nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: politician Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English politic Proto-Indo-European *-nós Proto-Italic *-nos Latin -nus Latin -ānus Latin -iānusbor. English -ian English politician From politic + -ian. Pronunciation: /ˌpɒl.ɪˈtɪʃ.ən/, /ˌpɑ.ləˈtɪʃ.ən/, /ˌpɔl.ɪˈtɪʃ.ən/, /ˌpɒl.əˈtəʃ.ən/ 1. One engaged in politics, especially an elected or appointed government official. Example: Politicians should serve the country's interest. Example: WHEN the mental growth of a man in public life ceases, he ought, for the sake of the community, to retire. Most of our mediocre or unsuccessful Presidents were slipping downhill mentally before they took office. Lincoln, Cleveland, Roosevelt, Wilson, and Coolidge broadened and strengthened as the years went by. By the same token, some men, unused to politics, become mere politicians when elevated to high office, while other men, brought up in the game of politics, rise superior to their environment. 2. Specifically, one who regards elected political office as a career. Example: Unlike the other candidates, I'm not a politician. Example: I never wanted to be one, and as far as I'm concerned, I'm not a politician now. Am I the best man for this job? Probably not. I am, however, the President of the United States, […] 3. A politically active or interested person. Example: Only real politicians are interested in this issue. Example: You used to be such a politician. Do you remember the debates we held in Fitzroy's rooms? 4. A sly or ingratiating person. Example: There is a politician in every office. Example: Mrs. Dimitriou blushed at the compliment. "Antonios, you are such a politician," her husband chuckled.
Word: autobiography Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂ewder.? Proto-Indo-European *sóder.? Proto-Indo-European *h₂ewder. Ancient Greek αὖ (aû) Ancient Greek τόν (tón)? Ancient Greek αὐτός (autós) Ancient Greek αὐτο- (auto-)lbor. English auto- Proto-Indo-European *gʷeyh₃-der. Ancient Greek βίος (bíos) Proto-Indo-European *gerbʰ- Proto-Hellenic *grə́pʰō Ancient Greek γρᾰ́φω (grắphō) Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Ancient Greek -ᾱ (-ā) Ancient Greek -η (-ē) Ancient Greek γραφή (graphḗ) Ancient Greek -γραφία (-graphía) Ancient Greek βιογραφίᾱ (biographíā)der. New Latin biographiabor. English biography English autobiography From auto- + biography. Pronunciation: /ˌɔː.tə.baɪˈɒɡ.ɹə.fi/ 1. A self-written biography; the story of one's own life. Labels: countable Example: Autobiography […] inevitably consists mainly of extinctions of the truth, shirkings of the truth, partial revealments of the truth, with hardly an instance of plain straight truth […] Example: Here I was interrupted, as I'm so often interrupted when giving my views on the Yeoman's Wedding Song, by her saying that she was dying to hear all about it but would rather wait till she could get it in my autobiography. 2. Biographies of this kind regarded as a literary genre. Labels: uncountable
Word: biography Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *gʷeyh₃-der. Ancient Greek βίος (bíos) Proto-Indo-European *gerbʰ- Proto-Hellenic *grə́pʰō Ancient Greek γρᾰ́φω (grắphō) Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Ancient Greek -ᾱ (-ā) Ancient Greek -η (-ē) Ancient Greek γραφή (graphḗ) Ancient Greek -γραφία (-graphía) Ancient Greek βιογραφίᾱ (biographíā)der. New Latin biographiabor. English biography Borrowed from New Latin biographia, from Ancient Greek βιογραφίᾱ (biographíā), from βίος (bíos, life) + -γραφία (-graphía, writing). Pronunciation: /baɪˈɒɡɹəfi/, /baɪˈɑɡɹəfi/ 1. A person's life story, especially one published. Labels: countable Example: There are many biographies of Benjamin Franklin. 2. The art of writing this kind of story. Labels: uncountable Example: She is best known for biography and history, but she is also a novelist.
Word: biography Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *gʷeyh₃-der. Ancient Greek βίος (bíos) Proto-Indo-European *gerbʰ- Proto-Hellenic *grə́pʰō Ancient Greek γρᾰ́φω (grắphō) Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Ancient Greek -ᾱ (-ā) Ancient Greek -η (-ē) Ancient Greek γραφή (graphḗ) Ancient Greek -γραφία (-graphía) Ancient Greek βιογραφίᾱ (biographíā)der. New Latin biographiabor. English biography Borrowed from New Latin biographia, from Ancient Greek βιογραφίᾱ (biographíā), from βίος (bíos, life) + -γραφία (-graphía, writing). Pronunciation: /baɪˈɒɡɹəfi/, /baɪˈɑɡɹəfi/ 1. To write a biography of. Labels: transitive
Word: pal Part of Speech: noun Etymology: PIE word *bʰréh₂tēr Borrowed from Angloromani pal (“brother, friend”), from Romani phral (“brother”), from Sanskrit भ्रातृ (bhrātṛ, “brother”). Doublet of bhai, brother, bru, frater, friar, and vai. Pronunciation: /pæl/ 1. A friend, buddy, mate, cobber; someone to hang around with. Labels: colloquial Example: Little Timmy's out playing with his pals. Example: "Mob job. The Mafia has a sample of the drug for the first time, thanks to me and my pal Ng. Until now, it always self-destructed before they could get to it. So I guess they're analyzing it or something. Trying to make an antidote, maybe." 2. An informal term of address, often used ironically in a hostile way. Labels: colloquial Example: Don't you threaten me, pal – I'll report you to the police. Example: Michael De Santa (Ned Luke): You forget a thousand things every day, pal. Make sure this is one of 'em.
Word: pal Part of Speech: verb Etymology: PIE word *bʰréh₂tēr Borrowed from Angloromani pal (“brother, friend”), from Romani phral (“brother”), from Sanskrit भ्रातृ (bhrātṛ, “brother”). Doublet of bhai, brother, bru, frater, friar, and vai. Pronunciation: /pæl/ 1. Synonym of pal around. Example: As an adult, she moved to New York and palled with trip-hop artist Tricky, who signed her to his own label. Example: There were pictures of Garcia flashing diamond mouth grills. Spewing out a Vesuvius-amount of smoke. Showing off a riot of body tattoos. Aiming guns. Palling with superstars like Lil Wayne and Chris Brown. […]
Word: pal Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of paul (“kind of tent”). Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: Dervish Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Turkish derviş, from Persian درویش (darviš). Pronunciation: /ˈdɜː(ɹ)vɪʃ/ 1. A member of a Sufi Muslim ascetic fraternity of mendicant friars. 2. A citizen or inhabitant of Darawiish (circa 1895–1920 C.E.), the Dhulbahante anti-colonial polity geographically corresponding with Khaatumo. Labels: historical
Word: how many Part of Speech: det Etymology: Inherited from Old English hū maniġ. Labels: no-gloss, translation-hub
Word: how many Part of Speech: pron Etymology: Inherited from Old English hū maniġ. 1. unspecified number Example: We've lost quite a few; I don't know exactly how many. Example: And I saw how many were destroying the simplicity, and betraying the truth. 2. what number Example: How many of you have full-time jobs? Example: I've invited three hundred people to my wedding. — You've invited how many?
Word: actual occasions Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Coined by Alfred North Whitehead. 1. The final real things in the universe, that are "experiential" in nature rather than strictly material. The most basic thing or construct in the universe. Some Whitehead scholars would hold that trillions of Actual Occasions compose one quark. Actual occasions make up everything, even empty space Labels: plural, plural-only Example: "Actual entities--also termed Actual Occasions--are the final real things of which the world is made up. There is no going behind actual entities to find anything more real. ...The final facts are, all alike, actual entities; and these actual entities are drops of experience, complex and interdependent." Whitehead, A.N., Process and Reality: an essay in Cosmology, ed. by Griffin, D. and Sherburne, D., New York: The Free Press, 1978.
Word: wrapping paper Part of Speech: noun 1. Paper used for wrapping parcels (in this case, often brown) or presents (in this case, often colourful/colorful and decorative). Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Difficulties are arising from the use of wrapping paper from which the old addresses have not been removed. Clearly addressed labels will help the Railways to deliver your parcels quickly.
Word: circumcision Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English circumcisioun, from Old French circumcisiun (modern French circoncision) and its etymon Latin circumcīsiōn-, from circumcīdō (“cut around”), from circum (“about, around; through”) + caedō (“cut, hew”). By surface analysis, circumcis(e) + -ion. Pronunciation: /ˌsɜː(ɹ)kəmˈsɪʒən/ 1. The surgical excision of the foreskin and usually all or most of the penile frenulum. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: So ſay I , did the Covenant of circumciſion, in that he that was circumciſed was bound to keep the whole Law Gal 5. 3. Example: I had first to obtain a recommendation from the Assistant Resident to the Regent, and then an order from the Regent to the Waidono; and when after a week's delay I arrived with my baggage and men at Modjo-agong, I found them all in the midst of a five days' feast, to celebrate the circumcision of the Waidono's younger brother and cousin, and had a small room in an outhouse given me to stay in. 2. The surgical excision of the foreskin and usually all or most of the penile frenulum. Labels: Judaism, countable, modern, specifically, uncountable, usually 3. The surgical excision of the foreskin and usually all or most of the penile frenulum. Labels: Philippines, countable, historical, uncountable Example: The ancient Egyptians practiced circumcision by creating a dorsal incision in the foreskin. 4. The surgical excision of the clitoral hood of the clitoris; female circumcision. Labels: countable, uncountable 5. The surgical excision of the clitoris; clitoridectomy. Labels: countable, often, proscribed, uncountable
Word: column Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English columne, columpne, columpe, borrowed from Old French columne, from Latin columna (“a column, pillar, post”), originally a collateral form of columen, contraction culmen (“a pillar, top, crown, summit”). Akin to Latin collis (“a hill”), celsus (“high”), probably to Ancient Greek κολοφών (kolophṓn, “top, summit”). Pronunciation: /ˈkɒləm/, /ˈkɑləm/, /ˈkɑljəm/ 1. A solid upright structure designed usually to support a larger structure above it, such as a roof or horizontal beam, but sometimes for decoration. 2. A vertical line of entries in a table, usually read from top to bottom. 3. A body of troops or army vehicles, usually strung out along a road. 4. A body of text meant to be read line by line, especially in printed material that has multiple adjacent such on a single page. Example: It was too hard to read the text across the whole page, so I split it into two columns. 5. A unit of width, especially of advertisements, in a periodical, equivalent to the width of a usual column of text. Example: Each column inch costs $300 a week; this ad is four columns by three inches, so will run $3600 a week. 6. A recurring feature in a periodical, especially an opinion piece, especially by a single author or small rotating group of authors, or on a single theme. Labels: broadly Example: His initial foray into print media was as the author of a weekly column in his elementary-school newspaper. Example: I have always argued that despite my opposition to rail privatisation, I should be grateful that John Major won the 1992 election on a platform to sell off the railways, as otherwise my column would have disappeared given the paucity of things to write about. 7. Something having similar vertical form or structure to the things mentioned above, such as a spinal column. Example: The desert storm was riding in its strength; the travellers lay beneath the mastery of the fell simoom. Whirling wreaths and columns of burning wind, rushed around and over them. 8. The gynostemium 9. An instrument used to separate the different components of a liquid or to purify chemical compounds.
Word: Yankee ingenuity Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Referring to colonial and frontier living in the early United States. 1. Improvisational design or problem-solving, dealing with low availability of replacement parts and materials. Labels: uncountable
Word: Mozarabic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree English Mozarab Proto-Indo-European *-ikos Proto-Italic *-ikos Latin -icuslbor. Old French -iquebor. Middle English -ik English -ic English Mozarabic From Mozarab + -ic. Pronunciation: /məʊˈzæɹəbɪk/, /moʊˈzæɹəbɪk/, /moʊˈzɛɹəbɪk/ 1. Of or pertaining to the Mozarabs or their culture. Labels: not-comparable
Word: Mozarabic Part of Speech: name Etymology: Etymology tree English Mozarab Proto-Indo-European *-ikos Proto-Italic *-ikos Latin -icuslbor. Old French -iquebor. Middle English -ik English -ic English Mozarabic From Mozarab + -ic. Pronunciation: /məʊˈzæɹəbɪk/, /moʊˈzæɹəbɪk/, /moʊˈzɛɹəbɪk/ 1. A continuum of closely related Romance dialects spoken in Muslim-dominated areas of the Iberian Peninsula during the early stages of the development of the Romance language in Iberia.
Word: Mozarab Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Spanish mozárabe, from Arabic مُسْتَعْرِب (mustaʕrib). Pronunciation: /məʊˈzæɹəb/, /moʊˈzæɹəb/, /moʊˈzɛɹəb/ 1. An Iberian Christian living under Arab domination. Example: The Mozarabs were bilingual in Romance and Arabic and lived along the border area (north of the border to be precise) between Christian Iberia and Al-Andalus. This particular community sought to remain bilingual because it derived its identity from being both Arab-like and Christian.
Word: alchemy Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰew- Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥ Ancient Greek -μᾰ (-mă) Ancient Greek χῠ́μᾰ (khŭ́mă) Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-i-eh₂ Proto-Hellenic *-íā Ancient Greek -ία (-ía) Ancient Greek χυμείᾱ (khumeíā)bor. Arabic الْكِيمِيَاء (al-kīmiyāʔ)bor. Medieval Latin alchēmīabor. Old French alkimieder. English alchemy From Old French alkimie, arquemie (French alchimie), from Medieval Latin alchēmia, from Arabic اَلْكِيمِيَاء (al-kīmiyāʔ), from Ancient Greek χυμείᾱ (khumeíā, “art of alloying metals”), from χύμα (khúma, “ingot, bar”). Compare Spanish alquimia and Italian alchimia. Pronunciation: /ˈælkəmi/ 1. The premodern and early modern study of physical changes, particularly in Europe, Arabia, and China; and chiefly in pursuit of an elixir of immortality, a universal panacea, and/or a philosopher's stone able to transmute base metals into gold, eventually developing into chemistry. Labels: uncountable Example: And yet surely to alchemy this right is due, that it may be compared to the husbandman whereof Æsop makes the fable; that, when he died, told his sons that he had left unto them gold buried underground in his vineyard; and they digged over all the ground, and gold they found none; but by reason of their stirring and digging the mould about the roots of their vines, they had a great vintage the year following: so assuredly the search and stir to make gold hath brought to light a great number of good and fruitful inventions and experiments, as well for the disclosing of nature as for the use of man’s life. Example: There were also letters to scientists and other scholars, pages of derivations of mathematics and physics formulae, and copious writings on alchemy and religion. […] The [Isaac] Newton that emerges from the [unpublished] manuscripts is far from the popular image of a rational practitioner of cold and pure reason. The architect of modern science was himself not very modern. He was obsessed with alchemy. 2. The causing of any sort of mysterious sudden transmutation. Labels: countable Example: O, he sits high in all the people’s hearts: And that which would appear offence in us, His countenance, like richest alchemy, Will change to virtue and to worthiness. Example: 1640, George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum; or, Outlandish Proverbs, Sentences, etc., in The Remains of that Sweet Singer of the Temple George Herbert, London: Pickering, 1841, p. 143, No alchymy to saving. 3. Any elaborate transformation process or algorithm. Labels: countable, slang
Word: gap year Part of Speech: noun 1. A yearlong break from study taken by some students on leaving school before starting university, often spent gaining work experience or travelling.
Word: apoapsis Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂ep Proto-Indo-European *-o Proto-Indo-European *h₂epó Proto-Hellenic *apó Ancient Greek ᾰ̓πό (ăpó) Ancient Greek ᾰ̓πο- (ăpo-)bor. English apo- English apsis English apoapsis From apo- + apsis. 1. The point of a body's elliptical orbit about the system's centre of mass where the distance between the body and the centre of mass is at its maximum.
Word: periapsis Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *per-der. Ancient Greek περῐ́ (perĭ́)der. English peri- English apsis English periapsis From peri- + apsis. 1. The point of a body's (elliptical) orbit in a 2-body gravitational system such that the distance between the two bodies (measured from their respective centres of mass) is at its minimum. Example: 1983, Richard O. Fimmel, Laurence Colin, Eric Burgess, Pioneer Venus, NASA SP-461, page 109, Figure 5-19. Sun-Venus-Orbiter geometry illustrates how the periapsis moves around the planet during the Venusian sidereal year to sample day and night hemispheres. Because the planet rotates in a retrograde direction, it takes more than one Venusian sidereal year for periapsis to move over all longitudes of the planet (as explained in text). Example: We don't always want to burn near periapsis. Suppose we want to change the height at periapsis. The most efficient place to change the radius of periapsis is at apoapsis. Consider applying #92;Deltav at some other point in the orbit. In this case both periapsis and apoapsis will change. If we apply the #92;Deltav tangentially at apoapsis, all of the #92;Deltav will go into changing periapsis, and vice versa. 2. The minimum distance between the two bodies in such a system.
Word: jharal Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Nepali झारल (jhāral). Pronunciation: /d͡ʒɑˈɹəɫ/ 1. The Himalayan tahr, Hemitragus jemlahicus ( <= Capra jemlaica).
Word: chest of drawers Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /tʃɛst əv dɹɔɹz/, /tʃɛst ov dɹɔːz/, /-əv-/, /tʃɛs.tə dʒɹɔːz/ 1. A piece of furniture which has multiple parallel, horizontal drawers stacked one above the other, used mainly for the storage of clean clothes.
Word: bannock Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Latin pānicumder. Old Irish bannachder. Old English bannuc Middle English bannoke English bannock From Middle English bannoke, from Old English bannuc, perhaps from a Goidelic word (compare Irish bonnóg, Manx bonnag, Scottish Gaelic bonnach), possibly from Latin pānicum (“millet”). Doublet of bonnag. Pronunciation: /ˈbæ.nək/ 1. An unleavened bread, usually made with barleymeal, wheatmeal, or oatmeal; sometimes of peasemeal or otherwise. Labels: Northern-England, Scotland, especially, uncountable, usually Example: "It was till lately believed by the ploughmen of Clydesdale, that if they repeated the rhyme Fairy, fairy, bake me a bannock and roast me a collop, And I'll gie ye a spurtle off my gadend! three several times on turning their cattle at the terminations of ridges, they would find the said fare prepared for them on reaching the end of the fourth furrow." Example: So she baked two oatmeal bannocks, and set them on to the fire to harden. After a while, the old man came in, and sat down beside the fire, and takes one of the bannocks, and snaps it through the middle. 2. A biscuit bread made of wheat flour or cornmeal, fat, and sometimes baking powder, typically baked over a fire, wrapped around a stick or in a pan. Labels: Canada, uncountable, usually Example: “The boats are coming!” The cry rang through the village. Women left their bannock-baking, their basketweaving and hurried to the shore. Example: My father’s bannock was nothing but lard, flour, salt, and baking powder patted into big rounds and cooked on sticks over a campfire. 3. A biscuit bread made of wheat flour or cornmeal, fat, and sometimes baking powder, typically baked over a fire, wrapped around a stick or in a pan. Labels: Canada, specifically, uncountable, usually
Word: Richard Part of Speech: name Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₃reǵ- Proto-Indo-European *-s Proto-Indo-European *h₃rḗǵs Proto-Celtic *rīxsbor. Proto-Germanic *rīks Proto-West Germanic *rīk Proto-Indo-European *kret-der.? Proto-Germanic *harduz Proto-Germanic *-jaz Proto-West Germanic *-ī Proto-West Germanic *hardu Proto-West Germanic *Rīkuhardu Old High German Rihhart Middle High German Rihardbor. Medieval Latin Richardusder. Old French Richardbor. Middle English Rycharde English Richard From Middle English Rycharde, from Old French Richard, from Medieval Latin Richardus, Ricohardus, from Frankish *Rīkahard, from Proto-Germanic *Rīkaharduz, a construction of *rīks (“king, ruler”) + *harduz (“hard, brave”). Cognate with Old High German Rīcohard (“Richard”). Unrelated to rich. A hypothetical Old English equivalent *Rīċheard would also yield an identical "Richard" in Modern English, though it is unknown if the Old English equivalent existed. Pronunciation: /ˈɹɪt͡ʃ.əd/, /ˈɹɪt͡ʃ.əɹd/ 1. A male given name from the Germanic languages. Example: What! do I fear myself? there's no one else by; / Richard loves Richard; that is, I am I. Example: But we have known Williams and Richards, names not found in sacred story, but familiar to our country, prove as gracious saints as any Safe deliverance, Fight the good fight of faith, or such like, 2. A surname originating as a patronymic. Example: Martin Richard was the youngest of three people killed by explosions at the Boston Marathon in 2013.
Word: Richard Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Clipping of Richard III. Pronunciation: /ˈɹɪt͡ʃ.əd/, /ˈɹɪt͡ʃ.əɹd/ 1. A turd. Labels: Cockney, mildly, slang, vulgar
Word: con- Part of Speech: prefix Etymology: Etymology tree Old French con-bor. Proto-Indo-European *ḱe? Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm Proto-Italic *kom Proto-Italic *kom- Latin con-bor. Middle English con- English con- Inherited from Middle English con-, from Latin con-, from cum (“with”). Pronunciation: /ˌkən/, /ˈkʌn/, /ˌkɑːn/, /ˈkɒn/ 1. Unite: to unite into a collection indicated by the root word. Labels: morpheme Example: concorporate Example: conglobulate 2. Together: the root is done together. Labels: morpheme Example: conarticular Example: conjubilant 3. Having commonality, having the same property indicated by the root. Labels: morpheme Example: confocal Example: consimilar 4. Having commonality, having the same property indicated by the root. Labels: morpheme Example: confamilial Example: contypic 5. Having commonality, having the same property indicated by the root. Labels: morpheme Example: connascent Example: concreate 6. Having commonality, having the same property indicated by the root. Labels: morpheme Example: concitizen Example: condisciple 7. To do the root. Labels: morpheme Example: convivify Example: confix 8. To do the root. Labels: morpheme Example: congenial Example: connatural 9. Indicating a common origin: Labels: morpheme Example: consalazinic acid Example: conphaseolin 10. Indicating a common origin: Labels: morpheme Example: consequence Example: convicine 11. When one entity is put into another, or one entity affects the other. Labels: morpheme Example: conplastic Example: contour 12. Mutuality, indicating a reciprocal relationship or influence Labels: morpheme Example: confraternization Example: confated 13. To surround or adorn with Labels: morpheme Example: constrict Example: constellate 14. Uniform, or made to be the same as. Labels: morpheme Example: concolorate
Word: con- Part of Speech: prefix Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ḱe? Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm Proto-Italic *kom Proto-Italic *kom- Latin con- Proto-Indo-European *ster- Proto-Indo-European *sterh₃- Proto-Indo-European *strew- Proto-Indo-European *-eti Proto-Indo-European *stréweti Proto-Italic *strowō Latin struō Latin cōnstruōder. Latin cōnstrūctusbor. English construct Proto-Germanic *-ōd- Old English -ode Middle English -ede English -ed English constructed Proto-Indo-European *dn̥ǵʰwéh₂s Proto-Italic *dn̥ɣwā Latin dingua Latin lingua Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂tos Proto-Italic *-ātos Latin -ātus Proto-Indo-European *-ikos Proto-Italic *-ikos Latin -icus Latin -āticus Latin -āticum Vulgar Latin *linguāticum Old French languagebor. Middle English langage English language English conlangbf. English con- Back-formation from conlang, short for constructed language. Pronunciation: /ˌkən/, /ˈkʌn/, /ˌkɑːn/, /ˈkɒn/ 1. attached to certain words to obtain new, informal, subcultural words in which con- conveys a notion of: Labels: morpheme 2. attached to certain words to obtain new, informal, subcultural words in which con- conveys a notion of: Labels: morpheme 3. attached to certain words to obtain new, informal, subcultural words in which con- conveys a notion of: Labels: morpheme
Word: precede Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle French précéder, from Latin praecēdō, from prae- + cēdō. Pronunciation: /pɹɪˈsiːd/, /pɹiːˈsiːd/, /pɹəˈsiːd/, /pɹɪˈsid/, /pɹiˈsid/ 1. To go before, go in front of. Labels: transitive Example: Cultural genocide precedes physical genocide. Example: But harm precedes not sin: onely our Foe / Tempting affronts us with his foul esteem / Of our integritie 2. To cause to be preceded; to preface; to introduce. Labels: transitive Example: It has been usual to precede hostilities by a public declaration communicated to the enemy. 3. To have higher rank than (someone or something else). Labels: transitive
Word: precede Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle French précéder, from Latin praecēdō, from prae- + cēdō. Pronunciation: /pɹɪˈsiːd/, /pɹiːˈsiːd/, /pɹəˈsiːd/, /pɹɪˈsid/, /pɹiˈsid/ 1. Brief editorial preface (usually to an article or essay).
Word: calaboose Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Cajun French calabousse, from Spanish calabozo. Doublet of calabozo. Pronunciation: /ˌkæləˈbuːs/ 1. A prison or jail/gaol. Labels: Australia, US, dialectal Example: The slaughter-house is gone from the mouth of Bear Creek and so is the small jail (or 'calaboose') which once stood in its neighborhood. A citizen asked, 'Do you remember when Jimmy Finn, the town drunkard, was burned to death in the calaboose?' Example: Bogator: (Still unbelieving) And you turned the calaboose over?
Word: testee Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From test + -ee. 1. Someone who is tested or examined. Labels: colloquial Example: Y.T.'s mom stands up, hands to her sides, and starts walking. She walks straight out of the office. None of the other people look up. Not supposed to. Insensitive to co-workers' needs. Makes the testee feel awkward and singled out, when in fact the polygraph is just part of the whole Fed way of life. She can hear the snapping footsteps of the proctor behind her, walking two paces behind, watching, keeping her eyes on those hands so they can't be doing anything, like popping a Valium or something else that might throw off the test.
Word: baccy Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From tobacco by shortening, + -y. Pronunciation: /ˈbæki/ 1. Tobacco. Labels: slang, uncountable, usually Example: To the "Nut" then, with its dirty little smoking-room, clouded with fumes arising from baccies of every description; curling upwards from the short black Irish clay bowl, full of strong ship's baccy, as well as from the best of Havannahs […] Example: No one ever see him down on his luck till this cussed fever took him, Our rations was often short, but it was share and share alike down to the last pipe o' baccy.
Word: blackie Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Germanic *blakaz Proto-West Germanic *blak Old English blæc Middle English blak English black English -ie English blackie From black + -ie. 1. Alternative spelling of blacky. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: blacky Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Germanic *blakaz Proto-West Germanic *blak Old English blæc Middle English blak English black Proto-Germanic *-j-, *-ij- Proto-West Germanic *-i, *-ī Old English -iġ Middle English -y English -y English blacky From black + -y (diminutive suffix). Pronunciation: /ˈblæki/ 1. A black person. Labels: derogatory, ethnic, informal, offensive, slur Example: [I]t was agreed that two double beds were in requisition: — one for the host and hostess — and the other for the loving nigger and his wife, who it plainly appeared, had no inclination to be separated. Our hope was in a double bed — the one which the blacky and his fairer half looked at with a longing eye — but out of which he had no idea of turning: […] Example: Apropos of Van Balen, an artist who painted me lately had painted a blackamoor praying; and not filling his canvas, stuffed in his little girl aside of a blacky gaping at him unmeaningly; and then did not know what to call it.
Word: Jacky Part of Speech: name Etymology: Etymology tree Middle English Jackin Middle English Jankyn English Jack English -y English Jacky From Jack + -y. 1. A nickname used instead of the male given name Jack, Jacques (and its cognates) or John. 2. A diminutive of the female given name Jacqueline.
Word: Jacky Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Middle English Jackin Middle English Jankyn English Jack English -y English Jacky From Jack + -y. 1. An Aboriginal. Labels: Australia, ethnic, offensive, slur
Word: Jackie Part of Speech: name Etymology: Etymology tree Middle English Jackin Middle English Jankyn English Jack English -ie English Jackie From Jack + -ie. Pronunciation: /ˈd͡ʒæki/ 1. A diminutive of the male given name Jack, Jacques (and its cognates) or John. 2. A diminutive of the female given name Jacqueline or Jacquelyn. Example: a neat Jackie-O pillbox Example: Hours into the final public hearing of the House’s historic impeachment inquiry on Thursday, the congresswoman Jackie Speier, a Democrat from California, asked the witness to verify a story she had heard about her.
Word: Paki Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Either a clipping of Pakistani or a back-formation from Pakistan. Doublet of Pak. Pronunciation: /ˈpæki/ 1. A Pakistani. Labels: Canada, India, UK, ethnic, offensive, slur 2. Anyone whose origins are perceived to be from South Asia or the Indian subcontinent. Labels: Canada, UK, broadly, ethnic, offensive, slur Example: Their byword is Aggro (Aggravation) and their crucial enemies are hippies, homosexuals and Pakis (Pakistanis or Indians). Example: In these telephone calls and recorded messages the respondent, who held strong views on immigration and asylum policy and the provision of public support to immigrants and applicants for asylum, ranted and shouted and made reference to "Wogs", "Pakis", "Black bastards" and […] "Niggers". 3. Ellipsis of Paki shop. Labels: Ireland, UK, abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis, ethnic, offensive, slur
Word: Paki Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Either a clipping of Pakistani or a back-formation from Pakistan. Doublet of Pak. Pronunciation: /ˈpæki/ 1. Pakistani, or perceived to be Pakistani. Labels: Canada, UK, derogatory, ethnic, not-comparable, offensive, slur
Word: tacky Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From tack + -y. Pronunciation: /ˈtæki/ 1. Of a substance, slightly sticky. Example: This paint isn't dry yet; it's still a bit tacky.
Word: tacky Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Sense “in poor taste” from 1888, from earlier sense meaning shabby or seedy. Also see tackey (“neglected horse”), Southern US colloquialism from 1800s, later extended to people. Pronunciation: /ˈtæki/ 1. Of low quality. Labels: colloquial Example: That market stall sells all sorts of tacky ornaments. 2. In poor taste. Labels: colloquial Example: That was a tacky thing to say. 3. Gaudy or flashy. Example: Steve Randle was seventeen, tall and lean, with thick greasy hair he kept combed in complicated swirls. He was tacky, smart, and Soda's best buddy since grade school. 4. Shabby, dowdy in one's appearance or dress.
Word: tacky Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Sense “in poor taste” from 1888, from earlier sense meaning shabby or seedy. Also see tackey (“neglected horse”), Southern US colloquialism from 1800s, later extended to people. Pronunciation: /ˈtæki/ 1. Alternative form of tackey. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: whacky Part of Speech: adj 1. Alternative spelling of wacky. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: bally Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Alteration of bloody. Pronunciation: /ˈbæli/ 1. Bloody (used as a mild intensifier). Labels: UK, dated, euphemistic, not-comparable Example: He's just a bally idiot. Example: “My faith! It’ll be more bally corpse than bride, though, this journey.”
Word: bally Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Alteration of bloody. Pronunciation: /ˈbæli/ 1. Very. Labels: UK, dated, euphemistic, not-comparable Example: That was a bally foolish thing to do, old chap!
Word: bally Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Clipping of balaclava + -y. Pronunciation: /ˈbæli/ 1. A balaclava. Labels: Multicultural-London-English Example: With SB, no sideman Bally on my face like darg I’m silent (…) 3 up Silent and Violent Bally on my face, fuck Trident Example: Always I got my bally But sometimes I'm like fuck bally Cah long time I ain’t seen Savy And long time I ain’t seen Smarkz
Word: Hally Part of Speech: name Pronunciation: /ˈhæli/, /ˈhɔːli/ 1. A rare spelling variant of Hallie, diminutive of the female given name Harriet. 2. A nickname of the surname Hall. 3. A surname.
Word: relative atomic mass Part of Speech: noun 1. The ratio of the average mass per atom of the naturally occurring form of an element to 1/12 of the mass of a carbon-12 atom. Symbol Aᵣ; abbreviation RAM or r.a.m. For elements with several isotopes, the most stable isotope is treated as the representative.
Word: sub-lieutenant Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *upó Proto-Italic *supo Latin sub Latin sub-der. English sub- English lieutenant English sub-lieutenant From sub- + lieutenant. 1. A commissioned officer of the navy whose rank is immediately below that of a lieutenant. Labels: UK 2. A commissioned officer of the navy whose rank is immediately below that of a lieutenant. Labels: Australia, Canada, New-Zealand
Word: blue note Part of Speech: noun 1. The flatted 5th scale degree in the blues scale. Labels: idiomatic 2. Any of the notes that produce the characteristic clashes with the underlying harmony associated with blues music. The flatted third, flatted fifth and flatted seventh can all be considered blue notes when played over major or dominant chord progressions, while only the flatted fifth will clash with minor chord progressions. Labels: idiomatic
Word: paper aeroplane Part of Speech: noun 1. Commonwealth form of paper airplane. Labels: Commonwealth, alt-of
Word: gas station Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈɡæs stɛɪːʃən/ 1. An establishment which sells gasoline (petrol) and often also diesel. Labels: Canada, New-Zealand, US
Word: spaghetti Part of Speech: noun Etymology: The noun is borrowed from Italian spaghetti, the plural of spaghetto (“dish of spaghetti; (rare) strand of spaghetti”), from spago (“cord, string, twine; thread”) + -etto (diminutive suffix). Spago is derived from Latin spagus (“twine”), probably from Ancient Greek σφάκος (sphákos, “apple sage (Salvia pomifera)”), probably from Pre-Greek. The verb is derived from the noun. Pronunciation: /spəˈɡɛti/, [-ɾi] 1. A type of pasta made in the shape of long thin strings. Labels: countable, uncountable, usually Example: Her mother was cooking spaghetti for dinner. Example: Maccheroni, or Spaghetti, a smaller kind of macaroni, sufficient for the dinner of an ordinary mortal, generally follows the soup. It is as a rule served up with tomato sauce, and Parmesan cheese thickly scattered over it. 2. A type of pasta made in the shape of long thin strings. Labels: broadly, countable, uncountable, usually 3. Denoting Italianness. Labels: broadly, countable, derogatory, informal, uncountable, usually 4. Denoting Italianness. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, broadly, countable, ellipsis, uncountable, usually 5. Something physically resembling spaghetti (noun 1 sense 1) in appearance or consistency, or in being tangled. Labels: attributive, broadly, informal, often, uncountable, usually Example: spaghetti grid spaghetti junction spaghetti limbs spaghetti strap spaghetti stripes Example: Or how about that spaghetti of cables, adaptors and plugs you keep in a box somewhere, the detritus of old phones, laptops and tablets — each with a different charging point — is that not an example of staggeringly wasteful, bad design? 6. Something physically resembling spaghetti (noun 1 sense 1) in appearance or consistency, or in being tangled. Labels: attributive, broadly, informal, often, uncountable, usually 7. Something physically resembling spaghetti (noun 1 sense 1) in appearance or consistency, or in being tangled. Labels: attributive, broadly, informal, often, uncountable, usually 8. Something physically resembling spaghetti (noun 1 sense 1) in appearance or consistency, or in being tangled. Labels: attributive, broadly, informal, often, uncountable, usually Example: Coordinate term: blob of death 9. Something confusing or intricate. Labels: figuratively, informal, uncountable, usually Example: The lands along the Danube, by contrast, seemed wide open. That is, if he could find his way through them. “Arrows drawn on maps build up into an astonishing spaghetti of population movement,” Mr. Winder writes, and a single city like Lviv, now in Ukraine, might also have been called Lemberg, Lemberik, Lwow or Lvov. Example: In an age when the charts have become an algorithmic spaghetti of streaming plays, radio and downloads, the purest way of measuring who is up and who is down in pop might be the Billboard Social 50, a sub-chart that measures reach across social networks. 10. Something confusing or intricate. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, derogatory, ellipsis, figuratively, informal, uncountable, usually
Word: spaghetti Part of Speech: noun Etymology: The noun is borrowed from Italian spaghetti, the plural of spaghetto (“dish of spaghetti; (rare) strand of spaghetti”), from spago (“cord, string, twine; thread”) + -etto (diminutive suffix). Spago is derived from Latin spagus (“twine”), probably from Ancient Greek σφάκος (sphákos, “apple sage (Salvia pomifera)”), probably from Pre-Greek. The verb is derived from the noun. Pronunciation: /spəˈɡɛti/, [-ɾi] 1. plural of spaghetto Labels: form-of, plural, rare
Word: spaghetti Part of Speech: verb Etymology: The noun is borrowed from Italian spaghetti, the plural of spaghetto (“dish of spaghetti; (rare) strand of spaghetti”), from spago (“cord, string, twine; thread”) + -etto (diminutive suffix). Spago is derived from Latin spagus (“twine”), probably from Ancient Greek σφάκος (sphákos, “apple sage (Salvia pomifera)”), probably from Pre-Greek. The verb is derived from the noun. Pronunciation: /spəˈɡɛti/, [-ɾi] 1. To serve (someone) spaghetti (noun noun 1 sense 1). Labels: humorous, informal, transitive Example: Visiting members expected to attend, and all will be properly spaghettied. Example: Pi Phis spaghettied their mothers and fathers last Saturday evening in the rooms. 2. To cause (someone or something) to become, or appear to become, longer and thinner; to stretch. Labels: informal, transitive Example: He spaghettied the referee when he landed on him. 3. To cause (something) to become tangled. Labels: informal, transitive Example: All these are spaghettied together, as the following boxscore will show: […] Example: "What makes you think this watercolorist and I would develop a romantic relationship?" Sissy's brow was spaghettied. 4. To eat spaghetti (noun noun 1 sense 1). Labels: humorous, informal, intransitive Example: I have "spaghettied" from Ventimiglia to Brindisi and I doubt if I have ever eaten as excellent spaghetti, certainly none better nor richer, than I have enjoyed in the home of a very charming Maryland hostess. 5. To become, or appear to become, longer and thinner. Labels: informal, intransitive Example: The oldest Lark spaghettied down to a noodle and slithered through the letterbox-like hole at the bottom of the cistern. 6. To become tangled. Labels: informal, intransitive Example: The cables spaghettied onto the shoulder of the technician. Example: These elegant instrument pods will bring all the instruments within eye range of the most nearsighted skipper, keep his bulkhead intact and eliminate all those messy wires spaghettiing around.
Word: that'd Part of Speech: contraction Pronunciation: /ˈðætəd/, /ðæd/ 1. that would Labels: contraction Example: That'd be great.
Word: metaverse Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From meta- + (uni)verse. Analyzable as meta- + -verse. In the sci-fi sense coined by American science fiction writer Neal Stephenson in 1992. Pronunciation: /ˈmɛt.ə.vɜːs/, /ˈmɛt.ə.vɝs/, [ˈmɛɾ.ə.vɝs], /ˈmet.ə.vɜːs/, [ˈmeɾ.ə.vɜːs] 1. A hypothetical future (counterpart or continuation of the) Internet, created by the convergence of virtually enhanced physical reality and physically persistent virtual space. Labels: Internet Example: Hiro walks straight through the display, and it vanishes. Amusement park in the Metaverse can be fantastic, offering a wide selection of interactive three-dimensional movies. Example: It is closer, in other words, to another science fiction vision, the “metaverse” Neal Stephenson envisioned in his 1992 Snow Crash. That particular moniker has not caught on, but many of Stephenson's ideas about what the on-line world can look like are driving a new generation of entrepreneurs to try to match it. 2. A set or the composite of all universes. Labels: archaic Example: A single-cycle universe comes to eternal rest. But further instabilities in the virtual energy domain may occur, and some of these may be potent enough to create new universes. The thesis of a metaverse giving rise to local universes is cogent, […]
Word: noodle Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Dutch noedel (“noodle”), or from its etymon German Nudel (“piece of pasta, noodle”); further etymology uncertain, probably a variant of Knödel (“dumpling”), from Middle High German knödel (“dumpling; small knot”), and then either: * from knode, knote (“knot”) (from Old High German knodo, knoto (“knot”), perhaps ultimately related to Proto-West Germanic *knappō (“knob; boy”)) + -el (diminutive suffix); or * from Ladin menùdli (“small dough dumpling in soup”), probably from Latin minutulus (“very small, tiny”) (in the sense of food chopped into small pieces), a diminutive of minūtus (“diminished; having been diminished”), the perfect passive participle of minuō (“to make smaller, diminish, lessen, reduce”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *mey- (“little, small”). Cognates * French nouille, noudle, nudeln * Swedish nudel Pronunciation: [ˈnuː.dl̩], /ˈnu.dəl/, [ˈnʉː.dl̩] 1. A string or flat strip of pasta or other dough, usually cooked (at least initially) by boiling, and served in soup or in a dry form mixed with a sauce and other ingredients. Labels: plural-normally Example: She slurped a long noodle up out of her soup. Example: She is cooking noodles for dinner. 2. An object which is long and thin like a noodle (sense 1). Labels: broadly 3. An object which is long and thin like a noodle (sense 1). Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, broadly, ellipsis, informal 4. A dumpling cooked by boiling and served in soup; a knaidel or knödel. Labels: archaic 5. The penis. Labels: slang 6. A long and slender dragon, usually an eastern dragon. Labels: slang 7. A borzoi dog. Labels: Internet, endearing, humorous
Word: noodle Part of Speech: noun Etymology: The origin of the noun is uncertain; it is possibly a variant of noddle (“the head”). The verb is derived from the noun. Pronunciation: [ˈnuː.dl̩], /ˈnu.dəl/, [ˈnʉː.dl̩] 1. A person with poor judgment; a fool. Labels: dated, informal Example: Laura told me the names of all the actors and actreſſes as they preſented themſelves; and, not contented vvith this, the ſatyrical baggage deſcrib'd their characters nicely, as they appeared. "This here (ſaid ſhe) is a noodle—That fellovv is a brute:[…]." Example: You vvrong me, noodle (boxes his ears). Novv then to the point. 2. The brain; the head. Labels: informal, slang Example: [W]hat appears to at first glance to be a thinking problem can be a problem with sight or hearing. […] There's nothing wrong with your noodle; it's your sensory equipment that needs a bit of help. Learn to compensate.
Word: noodle Part of Speech: verb Etymology: The origin of the noun is uncertain; it is possibly a variant of noddle (“the head”). The verb is derived from the noun. Pronunciation: [ˈnuː.dl̩], /ˈnu.dəl/, [ˈnʉː.dl̩] 1. To fool or trick (someone). Labels: informal, obsolete, transitive 2. To engage in frivolous behavior; to fool around or waste time. Labels: UK, dialectal, informal, intransitive
Word: noodle Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Possibly either: * a blend of Shetland Scots nune (“to sing softly, croon, hum”) (from Danish nynne, Norwegian nuna, nynna (“to hum; to sing”), originally imitative) + English doodle (“to play the bagpipes”) (chiefly Scotland); or * from Norn (unattested), from Old Norse *grynta, from Proto-Germanic *grunnatjaną (“to grunt”), a frequentative of Proto-Germanic *grunnōną (“to grunt”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰrun- (“to shout”) (and thus a doublet of grunt). Pronunciation: [ˈnuː.dl̩], /ˈnu.dəl/, [ˈnʉː.dl̩] 1. To hum or sing (a tune) at a low pitch or volume. Labels: Shetland, ambitransitive, informal
Word: noodle Part of Speech: verb Etymology: The origin of the verb is uncertain; it is possibly derived: * from noodle (“to hum or sing (a tune) at a low pitch or volume”) (Shetland) (see etymology 3); or * from German nudeln (“to make music or sing listlessly; to make music or sing at a low pitch or volume, or in an improvisatory manner”) (Leipzig), apparently from Nudel (“piece of pasta, noodle”) (see etymology 1) + -n (a variant of -en (suffix forming the infinitives of verbs)). The word was probably also influenced by doodle (“to draw or scribble aimlessly”, verb). The noun is probably derived from the verb, though the verb is first attested later. The noun was probably also influenced by doodle (“small mindless sketch”, noun). Pronunciation: [ˈnuː.dl̩], /ˈnu.dəl/, [ˈnʉː.dl̩] 1. To play (a musical instrument or passage of music) or to sing (a passage of music) in an improvisatory or lighthearted manner; also, to play (a series of ornamental notes) on an instrument. Labels: informal, transitive 2. To ponder or think about (something). Labels: US, informal, transitive Example: “Noodle that thought around for a while,” said Dr. Johnson to his Biblical Interpretations class. 3. To play a musical instrument or to sing in an improvisatory or lighthearted manner; also, to play a series of ornamental notes on an instrument. Labels: informal, intransitive Example: He has been noodling with that trumpet all afternoon, and every bit of it sounds awful. Example: [A]udible here and there / in the half-dark, members of an avian orchestra / are already softly noodling, limbering up for / an overture at sunrise, […] 4. To ponder or think, especially in an unproductive or unsystematic manner; to muse. Labels: US, informal, intransitive Example: He noodled over the problem for a day or two before making a decision. 5. To attempt in an informal or uncertain manner; to fiddle. Labels: US, informal, intransitive Example: If the machine is really broken, noodling with the knobs is not going to fix it. 6. Often followed by about or around: to mess around, to play. Labels: US, informal, intransitive