nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: stiff Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *steyp Proto-Germanic *stīfaz Proto-West Germanic *stīf Old English stīf Middle English stif English stiff From Middle English stiff, stiffe, stif, from Old English stīf, from Proto-West Germanic *stīf, from Proto-Germanic *stīfaz, from Proto-Indo-European *steypós. See also West Frisian stiif, Dutch stijf, Norwegian Bokmål stiv, German steif; also Latin stīpes, stīpō, from which English stevedore. The expected Modern English form would be /staɪf/; /stɪf/ is probably originally from compounds such as stiffly, where the vowel was shortened before a consonant cluster. Pronunciation: /stɪf/ 1. An average person, usually male, of no particular distinction, skill, or education. Labels: Canada, US, countable, slang, uncountable Example: working stiff Example: The clerk shrugged: “That's the boss's little girl.” “Why, the lucky stiff!” said Keating. “He's been holding out on me.” “You misunderstood me,” the clerk said coldly. “It's his daughter. It's Dominique Francon.” 2. A person who is deceived, as a mark or pigeon in a swindle. Labels: countable, slang, uncountable Example: She convinced the stiff to go to her hotel room, where her henchman was waiting to rob him. 3. A cadaver; a dead person. Labels: countable, slang, uncountable Example: This parrot is no more! It has ceased to be! It's expired and gone to meet its maker! This is a late parrot! It's a stiff! Bereft of life, it rests in peace! If you hadn't nailed it to the perch it would be pushing up the daisies! 4. A flop; a commercial failure. Labels: countable, slang, uncountable Example: If the movie was a stiff it wasn't any of their specific faults. They were all in it together and they were jobbed in and jobbed out for two weeks and gone and they got a pile of money for their efforts. Example: They never did sell any records. I don't mean they didn't sell 100,000. I mean they didn't sell 5000. Total. National. Coast-to-coast. The record was a stiff. 5. A person who leaves (especially a restaurant) without paying the bill. Labels: US, countable, slang, uncountable 6. A customer who does not leave a tip. Labels: US, broadly, countable, slang, uncountable 7. Any hard hand where it is possible to exceed 21 by drawing an additional card. Labels: countable, uncountable 8. Negotiable instruments, possibly forged. Labels: countable, slang, uncountable 9. A note or letter surreptitiously sent by an inmate. Labels: countable, slang, uncountable
Word: stiff Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *steyp Proto-Germanic *stīfaz Proto-West Germanic *stīf Old English stīf Middle English stif English stiff From Middle English stiff, stiffe, stif, from Old English stīf, from Proto-West Germanic *stīf, from Proto-Germanic *stīfaz, from Proto-Indo-European *steypós. See also West Frisian stiif, Dutch stijf, Norwegian Bokmål stiv, German steif; also Latin stīpes, stīpō, from which English stevedore. The expected Modern English form would be /staɪf/; /stɪf/ is probably originally from compounds such as stiffly, where the vowel was shortened before a consonant cluster. Pronunciation: /stɪf/ 1. To fail to pay that which one owes (implicitly or explicitly) to another, especially by departing hastily. Example: He stiffed me on the tip. Example: Realizing he had forgotten his wallet, he stiffed the taxi driver when the cab stopped for a red light. 2. To cheat someone. Example: You see, poor Nonie really was stiffed by Adolph in his will. He really stiffed her, Rose, and I really wanted to right that wrong. Example: The Donald moved on to how he had spent £100m on expensive plywood while renovating the golf club. The Scottish tradesmen must have seen him coming. It looks like Trump has been stiffed. So much for the art of the deal. 3. To tip ungenerously. Example: Then he stiffed the waiter with a cheap tip. 4. To kill. Labels: slang Example: But you know it could be a hassle / Trying to explain myself to a police officer / About how it was your old lady got herself stiffed 5. To be unsuccessful. Labels: informal Example: "Come To Me" moved but a few to buy a copy; "My Queen" stiffed in the stall.
Word: stiff Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *steyp Proto-Germanic *stīfaz Proto-West Germanic *stīf Old English stīf Middle English stif English stiff From Middle English stiff, stiffe, stif, from Old English stīf, from Proto-West Germanic *stīf, from Proto-Germanic *stīfaz, from Proto-Indo-European *steypós. See also West Frisian stiif, Dutch stijf, Norwegian Bokmål stiv, German steif; also Latin stīpes, stīpō, from which English stevedore. The expected Modern English form would be /staɪf/; /stɪf/ is probably originally from compounds such as stiffly, where the vowel was shortened before a consonant cluster. Pronunciation: /stɪf/ 1. Of the wind, with great force; strongly. Example: At Feversham was a very High Tide in the Afternoon, tho' the Wind was Southerly, and blew very stiff, which the Seamen there wondered at. Example: It soon blew stiff, & we scudded before it under double-reefed topsails, & mainsail hauled up. 2. Very thoroughly. Labels: dated, slang Example: Now I want you to take Vallett in hand and drill him stiff with everything that has to do with Tilehurst and Tapsfield.
Word: struck Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /stɹʌk/, /stɹʊk/ 1. simple past and past participle of strike Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: stricken Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English striken, ystriken, from Old English stricen, ġestricen, from Proto-West Germanic *strikan, from Proto-Germanic *strikanaz, past participle of Proto-Germanic *strīkaną (“to strike”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian strieken, Dutch gestreken, German Low German streken, German gestrichen. Pronunciation: /ˈstɹɪkən/ 1. Struck by something. Example: The town was stricken by a devastating earthquake that left many buildings in ruins. 2. Disabled or incapacitated by something. Example: Turning back, then, toward the basement staircase, she began to grope her way through blinding darkness, but had taken only a few uncertain steps when, of a sudden, she stopped short and for a little stood like a stricken thing, quite motionless save that she quaked to her very marrow in the grasp of a great and enervating fear. Example: Services had to be diverted, damaged lines restored, and materials for coastal defence and relief supplies conveyed to the stricken areas with all possible speed. 3. Disabled or incapacitated by something.
Word: stricken Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English striken, ystriken, from Old English stricen, ġestricen, from Proto-West Germanic *strikan, from Proto-Germanic *strikanaz, past participle of Proto-Germanic *strīkaną (“to strike”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian strieken, Dutch gestreken, German Low German streken, German gestrichen. Pronunciation: /ˈstɹɪkən/ 1. past participle of strike Labels: form-of, participle, past Example: Nothing could be more business-like than the construction of the stout dams, and nothing more gently rural than the limpid lakes, with the grand old forest trees marshalled round their margins like a veteran army that had marched down to drink, only to be stricken motionless at the water’s edge.
Word: string Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English stryngen, strengen, from the noun (see above). Pronunciation: /ˈstɹɪŋ/, [ˈstɹ̝̊ʷɪŋ] ~ [ˈst̠ɹ̠̊˔ʷɪŋ] 1. To put (items) on a string. Labels: transitive Example: You can string these beads on to this cord to make a colorful necklace. 2. To put strings on (something). Labels: transitive Example: It is difficult to string a tennis racket properly. 3. To form into a string or strings, as a substance which is stretched, or people who are moving along, etc. Labels: intransitive 4. To drive the ball against the end of the table and back, in order to determine which player is to open the game. Labels: intransitive 5. To deliberately state that a certain bird is present when it is not; to knowingly mislead other birders about the occurrence of a bird, especially a rarity; to misidentify a common bird as a rare species. Example: To be honest, you'd be better off trying to string a Skylark as a Richard's Pipit rather than as a Pectoral Sandpiper. Example: For instance he might see a White-eared Honeyeater, a not uncommon bird in the heathy areas at Bunyip, but in his excitement to call it, something in his brain scrambled and came out as: `White-cheeked Honeyeater!' White-cheeked Honeyeater is an absolute stonking crippler in Victoria, but Stu was not actually trying to string a rarity, he'd just got such a flood of new information swirling around his brain that sometimes it got jumbled up.
Word: strung Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /stɹʌŋ/, /stɹʊŋ/, /stɹʊŋɡ/ 1. simple past and past participle of string Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: strived Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ˈstɹaɪvd/ 1. simple past and past participle of strive Labels: UK, form-of, participle, past
Word: swear Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English sweren, swerien, from Old English swerian (“to swear, take an oath of office”), from Proto-West Germanic *swarjan, from Proto-Germanic *swarjaną (“to speak, swear”), from Proto-Indo-European *swer- (“to swear”). Cognate with West Frisian swarre (“to swear”), Saterland Frisian swera (“to swear”), Dutch zweren (“to swear, vow”), Low German swören (“to swear”), sweren, German schwören (“to swear”), Danish sværge, Swedish svära (“to swear”), Icelandic sverja (“to swear”), Russian свара (svara, “quarrel”). Also cognate to Albanian var (“to hang, consider, to depend from”) through Proto-Indo-European. The original sense in all Germanic languages is “to take an oath”. The sense “to use bad language” developed in Middle English and is based on the Christian prohibition against swearing in general (cf. Matthew 5:33-37) and invoking God’s name in particular (i.e. frequent swearing was considered similar to the use of obscene words). Pronunciation: /ˈswɛə(ɹ)/, /ˈswɛɚ/, /ˈsweː/, /ˈsweə/, /ˈswe̝ə/ 1. To take an oath, to promise intensely, solemnly, and/or with legally binding effect. Labels: ambitransitive Example: The knight swore not to return to the palace until he had found the treasure. 2. To take an oath that an assertion is true. Labels: transitive Example: The witness swore that the person she had seen running out of the bank was a foot shorter than the accused. 3. To promise intensely that something is true; to strongly assert. Labels: transitive Example: I swear I don't know what you're talking about. Example: My little brother is such a pest, I swear. 4. To administer an oath to (a person). Labels: transitive Example: Let the witness be sworn. 5. To use offensive, profane, or obscene language. Labels: ambitransitive Example: An Australian was once appointed on contract, but he swore too much.
Word: swear Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From the above verb, or from Middle English sware, from Old English swaru, from Proto-Germanic *swarō. Pronunciation: /ˈswɛə(ɹ)/, /ˈswɛɚ/, /ˈsweː/, /ˈsweə/, /ˈswe̝ə/ 1. A swear word. Example: You might think it funny to hear this Kanaka girl come out with a big swear. No such thing. There was no swearing in her — no, nor anger; she was beyond anger, and meant the word simple and serious. Example: [A]ccording to his kind the man would smile cynically, or look sad, or let out a swear or two.
Word: swear Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English swere, swer, swar, from Old English swǣr, swār (“heavy, heavy as a burden, of great weight, oppressive, grievous, painful, unpleasant, sad, feeling or expressing grief, grave, slow, dull, sluggish, slothful, indolent, inactive from weakness, enfeebled, weak”), from Proto-West Germanic *swār, from Proto-Germanic *swēraz (“heavy”), from Proto-Indo-European *swer- (“heavy”). Cognate with West Frisian swier (“heavy”), Dutch zwaar (“heavy, hard, difficult”), German schwer (“heavy, hard, difficult”), Danish svær (“heavy, hard, severe”), Swedish svår (“heavy, hard, severe”), Latin sērius (“earnest, grave, solemn, serious”) and Albanian varrë (“wound, plague”). Pronunciation: /ˈswɛə(ɹ)/, /ˈswɛɚ/, /ˈsweː/, /ˈsweə/, /ˈswe̝ə/ 1. Heavy. Labels: Northern-England, Scotland 2. Top-heavy; too high. Labels: Northern-England, Scotland 3. Dull; lazy; slow. Labels: Northern-England, Scotland Example: Rise up gueedewife, an dinna be sweer, / B'soothan, b'soothan, / An deal yir chirity t' the peer, / An awa b'mony a toon. 4. Reluctant; unwilling. Labels: Northern-England, Scotland Example: But faith, to glump ye I'd be sweer / I wish ye luck o' this new year Example: My father will maybe be a wee sweer to take ye in, but ye maun make your way on him the best gate ye can; he has the best stockit pantry on Teviot head, but a bit of a Laidlaw's fault, complaining aye maist when he has least reason. 5. Niggardly. Labels: Northern-England, Scotland Example: For if my Pen shall turn as Sweir's their Purse / I fear this is the last I'll write in Verse
Word: swear Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English swere, swer, swar, from Old English swǣr, swār (“heavy, heavy as a burden, of great weight, oppressive, grievous, painful, unpleasant, sad, feeling or expressing grief, grave, slow, dull, sluggish, slothful, indolent, inactive from weakness, enfeebled, weak”), from Proto-West Germanic *swār, from Proto-Germanic *swēraz (“heavy”), from Proto-Indo-European *swer- (“heavy”). Cognate with West Frisian swier (“heavy”), Dutch zwaar (“heavy, hard, difficult”), German schwer (“heavy, hard, difficult”), Danish svær (“heavy, hard, severe”), Swedish svår (“heavy, hard, severe”), Latin sērius (“earnest, grave, solemn, serious”) and Albanian varrë (“wound, plague”). Pronunciation: /ˈswɛə(ɹ)/, /ˈswɛɚ/, /ˈsweː/, /ˈsweə/, /ˈswe̝ə/ 1. A lazy time; a short rest during working hours (especially field labour); a siesta. Labels: Northern-England, Scotland
Word: swear Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English swere, swer, swar, from Old English swǣr, swār (“heavy, heavy as a burden, of great weight, oppressive, grievous, painful, unpleasant, sad, feeling or expressing grief, grave, slow, dull, sluggish, slothful, indolent, inactive from weakness, enfeebled, weak”), from Proto-West Germanic *swār, from Proto-Germanic *swēraz (“heavy”), from Proto-Indo-European *swer- (“heavy”). Cognate with West Frisian swier (“heavy”), Dutch zwaar (“heavy, hard, difficult”), German schwer (“heavy, hard, difficult”), Danish svær (“heavy, hard, severe”), Swedish svår (“heavy, hard, severe”), Latin sērius (“earnest, grave, solemn, serious”) and Albanian varrë (“wound, plague”). Pronunciation: /ˈswɛə(ɹ)/, /ˈswɛɚ/, /ˈsweː/, /ˈsweə/, /ˈswe̝ə/ 1. To be lazy; rest for a short while during working hours. Labels: Northern-England, Scotland
Word: swore Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /swɔː/, /swɔɹ/, /swo(ː)ɹ/, /swoə/, /swʊɹ/ 1. simple past of swear Labels: form-of, past 2. past participle of swear Labels: colloquial, dialectal, form-of, participle, past Example: If that were all, for some have swore / As false as they, if th' did no more[…] Example: "[…]I have 'swore off' smoking. But you shall have your pipe (the old tobacco) or cigars among the books. It will be quite a delight."
Word: sworn Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English sworen, isworen, from Old English sworen, ġesworen, from Proto-West Germanic *swaran, *giswaran, from Proto-Germanic *swaranaz, past participle of Proto-Germanic *swarjaną (“to swear”), equivalent to swear + -en. Pronunciation: /swɔːn/, /swɔɹn/, /swo(ː)ɹn/, /swoən/ 1. past participle of swear Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: sworn Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English sworen, isworen, from Old English sworen, ġesworen, from Proto-West Germanic *swaran, *giswaran, from Proto-Germanic *swaranaz, past participle of Proto-Germanic *swarjaną (“to swear”), equivalent to swear + -en. Pronunciation: /swɔːn/, /swɔɹn/, /swo(ː)ɹn/, /swoən/ 1. Given or declared under oath. Labels: not-comparable Example: His sworn statement convinced the judge. 2. Bound as though by an oath. Labels: not-comparable Example: I'm sworn to secrecy. Example: Swum ashore, man, like a duck. I can swim like a duck, I'll be sworn. 3. Ardent, devout. Labels: not-comparable Example: a sworn foe Example: a sworn socialist
Word: swept Part of Speech: adj Pronunciation: /swɛpt/, /swept/, /swɛpʈ/ 1. Cleared of mines (explosive devices). Labels: not-comparable Example: Having survived the seemingly-random attacks through the day, and now under the cover of night, the Germans seem to have a clear run to safety. However, back when the route became clear thanks to the Enigma intercepts, Bomber Command had laid more mines in the swept channel. And now, along comes Gneisenau!
Word: swept Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /swɛpt/, /swept/, /swɛpʈ/ 1. simple past and past participle of sweep Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: swell Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English swellen, from Old English swellan (“to swell”), from Proto-West Germanic *swellan, from Proto-Germanic *swellaną (“to swell”), of unknown origin. Cognate with Saterland Frisian swälle (“to swell”), West Frisian swolle (“to swell”), Dutch zwellen (“to swell”), Low German swellen (“to swell”), German schwellen (“to swell”), Swedish svälla (“to swell”), Icelandic svella. The adjective may derive from the noun. Pronunciation: /swɛl/ 1. To become bigger, especially due to being engorged. Labels: intransitive Example: O for a Muse of fire, that would ascend The brightest heaven of invention, A kingdom for a stage, princes to act And monarchs to behold the swelling scene! Example: “If you drinks a drop more, Miss Lucy, you’ll just go like my pore young sister goed, […] Pop she did not. She swole … swole and swole.” “You mean ‘swelled,’ Cookoo,” corrected Lucille […] “[…] I say she swole—and what is more she swole clean into a dropsy.” 2. To cause to become bigger. Labels: transitive Example: Rains and dissolving snow swell the rivers in spring. Example: Mildly it [the wind] kist our sailes, and, fresh, and sweet, As, to a stomack sterv’d, whose insides meete, Meate comes, it came; and swole our sailes, when wee So joyd, as Sara’ her swelling joy’d to see. 3. To grow gradually in force or loudness. Labels: intransitive Example: The organ music swelled. 4. To cause to grow gradually in force or loudness. Labels: transitive Example: It commenced with a slow crescendo, so irresistibly lugubrious that two of our dogs at once raised their heads and swelled their voices into a responsive tremolo, which may have been heard and appreciated by their distant relatives. 5. To raise to arrogance; to puff up; to inflate. Labels: transitive Example: to be swelled with pride or haughtiness 6. To be raised to arrogance. Labels: intransitive Example: Why, here he comes, swelling like a turkey-cock. Example: […] you swell at the sight of tartan, as the bull is said to do at scarlet. 7. To be elated; to rise arrogantly. Example: In all things else above our humble fate Your equal mind yet swells not into state, But like some mountain in those happy Isles Where in perpetual Spring young Nature smiles, Your greatnesse shows: 8. To be turgid, bombastic, or extravagant. Example: swelling words a swelling style 9. To protuberate; to bulge out. Example: A cask swells in the middle.
Word: swell Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English swelle, from the verb swellen (modern swell). Pronunciation: /swɛl/ 1. The act of swelling; increase in size. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. A bulge or protuberance. Labels: countable, uncountable 3. Increase of power in style, or of rhetorical force. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Concentrated are his arguments, select and distinct and orderly his topics, ready and unfastidious his expressions, popular his allusions, plain his illustrations, easy the swell and subsidence of his periods […] 4. A long series of ocean waves, generally produced by wind, and lasting after the wind has ceased. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: the heave of a heavy ocean swell Example: There was a great, smooth swell upon the sea. 5. A gradual crescendo followed by diminuendo. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: He was thinking; but the glory of the song, the swell from the great organ, the clustered lights, […], the height and vastness of this noble fane, its antiquity and its strength—all these things seemed to have their part as causes of the thrilling emotion that accompanied his thoughts. 6. A device for controlling the volume of a pipe organ. Labels: countable, uncountable 7. A division in a pipe organ, usually the largest enclosed division. Labels: countable, uncountable 8. A hillock or similar raised area of terrain. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Off on the crest of a swell a moving figure was seen now and then. "Antelope," said the hunters. 9. An upward protrusion of strata from whose central region the beds dip quaquaversally at a low angle. Labels: countable, uncountable 10. A person who is stylish, fancy, or elegant. Labels: countable, dated, informal, uncountable Example: It costs him no more to wear all his ornaments about his distinguished person than to leave them at home. If you can be a swell at a cheap rate, why not? Example: He was dressed in a flashy style, not unlike what is popularly denominated a swell. 11. A person of high social standing; an important person. Labels: countable, informal, uncountable Example: "I am not in Mr Crosbie's confidence. He is in the General Committee Office, I know; and, I believe, has pretty nearly the management of the whole of it." "I'll tell you what he is, Bell; Mr Crosbie is a swell." And Lilian Dale was right; Mr Crosbie was a swell. Example: “I,” said Binet, “once saw a piece called the ‘Gamin de Paris,’ in which there was the character of an old general that is really hit off to a T. He sets down a young swell, who had seduced a working girl, who at the end———” 12. The front brow of a saddle bow, connected in the tree by the two saddle bars to the cantle on the other end. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: swell Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From the noun "swell" (a person dressed in an elegant manner). Pronunciation: /swɛl/ 1. Fashionable, like a swell or dandy. Labels: dated, not-comparable, usually Example: We pay the express, $5 a day our new agents are making and wearing the swellest clothes besides; old agents after one season make twice as much. 2. Excellent. Labels: Canada, US, dated, not-comparable, slang, usually Example: ...you are my devoted friend too. You do more and work harder and oh shit I'd get maudlin about how damned swell you are. My god I'd like to see you... You're a hell of a good guy. Example: Jeff swaggered over to Ned Beaumont, threw his left arm roughly around his shoulders, seized Ned Beaumont’s right hand with his right hand, and addressed the company jovially: “This is the swellest guy I ever skinned a knuckle on and I’ve skinned them on plenty.”
Word: swell Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From the noun "swell" (a person dressed in an elegant manner). Pronunciation: /swɛl/ 1. Very well. Labels: Canada, US, informal, not-comparable Example: “That lousy ring wasn’t worth no grand. I did swell to get two centuries for it.” Example: “[…] Last August, when I left The Walls, I figured I had every chance to start new. I got a job in Olathe, lived with my family, and stayed home nights. I was doing swell—”
Word: swelled Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ˈswɛld/ 1. simple past and past participle of swell Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: swollen Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English swollen, i-swolle, y-swolle, yswolle, ȝeswollen, from Old English swollen, ġeswollen, from Proto-Germanic *swullanaz, past participle of Proto-Germanic *swellaną (“to swell”). Cognate with West Frisian swollen (“swollen”), Dutch gezwollen (“swollen”), German geschwollen (“swollen”), Swedish svullen (“swollen”). Pronunciation: /ˈswəʊ.lən/, /ˈswɒ.lən/, /ˈswoʊ.lən/ 1. Protuberant or abnormally distended (as by injury or disease). Example: swollen ankle Example: swollen knee
Word: swollen Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English swollen, i-swolle, y-swolle, yswolle, ȝeswollen, from Old English swollen, ġeswollen, from Proto-Germanic *swullanaz, past participle of Proto-Germanic *swellaną (“to swell”). Cognate with West Frisian swollen (“swollen”), Dutch gezwollen (“swollen”), German geschwollen (“swollen”), Swedish svullen (“swollen”). Pronunciation: /ˈswəʊ.lən/, /ˈswɒ.lən/, /ˈswoʊ.lən/ 1. past participle of swell Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: swim Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English swymmen, from Old English swimman (“to swim, float”) (class III strong verb; past tense swamm, past participle geswummen), from Proto-West Germanic *swimman, from Proto-Germanic *swimmaną (“to swim”), from Proto-Indo-European *swem(bʰ)- (“to be unsteady, move, swim”). Cognates Cognate with North Frisian sweem, swome, swume, swumi, swumme, swääm (“to swim”), Saterland Frisian and West Frisian swimme (“to swim”), Dutch zwemmen (“to swim”), German schwimmen (“to swim”), Limburgish schwämme, zwömme (“to swim”), Low German swimmen (“to swim”), Luxembourgish schwammen (“to swim”), Vilamovian švymma, śwyma, śwymma (“to swim”), Yiddish שווימען (shvimen, “to swim”), Danish and Norwegian Bokmål svømme (“to swim”), Faroese svimja (“to swim”), Norn suma (“to swim”), Norwegian Nynorsk svemja, svemje, svømma, svømme, symja, symje (“to swim”), Swedish simma (“to swim”). Pronunciation: /swɪm/, /sʋɪm/, /s(ʋ)ʊm/ 1. To move through the water, without touching the bottom; to propel oneself in water by natural means. Labels: intransitive Example: We were now all upon a Level, as to our travelling; being unshipp’d, for our Bark would swim no farther, and she was too heavy to carry on our Backs […] Example: He turned back to the scene before him and the enormous new block of council dwellings. The design was some way after Corbusier but the block was built up on plinths and resembled an Atlantic liner swimming diagonally across the site. 2. To become immersed in, or as if in, or flooded with, or as if with, a liquid. Labels: intransitive Example: swimming in self-pity Example: a bare few bits of meat swimming in watery sauce 3. To move around freely because of excess space. Labels: intransitive Example: A fam'd Sur-tout he wears, which once was blue, / And his foot swims in a capacious shoe. 4. To traverse (a specific body of water, or a specific distance) by swimming; or, to use a specific swimming stroke; or, to compete in a specific swimming event. Labels: transitive Example: For exercise, we like to swim laps around the pool. Example: I want to swim the 200-yard breaststroke in the finals. 5. To cause to swim. Labels: transitive, uncommon Example: to swim a horse across a river Example: Half of the guinea pigs were swum daily. 6. To float. Labels: archaic, intransitive Example: sink or swim Example: There's oil swimming on the water. 7. To be overflowed or drenched. Labels: intransitive Example: I am weary with my groaning; all the night make I my bed to swim; I water my couch with my tears. Example: Sudden, the ditches ſwell; the meadows ſwim. 8. To immerse in water to make the lighter parts float. Labels: transitive Example: to swim wheat in order to select seed 9. To test (a suspected witch) by throwing into a river; those who floated rather than sinking were deemed to be witches. Labels: historical, transitive 10. To glide along with a waving motion. Labels: intransitive 11. To have a great quantity of something. Labels: intransitive Example: You should be swimming in money after this job.
Word: swim Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English swymmen, from Old English swimman (“to swim, float”) (class III strong verb; past tense swamm, past participle geswummen), from Proto-West Germanic *swimman, from Proto-Germanic *swimmaną (“to swim”), from Proto-Indo-European *swem(bʰ)- (“to be unsteady, move, swim”). Cognates Cognate with North Frisian sweem, swome, swume, swumi, swumme, swääm (“to swim”), Saterland Frisian and West Frisian swimme (“to swim”), Dutch zwemmen (“to swim”), German schwimmen (“to swim”), Limburgish schwämme, zwömme (“to swim”), Low German swimmen (“to swim”), Luxembourgish schwammen (“to swim”), Vilamovian švymma, śwyma, śwymma (“to swim”), Yiddish שווימען (shvimen, “to swim”), Danish and Norwegian Bokmål svømme (“to swim”), Faroese svimja (“to swim”), Norn suma (“to swim”), Norwegian Nynorsk svemja, svemje, svømma, svømme, symja, symje (“to swim”), Swedish simma (“to swim”). Pronunciation: /swɪm/, /sʋɪm/, /s(ʋ)ʊm/ 1. An act or instance of swimming. Example: I'm going for a swim. Example: She had a quick swim in the bay. 2. The sound, or air bladder, of a fish. 3. A part of a stream much frequented by fish. Labels: UK 4. A dance or dance move of the 1960s in which the arms are moved in imitation of various swimming strokes, such as freestyle, breaststroke, etc. Example: C'mon everybody! C'mon in! Bobby's goin' to show you how to do the swim. 5. The flow of events; being in the swim of things. Labels: figuratively Example: With the road ahead now clear, Mann […] is plunging back into the swim of business in a hurry.
Word: swim Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English swime, sweme, swaime (“a dizziness, swoon, trance”), from Old English swīma (“a swoon, swimming in the head”). Cognate with Swedish svimma (“to swoon, faint”) and Danish svime (“to swoon, faint”) / Danish besvime (“to swoon, faint”). 1. A dizziness; swoon.
Word: swim Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English swime, sweme, swaime (“a dizziness, swoon, trance”), from Old English swīma (“a swoon, swimming in the head”). Cognate with Swedish svimma (“to swoon, faint”) and Danish svime (“to swoon, faint”) / Danish besvime (“to swoon, faint”). 1. To be dizzy or vertiginous; have a giddy sensation; to have, or appear to have, a whirling motion. Labels: intransitive Example: My head was swimming after drinking two bottles of cheap wine. Example: She snatched the letter from Sir Jasper, who started as her icy hand touched his: she attempted to read the passage herself, but the letters seemed to swim before her gaze: they turned to fire; the paper dropped from her grasp; a thick mist appeared to gather over the room; she gave a convulsive shudder, and dropped on the floor perfectly insensible.
Word: swim Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Abbreviation of someone who isn't me. 1. Abbreviation of someone who isn't me, used as a way to avoid self-designation or self-incrimination, especially in online drug forums. Labels: Internet, abbreviation, alt-of, no-plural
Word: swam Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /swæm/ 1. simple past of swim Labels: form-of, past
Word: swum Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /swʌm/ 1. past participle of swim Labels: form-of, participle, past 2. simple past of swim Labels: archaic, dialectal, form-of, past
Word: swung Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /swʌŋ/, /swʊŋ/, /swʊŋɡ/ 1. simple past and past participle of swing Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: took Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /tʊk/, /tɵk/, /tuːk/, /tʉk/ 1. simple past of take Labels: form-of, past Example: When Timothy and Julia hurried up the staircase to the bedroom floor, where a considerable commotion was taking place, Tim took Barry Leach with him. He had him gripped firmly by the arm, since he felt it was not safe to let him loose, and he had no immediate idea what to do with him. 2. past participle of take Labels: colloquial, dialectal, form-of, participle, past Example: A gracious perſon ; But yet I cannot loue him : / He might have tooke his anſwer long ago Example: "There you're right," said Bill, "especially as it was all in paper, and he might have took care of it so very easy, by folding it up into a small parcel."
Word: taken Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English taken, takenn, from Old English tacen, *ġetacen, from Old Norse tekinn, from Proto-Germanic *tēkanaz, past participle of Proto-Germanic *tēkaną (“to take; grasp; touch”). Cognate with Scots takin, tane, Danish tagen, Swedish tagen, Icelandic tekin. Morphologically take + -n. Pronunciation: /ˈteɪ.kn̩/ 1. Infatuated; fond of or attracted to. Labels: not-comparable Example: He was very taken with the girl, I hear. 2. In a serious romantic relationship. Labels: informal, not-comparable Example: I can't ask her out, she's taken.
Word: taken Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English taken, takenn, from Old English tacen, *ġetacen, from Old Norse tekinn, from Proto-Germanic *tēkanaz, past participle of Proto-Germanic *tēkaną (“to take; grasp; touch”). Cognate with Scots takin, tane, Danish tagen, Swedish tagen, Icelandic tekin. Morphologically take + -n. Pronunciation: /ˈteɪ.kn̩/ 1. past participle of take Labels: form-of, participle, past Example: No doubt many a journey you have rode and gone, and many a hard daies labour you have taken, and ſharpened perhaps with care and grief[…]
Word: teach Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English techen, from Old English tǣċan (“to show, declare, demonstrate; teach, instruct, train; assign, prescribe, direct; warn; persuade”), from Proto-West Germanic *taikijan, from Proto-Germanic *taikijaną (“to show”), from Proto-Indo-European *deyḱ- (“to show”). Cognate with Scots tech, teich (“to teach”), German zeigen (“to show, point out”), zeihen (“accuse, blame”), Gothic 𐌲𐌰𐍄𐌴𐌹𐌷𐌰𐌽 (gateihan, “to announce, declare, tell, show, display”), Latin dīcō (“speak, say, tell”), Ancient Greek δείκνυμι (deíknumi, “show, point out, explain, teach”), Sanskrit दिशति (diśati, “to point out, show, tell, teach”). More at token. Pronunciation: /ˈtiːt͡ʃ/, [ˈtʰɪi̯t͡ʃ] 1. To pass on knowledge to. Labels: ditransitive Example: Can you teach me to sew? Can you teach sewing to me? 2. To pass on knowledge generally, especially as one's profession; to act as a teacher. Labels: intransitive, stative Example: She used to teach at university. 3. To cause (someone) to learn or understand (something). Labels: ditransitive Example: The humor of my proposition appealed more strongly to Miss Trevor than I had looked for, and from that time forward she became her old self again;[…]. Now she had come to look upon the matter in its true proportions, and her anticipation of a possible chance of teaching him a lesson was a pleasure to behold. Example: Deep Blue taught us a great deal about the power of the human mind precisely because it could not reproduce the intuitive and logical leaps of Kasparov’s mind. A truly synthetic cell, built from scratch or even from preexisting components, will be a cell without ancestry, and it, too, will teach us a great deal about the underlying complexities of life without actually reproducing them. 4. To cause to know the disagreeable consequences of some action. Labels: ditransitive Example: I'll teach you to make fun of me! 5. To show (someone) the way; to guide, conduct; to point, indicate. Labels: obsolete, transitive Example: ‘The bliss is there’, mumbled the old man and taught to Heaven. Example: c1450, Mandeville's Travelsː Blessed God of might (the) most.. teach us the right way unto that bliss that lasteth aye.
Word: teach Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Clipping of teacher. Pronunciation: /ˈtiːt͡ʃ/, [ˈtʰɪi̯t͡ʃ] 1. teacher Labels: informal, term-of-address, usually
Word: taught Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English taught(e), tau(h)t(e), from Old English tāhte, tǣhte, from Proto-Germanic *taihtē. Pronunciation: /tɔːt/, /toːt/, /tɔt/, /tɑt/, /t̪ɒːt/ 1. simple past and past participle of teach Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: taught Part of Speech: adj 1. Misspelling of taut. Labels: alt-of, misspelling Example: The bevel of the needle should be up and the injection should be made through taught skin.
Word: tore Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English tor, tore, toor, from Old Norse tor- (“hard, difficult, wrong, bad”, prefix), from Proto-Germanic *tuz- (“hard, difficult, wrong, bad”), from Proto-Indo-European *dus- (“bad, ill, difficult”). Cognate with Old High German zur- (“mis-”, prefix), Gothic 𐍄𐌿𐌶- (tuz-, “hard, difficult”, prefix), Ancient Greek δυσ- (dus-, “bad, ill, difficult”, prefix). More at dys-. Pronunciation: /tɔː(ɹ)/, /tɔɹ/, /toːɹ/, /to(ː)ɹ/, /toə/ 1. Hard, difficult; wearisome, tedious. Labels: dialectal, obsolete 2. Strong, sturdy; great, massive. Labels: dialectal, obsolete 3. Full; rich. Labels: dialectal, obsolete
Word: tore Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /tɔː(ɹ)/, /tɔɹ/, /toːɹ/, /to(ː)ɹ/, /toə/ 1. simple past of tear (“rip, rend, speed”). Labels: form-of, past 2. past participle of tear (“rip, rend, speed”) Labels: colloquial, form-of, nonstandard, participle, past Example: […]that a Spirit came into him that did make him quake and tremble ſo exceedingly that he thought it would have tore him, &c[…] Example: Upon my honor, Sir, you have tore every bit of ſkin quite off the back of both my hands with your forceps, cried my uncle Toby[…]
Word: tore Part of Speech: noun Etymology: See torus. Pronunciation: /tɔː(ɹ)/, /tɔɹ/, /toːɹ/, /to(ː)ɹ/, /toə/ 1. Alternative form of torus. Labels: alt-of, alternative 2. The surface described by the circumference of a circle revolving about a straight line in its own plane. 3. The solid enclosed by such a surface; an anchor ring.
Word: tore Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Probably from the root of tear; compare Welsh word for a break or cut. Pronunciation: /tɔː(ɹ)/, /tɔɹ/, /toːɹ/, /to(ː)ɹ/, /toə/ 1. The dead grass that remains on mowing land in winter and spring. Labels: uncountable Example: the more Tore you have, the less Quantity of Hay will do
Word: torn Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /tɔːn/, /toːn/, /toɹn/, /toɾn/, /tɔən/ 1. past participle of tear Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: torn Part of Speech: adj Pronunciation: /tɔːn/, /toːn/, /toɹn/, /toɾn/, /tɔən/ 1. Having undergone tearing; ripped or shredded. 2. Unable to decide between multiple options. Example: I'm torn between pizza and hamburgers. 3. Having marginal incisions that are deep and irregular.
Word: tell Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English tellen (“to count, tell”), from Old English tellan (“to count, tell”), from Proto-West Germanic *talljan, from Proto-Germanic *taljaną, *talzijaną (“to count, enumerate”), from Proto-Germanic *talą, *talō (“number, counting”), from Proto-Indo-European *dol- (“calculation, fraud”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian tälle (“to say; tell”), West Frisian telle (“to count”), West Frisian fertelle (“to tell, narrate”), Dutch tellen (“to count”) and Dutch vertellen (“to tell”), Low German tellen (“to count”), German zählen, Faroese telja, Swedish tala (“to speak”). More at tale. Pronunciation: [tʰɔː], /tʰɛw/, /tʰɛɫ/, /tɛl/, [tʰɛl] 1. A reflexive, often habitual behavior, especially one occurring in a context that often features attempts at deception by persons under psychological stress (such as a poker game or police interrogation), that reveals information that the person exhibiting the behavior is attempting to withhold. 2. A giveaway; something that unintentionally reveals or hints at a secret. Labels: informal Example: Those whose business it is to verify luxury bags insist, at least publicly, that there’s always a “tell” to a superfake. Example: Republican Congressman Chris Smith of New Jersey said recently that “Israel is the only state in the world whose fundamental right to exist, within any borders at all, is openly denied by other states.” But Israel is the only nation with a “right to exist,” as the phrase is not commonly attached to any other country. And that’s the tell: This is not a legal concept, but a political one, available for broad interpretation and rhetorical weaponization. 3. That which is told; a tale or account. Labels: archaic Example: April 4, 1743, Horace Walpole, letter to Sir Horace Mann I am at the end of my tell. 4. A private message to an individual in a chat room; a whisper. Labels: Internet
Word: tell Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Arabic تَلّ (tall, “hill, elevation”) or Hebrew תֵּל (tél, “hill”), from Proto-Semitic *tall- (“hill”). Pronunciation: [tʰɔː], /tʰɛw/, /tʰɛɫ/, /tɛl/, [tʰɛl] 1. A hill or mound, originally and especially in the Middle East, over or consisting of the ruins of ancient settlements. Example: Succoth is now associated with a large tell situated in the Jordan Valley, Deir Allah.
Word: told Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English tolde, talde (first and third person singular preterite), from Old English tealde (first and third person singular preterite), from Proto-Germanic *talid-, preterite stem of Proto-Germanic *taljaną (“to count; tell”), equivalent to tell + -ed. Pronunciation: /təʊld/, [ˈtʰɔʊ(ɫ)d], [ˈtʰɒʊ(ɫ)d], /tɛlt/, /tɛld/ 1. simple past and past participle of tell Labels: form-of, participle, past Example: A tale is but half told, if only one person tells it.
Word: thought Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *teng-der. Proto-Germanic *þankijaną Proto-Germanic *þanhtaz Proto-West Germanic *þą̄ht Old English þōht Middle English thought English thought From Middle English thought, ithoȝt, from Old English þōht, ġeþōht, from Proto-West Germanic *þą̄ht, from Proto-Germanic *þanhtaz, *gaþanhtą (“thought”), from Proto-Indo-European *teng- (“to think”). Cognate with Scots thocht (“thought”), Saterland Frisian Toacht (“thought”), West Frisian dacht (“attention, regard, thought”), Dutch gedachte (“thought”), German Andacht (“reverence, devotion, prayer”), Icelandic þóttur (“thought”). Related to thank, think. Pronunciation: /θɔt/, /θɑt/, [θɒ(ː)t], /θɔːt/, /θoːt/ 1. A representation created in the mind without the use of one's faculties of vision, sound, smell, touch, or taste; an instance of thinking. Labels: countable Example: The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another. Example: I hate the thought of going back to work Monday morning. 2. The operation by which mental activity arise or are manipulated; the process of thinking; the agency by which thinking is accomplished. Labels: uncountable Example: Without freedom of thought there can be no such thing as wisdom, and no such thing as public liberty without freedom of speech. Example: The only reason some people get lost in thought is because it’s unfamiliar territory. 3. A way of thinking (associated with a group, nation or region). Labels: countable Example: Traditional eastern thought differs markedly from that of the west. 4. Anxiety, distress. Labels: dialectal, uncountable Example: Which of you by taking thought, can adde one cubite vnto his ſtature? 5. The careful consideration of multiple factors; deliberation. Labels: uncountable Example: After much thought, I have decided to stay. 6. A very small amount, distance, etc.; a whit or jot. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: 'Bide the night at Heriotside,' says he. 'It's a thought out of your way, but it's a comfortable bit.'
Word: thought Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *teng-der. Proto-Germanic *þankijaną Proto-Germanic *þanhtaz Proto-West Germanic *þą̄ht Old English þōht Middle English thought English thought From Middle English thought, ithoȝt, from Old English þōht, ġeþōht, from Proto-West Germanic *þą̄ht, from Proto-Germanic *þanhtaz, *gaþanhtą (“thought”), from Proto-Indo-European *teng- (“to think”). Cognate with Scots thocht (“thought”), Saterland Frisian Toacht (“thought”), West Frisian dacht (“attention, regard, thought”), Dutch gedachte (“thought”), German Andacht (“reverence, devotion, prayer”), Icelandic þóttur (“thought”). Related to thank, think. Pronunciation: /θɔt/, /θɑt/, [θɒ(ː)t], /θɔːt/, /θoːt/ 1. simple past and past participle of think Labels: form-of, participle, past Example: Hi! I thought I’d come over and introduce myself. My name’s Chema. Example: I'd previously been thought to be a thorough fool.
Word: throw Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English throwen, thrawen, from Old English þrāwan (“to turn, twist”), from Proto-West Germanic *þrāan, from Proto-Germanic *þrēaną (“to twist, turn”), from Proto-Indo-European *terh₁- (“to rub, rub by twisting, twist, turn”). Cognate with Scots thraw (“to twist, turn, throw”), West Frisian triuwe (“to push”), Dutch draaien (“to turn”), Low German draien, dreien (“to turn (in a lathe)”), German drehen (“to turn”). Displaced warp as the word for hurling and was displaced by warp as the word for twisting. The use in computing comes from the fact, that in programming languages a statement reporting an error interrupts normal processing and sends an error object up the function calling stack until a handling statement intercepts it. Thus an “object” is “thrown” and “flies” until it is “catched”. Pronunciation: /θɹəʊ/, [θɾ̪̊əʊ], /θɹoʊ/, [θɾ̪̊oʊ] 1. The act of throwing something. Example: With an accurate throw, he lassoed the cow. Example: What a great throw by the quarterback! 2. A move in which one lifts or unbalances one’s opponent and then brings him down to the ground. 3. One’s ability to throw. Example: He’s always had a pretty decent throw. 4. The distance travelled by something thrown. Example: a stone's throw Example: Only on the north-east may aught save a winged thing come at the castle, across a smooth grass-grown saddle less than a stone’s throw in width. 5. The flight of a thrown object. 6. A distance travelled in general; displacement. Example: the throw of the piston Example: The visibility of the screen image is affected by the length of throw of the projector, the type of projector, the intensity of the projector lamp, and the type of the screen. 7. A piece of fabric used to cover a bed, sofa or other soft furnishing. 8. A single instance, occurrence, venture, or chance. Labels: informal Example: Football tickets are expensive at fifty bucks a throw. 9. Any of the projections integral to a crankshaft that receive or impart cranking motion from a connecting rod or similar component. 10. A hand-operated lathe, especially a small lathe used by clockmakers. Labels: historical
Word: throw Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English, from Old English þrāh, þrāg (“space of time, period, while”). Of uncertain origin. Perhaps related to Gothic 𐌸𐍂𐌰𐌲𐌾𐌰𐌽 (þragjan, “to run”). Pronunciation: /θɹəʊ/, [θɾ̪̊əʊ], /θɹoʊ/, [θɾ̪̊oʊ] 1. A moment, time, occasion. Labels: obsolete 2. A period of time; a while. Labels: obsolete Example: Downe himselfe he layd Vpon the grassie ground, to sleepe a throw; The cold earth was his couch, the hard steele his pillow.
Word: throw Part of Speech: noun Etymology: See throe. Pronunciation: /θɹəʊ/, [θɾ̪̊əʊ], /θɹoʊ/, [θɾ̪̊oʊ] 1. Obsolete spelling of throe. Labels: alt-of, error-lua-exec, obsolete Example: O man haue mind of that laſt bitter throw; For as the tree does fall, ſo lyes it euer low. Example: [Valerius] Cordus ſaith, that Iuncus bombicinus ſodden in wine, and ſo taken, helpeth the throwes and gripings of the bellie, that women haue in their childing.
Word: throw Part of Speech: verb Etymology: See throe. Pronunciation: /θɹəʊ/, [θɾ̪̊əʊ], /θɹoʊ/, [θɾ̪̊oʊ] 1. Obsolete spelling of throe. Labels: alt-of, obsolete Example: Pre-thee ſay on, The ſetting of thine eye, and cheeke proclaime A matter from thee; and a birth, indeed, Which throwes thee much to yeeld.
Word: threw Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English threw, from Old English þrēow (first and third person past tense of þrāwan), from West Germanic *þreu, from Northwest Germanic *þrerō, from Proto-Germanic *þeþrō (first and third person past tense of *þrēaną), reduplication of *þrēaną. Pronunciation: /θɹuː/, /θɹʉw/, /θɹu/, /θɹʉː/, /θɾʉ/ 1. simple past of throw Labels: form-of, past 2. past participle of throw Labels: colloquial, form-of, nonstandard, participle, past Example: "But I'd have threw lead at him if I'd been scared enough. I wasn't scared enough." Example: I may have threw it away then, or I may have threw it away after I got the passport and didn't need the various other stuff any long.
Word: thrown Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English throwen, from Old English þrāwen, ġeþrāwen, from Proto-Germanic *þrēanaz, from Proto-Germanic *þrēaną. Doublet of thran. Morphologically throw + -n. Pronunciation: /θɹəʊn/, /θɹoʊn/ 1. past participle of throw Labels: form-of, participle, past