nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: elbow Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English elbowe (“elbow”), from Old English elboga, elnboga (“elbow”), from Proto-Germanic *alinabugô (“elbow”), equivalent to ell + bow. Cognate with Scots elbuck (“elbow”), Saterland Frisian Älbooge (“elbow”), Dutch elleboog (“elbow”), Low German Ellebage (“elbow”), German Ellbogen, Ellenbogen (“elbow”), Danish and Norwegian Bokmål albue (“elbow”), Norwegian Nynorsk olboge (“elbow”), Faroese albogi, Icelandic olbogi, olnbogi (“elbow”), Swedish armbåge (“elbow”). Pronunciation: /ˈɛlbəʊ̯/, [ˈæ̝wbɐw], /ˈɛlboʊ̯/, [ˈɛɫboʊ̯], /ˈe̞lbəʉ̯/ 1. To push with the elbow or elbows; to forge ahead using the elbows to assist. Labels: transitive Example: He elbowed his way through the crowd. Example: Through the crush Malone and Roxton elbowed their way until they reached Challenger's side, and partly by judicious propulsion, partly by artful persuasion, they got him, still bellowing his grievances, out of the building. 2. To strike with the elbow. Example: Trumper elbowed me in the ribs and made a sign with his head. He seemed irritated now by our delay. Example: She looked round for Vera, but could not see her, and in the process of wriggling through the heaving crowd was elbowed in the eye. The blow acted like a spur, putting one thought in her head … to escape. 3. To nudge, jostle or push. Example: Suddenly and with all her heart Kate longed to be home, back at the homestead, to participate in the rambunctious toss and jostle as breakup elbowed its way into the Park. 4. To force (someone) to quit or lose their job so that someone else can be hired. Labels: informal Example: The president was elbowed out of power by members of her own party.
Word: leg Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English leg, legge, from Old Norse leggr (“leg, calf, bone of the arm or leg, hollow tube, stalk”), from Proto-Germanic *lagjaz, *lagwijaz (“leg, thigh”) (see it for more). Cognate with Scots leg (“leg”), Icelandic leggur (“leg, limb”), Norwegian Bokmål legg (“leg”), Norwegian Nynorsk legg (“leg”), Swedish lägg (“leg, shank, shaft”), Danish læg (“leg”), Lombardic lagi (“thigh, shank, leg”), Latin lacertus (“limb, arm”), Persian لنگ (leng). Upon borrowing, mostly displaced the native Old English term sċanca (Modern English shank). Pronunciation: /ˈlɛɡ/, [ˈlɛɡ], /ˈleɡ/, [ˈleɡ], /ˈleɪ̯ɡ/ 1. To remove the legs from an animal carcass. 2. To build legs onto a platform or stage for support. 3. To put a series of three or more options strikes into the stock market. 4. To apply force using the leg (as in 'to leg a horse').
Word: leg Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of leg.. Labels: alt-of, alternative, no-plural
Word: leg Part of Speech: adj 1. Alternative spelling of leg.. Labels: alt-of, alternative, not-comparable
Word: foot Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English fot, fote, foot, from Old English fōt, from Proto-West Germanic *fōt, from Proto-Germanic *fōts, from Proto-Indo-European *pṓds. Doublet of pes, pie (“Spanish unit of length”), and pous. Cognates *Scots fit (“foot”) *Yola voote (“foot”) *North Frisian fut, fötj (“foot”) *Saterland Frisian Fout (“foot”) *West Frisian foet (“foot”) *Cimbrian buus, vuaz, vuus (“foot”) *Dutch voet (“foot”) *Dutch Low Saxon voot (“foot”) *German Fuß, Fuss (“foot”) *German Low German Faut, Foot (“foot”) *Gottscheerish vúəs (“foot”) *Luxembourgish Fouss (“foot”) *Mòcheno vuas (“foot”) *Vilamovian füs (“foot”) *Yiddish פֿוס (fus, “foot”) *Danish fod (“foot”) *Faroese and Icelandic fótur (“foot”) *Jamtish fót (“foot”) *Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish fot (“foot”) *Gothic 𐍆𐍉𐍄𐌿𐍃 (fōtus, “foot”). Pronunciation: /fʊt/, [fʊt], [fʊt̚], [fʊtʰ], [fɵʔt] 1. To use the foot to kick (usually a ball). Labels: transitive 2. To pay (a bill). Labels: transitive 3. To tread to measure of music; to dance; to trip; to skip. Example: There's time enough, I hope, To foot a measure with the bonnie bride, Example: He saw a Quire of Ladies in a round, That featly footing seem'd to skim the Ground 4. To walk. Example: thieves do foot by night 5. To set foot on; to walk on. Labels: archaic Example: […] Or shepherd-boy, they featly foot the green Example: People who would not have dared to foot the place before crept in and did not come to the house. 6. To set on foot; to establish; to land. Labels: obsolete Example: What confederacy have you with the traitors / Late footed in the kingdom? 7. To renew the foot of (a stocking, etc.). Example: I'll sew nether stocks and mend them and foot them too 8. To sum up, as the numbers in a column; sometimes with up. Example: to foot (or foot up) an account 9. To spread out and stack up (turf sods) to allow them to dry. Labels: Ireland, transitive
Word: knee Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ǵnéw-der. Proto-Indo-European *ǵnéwom Proto-Germanic *knewą Proto-West Germanic *kneu Old English cnēo Middle English kne English knee Inherited from Middle English kne, from Old English cnēow, from Proto-West Germanic *kneu, from Proto-Germanic *knewą, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵnéw-o-m, a thematic derivative of *ǵónu. See also West Frisian knibbel, Low German Knee, Knie, Dutch knie, German Knie, Danish knæ, Norwegian Bokmål and Norwegian Nynorsk kne, Swedish knä; also Hittite 𒄀𒉡 (genu), Latin genū, Tocharian A kanweṃ (dual), Tocharian B kenī, Ancient Greek γόνυ (gónu, “knee”), γωνία (gōnía, “corner, angle”), Welsh glin (“knee”), Old Armenian ծունր (cunr), Avestan 𐬲𐬥𐬎𐬨 (žnum), Sanskrit जानु (jā́nu). The obsolete plural kneen is from Middle English kneen, knen, kneon, kneuwene. Pronunciation: /niː/, /ni/, /kniː/ 1. In humans, the joint or the region of the joint in the middle part of the leg between the thigh and the shank. Example: Penny was wearing a miniskirt, so she skinned her exposed knees when she fell. Example: He made him ſtoup perforce vnto his knee, / And doe vnwilling worſhip to the Saint, / That on his ſhield depainted he did ſee[…] 2. In the horse and allied animals, the carpal joint, corresponding to the wrist in humans. 3. In birds: 4. In birds: 5. The part of a garment that covers the knee. 6. A piece of timber or metal formed with an angle somewhat in the shape of the human knee when bent. Example: Deck beams were supported by hanging knees, triangular pieces of wood typically found underneath the timbers they are designed to support, but in this case found above them. 7. An act of kneeling, especially to show respect or courtesy. Labels: archaic Example: Give them title, knee, and approbation. Example: […] and he made a knee to the Caesar of Patna, giving that man all honour due to him. 8. Any knee-shaped item or sharp angle in a line; an inflection point. Example: the knee of a graph 9. A blow made with the knee; a kneeing. Example: Tante was groggy but not quite out so Winnie gave him a knee to the jaw that Rose had shown her, and that was enough. He slumped like a rag-doll to the floor. 10. The presence of a parent etc., where a young child acquires early knowledge. Labels: figuratively Example: The duty is, or should be, a thing taught at one's father's knee, and the structure of the family gently enforces it. Example: This has significant implications for sacramental theology which it seems Pusey even realised in the way he spoke of his early life and of learning all he knew about the Eucharist and the Catholic faith at his mother's knee, […]
Word: knee Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ǵnéw-der. Proto-Indo-European *ǵnéwom Proto-Germanic *knewą Proto-West Germanic *kneu Old English cnēo Middle English kne English knee Inherited from Middle English kne, from Old English cnēow, from Proto-West Germanic *kneu, from Proto-Germanic *knewą, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵnéw-o-m, a thematic derivative of *ǵónu. See also West Frisian knibbel, Low German Knee, Knie, Dutch knie, German Knie, Danish knæ, Norwegian Bokmål and Norwegian Nynorsk kne, Swedish knä; also Hittite 𒄀𒉡 (genu), Latin genū, Tocharian A kanweṃ (dual), Tocharian B kenī, Ancient Greek γόνυ (gónu, “knee”), γωνία (gōnía, “corner, angle”), Welsh glin (“knee”), Old Armenian ծունր (cunr), Avestan 𐬲𐬥𐬎𐬨 (žnum), Sanskrit जानु (jā́nu). The obsolete plural kneen is from Middle English kneen, knen, kneon, kneuwene. Pronunciation: /niː/, /ni/, /kniː/ 1. To kneel to. Labels: archaic, transitive Example: I could as well be brought / To knee his throne and, squire-like, pension beg / To keep base life afoot 2. To poke or strike with the knee. Labels: transitive Example: When I blocked her from leaving, she kneed me in the groin. 3. To move on the knees; to use the knees to move. Labels: reflexive Example: Hassan kneed himself up, over, in, soundlessly, feet on floor, knife out, eyes like blunter knife trying to cut darkness.
Word: neck Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English nekke, nakke, from Old English hnecca, *hnæcca (“neck, nape”), from Proto-West Germanic *hnakkō, from Proto-Germanic *hnakkô (“nape, neck”), from Proto-Indo-European *knog-, *kneg- (“back of the head, nape, neck”). Cognate with Scots nek (“neck”), North Frisian neek, neeke, Nak (“neck”), Saterland Frisian Näkke (“neck”), West Frisian nekke (“neck”), Dutch nek (“neck”), German Low German Nack (“neck”), German Nacken (“nape of the neck”), Danish nakke (“neck”), Swedish nacke (“nape of the neck”), Icelandic hnakki (“neck”), Tocharian A kñuk (“neck, nape”). Possibly a mutated variant of *kneug/k (compare Old English hnocc (“hook, penis”), Welsh cnwch (“joint, knob”), Latvian knaūķis (“dwarf”). Doublet of nek. More at nook. Displaced halse (“neck, throat”) and swire (“neck”). Pronunciation: /ˈnɛk/, [ˈnɛk] 1. The part of the body connecting the head and the trunk found in humans and some animals. Example: Giraffes have long necks. Example: Mother, help me, there's a head attached to my neck and I'm in it. 2. The corresponding part in some other anatomical contexts. 3. The part of a shirt, dress etc., which fits a person's neck. 4. The tapered part of a bottle toward the opening. 5. The slender tubelike extension atop an archegonium, through which the sperm swim to reach the egg. Example: Archegonia are surrounded early in their development by the juvenile perianth, through the slender beak of which the elongated neck of the fertilized archegonium protrudes. 6. The extension of any stringed instrument on which a fingerboard is mounted 7. A long narrow tract of land projecting from the main body, or a narrow tract connecting two larger tracts. 8. A reduction in size near the end of an object, formed by a groove around it. Example: a neck forming the journal of a shaft 9. The constriction between the root and crown of a tooth. 10. The gorgerin of a capital. 11. A volcanic plug, solidified lava filling the vent of an extinct volcano. 12. The small part of a gun between the chase and the swell of the muzzle. 13. A person's life. Labels: figuratively Example: to risk one's neck; to save someone's neck 14. A falsehood; a lie. Labels: Multicultural-London-English, informal, slang 15. Fellatio Labels: slang Example: Shorty throw neck like a geese She make me speak Portuguese Example: She drop neck for a check and a paystub 16. A bundle of wheat used in certain English harvest ceremonies. Labels: historical Example: The person with 'the neck' stands in the centre, grasping it with both his hands Example: "The neck" is generally hung up in the farmhouse, where it remains for two or three years.
Word: neck Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English nekke, nakke, from Old English hnecca, *hnæcca (“neck, nape”), from Proto-West Germanic *hnakkō, from Proto-Germanic *hnakkô (“nape, neck”), from Proto-Indo-European *knog-, *kneg- (“back of the head, nape, neck”). Cognate with Scots nek (“neck”), North Frisian neek, neeke, Nak (“neck”), Saterland Frisian Näkke (“neck”), West Frisian nekke (“neck”), Dutch nek (“neck”), German Low German Nack (“neck”), German Nacken (“nape of the neck”), Danish nakke (“neck”), Swedish nacke (“nape of the neck”), Icelandic hnakki (“neck”), Tocharian A kñuk (“neck, nape”). Possibly a mutated variant of *kneug/k (compare Old English hnocc (“hook, penis”), Welsh cnwch (“joint, knob”), Latvian knaūķis (“dwarf”). Doublet of nek. More at nook. Displaced halse (“neck, throat”) and swire (“neck”). Pronunciation: /ˈnɛk/, [ˈnɛk] 1. To hang by the neck; strangle; kill, eliminate. Labels: slang, transitive Example: Go neck yourself. 2. To intently kiss or cuddle; to canoodle. Labels: US, informal, intransitive Example: Alan and Betty were necking in the back of a car when Betty's dad caught them. Example: Molly had been in love with Sick Boy since he necked with her in a seedy disco-bar in Leith a few weeks ago. Sick Boy had made a drunken point about HIV transmission and to illustrate it had spent most of the night french-kissing her. 3. To drink or swallow rapidly. Labels: slang, transitive Example: Actually, mostly I swan around in my silver sports car, necking drugs, and feeling sorry for myself. Example: In the dim light, punters sit sipping raspberry-flavoured Tokyo martinis, losing the freestyle sushi off their chopsticks or necking Asahi beer. 4. To decrease in diameter. Labels: intransitive Example: Since this temperature would place the bolt in its creep range, it will slowly stretch, necking down as it does so. Eventually it will get too thin to support the weight, and the bolt will break.
Word: neck Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Danish nøkke, Swedish näck. 1. A shapeshifting water spirit in Germanic mythology and folklore; a nix. Example: The Neck no more upon the river sings. And no Mermaid to bleach her linen flings Upon the waves in the mild solar ray. Example: The beautiful Nix or Nixie who allures the young fisher or hunter to seek her embraces in the wave which brings his death, the Neck who seizes upon and drowns the maidens who sport upon his banks, the river-spirit who still yearly in some parts of Germany demands tribute of human life, are all forms of the ancient Nicor[.]
Word: canary Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From French canarie, from Spanish canario, from the Latin Canariae insulae (“Canary Islands”) (Spanish Islas Canarias); from the largest island Insula Canaria (“Dog Island" or "Canine Island”), named for its dogs, from canārius (“canine”), from canis (“dog”). Pronunciation: /kəˈnɛəɹi/, /kəˈnɛːɹɪj/, /kəˈneɹi/, /kəˈnɛɹi/, /kəˈneːɹi/ 1. Of a light yellow colour.
Word: canary Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From French canarie, from Spanish canario, from the Latin Canariae insulae (“Canary Islands”) (Spanish Islas Canarias); from the largest island Insula Canaria (“Dog Island" or "Canine Island”), named for its dogs, from canārius (“canine”), from canis (“dog”). Pronunciation: /kəˈnɛəɹi/, /kəˈnɛːɹɪj/, /kəˈneɹi/, /kəˈnɛɹi/, /kəˈneːɹi/ 1. To dance nimbly (as in the canary dance). Labels: intransitive Example: but to jig off a tune at / the tongue's end, canary to it with your feet, 2. To inform or snitch, to betray secrets, especially about illegal activities. Labels: slang 3. To test a software change by rolling out to a small set of machines or users before making it available to all.
Word: phrase Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Late Latin phrasis (“diction”), from Ancient Greek φράσις (phrásis, “manner of expression”), from φράζω (phrázō, “to tell, express”). Pronunciation: /ˈfɹeɪ̯z/, [ˈfɹʷeɪ̯z], /ˈfɹɛjz/, [ˈfɹʷɛjz], /ˈfɹæɪ̯z/ 1. A short written or spoken expression. Example: I've made progress, but this is still, in Churchill's phrase, just "the end of the beginning." 2. A word or, more commonly, a group of words that functions as a single unit in the syntax of a sentence, always containing an expressed or implied head (the principal word or subgroup, with core importance) and often consisting of a head plus some other elaborating words. Example: Holonyms: clause, sentence; phrasing, phraseology, turn of phrase; phrase-book; document, message; language; communication Example: Meronyms: head, complement, adjunct, supplement, modifier; term, word 3. A small section of music in a larger piece. 4. A mode or form of speech; diction; expression. Labels: archaic Example: Thou speak'st / In better phrase and matter than thou didst. Example: […] From out a common vein of memory / Sweet household talk, and phrases of the hearth, […] 5. A short individual motion forming part of a choreographed dance.
Word: phrase Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Borrowed from Late Latin phrasis (“diction”), from Ancient Greek φράσις (phrásis, “manner of expression”), from φράζω (phrázō, “to tell, express”). Pronunciation: /ˈfɹeɪ̯z/, [ˈfɹʷeɪ̯z], /ˈfɹɛjz/, [ˈfɹʷɛjz], /ˈfɹæɪ̯z/ 1. To express (an action, thought or idea) by means of particular words. Labels: transitive Example: I wasn't sure how to phrase my condolences without sounding patronising. Example: These suns — for so they phrase 'em. 2. To perform (a passage) with a particular phrasing. Labels: intransitive, transitive 3. To divide into melodic phrases. Labels: transitive
Word: snail Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English snayl, snail, from the Old English sneġel, from Proto-Germanic *snagilaz. Cognate with Low German Snagel, Snâel, Snâl (“snail”), German Schnegel (“slug”). Compare also Old Norse snigill, from Proto-Germanic *snigilaz. Pronunciation: /sneɪl/, [sn̥eɪ̯ɫ] 1. Any of very many animals (either hermaphroditic or nonhermaphroditic), of the class Gastropoda, having a coiled shell. Example: ‘Children crawled over each other like little grey worms in the gutters,’ he said. ‘The only red things about them were their buttocks and they were raw. Their faces looked as if snails had slimed on them and their mothers were like great sick beasts whose byres had never been cleared. […]’ 2. A slow person; a sluggard. Labels: broadly, informal 3. A spiral cam, or a flat piece of metal of spirally curved outline, used for giving motion to, or changing the position of, another part, as the hammer tail of a striking clock. 4. A tortoise or testudo; a movable roof or shed to protect besiegers. Labels: historical 5. The pod of the snail clover. 6. A locomotive with a prime mover but no traction motors, used to provide extra electrical power to another locomotive.
Word: snail Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English snayl, snail, from the Old English sneġel, from Proto-Germanic *snagilaz. Cognate with Low German Snagel, Snâel, Snâl (“snail”), German Schnegel (“slug”). Compare also Old Norse snigill, from Proto-Germanic *snigilaz. Pronunciation: /sneɪl/, [sn̥eɪ̯ɫ] 1. To move or travel very slowly. Example: The cars were snailing along the motorway during the rush hour.
Word: angel Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Two Baroque angels from southern Germany, from the mid-18th century From Middle English aungel, angel, from Old English anġel, either a modification of enġel after its etymon Latin angelus (through the intermediate of Proto-West Germanic *angil) or a reborrowing from the Latin, which is in turn from Ancient Greek ἄγγελος (ángelos, “messenger”); later reinforced by Anglo-Norman angele, angel, from the same Latin source. The religious sense of the Greek word first appeared in the Septuagint as a translation of the Hebrew word מַלְאָךְ (malʾāḵ, “messenger”) or מַלְאַךְ יהוה (malʾāḵ YHWH, “messenger of YHWH”). Doublet of Angelus. Use of the term in some churches to refer to a church official derives from interpreting the "angels" of the Seven churches of Asia in Revelation as being bishops or ministers rather than angelic beings. Pronunciation: /ˈeɪ̯n.d͡ʒəl/, [ˈeɪ̯n.d͡ʒəl] ~ [ˈeɪ̯n.d͡ʒl̩], /ˈæɪ̯n.d͡ʒəl/, [ˈæ̝ɪ̯n.d͡ʒəl] ~ [ˈæ̝ɪ̯n.d͡ʒl̩], /ˈeɪn.d͡ʒɛl/ 1. To support by donating money. Labels: slang, transitive Example: Six years ago, he lost $20,000 in the first show he angelled, a turkey called Dance Night. Example: You've got to come to Chicago to meet Duell, and see Wilson, who's going to angel the show.
Word: angel Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Clipping of Angelman. Pronunciation: /ˈeɪ̯n.d͡ʒəl/, [ˈeɪ̯n.d͡ʒəl] ~ [ˈeɪ̯n.d͡ʒl̩], /ˈæɪ̯n.d͡ʒəl/, [ˈæ̝ɪ̯n.d͡ʒəl] ~ [ˈæ̝ɪ̯n.d͡ʒl̩], /ˈeɪn.d͡ʒɛl/ 1. A person who has Angelman syndrome; often capitalized. Labels: informal
Word: idiom Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle French idiome, and its source, Late Latin idioma, from Ancient Greek ἰδίωμα (idíōma, “a peculiarity, property, a peculiar phraseology, idiom”), from ἰδιοῦσθαι (idioûsthai, “to make one's own, appropriate to oneself”), from ἴδιος (ídios, “one's own, pertaining to oneself, private, personal, peculiar, separate”). By surface analysis, idi- + -om. Pronunciation: /ˈɪdiəm/, [ˈɪdɪəm], [ˈɪɾiəm] 1. A manner of speaking, a mode of expression peculiar to a language, language family, or group of people. Example: In English, idiom requires the indefinite article in a phrase such as "she's an engineer", whereas in Spanish, idiom forbids it. Example: Some of the usage prescriptions improved clarity and were kept; others that yielded discordant violations of idiom were eventually revised. 2. A manner of speaking, a mode of expression peculiar to a language, language family, or group of people. Example: I have to use the same assignment and call to raw_input in two places. How can I avoid that? I can use the while True/break idiom: […] 3. A language or language variety; specifically, a restricted dialect used in a given historical period, context, etc. Example: In the idiom of the day, they were sutlers, although today they'd probably be called vendors. Example: Many parents and teachers have become irritated to the point of distraction at the way the weed-style growth of "like" has spread through the idiom of the young. 4. An established phrasal expression whose meaning may not be deducible from the literal meanings of its component words. Example: She often spoke in idioms, pining for salad days and complaining about pots calling the kettle black. Example: You’re history, we say […]. Surely it is an American idiom. Impossible to imagine a postwar European saying, “You’re history. . . . That’s history,” meaning fuhgeddaboudit, pal. 5. An artistic style (for example, in art, architecture, or music); an instance of such a style. Example: the idiom of the expressionists
Word: predicate Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English predicat(e), from Old French predicat (French prédicat), from Medieval Latin praedicātum (“thing said of a subject, predicate”), substantivized from the nominative neuter singular of praedicātus, the perfect passive participle praedicō (“to proclaim”), see -ate (noun-forming suffix); see also Etymology 2 below. The adjective was derived from the noun by metanalysis, see -ate (adjective-forming suffix). Pronunciation: /ˈpɹɛd.ɪ.kət/, /ˈpɹɛd.ɪ.kɪt/ 1. The part of the sentence (or clause) which states a property that a subject has or is characterized by. Example: In the light of this observation, consider Number Agreement in a sentence like: (120) They seem to me [_S — to be fools/^✽a fool] Here, the Predicate Nominal fools agrees with the italicised NP they, in spite of the fact that (as we argued earlier) the two are contained in different Clauses at S-structure. How can this be? Under the NP MOVEMENT analysis of seem structures, sentences like (120) pose no problem; if we suppose that they originates in the — position as the subordinate Clause Subject, then we can say that the Predicate Nominal agrees with the underlying Subject of its Clause. How does they get from its underlying position as subordinate Clause Subject to its superficial position as main Clause Subject? By NP MOVEMENT, of course! Example: Thus, in (121) (a) persuade is clearly a three-place Predicate — that is, a Predicate which takes three Arguments: the first of these Arguments is the Subject NP John, the second is the Primary Object NP Mary, and the third is the Secondary Object S-bar [that she should resign]. By contrast, believe in (121) (b) is clearly a two-place Predicate (i.e. a Predicate which has two Arguments): its first Argument is the Subject NP John, and its second Argument is the Object S-bar [that Mary was innocent]. 2. A term of a statement, where the statement may be true or false depending on whether the thing referred to by the values of the statement's variables has the property signified by that (predicative) term. Example: A propositional variable may be treated as a nullary predicate. Example: A predicate is either valid, satisfiable, or unsatisfiable. 3. An operator, expression, or function that returns either true or false. Example: Predicates are usually found in a query's WHERE or HAVING clauses, though they can be located elsewhere (e.g. in CASE expressions).
Word: predicate Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English predicat(e), from Old French predicat (French prédicat), from Medieval Latin praedicātum (“thing said of a subject, predicate”), substantivized from the nominative neuter singular of praedicātus, the perfect passive participle praedicō (“to proclaim”), see -ate (noun-forming suffix); see also Etymology 2 below. The adjective was derived from the noun by metanalysis, see -ate (adjective-forming suffix). Pronunciation: /ˈpɹɛd.ɪ.kət/, /ˈpɹɛd.ɪ.kɪt/ 1. Of or related to the predicate of a sentence or clause. 2. Predicated, stated. 3. Relating to or being any of a series of criminal acts upon which prosecution for racketeering may be predicated.
Word: predicate Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Latin praedicātus, perfect passive participle of praedicō (“to publish, declare, proclaim”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), further from prae- (“before”) + dicō (“to proclaim, dedicate”), related to dīcō (“to say, tell”). Doublet of preach. Pronunciation: /ˈpɹɛdɪˌkeɪt/ 1. To announce, assert, or proclaim publicly. Labels: transitive 2. To assume or suppose; to infer. Labels: transitive Example: There was a character about Madame Defarge, from which one might have predicated that she did not often make mistakes against herself in any of the reckonings over which she presided. Example: Of anyone else it would have been said that she was finding the afternoon rather dreary in the vast halls not of her forefathers: but of Miss Power it was unsafe to predicate so surely. 3. To base (on); to assert on the grounds of. Labels: transitive Example: The law is what constitutes both desire and the lack on which it is predicated. Example: Cryptocurrencies, after all, are in many cases not so much currencies as speculative thingamabobs — digital tokens whose value is predicated largely on the idea that someone will take them off your hands at a higher price than it cost you to acquire them. 4. To make a term (or expression) the predicate of a statement. Labels: transitive 5. To assert or state as an attribute or quality of something. Labels: transitive Example: 1911, Encyclopedia Britannica, Conceptualism This quality becomes real as a mental concept when it is predicated of all the objects possessing it (“quod de pluribus natum est praedicari”).
Word: clause Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English clause, claus, borrowed from Old French clause, from Medieval Latin clausa (Latin diminutive clausula (“close, end; a clause, close of a period”)), from Latin clausus, past participle of claudere (“to shut, close”). See close, its doublet. Pronunciation: /klɔːz/, /kloːz/, /klɔz/, /klɑz/, [klɔːz] 1. A group of words that contains a subject and a verb; it may be part of a sentence or may constitute the whole sentence, depending on the syntax in each instance. Example: Near-synonyms: sentential, sentence 2. A verb, its necessary grammatical arguments, and any adjuncts affecting them. 3. A verb along with its subject and their modifiers. If a clause provides a complete thought on its own, then it is an independent (superordinate) clause; otherwise, it is dependent (subordinate). (Independent clauses can be sentences; they can also be part of a sentence. Dependent clauses can only be part of a sentence.) Example: However, Coordination facts seem to undermine this hasty conclusion: thus, consider the following: (43) [Your sister could go to College], but [would she get a degree?] The second (italicised) conjunct is a Clause containing an inverted Auxiliary, would. Given our earlier assumptions that inverted Auxiliaries are in C, and that C is a constituent of S-bar, it follows that the italicised Clause in (43) must be an S-bar. But our familiar constraint on Coordination tells us that only constituents belonging to the same Category can be conjoined. Since the second Clause in (43) is clearly an S-bar, then it follows that the first Clause must also be an S-bar — one in which the C(omplementiser) position has been left empty. 4. A distinct part of a contract, a will or another legal document. Example: Mr. Waller adds that when the railway was authorised in 1897, one of the clauses of the Act authorising the transfer of the line to the North British Railway provided that that company should work it in perpetuity, and it was this clause that caused the interim interdict to be granted. 5. A constituent (component) of a statement or query.
Word: clause Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English clause, claus, borrowed from Old French clause, from Medieval Latin clausa (Latin diminutive clausula (“close, end; a clause, close of a period”)), from Latin clausus, past participle of claudere (“to shut, close”). See close, its doublet. Pronunciation: /klɔːz/, /kloːz/, /klɔz/, /klɑz/, [klɔːz] 1. To amend (a bill of lading or similar document). Labels: transitive Example: The question of clausing the bills of lading, so as to avoid "dirtying", which impairs its negotiability, may also be looked into Example: Any attempt to clause a Bill of Lading will be strenuously resisted by shippers, and they will obtain clean bills in the usual ways
Word: face Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁- Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁k- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *dʰh₁kyéti Proto-Italic *θakjō Proto-Italic *fakjō Latin faciō Proto-Italic *-jēs Latin -iēs Latin faciēs Late Latin facia Old French facebor. Middle English face English face From Middle English face, from Old French face, from Late Latin facia, from Latin faciēs (“form, appearance”). Doublet of facies. Displaced native onlete (“face, countenance, appearance”), anleth (“face”), from Old English anwlite, andwlita, compare German Antlitz; Old English ansīen (“face”), Middle English neb (“face, nose”) (from Old English nebb), Middle English ler, leor, leer (“face, cheek, countenance”) (from Old English hlēor), and non-native Middle English vis (“face, appearance, look”) (from Old French vis) and Middle English chere (“face”) from Old French chere. In the sense of face as in reputation, influenced by Chinese 面子 (miànzi) or 臉／脸 (liǎn), both of which mean literally the front of the head and metaphorically one's public image. See lose face. Pronunciation: /ˈfeɪ̯s/, /ˈfɛ̝ɪ̯s/, /ˈfɛjs/, /feːs/, /ˈfæ̝ɪ̯s/ 1. Intensely. Labels: not-comparable, slang Example: He's tripping face. Example: She must be rolling face.
Word: mariposa Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish mariposa (“a butterfly”). Pronunciation: /ˌmæɹɪˈpəʊ.sə/, /ˌmæɹɪˈpoʊ.sə/, /ˌmɛɹɪˈpoʊ.sə/ 1. A mariposa lily (Calochortus spp.).
Word: pico Part of Speech: noun 1. Ellipsis of pico de gallo. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis, uncountable
Word: IMF Part of Speech: name 1. Initialism of International Monetary Fund. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism Example: Your turn, your turn / It's just business, cattle prods and the IMF Example: Now I tried to make amends, small talk, but he was busy with a huge sheaf of papers, on which I spotted graphs I couldn’t follow, sets of statistics from the IMF. 2. Initialism of Impossible Mission Force, a fictional spy organization from the Mission: Impossible franchise. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism Example: Since 1996 and over six installments, special IMF (The Impossible Missions Force) agent Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) has been spectacularly ‘figuring things right in the face of danger, often without a plan.
Word: pizza Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Byzantine Greek πίτα (píta)bor. Neapolitan pizzabor. English pizza First attested in 1931, borrowed from Neapolitan pizza (1590), the dialectal form of Byzantine Greek πίτα (píta, “cake, pie”). The Greek word is first attested in 1107 and is itself of uncertain origin. The northern Italian dialectal form was pinza, the southern (Apulian and Calabrian) form was pitta. This suggests a derivation from Latin pīnctus (pictus (“painted, smeared”)) or pīnsum, pīnsitum, pistum (“pounded”), but the northern forms appear to be contaminated with pinzare (“to staple”). There are alternative suggestions involving Greek etymologies (πηκτή (pēktḗ), πηκτός (pēktós, “compacted, congealed”); πήτεα (pḗtea, “bran”); Ancient Greek πιττάκιον (pittákion, “patch; tablet; ticket”)), more remote possibilities involve comparison with Lombardic pizzo, pizza (“bite, morsel, lump, dumpling”); Albanian petë (“layer”), Romanian pată (“blotch, stain, macula”); Albanian pite (“gruel”); From Aramaic פִיתָּא (pītā, “piece of bread”), Hebrew פַּת (paṯ, “bread”). Doublet of pide and pita. Pronunciation: /ˈpiː.tsə/, [ˈpʰit.sə], /ˈpi.tsə/ 1. A baked Italian dish of a thinly rolled bread crust typically topped before baking with tomato sauce, cheese, and other ingredients such as meat or vegetables. Labels: uncountable Example: a slice of pizza Example: a pizza pie 2. A single instance of this dish. Labels: countable Example: He ate a whole pizza! Example: Should we cook a frozen pizza for dinner? 3. snowplow: a maneuver in which the tips of the skis or skates point inwards and the back ends point outwards. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: mutt Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Clipping of muttonhead. Pronunciation: /mʌt/, /mʊt/ 1. A mongrel dog (or sometimes cat); an animal of mixed breed or uncertain origin. Example: Mr. Beerbelly, Beerbelly / Get these mutts away from me / You know, I don't find this stuff amusing anymore 2. A person of mixed racial or ethnic ancestry. Labels: derogatory, humorous, usually Example: Soon, we will no longer be an outpost of Europe, but a nation of mutts, a nation with hundreds of fluid ethnicities from around the world, intermarrying and intermingling. Americans of European descent are already a minority among 5-year-olds. […] Immigration reform or not, the nation of mutts is coming. 3. A person from the United States. Labels: Internet, broadly, derogatory 4. An idiot, a stupid person. Labels: US, derogatory, slang Example: “I knew you weren’t such a mutt as you looked,” she cried. Example: I must say I think Chloe was a bit of a mutt to walk on the bed and then leave a button somewhere about. She might have learned better than that from the pictures surely. 5. An ugly woman. Labels: derogatory, slang Example: Too bad the guys' wife is a total mutt. I guess he wants to achieve a less stressful life; he married ugly. 6. The snowy sheathbill. Labels: slang
Word: mutt Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /mʌt/, /mʊt/ 1. Alternative form of matha. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: mongrel Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English mongrel, equivalent to mong (“mixture”) + -rel (pejorative diminutive); from Old English ġemang (“mingling”) (whence Modern English among), from Proto-Germanic *mang- (“mix; mixture”). Pronunciation: /ˈmʌŋ.ɡɹəl/, /ˈmɑŋ.ɡɹəl/ 1. Anything of mixed kind. Labels: derogatory, often Example: That dog is a mongrel; who knows what breed it could be! 2. Anything of mixed kind. Labels: derogatory, ethnic, offensive, often, slur Example: The natives of Banda are very much mixed, and it is probable that at least three-fourths of the population are mongrels, in various degrees of Malay, Papuan, Arab, Portuguese, and Dutch. The first two form the bases of the larger portion, and the dark skins, pronounced features, and more or less frizzly hair of the Papuans preponderates. 3. A thuggish, obnoxious, or contemptible person; (often preceded by "poor") a pitiable person. Labels: Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, slang Example: "Yanto bloody Evans!" Jack stuttered with rage. "Yanto bloody Evans! That... that... bloody mongrel! D'you know who he is? He's the one who knocked me back for a bit of extra timber before the roof fell in on me!" Example: But somebody's got to tell these mums and dads why their kids died, why this mongrel thinks he can wipe them out like a dirty rag. 4. An erect penis; an erection. Labels: Australia, slang
Word: mongrel Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English mongrel, equivalent to mong (“mixture”) + -rel (pejorative diminutive); from Old English ġemang (“mingling”) (whence Modern English among), from Proto-Germanic *mang- (“mix; mixture”). Pronunciation: /ˈmʌŋ.ɡɹəl/, /ˈmɑŋ.ɡɹəl/ 1. Of mixed breed, nature, or origin; of or like a mongrel. Labels: not-comparable Example: English spelling is often regarded as confusing and unpredictable due to the mongrel nature of that language. Example: a mongrel dog
Word: millstone Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English mylneston, milneston, from Old English mylenstān (“millstone”), from Proto-West Germanic *mulīnu + *stain; equivalent to mill + stone; cognate with Danish møllesten, Middle Dutch molensteen (modern Dutch molensteen), West Frisian molestien, Norwegian Bokmål møllestein, Old Saxon mulinstēn (Middle Low German mȫlenstēn), Old High German mulinstein, mülstein (Middle High German mülstein, modern German Mühlstein). Pronunciation: /ˈmɪlstəʊn/, /ˈmɪlˌstoʊn/ 1. A large round stone used for grinding grain. Example: As it is the circular Motion of the Mill-ſtone which brings the Corn out of the Hopper by Jerks, and with a Velocity depending upon that of the Stone, other Grains are always ſucceeding, which raiſe it anew, and the Flower just made being no longer preſs'd is carry'd away into the Boulting Mill by the Circulation of Air that the Mill-ſtone puts into motion, which makes a whirling there. Example: The reason why a mill-stone signifies confirmation from the Word in both senses, is, because wheat signifies good, and fine flour the truth thereof, hence by a mill-stone, by which wheat is ground into fine flour, or barley into meal, is signified the production of truth from good, or the production of what is false from evil, thus also the confirmation of truth or what is false from the Word; […] 2. A coarse-grained sandstone used for making such stones; millstone grit. Example: In North America the millstone grit, and a grey sandy and slaty rock beneath it, occur three times; and it is exceedingly difficult to distinguish these rocks in hand specimens, without the aid of organized remains. And remains are almost exclusively confined to the grey rocks. Common quarrymen, farmers, and foreign geologists, apply the names, greywracke and millstone, to all these rocks promiscuously; neither having observed their different relative positions. Example: From the above account it will be seen how closely the Millstone Grit and the Lower Coal Measures are like one another in their lithological character. Each is a group of thick sandstones parted by shales, and in each beds of coal are very generally found on the top of the sandstones. The differences are these. Among the Millstones the sandstones are thicker, fewer, further apart, more constant both in size and character, and as a rule coarse grits or conglomerates. 3. Ellipsis of millstone around one's neck, a heavy responsibility that is difficult to bear (referring to Matthew 18:6 in the Bible). Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis, figuratively Example: Paying the mortgage every month is a millstone round their necks. Example: [H]owever great and powerful England may be, the strain of such entanglements cannot but tell on her, and one day she may find herself in a predicament in which India may simply hang as a mill-stone round her neck.
Word: molar Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English molar, from Latin molāris (“millstone, molar”). Pronunciation: /məʊlə(ɹ)/, /ˈmoʊlɚ/, /moːlaː(ɾ)/ 1. A back tooth having a broad surface used for grinding one's food. Example: Jamie had a molar removed as it was decaying.
Word: molar Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English molar, from Latin molāris (“millstone, molar”). Pronunciation: /məʊlə(ɹ)/, /ˈmoʊlɚ/, /moːlaː(ɾ)/ 1. Of or relating to the molar teeth, or to grinding. Labels: not-comparable
Word: molar Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From mol(e) + -ar in the chemistry usage. Pronunciation: /məʊlə(ɹ)/, /ˈmoʊlɚ/, /moːlaː(ɾ)/ 1. Of, relating to, or being a solution containing one mole of solute per litre of solution. Labels: not-comparable 2. Of or relating to a complete body of matter as distinct from its molecular or atomic constituents. Labels: not-comparable
Word: molar Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From mol(e) + -ar in the chemistry usage. Pronunciation: /məʊlə(ɹ)/, /ˈmoʊlɚ/, /moːlaː(ɾ)/ 1. A unit of concentration equal to one mole per litre.
Word: slug Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Originally referred to a slow, lazy person, from Middle English slugge (“lazy person", also "sloth, slothfulness”), probably of either Old English or Old Norse origin; perhaps ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *sliǵ-ōn, from *sley- (“smooth; slick; sticky; slimy”) or otherwise from the root of Old Norse slókr (“lazy person, oaf”), whence Icelandic slókur (“laziness”). Compare Norn slug (“lazy, slothful, sluggish”), dialectal Norwegian slugg (“a large, heavy body”), sluggje (“heavy, slow person”), Danish slog (“rascal, rogue”). Compare also Dutch slak (“snail, slug”). Doublet of slotch. The sense of a hitchhiking commuter is from the sense of a counterfeit bus token. Bus operators considered sluggers to be cheating as if they were using counterfeit tokens. Pronunciation: /slʌɡ/, /slɐɡ/, /slʊɡ/ 1. To drink quickly; to gulp; to down. 2. To take part in casual carpooling; to form ad hoc, informal carpools for commuting, essentially a variation of ride-share commuting and hitchhiking. Example: "We believe in car-pooling, but let's do it without restricting traffic. ..." Sam Snyder, 51, of Burke, who has been slugging to his job at the US Customs .... Example: no sane person would attempt to commute that far every day. Sure they do. I've often slugged to Fredericksburg and back. The VRE carries hundreds of people per day, and the I-95 HOV lanes carry tens of thousands of people each day. 3. To become reduced in diameter, or changed in shape, by passing from a larger to a smaller part of the bore of the barrel. Labels: intransitive 4. To move slowly or sluggishly; to lie idle. Labels: intransitive, obsolete Example: To slug in slouth and sensuall delights. 5. To load with a slug or slugs. Labels: transitive Example: to slug a gun 6. To make sluggish. Example: So little do we fear , you slug you
Word: slug Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Uncertain. Perhaps somehow from Proto-Germanic *slagiz (“a blow, strike”). If so, then cognate with slay and slaughter; also German Schlag (“blow, hit”) and Dutch slag (“blow, strike”). Also compare slog. Pronunciation: /slʌɡ/, /slɐɡ/, /slʊɡ/ 1. A hard blow, usually with the fist.
Word: slug Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Uncertain. Perhaps somehow from Proto-Germanic *slagiz (“a blow, strike”). If so, then cognate with slay and slaughter; also German Schlag (“blow, hit”) and Dutch slag (“blow, strike”). Also compare slog. Pronunciation: /slʌɡ/, /slɐɡ/, /slʊɡ/ 1. To hit very hard, usually with the fist. Labels: transitive Example: He insulted my mother, so I slugged him. Example: The fighter slugged his opponent into unconsciousness.
Word: perfect Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English perfit, from Old French parfit (modern: parfait), from Latin perfectus, perfect passive participle of perficere (“to finish”), from per- (“through, thorough”) + facere (“to do, to make”). The spelling was modified in the 15th century to conform to its Latin etymon. Doublet of parfait, perfecto, and perfectus. Displaced native Old English fulfremed. Pronunciation: /ˈpɜː.fɪkt/, /-fɛkt/, /ˈpɝ.fɪkt/, /ˈpɜː.fekt/ 1. The perfect tense, or a form in that tense. 2. A perfect score; the achievement of finishing a stage or task with no mistakes. Example: Awarded for scoring all Perfects in the Dominator rank! Example: […] a table of all the ratings that each player has achieved, giving you several scoring options based on player feedback (I simply record the number of perfects). 3. A leader of the Cathar movement. Labels: historical
Word: perfect Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From perfect (adjective). Pronunciation: /pəˈfɛkt/, /pɚˈfɛkt/, /pəˈfekt/ 1. To make perfect; to improve or hone. Labels: transitive Example: I am going to perfect this article. Example: You spend too much time trying to perfect your dancing. 2. To take an action, usually the filing of a document in the correct venue, that secures a legal right. Example: perfect an appeal Example: perfect an interest
Word: precise Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle French précis, from Latin praecīsus, perfect passive participle of praecīdere, from prae- (“before, in front”) + caedere (“cut; strike”), cognate with hit. Related to incise. Doublet of précis. Pronunciation: /pɹɪˈsaɪs/ 1. Both exact and accurate. Labels: broadly Example: precise definition Example: highly precise 2. Consistent, clustered close together, agreeing with each other (this does not mean that they cluster near the true, correct, or accurate value). 3. Adhering too much to rules; prim or punctilious.
Word: precise Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle French précis, from Latin praecīsus, perfect passive participle of praecīdere, from prae- (“before, in front”) + caedere (“cut; strike”), cognate with hit. Related to incise. Doublet of précis. Pronunciation: /pɹɪˈsaɪs/ 1. To make or render precise; to specify. Labels: nonstandard, transitive Example: This proposal for a new basic regulation is justified because there is a need to precise the objectives of the CFP.
Word: Desi Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Borrowed from Hindustani دیسی (desī) / देसी (desī). Pronunciation: /ˈdeɪ.si/, /ˈdɛs.i/ 1. Of or pertaining to the culture, people, or products of South Asia; South Asian.
Word: Desi Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Hindustani دیسی (desī) / देसी (desī). Pronunciation: /ˈdeɪ.si/, /ˈdɛs.i/ 1. A member of the South Asian diaspora. Example: Desis from the United States have an accent; those from Canada, another.
Word: acanthophorous Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἄκανθα (ákantha, “spine”) + -φόρος (-phóros, “bearing”). Pronunciation: /ˌækənˈθɒfəɹəs/ 1. Spine-bearing .
Word: accurateness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English accurate Proto-Germanic *-inōną Proto-Indo-European *-dyé- Proto-Germanic *-atjaną Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Germanic *-þuz Proto-Germanic *-assuz Proto-Germanic *-inassuz Proto-West Germanic *-nassī Old English -nes Middle English -nesse English -ness English accurateness From accurate + -ness. Pronunciation: /ˈæk.jə.ɹət.nəs/ 1. The state or quality of being accurate; accuracy Labels: uncountable
Word: matka Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Hindi मटका (maṭkā). 1. An earthenware pot. Labels: India, countable Example: Alternatively, instead of cooking in a matka, wrap the vegetable mixture (without lettuce leaves) in aluminium foil and bake in a hot oven at 200 degrees Celsius for 1 hour. 2. A kind of coarse silk from the Indian subcontinent, mainly produced from pierced (moth-damaged) cocoons. Labels: India, countable, uncountable
Word: kawa Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of kava. Labels: alt-of, alternative, uncountable
Word: kawa Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Māori kawa. 1. Maori customs and protocol. Labels: uncountable
Word: kara Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Punjabi ਕੜਾ (kaṛā); see Hindi कड़ा (kaṛā, “bracelet”). 1. A bangle worn by Sikhs, one of the five Ks, to remind them to do God's work. Labels: Sikhism