nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: cacophony Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Ancient Greek κᾰκός (kăkós) Ancient Greek κακο- (kako-) Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂-der. Proto-Hellenic *pʰōnā́ Ancient Greek φωνή (phōnḗ) Ancient Greek -ος (-os) Ancient Greek κᾰκόφωνος (kăkóphōnos) Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-i-eh₂ Proto-Hellenic *-íā Ancient Greek -ῐ́ᾱ (-ĭ́ā) Ancient Greek κᾰκοφωνῐ́ᾱ (kăkophōnĭ́ā)bor. French cacophonieder. English cacophony From French cacophonie, from Ancient Greek κακοφωνία (kakophōnía), from κακός (kakós, “bad”) + φωνή (phōnḗ, “sound”), equivalent to caco- + -phony. Pronunciation: /kəˈkɒfəni/, /kəˈkɑfəni/ 1. A mix of discordant sounds; dissonance. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: 1921-1922, H. P. Lovecraft, Herbert West: Reanimator, Not more unutterable could have been the chaos of hellish sound if the pit itself had opened to release the agony of the damned, for in one inconceivable cacophony was centered all the supernal terror and unnatural despair of animate nature. Example: The Japanese got their attack in first. About ten minutes after passing the U.S. aircraft, they spotted Hornet (local weather patterns temporarily concealing Enterprise). Things had improved a little bit compared to the Eastern Solomons, and three dozen F4F Wildcats on combat air patrol were vectored onto the oncoming hostiles, but once that initial task was accomplished, things began to collapse back into the cacophony and chaos that was all too familiar to those aboard the Enterprise, meaning that the end result was round about the same[…]
Word: migratory Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Borrowed from Latin migrātōrius or migrate + -ory. Pronunciation: /ˈmaɪ.ɡɹəˌtɔɹ.i/, /ˌmaɪˈɡɹeɪ.tə.ɹi/ 1. Migrating. Labels: not-comparable Example: To cope with daily variation of environmental parameters, talitrids evolved a migratory behaviour, synchronized with tidal and nictemeral cycles, that enable them to locate the suitable patches of habitat on the shore (Pardi and Ercolini 1986). Example: Even among migratory species, only a few (Aglaura hemistoma, Abylopsis tetragona eudoxids, Beroe sp., Thalia democratica, Salpa fusiformis) crossed the thermocline and reached the bottom layer. 2. Roving; wandering; nomadic. Labels: not-comparable Example: migratory habits; a migratory life
Word: migratory Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Latin migrātōrius or migrate + -ory. Pronunciation: /ˈmaɪ.ɡɹəˌtɔɹ.i/, /ˌmaɪˈɡɹeɪ.tə.ɹi/ 1. Clipping of migratory bird. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, clipping
Word: migrate Part of Speech: verb Etymology: First attested in 1623; borrowed from Latin migrātus, perfect passive participle of migrō (“to migrate, change, transport”), see -ate (verb-forming suffix). Pronunciation: /maɪˈɡɹeɪt/, /ˈmaɪ.ɡɹeɪt/ 1. To relocate periodically from one region to another, usually according to the seasons. Labels: intransitive Example: Twice a year the geese migrate — from Florida to Canada and back again. Example: Twice a year the Minnesotans migrate from their state to the Gulf of Mexico. 2. To change one's geographic pattern of habitation. Labels: intransitive Example: Many groups had migrated to western Europe from the plains of eastern Europe. 3. To change habitations across a border; to move from one country or political region to another. Labels: intransitive Example: To escape persecution, they migrated to a neutral country. Example: Little is more extraordinary than the decision to migrate, little more extraordinary than the accumulation of emotions and thoughts which finally leads a family to say farewell to a community where it has lived for centuries, to abandon old ties and familiar landmarks, and to sail across dark seas to a strange land. 4. To move slowly towards, usually in groups. Labels: intransitive Example: Once the hosts started bickering in the kitchens, the guests began to migrate towards the living room. 5. To move gradually, especially from an intended to an unintended position. Labels: intransitive Example: Oil was able to migrate from the accessory gearbox into the magneto housing through the improperly installed gland seals. Example: It is very common for the position of the placenta to change as the uterus stretches and grows. An anterior placenta can migrate toward the top, sides, or back of the uterus as the weeks go on. 6. To move computer code or files from one computer or network to another. Labels: transitive Example: They had finished migrating all of the affected code to the production server by 2:00am, three hours later than expected. 7. To induce customers to shift purchases from one set of a company's related products to another. Labels: transitive Example: We were hoping to migrate the customers of the "C" series to the "E" series and the "E" customers to the "S" series.
Word: migration Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle French migration and its source, Latin migrātiō, from the participle stem of migrō (“to migrate”). Morphologically migrate + -ion. Pronunciation: /maɪˈɡɹeɪʃ(ə)n/ 1. An instance of moving to live in another place for a while. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. Seasonal moving of animals, as mammals, birds or fish, especially between breeding and non-breeding areas. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Many of these classic methods are still used, with some modern improvements. For example, with the aid of special microphones and automated sound detection software, ornithologists recently reported […] that pine siskins (Spinus pinus) undergo an irregular, nomadic type of nocturnal migration. 3. Movement in general. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The migration of lead from a can to the food inside it can cause lead poisoning. 4. Instance of changing a platform from an environment to another one. Labels: countable, uncountable 5. The movement of cells in particular directions to specific locations. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: minivet Part of Speech: noun Etymology: 1862. Unknown 1. Any of about 13 species of passerine birds in the genus Pericrocotus of the cuckooshrike family of southern and eastern Asia.
Word: valuable Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree English value Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlis Proto-Italic *-ðlis Latin -bilis Latin -ābilis Old French -ablebor. Middle English -able English -able English valuable From value + -able. Pronunciation: /ˈvælju(ə)bl̩/, /ˈvæljəbl̩/ 1. Having a great value. Example: valuable gemstones 2. Estimable; deserving esteem. Example: a valuable friend; a valuable companion Example: Truly valuable things have no price and cannot be bought.
Word: valuable Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English value Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlis Proto-Italic *-ðlis Latin -bilis Latin -ābilis Old French -ablebor. Middle English -able English -able English valuable From value + -able. Pronunciation: /ˈvælju(ə)bl̩/, /ˈvæljəbl̩/ 1. A personal possession such as jewellery, of relatively great monetary value. Labels: plural-normally Example: One particular valuable is a gemstone mosaic.
Word: dial Part of Speech: noun Etymology: The original meaning was 'sundial' and/or 'clock dial'; from Middle English diall, from Middle French dyal, from Latin diālis (“daily, concerning the day”), because of its use in telling the time of day, from Latin diēs (“day”). Compare Spanish dial and día (“day”). Pronunciation: /ˈdaɪ.əl/, [ˈdaɪ.əɫ] 1. A graduated, circular scale over which a needle moves to show a measurement (such as speed). Example: Holonyms: (often holonymous) instrument, gauge Example: The dial on the dashboard showed the car was nearly out of gas. 2. A graduated, circular scale over which a needle moves to show a measurement (such as speed). 3. A sundial. 4. A panel on a radio etc showing wavelengths or channels; a knob that is turned to change the wavelength etc. Example: Turn the dial to Radio 4: my favourite show is on! 5. A disk with finger holes on a telephone; used to select the number to be called. Example: His hands were too fat to operate the dial on the telephone. 6. A person's face. Labels: Australia, UK, slang Example: “Well, all I can say is that if yer don't take yer dial outer the road I'll bloomin' well take an' bounce a gibber off yer crust.” Example: At the sound of the old familiar voice he spun around with something of the agility of a cat on hot bricks, and I saw that his dial, usually cheerful, was contorted with anguish, as if he had swallowed a bad oyster. 7. A miner's compass.
Word: dial Part of Speech: verb Etymology: The original meaning was 'sundial' and/or 'clock dial'; from Middle English diall, from Middle French dyal, from Latin diālis (“daily, concerning the day”), because of its use in telling the time of day, from Latin diēs (“day”). Compare Spanish dial and día (“day”). Pronunciation: /ˈdaɪ.əl/, [ˈdaɪ.əɫ] 1. To control or select something with a dial, or (figuratively) as if with a dial. Labels: transitive Example: The lead guitarist for the rock band Spinal Tap dialed his amplifier to 11. Example: The president has recently dialled down the rhetoric. 2. To select a number, or to call someone, on a telephone, regardless of whether a physical dial is present. Labels: transitive Example: In an emergency dial 999. 3. To use a dial or a telephone. Labels: intransitive Example: Please be careful when dialling. 4. To initiate a connection to a remote computer service such as a database. Labels: transitive Example: The application failed when attempting to dial the Postgres server, because there were too many open connections. 5. To use a dial-up modem to connect a personal computer to the Internet. Labels: dated, intransitive Example: I always check my guestbook when I dial, just in case anyone saw my Web site.
Word: shark Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English shark (used by Thomas Beckington in 1442 to refer to a kind of fish), of uncertain origin. Most likely from a semantic extension of the German-derived shark (“scoundrel”), see below. The fish was originally called a dogfish or haye in English and Middle English. Its name in Old English is unknown, although some uses of the word hranfisċ that do not appear to carry the sense of "whale" may have been referencing it. alternative theories Some older dictionaries derived the word from Latin c(h)archarias, c(h)acharus (from Ancient Greek), but admit that "the requisite [Old French] forms intermediate between E. shark and L. carcharus are not found, and it is not certain that the name [shark] was orig. applied to the fish; it may have been first used of a greedy man". Other older authorities speculated that the word might derive from Yucatec Maya xok (“fish”) (/ʃok/), as John Hawkins brought a specimen from the area where Mayan was spoken to England in the 1560s. However, the 1442 use rules out a New World origin for the word. Pronunciation: /ʃɑːk/, /ʃɑɹk/ 1. To fish for sharks. Labels: intransitive, rare 2. Of a university student who is not a fresher (first-year undergraduate), and especially towards the start of the academic year: Labels: UK, derogatory, mildly, transitive 3. Of a university student who is not a fresher (first-year undergraduate), and especially towards the start of the academic year: Labels: UK, derogatory, intransitive, mildly
Word: shark Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From German Schurke (“scoundrel”); compare Dutch schurk. Pronunciation: /ʃɑːk/, /ʃɑɹk/ 1. Someone who exploits others, for example by trickery, lies, usury, extortion. Example: “[…] Churchill, my dear fellow, we have such greedy sharks, and wolves in lamb's clothing. Oh, dear, there's so much to tell you, so many warnings to give you, but all that must be postponed for the moment.” Example: “Look after her, Mr. Hastings. My poor Emily. They’re a lot of sharks—all of them. Oh, I know what I’m talking about. There isn’t one of them that’s not hard up and trying to get money out of her. I’ve protected her as much as I could. Now I’m out of the way, they’ll impose upon her.” 2. A sleazy and amoral lawyer. Labels: derogatory, informal 3. An ambulance chaser. Labels: derogatory, informal 4. A relentless and resolute person or group, especially in business. Labels: informal Example: In the event they lacked a proper midfield bolt, with Toni Kroos and Sami Khedira huffing around in pursuit of the whizzing green machine. The centre-backs looked flustered, left to deal with three on two as Mexico broke. Löw’s 4-2-3-1 seemed antiquated and creaky, with the old World Cup shark Thomas Müller flat-footed in a wide position. 5. A person that excels in a particular field. 6. A person that excels in a particular field. Labels: informal, proscribed 7. A person who feigns ineptitude to win money from others.
Word: shark Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From German Schurke (“scoundrel”); compare Dutch schurk. Pronunciation: /ʃɑːk/, /ʃɑɹk/ 1. To steal or obtain through fraud. Labels: obsolete Example: Shakespeare and others, Sir Thomas More (c. 1593) act 2, sc. 4: "Other ruffians...Would shark on you." 2. To play the petty thief; to practice fraud or trickery; to swindle. Labels: intransitive, obsolete Example: Neither sharks for a cup or a reckoning. 3. To live by shifts and stratagems. Labels: intransitive, obsolete Example: Ah Captaine, lay not all the fault upon Officers you know you can ſhark though you be out of action, witneſſe Montague. Example: But a good man ſhall be ſatisfied from himſelf] For he hath a ſpring vvithin his ovvn breaſt, he needs not ſharke abroad: he hath an autarkie, a ſelf-ſufficiency, 1 Tim[othy] 6.6.
Word: shark Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Probably from the "steal" senses above, but perhaps related to shear. Compare shirk. Pronunciation: /ʃɑːk/, /ʃɑɹk/ 1. To pick or gather indiscriminately or covertly. Labels: obsolete Example: Fortenbraſſe […] Hath […] Sharkt vp a ſight of lawleſſe Reſolutes […]
Word: whale Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *(s)kʷálos Proto-Germanic *hwalaz Proto-West Germanic *hwal Old English hwæl Middle English whal English whale From Middle English whal, whale, from Old English hwæl (“whale”), from Proto-West Germanic *hwal, from Proto-Germanic *hwalaz (“whale”) (compare German Wal, Swedish val, Danish and Norwegian Bokmål hval, Norwegian Nynorsk kval; compare also Dutch walvis, West Frisian walfisk, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kʷálos (“sheatfish”) (compare German Wels, Latin squalus (“big sea fish”), Old Prussian kalis, Ancient Greek ἄσπαλος (áspalos), Avestan 𐬐𐬀𐬭𐬀 (kara, “kind of fish”)). Pronunciation: /ˈweɪl/, /ˈwɛj(ə)l/, /ˈwæɪl/, /ˈweːl/, /ˈʍel/ 1. To hunt for whales. Labels: intransitive
Word: whale Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Uncertain. Perhaps a variant of wale influenced by whack, whap, etc. Pronunciation: /ˈweɪl/, /ˈwɛj(ə)l/, /ˈwæɪl/, /ˈweːl/, /ˈʍel/ 1. To thrash, to flog, to beat vigorously or soundly. Labels: slang, transitive Example: Brought him back, put him in the stall—low stable—got out of his reach, and then begun to whale him. Then he kicked up agin; […] Example: "I wouldn't let him. When you were a boy in your part of the country, and other boys told tales about you, what did you do with them?" "Whaled 'em like time, Captin'," answered the man; "and if ye'll only shet yer eyes to 't, I'll whale him." "I can't allow such things in the prison," said the Captain; "and besides, the fellow will be lame for a fortnight, and wouldn't be a match for you in that condition. Let him get limber, and then, if you don't whale him, I'll make you walk the ladder for a month." The result was, the conscript officer received a sound thrashing; and did not commit another act worthy of punishment for a week.
Word: raison d'être Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from French raison d'être (literally “a reason to be/exist”). Pronunciation: /ˌɹeɪzɒ̃ ˈdɛtɹə/, /ˌɹɛzɒ̃ ˈdɛtɹə/, /ˌɹeɪzɒn ˈdɛtɹə/, /ˌɹeɪzɑn ˈdɛtɹə/ 1. A reason for being; the claimed reason for the existence of something or someone; the sole or ultimate purpose of something or someone. Example: Surfing became his raison d’être. Example: These raison d'etre and this evolution are not merely the achievement of men's conscious activity but are the unintentional results of their social activity.
Word: glutton Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English glotoun, from Old French gloton, gluton, from Latin gluttō, gluttōnis (“glutton”). The use for the wolverine is a semantic loan from German Vielfraß, itself a folk etymology for Old Norse *fjallfress (literally “mountain cat”). The popular belief that the wolverine is particularly voracious only developed because of this name. See the German for more. Pronunciation: /ˈɡlʌtn̩/ 1. Gluttonous; greedy; gormandizing. Example: A glutton monastery in former ages makes a hungry ministry in our days. Example: So, so, thou common dog, didst thou disgorge Thy glutton bosom of the royal Richard?
Word: glutton Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English glotoun, from Old French gloton, gluton, from Latin gluttō, gluttōnis (“glutton”). The use for the wolverine is a semantic loan from German Vielfraß, itself a folk etymology for Old Norse *fjallfress (literally “mountain cat”). The popular belief that the wolverine is particularly voracious only developed because of this name. See the German for more. Pronunciation: /ˈɡlʌtn̩/ 1. One who eats voraciously, obsessively, or to excess; a gormandizer. Example: Such a glutton would eat until his belly hurts. 2. One who consumes anything voraciously, obsessively, or to excess. Labels: broadly Example: "Gluttons in murder, wanton to destroy." Example: "A good few indeed, my man," replied the captain. "Yes, you may make away with a deal of money and be neither drunkard nor glutton." 3. The wolverine, Gulo gulo. Labels: archaic Example: [A] civil establishment […] is the animal called a glutton, which falling from a tree (in which it generally conceals itself) upon some noble animal, immediately begins to tear it, and suck its blood […]. 4. A giant petrel. Labels: colloquial
Word: glutton Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English glotoun, from Old French gloton, gluton, from Latin gluttō, gluttōnis (“glutton”). The use for the wolverine is a semantic loan from German Vielfraß, itself a folk etymology for Old Norse *fjallfress (literally “mountain cat”). The popular belief that the wolverine is particularly voracious only developed because of this name. See the German for more. Pronunciation: /ˈɡlʌtn̩/ 1. To glut; to satisfy (especially an appetite) by filling to capacity. Labels: archaic Example: Glutton'd at last, return at home to pine. Example: In some cities their [local branches] have become gluttoned with success, and in their misguided overzealous ambition they are 'killing the goose that lays the golden egg.' 2. To glut; to eat voraciously. Labels: obsolete Example: Whereon in Egypt gluttoning they fed. Example: Thus do I pine and surfeit day by day, / Or gluttoning on all, or all away.
Word: Teresa Part of Speech: name Etymology: First recorded as the name of a fourth-century Spanish saint. Of obscure origin; suggestions include Therasia or Thera, ancient name of the Greek island Thira. Pronunciation: /təˈɹiː.sə/, /təˈɹiː.zə/ 1. A female given name from Ancient Greek, the Spanish and Italian form of Theresa. Example: My friends call me Terry. My husband always used my full name, Teresa. He said it made him feel like he was married to a foreign woman. Example: Cynthia and Melinda, reduced to Cindy and Mindy, as Carella had dreaded would happen from the moment she named them. Her older daughter had fared better. Tess, modern and sleek for Teresa, which conjured up cobblestoned streets in a mountain village in Potenza. 2. A municipality of Rizal, Philippines.
Word: fine-structure constant Part of Speech: noun 1. The fundamental physical value α, presumed to be constant, that characterizes the strength of the electromagnetic force. Equal to about 1/137 = 0.0072973525. Labels: uncountable
Word: pays Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /peɪz/ 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of pay Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: pays Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /peɪz/ 1. plural of pay Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Strasburg Part of Speech: name 1. A city in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany. 2. A census-designated place in Adams County and Arapahoe County, Colorado. 3. A village in Shelby County, Illinois. 4. A tiny city in Cass County, Missouri. 5. A tiny city in Emmons County, North Dakota. 6. A village in Tuscarawas County, Ohio. 7. A borough and township in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, named after Strasbourg, France. 8. A town in Shenandoah County, Virginia. 9. Obsolete form of Strasbourg (“French city”). Labels: alt-of, obsolete Example: Some fine day we may have the country raised, and the gendarmes down upon us from Strasburg, and all owing to your pretty doll, with her cunning ways of coming over you.
Word: SSBM Part of Speech: name 1. Initialism of Super Smash Bros. Melee. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Word: isochronal Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἴσος (ísos, “equal”) + χρόνος (khrónos, “time”) + -al. 1. Having the same duration. Labels: not-comparable 2. Happening at regular periods; isochronous, periodic. Labels: not-comparable 3. Time-dependent. Labels: not-comparable
Word: amass Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English *amassen (found only as Middle English massen (“to amass”)), from Anglo-Norman amasser, from Medieval Latin amassāre, from ad + massa (“lump, mass”). See mass. Pronunciation: /əˈmæs/ 1. To collect into a mass or heap. Labels: transitive 2. to gather a great quantity of; to accumulate. Labels: transitive Example: to amass a treasure or a fortune Example: to amass words or phrases 3. To accumulate; to assemble. Labels: intransitive
Word: amass Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English *amassen (found only as Middle English massen (“to amass”)), from Anglo-Norman amasser, from Medieval Latin amassāre, from ad + massa (“lump, mass”). See mass. Pronunciation: /əˈmæs/ 1. A large number of things collected or piled together. Labels: obsolete Example: [T]his Pillar [the "Compounded Order"] is nothing in effect, but a Medlie, or an Amaſſe of all the precedent Ornaments, making a nevv kinde, by ſtealth, and though the moſt richly tricked, yet the pooreſt in this, that he is a borrovver of all his Beautie. Example: […] others are drawn, not as portraits, not strict copies of these most essential characteristic parts, but filled up afterwards from memory, and a general idea of an amass of arms, without the specific one of a trophæal amass, which is the fact of these bas-relieves. 2. The act of amassing. Labels: obsolete Example: He [the general] must neuer permit the Captaines to depart from the place, where he made the Amasse and collection of the Companies, with their bands out of order or disseuered, although they should depart to some place neere adioyning, vnlesse he were forced by some occasion of great necessity and importance:
Word: amateur Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from French amateur, from Latin amātor (“lover”), from amāre (“to love”). Pronunciation: /ˈæ.mə.tə/, /ˈæ.mə.t͡ʃɚ/, /ˈæ.mə.t͡ʃʊɚ/, /ˈæ.mə.tɚ/ 1. A lover of something. Labels: archaic Example: he conducted extensive correspondence on wines with European suppliers, employing a wine vocabulary familiar to any modern amateur of wines. 2. A person attached to a particular pursuit, study, science, or art (such as music or painting), especially one who cultivates any study, interest, taste, or attachment without engaging in it professionally. Example: The contest is only open to amateurs. Example: You see, I'm not an official in any sense so I can't plead privilege and invoke the powers to back me. In the eyes of a jury I should be merely an interfering amateur—and there's such a thing as defamation. 3. Someone who is unqualified or insufficiently skillful. Example: The entire thing was built by some amateurs with screwdrivers and plywood.
Word: amateur Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Borrowed from French amateur, from Latin amātor (“lover”), from amāre (“to love”). Pronunciation: /ˈæ.mə.tə/, /ˈæ.mə.t͡ʃɚ/, /ˈæ.mə.t͡ʃʊɚ/, /ˈæ.mə.tɚ/ 1. Non-professional. 2. Created, done, or populated by amateurs or non-professionals. Example: amateur sports 3. Showing a lack of professionalism, experience or talent. Example: Duct tape is a sure sign of amateur workmanship. Example: To put that into perspective, this celebrity wedding is officially way more secure than last year’s US operation to bomb Houthi targets in Yemen, in advance of which you might recall a journalist was added to the top-level group chat by the then national security adviser. So amateur. Taylor would never.
Word: amazement Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From amaze + -ment. Pronunciation: /əˈmeɪz.mənt/ 1. The condition of being amazed; a state of overwhelming wonder, as from surprise or sudden fear, horror, or admiration; a feeling of intense astonishment or awe, as from witnessing something incredible and impressive. Labels: uncountable Example: We stared in amazement at the skills on display. Example: The amazement that painting sparked in me lasted until the tour guide jolted me out of it. 2. A particular feeling of wonder, surprise, fear, or horror. Labels: archaic, countable Example: Were believers thoroughly persuaded of what God meaneth, by these things, they would not be so liable to those frights and amazements which distract and disturb them. Example: In the midst of ill rumours and amazements, his countenance changeth not. 3. Something which amazes. Labels: countable, dated Example: So impossible did it seem that such an amazement of horse-flesh could ever be hers. Example: I believe the Urchin showed more enthusiasm over the stone and the robin than over any of the amazements that succeeded them. 4. Madness, frenzy. Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable
Word: amazingly Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree English amazing Middle English -ly English -ly English amazingly From amazing + -ly. Pronunciation: /əˈmeɪzɪŋli/ 1. In an amazing manner; in a way that causes amazement; wonderfully. Example: That violin solo was played amazingly. Example: While at first in the U.S.A. it may have been a matter of high-pressure salesmanship—and it has undoubtely been the irresistible enterprise of the General Motors Corporation, through its Electro-Motive subsidiary, that has set in motion this amazingly rapid transformation of American railway motive power, and has caused all the steam locomotive builders in the U.S.A. to follow suit or be left out in the cold—it seems now beyond dispute that, so far as the U.S.A. is concerned, the economics of the power question can be solved no other way. 2. Difficult to believe; strange but true. Example: Amazingly, no one was injured in the crash. Example: Signalman Bridges was killed by the blast, as was fireman Nightall. Amazingly, driver Gimbert came round some 200 yards away, on the grass outside the Station Hotel where he had been flung. 3. To a wonder-inspiring extent. Example: The car has amazingly low fuel consumption. Example: The disease AIDS is wiping out a significant portion of the Gay Community and concerns about it are well-justified. But there is another disease that strikes an amazingly high percentage in our community. This disease is Chemical Dependency.
Word: ambassador Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English ambassadore, from Anglo-Norman ambassadeur, from Old Italian ambassadore, from Old Occitan ambaisador (“ambassador”), derivative of ambaissa (“service, mission, errand”), ultimately from Proto-Germanic *ambahtaz (“servant”), from Gaulish ambaxtos, from Proto-Celtic *ambaxtos, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂m̥bʰi-h₂eǵ- (“drive around”), from *h₂m̥bʰi- (“around”) + *h₂eǵ- (“to drive”). Displaced native Old English ǣrendraca. Pronunciation: /æmˈbæs.ə.də(ɹ)/, /æmˈbæs.ə.dɚ/, /æmˈbæs.əˌdɔɹ/ 1. A diplomat of the highest rank sent to a foreign court to represent there their sovereign or country. (Sometimes called ambassador-in-residence) Example: Vergenne'fury reached its height when the priest tried to involve the English ambassador. 2. An official messenger and representative. Example: The new accusation brought by Urban against Manfred of murdering his sister-in-law's embassador – it may be observed that, tacitly, he acquits him of parricide, fratricide, and nepoticide – requires a little explanation. 3. A corporate representative, often the public face of the company. Example: As front hall porter, you are an ambassador for the hotel. 4. A player who is an excellent role-model and who upholds the integrity of the game and thereby contributes to the sport's popularity and growth.
Word: ambassadorial Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree English ambassador Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.? Proto-Italic *-ālis Latin -ālisder. Old French -ialder. Middle English -ial English -ial English ambassadorial From ambassador + -ial. Pronunciation: /æm.bæs.əˈdɔɹ.iəl/ 1. Of or pertaining to an ambassador. Example: Hull has gained significant investment in recent years, and Hull Trains Managing Director Louise Cheeseman is passionate about her company's ambassadorial role.
Word: ambition Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂ent- Proto-Indo-European *-s Proto-Indo-European *h₂énts? Proto-Indo-European *h₂m̥bʰíder. Proto-Italic *amβi- Latin ambi- Proto-Indo-European *h₁ey- Proto-Indo-European *h₁éyti Proto-Italic *ejō Proto-Italic *eō Latin eō Latin ambiō Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *-Hō Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō Proto-Italic *-tiō Latin -tiō Latin ambitiōder. Old French ambitionbor. Middle English ambicioun English ambition From Middle English ambicioun, from Old French ambition, from Latin ambitiō (“ambition, a striving for favor, literally 'a going around', especially of candidates for office in Rome soliciting votes”), from ambiō (“to go around, solicit votes”). See ambient, issue. By surface analysis, ambit + -ion. Pronunciation: /æmˈbɪʃ.ən/, [ɛəmˈbɪʃ.n̩], /ɛmˈbəʃ.ən/ 1. Eager or inordinate desire for some object that confers distinction, as preferment, honor, superiority, political power, or fame; desire to distinguish one's self from other people. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: My daughter, Johanna, wants to be a firefighter very much. She has a lot of ambition. Example: The third part of practice hath divers branches, but one principal root in these our times, which is the vast and overspreading ambition and usurpation of the see of Rome; […] 2. An object of an ardent desire. Labels: countable Example: My ambition is to own a helicopter. 3. A desire, as in (sense 1), for another person to achieve these things. Labels: countable, uncountable 4. A personal quality similar to motivation, not necessarily tied to a single goal. Labels: uncountable 5. The act of going about to solicit or obtain an office, or any other object of desire; canvassing. Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable Example: I on th' other ſide / Us'd no ambition to commend my deeds, […]
Word: ambition Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂ent- Proto-Indo-European *-s Proto-Indo-European *h₂énts? Proto-Indo-European *h₂m̥bʰíder. Proto-Italic *amβi- Latin ambi- Proto-Indo-European *h₁ey- Proto-Indo-European *h₁éyti Proto-Italic *ejō Proto-Italic *eō Latin eō Latin ambiō Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *-Hō Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō Proto-Italic *-tiō Latin -tiō Latin ambitiōder. Old French ambitionbor. Middle English ambicioun English ambition From Middle English ambicioun, from Old French ambition, from Latin ambitiō (“ambition, a striving for favor, literally 'a going around', especially of candidates for office in Rome soliciting votes”), from ambiō (“to go around, solicit votes”). See ambient, issue. By surface analysis, ambit + -ion. Pronunciation: /æmˈbɪʃ.ən/, [ɛəmˈbɪʃ.n̩], /ɛmˈbəʃ.ən/ 1. To seek after ambitiously or eagerly; to covet. Example: Pausanias, ambitioning the sovereignty of Greece, bargains with Xerxes for his daughter in marriage.
Word: ambitious Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English ambitious, from Middle French ambitieus, from Latin ambitiosus, from ambitio; see ambition. Compare with French ambitieux. By surface analysis, ambit + -ious. Pronunciation: /æmˈbɪʃ.əs/ 1. Having or showing ambition; wanting a lot of power, honor, respect, superiority, or other distinction. Example: an ambitious person Example: someone's ambitious nature 2. Very desirous. Example: 30 June 2019, Sam Wallace in The Telegraph, Manchester United must shape Aaron Wan-Bissaka into a £50m all-rounder - but there is no hiding place at Old Trafford Now he is joining a club ambitious to return to a model of dominating games and attacking opposition. Example: We were soon in the midst of the rapids, which were more swift and tumultuous than any we had poled up, and had turned to the side of the stream for the purpose of warping, when the boatmen, who felt some pride in their skill, and were ambitious to do something more than usual 3. Resulting from, characterized by, or indicating, ambition. Example: an ambitious project Example: an ambitious style 4. Hard to achieve. Example: an ambitious goal Example: A “moving platform” scheme[…]is more technologically ambitious than maglev trains even though it relies on conventional rails. Local trains would use side-by-side rails to roll alongside intercity trains and allow passengers to switch trains by stepping through docking bays. This set-up solves several problems […]. Stopping high-speed trains wastes energy and time, so why not simply slow them down enough for a moving platform to pull alongside?
Word: ambuscade Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From French embuscade, from Italian imboscata from the past participle of imboscare (“to ambush”), from Vulgar Latin *imbosco (“I hide, ambush”) (see there for more), from Frankish *busk (“bush”), from Proto-Germanic *buskaz (“bush, heavy stick”). Compare ambush. More at bush. Pronunciation: /ˈæmbəsˌkeɪd/ 1. An ambush; a trap laid for an enemy. Labels: dated Example: The plot of the tragedy at hand was the very old one of the decoy and the ambuscade […] Example: The yellow cat deliberately stretched himself, yawned, and followed; and proceeded to carry out a wonderful scheme of feints and ambuscades in regard to a ping-pong ball which was kept for his proper diversion. 2. The place in which troops lie hidden for an ambush. Example: I went so far with it in my Imagination, that I employed my self several days to find out proper Places to put my self in Ambuscade 3. The body of troops lying in ambush.
Word: ambuscade Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From French embuscade, from Italian imboscata from the past participle of imboscare (“to ambush”), from Vulgar Latin *imbosco (“I hide, ambush”) (see there for more), from Frankish *busk (“bush”), from Proto-Germanic *buskaz (“bush, heavy stick”). Compare ambush. More at bush. Pronunciation: /ˈæmbəsˌkeɪd/ 1. To lie in wait for, or to attack from a covert or lurking place; to waylay. Labels: dated Example: About noon we passed a small village in Merrimack at Thornton's Ferry, and tasted of the waters of Naticook Brook on the same side, where French and his companions, whose grave we saw in Dunstable, were ambuscaded by the Indians. Example: On the return to camp, the party was ambuscaded and dispersed, the officer and one man having been killed.
Word: blog Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *weyh₁-? Proto-Indo-European *wiHrós Proto-Germanic *weraz Proto-Indo-European *h₂el- Proto-Indo-European *h₂életi Proto-Germanic *alaną Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Germanic *-þiz Proto-Germanic *aldiz Proto-Germanic *weraldiz Proto-West Germanic *weraldi Old English weorold Middle English world English world Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁ Proto-Indo-European *dwi- Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁- Proto-Indo-European *h₁weydʰh₁-der. Proto-Germanic *wīdaz Old English wīd English wide English -wide English worldwide Proto-Indo-European *webʰ-der. Proto-Germanic *webaną Proto-Germanic *wabją Old English webb Middle English web English web English World Wide Web English Web Proto-Indo-European *legʰ- Proto-Indo-European *-yeti Proto-Indo-European *légʰyeti Proto-Germanic *ligjaną Old Norse liggjader.? Middle English logge English log Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂ǵosder.? Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂g-der.? Proto-Germanic *bōks Proto-West Germanic *bōk Old English bōc Middle English bok English book English logbook English log English weblog English blog Rebracketing of weblog, as if it means we blog. The Oxford English Dictionary says the shortened word was coined 23 May 1999 and references the "Jargon Watch" article in an issue of an online magazine which attributes the shortening to Peter Merholz. The form blog is now so much more common than weblog that some misspell the latter as webblog, as if from web + blog. Pronunciation: /blɒɡ/, /blɔɡ/, /blɑɡ/, [blɔ̟ɡ] 1. A website that allows users to reflect, share opinions, and discuss various topics in the form of an online journal, sometimes letting readers comment on their posts. Most blogs are written in a slightly informal tone (personal journals, news, businesses, etc.) Labels: Internet Example: So you see, the blog has been around since the beginning of the web; that is how basic the concept is. Today's blogs, and the activity of blogging, have taken on more meaning, but the concept of it all is still very simple and rooted in the beginning and intentions of the web itself. Example: Have you tried these, darling? They’re tempura zucchini flowers. Japanese-Italian fusion! My own invention. Shall I photograph it? We can put it on our blog. 2. An individual post to a blog. Labels: Internet Example: This blog was originally posted on my personal site but is reproduced on the forums for greater visibility.
Word: blog Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *weyh₁-? Proto-Indo-European *wiHrós Proto-Germanic *weraz Proto-Indo-European *h₂el- Proto-Indo-European *h₂életi Proto-Germanic *alaną Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Germanic *-þiz Proto-Germanic *aldiz Proto-Germanic *weraldiz Proto-West Germanic *weraldi Old English weorold Middle English world English world Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁ Proto-Indo-European *dwi- Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁- Proto-Indo-European *h₁weydʰh₁-der. Proto-Germanic *wīdaz Old English wīd English wide English -wide English worldwide Proto-Indo-European *webʰ-der. Proto-Germanic *webaną Proto-Germanic *wabją Old English webb Middle English web English web English World Wide Web English Web Proto-Indo-European *legʰ- Proto-Indo-European *-yeti Proto-Indo-European *légʰyeti Proto-Germanic *ligjaną Old Norse liggjader.? Middle English logge English log Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂ǵosder.? Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂g-der.? Proto-Germanic *bōks Proto-West Germanic *bōk Old English bōc Middle English bok English book English logbook English log English weblog English blog Rebracketing of weblog, as if it means we blog. The Oxford English Dictionary says the shortened word was coined 23 May 1999 and references the "Jargon Watch" article in an issue of an online magazine which attributes the shortening to Peter Merholz. The form blog is now so much more common than weblog that some misspell the latter as webblog, as if from web + blog. Pronunciation: /blɒɡ/, /blɔɡ/, /blɑɡ/, [blɔ̟ɡ] 1. To contribute to a blog. Labels: Internet, ambitransitive Example: Blogger Anil Dash summed up the initial reaction well when he blogged his assessment of Macromedia's new blogging strategy: […] Example: I hadn’t blogged myself, because I thought I had nothing to say. After 9/11, I did. So I planned to write the blog for a few weeks, until I ran out of memories.
Word: blog Part of Speech: verb Etymology: (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. ) Pronunciation: /blɒɡ/, /blɔɡ/, /blɑɡ/, [blɔ̟ɡ] 1. To blag, to steal something; to acquire something illegally. Labels: UK, slang
Word: blog Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /blɒɡ/, /blɔɡ/, /blɑɡ/, [blɔ̟ɡ] 1. Alternative letter-case form of Blog. Labels: alt-of, dated, humorous, slang, uncountable Example: The earliest form we know about composed before Rhysling was blinded, at some drinking bout, and the verses concerned what he would do at the SoLaCon I—if he could find enough blog, a mimeo, and a few willing femmefans. Example: The closest we came to that was not serving alcohol in the consuite one year. That was a significant success for it's [sic] main purpose. We actually came up with a definition of a fan, albeit a partial one phrased in the negative: Anyone who comes to Minicon just because there's free beer in the consuite is not a fan. That year there was more alcohol and more kinds* of alcohol than at any Minicon before or since; all the real fans who liked to drink brought their own and shared. The policy mainly discouraged the jerks who liked to hang out at the consuite and hit on the women. We did that for one year and happily went back to serving beer and blog.
Word: blog Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /blɒɡ/, /blɔɡ/, /blɑɡ/, [blɔ̟ɡ] 1. To look sullen or sulky Labels: West-Country, obsolete Example: […]Thee be olweys wother egging or yeaking […] blogging or glumping, rearing or snapping[…]
Word: exclude Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Borrowed from Latin exclūdō, from prefix ex- (“out”) + variant form of verb claudō (“close”). Pronunciation: /ɪksˈkluːd/ 1. To bar (someone or something) from entering; to keep out. Labels: transitive Example: One end of the east-west building is wet, the other windy, and at present there is smoke abounding, too; but these distressing yard elements can be completely excluded at each end by full-width folding doors [...]. Example: [T]he 1924 Immigration Act was designed specifically to exclude Eastern European Jews (among other undesirable European ethnic groups) from entering the country. 2. To expel; to put out. Labels: transitive Example: to exclude young animals from the womb or from eggs Example: […] for hungry birds have devoured ſeeds, and having moiſtened and warmed them in their bellies, a little after have dunged in the forky twiſtes of Trees, and together with their dung excluded the ſeed whole which erſt they had ſwallowed: and ſometimes it brings forth there where they dung it, […] 3. To omit from consideration. Labels: transitive Example: Count from 1 to 30, but exclude the prime numbers. 4. To refuse to accept (evidence) as valid. Labels: transitive 5. To eliminate from diagnostic consideration. Labels: transitive
Word: expel Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Late Middle English: from Latin expellere, from ex- (“out”) + pellere (“to drive”). Pronunciation: /ɪkˈspɛl/ 1. To eject. Labels: transitive 2. To fire (a bullet, arrow etc.). Labels: obsolete, transitive Example: But to the ground the idle quarrell fell: / Then he another and another did expell. 3. To remove from membership. Labels: transitive Example: He was expelled from school multiple times for disruptive behaviour. Example: She was Nicolas Sarkozy's pin-up for diversity, the first Muslim woman with north African parents to hold a major French government post. But Rachida Dati has now turned on her own party elite with such ferocity that some have suggested she should be expelled from the president's ruling party. 4. To deport. Labels: transitive
Word: impel Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English impellen, borrowed from Latin impellō. Pronunciation: /ɪmˈpɛl/ 1. To urge a person; to press on; to incite to action or motion via intrinsic motivation. Labels: transitive Example: She was a fat, round little woman, richly apparelled in velvet and lace, […]; and the way she laughed, cackling like a hen, the way she talked to the waiters and the maid,[…]—all these unexpected phenomena impelled one to hysterical mirth, and made one class her with such immortally ludicrous types as Ally Sloper, the Widow Twankey, or Miss Moucher. Example: I feel impelled to reply to Roger Henry's letter about my article on being denied an apartment. I truly resent any insinuation that I "slunk back into that rotting old closet." 2. To drive forward; to propel an object, to provide an impetus for motion or action. Labels: transitive Example: The wind impelled the kayaks toward the shore.
Word: impeller Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From impel + er. 1. Something which or someone who impels. 2. Something which or someone who impels. Example: screw impeller 3. Something which or someone who impels. Example: Holonym: torque converter
Word: Asturian Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree English Asturia Proto-Indo-European *-nós Proto-Italic *-nos Latin -nus Latin -ānus Old French -ainder. Middle English -an English -an English Asturian From Asturia + -an. Pronunciation: /æsˈtʊə.ɹi.ən/, /əˈstjʊə.ɹi.ən/, /æsˈtʊɹ.i.ən/, /əˈstʊɹ.i.ən/ 1. Of, from or relating to Asturias, Spain. Example: This gave time to many families to escape; and Bermudo even carried away the bodies of his predecessors to the old refuge in the Asturian hills. 2. Of or pertaining to the Asturian language. Example: The winning entry was a poem written in Asturian, one of the first such in Asturian literature.
Word: Asturian Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English Asturia Proto-Indo-European *-nós Proto-Italic *-nos Latin -nus Latin -ānus Old French -ainder. Middle English -an English -an English Asturian From Asturia + -an. Pronunciation: /æsˈtʊə.ɹi.ən/, /əˈstjʊə.ɹi.ən/, /æsˈtʊɹ.i.ən/, /əˈstʊɹ.i.ən/ 1. A native or inhabitant of Asturias, Spain. Example: To this day the Asturians say to each other "Have a care. Asturias is Spain. The rest is Araby."
Word: Asturian Part of Speech: name Etymology: Etymology tree English Asturia Proto-Indo-European *-nós Proto-Italic *-nos Latin -nus Latin -ānus Old French -ainder. Middle English -an English -an English Asturian From Asturia + -an. Pronunciation: /æsˈtʊə.ɹi.ən/, /əˈstjʊə.ɹi.ən/, /æsˈtʊɹ.i.ən/, /əˈstʊɹ.i.ən/ 1. A Romance language spoken in Asturias, Spain. Example: The winning entry was a poem written in Asturian, one of the first such in Asturian literature. Example: In Asturias/Asturies 18.3% of the respondents said they spoke Asturian always or most of the time with friends[…] 2. An age forming part of the Carboniferous.
Word: Aymara Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish aymara, possibly from Aymara or Quechua. Written attestations beginning with missionary grammars in the 1600s. Pronunciation: /ˌaɪ.mɑːˈɹɑː/, /ˌaɪ.mə-/, /ˌaɪ.mɑˈɹɑ/, /ˌaɪ.mɒˈɹɒ/, /ˌɑe.mɐːˈɹɐː/ 1. An indigenous people of South America. Labels: plural, plural-only Example: Because the Aymara are hungry for a good contemporary dictionary, and because there are so many non-Aymara needing a good dictionary (as shown by the active international participation), this dictionary attracted a lot of attention.
Word: Aymara Part of Speech: name Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish aymara, possibly from Aymara or Quechua. Written attestations beginning with missionary grammars in the 1600s. Pronunciation: /ˌaɪ.mɑːˈɹɑː/, /ˌaɪ.mə-/, /ˌaɪ.mɑˈɹɑ/, /ˌaɪ.mɒˈɹɒ/, /ˌɑe.mɐːˈɹɐː/ 1. A language spoken in South America. Example: In Potosi, Aymara is spoken in the Llica region, located north of the saltpan, and in the provinces comprising the region known as Norte de Potosi
Word: Bemba Part of Speech: noun 1. A member of an African tribe inhabiting parts of Zambia, Zaire, Tanzania and Malawi.
Word: Bemba Part of Speech: name 1. The language of these people.
Word: Blackfoot Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Calque of Blackfoot Siksiká (literally “black foot”). Pronunciation: /ˈblæk.fʊt/ 1. A member of a North American confederacy of several tribes. Example: Bears and other ferocious beasts resented man's intrusion into their domain; so, too, did the Blackfoot Indians and other tribes, whose savage hostility was a constant menace to the lives of the toiling engineers. Example: Meanwhile, its original inhabitants were kept out by dint of force, their earlier uses of the land redefined as inappropriate or even illegal. To this day, for instance, the Blackfeet continue to be accused of “poaching” on the lands of Glacier National Park that originally belonged to them and that were ceded by treaty only with the proviso that they be permitted to hunt there.