nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: doyen Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from French doyen, from Late Latin decānus, from Latin decem. Compare the doublet dean. Pronunciation: /ˈdɔɪ.ən/, /dɔɪˈɛn/, /dwɑˈjæ̃/ 1. A commander in charge of ten men. Labels: obsolete 2. The senior, or eldest male member of a group. Example: At every turn, Collyers's aggressive new management in London was out-maneuvering and out promoting the double doyens of the rarefied art auction world. Old-timers at Collyers referred to Christie's and Sotheby's as “the Cow and the Sow,” lumping them together in frequent attitudes of disdain, in an attempt to make up for decades of being the brunt of bad jokes. Example: Conant's sense of science's world-historic mission did not especially endear him to Harvard's doyens, most of whom still operated with a liberal arts college model of the university in which the humanities reigned supreme and even the natural sciences were treated more as teaching than research subjects. 3. A leading light, or exemplar of a particular practice or movement. Labels: colloquial Example: Unlike the latter, however, Shifu's seriousness allowed no compromise; his criticism of Zhang ji even brought him into conflict with Wu Zhihui, one of the doyens of anarchism in China. Example: 2008 July 3, Amanda Schaffer, “The Sex Difference Evangelists”, part 3: “Mars, Venus, Babies, and Hormones”, in Slate, In an interview, even Simon Baron-Cohen, another doyen of sex-difference claims, offered up some caution.
Word: phelloplastics Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Italian felloplastica 1. The art of modelling in cork. Labels: uncountable
Word: cad Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Short for caddie, from Scots, from French cadet, from Occitan capdet (“chief, captain”), from Latin capitellum, diminutive of caput (“head”). Pronunciation: /kæd/ 1. A low-bred, presuming person; a mean, vulgar fellow, especially one that cannot be trusted with a lady. Example: The most rapid and most seductive transition in all human nature is that which attends the palliation of a ravenous appetite.[…]Can those harmless but refined fellow-diners be the selfish cads whose gluttony and personal appearance so raised your contemptuous wrath on your arrival? Example: I make him sound like a cad, but he’s not. Early on, when I fell seriously ill, he cared for me devotedly. He’s witty, sweet, a great cook and easy on the eyes. 2. A person who stands at the door of an omnibus to open and shut it, and to receive fares; a bus conductor. Labels: archaic Example: We will back the machine in which we make our daily peregrination from the top of Oxford-street to the city, against any buss on the road, whether it be for the gaudiness of its exterior, the perfect simplicity of its interior, or the native coolness of its cad. Example: I’ve fallen asleep on my step as the ’bus was going on, and almost fallen off. I have often to put up with insolence from vulgar fellows, who think it fun to chaff a cad, as they call it. 3. An idle hanger-on about innyards. Labels: Ireland, UK, obsolete, slang
Word: cad Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Uncertain. Ferguson (1875) thought this to be of Celtic origin; possibly from a Cumbric equivalent to Welsh cydio (“to join, couple”). 1. to mat or felt together Labels: Cumbria, obsolete
Word: cad Part of Speech: noun 1. A caddis (caddisfly larva).
Word: rubble Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Inherited from Middle English rouble, rubel, robel, robeil, from Anglo-Norman *robel (“bits of broken stone”). Presumably related to rubbish, originally of same meaning (waste material, bits of stone, rubble). Ultimately presumably from Old Norse rubba (“to huddle, crowd together, heap up", possibly also "to rub, scrape”), from Proto-Germanic *rubbōną (“to rub, scrape”), related to Proto-Germanic *reufaną (“to tear”), *raubōną (“to rob, steal, plunder”), perhaps via Old French robe (English rob (“steal”)) in sense of “plunder, destroy”; see also Middle English, Middle French -el. Pronunciation: /ˈɹʌb.əl/ 1. The broken remains of an object, usually rock or masonry. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The main East Coast line from Edinburgh to Berwick was blocked at Cockburnspath and Grantshouse by flood water, which washed away part of an embankment, and by the collapse of about 300 tons of rubble on to the track. Example: The old boulevard now was a sagging ruin, waiting for the wreckers. … You'd have to loathe yourself vividly to be indifferent to such destruction or, worse, rejoice at the crushing of the locus of these middle-class settlements, glad that history had made rubble of them. 2. A mass or stratum of fragments of rock lying under the alluvium and derived from the neighbouring rock. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The overlying beds are composed of such calcareous rubble and flints, rudely stratified 3. The whole of the bran of wheat before it is sorted into pollard, bran, etc. Labels: UK, countable, dialectal, in-plural, uncountable
Word: rubble Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Inherited from Middle English rouble, rubel, robel, robeil, from Anglo-Norman *robel (“bits of broken stone”). Presumably related to rubbish, originally of same meaning (waste material, bits of stone, rubble). Ultimately presumably from Old Norse rubba (“to huddle, crowd together, heap up", possibly also "to rub, scrape”), from Proto-Germanic *rubbōną (“to rub, scrape”), related to Proto-Germanic *reufaną (“to tear”), *raubōną (“to rob, steal, plunder”), perhaps via Old French robe (English rob (“steal”)) in sense of “plunder, destroy”; see also Middle English, Middle French -el. Pronunciation: /ˈɹʌb.əl/ 1. To break down into rubble. Labels: transitive
Word: ballistics Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From ballista + -ics. By surface analysis, ballistic + -s. Pronunciation: /bəˈlɪst.ɪks/ 1. The science of objects that predominantly fly under the effects of gravity, momentum and atmospheric drag, and dealing with details of their behaviour at the origin and destination of their flight, as of bullets or missiles or rockets. Labels: uncountable
Word: retrograde Part of Speech: adj Etymology: The adjective is derived from Middle English retrograd, retrograde (“of a planet: appearing to move in a direction opposite to the order of the zodiac signs, retrograde; unfortunate”), from Middle French retrograde and Old French retrograde (“of a celestial object: appearing to move backwards; moving backwards; reverse; palindromic; opposed to change”) (modern French rétrograde), and from their etymon Latin retrōgradus (“of a celestial object: appearing to move backwards”) (compare Late Latin retrōgradus (“reverse; palindromic”)), from retrō (“back, backwards; behind; before, formerly”) + gradus (“pace, step”). By surface analysis, retro- + -grade. The adverb and noun are derived from the adjective. Pronunciation: /ˈɹɛtɹə(ʊ)ɡɹeɪd/, /ˈɹɛtɹəˌɡɹeɪd/ 1. Directed or moving backwards in relation to the normal or previous direction of travel; retreating. 2. Reverting to an inferior or less developed state; declining, regressing. 3. Reverting to an inferior or less developed state; declining, regressing. 4. Of the order of something: inverse, reverse. 5. Of the order of something: inverse, reverse. 6. Of ideas or a person: opposing social reform, favouring the maintenance of the status quo; conservative. Example: retrograde ideas, morals, etc. Example: Such retrograde people still exist, resisting modernity, dragging their feet. 7. Involving a return to or a retracing of a previous course of travel. Labels: archaic 8. Counterproductive to a desired outcome; contradictory, contrary. Labels: archaic Example: In going back to school in Wittenberg, / It is most retrograde to our desire: / And we beseech you, bend you to remain 9. Of a celestial body orbiting another: in the opposite direction to the orbited body's spin. 10. Of a celestial body: seeming to move across the sky in the opposite direction from its ordinary movement. Labels: also, often, postpositional Example: Mercury retrograde Example: The inauspicious connotations of Mercury retrograde are actually quite old, evidenced in an ancient branch of astrology known as horary astrology. 11. Of a metamorphic change: resulting from a decrease in pressure or temperature. 12. Of amnesia: relating to the period leading up to the episode which caused it. 13. Of verse: reading the same forwards or backwards; palindromic. Labels: archaic
Word: retrograde Part of Speech: adv Etymology: The adjective is derived from Middle English retrograd, retrograde (“of a planet: appearing to move in a direction opposite to the order of the zodiac signs, retrograde; unfortunate”), from Middle French retrograde and Old French retrograde (“of a celestial object: appearing to move backwards; moving backwards; reverse; palindromic; opposed to change”) (modern French rétrograde), and from their etymon Latin retrōgradus (“of a celestial object: appearing to move backwards”) (compare Late Latin retrōgradus (“reverse; palindromic”)), from retrō (“back, backwards; behind; before, formerly”) + gradus (“pace, step”). By surface analysis, retro- + -grade. The adverb and noun are derived from the adjective. Pronunciation: /ˈɹɛtɹə(ʊ)ɡɹeɪd/, /ˈɹɛtɹəˌɡɹeɪd/ 1. In a reverse direction; backwards.
Word: retrograde Part of Speech: noun Etymology: The adjective is derived from Middle English retrograd, retrograde (“of a planet: appearing to move in a direction opposite to the order of the zodiac signs, retrograde; unfortunate”), from Middle French retrograde and Old French retrograde (“of a celestial object: appearing to move backwards; moving backwards; reverse; palindromic; opposed to change”) (modern French rétrograde), and from their etymon Latin retrōgradus (“of a celestial object: appearing to move backwards”) (compare Late Latin retrōgradus (“reverse; palindromic”)), from retrō (“back, backwards; behind; before, formerly”) + gradus (“pace, step”). By surface analysis, retro- + -grade. The adverb and noun are derived from the adjective. Pronunciation: /ˈɹɛtɹə(ʊ)ɡɹeɪd/, /ˈɹɛtɹəˌɡɹeɪd/ 1. A movement backwards or opposite to the intended or normal motion. 2. A movement backwards or opposite to the intended or normal motion. 3. One who opposes social reform, favouring the maintenance of the status quo; a conservative. 4. One who reneges on an agreement, or switches loyalties; a rebel, a renegade. Labels: archaic 5. The reversal of a melody so that what is played first in the original melody is played last, and what is played last in the original melody is played first.
Word: retrograde Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle French retrograder (“to (cause to) go back, return; to (cause to) move backwards; of a celestial object: to show retrograde motion; to date to an earlier period”) (modern French rétrograder), and from its etymon Latin retrōgradī (“to go or step back or backwards; of a celestial object: to show retrograde motion”) (compare Late Latin retrogradare, retrogradari, retrogredere), from retrō (“back, backwards; behind; before, formerly”) + gradior (“to step, walk; to advance, go”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *gʰredʰ- (“to go; to walk”)). Pronunciation: /ˈɹɛtɹə(ʊ)ɡɹeɪd/, /ˈɹɛtɹəˌɡɹeɪd/ 1. To cause (a land feature such as a coastline or waterfall) to undergo retrogradation, that is, to travel in the direction of the land or upstream due to erosion. Labels: transitive 2. To change (minerals, rocks, etc.) metamorphically through a decrease in pressure or temperature. Labels: transitive 3. To cause (someone or something) to revert to an inferior or less developed state. Labels: obsolete, transitive 4. To revert to an inferior or less developed state; to decline, to regress. Labels: intransitive Example: […] Monna Brigida, who had retrograded to false hair in Romola's absence, but now drew it off again and declared she would not mind being gray, if her dear child would stay with her. 5. Of a celestial body, especially a planet: to show retrogradation; to seem to move across the sky in the opposite direction from its ordinary movement. Labels: intransitive 6. Of a land feature: to travel in the direction of the land or upstream due to erosion. Labels: intransitive 7. To retreat or withdraw from a position. Labels: intransitive 8. To move backwards; to recede. Labels: intransitive, obsolete Example: A dabble in the stocks does not always turn out profitably; cotton is sometimes heavy on our hands, and real estate will sulkily retrograde, when, by the calculation, it ought to have advanced. 9. Of the telling of an incident, etc.: to move to an earlier time. Labels: intransitive, obsolete
Word: motion Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Inherited from Middle English mocioun, mocion, from Anglo-Norman motion, Middle French motion, and their etymon Latin mōtiō (“movement, motion”), related to movēre, from Proto-Indo-European *m(y)ewh₁- (“to move”). Pronunciation: /ˈməʊ.ʃən/, /ˈmoʊ.ʃən/ 1. To gesture indicating a desired movement. Example: He motioned for me to come closer. Example: Mom motioned me over and ordered me to sit by her side. 2. To introduce a motion in parliamentary procedure. Labels: proscribed 3. To make a proposal; to offer plans. Example: Here's Gloucester, a foe to citizens, One that still motions war and never peace
Word: quiver Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English quiver, from Anglo-Norman quivre, from Old Dutch cocare (source of Dutch koker, and cognate to Old English cocer (“quiver, case”)), from Proto-West Germanic *kokar (“container”), said to be from Hunnic, possibly from Proto-Mongolic *kökexür (“leather vessel for liquids”); see there for more. Replaced early modern cocker, the inherited reflex of that West Germanic word. The mathematical sense originated as German Köcher in a 1972 paper by Pierre Gabriel; it was likely chosen because a quiver contains arrows, while a digraph contains directed edges (also called "arrows"). Pronunciation: /ˈkwɪvə/, /ˈkwɪvɚ/ 1. A container for arrows, crossbow bolts or darts, such as those fired from a bow, crossbow or blowgun. Example: Don Pedro: Nay, if Cupid have not spent all his quiver in Venice, thou wilt quake for this shortly. Example: Arrows were carried in quiver, called also an arrow case, which served for the magazine, arrows for immediate use were worn in the girdle. 2. A ready storage location for figurative tools or weapons. Labels: figuratively Example: He's got lots of sales pitches in his quiver. 3. A vulva. Labels: obsolete 4. The collective noun for cobras. Labels: obsolete 5. A multidigraph, especially in the context of representation theory.
Word: quiver Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English quiver, cwiver, from Old English *cwifer, probably related to cwic (“alive”). Pronunciation: /ˈkwɪvə/, /ˈkwɪvɚ/ 1. Nimble, active. Labels: archaic Example: [...] there was a little quiver fellow, and 'a would manage you his piece thus; and 'a would about and about, and come you in and come you in.
Word: quiver Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English quiveren, probably from the adjective. Pronunciation: /ˈkwɪvə/, /ˈkwɪvɚ/ 1. To shake or move with slight and tremulous motion. Labels: intransitive Example: The birds chaunt melodie on euerie buſh, The ſnakes^([sic – meaning ſnake]) lies rolled in the chearefull ſunne, The greene leaues quiuer with the cooling winde, And make a checkerd ſhadow on the ground: [...] Example: And left the limbs still quivering on the ground.
Word: quiver Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English quiveren, probably from the adjective. Pronunciation: /ˈkwɪvə/, /ˈkwɪvɚ/ 1. The act of quivering. Example: I feel a quiver every time we kiss / The sky's the limit with a love like this
Word: drunkard Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From earlier droncarde, from Middle English *druncard (attested as a surname, Druncard), possibly from Middle Low German drunkert, equivalent to drunk + -ard (“pejorative agent suffix”). Compare German Trunkart. Compare braggart. Pronunciation: /ˈdɹʌŋkɚd/ 1. A person who is habitually drunk. Labels: derogatory
Word: blend Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English blenden, either from Old English blandan, blondan, ġeblandan, ġeblendan or from Old Norse blanda (“to blend, mix”) (which was originally a strong verb with the present-tense stem blend; compare blendingr (“a blending, a mixture; a half-breed”)), whence also Danish blande, or from a blend of the Old English and Old Norse terms; both ultimately from Proto-Germanic *blandaną (“to blend; mix; combine”). Compare Middle Dutch blanden (“to mix”), Gothic 𐌱𐌻𐌰𐌽𐌳𐌰𐌽 (blandan), Old Church Slavonic блєсти (blesti, “to go astray”). Pronunciation: /blɛnd/ 1. A mixture of two or more things. Example: Their music has been described as a blend of jazz and heavy metal. Example: Our department has a good blend of experienced workers and young promise. 2. A word formed by combining two other words; a portmanteau word. Example: Blends, also known as portmanteau words, are not an original part of English. That is, none occur in Old or Middle English, nor even in Elizabethan English, with the earliest known example being the rare and now obsolete term tomaxe, a blend of tomahawk and axe.
Word: blend Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English blenden, either from Old English blandan, blondan, ġeblandan, ġeblendan or from Old Norse blanda (“to blend, mix”) (which was originally a strong verb with the present-tense stem blend; compare blendingr (“a blending, a mixture; a half-breed”)), whence also Danish blande, or from a blend of the Old English and Old Norse terms; both ultimately from Proto-Germanic *blandaną (“to blend; mix; combine”). Compare Middle Dutch blanden (“to mix”), Gothic 𐌱𐌻𐌰𐌽𐌳𐌰𐌽 (blandan), Old Church Slavonic блєсти (blesti, “to go astray”). Pronunciation: /blɛnd/ 1. To mingle; to mix; to unite intimately; to pass or shade insensibly into each other. Labels: transitive Example: To make hummus you need to blend chickpeas, olive oil, lemon juice and garlic. 2. To be mingled or mixed. Labels: intransitive Example: There is a tone of solemn and sacred feeling that blends with our conviviality. Example: To feel no other breezes than are blown / Through its tall woods with high romances blent 3. To pollute by mixture or association; to spoil or corrupt; to blot; to stain. Labels: obsolete Example: These stormes, which now his beauty blend, Shall turn to calmes.
Word: scanlator Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Blend of scan + translator or scanlate + -or. 1. One who scanlates; a person who carries out scanlation.
Word: portmantua Part of Speech: noun 1. Obsolete form of portmanteau (“case”). Labels: alt-of, obsolete Example: Then Little John took the bishop's cloak, And spread it upon the ground, And out of the bishop's portmantua, He told three hundred pound. Example: A Rover tooke him unprepared, / Search't his Port-mantua, bound him faſter, / And ſent him naked to his Maſter: […]
Word: portmanteau film Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Allusion to the idea of a portmanteau in the linguistic sense. 1. A film that combines two or more distinct stories, frequently connected by a single theme, premise, or author. Example: We're so bombarded with images, it's a struggle to preserve our imaginations.' In response, he's turned to cinema, commissioning 11 film-makers to contribute to a portmanteau film, entitled '11'09"01' and composed of short films each running 11 minutes, nine seconds and one frame.
Word: frankenword Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From franken- + word. Pronunciation: /ˈfɹæŋkn̩ˌwɜː(ɹ)d/, /ˈfɹæŋk(ə)nˌwɝd/ 1. A word formed by combining two (or more) other words. Example: But what's noteworthy is the smorgasbord of new vocabulary, including 'frankenwords' (words joined to create new words) which deal with everyday situations. Example: Noun phrase identification is extremely time consuming and may incorrectly process new words that emerge during a debate, eg frankenwords invented during the genetically modified food debate.
Word: Frankenstein Part of Speech: name Etymology: From German Frankenstein, various places named for Franken (“Franks, Frankish”) + Stein (“stone”). The use of referencing mad scientists derives from Mary Shelley's 1818 novel Frankenstein, or, The Modern Prometheus, where Victor Frankenstein assembles a man from pieces of various corpses and brings him to life with electricity. Use of the reference to the monster itself is an ellipsis of the earlier Frankenstein's monster, with the monster's usual modern appearance derived from Boris Karloff's performance in the 1931 film Frankenstein. Pronunciation: /ˈfɹæŋ.kən.staɪn/, /ˈfɹæŋ.kən.ʃtaɪn/, /-kɪn-/ 1. Various small towns in Germany. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. Former name of Ząbkowice Śląskie: a town in Lower Silesian Voivodeship, Poland. Labels: countable, historical, uncountable Example: In the same year, a kiln of the same size was built in Frankenstein in the Silesian region, but the purpose of this kiln was to treat low-grade nickel ore, and it had a capacity for treating 80,000 tons a year. 3. A surname from German. Labels: countable 4. Victor Frankenstein, a fictional character and the main protagonist and title character in Mary Shelley's 1818 novel Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus. Labels: countable, uncountable 5. The unnamed monster created by Victor Frankenstein: a fictional character who first appeared in Mary Shelley's 1818 novel Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus as the main antagonist. Labels: countable, proscribed, sometimes, uncountable Example: Now, another fella told me he had a sister who looked just fine Instead of being my deliverance, she had a strange resemblance To a cat named Frankenstein.
Word: Frankenstein Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From German Frankenstein, various places named for Franken (“Franks, Frankish”) + Stein (“stone”). The use of referencing mad scientists derives from Mary Shelley's 1818 novel Frankenstein, or, The Modern Prometheus, where Victor Frankenstein assembles a man from pieces of various corpses and brings him to life with electricity. Use of the reference to the monster itself is an ellipsis of the earlier Frankenstein's monster, with the monster's usual modern appearance derived from Boris Karloff's performance in the 1931 film Frankenstein. Pronunciation: /ˈfɹæŋ.kən.staɪn/, /ˈfɹæŋ.kən.ʃtaɪn/, /-kɪn-/ 1. A monster composed of body parts from various corpses attached and brought back to life by a mad scientist, typically strong, unable to speak clearly, and misunderstood. Labels: proscribed, sometimes Example: "Such loveliness as I possess can only truly shine In Hollywood!" Aunt Sponge declared. "Oh, wouldn't that be fine! I'd capture all the nations' hearts! They'd give me all the leading parts! The stars would all resign!" "I think you'd make," Aunt Spiker said, "a lovely Frankenstein." 2. Synonym of mad scientist.
Word: Frankenstein Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From German Frankenstein, various places named for Franken (“Franks, Frankish”) + Stein (“stone”). The use of referencing mad scientists derives from Mary Shelley's 1818 novel Frankenstein, or, The Modern Prometheus, where Victor Frankenstein assembles a man from pieces of various corpses and brings him to life with electricity. Use of the reference to the monster itself is an ellipsis of the earlier Frankenstein's monster, with the monster's usual modern appearance derived from Boris Karloff's performance in the 1931 film Frankenstein. Pronunciation: /ˈfɹæŋ.kən.staɪn/, /ˈfɹæŋ.kən.ʃtaɪn/, /-kɪn-/ 1. To combine two or more similar elements into a consistent entity, or a cohesive idea. Labels: colloquial, transitive Example: In the middle of the Formica-topped table, on the other side of Kimball's oatmeal but still at arm's length, was an approximation of a laptop Kimball had Frankensteined from computers so obsolete that cash-strapped schools wouldn't even accept them as donations.
Word: catoblepas Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Latin catōblepās, from Ancient Greek κᾰτῶβλεψ (kătôbleps), κᾰτωβλέπων (kătōblépōn), κᾰτώβλεπον (kătṓblepon, “down-looker”), from κᾰτᾰβλέπω (kătăblépō, “to look downwards”, from κᾰτᾰ́ (kătắ) + βλέπω (blépō)). Pronunciation: /kəˈtɒblɪpəs/, /kæ-/, /-blɛ-/, /-bliː-/, /-pæs/ 1. A legendary creature from Ethiopia, said to have the body of a Cape buffalo, scales on its back, and the head of a wild boar, which always points downward because of its weight. Example: Behind them, blindfolded and muzzled, came catoblepones. Example: The most obvious curseinflicting monsters that came to mind were Basilisks, Cockatrices, and Catoblepones.
Word: corvus Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin corvus (“crow”), named for the resemblance to a crow's beak. 1. A hooked ram for destroying walls. Labels: historical 2. A grappling hook in Ancient Roman naval warfare. Labels: historical
Word: dab Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English dabben (“to strike”), probably of North Germanic origin, related to Old Icelandic dabba (“to tap, slap”), perhaps ultimately imitative. Compare also with Middle Dutch dabben (“to pinch, knead, fumble, dabble”) (Dutch dabben (“(of a horse) to stamp with the forelegs”)), Dutch deppen (“to dab”), possibly German tappen (“to fumble, grope”). The noun is from Middle English dabbe (“a strike, blow”), from the verb. Related to tap. Compare also drub, dub. African-American sense of “playful box” perhaps influenced by dap (“fistbump”). Pronunciation: /dæb/ 1. To press lightly in a repetitive motion with a soft object without rubbing. Labels: transitive Example: I dabbed my face with a towel. Example: Dab the tears from your eyes. 2. To apply a substance in this way. Labels: transitive Example: The nurse will dab some ointment on that gash. 3. To strike by a thrust; to hit with a sudden blow or thrust. Example: 1532-1533, Thomas More, The Confutation of Tyndale's Answer to dabbe him in the necke Example: Breach hit a line, Zoe Harrison dabbed a kick in behind and Abby Dow chased like fury. 4. To apply hash oil to a heated surface for the purpose of efficient combustion. Labels: slang 5. To perform the dab dance move; to move both arms, parallel with one's head, to either side of the body. Labels: intransitive Example: Look, my bruddas don't dab, we just vossi bop 6. Synonym of daub (to mark a bingo card)
Word: dab Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English dabben (“to strike”), probably of North Germanic origin, related to Old Icelandic dabba (“to tap, slap”), perhaps ultimately imitative. Compare also with Middle Dutch dabben (“to pinch, knead, fumble, dabble”) (Dutch dabben (“(of a horse) to stamp with the forelegs”)), Dutch deppen (“to dab”), possibly German tappen (“to fumble, grope”). The noun is from Middle English dabbe (“a strike, blow”), from the verb. Related to tap. Compare also drub, dub. African-American sense of “playful box” perhaps influenced by dap (“fistbump”). Pronunciation: /dæb/ 1. A soft tap or blow; a blow or peck from a bird's beak; an aimed blow. Example: I promise you nothing,' said the dolls' dressmaker, dabbing two dabs at him with her needle, as if she put out both his eyes. Example: “It was the most absurd kiss. I don't believe he'd ever kissed a woman in his life before. I threw my head back, and it was a sort of slidy, pecking dab, just on the end of the chin — here.” Mrs. Hauksbee tapped her masculine little chin with her fan. 2. A soft, playful box given in greeting or approval. Example: She gave a few more dabs to his buttocks. “There. By the time you've made love to me those weals will have dried up.” Example: The men gave each other dabs and another bear hug. 3. A small amount, a blob of some soft or wet substance. Example: a dab of glue 4. A small amount, a blob of some soft or wet substance. Labels: slang 5. Fingerprint. Labels: UK, dated, in-plural Example: One had Glash's dabs on it and a half-inch of Macallan at the bottom. 6. A hip hop dance move in which the dancer simultaneously drops the head while raising an arm, briefly resting their face in the elbow, as if sneezing into their elbow. 7. A dabbler. Labels: obsolete
Word: dab Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From Middle English dabben (“to strike”), probably of North Germanic origin, related to Old Icelandic dabba (“to tap, slap”), perhaps ultimately imitative. Compare also with Middle Dutch dabben (“to pinch, knead, fumble, dabble”) (Dutch dabben (“(of a horse) to stamp with the forelegs”)), Dutch deppen (“to dab”), possibly German tappen (“to fumble, grope”). The noun is from Middle English dabbe (“a strike, blow”), from the verb. Related to tap. Compare also drub, dub. African-American sense of “playful box” perhaps influenced by dap (“fistbump”). Pronunciation: /dæb/ 1. With a dab, or sudden contact. Labels: not-comparable
Word: dab Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Unknown. First use in print was in 1691, in The Athenian Mercury; it is also found in the Dictionary of the Canting Crew of 1698; see quotations for both. Originally used in the cant of criminals, and later in school slang. It may be a profound alteration of adept, likely from deliberate slangy usage thereof (rather than natural sound-change), which if true would give such earlier forms as *adep (or *dept) > *dep > *deb. Pronunciation: /dæb/ 1. One who is skilful or proficient; an expert; an adept. Example: for little Urchin as he is, he‘s ſuch a Dab at his Bow and Arrows‘ that ne‘re a Finsbury Archer of ‘em all can pretend to come near him. Example: Dab, c. expert exquiſite in Roguery a Rumdab, c. a very Dextrous fellow at fileing , thieving, Cheating, Sharping, sc. Heii a Dab at it, He is well vers'd in it.
Word: dab Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Late Middle English dabbe, of unknown origin; perhaps related to sense 1 (“to press against lightly”) as in "a soft mass dabbed down." Pronunciation: /dæb/ 1. A small flatfish of the family Pleuronectidae, especially Limanda limanda; a flounder. 2. A sand dab, a small flatfish of genus Citharichthys. Labels: US
Word: dab Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Back slang for bad. Pronunciation: /dæb/ 1. Bad. Labels: obsolete Example: Business topics are discussed in a most peculiar style. One man takes the pipe from his mouth and says, "Bill made a doogheno hit this morning." "Jem," says another, to a man just entering, "you'll stand a top o' reeb?" "On," answers Jem, "I've had a trosseno tol, and have been doing dab." Example: One afternoon, arriving at his stall later than usual, I said, almost unknowingly, 'A doogheno or a dabheno?' Jo, who had often chaffed me for my awkward mimicking of coster language, didn't even look up from peeling his apple. 'Dab,' he said, with a little shake of his head.
Word: lab Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Clipping of laboratory. Pronunciation: /læːb/ 1. A laboratory. Labels: colloquial Example: I was working in the lab late one night When my eyes beheld an eerie sight For my monster, from his slab, began to rise And suddenly, to my surprise He did the Mash He did the Monster Mash. Example: A man dressed as a lab tech, his blue scrubs startlingly pale against the vivid red and black chaos, moved into sight from behind the SUV. He carried an assault rifle. 2. Laboratory experiment, test, investigation or result. Labels: colloquial Example: I dropped my mixture while doing my lab, so I had to start over.
Word: lab Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Clipping of laboratory. Pronunciation: /læːb/ 1. To practise experimentally outside of competitive play. Labels: slang
Word: lab Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Clipping of Labrador retriever. Pronunciation: /læːb/ 1. A Labrador retriever. Labels: colloquial
Word: sampi Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Ancient Greek σαμπῖ (sampî). 1. The obsolete Greek letter Ϡ, ϡ (s). 2. The numeral 900.
Word: yokel Part of Speech: noun Etymology: First use appears c. 1812, possibly from dialectal German Jokel, diminutive of Jakob, cf. Yankee (“little John”) and jacquerie (“a peasant uprising”). Alternatively, from dialectal English yokel, yuckle (“a European green woodpecker”), itself probably a variant of hickwall. Pronunciation: /ˈjəʊ.kəl/, /ˈjoʊ.kəl/ 1. A person from or living in the countryside, viewed as being unsophisticated or naive. Labels: derogatory, slang Example: They love the scenery near their summer home, but have no desire to mix with the local yokels. Example: “[…] my opinion at once is […] that this [robbery] wasn’t done by a yokel―eh, Duff?” “Certainly not,” replied Duff. “And, translating the word yokel, for the benefit of the ladies, I apprehend your meaning to be that this attempt was not made by a countryman?” said Mr. Losberne with a smile.
Word: cross country Part of Speech: noun 1. A running sport popular in US high schools, colleges, etc., where participants race over varying terrain (e.g. golf courses, roads, etc.) in approximately 5- to 10-kilometre races. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. A phase of the equestrian sport of three day eventing, which the horse and rider travel over varied terrain and jump natural obstacles. Labels: countable, uncountable 3. Flight between two points or aerodromes using navigational techniques. Labels: countable
Word: eliminate Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Borrowed from Latin ēlīminātus, perfect passive participle of ēlīminō (“to turn out of doors, banish”), from ē- + līmen (“a threshold”, līmin- in compounds) + -ō (first conjugation verb-forming suffix) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), akin to Latin līmes (“a boundary”); see also English limit and limen. Pronunciation: /ɪˈlɪm.ɪ.neɪt/, /ɪˈlɪm.ə.neɪt/, /iˈlɪm.ɪ.neɪt/, /iˈlɪm.ə.neɪt/, /əˈlɪm.ə.neɪt/ 1. To completely remove, get rid of, put an end to. Labels: transitive Example: The air-handling equipment humidifies, dehumidifies, and distributes the correct amount of fresh air into every zone and eliminates all smoke, dust, and odors, with electric precipitrons. Example: The real savings of OCR come from the elimination of redundant keyboardings of the same data; from eliminating multiple verification steps; from reducing the number of documents needed to complete a transaction; […] 2. To render (a facility) unusable, to destroy it; to disable (a soldier), make them unable to fight (typically but not necessarily by killing) Labels: transitive 3. To kill (a person or animal). Labels: slang, transitive Example: a ruthless mobster who eliminated his enemies 4. To excrete (waste products). Labels: ambitransitive Example: In one study, 65.8% of the cat owners relinquishing a cat thought that their cat eliminated outside the litter box or destroyed furniture to spite them. 5. To exclude (from investigation or from further competition). Labels: transitive Example: Bill was eliminated as a suspect when the police interviewed witnesses. Example: John was eliminated as a contestant when it was found he had gained, rather than lost, weight. 6. To record amounts in a consolidation statement to remove the effects of inter-company transactions.
Word: wordy Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English wordy, woordi, from Old English wordiġ (“wordy, verbose”), equivalent to word + -y. Cognate with Icelandic orðigur (“wordy”). Pronunciation: /ˈwɝdi/ 1. Using an excessive number of words. Example: The story was long and very wordy. Example: And wordy attacks against slavery drew sneers from observers which were not altogether undeserved. The authors were compared to doctors who offered to a patient nothing more than invectives against the disease which consumed him.
Word: enormous Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin ēnormis. An assimilated form of ex- (“out of”) + norma (“rule, norm”) + -ous. Pronunciation: /ɪˈnɔː.məs/, /ɪˈnoɹ.məs/, /iˈnoɹ.məs/, /ɪˈnoː.məs/, /əˈnoː.məs/ 1. Deviating from the norm; unusual, extraordinary. Labels: obsolete Example: all shall be rather enforced than hindered, except they be dismembered, or grievously deformed, infirm, or visited with some enormous hereditary disease is body or mind […]. 2. Exceedingly wicked; atrocious or outrageous. Labels: obsolete Example: how apt wee are to receive all impressions, and chiefly the most wicked and enormous. Example: Men would prove wolves and vipers; tigers and dragons mixt in one and the same person to each other. O bless God for this great gift of Princes and Judges to rule the wicked and enormous world and to sway the scepter of righteousness […] 3. Extremely large; greatly exceeding the common size, extent, etc. Example: The enormous Jupiter is the largest planet in the Solar System. Example: He turned back to the scene before him and the enormous new block of council dwellings. The design was some way after Corbusier but the block was built up on plinths and resembled an Atlantic liner swimming diagonally across the site.
Word: gigantic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Ancient Greek γιγαντικός (gigantikós), ultimately from γίγας (gígas, “giant”). According to the Poly-Olbion project coined by Michael Drayton in 1612. Pronunciation: /d͡ʒaɪˈɡæntɪk/, [d͡ʒaɪˈɡɛəntɪk] 1. Very large. Example: Thou Genius of the place (this most renowned Ile) Which livedst long before the All-earth-drowning Flood, Whilst yet the world did swarme with her Gigantick brood; Example: It is in solitude that the imagination exercises its gigantic power; and where are a woman's feelings nurtured but in solitude? 2. Excellent; very good or exciting. Labels: slang Example: This band is going to be gigantic. 3. In the manner of a giant.
Word: perform Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English parformen, performen (“to perform”), from Anglo-Norman performer, parfourmer, alteration of Old French parfornir, parfurnir (“to complete, accomplish, perform”), from par- + fornir, furnir (“to accomplish, furnish”), from Frankish *frummjan (“to accomplish, furnish”), from Proto-Germanic *frumjaną, *framjaną (“to further, promote”), from Proto-Indo-European *promo- (“in front, forth”), *per- (“forward, out”). Cognate with Old High German frummen (“to do, execute, accomplish, provide”), Old Saxon frummian (“to perform, promote”), Old English fremman (“to perform, execute, carry out, accomplish”). See also frame, from. Modernly, rather than Proto-Germanic *frumjaną, associated with Latin formō, analyzable as per- + form. Pronunciation: /pəˈfɔːm/, [pʰəˈfɔːm], /pɚˈfɔɹm/, /pɹɪˈfɔːm/, /pɹɪˈfɔɹm/ 1. To do (something); to execute. Labels: transitive Example: The scientists performed several experiments. Example: It took him only twenty minutes to perform the task. 2. To exhibit an expected pattern of behavior; to function; to work. Labels: intransitive Example: The new employee performs well. Example: I could care less how she perform when she in the bed 3. To exhibit an expected pattern of behavior; to function; to work. Labels: intransitive, uncommon 4. To act in a way set forth in a contract. Labels: transitive Example: Failure to perform a contract on time may constitute a breach of contract. 5. To act in a way set forth in a contract. Labels: intransitive Example: They entered into an agreement and now they are obliged to perform. 6. To do (something) in front of an audience, such as acting or music, often in order to entertain. Labels: ambitransitive Example: She will perform in the play. Example: The magician performed badly—none of his tricks worked. 7. To behave theatrically so as to give the impression of (a quality, character trait, etc.); to feign. Labels: broadly, transitive Example: The accused only performed remorse. Example: As things now stand, Brexit is a pointless gesture, a politics of headlines in which sovereignty is performed by bleating world-beating absurdities. 8. Of a social actor, to behave in certain ways. Labels: transitive Example: perform masculinity Example: perform authority 9. Of a social actor, to behave in certain ways. Labels: intransitive Example: Individuals in societies perform all the time.
Word: govern Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English governen, governe, from Anglo-Norman and Old French governer, guverner, from Latin gubernō, from Ancient Greek κυβερνάω (kubernáō, “to steer, drive, govern”). Displaced native Old English wealdan, whence modern dialectical English wald (“to govern”). Pronunciation: /ˈɡʌv.ən/, /ˈɡʌv.ɚn/, /ˈɡɐv.ən/ 1. To make and administer the public policy and affairs of; to exercise sovereign authority in. Labels: transitive Example: The old king governed the land wisely. 2. To exercise political authority; to run a government. Labels: intransitive Example: Americans are not libertarians in the Cato Institute sense of the word, but they are folk libertarians in this sense of impulsive behaviour, which is a feature of American life that anyone who wants to govern the United States, Democratic or Republican, has to be aware of. 3. To control the actions or behavior of; to keep under control; to restrain. Labels: transitive Example: Govern yourselves like civilized people. Example: a student who could not govern his impulses 4. To exercise a deciding or determining influence on. Labels: transitive Example: Chance governs the outcome of many card games. 5. To have or exercise a determining influence. Labels: intransitive 6. To handle, to manage, to oversee (a matter, an affair, a household, etc.). Labels: obsolete, transitive 7. To control the speed, flow etc. of; to regulate. Labels: transitive Example: a valve that governs fuel intake Example: The weight and c.g. of the aircraft were within limits at takeoff and were calculated to have remained so until the tail began to disintegrate in flight. Both engines were developing a high level of power at impact, and the APU was rotating at or near governed speed. The landing gear, flaps, and spoiler/speed brakes were retracted. There was no evidence of structural or system failures other than those directly resulting from the fire. 8. To direct the course of, to guide in some direction, to steer. Labels: obsolete, transitive 9. To look after, to take care of, to tend to (someone or some plant). Labels: obsolete, transitive Example: from my vncles country of Medea, Where all my youth I haue bene gouerned, […] 10. To manage, to control, to work (a tool or mechanical device). Labels: obsolete, transitive 11. To require that a certain preposition, grammatical case, etc. be used with a word. Labels: transitive Example: In Latin (Russian, German, etc.), not only verbs, but also prepositions, may govern the noun, pronoun or noun-phrase dependent upon them in a particular case: e.g. ad urbem, ‘to the city’ (ad ‘takes the accusative’: urbem) v. ab urbe, ‘from the city’ (ab ‘takes the ablative’: urbe).
Word: govern Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English governen, governe, from Anglo-Norman and Old French governer, guverner, from Latin gubernō, from Ancient Greek κυβερνάω (kubernáō, “to steer, drive, govern”). Displaced native Old English wealdan, whence modern dialectical English wald (“to govern”). Pronunciation: /ˈɡʌv.ən/, /ˈɡʌv.ɚn/, /ˈɡɐv.ən/ 1. The act of governing
Word: performer Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English perform 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 performer From perform + -er. Pronunciation: /pɚˈfɔɹmɚ/, /pəˈfɔːmə/ 1. One who performs for, or entertains, an audience. 2. One who performs or does anything. Example: the performer of an action Example: It is imperative that these forms are completed accurately for work performed by you bearing your unique performer number, […]
Word: exactly Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From exact + -ly. Pronunciation: /ɪɡˈzæk(t).li/ 1. Without approximation; precisely. Example: Measure exactly so we can be sure it is right. Example: The edge is not exactly straight. 2. Precisely, used to provide emphasis. Labels: focus Example: He did it that way exactly to prove the point. Example: His hair is a semilong dull red and pulled back in a sloppy pony at the base of his neck, and his face is riddled with small freckles and grease, but out here I can see personal hygiene isn't exactly at the top of the priority list.
Word: exactly Part of Speech: intj Etymology: From exact + -ly. Pronunciation: /ɪɡˈzæk(t).li/ 1. Signifies agreement or recognition. Example: So you're saying that we have only three days left? — Yes, exactly!
Word: pronounce Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Recorded since c.1330 as Middle English pronouncen (“to utter, declare officially”), from Old French prononcier, from Latin prōnūntiō, itself from prō- (“forth, out, in public”) + nūntiō (“to announce”) from nūntius (“messenger”). Pronunciation: /pɹəˈnaʊns/ 1. To declare formally, officially or ceremoniously. Labels: transitive Example: Then everybody once more knelt, and soon the blessing was pronounced. The choir and the clergy trooped out slowly, […], down the nave to the western door. […] At a seemingly immense distance the surpliced group stopped to say the last prayer. Example: I hereby pronounce you man and wife. 2. To declare authoritatively, or as a formal expert opinion. Labels: transitive Example: The doctor pronounced them legally dead. Example: Lily was pronounced dead at the scene. 3. To declare authoritatively, or as a formal expert opinion. Labels: transitive Example: Despite resuscitative efforts, Mr. Gray was pronounced on 4/19/2015. 4. To pass judgment. Labels: intransitive Example: The judge had pronounced often before, but never in front of such a crowd. 5. To sound out (a word or phrase); to articulate. Labels: transitive Example: They spell it "Vinci" and pronounce it "Vinchy". Foreigners always spell better than they pronounce. Example: I wanted to look up velleity and quotidian and memorize the fuckers for all time, spell them, learn them, pronounce them syllable by syllable—vocalize, phonate, utter the sounds, say the words for all they're worth. 6. To sound out (a word or phrase); to articulate. Labels: transitive Example: The Icelandic double l in Eyjafjallajökull is pronounced tl. Example: The firſt day of November was dedicated to the angel preſiding over fruits, ſeeds, &c. and was therefore named la mas ubhal, that is, the day of the apple fruit, and being pronounced lamasool, the English have corrupted the name to lambswool, a name they give to a compoſition made on this eve of roaſted apples, ſugar, and ale. 7. To produce the components of speech. Labels: intransitive Example: Actors must be able to pronounce perfectly or deliberately disabled. 8. To read aloud. Labels: transitive 9. To emphasize, highlight. Labels: transitive Example: The two men standing are facing with their backs towards the audience, wearing tight knitted garments that pronounce their bottoms. Example: Bro I've been saying this for the longest time. The problem is that this country loves gossip bro. It pronounces how shallow thinking we are and becoming a lucrative ground for narratives to fog our thinking if we don't outsource it.
Word: pronounce Part of Speech: noun 1. Eggcorn of pronouns. Labels: plural, plural-only
Word: externality Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From external + -ity. In the economic sense coined by British economist Alfred Marshall in 1890. Pronunciation: /ɛkstəˈnælɪti/, /ɛkstɚˈnælɪti/, /ekstəˈnælɪti/ 1. The state of being external or externalized. Labels: uncountable Example: But according to the theory of the externality of relations, terms acquire from their new relations an added character, which does not either condition, or necessarily alter, the character which they already possess. 2. A thing that is external relative to something else. Labels: countable 3. An impact, positive or negative, on any party not involved in a given economic transaction or act. Labels: countable Example: Waste is a negative externality arising from consumption. Example: "(1) Each agency shall identify in writing the specific market failure (such as externalities, market power, lack of information) or other specific problem that it intends to address (including, where applicable, the failures of public institutions) that warrant new agency action, as well as assess the significance of that problem, to enable assessment of whether any new regulation is warranted."