nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: approximate Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English approximaten (“to bring, put close (to)”), from approximat(e) (“close, near (to); similar; intimate”, also used as the past participle of approximaten) + -en (verb-forming suffix), borrowed from Latin approximātus, see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and Etymology 1 for more. Pronunciation: /əˈpɹɒk.sɪ.meɪt/, /əˈpɹɑk.sə.meɪt/ 1. To estimate. Labels: ambitransitive Example: I approximated the value of pi by taking 22 divided by 7. Example: As yet, we don't know what the comparable figures will be like for the current financial year which ends in March 2022, but we can have a good stab at approximating them. 2. To come near to; to approach. Labels: transitive Example: When you follow two separate chains of thought, Watson, you will find some point of intersection which should approximate to the truth. Example: The telescope approximates perfection. 3. To carry or advance near; to cause to approach. Labels: transitive Example: to approximate the inequality of riches to the level of nature
Word: aproned Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From apron + -ed. 1. Wearing an apron. Labels: not-comparable Example: 1892, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventure of the Cardboard Box, It was a very long street of two-story brick houses, neat and prim, with whitened stone steps and little groups of aproned women gossiping at the doors. Example: 1892, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle, Holmes pushed open the door of the private bar and ordered two glasses of beer from the ruddy-faced, white-aproned landlord. 2. Bearing some specific type of apron. Labels: in-compounds, not-comparable Example: […] said Douglas Mancini, a red-aproned bartender at Keens Steakhouse on West 36th Street off Avenue of the Americas.
Word: apropos Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Borrowed from French à propos (“on that subject”). Similar in meaning and form, and to some extent etymology, to appropriate, but not a doublet of it. Pronunciation: /ˌæp.ɹəˈpəʊ/, /ˌæp.ɹəˈpoʊ/ 1. Of an appropriate or pertinent nature. Example: Nothing easier. I received not long ago a map from my friend, Augustus Petermann, at Leipzig. Nothing could be more apropos. Example: A particularly apropos line many will remember from this film was the closing shot of a Times editorial reading "Is There No Sense of Decency?" 2. By the way, incidental. Example: Sherlock Holmes rose and lit his pipe. "No doubt you think that you are complimenting me in comparing me to [C. Auguste] Dupin," he observed. "Now, in my opinion, Dupin was a very inferior fellow. That trick of his of breaking in on his friends' thoughts with an apropos remark after a quarter of an hour's silence is really very showy and superficial. He had some analytical genius, no doubt; but he was by no means such a phenomenon as [Edgar Allan] Poe appeared to imagine."
Word: apropos Part of Speech: prep Etymology: Borrowed from French à propos (“on that subject”). Similar in meaning and form, and to some extent etymology, to appropriate, but not a doublet of it. Pronunciation: /ˌæp.ɹəˈpəʊ/, /ˌæp.ɹəˈpoʊ/ 1. Regarding, concerning, in regard to, on the subject of. Example: "Go on, Uncle Max," said Nora pleasantly. "I like to watch your exceptional mind at work. Apropos the disappearance of Geoffrey, and that big old lonely house, you were saying—?" Example: Few have the same root and branch obsession with the recent past or the avenger’s recall (‘the necessity for long memory and sarcasm in argument’, as he wrote apropos the old left intelligentsia in New York).
Word: apropos Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Borrowed from French à propos (“on that subject”). Similar in meaning and form, and to some extent etymology, to appropriate, but not a doublet of it. Pronunciation: /ˌæp.ɹəˈpəʊ/, /ˌæp.ɹəˈpoʊ/ 1. By the way. 2. Timely; at a good time. 3. To the purpose; appropriately.
Word: apropos Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from French à propos (“on that subject”). Similar in meaning and form, and to some extent etymology, to appropriate, but not a doublet of it. Pronunciation: /ˌæp.ɹəˈpəʊ/, /ˌæp.ɹəˈpoʊ/ 1. Fittingness, pertinence. Labels: obsolete, uncountable
Word: apt Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Old French apte, from Latin aptus (“suitable, fitting”). Either from obsolete apere (“to fasten, to join, to fit”), akin to apisci (“to reach, attain”) (compare with Greek ἅπτειν (áptein, “to fasten”) and Sanskrit आप्त (āpta, “fit”), from आप् (āp, “to reach, attain”)) or from *h₂ep- (“to join, fit (in)”). Pronunciation: /æpt/ 1. Suitable; appropriate; fit or fitted; suited. Example: an apt metaphor Example: apt punishment 2. Having a habitual tendency; habitually liable or likely; disposed towards. Example: This tree, if unprotected, is apt to be stripped of its leaves by a leaf-cutting ant. Example: that lofty pity with which prosperous folk are apt to remember their grandfathers 3. Ready; especially fitted or qualified (to do something); quick to learn. Example: a pupil apt to learn Example: an apt scholar
Word: apt Part of Speech: noun 1. Abbreviation of apartment. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of Example: Where our apt used to be they built a fancy condominium high-rise. Which at a lowly income none of us could ever really quite afford.
Word: crosscut saw Part of Speech: noun 1. A saw used to cut wood across the grain. Example: Crosscut teeth make a wider path, are raked back and beveled to points. The points allow the crosscut saw to score and cleave the grain cleanly.
Word: SAMPROSA Part of Speech: name Etymology: From SAM + PROS + A, where PROS stands for Prosodic Transcription, and SAM and A were added for similarity to SAMPA. 1. ASCII-based representation of the International Phonetic Alphabet that includes symbols for toneage, length, stress, and pause. Example: Unfortunately, silence is not considered a phone, and within ASR no standard exists for its representation. To account for silences within a phone decoding we have chosen to employ the SAMPROSA (Speech Assessment Methods Prosodic Approach) suggestion of ‘. . .’ to represent silence.
Word: aristocrat Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From French aristocrate (“aristocrat”), attested once in the 16th century but recoined in the Revolutionary era, from aristocratie (“aristocracy”), from Medieval Latin aristocratia, from Ancient Greek ἀριστοκρατία (aristokratía), from ἄριστος (áristos, “best”) (compare Old English ar) + κράτος (krátos, “rule”). By surface analysis, aristo- + -crat. Pronunciation: /ˈæɹɪstəˌkɹæt/, /əˈɹɪstəˌkɹæt/ 1. One of the aristocracy, nobility, or people of rank in a community; one of a ruling class; a noble (originally in Revolutionary France). Example: The remains of a Roman aristocrat have been unearthed by archaeologists in northern England. Example: Magazines kept aristocrats on the payroll to facilitate access to jet-set playgrounds like Corfu and Mustique. 2. A proponent of aristocracy; an advocate of aristocratic government. Example: Professor Fite, in The Platonic Legend, deprecates earlier idealization, and finds Plato to be an aristocrat, something of a snob, and the advocate of a restrictively organized society. […] Plato was, as has so often been observed, temperamentally an aristocrat. And he believed that the qualities needed in his rulers were, in general, hereditary, and that given knowledge and opportunity you could deliberately breed for them. 3. A cipher in which the original punctuation and spacing are retained.
Word: sinh Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Lao ສິ້ນ (sin) or Thai ซิ่น (sîn). Pronunciation: /sin/ 1. A traditional tube skirt worn by Lao and Thai women, particularly northern Thai and northeastern Thai women. Example: These dancers with their graceful upright carriage, their dreamy distant expressions and their party sins (the women were wearing sins made of brightly-coloured silk woven in squares and broad stripes and usually worn by men) were infinitely more appealing than the younger dancers and the electronic band but, as Darachit was fond of saying and without apparent regret, 'Les traditions ne sont plus respectees." Example: The only enforced dress codes now [in Laos] are for female public servants who continue to wear the sinh, though outside of work they can wear what they like.
Word: aristocratic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From French aristocratique, from Ancient Greek ἀριστοκρατικός (aristokratikós). By surface analysis, aristo- + -cratic. Pronunciation: /ˌæɹɪstəˈkɹætɪk/ 1. Of, pertaining to, or favouring, an aristocracy. Example: An aristocratic constitution. 2. Similar to the aristocracy; characteristic of, the aristocracy. Example: An aristocratic measure. Example: Aristocratic pride or manners.
Word: che Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Russian че (če). 1. The letter Ч, ч.
Word: che Part of Speech: pron Etymology: A modification of ich, iche from Middle English ich (“I”, pronoun). Doublet of utchy. 1. I. Labels: obsolete, personal Example: Nay, come not near th' old man; keep out, che vor / ye, or ise try whether your costard or my ballow be / the harder: ch'ill be plain with you.
Word: gracefulness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English graceful Proto-Germanic *-inōną Proto-Indo-European *-dyé- Proto-Germanic *-atjaną Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Germanic *-þuz Proto-Germanic *-assuz Proto-Germanic *-inassuz Proto-West Germanic *-nassī Old English -nes Middle English -nesse English -ness English gracefulness From graceful + -ness. 1. The state of being graceful. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: grace Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English grace, from Old French grace (modern French grâce), from Latin grātia (“kindness, favour, esteem”), from grātus (“pleasing”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷerH- (“to praise, welcome”); compare grateful. The word displaced the native Middle English held, hield (“grace”) (from Old English held, hyld (“grace”)), Middle English este (“grace, favour, pleasure”) (from Old English ēst (“grace, kindness, favour”)), Middle English athmede(n) (“grace”) (from Old English ēadmēdu (“grace”)), Middle English are, ore (“grace, mercy, honour”) (from Old English ār (“honour, grace, kindness, mercy”)). Pronunciation: /ɡɹeɪs/ 1. Charming, pleasing qualities. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The Princess brought grace to an otherwise dull and boring party. Example: Study gives strength to the mind; conversation, grace: the first apt to give stiffness, the other suppleness: one gives substance and form to the statue, the other polishes it. 2. A short prayer of thanks before or after a meal. Labels: countable Example: It has become less common to say grace before having dinner. 3. In the games of patience or solitaire: a special move that is normally against the rules. Labels: countable 4. A grace note. Labels: countable Example: The Trill being the most usual Grace, is usually made in Closes, Cadences, and when on a long Note Exclamation or Passion is expressed, there the Trill is made in the latter part of such Note; but most usually upon binding Notes and such Notes as precede the closing Note. 5. Elegant movement; elegance of movement; balance or poise. Labels: uncountable Example: The dancer moved with grace and strength. 6. An allowance of time granted to a debtor during which they are free of at least part of their normal obligations towards the creditor. Labels: uncountable Example: The repayment of the loan starts after a three-year grace. Example: With mounting anger the King denounced the pair, both father and son, and was about to condemn them to death when his strength gave out. Faint and trembling he was unable to walk and the sword fell from his hands as he murmured: 'May the Protector of the Buddhist Faith grant me but seven more days grace of life to be quit of this disloyal couple, father and son'. 7. Favor, sanction or beneficence. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The minister has extended his grace to our effort. 8. Favor, sanction or beneficence. Labels: uncountable Example: Near-synonyms: Divine Providence, Providence Example: divine grace 9. An act or decree of the governing body of an English university. Labels: countable, uncountable 10. Mercy, pardon. Labels: archaic, countable, uncountable
Word: grace Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English grace, from Old French grace (modern French grâce), from Latin grātia (“kindness, favour, esteem”), from grātus (“pleasing”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷerH- (“to praise, welcome”); compare grateful. The word displaced the native Middle English held, hield (“grace”) (from Old English held, hyld (“grace”)), Middle English este (“grace, favour, pleasure”) (from Old English ēst (“grace, kindness, favour”)), Middle English athmede(n) (“grace”) (from Old English ēadmēdu (“grace”)), Middle English are, ore (“grace, mercy, honour”) (from Old English ār (“honour, grace, kindness, mercy”)). Pronunciation: /ɡɹeɪs/ 1. To adorn; to decorate; to embellish and dignify. Labels: transitive Example: He graced the room with his presence. Example: He graced the room by simply being there. 2. To dignify or raise by an act of favour; to honour. Labels: transitive Example: He might, at his pleasure, grace […]or disgrace whom he would in court. 3. To supply with heavenly grace. Labels: transitive Example: Thy first publique miracle graceth a marriage 4. To add grace notes, cadenzas, etc., to. Labels: transitive Example: For D and E, the G and A fingers are generally used for gracing, though E is sometimes more conveniently graced by F#.
Word: ineffable Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Italic *n̥- Latin in- Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰ Proto-Indo-European *-s Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰs Proto-Italic *eks Latin ex Latin ex- Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂- Proto-Indo-European *-ti Proto-Indo-European *bʰéh₂ti Proto-Italic *fāōr Latin for Latin effor Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlis Proto-Italic *-ðlis Latin -bilis Latin effābilis Latin ineffābilislbor. Middle French ineffablebor. English ineffable Borrowed from Middle French ineffable, a learned borrowing from Latin ineffābilis, from in- (“not”) + effābilis (“utterable”). Pronunciation: /ɪˈnɛf.ə.bəl/, /ˌɪnˈɛf.ə.bəl/ 1. Beyond expression in words; unspeakable. Labels: not-comparable Example: Devotion bids aspire to nobler things, to boundless love, and joys ineffable: and such her expectation from kind Heav'n. Example: Stroeve was trying to express a feeling which he had never known before, and he did not know how to put it into common terms. He was like the mystic seeking to describe the ineffable. 2. Forbidden to be uttered; taboo. Labels: not-comparable
Word: av Part of Speech: adj 1. Abbreviation of average. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of 2. Abbreviation of audiovisual. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of
Word: av Part of Speech: adv 1. Abbreviation of ad valorem. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of
Word: av Part of Speech: noun 1. Abbreviation of avenue. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, uncountable 2. Abbreviation of avoirdupois. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, uncountable 3. Abbreviation of antivirus. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, uncountable 4. Abbreviation of aviation. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, uncountable
Word: av Part of Speech: verb 1. have Labels: Internet Example: av u got d@?
Word: ontogenesis Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From onto- + -genesis. 1. The generation and development of an individual organism from fertilization to adulthood. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: ontogeny Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From onto- + -geny, after German Ontogenie. Pronunciation: /ɒnˈtɒdʒəni/ 1. Synonym of ontogenesis. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: inconvenience Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English inconvenience, from Old French inconvenience (“misfortune, calamity, impropriety”) (compare French inconvenance (“impropriety”) and inconvénient (“inconvenience”)), from Late Latin inconvenientia (“inconsistency, incongruity”). Pronunciation: /ɪnkənˈviːnɪəns/, /ɪŋk-/, /ɪnkənˈvinjəns/ 1. The quality of being inconvenient. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: They plead against the inconvenience, not the unlawfulness, […] of ceremonies in burial. 2. Something that is not convenient, something that bothers. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: [Man] is liable to a great many inconveniences. Example: The inconveniences that must be endured before the modernisation plan can come into action may be seen at Coventry, where since August the station has been in the throes of rebuilding.
Word: inconvenience Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English inconvenience, from Old French inconvenience (“misfortune, calamity, impropriety”) (compare French inconvenance (“impropriety”) and inconvénient (“inconvenience”)), from Late Latin inconvenientia (“inconsistency, incongruity”). Pronunciation: /ɪnkənˈviːnɪəns/, /ɪŋk-/, /ɪnkənˈvinjəns/ 1. To bother; to discomfort. Example: He declared that these drastic steps would undoubtedly inconvenience a good many people, but the alternative was bankruptcy of the Ulster Transport Authority and the breakdown of public transport services.
Word: handgun Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Germanic *handuz Proto-West Germanic *handu Old English hand Middle English hond English hand Proto-Indo-European *gʷʰen- Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *gʷʰéntis Proto-Germanic *gunþiz Old Norse gunnr Proto-Indo-European *kelh₂-der. Proto-Indo-European *kelh₂tís Proto-Germanic *hildiz Old Norse hildr Old Norse Gunnhildrder. Middle English gunne English gun English handgun From hand + gun. Pronunciation: /ˈhændˌɡʌn/ 1. A small gun with a relatively short barrel, designed to be held and operated with a single hand. Example: Petric used his father's key to open a lockbox and remove a 9mm handgun and the game. Example: A related design and marketing innovation has been the sale to civilians of “vest busters,” handguns specifically designed to penetrate body armor.
Word: shotgun Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From shot + gun. Front passenger seat sense comes from ride shotgun. Pronunciation: /ˈʃɒtɡʌn/, [ˈʃʰɒtɡʌn], /ˈʃɑtɡʌn/, [ˈʃʰɑtɡʌn], /ˈʃɔtɡɐ̞n/ 1. A gun which fires loads typically consisting of small metal balls, called shot, from a cartridge. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The farmer's son brought home a Thanksgiving turkey from the wild that he killed with his shotgun. Example: You can't talk to a man / With a shotgun in his hand 2. The front passenger seat in a vehicle, next to the driver; so called because the position of the shotgun-armed guard on a horse-drawn stage-coach, wagon train, or gold transport was next to the driver on a forward-mounted bench seat. Can also be used in situations of claiming other resources such as bedrooms. Labels: countable, slang, uncountable Example: I call shotgun! Example: I call shotgun! 3. A one-story dwelling with no hallways or corridors, with the rooms arranged in a straight line. Labels: Southern-US, US, countable, especially, uncountable Example: Elvis Presley was born in a two-bedroom shotgun in Tupelo, Mississippi. 4. An offensive formation in which the quarterback receives the snap at a distance behind the center, often with a running back set to one or both sides of him. Labels: countable, uncountable 5. Relating to shotguns, either in a present or past sense. Labels: attributive, countable, uncountable Example: shotgun cartridges Example: shotgun seat 6. Relating to the threat of force or dubious means. Labels: attributive, countable, uncountable Example: shotgun wedding Example: shotgun diplomacy 7. Relating to the use of numerous, diverse or indiscriminate means to achieve a particular result. Labels: attributive, countable, uncountable Example: shotgun marketing Example: shotgun approach
Word: shotgun Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From shot + gun. Front passenger seat sense comes from ride shotgun. Pronunciation: /ˈʃɒtɡʌn/, [ˈʃʰɒtɡʌn], /ˈʃɑtɡʌn/, [ˈʃʰɑtɡʌn], /ˈʃɔtɡɐ̞n/ 1. To inhale from a pipe or other smoking device, followed shortly by an exhalation into someone else’s mouth. Labels: slang Example: High as fuck, I light it up / Got pre-rolls for the whole month / She don't smoke but when I roll one / We shotgun the whole blunt 2. To verbally lay claim to (something) Labels: informal, transitive Example: I got a day off because I shotgunned it. 3. To hit the ball directly back at the pitcher. Labels: transitive 4. To rapidly drink a beverage from a can by making a hole in the bottom of the can, placing the hole above one's mouth, and opening the top. Labels: US, slang 5. To send out many (requests, answers to a question, etc), especially in the hope that one obtains a positive result (i.e. reveals useful information, is correct, etc), in the manner of a shotgun firing many balls of shot such that one may hit a target. Labels: US, slang Example: An actual physical piece of paper shows that you're not just shotgunning out queries to every agent on the planet. Example: Science fiction writers are “shotgunning ideas” through their works, he said, and people tend to recall the pellets that hit the target. 6. To employ the technique of shotgun debugging. Labels: slang Example: Understand the problem before fixing it. About the only scenario where shotgunning is useful is if there is a shorted IC and you cannot tell which one it is.
Word: busybody Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From busy + body. 1. Someone who interferes with others; one who is nosy, intrusive or meddlesome. Example: Se that none of you ſuffre as a murtherer / or as a thefe / or an evyll doar / or as a buſybody in wother mens matters. Example: Candidly speaking, I thought her a little busy-body; but her father, blind like other parents, seemed perfectly content to let her wait on him, and even wonderfully soothed by her offices. 2. A device consisting of three mirrors that, when attached to the wall of a house, allows an occupant to see who is at the front door without a direct line of sight.
Word: busybody Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From busy + body. 1. To meddle or interfere. Labels: intransitive
Word: chevaux Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of cheval Labels: form-of, plural
Word: supplicant Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin supplicans (“supplicating, bowing down”), from supplicō (“kneel, bow down, request”), from sub- (“lower”) + plicō (“fold”). Pronunciation: /ˈsʌplɪkənt/ 1. begging, pleading, supplicating
Word: supplicant Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin supplicans (“supplicating, bowing down”), from supplicō (“kneel, bow down, request”), from sub- (“lower”) + plicō (“fold”). Pronunciation: /ˈsʌplɪkənt/ 1. one who comes to humbly ask or petition Example: It recalled all the vivid hopes and beliefs of her childhood, when she was wont to kneel before some lovely image, till the face seemed to smile encouragement, and the little supplicant felt as if beneath a mother's eye. 2. A device attempting to authenticate itself to an 802.11 network.
Word: petard Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle French petard; see Modern French pétard (“firecracker”). Pronunciation: /pɪˈtɑːd/, /pɪˈtɑɹd/ 1. A small, hat-shaped explosive device, used to breach a door or wall. Labels: historical Example: For tis the ſport to haue the enginer / Hoiſt with his ovvne petar, an't ſhall goe hard / But I vvill delue one yard belovve their mines, / And blovve them at the Moone: […] Example: […] Pipes, who acted as the enemy's forlorn hope, advanced to the gate with great intrepidity, and clapping his foot to the door, which was none of the ſtouteſt, with the execution and diſpatch of a petard, ſplit it into a thouſand pieces. 2. Anything potentially explosive, in a non-literal sense. 3. A loud firecracker. Labels: rare
Word: petard Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle French petarder (Modern French pétarder), from petard + -er (suffix forming verbs). Pronunciation: /pɪˈtɑːd/, /pɪˈtɑɹd/ 1. To attack or blow a hole in (something) with a petard. Labels: archaic Example: The Souldier, if he but go to beſiege a cottage, to ſcale a Caſtle, to robbe a Church, to Pettard [translating petarder] a gate, to force a religious houſe, or any villenous act, before he attempt-it, praieth to God for his aſſiſtance, though his intents and hopes be full-fraught with crueltie, murther, couetiſe, luxurie, ſacriledge and all iniquitie.
Word: incongruence Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Italic *n̥- Latin in-bor. Middle English in- English in- English congruence English incongruence From in- + congruence. 1. An absence of congruence. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: congruence Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English congruence, from Latin congruentia (“agreement”), from congruēns, present active participle of congruō (“meet together, agree”). Pronunciation: /ˈkɒŋ.ɡɹʊ.əns/, /ˈkɑŋ.ɡɹu.əns/, /ˈkɔŋ.ɡɹʉ.əns/ 1. The quality of agreeing or corresponding; being suitable and appropriate. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. A relation between two numbers indicating they give the same remainder when divided by some given number. Labels: countable, uncountable 3. The quality of being isometric — roughly, the same measure and shape. Labels: countable, uncountable 4. Matrix similarity by an orthogonal matrix. Labels: countable, uncountable 5. Any equivalence relation defined on an algebraic structure which is preserved by operations defined by the structure. Labels: countable, uncountable, universal 6. A well-adjusted state or condition in which people are not lying to themselves or in denial. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: protein Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From proto- + -ein. Suggested by Jöns Jacob Berzelius in a letter to Gerardus Johannes Mulder, from French protéine and German Protein, both coined based on Ancient Greek πρωτεῖος (prōteîos, “primary”), from πρῶτος (prôtos, “first”). Pronunciation: /ˈpɹəʊ.ti.ɪn/, /ˈpɹəʊ.tiːn/, /ˈpɹoʊ.tin/, /ˈpɹoʊ.ti.ɪn/ 1. Any of numerous large, complex naturally-produced molecules composed of one or more long chains of amino acids, in which the amino acid groups are held together by peptide bonds. Labels: countable Example: Proteins carry out the bulk of cellular functions, including relaying signals, providing structural support, and accelerating biochemical reactions. Example: Because of her significant testing, Avery had had DNA sequencing of her “exome,” the part of her genome that makes proteins in the body, said Dr. Michael Wangler, a researcher at the Jan and Dan Duncan Neurological Research Institute at Texas Children’s Hospital. 2. One of three major classes of food or source of food energy (4 kcal/gram) abundant in animal-derived foods (meat) and some vegetables, such as legumes. Labels: uncountable Example: Along with carbohydrates and fat, protein is one of the three main macronutrients that make up our diet. Furthermore, it is the only macronutrient that supplies us with amino acids, making it essential for survival. 3. A food rich in protein, often a meat or meat substitute. Labels: countable Example: The preparation style should be the same for both proteins so that the side dishes compliment the meal. Example: Served with seasoned rice, classic Greek salad, pita, tzatziki, choice of 2 proteins & 2 sides
Word: banca Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Philippine Spanish banca, from Tagalog bangka. Pronunciation: /bɐŋˈkaʔ/ 1. A canoe; an outrigger canoe or dugout. Labels: Philippines Example: In towns on plains near the sea it is difficult to secure good water. The rivers are salt and water has to be carried in bancas many miles. An open banca is neither a clean nor a safe way to carry water.
Word: vicarious Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *weyk-der. Latin vicis Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzios Latin -ārius Latin vicāriusbor. Proto-Indo-European *h₃ed- Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *h₃édosder.? Proto-Italic *-ŏ̄dsos? Old Latin -ōssus Latin -ōsus Old French -usbor. Middle English -ous English -ous English vicarious From Latin vicārius (“vicarious, substituted”) + English -ous. First attested in the 17th century. Doublet of vicar. Pronunciation: /vɪˈkɛəɹi.əs/, /vaɪˈkɛəɹi.əs/, /vaɪˈkɛɹi.əs/, /vəˈkɛɹi.əs/ 1. Delegated. Labels: not-comparable 2. Experienced or gained by taking in another person’s experience rather than through first-hand experience, such as through watching or reading. Labels: not-comparable Example: People experience vicarious pleasures through watching television. Example: The pleasures which I made haste to seek in my disguise were, as I have said, undignified; I would scarce use a harder term. But in the hands of Edward Hyde, they soon began to turn toward the monstrous. When I would come back from these excursions, I was often plunged into a kind of wonder at my vicarious depravity. 3. On behalf of others. Labels: not-comparable Example: The concept of vicarious atonement, that one person can atone for the sins of another, is found in many religions. Example: As time went on, the cruel custom was so far mitigated that a ram was accepted as a vicarious sacrifice in room of the royal victim.
Word: atonement Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Perhaps from atone + -ment as translation of Medieval Latin adūnāmentum; however, the noun is found earlier than the verb (atone); and in this light, the proper etymology is at + onement. Pronunciation: /əˈtoʊnmənt/ 1. Making amends to restore a damaged relationship; expiation. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: When a man has been guilty of any vice, the best atonement he can make for it is, to warn others. Example: 1697-1698, John Potter, Archaeologia Graeca The Phocians behaved themselves with so much gallantry, that they were thought to have made a sufficient atonement for their former offense. 2. The reconciliation of God and mankind through the death of Jesus. Labels: countable, often, uncountable 3. Reconciliation; restoration of friendly relations; concord. Labels: archaic, countable, uncountable Example: by whom we have now received the atonement Example: He desires to make atonement Betwixt the Duke of Gloucester and your brothers.
Word: family name Part of Speech: noun 1. Synonym of surname: a name designating a person as a member of a family. Example: In the Chinese name Mao Zedong, Mao is the family name and Zedong is the given name. 2. A family’s honor or reputation. Example: He says, however, that he is sure he is happier, even in this situation, than are some of his cousins at this instant, who are struggling in poverty to be genteel, or to keep up a family name, and he would not change places with those who are in a state of idle and opprobrious dependance. Example: A certain worthy individual, Udalrich, Count of Auffemried and Bishop of Bamberg, who lived some three or four centuries ago, was equally bent upon raising his family name as high as possible, and upon providing as liberally for the younger branches of his race as for its head. 3. A given name common within a family or given because of another family member. Labels: uncommon Example: Yeah, we named her Mildred. It's an old family name. Don't worry, though. She also has four middle names to choose from. Example: He had the name of Jeremy given to him, because Jeremiah, as his father said, was a family name; and there was an advantage in curtailing a syllable, and in shewing a preference towards the names of the New Testament over those of the old.
Word: fetishism Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁- Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁k- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *dʰh₁kyéti Proto-Italic *θakjō Proto-Italic *fakjō Latin faciō Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Italic *-tos Latin -tus Latin factus Proto-Indo-European *-ikos Proto-Italic *-ikos Latin -īcus Proto-Indo-European *-(i)yós Proto-Italic *-ijos Proto-Italic *-ios Old Latin -ios Latin -ius Latin -īcius Latin factīcius Portuguese feitiçobor. French fétichebor. English fetish Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō) Proto-Indo-European *-mos Proto-Indo-European *-mós Ancient Greek -μός (-mós) Ancient Greek -ισμός (-ismós)der. English -ism English fetishism From fetish + -ism. 1. The belief that natural objects have supernatural powers, or that something created by people has power over people. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. A form of paraphilia where the object of attraction is an inanimate object or a part of a person's body. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: That's cross-dressing to you and me and, according to Blanchard and the APA, there are two types – fetishism and autogynephilia. 3. An irrational, obsessive belief in the power of some object or action. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: game console Part of Speech: noun 1. A video game console.
Word: tong Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English tonge (“tongs, fang”), tange, from Old English tange, from Proto-West Germanic *tangu, from Proto-Germanic *tangō, from Proto-Indo-European *denḱ- (“to bite”). Cognate with Old Norse tǫng (modern Icelandic töng), Old High German zanga (modern German Zange). Other cognates include Sanskrit दशति (dáśati, “to bite”) and Albanian dang (“bite, nip”). Pronunciation: /tɒŋ/, /tɔŋ/, /tɑŋ/ 1. An instrument or tool used for manipulating things in a fire without touching them with the hands. Labels: plural Example: […] these attributes are concrete expressions of God's care and providence and therefore not man-made. This explains the quite bizarre presence of a ‘pair’ of tongs in some lists: in order to make a tong one needs a tong, and how could the first tong be made without a tong?
Word: tong Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English tonge (“tongs, fang”), tange, from Old English tange, from Proto-West Germanic *tangu, from Proto-Germanic *tangō, from Proto-Indo-European *denḱ- (“to bite”). Cognate with Old Norse tǫng (modern Icelandic töng), Old High German zanga (modern German Zange). Other cognates include Sanskrit दशति (dáśati, “to bite”) and Albanian dang (“bite, nip”). Pronunciation: /tɒŋ/, /tɔŋ/, /tɑŋ/ 1. To use tongs. Labels: intransitive 2. To grab, manipulate or transport something using tongs. Labels: transitive
Word: tong Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Cantonese 堂 (tong⁴). Pronunciation: /tɒŋ/, /tɔŋ/, /tɑŋ/ 1. A Chinese lineage organization responsible for managing ancestral land. Example: An Ordinance to provide for the termination of the Block Crown Lease of Cheung Chau granted to Wong Wai Tsak Tong and for sub-lessees under the Block Crown Lease to hold directly from the Crown. 2. A Chinese secret society or gang.
Word: tong Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /tɒŋ/, /tɔŋ/, /tɑŋ/ 1. Obsolete spelling of tongue. Labels: alt-of, obsolete Example: Or plaine and perfite way of teachyng children, to vnderstand, write, and speake, the Latin tong, but specially purposed for the priuate brynging vp of youth in Ientlemen and Noble mens houses, and commodious also for all such, as haue forgot the Latin tonge, and would, by themselues, without a Scholemaster, in short tyme, and with small paines, recouer a sufficient habilitie, to vnderstand, write, and speake Latin.
Word: tongs Part of Speech: noun Etymology: tong ("tool for manipulating things in a fire") + -s Pronunciation: /tɒŋz/, /tɔŋz/, /tɑŋz/ 1. An instrument or tool used for picking things up without touching them with the hands or fingers, consisting of two slats or grips hinged at the end or in the middle, and sometimes including a spring to open the grips. Labels: plural, plural-only Example: There was also hairdressing: hairdressing, too, really was hairdressing in those times — no running a comb through it and that was that. It was curled, frizzed, waved, put in curlers overnight, waved with hot tongs;[…]. 2. A large scissors-like two-piece center-hinged forged-iron implement with oval-loop handles and with pointed tips turned inward (in the same plane as and perpendicular to the handles) to facilitate lifting and carrying a block of ice. Often called ice tongs. Labels: broadly, plural, plural-only
Word: tongs Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /tɒŋz/, /tɔŋz/, /tɑŋz/ 1. plural of tong (“instrument”) Labels: form-of, plural
Word: tongs Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /tɒŋz/, /tɔŋz/, /tɑŋz/ 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of tong Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: tongs Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /tɒŋz/, /tɔŋz/, /tɑŋz/ 1. plural of tong (“Chinese secret society”) Labels: form-of, plural
Word: inventorize Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree English inventory Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)bor. Late Latin -izōder. Middle French -iserbor. Middle English -isen English -ize English inventorize From inventory + -ize. 1. To make an inventory of. Labels: nonstandard, transitive
Word: rok Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of roc. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: anno Domini Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Medieval Latin annō Dominī, from annō, (ablative of annus (“year”)) + Dominī (genitive of dominus (“lord”)); literally, in the year of the Lord. Pronunciation: /ˈæn.əʊ ˈdɒ.mə.nɪ/, /ˈæn.oʊ ˈdɑ.mə.ni/ 1. The current date era beginning approximately 2000 years ago in the Gregorian calendar, based on the birth of Jesus Christ. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: anno domini Part of Speech: adv 1. Alternative spelling of anno Domini. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: triad Part of Speech: noun Etymology: PIE word *tréyes From Latin triad-, stem of trias (“three, triad”), from Ancient Greek τριάς (triás). By surface analysis, tri- + -ad. Sense 3 (“branch of a Chinese underground criminal society”) is due to the word being applied by the British authorities to underground society in Hong Kong based on the geometry of the Chinese character, derived from a name used by some of those societies, 三合會 /三合会 (sānhéhuì, “Three Harmonies Society”), referring to the union between heaven, earth, and humanity. Pronunciation: /ˈtɹaɪ.æd/ 1. A grouping of three. Example: Later artworks showed many animals and gods, some of which were clearly identified with heavenly body. They often included the symbolic triad of Sun, Moon, and Venus. Example: There are, says the Irish triad, 'three fewnesses that are better than plenty: a fewness of fine words; a fewness of cows on grass; a fewness of good friends around good ale'. As an Ulsterman I would agree. 2. A grouping of three. 3. A word of three syllables. Example: In his general deportment he was pompous and important, affecting a species of florid elocution, which often became ridiculous from his misarranging the triads and quaternions with which he loaded his sentences. 4. A branch of a Chinese underground criminal society, mostly based in Hong Kong. Example: The point — and the symbolism — was that so long as the informer kept his mouth shut he was alive. Harry had seen the result of zjuk carried out by the Tapei Triad on a poor jerk they found in a back street of Tan-shui. They had used broad nail heads that didn’t make such big holes on their way in. When the paramedics came and pulled the brick off the dead man, the face came with it. 5. On a CRT display, a group of three neighbouring phosphor dots, coloured green, red, and blue. 6. A chord consisting of a root tone, the tone two degrees higher, and the tone four degrees higher in a given scale OR any chord with three notes.
Word: yakuza Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese やくざ (yakuza). See there for more details. Pronunciation: /ˈjækuːzə/, /jəˈkuːzə/, /ˈjækuzə/, /ˈjɑː-/, /ˈjaːkʉːzə/ 1. A Japanese organized crime gang. Example: Japan’s largest yakuza crime syndicate has pledged to end its longstanding war with a rival faction and refrain from causing “trouble,” authorities said, as the mafia-like groups contend with falling membership and increased police crackdowns. 2. A member of that Japanese organized crime gang.
Word: romanji Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Blend of Roman + romaji, apparently influenced by kanji. 1. Misconstruction of romaji. Labels: alt-of, misconstruction, uncountable
Word: rōmaji Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of romaji. Labels: alt-of, alternative, uncountable
Word: pomfret Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Perhaps derived from Portuguese pampano, a kind of fish. Pronunciation: /ˈpɒm.fɹɪt/ 1. A fish of family Bramidae, consisting of eight genera and some twenty species. 2. Any in the genus Pampus (family Stromateidae) of butterfishes. 3. A golden pomfret (Trachinotus blochii, family Carangidae). 4. A black pomfret (Parastromateus niger, family Carangidae).
Word: silvery pomfret Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of silver pomfret (Pampus argenteus). Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: utmost Part of Speech: adj Etymology: PIE word *úd From Middle English utmost, utemest [and other forms], from Old English ūtmest, ūtemest [and other forms], from ūt, ūte (“out; outdoors, outside”) + -mest (suffix meaning ‘furthest’, used to form superlatives of some adjectives) (and conflated with most). Ūt is derived from Proto-Germanic *ūt (“out, outward”), from Proto-Indo-European *úd (“out, outward”). Equivalent to out + -most. Pronunciation: /ˈʌtməʊ̯st/, /ˈʌtməst/, /ˈʌtmoʊ̯st/, [ˈʌʔ-], [ˈət-] 1. superlative form of utter: most utter; situated at the most distant limit; farthest, outermost. Labels: form-of, superlative Example: the utmost limits of the land Example: the utmost extent of human knowledge
Word: utmost Part of Speech: adj Etymology: PIE word *úd From Middle English utmost, utemest [and other forms], from Old English ūtmest, ūtemest [and other forms], from ūt, ūte (“out; outdoors, outside”) + -mest (suffix meaning ‘furthest’, used to form superlatives of some adjectives) (and conflated with most). Ūt is derived from Proto-Germanic *ūt (“out, outward”), from Proto-Indo-European *úd (“out, outward”). Equivalent to out + -most. Pronunciation: /ˈʌtməʊ̯st/, /ˈʌtməst/, /ˈʌtmoʊ̯st/, [ˈʌʔ-], [ˈət-] 1. The most extreme; greatest, ultimate. Labels: not-comparable Example: the utmost assiduity Example: the utmost harmony
Word: utmost Part of Speech: noun Etymology: PIE word *úd From Middle English utmost, utemest [and other forms], from Old English ūtmest, ūtemest [and other forms], from ūt, ūte (“out; outdoors, outside”) + -mest (suffix meaning ‘furthest’, used to form superlatives of some adjectives) (and conflated with most). Ūt is derived from Proto-Germanic *ūt (“out, outward”), from Proto-Indo-European *úd (“out, outward”). Equivalent to out + -most. Pronunciation: /ˈʌtməʊ̯st/, /ˈʌtməst/, /ˈʌtmoʊ̯st/, [ˈʌʔ-], [ˈət-] 1. The greatest possible capability, extent, or quantity; maximum. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: at the utmost to the utmost Example: [...] I am reſolved to pluck up the heart of a man, and to try my utmoſt to get from under his hand.
Word: stern Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English stern, sterne, sturne, from Old English styrne (“stern, grave, strict, austere, hard, severe, cruel”), from Proto-Germanic *sturnijaz (“angry, astonished, shocked”), from Proto-Indo-European *ster- (“rigid, stiff”). Cognate with Scots stern (“bold, courageous, fierce, resolute”), Old High German stornēn (“to be astonished”), Dutch stuurs (“glum, austere”), Swedish stursk (“insolent”). Pronunciation: /stɜːn/, /stɝn/ 1. Having a hardness and severity of nature or manner. Example: I haue beene wooed, as I intreat thee now, / Euen by the ſterne, and direfull God of warre, / VVhoſe ſinowie necke in battel nere did bow, / VVho conquers where he comes in euery iarre; […] Example: stern as tutors, and as uncles hard 2. Grim and forbidding in appearance. Example: The remark earned me a stern rebuke. Example: these barren rocks, your stern inheritance
Word: stern Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Inherited from Middle English sterne, likely from Old Norse stjórn (“control, steering”), related to stýra (“to steer”), from Proto-Germanic *stiurijaną, whence also English steer. Also possibly from Old Frisian stiarne (“rudder”), from the same Germanic root. The sense referring to a management post alludes to the fact that a sailing ship's captain would often stand on an aft deck. Pronunciation: /stɜːn/, /stɝn/ 1. The rear part (after end) of a ship or other vessel. Example: Holonyms: watercraft < vessel Example: Old Applegate, in the stern, just set and looked at me, and Lord James, amidship, waved both arms and kept hollering for help. I took a couple of everlasting big strokes and managed to grab hold of the skiff's rail, close to the stern. 2. The post of management or direction. Labels: figuratively Example: and sit chiefest stern of public weal 3. The hinder part of anything. 4. The tail of an animal; now used only of the tail of a dog. Example: And all attonce her beaſtly bodie raizd / With doubled forces high aboue the ground: / Tho wrapping vp her wrethed ſterne arownd, / Lept fierce vpon his ſhield, [...]
Word: stern Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Inherited from Middle English sterne, likely from Old Norse stjórn (“control, steering”), related to stýra (“to steer”), from Proto-Germanic *stiurijaną, whence also English steer. Also possibly from Old Frisian stiarne (“rudder”), from the same Germanic root. The sense referring to a management post alludes to the fact that a sailing ship's captain would often stand on an aft deck. Pronunciation: /stɜːn/, /stɝn/ 1. To steer, to direct the course of (a ship). Labels: ambitransitive, obsolete 2. To propel or move backward or stern-first in the water. Labels: ambitransitive
Word: stern Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From a variant of tern. Pronunciation: /stɜːn/, /stɝn/ 1. A bird, the black tern, seabird.
Word: a la carte Part of Speech: adv 1. Alternative form of à la carte. Labels: alt-of, alternative, not-comparable
Word: a la carte Part of Speech: adj 1. Alternative form of à la carte. Labels: alt-of, alternative, not-comparable
Word: photogenic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From photo- + -genic. Pronunciation: /ˌfəʊ.təʊˈd͡ʒɛn.ɪk/, /ˌfoʊ.toʊˈd͡ʒɛn.ɪk/, /ˌfoʊ.təˈd͡ʒɛn.ɪk/ 1. Generated or caused by light. Example: The sunbather developed a photogenic melanoma on her back. 2. Producing or emitting light; luminescent. Example: The photogenic bacteria were visible in the dark room. 3. Looking good when photographed. Example: The company hired the spokesperson for his photogenic face. Example: Despite being compellingly photogenic, many eagles are difficult photographic targets, particularly when there is bright sunlight.
Word: overpriced Part of Speech: adj 1. Priced higher than its real worth. Example: The overpriced items would not sell. Example: I have 20 minutes to grab a coffee (from cheaper Greggs, rather than overpriced Starbucks or Costa), then join the 1113 to Lowestoft.
Word: overpriced Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of overprice Labels: form-of, participle, past Example: He overpriced the items to ensure they would not sell.
Word: silverfish Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From silver + fish: from its appearance, in the case of the insect. 1. Certain insects 2. Certain insects 3. Certain insects 4. Certain fish 5. Certain fish 6. Certain fish 7. Certain fish 8. Certain fish 9. Certain fish 10. Certain fish 11. Certain fish 12. Certain fish 13. Certain fish 14. Certain fish 15. Certain fish 16. Certain fish 17. Certain fish 18. Certain fish 19. Certain fish 20. Certain fish
Word: cowabunga Part of Speech: intj Etymology: Unknown, but was popularized (as Kowa-Bunga) by Chief Thunderthud on the American children's show Howdy Doody in the late 1940s or early 1950s, and became associated with American surfing culture. By the early 1980s, it was used as the catch-phrase of Cookie Monster on the American television show Sesame Street, and gained popularity with a broader audience after its use in the American cartoon Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles in the late 1980s and early 1990s. (For further treatment, see here.) Pronunciation: /ˌkæɔəˈbaŋɡə/, /ˌkaʊəˈbʌŋɡə/ 1. Expressing amazement, enthusiasm, or joy. Labels: humorous, slang, usually Example: Cowabunga, dude! Example: Kowa-Bunga! Then Me Fix You Good! You Be Sorry.
Word: Piemontese Part of Speech: name 1. Language spoken in Piedmont, region in the Northwest of Italy.
Word: Liliana Part of Speech: name Pronunciation: /lɪliˈɑnə/ 1. A female given name from Latin, a Latinate form of Lilian, or borrowed from Italian or Spanish.