nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: yellowish Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English ȝelowisch; equivalent to yellow + -ish. Pronunciation: /ˈjɛləʊɪʃ/, /ˈjɛlɔʊɪʃ/ 1. Somewhat yellow in colour. Labels: not-comparable Example: But, like more than one similar North Wales beauty-spot, there had to be (at least at the time of which I write), a quarry, or ironworks, or some kind of industrial plant, which lay perpetually under a cloud of yellowish smoke—literally a blot on the landscape. Example: A biologist has named a newly discovered species of moth after our next president. The Neopalpa donaldtrumpi is a wee little creature found in parts of California and Baja, Mexico. […] It seems nature favors fancy golden hairdos as much as the man himself (who could forget China’s beloved Trump bird?), because the N. donaldtrumpi sports a very familiar-looking crown of yellowish scales.
Word: twenty-sixth Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From twenty-six + -th (ordinal suffix). Pronunciation: /ˌtwɛnti ˈsɪk(s)θ/, /ˌtwɛnti ˈsɪks/ 1. Occurring in position twenty-six; the ordinal form of the number twenty-six. Labels: not-comparable
Word: twenty-sixth Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From twenty-six + -th (ordinal suffix). Pronunciation: /ˌtwɛnti ˈsɪk(s)θ/, /ˌtwɛnti ˈsɪks/ 1. The person or thing in the twenty-sixth position. Labels: uncountable 2. One of twenty-six equal parts of a whole. Labels: uncountable
Word: twenty-seventh Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From twenty-seven + -th (ordinal suffix). Pronunciation: /ˌtwɛn(t)i ˈsɛvənθ/, /ˌtwʌn(t)i ˈsɛvənθ/ 1. The ordinal form of the number twenty-seven. Labels: not-comparable
Word: twenty-seventh Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From twenty-seven + -th (ordinal suffix). Pronunciation: /ˌtwɛn(t)i ˈsɛvənθ/, /ˌtwʌn(t)i ˈsɛvənθ/ 1. The person or thing in the twenty-seventh position. 2. One of twenty-seven equal parts of a whole.
Word: twenty-eighth Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From twenty-eight + -th (ordinal suffix). Pronunciation: /ˌtwɛnti ˈeɪ(t)θ/ 1. The ordinal form of the number twenty-eight. Labels: not-comparable
Word: twenty-eighth Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From twenty-eight + -th (ordinal suffix). Pronunciation: /ˌtwɛnti ˈeɪ(t)θ/ 1. The person or thing in the twenty-eighth position. 2. One of twenty-eight equal parts of a whole.
Word: twenty-ninth Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From twenty-nine + -th (ordinal suffix). Pronunciation: /ˌtwɛnti ˈnaɪnθ/ 1. The ordinal form of the number twenty-nine. Labels: not-comparable
Word: twenty-ninth Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From twenty-nine + -th (ordinal suffix). Pronunciation: /ˌtwɛnti ˈnaɪnθ/ 1. The person or thing in the twenty-ninth position. 2. Any of twenty-nine equal parts of a whole.
Word: thirtieth Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From earlier thirteth, from Middle English thrittithe, threttiþe, thrittyde, from Old English þrītigoþa; equivalent to thirty + -eth. For the modern form, see the etymological notes at twentieth. Pronunciation: /ˈθɜːti.əθ/, /ˈθɝti.əθ/ 1. The ordinal form of the number thirty. Labels: not-comparable
Word: thirtieth Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From earlier thirteth, from Middle English thrittithe, threttiþe, thrittyde, from Old English þrītigoþa; equivalent to thirty + -eth. For the modern form, see the etymological notes at twentieth. Pronunciation: /ˈθɜːti.əθ/, /ˈθɝti.əθ/ 1. The person or thing in the thirtieth position. 2. One of thirty equal parts of a whole.
Word: fortieth Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From earlier fourteth, from Middle English fourtithe, fourtiþe; equivalent to forty + -eth. For the modern form, see the etymological notes at twentieth. Pronunciation: /ˈfɔː.ti.əθ/, /ˈfɔɹ.ti.əθ/ 1. The ordinal form of the number forty. Labels: not-comparable
Word: fortieth Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From earlier fourteth, from Middle English fourtithe, fourtiþe; equivalent to forty + -eth. For the modern form, see the etymological notes at twentieth. Pronunciation: /ˈfɔː.ti.əθ/, /ˈfɔɹ.ti.əθ/ 1. The person or thing in the fortieth position. 2. One of forty equal parts of a whole.
Word: fiftieth Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From earlier fifteth, from Middle English fiftithe, fyftith; equivalent to fifty + -eth. For the modern form, see the etymological notes at twentieth. Pronunciation: /ˈfɪf.ti.əθ/ 1. The ordinal form of the number fifty. Labels: not-comparable
Word: fiftieth Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From earlier fifteth, from Middle English fiftithe, fyftith; equivalent to fifty + -eth. For the modern form, see the etymological notes at twentieth. Pronunciation: /ˈfɪf.ti.əθ/ 1. The person or thing in the fiftieth position. 2. One of fifty equal parts of a whole.
Word: sixtieth Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From earlier sixteth, from Middle English sixtithe; equivalent to sixty + -eth. For the modern form, see the etymological notes at twentieth. Pronunciation: /ˈsɪksti.əθ/ 1. The ordinal form of the number sixty. Labels: not-comparable
Word: sixtieth Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From earlier sixteth, from Middle English sixtithe; equivalent to sixty + -eth. For the modern form, see the etymological notes at twentieth. Pronunciation: /ˈsɪksti.əθ/ 1. The person or thing in the sixtieth position. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. One of sixty equal parts of a whole. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: trout Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English troute, troughte, trught, trouȝt, trouhte, partly from Old English truht (“trout”), and partly from Old French truite; both from Late Latin tructa, perhaps from Ancient Greek τρώκτης (trṓktēs, “nibbler”), from τρώγω (trṓgō, “to gnaw”), from Proto-Indo-European *terh₁- (“to rub, to turn”). The Internet verb sense originated on BBSes of the 1980s, probably from Monty Python's The Fish-Slapping Dance (1972), though that sketch involved a halibut. Pronunciation: /tɹaʊt/, /tɹʌʊt/ 1. Any of several species of fish in Salmonidae, closely related to salmon, and distinguished by spawning more than once. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Many anglers consider trout to be the archetypical quarry. Example: Now we plunged into a deep shade with the boughs lacing each other overhead, and crossed dainty, rustic bridges over the cold trout-streams, the boards giving back the clatter of our horses' feet:[…]. 2. An objectionable elderly woman. Labels: UK, countable, derogatory, uncountable Example: Look, you silly old trout, you can't keep bringing home cats! You can't afford the ones you have! Example: But French observers were perplexed not just by the Benny Hill-style frenzy, but by the ensuing British tabloid handwringing about how unfair it was that the UK's women ministers were such a load of ugly trouts compared to Sarkozy's sexy French ladies.
Word: trout Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English troute, troughte, trught, trouȝt, trouhte, partly from Old English truht (“trout”), and partly from Old French truite; both from Late Latin tructa, perhaps from Ancient Greek τρώκτης (trṓktēs, “nibbler”), from τρώγω (trṓgō, “to gnaw”), from Proto-Indo-European *terh₁- (“to rub, to turn”). The Internet verb sense originated on BBSes of the 1980s, probably from Monty Python's The Fish-Slapping Dance (1972), though that sketch involved a halibut. Pronunciation: /tɹaʊt/, /tɹʌʊt/ 1. To fish for trout. Labels: intransitive Example: God bless me! is it possible that you, a tall fellow with a black moustache, can be the curly fair-haired boy I have so often carried on my back and saddle-bow, and taught to make flies of red spinner and drakes’ wings, when we trouted together at Llyn Cwellyn among the hills yonder? Example: We found not more than three birds in any one place, and many times only one old bird, and this where we knew they had bred, for our pointer Rex found them while we were trouting. 2. To (figuratively) slap someone with a slimy, stinky, wet trout; to admonish jocularly. Labels: transitive
Word: seventieth Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From earlier seventeth, from Middle English seventiþe, seventithe; equivalent to seventy + -eth. For the modern form, see the etymological notes at twentieth. Pronunciation: /ˈsɛvnti.əθ/ 1. The ordinal form of the number seventy. Labels: not-comparable Example: Satisfied that his room had not been searched while he was at the casino, Bond undressed and took a cold shower. Then he lit his seventieth cigarette of the day and sat down at the writing-table with the thick wad of his stake money and winnings beside him and entered some figures in a small note-book.
Word: seventieth Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From earlier seventeth, from Middle English seventiþe, seventithe; equivalent to seventy + -eth. For the modern form, see the etymological notes at twentieth. Pronunciation: /ˈsɛvnti.əθ/ 1. The person or thing in the seventieth position. Example: All the septuagenarians remembered their seventieths fondly. 2. One of seventy equal parts of a whole.
Word: eightieth Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From earlier eighteth, from Middle English eightetithe, eiȝtetithe, eiȝtithe; equivalent to eighty + -eth. For the modern form, see the etymological notes at twentieth. Pronunciation: /ˈeɪ.ti.əθ/ 1. The ordinal form of the number eighty. Labels: not-comparable
Word: eightieth Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From earlier eighteth, from Middle English eightetithe, eiȝtetithe, eiȝtithe; equivalent to eighty + -eth. For the modern form, see the etymological notes at twentieth. Pronunciation: /ˈeɪ.ti.əθ/ 1. The person or thing in the eightieth position. 2. One of eighty equal parts of a whole.
Word: ninetieth Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From earlier ninteth, from Middle English nyntithe; for the modern form, see the etymological notes at twentieth. Pronunciation: /ˈnaɪn.ti.əθ/ 1. The ordinal form of the number ninety. Labels: not-comparable
Word: ninetieth Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From earlier ninteth, from Middle English nyntithe; for the modern form, see the etymological notes at twentieth. Pronunciation: /ˈnaɪn.ti.əθ/ 1. The person or thing in the ninetieth position. 2. One of ninety equal parts of a whole.
Word: hundredth Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English hundred (“hundredth”); equivalent to and remodelled after hundred + -th (ordinal suffix). The Old English term was hundtēontigoþa. Pronunciation: /ˈhʌndɹə(d)θ/, /ˈhʌndɹə(t)θ/ 1. The ordinal form of the number one hundred. Labels: not-comparable Example: This being Woodie Guthrie’s a hundredth birthday, in the centerpiece of this year’s South by Southwest Conference, I’m also gonna talk a little bit about my musical development and where it intersected with Woodie’s and why.
Word: hundredth Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English hundred (“hundredth”); equivalent to and remodelled after hundred + -th (ordinal suffix). The Old English term was hundtēontigoþa. Pronunciation: /ˈhʌndɹə(d)θ/, /ˈhʌndɹə(t)θ/ 1. The person or thing in the hundredth position. 2. One of a hundred equal parts of a whole. Example: We humans are so stuck in the middle of the cosmic scales — in average height, one-hundredth of one-septillionth (10^-24) the size of the observable universe, and with typical life spans of a couple octillion attoseconds. And an attosecond is an eternity compared with the lifetime of the elusive Higgs boson, a subatomic particle that exists for one-thousandth of an attosecond before decaying.
Word: five-hundredth Part of Speech: adj 1. The ordinal form of the number five hundred. Labels: not-comparable
Word: five-hundredth Part of Speech: noun 1. The person or thing in the five-hundredth position. 2. One of five hundred equal parts of a whole.
Word: thousandth Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From thousand + -th (suffix forming an ordinal number). Pronunciation: /ˈθaʊzən(d)θ/, /ˈθaʊzən(d)ð/ 1. The ordinal numeral form of one thousand; last in order of a series of a thousand; next after the nine hundred and ninety-ninth. Labels: not-comparable
Word: thousandth Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From thousand + -th (suffix forming an ordinal number). Pronunciation: /ˈθaʊzən(d)θ/, /ˈθaʊzən(d)ð/ 1. The person or thing in the thousandth position. Labels: singular, singular-only 2. One of a thousand equal parts of a whole. Example: “Ah, Alan,” murmured Dorian, with a sigh, “I wish you had a thousandth part of the pity for me that I have for you.” Example: We humans are so stuck in the middle of the cosmic scales — in average height, one-hundredth of one-septillionth (10^-24) the size of the observable universe, and with typical life spans of a couple octillion attoseconds. And an attosecond is an eternity compared with the lifetime of the elusive Higgs boson, a subatomic particle that exists for one-thousandth of an attosecond before decaying.
Word: millionth Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From million + -th (ordinal suffix). Pronunciation: /ˈmɪljənθ/, /ˈmɪli.ənθ/ 1. The ordinal form of the number one million. Labels: not-comparable
Word: millionth Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From million + -th (ordinal suffix). Pronunciation: /ˈmɪljənθ/, /ˈmɪli.ənθ/ 1. The person or thing in the millionth position. 2. One of a million equal parts of a whole. Term ppm (parts per million) is also used. Example: Or, to put it another way, every time that young man or woman watches their favourite soap opera, it equates to one millionth of their life gone.
Word: gâteau Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of gateau. Labels: alt-of, alternative, countable, uncountable Example: We were served pancakes with smoked salmon, followed by thick slices of gâteau. Example: Julie was a froster, the glamour job at the factory. She wore her cute white hat cocked at a jaunty angle while working a big white bag of frosting, twisting it rapidly in her hands to create the various designs on top of the gâteaux.
Word: crossing Part of Speech: noun Etymology: By surface analysis, cross + -ing. Pronunciation: /ˈkɹɒsɪŋ/, /ˈkɹɔːsɪŋ/, /ˈkɹɔsɪŋ/, /ˈkɹɑsɪŋ/, /ˈkɹɒsəŋ/ 1. Cross-breeding. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. Opposition; thwarting. Labels: countable, uncountable 3. An intersection where roads, lines, or tracks cross. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The lynchpin of the work was replacement of the flat crossing at Newark, where the ECML crosses the Nottingham to Lincoln line, with this work taking place across the three days of the bank holiday weekend. 4. A place at which a river, railroad, or highway may be crossed. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Please, cross at the crossing. 5. The act by which terrain or a road etc. is crossed. Labels: countable, uncountable 6. A voyage across a body of water. Labels: countable, uncountable 7. The volume formed by the intersection of chancel, nave and transepts in a cruciform church; often with a tower or cupola over it. Labels: countable, uncountable 8. Movement into a crossed position. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: For example, experts in kinesics — body language — recognize that a person sends out hundreds of nonverbal signals — eyebrow twitches, frowns, leg crossings and uncrossings — every second while he or she is speaking and listening. 9. A pair of intersecting edges. Labels: countable, uncountable 10. A pair of parallel lines printed on a cheque. Labels: countable, uncountable 11. The appropriation of a form of language by somebody who is not a member of the group that speaks it. Labels: countable, uncountable 12. Ellipsis of pedestrian crossing. Labels: Philippines, abbreviation, alt-of, countable, ellipsis, uncountable
Word: crossing Part of Speech: adj Etymology: By surface analysis, cross + -ing. Pronunciation: /ˈkɹɒsɪŋ/, /ˈkɹɔːsɪŋ/, /ˈkɹɔsɪŋ/, /ˈkɹɑsɪŋ/, /ˈkɹɒsəŋ/ 1. Extending or lying across; in a crosswise direction. Labels: not-comparable, rare
Word: crossing Part of Speech: verb Etymology: By surface analysis, cross + -ing. Pronunciation: /ˈkɹɒsɪŋ/, /ˈkɹɔːsɪŋ/, /ˈkɹɔsɪŋ/, /ˈkɹɑsɪŋ/, /ˈkɹɒsəŋ/ 1. present participle and gerund of cross Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: ford Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *per- Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Indo-European *pértus Proto-Germanic *furduz Proto-West Germanic *furdu Old English ford English ford From Middle English fōrd, from Old English ford, from Proto-West Germanic *furdu, from Proto-Germanic *furduz, from Proto-Indo-European *pértus (“crossing”). Doublet of firth, fjord, and fjard, all via Old Norse; and port, distantly via Latin. Cognate with Low German Föörd, Dutch voord, German Furt, Norwegian and Danish fjord. See also forth and Persian پل (pol, “bridge”). Pronunciation: /fɔːd/, /fɔɹd/, /fo(ː)ɹd/, /foəd/, /-fəd/ 1. A location where a stream is shallow and the bottom has good footing, making it possible to cross from one side to the other with no bridge, by walking, riding, or driving through the water; a crossing. Example: He swam the Esk river where ford there was none. 2. A stream; a current. Example: With water of the ford / Or of the clouds. Example: Permit my ghost to pass the Stygian ford.
Word: ford Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *per- Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Indo-European *pértus Proto-Germanic *furduz Proto-West Germanic *furdu Old English ford English ford From Middle English fōrd, from Old English ford, from Proto-West Germanic *furdu, from Proto-Germanic *furduz, from Proto-Indo-European *pértus (“crossing”). Doublet of firth, fjord, and fjard, all via Old Norse; and port, distantly via Latin. Cognate with Low German Föörd, Dutch voord, German Furt, Norwegian and Danish fjord. See also forth and Persian پل (pol, “bridge”). Pronunciation: /fɔːd/, /fɔɹd/, /fo(ː)ɹd/, /foəd/, /-fəd/ 1. To cross a stream by walking through it. Example: He named that place, for it was near her dwelling, and on the road between Balerynie and Heriotside, which fords the Sker Burn. Example: Since the time of Seyavi the deer have shifted their feeding ground across the valley at the beginning of deep snows, by way of the Black Rock, fording the river at Charley's Butte, and making straight for the mouth of the cañon that is the easiest going to the winter pastures on Waban. 2. To traverse any precarious environment. Labels: broadly Example: I spent several days fording through dense jungle. Example: I use my ample shoulders to ford through the crowd, ignoring a curse here, smothering boos here and there, and generally standing my ground in the face of the disapprovals of those I shove.
Word: Aragonese Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree English Aragon Proto-Indo-European *-iskos Proto-Germanic *-iskaz Proto-West Germanic *-iskbor. Late Latin -iscus ▲ Vulgar Latin -iscus Latin -ēnsis Old French -eisbor. Middle English -eys English -ese English Aragonese From Aragon + -ese. Pronunciation: /ˌærəɡəˈniːz/ 1. Of, from or relating to Aragon, Spain. Labels: not-comparable 2. Of the Aragonese language. Labels: not-comparable, relational
Word: Aragonese Part of Speech: name Etymology: Etymology tree English Aragon Proto-Indo-European *-iskos Proto-Germanic *-iskaz Proto-West Germanic *-iskbor. Late Latin -iscus ▲ Vulgar Latin -iscus Latin -ēnsis Old French -eisbor. Middle English -eys English -ese English Aragonese From Aragon + -ese. Pronunciation: /ˌærəɡəˈniːz/ 1. The language of Aragon, nowadays spoken as a mother tongue by only a few thousand people in some valleys of the Pyrenees. 2. The Spanish language spoken in Aragon when influenced by Aragonese traits.
Word: Aragonese Part of Speech: name Etymology: Etymology tree English Aragon Proto-Indo-European *-iskos Proto-Germanic *-iskaz Proto-West Germanic *-iskbor. Late Latin -iscus ▲ Vulgar Latin -iscus Latin -ēnsis Old French -eisbor. Middle English -eys English -ese English Aragonese From Aragon + -ese. Pronunciation: /ˌærəɡəˈniːz/ 1. The people of Aragon. Labels: plural, plural-only
Word: regional lockout Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Coined by the video game community and opponents of the lockout practice. The practice originated with and was devised by the video game industry and was later adopted by the film industry with the advent of DVDs. 1. The programming practice, code, or chip used to prevent the playing of imported media on a domestically marketed device. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: console converter Part of Speech: noun 1. A peripheral used to bypass regional lockout on a video game console, allowing imported video games to be played on domestic video game consoles, but without circumventing copy protection.
Word: Yoshi Part of Speech: name Etymology: From 義 (Yoshi, common Japanese male given name), and many other spellings. See よし. Pronunciation: /ˈjəʊʃi/, /ˈjɒʃi/ 1. A male given name from Japanese.
Word: alchemist Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰew- Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥ Ancient Greek -μᾰ (-mă) Ancient Greek χῠ́μᾰ (khŭ́mă) Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-i-eh₂ Proto-Hellenic *-íā Ancient Greek -ία (-ía) Ancient Greek χυμείᾱ (khumeíā)bor. Arabic الْكِيمِيَاء (al-kīmiyāʔ)bor. Latin alchēmīa Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō) Proto-Hellenic *-tās Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs) Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)bor. Latin -ista Medieval Latin alchēmistader. Old French alquemisteder. English alchemist From Old French alquemiste (French alchimiste), from Medieval Latin alchemista. Equivalent to alchemy + -ist. Pronunciation: /ˈæl.kə.mɪst/ 1. One who practices alchemy. Example: [K]nowledge of philtres, aphrodisiacs, and other sexual stimulants spread from the Arabs and the Moors, from Egypt and India into the European herbals, pharmacopeias, and apothecaries’ lore, and, on a more indeterminate level, among alchemists, wizards, and occultists. Example: Years later, scientists learned that the sun’s light—visible and invisible—is merely the by-product of a process alchemists had vainly tried to reproduce for centuries—the transmutation of one element into another. That nature accomplishes this before our very eyes, and that it is what creates the solar heat and light that supports all life, was suspected by no one. The revelation came as a complete surprise. 2. One who blends material or substances in the nature or supposed nature of alchemy.
Word: fate Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English fate, from Latin fāta (“prediction”), plural of fātum, from fātus (“spoken”), from for (“to speak”). In this sense, displaced native Old English wyrd, whence Modern English weird. Pronunciation: /feɪt/ 1. The presumed cause, force, principle, or divine will that predetermines events. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Captain Edward Carlisle[…]felt a curious sensation of helplessness seize upon him as he met her steady gaze,[…]; he could not tell what this prisoner might do. He cursed the fate which had assigned such a duty, cursed especially that fate which forced a gallant soldier to meet so superb a woman as this under handicap so hard. 2. The effect, consequence, outcome, or inevitable events predetermined by this cause. Labels: countable, uncountable 3. An event or a situation which is inevitable in the fullness of time. Labels: countable, uncountable 4. Destiny; often with a connotation of death, ruin, misfortune, etc. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Accept your fate. 5. Alternative letter-case form of Fate (one of the goddesses said to control the destiny of human beings). Labels: alt-of, countable, uncountable 6. The products of a chemical reaction in their final form in the biosphere. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: It’s important to research chemical fate because chemical fate is the best tool we have for understanding and managing human health risks or environmental damage caused by chemical release. 7. The mature endpoint of a region, group of cells or individual cell in an embryo, including all changes leading to that mature endpoint Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: fate Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English fate, from Latin fāta (“prediction”), plural of fātum, from fātus (“spoken”), from for (“to speak”). In this sense, displaced native Old English wyrd, whence Modern English weird. Pronunciation: /feɪt/ 1. To foreordain or predetermine, to make inevitable. Labels: transitive Example: The oracle's prediction fated Oedipus to kill his father; not all his striving could change what would occur. Example: Before they met, Rebecca Guberman and Jennifer Jako were both certain they were fated to be alone.
Word: destiny Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English destine et al., from Old French destinee, from Latin dēstinō (English destine). Displaced Old English wyrd. Pronunciation: /ˈdɛs.tɪ.ni/, /ˈdes.tɪ.ni/ 1. That to which any person or thing is destined; a predetermined state; a condition predestined by the Divine or by human will. Example: Death is the destiny of all mortal men. Example: Her death (April 18, 1881) left the Empress Ts‘ŭ Hsi, the playmate of her youth, the sole Regent of China, with the destiny of four hundred millions of human beings in her hands. 2. That which is inevitable in the fullness of time. Example: Ain't no use to fight it / Don't tamper with my destiny / Any way you slice it / I'm in the hands of fate, you see 3. One's eventual fate (not necessarily inevitable or predestined). Example: Everywhere the atom bombs are dropping / It's the end of all humanity / No more time for last-minute shopping / It's time to face your final destiny Example: Suspended between two ancient trees in some woody wonderland, the nearby brook babblingly bubbling to itself, the gently cooling breezes sweeping away all things bothersome, we self-sway each other to our own rhythms, and all our manifest destinies are ahhhsome. 4. The fixed order of things; invincible necessity; an irresistible power or agency conceived of as determining the future, whether in general or of an individual. Example: Dara doesn't believe in using dating apps - she insists that destiny will find her other half. Example: There were two kinds of beardom opposed here, two futures, two destinies.
Word: eighty-one Part of Speech: num 1. The cardinal number following eighty and preceding eighty-two.
Word: eighty-first Part of Speech: adj 1. The ordinal form of the number eighty-one, describing a person or thing in position number 81 of a sequence. Example: The answer appears on the eighty-first page of the book. Example: She finished eighty-first in the race.
Word: eighty-first Part of Speech: noun 1. One of eighty-one equal parts of a whole. Example: An eighty-first of 1620 is 20.
Word: Atlantis Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Ancient Greek Ἀτλαντίς (Atlantís), from Ἄτλας (Átlas, “Atlas”), either from ἁ- (ha-, copulative prefix) + Proto-Indo-European *telh₂- (“bear, undergo, endure”) or of Pre-Greek origin. Pronunciation: /ətˈlæntəs/, [ət̚ˈlæɾ̃ɪs] 1. A mythical country said to have sunk into the Atlantic Ocean. Example: How far, since then, the ocean streams / Have swept us from that land of dreams, / That land of fiction and of truth, / The lost Atlantis of our youth! Example: I might have drifted on for my whole life as a psychical Researcher, showing a sympathetic, but more or less dilettante attitude towards the whole subject, as if we were arguing about some impersonal thing such as the existence of Atlantis or the Baconian controversy.
Word: Lemuria Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Latin Lemuria. Pronunciation: /ləˈmjuːɹi.ə/ 1. A religious feast of Ancient Rome during which rites were performed to exorcise the malevolent ghosts of the dead from their homes. Labels: historical
Word: Lemuria Part of Speech: name Etymology: From lemur + -ia; coined by English zoologist Philip Sclater in 1864. Pronunciation: /ləˈmjuːɹi.ə/ 1. A hypothetical continent or landmass postulated to have existed as an explanation of why lemur fossils appeared in Madagascar and India, but not in Africa or the Middle East. Example: Dr. Sclater has proposed for the hypothetical continent connecting these distant points, and whose former existence is indicated by the Mascarene islands and the Maldive coral group, the name of Lemuria. 2. A supposed lost country, continent, or island of the Indian Ocean inhabited by an ancient, spiritually advanced race or advanced alien visitants. Labels: New-Age
Word: lemur Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin lemurēs (“spirits of the dead”). The name was originally given to the red slender loris (then Lemur tardigradus) in 1754 by Carl Linnaeus. According to Linnaeus, the name was selected because of the nocturnal activity and slow movements of the red slender loris. In 1758, Linnaeus added, among others, the ring-tailed lemur (Lemur catta) to the genus Lemur. All other species, including the red slender loris, were eventually moved to other genera. In time, the word became the colloquial name for all primates endemic to Madagascar. Pronunciation: /ˈliːmə(ɹ)/ 1. Any strepsirrhine primate of the superfamily Lemuroidea, native only to Madagascar and some surrounding islands. Example: "Lemurs are naturally very social," said Mukobi. "Wild lemurs live in big family groups, and different species do really well together. Plus, the new lemur habitat is quite large, so each family group can have their own space when they choose to." Example: Tucker-Brown explained how lemurs—like much of the “stranded” flora and fauna of Madagascar—are effectively living fossils. Belonging to a primate group called prosimians, lemurs were evolutionarily superseded by monkeys on mainland Africa 35mn years ago and driven to near-extinction. 2. Any of the genus Lemur, represented by the ring-tailed lemur (Lemur catta). Labels: dated 3. A loris (Lemur tardigradus, now Loris tardigradus), predating the 10th edition of Systema Naturæ. Labels: obsolete
Word: think about Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ˈθɪŋk əˌbaʊt/ 1. To ponder. Labels: transitive Example: I've been thinking about human rights since watching that documentary. 2. To consider as a course of action. Labels: transitive Example: You should think about getting that leaky roof repaired. Example: Some more years later, the City of Dublin Steam Packet Company lost the contract so well cared for over 60 years. In 1920 the Irish M.P.s had other things to think about, and the L.N.W.R. tender was accepted.
Word: popcorn Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Short for popped corn. By surface analysis, pop + corn. Pronunciation: /ˈpɒp.kɔːn/, /ˈpɑp.kɔɹn/, /ˈpʌp.kɔɹn/, [ˈpʌp.kɒːn], [ˈpʌp.kɔɹn] 1. A snack food made from corn or maize kernels popped by dry heating. Labels: uncountable Example: My friends and I ordered popcorn during the interval of the movie. 2. A serving of popcorn. Labels: countable Example: Warner Bros has offered the two executives less than dollars 1m as an out-of-court settlement, a sum dismissed by Mr [Pierce] O'Donnell as 'two popcorns and two Cokes'. Example: When we went to Astoria, to see 'Drive Me Crazy,' they gave you one popcorn and the other one was free. I asked her if she wanted to eat mine, but she said there was so much popcorn, she was going to get sick. 3. A piece of popcorn. Labels: countable, rare Example: Some popcorns silently flicked off like face peelings on his shoe. Example: Don’t you feel this is nothing but throwing popcorns before a hungry elephant? This is definitely throwing popcorns before the hungry elephant. This is the imbalance that I wanted to pointed out. 4. A type of corn or maize with a hard outer hull that, along with the type of starch it contains, makes it suitable for popping. Labels: uncountable 5. A kind of stitch similar to a bobble. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: From the top the sample shows four stitch popcorns, five stitch bobbles, two rows of bells and a central leaf with leaves sloping to the left and right each side. 6. A form of brainstorming in which participants call out their ideas immediately, instead of waiting for an assigned turn to speak. Labels: attributive, countable, uncountable Example: With the "popcorn" method, all team members in the session spontaneously call out ideas and a facilitator writes them on a flip chart. Example: As a way to begin the discussion about God's will, you might want to ask the group to do some "popcorn" brainstorming about the pros and cons of believing that everything that happens is God's will. 7. Entertainment for observers. Labels: countable, humorous, uncountable Example: And not at all about how a state picks which group of electors to send, which is the whole basis of the NaPoVoInterCo plan, and will yield plenty more Supreme Court popcorn if it ever gets enacted. 8. A slow Belgian style of soul music popular in the early 1960s. Labels: countable, uncountable 9. A Romanian style of Europop popular in the late 2000s. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: popcorn Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Short for popped corn. By surface analysis, pop + corn. Pronunciation: /ˈpɒp.kɔːn/, /ˈpɑp.kɔɹn/, /ˈpʌp.kɔɹn/, [ˈpʌp.kɒːn], [ˈpʌp.kɔɹn] 1. To stand or jump up quickly. Example: Popcorning behavior is a fun sight—as long as you know what it is. Otherwise, it can scare you. During this action a pig runs around very fast and suddenly leaps straight up in the air, twitching and squeaking. It then lands and takes off again, often in another direction. This activity shows pure joy. Babies start to popcorn when they are about two weeks old or so—they may try it earlier, but they usually fall down instead. 2. To pop repeatedly, like popcorn cooking. 3. To use the popcorn stitch. Labels: rare Example: You've been cabling, twisting, popcorning and bobbling. See, we told you that they weren't so hard.
Word: paradise Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English paradis, paradise, paradys, from Late Old English paradīs, borrowed from Old French paradis, from Latin paradīsus, from Ancient Greek παράδεισος (parádeisos), ultimately from Proto-Iranian *paridayjah. Doublet of parvis. Displaced Old English neorxnawang. Pronunciation: /ˈpæɹədaɪs/, /ˈpɛɹədaɪs/, /ˈpaɹədɑjs/, /ˈpaɾədʌɪs/, /ˈpæɹədɑes/ 1. The place where sanctified souls are believed to live after death. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Living in paradise comes with a price. Example: And Jesus said unto him [the malefactor], Verily I say unto thee, Today shalt thou be with me in paradise. 2. A garden where Adam and Eve first lived after being created. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Not that Adam that kept the Paradise but that Adam that keeps the prison: Example: Up into Heav’n from Paradise in hast Th’ Angelic Guards ascended, 3. A very pleasant place, such as a place full of lush vegetation. Labels: countable, figuratively, uncountable Example: an island paradise in the Caribbean Example: Let me live here ever; So rare a wonder’d father and a wife Makes this place Paradise. 4. An ideal place for a specified type of person, activity, etc. Labels: countable, figuratively, uncountable Example: a shoppers’ paradise Example: And at this point, also, begins the pilot’s paradise: a wide river hence to New Orleans, abundance of water from shore to shore, and no bars, snags, sawyers, or wrecks in his road. 5. A very pleasant experience. Labels: countable, figuratively, uncountable Example: The weariest and most loathed worldly life That age, ache, penury and imprisonment Can lay on nature is a paradise To what we fear of death. Example: […] sitting by him, roused from the nightmare of parting—called to the paradise of union—I thought only of the bliss given me to drink in so abundant a flow. 6. An open space within a monastery or adjoining a church, such as the space within a cloister, the open court before a basilica, etc. Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable 7. A churchyard or cemetery. Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable 8. The upper gallery in a theatre. Labels: countable, slang, uncountable 9. A cake, often as a paradise slice. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: She was learned in decocting all kinds of herb-tea, infallible in curing burns, sprains, and scalds; and not a few pennyworths of gingerbread and paradise (for the latter she was very famous) went among her young customers, for which the till was never the richer.
Word: paradise Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English paradis, paradise, paradys, from Late Old English paradīs, borrowed from Old French paradis, from Latin paradīsus, from Ancient Greek παράδεισος (parádeisos), ultimately from Proto-Iranian *paridayjah. Doublet of parvis. Displaced Old English neorxnawang. Pronunciation: /ˈpæɹədaɪs/, /ˈpɛɹədaɪs/, /ˈpaɹədɑjs/, /ˈpaɾədʌɪs/, /ˈpæɹədɑes/ 1. To place (as) in paradise. Example: Man himselfe […] euen then, when hee was first paradis’d in the Garden of pleasure, yet had something to doe in it, and was not suffered to walke idlely vp & downe like a Loyterer […] Example: Hadst thou seene Her, in whose breast my heart was paradis’d, Kist, courted, and imbrac’d. 2. To transform into a paradise. Labels: obsolete Example: […] come all the daintieſt dainties of this toungue, and doe homage to your verticall ſtarre, that hath all the ſoveraine influences of the eloquent and learned conſtellations at a becke, and paradiſeth the earth with the ambroſiall dewes of his incomprehenſible witt! Example: 1613, Thomas Heywood, “Epithalamion” in A Marriage Triumphe Solemnized in an Epithalamium, London: Edward Marchant, She enters with a sweet commanding grace, Her very presence paradic’d the place: 3. To affect or exalt with visions of happiness. Labels: obsolete, rare Example: 1606, John Marston, Parasitaster, or The Fawn, London: W. Cotton, Act IV,#*: O we had first some long fortunate greate Politicians that were so sottishlie paradized as to thinke when popular hate seconded Princes displeasure to them, any vnmerited violence could seeme to the world iniustice,
Word: screed Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English screde, Early Middle English screda, a variant of shreden, shrede (“to chop, cut up, hack; to cut to shape; to maim, wound; to prune, trim”) [and other forms] (whence shred (verb)), from Old English scrēadian (“to cut up, shred; to cut off, prune”), from Proto-Germanic *skraudaną (“to cut up, shred”), see further at etymology 1; later uses are derived from the noun screed. Pronunciation: /skɹiːd/, /skɹid/ 1. To rend, to shred, to tear. Labels: Northern-England, Northern-Ireland, Scotland, dated, transitive Example: It's no very like the land o' the leal here—d'ye think it is?—wi' this cauld soakit sand anaith ye, and you in thae screeded duds, and us twa in our sark sleeves. [Footnote: Land o' the leal, land of the faithful—heaven. Screeded duds, torn rags. Sark sleeves, shirt sleeves.] 2. To read or repeat from memory fluently or glibly; to reel off. Labels: Scotland, also, dated, figuratively, transitive Example: He'll ſcreed you aff Effectual Calling, / As faſt as ony in the dwalling.— [...] Example: Syne the hale kintra's clashes he screeds them aff han'— / He's a gabbin' bit birkie, the Auld Beggar Man. 3. To use a screed to produce a smooth, flat surface of concrete, plaster, or similar material; also (generally) to put down a layer of concrete, plaster, etc. Labels: transitive Example: For this surfacing, the concrete is screeded and then covered with crushed red granite of 2- to 2½-in. size which is spread with shovels on the wet concrete, the quantity averaging about 55 lb. of stone per square yard. Example: Pouring of the slab was then started and, as the concrete was brought to full height it was screeded off to the proper level, employing screed guides which had been set previously to true elevation, with support on the slab reinforcing. 4. To become rent or torn. Labels: Scotland, intransitive Example: [H]ad I been in ony o' your rotten French camlets now, or your drab-de-berries, it would hae screeded like an auld rag wi' sic a weight as mine.
Word: screed Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Probably imitative; compare screech, skreigh. Pronunciation: /skɹiːd/, /skɹid/ 1. A (discordant) sound or tune played on bagpipes, a fiddle, or a pipe. Labels: Northern-Ireland, Scotland, humorous Example: "Wi' hat in hand," sweet lass, quo I, / "Wer't in my power to sooth thy sigh, / My hame-bor'd whistle I wad try, / An' gie't a screed, / Atween whar Tiviot murmurs by, / An' bonny Tweed." 2. The sound of something scratching or tearing. Labels: Northern-Ireland, Scotland Example: Right o'er the ſteep he leans, / When his well-pleniſh'd king-hood voiding needs; / And, ſploiting, ſtrikes the ſtane his grany hit, / Wi' piſtol ſcreed, ſhot frae his gorlin doup.— [...]
Word: screed Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Probably imitative; compare screech, skreigh. Pronunciation: /skɹiːd/, /skɹid/ 1. To play bagpipes, a fiddle, or a pipe. Labels: Northern-Ireland, Scotland, humorous, intransitive, rare Example: [T]wa Cheels we White Sarks, and a wee Wean with a white Sark got aboon whar the Whiſtle-Pipes war, the yen lilted, and the other Skirled and Screeded till them, and ſtill I ſweeted, I thought they never wad hea done. 2. To make a discordant or harsh scratching or tearing sound. Labels: Northern-Ireland, Scotland, intransitive, rare 3. To play (a sound or tune) on bagpipes, a fiddle, or a pipe. Labels: Northern-Ireland, Scotland, humorous, obsolete, rare, transitive Example: In life's gay morn, or youthfu' prime, / Ere fancy droops her wing, / Screed up your reed, for that's the time / For bards to rant and sing; [...]
Word: screed Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From scree (“loose, stony debris”) + -ed. Pronunciation: /skɹiːd/, /skɹid/ 1. Strewn with scree. Labels: Northern-Ireland, Scotland, not-comparable, rare Example: We clambered up a screed slope. Example: A safety fence edged the curve of the road and beyond this the screed slope increased in grade to a precipitous cliff.
Word: sandwich Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Named after its supposed inventor, the Earl of Sandwich (see Sandwich). Pronunciation: /ˈsæn(d).wɪd͡ʒ/, /ˈsæn(d).wɪt͡ʃ/, [ˈsæm.wɪd͡ʒ], [ˈsæ̃.wɪd͡ʒ], /ˈsænˌ(d)wɪt͡ʃ/ 1. A dish or foodstuff where at least one piece, but typically two or more pieces, of bread serves as the wrapper or container of some other food. Example: The most famous place in Copenhagen, Ida Davidsen, has a menu of 190 different kinds of open sandwich. 2. Any combination formed by layering one type of material between two layers of some other material. Labels: broadly 3. A layer cake or sandwich cake. Labels: UK Example: […] our local agricultural fair in Warwickshire even has a category for Victoria sandwiches baked by male bakers. 4. A sandwichman (one who wears a sandwich board). Labels: archaic Example: We have, and not so very long ago, seen women employed as 'sandwiches'.
Word: sandwich Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Named after its supposed inventor, the Earl of Sandwich (see Sandwich). Pronunciation: /ˈsæn(d).wɪd͡ʒ/, /ˈsæn(d).wɪt͡ʃ/, [ˈsæm.wɪd͡ʒ], [ˈsæ̃.wɪd͡ʒ], /ˈsænˌ(d)wɪt͡ʃ/ 1. To place (an item) physically between two other, usually flat, items. Labels: transitive Example: We saw a few Gresley Moguls on goods, as a limited amount of freight traffic was sandwiched in even on this busy day. Example: An oddity of the auto-train services, incidentally, was the occasional "doubling", usually for football excursions, when the load was increased to four coaches with the engine sandwiched between. 2. To put or set between two other events in time. Labels: figuratively, transitive Example: Street BASIC is becoming the language taught in junior high; it is sandwiched between Logo, which is taught in elementary school, and Pascal, which is taught in high school. Example: Dirk Kuyt sandwiched a goal in between Carroll's double as City endured a night of total misery, with captain Carlos Tevez limping off early on with a hamstring strain that puts a serious question mark over his participation in Saturday's FA Cup semi-final against Manchester United at Wembley. 3. To double penetrate. Labels: transitive Example: They sandwiched her, the footballer at her back, his dick tucked into the perfect seam of her ass as he fingered her pussy while the shorter, leaner, covered-in-tattoos Monsieur Artiste kissed her and pinched her nipples 4. To feed sandwiches to. Labels: informal, transitive Example: But one or two evil-disposed characters muttered they might be sure the lady had her own turn to serve, and they might be sure they wasn't "teaed and muffined and sandwiched for nothing!" Example: The association of veteran firemen, which has a membership of 200, kept open house for New Year callers, and all comers were bountifully sandwiched and coffeed. 5. To eat sandwiches. Labels: intransitive, rare Example: Mr. and Mrs. Ted Craig (he^([sic]) speaker of the assembly) emerging from a popular drive-in after having sandwiched and coffeed . . . Example: He coffeed and sandwiched along the highway.
Word: sandwich Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Named after its supposed inventor, the Earl of Sandwich (see Sandwich). Pronunciation: /ˈsæn(d).wɪd͡ʒ/, /ˈsæn(d).wɪt͡ʃ/, [ˈsæm.wɪd͡ʒ], [ˈsæ̃.wɪd͡ʒ], /ˈsænˌ(d)wɪt͡ʃ/ 1. Of a meal or serving size that is smaller than a dinner. Labels: US, not-comparable
Word: seventy-first Part of Speech: adj 1. The ordinal form of the number seventy-one, describing a person or thing in position number 71 of a sequence. Labels: not-comparable Example: The answer appears on the seventy-first page of the book. Example: She finished seventy-first in the race.
Word: seventy-first Part of Speech: noun 1. One of seventy-one equal parts of a whole. Example: A seventy-first of 1420 is 20.
Word: village Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English village, from Old French village, from Latin vīllāticus, ultimately from Latin villa (English villa). Broadly overtook Old English wic, þorp, and ham. The Philippine sense is due to its frequent use in the names of gated communities. Pronunciation: /ˈvɪlɪd͡ʒ/ 1. A rural habitation of size between a hamlet and a town. Example: There are 2 churches and 3 shops in our village. Example: […]belts of thin white mist streaked the brown plough land in the hollow where Appleby could see the pale shine of a winding river. Across that in turn, meadow and coppice rolled away past the white walls of a village bowered in orchards,[…] 2. A rural habitation that has a church, but no market. Labels: UK Example: I mean, think about it, Joyce. Every time I go into any Midsomer village, it's always the same thing: Blackmail, sexual deviancy, suicide, and murder. How could you possibly expect me to go and live in one of them? 3. A planned community such as a retirement community or shopping district. Labels: Australia 4. An exclusive gated community; a subdivision. Labels: Philippines Example: There are six blocks in our village, each having ten lots.
Word: perennial Part of Speech: adj Etymology: The adjective is borrowed from Latin perennis (“lasting through the whole year or for several years, perennial; continual, everlasting, perpetual”) + English -al (suffix meaning ‘of or pertaining to’ forming adjectives). Perennis is derived from per- (“completive or intensifying prefix with the sense of doing something all the way through or entirely”) + annus (“year; season, time”) (possibly ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂et- (“to go”)). By surface analysis, per- + -ennial. The noun is derived from the adjective. Cognates * Middle French pérenne (modern French pérenne (“lasting through the whole year, perennial”)) * Italian perenne (“lasting for a long time”) * Spanish perenne (“eternal; permanent; a perennial plant”) Pronunciation: /pəˈɹɛn.ɪ.əl/, /pəˈɹɛn.j(ə)l/, /pəˈɹɛn.i.əl/ 1. Lasting or remaining active throughout the year, for multiple years, or all the time. Labels: not-comparable Example: a perennial stream Example: [W]hat is most admirable is the vast enclosure, and variety of ground, in yᵉ large garden, containing vineyards, cornefields, meadows, groves (whereof one is of perennial greens), and walkes of vast lengthes, so accurately kept and cultivated, that nothing can be more agreeable. 2. Continuing without cessation or intermission for several years, or for an undetermined or infinite period; never-ending or never failing; perpetual, unceasing. Labels: figuratively, not-comparable Example: His artwork has a perennial beauty. Example: There, on perennial Adamant deſign'd, / The various Fortunes of your Race you'll find: […] 3. Appearing or recurring again and again; recurrent. Labels: figuratively, not-comparable Example: a perennial candidate in elections Example: Change is a perennial theme in politics. 4. Appearing or recurring again and again; recurrent. Labels: figuratively, not-comparable, rare 5. Of a plant: active throughout the year, or having a life cycle of more than two growing seasons. Labels: not-comparable