nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: plat Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Clipping of platform. Pronunciation: /plæt/ 1. Clipping of platform Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, clipping 2. Clipping of platform game Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, slang
Word: mnemonics Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Ancient Greek μνημονικά (mnēmoniká, “mnemonics”), plural of μνημονικόν (mnēmonikón, “mnemonics”), neuter of μνημονικός (mnēmonikós, “mnemonic”); see mnemonic. Pronunciation: /nəˈmɒn.ɪks/, /nɪ-/, /nəˈmɑn.ɪks/ 1. The study of techniques for remembering anything more easily. Labels: plural, plural-only
Word: mnemonics Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Ancient Greek μνημονικά (mnēmoniká, “mnemonics”), plural of μνημονικόν (mnēmonikón, “mnemonics”), neuter of μνημονικός (mnēmonikós, “mnemonic”); see mnemonic. Pronunciation: /nəˈmɒn.ɪks/, /nɪ-/, /nəˈmɑn.ɪks/ 1. plural of mnemonic Labels: form-of, plural
Word: mnemonic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Borrowed from Late Latin mnemonicus or its etymon Ancient Greek μνημονῐκός (mnēmonĭkós, “pertaining to memory or remembrance, memorial”) + English -ic (suffix meaning ‘of or pertaining to’ forming adjectives). Mνημονῐκός (Mnēmonĭkós) is derived from μνήμων (mnḗmōn, “mindful, remembering”) + -ῐκός (-ĭkós, suffix meaning ‘of or pertaining to’ forming adjectives); while μνήμων (mnḗmōn) is from μνάομαι (mnáomai, “to be mindful, remember”) (from Proto-Indo-European *men- (“to mind; to think”)) + -μων (-mōn, suffix forming adjectives and agent nouns). Cognates * French mnémonique (adjective) * German mnemonisch * Italian mnemonico * Portuguese mnemónica Pronunciation: /nɪˈmɒnɪk/, /nə-/, /nəˈmɑnɪk/, /ni-/ 1. Especially of a series of ideas, letters, words, etc.: intended to help in remembering. Labels: not-comparable 2. Of or relating to mnemonics (“the study of techniques for remembering anything more easily”). Labels: not-comparable 3. Of or relating to memory. Labels: not-comparable
Word: mnemonic Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Noun sense 1 (“something used to help in remembering a thing”) is borrowed from Latin mnēmonicum (“something used to help in remembering a thing”), from Ancient Greek μνημονικόν (mnēmonikón, “something used to help in remembering a thing”), a noun use of the neuter form of μνημονῐκός (mnēmonĭkós, adjective): see etymology 1. Noun sense 3 (“synonym of mnemonics”) is borrowed from Late Latin mnemonica, a noun use of the feminine form of mnemonicus: see etymology 1. Cognates * French mnémonique (noun) * German Mnemonik * Italian mnemonica * Portuguese mnemónico Pronunciation: /nɪˈmɒnɪk/, /nə-/, /nəˈmɑnɪk/, /ni-/ 1. Something (especially a series of ideas, letters, words, etc.) used to help in remembering a thing; a memory aid. Example: Mr Avery was a great believer in mnemonics; he had one for every possible aspect of flying – which was as good a way as any for student pilots to familiarise themselves with their new environment, but unless used on a daily basis could also be dangerous, for there were so many of them. 2. The human-readable, textual form of an assembly language instruction, not including operands. 3. Synonym of mnemonics (“the study of techniques for remembering anything more easily”). Labels: obsolete
Word: porcupine Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English porke despyne, from Old French porc-espin, from Latin porcus (“pig”) + spinus (“spine”), hence also spine pig. Cognate with Spanish puercoespín, Italian porcospino, Portuguese porco-espinho. Pronunciation: /ˈpɔː(ɹ)kjʊˌpaɪn/, /ˈpɔː(ɹ)kiˌpaɪn/, /ˈpɔː(ɹ)kɪˌpaɪn/, /ˈpɔː(ɹ)kəˌpaɪn/ 1. Any of several rodents of either of the taxonomic families Hystricidae (Old World porcupines) or Erethizontidae (New World porcupines), both from the infraorder Hystricognathi, noted for their sharp spines or quills, which are raised when the animal is attacked or surprised. Example: I have no evidence of grizzlies killing porcupines or vice versa. However, occasionally there is contact and sometimes a grizzly is injured or a porcupine killed, but the latter is rare. Example: In particular, porcupines, hyenas, and leopards are known in Africa to transport bones to particular places.
Word: mathematician Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English mathematicion, from Middle French mathematicien, from mathematique f sg (“mathematics”) (from Latin mathēmatica, feminine of mathēmaticus, from Ancient Greek μαθηματικός (mathēmatikós, “fond of learning”), from μάθημα (máthēma, “knowledge, learning”) + -ικός (-ikós)) + Middle French -ien (from Latin -iānus). Displaced native Old English rīmcræftiga. By surface analysis, mathematic + -ian. Pronunciation: /ˌmæθ.(ə.)məˈtɪʃ.ən/, /ˌmɛθ.(ə.)məˈtəʃ.ən/ 1. An expert on mathematics; someone who studies mathematics. Example: I suspect that in their hearts most working mathematicians are Platonists, in that they take it as a matter of unassailable if unprovable fact that mathematical reality stands apart from the world, and is at least as real as the world, and possibly gives shape to the world, as Plato suggested. Most mathematicians would probably agree that the ratio of the circle to its diameter exists brilliantly in the nature beyond nature, and would exist even if the human mind was not aware of it, and might exist even if God had not bothered to create it. Example: The true work of the mathematician is not experienced until the later parts of graduate school, when the student is challenged to create knowledge in the form of a novel proof.
Word: wastrel Part of Speech: noun Etymology: 1847, waste + -rel (pejorative). Pronunciation: /ˈweɪstɹəl/ 1. One who is profligate, who wastes time or resources extravagantly. Labels: countable, dated Example: And so with one thing and other the auld witch raised the fiends of jealousy in that innocent heart. She would cry out that Heriotside was an ill-doing wastrel, and had no business to come and flatter honest lassies. Example: Mary’s mother—if that was her picture—may have been a wastrel in her spare time (she had thirteen children by a minister of the church), but if so her gay and dissipated life had left too few traces of its pleasures on her face. 2. A neglected child. Labels: countable, obsolete 3. Refuse; rubbish. Labels: obsolete, uncountable
Word: Moabite Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English Moab Proto-Indo-European *-tósder. Ancient Greek -της (-tēs)der. Ancient Greek -ῑ́της (-ī́tēs)der. Latin -ītēsbor. French -iteder. English -ite English Moabite From Moab + -ite. Pronunciation: /ˈməʊ.əˌbaɪt/, /ˈmoʊ.əˌbaɪt/ 1. A native or inhabitant of Moab.
Word: Moabite Part of Speech: name Etymology: Etymology tree English Moab Proto-Indo-European *-tósder. Ancient Greek -της (-tēs)der. Ancient Greek -ῑ́της (-ī́tēs)der. Latin -ītēsbor. French -iteder. English -ite English Moabite From Moab + -ite. Pronunciation: /ˈməʊ.əˌbaɪt/, /ˈmoʊ.əˌbaɪt/ 1. An extinct Canaanite Semitic language, spoken in Moab (modern-day northwestern Jordan). Extinct since 5th century BCE.
Word: Moabitess Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Moabite + ess. 1. A female Moabite.
Word: alienate Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English alienat(e) (“deranged; uncertain; sequestred, secluded”), from Latin aliēnātus, perfect passive participle of aliēnō (“to estrange, alienate”) (see -ate (adjective-forming suffix)), from aliēnus. By surface analysis, alien + -ate. See alien, and compare aliene. Pronunciation: /ˈeɪ.li.ə.neɪt/ 1. Estranged; withdrawn in affection; foreign Labels: archaic, not-comparable Example: O alienate from God.
Word: alienate Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From a substantivation of the above adjective, see -ate (noun-forming suffix) and Etymology 1 for more. Cognate with French aliéner (“a crazed, mad man, lunatic”). Pronunciation: /ˈeɪ.li.ə.neɪt/ 1. A stranger; an alien. Labels: obsolete
Word: alienate Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Either from the above adjective or directly borrowed from Latin alienātus, see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and Etymology 1 for more. Cognate with French aliéner. Pronunciation: /ˈeɪ.li.ə.neɪt/ 1. To convey or transfer to another, as title, property, or right; to part voluntarily with ownership of. 2. To estrange; to withdraw affections or attention from; to make indifferent or averse, where love or friendship before subsisted. Example: The errors which […] alienated a loyal gentry and priesthood from the House of Stuart. Example: The recollection of his former life is a dream that only the more alienates him from the realities of the present. 3. To cause one to feel unable to relate.
Word: Danny Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Dan (“diminutive of Daniel and Danielle”) + -y, from Hebrew דן. Pronunciation: /ˈdæni/ 1. A unisex given name Example: Maisie says that Danny entered the manosphere through the realm of self-help, which Cynthia Miller-Idriss, a sociology professor at American University who specializes in extremism, says is “a great example of how radicalization works.” 2. A unisex given name
Word: clammy Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English clam (“viscous, sticky; slimy”) + -y, from Old English clǣman (“to smear, bedaub”). Compare German klamm (“clammy”) and klemmen (“to be stuck, stick”). See also clam. Pronunciation: /ˈklæmi/ 1. Cold and damp, usually referring to hands or palms. Example: His hands were clammy from fright. Example: The cause is a temperate conglutination ; for both bodies are clammy and viscous , and do bridle the deflux of humours to the hurts , without penning them in too much 2. The quality of normal skin signs, epidermis that is neither diaphoretic nor dry.
Word: Pammy Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Pam + -y. Pronunciation: /ˈpæmi/ 1. A diminutive of the female given name Pamela.
Word: Sammy Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Sam + -y. Pronunciation: /ˈsæmi/ 1. Synonym of Samoyed (a breed of dog)
Word: Sammy Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Sam + -y. Pronunciation: /ˈsæmi/ 1. A diminutive of the male given name Samuel. 2. A diminutive of the female given name Samantha.
Word: Sammy Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Samsung + -y. Pronunciation: /ˈsæmi/ 1. Samsung Electronics. Labels: informal
Word: jammy Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree English jam Proto-Indo-European *-kos Proto-Germanic *-gaz Proto-West Germanic *-g Old English -iġ Middle English -y English -y English jammy From jam + -y. Pronunciation: /ˈd͡ʒæm.i/, /ˈd͡ʒæːm.i/ 1. Resembling jam in taste, texture, etc. Example: a jammy aroma 2. Covered in jam. Example: a child's jammy fingers 3. Containing jam. Example: a jammy dodger biscuit 4. Lucky; especially undeservedly so. Labels: UK, colloquial Example: jammy bastard Example: jammy sod
Word: jammy Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English jam Proto-Indo-European *-kos Proto-Germanic *-gaz Proto-West Germanic *-g Old English -iġ Middle English -y English -y English jammy From jam + -y. Pronunciation: /ˈd͡ʒæm.i/, /ˈd͡ʒæːm.i/ 1. A gun. Labels: slang Example: I got the jammy loaded in one hand. 2. A penis. Labels: US, slang Example: I felt on her big fat fanny / Pulled out the jammy and killed the punanni
Word: jammy Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈd͡ʒæm.i/, /ˈd͡ʒæːm.i/ 1. Attributive form of jammies. Labels: attributive, form-of Example: “[…]I start pleading, ‘Come here.... Please put your jammy top on.... Let me finish dressing you.’ “At last, I’ve got the pajama top over his head, and he starts yelling, ‘Ouch! ouch!’ Example: In the bedroom Elaine would have fixed the pillows and sat up, tugging open her jammy top.
Word: hanky Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈhæŋki/, [ˈhæŋkʰɪi̯], /ˈheɪ̯ŋki/, [ˈheɪ̯ŋkʰɪi̯], /ˈhɛ̃ŋki/ 1. Diminutive of handkerchief. Labels: colloquial, diminutive, form-of Example: I saw the Lone Ranger get shot in the heart and shove a hanky in the hole before stopping a train from falling off a bridge. Example: Catrin: / Have you got a tissue or something? Scott: Got a hanky. Under his lab coat, he’s wearing a suit jacket, and in the pocket, a white handkerchief.
Word: handkerchieves Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of handkerchief Labels: form-of, plural
Word: exacerbate Part of Speech: verb Etymology: First attested in 1660; borrowed from Latin exacerbātus, perfect passive participle of Latin exacerbō (“to provoke”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from ex- (“out of; thoroughly”) + acerbō (“to embitter, harshen or worsen”). Pronunciation: /ɪɡˈzæsɚˌbeɪt/, /ɪɡˈzæsəˌbeɪt/, /ɪkˈsæs-/ 1. To make worse (a problem, bad situation, negative feeling, etc.). Labels: transitive Example: Near-synonym: worsen Example: The proposed shutdown would exacerbate unemployment problems.
Word: brie Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from French brie, after the region of Brie, from Gaulish *brigā, from Proto-Celtic *brigā (“hill, fortress”). Doublet of Brie; see also Bourgogne. Pronunciation: /bɹiː/ 1. An originally French variety of soft cheese made from cow's milk. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: And your socks smell of angels / But your life smells of brie Example: Up it goes to Instagram with the caption “I can’t brie-leave how good this is!!!”. There is no brie in this sandwich.
Word: Brian Part of Speech: name Etymology: Borrowed from Irish Brian. Doublet of Brendan. Pronunciation: /ˈbɹaɪ.ən/ 1. A male given name from Irish. Example: "What the deuce is their fancy for calling the young beggar Brian?" he inquired."Is it Brian Boroimhe they have gone back to, or is it some of her people, or what?" "There was a good Drewitt once," answered Wilhelmina, "- - - and his name was Brian. - - - And Nannie told her, too, how a child always strains after the person it is called after, and how luck follows names, and worked her up to such a pit finally, that nothing would do her but the young gentleman must be called Brian and accordingly Brian he is - Brian Archibald. It is not an easy name to make fun out of; so all I can do is to call him Brin Baldy. Example: Why oh why had his parents even considered Brian? Brian is someone who works in a hardware shop or fixes the U bend. What chance did Sir Lovesdaslutalot have in life with a name like Brian? You can't even shorten Brian to Bri without it sounding like a kind of cheese! 2. A surname.
Word: misspelling Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From mis- + spelling. 1. Incorrect spelling. Labels: uncountable 2. A misspelled word. Labels: countable Example: Accomodation is a common misspelling of accommodation. Example: My own Chinese name might conceivably be written in no fewer than four different ways in Unicode: 井作恆, 井作恒, 丼作恆, and 丼作恒. I would personally consider all but the first misspellings, just as I would the spelling of my English name as Jon Jenkins or John Jenkyns.
Word: misspelling Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From mis- + spelling. 1. present participle and gerund of misspell Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: Braille Part of Speech: name 1. Louis Braille
Word: Braille Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative letter-case form of braille. Labels: alt-of, uncountable
Word: Braille Part of Speech: adj 1. Alternative letter-case form of braille. Labels: alt-of, not-comparable
Word: bleach Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English blechen, from Old English blǣċan (“to bleach, whiten”), from Proto-West Germanic *blaikijan, from Proto-Germanic *blaikijaną, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰel- (“to shine”). Cognate with Dutch bleken (“to bleach”), German bleichen (“to bleach”), Danish blege, Swedish bleka (“to bleach”). Related to Old English blāc (“pale”) (English blake; compare also bleak). Pronunciation: /bliːt͡ʃ/, [blit͡ʃ], [bliːt͡ʃ] 1. A chemical, such as sodium hypochlorite or hydrogen peroxide, or a preparation of such a chemical, used for disinfecting or whitening. Labels: uncountable 2. A variety of bleach. Labels: countable
Word: bleach Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English blechen, from Old English blǣċan (“to bleach, whiten”), from Proto-West Germanic *blaikijan, from Proto-Germanic *blaikijaną, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰel- (“to shine”). Cognate with Dutch bleken (“to bleach”), German bleichen (“to bleach”), Danish blege, Swedish bleka (“to bleach”). Related to Old English blāc (“pale”) (English blake; compare also bleak). Pronunciation: /bliːt͡ʃ/, [blit͡ʃ], [bliːt͡ʃ] 1. To treat with bleach, especially so as to whiten (fabric, paper, etc.) or lighten (hair). Labels: transitive Example: Candifacio, to make whyte, to bleache, to make to glowe lyke a burnyng cole. Example: The destruction of the colouring matters attached to the bodies to be bleached is effected either by the action of the air and light, of chlorine, or of sulphurous acid. 2. To be whitened or lightened (by the sun, for example). Labels: intransitive Example: The white sheet bleaching on the hedge, With heigh! the sweet birds, O, how they sing! Example: […] when Mrs. Giddy-gaddy came to take out her clothes, deep green stains appeared on every thing, for she had forgotten the green silk lining of a certain cape, and its color had soaked nicely into the pink and blue gowns, the little chemises, and even the best ruffled petticoat. […] “Lay them on the grass to bleach,” said Daisy, with an air of experience. 3. To lose color due to stress-induced expulsion of symbiotic unicellular algae. Labels: intransitive Example: Once coral bleaching begins, corals tend to continue to bleach even if the stressor is removed. 4. To make meaningless; to divest of meaning; to make empty. Labels: figuratively, transitive Example: semantically bleached words that have become illocutionary particles
Word: bleach Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English bleche, from Old English blǣċu, blǣċo (“paleness, pallor”), from Proto-Germanic *blaikį̄ (“paleness”). See Etymology 1 above. Pronunciation: /bliːt͡ʃ/, [blit͡ʃ], [bliːt͡ʃ] 1. An act of bleaching; exposure to the sun.
Word: bleach Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English bleche (also bleke), from Old English blǣċ, blǣc, variants of blāc (“bright, shining, glittering”), from Proto-West Germanic *blaik, from Proto-Germanic *blaikaz (“pale, shining”). More at bleak. Pronunciation: /bliːt͡ʃ/, [blit͡ʃ], [bliːt͡ʃ] 1. Pale; bleak. Labels: archaic
Word: bleach Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English bleche, from Old English blǣċe (“irritation of the skin, leprosy; psoriasis”). Pronunciation: /bliːt͡ʃ/, [blit͡ʃ], [bliːt͡ʃ] 1. A disease of the skin characterized by hypopigmentation and itching, believed in the 17th century to be a form of leprosy. Labels: obsolete
Word: bladder Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English bladdre, bleddre, bladder, bledder, from Old English blæddre, a variant of blǣdre, blēdre (“blister, bladder”), from Proto-West Germanic *blādrā, from Proto-Germanic *blēdrǭ, *bladrǭ (“blister, bladder”). Pronunciation: /ˈblædə/, /ˈblædɚ/ 1. A flexible sac that can expand and contract and that holds liquids or gases. 2. Specifically, the urinary bladder. 3. A hollow, inflatable organ of a plant. 4. The inflatable bag inside various balls used in sports, such as footballs and rugby balls. 5. A container in the form of a flexible bag. Example: a fuel bladder 6. A container in the form of a flexible bag. 7. Anything inflated, empty, or unsound. Labels: figuratively Example: to swim with bladders of philosophy
Word: bladder Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English bladdre, bleddre, bladder, bledder, from Old English blæddre, a variant of blǣdre, blēdre (“blister, bladder”), from Proto-West Germanic *blādrā, from Proto-Germanic *blēdrǭ, *bladrǭ (“blister, bladder”). Pronunciation: /ˈblædə/, /ˈblædɚ/ 1. To swell out like a bladder with air; to inflate. Example: bladder'd up with pride of his own merit 2. To store or put up in bladders. Labels: transitive Example: bladdered lard
Word: baggy Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Old Norse baggibor.? Old French baguebor.? Middle English bagge English bag Proto-Indo-European *-kos Proto-Germanic *-gaz Proto-West Germanic *-g Old English -iġ Middle English -y English -y English baggy From bag + -y (adjectival suffix). Pronunciation: /ˈbæɡi/ 1. Of clothing, very loose-fitting, so as to hang away from the body. Example: When the YSL designer finally got to present Sunday, after the show tent pitched on a race course had been deemed unsafe, he had a surprise in store: the longest, bell-bottom pants since the start of the 1970s — and the baggiest since rapper chic. Example: The only way to safely avoid looking like a hipster, so far as I can tell, is to dress in oversize mesh jerseys bearing the logos of sports teams. Or to wear the blandest, baggiest, beige-est clothes possible, like a middle-aged tourist. 2. Of or relating to a British music genre of the 1980s and 1990s, influenced by Madchester and psychedelia and associated with baggy clothing. Example: Pop historian Jon Savage listens to the best of the Stone Roses and their contemporaries – from Baby Ford to the Sabres of Paradise – and creates the perfect set of baggy playlists Example: The Birmingham band – now a five-piece after multi-instrumentalist James Balmont joined them – have ditched the loose and baggy guitar pop of 2013’s Where the Heaven Are We? in favour of psych-pop that contorts itself into pulsing Balearic acid house and motorik rhythms. 3. Of writing, etc.: overwrought; flabby; having too much padding. Labels: figuratively Example: a baggy book
Word: baggy Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Old Norse baggibor.? Old French baguebor.? Middle English bagge English bag Proto-Indo-European *-kos Proto-Germanic *-gaz Proto-West Germanic *-g Old English -iġ Middle English -y English -y English baggy From bag + -y (adjectival suffix). Pronunciation: /ˈbæɡi/ 1. A member of the 1980/90s British music and fashion movement. Labels: UK Example: I said dad you're a shabby / You run around and groove like a baggy / You're only here just out of habit
Word: baggy Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Presumably a back-formation from baggies (the plural), presumably a genericization of the brand name Baggies. Also analyzable as bag + -y (diminutive suffix). Pronunciation: /ˈbæɡi/ 1. A small plastic bag, as for sandwiches. Example: 2008 March 6, Kristen Hinmen, "News Real: Seeing Red", Riverfront Times volume 32 number 10, page 10, In an accompanying affidavit, Apazeller reported that Onstott "has entered the kitchen with a handful of cocaine and asked for a plastic baggy." 2. Such a bag filled with marijuana.
Word: baker Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Inherited from Middle English bakere, from Old English bæcere (“baker”), from Proto-Germanic *bakārijaz (“baker”), equivalent to bake + -er. Cognate with Dutch bakker (“baker”), German Bäcker (“baker”), Norwegian Bokmål baker (“baker”), Swedish bagare (“baker”), Icelandic bakari (“baker”). Pronunciation: /ˈbeɪ.kə/, /ˈbeɪ.kɚ/, /ˈbe.kəɾ/, /ˈbeː.kə/ 1. A person who bakes and sells bread, cakes and similar items. Example: But through the oligopoly, charcoal fuel proliferated throughout London's trades and industries. By the 1200s, brewers and bakers, tilemakers, glassblowers, pottery producers, and a range of other craftsmen all became hour-to-hour consumers of charcoal. 2. A portable oven for baking. 3. An apple suitable for baking. Example: Wealthys and McIntoshes are not good bakers.
Word: beep Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Onomatopoeic. Pronunciation: /biːp/ 1. The sound produced by the horn of a car, or any similar sound. 2. A short, electronically produced tone. 3. A message sent to a pager device. Example: I got a beep from Kim, and she can fuck all night 4. Synonym of bell (“bell character”).
Word: beep Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Onomatopoeic. Pronunciation: /biːp/ 1. To produce a beep sound. Labels: intransitive, transitive Example: The motorists in the traffic jam were getting more and more frustrated and started beeping their horns. 2. To have sexual intercourse with (someone), referring to the bleep tone used to censor obscene words in broadcasts. Labels: euphemistic, informal, transitive Example: Jason beeped Sharlene after they had drunk a few beers. 3. To contact (someone) via a pager device. Labels: transitive Example: Burkat told him on the evening of Sunday, July 1, that Kritch “would have to terminate Mr. Waugaman on Monday when he came in, for not answering the beeper.” […] However, when considered in light of[…] Justak’s assertion in Waugaman’s termination notice that Respondent had unsuccessfully tried to “beep” him at 6 p.m.[…] Example: His first notion was to call her on her mobile phone device. After all, she had neither called nor beeped him to tell him any plans in advance. 4. To telephone a person, only allowing the phone to ring once, in order to request a call back. Labels: transitive Example: Susan beeped Jessica, and then Jessica called her back, because Susan didn't have enough credit on her phone to make the call. Example: He should have been here at two-fifteen the way he drove. I beeped him, but he didn't ring back.
Word: beep Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Blend of big + jeep. From being bigger versions of the general purpose superlight truck, the Willys MB "Jeep". Pronunciation: /biːp/ 1. A 1/2-ton general purpose military light truck Labels: US, dated, slang 2. A 3/4-ton general purpose military medium truck Labels: US, broadly, dated, slang 3. Especially, the Dodge WC series U.S. Army WWII military trucks, in 1/2-ton 3/4-ton 1-ton variants Labels: US, dated, slang
Word: Schomburgk's deer Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Named after Sir Robert H. Schomburgk, British consul in Bangkok from 1857 to 1864. 1. An extinct deer (†Rucervus schomburgki) once native to south-east Asia, having a dark brown coat and lighter belly, a short mane and basket-like antlers in the male.
Word: bean Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *bʰabʰ-? Proto-Germanic *babnōder.? Proto-Germanic *baunō Proto-West Germanic *baunu Old English bēan Middle English bene English bean From Middle English bene, from Old English bēan, from Proto-West Germanic *baunu, from Proto-Germanic *baunō (“bean”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰabʰ- (“bean”). Cognate with Scots bene, bein (“bean”), North Frisian buan (“bean”), Saterland Frisian Boone (“bean”), West Frisian bean, beanne (“bean”), Dutch boon (“bean”), German Bohne (“bean”), Luxembourgish Boun (“bean”), Danish bønne (“bean”), Faroese bøn, bøna (“bean”), Icelandic baun (“bean”), Norwegian Bokmål bønne (“bean”), Norwegian Nynorsk bauna, baune, bogna, bønne, Swedish böna (“bean”), Irish pónaire (“bean”), Manx poanrey (“bean”), Scottish Gaelic pònair (“bean”), Latin faba (“bean”), Russian боб (bob, “bean”), Serbo-Croatian бо̏б/bȍb. Doublet of fava. Pronunciation: /ˈbi(ː)n/, [ˈbɪin] 1. To hit with a projectile, especially a deliberately aimed blow to the head. Labels: transitive Example: The pitcher beaned the batter, rather than letting him hit another home run. Example: Though I shall have to exercise an iron self-restraint to keep me from beaning that pie-faced little hornswoggler Mrs Bertram Wooster, nee Wickham, with the shaker. [...] dudgeon might easily lead her to reach for the ginger ale bottle and bean me with it.
Word: beak Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English bec, borrowed from Anglo-Norman bec, Old French bec, from Latin beccus, from Gaulish *bekkos, from Proto-Celtic *bekkos (“beak, snout”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *bak-, *baḱ- (“pointed stick, peg”). Cognate with Breton beg (“beak”). Compare Saterland Frisian Bäk (“mouth; muzzle; beak”); Dutch bek (“beak; bill; neb”). Pronunciation: /biːk/ 1. To strike with the beak. Labels: transitive 2. To seize with the beak. Labels: transitive 3. To play truant. Labels: Northern-Ireland, intransitive Example: Knew the Jampot well. I spent many an afternoon while I was beaking school in that fine establishment. Example: I was living at home at her age, by and large doing what my parents told me, apart from beaking school.
Word: beak Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Unknown; originally cant; first recorded in 17thC; probably related to obsolete cant beck "constable". 1. A justice of the peace; a magistrate. Labels: UK, slang Example: They take up men, Dick, for going about in women's clothes, and vice versaw, I suppose. You'll bail me, old fellaa, if I have to make my bow to the beak, won't you? Example: Harry looked rather bulky, you know, Tom, and the slop (policeman) says, 'Hallo, what you got here?' and by [blank] he took us both before the beak. 2. A schoolmaster (originally, at Eton). Labels: slang Example: It’s easy enough to be a beak when you’re young and athletic, and can offer the latest University smattering. The difficulty is to keep your place when you get old and stiff, and younger smatterers are pushing up behind you. Crawl into a boarding-house and you’re safe. A master’s life is frightfully tragic.
Word: demonstrate Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *de Proto-Indo-European *-h₁ Proto-Indo-European *déh₁ Proto-Italic *dē Latin dē Latin dē- Proto-Indo-European *men- Proto-Indo-European *-yeti Proto-Indo-European *-éyeti Proto-Indo-European *monéyeti Proto-Italic *man-eje- Proto-Italic *moneō Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr Proto-Indo-European *-trom Proto-Italic *-trom Proto-Italic *monestrom Latin mōnstrum Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti Proto-Indo-European *-h₂tiinflu. Proto-Italic *-ājō Proto-Italic *-āō Latin -ō Latin mōnstrō Latin dēmōnstrō Latin dēmōnstrātusbor. English demonstrate Borrowed from Latin dēmonstrātus, the perfect passive participle of dēmonstrō (“to show, point at”), see -ate (verb-forming suffix). Cognate with French démontrer. Pronunciation: /ˈdɛm.ənˌstɹeɪt/, /ˈdem.ənˌstɹæɪt/ 1. To show how to use (something). Labels: transitive Example: Can you demonstrate the new tools for us? Example: In this tape, a velvet-voiced narrator provides a stroke-by-stroke guide to massaging your partner. As she speaks, comely nude couples demonstrate. 2. To show the steps taken to create a logical argument or equation. 3. To participate in or organize a demonstration. Labels: intransitive Example: Those people outside are demonstrating against the election results. 4. To show, display, or present; to prove or make evident Labels: transitive Example: The debate was not long on policy, as questions about the Affordable Care Act and the war in Syria demonstrated. Example: "What we are trying to demonstrate is that freight lines at lower speeds can be electrified much more cheaply. […]"
Word: beech Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English beche, from Old English bēċe, from Proto-West Germanic *bōkijā (“beech”). Doublet of buky. Related to English book. Pronunciation: /ˈbiːt͡ʃ/, [ˈbɪi̯t͡ʃ] 1. A tree of the genus Fagus having a smooth, light grey trunk, oval, pointed leaves, and many branches. Example: A beech wood with silver firs in it rolled down the face of the hill, and the maze of leafless twigs and dusky spires cut sharp against the soft blueness of the evening sky. 2. The wood of the beech tree.
Word: biodegradation Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *gʷeyh₃-der. Ancient Greek βῐ́ος (bĭ́os) Ancient Greek βῐο- (bĭo-)der. English bio- English degradation English biodegradation From bio- + degradation. 1. The decomposition of any material by microorganisms. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: brainy Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English brayny; equivalent to brain + -y. Pronunciation: /ˈbɹeɪni/ 1. Very intellectually capable. Labels: informal Example: She's brainy as well as pretty. 2. Of or relating to the brain. Labels: rare Example: You shal vnderstande that there springeth of the brayny substaunce of his for*most Ventrikles, two senewes, […] Example: There is a hammer and an anuile [within the ear]: whereof the hammer, ſtricking vpon the anuile, muſt of neceſſity beate off ſuch litle partes of the brainy ſteames, as flying about do light and ſticke vpon the toppe of the anuile: […]
Word: bruising Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From bruise + -ing. Pronunciation: /ˈbɹuːzɪŋ/ 1. present participle and gerund of bruise Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: bruising Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From bruise + -ing. Pronunciation: /ˈbɹuːzɪŋ/ 1. That bruises. 2. Wearisome, arduous. Example: Instead England produced something that felt a little transgressive in this most controlled of stages, tightening their grip in a bruising first half, before freewheeling downhill in the second with their feet up on the handlebars.
Word: bruising Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From bruise + -ing. Pronunciation: /ˈbɹuːzɪŋ/ 1. A violent physical attack on a person. Labels: slang Example: You'd better shut up or you'll get a bruising. 2. Bruises on a person's skin. Example: […] on October 29, 1888, the Russian imperial train was derailed at Borki by defective track, and twenty-one persons were killed. Although these did not include the Emperor Alexander III, who escaped with a bruising, a footman serving coffee to him at the critical moment, and his dog, which was lying on the floor beside him, were both killed on the spot. Example: Of the nine staff in the third coach, most had been having a break, drinking tea or reading. One suffered a fractured skull, another a fractured shoulder. All were either thrown along or across the coach, sustaining cuts, bruising and whiplash injuries.
Word: wench Part of Speech: verb Etymology: The noun is derived from Middle English wench, wenche (“female baby; girl (especially unmarried); maiden, young woman; bondwoman; serving maid; beloved, sweetheart; concubine, mistress; harlot, prostitute”) [and other forms], a shortened form of Middle English wenchel (“girl; maiden; child”), from Old English wenċel, winċel (“child; servant; slave”), from Proto-Germanic *wankilą, from Proto-Germanic *wankijaną (“to sway; waver”). The English word is cognate with Old High German wenken (“to waver; to give way, yield”), wankōn (“to totter”). The verb is derived from the noun. Pronunciation: /wɛnt͡ʃ/ 1. To frequent prostitutes; to whore; also, to womanize. Labels: archaic, humorous, intransitive Example: This is ſure ſome hide-bound ſtudent, that proportions his expence by his penſion; and wencheth at Tottenham court for ſtewed prunes and cheeſcakes. Example: He [a man under the influence of the planet Mars] hath a marke or ſcar in his face, is broad-ſhouldered, a ſturdy ſtrong body, being bold and proud, given to mocke, ſcorne, quarrell, drinke, game and wench: which you may eaſily know by the Signe he is in; if in the houſe of ♀ he wencheth, if in ☿s he ſteals, [...] 2. To act as a wench. Labels: archaic, intransitive Example: λαικάζω (laikázō), to wench
Word: medieval Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From French médiéval (“medieval”), from Latin medium (“middle”) + aevum (“age”). Pronunciation: /ˌmɛd.iˈiː.vəl/, /ˌmiː.diˈiː.vəl/, /mɪdˈiː.vəl/, /mɪdˈi.vəl/, /ˌmɛˈdi.vəl/ 1. Of or relating to the Middle Ages, the period from approximately 500 to 1500 AD. Example: The book significantly extends on Rosenstein’s monumental 1990 work, “The Unbroken Chain,” which focused on the genealogies of the major Ashkenazi rabbinic dynasties from medieval times to the present. 2. Having characteristics associated with the Middle Ages in popular, modern cultural perception: 3. Having characteristics associated with the Middle Ages in popular, modern cultural perception: Example: Brute force can get you into any apartment if you want to get medieval about it. Example: "Oh, what a nifty idea," Collins said dryly. "Get a bunch of angry brothers with a blowtorch and some pliers and get medieval on his ass."
Word: medieval Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From French médiéval (“medieval”), from Latin medium (“middle”) + aevum (“age”). Pronunciation: /ˌmɛd.iˈiː.vəl/, /ˌmiː.diˈiː.vəl/, /mɪdˈiː.vəl/, /mɪdˈi.vəl/, /ˌmɛˈdi.vəl/ 1. Someone living in the Middle Ages. 2. A medieval example (of something aforementioned or understood from context). Example: Thank God for modern remedies: the medievals were often useless or even harmful.
Word: buxom Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English buxom, also ibucsum, ibuhsum (“bendsome, flexible, pliant, obedient”), from Old English bōcsum, *būhsum, *ġebūhsum (“bendsome, pliant, obedient”), from Proto-West Germanic *beuhsam, *beugsam, equivalent to bow (“to bend, bow at the waist”) + -some or buck (“to bend, buckle, kick”) + -some. Cognate with Scots bowsome (“compliant”), West Frisian bûgsum (“flexible, bendy”), Dutch buigzaam (“flexible, pliant”), German biegsam (“flexible, pliant”). Pronunciation: /ˈbʌksəm/ 1. Having a full, voluptuous figure, especially possessing large breasts. Example: Aarfy's buxom trollop had vanished with her smutty cameo ring, and Nurse Duckett was ashamed of him because he had refused to fly more combat missions and would cause a scandal. Example: DIED. Robert Brooks, 69, canny businessman who, as chairman of Hooters, turned the bar-restaurant chain, famed for buxom waitresses in orange hot pants, into an international success. 2. Full of health, vigour, and good temper. Labels: dated Example: There on Beds of Violets blew, / And freſh-blown Roſes waſht in dew, / Fill'd her with thee a daughter fair, / So buckſom, blith, and debonair. Example: Claypole, the buxom novelist,...[his] bubbling utterances.... 3. Physically flexible or unresisting. Labels: obsolete Example: Their substance is of a middle Nature betwixt bones and gristles moderately hard, the better to beare the violence of outward iniures, flexible or buxome that they should not breake but giue way to violence, pellucide or transparant and therefore they are either red or liuid according to their flesh vnder them. 4. Morally pliant; obedient and easily yielding to pressure. Labels: broadly, obsolete Example: They downe him hold, and fast with cords do bynde, / Till they him force the buxome yoke to beare […]. Example: You will certainly be rewarded for this improvement in your conduct by a notable increase of tranquillity and cheerfulness in your view both of the past and of the future; and in the hope that you will be buxom and good, I conclude by New Year's lecture.
Word: discriminant Part of Speech: noun 1. An expression that gives information about the roots of a polynomial; for example, the expression D = b² - 4ac determines whether the roots of the quadratic equation ax² + bx + c = 0 are real and distinct (D > 0), real and equal (D = 0) or complex (D < 0). 2. The invariant (on the vector space of forms of degree d in n variables) that vanishes exactly when the corresponding hypersurface in Pⁿ⁻¹ is singular.
Word: discriminant Part of Speech: adj 1. Serving to discriminate.
Word: asymptote Part of Speech: noun Etymology: circa 1650, from Ancient Greek ἀσύμπτωτη (asúmptōtē), the feminine of Apollonius Pergaeus' (circa 200 BC) Ancient Greek adjective ἀσύμπτωτος (asúmptōtos, “not falling together”), from ἀ- (a-, “not”) + συν- (sun-, “together”) + πτωτός (ptōtós, “fallen”). See also a-, syn-, -ote. Pronunciation: /ˈæsɪmptəʊ̯t/, [ˈæsɪmtəʊ̯t], /ˈæsɪmtɒt/, /ˈæsɪmptoʊ̯t/, [ˈæsɪmtoʊ̯t] 1. A straight line which a curve approaches arbitrarily closely as it goes to infinity. The limit of the curve; its tangent "at infinity". Example: The King rushed forward with all his cruel coordinates and mean values, stumbled into a dark forest of roots and logarithms, had to backtrack, then encountered the beast on a field of irrational numbers (F₁) and smote it so grievously that it fell two decimal places and lost an epsilon, but the beast slid around an asymptote and hid in an n-dimensional orthogonal phase space, underwent expansion and came out, fuming factorially, and fell upon the King and hurt him passing sore. 2. Anything which comes near to but never meets something else. Labels: broadly, figuratively Example: Language, in relation to thought, must ever be regarded as an asymptote.
Word: asymptote Part of Speech: verb Etymology: circa 1650, from Ancient Greek ἀσύμπτωτη (asúmptōtē), the feminine of Apollonius Pergaeus' (circa 200 BC) Ancient Greek adjective ἀσύμπτωτος (asúmptōtos, “not falling together”), from ἀ- (a-, “not”) + συν- (sun-, “together”) + πτωτός (ptōtós, “fallen”). See also a-, syn-, -ote. Pronunciation: /ˈæsɪmptəʊ̯t/, [ˈæsɪmtəʊ̯t], /ˈæsɪmtɒt/, /ˈæsɪmptoʊ̯t/, [ˈæsɪmtoʊ̯t] 1. To approach, but never quite touch, a straight line, as something goes to infinity. Example: 2006: Neil deGrasse Tyson, The Perimeter of Ignorance As you become more scientific, yes, the religiosity drops off, but it asymptotes.
Word: Cartesian coordinate Part of Speech: noun 1. The coordinates of a point measured from an origin along a horizontal axis from left to right (the x-axis) and along a vertical axis from bottom to top (the y-axis). This can be extended to three-dimensions by the z-axis perpendicular to the x- and y-axes.
Word: rectangular coordinates Part of Speech: noun 1. Cartesian coordinates. Labels: plural, plural-only, uncommon
Word: polar coordinates Part of Speech: noun 1. The coordinates of a point in a plane, measured as its Cartesian distance from the origin and the angle measured counterclockwise from the x-axis to a line joining the point to the origin. Labels: plural, plural-normally 2. A system of coordinates using such measurements to indicate position. Labels: plural, plural-normally 3. The coordinates of a point in three-dimensional space, measured as its Cartesian distance from the origin, the angle measured from the z-axis to a line joining the point to the origin, and the angle measured counterclockwise from the x-axis to this line. Labels: plural, plural-normally
Word: Cartesian coordinates Part of Speech: noun 1. The coordinates of a point measured as its perpendicular distance to the right of a vertical axis (the y-axis) and its perpendicular distance above a horizontal axis (the x-axis). Labels: plural, plural-only
Word: goatee Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From goat + -ee (diminutive suffix), referring to the tuft of hair on the chin of many domestic goats. Pronunciation: /ɡəʊˈtiː/, /ˌɡoʊˈtiː/ 1. A beard trimmed to grow only at the center of the chin. Example: One person sports a goatee, the hair refusing to grow on the sides of his physiognomy; the chin of another is as smooth as a baby's cheek,—he contents himself with a modest moustache and a faint attempt at an imperial; while a few of the upper classes rejoice in all the varieties. Example: The terrorist, as he called himself, was old and bald, with a narrow, snow-white wisp of a goatee hanging limply from his chin.
Word: triumvir Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin triumvir. Compare Middle English triumvir (“committee of three magistrates”). Pronunciation: /tɹaɪˈʌm.və/, /tɹaɪˈʌm.vəɹ/ 1. One member of a triumvirate.
Word: Cascade concrete Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Because it is characteristic of the Cascades of the Northwestern United States, in particular the lower-elevation regions of Washington, such as Snoqualmie Pass. 1. Wet, heavy and often sticky snow, which makes skiing and snowboarding difficult. Labels: uncountable
Word: hydrophobia Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English idroforbia (“hydrophobia”), from Latin hydrophobia, from Ancient Greek ὑδροφοβία (hudrophobía), from ὑδρο- (hudro-), combining form of ῠ̔́δωρ (hŭ́dōr, “water”), + φοβία (phobía, “phobia”). The word is analysable as hydro- + -phobia. Pronunciation: /ˌhaɪ.dɹə(ʊ)ˈfəʊ.bi.ə/, /ˌhaɪ.dɹəˈfoʊ.bi.ə/, /ˌhɑe.dɹəˈfəʉ.bi.ə/ 1. An aversion to water, as a symptom of rabies; the disease of rabies itself. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: […] Cato, who ſcorned both death and fortune, could not abide the ſight of a looking glaſſe or of water; overcome with horrour, and quelled with amazement, if by the contagion of a mad dog he had falne into that ſickneſſe which Phiſitians call Hydroforbia, or feare of waters. Example: Now that I have breathed a little, I am anxious to know your opinion of the nature of that affection in the throat, which deprives a patient of the power of ſwallowing in conſequence of hydrophobia. 2. A morbid fear of water; aquaphobia. Labels: colloquial, countable, uncountable Example: [page 39] HydroPhobias begin on land long before casting off. But once at sea, fear is quickly lost in the joys and pleasures of the passage. […] [page 40] There are three HydroPhobias. The Big Three. Two of the Big Three are fears that prevent landlubbers from becoming sailors. The third is primal and common to all mankind. The Big Three are 1) Fear of Flatland, 2) Fear of Being with Self, and 3) The Fear of Bogeymen. 3. A lack of affinity for water; the quality of being hydrophobic Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: feudalism Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English feudal Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō) Proto-Indo-European *-mos Proto-Indo-European *-mós Ancient Greek -μός (-mós) Ancient Greek -ισμός (-ismós)der. English -ism English feudalism From feudal + -ism. Pronunciation: /ˈfju.də.lɪ.zəm/, [ˈfju.də.lɪ.zm̩] 1. A social system based on personal ownership of resources and personal fealty between a suzerain (lord) and a vassal (subject). Defining characteristics are direct ownership of resources, personal loyalty, and a hierarchical social structure reinforced by religion. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: It was the beginning of a feudalism of the range, a barony rude enough, but a glorious one, albeit it began, like all feudalism, in large-handed theft and generous murdering. Example: The re-emergence of empire was thwarted by immense topographical variety, coastal confolutions, and wide-openness to the east, which made Christendom difficult to organize and defend as a whole from Viking, barbarian and Islamic attacks round its perimeter; by natural temperateness, which rendered large-scale disasters needing widespread rescue of populations rare (Jones 1981); and by the very devolved political system represented by feudalism, which encouraged the fissipation of whatever larger units did develop.
Word: Marxism Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English Marx Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō) Proto-Indo-European *-mos Proto-Indo-European *-mós Ancient Greek -μός (-mós) Ancient Greek -ισμός (-ismós)der. English -ism English Marxism From Marx + -ism. Pronunciation: /ˈmɑɹk.sɪ.zəm/ 1. The socialist and communist philosophy and political program founded by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. The socialist and communist theory of the followers of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels; a radical, revolutionary political philosophy that aims to capture state power, introduce a dictatorship of the proletariat, and then progress to communism. Labels: countable, uncountable 3. Any left-wing ideology, government regulations, or policies promoting a welfare state, nationalisation, etc. Labels: Western, colloquial, countable, derogatory, often, uncountable