nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: feel Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-West Germanic *fōlijan Old English fēlan Middle English felen English feel From Middle English felen, from Old English fēlan, from Proto-West Germanic *fōlijan. Cognate with Dutch voelen and German fühlen. Pronunciation: /ˈfiːl/, [ˈfɪi̯l] 1. To use or experience the sense of touch. Labels: copulative, transitive Example: You can feel a heartbeat if you put your fingers on your breast. Example: I felt cold and miserable all night. 2. To use or experience the sense of touch. Labels: transitive Example: I felt my way through the darkened room. Example: I felt my way cautiously through the dangerous business maneuver. 3. To use or experience the sense of touch. Labels: intransitive 4. To use or experience the sense of touch. Labels: intransitive Example: He felt (about) for the light switch in the dark. 5. To sense or think emotionally or judgmentally. Labels: transitive Example: I can feel the sadness in his poems. Example: Teach me to feel another's VVoe; / To hide the Fault I ſee; / That Mercy I to others ſhovv, / That Mercy ſhow to me. 6. To sense or think emotionally or judgmentally. Labels: transitive Example: I feel that we need to try harder. Example: We felt it (to be) our duty to call the police. 7. To sense or think emotionally or judgmentally. Labels: copulative, intransitive Example: He obviously feels strongly about it. Example: She felt even more upset when she heard the details. 8. To sense or think emotionally or judgmentally. Labels: intransitive Example: I feel for you and your plight. Example: [She] feels with the dignity of a Roman matron. 9. To be or become aware of. Labels: transitive 10. To experience the consequences of. Labels: transitive Example: Feel my wrath! 11. To seem (through touch or otherwise). Labels: copulative Example: It looks like wood, but it feels more like plastic. Example: It felt really strange to be back in my old kindergarten. 12. To understand. Labels: US, slang, transitive Example: I don't want you back here, ya feel me? Example: Shoot, errbody have the zipper jacket / And half of these thugs have the glove to match, ya feel me?
Word: feel Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-West Germanic *fōlijan Old English fēlan Middle English felen English feel From Middle English felen, from Old English fēlan, from Proto-West Germanic *fōlijan. Cognate with Dutch voelen and German fühlen. Pronunciation: /ˈfiːl/, [ˈfɪi̯l] 1. The sense of touch. Labels: archaic Example: It begins as a firm elastic swelling, which communicates to the feel the idea that a fluid is contained under a firm fascia […] 2. A perception experienced mainly or solely through the sense of touch. Example: Bark has a rough feel. Example: And then something in the sound or the feel of the waters made him look down, and he perceived that the ebb had begun and the tide was flowing out to sea. 3. A vague mental impression. Example: You should get a feel for the area before moving in. Example: You can arrange camel trips into the desert but to really get a feel for this allow yourself a couple of extra days and be prepared for what at times can be an uncomfortable journey: Xuan Zang tells us that as he left Khotan he was ‘attacked by tornados which bring with them clouds of flying gravel’. 4. An act of fondling. Example: She gave me a quick feel to show that she loves me. 5. A vague understanding. Example: I'm getting a feel for what you mean. 6. An intuitive ability. Example: She has a feel for music. 7. A feeling; an emotion. Labels: US, slang Example: I know that feel.
Word: feel Part of Speech: pron Etymology: See fele. Pronunciation: /ˈfiːl/, [ˈfɪi̯l] 1. Alternative form of fele. Labels: alt-of, alternative, dialectal, obsolete
Word: feel Part of Speech: adj Etymology: See fele. Pronunciation: /ˈfiːl/, [ˈfɪi̯l] 1. Alternative form of fele. Labels: alt-of, alternative, dialectal, not-comparable, obsolete
Word: feel Part of Speech: adv Etymology: See fele. Pronunciation: /ˈfiːl/, [ˈfɪi̯l] 1. Alternative form of fele. Labels: alt-of, alternative, dialectal, not-comparable, obsolete
Word: felt Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English felt, from Old English felt, from Proto-West Germanic *felt (compare Dutch vilt, German Filz, Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish filt, French feutre), from Proto-Indo-European *pilto, *pilso 'felt' (compare Latin pilleus (“felt”, adjective), Old Church Slavonic плъсть (plŭstĭ), Albanian plis, Ancient Greek πῖλος (pîlos)), from *pel- 'to beat'. More at anvil. Pronunciation: /ˈfɛlt/, [ˈfɛlt], /ˈfæ̝lt/, [ˈfæ̝lt], /ˈfɛʊ̯t/ 1. A cloth or stuff made of matted fibres of wool, or wool and fur, fulled or wrought into a compact substance by rolling and pressure, with lees or size, without spinning or weaving. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: It were a delicate stratagem to shoe A troop of horse with felt. 2. A hat made of felt. Labels: countable, uncountable 3. A felt-tip pen. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: You'll notice that all the illustrations are done in different media: some with pencil crayons, some with felts, some with paint, some with chalk pastels. 4. A skin or hide; a fell; a pelt. Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable Example: To know whether sheep are sound or not, see that the felt be loose.
Word: felt Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English felt, from Old English felt, from Proto-West Germanic *felt (compare Dutch vilt, German Filz, Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish filt, French feutre), from Proto-Indo-European *pilto, *pilso 'felt' (compare Latin pilleus (“felt”, adjective), Old Church Slavonic плъсть (plŭstĭ), Albanian plis, Ancient Greek πῖλος (pîlos)), from *pel- 'to beat'. More at anvil. Pronunciation: /ˈfɛlt/, [ˈfɛlt], /ˈfæ̝lt/, [ˈfæ̝lt], /ˈfɛʊ̯t/ 1. To make into felt or a feltlike substance; to cause to adhere and mat together. Labels: transitive Example: the same Wool , for instance , one Men felts it into a Hat, another weaves it into Cloth , another weaves it into Kersey or Serge 2. To cover with, or as if with, felt. Labels: transitive Example: to felt the cylinder of a steam engine 3. To cause (a player) to lose all their chips. Labels: transitive 4. To thoroughly defeat or humiliate (someone). Labels: Internet, broadly, transitive
Word: felt Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Old English fēled, corresponding to feel + -ed. Pronunciation: /ˈfɛlt/, [ˈfɛlt], /ˈfæ̝lt/, [ˈfæ̝lt], /ˈfɛʊ̯t/ 1. simple past and past participle of feel Labels: form-of, participle, past, transitive
Word: felt Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Old English fēled, corresponding to feel + -ed. Pronunciation: /ˈfɛlt/, [ˈfɛlt], /ˈfæ̝lt/, [ˈfæ̝lt], /ˈfɛʊ̯t/ 1. That has been experienced or perceived. Labels: transitive Example: Conversions to Islam can therefore be a deeply felt aesthetic experience that rarely occurs in Christian accounts of conversion, which are generally the source rather than the result of a Christian experience of beauty.
Word: blond Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French blond m, from Old French blond, blont, blund, (> Medieval Latin blondus), from Frankish *blund (“a mixed color between golden and light-brown”), from Proto-Germanic *blundaz (“mixed, blinding”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰlendʰ- (“to become turbid, see badly, go blind”). Compare Old English blondenfeax (“grey-haired”), Old English blandan (“to mix”). See more at blend. An alternative etymology connects Frankish *blund to Proto-Germanic *blundaz (“blond”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰl̥ndʰ-, *bʰlendʰ- (“blond, red-haired”). If so, then it would be cognate with Sanskrit ब्रध्न (bradhná, “ruddy, pale red, yellowish”). Pronunciation: /blɒnd/, /blɑnd/ 1. Of a bleached or pale golden (light yellowish) colour. Example: blond hair Example: blond ale 2. Of a bleached or pale golden (light yellowish) colour. Example: He seemed—somehow—younger than I had ever been, and blonder and more beautiful, and he wore his masculinity as unequivocally as he wore his skin. Example: Blonde bombshells have been around since the beginning of time, but lately, stars have really been stepping up their golden-haired game. 3. Alternative spelling of blonde (“stupid”). Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: “She was so blond, that where it said 'sign here,' she wrote Gemini.” He had given her only the weakest of smiles. Example: Katelyn's laugh was nearly uncontrollable. “You are so blond sometimes,” she said with a long laughing sigh, but then calmed herself down.
Word: blond Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French blond m, from Old French blond, blont, blund, (> Medieval Latin blondus), from Frankish *blund (“a mixed color between golden and light-brown”), from Proto-Germanic *blundaz (“mixed, blinding”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰlendʰ- (“to become turbid, see badly, go blind”). Compare Old English blondenfeax (“grey-haired”), Old English blandan (“to mix”). See more at blend. An alternative etymology connects Frankish *blund to Proto-Germanic *blundaz (“blond”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰl̥ndʰ-, *bʰlendʰ- (“blond, red-haired”). If so, then it would be cognate with Sanskrit ब्रध्न (bradhná, “ruddy, pale red, yellowish”). Pronunciation: /blɒnd/, /blɑnd/ 1. A pale yellowish (golden brown) color, especially said of hair color. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. A person with this hair color. Labels: countable 3. A beer of a pale golden color. Labels: countable
Word: blond Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French blond m, from Old French blond, blont, blund, (> Medieval Latin blondus), from Frankish *blund (“a mixed color between golden and light-brown”), from Proto-Germanic *blundaz (“mixed, blinding”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰlendʰ- (“to become turbid, see badly, go blind”). Compare Old English blondenfeax (“grey-haired”), Old English blandan (“to mix”). See more at blend. An alternative etymology connects Frankish *blund to Proto-Germanic *blundaz (“blond”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰl̥ndʰ-, *bʰlendʰ- (“blond, red-haired”). If so, then it would be cognate with Sanskrit ब्रध्न (bradhná, “ruddy, pale red, yellowish”). Pronunciation: /blɒnd/, /blɑnd/ 1. To color or dye blond. Labels: transitive
Word: fight Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English fighten (“to fight”), from Old English feohtan (“to fight, combat, strive”), from Proto-West Germanic *fehtan (“to fight”), from Proto-Germanic *fehtaną (“to comb, tease, shear, struggle with”), from Proto-Indo-European *peḱ- (“to comb, shear”). Cognate with Scots fecht (“to fight”), West Frisian fjochtsje, fjuchte (“to fight”), Dutch vechten (“to fight”), Low German fechten (“to fight”), German fechten (“to fight, fence”), Danish fægte (“to fence, to fight (using blade weapons)”), Norwegian Bokmål and Norwegian Nynorsk fekte (“to fence”), Swedish fäkta (“to fence, to fight (using blade weapons), to wave vigorously (and carelessly) with one's arms”), Latin pectō (“comb, thrash”, verb), Albanian pjek (“to hit, strive, fight”), Ancient Greek πέκω (pékō, “comb or card wool”, verb). Related also to Old English feht (“wool, shaggy pelt, fleece”). Pronunciation: /faɪt/, /fəɪt/, [fəɪʔ], [fʌɪt], /fɑɪt/ 1. Senses relating to physical conflict: Labels: transitive Example: My grandfather fought the Nazis in World War II. 2. Senses relating to physical conflict: Labels: transitive Example: Our soldiers fought the battle just over that hill. Example: I have fought a good fight. 3. Senses relating to physical conflict: Labels: intransitive Example: A wounded animal will fight tooth and nail; relentless, savage and murderous. 4. Senses relating to physical conflict: Labels: reciprocal Example: The two boxers have been fighting for more than half an hour. 5. Senses relating to physical conflict: Labels: causative Example: And so we made their grave where they should lie Close side by side, as they had fought their tank Through every fight, arm touching arm. We made it deep, that nothing of the conflict they had left above Should break into their peace. Example: to fight cocks; to fight one’s ship 6. To strive for something; to campaign or contend for success. Labels: intransitive Example: He fought for the Democrats in the last election. Example: Old Applegate, in the stern, just set and looked at me, and Lord James, amidship, waved both arms and kept hollering for help. I took a couple of everlasting big strokes and managed to grab hold of the skiff's rail, close to the stern. Then, for a jiffy, I hung on and fought for breath. 7. To try to overpower; to fiercely counteract. Labels: transitive Example: The government pledged to fight corruption. Example: I fought a sneeze as Max took my hand and led me into the chapel. 8. Of colours or other design elements: to clash; to fail to harmonize. Labels: intransitive Example: The higher the saturation, the more the colors fight, and the more users will be looking at your design instead of your content.
Word: fight Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English fight, feyght, fiȝt, fecht, from Old English feoht, ġefeoht (“fight”), from Proto-West Germanic *fehtan (“to fight”), from Proto-Germanic *fehtą, *gafehtą (“fight, struggle”), from Proto-Germanic *fehtaną (“to struggle with”). Cognate with Dutch gevecht (“fight”), German Gefecht (“fight”). 1. An occasion of fighting. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: One of them got stuck in a chokehold and got stabbed to death during the fight. 2. A battle between opposing armies. Labels: archaic, countable, uncountable 3. A physical confrontation or combat between two or more people or groups. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Watch your language! Are you looking for a fight? 4. A boxing or martial arts match. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: I’m going to Nick’s to watch the big fight tomorrow night. 5. A conflict, possibly nonphysical, with opposing ideas or forces; strife. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: I’ll put up a fight to save this company. Example: ‘Then the father has a great fight with his terrible conscience,’ said Munday with granite seriousness. ‘Should he make a row with the police […]? Or should he say nothing about it and condone brutality for fear of appearing in the newspapers? 6. The will or ability to fight. Labels: uncountable Example: That little guy has a bit of fight in him after all. As soon as he saw the size of his opponent, all the fight went out of him. 7. A screen for the combatants in ships; an arming. Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable Example: Who ever ſaw a noble ſight, / That never view'd a brave Sea Fight: / Hang up your bloody Colours in the Aire, / Up with your Fights, and your Nettings prepare, / Your Merry Mates chear, with a luſty bold ſpright, / Now each Man his brindice, and then to the Fight, […]
Word: fought Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /fɔːt/, /foːt/, /fɔt/, /fɑt/ 1. simple past and past participle of fight Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: blonde Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle French blonde f. See blond. Pronunciation: /blɒnd/, /blɑnd/ 1. Alternative form of blond (“person with fair hair”). (Used especially of a woman. See the usage notes in the entry blond.) Labels: alt-of, alternative, countable 2. Alternative form of blond (“color”) Labels: alt-of, alternative, countable, uncountable 3. Alternative form of blond (“type of beer”) Labels: alt-of, alternative, countable, uncountable 4. (film, television, theater) A kind of 2,000-watt lamp. Labels: countable Example: Most [camera crews] carry two blondes and three redheads or their equivalents. Blondes are 2000 watt lamps traditionally with yellow heads (or shells) used to light fairly large areas — also referred to as 2Ks — and redheads smaller 800 watt lamps traditionally with red shells to light faces.
Word: blonde Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle French blonde f. See blond. Pronunciation: /blɒnd/, /blɑnd/ 1. Alternative form of blond. Labels: alt-of, alternative, especially Example: So the great wasteful summer days went by, the glory of the passionate nights of July, the crisper blonde luxuriance of August. Example: Como en aquel bar de Copenhague lleno de hombres rubios y de mujeres rubias que al final resultaron ser también hombres rubios, donde el Torpedero Tucumán se había enfadado porque al meter mano se encontró quinientos buenos gramos de lo que no esperaba; […] 2. Stupid, ignorant, naive. Labels: especially, offensive Example: Emma's already huge green eyes widen and she gives me this look like, “Oh my God, sometimes you are just so blonde!” Example: I was so blonde I honestly had no idea why he got so angry. He cooled on me for a week or so.
Word: blonde Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle French blonde f. See blond. Pronunciation: /blɒnd/, /blɑnd/ 1. Alternative form of blond. Labels: alt-of, alternative, especially Example: Most women who blonde their hair today have been doing it for several years.
Word: flaxen Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English flaxen, flexon, flexin, from Old English fleaxen (“of flax; flaxen”), equivalent to flax + -en (“made of”). Compare Dutch vlassen. Pronunciation: /ˈflæk.sən/ 1. Made of or resembling flax fibers. 2. A pale yellow brown as of dried flax; blonde. Example: The couple and their children have flaxen hair.
Word: flesh Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English flesh, flesch, flæsch, from Old English flǣsċ, from Proto-West Germanic *flaiski, from Proto-Germanic *flaiski, from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₁ḱ- (“to tear, peel off”). Cognates Cognate with Yola vleash, vlesh (“flesh”), North Frisian flaasch, flaosk, Fleesk, fleäsk, floask, flääsk, flååsch (“flesh, meat”), Saterland Frisian Flaask (“flesh, meat”), West Frisian fleis (“flesh, meat”), Cimbrian blòas, vlaisch, vlòas (“flesh, meat”), Dutch vlees, vleesch (“flesh, meat”), German Fleisch (“flesh, meat”), German Low German and Luxembourgish Fleesch (“flesh, meat”), Vilamovian fłaś (“meat; muscle”), Yiddish פֿלייש (fleysh, “flesh, meat”), Danish flæsk (“pork; bacon”), Faroese, Icelandic, and Norwegian Nynorsk flesk (“pork; bacon”), Swedish fläsk (“pork”). Pronunciation: /flɛʃ/ 1. To reward (a hound, bird of prey etc.) with flesh of the animal killed, to excite it for further hunting; to train (an animal) to have an appetite for flesh. Labels: transitive Example: Before they had fleshed the hounds, however, he recollected himself […]. 2. To bury (something, especially a weapon) in flesh. Labels: transitive Example: Give me a clean sword and a clean foe to flesh it in. 3. To inure or habituate someone in or to a given practice. Labels: obsolete Example: And whosoever could now joyne us together, and eagerly flesh all our people to a common enterprise, we should make our ancient military name and chivalrous credit to flourish againe. 4. To glut. Labels: transitive 5. To put flesh on; to fatten. Labels: transitive 6. To remove the flesh from the skin during the making of leather.
Word: find Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English finden, from Old English findan, from Proto-West Germanic *finþan, from Proto-Germanic *finþaną, a secondary verb from Proto-Indo-European *pent- (“to go, pass; path bridge”). See also West Frisian fine, Low German finden, Dutch vinden, German finden, Danish finde, Norwegian Bokmål finne, Norwegian Nynorsk and Swedish finna; also English path, Old Irish étain (“I find”), áitt (“place”), Latin pōns (“bridge”), Ancient Greek πόντος (póntos, “sea”), Old Armenian հուն (hun, “ford”), Avestan 𐬞𐬀𐬧𐬙𐬃 (paṇtā̊), Sanskrit पथ (pathá, “path”), Proto-Slavic *pǫtь. For the meaning development compare Proto-Slavic *najьti > Russian найти́ (najtí), akin to Proto-Slavic *jьti > идти́ (idtí); Russian находи́ть (naxodítʹ), нахо́дка (naxódka), akin to ход (xod), ходи́ть (xodítʹ). Pronunciation: /ˈfɑjnd/, /ˈfaɪ̯nd/, /ˈfa̝ːn(d)/, /ˈfɪnd/, /ˈfʌɪ̯nd/ 1. Anything that is found (usually valuable), as objects on an archeological site or a person with talent. Example: One of the most exciting finds made by Chinese archaeologists within the last twenty years are the sites located in Inner Mongolia and Liaoning Province, particularly the Neolithic Hung-shan culture (c. 3500-2500 B.C.E.). Example: Shepard: How did you get these things to your father? Tali: Sometimes I left packages at secure drops in civilized areas. Someone on Pilgrimage would see that it was shipped home. Tali: For very valuable finds, I'd signal home, and Father would send a small ship. 2. The act of finding.
Word: found Part of Speech: verb Etymology: See find. Pronunciation: /ˈfaʊ̯nd/, /ˈfæʊ̯nd/, /ˈfaːnd/, /fʊnd/ 1. simple past and past participle of find Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: found Part of Speech: noun Etymology: See find. Pronunciation: /ˈfaʊ̯nd/, /ˈfæʊ̯nd/, /ˈfaːnd/, /fʊnd/ 1. Food and lodging; board. Labels: uncountable Example: I'll only give you the usual payment—say five hundred dollars a year, and found." / "And—what?" / "Found—that is, board, you know, and clothing, of course, also. Example: He moves north through small settlements and farms, working for day wages and found.
Word: found Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English founden, from Old French founder (Modern French: fonder), from Latin fundāre. Compare fund. Pronunciation: /ˈfaʊ̯nd/, /ˈfæʊ̯nd/, /ˈfaːnd/, /fʊnd/ 1. To start (an institution or organization). Labels: transitive Example: “[…] That woman is stark mad, Lord Stranleigh. Her own father recognised it when he bereft her of all power in the great business he founded. …” 2. To begin building. Labels: transitive 3. To use as a foundation; to base. Labels: transitive Example: Being left alone with him after they had dined, he obſerved, that however ſtrongly he was convinced of Zeluco’s being the writer of the letter, yet as he had had the precaution to diſguiſe his hand-writing, it would be fruitleſs to found any legal proſecution upon that circumſtance. Example: […] being now out of print, I shall use the freedom to give an extract from it, and in an Appendix to this Pamphlet (No. II.), republish one of the Tables that Author refers to, which will shew the facts he founded his reasoning upon, and the nature of the deductions which were the result of his researches.
Word: found Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English founden, from Old French fondre, from Latin fundere. Cognate with Spanish fundir and hundir, and French fondre. Pronunciation: /ˈfaʊ̯nd/, /ˈfæʊ̯nd/, /ˈfaːnd/, /fʊnd/ 1. To melt, especially of metal or glass in an industrial setting. Labels: transitive 2. To form by melting a metal and pouring it into a mould; to cast. Labels: transitive Example: Whereof to found their engines.
Word: found Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English founden, from Old French fondre, from Latin fundere. Cognate with Spanish fundir and hundir, and French fondre. Pronunciation: /ˈfaʊ̯nd/, /ˈfæʊ̯nd/, /ˈfaːnd/, /fʊnd/ 1. The period of time when a furnace is at its hottest; the interval in which the furnace is meant to fully melt glass. Labels: no-plural, transitive
Word: found Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈfaʊ̯nd/, /ˈfæʊ̯nd/, /ˈfaːnd/, /fʊnd/ 1. A thin, single-cut file for comb-makers. Labels: transitive
Word: fit Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Possibly from Middle English fit (“an adversary of equal power”), of uncertain further origin. The original sense appears to have been "to marshal or deploy troops", which shifted to "to suit (troops to a certain location" > "suitable", and may be further related to Icelandic fitja (“to web, knit, cast on”). Pronunciation: /fɪt/ 1. Suitable; proper Example: You have nothing to say about it. I'll do exactly as I see fit. Example: Is it fit to say a king, Thou art wicked? 2. Adapted to a purpose or environment. Example: survival of the fittest Example: That which ordinary men are fit for, I am qualified in. 3. In good shape; physically well. Example: You don't have to be a good climber for Kilimanjaro, but you do have to be fit. Example: Even the fittest among us may have problems, because hypertension can be genetic or stem from kidney problems or sleep apnea, and the risk typically increases with age. 4. Sexually attractive; good-looking; fanciable. Labels: UK, informal, slang Example: I think the girl working in the office is fit. Example: Got my hands down her jeans and I nearly lost half my arm / But after ten pints, she looked quite fit 5. Prepared; ready. Labels: obsolete Example: So fit to shoot, she singled forth among her foes who first her quarry's strength should feel.
Word: fit Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Possibly from Middle English fit (“an adversary of equal power”), of uncertain further origin. The original sense appears to have been "to marshal or deploy troops", which shifted to "to suit (troops to a certain location" > "suitable", and may be further related to Icelandic fitja (“to web, knit, cast on”). Pronunciation: /fɪt/ 1. To be suitable for. Labels: transitive Example: It fits the purpose. Example: The speaker should be certain that his subject fits the occasion. 2. To have sufficient space available at some location to be able to be there. Labels: intransitive Example: Ten clowns fit in the car, but not a hundred. Example: The elevator can fit up to 10 people. 3. To conform to in size and shape. Labels: transitive Example: The small shirt doesn't fit me, so I'll buy the medium size. Example: If I lose a few kilos, the gorgeous wedding dress might fit me. 4. To be of the right size and shape Labels: intransitive Example: She's changed the lock on our front door / My door key don't fit no more Example: I know the pieces fit / 'Cause I watched them fall away 5. To make conform in size and shape. Labels: transitive Example: I want to fit the drapes to the windows. 6. To make conform in size and shape. Labels: transitive Example: I had a suit fitted by the tailor. 7. To be in agreement with. Labels: transitive Example: These definitions fit most of the usage. Example: Type D half-lines ending in words of this type are analysed by Hutcheson as ending in two completely unstressed syllables. That analysis must be descriptively correct for, say, the 10th cent.; whether it would have fitted the facts in the 8th cent. is much less clear. 8. To adjust. Labels: transitive Example: The regression program fit a line to the data. 9. To attach, especially when requiring exact positioning or sizing. Labels: transitive Example: Williams had a problem fitting his left rear tyre and that left Alonso only 3.1secs adrift when he rejoined from his final stop three laps later. 10. To equip or supply. Labels: transitive Example: The chandler will fit us with provisions for a month. 11. To make ready. Labels: transitive Example: I’m fitting the ship for a summer sail home. Example: I’m fitting to go home and sleep. 12. To be seemly. Labels: archaic, intransitive 13. To be proper or becoming. Example: Nor fits it to prolong the heav'nly feast. 14. To be in harmony. Labels: intransitive Example: The paint, the fabrics, the rugs all fit.
Word: fit Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Possibly from Middle English fit (“an adversary of equal power”), of uncertain further origin. The original sense appears to have been "to marshal or deploy troops", which shifted to "to suit (troops to a certain location" > "suitable", and may be further related to Icelandic fitja (“to web, knit, cast on”). Pronunciation: /fɪt/ 1. The degree to which something fits. Example: This shirt is a bad fit. Example: Since he put on weight, his jeans have been a tight fit. 2. Conformity of elements one to another. Example: It's hard to get a good fit using second-hand parts. 3. The part of an object upon which anything fits tightly. 4. Measure of how well a particular commercial execution captures the character or values of a brand. Example: The Wonder Bread advertising research results showed the “White Picket Fence” commercial had strong fit ratings. 5. Goodness of fit. 6. The quality of a partnership's combined holding of cards in a suit, particularly of trump. Example: During the auction, it is often a partnership's goal to find an eight-card major suit fit.
Word: fit Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Unknown, possibly from Old English fitt (“song”), or from the sense of fitted to length. Compare Old Saxon *fittea (attested in the borrowed Latin vittea). Pronunciation: /fɪt/ 1. A section of a poem or ballad. Labels: archaic Example: Dr. Percy has written a long ballad in many fits.
Word: fit Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Unknown. From Middle English fit (“hardship, danger”), possibly from Old English fitt (“conflict”)—a word only attested once. Compare Cornish fit (“game match, bout”); or else, maybe cognate with Italian fitta (“sudden and stabbing pain”) (see further at Latin fīgere). Pronunciation: /fɪt/ 1. A seizure or convulsion. Example: My grandfather died after having a fit. 2. A sudden and vigorous appearance of a symptom over a short period of time. 3. A sudden outburst of emotion. Example: He had a laughing fit which lasted more than ten minutes. Example: She had a fit and threw all of his clothes out through the window. 4. A sudden burst (of an activity). Example: A fit of spring-cleaning led Eric Brooks to a box of old newspaper clips from 1997.
Word: fit Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Unknown. From Middle English fit (“hardship, danger”), possibly from Old English fitt (“conflict”)—a word only attested once. Compare Cornish fit (“game match, bout”); or else, maybe cognate with Italian fitta (“sudden and stabbing pain”) (see further at Latin fīgere). Pronunciation: /fɪt/ 1. To suffer a fit. Labels: intransitive Example: A spokesman said: "It is believed they (the dogs) got into the lake and drank from it. They came out and started fitting. Shortly after that three of them died and vets are attempting to resuscitate the other one."
Word: fit Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Formed from fight on the model of bite:bit and light:lit. Pronunciation: /fɪt/ 1. simple past and past participle of fight; fought. Labels: Ireland, Southern-US, dated, form-of, participle, past Example: There wonst was two cats in Kilkenny; / And aich thought there was one cat too many. / So they quarrelled and fit; / And they scratched, and they bit; / Till, excepting their tails / And some scraps of their nails, / Instead of two cats there wan't any. Example: c. 19th century, unknown author, Joshua Fit the Battle of Jericho Joshua fit the battle of Jericho and the walls came tumbling down
Word: fit Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Clipping of outfit. Pronunciation: /fɪt/ 1. An outfit, a set of clothing. Labels: slang Example: How do you like the fit? Example: Piker had already shown off his “cozy-ass ’fit” (sweatpants with kitschy bald eagles, a custom pair of platform Crocs), and recounted his experience the previous night at the Streamer Awards, a red-carpet event honoring A-listers on Twitch—the popular live-streaming site where he is one of the biggest stars, and the only prominent leftist.
Word: fitted Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ˈfɪtɪd/ 1. simple past and past participle of fit (to tailor, to change size) Labels: form-of, participle, past 2. simple past and past participle of fit (other senses) Labels: form-of, participle, past, proscribed, regional, sometimes Example: Even though in a way you let him freeze to death in the water, because the way I see it... I agree. Y'know, I think he actually could have fitted on that bit of door. There was plenty of room on the raft. I know. I know, I know.
Word: fitted Part of Speech: adj Pronunciation: /ˈfɪtɪd/ 1. Tailored to the shape of a person's body. Labels: not-comparable
Word: fitted Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈfɪtɪd/ 1. A fitted cap. Labels: US, slang Example: For niggas plottin, I might blow it at your fitted Get your bitch-ass slimed out, it ain't no kiddin Ain't no kiddin, got that semi Example: Late night, on a drill, aimin for his fitted 2. A fitted diaper. Example: Fitteds have elastic around the back of the diaper and the legs of the diaper to get a better fit and sometimes they also have snap closures so that you don't have to use a diaper fastener. Example: Pocket diapers are my favorite because they're a little easier to use than fitteds, flats, and prefolds, and they're cheaper than all-in-twos and all-in-ones.
Word: flee Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English flen, from Old English flēon, from Proto-West Germanic *fleuhan, from Proto-Germanic *fleuhaną, from Proto-Indo-European *plewk-, *plew- (“to fly, flow, run”). Cognate with Dutch vlieden, German fliehen, Icelandic flýja, Swedish fly, Gothic 𐌸𐌻𐌹𐌿𐌷𐌰𐌽 (þliuhan). Within English, related to fly and more distantly to flow. Pronunciation: /ˈfliː/, [ˈflɪi̯] 1. To run away; to escape. Labels: intransitive Example: The prisoner tried to flee, but was caught by the guards. Example: The wicked flee when no man pursueth: but the righteous are bolde as a lyon. 2. To escape from. Labels: transitive Example: Many people fled the country as war loomed. Example: Thousands of people moved northward trying to flee the drought. 3. To disappear quickly; to vanish; to fleet. Labels: intransitive Example: Ethereal products flee once freely exposed to air.
Word: fled Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ˈflɛd/ 1. simple past and past participle of flee Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: fling Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English fling, from the verb (see below). Compare Icelandic flengur (“a fast sprint”). Pronunciation: /ˈflɪŋ/ 1. An act of throwing, often violently. 2. An act of moving the limbs or body with violent movements, especially in a dance. Example: the fling of a horse 3. An act or period of unrestrained indulgence, enthusiasm, or both. Example: When I was as young as you, I had my fling. I led a life of pleasure. Example: "I am inclined to go and have a fling with them. Why not all of us — just for a minute or two — it will not detain us long?" 4. A short romantic, oftentimes sexual, relationship. Example: a summer fling Example: I had a fling with a girl I met on holiday. 5. An attempt, a try. Labels: figuratively Example: give it a fling 6. A severe or contemptuous remark; an expression of sarcastic scorn; a gibe or taunt. Labels: obsolete Example: I, who love to have a fling, / Both at senate house and king. Example: I can just make out clearly that he is having a good fling at the Pope. The congregation, numbering about two hundred, are evidently very much pleased with the clergyman's endeavour. 7. A lively Scottish country dance. Example: the Highland fling 8. A party, especially a dance party. Example: a spring fling 9. A trifling matter; an object of contempt. Labels: obsolete Example: ante 1800, old proverb England were but a fling / Save for the crooked stick and the grey goose wing.
Word: fling Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English flyngen, from Old Norse flengja (“to whip”), from Proto-Germanic *flangijaną (“to beat, whip”), from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₂k- (“to beat”), from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₂k-, *pleh₂g- (“to beat”). Cognate with Icelandic flengja (“to spank”), Norwegian flengja (“to rip, tear, or fling open”). Pronunciation: /ˈflɪŋ/ 1. To throw with violence or quick movement; to hurl. Labels: transitive Example: 'Tis Fate that casts the Dice, and as she flings, Of Kings makes Pedants, and of Pedants Kings. Example: I know thy generous temper well. / ' but the appearance of dishonour on it, / It straight takes fire. 2. To move (oneself) abruptly or violently; to rush or dash. Labels: intransitive, literary Example: And crop-full, out of doors he flings. Example: I see, sir, said I, I see what a man I am with. […] And away I flung, leaving him seemingly vexed, and in confusion. 3. To throw; to wince; to flounce. Labels: archaic, intransitive Example: The horse flung most potently, making his heels fly aloft in the air. 4. To utter abusive language; to sneer. Labels: intransitive, literary Example: The scold began to flout and fling.
Word: flung Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ˈflʌŋ/, /flʊŋ/, /flʊŋɡ/ 1. simple past and past participle of fling Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: fly Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English fflye, flehe, flei, fleie, fley, fleye, fleȝe, flie, fliȝe, flye, vliȝe, vlye, from Old English flēge, flēoge, flīeġe (“a fly”), from Proto-West Germanic *fleugā, from Proto-Germanic *fleugǭ (“a fly”), from Proto-Indo-European *plewk- (“to flow, fly, run; to splash”), enlargement of *plew- (“to flow, fly, run”). Cognates Cognate with Scots flee, flei (“fly”), North Frisian fleeg (“fly”), Saterland Frisian Fljooge (“fly”), Alemannic German Flüüge (“fly”), Cimbrian blòiga, vlòiga (“fly”), Dutch vlieg (“fly”), German Fliege (“fly”), Low German Fleeg (“fly”), Vilamovian fłig, fłyjǵ (“fly”), Yiddish פֿליג (flig, “fly”), Danish and Norwegian Bokmål flue (“fly”), Faroese, Icelandic, and Swedish fluga (“fly”), Norwegian Nynorsk fluga, fluge, fluggu, flugu (“fly”). Pronunciation: /ˈflaɪ̯/, [ˈflaɪ̯], /ˈflɑɪ̯/, [ˈflɑ̟ɪ̯], /ˈflɒɪ̯/ 1. Any insect of the order Diptera; characterized by having two wings (except for some wingless species), also called true flies. Example: Devils Lake is where I began my career as a limnologist in 1964, studying the lake’s neotenic salamanders and chironomids, or midge flies. […] The Devils Lake Basin is an endorheic, or closed, basin covering about 9,800 square kilometers in northeastern North Dakota. 2. Especially, any of the insects of the family Muscidae, such as the common housefly (other families of Diptera include mosquitoes and midges). Example: When you're well enough off so's you don't have to fret about anything but your heft or your diseases you begin to get queer, I suppose. And the queerer the cure for those ailings the bigger the attraction. A place like the Right Livers' Rest was bound to draw freaks, same as molasses draws flies. Example: October in Orania can be charming. When the sun sets, long ribbons of burnt orange settle on the horizon. The flies and mosquitoes that come with the oppressive summer heat haven’t arrived yet. It is Magdalene Kleynhans’ favourite time of year. “You can sit outside until late into the night,” says the businesswoman, whose family spend much of their time outdoors. Her children fish from the banks of the Orange River whenever they choose. Kleynhans leaves the house unlocked. “It’s a good life. It’s a big privilege.” 3. Those or any similar but not closely related insect, such as a dragonfly, butterfly, or gallfly. 4. A lightweight fishing lure resembling an insect. Example: I went on trying for fish along the western bank down the river, but only small trout rose at my flies, and a score was the total catch. 5. A chest exercise performed by moving extended arms from the sides to in front of the chest. (also flye) 6. The butterfly stroke (plural is normally flys). 7. A witch's familiar. Labels: obsolete Example: a trifling fly, none of your great familiars 8. A parasite. Labels: obsolete Example: The fly that plays too near the flame burns in it. 9. A simple dance in which the hands are shaken in the air, popular in the 1960s. 10. A butterfly (combination of four options).
Word: fly Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ˈflaɪ̯/, [ˈflaɪ̯], /ˈflɑɪ̯/, [ˈflɑ̟ɪ̯], /ˈflɒɪ̯/ 1. To hit a fly ball; to hit a fly ball that is caught for an out. Compare ground (verb) and line (verb). Labels: intransitive Example: Jones flied to right in his last at-bat.
Word: fly Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Uncertain; probably from the verb or noun. Pronunciation: /ˈflaɪ̯/, [ˈflaɪ̯], /ˈflɑɪ̯/, [ˈflɑ̟ɪ̯], /ˈflɒɪ̯/ 1. Quick-witted, alert, mentally sharp. Labels: dated, slang Example: be assured, O man of sin—pilferer of small wares and petty larcener—that there is an eye within keenly glancing from some loophole contrived between accordions and tin breastplates that watches your every movement, and is "fly,"— to use a term peculiarly comprehensible to dishonest minds—to the slightest gesture of illegal conveyancing. 2. Clandestine, surreptitious Labels: slang Example: Some say God was an alien that tampered with our DNA, the 3 kings followed ufos & Mary had a fly shag 🤔🤫 3. Well dressed, smart in appearance; in style, cool. Labels: slang Example: He's pretty fly. Example: when Ortega got fixed up in his fly duds like that, an ord'nary man's overcoat wouldn't make 'im a pair o' socks. 4. Beautiful; displaying physical beauty. Labels: slang Example: [Rahiem] My name brings peace and tranquility / So all the fly ladies' hearts can run free Example: Word is bond she looked divine, she looked as fly as can be I thought she was different cause she was by herself She looked real wholesome, and in good physical health
Word: fly Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Related to German Flügel (“a wing”), Dutch vleugel (“a wing”), Swedish flygel (“a wing”). Pronunciation: /ˈflaɪ̯/, [ˈflaɪ̯], /ˈflɑɪ̯/, [ˈflɑ̟ɪ̯], /ˈflɒɪ̯/ 1. A wing. Labels: Northern-England, Scotland Example: The bullet barely grazed the wild fowl's fly.
Word: fly Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈflaɪ̯/, [ˈflaɪ̯], /ˈflɑɪ̯/, [ˈflɑ̟ɪ̯], /ˈflɒɪ̯/ 1. Alternative form of vly (“swamp (in New York)”). Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: June 8, 1708, John Cock and William Nottingham desire 100 acres each [...] Isaac Davis desied a conveyance for the "greenbush" fly or swamp that he hath drained near his land, in the Jaagh Creupel-bosh. Example: […] one certain Lot of the Long fly, or swamp situate lying and being [in] the Township of Flatlands […] recorded June 15, 1876, Liber 1244 of Conveyances, at page 494, Kings County. The "East Division" was the Long Vly, […]
Word: flew Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English flew, flow, from Old English flēag, flug-, from Proto-Germanic *flaug, *flug-, past tense forms of Proto-Germanic *fleuganą (“to fly”). Compare Saterland Frisian flooch (“flew”), West Frisian fleach (“flew”), Dutch vloog (“flew”), German flog (“flew”), Danish fløj (“flew”), Swedish flög (“flew”), Icelandic flaug (“flew”). Pronunciation: /fluː/, /fluʊ̯/, /fljuː/ 1. simple past of fly Labels: form-of, past
Word: flew Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Unknown. Pronunciation: /fluː/, /fluʊ̯/, /fljuː/ 1. The thick, dangling upper lip of certain breeds of dog, or the canine equivalent of the upper lip. Labels: plural Example: The raging hound's flews were twisted upwards in an angry snarl. Example: He petted the dog. 'These little guys are pretty expensive and this one looks like a good specimen.' He lifted a flew. 'Well cared for, too - these teeth have been scaled pretty recently and his ears are clean - these upright ears can be receptacles for all kinds of stuff […].' anyway, what seems to be your problem with him?'
Word: flew Part of Speech: adj Pronunciation: /fluː/, /fluʊ̯/, /fljuː/ 1. shallow; flat Labels: UK, dialectal
Word: flew Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /fluː/, /fluʊ̯/, /fljuː/ 1. simple past of flay Labels: form-of, obsolete, past
Word: flown Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English flowen, floȝen, from Old English flogen, ġeflogen, past participle of Old English flēogan (“to fly”). Pronunciation: /ˈfləʊn/, /ˈfloʊn/ 1. past participle of fly Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: flown Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English flowen, floȝen, from Old English flogen, ġeflogen, past participle of Old English flēogan (“to fly”). Pronunciation: /ˈfləʊn/, /ˈfloʊn/ 1. Suspended in the flies. Labels: not-comparable Example: flown scenery
Word: flown Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English flowen (attested in derived verbs such as overflowen), from Old English flōwen, ġeflowen, past participle of Old English flōwan (“to flow”). Pronunciation: /ˈfləʊn/, /ˈfloʊn/ 1. past participle of flow Labels: form-of, participle, past, proscribed
Word: forbid Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English forbeden, from Old English forbēodan (“to forbid, prohibit, restrain, refuse, repeal, annul”), from Proto-Germanic *furibeudaną, from *furi + *beudaną. Equivalent to for- (“from, away”) + bid (“to offer, proclaim”). Cognate with Dutch verbieden (“to forbid”), German verbieten (“to forbid”), Danish forbyde (“to forbid”), Norwegian Bokmål forby (“to forbid”), Swedish förbjuda (“to forbid”), Gothic 𐍆𐌰𐌿𐍂𐌱𐌹𐌿𐌳𐌰𐌽 (faurbiudan). Related to forbode. Pronunciation: /fəˈbɪd/, [fəˈbɪd], /fɚˈbɪd/, [fɚˈbɪd] ~ [fɹ̩ˈbɪd] 1. To disallow; to proscribe. Labels: transitive Example: Smoking in the restaurant is forbidden. Example: […] the Mole recollected that animal-etiquette forbade any sort of comment on the sudden disappearance of one's friends at any moment, for any reason or no reason whatever. 2. To deny, exclude from, or warn off, by express command. Labels: ditransitive Example: Have I not forbid her my house? 3. To oppose, hinder, or prevent, as if by an effectual command. Labels: transitive Example: An impassable river forbids the approach of the army. Example: a blaze of glory that forbids the sight 4. To accurse; to blast. Labels: obsolete, transitive Example: He shall live a man forbid. 5. To defy; to challenge. Labels: obsolete, transitive Example: What part of "no" do you forbid to understand? Example: So there is a resemblance between the partie that here gives licence to come to the tree of life, and the other that forbid to come to it. The one threatned with a sword; the other promiseth to the persons that keep the condition here expressed
Word: forbade Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /fə(ɹ)ˈbæd/, /fə(ɹ)ˈbeɪd/, /fɔ(ɹ)-/ 1. simple past of forbid Labels: form-of, past
Word: forbidden Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Past participle of the verb forbid. Doublet of verboten. Compare German verboten, Dutch verboden, Swedish förbjuden, and West Frisian ferbean. Pronunciation: /fəˈbɪdən/, [fəːˈbɪdən] ~ [fəˈbɪdn̩], /fɚˈbɪdən/, [fɚˈbɪdən] ~ [fɚˈbɪd.n̩], /fəɾˈbɪdən/ 1. Not allowed; specifically disallowed. Example: Maſters commands come with a power reſiſtleſs / To ſuch as owe them abſolute ſubjection; / And for a life who will not change his purpoſe? / (So mutable are all the ways of men) / Yet this be ſure, in nothing to comply / Scandalous or forbidden in our Law. Example: This kind of immediate control structure we take to be characteristic of the tribe, and it leads to a rather rigid type of system in which 'every action not mandatory is forbidden'.
Word: forbidden Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Past participle of the verb forbid. Doublet of verboten. Compare German verboten, Dutch verboden, Swedish förbjuden, and West Frisian ferbean. Pronunciation: /fəˈbɪdən/, [fəːˈbɪdən] ~ [fəˈbɪdn̩], /fɚˈbɪdən/, [fɚˈbɪdən] ~ [fɚˈbɪd.n̩], /fəɾˈbɪdən/ 1. past participle of forbid Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: forego Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English forgan, from Old English foregān, equivalent to fore- + go. Pronunciation: /fɔɹˈɡoʊ/, /fɔːˈɡəʊ/ 1. To precede, to go before. Example: pleasing remembrance of a thought foregone
Word: forego Part of Speech: verb Etymology: See forgo. Pronunciation: /fɔɹˈɡoʊ/, /fɔːˈɡəʊ/ 1. Alternative spelling of forgo; to abandon, to relinquish. Labels: alt-of, alternative, often, proscribed Example: […] for on no other terms does she desire a reconciliation, but will sooner forego all the hopes to which her birth entitles her, and get her bread by service, than ever yield to become the wife of the ——. Example: CNBC's Julia Boorstin reports Disney will forego its dividend payments for half of the year.
Word: forgo Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English forgon (“to go by, pass up”), from Old English forgān (“to go away, forgo”); equivalent to for- + go. Pronunciation: /fɔːˈɡəʊ/, /fɔɹˈɡoʊ/ 1. To do without (something enjoyable); to relinquish. Labels: transitive Example: I've had to forgo my student discount in exchange for taking the job. Example: Doe not for one repulſe forgoe the purpoſe / That you resolu'd t' effect. 2. To refrain from, to abstain from. Labels: literary, transitive Example: I shall forgo actually stepping inside, thank you.
Word: forewent Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From fore- + went. Pronunciation: /ˈfɔɹwɛnt/ 1. simple past of forego Labels: form-of, past
Word: foregone Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ˈfɔɹɡɔn/ 1. past participle of forego Labels: form-of, participle, past Example: "We need a different understanding of revenues and public expenditure. The 15-year freeze on fuel duty and lack of tax on aviation fuel are effectively a huge subsidy to those forms of travel, but they are not described as subsidy because they are foregone revenue. Yet if you invest to hold rail fares, it's seen as subsidy."