nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: adiaphorous Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin adiaphorus or Ancient Greek ἀδιάφορος (adiáphoros). 1. neither harmful nor beneficial Labels: not-comparable
Word: adiaphorism Part of Speech: noun 1. The belief that certain religious doctrines or ceremonies are indifferent, i.e. do not matter. Labels: uncountable
Word: adiaphorist Part of Speech: noun 1. One who believes in adiaphorism.
Word: London moment Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Named for the physical scientist Fritz London, and moment as in magnetic moment. 1. A quantum-mechanical phenomenon whereby a spinning superconductive metal sphere generates a magnetic field whose axis lines up exactly with the spin axis. 2. The magnetic moment of any rotation of any superconductor, caused by the electrons lagging behind the rotation of the object.
Word: author Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English auctour, from Anglo-Norman autour, from Old French autor, from Latin auctor, from augeō (“to increase, originate”). The h, also found in Middle French autheur, is unetymological as there is no h in the original Latin spelling. The OED attributes the h to contamination by authentic. Doublet of auteur. Pronunciation: /ˈɔː.θə/, /ˈoː.θə/, /ˈɔ.θɚ/, [ˈɔ.θɚ] ~ [ˈɔ.θɹ̩], /ˈɑ.θɚ/ ~ /ˈɒ.θɚ/ 1. The originator or creator of a work, especially of a literary composition; or, one of the creators of a collaborative work. Example: The copyright of any original writing belongs initially and properly to its author. Example: Have you read any Corinthian authors? 2. The initial owner of the copyright to a work, especially a work made for hire or a work of corporate authorship. Labels: US Example: The author named on the copyright registration for the Android robot is Google Inc. 3. Someone who writes books for a living. 4. Principal; the primary participant in a crime. Labels: obsolete Example: We hear […]of fratricidal murders, and stern reprisals on their authors. Example: Accomplices of a crime or an offence shall incur the same punishment as the authors of such a crime or offence, except when the law will have disposed otherwise. 5. One's authority for something: an informant. Labels: archaic Example: Let me inform you en passant, Ladies, that those Villains the Heathens, as my Authors tell me, (and I thought it wou'd^([sic]) not be amiss to communicate such a nice Observation to this House) used to call our Saviour Chrestus, and not Christus, by way of Contempt and Derision […] Example: 'Wanting the hat,' continues my author, Kirstie, whom I but haltingly follow, for she told this tale like one inspired, 'wanting guns, for there wasna twa grains o' pouder in the house, wi' nae mair weepons than their sticks into their hands, the fower o' them took the road. 6. The creator or cause of anything. Labels: figuratively Example: The other, standing nearly head-on toward the hunters, had not proved so good a mark, and though every spear struck not one entered the great heart. For a moment the huge bull stood trumpeting in rage and pain, casting about with its little eyes for the author of its hurt.
Word: author Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English auctour, from Anglo-Norman autour, from Old French autor, from Latin auctor, from augeō (“to increase, originate”). The h, also found in Middle French autheur, is unetymological as there is no h in the original Latin spelling. The OED attributes the h to contamination by authentic. Doublet of auteur. Pronunciation: /ˈɔː.θə/, /ˈoː.θə/, /ˈɔ.θɚ/, [ˈɔ.θɚ] ~ [ˈɔ.θɹ̩], /ˈɑ.θɚ/ ~ /ˈɒ.θɚ/ 1. To create a work as its author. Labels: US, proscribed, sometimes
Word: T-shirt Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From its shape, 1920s. Pronunciation: /ˈtiːʃɜːt/, /ˈtiːʃɚt/ 1. A lightweight shirt without buttons, usually with short sleeves and no collar. Often made of cotton and frequently bears a picture or slogan. Example: Many bands make more money from T-shirt sales than from sale of tickets. Example: Think of banking today and the image is of grey-suited men in towering skyscrapers. Its future, however, is being shaped in converted warehouses and funky offices in San Francisco, New York and London, where bright young things in jeans and T-shirts huddle around laptops, sipping lattes or munching on free food. 2. An undershirt. Labels: dated
Word: sunstroke Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *sóh₂wl̥der. Proto-Germanic *sunnô Proto-Germanic *sunnǭ Proto-West Germanic *sunnā Old English sunne Middle English sonne English sun English stroke English sunstroke From sun + stroke. Pronunciation: /ˈsʌnˌstɹoʊk/ 1. Heat stroke caused by an excessive exposure to the sun's rays. Example: But, however this may be, the grounds upon which I base my belief that "chill" in the one case, and "heat" in the other, is the most common exciting cause of these maladies, respectively, are furnished by the fact that malarious fevers are found to prevail with a periodicity corresponding with that of the annual seasons of greatest change in the weather elements, namely, the spring and autumn, and moreover, with a periodicity corresponding, at least in the Punjab, for which province the statistics have been tabulated, with the triennial cycles of rainfall -- a peculiarity in which they coincide with cholera -- whilst sun-fever or sunstroke is found to prevail with a periodicity corresponding with the season of highest temperature. Example: Idiopathic non-septic periencephalitis may be produced by profound grief, protracted anxiety, especially when accompanied by great overwork, partial starvation combined with the gnawing anxiety of deep poverty, and also, it is affirmed, by sunstroke.
Word: dass Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Compare dare, darest, dast. Pronunciation: /dæs/ 1. To dare. Labels: archaic Example: We all looked at one 'nother, 'n' I thought for a second somebody 'd laugh, but nobody dassed, 'n' there warn'ta sound in the room 's Aunt Beccy sot down agin' without movin' a muscle in her face. Example: Gim scrached a line in the dirt and told Will not to dass to step over it and then Will put a chip on his sholeder and told Gim not to dass to nock it off
Word: dass Part of Speech: contraction Etymology: Pronunciation spelling of that's 1. Contraction of that is. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, contraction
Word: salable Part of Speech: adj 1. Alternative spelling of saleable. Labels: US, alt-of, alternative Example: The landlord [...] stripped the plumbing and electrics, anything salable.
Word: salable Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of saleable. Labels: US, alt-of, alternative
Word: skirt chaser Part of Speech: noun 1. A man with amorous intentions who habitually seeks out female companionship. Labels: idiomatic Example: Heaven Can Wait (20th Century-Fox) is a lengthy but frequently funny life history of an old New York skirt chaser (Don Ameche) from his brownstone puberty to his overripe old age. Example: That was the train the drunks and the sinners rode—the gambling men and the grifters, the big-time spenders, the skirt-chasers, and all the jolly crew.
Word: arcade Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂erkʷ- Proto-Indo-European *h₂erkʷos Proto-Italic *arkuos Latin arcus Italian arcatabor. French arcadeubor. English arcade Unadapted borrowing from French arcade, from Italian arcata (“the arch of a bridge”), from Latin arcus (“an arc”). Not etymlogically related to Arcadia. Pronunciation: /ɑɹˈkeɪd/, /ɑːˈkeɪd/ 1. A row of arches. Example: The walk down to the Underground station is equally easy, as you pass through the restored undercroft along an arcade of two-way spanning 'quadripartite' arches. 2. A covered passage, usually with shops on both sides. 3. Clipping of amusement arcade. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, clipping
Word: arcade Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂erkʷ- Proto-Indo-European *h₂erkʷos Proto-Italic *arkuos Latin arcus Italian arcatabor. French arcadeubor. English arcade Unadapted borrowing from French arcade, from Italian arcata (“the arch of a bridge”), from Latin arcus (“an arc”). Not etymlogically related to Arcadia. Pronunciation: /ɑɹˈkeɪd/, /ɑːˈkeɪd/ 1. To cover (something) as with a series of arches. Labels: transitive Example: […] its trottoirs brick-paved and shaded by trees of almost tropical foliage—conspicuous among them the odoriferous magnolia, and the melia azedarach, or “Pride of China”—these in places completely arcading the streets—the town of Nachitoches offered the aspect of a rus in urbe, or urbs in rure, whichever way you may wish it.
Word: ono Part of Speech: phrase 1. Abbreviation of or near(est) offer. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of Example: Bike for sale: €300 ono
Word: ono Part of Speech: phrase 1. Abbreviation of over and out. Labels: Internet, abbreviation, alt-of
Word: ono Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Borrowed from Hawaiian ʻono (“delicious”). 1. good-tasting, delicious. Labels: Hawaii, slang
Word: ono Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Hawaiian ono. 1. Synonym of wahoo (“type of fish”). Labels: Hawaii Example: Tunas and other pelagic fishes, especially mahimahi and ono (wahoo), are known to congregate under drifting objects, such as logs.
Word: oni Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Japanese 鬼 (oni). Pronunciation: /ˈəʊni/, /ˈoʊni/ 1. A Japanese evil spirit or demon. Example: ONI 鬼. Generic name for devils, the representation of which in art is quite a common feature. Onis have claws, a square head with two horns, sharp teeth, and malignant eyes surmounted by big eyebrows; occasionally they wear trousers of tiger skin. Example: Across the ocean, in Japan, there once lived curious creatures called Onis. Every Japanese boy and girl has heard of them, though one has not often been caught.
Word: apply Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd Proto-Italic *ad Proto-Italic *ad- Latin ad- Proto-Indo-European *pel- Proto-Indo-European *pleḱ-der. Latin plicō Latin applicō Old French applierbor. Middle English aplien English apply Inherited from Middle English aplien, borrowed from Old French applier, from Latin applicō, from ad- + plicō (“fold; arrive”). See applicant, ply. Pronunciation: /əˈplaɪ/, [əˈplaɪ], [əˈplɑj], [əˈpləj], [əˈplɑɪ] 1. To lay or place; to put (one thing to another) Labels: transitive Example: to apply cream to a rash Example: He said, and to the sword his throat applied. 2. To put to use; to use or employ for a particular purpose, or in a particular case Labels: transitive Example: to apply funds to the repayment of a debt 3. To make use of, declare, or pronounce, as suitable, fitting, or relevant. Labels: transitive Example: We need to apply the skills we’ve learned to solve this problem. Example: Yet God at last To Satan, first in sin, his doom applied. 4. To put closely; to join; to engage and employ diligently or with attention. Labels: transitive Example: Apply thine heart unto instruction, and thine ears to the words of knowledge. 5. To work diligently and attentively. Labels: reflexive Example: My parents say I could do well in school if I would apply myself. 6. To address oneself; to refer. Labels: reflexive, transitive, usually Example: sacred vows […] applied to grisly Pluto Example: On applying to the assessors, I am surprised to learn that they cannot at once name a dozen in the town who own their farms free and clear. 7. To submit oneself as a candidate (with the adposition "to" or "at" designating the recipient of the submission, and the adposition "for" designating the position). Labels: intransitive Example: I recently applied to the tavern for a job as a bartender. Example: Most of the colleges she applied to were ones she thought she had a good chance of getting into. 8. To pertain or be relevant. Labels: intransitive Example: That rule only applies to foreigners. 9. To busy; to keep at work; to ply. Labels: obsolete Example: She was no less skillful in applying his humours. 10. To visit. Labels: obsolete Example: His armour was so clear, And he applied each place so fast, that like a lightning thrown Out of the shield of Jupiter, in every eye he shone.
Word: apply Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂ébōl Proto-Germanic *aplaz Proto-West Germanic *applu Old English æppel Middle English appel English apple English -y English apply From apple + -y. Pronunciation: /ˈæp(ə)li/ 1. Alternative spelling of appley. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: ony Part of Speech: det Etymology: Inherited from Middle English ony,oony. 1. Alternative form of any. Labels: Geordie, alt-of, alternative
Word: appoint Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English apointen, borrowed from Old French apointier (“to prepare, arrange, lean, place”) (French appointer (“to give a salary, refer a cause”)), from Late Latin appunctō (“to bring back to the point, restore, to fix the point in a controversy, or the points in an agreement”); Latin ad + punctum (“a point”). See point. Pronunciation: /əˈpɔɪnt/ 1. To set, fix or determine (a time or place for something such as a meeting, or the meeting itself) by authority or agreement. Labels: transitive Example: His Royal Highness called to pay his respects to her Majesty; but, from the unexpected nature of his visit, her Majesty was not in a state then to receive him; but soon after sent a letter to Prince Leopold, to appoint one o'clock this day for an interview. Example: We have to wait until they're ready to receive us, and make sure we turn up at the appointed time. 2. To name (someone to a post or role). Labels: transitive Example: Aaron and his shall go in, and appoint them every one to his service. Example: Neal Kwatra, appointed by Cuomo to be the state Democratic Party's chief campaign strategist, was identified by two key Democratic insiders[...] 3. To furnish or equip (a place) completely; to provide with all the equipment or furnishings necessary; to fit out. Labels: transitive Example: It was a handsome old stucco hall, very elegantly appointed, for Winter was a bachelor and prided himself on his style; but the place was beset by collieries. Example: Their two-room apartment, which is neither fashionably appointed nor in a fashionable neighborhood 4. To equip (someone) with (something); to assign (someone) authoritatively (some equipment). Labels: transitive Example: after mature Deliberation, he appointed them a Ship of seventy Tons, 5. To fix the disposition of (property) by designating someone to take use of (it). Labels: transitive Example: If the donee of a power appoint the fund to one of the objects of the power, under an understanding that the latter is to lend the fund to tho former, although on good security, the appointment is bad. 6. To fix with power or firmness by decree or command; to ordain or establish. Labels: obsolete, transitive Example: When he gave to the sea his decree, that the waters should not pass his commandment: when he appointed the foundations of the earth: Example: Thy servants are ready to do whatsoever my lord the king shall appoint. 7. To resolve; to determine; to ordain. Labels: intransitive, obsolete Example: For the Lord had appointed to defeat the good counsel of Ahithophel. Example: The day being very stormy, we were obliged to keep at home; which I much regretted, as it abridged my opportunity of seeing the Jewish synagogues, as we had appointed to do to-day.
Word: appointment Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English appoyntement, apoyntement, from Old French appointement, equivalent to appoint + -ment. Pronunciation: /əˈpɔɪnt.mɛnt/, /əˈpɔɪnt.mɪnt/, [əˈpʰɔɪ̯nʔmɪnʔ], [əˈpʰɔɪ̯̃ʔmɪnʔ] 1. The act of appointing a person to hold an office or to have a position of trust. Example: His appointment as treasurer was deemed suitable. 2. The state of being appointed to a service or office; an office to which one is appointed. Example: the appointment of treasurer 3. A stipulation; an agreement; the act of fixing by mutual agreement. 4. An arrangement between people to meet; an engagement. Example: They made an appointment to meet at six. Example: I’m leaving work early because I have a doctor’s appointment. 5. A decree; a direction; an established order or constitution. Example: to submit to the divine appointments Example: According to the appointment of the priests. 6. The exercise of the power of designating (under a power of appointment) a person to enjoy an estate or other specific property; also, the instrument by which the designation is made. 7. The assignment of a person by an official to perform a duty, such as a presidential appointment of a judge to a court. 8. Equipment, furniture. Labels: in-plural Example: […] the house had been inhabited for years by his father, and in many of its appointments was old-fashioned and grim […] Example: The appointments of a gentleman's dressing-room are similar in most respects to those of the lady's dressing-room, the differences being in trifling matters. 9. An honorary part or exercise, as an oration, etc., at a public exhibition of a college. Labels: US Example: to have an appointment 10. The allowance paid to a public officer. Labels: obsolete
Word: fairy tale Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Calque of French conte de fées, coined by French writer Madame d'Aulnoy in the late 17th century. Pronunciation: /ˈfɛɹi ˌteɪl/, /ˈfeəɹi ˌteɪl/ 1. A folktale or literary story featuring fairies or similar fantasy characters. Example: I used to love reading fairy tales when I was a child. 2. The literary genre of these stories. Labels: uncountable Example: Their dresses were rich, and when they came bounding forward, their shapes of silver tissue, with their feathered diadems and faces of animated beauty, they might be imagined into scarcely less than the creations of fairy tale. Example: Mr. Shimerda kneels in front of the tree in prayer; a praying figure under a magic tree is a common one in fairy tale. 3. A fabricated or misleading account meant to deceive, such as an exaggerated excuse. Labels: figuratively Example: He's telling us another fairy tale about how great the software will be. Example: If emigrants will submit to the "fairy tales" of Mr. Thomas, and fall in with his suggestions, they must patiently submit to the disagreeable consequences. 4. A delightful and ideal situation of a kind attained by very few. Labels: figuratively Example: I've been living in a fairy tale since I met Joe.
Word: warlock Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English warloghe, warlowe, warloȝe, from Old English wǣrloga (“traitor, deceiver”, literally “truce-breaker”), from Proto-West Germanic *wārulogō (“liar”), equivalent to Old English wǣr (“covenant, truce, pact, promise”) (from Proto-Indo-European *weh₁- (“true”); whence also Latin vērus) + loga (“liar”), from Proto-Germanic *lugô, related to Old English lēogan (whence English lie). The hard -ck ending originated in Scottish and Northern English, like the sense "male magic-user" (from the notion that such men were in league with the Devil and had thus broken their baptismal vows / betrayed Christianity). Cognate with Old Saxon wārlogo (“liar, unfaithful or insidious one”). A few writers alternatively propose a derivation from Old Norse varðlokkur (“incantations, charms”, literally “ward songs”), but as the OED notes, this is implausible due to the extreme rarity of the Norse word, the semantic difference, and because forms without hard -k, which are consistent with the Old English etymology (“traitor”), are attested earlier than forms with -k, and forms with -ð- are not attested. Pronunciation: /ˈwɔː.lɒk/, /ˈwɔɹ.lɑk/ 1. A male magic-user; a male equivalent of a witch; a wizard. Example: He was himself a warlock, or wizard, which they knew by his taking the witch's part. Example: It was the day of warlocks and apparitions, now happily driven out by the zeal of the General Assembly. 2. A magic-user (regardless of gender). Labels: especially Example: “Is it because she was a warlock?” she asked. “I know different kinds of magic . . .” “No, that's not it, or at least . . .” Mereth paused, collecting her thoughts, then explained, “The warlockry doesn't help, Lady Sarai,[…]” Example: It seemed like a strange thing for her to risk on a student she barely knew—but then, she was a warlock. Simon had no idea what they were capable of, but he was getting better at imagining.
Word: teapot Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Endocentric compound of tea + pot. Pronunciation: /ˈtiː.pɒt/, /ˈtiː.pɔːt/, /ˈti.pɔt/, /ˈti.pɑt/, /ˈti.pɒt/ 1. A vessel for brewing and serving tea, typically with a handle and spout.
Word: Thomas Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Inherited from Middle English Thomas, from Latin Thōmās m (as in the Vulgate), from Ancient Greek Θωμᾶς m (Thōmâs), the Biblical Greek transcription of Aramaic תאומא or תאמא (“twin”), the nickname of one of the Twelve Apostles. In the gospel of John (11:16, 20:24), the Aramaic nickname is also translated into Greek, as δίδυμος m (dídumos). Used as a given name since the Middle Ages, e.g. Thomas the Presbyter (7th century), Thomas the Slav (8th century), Thomas of Bayeux (died 1100). (infidel or doubter): In reference to the doubting Apostle. Pronunciation: /ˈtɒm.əs/, /ˈtɑ.məs/, /ˈt̪ʰɔː.mɐs/, /ˈʈʰɔː.mɐs/ 1. An infidel or doubter. Labels: derogatory Example: […] and if the surgeons do not preserve you, and place you on view, in pickle, they ought to, for the sake of historical doubters, for no one will believe that there ever was a man like you, unless you yourself are somewhere around to prove them Thomases.
Word: Thomas Part of Speech: name Etymology: Inherited from Middle English Thomas, from Latin Thōmās m (as in the Vulgate), from Ancient Greek Θωμᾶς m (Thōmâs), the Biblical Greek transcription of Aramaic תאומא or תאמא (“twin”), the nickname of one of the Twelve Apostles. In the gospel of John (11:16, 20:24), the Aramaic nickname is also translated into Greek, as δίδυμος m (dídumos). Used as a given name since the Middle Ages, e.g. Thomas the Presbyter (7th century), Thomas the Slav (8th century), Thomas of Bayeux (died 1100). (infidel or doubter): In reference to the doubting Apostle. Pronunciation: /ˈtɒm.əs/, /ˈtɑ.məs/, /ˈt̪ʰɔː.mɐs/, /ˈʈʰɔː.mɐs/ 1. An Apostle, best remembered for doubting the resurrection of Jesus. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: But Thomas, one of the twelve, called Didymus, was not with them when Jesus came. The other disciples therefore said unto him, We have seen the LORD. But he said unto them, Except I shall see in his hands the print of the nails, and put my finger into the print of the nails, and thrust my hand into his side, I will not believe. 2. A male given name from Aramaic of biblical origin, popular since the 13th century. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: "Good,—that's a whack. What's your name?" / "Becky Thatcher. What's yours? Oh, I know. It's Thomas Sawyer." / "That's the name they lick me by. I'm Tom when I'm good. You call me Tom, will you?" Example: - - - goodness we scarcely have a name for the baby yet now all of you must take a vote, all of you, but let's have a nice simple name like Thomas don't you think I hate elaborate names, do please all of you vote for Thomas..." 3. A common surname originating as a patronymic. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The reappearance of Dylan and Caitlin Thomas brought her the excitement again of literary gatherings and much uninhibited partying.²²³ For a woman of 41 the Thomases represented fun and an opportunity not to play second fiddle to a disapproving husband who was very clear as to what he wanted but not sensitive to her social needs. Example: CBS, the BBC's US news partner, said that VOA employees were notified in an email by Crystal Thomas, the USAGM human resources director. 4. A number of places in the United States: 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 Example: Located in northeastern Custer County, Thomas is situated at the intersection of State Highways 33 and 47. Originally, Thomas was a trading point where William Thomas had a general store and served as the first postmaster of a post office designated on February 12, 1894. 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
Word: whatchamacallit Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Univerbation and contraction of what you may call it. United States, 20th century (recorded in 1921). Pronunciation: /ˈwɒtʃəməˌkɔːlɪt/, /ˈwʌt͡ʃəməˌkɔlɪt/, /ˈwʌt͡ʃməˌkɑlɪt/, /ˈwɔtʃəməˌkɔːɫət/ 1. A metasyntactic term used for any object whose actual name the speaker does not know or cannot remember; a doodad, gizmo, thingamajig, thingy. Labels: colloquial Example: The Thingamajig and the Wachamacallit. Example: You’re—you must be the whatchamacallit, huh? The peer.
Word: Joseph Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Middle English Ioseph, ultimately from Biblical Hebrew יוֹסֵף (Yoséf, literally “(God) shall add”); a son of Jacob. Doublet of Yusuf. Noun sense 1 (“one whose chastity is above temptation”) is a reference to the story of Joseph and Potiphar's wife in Genesis 39. Pronunciation: /ˈd͡ʒəʊzɪf/, /ˈd͡ʒoʊsəf/, /ˈd͡ʒoʊzəf/, /ˈd͡ʒoʊsɪf/, /ˈd͡ʒoʊzɪf/ 1. Eleventh and favorite son of Jacob, by his wife Rachel. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his children, because he was the son of his old age: and he made him a coat of many colours. Example: A few shocks of corn in a corner of the fallow stood up as if alive; she imagined them bowing; perhaps her son would be a Joseph. 2. The husband of Mary, mother of Jesus. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Meronym: Holy Family Example: And Jesus himself began to be about thirty years of age, being (as was supposed) the son of Joseph, which was the son of Heli. 3. The 12th sura (chapter) of the Qur'an. Labels: countable, uncountable 4. Joseph of Arimathea; man who donated his own prepared tomb for the burial of Jesus. Labels: countable, uncountable 5. A male given name from Hebrew. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: I'm going to call him Joseph / or Josephine if it's a girl. / Why? / Because it's a strong name, / Joe, Joseph. / You give a kid a name like Cameron / or Alfred, or something like that, / and they end up wearing glasses / and looking at computers for the rest of their life. / - - - So Joe it is. / He'll turn out strong. Strong and smart. Example: Army chief Joseph Aoun was voted president after two rounds of voting. 6. A surname: Labels: countable, uncountable 7. A surname: Labels: countable, uncountable 8. A locale in the United States: Labels: countable, uncountable 9. A locale in the United States: Labels: countable, uncountable 10. A locale in the United States: Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: Joseph Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English Ioseph, ultimately from Biblical Hebrew יוֹסֵף (Yoséf, literally “(God) shall add”); a son of Jacob. Doublet of Yusuf. Noun sense 1 (“one whose chastity is above temptation”) is a reference to the story of Joseph and Potiphar's wife in Genesis 39. Pronunciation: /ˈd͡ʒəʊzɪf/, /ˈd͡ʒoʊsəf/, /ˈd͡ʒoʊzəf/, /ˈd͡ʒoʊsɪf/, /ˈd͡ʒoʊzɪf/ 1. One whose chastity is above temptation. Example: And my lady thought you a Joseph! Example: You're a kid Casanova, you're no Joseph It's a labor of love fucking yourself to death Orgasm addict, you're an orgasm addict 2. A coat or other garment of many colours. Labels: attributive, humorous, rare, sometimes Example: When summoned to lecture on the following day, he made his appearance in a morning-coat which had been originally of tartan plaid, but sundry repairs of various patterns gave it at once the name of his "Joseph". Example: Charles Dickens, quoted in 1974, Madeline House & Graham Storey (eds.), Letters […] their Josephs again — their coats of many colors.
Word: Joe Part of Speech: name Etymology: Short form (diminutive form) of various names beginning with Jo..., particularly the male names Joseph and, less often, Joel, Josiah and Josias. The spelling Jo is used more often for diminutives of similar female names. Pronunciation: /d͡ʒəʊ/, /d͡ʒoʊ/ 1. A diminutive of the male given names Joseph, Josiah, Joel, or Josias. Example: "With a name like Joe," Joe always said, "I had to open a bar and grill, just so I could put up a sign saying 'Joe's Bar and Grill'." Example: With Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders’ decision to end his campaign on Wednesday, it’s now official: Former Vice President Joe Biden will be the Democratic presidential nominee this fall. 2. Alternative form of Jo: a diminutive of various female given names. Labels: alt-of, alternative, rare 3. A surname.
Word: Joe Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Short form (diminutive form) of various names beginning with Jo..., particularly the male names Joseph and, less often, Joel, Josiah and Josias. The spelling Jo is used more often for diminutives of similar female names. Pronunciation: /d͡ʒəʊ/, /d͡ʒoʊ/ 1. A male; a guy; a fellow. Labels: informal Example: I'm just an ordinary Joe. 2. Synonym of Joe Miller (“an old joke”). Labels: archaic, slang Example: O what "a Joe," — what an "old Joe!" — / A very "old Joe!" — / Old Joe Miller made the joke before, / But nothing tells better that ^([sic]) a good old Joe!
Word: waiter Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From late 14th century Middle English waiter, wayter (“attendant, watchman”). By surface analysis, wait + -er. Sense of "servant who waits at tables" is from late 15th century, originally in reference to household servants; in reference to inns, eating houses, etc., it is attested from 1660s. Feminine form waitress first recorded 1834. The London Stock Exchange sense harks back to the early days of trading in coffee-shops. Pronunciation: /ˈweɪ̯təː/, [ˈweɪ̯tʰəː], /ˈwæɪ̯təː/, [ˈwæ̝ɪ̯tʰəː] ~ [ˈwæ̝ɪ̯tʰɐ̝ː], /ˈwæɪ̯ɾəː/ 1. A male or female attendant who serves customers at their tables in a restaurant, café or similar. Example: Waiter! There's a fly in my soup. 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. 2. Someone who waits for somebody or something; a person who is waiting. Example: However, the NTPF also contained implicit negative incentives for the public sector by offering alternative private sector treatment for the longest waiters at no extra cost to patients or no penalty to public providers. 3. A person working as an attendant at the London Stock Exchange. Labels: historical 4. A vessel or tray on which something is carried, as dishes, etc.; a salver. (See etymology of dumbwaiter.) Labels: obsolete Example: Cautioning her, in these terms, not to trip over a heterogeneous litter of pastry-cook’s trays, lamps, waiters full of glasses, and piles of rout seats which were strewn about the hall, plainly bespeaking a late party on the previous night, the man led the way to the second story […] 5. A custom house officer; a tide waiter. Labels: obsolete 6. A watchman. Labels: obsolete
Word: waiter Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From late 14th century Middle English waiter, wayter (“attendant, watchman”). By surface analysis, wait + -er. Sense of "servant who waits at tables" is from late 15th century, originally in reference to household servants; in reference to inns, eating houses, etc., it is attested from 1660s. Feminine form waitress first recorded 1834. The London Stock Exchange sense harks back to the early days of trading in coffee-shops. Pronunciation: /ˈweɪ̯təː/, [ˈweɪ̯tʰəː], /ˈwæɪ̯təː/, [ˈwæ̝ɪ̯tʰəː] ~ [ˈwæ̝ɪ̯tʰɐ̝ː], /ˈwæɪ̯ɾəː/ 1. To work as a waiter. Labels: stative Example: I had definitely had my fill of factory jobs, but had never worked in an office, nor bussed, nor waitered. Example: He dropped out and waitered at the Spain but was fired for throwing water in a customer’s face.
Word: waitress Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English waiter Proto-Indo-European *-is Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-ih₂der. Ancient Greek -ῐᾰ (-ĭă) Ancient Greek -ισσα (-issa)bor. Late Latin -issader. Old French -essebor. Middle English -esse English -ess English waitress From waiter + -ess. Pronunciation: /ˈweɪ.tɹɪs/ 1. A female attendant who serves customers in a restaurant, café, or similar. Example: a waitress in a cocktail bar. Example: It would take a few more beers, but when the liquid courage kicked in, his wobbly legs were unable to keep pace with the fleetfooted waitress, who rolled her eyes, smiling, and finally twirled away.
Word: waitress Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree English waiter Proto-Indo-European *-is Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-ih₂der. Ancient Greek -ῐᾰ (-ĭă) Ancient Greek -ισσα (-issa)bor. Late Latin -issader. Old French -essebor. Middle English -esse English -ess English waitress From waiter + -ess. Pronunciation: /ˈweɪ.tɹɪs/ 1. To work as a waitress. Example: But it never did heal properly and Lizzie stayed on at the bar — waitressing until she came of legal age to bar-tend. Example: The chefs never cooked before, the cashiers never cashiered before, the dishwashers never dishwashed before, the waitresses never waitressed before, and the managers never managed before.
Word: inebriation Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin inēbriātiō, inēbriātiōnem (“drunkenness”). Pronunciation: /ɪˌniːbɹiˈeɪʃən/ 1. The state or characteristic of drunkenness. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: in a state of inebriation
Word: drunkenness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English drunken Proto-Germanic *-in- Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ti Proto-Germanic *-ōną Proto-Germanic *-inōną Proto-Indo-European *-dyé- Proto-Germanic *-atjaną Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Germanic *-þuz Proto-Germanic *-assuz Proto-Germanic *-inassuz Proto-West Germanic *-nassī Old English -nes Middle English -nesse English -ness English drunkenness From drunken + -ness. Pronunciation: /ˈdɹʌŋkən.nəs/ 1. A state of being drunk. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: But presently the fumes of the wine rising to his head, he became helplessly drunk and his side-muscles and limbs relaxed and he swayed to and fro on my back. When I saw that he had lost his senses for drunkenness, I put my head to his legs and, loosing them from my neck, stooped down well-nigh to the ground and threw him at full length, […] Example: The Englishman had a reputation throughout Europe for gluttony; it was said that overeating was the English vice, just as lust was the French vice and drunkenness the German vice. Some Englishmen became very fat, and were famous for being so. Henry VIII ate enormous meals, but as a young man he was slim, perhaps because he always took a great deal of physical exercise. By the time that he was forty-five he was suffering from painful ulcers in his leg which prevented him from riding or walking without the greatest difficulty; but though he ceased to take exercise, he ate as much as ever. He then became very fat.
Word: metasyntactic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Ancient Greek μετᾰ́ (metắ) Ancient Greek μετᾰ- (metă-)lbor. English meta- English syntactic English metasyntactic From meta- + syntactic. 1. Used in describing syntax; relating to metasyntax. Labels: not-comparable Example: Metasyntactic values, in the sense I'm using here, are descriptive of syntax, as for example the nonterminals of a Chomsky grammar.
Word: metasyntactic variable Part of Speech: noun 1. A conventional variable name used for an unspecified entity whose exact nature depends on context. Example: Use metasyntactic variables like foo and bar when you need a name but the particular name doesn't matter.
Word: parameter Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From French paramètre, from New Latin parametrum (“parameter”), from Ancient Greek παρα- (para-, “beside”) + μέτρον (métron, “measure”). Pronunciation: /pəˈɹæm.ɪ.tə/, /pəˈɹæm.ə.tɚ/, [pəˈɹæm.ə.ɾɚ] 1. A value kept constant during an experiment, equation, calculation, or similar, but varied over other versions of the experiment, equation, calculation, etc. Example: As molecular surface-to-surface contacts control both solution phenomena and surface phenomena, it is not surprising that various correlations of cohesion parameters and surface phenomena can be found. Example: The independent parameters of a system or network over F(z) reflect its structure and determine its structural properties (such as the reducibility of coefficient matrix A and its characteristic polynomial det(λI −A), controllability and observability over F(z), etc.). 2. A variable that describes a property or characteristic of some system (material, object, event, etc.) or some aspect thereof. Example: Cohesion parameters (solubility parameters) can be used with full theoretical justification to characterize many surfaces ... Example: To this end, we derive an a posteriori error estimator for the error with respect to the unknown parameter. 3. A variable that describes a property or characteristic of some system (material, object, event, etc.) or some aspect thereof. 4. A variable that describes a property or characteristic of some system (material, object, event, etc.) or some aspect thereof. Example: The parameter estimation problem considered in this chapter consists of estimating the unknown parameter, ū [a barred v, actually], given N samples of the observation process. Example: Fundamental is the regulation of a for-profit OpenAI. The company initially delayed the launch of its earlier GPT-2, with a mere 1.5bn parameters, because the company fretted over its implications. 5. An input variable of a function definition, that gets an actual value (argument) at execution time. 6. An actual value given to such a formal parameter. Labels: broadly 7. A characteristic or feature that distinguishes something from others. 8. In the ellipse and hyperbola, a third proportional to any diameter and its conjugate, or in the parabola, to any abscissa and the corresponding ordinate. Example: The parameter of the principal axis of a conic section is called the latus rectum. 9. Clipping of uniformizing parameter. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, clipping 10. The ratio of the three crystallographic axes which determines the position of any plane. 11. The fundamental axial ratio for a given species.
Word: tier Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From tie + -er. Pronunciation: /ˈtaɪ.ə/, /ˈtaɪ.ɚ/ 1. One who ties (knots, etc.). 2. Something that ties. 3. A child's apron. Labels: archaic
Word: tier Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle French tier, from Old French tire (“rank, sequence, order, kind”), probably from tirer (“to draw, draw out”). Alternatively, from a Germanic source related to Middle English tir (“honour, glory, power, rule”), Old English tīr (“glory, honour, fame”), Old Norse tírr (“glory, honour, renown”). Pronunciation: /ˈtɪə/, /ˈtɪɚ/ 1. A row or range, especially one at a higher or lower level than another. 2. A rank or grade; a stratum. Example: Stoke City were playing in the second tier of English football before being promoted to the Premier League. Example: Turians have 27 citizenship tiers, beginning with civilians (client races and children). The initial period of military service is the second tier. 3. A (typically forested) range of hills or mountains, especially in South Australia or Tasmania; a mountain. Labels: Australia Example: This party headed towards the tiers and lakes, scouring the country while veering towards Bothwell. Example: On she drove, leaving the highway, up a skinny country road, past the snow-capped tier and into the forest on its foothills. 4. A horizontal row of panels within a comic strip.
Word: tier Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle French tier, from Old French tire (“rank, sequence, order, kind”), probably from tirer (“to draw, draw out”). Alternatively, from a Germanic source related to Middle English tir (“honour, glory, power, rule”), Old English tīr (“glory, honour, fame”), Old Norse tírr (“glory, honour, renown”). Pronunciation: /ˈtɪə/, /ˈtɪɚ/ 1. To arrange in layers. Labels: transitive 2. To cascade in an overlapping sequence. Labels: transitive 3. To move (data) from one storage medium to another as an optimization, based on how frequently it is accessed. Labels: transitive
Word: random number Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈɹæn.dəm ˈnʌm.bɚ/ 1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see random, number. 2. A number allotted randomly using suitable generator (electronic machine or as simple "generator" as die). 3. A number selected based on a uniform distribution, typically using a suitable generator (for example, rolling a die). Example: 1975, Gregory Chaitin, "Randomness and Mathematical Proof", Scientific American, (232), May 1975, pp. 47–52, reprinted in Information, Randomness & Incompleteness: Papers on Algorithmic Information Theory Tossing a coin is a classical procedure for producing a random number .... Tossing a coin 20 times can produce any one of 2²⁰ ... binary series, and each of them has exactly the same probability. Example: A random number is a precisely defined mathematical concept in which every number should have an equal likeliness of occurrence.... 4. A pseudorandom number. Example: The generation of random numbers is too important to be left to chance.
Word: capacitor Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From capacity + -or. Capacitor replaced the term condenser (coined by Alessandro Volta in 1782) to disambiguate it from steam condenser. The coiner is unknown but the change was recommended in 1926 by British Standard Glossary of Terms in Electrical Engineering. Pronunciation: /kəˈpæ.sɪ.tə/, /kəˈpæ.sə.tɚ/ 1. An electronic component capable of storing electrical energy in an electric field; especially one consisting of two conductors separated by a dielectric. Example: By placing the 0.02μF capacitor on top of the whistle chip, the circuit oscillates at a lower frequency. […] It is possible to pick resistors and capacitors that will make the pitch higher than humans can hear.
Word: -ish Part of Speech: suffix Etymology: From Middle English -ish, -isch, from Old English -isċ (“-ish”, suffix), from Proto-West Germanic *-isk, from Proto-Germanic *-iskaz (“-ish”), from Proto-Indo-European *-iskos. Cognate with Dutch -s; German -isch (whence Dutch -isch); Norwegian, Danish, and Swedish -isk or -sk; Lithuanian -iškas; Russian -ский (-skij); and the Ancient Greek diminutive suffix -ίσκος (-ískos). Doublet of -esque and -ski. Pronunciation: /ɪʃ/, /əʃ/, /iʃ/ 1. Typical of, similar to, being like. Labels: morpheme Example: Her face had a girlish charm. Example: […] ; for she had recently developed a magpie[-]ish tendency to appropriate and conceal trifling matters; […] 2. Somewhat, rather. Labels: morpheme Example: Her face had a bluish tinge. Example: By one o'clock the place was choc-a-bloc. […] The restaurant was packed, and the promenade between the two main courts and the subsidiary courts was thronged with healthy-looking youngish people, drawn to the Mecca of tennis from all parts of the country. 3. About, approximately. Labels: especially, morpheme Example: We arrived at tennish. We arrived tennish. Example: I couldn't tell his precise age, but he looked fiftyish. 4. Of, belonging, or relating to (a nationality, place, language or similar association with something). Labels: morpheme Example: British, Cornish, Danish, English, Finnish, Irish, Jewish, Kentish, Polish, Scottish, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish etc.
Word: -ish Part of Speech: suffix Etymology: From Middle English -ishen, -ischen, -issen, from Old French -iss-, -is- (a termination of the stem of some forms [present participle, etc.] of certain verbs), from Latin -ēscere, -īscere (an inchoative suffix), the formative -esc-, -isc- (-sc-, Greek -σκ- (-sk-)) being ultimately cognate with English -ish (Etymology 1). See -esce, -escent, etc. 1. An ending found on some verbs; see usage notes. Labels: idiomatic, morpheme
Word: ish Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From is. Pronunciation: /ɪʃ/ 1. Pronunciation spelling of is. Labels: alt-of, pronunciation-spelling
Word: ish Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *-iskos Proto-Germanic *-iskaz Proto-West Germanic *-isk Old English -isċ Middle English -ish English -ishbf. English ish Back-formation from -ish. Pronunciation: /ɪʃ/ 1. somewhat, reasonably, fairly Labels: colloquial, not-comparable Example: The exam went well... mostly... ish. Example: "Was the film any good?" – "Ish." 2. about, approximately Labels: colloquial, not-comparable Example: 'With luck, about twelve.' 'Ah,' said Bernard. 'Twelve-thirty. Ish.' Example: How old are you? Fifty-ish?" / "Ish." / The color flared in her cheeks but she didn't look as though she were going to shoot me.
Word: ish Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Pitman ess and eff, which it resembles phonetically and graphically, and the sound it represents. The change in vowel probably reflects the familiar suffix -ish. Pronunciation: /ɪʃ/ 1. The letter which stands for the sh sound /ʃ/ in Pitman shorthand.
Word: ish Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Phonetic spelling of the clipping of issue. Pronunciation: /ɪʃ/ 1. An instalment of a periodical; an issue. Labels: dated, slang Example: "A LITTLE UNPLEASANTNESS" DEPT: Fantasy Digest says in it's^([sic]) latest ish: Quote: Some unpleasantness was caused when Don Wollheim and his brother Futurians were not allowed in the Convention Hall. Unquote. Example: Next ish: a guide to who is who of the Howard heroes in the centerspread.
Word: ish Part of Speech: intj Pronunciation: /ɪʃ/ 1. ick, yuck Labels: Canada, US, informal, regional
Word: ish Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From earlier isht, a minced oath and metathetic alteration of shit. Possibly inspired by the sound of the word shit when backmasked in radio edits of hip-hop songs. Pronunciation: /ɪʃ/ 1. Shit (in various senses). Labels: euphemistic, uncountable Example: Anyone, really, but seriously, you'd think that people whose very passion depends on their lungs would want to cut that ish out Example: I owe you a lot Dipal, so put that ish away.
Word: -itis Part of Speech: suffix Etymology: From New Latin -itis, from Ancient Greek -ῖτις (-îtis, “pertaining to”). This is the feminine form of adjectival suffix -ῑ́της (-ī́tēs). The English suffix derives from the feminine form due to its use with the feminine noun νόσος (nósos, “disease”), particularly with ἀρθρῖτις (νόσος) (arthrîtis (nósos), “disease of the joints”) (one of the earliest English borrowings from which the suffix was extracted and abstracted). Adding "-itis" to the end of a word or phrase can give a humorous sense by generalization. Pronunciation: /-ˈaɪtɪs/ 1. Denoting diseases characterized by inflammation, itself often caused by an infection. Labels: morpheme, uncountable, usually 2. Used to form the names of various fictitious afflictions or diseases. Labels: humorous, morpheme, uncountable, usually Example: What to Do About Senioritis: Make Your Senior Year Count, College Board. Accessed April 4, 2008.
Word: tele- Part of Speech: prefix Etymology: From Ancient Greek τῆλε (têle, “at a distance, far off, far away, far from”). Pronunciation: /ˈtɛl.ɪ/, /ˈtɛl.ə/ 1. over a distance Labels: morpheme Example: telegram Example: telerobot 2. television Labels: morpheme Example: telecast Example: telefantasy 3. telegraph Labels: morpheme Example: telepost Example: teletape 4. telephone Labels: morpheme Example: telecheck Example: telesales 5. teleport Labels: morpheme Example: telebooth 6. telecommunication Labels: morpheme Example: telemarketing
Word: thermo- Part of Speech: prefix Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *gʷʰer-der. Ancient Greek θερμός (thermós)der. English thermo- From Ancient Greek θερμός (thermós, “warm, hot”). Pronunciation: /θɜː.məʊ-/, /ˈθɝ.moʊ-/ 1. Thermal: of, being, or pertaining to heat or temperature. Labels: morpheme
Word: xylo- Part of Speech: prefix Etymology: From Ancient Greek ξῠ́λον (xŭ́lon, “wood”). Pronunciation: /ˈzaɪ.loʊ/ 1. wood Labels: morpheme