nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: peacock Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Pre-Greekbor. Ancient Greek ταώς (taṓs)bor.? Latin pāvōbor. Proto-Germanic *pāwô Proto-West Germanic *pāwō Old English pāwa Middle English pe Proto-Germanic *keukô Proto-Germanic *kukkaz Proto-West Germanic *kokk Old English cocc Middle English cok Middle English pecok English peacock From Middle English pecok, pekok, pocok, pacok, first component from Old English pēa, pāwa (“peacock, peafowl”), ultimately from Latin pāvō; equivalent to pea + cock. Compare Old Norse páfugl (“peacock”, literally “peafowl”), and English peahen, peachick, etc. Pronunciation: /ˈpikɑk/, /ˈpiːkɒk/ 1. A male peafowl, especially Pavo cristatus, notable for its brilliant iridescently ocellated tail. Labels: countable, usually Example: The ſpring diſplaying her elegant taſte, the proud walk of the gold-feathered pheaſant, the light tread of the ſmall-hoofed hind, and the dancing of the ſtar-trained peacock, infuſed joy into the ſoul of the ſpectator of the aſtoniſhing works of the Creator. 2. A peafowl (of the genus Pavo or Afropavo), either male or female. Labels: countable, usually 3. The meat of this bird. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: When a reader recently inquired if people really eat peacock, I stated that I’d never tasted the bird, roasted or otherwise, and as far as I knew, it is rarely cooked anywhere in the world. Example: Nor do many people today long to eat peacock, which was both a privilege and an ordeal reserved for royalty. 4. A pompous or vainglorious person [from the 14th c.]. Labels: countable, usually 5. Any of various Asian species of papilionid butterflies of the genus Papilio. Labels: countable, usually Example: The large and handsome spectre-butterfly, Hestia durvillei; the pale-winged peacock butterfly, Drusilla catops; and the most brilliant and wonderful of the clear-winged moths, Cocytia durvillei, were especially interesting, as well, as several little "blues," equalling in brilliancy and beauty anything the butterfly world can produce.
Word: peacock Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Pre-Greekbor. Ancient Greek ταώς (taṓs)bor.? Latin pāvōbor. Proto-Germanic *pāwô Proto-West Germanic *pāwō Old English pāwa Middle English pe Proto-Germanic *keukô Proto-Germanic *kukkaz Proto-West Germanic *kokk Old English cocc Middle English cok Middle English pecok English peacock From Middle English pecok, pekok, pocok, pacok, first component from Old English pēa, pāwa (“peacock, peafowl”), ultimately from Latin pāvō; equivalent to pea + cock. Compare Old Norse páfugl (“peacock”, literally “peafowl”), and English peahen, peachick, etc. Pronunciation: /ˈpikɑk/, /ˈpiːkɒk/ 1. To strut about proudly or haughtily. Labels: intransitive Example: A routine border-check in upstate New York had turned into a back-room interrogation, and I was worried, because the three friends I was traveling with didn’t respond to authority well. I could almost hear the wry grins cracking their faces as the officers peacocked. “Is U.S. Customs a joke to you?” one officer asked. My friend Alex said, “No law against smiling, sir.” 2. To engage in peacocking, ostentatious dress or behaviour to impress women. Labels: intransitive
Word: butterfly Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *gʷṓws Proto-Hellenic *gʷous Ancient Greek βοῦς (boûs) Proto-Indo-European *tewh₂- Proto-Indo-European *-rós Proto-Indo-European *tuh₂rós Proto-Hellenic *tūrós Ancient Greek τυρός (turós) Ancient Greek βούτῡρον (boútūron)bor. Latin būtȳrumbor. Proto-West Germanic *buterā Old English butere Proto-Indo-European *plew- Proto-Indo-European *plewk- Proto-Indo-European *-eti Proto-Indo-European *pléwketi Proto-Germanic *fleuganą Proto-Germanic *fleugǭ Proto-West Germanic *fleugā Old English flēoge Old English buterflēoge Middle English boterflye English butterfly From Middle English buterflie, butturflye, boterflye, from Old English buterflēoge, equivalent to butter + fly. Cognate with Dutch botervlieg, German Butterfliege (“butterfly”). The name may have originally been applied to butterflies of a yellowish color, or reflected a belief that butterflies ate milk and butter (compare German Molkendieb (“butterfly”, literally “whey-thief”) and Low German Botterlicker (“butterfly”, literally “butter-licker”)), or that they excreted a butter-like substance (compare Dutch boterschijte (“butterfly”, literally “butter-excretor”)). Compare also German Schmetterling from Schmetten (“cream”), German Low German Bottervögel (“butterfly”, literally “butter-fowl”). More at butter, fly. An alternate theory suggests that the first element may have originally been Old English butor- (“beater”), a mutation of bēatan (“to beat”), but this would not explain the cognates in other languages or the other names formed with milk products. Superseded non-native Middle English papilion (“butterfly”) borrowed from Old French papillon (“butterfly”). Contrary to popularised belief, the form "butterfly" was not derived from an earlier flutterby. Pronunciation: /ˈbʌ.tə(ɹ).flaɪ/, [ˈbʌ.tə.flaɪ], [ˈbʌ.ɾɚ.flaɪ], [ˈbʌ.ɾə.flɑɪ] 1. To cut (food) almost entirely in half and spread the halves apart, in a shape suggesting the wings of a butterfly. Labels: transitive Example: butterflied shrimp Example: Butterfly the chicken before you grill it. 2. To cut strips of surgical tape or plasters into thin strips, and place across (a gaping wound) to close it. Labels: transitive Example: After everyone had obeyed his commands, the lieutenant motioned for two medics that now appeared to enter the room and attend to Dr. Carter. They bandaged him up, butterflying some of the deeper gashes and gave him a couple of shots. 3. To cause events after the point of divergence to not happen as they did in real history, and people conceived after the point of divergence to not exist in recognizable form, due to the random variations introduced by the butterfly effect. Labels: transitive Example: Pearl Harbor not happening would've butterflied Taylor Swift.
Word: rumor Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English rumour, from Old French rumeur, from Latin rūmor (“common talk”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₃rewH- (“to shout, to roar”). Pronunciation: /ˈɹuːmə/, /ˈɹʉwmə/, /ˈɹumɚ/, /ˈɹʉːmə/, /ˈɾɪʊmə/ 1. A statement or claim of questionable accuracy, from no known reliable source, usually spread by word of mouth. Labels: US, countable Example: There's a rumor going round that he's going to get married. Example: vile rumor 2. Information or misinformation of the kind contained in such claims. Labels: US, uncountable Example: They say he used to be a thief, but that's just rumor. 3. Report, news, information in general. Labels: US, archaic, uncountable Example: It stands a city aloof. There hath been no rumour of it—I alone have dreamed of it, and I may not be sure that my dreams are true. 4. Fame, reputation. Labels: US, obsolete, uncountable 5. Clamor, din, outcry. Labels: US, obsolete, uncountable
Word: rumor Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English rumour, from Old French rumeur, from Latin rūmor (“common talk”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₃rewH- (“to shout, to roar”). Pronunciation: /ˈɹuːmə/, /ˈɹʉwmə/, /ˈɹumɚ/, /ˈɹʉːmə/, /ˈɾɪʊmə/ 1. To tell a rumor about; to gossip. Labels: US, transitive, usually Example: John is rumored to be next in line for a promotion.
Word: rumour Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English rumour, from Old French rumour, rumor, from Latin rūmor (“common talk”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *rewH- (“to shout, roar”). Pronunciation: /ˈɹuːmə/, /ˈɹʉwmə/, /ˈɹumɚ/, /ˈɹʉːmə/, /ˈɾɪʊmə/ 1. UK, Canada, New Zealand, Australia, and Ireland spelling of rumor. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Rumour had it (though not proved) that she descended from the house of the lords Talbot de Malahide Example: There were rumours, new rumours every morning, delightful and outrageous rumours, so that the lumps in the porridge were swallowed without comment and the fish-cakes were eaten without contumely. 2. A prolonged, indistinct noise. Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable Example: Prithee, listen well; / I heard a bustling rumour like a fray, / And the wind brings it from the Capitol.
Word: rumour Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English rumour, from Old French rumour, rumor, from Latin rūmor (“common talk”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *rewH- (“to shout, roar”). Pronunciation: /ˈɹuːmə/, /ˈɹʉwmə/, /ˈɹumɚ/, /ˈɹʉːmə/, /ˈɾɪʊmə/ 1. Commonwealth standard spelling of rumor. Example: Two of the four main routes over the Border were rumoured to be threatened with withdrawal of, or heavy cuts in, passenger services.
Word: hierarchy Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English ierarchie, jerarchie, from Old French ierarchie, jerarchie, from Late Latin ierarchia, from Latin hierarchia, from Ancient Greek ἱεραρχία (hierarkhía, “rule of a high priest”), from ἱεράρχης (hierárkhēs, “high priest”), from ἱερός (hierós, “holy”) + ἄρχω (árkhō, “to rule”), equivalent to hiero- + -archy. The H was re-added c. 1500 due to influence from Classical Latin. Pronunciation: /ˈhaɪ.ə.ɹɑː(ɹ).ki/, /ˈhaɪ.ɹɑː(ɹ).ki/, /ˈhaɪ.ɑː(ɹ).ki/ 1. A body of authoritative officials organized in nested ranks. Example: Gay men and bisexuals were blamed for the [AIDS] epidemic for much the same reason that the church hierarchy in the Middle Ages accused Jewish people of creating bubonic plague by "poisoning the wells." Example: The [Washington] Post's proprietor through those turbulent [Watergate] days, Katharine Graham, held a double place in Washington’s hierarchy: at once regal Georgetown hostess and scrappy newshound, ready to hold the establishment to account. 2. A social, religious, economic or political system or organization in which people or groups of people are ranked with some superior to others based on their status, authority or some other trait. Example: Social defeat arises in strict social hierarchies in which the few dominate the many. Overcrowding exacerbates the many ills of social defeat within these social hierarchies based on dominance. 3. Any group of objects ranked so that every one but the topmost is subordinate to a specified one above it. Example: ... the surviving portions provide enough detail to outline its principal features: the hierarchy of beings to whom his liturgy was to be addressed (we previously considered Plethon's hierarchy of gods in our examination of his Summary[…]
Word: authority Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂ewg-der. Proto-Indo-European *h₂owg-éye-ti Proto-Italic *augejō Proto-Italic *augeō Latin augeō Proto-Indo-European *-tōr Proto-Italic *-tōr Latin -tor Latin auctor Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-ts Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ts Proto-Italic *-tāts Latin -tās Latin auctōritāsbor. Old French autoritébor. Middle English auctorite English authority From Middle English auctorite, autorite (“authority, book or quotation that settles an argument”), from Old French auctorité, from Latin stem of auctōritās (“invention, advice, opinion, influence, command”), from auctor (“master, leader, author”). For the presence of the h, compare the etymology of author. Pronunciation: /ɔːˈθɒɹəti/, /ɔːˈθɒɹɪti/, /əˈθɔɹədi/, /əˈθɔɹəti/, [əˈθɔɹəɾi] 1. Power or right to make or enforce rules, give orders, or impose obligation; or a position having such power or right. Labels: uncountable Example: I have the authority to penalise the staff in my department, but not the authority to sack them. Example: Vigilantes may have the power to nab criminals, but they lack the authority. 2. Persons, regarded collectively, who occupy official positions of power; police or law enforcement. Labels: countable, plural, uncountable Example: Authorities say the suspect fled on foot. Example: The case was that of a murder. It had an element of mystery about it, however, which was puzzling the authorities. A turban and loincloth soaked in blood had been found; also a staff. 3. A reliable, definitive source of information on a subject. Labels: countable Example: the world's foremost authority on orangutans Example: My cheap dictionary is not the authority on word derivations. 4. Status as a trustworthy source of information, reputation for mastery or expertise; or claim to such status or reputation. Labels: uncountable Example: Due to being inadequate for the deductive method of reasoning, the argument from authority is considered a logical fallacy. 5. Official permission; authorisation to act in some capacity on behalf of a ruling entity. Labels: uncountable Example: 'It seems to me,' remarked Mr Carrados, remembering something very similar not long before, 'that whatever anyone wants to do about Shakespeare, it is easy to find authority in his works for doing it.' Example: Authority to construct eight carriages, to test the new design in public service, had already been given; but of course complete working drawings had first to be prepared. 6. A government-owned agency that runs a revenue-generating activity for public benefit. Labels: countable Example: New York Port Authority Example: Chicago Transit Authority
Word: enforce Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English enforcen, from Old French enforcier, from Late Latin infortiāre, from in- + fortis (“strong”). Pronunciation: /ɪnˈfoɹs/, /ɪnˈfɔːs/, /-ˈfo(ː)ɹs/, /-ˈfoəs/ 1. To keep up, impose or bring into effect something, not necessarily by force. Example: The police are there to enforce the law. Example: 1929, Chiang Kai-shek, quoted in “Nationalist Notes,” Time, 11 February, 1929, Our task is only half finished. It will be my duty to enforce the decisions of the conference and I hereby pledge myself to that end. 2. To apply a rule or enforcement action to a person or user account. Example: This will give us the tools we need to enforce accounts like these. 3. To give strength or force to; to affirm, to emphasize. Example: The victim was able to enforce his evidence against the alleged perpetrator. 4. To strengthen (a castle, town etc.) with extra troops, fortifications etc. Labels: obsolete, transitive 5. To intensify, make stronger, add force to. Labels: obsolete, transitive 6. To exert oneself, to try hard. Labels: obsolete, reflexive Example: I pray you enforce youreselff at that justis that ye may be beste, for my love. 7. To compel, oblige (someone or something); to force. Labels: obsolete Example: Sweete prince I come, these these thy amorous lines, / Might haue enforst me to haue swum from France, / And like Leander gaspt vpon the sande, / So thou wouldst smile and take me in thy armes. Example: Uladislaus the Second, King of Poland, and Peter Dunnius, Earl of Shrine[…]had been hunting late, and were enforced to lodge in a poor cottage. 8. To make or gain by force; to force. Labels: obsolete Example: to enforce a passage Example: Ne shame he thought to shonne so hideous might, / The ydle stroke, enforcing furious way, / Missing the marke of his misaymed sight / Did fall to ground […] 9. To put in motion or action by violence; to drive. Labels: obsolete Example: Auster and Aquilon with winged Steeds All ſweating, tilt about the watery heauens, With ſhiuering ſpeares enforcing thunderclaps, And from their ſhields ſtrike flames of lightening Example: If they’ll do neither, we will come to them, / And make them skirr away, as swift as stones / Enforced from the old Assyrian slings: 10. To give force to; to strengthen; to invigorate; to energize. Labels: obsolete Example: to enforce arguments or requests Example: [T]he eloquence of the declaration, not contradicting, but enforcing sentiments of the truest humanity, has left stings that have penetrated more than skin-deep into my mind […] 11. To urge; to ply hard; to lay much stress upon. Labels: obsolete Example: In this point charge him home, that he affects / Tyrannical power: if he evade us there, / Enforce him with his envy to the people, / And that the spoil got on the Antiates / Was ne’er distributed. 12. To prove; to evince. Labels: obsolete Example: But what argument are ye able to shew, whereby it was euer prooued by Caluin, that any one sentence of Scripture doth necessarily enforce these things, or the rest wherein your opinion concurreth with his against the orders of your owne Church?
Word: impose Part of Speech: noun Etymology: The verb is derived from Late Middle English imposen (“to place, set; to impose (a duty, etc.)”), borrowed from Middle French imposer, and Old French emposer, enposer (“to impose (a duty, tax, etc.)”) (modern French imposer), from im-, em- (variants of en- (prefix meaning ‘in, into’)) + poser (“to place, put”), modelled after: * Latin impōnere (“to place or set (something) on; (figurative) to impose (a duty, tax, etc.)”), from im- (variant of in- (prefix meaning ‘on, upon’)) + pōnō (“to place, put; etc.”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂pó, *h₂epó (“away; off”) + *tḱey- (“to cultivate; to live; to settle”)); and * Latin impositus (“established; put upon, imposed”), the perfect passive participle of impōnō: see above. The noun is derived from the verb. Pronunciation: /ɪmˈpəʊz/, /ɪmˈpoʊz/, /ɪmˈpəʉz/, /əmˈpɐʉz/ 1. An act of placing or putting on something chiefly immaterial, especially something regarded as burdensome as a duty, a task, etc.; an imposition. Labels: obsolete Example: According to your Ladiſhips impoſe, / I am thus early come, to knovv vvhat ſeruice / It is your pleaſure to command me in.
Word: power Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *pótis Proto-Italic *potis Proto-Indo-European *h₁es- Proto-Indo-European *h₁ésti Proto-Indo-European *bʰuH- Proto-Indo-European *bʰúHt Proto-Italic *som Proto-Italic *possom Latin posseder. Vulgar Latin potēre Old French pooir Anglo-Norman poerbor. Middle English power English power From Middle English power, poer, from Old French poeir, from Vulgar Latin potēre, from Latin posse, whence English potent. Compare French pouvoir. Displaced the native Old English anweald. Pronunciation: /ˈpaʊ̯ə̯/, /ˈpaʊ̯.ə/, [ˈpʰaə], [ˈpʰaː], [ˈpʰɑː] 1. To provide power for (a mechanical or electronic device). Labels: transitive Example: This CD player is powered by batteries. 2. To hit or kick something forcefully. Labels: transitive Example: United keeper Edwin van der Sar was the unlikely provider as his clearance found Rooney, who had got ahead of last defender Richard Dunne, and the forward brilliantly controlled a ball coming from over his shoulder before powering a shot past Brad Friedel. 3. To enable or provide the impetus for. Example: Abdul Sattar Edhi came to Karachi as a poor man from an Indian village in 1947. Starting with a small pharmacy tent, his work rapidly expanded, powered by donations from ordinary citizens. 4. To move or advance with great force or speed. Labels: intransitive Example: Playing with freedom and no fear, Ashleigh Barty has powered into the Australian Open third round without even a coach. Barty clubbed China’s Yafan Wang 6-2, 6-3 on Wednesday before revealing she had been largely flying solo during her charge to the last 32 for only the second time.
Word: power Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *pótis Proto-Italic *potis Proto-Indo-European *h₁es- Proto-Indo-European *h₁ésti Proto-Indo-European *bʰuH- Proto-Indo-European *bʰúHt Proto-Italic *som Proto-Italic *possom Latin posseder. Vulgar Latin potēre Old French pooir Anglo-Norman poerbor. Middle English power English power From Middle English power, poer, from Old French poeir, from Vulgar Latin potēre, from Latin posse, whence English potent. Compare French pouvoir. Displaced the native Old English anweald. Pronunciation: /ˈpaʊ̯ə̯/, /ˈpaʊ̯.ə/, [ˈpʰaə], [ˈpʰaː], [ˈpʰɑː] 1. Impressive. Labels: Malaysia, Singapore, colloquial Example: Check out the POWER Mee Rebus & Lontong in this newly established Nasi Padang coffee shop at Market Street Carpark. Example: Their performance is very the Power!
Word: power Part of Speech: intj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *pótis Proto-Italic *potis Proto-Indo-European *h₁es- Proto-Indo-European *h₁ésti Proto-Indo-European *bʰuH- Proto-Indo-European *bʰúHt Proto-Italic *som Proto-Italic *possom Latin posseder. Vulgar Latin potēre Old French pooir Anglo-Norman poerbor. Middle English power English power From Middle English power, poer, from Old French poeir, from Vulgar Latin potēre, from Latin posse, whence English potent. Compare French pouvoir. Displaced the native Old English anweald. Pronunciation: /ˈpaʊ̯ə̯/, /ˈpaʊ̯.ə/, [ˈpʰaə], [ˈpʰaː], [ˈpʰɑː] 1. Used as a cheer to express support Labels: Philippines, colloquial
Word: proportionate Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Borrowed from Latin prōportiōnātus, see -ate (adjective-forming suffix) and -ate (verb-forming suffix). By surface analysis, proportion + -ate. Pronunciation: /pɹəˈpɔːʃənət/, /pɹəˈpɔɹʃənət/, /pɹəˈpɔːʃəneɪt/, /pɹəˈpɔɹʃəneɪt/ 1. In proportion; proportional; commensurable. Example: What is proportionate to his transgression. Example: “The UK government’s protective security system is rigorous and proportionate. It is our longstanding policy not to provide detailed information on those arrangements, as doing so could compromise their integrity and affect individuals’ security.” 2. Harmonious and symmetrical.
Word: proportionate Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Borrowed from Latin prōportiōnātus, see -ate (adjective-forming suffix) and -ate (verb-forming suffix). By surface analysis, proportion + -ate. Pronunciation: /pɹəˈpɔːʃənət/, /pɹəˈpɔɹʃənət/, /pɹəˈpɔːʃəneɪt/, /pɹəˈpɔɹʃəneɪt/ 1. To make proportionate. Labels: transitive
Word: proportion Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English proporcion, from Old French proportion, from Latin prōportiō (“comparative relation, proportion, symmetry, analogy”), from pro (“for, before”) + portio (“share, part”); see portion. By surface analysis, pro- + portion. Pronunciation: /pɹəˈpɔɹʃən/, /pɹəˈpɔːʃən/, /pɹəˈpo(ː)ɹʃən/, /pɹəˈpoəʃən/ 1. A quantity of something that is part of the whole amount or number. Labels: countable Example: “I don't mean all of your friends—only a small proportion—which, however, connects your circle with that deadly, idle, brainless bunch—the insolent chatterers at the opera, the gorged dowagers, the worn-out, passionless men, the enervated matrons of the summer capital,[…]!” 2. Harmonious relation of parts to each other or to the whole. Labels: uncountable 3. Proper or equal share. Labels: countable Example: Let the women[…]do the same things in their proportions and capacities. 4. The relation of one part to another or to the whole with respect to magnitude, quantity, or degree. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: the proportion of the parts of a building, or of the body Example: The image of Christ made in Pilate's time after his own proportion. 5. A statement of equality between two ratios. Labels: countable 6. The "rule of three", in which three terms are given to find a fourth. Labels: archaic, countable, uncountable 7. Size. Labels: countable, in-plural Example: The humor of my proposition appealed more strongly to Miss Trevor than I had looked for, and from that time forward she became her old self again;[…]. Now she had come to look upon the matter in its true proportions, and her anticipation of a possible chance of teaching him a lesson was a pleasure to behold. Example: What other television show would feature a gorgeously designed sequence where a horrifically mutated Pierre and Marie Curie, their bodies swollen to Godzilla-like proportions from prolonged exposure to the radiation that would eventually kill them, destroy an Asian city with their bare hands like vengeance-crazed monster-Gods?
Word: proportion Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English proporcion, from Old French proportion, from Latin prōportiō (“comparative relation, proportion, symmetry, analogy”), from pro (“for, before”) + portio (“share, part”); see portion. By surface analysis, pro- + portion. Pronunciation: /pɹəˈpɔɹʃən/, /pɹəˈpɔːʃən/, /pɹəˈpo(ː)ɹʃən/, /pɹəˈpoəʃən/ 1. To divide into proper shares; to apportion. Labels: transitive Example: In order to proportion the braking force to the weight carried by a wheel - a matter of special importance in the braking of wagons - variable leverage systems are now being introduced in which the end of one axle spring is linked to a control spring in the change-over valve, so automatically varying the leverage exerted by the brake-rod according to whether the wagon is full or empty. 2. To form symmetrically. Labels: transitive 3. To set or render in proportion. Labels: transitive 4. To correspond to. Labels: archaic, transitive
Word: outcome Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From out + come. Pronunciation: /ˈaʊtkʌm/ 1. That which is produced or occurs as a result of an event or process. Example: A quality automobile is the outcome of the work of skilled engineers and thousands of workers. Example: How far are you willing to reach? / While you're coveting outcomes that you can't achieve / Now you're on a mission, but you won't complete / Shouldn't hold on to me, hold on to me / Try to let go of me, let go of me / Of what you'll never be / You'll hang yourself on that leash / Moral mind of a fool that never learns 2. The result of a random trial. An element of a sample space. Example: Three is a possible outcome of tossing a six-sided die. 3. The anticipated or desired results or evidence of a learning experience. Example: learning outcomes Example: The outcomes of this course are outlined in your syllabus. 4. The scoreline; the result. Example: Spain failed to move through the gears despite exerting control for lengthy spells and a measure of perspective must be applied immediately to the outcome.
Word: partridge Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English partrich, partriche, pertriche, perdriz, from Old French perdriz, partriz, from Latin perdīx (“partridge”), from Ancient Greek πέρδιξ (pérdix, “partridge”), probably from πέρδομαι (pérdomai, “to fart”). Pronunciation: /ˈpɑːtɹɪd͡ʒ/, /ˈpɑɹtɹɪd͡ʒ/ 1. Any bird of a number of genera in the family Phasianidae, notably in the genera Perdix and Alectoris. Example: On the first day of Christmas, my true love sent to me a partridge in a pear tree. Example: ...and the loudest sound in the lonely fields was when, adventuring too near some late brood, the partridge sought to deceive by a plaintive cry and seeming helplessness, crossing before your very feet, till, when drawn to a sufficient distance, suddenly the air vibrated to the flutter of her active pinions. 2. The flesh or meat of this bird eaten as food. Labels: uncountable 3. A type of cannon charge composed of several missiles fired all together, similar to langrage or case-shot. Also a large cannon that shoots stones. Labels: obsolete
Word: pheasant Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English fesaunt, fesant, from Old French fesan, from Latin phāsiānus, from Ancient Greek φᾱσιανός (phāsianós), meaning “[bird] of the river Φᾶσις (Phâsis)”, from where, it was supposed, the bird spread to the west. Replaced native Old English wōrhana, a variant of mōrhana. More at moorhen. Pronunciation: /ˈfɛzənt/ 1. A bird of family Phasianidae, often hunted for food. Labels: countable Example: The ſpring diſplaying her elegant taſte, the proud walk of the gold-feathered pheaſant, the light tread of the ſmall-hoofed hind, and the dancing of the ſtar-trained peacock, infuſed joy into the ſoul of the ſpectator of the aſtoniſhing works of the Creator. Example: Or sometimes, passing too near a sequestered copse, the shy tenants were startled, and the superb plumage of the pheasant dashed aside the branches, and the stately bird soared up on rattling wing. 2. The meat of this bird, eaten as food. Labels: uncountable Example: Tables were laid with cold pheasant, watercressy finger foods, sweets sufficient to give the Greater Raleigh Area sugar shock. Example: Célestin Lainé sat on the edge of the bed, a tray on his lap, eating pheasant and roast vegetables with a red wine reduction.
Word: magpie Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Mag, a nickname for Margaret that was used to denote a chatterer, + archaic pie (“magpie”), from Middle English pie, pye, from Old French pie, from Latin pīca, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)peyk- (“woodpecker, magpie”). Displaced native Old English agu (“magpie”) and Middle English aguster (“magpie”), whence English haggister. Pronunciation: /ˈmæɡˌpaɪ/ 1. One of several kinds of bird in the family Corvidae, especially Pica pica. 2. A superficially similar Australian bird, Gymnorhina tibicen, in the family Artamidae. 3. Someone who displays a magpie-like quality such as hoarding or stealing objects. Labels: figuratively Example: Not only is Mr. Booker a voracious magpie (who does not always acknowledge the sources of his ideas), but he also turns out to be an annoyingly biased and didactic one. 4. A fan or member of Newcastle United F.C. Labels: slang 5. In the sport of fullbore target rifle, the third circle on a target, between the inner and outer. Labels: UK 6. A halfpenny. Labels: UK, obsolete, slang 7. A pattern resembling the pied plumage of a magpie. Labels: attributive Example: Kitty and I were engaged. The next day I met those accursed “magpie” Jhampanies at the back of Jakko, and, moved by some passing sentiment of pity, stopped to tell Mrs. Wessington everything. Example: The worst part of my experience in this magpie livery was yet to come, for I was to appear in it the next day at church.
Word: magpie Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Mag, a nickname for Margaret that was used to denote a chatterer, + archaic pie (“magpie”), from Middle English pie, pye, from Old French pie, from Latin pīca, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)peyk- (“woodpecker, magpie”). Displaced native Old English agu (“magpie”) and Middle English aguster (“magpie”), whence English haggister. Pronunciation: /ˈmæɡˌpaɪ/ 1. To mark with patches of black and white or light and dark. Labels: transitive Example: The little rail-enclosed plots that lay between the pavements and the hotels were magpied with torn paper […] Example: […] she stood at the window and saw the lake blue with spring and a few patches of snow that magpied the hills. 2. To steal or hoard (items) as magpies are believed to do. Labels: ambitransitive Example: […] she liked to be able to have a picturesque fact or two with which to support herself when she too, to hold attention, wanted to issue moving statements as to revolutions, anarchies and strife in the offing. And she had noticed that when she magpied Tietjens’ conversations more serious men in responsible positions were apt to argue with her and to pay her more attention than before.... Example: “I had to borrow those photographs Aunt Nettie was storing in her closet.” “Isn’t that interesting?” May said. “I have to say, I never did understand why Mrs. Hatch asked me to magpie them out of the library.” 3. To talk idly; to talk about other people's private business. Labels: intransitive Example: He knew how people were magpieing with their malicious chatter that she had committed the cardinal sin of believing love was permanent […]
Word: woodpecker Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From wood + pecker. Compare Middle English wod spek (“woodpecker”), Middle English wodehake (“woodpecker”), Middle English wodewale (“woodpecker”). Displaced speight. Pronunciation: /ˈwʊdˌpɛkə/, /ˈwɵdˌpɛkə/, /ˈwʊdˌpɛkɚ/, /ˈwʊdˌpekə/, /ˈwʉdˌpɛkəɾ/ 1. Any bird of species-rich family Picidae, with a strong pointed beak suitable for pecking holes in wood. Example: On its summit towered aloft the fir tree which has often been referred to, like a mighty mast, full of woodpeckers' holes. Example: His skin was scarlet like the head of the green woodpecker. 2. A Type 92 heavy machine gun. Labels: slang
Word: green woodpecker Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ɡɹinˈwʊdpɛkə(ɹ)/ 1. Any of species Picus viridis of European woodpeckers. Example: His skin was scarlet like the head of the green woodpecker.
Word: alpine chough Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈalpaɪn ˈtʃʌf/ 1. A species of bird in the crow family (Corvidae) (Pyrrhocorax graculus), that breeds locally in the highest mountains of southern Europe, the Alps, across central Asia and India. Example: In a sense these sections form refrains to the two couplets, in which two types of material are used: birdsong, consisting of the calls and cries of the alpine chough and the raven, and passages representing the flight of the alpine chough and the flight of the golden eagle. Example: The alpine chough was seen by Edmund Hillary on his way to the summit of Mount Everest at 28,000 feet, and I believe it is likely that the little cache of biscuits and candy placed on the summit by Tensing Norkay in May, 1953, was visited by alpine choughs on their patrols in search of human debris.
Word: turtle dove Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English turtildove, turteldoufe (cognate with Old High German turtultūba, turtulatūba, turtiltūba, Middle High German turteltūbe, türteltūbe, German Turteltaube; German Low German Turtelduuv, Dutch tortelduif, Faroese turtildúgva, Icelandic turtildúfa), Danish turteldue, Norwegian Bokmål turteldue, Norwegian Nynorsk turteldue, Swedish turturduva. The first element is from Latin turtur (“turtledove”) (compare the archaic synonym turtle (“turtle dove (bird)”); the word is not related to turtle (“reptile with a shell”). Pronunciation: /ˈtɜːtəldʌv/, /ˈtɝtəldʌv/ 1. Any of several (species of) birds, called by this traditional name, mainly in the genus Streptopelia, of the family Columbidae (doves and pigeons, which also included the extinct passenger pigeon, dodo, and solitaire). 2. A lover, one half of a couple. Example: […] and then on a common impulse this curiously simple pair of habitual criminals were in each other's arms and exchanging fond kisses for all the world like honest lovers. "Hullo, turtle doves," remarked Nickle, stumbling in upon this idyll and accepting it with saving coolness. Example: Out for their evening constitutional. A lovely pair of turtledoves. Around the jolly corner, and off to the park.
Word: owl Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English howle, oul, oule, owle, owlle, from Old English ūle, from Proto-West Germanic *uwwulā, from Proto-Germanic *uwwulǭ (“owl”), diminutive of *uwwǭ (“eagle-owl”), of imitative origin or a variant of *ūfaz, *ūfǭ, from Proto-Indo-European *up- (“to cry out”). Cognates Cognate with Scots oul (“owl”), Saterland Frisian Ule (“owl”), West Frisian ûle (“owl”), Cimbrian aul (“owl”), Dutch uil (“owl”), German Eule (“owl”), Low German Uul (“owl”), Luxembourgish Eil (“owl”), Vilamovian aojł (“own”), Yiddish אײַל (ayl, “owl”), Danish and Norwegian Bokmål ugle (“owl”), Faroese ugla (“owl”), Icelandic uggla, ugla (“owl”), Norwegian Nynorsk ugla, ule (“owl”), Swedish uggla, uv (“owl”); also Bulgarian вопъл (vopǎl, “cry, howl, scream”), въпия (vǎpija, “to weep, yell”), Czech úpět (“to howl, wail”), Russian вопи́ть (vopítʹ, “to howl, scream, yell”), вопия́ть (vopijátʹ, “to appeal; to scream, yell; to lament, wail”), вопль (voplʹ, “cry, scream, wail”), Serbo-Croatian ва̀пити, vàpiti (“to cry out; to scream”), Slovene vpíti (“to scream, yell”). Pronunciation: /aʊ(ə)l/ 1. Any of various birds of prey of the order Strigiformes, families Strigidae and Tytonidae, that are primarily nocturnal and have forward-looking, binocular vision, limited eye movement, and good hearing. Example: A group of owls is called a parliament. 2. A person seen as having owl-like characteristics, especially appearing wise or serious, or being nocturnally active. Labels: broadly 3. An owl pigeon. 4. A politician with moderate views that are neither hawkish nor dovish. Labels: uncommon 5. Any of various nymphalid butterflies, especially in the genus Caligo, having large eyespots on the wings.
Word: owl Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English howle, oul, oule, owle, owlle, from Old English ūle, from Proto-West Germanic *uwwulā, from Proto-Germanic *uwwulǭ (“owl”), diminutive of *uwwǭ (“eagle-owl”), of imitative origin or a variant of *ūfaz, *ūfǭ, from Proto-Indo-European *up- (“to cry out”). Cognates Cognate with Scots oul (“owl”), Saterland Frisian Ule (“owl”), West Frisian ûle (“owl”), Cimbrian aul (“owl”), Dutch uil (“owl”), German Eule (“owl”), Low German Uul (“owl”), Luxembourgish Eil (“owl”), Vilamovian aojł (“own”), Yiddish אײַל (ayl, “owl”), Danish and Norwegian Bokmål ugle (“owl”), Faroese ugla (“owl”), Icelandic uggla, ugla (“owl”), Norwegian Nynorsk ugla, ule (“owl”), Swedish uggla, uv (“owl”); also Bulgarian вопъл (vopǎl, “cry, howl, scream”), въпия (vǎpija, “to weep, yell”), Czech úpět (“to howl, wail”), Russian вопи́ть (vopítʹ, “to howl, scream, yell”), вопия́ть (vopijátʹ, “to appeal; to scream, yell; to lament, wail”), вопль (voplʹ, “cry, scream, wail”), Serbo-Croatian ва̀пити, vàpiti (“to cry out; to scream”), Slovene vpíti (“to scream, yell”). Pronunciation: /aʊ(ə)l/ 1. To smuggle contraband goods. Labels: archaic, intransitive
Word: tawny owl Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈtɔːni aʊl/ 1. Any of species Strix aluco of strigid owls, of Europe, western Asia, and the Middle East.
Word: starling Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ster- Proto-Indo-European *ster-os Proto-Germanic *staraz Proto-West Germanic *star Old English stær Proto-Indo-European *-lósder. Proto-Germanic *-ilaz Proto-Indo-European *-n̥kʷo-der.? Proto-Indo-European *-nós Proto-Indo-European *-iHnos Proto-Germanic *-īnaz Proto-Indo-European *-kos Proto-Germanic *-gaz ? Proto-Germanic *-ingaz Proto-Germanic *-ilingaz Proto-West Germanic *-ling Old English -ling Old English stærling Middle English starling English starling From Middle English starling, sterling, sterlinge, from Old English stærling, from stær (“starling”) + -ling (diminutive suffix). Cognate with Middle Dutch sterlinck (“starling”). Pronunciation: /ˈstɑːlɪŋ/, [ˈstɑːlɪŋ], /ˈstɑɹlɪŋ/, [ˈstɑɹlɪŋ] 1. A family, Sturnidae, of passerine birds. 2. A family, Sturnidae, of passerine birds. Example: Vast flights of starlings, fleeing the racket, beat across the sky at high speed, like Squall-clouds,— Evening at Noon-tide. 3. A fish, rock trout (Hexagrammos spp.), of the North Pacific, especially, Hexagrammos decagrammus, found in US waters.
Word: starling Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Apparently a variant of staddling (although difficult to account for), or perhaps an alteration by association with another (unidentified) word. Pronunciation: /ˈstɑːlɪŋ/, [ˈstɑːlɪŋ], /ˈstɑɹlɪŋ/, [ˈstɑɹlɪŋ] 1. An enclosure like a coffer-dam, formed of piles driven closely together before any structure or work, as a protection against the wash of waves, commonly used to protect the piers of a bridge. 2. One of the piles used in forming such a breakwater.
Word: black grouse Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈblæk ɡɹɑʊs/ 1. A large, black bird with a lyre-shaped tail, Lyrurus tetrix (syn. Tetrao tetrix). Example: The shy black grouse, “with an eye on every feather,” can only thrive in vast, absolutely undisturbed heath and moorlands. Therefore, unfortunately, there are not too many black grouse.
Word: capercaillie Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Scots capercailzie (for the -z-, see Mackenzie and tailzie), a corruption of Scottish Gaelic capall (“horse”) + coille (“of the woods”). Pronunciation: /kæpəˈkeɪli/, /kæpɚˈkeɪli/ 1. A large, black grouse of the genus Tetrao in the bird family Phasianidae, especially the western capercaillie, Tetrao urogallus.
Word: blackbird Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English blakebird, blacbrid (“ouzel; Eurasian blackbird”), equivalent to black + bird. Pronunciation: /ˈblakbəːd/, /ˈblækˌbɚd/ 1. A common true thrush, Turdus merula, found in woods and gardens over much of Eurasia, and introduced elsewhere. 2. A variety of New World birds of the family Icteridae (26 species of icterid bird). 3. A native of the South Pacific islands. Labels: derogatory, historical, slang
Word: blackbird Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English blakebird, blacbrid (“ouzel; Eurasian blackbird”), equivalent to black + bird. Pronunciation: /ˈblakbəːd/, /ˈblækˌbɚd/ 1. To enslave someone, especially through chicanery or force Example: “At the same time, island communities — especially in coastal areas, where the effect of population loss was often enormous — sometimes retaliated against blackbirding raids.”
Word: barn owl Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From barn + owl. Pronunciation: /ˈbɑːn ˌaʊl/, /ˈbɑɹn ˌaʊəl/ 1. An owl of the species Tyto alba, often having a white face and commonly found in barns and other farm buildings.
Word: vole Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Norn vollj, from Old Norse vǫllr (“field”), from Proto-Germanic *walþuz (“forest”). The Orkney dialectal term vole mouse, lit. “field mouse”, was introduced to general English by George Barry in 1805; John Fleming in 1828 was first to refer to the creature by the epithet vole alone. Displaced earlier names for these species which also classified them as mice, e.g. short-tailed field mouse. Pronunciation: /vəʊl/, [vɔʊɫ], /voʊl/, [voɫ], [voːɫ] 1. Any of a large number of species of small rodents of the tribes Arvicolini, Ellobiusini, Clethrionomyini, Pliomyini, Phenacomyini and Prometheomyini.
Word: vole Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from French vole. 1. A deal in a card game, écarté, that draws all the tricks. Labels: archaic Example: Ladies, I'll venture for the vole. Example: With humble curate can I now retire, (While good Sir Peter boozes with the squire,) And at backgammon mortify my soul, That pants for loo, or flutters at a vole?
Word: vole Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Borrowed from French vole. 1. To win all the tricks by a vole. Labels: archaic, intransitive Example: no lad shall chuck, or lady vole, But some excising Courtier will have toll.
Word: American bison Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /əˈmɛɹɪkən ˈbaɪ̯sən/ 1. A bovine mammal, a species of bison, Bison bison, endemic to North America. Example: In the year 1521, when Cortez reached Anahuac, the American bison was seen for the first time by civilized Europeans, if we may be permitted to thus characterize the horde of blood thirsty plunder seekers who fought their way to the Aztec capital.
Word: European bison Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /jʊɹəˌpiːən ˈbaɪsn̩/ 1. The wisent, species Bos bonasus, Europe's heaviest land animal.
Word: wisent Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from German Wisent. Doublet of bison. Pronunciation: /ˈwɪzənt/, /ˈviːzənt/ 1. The European bison, Bison bonasus or Bos bonasus.
Word: buffalo Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Portuguese or Spanish búfalo (“buffalo”), from Late Latin būfalus, from Latin būbalus, from Ancient Greek βούβαλος (boúbalos, “antelope, wild ox”). Doublet of bubale and buffle. Pronunciation: /ˈbʌf.əl.əʊ/, /ˈbʌf.ə.loʊ/ 1. An animal from the subtribe Bubalina, also known as true buffalos, such as the Cape buffalo, Syncerus caffer, or the water buffalo, Bubalus bubalis. Example: "It must be a very wild stretch of country, and full of big game. I have always wanted to kill a buffalo before I die." Example: And on this board were frightful swords and knives that are made in a great cavern by swinking demons out of white flames that they fix in the horns of buffalos and stags that there abound marvellously. 2. A related North American animal, the American bison, Bison bison. 3. Ellipsis of buffalo robe. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis 4. The buffalo fish (Ictiobus spp.). 5. A nickel. Labels: US, slang 6. A looter during the Civil War. Labels: US, historical, slang 7. A large or stupid person. Labels: derogatory, slang 8. An obese person, usually a woman. Labels: derogatory, slang 9. A black male. Labels: derogatory, offensive, slang 10. Ellipsis of American buffalo (“gold bullion coin”). Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis
Word: buffalo Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Borrowed from Portuguese or Spanish búfalo (“buffalo”), from Late Latin būfalus, from Latin būbalus, from Ancient Greek βούβαλος (boúbalos, “antelope, wild ox”). Doublet of bubale and buffle. Pronunciation: /ˈbʌf.əl.əʊ/, /ˈbʌf.ə.loʊ/ 1. To hunt buffalo. Labels: transitive 2. To outwit, confuse, deceive, or intimidate. Labels: US, slang, transitive Example: I'm just gonna let you have it. Probably in the midst of a kiss. Right when you think everything’s been healed up. Right in the moment when you're sure you've got me buffaloed. That's when you'll die. Example: The nontechnical administrator should never be buffaloed by the esoteric vocabulary and the endless jargon of the computer expert. 3. To pistol-whip. Labels: archaic, transitive Example: Whereupon the twelve-inch barrel of the Buntline Special was laid alongside and just underneath the Rachal hatbrim most effectively. The buffaloed cattleman dropped to the walk, unconscious. Example: He walked arrogant and scornful among the Texans and cavalrymen whom he hazed and buffaloed with the barrels of his guns when they got out of line.
Word: CRO Part of Speech: name 1. Abbreviation of Croatia. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of
Word: CRO Part of Speech: noun 1. Initialism of Cathode-Ray Oscilloscope. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism 2. Initialism of Contract research organization. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism Example: This thesis deals in general with mergers & acquisitions in the CRO industry, and more specifically with reasons for M&A, success factors during the M&A process, and why M&A can fail in the Contract Research Organization industry. 3. Initialism of COMSEC responsible officer. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism 4. Initialism of conversion rate optimization. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism 5. Initialism of chief risk officer. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism Example: The chief risk officer (CRO) title first appeared in a 1988 Peat Marwick study on global capital markets. The first CRO was James Lam of GE Capital, in 1993. 6. Initialism of chief research officer. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism 7. Initialism of chief revenue officer. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism 8. Initialism of chief reputation officer. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism 9. Initialism of chief restructuring officer. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Word: SMO Part of Speech: noun 1. Initialism of site management organization; an organization that provides clinical trial related services. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable 2. Initialism of social movement organization. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable 3. Initialism of special military operation. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable 4. Initialism of social media optimization. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable 5. Initialism of sequential minimal optimization. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
Word: RMO Part of Speech: noun 1. Initialism of research management organization, an organization functioning as a combination of a CRO and SMO to manage research from the conception and development of a project to the implementation and completion at Investigative Sites. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism