nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: actuator Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂eǵ- Proto-Indo-European *-eti Proto-Indo-European *h₂éǵeti Proto-Italic *agō Latin agō Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Italic *-tus Latin -tus Latin āctus Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti Proto-Indo-European *-h₂tiinflu. Proto-Italic *-ājō Proto-Italic *-āō Latin -ō Latin āctuō Medieval Latin āctuātusder. English actuate Proto-Indo-European *-tōr Proto-Italic *-tōr Latin -tor Latin -ātor Old French -eorbor. Middle English -our ▲ Latin -torlbor. English -or English actuator From actuate + -or. First attested in 1652. Pronunciation: /ˈæk.tjuː.eɪ.tə(ɹ)/, /ˈæk.t͡ʃu.eɪ.tə(ɹ)/, /ˈæk.t͡ʃu.eɪ.tɚ/, [ˈæk.t͡ʃu.eɪ.ɾɚ], /ˈæk.t͡ʃʉ.æɪ.tə(ɹ)/ 1. Something that actuates something else. Example: The mind is the actuator of the body. Example: […] and God is the Author and Actuator of nature, as well as of grace; […] 2. A usually electric device that causes a mechanical device (i.e., a mechanism) to be switched on or off. For example; an electric motor that opens and closes a valve. 3. The mechanism that moves the head assembly on a disk drive. 4. A relay that controls the flow of electricity.
Word: workload Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From work + load. 1. The amount of work assigned to a particular worker, normally in a specified time period. 2. The amount of work that a machine can handle or produce.
Word: rapture Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French rapture, from Latin raptūra, future active participle of rapiō (“snatch, carry off”). Pronunciation: /ˈɹæpt͡ʃəː/, [ˈɹʷæpt͡ʃəː], /ˈɹɛptʃɘː/, [ˈɹʷɛ̞pt͡ʃɘː], /ˈɹæpt͡ʃɚ/ 1. Extreme pleasure, happiness or excitement. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: They went into raptures about the meal they'd had. Example: Music, when thus applied, raises noble hints in the mind of the hearer, and fills it with great conceptions. It strengthens devotion, and advances praise into rapture[…] 2. Alternative letter-case form of Rapture. Labels: alt-of, countable, uncountable Example: In the last week, believers have linked Charlie Kirk’s assassination to the rapture theory: some on TikTok have suggested that Kirk, who in death became a martyr for Christian nationalists and whose memorial service veered into religious revival territory, could be resurrected during the rapture. 3. The act of kidnapping or abducting, especially the forceful carrying off of a woman. Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable 4. Rape; ravishment; sexual violation. Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable 5. The act of carrying, conveying, transporting or sweeping along by force of movement; the force of such movement; the fact of being carried along by such movement. Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable Example: That 'gainst a rock, or flat, her keel did dash / With headlong rapture. Example: With the rapture of great winds to blow / About earth's shaken coignes. 6. A spasm; a fit; a syncope; delirium. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Your pratling nurse Into a rapture lets her baby cry
Word: rapture Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French rapture, from Latin raptūra, future active participle of rapiō (“snatch, carry off”). Pronunciation: /ˈɹæpt͡ʃəː/, [ˈɹʷæpt͡ʃəː], /ˈɹɛptʃɘː/, [ˈɹʷɛ̞pt͡ʃɘː], /ˈɹæpt͡ʃɚ/ 1. To cause to experience great happiness or excitement. Labels: dated, transitive Example: She raptured me in summer by giving me Fitzgerald's flawed and gorgeous masterpiece, the book that held his tortured heart. 2. To experience great happiness or excitement. Labels: dated, intransitive 3. To take (someone) off the Earth and bring (them) to Heaven as part of the Rapture. Labels: transitive Example: "If she's raptured," Ellen said to them on the fifth night after Marylee's disappearance, as they sat on the roof of the building on their old beanbags and rusting garden furniture hauled up from the Museum, "if that's what happened to her, then […]" Example: These fiction books told the story of some church people who were raptured but focused on the people who were not raptured. 4. To take part in the Rapture; to leave Earth and go to Heaven as part of the Rapture. Labels: intransitive, rare 5. To state (something, transitive) or talk (intransitive) rapturously. Labels: uncommon Example: And then the flowers! May-day indeed. Hester had been in Switzerland at the end of June, years on years before, and often had she raptured to Effie about the day's ride, in which they collected a hundred varieties of flowers, most of them new to them. Example: Pulling her leggings down over unshaven legs, she raptured "I'm dry!" to her audience.
Word: widow's peak Part of Speech: noun 1. A descending V-shaped point in the hairline in the middle of the forehead. Example: “I like your hair,” Grace said, gently pulling at the clump standing armed sentinel over my widow's peak. “It's honest.”
Word: widdle Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈwɪdəl/ 1. Urine. Labels: UK, childish, countable, uncountable 2. An act of urination. Labels: UK, childish, countable, uncountable
Word: widdle Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ˈwɪdəl/ 1. To urinate. Labels: UK, childish 2. To play guitar (especially the electric guitar) quickly. Labels: colloquial
Word: widdle Part of Speech: adj Pronunciation: /ˈwɪdəl/ 1. Little. Labels: Canada, US
Word: whatshisface Part of Speech: pron 1. Alternative form of what's-his-face. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: webmag Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Web + mag. 1. A magazine that is only published on the Internet. Labels: informal
Word: waterskin Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From water + skin. 1. A container for water made of skin.
Word: Harvey Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Haerviu, name of a Breton saint, from Old Breton hoiarn (“iron”) + viu (“blazing”). Cognate with modern Breton Haerviu. In Ireland, used as an anglicisation of Irish Ó hAirmheadhaigh and Ó hEarchaidh. The civil parish in New Brunswick is probably named in honour of British colonial administrator John Harvey (1778 - 1852). Pronunciation: /ˈhɑːvi/, /ˈhɑ(ɹ)vi/ 1. A surname transferred from the given name. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Sarah Harvey, an NHS worker from Brighton, was also told by Vodafone that she had to pay a £5,800 bill run up after she was hit on the head by a cyclist, again in Barcelona this summer. Example: Naomi Osaka, a Japanese professional tennis player, also responded to the NHK post with a popular gif of “Family Feud” host Steve Harvey expressing bewilderment. 2. A male given name from the Celtic languages, in modern use often transferred back from the surname. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Miramax Films cofounders Bob and Harvey Weinstein will end their successful, but often tumultuous, 12-year relationship with The Walt Disney Company to launch their own media company. Example: After getting permisssion from my mom, I personal messaged ten different Harveys from her profile who seemed “obviously” Native and lived in Phoenix. 3. A railway point in Tête Jaune Cache, Regional District of Fraser-Fort George, British Columbia, Canada. Labels: countable, uncountable 4. A civil parish of Albert County, New Brunswick, Canada. Labels: countable, uncountable 5. A number of places in the United States: Labels: countable, uncountable 6. A number of places in the United States: Labels: countable, uncountable 7. A number of places in the United States: Labels: countable, uncountable 8. A number of places in the United States: Labels: countable, uncountable 9. A number of places in the United States: Labels: countable, uncountable 10. A number of places in the United States: Labels: countable, uncountable 11. A number of places in the United States: Labels: countable, uncountable 12. A number of places in the United States: Labels: countable, uncountable 13. A town in the South West region, Western Australia, named after the Harvey River. Labels: countable, uncountable 14. A local government area in this area of Western Australia, which includes the town; in full, the Shire of Harvey. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: larvae Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈlɑː.vi/, /ˈlɑɹ.vi/, /ˈlɑɹ.veɪ/, /ˈlɑ(r)ve/ 1. plural of larva Labels: form-of, plural
Word: victimization Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From victim + -ization or victimize + -ation. Pronunciation: /ˌvɪk.tɪ.maɪˈzeɪ.ʃən/, /ˌvɪk.tɪ.məˈzeɪ.ʃən/ 1. An act that victimizes or exploits someone. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. Adversity as a result of being a victim. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: victimize Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *weyk-der. Latin victima Middle French victimebor. English victim Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)bor. Late Latin -izōder. Middle French -iserbor. Middle English -isen English -ize English victimize From victim + -ize. Pronunciation: /ˈvɪktɪmaɪz/ 1. To make (someone) a victim or sacrifice. Labels: transitive 2. To punish unjustly. Labels: transitive Example: Yet, even as Democratic party leadership has decried this mass deportation plan and even as the bill maligns Democrats as victimizing Americans through its policy of “open borders,” 48 Democratic members of Congress voted for this GOP-backed bill. 3. To swindle or defraud. Labels: transitive
Word: Victorian Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Victoria + -an (suffix forming adjectives and agent nouns), from the name of Queen Victoria (1819–1901), monarch of the United Kingdom. Pronunciation: /vɪkˈtɔː.ɹɪ.ən/, /vɪkˈtɔ.ɹi.ən/ 1. Of or relating to the reign of Queen Victoria from 1837 to 1901, or that period. Example: From the platforms at Wapping or Rotherhithe you can see the tunnel fleetingly illuminated as the trains approach; it looks so incredibly Victorian that you expect to see Jack the Ripper loitering between the arches. Example: One of the hidden glories of Victorian engineering is proper drains. Isolating a city’s effluent and shipping it away in underground sewers has probably saved more lives than any medical procedure except vaccination. 2. Of or relating to the culture or social conditions of that period. Example: In some cases, teachers reported being aware of pupils living in "Victorian conditions", of youngsters coming to school with no socks or coat and of more families depending on food banks. Example: I'm not proposing a return to Victorian working conditions, or anything like that, but there are two areas where things need changing. 3. Of or relating to the culture or social conditions of that period. Example: Unhappily, however, all that remains of Cherhill's claim to an old manor house is a rather cold ungabled building, blue-slated in hard ruled lines, and a porch which might have been transplanted from a late Victorian house. 4. Of or displaying the (supposed) ideals or standards of morality of that period; conservative; also, old-fashioned, out-of-date. Labels: figuratively Example: “I’m asking you your intentions, damn it!” said Wimsey, “and if that’s not Victorian enough, I don’t know what is.” Example: The Labor Church did not last; but the reaction did; and the last I heard of its founder was that he was helping the movement against Victorian prudery in a very practical way as a Nudist photographer, […]
Word: Victorian Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Victoria + -an (suffix forming adjectives and agent nouns), from the name of Queen Victoria (1819–1901), monarch of the United Kingdom. Pronunciation: /vɪkˈtɔː.ɹɪ.ən/, /vɪkˈtɔ.ɹi.ən/ 1. A person born in or living in the Victorian period, or exhibiting characteristics of that period. Example: What a perfect Victorian you are, Charles. I should like to keep you in a glass case. Example: It was not until the late 1800s when older members of New York society, aghast at the invasion of vulgar "new money," devised a daunting system of social rules – not to mention silverware – meant to repel anyone of humble origins who dared to sit down at one of their twelve-course dinners. It was the Victorians who gave us such useful implements as the strawberry knife. 2. An item of furniture from that period. 3. A house built in the Victorian architectural style. Labels: US Example: The commercial resurgence brought about by the area's changing tastes is reflected in midtown's conglomeration of refurbished Victorians, apartments, specialty shops, offices, corner groceries, restaurants, single-family homes, and bed and breakfast inns.
Word: Victorian Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Victoria (“state of Australia in the southeastern part of the continent”) + -an (suffix forming adjectives and agent nouns); the state was named after Queen Victoria when it was established in 1851. Pronunciation: /vɪkˈtɔː.ɹɪ.ən/, /vɪkˈtɔ.ɹi.ən/ 1. Of, from or relating to the state of Victoria, Australia. Labels: not-comparable Example: Up to 26 properties are believed lost in Victorian bushfires.
Word: Victorian Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Victoria (“state of Australia in the southeastern part of the continent”) + -an (suffix forming adjectives and agent nouns); the state was named after Queen Victoria when it was established in 1851. Pronunciation: /vɪkˈtɔː.ɹɪ.ən/, /vɪkˈtɔ.ɹi.ən/ 1. A native or inhabitant of the state of Victoria, Australia.
Word: Victorian Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Victoria (“capital of British Columbia, Canada”) + -an (suffix forming adjectives and agent nouns); incorporated as a city in 1862, the settlement which preceded the city was named Fort Victoria after Queen Victoria in 1843. Pronunciation: /vɪkˈtɔː.ɹɪ.ən/, /vɪkˈtɔ.ɹi.ən/ 1. Of, from or relating to the city of Victoria, capital of British Columbia, Canada. Labels: Canada, not-comparable
Word: Victorian Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Victoria (“capital of British Columbia, Canada”) + -an (suffix forming adjectives and agent nouns); incorporated as a city in 1862, the settlement which preceded the city was named Fort Victoria after Queen Victoria in 1843. Pronunciation: /vɪkˈtɔː.ɹɪ.ən/, /vɪkˈtɔ.ɹi.ən/ 1. A native or inhabitant of the city of Victoria, capital of British Columbia, Canada. Labels: Canada
Word: Victorian Part of Speech: name Etymology: An Americanized form of Spanish Victoriano originating in Los Angeles, a given name from Latin Victōriānus. Pronunciation: /vɪkˈtɔː.ɹɪ.ən/, /vɪkˈtɔ.ɹi.ən/ 1. A surname. Example: Jazmine Fenlator-Victorian competed for Team USA in 2014 before changing her affiliation before these Games. Example: When Lee Victorian was looking for an upscale car to complement his wife’s BMW last year, he was leaning toward an Audi A6 — a sedan whose acceleration, refinement and dazzling array of advanced technologies, like automatic braking and radar-based cruise control, he found alluring.
Word: Victorian Part of Speech: name Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin Victōriānus. By surface analysis, Victor + -ian. Pronunciation: /vɪkˈtɔː.ɹɪ.ən/, /vɪkˈtɔ.ɹi.ən/ 1. A male given name from Latin, of rare usage. Example: She told herself that Hubert, Lord Lashmar, would never make old bones; but she feared that he might live long enough to marry and leave some sickly son who should blight the prospects of her boy, Victorian, the very embodiment of physical power and fresh unblemished youth. Example: MEYER-KURTZ.—On Nov. 1, at the home of Mrs. G. A. Kurtz, Wauwatosa, Wis., Mr. Victorian Melville Meyer, son of Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Meyer of 11 West 81st St., to Miss Mary Louise Kurtz of Wauwatosa, Wis.
Word: victorious Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Borrowed from Latin victōriōsus, from victōria (“victory”), from victor (“conqueror”). Displaced native Old English siġefæst. Pronunciation: /vɪkˈtɔːɹiəs/ 1. Being the winner in a contest, struggle, war, etc. Example: They will not force us, / They will stop degrading us, / They will not control us, / We will be victorious! 2. Of or expressing a sense of victory or triumph. Example: The team were met with a victorious cheer.
Word: video camera Part of Speech: noun 1. A device for recording video footage, often a portable one used by amateurs; also as a fixed installation for surveillance purposes.
Word: videocassette Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *weyd- Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁ti Proto-Indo-European *-yeti Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁yeti Proto-Indo-European *widéh₁yeti Proto-Italic *widēō Latin videōbor. English audioinflu. English video English video- substratebor.? Proto-Indo-European *kap- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *kapyéti Proto-Italic *kapjō Proto-Italic *kapsos Latin capsa Old Northern French casse Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Italic *-tosder.? Latin -ittus Old French -ete Middle French -ette French cassettebor. English cassette English videocassette From video- + cassette. Pronunciation: /ˌvɪdi.oʊkəˈsɛt/, /ˈvɪdi.oʊkəˌsɛt/ 1. A cassette containing a blank or prerecorded videotape on which visual images and sounds are recorded for use with a VCR.
Word: videotape Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From video + tape, a trademark of media company Ampex. 1. A relatively wide magnetic tape used for recording visual images and sounds (as of a television production) for subsequent playback or broadcasting. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. Synonym of videocassette (“cassette containing videotape”). Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: videotape Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From video + tape, a trademark of media company Ampex. 1. to make a recording of something on videotape 2. To visually record (activity, or a motion picture) in general, with or without sound. Labels: ambitransitive
Word: videocassette recorder Part of Speech: noun 1. An electronic device for recording and playing back television programs and movies (featuring visual images and sound) on a videocassette that can be attached to a television set.
Word: videodisc Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From video + disc. 1. An optical disc containing a video recording that can be viewed on a television receiver.
Word: viewer Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English vewer; equivalent to view + -er. Pronunciation: /ˈvjuːə/, /ˈvju.ɚ/ 1. Someone who views a spectacle; an onlooker or spectator. Example: This sensation of an object becoming alive is a characteristic that, I believe, seizes all viewers of a van Gogh. The Bible goes beyond being a simple still-life object to become a living thing, an expression of strength, an existence that emanates from itself, beyond the painting surface to participate in our very lives. Example: It’s clear why enterprising people make the videos, but what compels so many viewers to watch an amateur video of some stranger they don’t know opening a box? What would compel a viewer to subscribe to the all-coffee channel and binge-watch a guy unpacking coffee makers? 2. Someone who watches television. 3. Any optical device used to view photographic slides. 4. A program that displays the contents of a file. 5. An appointed inspector or examiner Labels: historical 6. An appointed inspector or examiner: Labels: historical
Word: viewfinder Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From view + finder. Pronunciation: /ˈvjuːfaɪndə(ɹ)/ 1. A device on a camera that shows what will appear in the field of view of the lens; it helps the user target a subject, zoom and focus the image.
Word: viewpoint Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From view + point. Pronunciation: /ˈvjuː.pɔɪnt/ 1. The position from which something is observed or considered Example: From the top of the hill you get a good viewpoint of the town. 2. An angle, outlook or point of view. Example: It is my personal viewpoint that veganism should be not only accepted, but actively encouraged by those in power.
Word: Miami Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Mayaimi, one of only ten words recorded from the language of the now-extinct Mayaimi people, meaning "big water", referring to the large lake on whose shores they lived, alternately called Lake Miami, Lake Mayimi, Lake Maymi, Lake Maimi; now called Lake Okeechobee. The Florida city is named for the Miami River. The river is named for its source, Lake Miami. Pronunciation: /maɪˈæmi/, /maɪˈæmə/ 1. Alternative form of Mayaimi. 2. Alternative form of Mayaimi. 3. A placename: Example: It may get even busier in town when a sleek train service called the Brightline debuts this summer, shuttling travelers between nearby West Palm Beach and Miami. Example: Fort Lauderdale–Hollywood International and Palm Beach International are solid choices if your final destination is north of Miami city limits. 4. A placename: 5. A placename: 6. A placename: 7. A placename: Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis 8. A placename:
Word: Miami Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Miami Myaamia, the endonym for the tribe in Miami-Illinois, an Algonquian language. Pronunciation: /maɪˈæmi/, /maɪˈæmə/ 1. A member of an indigenous North American people of Algonquian stock. 2. Miami University.
Word: playback Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From play + back. Pronunciation: /ˈpleɪˌbæk/ 1. The replaying of something previously recorded, especially sound or moving images. Labels: uncountable, usually 2. Lip-syncing. Labels: nonstandard, uncountable, usually
Word: animate Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English animat(e), from Latin animātus, perfect passive participle of animō (“to fill with breath, quicken, encourage, animate”) (see -ate (adjective-forming suffix)), from anima (“soul, spirit, breath”); see anima. The verb derives from the adjective, see -ate (verb-forming suffix). Pronunciation: /ˈæn.ɪ.mət/, /ˈæn.ə.mət/ 1. That lives. 2. That has (or is believed to have) a spirit (anima) and/or some amount of consciousness and sentience, either being alive or supernaturally seeming alive. 3. Possessing the quality or ability of motion. 4. Dynamic, energetic. Example: She is an engaging and animate speaker. 5. having a referent that is considered alive (this generally includes humans, animals and deities, sometimes also plants, spirits, etc.) Example: Nouns can be singular or plural, and one of two genders, animate or inanimate. 6. Inflected to agree with an animate noun or pronoun.
Word: animate Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English animat(e), from Latin animātus, perfect passive participle of animō (“to fill with breath, quicken, encourage, animate”) (see -ate (adjective-forming suffix)), from anima (“soul, spirit, breath”); see anima. The verb derives from the adjective, see -ate (verb-forming suffix). Pronunciation: /ˈæn.ɪ.meɪt/, /ˈæn.ə.meɪt/ 1. To impart motion or the appearance of motion to. Labels: transitive Example: leaves animated by a stiff breeze Example: If we animate the model, we can see the complexity of the action. 2. To give spirit or vigour to; to stimulate or enliven; to inspirit. Labels: transitive Example: The more to animate the people, he stood on high […] and cried unto them with a loud voice.
Word: inanimate Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Inherited from Middle English inanimat(e), from Late Latin inanimātus, from Latin in- + animātus (“animated”), see -ate (adjective-forming suffix). By surface analysis, in- + animate. The noun was derived by substantivization from the adjective, see -ate (noun-forming suffix). Pronunciation: /ɪnˈænɪmət/ 1. Lacking the quality or ability of motion; as an inanimate object. Example: The love of the inanimate is a general feeling. True, it makes no return of affection, neither does it disappoint it; its associations are from our thoughts and emotions. Example: Retired when her position was dissolved due to advances in inanimate automation. 2. Not alive, and never having been alive, especially not like humans and animals. Example: I had worked hard for nearly two years, for the sole purpose of infusing life into an inanimate body. 3. Not animate.
Word: inanimate Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Inherited from Middle English inanimat(e), from Late Latin inanimātus, from Latin in- + animātus (“animated”), see -ate (adjective-forming suffix). By surface analysis, in- + animate. The noun was derived by substantivization from the adjective, see -ate (noun-forming suffix). Pronunciation: /ɪnˈænɪmət/ 1. Something that is not alive. Labels: rare
Word: inanimate Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Borrowed from Latin inanimātus, the perfect passive participle of inanimō (“to animate”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from in- (“in, into”) + animō (“to animate”); by surface analysis, in- + animate. Pronunciation: /ɪnˈænɪmeɪt/ 1. To animate. Labels: obsolete Example: For there's a kind of world remaining still, Though shee which did inanimate and fill
Word: farthing Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English ferthing, from Old English fēorþing, fēorþung (“a quarter, fourth part, farthing”), from fēorþa (“fourth”), from Proto-Germanic *fedurþungaz (“a quarter”), probably influenced by Old Norse fjórðungr (“a fourth part, quarter”). Equivalent to fourth + -ing; compare English riding (“third part”). Pronunciation: /ˈfɑː(ɹ).ðɪŋ/ 1. A quarter of any monetary unit or measure. Labels: archaic, historical 2. Former British unit of currency worth one-quarter of an old penny; or a coin representing this. Labels: historical Example: "Nay, Heaven forbid, indeed," quoth Robin, "that I should take from such as thee, jolly fellow! Not so much as one farthing would I take from thee, for I love a fair Saxon face like thine right well—more especially when it cometh from Locksley Town, and most especially when the man that owneth it is to marry a bonny lass on Thursday next. But come, tell me for what price thou wilt sell me all of thy meat and thy horse and cart." Example: We must keep them to the fact that the duty is one and three quarter farthings, or nearly a half-penny in the pound and no more, and any one who tries to work it out any other way is not acting fairly in the matter. 3. A very small quantity or value; the least possible amount. Labels: figuratively Example: That period of infatuation was not unrelieved by a certain amount of self-introspection on my part. I kept account of every farthing I spent, and my expenses were carefully calculated. Every little item such as omnibus fares or postage or a couple of coppers spent on newspapers, would be entered, and the balance struck every evening before going to bed. That habit has stayed with me ever since, and I know that as a result, though I have had to handle public funds amounting to lakhs, I have succeeded in exercising strict economy in their disbursement, and instead of outstanding debts have had invariably a surplus balance in respect of all the movements I have led. 4. A division of land. Labels: obsolete
Word: not worth a brass farthing Part of Speech: adj 1. Worth nothing or next to nothing. Labels: idiomatic Example: One's own private knowledge of a man's character is not worth a brass farthing as legal evidence. Example: 2005, Jeremy Page, "Russia is now ripe for freedom revolution, warns Solzhenitsyn," timesonline.com (UK), 7 Jun. (retrieved 29 Sep. 2008), Democracy is not worth a brass farthing if it is being installed by bayonets.
Word: psalmwriter Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From psalm + writer. 1. A writer of psalms, such as the biblical King David.
Word: playback singer Part of Speech: noun 1. A singer whose songs are pre-recorded for use in films, especially Bollywood musicals, where actors lip-sync them.
Word: Psalms Part of Speech: name Pronunciation: /sɑːmz/, /sɑmz/, /sɑlmz/, /sɔmz/, /sɔlmz/ 1. A book of the Old Testament of the Bible, and of the Tanakh. Labels: plural-normally
Word: beer mat Part of Speech: noun 1. A small square, circular or differently shaped cardboard mat, often with an advertisement for a brewery on it, that is used to rest one's glass on, and to protect the surface of a table or a bar in a pub.
Word: vigil Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English vigile (“a devotional watching”), from Old French vigile, from Latin vigilia (“wakefulness, watch”), from vigil (“awake”), from Proto-Indo-European *weǵ- (“to be strong, lively, awake”). Doublet of Wigilia. See also wake and vigor, from the same root. Pronunciation: /ˈvɪd͡ʒəl/ 1. An instance of keeping awake during normal sleeping hours, especially to keep watch or pray. Example: I saw her head drooped upon her hand; her whole attitude expressing that profound depression, whose lonely vigil wastes the midnight in a gloomy watch, which yet hopes for nothing at its close. Example: Eventually the body trade grew so reckless that relatives took to holding graveside vigils, lest their loved ones disappear in the night. 2. A period of observation or surveillance at any hour. Example: His dog kept vigil outside the hospital for eight days while he was recovering from an accident. 3. The eve of a religious festival in which staying awake is part of the ritual devotions. 4. A quiet demonstration in support of a cause. Example: The protesters kept vigil outside the conference centre in which the party congress was being held.
Word: vigil Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English vigile (“a devotional watching”), from Old French vigile, from Latin vigilia (“wakefulness, watch”), from vigil (“awake”), from Proto-Indo-European *weǵ- (“to be strong, lively, awake”). Doublet of Wigilia. See also wake and vigor, from the same root. Pronunciation: /ˈvɪd͡ʒəl/ 1. To participate in a vigil. Example: As the arrested painters and their supporters waited out their "day in court," other activists distributed Hiroshima information leaflets, vigiled silently with placards and banners, and marched 500-strong through downtown Boston to a rally at City Hall Plaza.
Word: vigorously Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree English vigorous Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der. Proto-Germanic *līkąder. Proto-Germanic *-līkaz Proto-Germanic *-ê Proto-Germanic *-līkê Proto-West Germanic *-līkē Old English -līċe Middle English -ly English -ly English vigorously From vigorous + -ly. Pronunciation: /ˈvɪɡəɹəsli/ 1. With intense energy, force or vigor Example: The lawyer vigorously defended her client. Example: He knocked vigorously on the door.
Word: beer belly Part of Speech: noun 1. A protruding belly caused by excess fat stored in the abdomen and colloquially attributed to the consumption of beer.
Word: vilification Part of Speech: noun 1. slanderous or malicious defamation; character assassination Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: villainous Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English vileinous, from Old French vileneus. By surface analysis, villain + -ous. Pronunciation: /ˈvɪlənəs/ 1. Of, relating to, or appropriate to a villain. 2. Wicked, offensive, or reprehensible in nature or behaviour; nefarious. Example: Tuc[ca]. […] Can thy Author doe it impudently enough? / Hiſt[rio]. O, I warrant you, Captaine: and ſpitefully inough too; he ha's one of the moſt ouerflowing villanous wits, in Rome. He will ſlander any man that breathes; If he diſguſt him. / Tucca. I'le know the poor, egregious, nitty Raſcall; and he haue ſuch commendable Qualities, I'le cheriſh him: […] Example: Bah! to this toilet for the villainous boredom of church.
Word: villainy Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English vileinie, vileynye, from Anglo-Norman vilenie, from Old French vilanie. 1. Evil or wicked character or behaviour. Labels: uncountable Example: Mos Eisley spaceport- you will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. We must be cautious. 2. A wicked or treacherous act. Labels: countable Example: He drew from his pocket a pistol, which, devoid of principle or honour, with an assassin-like assault, he instantly aimed at the breast of Lord Deloraine, but which, in the struggle that ensued, as if by retributive justice, went off unexpectedly and lodged its contents in the body of Melliphant,—thus doomed to receive his punishment by his own hand, and by the very weapon he had carried for his own defence in the perpetration of his villanies. 3. Ill-treatment, indignity, degrading or shameful treatment of someone. Labels: obsolete, uncountable 4. Disgrace, ignominy. Labels: obsolete, uncountable 5. The state of being a villein or serf, and by extension servitude or low estate in life. Labels: obsolete, uncountable 6. Boorishness, rudeness, bad cultivation or manners. Labels: obsolete, uncountable
Word: villainy Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From villain + -y. 1. Characteristic of a villain. Example: We are all villainy— very villainy, as I am a Christian man. Example: Apparently, in both domestic and foreign movies, you can't get too villainy to displease an audience.
Word: villiform Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Latin villus (“hair”) + -iform. 1. Having villi; having the shape of villi or small hairs. Labels: not-comparable
Word: mich Part of Speech: verb 1. Alternative form of mitch. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: villus Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Latin villus (“shaggy hair”). Pronunciation: /ˈvɪləs/ 1. A small projection from a membrane, particularly those found in the mucous membranes of the intestines. Example: where a villus comes next to a gland the short cubical cells of the gland may be traced into the columnar cells of the villus , the hyaline border becoming more marked Example: Studies of the viable blood cells with phase contrast microscopy showed peculiar cells that had numerous short villi and were arbitrarily called “hairy cells.” 2. One of the fine soft hairs on fruits, flowers, and other parts of plants.
Word: amour Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₃emh₃-der. Proto-Italic *amāō Latin amō Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *-s Proto-Indo-European *-ōs Proto-Italic *-ōs Latin -or Latin amōrem Old French amor Middle French amourbor. Middle English amour ▲ French amourinflu. English amour Inherited from Middle English amour, from Middle French amour, from Old French amor, from Latin amor. The modern pronunciation is due to continual French influence; the expected pronunciation would be /ˈæmə(ɹ)/; compare enamour, enamoured. Pronunciation: /əˈmʊə/, /aˈmʊə/, /əˈmʊɹ/, /ɑˈmʊɹ/, /-ˈmoɹ/ 1. Courtship; flirtation. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Perhaps Daisy never went in for amour at all—and yet there's something in that voice of hers…. 2. A love affair. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Jones had mentioned the Fact of his Amour, and of his being the Rival of Blifil, but had cautiously concealed the Name of the young Lady. Example: The amours of the greater scaup are, if anything, even more varied. 3. A lover. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: ‘Dulce, will you go to the masquerade-ball to night?’ said I to my lesser-half, on a bright evening during the gayest part of the ‘carnival season.’ / ‘No, my amor,’ answered she; ‘I am ill this evening; do n’t go out to-night, but stay by my side, and let your cheering presence save a doctor’s fee.’ Example: Makes you wonder how they were able to see their amours, or their hands... 4. Love, affection. Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable
Word: amoureux Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From the French. Doublet of amoroso and amorous. 1. A lover; a romantic partner. Example: Ogier, thinking it is the Virgin Mary, commences an Ave; but the lady tells him she is Morgue la faye, who at his birth had kissed him, and retained him for her loyal amoureux, though forgotten by him. Example: "Yet your mother," Rowland objected, "told me just now that you say you don't care a button for him." "Very likely! I meant as an amoureux. One does n't want a lover one pities, and one does n't want - of all things in the world - a husband who's a picturesque curiosity."
Word: tes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of te Labels: form-of, plural
Word: vindictiveness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From vindictive + -ness. Pronunciation: /vɪnˈdɪk.tɪv.nəs/, /vɪnˈdɪk.tɪv.nɪs/ 1. The condition of being vindictive; a malevolent desire for revenge. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: Lord Avonleigh was an angry rather than a vindictive man. Vindictiveness requires more energy of character than he possessed. Indeed, it may be questioned whether he would of himself have taken the violent measures of the preceding evening.
Word: vinegar Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *weh₁y-? Proto-Indo-European *-ō Proto-Indo-European *wéyh₁ōder. Proto-Italic *wīnom Latin vīnum Old French vin Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱ- Proto-Indo-European *-rós Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱrós Proto-Italic *akris Classical Latin ācer Late Latin ācrus Old French aigre Old French vinaigrebor. Middle English vynegre English vinegar From Middle English vynegre, from Old French vinaigre from Old French vyn egre, based on Latin vīnum (“wine”) + Latin ācer (“sour”). Displaced Old English æċed (survived in Middle English eced). Pronunciation: /ˈvɪnəɡəː/, [ˈvɪnəɡəː], /ˈvɪnəɡɚ/, [ˈvɪ̟nəɡɚ] ~ [ˈvɪ̟nəɡɹ̩] 1. A sour liquid formed by the fermentation of alcohol used as a condiment or preservative; a dilute solution of acetic acid. Labels: uncountable Example: In Persia, newly married couples were presented with sheep's trotters steeped in vinegar as a love enticement. 2. Any variety of vinegar. Labels: countable Example: a range of herb-flavoured vinegars 3. Vigor; vitality. Labels: US, countable, informal, uncountable Example: You full of vinegar now, but you 'bout through / We gonna get a steam drill to do your share of driving / Then what's all them muscles gonna do? Huh, John Henry? / Gonna take a little bit of vinegar out of you. Example: [Rahm Emanuel] was full of vinegar on his proposal of mandatory retirement at age 75 for the president and the rest of the executive branch, as well as Congress and the judiciary.
Word: vinegar Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *weh₁y-? Proto-Indo-European *-ō Proto-Indo-European *wéyh₁ōder. Proto-Italic *wīnom Latin vīnum Old French vin Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱ- Proto-Indo-European *-rós Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱrós Proto-Italic *akris Classical Latin ācer Late Latin ācrus Old French aigre Old French vinaigrebor. Middle English vynegre English vinegar From Middle English vynegre, from Old French vinaigre from Old French vyn egre, based on Latin vīnum (“wine”) + Latin ācer (“sour”). Displaced Old English æċed (survived in Middle English eced). Pronunciation: /ˈvɪnəɡəː/, [ˈvɪnəɡəː], /ˈvɪnəɡɚ/, [ˈvɪ̟nəɡɚ] ~ [ˈvɪ̟nəɡɹ̩] 1. To season or otherwise treat with vinegar. Labels: transitive Example: Accordingly, after a vast amount of moaning and crying up-stairs, and much damping of foreheads, and vinegaring of temples, and hartshorning of noses, and so forth […]
Word: jobsworth Part of Speech: noun Etymology: A compound of job + -s- + worth, derived from the phrase “It’s more than me job’s worth” or “... my job’s worth” as used in denial of a request by a functionary, chiefly popularized by Jeremy Taylor's 1973 song “Jobsworth” and the 1973–1994 BBC television series That’s Life! which focused on consumer affairs and gave a “Jobsworth of the Week” award to “a startling tale of going by the book”. Pronunciation: /ˈd͡ʒɒbzwɜːθ/, /-wəθ/, /ˈd͡ʒɑbzˌwɝθ/ 1. A person who upholds trivial rules unnecessarily and obstructively in order to exercise their (typically minor) authority. Labels: UK, derogatory, informal Example: The usual council jobsworths came down to tell them to stop playing football. Example: For many people, however, the stress of not having the correct ticket for a train or bus journey can lead to a particularly uncomfortable feeling … fear that they might encounter a jobsworth. […] Someone who has been caught out by a jobsworth, will probably accuse them of being an embittered, mean-spirited inadequate who are using their status to give themselves faux importance, justifying their actions by their twin mantras of "Rules is rules" and, inevitably, "It's more than my job's worth."
Word: dour Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Borrowed from Scots dour, possibly from Latin dūrus (“hard, stern”), via Middle Irish dúr. Compare French dur, Catalan dur, Italian duro, Portuguese duro, Romanian dur, Spanish duro. Doublet of dure. Pronunciation: /ˈdʊə/, /ˈdaʊə/, /ˈdʊɹ/, /ˈdaʊɚ/, /ˈdaʊ.ɚ/ 1. Stern, harsh and forbidding. Example: The principal reason is that, in competition with modern road vehicles running over motorways, B.R. has a dour struggle to match the performance of its rivals cost-wise. Example: I was reminded of the dour priests and salesmen of the nineteenth century who believed that the plebs wouldn’t be able to handle getting the vote, or a decent wage, or, least of all, leisure, and who backed the seventy-hour workweek as an efficacious instrument in the fight against liquor. 2. Unyielding and obstinate. 3. Expressing gloom or melancholy.
Word: dour Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of daur. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: The detachment that went out the day before yesterday on a dour have not returned: the party consisted of 200 Highlanders and 100 Sikhs, also twenty horsemen.
Word: prime factor Part of Speech: noun 1. A factor of a given integer which is also a prime number. Example: Hence, the prime factors of 100 are 1, 2, 2, 5, 5, and 1 × 2 × 2 × 5 × 5 = 100. From the above illustration, we derive the following rule for finding all the prime factors of any composite number. Example: Theorem 5.5 Dickman's Theorem. The probability of a number N chosen at random having a prime factor between N#92;alpha and N#123;#92;alpha(1#43;#92;delta)#125; is approximately #61;#92;delta, independent of the magnitude of #92;alpha, if #92;delta is small. 2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see prime, factor. Example: It became apparent to me that Mr. Genthner's open profession of being gay was the prime factor in his conviction and sentencing.
Word: prime factor Part of Speech: verb 1. To reduce an integer to its set of prime factors. Labels: transitive Example: Any composite number can be prime factored; that is, it can be written as a product of prime numbers (excluding 1) in one and only one way.[…]When prime factoring numbers, it is standard to rearrange the factors so that the numbers are in increasing order. Example: For example, the number 30, which is not prime, can be prime factored as 2 x 3 x 5.
Word: logophile Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From logo- + -phile. 1. One who loves words; a word buff.
Word: the whole nine yards Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Dave Wilton summarises the findings of Bonnie Taylor-Blake and others: :The phrase doesn’t have one particular origin, nor does it represent one particular metaphor. Instead, it seems to have evolved from a sense of yard meaning a vague quantity of something. Later, the words full or whole were attached to it, and even later it was quantified by the numbers six and nine, with the whole nine yards eventually winning out and becoming the canonical form. Use of the full phrase was for a long time restricted to the American Midwest, in particular to the region around the Kentucky–Indiana border, before breaking out into general American parlance in the middle of the twentieth century. … :So regardless of what someone else has told you, the whole nine yards does not refer to the length of a belt of WWII machine-gun ammunition, the amount of material needed to make a Scottish kilt or a sari, the number of spars on a sailing ship, the amount of concrete a cement mixer holds, or anything else. Pronunciation: /ðə ˌhoʊl ˌnaɪn ˈjɑɹdz/ 1. All the way; with everything done completely or thoroughly. Example: Would they want me to vote my conscience or would they want us to unanimously go the whole nine yards, declare him sane and possibly have the trial end up in a death sentence? Example: WWE went the whole nine yards, from making Tshirts with the slogan to having announcers mention his new handle approximately every four seconds anytime he was on-screen.
Word: the whole nine yards Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Dave Wilton summarises the findings of Bonnie Taylor-Blake and others: :The phrase doesn’t have one particular origin, nor does it represent one particular metaphor. Instead, it seems to have evolved from a sense of yard meaning a vague quantity of something. Later, the words full or whole were attached to it, and even later it was quantified by the numbers six and nine, with the whole nine yards eventually winning out and becoming the canonical form. Use of the full phrase was for a long time restricted to the American Midwest, in particular to the region around the Kentucky–Indiana border, before breaking out into general American parlance in the middle of the twentieth century. … :So regardless of what someone else has told you, the whole nine yards does not refer to the length of a belt of WWII machine-gun ammunition, the amount of material needed to make a Scottish kilt or a sari, the number of spars on a sailing ship, the amount of concrete a cement mixer holds, or anything else. Pronunciation: /ðə ˌhoʊl ˌnaɪn ˈjɑɹdz/ 1. everything; often used, like etc., to finish out a list. Example: While there Roscoe went fishing and has a big story to tell, but we refuse to stand while he unloads. He will catch some unsuspecting individual some of these days and give him the whole nine yards. Example: "I had a good job, a nice little house, the whole nine yards," she said.
Word: balls to the wall Part of Speech: adv Etymology: First attested in the 1960s in the context of aviation, in reference to ball-shaped grips on an aircraft's engine controls (typically throttle, prop pitch and fuel mixture). Pushing these "balls to the wall" would put the aircraft at maximum thrust. Analogous to pedal to the metal. Not related to the term balls-out, which refers to a ball governor on a steam engine. Neither balls-out nor balls to the wall is connected with the vulgar sense of balls (“testicles”) except via folk etymology. 1. With maximum effort or commitment. Labels: US, idiomatic, not-comparable, slang Example: I told the staff...the day before the hurricane struck that I expected them to cut every piece of red tape, do everything they could, that it was balls to the wall, that I didn't want to hear anybody say that we couldn't do anything—to do everything they humanly could to respond. Example: “I always go balls to the wall,” founding Ape Gordon Goner tells Rolling Stone over Zoom. 2. Full throttle; (at) maximum speed. Labels: US, idiomatic, not-comparable, slang
Word: package holiday Part of Speech: noun 1. A holiday that consists of transport and accommodation advertised and sold together by a vendor known as a tour operator. Labels: Commonwealth, Ireland, UK
Word: non-negative Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From non- + negative. 1. Not negative. Labels: not-comparable Example: a non-negative self-evaluation 2. Of an element of a partially ordered ring, either positive or zero; not negative; greater than or equal to zero. Labels: not-comparable Example: Distances are non-negative. 3. Of a function, functional, etc. which has non-negative values over a particular domain D. Labels: not-comparable Example: For all x∈D, f(x)>0
Word: zero hour Part of Speech: noun 1. Synonym of H-hour. Example: I waited with occasional glances at my watch until the zero hour should arrive. Example: Zero hour was forty-five minutes after midnight.Two companies were to attack on a 600-yard front […].
Word: zero-rated Part of Speech: adj 1. Subject to no value-added tax when sold (but in which the supplier can still recover VAT attributable to it). Labels: UK, not-comparable
Word: zero-rated Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of zero-rate Labels: form-of, participle, past