nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: grant Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English granten, graunten, grantien, grauntien, from Anglo-Norman granter, graunter, from Old French granter, graunter, graanter, greanter (“to promise, assure, guarantee, confirm, ratify”), from a merger of Old French garantir, guarantir (“to guarantee, assure, vouch for”) (see English guarantee) and earlier cranter, craanter, creanter (“to allow, permit”), from an assumed Medieval Latin *credentāre, from Latin credere (“to believe, trust”). Alternatively, a regular reflex of Medieval Latin *credentāre with regular voicing of /k/ before a liquid plus low vowel. More at guarantee, credit. Pronunciation: /ɡɹɑːnt/, /ɡɹɐːnt/, /ɡɹænt/, /ɡɹant/, /ɡɾant/ 1. To give (permission or wish). Labels: ditransitive Example: He was granted permission to attend the meeting. Example: The genie granted him three wishes 2. To give (bestow upon or confer, particularly in answer to prayer or request). Labels: ditransitive Example: He Suſpends on theſe Reaſons, that Thomas Rue had granted a general Diſcharge to Adam Muſhet, who was his Conjunct, and correus debendi, after the alleadged Service, which Diſcharged Muſhet, and conſequently Houstoun his Partner. Example: c. 1930, Serenity Prayer God, grant me the serenity[…] 3. To agree with (someone) on (something); to accept (something) for the sake of argument; to admit to (someone) that (something) is true. Labels: transitive Example: The universe exists, said the father: somebody must have made it. If that somebody exists, said I, somebody must have made him. I grant that for the sake of argument, said the Oratorian. Example: "They are tall, certainly," said Sir Chetwynd... "I grant you they are tall. That is, the majority of them are. But I have seen short men among them. The Khedive is not taller than I am. And the Egyptian face is very deceptive. The features are often fine,—occasionally classic,—but intelligent expression is totally lacking." 4. To assent; to consent. Labels: intransitive Example: Before I would have granted to that act. But thou preferr'st thy life before thine honor.
Word: grant Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English granten, graunten, grantien, grauntien, from Anglo-Norman granter, graunter, from Old French granter, graunter, graanter, greanter (“to promise, assure, guarantee, confirm, ratify”), from a merger of Old French garantir, guarantir (“to guarantee, assure, vouch for”) (see English guarantee) and earlier cranter, craanter, creanter (“to allow, permit”), from an assumed Medieval Latin *credentāre, from Latin credere (“to believe, trust”). Alternatively, a regular reflex of Medieval Latin *credentāre with regular voicing of /k/ before a liquid plus low vowel. More at guarantee, credit. Pronunciation: /ɡɹɑːnt/, /ɡɹɐːnt/, /ɡɹænt/, /ɡɹant/, /ɡɾant/ 1. The act of granting or giving Example: the grant of permission for a project 2. The yielding or admission of something in dispute. 3. The thing or property granted; a gift; a boon. Example: I got a grant from the government to study archeology in Egypt. 4. A transfer of property by deed or writing; especially, an appropriation or conveyance made by the government. Example: a grant of land or of money 5. The deed or writing by which such a transfer is made. 6. An application for a grant (monetary boon to aid research or the like). Labels: informal
Word: granulation Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Late Latin grānulum (“granule”) + -ation. Attested earlier than granule and granulate. By surface analysis, granulate + -ion. 1. The formation of granules, or of cereal grains. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. The formation of granules, or of cereal grains. Labels: countable, uncountable 3. The condition of being granulated. Labels: uncountable 4. Granulated tissue on the surface of a healing wound; granulation tissue. Labels: countable, uncountable 5. A bright, transient granular marking on the Sun's photosphere. Labels: countable, uncountable 6. The attachment of granules of precious metal to underlying metal of jewellery. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: graticulation Part of Speech: noun Etymology: By surface analysis, graticule + -ation, or, by surface analysis, graticulate + -ion. Pronunciation: /ɡɹəˌtɪkjəˈleɪʃən/ 1. The division of a design or draught into squares, in order to reproduce it more easily in larger or smaller dimensions. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: Near-synonym: reticulation
Word: gratification Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin grātificātiō either directly or through Middle French gratification, from Latin grātificō (“to do a favor to, oblige, please, gratify”), from grātus (“kind, pleasing”) + faciō (“to make”). Pronunciation: /ˌɡɹætɪfɪˈkeɪʃən/ 1. The act of gratifying or pleasing, either the mind, or the appetite or taste. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: gratification of the heart gratification of the palate Example: I know nothing of Mr. Courtenaye; but I can perceive enough of this affair to see that he is one of those who, for a moment's selfish gratification, or for the yet meaner love of gratified vanity, will excite the deepest feelings, and trifle with the dearest hopes of all who trust them! 2. A gratuity; a reward. Labels: countable, uncountable 3. A feeling of pleasure; satisfaction. Labels: uncountable Example: I will tell you all my faults frankly beforehand. I am very vain, for I cultivate my vanity on a principle, and cannot understand why we should neglect such a source of gratification. Example: To my gratification he told me I could reënter the institution, and that he would trust me to pay the debt when I could.
Word: graze Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *gʰreh₁-der. Proto-Germanic *grasą Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ti Proto-Germanic *-ōną Proto-Germanic *grasōną Proto-West Germanic *grasōn Old English grasian Middle English grasen English graze Inherited from Middle English grasen (“to feed with grass”), from Old English grasian, from Proto-West Germanic *grasōn, from Proto-Germanic *grasōną, from *grasą (“grass”) + *-ōną (verbal suffix). Doublet of grass. Pronunciation: /ɡɹeɪz/ 1. The act of grazing; a scratching or injuring lightly on passing. 2. A light abrasion; a slight scratch. 3. The act of animals feeding from pasture. Example: If it be sundown, when the herds are returning from their daily graze in the long grass of the jungle, clouds of dust will be marking their track along every approach to the village […]
Word: graze Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *gʰreh₁-der. Proto-Germanic *grasą Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ti Proto-Germanic *-ōną Proto-Germanic *grasōną Proto-West Germanic *grasōn Old English grasian Middle English grasen English graze Inherited from Middle English grasen (“to feed with grass”), from Old English grasian, from Proto-West Germanic *grasōn, from Proto-Germanic *grasōną, from *grasą (“grass”) + *-ōną (verbal suffix). Doublet of grass. Pronunciation: /ɡɹeɪz/ 1. To feed or supply (cattle, sheep, etc.) with grass; to furnish pasture for. Labels: transitive Example: He hath a Houſe and Barn in repair, a Field or two to graze his Cows, with a Garden and Orchard. Example: Although it is perfectly good meadowland, none of the villagers has ever grazed animals on the meadow on the other side of the wall. 2. To feed on; to eat (growing herbage); to eat grass from (a pasture) Labels: ambitransitive Example: Cattle graze in the meadows. Example: The lambs vvith vvolves ſhall graze the verdant mead, / And boys in flovv'ry bands the tyger lead; […] 3. To tend (cattle, etc.) while grazing. Labels: transitive Example: Shylock: When Jacob grazed his uncle Laban's sheep 4. To eat small amounts of food periodically throughout the day, rather than at fixed mealtimes, often not in response to hunger. Labels: intransitive Example: Furthermore, people who take the time to sit down to proper meals find their food more satisfying than people who graze throughout the day. If you skip meals, you will inevitably end up snacking on more high-fat high-sugar foods. Example: Many people, however, snack and graze from roughly the time they wake up until shortly before they go to bed. 5. To shoplift by consuming food or drink items before reaching the checkout. Example: Grazing refers to customers who consume food items before paying for them, for example, a customer bags one and a half pounds of grapes in the produce department, eats some as she continues her shopping […] Example: Had the Grievant attempted to pay for the Mylanta or actually paid for it, then she would not be guilty of grazing or shoplifting. 6. To rub or touch lightly the surface of (a thing) in passing. Labels: transitive Example: the bullet grazed the wall Example: But in that gale, the port, the land, is that ship’s direst jeopardy; she must fly all hospitality; one touch of land, though it but graze the keel, would make her shudder through and through. 7. To cause a slight wound to; to scratch. Labels: transitive Example: to graze one's knee 8. To yield grass for grazing. Labels: intransitive Example: The sewers must be kept so as the water may not stay too long in the spring; for then the ground continueth the wet, whereby it will never graze to purpose that year.
Word: grebe Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From French grèbe. Pronunciation: /ɡɹiːb/ 1. Any of several waterbirds in the family Podicipedidae of the order Podicipediformes. They have strong, sharp bills, and lobate toes.
Word: greed Part of Speech: noun Etymology: c. 1600. Back-formation from greedy. Pronunciation: /ɡɹiːd/ 1. A selfish or excessive desire for more than is needed or deserved, especially of money, wealth, food, or other possessions. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: His greed was his undoing. Example: […]But when I had bestridden the plank, quoth I to myself, "Thou deserveth all that betideth thee. All this is decreed to me of Allah (whose name be exalted!), to turn me from my greed of gain, whence ariseth all that I endure, for I have wealth galore."
Word: greed Part of Speech: verb Etymology: c. 1600. Back-formation from greedy. Pronunciation: /ɡɹiːd/ 1. To desire in a greedy manner, or to act on such a desire. Example: The ravens sit greeding, / And watching, and heeding: / Thoro' wind, over water, / Comes scent of the slaughter, / And ravens sit greeding / Their share of the bones. Example: Hearing these words he arose, because indeed he greeded for her, and came up behind her as she rested upon her elbows and knees and bending in hand his prickle nailed it into her coynte and did manly devoir.
Word: greet Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English greten, from Old English grētan, from Proto-West Germanic *grōtijan, from Proto-Germanic *grōtijaną. Cognate with Dutch groeten, German grüßen, grüssen. Pronunciation: /ɡɹiːt/ 1. To welcome in a friendly manner, either in person or through another means such as writing. Labels: transitive Example: My lord, the mayor of London comes to greet you. Example: Warwick observed, as they passed through the respectable quarter, that few people who met the girl greeted her, and that some others whom she passed at gates or doorways gave her no sign of recognition; from which he inferred that she was possibly a visitor in the town and not well acquainted. 2. To arrive at or reach, or meet. Labels: transitive Example: In vain the Spring my Senſes greets / In all her Colours, all her Svveets; / To me the Roſe / No longer glovvs, / Every Plant / Has loſt its Scent: […] Example: Way deep in left field, where the carpet of green sloped upward to a terrace and greeted the thick line of trees, he reached out his glove. 3. To accost; to address. Labels: transitive Example: Fair on his feet the polish'd sandals shine, And thus he greets the master of the swine: Example: I can be active as long as I stay in the closet. If I go forth as who I am, I will be greeted with closed doors. 4. To meet and give salutations. Labels: archaic, intransitive Example: There greet in silence, as the dead are wont, And sleep in peace. 5. To be perceived by (someone). Labels: figuratively, transitive Example: A brilliant dawn greeted her eyes as she looked out of the window. Example: Muggy heat—temperature in the 90s and high humidity—greeted early arrivals for the 72-hole, three-day test, rated the hardest and most important in the sport.
Word: greet Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English greet, grete (“great”). Pronunciation: /ɡɹiːt/ 1. Great.
Word: greet Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From a blend of two Old English verbs, grētan, grǣtan (itself from Proto-West Germanic *grātan); and of Old English grēotan (itself from *greutan), both meaning "to weep, lament". Possibly reinforced in Northern England and Scotland by Old Norse gráta, whence also Danish græde, Norwegian gråte, Swedish gråta, all meaning "to cry, to weep". Pronunciation: /ɡɹiːt/ 1. To weep; to cry. Labels: Northern-England, Scotland Example: And damn't! if he didn't take down her bit things and scone her so sore she grat like a bairn [...]. Example: My maw went potty and started greeting.
Word: greet Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From a blend of two Old English verbs, grētan, grǣtan (itself from Proto-West Germanic *grātan); and of Old English grēotan (itself from *greutan), both meaning "to weep, lament". Possibly reinforced in Northern England and Scotland by Old Norse gráta, whence also Danish græde, Norwegian gråte, Swedish gråta, all meaning "to cry, to weep". Pronunciation: /ɡɹiːt/ 1. Mourning, weeping, lamentation. Labels: obsolete, uncountable
Word: grief Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English greef, gref, from Old French grief (“grave, heavy, grievous, sad”), from Latin gravis (“heavy, grievous, sad”). Doublet of grave. Pronunciation: /ɡɹiːf/ 1. Suffering, hardship. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The neighbour's teenagers give me grief every time they see me. 2. Emotional pain, generally arising from misfortune, significant personal loss, bereavement, misconduct of oneself or others, etc.; sorrow; sadness. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: She was worn out from so much grief. Example: The betrayal caused Jeff grief. 3. A cause or instance of sorrow or pain; that which afflicts or distresses; a trial. Labels: countable Example: Surely, he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows.
Word: grief Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English greef, gref, from Old French grief (“grave, heavy, grievous, sad”), from Latin gravis (“heavy, grievous, sad”). Doublet of grave. Pronunciation: /ɡɹiːf/ 1. To deliberately harass and annoy or cause grief to other players of a game in order to interfere with their enjoyment of it; especially, to do this as one’s primary activity in the game, and especially by exploiting game mechanics without using cheats to do so, often through acts of destruction or vandalism. Labels: Internet Example: While ban and his pals stand squarely in this tradition, they also stand for something new: the rise of organized griefing, grounded in online message-board communities and thick with in-jokes, code words, taboos, and an increasingly articulate sense of purpose. No longer just an isolated pathology, griefing has developed a full-fledged culture.
Word: grimace Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From French grimace, from Middle French grimace, from Old French grimace, grimuche, from grime (“mask”) (with the pejorative suffix -ace, from Latin -āceus), from Frankish *grīma, *grīmō (“mask”), from Proto-Germanic *grīmô (“mask, helmet”). Cognate with Old English grīma (“mask, visor, helmet, spectre, apparition”). More at grime. Pronunciation: /ˈɡɹɪm.əs/, /ɡɹɪˈmeɪs/ 1. A contorted facial expression, often expressing contempt or pain. Example: Her face was twisted in a grimace of disgust. Example: I trundle off to bed, eyes brimming, face twisted into a grateful glistening grimace, and awaken the next day wondering what all the fuss was about. 2. Affectation, pretence. Labels: obsolete Example: Zeluco considered all this as mere affectation and grimace, and was convinced that she would, in due time, unfold the particular mode in which she wished to be indemnified […]. Example: Charlotte was equally insensible to all his fashionable grimace, and indifferent to his conversation.
Word: grimace Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From French grimace, from Middle French grimace, from Old French grimace, grimuche, from grime (“mask”) (with the pejorative suffix -ace, from Latin -āceus), from Frankish *grīma, *grīmō (“mask”), from Proto-Germanic *grīmô (“mask, helmet”). Cognate with Old English grīma (“mask, visor, helmet, spectre, apparition”). More at grime. Pronunciation: /ˈɡɹɪm.əs/, /ɡɹɪˈmeɪs/ 1. To make grimaces; to distort one's face; to make faces. Labels: intransitive
Word: grisette Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from French grisette, from gris (“grey”) + -ette, named after the color of the fabric associated with low value or bad quality. Pronunciation: /ɡɹɪˈzɛt/ 1. A (chiefly French) girl or young married woman of the lower class; especially, a young working-class woman of perceived easy morals. Example: ‘What a fuss is here, indeed, about a little grisette: why, one would think Beresford had carried off an heiress.’ Example: The anticipations of the shopkeeper were realized, and his rooms soon became notorious through the charms of the sprightly grisette. 2. The grisette amanita (Amanita vaginata), an edible mushroom in the amanita family. 3. A variety of low-alcohol beer that is light in body, with a noticeable tartness similar to other farmhouse ales. Example: Oral accounts of those who remember the old grisettes say they were low-alcohol, light-bodied, saison-like golden ales of no great distinction. Example: She talked animatedly, with her hands, and her excitement about something as boring as the differences between a saison and a grisette was contagious.
Word: gritty Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree English grit Proto-Indo-European *-kos Proto-Germanic *-gaz Proto-West Germanic *-g Old English -iġ Middle English -y English -y English gritty From grit + -y. Pronunciation: /ˈɡɹɪti/ 1. Containing sand or grit; consisting of grit; caused by grit; full of hard particles. Example: Winston Smith, his chin nuzzled into his breast in an effort to escape the vile wind, slipped quickly through the glass doors of Victory Mansions, though not quickly enough to prevent a swirl of gritty dust from entering along with him. 2. Spirited; resolute; unyielding. Example: That goth woman is very gritty. Example: The runt was the grittiest pup of all; for days he writhed out of one convulsion into the next—calmed from one only to go through it all over again. 3. Intense and starkly realistic; depicting harsh reality, especially violence.
Word: growl Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English groulen, grollen, gurlen (“of the bowels: to growl, rumble”), either possibly from Old French groler (variant of croler (“to be agitated, shake”)), grouler, grouller (“to growl, grumble”), from Frankish *grullen, *gruljan or from Old English gryllan, both from Proto-Germanic *gruljaną (“to make a sound; to growl, grumble, rumble”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰer- (“to make a noise; to mumble, murmur; to rattle; to grind; to rub, stroke”), probably ultimately imitative. The word is cognate with Middle Dutch grollen (“to make a noise; to croak, grumble, murmur; to be angry”) (modern Dutch grollen (“to grumble”)), German grollen (“to rumble; to be angry, bear ill will”), Old English grillan, griellan (“to provoke, offend; to gnash the teeth”). Compare grill. The noun is derived from the verb. Pronunciation: /ˈɡɹaʊ̯l/, /ˈɡɹæʊ̯l/, /ˈɡɹaːl/ 1. A deep, rumbling, threatening sound made in the throat by an animal. Example: Hardly anything is more intensely disagreeable to one walking along the street, than to hear near his path a low savage growl—the expression of a surly dog's opinion and purpose. Example: A deep growl was the answer I received, and the bear, for such it was, walked quickly away in the same direction whence he had come. 2. A similar sound made by a human. Labels: broadly 3. The rumbling sound made by a human's hungry stomach. Labels: broadly Example: Riding down the main thoroughfare, the growl of his stomach taints the soothing jazz playing on the radio. 4. An aggressive grumbling. Labels: broadly Example: The clerk promised that he would; and Scrooge walked out with a growl. The office was closed in a twinkling, and the clerk, with the long ends of his white comforter dangling below his waist (for he boasted no great-coat), went down a slide on Cornhill, at the end of a lane of boys, twenty times, in honour of its being Christmas Eve, and then ran home to Camden Town as hard as he could pelt, to play at blindman's-buff. Example: The Welsh farmer, strong, broad-shouldered and blue-eyed, acknowledged Willie's presence by an unintelligible ejaculation which sounded very much like a growl, and with not very cheerful hospitality pushed a chair towards him. […] [T]he farmer swallowed his broth in huge spoonfuls, alternating with growls, […] 5. A low-pitched rumbling sound produced with a wind instrument. Labels: broadly Example: The growl effect comes from fitting a small straight mute—a cornet mute for trumpet and a trumpet mute for trombone—covering the instrument's bell with a rubber plunger, the kind used by plumbers, and moving it in and out to affect the tone. Example: Just as [Duke] Ellington the composer was not the originator of the growls, moans, and other expressive devices that jazz musicians developed from European instruments, neither was he the particular techniques he used at the piano. It was the wealth of possibilities he uncovered for combining, simplifying, expanding, or even distorting the common jazz piano vocabulary of the day that put Ellington in a class by himself. 6. Death growl Labels: broadly
Word: growl Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English groulen, grollen, gurlen (“of the bowels: to growl, rumble”), either possibly from Old French groler (variant of croler (“to be agitated, shake”)), grouler, grouller (“to growl, grumble”), from Frankish *grullen, *gruljan or from Old English gryllan, both from Proto-Germanic *gruljaną (“to make a sound; to growl, grumble, rumble”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰer- (“to make a noise; to mumble, murmur; to rattle; to grind; to rub, stroke”), probably ultimately imitative. The word is cognate with Middle Dutch grollen (“to make a noise; to croak, grumble, murmur; to be angry”) (modern Dutch grollen (“to grumble”)), German grollen (“to rumble; to be angry, bear ill will”), Old English grillan, griellan (“to provoke, offend; to gnash the teeth”). Compare grill. The noun is derived from the verb. Pronunciation: /ˈɡɹaʊ̯l/, /ˈɡɹæʊ̯l/, /ˈɡɹaːl/ 1. To utter a deep guttural sound, as an angry animal; to give forth an angry, grumbling sound. Labels: intransitive Example: The dog growled at me as I walked past. Example: [T]here are Wolf-Whelps in Palaces, and Governments, as well as in Cottages, and Forreſts. […] They go out however, as there is Occaſion, and Hunt and Growle for Company; but at the ſame time, they give the Sign out of their Maſters hand, hold Intelligence with the Enemy; and Make uſe of their Power and Credit to Worry Honeſter Men them Themſelves. 2. Of a wind instrument: to produce a low-pitched rumbling sound. Labels: intransitive Example: And he is bending in the wind, scooping pitch, growling. […] He plays his false fingers. Chokes the trumpet. He is naked. This is naked jazz. O-bop-she-bam. Never lying. Telling it like it is. Example: James "Bubber" Miley "used to growl all night long, playing gutbucket on his horn. That was when we decided to forget all about the sweet music." 3. To send a user a message via the Growl software library. Labels: intransitive 4. To express (something) by growling. Labels: transitive Example: The old man growled his displeasure at the postman. Example: Bastane, as he entered, growled an invective, while he sullenly expressed his discontent at an unexpected call and additional labour. 5. To play a wind instrument in a way that produces a low-pitched rumbling sound. Labels: transitive Example: […] John Gilmore would take up his tenor and growl a keening march, Danny Thompson stab and worry with a flute, Sun Ra leave his big conga and mount the temple of keyboards for a ritual parenthesis of chromatic zig-zags and electro-howls. 6. To perform death growl vocals. Labels: intransitive
Word: gubernation Part of Speech: noun 1. The act of governing; government. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: guise Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English guise, gise, gyse, from Old French guisse, guise, vise (“guise, manner, way”), from Old Frankish *wīsa (“manner, way, fashion”), from Proto-Germanic *wīsǭ (“manner, way”), from Proto-Indo-European *weyd- (“to see, view, behold, perceive”). Cognate with Old High German wīsa (“way, manner”), Old English wīse (“way, manner”), Dutch wijze (“way, manner”). More at wise. Pronunciation: /ˈɡaɪz/ 1. A customary way of speaking or acting; a fashion, a manner, a practice (often used formerly in such phrases as "at his own guise"; that is, in his own fashion, to suit himself.) Example: 1924, Aristotle. Metaphysics. Translated by W. D. Ross. Nashotah, Wisconsin, USA: The Classical Library, 2001. Aristotle. Metaphysics. Book 1, Part 5. dialecticians and sophists assume the same guise as the philosopher 2. An external appearance in manner or dress; an appropriate indication or expression; a garb; a shape. 3. A misleading appearance; a cover, a cloak. Example: Under the guise of patriotism Example: Ought we be concerned that our rights to protest are being continually eroded under the guise of enhancing our safety?
Word: guise Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English guise, gise, gyse, from Old French guisse, guise, vise (“guise, manner, way”), from Old Frankish *wīsa (“manner, way, fashion”), from Proto-Germanic *wīsǭ (“manner, way”), from Proto-Indo-European *weyd- (“to see, view, behold, perceive”). Cognate with Old High German wīsa (“way, manner”), Old English wīse (“way, manner”), Dutch wijze (“way, manner”). More at wise. Pronunciation: /ˈɡaɪz/ 1. To dress. Labels: archaic, transitive 2. To act as a guiser; to go dressed up in a parade etc. Labels: archaic, intransitive
Word: guise Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈɡaɪz/ 1. Deliberate misspelling of guys. Labels: Internet, alt-of, deliberate, misspelling, plural, plural-only Example: Sup guise? — What's up, guys?
Word: gustation Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ǵews-der. Latin gustō Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *-Hō Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō Proto-Italic *-tiō Latin -tiō Latin gustatio, gustationisbor. English gustation Borrowed from Latin gustatio, gustationis. 1. The act of tasting. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The organ of gustation is not, therefore, restricted to the production of that sense, but participates in the sense of touch. 2. The ability to taste flavors; the sense of taste. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: gyration Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From gyre (“to spin around; to gyrate, to whirl; (rare) to make (something) spin or whirl around; to spin, to whirl”) + -ation (suffix indicating actions or processes). Gyre is from Late Middle English giren (“to turn (something) away; to cause (something) to revolve or rotate; to travel in a circle”), from Old French girer (“to turn”), and directly from its etymon Latin gȳrāre, the present active infinitive of gȳrō (“to turn in a circle, rotate; to circle or revolve around”) (from gȳrus (“circle; circular motion; circuit, course”), from Ancient Greek γῦρος (gûros, “a circle, a ring”), from Proto-Indo-European *gew- (“to bend; to curve”)) + -ō (suffix forming regular first-conjugation verbs). Pronunciation: /dʒaɪ(ə)ˈɹeɪʃ(ə)n/, /ˌd͡ʒaɪˈɹeɪʃ(ə)n/ 1. The act of turning or whirling, especially around a fixed axis or centre; a circular or spiral motion; rotation. Labels: also, countable, figuratively, uncountable Example: Novv that the ayre impelled returnes unto its place in a gyration or vvhirling, is evident from the Atomes or moates in the Sun. For vvhen the Sunne ſo enters a hole or vvindovv, that by its illumination the Atomes or moates become perceptible, if then by our breath the ayre bee gently impelled, it may be perceived that they vvill circularly returne, and in a gyration unto their places againe. Example: If Regularity and ſteddineſs accompany Velocity; the motion then leaves not the leaſt track in the ſenſitive. Thus a French Top, the common recreation of School-boys, throvvn from a cord vvhich vvas vvound about it, will ſtand as if it vvere fixt on the floor it lighted; and yet continue in its repeated Gyrations, vvhile the ſenſe diſcovers not the leaſt footſteps of that præcipitate Rotation. 2. The act of turning or whirling, especially around a fixed axis or centre; a circular or spiral motion; rotation. Labels: also, countable, figuratively, specifically, uncountable 3. One of the whorls of a spiral univalve shell. Labels: countable 4. The arrangement of convolutions of gyri in the cerebral cortex of the brain. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: habilitation Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin habilitatio, from Latin habilitāre. Pronunciation: /həˌbɪlɪˈteɪʃən/ 1. Equipment; qualification. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: For the things which we formerly have spoken of, are but habilitation arms: and what is habilitation without intention and act? 2. An act of habilitating. Labels: countable, uncountable 3. An academic qualification, prerequiring a PhD, required in order to gain tenure as a professor in some European universities; a thesis or dissertation presented to achieve the qualification. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: At this same time Gadamer was at work on his habilitation with Heidegger. His habilitation, Plato's Dialectical Ethics, concerned Plato's understanding of the good, and its two leading concepts were dialogue and dialectic. Example: For one year it had been occupied by Otfried Müller, a priest from Silesia, who was trying simultaneously to advance the work for his habilitation—truly a difficult undertaking, considering the demands of teaching two core theological courses. 4. The act of supplying money to work a mine. Labels: US, countable, uncountable
Word: habitation Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English habitacioun, from Old French habitacion, abitacion (“act of dwelling”), from Latin habitātiōnem, accusative of Latin habitātiō. Pronunciation: /ˌhæb.ɪˈteɪ.ʃən/, /ˌhæb.ɪˈtæɪ.ʃən/ 1. The act of inhabiting; state of inhabiting or dwelling, or of being inhabited; occupancy. Labels: uncountable Example: And there have been Common-wealths that having no more Territory, than hath served them for habitation, have neverthelesse, not onely maintained, but also encreased their Power, partly by the labour of trading from one place to another, and partly by selling the Manifactures, whereof the Materials were brought in from other places. Example: Witness this new-made world, another Heaven From Heaven-gate not far, founded in view On the clear hyaline, the glassy sea; Of amplitude almost immense, with stars Numerous, and every star perhaps a world Of destined habitation […] 2. A place of abode; settled dwelling; residence; house. Labels: countable Example: And as imagination bodies forth The forms of things unknown, the poet’s pen Turns them to shapes and gives to airy nothing A local habitation and a name. Example: Ye shall kindle no fire throughout your habitations upon the sabbath day. 3. A group, lodge, or company, as of the Primrose League. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: habitation Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Louisiana French habitation. Pronunciation: /ˌhæb.ɪˈteɪ.ʃən/, /ˌhæb.ɪˈtæɪ.ʃən/ 1. A farm, ranch or plantation. Labels: Louisiana
Word: habituation Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English habituacioun, from Medieval Latin habituātio. Pronunciation: /həˌbɪt.juˈeɪ.ʃən/, /həˌbɪt͡ʃ.uˈeɪ.ʃən/, /həˌbɪt͡ʃ.ʊˈeɪ.ʃən/ 1. The act of habituating, or accustoming; the state of being habituated. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Custome can give a Iurisdiction; neither is there any stronger law than it: The continued use then of any known sinne, be it never so small, gives (as Gersons phrase is) a strong habituation ; and, though it be a true rule, that habits do only incline, not compell; yet the inclination that is wrought by them, is so forceable, that it differs little from violent: Example: Long habituation to one kind of life and situation, hath given rise to peculiarities, which to many minds seem unaccountable, yet in reality are perfectly reconcilable to the laws of nature. 2. The process of becoming accustomed to an internal or external stimulus, such as a noxious smell or loud noise. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Habituation and dishabituation allow for experience-dependent tuning of these reflexes and the mechanisms underlying these forms of behavioral plasticity involve changes in transmitter release from the sensory to motor neuron synapses through homosynaptic depression and the serotonin-mediated recovery from depression, respectively.
Word: hag Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English hagge, hegge (“demon, old woman”), shortening of Old English hægtesse, hægtes (“harpy, witch”), from Proto-West Germanic *hagatussjā. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Häkse (“witch”), Dutch heks, German Hexe (“witch”). Doublet of hex. Pronunciation: /ˈhæɡ/, [ˈhæɡ], /ˈheɪ̯ɡ/, [ˈheɪ̯ɡ] 1. A witch, sorceress, or enchantress; a female wizard. Example: And that olde hag that with a staffe his staggering lymbes dooth stay Example: Such unaccountable masses of shades and shadows, that at first you almost thought some ambitious young artist, in the time of the New England hags, had endeavored to delineate chaos bewitched. 2. An ugly old woman. Labels: derogatory Example: The elder women were literally "old hags" - lean and shrivelled, and excessively ugly. 3. An evil woman. Labels: derogatory Example: I don't plan to stop drinking. But... I don't wanna forget. I can't turn away anymore. So, if I'm gonna die, well, it might as well be driving my sword through the heart of that murderous hag. 4. A woman. Labels: US, derogatory, slang, sometimes 5. A fury; a she-monster. Example: Fourth of the cursed knot of hags is she / Or rather all the other three in one; / Hell's shop of slaughter she does oversee, / And still assist the execution 6. A hagfish; one of various eel-like fish of the family Myxinidae, allied to the lamprey, with a suctorial mouth, labial appendages, and a single pair of gill openings. 7. A hagdon or shearwater; one of various sea birds of the genus Puffinus. 8. An appearance of light and fire on a horse's mane or a person's hair. Labels: obsolete Example: Flamma lambentes (or those we call Haggs) are made of Sweat or some other Vapour issuing out of the Head; a not-unusuall sight amongst us when we ride by night in the Summer time: They are extinguisht, like flames, by shaking the Horse Mains 9. The fruit of the hagberry, Prunus padus. 10. Sleep paralysis. Labels: slang, uncountable
Word: hag Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English hag (denoting a gap in a cliff), from Old Norse hǫgg (“cut, gap, breach”), derivative of hǫggva (“to hack, hew”). Compare English hew, Old Swedish hug (“blow, stroke”). Pronunciation: /ˈhæɡ/, [ˈhæɡ], /ˈheɪ̯ɡ/, [ˈheɪ̯ɡ] 1. A small wood, or part of a wood or copse, which is marked off or enclosed for felling, or which has been felled. Labels: Northern-England Example: This said, he led me over hoults and hags; / Through thorns and bushes scant my legs I drew 2. A marshy hollow, especially an area of peat lying lower than surrounding moorland, formed by erosion of a gully or cutting and often having steep edges. Example: And they likewise ordained […] that all the warp should be thrown into the Common wayes, to fill up haggs and lakes, where need was, upon a great penalty, where it should ly neer the Common rode. Example: […] upon wet brae-sides, peat-haggs, and flow-mosses, […]
Word: hag Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English hag (denoting a gap in a cliff), from Old Norse hǫgg (“cut, gap, breach”), derivative of hǫggva (“to hack, hew”). Compare English hew, Old Swedish hug (“blow, stroke”). Pronunciation: /ˈhæɡ/, [ˈhæɡ], /ˈheɪ̯ɡ/, [ˈheɪ̯ɡ] 1. To cut or erode (as) a hag (a hollow into moorland). Example: hag […] is that part in mosses which is naturally or artificially cut, hollowed, hagged, or hacked; naturally by water runlets forming hollows, and artificially by, among other means, the cutting and removal of peat. Example: Covenanters too met often on our moss-hagged moors.
Word: hag Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English haggen, from Proto-Germanic *hag(g)ōnan (compare obsolete Dutch hagen (“to torment, agonize”), Norwegian haga (“to tire, weaken”)). Pronunciation: /ˈhæɡ/, [ˈhæɡ], /ˈheɪ̯ɡ/, [ˈheɪ̯ɡ] 1. To harass; to weary with vexation. Labels: transitive Example: How are Superstitious Men Hagg'd Out of their Wits and Senses, with the Fancy of Omens, Forebodings, Old Wives Tales, and Visions
Word: hairless Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From hair + -less. Piecewise doublet of hair loss. Cognate with German haarlos. Pronunciation: /ˈhɛələs/, /ˈhɛɹləs/, /hɛɚləs/, /ˈheːləs/, /ˈhiələs/ 1. Destitute of hair. Labels: not-comparable 2. Bald. Labels: not-comparable Example: There has never been a bald James Bond nor a hairless contestant on Love Island. Growing up, bald men were never the superheroes and always the villains.
Word: hairless Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From hair + -less. Piecewise doublet of hair loss. Cognate with German haarlos. Pronunciation: /ˈhɛələs/, /ˈhɛɹləs/, /hɛɚləs/, /ˈheːləs/, /ˈhiələs/ 1. An animal of a hairless breed. Example: Boston terriers and bulldogs, poodles and Pomeranians; there was even a pair of Mexican hairlesses, who looked like they'd had thirty rounds of chemotherapy.
Word: hake Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English *hake, from Old English hæca, haca (“hook, bolt, door-fastening, bar”), from Proto-West Germanic *hakō, from Proto-Germanic *hakô (“hook”), from Proto-Indo-European *keg-, *keng- (“peg, hook”). Related to hook. Cognates Cognate with Dutch haak (“hook”), German Haken (“hook”), Danish hage (“hook”), Swedish hake (“hook”), Icelandic haki (“hook”), Hittite [Term?] (/⁠kagas⁠/, “tooth”), Middle Irish chaing (“weapons rack”), Lithuanian kéngė (“hook, latch”), Russian ко́готь (kógotʹ, “claw”). Pronunciation: /heɪk/ 1. A hook; a pot-hook. 2. A kind of weapon; a pike. 3. (in the plural) The draught-irons of a plough.
Word: hake Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English hake, probably a shortened form (due to North Germanic influence) of English dialectal haked (“pike”). Compare Norwegian hakefisk (“trout, salmon”), Middle Low German haken (“kipper”). More at haked. Pronunciation: /heɪk/ 1. One of several species of saltwater gadoid fishes, of the genera Phycis, Merluccius, and allies. Example: Hake is an expensive fish—and is also very vulnerable to damage by mis-handling. Example: Off the United States, the National Marine Fisheries Service is helping industry explore fisheries for deep shrimp, rattails, chimeras, orange roughy, smoothheads, slackjaw eels, blue hake, skates and dogfish, which the National Fisheries Institute, an industry group, in an effort to improve their marketability, has renamed cape shark.
Word: hake Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /heɪk/ 1. A drying shed, as for unburned tile. Example: The clay is taken direct from the bank and made into brick the right temper to place direct from the Machine in the hake on the yard. … take the brick direct from the Machine and put them in the hake to dry.
Word: hale Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Northern Middle English hal, hale, variants of hole (“healthy; safe; whole”, whence whole), from Old English hāl, from Proto-West Germanic *hail, from Proto-Germanic *hailaz (“whole; entire; healthy”). See whole for more. Pronunciation: /heɪl/ 1. Sound, entire, healthy; robust, not impaired. Labels: dated Example: His stomach too begins to fail: / Last year we thought him strong and hale; / But now he's quite another thing: / I wish he may hold out till spring! Example: "Good morrow to thee, jolly fellow," quoth Robin, "thou seemest happy this merry morn." / "Ay, that am I," quoth the jolly Butcher, "and why should I not be so? Am I not hale in wind and limb? Have I not the bonniest lass in all Nottinghamshire? And lastly, am I not to be married to her on Thursday next in sweet Locksley Town?"
Word: hale Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English hale, an alteration of hele (“health”) after Etymology 1. Cognate with Scots hale (“health”), German Heil (“salvation, well-being”). Pronunciation: /heɪl/ 1. Health, welfare. Labels: archaic, uncountable Example: Then let them vale a bonet of their proud ſayle, / And of their taunting toies reſt with il hayle. Example: Eftſoones all heedleſſe of his deareſt hale, / Full greedily into the heard he thruſt: / To ſlaughter them, and vvorke their finall bale, / Leaſt that his toyle ſhould of their troups be bruſt.
Word: hale Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English halen, from Anglo-Norman haler, from Old Dutch *halon (compare Dutch halen), from Proto-Germanic *halōną (compare Old English ġeholian, West Frisian helje, German holen), from Proto-Indo-European *kelH- (“to lift”) (compare Latin ex-cellō (“to surpass”), Tocharian B käly- (“to stand, stay”), Albanian qell (“to halt, hold up, carry”), Lithuanian kélti (“to raise up”), Ancient Greek κελέοντες (keléontes, “upright beam on a loom”)). Doublet of haul. Pronunciation: /heɪl/ 1. To drag or pull, especially forcibly. Labels: transitive Example: For I had beene vilely hurried and haled by those poore men, which had taken the paines to carry me upon their armes a long and wearysome way, and to say truth, they had all beene wearied twice or thrice over, and were faine to shift severall times. Example: A ſpacious Breach we make, and Troy’s proud Wall / Built by the Gods, by our own hands doth fall; / Thus, all their help to their own Ruin give, / Some draw with Cords, and ſome the Monſter drive / With Rolls and Leavers, thus our Works it climbs, / Big with our Fate, the Youth with Songs and Rhimes, / Some dance, ſome hale the Rope; at laſt let down / It enters with a thund’ring Noiſe the Town.
Word: harm Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English harm, herm, from Old English hearm, from Proto-West Germanic *harm, from Proto-Germanic *harmaz (“harm; shame; pain”). Cognate with Dutch harm (“harm”), German Harm (“harm”), Danish harme (“indignation, resentment”), Icelandic harmur (“sorrow, grief”), Swedish harm (“anger, indignation, harm”). Pronunciation: /hɑːm/, /hɑɹm/, /hɐːm/ 1. Physical injury; hurt; damage. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: No harm came to my possessions. Example: You can do a lot of harm to someone if you kick them in the teeth. 2. Emotional or figurative hurt. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Although not physically injured in the car accident, she received some psychological harm. Example: And Vickers launched forth into a tirade very different from his platform utterances. He spoke with extreme contempt of the dense stupidity exhibited on all occasions by the working classes. He said that if you wanted to do anything for them, you must rule them, not pamper them. Soft heartedness caused more harm than good. 3. Detriment; misfortune. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: I wish him no harm. 4. That which causes injury, damage, or loss. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: We, ignorant of ourselves, / Beg often our own harms.
Word: harm Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English harm, herm, from Old English hearm, from Proto-West Germanic *harm, from Proto-Germanic *harmaz (“harm; shame; pain”). Cognate with Dutch harm (“harm”), German Harm (“harm”), Danish harme (“indignation, resentment”), Icelandic harmur (“sorrow, grief”), Swedish harm (“anger, indignation, harm”). Pronunciation: /hɑːm/, /hɑɹm/, /hɐːm/ 1. To damage, hurt, or injure something, usually an inanimate object. Example: Will justice and conscience of society not be harmed if people avoid the truth?
Word: harmonica Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From armonica. Coined by American polymath and statesman Benjamin Franklin to refer to his glass harmonica, an instrument that predated the small wind instrument by several decades. Doublet of harmonic; compare Latin harmonicus. Pronunciation: /ˌhɑɹˈmɒ.nɪ.kə/, /ˌhɑɹˈmɑ.nɪ.kə/ 1. A musical wind instrument with a series of holes for the player to blow into, each hole producing a different note. 2. A musical instrument, consisting of a series of hemispherical glasses which, by touching the edges with the dampened finger, give forth the tones. 3. A toy instrument of strips of glass or metal hung on two tapes, and struck with hammers.
Word: harmonization Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English harmonize Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *-Hō Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō Proto-Italic *-tiō Latin -tiō Latin -ātiōlbor. Old French -ationbor. Middle English -acioun English -ation English harmonization From harmonize + -ation. 1. An act of harmonizing. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: hater Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English hatere, equivalent to hate + -er. Compare Old English hetend, hettend (“enemy”, literally “hater”). Cognate with Dutch hater (“hater”), German Hasser, Hässer (“hater”), Danish hader (“hater”), Swedish hatare (“hater”), Icelandic hatari (“hater”). Pronunciation: /ˈheɪtə(ɹ)/, /ˈheɪtɚ/ 1. One who hates. Example: In addition to the basic charge that Christians were atheists was the charge that they were also haters of mankind. Example: My book is not to villainize the villainizers, hate the haters, or to demonize the demonizers. 2. One who expresses unfounded or inappropriate hatred or dislike, particularly if motivated by envy. Labels: derogatory, slang
Word: hazy Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From earlier hawsey (1625), a nautical term of uncertain origin. Possibly from Middle English *hasi, *haswy, from Old English haswiġ (“grey; ashen; dusky”), from Old English hasu (“dusky; grey; ashen”), from Proto-Germanic *haswaz (“grey”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱeh₂s- (“bright grey”). By surface analysis, haze + -y; although Modern English haze is more likely a back-formation of hazy. Pronunciation: /ˈheɪzi/ 1. Thick or obscured with haze. Example: a hazy view of the polluted city street 2. Not clear or transparent. Example: Furthermore, kymographic pictures are hazy and sometimes distorted, while the pictures obtained by diagraphy are sharp and unobstructed. 3. Obscure; confused; not clear. Example: a hazy argument Example: a hazy intellect 4. Faded. Example: It's a little hazy, but... I remember... C&A.
Word: hazy Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From earlier hawsey (1625), a nautical term of uncertain origin. Possibly from Middle English *hasi, *haswy, from Old English haswiġ (“grey; ashen; dusky”), from Old English hasu (“dusky; grey; ashen”), from Proto-Germanic *haswaz (“grey”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱeh₂s- (“bright grey”). By surface analysis, haze + -y; although Modern English haze is more likely a back-formation of hazy. Pronunciation: /ˈheɪzi/ 1. A variety of beer (typically a pale ale, India pale ale, or double India pale ale) golden in color with softer mouthfeel and sweeter taste than its non-hazy counterpart. Example: What hazies do you have on tap? Example: It's the craft beer style that has taken the brewing world, and the Internet, by storm. But what exactly is a hazy?