nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: chaffinch Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English chaffynch, chaffynche, caffynche, equivalent to chaff + finch. However, more recently the first element has been argued to derive from the same root as Old English cæfed (“ornamented”) and cæfing (“hair-ornament”), thus meaning "ornamented finch, colourful finch". Pronunciation: /ˈt͡ʃæfɪnt͡ʃ/ 1. A small passerine bird, Fringilla coelebs, of the finch family, found throughout Europe and eastward to Iran and eastern Mediterranean coastlands.
Word: crustacean Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From taxonomic name Crustacea + -an. Pronunciation: /kɹʌsˈteɪʃən/ 1. Any arthropod of the subphylum Crustacea, including lobsters, crabs, shrimp, barnacles and woodlice. 2. Any arthropod of the clade Pancrustacea, which includes hexapods in addition to traditional crustaceans.
Word: crustacean Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From taxonomic name Crustacea + -an. Pronunciation: /kɹʌsˈteɪʃən/ 1. Of, relating to, or characteristic of the subphylum Crustacea. Example: In cooperation with the Bureau of Fisheries he made several motion pictures of crustacean life. Example: It is feared that any major change in its chemistry will render many of these species extinct. Likewise, if the temperature is raised by factory discharge, predators now kept out of the lake by its frigidity will invade and annihilate many of the hundreds of crustacean varieties peculiar to its waters.
Word: humanism Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From human + -ism, borrowed from German Humanismus, coined by Friedrich Immanuel Niethammer in 1808. Pronunciation: /ˈhjuːmənɪz(ə)m/, /ˈhjumənɪz(ə)m/ 1. The study of the humanities or the liberal arts; literary (especially classical) scholarship. Labels: uncountable, usually 2. Specifically, a cultural and intellectual movement in 14th-16th century Europe characterised by attention to classical culture and a promotion of vernacular texts, notably during the Renaissance. Labels: capitalized, historical, often, uncountable, usually Example: There were good reasons for humanism and the Renaissance to take their origins from fourteenth-century Italy. 3. An ethical system that centers on humans and their values, needs, interests, abilities, dignity and freedom; especially used for a secular one which rejects theistic religion and superstition. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: The idea of a universal human nature brings us to a third theme, humanism. The thinkers of the Age of Reason and the Enlightenment saw an urgent need for a secular foundation for morality, because they were haunted by a historical memory of centuries of religious carnage: the Crusades, the Inquisition, witch hunts, the European wars of religion. They laid that foundation in what we now call humanism, which privileges the well-being of individual men, women, and children over the glory of the tribe, race, nation, or religion. It is individuals, not groups, who are sentient—who feel pleasure and pain, fulfillment and anguish. Whether it is framed as the goal of providing the greatest happiness for the greatest number or as a categorical imperative to treat people as ends rather than means, it was the universal capacity of a person to suffer and flourish, they said, that called on our moral concern. 4. Humanitarianism. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: Near-synonyms: solidarity, philanthropy, generosity
Word: brassard Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from French brassard, from bras (“arm”). The form brasset is attested since at least 1676 (Scots brassat is attested since 1590); brassart since at least 1736, brassard since at least 1788. Pronunciation: /bɹəˈsɑːd/, /bɹəˈsɑɹd/, /ˈbɹæs.ɑɹd/ 1. An item of plate armor that protects the arm. Labels: historical 2. An insignia or band worn around the upper arm. Example: Muslims found not wearing the white brassards as prescribed by the army were simply despatched on the spot.
Word: gambling Part of Speech: verb Etymology: By surface analysis, gamble + -ing. Pronunciation: /ˈɡæm.bl̩.ɪŋ/, /ˈɡæm.blɪŋ/ 1. present participle and gerund of gamble Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: gambling Part of Speech: noun Etymology: By surface analysis, gamble + -ing. Pronunciation: /ˈɡæm.bl̩.ɪŋ/, /ˈɡæm.blɪŋ/ 1. An activity characterized by a balance between winning and losing that is governed by skill and/or chance, usually with money wagered on the outcome. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: He lost a fortune through gambling at casinos. Example: Online gambling has become a global industry.
Word: draughts Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /dɹɑːfts/, /dɹæfts/, /dɹɐːfts/, /dɹaːfts/ 1. plural of draught Labels: form-of, plural
Word: draughts Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /dɹɑːfts/, /dɹæfts/, /dɹɐːfts/, /dɹaːfts/ 1. A board game for two players in which the players each have a set number of pieces (typically 12 or 20, depending on the rule set), known as men, and the object is to capture each of the opponent's pieces by jumping one's own pieces over the opponent's pieces. Labels: Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, uncountable 2. A mild vesicatory. Labels: uncountable
Word: draughts Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /dɹɑːfts/, /dɹæfts/, /dɹɐːfts/, /dɹaːfts/ 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of draught Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: checkers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of checker Labels: form-of, plural
Word: checkers Part of Speech: noun 1. A game for two players played on a chessboard; the players have 12 pieces each, and the object is to capture all the opponent’s pieces by jumping over them. Other European varieties have larger boards and more playing pieces. Labels: Canada, US, singular, uncountable
Word: checkers Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of checker Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: backgammon Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Probably from back + Middle English gamen, from Old English gamen (“amusement, game”). Pronunciation: /ˈbæk.ɡæm.ən/ 1. A board game for two players in which each has 15 stones which move between 24 triangular points according to the roll of a pair of dice; the object is to move all of one's pieces around, and bear them off the board. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: "I have borrowed Mrs. Palmer's backgammon-board," said Isabella, whose notion of an elderly gentleman's amusements of an evening was derived from what she had seen Mr. Palmer do. 2. A victory in the game when the loser has not borne off a stone, and still has one or more stones in the winner's inner home row or on the bar. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: backgammon Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Probably from back + Middle English gamen, from Old English gamen (“amusement, game”). Pronunciation: /ˈbæk.ɡæm.ən/ 1. To win at a backgammon game with the opponent having one or more pieces in the winner’s inner home row or on the bar.
Word: card game Part of Speech: noun 1. Any of the many games played with playing cards.
Word: cards Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /kɑɹdz/, /kɑːdz/ 1. plural of card Labels: form-of, plural
Word: cards Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /kɑɹdz/, /kɑːdz/ 1. Card games. Example: He's a fan of cards. Example: Cards is my fave game, above any board game.
Word: cards Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /kɑɹdz/, /kɑːdz/ 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of card Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: eminence Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Old French eminence, from Latin ēminentia (“prominence”, “protuberance”; “eminence”, “excellence”). Pronunciation: /ˈɛmɪnəns/ 1. Someone of high rank, reputation or social status. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. The quality or state of being eminent. Labels: countable, uncountable 3. Prominence in a particular order or accumulation; esteem. Labels: countable, uncountable 4. An elevated land area or a hill. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: From the summit of an eminence I had already had a distant view of Osbaldistone Hall, a large and antiquated edifice, peeping out from a Druidical grove of huge oaks [...]. Example: We stopped for a moment at the golf course to chat with members of the Consular staff, and then drove on to the Consulate, which was set upon an eminence, above evidences of landscape-gardening; a sweep of lawns, with coarse, whitened grass; flower-beds in which larkspur and nasturtiums fought against desperate odds. 5. A protuberance. Labels: countable, uncountable 6. A dark purple color. Labels: uncountable Example: For quotations using this term, see Citations:eminence.
Word: double double Part of Speech: noun Etymology: (coffee): Used by the Tim Hortons restaurant chain. 1. Coffee with the equivalent of two creamers and two packets of sugar. Labels: Canada, informal Example: Do: Be sure to say please and thank you; Canadians are known for their politeness. And don't order a double double in an independent cafe 2. The achievement of a two-digit number of any two of points scored, assists, rebounds, blocks, or steals in a single game. Example: The center had 11 assists and 10 blocks tonight for a very unusual double double. Example: Steven Adams and Enes Kanter wreaked havoc for Oklahoma City. Kanter came off the bench to score 27 points, block three shots and add 10 rebounds. Adams had a double-double, too, with 14 points and 10 rebounds at center. 3. Achieving two kills and two digs by a single player in one game. Example: Nonetheless, the team gave a good accounting of themselves, and freshman Kara Rogers scored a double/double in kills and digs in her first collegiate game. 4. A double cheeseburger with cheese on each burger (i.e., double cheese). Labels: US
Word: dichromatic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From di- + Ancient Greek χρῶμα (khrôma, “color”) + -ic. 1. having two colors. 2. having a form of colorblindness in which only two of the three primary colors can be distinguished 3. having two independent channels for conveying color information in the eye. 4. occurring or existing in two different ornamentations or colors, typically as a form of sexual dimorphism. 5. having two hues, either of which may be visible depending on both the concentration of the absorbing substance and the depth or thickness of the medium traversed, such as in pumpkin seed oil. A form of polychromatism. 6. exhibiting dichroism; dichroic.
Word: refined Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ɹɪˈfaɪnd/ 1. simple past and past participle of refine Labels: form-of, participle, past Example: The raw petroleum was refined into kerosene.
Word: refined Part of Speech: adj Pronunciation: /ɹɪˈfaɪnd/ 1. Precise, freed from imprecision Labels: obsolete 2. Precise, freed from imprecision Example: The argument, while not persuasive, is quite refined. 3. Precise, freed from imprecision Example: The curriculum has been carefully refined to meet the needs of foreign students. 4. Cultured, freed from vulgarity Example: In the British Isles, Oxbridge is considered refined; Geordie somewhat less so. 5. Cultured, freed from vulgarity Example: Don Draper was a man of refined tastes. Example: "Jesus Christ! Was my folks refined. My mam she wouldn't think-a lettin' us young'uns call a pee pot a pee pot. A chamber's what she called it... And by God! Us young'uns had ter call the pee pot a chamber or git our God damn necks wrang." 6. Purified, reduced in or freed from impurities Example: Under current guidelines, refined sugar must be at least five times purer than its raw counterpart. 7. Purified, reduced in or freed from impurities Example: The Temple at Jerusalem preferred Tyrian shekels, since even with Ba'al's portrait they bore highly refined silver. 8. Purified, reduced in or freed from impurities Labels: obsolete 9. Dealing in a refined product such as sugar or petroleum.
Word: refined Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ɹɪˈfaɪnd/ 1. The refined form of a commodity, as opposed to its raw or generic form. Example: We're still purchasing copper ore, but the market for refined is weaker.
Word: refinery Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Italic *wre- Latin re-der. Old French re-bor. Middle English re- English re- English fine English refine Middle English -re,-ri,-rie,-ry,-rye English -ry English refinery From refine + -ry. Pronunciation: /rɪˈfaɪnərɪ/ 1. A building, or a mass of machinery, used to produce refined products such as sugar, oil, or metals. Example: An oil field was discovered at Karamai in 1955, the first of a number to be found in Dzungaria. This oil find has greatly helped China’s industrial development, and the oil fields are now linked to Lanchow by pipeline and by rail. Large refineries have been built at Lanchow and at Tushantzu in Dzungaria. Example: Pipeable products may be moved from refinery centers to demand zones by truck, barge, intercoastal tanker or pipeline.
Word: photoblog Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From photo + blog. 1. A type of blog designed primarily to showcase photographs.
Word: caught and bowled Part of Speech: adj 1. Out by being caught by the bowler. Labels: not-comparable
Word: caught behind Part of Speech: adv 1. Out by being caught by the wicketkeeper. Labels: not-comparable
Word: caught behind Part of Speech: noun 1. An instance of being out by being caught behind the wicket by the wicketkeeper.
Word: redeye Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of red-eye. Labels: alt-of, alternative, countable, uncountable Example: Redeyes inhabit clear-water streams with an abundance of shoals and are usually confined to headwater sections. Example: This is probably less of a barrier to mesopelagic species such as lanternfish (Lampanyctodes hectoris), redeye (Etrumeus whiteheadi) or gobies (Sufflogobius bibarbatus), all of which are capable of more extensive vertical migration than the small epipelagic fish.
Word: monkeyshine Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From monkey + shine. Pronunciation: /ˈmʌnkiˌʃaɪn/ 1. A puerile prank or trick. Example: I have seen about as many monkeyshines from you as I will tolerate. Example: You may have noticed barefooted boys cutting up monkey-shines on trees with entire safety to themselves.
Word: gnarly Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From gnarl (“knot in wood”) + -y. The slang senses were particularly popularized by US surf culture in the 1970s. Pronunciation: /ˈnɑːli/, /ˈnɑɹli/ 1. Having or characterized by gnarls; gnarled. Example: a gnarly stump Example: Out of one window I can see the garden, those mysterious deep-shaded arbors, the riotous old-fashioned flowers, and bushes and gnarly trees. 2. Excellent; attractive. Labels: dated, slang Example: a gnarly dude Example: There ain't nothing gnarlier (apparently) than slapping on some brightly coloured sunblock to ward off the blinding spectre of dangerous, snow-reflected sunlight. 3. Dangerous; difficult. Labels: US, dated, slang Example: a gnarly problem Example: When the swell struck, the North Shore got gnarly, and the wise ones hit the outer islands where the energy was just as juicy but a bit more organized. 4. Unpleasant, awful, ugly. Labels: US, slang Example: We're not talking about a lame chick and a gnarly guy. We're talking about a couple of far-out dudes. Example: Funky Kong: 'Those Snowmads are a gnarly bunch! I hear they're enjoyin' your island. Go get 'em, DK!' 5. Unpleasant, awful, ugly. Labels: US, slang Example: Near-synonyms: cacophonic, discordant, jarring Example: [She] displays the same love of gnarly fuzztones and shout-it-out-loud choruses that began back in her daze^([sic]) with local all-girl rockers the Runaways.
Word: laid-back Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From U.S. slang. The verbal phrase lay back is attested from the late 1950s, whereas the adjectival form emerged in print in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Presumably originally a metaphor—literally, “sitting in a tilted‐back chair”, a relaxed posture. 1. Relaxed and easy‐going; demonstrating an absence of stress or worry. Example: This hit‐writer of the early 60s came out with a highly contemporary style which fitted the fashionable term ‘laid‐back’, and her Tapestry album zoomed up to become one of the three biggest‐selling LPs of all time. Example: The V‐2’s directional system was notoriously erratic. In May 1947, a V‐2 launched from White Sands Proving Ground headed south instead of north, missing downtown Juarez, Mexico, by 3 miles. The Mexican government’s response to the American bombing was admirably laid back. General Enrique Diaz Gonzales and Consul General Raul Michel met with United States officials, who issued apologies and an invitation to come to “the next rocket shoot” at White Sands. […]
Word: elenctic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἐλενκτικός (elenktikós, “refutative”). Pronunciation: /ɨˈlɛŋktɪk/, /əˈlɛŋk.tɪk/ 1. Serving to refute, refutative, especially as part of a systematic interrogation; pertaining to rhetorical elenchus or cross-examination. Example: ‘What lady?’ he asked in the elenctic tones of Lewis Carroll's caterpillar.
Word: condominium Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ḱe? Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm Proto-Italic *kom Proto-Italic *kom- Latin con- Proto-Indo-European *dem- Proto-Indo-European *-s Proto-Indo-European *dṓmder. Proto-Italic *domanos Latin dominus Proto-Indo-European *-(i)yós Proto-Italic *-ijos Proto-Italic *-ios Old Latin -ios Latin -ius Latin -ium Latin dominium Latin condominiumbor. English condominium Borrowed from Latin condominium. Pronunciation: /ˌkɒn.dəˈmɪn.ɪ.əm/, /ˌkɑn.dəˈmɪn.i.əm/ 1. Joint sovereignty over a territory by two or more countries. Example: The Anglo-Egyptian Sudan was a condominium ruled jointly by Egypt and the United Kingdom. Example: The strategic location of the condominiums […] made them important for the Confederacy's territorial integrity even if they produced little revenue. 2. Joint sovereignty over a territory by two or more countries. 3. A building or complex of buildings that provides multiple residential units each of which is owned separately but whose grounds, structure, etc. (if any) are owned jointly. Labels: Canada, Philippines, US 4. A building or complex of buildings that provides multiple residential units each of which is owned separately but whose grounds, structure, etc. (if any) are owned jointly. Labels: Canada, Philippines, US 5. A building or complex of buildings that provides multiple residential units each of which is owned separately but whose grounds, structure, etc. (if any) are owned jointly. Labels: Canada, Philippines, US
Word: umbrage Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle French ombrage (“umbrage”), from Old French ombrage, from Latin umbrāticus (“in the shade”), from umbra (“shadow, shade”). Pronunciation: /ˈʌm.bɹɪd͡ʒ/ 1. A feeling of anger or annoyance caused by something offensive. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Antipathy in one nation against another disposes each more readily to offer insult and injury, to lay hold of slight causes of umbrage, and to be haughty and intractable when accidental or trifling occasions of dispute occur. Example: —He took umbrage at something or other, that muchinjured but on the whole eventempered person declared, I let slip. 2. A feeling of doubt. Labels: countable, uncountable 3. Leaves that provide shade, as the foliage of trees. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: It was a relief to change the cheerful meadow for the dark umbrage of the forest which they now entered. Example: The handsome dark-eyed boy is Master George Talboys, who declines musa at Eton, and fishes for tadpoles in the clear water under the spreading umbrage beyond the ivied walls of the academy. 4. Shadow; shade. Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable Example: […] but in the verity of extolment I take him to be a soul of great article and his infusion of such dearth and rareness as, to make true diction of him, his semblable in his mirror, and who else would trace him, his umbrage, nothing more.
Word: umbrage Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle French ombrage (“umbrage”), from Old French ombrage, from Latin umbrāticus (“in the shade”), from umbra (“shadow, shade”). Pronunciation: /ˈʌm.bɹɪd͡ʒ/ 1. To displease or cause offense. Labels: transitive 2. To shade. Labels: transitive
Word: off-the-wall Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Perhaps from baseball or other games played with a ball, alluding to unpredictable bounces; but compare also bounce off the walls. 1. Wildly unconventional; bizarre; absurd. Labels: idiomatic Example: What kind of a harebrained, off-the-wall idea is that? Example: She is a very off-the-wall character. 2. Of a person's behaviour: greatly inappropriate. Labels: idiomatic Example: All of their friends were amazed that they were familiar with a war hero. Some began to understand Chips' moods and drinking. His "off the wall" behaviour at times. And unknowingly they were "forgiving" him.
Word: Selene Part of Speech: name Etymology: From the Ancient Greek Σελήνη (Selḗnē, proper noun), from σέλας (sélas, “light”). Pronunciation: /sɪˈliːni/, /səˈlini/ 1. The goddess of the Moon. Labels: Greek Example: Balancing Arria is the union of Selene and Endymion. In the center of the main panel Selene descends from her chariot, whose horses are held by a nymph, to join Endymion, who lies to the right. Example: In the other, more famous story, the moon goddess Selene fell in love with him^([Endymion]) while he was asleep. 2. A female given name from Ancient Greek. Example: “Selene, I am going to get you out of bed and sit you in the chair for a minute. I want to put this heavy blanket and sheet on your bed so it will keep your new bedding clean.” Example: In the opening sequence of the film Underworld (2004), the beautiful vampire assassin Selene, clad in tight black rubber and leather, is perched beside gargoyles on top of a soaring Gothic tower. 3. The Moon. Labels: poetic
Word: Akihabara Part of Speech: name Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 秋(あき)葉(は)原(ばら) (Akihabara). 1. A neighborhood of Chiyoda, Tokyo prefecture, Japan, known primarily for its shopping and the mass availability of electronics, manga, anime, and other goods. Example: Akihabara means Field of Autumn Leaves, but the fields and leaves have all been replaced by electronics stores, and these days people call it Akiba or Electricity Town.
Word: telltale Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From tell + tale, perhaps dissimilated from earlier taleteller, from Middle English tale tellere (literally “tale teller”). Pronunciation: /ˈtɛlteɪl/ 1. One who divulges private information with intent to hurt others. Example: Your husband is at hand; I heare his Trumpet, / We are not tell-tales, Madam; feare you not. Example: There were some ill-natured people —tell-tales—it seemed, in Tamai; and hence there was a deal of mystery about getting up the dance. 2. An indicator, such as a warning light, that serves to warn of a hazard or problem. Example: A railroad company, which has properly erected a “telltale,” or signal board, to give warning of the approach of a train to a bridge and which lights the place at night by an electric light, is not responsible for injury caused at night by the “telltale” to a brakeman who had been passing under it at regular intervals for five weeks, though when injured he was standing upon a new car higher than those before used, and though he ad received no warning from the company as to the danger of standing upon such a car while passing under the "telltale". Example: A float telltale to be provided which shall connect with indicator on first floor by a small chain run through 1-2 inch pipe and over pulleys well guarded against the weather. 3. Something that serves to reveal something else. Labels: figuratively Example: The telltale was the lipstick on his shirt collar. Example: It supplies many useful links and tell-tales. 4. A movable piece of ivory, lead, or other material, connected to the bellows of an organ, whose position indicates when the wind is exhausted. 5. A length of yarn or ribbon attached to a sail or shroud etc to indicate the direction of the flow of the air relative to the boat. Example: The sailmakers mistake can be an excellent way to lose a race as the telltale signals were disturbed and confusing. Example: If you turn toward the wind, the sail becomes undertrimmed, and the inside, or windward, telltale starts to rise and flutter as the flow is disturbed. 6. A mechanical attachment to the steering wheel, which, in the absence of a tiller, shows the position of the helm. 7. A compass in the cabin of a vessel, usually placed where the captain can see it at all hours, and thus inform himself of the vessel's course. 8. A machine or contrivance for indicating or recording something, particularly for keeping a check upon employees (factory hands, watchmen, drivers, etc.) by revealing to their employers what they have done or omitted. 9. A bird, the tattler. 10. A story or fable that has a moral or message. Example: "Metamorphoses . . ." is the title of a book of telltales (or serialised fables) written by Lucius Apulei¡us, a neo-platonist priest in the second century A.D. Example: This telltale is not like the story that you put in the hands of your children, or those narrated by mothers in their children's bedrooms in Western Europe before sleep. This is a telltale that is not welcome but is forbidden to be distributed.
Word: telltale Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From tell + tale, perhaps dissimilated from earlier taleteller, from Middle English tale tellere (literally “tale teller”). Pronunciation: /ˈtɛlteɪl/ 1. Revealing something, especially something not intended to be known. Example: I noticed the snow was dirty, a telltale sign of recent human presence. Example: A telltale blush crept into her cheeks as he approached.
Word: miss Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Verb from Middle English missen, from Old English missan (“to miss, escape the notice of a person”), from Proto-West Germanic *missijan, from Proto-Germanic *missijaną (“to miss, go wrong, fail”), from Proto-Indo-European *meyth₂- (“to change, exchange, trade”). Cognate with West Frisian misse (“to miss”), Dutch missen (“to miss”), German missen (“to miss”), Norwegian Bokmål and Danish miste (“to lose”), Swedish missa (“to miss”), Norwegian Nynorsk, Icelandic missa (“to lose”) and Latin mittere (“to send, let go”). Noun from Middle English misse, mis, from Old English miss (“loss, absence”), from Proto-West Germanic *miss, from Proto-Germanic *miss- (“loss”). Cognate with Scots miss (“a loss, want, cause of grief or mourning”), Middle High German misse, mis (“lack, missing, absence”), Icelandic missir (“loss”). Related also to Scots mis (“wrongdoing, sin, guilt”), Dutch mis (“misdeed, wrongdoing, mistake”), Middle Low German misse (“sin, wrong”). Pronunciation: /mɪs/ 1. A failure to physically hit. Example: In eight shots at the target he had six misses. Example: "I ran from one place to another, and as it was not difficult to get a shot at him, I fired several times, but only made miss after miss." 2. A failure to obtain or accomplish something; a failure to succeed. Example: After four top-ten singles, the band's next release was a miss. Example: Your answer isn't exactly right, but it's a very close miss. 3. An act of avoidance (usually used with the verb give). Example: I think I’ll give the meeting a miss. 4. Someone or something whose loss or absence is felt. Labels: informal Example: Top striker Smith is out injured and will be a big miss for United. 5. The situation where an item is not found in a cache and therefore needs to be explicitly loaded. Example: Already we're seeing fewer cache misses by avoiding creating cache entries for the idle task and expect to see even fewer with changes to the TLB reload code to uncache the page tables. 6. A foul shot that fails to hit the target ball, where the player has, in the referee's judgement, not made every effort to play a legal shot; in addition to conceding points for the foul, the player can be made to play the shot again. 7. Error, fault; misdeed, wrongdoing, sin. Labels: obsolete 8. Hurt or harm from a mistake or accident. Labels: obsolete 9. Loss, lack want; hence, the feeling of loss. Labels: obsolete
Word: miss Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From mistress. Pronunciation: /mɪs/ 1. Alternative spelling of Miss when used as a term of address or title of respect. Labels: alt-of, alternative, countable, uncountable Example: You may sit here, miss. Example: The dog ate my homework, miss. 2. An unmarried woman; a girl. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: While thus the fiends, with wily art, Adroitly stole upon the heart, And with their complaisance, and tales, Had ruind more than half the males, Gay Vanity, with smiles, and kisses, Was busy 'mongst the maids, and misses. 3. A kept woman; a mistress. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: courting a Miss 4. In the game of three-card loo, an extra hand, dealt on the table, which may be substituted for the hand dealt to a player. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: misoneism Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Italian misoneismo (after Cesare Lombroso). Equivalent to miso- + neo- + -ism. Pronunciation: /ˌmɪsəˈniː.ɪzəm/, /ˌmaɪsəˈniː.ɪzəm/ 1. The distrust or hatred of new ideas or things. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: In politics this type of philistine has more than once denounced the "golden rule" as an "iridescent dream" of a lunatic. Such philistinism pleases the misoneism of the mediocre, whence the enthusiasm over platitudes and the reign of the philistine in newspaper art, literature and science. Example: Perché non mi adeguo all'introduzione di tali progressi anche nel calcolo delle probabilità, già universalmente accettata portando anche ivi grandiosi progressi? Si tratta di incomprensione? di misoneismo? di civetteria nel preferire utensili artigianali nell'era dell'automazione che permette la confezione in serie perfino di cervelli sia elettronici che umani?
Word: misology Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Ancient Greek μισολογία (misología), from μισόλογος (misólogos), from μισέω (miséō, “I hate”) + λόγος (lógos, “account, reason”). 1. Hatred or fear of reasoning or argument. Labels: uncountable
Word: promoter Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *per-der.? Proto-Indo-European *per-der.? Proto-Indo-European *pér Proto-Indo-European *-o Proto-Indo-European *pró Proto-Indo-European *pro- Proto-Italic *pro- Latin prō- Proto-Indo-European *m(y)ewh₁- Proto-Indo-European *-yeti Proto-Indo-European *-éyeti Proto-Indo-European *m(y)owh₁éyetider. Proto-Italic *moweō Latin moveō Latin prōmoveō Latin prōmōtusbor. English promote Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzios Latin -āriusnom. Latin -āriusbor. Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz Proto-West Germanic *-ārī Old English -ere Middle English -ere English -er English promoter From promote + -er. Pronunciation: /pɹəˈmoʊtɚ/ 1. One who promotes. Example: The very language we use to symbolize reality is both product and promoter of the repressive reality of our present consciousness. Example: a promoter of seditious ideas 2. One who promotes. Example: a music promoter Example: events promoter 3. The section of DNA that controls the initiation of RNA transcription as a product of a gene. 4. An accelerator of catalysis that is not itself a catalyst.
Word: mistress Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *meǵh₂-der.? Proto-Indo-European *meh₂-der.? Proto-Italic *magisteros Latin magister, magistrum Old French maistre Proto-Indo-European *-is Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-ih₂der. Ancient Greek -ῐᾰ (-ĭă) Ancient Greek -ισσα (-issa)bor. Latin -issader. Old French -esse Old French maistressebor. Middle English maistresse English mistress From Middle English maistresse, from Old French maistresse (whence French maîtresse), feminine of maistre (“master”). By surface analysis, mist(e)r + -ess. Pronunciation: /ˈmɪs.tɹɪs/, /ˈmɪs.ʈrɪs/, /mɪsˈʈrɛs/ 1. A woman, specifically one with great control, authority or ownership. Example: She was the mistress of the estate-mansion, and owned the horses. Example: At the far end of the houses the head gardener stood waiting for his mistress, and he gave her strips of bass to tie up her nosegay. This she did slowly and laboriously, with knuckly old fingers that shook. 2. A female head of household. Example: In came the boy from over the way, who was suspected of not having board enough from his master; trying to hide himself behind the girl from next door but one, who was proved to have had her ears pulled by her Mistress. 3. A female teacher. Example: games mistress 4. The other woman in an extramarital relationship, generally including sexual relations. Example: “But soon his wrath being o’er, he took / “Another mistress, or new book: Example: Count Krivtsov was considered a hopeless case by everyone, and yet he kept two mistresses. 5. A dominatrix. Example: As part of BDSM play they can enhance the domineering tread of a mistress or hobble the steps of a slave. 6. A woman well skilled in anything, or having the mastery over it. Example: A letter desires all young wives to make themselves mistresses of Wingate's Arithmetic. 7. A woman regarded with love and devotion; a sweetheart. Example: he could not forbear putting his horse out of the way , and rode with his mistress behind him round about it 8. A married woman; a wife. Labels: Scotland Example: Several of the neighbouring mistresses […] had assembled to witness the event of this memorable evening. 9. A respectful mode of address to a woman. Labels: archaic 10. The jack in the game of bowls. Labels: obsolete Example: Faith, keep a bachelor still, and go to bowls, sir, Follow your mistress there, and prick and save, sir; For other mistresses will make you a slave, sir Example: She took a bowl, drew up her skirt with her left hand, and rolled the weighted ball with a deft motion. It lightly kissed the mistress and stopped a few inches away. 11. A female companion to a master (a man with control, authority or ownership). 12. Female equivalent of master. Labels: feminine, form-of 13. Female equivalent of mister. Labels: feminine, form-of
Word: mistress Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *meǵh₂-der.? Proto-Indo-European *meh₂-der.? Proto-Italic *magisteros Latin magister, magistrum Old French maistre Proto-Indo-European *-is Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-ih₂der. Ancient Greek -ῐᾰ (-ĭă) Ancient Greek -ισσα (-issa)bor. Latin -issader. Old French -esse Old French maistressebor. Middle English maistresse English mistress From Middle English maistresse, from Old French maistresse (whence French maîtresse), feminine of maistre (“master”). By surface analysis, mist(e)r + -ess. Pronunciation: /ˈmɪs.tɹɪs/, /ˈmɪs.ʈrɪs/, /mɪsˈʈrɛs/ 1. Of a woman: to master; to learn or develop to a high degree of proficiency. Labels: rare, transitive Example: These films give a glimpse of women on the way to mistressing their own destiny. 2. To act or take the role of a mistress. Labels: intransitive Example: […] housewifery, maternity, charity, the life conventual, the chatter of a court, the mistressing of a great house […]
Word: excite Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English exciten, from Old French exciter, from Latin excitō (“to call out, call forth, arouse, wake up, stimulate”), frequentative of excieō (“to call out, arouse, excite”), from ex (“out”) + cieō (“to call, summon”). See cite and compare to accite, concite, incite. Pronunciation: /ɪkˈsaɪt/ 1. To stir the emotions of; to cause to feel excitement. Labels: transitive Example: The fireworks which opened the festivities excited anyone present. 2. To arouse or bring out (e.g. feelings); to stimulate. Labels: transitive Example: Favoritism tends to excite jealousy in the ones not being favored. Example: The political reforms excited unrest among the population. 3. To cause an electron to move to a higher than normal state; to promote an electron to an outer level. Labels: transitive Example: By applying electric potential to the neon atoms, the electrons become excited, then emit a photon when returning to normal. 4. To energize (an electromagnet); to produce a magnetic field in. Example: to excite a dynamo
Word: MUMPS Part of Speech: name 1. Acronym of Massachusetts General Hospital Utility Multi-Programming System, a programming language (and database) developed originally to be specifically for hierarchically arranged records, such as medical records. Labels: abbreviation, acronym, alt-of
Word: mumps Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Circa 1600, from mump (“grimace”, noun), compare mump (verb), most likely referring to the painful difficulty in swallowing. Pronunciation: /mʌmps/ 1. A contagious disease caused by the Mumps virus of the genus Rubulavirus, mostly occurring in childhood, which causes swelling of glands in the face and neck. Labels: plural, plural-only Example: At issue is the so-called MMR vaccine, which immunizes children against measles, mumps and rubella, three potentially deadly diseases that were once common and have been mostly wiped out. 2. A gloomy or sullen silence. Labels: dated, plural, plural-only
Word: mumps Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Circa 1600, from mump (“grimace”, noun), compare mump (verb), most likely referring to the painful difficulty in swallowing. Pronunciation: /mʌmps/ 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of mump Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: mumps Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Circa 1600, from mump (“grimace”, noun), compare mump (verb), most likely referring to the painful difficulty in swallowing. Pronunciation: /mʌmps/ 1. plural of mump Labels: form-of, plural
Word: misfit Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *mey-? Proto-Indo-European *meyth₂-der. Proto-Germanic *missaz Proto-Germanic *missa- Proto-West Germanic *missa- Old English mis- Middle English mys- English mis- English fit English misfit From mis- + fit. Pronunciation: /ˈmɪs.fɪt/ 1. An ill-fitting garment. Labels: archaic Example: Mr Toots’s legs shake under him; and though he is splendidly dressed, he feels misfits, and sees wrinkles, in the masterpieces of Burgess and Co., and wishes he had put on that brightest pair of boots. 2. A failure to fit well; unsuitability, disparity. Example: And the fact that Christianity's Jesus is the resurrected Christ makes a vital point about the misfit between the Jesus whose teachings we have excavated and the Church which came after him. 3. A badly adjusted person; someone unsuitable or set apart because of their habits, behaviour etc. Example: Do you ever feel like a misfit? Everything inside you is dark and twisted Oh, but it's okay to be different 'Cause baby, so am I Example: Just to be on the safe side, the Kremlin has also banned any of Putin's serious critics from standing. Three unelectable misfits have been allowed to mount token challenges.
Word: misfit Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *mey-? Proto-Indo-European *meyth₂-der. Proto-Germanic *missaz Proto-Germanic *missa- Proto-West Germanic *missa- Old English mis- Middle English mys- English mis- English fit English misfit From mis- + fit. Pronunciation: /mɪsˈfɪt/ 1. To fit badly. Labels: intransitive, transitive Example: His suit was misfitted and looked awkward.
Word: proposition Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English proposicioun, from Old French proposicion, from Latin prōpositiō, from the verb prōponō. Pronunciation: /ˌpɹɑpəˈzɪʃən/ 1. The act of offering (an idea) for consideration. Labels: uncountable 2. An idea, plan, or suggestion offered. Labels: countable Example: The humor of my proposition appealed more strongly to Miss Trevor than I had looked for, and from that time forward she became her old self again; for, even after she had conquered her love for the Celebrity, the mortification of having been jilted by him remained. Example: And it would be a fine proposition If I was a stupid girl But honey, I am no one's exception This I have previously learned 3. An idea, plan, or suggestion offered. Labels: countable, informal, uncountable Example: Quinn looked into the intersection. Tonya was standing in the middle of it, stance wide, taser in both hands, Quinn's rickshaw on the sidewalk behind her. "Ow," said Quinn, and it came out just shy of a proposition. 4. The terms of a transaction offered. Labels: countable 5. In some states, a proposed statute or constitutional amendment to be voted on by the electorate. Labels: US, countable Example: In November, though, voters will be faced with proposition one. It's a citizen's initiative that will do two things. If passed, it would open up all primaries in Idaho, and it would create a new voting system known as ranked choice voting. 6. A complete sentence. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Our English nouns remain unchanged, whether they form the subject or the object of a proposition. 7. The content of an assertion that may be taken as being true or false and is considered abstractly without reference to the linguistic sentence that constitutes the assertion; (Aristotelian logic) a predicate of a subject that is denied or affirmed and is connected by a copula. Labels: countable Example: “Wiktionary is a good dictionary” is a proposition. 8. An assertion so formulated that it can be considered true or false. Labels: countable 9. An assertion which is provably true, but not important enough to be called a theorem. Labels: countable 10. A statement of religious doctrine; an article of faith; a creed. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: the propositions of Wyclif and Huss Example: There are some persons, whose religion is hugely disgraced, because they change their propositions, according as their temporal necessities or advantages do return. 11. The part of a poem in which the author states the subject or matter of it. Labels: countable, poetic, uncountable 12. Misspelling of preposition. Labels: alt-of, countable, misspelling, uncountable
Word: proposition Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English proposicioun, from Old French proposicion, from Latin prōpositiō, from the verb prōponō. Pronunciation: /ˌpɹɑpəˈzɪʃən/ 1. To make an offer or suggestion to (someone). Labels: informal, transitive Example: The Superintendent of the facility tried to proposition with me that if I snitched to the guards and would work with him, then he would put my friend and me back together again. 2. To make an offer or suggestion to (someone). Labels: informal, transitive Example: Yiannopoulos started releasing video interviews and other evidence meant to prove that [Ali] Alexander sexually propositioned both adult men in their 20s and at least two teenagers.
Word: upward Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From Old English upweardes, equivalent to up + -ward. Pronunciation: /ˈʌpwɚd/, /ˈʌpwəd/, /ˈʊpwəd/, /ˈʌpwəɾd/ 1. In a direction from lower to higher; toward a higher place; in a course toward the source or origin. Labels: not-comparable Example: We ran upward. Example: Looking inward, we are stricken dumb; looking upward, we speak and prevail. 2. In the upper parts; above. Labels: not-comparable Example: Dagon his name, sea monster, upward man, / And downward fish. 3. Yet more; indefinitely more; above; over. Labels: not-comparable Example: From twenty years old and upward.
Word: upward Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Old English upweardes, equivalent to up + -ward. Pronunciation: /ˈʌpwɚd/, /ˈʌpwəd/, /ˈʊpwəd/, /ˈʌpwəɾd/ 1. The upper part; the top. Labels: obsolete, uncountable Example: From the extremest upward of thy head.
Word: upward Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Old English upweardes, equivalent to up + -ward. Pronunciation: /ˈʌpwɚd/, /ˈʌpwəd/, /ˈʊpwəd/, /ˈʌpwəɾd/ 1. Directed toward a higher place. Example: with upward eye; with upward course Example: […] economists should focus on efficiency and leave equity to others, to politicians or administrators. But the others regularly fail to materialize, so that when efficiency comes with upward redistribution—frequently though not inevitably—our recommendations become little more than a license for plunder.
Word: -ward Part of Speech: suffix Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *wert-der. Proto-Germanic *wardaz Old English -weard English -ward From Old English -weard, from Proto-Germanic *wardaz, earlier *warþaz (“turned toward, in the direction of, facing”); compare -wards, from -weardes. Cognate with Dutch -waarts, Low German -warts, German -wärts, Old Norse -verðr, Icelandic -verðr, Swedish -vart, Gothic -𐍅𐌰𐌹𐍂𐌸𐍃 (-wairþs), Latin vertere (“to turn”) or versus (“toward”), and Sanskrit वर्तते (vártate, “he turns”). Also related to worth (“to become”). Compare verse. Pronunciation: /wəd/, /wɚd/, /wɔːd/, /wɔɹd/ 1. Forming adverbs denoting course or direction to, or motion or tendency toward, as in "backward", "toward", "forward", etc. Labels: morpheme Example: And after dinner, with a kindly wink, she bade them accompany the Reverend, who briskly walked hallward. 2. Forming adjectives, as in "a backward look", "the northward road", etc; used even by speakers who usually use -wards for adverbs. Labels: morpheme
Word: villa Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Italian villa, from Latin vīlla (“country house”). Doublet of vill and ville. Pronunciation: /ˈvɪlə/, /ˈvɪllɑ/ 1. A house, often larger and more expensive than average, in the countryside or on the coast, often used as a retreat. Example: This villa was long and low and white, and severe after its manner : for upon and about it were none of those playful ebullitions of taste, such as conical towers, domed roofs, embattlements, statues, coloured tiles and crenellations, such as are dear to architects of villas all the world over. 2. A family house, often semi-detached in Victorian or Edwardian style, in a middle class street. Labels: UK Example: They were just ordinary suburban children, and they lived with their Father and Mother in an ordinary red-brick-fronted villa, with coloured glass in the front door, a tiled passage that was called a hall, a bath-room with hot and cold water, electric bells, French windows, and a good deal of white paint, and 'every modern convenience', as the house-agents say. 3. One’s village or ancestral homeland. Labels: Nigeria, slang
Word: villa Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Latin vīlla (“country house”). Doublet of vill and ville. Pronunciation: /ˈvɪlə/, /ˈvɪllɑ/ 1. A country house, with farm buildings around a courtyard. Labels: Ancient-Rome
Word: -wards Part of Speech: suffix Etymology: From Middle English -wardes, from Old English -weardes, a variant of -weard; equivalent to -ward + -s (adverbial suffix). Cognate with German -wärts, Dutch -waarts. Pronunciation: /wədz/, /wɚdz/, /wɔːdz/, /wɔɹdz/ 1. Forming adjectives and adverbs denoting course or direction to, or motion or tendency toward, as in "backwards", "towards", etc. Labels: morpheme Example: (Katisha:) At once I go Mikado-wards!
Word: authentic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English authentik, from Old French autentique, from Latin authenticus, from Ancient Greek αὐθεντικός (authentikós, “authentic, genuine”), from Ancient Greek αὐθέντης (authéntēs, “perpetrator, murderer, absolute ruler”). Doublet of effendi. Pronunciation: /ɒˈθɛn.tɪk/, /ɔˈθɛn.tɪk/, /ɑˈθɛn.tɪk/ 1. Of the same origin as claimed; genuine. Example: The experts confirmed it was an authentic signature. 2. Conforming to reality and therefore worthy of trust, reliance, or belief. Example: an authentic writer; an authentic portrait; authentic information Example: The report was completely authentic. 3. Designating a mode having the final as the lowest note. 4. Designating a cadence in which the dominant chord precedes the tonic. 5. Authoritative. Labels: obsolete Example: [T]here they find Ignatius, and then they beleeve him not for his ovvn Authority, but for a truths ſake, vvhich they derive from elſ vvhere: to vvhat end then ſhould they cite him as authentick for Epiſcopacie, vvhen they cannot knovv vvhat is authentick in him, but by the judgement vvhich they brought vvith them, and not by any judgement vvhich they might ſafely learne from him.