nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: multiplayer Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *mel-der. Proto-Indo-European *ml̥tós? Proto-Italic *moltos Latin multus Latin multīder. Middle English multi- English multi- English player English multiplayer From multi- + player. Pronunciation: /ˌmʌl.tiˈpleɪ.əɹ/, [ˌmɐɫtiˈpl̥eɪ̯ə], [ˌmʌɫtiˈpl̥eɪ̯ɚ] 1. The feature of a video game where multiple human players play simultaneously. Labels: uncountable Example: I just heard that the game will have multiplayer when it comes out! Example: He always loved to play multiplayer games with his friends. 2. Video game players who play multiplayer games. Labels: countable, in-plural, uncountable Example: The audio suggestions just mentioned would be advantageous when pairs are working together at a computer or multiplayers are collaborating or competing in online educational games and simulations. Example: After dinner, Isaac brought out his portable gaming console for multiplayers, and he and I began our car racing battle while the others unpacked and brought out the Japanese futons, duvets, and pillows.
Word: videogame Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of video game. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: -e Part of Speech: suffix Etymology: From archaic forms ending in e, from Middle English -e, from the coalescence of multiple various endings from Old English. Pronunciation: /-i/ 1. Used for archaizing. Labels: morpheme Example: YE OLDE ENGLISHE CHRISTMASSE FEASTE: Nine course authentic Renaissance festival banquet. Example: Ye Olde Webbe page / Whither thou goest, there thou be.
Word: -i Part of Speech: suffix Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Afroasiatic Proto-Semitic Arabic ـِيّ (-iyy)bor. Hebrew ־י (-i)bor. Proto-Indo-European *-kos Proto-Indo-Iranian *-kas Old Persian -𐎡𐎣 (-i-k) Middle Persian -yk' (/⁠-īg⁠/) ▲ Arabic ـِيّ (-iyy)influ. Persian ـی (-ī)bor. Proto-Indo-Iranian *i- ▲ Proto-Indo-Iranian *-kas Proto-Indo-Iranian *-ikas Sanskrit -इक (-ika) Proto-Indo-Iranian *-iHyas Sanskrit -ईय (-īya) Prakrit -इय (-iya) ▲ Classical Persian ـِی (-ī)influ. ▲ Arabic ـِيّ (-iyy)influ. ▲ Sanskrit -ई (-ī)influ. Hindi -ई (-ī)bor. Middle Persian 𐭩𐭧 (yḥ /⁠-īh⁠/) Classical Persian ـِی (-ī)bor. Urdu ـی (-ī)bor. English -i A conflation of the following suffixes: * For Semitic-speaking places, from the Arabic ـِيّ (-iyy) (nisba suffix) and from Hebrew ־י (-i), both sharing a common Semitic root. * For Indo-Iranian-speaking places, from Persian ـی (-ī) and Hindustani Hindi -ई (-ī) / Urdu ـی (-ī). In English, productive since the 19th century. Pronunciation: /iː/ 1. Used to form adjectives, nouns, demonyms (describing people of a particular city, region or country) or genonyms (describing people of a particular tribe, clan or family) and the language spoken by these people. Labels: morpheme Example: Hindustan + -i → Hindustani Example: Hind + -i → Hindi
Word: -i Part of Speech: suffix Etymology: From Latin -ī (nominative plural). Pronunciation: /aɪ/, /iː/ 1. Forms an alternative plural ending for various words borrowed from Latin that end in ⟨us⟩ in the singular. Labels: morpheme Example: focus + -i → foci Example: radius + -i → radii 2. Forms an alternative plural ending for various words borrowed from Latin that end in ⟨us⟩ in the singular. Labels: morpheme, nonstandard, proscribed, sometimes Example: platypus + -i → platypi Example: amogus + -i → amogi
Word: -i Part of Speech: suffix Etymology: From Italian -i (masculine plural), from Latin -ī (see etymology 2). Pronunciation: /iː/ 1. Forms an alternative plural ending for words borrowed from Italian that end in ⟨o⟩ or ⟨e⟩ in the singular. Labels: morpheme Example: concerto + -i → concerti Example: calzone + -i → calzoni
Word: -i Part of Speech: suffix Etymology: Variant of -ie or -y. Pronunciation: /iː/ 1. Used to form diminutives of given names. Labels: morpheme Example: Becki, Benji, Jimmi, Lexi, Nicki, Sammi, Sandi, Trini, Vicki
Word: infrastructure Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from French infrastructure, equivalent to infra- + structure. Pronunciation: /ˈɪnfɹəˌstɹʌkt͡ʃə/, /ˈɪnfɹəˌstɹʌkt͡ʃɚ/, /ˈɪnfɹəˌstɹɐkt͡ʃə/, /ˈɪnfɹəˌstɹakt͡ʃə/ 1. An underlying base or foundation for a building, organization, or system. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Near-synonyms: understructure, underpinnings, underbuilding, underframework Example: The parasitic tyranny's infrastructure depends on secrecy in order to be effective. 2. The facilities, services and installations needed for the functioning of a community or society. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Meronyms: (literally, large objects and portions thereof) structures, substructures, understructures, superstructures Example: If we don't spend money to maintain our infrastructure, such as roads, bridges, water mains, sewers, and electrical grids, then it will begin to fail us.
Word: mal- Part of Speech: prefix Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *(s)mel-? Proto-Italic *malos Latin malus Latin maleder. Old French mal- English mal- From Old French mal- from Latin male (“badly”), from malus (“bad”). 1. bad, badly Labels: morpheme Example: malism, malinfluence 2. bad, badly Labels: morpheme Example: maleffect 3. bad, badly Labels: morpheme Example: malodor 4. bad, badly Labels: morpheme Example: maldifferentiation 5. bad, badly Labels: morpheme Example: maldescent 6. bad, badly Labels: morpheme Example: malfed, malnourished, malcirculation 7. unintentional, mistaken, accidental Labels: morpheme Example: malcommunication 8. not Labels: morpheme Example: maladherence, malcontent
Word: Jane Part of Speech: name Etymology: Variant of Jeanne, from French Jeanne, from Middle French Jehanne, from Medieval Latin Johanna, variant of Latin Ioanna under influence from Latin Iōhannēs, from Koine Greek Ἰωάννα (Iōánna), from Hebrew יוֹחָנָה (Yôḥānāh, literally “God is gracious”), the feminized form of יְהוֹחָנָן (Yəhōḥānān) which produced John and its many doublets. As a placeholder name, cf. similar use of John and Jack and earlier use of Joan in the same role. Doublet of Gianna, Ivana, Jana, Janice, Janis, Jean, Jeanne, Jen, Joan, Joanna, Joanne, Johanna, Juana, Shavonne, Sian, Siobhan, Shane, Shaun, Shauna, and Sheena. Pronunciation: /d͡ʒeɪn/ 1. A female given name from French, the standard feminine form of John since the 17th century. Example: In latter years some of the better and nicer sort, misliking Joan, have mollified the name of Joan into Jane, as it may seem, for that Jane is never found in old Records; and as some will, never before the time of King Henry the eight. Example: People will please their fancies, and every lady has favourite names. I myself have several, and they are mostly short and simple. Jane, that queenly name! Jane Seymour, Jane Grey, 'the noble Jane de Montford;' - - - 2. A surname originating as a patronymic derived from a Middle English variant of John.
Word: Jane Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Variant of Jeanne, from French Jeanne, from Middle French Jehanne, from Medieval Latin Johanna, variant of Latin Ioanna under influence from Latin Iōhannēs, from Koine Greek Ἰωάννα (Iōánna), from Hebrew יוֹחָנָה (Yôḥānāh, literally “God is gracious”), the feminized form of יְהוֹחָנָן (Yəhōḥānān) which produced John and its many doublets. As a placeholder name, cf. similar use of John and Jack and earlier use of Joan in the same role. Doublet of Gianna, Ivana, Jana, Janice, Janis, Jean, Jeanne, Jen, Joan, Joanna, Joanne, Johanna, Juana, Shavonne, Sian, Siobhan, Shane, Shaun, Shauna, and Sheena. Pronunciation: /d͡ʒeɪn/ 1. used as a placeholder name for any woman, especially a young working-class woman Labels: colloquial 2. A girlfriend. Labels: slang Example: What happened to your regular Jane? 3. Alternative letter-case form of jane (“female client of a prostitute”). Labels: alt-of
Word: on- Part of Speech: prefix Etymology: From Middle English on-, from Old English on-, an-, from Proto-West Germanic *ana-, from Proto-Germanic *an-, *ana- (“on-”), from Proto-Indo-European *ano-, *nō- (“on”). Cognate with Dutch aan-, German an-, Swedish an-. Doublet of ana-. 1. on, at, toward, upon. Labels: morpheme Example: oncome, onset, onfall, onlay
Word: -ope Part of Speech: suffix Etymology: From Ancient Greek ὠπός (ōpós), genitive of ὤψ (ṓps, “eye”). 1. Eye Labels: morpheme
Word: -os Part of Speech: suffix Etymology: From the traditional Ashkenazi pronunciation of Hebrew ־וֹת (“-ót”), and its descendant, Yiddish ־ות (-es). 1. Used to form plurals of some Hebrew and Yiddish loanwords, usually ending in -a or -ah. Labels: morpheme
Word: -os Part of Speech: suffix 1. plural of -o Labels: form-of, morpheme, plural
Word: trespass Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed into Middle English trespas, from Old French trespas (“passage; offense against the law”), from trespasser. Pronunciation: /ˈtɹɛspæs/, /ˈtɹæspæs/, /ˈtɹɛspəs/, /ˈtɹɛspɪs/ 1. An intentional interference with another's property or person. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: External infrastructure issues such as severe weather and trespass caused 17.1% of [train] cancellations, [...]. Example: Network Rail has produced a free downloadable comic highlighting the consequences of railway trespass. Between March 23 and April 26, there were 1,024 trespass incidents on the railway. [...] it is based on the company's award-winning safety film 18, which shows the dangers of trespass, especially around electrified lines. 2. sin Labels: archaic, countable, uncountable Example: Forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us
Word: trespass Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English trespassen, borrowed from Old French trespasser (“to go across or over, transgress”), from tres- (“across, over”) + passer (“to pass”). Pronunciation: /ˈtɹɛspæs/, /ˈtɹæspæs/, /ˈtɹɛspəs/, /ˈtɹɛspɪs/ 1. To commit an offence; to sin. Labels: archaic, intransitive Example: In the time of his distress did he trespass yet more against the Lord. 2. To offend against, to wrong (someone). Labels: obsolete, transitive Example: And forgeve us oure trespases, even as we forgeve them which trespas us. 3. To go too far; to put someone to inconvenience by demand or importunity; to intrude. Labels: intransitive Example: to trespass upon the time or patience of another Example: "Indeed I have, sir," was her answer. "She is a great deal too ill to be moved. Mr. Jones says we must not think of moving her. We must trespass a little longer on your kindness." 4. To enter someone else's property illegally. 5. To pass beyond a limit or boundary; hence, to depart; to go. Labels: obsolete Example: 1523–1525, Jean Froissart, John Bourchier, 2nd Baron Berners (translator), Froissart's Chronicles Soon after this, noble Robert de Bruce […] trespassed out of this uncertain world. 6. To subject [someone] to a trespass notice, formally notifying them that they are prohibited from entry to a property, such that any current or future presence there will constitute trespass, (especially) criminal trespass Labels: New-Zealand, especially, transitive Example: The dean trespassed the streaker from his university. Example: A year ago a sheep-man was allowing his flocks to trespass on another public-domain licensee. At his third offense, after warnings, he was "trespassed" and given a fairly stiff fine and a warning that a fourth offense would cost him his grazing rights.
Word: egotistic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree English egotist Proto-Indo-European *-ikos Proto-Italic *-ikos Latin -icuslbor. Old French -iquebor. Middle English -ik English -ic English egotistic From egotist + -ic. Pronunciation: /ˌi.ɡoʊˈtɪs.tɪk/ 1. Egotistical.
Word: ahoy Part of Speech: intj Etymology: From a- + hoy (a nautical call used in hauling), from Middle English hoy (interjection), a greeting dating back to the fourteenth century. Compare Dutch hoi (“hi!, hello!”). Pronunciation: /əˈhɔɪ/ 1. Used to hail a ship, a boat or a person, or to attract attention. Example: While he was thus occupied, a voice, still more uncouth than the former, bawled aloud, ‘Ho! the house, a-hoy!’ Example: I made a speaking trumpet of my hands and commenced to whoop “Ahoy!” and “Hello!” at the top of my lungs. […] The Colonel woke up, and, after asking what in brimstone was the matter, opened his mouth and roared “Hi!” and “Hello!” like the bull of Bashan. 2. Warning of something approaching or impending. Labels: humorous Example: Lawsuits, ahoy! […] Towns can regulate use of their beaches. But what about the waters offshore? Example: Catalytic converters ahoy – Zeppelin's latest is one of those high-rev 3D driving games that simulates racing tracks from all over the world.
Word: ahoy Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From a- + hoy (a nautical call used in hauling), from Middle English hoy (interjection), a greeting dating back to the fourteenth century. Compare Dutch hoi (“hi!, hello!”). Pronunciation: /əˈhɔɪ/ 1. To hail with a cry of "ahoy".
Word: ahoy Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From a- + hoy (a nautical call used in hauling), from Middle English hoy (interjection), a greeting dating back to the fourteenth century. Compare Dutch hoi (“hi!, hello!”). Pronunciation: /əˈhɔɪ/ 1. An utterance of this interjection. Example: There were many ahoys heard from the approaching ship.
Word: berm Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Dutch berm (“strip of roadside grass, verge”), probably via French berme, from Middle Dutch barm, baerm, barem (“verge, bank”), from Old Dutch *barm, from Proto-West Germanic *barm, from Proto-Germanic *barmaz (“edge, border, seam”). Pronunciation: /bɜː(ɹ)m/ 1. A narrow ledge or shelf, as along the top or bottom of a slope. 2. A raised bank or path, especially the bank of a canal opposite the towpath. Example: The big canals in Europe, in Holland, have a great big berm on the side of the canal several feet wide, which they leave there on purpose to plant reeds in, so as to get a reedy vegetation to protect their slope. Then, beyond that, there is an earthen slope that is grassed and sodded. 3. One of the flat terraces on the slope of an open-pit mine. Labels: Australia 4. A terrace or shelf of sand along a beach, formed above the high tide water level by wave action. Example: On some beaches, the berm grows higher in summer and flattens out in the rougher winter seas. 5. A long mound or bank of earth, used especially as a barrier or to provide insulation. Example: A berm separates the Moroccan-controlled and Polisario-controlled parts of Western Sahara. 6. A small wall along the edge of a bench of an open-pit mine, intended to prevent items falling over the crest. Labels: Canada, US 7. A ledge between the parapet and the moat in a fortification. 8. A strip of land between a street and sidewalk. Labels: New-Zealand, Pennsylvania Example: The sun soaked our street in hot yellow, and the berms were gasping for water. 9. The edge of a road. Labels: Pennsylvania, Western
Word: berm Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Dutch berm (“strip of roadside grass, verge”), probably via French berme, from Middle Dutch barm, baerm, barem (“verge, bank”), from Old Dutch *barm, from Proto-West Germanic *barm, from Proto-Germanic *barmaz (“edge, border, seam”). Pronunciation: /bɜː(ɹ)m/ 1. To provide something with a berm
Word: toubab Part of Speech: noun Etymology: The most likely earliest derivation is from the Wolof word for Europe, "Tougal". In the same way that Wolof means the people of Jollof, Toubab means the people of Tougal. Pronunciation: /tu.bab/ 1. A white person. Labels: Africa, Central, West Example: Jean-Baptiste was my only real white friend in the trench. He was the only Toubab who came to console me after the death of Mademba Diop.
Word: brandy Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Shortened form of brandywine, from Dutch brandewijn (“burnt wine”). Compare German Brantewein, Branntwein, Danish brændevin. Pronunciation: /ˈbɹændi/ 1. An alcoholic liquor distilled from wine or fermented fruit juice. Labels: uncountable 2. Any variety of such liquor. Labels: countable 3. A serving of such liquor. Labels: countable
Word: brandy Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Shortened form of brandywine, from Dutch brandewijn (“burnt wine”). Compare German Brantewein, Branntwein, Danish brændevin. Pronunciation: /ˈbɹændi/ 1. To preserve, flavour, or mix with brandy. Labels: transitive
Word: bundle Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English bundel, from Middle Dutch bondel or Old English byndele, byndelle (“a binding; tying; fastening with bands”); both from Proto-Germanic *bundil-, derivative of *bundą (“bundle”). Compare also bindle, Dutch bundel, German Bündel. Pronunciation: /ˈbʌn.dl̩/ 1. A group of objects held together by wrapping or tying. Labels: countable Example: a bundle of straw or of paper Example: a bundle of noodles 2. A package wrapped or tied up for carrying. Labels: countable 3. A group of products or services sold together as a unit. Example: This software bundle includes a wordprocessor, a spreadsheet, and two games. 4. A large amount, especially of money. Labels: informal Example: The inventor of that gizmo must have made a bundle. Example: I mean it's nothing for him to go to the races, do a bundle, and come home laughing and joking like nothing's happened. 5. A cluster of closely bound muscle or nerve fibres. 6. A sequence of two or more words that occur in language with high frequency but are not idiomatic; a chunk, cluster, or lexical bundle. 7. A directory containing related resources such as source code; application bundle. 8. A quantity of paper equal to two reams (1000 sheets). 9. A court bundle, the assemblage of documentation prepared for, and referred to during, a court case. Labels: countable 10. Topological space composed of a base space and fibers projected to the base space.
Word: bundle Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English bundel, from Middle Dutch bondel or Old English byndele, byndelle (“a binding; tying; fastening with bands”); both from Proto-Germanic *bundil-, derivative of *bundą (“bundle”). Compare also bindle, Dutch bundel, German Bündel. Pronunciation: /ˈbʌn.dl̩/ 1. To tie or wrap together into a bundle. Labels: transitive 2. To hustle; to dispatch something or someone quickly. Labels: transitive Example: They unmercifully bundled me and my gallant second into our own hackney coach. 3. To prepare for departure; to set off in a hurry or without ceremony; used with away, off, out. Labels: intransitive 4. To dress someone warmly. Labels: transitive 5. To dress warmly. Usually bundle up Labels: intransitive 6. To sell hardware and software as a single product. 7. To hurry. Labels: intransitive 8. Synonym of dogpile: to form a pile of people upon a victim. Labels: slang 9. To hastily or clumsily push, put, carry or otherwise send something into a particular place. Labels: transitive Example: At the other end, Essien thought he had bundled the ball over the line in between Bolton's final two substitutions but the flag had already gone up. Example: Yes, there is death in this business of whaling—a speechlessly quick chaotic bundling of a man into Eternity. 10. To sleep on the same bed without undressing. Labels: dated, intransitive Example: Van Corlear […][stopped] occasionally in the villages to eat pumpkin pies, dance at country frolics, and bundle with the Yankee lasses. Example: They were on the couch for nearly an hour, then in the shower for she didn't know how long — until the hot water started to fail and drove them out, anyway. Then she took him into her bed, where she lay too exhausted and too content to do anything but bundle.
Word: buoy Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English boy, boye, from Middle Dutch boeye (“float, buoy”), from Old French boue (“piece of wood or cork that floats above an anchor to indicate where it is anchored”) (modern French bouée), ultimately from Frankish *baukn (“beacon”), from Proto-Germanic *baukną. Doublet of beacon. Alternatively, and perhaps less likely (due to the unexplained shift in meaning), from Middle Dutch boeye (“shackle, fetter”), from Old French buie (“fetter, chain”), from Latin boia (“a (leather) collar, band, fetter”), from Ancient Greek βόεος (bóeos), βόειος (bóeios, “of ox-hide”), from βοῦς (boûs, “ox”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷṓws (“cow”). Noun sense 2 was coined by American linguist Scott K. Lindell in 2003. Pronunciation: /ˈbɔɪ/, /ˈboj/, /ˈboɪ/, /ˈbu.i/, /ˈbwɔɪ/ 1. A float moored in water to mark a location, warn of danger, indicate a navigational channel or for other purposes Example: While comm buoys allow rapid transmission, there is a finite amount of bandwidth available. Given that trillions of people may be trying to pass a message through a given buoy at any one time, access to the network is parceled out on priority tiers. Example: Texas began deploying chains of specially designed buoys down the middle of the Rio Grande near Eagle Pass to deter migrants from crossing illegally in June 2023, sparking protests from migrant activists and from the Mexican government. 2. A float moored in water to mark a location, warn of danger, indicate a navigational channel or for other purposes 3. A sign where the non-dominant hand is held in a stationary configuration as a landmark for meaning associations with the dominant hand. Example: list buoy
Word: buoy Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English boy, boye, from Middle Dutch boeye (“float, buoy”), from Old French boue (“piece of wood or cork that floats above an anchor to indicate where it is anchored”) (modern French bouée), ultimately from Frankish *baukn (“beacon”), from Proto-Germanic *baukną. Doublet of beacon. Alternatively, and perhaps less likely (due to the unexplained shift in meaning), from Middle Dutch boeye (“shackle, fetter”), from Old French buie (“fetter, chain”), from Latin boia (“a (leather) collar, band, fetter”), from Ancient Greek βόεος (bóeos), βόειος (bóeios, “of ox-hide”), from βοῦς (boûs, “ox”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷṓws (“cow”). Noun sense 2 was coined by American linguist Scott K. Lindell in 2003. Pronunciation: /ˈbɔɪ/, /ˈboj/, /ˈboɪ/, /ˈbu.i/, /ˈbwɔɪ/ 1. To keep afloat or aloft; used with up. Labels: transitive 2. To support or maintain at a high level. Labels: transitive Example: “My Heart Will Go On” debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 on Feb. 28, 1998, buoying the Titanic soundtrack’s 16-week run atop the Billboard 200. 3. To mark with a buoy. Labels: transitive Example: to buoy an anchor; to buoy or buoy off a channel Example: Not one rock near the surface was discovered which was not buoyed by this floating weed. 4. To maintain or enhance enthusiasm or confidence; to lift the spirits of. Example: Buoyed by the huge success, they announced two other projects. Example: This dynamic stage of the ongoing struggle for long-denied democratic rights and national liberation helped inspire and buoy many in the U.S. and around the world who longed for social and economic justice.
Word: coleslaw Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *keh₂ulisder. Latin caulisbor. Old Dutch *kōl /*kōla Middle Dutch col /cole Dutch kool Dutch sla Dutch koolslabor. English coleslaw Borrowed from Dutch koolsla (mentioned in English as the Dutch name by at least in 1794), from kool (“cabbage”) + sla (“salad”). Pronunciation: /ˈkəʊlslɔː/, /ˈkoʊlslɔ/, /ˈkoʊlslɑ/ 1. A salad of finely shredded raw cabbage and sometimes shredded carrots, dressed with mayonnaise (white slaw) or a vinaigrette (red slaw). Labels: uncountable, usually
Word: easel Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Dutch ezel (“donkey; easel”), from Middle Dutch esel (“donkey”), from Proto-West Germanic *asil, from Latin asellus (“young ass or small donkey”), diminutive of asinus (“ass, donkey”), ultimately from an unknown source in Asia Minor. Essentially, the stand that a painting is placed on is being likened to a donkey carrying a burden; compare horse (“a frame with legs used to support something”), as in clotheshorse and sawhorse. Pronunciation: /ˈiː.z(ə)l/, /ˈi.zəl/ 1. An upright frame, typically on three legs, for displaying or supporting something, such as an artist's canvas. Example: Chevalet, (chaſſis de bois ſur lequel les Peintres poſent leurs Tableaux quand ils travaillent) a Painter's Eaſel. Example: His [Raphael's] eaſel works ſtand in a lower degree of eſtimation; for though he continually, till the day of his death, embelliſhed his works more and more with the addition of theſe lower ornaments, which entirely make the merit of ſome; yet he never arrived at ſuch perfection as to make him an object of imitation.
Word: gin Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Abbreviation of geneva, alteration of Dutch genever (“juniper”) from Old French genevre (modern French genièvre), from Vulgar Latin ziniperus, from Latin iūniperus (“juniper”). Hence gin rummy (first attested 1941). Pronunciation: /d͡ʒɪn/ 1. A colourless non-aged alcoholic liquor made by distilling fermented grains such as barley, corn, oats or rye with juniper berries; the base for many cocktails. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. Gin rummy. Labels: uncountable 3. Drawing the best card or combination of cards. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Johnny Chan held jack-nine, and hit gin when a queen-ten-eight board was dealt out.
Word: gin Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Partly from Middle English gin, ginne (“cleverness, scheme, talent, device, machine”), from Old French gin, an aphetism of Old French engin (“engine”); and partly from Middle English grin, grine (“snare, trick, stratagem, deceit, temptation, noose, halter, instrument”), from Old English grin, gryn, giren (“snare, gin, noose”). Pronunciation: /d͡ʒɪn/ 1. A trick; a device or instrument. Labels: obsolete 2. A scheme; contrivance; artifice; a figurative trap or snare. Labels: obsolete Example: The church dores were sparred, Fast boltyd and barryd, Yet wyth a prety gyn I fortuned to come in, […] Example: treason and deceiptfull gin 3. A snare or trap for game. Example: It was the cry of a rabbit caught in a gin. 4. A machine for raising or moving heavy objects, consisting of a tripod formed of poles united at the top, with a windlass, pulleys, ropes, etc. 5. A hoisting drum, usually vertical; a whim. 6. A pile driver. 7. A windpump. 8. A cotton gin. 9. An instrument of torture worked with screws.
Word: gin Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Partly from Middle English gin, ginne (“cleverness, scheme, talent, device, machine”), from Old French gin, an aphetism of Old French engin (“engine”); and partly from Middle English grin, grine (“snare, trick, stratagem, deceit, temptation, noose, halter, instrument”), from Old English grin, gryn, giren (“snare, gin, noose”). Pronunciation: /d͡ʒɪn/ 1. To remove the seeds from cotton with a cotton gin. Labels: transitive 2. To trap something in a gin. Labels: transitive
Word: gin Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Inherited from Middle English ginnen (“to begin”), contraction of beginnen. Pronunciation: /ɡɪn/ 1. To begin. Labels: Early, Modern, archaic Example: Gon. All three of them are deſperate : their great guilt / (Like poyſon giuen to worke a great time after) / Now gins to bite the ſpirits :[…]
Word: gin Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Dharug dyin (“woman”), but having acquired a derogatory tone. Pronunciation: /d͡ʒɪn/ 1. An Aboriginal woman. Labels: Australia, ethnic, slur Example: His next shot was discharged amongst the mob, and most unfortunately wounded the gin already mentioned ; who, with a child fastened to her back, slid down the bank, and lay, apparently dying, with her legs in the water. Example: On December 28, in the same year [1828], he [John Allen] fought single handed a tribe of native blacks, numbering from thirteen to eighteen, besides "gins" to bring them spears, waddies, etc.
Word: gin Part of Speech: conj Etymology: Cognate to Scots gin (“if”): perhaps from gi(v)en, or a compound in which the first element is from Old English ġif (English if) and the second is cognate to English an (“if”) (compare iffen), or perhaps from again. Pronunciation: /ɡɪn/ 1. If. Labels: Appalachia, Northern-England, Scotland, Southern-US Example: […]for pronouncing according as one would ſay at London I would eat more cheeſe if I had it, the Northern man ſaith, Ay ſuld eat mare cheeſe gin ay hadet, and the Weſterne man ſaith Chud eat more cheeſe an chad it. Example: Gin the plough rests on the bank, / The loom, the nation, dies.
Word: frolic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Dutch vrolijk (“cheerful”), from Middle Dutch vrolijc, from Old Dutch frōlīk, from Proto-Germanic *frawalīkaz. Compare German fröhlich (“blitheful, gaily, happy, merry”). The first element, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *frawaz, is cognate with Middle English frow (“hasty”); the latter element, ultimately from *-līkaz, is cognate with -ly, -like. Pronunciation: /ˈfɹɒlɪk/, /ˈfɹɑlɪk/ 1. Merry, joyous, full of mirth; later especially, frolicsome, sportive, full of playful mischief. Labels: archaic Example: The frolick wind that breathes the Spring, Zephyr with Aurora playing, As he met her once a Maying There on Beds of Violets blew, Example: For women, born to be controul’d, Stoop to the forward and the bold, Affect the haughty and the proud, The gay, the frollick, and the loud. 2. Free; liberal; bountiful; generous. Labels: obsolete, rare
Word: frolic Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Dutch vrolijk (“cheerful”), from Middle Dutch vrolijc, from Old Dutch frōlīk, from Proto-Germanic *frawalīkaz. Compare German fröhlich (“blitheful, gaily, happy, merry”). The first element, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *frawaz, is cognate with Middle English frow (“hasty”); the latter element, ultimately from *-līkaz, is cognate with -ly, -like. Pronunciation: /ˈfɹɒlɪk/, /ˈfɹɑlɪk/ 1. To make merry; to have fun; to romp; to behave playfully and uninhibitedly. Labels: intransitive Example: We saw the lambs frolicking in the meadow. Example: Fools on parade frolic and fuck about to make her gaze Turn to a scribble on a page by a picture that holds her absence But you're daft to think she'd care 2. To cause to be merry. Labels: archaic, transitive
Word: frolic Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Dutch vrolijk (“cheerful”), from Middle Dutch vrolijc, from Old Dutch frōlīk, from Proto-Germanic *frawalīkaz. Compare German fröhlich (“blitheful, gaily, happy, merry”). The first element, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *frawaz, is cognate with Middle English frow (“hasty”); the latter element, ultimately from *-līkaz, is cognate with -ly, -like. Pronunciation: /ˈfɹɒlɪk/, /ˈfɹɑlɪk/ 1. Gaiety; merriment. Example: the annual jubilee […] filled the souls of old and young with visions of splendour, frolic and fun. Example: By the old-fashioned magnificence of this procession, it might worthily have included his Holiness in person, with a suite of attendant Cardinals, if those sacred dignitaries would kindly have lent their aid to heighten the frolic of the Carnival. 2. A playful antic. Example: He would be at his frolic once again. 3. A social gathering. Labels: US, obsolete Example: He came clattering up to the school door with an invitation to Ichabod to attend a merry-making or “quilting frolic,” to be held that evening at Mynheer Van Tassel’s
Word: furlough Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Dutch verlof (“furlough”), probably from Middle Low German verlōf (“furlough, permission”) (possibly via German Verlaub), from the verb verlōven (“to allow”), from Old Saxon far- + lōvian (“to trust, believe”). From Middle Low German also German Verlaub, Danish forlov. Doublet of leave. Pronunciation: /ˈfɜː.ləʊ/, /ˈfɝ.loʊ/, /ˈfɜː.ləʉ/, /ˈføː.lɐʉ/ 1. A leave of absence or vacation. Labels: US, countable, uncountable Example: And I had a lot of things on my mind and I pretty well forgot my promise to Mama until I got shipped home on a special furlough for her funeral. 2. A leave of absence or vacation. Labels: UK, countable, uncountable 3. The documents authorizing such leave. Labels: countable, uncountable 4. A period of unpaid time off, used by an employer to reduce costs. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The state estimates the one-day-a-month furlough spread over the 18 months of the plan would amount to a 5 percent cut in pay.
Word: furlough Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Dutch verlof (“furlough”), probably from Middle Low German verlōf (“furlough, permission”) (possibly via German Verlaub), from the verb verlōven (“to allow”), from Old Saxon far- + lōvian (“to trust, believe”). From Middle Low German also German Verlaub, Danish forlov. Doublet of leave. Pronunciation: /ˈfɜː.ləʊ/, /ˈfɝ.loʊ/, /ˈfɜː.ləʉ/, /ˈføː.lɐʉ/ 1. To grant a furlough to (someone). Labels: transitive 2. To have (an employee) not work in order to reduce costs; to send (someone) on furlough. Labels: transitive Example: This implies, for example, that firms should not revise their estimated production capacity downwards when furloughing workers, but should do so after laying off staff permanently.
Word: freebooter Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From free + booty + -er. Calque of Dutch vrijbuiter (literally “free booty-er”), from vrij (“free”) + buit (“booty”) + -er (occupational suffix). Doublet of filibuster. Pronunciation: /ˈfɹiːbuːtə(ɹ)/ 1. An adventurer who pillages, plunders, or thieves privately or for compensation; or wages ad-hoc war on other nations, similar to mercenary; also a "freeboot". Example: The military aspect should, however, be carefully studied, as the result may be to dispel the time-honoured connection between forest and freebooter under modern conditions with long-range rifles. 2. One who rehosts online media without authorization, a form of intellectual property theft; one who freeboots.
Word: holster Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Dutch holster (“pistol-case, holster”), from Middle Low German holster, from Old Saxon *holster, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *hulastrą, *hulistrą (“hull, case, covering”). Cognate with Old English heolstor (“a covering, veil, hiding-place”), Danish hylster (“pistol case, envelope”), Icelandic hulstur (“sheath”), Gothic 𐌷𐌿𐌻𐌹𐍃𐍄𐍂 (hulistr, “covering”). Compare German Halfter (“pistol case”). Related to hull, hele. Pronunciation: /ˈhɒlstə(ɹ)/, /ˈhoʊlstə(ɹ)/ 1. A case for carrying a tool, particularly a gun, safely and accessibly. Example: Goring, like himself, had sprang forwards, first snatching a pistol from his holsters, and discharging it at him who seemed to be the chief of the party,—the man reeled and fell; but his fall was instantly avenged. Example: Marion Wheeler took the seat, brushing the hem of her suit jacket aside to reveal a concealed holster. "You do know I carry a gun?" 2. A belt with loops or slots for carrying small tools or other equipment.
Word: holster Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Dutch holster (“pistol-case, holster”), from Middle Low German holster, from Old Saxon *holster, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *hulastrą, *hulistrą (“hull, case, covering”). Cognate with Old English heolstor (“a covering, veil, hiding-place”), Danish hylster (“pistol case, envelope”), Icelandic hulstur (“sheath”), Gothic 𐌷𐌿𐌻𐌹𐍃𐍄𐍂 (hulistr, “covering”). Compare German Halfter (“pistol case”). Related to hull, hele. Pronunciation: /ˈhɒlstə(ɹ)/, /ˈhoʊlstə(ɹ)/ 1. To put something in a holster.
Word: keelhaul Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Dutch kielhalen (“keelhaul”), from kiel (“keel”) + halen (“fetch; catch”). Pronunciation: /ˈkiːlhɔːl/, /ˈkiːlhɔl/ 1. To punish by dragging under the keel of a ship with the intent of causing painful injuries. Labels: transitive Example: March 11 [1667].—Hermans Jans, boatswain; disobedience of orders and stabbing his captain; sentenced to be degraded to common seaman, to be thrice keelhauled, to be well flogged, to have the knife stuck through his hand, and to forfeit, pro fisco, 6 months' wages. Example: By degrees they became noisier and noisier, their conversation principally turning on that infernal naval lieutenant, as they were pleased to designate me, and what they intended to do with him. Some suggested “keelhauling” him; others, a dose of his favourite cat-o’nine tails; whilst many advised making a target of him for a little practice with that revolver which had previously so cowed them all. 2. To rebuke harshly. Labels: transitive Example: I've done these inquiries myself, Col. The top people can always put up such a bloody fine brick wall for themselves that no outsider has a chance of getting over or seeing through. But the same wall may stop some nonentity making his getaway, and he's the one the inquiry keelhauls. Example: I've been asking myself the same question and there are two ways to answer it—yes and no. Yes, because he took on a responsibility no one else wanted—for the reasons we've all witnessed—and no because keelhauling him will be five percent about fixing what he may have done wrong and ninety-five percent about scapegoating.
Word: manikin Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Dutch manneken, Middle Dutch mannekijn. Doublet of manakin and mannequin. Pronunciation: /ˈmænɪkɪn/, /ˈmænəkɪn/ 1. A little man (sometimes as a term of endearment). Example: This is a dear manikin to you, Sir Toby. Example: She was very good natur’d, and not above Forty foot high, being little for her age. She gave me the name Grildrig, which the Family took up, and afterwards the whole Kingdom. The Word imports what the Latins call Nanunculus, the Italians Homunceletino, and the English Mannikin. 2. A three-dimensional figure, dummy or effigy representing a man or person. Example: […] he fumbled in the pockets, and produced at length a curious little deformed image with a hunch on its back, and exactly the color of a three days’ old Congo baby. Remembering the embalmed head, at first I almost thought that this black manikin was a real baby preserved in some similar manner. But seeing that it was not at all limber, and that it glistened a good deal like polished ebony, I concluded that it must be nothing but a wooden idol, which indeed it proved to be. Example: 1859, Fitz James O’Brien, “The Wondersmith” in The Poems and Stories of Fitz-James O’Brien, James R. Osgood & Co., 1881, reprinted by University Press: John Wilson & Son, Cambridge, 1969, pp. 179-180, The window […] contains the only pleasant object in the place. This is a beautiful little miniature theatre,—that is to say, the orchestra and stage. It is fitted with charmingly painted scenery and all the appliances for scenic changes. There are tiny traps and delicately constructed “lifts,” and real footlights fed with burning-fluid, and in the orchestra sits a diminutive conductor before his desk, surrounded by musical manikins, all provided with the smallest of violoncellos, flutes, oboes, drums, and such like. 3. Alternative spelling of mannequin. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: Best scene: Hope trying to sneak the clothes off a department-store manikin without attracting attention from the crowd outside the window. Example: 1997, American Red Cross, Sport Safety Training: Instructor’s Manual, Granada Learning Limited, p. 118, Students should be told in advance that training sessions will involve close physical contact with manikins used by their fellow students.
Word: mannequin Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from French mannequin, derived from Old French [Term?] (“little man, figurine”), derived from Middle Dutch mannekin (“little man”) or mannekijn (see English manikin), diminutive of man (“man”). By surface analysis, man + -kin. Compare ramequin/ramekin. Doublet of manakin and manikin. Pronunciation: /ˈman.ɪ.kɪn/, /ˈmæn.ɪ.kɪn/, /ˈmɛn.ə.kən/ 1. A dummy, or life-size model of the human body, used for martial arts training or the fitting or displaying of clothes. Example: At the same time, Mr. Bolton was intrigued by Mr. Sundsbo’s proposal to make models look like mannequins because it spoke to the blurring of boundaries — between good and evil, angels and demons, nature and technology, permanence and decay — that was a consistent theme of the McQueen collections. Example: There was a time when a mannequin was the sculptural equivalent of fashion model. Like a fashion model, the mannequin was intended to reflect our social, professional and aesthetic aspirations. 2. A jointed model of the human body used by artists, especially to demonstrate the arrangement of drapery. 3. An anatomical model of the human body for use in teaching of e.g. CPR. 4. A person who models clothes. Labels: dated Example: She screamed out direction to various mannequins. "Clothilde, Virginie, quickly, my little ones, the little tailleur gris clair and the robe de soirée ‘soupir d'automne.’ Marcelle, my child, the little mimosa suit of crêpe de chine." It was a charming morning. Marcelle, Clothilde, Virginie, bored and scornful, passed slowly round, squirming and wriggling in the time-honoured fashion of mannequins. Example: […]all of which made a perfect neutral background for the mannequins who moved around swiftly, gracefully, exhibiting one glorious creation after another.
Word: measles Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Either from Middle Dutch masels (“blood blisters, measels”) or Middle Low German maselen (“red blemishes, measels”), both from Old High German masala (“blood blister, phlegmon”). Doublet of measlings. Cognate with mazer & mase and Middle Low German masele & māsel. Influenced in pronunciation and some senses by mesel (“leprous, leper”). Pronunciation: /ˈmizəlz/, /ˈmiːzəlz/ 1. An acute and highly contagious disease which often afflicts children caused by the virus Measles morbillivirus and causing red rashes, fever, runny nose, coughing, and red eyes. Labels: uncountable Example: Maybe it's the 'measles. They say they're going around the neighborhood. Example: Olivia, my eldest daughter, caught measles when she was seven years old. As the illness took its usual course I can remember reading to her often in bed and not feeling particularly alarmed about it. 2. Any disease causing red rashes. Labels: obsolete, uncountable 3. Used as an intensifier. Labels: obsolete, uncountable Example: Why the meazills, should you stand heere, with your traine... 4. Synonym of cysticercosis: A disease of livestock or meat caused by the presence of tapeworm larvae. Labels: uncountable Example: The Swyne dyed of the Measils. Example: Porcine measles, thought by classical writers to be leprosy, is actually the result of tapeworm cysts which cause ulcerations of the pig's tongue. 5. Any disease causing a tree's bark to become rough and irregular. Labels: obsolete, uncountable Example: Their fruit-trees are subject to two diseases, the Meazels... and lowsiness. 6. plural of measle: a red spot forming part of a rash, (now) particularly those caused by M. morbillivirus. Labels: form-of, plural, uncountable Example: Others take a fether, and dippe it in the saide water, and therwith they annoynte all the Measells of the Face when they are come forth. 7. plural of measle: any similar-looking red spot, particularly (printing) foxing. Labels: figuratively, form-of, plural, uncountable Example: Measles. When prints are imperfectly fixed, the appearance presented is very similar to that of the same disease in the human subject. Hence the name. Example: The stars, like measles, fade at last. 8. plural of measle: the individual cysts of cysticercosis. Labels: form-of, plural, uncountable 9. plural of measle: the individual blisters in the surface of a diseased tree's bark. Labels: form-of, obsolete, plural, uncountable 10. A discreet assassination made to look like death from any natural cause. Labels: US, jargon, uncountable Example: […] they would prefer having him "die of the measles," as wags at the CIA put it, than be punished by legal means. If there is no convenient way of administering the "measles," they may even favor simply letting him go. Example: Such final solutions, sometimes referred to as termination with extreme prejudice, are known in the CIA as dying of the measles — that is, the death appears to be of natural causes.
Word: measles Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Either from Middle Dutch masels (“blood blisters, measels”) or Middle Low German maselen (“red blemishes, measels”), both from Old High German masala (“blood blister, phlegmon”). Doublet of measlings. Cognate with mazer & mase and Middle Low German masele & māsel. Influenced in pronunciation and some senses by mesel (“leprous, leper”). Pronunciation: /ˈmizəlz/, /ˈmiːzəlz/ 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of measle Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: measles Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English mesel (“leprous, leper”), from Norman mesel (“leprous, leper”), from Old French mesel (“leprous, leper”), from Late Latin misellus (“leper”), from miser (“wretched, wretch”) + -ellus (“-elle”). Pronunciation: /ˈmizəlz/, /ˈmiːzəlz/ 1. plural of measle Labels: form-of, obsolete, plural 2. Alternative form of mesels: Leprosy. Labels: alt-of, alternative, obsolete
Word: roster Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Dutch rooster (“gridiron, table, list”), from Middle Dutch roosten (“to roast”). More at roast. Pronunciation: /ˈɹɒs.tə/, /ˈɹɔ.stɚ/, /ˈɹoʊ.stɚ/, /ˈɹɑ.stɚ/, /ˈɹɔs.tə/ 1. A list of individuals or groups, usually for an organization of some kind such as military officers and enlisted personnel enrolled in a particular unit; a muster roll; a sports team, with the names of players who are eligible to be placed in the lineup for a particular game; or a list of students officially enrolled in a school or class. Example: I'm number 12 on the roster for tonight's game. Example: Its 50 H-7 2-8-8-2's (30 of which found their way onto the Union Pacific roster in 1945) were simple mainly because a tunnel in the Alleghenies would not accommodate the low-pressure cylinders of any Mallet larger than a 2-6-6-2. 2. A list of the jobs to be performed by members of an organization and often with the date and time that they are expected to perform them. Example: The secretary has produced a new cleaning roster for the Church over the remainder of the year. 3. A schedule or timetable setting out shift times and dates for each employee of a business. Example: Before uni starts check your work roster with your uni schedule to make sure there are no clashes with your classes. 4. A bracketed list that shows the elements of a set.
Word: roster Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Borrowed from Dutch rooster (“gridiron, table, list”), from Middle Dutch roosten (“to roast”). More at roast. Pronunciation: /ˈɹɒs.tə/, /ˈɹɔ.stɚ/, /ˈɹoʊ.stɚ/, /ˈɹɑ.stɚ/, /ˈɹɔs.tə/ 1. To place the name of (a person) on a roster. Labels: transitive Example: I have rostered you for cleaning duties on the first Monday of each month. Example: New York Central rostered literally hundreds of engine subclassifications in contrast to the Spartan simplicity of Pennsy's ranks. 2. To show the elements of a set by listing them inside brackets. Labels: transitive
Word: rove Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Probably from Middle English *roven, a Midlands variant of Northern Middle English raven (“to wander”), from Old Norse ráfa (“to rove; stray about”). Cognate with Icelandic ráfa (“to wander”), Scots rave (“to wander; stray; roam”). Pronunciation: /ɹəʊv/, /ɹoʊv/ 1. To shoot with arrows (at). Labels: intransitive, obsolete Example: And thou […] that with thy cruell dart / At that good knight so cunningly didst roue […] 2. To roam, or wander about at random, especially over a wide area. Labels: intransitive Example: Now that he was in his prime, there was no simian in all the mighty forest through which he roved that dared contest his right to rule, nor did the other and larger animals molest him. Example: And a rovin’, a rovin’, a rovin’ I'll go / For a pair of brown eyes 3. To roam or wander through. Labels: transitive Example: Roving the field, I chanced / A goodly tree far distant to behold. Example: The rein-deer, which in Scandinavia can scarcely exist to the south of the sixty-fifth parallel, descends, in consequence of the greater coldness of the climate, to the fiftieth degree, in Chinese Tartary, and often roves into a country of more southern latitude than any part of England. 4. To card wool or other fibres. Labels: transitive Example: Although both [flax and wool] must be roved and spun upon similar principles, each requires peculiar modifications in its machinery. 5. To twist slightly; to bring together, as slivers of wool or cotton, and twist slightly before spinning. 6. To draw through an eye or aperture. 7. To plough into ridges by turning the earth of two furrows together. 8. To practice robbery on the seas; to voyage about on the seas as a pirate. Example: pirates, roving up and downe the sea