nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: trail Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English trailen, from Old French trailler (“to tow; pick up the scent of a quarry”), from Vulgar Latin *tragulāre (“to drag”), from Latin tragula (“dragnet, javelin thrown by a strap”), probably related to Latin trahere (“to pull, drag along”). Pronunciation: /tɹeɪl/ 1. The track or indication marking the route followed by something that has passed, such as the footprints of animal on land or the contrail of an airplane in the sky. Example: trail of blood Example: condensation trail 2. A route for travel over land, especially a narrow, unpaved pathway for use by hikers, horseback riders, etc. 3. A route or circuit generally. Example: Politicians are on the campaign trail in preparation for this year's election. 4. A trailer broadcast on television for a forthcoming film or programme. 5. A walk in which all the edges are distinct. 6. The horizontal distance from where the wheel touches the ground to where the steering axis intersects the ground.
Word: traffic Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle French trafique, traffique (“traffic”), from Italian traffico (“traffic”) from trafficare (“to carry on trade”). Potentially from Vulgar Latin *trānsfrīcāre (“to rub across”); Klein instead suggests the Italian has ultimate origin in Arabic تَفْرِيق (tafrīq, “distribution, dispersion”), reshaped to match the native prefix tra- (“trans-”). The adjectival sense is possibly influenced by Tagalog trapik and follows a general trend in Philippine English to construct a noun from an adjective. Pronunciation: /ˈtɹæfɪk/ 1. Moving pedestrians or vehicles, or the flux or passage thereof. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: The traffic is slow during rush hour. Example: VVhoſe miſaduentures, piteous ouerthrovves, / (Through the continuing of their Fathers ſtrife, / And death-markt paſſage of their Parents rage) / Is novv the tvvo hovvres traffique of our Stage. 2. The commercial transportation or exchange of goods, or the movement of passengers or people. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: I had three large axes, and abundance of hatchets (for we carried the hatchets for traffic with the Indians). Example: To assume that the recent investigation of the white slave traffic (and, by the way, a very superficial investigation) has discovered anything new, is, to say the least, very foolish 3. The illegal trade or exchange of goods, often drugs. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: They, in turn, had long dominated the drug traffic in the area of north-east Afghanistan that they controlled during the Taliban years. 4. The exchange or flux of information, messages or data, as in a computer or telephone network. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: The parish stank of idolatry, abominable rites were practiced in secret, and in all the bounds there was no one had a more evil name for the black traffic than one Alison Sempill, who bode at the Skerburnfoot. Example: Internet traffic to legal pornography sites in the UK comprised 8.5% of all "clicks" on web pages in June – exceeding those for shopping, news, business or social networks, according to new data obtained exclusively by the Guardian. 5. The exchange or flux of information, messages or data, as in a computer or telephone network. Labels: uncountable, usually 6. The exchange or flux of information, messages or data, as in a computer or telephone network. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: Those fixed locations which are sold to advertisers become preferred according to the expected page traffic. 7. The commodities of the market. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: You'll see a draggled damsel / From Billingsgate her fishy traffic bear.
Word: traffic Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle French trafique, traffique (“traffic”), from Italian traffico (“traffic”) from trafficare (“to carry on trade”). Potentially from Vulgar Latin *trānsfrīcāre (“to rub across”); Klein instead suggests the Italian has ultimate origin in Arabic تَفْرِيق (tafrīq, “distribution, dispersion”), reshaped to match the native prefix tra- (“trans-”). The adjectival sense is possibly influenced by Tagalog trapik and follows a general trend in Philippine English to construct a noun from an adjective. Pronunciation: /ˈtɹæfɪk/ 1. To pass goods and commodities from one person to another for an equivalent in goods or money; to buy or sell goods. Labels: intransitive 2. To trade meanly or mercenarily; to bargain. Labels: intransitive 3. To exchange in traffic; to effect by a bargain or for a consideration. Labels: transitive Example: A Libyan longing took us, and we would have chosen, if we could, to bear a strand of grotesque beads, or a handful of brazen gauds, and traffic them for some sable maid with crisp locks, whom, uncoffling from the captive train beside the desert, we should make to do our general housework forever, through the right of lawful purchase.
Word: traffic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle French trafique, traffique (“traffic”), from Italian traffico (“traffic”) from trafficare (“to carry on trade”). Potentially from Vulgar Latin *trānsfrīcāre (“to rub across”); Klein instead suggests the Italian has ultimate origin in Arabic تَفْرِيق (tafrīq, “distribution, dispersion”), reshaped to match the native prefix tra- (“trans-”). The adjectival sense is possibly influenced by Tagalog trapik and follows a general trend in Philippine English to construct a noun from an adjective. Pronunciation: /ˈtɹæfɪk/ 1. Congested. Labels: Philippines Example: It’s super traffic here in Manila.
Word: path Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English path, peth, from Old English pæþ (“path, track”), from Proto-West Germanic *paþ, from Proto-Germanic *paþaz (“path”). The Proto-Germanic term is possibly borrowed from Iranian, from Proto-Iranian *pántaHs, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *pántaHs, from Proto-Indo-European *póntoh₁s, from the root *pent- (“to pass”), but this is disputed. Cognates Cognate with Saterland Frisian Paad, Pad (“path”), West Frisian paad (“path”), Dutch pad (“path”), German Pfad (“path”), German Low German Padd (“path”), Luxembourgish Pad (“path”). Indo-Iranian cognates could be Avestan 𐬞𐬀𐬧𐬙𐬃 (paṇtā̊, “way”), Old Persian 𐎱𐎰 (p-θ /⁠paθi⁠/), Hindi पथ (path), Sanskrit पन्था (panthā, “path”). See also English find. Doublet of panth. Pronunciation: /pɑːθ/, [pʰɑːθ], [pʰäːθ], [pʰɐːθ], /pɑt̪ʰ/ 1. To make a path in, or on (something), or for (someone). Labels: transitive Example: His ghoſtly counſells onely doe aduiſe, / The meanes hovv Langlies progenie may riſe, / Pathing young Henries vnaduiſed vvaies, / A Duke of Yorke from Cambridge houſe to raiſe, […] 2. To navigate through a file system directory tree (to a desired file or folder). Labels: intransitive Example: Next, you need to path to the location of the executable and run it from there. 3. To pathfind. Labels: intransitive
Word: path Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Shortening. 1. Pathology. Labels: abbreviation, uncountable
Word: highway Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English heiȝwai, heiȝwei, from Old English hēahweġ (“main road, highway”), corresponding to high + way. Compare highgate, high street, high road. Cognate with Scots heaway, heway, hieway, hichway, heichway (“highway”). Pronunciation: /ˈhaɪweɪ/, /ˈhɑjwɛj/ 1. A main public road, especially a multi-lane, high-speed thoroughfare. Example: The highway to the East Coast which ran through the borough of Ebbfield had always been a main road and even now, despite the vast garages, the pylons and the gaily painted factory glasshouses which had sprung up beside it, there still remained an occasional trace of past cultures. 2. Any public road. 3. A way; a path that leads to a certain destiny. Labels: figuratively Example: You're on a highway to greatness. Example: I'm on the highway to hell 4. A road that is major (more heavily traveled and thus more important than a byway), higher than the surrounding land, has drainage ditches at the sides, or has any combination of those traits. Labels: archaic 5. Synonym of bus (“common connection for two or more circuits or components”).
Word: highway Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English heiȝwai, heiȝwei, from Old English hēahweġ (“main road, highway”), corresponding to high + way. Compare highgate, high street, high road. Cognate with Scots heaway, heway, hieway, hichway, heichway (“highway”). Pronunciation: /ˈhaɪweɪ/, /ˈhɑjwɛj/ 1. To travel on a highway
Word: boulevard Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from French boulevard, from Middle French boulevard, bollevart, boulevars, bolevers, bollewerc (“rampart”), from Middle High German bolewerc, bolwerc (modern German Bollwerk) or Middle Dutch bolwerk (“bulwark, bastion”). Doublet of bulwark; more at bole, work. Pronunciation: /ˈbuː.ləˌvɑːd/, /ˈbʊ.lə.vɑɹd/ 1. A broad, well-paved and landscaped thoroughfare. Example: We live on Sunset Boulevard. 2. The landscaping on the sides of a boulevard or other thoroughfare. 3. A strip of land between a street and sidewalk. 4. The grassy area in the middle of some streets; a refuge island.
Word: thoroughfare Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English thurghfare, corresponding to thorough- (“through”) + fare. Compare Old English þurhfaran (“to go through, go over, traverse, pierce, pass through, pass beyond, transcend, penetrate”). Compare also Old English þurhfær (“inner secret place”), German Durchfahrt (“passage through, thoroughfare”). Pronunciation: /ˈθʌɹəfɛː/ 1. A passage; a way through. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: “I ask you,” cried Lloyd George in 1909. “Are we to have all the ways of reform, financial and social, blocked simply by a notice board: ‘No thoroughfare. By order of Nathanial Rothschild’?” Example: In the scullery Smiley had once more checked his thoroughfare, shoved some deck-chairs aside, and pinned a string to the mangle to guide him because he saw badly in the dark. 2. A road open at both ends or connecting one area with another; a highway or main street. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Mr. Roscoe, on the contrary, has claimed none of the accorded privileges of talent. He has shut himself up in no garden of thought, no elysium of fancy; but has gone forth into the highways and thoroughfares of life; […]. Example: a dozen houses were quickly blazing, including those of Sir John Fielding and two other justices, and four in Holborn – one of the greatest thoroughfares in London – which were all burning at the same time, and burned until they went out of themselves, for the people cut the engine hose, and would not suffer the firemen to play upon the flames. 3. The act of going through; passage; travel, transit. Labels: uncountable Example: The sign leading to the other carriage reads: No thoroughfare. Example: and made one realm, / Hell and this world, one realm, one continent / Of easy thorough-fare. 4. An unobstructed waterway allowing passage for ships. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: expressway Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From express + way. Pronunciation: /ɪkˈspɹɛs.weɪ/ 1. A divided highway, especially one whose intersections and direct access to adjacent properties have been eliminated. Labels: US, regional Example: The funding will allow state and city officials to devise a community-driven plan to cap parts of the 6.5-mile expressway with structures that could reduce traffic noise and contain green space, pedestrian walkways and air filtration systems. 2. Synonym of freeway. Labels: Canada, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, South-Korea 3. A road built for high speed traffic, but not up to motorway standards or designated a motorway. Labels: New-Zealand, UK Example: The £4bn expressways form a diamond linking Delhi with the country's three other largest cities, Mumbai, Chennai and Calcutta, marking the beginning of more than £35bn of road projects.
Word: avenue Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from French avenue, from Old French avenue, feminine past participle of avenir (“approach”), from Latin adveniō, advenīre (“come to”, from ad (“to”) + veniō, venīre (“come”)). Pronunciation: /ˈæv.əˌnjuː/, /ˈæv.əˌn(j)u/ 1. A broad street, especially one bordered by trees or, in cities laid out in a grid pattern, one that is on a particular side of the city or that runs in a particular direction. Example: Finding an address east to west is fairly simple . The numbering begins at Central Avenue and moves logically and predictably either west through the avenues or east through the streets, so you know that 2400 East Camelback is at Twenty-Fourth Street or 4300 West Indian School is at Forty-Third Avenue . Example: Boulevards typically (but not exclusively) go east to west; avenues usually run north to south. 2. A way or opening for entrance into a place; a passage by which a place may be reached; a way of approach or of exit. Example: [S]ome have used to get on the top of the higheſt Steeple, vvhere one may vievv with advantage, all the Countrey circumjacent, and the ſite of the City, vvith the advenues and approaches about it; and ſo take a Landskip of it. 3. The principal walk or approach to a house which is withdrawn from the road, especially, such approach bordered on each side by trees; any broad passageway thus bordered. Example: They said nothing further, but tramped on in the growing darkness, past farm steadings, into the little village, through the silent churchyard where generations of the Pallisers lay, and up the beech avenue that led to Northrop Hall. 4. A method or means by which something may be accomplished. Example: There are several avenues by which we can approach this problem. Example: As avenues to foreign influence in innumerable ways, such attachments are particularly alarming to the truly enlightened and independent Patriot.
Word: exit Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰ Proto-Indo-European *-s Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰs Proto-Italic *eks Latin ex Latin ex- Proto-Indo-European *h₁ey- Proto-Indo-European *h₁éyti Proto-Italic *ejō Proto-Italic *eō Latin eō Latin exeō Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Italic *-tus Latin -tus Latin exitusder. Middle English exit English exit From Middle English exit, from Latin exitus (“departure, going out; way by which one may go out, egress; (figuratively) conclusion, termination; (figuratively) death; income, revenue”), from exeō (“to depart, exit; to avoid, evade; (figuratively) to escape; of time: to expire, run out”) + -tus (suffix forming action nouns from verbs). Exeō is derived from ex- (prefix meaning ‘out, away’) + eō (“to go”) (ultimately from ). The English word is cognate with Italian esito, Portuguese êxito, Spanish éxito. Doublet of ejido and exitus. The verb is derived from the noun. Pronunciation: /ˈɛksɪt/, /ˈɛɡzɪt/, /ˈeɪɡzɪt/, /ˈɛɡzət/, /ˈɛksət/ 1. An act of going out or going away, or leaving; a departure. Example: He made his exit at the opportune time. Example: On the firſt Day of the eleventh Month of the fortieth Year after the Exit from Egypt, Moſes, after he had numbred the People in the Plains of Moab by Jordan near Jericho, and found that there was not left a Man of thoſe, whom he had almoſt forty Years before numbered in the Wilderneſs of Sinai, ſave Caleb and Joſhua, by the Command of God made a Covenant with the Iſraelites in the Land of Moab, [...] 2. An act of going out or going away, or leaving; a departure. Labels: specifically Example: All the world's a ſtage, / And all the men and women, meerely Players; / They haue their Exits and their Entrances, / And one man in his time playes many parts, / His Acts being ſeuen ages. Example: Why do directors assume that exits and entrances need not be rehearsed? 3. A way out. Example: emergency exit fire exit Example: He was looking for the exit and got lost. 4. A way out. Example: When signs are erected giving notice thereof, no person shall drive a vehicle onto or from any controlled access highway except at such entrances and exits as have been designated by the department. Example: From Washington Dulles International, follow the signs to Interstate 66 east to Washington. Follow I-66 to the Theodore Roosevelt Bridge (US Route 50). take the Constitution Ave exit off of the bridge. 5. The act of departing from life; death. Labels: euphemistic, figuratively, often Example: the untimely exit of a respected politician Example: However, there are no ideas strike more forcibly upon our imaginations, than those which are raised from reflections upon the exits of great and excellent men.
Word: exit Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰ Proto-Indo-European *-s Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰs Proto-Italic *eks Latin ex Latin ex- Proto-Indo-European *h₁ey- Proto-Indo-European *h₁éyti Proto-Italic *ejō Proto-Italic *eō Latin eō Latin exeō Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Italic *-tus Latin -tus Latin exitusder. Middle English exit English exit From Middle English exit, from Latin exitus (“departure, going out; way by which one may go out, egress; (figuratively) conclusion, termination; (figuratively) death; income, revenue”), from exeō (“to depart, exit; to avoid, evade; (figuratively) to escape; of time: to expire, run out”) + -tus (suffix forming action nouns from verbs). Exeō is derived from ex- (prefix meaning ‘out, away’) + eō (“to go”) (ultimately from ). The English word is cognate with Italian esito, Portuguese êxito, Spanish éxito. Doublet of ejido and exitus. The verb is derived from the noun. Pronunciation: /ˈɛksɪt/, /ˈɛɡzɪt/, /ˈeɪɡzɪt/, /ˈɛɡzət/, /ˈɛksət/ 1. To go out or go away from a place or situation; to depart, to leave. Labels: intransitive Example: Come, good Remus, our men await us. Let the lion roar and roam to-day; he may be of service; to-morrow, perchance we'll chain him. [Exit Stephano right fourth entrance. Soft music. Remus, exiting, looks hard at Romulus. Exit Remus right fourth entrance.] Example: Lucy enters at 11 o'clock and runs to her mother after blowing kiss to audience with both hands. They both exit at 11 o'clock, after Appleby's line. Ethel crosses to her victim at 3 o'clock, winks at him and then looks over her shoulder as she crosses to door at 1 o'clock, where she speaks her line and exits. 2. To go out or go away from a place or situation; to depart, to leave. Labels: intransitive Example: Desdemona exits stage left. 3. To depart from life; to die. Labels: euphemistic, intransitive, often 4. To end or terminate (a program, subroutine, etc.) Labels: ambitransitive Example: Common Lisp provides a facility for exiting from a complex process in a non-local, dynamically scoped manner. Example: Every ZAF program needs to call a routine like this to exit the application. Just put it in your library and be done with it. 5. To depart from or leave (a place or situation). Labels: also, figuratively, transitive Example: At approximately 10:35 a.m. said John Doe exited 110 East 36th Street without the brown paper bag. [...] On four occasions, said John Doe was observed exiting 110 East 36th Street and observed on two occasions entering apartment actually marked 71, but meaning apartment 710 on seventh floor of 150 East 35th Street. Example: More than one-quarter (26 per cent) poor in 1991 exited poverty in 1992. 6. To depart from or leave (a place or situation). Labels: also, figuratively, specifically, transitive Example: When Walsh exited the "Q" train, he walked three blocks underground on the concourse which took him into the World Trade Center, the twin towers which highlight the skyline of lower Manhattan. 7. To give up the lead. Labels: intransitive Example: West now plays a low club to the J and Q. North exits in a trump.
Word: exit Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Borrowed from Latin exit, the third-person singular present active indicative of exeō (“to depart, exit; to avoid, evade; (figuratively) to escape; of time: to expire, run out”); see further at etymology 1 above. Pronunciation: /ˈɛksɪt/, /ˈɛɡzɪt/, /ˈeɪɡzɪt/, /ˈɛɡzət/, /ˈɛksət/ 1. Used as a stage direction for an actor: to leave the scene or stage. Labels: also, figuratively, intransitive Example: I take no monie, but good vvordes, raile not if I tell true, if I doe not reuenge. Farevvell. Exit Bom[bie]. Example: A ſauage clamor? / Well may I get a-boord: This is the Chace, / I am gone for euer. / Exit purſued by a Beare.
Word: freeway Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From free + way. Pronunciation: /ˈfɹiː.weɪ/, /ˈfɹɪjwɛj/ 1. A highway with grade-separated crossings (rather than level crossings) and designed (and only permitted) for high-speed motor-traffic running in two directions on one separate carriageway each Labels: US Example: Contrary to what one might expect of an essay on freeways, this one is neither a diatribe nor a paean. Example: A 106-kilometer section of this 117-kilometer new freeway (between Hsinchu and Hsichih 汐止) was opened to traffic in 1997, and the entire line will be finished in December 1999. 2. A toll-free highway.
Word: motorway Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From motor + way. Pronunciation: /ˈməʊtəweɪ/, /ˈməwtəwɛj/ 1. A highway with grade-separated crossings (rather than level crossings) and designed (and only permitted) for high-speed motor-traffic (in Europe motor vehicles with a higher speed limit than 40 km/h) running in two directions on one separate carriageway each. Labels: Ireland, New-South-Wales, New-Zealand, UK Example: All the R. R.'s of America will have to be furnished with a biking way and a motor way on each side of the rails. Example: Work of constructing the Texas Motorway, a stone highway which when completed will extend from Fort Worth to Del Rio, Tex., a distance of 500 miles, has been commenced and a section between 18 and 20 miles long running out from Glenrose, the county seat of Somervell County, has been completed. 2. A racetrack venue designated especially for the sport of auto racing. Labels: US Example: In December, track operators replaced the crushed rock with brick, earning the motorway the nickname, Brickyard. Example: The 9-degree banking you see in the Speedway’s four turns is believed to be the first intentionally banked motorway in the United States.
Word: entrance Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle French entrance (“entry”). Replaced native Middle English ingang (“entrance, admission”), from Old English ingang (“ingress, entry, entrance”). Pronunciation: /ˈɛn.tɹəns/ 1. The action of entering, or going in. Labels: countable Example: make a grand entrance Example: Her entrance attracted no attention whatsoever. 2. The act of taking possession, as of property, or of office. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: the entrance of an heir upon his inheritance, or of a magistrate into office 3. The place of entering, as a gate or doorway. Labels: countable Example: ‘It was called the wickedest street in London and the entrance was just here. I imagine the mouth of the road lay between this lamp standard and the second from the next down there.’ Example: Place your bag by the entrance so that you can find it easily. 4. The right to go in. Labels: uncountable Example: You'll need a ticket to gain entrance to the museum. Example: to give entrance to friends 5. The entering upon; the beginning, or that with which the beginning is made; the commencement; initiation. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: a difficult entrance into business Example: Beware of entrance to a quarrel. 6. The causing to be entered upon a register, as a ship or goods, at a customhouse; an entering. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: His entrance of the arrival was made the same day. 7. The angle which the bow of a vessel makes with the water at the water line. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: A coarse-lined ship, fig. 4, has an angle of entrance of about 40 deg., measured at the load-water line; while a fine-lined ship has only about half that angle. Example: At low , say 9 knots for a 400-ft. ship, 60 deg. entrance angle (side to side) can be accepted. 8. The bow, or entire wedgelike forepart of a vessel, below the water line. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: She [the Albemarle] has a bold entrance, and clean run. 9. The beginning of a musician's playing or singing; entry. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: entrance Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From en- + trance (“daze”). Pronunciation: /ɛnˈtɹɑːns/, /ɛnˈtɹæns/ 1. To delight and fill with wonder. Labels: transitive Example: The children were immediately entranced by all the balloons. Example: See the finest girl in France make an entrance to entrance... 2. To put into a trance. Labels: transitive
Word: lane Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English lane, lone, from Old English lanu (“a lane, alley, avenue”), from Proto-West Germanic *lanu, from Proto-Germanic *lanō (“lane, passageway”). Cognate with Scots lone (“cattle-track, by-road”), West Frisian leane, loane (“a walkway, avenue”), Dutch laan (“alley, avenue”), German Low German Lane, Laan (“lane”), Swedish lån (“covered walkway encircling a house”), Icelandic lön (“a row of houses”). Pronunciation: /leɪn/ 1. A road, street, or similar thoroughfare. Example: Penny Lane 2. A narrow passageway between fences, walls, hedges or trees. Example: There's a shortcut to the shops through this leafy lane. Example: Tell her how the IRA made you run like hell away / From the green and lovely lanes of Killashandra. 3. A narrow road, as in the country. 4. A lengthwise division of roadway intended for a single line of vehicles. Example: Drivers should overtake in the outside lane Example: We were held up by a truck in the middle lane of the freeway. 5. A similar division of a racetrack to keep runners apart. Example: There are eight lanes on an Olympic running track. 6. A similar division of a swimming pool using lines of coloured floats to keep swimmers apart. Example: a swimming lane 7. Any of a number of parallel tracks or passages. Example: the checkout lanes in a supermarket 8. A course designated for ships or aircraft. Example: shipping lane 9. An elongated wooden strip of floor along which a bowling ball is rolled. Example: We booked a couple of lanes at the bowling alley. 10. An empty space in the tableau, formed by the removal of an entire row of cards. 11. Any of the parallel slots in which values can be stored in a SIMD architecture. 12. In MOBA (multiplayer online battle arena) games, a particular path on the map that may be traversed by enemy characters. 13. The home stretch. Example: And it's Uncle Mo in front by two as they come to the top of the lane.
Word: alley Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English aleye, from Anglo-Norman aleie, feminine of alé, past participle of aler (“to go”) (French aller). Doublet of allée. Pronunciation: /ˈæl.i/ 1. A narrow street or passageway, especially one through the middle of a block giving access to the rear of lots of buildings. Example: The parking lot to my friend's apartment building is in the alley. 2. The area between the outfielders. Example: He hit one deep into the alley. 3. An establishment where bowling is played. 4. An elongated wooden strip of floor along which a bowling ball is rolled. 5. The extra area between the sidelines or tramlines on a tennis court that is used for doubles matches. 6. A walk or passage in a garden or park, bordered by rows of trees or bushes. Example: I know each lane and every alley green. 7. A passageway between rows of pews in a church. 8. Any passage having the entrance represented as wider than the exit, so as to give the appearance of length. 9. The space between two rows of compositors' stands in a printing office. 10. A group of clowns; the collective noun for clowns. Labels: informal, rare Example: […] alley of clowns had sprung like a fungus growth from the dung heap of the First World War. Example: “[…] Something must've happened to him when he was little.” “Which would give him a reason to hate them,” Oliver replied and was pushed aside by an alley of clowns. “Hey!” “Sorry, kid. Didn't see you there,” one clown called over.
Word: alley Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Diminutive of alabaster, from which they were once made. Pronunciation: /ˈæl.i/ 1. A marble (small ball used in games).
Word: turnpike Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English turnpyke (“spiked barrier across a road”), originally used to block access to such a road until a toll was paid. Equivalent to modern turn + pike (“shaft”). Pronunciation: /ˈtɜː(ɹ)npaɪk/ 1. A frame consisting of two bars crossing each other at right angles and turning on a post or pin, to hinder the passage of animals, but admitting a person to pass between the arms. Example: 1626, Ben Jonson, The Staple of News, Act III, Scene 1, Yale Studies in English Vol. 28, New York: Henry Holt, 1905, p. 58, I moue vpon my axell, like a turne-pike, / Fit my face to the parties, and become / Straight one of them. 2. A gate or bar set across a road to stop carriages, animals, and sometimes people, until a toll is paid. Example: 1722, Daniel Defoe, A Journal of the Plague Year, London: E. Nutt et al., pp. 9-10, […] it was rumour’d that an order of the Government was to be issued out, to place Turn-pikes and Barriers on the Road, to prevent Peoples travelling; Example: […] Pope Pelagius, then Bishop of Rome […] thereupon assum'd the Power of opening and shutting Heaven's Gates; and he afterwards setting a Price or Toll upon the Entrance, as we do here at passing a Turn-pike […] 3. A winding stairway. Labels: Scotland Example: Ramsay stabbed Ruthven accordingly and James lending his assistance they thrust the wounded man down the turnpike by which Ramsay had ascended Voices and steps were now heard advancing upwards and Ramsay knowing the accents called out to sir Thomas Erskine to come up the turnpike stair even to the head Sir Thomas Erskine was accompanied by sir Hugh Harris the king's physician a lame man and unfit for fighting Near the bottom of the turnpike sir Thomas Erskine in his ascent met Ruthven bleeding in the face and neck and called out Fie strike I this is the traitor l on which Alexander Ruthven was run through the body having only breath remaining to say Alas I had no blame of it 4. A beam filled with spikes to obstruct passage; a cheval de frise. 5. A toll road, especially a toll expressway. In some places the clipped version, pike, is used for roads without tolls. Labels: US Example: Eleven Pair of Mills ſtand within Four Miles of the Place, which bring a great Trade to it: But the Road is by this means ſo continually torn, that it is one of the worſt Turnpikes about London. Example: [T]here is a bundle of pawnbrokers' duplicates, those turnpike tickets on the road of poverty ... 6. A trajectory on a finite time interval that satisfies an optimality criterion which is associated with a cost function. Example: In the monograph we discuss a number of results concerning turnpike properties in the calculus of variations and optimal control which were obtained by the author in the last ten years.
Word: turnpike Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English turnpyke (“spiked barrier across a road”), originally used to block access to such a road until a toll was paid. Equivalent to modern turn + pike (“shaft”). Pronunciation: /ˈtɜː(ɹ)npaɪk/ 1. To form (a road, etc.) in the manner of a turnpike road, or into a rounded form, as the path of a road.
Word: superhighway Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *úp Proto-Indo-European *-er Proto-Indo-European *upér Proto-Italic *super Latin super Latin super-lbor. English super- English highway English superhighway From super- + highway. 1. An expressway, especially one designed for high speeds. Labels: US 2. A major route that carries most of the traffic going in a given direction by a specified mode of transportation. Labels: broadly Example: We cannot and should not be rebuilding old "two lane" sections of the air transport system with segments having "eight lane superhighway" capacity without knowing the full economic, safety, and environmental impacts of the entire air traffic superhighway. Example: By 1400, however, Western Europeans had developed their own versions of oceangoing ships, and these transformed the much narrower Atlantic Ocean from a barrier into a superhighway. 3. The primary mechanism used in the movement of electronic data or information; information superhighway. Labels: figuratively Example: In the discussion about the pros and cons of the electronic superhighway, people often refer to the Internet. Example: How should we reinterpret the universal service obligation for the superhighway? It is clear that price is already a barrier to access to the basic telephone service.
Word: sale Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English sale, from Old English sala (“act of selling, sale”), from Old Norse sala (“sale”), from Proto-Germanic *salō (“delivery”), from Proto-Indo-European *selh₁- (“to grab”). Pronunciation: /seːl/, /seɪl/ 1. An exchange of goods or services for currency or credit. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: He celebrated after the sale of company. 2. Ellipsis of discount sale (“the sale of goods at reduced prices”). Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, ellipsis, uncountable Example: They are having a clearance sale: 50% off. 3. The act of putting up for auction to the highest bidder. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: sale Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English sale, sal, from Old English sæl (“room, hall, castle”), from Proto-Germanic *salą (“house, hall”), from Proto-Indo-European *sel- (“home, dwelling, village”). Cognate with West Frisian seal, Dutch zaal, German Saal, Swedish sal, Icelandic salur, Lithuanian sala (“village”). Doublet of sala and salle. Related also to salon, saloon. Pronunciation: /seːl/, /seɪl/ 1. A hall. Labels: obsolete
Word: Zulu Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Zulu umu- Proto-Bantu *ʊ́- Zulu ú- Proto-Bantu *ìgʊ̀dʊ̀ Zulu ī́zulu Zulu úZulu Zulu uḿZuluder. English Zulu Derived from Zulu uḿZulu. Pronunciation: /ˈzuːluː/ 1. A member of an African ethnic group living mainly in the KwaZulu-Natal Province in eastern South Africa. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. Any black person. Labels: UK, countable, dated, ethnic, slang, slur, uncountable 3. Time along the prime meridian; UTC; Zulu time. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Noon MST is 19:00 Zulu.
Word: Zulu Part of Speech: name Etymology: Etymology tree Zulu umu- Proto-Bantu *ʊ́- Zulu ú- Proto-Bantu *ìgʊ̀dʊ̀ Zulu ī́zulu Zulu úZulu Zulu uḿZuluder. English Zulu Derived from Zulu uḿZulu. Pronunciation: /ˈzuːluː/ 1. The language of these people, a Bantu language; isiZulu. Example: If he puts in a Zulu word, that means there are Zulu people in the Belt. Example: The resulting Belter creole is a crazy mix of English, Chinese, romance languages like French, German, Persian, Hebrew, Zulu, and a few other surprises. Farmer says he has over 1,000 Belter words in his personal dictionary, and he keeps adding more as the show’s producers and fans request them.
Word: Zulu Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Zulu umu- Proto-Bantu *ʊ́- Zulu ú- Proto-Bantu *ìgʊ̀dʊ̀ Zulu ī́zulu Zulu úZulu Zulu uḿZuluder. English Zulu Derived from Zulu uḿZulu. Pronunciation: /ˈzuːluː/ 1. Pertaining to the Zulu people, culture, or language. Labels: not-comparable Example: If he puts in a Zulu word, that means there are Zulu people in the Belt.
Word: zoom Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Uncertain. The verb was first attested c. 1892, as a noun in 1918 and as an interjection in 1942. Apparently related to Scots soom (“to buzz, hum”), dialectal English and Scots soom, swoom, sweem (“to spin or twirl at high speed”). Compare also dialectal English sweem (“to swoon, become dizzy or faint”). Pronunciation: /zuːm/ 1. A humming noise from something moving very fast. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: the zoom of traffic 2. A quick ascent. Labels: countable, figuratively, uncountable 3. A big increase. Labels: countable, figuratively, uncountable 4. An augmentation of a view, by varying the focal length of a lens, or digitally. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: What's the zoom like on your camera? 5. A recreational drug comprising a mixture of PCP and cannabis. Labels: slang, uncountable
Word: zoom Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Uncertain. The verb was first attested c. 1892, as a noun in 1918 and as an interjection in 1942. Apparently related to Scots soom (“to buzz, hum”), dialectal English and Scots soom, swoom, sweem (“to spin or twirl at high speed”). Compare also dialectal English sweem (“to swoon, become dizzy or faint”). Pronunciation: /zuːm/ 1. To move fast with a humming noise. Example: We zoomed along the highway. Example: He ran to his right and another shot came at his legs. It hit the floor and zoomed into a huge carboy of clams that split in half and emptied a hundred shell-fish over the floor. 2. To zoom climb. 3. To move rapidly. 4. To go up sharply. Example: prices zoomed 5. To change the focal length of a zoom lens. 6. To manipulate a display so as to magnify or shrink it. Example: to zoom in or zoom out 7. To check someone out; to investigate someone that one is interested in. Labels: transitive Example: (Who's zoomin' who?) / Take another look and tell me, baby / (Who's zoomin' who?) / Who's zoomin' who? / (Who's zoomin' who?) / Now the fish jumped off the hook, didn't I, baby? / (Who's zoomin' who?) / Yeah Example: "It boggles my mind what kind of mentality is at work there." He pointed to two recent issues of the magazine that featured cover stories were about Whitney Houston and Luther Vandross, two pop music icons whose sexual orientations have been widely speculated on in Black lesbian and gay communities. "It makes you wonder if it's an insult to the intelligence of Essence’s lesbian and gay leadership," Cunningham said. "Who's really zooming whom here?"
Word: zoom Part of Speech: intj Etymology: Uncertain. The verb was first attested c. 1892, as a noun in 1918 and as an interjection in 1942. Apparently related to Scots soom (“to buzz, hum”), dialectal English and Scots soom, swoom, sweem (“to spin or twirl at high speed”). Compare also dialectal English sweem (“to swoon, become dizzy or faint”). Pronunciation: /zuːm/ 1. Representing a humming sound Example: Makowsky was playing the Bassgeige. Zoom... zoom-zoom.... The rest of the orchestra would join in presently. 2. Suggesting something moving quickly Example: I would dance a few light fantastic steps to show which way the wind lay, and zoom! Like a breeze I was on the piano stool and doing a velocity exercise. 3. Suggesting a sudden change, especially an improvement or an increase
Word: zoom Part of Speech: verb Etymology: A genericization of the trademark Zoom, a video teleconferencing software. Pronunciation: /zuːm/ 1. To participate in a video teleconferencing call.
Word: zoom Part of Speech: noun Etymology: A genericization of the trademark Zoom, a video teleconferencing software. Pronunciation: /zuːm/ 1. A video teleconferencing call. Example: Then, later that day, I logged onto a zoom call and my mother and I set up our yoga mats in the living room, as we had been doing a couple of times a week during the pandemic.
Word: furigana Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 振り仮名 (furigana, “annotating kana”, literally “assigned provisional character”). 1. Kana printed next to or above a kanji or other character to indicate the pronunciation. Labels: Japanese Example: Furigana are indispensable for some names of people and places whose Kanji are not included among the official Kanji list, and whose sounds can be unusual and even idiosyncratic.
Word: gangway Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English gangway, from Old English gangweġ (“passageway; thoroughfare”), equivalent to gang + way. Related to Dutch gang (“hallway”) and Norwegian gang (“hallway”). Pronunciation: /ˈɡæŋweɪ/ 1. A passageway through which to enter or leave. Labels: Ireland, UK Example: The new fleet of trains comes with widened gangways and improved seating. 2. A passageway through which to enter or leave. Labels: UK, broadly 3. A passageway through which to enter or leave. Labels: US Example: Morris then allegedly tried to flee into a gangway between the bar and another building, closing a gate on an officer as he did 4. An articulating bridge or ramp, such as from land to a dock or a ship. Example: We came over on the usual mid-morning service from Victoria and this time, as we came down the gangway of the Invicta, the Shedmaster at Calais, M. Leclerc, and Henri Dutertre were waiting for us. Example: Like a lot of my fellow passengers — indie-rock fans who had signed up for a three-day voyage full of bands and beverages — I’d never been on a cruise before. So I don’t know whether most of them begin with a staff member high-fiving each and every person who comes off the gangway. 5. A passage along either side of a ship's upper deck. 6. A passage through the side of a ship or an opening in the railing through which the ship may be boarded; (also in later use) a jet bridge. 7. A temporary passageway, such as one made of planks. Labels: rare 8. A clear path through a crowd or a passageway with people. Labels: dialectal, obsolete, rare 9. An earthen and plank ramp leading from the stable yard into the upper storey or mow of a dairy barn.
Word: gangway Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English gangway, from Old English gangweġ (“passageway; thoroughfare”), equivalent to gang + way. Related to Dutch gang (“hallway”) and Norwegian gang (“hallway”). Pronunciation: /ˈɡæŋweɪ/ 1. To serve as, furnish with, or conduct oneself as though proceeding on a gangway. Example: He gangwayed his way through the crowd, and just as the clock struck midnight, he was standing in front of NBC's camera on national TV as the governor-elect of Minnesota and the first Reform Party candidate ever to be elected to high office. Example: They're conducting phone conversations without speaking into the wrong end of their mobiles, or gangwaying to the Gents without tripping over, or turning the pages of a newspaper without blacking adjacent eyes.
Word: gangway Part of Speech: intj Etymology: From Middle English gangway, from Old English gangweġ (“passageway; thoroughfare”), equivalent to gang + way. Related to Dutch gang (“hallway”) and Norwegian gang (“hallway”). Pronunciation: /ˈɡæŋweɪ/ 1. Make way! Clear a path! Example: And he pushed his way through the crowd crying, "Gangway, gangway!" and dragging Jane and Michael after him. Example: Lemme at 'im! Lemme at 'im! I'll get 'im, Babbitt! Gangway, I'll moidalize him!
Word: driveway Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From drive + way. Pronunciation: /ˈdɹaɪvˌweɪ/ 1. A short private road that leads to a house or garage. Labels: UK, US 2. A road that enters or circulates through a defined area, such as an institution, compound, land area, etc., for the purpose of private access, maintenance, or security. Labels: US Example: The design originally called for a 1-lane-wide driveway leading from the street to the parking area. Example: They drove in the driveway into the parking lot that was totally full. 3. Synonym of droveway. Labels: uncommon Example: The river corridor had also been used as a driveway for sheep in the past. Prior to the gold rush era, it is likely that early day trappers traveled the corridor. Example: Magdalena became a major cattle town, securing one of the largest stockyard shipping pens in the Southwest beginning in 1885. "The Magdalena Trail" was a cowboy's destination driving and herding cattle and sheep to the stockyards. So prominent was this trail that it was officially claimed as a "driveway for cattle" by the Grazing Homestead Act of 1916. Today in Magdalena the wooden stockyards, worn by weather and time, still stand as a testament to the Old West Cattle Drives.
Word: Rio Branco Part of Speech: name Etymology: Borrowed from Brazilian Portuguese Rio Branco. 1. A municipality, the state capital of Acre, Brazil. 2. A municipality of Mato Grosso, Brazil.
Word: Maceió Part of Speech: name 1. A municipality, the state capital of Alagoas, Brazil.
Word: Macapá Part of Speech: name Etymology: Borrowed from Brazilian Portuguese Macapá, from Língua Geral Amazônica. 1. A municipality, the state capital of Amapá, Brazil.
Word: Manaus Part of Speech: name Etymology: Borrowed from Portuguese Manaus, after the Manáo, a native Lokono tribe of the Amazon. Manáo is said to mean mother of the gods. Pronunciation: /mɑːˈnaʊs/ 1. A municipality, the state capital of Amazonas, Brazil.
Word: Salvador Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Spanish and Portuguese Salvador, chiefly various placenames honoring Jesus Christ, from Spanish and Portuguese salvador (“savior”), from Latin salvator, from salvāre (“to save”) + -tor (forming agent nouns). In Spanish placenames, frequently a clipping of Spanish San Salvador (“Holy Savior”). Doublet of savior, Salvator, and Salvatore. Pronunciation: /ˈsælvədɔː/, /ˈsælvədɔɹ/ 1. A male given name from Spanish or Portuguese. 2. A surname from Spanish or Portuguese. 3. El Salvador, a country in Central America. Labels: dated 4. A municipality, the state capital of Bahia, Brazil. 5. Ellipsis of San Salvador Island. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis 6. Former name of Santiago: an island of Galapagos, Ecuador Labels: historical
Word: Fortaleza Part of Speech: name Etymology: Borrowed from Brazilian Portuguese Fortaleza. Pronunciation: /fɔɹtəˈleɪzə/ 1. A municipality, the state capital of Ceará, Brazil.
Word: Vitória Part of Speech: name 1. A municipality, the state capital of Espírito Santo, Brazil.
Word: Goiânia Part of Speech: name Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Brazilian Portuguese Goiânia. 1. A municipality, the state capital of Goiás, Brazil.
Word: São Luis Part of Speech: name 1. Alternative spelling of São Luís Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: Cuiabá Part of Speech: name Etymology: Borrowed from Brazilian Portuguese Cuiabá, from Old Tupi kuîaba. 1. A municipality, the state capital of Mato Grosso, Brazil.
Word: Campo Grande Part of Speech: name 1. A municipality, the state capital of Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil.
Word: Belo Horizonte Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Portuguese Belo Horizonte (“Beautiful Horizon”). 1. A municipality, the state capital of Minas Gerais, Brazil.
Word: Belém Part of Speech: name Etymology: Borrowed from Portuguese Belém. Doublet of Bethlehem. 1. A civil parish of Lisbon, Portugal 2. A municipality and state capital of Pará, Brazil.
Word: João Pessoa Part of Speech: name 1. A municipality, the state capital of Paraíba, Brazil.
Word: Curitiba Part of Speech: name Pronunciation: /kjʊə.ɹiˈtʃiː.bə/, /kjʊ.ɹiˈtʃi.bə/ 1. A municipality and state capital of Paraná, Brazil.
Word: Recife Part of Speech: name Etymology: Borrowed from Brazilian Portuguese Recife, from recife (“reef”). Pronunciation: /ɹɪˈsiːfi/, /ɹɪˈsiːfə/ 1. A municipality, the state capital of Pernambuco, Brazil. Example: The veranda was shaded by the roof, and from the shade you could see [...] the skyscrapers and the tower blocks of the city of Recife.
Word: Teresina Part of Speech: name 1. A municipality, the state capital of Piauí, Brazil.
Word: natal Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ǵenh₁- Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Indo-European *ǵn̥h₁tós Proto-Italic *gnātos Latin gnātus Latin nātus Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.? Proto-Italic *-ālis Latin -ālis Latin nātālisbor. Middle English natal English natal From Middle English natal, natale (“native, one’s own; inherited; presiding over birthdays or births”), from Classical Latin nātālis (“natal”), from nātus, perfect active participle of nāscor (“to be born”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ǵenh₁-. Doublet of nada, Natal, née, and Noel. Pronunciation: /ˈneɪtəl/ 1. Of or relating to birth. Example: Sea turtles return to their natal beaches to nest. Example: The constituents of the nation are a land and a people: the "natal", which is not necessarily innate, and the "popular," which is not necessarily pregiven.
Word: natal Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Classical Latin natis (“rump”) + -al. Pronunciation: /ˈneɪtəl/ 1. Of or relating to the buttocks.
Word: Porto Alegre Part of Speech: name Etymology: Borrowed from Brazilian Portuguese Porto Alegre. 1. A municipality, the state capital of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.
Word: Porto Velho Part of Speech: name 1. A municipality, the state capital of Rondônia, Brazil.
Word: Boa Vista Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Portuguese boa vista. Doublet of Buena Vista. 1. A municipality, the state capital of Roraima, Brazil. 2. An island of Cape Verde