nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: portable Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English portable, from Middle French portable and Latin portābilis. By surface analysis, port (“to carry”) + -able. Pronunciation: /ˈpɔː(ɹ)təbəl/, /ˈpɔː(ɹ)təbl̩/, /ˈpɔɹtəbəl/, /ˈpɔɹtəbl̩/, [ˈpʰɔɹɾɪ̈bl̩] 1. Able to be carried or easily moved. 2. Able to be transferred from one organization to another. Example: a portable pension plan Example: Even though Houston’s moment was already fading by the late 2000s, the city’s hip-hop culture proved to be endlessly portable and disseminatable. 3. Of software: able to be run on multiple hardware or operating systems. Example: How do Java and C# create cross-platform, portable programs, and why can't C++ do the same? 4. Of a program: able to be copied directly from one machine to another without the use of an installer. Example: Starting with release 1.7, a portable version allows all Host Attachment Kit commands to be run without installing the Host Attachment Kit. 5. Bearable, endurable. Labels: obsolete Example: How light and portable my paine ſeemes now, / When that which makes me bend, makes the King bow. Example: Christianity consists in a blessed exchange of yokes between Christ and a pious soul. He takes our uneasy yoke, and gives his easy yoke: the soul puts upon him that unsupportable yoke of transgressions, and takes from him the portable yoke of his commandments.
Word: portable Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English portable, from Middle French portable and Latin portābilis. By surface analysis, port (“to carry”) + -able. Pronunciation: /ˈpɔː(ɹ)təbəl/, /ˈpɔː(ɹ)təbl̩/, /ˈpɔɹtəbəl/, /ˈpɔɹtəbl̩/, [ˈpʰɔɹɾɪ̈bl̩] 1. A portable building used for temporary purposes Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, clipping 2. A portable building used for temporary purposes 3. Clipping of portable computer. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, clipping Example: A few portables, particularly the small laphelds, go one step further and come with software built into the computer. Example: Compaq portables have grown lighter and more powerful since then. Their newest luggable, the Compaq Portable III, is six times more powerful and 10 pounds lighter than the original model. 4. A hand-held video gaming device.
Word: bosh Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish بوش (boş, “empty, unoccupied”). Entered popular usage in English from the novels of James Justinian Morier. Pronunciation: /bɒʃ/, /bɑʃ/ 1. Nonsense. Labels: UK, uncountable Example: Tho' hundreds cheer his blatant bosh, He's but a goose for a' that. Example: But you know very well you're talking bosh," exclaimed Abraham, somewhat discomfited. "There must be government, and there must be order, say what you like.
Word: bosh Part of Speech: intj Etymology: Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish بوش (boş, “empty, unoccupied”). Entered popular usage in English from the novels of James Justinian Morier. Pronunciation: /bɒʃ/, /bɑʃ/ 1. An expression of disbelief or annoyance. Labels: UK Example: "Bosh!" said the Vicar, rejecting the hint altogether. Example: “The people who wrote the mediaeval ballads,” answered the priest, “knew more about fairies than you do. It isn’t only nice things that happen in fairyland.” “Oh, bosh!” said Flambeau. “Only nice things could happen under such an innocent moon. I am for pushing on now and seeing what does really come. We may die and rot before we ever see again such a moon or such a mood.”
Word: bosh Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Probably from German, compare Böschung, böschen Pronunciation: /bɒʃ/, /bɑʃ/ 1. The lower part of a blast furnace, between the hearth and the stack.
Word: bosh Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Compare German Posse (“farce, burlesque”), Italian bozzo (“a rough stone”), bozzetto (“a rough sketch”). Pronunciation: /bɒʃ/, /bɑʃ/ 1. A figure. Labels: Norfolk, UK, archaic, slang Example: to cut a bosh — "to make a figure"
Word: bosh Part of Speech: intj Etymology: An onomatopoeic formation, imitating a sudden blow. Pronunciation: /bɒʃ/, /bɑʃ/ 1. An expression of speedy and satisfactory completion of a simple or straightforward task. Labels: UK Example: It's a ~3 foot double lead with two 5-pin DIN plugs on one end and a big gameport-sized-n-shaped plug on the other. One end into the gameport, t'other plugs into the back of your keyboard. Bosh, job done. Example: My father registered with these people a few months ago, and all his calls dried up. He was also of the opinion that he shouldn't need to register not to be disturbed, and he's pretty ruthless on the 'phone when he wants to be . . . but eventually he grew tired of it . . . bosh. Job done.
Word: bosh Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /bɒʃ/, /bɑʃ/ 1. To consume (illicit drugs). Labels: UK, slang, transitive Example: We boshed two grams each of the beast 10, and then we went downstairs. Example: People want to make sure they are loaded up well before midnight. It's not like any other party where they might not turn up until eleven. They commence boshing pills straight away […]
Word: bosh Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Of Romani usage. Pronunciation: /bɒʃ/, /bɑʃ/ 1. A fiddle (musical instrument). Example: My father broke his bosh one night when he was in Waterford.
Word: Akela Part of Speech: name Etymology: Borrowed from Hindustani اَکیلَا (akelā) / अकेला (akelā, “alone”). 1. A fictional wolf character in Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book.
Word: Akela Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Hindustani اَکیلَا (akelā) / अकेला (akelā, “alone”). 1. The leader of a pack of Cub Scouts. Example: Many packs have a sixer's council where the sixers, and sometimes the seconds, meet with Akela and some of the other leaders. Example: The incident that cost him his licence, flying his plane too close to a Scout hut, followed the discovery that his wife was having an affair with a local Akela.
Word: discontent Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁ Proto-Indo-European *d(w)is- Proto-Italic *dis- Latin dis- Old French des-bor. ▲ Latin dis-bor. Middle English dis- English dis- English content English discontent From dis- + content. Pronunciation: /ˌdɪskənˈtɛnt/ 1. Dissatisfaction. Labels: uncountable Example: Another source of discontent with the Phase I stock has been obviated by relocation of the interior heating elements and the introduction of thermostatic control; this has eradicated the searing blasts of hot air passengers used to feel about their calves [...]. Example: Analysts and opinion polls had forecast losses for the ANC but a pivotal factor in the party’s staggering decline was former President Jacob Zuma and his newly formed uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) party, which capitalized on widespread discontent within the ANC’s traditional voter base. 2. A longing for better times or circumstances. Labels: uncountable Example: Now is the winter of our diſcontent, / Made glorious ſummer by this ſonne of Yorke: / And all the cloudes that lowrd vpon our houſe, / In the deepe boſome of the Ocean buried. Example: Spring was moving in the air above and in the earth below and around him, penetrating even his dark and lowly little house with its spirit of divine discontent and longing. 3. A discontented person; a malcontent. Labels: countable
Word: discontent Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁ Proto-Indo-European *d(w)is- Proto-Italic *dis- Latin dis- Old French des-bor. ▲ Latin dis-bor. Middle English dis- English dis- English content English discontent From dis- + content. Pronunciation: /ˌdɪskənˈtɛnt/ 1. To deprive of contentment; to make uneasy; to dissatisfy.
Word: discontent Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁ Proto-Indo-European *d(w)is- Proto-Italic *dis- Latin dis- Old French des-bor. ▲ Latin dis-bor. Middle English dis- English dis- English content English discontent From dis- + content. Pronunciation: /ˌdɪskənˈtɛnt/ 1. Not content; discontented; dissatisfied. Example: [...] Paſſion seemed to be much diſcontent, but Patience was very quiet. Then Chriſtian aſked, What is the reaſon of the diſcontent of Paſſion.
Word: Birmingham Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Old English *Beormingahām, “homestead of the Beormingas, i.e. followers of Beorma”. The latter is a hypocoristic form of a personal name such as Beornmund or Beornmod. Pronunciation: /ˈbɜː.mɪŋ.əm/, /ˈbɝ.mɪŋ.əm/, /ˈbɜː.mɪŋˌhæm/, /ˈbɝ.mɪŋˌhæm/ 1. A major city and metropolitan borough in the West Midlands, England, historically in Warwickshire with a population of over one million. Example: A Birmingham mosque answered the “hatred and division” of an English Defence League rally by hosting a “best of British” tea party, as the far-right group’s demonstration passed off without a major incident. 2. A major city and metropolitan borough in the West Midlands, England, historically in Warwickshire with a population of over one million. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis 3. A number of places in the United States: 4. A number of places in the United States: 5. A number of places in the United States: 6. A number of places in the United States: 7. A number of places in the United States: 8. A number of places in the United States: 9. A number of places in the United States: 10. A number of places in the United States: 11. A number of places in the United States: 12. A number of places in the United States: 13. A number of places in the United States: 14. A number of places in the United States: 15. A number of places in the United States: 16. A number of places in the United States: 17. A number of places in the United States: 18. A number of places in the United States: 19. A community in the Rural Municipality of Stanley No. 215, Saskatchewan, Canada. 20. A surname.
Word: excision Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle French excision, from Latin excīsiō(n). Pronunciation: /ɪkˈsɪʒən/ 1. The removal of some text during editing. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. The removal of something (a tumor or body part) by cutting. Labels: countable, uncountable 3. The removal of a gene from a section of genetic material. Labels: countable, uncountable 4. The fact that, under certain hypotheses, the homology of a space relative to a subspace is unchanged by the identification of a subspace of the latter to a point. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: ornamentation Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English ornament Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *-Hō Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō Proto-Italic *-tiō Latin -tiō Latin -ātiōlbor. Old French -ationbor. Middle English -acioun English -ation English ornamentation From ornament + -ation. 1. Decoration, adornment or embellishment. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. The act or process of decorating etc. Labels: countable, uncountable 3. Short notes added to a composition to emphasize certain notes and to add style. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: clearing Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From clear + -ing. Pronunciation: /ˈklɪɹ.ɪŋ/, /ˈklɪə.ɹɪŋ/, /ˈklɪːɹɪŋ/ 1. present participle and gerund of clear Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: clearing Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From clear + -ing. Pronunciation: /ˈklɪɹ.ɪŋ/, /ˈklɪə.ɹɪŋ/, /ˈklɪːɹɪŋ/ 1. The act or process of making or becoming clear. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. An area of land within a wood or forest devoid of trees. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Now we plunged into a deep shade with the boughs lacing each other overhead, and crossed dainty, rustic bridges[…]: or anon we shot into a clearing, with a colored glimpse of the lake and its curving shore far below us. 3. An open space in the fog etc. Labels: countable, uncountable 4. A process of exchanging transaction information and authorisation through a central institution or system to complete and settle those transactions. Labels: countable, uncountable 5. A sequence of events used to disconnect a call, and return to the ready state. Labels: countable, uncountable 6. The period in which remaining university places are allocated to remaining students. Labels: UK, countable, uncountable 7. The act of removing the ball from one's own goal area by kicking it. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: borough Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English borwe, borgh, burgh, buruh, from Old English burh, burg, from Proto-West Germanic *burg, from Proto-Germanic *burgz (“stronghold, city”). Cognate with Dutch burcht, German Burg, Danish borg, Swedish borg, French bourg, Turkish burç. Doublet of Brough, burgh, and Bury. Pronunciation: /ˈbʌ.ɹə/, /ˈbʌɹ.oʊ/, /ˈbɝ.oʊ/ 1. A fortified town. Labels: obsolete 2. A town or city. Labels: rare 3. A town having a municipal corporation and certain traditional rights. 4. An administrative district in some cities, e.g., London. Example: The highway to the East Coast which ran through the borough of Ebbfield had always been a main road and even now, despite the vast garages, the pylons and the gaily painted factory glasshouses which had sprung up beside it, there still remained an occasional trace of past cultures. 5. An administrative unit of a city which, under most circumstances according to state or national law, would be considered a larger or more powerful entity; most commonly used in American English to define the five counties that make up New York City. 6. Other similar administrative units in cities and states in various parts of the world. 7. A district in Alaska having powers similar to a county. 8. An association of men who gave pledges or sureties to the king for the good behaviour of each other. Labels: UK, historical
Word: nemesis Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From the Greek goddess of retribution Nemesis (Ancient Greek Νέμεσις (Némesis)). Pronunciation: /ˈnɛməsɪs/ 1. An enemy, especially an archenemy. Example: Batman is in constant conflict with his nemesis, The Joker. Example: The roofer stayed in touch, committed to the downfall of his nemesis, Mikey. One week after his initial phone call, we were on our way to raid Mikey's trite home armed with a federal search warrant. There were six of us. 2. A person or character who specifically brings about the downfall of another person or character, as an agent of that character's fate or destiny, especially within a narrative. 3. The personification of the "fatal flaw" of a dramatic hero in the style of Greek tragedy. 4. Polar opposite, especially of a literary character. Example: “And then, while he's devouring you with his stare, thinking about how much he wants to lick you up, along comes his antithesis, his polar opposite, his nemesis for want of a better word—” “Nemesis?” I interrupted, eyebrows journeying up my forehead. “—who swoops you off your feet and away from him,” Heather continued, ignoring my incredulous expression. 5. The principle of retributive justice. 6. A punishment or defeat that is deserved and cannot be avoided; (an instance of) retribution. Labels: formal, singular, usually Example: Even Nathan's close associates, who are not yet ready to declare themselves his enemies, accept that his engineered downfall will be his nemesis for harbouring ambitions beyond his status, and do nothing to alert him to the situation[…]
Word: Southwark Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Middle English Southwerk, from Old English Sūþġeweorc. Pronunciation: /ˈsʌðək/ 1. A London borough of Greater London, extending as far as Crystal Palace south of the River Thames, including the historic borough plus the Pool of London and Bankside. 2. An area of this borough just south of the Thames in central London (OS grid ref TQ3280).
Word: Casey Part of Speech: name Etymology: Anglicisation of an Irish surname Ó Cathasaigh (literally “descendant of (a person named) Watchful”). Pronunciation: /ˈkeɪsi/ 1. A surname from Irish. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: “His research shows you can change aging to make lives younger for longer. Now he wants to change the world and make aging a disease,” said Whitney Casey, an investor who is partnering with Sinclair to create a do-it-yourself biological age test. 2. A male given name transferred from the surname. Labels: countable, uncountable 3. A female given name transferred from the surname. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Casey Anthony was sentenced on Thursday to a four-year jail term, the maximum possible, for lying to the police, but will be freed this month because she has spent nearly three years behind bars in Orlando, Fla., awaiting trial. 4. A placename: Labels: countable, uncountable 5. A placename: Labels: countable, uncountable 6. A placename: Labels: countable, uncountable 7. A placename: Labels: countable, uncountable 8. A placename: Labels: countable, uncountable 9. A placename: Labels: countable, uncountable 10. A placename: Labels: countable, uncountable 11. A placename: Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, ellipsis, uncountable Example: Last month, Australian and Canadian scientists found pollution at Australia’s largest research station, Casey, has exceeded international guidelines for close to 20 years. Example: Expeditioners boarding the A319 at Wilkins Aerodrome, near Casey research station, for the flight home to Hobart. 12. A placename: Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, ellipsis, uncountable 13. Ellipsis of Planned Parenthood v. Casey, a 1992 U.S. Supreme Court ruling that reaffirmed the right to having an abortion; and reaffirmed the existence of a right to privacy under due process following the 14th Amendment. Labels: US, abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis, informal, uncountable
Word: mamma Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin mamma. Pronunciation: /ˈmæmə/ 1. The milk-secreting organ of female humans and other mammals which includes the mammary gland and the nipple or teat; a breast; an udder. Example: Either sex under special stimulations is capable of manifesting powers ordinarily shown only by the other […] Thus, to take an extreme case, the mammæ of men will, under special excitation, yield milk: there are various cases of gynecomasty on record, and in famines infants whose mothers have died have been thus saved. 2. An accessory cloud like a mammary in appearance, which can form on the underside of most cloud genera.
Word: mamma Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Variant of mama. 1. Alternative spelling of mama. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: The Ideas of the Nurſe, and the Mother, are vvell framed in their Minds; and, like Pictures of them there, repreſent only thoſe Individuals. The Names they firſt give to them, are confined to theſe Individuals; and the names of Nurſe, and Mamma, the Child uſes, determine themſelves to thoſe Perſons. Example: This begets Scorn, hovv can one stand in avve, / Of a vain Tavvdry, Amorous Mamma.
Word: mamma Part of Speech: intj Etymology: Variant of mama. 1. Alternative spelling of mama. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: He do n't do a thing in the world except travel around with some more o' them handy boys and lay for jack-pots. And the talk he gives you! Mamma! He 's better 'n any o' them shell-workers that used to graft out at the gover'ment pier.
Word: mamma Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Variant of mama. 1. Alternative spelling of mama. Labels: alt-of, alternative, transitive, uncommon Example: Priſc[illa] vvill Mamma-up Mrs. Sinclair, and vvill undertake to court her guardian to let her paſs a delightful vveek vvith her. Example: What shall be the effeminating effect upon the rising generation if the brave men of today are to be mammaed by a crew of timid Supervisors?
Word: stall Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English stall, stalle, from Old English steall (“standing place, position”), from Proto-Germanic *stallaz, from Proto-Indo-European *stel- (“to place, put, post, stand”). Cognate with French étal, Italian stallo, German Stall, Swedish stall. Pronunciation: /stɔːl/, /stoːl/, /stɔl/, /stɑl/ 1. To put (an animal, etc.) in a stall. Labels: transitive Example: to stall an ox Example: But Niſus hit the Turns with happier haſte, And thoughtleſs of his Friend, the Foreſt paſs'd: And Alban Plains, from Alba's Name ſo call'd, Where King Latinus then his Oxen ſtall'd. 2. To fatten. Example: to stall cattle 3. To live in, or as if in, a stall; to dwell. Labels: obsolete Example: I must perforce Haue ſhewne to thee ſuch a declining day, Or looke on thine: we could not ſtall together In the whole world. 4. To place in an office with the customary formalities; to install. Example: Deck'd in thy rights , as thou art stall'd in mine 5. To forestall; to anticipate. Example: This is not to be staled by my report, This only must be told: […] 6. To keep close; to keep secret. Example: You haue diſcharg'd this honeſtlie, keepe it to your ſelfe, […] praie you leaue mee, ſtall this in your boſome, and I thanke you for your honeſt care: I will ſpeake with you further anon.
Word: stall Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English stallen (“to abide, dwell, place in a location, stop, come to a standstill”), partly from Old French estaler, ultimately from the same origin as Etymology 1 (see above); and partly from Middle English stalle (“fixed position, stall”). Pronunciation: /stɔːl/, /stoːl/, /stɔl/, /stɑl/ 1. An action that is intended to cause, or actually causes, delay. Example: His encounters with security, reception, the secretary, and the assistant were all stalls until the general manager's attorney arrived. 2. Loss of lift due to an airfoil's critical angle of attack being exceeded, normally occurring due to low airspeed. Example: The National Transportation Safety Board determines that the probable cause of this accident was the asymmetric stall and the ensuing roll of the aircraft because of the uncommanded retraction of the left wing outboard leading edge slats and the loss of stall warning and slat disagreement indication systems resulting from maintenance-induced damage leading to the separation of the No. 1 engine and pylon assembly at a critical point during takeoff. The separation resulted from damage by improper maintenance procedures which led to failure of the pylon structure. Example: The only way to account for it is a structural breakup in flight, a stall, a spin, a death spiral as we call it.
Word: hunger Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English hunger, from Old English hungor (“hunger, desire; famine”), from Proto-West Germanic *hungr, from Proto-Germanic *hungruz, *hunhruz (“hunger”), from Proto-Indo-European *kenk- (“to burn, smart, desire, hunger, thirst”). Cognate with West Frisian honger, hûnger (“hunger”), Dutch honger (“hunger”), German Low German Hunger (“hunger”), German Hunger (“hunger”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish hunger (“hunger”), Faroese and Icelandic hungur (“hunger”). Pronunciation: /ˈhʌŋɡə/, [ˈhʌŋɡə], /ˈhʊŋɡə/, /ˈhɐŋɡə/, [ˈhɐ̞ŋɡə] 1. A need or compelling desire for food. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. Any strong desire or need. Labels: broadly, countable, uncountable Example: I have a hunger to win. Example: O sacred hunger of ambitious minds!
Word: hunger Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English hungren, from Old English hyngran, hyngrian, ġehyngrian (“to be hungry”), from Proto-West Germanic *hungrijan, from Proto-Germanic *hungrijaną. Pronunciation: /ˈhʌŋɡə/, [ˈhʌŋɡə], /ˈhʊŋɡə/, /ˈhɐŋɡə/, [ˈhɐ̞ŋɡə] 1. To be in need of food. Labels: intransitive Example: Therefore if thine enemie hunger, feed him: if he thirst, giue him drink. For in so doing thou shalt heape coales of fire on his head. 2. To have a desire (for); to long; to yearn. Labels: figuratively, intransitive Example: I hungered for your love. Example: Blessed are they which doe hunger and thirst after righteousnesse: for they shall be filled. 3. To make hungry; to famish. Labels: archaic, transitive
Word: hiss Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English hissen, probably of onomatopoeic origin (compare Arabic هَسْهَسَ (hashasa)). Compare Middle Dutch hissen, hisschen (“to chase away, shoo”), Middle Low German hissen (“to chase, hound, incite”). Pronunciation: /hɪs/ 1. A sibilant sound, such as that made by a snake or escaping steam; an unvoiced fricative. Example: Their music frightful as the serpent’s hiss, And boding screech-owls make the concert full! Example: […] over head the dismal hiss Of fiery Darts in flaming volies flew, 2. An expression of disapproval made using such a sound. Example: […] in open disputations ye haue bene openly conuict, ye haue bene openly driuen out of the schole with hisses […] Example: 1716, Joseph Addison, The Free-Holder, 16 April, 1716, London: D. Midwinter and J. Tonson, pp. 203-204, The Actors, in the midst of an innocent old Play, are often startled with unexpected Claps or Hisses; and do not know whether they have been talking like good Subjects, or have spoken Treason.
Word: hiss Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English hissen, probably of onomatopoeic origin (compare Arabic هَسْهَسَ (hashasa)). Compare Middle Dutch hissen, hisschen (“to chase away, shoo”), Middle Low German hissen (“to chase, hound, incite”). Pronunciation: /hɪs/ 1. To make a hiss, a sibilant sound of air escaping. Labels: intransitive Example: As I started to poke it, the snake hissed at me. Example: The poor cat hissed as it backed away from the approaching man. 2. To call someone by hissing. Labels: transitive Example: I stepped out of my tent in Marrakech one night to get a bar of candy and caught your dose of clap when that Wac I never even saw before hissed me into the bushes. 3. To condemn or express contempt (for someone or something) by hissing. Labels: intransitive, transitive Example: The crowd booed and hissed her off the stage. Example: If the tag-rag people did not clap him and hiss him, according as he pleased and displeased them, as they use to do the players in the theatre, I am no true man. 4. To utter (something) with a hissing sound. Labels: transitive Example: Lies oft o’erthrown with ceaseless Venom spread, Still hiss out Scandal from their Hydra Head, Example: the long-necked geese of the world that are ever hissing dispraise […] 5. To move with a hissing sound. Labels: intransitive Example: The arrow hissed through the air. Example: The Troops of Troy recede with sudden Fear, While the swift Javelin hiss’d along in Air. 6. To emit or eject (something) with a hissing sound. Labels: transitive Example: The man in white pyjamas hissed soda into his glass. Example: The radiator bubbled and hissed steam. 7. To whisper, especially angrily or urgently. Labels: transitive Example: "Are you quite sure of it," she hissed into his ear, "Mr Fang, Junior?" Example: "Oh please," she said, "don't let him see us!" I wouldn't let her push me away. "Stop!" she hissed. "He'll see us!"
Word: sitcom Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Shortening of situation comedy. Pronunciation: /ˈsɪtˌkɒm/, /ˈsɪtˌkɑm/ 1. Situation comedy.
Word: sitcom Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈsɪtˌkɒm/, /ˈsɪtˌkɑm/ 1. Acronym of single income, two children, oppressive/outrageous mortgage. Labels: abbreviation, acronym, alt-of Example: "Today we have Grumps (grim, ruthless, upwardly mobile professionals), Dinks (those with dual-income, no kids), Sitcoms (those with single-income, two children, outrageous mortgages); and, just to recognize the graying populace in this country, Opals (older people with active lifestyles)." Example: "There are MINKs (multiple income, no kids) and what may be the acronym of the '90s, SITCOMs (single income, two children, outrageous mortgage)."
Word: noll Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English nol, from Old English hnol. Cognate with Dutch nol (“top of a sand-dune”). Pronunciation: /nɒl/ 1. The head, especially the top of the head. Labels: obsolete Example: Wolde to God it wolde please you some daye / A balade boke before me for to laye, / And lerne me to synge Re my fa sol! / And whan I fayle bobbe me on the noll.
Word: gul Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Classical Persian گُل (gul, “flower”). 1. Any medallionlike design on a Central or West Asian rug.
Word: gula Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin gula (“throat, gullet”). Pronunciation: /ˈɡjuːlə/, /ˈɡ(j)ulə/ 1. The upper front of the neck, next to the chin; the upper throat. 2. A plate which in most insects supports the submentum. 3. A capping moulding; a cymatium.
Word: collaborative Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree English collaborate Proto-Indo-European *-wós Proto-Indo-European *-iHwósder. Latin -īvus Old French -ifbor. Middle English -yf English -ive English collaborative From collaborate + -ive. Pronunciation: /kəˈlæb.ə.ɹə.tɪv/, /kəˈlæb.ɹə.tɪv/ 1. Of, relating to, or done by collaboration. Example: No need to thank me - it was a collaborative effort.
Word: collaborative Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English collaborate Proto-Indo-European *-wós Proto-Indo-European *-iHwósder. Latin -īvus Old French -ifbor. Middle English -yf English -ive English collaborative From collaborate + -ive. Pronunciation: /kəˈlæb.ə.ɹə.tɪv/, /kəˈlæb.ɹə.tɪv/ 1. An organized group of people or entities who collaborate towards a particular goal Example: 1895, (no by-line), "In The Halls of Learning: Columbian University", The Evening Times (Washington, DC) (19 October 1895, page 2) -- this appears to be a unique usage; very difficult to find non-adjectival uses prior to the 1970s In the literature class, which is conducted by Prof. George J. Smith, lately of Central High School, and which is a collaborative of Dr. Farquhar's course, the students are pursuing their new course. Example: Concern over possible conflict between their collaborative and one set up a year ago ....
Word: soviet Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Russian сове́т (sovét, “council”), from Old Russian borrowed from Old Church Slavonic съвѣтъ (sŭvětŭ, “advice”). Compounded from съ- (sŭ-) + вѣтъ (větŭ, “agreement”), from Proto-Slavic *větъ (“council, talk”). Related words include наве́т (navét), изве́т (izvét), отве́т (otvét), приве́т (privét), обе́т (obét), ве́че (véče), отвеча́ть (otvečátʹ), отве́тить (otvétitʹ), завеща́ть (zaveščátʹ), and совещаться (soveščatʹsja). Probably cognate with Polish witać (“to welcome”). Pronunciation: /ˈsəʊvi.ət/, /ˈsɒvi.ət/, /ˈsɒv.jət/, /ˈsoʊvi.ət/, /ˈsoʊvi.ɛt/ 1. A workers' council, an institution first formed during the 1905 Russian Revolution and then instituted as the main form of communist government at all levels in the Soviet Union; by extension, a similar organization in early Chinese communism and elsewhere. Labels: historical Example: They then established the West Hunan-Hupeh (Hsiang-O-Hsi) Special Committee and a little later transformed it into a soviet government. Party membership figures as of 1932 for a dozen counties in the area were estimated at 18,034, with the largest number, 4,468, working in Chienli County, then headquarters of the soviet. Example: Kratochvil, Jedlicka, Safar, Kubes and Vasata, who always took an interest in politics, set up a soviet in the last wagon and uncoupled it from the rest of the train in the night.
Word: soviet Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Borrowed from Russian сове́т (sovét, “council”), from Old Russian borrowed from Old Church Slavonic съвѣтъ (sŭvětŭ, “advice”). Compounded from съ- (sŭ-) + вѣтъ (větŭ, “agreement”), from Proto-Slavic *větъ (“council, talk”). Related words include наве́т (navét), изве́т (izvét), отве́т (otvét), приве́т (privét), обе́т (obét), ве́че (véče), отвеча́ть (otvečátʹ), отве́тить (otvétitʹ), завеща́ть (zaveščátʹ), and совещаться (soveščatʹsja). Probably cognate with Polish witać (“to welcome”). Pronunciation: /ˈsəʊvi.ət/, /ˈsɒvi.ət/, /ˈsɒv.jət/, /ˈsoʊvi.ət/, /ˈsoʊvi.ɛt/ 1. Pertaining to or resembling a soviet (council). 2. Alternative letter-case form of Soviet (pertaining to the Soviet Union) Labels: alt-of Example: An engineer who is not very soviet in his convictions is the hero. Example: Why are separate divisions for teachers and administrators in a state organization any more "soviet" than the same divisions in a city educational […]
Word: apocatastasis Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin apocatastasis, itself from Ancient Greek ἀποκατάστασις (apokatástasis, “restoration, reëstablishment”), from ἀποκαθίστημι (apokathístēmi, “to stand up again”), from ἀπό- (apó-, “back again”) + καθίστημι (kathístēmi, “to set, place, constitute, appoint”), from κατά- (katá-, “down, for”) + ἵστημι (hístēmi, “to set, stand, establish”). 1. Restoration, renovation, reestablishment Labels: especially, rare Example: The Egyptians were the first assertors of the soul's immortality, and of its transmigration, after the death and corruption of this body, into the bodies of other animals successively, viz. until it have run round through the whole circuit of terrestrial, marine, and volatile animals, after which, they say, it is to return again into a human body; they supposing this revolution or apocatastasis of souls to be made in no less space than that of three thousand years. Example: If anyone shall say that all reasonable beings will one day be united in one, when the hypostases as well as the numbers and the bodies shall have disappeared,... moreover, that in this pretended apocatastasis, spirits only will continue to exist... let him be anathema. A Tradition...concerning the Apocatastasis of the World...partly by Inundation and partly by Conflagration. 2. Restoration, renovation, reestablishment Labels: rare Example: No doctrine...contradicts the Holy Scripture in a more unwarrantable manner than that of the so-called Apokatastasis. Example: Apocatastasis, A name given in the history of theology to the doctrine which teaches that a time will come when all free creatures will share in the grace of salvation. 3. Restoration, renovation, reestablishment Labels: rare Example: We read of Apocatastasis or urine...of tumours, and other diseases. Example: Apocatastasis, The subsidence of a tumour, or the re-establishment of an exudation or secretion. 4. Restoration, renovation, reestablishment Labels: rare Example: The accurate apocatastasis (i.e. regression to the same sign) of the moon, and in a similar manner of the sun.
Word: randy Part of Speech: adj Etymology: First use appears c. 1665 in a letter by the Earl of Argyll. From Scottish randy (“boisterous, aggressive”), of uncertain origin. Probably from rand (“to storm, rave”, verb), a variant of rant, see rant; or from rand (“edge”, noun), in the sense of "edgy, on edge", from Middle English rand (“edge, brink, margin, border”), from Old English rand (“edge, border, margin, rim”). Related to randan. Pronunciation: /ˈɹændi/ 1. Sexually aroused; full of sexual lust. Labels: UK, informal Example: If you're feeling randy, give me a call and I'll come round and give you some hot lovin'. Example: Of course, the Greeks were quite the randy bunch themselves. “Anything goes!” was their motto and they lived up to it. It’s amazing that Plato, Aristotle and Socrates got any philosophizing done at all, what with all the lewd and lascivious behavior going on. 2. Rude or coarse in manner. Labels: Scotland
Word: randy Part of Speech: noun Etymology: First use appears c. 1665 in a letter by the Earl of Argyll. From Scottish randy (“boisterous, aggressive”), of uncertain origin. Probably from rand (“to storm, rave”, verb), a variant of rant, see rant; or from rand (“edge”, noun), in the sense of "edgy, on edge", from Middle English rand (“edge, brink, margin, border”), from Old English rand (“edge, border, margin, rim”). Related to randan. Pronunciation: /ˈɹændi/ 1. An impudent beggar. Labels: obsolete 2. A boisterous, coarse, loose woman. Labels: obsolete 3. A virago. Labels: obsolete
Word: randy Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Clipping of random + -y. Pronunciation: /ˈɹændi/ 1. A random. Labels: obsolete, slang
Word: randy Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈɹændi/ 1. A Two-and-a-half-twist acrobatic maneuver. Labels: obsolete
Word: jun Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Korean 전(錢) (jeon). Pronunciation: /dʒʌn/ 1. A monetary unit of North Korea and formerly of South Korea, equal to one hundredth of a won.
Word: Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch Part of Speech: name Etymology: Borrowed from Welsh Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch. This longer form of the name was invented for promotional purposes in the 1860s. 1. A village in Anglesey, Wales, United Kingdom, known for having the longest place name in Europe, and the longest English-language (albeit borrowed from Welsh) settlement name in the world. Example: Some time ago, during a tour in Wales, I was much struck by the name of a little village in Anglesea. The village is insignificant enough, but it is surely as well described as the most ambitious place could desire. The name runs: "Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch." Example: "Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch" in northern Wales was one the U.K.'s warmest locations on Tuesday at 21 C. […] Comments on a video clip of Dutton's deft delivery, posted to the Channel 4 News Facebook page, lend credence to his claim that Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch may in fact be the U.K.'s hardest name to pronounce.
Word: relief Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Old French relief (“assistance”), from Old French relever (“to relieve”), from Latin relevare (“to raise up, make light”). See also relieve. Pronunciation: /rɪˈliːf/, /ɹɪˈliːf/, /rɪˈlif/ 1. The removal of stress or discomfort. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: I sighed with relief when I found out that my daughter hadn't got lost, but was waiting for me at home. Example: Although the Celebrity was almost impervious to sarcasm, he was now beginning to exhibit visible signs of uneasiness,[…]. It was with a palpable relief that he heard the first warning notes of the figure. 2. The feeling associated with the removal of stress or discomfort. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Tony's face expressed relief, and Nettie sat silent for a moment until the vicar said “It was a generous impulse, but it may have been a momentary one,[…].” Example: DfT's action was greeted with great relief in many quarters. 3. Release from a post or duty, as when replaced by another. Labels: countable, uncountable 4. The person who takes over a shift for another. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Officer Schmidt can finally go home because his relief has arrived. Example: At Leeds a relief crew was waiting—but without a relief locomotive; after some discussion, the new men offered to take on the A3. [...]. 5. Aid or assistance offered in time of need. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Relief arrived quickly after the disaster. Example: On busy days, they also may be seen bowling along the Brighton main line, north of Keymer Junction, with a relief Newhaven boat express, […]. 6. Military assistance to break a siege or an encirclement. Labels: countable, uncountable 7. Court-ordered compensation, aid, or protection, a redress. Labels: countable, uncountable 8. A lowering of a tax through special provisions; tax relief. Labels: countable, uncountable 9. A certain fine or composition paid by the heir of a tenant upon the death of the ancestor. Labels: countable, uncountable 10. Permission for a player to move their ball to a more convenient spot before taking a shot, under certain circumstances. Labels: countable, uncountable 11. Ellipsis of relief teacher. Labels: Australia, New-Zealand, abbreviation, alt-of, colloquial, countable, ellipsis, uncountable Example: Do we have a relief for maths today?
Word: relief Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Italian rilievo, from rilevare (“to raise”), from Latin relevō (“to raise”). Pronunciation: /rɪˈliːf/, /ɹɪˈliːf/, /rɪˈlif/ 1. A method of sculpture or other artwork in which shapes or figures protrude from a flat background. Labels: uncountable 2. A sculpture or other artwork made with such a method. Labels: countable 3. The apparent difference in elevation in the surface of a painting or drawing made noticeable by a variation in light or color. Labels: countable, uncountable 4. The difference of elevations on a surface. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: the relief on that part of the Earth's surface Example: The approach to Newcastle (Central) Station from the north after a heavy snowfall. The complicated track layout is thrown into clear relief by the snow [referring to dark rails poking through the snow] 5. Relative distinctness, perceived difference due to contrast. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: And is it that the haze of grief ⁠Hath stretch’d my former joy so great? ⁠The lowness of the present state, That sets the past in this relief? 6. The supposed projection of a charge from the surface of a field, indicated by shading on the sinister and lower sides. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: relief Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Italian rilievo, from rilevare (“to raise”), from Latin relevō (“to raise”). Pronunciation: /rɪˈliːf/, /ɹɪˈliːf/, /rɪˈlif/ 1. Characterized by surface inequalities. 2. Of or used in letterpress.
Word: bunker Part of Speech: verb Etymology: The origin of the noun is uncertain; the earliest sense is sense 7.1 (“box or chest, the lid of which serves as a seat”), from Scots bunker (“bench; pew; window-seat; sand pit (especially in golf); coal receptacle; sleeping berth, bunk”), from Early Scots bunker, bunkur, bonker (“a chest or box, often serving as a seat”), probably from Old Norse bunki (“a heap”) (probably whence bunk (“sleeping berth in a ship, train, etc.”)), from Proto-Germanic *bunkô (“a heap, pile; a bump, lump, a crowd”), perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *bʰenǵʰ- (“thick”) or *bʰeg- (“to billow, swell; to arch, bend, curve (?)”). Compare Middle Low German bunge (“drum, container”), Middle High German bunge (“drum”). Sense 1 (“hardened shelter designed to protect the inhabitants from falling bombs or other attacks”) was derived from German Bunker during World War II, which was itself from bunker (“large bin or container for storing coal”) (sense 5). The verb is derived from the noun. Pronunciation: /ˈbʌŋ.kə/, /ˈbʊŋ.kə/, /ˈbʌŋ.kɚ/, /ˈbɐŋ.kə/ 1. To load (a vessel) with coal or fuel oil for the engine. Labels: transitive 2. To take a load of coal or fuel oil for its engine. Labels: intransitive 3. To steal bunker fuel by illicitly siphoning it off. Labels: Nigeria, transitive 4. To hit (a golf ball) into a bunker; (chiefly passive voice) to place (a golfer) in the position of having a golf ball in a bunker. Labels: transitive 5. To hit (a golf ball) into a bunker; (chiefly passive voice) to place (a golfer) in the position of having a golf ball in a bunker. Labels: UK, idiomatic, informal, transitive Example: Proteus. Or we resign and tell the country that we cant carry on the King's Government under conditions which destroy our responsibility. / Balbus. Thatll do it. He couldnt face that. / Crassus. Yes: thatll bunker him. 6. To fire constantly at (an opponent hiding behind an obstacle), trapping them and preventing them from firing at other players; also, to eliminate (an opponent behind an obstacle) by rushing to the position and firing at extremely close range as the player becomes exposed. Labels: transitive 7. Often followed by down: to take shelter in a bunker or other place. Labels: intransitive Example: As troops swarmed the streets below and gun battles continued to rage, I bunkered in a room on the top floor of a building in the middle of the red zone. Redshirt spokesman Sean Boonpracong sought refuge there too. Protesters burned a train station below, hurling tyres on to an already roaring blaze across the tracks. Example: More than 10,000 people were bunkering in 20 emergency shelters across the disaster zone, not all of them cyclone-rated.
Word: bunker Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From bunk (“to fail to attend school or work without permission, to play truant”) + -er (suffix forming agent nouns indicating a person or thing that does an action). Pronunciation: /ˈbʌŋ.kə/, /ˈbʊŋ.kə/, /ˈbʌŋ.kɚ/, /ˈbɐŋ.kə/ 1. One who bunks off; a truant from school. Labels: India, UK, slang
Word: bunker Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Clipping of mossbunker, a variant of mossbanker, from Dutch marsbanker (“common scad or Atlantic horse mackerel (Trachurus trachurus)”), from Marsdiep (“deep tide-race between Den Helder and Texel in the Netherlands”) + bank (“shallow part of the sea near a coast”) + -er (suffix forming nouns denoting male inhabitants of a place). Pronunciation: /ˈbʌŋ.kə/, /ˈbʊŋ.kə/, /ˈbʌŋ.kɚ/, /ˈbɐŋ.kə/ 1. The menhaden, any of several species of fish in the genera Brevoortia and Ethmidium. Labels: US, regional Example: Ten hours of footage revealed the young [shark's] habits, such as diving for squid up to 150 feet deep, then moving closer to shore to feast on huge schools of bunker fish.
Word: fond Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English fond, fonned, past participle of fonnen (“to be foolish, be simple, dote”), equivalent to fon + -ed. More at fon. Pronunciation: /fɒnd/, /fɑnd/ 1. Having a liking or affection (for). Example: I am fond of this song! Example: more fond on her than she upon her love 2. Affectionate. Example: a fond farewell Example: a fond mother or wife 3. Indulgent, doting. Example: I have fond grandparents who spoil me. Example: “The story of this adoption is, of course, the pivot round which all the circumstances of the mysterious tragedy revolved. Mrs. Yule had an only son, namely, William, to whom she was passionately attached ; but, like many a fond mother, she had the desire of mapping out that son's future entirely according to her own ideas.[…]” 4. Outlandish; foolish; silly. Example: Your fond dreams of flying to Jupiter have been quashed by the facts of reality. 5. Foolish; simple; weak. Labels: obsolete Example: If you are so fond over her iniquity, give her patent to offend, for if it touch not you, it comes near nobody. Example: Grant I may never prove so fond To trust man on his oath or bond. 6. Doted on; regarded with affection. Labels: obsolete Example: Nor fix on fond abodes to circumscribe thy prayer.
Word: fond Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English fond, fonned, past participle of fonnen (“to be foolish, be simple, dote”), equivalent to fon + -ed. More at fon. Pronunciation: /fɒnd/, /fɑnd/ 1. To have a foolish affection for, to be fond of. Labels: obsolete 2. To caress; to fondle. Labels: obsolete Example: The Tyrian hugs and fonds thee on her breast.
Word: fond Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From French, ultimately from Latin fundus. Doublet of fund and fundus. Pronunciation: /fɒnd/, /fɑnd/ 1. The background design in lace-making. 2. Brown residue in pans from cooking meats and vegetables. Example: He used the fond to make a classic French pan sauce. 3. A group of records having shared provenance. Example: To denote archival material collected from Ukrainian archives I have used the Ukrainian system of classification (i.e. fond, opys, sprava and arkush). I have used the Russian system for material from Russian archives (i.e. fond, opis, delo, stranitsa). I have also provided a glossary of terms used for Ukrainian, Russian or Polish terms at the back of the thesis for easy reference. 4. Foundation; bottom; groundwork. Labels: obsolete 5. Fund, stock, or store. Labels: obsolete
Word: fonds Part of Speech: noun Etymology: See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form. 1. plural of fond Labels: form-of, plural
Word: fonds Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From French fonds. Doublet of fund. 1. The entire collection of the records originating from the same creator; an archive term used to describe a collection of papers that originate from the same source.
Word: exiguous Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin exiguus (“strict, exact”), from exigere (“to measure against a standard”). Pronunciation: /ɪɡˈzɪ.ɡju.əs/, /ɛɡˈzɪ.ɡju.əs/ 1. Scanty; meager. Example: The herdboy in the broom, already musical in the days of Father Chaucer, startles (and perhaps pains) the lark with this exiguous pipe. Example: The path on which I then planted my feet was quite unprecedentedly narrow. I had never had to walk along a thoroughfare so exiguous.
Word: purulence Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈpjʊəɹʊləns/ 1. The condition of containing or discharging pus. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. Pus. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: hang dog Part of Speech: noun 1. The situation of hanging on the rope after falling off a climb. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. A rascal, one fit to be executed by hanging. Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable
Word: biner Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Shortening. 1. abbreviation of carabiner Labels: abbreviation, alt-of