. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Chatbots even forget that they are a bot and experience "hallucinations", Meta's description for when a bot confidently says something that is not true. Example: Hallucinations are about adhering to the truth; when A.I. systems get confused, they have a bad habit of making things up rather than admitting their difficulties.
Word: profit Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English profit, from Old French profit (Modern French profit), from Latin prōfectus (“advance, progress, growth, increase, profit”), from proficiō (“to go forward, advance, make progress, be profitable or useful”). Doublet of profect. Pronunciation: /ˈpɹɒfɪt/, /ˈpɹɑfɪt/, /ˈpɹɔfɪt/, /ˈpɹɒfət/, [ˈpɹɔ̟fət] 1. Total income or cash flow minus expenditures. The money or other benefit a non-governmental organization or individual receives in exchange for products and services sold at an advertised price. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Let no man anticipate uncertain profits. Example: War is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives... Of course, it isn't put that crudely in war time. It is dressed into speeches about patriotism, love of country, and "we must all put our shoulders to the wheel," but the profits jump and leap and skyrocket—and are safely pocketed. 2. Benefit, positive result obtained. Labels: countable, dated, literary, uncountable Example: Reading such an enlightening book on the subject was of much profit to his studies. Example: This I speak for your own profit. 3. Ellipsis of profit à prendre. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, ellipsis, uncountable
Word: profit Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English profit, from Old French profit (Modern French profit), from Latin prōfectus (“advance, progress, growth, increase, profit”), from proficiō (“to go forward, advance, make progress, be profitable or useful”). Doublet of profect. Pronunciation: /ˈpɹɒfɪt/, /ˈpɹɑfɪt/, /ˈpɹɔfɪt/, /ˈpɹɒfət/, [ˈpɹɔ̟fət] 1. To benefit (somebody), be of use to (somebody). Labels: transitive Example: The word preached did not profit them. Example: It is a great means of profiting yourself, to copy diligently those excellent pieces and beautiful designs. 2. To benefit, gain. Labels: intransitive 3. To take advantage of, exploit, use. Labels: intransitive
Word: sweat Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English swete, swet, swate, swote, from Old English swāt, from Proto-Germanic *swait-, *swaitą, from Proto-Indo-European *swoyd- (“to sweat”), o-grade of *sweyd- (“to sweat”). Cognate with West Frisian swit, Dutch zweet, German Schweiß, Danish sved, Norwegian Bokmål svette, Norwegian Nynorsk sveitte, Swedish svett, Yiddish שוויצן (shvitsn) (English shvitz), Latin sudor, French sueur, Italian sudore, Spanish sudor, Portuguese suor, Persian خوی (xway, “sweat”), Sanskrit स्वेद (svéda), Lithuanian sviedri, Tocharian B syā-, Albanian djersë, and Welsh chwys. Pronunciation: /swɛt/ 1. Fluid that exits the body through pores in the skin usually due to physical stress and/or high temperature for the purpose of regulating body temperature and removing certain compounds from the circulation. Labels: uncountable, usually 2. The state of one who is sweating; diaphoresis. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: Just thinking about the interview tomorrow puts me into a nervous sweat. 3. Hard work; toil. Labels: figuratively, uncountable, usually 4. Moisture issuing from any substance. Labels: figuratively, uncountable, usually Example: The Muses' friend (grey-eyed Aurora) yet Held all the meadows in a cooling sweat, The milk-white gossamers not upwards snow'd, Nor was the sharp and useful-steering goad Example: the sweat of hay or grain in a mow or stack 5. A short run by a racehorse as a form of exercise. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: A Horſe that gains Fleſh in hard Exerciſe, should be ſweated at leaſt twice in ten Days; and he ſhould run near five Miles in Puſhes, that the Sweat may have Time to diſcharge. Those Horſes which are ſweat without Covering, or with a very thin one, should run a long Sweat, as wel call it, and ſtand a conſiderable while afterwards with a thick Blanket or two over them, from Head to Tail; otherwiſe the Sweat will not come out well. Example: There are some horses so very delicate, and have to run such short lengths, that they may not require a sweat during the whole time of their being in training. 6. The sweating sickness. Labels: historical, uncountable, usually Example: When the sweat comes back this summer, 1528, people say, as they did last year, that you won't get it if you don't think about it. Example: […]who both died within one houre of the sweat at Cambridge 7. A soldier (especially one who is old or experienced). Labels: UK, slang, uncountable, usually 8. An extremely or excessively competitive player. Labels: slang, uncountable, usually Example: Casuals believe that sweats are ruining Fortnite. Sweats think that casuals just need to get better at the game. It's a never-ending debate that will never end, despite what anyone tries to say, but it's worth taking a look at regardless.
Word: fertilizer Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English fertilize Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzios Latin -āriusnom. Latin -āriusbor. Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz Proto-West Germanic *-ārī Old English -ere Middle English -ere English -er English fertilizer From fertilize + -er. Pronunciation: /ˈfɜːtəlaɪzə/, /ˈfɜːɹtəlaɪzəɹ/ 1. A natural substance that is used to make the ground more suitable for growing plants. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The farmer spread fertiliser across the fields. Example: Organic fertilisers are usually better for the environment. 2. A chemical compound created to have the same effect. Labels: countable, uncountable 3. Human remains, especially obscured or to be forgotten. Labels: derogatory, uncountable Example: “Complainant reported being threatened by Trump’s then head of security that, if she ever talked of what went on there or who she saw, he would ”end up as fertilizer for the back nine holes like the other c--ts’,” it continued.
Word: maintenance Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English mayntenaunce, from Old French maintenance, from maintenir, from Latin manus tenēre (“to hold in the hand”). By surface analysis, maintain + -ance. Note that maintain has undergone a sound and spelling change, hence is spelt with -tain-, rather than the -ten- still found in maintenance. Pronunciation: /ˈmeɪnt(ə)nəns/, /ˈmeɪntɪnəns/ 1. Actions performed to keep some machine or system functioning or in service. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: They are all preventable by proper maintenance, but non-safety critical maintenance has to be evaluated, so failures are an accepted penalty for keeping maintenance costs down. 2. A tort and (in some jurisdictions) an offence committed when a third party who does not have a bona fide interest in a lawsuit provides help or acquires an interest to a litigant's lawsuit. Labels: uncountable, usually 3. Alimony, a periodical payment or a lump sum made or ordered to be made to a spouse after a divorce. Labels: UK, uncountable, usually 4. Child support. Labels: uncountable, usually 5. Money required or spent to provide for the needs of a person or a family. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: From Pond to Pond he roamed, from moor to moor; / Housing, with God's good help, by choice or chance: / And in this way he gained an honest maintenance. 6. The natural process which keeps an organism alive. Labels: uncountable, usually 7. Ellipsis of maintenance medicine. Labels: Philippines, abbreviation, alt-of, colloquial, ellipsis, uncountable, usually 8. Software updates that fix bugs and improve stability rather than adding new features. Labels: attributive, uncountable, usually Example: a maintenance release; a maintenance version