nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: purposeful Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From purpose + -ful. Pronunciation: /ˈpɜː.pəs.fəl/, /ˈpɝ.pəs.fəl/ 1. Having purpose: having intention or meaning; intentional. Example: […] particular improvements in the teacher's stimulation and direction of the purposeful activities of children. It indicates, in this particular, growth of the teacher in guiding the purposeful activities of boys and girls. The purposes, in brief, are : 1. Primary purpose: to enable the teacher to grow continuously in stimulating and directing the purposeful activities of boys and girls. 2. Secondary purpose: to reveal teaching difficulties […] Example: […] spend purposeful time with my grandparents where we found out more about each other and had some interesting discussions. 2. Having a purpose in mind; resolute; determined, full of determination. Example: An utterly emphatic 5-0 victory was ultimately capped by two wonder strikes in the last two minutes from Aston Villa midfielder Gary Gardner. Before that, England had utterly dominated to take another purposeful stride towards the 2013 European Championship in Israel. They have already established a five-point buffer at the top of Group Eight.
Word: racy Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From race (“having a characteristic taste (of wines, fruits, etc.)”) + -y. Pronunciation: /ˈɹeɪsi/ 1. Mildly risqué. Example: She wore a racy dress that was just barely appropriate for the occasion. Example: a racy story 2. Having a strong flavor indicating origin; of distinct characteristic taste; tasting of the soil. Example: a racy wine 3. Exciting to the mind by a strong or distinctive character of thought or language; peculiar and piquant; fresh and lively. Labels: broadly, figuratively 4. Involving a data race or a race condition. Example: These are some common descriptions of badly constructed tests: Tests that sometimes run, sometimes fail (often this is caused by the use of threads, or racy code that relies on specific timing, by reliance on external dependencies, the order of tests being run in the test suite, or on shared state) Example: We evaluate the automatic fence insertion procedure by running our tool on a number of different benchmarks containing racy code.
Word: rag Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English ragge, from Old English ragg (suggested by derivative raggiġ (“shaggy; bristly; ragged”)), from Old Norse rǫgg (“tuft; shagginess”), from Proto-Germanic *rawwa-, probably related to *rūhaz. Cognate with Swedish ragg. Related to rug. Pronunciation: /ɹæɡ/, /ɹaɡ/, /ɾaɡ/, /ɹæːɡ/, /ɹɛɡ/ 1. Tattered clothes (clothing). Labels: especially, in-plural Example: —What a pretty dress! —What, this old rag? Example: It's semiformal. I can't show up dressed in rags! 2. A piece of old cloth, especially one used for cleaning, patching, etc.; a tattered piece of cloth; a shred or tatter. Example: Cowls, hoods, and habits, with their wearers, toss'd, / And flutter'd into rags; then reliques, beads, Example: […]even by the law of their own might and malice, not having otherwise any rag of legality to cover the shame of their cruelty. 3. A shabby, beggarly person; synonym of ragamuffin. Labels: derogatory Example: For upon the like Proclamation there, they all came in, both tag and rag Example: The other zealous rag is the compositor, / Who in an angle where the ants inhabit, / (The emblems of his labors) will sit curl'd 4. A ragged edge in metalworking. 5. A sail, or any piece of canvas. Labels: slang Example: Our ship was a clipper, with every rag set, stunsails, sky-scrapers, and all. Example: "'Oh yes, that's all very well, but we haven't done with it yet,' said the lad, 'we shall have it worse directly,' and he ordered them to furl every rag but the mizen." 6. Sanitary napkins, pads, or other materials used to absorb menstrual discharge. Labels: plural, singular, slang Example: "It's heaviest on the first day, which might be why it hurts so much. After that, it slows down and eventually stops, but you'll need the rags for about a week." 7. A newspaper or magazine, especially one whose journalism is considered to be of poor quality. Labels: derogatory, slang Example: "You must behave yourself, dear. Mr. Malone is a Pressman. He will have it all in his rag to-morrow, and sell an extra dozen among our neighbors." 8. A poor, low-ranking kicker. Example: I have ace-four on my hand. In other words, I have ace-rag. 9. A curtain of various kinds. Labels: slang 10. A person suffering from exhaustion or lack of energy. Labels: dated Example: "It took it out of me, though. I'm a rag this morning." "They work you too hard, dear." 11. A banknote. Labels: obsolete, slang Example: What was he at, do you think? Counting bank-notes; he had bundles of them. […] Well, Guv'nor, he stood up by-and-by, and taking the bundles of rags, the big uns in one hand, tother ones in tother, he toddled out of the room; […] So I tucked my violin under my arm, and sallied out after the old budgy ragman, determined to ease him of his load at the very first lonesome corner I could track him to. 12. An uneven vertical margin (of a block of type). Example: We always leave rag on article typeset for the web.
Word: rag Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English ragge, from Old English ragg (suggested by derivative raggiġ (“shaggy; bristly; ragged”)), from Old Norse rǫgg (“tuft; shagginess”), from Proto-Germanic *rawwa-, probably related to *rūhaz. Cognate with Swedish ragg. Related to rug. Pronunciation: /ɹæɡ/, /ɹaɡ/, /ɾaɡ/, /ɹæːɡ/, /ɹɛɡ/ 1. To decorate (a wall, etc.) by applying paint with a rag. Labels: transitive 2. To become tattered. Labels: intransitive 3. To menstruate. Labels: euphemistic, intransitive, slang, sometimes, vulgar
Word: rag Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Unknown origin; perhaps the same word as Etymology 1, above. Pronunciation: /ɹæɡ/, /ɹaɡ/, /ɾaɡ/, /ɹæːɡ/, /ɹɛɡ/ 1. A coarse kind of rock, somewhat cellular in texture; ragstone. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: the three walls around the garden, each one of thirty-three feet, were built out of three layers of stone — pebble stone, flint and rag stone.
Word: rag Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Unknown origin; perhaps the same word as Etymology 1, above. Pronunciation: /ɹæɡ/, /ɹaɡ/, /ɾaɡ/, /ɹæːɡ/, /ɹɛɡ/ 1. To break (ore) into lumps for sorting. 2. To cut or dress roughly, as a grindstone. Example: Near-synonym: rough
Word: rag Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Uncertain. Ideas about the scolding and tormenting senses being related to on the rag are only speculative. Pronunciation: /ɹæɡ/, /ɹaɡ/, /ɾaɡ/, /ɹæːɡ/, /ɹɛɡ/ 1. To scold or tell off; to torment; to banter. Example: “Yesterday it was Mademoiselle Daubreuil, today it is Mademoiselle—Cinderella! Decidedly you have the heart of a Turk, Hastings! You should establish a harem!” “It’s all very well to rag me. […]” 2. To drive a car or another vehicle in a hard, fast, or unsympathetic manner. Labels: UK, slang 3. To tease or torment, especially at a university; to bully, to haze. 4. Of dogs, to bite an object, often a toy or leash, and vigorously shake their head. Labels: transitive
Word: rag Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Uncertain. Ideas about the scolding and tormenting senses being related to on the rag are only speculative. Pronunciation: /ɹæɡ/, /ɹaɡ/, /ɾaɡ/, /ɹæːɡ/, /ɹɛɡ/ 1. A prank or practical joke. Labels: dated Example: The rascal winked and grinned. 'There are always and means,' said he. 'But don't blame your foreman. He thought it was just a rag. I swapped clothes with his assistant, and in I came.' Example: Well, it’s only a rag, isn’t it? 2. A society run by university students for the purpose of charitable fundraising. Labels: Ireland, UK
Word: rag Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Perhaps from ragged. Compare later ragtime. Pronunciation: /ɹæɡ/, /ɹaɡ/, /ɾaɡ/, /ɹæːɡ/, /ɹɛɡ/ 1. An informal dance party featuring music played by African-American string bands. Labels: US, obsolete 2. A ragtime song, dance or piece of music.
Word: rag Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Perhaps from ragged. Compare later ragtime. Pronunciation: /ɹæɡ/, /ɹaɡ/, /ɾaɡ/, /ɹæːɡ/, /ɹɛɡ/ 1. To play or compose (a piece, melody, etc.) in syncopated time. Labels: informal, transitive Example: Now let's rag it. We'll keep the notes more or less the same but make the rhythm more fun. 2. To dance to ragtime music. Labels: informal, intransitive 3. To add syncopation (to a tune) and thereby make it appropriate for a ragtime song. Labels: obsolete
Word: raid Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Scots raid, from Northern Middle English rade, from Old English rād (“a riding, an expedition on horseback, road”), whence also the inherited English road (“way, street”). The earlier senses of “a riding, expedition, raid” fell into disuse in Early Modern English, but were revived in the northern form raid by Walter Scott in the early 19th century. The use for a swift police operation appears in the later 19th century and may perhaps have been influenced by French razzia (similar in both original meaning and sound). Pronunciation: /ɹeɪd/ 1. A quick hostile or predatory incursion or invasion in a battle. Example: Marauding chief! his sole delight / The moonlight raid, the morning fight. Example: There are permanent conquests, temporary occupation, and occasional raids. 2. An attack or invasion for the purpose of making arrests, seizing property, or plundering. Example: a police raid of a narcotics factory Example: a raid of contractors on the public treasury 3. An attacking movement. Example: The athletic Walker, one of Tottenham's more effective attacking elements with his raids from right-back, made a timely intervention after Rose had been dispossessed and even Aaron Lennon was needed to provide an interception in the danger zone to foil another attempt by the Russians. 4. An activity initiated at or towards the end of a live broadcast by the broadcaster that sends its viewers to a different broadcast, primarily intended to boost the viewership of the receiving broadcaster. This is frequently accompanied by a message in the form of a hashtag that is posted in the broadcast's chat by the viewers. Labels: Internet Example: Now that Twitch is making raids an official part of the platform, however, some streamers think the new feature will make it easier to participate in the positive aspects of raiding. Example: Now streamers can use a new feature that lets their viewers join a raid then drive traffic to another streamer with just a click. 5. A large group in a massively multiplayer online game, consisting of multiple parties who team up to defeat a powerful enemy. Labels: Internet 6. An event involving a group of users, often using bots and scripts, who join a server to harm it or harass its members. Example: I used the tools discord gave me to prevent raids but he somehow knows a bypass, I use bots and they do help prevent it but just having him ping 90 guys once makes people bash me for an entire hour. Example: Raids are a problem on Guilded. I have been in many servers that have been raided by a user with an account gen or even just some users looking to cause trouble and ruin the communities for us [...]
Word: raid Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Scots raid, from Northern Middle English rade, from Old English rād (“a riding, an expedition on horseback, road”), whence also the inherited English road (“way, street”). The earlier senses of “a riding, expedition, raid” fell into disuse in Early Modern English, but were revived in the northern form raid by Walter Scott in the early 19th century. The use for a swift police operation appears in the later 19th century and may perhaps have been influenced by French razzia (similar in both original meaning and sound). Pronunciation: /ɹeɪd/ 1. To engage in a raid against. Labels: transitive Example: The police raided the gambling den. Example: The soldiers raided the village and burned it down. 2. To lure from another; to entice away from. Labels: transitive 3. To indulge oneself by taking from. Labels: transitive Example: I raided the fridge for snacks.
Word: raider Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From raid + -er. Pronunciation: /ˈɹeɪdɚ/ 1. One who engages in a raid; a plunderer. 2. A person who takes or attempts to take control of a firm against the will of current management by purchasing a controlling interest of stock and acquiring proxies. 3. A special forces operative; a commando. 4. A warship which is light, maneuverable, and fast-moving. 5. A warplane on an air raid. Example: It was attacked by an evening raider while pulling a passenger train in a south-east coast area. 6. A law enforcement official who conducts a raid on a building in search for illicit goods. 7. A person who uncovers evidence of improper behavior within governmental or private organizations. Labels: informal
Word: rainy Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English reyny, from Old English reġniġ, from Proto-West Germanic *regnag, from Proto-Germanic *regnagaz (“rainy”), equivalent to rain + -y. Cognate with Saterland Frisian rienig (“rainy”), West Frisian reinich (“rainy”), Dutch regenig (“rainy”), German regnig (“rainy”), Swedish regnig (“rainy”). Pronunciation: /ˈɹeɪni/ 1. Pouring with rain; wet; showery Example: Due to the rainy weather, we decided not to play in the park. Example: It's a very rainy day, so let's stay indoors.
Word: rally Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle French rallier (French rallier), from Old French ralier, from Latin prefix re- + ad + ligare (“to bind; to ally”). Pronunciation: /ˈɹæli/, /ˈɹalɪj/, /ˈɹɛli/, /ˈɾale/, /-lɪ/ 1. A public gathering or mass meeting that is not mainly a protest and is organized to inspire enthusiasm for a cause. Example: a campaign rally Example: an election rally 2. A protest or demonstration for or against something, but often with speeches and often without marching, especially in North America. Example: a political rally Example: The EDL said Saturday’s rally was aimed at highlighting what it describes as a “continued increase in Islamic terrorism” linked to Birmingham. 3. A sequence of strokes between serving and scoring a point. 4. An event in which competitors drive through a series of timed special stages at intervals. The winner is the driver who completes all stages with the shortest cumulative time. 5. A recovery after a decline in prices (said of the market, stocks, etc.)
Word: rally Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle French rallier (French rallier), from Old French ralier, from Latin prefix re- + ad + ligare (“to bind; to ally”). Pronunciation: /ˈɹæli/, /ˈɹalɪj/, /ˈɹɛli/, /ˈɾale/, /-lɪ/ 1. To collect, and reduce to order, as troops dispersed or thrown into confusion; to gather again; to reunite. Labels: transitive 2. To come into orderly arrangement; to renew order, or united effort, as troops scattered or put to flight; to assemble. Labels: intransitive Example: Innumerable parts of matter chanced just then to rally together, and to form themselves into this new world. Example: The Grecians rally, and their powers unite. 3. To collect one's vital powers or forces; to regain health or consciousness. Labels: ambitransitive Example: Norbourne was almost thankful for any excuse that enabled him to avoid seeing Lady Marchmont. In vain he sought to rally his spirits, and to conceal his depression; but the idea of Ethel mocked his efforts to forget. 4. To recover strength after a decline in prices. Labels: intransitive Example: The market fell this morning but rallied later in the day. Example: Bitcoin has still plunged in value by almost two-thirds this year, it should be said. But it has also rallied by about 10% since the downwards lurch when FTX filed for bankruptcy in mid-November, which is extraordinary.
Word: rally Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From French railler. See rail (“to scoff”). Pronunciation: /ˈɹæli/, /ˈɹalɪj/, /ˈɹɛli/, /ˈɾale/, /-lɪ/ 1. To tease; to chaff good-humouredly. Labels: transitive Example: But you must not rally him on the subject Sir Oliver—'tis a tender Point I assure you though He has been married only seven months. Example: Honeycomb […] rallies me after his way upon my country life.
Word: rally Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From French railler. See rail (“to scoff”). Pronunciation: /ˈɹæli/, /ˈɹalɪj/, /ˈɹɛli/, /ˈɾale/, /-lɪ/ 1. Good-humoured raillery. Labels: uncountable
Word: rapper Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English rap 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 rapper From rap + -er. Pronunciation: /ˈɹæpɚ/ 1. One who, or that which, raps or knocks. 2. One who, or that which, raps or knocks. Labels: historical 3. One who, or that which, raps or knocks. 4. A performer of rap music, or someone who raps in any form of music. Example: He rose from the ghetto to become a successful rapper. Example: On Tuesday, Ghostwriter returned with a new track, titled “Whiplash,” this time using A.I. vocal filters to sound like the rappers Travis Scott and 21 Savage and deliver a message to the industry: “Me and Writer raise a toast,” the A.I. version of 21 Savage raps. “Trying to shadowban my boy/but you can’t kill a ghost.” 5. A sword. Labels: Scotland, obsolete 6. A flexible strip of metal, 45-60cm long, with handles at each end, used for Northumbrian rapper sword dancing. 7. A mechanical, or later electric, signalling device formerly used in the mines of north-eastern England to signal to the engineman that the cages carrying men or coals up and down the shaft were ready to be raised or lowered. 8. A bold lie; a whopper. Labels: colloquial, dated 9. A loud oath. Labels: colloquial, dated
Word: rase Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Late Middle English rasen, rasyn (“to rage; to enrage (?)”), probably from Middle Dutch râsen, râzen (“to be extremely angry, rage; to be mad, rave; to talk nonsense; of a dog: to be rabid”), from Old Dutch *rāson (modern Dutch razen), from Proto-West Germanic *rāsōn (“to rush”), Proto-Germanic *rēsōną (“to rush”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₁reh₁s- (“to flow; to rush”). cognates * Swedish rasa (“rage”) Pronunciation: /ɹeɪz/ 1. To be extremely angry; to rage; specifically, of a dog or wolf: to snarl in rage. Labels: archaic, intransitive Example: [T]he ſtones did ſeem / Too roare and bellow hoarce: and doggs too howle and raze extréeme: […] Example: So up & down that critic rased / & back & foorth he foyned & trased / & monstrous strookes deliverd; […]
Word: rase Part of Speech: verb Etymology: PIE word *wréh₂ds A variant of race (“(obsolete) to pluck; to pull off; to snatch; to tear”), partly influenced by raze. Pronunciation: /ɹeɪz/ 1. Alternative spelling of race (“to pluck or snatch (something); also, to pull (something)”). Labels: alt-of, alternative, archaic, transitive Example: [T]his Night / He dreamt, the Bore had raſed off his Helme: […] Example: But doom the arm that perils not / In beauty's quarrel, every vein / That runs with ruddy drops, to rot / Beneath a taunting chain, / And that ignoblest hands should rase / The crest and spur from one so base.
Word: rase Part of Speech: noun Etymology: A variant of raze, from Middle English rasen: see further at raze. Pronunciation: /ɹeɪz/ 1. An act of cutting, scraping, or scratching; also, an erasure. Labels: obsolete Example: Raſe a ſcrapyng Example: Perceaue vve not hovv they vvhoſe tenderneſſe ſhrinketh at the leaſt raſe of a needles point, do kiſſe the ſvvord that pearceth their ſoules quite through? 2. Alternative spelling of raze (“a slight wound; a scratch; also, a cut, a slit”). Labels: alt-of, alternative, obsolete Example: And verely the Emperour Nero vvas ſo greatly enamoured vpon one image of Alexander [the Great], that hee commaunded it to be guilded all over: but aftervvards, ſeeing that the more coſt vvas beſtovved upon it by laying on gold, the leſſe vvas the art ſeene of the firſt vvorkman [Lysippos], ſo that it loſt all the beautie and grace that it had by that means, he cauſed the gold to be taken off againe: and verely, the ſaid image thus unguilded as it vvas, ſeemed farre more precious than it vvas vvhiles it ſtood ſo enriched vvith gold, notvvithſtanding all the hackes, cuts, gaſhes, and raſes all over the bodie vvherein the gold did ſticke, remained ſtill, vvhich in ſome ſort might disfigure it. Example: [T]ake the Cold-Chiſſel in your left hand, and ſet the edge of it upon that mark or raſe, and vvith the Hand Hammer in your right hand ſtrike upon the Head of the Cold-Chiſſel, till you cut, or rather punch the edge of the Cold-Chiſſel almoſt through the Plate in that place: […]
Word: rase Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Probably either: * from Late Latin rāsum (neuter), rāsa (“level measure of grain”, feminine), a noun use of Latin rāsus (“scraped; shaved”, masculine), the perfect passive participle of rādō (“to scrape; to scratch; to shave; to touch upon, graze”), from Proto-Italic *razdō, further etymology unknown; or * from Anglo-Norman rase (“level measure of grain”), from Latin rāsus (see above). Pronunciation: /ɹeɪz/ 1. A measure in which the commodity assessed is made level with the top of the measuring vessel rather than heaped above it. Labels: obsolete, rare Example: Toll ſhall be taken by the Raſe, and not by the Heap or Cantel. Ordinance for Bakers, Brevvers, &c. cap. 4. it ſeems to have been a meaſure of Corn, novv diſuſed
Word: rase Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From rase, race (“(usually white) marking on the head of an animal, chiefly a horse”); further etymology uncertain, possibly a specific use of race (“(obsolete) mark; cut, scratch”, noun), from race (“to cut, slash; to scratch; to tear”) (southwest England), a variant of raze. Pronunciation: /ɹeɪz/ 1. Of a natural marking on the head of an animal (chiefly a horse): to extend down the head. Labels: intransitive, obsolete, rare
Word: ratchet Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From French rochet (“bobbin, spindle, ratchet”), from Italian rocchetto (“spool, ratchet”). Pronunciation: /ˈɹæt͡ʃɪt/ 1. A pawl, click, or detent for holding or propelling a ratchet wheel, or ratch, etc. 2. A mechanism composed of a ratchet wheel, or ratch and pawl. 3. A ratchet wrench. 4. A procedure or regulation that goes in one direction, usually up. Labels: broadly Example: The threat of terrorism to the British lies in the overreaction to it of British governments. Each one in turn clicks up the ratchet of surveillance, intrusion and security. Each one diminishes liberty. 5. A mechanism for generating a new unique key for each message by moving forward in a sequence. 6. A noisemaker or musical instrument where sound is generated by a board striking against a rotating gear. Example: Ahead of them a group of mandibulous sales men had set up their combustion cups and incendiary ratchets to demonstrate their wares to whatever officers might come by. 7. Ellipsis of full ratchet. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis
Word: ratchet Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From French rochet (“bobbin, spindle, ratchet”), from Italian rocchetto (“spool, ratchet”). Pronunciation: /ˈɹæt͡ʃɪt/ 1. To increment or decrement; especially, to offer controlled motion that can increment while resisting decrement, or vice versa. Labels: intransitive Example: This holddown ratchets, which allows the person loading the trailer to cinch down the straps. Example: Compared with the excellent scroll wheels on the Basilisk V3 and G502 X, the G203’s scroll wheel feels less defined and mushier in its ratcheting. 2. To cause (something) to become incremented or decremented. Labels: transitive Example: Get this holddown into position, but don't start ratcheting it yet. When I say go, you start ratcheting it, OK? Example: It's time to ratchet up the intensity level here.
Word: ratchet Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Possibly a variant (representing a Southern or specifically Louisianan pronunciation) of wretched. Compare rasslin' for wrestling. Pronunciation: /ˈɹæt͡ʃɪt/ 1. Ghetto; unseemly, indecorous. Labels: US, derogatory, slang Example: The one thing that always accompanies Miley's ratchet look (along with the gang signs) is the tongue, which is sort of like saying this persona that she has adopted is some sort of gonzo idiot who can't keep its tongue in her head. Example: The feminine-meets-fiesty creations are right on par with all the reasons we love the rightgeously^([sic]) ratchet “Work” singer — and she knows it.
Word: ratchet Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Possibly a variant (representing a Southern or specifically Louisianan pronunciation) of wretched. Compare rasslin' for wrestling. Pronunciation: /ˈɹæt͡ʃɪt/ 1. A person, usually a female, who acts or behaves in a ghetto, unseemly, or indecorous way or manner. Labels: US, derogatory, slang Example: I love it when jaboons let their jibbering get them in 5 times as much trouble as they're already in. Let's see if this ratchet can keep her dick trap shut in court.
Word: rave Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English raven (“to rave; talk like a madman”), from Old French raver, variant of resver, of uncertain origin. Compare rave below, and rove. Pronunciation: /ɹeɪv/ 1. An enthusiastic review (such as of a play). Labels: countable, informal Example: The first-night audience, yes. The first-night reviewers, not exactly. The notices have so far been mixed, only The Financial Times having delivered itself of an unequivocal rave. 2. A large-scale dance party with strobe lights and fast-paced electronic dance music, often illegally organized open-air or in underground venues. Labels: countable, uncountable 3. The genres of electronic dance music made to be played in rave parties. Labels: uncountable Example: Maybe I wear baggies / And white socks with flip-flops / Maybe I don't like listening to rave / And I'm not on the social mountaintops
Word: rave Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English raven (“to rave; talk like a madman”), from Old French raver, variant of resver, of uncertain origin. Compare rave below, and rove. Pronunciation: /ɹeɪv/ 1. To be mentally unclear; to be delirious; to talk or act irrationally; to be wild, furious, or raging. Labels: intransitive Example: Have I not cause to rave and beat my breast? Example: The mingled torrent of redcoats and tartans went raving down the valley to the gorge of Killiecrankie. 2. To speak or write wildly or incoherently. Labels: intransitive Example: "She is in trance. Your daughter, sir, is a powerful medium." "A medium! You are raving." 3. To talk with excessive enthusiasm, passion or excitement. Labels: intransitive Example: He raved about her beauty. Example: The hallowed scene / Which others rave on, though they know it not. 4. To rush wildly or furiously. Labels: obsolete Example: Under a mightie rocke, gainst which do rave The roaring billowes in their proud disdaine 5. To attend a rave (dance party). Labels: intransitive Example: The situation with Tommy's parents made me grateful my parents hadn't caught on to my partying that summer. How had I gotten away with raving every weekend, and sometimes on Thursday nights too?
Word: rave Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From northern Middle English raven, from Old Norse ráfa (“to wander, roam”), of uncertain and obscure origin. Perhaps from a dissimilation of Proto-Germanic *wab(b)ōną (“to sway, waver, swing, shake, wobble, totter, reel, careen”), from Proto-Indo-European *webʰ- (“to move, swarm, waft”). Cognate with Norwegian Nynorsk rava (“to wander, be delirious”). Doublet of rove. Compare also Middle Dutch reven (“to utter nonsense, rave, be drowsy”) (whence modern Dutch revelen (“to rave, talk nonsense”), Middle Low German rēven (“to be crazy, think and talk nonsensically”), Middle High German reben (“to move about, dream, be confused”) (compare Alemannic German räbeln (“to make loud noise”)). Pronunciation: /ɹeɪv/ 1. To wander or roam. Labels: Newfoundland, Scotland, intransitive 2. To stray or err. Labels: Newfoundland, Scotland, intransitive
Word: rave Part of Speech: noun Etymology: English dialect raves, or rathes (“a frame laid on a wagon, for carrying hay, etc.”). Pronunciation: /ɹeɪv/ 1. One of the upper side pieces of the frame of a wagon body or a sleigh. Example: It was astonishing to see how he had gnawed the rave of the sled. Example: The main lever rests upon the rave when not in use.
Word: rave Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ɹeɪv/ 1. simple past of rive Labels: form-of, obsolete, past
Word: raver Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English ravere, ravare, rafar, equivalent to rave + -er. 1. A person who attends rave parties, or who belongs to that subculture. Example: The life of a superstar DJ sounds like one endless party. You get to travel the world, perform for thousands of scantily clad ravers, and earn a stack of money. Example: Ravers listen to technomusic at home, and some have commented that certain tracks of music can elicit ASC similar to the ones experienced at raves. 2. A person who raves or rants. Example: Wouldn't it be nice to get on with me neighbours / But they make it very clear they've got no room for ravers Example: Well, you wore out your welcome with random precision / Rode on the steel breeze / Come on, you raver, you seer of visions / Come on, you painter, you piper, you prisoner, and shine
Word: raze Part of Speech: noun Etymology: The verb is derived from Middle English rasen, racen, rase (“to scrape; to shave; to erase; to pull; to strip off; to pluck or tear out; to root out (a tree, etc.); to pull away, snatch; to pull down; to knock down; to rend, tear apart; to pick clean, strip; to cleave, slice; to sever; to lacerate; to pierce; to carve, engrave; to dig; (figurative) to expunge, obliterate; to alter”), from Anglo-Norman raser, rasere, rasser, Middle French raser, and Old French raser (“to shave; to touch lightly, graze; to level off (grain, etc.) in a measure; to demolish, tear down; to erase; to polish; to wear down”), from Vulgar Latin *raso (“to shave; to scrape; to scratch; to touch lightly, graze”), from Latin rāsus (“scraped; shaved”), the perfect passive participle of rādō (“to scrape, scratch; to shave; to rub, smooth; to brush along, graze”). Doublet of rash (etymology 2 and etymology 7). The noun is derived from the verb. Pronunciation: /ɹeɪz/, /ɹæɪz/ 1. A slight wound; a scratch; also, a cut, a slit. Labels: obsolete Example: And verely the Emperour Nero vvas ſo greatly enamoured vpon one image of Alexander [the Great], that hee commaunded it to be guilded all over: but aftervvards, ſeeing that the more coſt vvas beſtovved upon it by laying on gold, the leſſe vvas the art ſeene of the firſt vvorkman [Lysippos], ſo that it loſt all the beautie and grace that it had by that means, he cauſed the gold to be taken off againe: and verely, the ſaid image thus unguilded as it vvas, ſeemed farre more precious than it vvas vvhiles it ſtood ſo enriched vvith gold, notvvithſtanding all the hackes, cuts, gaſhes, and raſes all over the bodie vvherein the gold did ſticke, remained ſtill, vvhich in ſome ſort might disfigure it. Example: [I]f you make tvvo razes on each ſide [of the horse's hoof], it ſhall bee ſo much the better, and inlarge the hoofe the more; […]
Word: raze Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ɹeɪz/, /ɹæɪz/ 1. Obsolete spelling of race (“rhizome of ginger”). Labels: alt-of, obsolete
Word: raze Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ɹeɪz/, /ɹæɪz/ 1. A swinging fence in a watercourse to prevent cattle passing through.
Word: razor Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English rasour, from Old French rasour, from raser (“to scrape, to shave”). More at rat. By surface analysis, raze + -or. Displaced the native Old English sċierseax (literally “shaving knife”). Pronunciation: /ˈɹeɪzə/, /ˈɹeɪzɚ/ 1. A keen-edged knife of peculiar shape, used in shaving the hair from the face or other parts of the body. 2. Any tool or instrument designed for shaving. Example: These are fellows who shun the three-, four- and five-blade contraptions and canned goops for an older mode of shaving that they insist remains the ideal: a straight razor or a safety razor with a double-edged blade, and a fine English cream lathered and applied with a badger-hair brush. Example: The box was jam packed full o' gifts for each manjack of us: razors, aftershave, toothbrushes, an' books. 3. The sharp tusk of a wild boar. 4. A conceptual device that allows one to shave away unlikely explanations for a phenomenon. Example: Occam's razor, Hanlon's razor
Word: razor Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English rasour, from Old French rasour, from raser (“to scrape, to shave”). More at rat. By surface analysis, raze + -or. Displaced the native Old English sċierseax (literally “shaving knife”). Pronunciation: /ˈɹeɪzə/, /ˈɹeɪzɚ/ 1. To shave with a razor. Labels: transitive Example: He thought likewise, that what with razoring and tanning, and the change of his clothes, he was not likely to be recognised. Example: Lord Tywin did not believe in half measures. He razored his lip and chin as well, but kept his side-whiskers, two great thickets of wiry golden hair that covered most of his cheeks from ear to jaw.
Word: reach Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ɹiːt͡ʃ/ 1. Alternative form of retch. Labels: alt-of, alternative, dialectal, obsolete
Word: reach Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ɹiːt͡ʃ/ 1. Alternative form of retch. Labels: alt-of, alternative, dialectal, obsolete
Word: reach Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Japanese 立直 (rīchi), from Chinese 立直 (lìzhí). Pronunciation: /ɹiːt͡ʃ/ 1. Alternative form of riichi. Labels: Japanese, alt-of, alternative
Word: react Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From re- + act. Piecewise doublet of redact. Pronunciation: /ɹiːˈækt/ 1. To act in response. Labels: intransitive Example: How did she react to the news? 2. To act or perform a second time; to do over again; to reenact. Labels: archaic, transitive Example: It is somewhat extraordinary, that the offence for which James II, was expelled, that of setting up power by assumption, should be re-acted, under another shape and form, by the parliament that expelled him. 3. To return an impulse or impression; to resist the action of another body by an opposite force Labels: intransitive Example: Every body reacts on the body that impels it from its natural state. 4. To act upon each other; to exercise a reciprocal or a reverse effect, as two or more chemical agents; to act in opposition. Labels: intransitive 5. To cause chemical agents to react; to cause one chemical agent to react with another. Labels: transitive 6. To post a reaction (icon or emoji indicating how one feels about a posted message). Labels: Internet, intransitive
Word: react Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From re- + act. Piecewise doublet of redact. Pronunciation: /ɹiːˈækt/ 1. An emoji used to express a reaction to a post on social media. Labels: Internet Example: Sad reacts only
Word: reanimate Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From re- + animate (adjective). Pronunciation: /ɹiˈænɪmət/, /ɹiˈænəmət/ 1. Being animate again.
Word: reanimate Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From re- + animate (verb), probably after Medieval Latin reanimāre or French réanimer. Pronunciation: /ɹiˈænɪmeɪt/, /ɹiˈænəmeɪt/ 1. To animate again. Labels: ambitransitive Example: After the geth secure a location, they round up and impale dead and living bodies on mechanical spikes. The spikes rapidly transform these victims into withered husks, extracting water and trace minerals and replacing them with cybernetics. The cybernetics re-animate the lifeless flesh and tissue, transforming the bodies into mindless killing machines. 2. To animate again. 3. To animate again. Example: Near-synonym: rescue 4. To animate again. 5. To animate again.
Word: reap Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English repen, from Old English rēopan, rēpan, variants of Old English rīpan (“to reap”), from Proto-West Germanic *rīpan, from Proto-Germanic *rīpaną (compare West Frisian repe, Norwegian ripa (“to score, scratch”)), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁reyb- (“to snatch”). Pronunciation: /ˈɹiːp/, [ˈɹɪi̯p] 1. To cut (for example a grain) with a sickle, scythe, or reaping machine. Labels: transitive 2. To gather (e.g. a harvest) by cutting. Labels: transitive Example: And when ye reape the haruest of your land, thou shalt not wholly reape the corners of thy field, neither shalt thou gather the gleanings of thy haruest. 3. To obtain or receive as a reward, in a good or a bad sense. Labels: transitive Example: to reap a benefit from exertions Example: Be not deceiued, God is not mocked: for whatsoeuer a man soweth, that shall he also reape. 4. To terminate a child process that has previously exited, thereby removing it from the process table. Labels: transitive Example: Until a child process is reaped, it may be listed in the process table as a zombie or defunct process. 5. To deprive of the beard; to shave. Labels: obsolete, transitive Example: Came there a certaine Lord, neat and trimly drest; Fresh as a Bride-groome, and his Chin new reapt, 6. To rape. Labels: euphemistic, slang
Word: reap Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English repen, from Old English rēopan, rēpan, variants of Old English rīpan (“to reap”), from Proto-West Germanic *rīpan, from Proto-Germanic *rīpaną (compare West Frisian repe, Norwegian ripa (“to score, scratch”)), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁reyb- (“to snatch”). Pronunciation: /ˈɹiːp/, [ˈɹɪi̯p] 1. A bundle of grain; a handful of grain laid down by the reaper as it is cut.
Word: recant Part of Speech: verb Etymology: First attested in 1535, from Latin recantare (“to sing back, reecho, sing again, repeat in singing, recant, recall, revoke, charm back or away”), from re- (“back”) + canto (“to chant, to sing”), frequentative of cano. Pronunciation: /ɹəˈkænt/ 1. To withdraw or repudiate a statement or opinion formerly expressed, especially formally and publicly. Labels: ambitransitive Example: Convince me that I am wrong, and I will recant. Example: How soon […] ease would recant / Vows made in pain, as violent and void!
Word: recant Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Italic *wre- Latin re-der. Old French re-bor. Middle English re- English re- English cant English recant From re- + cant. Pronunciation: /ɹəˈkænt/ 1. To give a new cant (slant, angle) to something, in particular railway track on a curve. Example: Numerous curves, which previously had given no trouble at 75 and 80 m.p.h., were realigned and recanted to adapt them for 90 m.p.h. and more, [...].
Word: recently Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree English recent Middle English -ly English -ly English recently From recent + -ly. Pronunciation: /ˈɹiːsənt.li/, /ˈɹi.sənt.li/, [ˈɹi.sn̩ʔ.li], /ˈɾisəntle/, /ˈɾiːsəntli/ 1. In the recent past Example: My recently published book about the life stories of recently-arrived immigrants. Example: The half-dozen pieces […] were painted white and carved with festoons of flowers, birds and cupids. To display them the walls had been tinted a vivid blue which had now faded, but the carpet, which had evidently been stored and recently relaid, retained its original turquoise. 2. In the recent past Example: I haven't been sleeping well recently. Example: Across Japan, technology companies and private investors are racing to install devices that until recently they had little interest in: solar panels. Massive solar parks are popping up as part of a rapid build-up that one developer likened to an "explosion."
Word: recessive Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin recēdō + -ive, or directly from New Latin recessīvus. Pronunciation: /ɹɪˈsɛsɪv/ 1. Going back; receding. 2. Able to be masked by a dominant allele or trait. Example: 1944 June 21, James A. G. Rehn, South African Bird-Locust Records and Notes (Orthoptera; Acrididae; Cyrtacanthacridinae; Group Cyrtacanthacres), Notulae Naturae, Number 137, Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, page 3, The Lydenburg male and the other two females have the infuscate pattern definitely more recessive and less evident, although traceable. Example: This plan takes advantage of the fact that barless is the most recessive of a series of alleles. 3. Not dominant; whose effect is masked by stronger effects. Labels: broadly Example: The worker–client relationship is more recessive and has a more catalytic and enabling quality. Example: The law-making or legislative component was the most recessive component of the legal system of hunter-gatherers, although decisions or advice given by mediators were remembered and used again to settle similar violations of rules or disputes among parties.
Word: recessive Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin recēdō + -ive, or directly from New Latin recessīvus. Pronunciation: /ɹɪˈsɛsɪv/ 1. A gene that is recessive. Example: Suppose, for example, that we started with a population consisting of pure dominants, heterozygotes, and recessives in the ratio 1 : 4 : 4. Example: Finally, if we suppose provisionally that the mutant genes are dominant just as often as they are recessive, selection will be far more severe in eliminating the disadvantageous dominants than in eliminating the disadvantageous recessives.
Word: recital Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From recite + -al. Pronunciation: /ɹɪˈsaɪtl̩/ 1. The act of reciting (the repetition of something that has been memorized); rehearsal Labels: countable, uncountable 2. The act of telling the order of events of something in detail the order of events; narration. Labels: countable, uncountable 3. That which is recited; a story, narration, account. Labels: countable, uncountable 4. A vocal, instrumental or visual performance by a soloist. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: perform a piano recital 5. A formal, preliminary statement in a deed or writing in order to explain the reasons on which the transaction is founded, prior to a positive allegation. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: recommend Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English recommenden, from Old French recommender (compare French recommander), from Latin re- + commendāre (“to commend, commit; to recommend”), from con- + mandāre (“commit, intrust, enjoin”), from manus (“hand, handwriting, power”) + dare (“to give; to offer or render”). Compare typologically Bulgarian препоръчам (preporǎčam), Serbo-Croatian препоручити, Slovene priporočiti, Czech doporučit, Slovak odporučiť (the same meaning); Russian поручи́ться (poručítʹsja), пору́ка (porúka), поручи́тельство (poručítelʹstvo) (close meaning), all related to Proto-Slavic *rǫka (Bulgarian ръка (rǎka), Russian рука́ (ruká)). Pronunciation: /ˌɹɛkəˈmɛnd/ 1. To bestow commendation on; to represent favorably; to suggest, endorse or encourage as an appropriate choice. Labels: transitive Example: The board recommends Philips, given his ample experience in similar positions. 2. To make acceptable; to attract favor to. Labels: transitive Example: A city that has much to recommend it. 3. To advise, propose, counsel favorably. Labels: transitive Example: The therapist recommends resting the mind and exercising the body. Example: My therapist recommended that I rest the mind and exercise the body. 4. To commit, to confide to another's care, confidence or acceptance, with favoring representations. Labels: archaic, transitive Example: A medieval oblate's parents recommended the boy for life to God and the monastery.
Word: recommend Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English recommenden, from Old French recommender (compare French recommander), from Latin re- + commendāre (“to commend, commit; to recommend”), from con- + mandāre (“commit, intrust, enjoin”), from manus (“hand, handwriting, power”) + dare (“to give; to offer or render”). Compare typologically Bulgarian препоръчам (preporǎčam), Serbo-Croatian препоручити, Slovene priporočiti, Czech doporučit, Slovak odporučiť (the same meaning); Russian поручи́ться (poručítʹsja), пору́ка (porúka), поручи́тельство (poručítelʹstvo) (close meaning), all related to Proto-Slavic *rǫka (Bulgarian ръка (rǎka), Russian рука́ (ruká)). Pronunciation: /ˌɹɛkəˈmɛnd/ 1. A recommendation. Labels: colloquial Example: "I'm glad to have a recommend from that quarter. Airheart's skipper of the San Jose now. […]"
Word: recount Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Old Northern French and Anglo-Norman recunter, variant of Old French reconter. Pronunciation: /ɹɪˈkaʊnt/ 1. Narration, account, description, rendering
Word: recount Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Old Northern French and Anglo-Norman recunter, variant of Old French reconter. Pronunciation: /ɹɪˈkaʊnt/ 1. To tell; narrate; to relate in detail. Example: The old man recounted the tale of how he caught the big fish. Example: As they undressed and lay down, she asked about his leg, which had hurt for two days while he was crossing the Indian Ocean but not since. He asked about the treasure; she recounted the trip to Ning-hsia Province. 2. To rehearse; to enumerate. Labels: dated Example: to recount one's blessings
Word: recount Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Italic *wre- Latin re-der. Old French re-bor. Middle English re- English re- Proto-Indo-European *ḱe? Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm Proto-Italic *kom Proto-Italic *kom- Latin con- Latin com- Latin putus 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 putō Latin computō Anglo-Norman counterbor. Middle English counten English count English recount From re- + count. Pronunciation: /ˈɹiːkaʊnt/ 1. A counting again, as of votes. Example: The Georgia Republican Party and US Rep. Doug Collins, a Georgia Republican who’s leading the Trump campaign’s recount efforts in the state, on Tuesday requested a pre-certification “manual hand recount of every ballot cast within the State of Georgia” for president.
Word: recount Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Italic *wre- Latin re-der. Old French re-bor. Middle English re- English re- Proto-Indo-European *ḱe? Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm Proto-Italic *kom Proto-Italic *kom- Latin con- Latin com- Latin putus 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 putō Latin computō Anglo-Norman counterbor. Middle English counten English count English recount From re- + count. Pronunciation: /ˈɹiːkaʊnt/, /ɹiːˈkaʊnt/ 1. To count again. Example: Georgia’s secretary of state announced Wednesday that the state will conduct an audit of the 2020 presidential race, recounting by hand the millions of ballots cast in the state, where President-elect Joe Biden is leading.
Word: recover Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English recoveren, rekeveren, from Anglo-Norman recoverer and Old French recovrer, from Latin recuperāre, alternative form of reciperāre. Doublet of recuperate. The noun is from Middle English recover, from the verb. Pronunciation: /ɹɪˈkʌvə/, /ɹɪˈkʌvɚ/, /ɹəˈkʌvɚ/ 1. Recovery. Labels: obsolete Example: It was neuer in my thoughte saide laūcelot to withholde the quene from my lord Arthur / but in soo moche she shold haue ben dede for my sake / me semeth it was my parte to saue her lyf and putte her from that daunger tyl better recouer myghte come / & now I thanke god sayd sir Launcelot that the pope hath made her pees 2. A position of holding a firearm during exercises, whereby the lock is at shoulder height and the sling facing out. 3. The forward movement in rowing, after one stroke to take another (recovery). Labels: dated
Word: recover Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Italic *wre- Latin re-der. Old French re-bor. Middle English re- English re- Proto-Indo-European *ḱe? Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm Proto-Italic *kom Proto-Italic *kom- Latin con- Proto-Indo-European *h₁ep-der. Proto-Indo-European *h₁épsder. Proto-Indo-European *h₁epi Proto-Indo-European *h₂wer- Proto-Indo-European *-yeti Latin operiō Latin cooperiō Old French covrirbor. Middle English coveren English cover English recover From re- + cover. Pronunciation: /ɹiːˈkʌvə/, /ɹiˈkʌvɚ/ 1. To cover again. 2. To add a new roof membrane or steep-slope covering over an existing one.
Word: recruit Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From French recruter (as a verb). Pronunciation: /ɹɪˈkɹut/, /ɹɪˈkɹuːt/ 1. A supply of anything wasted or exhausted; a reinforcement. 2. A person enlisted for service in the army; a newly enlisted soldier. 3. A hired worker Example: These new recruits were hired after passing the interviews 4. A new adult or breeding-age member of a certain population.