nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: Glasgow Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Proto-Brythonic *glas (“green”) + *kėw (“hollow”) (for this element see Irish cuas (“hollow”), Welsh cau (“hollow”)); usually romantically translated as "the dear green place." Compare modern Scottish Gaelic Glaschu. Pronunciation: /ˈɡlaz.ɡo/, /ˈɡlez.ɡə/, /ˈɡles.kə/, /ˈɡlɑːz.ɡəʊ/, /ˈɡlæz-/ 1. A major city and council area of Scotland, largest city in Scotland. Example: up to Glasgow Example: Before he left Glasgow on Tuesday to return to Washington on a late-evening flight, Mr. Biden hailed progress on multiple fronts from the second day of meetings with heads of state, including initiatives to reduce emissions from agriculture. 2. A community in the Regional Municipality of Durham, Ontario, Canada. 3. A community in the town of Caledon, Regional Municipality of Peel, Ontario, Canada. 4. A settlement in Nickerie district, Suriname. 5. A number of places in the United States: 6. A number of places in the United States: 7. A number of places in the United States: 8. A number of places in the United States: 9. A number of places in the United States: 10. A number of places in the United States: 11. A number of places in the United States: 12. A number of places in the United States: 13. A number of places in the United States: 14. A number of places in the United States: 15. A number of places in the United States: 16. A number of places in the United States: 17. A number of places in the United States: 18. A number of places in the United States: 19. A number of places in the United States:
Word: Ponzi scheme Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Named after con artist Charles Ponzi (1882–1949), who famously conducted such form of fraud in North America in the 1920s. 1. A fraudulent scheme where earlier investors are paid with the money taken from new investors, giving the impression that the scheme is a viable investment. Example: Bernard L. Madoff, the one-time senior statesman of Wall Street who in 2008 became the human face of an era of financial misdeeds and missteps for running the largest and possibly most devastating Ponzi scheme in financial history, died on Wednesday at the Federal Medical Center in Butner, N.C. He was 82. Example: Now, a long-running Ponzi scheme requires a narrative — and the narrative is where crypto really excels.
Word: Guernsey Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Anglo-Norman, from Old Norse, compound of Grani (“Grani's”) and ey (“island”). Folk etymology points to a dialectal root for green. Pronunciation: /ˈɡɜːnzi/, /ˈɡɝnzi/, /ˈɡɛrnze/, /ˈɡɛrnzɪ/, /ˈɡɛrnzi/ 1. An island, the second-largest of the Channel Islands. 2. An unincorporated community in California. 3. A city in Iowa. 4. A hamlet in Saskatchewan, Canada. 5. A town in Wyoming.
Word: Guernsey Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Anglo-Norman, from Old Norse, compound of Grani (“Grani's”) and ey (“island”). Folk etymology points to a dialectal root for green. Pronunciation: /ˈɡɜːnzi/, /ˈɡɝnzi/, /ˈɡɛrnze/, /ˈɡɛrnzɪ/, /ˈɡɛrnzi/ 1. A cow of a breed of dairy cattle originally bred in Guernsey. 2. A knitted fisherman’s sweater of a type made on the island. 3. A long-sleeved shirt worn by sportsmen, especially in rugby codes (historically). 4. A team-liveried shirt; a jersey. Labels: Australia 5. Selection or election to a position. Labels: Australia
Word: rectangular Part of Speech: adj Pronunciation: /ɹɛkˈtæŋɡjəlɚ/, /ɹɛkˈtæŋɡjʊlə/ 1. Having a shape like a rectangle. Labels: not-comparable, usually Example: rectangular bench Example: rectangular grid 2. Having axes that meet each other with right angles. Labels: not-comparable, usually
Word: The Hague Part of Speech: name Etymology: From the French translation (confused with La Hague) of Dutch Den Haag, short form of 's-Gravenhage, from Middle Dutch des Graven hage (1400s), literally, "the Count's hedge[-enclosed hunting grounds]", Pronunciation: /ðə ˈhæɡ/, /ðə ˈheɪɡ/ 1. A city, the capital of South Holland, Netherlands; the administrative capital of the Netherlands. 2. A municipality of South Holland, Netherlands. 3. The International Criminal Court or International Court of Justice. Labels: metonymically
Word: The Hague Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From the French translation (confused with La Hague) of Dutch Den Haag, short form of 's-Gravenhage, from Middle Dutch des Graven hage (1400s), literally, "the Count's hedge[-enclosed hunting grounds]", Pronunciation: /ðə ˈhæɡ/, /ðə ˈheɪɡ/ 1. A conviction and/or punishment for crimes against humanity or war crimes delivered by the International Criminal Court. Labels: uncountable Example: Those men deserve The Hague for what they did. 2. A conviction and/or punishment for a destructive, harmful or immoral act. Labels: broadly, figuratively, uncountable
Word: Havana Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Spanish La Habana, from Habaguanex, the native American chief (cacique) who controlled the area, the name derived from Taíno sabana (“savannah”). The letter h may be an anthroponymic inflection. Pronunciation: /həˈvæ.nə/, /-ˈvɑː-/ 1. The capital city of Cuba. Example: It was notable enough that when President Calvin Coolidge visited Havana in 1928, Cuba’s president offered him one at the presidential palace. 2. A city, the county seat of Mason County, Illinois, United States. 3. A minor city in Montgomery County, Kansas, United States.
Word: Havana Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Spanish La Habana, from Habaguanex, the native American chief (cacique) who controlled the area, the name derived from Taíno sabana (“savannah”). The letter h may be an anthroponymic inflection. Pronunciation: /həˈvæ.nə/, /-ˈvɑː-/ 1. A type of large cigar produced in Cuba. Example: Having indicated an arm-chair to me and placed my refreshment near it, he handed me a long, smooth Havana.
Word: Helsinki Part of Speech: name Etymology: Borrowed from Finnish Helsinki. Pronunciation: /hɛlˈsɪŋ.ki/ 1. The capital city of Finland; a municipality, the capital of the region of Uusimaa, Finland. Example: My doctors didn't want me to go to Helsinki, but staying home wasn't an option. Yeltsin had been reelected and NATO was about to vote to admit Poland, Hungary, and the Czech Republic; we had to have an agreement on how to proceed. Example: There’s a YIMBY group in Somerville, Massachusetts, and one in Los Angeles; there’s a San Francisco YIMBY party and a YIMBY group in Portland. YIMBYtown, a national conference, will take place in Oakland this month; Helsinki is hosting Yimbycon in August. 2. The Finnish government. Labels: metonymically Example: The aim of the bill is to introduce temporary measures which curb migrants from entering the Nordic nation, in response to what Helsinki sees as “hybrid warfare” from Russia.
Word: Honolulu Part of Speech: name Etymology: Etymology tree Hawaiian Hono- Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *-duŋ Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *duŋduŋ Proto-Oceanic *ruru Hawaiian lulu Hawaiian Honolulubor. English Honolulu From Hawaiian Honolulu, from hono (“bay, harbor”, cognate with Māori whanga) + lulu (“shelter”, cognate with Māori ruru). See also toponym Whangaruru in North Island, New Zealand. Pronunciation: /ˌhoʊ.nəˈluː.luː/, /ˌhɒn.əˈluː.luː/ 1. A port in Oahu Island; the capital and largest city of Hawaii, United States and the county seat of Honolulu County, Hawaii. Official name: City and County of Honolulu
Word: accoutre Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /əˈkuːtə/ 1. Alternative form of accouter. Labels: Commonwealth, alt-of, alternative Example: For quotations using this term, see Citations:accoutre.
Word: accoutrements Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of accoutrement Labels: form-of, plural
Word: negro Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish and Portuguese negro (“black”), from Latin nigrum (“shiny black”), of uncertain origin, but possibly from Proto-Indo-European *negʷ- (“bare; night”). Doublet of noir. Compare nigrescence. Pronunciation: /ˈniɡɹoʊ/, /ˈnɪɡɹoʊ/, /ˈnɪɡɹə/, /ˈniːɡɹəʊ/ 1. Relating to a black ethnicity. Labels: dated, not-comparable, offensive Example: Recently, on a wintry Sunday, some 2,500 white Chicago area residents embarked on a strange safari across the city, determined to do what most of them had never done before—visit a Negro home. Eager to purge themselves of ignorance about the city's "other half," they were participants in Interracial Home Visit Day, a "Coffee Klatsch" co-sponsored by local Catholic, Jewish and Protestant groups in an effort to eliminate racial bigotry and hate. 2. Black or dark brown in color. Labels: dated, not-comparable, offensive
Word: negro Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish and Portuguese negro (“black”), from Latin nigrum (“shiny black”), of uncertain origin, but possibly from Proto-Indo-European *negʷ- (“bare; night”). Doublet of noir. Compare nigrescence. Pronunciation: /ˈniɡɹoʊ/, /ˈnɪɡɹoʊ/, /ˈnɪɡɹə/, /ˈniːɡɹəʊ/ 1. A person of black African ancestry. Labels: dated, offensive Example: The negroes believe that its presence has a sanitary effect upon their cattle […] Example: What Peter said was true but she hated to hear it from a negro and a family negro, too. Not to stand high in the opinion of one's servants was a humiliating a thing as could happen to a Southerner. 2. A slave, especially one of African ancestry. Labels: archaic Example: We don't want your Negroes, or your horses, or your lands, or any thing you have, but we do want and will have a just obedience to the laws of the United States. That we will have, and if it involved the destruction of your improvements, we cannot help it.
Word: briskly Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree English brisk Middle English -ly English -ly English briskly From brisk + -ly. Pronunciation: /ˈbɹɪskli/ 1. Fast, quickly, swiftly. Example: `Now,' she said briksly, `you've heard all about the business. What type of personal service have you got in mind?' Example: As Ferguson strode briskly towards the Stretford End at the final whistle, he will have been reflecting on the extent of the challenge now facing him from the club he once branded "noisy neighbours".
Word: economy Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English yconomye, yconomy, borrowed via Old French [Term?] or Medieval Latin from Latin oeconomia, from Ancient Greek οἰκονομία (oikonomía, “management of a household, administration”), from οἶκος (oîkos, “house”) + νέμω (némō, “distribute, allocate”). By surface analysis, eco- + -nomy. The first recorded sense of the word economy, found in a work possibly composed in 1440, is “the management of economic affairs”, in this case, of a monastery. Pronunciation: /ɪˈkɒ.nə.mi/, /iːˈkɒ.nə.mi/, /iˈkɑ.nə.mi/, /ɪˈkɑ.nə.mi/, /əˈkɑ.nə.mi/ 1. Effective management of a community or system, or especially its resources. Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable Example: animal economy, vegetable economy 2. Effective management of a community or system, or especially its resources. Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable 3. Effective management of a community or system, or especially its resources. Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable Example: the Jewish economy 4. Effective management of a community or system, or especially its resources. Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable Example: the economy of a poem Example: The place pleased them so much that they spent all their spare time there, scratching and cutting their names on the top of every tower; and at last, having exhausted all other places, finished up with inscribing H.EAST, T.BROWN, on the minute-hand of the great clock; in the doing of which they held the minute-hand, and disturbed the clock's economy. 5. The study of money, currency and trade, and the efficient use of resources. Labels: countable, uncountable 6. Frugal use of resources. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: economy of word Example: April 5, 1729, Jonathan Swift, letter to St. John I have no other notion of economy than that it is the parent to liberty and ease. 7. The system of production and distribution and consumption. The overall measure of a currency system; as the national economy. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: An economy open to free movement of capital can keep a fixed exchange rate, for example, only by subjugating monetary-policy goals to its defence—by raising interest rates sharply, say, when capital outflows put downward pressure on the currency. Yet the trilemma also implies that an economy can enjoy both free capital flows and an independent monetary policy, so long as it gives up worrying about its exchange rate. […] As advanced economies opened their monetary spigots to boost ailing economies, emerging-market complaints grew louder. 8. The method of divine government of the world. (See Economy (religion) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia .) Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The economy of God is in Jesus Christ alone. 9. The part of a commercial passenger airplane or train reserved for those paying the lower standard fares; economy class. Labels: US, countable, uncountable 10. Management of one’s residency. Labels: archaic, countable, uncountable
Word: economy Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English yconomye, yconomy, borrowed via Old French [Term?] or Medieval Latin from Latin oeconomia, from Ancient Greek οἰκονομία (oikonomía, “management of a household, administration”), from οἶκος (oîkos, “house”) + νέμω (némō, “distribute, allocate”). By surface analysis, eco- + -nomy. The first recorded sense of the word economy, found in a work possibly composed in 1440, is “the management of economic affairs”, in this case, of a monastery. Pronunciation: /ɪˈkɒ.nə.mi/, /iːˈkɒ.nə.mi/, /iˈkɑ.nə.mi/, /ɪˈkɑ.nə.mi/, /əˈkɑ.nə.mi/ 1. Cheap to run; using minimal resources; representing good value for money; economical. Labels: not-comparable Example: He bought an economy car. Example: Economy size.
Word: economy Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From Middle English yconomye, yconomy, borrowed via Old French [Term?] or Medieval Latin from Latin oeconomia, from Ancient Greek οἰκονομία (oikonomía, “management of a household, administration”), from οἶκος (oîkos, “house”) + νέμω (némō, “distribute, allocate”). By surface analysis, eco- + -nomy. The first recorded sense of the word economy, found in a work possibly composed in 1440, is “the management of economic affairs”, in this case, of a monastery. Pronunciation: /ɪˈkɒ.nə.mi/, /iːˈkɒ.nə.mi/, /iˈkɑ.nə.mi/, /ɪˈkɑ.nə.mi/, /əˈkɑ.nə.mi/ 1. In or via the part of a commercial passenger airplane reserved for those paying the lower standard fares. Labels: US, not-comparable Example: Numerous web sites have tips on how to fly economy.
Word: political party Part of Speech: noun 1. A political organization that subscribes to a certain ideology and seeks to attain political power through representation in government. Example: I told the Governors that I had never questioned the capacity or the sincerity or the ability of a man because he belonged to a different political party. No party had an overriding claim to patriotism. The times, I said, demanded that we put away our differences and close ranks in a determined effort to make our system of government function.
Word: slave Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree substrateder.? Proto-Indo-European *ḱlewH-der.? Proto-Slavic *slov- Proto-Slavic *-ǫta Proto-Slavic *Slov-? Proto-Balto-Slavic *-ēnas Proto-Indo-European *-nós Proto-Indo-European *-iHnos Proto-Slavic *-inъ Proto-Slavic *-ěninъ Proto-Slavic *slověninъder. Ancient Greek Σκλαβηνός (Sklabēnós)der. Byzantine Greek Σκλᾰ́βος (Sklắbos)bor. Late Latin Sclavus Medieval Latin sclavusbor. Old French esclavebor. Middle English sclave English slave Inherited from Middle English sclave, from Old French sclave, from Medieval Latin sclavus (“slave”), from Late Latin Sclavus (“Slav”), traditionally assumed to be because Slavs were often forced into slavery in the Middle Ages. The Latin word is from Byzantine Greek Σκλάβος (Sklábos); see that entry and Slav for more. Displaced native Old English þēow. Thrall and bondsman/bondswoman, however, remain common synonyms. Doublet of ciao and Slav. An alternative hypothesis derives sclavus from Ancient Greek σκῡλεύω (skūleúō), σκῡλάω (skūláō, “to strip or despoil a slain enemy”). Pronunciation: /sleɪv/ 1. A person who is held in servitude as the property of another person, and whose labor (and often also whose body and life) is subject to the owner's volition and control. Example: Fear of their cargo bred a savage cruelty into the crew. One captain, to strike terror into the rest, killed a slave and dividing heart, liver and entrails into 300 pieces made each of the slaves eat one, threatening those who refused with the same torture. Such incidents were not rare. 2. A drudge; one who labors or is obliged (e.g. by prior contract) to labor like a slave with limited rights, e.g. an indentured servant. Labels: figuratively 3. An abject person. Labels: figuratively Example: Art thou the ſlaue that with thy breath haſt kill'd / Mine innocent child? 4. One who has no power of resistance to something, one who surrenders to or is under the domination of something. Labels: figuratively Example: a slave to passion, to strong drink, or to ambition Example: Slave to the rhythm! / Keep it up, keep it up! / Never stop! Never stop! 5. A submissive partner in a BDSM relationship who consensually submits to, sexually or personally, serving one or more masters or mistresses. Example: In the clip the black female “slave” dons a chain around her neck for which her white mistress possesses the key. The black woman sub is further disciplined by the power of speech—the force of silence. 6. A sex slave, a person who is forced against their will to perform, for another person or group, sexual acts on a regular or continuing basis. 7. A device (such as a secondary flash or hard drive) that is subject to the control of another (a master). Example: If you administer your own reverse DNS zones, remember to include them in your slave configuration.
Word: slave Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree substrateder.? Proto-Indo-European *ḱlewH-der.? Proto-Slavic *slov- Proto-Slavic *-ǫta Proto-Slavic *Slov-? Proto-Balto-Slavic *-ēnas Proto-Indo-European *-nós Proto-Indo-European *-iHnos Proto-Slavic *-inъ Proto-Slavic *-ěninъ Proto-Slavic *slověninъder. Ancient Greek Σκλαβηνός (Sklabēnós)der. Byzantine Greek Σκλᾰ́βος (Sklắbos)bor. Late Latin Sclavus Medieval Latin sclavusbor. Old French esclavebor. Middle English sclave English slave Inherited from Middle English sclave, from Old French sclave, from Medieval Latin sclavus (“slave”), from Late Latin Sclavus (“Slav”), traditionally assumed to be because Slavs were often forced into slavery in the Middle Ages. The Latin word is from Byzantine Greek Σκλάβος (Sklábos); see that entry and Slav for more. Displaced native Old English þēow. Thrall and bondsman/bondswoman, however, remain common synonyms. Doublet of ciao and Slav. An alternative hypothesis derives sclavus from Ancient Greek σκῡλεύω (skūleúō), σκῡλάω (skūláō, “to strip or despoil a slain enemy”). Pronunciation: /sleɪv/ 1. To work as a slaver, to enslave people. Example: MASSINISSA: Wilt thou be slaved? SOPHONISBA: No, free Example: The truth is from the Zambesi to Lake Nyasa on the north and east banks of the river, there is nothing but slaving — Africans selling each other . . . 2. To work hard. Labels: intransitive Example: I was slaving all day over a hot stove. 3. To place a device under the control of another. Labels: transitive Example: to slave a hard disk Example: Slaving one digital audio device to another unit using timecode alone results in time-based synchronisation[…]
Word: campaign Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From French campagne, from Italian campagna (“field, military operation”), from Late Latin campānia (“open country, battlefield”), from Latin campus (“field”). Doublet of campania, campagna, and champagne. Pronunciation: /kæmˈpeɪn/, /kəmˈpeɪn/ 1. A series of operations undertaken to achieve a set goal. Example: an election campaign Example: a military campaign 2. A player or team's efforts during a sporting season. Example: His campaign for Hampshire was very good. 3. A series of play sessions using the same player characters, forming a continuous narrative. 4. The period during which a blast furnace is continuously in operation. 5. An open field; a large, open plain without considerable hills; a champaign. Labels: obsolete 6. An excursion into the countryside. Labels: obsolete
Word: campaign Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From French campagne, from Italian campagna (“field, military operation”), from Late Latin campānia (“open country, battlefield”), from Latin campus (“field”). Doublet of campania, campagna, and champagne. Pronunciation: /kæmˈpeɪn/, /kəmˈpeɪn/ 1. To take part in a campaign. Labels: intransitive Example: She campaigned for better social security. Example: But the purported rise in violent videos online has led some MPs to campaign for courts to have more power to remove or block material on YouTube. The Labour MP Heidi Alexander said she was appalled after a constituent was robbed at knifepoint, and the attackers could be found brandishing weapons and rapping about gang violence online. 2. To consistently ride in races for a racing season. Labels: transitive Example: After modifying her for ocean racing, he campaigned her for three years, and in 1975, donated her to the U.S. Naval Academy. Example: The "more curious" were the affluent planters who bred and campaigned race horses in quarter races, the only form of racing practiced in the Virginia colony during the first 125 years of its existence.
Word: union Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English unyoun, from Old French union, from Late Latin ūniō, ūniōnem (“oneness, unity”), from Latin ūnus (“one”). Doublet of unio. Pronunciation: /ˈjuː.njən/, /ˈjuː.ni.ən/ 1. The act of uniting or joining two or more things into one. Labels: countable 2. The state of being united or joined; a state of unity or harmony. Labels: uncountable 3. Something united, or made one; something formed by a combination or coalition of parts or members; a confederation; a consolidated body; a league. Labels: countable 4. A trade union; a workers' union. Labels: countable Example: In the autumn there was a row at some cement works about the unskilled labour men. A union had just been started for them and all but a few joined. One of these blacklegs was laid for by a picket and knocked out of time. 5. An association of students at a university for social and/or political purposes; also in some cases a debating body. Labels: countable 6. A joint or other connection uniting parts of machinery, such as pipes. Labels: countable 7. The set containing all of the elements of two or more sets. Labels: countable 8. The act or state of marriage. Labels: countable 9. Sexual intercourse. Labels: archaic, euphemistic, uncountable 10. A data structure that can store any of various types of item, but only one at a time. Labels: countable Example: Unions are useful in those cases where you need to keep track of a value that can be represented as different data types during the lifetime of the program. 11. A large, high-quality pearl. Labels: archaic, countable Example: Nonius the senator hath a purple coat as stiff with jewels as his mind is full of vices; rings on his fingers worth 20,000 sesterces, and[…]an union in his ear worth an hundred pounds' weight of gold […] Example: And in the cup an union shall he throw, Richer than that which four successive kings In Denmark's crown have worn. 12. An affiliation of several parishes for joint support and management of their poor; also the jointly-owned workhouse. Labels: countable, historical, uncountable
Word: union Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English unyoun, from Old French union, from Late Latin ūniō, ūniōnem (“oneness, unity”), from Latin ūnus (“one”). Doublet of unio. Pronunciation: /ˈjuː.njən/, /ˈjuː.ni.ən/ 1. To combine sets using the union operation.
Word: union Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English unyoun, from Old French union, from Late Latin ūniō, ūniōnem (“oneness, unity”), from Latin ūnus (“one”). Doublet of unio. Pronunciation: /ˈjuː.njən/, /ˈjuː.ni.ən/ 1. Belonging to, represented by, or otherwise pertaining to a labour union. Example: Actors have to be union to get work here. 2. federal. Labels: India Example: The union government of India
Word: NGO Part of Speech: noun 1. Initialism of non-governmental organization. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism Example: For instance, Philately is the most popular hobby of the world. Hence, introducing biophilately in the agenda of the concerned NGO will enhance its success in its aims. Spotting animals, birds, plants, insects, etc. on stamps may provide interested people with an efficient media of education […] Example: Often compared to non-governmental organizations (NGOs) or associations, intergroups are also similar to lobbying groups because they receive external assistance in the form of financial and/or secretarial support.
Word: risk Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From earlier risque, from Middle French risque, from Old Italian risco (“risk”) (modern Italian rischio) and rischiare (“to run into danger”). Displaced native Old English pleoh (“risk”) and plēon (“to risk”). Speculation on earlier roots Most dictionaries consider the etymology of these Italian terms uncertain, but some suggest they perhaps come from Vulgar Latin *resecum (“that which cuts, rock, crag”) (> Medieval Latin resicu), from Latin resecō (“cut off, loose, curtail”, verb), in the sense of that which is a danger to boating or shipping; or from Ancient Greek ῥιζικόν (rhizikón, “root, radical, hazard”). A few dictionaries express more certainty. Collins says the Italian risco comes from Ancient Greek ῥίζα (rhíza, “cliff”) due to the hazards of sailing along rocky coasts. The American Heritage says it probably comes from Byzantine Greek ῥιζικό, ριζικό (rhizikó, rizikó, “sustenance obtained by a soldier through his own initiative, fortune”), from Arabic رِزْق (rizq, “sustenance, that which God allots”), from Classical Syriac ܪܘܙܝܩܐ ,ܪܙܩܐ (rezqā, rōzīqā, “daily ration”), from Middle Persian [script needed] (rōzīg) (whence Classical Persian روزِی (rōzī)), from Middle Persian [script needed] (rōz, “day”) (whence Classical Persian روز (rōz)), from Old Persian 𐎼𐎢𐎨𐏃 (raučah) (cognate with Sanskrit रोचस् (rocas, “light, lustre”)}), from Proto-Iranian *ráwčah, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *ráwčas, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *léwk-os, from *lewk- (“bright; to shine”) + *-os (noun suffix). Karla Mallette derives the word from Arabic رِزْق (rizq, “sustenance, that which God allots”) via Sabir. Cognate with Spanish riesgo, Portuguese risco Pronunciation: /ɹɪsk/ 1. To incur risk of (an unwanted or negative outcome). Labels: transitive Example: These people are putting themselves in danger by physically being on or near to the railway lines and risking serious injury. 2. To incur risk of harming or jeopardizing. Labels: transitive Example: England captain David Beckham has warned Wayne Rooney not to risk his long-term future by rushing his return from injury. 3. To incur risk as a result of (doing something). Labels: transitive Example: Because of the wide range of styles on this album, it's hard to pin down the genre. I will risk suggesting folk-rock in an effort to be helpful. Example: After coming to New York, I decided to risk cycling again.
Word: investor Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English invest Proto-Indo-European *-tōr Proto-Italic *-tōr Latin -tor Latin -ātor Old French -eorbor. Middle English -our ▲ Latin -torlbor. English -or English investor From invest + -or. Pronunciation: /ɪnˈvɛs.tə(ɹ)/, /ɪnˈvɛs.tɚ/, /ɪnˈves.tə(ɹ)/ 1. A person who invests money in order to make a profit. Example: […] (it was the town's humour to be always gassing of phantom investors who were likely to come any moment and pay a thousand prices for everything) — “[…] Them rich fellers, they don't make no bad breaks with their money. […]” Example: Across Japan, technology companies and private investors are racing to install devices that until recently they had little interest in: solar panels. Massive solar parks are popping up as part of a rapid build-up that one developer likened to an "explosion."
Word: US dollar Part of Speech: noun 1. The official currency of the United States.
Word: ecology Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Calque of German Ökologie (coined in 1866 by Ernst Haeckel), from Ancient Greek οἶκος (oîkos, “house”) + -λογία (-logía, “study of”). By surface analysis, eco- + -logy. Pronunciation: /ɪˈkɒl.ə.d͡ʒi/, /ɪˈkɑ.lə.d͡ʒi/, /iˈkɑ.lə.d͡ʒi/, /ɪˈkɔl.ə.d͡ʒi/, /əˈkɒl.ə.d͡ʒi/ 1. The branch of biology dealing with the relationships of organisms with their environment and with each other. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: As a graduate student, he was working on a thesis: The Ecology of the Black Creek Area. He had to investigate the relationships, past and present, of men and plants and animals in this region. Example: As in much of biology, the most satisfying truths in ecology derive from manipulative experimentation. Tinker with nature and quantify how it responds. 2. Any study of the relationships of components of a system with their environment and with each other. Labels: broadly, countable, uncountable Example: social ecology Example: linguistic ecology 3. The totality or pattern of relationships of components of a system with their environment and with each other. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: province Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Inherited from Middle English provynce, from Anglo-Norman province, Old French province, from Latin prōvincia, seemingly corresponding to prō- (“forward”) + vinciō (“to bind, bind about, fetter, tie, fasten, surround, encircle”). Displaced Old English boldġetæl. Pronunciation: /ˈpɹɒv.ɪns/, /ˈpɹɑv.ɪns/, /ˈpɹɔv.ɪns/, /ˈpɹɒv.əns/ 1. A region of the earth or of a continent; a district or country. Example: […] we should find, as we do find, some groups of beings greatly, and some only slightly modified,—[…]—in the different great geographical provinces of the world. 2. An administrative subdivision of certain countries, including Canada and China. Example: Chowta-Zhin, who is ſaid to be a man of buſineſs and preciſion, and cautious of advancing facts, at the requeſt of Earl Macartney, delivered to him a ſtatement taken from one of the public officers in the capitol, of the inhabitants of the fifteen ancient provinces of China, or China proper, within the great wall ; according to which the number of inhabitants, taken by a regular enumeration, amounts to 333,000,000! Example: The telegraph administration refuses to transmit messages either to or from the Provinces of Hu-Peh, Hu-Nan, Kiang-Si, Sze-Chuan, Kwei-Chow, and Yu-Nan^([sic – meaning Yun-Nan]). 3. An area outside Italy which is administered by a Roman governor or prefect. Labels: Ancient-Rome, Roman-Empire, historical Example: He reminded his audience of events in 88BC, when the same Mithridates invaded the Roman province of Asia, on the western coast of Turkey. 4. An area under the jurisdiction of an archbishop, typically comprising a number of adjacent dioceses. Example: In 1309, neither the Archbishop of Canterbury nor his suffragans would attend in Parliament while the Archbishop of York had the cross borne erect before him in the province of Canterbury. 5. An area under the jurisdiction of a provincial within a monastic order. 6. The parts of a country outside its national capital. Labels: in-plural, with-definite-article Example: To-day the first part of the new Indian Constitution comes into force with the granting of a large measure of autonomy to the provinces. Example: "What are the Russian provinces?" he said. "Dirt, ruins, poverty, drunkenness. That is what we need to be working on, rather than expanding our prison to include Georgia, Ukraine, the Baltic states, and Belarus. That is the kind of Russian nationalist that I am…. There is no sense in using force to hold people that don’t want to be with you." 7. A major region defined by common geologic attributes and history. 8. An area of activity, responsibility or knowledge; the proper concern of a particular person or concept. Example: Some few hands are reserved called ship-keepers, whose province it is to work the vessel while the boats are pursuing the whale. Example: More than half a million women are now employed on the railways of the Soviet Union, and some of them perform such duties as those of engine drivers and stationmasters, formerly considered the sole province of men.
Word: juggernaut Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed in the 17th century into British English in India, either through Hindustani جَگَنَّاتھ (jagannāth) / जगन्नाथ (jagannāth) or directly from Odia ଜଗନ୍ନାଥ (jagannātha), ultimately from Sanskrit ज॒ग॒न्ना॒थ (jagannāthá, “lord of universe”) (Jagannatha), a title for the Hindu deity Vishnu's avatar Krishna. The sense comes from witnessing the Rath Yatra (chariot parade) at Puri, Odisha, a huge annual procession which features a wagon of the idol of Jagannath; pulled with ropes by hundreds of devotees, the wagon develops considerable momentum and becomes unstoppable. The r was not originally pronounced: for non-rhotic dialects of British English, the spelling with -er- accurately suggests the Hindi-Urdu pronunciation of the second vowel (a schwa ə); compare e.g. gorm. The spelling of the ending was influenced by the suffix -naut (“traveller, voyager”). Doublet of Jagannath. Pronunciation: /ˈd͡ʒʌɡ.ə.nɔːt/, /ˈd͡ʒʌɡ.ɚ.nɔt/, /ˈd͡ʒʌɡ.ɚ.nɑt/ 1. A literal or metaphorical force or object regarded as unstoppable, that will crush all in its path. Example: […] poor Johnny Tetterby staggering under his Moloch of an infant, the Juggernaut that crushes all his enjoyments. Example: Anon Mr. Hoopdriver found himself riding out of the darkness of non-existence, pedalling Ezekiel's Wheels across the Weald of Surrey, jolting over the hills and smashing villages in his course, while the other man in brown cursed and swore at him and shouted to stop his career. There was the Putney heath-keeper, too, and the man in drab raging at him. He felt an awful fool, a- -what was it?--a juggins, ah!--a Juggernaut. 2. A large, cumbersome truck or lorry, especially an articulated lorry. Labels: Ireland, UK, derogatory, sometimes Example: Silently and gracefully I free-wheeled across the path of three juggernauts, [...] glided across the hard shoulder and came to rest halfway up a grass bank. Example: I know I swing me Volvo all around you market square. I know you think that lorry drivers, we just don't care. But the streets are so narrow, built so many years ago. They were built for horses' carts, not juggernauts you know. 3. An institution that incites destructive devotion or to which people are carelessly sacrificed.
Word: morose Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From French morose, from Latin mōrōsus (“particular, scrupulous, fastidious, self-willed, wayward, capricious, fretful, peevish”), from mōs (“way, custom, habit, self-will”). See moral. Pronunciation: /məˈɹəʊs/, /məˈɹoʊs/, /mɔɹˈoʊs/ 1. Sullen, gloomy; showing a brooding ill humour. Example: If there is any boy or man who loves to be melancholy and morose, and who cannot enter with kindly sympathy into the regions of fun, let me seriously advise him to shut my book and put it away. It is not meant for him. Example: My skin is cold / Transfusion with somebody / Morose and old / Drop into fruitless dying / It was tempting and bared / The whoring angel rising / Now burning prayers / My silent time of losing / My foes, they can't destroy my body / Colliding slow, like life itself
Word: nexus Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin nexus (“connection, nexus; act of binding, tying or fastening together; something which binds, binding, bond, fastening, joint; legal obligation”), from nectō (“to attach, bind, connect, fasten, tie; to interweave; to relate; to unite; to bind by obligation, make liable, oblige; to compose, contrive, devise, produce”, supine stem nex-) + -tus (suffix forming verbal nouns). Pronunciation: /ˈnɛksəs/, /ˈnɛksuːs/, /ˈnɛksus/ 1. A form or state of connection. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. A form or state of connection. Labels: Canada, US, countable, uncountable 3. A connected group; a network, a web. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Sunday's election pits Move Forward and the billionaire Shinawatra family's Pheu Thai against ruling parties backed by a nexus of old money, conservatives and generals with influence over key institutions involved in two decades of upheaval in Southeast Asia's second-biggest economy. 4. A centre or focus of something. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: More than just a corporate juggernaut, Nvidia also has become an instrument of statecraft, operating at the nexus of advanced technology, diplomacy, and geopolitics. 5. In the work of the Danish linguist Otto Jespersen (1860–1943): a group of words expressing two concepts in one unit (such as a clause or sentence). Labels: countable, uncountable 6. A person who had contracted a nexum or obligation of such a kind that, if they failed to pay, their creditor could compel them to work as a servant until the debt was paid; an indentured servant. Labels: Ancient-Rome, countable, historical, uncountable
Word: genetic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Coined from genesis, similarly to antithesis, antithetic. Reflects Ancient Greek γενετικός (genetikós), from γένεσις (génesis) + -κός (-kós). Ultimately from Ancient Greek γίγνομαι (gígnomai, “I come into being”). By surface analysis, gene + -tic or gen(esis) + -etic. Pronunciation: /d͡ʒəˈnɛt.ɪk/, /d͡ʒɪˈnɛt.ɪk/, /ˈdʒɛ.nə.ʈɪk/, /ˈdʒɛn.ʈɪks/ 1. Relating to genetics or genes. Labels: not-comparable Example: Plant breeding is always a numbers game.[…]The wild species we use are rich in genetic variation, and individual plants are highly heterozygous and do not breed true. In addition, we are looking for rare alleles, so the more plants we try, the better. Example: “DNA from hunter-gatherers is present at higher levels in Northeastern Europe, which means the region has an elevated genetic risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease,” Barrie said. 2. Caused by genes. Labels: not-comparable 3. Of or relating to origin (genesis). Labels: not-comparable Example: All evidence tends to this conclusion, that the sun is the prime genetic agent of earthquakes and of every other pluto-dynamic impulse which acts against the crust of the planet, and breaks or elevates any of its parts. 4. Based on shared membership in a linguistic family. Labels: not-comparable Example: Chinese has borrowed several words from English, but it does not have a genetic relationship to English. 5. Based on a shared membership in a religious family. Labels: not-comparable Example: Guy Stroumsa (2011) proposes the use of the alternative term Abrahamic religions, emphasizing the genetic relationship between Judaism, Christianity, and Islam and their branches, for which the idea of monotheism is not always central.
Word: jest Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English geste (“idle tale”), from Old French geste (“acts, exploits”), from Latin gesta (“acts, deeds”). Doublet of gest. Pronunciation: /d͡ʒɛst/, /d͡ʒiːst/, /d͡ʒɛːst/ 1. An act performed for amusement; a joke. Labels: archaic Example: I made that comment in jest; it wasn't serious. Example: Alas poore Yorick, I knew him Horatio, a fellow of infinite Ieſt; […] 2. Someone or something that is ridiculed; the target of a joke. Labels: archaic Example: Your majesty, stop him before he makes you the jest of the court. Example: Why then make ſport at me, then let me be your ieſt, / I deſerue it[…] 3. A deed; an action; a gest. Labels: obsolete Example: the jests or actions of princes 4. A mask; a pageant; an interlude. Labels: obsolete Example: He promised us, in honour of our guest, / To grace our banquet with some pompous jest.
Word: jest Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English geste (“idle tale”), from Old French geste (“acts, exploits”), from Latin gesta (“acts, deeds”). Doublet of gest. Pronunciation: /d͡ʒɛst/, /d͡ʒiːst/, /d͡ʒɛːst/ 1. To tell a joke; to talk in a playful manner; to make fun of something or someone. Example: Surely you jest!
Word: jest Part of Speech: adv 1. Pronunciation spelling of just. Labels: Shropshire, Southern-US, alt-of, not-comparable, pronunciation-spelling Example: So I jest called out to know what was up, and found it was Miss Vanholte's cowboys, who had been forced into the store by them rascally ruffins. Example: "Jest like the Injian puzzle-boxes, ain't they?" said Dan, as the one boat dropped into the other.
Word: kleptomania Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Ancient Greek κλέπτω (kléptō, “to steal”) + -mania, analyzed as klepto- + -mania. Pronunciation: /ˌklɛp.təˈmeɪ.ni.ə, -ˈmeɪn.jə/ 1. A psychological disorder that causes an uncontrollable obsession with stealing without economic or material need. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: xenophobe Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From xeno- + -phobe. From Ancient Greek ξένος (xénos, “foreign, strange”), + Ancient Greek φόβος (phóbos, “fear”). Pronunciation: /ˈzɛ.nə.foʊb/, /ˈzi.nə.foʊb/, /ˈzɛ.nə.fəʊb/ 1. One who hates or fears strangers or foreigners. 2. One who hates or fears extraterrestial life. Labels: nonstandard, rare
Word: xenophobe Part of Speech: adj Labels: no-gloss
Word: hilarious Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin hilaris (“cheerful”) + -ious, from Ancient Greek ἱλαρός (hilarós, “cheerful, merry”). Pronunciation: /hɪˈlɛə.ɹi.əs/, /hɪˈlɛ(ə)ɹ.i.əs/, /hɪˈlæɹ.i.əs/, /hɪˈleː.ɹi.əs/ 1. Very funny; causing great merriment and laughter. Example: a hilarious joke Example: Do you like Monty Python? I think they're hilarious. 2. Full of hilarity; merry. Example: Cold Doctor Pell here refused a very considerable fee. He could on occasion behave handsomely; but I can't learn that blustering, hilarious Doctor Rogerson ever refused his. Example: In order to turn the minds of hilarious guests to seriousness, they would start singing a responsive song, the subject of which was death and the earnestness of life.
Word: damage Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English damage, from Old French damage, from Vulgar Latin *damnāticum from Classical Latin damnum. Compare modern French dommage. Largely displaced native Middle English scath (whence unscathed). Cognate with Spanish daño, Portuguese dano, Italian danno, French dam, Romanian daună. Pronunciation: /ˈdæmɪd͡ʒ/ 1. Injury or harm; the condition or measure of something not being intact. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: the damage is already done Example: The storm did a lot of damage to the area. 2. Cost or expense. Labels: countable, slang, uncountable Example: "What's the damage?" he asked the waiter.
Word: damage Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English damage, from Old French damage, from Vulgar Latin *damnāticum from Classical Latin damnum. Compare modern French dommage. Largely displaced native Middle English scath (whence unscathed). Cognate with Spanish daño, Portuguese dano, Italian danno, French dam, Romanian daună. Pronunciation: /ˈdæmɪd͡ʒ/ 1. To impair the soundness, goodness, or value of; to harm or cause destruction. Labels: transitive Example: Be careful not to damage any of the fragile items while unpacking them. Example: Cold temperatures, heavy rain, falling rocks, strong winds and glacier movement can damage the equipment. 2. To undergo damage; to take damage. Labels: intransitive, obsolete 3. To remove a damaged or unsalable item from the sales floor for processing. Labels: transitive Example: Did you damage the items that the customer returned yet?
Word: user Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English usere, equivalent to use + -er. Cognate with Scots usar, uiser (“user”). Pronunciation: /ˈjuːzə/, /ˈjuzɚ/ 1. One who uses or makes use of something, a consumer or client or an express or implied licensee (free user) or a trespasser. Example: [Rural solar plant] schemes are of little help to industry or other heavy users of electricity. Nor is solar power yet as cheap as the grid. For all that, the rapid arrival of electric light to Indian villages is long overdue. When the national grid suffers its next huge outage, as it did in July 2012 when hundreds of millions were left in the dark, look for specks of light in the villages. Example: 2019, The Highway Code (United Kingdom) Road Users Requiring Extra Care The most vulnerable road users are pedestrians, cyclists, motorcyclists and horse riders. It is particularly important to be aware of children, older and disabled people, and learner and inexperienced drivers and riders. https://www.gov.uk/guidance/the-highway-code/road-users-requiring-extra-care-204-to-225 2. A person who uses drugs, especially illegal drugs. 3. A person who uses a computer or a computing network, especially a person who has received a user account. 4. Clipping of username. Labels: Internet, abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, informal 5. An exploiter, an abuser (a person who exploits others, that is treats and regards people unfairly, selfishly or unethically). Labels: derogatory 6. In land law, meaning either 1. or 2. above or use. Usually in singular form to mean use wherever there is assiduous re-use of precedents and aloof textbooks verbatim. Labels: dated Example: 2012, R. (Stephen Malpass) v Durham County Council, [2012] EWHC 1934 (Admin) http://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWHC/Admin/2012/1934.html As to evidence of user... As to quality of user (i.e. was use by the public "as of right"), the inspector found that the grass over the whole of the application land has been regularly cut... ...which the inspector did not find sufficient of itself to render user permissive. Moreover, the defendant could not, the inspector advised, rely on communication to users that access to the land was regulated. Deferment to users of the organised pitches...
Word: slavery Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree substrateder.? Proto-Indo-European *ḱlewH-der.? Proto-Slavic *slov- Proto-Slavic *-ǫta Proto-Slavic *Slov-? Proto-Balto-Slavic *-ēnas Proto-Indo-European *-nós Proto-Indo-European *-iHnos Proto-Slavic *-inъ Proto-Slavic *-ěninъ Proto-Slavic *slověninъder. Ancient Greek Σκλαβηνός (Sklabēnós)der. Byzantine Greek Σκλᾰ́βος (Sklắbos)bor. Late Latin Sclavus Medieval Latin sclavusbor. Old French esclavebor. Middle English sclave English slave Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzios Latin -āriusnom. Latin -ārius Old French -ier Proto-Indo-European *-(i)yós Proto-Italic *-ijos Proto-Italic *-ios Old Latin -ios Latin -ius Latin -ia Old French -ie Old French -eriebor. Middle English -erie English -ery English slavery From slave + -ery. Pronunciation: /ˈsleɪvəɹi/, /ˈsleɪvɹi/ 1. An institution or social practice of owning human beings as property, especially for use as forced laborers. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: abolition of slavery Example: modern slavery 2. Forced labor in general, regardless of legality. Labels: uncountable, usually 3. A condition of servitude endured by a slave. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: If you wil willingly remaine with me, You ſhall haue honors, as your merits be: Or els you ſhal be forc’d with ſlauerie. Example: Our victories on Voeld are only the beginning of what we can achieve, but we can't defeat the enemy without your help. If you're tired of living in fear, if you believe we were meant for something greater than slavery, if you're willing to stand up and fight: you'll find a new family in the Resistance. 4. A condition in which one is captivated or subjugated, as by greed or drugs. Labels: figuratively, uncountable, usually Example: Man seeks for gold in mines that he may weave / A lasting chain for his own slavery.