nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: firth Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English fyrth, a metathetic variant of frith (“forest”), from Old English fyrhþe, fyrhþ (“forest, wooded country; game preserve, hunting ground”), from Proto-West Germanic *furhiþi (“forest, woodland”), Proto-Germanic *furhiþją (“forest, wooded country”), *furhiþǭ, from *furhu (“fir; pine”), from *furahō, *furhō (“fir; pine; (fir or pine) forest”), from Proto-Indo-European *pérkus (“oak”), from *perkʷ- (“oak”). 1. Alternative form of frith (“a forest used for hunting; a (small) wood; wooded country; land covered mainly by brushwood”). Labels: Northern-England, Scotland, alt-of, alternative
Word: fixation Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Old French fixation. By surface analysis, fix + -ation. Pronunciation: /fɪksˈeɪʃən/ 1. The act of fixing. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. The state of being fixed or fixated. Labels: countable, uncountable 3. The act of uniting chemically with a solid substance or in a solid form; reduction to a non-volatile condition; -- said of volatile elements. Labels: countable, uncountable 4. The act or process of ceasing to be fluid and becoming firm. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Near-synonym: gelling 5. In metals, a state of resistance to evaporation or volatilization by heat. Labels: countable, uncountable 6. A state of mind involving obsession with a particular person, idea, or thing. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Increasingly it is being realised that a modern conurbation's transport problems cannot be solved if there is a fixation on profit and loss in public transport—[...]. Example: Near-synonym: obsession 7. A state of mind involving obsession with a particular person, idea, or thing. Labels: countable, uncountable 8. Recording a creative work in a medium of expression for more than a transitory duration, thereby satisfying the "fixation" requirement for the purposes of copyright law. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: In order to obtain copyright on a recording in the United States, the recording must have been reduced to fixation on or after February 15, 1972. 9. The change in a gene pool from a situation where there exists at least two variants of a particular gene (allele) to a situation where only one of the alleles remains. Labels: countable, uncountable 10. preservation of biological tissues from decay due to autolysis or putrefaction. Labels: countable, uncountable 11. process by which an injury is rendered immobile. Labels: countable, uncountable 12. Maintaining of the gaze on a single location (either momentarily or prolongedly). Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: flabby Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From a variant of flappy, from flap (“to hang loose”). Compare English dialectal flapsy (“flabby”), Middle Dutch flabbe (“a slap in the face; a fan-blade; a hair ribbon; a wagging tongue”), Middle Low German flabbe (“a gaping mouth; a chatterbox”), Danish flab (“the jaw; cheeks; a malapert”), Swedish flabb, fläff (“the hanging underlip of an animal; guffaw; driveller”), German Flabbe (“a gob; muzzle”). Pronunciation: /ˈflæb.i/ 1. Yielding to the touch, and easily moved or shaken; hanging loose by its own weight; lacking firmness; flaccid. Example: My attention was accidentally drawn to this aid, some five or six years ago, while attending a lady (multipara) in her confinement, who suffered from umbilical hernia, with large flabby abdomen. Example: A neglected gap was all the gate it had, and the first glance at the place was enough to let you see the flabby devil was running that show. 2. Having a slight lack of acidity; having mild sweetness. Example: A flabby wine might be described as a wine in which nothing stands out. Example: An extremely hot region will give you flabby wine. 3. overwrought. Labels: usually Example: As you revise, focus on eliminating flabby expressions. This takes conscious effort. As one expert copyeditor observed, “Trim sentences, like trim bodies, usually require far more effort than flabby ones. 4. Which forms a surjection from the domain to every open subset of the codomain. Example: a flabby sheaf on a paracompact space
Word: flagellation Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From French flagellation, from Latin flagellatio, from flagellare, from flagellum, diminutive of flagrum (“whip”). Pronunciation: /ˌflæd͡ʒəˈleɪʃən/ 1. Beating, or an instance of beating, consisting of lashes, notably as corporal punishment or mortification, such as a whipping or scourging. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: As a means of restoring vigor to the generative organs, flagellation was recommended by the ancient physicians as an effectual remedy, in accordance with the Hippocratic principle of ubi stimulus, ibi affluxus.
Word: flagellation Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From flagellum (“elongated filiform appendage”), itself a diminutive of Latin flagrum (“whip”), closely related to etymology 1. Pronunciation: /ˌflæd͡ʒəˈleɪʃən/ 1. The formation by plants of flagella, or their arrangement
Word: flake Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English flake (“a flake of snow”), from Old English flacca and/or Old Norse flak (“loose or torn piece”) (compare Old Norse flakna (“to flake or chip”)), from Proto-Germanic *flaką (“something flat”), from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₂- (“flat, broad, plain”). Cognate with Norwegian flak (“slice, sliver”, literally “piece torn off”), Swedish flak (“a thin slice”), Danish flage (“flake”), German Flocke (“flake”), Dutch vlak (“smooth surface, plain”) and vlok (“flake”), as well as with Latin plaga (“flat surface, district, region”) and Welsh llech (“slate, tablet”). Doublet of plage. Pronunciation: /fleɪk/ 1. A loose filmy mass or a thin chiplike layer of anything Example: There were a few flakes of paint on the floor from when we were painting the walls. Example: flakes of dandruff 2. A scale of a fish or similar animal 3. A prehistoric tool chipped out of stone. 4. A person who is impractical, flighty, unreliable, or inconsistent; especially with maintaining a living. Labels: informal Example: She makes pleasant conversation, but she's kind of a flake when it comes time for action. Example: The center encouraged its devotees to wear lucky red strings around one wrist, which Neumann did for quite a while, until a more sober-minded business person warned him to lose the item or risk confirming his burgeoning reputation as a flake. 5. A carnation with only two colours in the flower, the petals having large stripes. 6. A flat turn or tier of rope. Example: Admiral: What mean you by flakes? Captain: They are only those several circles or rounds of the roapes or cables, that are quoiled up round. Example: A flake is the sailor's term for a turn in an ordinary coil, or for a complete tier in a flat coil, as a French or Flemish flake. The current dictionary form of the word is fake, a word that I have never heard used with this meaning. A Flemish flake is a spiral coil of one layer only. 7. A corrupt arrest, e.g. to extort money for release or merely to fulfil a quota. Labels: US, slang Example: When police decided to score gamblers, they would most often flake people with gambling slips, then demand $25 or $50 for not arresting them. Other times, they would simply threaten a flake and demand money. 8. A wire rack for drying fish.
Word: flake Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English flake (“a flake of snow”), from Old English flacca and/or Old Norse flak (“loose or torn piece”) (compare Old Norse flakna (“to flake or chip”)), from Proto-Germanic *flaką (“something flat”), from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₂- (“flat, broad, plain”). Cognate with Norwegian flak (“slice, sliver”, literally “piece torn off”), Swedish flak (“a thin slice”), Danish flage (“flake”), German Flocke (“flake”), Dutch vlak (“smooth surface, plain”) and vlok (“flake”), as well as with Latin plaga (“flat surface, district, region”) and Welsh llech (“slate, tablet”). Doublet of plage. Pronunciation: /fleɪk/ 1. To break or chip off in a flake. Example: The paint flaked off after only a year. 2. To prove unreliable or impractical; to abandon or desert, to fail to follow through. Labels: colloquial Example: He said he'd come and help, but he flaked. 3. To store an item such as rope or sail in layers Example: The line is flaked into the container for easy attachment and deployment. 4. To hit (another person). Labels: Ireland, slang 5. To plant evidence to facilitate a corrupt arrest. Labels: US, slang Example: When police decided to score gamblers, they would most often flake people with gambling slips, then demand $25 or $50 for not arresting them. Other times, they would simply threaten a flake and demand money. 6. To lay out on a flake for drying. Example: flake a fish
Word: flake Part of Speech: noun Etymology: A name given to dogfish to improve its marketability as a food, perhaps from etymology 1. Pronunciation: /fleɪk/ 1. Dogfish. Labels: UK, uncountable 2. The meat of the gummy shark. Labels: Australia, uncountable Example: Larger shark received about 10%/kg less than those in the 4-6 kg range. Most of the Victorian landed product is wholesaled as carcasses on the Melbourne Fish Market where it is sold to fish and chip shops, the retail sector and through restaurants as ‘flake’. Example: Susan said, ‘Get me a piece of flake and a serve of chips.’
Word: flake Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Compare Icelandic flaki, Icelandic fleki, Danish flage, Dutch vlaak. Pronunciation: /fleɪk/ 1. A paling; a hurdle. Labels: UK, dialectal 2. A platform of hurdles, or small sticks made fast or interwoven, supported by stanchions, for drying codfish and other things. Example: You shall also, after they be ripe, neither suffer them to have straw nor fern under them, but lay them either upon some smooth table, boards, or flakes of wands, and they will last the longer. 3. A small stage hung over a vessel's side, for workmen to stand on while calking, etc. 4. Alternative form of fake (“turn or coil of cable or hawser”). Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: Flake after flake ran out of the tubs, until we were compelled to hand the end of our line to the second mate to splice his own on to.
Word: flaky Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree English flake Proto-Indo-European *-kos Proto-Germanic *-gaz Proto-West Germanic *-g Old English -iġ Middle English -y English -y English flaky From flake + -y. Pronunciation: /ˈfleɪki/ 1. Consisting of flakes or of small, loose masses; lying, or cleaving off, in flakes or layers; flakelike. 2. Unreliable; likely to make plans with others but then abandon those plans. Labels: informal Example: I have noticed that when hustlers upgrade themselves to models (as distinguished from models who have never hustled) they tend to continue being flaky about appointments. On my last trip to San Juan, Puerto Rico, I was stood up twice. 3. Unreliable; working only on an intermittent basis; likely due to malfunction. Labels: informal Example: I cannot enjoy the online game because of my flaky Internet connection. Example: Toeava went over unopposed to stretch his side's lead but Japan got on the scoreboard on 56 minutes, wing Hirotoki Onozawa intercepting an attempted offload from Slade, who had a rather flaky game, and running in from the All Blacks' 10m line.
Word: flap Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English flap, flappe (“a slap; blow; buffet; fly-flap; something flexible or loose; flap”), related to Saterland Frisian Flappert (“wing, flipper”), Middle Dutch flabbe (“a blow; slap on the face; fly-flap; flap”) (modern Dutch flap (“flap”)), Middle Low German flabbe, vlabbe, flebbe, from the verb (see below). Related also to English flab and flabby. Pronunciation: /flæp/, /flap/, /flɛp/ 1. Anything broad and flexible that hangs loose, or that is attached by one side or end and is easily moved. Example: a flap of a garment Example: The envelope flap seemed curiously wrinkled. 2. A hinged leaf. Example: the flaps of a table Example: the flap of a shutter 3. A hinged surface on the trailing edge of the wings of an aeroplane, used to increase lift and drag. 4. A side fin of a ray. 5. The motion of anything broad and loose, or a sound or stroke made with it. Example: the flap of a sail Example: the flap of a wing 6. A controversy, scandal, stir, or upset. Example: The comment caused quite a flap in the newspapers. Example: “[…] We saw him vanish right in front of the rest of us. He was there and then he wasn’t. We were to wait for a year for his return or for some message. We waited. Nothing.” / Calvin, his voice cracking: “Jeepers, sir. You must have been in sort of a flap.” 7. A consonant sound made by a single muscle contraction, such as the sound /ɾ/ in the standard American English pronunciation of body. 8. A piece of tissue incompletely detached from the body, as an intermediate stage of plastic surgery. 9. The labia, the vulva. Labels: in-plural, slang, vulgar 10. A blow or slap (especially to the face). Labels: obsolete Example: 1450, Palladius on Husbondrieː Ware the horn and heels lest they fling a flap to thee. Example: a1500 The Prose Merlinː The squire lift up his hand and gave him such a flap that all they in the chapel might it hear. 11. A young prostitute. Labels: obsolete Example: Fall to your flap, my Masters, kisse and clip. […] Come hither, you foule flappes. 12. A connected component of the induced subgraph formed by deleting a set of vertices.
Word: flap Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English flappen (“to flap, clap, slap, strike”), related to Dutch flappen (“to flap”), German Low German flappen (“to flap”), German flappen (“to flap”), Dutch flabberen (“to flit, flap”). Probably ultimately imitative. Pronunciation: /flæp/, /flap/, /flɛp/ 1. To move (something broad and loose) up and down. Labels: transitive Example: The crow slowly flapped its wings. Example: Startled, the wood pigeon flew off, its wings flapping noisily. 2. To move loosely back and forth. Labels: intransitive Example: The flag flapped in the breeze. 3. For a goalkeeper to weakly attempt to play a flighted ball with the hands, failing to control it. Labels: intransitive Example: Former Turkey goalkeeper Rustu Recber flapped at his first Delap throw but was given a soft free-kick by referee Antony Gautier. 4. To pronounce (something) as a flap consonant. Labels: transitive 5. To be pronounced with a flap consonant. Labels: intransitive 6. To be advertised as being available and then unavailable (or available by different routes) in rapid succession. Labels: intransitive 7. To talk, especially in a manner seen as excessive, nagging or annoying. Example: She stay flappin' at me.
Word: flaw Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English flawe, flay (“a flake of fire or snow, spark, splinter”), probably from Old Norse flaga (“a flag or slab of stone, flake”), from Proto-Germanic *flagō (“a layer of soil”), from Proto-Indo-European *plok- (“broad, flat”). Cognate with Icelandic flaga (“flake”), Swedish flaga (“flake, scale”), Danish flage (“flake”), Middle Low German vlage (“a layer of soil”), Old English flōh (“a fragment, piece”). Pronunciation: /flɔː/, /floː/, /flɔ/, /flɑ/ 1. A flake, fragment, or shiver. Labels: obsolete 2. A thin cake, as of ice. Labels: obsolete 3. A crack or breach, a gap or fissure; a defect of continuity or cohesion. Example: There is a flaw in that knife. Example: That vase has a flaw. 4. A defect, fault, or imperfection, especially one that is hidden. Example: Has not this also its flaws and its dark side? 5. A defect, fault, or imperfection, especially one that is hidden. 6. A defect, fault, or imperfection, especially one that is hidden. Example: a flaw in a will, in a deed, or in a statute
Word: flaw Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English flawe, flay (“a flake of fire or snow, spark, splinter”), probably from Old Norse flaga (“a flag or slab of stone, flake”), from Proto-Germanic *flagō (“a layer of soil”), from Proto-Indo-European *plok- (“broad, flat”). Cognate with Icelandic flaga (“flake”), Swedish flaga (“flake, scale”), Danish flage (“flake”), Middle Low German vlage (“a layer of soil”), Old English flōh (“a fragment, piece”). Pronunciation: /flɔː/, /floː/, /flɔ/, /flɑ/ 1. To add a flaw to, to make imperfect or defective. Labels: transitive 2. To become imperfect or defective; to crack or break. Labels: intransitive
Word: flaw Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English *flaugh, from Middle Dutch vlāghe or Middle Low German vlāge, ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *flagā. Or, possibly of North Germanic origin, from Swedish flaga (“gust of wind”), from Old Norse flaga; all from Proto-Germanic *flagǭ (“blow, strike”). See modern Dutch vlaag (“gust of wind”). Pronunciation: /ˈflɔː/ 1. A sudden burst or gust of wind of short duration; windflaw. Example: And snow and haile and stormie gust and flaw Example: Yniol with that hard message went; it fell, / Like flaws in summer laying lusty corn: […] 2. A storm of short duration. 3. A sudden burst of noise and disorder Example: And deluges of armies from the town / Come pouring in; I heard the mighty flaw.
Word: fleck Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English *flekk, *flekke (attested in Middle English flekked (“spotted, flecked”)), from Old Norse flekkr (“spot”), from Proto-Germanic *flekka-. Cognate with Dutch vlek, German Fleck, Swedish fläck. Pronunciation: /flɛk/ 1. A flake. Example: two flecks of Lard cut with your knife 2. A lock, as of wool. Example: With teeth they smooth their work, as on it slips, And flecks of wool stick to their wither'd lips Example: A single fleck of wool from his sock got caught on a splintery floorboard and that was enough to convict him. 3. A small spot or streak; a speckle. Example: So fret not, like an idle girl, / That life is dash'd with flecks of sin. / Abide: thy wealth is gathered in, / When Time hath sunder'd shell from pearl. 4. A small amount. Example: a fleck of hope Example: a fleck of imagination
Word: fleck Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English *flekk, *flekke (attested in Middle English flekked (“spotted, flecked”)), from Old Norse flekkr (“spot”), from Proto-Germanic *flekka-. Cognate with Dutch vlek, German Fleck, Swedish fläck. Pronunciation: /flɛk/ 1. To mark (something) with small spots. Labels: transitive Example: So this was my future home, I thought![…]Backed by towering hills, the but faintly discernible purple line of the French boundary off to the southwest, a sky of palest Gobelin flecked with fat, fleecy little clouds, it in truth looked a dear little city; the city of one's dreams. Example: It was a perfect June day, with only a few light clouds flecking a pure blue sky.
Word: fleet Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English flete, flet (“fleet”), from Old English flēot (“ship”), likely related to Proto-West Germanic *flotōn, from Proto-Germanic *flutōną (“to float”). Pronunciation: /ˈfliːt/, [ˈflɪi̯t] 1. A group of vessels or vehicles. Example: He did discourse to us of the Dutch fleete being abroad, eighty-five of them still, and are now at the Texell, he believes, in expectation of our Eastland ships coming home with masts and hempe, and our loaden Hambrough ships going to Hambrough. Example: It was planning to use an '807' for one day only as part of a shakedown test, ahead of the fleet's formal entry to service which is currently planned for November. 2. Any group of associated items. Example: This is especially true in distributed printing environments, where a fleet of printers is shared by users on a network. 3. A large, coordinated group of people. Example: And after the past few days, in which a fleet of Republicans and the president himself have utilized Jews as human shields for racist rhetoric, the Jews are tired, tired, tired of being used as defenses against naked racism, tired of being used to justify conditions at detention camps. Just plain tired. 4. A large, coordinated group of people. Labels: Scotland 5. A number of vessels in company, especially war vessels; also, the collective naval force of a country, etc. Example: Despite the line proving to be a useful strategic route for men and supplies to the British naval fleets stationed at Scapa Flow in both world wars, the Duke's legacy looked to have passed into history when it was listed for closure in the infamous Beeching report. 6. Any command of vessels exceeding a squadron in size, or a rear admiral's command, composed of five sail-of-the-line, with any number of smaller vessels. Labels: British-Royal-Navy 7. The individual waves in corrugated fiberboard.
Word: fleet Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English flete (“bay, gulf”), from Old English flēot (“a bay, gulf, an arm of the sea, estuary, the mouth of a river”), from Proto-West Germanic *fleut, from Proto-Germanic *fleutą. Cognate with Dutch vliet (“stream, river, creek, inlet”), German Fleet (“watercourse, canal”). Pronunciation: /ˈfliːt/, [ˈflɪi̯t] 1. An arm of the sea; a run of water, such as an inlet or a creek. Labels: dialectal Example: a certain Flete [...] through which little Boats used to come to the aforesaid Town Example: Together wove we nets to entrap the fish In floods and sedgy fleets. 2. A location, as on a navigable river, where barges are secured.
Word: fleet Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English fleten (“float”), from Old English flēotan (“float”), from Proto-West Germanic *fleutan, from Proto-Germanic *fleutaną. Pronunciation: /ˈfliːt/, [ˈflɪi̯t] 1. To float. Labels: intransitive, obsolete Example: Legions of Spirits fleeting in the aire, Direct our Bullets and our weapons pointes […] Example: Antony: Our force by land / Hath nobly held; our sever'd navy too, / Have knit again, and fleet, threat'ning most sea-like. 2. To pass over rapidly; to skim the surface of. Labels: ambitransitive Example: Long were to tell the troublous stormes, that tosse The private state, and make the life unsweet Who swelling sayles in Caspian sea doth crosse, And in frayle wood on Adrian gulf doth fleet 3. To hasten over; to cause to pass away lightly, or in mirth and joy. Labels: ambitransitive Example: They say he is already in the Forest of Arden, and a many merry men with him; and there they live like the old Robin Hood of England. They say many young gentlemen flock to him every day and fleet the time carelessly, as they did in the golden world. Example: And so through this dark world they fleet / Divided, till in death they meet. 4. To flee, to escape, to speed away. Labels: intransitive Example: Gratiano:O, be thou damn'd, inexecrable dog! And for thy life let justice be accused. Thou almost makest me waver in my faith, To hold opinion with Pythagoras, That souls of animals infuse themselves Into the trunks of men: thy currish spirit Govern'd a wolf, who, hang'd for human slaughter, Even from the gallows did his fell soul fleet, And, whilst thou lay'st in thy unhallow'd dam, Infused itself in thee; for thy desires Are wolfish, bloody, starved, and ravenous. Example: At these reproaches she fainted away; and when at length she revived, full of the profoundest grief, she declared to him that she must now depart from him, and, in obedience to a decree of destiny, fleet about the earth in pain and suffering, as a spectre, until the day of doom[.] 5. To evanesce, disappear, die out. Labels: intransitive Example: Portia:How all other passions fleet to air, As doubtful thoughts, and rash-embraced despair, And shuddering fear, and green-eyed jealousy! O love, be moderate; allay thy ecstasy; In measure rain thy joy; scant this excess! I feel too much thy blessing; make it less, For fear I surfeit! 6. To move up a rope, so as to haul to more advantage; especially to draw apart the blocks of a tackle. Example: To fleet tackle when pennant block is used, the keeper, with a strap and heaver, racks both parts of hawser together near pennant block, and the tackle is then overhauled and hooked by the men assigned to those duties. 7. To move or change in position. Labels: intransitive Example: We got the long "stick" [...] down and "fleeted" aft, where it was secured. 8. To shift the position of dead-eyes when the shrouds are become too long. Labels: obsolete 9. To cause to slip down the barrel of a capstan or windlass, as a rope or chain. 10. To take the cream from; to skim.
Word: fleet Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English fleten (“float”), from Old English flēotan (“float”), from Proto-West Germanic *fleutan, from Proto-Germanic *fleutaną. Pronunciation: /ˈfliːt/, [ˈflɪi̯t] 1. Swift in motion; light and quick in going from place to place. Labels: literary Example: In mail their horses clad, yet fleet and strong. Example: […]it was not till the afternoon that they came out on the high-road, their first high-road; and there disaster, fleet and unforeseen, sprang out on them — disaster momentous indeed to their expedition[…] 2. Light; superficially thin; not penetrating deep, as soil. Labels: uncommon Example: fleet Soil, and that 'tis mixed with a great quantity of Earth, Marle, Mud or Clay, &c.
Word: fleet Part of Speech: noun Etymology: See flet. Pronunciation: /ˈfliːt/, [ˈflɪi̯t] 1. Obsolete form of flet (“house, floor, large room”). Labels: Yorkshire, alt-of, obsolete Example: Fire and fleet and candle-lighte
Word: flirt Part of Speech: noun Etymology: 1553, from the merger of Early Modern English flirt (“to flick”), flurt (“to mock, jibe, scorn”), and flirt, flurt (“a giddy girl”). Of obscure origin and relation. Apparently related to similar words in Germanic, all of apparently onomatopoeic origin, compare Low German flirt (“a flick of the fingers, a light blow”), Low German flirtje (“a giddy girl”), Low German flirtje (“a flirt”), German Flittchen (“a flirt; tart; hussy”), Norwegian flira (“to giggle, titter”). Compare also Early Modern English jillflirt, gillian flirt, and flirt-gill (“a flirt”), and Scots flird (“a trifling", also, "to jibe, jeer at, talk idly, flirt, flaunt”), which is perhaps from Middle English flerd (“mockery, fraud, deception”), from Old English fleard (“nonsense, vanity, folly, deception”); potentially related to Icelandic flærð (“trickiness, deceit”), Swedish flärd (“vanity, frivolity, flamboyance”), Dutch flard (“tatter, shred”). See flird. Pronunciation: /flɜːt/, /flɚt/, /flɪɾt/, /fløːt/, /fleːt/ 1. A sudden jerk; a quick throw or cast; a darting motion Example: several little flirts and vibrations Example: with many a flirt and flutter 2. Someone who flirts a lot or enjoys flirting; a flirtatious person. Example: 'Oooh, don't.' Lilly staggered behind the counter. 'Hangover from hell. We had a good time, I think. He's such a flirt though. He really fancied Midnight. Was sooo gutted that she was actually a straight man. Think it almost turned him celibate.' Example: Several young flirts about town had a design to cast us out of the fashionable world. 3. An act of flirting. 4. A tentative or brief, passing engagement with something. Example: However, after a brief flirt with socialist realism , this method was abandoned and strict controls were removed after 1948. By the early 1950s, writers had earned the right to use any method and to experiment. Example: Manufacturers are being stung into action on both sides of the Atlantic as climbers consult their lawyers after a flirt with gravity. Of course responsible manufacturers already exercise great care with all aspects of safety and testing. 5. A brief shower (of rain or snow). Labels: dialectal Example: In the course of the month, there were three flirts of snow, […] Example: [page 59:] A flirt of snow; after which, mild and pleasant weather, (with occasional showers) continued through the remainder of the month. [page 220:] The medium temperature of this month was 45, and it produced much mild and pleasant weather, interspersed with some rainy days, and a few flirts of snow, and frosty nights. 6. Russula vesca, an edible woodland mushroom. Labels: with-definite-article
Word: flirt Part of Speech: verb Etymology: 1553, from the merger of Early Modern English flirt (“to flick”), flurt (“to mock, jibe, scorn”), and flirt, flurt (“a giddy girl”). Of obscure origin and relation. Apparently related to similar words in Germanic, all of apparently onomatopoeic origin, compare Low German flirt (“a flick of the fingers, a light blow”), Low German flirtje (“a giddy girl”), Low German flirtje (“a flirt”), German Flittchen (“a flirt; tart; hussy”), Norwegian flira (“to giggle, titter”). Compare also Early Modern English jillflirt, gillian flirt, and flirt-gill (“a flirt”), and Scots flird (“a trifling", also, "to jibe, jeer at, talk idly, flirt, flaunt”), which is perhaps from Middle English flerd (“mockery, fraud, deception”), from Old English fleard (“nonsense, vanity, folly, deception”); potentially related to Icelandic flærð (“trickiness, deceit”), Swedish flärd (“vanity, frivolity, flamboyance”), Dutch flard (“tatter, shred”). See flird. Pronunciation: /flɜːt/, /flɚt/, /flɪɾt/, /fløːt/, /fleːt/ 1. To throw (something) with a jerk or sudden movement; to fling. Labels: transitive Example: They flirt water in each other's faces. Example: to flirt a glove, or a handkerchief 2. To jeer at; to mock. Labels: archaic, intransitive Example: I am ashamed; I am scorned; I am flirted. Example: Asinius Pollio[…], having written many invectives against Plancus, staid untill he were dead to publish them. It was rather to flurt at a blind man, and raile in a dead mans eare, and to offend a senselesse man, than incurre the danger of his revenge. 3. To dart about; to move with quick, jerky motions. Labels: intransitive Example: Her skirt flirted around her knees like a flower petal. 4. To blurt out. Labels: transitive Example: Chatterer flirted his tale in the saucy way he has, and his eyes twinkled. 5. To play at courtship; to talk with teasing affection, to insinuate sexual attraction in a playful (especially conversational) way. Labels: intransitive Example: Of course, the young people flirted, for that diversion is apparently irradicable even in the "best society". Example: Dr Hutchinson, who told jurors that he had been married for 37 years and that his son was a policeman, said he enjoyed flirting with the woman, was flattered by her attention and was anticipating patting her bottom again - but had no intention of seducing her. 6. To experiment, or tentatively engage, with; to become involved in passing with. Labels: intransitive Example: I've thrown away my reputation, self-respect, money, health and happiness through the use of drugs and alcohol; I can teach her how fragile a reputation is, how a fool and their money are soon parted, and how dangerous it is to flirt with drugs. Example: The various episodes of thinkers flirting with the idea of an infinite universe, starting with early Greek speculations and running through Cusa in the Renaissance, came to fruition as a central element in the Scientific Revolution.
Word: flirt Part of Speech: adj Etymology: 1553, from the merger of Early Modern English flirt (“to flick”), flurt (“to mock, jibe, scorn”), and flirt, flurt (“a giddy girl”). Of obscure origin and relation. Apparently related to similar words in Germanic, all of apparently onomatopoeic origin, compare Low German flirt (“a flick of the fingers, a light blow”), Low German flirtje (“a giddy girl”), Low German flirtje (“a flirt”), German Flittchen (“a flirt; tart; hussy”), Norwegian flira (“to giggle, titter”). Compare also Early Modern English jillflirt, gillian flirt, and flirt-gill (“a flirt”), and Scots flird (“a trifling", also, "to jibe, jeer at, talk idly, flirt, flaunt”), which is perhaps from Middle English flerd (“mockery, fraud, deception”), from Old English fleard (“nonsense, vanity, folly, deception”); potentially related to Icelandic flærð (“trickiness, deceit”), Swedish flärd (“vanity, frivolity, flamboyance”), Dutch flard (“tatter, shred”). See flird. Pronunciation: /flɜːt/, /flɚt/, /flɪɾt/, /fløːt/, /fleːt/ 1. Flirtatious. Labels: not-comparable Example: He had “large dark blue eyes, wide open, very coquet, very flirt in the way he looked at you.” Example: Now Maggie knew that he was flirt and for the most part it didn't bother her when he flirted with other girls because she knew that at the end of the day she was the one that he would end up kissing.
Word: flirtation Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English flirt Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *-Hō Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō Proto-Italic *-tiō Latin -tiō Latin -ātiōlbor. Old French -ationbor. Middle English -acioun English -ation English flirtation From flirt + -ation. Pronunciation: /fləˈteɪʃn̩/, /flɚˈteɪʃn̩/ 1. Playing at courtship; coquetry. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The inquest on keeper Davidson was duly held, and at the commencement seemed likely to cause Tony Palliser less anxiety than he had expected. Northrop knew all about Tony's flirtation with Lucy Davidson, but it also knew a good deal more about that lady than Tony did, and exculpated him. 2. An instance of flirting. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Courtenaye augured well from the profound silence; suddenly a burst of applause shook the house, the curtain had fallen, and Booth sprang to Walter's side, who was still engaged in an animated flirtation with an actress who was to play in the afterpiece. 3. A period of experimentation with or interest in a particular idea or activity. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The elimination of vacuum-braked wagons would be slowed down, and the Western Region's flirtation with diesel-hydraulic locomotives was questioned.
Word: fluctuation Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Latin fluctuatiōnem, accusative singular of fluctuatiō, from fluctuō, from fluctus. Morphologically fluctuate + -ion. Pronunciation: /flʌkt͡ʃuːˈeɪʃən/ 1. A motion like that of waves; a moving in this and that direction; an irregular rising and falling. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: the fluctuations of the sea Example: The rolling stock has been specially designed to meet the needs of the fluctuation of traffic in peak and off-peak periods. 2. A wavering; unsteadiness. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: fluctuations of opinion Example: fluctuations of prices 3. In medicine, a wave-like motion or undulation of a fluid in a natural or abnormal cavity (e.g. pus in an abscess), which is felt during palpation or percussion. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: foliation Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From French foliation, from Latin folium (“leaf”). Pronunciation: /fəʊlɪˈeɪʃn/ 1. The process of forming into a leaf or leaves. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. The process of forming into pages; pagination. Labels: countable, uncountable 3. The numbering of the folios of a manuscript or a book. Labels: countable, uncountable 4. The manner in which the young leaves are disposed within the bud. Labels: countable, uncountable 5. The act of beating a metal into a thin plate, leaf, foil, or lamina. Labels: countable, uncountable 6. The act of coating with an amalgam of tin foil and quicksilver, as in making looking-glasses. Labels: countable, uncountable 7. The enrichment of an opening by means of foils, arranged in trefoils, quatrefoils, etc.; also, one of the ornaments. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The house was a big elaborate limestone affair, evidently new. Winter sunshine sparkled on lace-hung casement, on glass marquise, and the burnished bronze foliations of grille and door. 8. The property, possessed by some crystalline rocks, of being divided into plates or layers, due to the cleavage structure of one of the constituents, as mica or hornblende. It may sometimes include slaty structure or cleavage, though the latter is usually independent of any mineral constituent, and transverse to the bedding, it having been produced by pressure. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Formation of alteration minerals in the host rock during deformation within the shear zone is indicated by the parallel foliation within the secondary micaceous minerals and the unmineralized host schist. Example: The dominant strike orientation of both bedding and foliation of Vermont bedrock is north or northeasterly. 9. A set of submanifolds of a given manifold, each of which is of lower dimension than it, but which, taken together, are coextensive with it. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Historically, the formalism which first arose for the material we discuss is that of measured foliations in surfaces. Example: We will show that every closed 3-manifold has a foliation of codimension one. In 1952, G. Reeb published his construction of a foliation of the 3-sphere. About twelve years later, W. Lickorish [123] exhibited foliations of codimension one on every closed, orientable 3-manifold.
Word: foment Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English fomenten, a borrowing from Old French fomenter, from Late Latin fōmentāre, from Latin fōmentum (“lotion”), from fovēre (“heat, cherish”). Pronunciation: /fəʊˈmɛnt/, /foʊˈmɛnt/, /fəˈmɛnt/ 1. To incite or cause troublesome acts; to encourage; to instigate. Labels: transitive Example: He was arrested for fomenting a riot; after all, it's bad enough being in a riot but starting one is much worse. Example: Foreign governments have tried to foment unrest. 2. To apply a poultice to; to bathe with a cloth or sponge. Labels: transitive Example: Sties in the eye are irritating and disfiguring. Foment with warm water; at night apply a bread-and-milk poultice. Example: The maid had entered with us, and began once more to foment the bruise upon her mistress's brow.
Word: foment Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English fomenten, a borrowing from Old French fomenter, from Late Latin fōmentāre, from Latin fōmentum (“lotion”), from fovēre (“heat, cherish”). Pronunciation: /fəʊˈmɛnt/, /foʊˈmɛnt/, /fəˈmɛnt/ 1. Fomentation. Example: He came in no conciliatory mood, and the foment was kept up.
Word: fomentation Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English fōmentāciǒun (“act of fomenting; lotion or poultice applied to a diseased part of the body”), from Late Latin fōmentātiō, fōmentātiōnem, from fōmentāre (from fōmentum (“lotion; compress, poultice; warm application; fomentation”), from foveō (“to warm, keep warm; to cherish, nurture; to bathe, foment”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *dʰegʷʰ- (“to burn; warm, hot”)) + -ātiō, -ātiōnem (suffix forming a noun relating to some action or the result of an action); analysable as foment + -ation. Pronunciation: /fəʊmənˈteɪʃ(ə)n/, /ˌfoʊmənˈteɪʃən/ 1. The act of fomenting; the application of warm, soft, medicinal substances, as for the purpose of easing pain by relaxing the skin, or of discussing (dispersing) tumours. Example: Twenty leeches were ordered to be applied round the nose every two days; frequent emollient fomentations; the local vapour bath; general bathing; stimulating pedilavia; a strict regimen; vegetables, milk, white meats; demulcent or acidulated drinks; avoidance of exposure to the sun or to cold air; flannel waistcoat and trousers. This treatment, being strictly observed for two months, caused all the inflammatory symptoms to disappear, […] Example: We have already spoken of the great utility of hot fomentation to the stomach and bowels, as a means of relieving intense suffering in any internal organ of the body, or in the extremities. 2. A lotion or poultice applied to a diseased or injured part of the body. Example: […] I purged him with our Quintaeſſencia Solutiuo, eight dayes together, that being done I made him a fomentation, that cauſed him to ſweate well, and to ſpitte aboundaunce, […] Example: If too much milke be the cauſe, then the Nurſe ſhall not give the childe ſucke ſo often, nor in ſuch plenty: If it proceed from wind, and that doe cauſe the childe to be thus troubled, it ſhall be diſcuſſed with Fomentations applied to the belly and navell; and with Carminative Cliſters, which ſhall bee given him, […] 3. Encouragement; excitation; instigation. Example: [T]he Catholick King complained very much thereof, upbraiding the moſt Chriſtian King how ill this did correſpond to the ſo many aſſiſtances which were given by Spain to France ſince that from thence ſo great a fomentation was now preparing to his Rebels in Flanders. Example: [I]n remote situations, physical and moral phenomena being divested of adventitious attractions, and presented to the mind in their true colours and real relations, are likely to attract its energies in proportion to their importance: at least, in this medium, many objects almost invisible in a more luminous and diversified scene, are seen so large, as compleatly to conceal some of these which with a little fomentation excite the most ardent popular attention— […]
Word: fondly Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From Middle English fondly, fondely, fonnedli, equivalent to fond + -ly. Pronunciation: /ˈfɑndli/, /ˈfɒndli/ 1. In a fond manner; affectionately; tenderly. Example: He looked fondly at the pictures of his high-school friends. 2. Foolishly. Labels: dated Example: "Doth God exact day-labour, light denied?" / I fondly ask... Example: […] she fondly believes that ten millions of the free people of the Union will allow her and her seceding brethren to open and shut the portals of this mighty region at their pleasure.
Word: foolscap Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Probably from a watermark of a fool's cap. Pronunciation: /ˈfuːl.skæp/, /ˈfuːlz.kæp/, /ˈfʊl.skæp/, /ˈfoʊl.skæp/ 1. Writing paper sheets measuring 13.25 × 16.5 inches. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. Such a sheet folded or cut in half, thus approximately 8 × 13.25 inches. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: At twilight in the summer there is never anybody to fear—man, woman, or cat—in the chambers and at that hour the mice come out. They do not eat parchment or foolscap or red tape, but they eat the luncheon crumbs. 3. Printing paper measuring 13.5 × 17 inches. Labels: countable, uncountable 4. Alternative form of fool's cap. Labels: alt-of, alternative, countable, uncountable
Word: footprint Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From foot + print. Pronunciation: /ˈfʊtpɹɪnt/ 1. The impression of the foot in a soft substance such as sand or snow. Example: “Yes, there are two distinct sets of footprints, both wearing rubber shoes—one I think ordinary plimsolls, the other goloshes,” replied the sergeant. 2. Space required by a piece of equipment. Example: This computer has a smaller footprint. 3. The amount of hard drive space required for a program. 4. The audit trail left by a crashed program. 5. A trace left behind that gives evidence of some action having occurred. Example: In a recent study with a movie recommendation site […], higher message interactivity in the form of footprints of user actions, responsive suggestions in a search box, and live-chatting with an online agent led to greater perceived contingency and engagement with the site, which ultimately created more positive attitudes toward it and higher intention to recommend the site to others. 6. What a person has done before, as a profession or lifestyle, serving as a model for others. Labels: figuratively, in-plural Example: He is following in his father's footprints. 7. The surface space occupied by a structure. Example: the footprint of a building Example: Heavy debris would generally travel farther downrange within the debris footprint; lighter material would generally fall near the point of intercept. Footprint lengths can vary […] 8. A company's geographic market presence. Example: The store, which is slated to open next month, increases the company's footprint in the market to 14 locations. 9. The ecological impact of a human activity, machine, etc. Example: My carbon footprint is very high. 10. Availability of a satellite from the ground. Example: When a satellite's footprint covers a wider area than intended, the footprint is said to “spillover” ^([sic]) into surrounding territory. 11. A polygon representing the shape of an item. Example: building footprint
Word: foray Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English forrayen (“to pillage”), a back-formation of forrayour, forreour, forrier (“raider, pillager”), from Old French forrier, fourrier, a derivative of fuerre (“provender, fodder, straw”), from Frankish *fōdar (“fodder, sheath”), from Proto-Germanic *fōdrą (“fodder, feed, sheath”), from Proto-Indo-European *patrom (“fodder”), *pat- (“to feed”), *pāy- (“to guard, graze, feed”). Cognate with Old High German fuotar (German Futter (“fodder, feed”)), Old English fōdor, fōþer (“food, fodder, covering, case, basket”), Dutch voeder (“forage, food, feed”), Danish foder (“fodder, feed”), Icelandic fóður (“fodder, sheath”). More at fodder, food, forage. Pronunciation: /ˈfɒɹ.eɪ/, /ˈfɔɹ.eɪ/, /ˈfɑɹ.eɪ/, /ˈfɔɹ.æɪ/ 1. A sudden or irregular incursion in border warfare; hence, any irregular incursion for war or spoils; a raid. 2. A brief excursion or attempt, especially outside one's accustomed sphere. Example: Bastian Schweinsteiger and Muller were among many who should have added the third, and City were limited to rare forays with the excellent Boateng pinching the ball off Aguero and Aleksandar Kolarov shooting wide in stoppage time.
Word: foray Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English forrayen (“to pillage”), a back-formation of forrayour, forreour, forrier (“raider, pillager”), from Old French forrier, fourrier, a derivative of fuerre (“provender, fodder, straw”), from Frankish *fōdar (“fodder, sheath”), from Proto-Germanic *fōdrą (“fodder, feed, sheath”), from Proto-Indo-European *patrom (“fodder”), *pat- (“to feed”), *pāy- (“to guard, graze, feed”). Cognate with Old High German fuotar (German Futter (“fodder, feed”)), Old English fōdor, fōþer (“food, fodder, covering, case, basket”), Dutch voeder (“forage, food, feed”), Danish foder (“fodder, feed”), Icelandic fóður (“fodder, sheath”). More at fodder, food, forage. Pronunciation: /ˈfɒɹ.eɪ/, /ˈfɔɹ.eɪ/, /ˈfɑɹ.eɪ/, /ˈfɔɹ.æɪ/ 1. To participate in a foray. Example: The people of Granada resumed all at once their ancient activity, foraying into the Christian territories, surprising Alhendin and some other places of less importance, and stirring up the spirit of revolt in Guadix and other conquered cities. 2. To do or attempt something outside one's typical area of expertise. Example: "It seems as though I have lived this life always. The world of books and bookish folk is very vague, more like a dream memory than an actuality. I surely have hunted and forayed and fought all the days of my life. And you, too, seem a part of it. You are -- " I was on the verge of saying, "my woman, my mate," but glibly changed it to -- "standing the hardship well." Example: Over the summer, I'd been following the news cycle, foraying into online journalism, and I wrote a couple of pieces on male victims of sexual violence, who are often left to the margins or forgotten altogether in feminist accounts of rape culture. 3. To scour an area for goods as part of a foray. Labels: archaic, transitive Example: He bad to open wyde his brazen gate, Which long time had bene shut, and out of hond Proclaymed joy and peace through all his state; For dead now was their foe which them forrayed late. Example: Bruce forayed Cumberland, and threatened Berwick, so that the poor Countess of Buchan was removed from thence to a more secure place of captivity.
Word: forfend Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English forfenden (“to ward off, protect, prohibit”), equivalent to for- + fend. Pronunciation: /fɔːˈfɛnd/, /fə-/, /fɔɹˈfɛnd/ 1. To prohibit; to forbid; to avert. Labels: archaic Example: Clown: … You would know where Lord Anthonie is? I perceiue you. Shall I ſay he is in yond farme houſe? I deceiue you. Shall I tell you this wine is for him? the gods forfend, and ſo I end. Go fellow fighters theres a bob for ye. Example: 2008, Lew, short circuit operators, zbadnYZNaK6VM1zanZ2dnUVZ_r7inZ2d@comcast.com What? Multi-posting? Usenet Gods forfend!