nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: ambivalence Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from German Ambivalenz (“simultaneous conflicting feelings”), from Latin ambi- (“both”) and valentia (“strength”), from the verb valere (“to be strong”) (see valiant); spelled on the model of French-origin words ending in -ence. The German term was coined by Swiss psychiatrist Eugen Bleuler in 1910; by 1929, it had taken on a broader literary and general sense. Equivalent to ambi- + valence. Pronunciation: /æmˈbɪvələns/ 1. The coexistence of opposing attitudes or feelings (such as love and hate) towards a person, object or idea. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: "I dearly loved my master, son," she said. "You should have hated him," I said. "He gave me several sons," she said, "and because I loved my sons I learned to love their father though I hated him too." "I too have become acquainted with ambivalence, I said. Example: The great sociologist Zygmunt Bauman argued that philo-Semitism and anti-Semitism both fall under “allosemitism”: literally Othering the Jew. He defined it not as resentment of what is different, which is xenophobia, but rather of what defies order and clear categories. In 1997, he wrote, “The Jew is ambivalence incarnate. And ambivalence is ambivalence mostly because it cannot be contemplated without ambivalent feeling: it is simultaneously attractive and repelling.” 2. A state of uncertainty or indecisiveness. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: protest Part of Speech: verb Etymology: PIE word *tréyes From the Middle English verb protesten, from Old French protester, from Latin prōtestārī, from prō + testor, from testis (“witness”). Pronunciation: /ˈpɹəʊ.tɛst/, /ˈpɹoʊ.tɛst/, /pɹəˈtɛst/ 1. To make a strong objection. Labels: intransitive Example: How dare you, I protest! Example: The public took to the streets to protest over the planned change to the law. 2. To affirm (something). Labels: transitive Example: I protest my innocence. Example: I do protest and declare … 3. To object to. Example: "The gay community would love to point to Patti and say, 'She's one of us'" […] I protest the statement I have mentioned, as well as others like it. Few people I know, gay or straight, identify with the often outrageous thoughts of Patti Smith. Among other things, she's indicated in interviews that she thinks violence and rape are dandy experiences. 4. To publicly demonstrate against. Labels: Canada, US, transitive Example: They protested the demolition of the school. 5. To call as a witness in affirming or denying, or to prove an affirmation; to appeal to. Example: Fiercely [they] opposed / My journey strange, with clamorous uproar / Protesting fate supreme. 6. to make a solemn written declaration, in due form, on behalf of the holder, against all parties liable for any loss or damage to be sustained by non-acceptance or non-payment of (a bill or note). This should be made by a notary public, whose seal it is the usual practice to affix. Labels: transitive 7. To publish; to make known. Labels: obsolete, transitive
Word: protest Part of Speech: noun Etymology: PIE word *tréyes From the Middle English verb protesten, from Old French protester, from Latin prōtestārī, from prō + testor, from testis (“witness”). Pronunciation: /ˈpɹəʊ.tɛst/, /ˈpɹoʊ.tɛst/ 1. A formal objection, especially one by a group. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: They lodged a protest with the authorities. 2. A collective gesture of disapproval; a demonstration. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: We held a protest in front of City Hall. Example: All this has led to an explosion of protest across China, including among a middle class that has discovered nimbyism. 3. The noting by a notary public of an unpaid or unaccepted bill. Labels: countable, uncountable 4. A written declaration, usually by the master of a ship, stating the circumstances attending loss or damage of ship or cargo, etc. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: zap Part of Speech: noun Etymology: 1920s, American English, of imitative origin. Pronunciation: /zæp/ 1. A sound made by a sudden release of electricity or some similar energy. Labels: colloquial 2. An electric shock. Labels: colloquial Example: You might feel a little zap touching a metal doorknob when the air is dry. 3. A raucous public demonstration designed to embarrass a public figure or celebrity as a form of political activism. Example: Black AIDS activists were caught in the middle of a nearly yearlong series of zaps. Example: When a zap at Brooklyn's Board of Education opened no dialogue on discrimination suffered by gay teachers, GAA targeted the BOE offices on April 13. 4. The act of heating something in a microwave oven. Labels: slang Example: The guest immediately asked the bartender to give his drink a zap in the microwave oven behind him […]
Word: zap Part of Speech: verb Etymology: 1920s, American English, of imitative origin. Pronunciation: /zæp/ 1. To make a zap sound. Labels: intransitive 2. To use a remote control to repeatedly fast-forward or change channels on a television. 3. To strike (something or someone) with electricity or energy, as by shooting. Example: They spent the whole movie zapping bad guys into oblivion. 4. To kill; to eliminate. Labels: US, slang, transitive Example: Says a U. S. officer: "We zapped the enemy, now we intend to stick around. […] 5. To do away with something. Labels: slang, transitive 6. To enliven. Labels: slang, transitive 7. To move or transport (something) in a brief time frame. Labels: slang, transitive 8. To damage (especially electronics) with electrostatic discharge. Labels: slang, transitive Example: I think they zapped the processor. 9. To heat (something) in a microwave oven. Labels: slang, transitive Example: If it's not warm in the middle, zap it some more. 10. To delete or discard (electronic media). Labels: slang, transitive Example: They zapped a lot of files before realizing they had not backed up lately. 11. To further energize or charge (magnetic material). Labels: slang, transitive Example: They zapped my motor's magnets. 12. To photocopy. Labels: Singapore, informal, transitive Example: Got to go and zap this document now. 13. To participate in a zap (protest) against. Example: We are periodically assailed with appeals to help block this or censor that or zap the other media presentation which one or other of us thinks (often with justice) is injurious to gays or others.
Word: zap Part of Speech: intj Etymology: 1920s, American English, of imitative origin. Pronunciation: /zæp/ 1. Representing the sound or action of a zap. Example: Then the computer went zap and I lost all my work. Example: Zap is a comic-book hero - Zap! Powie! Kazoom!; why have you retired, Zap, when we need you so much?
Word: wade Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English waden, from Old English wadan, from Proto-West Germanic *wadan, from Proto-Germanic *wadaną (“to go, pass through”), from Proto-Indo-European *weh₂dʰ- (“to go”). Cognates include Saterland Frisian waadje (“to wade”), West Frisian wâdzje (“to wade”), Dutch waden (“to wade”), German Low German waden (“to wade”), German waten (“to wade”), Danish vade (“to wade”), Swedish vada (“to wade”), Icelandic vaða (“to wade”), and Latin vādō (“go, walk; rush”). Pronunciation: /weɪd/, /wed/ 1. To walk through water or something that impedes progress. Labels: intransitive Example: So eagerly the fiend […] / With head, hands, wings, or feet, pursues his way, / And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies. Example: After breakfast the men set out to hunt, while the women went to a large pool of warm water covered with a green scum and filled with billions of tadpoles. They waded in to where the water was about a foot deep and lay down in the mud. They remained there from one to two hours and then returned to the cliff. 2. To progress with difficulty. Labels: intransitive Example: to wade through a dull book Example: And wades through fumes, and gropes his way. 3. To walk through (water or similar impediment); to pass through by wading. Labels: transitive Example: wading swamps and rivers 4. To gleam intermittently through clouds or mist. Example: I saw my Meg come linking o'er the lee; I saw my Meg, but Maggy saw nae me: For yet the sun was wading through the mist, And she was close upon me ere she wist. Example: ... the pale light of a crescent moon wading among the black and lowering clouds. 5. To enter recklessly. Labels: intransitive Example: to wade into a fight or a debate Example: The champ [Alekhine] seems to reel and stagger helplessly. It's an old gag because a blind man can see he ain't glassy-eyed a-tall—but Rodzinsky wades in. 10.QxR
Word: wade Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English waden, from Old English wadan, from Proto-West Germanic *wadan, from Proto-Germanic *wadaną (“to go, pass through”), from Proto-Indo-European *weh₂dʰ- (“to go”). Cognates include Saterland Frisian waadje (“to wade”), West Frisian wâdzje (“to wade”), Dutch waden (“to wade”), German Low German waden (“to wade”), German waten (“to wade”), Danish vade (“to wade”), Swedish vada (“to wade”), Icelandic vaða (“to wade”), and Latin vādō (“go, walk; rush”). Pronunciation: /weɪd/, /wed/ 1. An act of wading. Example: We had to be careful during our dangerous wade across the river. 2. A ford; a place to cross a river. Labels: colloquial
Word: wade Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /weɪd/, /wed/ 1. Obsolete form of woad. Labels: alt-of, obsolete, uncountable Example: Woad or Wade is a very rich Commodity
Word: royal Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English royal, from Old French roial (Modern French royal), from Latin rēgālis, from rēx (“king”). Doublet of regal (“befitting a king”), real (“unit of currency”), ariary, and riyal. Cognate with Spanish real, Italian reale, Catalan reial. Displaced native Old English cynelīċ. Pronunciation: /ˈɹɔɪ̯.əl/, [ˈɹʷɔɪ̯.əl] ~ [ˈɹʷɔɪ̯.l̩], /ˈɹɔ.jəl/, [ˈɹʷɔ.jəl] ~ [ˈɹʷɔ.jl̩] 1. Of or relating to a monarch or his (or her) family. Example: He tried to persuade Cicely to stay away from the ball-room for a fourth dance. […] But she said she must go back, and when they joined the crowd again her partner was haled off with a frightened look to the royal circle, […] Example: On the first Friday morning of his kingship he went into the kitchen and called for his royal chef. 2. Having the air or demeanour of a monarch; illustrious; magnanimous; of more than common size or excellence. Example: How doth that royal Merchant good Anthonio; 3. In large sailing ships, of a mast right above the topgallant mast and its sails. Example: royal mast; royal sail 4. Free-for-all, especially involving multiple combatants. 5. Used as an intensifier. Labels: informal Example: a royal pain in the neck Example: Whoo! I'll show YOU a royal good time. 6. Describing a piece which, if captured, results in loss of game. Example: Maharajah and the Sepoys pits a single royal amazon for white against a standard chess army for black.
Word: royal Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English royal, from Old French roial (Modern French royal), from Latin rēgālis, from rēx (“king”). Doublet of regal (“befitting a king”), real (“unit of currency”), ariary, and riyal. Cognate with Spanish real, Italian reale, Catalan reial. Displaced native Old English cynelīċ. Pronunciation: /ˈɹɔɪ̯.əl/, [ˈɹʷɔɪ̯.əl] ~ [ˈɹʷɔɪ̯.l̩], /ˈɹɔ.jəl/, [ˈɹʷɔ.jəl] ~ [ˈɹʷɔ.jl̩] 1. A royal person; a member of a royal family. Labels: capitalized, informal, often Example: Andy noted in RAIL 462: "The Royals are bound to have a great say in the decoration of the train and it speaks volumes for their regard for it that there are so many portraits of previous Royal Trains and items presented on trips. I sense they're extremely fond of it." 2. A standard size of printing paper, measuring 25 by 20 inches. 3. A standard size of writing paper, measuring 24 by 19 inches. 4. The Australian decimal currency intended to replace the pound in 1966; was changed to "dollar" before it was actually circulated. Labels: dated 5. Any of various lycaenid butterflies. 6. The fourth tine of an antler's beam. 7. A stag with twelve points (six on each antler). 8. In large sailing ships, square sail over the topgallant sail. Example: in ten days after we spoke the Solon, so rapid was his recovery, that, from lying helpless and almost hopeless in his berth, he was at the mast-heId, furling a royal. 9. An old English gold coin, the rial. 10. A small mortar. 11. In auction bridge, a royal spade. 12. A tuft of beard on the lower lip. 13. Bell changes rung on ten bells.
Word: Bosnian Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree English Bosnia Proto-Indo-European *-nós Proto-Italic *-nos Latin -nus Latin -ānus Old French -ainder. Middle English -an English -an English Bosnian From Bosnia + -an. Pronunciation: /ˈbɒzni.ən/, /ˈbɑːzni.ən/, /ˈbɔːzni.ən/ 1. Of or pertaining to Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Bosnian people or their culture and language. Example: In his provocative essay, David Gibbs makes the following statement about diplomacy and the war in Bosnia. “There is also abundant evidence that diplomacy might have prevented the Bosnian war and thus prevented the Srebrenica massacre, but this option was blocked by prointerventionist forces in the United States, which demanded a military option instead.” 2. Of or pertaining to Bosnia. Labels: historical 3. Pertaining to Bosniaks. Labels: nonstandard
Word: Bosnian Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English Bosnia Proto-Indo-European *-nós Proto-Italic *-nos Latin -nus Latin -ānus Old French -ainder. Middle English -an English -an English Bosnian From Bosnia + -an. Pronunciation: /ˈbɒzni.ən/, /ˈbɑːzni.ən/, /ˈbɔːzni.ən/ 1. A person from Bosnia and Herzegovina or of Bosnian descent. Example: Ten days later, however, the deal was dead, largely because the United States opposed it and persuaded the Bosnians to do the same, or so Gibbs argues. 2. A Bosniak. Labels: nonstandard
Word: Bosnian Part of Speech: name Etymology: Etymology tree English Bosnia Proto-Indo-European *-nós Proto-Italic *-nos Latin -nus Latin -ānus Old French -ainder. Middle English -an English -an English Bosnian From Bosnia + -an. Pronunciation: /ˈbɒzni.ən/, /ˈbɑːzni.ən/, /ˈbɔːzni.ən/ 1. The standardized variety of Serbo-Croatian, a South Slavic language, spoken primarily by Bosniaks in Bosnia and Herzegovina. 2. Serbo-Croatian in general, as spoken in Bosnia. Labels: historical
Word: Slovakian Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Slovakia + -an or Slovak + -ian. 1. Of or pertaining to Slovakia, a country in Central Europe. Labels: not-comparable Example: One Terrorgram user livestreamed himself stabbing five people outside of a mosque in Turkey, she said, and a 19-year-old Slovakian man praised the group in a manifesto before killing two people at an LGBTQ bar in Bratislava, the capital of Slovakia.
Word: Slovakian Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Slovakia + -an or Slovak + -ian. 1. A person from Slovakia or of Slovakian descent. Example: But he was arrested crossing the Polish-Slovak border, and the Slovakians handed him to the Germans.
Word: grand duke Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From grand + duke, after Middle French and French grand duc /grand-duc, itself after titles in other languages, especially Italian granduca, German Großherzog, and Russian вели́кий князь (velíkij knjazʹ). Doublet of grand-duc. 1. Ruler or monarch of a grand duchy. 2. Son, daughter, or grandchild of a czar (emperor) of the Russian Empire. (A more literal translation of the Russian is grand prince.)
Word: ducal Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Middle French ducal, from Latin ducālis. Pronunciation: /djuːkəl/ 1. Of or pertaining to a duke, a duchess, or the duchy or dukedom they hold. Example: Ahead of the king’s coming, the Duke of Norfolk will arrive to guarantee order [...] and he will not come with an army, but only his ducal train.
Word: fleece Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English fles, flees, flese, from Old English flēos, flīes, flȳs, from Proto-West Germanic *fleus. Pronunciation: /fliːs/, /flɪjs/ 1. Hair or wool of a sheep or similar animal. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The Sun ſhall change, the Moon to change ſhall ceaſe; / The Gaits to clim-----the Sheep to yield the Fleece, / Ere ought by me be either ſaid or done, / Shall do thee Wrang, I ſwear by all aboon. Example: Wool became the substitute for money. […] In all the middle periods of British history, the fleece was the expression and the measure of national prosperity or calamity. 2. Insulating skin with the wool attached. Labels: uncountable 3. A textile similar to velvet, but with a longer pile that gives it a softness and a higher sheen. Labels: countable 4. An insulating wooly jacket. Labels: countable 5. Mat or felts composed of fibers, sometimes used as a membrane backer. Labels: countable, uncountable 6. Any soft woolly covering resembling a fleece. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Alas! in the morning the eaglet was gone; and, full of sorrow, they stooped to pick up the shining fleece with which the floor was spread. At their touch, every feather became a golden coin. 7. The fine web of cotton or wool removed by the doffing knife from the cylinder of a carding machine. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: fleece Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English fles, flees, flese, from Old English flēos, flīes, flȳs, from Proto-West Germanic *fleus. Pronunciation: /fliːs/, /flɪjs/ 1. To con or trick (someone) out of money. Labels: informal, transitive Example: There is a difference between bookmaking, an entirely respectable profession, and fleecing people, which isn’t. 2. To cut off the fleece from (a sheep or other animal). Labels: transitive Example: During spring shearing we have to fleece all the sheep in just a few days. 3. To cover with, or as if with, wool. Labels: transitive
Word: bishopric Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English bischopriche, from Old English bisċoprīċe, equivalent to bishop + -ric (compare German Reich). Pronunciation: /ˈbɪʃəpɹɪk/ 1. A diocese: a region in which a bishop of a church governs. Example: Later that year, he was appointed to the bishopric of Lindesmeere. Example: Iohn Fiſher Biſhop of Rocheſter, when the King [Henry VII of England] would have tranſlated him from that poore Biſhopricke to a better, he refuſed, saying: He would not forſake his poore little olde wife, with whom he had ſo long lived. 2. The office or function of a bishop. Example: Near-synonyms: episcopacy, episcopate, monepiscopacy
Word: each other Part of Speech: pron Etymology: From Middle English ech other, yche othere, ich othir, eche other, ilk oþer, from Old English ǣlċ ōþer (“each other”), equivalent to each + other. Cognate with Scots ilk other (“each other”), West Frisian elkoar (“each other”), Dutch elkander, elkaar (“each other”). Pronunciation: /iːˈt͡ʃʌð.ə/, /iˈt͡ʃʌð.ɚ/, /iˈt͡ʃʌ.ðɚ/, /iːˈt͡ʃað.ə/ 1. To one another; one to the other; signifies that a verb applies to two or more entities both as subjects and as direct objects Labels: pronoun, reciprocal Example: "They love each other", Mr. Chad said. Example: "You all don't take care of each other, do you? Mr. Chad said.
Word: dog-eat-dog Part of Speech: adj 1. Alternative form of dog eat dog. Labels: alt-of, alternative, not-comparable
Word: iced Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁eyH- Proto-Indo-European *h₁eyH-so-der. Proto-Germanic *īsą Proto-West Germanic *īs Old English īs Middle English is English ice Old English -ed Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂tos Proto-Germanic *-ōdaz Old English -od Middle English -ed English -ed English iced From ice (“noun”) + -ed. Pronunciation: /ˈaɪst/, [ˈaɪ̯st] 1. With ice added. Example: I'd like an iced tea. 2. Very cold, but not necessarily containing ice. Example: an iced drink 3. Covered with icing. Example: an iced cake 4. Having a glittering papillose surface. 5. Synonym of iced out (“copiously decorated with jewelry”) Labels: slang
Word: iced Part of Speech: verb Etymology: See ice (verb). Pronunciation: /ˈaɪst/, [ˈaɪ̯st] 1. simple past and past participle of ice Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: stinka Part of Speech: noun 1. Someone who smells badly, a stinker. Labels: Geordie 2. Someone who is ugly or repulsive. Labels: Geordie Example: How man, get off is ye propa stinka!
Word: megachiropteran Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Megachiroptera + -an 1. Of or relating to the fruit bats of suborder Megachiroptera. Labels: not-comparable
Word: megachiropteran Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Megachiroptera + -an 1. A fruit bat of suborder Megachiroptera.
Word: basket case Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From basket + case. * (injured soldier): Based on rumors during World War I that wounded soldiers were transported in baskets. * (item to be repaired): The item's components might be brought for repair in a basket. 1. Someone (especially a soldier) who has lost all four limbs. Labels: colloquial, historical, offensive Example: The Surgeon General of the Army […] denies […] that there is any foundation for the stories that have been circulated […] of the existence of ‘basket cases’ in our hospitals. Example: Her mind, at its worst, is in ways analogous to a basket-case who seethes with desires to move but has no limbs. 2. An institution or country in a bad condition or difficult situation (economically, financially or otherwise). Labels: colloquial Example: This country is a financial basket case, a country so broke that it should be a perfect warning to lenders. Example: Some countries are breadbaskets, others basket cases. 3. One made powerless or ineffective, as by nerves, panic, stress or exhaustion; someone considered mentally unstable. Labels: colloquial Example: She was a complete basket case the morning of her wedding. Example: Often, when you share a deep dark secret with friends, your friends start to treat you differently. It is very damaging to be treated like a basket case, when you intended only to CONFIDE a fear. 4. An item in a disassembled state that is brought to be repaired. Labels: colloquial
Word: veg Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Clipping of various related words including vegetable, vegetarian, and vegetate. Pronunciation: /vɛd͡ʒ/ 1. Vegetarian. Labels: not-comparable Example: The food's lip-smackingly good with some veg options, and there's a ham and eggs breakfast for 3KM.
Word: veg Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Clipping of various related words including vegetable, vegetarian, and vegetate. Pronunciation: /vɛd͡ʒ/ 1. vegetable(s). Labels: colloquial, countable, uncountable Example: She paused, still clutching her fork, and pushed back a lock of hair with the crook of her wrist. "It'll help if one of you takes charge of the veg. and the other helps with the plates," she said. Example: 2002, Tom Grahn, "Food compositions and methods of preparing the same", US Patent 6814975 http://www.google.com/patents?id=spsQAAAAEBAJ, page 5, Secondary foodstuffs are exemplified by the following prepared dishes: vegetarian steaks, gratinated vegs, oven made lasagne, fish and ham with potatoes, […] 2. vegetarian food. Labels: India, countable, uncountable
Word: veg Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Clipping of various related words including vegetable, vegetarian, and vegetate. Pronunciation: /vɛd͡ʒ/ 1. to vegetate; to engage in complete inactivity; to rest Labels: colloquial Example: After working hard all week, I decided to stay home and veg on Saturday. Example: And he just sits and vegges on the TV, munches nachos, whatever.
Word: veg Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Coined in a 1948 paper in the American Journal of Psychology by Robert S. Harper and S. S. Stevens.http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0002-9556(194807)61%3A3%3C343%3AAPSOWA%3E2.0.CO%3B2-D, http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0002-9556(195304)66%3A2%3C304%3AANCTVS%3E2.0.CO%3B2-Y 1. A unit of subjective weight, equivalent to the perceived weight of lifting 100 grams.
Word: badge Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English badge, bagge, bage, bagy, from Anglo-Norman bage or Medieval Latin bagea, bagia (“sign, emblem”), of uncertain origin. Possibly derived from Medieval Latin baga (“ring”), from Old Saxon bāg, bōg (“ring, ornament”), from Proto-Germanic *baugaz (“ring, bracelet, armband”); or possibly the Anglo-Norman word is derived from an earlier, unattested English word (compare Old English bēag (“ring, bracelet, collar, crown”). Cognate with Scots bagie, badgie, bawgy (“badge”). Pronunciation: /bæd͡ʒ/ 1. A distinctive mark, token, sign, emblem or cognizance, worn on one’s clothing, as an insignia of some rank, or of the membership of an organization. Example: the badge of a society; the badge of a policeman Example: Tax-gatherers, […]recognized by their official badges. 2. A small nameplate, identifying the wearer, and often giving additional information. 3. A card, sometimes with a barcode or magnetic strip, granting access to a certain area. 4. Something characteristic; a mark; a token. Example: Sweet mercy is nobility’s true badge. 5. A brand on the hand of a thief, etc. Labels: obsolete Example: He has got his badge, and piked. 6. A carved ornament on the stern of a vessel, containing a window or the representation of one. 7. A distinctive mark worn by servants, retainers, and followers of royalty or nobility, who, being beneath the rank of gentlemen, have no right to armorial bearings. 8. A small overlay on an icon that shows additional information about that item, such as the number of new alerts or messages. 9. An icon or emblem awarded to a user for some achievement. Labels: Internet Example: When you have checked in to the site from ten different cities, you unlock the Traveller badge. 10. A police officer. Labels: slang Example: That's why every badge back home wanted to nail him.
Word: badge Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English badge, bagge, bage, bagy, from Anglo-Norman bage or Medieval Latin bagea, bagia (“sign, emblem”), of uncertain origin. Possibly derived from Medieval Latin baga (“ring”), from Old Saxon bāg, bōg (“ring, ornament”), from Proto-Germanic *baugaz (“ring, bracelet, armband”); or possibly the Anglo-Norman word is derived from an earlier, unattested English word (compare Old English bēag (“ring, bracelet, collar, crown”). Cognate with Scots bagie, badgie, bawgy (“badge”). Pronunciation: /bæd͡ʒ/ 1. To mark or distinguish with a badge. Labels: transitive Example: The television was badged as ‘GE’, but wasn’t made by them. 2. To show a badge to. Labels: transitive Example: He calmed down a lot when the policeman badged him. 3. To enter a restricted area by showing one’s badge. Labels: ambitransitive Example: Worden and James walk […] to the […] Courthouse […], where they badge their way past sheriff’s deputies and take the elevator to the third floor. Example: And Patterson didn’t hear that Jack Egger, the studio’s director of security, said he’d seen John Orr badge his way through the pedestrian gate sometime before 4:00 pm, when the fire was still raging, […]
Word: quartet Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From French quartette, from Italian quartetto. Doublet of cuarteto and quartetto. Pronunciation: /kwɔː(ɹ)ˈtɛt/ 1. A group of four people or things, particularly Example: The last of the quartet of American fighter pilots to join the RAF before the war was Cyril 'Pussy' Palmer, who was born in Cleveland, Ohio, in March 1918. 2. A group of four people or things, particularly Example: The string quartet played some chamber music. 3. A group of four people or things, particularly Example: He composed a string quartet. 4. A group of four people or things, particularly Example: The barbershop quartet performed the composition a cappella.
Word: papal Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English papal, from Old French papal and Medieval Latin pāpālis (“papal”). Pronunciation: /ˈpeɪpəl/, [ˈpʰeɪ̯.p(ʰ)əɫ] 1. Having to do with the pope or the papacy. Example: In both the 2005 and 2013 papal elections there were whispers circulating that back in 1976 Francis had failed to help the two priests in their hour of need.
Word: verve Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from French verve (“animation; caprice, whim; rapture; spirit; vigour; type of expression”), probably from Late Latin verva, a variant of Latin verba (“words; discourse; expressions; language”), the plural of verbum (“word”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *werh₁- (“to say, speak”). Doublet of verb and word. Pronunciation: /vɜːv/, /vɝv/ 1. Enthusiasm, rapture, spirit, or vigour, especially of imagination such as that which animates an artist, musician, or writer, in composing or performing. Labels: uncountable Example: His hands were strong and elegant; his experience of life evidently varied; his speech full of pith and verve; his manners forward, but perfectly presentable. Example: They played through vacation to the fashionable of eight cities. […] Chicago he approved for a certain verve that transcended its loud accent—however, it was a Yale town, and as the Yale Glee Club was expected in a week the Triangle received only divided homage. 2. A particular skill in writing. Labels: obsolete, uncountable Example: If he be above Virgil, and is reſolv'd to follow his own Verve (as the French call it,) the Proverb will fall heavily upon him; Who teaches himſelf, has a Fool for his Maſter.
Word: UKIP Part of Speech: name Pronunciation: /ˈjuːkɪp/ 1. Acronym of UK Independence Party. Labels: abbreviation, acronym, alt-of Example: Farage, who like James is also an elected member of the European Parliament, was a founding member of UKIP and largely seen as the man who drove the campaign for the UK to leave the EU, known as Brexit.
Word: UK Independence Party Part of Speech: name 1. A Euro-sceptic political party in the United Kingdom.
Word: brumby Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Unknown; perhaps from James Brumby, early Australian soldier and pastoralist, who is said to have left horses at his abandoned property. Pronunciation: /ˈbɹʌmbi/ 1. A wild or feral horse. Labels: Australia Example: I'm too weak to ride. I'd have to ride, because for one thing the white-ants have eaten the wheels of my buckboard, and my one cart-horse has gone bush with the brumbies. Example: "It could mean one of two things," he said. "Either that help is coming, or that a herd of wild brumbies is passing somewhere near."
Word: uranology Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From urano- + -ology. 1. The study of the heavens and heavenly bodies. Labels: obsolete, uncountable, usually 2. The scientific observation and study of the planet Uranus. Labels: uncountable, usually
Word: frank Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English frank, from Old French franc (“free”), in turn from the name of an early Germanic confederation, the Franks, from Proto-West Germanic *frankō (“javelin, spear”). Doublet of Frank, franc, and farang. Pronunciation: /fɹæŋk/, [ˈfɹʷæŋk], /fɹaŋk/, /fɾaŋk/, /fɹeɪ̯ŋk/ 1. Honest, especially in a manner that seems slightly blunt; candid; not reserved or disguised. Example: May I be frank with you? 2. Unmistakable, clinically obvious, self-evident. Example: The research probes whether treating pre-diabetes with metformin can prevent progression to frank diabetes. 3. Unbounded by restrictions, limitations, etc.; free. Labels: obsolete Example: It is of frank gift. 4. Liberal; generous; profuse. Labels: obsolete Example: Frank of Civilities that cost them nothing. 5. Unrestrained; loose; licentious. Labels: derogatory, obsolete Example: Over the fields, in his franke lustinesse, And all the champain o're he soared light.
Word: frank Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English frank, from Old French franc (“free”), in turn from the name of an early Germanic confederation, the Franks, from Proto-West Germanic *frankō (“javelin, spear”). Doublet of Frank, franc, and farang. Pronunciation: /fɹæŋk/, [ˈfɹʷæŋk], /fɹaŋk/, /fɾaŋk/, /fɹeɪ̯ŋk/ 1. Free postage, a right exercised by governments (usually with definite article). Example: October 5, 1780, William Cowper, letter to Rev. William Unwin I have said so much, that, if I had not a frank, I must burn my letter and begin again. 2. The notice on an envelope where a stamp would normally be found. Example: But, although her friends were kind, Lady Anne was not easy; neither daughter made her appearance, nor did she receive a letter to account for their silence. She remembered, indeed, that Charles Penrhyn could not get franks now, and her daughters knew she would not pay postage; and she had commanded Helen to work night and day, saying, "surely they can give her common materials."
Word: frank Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English frank, from Old French franc (“free”), in turn from the name of an early Germanic confederation, the Franks, from Proto-West Germanic *frankō (“javelin, spear”). Doublet of Frank, franc, and farang. Pronunciation: /fɹæŋk/, [ˈfɹʷæŋk], /fɹaŋk/, /fɾaŋk/, /fɹeɪ̯ŋk/ 1. To place a frank on an envelope. Labels: transitive Example: It will be so ridiculous to see all his letters directed to him with an M.P.—But do you know, he says, he will never frank for me? 2. To exempt from charge for postage, as a letter, package, or packet, etc. Labels: transitive 3. To send by public conveyance free of expense. Labels: transitive Example: 1850-1859, Charles Dickens, Household Words This required extensive correspondence; so, in the next place, the privilege of franking letters in reference to the emigrants' registration office, was obtained—much to the indignation of red tapists.
Word: frank Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Clipping of frankfurter. Pronunciation: /fɹæŋk/, [ˈfɹʷæŋk], /fɹaŋk/, /fɾaŋk/, /fɹeɪ̯ŋk/ 1. A hot dog or sausage. Example: Buy a package of franks for the barbecue. Example: We had a farewell meal of franks and beans in a Seventh Avenue Riker’s, and then Dean got on the bus that said Chicago and roared off into the night.
Word: frank Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /fɹæŋk/, [ˈfɹʷæŋk], /fɹaŋk/, /fɾaŋk/, /fɹeɪ̯ŋk/ 1. The grey heron. Labels: UK
Word: frank Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Old French franc. Pronunciation: /fɹæŋk/, [ˈfɹʷæŋk], /fɹaŋk/, /fɾaŋk/, /fɹeɪ̯ŋk/ 1. A pigsty.
Word: frank Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Old French franc. Pronunciation: /fɹæŋk/, [ˈfɹʷæŋk], /fɹaŋk/, /fɾaŋk/, /fɹeɪ̯ŋk/ 1. To shut up in a frank or sty; to pen up; hence, to cram; to fatten. Example: Marry, as for Clarence, he is well repaid; He is franked up to fatting for his pains
Word: frank Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From French franc. Pronunciation: /fɹæŋk/, [ˈfɹʷæŋk], /fɹaŋk/, /fɾaŋk/, /fɹeɪ̯ŋk/ 1. Obsolete form of franc, former French coins, moneys of account, and currency. Labels: alt-of, historical, obsolete Example: Frank, or Franc, an ancient coin, either of gold or ſilver, ſtruck and current in France. The value of the gold frank was ſomewhat more than that of the gold crown; the ſilver frank was a third of the gold one; this coin is long out of uſe, though the term is ſtill retained as the name of a money of account; in which ſenſe it is equivalent to the livre, or twenty ſols.
Word: ord Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈɔːd/, /ˈɔːɹd/ 1. Abbreviation of order. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of 2. Abbreviation of ordinance. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of 3. Clipping of ordinary share. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, informal
Word: ord Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English ord (“point, point of a weapon, beginning”), from Old English ord (“point, spear-point, spear, source, beginning, front, vanguard”), from Proto-West Germanic *oʀd, from Proto-Germanic *uzdaz (“point”), of obscure origin (see *uzdaz). Cognate with North Frisian od (“tip, place, beginning”), Dutch oord (“place, region”), German Ort (“location, place, position”), Danish od (“a point”), Swedish udd (“a point, prick”), Icelandic oddur (“tip, point of a weapon, leader”). See also odd. Pronunciation: /ˈɔːd/, /ˈɔːɹd/ 1. A point. Labels: UK, dialectal 2. A point of origin; a beginning. Labels: UK, dialectal Example: "[...] But such is life — hard upon hard from ord to end; and if I had not been made of the best of neat-leather, the longer in water the tougher, I would have melted away with my tears long ago!" Example: [...] Tell me wholly as it was From ord to end how it did pass When first your father was of me ware. 3. A point of land; a promontory. Labels: UK, dialectal Example: When a man came from Sutherland into Caithness over the Ord [of Caithness, in the southern tip of the county], he was called an ord-louper . 4. The point or edge of a weapon. Labels: UK, dialectal Example: Saul drew his sword, And ran even upon the ord. — Cursor Mundi. Example: And touched him with the spear's ord. — Romance of Sir Otuel.
Word: pedophilia Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Adapted from German Pädophilie, bringing its spelling into conformity with pedo- (“child”) + -philia. Compare the Byzantine Greek παιδοφιλία (paidophilía, “love of children”). Pronunciation: /ˌpiː.dəˈfɪ.li.ə/, /ˌpe.dəˈfɪ.li.ə/, /ˌpɛ.dəˈfɪ.li.ə/, /-ˈfi-/, /ˌpi-/ 1. Sexual attraction by adults and adolescents to children, specifically prepubescent children. Labels: US, countable, uncountable Example: As noted earlier, pedophilia was cited as both an aggravating and a mitigating circumstance by trial judges, as was the absence of pedophilia. Example: Sometimes a man with pedophilia is content to stroke the child's hair, but he may also manipulate the child's genitalia, [...] 2. Sexual activity between adults and children; the act of child molestation. Labels: US, broadly, countable, proscribed, uncountable Example: Fifteen months later, a committee of the congregation found that he had sexually abused several boys within the congregation. […] The fact that Alger committed pedophilia at the age of thirty-four casts a shadow over his subsequent yearning for relationships with boys and young men, but there is no evidence of any later misconduct. Example: Entire books have been written about the role of scandal in US politics (Garment, 1992). Offenses include smoking marijuana, hiring illegal aliens, plagiarizing, sexually harassing others, engaging in pedophilia, […]
Word: hebephilia Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English hebe- Ancient Greek φῐλῐ́ᾱ (phĭlĭ́ā)der. English -philia English hebephilia From hebe- (“relating to youth”) + -philia. 1. A sexual preference for adolescent girls. Labels: dated, uncountable Example: This finding, if confirmed, may offer a useful lead for research in heterosexual pedophilia or hebephilia (a preference for pubescent girls) Example: paraphilias are included: hebephilia (adolescent girls) and ephebophilia (adolescent boys), although the dynamics of these latter two may be closer to those of adult attraction. 2. Adult sexual attraction primarily towards pubescent children and younger adolescents, usually between 10 and 14 years old. Can fall under the same definition as pedophile. Labels: uncountable
Word: ephebophilia Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἔφηβος (éphēbos, “adolescent”) + φιλία (philía, “love, friendship”). By surface analysis, ephebe + -philia. 1. A sexual attraction towards postpubescent adolescents. Labels: uncountable 2. A sexual preference for adolescent boys. Labels: dated, uncountable Example: The assertion, often naïvely made, that in the Homeric poems there is as yet no trace of the love of boys to be met with, and that it was a phenomenon which first appeared during the so-called decadence is, in my opinion, false, for I have already shown in an earlier work (in Anthropophyteia, ix, pp. 291 ff.) that the bond of friendship between Achilles and Patroclus (the most important passages are Il., xxiii, 84; ix, 186, 663; xviii, 22 ff., 65, 315, 334; xix, 209, 315), however ideal it was, yet contains a high percentage of homoerotic sentiment and action; that the Homeric epos also abounds in undoubted traces of ephebophilia, and that no one in the ancient times of Greece ever supposed otherwise. Example: 1981 Brian Taylor, PhD Perspectives on Paedophilia page XIII Thus, paedophilia, denoting sexual interest in pre-pubertal children, can be distinguished from paederasty, indicating sexual interest in pre-pubertal boys alone. These two together could then be distinguished from ephebophilia, denoting sexual preference for post-pubertal and adolescent boys.
Word: hover Part of Speech: verb Etymology: The verb is derived from Middle English hoveren (“to float in the air, hover; to stay”), probably from hoven (“hover; of a bird: to fly high in the air, soar”) (which it displaced) + -er- (frequentative suffix). Hoven is probably derived from Old English *hōfian, from hōfon, the plural past indicative form of hebban (“to lift, raise”), from Proto-West Germanic *habbjan, from Proto-Germanic *habjaną (“to lift; to heave”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *keh₂p- (“to hold, seize”). The English word is analysable as hove (“(obsolete) to remain suspended, float, hover; to linger, wait”) + -er (frequentative suffix). The noun is derived from the verb. Pronunciation: /ˈhɒvə/, /ˈhʌvə/, /ˈhʌvɚ/, /ˈhɑvɚ/, /ˈhɔvə/ 1. To keep (something, such as an aircraft) in a stationary state in the air. Labels: transitive 2. Of a bird: to shelter (chicks) under its body and wings; (by extension) of a thing: to cover or surround (something). Labels: transitive Example: Castration has a ſtrange effect: it emaſculates both man, beaſt, and bird, and brings them to a near reſemblance of the other ſex. […] Capons have ſmall combs and gills, and look pallid about the head, like pullets; they alſo vvalk vvithout any parade, and hover chickens like hens. 3. Of a bird or insect: to flap (its wings) so it can remain stationary in the air. Labels: obsolete, transitive Example: O'er the deer Corps ſomtimes her vvings ſhe [an eagle] hovers, / Somtimes the dead breſt vvith her breſt ſhe covers, […] Example: Thus have I lain conceal'd like a vvinter Fly, hoping for ſome bleſt Sun-Shine to vvarm me into Life again, and make me hover my flagging VVings; […] 4. To remain stationary or float in the air. Labels: intransitive Example: The hummingbird hovered by the plant. Example: [T]hough you go to Theaters to see sport, Cupid may cache you ere you departe. The little god hovereth aboute you, and fanneth you with his wings to kindle fire: when you are set as fixed whites, Desire draweth his arrow to the head, and sticketh it uppe to the fethers, and Fancy bestireth him to shed his poyson through every vayne. 5. Sometimes followed by over: to hang around or linger in a place, especially in an uncertain manner. Labels: figuratively, intransitive Example: His pen hovered above the paper. Example: The strange man hovered outside the gents’ toilet. 6. To be indecisive or uncertain; to vacillate, to waver. Labels: figuratively, intransitive Example: Filling in the voting form, I hovered between Labour and Liberal Democrat. Example: And the reason why the land-lord will no longer covenant with him [the husbandman], is, for that he dayly looketh after change and alteration, and hovereth in expectation of new worlds. 7. Chiefly followed by over: to use a mouse or other device to place a cursor over something on a screen such as a hyperlink or icon without clicking, so as to produce a result (such as the appearance of a tooltip). Labels: intransitive Example: A tooltip appears when you hover over this link. 8. To travel in a hovercraft as it moves above a water surface. Labels: intransitive
Word: hover Part of Speech: noun Etymology: The verb is derived from Middle English hoveren (“to float in the air, hover; to stay”), probably from hoven (“hover; of a bird: to fly high in the air, soar”) (which it displaced) + -er- (frequentative suffix). Hoven is probably derived from Old English *hōfian, from hōfon, the plural past indicative form of hebban (“to lift, raise”), from Proto-West Germanic *habbjan, from Proto-Germanic *habjaną (“to lift; to heave”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *keh₂p- (“to hold, seize”). The English word is analysable as hove (“(obsolete) to remain suspended, float, hover; to linger, wait”) + -er (frequentative suffix). The noun is derived from the verb. Pronunciation: /ˈhɒvə/, /ˈhʌvə/, /ˈhʌvɚ/, /ˈhɑvɚ/, /ˈhɔvə/ 1. An act, or the state, of remaining stationary in the air or some other place. 2. A flock of birds fluttering in the air in one place. 3. An act, or the state, of being suspended; a suspension. Labels: figuratively 4. A cover; a protection; a shelter; specifically, an overhanging bank or stone under which fish can shelter; also, a shelter for hens brooding their eggs. Labels: Southern-England Example: Oyſters grevv vpon boughs of trees (an Indian miracle) vvhich vvere caſt in [the pond] thither, to ſerue as a houer for the fiſh. Example: And now, down the rushing stream, […] past dark hovers under swirling banks, from which great trout rushed out on Tom, thinking him to be good to eat, and turned back sulkily, for the fairies sent them home again with a tremendous scolding, for daring to meddle with a water-baby; […]
Word: flan Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed around 1846 from French flan (“cheesecake, custard tart, flan”), or in some uses (in reference to Spanish/Latin American flans) later from Spanish flan (itself from the French), both from Old French flaon (whence also Middle English flaon, flaun (“pie; cake”)), from Late Latin fladō (“flat cake”), from Frankish *flaþō (“flat cake”), from Proto-Indo-European *pleth₂- (“broad, flat”); compare German Fladen. Akin to Old High German flado (“flat cake, offering cake”). Doublet of flathe. Although the -n is generally believed to derive from the Late Latin accusative form (fladonem) of fladō (“flat cake”), it might alternatively derive from an inflected form of the Frankish word (such as the Frankish accusative *flaþan, or the like). For a similar case, see garden. Pronunciation: /flæn/, /flan/, /flɑn/ 1. A baked tart with a sweet or savoury filling in an open-topped pastry case. Labels: Australia, UK Example: The menu includes a number of excellent fish dishes such as the […] broccoli flan. 2. A dessert of congealed custard, often topped with caramel, especially popular in Spanish-speaking countries. Labels: Belize, US 3. A coin die.
Word: flan Part of Speech: verb 1. To splay or bevel internally, as a window-pane.
Word: flan Part of Speech: noun Etymology: English, from a slip of the tongue by actor Nathan Fillion. Pronunciation: /flæn/ 1. A fan of the U.S. TV series Firefly. Labels: informal, slang Example: (some) Firefly flans call themselves Browncoats (Remember, the hot movie from Universal is out this September! :) Example: For what it's worth, I'm 27 and am a huge Firefly/Serenity flan.
Word: Belorussian Part of Speech: adj 1. Alternative form of Belarusian. Labels: alt-of, alternative, not-comparable
Word: Belorussian Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of Belarusian. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: Belorussian Part of Speech: name 1. Alternative form of Belarusian. Labels: alt-of, alternative