nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: labial Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Borrowing from Medieval Latin labiālis (“of or pertaining to the lips”), from labium (“a lip”) + -ālis (“-al”, adjectival suffix); equivalent to labium + -al. Pronunciation: /ˈleɪ.bi.əl/, /ˈleɪb.jəl/ 1. Of or pertaining to the lips or labia. Labels: not-comparable Example: The wound that does not kill Christ is the magical labial wound; it is the seal of the resurrection and an expression of the myth of eternal recurrence. 2. Articulated by the lips, as the consonants b, m and w. Labels: not-comparable 3. On the side facing the lips. See mesial. Labels: not-comparable 4. Furnished with lips. Labels: not-comparable Example: a labial organ pipe
Word: labial Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowing from Medieval Latin labiālis (“of or pertaining to the lips”), from labium (“a lip”) + -ālis (“-al”, adjectival suffix); equivalent to labium + -al. Pronunciation: /ˈleɪ.bi.əl/, /ˈleɪb.jəl/ 1. A consonant articulated by the lips. Example: The motions of the Tongue, Lips, Throat, Palate, & c. which go to the making of the ſeveral Alphabetical Letters are worthy inquiry, and pertinent to the preſent Inquiſition of Sounds: But becauſe they are ſubtil and long to deſcribe, we will refer them over, and place them amongſt the Experiments of Speech. The Hebrews have been diligent in it, and have aſſigned which Letters are Labial, which Dental, which Guttural, & c Example: You have but the same four letters to describe the salute which you perform on your grandmother’s forehead, and that which you bestow on the sacred cheek of your mistress; but the same four letters, and not one of them a labial. 2. An organ pipe having a lip that influences its sound. Example: All organ pipes are divided into two general classes, labial and lingual pipes. The main difference between the two classes is the manner by which the vibrations producing the sound are caused. In labial pipes the column of air entering the pipe under pressure is set in vibration by a fixed obstruction at the mount of the pipe. […] [T]he obstruction at the mouth […] causes the column of air to vibrate. In the lingual or reed pipe, the vibrations are caused by the air passing through a metal reed, which causes the tongue of the reed to vibrate, thereby setting up sympathetic vibrations in the column of air in the pipe. 3. Any of the scales bordering the mouth opening of a reptile.
Word: labile Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Borrowed from Latin lābilis (“apt to slip, transient”), from lābor, lābī (“slip; glide, flow”). Pronunciation: /ˈleɪbaɪl/ 1. Liable to slip, err, fall, or apostatize. 2. Apt or likely to change. Example: Pythagoras [said] that each thing or matter was ever gliding and labile. 3. Kinetically unstable; rapidly cleaved (and possibly reformed). Example: Certain drugs can be conjugated to polymer molecules with a linkage that is labile at low pH to effect controlled release in a cellular endosome. Example: Water ligands typically bind metals in a labile fashion and are rapidly interchanged in aqueous solution. 4. Able to change valency without changing its form; especially, able to be used both transitively and intransitively without changing its form.
Word: lac Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Portuguese laca, from Hindi लाख (lākh)/Urdu لاکھ (lākh) or cognates in other Indo-Aryan languages, from Sanskrit लाक्षा (lākṣā). Doublet of lacquer. Pronunciation: /læk/ 1. A resinous substance or lacquer produced mainly on the banyan tree by the female of Kerria lacca, a scale insect. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: At the turn of the century, the ever-expanding electrical industry was running low on shellac, a resin secreted by the female lac bug which could be used as an insulating material.
Word: lac Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /læk/ 1. Dated spelling of lakh. Example: […] Lake [i.e., Gerard Lake, 1st Viscount Lake] should not have leisure to breathe for a moment, and calamities would fall on lacs of human beings in continued war by the attacks of his army, which would overwhelm like the waves of the sea. Example: The Laccadives and Maldives, for instance, meaning literally the "lac of islands" and the "thousand islands," are a series of such atolls; […]
Word: lac Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Cadillac. Pronunciation: /læk/ 1. Clipping of Cadillac Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, slang Example: Last night I was driving around in my lac. Example: 1992, Big Mello, Bone Hard Zaggin, Rap-A-Lot Records, track 5. "Mac's Drive 'Lac's" Macs drive lacs.
Word: lac Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From laceration. Pronunciation: /læs/, /læk/ 1. Laceration. Labels: colloquial, countable, uncountable Example: hand lac
Word: lacuna Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin lacūna (“a ditch, pit; a hollow, cavity; a gap, defect”). Doublet of lacune and lagoon. Pronunciation: /ləˈk(j)uː.nə/ 1. A small opening; a small pit or depression, especially in bone. 2. A small opening; a small pit or depression, especially in bone. 3. A small blank space; a gap or vacancy; a hiatus. Example: "Our young friend makes up for many obvious mental lacunæ by some measure of primitive common sense," remarked Challenger. 4. A small blank space; a gap or vacancy; a hiatus. Example: Long lacunae in this inscription make interpretation difficult. 5. A small blank space; a gap or vacancy; a hiatus. Labels: figuratively Example: For Beatrice Nutter, there will always be conspicuous lacunae in our mutual understanding, but after almost 30 years here, the anomalies now delight rather than confound her. Example: If the researcher cannot adequately hear a specific conversation due to its low volume or other acoustic interference, then this data point can be passed over with the understanding that such lacunae will be randomly distributed over the data collecting period. 6. A small blank space; a gap or vacancy; a hiatus.
Word: laired Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From lair + -ed. 1. Having a lair. Labels: not-comparable
Word: laired Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From lair + -ed. 1. simple past and past participle of lair; mired. Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: lakers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of laker Labels: form-of, plural
Word: lander Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *lendʰ- Proto-Indo-European *-om Proto-Germanic *landą Proto-West Germanic *land Old English land Middle English lond English land 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 lander From land (verb) + -er. Pronunciation: [ˈlændə], [ˈlændɚ] 1. One who lands, or who lands something. Example: The Faroese have been important landers of fish at Aberdeen for decades. 2. A spacecraft, particularly a probe, designed to set down on the surface of another celestial body. 3. A person who waits at the mouth of the shaft to receive the kibble of ore. 4. An illegal immigrant. Labels: slang 5. Synonym of landing page. Labels: Internet
Word: lander Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From land (noun) + -er. Compare Old English landwaru (“the people of a country”). Pronunciation: [ˈlændə], [ˈlændɚ] 1. A person from a specific land. See highlander, Greenlander. Labels: in-compounds Example: La La Lander: Golden Globe nominee Emma Stone donned a grey ruffled pencil skirt with a white sheer blouse for the party.
Word: lappet Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From lap + -et. 1. A small decorative fold or flap, especially of lace or muslin, in a garment or headdress. Example: Oout of hiz boozom drawn foorth a lappet of his napkin, edged with a blu la[c]e, and marked with a trulooue, a hart & a D, for Damian: for he waz but a bachelar yet. Example: […] lifting up the Lappet of his Coat, he put me gently into it, and immediately ran along with me to his Master […] 2. A wattle or flap-like structure on the face. Example: Some vultures have lappets of bare flesh on the sides of the head. Example: Tompot blennies are distinguished by a pair of lappets above the eyes and dark stripes along the body. 3. A head-dress made with lappets for lace pendants. 4. A lobe (division of an organ). Labels: obsolete Example: In the tender lappet of the eare is supposed to rest the seat of remembrance, which we vse to touch when we mean to take one to beare witnesse of an arrest or other thing done, Example: […] he ran him in with the spit a little above the navel, towards the right flank, till he pierced the third lappet of his liver,
Word: lappet Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From lap + -et. 1. To decorate with, or as if with, lappets. Labels: transitive Example: I would fain merit your esteem, heedless of these pursy fellows from hulks and warehouses, with one ear lappetted by the pen behind it […]
Word: lapser Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From lapse + -er. 1. One who lapses.
Word: lar Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Latin lār (“ancestral deity or spirit”) from Etruscan. Pronunciation: /lɑː/, /lɑɹ/ 1. singular of lares: a household god, particularly overseeing the family itself. Labels: Roman, form-of, in-plural, singular Example: Would the great emperor’s lar, free of its soldierly body rheumatic from German mists and browned and grizzled by the Indus sun, haunt that pinedark road to Elefsis to taste again the essences on which it fed and gather with voluptuous fingers the ghosts of roses? 2. A lar gibbon (Hylobates lar).
Word: lar Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin [Term?]. 1. An Etruscan title, properly peculiar to the eldest son, but often mistaken for an integral part of the name. Labels: historical
Word: lar Part of Speech: particle 1. Alternative spelling of lah. Labels: Manglish, Singlish, alt-of, alternative
Word: larker Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From lark + -er. 1. A catcher of larks (the bird). 2. One who indulges in a lark or frolic.
Word: lasher Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From lash + -er. Pronunciation: /ˈlæʃə(ɹ)/ 1. One who whips or lashes. 2. A piece of rope for binding or making fast one thing to another.
Word: lasher Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From lash + -er; see lash (“slack”). Pronunciation: /ˈlæʃə(ɹ)/ 1. A weir in a river. Labels: UK Example: There is Basildon - and Hurley - and Pangbourne, with its roaring lasher Example: They paddled on in silence till they came to the lasher. Together they hauled the punt over the rollers ... Through the network of branches moonlight drifted, making ... water, rushing foam-streaked from the lasher, eerie and fantastic.
Word: laster Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From last + -er. 1. A workman whose business it is to shape boots or shoes, or place leather smoothly, on lasts. 2. A tool for stretching leather on a last. 3. That which lasts or endures. Example: […] the Ambret; which Pear, though it neither grows to be so large in substance or size, as large Les Chasseries, yet bears more in number, comes sooner into bearing, tastes better in the mouth, and is commonly a long laster.
Word: lavabo Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From the Christian ritual, which was traditionally accompanied in Catholicism by a recitation of Psalm 25:6 (Psalm 26:6, in the Hebrew and in most modern translations) which in Latin begins with the word lavābō (“I will wash”). The sense of "room with a toilet" developed under the influence of lavatory and lav. Pronunciation: /ləˈveɪbəʊ/ 1. A ritual involving the washing of one's hands at a church's offertory before handling the Eucharist. 2. The small towel used to dry the priest's hands following the ritual. Example: These small liturgical towels got […] the name of Lavabo cloths or Lavaboes. 3. A washbasin, particularly (Christianity) the one in a church used in the ritual. Example: […] the […] pontiff, as he […] moved his hands […] at the Lavabo, or at the various benedictions […] 4. A trough used for washing at some medieval monasteries. 5. A lavatory: a room used for urination and defecation. Labels: euphemistic, humorous Example: Mr. Pond fussed out and she heard the door of the little lavabo in the passage open with a loud creak.
Word: lawing Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *legʰ-der. Proto-Germanic *lagą Old Norse lag Old Norse lǫgbor. Old English lagu Middle English lawe English law English -ing English lawing From law + -ing. 1. Going to law; litigation. Example: And in this distresse and necessitie it had beene verie requisit and needfull that the souldiers should haue taken vp their weapons , serued against the enimie , and haue defended Lawing woorse the common state 2. Money owed for a service rendered. Labels: Scotland, UK, obsolete Example: A shilling for breakfast, three shillings for dinner, including a pint of old port, eighteen-pence for a snug supper — such were the charges of the inn of Saint Ronan's under this landlady of the olden world, even after the nineteenth century had commenced ; and they were ever tendered with the pious recollection, that her good father never charged half so much, but these weary times rendered it impossible for her to make the lawing less. Example: Late at e'en, drinking the wine, And ere they paid the lawing, They set a combat them between, To fight it in the dawing.
Word: lawing Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *legʰ-der. Proto-Germanic *lagą Old Norse lag Old Norse lǫgbor. Old English lagu Middle English lawe English law English -ing English lawing From law + -ing. 1. present participle and gerund of law Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: lawing Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of lawe Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: lea Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English legh, lege, lei (“clearing, open ground”), from Old English lēah (“clearing in a forest”) from Proto-West Germanic *lauh (“meadow”), from Proto-Germanic *lauhaz (“meadow”), from Proto-Indo-European *lówkos (“field, meadow”). Akin to Old Frisian lāch (“meadow”), Old Saxon lōh (“forest, grove”) (Middle Dutch loo (“forest, thicket”); Dutch -lo (“in placenames”)), Old High German lōh (“covered clearing, low bushes”), Old Norse lō (“clearing, meadow”). Pronunciation: /liː/, /leɪ/ 1. An open field, meadow, pasture. Example: The curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd wind slowly o'er the lea, The plowman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the world to darkness and to me. Example: 19th century, Alfred Tennyson, Circumstance Two children in two neighbor villages Playing mad pranks along the heathy leas;
Word: lea Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English le, lee, ley, of uncertain origin. Compare Old French lier (“to bind”), Old French laisse (“leash, cord”), Old French lïace, lïaz (“bundle”). Pronunciation: /liː/, /leɪ/ 1. Any of several measures of yarn; for linen, 300 yards (275 m); for cotton, 120 yards (110 m). 2. A set of warp threads carried by a loop of the heddle.
Word: leaser Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From lease + -er. Pronunciation: /ˈliːsə/ 1. One who leases or gleans; lessor. Labels: nonstandard Example: The owner of the property is the leaser when they rent it by lease to a lessee. 2. Leaseman.
Word: leaved Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English leuued, levyd, equivalent to leaf + -ed. Pronunciation: /liːvd/ 1. Having a leaf, leaves or folds. Labels: in-compounds, not-comparable, sometimes
Word: leaved Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Equivalent to leave + -ed. Pronunciation: /liːvd/ 1. simple past and past participle of leave (in the sense "to produce leaves or foliage") Labels: form-of, participle, past 2. Obsolete form of left. Labels: alt-of, obsolete Example: He left a landmine and he leaved… "He leaved"? Left.
Word: legume Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from French légume, from Latin legūmen (“bean”). Doublet of legumen. Pronunciation: /ˈlɛɡ.juːm/, /lɪˈɡjuːm/, /ləˈɡjuːm/, /ləˈɡuːm/ 1. The fruit or seed of leguminous plants (as peas or beans) used for food. 2. Any of a large family (Fabaceae, syn. Leguminosae) of dicotyledonous herbs, shrubs, and trees having fruits that are legumes or loments, bearing nodules on the roots that contain nitrogen-fixing bacteria, and including important food and forage plants (as peas, beans, or clovers). 3. A pod dehiscent into two pieces or valves, and having the seed attached at one suture, as that of the pea.
Word: lemma Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Ancient Greek λῆμμᾰ (lêmmă, “premise, assumption”), from the same root as λᾰμβᾰ́νω (lămbắnō, “to take”). Pronunciation: /ˈlɛmə/, /ˈlɪmə/ 1. A proposition proved or accepted for immediate use in the proof of some other proposition. Example: "We finally did it, but we found the proof very, very hard," he [Dr. John Conway] said. "I remember my wife and I spending one entire afternoon just working on some tiny little lemmas involved in the proof." 2. A proposition proved or accepted for immediate use in the proof of some other proposition. Labels: broadly 3. The canonical form of an inflected word; i.e., the form usually found as the headword in a dictionary, such as the nominative singular of a noun, the bare infinitive of a verb, etc. Example: Cat is a lemma, but cats is not. Example: Holonym: lexeme (holonymous sense) 4. The theoretical abstract conceptual form of a word, representing a specific meaning, before the creation of a specific phonological form as the sounds of a lexeme, which may find representation in a specific written form as a dictionary or lexicographic word.
Word: lemma Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From the Ancient Greek λέμμα (lémma), from λέπω (lépō, “to peel”). Pronunciation: /ˈlɛmə/, /ˈlɪmə/ 1. The outer shell of a fruit or similar body. 2. One of the specialized bracts around the floret in grasses.
Word: leones Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of leone Labels: form-of, plural
Word: lessee Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Anglo-Norman lessié, past participle of lessier (“to permit, to let”). Pronunciation: /lɛˈsiː/ 1. An individual or a corporation who has the right of use of something of value, gained through a lease agreement with the real owner of the property. Example: These automobiles will be covered for the three excluded perils, if loss is caused by the lessee or the rentee. 2. The entity to whom a lease is given, or who takes an estate by lease. 3. Someone who is allowed to use a house, building, land etc. for a period of time in return for payment to the owner.
Word: lessee Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Contraction. 1. Pronunciation spelling of let's see. Labels: alt-of, pronunciation-spelling Example: Lessee now, who else does the old master know? Example: Huh? My name? Lessee... I just came outta that egg, so I guess I don'thave a name yet.
Word: levee Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From French levée, from lever (“to raise, rise”). Pronunciation: /ˈlɛvi/, /ˈlɛveɪ/, /ləˈvi/, /ləˈveɪ/ 1. An elevated ridge of deposited sediment on the banks of a river, formed by the river's overflow at times of high discharge. 2. An embankment to prevent inundation; as, the levees along the Mississippi. 3. The steep bank of a river. Labels: US Example: The purchaser of a riparious estate under the words "front to the levee," does not acquire the alluvion or batture, when there is land susceptible of separate ownership beyond the levee. 4. The border of an irrigated field. Labels: US 5. A pier or other landing place on a river. Labels: US
Word: levee Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From French levée, from lever (“to raise, rise”). Pronunciation: /ˈlɛvi/, /ˈlɛveɪ/, /ləˈvi/, /ləˈveɪ/ 1. To keep within a channel by means of levees. Labels: US, transitive Example: to levee a river
Word: levee Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From French levé variant of the noun lever (“the act of getting up in the morning”). Pronunciation: /ˈlɛvi/, /ˈlɛveɪ/, /ləˈvi/, /ləˈveɪ/ 1. The act of rising; getting up, especially in the morning after rest. Labels: obsolete Example: c. 1763, Thomas Gray, letter to Mr. Nichols And look before you were up in the morning, though you were a punctual courtier at the sun's levee Example: The sturdy hind now attends the levee of his fellow-labourer the ox […] 2. A reception of visitors held after getting up. 3. A formal reception, especially one given by royalty or other leaders. Example: I must take my leave, for the Cardinal holds a levee to-day, and let those fail in attendance who want nothing. Example: At the King's levee on the morning of the 13th, Philippe was first ignored; then asked by His Majesty (rudely) what he wanted; then told, ‘Get back where you came from.’
Word: levee Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From French levé variant of the noun lever (“the act of getting up in the morning”). Pronunciation: /ˈlɛvi/, /ˈlɛveɪ/, /ləˈvi/, /ləˈveɪ/ 1. To attend the levee or levees of. Labels: transitive Example: He levees all the great.
Word: leveed Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From levee + -ed. 1. Having a levee. Labels: not-comparable
Word: levier Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From levy + -er (“agent suffix”). 1. One who levies.
Word: levy Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Anglo-Norman leve, from Old French levee, from lever (“to raise”), from Latin lēvāre (“to raise, lift”). Pronunciation: /ˈlɛ.vi/ 1. To impose (a tax or fine) to collect monies due, or to confiscate property. Labels: transitive Example: to levy a tax Example: In August, the company also announced that it would begin to levy fines on other vendors on its platform who over-package their products. 2. To raise or collect by assessment; to exact by authority. Example: If they do this […] my ransom, then, / Will soon be levied. 3. To draft someone into military service. 4. To raise; to collect; said of troops, to form into an army by enrollment, conscription. etc. Example: Augustine […] inflamed Ethelbert, king of Kent, to levy his power, and to war against them. 5. To wage war. 6. To raise, as a siege. Example: Albeit hee saw that the siege was levied 7. To erect, build, or set up; to make or construct; to raise or cast up. Example: The new levying or inhancing of Weares Mills
Word: levy Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Anglo-Norman leve, from Old French levee, from lever (“to raise”), from Latin lēvāre (“to raise, lift”). Pronunciation: /ˈlɛ.vi/ 1. The act of levying. 2. The act of levying. Example: 1835-1847, Connop Thirlwall, The History of Greece A levy of all the men left under sixty. 3. The things or people so levied. Example: The Irish levies. Example: The first is that French people are more concerned about the poor health of their democracy – since the carbon levy they have campaigned for democratic reform (though this has proven harder to deliver than the tax U-turn). 4. The things or people so levied. 5. The things or people so levied. 6. The things or people so levied. Example: To make up for their losses at the battle they [the professional army of Harold II, Anglo-Saxon King of England] had gathered levies of men from the counties they passed through on their way south. […] Ranged alongside these professionals were the levies: farmers and peasants, for the most part, who had been straggling in from all over the southern counties during the previous few days [before the Battle of Hastings in 1066]. 7. A shilling. Labels: obsolete, slang
Word: levy Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Contraction of elevenpence. Pronunciation: /ˈlɛ.vi/ 1. The Spanish real of one eighth of a dollar, valued at elevenpence when the dollar was rated at seven shillings and sixpence. Labels: Pennsylvania, US, Virginia, obsolete
Word: lien Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French lien, from Latin ligāmen (“bond”), from ligō (“tie, bind”). Pronunciation: /liːn/, /ˈliːən/ 1. tendon Labels: obsolete 2. A right to take possession of a debtor’s property as security until a debt or duty is discharged. Example: […] every youth movement presents itself as loan to the future, and tries to call in its lien in advance, but when there is no future all loans are canceled. Example: Bodin deemed the king of France's power as absolute in the sense that the ruler was ‘absolved’ by divine sanction from legally binding liens and restrictions.
Word: lien Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ˈlaɪən/ 1. Alternative form of lain. Labels: alt-of, alternative, archaic Example: And Abimelech said, What is this thou hast done vnto vs? one of the people might lightly haue lien with thy wife, and thou shouldest haue brought guiltinesse vpon vs.” Example: And the Priest shall charge her by an othe, and say vnto the woman, If no man haue lyen with thee, and if thou hast not gone aside to vncleannesse with another in stead of thy husband, be thou free from this bitter water that causeth the curse.
Word: lien Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Latin liēn (“spleen”). Doublet of spleen. Pronunciation: /ˈlaɪ.in/, /ˈlaɪ.ən/ 1. spleen (a ductless vascular gland) Labels: obsolete, possibly, uncommon Example: Li'enal. Pertaining to the lien or spleen; splenic. Example: The lien or spleen (figs. 282 to 285) is a soft, highly vascular contractile and very elastic organ of a dark purplish colour. It is placed obliquely behind the stomach, …
Word: liens Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of lien Labels: form-of, plural
Word: ligand Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Latin ligandus, gerundive of ligo (“bind”). Pronunciation: /ˈlɪɡ.ənd/, /ˈlaɪ.ɡənd/ 1. A molecule or moiety (ion, functional group, or radical) that binds to another chemical entity to form a larger complex; as, especially: Labels: physical 2. A molecule or moiety (ion, functional group, or radical) that binds to another chemical entity to form a larger complex; as, especially: Labels: physical 3. A letter that orthography requires or allows to be ligated with one or more other letters to form a ligature, such as a in æ or o in œ.
Word: lilied Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From lily + -ed. 1. Covered with, or having many, lilies. Example: Nymphs and Shepherds, dance no more / By sandy Ladon's lilied banks; Example: 1906, Percy MacKaye, Jeanne d'Arc, Act III, New York: Macmillan, p. 114, https://archive.org/details/jeannedarcadrama00mack She drives you from the bridge. Her armour!— Now— / Oh, she is blown about and fluttered o'er / By clouds of little golden butterflies, / And where she thrusts her lilied banner through, / She glitters double—in the air and river.
Word: lilt Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English lilten, lulten. Pronunciation: /lɪlt/ 1. To do something rhythmically, with animation and quickness, usually of music. Labels: intransitive Example: Whether the bird flit here or there, O'er table lilt , or perch on chair 2. To sing cheerfully, especially in Gaelic. Labels: intransitive 3. To utter with spirit, animation, or gaiety; to sing with spirit and liveliness. Labels: intransitive Example: A classic lecture, rich in sentiment, / With scraps of thunderous epic lilted out / By violet-hooded doctors.
Word: lilt Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English lilten, lulten. Pronunciation: /lɪlt/ 1. Animated, brisk motion; spirited rhythm; sprightliness. 2. A lively song or dance; a cheerful tune. Example: He was going away quite in despair, when a little old man, who was looking on with marks of displeasure in his face, came up to him, and telling him he was his friend, and his father's friend, bade him go into the ring and call for a lilt. 3. A cheerful or melodious accent when speaking. Example: Though Bane’s sing-song voice gives his pronouncements a funny lilt, he doesn’t have any of the Joker’s deranged wit, and Nolan isn’t interested in undercutting his seriousness for the sake of a breezier entertainment.
Word: limbic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From French limbique, from Latin limbus (“edge, border”). Pronunciation: /ˈlɪmbɪk/ 1. Relating to the limbic system. Labels: not-comparable
Word: linter Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From lint + -er. 1. The short fibres that cling to cottonseeds after the first ginning. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. A machine for removing these fibres. Labels: countable 3. A person or device that collects lint for use in making hats etc. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: linter Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From lint + -er. 1. A program or algorithm that performs linting. Example: A linter checks your source code for syntax and style errors.
Word: lipid Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *leyp- Proto-Hellenic *lípos Ancient Greek λῐ́πος (lĭ́pos) Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-der. Proto-Italic *-iðos Latin -idusbor. French -ide French lipidebor. English lipid Borrowed from French lipide, coined in 1923 by Gabriel Bertrand from Ancient Greek λῐ́πος (lĭ́pos, “animal fat”) + French -ide. Pronunciation: /ˈlɪpɪd/, /ˈlɪpəd/ 1. Any of a group of organic compounds including the fats, oils, waxes, sterols, and triglycerides. Lipids are characterized by being insoluble in water. Example: Without lipids your body eats your fat and then your muscles, and the brain is pure fat and the heart is a muscle. You become a feedback loop, and then you fall over.
Word: lister Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of leister (“fish spear”). Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: lister Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English list 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 lister From list + -er. 1. One who, or that which, lists or produces a listing. Example: A good program lister is helpful here, since many language processors allow multi-statement lines. For BASIC, FORTRAN, PASCAL, and similar languages, the lister can split multi-statement lines, ensure there are blanks between keywords […] 2. A person or organisation that creates or maintains lists. 3. A birdwatcher who keeps track of birds using different checklists.
Word: lister Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Compare list (“a strip, border”), probably applied to the furrow or the ridge of earth along the furrow. 1. A double-mouldboard plough that throws a deep furrow and at the same time plants and covers grain in the bottom of the furrow.
Word: lither Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English lither, lyther (“deceitful; evil; false; treacherous; sinful, wicked; leading to cruelty, injustice, or wickedness, perverted; of a country: filled with wicked people; cruel, fierce; dangerous, deadly; frightening; grievous, painful; harmful, injurious; miserable, paltry, poor, worthless; feeble, sluggish; cowardly”) [and other forms], from Old English lȳþre (“bad, wicked; base, mean, wretched; corrupt”) [and other forms], from Proto-Germanic *lūþrijaz (“bad; dissolute; neglected; useless”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)lew- (“limp, slack”). Sense 1.2 (“flexible, supple; agile, lithe”) is influenced by lithe. Cognates Dutch lodder (“wanton person”), loddering (“drowsy; trifling; wanton”) German liederlich (“dissolute”), German lotterig (“slovenly”), lüderlich (“slovenly”) Old English loþrung (“delusion, rubbish, nonsense”), loddere (“beggar”) Pronunciation: /ˈlɪðə/, /ˈlɪðɚ/ 1. Lazy, slothful; listless. Labels: UK, archaic, dialectal Example: After the same manner a Monk (I mean those lither, idle, lazie Monks) doth not labour and work, as do the Peasant and Artificer: doth not ward and defend the countrey, as doth the man of warre: cureth not the sick and diseased, as the Physician doth: doth neither preach nor teach, as do the Evangelical Doctors and Schoolmasters: doth not import commodities and things necessary for the Commonwealth, as the Merchant doth: therefore is it, that by and of all men they are hooted at, hated and abhorred. Example: "It is thine own laziness, thou false English blood, that doest nothing but drink and sleep," retorted the page, "and leaves that lither lad to do the work, that he minds as little as thou." 2. Flexible, supple; also, agile, lithe. Labels: UK, archaic, dialectal Example: Thou antique Death, vvhich laugh'ſt vs here to ſcorn, / Anon from thy inſulting Tyrannie, / Coupled in bonds of perpetuitie, / Tvvo Talbots vvinged through the lither Skie, / In thy deſpight ſhall ſcape Mortalitie. 3. Bad, evil; false. Labels: obsolete Example: The follest slouen ondyr heuen, / Prowde, peuiche, lyddyr, and lewde, / Malapert, medyllar, nothyng well thewde, […] Example: For though some be lidder, and list for to rayle, / Yet to lie vpon me they can not preuayle: […] 4. In poor physical condition. Labels: obsolete Example: [Y]it lyes / Aphipnas ſnorting faſt a ſléepe not mynding for to wake, / Wrapt in a cloke of Bearſkinnes which in Oſſa mount were take. And in his lither hand he hilld a potte of wyne.
Word: lither Part of Speech: adj Etymology: See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form. Pronunciation: /ˈlaɪðə/, /ˈlaɪðɚ/ 1. comparative form of lithe: more lithe Labels: comparative, form-of
Word: lithic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From lith- + -ic. Pronunciation: /ˈlɪθɪk/ 1. Relating to stone. Example: lithic architecture 2. Relating to rock. 3. Relating to lithium. 4. Relating to the formation of uric acid concretions (stones) in the bladder and other parts of the body. Example: lithic diathesis 5. pertaining to Native American culture before circa 8,500 BCE. Labels: capitalized, often
Word: lithic Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From lith- + -ic. Pronunciation: /ˈlɪθɪk/ 1. A stone tool or projectile. 2. A medicine that prevents stone in the bladder. 3. A lithic fragment: a piece of another rock eroded down to sand size. Example: Silty fine sandstone: poorly sorted; 50% quartz, 30% fossils, 10% lithics, 10% feldspar
Word: litmus Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English litmose, lytmose, litemose, from Old Norse litmosi (“moss used for dyeing”), from lita (“to dye, stain”) + mosi (“moss”), the former from litr (“colour, dye, blee”), from Proto-Germanic *wlitiz, *wlituz (“appearance, blee”), from Proto-Indo-European *wel- (“to see”). Cognate with Old English wlite (“appearance, form, brightness, countenance”). More at moss. Pronunciation: /ˈlɪtməs/ 1. A dyestuff extracted from certain lichens, that changes color when exposed to pH levels greater than or less than certain critical levels. Labels: uncountable 2. A simple test of acidity in a liquid using litmus, usually in the form of litmus paper. Labels: countable, uncountable 3. A simple test of any attribute; a litmus test. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: loam Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English lom, lome, from Old English lām (“clay, mud, mire, earth”), from Proto-West Germanic *laim, from Proto-Germanic *laimaz, *laimô (“clay”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂leyH- (“to smear”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Leem (“loam”), West Frisian liem (“loam”), Dutch leem (“loam”), German Lehm (“loam”). Related also to lime. Pronunciation: /ləʊm/, /luːm/, /loʊm/, /lum/, /lʊm/ 1. A type of soil; an earthy mixture of sand, silt and clay, with organic matter to which its fertility is chiefly due. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Alexander died, Alexander was buried, Alexander returneth to dust, the dust is earth, of earth we make loam, and of why that loam whereto he was converted might they not stop a beer-barrel? 2. A mixture of sand, clay, and other materials, used in making moulds for large castings, often without a pattern. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: loam Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English lom, lome, from Old English lām (“clay, mud, mire, earth”), from Proto-West Germanic *laim, from Proto-Germanic *laimaz, *laimô (“clay”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂leyH- (“to smear”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Leem (“loam”), West Frisian liem (“loam”), Dutch leem (“loam”), German Lehm (“loam”). Related also to lime. Pronunciation: /ləʊm/, /luːm/, /loʊm/, /lum/, /lʊm/ 1. To cover, smear, or fill with loam.
Word: loam Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English lom, lome, from Old English lām (“clay, mud, mire, earth”), from Proto-West Germanic *laim, from Proto-Germanic *laimaz, *laimô (“clay”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂leyH- (“to smear”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Leem (“loam”), West Frisian liem (“loam”), Dutch leem (“loam”), German Lehm (“loam”). Related also to lime. Pronunciation: /ləʊm/, /luːm/, /loʊm/, /lum/, /lʊm/ 1. Made of loam; consisting of loam. Labels: not-comparable
Word: loamy Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree English loam Proto-Indo-European *-kos Proto-Germanic *-gaz Proto-West Germanic *-g Old English -iġ Middle English -y English -y English loamy From loam + -y. 1. Consisting of loam; partaking of the nature of loam; resembling loam. Example: Yet there was no time to be lost if I was ever to get out alive, and so I groped with my hands against the side of the grave until I made out the bottom edge of the slab, and then fell to grubbing beneath it with my fingers. But the earth, which the day before had looked light and loamy to the eye, was stiff and hard enough when one came to tackle it with naked hands, and in an hour's time I had done little more than further weary myself and bruise my fingers.
Word: lobar Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From lobe + -ar. 1. Of or relating to a lobe. Labels: not-comparable
Word: lobber Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From lob + -er. 1. One who throws or hits/kicks a ball in a high arc.
Word: lobe Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle French lobe in early 16th century, from New Latin lobus (“a lobe”), from Ancient Greek λοβός (lobós, “the lobe of the ear or of the liver, the pod of a leguminous plant”). Pronunciation: /ləʊb/ 1. Any projection or division, especially one of a somewhat rounded form. Example: A lobe of lava was crawling down the side of the volcano. Example: He then broke the kola nut and threw one of the lobes on the ground for the ancestors. 2. A clear division of an organ that can be determined at the gross anatomy level, especially one of the parts of the brain, liver or lung. Example: The yawning gap in neuroscientists’ understanding of their topic is in the intermediate scale of the brain’s anatomy. Science has a passable knowledge of how individual nerve cells, known as neurons, work. It also knows which visible lobes and ganglia of the brain do what. But how the neurons are organised in these lobes and ganglia remains obscure. 3. A semicircular pattern left on the ice as the skater travels across it.
Word: lobule Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English lobe Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr Proto-Indo-European *-trom Proto-Indo-European *-tlom, *-dʰlom Latin -ulader. Proto-Indo-European *-lós Proto-Indo-European *-elós Proto-Italic *-elos Latin -ulusder. ▲ Latin -ulader. ▲ Proto-Indo-European *-tlomder. Latin -ulumder. French -uleder. English -ule English lobule From lobe + -ule (diminutive suffix). Pronunciation: /ˈlɒb.juːl/, /ˈlɑb.jul/ 1. Diminutive of lobe: 2. Diminutive of lobe: Example: The Jubulaceae have a leaf whose lobule, usually transformed into a water-sac, is normally very narrowly attached to the stem and to the dorsal lobe; indeed some Frullania taxa reproduce vegetatively by dropping the dorsal lobes, but not the lobules, and Neohattoria has caducous lobules but persistent lobes. 3. Diminutive of lobe:
Word: loess Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from German Löss (“yellowish-gray soil”), from Alemannic German lösch (“loose”). Cognate with German los and English lease. Pronunciation: /lɜːs/, /ˈləʊɪs/, /ˈloʊ.əs/, /lɛs/, /lʌs/ 1. Any sediment, dominated by silt, of eolian (wind-blown) origin. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The Yellow River—the “Sorrow of China”—comes down from the loess hills into the great plain of China on a gently sloping fan. The river has two possible outlets to the sea, the one north of the Shantung Peninsula into the Gulf of Chihli, the other some hundreds of miles to the south of the Peninsula. Example: The Yellow River got its name from the massive amount of fertile loess (yellow earth) which it has deposited in the wheat-growing North China Plain.
Word: logan Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Probably cognate with Danish logre, "to wag the tail". 1. A rocking or balanced stone.
Word: logan Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Shortening of pokelogan. Pronunciation: /ˈloʊɡən/ 1. A pokelogan. Labels: Maine
Word: loge Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From French loge (“arbor, covered walk-way”) from Frankish *laubijā (“shelter”). Akin to Old High German loub (“porch, gallery”) (German Laube (“bower, arbor”)), Old High German loub (“leaf, foliage”), Old English lēaf (“leaf, foliage”). Doublet of lobby, loggia, and lodge. More at lobby, loggia, leaf, lodge. Pronunciation: /ləʊʒ/, /loʊʒ/ 1. A booth or stall. 2. The lodge of a concierge. Example: About three in the morning, Nora knocked at the little glass door of the concierge's loge, asking if the doctor was in. 3. An upscale seating region in a modern concert hall or sports venue, often in the back lower tier, or on a separate tier above the mezzanine. Example: In major league stadiums the press box is usually located between the first and second decks in the loge level. 4. An exclusive box or seating region in older theaters and opera houses, having wider, softer, and more widely spaced seats than in the gallery. Example: Pickle gladly embraced this opportunity of becoming acquainted with a person of such rank, and ordering his own chariot to follow, accompanied the count to his loge, where he conversed with him during the whole entertainment. Example: Patte notes that the spectators who were seated there were too close to the action to frame it as real, and that the loges in the avant-scène hampered the effect of the voice.
Word: logier Part of Speech: adj 1. comparative form of logy: more logy Labels: comparative, form-of
Word: loll Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English lollen, lullen (“to lounge idly, hang loosely”), of uncertain origin; the Middle English Dictionary suggests a derivation from Middle Dutch lollen, lullen (“to doze; to mumble, talk nonsense”), though the words could merely be cognate. Compare modern Dutch lol (“fun”)), Icelandic lolla (“to act lazily”). See also lull. Pronunciation: /lɒl/, /lɑl/ 1. To act lazily or indolently while reclining; to lean; to lie at ease. Labels: intransitive Example: And think'ſt thou, Jove himſelf, with Patience then / Can hear a Pray'r condemn'd by wicked Men? / That, void of Care, he lolls ſupine in State, / And leaves his Bus'neſs to be done by Fate? Example: The matter of whether the world needs a fourth Ice Age movie pales beside the question of why there were three before it, but [Ice Age:] Continental Drift feels less like an extension of a theatrical franchise than an episode of a middling TV cartoon, lolling around on territory that’s already been settled. 2. To hang extended from the mouth, like the tongue of an animal heated from exertion. Labels: intransitive Example: Nor thy reſiſtleſs Arm the Bull withſtood: / Nor He the roaring Terror of the Wood. / The triple Porter of the Stygian seat, / With lolling Tongue, lay fawning at thy Feet: / And, ſeiz'd with Fear, forgot his mangled Meat. Example: Crouching on its stomach, the dog moved with him, teeth glittering, tongue lolling. 3. To let (the tongue) hang from the mouth. Labels: ambitransitive Example: The ox stood lolling in the furrow. Example: The combatants with rage most horrible Strove, and their eyes started with cracking stare, And impotent their tongues they lolled into the air, Flaccid and foamy, like a mad dog’s hanging; […]
Word: loller Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From loll + -er. 1. An idle vagabond.
Word: lolly Part of Speech: noun Etymology: A clipping of lollypop. Pronunciation: /ˈlɒl.i/, /ˈlɔl.i/ 1. A piece of hard candy on a stick; a lollipop. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Trim the lolly sticks, so that you have a stem of about 3–4cm to stick into the cake, and then plunge the sticks of the foreshortened lollies into the cake so that the ghoulish faces leer out from their black-frosted graveyard. 2. An ice lolly; a popsicle. Labels: Ireland, UK, countable, uncountable 3. Any confection made from sugar, or high in sugar content; a sweet, a piece of candy. Labels: Australia, New-Zealand, countable, uncountable Example: Leaving the Domain, I walked back to the hotel, noticing the queer signs by the way. One was “Lollies for Sale.” It was over the door of a confectioner′s store where all sorts of candies were displayed. Example: Organise the students into small groups. Send a letter home to the parents stating that the science lesson will involve students eating a small amount of lollies. Check which students are allowed to eat lollies. Students with diabetes will only be able to observe or they could bring their own ‘special’ sweets from home. 4. An easy catch. Labels: countable, uncountable 5. Money. Labels: Australia, Ireland, UK, slang, uncountable 6. A lump. Labels: archaic, countable, uncountable
Word: lolly Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From loll + -y. Pronunciation: /ˈlɒl.i/, /ˈlɔl.i/ 1. The head (or, by extension, the tongue). Labels: archaic, slang Example: The dancing party was knock’d up, and were lobbing their lollys, half asleep and half awake, on the table, bowing as it were to the magnanimous influence of Old Tom. 2. A child. Alternative form of lully (“child”). Labels: archaic, obsolete Example: With you in bed, and a sick lolly lying along-side we can make no end of hauls [...] It isn’t going to hurt the child in the end. 3. A fool. Labels: archaic, dated 4. Something simple to do or understand. Labels: archaic, dated
Word: lolly Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Shortened from loblolly (“gruel”). Pronunciation: /ˈlɒl.i/, /ˈlɔl.i/ 1. Snow or fine ice floating on water. Labels: Canada, uncountable Example: The water was covered with what they term "lolly," of "slob" — i. e., very small pieces of ice and snow mixed together, making the surface the consistency of pea soup. Example: Accidents of course happen from time to time, and men often go through the ‘lolly’ or miss their footing and come in for a cold bath, which, considering their filthy condition, may not be altogether an unmitigated evil
Word: lolly Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From lol + -y. Pronunciation: /ˈlɒl.i/, /ˈlɔl.i/ 1. Eliciting a response of LOL; funny. Labels: Internet
Word: looper Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From loop + -er. Pronunciation: /ˈluːpə(ɹ)/ 1. An instrument or tool, such as a bodkin, for forming a loop in yarn or cord, etc. 2. A moth having a caterpillar which arches its body into a loop in order to bring the back part of the body forward as it walks due to having fewer prolegs, including inchworms or measuring worms in the family Geometridae and some species in the family Noctuidae. 3. A (usually electronic) tool for creating music loops. 4. Synonym of blooper (“a fly ball that is weakly hit just over the infielders”). Example: With one out and runners on second and third, Cavan Biggio hit a looper up the middle that eluded hustling shortstop Tim Anderson in short centre field. 5. A golf caddy Labels: slang Example: "There ain't much to tell. I'm the king of the caddies, the greatest fucking looper who ever packed a bag." Example: "Carl Spackler: So I jump ship in Hong Kong and I make my way over to Tibet, and I get on as a looper at a course over in the Himalayas. Angie D’Annunzio: A looper? Carl Spackler: A looper, you know, a caddy, a looper, a jock." 6. A crazy person; a maniac. Labels: Ireland, derogatory, slang
Word: lop Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English loppe (“bough”); the verb is a back-formation from the noun. Pronunciation: /lɒp/, /lɑp/, /lɔp/ 1. To cut off as the top or extreme part of anything, especially to prune a small limb off a shrub or tree, or sometimes to behead someone. Labels: transitive, usually Example: Some, for hard masters, broken under arms, In battle lopt away, with half their limbs, Beg bitter bread thro’ realms their valour sav’d, 2. To hang downward; to be pendent; to lean to one side. 3. To allow to hang down. Example: to lop the head
Word: lop Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English loppe (“bough”); the verb is a back-formation from the noun. Pronunciation: /lɒp/, /lɑp/, /lɔp/ 1. That which is lopped from anything, such as branches from a tree. Example: Why, we take, From every tree, lop, bark, and part o'the timber Example: I ſhall not trouble you about the raiſing of them of Truncheons or Lops, because I could never find them to take; only ſometimes ſome of the ſmallest Suckers, when the Sap is newly ſtirring in them, if they are ſlipt off from the Tree, will grow