nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: hue Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English hewe, from Old English hīew (“appearance, form, species, kind; apparition; hue, color; beauty; figure of speech”), from Proto-West Germanic *hiwi, from Proto-Germanic *hiwją (“hue, form, shape, appearance; mildew”), from Proto-Indo-European *kew-, *ḱew- (“skin, colour of the skin”) or *ḱey- (“grey, dark shade”). Cognate with Swedish hy (“complexion, skin”), Norwegian hy (“fluff, mold, skin”), Icelandic hégómi (“vanity”), Gothic 𐌷𐌹𐍅𐌹 (hiwi, “form, show, appearance”). Compare also Sanskrit छवि (chavi, “cuticle, skin, hide; beauty, splendour”); Irish ceo (“fog”), Tocharian B kwele (“black, dark grey”), Lithuanian šývas (“light grey”), Albanian thinjë (“grey”), Sanskrit श्याव (śyāvá, “brown”). Pronunciation: /hjuː/, [ç(j)u̟ː], /hju/, [ç(j)u], /ju/ 1. A color, or shade of color; tint; dye. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: A great chocolate-coloured pall lowered over heaven, but the wind was continually charging and routing these embattled vapours; so that as the cab crawled from street to street, Mr. Utterson beheld a marvellous number of degrees and hues of twilight; for here it would be dark like the back-end of evening; and there would be a glow of a rich, lurid brown, like the light of some strange conflagration; and here, for a moment, the fog would be quite broken up, and a haggard shaft of daylight would glance in between the swirling wreaths. 2. The characteristic related to the light frequency that appears in the color, for instance red, yellow, green, cyan, blue or magenta. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: In digital arts, HSV color uses hue together with saturation and value. 3. Character; aspect. Labels: countable, figuratively, uncountable Example: This puts a completely different hue on the matter. 4. Form; appearance; guise. Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable
Word: hue Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Old French hu or Old French heu, a hunting cry. Pronunciation: /hjuː/, [ç(j)u̟ː], /hju/, [ç(j)u], /ju/ 1. A shout or cry. Labels: obsolete
Word: hulled Part of Speech: adj Pronunciation: /hʌld/ 1. Deprived of the hulls. Labels: not-comparable 2. Having a hull. Labels: not-comparable 3. Having a particular type or colour of hull. Labels: in-compounds, not-comparable Example: I recall in particular the amazing speed of the siderods of our elegant little Caledonian 4-6-0 and the vivid contrast between its polished blue livery and the red-funnelled mail steamers and white-hulled yachts crowding Oban Bay; […].
Word: hulled Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /hʌld/ 1. simple past and past participle of hull Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: huller Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English hull 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 huller From hull + -er. 1. One who, or that which, hulls; especially, an agricultural machine for removing the hulls from grain; a hulling machine.
Word: humus Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Latin humus. Pronunciation: /ˈhjuːməs/ 1. A large group of natural organic compounds, found in the soil, formed from the chemical and biological decomposition of plant and animal residues and from the synthetic activity of microorganisms. Labels: uncountable, usually
Word: humus Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Turkish humus or Arabic حُمُّص (ḥummuṣ). 1. Alternative spelling of hummus (“chickpea dip”). Labels: alt-of, alternative, uncountable
Word: hunker Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Originally Scottish. Origin uncertain, but probably of Germanic origin, perhaps *hunk- a nasalised variant of *huk- (compare Scots hoonk, hounk, variants of huk, hok (“to squat, crouch”); Scots hocker (“to crouch down, hunker”)), all of North Germanic origin, from Old Norse huka (“to crouch”), from Proto-Germanic *hūkan- (“to squat”), from *hūkkan-, back-formed from the iterative *huk(k)ōn-, from Proto-Indo-European *kuk-néh₂, from *kewk- (“to curve, bend”) (also the source of high). Probable cognates include Old Norse húka, Dutch huiken, and German hocken. Pronunciation: /ˈhʌŋkə/, /ˈhʌŋkɚ/ 1. To crouch or squat close to the ground or lie down. Labels: intransitive Example: Get out of the mobile home and hunker in a ditch 2. To apply oneself to a task. Labels: intransitive
Word: hunker Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Unknown Pronunciation: /ˈhʌŋkə/, /ˈhʌŋkɚ/ 1. A political conservative. Labels: dated
Word: hurst Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English hirste (“wood, grove; hillock; sandbank, sandbar”), from Old English hyrst (“hillock, eminence, height, wood, wooded eminence”), from Proto-West Germanic *hursti; akin to Dutch horst (“thicket; bird's nest”), German Horst (“thicket, nest”). Doublet of horst. Pronunciation: /hɝst/, /hɜːst/ 1. A wood or grove. Example: Where, to her neighboring Chase, the curteous Forrest show’d So just conceived joy, that from each rising a hurst, Where many a goodlie Oake had carefullie been nurst, Example: ‘How you grandiloquise. A forest of uncertainty. But there – I slow down, as you say. I hesitate. I wonder if – no , let’s try further down. I cannot see the hurst for the elms.’
Word: hurtle Part of Speech: verb Etymology: The verb is derived from Middle English hurtelen, hurtlen (“to cast, hurl, throw; to charge at; to clash in combat, fight; to collide; to injure; to knock down; to propel, push, thrust; to rush; to stumble”) [and other forms], from hurten (“to injure, wound, hurt (physically or figuratively); to damage, impair; to hurt one’s feelings, humiliate; to receive an injury; to collide into; to propel, push, thrust; to stumble”) (see further at English hurt (verb)) + -el-, -elen (frequentative suffix). The English word is analysable as hurt (“(obsolete) to knock; to strike”) + -le (frequentative suffix). The noun is derived from the verb. Pronunciation: /ˈhɜːtl̩/, /ˈhɜɹt(ə)l/, [-ɾ(ə)l] 1. To propel or throw (something) hard or violently; to fling, to hurl. Labels: archaic, literary, poetic, transitive Example: He hurtled the wad of paper angrily at the trash can and missed by a mile. Example: Soone as thoſe glitterand armes he did eſpye, / That vvith their brightneſſe made that darknes light, / His harmefull club he gan to hurtle hye, / And threaten batteill to the Faery knight; […] 2. To cause (someone or something) to collide with or hit another person or thing; or (two people or things) to collide with or hit each other. Labels: archaic, literary, poetic, transitive Example: Only in solitude could that strong man give way to his emotions; and at first they rushed forth so confused and stormy, so hurtling one the other, that hours elapsed before he could serenely face the terrible crisis of his position. 3. To attack or criticize (someone) verbally or in writing. Labels: archaic, figuratively, literary, poetic, transitive 4. To move rapidly, violently, or without control, especially in a noisy manner. Labels: intransitive, literary, poetic Example: The car hurtled down the hill at 90 miles per hour. Example: Pieces of broken glass hurtled through the air. 5. Of a person or thing: to collide with or hit another person or thing, especially with force or violence; also, of two people or things: to collide together; to clash. Labels: archaic, intransitive, literary, poetic Example: Yet could not all that force and furie ſhake / The valiant champions, nor their perſons vvound, / Together hurtled both their ſteedes, and brake / Each others necke, the riders lay on ground: / But they (great maſters of vvars dreadfull art) / Pluckt forth their ſvvords and ſoone from earth vp ſtart. 6. To make a sound of things clashing or colliding together; to clatter, to rattle; hence, to move with such a sound. Labels: archaic, intransitive, literary, poetic Example: The noiſe of Battell hurtled in the Ayre: / Horſſes do neigh, and dying men did grone, / And Ghoſts did ſhrieke and ſqueale about the ſtreets. Example: Now the Storm begins to lovver, / (Haſte, the loom of Hell prepare,) / Iron-ſleet of arrovvy ſhovver / Hurtles in the darken'd air. 7. Of two people, etc.: to meet in a shocking or violent encounter; to clash; to jostle. Labels: archaic, figuratively, intransitive, literary, poetic
Word: hurtle Part of Speech: noun Etymology: The verb is derived from Middle English hurtelen, hurtlen (“to cast, hurl, throw; to charge at; to clash in combat, fight; to collide; to injure; to knock down; to propel, push, thrust; to rush; to stumble”) [and other forms], from hurten (“to injure, wound, hurt (physically or figuratively); to damage, impair; to hurt one’s feelings, humiliate; to receive an injury; to collide into; to propel, push, thrust; to stumble”) (see further at English hurt (verb)) + -el-, -elen (frequentative suffix). The English word is analysable as hurt (“(obsolete) to knock; to strike”) + -le (frequentative suffix). The noun is derived from the verb. Pronunciation: /ˈhɜːtl̩/, /ˈhɜɹt(ə)l/, [-ɾ(ə)l] 1. An act of colliding with or hitting; a collision. Labels: countable, literary, poetic Example: I flung closer to his breast, / As sword that, after battle, flings to sheathe; / And, in that hurtle of united souls, / The mystic motions which in common moods / Are shut beyond our sense, broke in on us, […] 2. A rapid or uncontrolled movement; a dash, a rush. Labels: also, countable, figuratively, literary, poetic Example: [T]he war woke me up, I began to move left, and recent events have accelerated that move until it is now a hurtle. Example: Jamba has removed from [Christopher] Marlowe's Doctor Faustus all but the barest of essentials – even half its title, leaving us with an 80-minute hurtle through Faustus's four and twenty borrowed years on earth. 3. A sound of clashing or colliding; a clattering, a rattling. Labels: countable, literary, poetic Example: There came a hurtle of wings, a flash of bright feathers, and a great pigeon with slate-grey plumage and a neck bright as an opal, lit on a swaying finial. 4. (Violent) disagreement; conflict. Labels: figuratively, literary, poetic, uncountable
Word: hurtle Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Possibly a clipping of hurtleberry, from Middle English hurtil-beri (“bilberry or blue whortleberry (Vaccinium myrtillus); berry of this shrub”); further etymology unknown, compare Middle English horten, hurten (“bilberry (Vaccinium myrtillus)”), and Old English horte (“bilberry (Vaccinium myrtillus)”). Pronunciation: /ˈhɜːtl̩/, /ˈhɜɹt(ə)l/, [-ɾ(ə)l] 1. Synonym of hurtleberry or whortleberry (“any of several shrubs belonging to the genus Vaccinium; a berry of one of these shrubs”). Labels: literary, obsolete, poetic, rare Example: Vaccinia nigra, the blacke VVhortle, or Hurtle, is a baſe and lovve tree, or vvoodie plant, bringing foorth many branches of a cubite high, ſet full of ſmall leaues, of a darke greene colour, […]
Word: hurtle Part of Speech: noun Etymology: See hurdle. Pronunciation: /ˈhɜːtl̩/, /ˈhɜɹt(ə)l/, [-ɾ(ə)l] 1. Misspelling of hurdle. Labels: alt-of, literary, misspelling, poetic
Word: hymen Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle French hymen, from Late Latin hymēn, from Ancient Greek ὑμήν (humḗn, “skin; membrane”). Pronunciation: /ˈhaɪmən/ 1. A membrane which completely or partially occludes the vaginal opening in human females. 2. Marriage. Labels: figuratively Example: I would for ever baniſh from my thoughts—I will obey the firſt ſummons that proclaims you a happy wife.—On my devoted head may every miſery, reſulting from an ill-fated marriage, have juſtly been exhauſted. On your propitious hymen may ſmiling peace, domeſtic harmony, and mutual love, for ever wait; and time alone diſſolve the tender union! Example: Fanny read to herself that "it was with infinite concern the newspaper had to announce to the world, a matrimonial fracas in the family of Mr. R. of Wimpole Street; the beautiful Mrs. R. whose name had not long been enrolled in the lists of hymen, and who had promised to become so brilliant a leader in the fashionable world, having quitted her husband's roof in company with the well known and captivating Mr. C. the intimate friend and associate of Mr. R. and it was not known, even to the editor of the newspaper, whither they were gone."
Word: hymnal Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English hymnale, from Medieval Latin hymnāle, noun use of neuter of hymnālis. Pronunciation: /ˈhɪmnəl/ 1. A collection of hymns; a hymn book.
Word: hymnal Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Medieval Latin hymnālis. Pronunciation: /ˈhɪmnəl/ 1. Of or pertaining to hymns.
Word: ibis Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Mentioned in the Wycliffe Bible (Lev. 11:17) as ybyn or ibin, as ibys from 16th century and ibis shortly after. From Latin ībis, from Ancient Greek ἶβις (îbis), from Egyptian h-b-G26 (hbj) (compare Coptic ϩⲓⲃⲱⲓ (hibōi) or ϩⲓⲡ (hip)). Pronunciation: /ˈaɪ.bɪs/ 1. Any of various long-legged wading birds in the family Threskiornithidae, having long downcurved bills used to probe the mud for prey such as crustaceans. Example: It is out of the idolatrous dotings of the old Egyptians upon broiled ibis and roasted river horse, that you see the mummies of those creatures in their huge bake-houses the pyramids.
Word: iconic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Late Latin īconicus, from Ancient Greek εἰκονικός (eikonikós). By surface analysis, icon + -ic. Pronunciation: /aɪˈkɒnɪk/, /aɪˈkɑnɪk/, /aɪˈkɔnɪk/, [aɪˈkɔ̟nɪk] 1. Relating to, or having the characteristics of, an icon. 2. Distinctive, characteristic, indicative of identity. Example: an iconic move in martial arts Example: And although we’ve certainly seen a variety of blue shades — from periwinkle to cobalt and even Dean Cain’s indigo-washed costume from the 1990’s TV show “Lois & Clark” — Superman’s uniform is still instantly recognizable across generations. In fact, there is only one film — Zack Snyder’s 2013 “Man of Steel” — in which Superman does not wear his iconic red belted trunks. 3. Famously and distinctively representative of its type. Labels: figuratively Example: For younger musicians, Coltrane’s death became one of those iconic events that stays vividly in the mind. Example: She angrily turned, giving me my favorite view, that iconic view of a woman from the rear. 4. Representing something; symbolic. Example: an iconic gesture in sign language Example: A portrait of a person is to a considerable extent iconic, but is not completely so since the painted canvas does not have the texture of the skin, or the capacities for speech and motion, […]
Word: ideate Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *weyd-der. Ancient Greek ῐ̓δεῖν (ĭdeîn) Ancient Greek ῐ̓δέᾱ (ĭdéā)der. Latin ideabor. English idea Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂tos Proto-Italic *-ātos Latin -ātuslbor. English -ate English ideate From idea + -ate (verb-forming suffix). Pronunciation: /ˈaɪdieɪt/ 1. To apprehend in thought so as to fix and hold in the mind; to memorize. 2. To generate an idea. Example: Two thousand young men and women from across the country had gathered under canvas tents on a public ground for a weekend of ideating and networking.
Word: ideate Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *weyd-der. Ancient Greek ῐ̓δεῖν (ĭdeîn) Ancient Greek ῐ̓δέᾱ (ĭdéā)der. Latin ideabor. English idea Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂tos Proto-Italic *-ātos Latin -ātuslbor. English -ate English ideate From idea + -ate (adjective-forming suffix). 1. Produced by an idea. Labels: not-comparable
Word: ideate Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Late Latin ideatum. See idea. 1. The actual existence supposed to correspond with an idea; the correlate in real existence to the idea as a thought or existence.
Word: idol Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *weyd- Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *wéydos Proto-Hellenic *wéidos Ancient Greek εἶδος (eîdos) Ancient Greek εἴδωλον (eídōlon)der. Latin īdōlumder. Old French idolebor. Middle English ydole English idol From Middle English ydole, from Old French idole, from Latin idolum, from Ancient Greek εἴδωλον (eídōlon, “image, idol”), from εἶδος (eîdos, “form”), from Proto-Indo-European *wéydos (“seeing, image”), from *weyd- (“to see”). Doublet of aidoru, eidolon, and idolum and related to idea. Pronunciation: /ˈaɪ.dl̩/, [ˈaɪ.dl̩], [ˈaɪ.ɾl̩], /ˈɑɪ.dl̩/, [ˈɑɪ.ɾl̩] 1. A graven image or representation of anything that is revered, or believed to convey spiritual power. Example: 20 And the rest of the men which were not killed by these plagues, yet repented not of the works of their hands, that they should not worship deuils, and idoles of golde, and siluer, and brasse, and stone, and of wood, which neither can see, nor heare, nor walke: 21 Neither repented they of their murders, nor of their sorceries, nor of their fornication, nor of their thefts. Example: Sunning himself on the board steps, I saw for the first time Mr. Farquhar Fenelon Cooke. He was dressed out in broad gaiters and bright tweeds, like an English tourist, and his face might have belonged to Dagon, idol of the Philistines. 2. A cultural icon, or especially popular person. 3. A popular entertainer, usually young, captivating and attractive, and often female, with an image of being close to fans. Example: Tom Cruise is his idol. Example: Sachin Tendulkar is Rohan's idol. 4. An eidolon or phantom; a misleading or elusive image or representation. Labels: obsolete
Word: idyll Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin īdyllium, from Ancient Greek εἰδύλλιον (eidúllion), from diminutive of εἶδος (eîdos, “form, shape”). Pronunciation: /ˈɪd.ɪl/, /ˈɪd.əl/, /ˈaɪ.dɪl/, /ˈaɪ.dəl/ 1. Any poem or short written piece composed in the style of Theocritus's short pastoral poems, the Idylls. 2. An episode or series of events or circumstances of pastoral or rural simplicity, fit for an idyll; a carefree or lighthearted experience. 3. A composition, usually instrumental, of a pastoral or sentimental character, e.g. Siegfried Idyll by Richard Wagner.
Word: ileum Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Via Medieval Latin from Latin ilia. 1. The last, and usually the longest, division of the small intestine; the part between the jejunum and large intestine.
Word: illume Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Clipping of illumine. Pronunciation: /ɪˈluːm/, /ɪˈljuːm/ 1. To throw or spread light upon; to make light or bright. Labels: archaic, figuratively, poetic, usually Example: Laſt night of all, / When yond ſame Starre that's Weſtward from the Pole / Had made his courſe t’illume that part of Heauen / Where now it burnes, / Marcellus and my ſelfe, / The Bell then beating one. Example: How dread the thunder's peal that rolls above ! How bright the flashes that illume the sky !
Word: illume Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Clipping of illumine. Pronunciation: /ɪˈluːm/, /ɪˈljuːm/ 1. Illumination. Labels: archaic, figuratively, poetic, uncountable, usually Example: Till lo! at once broad through the gloom, / The lightnings flash’d their dread illume, / Full on a rock by copse embound, / And tore and whirl’d its ruins round; […] Example: The abdication of belief / Makes the behavior small – / Better an ignis fatuus / Than no illume at all.
Word: imager Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English ymageour, from Old French imageor; equivalent to image + -er. Pronunciation: /ˈɪmɪdʒə/, /ˈɪmədʒə/, /ˈɪmɪd͡ʒɚ/, /ˈɪməd͡ʒɚ/ 1. One who images or forms likenesses; a sculptor. 2. A system that creates a digital copy such as a disk image.
Word: imbrue Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English embrewen, from Old French *embrever (whence Middle French embreuver), metathetic variant of embevrer (“to imbibe, steep, penetrate, soak”) (with same stem variation found in French abreuver and beuverie), from Vulgar Latin imbiberāre. Pronunciation: /ɪmˈbɹuː/ 1. To stain [with in or with ‘blood, slaughter, etc.’]. Labels: transitive Example: My hands were imbrued in his blood. Example: Armed with the weapon which was destined to destroy himself, Imnaz sprang down the ladder, — found the door, and, emerging from the abode of crime, sought a more secure resting place, leaving his hostess to discover, with return of day, in whose blood were imbrued the hands of an hospiticide.
Word: impale Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle French, from Medieval Latin impālāre, from Latin palus, whence also pale. Pronunciation: /ɪmˈpeɪl/ 1. To pierce (something) with any long, pointed object. Labels: transitive 2. To place two coats of arms side by side on the same shield (often those of two spouses upon marriage). Labels: transitive 3. To pierce with a pale; to put to death by fixing on a sharp stake. Labels: ambitransitive 4. To enclose or fence with stakes. Labels: ambitransitive Example: [T]he Tovvne is impailed about halfe a mile compaſſe.
Word: imping Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈɪmpɪŋ/ 1. The act or process of grafting or mending. 2. A practice used on birds to fix important broken feathers.
Word: imping Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ˈɪmpɪŋ/ 1. present participle and gerund of imp Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: inapt Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From French inapte, from Middle French, equivalent to in- + apt. Pronunciation: /ɪnˈæpt/ 1. Not apt.
Word: incise Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle French inciser. Pronunciation: /ɪnˈsaɪz/ 1. To cut in or into with a sharp instrument; to carve; to engrave. Labels: transitive Example: The executioner’s blade is incised with Christ’s crown of thorns, and with the words of a prayer.
Word: induct Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Originated 1350–1400 from Middle English induct, borrowed from Latin inductus, perfect passive participle of indūcō, equivalent to induce + -tus (past participle suffix). Pronunciation: /ɪnˈdʌkt/ 1. To bring in as a member; to make a part of. Example: Franklin was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1987, the first female inductee […] 2. To formally or ceremoniously install in an office, position, etc. Example: It is my pleasure to induct the new Officers for this coming term. 3. To introduce into (particularly if certain knowledge or experience is required, such as ritual adulthood or cults). Example: She was inducted into the ways of the legal profession. 4. To draft into military service. Example: At the time of war the President is authorized by law to induct persons into the armed forces involuntarily. 5. To introduce; to bring in. Labels: obsolete Example: The ceremonies in the gathering were first inducted by the Venetians.
Word: inflow Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English inflowen, equivalent to in- + flow. 1. The act or process of flowing in or into. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. Anything which flows in or into. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The inflow of air. Example: According to Farside Investors’ data, spot ETH exchange-traded funds (ETFs) recorded net inflows of roughly $2.4 billion in the past six trading days, well above the $827 million in net inflows into spot BTC ETFs during the same period. 3. Influence from outside. Labels: countable, figuratively, uncountable Example: But there is also "top down causality" in which the entire system, as a whole, is affected by the inflow or influence of pattern formation, or "information." Example: Broadly speaking, there are two cases in which a national culture is subjected to the sudden inflow or influence of a foreign culture: (1) when the former is conquered by the latter and (2) when it conquers the latter.
Word: inflow Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English inflowen, equivalent to in- + flow. 1. To flow in. Example: the discusing and drying up of the inflowed Humour
Word: ingest Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Latin ingerō (“to carry in”). Pronunciation: /ɪnˈd͡ʒɛst/ 1. To take (a substance, e.g., food) into the body of an organism, especially through the mouth and into the gastrointestinal tract. Labels: transitive 2. To cause (an undesired object or fluid) to enter the engine, generally via the intake. Labels: broadly, transitive Example: The plane's engine ingested a large bird and flamed out. 3. To bring or import into a system. Labels: transitive Example: While this might seem like more than enough computing power for these purposes, the same machine is also used to ingest, archive and distribute TRMM data to the user community.
Word: ingest Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin ingerō (“to carry in”). Pronunciation: /ɪnˈd͡ʒɛst/ 1. The process of importing data or other material into a system. Labels: uncountable Example: Film is a physical, photochemical medium that requires a significant transformation process for ingest into the electronic/digital domain of television. Example: Material received by the BSF for ingest into storage, and the items being picked and refilled, are all processed in an ancillary hall next to the high-density storage area.
Word: inhere Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁én Proto-Italic *en Proto-Italic *en- Latin in- Latin haereō Latin inhaereōbor. English inhere Borrowed from Latin inhaerēre (“stick in, stick to, inhere to”), from in (“in”) + haereō (“stick”); see hesitate. Compare adhere, cohere. Pronunciation: /ɪnˈhɪə/ 1. To be inherent; to be an essential or intrinsic part of; to be fixed or permanently incorporated with something. Labels: uncommon Example: He [Massinger] inherits the traditions of conduct, female chastity, hymeneal sanctity, the fashion of honour, without either criticizing or informing them from his own experience. In the earlier drama these conventions are merely a framework, or an alloy necessary for working the metal; the metal itself consisted of unique emotions resulting inevitably from the circumstances, resulting or inhering as inevitably as the properties of a chemical compound. Example: We had already been claimed by the split infinitives of Star Trek, were already preparing to boldly go into a world where ethics, so far from inhering in the very structure of the cosmos, was a matter of personal taste […].
Word: inters Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of inter Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: intone Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English entune, entone, from Old French entoner, from Medieval Latin intonō, from in- (inchoative prefix) + tonus (“pitch, tone”) + -ō (verb-forming suffix); doublet of intonate. Cognate with French entonner, Italian intonare. Pronunciation: /ɪnˈtoʊn/, /ɪnˈtəʊn/ 1. To give tone or variety of tone to; to vocalize. Labels: transitive 2. To utter with a musical or prolonged note or tone; to speak or recite with singing voice; to chant. Labels: transitive Example: to intone the church service Example: But when the moon rose and the breeze awakened, and the sedges stirred, and the cat’s-paws raced across the moonlit ponds, and the far surf off Wonder Head intoned the hymn of the four winds, the trinity, earth and sky and water, became one thunderous symphony—a harmony of sound and colour silvered to a monochrome by the moon. 3. To utter a tone; utter a protracted sound. Labels: intransitive
Word: intuit Part of Speech: verb Etymology: A back-formation from intuition and intuitive; compare Latin intuitus (“observed; considered”), perfect participle of intueor (“to look at, upon or towards; to observe, regard; to consider, contemplate”), from in- (“in, inside”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₁én (“in”)) + tueor (“to look or gaze at”). Related to tuition, tutor. Pronunciation: /ɪnˈtjuːɪt/, /-ˈtʃuː-/, /ɪnˈtuɪt/ 1. To know intuitively or by immediate perception. Labels: ambitransitive Example: Accordingly ſome have been pleaſed to name the complex of the phaenomena, so far as it is intuited i.e. apprehended immediately, the ſenſual world, but ſo far as its connection is thought according to univerſal laws of understanding, the intellectual world. Example: The first principles of every science are innate, or native to the mind, only in the sense that such is its nature, that it directly intuits them, a priori, as necessary and absolute truths, independently of the affirmations of sense, experience, or any discursive proof.
Word: iodate Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From iodic acid + -ate. 1. The anion IO₃⁻; any salt of iodic acid.
Word: iodate Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree English iod(ine) Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂tos Proto-Italic *-ātos Latin -ātuslbor. English -ate English iodate From iod(ine) + -ate (verb-forming suffix). 1. To treat with iodine. Labels: transitive
Word: iodide Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English iodine Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-der. Proto-Italic *-iðos Latin -idusder. English -ide English iodide From iodine + -ide. Pronunciation: /ˈɑɪ.əˌdɑɪd/ 1. A binary compound of iodine and another element or radical. 2. A binary compound of iodine and another element or radical. Example: The organification of iodide in the thyroid gland was described using a second order rate constant (KthybindC, /nmol/L*hr/kg thyroid weight) fitted to provide thyroidal iodide stores near the maximal value, which increased with age. Example: Presence of nitrides, argonides, arsenides, and iodides in the crystalline rocks 3. The anionic form of an iodine atom.
Word: iris Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Ancient Greek ἶρις (îris)bor. Latin irisbor. English iris From Middle English iris, from Latin īris, from Ancient Greek ἶρις (îris, “rainbow”). Presuming an earlier form *ϝῖρις (*wîris), possibly from a derivative of Proto-Indo-European *w(e)ih₁-ro- (“a twist, thread, cord, wire”), from *weh₁y- (“to turn, twist, weave, plait”). If so, it would be cognate to English wire. Pronunciation: /ˈaɪ.ɹɪs/, [ˈʌɪ.ɹɪs], /ˈɑɪ.ɹɪs/ 1. A plant of the genus Iris, common in the northern hemisphere, and generally having attractive blooms (See Iris (plant) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia ). Example: Breezes blowing from beds of iris quickened her breath with their perfume; she saw the tufted lilacs sway in the wind, and the streamers of mauve-tinted wistaria swinging, all a-glisten with golden bees; she saw a crimson cardinal winging through the foliage, and amorous tanagers flashing like scarlet flames athwart the pines. 2. The contractile membrane perforated by the pupil, which adjusts to control the amount of light reaching the retina, and which forms the colored portion of the eye (See Iris (anatomy) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia ). 3. A diaphragm used to regulate the size of a hole, especially as a way of controlling the amount of light reaching a lens. 4. A rainbow, or other colourful refraction of light. Labels: poetic 5. A constricted opening in the path inside a waveguide, used to form a resonator. 6. The inner circle of an oscillated color spot.
Word: iris Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Ancient Greek ἶρις (îris)bor. Latin irisbor. English iris From Middle English iris, from Latin īris, from Ancient Greek ἶρις (îris, “rainbow”). Presuming an earlier form *ϝῖρις (*wîris), possibly from a derivative of Proto-Indo-European *w(e)ih₁-ro- (“a twist, thread, cord, wire”), from *weh₁y- (“to turn, twist, weave, plait”). If so, it would be cognate to English wire. Pronunciation: /ˈaɪ.ɹɪs/, [ˈʌɪ.ɹɪs], /ˈɑɪ.ɹɪs/ 1. To open or close in the manner of an iris. 2. To cause (something) to shine with the colours of the rainbow; to make iridescent. Labels: literary Example: Pure, transparent, glistening in the sun, and irised by a thousand hues, which float and wave and spread in graceful and ceaseless motion on its surface! Example: The sun as it comes indoors out of space Has left a rainbow irising each glass— A refraction, caught then multiplied From the crystal tied within our window,
Word: irised Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From iris + -ed; as a synonym of iridescent and irisated, perhaps a calque of French irisé. Pronunciation: /ˈaɪ.ɹɪst/ 1. Having irises of a specified colour or kind. Labels: not-comparable Example: Her eyes were gray-irised, and of that mould that seems to have belonged to the orbs of all the famous queens of hearts. Example: The butler, a dark stout Dravidian with liquid yellow-irised eyes like those of a dog, brought the brandy on a brass tray. 2. Shining with colours like those of the rainbow. Labels: dated, literary, not-comparable Example: two parhelia, irised and very bright; but their centres were nearly of the same color, as the true sun Example: the wreaths of fitful vapour gliding through groves of pine, and irised around the pillars of waterfalls 3. Exhibiting the prismatic colours. Labels: not-comparable, obsolete Example: Heat decomposes this ammoniacal sulphure: in a certain space of time, a great many small irised needles, a line or two in length, are formed in it: they appear to be concrete ammoniacal sulphure in crystals. Example: Yellow and irised quartz also occurs in mica slat in Fitchburg.
Word: irised Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From iris + -ed; as a synonym of iridescent and irisated, perhaps a calque of French irisé. Pronunciation: /ˈaɪ.ɹɪst/ 1. simple past and past participle of iris Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: isomer Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From iso- + -mer. Pronunciation: /ˈaɪ.sə.mə/, /ˈaɪ.sə.mɚ/ 1. Any of two or more compounds with the same molecular formula but with different structure. Labels: physical 2. Any of two or more atomic nuclei with the same mass number and atomic number but with different radioactive properties.
Word: ivied Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From ivy + -ed. Pronunciation: /ˈaɪviːd/ 1. Overgrown with ivy or another climbing plant. Example: […] Lancelot Carnaby stopped from his rash venture into the water, and drew himself back into an ivied bush, which served as the finial of the little garden-hedge. Example: But he was broodingly unable to see even the most ivied tower as anything but a pile of stones till, inexplicably, the miracle of recovered hope and courage transformed him.
Word: jagger Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From jag + -er. Pronunciation: /ˈd͡ʒæɡə(ɹ)/ 1. carrier, carter 2. peddler, hawker Example: The jagger, with those green, goggling, and gain-descrying kind of optics, which we have already described, continued gazing for an instant after the customer, who treated his wares with such irreverence. 3. A jagging iron used for crimping pies, cakes, etc. 4. A toothed chisel. 5. Synonym of jag (“thorn from a bush”). Example: I don't know if you've ever gotten close to a jagger bush, but those stickers can be pretty mean. Example: 2011- , Chris Preksta, Curt Wootton, Pittsburgh Dad: Everything Your Dad Has Said to You How about we play The Store is a jagger bush and you don't touch nothing.
Word: jagger Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Blend of jaguar + tiger. Pronunciation: /ˈd͡ʒæɡə(ɹ)/ 1. The offspring of a male jaguar and a female tiger.
Word: jakes Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English Jake (variant of “Jack”) or Jakke (variant of “Jacques” and “Jack”). Use as a place to urinate and defecate first attested in the form jacques. Compare terms such as US slang Cousin John and Quincy, used as euphemistic personifications the speaker was "visiting". Pronunciation: /d͡ʒeɪks/ 1. A place to urinate and defecate: an outhouse or lavatory. Labels: Ireland, uncountable, usually Example: My lord, if you’ll give me leave, I will tread this unbolted villain into mortar and daub the walls of a jakes with him. Example: […] Whereas the Truth-finder, having raked out that Jakes his own Mind, and being there capable of tracing no Ray of Divinity, nor any thing virtuous, or good, or lovely, or loving, very fairly, honestly, and logically concludes, that no such things exist in the whole Creation.
Word: jakes Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English Jake (variant of “Jack”) or Jakke (variant of “Jacques” and “Jack”). Use as a place to urinate and defecate first attested in the form jacques. Compare terms such as US slang Cousin John and Quincy, used as euphemistic personifications the speaker was "visiting". Pronunciation: /d͡ʒeɪks/ 1. plural of jake Labels: form-of, plural
Word: jakes Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English Jake (variant of “Jack”) or Jakke (variant of “Jacques” and “Jack”). Use as a place to urinate and defecate first attested in the form jacques. Compare terms such as US slang Cousin John and Quincy, used as euphemistic personifications the speaker was "visiting". Pronunciation: /d͡ʒeɪks/ 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of jake Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: jalopy Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Unknown. Perhaps from Jalapa, Mexico (now Xalapa), to whose scrapyards used cars were often sent from New Orleans starting in the 1920s. First recorded written use in 1924. Pronunciation: /d͡ʒəˈlɒ.pi/ 1. An old, dilapidated or unpretentious automobile. Labels: US, dated Example: Dean is the perfect guy for the road because he was actually born on the road, when his parents were passing through Salt Lake City in 1926, in a jalopy, on their way to Los Angeles. Example: "We ran into some real excitement," Frank said, and told his father the whole story of Chet's missing jalopy, the wrecked car which they suspected had been a stolen one also, and the attempted holdup at the ferryboat office.
Word: jejune Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Borrowed from Latin iēiūnus (“fasting”). Pronunciation: /d͡ʒəˈdʒuːn/, /d͡ʒiˈdʒuːn/, /ʒəˈʒuːn/ 1. Not nutritious. Labels: archaic, dated 2. Lacking matter; empty; devoid of substance. Labels: broadly 3. Naive; simplistic. Example: I have often wondered why some late Writers should sensure Tully's Letters for being too naked and jejune, when that to his Friend Lucceius, which the Reader will find in this Collection, is a plain Demonstration to the contrary? Example: This renders the recognition of alternatives a paramount necessity for a logic of discovery, which can no longer dismiss them with a jejune chapter on 'disjunctive propositions'.
Word: jerker Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English jerk 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 jerker From jerk + -er. 1. A North American river chub, a hornyhead chub (Nocomis biguttatus). 2. Someone or something that jerks.
Word: Jess Part of Speech: name Etymology: Clipping of Jesse, Jessica, or Jessamy. Pronunciation: /d͡ʒɛs/ 1. A diminutive of the male given name Jesse. 2. A diminutive of the female given names Jessica or Jessamy. Example: ‘Now then Kit,’ said Mr Parkinson, ‘look sharp! Help Jess up. Where has she got to?’ ‘Here I am!’ said Jessamy breathlessly as “helped” rather to vigorously from behind by Kit, she arrived on her knees on the floor of the dog cart. Example: ‘It’s almost as if we’ve gone silly with happiness,’ said Marcus two days later. ‘Everyone in the house going round grinning like a lot of Cheshire Cats! The family I mean.’ ‘And Jess,’ said Kitto quickly. ‘Oh well, Jess is as good as family,’ said Fanny comfortably. Jessamy said nothing, but she looked up quickly and her smile would have rivalled any Cheshire Cat.
Word: jessed Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From jess + -ed. 1. Having jesses on, as a hawk. Labels: not-comparable
Word: jig Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Unknown. Derivation from Middle English gyge (“fiddle”), from Old French gigue (“a fiddle”) has been proposed, but the connection and sense development are obscure. The sense “a type of dance” of modern French gigue is borrowed from English. Pronunciation: /d͡ʒɪɡ/ 1. A light, brisk musical movement; a gigue. 2. A lively dance in 6/8 (double jig), 9/8 (slip jig) or 12/8 (single jig) time; a tune suitable for such a dance. By extension, a lively traditional tune in any of these time signatures. Unqualified, the term is usually taken to refer to a double (6/8) jig. Labels: Irish, traditional Example: They danced a jig. Example: Soon Marshall is doing an elaborate foot-to-foot jig, and then they're all bounding around. Shoulder dips. Yee-ha faces. It's an impromptu hoedown. 3. A dance performed by one or sometimes two individual dancers, as opposed to a dance performed by a set or team. 4. A type of lure consisting of a hook molded into a weight, usually with a bright or colorful body. Example: They were waked out of their bunks one black night by yells of "Squid O!" from Salters, and for an hour and a half every soul aboard hung over his squid-jig—a piece of lead painted red and armed at the lower end with a circle of pins bent backward like half-opened umbrella ribs. 5. A device in manufacturing, woodworking, or other creative endeavors for controlling the location, path of movement, or both of either a workpiece or the tool that is operating upon it. Subsets of this general class include machining jigs, woodworking jigs, welders' jigs, jewelers' jigs, and many others. Example: Cutting circles out of pinewood is best done with a compass-style jig. Example: The bodywork employs, where possible, the same constructional methods as for the standard B.R. coaching stock, in order to utilise existing jigs and press tools. 6. An apparatus or machine for jigging ore. 7. A light, humorous piece of writing, especially in rhyme; a farce in verse; a ballad. Labels: obsolete Example: A jig shall be clapped at, and every rhyme / Praised and applauded by a clamorous chime. 8. A trick; a prank. Labels: obsolete Example: This Innovation? Is't not a fine Jigg? / A precious cunning in the late Protector / To shuffle a new Prince into the State.
Word: jig Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Unknown. Derivation from Middle English gyge (“fiddle”), from Old French gigue (“a fiddle”) has been proposed, but the connection and sense development are obscure. The sense “a type of dance” of modern French gigue is borrowed from English. Pronunciation: /d͡ʒɪɡ/ 1. To move briskly, especially as a dance. Example: The guests were jigging around on the dance floor. 2. To move with a skip or rhythm; to move with vibrations or jerks. Example: the candle-flame stretched itself tall, and began jigging up and down. Example: […]and the fin would jig off slowly, as if it were looking for nothing at all. 3. To fish with a jig. 4. To sing to the tune of a jig. Example: No, my complete master, but to jig off a tune at the tongue’s end, canary to it with your feet, humor it with turning up your eyelids, 5. To trick or cheat; to cajole; to delude. Example: Make thy moan to ballad singers and rhymers ; they'll jig out thy wretchedness and abominations to new tunes 6. To sort or separate, as ore in a jigger or sieve. 7. To cut or form, as a piece of metal, in a jigging machine. 8. To skip school or be truant.
Word: jig Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Probably a clipping of jigaboo, of uncertain origin, perhaps an African/Bantu word. Alternatively, jigaboo may be derived from jig (“dance”). Pronunciation: /d͡ʒɪɡ/ 1. A black person. Labels: US, dated, ethnic, offensive, slang, slur Example: “You got a new jig, huh?” The boy looked out at Jones through his swirls of oiled hair. “What happened to the last one? He die or something?” Example: This type of pickpocket, it should be noted, is passing from the scene; most class cannons now operating are old-timers. “The only youngsters I see breaking in on the whiz are jigs, and they are coining a bebop lingo that is something. […]
Word: jigger Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From jig + -er (agent suffix). Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary suggests a possible link to Old High German gīga (“fiddle”), for which see modern German Geige. Pronunciation: /ˈd͡ʒɪɡɚ/, /ˈd͡ʒɪɡə/ 1. To alter or adjust, particularly in ways not originally intended. Labels: transitive Example: You'll have to jigger it from the original specifications to get it to work. 2. To use a jigger. Labels: transitive 3. To move, send, or drive with a jerk; to jerk; also, to drive or send over with a jerk, as a golf ball. Labels: transitive Example: He could jigger the ball o'er a steeple tall as most men would jigger a cop.
Word: jigger Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Likely a corruption of chigoe. Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary suggests a possible derivation from Wolof jiga (“insect”). Pronunciation: /ˈd͡ʒɪɡɚ/, /ˈd͡ʒɪɡə/ 1. A sandflea, Tunga penetrans, of the order Siphonaptera; chigoe. 2. A larva of any of several mites in the family Trombiculidae; chigger, harvest mite.
Word: jigger Part of Speech: noun Etymology: A slang term of unknown origin, originally meaning prison. Oxford English Dictionary suggests that its origin might be the same as Etymology 1, above. Pronunciation: /ˈd͡ʒɪɡɚ/, /ˈd͡ʒɪɡə/ 1. A prison; a jail cell. Labels: archaic, slang Example: According to a disciplinary notice, a correctional officer saw a "jigger string" coming from cell H-2 to Harper's cell. A jigger string is used to move objects between cells. 2. An alleyway separating the backs of two rows of houses. Labels: dated, dialectal Example: "It's jus' through this jigger and round the back of the next block." She hurried through the alleyway in front of me; the pressing back-yard walls prevented anything more than single file. 3. The penis. Labels: dated, euphemistic, slang Example: Well, they saw a little boy on the street and his penis was hanging out and they said his "jigger" was hanging out, and I said, "Well, maybe his mother didn't tell him differently." 4. A vagina. Labels: euphemistic, slang Example: A tiny pulse from Lisette's thigh beat under my ear: stroke, stroke, stroke. I contemplated the thick red bush of her jigger, so close to my face. 5. A door. Labels: UK, obsolete Example: On getting to the top of the stair, to my disappointment there was a padlock upon the garret jigger; I wheep't out my chive, broke it up, and picked the padlock with the back-spring. Example: "Crash the cull—down with him—down with him before he dubs the jigger. Tip him the degan, Fib, fake him through and through; if he pikes we shall all be scragged." 6. An illegal distillery. Labels: slang 7. Ellipsis of jigger gun (“lock pick”). Labels: UK, abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis, slang Example: Sizing up the padlock, Mac slapped at a webbing pocket for his lock jiggers, but felt nothing. Example: The question is, where did he get this jigger from? You don't buy them at ironmongers, you know.' He handled the bright instrument lovingly. As he moved the handles the two tiny levers opened and shut like the mandibles of a Picasso crab.
Word: jigger Part of Speech: verb Etymology: A slang term of unknown origin, originally meaning prison. Oxford English Dictionary suggests that its origin might be the same as Etymology 1, above. Pronunciation: /ˈd͡ʒɪɡɚ/, /ˈd͡ʒɪɡə/ 1. To imprison. Labels: obsolete, slang Example: ...offering to swear an alibi for the prisoner [...] to ensure an acquittal. Terms: £50 for value received. No pay if jiggered. 2. To confound; to damn. Labels: archaic, slang Example: jigger me, but I think you be turning jest into earnest, Example: It had always been his habit to say, "I will be jiggered," but this time he said, "I am jiggered."
Word: Jill Part of Speech: name Etymology: A variant of Gill, diminutive of Gillian, a medieval form of Juliana, ultimately from Latin. Pronunciation: /d͡ʒɪl/ 1. A female given name from Latin. Example: "Just Jill, I'm afraid." "Would you prefer if it was Gillian?" "Oh, I think so. Gillian sounds so much fancier." "Fancy?" Terrence said. He smiled at her. "Or perhaps it sounds flashy?" "Royal," Richard said. "Flowery," Terrence added. "You could say Gillian was more flowery. That would fit. What about you, Corrie, what does it sound like to you?" "Rich," Corrie glanced at Jill. "Gillian sounds richer than Jill." Example: First lady Jill Biden on Wednesday spoke candidly about her new life, lamenting the enormous pressure a first lady can face. 2. A female given name from Latin. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, clipping 3. A generic use for any female (as Sheila in Australian English), especially paired (since the 15th c., compare Ienken and Iulyan) with the male Jack. Example: Our wooing doth not end like an old play; Jack hath not Jill; these ladies' courtesy Might well have made our sport a comedy.