nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: virtualize Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree English virtual Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)bor. Late Latin -izōder. Middle French -iserbor. Middle English -isen English -ize English virtualize From virtual + -ize. Pronunciation: /ˈvɜː(ɹ)tjuəlaɪz/, /ˈvɜː(ɹ)t͡ʃuəlaɪz/ 1. To run a program in virtual storage. Labels: transitive 2. To simulate (or make virtual) some effect or condition on a computer. Labels: transitive 3. To make or conform to a virtual reality. Labels: transitive
Word: virtual memory Part of Speech: noun 1. Memory that appears to be RAM but is being simulated (by a process called paging) on a hard disk; allows a computer to operate as if it had more memory than it actually does, but with some loss of performance Labels: uncountable, usually
Word: viscount Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Anglo-Norman viscounte, from Medieval Latin vicecomes, from Latin vice + comes. Equivalent to vice- + count. Doublet of vicecomes and vicomte. Pronunciation: /ˈvaɪ.kaʊnt/ 1. A member of the peerage, above a baron but below a count or earl. 2. Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Tanaecia. Other butterflies in this genus are called earls and counts.
Word: visitor Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Partly from Middle English visiter, visitere, equivalent to visit + -er; and partly from Middle English visitour, from Anglo-Norman visitour, from Old French visetëor. By surface analysis, visit + -or. Pronunciation: /ˈvɪzɪtə/, /ˈvɪzɪtɚ/ 1. Someone who visits someone else; someone staying as a guest. Example: He ventured to raise his eyes again, and found his supernatural visitor confronting him in an erect attitude, with its chain wound over and about its arm. Example: "'Tis some visiter," I muttered, "tapping at my chamber door— / Only this, and nothing more." 2. Someone who pays a visit to a specific place or event; a sightseer or tourist. Example: Warwick observed, as they passed through the respectable quarter, that few people who met the girl greeted her, and that some others whom she passed at gates or doorways gave her no sign of recognition; from which he inferred that she was possibly a visitor in the town and not well acquainted. Example: Belgrade knew how to show visitors a good time, thanks to its fashionable, somewhat raucous nightclub and bar scene. 3. Someone, or a team, that is playing away from home. Labels: plural-normally Example: But, somewhat against the run of play, Craddock fired the visitors ahead, volleying a low effort beyond Simon Mignolet after Sunderland twice failed to clear attempted crosses from Stephen Hunt. 4. A person authorized to visit an institution to see that it is being managed properly. Example: As to eleemoſynary corporations, by the dotation the founder and his heirs are of common right the legal viſitors, to ſee that that property is rightly employed, which would otherwiſe have deſcended to the viſitor himſelf: […] 5. An extraterrestrial being on Earth. Labels: specifically Example: 5: Of course there is always the remote (I hope) possibility that instant panic will prompt us to send a hailstorm of nuclear warheads out upon the visitor. Example: When we ask what evidence does in fact exist of extraterrestrial sojourns on our planet, we can start with what would surely be the best evidence of all: an actual visitor, or group of visitors, visible to crowds of people and ready for photo opportunities, television interviews, handshakes, polite conversation, and dancing. 6. An object which lands or passes by Earth or its orbit. Example: Within a few months, another small meteoric mass has been added to the list of those extra-terrestrial bodies which have fallen within the limits of Tennessee. This recent visitor is a stone, weighing, when first obtained, three pounds. Example: This satellite, they suspect, is a visitor sent by the “superior beings” of a community of other stars within our Milky Way galaxy. 7. A head or overseer of an institution such as a college (in which case, equivalent to the university's chancellor) or cathedral or hospital, who resolves disputes, gives ceremonial speeches, etc. Labels: UK 8. The object in the visitor pattern that performs an operation on the elements of a structure one by one.
Word: vista Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Italian vista (“view, sight”), from visto, past participle of vedere (“to see”), from Latin vidēre (“to see”). Compare vision, video, visa. Pronunciation: /ˈvɪstə/, /ˈviːstə/ 1. A distant view or prospect, especially one seen through some opening, avenue or passage. Example: The sun soon broke forth from that one dark cloud, gradually melting into light; and the sunbeams and the glittering rain went driving together through the forest glades—those long vistas, of which the slender deer seemed the sole habitants. Example: We had our reward for our high camp and early start, for the sky was still clear, the view magnificent, with fresh vistas to the north of mountains in Tibet, of Gurla Mandhata, massive, majestic to the northeast, and further to the north, a distant pyramid, Kailash, most holy of all mountains in both Hindu and Buddhist mythology. 2. A site offering such a view. 3. A vision; a view presented to the mind in prospect or in retrospect by the imagination. Labels: figuratively Example: a vista of pleasure to come Example: dim vistas of the past
Word: vista Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Borrowed from Italian vista (“view, sight”), from visto, past participle of vedere (“to see”), from Latin vidēre (“to see”). Compare vision, video, visa. Pronunciation: /ˈvɪstə/, /ˈviːstə/ 1. To make a vista or landscape of. Labels: transitive Example: The night had now closed in, and its darkness was only relieved by the wan lamps that vistaed the streets, and a few dim stars that struggled through the reeking haze that curtained the great city.
Word: Vistula Part of Speech: name Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin Vistula. Pronunciation: /ˈvɪst͡ʃʊlə/, /ˈvɪst͡jʊla/ 1. The longest river in Poland, which flows into the Baltic Sea.
Word: visual display unit Part of Speech: noun 1. A computer display; a screen or monitor that can be connected to a computer.
Word: VDU Part of Speech: noun 1. Initialism of visual display unit. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Word: visualize Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From visual + -ize (suffix forming verbs denoting the doing or making of what is denoted by the adjectives or nouns to which it is attached). Pronunciation: /ˈvɪʒʊəlaɪz/, /ˈvɪzjʊəlaɪz/, /ˈvɪʒəlaɪz/, /ˈvɪzjʊlaɪz/, /ˈvɪʒuəˌlaɪz/ 1. To perceive (something) visually; to see. Labels: transitive Example: Be sure to find an area far away from the city or street lights, the darker the better. Lean back or lie flat on your back with your feet facing south and visualize as much of the sky as possible. Most meteors appear as faint streaks in the sky. 2. To depict (something) in a way which can be seen. Labels: transitive Example: to visualize data using a chart Example: When [Vincent] van Gogh paints sunflowers, he reveals, or achieves, the vivid relation between himself, as man, and the sunflower, as sunflower, at that quick moment in time. His painting does not represent the sunflower itself. We shall never know what the sunflower itself is. And the camera will visualize the sunflower far more perfectly than van Gogh can. The vision on the canvas is a third thing, utterly intangible and inexplicable, the offspring of the sunflower itself and van Gogh himself. 3. To form a mental picture of (something); to picture (something) in the mind; to envisage. Labels: transitive Example: In our own poetry we get from [Geoffrey] Chaucer the first instance of self-analysis and description, the first case of visualising self. Example: The humanitarian, frequently ignoring hard reality, visualises one cosmopolitan community where justice and social sympathy measured in terms of some one set of units reign supreme. 4. To make (a hidden or unclear body part, process, or object) visible by optical methods (such as endoscopy, magnetic resonance imaging, ultrasound, or X-rays), or other techniques. Labels: transitive Example: An investigation is described in which the phenomena of afterglow were utilized to make visible the low-density supersonic flows of various gases. […] The afterglow is shown to be effective in visualizing some of the features of the flow in this range of low densities where it is difficult or impracticable to obtain comparable results with schlieren methods. Example: When small masses are to be detected, it is necessary to visualise as much of the lung as possible with as little structured noise as possible. This is accomplished with high-voltage, wide-latitude, image recording and possibly beam equalisation. 5. To perceive something visually. Labels: intransitive Example: His first impression was that he had tackled a dozen Oochaks instead of one. Beyond that first impression his mind did not work, nor did his eyes visualize. 6. To form a mental picture of something; to picture something in the mind. Labels: intransitive
Word: vitality Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From vital + -ity, from Middle French vitalité, from Latin vitalitas (“vital force, life”), from vitalis (“vital”); see vital. Pronunciation: /vaɪˈtælɪti/, /vaɪˈtæləti/, /vɪ-/ 1. The capacity to live and develop. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. Energy or vigour. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: youthful vitality Example: full of vitality 3. That which distinguishes living from nonliving things; life, animateness. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: vitreous Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle French vitreux, from Latin vitreus (“glassy, transparent”), from vitrum (“glass”). The terms vitreous (positive) and resinous (negative) electricity were coined in 1733 by Charles François de Cisternay du Fay, who studied the different behaviour of glass and resin when rubbed with silk and fur, respectively. Pronunciation: /ˈvɪtriəs/ 1. Of or resembling glass; glassy. Example: Pressing his fingertips against the rippled, vitreous surface, he had the odd sensation that were he to apply sufficient pressure the glass would give way like a permeable membrane, and he would be able to pass right through it, but when he pushed harder, the surface remained cold and unyielding. 2. Of or relating to the vitreous humor of the eye. 3. Having a shiny nonporous surface. 4. Of a semi-crystalline substance where the atoms exhibit short-range order, but without the long-range order of a crystal. 5. With a glass-like texture, often referring to volcanic rocks that cooled too quickly for crystals to form. 6. Positive (of electric charge). Labels: dated
Word: vitreous Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle French vitreux, from Latin vitreus (“glassy, transparent”), from vitrum (“glass”). The terms vitreous (positive) and resinous (negative) electricity were coined in 1733 by Charles François de Cisternay du Fay, who studied the different behaviour of glass and resin when rubbed with silk and fur, respectively. Pronunciation: /ˈvɪtriəs/ 1. The vitreous humor. Labels: uncountable, usually
Word: viva voce Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin vīvā (“living”) and vōce (“voice”) (ablative of vōx). Pronunciation: /ˈvaɪvə ˈvoʊt͡ʃɪ/ 1. Done by word of mouth. Labels: not-comparable
Word: viva voce Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From Latin vīvā (“living”) and vōce (“voice”) (ablative of vōx). Pronunciation: /ˈvaɪvə ˈvoʊt͡ʃɪ/ 1. By word of mouth. Labels: not-comparable
Word: viva voce Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin vīvā (“living”) and vōce (“voice”) (ablative of vōx). Pronunciation: /ˈvaɪvə ˈvoʊt͡ʃɪ/ 1. An oral examination.
Word: vocal cords Part of Speech: noun 1. Two folds of tissue located in the larynx that vibrate when air passes over them, producing the sound waves associated with talking and singing. Labels: in-plural, plural, plural-only
Word: volition Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *welh₁-der. Proto-Indo-European *weyh₁-influ. Proto-Italic *welō Latin volō Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *-Hō Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō Proto-Italic *-tiō Latin -tiō Medieval Latin volitiōbor. French volitionder. English volition From French volition, from Medieval Latin volitiō (“will, volition”), from Latin volō (“to wish; to want; to mean or intend”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *welh₁- (“to choose; to want”)) + -tiō (suffix forming nouns relating to some action or the result of an action) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *-tis (suffix forming abstract or action nouns from verbs)). Pronunciation: /vəˈlɪʃ(ə)n/, /voʊˈlɪʃ(ə)n/ 1. A conscious choice or decision. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: […] And as the Understanding doth at once apprehend it as Good Abſolutely, or in ſome Reſpect, and Evil in other reſpects, and Comparatively a Leſs Good; ſo doth the Will at once continue to Love or Will it ſo farre as it is Apprehended as Good, and to Nill and Reject it as inconſiſtent with a Greater Good, or a hinderer of it. But if it fall out that the Inconſiſtency of theſe is not diſcerned or believed, or but Imperfectly, then may the Will by a Practical Volition Will them both. Example: [Antonio] Conte has broken the mould further with the suggestion he might escape the [Roman] Abramovich cleaver, becoming the first of his line to leave by his own volition. 2. The mental power or ability of choosing; the will. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Out of all the factors that can influence a person’s decision, none can match the power of his or her own volition. Example: The volition may be in accordance with the desire or not; it may be in accordance with the moral feelings, and wholly at variance with the desires; but in both alike the desires and volitions are distinct. 3. A concept that distinguishes whether or not the subject or agent intended something. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: English has not one FOR TO construction but several. These several constructions are interrelated and form a chain, or rather a family, of constructions, with identical or similar components recurring in more or less similar configurations. […] The composition of this family can be represented as follows: (1) Personal volition (e.g. I want very much for Peter to be present.) (2) Volition expressed in directives (e.g. He gave orders for his family to be summoned.) (3) Impersonal (unspecified) volition (e.g. It is necessary for Peter to be present.) […]
Word: voltaic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Italian Voltabor. English Volta Proto-Indo-European *-ikos Proto-Italic *-ikos Latin -icuslbor. Old French -iquebor. Middle English -ik English -ic English voltaic From Volta + -ic. Named after Italian chemist and physicist Alessandro Volta. Pronunciation: /vɒlˈteɪ.ɪk/, /vɑlˈteɪ.ɪk/, /vɔlˈtæɪ.ɪk/ 1. Of, relating to, or producing electricity. 2. reminiscent of the action of electricity: thrilling, shocking, dramatic. Labels: figuratively Example: Around them, the air thrummed with the kind of voltaic wailing to power up the darkest night.
Word: voltaic cell Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Named after Italian physicist Alessandro Volta, who made early experiments in electricity. 1. Synonym of galvanic cell.
Word: bourgeoisie Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from French bourgeoisie, from bourgeois (“a class of citizens who were wealthier members of the Third Estate”), from bourgeois, “burghers”, i.e., townspeople. Pronunciation: /ˌbʊə(ɹ)ʒwɑːˈziː/ 1. A class of citizens who were wealthier members of the third estate. Labels: historical, uncountable, usually Example: For quotations using this term, see Citations:bourgeoisie. 2. The capitalist class. Labels: Marxism, uncountable, usually Example: The Pharisees of the bourgeoisie love the saying: de mortuis aut bene aut nihil (speak none ill of the dead). The proletariat needs the truth both about living politicians and about the dead for those who truly merit the name of politician do not die for politics when their physical demise comes. Example: For quotations using this term, see Citations:bourgeoisie.
Word: voluble Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle French volubile, from Latin volūbilis (“rolling”), from volvō (“roll”). Pronunciation: /ˈvɒl.jʊ.bəl/, /ˈvɑl.jə.bəl/ 1. Fluent or having a ready flow of speech. Example: A moſt acute Iuuvenal, voluble and free of grace, […] Example: What fun shone in his eyes as he recalled some of her fine speeches, and repeated them, imitating her voluble delivery! 2. Of thoughts, feelings, or something that is expressed: expressed readily or at length and in a fluent manner. Example: Thus farr the occaſion of this diſcours againſt Tumults; now to the diſcours itſelf, voluble anough, and full of ſentence, but that, for the moſt part, either ſpecious rather then ſolid, or to his cauſe nothing pertinent. Example: He heard[…]the voice of the drunken woman, now sober, poured out in voluble remorse, and in voluble promise of amendment for the future, to every one who passed, if they would let her off easy. 3. Easily rolling or turning; having a fluid, undulating motion. Example: Seen from the west, their sky-line gallops away north and south like a sea-serpent in voluble motion. 4. Twisting and turning like a vine.
Word: voluntarily Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree English voluntary Middle English -ly English -ly English voluntarily From voluntary + -ly. Pronunciation: /ˌvɑlənˈtɛɹɪli/, /ˌvɒlənˈtɛɹɪli/, /ˈvɒləntɹɪli/ 1. In a voluntary manner. Example: But no state has voluntarily sought a statewide remedy to segregation in the 70 years since the Brown v. Board of Education decision outlawed government sanctioned, racially separate schools.
Word: voluptuousness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English voluptuous Proto-Germanic *-inōną Proto-Indo-European *-dyé- Proto-Germanic *-atjaną Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Germanic *-þuz Proto-Germanic *-assuz Proto-Germanic *-inassuz Proto-West Germanic *-nassī Old English -nes Middle English -nesse English -ness English voluptuousness From voluptuous + -ness. 1. The quality of being voluptuous. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: vote down Part of Speech: verb 1. To defeat (some measure or candidate) by a majority vote. Labels: idiomatic, transitive Example: His wife voted down the project the moment he suggested it. Example: However, Conservative MP Lee Rowley argued the Bill was the 'wrong vehicle' for the matter, and the amendment was voted down at committee stage.
Word: Marxist Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Marx + -ist. Piecewise doublet of Marxista. Pronunciation: /ˈmɑːksɪst/, /ˈmɑːɹksɪst/ 1. Following the ideals of Marxism. Labels: not-comparable Example: Lenin's Marxist tendencies were underscored by his beliefs in state capitalism and the inconsistency of socialist democracy with the rule and dictatorship of one individual. Example: Some of the historians working on these projects were influenced in some way or another by Marxist views toward history.
Word: Marxist Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Marx + -ist. Piecewise doublet of Marxista. Pronunciation: /ˈmɑːksɪst/, /ˈmɑːɹksɪst/ 1. One that believes in or follows the ideals of Marxism. Example: What sort of Marxist devotes six years to the perfecting of a novel so remote from the struggle for tomorrow? Example: Of course, no two Marxists and no two Miseseans will ever be exactly alike, so I am not suggesting that a winning political coalition will result from this unlikely arrangement.
Word: vote of confidence Part of Speech: noun 1. A motion proposed in a parliament or other assembly to give members the chance to express their confidence in a government; sometimes proposed by a government to counter a vote of no confidence proposed by the opposition; defeat would lead to the resignation of the government. 2. Any indication of confidence in another. Labels: broadly, informal Example: "I don't find you unduly piggish," she said.
Word: motion of confidence Part of Speech: noun 1. Synonym of vote of confidence.
Word: get in Part of Speech: verb 1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see get, in. 2. To get into or inside something, literally or figuratively. Labels: transitive Example: Hurry up and get in the car! Example: He tried to go after the ball but couldn't get in the game. 3. To enter a place; to gain access. Labels: intransitive Example: If you want to get in, you'll need the gate code and a key. Example: Teens walk the redlight district but can never get in. 4. To secure membership at a selective school. Labels: idiomatic, intransitive, transitive Example: All of our students who applied to university got in. 5. To be elected to some office. Labels: idiomatic, intransitive Example: Do the early results say our candidate will get in? 6. To fit (words) into a conversation etc. Labels: transitive Example: "That'll be all right, governor," hastily got in Fank, though similar experiences in the past prompted him not to be entirely impressed by a receiver's methods. 7. To become dark earlier as a result of seasonal change; to draw in. Example: Winter's on the way, and the nights are getting in. 8. To arrive. Labels: intransitive Example: What time does your flight get in? Example: It was gone 9 o'clock by the time I got in from work last night. 9. Synonym of drive out (To take up less space because the typesetter uses type that is thinner than the copy or the typesetter whites out more or squeezes in more lines on each page.) 10. To produce fewer copies than anticipated. Labels: obsolete
Word: get in Part of Speech: intj 1. An exclamation of joy at one's success. Labels: UK, slang Example: - You gained full marks in the exam. - Get in!
Word: cholera Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin cholera (“bilious disease”), from Ancient Greek χολέρα (kholéra, “cholera”). Doublet of choler. Pronunciation: /ˈkɒləɹə/, /ˈkɑləɹə/ 1. Any of several acute infectious diseases of humans and domestic animals, caused by certain strains of the Vibrio cholerae bacterium through ingestion of contaminated water or food, usually marked by severe gastrointestinal symptoms such as diarrhea, abdominal cramps, nausea, vomiting, and dehydration. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: 'This again,' said the Bacteriologist, slipping a glass slide under the microscope, 'is a preparation of the celebrated Bacillus of cholera - the cholera germ.' Example: At that time, the city [Christiania, now Oslo] was in the grip of a cholera epidemic, and victims were dying at the rate of 60 a day. Bradshaw contracted the disease, and died on September 6 [1853].
Word: vote of thanks Part of Speech: noun 1. An often informal vote to thank some chairman or other officer of an organization for the work he has done on the organization's behalf, and sometimes ending with the presentation of a gift.
Word: manidoo Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of manitou. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: voting booth Part of Speech: noun 1. A small enclosed compartment where a voter may register a vote in private; it may house some voting machine, or just have a pencil for marking a voting slip. Labels: US
Word: voting slip Part of Speech: noun 1. a piece of paper with a list of the candidates at an election (sometimes with an indication of the candidate's party); the voter puts an X in the corresponding place against the candidate of his choice, folds the slip and places it in a ballot box provided.
Word: ballot box Part of Speech: noun 1. A sealed box with a slit, into which a voter places a completed voting slip. 2. The process or method of voting. Labels: metonymically Example: The people will decide at the ballot box. Example: Incumbent Sadiq Khan wants a third term. But he is currently silenced by the strict rules of 'purdah', so he cannot use funds from the Greater London Authority for anything that might give him political advantage. There are strict neutrality rules to ensure that all ten candidates stand an equal chance at the ballot box […].
Word: voting station Part of Speech: noun 1. A public place, normally used for some other function, that has been authorized for the registering of votes in an election; it will contain voting booths and officials with an up-to-date electoral register or similar list of voters; a polling station Labels: US
Word: electoral register Part of Speech: noun 1. A list of all those people who are registered to vote in a particular locality Labels: UK
Word: electoral roll Part of Speech: noun 1. An electoral register.
Word: pulmonary tuberculosis Part of Speech: noun 1. The most common form of active tuberculosis (TB) infecting the lungs, generally caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Labels: uncountable
Word: elvish Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English elvyssh, from Old English ielfisċ. Equivalent to elf + -ish. Pronunciation: /ˈɛlvɪʃ/ 1. Of or having to do with elves; elven.
Word: archipelagic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From archipelago + -ic. By surface analysis, archi- + -pelag + -ic. Pronunciation: /ɑːkɪpəˈlæd͡ʒɪk/ 1. Of or pertaining to an archipelago; of the nature of an archipelago. Example: Indonesia is the world's largest archipelagic state.
Word: bread and scrape Part of Speech: noun 1. Bread spread with butter or margarine that has been scraped off again so as to leave only a thin layer. Labels: uncountable Example: That's very nicely done indeed, not bread and scrape, nor yet more butter than bread, as some of those wasteful huzzies, the servant girls, cut it.
Word: vagary Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Italian vagare (“wander”) and/or its source Latin vagārī (“to wander”), from Latin vagus (“wandering”). Later apparently reinterpreted in English as vague + -ery but without changing the spelling. By surface analysis, Latin vag(us) + -ary. Pronunciation: /vəˈɡɛɚ.i/, /ˈveɪɡəɹi/ 1. An erratic, unpredictable occurrence or action. Example: It now turns out that the Pitch Lake, like most other things, owes its appearance on the surface to no convulsion or vagary at all, but to a most slow, orderly, and respectable process of nature, by which buried vegetable matter, which would have become peat, and finally brown coal, in a temperate climate, becomes, under the hot tropic soil, asphalt and oil, continually oozing up beneath the pressure of the strata above it. Example: This searching was facilitated by the author's knowledge of the vagaries of Anglo-Indian spelling and the numerous colonial-era transliteration systems used for loanwords from Indian languages. 2. Something vague. Example: to speak in vagaries 3. An impulsive or illogical desire; a caprice or whim. Example: And then came the day when my socialism grew respectable,—still a vagary of youth, it was held, but romantically respectable.
Word: submit Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English submitten, borrowed from Latin submittere, infinitive of submittō (“place under, yield”), from sub (“under, from below, up”) + mitto (“to send”). Compare upsend. Pronunciation: /səbˈmɪt/ 1. To yield or give way to another. Labels: intransitive Example: They will not submit to the destruction of their rights. Example: We submit to their superior judgment. 2. To yield (something) to another, as when defeated. Labels: transitive 3. To enter or put forward for approval, consideration, marking etc. Labels: ambitransitive Example: I submit these plans for your approval. Example: We submit that a wooden spoon of our day would not be justified in calling Galileo and Napier blockheads because they never heard of the differential calculus. 4. To subject; to put through a process. Labels: transitive Example: I was submitted to a binding pledge. Example: [Skins] must be submitted to several washings, treadings, and stretchings, before they acquire the necessary pliancy. 5. To win a fight against (an opponent) by submission. Labels: mixed, transitive Example: [Ronda] Rousey, a former U.S. Olympian in Judo, caps off a perfect year in which she submitted Liz Carmouche in the first-ever UFC female fight and coached opposite [Miesha] Tate in "The Ultimate Fighter" reality series. Example: It was also the first time Goldberg has been submitted, enhancing Reigns even more than he already has been over the last two years. 6. To let down; to lower. Labels: obsolete, transitive Example: Sometimes the hill submits itself a while. 7. To put or place under. Labels: obsolete, transitive Example: The bristled throat / Of the submitted sacrifice with ruthless steel he cut.
Word: makwa Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Mandarin 馬褂／马褂 (mǎguà). 1. A short Chinese outer jacket.
Word: vulnerability Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From vulnerable + -ity. Pronunciation: /ˌvʌln(ə)ɹəˈbɪlɪti/, /ˌvʌln(ə)ɹəˈbɪləti/, [ˌvʌln(ə)ɹəˈbɪləɾi], /ˌvɐln(ə)ɹəˈbɪləti/, [ˌvɐln(ə)ɹəˈbɪləɾi] 1. The state of being vulnerable; susceptibility to attack or injury, either physical or emotional; the state or condition of being weak or poorly defended. Labels: uncountable Example: The country recognized their defence vulnerability after an airplane landed in front of the central square without any consequences. Example: The only disadvantage of timber snow fencing is its extreme vulnerability to fire. 2. A specific weakness in the protections or defences surrounding someone or something. Labels: countable 3. A weakness which allows an attacker to reduce a system's security. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Experts told CNN it could take weeks to address the vulnerabilities and that suspected Chinese hackers are already attempting to exploit it.
Word: alleviate Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Borrowed from Late Latin alleviatus, past participle of alleviāre (“to lighten; to alleviate”). By surface analysis, al- + Latin lev- + -i- + -ate. Pronunciation: /əˈli.vi.eɪt/ 1. To reduce or lessen the severity of a pain or difficulty. Labels: transitive Example: alleviate his pain Example: Alcohol is often a cheap tool to alleviate the stress of a hard day. 2. (finance) to pay down partially. Labels: transitive Example: There are different ways to alleviate your financial debt.
Word: ugh Part of Speech: intj Pronunciation: /ʌɣ/, /ʌ(ɡ)/, /ʌx/, /əː/ 1. Used to express repugnance, disgust, or annoyance. Example: Ugh! The bread in the pantry has gone moldy. Example: [...] It may have been a water-rat I speared, / But, ugh! it sounded like a baby's shriek. 2. Used to express inarticulate vocalisations, such as used by a caveman. Example: The brothers surveyed the wide prospect earnestly. "Ugh!" said one abruptly and pointed. "Ugh!" cried his brother. The eyes of the whole tribe swung round to the pointing finger. The group became one rigid stare.
Word: ugliness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English ugly Proto-Germanic *-in- Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ti Proto-Germanic *-ōną Proto-Germanic *-inōną Proto-Indo-European *-dyé- Proto-Germanic *-atjaną Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Germanic *-þuz Proto-Germanic *-assuz Proto-Germanic *-inassuz Proto-West Germanic *-nassī Old English -nes Middle English -nesse English -ness English ugliness From ugly + -ness. 1. The condition of being ugly. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: His best friend would not have called him good-looking, but he was the fortunate possessor of that cheerful type of ugliness which inspires immediate confidence in its owner. Example: Everything that's realistic has some sort of ugliness in it. Even a flower is ugly when it wilts, a bird when it seeks its prey, the ocean when it becomes violent. Sharon Tate 2. An unsightly or frightful object. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Then she wrote back to me, responding to everything I wrote but this reference to love and sex […] A week or so went by, and she called. She was worried about me, wanted me to be careful, wanted to be happy, but she said that she had ignored that "ugliness" in my letter. 3. Unpleasant behaviour. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: There was some ugliness at the council meeting.
Word: UHF Part of Speech: noun 1. Initialism of Ultra High Frequency. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism Example: UHF antenna
Word: UHF Part of Speech: adj 1. Initialism of ultra-high-frequency. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, not-comparable
Word: UHF Part of Speech: name 1. Initialism of United Health Foundation. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Word: ulcer Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Old French ulcere, from Latin ulcus. Doublet of ulcus. Pronunciation: /ˈʌlsə/, /ˈʌlsɚ/ 1. An open sore of the skin, eyes or mucous membrane, often caused by an initial abrasion and generally maintained by an inflammation and/or an infection. 2. Peptic ulcer. Example: "Worry never solved any problems. Only gives you ulcers." 3. Anything that festers and corrupts like an open sore; a vice in character. Labels: figuratively
Word: ulcer Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Old French ulcere, from Latin ulcus. Doublet of ulcus. Pronunciation: /ˈʌlsə/, /ˈʌlsɚ/ 1. To ulcerate.
Word: ulcerate Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Borrowed from Latin ulcerātus. 1. Having an ulcus, a rounded pore-like aperture, at one or both poles.
Word: ulcerate Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁élḱos Proto-Italic *elkos Old Latin *olcos Latin ulcus Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti Proto-Indo-European *-h₂tiinflu. Proto-Italic *-ājō Proto-Italic *-āō Latin -ō Latin ulcerōbor. English ulcerate Borrowed from Latin ulcerō. 1. To cause an ulcer to develop. Labels: transitive Example: The surface was ulcerated by trauma. 2. To become ulcerous. Labels: intransitive Example: The tissue ulcerated shortly after exposure.
Word: ulcerous Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From ulcer + -ous (compare Latin ulcerōsus). Pronunciation: /ˈʌl.sɚ.əs/ 1. Of or relating to an ulcer 2. Having an ulcer
Word: ulceration Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English ulcer 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 ulceration From ulcer + -ation. Pronunciation: /ˌʌlsəˈɹeɪʃən/ 1. The development of an ulcer. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Chronic venous disease includes cosmetically undesirable telangiectasias, varicose veins, venous ulceration, and claudication. 2. An ulcerous condition. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: ulterior Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin ulterior (“further, more distant”), from ulter (“that is beyond”) + -ior (“more”). Pronunciation: /ʌlˈtɪə.ɹɪə/, /ʌlˈtɪɚ.i.ɚ/ 1. Situated beyond, or on the farther side. Labels: not-comparable Example: It [Spain] was divided by the Romans into two provinces, Citeriour and Ulteriour, nearer and farther, that is, from Rome. Example: Both citerior and ulterior locations (and corresponding contact locations) are marked similarly. Complex prepositions with mua 'front' […] and tua 'back' […] can denote citerior and ulterior locations respectively, while tafa 'side' […] can denote either citerior or ulterior locations. 2. Beyond what is obvious or evident. Labels: not-comparable Example: Let a watch be contrived and constructed ever so ingeniously: be its parts ever so many, ever so complicated, ever so finely wrought, or artificially put together, it cannot go without a weight or spring, that is, without a force independent of, and ulteriour to, its mechanism. Example: Other aestheticians have said that aesthetic contemplation is nothing more than sustained, concentrated attention to an object in which there is no ulterior purpose and the attention is an end in itself. 3. Being intentionally concealed so as to deceive. Labels: not-comparable Example: Motives, of course, may be mixed; but this only means that a man aims at a variety of goals by means of the same course of action. Similarly a man may have a strong motive or a weak one, an ulterior motive or an ostensible one. 4. Happening later; subsequent. Labels: archaic, not-comparable Example: Their noble and grand Mightineſſes have thereby not only ſatisfied the general wiſhes of the greateſt and beſt part of the inhabitants of this province, but they have laid the foundations of ulteriour alliances and correſpondencies of friendſhip and of good underſtanding with the United States of America, which promiſe new life to the languiſhing ſtate of our commerce, navigation, and manufactures. Example: A rather deep red coloration, which appears by the action of the first bubbles of chlorine, but which soon disappears by the ulterior action of this gas: not turbid.
Word: ultra Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂el- Latin ūls Proto-Indo-European *-teros? Latin -ter Old Latin -ād Latin -ā Latin ultrābor. English ultra From Latin ultra. Pronunciation: /ˈʌltɹə/, /ˈʊltɹə/, /ˈʌltɾə/, /ˈɐltɹə/ 1. Extreme; far beyond the norm; fanatical; uncompromising. Example: an ultra reformer; ultra measures
Word: ultra Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂el- Latin ūls Proto-Indo-European *-teros? Latin -ter Old Latin -ād Latin -ā Latin ultrābor. English ultra From Latin ultra. Pronunciation: /ˈʌltɹə/, /ˈʊltɹə/, /ˈʌltɾə/, /ˈɐltɹə/ 1. A political extremist, in particular Example: Five militants were nabbed while four ultras of Harkat-ul-Jehad-e-Islami (HuJI) gave themselves up. 2. A political extremist, in particular: 3. A political extremist, in particular: 4. A political extremist, in particular: Labels: France, historical Example: Her soirées were among the most agreeable at Paris—she united all the rank and talent to be found in the ultra party, for she professed to be quite a female Mæcenas; […] Example: "At any rate that is what he explained to me," I said hastily while the lawyer rubbed his long ultra's nose and sighed. 5. An especially devoted football fan, typically organized and participating in choreographies (including pyrotechnics), often of outwardly intimidating demeanour, but distinguished from a violent hooligan (although overlap between both subcultures is possible) Example: A similar view is expressed by a Turin supporter in Segre's study, but in this case it is more specifically addressed to how powerful teams, such as Juventus, get preferential treatment in reports on the negative aspects of the ultras world. Example: If a member of an official football club can be said to be a citizen of the football world, an ultra has to be considered as a militant. 6. An ultramarathon. Example: I've done more than forty marathons and ultras and have won a handful of small boutiquey races in mountainous, out-of-the-way places: the foothills of the Sierra Nevada; Mount Mitchell, North Carolina; Bozeman, Montana; and, on the third day of a 100-mile stage race, the Mount Everest Challenge Marathon in the Himalayas. 7. An ultra-prominent peak. Example: Blanca Peak is one of just three ultra-prominence peaks, or “ultras,” in the state and the highpoint of the Sierra Blanca Range, a massif that includes ranked 14ers Ellingwood Point, Little Bear Peak, and Mount Lindsey. 8. Code name used by British codebreakers during World War 2 for decrypted information gained from the enemy. Labels: capitalized, usually
Word: tab Part of Speech: noun Etymology: First attested 1607, of uncertain origin. Pronunciation: /tæb/, [tʰæb̥] 1. A small flap or strip of material attached to or inserted into something, for holding, manipulation, identification, opening etc. Example: insert tab A into slot B Example: "His name was written upon a tab within it - Maple White, Lake Avenue, Detroit, Michigan." 2. An ear. Labels: slang 3. A navigational widget, resembling a physical tab, for switching between documents or sets of controls. Labels: broadly 4. The page or form (for example, on a web browser or file manager) associated with such a navigational widget. Labels: broadly Example: How many tabs are open on your browser right now? Example: That’s the relief I feel when clearing all the tabs in my internet browser. Clicking the crosses like a long line of kisses finally indulged. 5. A fast march or run with full kit. Labels: British-Army, slang
Word: tab Part of Speech: verb Etymology: First attested 1607, of uncertain origin. Pronunciation: /tæb/, [tʰæb̥] 1. To affix with tabs; to label. Labels: transitive
Word: tab Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Apocopation (shortening) of (variously) tabulate, tabulator, or tabulation. Pronunciation: /tæb/, [tʰæb̥] 1. A restaurant bill. Labels: Canada, US, informal Example: to pick up the tab 2. Credit account, e.g., in a shop or bar; slate. Labels: Canada, US, informal Example: to start a tab Example: Put this round on my tab, please, barman. 3. The cost or bill for anything. Labels: broadly Example: Moreover, at a tab of $9 million, the system's price is about $1 million less than a conventional heating-cooling plant […] 4. A space character that extends to the next aligned column, traditionally used for tabulation. Example: No no no no I don't, it's not hate, hate is a strong word, truth be told I do have a slight preference for tabs but that's only because I'm anal and because I prefer precision.
Word: tab Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Apocopation (shortening) of (variously) tabulate, tabulator, or tabulation. Pronunciation: /tæb/, [tʰæb̥] 1. To use the Tab key on a computer to advance the cursor or move the input focus, or on a typewriter to advance the carriage. Example: You can prevent a control from getting the focus when the user is tabbing between controls by settings its IsTabStop property to False.
Word: tab Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Likely to have been formed by clipping the Geordie pronunciation of the word tobacco or alternatively from the brand name Ogden's Tabs. Pronunciation: /tæb/, [tʰæb̥] 1. A cigarette. Labels: Geordie, Mackem Example: Lend us a tab!
Word: tab Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Clipping of tablature. Pronunciation: /tæb/, [tʰæb̥] 1. A form of musical notation indicating fingering rather than the pitch of notes, commonly used for stringed instruments.
Word: tab Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Clipping of Cantab, from Cantabrigian, from Latin Cantabrigia (“Cambridge”). Pronunciation: /tæb/, [tʰæb̥] 1. A student of Cambridge University. Example: You should have been there---it was a good race. Just to clarify matters for the hard of understanding, the tabs led for about 1500m before turning to shrapnel, and Oxford eventually won by 3/4 length. Example: Before Rachel gets in with a stab at the Tabs' coxing efforts, may I say that my experience of coxes on the Isis is somewhat similar.
Word: tab Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Clipping of tabloid. Pronunciation: /tæb/, [tʰæb̥] 1. A tabloid newspaper. Labels: colloquial Example: By 1926 the tabloid mania was at full tilt, and the tabs in New York went at each other with hammer and tong. Example: The tabloids were able to spend much of the week confronting their demons. Maxine Carr's request to be released from prison early prompted the tabs to let her know what they thought of her suggestion.
Word: tab Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Clipping of tablet. Pronunciation: /tæb/, [tʰæb̥] 1. A tablet, especially one containing illicit drugs. Labels: informal Example: Tonight the kids will go out and party down in a more righteous mode. Alcohol and not a few tabs of X will be ingested. Club music will throb through big speakers.
Word: tab Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /tæb/, [tʰæb̥] 1. A tableau curtain. Labels: informal
Word: ultrasound Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂el- Latin ūls Proto-Indo-European *-teros? Latin -ter Old Latin -ād Latin -ā Latin ultrābor. English ultra- English sound English ultrasound From ultra- + sound. Pronunciation: /ʌl.tɹə.saʊnd/, /ɔl.t͡ʃɹə.sæɔnd/, [ɔʊ̯.t͡ʃɹə.sæɔ̯nd], [ɔɫ.t͡ʃɹə.sæɔ̯nd] 1. Sound with a frequency greater than the upper limit of human hearing, which is approximately 20 kilohertz. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. Ultrasonography. Labels: countable, informal, metonymically, uncountable 3. Ultrasonography. Labels: countable, informal, metonymically, uncountable 4. Therapeutically applied ultrasonic energy. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Ultrasound as a treatment for degenerative arthritis was in its infancy. It might eventually turn out to be as effective as the Salk vaccine, or as bogus as the science of phrenology. Example: But after a few visits to share details about ultrasounds and such, Juno and Mark find they have similar interests in music and movies - and Juno does have extraordinary tastes for someone her age, from the songs of Iggy and the Stooges to the horror flicks of Dario Argento.
Word: ultrasound Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂el- Latin ūls Proto-Indo-European *-teros? Latin -ter Old Latin -ād Latin -ā Latin ultrābor. English ultra- English sound English ultrasound From ultra- + sound. Pronunciation: /ʌl.tɹə.saʊnd/, /ɔl.t͡ʃɹə.sæɔnd/, [ɔʊ̯.t͡ʃɹə.sæɔ̯nd], [ɔɫ.t͡ʃɹə.sæɔ̯nd] 1. To treat (someone or something) with ultrasound. Labels: ambitransitive
Word: tabulate Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Late Latin tabulātus (“having a floor; floored”), perfect passive participle of tabulō (“to fit with planks”), from tabula (“board, plank”), of uncertain origin, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *teh₂- (a variant of *steh₂- (“to stand”)) + *-dʰlom (a variant of *-trom (suffix forming nouns denoting tools or instruments)). Equivalent to table + -ate (verb-forming suffix). Pronunciation: /ˈtæbjʊleɪt/, /ˈtæbjuːˌleɪt/, /-jə-/ 1. To arrange in tabular form; to arrange into a table. Labels: transitive Example: Let it be required to Tabulate or lay down this Number 3496. Firſt, from among your Sets of Rods (or out of your Caſe) take four of them, of which let one of them have the Figure 3 at the top thereof, and lay it upon your Tabellet cloſe to the Edge thereof, […] Example: It [the School Department] gives advice and instruction concerning their duties to thirteen thousand school directors and controllers, furnishes them blanks, receives and tabulates their reports, reviews their accounts, judges whether they have kept their schools open according to law, and, if so, pays them the State appropriation for their respecive districts. 2. To set out as a list; to enumerate, to list. Labels: transitive Example: Mr. [Edward Drinker] Cope has examined a collection from the territory of Arizona and in the Colorado district; it contained 44 species. […] He tabulates them according to their range into the neighbouring provinces, and points out that, herpetologically, the Sonoran and Lower Californian provinces are nearly as distinct from each other as the Sonoran is from the Central, […] Example: [John] Whethemstede's literary productions show his preference for encyclopedias in which he could tabulate under special headings the limits of his wide reading. 3. To enter into an official register or roll. Labels: Scotland, obsolete, transitive Example: The order of Tabulating Summonds is now much alter'd, for no Summonds are Tabulated except Actions of Declarators, Improbations, Contraventions, and other Actions at the King's Advocats inſtance, […] 4. To shape with a flat surface. Labels: transitive
Word: tabulate Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Late Latin tabulāta (“thin board, plank, flooring”), or more likely a relatinized version of tablet through tabula. 1. A pill, a tablet. Labels: obsolete Example: ℞. the three kindes of ſaunders, and Diarrhodon Abbatis, ana. ℈. j. the bone of the Hartes heart one in number, ſugar roſate tabulate, or white ſugar diſſolued in roſe water as much as ſufficeth, make an Electuarie, gild it with leaues of pure golde in weight ℥. ß. Example: A Bad ſtomacke is otherwhiles no ſmall cauſe of this ſwouning, for it procureth before the ſwouning come a heate ouer the whole bodie. As ſoone as this ſhall be perceiued, it is not amiſſe to vſe for it confected Balſam wood, but in the ſtead thereof take Tabulates of Xyloaloe, which are very requiſite for it.