nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: bark Part of Speech: intj Etymology: From Middle English barken, berken, borken, from Old English beorcan (“to bark”), from the Proto-West Germanic *berkan (“to bark”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰerg- (“to make a noise, growl, bark”), from *bʰer- (“to drone, hum, buzz”). Cognate with Icelandic berkja (“to bark, bluster”), Icelandic barki (“throat, windpipe”), dialectal Lithuanian burgė́ti (“to growl, grumble, grouch, quarrel”), Serbo-Croatian brbljati (“to murmur”). For the noun, compare Old English beorc, bearce (“barking”).. Pronunciation: /bɑːk/, /bɑɹk/ 1. The sound of a dog barking.
Word: bark Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English bark, from Old English barc (“bark”), from Old Norse bǫrkr (“tree bark”), from Proto-Germanic *barkuz, probably related to *birkijǭ (“birch”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰerHǵós (compare Latin frāxinus (“ash”), Lithuanian béržas (“birch”)), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰerHǵ- (“to gleam; white”) (compare English bright); akin to Danish bark, Icelandic börkur, Low German borke and Albanian berk (“bast”). Pronunciation: /bɑːk/, /bɑɹk/ 1. The exterior covering of the trunk and branches of a tree or of various other woody plants. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The hardships of bark-collecting in the primeval forests of South America are of the severest kind, and undergone only by the half-civilized Indians and people of mixed race, in the pay of speculators or companies located in the towns. Those who are engaged in the business, especially the collectors themselves, are called Cascarilleros or Cascadores, from the Spanish word Cascara, bark. Example: Moving about 70 miles per hour, it crashed through the sturdy old-growth trees, snapping their limbs and shredding bark from their trunks. 2. Peruvian bark or Jesuit's bark, the bark of the cinchona from which quinine is produced. Labels: countable, uncountable 3. Hard candy made in flat sheets, for instance out of chocolate, peanut butter, toffee or peppermint. Labels: countable, uncountable 4. The crust formed on barbecued meat that has had a rub applied to it. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: This softens the meat further, but at some loss of crunch to the bark. 5. The envelopment or outer covering of anything. Labels: countable, uncountable 6. Woodchips. Labels: US, Western, countable, dialectal, uncountable
Word: bark Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English bark, from Old English barc (“bark”), from Old Norse bǫrkr (“tree bark”), from Proto-Germanic *barkuz, probably related to *birkijǭ (“birch”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰerHǵós (compare Latin frāxinus (“ash”), Lithuanian béržas (“birch”)), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰerHǵ- (“to gleam; white”) (compare English bright); akin to Danish bark, Icelandic börkur, Low German borke and Albanian berk (“bast”). Pronunciation: /bɑːk/, /bɑɹk/ 1. To strip the bark from; to peel. Example: Along the river freshly felled and barked trees told of the activity of beaver, and in slow current and in eddies the tops of their winter's food supply lay like submerged brush fences projecting above the surface. 2. To abrade or rub off any outer covering from. Example: to bark one’s heel Example: Barcelona had been harried and hurried and stretched thin by the midway point in the second half. Tackles flew in. Toes were crushed, shins barked, ankles hacked. 3. To girdle. 4. To cover or enclose with bark, or as with bark. Example: to bark the roof of a hut
Word: bark Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English barke (“boat”), from Middle French barque, from Late Latin barca, a regular syncope of Vulgar Latin *barica, from Classical Latin bāris, from Ancient Greek βᾶρις (bâris, “Egyptian boat”), from Coptic ⲃⲁⲁⲣⲉ (baare, “small boat”), from Demotic Egyptian br, from Egyptian bꜣjrb-bA-A-y:r*Z1-P1 (“transport ship”). Doublet of barge, barque and baris. Pronunciation: /bɑːk/, /bɑɹk/ 1. A small sailing vessel, e.g. a pinnace or a fishing smack; a rowing boat or barge. Labels: obsolete Example: Nothing then remained for them but to commit their bark to the wind and waves. 2. A sailing vessel or boat of any kind. Labels: poetic Example: It is the star to every wandering bark Example: We know not where we go, or what sweet dream May pilot us through caverns strange and fair Of far and pathless passion, while the stream Of life our bark doth on its whirlpools bear, Spreading swift wings as sails to the dim air; […] 3. A vessel, typically with three (or more) masts, with the foremasts (or fore- and mainmasts) square-rigged, and mizzenmast schooner-rigged. Example: Europeans would cross the ocean in large barks built for deck space and large holds.
Word: bark Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /bɑːk/, /bɑɹk/ 1. An Irish person. Labels: obsolete, slang
Word: barking mad Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From barking + mad. Pronunciation: /ˌbɑːkɪŋ ˈmæd/ 1. Completely insane. Labels: New-Zealand, UK, informal, not-comparable
Word: fingernail Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English finger neil(e); equivalent to finger + nail. Compare Middle English nayl of fynger (“fingernail”) and Old English handnæġl (“fingernail”). Compare also Saterland Frisian Fingernail (“fingernail”), West Frisian fingerneil (“fingernail”), Dutch vingernagel (“fingernail”), German Fingernagel (“fingernail”), Danish fingernegl (“fingernail”), Swedish fingernagel (“fingernail”), Norwegian fingernegl (“fingernail”), Icelandic fingurnögl (“fingernail”). Pronunciation: /ˈfɪŋɡɚˌneɪl/ 1. The hard, flat translucent covering near the tip of a human finger, useful for scratching and fine manipulation.
Word: vacation Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Inherited from Middle English vacation, vacacion, vacacioun, from Anglo-Norman vacacioun, from Old French vacacion, vacation, from Latin vacātiō. Equivalent to vacate + -ion. Pronunciation: /vəˈkeɪ.ʃən/, /veɪˈkeɪ.ʃən/, /ʋe.keː.ʃən/, /ʋɪ.keː.ʃən/ 1. An extended trip or journey away from home for rest or pleasure. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: We were on vacation in Florida this year. 2. An extended period of leisure time away from work or school. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Schoolchildren are on vacation this week. 3. A period during which official activity or business is formally suspended; an official holiday from university, law courts etc. Labels: countable, uncountable 4. The act of vacating something; moving out. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The Conservative Party’s vacation of the centre ground gave an opportunity to its opponents. 5. The act of making legally void. Labels: US, countable, uncountable 6. Freedom from some business or activity. Labels: countable, general, uncountable 7. Free time given over to a specific purpose; occupation, activity. Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable Example: The first exploited his, sundrie waies, and excelleth in military exploits, and utilitie of his publike vacations.
Word: vacation Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Inherited from Middle English vacation, vacacion, vacacioun, from Anglo-Norman vacacioun, from Old French vacacion, vacation, from Latin vacātiō. Equivalent to vacate + -ion. Pronunciation: /vəˈkeɪ.ʃən/, /veɪˈkeɪ.ʃən/, /ʋe.keː.ʃən/, /ʋɪ.keː.ʃən/ 1. To spend or take a vacation. Labels: intransitive Example: This year, we’re vacationing in Mexico.
Word: marine Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Recorded since c.1420 as Middle English marin, borrowed from Middle French marin, from Old French, from Latin marinus (“of the sea”), itself from mare (“sea”), from Proto-Indo-European *móri (“body of water, lake”) (cognate with Old English mere (“sea, lake, pool, pond”), Dutch meer, German Meer, all from Proto-Germanic *mari). The modern pronunciation is presumably due to the influence of modern French marine, feminine singular of marin. Pronunciation: /məˈɹiːn/, /ˈmæɹɪn/, /məˈɹaɪn/ 1. Belonging to or characteristic of the sea; existing or found in the sea; formed or produced by the sea. Example: Plastics are energy-rich substances, which is why many of them burn so readily. Any organism that could unlock and use that energy would do well in the Anthropocene. Terrestrial bacteria and fungi which can manage this trick are already familiar to experts in the field. Dr Mincer and Dr Amaral-Zettler found evidence of them on their marine plastic, too. 2. Relating to or connected with the sea (in operation, scope, etc.), especially as pertains to shipping, a navy, or naval forces. 3. Used or adapted for use at sea. 4. Inhabiting the high seas; oceanic; pelagic. (distinguished from maritime or littoral) 5. Belonging to or situated at the seaside; maritime. Labels: obsolete 6. Of or concerning underwater conditions, either saltwater or freshwater ones, and the equipment used therein. Example: This grease is suitable for marine use.
Word: marine Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Recorded since c.1420 as Middle English marin, borrowed from Middle French marin, from Old French, from Latin marinus (“of the sea”), itself from mare (“sea”), from Proto-Indo-European *móri (“body of water, lake”) (cognate with Old English mere (“sea, lake, pool, pond”), Dutch meer, German Meer, all from Proto-Germanic *mari). The modern pronunciation is presumably due to the influence of modern French marine, feminine singular of marin. Pronunciation: /məˈɹiːn/, /ˈmæɹɪn/, /məˈɹaɪn/ 1. A soldier, normally a member of a marine corps, trained to serve on board or from a ship. Example: He was a marine in World War II. 2. A marine corps. Labels: capitalized, in-plural Example: He fought with the Marines in World War II. 3. A painting representing some marine subject. 4. Any fleet of ships (commercial, military, or both). Labels: archaic
Word: marine Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Recorded since c.1420 as Middle English marin, borrowed from Middle French marin, from Old French, from Latin marinus (“of the sea”), itself from mare (“sea”), from Proto-Indo-European *móri (“body of water, lake”) (cognate with Old English mere (“sea, lake, pool, pond”), Dutch meer, German Meer, all from Proto-Germanic *mari). The modern pronunciation is presumably due to the influence of modern French marine, feminine singular of marin. Pronunciation: /məˈɹiːn/, /ˈmæɹɪn/, /məˈɹaɪn/ 1. To adapt for use in a marine environment. Example: The most popular model is the Chrysler 75 marined motor. This motor comes fully marined and fully reconditioned at $ 225 at Oakland. Example: Frank Kennedy Sr. and Jr. watch mechanic make an adjustment on one of the two Minneapolis-Moline industrial diesel engines being marined by Kennedy-Morris Co., Biloxi, Miss. 2. To temporarily inundate with water and/or other marine substances. Example: "And Baptiste? It is there he is. The trunks of Monsieru to the number 12, and let it not loiter. And hey!" she cried with much haughtiness to an interloper who had opened the cab-door and was now officious in the transfer of the luggage, “ And hey, species of calf's head marined in mud, go, I pray you, a little that way and see if I there am." Example: As will be seen from this very sparing representation of indeterminable brachiopods etc. , this fauna can hardly be regarded as indicating marine submergence, for the shells of these organisms could just as readily have been swept in with the graptolites during the periods of marining. 3. To equip (a boat) with sailors and other personnel required for an ocean voyage. Example: And now, having marined this Royal Harry with as large a complement of men as I could muster, shall launch her. Example: Just as we had got the ship's head towards the stranger , with every stitch of canvas crowded upon her , and the eight-oared cutter, manned, armed, and marined, towing astern, they had got the captured West Indiaman before the wind, with everything set.
Word: colors Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈkʌl.əz/, /ˈkʌl.ɚz/ 1. plural of color Labels: form-of, plural
Word: colors Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ˈkʌl.əz/, /ˈkʌl.ɚz/ 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of color Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: colored Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ḱel- Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *-s Proto-Indo-European *-ōs Proto-Indo-European *ḱélōs Proto-Italic *kelōs Old Latin colōs Latin color Old French color Anglo-Norman colurbor. Middle English colour English color English -ed English colored From color + -ed. Pronunciation: /ˈkʌləd/, /ˈkʌləɹd/, /ˈkɐləd/ 1. Having a color. Labels: US Example: Wash colored items separately from whites and darks to prevent the colors from bleeding. 2. Having a particular color or kind of color. Labels: US, in-compounds Example: The room was red, with a dark-colored rug. Example: Nara and its deer are so closely associated that the light-brown colored animals are pictured in the city’s tourism ads, on buses, train tickets and more. 3. Having prominent colors; colorful. Labels: US Example: The singer wore a colored shirt. 4. Biased; pervasively (but potentially subtly) influenced in a particular way. Labels: US Example: Mr. Brewer gave me his version of the history of the Conference of Studio Unions. It appeared to me then and appears to me now to have been a very colored view. Example: But by and large, a majority of Sanduskians never read any newspaper other than the local journal and I am convinced that they get a far more colored view of national news than they did when the city had competing dailies. 5. Of skin color other than white; in particular, black. Labels: US, dated, offensive, usually Example: […] a beautiful silk standard donated to the Third Battalion by the colored ladies of the city of New York, was formally presented to the battalion. Example: He made a smart remark about colored people and I got mad. I got mad because I like colored people. In fact, a colored lady raised me. Some of my best friends are colored people. 6. Belonging to a multiracial ethnic group or category, having ancestry from more than one of the racial groups of Southern Africa (black, white, and Asian). (Under apartheid, used as a metadescription for mixed-race people and peoples such as the Cape Coloureds.) Labels: Botswana, Namibia, South-Africa, US, Zimbabwe, capitalized, sometimes Example: Most of the colored community speaks Afrikaans, whereas languages like Xhosa or Venda are typically spoken by blacks and English is spoken mostly by whites. Example: By the end of the 19th century District Six had become a bustling and heavily populated working class neighborhood whose population was predominantly coloured, Cape Malay and African intermixed with Indian, Chinese, and European migrants. 7. Designated for use by colored people (in either the US or South African sense). Labels: US, historical Example: a colored drinking fountain Example: a colored hospital
Word: colored Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ḱel- Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *-s Proto-Indo-European *-ōs Proto-Indo-European *ḱélōs Proto-Italic *kelōs Old Latin colōs Latin color Old French color Anglo-Norman colurbor. Middle English colour English color English -ed English colored From color + -ed. Pronunciation: /ˈkʌləd/, /ˈkʌləɹd/, /ˈkɐləd/ 1. A colored article of clothing. Labels: US 2. A person having ancestry from more than one of the racial groups of Southern Africa (black, white, and Asian); a colored person. Labels: South-Africa, US 3. A colored (nonwhite) person. Labels: US, dated, offensive Example: When a white fellow gets in the ring with an eight ball the eight ball's got no chance. You see, 'cause they call boxing the sweet science. And that's where your colored just runs into trouble. That's just that science part. / Yeah, but Joe Louis is a big 'un.
Word: colored Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ḱel- Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *-s Proto-Indo-European *-ōs Proto-Indo-European *ḱélōs Proto-Italic *kelōs Old Latin colōs Latin color Old French color Anglo-Norman colurbor. Middle English colour English color English -ed English colored From color + -ed. Pronunciation: /ˈkʌləd/, /ˈkʌləɹd/, /ˈkɐləd/ 1. simple past and past participle of color Labels: US, form-of, participle, past
Word: colorful Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From color + -ful. Pronunciation: /ˈkʌl.ə.fl̩/, /ˈkʌl.əɹ.fl̩/, /ˈkə.lə.fʊl/, /kəˈlɜʳ.fʊl/, [kɐ.lɜ(ː)(ɾ).fʊl] 1. Possessing prominent and varied colors. Labels: US Example: It was a colourful vase with red and white hoops on the lid, and red bands above and below the main frieze. These bands also carry a metope pattern in white of triple lines and blobs, which can just be distinguished on the photographs. Example: [Sen. John Curtis] gives colorful socks to other lawmakers on their birthdays. 2. Interesting, multifaceted, energetic, distinctive. Labels: US Example: One of the most colourful people in motor racing, he writes in a colourful manner. 3. Profane, obscene, offensive (usually in the phrase colourful language). Labels: US, euphemistic Example: Hussain celebrated reaching his ton with a gesture towards the media centre, pointing to the number three on the back of his shirt and offering some colourful language.
Word: last year Part of Speech: adv Labels: no-gloss, translation-hub
Word: walk Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English walc, walk, walke, from Old English *wealc (as in Old English wealcspinl) and ġewealc (“rolling, turning; motion, surging”), from Proto-Germanic *walką. Cognate with Icelandic volk (“difficulty, hardship, trouble”). Pronunciation: /wɔːk/, /waːk/, /woːk/, /wɔk/, /wɑk/ 1. A trip made by walking. Example: I take a walk every morning. Example: go on a walk 2. A distance walked. Example: It’s a long walk from my house to the library. Example: The precinct is about ten minutes’ walk, straight ahead, so you can’t miss it. 3. An Olympic Games track event requiring that the heel of the leading foot touch the ground before the toe of the trailing foot leaves the ground. 4. A manner of walking; a person's style of walking. Example: The Ministry of Silly Walks is underfunded this year. 5. A path, sidewalk/pavement or other maintained place on which to walk. Example: And then it appeared to the young man that he was walking his love up the grass walk of Heriotside, with the house close by him. 6. A person's conduct or course in life. Labels: figuratively Example: people of different ages and walks Example: Men like Stuart who had no desire to extol Coleridge's virtues, and other witnesses quite as hostile, to whom a moral dereliction could hardly be a mortal offence, were loud in praise of the purity of his walk in life. 7. A situation where all players fold to the big blind, as their first action (instead of calling or raising), once they get their cards. 8. An award of first base to a batter following four balls being thrown by the pitcher; known in the rules as a "base on balls". Example: The pitcher now has two walks in this inning alone. 9. In coffee, coconut, and other plantations, the space between them. 10. An area of an estate planted with fruit-bearing trees. Labels: Belize, Caribbean, Guyana, Jamaica Example: Twenty Acres of Land well kept in a Plantain Walk, will afford a very considerable Support, as Plantains are as hearty a Food as Eddoes, and the Plantain Walk may be a Nursery for declining Slaves, as well as to fatten old Cattle when they are past Labour. Example: For half a mile from Vaughansfield the road, now a mere track, leads through pastures and a coffee-walk to the foot of a very steep hill […] 11. A place for keeping and training puppies for dogfighting. Labels: historical 12. An enclosed area in which a gamecock is confined to prepare him for fighting. Labels: historical 13. A sequence of alternating vertices and edges, where each edge's endpoints are the preceding and following vertices in the sequence. Compare path, trail. 14. Something very easily accomplished; a walk in the park. Labels: colloquial Example: And for the strongroom itself, he can tell us where to find the combination of the day. We had allowed four hours, Joe, but with this help, once you get us inside, it's a walk! I've been timing it. 15. A cheque drawn on a bank that was not a member of the London Clearing and whose sort code was allocated on a one-off basis; they had to be "walked" (hand-delivered by messengers). Labels: UK, dated, slang
Word: squeeze Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From earlier squize, squise (whence also dialectal English squizzen and squeege), first attested around 1600, further origin uncertain; probably an alteration of quease (which is attested since 1550), from Middle English queisen (“to squeeze”), from Old English cwȳsan (“to crush, squeeze”), itself also of unknown origin, perhaps imitative (compare Swedish qväsa, kväsa (“to squeeze, bruise, crush; quell”), Dutch kwetsen (“to injure, hurt”), German quetschen (“to squeeze”)). Or, a blend of obsolete squiss (“to squeeze”) (whence also squash and squish) with quease. Compare also French esquicher from Old Occitan esquichar (“to press, squeeze”). The slang expression "to put the squeeze on (someone or something)", meaning "to exert influence", is from 1711. The baseball term "squeeze play" is first recorded 1905. "Main squeeze" ("most important person") is attested from 1896, the specific meaning "one's sweetheart, lover" is attested in 1970s. The nonstandard strong forms squoze and squozen, attested dialectally since at least the mid-19th century, are by analogy with freeze. Pronunciation: /skwiːz/ 1. To apply pressure to from two or more sides at once. Labels: transitive Example: I squeezed the ball between my hands. Example: Please don't squeeze the toothpaste tube in the middle. 2. To embrace closely; to give a tight hug to. Labels: transitive 3. To fit into a tight place. Labels: ambitransitive Example: I managed to squeeze the car into that parking space. Example: Can you squeeze through that gap? 4. To remove something with difficulty, or apparent difficulty. Labels: transitive Example: He squeezed some money out of his wallet. 5. To barely manage to. Labels: intransitive Example: I managed to squeeze through the exam with a D. 6. To put in a difficult position by presenting two or more choices. Labels: transitive Example: I'm being squeezed between my job and my volunteer work. Example: At a time when Mr. Cameron is being squeezed from both sides — from the right by members of his own party and by the anti-immigrant, anti-Europe U.K. Independence Party, and from the left by his Liberal Democrat coalition partners — the move seemed uncharacteristically clunky. 7. To oppress with hardships, burdens, or taxes; to harass. Labels: figuratively, transitive Example: a Civil War where People must expect to be crush'd and squeez'd in the Consequence Example: However he lost out, as other business interests whom he had alienated by his efforts to squeeze every penny of profit from the canal, supported the construction of the railway. 8. To attempt to score a runner from third by bunting. Labels: transitive Example: Jones squeezed in Smith with a perfect bunt.
Word: squeeze in Part of Speech: verb 1. To find time or other resources for. Labels: transitive Example: My appointment book is pretty full, but I can just squeeze you in. Example: I found a time to squeeze in a meeting with you. 2. To pack tightly together. Labels: intransitive Example: We don't have much room in this car, so everyone will have to squeeze in. 3. To force in, stretch something to make something larger fit. Example: My son was able to squeeze in the tight crawl space to retrieve the cat.
Word: squeeze out Part of Speech: verb 1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see squeeze, out. Labels: transitive Example: Near-synonym: push out Example: Squeeze out some toothpaste and put it on your toothbrush. 2. (sports) To force (a competitor) out of one of a limited number of winning positions by taking over that position or a higher one. Labels: figuratively, transitive, usually Example: Near-synonym: force out Example: I auditioned and I would have had the role, but I got squeezed out by a more experienced actor. 3. (business) To oust (someone, especially shareholders). Labels: transitive 4. To obtain (a difficult victory) in a competition. Labels: transitive Example: Near-synonym: eke out Example: The team managed to squeeze out a win in the final minutes.
Word: rub Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Inherited from Middle English rubben, of unknown origin; possibly ultimately from Proto-Germanic *rubbōną, related to *reufaną (“to tear”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian rubje (“to rub, scrape”), German Low German rubben (“to rub”), Low German rubblig (“rough, uneven”), Dutch robben, rubben (“to rub smooth; scrape; scrub”), Danish rubbe (“to rub, scrub”), Icelandic and Norwegian rubba (“to scrape”). More at reave. Compare typologically Latin fricō < friō < Proto-Indo-European *bʰreyH- (whence also Russian брить (britʹ, “to shave”)). Pronunciation: /ɹʌb/, /ɹʊb/ 1. An act of rubbing. Example: Give that lamp a good rub and see if any genies come out. 2. A difficulty or problem. Example: To die, to sleep— / To sleep—perchance to dream. Ay, there's the rub! / For in that sleep of death what dreams may come, / When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, / Must give us pause Example: […] the propriety of the cabman's shelter, as it was called, hardly a stonesthrow away near Butt bridge where they might hit upon some drinkables in the shape of a milk and soda or a mineral. But how to get there was the rub. 3. A quip or sarcastic remark. Labels: archaic 4. In the game of crown green bowls, any obstacle by which a bowl is diverted from its normal course. 5. Any substance designed to be applied by rubbing. Example: a heat rub intended for muscular strains 6. Any substance designed to be applied by rubbing. 7. A loan. Labels: UK, slang
Word: rub Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Inherited from Middle English rubben, of unknown origin; possibly ultimately from Proto-Germanic *rubbōną, related to *reufaną (“to tear”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian rubje (“to rub, scrape”), German Low German rubben (“to rub”), Low German rubblig (“rough, uneven”), Dutch robben, rubben (“to rub smooth; scrape; scrub”), Danish rubbe (“to rub, scrub”), Icelandic and Norwegian rubba (“to scrape”). More at reave. Compare typologically Latin fricō < friō < Proto-Indo-European *bʰreyH- (whence also Russian брить (britʹ, “to shave”)). Pronunciation: /ɹʌb/, /ɹʊb/ 1. To move (one object) while maintaining contact with another object over some area, with pressure and friction. Labels: transitive Example: I rubbed the cloth over the glass. Example: The cat rubbed itself against my leg. 2. To be rubbed against something. Labels: intransitive Example: My shoes are beginning to rub. 3. To spread a substance thinly over; to smear. Labels: transitive Example: meat rubbed with spices before barbecuing Example: The smoothed plank, […] / New rubbed with balm. 4. To move or pass with difficulty. Labels: dated Example: to rub through woods, as huntsmen 5. To scour; to burnish; to polish; to brighten; to cleanse; often with up or over. Example: to rub up silver Example: The whole business of our redemption is, in short, only to rub over the defaced copy of the creation 6. To hinder; to cross; to thwart. Example: 'Tis the duke's pleasure, / Whose disposition, all the world well knows, / Will not be rubbed nor stopped. 7. To touch the jack with the bowl. Labels: transitive
Word: wipe Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English wipen, from Old English wīpian (“to wipe, rub, cleanse”), from Proto-West Germanic *wīpōn (“to wipe”), from Proto-Indo-European *weyp- (“to twist, wind around”). Cognate with German wippen (“to bob”), Swedish veva (“to turn, wind, crank”), Gothic 𐍅𐌴𐌹𐍀𐌰𐌽 (weipan, “to wreathe, crown”), Old English swīfan (“to revolve, sweep, wend, intervene”), Sanskrit वेपते (vépate, “to tremble”). More at swivel, swift. Pronunciation: /waɪp/ 1. To move an object over, maintaining contact, with the intention of removing some substance from the surface. (Compare rub.) Labels: transitive Example: Melissa wiped her glasses with her shirt. Example: I wiped the sweat from my brow with the back of my hand. 2. To smear (a substance) with this kind of motion. Labels: transitive Example: You've wiped grease all over your shirt. 3. To remove by rubbing; to rub off; to obliterate; usually followed by away, off, or out. Labels: transitive Example: Some natural tears they dropped, but wiped them soon. Example: So the plot is that he wipes half the population? 4. To clean (the anus, buttocks and/or genitals) after defecation or urination. Labels: ambitransitive Example: I had nothing to wipe my bum with. Example: Even if you wipe very carefully, you still have to wash your hands afterward. 5. To erase. Labels: transitive Example: I accidentally wiped my hard drive. 6. To make (a joint, as between pieces of lead pipe), by surrounding the junction with a mass of solder, applied in a plastic condition by means of a rag with which the solder is shaped by rubbing. Labels: transitive 7. To remove an expression from one's face. Labels: figuratively Example: You should wipe that smirk off your face before the boss comes in. Example: Please wipe that look out of your eyes, it's bribing me to doubt myself. 8. To deperm (a ship). Labels: transitive 9. To perform a transition in which one scene or slide is replaced with another over time along a horizontal axis, as if one scene or slide is a layer being slid off the other. Example: Steve-O tells the camera, “Don’t worry; the next skit’s gonna be amazing”; he then pretends to grab the side of the screen, which “wipes” to the next shot. 10. To hit or strike. Labels: UK, obsolete, slang 11. To cheat; to defraud; to trick; usually followed by out. Labels: obsolete Example: The English, which they thinke lye still in wayte to wipe them out of theyr landes. Example: If they by coveyne [covin] or gile be wiped beside their goods.
Word: wipe Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English wipen, from Old English wīpian (“to wipe, rub, cleanse”), from Proto-West Germanic *wīpōn (“to wipe”), from Proto-Indo-European *weyp- (“to twist, wind around”). Cognate with German wippen (“to bob”), Swedish veva (“to turn, wind, crank”), Gothic 𐍅𐌴𐌹𐍀𐌰𐌽 (weipan, “to wreathe, crown”), Old English swīfan (“to revolve, sweep, wend, intervene”), Sanskrit वेपते (vépate, “to tremble”). More at swivel, swift. Pronunciation: /waɪp/ 1. The act of wiping something. Example: multiple wipes of a computer's hard disk 2. A soft piece of cloth or cloth-like material used for wiping. Example: When on a plane or train, don't take anything into the bathroom except baby, a changing pad, a diaper, a travel packet of wipes, and a bottle of hand sanitizer. Always use a wipe on the area before you put your baby down. 3. A handkerchief. Labels: UK, obsolete, slang Example: "Now, my kiveys, shy up your castors, tie your bird's-eye wipes to the stakes, and go to work." Example: All fighting coves you too must know, / Ben Caunt as well as Bendigo, / And to each mill be sure to go, / […] And you must sport a blue billy, / Or a yellow wipe […] 4. A kind of film transition where one shot replaces another by travelling from one side of the frame to another or with a special shape. 5. A sarcastic remark; a reproof, a jibe. Labels: obsolete Example: I could not help giving Metcalfe a wipe for his lamentations, observing I should have thought he had enough to attend to at home. 6. A blow or swipe; the act of striking somebody or something. Labels: UK, obsolete, slang Example: He rode close up to a French officer, and so much in advance of his men that the Frenchman thought he was going to surrender, and dropped his sword, when Penrice gave him a wipe over his head.
Word: wipe Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Compare Swedish vipa, Danish vibe (“lapwing”). Pronunciation: /waɪp/ 1. A lapwing, especially a northern lapwing (Vanellus vanellus).
Word: wipe Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From wipe out (verb) and wipeout (noun) by shortening. Pronunciation: /waɪp/ 1. To have all members of a party die in a single campaign, event, or battle; to be wiped out. Labels: intransitive Example: If you try to fight that boss underprepared, you're definitely gonna wipe.
Word: wipe Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From wipe out (verb) and wipeout (noun) by shortening. Pronunciation: /waɪp/ 1. An instance of all members of a party dying in a single campaign, event, or battle; a wipeout.
Word: thumbnail Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From thumb + nail. Compare West Frisian tommeneil (“thumbnail”), Dutch duimnagel (“thumbnail”), German Daumennagel (“thumbnail”). The phrase thumbnail sketch was first attested 1852. Verb sense attested 1930s. Pronunciation: /ˈθʌm.neɪl/ 1. The fingernail on the thumb. 2. A rough sketch (e.g., the size of one's thumbnail). 3. A small picture, used as a compact representation of a larger image. 4. A small picture representing a post or a video in a list.
Word: thumbnail Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From thumb + nail. Compare West Frisian tommeneil (“thumbnail”), Dutch duimnagel (“thumbnail”), German Daumennagel (“thumbnail”). The phrase thumbnail sketch was first attested 1852. Verb sense attested 1930s. Pronunciation: /ˈθʌm.neɪl/ 1. To describe concisely. Labels: transitive 2. To create a smaller representation of (a larger image). Labels: transitive
Word: rouge Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Borrowed from French rouge, from Latin rubeus. Compare rare Middle English rouge, rouȝ (“red”); later borrowed again, as it is not attested until c. 1750. The game senses are of unknown origin according to the Oxford English Dictionary. Pronunciation: /ˈɹuːʒ/, [ˈɹʷʊu̯ʒ] 1. Of a reddish pink colour.
Word: rouge Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from French rouge, from Latin rubeus. Compare rare Middle English rouge, rouȝ (“red”); later borrowed again, as it is not attested until c. 1750. The game senses are of unknown origin according to the Oxford English Dictionary. Pronunciation: /ˈɹuːʒ/, [ˈɹʷʊu̯ʒ] 1. Red or pink makeup to add colour to the cheeks; blusher. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Before we could embark on the details of his mother's health we were joined by a fair, plump woman of indefinite age, who had once been—and at moments still was—very pretty. She wore a simple black silk dress, perhaps in deference to Tilly's death, though the note of mourning was jarred by flamboyant aquamarine ear-rings and too much rouge. 2. Any reddish pink colour. Labels: countable, uncountable 3. A single point awarded when a team kicks the ball out of its opponent's end zone, or when a kicked ball becomes dead within the non-kicking team's end zone. Etymology uncertain; it is thought that in the early years of the sport, a red flag indicated that a single had been scored. Labels: Canadian, countable, uncountable 4. In the Eton wall game, a scrummage, melée. Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable Example: [A] wall [...] against which all those formidable "rouges" (as they are most underivably called) take place; in which above twenty players contend, kicking each others' shins nearly as often as the ball 5. In the Eton College field game, a scoring move accomplished by touching the ball down behind the opponents' goal-line (somewhat similar to the try in rugby). Originally, the player who scored the rouge had a chance to kick a goal, and the rouge was used as a tie-breaker if an equal number of goals was scored by each side. In the contemporary Eton College field game, a five-point score is awarded for kicking the ball so that it deflects off one of the opposing players and goes beyond the opposition's end of the pitch, and then touching the ball. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The 7 got 1 "gaol" and 1 "ruge"; the 11 got 1 "gaol" and 4 "ruges" Example: A rouge is obtained by touching the ball first, after it has been kicked behind 6. From 1862 to 1868, a similar scoring move in Sheffield rules football. From 1862 to 1867, accomplished by touching the ball down after it had been kicked between two "rouge flags" either side of the goal. From 1867-1868, awarded for kicking the ball between the rouge flags and under the crossbar. Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable Example: A rouge is obtained by the player who first touches the ball after it has been kicked between the rouge flags 7. A red amorphous powder consisting of ferric oxide, used in polishing and as a cosmetic; crocus; jeweller's rouge. Labels: archaic, countable, uncountable
Word: rouge Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Borrowed from French rouge, from Latin rubeus. Compare rare Middle English rouge, rouȝ (“red”); later borrowed again, as it is not attested until c. 1750. The game senses are of unknown origin according to the Oxford English Dictionary. Pronunciation: /ˈɹuːʒ/, [ˈɹʷʊu̯ʒ] 1. To apply rouge (makeup). Labels: ambitransitive Example: She rouged her face before setting out for the party. Example: She was a lady of about fifty, I should think, youthfully dressed, and of a very fine complexion. If I add to the little list of her accomplishments that she rouged a little, I do not mean that there was any harm in it.
Word: across Part of Speech: prep Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁én Proto-Italic *en Old Latin en Latin in Old French en Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker-der.? Proto-Italic *kruks /*krukis Latin crux Old French crois Anglo-Norman an croizbor. Middle English acros English across From Middle English acros, from early Middle English a-croiz, a-creoyz, from Anglo-Norman an (“in, on”) + croiz (“in the form of a cross”). More at cross. By surface analysis, a- + cross. Pronunciation: /əˈkɹɒs/, /əˈkɹɔs/, /əˈkɹɑs/, /əˈkɹɔst/, /əˈkɹɑst/ 1. To, toward, or from the far side of (something that lies between two points of interest). Example: We rowed across the river. Example: Fortunately, there was a bridge across the river. 2. On the opposite side of (something that lies between two points of interest). Example: That store is across the street. 3. across from: on the opposite side, relative to something that lies between, from (a point of interest). Labels: Southern-US Example: And make sure you're parked across the mall in the outside lot. […] Last time I was there, I parked in a parking structure and paid an arm and a leg for it. Example: On another occasion, Clinton asked Patterson to drive him to Chelsea's school, Booker Elementary, where Clinton met the department store clerk and climbed into her car. "I parked across the entrance and stood outside the car looking around, about 120 feet from where they were parked in a lot that was pretty well lit," Patterson recalled. "[…]They stayed in the car for thirty to forty minutes." 4. From one side to the other within (a space being traversed). Example: The meteor streaked across the sky. Example: He walked across the room. 5. At or near the far end of (a space). Example: "Mam's baking and Cathleen's asleep. I've got a pile of washing bubbling in the copper, so I'd best be off." With that she was across the room and out the door. 6. Spanning. Example: This poetry speaks across the centuries. 7. Throughout. Example: All across the country, voters were communicating their representatives. Example: Last spring, the periodical cicadas emerged across eastern North America. Their vast numbers and short above-ground life spans inspired awe and irritation in humans—and made for good meals for birds and small mammals. 8. So as to intersect or pass through or over at an angle. Example: Lay the top stick across the bottom one. Example: She had straps fastened across the conduit every six feet. 9. In possession of full, up-to-date information about; abreast of. Example: Keep across all the latest news here at Channel 10. Example: As a regular news reader I thought I was across the eccentricities of the US president.
Word: across Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁én Proto-Italic *en Old Latin en Latin in Old French en Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker-der.? Proto-Italic *kruks /*krukis Latin crux Old French crois Anglo-Norman an croizbor. Middle English acros English across From Middle English acros, from early Middle English a-croiz, a-creoyz, from Anglo-Norman an (“in, on”) + croiz (“in the form of a cross”). More at cross. By surface analysis, a- + cross. Pronunciation: /əˈkɹɒs/, /əˈkɹɔs/, /əˈkɹɑs/, /əˈkɹɔst/, /əˈkɹɑst/ 1. From one side to the other. Labels: not-comparable Example: she helped the blind man across; the river is half a mile across Example: [The researchers] noticed many of their pieces of [plastic marine] debris sported surface pits around two microns across. Such pits are about the size of a bacterial cell. Closer examination showed that some of these pits did, indeed, contain bacteria, […]. 2. On the other side. Labels: not-comparable Example: If we sail off at noon, when will we be across? 3. In a particular direction. Labels: not-comparable Example: He leaned across for a book. 4. Horizontally. Labels: not-comparable Example: I got stuck on 4 across.
Word: across Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁én Proto-Italic *en Old Latin en Latin in Old French en Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker-der.? Proto-Italic *kruks /*krukis Latin crux Old French crois Anglo-Norman an croizbor. Middle English acros English across From Middle English acros, from early Middle English a-croiz, a-creoyz, from Anglo-Norman an (“in, on”) + croiz (“in the form of a cross”). More at cross. By surface analysis, a- + cross. Pronunciation: /əˈkɹɒs/, /əˈkɹɔs/, /əˈkɹɑs/, /əˈkɹɔst/, /əˈkɹɑst/ 1. A word that runs horizontally in the completed puzzle grid or its associated clue. Labels: in-compounds, often Example: I solved all of the acrosses, but then got stuck on 3 down.
Word: nos Part of Speech: noun Etymology: See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form. 1. plural of no Labels: form-of, plural
Word: nos Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From no. + -s. 1. Alternative form of nos. Abbreviation of numbers. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, alternative
Word: nos Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Abbreviation 1. Acronym of nitrous oxide system. Labels: abbreviation, acronym, alt-of, countable Example: Near-synonyms: nos, nox, NOx 2. Abbreviation of nitrous oxide (“N₂O”). Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, uncountable Example: Near-synonym: nos
Word: homonymic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree English homonym Proto-Indo-European *-ikos Proto-Italic *-ikos Latin -icuslbor. Old French -iquebor. Middle English -ik English -ic English homonymic From homonym + -ic. 1. Of, related to, or being a homonym. 2. Of, related to, or being a homonym. Labels: broadly 3. Of, related to, or being a homonym. Labels: broadly
Word: attraction Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd Proto-Italic *ad Proto-Italic *ad- Latin ad- Proto-Indo-European *dʰregʰ-der.? Latin trahō Latin attrahō Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *-Hō Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō Proto-Italic *-tiō Latin -tiō Latin attractiōder. Old French attractionbor. Middle English attraccioun English attraction From Middle English attraccioun, from Old French attraction, from Latin attractio from past participle of attrahō (= ad + trahō), equivalent to attract + -ion. Pronunciation: /əˈtɹækʃn̩/, [əˈtɹækʃ(ɪ̈)n], [əˈt͡ʃɹækʃ(ɪ̈)n] 1. The tendency to attract. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The Moon is held in its orbit by the attraction of the Earth's gravity. 2. The tendency to attract. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: I can't resist his attraction. 3. The tendency to attract. Labels: countable Example: The new mall should be a major attraction. Example: Star Tours is a very cool Disney World attraction. 4. The tendency to attract. Labels: countable, uncountable 5. The feeling of being attracted (to something), that is, being drawn toward it; a desire to be near or involved (in something). Labels: uncountable Example: I kept returning there because I felt a strange attraction towards the place. Example: Our attraction to sugar makes it hard to stop eating it. 6. The feeling of being attracted (to something), that is, being drawn toward it; a desire to be near or involved (in something). Labels: countable, uncountable Example: I've always had an attraction to blondes. Example: I don't think my husband has ever acted on any of his attractions. 7. An error in language production that incorrectly extends a feature from one word in a sentence to another, e.g. when a verb agrees with a noun other than its subject. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: attract Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Latin attractus, past participle of attrahere (“to draw to, attract”), from ad (“to”) + trahere (“to draw”). Pronunciation: /əˈtɹækt/ 1. To pull toward without touching. Labels: transitive Example: A magnet attracts iron filings. Example: All bodies, and all the parts of bodies, mutually attract themselves, and one another. 2. To draw by moral, emotional or sexual influence; to engage or fix, as the mind, attention, etc.; to invite or allure. Labels: transitive Example: to attract admirers Example: Advertising is designed to attract customers. 3. To incur. Labels: transitive Example: Using the minibar in a hotel room attracts additional charges.
Word: attractive Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle French attractif, from Late Latin attractīvus, equivalent to attract + -ive. Pronunciation: /əˈtɹæktɪv/ 1. Causing attraction; having the quality of attracting by inherent force. 2. Having the power of charming or alluring by agreeable qualities; enticing. Example: That's a very attractive offer. 3. Pleasing or appealing to the senses, especially of a potential romantic partner. Example: He is an attractive fellow with a trim figure. Example: […] or I keysmash my feelings away every time there is an attractive picture of them that surfaced on the internet and since every picture is an attractive picture, let's just say my keyboard knows the pain I have to go through.
Word: bulb Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Ancient Greek βολβός (bolbós)bor. Latin bulbusder. English bulb Inherited from Middle English bulb, bolbe, from Latin bulbus (“bulb, onion”), from Ancient Greek βολβός (bolbós, “plant with round swelling on underground stem”). Pronunciation: /ˈbʌlb/, /ˈbʌb/ 1. The bulb-shaped underground portion of a plant such as a tulip, consisting of a shortened stem and many fleshy scale leaves, from which the rest of the plant may be regrown. Example: the plants which grow in the earth from seed or bulbs. Example: Once it [a snowdrop variety] became established, some bulbs were lifted and passed on to be chipped (i.e. cut into small pieces and grown on). 2. The medulla oblongata. Labels: dated 3. Any solid object rounded at one end and tapering on the other, possibly attached to a larger object at the tapered end. Example: the bulb of the aorta 4. Any solid object rounded at one end and tapering on the other, possibly attached to a larger object at the tapered end. Example: an incandescent bulb Example: an LED bulb 5. A bulbous protuberance at the forefoot of certain vessels to reduce turbulence. 6. An onion. Labels: obsolete
Word: bulb Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Ancient Greek βολβός (bolbós)bor. Latin bulbusder. English bulb Inherited from Middle English bulb, bolbe, from Latin bulbus (“bulb, onion”), from Ancient Greek βολβός (bolbós, “plant with round swelling on underground stem”). Pronunciation: /ˈbʌlb/, /ˈbʌb/ 1. To take the shape of a bulb; to swell. Labels: intransitive
Word: light bulb Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From light + bulb First attested in 1885. Pronunciation: /ˈlaɪtˌbʌlb/ 1. An evacuated glass bulb containing a metal filament which is heated by electrical resistance to produce light. Example: Atticus did something that interested us: he came into the livingroom carrying a long electrical extension cord. There was a light bulb on the end. 2. An article that resembles such a bulb and converts electricity to light by any process. Labels: broadly Example: a fluorescent light bulb Example: an LED light bulb 3. Used in reference to the sudden arrival of a realization, an inspiration, an idea, or the like. Labels: figuratively Example: a light-bulb moment Example: Figuratively speaking, a light-bulb flashed over Galvin's head early this year, and in March–along […]