nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: lecture Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English lecture, lectour, letture, letteur, lettur, lectury, from Medieval Latin or Late Latin lectura (“reading”), from Latin lectus, past participle of legō (“to read, recite”). Doublet of lector. Pronunciation: /ˈlɛk.t͡ʃə/, [ˈlɛk.t͡ʃə], /ˈlek.t͡ʃə/, [ˈlek.t͡ʃə], /ˈle̝k.t͡ʃɘ/ 1. A spoken lesson or exposition, usually delivered to a group. Example: During class today the professor delivered an interesting lecture. Example: The stories did not seem to me to touch life. […] They left me with the impression of a well-delivered stereopticon lecture, with characters about as life-like as the shadows on the screen, and whisking on and off, at the mercy of the operator. 2. A class that primarily consists of a (weekly or other regularly held) lecture (as in sense 1), usually at college or university. Labels: broadly Example: We will not have lecture tomorrow. Example: Lecture notes are online. 3. A berating or scolding, especially if lengthy, formal or given in a stern or angry manner. Example: I really don't want you to give me a lecture about my bad eating habits. 4. The act of reading. Labels: obsolete Example: the lecture of Holy Scripture
Word: lecture Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English lecture, lectour, letture, letteur, lettur, lectury, from Medieval Latin or Late Latin lectura (“reading”), from Latin lectus, past participle of legō (“to read, recite”). Doublet of lector. Pronunciation: /ˈlɛk.t͡ʃə/, [ˈlɛk.t͡ʃə], /ˈlek.t͡ʃə/, [ˈlek.t͡ʃə], /ˈle̝k.t͡ʃɘ/ 1. To teach (somebody) by giving a speech on a given topic. Labels: ambitransitive Example: The professor lectured to two classes this morning. 2. To preach, to berate, to scold. Labels: transitive Example: Emily's father lectured her about the importance of being home before midnight. Example: The dispatches […] also exposed the blatant discrepancy between the west's professed values and actual foreign policies. Having lectured the Arab world about democracy for years, its collusion in suppressing freedom was undeniable as protesters were met by weaponry and tear gas made in the west, employed by a military trained by westerners.
Word: wordsmith Part of Speech: noun Etymology: The noun is derived from word + smith (“craftsperson who works metal into desired forms; (by extension) one who makes anything”). The verb is derived from the noun. Pronunciation: /ˈwɜːdsmɪθ/, /ˈwɝdˌsmɪθ/ 1. One who uses words skilfully. Example: She has always been known as a capable wordsmith, but in this latest novel she also shows surprising emotional depth. Example: I bottle up and then spill it in verses / One day, I'm wordless, next day, I'm a wordsmith / Close to success, but to happiness, I'm the furthest
Word: wordsmith Part of Speech: verb Etymology: The noun is derived from word + smith (“craftsperson who works metal into desired forms; (by extension) one who makes anything”). The verb is derived from the noun. Pronunciation: /ˈwɜːdsmɪθ/, /ˈwɝdˌsmɪθ/ 1. To skilfully compose or craft (something written). Labels: transitive Example: Then he reads the prompt, which has been carefully wordsmithed by Mr. [Ted] Wetzel and his collaborators.
Word: divorce Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Derived from Old French divorce, from Latin dīvortium, from dīvertere (“to turn aside”), from dī- (“apart”) + vertere (“to turn”); see verse. Pronunciation: /dɪˈvɔːs/, /-voəs/, /dɪˈvoɹs/, /-vo(ː)ɹs/ 1. The legal dissolution of a marriage. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Kate Merrill: Do you ever regret it, Liz? Liz Frances: The divorce? Not as much as I regret the marriage. Example: Richard obtained a divorce from his wife some years ago, but hasn't returned to the dating scene. 2. A separation of connected things. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The Civil War split between Virginia and West Virginia was a divorce based along cultural and economic as well as geographic lines. Example: The great trick of online retail has been to get us to do more shopping while thinking less about it – thinking less, in particular, about how our purchases reach our homes. This divorce of a product from its voyage to us is perhaps the thing that Amazon has sold us most successfully 3. The separation of a bonded pair of animals. Labels: countable, uncountable 4. That which separates. Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable Example: Go with me like good angels to my end; / And as the long divorce of steel falls on me, / Make of your prayers one sweet sacrifice, / And lift my soul to heaven. Lead on, o' God's name.
Word: divorce Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Derived from Old French divorce, from Latin dīvortium, from dīvertere (“to turn aside”), from dī- (“apart”) + vertere (“to turn”); see verse. Pronunciation: /dɪˈvɔːs/, /-voəs/, /dɪˈvoɹs/, /-vo(ː)ɹs/ 1. To legally dissolve a marriage between two people. Labels: transitive Example: A ship captain can marry couples, but cannot divorce them. Example: As Fire Island’s reputation grew, so did the fame of its residents. In 1977, after divorcing his first wife, Calvin Klein bought one of Gifford’s beachfront homes. 2. To end one's own marriage to (a person) in this way. Labels: transitive Example: Lucy divorced Steve when she discovered that he had been unfaithful. 3. To obtain a legal divorce. Labels: intransitive Example: Edna and Simon divorced last year; he got the house, and she retained the business. 4. To separate something that was connected. Labels: transitive Example: The radical group voted to divorce itself from the main faction and start an independent movement. Example: He is knight dubb'd with vnhatche'd Rapier, and on carpet conſideration, but he is a diuell in priuate brall, soules and bodies hath he diuorc'd three, and his incenſement at this moment is ſo implacable, that ſatisfaction can be none, but by pangs of death and ſepulcher: Hob, nob, is his word: giu't or take't.
Word: marketing Part of Speech: verb Etymology: By surface analysis, market + -ing. Pronunciation: /ˈmɑːkɪtɪŋ/, /ˈmɑɹkɪtɪŋ/ 1. present participle and gerund of market Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: marketing Part of Speech: noun Etymology: By surface analysis, market + -ing. Pronunciation: /ˈmɑːkɪtɪŋ/, /ˈmɑɹkɪtɪŋ/ 1. Buying and/or selling in a market (street market or market fair). Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The final result of the extreme seasonality of marketings of cattle and calves in Arkansas would have been an inshipment of either slaughter cattle or block beef and beef products during three quarters of the year. 2. Buying and/or selling in a market (street market or market fair). Labels: Philippines, archaic, countable, uncountable Example: Although Miss Pross, through her long association with a French family, might have known as much of their language as of her own, if she had had a mind, she had no mind in that direction […] So her manner of marketing was to plump a noun-substantive at the head of a shopkeeper without any introduction in the nature of an article […] Example: [Wife to husband:] I'm going out to do my marketing – keep out of the kitchen, while I'm gone. 3. Buying and/or selling in a market (street market or market fair). Labels: countable, dated, uncountable Example: Marketing was a time-consuming task for truck farming families, as the round trip could take most of the day. 4. The promotion, distribution and selling of a product or service; the work of a marketer; includes market research and advertising. Labels: uncountable Example: a bachelor's degree in marketing Example: In America alone, people spent $170 billion on “direct marketing”—junk mail of both the physical and electronic varieties—last year. Yet of those who received unsolicited adverts through the post, only 3% bought anything as a result.
Word: region Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English regioun, from Anglo-Norman regiun, from Latin regiō, from regō. Doublet of regio. Pronunciation: /ˈɹiːd͡ʒən/, [ˈɹiːd͡ʒn̩], /ˈɹi.d͡ʒən/, [ˈɹi.d͡ʒn̩], [ˈɹɪi.d͡ʒn̩] 1. Any considerable and connected part of a space or surface; specifically, a tract of land or sea of considerable but indefinite extent; a country; a district; in a broad sense, a place without special reference to location or extent but viewed as an entity for geographical, social or cultural reasons. Example: the equatorial regions Example: the temperate regions 2. An administrative subdivision of a city, a territory, a country. Labels: historical 3. An administrative subdivision of a city, a territory, a country. 4. An administrative subdivision of a city, a territory, a country. 5. An administrative subdivision of a city, a territory, a country. Labels: Ontario, abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis 6. An administrative subdivision of a city, a territory, a country. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis 7. An administrative subdivision of a city, a territory, a country. 8. The inhabitants of a region or district of a country. Labels: figuratively 9. A place in or a part of the body in any way indicated. Example: the abdominal regions 10. An approximate range. Example: The average age of the club's members is in the region of 35. 11. Place; rank; station; dignity. Labels: obsolete Example: he is of too high a region 12. The space from the earth's surface out to the orbit of the moon: properly called the elemental region. Labels: obsolete
Word: hire Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English hire, hyre, here, hure, from Old English hȳr (“employment for wages; pay for service; interest on money lent”), from Proto-West Germanic *hūʀiju (“payment”), from the verb *hūʀijan, from Proto-Germanic *hūzijaną, from Proto-Indo-European *kewHs- or *kweHs-. Compare Hittite 𒆪𒊭𒀭 (kuššan-, “fee, pay, wages, price”). Cognate with West Frisian hier (“hire”), Dutch huur (“lease, rental”), German Low German Hüür (“lease, rental”). Pronunciation: /ˈhaɪ(.)ə/, /haɪɹ/, /ˈhaɪ.ɚ/, /həjɜ(r)/ 1. A person who has been hired, especially in a cohort. Labels: countable Example: We pair up each of our new hires with one of our original hires. Example: Employment statistics, the other key indicator of Diversity & Inclusion performance, shows that almost 30% of new Southeastern hires are women. 2. The state of being hired, or having a job; employment. Labels: uncountable Example: When my grandfather retired, he had over twenty mechanics in his hire. 3. Payment for the temporary use of something. Labels: uncountable Example: The sign offered pedalos on hire. 4. Reward. Labels: obsolete, uncountable Example: I vvill him reaue of armes, the victors hire, / And of that ſhield, more vvorthy of good knight; / For vvhy ſhould a dead dog be deckt in armour bright? Example: I have five hundred crovvns, / The thrifty hire I ſav'd under your father […]
Word: hire Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English hiren, hyren, from Old English hȳrian (“to hire”), from the noun (see above). Compare West Frisian hiere (“to rent, lease”), Dutch huren (“to rent, lease”), Low German hüren (“to rent”), Danish hyre (“to hire”), Swedish hyra (“to hire”). Eclipsed Middle English souden (“to hire, employ, enlist”), borrowed from Old French souder, soudre, souldre (“to take into employ, pay”); see English sold (“salary, military pay”). Pronunciation: /ˈhaɪ(.)ə/, /haɪɹ/, /ˈhaɪ.ɚ/, /həjɜ(r)/ 1. To obtain the services of in return for fixed payment. Labels: Australia, UK, transitive Example: We hired a car for two weeks because ours had broken down. Example: “[…] She takes the whole thing with desperate seriousness. But the others are all easy and jovial—thinking about the good fare that is soon to be eaten, about the hired fly, about anything.” 2. To occupy premises in exchange for rent. Labels: UK, transitive Example: I do not mean to insist here on the disadvantage of hiring compared with owning, but it is evident that the savage owns his shelter because it costs so little, while the civilized man hires his commonly because he cannot afford to own it; nor can he, in the long run, any better afford to hire. 3. To employ; to obtain the services of (a person) in exchange for remuneration; to give someone a job. Labels: transitive Example: The company had problems when it tried to hire more skilled workers. Example: The skipper Mr. Cooke had hired at Far Harbor was a God-fearing man with a luke warm interest in his new billet and employer, and had only been prevailed upon to take charge of the yacht after the offer of an emolument equal to half a year's sea pay of an ensign in the navy. 4. To exchange the services of for remuneration. Labels: transitive Example: They hired themselves out as day laborers. They hired out their basement for Inauguration week. 5. To accomplish by paying for services. Labels: UK, transitive Example: After waiting two years for her husband to finish the tiling, she decided to hire it done. 6. To accept employment. Labels: intransitive Example: They hired out as day laborers. 7. (neologism) (in the Jobs-to-be-Done Theory) To buy something in order for it to perform a function, to do a job Labels: transitive Example: They hired a milkshake.
Word: majority Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle French maiorité, from Medieval Latin maiōritātem, accusative of Latin maiōritās, from Latin maior (“greater”). Morphologically major + -ity. Pronunciation: /məˈd͡ʒɒ.ɹɪti/, /məˈd͡ʒɑ.ɹɪti/, /məˈd͡ʒɔɹ.ɪti/ 1. More than half (50%) of some group. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The majority agreed that the new proposal was the best. Example: Those opposing the building plans were in the majority, so the building project was canceled. 2. In a parliament or legislature, the difference in seats between the ruling party and the opposition; (UK) in an election, the difference in votes between the winning candidate and the second-place candidate, or between the winning candidate and all of the other candidates combined. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The ruling party had a narrow three-seat majority in the legislature. Example: The winner with 53% had a 6% majority over the loser with 47%. 3. Legal adulthood, age of majority. Labels: countable, dated, uncountable Example: By the time I reached my majority, I had already been around the world twice. 4. The office held by a member of the armed forces in the rank of major. Labels: UK, countable, uncountable Example: On receiving the news of his promotion, Charles Snodgrass said he was delighted to be entering his majority. Example: He was a captain before he went to the front, and following the Argonne battles he got his majority and the command of the divisional machine-guns. 5. Ancestors; ancestry. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Of evil parents an evil generation, a posterity not unlike their majority; of mischievous progenitors, a venomous and destructive progeny.
Word: minority Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Late Middle English minoritie, from Middle French minorité, and its source Late Latin minōritās, from Latin minor. Morphologically minor + -ity. Pronunciation: /maɪˈnɒɹ.ɪ.ti/, /mɪˈnɒɹ.ɪ.ti/, /maɪˈnoɹ.ɪ.ti/, /mɪˈnoɹ.ɪ.ti/, /maɪˈnoɹ.ə.ti/ 1. The state or condition of being smaller, inferior, or subordinate to something or someone else; lesserness. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. The state of being a minor; youth, the period of a person's life prior to reaching adulthood. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: And lest any man should think her intent was to unnestle ill neighbours, and not to aid good neighbours, or that she was readier to restore what was invaded by others than to render what was in her own hands; see if the time provided not a new occasion afterwards, when through their own division, without the intermise of strangers, her forces were again sought and required; she forsook them not, prevailed so far as to be possessed of the castle of Edinburgh, the principal strength of that kingdom, with peace, incontinently, without cunctations or cavillations, the preambles of a wavering faith, she rendered with all honour and security; and his person to safe and faithful hands; and so ever after during his minority continued his principal guardian and protector. Example: She also played a key role as dowager-regent during the minority of her son. 3. Any subgroup that does not form a numerical majority. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Most people agreed, but a sizable minority were upset by the decision. Example: Chuhsiung was in the heart of Yi country. The Yi made up the largest minority in Yunnan, with over three million members as of 1990. And their biggest concentration was in the mountains around Chuhsiung. 4. A member of an ethnic minority. Labels: US, countable, uncountable Example: The company claims it has hired several minorities since the complaint was lodged. 5. A group of people seen as distinct who are subordinated and discriminated against in a society. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: But we have seen that one important difference between women and other minorities is that women's attitudes and self-conceptions are conditioned more largely by interaction with both minority and dominant group members 6. A Muslim. Labels: India, countable, euphemistic, uncountable
Word: minority Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Late Middle English minoritie, from Middle French minorité, and its source Late Latin minōritās, from Latin minor. Morphologically minor + -ity. Pronunciation: /maɪˈnɒɹ.ɪ.ti/, /mɪˈnɒɹ.ɪ.ti/, /maɪˈnoɹ.ɪ.ti/, /mɪˈnoɹ.ɪ.ti/, /maɪˈnoɹ.ə.ti/ 1. Of or relating to a minority. Labels: attributive, relational Example: They hold a minority interest in the company. 2. Empowered by or representing a minority (usually a plurality) of votes cast, legislative seats, etc., rather than an outright majority thereof. Labels: attributive, usually Example: minority government
Word: flexible Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle French flexible, from Latin flexibilis, from flectō (“to bend, curve”). Morphologically flex + -ible. Pronunciation: /ˈflɛk.sɪ.bəl/, /ˈflɛk.sə.bəl/, /ˈflek.sɪ.bəl/ 1. Capable of being flexed or bent without breaking; able to be turned or twisted without breaking. Example: When the splitting wind Makes flexible the knees of knotted oaks. 2. Willing or prone to give way to the influence of others; not invincibly rigid or obstinate. Example: Phocion the Athenian (a man of great severity, and no ways flexible to the will of the people[…] Example: Women are soft, mild, pitiful, and flexible. 3. Capable of adapting or changing to suit new or modified conditions or situations. Example: You can't always get what you want: you need to learn to be flexible. 4. Capable or being adapted or molded in some way. Example: a flexible language Example: This they foresaw was a Principle more flexible to their Purpose
Word: flexible Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle French flexible, from Latin flexibilis, from flectō (“to bend, curve”). Morphologically flex + -ible. Pronunciation: /ˈflɛk.sɪ.bəl/, /ˈflɛk.sə.bəl/, /ˈflek.sɪ.bəl/ 1. Something that is flexible. Example: Alcan is mostly flexibles -- and so it boosts Amcor's flexible packaging business to a globally significant $7 billion one.
Word: pleasant Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English plesaunte, from Old French plaisant. By surface analysis, please + -ant. Related to Dutch plezant (“full of fun or pleasure”). Partly displaced Old English wynsum, which became Modern English winsome. Pronunciation: /ˈplɛz.ənt/, [ˈplɛz.n̩t], /ˈplez.ənt/ 1. Giving pleasure; pleasing in manner. Example: We had a pleasant walk around the town. Example: It wasn't so hot outside, but pleasant enough to have lunch in the garden. 2. Facetious, joking. Labels: obsolete Example: [T]ell the pleasant prince this mock of his / Hath turn’d his balls to gun-stones […] Example: […] I present you here with a merrie conceited Comedie, called the Shoomakers Holyday, acted by my Lorde Admiralls Players this present Christmasse, before the Queenes most excellent Maiestie. For the mirth and pleasant matter, by her Highnesse graciously accepted; being indeede no way offensiue.
Word: pleasant Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English plesaunte, from Old French plaisant. By surface analysis, please + -ant. Related to Dutch plezant (“full of fun or pleasure”). Partly displaced Old English wynsum, which became Modern English winsome. Pronunciation: /ˈplɛz.ənt/, [ˈplɛz.n̩t], /ˈplez.ənt/ 1. A wit; a humorist; a buffoon. Labels: obsolete Example: […] Galba was no better than one of the buffons or pleasants that professe to make folke merry and to laugh. Example: 1696, uncredited translator, The General History of the Quakers by Gerard Croese, London: John Dunton, Book 2, p. 96, Yea, in the Courts of Kings and Princes, their Fools, and Pleasants, which they kept to relax them from grief and pensiveness, could not show themselves more dexterously ridiculous, than by representing the Quakers, or aping the motions of their mouth, voice, gesture, and countenance:
Word: polite Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin polītus (“polished”), past participle of poliō (“to polish, smooth”); see polish. Pronunciation: /pəˈlaɪt/ 1. Well-mannered, civilized. Example: It's not polite to use a mobile phone in a restaurant. Example: Try and be polite to Auntie Maria for once. 2. Smooth, polished, burnished. Labels: obsolete Example: rays of light […]falling on […]a polite surface
Word: polite Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Latin polītus (“polished”), past participle of poliō (“to polish, smooth”); see polish. Pronunciation: /pəˈlaɪt/ 1. To polish; to refine; to render polite. Labels: obsolete, transitive Example: those exercises plied, which polite men's spirits
Word: famous Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English famous, from Anglo-Norman famous, from Latin fāmōsus, equivalent to fame + -ous. Displaced native Old English hlīsful. Pronunciation: /ˈfeɪ.məs/ 1. Well known. Example: By this my ſword that conquer’d Perſea, Thy fall ſhall make me famous through the world: 2. In the public eye. Example: Some people are only famous within their city. 3. Excellent. Example: Pagett is a famous Job's comforter.
Word: famous Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English famous, from Anglo-Norman famous, from Latin fāmōsus, equivalent to fame + -ous. Displaced native Old English hlīsful. Pronunciation: /ˈfeɪ.məs/ 1. To make famous; to bring renown to. Labels: obsolete, transitive
Word: income Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English income, perhaps continuing (in altered form) Old English incyme (“an in-coming, entrance”), equivalent to in- + come. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Íenkúumen (“income”), West Frisian ynkommen (“income”), Dutch inkomen, inkomst (“income, earnings, gainings”), German Low German Inkumst (“income”), German Einkommen, Einkunft (“income, earnings, competence”), Danish indkomst (“income”), Swedish inkomst (“income”), Icelandic innkváma (“income”). Pronunciation: /ˈɪnˌkʌm/ 1. Money one earns by working or by capitalising on the work of others. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The struggle with ways and means had recommenced, more difficult now a hundredfold than it had been before, because of their increasing needs. Their income disappeared as a little rivulet that is swallowed by the thirsty ground. Example: In 1970 the richest 1 percent made 9 percent of the nation’s income; now that top slice makes closer to 25 percent. 2. Money coming in to a fund, account, or policy. Labels: countable, uncountable 3. A coming in; arrival; entrance; introduction. Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable Example: more abundant incomes of light and strength from God Example: Pain payes the income of ech precious thing, 4. A newcomer or arrival; an incomer. Labels: Scotland, archaic, countable, dialectal, uncountable 5. An entrance-fee. Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable 6. A coming in as by influx or inspiration, hence, an inspired quality or characteristic, as courage or zeal; an inflowing principle. Labels: archaic, countable, uncountable Example: I would then make in indeed and steep / My income in their bloods. 7. A disease or ailment without known or apparent cause, as distinguished from one induced by accident or contagion; an oncome. Labels: Scotland, UK, countable, dialectal, uncountable 8. That which is taken into the body as food; the ingesta; sometimes restricted to the nutritive, or digestible, portion of the food. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: cornflower Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From corn + flower. Piecewise doublet of cornflour. Pronunciation: /ˈkɔɹnˌflaʊ.ɚ/ 1. A small annual plant in the family Asteraceae, Centaurea cyanus, usually with bushy blue flowers which grows natively in European cornfields (i.e. wheatfields). 2. A plant of the species Cichorium intybus. 3. A color, cornflower blue.
Word: cornflower Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From corn + flower. Piecewise doublet of cornflour. Pronunciation: /ˈkɔɹnˌflaʊ.ɚ/ 1. Synonym of cornflower blue, a shade of blue similar to that of the usual cornflower. Labels: not-comparable
Word: number theory Part of Speech: noun 1. The branch of pure mathematics concerned with the properties of integers. Labels: uncountable Example: Factorization has driven many great discoveries in number theory.
Word: CFO Part of Speech: noun 1. Initialism of chief financial officer. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism Example: The acting CFO of Freddie Mac has been found dead in his basement, an apparent suicide. He's one of the executive team who has been clashing with regulators over how much to disclose about the ways the government has been running the company for its benefit, rather than that of the shareholders. Example: A new study from S&P Global Market Intelligence found that public companies with women CEOs or CFOs often were more profitable and produced better stock price performance than many of the companies that had appointed men to those roles. 2. Initialism of cottage food operation. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism 3. Initialism of collateralized fund obligation. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Word: CFO Part of Speech: name 1. Initialism of Commission on Filipinos Overseas. Labels: Philippines, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Word: aster Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin astēr, from Ancient Greek ἀστήρ (astḗr). Doublet of star; related to estoile, étoile, stella, and stelo. Pronunciation: /ˈæs.tə(ɹ)/ 1. Any of several plants of the genus Aster; one of its flowers. Example: On a sunny September morning, with the trees still green, but the asters and fleabanes already taking over in ditch and dalk, Van set out for Ladoga, N.A. 2. A star-shaped structure formed during the mitosis of a cell. 3. A star. Labels: obsolete Example: by the changes and enter-caprings of which, the revolutions, motions, cadences, and carrols of the asters [translating astres] and planets are caused and transported.
Word: lock in Part of Speech: verb 1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: To secure (someone or something) in a locked enclosure. Labels: transitive Example: The dog won't escape now we've locked him in. Example: The dog won't escape now we've locked him in the kitchen. 2. To fix the value of (something potentially variable). Labels: transitive Example: I've locked in a rate of 5%. Example: I've got a 5% rate locked in. 3. To prevent (someone or something) from escaping, deteriorating, or switching to an alternative. Labels: colloquial, transitive Example: Our new foil packets keep the flavour of the crisps locked in. Example: Companies find various ways to try to lock in a customer base by preventing the products or services from being fully fungible. 4. To synchronize (especially a rhythm section) into a groove. Labels: transitive 5. To focus entirely (on something). Labels: colloquial, intransitive, transitive Example: I need to lock in for this exam I'm taking tomorrow. Example: The missile's path is now locked in.
Word: lock in Part of Speech: noun 1. Nonstandard spelling of lock-in. Labels: alt-of, nonstandard
Word: lock out Part of Speech: verb 1. To inadvertently prevent (a person, particularly oneself) from entering a place, by leaving it locked. Labels: transitive Example: I've locked myself out of my room again! 2. To prevent from accessing a data structure. Example: The synchronize keyword locks out all other threads trying to access the object. 3. (industrial) To prevent (a person, including oneself) from powering up or turning on a machine when doing so would be dangerous (accomplished with objects such as padlocks or zip ties placed through the switch handle, for example) Labels: transitive 4. (colloquial, sometimes humorous) To be unable to concentrate. Labels: intransitive, transitive Example: Bro, I am totally locked out on this assignment.
Word: lock out Part of Speech: noun 1. Misspelling of lockout. Labels: alt-of, misspelling
Word: Cossack Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle French cosaque, from Middle Polish Kozak, from Middle Ukrainian коза́къ (kozák), from Kipchak *qazaq (whence Armeno-Kipchak խազախ (xazax)), from Old Turkic 𐰴𐰔𐰍𐰸 (*qazǧaq, “profiteer”), from 𐰴𐰔𐰍𐰣𐰢𐰴 (qazǧanmaq, “to acquire”), from 𐰴𐰔𐰢𐰴 (qazmaq, “to dig out”), from Proto-Turkic *kaŕ-. Doublet of Kazakh. First appears c. 1587 in the writings of George Turberville. Pronunciation: /ˈkɒsˌæk/, /ˈkɑsˌæk/, /ˈkɔsˌæk/ 1. A member or descendant of an originally (semi-)nomadic population of Eastern Europe and the adjacent parts of Asia, formed in part of runaways from neighbouring countries, that eventually settled in parts of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and the Russian tsarist Empire and constituted a military caste, particularly in areas now comprising southern Russia and Ukraine. 2. A member of a military unit (typically cavalry, originally recruited exclusively from the above). 3. A Ukrainian. Labels: obsolete 4. A mercenary, a violent thug: a regular or irregular soldier, police officer or security guard employed to persecute or oppress disfavoured groups, such as Jews or (striking) workers. Labels: derogatory Example: 1865 The Coal and Iron Police are authorized by the Pennsylvania General Assembly to maintain order in the coal fields. The miners referred to these private policemen as "Cossacks" and "Yellow Dogs." Example: Southern and eastern European miners and other workers popularly referred to these hated troops as "Cossacks" because they acted like the similarly repressive troops used by the czar against workers in Russia during the Revolution of 1905 and on other occasions. "
Word: ziggurat Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Learned borrowing from Akkadian 𒅆𒂍𒉪 (ziqqurratum). Pronunciation: /ˈzɪɡʊˌɹæt/, /ˈzɪɡəˌɹæt/ 1. A temple tower of the ancient Mesopotamian valley, having the form of a terraced pyramid of successively receding stories Example: It would be uplifting to think that the ziggurat was the first expression of Near Eastern civilization, for then one could speak about humanity's fascination with the heavens, of the human quest for communion with the infinite. 2. Any building with similar style or shape. Example: He works in an old ziggurat of an office building.
Word: befriend Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁ep-der. Proto-Indo-European *h₁épsder. Proto-Indo-European *h₁epider. Proto-Indo-European *h₁pi Proto-Germanic *bider. Proto-Germanic *bi- Proto-West Germanic *bi- Old English be- Middle English bi- English be- Proto-Indo-European *preyH- Proto-Indo-European *-ós Proto-Indo-European *priHós Proto-Germanic *frijōną Proto-Germanic *frijōndz Proto-West Germanic *friund Old English frēond Middle English frend English friend English befriend From be- (intensifying prefix) + friend (verb). cognates * Dutch bevrienden (“to befriend”) * German befreunden (“to befriend”) * German Low German befründen (“to befriend”) * Saterland Frisian befrüündje (“to befriend”) * West Frisian befreone (“befriended”) Pronunciation: /bɪˈfɹɛnd/, /bəˈfɹɛnd/, /bi-/ 1. To become a friend of (someone), to make friends with (someone). Labels: also, figuratively, transitive Example: Good Seruilius, vvill you befriend mee ſo farre, as to vſe mine ovvne vvords to him? Example: […] I was suddenly sensible of such sweet and beneficent society in Nature, […] Every little pine needle expanded and swelled with sympathy and befriended me. 2. To act as a friend to (someone, especially a client) by providing companionship and support; to assist, to help. Labels: transitive Example: [B]e ſure employ ſome of the Servants to hold the Horſe vvhen your Maſter mounts. This I vvould have you do, vvhen your Maſter only alights, to call in for a fevv Minutes: For Brother-ſervants muſt alvvays befriend one another, and that alſo concerns your Maſter's Honour; becauſe he cannot do leſs than give a Piece of Money to him vvho holds his Horſe. Example: [O]ne house, a red one, occupied by an Irish section boss, whose wife (my mother having befriended her years before when first she and her husband came to Sullivan) had now, at the time my mother was compelled to make this return pilgrimage, befriended us by letting us stay—mother and us three youngsters—until she could find a house. 3. To benefit or favour (someone or something); also, to advocate or promote (someone or something). Labels: figuratively, transitive Example: Hence therefore, euery leader to his charge, / For on their anſvvere vvill vve ſet on them, / And God befriend vs as our cauſe is juſt. Example: Sooth[sayer]. […] [I]f it vvill pleaſe Cæſar / To be ſo good to Cæſar, as to heare me: / I ſhall beſeech him to befriend himſelfe. / Por[tia]. VVhy knovv'ſt thou any harme's intended tovvards him?
Word: defend Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English defenden, from Old French defendre, deffendre (Modern French défendre), from Latin dēfendō (“to ward off”), from Proto-Italic *fendō, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *gʷʰen-. Displaced native Old English bewerian. Pronunciation: /dɪˈfɛnd/, [dɪˈfɛnd], /dɪˈfɪnd/, [dɪˈfɪ̟nd], /dəˈfɛnd/ 1. To ward off attacks against; to fight to protect; to guard. Labels: ditransitive, transitive Example: Most Zionists hoped for a state of their own, but early in the 20th century, writers like Hillel Solotaroff and Chaim Zhitlowsky, both Yiddish-speaking immigrant intellectuals in New York, imagined another alternative: a federation of self-governing anarchist communes in Palestine that would defend Jewish life without relying on state power. 2. To ward off attacks against; to fight to protect; to guard. Labels: ditransitive, intransitive 3. To support by words or writing; to vindicate, talk in favour of. Labels: transitive Example: Justice Elena Kagan on Thursday defended the code of conduct the Supreme Court created last year, but conceded there needs to be a way to enforce the rules for it to be more effective. 4. To make legal defence of; to represent (the accused). Labels: transitive Example: Philip Miles, defending, said: "This was a single instance, there was no allegation of continuing behaviour over a long period of time." 5. To focus one's energies and talents on preventing opponents from scoring, as opposed to focusing on scoring. 6. Mostly in tests. The action of not putting force into hitting a shot, but to conserve energy and wear down bowlers so they can attack later. Example: The teams strategy was to defend but score runs as well for the first 20 overs. 7. To attempt to retain a title, or attempt to reach the same stage in a competition as one did in the previous instance of that competition. 8. To call a raise from the big blind. Labels: slang 9. To ward off, repel (an attack or attacker). Labels: obsolete, transitive Example: The vertue is, that neither steele, nor stone The stroke thereof from entrance may defend[…]. 10. To prevent, to keep (from doing something). Labels: obsolete, transitive 11. To prohibit, forbid. Labels: intransitive, obsolete, transitive Example: Broder said sir launcelot wete ye wel I am ful lothe to departe oute of this realme but the quene hath defended me soo hyhely that me semeth she wille neuer be my good lady as she hath ben
Word: zapper Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From zap + -er. Pronunciation: /ˈzæp.ə(ɹ)/ 1. A remote control for a television. Labels: colloquial Example: The news is starting on the other channel; hand me the zapper. 2. A device that electrifies or electrocutes. Labels: colloquial Example: Miranda is not the sort of person to carry a zapper but she has an oar that would cause a dog a lot more grief if it caught it full on. 3. Anything that exterminates. Labels: broadly, colloquial, figuratively Example: If games are your life, the choice of a joystick is desperately important. Casual alien-zappers can get by with the cheapest generic Taiwanese clone-stick […] Example: You are going to go from being a toxic-thought overreactor to a toxic-thought zapper. 4. A microwave oven. Labels: slang Example: I hate to spoil your microwave testimonial, but they were actually cooked in the regular oven this morning and just re-heated in the zapper.
Word: arrogation Part of Speech: noun 1. The unjust assumption of rights or privilege. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The President's arrogation of this new Act oversteps his bounds and causes our rights to suffer. Example: It condescended and/or pandered to so many for so long that even its old suburbanite subscribers must have begrudged it deep down, and those New Yorkers who know it love to hate it outright – for the arrogation of its New York as the New York, among other crimes: who are those people in the cartoons anyway?
Word: wraith Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Middle Scots wraith, first attested in 1513 in a translation of the Aeneid. The word has no certain etymology; it may be a transferred use of Middle Scots wraith, wrath (nominally "anger, rage", adjectivally "angry, wrathful"), thus connecting it to writhe and making it a doublet of wrath and wroth. The old Century Dictionary compares Old Norse vǫrðr (“guardian”). Pronunciation: /ɹeɪθ/ 1. A ghost or specter, especially a person's likeness seen just after their death. Example: We might indeed have been the wraiths of the departed dead upon the dead sea of that dying planet for all the sound or sign we made in passing. Example: Like wraiths with the impediments of bodies they stumbled in the direction of Salthill faces.
Word: slender Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English slendre, sclendre, from Old French esclendre (“thin, slender”), from Middle Dutch slinder (“thin, lank”), from Proto-Germanic *slindraz (“sliding, slippery”), from Proto-Indo-European *sleydʰ- (“to slip”). Cognate with Bavarian Schlenderling (“that which dangles”), German schlendern (“to saunter, stroll”), Dutch slidderen, slinderen (“to wriggle, creep like a serpent”), Low German slindern (“to slide on ice”). More at slide, slither. Pronunciation: /ˈslɛndə/, /ˈslɛndɚ/ 1. Thin; slim. Example: A rod is a long slender pole used for angling. Example: She is very slender. 2. Meagre; deficient. Labels: figuratively Example: Being a person of slender means, he was unable to afford any luxuries. Example: The grounds for the conjecture are somewhat slender. 3. Palatalized.
Word: slender Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English slendre, sclendre, from Old French esclendre (“thin, slender”), from Middle Dutch slinder (“thin, lank”), from Proto-Germanic *slindraz (“sliding, slippery”), from Proto-Indo-European *sleydʰ- (“to slip”). Cognate with Bavarian Schlenderling (“that which dangles”), German schlendern (“to saunter, stroll”), Dutch slidderen, slinderen (“to wriggle, creep like a serpent”), Low German slindern (“to slide on ice”). More at slide, slither. Pronunciation: /ˈslɛndə/, /ˈslɛndɚ/ 1. To attenuate. Labels: transitive Example: Rolled-up sleeves bared her strong forearms, which slendered down when they came to the wrists and hands.
Word: mamba Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Bantu *mbámbà Zulu ímâmbader. English mamba Derived from Zulu ímâmba, from Proto-Bantu *mbámbà. Pronunciation: /ˈmæmbə/, /ˈmɑm.bɑ/ 1. Any of various venomous snakes of the genus Dendroaspis, native to Africa, that live in trees.
Word: dashiki Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Yoruba dàńṣíkí. 1. A loose and brightly-colored African shirt. Example: Royce: African colors. Subtle... You want me to start wearing dashikis? Go all Marion Barry an' shit?
Word: parapet Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle French parapet, from Italian parapetto. Pronunciation: /ˈpæɹəpɪt/, /ˈpæɹəˌpɛt/ 1. A low protective wall. Example: Engineers will be closely checking the bridge for damage beyond the obvious smashed parapets. 2. Part of a perimeter that extends above the roof. Example: Maccario, it was evident, did not care to take the risk of blundering upon a picket, and a man led them by twisting paths until at last the hacienda rose blackly before them. Appleby could see it dimly, a blur of shadowy buildings with the ridge of roof parapet alone cutting hard and sharp against the clearing sky. 3. A fortification consisting of a wall. Example: Obviously if you have only a few days in which to train a soldier, you must teach him the things he will most need; how to take cover, how to advance across open ground, how to mount guards and build a parapet – above all, how to use his weapons.
Word: machicolate Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Medieval Latin machicolātus, perfect participle of machicolāre, from Old French machicoller, from machicolleis (“machicolation”), from Old Occitan machacol, from macar (“to crush”) + col (“neck”). 1. To furnish with machicolations. Example: The wide-wing’d sunset of the misty marsh / Glared on a huge machicolated tower / That stood with open doors […]
Word: epigenetic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁ep-der. Proto-Indo-European *h₁épsder. Proto-Indo-European *h₁epi Proto-Hellenic *epí Ancient Greek ἐπί (epí) Ancient Greek ἐπῐ- (epĭ-)der. English epi- English genetic English epigenetic From epi- + genetic. Pronunciation: /ˌɛpɪd͡ʒəˈnɛtɪk/ 1. Of or relating to epigenesis. Labels: not-comparable 2. Of or relating to epigenetics. Labels: not-comparable Example: The old and optimistic “one gene — one character” concept has long been invalidated by phenomena such as pleiotropy and polygeny, and for a generation now we have thought of genomic activity as a system of complex epigenetic interactions — an epigenetic landscape. Example: Every cell in the body contains the same DNA but epigenetic settings on cells in the bone and blood, for example, mean the tissues do very different jobs. The epigenetic consequences of a huge range of environmental factors are under investigation, from exposure to drugs, chemicals and hormones, to the impact of poor maternal care in infancy, and the likelihood that they are as hereditable as DNA.
Word: te reo Part of Speech: name Etymology: Borrowed from Māori te reo (“Māori”, literally “the language”). 1. The Māori language. Labels: New-Zealand Example: Currently, many Kiwis are learning te reo.
Word: perk Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Clipping of perquisite. Pronunciation: /pɝk/, /pɜːk/ 1. Perquisite. Labels: informal Example: Free coffee is one of the perks of the job. 2. A bonus ability that a player character can acquire; a permanent power-up.
Word: perk Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Clipping of percolate (verb) and percolator (noun). Pronunciation: /pɝk/, /pɜːk/ 1. To make (coffee) in a percolator or a drip coffeemaker. Labels: informal, transitive Example: I’ll perk some coffee. 2. Of coffee: to be produced by heated water seeping (“percolating”) through coffee grounds. Labels: informal, intransitive Example: The coffee is perking. Example: While the coffee perked, she flipped idly through a gardening magazine and scanned an article on the war against aphids.
Word: perk Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Clipping of percolate (verb) and percolator (noun). Pronunciation: /pɝk/, /pɜːk/ 1. A percolator, particularly of coffee.
Word: perk Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Origin uncertain. Perhaps a metathesis of prick. Pronunciation: /pɝk/, /pɜːk/ 1. To make trim or smart; to straighten up; to erect; to make a jaunty or saucy display of. Labels: transitive Example: [the squirrel] whisks his brush And perks his ears, and stamps and scolds aloud Example: The blue jay was having a fit, and the sapsucker perked his bright-eyed little head at him not more than a dozen feet away. 2. To appear from below or behind something, emerge, pop up, poke out. Labels: intransitive Example: The heads of plants above the crack’d ground perk: Example: A white Paris net sort of cap, glittering with spangles, and incircled by a chaplet of artificial flowers, with a little white feather perking from the left ear, is to be my head-dress. 3. To exalt oneself; to bear oneself loftily. Labels: intransitive, obsolete Example: 1574, Arthur Golding (translator), Sermons of Master John Calvin, upon the Booke of Job, London: Lucas Harison and George Byshop, Sermon 38, The first upon the tenth Chapter, For whereof commeth thys hypocrisie in the popedome, that men shall preache free will, merits, and satisfactions, and set vp their bristles in suche wise, and beare themselues in hande that they may come perking before God, yea and preace thither lyke shamelesse strumpets. Example: […] our Lord had never any such design, to set up a sort of men in such distance above their brethren; to perk over them, and suck them of their goods by tricks […]
Word: perk Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Origin uncertain. Perhaps a metathesis of prick. Pronunciation: /pɝk/, /pɜːk/ 1. Smart; trim; spruce; jaunty; vain. Labels: obsolete Example: My ragged rontes all shiver and shake, As doen high Towers in an earthquake: They wont in the wind wagge their wrigle tailes, Perke as Peacock: but nowe it auales. Example: All, joy’d at th’ omen, their foundation laid: And in short time a perk new wall is made.
Word: perk Part of Speech: verb Etymology: The origin is uncertain. Perhaps a variant of peer + -k (frequentative ending). Pronunciation: /pɝk/, /pɜːk/ 1. To peer; to look narrowly, sharply, or inquisitively. Labels: dated Example: He is a tall, thin, bony man, with an interrogative nose, and little restless perking eyes, which appear to have been given him for the sole purpose of peeping into other people’s affairs with. 2. To examine thoroughly. Labels: dialectal
Word: perk Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English perken, from Old Northern French perquer. Pronunciation: /pɝk/, /pɜːk/ 1. To perch. Labels: obsolete Example: His seconde hawke wexyd gery And was with flyenge wery. She had flowyn so oft, That on the rode loft She perkyd her to rest. Example: Then sir, let me say, that Mineruas owle was proude, for perking vnder [h]ir golden target […]
Word: consumer Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ḱe? Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm Proto-Italic *kom Proto-Italic *kom- Latin con- Proto-Indo-European *upó Proto-Italic *supo Latin sub Latin sub- Proto-Indo-European *h₁em- Proto-Indo-European *-eti Proto-Indo-European *h₁émeti Proto-Italic *emō Latin emō Latin sūmō Latin cōnsūmōder. Old French consumerbor. Middle English consumen English consume Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzios Latin -āriusnom. Latin -āriusbor. Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz Proto-West Germanic *-ārī Old English -ere Middle English -ere English -er English consumer From consume + -er. Pronunciation: /kənˈsjuːmə/, /kənˈʃuːmə/, /kənˈsumɚ/, /kənˈsjʉːmə/ 1. One who, or that which, consumes. 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. Someone who trades money for goods or services as an individual. Example: This new system favours the consumer over the producer. Example: Almost two-thirds of American consumers have at least one unspent gift card tucked away in a drawer, pocket, wallet or purse. 3. The consumer base of a product, service or business. Labels: broadly Example: Our consumers are upwardly mobile and middle-class. 4. An organism (heterotroph) that uses other organisms for food in order to gain energy.