nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: Austin Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Middle English Austin, from Anglo-Norman Aostin, Austin, similar to Old French Aostin, Austin, a popular variant of Old French Agustin, from Latin Augustīnus, from Augustus (literally “majestic”). Doublet of Augustine. Pronunciation: /ˈɔːstɪn/, /ˈɒstɪn/, /ˈɔstɪn/, /ˈɑstɪn/, /ˈoːstɪn/ 1. A male given name from Old French, of Anglo-Norman origin. 2. An English surname originating as a patronymic from the given name. 3. A male given name transferred from the surname. Example: 'He says the business with Austin doing take-and-drive-away, it's a deep compulsion he has, a compulsion to find out his real identity by sampling and testing out various machines.' 'You mean it's the vicar's fault for naming him after a car?' Example: The online fundraising site GiveSendGo continues to face criticism over a page that has raised more than $320,000 for Karmelo Anthony, the teen arrested for stabbing fellow 17-year-old student-athlete Austin Metcalf to death at a Texas track meet last week. 4. A locale in Canada: 5. A locale in Canada: 6. A locale in the United States: Example: The posterists of Austin chronicled the changing social landscape and graphically redefined Texas for the rest of the country and the world […] Example: Thomas says the saga resulting in him being stranded and homeless in Jamaica started in February, when he was evicted from the apartment he shared with friends in Killeen, Texas, about an hour north of Austin. 7. A locale in the United States: 8. A locale in the United States: 9. A locale in the United States: 10. A locale in the United States: 11. A locale in the United States: 12. A locale in the United States: 13. A locale in the United States: 14. A locale in the United States: 15. A locale in the United States: 16. A locale in the United States: 17. A locale in the United States: 18. A locale in the United States: 19. A locale in the United States: 20. A locale in the United States: 21. A locale in the United States: 22. A ghost town in Western Australia; named for Australian explorer Robert Austin. 23. A former make of British motor car, named for founder Herbert Austin.
Word: Austin Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English Austin, from Anglo-Norman Aostin, Austin, similar to Old French Aostin, Austin, a popular variant of Old French Agustin, from Latin Augustīnus, from Augustus (literally “majestic”). Doublet of Augustine. Pronunciation: /ˈɔːstɪn/, /ˈɒstɪn/, /ˈɔstɪn/, /ˈɑstɪn/, /ˈoːstɪn/ 1. Augustinian. Example: Austin friars
Word: papabile Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Italian papa Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlis Proto-Italic *-ðlis Latin -bilis Latin -ābilisbor. Italian -abile Italian papabilebor. English papabile Borrowed from Italian papabile. Pronunciation: /pəˈpɑːbɪleɪ/ 1. Being among those likely to be elected pope. Example: Vatican watchers have already anointed the Honduran prelate papabile or “popeable.” Example: All of this is creating a pre-conclave atmosphere. Vatican observers watch to see how each cardinal deputizing for the pope acts, and whether they are papabile (literally “pope-able,” or a potential candidate to be pope).
Word: papabile Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Italian papa Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlis Proto-Italic *-ðlis Latin -bilis Latin -ābilisbor. Italian -abile Italian papabilebor. English papabile Borrowed from Italian papabile. Pronunciation: /pəˈpɑːbɪleɪ/ 1. A cardinal among those likely to be elected pope.
Word: ligament Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English ligament, from Latin ligāmentum, from ligō (“tie, bind”). Pronunciation: /ˈlɪɡəmənt/ 1. A band of strong tissue that connects bones to other bones. Example: It so chanced that at this juncture the decayed ligaments of the skeleton gave way, and the dry bones fell together in a heap, thus causing the dusty wreath of cypress to drop upon the table. Example: Her anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) and medial collateral ligament (MCL) are torn and Vonn has a lateral fracture of the tibial plateau, the upper end of the tibia or shin bone. 2. That which binds or acts as a ligament. Labels: figuratively Example: It remains to mention one consideration which naturally occurred in the reflections upon the expediency of assuming the State Debts. This is its tendency to strengthen our infant Government by increasing the number of ligaments between the Government and the interests of Individuals. Example: 1845, Daniel Webster, oration on Justice Joseph Story Justice is the ligament which holds civilized beings and civilized nations together.
Word: life-buoy Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of life buoy. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: The honorable member would however, appear to have been imbued with the spirit of Prophecy, for the contempt he so much dreaded, has fallen on the party to which he belonged, sinking the Tories to a depth that renders it beyond the power of the most gigantic talent to replace them in their former position, or restore the corruption and boroughmongering, so long the life-buoy of a dissolute ministry. Example: Here now's the very dreaded symbol of grim death, by a mere hap, made the expressive sign of the help and hope of most endangered life. A life-buoy of a coffin!
Word: lifebuoy Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of life buoy. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: The gray rock mocked me, bobbing on the water easy as a lifebuoy. Example: There was a lifebuoy in the boat with a rope tied to it.
Word: cardigan Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Named after British military commander James Brudenell, 7th Earl of Cardigan (1797–1868). For the surname, see Cardigan. Pronunciation: /ˈkɑːdɪɡən/ 1. A type of sweater or jumper that fastens up the front with buttons or a zipper, usually machine- or hand-knitted from wool. Example: […] a coarsely knit white cardigan and a black turban whose broadened tails could be arranged around her neck scarfwise. Example: Suzette Sundae, a musician wearing a fifties-style swing dress and a white cardigan over her tattoos, said that she ran a vintage-clothing store in Park Slope. When the store’s traffic fell off, she had Airbnb-ed her home.
Word: hieroglyph Part of Speech: noun Etymology: First attested around 1598, a back-formation from hieroglyphic (1580s), from Middle French hiéroglyphique, from Late Latin hieroglyphicus, from Ancient Greek ἱερογλυφικός (hierogluphikós) (Plutarch τά ἱερογλυφικά [γράμματα] "hieroglyphic [writing]), ἱερόγλυφος (hierógluphos, “carver of hieroglyphs”) (Ptolemy), a compound of ἱερός (hierós, “sacred, holy”) and γλυφή (gluphḗ, “carved work”), a calque of Egyptian mdw-nṯr (“the god’s word”), nTr-md. By surface analysis, hiero- + glyph. Pronunciation: /ˈhaɪ.ɹəˌɡlɪf/, /ˈhaɪ.ɹəʊˌɡlɪf/, /ˈhaɪɚ.əˌɡlɪf/, /ˈhaɪɚ.oʊˌɡlɪf/ 1. An element (individual sign or glyph) of a hieroglyphic writing system. Example: Hieroglyphs were discovered on the wall inside the temple. Example: Mayan Hieroglyphs as Linguistic Evidence. In Third Palenque Round Table, 1978, vol. V, part 2, edited by Merle Greene Robertson, pp. 204-216. 2. An element (individual sign or glyph) of a hieroglyphic writing system. 3. Any obscure or baffling symbol. Labels: informal Example: With your handwriting, it's no surprise the Prof can't read your hieroglyphs! Example: "There are SCPs with antimemetic properties," Marion goes on. "There are ideas which cannot be spread. There are entities and phenomena which harvest and consume information, particularly information about themselves. You take a Polaroid photo of one, it'll never develop. You write a description down with a pen on paper and hand it to someone— but what you've written turns out to be hieroglyphs, and nobody can understand them, not even you. You can look directly at one and it won't even be invisible, but you'll still perceive nothing there."
Word: hieroglyph Part of Speech: verb Etymology: First attested around 1598, a back-formation from hieroglyphic (1580s), from Middle French hiéroglyphique, from Late Latin hieroglyphicus, from Ancient Greek ἱερογλυφικός (hierogluphikós) (Plutarch τά ἱερογλυφικά [γράμματα] "hieroglyphic [writing]), ἱερόγλυφος (hierógluphos, “carver of hieroglyphs”) (Ptolemy), a compound of ἱερός (hierós, “sacred, holy”) and γλυφή (gluphḗ, “carved work”), a calque of Egyptian mdw-nṯr (“the god’s word”), nTr-md. By surface analysis, hiero- + glyph. Pronunciation: /ˈhaɪ.ɹəˌɡlɪf/, /ˈhaɪ.ɹəʊˌɡlɪf/, /ˈhaɪɚ.əˌɡlɪf/, /ˈhaɪɚ.oʊˌɡlɪf/ 1. To represent by hieroglyphs. Labels: transitive
Word: clann Part of Speech: noun 1. Obsolete spelling of clan. Labels: alt-of, obsolete
Word: fragrance Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *bʰreh₁g- Latin fragrō Latin fragrāns Proto-Indo-European *-(i)yós Proto-Italic *-ijos Proto-Italic *-ios Old Latin -ios Latin -ius Latin -ia Ecclesiastical Latin fragrantiabor. French fragrancebor. English fragrance Borrowed from French fragrance, from Middle French fragrance, from Old French fraglance, from Late Latin frāgrantia. See fragrant. Pronunciation: /ˈfɹeɪɡɹən(t)s/, /ˈfɹæ.ɡɹəns/ 1. A pleasant smell or odour. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: You could just use ordinary shop-bought kecap manis to marinade the meat, but making your own is easy, has a far more elegant fragrance and is, above all, such a great brag! Flavouring kecap manis is an intensely personal thing, so try this version now and next time cook the sauce down with crushed, split lemongrass and a shredded lime leaf. 2. A perfume. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Today, sales of women's fragrances are double those of men's, and 80 percent of all men's after-shaves and colognes are in fact bought by women, as gifts.
Word: fragrance Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *bʰreh₁g- Latin fragrō Latin fragrāns Proto-Indo-European *-(i)yós Proto-Italic *-ijos Proto-Italic *-ios Old Latin -ios Latin -ius Latin -ia Ecclesiastical Latin fragrantiabor. French fragrancebor. English fragrance Borrowed from French fragrance, from Middle French fragrance, from Old French fraglance, from Late Latin frāgrantia. See fragrant. Pronunciation: /ˈfɹeɪɡɹən(t)s/, /ˈfɹæ.ɡɹəns/ 1. To apply a fragrance to; to perfume. Labels: transitive
Word: belittle Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From be- + little. Coined by Thomas Jefferson in 1782. Pronunciation: /bɪˈlɪt.əl/ 1. To knowingly say that (someone or something) is smaller or less important than it actually is, especially as a way of showing contempt or deprecation. Labels: ambitransitive Example: Don't belittle your colleagues. Example: An essential part of any German campaign is obviously the efficiency of its lines of communication and therefore it is dangerous to belittle our enemy's strength in this direction. 2. To make small. Labels: transitive Example: Now, the big blue space of river and sky belittled him, ulled him back into bewildered childhood.
Word: purposely Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From Middle English purposly; equivalent to purpose + -ly. Pronunciation: /ˈpɝpəsli/, /ˈpɜːpəsli/ 1. On purpose; intentionally. Example: [T]hey would ſay [...] that I had quarrell'd / My brother purpoſely, thereby to finde / An apt pretext, to baniſh them my houſe.
Word: stow Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English stowe, from Old English stōw (“place, location”), from Proto-West Germanic *stōu, from Proto-Germanic *stōō (“a place, stowage”), from Proto-Indo-European *steh₂- (“to stand, place, put”). Cognate with Old Frisian stō (“place”), Icelandic stó (“fireplace”), Dutch stouw (“place”), German Stau (“congestion”). See also -stow. Pronunciation: /stəʊ/, /stoʊ/, /stəʉ/, /stɐʉ/, /sto/ 1. A place, stead. Labels: rare
Word: stow Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English stowen, stawen, stewen, from Old English stōwian (“to hold back, restrain”), from Proto-Germanic *stōōną, *stōjaną (“to stow, dam up”), from Proto-Indo-European *steh₂- (“to stand, place”). Cognate with Dutch stuwen, stouwen (“to stow”), Low German stauen (“to blin, halt, hinder”), German stauen (“to halt, hem in, stow, pack”). Pronunciation: /stəʊ/, /stoʊ/, /stəʉ/, /stɐʉ/, /sto/ 1. To put something away in a compact and tidy manner, in its proper place, or in a suitable place. Labels: transitive 2. To store or pack something in a space-saving manner and over a long time. Labels: transitive Example: Yet everybody knows that a cargo properly stowed in a seaworthy craft reaches market in much the better condition than by rail, though perhaps it is some hours longer on the way. 3. To arrange, pack, or fill something tightly or closely. Labels: transitive 4. To dispose of, lodge, or hide somebody somewhere. Labels: transitive Example: Ar.[…]The Marriners all vnder hatches ſtowed, / Who, with a Charme ioynd to their ſuffred labour / I haue left aſleep :[…] 5. To cease; to stop doing something. Labels: obsolete, slang, transitive Example: But when I strove my flame to tell, / Says she, 'Come, stow that patter, / If you're a cove wot likes a gal, / Vy don't you stand some gatter?' / In course I instantly complied— / Two brimming quarts of porter, / With sev'ral goes of gin beside, / Drain'd Bet the Coaley's daughter. Example: “Come, come,” said Silver; “stow this talk. He’s dead, and he don’t walk, that I know; leastways, he won’t walk by day, and you may lay to that. Care killed a cat. Fetch ahead for the doubloons.”
Word: stow Part of Speech: intj Etymology: From Middle English stowen, stawen, stewen, from Old English stōwian (“to hold back, restrain”), from Proto-Germanic *stōōną, *stōjaną (“to stow, dam up”), from Proto-Indo-European *steh₂- (“to stand, place”). Cognate with Dutch stuwen, stouwen (“to stow”), Low German stauen (“to blin, halt, hinder”), German stauen (“to halt, hem in, stow, pack”). Pronunciation: /stəʊ/, /stoʊ/, /stəʉ/, /stɐʉ/, /sto/ 1. A cry used by falconers to call their birds back down to hand. Labels: obsolete, transitive Example: His seconde hawke wexyd gery […] on the rode loft She perkyd her to rest. The fauconer then was prest, Came runnynge with a dow, And cryed, ‘Stow, stow, stow!’ But she wold not bow.
Word: out of joint Part of Speech: prep_phrase 1. Dislocated. Example: I fell over and put my shoulder out of joint. Example: Fla[via]. Come, Sir Pergamus, till your horse come, you and I'll go play at shuttle-cock. / Per[gamus]. A match i'faith. I love that sport a' life. Yet my mother charged me not to use it for fear of putting my arm out of joint. 2. Chaotic, disordered, out of control. Labels: broadly Example: The time is out of ioynt, O curſed ſpite, / That euer I was borne to ſet it right, […] Example: If the time is out of joint, have I any calling or strength to set it right? 3. Not in harmony, in step or in line (with something). Example: While the Kremlin at Moscow exhales a paradoxical sympathy with this renewal of old tradition, Leningrad seems out of joint with Bolshevism and wears a sad air, as though mourning for an interlude which is past.
Word: out of luck Part of Speech: prep_phrase 1. Experiencing a misfortune, especially if lacking recourse. Labels: idiomatic Example: If you had set up automatic backups, you would have been able to recover your files, but as it is, you're out of luck.
Word: Catherine Part of Speech: name Etymology: Borrowed from French Catherine, from Ancient Greek Αἰκατερίνη (Aikaterínē), *Ἑκατερίνη (*Hekaterínē), of debated meaning, possibly from ἑκάτερος (hekáteros, “each of the two”), or from the name of the goddess Hecate. The apheresis of the first syllable as well as the spelling with ⟨th⟩ in Latin languages, German and English, is due to a folk etymology, dating from Roman times, which associated the name with the Ancient Greek καθαρός (katharós, “pure”). The name belonged to a 4th-century saint and martyr from Alexandria who was tortured on the wheel from where the term Catherine wheel originates. Pronunciation: /ˈkæθ(ə)ɹɪn/ 1. A female given name from Ancient Greek. Example: - - - despite of what you say of my fine name, I think my head is so obstinate and inflexible that the name Catherine was well chosen. It suits my character. I was given the name by the late Empress Elisabeth, to whom I owe much; she gave it to me out of affection and out of respect for her mother Example: It was named Catherine, but he never called it the name in full, as he had never called the first Catherine short, probably because Heathcliff had a habit of doing so. The little one was always Cathy, it formed to him a distinction from the mother, and yet, a connection with her;
Word: out of one's mind Part of Speech: prep_phrase Pronunciation: /aʊt əv wʌnz maɪnd/ 1. Insane, crazy. Labels: idiomatic Example: You're out of your mind if you think you can jump that far. Example: Or was Erskine out of his mind? And he himself Watt was he not perhaps slightly deranged? And Mr. Knott himself, was he quite right in his head? 2. Temporarily mentally unstable; very distressed. Labels: idiomatic Example: When you didn't phone home, we were out of our minds with worry. 3. Away from the focus of one's thoughts. Labels: idiomatic Example: Try to put the day's troubles out of your mind and relax.
Word: out of order Part of Speech: prep_phrase 1. Out of normal sequence. Labels: idiomatic Example: You've got my index cards out of order again. 2. Not functioning properly; not in working order. Labels: idiomatic Example: The lift is always out of order. Example: With the lift in the block still out of order, they climbed the flights and flights of steps. When Dad finally put the key in the front door, both were weary beyond words. 3. Inappropriate or unsuitable. Labels: idiomatic Example: I suppose my remarks about his wife were out of order. 4. Not in order: not according with e.g. the procedural rules governing formal meetings of a deliberative body. 5. untidy Example: Architas Tarentinus returning from a war, where he had beene Captaine generall, found his house all out of order, husbandrie all spoiled, and by the ill government of his Bailife, his ground all waste and unmanured […].
Word: out of order Part of Speech: adj Labels: no-gloss
Word: out of place Part of Speech: prep_phrase Etymology: From out of (preposition) + place (“a fitting position”, noun). Pronunciation: /ˌaʊ̯t əv ˈpleɪ̯s/, /ˌæɔ̯t əv ˈplæɪ̯s/, /ˌæʊ̯t əv ˈplæɪ̯s/, /ˌʌʊ̯t əv ˈples/, /ˌawʈ ov ˈpleːs/ 1. Not in the proper arrangement or situation. Labels: idiomatic Example: No wonder I couldn’t find it—it was out of place. Example: She came in out of the storm with not a hair out of place. 2. Inappropriate for the circumstances. Labels: idiomatic Example: Near-synonym: atopic Example: That remark was out of place.
Word: out of pocket Part of Speech: adv 1. Lacking funds, or suffering a financial loss; broke. Labels: idiomatic, not-comparable Example: After three races he was £10 out of pocket. Example: A local doctor had bought one canvas and but for that lucky chance he would have been out of pocket. 2. Not available; unable to be reached. Labels: idiomatic, not-comparable Example: Like a coward, he called his agent's work number and left a voicemail that he'd be out of pocket for several days but would try to check his messages here and there. Example: Sir, Senders is still in Yosemite camping with his family. He'll be out of pocket until tomorrow night. 3. Wild or inappropriate; unexpected. Labels: idiomatic, not-comparable
Word: out of pocket Part of Speech: adj 1. Of or pertaining to the spending of cash rather than using credit. Labels: not-comparable Example: I had lots of out-of-pocket expenses. 2. Shocking and unexpected or inappropriate. Labels: not-comparable, slang Example: A thread of the most hilarious outta pocket tweets. Feel free to add on
Word: out of pocket Part of Speech: prep_phrase 1. Synonym of out of one's own pocket. Example: pay out of pocket for medication Example: Over a decade ago I came out as a transgender woman and began to navigate my transition. That’s when I was confronted by the harsh fact that transition-related healthcare was often not covered by insurance and instead largely paid for out of pocket.
Word: out-of-pocket Part of Speech: adv 1. Alternative form of out of pocket. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: out-of-pocket Part of Speech: adj 1. Alternative form of out of pocket. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: out-of-print Part of Speech: adj 1. No longer offered for sale by a publisher; no longer on the firsthand market. Labels: not-comparable Example: I'm sorry, but that book has been out-of-print for twenty years.
Word: out of proportion Part of Speech: prep_phrase 1. Not in a proper or pleasing relation to other things, especially in terms of size. Labels: idiomatic Example: I only said that she wasn't as young as she used to be, and her response was out of proportion. Example: Six days of the week it [work] soils / With its sickening poison — / Just for paying a few bills! / That's out of proportion.
Word: out of sight Part of Speech: adj 1. Not accessible to view. Labels: literally, not-comparable Example: Jack's really mad at you. You'd better stay out of sight for a few days. The notice was out of sight behind the door. Example: They burned the old gun that used to stand in the dark corner up in the garret, close to the stuffed fox that always grinned so fiercely. Perhaps the reason why he seemed in such a ghastly rage was that he did not come by his death fairly. Otherwise his pelt would not have been so perfect. And why else was he put away up there out of sight?—and so magnificent a brush as he had too. 2. Not yet attainable. Labels: idiomatic, not-comparable Example: With the company merger out of sight, the bankruptcy will proceed. 3. Superb, excellent. Labels: colloquial, dated, idiomatic, not-comparable Example: How was the party? Out of sight, man! Example: 1969-1970, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure Another out-of-site thing is in the 2 yrs I've known that place no-one has ever seen a crawly bug, only flies. Not even a spider. 4. Very expensive. Labels: colloquial, idiomatic, not-comparable 5. Drunk. Labels: colloquial, idiomatic, not-comparable
Word: out of sorts Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Comes from printing terminology where "sort" means a metal type for printing a particular letter. 1. Irritable or somewhat unwell, with vague medical symptoms. Labels: idiomatic Example: [T]he trooper fails to fasten the brooch. His hand shakes, he is nervous, and it falls off. "Would any one believe this?" says he, catching it as it drops and looking round. "I am so out of sorts that I bungle at an easy job like this!" Example: "My lads," said he, "we've had a hot day and are all tired and out of sorts." 2. With some letters or sorts of type deficient or exhausted in the case or font. Labels: dated
Word: out of stock Part of Speech: prep_phrase 1. Unable to sell an item because none are available in inventory. Example: Sorry, there's been a run on turkeys and we're out of stock. 2. Unavailable because the stock in inventory has all been sold or used up. Example: The turkeys are out of stock but we have some guinea fowl in the back.
Word: out of the ordinary Part of Speech: prep_phrase 1. Extraordinary, unusual, or exceptional, especially for the better. Labels: idiomatic Example: The food was expensive, and nothing out of the ordinary. Example: The unusual rolling stock, the fare collection methods, and the exchange of train staffs make it quite clear that here is something out of the ordinary run of suburban electric lines.
Word: out of the question Part of Speech: adj 1. Not remotely possible. Labels: idiomatic Example: A second special was out of the question, as the ordinary local service was already somewhat deranged by the first. Example: Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers,[…]. Even such a boat as the Mount Vernon offered a total deck space so cramped as to leave secrecy or privacy well out of the question, even had the motley and democratic assemblage of passengers been disposed to accord either.
Word: um- Part of Speech: prefix Etymology: From Middle English um-, umbe-, embe-, from Old English ymb-, ymbe- (“around”), from Proto-West Germanic *umbi-, from Proto-Germanic *umbi (“around, about, by, near”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂m̥bʰi (“round about, around”). Cognate with Dutch om- (“around”), German um- (“around”), Latin amb- (“around, about”), Latin ambi- (“both”), Ancient Greek ἀμφί (amphí, “around, about”), Sanskrit अभि (abhi, “against, about”). 1. Prefix meaning around, about. Labels: Scotland, morpheme, rare
Word: out of the way Part of Speech: adj 1. Alternative form of out-of-the-way (“remote or secluded”). Labels: alt-of, alternative 2. Unusual or out of the ordinary. 3. Improper or offensive.
Word: out of the way Part of Speech: adv 1. Unusually or excessively. Example: 'I'm not an out of the way nervous woman.'
Word: out of the way Part of Speech: prep_phrase 1. So as not to obstruct or hinder; not in the way. Labels: idiomatic Example: Please move your bike out of the way. Example: I was elbowed out of the way by the bouncer. 2. Taken care of; handled. Labels: idiomatic Example: Now that the main problems are out of the way, we can start working on the details.
Word: out-of-the-way Part of Speech: adj 1. Remote or secluded. Example: I know this out-of-the-way hotel where we could stay. Example: It was from no choice of my own that I was brought up in an out-of-the-way pallazzo, with nothing to do but to fall in love.
Word: out of tune Part of Speech: prep_phrase 1. Not in the correct musical pitch. Example: The violins go out of tune in damp weather. Example: By the end of the song, I was completely out of tune with the guitar. 2. Not in agreement or in harmony (with something). Labels: figuratively Example: The party’s social policy is out of tune with the values of most citizens. Example: […] a house which is aping the town fashions of Germany and France, a prim, hideous, straight-up-and-down thing, plastered all over on the outside to look like stone, and altogether so stiff, and formal, and ugly and forbidding, and so out of tune with the gracious landscape, and so deaf and dumb and dead to the poetry of its surroundings, that it suggests an undertaker at a picnic, a corpse at a wedding, a puritan in Paradise.
Word: out of work Part of Speech: prep_phrase 1. unemployed, or having nothing to do 2. not working correctly; out of order Labels: dated Example: This lost time was caused mainly because the operator had to find the dispatcher and notify him that the machine was out of work.
Word: ri Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From the McCune-Reischauer romanization of Korean 리 (ri), from Chinese 里 (lǐ). Doublet of li. Pronunciation: /ɹiː/ 1. A Korean unit of distance equivalent to about 393 m.
Word: ri Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ɹiː/ 1. The solfeggio syllable used to indicate the sharp of the second note of a major scale, enharmonic to me.
Word: sexes Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈsɛksɪz/ 1. plural of sex Labels: form-of, plural 2. plural of sexe Labels: form-of, plural
Word: sexes Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ˈsɛksɪz/ 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of sex Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: fathers Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈfɑː.ðəz/, /ˈfɑ.ðɚz/ 1. plural of father Labels: form-of, plural
Word: fathers Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ˈfɑː.ðəz/, /ˈfɑ.ðɚz/ 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of father Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: outpatient Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *úd Proto-Germanic *ūt Proto-Germanic *ūt- Old English ūt- Middle English ut- English out- English patient English outpatient From out- + patient. Pronunciation: /ˈaʊtˌpeɪʃ(ə)nt/ 1. A patient who receives treatment at a hospital or clinic but is not admitted overnight; a receiver of ambulatory care. Example: An empty shop at Birmingham New Street station has been converted into an NHS outpatient clinic, to enable patients to have routine blood tests away from hospital.
Word: outpatient Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *úd Proto-Germanic *ūt Proto-Germanic *ūt- Old English ūt- Middle English ut- English out- English patient English outpatient From out- + patient. Pronunciation: /ˈaʊtˌpeɪʃ(ə)nt/ 1. Provided without requiring an overnight stay by the patient. Labels: not-comparable Example: MR. MILLER: It is more outpatient than it is inpatient. Example: The changes are necessary because "health care is going more outpatient than inpatient," Whitacre said.
Word: outpost Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *úd Proto-Germanic *ūt Proto-Germanic *ūt- Old English ūt- Middle English ut- English out- English post English outpost From out- + post. Pronunciation: /ˈaʊtˌpoʊst/ 1. A military post stationed at a distance from the main body of troops. Example: The outpost did not have enough ammunition to resist a determined assault. 2. The body of troops manning such a post. Example: Sgt. Smith fleeced most of the rest of the outpost of their earnings in their weekly game of craps. 3. A sentinel positioned outside. Example: The net had been fully drawn; every member of the gang had been accounted for and now the outposts stationed in the garden were coming in to take over the work of guarding and escorting the haul of prisoners. 4. An outlying settlement. Example: Beyond the border proper, there are three small outposts not officially under government protection. Example: On March 9, 1903, an extension, 50 miles in length, was opened from Letterkenny to the remote outpost of Burtonport, a small township on the shores of the Atlantic in the far north-west corner of Co. Donegal, running through some of the wildest and bleakest parts of the country. 5. A square protected by a pawn that is in or near the enemy's stronghold.
Word: indefatigably Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From indefatigable + -ly, but indefatigable itself was attested later. In use since the 16th century. Pronunciation: /ˌɪndəˈfætəɡəbli/ 1. In an extremely persistent and untiring manner; in an indefatigable manner Example: Silence, silence,’ the trumpet mouths indefatigably repeated at intervals down every corridor.
Word: betroth Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English bitrouthen, bitreuthen (“of a man: to pledge to marry; to give (a woman) in marriage, arrange the marriage of”), from bi- (prefix forming transitive verbs from nouns) + trouth, treuthe (“faithfulness, fidelity, specifically marital fidelity; promise, undertaking, specifically a promise of marriage; truth; etc.”) (from Old English trīewþ, trēowþ (“fidelity; good faith, honour; assurance of good faith, covenant, troth; truth”), from Proto-Germanic *triwwiþō (“contract; promise”), from Proto-Indo-European *dóru (“tree; hence, firm, hard; faithful, true”)), possibly modelled after Old English trēowsian (“to pledge oneself; to prove oneself to be true”)). By surface analysis, be- + troth. Pronunciation: /bɪˈtɹəʊð/, /-ˈtɹəʊθ/, /bəˈtɹoʊð/, /-ˈtɹɔθ/, /bɪˈtɹəʉð/ 1. Of a man: to promise to take (a woman) as a future spouse; to plight one's troth to. Labels: archaic, formal, transitive Example: And what man is there that hath betrothed a wife, and hath not taken her? let him goe and returne vnto his houſe, leſt he die in battel, and another man take her. 2. Often of a parent or guardian: to promise that (two people) be married to each other; specifically and chiefly, to promise that (a woman) be given in marriage to a man; to affiance. Labels: archaic, formal, transitive Example: He betrothed his daughter to a distant relative. Example: The couple were betrothed not long after they met each other. 3. Of God: to enter into a relationship with (believers, or the church as a whole); also, of a priest: to pledge (himself) to the church prior to being consecrated as a bishop. Labels: archaic, figuratively, formal, transitive Example: And I [God] will betroth thee [his people] vnto me foreuer; yea, I will betroth thee vnto me in righteouſneſſe, and in iudgement, and in louing kindneſſe, and in mercies. I will euen betroth thee vnto me in faithfulneſſe, and thou ſhalt know the Lord. Example: God betrotheth thee in righteouſnes, and putteth righteouſnes into thee; […] 4. To pledge or promise oneself to (a cause); to espouse; also (sometimes reflexive), to pledge or promise (oneself or one's efforts) to a cause or to do something. Labels: figuratively, formal, obsolete, transitive Example: To priuate fight they haue betroutht themſelues, / Of which conflicte, the end muſt needes be this, / That one do liue, that other die the death. Example: [W]hat is he for a foole that betrothes himſelfe to vnquietneſſe?
Word: homey Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈhoʊmi/ 1. Alternative form of homie. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: homey Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ḱey- Proto-Indo-European *-mos Proto-Indo-European *ḱóymos Proto-Indo-European *tḱóymos Proto-Germanic *haimaz Proto-West Germanic *haim Old English hām Middle English hōm English home Proto-Indo-European *-kos Proto-Germanic *-gaz Proto-West Germanic *-g Old English -iġ Middle English -y English -y English homey From home + -y. Pronunciation: /ˈhoʊmi/ 1. Befitting a home; cozy, intimate. Example: Susan added some homey touches to her office. Example: The enticing, homey scent of apple pie wafted into the hallway as she beckoned them into her lair.
Word: err Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English erren, from Old French errer (“to wander, err, mistake”), from Latin errō (“wander, stray, err, mistake”, verb), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁ers- (“to be angry, lose one's temper”). Cognate with Old English eorre, ierre (“anger, wrath, ire”), Old English iersian (“to be angry with, rage, irritate, provoke”), Old English ierre (“wandering, gone astray, confused”). Pronunciation: /ɜː/, /ɛɚ/, /ɝ/, /ɛr/, /øː/ 1. To make a mistake. Labels: formal, intransitive Example: He erred in his calculations, and made many mistakes. Example: Artificial tests, then, can hardly err on the side of supplying too many opportunities for one bird to see another perform the act which is the model. 2. To sin. Labels: intransitive Example: To err is human, to forgive, divine. 3. to stray. Labels: archaic
Word: err Part of Speech: intj 1. Elongated form of er (“sound of hesitation”). Example: Err... what did you just say?
Word: social responsibility Part of Speech: noun 1. A voluntarily assumed obligation toward the good of society at large as opposed to the self alone. Example: There are normally anti-embarrassment clauses in such arrangements and, from a corporate social responsibility point of view, the upside of standing by a tarnished individual is often outweighed by the downside.
Word: bradawl Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From brad + awl. Pronunciation: /ˈbɹædɔːl/ 1. An awl with a blade similar to a small, straight screwdriver; used for making holes, especially in wood to take screws. Example: ‘I wish I wos behind him vith a bradawl,’ muttered the long one. Example: For the first adjustment [to a door that keeps swinging open], you might need to remove the screws from the frame, move the hinge slightly, and then make new screw holes with a bradawl and reinsert the screws.
Word: commonplace Part of Speech: adj Etymology: A calque of Latin locus commūnis, referring to a generally applicable literary passage, itself a calque of Ancient Greek κοινὸς τόπος (koinòs tópos). Pronunciation: /ˈkɑmənˌpleɪs/, /ˈkɒmənˌpleɪs/ 1. Ordinary; not having any remarkable characteristics. Example: "This Mr. Tyrrel," she said, in a tone of authoritative decision, "seems after all a very ordinary sort of person, quite a commonplace man." Example: In the old days, to my commonplace and unobserving mind, he gave no evidences of genius whatsoever. He never read me any of his manuscripts,[…], and therefore my lack of detection of his promise may in some degree be pardoned.
Word: commonplace Part of Speech: noun Etymology: A calque of Latin locus commūnis, referring to a generally applicable literary passage, itself a calque of Ancient Greek κοινὸς τόπος (koinòs tópos). Pronunciation: /ˈkɑmənˌpleɪs/, /ˈkɒmənˌpleɪs/ 1. A platitude or cliché. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Finally he began to mutter some commonplaces which meant nothing particularly. Example: And something angered Tamara in the way the Prince assisted in all this, out-commonplacing her friend in commonplaces with the suavest politeness. 2. Something that is ordinary; something commonly done or occurring. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: It is odd how easily the common-places of morality or of sentiment glide off in conversation. Well, they are "exceedingly helpful," and so Lord Avonleigh found them. Example: "MY dear fellow," said Sherlock Holmes, as we sat on either side of the fire in his lodgings at Baker-street, "life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We would not dare to conceive the things which are really mere commonplaces of existence.[…]" 3. A memorandum; something to be frequently consulted or referred to. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Whatever, in my reading, occurs concerning this our fellow creature, I do never fail to set it down by way of common-place. 4. A commonplace book. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: commonplace Part of Speech: verb Etymology: A calque of Latin locus commūnis, referring to a generally applicable literary passage, itself a calque of Ancient Greek κοινὸς τόπος (koinòs tópos). Pronunciation: /ˈkɑmənˌpleɪs/, /ˈkɒmənˌpleɪs/ 1. To make a commonplace book. Labels: transitive 2. To enter in a commonplace book, or to reduce to general heads. Labels: transitive Example: I do not apprehend any difficulty in collecting and commonplacing an universal history from the […]historians. 3. To utter commonplaces; to indulge in platitudes. Labels: intransitive, obsolete Example: And something angered Tamara in the way the Prince assisted in all this, out-commonplacing her friend in commonplaces with the suavest politeness. Example: c. January 1620, Francis Bacon, letter to the King For the good that comes of particular and select committees and commissions, I need not commonplace.
Word: elm Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English elme, elm, from Old English elm, from Proto-West Germanic *elm, from Proto-Germanic *elmaz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁élem (“mountain elm”). See also dialectal Low German Elm, dialectal German Ilm, archaic German Ilme, Norwegian and Swedish alm; also Irish leamh, Latin ulmus, Albanian ulzë (“maple”). Pronunciation: /ɛlm/, /ˈɛləm/ 1. A tree of the genus Ulmus of the family Ulmaceae, large deciduous trees with alternate stipulate leaves and small apetalous flowers. Labels: countable Example: It was not far from the house; but the ground sank into a depression there, and the ridge of it behind shut out everything except just the roof of the tallest hayrick. As one sat on the sward behind the elm, with the back turned on the rick and nothing in front but the tall elms and the oaks in the other hedge, it was quite easy to fancy it the verge of the prairie with the backwoods close by. Example: The village is a dignified place of thatch, half-timbering, box hedges and neat farms, set among elms (though not as many as formerly, since Dutch elm disease took its toll) on the level plain of the Pewsey Vale. 2. Wood from an elm tree. Labels: attributive, often, uncountable Example: English soldiers handled sturdy bows of yew, ash, or elm, which could propel an iron-tipped arrow as far as a hundred yards.
Word: comprehensible Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ḱe? Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm Proto-Italic *kom Proto-Italic *kom- Latin con- Proto-Indo-European *per- Proto-Indo-European *preh₂- Proto-Indo-European *-i Proto-Indo-European *préh₂i? Proto-Italic *prai Proto-Italic *prai- Proto-Indo-European *gʰed- Proto-Indo-European *-né- Proto-Indo-European *-ti Proto-Indo-European *gʰnédti Proto-Italic *hendō Proto-Italic *praiɣendō Latin prehendō Latin comprehendō Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlis Proto-Italic *-ðlis Latin -bilis Latin comprehēnsibilisbor. English comprehensible Borrowed from Latin comprehēnsibilis. Pronunciation: /kɒmpɹəˈhɛnsɪbəl/ 1. Able to be comprehended.
Word: comprehend Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English comprehenden, from Latin comprehendere (“to grasp”), from the prefix com- + prehendere (“to seize”). Doublet of comprend. Pronunciation: /kɒmpɹɪˈhɛnd/, /ˌkɑmpɹɪˈhɛnd/, /kɔmpɹɪˈhend/ 1. To understand or grasp fully and thoroughly; to plumb. Labels: transitive Example: I just can't comprehend how someone could be a butcher and vegetarian at the same time. Example: Our ſoules, whoſe faculties can comprehend The wondrous Architecture of the world: And meaſure euery wandring planets courſe, Still climing after knowledge infinite, […] 2. To include, comprise; to contain. Labels: archaic Example: And lothly mouth, unmeete a mouth to bee, / That nought but gall and venim comprehended […]. Example: The King being resolved to have a Peace concluded at any Rate, sent us at last to Monsieur des Farges, who would hearken to no Treaty, without allowing us the benefit of being comprehended in it, by which means our liberty was obtain'd.
Word: Duresm Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Old French Duresm. Doublet of Durham. 1. Durham. Labels: historical 2. The name signed by alternate bishops of Durham, the other being Dunelm.
Word: Durham Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Old English Dūnholm, which is from dun (“hill”) + Old Norse holm (“islet, island”). In order to get from Dunholm to Durham, two major processes had to take place. Firstly, the n at the coda of the first syllable, dun, underwent dissimilation. Specifically, by influence of the m in the coda of the following syllable (holm), said n denasalised and lenited to the oral r, thus dur. Secondly, after a weakening of the vowel quality in the more weakly-stressed syllable holm, this ending was misanalysed as the similar-sounding toponymic suffix, -ham, meaning home or farm. Doublet of Duresm and Dunelm. Pronunciation: /ˈdʌ.ɹəm/, /ˈdʊ.ɹəm/, /ˈdɝəm/ 1. A county in the Northeast of England; in full, County Durham. 2. A city, the county town of County Durham, England. 3. A unitary authority of County Durham, which replaced the county council in 2009 in all of County Durham except Darlington, Hartlepool and Stockton-on-Tees; in full, Durham County Council. 4. An English habitational surname from Old English from the city in England. 5. An outback town in Queensland, Australia. 6. A locale in Canada. 7. A locale in Canada. 8. A locale in Canada. 9. A locale in the United States. 10. A locale in the United States. 11. A locale in the United States. 12. A locale in the United States. 13. A locale in the United States. 14. A locale in the United States. 15. A locale in the United States. 16. A locale in the United States. 17. A locale in the United States. 18. A locale in the United States. 19. A locale in the United States. 20. A locale in the United States. 21. A locale in the United States. 22. A locale in the United States. 23. A locale in the United States. 24. A locale in the United States.
Word: Durham Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Old English Dūnholm, which is from dun (“hill”) + Old Norse holm (“islet, island”). In order to get from Dunholm to Durham, two major processes had to take place. Firstly, the n at the coda of the first syllable, dun, underwent dissimilation. Specifically, by influence of the m in the coda of the following syllable (holm), said n denasalised and lenited to the oral r, thus dur. Secondly, after a weakening of the vowel quality in the more weakly-stressed syllable holm, this ending was misanalysed as the similar-sounding toponymic suffix, -ham, meaning home or farm. Doublet of Duresm and Dunelm. Pronunciation: /ˈdʌ.ɹəm/, /ˈdʊ.ɹəm/, /ˈdɝəm/ 1. One of a breed of short-horned cattle, originating in the county of Durham, England, and noted for their beef-producing quality.
Word: Dunelmensis Part of Speech: name Etymology: Borrowed from Latin Dunelmensis (“of or from Durham”). 1. The bishop of Durham.
Word: Dunelm Part of Speech: name Etymology: From a Latin name for the city; compare Dunelmensis. Doublet of Durham. 1. Durham. Labels: historical, uncountable Example: Before Aldhun's arrival, the town of Dunelm, or Durham, consisted only of a few scattered huts or cottages.
Word: graceful Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English graceful. By surface analysis, grace + -ful. Pronunciation: /ˈɡɹeɪsfʊl/ 1. Having or showing grace in movement, shape, or proportion. Example: She is a graceful dancer. Example: The half-dozen pieces […] were painted white and carved with festoons of flowers, birds and cupids. […] The bed was the most extravagant piece. Its graceful cane halftester rose high towards the cornice and was so festooned in carved white wood that the effect was positively insecure, as if the great couch were trimmed with icing sugar. 2. Magnanimous, lacking arrogance or complaint; gracious. Example: The athlete's graceful acceptance of the controversial second-place finish won the admiration of the spectators. 3. Gradual and non-disruptive. Example: Bringing a system down cleanly will preserve the operating system and some log files, but again will destroy the contents of the RAM (the volatile data). Windows and Linux are two operating systems that require a graceful shutdown.
Word: graceless Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English graceles; equivalent to grace + -less. Pronunciation: /ˈɡɹeɪsləs/ 1. Without grace. Example: Such dutie as the ſubject owes the Prince, / Euen ſuch a woman oweth to her husband: / And when ſhe is froward, peeuiſh, ſullen, ſowre, / And not obedient to his honeſt will, / What is ſhe but a foule contending Rebell / And graceleſſe Traitor to her louing Lord? Example: For Modes of Faith let graceleſs Zealots fight; / His can't be wrong whoſe Life is in the right. 2. Lacking gracefulness. Example: The boy sketched his roughhewn young contadino just in from the fields, naked except for his brache, kneeling to take off his clodhoppers; the flesh tones a sunburned amber, the figure clumsy, with graceless bumpkin muscles; but the face transfused with light as the young lad gazed up at John. 3. Without the grace of God. Example: For it was approaching that uncanny time of year, the festival of Beltane, when the auld pagans were wont to sacrifice to their god Baal. In this season warlocks and carlines have a special dispensation to do evil, and Alison waited on its coming with graceless joy. 4. Unfortunate. Labels: archaic Example: Much was he grieued with that graceleſſe chaunce, / Yet from the wound no drop of bloud there fell, / But wondrous paine, that did the more enhaunce / His haughtie courage to aduengement fell: / Smart daunts not mighty harts, but makes them more to ſwell.