nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: commonwealth Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From common (“public”) + wealth (“well-being”). From c. 1450 as common wele (commonweal). In the form common-wealth (common welthe) from c. 1520, used by Tyndale in the sense "secular society" in particular, for which other authors preferred publike weal. Also from the 1520s treated as a synonym or loan-translation of res publica (republic) (Rollison 2017:67f). Pronunciation: /ˈkɑmənˌwɛlθ/, /ˈkɔmənˌwɛlθ/, /ˈkɒmənˌwelθ/, /ˈkɒmənˌwɛlθ/ 1. The well-being of a community. Labels: obsolete 2. The entirety of a (secular) society, a polity, a state. Example: Remeber I saye yt ye were at that tyme wt oute Christ and were reputed aliantes from the comen welth [πολιτεία (politeía)] of Israel and were straugers fro the testamentes of promes and had no hope and were with out god in this worlde. Example: I'th' commonwealth I would by contraries Execute all things, for no kind of traffic Would I admit; no name of magistrate[…] 3. Republic. Often capitalized, as Commonwealth. Example: 1649, Act of the Long Parliament Be it declared and enacted by this present Parliament and by the Authoritie of the same That the People of England and of all the Dominions and Territoryes thereunto belonging are and shall be and are hereby constituted, made, established, and confirmed to be a Commonwealth and free State And shall from henceforth be Governed as a Commonwealth and Free State by the supreame Authoritie of this Nation, the Representatives of the People in Parliam[ent] and by such as they shall appoint and constitute as Officers and Ministers under them for the good of the People and that without any King or House of Lords.
Word: Formosa Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Spanish Formosa, from Vuelta la Formosa and Vuelta Fermosa (“Beautiful Turn”) in reference to a bend in the Paraguay River near the city, from Old Spanish fermosa, from Latin formosa. 1. A city in northern Argentina. 2. A department of Argentina around the city. 3. A province of Argentina around the city.
Word: Formosa Part of Speech: name Etymology: Borrowed from Maltese Formosa. 1. A surname from Maltese.
Word: turn down Part of Speech: verb 1. To refuse, decline, or deny. Labels: idiomatic Example: He turned down all our offers of help. Example: A local doctor had bought one canvas and but for that lucky chance he would have been out of pocket. Now he was muttering grumpily at Edmund, "Have to get something better this trip, Edmund. Got to pull up somehow or buyers will be turnin' us down. Sales been gettin' worse and worse these last years." 2. To reduce the power, etc. of something by means of a control, such as the volume, heat, or light. Labels: idiomatic Example: Turn down the television so I can hear myself think. Example: When it starts to boil, turn down the heat to a simmer. 3. To reposition by turning, flipping, etc. in a downward direction; to double or fold down. Labels: idiomatic Example: Turn down the blankets to let them air out.
Word: turn up Part of Speech: verb 1. To show up; to appear suddenly or unexpectedly. Labels: copulative, intransitive Example: Is this your t-shirt that turned up in my drawer? Example: I don't like people turning up without an appointment. 2. To cause to appear; to find by searching, etc. Labels: transitive Example: I spent hours in the archives, but couldn't turn up anything on the alleged criminal. 3. To increase the amount of something by means of a control, such as the volume, heat, or light. Labels: transitive Example: Turn up the radio and sing along. Example: Turn the rhythm up, don't you wanna just Come along for the ride? 4. To reposition by rotating, flipping, etc., upwards. Labels: transitive Example: He turned up his collar against the cold. 5. To belay or make fast (a line on a cleat or pin). Labels: transitive Example: Turn up the main halyard. 6. To party hard, especially when involving alcohol or drugs. Labels: intransitive, slang Example: We're going to turn up at the concert tonight. 7. To acquit. Labels: UK, obsolete, slang, transitive Example: Thirty-six were cast for death, and only one was ‘topped’ (hanged), the very one that expected to be ‘turned up’ (acquitted) for highway robbery. 8. To sicken. Labels: UK, slang, transitive Example: '[…] fair turned me up.' 'You get used to these things, lad,' Inspector Moss said as they trudged heavy-footed up the stairs. 'Though I know what you mean. The first time I saw a dead woman my stomach turned over. […]'
Word: turn up Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of turn-up. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: soporific Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From French soporifique, from Latin sopor (“deep sleep”). Unrelated to stupor (distinct in Proto-Indo-European). Pronunciation: /ˌsɒp.əˈɹɪf.ɪk/, /ˌsəʊ.pəˈɹɪf.ɪk/, /ˌsɑp.əˈɹɪf.ɪk/, /ˌsoʊ.pəˈɹɪf.ɪk/ 1. Something inducing sleep, especially a drug. Example: The doctor prescribed a soporific to help the patient sleep. Example: And ancient soporifics—such as poisonous leaves and various opiate concoctions—were roughly as likely to kill you as they were to induce REM. 2. Something boring or dull. Labels: figuratively
Word: soporific Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From French soporifique, from Latin sopor (“deep sleep”). Unrelated to stupor (distinct in Proto-Indo-European). Pronunciation: /ˌsɒp.əˈɹɪf.ɪk/, /ˌsəʊ.pəˈɹɪf.ɪk/, /ˌsɑp.əˈɹɪf.ɪk/, /ˌsoʊ.pəˈɹɪf.ɪk/ 1. Tending to induce sleep. Example: For we are not here to understand, as perhaps some have, that an author actually falls asleep while he is writing. It is true, that readers are too apt to be so overtaken; […]To say the truth, these soporific parts are so many scenes of serious artfully interwoven, in order to contrast and set off the rest; Example: It is said that the effect of eating too much lettuce is “soporific.” I have never felt sleepy after eating lettuces; but then I am not a rabbit. They certainly had a very soporific effect upon the Flopsy Bunnies! 2. Boring, dull. Labels: figuratively Example: The professor delivered a soporific lecture. Example: COP stands for conference of the parties under the UNFCCC, and the annual meetings have swung between fractious and soporific, interspersed with moments of high drama and the occasional triumph (the Paris agreement in 2015) and disaster (Copenhagen in 2009).
Word: watch Part of Speech: noun Etymology: As a noun, from Middle English wacche, from Old English wæċċe. See below for verb form. Pronunciation: /ˈwɒt͡ʃ/, /ˈwɔt͡ʃ/, /ˈwɑt͡ʃ/, [ˈwɔ̟t͡ʃ] 1. A portable or wearable timepiece. Example: Meronyms: watch face, watch receiver, watchspring, watch battery, watchstrap, watch strap, watchband Example: More people today carry a watch on their wrists than in their pockets; some people today don't use a watch at all, because their smartphone serves the purpose well enough. 2. The act of guarding and observing someone or something. Example: shepherds keeping watch by night Example: All the long night their mournful watch they keep. 3. A particular time period when guarding is kept. Example: The second watch of the night began at midnight. Example: I did stand my watch upon the hill. 4. A period of wakefulness between the two sleeps of a biphasic sleep pattern (the dead sleep or first sleep and morning sleep or second sleep): the first waking. 5. A person or group of people who guard. Example: The watch stopped the travelers at the city gates. Example: Pilate said unto them, Ye have a watch; go your way, make it as sure as ye can. 6. The post or office of a watchman; also, the place where a watchman is posted, or where a guard is kept. Example: He upbraids Iago, that he made him Brave me upon the watch. 7. A group of sailors and officers aboard a ship or shore station with a common period of duty: starboard watch, port watch. 8. A period of time on duty, usually four hours in length; the officers and crew who tend the working of a vessel during the same watch. (FM 55–501). 9. The act of seeing, or viewing, for a period of time. Example: A quick watch of Stanley Kubrick's Clockwork Orange sends this reality home fast. Amoral, vacuous, cold-blooded, unsympathetic, and chillingly evil describe only parts of the story. Example: The first third of the film is laugh after laugh; […] But half an hour in and this movie gets unnervingly dark and is an uncomfortable watch at times.
Word: watch Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English wacchen, from Old English wæċċan, from Proto-West Germanic *wakkjan, from Proto-Germanic *wakjaną. Cognate with Dutch wekken, German wecken, Danish vække, Norwegian Bokmål vekke, Norwegian Nynorsk vekkja, Swedish väcka, Faroese and Icelandic vekja. Pronunciation: /ˈwɒt͡ʃ/, /ˈwɔt͡ʃ/, /ˈwɑt͡ʃ/, [ˈwɔ̟t͡ʃ] 1. To look at, see, or view for a period of time. Labels: ambitransitive Example: Watching the clock will not make time go faster. Example: I'm tired of watching TV. 2. To observe over a period of time; to notice or pay attention. Labels: transitive Example: Watch this! Example: Put a little baking soda in some vinegar and watch what happens. 3. To mind, attend, or guard. Labels: transitive Example: Please watch my suitcase for a minute. Example: He has to watch the kids that afternoon. 4. To be wary or cautious of. Labels: transitive Example: You should watch that guy. He has a reputation for lying. 5. To attend to dangers to or regarding. Labels: transitive Example: watch your head; watch your step Example: Watch yourself when you talk to him. 6. To remain awake with a sick or dying person; to maintain a vigil. Labels: intransitive Example: At the funeralls in Yorkeshire, to this day, they continue the custome of watching & sitting-up all night till the body is interred. 7. To be vigilant or on one's guard. Labels: intransitive Example: For some must watch, while some must sleep: So runs the world away. 8. To act as a lookout. Labels: intransitive Example: "[…] Scarcely a night passes without the light showing, and there's no doubt that the water runs. We've put copying ink on the door handles and the taps and got into it ourselves until there isn't a man about the place that you couldn't implicate." "Has anyone watched up there?" 9. To serve the purpose of a watchman by floating properly in its place. 10. To be awake. Labels: intransitive, obsolete Example: So on the morne Sir Trystram, Sir Gareth and Sir Dynadan arose early and went unto Sir Palomydes chambir, and there they founde hym faste aslepe, for he had all nyght wacched […] 11. To be on the lookout for; to wait for expectantly. Labels: obsolete, transitive Example: [S]he had reason to dread that her husband had formed a very criminal project of being revenged on Zeluco, and watched an opportunity of putting it in execution.
Word: Coventry Part of Speech: name Etymology: Inherited from Middle English Coventre, from Old English Cofentrēo, Cofantrēo, of obscure origin. Believed to be derived from an Anglo-Saxon named Cofa, hence Cofantrēo (literally “Cofa's tree”). Traditionally, yet baselessly outside its history, tempted to be linked to English covenant. Pronunciation: /ˈkɒvəntɹi/, [ˈkʰɒvəntʃɹi], /ˈkʌvəntɹi/, /ˈkɑvəntɹi/, [ˈkʰɑvəntʃɹi] 1. A cathedral city and metropolitan borough in the West Midlands, central England, historically in Warwickshire. Example: Not since Coventry in 1992 has a Premier League side kicked off a campaign with an all-English XI but things have reached the point where, of the 61 signings who have cost the elite division's 20 clubs a transfer fee this summer, only 12 have involved Englishmen. 2. A place in the United States: 3. A place in the United States: 4. A place in the United States: 5. A place in the United States: 6. A place in the United States: 7. A surname. Example: Zimbabwean Olympic swimmer Kirsty Coventry has had an eventful career, from the pool, to parliament.
Word: if only Part of Speech: conj 1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see if, only. Example: It made me feel better, if only for a moment. Example: It won't be much fun if only guys turn up to the party. 2. I wish that; would (that) (archaic). Signifies a wish or desire for the present or the future. Labels: idiomatic Example: If only I could win the lottery. Example: My gambling ex could come to his senses, if only. 3. I wish that; would (that) (archaic). Signifies a regret about an action in the past. Labels: idiomatic Example: If only I had listened to my parents. Example: We didn't have that luxury. If only! 4. Even if for no other reason than; only just. Labels: idiomatic Example: I was pretty sure what I wanted, but I still tried on another if only to make sure. 5. Signifies a hypothetical or wishful precondition, or one which would be simple but is nonetheless unlikely, for a hypothetical, counterfactual, or future outcome. Labels: idiomatic Example: He could be a great student if only he got [or: if he only got] a little non-judgmental encouragement. Example: If you'd only quit interrupting me, I'll tell you!
Word: West Midlands Part of Speech: name Pronunciation: /ˌwɛst ˈmɪdləndz/ 1. A metropolitan county of England; the conurbation surrounding Birmingham including Wolverhampton, Coventry and Solihull. 2. One of nine administrative regions of England; the entire western half of the Midlands.
Word: salad Part of Speech: noun Etymology: PIE word *sḗh₂l From Middle English salade, from Old French salade, borrowed from Northern Italian salada, salata (compare insalata), from Vulgar Latin *salāta, from *salāre, from Latin saliō, from sal (“salt”). Vegetables were seasoned with brine or salty oil-and-vinegar dressings during Roman times. Pronunciation: /ˈsæl.əd/, /ˈsæl.ɪd/, /ˈsaləɖ/, /səˈlɑɖ/, /səˈlɑd̪/ 1. A food made primarily of one or more raw or cold ingredients, typically vegetables, usually served with a dressing such as vinegar or mayonnaise. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Lafeu. ’Twas a good lady, ’twas a good lady: we may pick a thousand salads ere we light on such another herb. Clown. Indeed, sir, she was the sweet marjoram of the salad, or rather, the herb of grace. Example: At various times and in different areas salads, compounded of meats, spices, tubers have been treated as of aphrodisiac value. 2. A food made primarily of one or more raw or cold ingredients, typically vegetables, usually served with a dressing such as vinegar or mayonnaise. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: romaine salad Example: kale salad 3. One or more raw vegetables of the kind used in salads. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: sandwiches comprising a meat, a cheese, a salad, and a condiment 4. Any varied blend or mixture. Labels: countable, idiomatic, uncountable Example: Rebuffed by the Arabs and then the Iranians for trying to be part of them and their societies, Pakistan is just a hotchpotch salad of people supposedly bound together by the myth of Muslim 'Ummah'. 5. Lettuce. Labels: UK, countable, uncountable Example: I prefer a little salad on my burger.
Word: flux Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Old French flux, from Latin fluxus (“flow”). Pronunciation: /flʌks/ 1. The act of flowing; a continuous moving on or passing by, as of a flowing stream. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: By […]the perpetual Flux of the Liquids, a great part of the Liquids is thrown out of the Body. Example: 1991, Mann, H., Fyfe, W., Tazaki, K., & Kerrich, R., Biological Accumulation of Different Chemical Elements by Microorganisms from Yellowstone National Park, USA. Mechanisms And Phylogeny Of Mineralization In Biological Systems, 357-362. Investigation of the silica budget for the Upper and Lower Geyser Basins of Yellowstone National Park by Truesdell et al. suggest that the present fluxes of hotspring water and thermal energy may have been continuous for at least the past 10,000 yr. 2. A state of ongoing change. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The schedule is in flux at the moment. Example: Languages, like our bodies, are in a continual flux. 3. A chemical agent for cleaning metal prior to soldering or welding. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: It is important to use flux when soldering or oxides on the metal will prevent a good bond. 4. The rate of transfer of energy (or another physical quantity), especially an electric or magnetic field, through a given surface. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: That high a neutron flux would be lethal in seconds. 5. A disease which causes diarrhea, especially dysentery. Labels: archaic, countable, uncountable Example: The next year vvas calamitous, bringing ſtrange fluxes upon men, and murren upon Cattel. 6. Diarrhea or other fluid discharge from the body. Labels: archaic, countable, uncountable 7. The state of being liquid through heat; fusion. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: flux Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Old French flux, from Latin fluxus (“flow”). Pronunciation: /flʌks/ 1. To use flux on. Labels: transitive Example: You have to flux the joint before soldering. 2. To melt. Labels: transitive 3. To flow as a liquid. Labels: intransitive
Word: flux Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Old French flux, from Latin fluxus (“flow”). Pronunciation: /flʌks/ 1. Flowing; unstable; inconstant; variable. Labels: not-comparable, uncommon Example: The flux nature of all things here.
Word: FOLDOC Part of Speech: name 1. Acronym of Free On-line Dictionary of Computing. Labels: abbreviation, acronym, alt-of
Word: turnover Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Deverbal from turn over. Pronunciation: /ˈtɝnoʊvɚ/ 1. The amount of money taken as sales transacted in a given period. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The company had an annual turnover of $500,000. Example: Across Europe, the sector accounts for turnover of €4 billion and employs around 25,000 people, with epoxies being present in many different products across the sector. 2. The frequency with which stock is replaced after being used or sold, workers leave and are replaced, a property changes hands, etc. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: High staff-turnover can lead to low morale amongst employees. Example: Job dissatisfaction results in high turnover. 3. A semicircular pastry made by turning one half of a circular crust over the other, enclosing the filling (such as fruit). Labels: countable, uncountable Example: They only served me one apple turnover for breakfast. 4. A loss of possession of the ball without scoring. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The Nimrods committed another dismaying turnover en route to another humiliating loss. Example: Australia’s 18 turnovers were a costly case of self-harm. So, too, were the two interception tries that ultimately wrecked any chance of Michael Cheika’s side ending their recent grim sequence against the Poms. […] Slick use of the resulting turnover ball gave Koroibete the space to burn off Daly, only the third try England have so far conceded in this tournament. 5. A measure of leg speed: the frequency with which one takes strides when running, typically given in strides per minute. Labels: countable, uncountable 6. An act or process of turning something over. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: a turnover in leadership 7. The act or result of overturning something; an upset. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: a bad turnover in a carriage 8. Synonym of runover. Labels: countable, uncountable 9. An apprentice, in any trade, who is handed over from one master to another to complete his time. Labels: countable, dated, uncountable
Word: turnover Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Deverbal from turn over. Pronunciation: /ˈtɝnoʊvɚ/ 1. Capable of being turned over; designed to be turned over. Labels: not-comparable Example: a turnover collar Example: Chamoisette glove samples for spring show some very swagger styles with gauntlet tops and turnover cuffs piped and embroidered with harmonious contrasts.
Word: turn over Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From turn + over. 1. To flip over; to rotate uppermost to bottom. Labels: transitive Example: Turn over the box and look at the bottom. Example: The brakes were applied immediately, but the engine ran into a sand drag at approximately 20 m.p.h., plunged down the embankment, and turned over on its side at the bottom. 2. To relinquish; give back. Labels: idiomatic, transitive Example: They turned over the evidence to the authorities. 3. To transfer. Labels: idiomatic, transitive Example: But what is to be done with our manufacturing population […] This one thing, of doing for them by ‘underselling all people,’ and filling our own bursten pockets and appetites by the road; and turning over all care for any ‘population,’ or human or divine consideration except cash only, to the winds, with a “Laissez-faire” and the rest of it: this is evidently not the thing. 4. To produce, complete, or cycle through. Labels: idiomatic, transitive Example: They can turn over about three hundred units per hour. 5. To generate (a certain amount of money from sales). Labels: transitive Example: The business turned over several million last year. 6. To mull, ponder Labels: transitive Example: Thus they dwelled for nearly a year, and in that time Robin Hood often turned over in his mind many means of making an even score with the Sheriff 7. To spin the crankshaft of an internal combustion engine using the starter or hand crank in an attempt to make it run. Labels: intransitive, transitive 8. To give up control (of the ball and thus the ability to score). Labels: transitive Example: The Giants didn't turn the ball over in their last four games. 9. To cause extensive disturbance or disruption to (a room, storage place, etc.), e.g. while searching for an item, or ransacking a property. Labels: transitive Example: I've turned over the whole place, but I still can't find my glasses. Example: Thieves turned over the apartment while the owners were away on holiday. 10. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see turn, over. Example: The family feeling was intensified as we stopped to speak to mothers in the cottage gardens, or waved to distant tractors turning over chocolate-brown furrows and driven by 'my dad' or 'my Uncle Bob'.
Word: spam Part of Speech: noun Etymology: The original sense (canned ham) is a proprietary name registered by Geo. A. Hormel & Co. in U.S., 1937. It is presumed to be a conflation of either "spiced ham" or "shoulder of pork and ham" but was soon extended to other kinds of canned meat. Hormel spells the trademarked name in all upper case. The use for unsolicited and unwanted email derives from a Monty Python's Flying Circus sketch. In the 1970 sketch, a group of Vikings in a restaurant repeatedly chant the word "spam". The earliest recorded real-life use for this sense occurs around 1993 which finds reference in a newsgroup post dated March 31, 1993, but the term may have been in use on "Multi-User Dungeons" (MUDs) in the 1980s. Pronunciation: /ˈspæm/, [ˈspeəm] 1. Unsolicited bulk electronic messages. Labels: Internet, countable, rare, uncountable Example: I get far too much spam. Example: I received 58 spams yesterday. 2. Any undesired electronic content automatically generated for commercial purposes. Labels: Internet, uncountable Example: An Act to provide for the control of spam, which is unsolicited commercial communications sent in bulk by electronic mail or by text or multi-media messaging to mobile telephone numbers, and to provide for matters connected therewith. 3. Excessive, often unwanted and repeated online messages. Labels: Internet, countable, uncountable 4. Ellipsis of spam account. Labels: Internet, abbreviation, alt-of, countable, ellipsis, uncountable 5. A large quantity or multitude of anything done repetitively or considered unusually or indiscriminately repetitive. Labels: broadly, countable, often, uncountable 6. A type of tinned meat made mainly from ham. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: spam Part of Speech: verb Etymology: The original sense (canned ham) is a proprietary name registered by Geo. A. Hormel & Co. in U.S., 1937. It is presumed to be a conflation of either "spiced ham" or "shoulder of pork and ham" but was soon extended to other kinds of canned meat. Hormel spells the trademarked name in all upper case. The use for unsolicited and unwanted email derives from a Monty Python's Flying Circus sketch. In the 1970 sketch, a group of Vikings in a restaurant repeatedly chant the word "spam". The earliest recorded real-life use for this sense occurs around 1993 which finds reference in a newsgroup post dated March 31, 1993, but the term may have been in use on "Multi-User Dungeons" (MUDs) in the 1980s. Pronunciation: /ˈspæm/, [ˈspeəm] 1. To send spam (i.e. unsolicited electronic messages.) Labels: Internet, intransitive Example: Transformed by programming ineptitude into a monster of Frankenstein proportions, it broke loose on the night of March 31, 1993 and proceeded to spam news.admin.policy with something on the order of 200 messages in which it attempted, and failed, to cancel its own messages. 2. To send spam (i.e. unsolicited electronic messages) to a person or entity. Labels: Internet, transitive 3. To send messages repeatedly, often with disruptive effect; to flood. Labels: Internet, intransitive, transitive 4. To do something rapidly and repeatedly. Labels: broadly, transitive Example: Stop spamming that special attack! Example: Spam the Z key to get a speed boost.
Word: propolis Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin propolis, from Hellenistic Ancient Greek πρόπολις (própolis, “suburb; propolis”) (apparently because the material was used by bees to extend their hives), from Ancient Greek προ- (pro-, “pro-”) + πόλις (pólis, “city”). Pronunciation: /ˈpɹɒ.pə.lɪs/, /ˈpɹɑ.pə.lɪs/ 1. An aromatic glue-like substance produced by honeybees from tree resin, waxes, and their own secretions, used in the construction of their hives. Labels: uncountable
Word: honeybee Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English honey Proto-Indo-European *bʰey-der. Proto-Germanic *bijǭ Proto-West Germanic *bijā Old English bēo Middle English be English bee English honeybee From honey + bee. 1. Alternative form of honey bee. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: In his new animated film, Jerry Seinfeld plays Barry B. Benson, a wisecracking, moony-eyed, charmingly petulant New York honeybee who doesn't want to spend his days as a worker bee stuck on the honeymaking assembly line. Example: The bees’ cubital index, a method for differentiating breeds of honeybees, also confirmed they are “more of an indigenous bee” than anything else, he said, but their adaptations have made them unique and peculiar, and they have very little banding. “Supposedly, wild tree-nesting honeybees which can sustain themselves do not exist, so nobody knows what type of wild, self-sustaining honeybee is actually left in the UK.”
Word: kibi- Part of Speech: prefix Etymology: Blend of kilo- + binary. Pronunciation: /ˈkɪbɪ-/, /ˈkɪbi/ 1. The IEC prefix meaning 2¹⁰ = 1024. Labels: morpheme
Word: mebi- Part of Speech: prefix Etymology: Blend of mega- + binary. Pronunciation: /ˈmɛbɪ-/, /ˈmɛbi/ 1. The IEC prefix meaning 2²⁰ = 1,024² = 1,048,576. Compare to mega-, meaning 10⁶ = 1,000² = 1,000,000, a million. Labels: morpheme
Word: gibi- Part of Speech: prefix Etymology: Blend of giga- + binary. Pronunciation: /ˈɡɪbɪ-/, /ˈɡɪbi/ 1. The IEC prefix meaning 2³⁰ = 1,024³ = 1,073,741,824. Labels: morpheme
Word: tebi- Part of Speech: prefix Etymology: Blend of tera- + binary. Pronunciation: /ˈtɛbɪ-/, /ˈtɛbi/ 1. The IEC prefix meaning 2⁴⁰ = 1,024⁴ = 1,099,511,627,776. Labels: morpheme
Word: fathom Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English fathome, fadom, fadme (“unit of length of about six feet; depth of six feet for nautical soundings; (loosely) cubit; ell”) [and other forms], from Old English fæþm, fæþme (“encircling or outstretched arms, bosom, embrace; envelopment; control, grasp, power; fathom (unit of measurement); cubit”) [and other forms], from Proto-West Germanic *faþm (“outstretched arms, embrace; fathom (unit of measurement)”), from Proto-Germanic *faþmaz (“outstretched arms, embrace; fathom (unit of measurement)”), from Proto-Indo-European *pet-, *peth₂- (“to spread out; to fly”). Cognates * Ancient Greek πέταλος (pétalos, “broad; flat”), πετᾰ́ννῡμῐ (petắnnūmĭ, “to open; to spread out; to be dispersed or scattered”) (whence English petal) * Gothic 𐍆𐌰𐌸𐌰 (faþa, “fench; hedge”) * Latin pateō (“to extend, increase; to be accessible, attainable, open; to be exposed, vulnerable”) * Low German fadem, faem (“cubit; thread”) * Middle Dutch vadem (modern Dutch vaam, vadem (“fathom”)) * Norwegian Bokmål favn (“an embrace; a fathom”) * Old Frisian fethm (“outstretched arms”) * Old High German fadam, fadum (“cubit”) (Middle High German vade (“enclosure”), vadem, vaden, modern German Faden (“fathom; filament, thread”)) * Old Norse faþmr (Danish favn (“an embrace; a fathom”), Icelandic faðmur (“an embrace”), Swedish famn (“the arms, bosom; an embrace”)) * Old Welsh etem (“thread”) Pronunciation: /ˈfað(ə)m/, /ˈfæðəm/, /ˈfædəm/ 1. To measure the depth of (water); to take a sounding of; to sound. Labels: also, figuratively, transitive Example: It is very steep, and on its summit is a lake of dark water, so deep that it cannot be fathomed. 2. To encircle (someone or something) with outstretched arms; specifically, to measure the circumference or (rare) length of something. Labels: archaic, obsolete, transitive 3. Often followed by out: to deeply understand (someone or something); to get to the bottom of. Labels: figuratively, transitive Example: I can’t for the life of me fathom what this means. Example: Otamendi’s selection ahead of Vincent Kompany was difficult to fathom and, apart from Fernandinho, City’s line-up was otherwise filled with attacking players. 4. To embrace (someone or something). Labels: obsolete, transitive 5. To measure a depth; to sound. Labels: intransitive 6. To conduct an examination or inquiry; to investigate. Labels: figuratively, intransitive
Word: fathomable Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree English fathom Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlis Proto-Italic *-ðlis Latin -bilis Latin -ābilis Old French -ablebor. Middle English -able English -able English fathomable From fathom + -able. Pronunciation: /ˈfæðəməbəl/, /ˈfæðməbəl/ 1. able to be fathomed Example: The mystery was finally fathomable after years of research. Example: His motives were barely fathomable to his friends.
Word: unfathomable Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From un- (prefix meaning ‘not’) + fathom (“to measure the depth of (water); (figurative) to deeply understand (someone or something)”) + -able (suffix forming adjectives denoting things not able or fit to be done). Pronunciation: /(ˌ)ʌnˈfæðəməbl̩/, /ʌnˈfæðm̩əbl̩/, /ˌʌnˈfæð(ə)məb(ə)l/ 1. Impossible to fathom. Example: [W]e are not to make our eſtimate of the quantity of VVaters meerly by the Superficies of the Sea, but by its vaſt depth, vvhich in ſome places is unfathomable, and by thoſe vaſt ſubterraneous Receptacles of VVater vvhich pour themſelves out in ſeveral great Ebullitions and Marine Springs: […] Example: But if we yet rise higher, and consider the fixed stars as so many vast oceans of flame, that are each of them attended with a different set of planets, and still discover new firmaments and new lights, that are sunk farther in those unfathomable depths of ether, so as not to be seen by the strongest of our telescopes, we are lost in such a labyrinth of suns and worlds, and confounded with the immensity and magnificence of nature. 2. Impossible to fathom. Labels: figuratively Example: The sheer number of warriors the enemy attacked with was unfathomable. Example: There are indeed unfadomable depths in that Ocean [i.e., the holy scriptures], vvherin vve ſhall vainly hope to pitch our anchor; but all neceſſary truthes need not much line: […]
Word: unfathomed Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Germanic *un- Proto-West Germanic *un- Old English un- Middle English un- English un- English fathomed English unfathomed From un- + fathomed. 1. Of unknown depth. Labels: not-comparable Example: Youth is not less averse from change; but that is from exaggeration of its consequences, for all seems to the young so important, and so fatal. They are timid, because they know not what they fear; hopeful, because they know not what they expect. Despite their gayety of confidence, they yet dread the first plunge into life's unfathomed deep. Example: As she told me, I was naught to her, and never shall be through the unfathomed depths of Time, unless, indeed, conditions alter, and a day comes at last when two men may love one woman, and all three be happy in the fact. 2. Not explored or understood. Labels: not-comparable Example: Man does vvith dangerous Curioſity / Theſe unfathom'd VVonders try: / VVith fancy'd Rules and Arbitrary Lavvs / Matter and Motion he reſtrains, / And ſtudy'd Lines and fictious Circles dravvs; […]
Word: in- Part of Speech: prefix Etymology: PIE word *h₁én From Middle English in-, from Old English in- (“in, into”, prefix), from Proto-Germanic *in, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁én. More at in. 1. in, into, towards, within. Labels: morpheme Example: inhold, inmove, intake, inthrill Example: inborn, inbound 2. in, into, towards, within. Labels: morpheme Example: inbeat Example: inbend 3. in, into, towards, within. Labels: morpheme Example: inbreed Example: inburning
Word: in- Part of Speech: prefix Etymology: From Middle English in-, borrowed (in words of Latinate origin) from Latin in-, from Latin in, from Proto-Indo-European *en (cognate to Germanic in-, above). Often borrowed from French in- (e.g. incise, incite, incline, indication), or as French en-, originally from Latin in. 1. in, into Labels: morpheme Example: il- before l, e.g. illusion im- before b, m, or p, e.g. imperil ir- before r, e.g. irrigate 2. in, into Labels: morpheme Example: imband Example: imbar 3. in, into Labels: morpheme Example: inblind Example: incloister 4. in, into Labels: morpheme Example: imbannered Example: inaureole
Word: in- Part of Speech: prefix Etymology: PIE word *né From Middle English in-, borrowed (in words of latinate origin) from Latin in- (“not”). Sometimes the Latin word has passed through French before reaching English (e.g. incapable, incertainty, inclement, incompatible). Doublet of un-. 1. Used with certain words to reverse their meaning. Labels: idiomatic, morpheme Example: ig- before n, e.g. ignoble il- before l, e.g. illegal im- before b, m, or p, e.g. improper ir- before r, e.g. irresistible 2. Used with certain words to reverse their meaning. Labels: idiomatic, morpheme Example: inedible Example: inaccurate 3. Used with certain words to reverse their meaning. Labels: idiomatic, morpheme Example: incredulity Example: ineptitude 4. Used with certain words to reverse their meaning. Labels: idiomatic, morpheme Example: inannihilable Example: inappellable
Word: im- Part of Speech: prefix Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Italic *n̥- Latin im- English im- From Latin im-, assimilated form of in- used before b-/p-/m-. 1. Expressing negation; not. Labels: morpheme
Word: im- Part of Speech: prefix Etymology: From em-, from Old French em-. Also from later Middle French im-, partly by confusion with im- of Latin origin (on which see above). 1. Alternative form of the prefix em-, itself variant of en-. Labels: alt-of, alternative, morpheme
Word: ir- Part of Speech: prefix Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Italic *n̥- Latin in- Latin ir- English ir- From Latin ir-, assimilated form of in- used before r-. 1. Used for expressing negation; not Labels: morpheme
Word: colloquialism Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ḱe? Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm Proto-Italic *kom Proto-Italic *kom- Latin con- Proto-Indo-European *telkʷ- Proto-Indo-European *tlokʷetorder. Proto-Italic *tlokʷōr Latin loquor Latin colloquor Proto-Indo-European *-(i)yós Proto-Italic *-ijos Proto-Italic *-ios Old Latin -ios Latin -ius Latin -ium Latin colloquiumder. Middle English colloquies English colloquy English -al English colloquial 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 colloquialism From colloquial + -ism. Pronunciation: /kəˈləʊ.kwi.əˌlɪz.əm/, /kəˈloʊ.kwi.əˌlɪz.əm/ 1. A colloquial word or phrase; a common spoken expression. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Before embarking on her trip, Kaefer expected to find a pan-Antarctic vocabulary, but quickly discovered there were distinct colloquialisms within each station. 2. A colloquial manner of speaking. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The differences between slang, colloquialism and jargon are not clear-cut.
Word: motu Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From a descendant of Proto-Polynesian *motu. 1. A reef islet formed by broken coral and sand, surrounding an atoll.
Word: motu Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Māori motu “land; country, nation” descendant of Proto-Polynesian *motu as above 1. country, nation Labels: New-Zealand, uncountable
Word: Mars rover Part of Speech: noun 1. A vehicle, either crewed or uncrewed, designed to travel across the surface of Mars for scientific exploration.
Word: eremite Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Ecclesiastical Latin, Late Latin eremita, from Ancient Greek ἐρημίτης (erēmítēs), from ἐρῆμος (erêmos, “uninhabited”) + -ίτης (-ítēs). Doublet of hermit. Pronunciation: /ˈɛɹ.əˌmaɪt/ 1. A hermit; a religious recluse, someone who lives alone.
Word: such is life Part of Speech: phrase 1. Used to express the acceptance of misfortune in one's life. Example: Of course I’m not happy about it, but such is life.
Word: trial Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English trial, triall, from Anglo-Norman trial, triel, from trier (“to pick out, cull”) + -al. More at English try. Pronunciation: /ˈtɹaɪəl/, [tɹaɪəl] 1. An occasion on which a person or thing is tested to find out how well they perform or how suitable they are. Example: all thy vexations / Were but my trials of thy love and thou / Hast strangely stood the test here Example: had my powers been less limited, I might have enforced obedience; but as it was, it was but a trial of strength between her and me, in which she generally came off victorious 2. An occasion on which a person or thing is tested to find out how well they perform or how suitable they are. Example: They will perform the trials for the new equipment next week. 3. An occasion on which a person or thing is tested to find out how well they perform or how suitable they are. Example: A randomized, controlled trial (RCT). 4. An occasion on which a person or thing is tested to find out how well they perform or how suitable they are. Example: soccer trials; sheepdog trials 5. An occasion on which a person or thing is tested to find out how well they perform or how suitable they are. 6. An occasion on which a person or thing is tested to find out how well they perform or how suitable they are. Labels: UK 7. An occasion on which a person or thing is tested to find out how well they perform or how suitable they are. Labels: archaic Example: In both your armies there is many a soul / Shall pay full dearly for this encounter, / If once they join in trial. 8. A meeting or series of meetings in a court of law at which evidence is presented to a judge (and sometimes a jury) to allow them to decide on a legal matter (especially whether an accused person is guilty of a crime). Example: If you are convicted at trial, you have the right to file an appeal. Example: He was charged with war crimes and brought to trial before the International Tribunal. 9. A difficult or annoying experience or person; (especially religion) such an experience seen as a test of faith and piety. Example: That boy was a trial to his parents. Example: That they are Cowards, many have said, but few have found it so in the time of Trial. 10. The action of trying (to do) something, especially more than once. (This sense is still current in the expression trial and error.) Labels: archaic Example: Finding my first Seed did not grow, which I easily imagin’d was by the Drought, I sought for a moister Piece of Ground to make another Trial in, Example: He summoned up all his strength for one last trial, and bent his faltering steps towards [the house].
Word: trial Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English trial, triall, from Anglo-Norman trial, triel, from trier (“to pick out, cull”) + -al. More at English try. Pronunciation: /ˈtɹaɪəl/, [tɹaɪəl] 1. Pertaining to a trial or test. Labels: not-comparable 2. Attempted on a provisional or experimental basis. Labels: not-comparable
Word: trial Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English trial, triall, from Anglo-Norman trial, triel, from trier (“to pick out, cull”) + -al. More at English try. Pronunciation: /ˈtɹaɪəl/, [tɹaɪəl] 1. To carry out a series of tests on (a new product, procedure etc.) before marketing or implementing it. Labels: transitive Example: The warning system was extensively trialed before being fitted to all our vehicles. Example: In the week beginning April 6, the company began trialling the new processes - these include greater spacing, split shifts, additional safety requirements and washing facilities. 2. To try out (a new player) in a sports team. Labels: transitive Example: The team trialled a new young goalkeeper in Saturday's match, with mixed results.
Word: trial Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin tri- (stem of trēs (“three”)) + -al, on the pattern of dual. Pronunciation: /ˈtɹaɪəl/, [tɹaɪəl] 1. Characterized by having three (usually equivalent) components. Labels: not-comparable 2. Triple. Labels: not-comparable 3. Pertaining to a language form referring to three of something, like people. (See Ambai language for an example.) Labels: not-comparable Example: No language has a trial number unless it has a dual.
Word: trial Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin tri- (stem of trēs (“three”)) + -al, on the pattern of dual. Pronunciation: /ˈtɹaɪəl/, [tɹaɪəl] 1. The trial number.
Word: archaeologist Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂er-der.? Proto-Indo-European *h₂ergʰ-der.? Ancient Greek ἄρχω (árkhō) Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Ancient Greek -ᾱ (-ā) Ancient Greek -η (-ē) Ancient Greek ἀρχή (arkhḗ) Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Ancient Greek -ιος (-ios) Ancient Greek ἀρχαῖος (arkhaîos) Proto-Indo-European *leǵ- Ancient Greek λόγος (lógos) Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-i-eh₂ Proto-Hellenic *-íā Ancient Greek -ῐ́ᾱ (-ĭ́ā) Ancient Greek -λογία (-logía) Ancient Greek ἀρχαιολογίᾱ (arkhaiologíā) English archaeolog(y) Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō) Proto-Hellenic *-tās Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs) Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)bor. Latin -istader. Old French -istebor. Middle English -ist English -ist English archaeologist From archaeolog(y) + -ist. By surface analysis, archaeo- + -logist. Pronunciation: /ˌɑː.kiˈɒl.ə.d͡ʒɪst/, /ˌɑɹ.kiˈɑ.lə.d͡ʒɪst/ 1. Someone who studies or practises archaeology. Example: The remains of a Roman aristocrat have been unearthed by archaeologists in northern England. […] David Hunter, principle archaeologist with West Yorkshire Joint Services, told CNN Monday that the discovery emerged after a commercial developer submitted an application for planning permission to the council. Example: Working around an ancient monument has meant having an archaeologist on site whenever there were excavations.
Word: exclamation mark Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˌɛks.kləˈmeɪ.ʃn̩ ˌmɑːk/, /ˌɛks.kləˈmeɪ.ʃn̩ ˌmɑɹk/ 1. The punctuation mark “!” (generally used to denote excitement, surprise or shock). Example: The excessive use of exclamation marks devalues their effect, but is typical of concise genres such as cartoons, not reference works! Example: Subject: Fire... Dear Sir-stroke-Madam: Fire. Exclamation mark. Fire. Exclamation mark. Help me. Exclamation mark. 123 Carendon Road. Looking forward to hearing from you. All the best, Maurice Moss.
Word: dermatologist Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From dermatology + -ist or dermato- + -logist. Pronunciation: /ˌdɜːməˈtɒlədʒɪst/, /ˌdɝ.məˈtɑ.lə.d͡ʒɪst/ 1. A person who is skilled in, professes or practices dermatology. Example: We have offered our products to our own burn surgeons and to other specialists of our and other hospitals, namely dermatologists, plasticians and specialists for long-term illnesses. Example: From now on, too, general practitioners should, as Southard emphasized, be urged to be at least as familiar with the general principles and methods of the psychiatrist as they are with those of the gynecologist, the dermatologist, and the pædiatrist.
Word: psychiatrist Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree French psych- French -iatre French psychiatre Proto-Indo-European *-(i)yós Proto-Italic *-ijos Proto-Italic *-ios Old Latin -ios Latin -ius Latin -ia Old French -ie Middle French -ie French -ie French psychiatriebor. English psychiatry Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō) Proto-Hellenic *-tās Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs) Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)bor. Latin -istader. Old French -istebor. Middle English -ist English -ist English psychiatrist From psychiatry + -ist. Pronunciation: /ˌsaɪˈkaɪ.ə.tɹɪst/ 1. A medical doctor specializing in psychiatry. Example: Says Colonel Thomas Murray, chief Army psychiatrist in South Viet Nam: “Some of our psychiatrists are the most improbable military guys: soft, flabby, unexercised.” Example: Even medical schools seem to have submitted to psychophobia by training psychiatrists almost exclusively as psychopharmacologists instead of as psychotherapists.
Word: Egyptologist Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Egypto- + -logist. Pronunciation: /ˌid͡ʒɪpˈtɑləd͡ʒɪst/ 1. A person; one who is skilled in or professes or practices Egyptology. Example: An Egyptologist's mind immediately turns to the ancient Egyptian counterpart to such an imagined protosactuary: a reed hut that all late Egyptian temples, in their archaizing longing to return to the origins, sought to emulate in stone through the typically Egyptian temple features of inward-sloping walls, torus and corvetto cornice.
Word: -ist Part of Speech: suffix Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō) Proto-Hellenic *-tās Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs) Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)bor. Latin -istader. Old French -istebor. Middle English -ist English -ist From Middle English -ist, -iste, from Old French -iste and Latin -ista, from Ancient Greek -ιστής (-istḗs), from -ίζω (-ízō, “-ize, -ise”, verbal suffix) + -τής (-tḗs, agent-noun suffix). Equivalent to -ism + -t. Doublet of -ista. The speaker of a language sense is influenced by Esperanto -isto. Pronunciation: /-ɪst/, /-əst/ 1. Added to words to form nouns denoting: Labels: morpheme Example: botanist, one who studies plants Example: psychiatrist, one who practices psychiatry 2. Added to words to form nouns denoting: Labels: morpheme Example: violinist, one who plays a violin Example: cyclist, one who rides a (bi)cycle 3. Added to words to form nouns denoting: Labels: morpheme Example: adventurist, one who takes risks or goes on adventures Example: artist, one who makes art 4. Added to words to form nouns denoting: Labels: morpheme Example: autist, egoist Example: Note, these are related to -isms: autism, egoism 5. Added to words to form nouns denoting: Labels: morpheme Example: Buddhist, Baptist, monotheist Example: Note, these are related to -isms: Buddhism, monotheism 6. Added to words to form nouns denoting: Labels: morpheme Example: Marxist, modernist, nihilist, existentialist, fascist, pacifist, activist, environmentalist, Example: Note, these are related to -isms: Marxism, modernism, nihilism, existentialism, fascism, pacifism 7. Added to words to form nouns denoting: Labels: morpheme Example: capitalist; industrialist Example: Note, these are related to -isms: capitalism; industrialism 8. Added to words to form nouns denoting: Labels: morpheme Example: sexist, racist: Note, these are related to -isms: sexism, racism 9. Added to words to form nouns denoting: Labels: morpheme Example: Esperantist, Tokiponist