nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: super Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Abbreviation by shortening. Pronunciation: /ˈsuːpə/, /ˈsʉwpə/, [ˈsypɑ], [ˈsup̚ʔɐː], /ˈsupɚ/ 1. Clipping of superannuation. Labels: Australia, New-Zealand, abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, colloquial, informal Example: Jane looked forward to collecting a large super payout when she retired. Example: “I want to make it clear, compassionate release of super should only be considered as a last resort, where all other options of paying for the eligible expenses have been exhausted,” she said. 2. Clipping of supercomputer. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, colloquial Example: The performances and cost ranges of three classes of commercial supercomputers are given in Table 2.1. The full-scale supers are the most expensive class, represented by Cray, ETA, and Fujitsu systems, for example. 3. Clipping of superhero. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, colloquial, slang Example: For quotations using this term, see Citations:super. 4. Clipping of superhive. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, colloquial Example: There may be thirty to fifty supers in every outyard, and we have only about half an hour to get them off the hives, stacked and covered before the bees get really cross about what we are doing. 5. Clipping of superintendent, especially, a building's resident manager (sometimes clarified as “building super”). Labels: US, abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, colloquial, informal 6. Clipping of supernaturalist, especially as distinguished from bright. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, colloquial, neologism Example: For quotations using this term, see Citations:super. 7. Clipping of supernumerary; (theater) specifically, a supernumerary actor. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, colloquial Example: For this scene, a large number of supers are engaged, and in order to further swell the crowd, practically all the available stage hands have to ‘walk on’ dressed in various coloured dominoes, and all wearing masks. Example: The piece was gave by a bunch o’ supers the time I went. I’d like to see it with a real cast. They say it’s a whiz when it’s acted right. 8. Clipping of supertanker. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, colloquial Example: That is a lot of ship, about the size of big tankers before they grew so rapidly to become supers, mammoths and oilbergs. 9. Clipping of supervisor. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, colloquial 10. A superimposed caption or image. Labels: colloquial Example: Supers are superimposed words that run across the TV screen and provide information such as the names of interview subjects. The newsroom sends a printed list of these supers to Perry. 11. A watch (timepiece). Labels: colloquial, obsolete Example: The "super" or watch is passed to a stall, who hurries away, while the "dip" continues on the car. No sign of recognition passes between the members of the mob when at work. Example: Once the "super,” or watch, was in his hand, Tony would swiftly pass it to Carlo.
Word: super Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Abbreviation by shortening. Pronunciation: /ˈsuːpə/, /ˈsʉwpə/, [ˈsypɑ], [ˈsup̚ʔɐː], /ˈsupɚ/ 1. Clipping of superhive. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, colloquial Example: The question is: when is the best time to super? 2. Clipping of superimpose. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, colloquial Example: Even running a supered "Re-enactment" caption for a few seconds is poor policy, he feels […]
Word: shut up Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ʃʌt ʌp/, [ʃʌt ʌp], [ʃʌt̚ ʌp], [ʃʌɾʌp], /ʃʊɹʊp/ 1. To close (a building) so that no one can enter. Labels: transitive 2. To terminate (a business). Labels: transitive 3. To put (someone or something) in a secure enclosed space, such as a room or container. Labels: transitive Example: The wicked prince was shut up in the castle dungeon. Example: The engineer had shut the locomotive up in the shed for twenty years. 4. Of a person, to stop talking (said by someone, often one in authority, after one has said something annoying, irrelevant, or false, during a period of peace and quiet, or when one is not allowed to talk) or arguing, or (of a person or thing) making noise. Labels: derogatory, ergative, imperative, often Example: You are talking so loud that I can't hear the music – would you mind shutting up? Example: He was blathering on about something, but I managed to shut him up. 5. To murder, kill. Labels: dated, slang, transitive Example: I just heard that your wife was trying to shut you up for the insurance money. Example: Shepard: Why were they threatening you? Who do they work for? Dr. Chloe Michel: They work for Fist. They wanted to shut me up, keep me from telling Garrus about the quarian.
Word: shut up Part of Speech: adj Pronunciation: /ʃʌt ʌp/, [ʃʌt ʌp], [ʃʌt̚ ʌp], [ʃʌɾʌp], /ʃʊɹʊp/ 1. Closed up or off, as in a building that no one is to enter. Example: 2010. Jem (And Sam). Ferdinand Mount. She did not come to Court, but she must have been taken to Montagu's house, for the Clerkenwell house was all shut up and was to be sold. Example: 1865. The Wisconsin Farmer, and Northwestern Cultivator, Volume 17. Pg. 75. Open sheds are too much exposed to drifting snow, and they cannot be shut up and made warm enough for early lambing.
Word: shut up Part of Speech: intj Pronunciation: /ʃʌt ʌp/, [ʃʌt ʌp], [ʃʌt̚ ʌp], [ʃʌɾʌp], /ʃʊɹʊp/ 1. Stop talking (usually in the form of making annoying, irrelevant, or false comments, during a period of peace and quiet, or when one is not allowed to talk), arguing, crying, etc. Example: Shut up! We're sick of your whining! 2. I don't believe it!, no way! Labels: colloquial Example: I got accepted to Yale! —Shut up, really? That's awesome! Example: No, I know what home-school is, I'm not retarded! So you've actually never been to a real school before? Shut up! Shut up!
Word: regard Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English regard, regarde, reguard, from Anglo-Norman reguard, from regarder, reguarder. Attested in Middle English starting around the mid 14th century. Piecewise doublet of reward; compare also guard, ward, guardian, and so on. Pronunciation: /ɹɪˈɡɑːd/, /ɹɪˈɡɑɹd/, /ɹɪˈɡɐːd/, /ɹəˈɡɐːd/ 1. A steady look, a gaze. Labels: countable Example: He bathed in the memory of her blondness, of her warm blue regard, and the sentiment permeated his sensibility with tenderness made the more rich because its object was someone long since dead. 2. One's concern for another; esteem; relation, reference. Labels: countable, uncountable 3. A particular aspect or detail; respect, sense. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: This attempt will be made with every regard to the difficulty of the undertaking […] Example: We are spending a lot of money trying to put this mine in shape; we are anxious to comply with the wishes of your office in every regard […] 4. The worth or estimation in which something or someone is held. Labels: uncountable Example: Dolph. For the Dolphin, I stand here for him: what to him from England? Exe. Scorne and defiance, sleight regard, contempt, And any thing that may not mis-become The mightie Sender, doth he prize you at. Example: He is held in great regard in Whitehall.
Word: regard Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English regarden, from Old French regarder, reguarder. First attested in late Middle English, circa the early 15th century. Pronunciation: /ɹɪˈɡɑːd/, /ɹɪˈɡɑɹd/, /ɹɪˈɡɐːd/, /ɹəˈɡɐːd/ 1. To look at; to observe. Labels: transitive Example: She regarded us warily. Example: And They made the Moon, with his face wrinkled with many mountains and worn with a thousand valleys, to regard with pale eyes the games of the small gods, and to watch throughout the resting time of Māna-Yood-Sushāī; to watch, to regard all things, and be silent. 2. To consider, look upon (something) in a given way etc. Labels: transitive Example: I always regarded tabloid journalism as a social evil. Example: He regards honesty as a duty, but was regarded himself as (being) rather dangerous by the police. 3. To take notice of, pay attention to. Labels: archaic, transitive Example: If much you note him / You ſhall offend him, and extend his Paſſion, / Feed, and regard him not. Example: I should not, however, so much mind if this folly [of giving children poetic names] were comprised in that domain of cold gentility, to which affectation usually confines itself. One does not regard seeing Miss Arabella seated at the piano, or her little sister Leonora tottling across the carpet to show her new pink shoes. That is in the usual course of events. 4. To face toward. Labels: transitive Example: Seated on a peninſula which regardeth the maine land ; ſtrong by nature, and fortified by Art : adorned heretofore with magnificent buildings ; and numbered amongſt the paradiſes of the earth, for temperate aire, and delightfull ſituation. Example: We pass’d by[…]that exceedingly beautifull scate of my Lord Pembroke, on yᵉ ascent of an hill, flank’d with wood, and reguarding the river ; and so at night to Cadenham, yᵉ mansion of Ed. Hungerford, Esq. 5. To have to do with, to concern. Labels: transitive Example: That argument does not regard the question. Example: My lords, the question thus proposed by your lordships to the Judges must be admitted by all persons to be a question of great importance, as it regards the administration of justice. 6. To set store by (something), to hold (someone) in esteem; to consider to have value, to respect. Labels: obsolete, transitive Example: Ther was a Iudge in a certayne cite which feared not god nether regarded man. Example: Suppoſe they be in number infinit, Yet being voyd of Martiall diſcipline, All running headlong after greedie ſpoiles: And more regarding gaine than victorie: […] Their careleſſe ſwords ſhal lanch their fellows throats And make vs triumph in their ouerthrow.
Word: regard Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Popularized about 2022 along with regarded. Pronunciation: /ɹɪˈɡɑːd/, /ɹɪˈɡɑɹd/, /ɹɪˈɡɐːd/, /ɹəˈɡɐːd/ 1. Filter-avoidance spelling of retard. Labels: Internet, euphemistic
Word: ubiquitous Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From ubiquity + -ous, from Medieval Latin ubīquitās, from Latin ubīque (“everywhere”), from ubī̆ (“where”) + -que (“each, ever”). Compare ubiety. Pronunciation: /juːˈbɪkwɪtəs/, /juːˈbɪkwətəs/, /juˈbɪkwɪtəs/, [juˈbɪkwɪɾəs], /juˈbɪkwətəs/ 1. Being everywhere at once: omnipresent. Labels: not-comparable Example: In Christianity, Hinduism, and Judaism, God is ubiquitous. 2. Appearing to be everywhere at once; being or seeming to be in more than one location at the same time. Labels: not-comparable Example: One of the wild suggestions referred to, as at last coming to be linked with the White Whale in the minds of the superstitiously inclined, was the unearthly conceit that Moby Dick was ubiquitous; that he had actually been encountered in opposite latitudes at one and the same instant of time. Example: There is much sad evidence, too, of the spoliation and dereliction of vanished industry: tips, slag-heaps and derelict colliery-screens among which the ubiquitous, nomad mountain sheep graze unconcernedly. 3. Widespread; very prevalent. Labels: not-comparable
Word: seismicity Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English seismic Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-ts Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ts Latin -itāsder. Old French -itebor. Middle English -ite English -ity English seismicity From seismic + -ity. 1. A measure or a degree of how seismic a region is or how prone it is to earthquakes. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: epoch Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Medieval Latin epocha, from Ancient Greek ἐποχή (epokhḗ, “a check, cessation, stop, pause, epoch of a star, i.e., the point at which it seems to halt after reaching the highest, and generally the place of a star; hence, a historical epoch”), from ἐπέχω (epékhō, “to hold in, check”), from ἐπι- (epi-, “upon”) + ἔχω (ékhō, “to have, hold”). Doublet of epoche. Pronunciation: /ˈiːpɒk/, /ˈɛpɒk/, /ˈɛpək/, /ˈɛp.ək/, /ˈɛpˌɑk/ 1. A particular period of history, or of a person's life, especially one considered noteworthy or remarkable. Example: I grew bitter in my words—I believed the worst of everyone; nay, I sometimes doubted the affection of my kind, my indulgent parents. But let me hastily pass over this vain and profitless epoch,—the fierce tempest, and the weary calm, were but the appointed means by which I reached the harbour of faith and rest. Example: And it occasionally happens that a period in which one had, hitherto, been mainly looking for the coming to birth of new things, suddenly reveals itself as an epoch of fading and decay. 2. A notable event which marks the beginning of such a period. 3. A specific instant in time, chosen as the point of reference or zero value of a system that involves identifying instants of time. Example: UNIX epoch; J2000 epoch Example: Appendix A gives formulae for the calculation of the orbital elements of the planets at any time referred to the mean ecliptic and equinox of the epoch of noon on 1st January 2000; this is called the J2000 epoch. 4. A geochronologic unit of hundreds of thousands to millions of years; a subdivision of a period, and subdivided into ages (or sometimes subepochs). Example: Now during the time of the glacial epoch the greatest distance of the sun in winter was 98¼ millions of miles, whereas it is now, in winter, only 91½ millions of miles, the mean distance being taken as 93 million miles. Example: Phoenix and Lubbock are both caught in severe drought, and it is going to get much worse. We may see many such [dust] storms in the decades ahead, along with species extinctions, radical disturbance of ecosystems, and intensified social conflict over land and water. Welcome to the Anthropocene, the epoch when humans have become a major geological and climatic force. 5. One complete presentation of the training data set to an iterative machine learning algorithm. Example: The neural network was trained over 500 epochs. Example: For now, let's test and evaluate our GAN by comparing the results from the first epoch with the generated images from the last epoch.
Word: epoch Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Medieval Latin epocha, from Ancient Greek ἐποχή (epokhḗ, “a check, cessation, stop, pause, epoch of a star, i.e., the point at which it seems to halt after reaching the highest, and generally the place of a star; hence, a historical epoch”), from ἐπέχω (epékhō, “to hold in, check”), from ἐπι- (epi-, “upon”) + ἔχω (ékhō, “to have, hold”). Doublet of epoche. Pronunciation: /ˈiːpɒk/, /ˈɛpɒk/, /ˈɛpək/, /ˈɛp.ək/, /ˈɛpˌɑk/ 1. To divide (data) into segments by time period. Labels: transitive Example: The continuous data were epoched into segments of 1500 ms (starting 500 ms before visual stimulus onset), time-locked to stimulus onset (0 ms) and sorted according to experimental conditions.
Word: adverbial Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Borrowed from Latin adverbiālis. By surface analysis, adverb + -ial. Pronunciation: /ædˈvɝbi.əl/, /ədˈvɜːbi.əl/ 1. Of or relating to an adverb. Example: As we can have the adjectival forms bright, brighter, brightest, so we can have the adverbial forms brightly, brightlier, brightliest, but degree is alike inconceivable in the adjective ‘round,’ and the A. ‘here.’ Example: And in (123) below, a (bracketed) Adverbial Phrase has undergone WH MOVEMENT: (123) (a) [How quickly] will he drink the beer —? (123) (b) [How carefully] did he plan his campaign —? (123) (c) [How well] did he treat her —?
Word: adverbial Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Latin adverbiālis. By surface analysis, adverb + -ial. Pronunciation: /ædˈvɝbi.əl/, /ədˈvɜːbi.əl/ 1. An adverbial word or phrase.
Word: contrabassoon Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Semi-anglicized version of Italian contrafagotto, probably following the model of the English word contrabass (which derives from Italian contrabbasso). 1. A larger version of the bassoon sounding one octave lower, having a technique similar to the bassoon but offers more resistance in every way.
Word: romanize Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree English Roman Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)bor. Late Latin -izōder. Middle French -iserbor. Middle English -isen English -ize English romanize From Roman + -ize. Pronunciation: /ˈɹəʊ.mə.naɪz/, /ˈɹoʊ.məˌnaɪz/ 1. To put letters or words written in another writing system into the Latin (Roman) alphabet. Labels: transitive Example: The author romanizes Chinese names using the Wade–Giles system rather than the Pinyin system. Example: A new system has been invented by which Chinese can be written in our letters as pronounced. This is called by the rather uncouth name of “Romanised.” 2. To bring under the authority or influence of Rome. Labels: capitalized, historical, transitive, usually Example: But since this custome was probably disused before their Invasion or Conquest, and the Romanes confessedly practised the same, since their possession of this Island, the most assured account will fall upon the Romanes, or Brittains Romanized. 3. To make or become Roman in character or style. Labels: ambitransitive, capitalized, usually Example: […] perhaps he has Romaniz’d his Grecian Dames too much, and made them speak sometimes as if they had been born in the City of Rome, and under the Empire of Augustus. Example: Long before this period, it [London] was fully romanized, and the customs, manners, buildings, and arts of the conqueror adopted. 4. To make or become Roman Catholic in religion (by conversion), character or style. Labels: ambitransitive, capitalized, usually Example: […] the more primitive times of Protestantism were more leaning to that which Romanizing spirits have called Puritanism. 5. To fill with Latin words or idioms. Labels: obsolete, transitive Example: perhaps too, he [Ben Jonson] did a little to much Romanize our Tongue, leaving the words which he translated almost as much Latine as he found them: wherein though he learnedly followed the Idiom of their language, he did not enough comply with ours.
Word: cover version Part of Speech: noun 1. A version of a song that is a new performance or rerecording of that song by a different artist.
Word: tenor Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English tenour, from Anglo-Norman tenour, from Old French tenor (“substance, contents, meaning, sense; tenor part in music”), from Latin tenor (“course, continuance; holder”), from teneō (“to hold”). In music, from the notion of the one who holds the melody, as opposed to the countertenor. Pronunciation: /ˈtɛnə(ɹ)/ 1. A musical range or section higher than bass and lower than alto. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. A person, instrument, or group that performs in the tenor (higher than bass and lower than alto) range. Labels: countable, uncountable 3. A musical part or section that holds or performs the main melody, as opposed to the contratenor bassus and contratenor altus, who perform countermelodies. Labels: archaic, countable, uncountable 4. The lowest tuned in a ring of bells. Labels: countable, uncountable 5. Tone, as of a conversation. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Colonel Walton, who had striven to check the conversation at moments when he became conscious of its tenor, now gladly engaged his guest on other and more legitimate topics. 6. duration; continuance; a state of holding on in a continuous course; general tendency; career. Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable Example: It is the conſciouſneſs of this merited approbation and eſteem which is alone capable of ſupporting the agent in this tenour of conduct. Example: Along the cool sequestered vale of life / They kept the noiseless tenor of their way. 7. The subject in a metaphor to which attributes are ascribed. Labels: countable, uncountable 8. Time to maturity of a bond. Labels: countable, uncountable 9. Stamp; character; nature. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: This success would look like chance, if it were perpetual, and always of the same tenor. 10. An exact copy of a writing, set forth in the words and figures of it. It differs from purport, which is only the substance or general import of the instrument. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Than he shall delyuer to vs a tenour of that he ought to do. 11. That course of thought which holds on through a discourse; the general drift or course of thought; purport; intent; meaning; understanding. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: When it [the bond] is paid according to the tenor. Example: He would have learned , by the whole tenor of the divine law , and especially by the example of the absent Lord , whose property he was for a season trusted with , that he was to do as much good to humanity , and win as much glory to God, as was compatible with the measure of his trust, and for the time for which he might retain it. 12. A tenor saxophone. Labels: colloquial, countable, uncountable
Word: tenor Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English tenour, from Anglo-Norman tenour, from Old French tenor (“substance, contents, meaning, sense; tenor part in music”), from Latin tenor (“course, continuance; holder”), from teneō (“to hold”). In music, from the notion of the one who holds the melody, as opposed to the countertenor. Pronunciation: /ˈtɛnə(ɹ)/ 1. Of or pertaining to the tenor part or range. Labels: not-comparable Example: He has a tenor voice. Example: Many a star athlete has very little hair anywhere except what he wears on top of his head, and a voice that is absolutely tenor.
Word: laity Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Anglo-Norman laite, from Latin laitas, from Ancient Greek λαός (laós, “people”). Pronunciation: /ˈleɪ.ə.ti/, /ˈleɪ.ɪ.ti/ 1. People of a church who are not ordained clergy or clerics. 2. The common man or woman. 3. The unlearned, untrained or ignorant.
Word: layman Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English layman, lay man, equivalent to lay (“non-clergy”) + man. Cognate with Old Frisian lēkmann, lēkmonn (“layman”), obsolete Dutch leekeman (“layman”), Old High German leihman (“layman”), Danish lægmand (“layman”), Swedish lekman (“layman”), Norwegian lekmann (“layman”), Icelandic leikmaður (“layman”). Pronunciation: /ˈleɪmən/ 1. Layperson, someone who is not an ordained cleric or member of the clergy. 2. Someone who is not a professional in a given field. Labels: broadly Example: Carmen is not a professional anthropologist, but strictly a layman. Example: Let me explain it to you [[in layman's terms|in layman's terms]]. 3. A common person. 4. A person who is untrained or lacks knowledge of a subject. Example: should he be held to be just a layman, or does he have some art? 5. Lay-sister or lay-brother, person received into a convent of monks, following the vows, but not being member of the order.
Word: alto Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Italian alto (“high”). Doublet of old. Pronunciation: /ˈæl.təʊ/, /ˈæl.toʊ/ 1. A musical part or section higher than tenor and lower than soprano, formerly the part that performed a countermelody above the tenor or main melody. 2. A person or musical instrument that performs the alto part. 3. An alto saxophone. Labels: colloquial
Word: soprano Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Italian soprano, from Vulgar Latin *superānus, adjective from preposition Latin super (“above”). Doublet of sovereign, from the same Latin root via Old French. Pronunciation: /səˈpɹænoʊ/ 1. The musical part higher in pitch than alto, typically encompassing the range of the treble clef. 2. A person or instrument that performs the soprano part. Example: boy soprano Example: soprano saxophone
Word: soprano Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Borrowed from Italian soprano, from Vulgar Latin *superānus, adjective from preposition Latin super (“above”). Doublet of sovereign, from the same Latin root via Old French. Pronunciation: /səˈpɹænoʊ/ 1. To sing or utter with high pitch. Example: "Sure they ain't done me no harm," sopranoed the woman.
Word: contralto Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Contraction of contratenor alto, from Latin contratenor altus. Pronunciation: /kɒnˈtɹæltəʊ/, /kɒnˈtɹɑːltəʊ/ 1. The lowest female voice or voice part, falling between tenor and mezzo-soprano. The terms contralto and alto refer to the same musical pitch range, but among singers, the term contralto is reserved for female singers; the equivalent male form is counter-tenor. Originally the contratenor altus was a high countermelody sung against the tenor or main melody. Example: As for her dress, it was invariably rich, effective, and chic, yet in good taste. Lastly, her feet and hands were astonishing, and her voice a deep contralto. Example: Out in the yard a womanʼs hoarse contralto intoned a hymn.
Word: baritone Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Italian baritono, from Ancient Greek βαρύτονος (barútonos), from βαρύς (barús, “heavy”) + τόνος (tónos, “tone”). Doublet of baryton and barytone. Pronunciation: /ˈbæɹ.ɪ.təʊn/, /ˈbæɹ.ɪ.toʊn/ 1. The male voice between tenor and bass. 2. The musical range between tenor and bass. 3. A person, instrument, or group that performs in the range between tenor and bass. 4. A brass instrument similar to the euphonium, but with a cylindrical bore instead of a conical one; a baritone saxhorn. 5. Alternative form of barytone. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: contrabass Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Italian contrabbasso, from contra (“against”) + basso (“low”). Pronunciation: /ˈkɑn.tɹəˌbeɪs/ 1. The part or section one octave lower than bass. 2. Double bass; string bass. 3. Any of the several contrabass instruments. 4. The person or instrument performing the contrabass part.
Word: like Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Verb from Middle English liken, from Old English līcian (“to like, to please”), from Proto-West Germanic *līkēn, from Proto-Germanic *līkāną, from Proto-Indo-European *leyg- (“image; likeness; similarity”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian liekje (“to be similar, resemble”), West Frisian lykje (“to seem, appear, look”), Dutch lijken (“to seem”), Low German lieken (“to be like; resemble”), German gleichen (“to resemble”), Swedish lika (“to like; put up with; align with”), Norwegian like (“to like”), Icelandic and Faroese líka (“to like”). Noun from Middle English like (“pleasure, will, like”), from the verb Middle English liken (“to like”). Pronunciation: /laɪ̯k/, /læ̙ːk/, /lɑːk/, /lɔɪ̯k/, /lʌɪk/ 1. Something that a person likes (prefers). Labels: in-plural Example: Tell me your likes and dislikes. 2. An individual vote showing support for, approval of, or enjoyment of, something posted on the Internet. Labels: Internet Example: Social media is supervisual, and there's nothing more shareable than images, so this is a way to increase shares and likes and follows. Example: Dress for myself, I don't dress for hype / I dress for myself, you dress for the likes
Word: like Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Adjective from Middle English lik, lyk, lich, like, from Old English ġelīċ by shortening, influenced by Old Norse líkr, glíkr; both from Proto-Germanic *galīkaz (“like, similar, same”). Related to alike; more distantly, with lich and -ly. Cognate with West Frisian like (“like; as”), Saterland Frisian gliek (“like”), Danish lig (“alike”), Dutch gelijk (“like, alike”), German gleich (“equal, like”), Icelandic líkur (“alike, like, similar”), Norwegian lik (“like, alike”) Swedish lik (“like, similar”) Adverb from Middle English like, lyke, liche, lyche, from Old English ġelīċe (“likewise, also, as, in like manner, similarly”) and Old Norse líka (“also, likewise”); both from Proto-Germanic *galīkê, from Proto-Germanic *galīkaz (“same, like, similar”). Conjunction from Middle English like, lyke, lik, lyk, from the adverb Middle English like. Preposition from Middle English like, lyke, liche, lyche, lijc, liih (“similar to, like, equal to, comparable with”), from Middle English like (adjective) and like (adverb). Pronunciation: /laɪ̯k/, /læ̙ːk/, /lɑːk/, /lɔɪ̯k/, /lʌɪk/ 1. Similar. Example: My partner and I have like minds. Example: The two cats were as like as though they had come from the same litter. 2. Likely; probable. Labels: Scotland, Southern-US Example: But it is like the jolly world about us will scoff at the paradox of these practices. Example: Many were […] not easy to be govern'd, nor like to conform themselves to such strict rules. 3. inclined (to), prone (to). Labels: Scotland, Southern-US, usually Example: He seems like to run from any semblance of hard work.
Word: like Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Adjective from Middle English lik, lyk, lich, like, from Old English ġelīċ by shortening, influenced by Old Norse líkr, glíkr; both from Proto-Germanic *galīkaz (“like, similar, same”). Related to alike; more distantly, with lich and -ly. Cognate with West Frisian like (“like; as”), Saterland Frisian gliek (“like”), Danish lig (“alike”), Dutch gelijk (“like, alike”), German gleich (“equal, like”), Icelandic líkur (“alike, like, similar”), Norwegian lik (“like, alike”) Swedish lik (“like, similar”) Adverb from Middle English like, lyke, liche, lyche, from Old English ġelīċe (“likewise, also, as, in like manner, similarly”) and Old Norse líka (“also, likewise”); both from Proto-Germanic *galīkê, from Proto-Germanic *galīkaz (“same, like, similar”). Conjunction from Middle English like, lyke, lik, lyk, from the adverb Middle English like. Preposition from Middle English like, lyke, liche, lyche, lijc, liih (“similar to, like, equal to, comparable with”), from Middle English like (adjective) and like (adverb). Pronunciation: /laɪ̯k/, /læ̙ːk/, /lɑːk/, /lɔɪ̯k/, /lʌɪk/ 1. Likely. Labels: colloquial, dialectal, obsolete Example: DON PEDRO. May be she doth but counterfeit. CLAUDIO. Faith, like enough. Example: “You'll try it, some day, like enough; but you'll get tired of the change pretty soon.” “Why?” “Well, I'll tell you. Now you've always been a sailor; did you ever try some other business?” 2. In a like or similar manner. Labels: archaic, rare Example: Like as a father pitieth his children, so the Lord pitieth them that fear him.
Word: like Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Adjective from Middle English lik, lyk, lich, like, from Old English ġelīċ by shortening, influenced by Old Norse líkr, glíkr; both from Proto-Germanic *galīkaz (“like, similar, same”). Related to alike; more distantly, with lich and -ly. Cognate with West Frisian like (“like; as”), Saterland Frisian gliek (“like”), Danish lig (“alike”), Dutch gelijk (“like, alike”), German gleich (“equal, like”), Icelandic líkur (“alike, like, similar”), Norwegian lik (“like, alike”) Swedish lik (“like, similar”) Adverb from Middle English like, lyke, liche, lyche, from Old English ġelīċe (“likewise, also, as, in like manner, similarly”) and Old Norse líka (“also, likewise”); both from Proto-Germanic *galīkê, from Proto-Germanic *galīkaz (“same, like, similar”). Conjunction from Middle English like, lyke, lik, lyk, from the adverb Middle English like. Preposition from Middle English like, lyke, liche, lyche, lijc, liih (“similar to, like, equal to, comparable with”), from Middle English like (adjective) and like (adverb). Pronunciation: /laɪ̯k/, /læ̙ːk/, /lɑːk/, /lɔɪ̯k/, /lʌɪk/ 1. Someone similar to a given person, or something similar to a given object; a comparative; a type; a sort. Labels: countable, sometimes, uncountable Example: There were bowls full of sweets, chocolates and the like. Example: This is something the likes of which I've never seen before, and we should compare like with like instead. 2. The stroke that equalizes the number of strokes played by the opposing player or side. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: to play the like
Word: like Part of Speech: conj Etymology: Adjective from Middle English lik, lyk, lich, like, from Old English ġelīċ by shortening, influenced by Old Norse líkr, glíkr; both from Proto-Germanic *galīkaz (“like, similar, same”). Related to alike; more distantly, with lich and -ly. Cognate with West Frisian like (“like; as”), Saterland Frisian gliek (“like”), Danish lig (“alike”), Dutch gelijk (“like, alike”), German gleich (“equal, like”), Icelandic líkur (“alike, like, similar”), Norwegian lik (“like, alike”) Swedish lik (“like, similar”) Adverb from Middle English like, lyke, liche, lyche, from Old English ġelīċe (“likewise, also, as, in like manner, similarly”) and Old Norse líka (“also, likewise”); both from Proto-Germanic *galīkê, from Proto-Germanic *galīkaz (“same, like, similar”). Conjunction from Middle English like, lyke, lik, lyk, from the adverb Middle English like. Preposition from Middle English like, lyke, liche, lyche, lijc, liih (“similar to, like, equal to, comparable with”), from Middle English like (adjective) and like (adverb). Pronunciation: /laɪ̯k/, /læ̙ːk/, /lɑːk/, /lɔɪ̯k/, /lʌɪk/ 1. As, the way. Labels: colloquial Example: 1966, Advertising slogan for Winston cigarettes Winston tastes good like a cigarette should Example: But if you do right to me, baby I’ll do right to you, too Ya got to do unto others Like you’d have them, like you’d have them, do unto you 2. As if; as though; such as. Labels: colloquial, usually Example: It looks like you've finished the project. Example: It seemed like you didn't care.
Word: like Part of Speech: prep Etymology: Adjective from Middle English lik, lyk, lich, like, from Old English ġelīċ by shortening, influenced by Old Norse líkr, glíkr; both from Proto-Germanic *galīkaz (“like, similar, same”). Related to alike; more distantly, with lich and -ly. Cognate with West Frisian like (“like; as”), Saterland Frisian gliek (“like”), Danish lig (“alike”), Dutch gelijk (“like, alike”), German gleich (“equal, like”), Icelandic líkur (“alike, like, similar”), Norwegian lik (“like, alike”) Swedish lik (“like, similar”) Adverb from Middle English like, lyke, liche, lyche, from Old English ġelīċe (“likewise, also, as, in like manner, similarly”) and Old Norse líka (“also, likewise”); both from Proto-Germanic *galīkê, from Proto-Germanic *galīkaz (“same, like, similar”). Conjunction from Middle English like, lyke, lik, lyk, from the adverb Middle English like. Preposition from Middle English like, lyke, liche, lyche, lijc, liih (“similar to, like, equal to, comparable with”), from Middle English like (adjective) and like (adverb). Pronunciation: /laɪ̯k/, /læ̙ːk/, /lɑːk/, /lɔɪ̯k/, /lʌɪk/ 1. Similar to, reminiscent of. Example: Folk like that I just can’t brook. Example: I’m very like my father. 2. Typical of. Example: It would be just like Achilles to be sulking in his tent. 3. Approximating. Example: Popcorn costs something like 10 dollars at the movies. 4. In the manner of, similarly to. Example: He doesn't act like a president. 5. Such as; including. Example: It's for websites like Wikipedia. Example: In Mars's office, near his own impressive executive desk (a Vladimir Kagan), hangs a mixed media artwork depicting legendary MCs like Queen Latifah, Slick Rick, Rakim, and Nas (a business partner of Mars's). 6. As if there would be. Example: It looks like a hot summer in Europe. 7. Used to ask for a description or opinion of someone or something. Example: I hear she has a new boyfriend. What's he like? –He's intelligent and handsome. Example: What’s the weather like in Ürümqi today?
Word: like Part of Speech: particle Etymology: Adjective from Middle English lik, lyk, lich, like, from Old English ġelīċ by shortening, influenced by Old Norse líkr, glíkr; both from Proto-Germanic *galīkaz (“like, similar, same”). Related to alike; more distantly, with lich and -ly. Cognate with West Frisian like (“like; as”), Saterland Frisian gliek (“like”), Danish lig (“alike”), Dutch gelijk (“like, alike”), German gleich (“equal, like”), Icelandic líkur (“alike, like, similar”), Norwegian lik (“like, alike”) Swedish lik (“like, similar”) Adverb from Middle English like, lyke, liche, lyche, from Old English ġelīċe (“likewise, also, as, in like manner, similarly”) and Old Norse líka (“also, likewise”); both from Proto-Germanic *galīkê, from Proto-Germanic *galīkaz (“same, like, similar”). Conjunction from Middle English like, lyke, lik, lyk, from the adverb Middle English like. Preposition from Middle English like, lyke, liche, lyche, lijc, liih (“similar to, like, equal to, comparable with”), from Middle English like (adjective) and like (adverb). Pronunciation: /laɪ̯k/, /læ̙ːk/, /lɑːk/, /lɔɪ̯k/, /lʌɪk/ 1. A delayed filler. Labels: Geordie, Ireland, Scotland, Teesside, colloquial Example: He was so angry, like. 2. Indicating approximation or uncertainty. Labels: colloquial Example: There were, like, twenty of them. Example: [Sally Brown:] Christmas is getting all you can get while the getting is good. [Charlie Brown:] GIVING! The only real joy is GIVING! [Sally Brown, rolling her eyes:] Like, wow! 3. Used to precede an approximate quotation or paraphrase or an expression of something that happened. Labels: colloquial Example: I was like, “Why did you do that?” and he's like, “I don't know.” Example: A customer walked in like, "I demand to see the manager!" 4. A discourse marker used to highlight or put focus on new information or a new development in a story. Labels: colloquial Example: She was, like, sooooo happy. Example: And then he, like, got all angry and left the room.
Word: like Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From like (adverb) and like (adjective). Pronunciation: /laɪ̯k/, /læ̙ːk/, /lɑːk/, /lɔɪ̯k/, /lʌɪk/ 1. To be likely. Labels: dialectal, intransitive Example: He probably got his death, as he liked to have done two years ago, by viewing the troops for the expedition, from the wall of Kensington garden.
Word: reflex arc Part of Speech: noun 1. The neural pathway that mediates a reflex.
Word: Jim Crow Part of Speech: name Etymology: From the minstrel show song Jump Jim Crow, written in 1828 by Thomas D. Rice, the originator of blackface performance. Pronunciation: /ˌdʒɪm ˈkɹoʊ/ 1. A black man. Labels: derogatory, ethnic, obsolete, offensive, slur 2. The collective policies and customs of an era of racial oppression, especially legalized racial persecution and segregationist practices, prevalent from the late 1800s through the 1960s until challenged by the U.S. civil rights movement. Labels: US, historical Example: Texas stands for segregation—for Jim Crow cars, for eating in separate restaurants, for sitting in separate rail coaches, for doing all the things which make white and black people in the United States realise how different they are. Example: Many of us like to ask ourselves, 'What would I do if I was alive during slavery? Or the Jim Crow South? Or apartheid? What would I do if my country was committing genocide? 3. A fictional character from various minstrel show performances who is stereotypically depicted as an unintelligent, violent, and promiscuous black man.
Word: Jim Crow Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From the minstrel show song Jump Jim Crow, written in 1828 by Thomas D. Rice, the originator of blackface performance. Pronunciation: /ˌdʒɪm ˈkɹoʊ/ 1. A World War II code name for patrols along the British coastline to intercept enemy aircraft, originally intended to warn of an invasion in 1940. Labels: historical Example: … flying cannon equipped Spitfires V’s mainly on ‘Jim Crow’ operations (operational Patrols along the home coastline intercepting any hostile aircraft and looking out for any invasion forces). 2. A double-action planing tool invented by Joseph Whitworth, in which the blade ‘jumps’ to face the other way on the back-stroke. Example: Two other machines exhibited by Whitworth… One was furnished with a reversing tool to plane both ways, and called, from its peculiar motion, a Jim Crow machine. Example: He has considerably improved upon the planing machine, in his “Jim Crow” machine, so called because the cutter reverses itself and works both ways, and in fact adapts itself to any position to do its work. 3. A tool for bending railway rails, by holding the rail with two arms and pushing a screw into the other side. Example: When rails have to be bent with a Jim Crow, as in setting stock or check-rails, or straightening a bent rail, they should always be heated first, or they are liable to crack, especially steel rails. Example: It is placed on the rail pretty much as a jim-crow is set, and as the middle roll is turned it travels along on the rail, curving the rail as it moves.
Word: Jim Crow Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From the minstrel show song Jump Jim Crow, written in 1828 by Thomas D. Rice, the originator of blackface performance. Pronunciation: /ˌdʒɪm ˈkɹoʊ/ 1. Discriminatory against African Americans. Labels: not-comparable 2. Segregated between African Americans and Caucasians. Labels: not-comparable Example: A Jim Crow audience
Word: Jim Crow Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From the minstrel show song Jump Jim Crow, written in 1828 by Thomas D. Rice, the originator of blackface performance. Pronunciation: /ˌdʒɪm ˈkɹoʊ/ 1. To work toward legislation that incorporates a discriminatory caste system or racial segregation. Labels: intransitive, transitive Example: The American Bowling Congress’ 50-odd years of jimcrowing went by the boards during their convention in May which carried a motion to delete the "white males only" clause from their constitution. Example: It is not only the students who are jimcrowed in the South. And it is not only the students who are protesting.
Word: Jane Crow Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Patterned after Jim Crow and Jane Doe, such Crow meaning "discrimination", and Doe meaning "unknown" or "anonymous" 1. Discrimination against women. Labels: uncountable 2. Misogyny. Labels: uncountable 3. Segregation of the genders. Labels: uncountable
Word: religionism Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Latin religiōbor. Old French religionbor. Middle English religioun English religion Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō) Proto-Indo-European *-mos Proto-Indo-European *-mós Ancient Greek -μός (-mós) Ancient Greek -ισμός (-ismós)der. English -ism English religionism From religion + -ism. 1. excessive religious ardour or zeal Labels: countable, uncountable 2. extreme piety Labels: countable, uncountable 3. discrimination or prejudice on the basis of religion or religious beliefs. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: fix Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English fixen, borrowed from Old French *fixer (attested only as ficher, fichier; > English fitch), from fix (“fastened; fixed”), from Latin fīxus (“immovable; steady; stable; fixed”), from fīgō (“to drive in; stick; fasten”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeygʷ- (“to jab; stick; set”). Related to dig. Pronunciation: /ˈfɪks/, [ˈfɪks] 1. A repair or corrective action. Example: That plumber's fix is much better than the first one's. Example: Seeing the British establishment struggle with the financial sector is like watching an alcoholic […]. Until 2008 there was denial over what finance had become. […] But the scandals kept coming, […]. A broad section of the political class now recognises the need for change but remains unable to see the necessity of a fundamental overhaul. Instead it offers fixes and patches. 2. A difficult situation; a quandary or dilemma; a predicament. Example: It rained before we repaired the roof, and were we in a fix! Example: "How come you're in this fix?" 3. A single dose of a narcotic drug, especially when injected. Labels: slang Example: And Cash told me of cases where two hips take a fix together and then one pulls out his badge. Example: Maybe I will find in yage what I was looking for in junk and weed and coke. Yage may be the final fix. 4. A single dose of a narcotic drug, especially when injected. Labels: broadly, figuratively, slang 5. A single dose of a narcotic drug, especially when injected. Labels: broadly, figuratively, slang 6. A prearrangement of the outcome of a supposedly competitive process, such as a sporting event, a game, an election, a trial, or a bid. Example: As the professional thief notes: You can tell by the way the case is handled in court when the fix is in. 7. An understanding, grasp of something. Example: Each character comes to us with her own particular fix on reality, shaped by a lifetime of experience and by the urgencies of the moment. 8. A determination of location. Example: We have a fix on your position. 9. A non-waypoint terrain feature used to make a determination of location. 10. Fettlings (mixture used to line a furnace). Labels: US
Word: bucolic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: PIE word *gʷṓws Borrowed from Latin būcolicus, from Ancient Greek βουκολικός (boukolikós, “rustic, pastoral; meter used by pastoral poets”, literally “pertaining to cowherds”). Pronunciation: /bjuːˈkɒlɪk/, /bjuˈkɑlɪk/ 1. Rustic, pastoral, country-styled. Example: The countryside was filled with charming, bucolic scenery, complete with rolling hills, fields of wildflowers, and quaint farmhouses. Example: A couple of years later the Metropolitan had reached its own most northerly point, Verney Junction, which was as bucolic as it sounds. 2. Relating to the pleasant aspects of rustic country life. Example: The cozy bed and breakfast was located in a picturesque, bucolic setting, offering guests a chance to escape the city and enjoy the simple pleasures of the countryside. Example: In a sense, Mr. Maillier is living the classic French dream – working the land in the bucolic countryside, feeding his children good food, and keeping France’s gastronomic heritage alive. 3. Pertaining to herdsmen or peasants. Example: Their traditional clothing and simple way of life reflected their bucolic roots as a community of shepherds and farmers. Example: Here we consider a bucolic example.
Word: bucolic Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin būcolicum, neuter substantive of būcolicus. Pronunciation: /bjuːˈkɒlɪk/, /bjuˈkɑlɪk/ 1. A pastoral poem. 2. A rustic, peasant.
Word: beatific Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin beātificus (“making happy or blessed”), from beātus (“blessed”) + -ficus (“making”). Pronunciation: /bɪəˈtɪfɪk/ 1. Blessed, blissful, heavenly. Example: Since the physical body is really a filter which shuts out the psychic realms, when one is out of the body one is out of the protection of the wall: whatever one thinks is immediately experienced - nightmare or beatific vision. Example: The crowd is rapturous and Swift beatific as she gazes out at us, all high on the same drug. Her fans are singularly passionate, not just in the venue but also online, as they analyze clues, hints, and secret messages in everything from her choreography to her costumes—some deliberately planted, others not. 2. Having a benign appearance.
Word: aliment Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From French aliment, from Latin alimentum (“food”). Pronunciation: /ˈæ.lɪ.mənt/ 1. Food. Labels: archaic, countable, uncountable Example: In the living state, the body is observed to receive aliment; [...] 2. Nourishment, sustenance. Labels: countable, figuratively, uncountable Example: As when Demosthenes reprehended the people for hearkening to the conditions offered by King Philip, being not honourable nor equal, he saith they were but aliments of their sloth and weakness, which if they were taken away, necessity would teach them stronger resolutions. Example: All this monotony might be a good aliment for a poet but what if one had no gifts? 3. An allowance for maintenance; alimony. Labels: Scotland, countable, uncountable
Word: aliment Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From French aliment, from Latin alimentum (“food”). Pronunciation: /ˈæ.lɪ.mənt/ 1. To feed, nourish. Labels: obsolete 2. To sustain, support. Example: Yet there would also be many – and not simply the powerful and ultra-privileged – who lost out, and whose discontent operated as a kind of political yeast, alimenting ‘unpatriotic’ thoughts and acts.