nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: canvas Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English canevas, from Anglo-Norman, from Old Northern French canevas (compare Old French chanevas, chenevas) from a root derived from Latin cannabis, from Ancient Greek κάνναβις (kánnabis). Compare French canevas, resulting from a blend of the Old French and a Picard dialect word, itself from Old Northern French. Doublet of cannabis and hemp. Pronunciation: /ˈkæn.vəs/, /ˈkæn.væs/ 1. A type of coarse cloth, woven from hemp (traditionally) or from cotton and polyesters, useful for making sails, tents, and overcoats or as a surface for paintings. Example: The term canvas is very widely used, as well to denote the coarse fabrics employed for kitchen use, as for strainers, and wraps for meat, as for the best quality of ordinary table and shirting linen. 2. A piece of such cloth stretched across a frame on which one may paint an artwork. Example: She is painting a moonlight scene on the canvas. Example: Light, rich as that which glows on the canvas of Claude. 3. A mesh of loosely woven cotton strands or molded plastic to be decorated with needlepoint, cross-stitch, rug hooking, or other crafts. 4. A basis for creative work. Labels: figuratively Example: The author takes rural midwestern life as a canvas for a series of tightly woven character studies 5. A region on which graphics can be rendered. 6. Sails in general. Example: The double desire of being able to overtake a weaker flying enemy, or to escape when pursued by a stronger, has induced the owners to overmast their cruisers, and to spread too much canvass; and the great number of men, many of them not seamen, who being upon deck when a ship heels suddenly are huddled down to leeward, and increase by their weight the effect of the wind. 7. A tent. Example: He spent the night under canvas. 8. A rough draft or model of a song, air, or other literary or musical composition; especially one to show a poet the measure of the verses he is to make. 9. Athletic shoes. Labels: Nigeria
Word: canvas Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English canevas, from Anglo-Norman, from Old Northern French canevas (compare Old French chanevas, chenevas) from a root derived from Latin cannabis, from Ancient Greek κάνναβις (kánnabis). Compare French canevas, resulting from a blend of the Old French and a Picard dialect word, itself from Old Northern French. Doublet of cannabis and hemp. Pronunciation: /ˈkæn.vəs/, /ˈkæn.væs/ 1. To cover (an area or object) with canvas. Labels: transitive
Word: canvas Part of Speech: verb Etymology: A variant of canvass. Pronunciation: /ˈkæn.vəs/, /ˈkæn.væs/ 1. Obsolete spelling of canvass. Labels: alt-of, obsolete Example: And with the aunſwere here vpon eftſoones in hand they go, / The doubtfull wordes wherof they ſcan and canuas to and fro. Example: But nowe the Meſſenger that was thus ſent to the Lorde Hume [Alexander Home, 5th Lord Home], comming to him declared in what caſe hys houſe and people ſtoode, who beeing (as was ſuppoſed) not ſo farre off, but that he might heare howe luſtily the Engliſhe Canons did canuas and batter his Humiſhe Caſtell Walles, did nowe agree to meete the Marshall maiſter Drurie [William Drury] two myles diſtant from the ſayde Caſtell, and there to common further with him in that matter.
Word: canvas Part of Speech: noun Etymology: A variant of canvass. Pronunciation: /ˈkæn.vəs/, /ˈkæn.væs/ 1. Obsolete spelling of canvass. Labels: alt-of, obsolete Example: […] I haue learned this faſhion of Sᵗ. Hierome the Oracle of Antiquitie, vvho vvas vvont to entertaine his Paula, and Euſtochium, Marcella, Principia, Hedibia, and other deuout Ladies, vvith learned canuaſes of the deep pointes of Diuinity. Example: It is a wonder to ſee how ſlauiſhly theſe kinde of [ambitious] men will ſubiect themſelues, vvhen they are about a canvas, to euery inferiour perſon, vvhat paines they vvill take, runne, ride, caſt, plot & countermine, proteſt & ſvveare, vow, promiſe, vvhat labours vndergoe, earely vp, dovvne late; […]
Word: carriage Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English cariage, from Old Northern French cariage, from carier (“to carry”). Pronunciation: /ˈkæɹɪd͡ʒ/, /ˈkɛɹɪd͡ʒ/ 1. The act of conveying; carrying. Labels: countable, uncommon, uncountable Example: The remainder of the men were employed in unbarreling our Pork and stringing it on poles for convenience of carriage, and carrying our Batteaux from the river to the pond. 2. A means of conveyance. Labels: countable, uncountable 3. A (mostly four-wheeled) lighter vehicle chiefly designed to transport people, generally drawn by horse power. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The carriage ride was very romantic. 4. Ellipsis of railway carriage (“a passenger railroad car, or any railroad car”). Labels: UK, abbreviation, alt-of, countable, ellipsis, uncountable Example: When the long, hot journey drew to its end and the train slowed down for the last time, there was a stir in Jessamy’s carriage. People began to shake crumbs from their laps and tidy themselves up a little. 5. The manner or posture in which one holds or positions a body part, such as one's arm or head. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The runner has a very low arm carriage. 6. A manner of walking and moving in general; how one carries oneself, bearing, gait. Labels: archaic, countable, uncountable Example: a tall woman with a beautiful upright carriage. Example: His carriage was full comely and vpright, / His countenaunce demure and temperate [...]. 7. One's behavior, or way of conducting oneself towards others. Labels: archaic, countable, uncountable Example: I had almoſt forgotten to acquaint your honor, that one major Alford (who was in mr. Love's conſpiracy) was of the graund inqueſt at Saliſbury, and was very zealous in his highneſſe ſervice here, and his good affection and wiſe carriage here, did much advantage the buſſineſe. Example: He now assumed a carriage to me so very different from what he had lately worn, and so nearly resembling his behaviour the first week of our marriage, that […] he might, possibly, have rekindled my fondness for him. 8. The part of a typewriter supporting the paper, the part of a machine tool such as a lathe that guides the bit as it cuts or otherwise manipulates the workpiece. Labels: countable, uncountable 9. A shopping cart. Labels: New-England, US, countable, uncountable 10. A stroller; a baby carriage. Labels: UK, countable, uncountable 11. A gun carriage. Labels: countable, uncountable 12. The charge made for conveying (especially in the phrases carriage forward, when the charge is to be paid by the receiver, and Carriage Paid To). Labels: countable, uncountable 13. That which is carried, baggage. Labels: archaic, countable, uncountable Example: And David left his carriage in the hand of the keeper of the carriage, and ran into the army, and came and saluted his brethren.
Word: cart Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Old Norse kartrbor. Proto-Germanic *kradô Proto-West Germanic *krat Old English crætder. Middle English cart English cart From Middle English cart, kart, from Old Norse kartr (“wagon; cart”), merged with native Old English cræt (“a chariot; cart”), from Proto-Germanic *krattaz, *krattijô, *kradō, from Proto-Indo-European *gret- (“tracery; wattle; cradle; cage; basket”), from *ger- (“to turn, wind”). Cognate with West Frisian kret (“wheelbarrow for hauling dung”), Dutch krat, kret (“crate; wheelbarrow for hauling dung”), German Krätze (“basket; pannier”). Wider cognates include Sanskrit ग्रन्थ (grantha, “a binding”). Pronunciation: /kɑːt/, /kɑɹt/ 1. A small, open, wheeled vehicle, drawn or pushed by a person or animal, often with two wheels on one axle, more often used for transporting goods than passengers. Example: The grocer delivered his goods by cart. Example: We made an odd party before the arrival of the Ten, particularly when the Celebrity dropped in for lunch or dinner. He could not be induced to remain permanently at Mohair because Miss Trevor was at Asquith, but he appropriated a Hempstead cart from the Mohair stables and made the trip sometimes twice in a day. 2. A small motor vehicle resembling a car; a go-cart. 3. A shopping cart. Labels: Internet
Word: cart Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Old Norse kartrbor. Proto-Germanic *kradô Proto-West Germanic *krat Old English crætder. Middle English cart English cart From Middle English cart, kart, from Old Norse kartr (“wagon; cart”), merged with native Old English cræt (“a chariot; cart”), from Proto-Germanic *krattaz, *krattijô, *kradō, from Proto-Indo-European *gret- (“tracery; wattle; cradle; cage; basket”), from *ger- (“to turn, wind”). Cognate with West Frisian kret (“wheelbarrow for hauling dung”), Dutch krat, kret (“crate; wheelbarrow for hauling dung”), German Krätze (“basket; pannier”). Wider cognates include Sanskrit ग्रन्थ (grantha, “a binding”). Pronunciation: /kɑːt/, /kɑɹt/ 1. To carry or convey in a cart. Labels: transitive Example: "You had better cart in your crops! To-morrow it'll be snowing!" 2. To carry goods. Labels: informal, transitive Example: I've been carting these things around all day. 3. To remove, especially involuntarily or for disposal. Labels: transitive Example: On August 4, 1927, Della was carted away to the Norwalk State Hospital, suffering from acute myocarditis Example: Africans themselves practised slavery and an organised trade carted off African slaves to Middle Eastern countries while Europeans were still huddling in caves. 4. To expose in a cart by way of punishment. Labels: obsolete, transitive Example: She to intrigues was ev'n hard hearted: She chuckled when a bawd was carted
Word: cart Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Clipping of cartridge. Pronunciation: /kɑːt/, /kɑɹt/ 1. A tape cartridge used for pre-recorded material such as jingles and advertisements. Labels: informal 2. A cartridge for a computer or video game system. Labels: informal Example: My Final Fantasy cart on the NES is still alive and kicking. 3. A cartridge containing cannabis oil or another drug for use in vape pens; a detachable clearomizer, usually threaded and prefilled. Labels: informal, slang Example: Whoah! Where did you get a DMT cart? Example: Elysse got sober before entering college but soon found that seemingly everyone on her dorm floor habitually used weed. ¶ "Not only carts," she said, referring to the cannabis cartridges used in vape pens, "but bongs, pipes, bowls — absolutely everything."
Word: chest Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English cheste, chiste, from Old English ċest, ċist (“chest, casket; coffin; rush basket; box”), from Proto-West Germanic *kistu (“chest, box”), from Latin cista (“chest, box”), from Ancient Greek κίστη (kístē, “chest, box, basket, hamper”). Pronunciation: /t͡ʃɛst/, /t͡ʃɪst/ 1. A box, now usually a large strong box with a secure convex lid. Example: The clothes are kept in a chest. Example: But then I had the [massive] flintlock by me for protection. ¶[…]The linen-press and a chest on the top of it formed, however, a very good gun-carriage; and, thus mounted, aim could be taken out of the window at the old mare feeding in the meadow below by the brook, and a 'bead' could be drawn upon Molly, the dairymaid, kissing the fogger behind the hedge,[…]. 2. A coffin. Labels: obsolete 3. The place in which public money is kept; a treasury. Example: You can take the money from the chest. 4. A chest of drawers. 5. The portion of the human body from the base of the neck to the top of the abdomen; the homologous area in some other animals. Example: Holonyms: torso, trunk < body Example: She had a sudden pain in her chest. 6. The front (anterior) surface of this portion of the torso. Example: Holonyms: thorax; torso, trunk Example: He has a tattoo on his chest, and another on his upper back. 7. A female human's breasts. Labels: euphemistic Example: He avoided being seen gazing at her chest, although he dearly longed to stare. 8. A hit or blow made with one's chest. Example: She scored with a chest into the goal.
Word: chest Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English cheste, chiste, from Old English ċest, ċist (“chest, casket; coffin; rush basket; box”), from Proto-West Germanic *kistu (“chest, box”), from Latin cista (“chest, box”), from Ancient Greek κίστη (kístē, “chest, box, basket, hamper”). Pronunciation: /t͡ʃɛst/, /t͡ʃɪst/ 1. To hit with one's chest (front of one's body) Example: Pedersen fed Kalinic in West Brom's defensive third and his chested lay-off was met on the burst by the Canadian who pelted by Tamas and smashed the ball into the top of Myhill's net. 2. To deposit in a chest. Labels: transitive 3. To place in a coffin. Labels: obsolete, transitive 4. To handle, deal with. Labels: Africa, transitive Example: Children being loud and annoying in public is a small price to pay for living and participating in society. Everyone goes through this cycle and you too were once that child. We can’t just lock them indoors. Chest it, sorry.
Word: chest Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English chest, cheste, cheeste, cheaste, from Old English ċēast, ċēas (“strife, quarrel, quarrelling, contention, murmuring, sedition, scandal; reproof”). Related to Old Frisian kāse (“strife, contention”), Old Saxon caest (“quarrel, dispute”), Old High German kōsa (“speech, story, account”). Pronunciation: /t͡ʃɛst/, /t͡ʃɪst/ 1. Debate; quarrel; strife; enmity.
Word: chief Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree substratebor.? Proto-Indo-European *kap-? Proto-Indo-European *kap- Proto-Indo-European *káput Proto-Italic *kaput Latin caput Vulgar Latin capus Old French chiefbor. Middle English chef English chief Inherited from Middle English chef, borrowed from Old French chief, from Vulgar Latin capus, from Latin caput, from Proto-Italic *kaput, from Proto-Indo-European *káput, from *kap-, possibly from *kap-, possibly borrowed from a substrate language. Doublet of cape (“point of land”), capo, caput, and chef through Latin (possibly also related to cape (“sleeveless garment”) and cap (“head covering”) from Latin cappa); doublet of head and Howth through Proto-Indo-European. Pronunciation: /t͡ʃiːf/ 1. The leader or head of a tribe, organisation, business unit, or other group. Example: In virtue of this privilege, in testimony of my affectionate respect for a revered chief, in conformity with what I believe to be the wish of all the Members of the scientific department, over which I have the honour to preside, and to perpetuate the memory of that illustrious master of accurate geographical research, I have determined to name this noble peak of the Himalayas ‘Mont Everest.’ Example: My father, Gadla Henry Mphakanyiswa, was a chief by both blood and custom. 2. Headship, the status of being a chief or leader. Labels: uncountable Example: Bob is our troubleshooter in chief. 3. The top part of a shield or escutcheon; more specifically, an ordinary consisting of the upper part of the field cut off by a horizontal line, generally occupying the top third. Example: When the Chief is Charged with any figure, in blazon it is said to be "On a Chief". Example: The shield was silver, charged with a red cross voided (that is, with the centre cut out and only the edges left), between in chief (that is, above the horizontal limb of the cross) two black dragon's wings, and in base two red daggers, and in the centre of the cross a black winged helmet; on a red chief (a broad band across the top of the shield), a silver pale (a broad vertical band), and thereon eight black arrows crossed X-wise, four and four, and encircled with a black band, between on the dexter three bendlets (narrow bands slanting from dexter chief to sinister base) enhanced (that is, raised above the centre), and on the sinister a fleur-de-lis, all of gold. 4. The principal part or top of anything. 5. An informal term of address. Labels: ironic, sometimes Example: “How old are you, chief?” the elevator guy said. 6. An informal term of address. Labels: ironic, offensive, sometimes
Word: chief Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree substratebor.? Proto-Indo-European *kap-? Proto-Indo-European *kap- Proto-Indo-European *káput Proto-Italic *kaput Latin caput Vulgar Latin capus Old French chiefbor. Middle English chef English chief Inherited from Middle English chef, borrowed from Old French chief, from Vulgar Latin capus, from Latin caput, from Proto-Italic *kaput, from Proto-Indo-European *káput, from *kap-, possibly from *kap-, possibly borrowed from a substrate language. Doublet of cape (“point of land”), capo, caput, and chef through Latin (possibly also related to cape (“sleeveless garment”) and cap (“head covering”) from Latin cappa); doublet of head and Howth through Proto-Indo-European. Pronunciation: /t͡ʃiːf/ 1. Primary; principal. Example: Negligence was the chief cause of the disaster. Example: […] But when we find that they [volcanoes] are but few in Number, and the chiefeſt of thoſe too near the torrid Zone, and from their Tops to iſſue forth, now clear Fire, then thick, black Smoke, and ſometimes little or nothing at all; we muſt conclude, that they are only particular Fires, probably of the Sun’s kindling at firſt, and ſince continued by the caſual and incidental Applications of that Pabulum, which thoſe Part of the Earth adminiſter to them. 2. Intimate, friendly. Labels: Scotland Example: 'You’re doing it because she was your friend, not because she was a parishioner, and certainly not because of the Declaratory Articles,' Macmurray said, pushing himself forward on his seat. 'Everybody knows how chief you and she were. It was an unfitting relationship for a minister while she was alive, and it is equally unfitting for you to do her a favour like this now she's dead.'
Word: chief Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree substratebor.? Proto-Indo-European *kap-? Proto-Indo-European *kap- Proto-Indo-European *káput Proto-Italic *kaput Latin caput Vulgar Latin capus Old French chiefbor. Middle English chef English chief Inherited from Middle English chef, borrowed from Old French chief, from Vulgar Latin capus, from Latin caput, from Proto-Italic *kaput, from Proto-Indo-European *káput, from *kap-, possibly from *kap-, possibly borrowed from a substrate language. Doublet of cape (“point of land”), capo, caput, and chef through Latin (possibly also related to cape (“sleeveless garment”) and cap (“head covering”) from Latin cappa); doublet of head and Howth through Proto-Indo-European. Pronunciation: /t͡ʃiːf/ 1. To smoke cannabis. Labels: slang
Word: countable Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English countable, equivalent to count (“to enumerate”) + -able. Pronunciation: /ˈkaʊn.tə.bəl/, [ˈkʰãʊ̯̃n.(ɾ)ə.bɫ̩] 1. Capable of being counted; having a quantity. Labels: not-comparable 2. Finite or countably infinite; having a one-to-one correspondence (bijection) with a subset of the natural numbers. Labels: not-comparable 3. Finite or countably infinite; having a one-to-one correspondence (bijection) with a subset of the natural numbers. Labels: not-comparable 4. Freely usable with the indefinite article and with numbers. Labels: not-comparable Example: In these extracts the word abuse is used in the sense of ‘an individual piece of invective’ or ‘an abusive comment’ and is clearly a countable noun.
Word: countable Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English countable, equivalent to count (“to enumerate”) + -able. Pronunciation: /ˈkaʊn.tə.bəl/, [ˈkʰãʊ̯̃n.(ɾ)ə.bɫ̩] 1. A noun that is countable.
Word: natural numbers Part of Speech: noun 1. The set of positive integers, {1, 2, 3, ...}. Labels: plural, plural-normally 2. The set of non-negative integers, {0, 1, 2, 3, ...}. Labels: plural, plural-normally
Word: natural number Part of Speech: noun 1. A positive integer {1, 2, 3, ...}. 2. A non-negative integer {0, 1, 2, ...}. Example: A careful derivation of the arithmetic properties of the natural numbers #92;mathbb#123;N#125;, using induction, was done by G. Peano (1858–1932). It is a lot of fun, but we will not pursue any of it here.
Word: light globe Part of Speech: noun 1. A light bulb. Labels: Australia Example: There are the offset producers[:] those that plant the trees, prevent trees from being removed, provide efficient light globes or reduce emissions. 2. A nearly evacuated glass globe containing ionized gas (plasma), which produces lightning-like patterns when touched.
Word: grub Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English grubben, grobben, from Old English *grubbian, from Proto-West Germanic *grubb-, from Proto-Germanic *grubb- (compare Middle Dutch grobben (“to scrape, scramble, grab”), Old High German grubilōn (“to dig, search”), German grübeln (“to meditate, ponder”)), from Proto-Germanic *grub- (“to dig”) (see *grabaną). The noun sense of "larva" is from Middle English grub, grubbe, grobbe, crubbe and may derive from the notion of "digging insect" from the verb above, or from the uncertainly related Middle English grub (“dwarfish fellow”). Compare West Frisian krobbe (“beetle”). The slang sense of "food" is first recorded 1659, and has been linked with birds eating grubs or with bub (“drink”). Pronunciation: /ɡɹʌb/, /ɡɹʊb/ 1. An insect, especially a beetle, at an immature stage of its life cycle. Labels: countable 2. Food. Labels: slang, uncountable Example: pub grub Example: "The rice ration's down to nearly damn-all in the kampongs, but we keep finding dumps of grub in the forest." 3. A dirty person. Labels: Australia, countable, slang, uncountable 4. A despicable person; a lowlife. Labels: Australia, countable, slang, uncountable 5. A short, thick man; a dwarf. Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable Example: John Romane, a short clownish grub, would bear the whole carcase of an ox, yet never tugged with him.
Word: grub Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English grubben, grobben, from Old English *grubbian, from Proto-West Germanic *grubb-, from Proto-Germanic *grubb- (compare Middle Dutch grobben (“to scrape, scramble, grab”), Old High German grubilōn (“to dig, search”), German grübeln (“to meditate, ponder”)), from Proto-Germanic *grub- (“to dig”) (see *grabaną). The noun sense of "larva" is from Middle English grub, grubbe, grobbe, crubbe and may derive from the notion of "digging insect" from the verb above, or from the uncertainly related Middle English grub (“dwarfish fellow”). Compare West Frisian krobbe (“beetle”). The slang sense of "food" is first recorded 1659, and has been linked with birds eating grubs or with bub (“drink”). Pronunciation: /ɡɹʌb/, /ɡɹʊb/ 1. To scavenge or in some way scrounge, typically for food. Labels: transitive 2. To dig; to dig up by the roots; to root out by digging; often followed by up. Labels: ambitransitive Example: to grub up trees, rushes, or sedge Example: They do not attempt to grub up the root of sin. 3. To supply with food. Labels: dated, slang, transitive 4. To eat. Labels: dated, slang Example: “[…] John dear, we must give this little fellow his supper, you know.” “Of course we must, my darling.” “He has been grubbing and grubbing at school,” said Bella, looking at her father’s hand and lightly slapping it, “till he’s not fit to be seen. O what a grubby child!”
Word: penchant Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from French penchant, present participle of pencher (“to tilt, to lean”), from Middle French, from Old French pengier (“to tilt, be out of line”), from Vulgar Latin *pendicāre, a derivative of Latin pendere (“to hang”). Pronunciation: /ˈpɒnʃɒn/, /ˈpɛnt͡ʃənt/ 1. Taste, liking, or inclination (for). Labels: countable, uncountable Example: He has a penchant for fine wine. Example: Marie even then began the course which, in after-years, secured her so vast an influence in the court,—alternately taking up and laying down her claim to the youthful monarch's penchant; administering to his amusement, and ready to encourage his passing fancies. 2. A card game resembling bezique. Labels: uncountable 3. In the game of penchant, any queen and jack of different suits held at the same time. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: bless you Part of Speech: intj Etymology: Short for God bless you, from Middle English God blesse you, God blisse you. Pronunciation: /ˈblɛs juː/, /ˈblɛʃ(j)uː/ 1. Short for (may) God bless you: said as a short prayer for the recipient. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of 2. Said to someone who has just sneezed, as a polite remark. Labels: idiomatic 3. Used to express non-understanding of someone who has just used an unusual or foreign word or phrase (as if to imply that it sounds like a sneeze). Labels: humorous, idiomatic Example: ‘What’s that?’ said Ron, pointing at a large dish of some sort of shellfish stew that stood beside a large steak-and-kidney pudding. ‘Bouillabaisse,’ said Hermione. ‘Bless you,’ said Ron. ‘It’s French,’ said Hermione. ‘I had it on holiday, summer before last, it’s very nice.’
Word: Weltschmerz Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *weyh₁-? Proto-Indo-European *wiHrós Proto-Germanic *weraz Proto-Indo-European *h₂el- Proto-Indo-European *h₂életi Proto-Germanic *alaną Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Germanic *-þiz Proto-Germanic *aldiz Proto-Germanic *weraldiz Proto-West Germanic *weraldi Old High German wëralt Middle High German wërlt German Welt Proto-Indo-European *(s)merd-der. Proto-Germanic *smertaną Proto-West Germanic *smertan Old High German smerza Middle High German smerze German Schmerz German Weltschmerzbor. English Weltschmerz Borrowed from German Weltschmerz, from Welt (“world”) + Schmerz (“physical ache, pain; emotional pain, heartache, sorrow”). The German word was coined by the author Jean Paul (1763–1825) in his novel Selina (posthumously published in 1827). Pronunciation: /ˈvɛltˌʃmɛːts/, /-ˌʃmɜːts/, /ˈvɛltˌʃmɝts/ 1. An apathetic or pessimistic view of life; depression concerning or discomfort with the human condition or state of the world; mal du siècle, world-weariness. Labels: uncountable Example: And in this respect [Ludwig] Uhland presents a marked and useful contrast to the lackadaisical, sentimental, Weltschmerz school, the poets of which trade on their own pretended misery, and, cunningly enough, suggest that their poems must be touching and true in proportion as the authors set themselves forth as peculiarly skilled in bitterness of heart and badness of life. Example: [page 118] It speaks well for the general healthiness of the English nation that we have no words corresponding to ‘Weltschmerz’ or ‘Ennui’. The ordinary Englishman experiences neither of these things. […] [page 119] Weltschmerz is a species of disease, a sort of spiritual measles—or to give a more technical diagnosis, it is the revolt of a young soul against the stone and iron of existence. […] ‘Ennui’ only attacks people either of hopeless incapacity or incurable laziness. Weltschmerz on the other hand is a positive, restless, state, a state of protest against the nature of things.
Word: world-weary Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From world + weary. Pronunciation: /ˈwɜːld ˌwɪəɹi/, /ˈwɝːld ˌwɪ(ə)ɹi/ 1. Tired of the ways of the world; feeling apathetic or cynical due to one's life experiences. Example: O here Will I ſet vp my euerlaſting reſt: And ſhake the yoke of inauſpicious ſtarres From this world-wearied fleſh: […] Example: Till you ſhall bid this ſad, world weary ſpirit, / To peaceful regions wing her weary flight. 2. Bored with life. Example: In the cafés of the Boule Miche, where the decadent movements are hatched and the fledgling Verlaines come to drown their sorrows in vermouth, you may see the lacklustre visages and tumbled hair of "diabolical" poets and the world-weary figures of end-of-the-century youngsters pledging their mistresses in American grog. Example: The drill sergeants are the world weariest of soldiers; and now, goddamit, they have to teach 'girls', no bigger than their kid sisters.
Word: put together Part of Speech: verb 1. To assemble, construct, build, or formulate. Labels: transitive Example: If you try to put together the model kit yourself, be careful not to break any of the pieces. Example: We'll need to put together a plan if we want to get this project finished. 2. To gather one's thoughts and come to conclusions. Labels: transitive Example: They were drunk and slow and she was quick to her boot and quick with the blade and she had sliced one across the arm and the other across the cheek before either could put together what was happening.
Word: put together Part of Speech: adj 1. In total. Example: Alaska has more land than Texas and Oklahoma put together. 2. Stable and sound psychologically and hence in other respects; competent and responsible. Labels: especially Example: Today, Bessy is still unmarried but she is well put together. She has bought two new cars since the divorce, she now owns her home, two of her children have college degrees, one is certified in medical assisting, […] Example: I had the impression that she is well put together and has good ego-strength. She is aware of her tendency to be overly self-critical, is working on it and making some progress.
Word: clue Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Variant of clew (“a ball of thread or yarn”), from Middle English clew, clewe, clowe, clue, clwe, clyw, clywe, from Old English clēowen, clīewen, clīowen, clīwen, clȳwe, clȳwen (“ball, sphere; skein”), from Proto-West Germanic *kliuwīn (“ball, clump”), from Proto-Germanic *kliuwīną, *klewô (“bale, ball, clump, mass”), from Proto-Indo-European *glew- (“to ball up, clump together; lump, swelling”). Sense evolution with reference to the one which the mythical Theseus used to guide him out of the Minotaur's labyrinth. More at clew. Cognates Cognate with Cimbrian khnaul (“ball of yarn”), Dutch kluwe, kluwen (“ball thread or yarn, clew”), German Knäuel (“ballyarn; tangle”), Norwegian Nynorsk kljå (“a loom weight”); also Sanskrit ग्लौ (glau, “the moon; camphor; the earth”). Pronunciation: /kluː/, /kljuː/ 1. A strand of yarn etc. as used to guide one through a labyrinth; something which points the way, a guide. Labels: archaic Example: she had even had in the past a small smug conviction that in the domestic labyrinth she always kept the clue. 2. Information which may lead one to a certain point or conclusion. Example: Give me a clue because the question is too vague. Example: Black tracks on the magneto, a hairline crack in the flywheel casing, pitted points or a spitless exhaust — all are clues to potential conkouts 3. An object or a kind of indication which may be used as evidence. Example: The detectives were looking for some clues at the scene of the crime. 4. Insight or understanding ("to have a clue [about]" or "to have clue". See have a clue, clue stick) Example: I had little clue that I was being carefully monitored by the CCTV. 5. The text that indicates an answer in a crossword puzzle.
Word: clue Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Variant of clew (“a ball of thread or yarn”), from Middle English clew, clewe, clowe, clue, clwe, clyw, clywe, from Old English clēowen, clīewen, clīowen, clīwen, clȳwe, clȳwen (“ball, sphere; skein”), from Proto-West Germanic *kliuwīn (“ball, clump”), from Proto-Germanic *kliuwīną, *klewô (“bale, ball, clump, mass”), from Proto-Indo-European *glew- (“to ball up, clump together; lump, swelling”). Sense evolution with reference to the one which the mythical Theseus used to guide him out of the Minotaur's labyrinth. More at clew. Cognates Cognate with Cimbrian khnaul (“ball of yarn”), Dutch kluwe, kluwen (“ball thread or yarn, clew”), German Knäuel (“ballyarn; tangle”), Norwegian Nynorsk kljå (“a loom weight”); also Sanskrit ग्लौ (glau, “the moon; camphor; the earth”). Pronunciation: /kluː/, /kljuː/ 1. To provide with a clue. Example: The crossword compiler wasn't sure how to clue the word "should". 2. To provide someone with information which they lack (often used with "in" or "up"). Example: Smith, clue Jones in on what's been happening. Example: I stared into my mind for some image to clue me what to say but I saw only blackness there. 3. Alternative form of clew. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: If the lee-side of the sail were clued up, the risk would be small compared with what it would be were the sheet nearly aft and the whole sail full of wind on starting the tack.
Word: responsible Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle French responsable, from Old French responsable, responsible, formed from the root of Latin responsus, from respondeō, respondēre. The spelling of the English word is taken from the Old French variant responsible. By surface analysis, response + -ible. Pronunciation: /ɹɪˈspɒn.sə.bəl/, [ɹɪˈspɒn.sə.bɫ̩], /ɹɪˈspɑn.sə.bəl/, [ɹɪˈspɑn.sə.bɫ̩], /ɹɪˈspɔn.sə.bəl/ 1. Having the duty of taking care of something; answerable for an act performed or for its consequences; accountable; amenable, especially legally or politically. Labels: postpositional Example: Parents are responsible for their child's behaviour. 2. Being a primary cause of a situation or action and thus able to be blamed or credited for it. Labels: postpositional Example: Who is responsible for this mess? Example: […]Karius was a danger to his own team, responsible for Madrid’s two other goals and last seen wandering aimlessly around the pitch – alone, distraught and clearly traumatised – to ask forgiveness, hands clasped, from the thousands of Liverpool supporters. 3. Answerable to (a superior). 4. Involving important duties; involving a degree of personal accountability on the part of the person concerned. Example: She has a responsible position in the firm. 5. Having good judgment in decision-making. Example: But was it responsible governance to pass the Longitude Act without other efforts to protect British seamen? Or might it have been subterfuge—a disingenuous attempt to shift attention away from the realities of their life at sea. 6. Able to be trusted; reliable; trustworthy. Example: He looks like a responsible guy. 7. Capable of rational conduct and thus morally accountable for one's behavior.
Word: responsible Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle French responsable, from Old French responsable, responsible, formed from the root of Latin responsus, from respondeō, respondēre. The spelling of the English word is taken from the Old French variant responsible. By surface analysis, response + -ible. Pronunciation: /ɹɪˈspɒn.sə.bəl/, [ɹɪˈspɒn.sə.bɫ̩], /ɹɪˈspɑn.sə.bəl/, [ɹɪˈspɑn.sə.bɫ̩], /ɹɪˈspɔn.sə.bəl/ 1. The person who bears the responsibility for something. Labels: archaic Example: Were this not so, long since would we have traced directly home the responsibility for the war on Freedom in the Philippines. Long since, would we have hanged the responsibles as traitors to our country. 2. An actor taking on the lesser roles in repertory theatre. Example: […] first appeared on August Bank Holiday, 1901, at Grand Theatre, Llandudno, playing "responsibles" with Edward Compton; […] Example: 'Well, the Cardinal is the heavy part, isn't it?' 'I know.' 'Then,' said I, 'you'd better go'; and one of the Responsibles took it on, and was perfect on the night.
Word: unidentified Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Germanic *un- Proto-West Germanic *un- Old English un- Middle English un- English un- English identified English unidentified From un- + identified. Pronunciation: /ˌʌnaɪˈdɛntɪfaɪd/ 1. Not identified; having an unknown or unnamed identity. Labels: not-comparable Example: The U.S. and Canada are investigating three unidentified flying objects shot down over North America in the past three days. Militaries have adjusted radars to try to spot more incursions.
Word: uncomfortable Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Germanic *un- Proto-West Germanic *un- Old English un- Middle English un- English un- English comfortable English uncomfortable From un- + comfortable. Pronunciation: /ʌnˈkʌmf.tə.bl̩/, /ʌnˈkʌm.fə.tə.bl̩/, /ʌnˈkʌm.fɚ.tə.bl̩/, /ʌnˈkʌmf.tɚ.bl̩/ 1. Not comfortable; causing discomfort. Example: The class squirmed and fidgeted in the uncomfortable new chairs. Example: Edward Churchill still attended to his work in a hopeless mechanical manner like a sleep-walker who walks safely on a well-known round. But his Roman collar galled him, his cossack stifled him, his biretta was as uncomfortable as a merry-andrew's cap and bells. 2. Experiencing discomfort physically. 3. Experiencing discomfort mentally and emotionally. Example: Sharing a house with them made me uncomfortable. 4. Experiencing discomfort mentally and emotionally. Example: It was clear that the film's apparent celebration of psychopathy made many audience members uncomfortable.
Word: insistence Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English insistence, derived from Old French insister (“to insist”). Compare Middle French insistance. Morphologically insist + -ence. Pronunciation: /ɪnˈsɪs.təns/, /ˈɪn.sɪs.ʈens/ 1. The state of being insistent. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: He made gourd-rattles (known in ever so many parts of the world) in which he rattled dried seeds or small pebbles with a most beguiling and rain-like insistence[.] Example: The extreme depth of these channels, and the insistence of the Board of Trade on a headway of 150 ft. for the unrestricted passage of large ships, necessitated a high bridge with two main spans, and a central pier on Inchgarvie. 2. An urgent demand. Labels: countable, uncountable 3. The forcing of an attack through the parry, using strength. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: blame Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English blame, borrowed from Old French blame, blasme, produced from the verb blasmer, which in turn is derived from Late Latin blastēmāre, variant of blasphēmāre, from Ancient Greek βλασφημέω (blasphēméō). Doublet of blaspheme. Displaced native Old English tǣling (“blame”) and tǣlan (“to blame”). Pronunciation: /bleɪm/ 1. Censure. Labels: uncountable Example: Blame came from all directions. 2. Culpability for something negative or undesirable. Labels: uncountable Example: The blame for starting the fire lies with the arsonist. 3. Responsibility for something meriting censure. Labels: uncountable Example: They accepted the blame, but it was an accident. 4. A source control feature that can show which user was responsible for a particular portion of the source code. Labels: uncountable
Word: blame Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English blamen, borrowed from Old French blasmer, from Late Latin blasphēmāre (“to reproach, to revile”), from Ancient Greek βλασφημέω (blasphēméō). Compare blaspheme, a doublet. Overtook common use from the native wite (“to blame, accuse, reproach, suspect”) (from Middle English wīten, from Old English wītan). Pronunciation: /bleɪm/ 1. To assert or consider that someone is the cause of something negative; to place blame; to attribute responsibility (for something negative or for doing something negative). Labels: transitive, usually Example: The student driver was blamed for the accident. Example: After what happened at the wedding, I wouldn't blame you if you never spoke to them again. 2. To assert the cause of some bad event. Labels: transitive Example: We blamed the accident on the student driver. Example: Have to catch an early train, got to be to work by nine And if I had an airplane, I still couldn't make it on time 'Cause it takes me so long just to figure out what I'm gonna wear Blame it on the train, but the boss is already there 3. To censure (someone or something); to criticize. Example: though my loue be not so lewdly bent, / As those ye blame, yet may it nought appease / My raging smart [...]. Example: I covered the serious programmes too, and indeed, right from the start, I spent more time praising than blaming. 4. To bring into disrepute. Labels: obsolete Example: For knighthoods loue, do not so foule a deed, / Ne blame your honour with so shamefull vaunt / Of vile reuenge.
Word: blame Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English blamen, borrowed from Old French blasmer, from Late Latin blasphēmāre (“to reproach, to revile”), from Ancient Greek βλασφημέω (blasphēméō). Compare blaspheme, a doublet. Overtook common use from the native wite (“to blame, accuse, reproach, suspect”) (from Middle English wīten, from Old English wītan). Pronunciation: /bleɪm/ 1. euphemism of damn (intensifier) Labels: not-comparable Example: "He yarns good," said Tom Platt. "T'other night he told us abaout a kid of his own size steerin' a cunnin' little rig an' four ponies up an' down Toledo, Ohio, I think 'twas, an' givin' suppers to a crowd o' sim'lar kids. Cur'us kind o' fairy-tale, but blame interestin'. He knows scores of 'em." Example: “What do you want with one of those blame things?” / I asked him well beforehand. “Don’t you get one!”
Word: opposition Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English opposicioun, from Old French oposicion (whence French opposition), from Late Latin oppositiō, translating Ancient Greek ἀντίθεσις (antíthesis), from the past participle stem of classical Latin oppōnō (“to set against”). Equivalent to oppose + -ition. Pronunciation: /ˌɒp.əˈzɪʃ.ən/, /ˌɑ.pəˈzɪʃ.ən/ 1. The action of opposing or of being in conflict. Example: The two politicians are in opposition to the bill. Example: The proposal met with strong opposition from local residents. 2. An opposite or contrasting position. Example: Near-synonym: oppositeness Example: These ideas are in opposition to each other. 3. The apparent relative position of two celestial bodies when one is at an angle of 180 degrees from the other as seen from the Earth. 4. A political party or movement opposed to the party or government in power. Example: leader of the opposition 5. In United States intellectual property law, a proceeding in which an interested party seeks to prevent the registration of a trademark or patent. 6. A position in which the player on the move must yield with his king allowing his opponent to advance with his own king. 7. The difference of quantity or quality between two propositions having the same subject and predicate.
Word: oppose Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English opposen, from Old French opposer, from Latin ob (“before, against”) + Medieval Latin pono (“to put”), taking the place of Latin opponere (“to oppose”). Pronunciation: /əˈpəʊz/, /əˈpoʊz/ 1. To attempt to stop the progression of; to resist or antagonize by physical means, or by arguments, etc.; to contend against. Example: to oppose the king in battle Example: to oppose a bill in Congress 2. To object to. Example: Many religious leaders oppose cloning humans. 3. To present or set up in opposition; to pose. Example: They are opposed to any form of hierarchy. Example: , Book I I may […] oppose my single opinion to his. 4. To place in front of, or over against; to set opposite; to exhibit. Example: Her grace sat down […] / In a rich chair of state; opposing freely / The beauty of her person to the people.
Word: opposite Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Inherited from Middle English opposit, borrowed from Old French oposite, from Latin oppositus, perfect passive participle of oppōnō (“to oppose”). Compare oppose. Pronunciation: /ˈɒp.ə.zɪt/, /ˈɒp.ə.sɪt/, /ˈɑ.pə.sɪt/, /ˈɑp.sɪt/, /ˈɑ.pə.zɪt/ 1. Located directly across from something else, or from each other. Labels: not-comparable Example: She saw him walking on the opposite side of the road. 2. Of leaves and flowers, positioned directly across from each other on a stem. Labels: not-comparable 3. Facing in the other direction. Labels: not-comparable Example: They were moving in opposite directions. 4. Of either of two complementary or mutually exclusive things. Labels: not-comparable Example: He is attracted to the opposite sex. 5. Extremely different; inconsistent; contrary; antagonistic. Labels: not-comparable Example: Novels, by which the reader is misled into another sort of pieasure opposite to that which is designed in an epick poem. Example: , Book III Particles of speech have divers, and sometimes almost opposite, significations.
Word: opposite Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Inherited from Middle English opposit, borrowed from Old French oposite, from Latin oppositus, perfect passive participle of oppōnō (“to oppose”). Compare oppose. Pronunciation: /ˈɒp.ə.zɪt/, /ˈɒp.ə.sɪt/, /ˈɑ.pə.sɪt/, /ˈɑp.sɪt/, /ˈɑ.pə.zɪt/ 1. Something or someone opposite to something or someone else. 2. Something or someone opposite to something or someone else. Example: She is the opposite of her ex-boyfriend who abused her both physically and verbally nearly every day for five years. She now works as an advocate and supportive listener for others who have endured abusive relationships. 3. Something or someone opposite to something or someone else. Example: The dogfighter fought closely with his opposite. 4. Something or someone opposite to something or someone else. Example: The Swedish diplomat worked closely with his opposite from Denmark. 5. Something or someone opposite to something or someone else. Example: "Up" is the opposite of "down". 6. Something or someone opposite to something or someone else.
Word: opposite Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Inherited from Middle English opposit, borrowed from Old French oposite, from Latin oppositus, perfect passive participle of oppōnō (“to oppose”). Compare oppose. Pronunciation: /ˈɒp.ə.zɪt/, /ˈɒp.ə.sɪt/, /ˈɑ.pə.sɪt/, /ˈɑp.sɪt/, /ˈɑ.pə.zɪt/ 1. In an opposite position. Labels: not-comparable Example: I was on my seat and she stood opposite. Example: Where's the bus station? -Over there, just opposite. 2. On another channel at the same time. Labels: not-comparable
Word: opposite Part of Speech: prep Etymology: Inherited from Middle English opposit, borrowed from Old French oposite, from Latin oppositus, perfect passive participle of oppōnō (“to oppose”). Compare oppose. Pronunciation: /ˈɒp.ə.zɪt/, /ˈɒp.ə.sɪt/, /ˈɑ.pə.sɪt/, /ˈɑp.sɪt/, /ˈɑ.pə.zɪt/ 1. Facing, or across from. Example: There’s a bus stop opposite the faculty entrance, right on the other side of the road. Example: It was April 22, 1831, and a young man was walking down Whitehall in the direction of Parliament Street.[…]. He halted opposite the Privy Gardens, and, with his face turned skywards, listened until the sound of the Tower guns smote again on the ear and dispelled his doubts. 2. In a complementary role to. Example: He played opposite Marilyn Monroe. 3. On another channel at the same time. Example: The game show Just Men! aired opposite The Young and the Restless on CBS.
Word: socialist Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *sekʷ- Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *sokʷéh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-ṓy Proto-Indo-European *sokʷh₂ṓy Proto-Indo-European *-yós Proto-Indo-European *sokʷyós Proto-Italic *sokjos Latin sokios Latin socius Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.? Proto-Italic *-ālis Latin -ālis Latin sociālisbor. Middle French socialbor. English social Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō) Proto-Hellenic *-tās Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs) Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)bor. Latin -istader. Old French -istebor. Middle English -ist English -ist English socialist From social + -ist. Pronunciation: /ˈsəʊʃəlɪst/, /ˈsoʊ.ʃə.lɪst/ 1. Of, relating to, supporting, or advocating socialism. Example: […]it must be remembered that in a Socialist farm or manufactory, each labourer would be under the eye not of one master, but of the whole community. Example: I am convinced there is only one way to eliminate these grave evils, namely through the establishment of a socialist economy, accompanied by an educational system which would be oriented toward social goals.