nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: stater Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Ancient Greek στατήρ (statḗr). Pronunciation: /ˈsteɪtə/, /ˈsteɪtɚ/ 1. A gold, silver or electrum coin of ancient Greece.
Word: stater Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From state + -er (agent noun suffix) or + -er (inhabitant suffix). Pronunciation: /ˈsteɪtə/, /ˈsteɪtɚ/ 1. One who states. Example: a stater of truths or opinions 2. A citizen of the United States of America who is a confirmed or lifelong resident of one single state.
Word: stator Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From stationary or static by analogy with rotor; alternatively from a hypothetical Latin stātor (literally “stander”); all ultimately from stāre (“to stand”). 1. The stationary part of a motor or other machine.
Word: steeve Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /stiːv/ 1. The angle that a bowsprit makes with the horizon, or with the line of the vessel's keel. 2. A spar, with a block at one end, used in stowing cotton bales and similar cargo needing to be packed tightly.
Word: steeve Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /stiːv/ 1. To project upward, or make an angle with the horizon or with the line of a vessel's keel; said of the bowsprit, etc. Labels: archaic 2. To stow, as bales in a vessel's hold, by means of a steeve. Labels: transitive Example: "They are all alike to me." And indeed to a landsman, the nodding schooners around seemed run from the same mold. "They ain't, though. That yaller, dirty packet with her bowsprit steeved that way, she's the Hope of Prague. Nick Brady's her skipper, the meanest man on the Banks. […]"
Word: stoled Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From stole + -ed. 1. Having or wearing a stole. Labels: not-comparable
Word: stoled Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From stole + -ed. 1. simple past and past participle of steal Labels: form-of, nonstandard, participle, past
Word: stooge Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Perhaps an abbreviation of Russian студе́нт (studént) [stʊˈdʲent]; the original meaning was “stage assistant, actor who assists a comedian”. It may have been a Yiddish vaudeville term. Pronunciation: /stuːd͡ʒ/ 1. One who knowingly allows himself or herself to be used for another's profit; a dupe. Example: I'd like to show you what a wipeout looks like from the board. I'm pretty good at getting wiped out, so I'll be the stooge. 2. A magician's assistant who pretends to be a member of the audience. 3. A straight man. 4. A secret informant for police. 5. A confederate; a person who is secretly working for the researcher, unknown to the study participant.
Word: stooge Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Perhaps an abbreviation of Russian студе́нт (studént) [stʊˈdʲent]; the original meaning was “stage assistant, actor who assists a comedian”. It may have been a Yiddish vaudeville term. Pronunciation: /stuːd͡ʒ/ 1. To act as a straight man. Labels: intransitive
Word: stover Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Anglo-Norman estovers (“necessities”) via Middle English estover (“allowance”), ultimately from Latin est opus (“there is need”). Compare estover. Pronunciation: /ˈstəʊ.və/, /ˈstoʊ.vɚ/ 1. Fodder for cattle, especially straw or coarse hay. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Thy turfy mountains, where live nibbling sheep, And flat meads thatch'd with stover, them to keep; […] 2. Stalks and leaves, not including grain, of certain forages Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Even second-generation biofuels, made from crop wastes or wood, are an environmental disaster, either extending the cultivated area or removing the straw and stovers which protect the soil from erosion and keep carbon and nutrients in the ground.
Word: strop Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Same as strap (which see); recorded in English since 1702. The verb sense referring to honing a sharp edge is recorded since 1842. Pronunciation: /stɹɒp/, /stɹɑp/ 1. A strap; more specifically a piece of leather or a substitute (notably canvas), or strip of wood covered with a suitable material, for honing a razor. Example: Cheap razors are a mistake, as they soon lose their edge. A good razor requires no strop. It has been suggested as an excellent plan to have a case of seven razors—one for each day in the week—so that they are all equally used. 2. A piece of rope spliced into a circular wreath, and put round a block for hanging it.
Word: strop Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Same as strap (which see); recorded in English since 1702. The verb sense referring to honing a sharp edge is recorded since 1842. Pronunciation: /stɹɒp/, /stɹɑp/ 1. To hone (a razor or knife) with a strop. Example: One should strop the razor before each shave. Example: The barber—a round, bustling fellow—stropped his razor and prattled gossip. 2. To strap. Labels: obsolete
Word: strop Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Back-formation from stroppy. Pronunciation: /stɹɒp/, /stɹɑp/ 1. A bad mood or temper. A tantrum. Labels: Commonwealth, Ireland, UK
Word: strop Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From apostrophe, due to use of apostrophes as single quotation marks to indicate boldface in ALGOL 60. Other methods were used, especially in ALGOL 68, where the earlier matched apostrophes were no longer common, and the term became used more generally for any such method. Pronunciation: /stɹɒp/, /stɹɑp/ 1. To mark a sequence of letters syntactically as having a special property, such as being a keyword, e.g. by enclosing in apostrophes as in 'foo' or writing in uppercase as in FOO.
Word: strop Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /stɹɒp/, /stɹɑp/ 1. A poor-quality or unsaleable diamond. Labels: slang Example: […] he almost fell out of the phone booth laughing and said to her, 'Boy, did my son buy a strop! Did he get stuck!'
Word: stymie Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From the meaning in golf (where the stymie ball blocks the other ball from "seeing" the hole), perhaps from Scots stymie, stimie (“person with poor eyesight”), from Scots stime (“the least bit”). Or from Scots styme (“tiny bit, glimmer”) as in se nocht ane styme (“not to see a glimmer (of something)”). If so, it is a doublet of stime. Pronunciation: /ˈstaɪmi/ 1. A situation where an opponent's ball is directly in the way of one's own ball and the hole, on the putting green (abolished 1952). 2. An obstacle or obstruction. Labels: broadly Example: Mary, will you be mine? Shall we go round together? Will you fix up a match with me on the links of life which shall end only when the Grim Reaper lays us both a stymie?
Word: stymie Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From the meaning in golf (where the stymie ball blocks the other ball from "seeing" the hole), perhaps from Scots stymie, stimie (“person with poor eyesight”), from Scots stime (“the least bit”). Or from Scots styme (“tiny bit, glimmer”) as in se nocht ane styme (“not to see a glimmer (of something)”). If so, it is a doublet of stime. Pronunciation: /ˈstaɪmi/ 1. To thwart or stump; to cause to fail or to leave hopelessly puzzled, confused, or stuck. Example: They had lost the key, and the lock stymied the first three locksmiths they called. Example: If writing dates has you stymied at times, it is probably for one of two reasons. https://www.grammarly.com/blog/how-to-write-dates/ 2. To bring into the position of, or impede by, a stymie.
Word: sulfa Part of Speech: adj Pronunciation: /ˈsʌlfə/ 1. Of or containing sulfonamide or sulfanilamide. Labels: not-comparable Example: But my osteo plagued me throughout the rest of my stay at the HNOH, and for several years even after leaving the Home. It wasn't until the discovery of penicillin and the sulfa drugs that I finally beat that condition.
Word: sulfa Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈsʌlfə/ 1. A sulfonamide or sulfanilamide.
Word: sumac Part of Speech: noun Etymology: The noun is derived from Middle English sumac, asimac, simak, sumak, symak (“portions of the shrub Rhus coriaria, chiefly used for medicinal purposes”), from Anglo-Norman sumak, symak, and Old French sumac, or directly from its etymon Medieval Latin sumach, sumac, from Arabic سُمَّاق (summāq), from Classical Syriac ܣܘܡܩܐ (summāqā, “red; sumac”). The English word is cognate with Italian sommaco, sommacco, Occitan simac, Portuguese sumagre, Spanish zumaque. The verb is derived from the noun. Pronunciation: /ˈs(j)uːmæk/, /ˈʃuː-/, /ˈsuːˌmæk/, /ˈsu-/ 1. Any of various shrubs or small trees of the genus Rhus and certain other genera in Anacardiaceae. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: The Rhamnus of Maderaspatan, and the Trifoliate Sumachs from the Coaſt of Africa, are altogether new. Example: Shumack, Chapacour, and the famous Snake-root, ſo much admir'd in England for being a Cordial, and an Antidote in all Peſtilential Diſeases. 2. Any of various shrubs or small trees of the genus Rhus and certain other genera in Anacardiaceae. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: . 3. Dried and chopped-up leaves and stems of a plant of the genus Rhus, particularly tanner's sumac (see sense 1), used for dyeing and tanning leather or for medicinal purposes. Labels: uncountable, usually 4. A sour spice popular in the Eastern Mediterranean, made from the berries of tanner's sumac. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: The spices used in this bread are zaatar and sumack. [...] Sumack is a spice derived from the berries of a bush that grows wild in all Mediterranean areas. The berries are dried and crushed to form a coarse purple-red powder. It has a sour taste. Example: Sumac is a berry from a bush which grows mostly in southern Italy and the Middle East. The berries are dried and crushed to make ground sumac, used in making many foods such as Yaprakh, Kinirmasee (fried artichoke) and salad.
Word: sumac Part of Speech: verb Etymology: The noun is derived from Middle English sumac, asimac, simak, sumak, symak (“portions of the shrub Rhus coriaria, chiefly used for medicinal purposes”), from Anglo-Norman sumak, symak, and Old French sumac, or directly from its etymon Medieval Latin sumach, sumac, from Arabic سُمَّاق (summāq), from Classical Syriac ܣܘܡܩܐ (summāqā, “red; sumac”). The English word is cognate with Italian sommaco, sommacco, Occitan simac, Portuguese sumagre, Spanish zumaque. The verb is derived from the noun. Pronunciation: /ˈs(j)uːmæk/, /ˈʃuː-/, /ˈsuːˌmæk/, /ˈsu-/ 1. To apply a preparation of sumac to (an object), for example, to a piece of leather to tan it. Labels: transitive Example: After this operation, the goods muſt be winched and well planked, or otherwiſe cleaned; they are then, according to the quality of them, to be ſumached, and then ſnitchelled off, and waſhed. Example: Then lot 1 will be shumacked first time; that is, passed through a decoction of shumac, then through copperas, and then washed off, and if the decoction of shumac is kept up strong, after being all of them once shumacked they may be dried. [...] If the black liquor and the shumacking were powerful, some of them will shew themselves finished when dry.
Word: sumac Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of soumak. Labels: alt-of, alternative, uncountable
Word: surtax Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From French surtaxe. Pronunciation: /ˈsɝː.tæks/ 1. An additional or extra tax.
Word: surtax Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From French surtaxe. Pronunciation: /ˈsɝː.tæks/ 1. To impose a surtax upon. Labels: transitive
Word: swabby Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From swab + -y. Pronunciation: /ˈswɒbi/ 1. A sailor. Labels: informal
Word: swag Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English *swaggen, swagen, swoggen, probably from Old Norse sveggja (“to swing, sway”), from Proto-Germanic *swinganą (“to swing”). Compare dialectal Norwegian svaga (“to sway, swing, stagger”). Pronunciation: /ˈswæɡ/, [ˈswæɡ], /ˈsweɪ̯ɡ/, [ˈsweɪ̯ɡ] 1. To (cause to) sway. Labels: ambitransitive Example: 1790, William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, The Argument, p. 1, Hungry clouds swag on the deep Example: Soap/soak the mop into the mop bucket, squeeze it out slightly, swag it back and forth across the piss stained concrete, mop it dry. 2. To droop; to sag. Labels: intransitive Example: so laid, they are more apt in swagging down, to pierce with their points, then in the jacent Posture Example: I swagge as a fatte persos belly swaggeth as he goth. 3. To decorate (something) with loops of draped fabric. Labels: transitive Example: Dior wouldn’t be Dior without the swagged ball gown[…]. 4. To install (a ceiling fan or light fixture) by means of a long cord running from the ceiling to an outlet, and suspended by hooks or similar. Labels: transitive Example: Hooks come with screws for use in plaster or wood and toggles for use in wallboard. One hook should be sufficient to swag a lamp from a ceiling outlet.
Word: swag Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English *swaggen, swagen, swoggen, probably from Old Norse sveggja (“to swing, sway”), from Proto-Germanic *swinganą (“to swing”). Compare dialectal Norwegian svaga (“to sway, swing, stagger”). Pronunciation: /ˈswæɡ/, [ˈswæɡ], /ˈsweɪ̯ɡ/, [ˈsweɪ̯ɡ] 1. A loop of draped fabric. Example: He looked in bewilderment at number 24, the final house with its regalia of stucco swags and bows. 2. Something that droops like a swag. Example: Detective Inspector Douglas Browne, the flesh of whose cheeks hung in swags, had the friendly aspect of a large brown-eyed dog. 3. A low point or depression in land; especially: Example: Whenever the muddy water would accumulate in the swag the water from the well in question would become muddy[…] After the water in the swag had all disappeared through the sink-hole the well water would again become clear. Example: This peach tree is th' big tree that allus bore so many peaches. It's th' one in th' low swag by th' old rotted white oak stump. 4. A low point or depression in land; especially: Example: […] the Stoll household were hoeing corn high up on a bench or "swag" of the mountain facing the home, where there was newer and richer ground than in the abandoned fields in its rear. Example: Finally he managed to grab hold of [the turkey's] legs, but as he did so, the turkey "riz" up into the air and carried him across a "swag" (gap) to the next mountain and courteously dropped him.
Word: swag Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Clipping of swagger. A common folk etymology is that the word derives from an acronym for "she wants a gentleman", "secretly we are gay" or other phrases. Pronunciation: /ˈswæɡ/, [ˈswæɡ], /ˈsweɪ̯ɡ/, [ˈsweɪ̯ɡ] 1. Style; fashionable appearance or manner. Labels: slang, uncountable Example: Now this dude got swag, and he was pushing up on me but, it wasn't like we was kicking it or anything! Example: They've got those dumb Kanye sunglasses that are $3 a pair at any skanky old market, they've go the word SWAG airbrushed onto them; these kids are hanging around listening to crunk records, throwing around sayings like “Swag it out”, “Turn my swag on”, “Flip the swag switch and homie” and even “Get out your sweaty swag length and push it deep inside me”. Let me tell you something - if I ever see those kids out in Gangnam I'll be caving their sorry heads in with my swag bat, or I'll be making out with their swag girlfriend while they're too busy smoking crack behind a brick wall because that's how we do things in Gangnam, sucker.
Word: swag Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From 18th c. British thieves' slang, from the noun use of Etymology 1 above, "a swaying, an uneven motion." A folk etymology, particularly for the handouts definition, is “stuff we all get”. Pronunciation: /ˈswæɡ/, [ˈswæɡ], /ˈsweɪ̯ɡ/, [ˈsweɪ̯ɡ] 1. Stolen goods; the booty of a burglar or thief; boodle. Labels: uncountable Example: The swag, is a term used in speaking of any booty you have lately obtained, be it of what kind it may, except money; as where did you lumber the swag? that is, where did you deposit the stolen property? To carry the swag is to be the bearer of the stolen goods to a place of safety. Example: “It′s all arranged about bringing off the swag, is it?” asked the Jew. Sikes nodded. 2. Branded handout, freebies, or giveaways, often distributed at conventions; merchandise. Labels: informal, uncountable Example: "Make sure to take some swag on your way out!" I called. He stooped a bit in mid-trot and snatched a small gold bag out of the basket at the door. The contents were mostly shit, a few drink tickets to the Well of Souls, VIP status at Convent, that sort of thing. Example: You may hesitate before you pocket the swag, wondering if doing so is OK. Worry not: Hospitality industry folks say they’re delighted when people feel compelled to take one of these as a keepsake. 3. The possessions of a bushman or itinerant worker, tied up in a blanket and carried over the shoulder, sometimes attached to a stick. Labels: Australia, countable, dated Example: He tramped for years till the swag he bore seemed part of himself to him. 4. A small single-person tent, usually foldable into an integral backpack. Labels: Australia, broadly, countable 5. A large quantity (of something). Labels: Australia, New-Zealand, countable Example: New Zealand wasted a swag of chances to lose their opening women′s hockey World Cup match. 6. A shop and its goods; any quantity of goods. Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable
Word: swag Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From 18th c. British thieves' slang, from the noun use of Etymology 1 above, "a swaying, an uneven motion." A folk etymology, particularly for the handouts definition, is “stuff we all get”. Pronunciation: /ˈswæɡ/, [ˈswæɡ], /ˈsweɪ̯ɡ/, [ˈsweɪ̯ɡ] 1. To travel on foot carrying a swag (possessions tied in a blanket). Labels: Australia, ambitransitive Example: He told me that times had been bad at Invercargill, and that he had started for fresh pastures, had worked his passage up as mate in a small craft from the south, and, arriving in Port Underwood, had swagged his calico tent over the hill, and was now living in it, pitched in the manuka scrub. Example: That such a man was swagging in the Victoria Bush at the age of fifty-one requires explanation. 2. To transport stolen goods. Example: Well, one night we were rather hard up and we wanted a good feed, so five or six of us set out, along with a great stout fellow, and we actually stole a whole sheep that was hanging at a butcher's door, and the big chap swagged it home. 3. To transport in the course of arrest. Example: 17 I was cooking crack, turned Abz' flat to a science lab 18, when my door got banged Like servery knows and throws them bags Two handcuffs on the hands on a circle van when I got swagged Seven day lost in cell, confinement, disobey lawful order
Word: swag Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈswæɡ/, [ˈswæɡ], /ˈsweɪ̯ɡ/, [ˈsweɪ̯ɡ] 1. Alternative letter-case form of SWAG; a wild guess or ballpark estimate. Labels: alt-of Example: I can take a swag at the answer, but it may not be right.
Word: swage Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Inherited from Middle English swage, from Old French souage (“decorative groove”), from soue (“rope”), from Vulgar Latin *soca, from Gaulish *souca (“cord”), from Proto-Celtic *soukā, from Proto-Indo-European *sew- (“to twist, bend”). Pronunciation: /ˈsweɪd͡ʒ/, /ˈswɛd͡ʒ/ 1. A tool, used by blacksmiths and other metalworkers, for shaping of a metal item. Example: "I made a swage and hammered out the test bars to the required .615 inch plus or minus .003, the thickness of a sheet of paper. […] Example: If he were making round or square-sectioned nails, the blacksmith also kept a "swage" near the anvil. If different sizes, shapes, and heads were required, the nailor had a number of swages or a number of holes in the one swage.
Word: swage Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Inherited from Middle English swage, from Old French souage (“decorative groove”), from soue (“rope”), from Vulgar Latin *soca, from Gaulish *souca (“cord”), from Proto-Celtic *soukā, from Proto-Indo-European *sew- (“to twist, bend”). Pronunciation: /ˈsweɪd͡ʒ/, /ˈswɛd͡ʒ/ 1. To bend or shape through use of a swage. Labels: transitive
Word: swage Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From assuage by aphesis. Pronunciation: /ˈsweɪd͡ʒ/, /ˈswɛd͡ʒ/ 1. Obsolete form of assuage. Labels: alt-of, obsolete Example: apt words have power to swage
Word: swami Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Hindi स्वामी (svāmī), from Sanskrit स्वामिन् (svāmín). Pronunciation: /ˈswɑːmi/ 1. A Hindu ascetic or religious teacher. Labels: often 2. A Hindu religious idol. Labels: obsolete
Word: swank Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From dialectal swank (“to strut, behave ostentatiously”), perhaps from an unrecorded Old English root, derived from Proto-Germanic *swankijaną (“to cause to sway, swing”) or from Proto-Germanic *swankaz (“lithe, bendsome, slender”), related to the Scots swank and the Middle High German swanken, modern German schwanken (“to sway”). Pronunciation: /ˈswæŋk/, [ˈswæŋk], /ˈsweɪ̯ŋk/, [ˈsweɪ̯ŋk] ~ /ˈswɛ̃ŋk/, [ˈswɛ̃ŋk] 1. Fashionably elegant, posh. Example: The fish house or shack is built without windows, covered with tar paper to keep out the light and wind, and set on the ice over about ten feet of water in a spot off shore where fish have been known to habitate habitually. […] A couple of boxes to sit on and a plank or mat for your feet and a small airtight stove, if you want swank comfort. Example: "You live in that swank apartment round the corner." "Yes." "Hey you must be rich."
Word: swank Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From dialectal swank (“to strut, behave ostentatiously”), perhaps from an unrecorded Old English root, derived from Proto-Germanic *swankijaną (“to cause to sway, swing”) or from Proto-Germanic *swankaz (“lithe, bendsome, slender”), related to the Scots swank and the Middle High German swanken, modern German schwanken (“to sway”). Pronunciation: /ˈswæŋk/, [ˈswæŋk], /ˈsweɪ̯ŋk/, [ˈsweɪ̯ŋk] ~ /ˈswɛ̃ŋk/, [ˈswɛ̃ŋk] 1. A fashionably elegant person. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Us Morans don't like swanks, and that girl was a swank. Stuck-up rich girl. She wore a practically new gabardine with the same paper Union Jack flag as me, only hers was tucked into her coat buttonhole, behind a gold cat pasted with jewels. 2. Ostentation; bravado. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: 'It is mere swank sending it to us,' said he. 'We have to be there whatever happens, as the hangman said to the murderer.' Example: Not even the effeminate swank of his riding clothes could hide the enormous power of that body—he seemed to fill those glistening boots until he strained the top lacing and you could see a great pack of muscle shifting when his shoulder moved under his thin coat.
Word: swank Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From dialectal swank (“to strut, behave ostentatiously”), perhaps from an unrecorded Old English root, derived from Proto-Germanic *swankijaną (“to cause to sway, swing”) or from Proto-Germanic *swankaz (“lithe, bendsome, slender”), related to the Scots swank and the Middle High German swanken, modern German schwanken (“to sway”). Pronunciation: /ˈswæŋk/, [ˈswæŋk], /ˈsweɪ̯ŋk/, [ˈsweɪ̯ŋk] ~ /ˈswɛ̃ŋk/, [ˈswɛ̃ŋk] 1. To swagger, to show off. Example: Looks like she's going to swank in, flashing her diamonds, then swank out to another party. Example: He was still an old galliard, with white Buffalo Bill vandyke, and he swanked around, still healthy of flesh, in white suits, looking things over with big sex-amused eyes.
Word: swatch Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From earlier Northern England dialectal swache (“the counterfoil or counterstock of a tally”) (1512); further etymology unknown. Cognate with Scots swach, swatch. Compare English swath, swathe. Compare also Old English swæcc (“taste; flavour; odour; fragrance”). Pronunciation: /swɒtʃ/, /swɔt͡ʃ/, /swɑt͡ʃ/ 1. To create a swatch, especially a sample of knitted fabric. Example: Swatching is important in knitting to obtain the correct gauge. Example: This season, before you even think about the makeup you need, think about the beige/grey/rust/brown colors—and the clothes—you've been seeing on the preceding pages (to remind you, we've swatched some of them here).
Word: swatch Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Unknown; originally used chiefly in the East of England. Pronunciation: /swɒtʃ/, /swɔt͡ʃ/, /swɑt͡ʃ/ 1. A channel or passage of water between sandbanks, or between a sandbank and a seashore. Labels: UK Example: It muſt be obſerved, that the paſſages, called Cockerlees, are no other than ſwatches through the Long-Sand. Example: The Swatch, or Swatch of no ground, a chaſm in the bank, is ſituated between the latitudes of 21° and 21° 22′ North, and the middle of it lies about 50 leagues Weſt of the meridian of the White Cliffs.
Word: synod Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Ancient Greek σύνοδος (súnodos, “assembly, meeting”) – from σύν (sún, “with”) (English syn-) + ὁδός (hodós, “way, path”). Compare also with the term סַנְהֶדְרִין (“sanhedrin”) common throughout Hebrew Talmudic literature. Pronunciation: /ˈsɪn.əd/ 1. An ecclesiastic council or meeting to consult on church matters. Example: Addressing a number of previously taboo topics, this synod could result in several liberalizing reforms, though there is no guarantee that it will produce anything at all. 2. An administrative division of churches, either the entire denomination, as in the Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod, or a mid-level division (middle judicatory, district) as in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America 3. An assembly or council having civil authority (formal); a legislative body. Example: It hath in solemn synods been decreed. Example: A third part of the Gods, in synod met / Their deities to assert; who, while they feel / Vigour divine within them, can allow / Omnipotence to none. 4. A conjunction of two or more of the heavenly bodies.
Word: tabooed Part of Speech: adj Pronunciation: /tæˈbuːd/ 1. Forbidden; prohibited.
Word: tabooed Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /tæˈbuːd/ 1. simple past and past participle of taboo Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: tabued Part of Speech: adj 1. Obsolete spelling of tabooed. Labels: alt-of, not-comparable, obsolete
Word: tad Part of Speech: noun Etymology: 1877, ‘young or small child’, probably a shortened form of tadpole. The extended meaning ‘small amount’ is first recorded 1915. Pronunciation: /tæd/ 1. A small amount; a little bit. Labels: informal Example: Could you lean the picture to the left just a tad more? 2. A street boy; an urchin. Labels: US, dated, slang
Word: talc Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle French talc, from Arabic طَلْق (ṭalq), from Persian تلک (talk), from Middle Persian [Term?] (“medicament”). Pronunciation: /tælk/ 1. Originally a large range of transparent or glistening foliated minerals. Examples include mica, selenite and the hydrated magnesium silicate that the term talc generally has referred to in modern times (see below). Also an item made of such a mineral and depending for its function on the special nature of the mineral (see next). Medieval writers adopted the term from the Arabic. Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable 2. A microscope slide made of a plate of mica, generally in use from the start of modern microscopy until the early nineteenth century, after which glass slides became the standard medium. Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable Example: M. [Antonie van] Leeuwenhoek fixed his objects, if they were ſolid, to the foregoing point with glue; if they were fluid, he fitted them on a little plate of talc, or exceeding thin blown glaſs, which he afterwards glued to the needle, in the ſame manner as his other objects. 3. A soft mineral, composed of hydrated magnesium silicate, that has a soapy feel and a greenish, whitish, or grayish color, and usually occurs in foliated masses. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The abeer is often mixed with powdered talc to make it glitter, and then, if it gets into the eyes, it causes a good deal of pain. Example: With this background and experience we feel justified in stating that not all talcs contain, or are associated with, asbestos. 4. Talcum powder. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: talc Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle French talc, from Arabic طَلْق (ṭalq), from Persian تلک (talk), from Middle Persian [Term?] (“medicament”). Pronunciation: /tælk/ 1. To apply talc to. Labels: transitive Example: "Generous talcing" is applied not only to the naked bale, but to the inside of the wrapper, and after stenciling, to the interior of the package. This talcing is repeated, "if necessary, dependent upon the number of handlings up to and into stores for steamer loading." Example: Three manufacturers have now produced separate designs for talcing boxes; one uses conventional techniques of brushing and vibrators, one is a fluidised bed and the third is an electrostatic applicator.
Word: taler Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English taler, equivalent to tale + -er. 1. A talker; a teller Labels: archaic Example: Earth writes from the point of view of " 'Baylor' the Taler of Behler the Failer" who tells Scheherazade's story (to Death, her "familiar stranger") of Somebody's last voyage. Example: She had a series of aliases: “longa mariona wode alias Birde alias taler” [long Mariona Wode, alias Birdie, alias taler, perhaps tale teller].
Word: taler Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From German Taler, (older) Thaler. Doublet of dollar and tolar. Pronunciation: /ˈtɑlɚ/, /ˈtɑːlə/ 1. A Germanic unit of currency used between the 15th and 19th centuries. Labels: historical Example: The atmosphere immediately grew tense, as a number of these prints had not been seen in the art market since 1850, at the time when August II of Saxony was buying in these treasures for his Dresden cabinet at prices ranging from 30 to 50 German taler (about 75 cents in our money).
Word: talkie Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Clipping of talking picture, via + -ie, and thus morphologically parallel with movie. Pronunciation: /ˈtɔːki/ 1. A movie with sound, as opposed to a silent film. Labels: dated, historical, informal Example: On October 6, 1927, Warner Bros. released The Jazz Singer, the first sound-synched feature film, prompting a technological shift of unprecedented speed and unstoppable force. Within two years, nearly every studio release was a talkie. Example: “We have just returned from the talkies.” “They should never have added sound. There was pop music and people talking all the way through it.” 2. A song in which the lyrics are spoken rather than sung. Labels: dated, historical Example: "[Love] Jones," [named after] a slang expression for addiction, was a string-infested talkie-thing that surprised many folks when it mounted for the upper reaches of Billboard’s pop charts.
Word: talus Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *teh₂g- Proto-Indo-European *téh₂g-s-los? Proto-Italic *tākslos Latin tālusbor. English talus Borrowed from Latin tālus. Pronunciation: /ˈteɪləs/ 1. The bone of the ankle.
Word: talus Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from French talus. Pronunciation: /ˈteɪləs/ 1. A sloping heap of fragments of rock lying at the foot of a precipice. Example: By the time he reached the first talus slides under the tall escarpments of the Pilares the dawn was not far to come. Example: Above here is what is known as a talus slope - sandstone that has gradually disintegrated and tumbled down to create a menacing sloping pile of loose rock. 2. The slope of an embankment wall, which is thicker at the bottom than at the top.
Word: tannin Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From French tannin, from Latin tannum (“oak bark”), from Gaulish *tannos (“oak”). Related to tan. By surface analysis, tann- + -in. Pronunciation: /ˈtænɪn/ 1. Tannic acid or any of its derivatives. Example: Various substances act by entering into combination, and the divellent tendencies of the affinities of the constituents of those substances are overcome, among those are corrosive sublimate, copperas, tannin, wood, vinegar and creosotte.
Word: tannin Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Hebrew תַּנִּין (tannīn). 1. An evil sea monster in Canaanite and Hebrew mythology.
Word: tapa Part of Speech: noun Etymology: ] Borrowed from Tongan tapa. Pronunciation: /ˈtɑːpə/ 1. A kind of cloth prepared by the Polynesians from the inner bark of the paper mulberry. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: For many of these cultures, clothing — or at least coverings for basic modesty such as loincloths and G-strings — is the main use of tapa.
Word: tapa Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish tapa. Doublet of tap. Pronunciation: /ˈtɑːpə/ 1. Any appetizer or snack served in the evening as part of tapas.
Word: tapa Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Tagalog tapa. Pronunciation: /ˈtɑːpə/ 1. Seasoned slices of dried or cured meat in Filipino cuisine. Labels: uncountable Example: Cusinera serves stupendous silog (traditional Filipino breakfast, $5.61) — eggs with garlic rice and a protein of your choice, such as daing (crispy dried fish), longaniza (juicy, garlicky pork sausage) and tapa (cured beef steak).
Word: tapir Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from French tapir, from Old Tupi tapi'ira. Pronunciation: /ˈteɪpiːə(ɹ)/, /ˈteɪpɪə(ɹ)/, /ˈteɪpə(ɹ)/ 1. An odd-toed ungulate of the genus Tapirus with a long prehensile upper lip. Example: Once a dark, clumsy tapir stared at us from a gap in the bushes, and then lumbered away through the forest; once, too, the yellow, sinuous form of a great puma whisked amid the brushwood, and its green, baleful eyes glared hatred at us over its tawny shoulder.
Word: tapis Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From French, from Old French tapiz, from Vulgar Latin *tapēs, from Ancient Greek τάπης (tápēs), from an Iranian source. Pronunciation: /ˈtapɪs/, /taˈpiː/ 1. A tapestry. Example: The tapises and blankets woven in Bontoc are similar in color and design to those of northern Lepanto where the method of weaving them probably originated. 2. Carpeting. 3. The cover of a council table. Labels: historical
Word: tappet Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From tap + -et, possibly influenced by homophony with "tap it." 1. A lever or projection which is moved by some other piece, as a cam, or intended to tap or touch something else, in order to produce change or regulate motion.
Word: tared Part of Speech: adj 1. Weighed; determined; reduced to equal or standard weight.
Word: tared Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of tare Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: taring Part of Speech: verb Etymology: See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form. Pronunciation: /ˈtɛə.ɹɪŋ/ 1. present participle and gerund of tare Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: taring Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈtɛə.ɹɪŋ/ 1. A common tern (Sterna hirundo).
Word: tarpon Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Compare Dutch tarpoen. Suggestions that the term derives from a Native American term are unlikely. 1. Any of several fishes of the family Elopidae or Megalopidae, especially a large silvery game fish. Example: You're a lucky guy to be eating anything right now. Instead you might easily be feeding the tunny fish and tarpon, to say nothing of the astronesthes and myctophids-- Example: Donald Trump didn’t struggle to win the Florida town of Longboat Key in 2024. With a median age of 71.5 — only 6% of its residents are under 50 — it’s the sort of retirement community that built up his margin statewide. Think The Villages, but with better tarpon fishing.
Word: tas Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of tass. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: taster Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English taster; equivalent to taste + -er. Pronunciation: /teɪstɚ/ 1. An object in which, or by which, food or drink is tasted, such as a small cup. Example: A flight of tasters was served to the people who would vote on the next soda flavor to be released. 2. Someone who tastes something; especially, either (1) to check its quality (in food science, winemaking, etc.) or (2) as a security measure to prevent assassination of a protectee. Example: Big companies such as P&G or Kraft Heinz employ or contract with professional tasters who help with product development. Example: Being a cook for protectees also entails being a taster for them. 3. A kind of zooid situated on the polyp-stem of certain Siphonophorae, resembling the feeding zooids, but destitute of mouths. 4. A sample of something bigger or grander intended for future use. Example: The Kraft Heinz exhibit at the trade fair was a taster of new snack products set to hit the market soon. Example: The Samsung exhibit at the trade fair was a taster of new consumer electronic products set to hit the market soon. 5. A person who is, by genetic makeup, able to taste phenylthiocarbamide.
Word: tat Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Hindi टाट (ṭāṭ, “thick canvas”). Pronunciation: /tæt/ 1. Cheap and vulgar tastelessness; sleaze. Labels: UK, uncountable 2. Cheap, tasteless, useless goods; trinkets. Labels: UK, uncountable Example: tourist tat Example: And it agreed with the editorial cartoon which featured a newsman doing a live report in front of a smouldering building and saying, "And it seems millions of pounds of meaningless tat has been lost to the nation for ever." 3. Gunny cloth made from the fibre of the Corchorus olitorius (jute). Labels: India, countable
Word: tat Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Unknown. Perhaps the same as etymology 1, above, or perhaps a back-formation from tatting. Attested since the 19th century. Pronunciation: /tæt/ 1. To make (something by) tatting. Labels: intransitive, transitive
Word: tat Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Unknown. Perhaps the same as etymology 1, above, or perhaps a back-formation from tatting. Attested since the 19th century. Pronunciation: /tæt/ 1. Clipping of tatting. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, clipping Example: She's so swishy in her satin and tat / In her frock coat and bipperty-bopperty hat
Word: tat Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Hindi टट्टू (ṭaṭṭū, “pony”). Pronunciation: /tæt/ 1. A pony. Labels: India, archaic Example: And so each morning before daybreak I am up, and having dispatched my luggage on the backs of coolies after much noise and bustle, without which no natives can work, I mount my tat as the sun begins to touch the higher hills, and start on my morning ride of twelve miles.
Word: tat Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Clipping of tattoo; see further etymology there. Pronunciation: /tæt/ 1. A tattoo. Labels: slang Example: Now give me my cable, fast food, four-by's, tats, right away I want it now. Example: I'm diplomatic playing pen and pad. Rat-a-tat, you're a scaredy-catcause I have a tat put you up like that. You can't stand that cause you've got to scat.
Word: tat Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Clipping of tattoo; see further etymology there. Pronunciation: /tæt/ 1. To apply a tattoo. Labels: slang, transitive Example: 2016 May 5, Fifth Harmony, “Write on Me”, 7/27, Epic Records, Sysco Music Write on me / Love the way you tat me up
Word: tat Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /tæt/ 1. Alternative form of tatt (“a die, especially one that is loaded”). Labels: UK, alt-of, alternative, archaic, slang
Word: tat Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /tæt/ 1. Alternative form of tatty (“kind of woven mat or screen”). Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: tat Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /tæt/ 1. Some small thing, especially that which is exchanged tit for tat. Example: The article seems an attempt at tit-for-tat; but there is too little tat, even in Bedouins, to provoke such a maze of tit as is found in “'Bedouins' and Nomads.” Example: [...] insecurity, anger engender the excessive retaliation of two tits for a tat that leads not to damping-down but to [escalation].
Word: tearer Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From tear + -er. Pronunciation: /ˈtɛəɹə/, /ˈtɛɹɚ/, /ˈteɹɚ/, /tɛəɹɚ/, /ˈteːɹə/ 1. One who tears or rends anything. 2. One who rages or raves with violence; a boisterous person. Labels: slang
Word: teasel Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English tasel, tesel, from Old English tǣsel, tǣsl, from Proto-West Germanic *taisilu. Pronunciation: /ˈtiːzəl/ 1. Any of several plants of the genus Dipsacus. 2. The dried fruiting head of the fuller's teasel, Dipsacus sativa, used for teasing or carding cloth. 3. Any contrivance intended as a substitute for teasels in dressing cloth.
Word: teasel Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English tasel, tesel, from Old English tǣsel, tǣsl, from Proto-West Germanic *taisilu. Pronunciation: /ˈtiːzəl/ 1. To raise the nap on cloth; to tease; to card. Labels: archaic
Word: teated Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From teat + -ed. 1. Having teats. Labels: not-comparable 2. Having protuberances resembling the teat of an animal. Labels: not-comparable
Word: tedder Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English teddere; equivalent to ted + -er. 1. A machine for stirring and spreading hay, to speed up its drying.
Word: tedder Part of Speech: verb 1. Pronunciation spelling of tether. Labels: alt-of, pronunciation-spelling
Word: teem Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English temen (“to bear, to support”), from Anglian Old English tēman (“to give birth”) (West Saxon Old English tīeman), from Proto-West Germanic *taumijan (“to bridle”), from Proto-Germanic *taumijaną, from *taumaz ("bridle", continued in Modern English as team). Pronunciation: /tiːm/ 1. To be stocked to overflowing. Example: But well he knew his teeming pangs were vain, Till Midwife Dryden eas’d his labouring Brain; Example: his mind teeming with schemes of future deceit to cover former villainy 2. To be prolific; to abound; to be rife. Example: Fish teem in this pond. Example: The steel works, with their Siemens furnaces, the rail-rolling mill with its enormous single-cylinder engine fitted with Corliss valve gear, and the forge in which were installed the great steam hammers and hydraulic presses—these were teeming with interest, and the best way to pick up information was to work with the millwrights. 3. To fall prolifically. Example: "Troth, it's teemin' powerful this instiant up there in the mountains. 'Twill be much if you land home afore it's atop of you; […]" Example: ... rain teemed from the overcast skies, cold and penetrating, and life began to look like one enormous funeral procession. 4. To bring forth young, as an animal; to produce fruit, as a plant; to bear; to be pregnant; to conceive; to multiply. Labels: obsolete Example: If she must teem, / Create her child of spleen.
Word: teem Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English temen (“to bear, to support”), from Anglian Old English tēman (“to give birth”) (West Saxon Old English tīeman), from Proto-West Germanic *taumijan (“to bridle”), from Proto-Germanic *taumijaną, from *taumaz ("bridle", continued in Modern English as team). Pronunciation: /tiːm/ 1. A downpour (of rain). Example: ... a teem of rain that poured down so copiously it ran in surface streamlets over the plains. I may literally say we came to anchor this evening in a sheet of water, the prairie, as far as we could see, presenting the same aqueous[…] Example: ... under the great teems of rain, and houldin' up the grandest new green umbrella ever you laid eyes on. Fine it was entirely, and an iligant body I was consaitin' meself, goodness forgive me.
Word: teem Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English temen (“to drain”), from Old Norse tœma, from Proto-Germanic *tōmijaną (“to empty, make empty”). Related to English toom (“empty, vacant”). More at toom. Pronunciation: /tiːm/ 1. To empty. Labels: archaic Example: [The banksman] also puts the full tubs to the weighing machine, and thence to the skreens, upon which he teems the coals. It is also his duty to keep an account of the quantity of coals and stones drawn each day. Example: “Are you sure they’re good lodgings?” she asked. “Yes—yes. Only—it’s a winder when you have to pour your own tea out—an’ nobody to grouse if you teem it in your saucer and sup it up. It somehow takes a’ the taste out of it.” 2. To pour (especially with rain) 3. To pour, as steel, from a melting pot; to fill, as a mould, with molten metal. 4. To drain the water from (boiled potatoes etc.). Labels: Ireland, Scotland
Word: teem Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English temen (“to be suitable, befit”), from Old English *teman, from Proto-Germanic *temaną (“to fit”). Cognate with Low German temen, tamen (“to befit”), Dutch betamen (“to befit”), German ziemen. See also tame (adjective) and compare beteem. Pronunciation: /tiːm/ 1. To think fit. Labels: obsolete, rare Example: Ah, said he, thou hast confessed and bewrayed all, I could teem it to rend thee in pieces
Word: teemer Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From teem + -er. 1. One who teems, or brings forth. Example: The staff discharging the coal from the wagons is known as teemers or tippers; they are employed by the dock-owners.
Word: teener Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From teen + -er. Pronunciation: /ˈtiːnə/ 1. A teenager. Labels: dated Example: 1952, American Psychological Association, Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, American Psychological Association (1952), p. 159, […] adult periods and emphasizes the importance of the total teener in a social milieu. Example: a'''1968, Upton Sinclair, When I Was a Teener. 2. A sixteenth of an ounce of a drug. Labels: US, slang
Word: teethe Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English tethen, from Old English tēþan (“to teethe”), from Proto-West Germanic *tanþijan, from Proto-Germanic *tanþijaną (“to teethe”), from Proto-Germanic *tanþs (“tooth”). Cognate with German zähnen (“to provide with teeth”). Pronunciation: /tiːð/ 1. To grow teeth. Labels: intransitive Example: Babies typically start teething at about six months. 2. To bite on something to relieve discomfort caused by growing teeth. Labels: intransitive Example: She'll teethe on anything that she can get into her mouth.
Word: telex Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From genericization of Telex Printergram and Telex, derived as a blend of tele- (“telegraph, teletype, teleprinter, etc.”) + exchange. Pronunciation: /tɛl.ɛks/ 1. A network of teletypes. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. A teletype message sent through such a network. Labels: countable, uncountable 3. A teletype device connected to such a network. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: telex Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From genericization of Telex Printergram and Telex, derived as a blend of tele- (“telegraph, teletype, teleprinter, etc.”) + exchange. Pronunciation: /tɛl.ɛks/ 1. To send a message over a telex network. Labels: transitive
Word: tenner Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English ten 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 tenner From ten + -er. Pronunciation: /ˈtɛnə(ɹ)/ 1. A monetary note (bill) whose face value is ten basic units of currency. Originally, a ten-shilling (half pound) note. Labels: Ireland, UK, informal Example: [...] or, if you're feeling brave, a tenner. Tell your child they have a chance to win the fiver if they can [...] Example: The more a shop looks as though it trades in farthings and ha’pennies, the more tenners and twenties you can expect to hand over at the till. 2. A kind of 10-kilowatt lamp. Labels: slang Example: The basic 10K, known as a tenner or studio 10K, has a 20-inch fresnel. The big daddy of the group is the Big Eye tenner, which has a 24-inch lens. 3. A tennis shoe.
Word: tenon Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English tenoun, tenown, tenon, from Anglo-Norman tenoun, from Old French tenon. Pronunciation: /ˈtɛn.ən/ 1. A projecting member left by cutting away the wood around it, and made to insert into a mortise, and in this way secure together the parts of a frame. Example: A keyed mortise-and-tenon joint is constructed the same as a doweled mortise and tenon joint except that the tenon projects far enough through the mortise to admit the insertion of a tapering key which draws the mortised piece firmly against the shoulder of the tenon. Example: One soon learned, however, that it was no easy thing to make wood do exactly as one required it. It looked quite easy in the masterly hands of the experienced pattern-maker, but the mysteries of dowelling and mortice and tenon were not uncovered in a week or two.
Word: tenon Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English tenoun, tenown, tenon, from Anglo-Norman tenoun, from Old French tenon. Pronunciation: /ˈtɛn.ən/ 1. To make into a tenon. Labels: transitive Example: First we'll tenon this part, then we'll make a mortise that will fit it on that part. 2. To fit with tenons. Labels: transitive