nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: mucker Part of Speech: verb Etymology: By surface analysis, muck + -er. Compare Swedish mokare/mockare (“one who cleans dung”, agent noun) → rörmokare/rörmockare (“plumber”, literally “pipe mucker”). Compare the military sense to Finnish mokkeri (“private”, colloquial), to Swedish mocka (“to clean muck”); and Swedish mecka/meka (“to repair or improve (mechanical) equipment”), to meckaniker (“mechanic”); also Swedish mucka (“to complete military service”), from Tavringer Romani mucka (“to be released”). The military sense might also derive from a slur, a common practice in military lingo. Pronunciation: /ˈmʌkə(ɹ)/ 1. To scrape together (money, etc.) by mean labour or shifts. Labels: obsolete, transitive Example: In tyme of plentie the riche too vpp mucker Corne, Grayne, or Chafre hopinge vppon dearthe.
Word: muck in Part of Speech: verb 1. To join in with work. Labels: UK, informal Example: If we all muck in, we can get this room cleaned in next to no time. 2. To share in. Labels: UK, informal
Word: fen Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English fen, fenne, from Old English fenn (“fen; marsh; mud; dirt”), Proto-West Germanic *fani, from Proto-Germanic *fanją, from Proto-Indo-European *pen- (“bog, mire”). See also West Frisian fean, Dutch veen, German Fenn, Norwegian fen; also Middle Irish en (“water”), enach (“swamp”), Old Prussian pannean (“peat-bog”), Sanskrit पङ्क (paṅka, “marsh, mud, mire, slough”). Pronunciation: /fɛn/, /fɪn/, /fen/ 1. A type of wetland fed by ground water and runoff, containing peat below the waterline, characteristically alkaline. Example: Near-synonyms: marsh, swamp, bog, mire Example: Bogs are acidic, nutrient poor, and have a low species diversity, whereas fens are less acidic and have higher nutrient levels and species diversity. 2. Any swamp or mire (especially with negative connotations). Labels: broadly Example: Caliban: As wicked dewe, as ere my mother bruſh'd / With Rauens feather from vnwholeſome Fen / Drop on you both : A Southweſt blow on yee, / And bliſter you all ore. Example: Milton! thou shouldst be living at this hour: / England hath need of thee: she is a fen / Of stagnant waters […]
Word: fen Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Chinese 分 (fēn). Doublet of hoon and fan. Pronunciation: /fɛn/, /fɪn/, /fen/ 1. A unit of currency in China, one-hundredth of a yuan. Example: One poster, which appeared on the Barkhor on 20 May, ridiculed the way neighbourhood committees were recruiting participants: “We paid 30 fen for one stone, but you hire people for 30 yuan for the picnic in the Norbulingka” (“30 fen” — one hundred fen is one yuan — is a joking reference to Chinese accusations that Tibetans were paid 30 fen by splittists for each stone thrown on 1 October 1987).
Word: fen Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From fan, by analogy with men as the plural of man. Pronunciation: /fɛn/, /fɪn/, /fen/ 1. a plural of fan used by enthusiasts of science fiction, fantasy, and anime, partly from whimsy and partly to distinguish themselves from fans of sport, etc. Labels: slang Example: Sad to relate, some of the European delegates were probably insurgents rather than true fen. […] But the Europeans could be counted on to take the long view, and many of them would probably turn out to be real fen and fenne after all. Example: So I’m glad the attached hotel block is entirely reserved for disabled fen! Traveling on mass transit is tiring even when everything’s up to code.
Word: fen Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Clipping of fennec (“a small fox of the species Vulpes zerda, found in the Sahara (excluding the coast) and having distinctive oversized ears.”). Pronunciation: /fɛn/, /fɪn/, /fen/ 1. A fennec fox. Labels: Internet, informal, slang Example: Your fursona holding mine while she's arguing with some random person Like you're cradling the little fen & she's screaming out threats Example: I always wondered why foxes go flat-ear mode whenever they are happy or screaming, very cute fen btw
Word: fen Part of Speech: intj Etymology: Compare fend. Pronunciation: /fɛn/, /fɪn/, /fen/ 1. Used in children's games to prevent or forestall another player's action; a check or bar. Labels: obsolete
Word: fen Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English *vene, Kentish variant of *fine, from Old English fyne (“moisture, mold, mildew”), from Proto-Germanic *funiz, *fun- (“moisture, mold”); compare vinew. Pronunciation: /fɛn/, /fɪn/, /fen/ 1. A kind of mildew that grows on hops. Labels: obsolete, uncountable Example: […]whereby the ſtagnating ſap corrupts, and breeds mouldy fen, which often ſpoils whole tracts of, till then, flouriſhing hop-grounds. Example: Among these are reckoned the wire worm; the flea, and the fly; the fen or mould; the mildew ; and what are usually called fire blasts.
Word: orc Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle French orque, Italian orca, and their source, Latin orca (“type of whale”). Doublet of orca. Pronunciation: /ɔɹk/, /ɔːk/ 1. Any of several large, ferocious sea creatures, now especially the killer whale. Labels: archaic Example: The latter phenomenon is similar to the conceptual division seen in Ainu society between kimun-kamuy, the bear spirit of the mountains, and repun-kamuy, the orc or dolphin spirit of the sea.
Word: orc Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Probably from Italian orco (“man-eating giant”); later revived by J. R. R. Tolkien, partly after Old English orc, which he took to mean "demon". Both are from Latin Orcus (“the underworld; the god Pluto”). Doublet of ogre and Orcus. Etymology 2 sense 2 is a semantic loan from Ukrainian орк (ork, “evil monstrous humanoid creature; orc”) or Russian орк (ork), both from English orc and possibly under the influence of Russian у́рка (úrka, “criminal”, prison slang). Popularized in English in 2022, following the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Pronunciation: /ɔɹk/, /ɔːk/ 1. A mythical evil monstrous humanoid creature, usually quite aggressive and often green. Example: Who at one stroke didst pare away three heads from off the shoulders of an Orke, begotten by an Incubus. Example: The chief exploit of the hero, Beowulf the Great, is the destruction of the two monsters Grendel and his mother; both like most of the evil beings in the old times, dwellers in the fens and the waters; and both, moreover, as some Christian bard has taken care to inform us, of "Cain's kin," as were also the eotens, and the elves, and the orcs (eótenas, and ylfe, and orcneas). 2. A Russian soldier or gangster. Labels: derogatory, slang Example: Ukrainians themselves, including those on the right, preferred to call the events the 'Revolution of Dignity', depicted not in terms of ethnicity or class, but in simple civic black and white – a revolution of the people against Yanukovych's 'Mordor' and his 'Orcs'. Example: And now we must watch the old world go up in flames, in the mad spectacle of Putin’s orcs descending upon Kyiv to execute his macabre plan. 3. A Russian person. Labels: Internet, broadly, ethnic, slur
Word: fez Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Ottoman Turkish فس (fes) (modern Turkish fes), named after Fez, Morocco, (capital of the Kingdom of Morocco until 1927), where the dye to color the hat was extracted from crimson berries. Pronunciation: /fɛz/ 1. A felt hat in the shape of a truncated cone, having a flat top with a tassel attached. Example: He was in his shirt, but he still wore his fez, as though he had gone to bed in it, which was probably the case.
Word: propinquity Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From propinqu(ent) + -ity, from Middle English propinquite, from Middle French propinquité or Latin propinquitās, from propinquus (“neighbouring”) (from prop(e) (“near”) + (h)inc (“hence”) + -uus). Pronunciation: /pɹəˈpɪŋ.kwɪ.ti/ 1. Nearness or proximity Labels: countable, literary, uncountable Example: Some experimental spirits could not resist the diversion of throwing Varick and his former wife together, and there were those who thought he found a zest in the propinquity. Example: Yet, never before in human history has it been so easy to communicate across long distances. Never before have men been able to maintain intimate and continuing contact with others across thousands of miles; never has intimacy been so independent of spatial propinquity. 2. Affiliation or similarity. Labels: countable, literary, uncountable Example: Heere I diſclaime all my Paternall care, / Propinquity and property of blood, / And as a ſtranger to my heart and me, / Hold thee from this for euer. Example: What is impossible is not the propinquity of the things listed, but the very site on which their propinquity would be possible.
Word: half-pint Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From half- + pint. 1. A unit of volume used for liquids equal to half of a pint. 2. A unit of volume used for liquids equal to half of a pint. 3. A small or short person. Labels: colloquial 4. A small child. Labels: colloquial
Word: pinta Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From the pronunciation of pint of milk. Compare cuppa. Pronunciation: /ˈpaɪnt.ə/ 1. A pint of milk. Labels: UK, colloquial
Word: pinta Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish pinta. Pronunciation: /ˈpɪn.tə/ 1. A human skin disease endemic to Mexico, Central America, and South America, caused by infection with a spirochete, Treponema pallidum carateum, which is morphologically and serologically indistinguishable from the organism that causes syphilis. Labels: uncountable
Word: pinta Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish. Pronunciation: /ˈpiːn.tə/, /ˈpɪn.tə/ 1. prison Labels: slang, uncountable
Word: pint glass Part of Speech: noun 1. A glass that holds a pint (of beer, etc). Example: Near-synonym: beer glass
Word: gallon Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English gallon, galoun, galun, from Old Northern French galun, galon (“liquid measure”) (compare Old French jalon), from Late Latin galum, galus (“measure of wine”), from Vulgar Latin *galla (“vessel”), possibly from Gaulish *galla, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kel- (“goblet”). Cognate with Ancient Greek κύλιξ (kúlix, “cup”), Sanskrit कलश (kalaśa, “jar, pitcher; measure of liquid”). Related to Old French gille (“wine measure”) (from Medieval Latin gillō (“earthenware jar”)), Old French jale (“bowl”), Old French jaloie (“measure of capacity”). Pronunciation: /ˈɡælən/ 1. A unit of volume, equivalent to eight pints 2. exactly 4.54609 liters; an imperial gallon Labels: Canada, UK 3. 231 cubic inches or approximately 3.785 liters for liquids (a "U.S. liquid gallon") Labels: US 4. one-eighth of a U.S. bushel or approximately 4.405 liters for dry goods (a "U.S. dry gallon"). Labels: US 5. A large quantity (of any liquid). Labels: in-plural, informal Example: The pipe burst and gallons of water flooded into the kitchen.
Word: capybara Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Spanish capibara, from Portuguese capivara, from Old Tupi kapi'iûara (literally “grass eater”). Pronunciation: /kapɪˈbɑːɹə/, /ˌkæpiˈbɛɹə/, /ˌkæpiˈbɑɹə/, /ˌkæpiˈbæɹə/ 1. A large semi-aquatic South American rodent of the genus Hydrochoerus. 2. The greater capybara (true capybara). Example: “Our fires burned well,” continued Tom, “and we roasted our young capybara to perfection; we only wanted salt and pepper, and an onion or two to make it delicious.[…]" Example: It was tenanted by the small caymans and by capybaras—the largest known rodent, a huge aquatic guinea-pig, the size of a small sheep.
Word: fine-tooth comb Part of Speech: noun Etymology: The noun is derived from fine (“particularly slender”) + tooth (“sharp projection”) + comb. The verb is derived from the noun. Pronunciation: /ˌfaɪntuːθ ˈkəʊm/, /ˌfaɪnˌtuθ ˈkoʊm/ 1. A comb with fine, closely spaced teeth, especially one used for removing head lice and their nits (eggs) from the hair; a nit comb. Example: The practice of combing the heads of children too frequently with a fine tooth comb is a bad one, as the points of the teeth are quite sure to scratch and irritate the scalp, and are almost sure to produce scurf or dandruff. Example: 'Member dat rainy eve dat I drove you out, Wid nothing but a fine tooth comb? 2. A means of making a thorough search. Labels: figuratively Example: The police went through his possessions with a fine-tooth comb. Example: If you had to make some verses on the topics of the day, You would read the morning papers rather fully; For you’d like to find a theme to make your readers shout: “Hooray!” And to make your Dear Employer say: “That’s bully!” You would scan aforesaid journals with a very fine-tooth comb (With the metaphors I’m something of a mixer.) For a nifty little subject you could pad into a pome; And you’d have to be about it pretty quick, sir.
Word: fine-tooth comb Part of Speech: verb Etymology: The noun is derived from fine (“particularly slender”) + tooth (“sharp projection”) + comb. The verb is derived from the noun. Pronunciation: /ˌfaɪntuːθ ˈkəʊm/, /ˌfaɪnˌtuθ ˈkoʊm/ 1. To comb or go through (hair, an animal's fur, etc.) with a comb having fine, closely spaced teeth. Labels: dated, transitive 2. To search (something or somewhere) meticulously. Labels: figuratively, transitive Example: "There's one other way of discovering the writer,—find a Rem-Smith typewriter with an alignment imperfect in just this way." "Yes," said Astro. "We might begin and fine-tooth-comb the city for it.:Template:.."
Word: conjecture Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Old French, from Latin coniectūra (“a guess”), from coniectus, perfect passive participle of cōniciō (“throw or cast together; guess”), from con- (“together”) + iaciō (“throw, hurl”); see jet. Compare adjective, eject, inject, project, reject, subject, object, trajectory, deject, abject, surjection, bijection, interject. Compare typologically Russian прики́дывать (prikídyvatʹ) (akin to кида́ть (kidátʹ)). Pronunciation: /kənˈd͡ʒɛkt͡ʃə/, [kʰənˈd͡ʒɛkt͡ʃə], /kənˈd͡ʒekt͡ʃə/, [kʰənˈd͡ʒekt͡ʃə], /kənˈd͡ʒɛkt͡ʃɚ/ 1. A statement or an idea which is unproven, but is thought to be true; a guess. Labels: countable, formal, uncountable Example: I explained it, but it is pure conjecture whether he understood, or not. 2. A supposition based upon incomplete evidence; a hypothesis. Labels: countable, formal, uncountable Example: The physicist used his conjecture about subatomic particles to design an experiment. 3. A statement likely to be true based on available evidence, but which has not been formally proven. Labels: countable, uncountable 4. Interpretation of signs and omens. Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable
Word: conjecture Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Old French, from Latin coniectūra (“a guess”), from coniectus, perfect passive participle of cōniciō (“throw or cast together; guess”), from con- (“together”) + iaciō (“throw, hurl”); see jet. Compare adjective, eject, inject, project, reject, subject, object, trajectory, deject, abject, surjection, bijection, interject. Compare typologically Russian прики́дывать (prikídyvatʹ) (akin to кида́ть (kidátʹ)). Pronunciation: /kənˈd͡ʒɛkt͡ʃə/, [kʰənˈd͡ʒɛkt͡ʃə], /kənˈd͡ʒekt͡ʃə/, [kʰənˈd͡ʒekt͡ʃə], /kənˈd͡ʒɛkt͡ʃɚ/ 1. To guess; to venture an unproven idea. Labels: formal, intransitive Example: I do not know if it is true; I am simply conjecturing here. Example: What could have been done by such a machine downhill can only be conjectured, for the maximum speed was restricted rigidly to 80 m.p.h. 2. To infer on slight evidence; to guess at. Labels: transitive Example: February 22, 1685, Robert South, All Contingences under the Direction of God's Providence (sermon preached at Westminster Abbey) Example: "Most likely he who is the shorter of the two;—no! he goes in the first, and is, of course, the eldest; but we have no time for conjecturing now." Human reason can then, at the best, but conjecture what will be.
Word: homeboy Part of Speech: noun Etymology: 20th-century African-American urban slang. Originated from travelers to metropolitan areas derived from American English as a blend of hometown + boy. However, modern use is mostly by African-Americans and Latinos in the United States. Pronunciation: /ˈhoʊm.bɔɪ/ 1. Someone, particularly a male acquaintance, from one’s hometown. Labels: colloquial Example: When the boy next door; Don't want to be my homeboy no more; Saw something that I never saw before; I think he wants to be my baby 2. A close friend or fellow member of a youth gang. Labels: colloquial 3. A person. Labels: colloquial
Word: homeboy Part of Speech: pron Etymology: 20th-century African-American urban slang. Originated from travelers to metropolitan areas derived from American English as a blend of hometown + boy. However, modern use is mostly by African-Americans and Latinos in the United States. Pronunciation: /ˈhoʊm.bɔɪ/ 1. He or him. Labels: masculine, nominative, objective, singular, slang, third-person Example: (1:38) If homeboy’s coming through with these, it’s quiet. Yeah no, it’s quiet for him. But, like, if he comes through with, y’know, these; you got some air maxes out here, you got some Jordans. Homeboy’s gonna, like, get it. Example: Homeboy rafikied a peacock with a squeegee.
Word: evanescence Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Medieval Latin ēvānēscentia. Pronunciation: /ˌɛv.əˈnɛs.əns/ 1. The act or state of vanishing away; disappearance. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: We suffer equal pain from the pertinacious adhesion of unwelcome images, as from the evanescence of those which are pleasing and useful 2. The event of fading and gradually vanishing from sight. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: the evanescence of the morning mist.
Word: pastoral Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle French, Old French pastoral, from Latin pāstōrālis, from pāstor (“shepherd”), + adjective suffix -ālis. Pronunciation: /ˈpɑːstə.ɹəl/, /ˈpæs.tə.ɹəl/, /ˌpæsˈtɔːɹəl/ 1. Of or pertaining to shepherds or herders of other livestock. Example: Like the Mesolithic age of 10,000-8000 B.C., the period 6000-4000 B.C. seems to be one of the fall of fortresses and the rise of pastoral nomadism. 2. Relating to rural life and scenes, in particular of poetry. Example: We were living a pastoral life. Example: […] these pastoral farms, / Green to the very door; and wreaths of smoke / Sent up, in silence, from among the trees! 3. Relating to the care of souls, to the pastor of a church or to any local religious leader charged with the service of individual parishioners, i.e. a priest or rabbi. Example: pastoral duties Example: a pastoral letter
Word: pastoral Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle French, Old French pastoral, from Latin pāstōrālis, from pāstor (“shepherd”), + adjective suffix -ālis. Pronunciation: /ˈpɑːstə.ɹəl/, /ˈpæs.tə.ɹəl/, /ˌpæsˈtɔːɹəl/ 1. A poem describing the life and manners of shepherds; a poem in which the speakers assume the character of shepherds; an idyll; a bucolic. Example: Ethel was silent from surprise: she had prepared herself for anger—even sorrow; but ridicule left her without an answer. What could she say to a hearer, who only smiled, and to whom emotion was only a scene in a pastoral? 2. A cantata relating to rural life; a composition for instruments characterized by simplicity and sweetness; a lyrical composition the subject of which is taken from rural life. 3. A letter of a pastor to his charge; specifically, a letter addressed by a bishop to his diocese. 4. A letter of the House of Bishops, to be read in each parish.
Word: slut Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English slutt, slutte, slute (“a dirty or slovenly person, usually a woman, scullery maid; messy animal to prepare as food; slush, mud”), probably from Old English *slȳte (“sleet”), from Proto-West Germanic *slautijā, from Proto-Germanic *slautijǭ (“sleet, hail”), related to Proto-West Germanic *slaut (“puddle, ditch”). Compare Dutch slodder and slet, dialectal Swedish slata (“idle woman”), Norwegian sludd (“sleet”), and the dialectal Norwegian slutr (“sleet, impure liquid”). Doublet of sleet. Pronunciation: /slʌt/, /slʊt/, /ˈsɫɐt/ 1. To wear slutty clothing or makeup, or otherwise behave in a slutty manner. Labels: vulgar Example: In an effort to avoid any spontaneous slutting out, I give myself a stern look in the mirror. "You can make out with him, but that's it," I tell my boy-crazed reflection. 2. To visit places frequented by men, with the intention of engaging in sexual intercourse by means of flirting. Labels: slang, usually, vulgar Example: Shirley, you slut around here again, and I swear to God I'll break your neck. Example: The radicals are reluctant to admit that slutting around is a phase that most gay men go through, but not a permanent — what's that phrase? Oh, yes — "lifestyle choice."
Word: pod Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Origin uncertain. Perhaps from Middle English *pod ("seed-pod, husk, shell, outer covering"; attested in pod-ware (“legume seed; seed grain”)), itself possibly from Old English pād (“an outer garment, covering, coat, cloak”), from Proto-West Germanic *paidu, from Proto-Germanic *paidō (“coat, smock, shirt”), from Proto-Indo-European *baiteh₂- (“woolen clothes”). If so, then cognate with Old Saxon pēda (“skirt”), German dialectal Pfeid, Pfeit (“shirt”), Gothic 𐍀𐌰𐌹𐌳𐌰 (paida, “mantle, skirt”), and perhaps Albanian petk (“gown, garment, dress, suit”) and Ancient Greek βαίτη (baítē, “goat-skin, fur-coat, tent”). Pronunciation: /ˈpɒd/, /ˈpɑd/ 1. A self-contained unit, container, or enclosure that holds, protects, or transports something. 2. A self-contained unit, container, or enclosure that holds, protects, or transports something. 3. A self-contained unit, container, or enclosure that holds, protects, or transports something. Example: Near-synonym: escape pod Example: cart, that is clouted and shod, cart ladder and wimble, with perser and pod 4. A self-contained unit, container, or enclosure that holds, protects, or transports something. 5. A self-contained unit, container, or enclosure that holds, protects, or transports something. Labels: UK, dialectal, obsolete 6. A small, self-contained unit within a larger system. 7. A small, self-contained unit within a larger system. 8. A group or collective. Labels: collective 9. A group or collective. 10. A group or collective. Example: These matrilineal groups associate with related families, who are probably sister lineages, to form pods. Example: For many people forming pods last year, finding compatible people to group with was not a cost but a goal. Private companies that create educational software for pods report that people prefer to group with their friends in order to reduce the incentive to have social contacts outside of their pods. 11. A group or collective. 12. A lie-flat seat in business or first class. 13. A tapered, cylindrical body of ore or minerals. 14. A tapered, cylindrical body of ore or minerals. 15. Clipping of podcast. Labels: Internet, abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, informal Example: I'd started shopping at 2 a.m., and the pod I listened to while shopping was almost through, so had to be 3 damn near. Example: These ads are shown during commercial breaks when there is no game action. Usually, multiple spots are grouped into a pod of commercials. 16. Clipping of isopod. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, informal
Word: pod Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Origin uncertain. Perhaps from Middle English *pod ("seed-pod, husk, shell, outer covering"; attested in pod-ware (“legume seed; seed grain”)), itself possibly from Old English pād (“an outer garment, covering, coat, cloak”), from Proto-West Germanic *paidu, from Proto-Germanic *paidō (“coat, smock, shirt”), from Proto-Indo-European *baiteh₂- (“woolen clothes”). If so, then cognate with Old Saxon pēda (“skirt”), German dialectal Pfeid, Pfeit (“shirt”), Gothic 𐍀𐌰𐌹𐌳𐌰 (paida, “mantle, skirt”), and perhaps Albanian petk (“gown, garment, dress, suit”) and Ancient Greek βαίτη (baítē, “goat-skin, fur-coat, tent”). Pronunciation: /ˈpɒd/, /ˈpɑd/ 1. To bear or produce pods Labels: intransitive Example: Wherefore it was, that many ignorant Mardians, who had not pushed their investigations into the science of physiology, sagely divined, that the Tapparians must have podded into life like peas, instead of being otherwise indebted for their existence. Example: David looked seawards along the river. He stared, rubbed his eyes, and stared again. One of the rocks seemed to have podded into something swollen, black and smooth. 2. To remove peas from their case. Labels: transitive 3. To put into a pod or to enter a pod. Labels: intransitive, transitive Example: Thus the torpedoes will have to be stored internally or be podded into streamline containers. Example: Lycoming is working on a twin T53 or T55 turboprop installation whereby two engines would be podded together to drive a single propeller. 4. To swell or fill. Labels: intransitive
Word: herd Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English herde, heerde, heorde, from Old English hierd, heord (“herd, flock; keeping, care, custody”), from Proto-West Germanic *herdu, from Proto-Germanic *herdō (“herd”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kerdʰ- (“file, row, herd”). Cognate with German Herde, Danish hjord, Swedish hjord. Non-Germanic cognates include Albanian herdhe (“nest”) and Serbo-Croatian krdo. Pronunciation: /hɜːd/, /hɝd/ 1. A number of domestic animals assembled together under the watch or ownership of a keeper. Example: a herd of cattle Example: a herd of sheep 2. Any collection of animals gathered or travelling in a company. Example: Zakouma is the last place on Earth where you can see more than a thousand elephants on the move in a single, compact herd. Example: Zebras can also be called a herd or a zeal. 3. A crowd, a mass of people or things; a rabble. Labels: derogatory, usually Example: I was never one to follow the herd. Example: But far more numerous vvas the herd of ſuch, / VVho think too little, and vvho talk too much.
Word: herd Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English herde, heerde, heorde, from Old English hierd, heord (“herd, flock; keeping, care, custody”), from Proto-West Germanic *herdu, from Proto-Germanic *herdō (“herd”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kerdʰ- (“file, row, herd”). Cognate with German Herde, Danish hjord, Swedish hjord. Non-Germanic cognates include Albanian herdhe (“nest”) and Serbo-Croatian krdo. Pronunciation: /hɜːd/, /hɝd/ 1. To unite or associate in a herd; to feed or run together, or in company. Labels: intransitive Example: Sheep herd on many hills. Example: The women bunched up in little droves and let their tongues clack, and the men herded together and passed a jug around and, to tell the truth, let their tongues clack too. 2. To unite or associate in a herd Labels: transitive 3. To manage, care for or guard a herd Labels: transitive Example: He is employed to herd the goats. 4. To associate; to ally oneself with, or place oneself among, a group or company. Labels: intransitive Example: I’ll herd among his Friends, and ſeem One of the Number, […] Example: "[W]hy, I say, oh stranger, dost thou think that I herd here with barbarians lower than the beasts?" 5. To move, or be moved, in a group. (of both animals and people) Example: On alighting at the station, we were all herded over the footbridge and through a side exit.
Word: herd Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English herde, from Old English hirde, hierde, from Proto-West Germanic *hirdī, from Proto-Germanic *hirdijaz. Cognate with German Hirte, Swedish herde, Danish hyrde. Pronunciation: /hɜːd/, /hɝd/ 1. Someone who keeps a group of domestic animals. Labels: archaic Example: Near-synonym: herdsman Example: John Dodds, the herd who bode in the place, was standing at the door, and he looked to see who was on the road so late.
Word: herd Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English herde, from Old English hirde, hierde, from Proto-West Germanic *hirdī, from Proto-Germanic *hirdijaz. Cognate with German Hirte, Swedish herde, Danish hyrde. Pronunciation: /hɜːd/, /hɝd/ 1. To act as a herdsman or a shepherd. Labels: Scotland, intransitive 2. To form or put into a herd. Labels: transitive 3. To move or drive a herd. Labels: transitive Example: I heard the herd of cattle being herded home from a long way away.
Word: stockpile Part of Speech: noun Etymology: The noun is derived from stock (“supply of anything ready for use”) + pile (“mass of things heaped together”). The verb is derived from the noun. Pronunciation: /ˈstɒkpaɪl/, /ˈstɑkˌpaɪl/ 1. A supply (especially a large one) of something kept for future use, specifically in case the cost of the item increases or if there a shortage. Labels: also, figuratively Example: Under the rice subsidy program, Yingluck [Shinawatra]'s administration paid farmers up to 50 percent more than market prices for their rice. The policy was popular with farmers but left Thailand with huge rice stockpiles and caused $8 billion in losses. 2. A supply (especially a large one) of something kept for future use, specifically in case the cost of the item increases or if there a shortage. Labels: also, figuratively, specifically 3. A pile of coal or ore heaped up on the ground after it has been mined. Labels: also, figuratively
Word: stockpile Part of Speech: verb Etymology: The noun is derived from stock (“supply of anything ready for use”) + pile (“mass of things heaped together”). The verb is derived from the noun. Pronunciation: /ˈstɒkpaɪl/, /ˈstɑkˌpaɪl/ 1. To accumulate or build up a supply of (something). Labels: also, figuratively, transitive Example: He stockpiled weapons and took pot shots in the air / He feasted on their lovely bodies like a lunatic Example: Shops' shelves were emptied on Friday as people began stockpiling food, with some unable to leave their homes due to the thigh-high snow. 2. To accumulate or build up a supply of (something). Labels: also, figuratively, specifically, transitive 3. To heap up piles of (coal or ore) on the ground after it has been mined. Labels: also, figuratively, transitive 4. To build up a supply; to accumulate. Labels: also, figuratively, intransitive
Word: ashtray Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂eHs-der.? Proto-Germanic *askǭ Proto-West Germanic *askā Old English æsce Middle English asshe English ash Proto-Germanic *trawją Proto-West Germanic *trawi Old English trēġ Middle English trey English tray English ashtray From ash + tray. Compare German Aschenbecher. Pronunciation: /ˈæʃ.tɹeɪ/ 1. A receptacle for ash and butts from cigarettes and cigars. Example: Near-synonym: ash stand
Word: ashtray Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂eHs-der.? Proto-Germanic *askǭ Proto-West Germanic *askā Old English æsce Middle English asshe English ash Proto-Germanic *trawją Proto-West Germanic *trawi Old English trēġ Middle English trey English tray English ashtray From ash + tray. Compare German Aschenbecher. Pronunciation: /ˈæʃ.tɹeɪ/ 1. To use an ashtray. Labels: transitive Example: to ashtray a cigarette
Word: Charon Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Latin Charōn, from Ancient Greek Χάρων (Khárōn). The name of the moon was coined by American astronomer James W. Christy in 1978, in reference to a fictional moon of Pluto in a novel by Edmond Hamilton but also influenced by its similarity to Char, a pet name for Charlene, his wife's name — hence the alternative American pronunciation, which is used at NASA. Pronunciation: /ˈkɛəɹɒn/, /ˈkɛːrən/, /ˈkɛəɹən/, /ˈʃɛəɹɑn/, /ˈkɛəɹɑn/ 1. The ferryman of Hades, who rowed the shades of the dead across the river Styx. Labels: Greek Example: The Ghoſts rejected, are th’ unhappy Crew Depriv’d of Sepulchers, and Fun’ral due. The Boatman, Charon; thoſe, the bury’d hoſt, He Ferries over to the Farther Coaſt. Example: But then, what though the mystic Three Around me ply their merry trade? — And Charon soon may carry me Across the gloomy Stygian glade? 2. The largest of the five moons of Pluto. Example: Last week Nasa released its highest resolution photos yet of the dwarf planet and its largest moon, Charon, revealing new mysteries that its spacecraft New Horizons had uncovered at the edge of the solar system.
Word: Charon Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin Charōn, from Ancient Greek Χάρων (Khárōn). The name of the moon was coined by American astronomer James W. Christy in 1978, in reference to a fictional moon of Pluto in a novel by Edmond Hamilton but also influenced by its similarity to Char, a pet name for Charlene, his wife's name — hence the alternative American pronunciation, which is used at NASA. Pronunciation: /ˈkɛəɹɒn/, /ˈkɛːrən/, /ˈkɛəɹən/, /ˈʃɛəɹɑn/, /ˈkɛəɹɑn/ 1. Any ferryman. Labels: poetic
Word: proselytize Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree English proselyte Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)bor. Late Latin -izōder. Middle French -iserbor. Middle English -isen English -ize English proselytize From proselyte + -ize. Pronunciation: /ˈpɹɒs.əl.ɪ.taɪz/, /ˈpɹɒs.əl.ə.taɪz/, /ˈpɹɑ.sə.lɪ.taɪz/, /ˈpɹɑ.sə.lə.taɪz/, /ˈpɹɑ.zə.lɪ.taɪz/ 1. To advertise one’s religious beliefs; to convert (someone) to one’s own faith or religious movement or encourage them to do so. Labels: ambitransitive, broadly Example: One of these [people] whom they endeavour to proselytize. Example: “I am not sent here to proselytize. My church is not in that business.” 2. To advertise one’s religious beliefs; to convert (someone) to one’s own faith or religious movement or encourage them to do so. Labels: ambitransitive, broadly 3. To advertise a non-religious belief, way of living, cause, point of view, (scientific) hypothesis, social or other position, political party, or other organization; to convince someone to join such a cause or organization or support such a position; to recruit someone. Labels: ambitransitive, broadly Example: He has strong political views, and an annoying habit of proselytizing at parties. Example: Previously I promised not to proselytize miserism, but now I want to renege a little on that promise. If your family income is anywhere near average, you can scrimp and save and cut back for maybe two to four years […]
Word: voyage Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English viage, borrowed from Anglo-Norman viage and Old French voiage, from Latin viaticum. The modern spelling is under the influence of Modern French voyage. Doublet of viaticum. Pronunciation: /ˈvɔɪ.ɪd͡ʒ/, /ˈvojɪd͡ʒ/, /ˈvaɪd͡ʒ/ 1. A long journey, especially by ship. Example: He went on a voyage to France. Example: There is a Tide in the affayres of men, / Which taken at the Flood, leades on to Fortune: / Omitted, all the voyage of their life, / Is bound in Shallowes, and in Miſeries. 2. A written account of a journey or travel. Labels: archaic Example: I cannot learn what his Name was, unleſs by the Inſcription of the Letters he ſent to the Pope, and to the French King in the Year 1688, mentioned in the ſecond Voyage of Father Tachard […] Example: By the various Relations, Embaſſies and Voyages of Siam that have been publiſht within theſe laſt Four Years […] 3. The act or practice of travelling. Labels: obsolete Example: [...] [A]ll Nations haue Enterknowledge one of another, either by Voyage into Forreine Parts, or by Strangers that come to them: [...]
Word: voyage Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English viage, borrowed from Anglo-Norman viage and Old French voiage, from Latin viaticum. The modern spelling is under the influence of Modern French voyage. Doublet of viaticum. Pronunciation: /ˈvɔɪ.ɪd͡ʒ/, /ˈvojɪd͡ʒ/, /ˈvaɪd͡ʒ/ 1. To go on a long journey. Labels: intransitive Example: A mind forever voyaging through strange seas of thought alone. Example: O soul, voyagest thou indeed on voyages like those? / Disportest thou on waters such as those?
Word: senator Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin senātor, ultimately from senex (“old”), equivalent to senate + -or. Pronunciation: /ˈsɛn.ə.tə/, /ˈsɛn.ə.tɚ/ 1. A member, normally elected, in the house or chamber of a legislature called a senate, as, for instance, the legislatures of the United States and Canada. Example: It was disbanded when Derrick was only six, after that grouchy old ultra-Libertarian Senator Timothy de Illy made “welfare hotel for Third-World nations” a household catchphrase. Example: I was a United States senator-elect at age thirty. 2. A member of any legislative body or parliament, particularly the British Parliament. Labels: dated 3. A member of the ancient Roman Senate. Labels: historical 4. A member of a governing council in other states in the ancient world. Labels: historical 5. A member of the ruler’s council or governing council in general, a leading statesman. Example: Both we will raigne as Conſuls of the earth, And mightie kings ſhall be our Senators. 6. An important church official. Labels: obsolete 7. In Germany, a minister of the executive branch of government in the city states of Berlin, Bremen, and Hamburg; and a government official of cities that were part of the Hanseatic League.
Word: pork Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *perḱ- Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *pórḱos Proto-Italic *porkos Latin porcus Old French porcbor. Middle English pork English pork From Middle English pork, porc, via Anglo-Norman, from Old French porc (“swine, hog, pig; pork”), from Latin porcus (“domestic hog, pig”). Cognate with Old English fearh (“piglet”). Doublet of farrow. Compare also other West Germanic words for pigs: Ferkel, Ferke, and varken. Used in English since the 14th century, and as a term of abuse since the 17th century. US politics sense is related to pork barrel. Pronunciation: /pɔːk/, /poɹk/, /po(ː)ɹk/, /poək/ 1. The meat of a pig. Labels: uncountable Example: The cafeteria serves pork on Tuesdays. 2. Funding proposed or requested by a member of Congress for special interests or their constituency as opposed to the good of the country as a whole. Labels: US, countable, derogatory, slang, uncountable 3. Law enforcement; those who side with criminal prosecution. Labels: Multicultural-London-English, collective, countable, slang, uncountable
Word: pork Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *perḱ- Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *pórḱos Proto-Italic *porkos Latin porcus Old French porcbor. Middle English pork English pork From Middle English pork, porc, via Anglo-Norman, from Old French porc (“swine, hog, pig; pork”), from Latin porcus (“domestic hog, pig”). Cognate with Old English fearh (“piglet”). Doublet of farrow. Compare also other West Germanic words for pigs: Ferkel, Ferke, and varken. Used in English since the 14th century, and as a term of abuse since the 17th century. US politics sense is related to pork barrel. Pronunciation: /pɔːk/, /poɹk/, /po(ː)ɹk/, /poək/ 1. To have sex with (someone). Labels: slang, transitive, usually, vulgar Example: Marlene! Don't tell me you're gonna pork Marlene Desmond! Example: You know, I can't remember just how I discovered doorknobs, but as a teenager I used to pork myself on a particular one — a nice, smooth round one — from time to time.
Word: pork Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Blend of pin + fork. Pronunciation: /pɔːk/, /poɹk/, /po(ː)ɹk/, /poək/ 1. A position in which a player's pieces are both pinned and forked at the same time.
Word: four-legged Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From four + legged. Pronunciation: /fɔː(ɹ)ˈlɛɡɪd/, /ˈfɔː(ɹ)lɛɡd/ 1. Having four legs. Labels: not-comparable
Word: four-legged Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From four + legged. Pronunciation: /fɔː(ɹ)ˈlɛɡɪd/ 1. An animal that walks on four legs. Example: The four-leggeds blamed the cleansing on the humans, and decided to destroy all two-leggeds. Example: We were talking about how Catolicos seemed to not see the one-leggeds and four-leggeds as sacred. 2. An intersection where two roads cross. Example: With respect to hazard rating, an opposite and possibly inconsistent explanation might be offered: It may be that drivers underestimate roadside hazards at three-leggeds and relatively speaking overestimate them at four-leggeds.
Word: atheist Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle French athéiste (athée + -iste), from Latin atheos, from Ancient Greek ἄθεος (átheos, “godless, without god”), from ἀ- (a-, “without”) + θεός (theós, “god”). Pronunciation: /ˈeɪ.θi.ɪst/, /ˈeɪ.θi.əst/ 1. A person who does not believe in deities or gods. Example: Atheists. One who does not believe in the existence of a Supreme Being, an atheist, is incompetent as a witness, being incapable of being sworn. […] Changed by Acts of 1851, No. 12 (P. S. 1593), under which, no question can be raised as to a witness's "opinions on matters of religious belief." 2. A person who does not believe in deities or gods. Example: Ageine, the Atheistes, which say in their hartes there is no God; […] Example: An atheist, like a Christian, holds that we can know whether or not there is a God. The Christian holds that we can know there is a God; the atheist, that we can know there is not. 3. A person who does not believe in deities or gods. Labels: broadly Example: Minister—Are you really an Atheist? Atheist—Yes. M.—Do you deny that there is a god? A.—No. I deny that there is sufficient reason to believe there is one. There may be a god, but I think it rather unlikely. Example: Very low probability, but short of zero. De facto atheist. ‘I cannot know for certain but I think God is very improbable, and I live my life on the assumption that he is not there.’ 4. A person who does not believe in deities or gods. Example: All children are born Atheists; they have no idea of God. Are they then criminal on account of their ignorance? 5. A person who does not believe in a particular deity (but may believe in another deity). Labels: uncommon Example: Malice and prejudice concurred in representing the Christians as a society of atheists, who, by the most daring attack on the religious constitution of the empire, had merited the severest animadversion of the civil magistrate. Example: An atheist is just somebody who feels about Yahweh the way any decent Christian feels about Thor or Baal or the golden calf. As has been said before, we are all atheists about most of the gods that humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further. 6. A person who does not believe in any religion (not even a religion without gods); a nonreligious person. Labels: proscribed, sometimes Example: This is one of the strongest Grounds of Suspicion to me, and assures me that he has very little Regard to Religion in general; that he can pretend to marry you, and know nothing whether you are a Heathen or Christian; an Atheist or religious Person, a Papist or a Protestant; the Man can have no great Value for Religion, that is so little concerned whether his Wife has any, or no; for I take the Thing to weigh as much on one Side as on the other, where there is any serious Confideration at Bottom. Example: For instance, in Morocco, while a Muslim man is free to marry a non-Muslim woman, provided she is Christian or Jewish, but not Buddhist, Hindu or Atheist, a Muslim woman is only supposed to marry a Muslim man.
Word: atheist Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle French athéiste (athée + -iste), from Latin atheos, from Ancient Greek ἄθεος (átheos, “godless, without god”), from ἀ- (a-, “without”) + θεός (theós, “god”). Pronunciation: /ˈeɪ.θi.ɪst/, /ˈeɪ.θi.əst/ 1. Of or relating to atheists or atheism; atheistic. Example: He would have been seven times more Epicure and atheist than he was. Example: God! That majestic name is in the pledge. In doing this the government has already made clear that our country believes in God! We are the majority! Our nation is not Buddhist, not Hinduist, not Atheist, and the list goes on!
Word: atheist Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle French athéiste (athée + -iste), from Latin atheos, from Ancient Greek ἄθεος (átheos, “godless, without god”), from ἀ- (a-, “without”) + θεός (theós, “god”). Pronunciation: /ˈeɪ.θi.ɪst/, /ˈeɪ.θi.əst/ 1. To make someone an atheist. Labels: rare, transitive Example: The multitude of opinions doth draw him away, or else Atheist him, that he will be nothing. […] The multitude of opinions […] doth un-atheist him, put him upon the search and examination what is the truth of God.
Word: thermistor Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Blend of thermal + resistor. 1. A resistor whose resistance varies rapidly and predictably with temperature and as a result can be used to measure temperature.
Word: venison Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English venisoun, venesoun, from Anglo-Norman veneisun, venesoun, venesun (“meat of large game, particularly deer or boar; hunt”), from Latin vēnātiō, vēnātiōnem (“hunt; meat from a hunt”), formed on vēnātus, perfect participle of vēnor (“to hunt”). Doublet of venatio and venation. Pronunciation: /ˈvɛ.nɪ.zən/, /ˈvɛ.nɪ.sən/ 1. The meat of a deer, especially one that was hunted in its own natural habitat. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: After shooting a deer, field dressing is the next step necessary for high quality venison. 2. The meat of an antelope. Labels: South-Africa, countable, uncountable Example: 2007, Gregory Simon Bull, Marketing fresh venison in the Eastern Cape Province using a niche marketing strategy (thesis), page xcix 3. The meat of any wild animal that has been hunted rather than raised domestically. Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable
Word: ad nauseam Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Latin ad nauseam, from ad (“to”) + nauseam (“sea-sickness, sickness, nausea”), accusative of nausea. Pronunciation: /ˌæd ˈnɔːziəm/, /ˌæd ˈnɔziəm/, /ˌæd ˈnɑziəm/, /ˌæd ˈnɒziəm/ 1. To a nauseating or sickening degree. Labels: not-comparable 2. Having been done or repeated so often that it has become annoying or tiresome. Labels: not-comparable Example: The internet really is just nothing more than the same 3 sites sharing each others stuff ad nauseam Example: A drunk person was repeating the same old story ad nauseam.
Word: ad nauseam Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Latin ad nauseam, from ad (“to”) + nauseam (“sea-sickness, sickness, nausea”), accusative of nausea. Pronunciation: /ˌæd ˈnɔːziəm/, /ˌæd ˈnɔziəm/, /ˌæd ˈnɑziəm/, /ˌæd ˈnɒziəm/ 1. Done or repeated so often that it becomes annoying or tiresome. Labels: not-comparable Example: The Feelings album flew off the shelves, and Albert became a pop sensation—until, thanks to airplay ad nauseam, radio listeners grew weary of his sentiments.