nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: jack Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Transferred use of the personal name Jack. (cricket: eleventh batsman): An allusion to the jack in playing cards, which follows the 10. Pronunciation: /ˈd͡ʒæk/, [ˈd͡ʒæk] 1. To physically raise using a jack. Labels: transitive Example: He jacked the car so that he could replace the brake pads. Example: Large cranes were virtually non-existent in the areas I worked with this truck, so we jacked everything on and off[.] 2. To raise or increase. Labels: transitive Example: If you want to jack your stats you just write off failures as invalid results. 3. To increase the potency of an alcoholic beverage similarly to distillation by chilling it to below the freezing point of water, removing the water ice crystals that form, and leaving the still-liquid alcoholic portion. Example: Fruit of the orchard has been "jacked" these many generations, with Plymouth Rockers putting the hard cider barrel down into the ground to freeze, and […] Example: The potency of a jacked beverage depends on the temperature applied to the original beverage; the colder the liquor, the more water can be frozen out […]. In New England, where this technique was historically used, people could get applejack to around 30 percent alcohol […]. 4. To steal (something), typically an automobile; to rob (someone). Labels: colloquial, transitive Example: Someone jacked my car last night! Example: A kid in a M3's getting jacked right in front of me 5. To dance by moving the torso forward and backward in a rippling motion. Labels: intransitive 6. To jack off, to masturbate. Labels: colloquial, vulgar Example: I don't even care about mine, I can get my shit off while jacking in the shower. 7. To fight. 8. To jerk or move by jerking; to remove or move (something). Labels: informal, intransitive, transitive
Word: jack Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Transferred use of the personal name Jack. (cricket: eleventh batsman): An allusion to the jack in playing cards, which follows the 10. Pronunciation: /ˈd͡ʒæk/, [ˈd͡ʒæk] 1. Tired, disillusioned; fed up (with). Labels: Australia Example: In the end, black and white were both crawling on the ground in reconciliation. Both saying that they were plain jack of each other.
Word: jack Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Portuguese jaca (“jackfruit”), from Malayalam ചക്ക (cakka). Pronunciation: /ˈd͡ʒæk/, [ˈd͡ʒæk] 1. The jackfruit. Example: A mock living burial of the principal performer, who is placed in a pit, which is covered with planks, on the top of which a sacrifice is performed, with a fire kindled with jack wood (Artocarpus integrifolia) and a plant called erinna.
Word: jack Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Named after William Jack, the Scottish botanist who described the species. Pronunciation: /ˈd͡ʒæk/, [ˈd͡ʒæk] 1. A plant of the species Mangifera caesia.
Word: jack Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈd͡ʒæk/, [ˈd͡ʒæk] 1. A home run. Labels: slang Example: The year before ('76) Kingman had 37 jacks with only 502 PAs. Is that the limit? Example: Me three. I never have quite understood all the "three true outcomes" fetish around here. I mean, I know that building an offense around walks and 3-run jacks embodies the Sabermetric Virtues, and especially in today's conditions that's the way to win, but man, it sure leads to some slow, boring games.
Word: jack Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ˈd͡ʒæk/, [ˈd͡ʒæk] 1. To hit (the ball) hard; especially, to hit (the ball) out of the field, producing a home run. Labels: slang, transitive Example: An excellent piece of work, Wayne thought, so good in fact, he wasn’t surprised when Bailey walked to the plate and on the first pitch jacked the ball far into the parking lot outside the left-field fence for a tournament winning homerun. Example: Therefore, even though Vizquel is certainly not a power hitter, at times he will try to jack the ball, perhaps pulling it with just enough oomph to carry down the line for a homer.
Word: X Part of Speech: num Etymology: Introduced by René Descartes in the context of mathematical notation, but has since widened to other contexts. Pronunciation: /ɛks/, /ks/, /ɡz/, /kʃ/, /ɡʒ/ 1. An unknown quantity or unknown value. Example: Let X represent the forecast traffic flow in 20 years’ time. Example: To know whether a word X is heterological, we must already know what X means. (By contrast, I can know that the word “subdermatoglyphic” has certain syntactic properties—it is six-syllabled, contains the letter “m”, etc.— without having any idea of its meaning.) This indirectness is fine as long as X already has an assigned meaning, for in that case the meaning of “heterological” is ultimately grounded. But when X is the word “heterological”, then we are trying to define “heterological” in terms of itself. We have a closed circle, and a contradictory one, due to the negation operator in the definition.
Word: X Part of Speech: name Etymology: Introduced by René Descartes in the context of mathematical notation, but has since widened to other contexts. Pronunciation: /ɛks/, /ks/, /ɡz/, /kʃ/, /ɡʒ/ 1. A placeholder for an unknown, suppressed or hypothetical name. Example: The woman known until now as Witness X has been unmasked after a court ruling. Example: Suppose that Mr and Mrs X have been married for many years. 2. A surname, used by those who have had their identity or heritage, including their proper ancestral names, erased or forgotten. Example: Malcolm X 3. An online social media network, formerly known as Twitter. Example: Two senior USAid security officials were suspended on Sunday for blocking Doge officials from a restricted area, a day after the agency’s website went offline, and Musk posted to X that USAid was “beyond repair” and needed to be shut down.
Word: X Part of Speech: character Pronunciation: /ɛks/, /ks/, /ɡz/, /kʃ/, /ɡʒ/ 1. The twenty-fourth letter of the English alphabet, called ex and written in the Latin script. Labels: letter, uppercase
Word: X Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ɛks/, /ks/, /ɡz/, /kʃ/, /ɡʒ/ 1. Any mark that looks like that letter, such as a mark made by a person who cannot read or write in lieu of a signature. 2. The spot behind the goal.
Word: X Part of Speech: adj Pronunciation: /ɛks/, /ks/, /ɡz/, /kʃ/, /ɡʒ/ 1. Intersex or non-binary (in passports and identification documents). Labels: not-comparable Example: So last summer, when the Massachusetts State Legislature became one of the first in the nation to consider a bill to add an “X” option for nonbinary genders to the “M” and “F” on the state driver’s license, El, 17, was less surprised than some at the maneuver that effectively killed it.
Word: X Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ɛks/, /ks/, /ɡz/, /kʃ/, /ɡʒ/ 1. Alternative spelling of ex (“to delete; to cross out”). Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: I Xed the ballot for our Congressman last election just because he seemed […]
Word: X Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Presumably by abbreviation of the pronunciation of ecstasy. Pronunciation: /ɛks/, /ks/, /ɡz/, /kʃ/, /ɡʒ/ 1. Ecstasy, a particular street drug. Labels: slang, uncountable Example: You can find me in the club, bottle full of bub'. Look, mami, I got the X if you into takin' drugs. Example: Tonight the kids will go out and party down in a more righteous mode. Alcohol and not a few tabs of X will be ingested. Club music will throb through big speakers.
Word: X Part of Speech: adj Pronunciation: /ɛks/, /ks/, /ɡz/, /kʃ/, /ɡʒ/ 1. Suitable only for those aged sixteen or (later) eighteen years and over. Labels: dated, not-comparable 2. Obscene; adult; pornographic; XXX. Labels: not-comparable Example: If you go to an X movie you do so knowingly, as does everyone else in the audience. Or if the same thing comes up on TV you can switch over, or, if you wish, enjoy it in relative privacy.
Word: X Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Christ by abbreviation, orthographic borrowing from Ancient Greek Χ (Kh, letter chi), from Χριστός (Khristós, “Christ”). Pronunciation: /ɛks/, /ks/, /ɡz/, /kʃ/, /ɡʒ/ 1. Christ Labels: informal
Word: X Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From cross, due to the X symbol being a cross saltire. Pronunciation: /ɛks/, /ks/, /ɡz/, /kʃ/, /ɡʒ/ 1. Cross, crossing. Example: Kennington via Charing X
Word: X Part of Speech: adj Pronunciation: /ɛks/, /ks/, /ɡz/, /kʃ/, /ɡʒ/ 1. Abbreviation of extreme. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, informal
Word: X Part of Speech: name Etymology: Named after its predecessor, the W Window System; X follows W in the Latin alphabet. Pronunciation: /ɛks/, /ks/, /ɡz/, /kʃ/, /ɡʒ/ 1. The X Window System, a windowing system for bitmap displays commonly used in Unix-like systems. Labels: Unix
Word: invest Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Clipping of investigate. Pronunciation: /ɪnˈvɛst/, /ɪnˈvest/ 1. A designated area of disturbed weather that is being monitored for potential tropical cyclone development.
Word: cloath Part of Speech: noun 1. cloth Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable 2. clothes, clothing, usually made of leather or skin Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable Example: Having previously obtained permission of a viewer, or some other person concerned in the colliery, a small hand lanthorn must be provided, a light being necessary for each person. It is also advisable to take a change of dress, at least of upper cloaths; strong boots to keep the feet dry, and an old hat.
Word: cloath Part of Speech: verb 1. Obsolete form of clothe. Labels: alt-of, obsolete
Word: thee Part of Speech: pron Etymology: From Middle English þe, from Old English þē (“thee”, originally dative, but later also accusative, supplanting accusative þec), from Proto-Germanic *þiz (“thee”), from Proto-Indo-European *te (“second-person singular pronoun”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian die (“thee”), West Frisian dy (“thee”), German Low German di (“thee”), German dir (“thee”, dative pron.), Icelandic þér (“thee”). More at thou. Pronunciation: /ðiː/ 1. Objective and reflexive case of thou. Labels: archaic, literary, objective, second-person, singular Example: Prince Henry: Did I ever call for thee to pay thy part? Falstaff: No; I'll give thee thy due, thou hast paid all there. Example: Michael, this my behest have thou in charge, Take to thee from among the Cherubim Thy choice of flaming Warriours, least the Fiend 2. Thou. Labels: archaic, dialectal, objective, second-person, singular Example: [H]e immediately perceived when I was taken ill, and, after seeing Mama, said to me "I am afraid Thee art not well thyself?" Example: "He says he's our man, Bildad," said Peleg, "he wants to ship." "Dost thee?" said Bildad, in a hollow tone
Word: thee Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English þe, from Old English þē (“thee”, originally dative, but later also accusative, supplanting accusative þec), from Proto-Germanic *þiz (“thee”), from Proto-Indo-European *te (“second-person singular pronoun”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian die (“thee”), West Frisian dy (“thee”), German Low German di (“thee”), German dir (“thee”, dative pron.), Icelandic þér (“thee”). More at thou. Pronunciation: /ðiː/ 1. To address (a person) using the pronoun thee. Labels: transitive Example: What! doſt thou not believe that God's Thouing and theeing was and is ſound Speech? [...] And theeing & Thouing of one ſingle Perſon was the language of Chriſt Jeſus, and the Holy Prophets and Apoſtles both under the Diſpenſations of Law and Goſpel, [...] 2. To use the word thee. Labels: intransitive Example: The hardcore role-players will wake up one day feeling, like a dead weight on their chest, the strain of endless texting in Renaissance Faire English—yet dutifully go on theeing and thouing all the same. Example: You want to hear the word of God, and be challenged to go out and change the world. Instead, you are, for the fifth Sunday in a row, mewling on about purple-headed mountains (which is a bit of an imaginative stretch, since you live in East Anglia) and "theeing" and "thouing" all over the place.
Word: thee Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English theen (“to increase, prosper, flourish”), from Old English þēon (“to thrive, prosper, flourish, grow”), from Proto-Germanic *þinhaną (“to thrive, succeed”), from Proto-Indo-European *tenk- (“to succeed, turn out well”). Cognate with Dutch gedijen (“to flourish, thrive, prosper, succeed”), German gedeihen (“to thrive”), Gothic 𐌲𐌰𐌸𐌴𐌹𐌷𐌰𐌽 (gaþeihan, “to increase, thrive”). Pronunciation: /θiː/ 1. To thrive; prosper. Labels: UK, intransitive, obsolete Example: Well mote thee, as well can wish your thought.
Word: thee Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Pitman zee, which it is related to phonetically and graphically, and the sound it represents. 1. The letter ⟨(⟩, which stands for the th sound /ð/ in Pitman shorthand.
Word: thee Part of Speech: article Etymology: Respelling of the popularized by Thee Temple ov Psychick Youth. 1. Alternative spelling of the. Labels: alt-of, alternative, nonstandard, rare
Word: shew Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ʃoʊ/, /ʃəʊ/, /ʃuː/ 1. Archaic spelling of show. Labels: alt-of, archaic Example: NOw the Lord had ſaid vnto Abram, Get thee out of thy countrey, and from thy kinred, and from thy fathers houſe, vnto a land that I will ſhew thee. Example: And ſhee ſhewed her mother in lawe with whom ſhee had wrought, and ſaid, The mans name with whom I wrought to day, is Boaz.
Word: shew Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ʃoʊ/, /ʃəʊ/, /ʃuː/ 1. Archaic spelling of show. Labels: alt-of, archaic Example: Cannot the body weepe without the eies? / Yes and frame deepeſt canzons of lament, / Cannot the body feare, without it lies / Vpon the outward ſhew of diſcontent: […] Example: And if he did apprehend (as they ſay) nothing by the iudgement of men, he had no need to carrie his mortification ſo farre, as to dompt and ſubject his moſt inward and ſecret motions, and to pull downe the moſt liuely and ſecret prouocations of his fleſh: but it had bene ſufficient for him to haue vſed diſſimulation, and ſome outward ſhew of pretended reformation.
Word: shew Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ʃuː/ 1. simple past of show Labels: East-Anglia, form-of, past Example: As I travelled, the signposts shew me the way.
Word: shew Part of Speech: verb 1. Nonstandard spelling of shoo. Labels: alt-of, nonstandard Example: Shew! fly, don't bother me, Shew! fly, don't bother me, Shew! fly, don't bother me, I belong to comp'ny G.
Word: design Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *de Proto-Indo-European *-h₁ Proto-Indo-European *déh₁ Proto-Italic *dē Latin dē Latin dē- Proto-Indo-European *sek- Proto-Indo-European *-nóm Proto-Italic *seknom Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti Proto-Indo-European *-h₂tiinflu. Proto-Italic *-ājō Proto-Italic *-āō Proto-Italic *seknāō Latin signō Latin designōder. Old French designerder. Middle English designen English design From Middle English designen, from Old French designer, from Latin designō (“to mark out, point out, describe, design, contrive”), from de- (or dis-) + signō (“to mark”), from signum (“mark”). Doublet of designate. Pronunciation: /dɪˈzaɪn/, /dɪˈzɑen/, /dəˈzɑe̯n/ 1. A specification of an object or process, referring to requirements to be satisfied and thus conditions to be met for them to solve a problem. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The Wikilambda developers charmingly admit that they are not very experienced in language design. 2. A plan (with more or less detail) for the structure and functions of an artifact, building or system. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The initial design of the park was rejected for being too expensive. Example: Where it had been left hundreds of years ago, / Extract from the depth, is but a setting sun, / Paradise is scarce in this light that won’t shine, / What is our earthly task, but a worthy design? 3. A pattern, as an element of a work of art or architecture. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: We're working on some new designs for our range of summer shirts 4. The composition of a work of art. Labels: countable, uncountable 5. Intention or plot. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: We have designs on winning the league next season. Example: To be hateful of the truth by design. 6. The shape or appearance given to an object, especially one that is intended to make it more attractive. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: He turned back to the scene before him and the enormous new block of council dwellings. The design was some way after Corbusier but the block was built up on plinths and resembled an Atlantic liner swimming diagonally across the site. 7. The art of designing Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Danish furniture design is world-famous.
Word: design Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *de Proto-Indo-European *-h₁ Proto-Indo-European *déh₁ Proto-Italic *dē Latin dē Latin dē- Proto-Indo-European *sek- Proto-Indo-European *-nóm Proto-Italic *seknom Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti Proto-Indo-European *-h₂tiinflu. Proto-Italic *-ājō Proto-Italic *-āō Proto-Italic *seknāō Latin signō Latin designōder. Old French designerder. Middle English designen English design From Middle English designen, from Old French designer, from Latin designō (“to mark out, point out, describe, design, contrive”), from de- (or dis-) + signō (“to mark”), from signum (“mark”). Doublet of designate. Pronunciation: /dɪˈzaɪn/, /dɪˈzɑen/, /dəˈzɑe̯n/ 1. To plan and carry out (a picture, work of art, construction etc.). Labels: transitive Example: comments designed to chip away at my self-esteem Example: He always designs gaming laptops from 4:00 pm to 1:00 am. 2. To plan (to do something). Labels: intransitive, obsolete Example: The king designed to mount an expedition to the New World. 3. To assign, appoint (something to someone); to designate. Labels: obsolete, transitive Example: he looks not below the Moon, but hath designed the regiment of sublunary affairs unto inferiour deputations. Example: He was designed to the study of the law. 4. To mark out and exhibit; to designate; to indicate; to show; to point out; to appoint. Labels: obsolete, transitive 5. To manifest requirements to be satisfied by an object or process for them to solve a problem. Example: We shall see / Justice design the victor's chivalry. Example: Meet me to-morrow where the master / And this fraternity shall design.
Word: sol Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Glover's solmization, from Middle English sol (“fifth degree or note of Guido of Arezzo's hexachordal scales”), Italian sol in the solmization of Guido of Arezzo, from the first syllable of Latin solve (“wash away”) in the lyrics of the scale-ascending hymn Ut queant laxis by Paulus Deacon. Pronunciation: /sɒl/, /səʊl/, /sɔl/, /sɑl/, /soʊl/ 1. In a movable-do or tonic sol-fa system: the fifth step in a scale, preceded by fa and followed by la. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: D ſol re, one Cliffe, two notes haue I, / Ela mi, ſhow pitty or I die. Example: Ser[vant, i.e., Peter]. Alack alack what ſhal I doe, come Fidlers play me ſome mery dumpe. / I. [First musician]. A ſir, this is no time to play. / […] / Ser. Then will I giue it you, and ſoundly to. / I. What will you giue vs? / Ser. The fidler, Ile re you, Ile fa you, Ile ſol you. / I. If you re vs and fa vs, we will note you. 2. In a fixed-do system: the musical note G. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: sol Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Learned borrowing from Old French sol (“French coin”) (modern French sou), from Latin solidum, the accusative singular of solidus (“Roman gold coin; (adjective) solid”). Doublet of sold, soldo, solid, solidus, sou, and xu. Pronunciation: /sɒl/, /sɔl/, /sɑl/ 1. An old coin from France and some other countries worth 12 deniers. Labels: historical Example: This fellow, For ſix ſols more, would pleade againſt his Maker. Example: Moſt of their owne coines that I ſaw were theſe. In gold but one, which is their chiquiney: This piece doth much vary in the value. For ſometimes it is high, ſometimes low. When I was there, a chiquiney was worth eleuen liuers, and twelue ſols. Which counteruaileth eight ſhillings and eight pence halfe penny of our money.
Word: sol Part of Speech: noun Etymology: PIE word *sóh₂wl̥ From Spanish sol (“sun”), from Latin sōl (“sun”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *sóh₂wl̥ (“sun”). Doublet of Sol and sol, directly from the Latin. Pronunciation: /sɒl/, /sɔl/, /sɑl/ 1. A former Spanish-American silver coin. Labels: historical Example: The Tobacco of this colony is ſo excellent, that if the commerce thereof was free, it would ſell for one hundred ſols and ſix livres the pound, ſo fine and delicate is its juice and flavour. 2. In full nuevo sol or new sol: the main currency unit of Peru which replaced the inti in 1991; also, a coin of this value.
Word: sol Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin sōl (“sun”); see further at etymology 3. Doublet of sol from Spanish. Pronunciation: /sɒl/, /sɔl/, /sɑl/ 1. A solar day on the planet Mars (equivalent to 24 hours, 39 minutes, 35 seconds). Example: I need to create calories. And I need enough to last the 1387 sols until Ares 4 arrives. If I don't get rescued by Ares 4, I'm dead anyway. A sol is 39 minutes longer than a day, so it works out to be 1425 days. That's my target: 1425 days of food. Example: 88,775 seconds = 24 hours, 39 minutes and 35 seconds / The duration of a synodic day on Mars, a ‘sol’
Word: sol Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Sense 1 (“type of colloid”) is derived from -sol (in words like alcosol and hydrosol), an abbreviation of solution. Sense 2 (“solution to an objection”) is derived directly from solution. Pronunciation: /sɒl/, /sɔl/, /sɑl/ 1. A type of colloid in which a solid is dispersed in a liquid. Labels: physical 2. A solution to an objection (or "ob"), for example, in controversial divinity. Labels: obsolete Example: [F]or that they had nothing elſe to doe, […] haue coyned a thouſand idle queſtions, nice diſtinctions, Obs and Sols, […] Example: Where Hinderſon, and th' other Maſſes / Were ſent to Cap Texts, and Put Caſes: / To paſs for deep, and Learned Scholars, / Although but Paltry, Ob-and-Sollers:[…]
Word: sol Part of Speech: noun 1. Clipping of solidarity. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, informal
Word: humor Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /hjuː.mə(ɹ)/, /ˈhjuːmɚ/, /ˈjuːmɚ/, [ˈçjuːmɚ] 1. US spelling of humour. Labels: US, alt-of, uncountable, usually Example: He was in a particularly vile humor that afternoon. Example: For some days a fistula lacrymalis had come into my left eye, which discharged an humour, when pressed, that portended danger.
Word: humor Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /hjuː.mə(ɹ)/, /ˈhjuːmɚ/, /ˈjuːmɚ/, [ˈçjuːmɚ] 1. US spelling of humour. Labels: US, alt-of Example: I know you don't believe my story, but humor me for a minute and imagine it to be true.
Word: perspicuity Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Late Latin perspicuitās (“evidentness”, “self-evidency”, literally “transparency”, “clarity”, “lucidity”), from Latin perspicuus (“clear”, “transparent”; “evident”); compare perspicacity and the French perspicuité. By surface analysis, perspicuous + -ity. Pronunciation: /ˌpəːspɪˈkjuːɪti/, /ˌpɚspəˈkjuəti/ 1. Clarity, lucidity, especially in expression; the state or characteristic of being perspicuous. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: […]whether through the first officer's want of perspicuity or my own stupidity, I was not a bit the wiser for the explanation. 2. Perspicacity; insight. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: “Well,” I answered, at first with uncertainty, then with inspiration, “he would do splendidly to lead your cotillon, if you think of having one.” ¶ “So you do not dance, Mr. Crocker?” ¶ I was somewhat set back by her perspicuity. Example: Thompson, a high school dropout, said with rare perspicuity that he doubted the FBI would hire him. 3. Transparency; translucence. Labels: countable, rare, uncountable Example: It must have been on some such day of harsh sunlight, the incisive February brightness that gives perspicuity without warmth.
Word: hydraulic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From French hydraulique, from Latin hydraulicus, from Ancient Greek ὑδραυλικός (hudraulikós, “of a water organ”), from ὕδραυλις (húdraulis, “water organ”), from ὕδωρ (húdōr, “water”) + αὐλός (aulós, “pipe”). Pronunciation: /haɪˈdɹɒlɪk/, /haɪˈdɹɔːlɪk/ 1. Pertaining to water. Labels: not-comparable Example: Tho' there are but seventeen feet water^([sic]) in the channel, I have seen vessels of five hundred ton enter into it. I know not why this entrance is left so neglected, as we are not in want of able engineers in France, in the hydraulic branch, a part of the mathematics to which I have most applyed^([sic]) myself. 2. Related to, or operated by, hydraulics. Labels: not-comparable Example: A hydraulic press is operated by the differential pressure of water on pistons of different dimensions.
Word: hydraulic Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From French hydraulique, from Latin hydraulicus, from Ancient Greek ὑδραυλικός (hudraulikós, “of a water organ”), from ὕδραυλις (húdraulis, “water organ”), from ὕδωρ (húdōr, “water”) + αὐλός (aulós, “pipe”). Pronunciation: /haɪˈdɹɒlɪk/, /haɪˈdɹɔːlɪk/ 1. To mine using the technique of hydraulic mining. Labels: transitive
Word: expence Part of Speech: noun 1. Obsolete spelling of expense. Labels: alt-of, countable, obsolete, uncountable Example: […] neuertheleſſe he was ſo poore and miſerable, that euen when he was in ſtate of a Generall, & gaue vp an accompt of his expences, he would not ſticke to put into his bookes, ſo much, for a gowne, and ſo much for a payer of pantophles. Example: a. 1689, John Goodman, Winter-Evening Conference between Neighbors Now, I say, why Time should be so burthensome to such as these, or what should betray them to such infrugal Expences of it, I can give no account without making severe Reflexions on their Discretion.
Word: zeal Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English zele, from Old French zel, from Late Latin zēlus, from Ancient Greek ζῆλος (zêlos, “zeal, jealousy”), from Proto-Indo-European *yeh₂- (“to search”). Related to jealous. Pronunciation: /ziːl/, /zil/ 1. The fervour or tireless devotion for a person, cause, or ideal and determination in its furtherance; diligent enthusiasm; powerful interest. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: She extols the virtues of veganism with missionary zeal. Example: I bear them record that they have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge. 2. A person who exhibits such fervour or tireless devotion. Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable Example: […] like a malicious purblinde zeale as thou art! Example: […] there are questionlesse both in Greeke, Roman and Africa Churches, solemnities, and ceremonies, whereof the wiser zeales doe make a Christian use, and stand condemned by us; 3. A group of zebras. Labels: collective, countable, uncountable Example: A zeal of zebras confuses predators. Each zebra has a different set of stripes. Example: Zebras can also be called a herd or a zeal.
Word: league Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English liege, ligg, lige (“a pact between governments, an agreement, alliance”), from Middle French ligue, from Italian lega, from the verb legare, from Latin ligō (“to tie”). Pronunciation: /liːɡ/ 1. A group or association of cooperating members. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: the League of Nations Example: And let there be / 'Twixt us and them no league, nor amity. 2. An organization of sports teams which play against one another for a championship. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: My favorite sports organizations are the National Football League and the American League in baseball. Example: He loved watching cricket leagues all around the world. 3. Ellipsis of rugby league. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis, informal, uncountable Example: Are you going to watch the league tonight? 4. A class or type of people or things that are evenly matched or on the same level. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Forget about dating him; he's out of your league. Example: We're not even in the same league. 5. A prefecture-level administrative unit in Inner Mongolia (Chinese: 盟). Labels: countable, uncountable 6. An alliance or coalition. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: league Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English liege, ligg, lige (“a pact between governments, an agreement, alliance”), from Middle French ligue, from Italian lega, from the verb legare, from Latin ligō (“to tie”). Pronunciation: /liːɡ/ 1. To form an association; to unite in a league or confederacy; to combine for mutual support. Labels: ambitransitive Example: Out of my sight, thou Serpent, that name best Befits thee with him leagu'd. Example: I believe that all the Bohemians and the great folks in Paris are so leagued together, that they are afraid of one another, and the people receive all the buffets of their disagreeings.
Word: league Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English liege, ligg, lige (“a pact between governments, an agreement, alliance”), from Middle French ligue, from Italian lega, from the verb legare, from Latin ligō (“to tie”). Pronunciation: /liːɡ/ 1. Playing in the The Football League or the Premier League, the top four divisions of English football Labels: UK, not-comparable
Word: league Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English lege (“league”), from Late Latin leuca, leuga (“the Gaulish mile”), from Gaulish, from Proto-Celtic *lougā (compare Middle Breton leau, lew, Breton lev / leo (“league”)). Doublet of legua. Pronunciation: /liːɡ/ 1. The distance that a person can walk in one hour, commonly taken to be approximately three English miles (about five kilometers). Example: Thenne kynge Mark and sir Dynadan rode forth a four leges englysshe tyl that they came to a brydge where houed a knyght on horsbak armed and redy to Iuste. "Then King Mark and Sir Dinadan rode forth a four leagues English, till that they came to a bridge where hoved a knight on horseback, armed and ready to joust." Example: Seven leagues above the mouth of the river we meet with two other passes, as large as the middle one by which we entered. 2. A stone erected near a public road to mark the distance of a league.
Word: compass Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English compas (“a circle, circuit, limit, form, a mathematical instrument”), from Old French compas, from Medieval Latin compassus (“a circle, a circuit”), from Latin com- (“together”) + passus (“a pace, step, later a pass, way, route”); see pass, pace. Pronunciation: /ˈkʌmpəs/, /ˈkɐmpəs/, /ˈkəmpəs/, /ˈkɔmpəs/, /ˈkɑmpəs/ 1. A magnetic or electronic device used to determine the cardinal directions (usually magnetic or true north). Example: [H]ow many Seas to our fore-fathers impaſſable, for want of the Compaſſe? Example: 1689/1690, John Locke, On improvement of understanding He that […] first discovered the use of the compass […] did more for the propagation of knowledge […] than those who built workhouses. 2. A pair of compasses (a device used to draw circular arcs and transfer length measurements). Example: to fix one foot of their compass wherever they please 3. The range of notes of a musical instrument or voice. Example: You would sound me from my lowest note to the top of my compass. 4. A space within limits; an area. Labels: obsolete Example: In going up the Missisippi ^([sic]), we meet with nothing remarkable before we come to the Detour aux Anglois, the English Reach: in that part the river takes a large compass. Example: Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass. 5. An enclosing limit; a boundary, a circumference. Labels: obsolete Example: within the compass of an encircling wall 6. Moderate bounds, limits of truth; moderation; due limits; used with within. Example: In two hundred years before (I speak within compass), no such commission had been executed. Example: "Saints!" she cried, "but what a noise you keep! Can you not speak in compass?" 7. Synonym of scope. Labels: formal Example: the compass of his argument Example: There is a truth and falsehood in all propositions on this subject, and a truth and falsehood, which lie not beyond the compass of human understanding. 8. Range, reach. Labels: obsolete Example: Lou's not Times foole, though roſie lips and cheeks VVithin his bending ſickles compaſſe come, Loue alters not with his breefe houres and vveekes, But beares it out euen to the edge of doome: If this be error and vpon me proued, I neuer vvrit, nor no man euer loued. Example: Then when our powers in points of ſwords are ioin’d And cloſde in compaſſe of the killing bullet, Though ſtraite the paſſage and the port be made, That leads to Pallace of my brothers life, Proud is his fortune if we pierce it not. 9. A passing round; circuit; circuitous course. Labels: obsolete Example: This day I breathed first; time is come round, / And where I did begin, there shall I end; / My life is run his compass. Example: They fetched a compass of seven days' journey. 10. A curved circular form.
Word: compass Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English compassen (“to go around, make a circuit, draw a circle, contrive, intend”), from Old French compasser; from the noun; see compass as a noun. Pronunciation: /ˈkʌmpəs/, /ˈkɐmpəs/, /ˈkəmpəs/, /ˈkɔmpəs/, /ˈkɑmpəs/ 1. To surround; to encircle; to environ; to stretch round. Example: Now all the blessings Of a glad father compass thee about! Example: And the name of the second river is Gihon: the same is it that compasseth the whole land of Ethiopia. 2. To go about or round entirely; to traverse. Example: So she goeth around the hill compassing. 3. To accomplish; to reach; to achieve; to obtain. Labels: dated Example: […] tho' theſe ſeem'd to be very unfit Inſtruments for compaſſing of that great Deſign for which they were then employ'd, becauſe of their Inability and Uncapacity in performing the Work ſo very great and important; […] Example: [...] they never find ways sufficient to compass that end. 4. To plot; to scheme (against someone). Labels: dated Example: That he plotted and compassed to raise Sedition and Rebellion [...] Example: But it went beyond it by the loose construction of compassing to depose the King, …
Word: compass Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From Middle English compassen (“to go around, make a circuit, draw a circle, contrive, intend”), from Old French compasser; from the noun; see compass as a noun. Pronunciation: /ˈkʌmpəs/, /ˈkɐmpəs/, /ˈkəmpəs/, /ˈkɔmpəs/, /ˈkɑmpəs/ 1. In a circuit; round about. Labels: obsolete Example: [T]he Towne is impailed about halfe a mile compaſſe. Example: Near the same plot of ground, for about six yards compasse were digged up coals and incinerated substances, […]
Word: tetrahedron Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Ancient Greek τετράεδρον (tetráedron, “triangle-based pyramid”), from τετράεδρος (tetráedros), from τετράς (tetrás, “four”) + ἕδρα (hédra, “seat”). By surface analysis, tetra- + -hedron. Pronunciation: /ˌtɛtɹəˈhiːdɹən/ 1. A polyhedron with four faces; the regular tetrahedron, the faces of which are equal equilateral triangles, is one of the Platonic solids.
Word: eighteen Part of Speech: num Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *oḱtṓw Proto-Germanic *ahtōu Proto-Indo-European *déḱm̥ Proto-Germanic *tehun Proto-Germanic *ahtōutehun Anglian Old English eahtatēne Middle English eightetene English eighteen From Middle English eightetene, eiȝtene, ehtetene, from Old English eahtatīene, eahtatēne, from Proto-Germanic *ahtōutehun. Cognate with West Frisian achttjin, Dutch achttien, German achtzehn, Danish atten. Equivalent to eight + -teen. Pronunciation: /ˈeɪ(t).tin/, /ˈeɪ.tiːn/, /ˌeɪ(t)ˈtin/, /ˌeɪˈtiːn/ 1. The cardinal number occurring after seventeen and before nineteen, represented in Roman numerals as XVIII and in Arabic numerals as 18. Example: The right of citizens of the United States, who are eighteen years of age or older, to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of age.
Word: ICQ Part of Speech: noun Etymology: A pun on the pronunciation of I seek you. Pronunciation: /ˌaɪsiːˈkjuː/ 1. A call for acknowledgement.
Word: ICQ Part of Speech: name Etymology: A pun on the pronunciation of I seek you. Pronunciation: /ˌaɪsiːˈkjuː/ 1. A program allowing users to send each other instant messages via the Internet. Labels: Internet Example: ICQ was unusual among instant-messaging systems because it used what is called peer-to-peer technology—ICQ users essentially communicated with each other directly, without having all their messages pass through a central server.
Word: ICQ Part of Speech: verb Etymology: A pun on the pronunciation of I seek you. Pronunciation: /ˌaɪsiːˈkjuː/ 1. To send an instant message to (someone) using ICQ. Labels: Internet, transitive Example: "My friends ICQ me before they call me just to make sure I'm there," said Kurera, a 19-year-old sophomore […] Example: I'll log-on in Hawaii. If needed we can ICQ from there.
Word: deuce Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English dewes (“two”), from Anglo-Norman, from Old French deus, from Latin duo. The word was used by Ford Motor Co. in 1932 to describe a two-seater car model. Pronunciation: /djuːs/, /d͡ʒuːs/, /dus/, /ˈdjʉs/, /ˈd͡ʒʉs/ 1. A card with two pips, one of four in a standard deck of playing cards. Example: You see, Sir, when I look at the Ace it reminds me that there is but one God. The deuce reminds me that the bible is divided into two parts; the Old and New Testaments. And when I see the trey I think of the Father, Son and Holy Ghost. 2. A side of a die with two spots. 3. A cast of dice totalling two. 4. The number two. Labels: Canada, US, slang 5. The number two. Labels: Canada, slang Example: Bisexual male, 28, doing a deuce in a segregated housing unit due to positive HIV test result, seeks correspondence from both genders. 6. A hand gesture consisting of a raised index and middle finger, a peace sign. 7. A tied game where either player can win by scoring two consecutive points. 8. A curveball. 9. A 1932 Ford. Example: And she was blinded by the light/Oh, cut loose like a deuce, another runner in the night. 10. Two-barrel (twin choke) carburetors (in the phrase three deuces: an arrangement on a common intake manifold). Labels: in-plural 11. A table seating two diners. Labels: slang 12. The amount of two dollars or two pounds. Labels: slang Example: Lend me a deuce until next week, will ya? 13. A twopence coin. Labels: archaic, slang Example: It was a shame of the chalk-takers to take their fee without even scoring one little mark; but chalk-takers are inexorable and must be paid their twopence. 'Down with your deuces', was the demand after each pair of birds had competed. 14. Douche. Labels: euphemistic, slang
Word: deuce Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Compare Late Latin dusius (“phantom, specter”); Scottish Gaelic taibhs, taibhse (“apparition, ghost”); or from Old French deus (“God”), from Latin deus (compare deity). Pronunciation: /djuːs/, /duːs/ 1. The Devil, used in exclamations of confusion or anger. Example: Love is a bodily infirmity […] which breaks out the deuce knows how or why Example: To sit, staring at those fixed glazed eyes, in silence for a moment, would play, Scrooge felt, the very deuce with him. 2. Synonym of devil (“something awkward or difficult”). Example: We had a deuce of a time getting here.
Word: tennis Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English tennys, teneys, tenis, from Old French tenez (second-person plural imperative of tenir (“to hold”)). Pronunciation: /ˈtɛnɪs/, /ˈtenɪs/ 1. A sport played by two players (or four in doubles), who alternately strike the ball over a net using racquets. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: “Anthea hasn't a notion in her head but to vamp a lot of silly mugwumps. She's set her heart on that tennis bloke[…]whom the papers are making such a fuss about.” Example: One of Naomi Osaka's sponsors has been forced to apologise after depicting the Japanese tennis star, who is half-Haitian, with pale skin in an advertisement. 2. A match in this sport. Labels: dated, uncountable, usually Example: We go about to parties in the daytime as usual, teas and tennises[…] 3. An earlier game in which a ball is driven to and fro, or kept in motion by striking it with a racquet or with the open hand. Labels: obsolete, uncountable, usually Example: tennis-balls Example: His easy bow, his good stories, his style of dancing and playing tennis, […] were familiar to all London.
Word: tennis Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English tennys, teneys, tenis, from Old French tenez (second-person plural imperative of tenir (“to hold”)). Pronunciation: /ˈtɛnɪs/, /ˈtenɪs/ 1. To play tennis. Labels: dated, intransitive 2. To drive backward and forward like a tennis ball. Labels: transitive Example: they shall have Intelligence or Espial upon the Enemy, will so drive him from one side to another, and tennis him amongst them
Word: chess Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *tek- Proto-Indo-Iranian *kšáyati Proto-Iranian *xšáyati Old Persian 𐏋 (XŠ) Middle Persian 𐭬𐭫𐭪𐭠 (mlkʾ) Classical Persian شاه (šāh)bor. Arabic شَاه (šāh)der. Old French eschésbor. Middle English ches English chess From Middle English ches, chesse, from Old French eschés, plural of eschec, from Medieval Latin scaccus, from Arabic شَاه (šāh, “king [in chess]”), from Classical Persian شاه (šāh, “shah, king”), from Middle Persian 𐭬𐭫𐭪𐭠 (mlkʾ /⁠šāh⁠/), from Old Persian 𐏋 (XŠ /⁠xšāyaθiya⁠/). Compare German Schach and Italian scacchi. Compare French échecs (“chess”) and its descendants: Catalan escacs and Dutch schaak. More at check and shah (“king of Persia or Iran”). Pronunciation: /t͡ʃɛs/ 1. A board game for two players, each beginning with sixteen chess pieces moving according to fixed rules across a chessboard with the objective to checkmate the opposing king. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: At the tender age of 20, Penguingm1 is already one of the best hyperbullet and ultrabullet chess players in the world. Example: FIDE appeals to all chess players and federations to accept this view.
Word: chess Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Uncertain; perhaps linked to Etymology 1, above, from the sense of being arranged in rows or lines. Pronunciation: /t͡ʃɛs/ 1. Any of several species of grass in the genus Bromus, generally considered weeds. Labels: US Example: Hobbled, loudly gourmandizing the dry chess grass, they were guarded by a pair of dismounted soldiers in long, dusty coats [...].
Word: chess Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Compare French châssis (“a framework of carpentry”). Pronunciation: /t͡ʃɛs/ 1. One of the platforms, consisting of two or more planks dowelled together, for the flooring of a temporary military bridge. Labels: in-plural Example: the balks are laid and covered with chesses to within 1 foot of the trestle Example: ach chess consists of three planks.
Word: knight Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English knight, knyght, kniht, from Old English cniht (“boy; servant, knight”), from Proto-West Germanic *kneht. Pronunciation: /ˈnaɪ̯t/, [ˈnaɪ̯t], /ˈnɐɪ̯t/, [ˈnɐɪ̯t], /ˈnɜɪ̯t/ 1. A young servant or follower; a trained military attendant in service of a lord. Labels: historical Example: Not all knights held fiefs, and it was not unusual for knights to buy themselves freedom from the obligations of the fief, or even to abscond with the arms provided by their lord, becoming a part of the large number of unenfeoffed, wandering knights available for hire […] 2. A minor nobleman with an honourable military rank who had served as a page and squire. Labels: historical 3. An armored and mounted warrior of the Middle Ages. Labels: broadly Example: King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table Example: There are two tombs, each bearing effigies of a knight and his lady. One is 14th century, the other 15th century. The earlier knight wears chain mail and his lady has long, flowing hair. The later knight has plate armour, and his wife wears a wimple. 4. A person obliged to provide knight service in exchange for maintenance of an estate held in knight's fee. Labels: historical 5. A person on whom a knighthood has been conferred by a monarch. Labels: modern 6. A brave, chivalrous and honorable man devoted to a noble cause or love interest. Labels: literary 7. A chess piece, often in the shape of a horse's head, that is moved two squares in one direction and one at right angles to that direction in a single move, leaping over any intervening pieces. Example: The knight may move to one of the squares nearest to that on which it stands but not on the same rank, file or diagonal. […] There are two knights, on the squares g1 and e1, and one of them moves to the square f3: either Ngf3 or Nef3, as the case may be. 8. A playing card bearing the figure of a knight; the knave or jack. Labels: dated 9. Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Ypthima. 10. Any mushroom belonging to genus Tricholoma. Labels: modern 11. A species of nymphalid butterfly, Lebadea martha, found in tropical and subtropical Asia. Example: The Knight is quite common in the Srimangal forests, especially along the beds of dry or flowing streams. Example: The Knight is a rather common species on Pulau Ubin and is regular seen on various parts of the island.
Word: knight Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English knighten, kniȝten, from the noun. Cognate with Middle High German knehten. Pronunciation: /ˈnaɪ̯t/, [ˈnaɪ̯t], /ˈnɐɪ̯t/, [ˈnɐɪ̯t], /ˈnɜɪ̯t/ 1. To confer knighthood upon. Labels: transitive Example: The king knighted the young squire. Example: Highborn boys were sent off to another noble household at the age of about seven, to serve strenuously as pages and later as esquires to their lord before they themselves were knighted, looked around for a "lady" and incidentally got married and produced more knightlets, whom they never got to know at all well. 2. To promote (a pawn) to a knight. Labels: transitive
Word: skew Part of Speech: adj Etymology: The verb is derived from Middle English skeuen, skewe, skewen (“to run at an angle or obliquely; to escape”), from Old Northern French escuer [and other forms], variants of Old French eschuer, eschever, eschiver (“to escape, flee; to avoid”) (modern French esquiver (“to dodge (a blow), duck; to elude, evade; to slip away; to sidestep”)), from Frankish *skiuhan (“to dread; to avoid, shun”), from Proto-Germanic *skiuhijaną (“to frighten”). The English word is cognate with Catalan esquiu (“evasive, shy”), Danish skæv (“crooked, slanting; skew, wry”) (> Norwegian Bokmål skjev), Dutch scheef (“crooked, slanting”), Norwegian skeiv (“crooked, lopsided; oblique, slanting; distorted”), Saterland Frisian skeeuw (“aslant, slanting; oblique; awry”), and is a doublet of eschew. The adjective and adverb are probably derived from the verb and/or from askew, and the noun is derived from either the adjective or the verb. Pronunciation: /skjuː/, /skjʉw/, /skju/ 1. Neither parallel nor perpendicular to a certain line; askew. Labels: not-comparable, usually Example: a skew arch Example: [O]ur earth which makes one in that airy fleet when it eſcaped ſo narrowly being ſhipwrackt in the great Deluge, was however ſo broken and diſordered that it loſt its equal poiſe and thereupon the centre of its gravity changing, one Pole became more inclined towards the Sun and the other more removed from it, in which ſkew poſture it hath ſtood ever ſince. 2. Of two lines in three-dimensional space: neither intersecting nor parallel. Labels: not-comparable, usually Example: Through the given point there are two lines one of which is parallel to one of the given skew lines, while the other is parallel to the other of the given skew lines. These two "parallels" determine a plane, and the only plane, that is parallel to both the given skew lines. 3. Of a distribution: asymmetrical about its mean. Labels: comparable, not-comparable, usually Example: A slope value over 1 indicates that digits are skewer than the Benford condition in favor of low ones. A slope value less than 1 indicates that digits are less skewed as compared with the Benford condition. Example: The skewest possible distribution is that in which every but one target value has only one element and the other target value has all the other elements.