nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: Swahili Part of Speech: name Etymology: Borrowed from Swahili Mswahili / Kiswahili, from Arabic سَوَاحِلِيّ (sawāḥiliyy, “(people) of the coasts”), from سَوَاحِل (sawāḥil, “coasts”), broken plural of سَاحِل (sāḥil, “coast”). Pronunciation: /swəˈhiːli/, /swɑˈhili/, /swəˈhili/ 1. An agglutinative language of the Bantu branch widely spoken in East Africa. Born in its modern form from the hybridization of the Arabic and Bantu cultures, it was the language of the traders in East Africa, and spread along the routes of trade. Example: On Tuesday night at the Club Serene in Brooklyn, Mayor Koch proclaimed Kwanzaa Week in New York. Then he told the crowd of about 400 that he had practiced his Swahili in order to pronounce correctly such exotic-sounding words as kujichagulia (self-determination), ujamaa (cooperative economics) and imani (faith), the theme of Kwanzaa '83. Example: Similarly, Swahili evolved as the trading language in East Africa and is described as having an Arab vocabulary upon an African grammar.
Word: Swahili Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Swahili Mswahili / Kiswahili, from Arabic سَوَاحِلِيّ (sawāḥiliyy, “(people) of the coasts”), from سَوَاحِل (sawāḥil, “coasts”), broken plural of سَاحِل (sāḥil, “coast”). Pronunciation: /swəˈhiːli/, /swɑˈhili/, /swəˈhili/ 1. A member of various ethnic groups — mainly Bantu, Afro-Arab and Comorian — inhabiting the Swahili coast. Example: The Swahilis are a unique and important community that began to form before the arrival of Islam, as a result of intermarriage between Arab traders who came to the coast and women from local ethnic groups. Example: The final sources for the early history of the Swahili are the oral traditions related by them about their own past.
Word: shadow Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English schadowe, schadewe, schadwe (also schade > shade), from Old English sċeaduwe, sċeadwe, oblique form of sċeadu (“shadow, shade; darkness; protection”), from Proto-West Germanic *skadu, from Proto-Germanic *skaduz (“shade, shadow”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ḱeh₃- (“darkness”). Doublet of shade. Cognates Cognate with Scots shedda (“shadow”), Saterland Frisian Skaad, Skade (“shade, shadow”), West Frisian skaad, skâd (“shade, shadow”), Central Franconian and Limburgish Schatte (“shadow”), Dutch schade, schaduw (“shadow”), German Schatten (“shade, shadow”), German Low German Scharr, Scharre (“shade, shadow”), Luxembourgish Schiet (“shade, shadow”), Vilamovian siota (“shadow”), Yiddish שאָטן (shotn, “shadow”), Faroese skadda (“thick wet mountain fog”), Icelandic skodda, skoddi (“shadow”), Norwegian Bokmål skodde (“fog, mist”), Norwegian Nynorsk skodde, skåddj, skåidd (“fog; ice fog”), Gothic 𐍃𐌺𐌰𐌳𐌿𐍃 (skadus, “shadow”); also Breton skeud (“shadow; reflection; ghost”), Cornish skeus (“shadow; reflection”), Irish scáth (“shadow”), Manx scaa, skæ (“shield; shade, shadow”), Scottish Gaelic sgàth (“shade, shadow”), Latin obscurus (“dark, dusky, shadowy”), Ancient Greek σκότος (skótos, “darkness, gloom”) (whence English scoto-), Belarusian сівы́ (sivý, “grey”), Czech and Slovak sivý (“grey”), Macedonian осој (osoj, “shady place”), Polish siwy (“grey”), Russian си́вый (sívyj, “grey”), Serbo-Croatian сив, siv (“grey”), Slovene osoja (“shady place”), Ukrainian си́вий (sývyj, “grey”), Armenian սեաւ (seaw), սեւ (sew, “black”), Ossetian сау (saw, “black”), Persian سه (sah), سیه (siyah), سیاه (siyâh, “black”), Sanskrit श्याम (śyāma, “black”), श्याव (śyāva, “dark”). Pronunciation: /ˈʃædəʊ̯/, [ˈʃʰædəʊ̯], /ˈʃædɵʊ̯/, [ˈʃʰædɵ̞ʊ̯], /ˈʃædoʊ̯/ 1. Unofficial, informal, unauthorized, but acting as though it were. Example: The human resources department has a shadow information technology group without headquarters knowledge. 2. Having power or influence, but not widely known or recognized. Example: The director has been giving shadow leadership to the other group's project to ensure its success. Example: The illuminati shadow group has been pulling strings from behind the scenes. 3. Part of, or related to, the opposition in government. Labels: Commonwealth 4. Acting in a leadership role before being formally recognized. Labels: US Example: The shadow cabinet cannot agree on the terms of the agreement due immediately after they are sworn in. Example: The insurgents’ shadow government is being crippled by the federal military strikes.
Word: shadow Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English schadowen, from Old English sċeadwian, from sċeadu (“shadow; shade”) + -ian (suffix forming verbs). Pronunciation: /ˈʃædəʊ̯/, [ˈʃʰædəʊ̯], /ˈʃædɵʊ̯/, [ˈʃʰædɵ̞ʊ̯], /ˈʃædoʊ̯/ 1. To shade, cloud, or darken. Labels: transitive Example: The artist chose to shadow this corner of the painting. 2. To block light or radio transmission from. Labels: transitive Example: Looks like that cloud's going to shadow us. 3. To secretly or discreetly track or follow another, to keep under surveillance. Example: Soon after departure, we cross the invisible border into Scotland to enjoy more stunning coastal scenery, before the line finally swings inland at Burnmouth to traverse pine-clad valleys, shadowed by the A1 trunk road until we rejoin the coast at Cove, east of Dunbar. 4. To represent faintly and imperfectly. Labels: transitive Example: Ah, ye admonitions and warnings! why stay ye not when ye come? But rather are ye predictions than warnings, ye shadows! 5. To hide; to conceal. Labels: transitive 6. To accompany (a professional) during the working day, so as to learn about an occupation one intends to take up. Labels: intransitive, transitive Example: In most cases, interns have mainly observed, or “shadowed,” their Hands-On hosts, but some interns have been given real tasks to perform, […] Example: I know you haven’t run a training before, but Irving will be there to shadow. Just stick to the flowchart and escalate properly depending on dialectics. You’ll be fine. 7. To make (an identifier, usually a variable) inaccessible by declaring another of the same name within the scope of the first. Labels: transitive Example: In this snippet, inside the for loop the a and b variables shadow variables from the outer scope, and while legal, this is almost certainly a programming error. 8. To apply the shadowing process to (the contents of ROM). Labels: transitive
Word: grain Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English greyn, grayn, grein, from Old French grain, grein, from Latin grānum (“seed”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵr̥h₂nóm (“grain”). Doublet of corn, gram, granum, and grao. Pronunciation: /ɡɹeɪn/ 1. To feed grain to. Labels: transitive Example: He said that no man loved his horses, unless his own hands grained them. Every Christmas he gave them brimming measures. 2. To make granular; to form into grains. Labels: transitive 3. To form grains, or to assume a granular form, as the result of crystallization; to granulate. Labels: intransitive 4. To texture a surface in imitation of the grain of a substance such as wood. 5. To remove the hair or fat from a skin. 6. To soften leather. 7. To yield fruit.
Word: grain Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English grayn, from Old Norse grein (“bough, branch”), from Proto-Germanic *grainiz (“branch, twig, ramification”), of unknown origin. Related to English grove (“thicket”). Pronunciation: /ɡɹeɪn/ 1. A branch of a tree; a stalk or stem of a plant; an offshoot. 2. A tine, prong, or fork. 3. A tine, prong, or fork. Example: Served 5 lb of fish per man which was caught by striking with grains 4. A tine, prong, or fork. 5. A tine, prong, or fork. 6. A thin piece of metal, used in a mould to steady a core. 7. A branch or arm of a stream, inlet, or sea. Labels: dialectal 8. A fork in a river valley or ravine. Labels: dialectal 9. The branch of a family; clan. Labels: dialectal 10. The groin; crotch. Labels: dialectal 11. The fangs of a tooth. Labels: dialectal
Word: violence Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Latin violēns /violentus Proto-Indo-European *-(i)yós Proto-Italic *-ijos Proto-Italic *-ios Old Latin -ios Latin -ius Latin -ia Latin violentiabor. Old French violencebor. Middle English violence English violence Inherited from Middle English violence, borrowed from Old French violence, borrowed from Latin violentia, from violēns /violentus (“violent”) + -ia. See violent. Displaced native Old English stræc. Pronunciation: /ˈvaɪ.(ə.)ləns/, /ˈvaɪ.(ə)ˌlɛns/ 1. Extreme force. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The violence of the storm, fortunately, was more awesome than destructive. Example: Some others get a rotten wheele, all worne and cast aside, Which covered round about with strawe, and tow, they closely hide: And caryed to some mountaines top, being all with fire light, They hurle it down with violence, when darke appeares the night 2. Physical action which causes destruction, harm, pain, or suffering. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: We try to avoid violence in resolving conflicts. Example: There is nothing unique or magical about the Middle East; it shares xenophobias and violences with all the rest of the world! 3. Widespread fighting. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Violence between the government and the rebels continues. Example: But by the early 2000s, we were seeing fewer games like DOOM that dealt in the fantasia of ultraviolence and more games that tried to replicate the everyday violence of military encounters. 4. A perceived injustice, especially in the context of social justice. Labels: countable, figuratively, uncountable Example: The translation does violence to the original novel. Example: Racism, classism, sexism, ethnocentrism, and heterosexism are also wicked problems of structural violence […]
Word: violence Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Latin violēns /violentus Proto-Indo-European *-(i)yós Proto-Italic *-ijos Proto-Italic *-ios Old Latin -ios Latin -ius Latin -ia Latin violentiabor. Old French violencebor. Middle English violence English violence Inherited from Middle English violence, borrowed from Old French violence, borrowed from Latin violentia, from violēns /violentus (“violent”) + -ia. See violent. Displaced native Old English stræc. Pronunciation: /ˈvaɪ.(ə.)ləns/, /ˈvaɪ.(ə)ˌlɛns/ 1. To subject to violence. Labels: nonstandard Example: The key general point is that the idea of the agendered, asexual, aviolenced worker is a fiction; workers and organizational members do not exist in social abstraction; they are gendered, sexualed and violenced, partly by their position ... Example: And the triad is made complete by she who is violenced by him.
Word: beehive Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English beehyve, equivalent to bee + hive. Pronunciation: /ˈbiːhaɪv/ 1. A sheltered place where bees, usually honey bees (genus Apis), live. 2. A sheltered place where bees, usually honey bees (genus Apis), live. Example: The key-hole was still their port of egress and regress, and it resembled the aperture of a bee-hive, on a sunny day in June. 3. Any place full of activity, or in which people are very busy. Labels: figuratively 4. A women's hairstyle, popular in the 1960s, in which long hair is styled into a hive-shaped form on top of the head and usually held in place with lacquer. 5. A particular style of hat. Example: A very neat old woman, still in her good outdoor coat and best beehive hat, was sitting at a polished mahogany table on whose surface there were several scored scratches so deep that a triangular piece of the veneer had come cleanly away,[…]. 6. A type of anti-personnel ammunition round containing flechettes, and characterised by the buzzing sound made as they fly through the air. Example: By the time it was over, Stone had been blown thirty feet through the air by a beehive round as he was running across a field, knocked out by the concussion of the blast. 7. Alternative form of Beehive. Labels: New-Zealand, alt-of, alternative, nonstandard Example: Brian Small said that the Minister could not 'hide in the beehive any longer' Example: In New Zealand, this approach is taken one step forward in that Ministers physically sit together up in the beehive, as their building is known, rather than being based in the Departments. 8. In Conway's Game of Life, a particular still life pattern with a rounded appearance. Example: By the way, what happens to a beehive which is under attack by one or two gliders such as pictured: Example: Alternatively, in many cases the debris can be suppressed by perturbing the debris with a passing spaceship before it stabilizes into the beehive or loaf. 9. A diagram showing where balls have passed the batter, used in analysis.
Word: beehive Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English beehyve, equivalent to bee + hive. Pronunciation: /ˈbiːhaɪv/ 1. To fill (a place) with busy activity. Labels: rare, transitive Example: Quite naturally, if there are more ministers swarming the cabinet rooms and conference halls, then there will be a spate of civil servants beehiving the secretariat. Example: The patrons beehiving the place whooped and shouted. 2. To style the hair in a hive-shaped or bouffant form. Labels: rare, transitive
Word: drone Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English drane, dron, drone, from Old English drān, drǣn, from Proto-West Germanic *drānu, from Proto-Germanic *drenô, *drēnuz (“drone”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰreh₁n- (“bee, drone, hornet”). Cognates Cognate with Saterland Frisian Droane (“drone”), Dutch dar (“drone”), German Drohne (“drone”), Limburgish dreen, Droon (“drone”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, and Norwegian Nynorsk drone (“drone”), Swedish drönare (“drone”); also Belarusian тру́цень (trúcjenʹ, “drone”), Bulgarian търтей (tǎrtej, “drone”), Czech trubec (“drone”), Macedonian трут (trut, “drone”), Polish trąd, trut, truteń (“drone”), Russian and Ukrainian тру́тень (trútenʹ, “drone”), Serbo-Croatian тру̑т, trȗt (“drone”), Slovak trúd (“drone”), Slovene trot (“drone”). The etymology of the sense of "remote-controlled aircraft" is disputed; theories include early military UAVs dumbly flying on preset paths. Pronunciation: /dɹəʊn/, /dɹoʊn/ 1. To kill or destroy with a drone (unmanned aircraft), or with a missile fired by a drone. Labels: colloquial, transitive Example: "I have a lot of advice for him," Ayers said in the interview, aired Tuesday night. "I want him to stop droning people. I want him to close Guantanamo. I want universal healthcare. Don't you think we deserve universal healthcare? Seriously." Example: “He won’t be waging wars all the world ― he’ll be waging ‘warsuits,’” Noah said. “Droning people with subpoenas all over the globe.”
Word: drone Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English drounen (“to roar, bellow”), from Proto-West Germanic *drunnjan, from Proto-Germanic *drunjaną (“to drone, roar, make a sound”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰer- (“to roar, hum, drone”). Cognate with Scots drune (“to drone, moan, complain”), Dutch dreunen (“to drone, boom, thud”), Low German drönen (“to drone, buzz, hum”), German dröhnen (“to roar, boom, rumble”), Danish drøne (“to roar, boom, peel out”), Swedish dröna (“to low, bellow, roar”), Icelandic drynja (“to roar”). Pronunciation: /dɹəʊn/, /dɹoʊn/ 1. To produce a low-pitched hum or buzz. 2. To speak in a monotone.
Word: drone Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English drounen (“to roar, bellow”), from Proto-West Germanic *drunnjan, from Proto-Germanic *drunjaną (“to drone, roar, make a sound”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰer- (“to roar, hum, drone”). Cognate with Scots drune (“to drone, moan, complain”), Dutch dreunen (“to drone, boom, thud”), Low German drönen (“to drone, buzz, hum”), German dröhnen (“to roar, boom, rumble”), Danish drøne (“to roar, boom, peel out”), Swedish dröna (“to low, bellow, roar”), Icelandic drynja (“to roar”). Pronunciation: /dɹəʊn/, /dɹoʊn/ 1. A low-pitched hum or buzz. Example: He chanted as he flew and the car responded with sonorous drone. 2. One of the fixed-pitch pipes on a bagpipe. 3. A genre of music that uses repeated lengthy droning sounds. Labels: uncountable 4. A humming or deep murmuring sound. Example: The monotonous drone of the wheel.
Word: drone Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /dɹəʊn/, /dɹoʊn/ 1. The drug mephedrone. Labels: UK, slang, uncountable
Word: radius Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Latin radius (“ray”). Doublet of ray. Pronunciation: /ˈɹeɪ.di.əs/ 1. The long bone in the forearm, on the side of the thumb. Example: It is also obvious, and proved by experiment, that the rotatory motions observed in the hand proceed from the rotatory motions of the radius. 2. The lighter bone (or fused portion of bone) in the forelimb of an animal. 3. One of the major veins of the insect wing, between the subcosta and the media; the vein running along the costal edge of the discal cell. 4. A line segment between any point of a circle or sphere and its center. Example: Fatima claims to have visited all the bars within a five-mile radius of her Manhattan apartment. Example: We start with spherical geometries. The two geometries on spheres of radiuses R₁ and R₂ are obviously identical if R₁ = R₂; moreover, the converse also holds. 5. The length of this line segment. Example: This contribution reduces with increasing distance p from the emitting surface element dA, due to conservation of energy, as the wave energy distributed across the spherical wave front remains constant, while the radius increases during ... 6. Anything resembling a radius, such as the spoke of a wheel, the movable arm of a sextant, or one of the radiating lines of a spider's web. Example: […] I can do more with a Quadrant, Sextant or Octant, of 1 foot Radius, furniſhed with Teleſcopical Sights and Screws, then ^([sic]) can poſſibly be done with any other Inſtrument, furniſhed only with Common Sights, though 10, 20, 30, nay threeſcore foot Radius; […] 7. The minimum eccentricity of any vertex, for a given graph.
Word: radius Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Borrowed from Latin radius (“ray”). Doublet of ray. Pronunciation: /ˈɹeɪ.di.əs/ 1. To give a rounded edge to. Labels: transitive Example: A comfortable grip is ensured by smoothing the surface of the handle and radiusing the edge.
Word: kim Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of gim (“edible seaweed”). Labels: alt-of, alternative, uncountable
Word: worker Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *werǵ- Proto-Indo-European *-om Proto-Indo-European *wérǵom Proto-Germanic *werką Proto-West Germanic *werk Old English weorc Middle English werk Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzios Latin -āriusnom. Latin -āriusbor. Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz Proto-West Germanic *-ārī Old English -ere Middle English -ere Middle English werkere, worcher, wercher English worker From Middle English werkere, worcher, wercher, equivalent to work + -er. Displaced the older term wright, from Old English wyrhta. Pronunciation: /ˈwɜː.kə/, /ˈwɝ.kɚ/ 1. One who works: a person who performs labor for a living; traditionally, especially, manual labor. Example: Near-synonym: employee Example: Fret not thy ſelfe becauſe of euill doers, neither bee thou enuious againſt the workers of iniquitie. 2. A nonreproductive social insect, such as ant, bee, termite, or wasp. 3. A nonreproductive social insect, such as ant, bee, termite, or wasp. Labels: rare 4. A thread performing one instance of a particular task within a program. Example: This FTP client spawns a separate worker for each file to be uploaded.
Word: drawers Part of Speech: noun Etymology: See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form. Pronunciation: /dɹɔɹz/, /dɹɔːz/, /dʒɹ-/ 1. plural of drawer Labels: form-of, plural
Word: drawers Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From draw (“to pull”), hence that which is pulled onto the body. Attested from the late 16th century. Compare drawer. Pronunciation: /dɹɔɹz/, /dɹɔːz/, /dʒɹ-/ 1. Clothing worn on the legs, especially that worn next to the skin, such as hose or breeches. Labels: archaic, plural, plural-only Example: Question. Where did they strike you? Answer. Struck me in the face once, and struck four times across the legs. Question.Was that after you had taken your drawers off, or before? Answer. After I had taken my drawers off. 2. Underpants, especially long underpants. Labels: dated, informal, plural, plural-only, regional Example: They were armed and I was in my drawers still half asleep. Example: “It’s really aggressive,” Eliahu said of the incident. “While it was happening in real time, I thought it was a set up or a prank. Then it was clear they weren’t working together. I just felt bad. The Naked Cowboy he was just trying to keep his drawers up.” 3. Any clothing covering the legs, such as shorts, trousers, or tights. Labels: plural, plural-only, slang
Word: electricity Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Ancient Greek ἤλεκτρον (ḗlektron)bor. Latin ēlectrum Proto-Indo-European *-ikos Proto-Italic *-ikos Latin -icus New Latin ēlectricusbor. English electric Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-ts Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ts Latin -itāsder. Old French -itebor. Middle English -ite English -ity English electricity From electric + -ity. Pronunciation: /ˌiːlɛkˈtɹɪsɪti/, /ɪˌlɛkˈtɹɪsɪti/, /ˌɛlɪkˈtɹɪsɪti/, /əˌlɛkˈtɹɪs(ə)ti/, [ɪˌlɛkˈtɹɪsɪɾi] 1. Originally, a property of amber and certain other nonconducting substances to attract lightweight material when rubbed, or the cause of this property; now understood to be a phenomenon caused by the distribution and movement of charged subatomic particles and their interaction with the electromagnetic field. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: Again, the concretion of Ice will not endure a dry attrition without liquation ; for if it be rubbed long with a cloth, it melteth. But Cryſtal will calefie unto electricity ; that is, a power to attract ſtraws or light bodies, and convert the needle freely placed. Example: For, reſtoring the equilibrium in the bottle does not at all affect the Electricity in the man thro’ whom the fire paſſes ; that Electricity is neither increaſed nor diminiſhed. 2. The study of electrical phenomena; the branch of science dealing with such phenomena. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: He took up the job of studying electricity in college. 3. A feeling of excitement; a thrill. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: Opening night for the new production had an electricity unlike other openings. Example: The electricity was crackling around Celtic Park even before a ball had been kicked, the home crowd unleashing noise and colour and every ounce of passion in their bodies on the visitors. 4. Electrical power, as supplied by power stations or generators. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: This heater draws more than a thousand watts of electricity. Example: Householders could one day be producing as much electricity as all the country's nuclear power stations combined, thanks to the revolutionary application of a device developed in the early 19th century. 5. Electrical energy, as supplied by power stations or generators. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: Last year this portion of the grid consumed more than a thousand megawatt-hours of electricity. Example: New facilities consume more electricity than ever. A rack of servers stuffed with AI chips requires about ten times more power than a non-AI version a few years ago. A study by the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory found that in 2023 America's data centres used 176 terawatt-hours (TWh) of electricity. That is forecast to increase to between 325TWh and 580TWh by 2028 (see chart 2), or 7-12% of America's total consumption, with hyperscalers accounting for about half. 6. The supply of electricity, as a utility. Labels: attributive, often, uncountable, usually Example: Electricity bosses set to make record profits.
Word: glyph Part of Speech: noun Etymology: First attested in 1727. Borrowed from French glyphe, from Ancient Greek γλυφή (gluphḗ, “carving”), from γλύφω (glúphō, “I carve, engrave”). Pronunciation: /ɡlɪf/ 1. A figure carved in relief or incised, especially representing a sound, word, or idea. 2. A figure carved in relief or incised, especially representing a sound, word, or idea. Example: human figures carved on the obverse and the reverse, and glyphs on the other faces. Slab-stelæ, on the other hand, are shorter and most of them bear inscriptions only on the reverse. Frequently associated with these stelæ are smaller monoliths known as "altars," which vary greatly in size, shape, and decoration, some bearing glyphs and others being without them. 3. Any non-verbal symbol that imparts information. 4. A visual representation of a letter, character, or symbol, in a specific font and style. Example: The grid column header displays a sort glyph indicating an ascending or descending ordering. 5. A vertical groove. 6. A land snail of the genus Glyphyalinia 7. Any of various black-and-white noctuid moths with figural-like wing patterns, such as those in Protodeltote, Deltote, and Maliattha.
Word: childish Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English childisch, from Old English ċildisċ. By surface analysis, child + -ish. Pronunciation: /ˈt͡ʃaɪldɪʃ/ 1. Immature in thought or behaviour. Example: Your childish temper tantrums are not going to change my decision on this matter. 2. Suitable for or expected of a child. Example: This game is very childish. Example: She remembered, too, when, after a long childish illness, her father had carried her in his arms to the garden, […]
Word: hold back Part of Speech: verb 1. To act with reserve; to contain one's full measure or power. Labels: idiomatic, intransitive Example: Don't hold back. Hit it as hard as you can. Example: The TSSA union, which along with the RMT represents many of the staff affected by the closures, hasn't held back on its criticism. 2. To contain; stop. Labels: idiomatic, transitive Example: The dam can't hold back that much water. Example: Fabregas coolly slotted home after Ben Parker held back Theo Walcott and only a super Kasper Schmeichel save stopped Denilson winning it for the Gunners. 3. To delay the progress of, especially in school. Labels: idiomatic, transitive Example: He's a year older than his classmates, because he was held back in second grade.
Word: hold one's own Part of Speech: verb 1. To demonstrate oneself to be capable; to provide a respectable performance or worthy competition; to stick up for oneself. Labels: idiomatic Example: At any rate, he was like John Bull in one respect: he was sturdy and square, and fit to hold his own with any man. Example: At the receptions […] Antonia could hold her own in a discussion with two or three men at a time.
Word: hold over Part of Speech: noun 1. Misspelling of holdover. Labels: alt-of, misspelling
Word: hold over Part of Speech: verb 1. (Of a resource) To support or sustain someone for a limited period. Labels: idiomatic, sometimes, transitive Example: These crisps should hold me over until supper. 2. To save, delay. Labels: idiomatic, transitive Example: We will have to hold over these files until tomorrow. 3. To remain in office, possession, residency etc., beyond a certain date. Labels: intransitive Example: We should hold over this report until the new department lead comes in. 4. To be in a position to harm (someone); to have damaging information on (someone). Labels: transitive Example: He's holding those allegations over my head.
Word: hold over someone's head Part of Speech: verb 1. To harp on; to remind continuously (especially of a misstep or defeat). Labels: idiomatic, transitive Example: I get one parking ticket and he holds it over my head for six months.
Word: hold one's horses Part of Speech: verb 1. To be patient; to wait. Labels: idiomatic Example: "I'm going to tell you, ain't I?" he said, gruffly. "Just hold your horses a minute, please." Example: "I would ask everybody to hold their horses until we go through the process," ElBaradei said. 2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see hold, one's, horses.
Word: forte Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed 1640–50; earlier fort < Middle French; disyllabic pronunciation by association with Italian forte, from Latin fortis (“strong”). Doublet of fort and fortis. Pronunciation: /ˈfɔːteɪ/, /fɔːˈteɪ/, /ˈfɔːti/, /fɔːt/, /ˈfoɹ.teɪ/ 1. A strength or talent; a strong point. Example: He writes respectably, but poetry is not his forte. Example: Between ourselves, the country is rather triste, and you have given me positively a sensation; yet my forte is not the Arcadian: however, I will do my petit possible to console you for the loss of le beau Lindor, who was my predecessor. 2. The strong part of a sword blade, close to the hilt.
Word: forte Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Borrowed from Italian forte (“strong”). Pronunciation: /ˈfɔːteɪ/, /ˈfoɹteɪ/, /ˈfoːɹteɪ/, /ˈfoəteɪ/ 1. Loudly, as a dynamic in a piece of music. Example: (abbreviation) f Example: The musicians played the passage forte.
Word: forte Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Borrowed from Italian forte (“strong”). Pronunciation: /ˈfɔːteɪ/, /ˈfoɹteɪ/, /ˈfoːɹteɪ/, /ˈfoəteɪ/ 1. Loud. Example: This passage is forte, then there's a diminuendo to mezzo piano.
Word: forte Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Italian forte (“strong”). Pronunciation: /ˈfɔːteɪ/, /ˈfoɹteɪ/, /ˈfoːɹteɪ/, /ˈfoəteɪ/ 1. A passage in music to be played loudly; a loud section of music. Example: This forte marks the climax of the second movement.
Word: show up Part of Speech: verb 1. To appear, arrive, or attend, especially suddenly or erratically. Labels: intransitive Example: Please come on time; don't just show up whenever you feel like it. Example: No matter how many I throw away, more copies always show up. 2. To be easily visible; to be conspicuous. Labels: intransitive Example: Stains really show up on this white tablecloth. 3. To make visible; to expose. Labels: transitive Example: This bright light shows up the dust in the corners of the room. Example: I bet the Jayhawk fast break could show up the Nimrod's lack of speed. 4. To make visible or expose faults and deficiencies in, usually by outdoing, outperforming, or outcompeting another. Labels: idiomatic, transitive Example: I finished in five minutes and she showed me up by finishing in three. Example: It showed her up in her true colors. 5. To produce an impression on observers; to come off. Labels: dated, intransitive Example: A pleasing countenance showing above a suit of clothes is attractive and makes the suit show up well, while a face with a blank expression is likely to make a man say to himself, "Well if that man's clothes is going to make me look like that I don't want any of them."
Word: show off Part of Speech: verb 1. To exhibit the best attributes of something. Labels: idiomatic, transitive Example: Grocery stores show off their produce by placing the most attractive specimens in front. 2. To attract attention to for the purpose of bragging or personal exhibitionism; to demonstrate a skill, talent or property for the purpose of bragging or personal exhibitionism. Labels: idiomatic, intransitive, transitive Example: She loves to show off her driving prowess. Example: She loves to show off when she gets behind the wheel of a car.
Word: show off Part of Speech: noun 1. Nonstandard spelling of show-off. Labels: alt-of, nonstandard
Word: insipid Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Italic *n̥- Latin in- Proto-Indo-European *sep- Proto-Italic *sapjō Latin sapiō Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-der. Proto-Italic *-iðos Latin -idus Latin sapidus Latin īnsipiduslbor. French insipidebor. English insipid From French insipide, from Latin īnsipidus (“tasteless”), from in- (“not”) + sapidus (“savory”). In some senses, perhaps influenced by insipient (“unwise, foolish, stupid”). Pronunciation: /ɪnˈsɪp.ɪd/ 1. Unappetizingly flavorless. Example: The diners were disappointed with the plain, insipid soup they were served. Example: There was no limit on drinks, and the guy next to me tucked away a few G and Ts. I confined myself to a pleasant Brewdog Ale and a glass of slightly insipid wine. 2. Flat; lacking character or definition. Example: The textbook had a most insipid presentation of the controversy. Example: If the secret history of books could be written, and the author’s private thoughts and meanings noted down alongside of his story, how many insipid volumes would become interesting, and dull tales excite the reader!
Word: atto- Part of Speech: prefix Etymology: From Danish atten (“eighteen”), with reference to the (negative) exponent in the relevant power of ten; the same principle also explains femto-. 1. In the International System of Units and other metric systems of units, multiplying the unit to which it is attached by 10⁻¹⁸ (short scale quintillionth or long scale trillionth). Labels: morpheme
Word: centi- Part of Speech: prefix Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *déḱm̥ Proto-Indo-European *ḱm̥tóm Proto-Italic *kəntom Latin centum Latin centi-bor. French centi-bor. English centi- From French centi- and its etymon Latin centi-, from centum (“hundred”). Doublet of hecato- and hecto-. Pronunciation: /ˈsɛn.tə/, /ˈsɛn.tɪ/, /ˈsɛn.ti/ 1. one-hundredth Labels: morpheme 2. one-hundredth Labels: morpheme, specifically 3. hundred Labels: morpheme Example: centimillionaire
Word: deca- Part of Speech: prefix Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *déḱm̥ Proto-Hellenic *dékə Ancient Greek δέκᾰ (dékă) Ancient Greek -ᾰ́ς (-ắs) Ancient Greek δεκάς (dekás)der. Late Latin decasder. French déca-bor. English deca- Borrowed from French déca-, from Late Latin decas (“(set of) ten”), from Ancient Greek δεκάς (dekás), from δέκα (déka, “ten”). Pronunciation: /dɛkə-/ 1. Ten. Labels: morpheme Example: deca- + -gon → decagon 2. In the metric system, multiplying the unit to which it is attached by 10. Symbol: da Labels: morpheme
Word: deci- Part of Speech: prefix Etymology: From Latin decimus (“tenth”). Pronunciation: /ˈdɛsɪ/ 1. A tenth part. Labels: morpheme 2. In the metric system, multiplying the unit to which it is attached by 10⁻¹. Symbol: d Labels: morpheme
Word: exa- Part of Speech: prefix Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἕξ (héx, “six”), for the sixth order of 10³, analogous to tera-. 1. In the International System of Units and other metric systems of units, multiplying the unit to which it is attached by 10¹⁸ (a short scale quintillion or long scale trillion); one million million million. Labels: morpheme
Word: femto- Part of Speech: prefix Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *pénkʷe Proto-Germanic *fimf Proto-Indo-European *déḱm̥ Proto-Germanic *tehun Proto-Germanic *fimftehun Old Norse fimmtánder. Danish femtender. English femto- From Danish femten (“fifteen”), with reference to the (negative) exponent in the relevant power of ten; the same principle also explains atto-. 1. In the International System of Units and other metric systems of units, multiplying the unit to which it is attached by 10⁻¹⁵ (short scale quadrillionth or long scale billiardth). Labels: morpheme
Word: giga- Part of Speech: prefix Etymology: From Ancient Greek γίγας (gígas, “giant”); cognate to giant. Pronunciation: /ˈɡɪɡ.ə/, /ˈɡaɪ.ɡə/, /ˈd͡ʒɪɡ.ə/ 1. In the International System of Units and other metric systems of units, multiplying the unit to which it is attached by 10⁹ (short scale billion or long scale milliard). Labels: morpheme Example: giga- + watt → gigawatt ("one billion watts") 2. Multiplying the unit to which it is attached by 2³⁰ or 1,073,741,824. Labels: morpheme, proscribed, sometimes 3. Augmenting an adjective; intensely, extremely, or to an exceptionally high degree. Labels: morpheme, slang Example: Wow, I am giga-jealous right now. 4. Used to augment nouns; denoting an invididual who is a paragon of something. Labels: Internet, morpheme Example: giga- + Chad → gigachad Example: giga- + Stacy → gigastacy
Word: hecto- Part of Speech: prefix Etymology: From French hecto-, from Ancient Greek ἑκατόν (hekatón, “hundred”). Doublet of hecato- and centi-. Pronunciation: /ˈhɛk.tə/, /ˈhɛk.təʊ/ 1. hundred Labels: morpheme 2. In the International System of Units and other metric systems of units, multiplying the unit to which it is attached by 100. Symbol: h Labels: morpheme
Word: milli- Part of Speech: prefix Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *sem- Proto-Indo-European *sm̥- Proto-Indo-European *-is Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-ih₂ Proto-Indo-European *smih₂ Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰes- Proto-Indo-European *-lom Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰéslom ▲ Proto-Indo-European *-ih₂ Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰéslih₂ Proto-Indo-European *smih₂ǵʰéslih₂ Proto-Italic *smīɣeslī Latin mīlleder. French milli- English milli- From Latin mille (“thousand”), via French. Pronunciation: /ˈmɪlɪ/ 1. In the International System of Units and other metric systems of units, one-thousandth of the unit to which it is prefixed; that is, multiplying the unit to which it is attached by 10⁻³. Symbol: m. Labels: morpheme Example: Example: milligram 2. thousand Labels: morpheme Example: Example: millipede
Word: nano- Part of Speech: prefix Etymology: Etymology tree Ancient Greek νᾶνος (nânos)bor. Latin nānusbor. English nano- Borrowed from Latin nānus (“dwarf”), borrowed from Ancient Greek νᾶνος (nânos, “dwarf”). Pronunciation: /ˈnænəʊ/, /ˈnænoʊ/ 1. In the International System of Units and other metric systems of units, multiplying the unit to which it is attached by 10⁻⁹ (short scale billionth or long scale milliardth). Symbol: n Labels: morpheme 2. Derived from the nanotechnology industry. Labels: morpheme Example: nano- + biology → nanobiology 3. Very small. Labels: diminutive, morpheme Example: nano- + particle → nanoparticle Example: nano- + plankton → nanoplankton
Word: peta- Part of Speech: prefix Etymology: Based on penta- (“five”) (from Ancient Greek πέντε (pénte)) with the middle letter removed, analogous to tera-. Pronunciation: /ˈpɛtə/ 1. In the metric system, multiplying the unit to which it is attached by 10¹⁵ (a short scale quadrillion or long scale billiard). Symbol: P Labels: morpheme
Word: tera- Part of Speech: prefix Etymology: From Ancient Greek τέρας (téras, “monster”). Also from Ancient Greek τέτταρες (téttares, “four”), by analogy with tetra- for being the fourth power of 10³. Doublet of terato-. Pronunciation: /ˈtɛ.ɹə/ 1. In the International System of Units and other metric systems of units, multiplying the unit to which it is attached by 10¹² (short scale trillion or long scale billion). Labels: morpheme Example: Near-synonym: T Example: a 2-terawatt increase 2. tebi- (2⁴⁰ = 1024⁴). Labels: morpheme, proscribed Example: a 2-terabyte hard drive
Word: yocto- Part of Speech: prefix Etymology: From Ancient Greek ὀκτώ (oktṓ, “eight”), for the eighth order of 10⁻³. The letter y was added, as the second term in a series running backwards through the alphabet. Pronunciation: /ˈjɒk.təʊ̯-/, /ˈjɑk.toʊ̯-/ 1. In the International System of Units and other metric systems of units, multiplying the unit to which it is attached by 10⁻²⁴ short scale septillionth or long scale quadrillionth). Labels: morpheme
Word: yotta- Part of Speech: prefix Etymology: From Ancient Greek ὀκτώ (oktṓ, “eight”), for the eighth order of 10³. The consonants ct are reduced to tt; the final a conforms to the finals vowel of the SI series from mega- upwards; the letter y was added, as the second term in a series running through the alphabet backwards (from zetta-). Pronunciation: /ˈjɒtə/ 1. In the International System of Units and other metric systems of units, multiplying the unit to which it is attached by 10²⁴ (a short scale septillion or long scale quadrillion). Symbol: Y Labels: morpheme
Word: zepto- Part of Speech: prefix Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἑπτᾰ́ (heptắ, “seven”), for the seventh order of 10⁻³. The final o conforms to the finals vowel of the SI series from micro- downwards; the letter z was added, as a start in a series of terms running backwards through the alphabet. Pronunciation: /ˈzɛp.təʊ̯-/, /ˈzɛp.toʊ̯-/ 1. In the International System of Units and other metric systems of units, multiplying the unit to which it is attached by 10⁻²¹ (short scale sextillionth or long scale trilliardth). Labels: morpheme
Word: zetta- Part of Speech: prefix Etymology: Coined with Latin septem (“seven”) and Ancient Greek ἑπτᾰ́ (heptắ, “seven”) in mind, for the seventh order of 10³. The consonants pt are reduced to tt; the initial z was chosen instead of s to avoid confusion with s (“second”, symbol) Pronunciation: /ˈzɛt.ə-/ 1. In the International System of Units and other metric systems of units, multiplying the unit to which it is attached by 10²¹ (a short scale sextillion or long scale trilliard). Labels: morpheme
Word: hula hoop Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Coined by Australian model Joan Anderson. Former trademark of Wham-O, which introduced the product in 1958. Pronunciation: /ˈhuːlə ˌhuːp/ 1. A toy in the form of a large hoop which is twirled around various parts of the body, especially the waist.
Word: hula hoop Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Coined by Australian model Joan Anderson. Former trademark of Wham-O, which introduced the product in 1958. Pronunciation: /ˈhuːlə ˌhuːp/ 1. To use a hula hoop.
Word: nipple Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From earlier neple, nypil, neble, believed to be a diminutive of nib, neb (“tip, point”), equivalent to nib + -le. Compare Old English nypel (“elephant trunk”), formed analogously as "a protuberance from one's neb" . Pronunciation: /ˈnɪp.əl/, [ˈnɪpʰ.əl] ~ [ˈnɪpʰ.l̩] 1. The projection of a mammary gland from which, on female therian mammals, milk is secreted. Example: Mary felt annoyed at the girl; just because bras had become passé, did a girl with so pronounced a bosom have to cater to fashion? In this case practicality dictated a bra, and Mary stood at the desk feeling herself flushing with disapproval. And artificial nipple-dilation; it was just too much. 2. The nipple (noun sense 1) and the areola together. Example: Joan Trieste wore skin-tight dark pants and slippers and a cotton man’s-style shirt; as far as he could tell, she had on no bra, as fashion dictated, but her nipples were merely flat dark circles beneath the white cotton fabric of her shirt: she could not afford or did not care to have the currently-popular dilation operation. 3. A mechanical device through which liquids or gases can be passed in a regulated manner. 4. An artificial nipple (noun sense 1) used for bottle-feeding infants. 5. Any small physical protrusion, such as the lumps on the F and J keys on computer keyboards. 6. Any small physical protrusion on an automotive, a machine part or any other part that fits into a groove on another part. 7. A perforated segment that fits into part of the breech of a muzzle-loading gun, on which the percussion cap is fixed. Labels: historical Example: I could tell he didn't agree but he went to the corner and took up his squirrel gun, feeling the nipple for a percussion cap. 8. A short tube threaded at both ends, used as a connector. Labels: US 9. An internally threaded piece which holds a bicycle spoke in place on the rim. Example: Turn the nipples on to the bicycle spokes only one turn, for each spoke on the new wheel all the way around until they are all snug, then check alignment. Example: These were first constructed by heading the spokes, threading them through a steel felloe or rim and inserting them into screwed nipples which were in their turn screwed into the flanges of the hub. 10. A pointing stick. Labels: humorous
Word: nipple Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From earlier neple, nypil, neble, believed to be a diminutive of nib, neb (“tip, point”), equivalent to nib + -le. Compare Old English nypel (“elephant trunk”), formed analogously as "a protuberance from one's neb" . Pronunciation: /ˈnɪp.əl/, [ˈnɪpʰ.əl] ~ [ˈnɪpʰ.l̩] 1. To fit (a baby's bottle, etc.) with a nipple. Labels: transitive 2. To give one's nipple to (a baby) to allow breastfeeding. Labels: transitive
Word: wart Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English warte, werte, from Old English wearte, from Proto-West Germanic *wartā, from Proto-Germanic *wartǭ. Cognate with Dutch wrat, German Warze, Hunsrik Waarz, Swedish vårta and Danish vorte. Pronunciation: /wɔːt/, /wɔɹt/ 1. A type of deformed growth occurring on the skin caused by the human papillomavirus (HPV). Example: A wart has appeared on my toe. 2. Any similar growth occurring in plants or animals, such as the parotoid glands in the back of toads. 3. Anything unsightly or undesirable; a blemish. Labels: figuratively, informal Example: Things that look too good to be true usually are, and every company has some warts that need to be taken into account. 4. Any of the prefixes used in Hungarian notation. Labels: derogatory, slang Example: Hungarian warts suck big time! If you need them, your functions are too big and your class interface is much too fat. Example: Far easier to not use warts in the first place. Even if a wart is present, you still have to verify the variable's declaration anyway, if you're a diligent maintenance programmer.
Word: analogy Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin analogia, from Ancient Greek ἀναλογίᾱ (analogíā), from ἀνα- (ana-) + λόγος (lógos, “speech, reckoning”). Pronunciation: /əˈnæləd͡ʒi/ 1. A relationship of resemblance or equivalence between two situations, people, or objects, especially when used as a basis for explanation or extrapolation. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Yet the systole and diastole of the heart are not without their analogy in the ebb and flow of love. Example: Is there any analogy, in certain constitutions, between keeping an umbrella up, and keeping the spirits up? 2. The proportion or the equality of ratios. Labels: countable, uncountable 3. The correspondence of a word or phrase with the genius of a language, as learned from the manner in which its words and phrases are ordinarily formed; similarity of derivative or inflectional processes. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: show-off Part of Speech: noun Etymology: A deverbal from show off. 1. One who shows off; a person given to egotistically demonstrating their prowess or ability. Example: Quit being such a show-off, before someone gets hurt. Example: “Don’t tell me what to do, you double-crossing little show-off!” he grated. “Here, stand aside there, and let a man pass.”
Word: sexual intercourse Part of Speech: noun 1. Coitus or genital-genital sexual contact. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The yogi hopes to gain the universal feminine of Shakti by giving up sexual intercourse; he offers up his phallus in celibacy. Example: Sexual intercourse can be compared to a quarrel, on account of the contrarieties of love and its tendency to dispute. 2. Sexual interaction, usually involving vaginal, anal, or oral penetration, between at least two organisms. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Dating and courtship provide many examples of indirect communications. The young man may want sexual intercourse. The young woman may want marriage. In the initial stages of the dating game neither knows just what the other wants. Hence, they do not know precisely what game they are going to play. Moreover, in our culture direct communications about sexual interests and activities are still felt to be discouraged, even prohibited. Hinting and alluding thus become indispensable methods of communication. Example: Mosher et al (2005), from the NSFG for 2002, reported on the percentage of each age group who had experienced oral sex but not sexual intercourse.