nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: foregone Part of Speech: adj Pronunciation: /ˈfɔɹɡɔn/ 1. previous, former 2. bygone Example: For with the dream foregone, foregone, The deed forborne for ever, The worm, regret, will canker on, And time will turn him never. 3. inevitable; settled Labels: informal Example: I know people are still going through the details but it's not a foregone conclusion that it will get confirmation by the Senate.
Word: foresee Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English foreseen, forseen, from Old English foresēon; equivalent to fore- + see. Similar formations in Dutch voorzien, German vorsehen, Latin prōvideō, (whence provide and purvey), Ancient Greek πρόοιδα (próoida), Polish przewidzieć, Russian провидеть (providetʹ). Pronunciation: /fɔɹˈsi/, /fɚˈsi/, /fɔːˈsiː/, /fəˈsiː/ 1. To perceive (a situation or event) in advance. Example: A prudent man foreſeeth the euill, and hideth himſelfe: but the ſimple paſſe on, and are puniſhed. Example: Ariel. My Maſter through his Art foreſees the danger That you (his friend) are in, and ſends me forth (For elſe his proiect dies) to keepe them liuing. 2. To provide. Labels: obsolete Example: Great shoals of people, which go on to populate, without foreseeing means of life.
Word: foresaw Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /fɔɹˈsɔ/ 1. simple past of foresee Labels: form-of, past
Word: foreseen Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /fɔɹˈsiːn/ 1. past participle of foresee Labels: form-of, participle, past Example: easily foreseen Example: The crisis could not have been foreseen.
Word: foreseen Part of Speech: adj Pronunciation: /fɔɹˈsiːn/ 1. Having been seen in advance. Labels: not-comparable
Word: syntax Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Partly from Late Latin syntaxis and partly from its etymon, Ancient Greek σύνταξις (súntaxis), from σύν (sún, “together”) + τάξις (táxis, “arrangement”), from τάσσω (tássō, “to arrange”). Doublet of syntaxis. Pronunciation: /ˈsɪn.tæks/ 1. A set of rules that govern how words are combined to form phrases and sentences. Example: The incorporation of a rule of V MOVEMENT into our description of English Syntax turns out to have fundamental theoretical implications for our overall Theory of Grammar: it means that we are no longer able to posit that the syntactic structure of a sentence can be described in terms of a single Phrase-marker representing its S-structure. For, the postulation of a rule of V-MOVEMENT means that we must recognise at least two different levels of structure in our Theory of Grammar — namely, a level of D-structure (formerly known as ‘Deep Structureʼ) which serves as input to the rule, and a separate level of S-structure which is formed by application of the rule. 2. The formal rules of formulating the statements of a computer language. Labels: countable 3. The study of the structure of phrases, sentences, and language. Example: [Otto] Jespersen, a language professor known for his expertise in syntax and language development, stated that headlinese is not really grammatical writing.
Word: sentence Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French sentence, from Latin sententia (“way of thinking, opinion, sentiment”), from sentiēns, present participle of sentiō (“to feel, think”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *sent- (“to feel”). Pronunciation: /ˈsɛn.təns/, [ˈsɛn.tn̩(t)s], [ˈsɛn.ʔn̩(t)s] 1. The decision or judgement of a jury or court; a verdict. Labels: dated Example: The court returned a sentence of guilt in the first charge, but innocence in the second. Example: A branch that has played a significant part in the history of its territory is under sentence at the end of the summer timetables, so far as its passenger services are concerned. 2. The judicial order for a punishment to be imposed on a person convicted of a crime. Example: The judge declared a sentence of death by hanging for the infamous child rapist. Example: The murderer, he recalled, had been tried and sentenced to imprisonment for life, but was pardoned by a merciful governor after serving a year of his sentence. 3. A punishment imposed on a person convicted of a crime. 4. A saying, especially from a great person; a maxim, an apophthegm. Labels: obsolete Example: Men (saith an ancient Greek sentence) are tormented by the opinions they have of things, and not by things themselves. Example: I am told that she writes well, and that all her letters are full of sentences. 5. A grammatically complete series of words consisting of a subject and predicate, even if one or the other is implied. In modern writing, when using, e.g., the Latin, Greek or Cyrillic alphabets, typically beginning with a capital letter and ending with a full stop or other punctuation. Example: Near-synonym: clause Example: The children were made to construct sentences consisting of nouns and verbs from the list on the chalkboard. 6. A formula with no free variables. 7. Any of the set of strings that can be generated by a given formal grammar. 8. Sense; meaning; significance. Labels: obsolete Example: Noght o word spak he moore than was neede, / And that was seyd in forme and reverence / And short and quyk and ful of hy sentence […] Example: now to the discourse itself, voluble enough, and full of sentence, but that, for the most part, either specious rather than solid, or to his cause nothing pertinent. 9. One's opinion; manner of thinking. Labels: obsolete Example: My sentence is for open war. Example: The book of ſentences, which rendered the name of Peter Lombard ſo illuſtrious, was a compilation of ſentences, and paſſages, drawn from the fathers, whoſe manifold contradictions, this eminent prelate endeavoured to reconcile. 10. A pronounced opinion or judgment on a given question. Labels: archaic Example: [I]f it may bee lawfull to iudge or giue any ſentence thereof, it [the author of the book of Ruth] was either Samuell, or ſome other godly Prophet vnder the raigne of Saule, [...] Example: By them [Martin Luther's works] we might pass sentence upon his doctrines.
Word: sentence Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French sentence, from Latin sententia (“way of thinking, opinion, sentiment”), from sentiēns, present participle of sentiō (“to feel, think”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *sent- (“to feel”). Pronunciation: /ˈsɛn.təns/, [ˈsɛn.tn̩(t)s], [ˈsɛn.ʔn̩(t)s] 1. To declare a sentence on a convicted person; to condemn to punishment. Labels: transitive Example: The judge sentenced the embezzler to ten years in prison, along with a hefty fine. Example: Nature herself is sentenced in your doom. 2. To decree, announce, or pass as a sentence. Labels: especially, poetic Example: “We are empowered to deliver thee to prison; yea, the law commands us to sentence death upon the abettors of this mischief.[…]" Example: So as far as the older generation of German Lutherans were concerned, the abolition of the mother language sentenced death upon the church as they knew it. 3. To utter sententiously. Labels: obsolete Example: Let me heare one wise man sentence it, rather then twenty Fooles, garrulous in their lengthened tattle.
Word: account Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd Proto-Italic *ad Proto-Italic *ad- Latin ad- Old French a- Proto-Indo-European *ḱe? Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm Proto-Italic *kom Proto-Italic *kom- Latin con- Latin com- Latin putus Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti Proto-Indo-European *-h₂tiinflu. Proto-Italic *-ājō Proto-Italic *-āō Latin -ō Latin putō Latin computō Old French conter Old French aconter Anglo-Norman acuntebor. Middle English acounte English account From Middle English acounte, from Anglo-Norman acunte (“account”), from Old French aconte, from aconter (“to reckon”), from Latin computō (“to sum up”). Pronunciation: /əˈkaʊnt/ 1. A registry of pecuniary transactions; a written or printed statement of business dealings or debts and credits, and also of other things subjected to a reckoning or review. Example: The firm failed to file its accounts on time. 2. A bank account. Example: The money was refunded to her account. Example: The Pueblo bank has advised that the operator opened an account at that bank with currency, and a few days later withdrew the amount. 3. A statement in general of reasons, causes, grounds, etc., explanatory of some event; a reason of an action to be done. Example: Becoming more aware of the progress that scientists have made on behavioral fronts can reduce the risk that other natural scientists will resort to mystical agential accounts when they exceed the limits of their own disciplinary training. Example: No satisfactory account has been given of these phenomena. 4. A reason, grounds, consideration, motive; a person's sake. Example: Don't trouble yourself on my account. Example: on no account 5. A record of events; a relation or narrative. Example: An account of a battle. Example: A laudible account of the city of London. 6. An estimate or estimation; valuation; judgment. Example: To stand high in your account 7. Importance; worth; value; esteem; judgement. Example: There is a peculiarity in Homers manner of apoſtrophizing Eumæus, and ſpeaking of him in the ſecond perſon; it is generally apply'd by that Poet only to men of account' and diſtinction, and by it the Poet, as it were, addreſſes them with reſpect; […] 8. Authorization as a specific registered user in accessing a system. Example: Since the system outage, I've been unable to log in to my account. Example: In these cases, the agency has to buy through another ad agency that has an account with the media vehicle in question. 9. A reckoning; computation; calculation; enumeration; a record of some reckoning. Labels: archaic Example: It seems that this severity weakened his frame, for three years syne come Martinmas he was taken ill with a fever of the bowels, and after a week's sickness he went to his account, where I trust he is accepted. 10. Profit; advantage. Labels: uncountable Example: The young man soon turned his woodworking skills to some account. Example: I removed from the Old Jewry to Fetter Lane, and from thence to Wapping, hoping to get business among the sailors; but it would not turn to account.
Word: account Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd Proto-Italic *ad Proto-Italic *ad- Latin ad- Old French a- Proto-Indo-European *ḱe? Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm Proto-Italic *kom Proto-Italic *kom- Latin con- Latin com- Latin putus Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti Proto-Indo-European *-h₂tiinflu. Proto-Italic *-ājō Proto-Italic *-āō Latin -ō Latin putō Latin computō Old French conter Old French aconterder. English account From Old French acounter, accomptere et al., from a- + conter (“to count”)). Compare count. Pronunciation: /əˈkaʊnt/ 1. To provide explanation. Labels: obsolete, transitive 2. To provide explanation. Labels: archaic, intransitive 3. To provide explanation. Labels: transitive Example: I'd account it a privilege to serve you. Example: The Pagan Hercules, why was he accounted a hero? 4. To provide explanation. Labels: intransitive Example: Accounting that God was able to raise him up, even from the dead; from whence also he received him in a figure. 5. To provide explanation. Labels: intransitive Example: An officer must account with or to the treasurer for money received. 6. To provide explanation. Labels: intransitive Example: We must account for the use of our opportunities. 7. To provide explanation. Labels: intransitive Example: Idleness accounts for poverty. Example: While the overall model was invariant across groups, the direct relationship between atypical eating (not driven by weight/shape) and ED pathology was only significant in the autistic group. Therefore, while body image appears to contribute to ED pathology in autistic adults, atypical eating may represent an additional unique risk factor for ED pathology. While the correlational nature of this study precludes inferences about causality, the combination of atypical eating and body image dissatisfaction may partially account for elevated ED pathology in autism. 8. To provide explanation. Labels: intransitive Example: After the crash, not all passengers were accounted for. 9. To provide explanation. Labels: intransitive Example: Desperately bold at last, the persecuted animals bolted above-ground—the terrier accounted for one, the keeper for another; Rawdon, from flurry and excitement, missed his rat, but on the other hand he half-murdered a ferret. 10. To count. Labels: archaic, transitive Example: neither the motion of the Moon, whereby moneths are computed; nor of the Sun, whereby years are accounted, consisteth of whole numbers, but admits of fractions, and broken parts, as we have already declared concerning the Moon. 11. To count. Labels: obsolete 12. To count. Labels: obsolete Example: Long worke it were / Here to account the endlesse progeny / Of all the weeds that bud and blossome there [...]. 13. Used in phrasal verbs: account for, account of, account to.
Word: enterprise Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Old French via Middle English and Middle French entreprise, feminine past participle of entreprendre (“to undertake”), from entre (“in between”) + prendre (“to take”), from Latin inter + prehendō, see prehensile. Pronunciation: /ˈɛntəˌpɹaɪz/, /ˈɛntɚˌpɹaɪz/, /ˈen.təˌpɹɑez/, [ˈen.təˌpɹɑe̯z] 1. A company, business, organization, or other purposeful endeavor. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The government sponsored enterprises (GSEs) are a group of financial services corporations which have been created by the United States Congress. Example: A micro-enterprise is defined as a company or business having 5 or fewer employees and a low seed capital. 2. An undertaking, venture, or project, especially a daring and courageous one. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Biosphere 2 was a scientific enterprise aimed at the exploration of the complex web of interactions within life systems. 3. A willingness to undertake new or risky projects; energy and initiative. Labels: uncountable Example: He has shown great enterprise throughout his early career. Example: This loss of interest, hair, and enterprise — / Ah, if the game were poker, yes, / You might discard them, draw a full house! / But it's chess. 4. Active participation in projects. Labels: uncountable
Word: enterprise Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Old French via Middle English and Middle French entreprise, feminine past participle of entreprendre (“to undertake”), from entre (“in between”) + prendre (“to take”), from Latin inter + prehendō, see prehensile. Pronunciation: /ˈɛntəˌpɹaɪz/, /ˈɛntɚˌpɹaɪz/, /ˈen.təˌpɹɑez/, [ˈen.təˌpɹɑe̯z] 1. To undertake an enterprise, or something hazardous or difficult. Labels: intransitive Example: Charles Mordaunt Earl of Peterborow[…], with only 280 horse and 950 foot , enterprised and accomplished the Conquest of Valentia 2. To undertake; to begin and attempt to perform; to venture upon. Labels: transitive Example: The business must be enterprised this night. Example: c. 1680, Thomas Otway, letter to Elizabeth Barry What would I not renounce or enterprise for you! 3. To put up or house; to entertain. Labels: obsolete, transitive Example: Him at the threshold met, and well did enterprize.
Word: enterprising Part of Speech: adj 1. Displaying bravery and daring in attempting some task. 2. Very able and ingenious in business dealings or social advancement. Example: It was now settled that every body was to be amused by her coarse jest and her odd expressions, and therefore everybody was amused. Moreover, there was another great secret of her popularity; all in her company luxuriated in a little complacent sense of their own superiority,—one of the most agreeable of the senses to indulge. Such was the enterprising individual whose saloon was to-night a representation of the Field of the Cloth of Gold.
Word: enterprising Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of enterprise Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: enterprising Part of Speech: noun 1. The undertaking of an enterprise; purposeful activity; doings. Example: What gives these enterprisings their political character are the contentions, claims and experiences of the other.
Word: entertaining Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From entertain + -ing. Pronunciation: /ˌɛntəɹˈteɪnɪŋ/, /ˌɛntəːˈteɪnɪŋ/ 1. Very amusing; that entertains. Example: The smiths themselves were a grand lot of fellows, full of a robust, and sometimes Rabelaisian sense of humour, and between "heats," they could be most entertaining. Example: Sunderland came back from two goals down to earn a point from an entertaining encounter with West Brom.
Word: entertaining Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From entertain + -ing. Pronunciation: /ˌɛntəɹˈteɪnɪŋ/, /ˌɛntəːˈteɪnɪŋ/ 1. present participle and gerund of entertain Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: entertaining Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From entertain + -ing. Pronunciation: /ˌɛntəɹˈteɪnɪŋ/, /ˌɛntəːˈteɪnɪŋ/ 1. Entertainment. Labels: archaic Example: As soon as the festival was over, and the usual routine of summer entertainings and meetings had been got through, the Bishop and Mrs. Selwyn, accompanied by their large family party and some friends, started for a quiet holiday […]
Word: entertain Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English entertenen, from Middle French entretenir, from Old French entretenir, from entre (“among”) + tenir (“to hold”), from Latin inter + teneō (“hold, keep”). For the noun, compare French entretien. Sense of answering a phone call in Malaysian English is influenced by Malay layan “to serve, to attend to or engage with something”. Pronunciation: /ˌɛntəˈteɪn/, /ˌɛntɚˈteɪn/, [ˌɛ̃ɾ̃ɚˈtʰeɪn] 1. To amuse (someone); to engage the attention of agreeably. Labels: transitive Example: to entertain friends with lively conversation Example: The motivational speaker not only instructed but also entertained the audience. 2. To have someone over at one's home, or some other venue, for a party or visit. Labels: intransitive, transitive Example: They enjoy entertaining a lot. Example: Be not forgetful to entertain strangers[…] 3. To receive and take into consideration; to have a thought in mind. Labels: transitive Example: The committee would like to entertain the idea of reducing the budget figures. Example: to entertain a proposal 4. To take or keep in one's service; to maintain; to support; to harbour; to keep. Labels: obsolete Example: Intreat 'em fair, and give them friendly speech, And seem to them as if thy sins were great, Till thou hast gotten to be entertain'd. Example: You, sir, I entertain for one of my hundred. 5. To meet or encounter, as an enemy. Labels: obsolete Example: O noble English, that could entertain with half their forces the full pride of France Example: Penalty for entertaining a Deserter 6. To lead on; to bring along; to introduce. Labels: obsolete Example: to baptize all nations, and to entertain them into the services and institutions of the holy Jesus 7. To help; to assist; to answer a phone call. Labels: India, Malaysia, Philippines, sometimes
Word: entertain Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English entertenen, from Middle French entretenir, from Old French entretenir, from entre (“among”) + tenir (“to hold”), from Latin inter + teneō (“hold, keep”). For the noun, compare French entretien. Sense of answering a phone call in Malaysian English is influenced by Malay layan “to serve, to attend to or engage with something”. Pronunciation: /ˌɛntəˈteɪn/, /ˌɛntɚˈteɪn/, [ˌɛ̃ɾ̃ɚˈtʰeɪn] 1. Entertainment; pleasure. Labels: obsolete, uncountable Example: And Celſo, prethee let it be thy care to night / To haue ſome pretty ſhew, to ſolemnize / Our high inſtalement, ſome muſike maſkerie: / Weele giue faire entertaine vnto Maria […] 2. Reception of a guest; welcome. Labels: obsolete, uncountable Example: But neede, that answers not to all requests, / Bad them not looke for better entertayne […]
Word: entertainer Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English entertain Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzios Latin -āriusnom. Latin -āriusbor. Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz Proto-West Germanic *-ārī Old English -ere Middle English -ere English -er English entertainer From entertain + -er. Pronunciation: /ˌɛntəˈteɪnə/, /ˌɛntɚˈteɪnɚ/ 1. A person who entertains others, esp. as a profession, as a singer, actor, presenter, dancer, musician, magician, comedian, etc. 2. Someone who puts on a show for the entertainment or enjoyment of others. 3. One who accommodates guests. Example: During my sickness I was constantly and tenderly cared for by Mrs. Anderson, and at short intervals I received visits from both my children, so that upon the whole, I do not regard this as the least unpleasant portion of my life. I had the fullest sympathy of my entertainer—a blessing which had been denied for me many long years. Example: I am not an entertainer by any means. I do not own coasters or wine glasses and I’d rather spend a Saturday night figuring out what to do with my sourdough starter discard than playing hostess.
Word: entertainment Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English entretenement (“support, maintenance”), from Old French entretenement; see entertain. Morphologically entertain + -ment. Pronunciation: /ˌɛn.təˈteɪn.mənt/, /ˌɛn.tɚˈteɪn.mənt/ 1. An activity designed to give pleasure, enjoyment, diversion, amusement, or relaxation to an audience, no matter whether the audience participates passively as in watching opera or a movie, or actively as in games. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The delinquents are generally the adventurous type, who have little use for reading and other non-active entertainment. Example: Such abundance must be laid out on superfluous recreations, buildings, ornaments, furniture, equipage, attendants, entertainments, visitations, braveries, and a world of need-nots […] 2. A show put on for the enjoyment or amusement of others. Labels: countable, uncountable 3. Maintenance or support. Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable Example: "This," said the matronly presence, ushering me into a low room on the right, "is where the Travellers sit by the fire, and cook what bits of suppers they buy with their fourpences." "O! Then they have no Entertainment?" said I. For the inscription over the outer door was still running in my head, and I was mentally repeating, in a kind of tune, "Lodging, entertainment, and fourpence each." 4. An admission into service; a service. Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable Example: He must think us some band of strangers i' the adversary's entertainment. 5. The payment of soldiers or servants; wages. Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable Example: The entertainment of the general upon his first arrival was but six shillings and eight pence. 6. A reception; a (provision of) food to guests or travellers. Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable Example: I prithee, shepherd, if that love or gold Can in this desert place buy entertainment, Bring us where we may rest ourselves and feed. Example: Tho’ they cut [the beef] into long Pieces, (like Ropes) with the Hide; and dress’d, and eat it half-roasted according to their Custom, and gave it me in the same Manner; yet I thought this contemptible Food, and what a Beggar in England would not have touch’d, the most delicious Entertainment I ever met with.
Word: dart Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *dʰerh₃- Proto-Indo-European *dʰórh₃-eh₂ Proto-Germanic *darō Proto-Germanic *-ōþuz Proto-Germanic *darōþuz Frankish *darōþubor. Medieval Latin dardus Old French dartbor. Middle English dart English dart From Middle English dart, from Old French dart, dard (“dart”), from Medieval Latin dardus, from Frankish *darōþu (“dart, spear”), from Proto-Germanic *darōþuz (“dart, spear”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰerh₃- (“to leap, spring”). Compare Old High German tart (“javelin, dart”), Old English daroþ, dearod (“javelin, spear, dart”), Swedish dart (“dart, dagger”), Icelandic darraður, darr, dör (“dart, spear”). Pronunciation: /dɑːt/, /dɑɹt/, [daɹt̚], [daɹɾ̥] 1. A pointed missile weapon, intended to be thrown by the hand; for example, a short lance or javelin. Example: Then said Joab, I may not tarry thus with thee. And he took three darts in his hand, and thrust them through the heart of Absalom, while he was yet alive in the midst of the oak. 2. Any sharp-pointed missile weapon, such as an arrow. 3. Anything resembling such a missile; something that pierces or wounds like such a weapon. Labels: figuratively, sometimes Example: The artful inquiry, whose venom′d dart / Scarce wounds the hearing while it stabs the heart. 4. A small object with a pointed tip at one end and feathers at the other, which is thrown at a target in the game of darts. 5. A concave quadrilateral similar in shape to a chevron or arrowhead. 6. A cigarette. Labels: Australia, Canada, colloquial Example: 2017, April 18, Craig Little, The Guardian, Hawthorn are not the only ones finding that things can get worse The Tigers will also face Jesse Hogan, still smarting from missing a couple of games but not life inside the AFL bubble, where you can’t even light up a dart at a music festival without someone filming it and sending it to the six o’clock news. 7. A dart-shaped target towed behind an aircraft to train shooters. Example: Fighter aircraft also use restricted areas for target shooting at darts towed 1500 feet behind another aircraft. 8. A plan or scheme. Labels: Australia, obsolete Example: Trucking′s my dart too. 9. A sudden or fast movement. Example: Soon as I felt the floor tremor I made a dart for the door. Example: Six minutes later Cueto went over for his second try after the recalled Mike Tindall found him with a perfectly-timed pass, before Ashton went on another dart, this time down his opposite wing, only for his speculative pass inside to be ruled forward. 10. A fold that is stitched on a garment. Example: Somehow she managed, with a cinched waist here and a few darts there, to look like a Hollywood star. 11. A dace (fish) (Leuciscus leuciscus). 12. Any of various species of hesperiid butterfly.
Word: dart Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English darten, from the noun (see above). Pronunciation: /dɑːt/, /dɑɹt/, [daɹt̚], [daɹɾ̥] 1. To throw with a sudden effort or thrust; to hurl or launch. Labels: transitive 2. To send forth suddenly or rapidly; to emit; to shoot. Labels: transitive Example: As the sun darted forth his beams, she darted a meaningful glance at me. Example: Pan came, and ask'd, what magic caus'd my ſmart, / Or what ill eyes malignant glances dart? 3. To shoot with a dart, especially a tranquilizer dart. Labels: transitive Example: They had to dart the animal to get close enough to help 4. To fly or pass swiftly, like a dart; to move rapidly in one direction; to shoot out quickly. Labels: intransitive Example: The flying man darted eastward. 5. To start and run with speed; to shoot rapidly along. Labels: intransitive Example: The deer darted from the thicket. Example: The fish darted under a stone.
Word: airtight Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From air + tight. 1. Impermeable to air or other gases. Example: Tupperware founder Earl Tupper in 1946 introduced its plastic products to the public, and subsequently patented their flexible airtight seal. 2. Having no weak points or flaws. Labels: figuratively Example: We have an airtight argument they won’t be able to punch holes in. Example: airtight alibi 3. Highly reserved in some matter, particularly tight-lipped or tight-fisted. Labels: figuratively Example: when Roger asked for $100 to take the preliminary steps to establish his claim, Mike yelled like a Hebrew auctioneer, for he was air-tight and squeezed a dollar until the woman on it yelled. Example: He was ‘air-tight,’ close-mouthed, and had but few confidants or intimate friends, but numerous acquaintances. 4. Triply penetrated simultaneously in the vagina, anus and mouth. Labels: figuratively
Word: airsick Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From air + sick. 1. Nauseated due to the effects of motion of an aircraft; suffering from motion sickness caused by air travel.
Word: tundra Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈtʌndɹə/ 1. A flat and treeless Arctic biome. Labels: countable, error-lua-timeout, uncountable Example: The hut's walls rose without difficulty, and everything went smoothly until the problem of the roof confronted me. Of what use the four walls without a roof? And of what could a roof be made? There were the spare oars, very true. They would serve as roof-beams; but with what was I to cover them? Moss would never do. Tundra grass was impracticable. We needed the sail for the boat, and the tarpaulin had begun to leak. 2. A long stretch of something, such as time. Labels: countable, error-lua-timeout, uncountable Example: His wife and he were childhood sweethearts; he had known her for 25 years. (He will call her “my wife” throughout, just as he cannot bear to name his two sons, however carefully and lovingly he will eventually describe them. They remain “the older one” and “the younger one.”) There are tundras of time for him to cross and cross again as he recalls their life together and its sudden end: a quarter‐century of quotidian love and bruises and the ultimate estrangement of long familiarity. Example: When you stood at the gulf of unknowing, / When you saw the great tundra of time, / And you cried for the winds to come blowing, / And you called a monsoon from the tides of the moon, / 'Cause the roads were all dusty and dry.
Word: tuition Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Anglo-Norman tuycioun, from Old French tuicion, from Latin tuitiō (“guard, protection, defense”), from tuēri (“to watch, guard, see, observe”). Compare intuition, tutor. Pronunciation: /tjuːˈɪʃən/, /t͡ʃuːˈɪʃən/, /tjʉːˈɪʃən/, /t͡ʃʉːˈɪʃən/, /tuˈɪʃən/ 1. The training or instruction provided by a teacher or tutor. Labels: Ireland, UK, countable, uncountable Example: Imagine a country where children do nothing but play until they start compulsory schooling at age seven. Then, without exception, they attend comprehensives until the age of 16.[…]There are no inspectors, no exams until the age of 18, no school league tables, no private tuition industry, no school uniforms. […] 2. Paid private classes taken outside of formal education; tutoring. (also used attributively) Labels: Australia, India, Malaysia, Singapore, countable, uncountable Example: tuition classes Example: Tuition in the past was like taking medicine and you sent children for it only if they were doing poorly in a subject. 3. A sum of money paid for instruction (such as in a private school, boarding school, university, or college). Labels: Canada, Philippines, US, countable, uncountable Example: The school’s tuition will increase by five percent next year. 4. Care, guardianship. Labels: archaic, countable, uncountable Example: BENEDICK. I have almost matter enough in me for such an embassage; and so I commit you— CLAUDIO. To the tuition of God: from my house, if I had it,— DON PEDRO. The sixth of July: your loving friend, Benedick. BENEDICK. Nay, mock not, mock not.
Word: graduate Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English graduat(e) (“(noun) a graduate of a university; (adjective) graduate, having graduated”, also used as the past participle of graduaten (“to graduate”)), borrowed from Medieval Latin graduātus (“graduated, graduate”), perfect passive participle of graduō (“to graduate”) (see -ate (adjective-forming suffix)), from gradus (“step”) + -ō (verb-forming suffix). The noun is originally derived within Latin from the adjective via substantivization, see -ate (noun-forming suffix). Sense 10 of the verb, relating to Japanese entertainment, is a semantic loan from Japanese 卒業 (sotsugyō). Pronunciation: /ˈɡɹæd͡ʒuət/, /ˈɡɹædjuət/, /ˈɡɹæd͡ʒuɪt/ 1. A person who is recognized by a university as having completed the requirements of a degree studied at the institution. Example: If the government wants graduates to stay in the country they should offer more incentives. 2. A person who is recognized by a high school as having completed the requirements of a course of study at the school. Labels: Canada, US 3. A person who is recognized as having completed any level of education. Labels: Philippines 4. A graduated (marked) cup or other container, thus fit for measuring.
Word: graduate Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English graduat(e) (“(noun) a graduate of a university; (adjective) graduate, having graduated”, also used as the past participle of graduaten (“to graduate”)), borrowed from Medieval Latin graduātus (“graduated, graduate”), perfect passive participle of graduō (“to graduate”) (see -ate (adjective-forming suffix)), from gradus (“step”) + -ō (verb-forming suffix). The noun is originally derived within Latin from the adjective via substantivization, see -ate (noun-forming suffix). Sense 10 of the verb, relating to Japanese entertainment, is a semantic loan from Japanese 卒業 (sotsugyō). Pronunciation: /ˈɡɹæd͡ʒuət/, /ˈɡɹædjuət/, /ˈɡɹæd͡ʒuɪt/ 1. graduated, arranged by degrees 2. holding an academic degree 3. relating to an academic degree
Word: graduate Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English graduaten (“to graduate”), from (adjective) graduat(e) (also used as the past participle of graduaten) + -en (verb-forming suffix), from Medieval Latin graduātus, see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and Etymology 1 for more. Pronunciation: /ˈɡɹædjueɪt/, /ˈɡɹæd͡ʒueɪt/ 1. To be recognized by a school or university as having completed the requirements of a degree studied at the institution. Labels: ergative, intransitive Example: The man graduated in 1967. Example: Trisha graduated from college. 2. To be certified as having earned a degree from; to graduate from (an institution). Labels: proscribed, transitive Example: Trisha graduated college. 3. To certify (a student) as having earned a degree Labels: transitive Example: Indiana University graduated the student. Example: The college graduated him as soon as he was no longer eligible to play under NCAA rules. 4. To mark (something) with degrees; to divide into regular steps or intervals, as the scale of a thermometer, a scheme of punishment or rewards, etc. Labels: transitive 5. To change gradually. Labels: intransitive Example: As the species graduate into each other, both in form and in habits, from the grass-eating Geese to the fish-eating Harelds, it is difficult, […] to divide this large group into sections. Example: Yadav, born Bharat Kalicharan, was a petty thief who had graduated to bigger crimes, terrorising Kasturba Nagar, on the edge of the city of Nagpur, in Maharashtra, from the 1990s until his death. 6. To prepare gradually; to arrange, temper, or modify by degrees or to a certain degree; to determine the degrees of. Example: to graduate the heat of an oven Example: Dyers, who advance and graduate their colours with salts. 7. To bring to a certain degree of consistency, by evaporation, as a fluid. 8. To taper, as the tail of certain birds. Labels: intransitive 9. To approve (a feature) for general release. Labels: transitive Example: We have graduated the new machine-learning features and will roll them out tomorrow. 10. Of an idol: to exit a group; or of a virtual YouTuber, to leave a management agency; usually accompanied with "graduation ceremony" send-offs, increased focus on the leaving member, and the like. Labels: Japanese, intransitive Example: Fans speculate that she was forced to graduate due to harassment and doxxing by stalkers and haters.
Word: graduation Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From graduate + -ion. Pronunciation: /ˌɡɹæd͡ʒuˈeɪʃən/, /ˌɡɹædjuˈeɪʃən/ 1. The action or process of graduating and receiving a diploma for completing a course of study (such as from an educational institution). Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The graduation ball was the students' chance to say goodbye to each other. Example: After my graduation, I took a year out to travel, then went into an office job. 2. A commencement ceremony. Labels: countable, uncountable 3. The action or process of leaving a group. Labels: Japanese, countable, uncountable Example: graduation from AKB48 4. A marking (e.g., on a container) indicating a measurement on a scale, usually one of many such markings; the making of such marks. Labels: countable, uncountable 5. The exposure of a liquid in large surfaces to the air, so as to hasten its evaporation. Labels: countable, uncountable 6. Synonym of gradation. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: "No good, I'm afraid," he confessed before he took it. "A print of this sort is one of the few things that afford no graduation to the sense of touch. No, no"—as he passed his finger-tips over the paper—"a gelatino-chloride surface of mathematical uniformity, Inspector, and nothing more. Now had it been the negative—"
Word: linguistics Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *dn̥ǵʰwéh₂s Proto-Italic *dn̥ɣwā Latin dingua Latin lingua Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō) Proto-Hellenic *-tās Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs) Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)bor. Latin -istader. Old French -istebor. Middle English -ist English -ist English linguist Proto-Indo-European *-ikos Proto-Italic *-ikos Latin -icuslbor. Old French -iquebor. Middle English -ik English -ic Old English -as Middle English -es English -s English -ics English linguistics From linguist + -ics, akin to linguistic and Latin linguisticus, coined by English philosopher and historian of science William Whewell in 1847 from German Linguistik. Pronunciation: /lɪŋˈɡwɪstɪks/, /liŋˈɡwɪstɪks/ 1. The systematic and scholarly study of language. Labels: uncountable Example: a branch of linguistics Example: to study linguistics
Word: linguistic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Borrowed from German linguistisch, equivalent to linguist + -ic. Compare linguistics. Ultimately from Latin lingua (“tongue, language”). Attested in English since 1825. Pronunciation: /lɪŋˈɡwɪstɪk/ 1. Of or relating to language. Labels: not-comparable Example: Along with the Hebrew language, the grammatical knowledge of which was greatly advanced by him, he now devoted himself to the study of a variety of languages[…] In the year 1800 he was invited to go to Halle as an ordinary professor of theology and Oriental literature. Without giving up his linguistic studies, he now devoted considerable time to the critical examination of the early books of the Old Testament, Example: Swearing doesn't just mean what we now understand by "dirty words". It is entwined, in social and linguistic history, with the other sort of swearing: vows and oaths. 2. Of or relating to linguistics. Labels: not-comparable Example: We have argued that the ability to make judgments about well-formedness and structure holds at all four major linguistic levels — Phonology, Morphology, Syntax, and Semantics. 3. Relating to a computer language. Labels: not-comparable Example: The message is that we need language features that deal with schematic and linguistic discrepancies.
Word: linguist Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *dn̥ǵʰwéh₂s Proto-Italic *dn̥ɣwā Latin dingua Latin lingua Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō) Proto-Hellenic *-tās Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs) Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)bor. Latin -istader. Old French -istebor. Middle English -ist English -ist English linguist Borrowed from Latin lingua (“language”) + -ist. Pronunciation: /ˈlɪŋɡwɪst/ 1. One who studies linguistics. 2. One who studies linguistics. Labels: usually Example: President Donald Trump has "turned words into weapons" -- and journalists are providing additional ammunition. That's according to Trump critic George Lakoff, a renowned linguist and professor emeritus at the University of California at Berkeley. Example: The internet serves as an accelerant to fanilects. Because song lyrics are readily available online, they have a characteristic linguists call "persistence," meaning anyone can refer to them and reuse them. 3. A person skilled in languages. Example: I found that he could write and read English, but could not speak it, being like myself a bad linguist; so we had to use French as a medium of communication. Example: The words of these songs were either without meaning, or derived from an idiom with which Watt, a very fair linguist, had no acquaintance. 4. A human translator; an interpreter, especially in the armed forces.
Word: foretell Part of Speech: verb Etymology: c. 1300, from Middle English foretellen, equivalent to fore- + tell. Pronunciation: /fɔɹˈtɛl/, [foːˈteɫ], [fɔːˈtɛɫ], [fɔɹˈtɛɫ] 1. To predict; to tell (the future) before it occurs; to prophesy. Labels: ambitransitive Example: Deeds then undone me faithful tongue foretold. Example: Prodigies, foretelling the future eminence and lustre of his character. 2. To tell (a person) of the future. Labels: transitive Example: […] there came to him a Person named Saul, whom Samuel had never before seen; but God made him know it was the same he had foretold him of.
Word: forget Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English forgeten, forgiten, foryeten, forȝiten, from Old English forġietan (“to forget”) [influenced by Old Norse geta ("to get, to guess")], from Proto-West Germanic *fragetan (“to give up, forget”). Equivalent to for- + get. Cognate with : * Scots forget, forȝet (“to forget”), * West Frisian fergette, ferjitte, forjitte (“to forget”), * Dutch vergeten (“to forget”), * German vergessen (“to forget”). Pronunciation: /fəˈɡɛt/, /fɚˈɡɛt/ 1. To lose remembrance of. Labels: transitive Example: I have forgotten most of the things I learned in school. Example: VVe (of all earthlings) are Gods vtmoſt ſubiects, the laſt (in a manner) that he bought to his obedience: ſhal we then forgette that vvee are any ſubiects of hys, becauſe (as amongſt his Angels) he is not viſibly conuerſant amongſt vs? 2. To unintentionally not do, neglect. Labels: transitive Example: I forgot to buy flowers for my wife at our 14th wedding anniversary. Example: Pray, thou, therefore, to Slid, and forget not Slid, and it may be that Slid will not forget to send thee Death when most thou needest it. 3. To unintentionally leave something behind. Labels: transitive Example: I forgot my car keys in the living room. 4. To cease remembering. Labels: intransitive Example: Let's just forget I ever told you anything about it. Example: He forgot having already visited this city. 5. To not realize something (regardless of whether one has ever known it). Labels: broadly, informal, transitive Example: People forget how much work goes into what we do. 6. Euphemism for fuck, screw (a mild oath). Labels: slang Example: Forget you!
Word: foretold Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ˈfɔɹ.toʊld/, /foʊɹ.toʊld/ 1. simple past and past participle of foretell Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: forgot Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /fəˈɡɒt/, /fɚˈɡɑt/ 1. simple past of forget Labels: form-of, past 2. past participle of forget Labels: archaic, colloquial, form-of, participle, past Example: Pro. Thou lieſt, malignant Thing: haſt thou forgot / The fowle Witch Sycorax, who with Age and Enuy / Was grown into a hoope? haſt thou forgot her? Example: Sir, Lord Hailes has forgot. There is nothing in Pryor that will excite to lewdness.
Word: forgotten Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English foryoten, from Old English forġeten, from Proto-West Germanic *fragetan. By surface analysis, forgot + -en. Pronunciation: /fəˈɡɒt.n̩/, /fɚˈɡɑ.tn̩/, [fɚˈɡɑ.ʔn̩], /fəˈɡʌt.ən/, [fəˈɡʌ.ʔn̩] 1. Of which knowledge has been lost; which is no longer remembered. Example: The special writers whom Pope singled out for ridicule in this poem are forgotten, but this does not matter.
Word: forgotten Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English foryoten, from Old English forġeten, from Proto-West Germanic *fragetan. By surface analysis, forgot + -en. Pronunciation: /fəˈɡɒt.n̩/, /fɚˈɡɑ.tn̩/, [fɚˈɡɑ.ʔn̩], /fəˈɡʌt.ən/, [fəˈɡʌ.ʔn̩] 1. past participle of forget. Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: forgotten Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English foryoten, from Old English forġeten, from Proto-West Germanic *fragetan. By surface analysis, forgot + -en. Pronunciation: /fəˈɡɒt.n̩/, /fɚˈɡɑ.tn̩/, [fɚˈɡɑ.ʔn̩], /fəˈɡʌt.ən/, [fəˈɡʌ.ʔn̩] 1. A person or thing that has been forgotten. Example: Luckily for these unfortunate forgottens, New Year is approaching, a time when, despite the intuitions of the calendar, our thoughts often turn to the past.
Word: forgive Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Alteration (due to give) of Middle English foryiven, forȝiven, from Old English forġiefan (“to forgive, to give”), from Proto-West Germanic *frageban, from Proto-Germanic *fragebaną (“to give away; give up; release; forgive”), equivalent to for- + give (etymologically for- + yive). Cognate with Scots forgeve, forgif, forgie (“to forgive”), West Frisian ferjaan (“to forgive”), Dutch vergeven (“to forgive”), German vergeben (“to forgive”), Icelandic fyrirgefa (“to forgive”), Yiddish פֿאַרגעבן (fargebn, “to forgive”) Pronunciation: /fə(ɹ)ˈɡɪv/, /fɔː(ɹ)ˈɡɪv/, /fɚˈɡɪv/ 1. To pardon (someone); to waive any negative feeling towards or desire for punishment or retribution against. Labels: transitive Example: Please forgive me if my phone goes off - I'm expecting an urgent call from my boss. Example: Forgive others, not because they deserve forgiveness, but because you deserve peace. 2. To pardon (something); to waive any negative feeling over or retribution for. Labels: transitive Example: Forgive these wild and wandering cries, ⁠Confusions of a wasted youth; ⁠Forgive them where they fail in truth, And in thy wisdom make me wise. Example: ... to forgive their crimes. 3. To waive or remit (a debt), to absolve from payment or compensation of. Labels: transitive Example: Forgive a debt, that is, tell a debtor that a repayment of a loan is no longer needed. Example: In several months you’re likely to have a clearer picture on how your state intends to treat your forgiven PPP loan and the deductibility of your business expenses not just for tax year 2020 but also tax year 2021. 4. To accord forgiveness. Labels: intransitive Example: The brave know only how to forgive […] A coward never forgave; it is not in his nature. 5. To look past; to look beyond. Labels: transitive Example: The music critic loves the instrumentation of the song so much that he can forgive the confusing lyrics. 6. To redeem; to offset the bad effects of something. Labels: transitive Example: Okay, a good hook forgives everything.
Word: forgiven Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Morphologically forgive + -n. Pronunciation: /fəˈɡɪv.n̩/, /fɔːˈɡɪv.n̩/, /fɚˈɡɪv.n̩/ 1. past participle of forgive Labels: form-of, participle, past