nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: equity Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English equitee, equytee, from Old French equité, from Latin aequitās (“uniformity; impartiality; fairness”). Pronunciation: /ˈɛk.wɪ.ti/, /i.kwɪʈ.i/ 1. Fairness, impartiality, or justice as determined in light of "natural law" or "natural right". Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Sufficeth what they in their graue wiſedoomes ſhall proſcribe, I in no ſorte will ſeeke to acquite, nor preſumptuouſly attempte to diſpute againſt the equity of their iudgementes, but humble and proſtrate appeale to their mercies. Example: “One of the staff said, ‘That’s fine, Delia. But what do wolves have to do with equity, justice and inclusion?’" Ms. Malone said. 2. Various related senses originating with the Court of Chancery in late Medieval England Labels: countable, uncountable Example: 1800, Lloyd Kenyon, 1st Baron Kenyon in Mayor, &c. of Southampton v. Graves (1800), 8 T. R. 592. A Court of equity knows its own province. Example: A Court of equity interposes only according to conscience. 3. Various related senses originating with the Court of Chancery in late Medieval England Labels: countable, uncountable Example: ...the mortgagor retains ‘equitable title’ or the ‘equity of redemption’….The equity of redemption permits the mortgagor to regain legal title to the mortgaged property upon satisfying the conditions of the mortgage... Example: The wife's equity does not, according to the adjudged cases, attach, except upon that part of her personal property in action which the husband cannot acquire without the assistance of a court of equity 4. Various related senses originating with the Court of Chancery in late Medieval England Labels: England, countable, uncountable 5. Various senses related to net value Labels: countable, uncountable Example: I have a lot of equity in my house. 6. Various senses related to net value Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Private-equity nabobs bristle at being dubbed mere financiers. Piling debt onto companies’ balance-sheets is only a small part of what leveraged buy-outs are about, they insist. Improving the workings of the businesses they take over is just as core to their calling, if not more so. Much of their pleading is public-relations bluster. 7. Various senses related to net value Labels: countable, uncountable 8. Various senses related to net value Labels: countable, uncountable 9. Equality Labels: countable, nonstandard, uncountable Example: What steps the Government are taking to help ensure equity of opportunity for people from low-income families.
Word: P/E ratio Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of PE ratio. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: dock Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English dokke, from Old English docce, from Proto-West Germanic *dokkā, from Proto-Germanic *dukkǭ (compare Old Danish dokke (“water-dock”), West Flemish dokke, dokkebladeren (“coltsfoot, butterbur”)), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰew- (“dark”) (compare Latvian duga (“scum, slime on water”)). Pronunciation: /dɒk/, /dɔk/, /dɑk/ 1. Any of the genus Rumex of coarse weedy plants with small green flowers related to buckwheat, especially bitter dock (Rumex obtusifolius), and used as potherbs and in folk medicine, especially in curing nettle rash. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: And vnder neath him his courageous ſteed, / The fierce Spumador trode them downe like docks […] 2. A burdock plant, or the leaves of that plant. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: dock Part of Speech: noun Etymology: A dog with a partially docked (etymology 2, verb sense 1) tail From Middle English dok (“trimmed hair, dock”), from Old English *docce, *docca (as in fingerdocce (“finger muscles”)), from Proto-West Germanic *dokkā, from Proto-Germanic *dukkǭ, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeu-k- (“to spin, shake”). Compare Icelandic dokkur (“stumpy tail”), Low German Dokke (“bundle of straw”), West Frisian dok (“bunch, ball (twine)”), Albanian dak (“big ram”), Lithuanian dvė̃kti (“to breathe, wheeze”), dvãkas (“breath”), Sanskrit धुक्षति (dhukṣati, “to blow”). The verb is from Middle English dokken (“to cut short, dock, curtail”), derived from the noun. Pronunciation: /dɒk/, /dɔk/, /dɑk/ 1. The fleshy root of an animal's tail; specifically after clipping or cutting. Example: The Dock is about 1 inch thick, and two inches broad, like an Apothecaries Spatule. Of what length the whole, is uncertain, this being only part of it, though it looks as if cut off near the Buttock 2. The buttocks or anus. Labels: obsolete Example: And on a Cuſhion ſtuffed with Flocks, / She clapt her dainty pair of Docks. 3. A leather case used to cover the clipped or cut tail of a horse.
Word: dock Part of Speech: verb Etymology: A dog with a partially docked (etymology 2, verb sense 1) tail From Middle English dok (“trimmed hair, dock”), from Old English *docce, *docca (as in fingerdocce (“finger muscles”)), from Proto-West Germanic *dokkā, from Proto-Germanic *dukkǭ, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeu-k- (“to spin, shake”). Compare Icelandic dokkur (“stumpy tail”), Low German Dokke (“bundle of straw”), West Frisian dok (“bunch, ball (twine)”), Albanian dak (“big ram”), Lithuanian dvė̃kti (“to breathe, wheeze”), dvãkas (“breath”), Sanskrit धुक्षति (dhukṣati, “to blow”). The verb is from Middle English dokken (“to cut short, dock, curtail”), derived from the noun. Pronunciation: /dɒk/, /dɔk/, /dɑk/ 1. To clip or cut off a section of an animal's tail; to practise a caudectomy. Labels: transitive Example: The Celebrity, by arts unknown, induced Mrs. Judge Short and two other ladies to call at Mohair on a certain afternoon when Mr. Cooke was trying a trotter on the track.[…]Their example was followed by others at a time when the master of Mohair was superintending in person the docking of some two-year-olds, and equally invisible. 2. To reduce (wages); to deduct from (someone). Labels: transitive Example: Her wages were docked by ten dollars. Example: The team have been docked six points at Paris 2024 and Priestman received a one-year football ban from world governing body Fifa. 3. To reduce the wages of (a person). Labels: informal, transitive Example: They docked me ten dollars for breaking the vase. 4. To cut off, bar, or destroy. Labels: transitive Example: to dock an entail 5. To pierce holes, as pricking dough with a fork, to prevent excessive rising in the oven. Labels: transitive Example: Pricking holes in the rolled-out pie dough allows the steam to escape while it's baking. Without this, the steam would puff up in bubbles and pockets throughout the crust, which would make some parts of the crust cook too quickly and also result in an uneven surface for your filling. Docking is simple. Just roll out your pie dough and lift it into the pan. After pressing it in and shaping the edge, prick it all over with a fork.
Word: dock Part of Speech: noun Etymology: A laptop docking (etymology 3, noun sense 5) station A GUI dock (etymology 3, noun sense 6) on Linux From Early Modern English meaning "area of mud in which a ship can rest at low tide, dock", borrowed from either Dutch dok (“dock, wharf”) or Middle Low German docke (“dock, wharf”), both from Middle Dutch docke (“port, harbour”), of uncertain origin. The original sense may have been "the furrow a grounded vessel makes in a mud bank". Compare Danish dok, Dutch dok, West Frisian dok, German Dock, Low German Dock, Swedish docka. Some sources link this word to an unattested Middle Dutch *docke (“watercourse, trench, canal”), which is a ghost word, only being inferred from Mediaeval Latin documents in the form of ducta, doctus, doccia (“conduit, canal”). However, if this theory is correct, then it would relate the word to Italian doccia (“drainpipe”), making dock a doublet of douche and duct. An alternative theory ties Middle Dutch docke to a North Germanic or Scandinavian source, notably Old Norse dǫkk, dökð (“depression in the landscape, pit, pool, trench”); compare Icelandic dökk, Norwegian dokk (“hollow, low ground”), Swedish dank (“marshy ground”). If so, this would make dock a doublet of dank. Pronunciation: /dɒk/, /dɔk/, /dɑk/ 1. A fixed structure attached to shore to which a vessel is secured when in port; usually for loading and unloading. Labels: US Example: With just the turn of a shoulder she indicated the water front, where, at the end of the dock on which they stood, lay the good ship, Mount Vernon, river packet, the black smoke already pouring from her stacks. 2. The body of water next to and around a pier. Labels: UK 3. The area of arrival and departure of a train in a railway station. 4. A section of a hotel or restaurant. Example: coffee dock 5. A device designed as a base for holding a connected portable appliance for providing the necessary electrical charge for its autonomy, or as a hardware extension for additional capabilities. 6. A toolbar that provides the user with a way of launching applications by their icons, and switching between running applications. 7. An act or instance of docking; joining two things together. 8. Ellipsis of scene-dock. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis
Word: dock Part of Speech: verb Etymology: A laptop docking (etymology 3, noun sense 5) station A GUI dock (etymology 3, noun sense 6) on Linux From Early Modern English meaning "area of mud in which a ship can rest at low tide, dock", borrowed from either Dutch dok (“dock, wharf”) or Middle Low German docke (“dock, wharf”), both from Middle Dutch docke (“port, harbour”), of uncertain origin. The original sense may have been "the furrow a grounded vessel makes in a mud bank". Compare Danish dok, Dutch dok, West Frisian dok, German Dock, Low German Dock, Swedish docka. Some sources link this word to an unattested Middle Dutch *docke (“watercourse, trench, canal”), which is a ghost word, only being inferred from Mediaeval Latin documents in the form of ducta, doctus, doccia (“conduit, canal”). However, if this theory is correct, then it would relate the word to Italian doccia (“drainpipe”), making dock a doublet of douche and duct. An alternative theory ties Middle Dutch docke to a North Germanic or Scandinavian source, notably Old Norse dǫkk, dökð (“depression in the landscape, pit, pool, trench”); compare Icelandic dökk, Norwegian dokk (“hollow, low ground”), Swedish dank (“marshy ground”). If so, this would make dock a doublet of dank. Pronunciation: /dɒk/, /dɔk/, /dɑk/ 1. To land at a harbour. Labels: intransitive Example: On 28 February, for example, a US Navy ship docked in Nampo, the port for Pyongyang, with equipment for joint searches for remains of US soldiers missing from the 1950-1953 Korean War. China may look askance at the US and North Korean militaries working together like this. 2. To join two moving items. Example: to dock spacecraft Example: A “moving platform” scheme[…]is more technologically ambitious than maglev trains even though it relies on conventional rails. Local trains would use side-by-side rails to roll alongside intercity trains and allow passengers to switch trains by stepping through docking bays. 3. To move a spaceship into its dock/berth under its own power. 4. In male homosexual sex, to engage in docking, the inserting of the tip of one participant's penis into the foreskin of the other participant. Labels: intransitive, slang, vulgar 5. To drag a user interface element (such as a toolbar) to a position on screen where it snaps into place. Labels: transitive 6. To place (an electronic device) in its dock. Labels: transitive Example: I docked the laptop and allowed it to recharge for an hour.
Word: dock Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Originally criminal slang; from or akin to obsolete Dutch (West Flemish) dok (“cage, hutch”) or docke (“cage”), possibly from Middle Dutch docke (“block, wooden object”), related to Middle Low German docke (“tenon, banister rod, bench cheek, side panel of a pew”), of uncertain origin. Pronunciation: /dɒk/, /dɔk/, /dɑk/ 1. Part of a courtroom where the accused sits.
Word: artist Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂er- Proto-Indo-European *h₂értis Proto-Italic *artis Latin ars Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō) Proto-Hellenic *-tās Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs) Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)bor. Latin -ista Late Latin artistader. French artisteder. English artist From French artiste, from Late Latin artista, from ars (“art”). Doublet of artiste. Displaced native Old English cræftiga. By surface analysis, art + -ist. Pronunciation: /ˈɑːtɪst/, /ˈɑɹ.tɪst/, [ˈɑɹ.ɾɪst] 1. A person who creates art. 2. A person who creates art. 3. A person who is skilled at some activity. Labels: in-compounds, often 4. A recording artist. 5. A person who creates visual art (in contrast to literature, music etc.)
Word: artist Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂er- Proto-Indo-European *h₂értis Proto-Italic *artis Latin ars Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō) Proto-Hellenic *-tās Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs) Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)bor. Latin -ista Late Latin artistader. French artisteder. English artist From French artiste, from Late Latin artista, from ars (“art”). Doublet of artiste. Displaced native Old English cræftiga. By surface analysis, art + -ist. Pronunciation: /ˈɑːtɪst/, /ˈɑɹ.tɪst/, [ˈɑɹ.ɾɪst] 1. Artistic. Labels: archaic Example: Nature, to shew that nothing is savage in whatsoever she produceth, causeth oftentimes, even in rudest and most unarted nations, productions of spirits to arise, that confront and wrestle with the most artist productions.
Word: prostitution Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Late Latin prostitutio. Equivalent to prostitute + -ion. Pronunciation: /ˌprɒstɪˈt͡ʃuːʃn/, /prɒstɪˈtjuːʃn/ 1. Engaging in sexual activity with another person for pay. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: His addiction brought him to the point that prostitution was the only means he had to survive. Example: Sir Howard by his arts stole from them this their only treasure, and to conceal from them the baseness of his despicable seduction, removed to a distance the deluded couple,—loaded them with his favours,—the wages of their child's prostitution. 2. Engaging in sexual activity with another person in exchange for goods (not necessarily money) or services. Labels: broadly, uncountable, usually 3. Debasement for profit or impure motives. Labels: broadly, uncountable, usually Example: The television advertising job was a prostitution of the talents of one of the great writers of the century.
Word: U.S. Part of Speech: name 1. Alternative spelling of US. Labels: US, alt-of, alternative Example: Russian officials have raised increasingly frustrated requests for greater support during discussions with Beijing in recent weeks, calling on China to live up to its affirmation of a “no limits” partnership made weeks before the war in Ukraine began. But China’s leadership wants to expand assistance for Russia without running afoul of Western sanctions and has set limits on what it will do, according to Chinese and U.S. officials.
Word: stake Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English stake, from Old English staca (“pin, tack, stake”), from Proto-West Germanic *stakō, from Proto-Germanic *stakô (“stake”), from Proto-Indo-European *stog-, *steg- (“stake”). Cognate with Scots stak, staik, Saterland Frisian Stak, West Frisian staak, Dutch staak, Low German Stake, Norwegian stake, Spanish estaca. Pronunciation: /steɪk/ 1. A piece of wood or other material, usually long and slender, pointed at one end so as to be easily driven into the ground as a marker or a support or stay. Example: We have surveyor's stakes at all four corners of this field, to mark exactly its borders. Example: A sharpened stake strong Dryas found. 2. A piece of wood driven in the ground, placed in the middle of the court, that is used as the finishing point after scoring 12 hoops in croquet. 3. A stick or similar object (e.g., steel channel or angle stock) inserted upright in a lop, eye, or mortise, at the side or end of a cart, flat car, flatbed trailer, or the like, to prevent goods from falling off; often connected in a grid forming a stakebody. 4. The piece of timber to which a person condemned to death was affixed to be burned. Labels: with-definite-article Example: Thomas Cranmer was burnt at the stake. Example: However, the word "witch" came to be applied almost exclusively to women who [...] were usually old and ugly, and for this reason many unfortunate old ladies, whose only crimes were loneliness and a lack of beauty, went to the stake. 5. A share or interest in a business or a given situation. Example: The owners let the managers eventually earn a stake in the business. Example: The French Government is Eurostar's majority shareholder, with the country's state-owned railway SNCF holding a 55% stake, while Belgian state operator SNCB has a 5% stake. 6. That which is laid down as a wager; that which is staked or hazarded; a pledge. 7. A small anvil usually furnished with a tang to enter a hole in a bench top, as used by tinsmiths, blacksmiths, etc., for light work, punching hole in or cutting a work piece, or for specific forming techniques etc. 8. A territorial division comprising all the Mormons (typically several thousand) in a geographical area. Labels: Mormonism Example: Every city, or stake, including a chief town and surrounding towns, has its president, with two counselors; and this president has a high council of chosen men.
Word: stake Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English stake, from Old English staca (“pin, tack, stake”), from Proto-West Germanic *stakō, from Proto-Germanic *stakô (“stake”), from Proto-Indo-European *stog-, *steg- (“stake”). Cognate with Scots stak, staik, Saterland Frisian Stak, West Frisian staak, Dutch staak, Low German Stake, Norwegian stake, Spanish estaca. Pronunciation: /steɪk/ 1. To fasten, support, defend, or delineate with stakes. Labels: transitive Example: to stake vines or plants 2. To pierce or wound with a stake. Labels: transitive Example: You see, I'd made a bargain with him to buy the horse for a hundred and twenty—a swinging price, but I always liked the horse. And what does he do but go and stake him—fly at a hedge with stakes in it, atop of a bank with a ditch before it. Example: “You ladies happen to notice what happened to this vampire? This just happened. Did you see who staked him?” 3. To put at risk upon success in competition, or upon a future contingency. Labels: transitive Example: I'll ſtake my Lamb that near the Fountain plays, / And from the Brink his dancing Shade ſurveys. 4. To provide (another) with money in order to engage in an activity as betting or a business venture. Labels: transitive Example: John went broke, so to keep him playing, Jill had to stake him. Example: His family staked him $10,000 to get his business started. 5. To deposit and risk a considerable amount of cryptocurrency in order to participate in the proof of stake process of verification. Example: Any peer can participate in the mining process by staking coins in order to validate a new transaction. To become a miner, there are two options; you can stake your coins to be used by a trustworthy node […], or you can submit a full node to be selected as a miner.
Word: ch. Part of Speech: noun 1. Abbreviation of church. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of 2. Abbreviation of chapter. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of
Word: bric-a-brac Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from French bric-à-brac (“miscellaneous items of little value”), apparently from à bricq et à bracq (“at random; haphazardly”); bricq and bracq are expressive onomatopoeias of obscure origin. Pronunciation: /ˈbɹɪkəbɹæk/, /ˈbɹɪkəˌbɹæk/ 1. Small ornaments and other miscellaneous display items of little value. Labels: also, attributive, uncountable, usually Example: The palace of Versailles has been turned into a bricabrac shop, of late years; and its time-honoured walls have been covered with many thousand yards of the worst pictures that eye ever looked on. Example: No doubt her pleasure would have been at that moment to give him not only that gold which she had been saving up against rent-day, but the spoons, the furniture, and all the valuables of the house, including, perhaps, J. J.'s bricabrac, cabinets, china, and so forth. 2. Any collection containing a variety of miscellaneous items; a hodgepodge, an olio. Labels: also, attributive, broadly, uncountable, usually Example: Yes: I think he is a good fellow: rather miscellaneous and bric-à-brac, but likable.
Word: coupon Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From French coupon, from couper (“to cut”). Pronunciation: /ˈkuːˌpɒn/, /ˈkuːpən/, /ˈkuːˌpɔ̃/, /ˈkuːˌpɑn/, /ˈkjuːˌpɑn/ 1. A section of a ticket, showing the holder to be entitled to some specified accommodation or service, as to a passage over a designated line of travel, a particular seat in a theater, a discount, etc. 2. A voucher issued by a manufacturer or retailer which offers a discount on a particular product. 3. A certificate of interest due, printed at the bottom of transferable bonds (state, railroad, etc.), given for a term of years, designed to be cut off and presented for payment when the interest is due; an interest warrant. Labels: obsolete 4. Any interest payment made or due on a bond, debenture or similar (no longer by a physical coupon). 5. The letter sent to parliamentary candidates at the 1918 general election, endorsing them as official representatives of the coalition government. Labels: UK, historical 6. A person's face. Labels: Scotland 7. A small sample of a bulk material, prepared so that test failure will be representative.
Word: coupon Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From French coupon, from couper (“to cut”). Pronunciation: /ˈkuːˌpɒn/, /ˈkuːpən/, /ˈkuːˌpɔ̃/, /ˈkuːˌpɑn/, /ˈkjuːˌpɑn/ 1. To use coupons to a such extent that makes the user actively looking for coupons in magazines, online and whatever they can be found. Example: Jenna coupons and she goes through three magazines a day to find the coupons.
Word: take up Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of take-up. Labels: alt-of, alternative, countable, uncountable Example: In America alone, people spent $170 billion on “direct marketing”—junk mail of both the physical and electronic varieties—last year. Yet of those who received unsolicited adverts through the post, only 3% bought anything as a result. If the bumf arrived electronically, the take-up rate was 0.1%. And for online adverts the “conversion” into sales was a minuscule 0.01%.
Word: stitch Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English sticchen, stichen, from Old English *stiċċan, stiċċian, from Proto-Germanic *stikjaną (“to stab, stick, prick”), influenced by the noun (see above). Pronunciation: /stɪt͡ʃ/ 1. To form stitches in; especially, to sew in such a manner as to show on the surface a continuous line of stitches. Example: to stitch a shirt bosom. 2. To sew, or unite or attach by stitches. Example: to stitch printed sheets in making a book or a pamphlet. Example: With such focus from within the footballing community this week on Remembrance Sunday, there was something appropriate about Colchester being the venue for last night’s game. Troops from the garrison town formed a guard of honour for both sets of players, who emerged for the national anthem with poppies proudly stitched into their tracksuit jackets. 3. To practice/practise stitching or needlework. Labels: intransitive 4. To form land into ridges. 5. To weld together through a series of connecting or overlapping spot welds. Example: You can prevent warping and get a very strong weld by stitching your pieces together. Example: For example, the butt joint can be welded with the continuous technique or the stitch technique. 6. To include, combine, or unite into a single whole. Example: Whereas liturgically, in the sacramental narrative of the Cross, worshippers are stitched into a salvation story, cinema spectators are stitched into a narrative in which the ordinary guy overcomes the Other in an extraordinary situation. Example: However, it is the depth and breadth of your scholarship, your incisive and decisive writing, your numerous books exemplifying this masterful craftsmanship (I stopped counting after nineteen), your wit, and your relentless resolve to listen and get it right that are now stitched into my memories. 7. To include, combine, or unite into a single whole. Example: I can use this software to stitch together a panorama. 8. To include, combine, or unite into a single whole. Example: One site, PearPop.com, hooks TikTok or Instagram influencers up with fans to create duetted or stitched videos that fans pay for. This can be an effective way to build followers fast.⁹ Model Leah Svoboda added 120,000 followers after a PearPop duet with megainfluencer Anna Shumate.¹⁰ Example: She talks briefly about their park picnic and then inserts a cliffhanger: “I’m going to stitch this when we’re either in a relationship or he absolutely obliterates my self-esteem.” (Stitch is a creation tool that allows users to add new content to an existing video.)
Word: agric. Part of Speech: noun 1. Abbreviation of agriculture. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of
Word: agric. Part of Speech: adj 1. Abbreviation of agricultural. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, not-comparable
Word: agriculture Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Middle French agriculturebor. Proto-Indo-European *h₂eǵ-? Proto-Indo-European *h₂éǵros Proto-Italic *agros Latin ager Proto-Indo-European *kʷelh₁- Proto-Indo-European *-eti Proto-Indo-European *kʷélh₁eti Proto-Italic *kʷelō Latin colō Proto-Indo-European *-tew-? Proto-Indo-European *-r-eh₂? Latin -tūra Latin cultūra Latin agricultūrabor. Middle English agriculture English agriculture From Middle English agriculture, partly from Middle French agriculture and partly from its etymon Latin agricultūra, from ager (“field”) + cultūra (“cultivation”). See acre and culture. Pronunciation: /ˈæɡ.ɹɪˌkʌl.tʃə/, /ˈæɡ.ɹɪˌkʌl.tʃɚ/, /ˈæɡ.ɹəˌkʌl.tʃɚ/, /ˈeɪ̯ɡ.ɹɪˌkʌl.tʃɚ/, /ˈeɪ̯ɡ.ɹəˌkʌl.tʃɚ/ 1. The art or science of cultivating the ground, including the growing and harvesting of crops, and the rearing and management of livestock. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Meronyms: tillage, cropping Example: Near-synonym: husbandry
Word: lottery Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Italian lotteria, from the same root as Old English hlot (cognate with English lot). Compare French loterie (from Middle Dutch loterie). By surface analysis, lot + -ery. Pronunciation: /ˈlɒtəɹi/, /ˈlɒtɹi/, /ˈlɑtɚi/ 1. A scheme for the distribution of prizes by lot or chance, especially a gaming scheme in which one or more tickets bearing particular numbers draw prizes, the other tickets are blanks. Example: Dave plays the lottery almost every week, but always picks different numbers. 2. Something decided by chance. Labels: figuratively Example: It's a bit of a lottery whether we'll get a good table in that diner. 3. Allotment; a thing allotted. Labels: obsolete
Word: testament Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English testament, from Old French testament, from Latin testāmentum (“the publication of a will, a will, testament, in Late Latin one of the divisions of the Bible”), from testor (“to be a witness, testify, attest, make a will”), from testis (“one who attests, a witness”). Displaced native Old English ġecȳþnes. Pronunciation: /ˈtɛs.tə.mənt/, /ˈtes.tə.mənt/ 1. A solemn, authentic instrument in writing, by which a person declares his or her will as to disposal of his or her inheritance (estate and effects) after his or her death, benefiting specified heir(s). 2. One of the two parts to the scriptures of the Christian religion: the New Testament, considered by Christians to be a continuation of the Hebrew scriptures, and the Hebrew scriptures themselves, which they refer to as the Old Testament. 3. A tangible proof or tribute. Example: The ancient aqueducts are a testament to the great engineering skill of the Roman Empire. Example: His remarkable recovery is a testament to the doctor's skill. 4. A credo, expression of conviction. Example: The prime minister's speech was a glowing testament to the cabinet's undying commitment to the royal cause.
Word: testament Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English testament, from Old French testament, from Latin testāmentum (“the publication of a will, a will, testament, in Late Latin one of the divisions of the Bible”), from testor (“to be a witness, testify, attest, make a will”), from testis (“one who attests, a witness”). Displaced native Old English ġecȳþnes. Pronunciation: /ˈtɛs.tə.mənt/, /ˈtes.tə.mənt/ 1. To make a will. Labels: intransitive 2. To bequeath or leave by will. Labels: transitive
Word: nuncupative Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English nuncupatif, nuncupatife, from Middle French nuncupatif and its etymon Latin nuncupātīvus (“nominal”). Pronunciation: /ˈnʌŋkjʊˌpeɪtɪv/, /ˈnʌŋkjəˌpeɪtɪv/, /ˈnʌn.kjʊˌpeɪtɪv/, /ˈnʌn.kjəˌpeɪtɪv/, /ˈnʌŋkjʊpətɪv/ 1. Oral; not written. Labels: not-comparable Example: a nuncupative will, i.e. one made by word of mouth only, and depending on oral testimony for proof 2. Publicly or solemnly declaratory. Labels: not-comparable, obsolete 3. Nominal; existing only in name. Labels: not-comparable, obsolete
Word: proof Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English proof, from Old French prove, from Late Latin proba (“a proof”), from Latin probō (“to prove”); see prove; compare also the doublet probe. Pronunciation: /pɹuːf/, /pɹuf/, /pɹʉːf/ 1. Used in proving or testing. Example: a proof load; a proof charge 2. Firm or successful in resisting. Example: proof against harm Example: waterproof; bombproof 3. Being of a certain standard as to alcohol content. Example: 60% proof liquor
Word: proof Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English proof, from Old French prove, from Late Latin proba (“a proof”), from Latin probō (“to prove”); see prove; compare also the doublet probe. Pronunciation: /pɹuːf/, /pɹuf/, /pɹʉːf/ 1. To proofread. Labels: colloquial, intransitive, transitive 2. To make resistant, especially to water. Labels: transitive 3. To test-fire with a load considerably more powerful than the firearm in question's rated maximum chamber pressure, in order to establish the firearm's ability to withstand pressures well in excess of those expected in service without bursting. Labels: transitive 4. To allow (yeast-containing dough) to rise, especially after it has been shaped Labels: transitive Example: dough proofing 5. To test the activeness of (yeast). Labels: transitive Example: yeast proofing
Word: math. Part of Speech: noun 1. Abbreviation of mathematics. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, uncountable
Word: waterproof Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From water + -proof. Compare West Frisian wetterproef (“waterproof”), Dutch waterproef (“waterproof”). Pronunciation: /ˈwɔːtəˌpruːf/, /ˈwɔt̬ɚˌpruf/, /ˈwɑ(ː)t̬ɚ-/ 1. Resistant to the effects of water. Labels: broadly 2. Made of or covered with material that doesn't allow water in; impervious to water and immune to its effects. Example: The captain did a safety drill. This covered where the emergency position-indicating radio beacon (EPIRB) was located, how to make a mayday call, and where the fire extinguishers were. A crew member demonstrated how to put on an immersion suit. These survival suits are waterproof full-body garments with a hood and integral three-finger gloves and boots. They are bulky and hard to get on but far more likely to save your life in cold water than a lifejacket. 3. Incapable of failing; unassailable. Labels: figuratively Example: The only waterproof plan and the one increasingly adopted by leading trades is the consolidation of the interests of all parties in a scheme of amalgamation. Example: Especially within an international framework, guarding this process is of the utmost importance. The eyes of the world are focussed on the action at hand and demand a waterproof plan and execution. 4. Not dependent on an aquatic environment to live; thus, able to live on dry land, or at least in a semiaquatic environment. Labels: uncommon Example: At the time the Burgess Shale was laid down, life on land was pretty unexciting – there were a few primitive clubmosses and liverworts growing in wet areas near water, but little else. There would also have been a strand-line of washed-up plants and animals, edible detritus that was tantalisingly out of reach of the water-bound animals of the day. Inevitably, before long some arthropods began to drag themselves ashore to take advantage of these untapped resources. Their external skeletons, which perhaps originally evolved as a defence against predators, helped to support their bodies on land, giving them an edge in colonisation there over soft-bodied sea animals such as jellyfish and worms. To start with, these animals would presumably have been poorly waterproofed and had to return to water very regularly to prevent themselves drying out; or they would have had to stay in the dampest places, amongst rotting weed or damp moss. […] As the plants slowly adapted to life on land and spread away from the seas, they also grew taller as the competition for light intensified. To follow them, the animals had to improve their waterproofing. Some animal groups never really got the hang of this; for example, the few crustaceans that successfully invaded land, such as woodlice, are restricted to damp places to this day. Others, such as arachnids, evolved more-or-less waterproof cuticles and eggs, so that they were able to leave water far behind and occupy even the most inhospitable, arid environments on Earth.
Word: waterproof Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From water + -proof. Compare West Frisian wetterproef (“waterproof”), Dutch waterproef (“waterproof”). Pronunciation: /ˈwɔːtəˌpruːf/, /ˈwɔt̬ɚˌpruf/, /ˈwɑ(ː)t̬ɚ-/ 1. To make waterproof or water-resistant. Example: The dawn of the oil age was fairly recent. Although the stuff was used to waterproof boats in the Middle East 6,000 years ago, extracting it in earnest began only in 1859 after an oil strike in Pennsylvania. The first barrels of crude fetched $18 (around $450 at today’s prices).
Word: waterproof Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From water + -proof. Compare West Frisian wetterproef (“waterproof”), Dutch waterproef (“waterproof”). Pronunciation: /ˈwɔːtəˌpruːf/, /ˈwɔt̬ɚˌpruf/, /ˈwɑ(ː)t̬ɚ-/ 1. A substance or preparation for rendering cloth, leather, etc., impervious to water. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. Cloth made waterproof, or any article made of such cloth, or of other waterproof material, as rubber; especially, an outer garment made of such material. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Carrados dropped the near window as a man in glistening waterproof stepped from the shelter of a lich-gate and approached.
Word: engin. Part of Speech: noun 1. Abbreviation of engineering. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, uncountable
Word: engineering Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From engineer + -ing. Pronunciation: /ˌɛn(d)ʒɪˈnɪə.ɹɪŋ/, /ˌɛn.d͡ʒɪˈnɪ(ə)ɹ.ɪŋ/ 1. present participle and gerund of engineer Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: engineering Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From engineer + -ing. Pronunciation: /ˌɛn(d)ʒɪˈnɪə.ɹɪŋ/, /ˌɛn.d͡ʒɪˈnɪ(ə)ɹ.ɪŋ/ 1. The application of mathematics and the physical sciences to the needs of humanity and the development of technology. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: One of the hidden glories of Victorian engineering is proper drains. Isolating a city’s effluent and shipping it away in underground sewers has probably saved more lives than any medical procedure except vaccination. 2. The area aboard a ship where the engine is located. Labels: uncountable, usually 3. Actions controling the motion, shape, or substance of any physical object(s). Labels: uncountable, usually 4. Designates the office area of the professional engineering staff. Labels: uncountable, usually
Word: liquor Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English licour, from Anglo-Norman licour, from Latin liquor (“fluidity, liquidness, a fluid, a liquid”), from liquere (“to be fluid or liquid”); see liquid. Doublet of liqueur. Pronunciation: /ˈlɪk.ə(ɹ)/, /ˈlɪk.ɚ/ 1. A liquid, a fluid. Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable Example: Thus Water also, or any other Liquor, included in a convenient vessel, by being warmed, manifestly expands it self with a very great violence […] Example: Dreaming when Dawn's Left Hand was in the Sky I heard a Voice within the Tavern cry, "Awake, my Little ones, and fill the Cup Before Life's Liquor in its Cup be dry." 2. A beverage, any drinkable liquid. Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable 3. A liquid obtained by cooking meat or vegetables (or both). Labels: countable, uncountable 4. A parsley sauce commonly served with traditional pies and mash. Labels: UK, countable, uncountable 5. Strong (high-ABV) alcoholic drink derived from fermentation and distillation. Labels: Australia, Canada, US, countable, uncountable Example: Here the proprietor has had the good sense of holding on to the good old fashion of giving his customers their moneyworth of good wines and liquors. 6. Any alcoholic beverage. Labels: broadly, countable, uncountable 7. In process industry, a liquid in which a desired reaction takes place, e.g. pulping liquor is a mixture of chemicals and water which breaks wood into its components, thus facilitating the extraction of cellulose. Labels: countable, uncountable 8. A liquid in which something has been steeped. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: liquor Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English licour, from Anglo-Norman licour, from Latin liquor (“fluidity, liquidness, a fluid, a liquid”), from liquere (“to be fluid or liquid”); see liquid. Doublet of liqueur. Pronunciation: /ˈlɪk.ə(ɹ)/, /ˈlɪk.ɚ/ 1. To drink liquor, usually to excess. Labels: intransitive 2. To cause someone to drink liquor, usually to excess. Labels: transitive 3. To grease. Labels: obsolete, transitive Example: Liquor fishermen's boots. Example: cart-wheels squeak not when they are liquored
Word: chinchilla Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish chinchilla. Pronunciation: /t͡ʃɪnˈt͡ʃɪlə/ 1. A small, crepuscular rodent of the genus Chinchilla, native to the Andes Mountains, prized for their very soft fur and often kept as pets. Labels: countable Example: It's important to put a lot of thought into owning a chinchilla since they have a considerably long lifespan of 10 to 20 years. Chinchillas are most widely known for their exceptional fur coat. Example: Chinchillas inhabit high elevations (3,000–5,000m) of the Chilean Andes Mountains. The chinchillas kept as pet or research animals in North America are all descendents^([sic]) of 13 founders wild caught in 1927. 2. The fur of a chinchilla, used for clothing. Labels: uncountable 3. A variety of Persian cat with white fur and green eyes. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: chipmunk Part of Speech: noun Etymology: 1832; alteration (influenced by chipping squirrel) of earlier chitmunk, from older Ojibwe ačitamo˙nˀ (“squirrels”) (modern ajidamoo), literally ‘those who descend headlong’, from ačit- (“headfirst, face-down”) (compare modern ajijibizo (“he falls headfirst”), ajidagoojin (“he hangs upside down”)). The English verb developed due to the high-pitched voices of the American puppet and cartoon chipmunks in the group Alvin and the Chipmunks, who later starred in a popular children's TV show in the 1980s. Pronunciation: /ˈt͡ʃɪp.mʌŋk/, /ˈt͡ʃɪt.mʌŋk/, [ˈt̠͡ʃɪʔmʌŋk] 1. Any of the subtribe Tamiina of small, striped rodents; they are found in North America, with the exception of the Siberian chipmunk which is found primarily in Asia.
Word: chipmunk Part of Speech: verb Etymology: 1832; alteration (influenced by chipping squirrel) of earlier chitmunk, from older Ojibwe ačitamo˙nˀ (“squirrels”) (modern ajidamoo), literally ‘those who descend headlong’, from ačit- (“headfirst, face-down”) (compare modern ajijibizo (“he falls headfirst”), ajidagoojin (“he hangs upside down”)). The English verb developed due to the high-pitched voices of the American puppet and cartoon chipmunks in the group Alvin and the Chipmunks, who later starred in a popular children's TV show in the 1980s. Pronunciation: /ˈt͡ʃɪp.mʌŋk/, /ˈt͡ʃɪt.mʌŋk/, [ˈt̠͡ʃɪʔmʌŋk] 1. To speed up (an audio recording, especially a song), to make the voices high-pitched. Labels: transitive Example: The Dipset capo favors breezy, bass-heavy beats instead of chipmunked soul samples to celebrate the 'hood's favorite season. 2. To fill (one's mouth or cheeks) with food. Labels: transitive Example: Less than a minute to go and she's chewing almost viciously, her stuffed cheeks all chipmunked out like Dizzy Gillespie's in midsolo. 3. To stuff (food) into one's mouth or cheeks, sometimes as part of competitive eating. Labels: transitive Example: She chipmunked her breakfast into a porcelain cheek.
Word: deg. Part of Speech: noun 1. Abbreviation of degree or degrees. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of Example: From this, you may judge of the enervating effect of this climate, being 5 deg. above bloodheat, and if it were always so, it would be indeed unbearable […]
Word: coypu Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Spanish coipú, from Mapudungun koypu. Pronunciation: /ˈkɔɪ.pu/ 1. A large, crepuscular, semiaquatic rodent (Myocastor coypus) resembling a large rat, having bright orange-yellow incisors, native to South America and introduced to Europe, Asia and North America, valued for its fur in eastern Europe and central Asia and considered a pest elsewhere. Example: We are walking south-west, down a gently increasing slope, with the old farm buildings of the tiny hamlet of Villemiers [in the department of Charente] visible on the other side of the valley a kilometre away. The Transon [a tributary of the river Charente] meanders in the bottom of the valley below, a lazy trickle of a stream with small muddy pools at intervals, home to numerous coypu, a South American rodent that escaped from fur-farms long ago and has found a home-from-home in the many rivers and lakes of the Charente. They are semi-aquatic, resembling beavers in all but their long, rat-like tails. They can be something of a nuisance, as they are great burrowers, creating huge holes in the banks just on the waterline, which does little harm in a stream, but can be disastrous in a man-made lake, since their burrows can puncture the dam.
Word: Celsius Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Named after Swedish astronomer Anders Celsius (1701–1744), who first proposed the centigrade scale in 1742. The surname is Latinized from the estate's name, Latin celsus (“mound”). Pronunciation: /ˈsɛl.siəs/, /ˈsɛl.ʃəs/ 1. Relating to the metric temperature scale of said name. Labels: not-comparable
Word: Celsius Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Named after Swedish astronomer Anders Celsius (1701–1744), who first proposed the centigrade scale in 1742. The surname is Latinized from the estate's name, Latin celsus (“mound”). Pronunciation: /ˈsɛl.siəs/, /ˈsɛl.ʃəs/ 1. Ellipsis of degree Celsius. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis, informal Example: Water boils at 100 Celsius.
Word: Celsius Part of Speech: name Etymology: Named after Swedish astronomer Anders Celsius (1701–1744), who first proposed the centigrade scale in 1742. The surname is Latinized from the estate's name, Latin celsus (“mound”). Pronunciation: /ˈsɛl.siəs/, /ˈsɛl.ʃəs/ 1. A surname in Swedish
Word: nutria Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Spanish nutria (“otter”), from Latin lutra. 1. The coypu, Myocastor coypus. Labels: Canada, US, countable, uncountable Example: 1986, Identifying and Managing Aquatic Rodents in Texas, Texas Agricultural Extension Service, page 13, Nutria are native to South America and were successfully established in North America in the early 1930s as a new furbearing species. Example: Furthermore, nutria engage in the outright destruction of muskrat lodges to create nesting habitat for themselves. 2. The fur of the coypu. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: jerboa Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Arabic جَرْبُوع (jarbūʕ) or يَرْبُوع (yarbūʕ). Doublet of gerbil. Pronunciation: /dʒɜː(ɹ)ˈbəʊ.ə/ 1. Any of a number of species comprising the family Dipodidae, native to the deserts of Asia and northern Africa, being a small, jumping rodent with a long tufted tail, very small forefeet and very long hind legs. Example: The Arabs, who are forbidden all other kinds of mice, esteem these the greatest delicacies: as those people often are disappointed in digging after them, they have this proverb, "To buy a hole instead of a jerboa." Example: The permanent burrows may have emergency exits — side tunnels ending at or near the surface — through which the jerboa "bursts" when threatened by a predator. Jerboas often lie on their side when sleeping in the burrow in order to better accommodate their long legs.
Word: pacarana Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Portuguese and Spanish pacarana. From Old Tupi [Term?] (“false paca”). 1. A large, rare, slow-moving rodent, Dinomys branickii, with a thick, furry tail, native to South America, the second-largest rodent after the capybara.
Word: Count Branicki's mouse Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Named for Hieronim Florian Radziwill Konstanty, Count Branicki, a Polish nobleman. The species is not a mouse, but is in the order Rodentia. The genus name Dinomys comes from Ancient Greek δεινός (deinós, “terrible”) + μῦς (mûs, “mouse”). 1. The pacarana, Dinomys branickii.
Word: sirup Part of Speech: noun 1. Dated form of syrup. Labels: alt-of, countable, dated, uncountable Example: The guava […] is seldom eaten except when preserved with sirup or sugar. Example: Honey, maple sirup or sugar, molasses, and various commercial sirups can well be used in the place of cane or beet sugar.
Word: sirup Part of Speech: verb 1. Dated form of syrup. Labels: alt-of, dated
Word: spare change Part of Speech: noun 1. Synonym of small change (“coins in the pocket, ready to spend”). Labels: colloquial, uncountable Example: Got any spare change for a cup of coffee, guv? Example: I had a bit of cash on me, but no spare change. 2. Synonym of small change (“insignificant amount of money”). Labels: colloquial, uncountable Example: The cost of an opulent wedding is spare change to a millionaire.
Word: F. Part of Speech: adj 1. Fahrenheit. Labels: not-comparable 2. French. Labels: not-comparable 3. Federal, in some legal citation formats. Labels: not-comparable
Word: F. Part of Speech: name 1. French.
Word: F. Part of Speech: adv 1. And the following (page) - used in indexes. Labels: not-comparable
Word: sp. Part of Speech: noun 1. Abbreviation of spelling, often used when correcting or questioning one's own spelling. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of Example: I hate you when your^([sic]) being hopelessly super-male and retiscent^([sic – meaning reticent]) (sp.?).
Word: paca Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Via Spanish paca and Portuguese paca, from Paraguayan Guarani paka. Pronunciation: /ˈpækə/ 1. Any of the large rodents of the genus Cuniculus (but see also its synonyms), native to Central America and South America, which have dark brown or black fur, a white or yellowish underbelly and rows of white spots along the sides.
Word: prairie dog Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From prairie + dog, after their yelping alarm calls. 1. Any of genus Cynomys, small, stout-bodied burrowing rodents with shallow cheek pouches, native to North America and Central America.
Word: prairie dog Part of Speech: verb Etymology: By analogy with the animal's unburrowing behavior. 1. To pop up from a hole or analogous orifice in a manner that resembles the way a prairie dog pops its head up from its burrow. Labels: ambitransitive, idiomatic Example: Near-synonym: emerge Example: People prairie-dog over the tops of their cubicles and call to their co-workers: “Hey, you going for a walk at lunch today?” 2. To struggle to hold back an imminent bowel movement. Labels: ambitransitive, broadly, euphemistic, idiomatic, slang, vulgar Example: 2001, Andy Breckman, Rat Race [Kimberly needs to go to the bathroom] Dad, I'm prairie dogging it! What the hell does that mean? You know, like when a prairie dog sticks his head in and out of the ground. Example: I'm about to crap my pants. Je vais me faire au froc. I'm prairie-dogging it. J'ai le cigare au bout des lèvres. Literally, “the cigar is at the edge of my lips”