nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: mum Part of Speech: intj Etymology: From Middle English mum or mom (“silent”), reminiscent of the sound made when gagged or with a hand over one's mouth. Perhaps related to dated German Mumme (“mask”). Pronunciation: /mʌm/ 1. stop speaking!, stop talking!, hush! Example: Mum, then, and no more. Example: Ahab has that that’s bloody on his mind. But, mum; he comes this way.
Word: mum Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English mum or mom (“silent”), reminiscent of the sound made when gagged or with a hand over one's mouth. Perhaps related to dated German Mumme (“mask”). Pronunciation: /mʌm/ 1. To act in a pantomime or dumb show. 2. To silence. Labels: UK, obsolete, slang, transitive Example: "Well, Sal, you mum your dubber pretty generally, but when you do slacken your glib you may as well do it civilly."
Word: mum Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English mum or mom (“silent”), reminiscent of the sound made when gagged or with a hand over one's mouth. Perhaps related to dated German Mumme (“mask”). Pronunciation: /mʌm/ 1. Silence. Labels: obsolete, uncountable Example: Entrust it under solemn Vows / Of Mum and Silence,[…]
Word: mum Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From German Mumme. Pronunciation: /mʌm/ 1. A type of strong beer, originally made in Brunswick, Germany. Labels: uncountable Example: The clamorous crowd is hushed with mugs of mum.
Word: mum Part of Speech: noun Etymology: A variant of ma'am. Pronunciation: /mʌm/ 1. Alternative spelling of ma'am. Labels: alt-of, alternative, dated, informal Example: “Wy, mum,” said Mr. Weller, “I don’t think you’ll see a many sich, and that’s the truth. But if my son Samivel vould give me my vay, mum, and only dis-pense vith his—might I wenter to say the vurd?” / “What word Mr. Weller?” said the housekeeper, blushing slightly. / “Petticuts, mum,” returned that gentleman, laying his hand upon the garments of his grandson. “If my son Samivel, mum, vould only dis-pense vith these here, you’d see such a alteration in his appearance, as the imagination can’t depicter.” Example: [H]e axed if wer stock o' coals was nearly done. I telled him it was, an' we was ill set to get more—but you know mum I didn't think o' him helping us—but howsever, he sent us a sack o' coals next day; […]
Word: blur Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From earlier blurre, probably an alteration of blear, from Middle English bleren, from Old English *blerian (attested in āblered (“made bare, made bald”)), from Proto-West Germanic *blaʀjan, from Proto-Germanic *blazjaną (“to make pale”), from Proto-Germanic *blasaz (“pale”). Compare Scots blore, bloar (“to blur, cover with blots”), Low German bleeroged (“blear-eyed”). More at blear. Pronunciation: /ˈblɜː/, /bləː/, /blɝ/, /blʌɾ/, /bløː/ 1. To make indistinct or hazy, to obscure or dim. Example: to blur a photograph (by moving the camera while taking it) 2. To smear, stain or smudge. Example: to blur a manuscript (by handling it while damp) 3. To become indistinct. Labels: intransitive 4. To cause imperfection of vision in; to dim; to darken. Example: His eyes are blurred with the lightning's glare. 5. To sully; to stain; to blemish, as reputation. Labels: obsolete, transitive Example: Sarcasms may eclipse thine own, / But cannot blur my lost renown. 6. To transfer the input focus away from. Labels: transitive Example: Then give this box focus to blur the first one: […] Example: These form elements need to have an onFocus event handler to blur the current focus. 7. To use a sign, image, expression, etc. sufficiently close to a trademarked one that it causes confusion between them.
Word: blur Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From earlier blurre, probably an alteration of blear, from Middle English bleren, from Old English *blerian (attested in āblered (“made bare, made bald”)), from Proto-West Germanic *blaʀjan, from Proto-Germanic *blazjaną (“to make pale”), from Proto-Germanic *blasaz (“pale”). Compare Scots blore, bloar (“to blur, cover with blots”), Low German bleeroged (“blear-eyed”). More at blear. Pronunciation: /ˈblɜː/, /bləː/, /blɝ/, /blʌɾ/, /bløː/ 1. A smear, smudge or blot. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. Something that appears hazy or indistinct. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The surroundings went by in a blur. Example: Maccario, it was evident, did not care to take the risk of blundering upon a picket, and a man led them by twisting paths until at last the hacienda rose blackly before them. Appleby could see it dimly, a blur of shadowy buildings with the ridge of roof parapet alone cutting hard and sharp against the clearing sky. 3. Haziness, blurriness. Labels: uncountable Example: Unfortunately, a small artificial pupil also tends to increase the amount of diffraction somewhat, but this increase in blur is considerably smaller than the decrease that results from the control of other factors. Example: The second option (right-hand page) features a sharp background and a cyclist who appears as a smudge of blur. 4. A moral stain or blot. Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable Example: […]with her raillyng sette a great blurre on myne honesty
Word: blur Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From earlier blurre, probably an alteration of blear, from Middle English bleren, from Old English *blerian (attested in āblered (“made bare, made bald”)), from Proto-West Germanic *blaʀjan, from Proto-Germanic *blazjaną (“to make pale”), from Proto-Germanic *blasaz (“pale”). Compare Scots blore, bloar (“to blur, cover with blots”), Low German bleeroged (“blear-eyed”). More at blear. Pronunciation: /ˈblɜː/, /bləː/, /blɝ/, /blʌɾ/, /bløː/ 1. Lacking awareness; clueless or confused. Labels: Manglish, Singlish Example: If a Singaporean gets frustrated at your stupidity, he can scold you for being blur as sotong (clueless as a squid). Example: Even if you don't know, just pretend as if you know-lah Mike. You are embarrassing me you know. If you are so blur like this, how to accept you as my sidekick man?
Word: Pavlovian Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Named after Russian physiologist, psychologist, and physician Ivan Petrovich Pavlov. Pronunciation: /pævˈloʊvi.ən/ 1. Of or relating to the theories of the Russian physiologist, psychologist, and physician Ivan Petrovich Pavlov, especially those related to behavioral conditioning. Labels: not-comparable Example: A mere glance at the plot descriptions of the show’s fourth season is enough to induce Pavlovian giggle fits and shivers of joy.
Word: rearrange Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Italic *wre- Latin re-der. Old French re-bor. Middle English re- English re- Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd Proto-Italic *ad Proto-Italic *ad- Latin ad- Old French a- Proto-Indo-European *(H)rek-der. Proto-Celtic *reketi Gaulish *rekosbor.? Proto-Indo-European *h₃reǵ-der. Proto-Germanic *rinkanąder. Proto-Germanic *rankaz Frankish *rankbor.? Vulgar Latin *rencus Old French reng Proto-Italic *-āzi ▲ Latin -ereinflu. Latin -āre Old French -ier Old French rengier Old French arangierbor. Middle English arengen English arrange English rearrange From re- + arrange. Pronunciation: /ˌɹiːəˈɹeɪndʒ/ 1. To change the order or arrangement of (one or more items). Labels: transitive Example: With the extension of Piccadilly Line tube trains, the four tracks were rearranged for parallel working; tube trains run on the middle pair with no platforms at Stamford Brook and Chiswick Park, and District line trains use the outside lines. Example: For example, by changing the use of existing rooms, removing or replacing unsightly features, clearing obstacles to easy circulation, rearranging direction signs and generally introducing as much order as possible, most outdated station buildings can be made reasonably efficient and attractive.
Word: cul-de-sac Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *(s)kewH-der. Proto-Italic *kūlos Latin cūlus Old French cul Middle French cul French cul Proto-Indo-European *de Proto-Indo-European *-h₁ Proto-Indo-European *déh₁ Proto-Italic *dē Latin dē Old French de Middle French de French de Ancient Greek σᾰ́κκος (sắkkos)bor. Latin saccus Old French sac French sac French cul-de-sacbor. English cul-de-sac Borrowed from French cul-de-sac, from cul (“bottom”) + de (“of”) + sac (“bag, sack”). Pronunciation: /ˈkʌldəsæk/, /ˈkʌldəsak/ 1. A blind alley or dead end street. Example: Before we had gone fifty yards we perceived that all hopes of getting further up the stream in the whale-boat were at an end, for not two hundred yards above where we had stopped were a succession of shallows and mudbanks, with not six inches of water over them. It was a watery cul de sac. Example: His was the end house of a cul-de-sac, with the side wall of a huge brewery beyond. 2. A circular area at the end of a dead end street to allow cars to turn around, designed so children can play on the street, with little or no through-traffic. Example: And in suburbs known for new development, preservationists are often battling a general perception that there is nothing historic or worth saving among the cul-de-sacs. 3. An impasse. Labels: figuratively Example: Physics seems, in fact, to have got itself into a cul-de-sac, obsessing over theories so mathematically abstruse that nobody even knows how to test them. Example: The internet is a remarkable tool to find others and coordinate, but as an end to itself can become a cul de sac of frustrated desires and circular arguments. 4. A sacklike cavity, a tube open at one end only.
Word: Albion Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Middle English Albion, from Latin Albiōn, an Ancient Gallo-Latin name for Britain (Middle Welsh Albbu, Old Irish Albu), from Proto-Celtic *Albiū, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *albʰós (“white”), whence also Latin albus (“white”) and Ancient Greek ἀλφός (alphós, “whiteness, white leprosy”). The primary meaning of the Common Celtic word is "upper world" (as opposed to underworld), with semasiological development similar to e.g. Russian свет (svet, “world; light”). It is often hypothesised that the Romans took it as connected with albus (“white”), in reference to the white cliffs of Dover. Pronunciation: /ˈælbi.ən/, /ˈælbɪən/ 1. Great Britain (or sometimes just England or the British Isles). Labels: poetic Example: [M]ightie Albion, father of the bold / And warlike people which the Britaine Iſlands hold. / For Albion the ſonne of Neptune was, / Who for the proofe of his great puiſſance, / Out of his Albion did on dry-foot pas / Into old Gall, that now is cleeped France, / To fight with Hercules, that did auance / To vanquiſh all the world with his matchleſſe might, […] 2. Any of several places in the United States: 3. Any of several places in the United States: 4. Any of several places in the United States: 5. Any of several places in the United States: 6. Any of several places in the United States: 7. Any of several places in the United States: 8. Any of several places in the United States: 9. Any of several places in the United States: 10. Any of several places in the United States: 11. A suburb of Melbourne in the City of Brimbank, Victoria, Australia 12. Any of a number of football clubs in Great Britain, including West Bromwich Albion F.C., a football club from West Bromwich in the West Midlands, Brighton & Hove Albion F.C., a football club from the city of Brighton and Hove in Sussex, and Stirling Albion F.C., a football club in the city of Stirling in central Scotland. Example: The Reds laid siege to the Albion goal throughout, with Jordan Henderson striking the underside of the bar and Dirk Kuyt the inside of the post.
Word: viviparously Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree English viviparous Middle English -ly English -ly English viviparously From viviparous + -ly. 1. In a viviparous manner. Labels: not-comparable
Word: viviparousness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English viviparous 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 viviparousness From viviparous + -ness. 1. The quality of being viviparous; viviparity. Labels: uncountable
Word: vixenish Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree English vixen Proto-Indo-European *-iskos Proto-Germanic *-iskaz Proto-West Germanic *-isk Old English -isċ Middle English -ish English -ish English vixenish From vixen + -ish. 1. Of or pertaining to a vixen; resembling a vixen. Example: Although he has persuaded Clara to leave the house for a few hours, he turns the key in the lock, just in case her vixenish instinct should lure her unexpectedly back.
Word: vixenly Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From vixen + -ly. 1. Like a vixen; vixenish.
Word: vizard Part of Speech: noun Etymology: An alteration of visor by confusion of the ending. Pronunciation: /ˈvɪzəd/ 1. A mask (cover for the face, used for disguise, protection, etc.) Labels: archaic Example: […] one Roscius Gallus the most excellent player among the Romaines brought up these vizards, which we see at this day used, partly to supply the want of players, when there were moe parts than there were persons, or that it was not thought meet to trouble and pester princes chambers with too many folkes. Now by the chaunge of a vizard one man might play the king and the carter, the old nurse and the yong damsell, the marchant and the souldier or any other part he listed very conveniently. Example: There, then, that vizard, that superfluous case That hid the worse and show’d the better face. 2. A visor (part of a helmet covering the face). Labels: archaic Example: I walked up gravely to the window in my dusty black coat, and looking through the glass saw all the world in yellow, blue, and green, running at the ring of pleasure.—The old with broken lances, and in helmets which had lost their vizards;—the young in armour bright which shone like gold, beplumed with each gay feather of the east,—all,—all, tilting at it like fascinated knights in tournaments of yore for fame and love.— 3. Outward appearance; pretense. Labels: archaic, figuratively Example: Oh, that deceit should steal such gentle shapes, And with a virtuous vizard hide foul guile! Example: And why should God enter covenant with a people to be holy, as the Command is holy, and just, and good, Rom. 7.12 and yet suffer an impure and treacherous dispence to mislead and betray them under the vizard of Law to a legitimate practise of uncleanness. 4. Alternative spelling of visard (“type of mask”). Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: vizarded Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From vizard + -ed. 1. Wearing a vizard. Labels: not-comparable Example: ...her mother hath intended, The better to denote her to the doctor,— For they must all be mask’d and vizarded— That quaint in green she shall be loose enrob’d, With ribands pendent, flaring ’bout her head;...
Word: succumb Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *upó Proto-Italic *supo Latin sub Latin sub- Proto-Indo-European *ḱewb- Proto-Italic *kumbō Latin *cumbō Latin succumbere Old French succomberbor. English succumb From Old French succomber, from Latin succumbō. Pronunciation: /səˈkʌm/ 1. To yield to an overpowering force or overwhelming desire. Labels: intransitive Example: succumb to temptation Example: succumb under misfortunes 2. To give up, or give in. Labels: intransitive 3. To die. Labels: euphemistic, intransitive Example: succumb to pneumonia Example: Upon returning to his flat, he discovered much to his dismay, that his ficus benjamina had succumbed. 4. To overwhelm or bring down. Labels: transitive Example: He has not allowed the burn and his subsequent injury to succumb him, but to make him forever different but also, I think, forever better. Example: She had run away with Chiwi to San Jose when he was a year and half old; only to succumb him to the abuse of his aunt.
Word: auricularly Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree English auricular Middle English -ly English -ly English auricularly From auricular + -ly. 1. In an auricular manner. Labels: not-comparable
Word: ravage Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From French ravage (“ravage, havoc, spoil”), from ravir (“to bear away suddenly”), from Latin rapere (“to snatch, seize”), akin to Ancient Greek ἁρπάζω (harpázō, “to seize”). Pronunciation: /ˈɹævɪd͡ʒ/ 1. To devastate, destroy or lay waste to something. Labels: transitive Example: Already Cæſar Has ravaged more than half the Globe, and ſees Mankind grown thin by his deſtructive Sword: Should he go further, Numbers would be wanting To form new Battels, and ſupport his Crimes. Example: But the most important service which Probus rendered to the republic was the deliverance of Gaul, and the recovery of seventy flourishing cities oppressed by the barbarians of Germany, who, since the death of Aurelian, had ravaged that great province with impunity. 2. To pillage or plunder destructively; to sack. Labels: transitive 3. To wreak destruction. Labels: intransitive 4. To have vigorous sexual intercourse with. Labels: slang 5. To rape. Labels: slang Example: And luck in all its moods had to be loved and not feared. Bond saw luck as a woman, to be softly wooed or brutally ravaged, never pandered to or pursued. But he was honest enough to admit that he had never yet been made to suffer by cards or by women.
Word: ravage Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From French ravage (“ravage, havoc, spoil”), from ravir (“to bear away suddenly”), from Latin rapere (“to snatch, seize”), akin to Ancient Greek ἁρπάζω (harpázō, “to seize”). Pronunciation: /ˈɹævɪd͡ʒ/ 1. Grievous damage or havoc. Example: Would one think 'twere possible for love / To make such ravage in a noble soul! 2. Depredation or devastation. Example: the ravages of fire or tempest Example: the ravages of an army
Word: vigour Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English vigour, from Old French vigour, from vigor, from Latin vigor, from vigeō (“thrive, flourish”), from Proto-Indo-European *weǵ- (“to be lively”). Related to vigil, vegetable, vajra, and waker. Pronunciation: /ˈvɪɡə/, /ˈvɪɡɚ/ 1. Active strength or force of body or mind; a capacity for exertion, physically, intellectually, or morally; energy. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The vigour of this arm was never vain Example: Mr. Elliot's frank statement that "sloth and untidiness are indefensible" is a sign that the task will be tackled with vigour. 2. Strength or force in animal or vegetable nature or action. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: A plant grows with vigour. 3. Strength; efficacy; potency. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: But in the fruithful earth: there first receiv'd / His beams, unactive else, their vigour find.
Word: beneath Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From Middle English benethe, from Old English bineoþan (“beneath, under, below”), equivalent to be- + neath. Cognate with Low German benedden (“beneath”), Dutch beneden (“beneath, under, down”), obsolete German benieden (“below”). Pronunciation: /bɪˈniːθ/ 1. Below or underneath. Example: Of all the transitions brought about on the Earth’s surface by temperature change, the melting of ice into water is the starkest. It is binary. And for the land beneath, the air above and the life around, it changes everything.
Word: beneath Part of Speech: prep Etymology: From Middle English benethe, from Old English bineoþan (“beneath, under, below”), equivalent to be- + neath. Cognate with Low German benedden (“beneath”), Dutch beneden (“beneath, under, down”), obsolete German benieden (“below”). Pronunciation: /bɪˈniːθ/ 1. Below. Example: Our country sinks beneath the yoke. Example: 1718, Alexander Pope, epitaph to Nicholas Rowe Beneath a rude and nameless stone he lies. 2. In a position that is lower in rank, dignity, etc. Example: Their despicable behaviour is beneath contempt. Example: He will do nothing that is beneath his high station. 3. Covered up or concealed by something.
Word: silent Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin silēns (“silent”), present participle of sileō (“be silent”), from Proto-Indo-European *seyl- (“still, windless, quiet, slow”). Related to Gothic 𐌰𐌽𐌰𐍃𐌹𐌻𐌰𐌽 (anasilan, “to cease, grow still, be silent”), Old English sālnes (“silence”). Pronunciation: /ˈsaɪ̯lənt/, [ˈsaɪ̯lənt] ~ [ˈsaɪ̯ln̩t], /ˈsaːlənt/, [ˈsaːlənt] ~ [ˈsaːln̩t] 1. Free from sound or noise; absolutely still; perfectly quiet. Example: How silent is this town! Example: What was formerly performed by fleets and armies, by invasions, sieges, and battles, has been of late accomplished by more silent methods. 2. Not speaking; indisposed to talk; speechless; mute; taciturn; not loquacious; not talkative. Example: Ulysses, adds he, was the most eloquent and most silent of men. Example: This new-created world, whereof in hell / Fame is not silent. 3. Keeping at rest; inactive; calm; undisturbed. Example: The winds were silent, all the waves asleep, / And heaven was trac'd upon the flattering deep 4. Not pronounced; having no sound; quiescent. Example: The e is silent in fable. Example: Silent letters can make some words difficult to spell. 5. Having no effect; not operating; inefficient. Example: Cause […] silent, virtueless, and dead. 6. With the sound turned off; usually on silent or in silent mode. Example: My phone was on silent. 7. Without audio capability. Example: The Magnavox Odyssey was a silent console. 8. Hidden, unseen. Example: a silent voter; a silent partner 9. Of an edit or change to a text, not explicitly acknowledged. Example: silent revisions; a silent emendation Example: [T]he use of both acknowledged and unacknowledged (silent) translations of non-English sources makes it difficult for users to determine if a certain term genuinely appeared in an English-language text. 10. Not implying significant modifications which would affect a peptide sequence. 11. Undiagnosed or undetected because of an absence of symptoms. 12. Of distilled spirit: having no flavour or odour.
Word: silent Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin silēns (“silent”), present participle of sileō (“be silent”), from Proto-Indo-European *seyl- (“still, windless, quiet, slow”). Related to Gothic 𐌰𐌽𐌰𐍃𐌹𐌻𐌰𐌽 (anasilan, “to cease, grow still, be silent”), Old English sālnes (“silence”). Pronunciation: /ˈsaɪ̯lənt/, [ˈsaɪ̯lənt] ~ [ˈsaɪ̯ln̩t], /ˈsaːlənt/, [ˈsaːlənt] ~ [ˈsaːln̩t] 1. That which is silent; a time of silence. Labels: uncountable Example: Deep night, dark night, the silent of the night. 2. A silent movie Example: More than 40 films will be shown spanning the past seventy-five years, including early silents and talkies, contemporary productions, foreign and American films, documentaries, underground works and television shows.
Word: equipment Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From equip + -ment, or from French équipement. Pronunciation: /ɪˈkwɪpmənt/, [ɪˈkʰwɪpmənt] ~ [ɪˈkʰwɪpmn̩t], /əˈkwɪpmənt/, [əˈkwɪpmənt] ~ [əˈkwɪpmn̩t] 1. The act of equipping, or the state of being equipped, as for a voyage or expedition. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: The equipment of the fleet was therefore hastened by de Witt ; in hopes that , by striking at first a successful blow , he might inspire courage into the dismayed States 2. Any items used in equipping something or someone, for example things needed for an expedition or voyage. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: We need more gardening equipment if we want to properly landscape our yard, not just a rake and some gloves. Example: The sports shop sells different kits of famous clubs, and equipment from all kind of sports. 3. The male genitalia. Labels: humorous, slang, uncountable, usually Example: The segment advises the reader matter-of-factly that “the penis [of a whale] should be tucked inside the body and when needed enlarged into an erection”. At the very least, the statement sounds odd. At most, it could make human penis owners consider that their equipment might not represent the highest evolutionary ideal.
Word: tinkle Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English tinclen, equivalent to tink + -le (frequentative suffix). Cognate with West Frisian tinkelje (“to tinkle”), Dutch tinkelen (“to tinkle”), German Low German tinkeln (“to flicker, glitter, sparkle”). Pronunciation: /ˈtɪŋkəl/ 1. To make light metallic sounds, rather like a very small bell. Labels: intransitive Example: The glasses tinkled together as they were placed on the table. Example: The sprightly horse / Moves to the music of his tinkling bells. 2. To cause to tinkle. Labels: transitive 3. To indicate, signal, etc. by tinkling. Labels: transitive Example: The butler tinkled dinner. 4. To hear, or resound with, a small, sharp sound. Example: And his ears tinkled, and the colour fled. 5. To urinate. Labels: informal, intransitive
Word: tinkle Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English tinclen, equivalent to tink + -le (frequentative suffix). Cognate with West Frisian tinkelje (“to tinkle”), Dutch tinkelen (“to tinkle”), German Low German tinkeln (“to flicker, glitter, sparkle”). Pronunciation: /ˈtɪŋkəl/ 1. A light metallic sound, resembling the tinkling of bells or wind chimes. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The Man's Wife heard the tinkle-tinkle of little stones and loose earth falling off the roadway, and the sliding roar of the man and horse going down. Example: She laughed, her voice a tinkle in the silence of the circular chamber. 2. A telephone call. Labels: UK, countable, informal, uncountable Example: Give me a tinkle when you arrive. 3. An act of urination. Labels: countable, euphemistic, informal, uncountable 4. Urine. Labels: countable, euphemistic, informal, uncountable
Word: wind chimes Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈwɪnd.t͡ʃaɪms/ 1. A chime constructed from tubes, rods, bells, etc. made of wood, glass, metal or ceramic, suspended outside a building in such a way that they tinkle pleasantly when moved by the wind. Labels: plural, plural-only
Word: custom Part of Speech: noun Etymology: PIE word *ḱóm PIE word *swé From Middle English custume, borrowed from Anglo-Norman custume, inherited from Latin consuētūdinem, a noun derived from cōnsuēscō, from con- (“with”) + suēscō (“become used or accustomed to”). Displaced native Old English ġewuna. Doublet of costume, consuetude, and kastom. The adjectival form first appears c. 1830. Pronunciation: /ˈkʌstəm/ 1. Frequent repetition of the same behavior; way of behavior common to many; ordinary manner; habitual practice; method of doing, living or behaving. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Much forbidden by elder custom is accepted today. Example: A custom More honour'd in the breach than the observance. 2. Habitual buying of goods from one same vendor. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Thank you for your custom. Example: Let him have your custom, but not your votes. 3. Habitual buying of goods from one same vendor. Labels: collective, countable, uncountable 4. Long-established practice, considered as unwritten law, and resting for authority on long consent. Compare prescription. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The distinction between custom and usage it that usage is a fact and custom is a law. There can be usage without custom, but not custom without usage. 5. Traditional beliefs or rituals. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The Ancient Egyptian culture had many distinctive and interesting beliefs and customs; one custom was the mummification of the dead. 6. A custom (made-to-order) piece of art, etc. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The rest of the necklace holders finally came in! If you bought a custom from me thank you so much for your patience! I’m gonna try my best to crank them out as fast as possible Example: Oftentimes I have trouble finding enough women to buy customs from. Strangely enough, finding women to take hundreds of dollars for a selfie isn’t as easy as you’d think. 7. Familiar acquaintance; familiarity. Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable Example: Age can not wither her, nor custom stale Her infinite variety. 8. Toll, tax, or tribute. Labels: archaic, uncountable Example: Render therefore to all their dues: tribute to whom tribute is due; custom to whom custom; fear to whom fear; honour to whom honour.
Word: custom Part of Speech: adj Etymology: PIE word *ḱóm PIE word *swé From Middle English custume, borrowed from Anglo-Norman custume, inherited from Latin consuētūdinem, a noun derived from cōnsuēscō, from con- (“with”) + suēscō (“become used or accustomed to”). Displaced native Old English ġewuna. Doublet of costume, consuetude, and kastom. The adjectival form first appears c. 1830. Pronunciation: /ˈkʌstəm/ 1. Made or done in a way adjusted to fit the needs of a particular person or group (e.g., customer, health care patient, do-it-yourselfer), and thus specialized and, in some cases, unique. Labels: not-comparable Example: Near-synonyms: custom-made, tailored, tailor-made, custom-built, purpose-built; see also Thesaurus:custom-made Example: My feet are very large, so I need custom shoes, specially made by a custom tailor. 2. Own, personal, not standard or premade. Labels: not-comparable Example: We can embroider a wide range of ready designs or a custom logo. 3. Done on a for-hire basis, as contrasted with being done only for oneself. Labels: especially, not-comparable Example: custom threshing Example: custom baling 4. Accustomed; usual. Labels: archaic, not-comparable
Word: custom Part of Speech: verb Etymology: PIE word *ḱóm PIE word *swé From Middle English custume, borrowed from Anglo-Norman custume, inherited from Latin consuētūdinem, a noun derived from cōnsuēscō, from con- (“with”) + suēscō (“become used or accustomed to”). Displaced native Old English ġewuna. Doublet of costume, consuetude, and kastom. The adjectival form first appears c. 1830. Pronunciation: /ˈkʌstəm/ 1. To make familiar; to accustom. Labels: obsolete, transitive Example: a. 1771 (written, published posthumously) Thomas Gray, Agrippina Have not forgot your sire; the eye of Rome And the Prætorian camp have long revered, With customed awe the daughter, sister, wife, And mother of their Cæsars 2. To supply with customers. Labels: obsolete, transitive Example: But yet a man might reply, that if a Shooemaker ſhould haue no Shooes in his Shoppe, but onely worke, as hee is beſpoken, hee ſhould bee weakley cuſtomed. 3. To pay the customs of. Labels: obsolete, transitive Example: Barabas, thy ships are safe, Riding in Malta Rhode; and all the merchants With other merchandize are safe arriv'd, And have sent me to know whether yourself Will come and custom them. 4. To have a custom. Labels: intransitive, obsolete Example: For on a Bridge he cuſtometh to fight, / Which is but narrow, but exceeding long; / And in the ſame are many trap fals pight, / Through which the rider downe doth fall through ouerſight.
Word: nearly Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From near + -ly. Cognate with Scots nerelie, neirlie (“nearly”). Compare also English nearling, nearlings. Pronunciation: /ˈnɪəli/, /ˈnɪːlɪj/, /ˈnɪɹli/, /ˈniəli/, /ˈniɾle/ 1. In close approximation; almost, virtually. Example: He left a nearly full beer on the bar. Example: I nearly didn't go to work yesterday. 2. With great scrutiny; carefully. Labels: archaic Example: And whosoever hath traced mee and nearely [translating de pres] looked into my humours, Ile loose a good wager if hee confesse not that there is no rule in their schoole, could, a midde such crooked pathes and divers windings, square and report this naturall motion, and maintaine an apparance of liberty and licence so equall and inflexible […]. 3. With close relation; intimately. Example: Let that which he learns next be nearly conjoined with what he knows already. Example: She could have joined most comfortably in all their supposings, and suspicions, and doubts, and prognostications, but the honour of the family was too nearly concerned to allow free reins to her tongue. 4. Closely, in close proximity. Example: I doubt some danger do's approach you neerely. 5. Stingily.
Word: commit Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Inherited from Middle English committen, itself borrowed from Latin committō (“to bring together, join, compare, commit (a wrong), incur, give in charge, etc.”), from com- (“together”) + mittō (“to send”). See mission. Pronunciation: /kəˈmɪt/ 1. To give in trust; to put into charge or keeping; to entrust; to consign; used with to or formerly unto. Labels: transitive Example: Commit these numbers to memory. Example: Bid him farwell, commit him to the Graue, 2. To imprison: to forcibly place in a jail. Labels: transitive Example: and ſome of the Conſpirators committed to the Caſtle of Dublin by us 3. To forcibly evaluate and treat in a medical facility, particularly for presumed mental illness. Labels: transitive Example: Tony should be committed to a nuthouse! 4. To do (something bad); to perpetrate, as a crime, sin, or fault. Labels: transitive Example: to commit murder Example: to commit a series of heinous crimes 5. To pledge or bind; to compromise, expose, or endanger by some decisive act or preliminary step. (Traditionally used only reflexively but now also without oneself etc.) Labels: ambitransitive Example: to commit oneself to a certain action Example: to commit to a relationship 6. To make a set of changes permanent. Labels: transitive Example: When all SQL statements in the transaction are executed successfully, the transaction is committed and all the work that the SQL statements performed is made a permanent part of the database. Example: We can commit all unstaged files with one command: […] 7. To integrate new revisions into the public or master version of a file in a version control system. Labels: transitive 8. To enter into a contest; to match; often followed by with. Labels: intransitive, obsolete Example: For, in theſe ſtrifes, and on ſuch perſons, were as wretched to affect a victorie, as it is vnhappy to be committed with them. Example: […]and from hence ( as when Fire and Water are committed together ) ariſeth a most troubleſome conflict. 9. To confound. Labels: Latinism, obsolete, transitive Example: Harry whoſe tuneful and well meaſur'd Song / Firſt taught our Engliſh Muſick how to ſpan / Words with juſt note and accent, not to ſcan / With Midas Ears, committing ſhort and long; 10. To commit an offence; especially, to fornicate. Labels: intransitive, obsolete Example: the sonne might one day bee found committing with his mother[…]. Example: [K]eepe thy words Iusſtice, ſweare not, commit not, with mans ſworne Spouſe; 11. To be committed or perpetrated; to take place; to occur. Labels: intransitive, obsolete Example: As a vaſt Herd of Cows in a rich Farmer's Yard, if, while they are milked, they hear their Calves at a Diſtance, lamenting the Robbery which is then committing, roar and bellow: So roared forth the Somerſetſhire Mob an Hallaloo, made up of almoſt as many Squawls, Screams, and other different Sounds, as there were Perſons, or indeed Paſſions, among them: […]
Word: commit Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Inherited from Middle English committen, itself borrowed from Latin committō (“to bring together, join, compare, commit (a wrong), incur, give in charge, etc.”), from com- (“together”) + mittō (“to send”). See mission. Pronunciation: /kəˈmɪt/ 1. The act of committing (e.g. a database transaction), making it a permanent change; such a change. Example: To support locking and process synchronization independently of transaction commits, the server provides semaphore objects[…] Example: Every Git commit represents a single, atomic changeset with respect to the previous state. 2. The submission of source code or other material to a source control repository. 3. A person, especially a high school athlete, who agrees verbally or signs a letter committing to attend a college or university. Labels: US, informal
Word: inland Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English inland, inlond, from Old English inland, equivalent to in- + land. Compare West Frisian ynlân (“inland”), German Inland (“inland”), Danish indland (“inland”), Swedish inland (“inland”), Norwegian innland (“inland”). Compare also Dutch binnenland. Pronunciation: /ˈɪnlənd/, /-lænd/, /ˈɪnˌland/ 1. Within the land; relatively remote from the ocean or from open water; interior. Example: an inland town Example: In this wide Inland ſea, that hight by name / The Idle lake, my wandring ſhip I row, […] 2. Limited to the land, or to inland routes; not passing on, or over, the sea. Example: inland commerce Example: inland navigation 3. Confined to one country or state; domestic; not foreign. Example: an inland bill of exchange 4. Of a sophisticated background, especially as relates to a royal court or national capital. Labels: archaic Example: inland bred Example: You touch'd my vein at first: the thorny point of bare distress hath ta'en from me the show of smooth civility; yet am I inland bred, and know some nurture.
Word: inland Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English inland, inlond, from Old English inland, equivalent to in- + land. Compare West Frisian ynlân (“inland”), German Inland (“inland”), Danish indland (“inland”), Swedish inland (“inland”), Norwegian innland (“inland”). Compare also Dutch binnenland. Pronunciation: /ˈɪnlənd/, /-lænd/, /ˈɪnˌland/ 1. The interior part of a country. Example: a wall sufficient to defend Our inland from the pilfering borderers.
Word: inland Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From Middle English inland, inlond, from Old English inland, equivalent to in- + land. Compare West Frisian ynlân (“inland”), German Inland (“inland”), Danish indland (“inland”), Swedish inland (“inland”), Norwegian innland (“inland”). Compare also Dutch binnenland. Pronunciation: /ˈɪnlənd/, /-lænd/, /ˈɪnˌland/ 1. Into, or towards, the interior of the land, away from the coast. Example: The greatest waves of population have rolled inland from the east. Example: He heard much that did not interest him—of the journey inland, of the face of the country, the surprising weather, the great work of irrigation and the other impressive wonders of man and nature. These things could be got from books […]
Word: years Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /jɪəz/, /jɪːz/, /jɜːz/, /jɪɹz/ 1. plural of year. Labels: form-of, plural Example: 1981, May 5 1718-PDT, Jim McGrath, Earliest Usenet use via Google Groups: fa.sf-lovers, said with a smile at an awards ceremony in the Pennsylvania state Capitol It will be a shorter book and it will not start four million years ago. Example: Oxygen levels on Earth skyrocketed 2.4 billion years ago, when cyanobacteria evolved photosynthesis: the ability to convert water and carbon dioxide into carbohydrates and waste oxygen using solar energy.
Word: years Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /jɪəz/, /jɪːz/, /jɜːz/, /jɪɹz/ 1. A very long time. Labels: colloquial, excessive, plural, plural-only Example: It took years for the bus to come.
Word: twee pop Part of Speech: noun 1. A subgenre of indie pop music with simple melodies and lyrics, usually about love. Labels: uncountable Example: This belatedness is reflected in Kaya Oakes's suggestion that twee pop begins in the early 1990s, post-Nirvana[…]
Word: expect Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Latin expectāre, infinitive form of exspectō (“look out for, await, expect”), from ex (“out”) + spectō (“look at”), frequentative of speciō (“see”). Pronunciation: /ɪkˈspɛkt/, /ɛkˈspɛkt/ 1. To predict or believe that something will happen Labels: ambitransitive Example: when you least expect it Example: I expect to be able to walk again after getting over my broken leg. 2. To consider obligatory or required. Example: England expects that every man will do his duty. Example: I was born and immediately thrown into a society that makes its own rules, standards, and expectations. I am expected to behave. I am expected to deliver. I am expected to live up to the contrived standards of the society. 3. To consider reasonably due. Example: My parents expected too much of me when I was in college. Example: You are expected to get the task done by the end of next week. 4. To be pregnant, to consider a baby due. Example: We are expecting our third in June. Example: “You are pregnant?” he asked with shock in his voice. “Yes, Justin, I am expecting a child,” 5. To wait for; to await. Labels: obsolete, transitive Example: Let's in, and there expect their coming. Example: The knight fixed his eyes on the opening with breathless anxiety, and continuing to kneel in the attitude of devotion which the place and scene required, expected the consequence of these preparations. 6. To wait; to stay. Labels: intransitive, obsolete Example: I will 'expect until my change in death, / And answer at Thy call
Word: Spenser Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Middle English Spenser, from Middle English spenser (“spencer”), from spense (“spence”). Pronunciation: /ˈspɛnsɚ/ 1. A surname originating as an occupation, variant of Spencer, a rare spelling variant of Spencer. Labels: countable
Word: sacred Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English sacred, isacred, past participle of sacren, sakeren (“to make holy, hallow”), equivalent to sacre + -ed. Pronunciation: /ˈseɪkɹɪd/ 1. Characterized by solemn religious ceremony or religious use, especially, in a positive sense; consecrated, made holy. Example: a sacred place Example: a sacred day 2. Religious; relating to religion, or to the services of religion; not secular Example: Smit with the love of sacred song. Example: By way of example, it would be sufficient to refer to Sabino Samele acquaviva (1971), previously known for his theory of the eclipse of the sacred, and to Harvey cox (1968), prophet of the secular city. 3. Spiritual; concerned with metaphysics. Example: Unlike most metaphysical or philosophical naturalists who reject any supernatural beings or supernatural/sacred entities, naturalists who take the concept of the sacred seriously must answer this question: “What is the value of the sacred with respect to nature?" Example: In his major studies, Eliade explains the sacred and profane as “two modes of being in the world, two existential situations assumed by man in the course of history. . . . In the last analysis, the sacred and profane modes of being depend upon the different positions that man has conquered in the cosmos." 4. Designated or exalted by a divine sanction; possessing the highest title to obedience, honor, reverence, or veneration; entitled to extreme reverence; venerable. Example: Such neighbor nearness to our sacred [royal] blood Should nothing privilege him. Example: Poet and saint to thee alone were given, The two most sacred names of earth and heaven. 5. Not to be profaned or violated; inviolable. Example: Secrets of marriage still are sacred held. Example: The sacred project of sociology is simply to help people enjoy being fully what they are. 6. Consecrated; dedicated; devoted Example: A temple, sacred to the queen of love. 7. Solemnly devoted, in a bad sense, as to evil, vengeance, curse, or the like; accursed; baleful. Labels: archaic Example: But, to destruction sacred and devote.
Word: sacred Part of Speech: verb Etymology: See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form. Pronunciation: /ˈseɪkəd/ 1. simple past and past participle of sacre Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: excess Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English exces (“excess, ecstasy”), from Old French exces, from Latin excessus (“a going out, loss of self-possession”), from excedere, excessum (“to go out, go beyond”). See exceed. Pronunciation: /ˈɛksɛs/, /ɪkˈsɛs/, /ɛkˈsɛs/, /əkˈsɛs/ 1. The state of surpassing or going beyond a limit; the state of being beyond sufficiency, necessity, or duty; more than what is usual or proper. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The excess of heavy water was given away to the neighbouring country. Example: To gild refined gold, to paint the lily, To throw a perfume on the violet, […] Is wasteful and ridiculous excess. 2. The degree or amount by which one thing or number exceeds another; remainder. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The difference between two numbers is the excess of one over the other. 3. An act of eating or drinking more than enough. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess. Example: Fair Angel, thy desire . . . . . . leads to no excess That reaches blame 4. Spherical excess, the amount by which the sum of the three angles of a spherical triangle exceeds two right angles. The spherical excess is proportional to the area of the triangle. Labels: countable, uncountable 5. A condition on an insurance policy by which the insured pays for a part of the claim. Labels: UK, countable, uncountable
Word: excess Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English exces (“excess, ecstasy”), from Old French exces, from Latin excessus (“a going out, loss of self-possession”), from excedere, excessum (“to go out, go beyond”). See exceed. Pronunciation: /ˈɛksɛs/, /ɪkˈsɛs/, /ɛkˈsɛs/, /əkˈsɛs/ 1. More than is normal, necessary or specified. Labels: not-comparable
Word: excess Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English exces (“excess, ecstasy”), from Old French exces, from Latin excessus (“a going out, loss of self-possession”), from excedere, excessum (“to go out, go beyond”). See exceed. Pronunciation: /ˈɛksɛs/, /ɪkˈsɛs/, /ɛkˈsɛs/, /əkˈsɛs/ 1. To declare (an employee) surplus to requirements, such that he or she might not be given work. Labels: US, transitive Example: In 2006, I was excessed because my program had to make a few cuts and a new, inexperienced supervisor decided that he couldn’t handle a knowledgeable older teacher so he removed me.
Word: indication Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Old French indication, from Latin indicātiō (“a showing, indicating the value of something; valuation”), from indicō (“point out, indicate, show; value”); see indicate; compare French indication, Spanish indicación, Italian indicazione. By surface analysis, indicate + -ion. Pronunciation: /ɪndɪˈkeɪʃən/ 1. An act of pointing out or indicating. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. A fact that shows that something exists or may happen. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: There's no indication that the fire was caused by criminals. Example: All the indications point to drink-driving as the cause of the accident. 3. A mark or another symbol used to represent something. Labels: countable, rare, uncountable 4. A discovery made; information. Labels: countable, uncountable 5. An explanation; a display. Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable Example: For the indication either proceeds from one experiment to another; or else from experiments to axioms; which axioms themselves suggest new experiments. Example: The committee, unknown to the workmen, also followed the next or succeeding mash, which was better made, and obtained the following results: First indication of the saccharometer .. 7⅘ degrees. Last indication of the saccharometer ... 1 6. Any symptom or occurrence in a disease that serves to direct to suitable remedies; the problem that warrants and prompts the use of a diagnostic test, imaging mode, or treatment (e.g., medication, surgical procedure). Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Influenza and suspected influenza are FDA-approved indications for oseltamivir. Example: In the United States, major depressive disorder is an off-label indication for clomipramine, but in various other countries, it is an approved indication. 7. A declared approximation of the price at which a traded security is likely to commence trading. Labels: countable, uncountable