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Word: perennial Part of Speech: noun Etymology: The adjective is borrowed from Latin perennis (“lasting through the whole year or for several years, perennial; continual, everlasting, perpetual”) + English -al (suffix meaning ‘of or pertaining to’ forming adjectives). Perennis is derived from per- (“completive or intensifying prefix with the sense of doing something all the way through or entirely”) + annus (“year; season, time”) (possibly ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂et- (“to go”)). By surface analysis, per- + -ennial. The noun is derived from the adjective. Cognates * Middle French pérenne (modern French pérenne (“lasting through the whole year, perennial”)) * Italian perenne (“lasting for a long time”) * Spanish perenne (“eternal; permanent; a perennial plant”) Pronunciation: /pəˈɹɛn.ɪ.əl/, /pəˈɹɛn.j(ə)l/, /pəˈɹɛn.i.əl/ 1. A plant that is active throughout the year, or has a life cycle of more than two growing seasons. Example: One would have supposed from the appearance of the country at the end of the first season after the eruption that practically all plants except the trees and bushes had been destroyed, and that revegetation must be due to new seedlings started on the ash. Such, however, is not the case. Excavation of the root systems of the new plants shows that they are old perennials which have come through the ash from the old soil. 2. A thing that lasts forever. Labels: broadly 3. A person or thing (such as a problem) that appears or returns regularly. Labels: broadly Example: Some of the stars on our list are perennials who fill huge venues year after year after year, but there's also a returning superstar on our list of the hottest summer tours of 2019.
Word: hamlet Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ḱey- Proto-Indo-European *-mos Proto-Indo-European *ḱóymos Proto-Indo-European *tḱóymos Proto-Germanic *haimaz Frankish *haimbor. Old French ham Old French hamel Old French hameletbor. Middle English hamlet English hamlet From Middle English hamlet, hamelet, a borrowing from Old French hamelet, diminutive of Old French hamel, in turn diminutive of Old French ham, of Germanic origin, from Frankish *haim, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *haimaz (whence English home). Equivalent to Middle English ham (“home, village”) + -let (“small”). Pronunciation: /ˈhæm.lɪt/, /ˈhæm.lət/ 1. A small settlement or a group of houses, often defined as a settlement smaller than a village. Example: Coal′brookdale, a hamlet of England, co. of Salop, on a railway, 2 miles N. of Broseley, on the Severn. Pop. 1574, engaged in collieries, foundries, and fire-brick and tobacco-pipe manufactories. Example: Georgetown, a hamlet in Frederick co., Md., on the Frederick & Pennsylvania Line Railroad, 6 miles N.E. of Frederick. It has 2 churches. 2. A village that does not have its own church. Labels: UK Example: One hundred thirtie two thousand of Parish Churches, Hamlets, and Villages of all sorts. Example: The case stated, That Thomas G., the pauper, […] served that year at S.; which is a hamlet consisting of one house only, and between three and four hundred acres of land : that the said hamlet of S. had never contributed towards the relief of the poor of the parish of T., nor had ever been assessed thereto; but had always been assessed, and had always paid to the support of the parish church of T.: […] 3. An unincorporated community of whatever size, lacking its own municipal government, but with defined boundaries. Labels: Canada, specifically Example: […] Wessex county (a pseudonym) comprising rural area (pop. 8,434); four incorporated towns plus the section of land containing the largest hamlet in the county (pop. 2,489) Example: Sherwood Park is a hamlet with a population of 35 500 while the rural area has a population exceeding 20 000 people. 4. Any of the fish of the genus Hypoplectrus in the family Serranidae. Example: Larval hamlets are similar to larval Serranus and spend several weeks in the plankton feeding on a variety of tiny crustaceans and invertebrates before metamorphosing and settling on to the reef. Example: Shy Hamlet […] The back of this hamlet is dark in some specimens but a much bluer shade in others. […] Amazingly, each fish is a hermaphrodite, possessing both male and female sex organs, so any two Shy Hamlets should be able to mate successfully.
Word: thousand one Part of Speech: num 1. One thousand plus one hundred. (1100) Labels: Malaysia, colloquial
Word: thousand one Part of Speech: noun 1. A great number. Labels: informal, uncountable Example: I have a thousand and one things to do today.
Word: Čech Part of Speech: name 1. A surname from Czech.
Word: sigma Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Ancient Greek σῖγμα (sîgma), probably from the root σῑγ- (sīg-) as seen in σίζω (sízō, “to hiss”) + -μα (-ma, nominal suffix). Pronunciation: /ˈsɪɡmə/ 1. The eighteenth letter of the Classical and Modern Greek alphabets (Σ, σ), the twentieth letter of Old and Ancient. Example: Their names, which are expressive of some bodily or mental excellence, all end with the same letter---the letter which is called San by the Dorians, and Sigma by the Ionians. 2. The symbol Σ, used to indicate summation of a set or series. 3. The symbol σ, used to indicate one standard deviation from the mean, particularly in a normal distribution. Example: 2011, Paul Rincon, (bbc.co.uk) LHC: Higgs boson 'may have been glimpsed' None of the spikes seen by the experiments is at much more than the "two sigma" level of certainty. A level of "five sigma" is required to claim a discovery, meaning there is less than a one in a million chance the data spike is down to a statistical fluke. 4. A sigma male (a self-reliant and assertive male). Labels: Internet
Word: sigma Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Ancient Greek σῖγμα (sîgma), probably from the root σῑγ- (sīg-) as seen in σίζω (sízō, “to hiss”) + -μα (-ma, nominal suffix). Pronunciation: /ˈsɪɡmə/ 1. Possessing characteristics of a sigma male. Labels: Internet
Word: upsilon Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Ancient Greek ὖ ψιλόν (û psilón, “simple Υ”). Pronunciation: /ˈ(j)uːpsɪˌlɒn/, /ˈ(j)ʊpsɪˌlɒn/, /ˈʌpsɪˌlɒn/, /(j)uːpˈsaɪlən/, /(j)ʊpˈsaɪlən/ 1. The twentieth letter of Classical and Modern Greek; the twenty-second letter of Old and Ancient Greek. 2. An upsilon meson, or bottomonium. Labels: particle
Word: phi Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Late Latin phi, from Ancient Greek φεῖ (pheî). Pronunciation: /faɪ/, /fiː/ 1. Φ, the 21st letter of the Euclidean and modern Greek alphabet, usually romanized as "ph". 2. The golden ratio. 3. A visual illusion whereby a sequential pattern of lights produces a false sense of motion. Example: […] tolerance (Frenkel-Brunswik 1949) for it showed that those persons with the strongest defences against internal conflict, i.e. obsessionals and conversion hysterics, were those least able to perceive the reality-conflicting phenomenon of phi. Example: The illusion of movement in a highway construction sign is an instance of the phi phenomenon, which is also at work in motion pictures and television.
Word: chi Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin chī, from Ancient Greek χεῖ (kheî). Pronunciation: /kaɪ/ 1. The twenty-second letter of the Classical and Modern Greek alphabets.
Word: chi Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From the Mandarin 氣／气 (qì) from the Wade–Giles romanization: chʻi⁴, from Middle Chinese 氣 (MC khj+jH), from Old Chinese 氣 (OC *kʰɯds, “breath, vapor”). Compare modern Japanese 気(き) (ki), Korean 기(氣) (gi) and Vietnamese khí (氣). Pronunciation: /t͡ʃiː/ 1. A life force in traditional Chinese philosophy, culture, medicine, etc, related (but not limited) to breath and circulation. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: Early Taoist philosophers and alchemists regarded ch'i as a vital force inhering in the breath and bodily fluids and developed techniques to alter and control the movement of ch'i within the body; their aim was to achieve physical longevity and spiritual power. Example: He took several deep breaths, finding his chi as Butler had taught him.
Word: chi Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From the pinyin romanization of Mandarin 尺 (chǐ). Doublet of chek. Pronunciation: /t͡ʃə/ 1. The Chinese foot, a traditional Chinese unit of length based on the human forearm. Labels: uncountable, usually 2. The Chinese unit of length standardized in 1984 as ¹/₃ of a meter. Labels: Mainland-China, uncountable, usually 3. The Taiwanese unit of length standardized as ¹⁰/₃₃ of a meter, identical to the Japanese shaku. Labels: Taiwan, uncountable, usually 4. The chek or Hong Kong foot, a unit of length standardized as 0.371475 meters. Labels: Hong-Kong, uncountable, usually
Word: chi Part of Speech: noun 1. Clipping of chihuahua. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, clipping
Word: psi Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English psi, from Latin psī, from Ancient Greek ψεῖ (pseî), the name for the twenty-third letter of the alphabet (Ψ, ψ). Pronunciation: /psaɪ/, /saɪ/ 1. The twenty-third letter of Classical and Modern Greek and the twenty-fifth letter of Old and Ancient Greek. Labels: countable 2. A form of psychic energy. Labels: uncountable Example: ‘Come, lad,’ he said. ‘We will take tea together and speak of the noumenon, the psi and other more heterogenous phenomena.’ Example: When an event is classified as a psi phenomenon, it is claimed that all known channels for the apparent interaction have been eliminated.
Word: psi Part of Speech: symbol Etymology: Initialism of pounds per square inch. 1. Pound per square inch (an imperial unit of pressure) Example: Each turbogenerator consisted of a steam turbine, powered by 900 psi of superheated steam, that was coupled by a set of reduction gears to a General Electric marine alternating-current generator operating at 1,800 rpm. Each generator had a capacity of 2,000 kilowatts of three-phase power at 450 volts and 60 hertz. The main 450-volt switchboard was energized by the two turbogenerators. The emergency switchboard, in the emergency generator room, was fed from the main switchboard through an electrical tie. Example: For M2, this is typically around 3250 MPa (471,000 psi) when tempered at 300°F (149°C).
Word: good-for-nothing Part of Speech: adj 1. Useless; worthless. Labels: idiomatic, not-comparable
Word: good-for-nothing Part of Speech: noun 1. A person of little worth or usefulness. Example: Americans might have taken some comfort from the fact that these critics also expressed similar misgivings about Rhodes Scholars coming from elsewhere. Isis, a student publication, lampooned Australians as good-for-nothings who badly needed education.
Word: saggar Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Uncertain; possibly a contracted form of safeguard. Pronunciation: /ˈsæɡ.ɚ/, /ˈsæɡ.ə/ 1. A ceramic container used inside a fuel-fired kiln to protect pots from the flame. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. Fireclay used to make ceramic casings. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: saggar Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Uncertain; possibly a contracted form of safeguard. Pronunciation: /ˈsæɡ.ɚ/, /ˈsæɡ.ə/ 1. To place in a saggar. Labels: transitive
Word: nothing Part of Speech: pron Etymology: From Middle English nothyng, noon thing, non thing, na þing, nan thing, nan þing, from Old English nāþing, nān þing (“nothing”, literally “not any thing”), equivalent to no + thing. Compare Old English nāwiht (“nothing”, literally “no thing”), Swedish ingenting (“nothing”, literally “not any thing, no thing”). Pronunciation: /ˈnʌθɪŋ/, /ˈnʌtɪŋ/, /ˈnʌʔn̩/, /ˈnʌfɪŋ/, /ˈnʊθɪŋ/ 1. Not any thing; no thing. Labels: indefinite, pronoun Example: Don't just say nothing. Tell me what's going on. Example: Nothing bad will happen, will it? 2. An absence of anything, including empty space, brightness, darkness, matter, or a vacuum. Labels: indefinite, pronoun
Word: nothing Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English nothyng, noon thing, non thing, na þing, nan thing, nan þing, from Old English nāþing, nān þing (“nothing”, literally “not any thing”), equivalent to no + thing. Compare Old English nāwiht (“nothing”, literally “no thing”), Swedish ingenting (“nothing”, literally “not any thing, no thing”). Pronunciation: /ˈnʌθɪŋ/, /ˈnʌtɪŋ/, /ˈnʌʔn̩/, /ˈnʌfɪŋ/, /ˈnʊθɪŋ/ 1. Something trifling, or of no consequence or importance. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: - What happened to your face? - It's nothing. Example: Sermons are not like curious inquiries after new nothings, but pursuances of old truths. 2. A trivial remark especially in the term sweet nothings. Labels: countable, uncountable 3. A nobody (insignificant person). Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: nothing Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From Middle English nothyng, noon thing, non thing, na þing, nan thing, nan þing, from Old English nāþing, nān þing (“nothing”, literally “not any thing”), equivalent to no + thing. Compare Old English nāwiht (“nothing”, literally “no thing”), Swedish ingenting (“nothing”, literally “not any thing, no thing”). Pronunciation: /ˈnʌθɪŋ/, /ˈnʌtɪŋ/, /ˈnʌʔn̩/, /ˈnʌfɪŋ/, /ˈnʊθɪŋ/ 1. Not at all; in no way. Labels: archaic, not-comparable Example: Nothing too much out of the ordinary. Example: Nothing dismayed, I repeated my query.
Word: nothing Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English nothyng, noon thing, non thing, na þing, nan thing, nan þing, from Old English nāþing, nān þing (“nothing”, literally “not any thing”), equivalent to no + thing. Compare Old English nāwiht (“nothing”, literally “no thing”), Swedish ingenting (“nothing”, literally “not any thing, no thing”). Pronunciation: /ˈnʌθɪŋ/, /ˈnʌtɪŋ/, /ˈnʌʔn̩/, /ˈnʌfɪŋ/, /ˈnʊθɪŋ/ 1. Completely unimportant. Labels: not-comparable Example: Dallas scored on what had seemed until then like a nothing play. 2. Lacking effort or commitment. Labels: not-comparable Example: The cricketer played a nothing shot.
Word: nothing Part of Speech: intj Etymology: From Middle English nothyng, noon thing, non thing, na þing, nan thing, nan þing, from Old English nāþing, nān þing (“nothing”, literally “not any thing”), equivalent to no + thing. Compare Old English nāwiht (“nothing”, literally “no thing”), Swedish ingenting (“nothing”, literally “not any thing, no thing”). Pronunciation: /ˈnʌθɪŋ/, /ˈnʌtɪŋ/, /ˈnʌʔn̩/, /ˈnʌfɪŋ/, /ˈnʊθɪŋ/ 1. Never mind; it's not important; forget what I said.
Word: berry Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English berye, from Old English berġe, from Proto-West Germanic *baʀi, from Proto-Germanic *bazją. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Bäie, West Flemish beier, German Beere, Icelandic ber, Danish bær. The slang sense "police car" may come from the lights on the vehicles' roofs. Pronunciation: /ˈbɛɹi/ 1. A small succulent fruit, of any one of many varieties. 2. A soft fruit which develops from a single ovary and contains seeds not encased in pits. 3. A coffee bean. 4. One of the ova or eggs of a fish or crustacean. Example: The crabs carry their berries for six months. Example: That is the only restriction existing: not even small fish or fish in berry, and there are no restrictions on soft-shelled fish. 5. A police car. Labels: US, slang Example: Today was like one of those fly dreams / Didn't even see a berry flashin' those high beams 6. A dollar. Labels: US, dated, slang Example: Four rounds and Enright still on his feet and a hundred and fifty thousand berries gone if he stays two more!
Word: berry Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English berye, from Old English berġe, from Proto-West Germanic *baʀi, from Proto-Germanic *bazją. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Bäie, West Flemish beier, German Beere, Icelandic ber, Danish bær. The slang sense "police car" may come from the lights on the vehicles' roofs. Pronunciation: /ˈbɛɹi/ 1. To pick berries. Labels: intransitive Example: On summer days Grandma used to take us berrying, whether we wanted to go or not. Example: Partly because I always itched and prickled in a berry patch I may have been disinclined to nibble as I worked; but largely I think it was because I berried under a master strategist and I wanted to see how well we could coordinate our efforts... 2. To bear or produce berries.
Word: berry Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English berȝe, berghe, from Old English beorġe, dative form of beorg (“mountain, hill, mound, barrow”), from Proto-West Germanic *berg, from Proto-Germanic *bergaz (“mountain, hill”). More at barrow. Cognates Cognate with Scots burrow (“mound, tumulus, barrow”), North Frisian Bārig, beerch, beeri, beerj, berag, berig, berri, bärj (“mountain”), Saterland Frisian Bierich, Bíerig, Bäirch (“mountain”), West Frisian berch (“mountain”), Cimbrian pèrge (“mountain”), Dutch berg (“mountain”), German Berg (“mountain”), German Low German Barg (“mountain”), Limburgish berg, Bärrech (“hill, mountain”), Luxembourgish Bierg (“mountain”), Mòcheno pèrg (“mountain”), Yiddish באַרג (barg, “mountain”), Danish bjerg (“mountain”), Faroese berg, bjarg (“cliff”), bjørg (“cliffs”), Icelandic, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish berg (“mountain”); also Northern Luri برگ (berg, “mountain”), Polish brzeg (“bank, shore”), Russian бе́рег (béreg, “bank, shore”). Pronunciation: /ˈbɛɹi/ 1. A mound; a barrow. Labels: dialectal
Word: berry Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English bery (“a burrow”). More at burrow. Pronunciation: /ˈbɛɹi/ 1. A burrow, especially a rabbit's burrow. Labels: dialectal 2. An excavation; a military mine.
Word: berry Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English beryen, berien, from Old English *berian (found only in past participle ġebered (“crushed, kneaded, harassed, oppressed, vexed”)), from Proto-West Germanic *barjan, from Proto-Germanic *barjaną (“to beat, hit”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰerH- (“to rip, cut, split, grate”). Cognate with Scots berry, barry (“to thresh, thrash”), German beren (“to beat, knead”), Icelandic berja (“to beat”), Latin feriō (“strike, hit”, verb). Pronunciation: /ˈbɛɹi/ 1. To beat; give a beating to; thrash. Labels: transitive 2. To thresh (grain). Labels: transitive
Word: Tanach Part of Speech: name 1. Alternative spelling of Tanakh. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: Is this term indeed derived from Tanach or other holy books? Or is it just a nonsensical "Yiddishism" that kind of made it through the generations from grandmothers to their kids?
Word: nihil Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin nihil, nil. Pronunciation: /ˈnɪ.hɪl/, /ˈniː(h)ɪl/, /ˈnaɪ(h)ɪl/, /-əl/ 1. A nihil dicit. Labels: countable 2. nothingness, nonbeing Labels: uncountable Example: I shall no longer believe all the visions of my youth: They have dissolved into nihil. Example: All tales about the beginning are apt to eliminate the nothing and make being overall. […] Without Nihil the whirlpool of the beginning settles down and becomes a stagnant puddle of pure being. Nihil disappears.
Word: Qur'an Part of Speech: name Etymology: Borrowed from Arabic الْقُرْآن (al-qurʔān), definite form of قُرْآن (qurʔān, “act of reciting”), verbal noun of قَرَأَ (qaraʔa, “to recite; to read (aloud)”). (The obsolete alternative spellings with "al-", like the Alcoran, redundantly retained the Arabic definite article.) Compare Classical Syriac ܩܪܝܢܐ (qeryānā, “reading; scripture”). Pronunciation: /kəˈɹɑːn/, /kəˈɹɑn/, /kəˈɹæn/, /koʊˈɹæn/, /kɔˈɹɑn/ 1. The Islamic holy book, considered by Muslims to be the word of God as revealed to Muhammad. Example: In the summer of 2002, responding to the 9/11 atrocity, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill made a selection of verses from the Qur'an a mandatory text for new students. Example: Classical Arabic – the language of the Qur’an – will make you understood everywhere, but colloquial Arabic may be more useful, because once the locals start conversing with each other, you’ll lose the plot.
Word: Qur'an Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Arabic الْقُرْآن (al-qurʔān), definite form of قُرْآن (qurʔān, “act of reciting”), verbal noun of قَرَأَ (qaraʔa, “to recite; to read (aloud)”). (The obsolete alternative spellings with "al-", like the Alcoran, redundantly retained the Arabic definite article.) Compare Classical Syriac ܩܪܝܢܐ (qeryānā, “reading; scripture”). Pronunciation: /kəˈɹɑːn/, /kəˈɹɑn/, /kəˈɹæn/, /koʊˈɹæn/, /kɔˈɹɑn/ 1. A specific version, edition, translation, or copy of one of the above-mentioned book.
Word: translator Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Directly from Latin trānslātor and French translator, and also from Middle English translatour, from Old French translatour, translateur, etc., from Latin trānslātor, from trānslātus (“carried across”) + -or (“-er: forming agent nouns”), from trānsferō (“carry across”), from trans (“across”) + ferō (“bear, carry”), q.v. Equivalent to translate + -or. Pronunciation: /ˈtɹænzleɪtɚ/, /ˈtɹænsleɪtɚ/, /ˌtɹænzˈleɪtɚ/, [ˌtʰɹænzˈleɪtʰɚ], [ˌtʰɹænzˈleɪɾɚ] 1. A person or thing that translates meaning from one language into another, particularly 2. A person or thing that translates meaning from one language into another, particularly Labels: proscribed, sometimes Example: "You don't believe the Soviet Union is going to reduce its defense budget, do you?" Boggs asked. Premier Chou didn't wait for the translator to finish. "Never, never, never," he replied in perfect English. 3. A person or thing that translates meaning from one language into another, particularly Labels: figuratively Example: Mr. C. Blair Leighton... lithographer... was one of the earliest translators of water and oil pictures by the chromatic process. 4. A person or thing that translates meaning from one language into another, particularly Labels: historical 5. A person or thing that translates meaning from one language into another, particularly Labels: US 6. A person or thing that translates meaning from one language into another, particularly 7. Synonym of carrier, a person who transports something, now particularly (Roman Catholicism, rare) holy relics. Labels: obsolete Example: ... the translator of the life and miracles of the saints, like the translator of the relics, need not have been "literate"; nor did he have to be a clerk. 8. Synonym of repairer, particularly of leather or cloth goods. Labels: historical Example: Boots and Shoes are not to be had, I am told, in sufficient quantity for the demand from the slop-shops, the "translators," and the second-hand dealers. Great quantities of second-hand boots and shoes are sent to Ireland to be "translated" there. 9. A used and repaired shoe, boot, or other item of clothing. Labels: historical, slang 10. Synonym of repeater, a thing that automatically retransmits an incoming message along a telegraph line. Labels: obsolete 11. A thing that converts energy from one form to another. Labels: obsolete 12. The retinaculum of asclepiads.
Word: one hundred and one Part of Speech: det Etymology: From one + hundred + and + one. Pronunciation: /ˌwʌn ˌhʌndɹəd n̩ ˈwʌn/ 1. A great many; numerous. Labels: idiomatic Example: As a result, we talked – about a hundred and one things. Example: The company has one hundred and one reasons for keeping Negroes out. The union, too, has one hundred and one reasons.
Word: one hundred and one Part of Speech: num Etymology: From one + hundred + and + one. Pronunciation: /ˌwʌn ˌhʌndɹəd n̩ ˈwʌn/ 1. The number 101.
Word: nemo Part of Speech: adj 1. Acronym of not emanating from main office, i.e. broadcast from some remote location instead. Labels: abbreviation, acronym, alt-of, dated, not-comparable Example: In New York City alone, there are nearly three dozen of these "nemo" points from which speeches, music, and entertainment are broadcast regularly. Example: All "nemo" broadcasting, except entirely musical, would be abandoned. Stations would not risk broadcasting anything arising outside the studio, as there would be no editorial or censorship power.
Word: not even one Part of Speech: det 1. None at all. Example: Not even one digit on the lottery ticket matched! Example: And guess how many digits matched? Not even one!
Word: not even Part of Speech: adv 1. Introduces or constitutes a more emphatic negation or exclusion than "not". Labels: not-comparable Example: Not even I knew that. Example: You didn't even look at me.
Word: not even Part of Speech: intj 1. Used to express strong disappointment or disapproval. Labels: colloquial Example: I heard they wanted to cancel the show tonight. – Not even!
Word: at least Part of Speech: prep_phrase Etymology: From Middle English at leste, from Old English æt lǣstan. 1. At a minimum or lower limit. Labels: focus Example: I couldn't count them all, but I think there must have been at least 500 people in attendance. Example: So Martha hid herself, and in came little Bob [Cratchit], the father, with at least three feet of comforter exclusive of the fringe, hanging down before him; and his thread-bare clothes darned up and brushed, to look seasonable; and Tiny Tim upon his shoulder. 2. In any event; anyway. Example: You could even be discovered, become a movie star, or at least see one.
Word: toilet paper Part of Speech: noun 1. Paper, usually on a roll, used to clean oneself after defecation or urination. Labels: uncountable, usually
Word: toilet paper Part of Speech: verb 1. To cover a house, tree or other structure with strips of toilet paper, typically as a prank or celebratory gesture. Labels: US, transitive
Word: toilet roll Part of Speech: noun 1. A roll of toilet paper. Labels: UK
Word: vent Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Partly from Middle French vent, from Latin ventus and partly from French éventer. Cognate with French vent and Spanish viento (“wind”) and ventana (“window”). Doublet of wind. Pronunciation: /vɛnt/ 1. An opening through which gases, especially air, can pass. Example: the vent of a cask; the vent of a mould Example: According to geologists who work in the area, the vents at Castello Aragonese have been spewing carbon dioxide for at least several hundred years, maybe longer. 2. A small aperture. Example: Look, how thy wounds do bleed at many vents. Example: There, at one Paſſage, oft you might ſurvey / A Lye and Truth contending for the vvay; / And long 'tvvas doubtful, both ſo cloſely pent, / VVhich firſt ſhould iſſue thro the narrovv Vent: […] 3. An opening in a volcano from which lava or gas flows. 4. A rant; a long session of expressing verbal frustration. 5. The excretory opening of lower orders of vertebrates; cloaca. 6. A slit in the seam of a garment. 7. The opening at the breech of a firearm, through which fire is communicated to the powder of the charge. 8. In steam boilers, a sectional area of the passage for gases divided by the length of the same passage in feet. 9. Opportunity of escape or passage from confinement or privacy; outlet. 10. Emission; escape; passage to notice or expression; publication; utterance. Example: without the vent of words Example: Thou didst make tolerable vent of thy travel. 11. Discharge, efflux Labels: obsolete, rare Example: Whenever, in cases of the morbus mucosus, the vent of urine is impeded, or if the urine itself is morbid in quality, the result […] is that there is a sense of heat and pain in the medulla spinalis, which is opposite to the kidneys. Example: she had two more teeth out, with vent of pus from bicuspid
Word: vent Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Partly from Middle French vent, from Latin ventus and partly from French éventer. Cognate with French vent and Spanish viento (“wind”) and ventana (“window”). Doublet of wind. Pronunciation: /vɛnt/ 1. To allow gases to escape. Labels: intransitive Example: The stove vents to the outside. 2. To allow gases to escape from (a sealed space, container, etc.). Labels: transitive Example: In the engine room, the changing angle dropped the melted core to the deck. The hot mass attacked the steel deck first, burning through that, then the titanium of the hull. Five seconds later the engine room was vented to the sea. The Politovskiy's largest compartment filled rapidly with water. This destroyed what little reserve buoyancy the ship had, and the acute down-angle returned. The Alfa began her last dive. 3. To allow to escape through a vent. Labels: transitive Example: Exhaust is vented to the outside. 4. To express a strong emotion. Labels: intransitive, transitive Example: He vents his anger violently. Example: Can we talk? I need to vent. 5. To snuff; to breathe or puff out; to snort. Example: Seest, howe brag yond Bullocke beares, So smirke, so smoothe, his pricked eares?[…] See howe he venteth into the wynd. 6. To determine the sex of (a chick) by opening up the anal vent or cloaca. Labels: transitive 7. Of an otter: to emerge from the water to breathe in air. Labels: intransitive 8. To use a vent in the video game Among Us. Labels: intransitive, slang Example: We suspect they’ve vented to medbay and are intending to use some kind of surgical tools to ‘upgrade’ the original Among Us with a bunch of cool new features and levels, instead of starting over from scratch with the sequel. Example: “Among Us” has become ingrained into Generation Z’s culture in such a way that phrases such as “yellow is sus,” “purple vented” or “skip vote” are part of our daily vernacular.
Word: vent Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Clipping of ventriloquism. Pronunciation: /vɛnt/ 1. Ventriloquism.
Word: vent Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From French vente, from Latin vendere (“to sell”). Pronunciation: /vɛnt/ 1. To sell; to vend. Example: Therefore did those nations […]vent such spice.
Word: vent Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Spanish venta (“a poor inn, sale, market”). Pronunciation: /vɛnt/ 1. A baiting place; an inn. Labels: obsolete
Word: vent Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Clipping. Pronunciation: /vɛnt/ 1. Clipping of ventilation or ventilator. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, colloquial Example: I have adjusted the vent settings.
Word: vent Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Clipping. Pronunciation: /vɛnt/ 1. To ventilate; to use a ventilator; to use ventilation. Labels: colloquial
Word: video game console Part of Speech: noun 1. A dedicated electronic device that is designed to play video games, especially in accompaniment with a television.
Word: actress Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From actor + -ess. Probably formed independently of Middle French actrice. Pronunciation: /ˈæk.tɹɪs/, [ˈæk.tɹ̝̊ɪs], [ˈæk.t̠ɹ̠̊˔ɪs], /ˈæk.tɹəs/, [ˈæk.tɹ̝̊əs] 1. A female who performs on the stage or in films. Example: A while ago somewhere I don't know when / I was watchin' a movie with a friend / I fell in love with the actress / She was playin' a part that I could understand Example: "I'm an actress -- actor, as we have to say these days." 2. A female doer or "actor" (in a general sense). Labels: archaic Example: My mental anguish, and the dreadful scenes in which I had been an actress, advanced the period of my labour.
Word: blacksmith Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From black (color of forged iron) + smith (related to smite). Pronunciation: /ˈblæk.smɪθ/ 1. A person who forges iron. Example: The blacksmith may forge what Religion he pleases. Example: Orion hit a rabbit once; but though sore wounded it got to the bury, and, struggling in, the arrow caught the side of the hole and was drawn out.[…]. Ikey the blacksmith had forged us a spearhead after a sketch from a picture of a Greek warrior; and a rake-handle served as a shaft. 2. A person who shoes horses. Labels: informal 3. A blackish fish of the Pacific coast (Chromis punctipinnis).
Word: blacksmith Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From black (color of forged iron) + smith (related to smite). Pronunciation: /ˈblæk.smɪθ/ 1. To work as a blacksmith. Labels: intransitive
Word: whitesmith Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From white + smith. 1. A person who forges things out of tin or pewter; a tinsmith. 2. A worker in iron who finishes or polishes the work, in distinction from one who forges it.
Word: businesswoman Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-West Germanic *bisīg Old English bisiġ Proto-Germanic *-inōną Proto-Indo-European *-dyé- Proto-Germanic *-atjaną Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Germanic *-þuz Proto-Germanic *-assuz Proto-Germanic *-inassuz Proto-West Germanic *-nassī Old English -nes Old English bisiġnes Middle English bisynes English business Proto-Germanic *wībą Proto-West Germanic *wīb Old English wīf Proto-Indo-European *mon- Proto-Germanic *mann- Proto-West Germanic *mann Old English mann Old English wīfmann Middle English woman Middle English -woman English -woman English businesswoman From business + -woman. 1. A woman involved in business.
Word: puer Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Perhaps from French puer. Pronunciation: /ˈpju.ɚ/, /ˈpjuː.ə/, /ˈpjʊə/ 1. Dung (of dogs, fowls, etc) used in tanning, after applying lime, to soften skins. Labels: historical, uncountable Example: A solution called the ‘pure’ or the 'pewer' (having never seen the word written.., we must spell it as pronounced) is prepared in a large vessel, and into this the skins are immersed. Example: […] The bacteria of fresh dog-dung were not found to possess a satisfactory puering effect, but those from dung with had been fermented a month (as in practice) have a result nearly equal to actual puer.
Word: puer Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of 普洱 (pǔ'ěr), without syllable-dividing mark (隔音符號／隔音符号 (géyīn fúhào)). Pronunciation: /ˈpʊəɹ/, /ˈpu.əɹ/ 1. Alternative form of pu'er. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: puer Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Latin puer (“boy, lad, child”). Pronunciation: /ˈpu.ɛɹ/ 1. Ellipsis of puer aeternus. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis Example: “No; you called it that. Anyway, what’s wrong with ‘whither’?” / “Oh, that; we had to struggle through a high school commencement speech one time, something about ‘Whither now, oh, puers and puellas?’ and now the word gives us the hiccoughs.” Example: As I mentioned earlier, the circumstances that precipitate puer development prece sexual differentiation and the formation of a strong identity based on gender. Some puers and puellas are, therefore, heterosexual, others are homosexual.
Word: tomorrow night Part of Speech: adv 1. During the night of the day after the present day. Labels: not-comparable
Word: tomorrow night Part of Speech: noun 1. The night of the day after the present day.
Word: snowflake Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From snow + flake. Compare Saterland Frisian Sneeflokke (“snowflake”), Dutch sneeuwvlok, Luxembourgish Schnéiflack, German Schneeflocke. Pronunciation: /ˈsnəʊ.fleɪk/, /ˈsnoʊ.fleɪk/ 1. A crystal of snow, having approximate hexagonal symmetry. 2. Any of several bulbous European plants, of the genus Leucojum, having white flowers. 3. The snow bunting, Plectrophenax nivalis. 4. Someone who believes they are particularly unique and special. Labels: derogatory, slang Example: When I come home, one space monkey is reading to the assembled space monkeys who sit covering the whole first floor. “You are not a beautiful and unique snowflake. You are the same decaying organic matter as everyone else, and we are all part of the same compost pile.” 5. Someone hypersensitive to insult or offense, especially a young person with politically correct sensibilities. Labels: derogatory, slang Example: When have words ever hurt anyone? The triggered snowflakes at this liberal university are trying to literally murder our freedom of speech. Example: Fox News pundits claim to be upset because companies are choosing to embrace the "holidays" rather than "Christmas" to avoid offending any liberal snowflakes. 6. A type of lesion that appears as scattered white-brown spots under high magnification light microscopy. Example: Robertson and colleagues reported 10 patients in four families with lesions similar to those of stage I and stage II snowflake generation. Example: The authors have recently analyzed a PMMA lens explanted because of snowflake degeneration in the dry and hydrated states. 7. Something that is unique in every presentation. Example: MS is referred to as a “snowflake” disease because symptoms vary from person to person. 8. A Caucasian person. Labels: derogatory, slang, usually Example: Alright, snowflake, where's the dope? 9. Someone (usually white) who was opposed to the abolition of slavery (Missouri, 1860s) Labels: historical
Word: snowflake Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From snow + flake. Compare Saterland Frisian Sneeflokke (“snowflake”), Dutch sneeuwvlok, Luxembourgish Schnéiflack, German Schneeflocke. Pronunciation: /ˈsnəʊ.fleɪk/, /ˈsnoʊ.fleɪk/ 1. To fall in the manner of a snowflake. Example: Like a seagull swooping, the white figure of a victim snowflaked against the cliff and then plummeted down. 2. To arrange (data) into a snowflake schema.
Word: fan Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Inherited from Middle English fan, inherited from Old English fann (“a winnowing, fan”), derived from Latin vannus (“fan for winnowing grain”), derived from Proto-Indo-European *h₂weh₁- (“to blow”). Cognates * Latin ventus (“wind”) * Dutch wan (“winnowing basket”) * German Wanne (“winnowing basket”) * Swedish vanna (“a fan for winnowing”) * Old English windwian (“to fan, winnow”). More at winnow. Pronunciation: /fæn/, /fan/, /faːn/, /fæːn/, [fɛən] 1. A hand-held device consisting of concertinaed material, or slats of material, gathered together at one end, that may be opened out into the shape of a sector of a circle and waved back and forth in order to move air towards oneself and cool oneself. Example: How apt is the flutter of the fan to express the different affections of the belle: there is the angry flutter, the modest flutter, the timorous flutter, the confused flutter etc. 2. An electrical or mechanical device for moving air, used for cooling people, machinery, etc. Example: He didn't switch on the fan because the temperature was 15 degrees Celsius. 3. The action of fanning; agitation of the air. Example: "If I cannot be of service, then I certainly don't wish to impose," said McGinty, with a quick fan of breeze that indicated a sweeping bow. 4. Anything resembling a hand-held fan in shape, e.g., a peacock’s tail. 5. An instrument for winnowing grain, by moving which the grain is tossed and agitated, and the chaff is separated and blown away. Example: The oxen likewise and the yong asses that eare the ground, shall eate cleane prouender which hath bene winnowed with the shouell and with the fanne. Example: Whose fanne is in his hand, and he will throughly purge his floore, and gather his wheat into the garner: but wil burne vp the chaffe with vnquenchable fire. 6. A small vane or sail, used to keep the large sails of a smock mill always in the direction of the wind. 7. A group of overlapping cards exposed in various patience games. 8. A section of a tree having a finite number of branches.
Word: fan Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Inherited from Middle English fan, inherited from Old English fann (“a winnowing, fan”), derived from Latin vannus (“fan for winnowing grain”), derived from Proto-Indo-European *h₂weh₁- (“to blow”). Cognates * Latin ventus (“wind”) * Dutch wan (“winnowing basket”) * German Wanne (“winnowing basket”) * Swedish vanna (“a fan for winnowing”) * Old English windwian (“to fan, winnow”). More at winnow. Pronunciation: /fæn/, /fan/, /faːn/, /fæːn/, [fɛən] 1. To blow air on (something) by means of a fan (hand-held, mechanical or electrical) or otherwise. Labels: transitive Example: We enjoyed standing at the edge of the cliff, being fanned by the wind. Example: Alice took up the fan and gloves, and, as the hall was very hot, she kept fanning herself all the time she went on talking: […] 2. To slap (a behind, especially). Labels: transitive Example: Part of it was that as much as I respected filial devotion and as much as I liked Sarah Barstow, it would have been a real satisfaction to put her across my knees and pull up her skirts and giver^([sic]) her a swell fanning, for not taking a look at that driver. 3. To move or spread in multiple directions from one point, in the shape of a hand-held fan. Labels: intransitive 4. To dispel by waving a hand-held fan. Labels: transitive Example: I attempted to fan the disagreeable odour out of the room. 5. To perform a maneuver that involves flicking the top rear of an old-style gun. Labels: transitive Example: To fan a single action revolver, hold down the trigger and strike the hammer repeatedly with a free hand. 6. To invigorate, like flames when fanned. Labels: figuratively Example: She comes, to fan my ardour, She kills me with her kisses. 7. To winnow grain. Example: By the first article, these fanning mills were appointed to be sent to the proprietors of the mills of Sault-à-la puce, Petit-Pré, Beauport, Pointe de Lévy, St. Nicolas and Ste. Famille in the isle of Orleans " to have all the wheat in general of whatever quality sent to these mills passed and fanned, before converting them into flour." 8. To apply (the air brake) many times in rapid succession. Labels: transitive Example: Fanning the brakes results in the gradual depletion of the pressure in the cars' brake reservoirs, which can eventually cause a loss of all braking. 9. To strike out. Labels: intransitive 10. To strike out (a batter). Labels: transitive 11. To fail to properly shoot or pass the puck. Labels: intransitive
Word: fan Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Latin fānāticuslbor. ▲ French fanatiqueinflu. English fanatic English fancyinflu. English fan Clipping of fanatic, originally in US baseball slang. Possibly influenced by fancy (“group of sport or hobby enthusiasts”), i.e. fancy boy (“fan”). Pronunciation: /fæn/, /fan/, /faːn/, /fæːn/, [fɛən] 1. A person who is fond of something or someone, especially an admirer of a performer or aficionado of a sport. Example: I am a big fan of libraries. Example: I am a big fan of cricket.
Word: fan Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Cantonese 分. Doublet of fen and hoon. Pronunciation: /fæn/, /fan/, /faːn/, /fæːn/, [fɛən] 1. A unit of length, equivalent to 0.1 tsun (0.01 chek), or 0.00371475 metres. Labels: Hong-Kong, dated Example: 1 chek (foot) = 14⅝ English inches divided into 10 tsün (inches) and each tsün into ten fan or tenths.
Word: fail Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Classical Latin fallere Vulgar Latin *fallīre Old French falirbor. Middle English failen English fail Inherited from Middle English failen, borrowed from Old French falir, from Vulgar Latin *fallire, alteration of Latin fallere (“to deceive, disappoint”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰāl- (“to lie, deceive”) or Proto-Indo-European *(s)gʷʰh₂el- (“to stumble”). Compare Alemannic German fääle (“to lack”), Cimbrian béelan, véelan (“to fail”), veln (“to be absent, missing”), Dutch falen, feilen (“to fail, miss”), German fallieren, fehlen (“to fail, miss, lack”), Danish fejle (“to fail, err”), Swedish fallera (“to fail, break, malfunction”), Spanish fallar (“to fail, miss”). Pronunciation: /feɪl/, /fel/, /fɛl/, /fɛjl/ 1. A failure, especially of a financial transaction (a termination of an action). Labels: countable, uncountable 2. A failing grade in an academic examination. Labels: countable, uncountable 3. A failure (something incapable of success). Labels: US, countable, slang, uncountable 4. Poor quality; substandard workmanship. Labels: slang, uncountable Example: The project was full of fail.
Word: fail Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Classical Latin fallere Vulgar Latin *fallīre Old French falirbor. Middle English failen English fail Inherited from Middle English failen, borrowed from Old French falir, from Vulgar Latin *fallire, alteration of Latin fallere (“to deceive, disappoint”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰāl- (“to lie, deceive”) or Proto-Indo-European *(s)gʷʰh₂el- (“to stumble”). Compare Alemannic German fääle (“to lack”), Cimbrian béelan, véelan (“to fail”), veln (“to be absent, missing”), Dutch falen, feilen (“to fail, miss”), German fallieren, fehlen (“to fail, miss, lack”), Danish fejle (“to fail, err”), Swedish fallera (“to fail, break, malfunction”), Spanish fallar (“to fail, miss”). Pronunciation: /feɪl/, /fel/, /fɛl/, /fɛjl/ 1. Unsuccessful; inadequate; unacceptable in some way. Labels: US, slang
Word: fail Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Unknown. Compare Scottish Gaelic fàl (“hedge”), Scots faill (“turf”). Attested from the 16th century. Pronunciation: /feɪl/, /fel/, /fɛl/, /fɛjl/ 1. A piece of turf cut from grassland.
Word: field trip Part of Speech: noun 1. A trip, usually in a group and especially by students, to a place of special interest for education, research or exploration; a trip into the field. Example: As I wrote we have a field trip scheduled (starting in about 1 hour to be exact since it's now 6 AM). We will take 72 of the second years to the coal mines, asbestos factory, steel mills in Enugu then up to Nnsuka.
Word: phrase book Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of phrasebook. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: terp Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Clipping of interpreter. Pronunciation: /tɝp/, /tɜːp/ 1. An interpreter (person who translates). Example: I don't think it's at all appropriate to hire a terp to review your correspondences, reports, grammar, tone, style, etc. It is completely YOUR responsibility to perform effective written communication tasks. Example: But for troops in the new Afghan army, there is a particular irritant: Afghan interpreters working with U.S. soldiers — called terps by troops in the field — can earn more than an Afghan army officer. 2. An interpreter (program that parses and executes another program). Labels: slang Example: So, I'm writing a Z-Machine terp. It is not done. It's getting there. Now, I have some ideas of things I would like this terp to do, but I thought it might be a nice idea to find out if there are any features that other people on this newsgroup would like in a Z-Machine terp. Example: As far as I know all the TADS terps are just ports of the original.
Word: terp Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Clipping of terpene. Pronunciation: /tɝp/, /tɜːp/ 1. Any of various essential oils containing monoterpene alcohols which are added to a henna mix to darken the color.
Word: terp Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Clipping of terpene. Pronunciation: /tɝp/, /tɜːp/ 1. To add such an essential oil to (a henna mix). Labels: transitive
Word: terp Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Clipping of Terpsichore, the goddess of dance and the dramatic chorus in Greek mythology. Pronunciation: /tɝp/, /tɜːp/ 1. Dance. Labels: countable, dated, slang, uncountable Example: In the terp section, Barbara Perry, last here in a straight role in Swan Song, scores smartly as a dancer, and lanky Jack Williams holds down the other lead stepping slot with his intricate tap routines. Dancing is overall excellent, but as noted above, there is too much of it.
Word: terp Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Clipping of Terpsichore, the goddess of dance and the dramatic chorus in Greek mythology. Pronunciation: /tɝp/, /tɜːp/ 1. To dance. Labels: dated, slang, transitive Example: Longhair terping got another boost around these parts Tuesday (3) when the Jooss Ballet returned to the New York City Center for a three-week stint. Heavy balletomane audience was on hand, generous in its applause welcoming back this unique troupe after a five-year wartime absence.
Word: terp Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Dutch terp (“terp”). See also thorp and thorpe. Pronunciation: /tɝp/, /tɜːp/ 1. An artificial dwelling mound found on the North European Plain, created to provide safe ground during storm surges, high tides and sea or river flooding. Example: Most Dutch cities began on a terp or artificial mound to which the prehistoric amphibious folk rushed for refuge when floods rolled in.