nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: dogleg Part of Speech: verb Etymology: The noun is derived from dog + leg, referring to the shape of the hind leg of a dog. The verb is derived from the noun. Pronunciation: /ˈdɒɡlɛɡ/, /ˈdɔɡˌlɛɡ/ 1. To bend in the shape of the hind leg of a dog, especially to turn and then turn back sharply to the original direction. Labels: intransitive Example: When the causeway doglegs and all of a sudden you spot sixteen roller coasters in the same place, it can take your breath away.
Word: devastate Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Borrowed from Latin dēvastātus, perfect passive participle of dēvastō (“to lay waste, devastate”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)); from dē- (augmentative prefix) + vastō (“to destroy, lay waste”). See vast. First attested in 1638. Pronunciation: /ˈdɛv.ə.steɪt/, /ˈdev.ə.stæɪt/ 1. To ruin many or all things over a large area, such as most or all buildings of a city, or cities of a region, or trees of a forest. Example: Halifax in Canada was devastated by a ship exploding in 1917. SS Mont Blanc, a French vessel loaded with 2.9 kilotons of explosives, collided with the Imo. 2. To destroy a whole collection of related ideas, beliefs, and strongly held opinions. 3. To break beyond recovery or repair so that the only options are abandonment or the clearing away of useless remains (if any) and starting over. 4. To greatly demoralize, to cause to suffer intense grief or dismay
Word: bard Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *gʷerH- Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁- Proto-Indo-European *gʷerH-dʰh₁o-der. Proto-Celtic *bardosder. Old Irish bard Scottish Gaelic bàrdder. English bard (15th c.) from Scottish Gaelic bàrd, from Old Irish bard, from Proto-Celtic *bardos (“bard, poet”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷerH- (“praise”), and reinforced by Latin bardus, borrowed from Celtic. Cognate with Latin grātus (“grateful, pleasant, delightful”), Sanskrit गृणाति (gṛṇāti, “calls, praises”), Old Church Slavonic жрьти (žrĭti, “to sacrifice”). Pronunciation: /bɑːd/, /bɑɹd/ 1. A professional poet and singer, like among the ancient Celts, whose occupation was to compose and sing verses in honor of the heroic achievements of princes and brave men. Example: He is a Welsh bard, and a man full of animation, anecdote, and independence; […] Example: A WEAPON, THE WARRIOR CARRIES. A SAW, THE IDIOT CARRIES. AN INSTRUMENT, THE BARD CARRIES. 2. A poet. Labels: broadly Example: Shakespeare is known as the bard of Avon. 3. A class of character that typically focuses on charisma, magic and supporting other players; a fantasy fiction character inspired by this archetype. Example: I saw a bard work a bit of magic once. He brought up a volunteer from the audience, insulted him in rather colorful fashion, and then made the man forget the insults—and then he did the same trick all over again, twice more.” Example: "Having a bard would be even less helpful than having a second wizard," John interjects.
Word: bard Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From French barde. English since the late 15th century. Pronunciation: /bɑːd/, /bɑɹd/ 1. A piece of defensive (or, sometimes, ornamental) armor for a horse's neck, breast, and flanks; a barb. (Often in the plural.) 2. Defensive armor formerly worn by a man at arms. 3. A thin slice of fat bacon used to cover any meat or game. 4. The exterior covering of the trunk and branches of a tree; the rind. 5. Specifically, Peruvian bark.
Word: bard Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From French barde. English since the late 15th century. Pronunciation: /bɑːd/, /bɑɹd/ 1. To cover a horse in defensive armor. Example: The defensive armor with which the horses of the ancient knights or men at arms were covered, or, to use the language of the time, barded, consisted of the following pieces made either of metal or jacked leather, the Chamfron, Chamfrein or Shaffron, the Criniere or Main Facre, the Poitrenal, Poitral or Breast Plate, and the Croupiere or Buttock Piece. 2. To cover (meat or game) with a thin slice of fat bacon.
Word: barb Part of Speech: noun Etymology: PIE word *bʰardʰéh₂ From Middle English barbe, from Middle French barbe, from Old French barbe (“beard, beard-like element”). Doublet of beard. Pronunciation: /bɑː(ɹ)b/ 1. The point that stands backward in an arrow, fishhook, etc., to prevent it from being easily extracted. Hence: Anything which stands out with a sharp point obliquely or crosswise to something else. Example: Having two barbs or points. 2. A hurtful or disparaging remark. Labels: figuratively Example: to trade barbs Example: And she was the only girl in class who did not, sometime through the lesson, get a barb of sarcasm from Miss Brownell, though she made as many mistakes as the rest of them. 3. A beard, or that which resembles it, or grows in the place of it. 4. A beard, or that which resembles it, or grows in the place of it. Example: The barbel is so called […]by reason of his barbs, or wattles at his mouth. 5. One of the many side branches of a feather, which collectively constitute the vane. 6. Any of various species of freshwater carp-like fish that have barbels and belong to the cyprinid family. 7. The sciaenid fish Menticirrhus americanus, found along the Atlantic and Gulf Coasts of the United States. Labels: US 8. A hair or bristle ending in a double hook. 9. A muffler, worn by nuns and mourners. Labels: obsolete 10. Paps, or little projections, of the mucous membrane, which mark the opening of the submaxillary glands under the tongue in horses and cattle. The name is mostly applied when the barbs are inflamed and swollen. 11. A bit for a horse. Labels: obsolete Example: His loftie steed with golden sell And goodly gorgeous barbes. 12. A plastic fastener, shaped roughly like a capital I (with serifs), used to attach socks etc. to their packaging.
Word: barb Part of Speech: verb Etymology: PIE word *bʰardʰéh₂ From Middle English barbe, from Middle French barbe, from Old French barbe (“beard, beard-like element”). Doublet of beard. Pronunciation: /bɑː(ɹ)b/ 1. To furnish with barbs, or with that which will hold or hurt like barbs, as an arrow, fishhook, spear, etc. Example: […] for this day will pour down, / If I conjecture aught, no drizzling shower, / But rattling storm of arrows barbed with fire. Example: Undoubtedly—when Ingratitude barbs the Dart of Injury—the wound has double danger in it— 2. To cut (hair). Labels: Nigeria 3. To shave or dress the beard of. Labels: obsolete 4. To clip; to mow. Labels: obsolete Example: O thou pale ſober night, / […] / The ſtooping Sitheman that dooth barbe the field, / Thou makſt winke ſure: […]
Word: barb Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Clipping of Barbary. Pronunciation: /bɑː(ɹ)b/ 1. The Barbary horse, a superior breed introduced from Barbary into Spain by the Moors. Example: Why sends not the Bridegroom his promised gift, / Is his heart more cold, or his barb less swift? Example: However, in the last few years, the stud farms in Morocco and elsewhere in the world have rediscovered the qualities of the barb, which, in Berber tradition, remains the king of the "fantasias", a festival that is also becoming fashionable once again. 2. A blackish or dun variety of pigeon, originally brought from Barbary.
Word: barb Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Clipping of barbiturate. Pronunciation: /bɑː(ɹ)b/ 1. A barbiturate. Labels: informal Example: The benzos, it turns out, are just as highly addicting as the barbs, but they do have a much lower potential to cause death by overdose. […] The barbs became one of the most widely abused classes of drugs in the 1960s and 1970s.
Word: barb Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Corruption of bard. Pronunciation: /bɑː(ɹ)b/ 1. Armor for a horse. Example: The defensive armor with the horses of the ancient knights ... These are frequently, though improperly, stiled barbs.
Word: barb Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Corruption of bard. Pronunciation: /bɑː(ɹ)b/ 1. To cover a horse in armor. Example: And now, in stead of mounting barbed steeds / To fright the souls of fearful adversaries, / He capers nimbly in a lady's chamber[…].
Word: chamfron Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Old French chanfrain, presumably from champ, chanp (“field, battlefield”) + frein (“bit (between a horse's teeth)”). Pronunciation: /ˈt͡ʃam.fɹən/, /ˈtʃæm.fɹən/ 1. Protective armor for a horse's head, especially the face and ears. Example: The defensive armor with which the horses of the ancient knights or men at arms were covered, or, to use the language of the time, barded, consisted of the following pieces made either of metal or jacked leather, the Chamfron, Chamfrein or Shaffron, the Criniere or Main Facre, the Poitrenal, Poitral or Breast Plate, and the Croupiere or Buttock Piece. Example: the Sable Knight dealt a stroke on his head, which, glancing from the polished helmet, lighted with violence scarcely abated on the “chamfron” of the steed, and Front-de-Boeuf rolled on the ground, both horse and man equally stunned by the fury of the blow.
Word: chanfron Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of chamfron (protective armor for a horse's head, especially the face and ears). Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: The Chanfron, Chamfrein, or Shaffron took it's denomination from that part of the horse's head it covered, and was a kind of mask of iron, copper, or brass, and sometimes of jacked leather, enclosing the face and ears, some of these chanfrons seem to have been contrived as to hinder a horse from seeing right before him, perhaps to prevent his being intimidated by any object against which he might be directed, so as to cause him to start aside, or lessen the celerity of his charge.
Word: divide Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁ Proto-Indo-European *d(w)is- Proto-Italic *dis- Latin dis- Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁ Proto-Indo-European *dwi- Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁- Proto-Indo-European *h₁weydʰh₁-der. Proto-Italic *wiðō Latin *vidō Latin dīvidōder. Middle English dividen English divide PIE word *dwóh₁ From Middle English dividen, from Latin dīvidere (“to divide”). Displaced native Old English tōdǣlan. Pronunciation: /dɪˈvaɪd/ 1. A thing that divides. Example: Stay on your side of the divide, please. 2. An act of dividing. Example: The divide left most of the good land on my share of the property. Example: The extended instruction set may double the speed again if a lot of multiplies and divides are done. 3. A distancing between two people or things. Example: There is a great divide between us. Example: Republicans and Democrats interpret individualism differently, and those divides are more pronounced than ever in our deeply polarized political climate. 4. A large chasm, gorge, or ravine between two areas of land. Example: If you're heading to the coast, you'll have to cross the divide first. Example: The team crossed streams and jumped across deep, narrow divides in the glacier. 5. The topographical boundary dividing two adjacent catchment basins, such as a ridge or a crest.
Word: chamfrein Part of Speech: noun Etymology: See chamfron. 1. Alternative form of chamfron (protective armor for a horse's head, especially the face and ears). Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: The Chanfron, Chamfrein, or Shaffron took it's denomination from that part of the horse's head it covered, and was a kind of mask of iron, copper, or brass, and sometimes of jacked leather, enclosing the face and ears, some of these chanfrons seem to have been contrived as to hinder a horse from seeing right before him, perhaps to prevent his being intimidated by any object against which he might be directed, so as to cause him to start aside, or lessen the celerity of his charge.
Word: shaffron Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈʃæfɹən/, /-ɑn/ 1. Alternative form of chamfron (“protective armor for a horse's head”). Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: The Chanfron, Chamfrein, or Shaffron took it's denomination from that part of the horse's head it covered, and was a kind of mask of iron, copper, or brass, and sometimes of jacked leather, enclosing the face and ears, some of these chanfrons seem to have been contrived as to hinder a horse from seeing right before him, perhaps to prevent his being intimidated by any object against which he might be directed, so as to cause him to start aside, or lessen the celerity of his charge.
Word: criniere Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French criniere. Pronunciation: /ˌkɹinˈjɛəɹ/ 1. Protective armor for a horse's neck. Example: The Criniere or Manefaire consisted of a number of small plates, generally about twelve, hooked together and to the chanfron, so as to be moveable, their use was to guard the neck of the horse from the stroke of a cutting sword.
Word: manefaire Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English mayndefer, maynfer, and maynefere, attested in lists of armor used by men and their horses. In the 17- and 1800s, Francis Grose, Samuel Rush Meyrick and other antiquarians took the term to denote a horse's neck armor, connecting it to mane; Harold Dillon, 17th Viscount Dillon and Charles John ffoulkes have argued that this is an error and that term referred to a kind of gauntlet, from French main de fer (literally “hand of iron”), now often spelled manifer. Pronunciation: /ˈmeɪnfɛə/, /ˈmeɪnfɛəɹ/ 1. Protective armor for a horse's neck; a crinet or criniere. Example: The Criniere or Manefaire consisted of a number of small plates, generally about twelve, hooked together and to the chanfron, so as to be moveable, their use was to guard the neck of the horse from the stroke of a cutting sword. Example: The horse of a knight […] has a large criniere of mail pendant from the manefaire. […] The knight who carries the standard of Kybourgh has a manefaire on his horse of little plates rivetted on cloth, with a criniere below, and the bearer of the flag of Reineck, a poitrel on his horse, […]
Word: poitrinal Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French poitrinal. Pronunciation: /pɔɪ.tɹin.əl/ 1. Synonym of poitrel (“chest-armor for a horse”). Example: The Poitrinal, Pectoral, or Breast Plate was formed of plates of metal rivetted together, which covered the breast and shoulders of the horse, it was commonly adorned with foliage, or other ornaments engraved or embossed. 2. Obsolete spelling of petronel (“firearm”). Labels: alt-of, obsolete
Word: pectoral Part of Speech: adj Etymology: All senses are ultimately from Latin pectorālis, but some may have come through Old French and Middle English. Pronunciation: /ˈpɛk.tə.ɹəl/, /pɛkˈtoɹəl/ 1. Of or pertaining to the breast, or chest. Labels: not-comparable Example: the pectoral muscles Example: Clad in red robes and a gold pectoral cross, Agostini finally lowered his gaze as he crossed the marble floor. 2. Relating to, or good for, diseases of the chest or lungs. Labels: not-comparable Example: But, in general, a few days' confinement, abstinence from flesh meat, and frequent sippings of some tepid pectoral drink, sufficed for the cure. 3. Having the breast conspicuously colored. Labels: not-comparable Example: the pectoral sandpiper
Word: pectoral Part of Speech: noun Etymology: All senses are ultimately from Latin pectorālis, but some may have come through Old French and Middle English. Pronunciation: /ˈpɛk.tə.ɹəl/, /pɛkˈtoɹəl/ 1. A pectoral fin. 2. Protective armor for a horse's breast. Example: The Poitrinal, Pectoral, or Breast Plate was formed of plates of metal rivetted together, which covered the breast and shoulders of the horse, it was commonly adorned with foliage, or other ornaments engraved or embossed. 3. A covering or protection for the breast. 4. A breastplate, especially that worn by the Jewish high priest. 5. A clasp, cross, or ornamental square of cloth etc. worn upon the breast. 6. An ancient Egyptian item of jewelry worn upon the chest, often part of (or constituting) a necklace or collar. Labels: historical 7. A medicine for diseases of the chest organs, especially the lungs.
Word: croupiere Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from French croupière. Doublet of crupper. Pronunciation: /kɹupˈjɛəɹ/ 1. Synonym of crupper (“armor for a horse's buttocks”). Example: The Croupiere or Buttock Piece was also some times formed of plates of copper, brass or iron, though often of jacked leather, when the chanfron and poitrinal were of metal.
Word: brazen Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English brasen, from Old English bræsen (“brazen, of brass”); equivalent to brass + -en (compare golden, wooden, etc.). The word originally meant “of brass”; the figurative verb sense (as in brazen it out (“face impudently”)) dates from the 1550s (perhaps evoking the sense “face like brass, unmoving and not showing shame”), and the adjective sense “impudent” from the 1570s. Compare brass neck, bold as brass. Pronunciation: /ˈbɹeɪ̯zən/, [ˈbɹeɪzn̩], /ˈbɹæ̝ɪ̯zən/, [ˈbɹæ̝ɪzn̩] 1. To turn a brass color. Labels: intransitive Example: [...] the meadows roughen, grow gutteral / with goldenrod, milkweed's late-summer lilac, / cat-tails, the wild lily brazening, / dooryards overflowing in late, rough-headed bloom: [...] 2. Generally followed by out or through: to carry through in a brazen manner; to act boldly despite embarrassment, risk, etc. Labels: transitive Example: And though the word doth eat up all they can ſay, as Moſes rod did: yet they harden their hearts with Pharaoh, they brazen their brows with him in the text, that ſaid I will not: Nay ſaid the Iſraelites, but we will have a King. [Commentary on Matthew 21:29.] Example: His impudence is only less than his ignorance, in referring his questioner to [John] Milton, in proof of the scriptural angels being celestial women. That gentleman mildly remarks, "Milton's angels are not Ladies." Instead of blushing, he brazens it out, and replies, "No—but some scriptural angels are Ladies—I believe"—shewing that he is as ignorant of his Bible as of Milton.
Word: layer Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Appears at first glance to be from Middle English leyer, leyare (“a layer of stones or bricks”), equivalent to lay + -er. In which case, ultimately identical to etymology 2 below. For the pronunciation compare prayer. However, this word layer (referring to a thickness of a material covering a surface) has also been argued to be from a respelling of an obsolete sense of the word lair that was once used by farmers, which had to do with soil. The connecting sense between the usual meaning of lair and the specialised farming meaning was: an area where cows typically rest, the ground being fertilised by their waste. Related to lie, ledger. Pronunciation: /ˈleɪ̯ɚ/, [ˈleɪ̯ɚ] ~ [ˈleɪ̯ɹ̩], /ˈlɛɹ/, /ˈleɪ.ə/, [ˈleɪ̯.ə] 1. A single thickness of some material covering a surface. Example: Wrap the loaf in two layers of aluminum foil before putting it in the oven. Example: After the first coat of paint dried, he applied another layer. 2. A single thickness of some material covering a surface. Example: It's cold now but it will warm up this afternoon. Make sure you wear layers. 3. A (usually) horizontal deposit; a stratum. Example: I find seven-layer cake a bit too rich. Example: Sometimes, the underlying layers are exposed by erosion, revealing the story of the rocks like an open book. 4. One of the items in a hierarchy. Example: mired in layers of deceit Example: Right above the database access layer sits a number cruncher that performs any calculations that a particular request may require, such as computing a standard deviation. In many cases, this layer just forwards raw numbers. 5. One in a stack of (initially transparent) drawing surfaces that comprise an image; used to keep elements of an image separate so that they can be modified independently from one another. 6. One of the seven network switch pieces in the Open Systems Interconnection model: application, presentation, session, transport, network, data link, and physical. 7. An alternative keymap accessed through a modifier key or toggle.
Word: layer Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Appears at first glance to be from Middle English leyer, leyare (“a layer of stones or bricks”), equivalent to lay + -er. In which case, ultimately identical to etymology 2 below. For the pronunciation compare prayer. However, this word layer (referring to a thickness of a material covering a surface) has also been argued to be from a respelling of an obsolete sense of the word lair that was once used by farmers, which had to do with soil. The connecting sense between the usual meaning of lair and the specialised farming meaning was: an area where cows typically rest, the ground being fertilised by their waste. Related to lie, ledger. Pronunciation: /ˈleɪ̯ɚ/, [ˈleɪ̯ɚ] ~ [ˈleɪ̯ɹ̩], /ˈlɛɹ/, /ˈleɪ.ə/, [ˈleɪ̯.ə] 1. To cut or divide into layers. Labels: ambitransitive 2. To arrange in layers. Labels: ambitransitive Example: Layer the ribbons on top of one another to make an attractive pattern.
Word: layer Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Old English læġ English lay English -er English layer From lay + -er. Pronunciation: /ˈleɪ.ə/, /ˈleɪ.ɚ/ 1. A person who lays anything, such as tiles or a wager. Example: If fortune ever favoured any venturesome layer of bets, Tom Elliot was certainly the one that day. 2. A mature female bird, insect, etc. that is able to lay eggs. Example: As for which hen we'll cull for next Sunday's dinner, we certainly won't eat Henrietta yet — she's still a prime layer. Example: When dealing with an infestation of headlice, the first step is to eliminate the layers. 3. A mature female bird, insect, etc. that is able to lay eggs. Example: “Mrs. Boast can’t have got all these from one hatching,” [Ma] said. “I do believe there’s not more than two cockerels among them.” “The Boasts have got such a head-start with chickens, likely they’re planning to eat friers this summer,” said Pa. “It may be she took a few cockerels out of this flock, looking on them as meat.” “Yes, and replaced them with pullets that will be layers,” Ma guessed. “It would be Mrs. Boast all over. A more generous woman never lived.” Example: We keep a flock of layers and flock of broilers. 4. A shoot of a plant, laid underground for growth.
Word: baudrick Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of baldric. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: baldrick Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of baldric. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: And the bright green belt on his body he bore, oblique, like a baldrick, bound at his side below his left shoulder, laced in a knot... Example: That a woman conceiv'd me, I thank her; that she brought me up, I likewise give her most humble thanks; but that I will have a rechate winded in my forehead, or hang my bugle in an invisible baldrick, all women shall pardon me.
Word: calash Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From French calèche. 1. Alternative form of calèche (“type of carriage with low wheels”). Labels: alt-of, alternative, historical 2. A silk and whalebone hood worn by ladies to shade the face. Labels: historical Example: Mrs. Lobb, an elderly lady, in a green calash, from the sign of the ‘Fan’, in Dyot-street, St. Giles's, was announced by Kit Finney, the mason's son, as wishing to see Mr. Nollekens.
Word: hacker Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Possibly from hack(ney cab) (“carriage pulled by a hackney horse, or motorized vehicle, available for public hire”) + -er (suffix forming agent nouns). Pronunciation: /hækə/, /hækəɹ/ 1. One who operates a taxicab; a cabdriver. Labels: US Example: Start runnin' for a streetcar and they open up with machine guns and bump two pedestrians, a hacker asleep in his cab, and an old scrubwoman on the second floor workin' a mop. And they miss the guy they're after. Example: Washington Hacker Charles A. Culp and his pet macaw parrot, Capt. Bligh, ran afoul of the law when a policeman charged Culp with failure to give full time and attention to driving, because he was tickling Capt. Bligh who has a perch in the cab.
Word: hacker Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From hack (“(obsolete) to confuse or mangle (words) when speaking”) + -er (suffix forming frequentative verbs). Pronunciation: /hækə/, /hækəɹ/ 1. To speak with a spasmodic repetition of vocal sounds; to stammer, to stutter; also, to mumble and procrastinate in one's speech; to hem and haw. Labels: UK, archaic, dialectal, intransitive Example: The interrupting of the Miniſter by the Clark, and the vvhole congregation, vvhen he readeth the Pſalms, by taking every other verſe out of his mouth, vvith an hackering confuſed noiſe, eſpecially in countrey Churches, vvhere the people cannot read vvell. Example: Stammering, hackering—and so forth; it's shameful to relate! A soldier should be sound, brave, firm, decisive, true, honourable!
Word: armour Part of Speech: noun 1. British standard spelling of armor. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: armour Part of Speech: verb 1. British standard spelling of armor.
Word: lei Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Hawaiian lei. Pronunciation: /leɪ/ 1. A garland of flowers in Hawaii. Example: Both brides and grooms in native Hawaiian tradition wear flower garlands as a physical manifestation of their love for one another, and to some, the twining of the stems is reflective of two families now becoming one. A more tourist-friendly version established in the past couple of decades involves winding the leis around the couple’s hands to bind them together.
Word: lei Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Romanian lei. Pronunciation: /leɪ/ 1. plural of leu Labels: form-of, plural
Word: jackknife Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of jack-knife. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: […] near it is a cluster of weapons of villanous aspect, comprising every thing from a Malayan creese to a sailor's jackknife or a Smith & Wesson revolver. 2. A resampling method that applies estimators to all subsamples that each omit a single different group (possibly of a single datapoint) of the original sample to provide a sample distribution of the estimate.
Word: jackknife Part of Speech: verb 1. Alternative form of jack-knife. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: insurance Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From the older form ensurance, see also assurance. By surface analysis, insure + -ance. Pronunciation: /ɪnˈʃɔː.ɹəns/, /ɪnˈʃʊə.ɹəns/, /ɪnˈʃʊɹ.əns/, /ɪnˈʃɜɹ.əns/, /ˈɪn.ʃə.ɹɪns/ 1. A means of indemnity against a future occurrence of an uncertain event. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: The car was totalled, but fortunately I had insurance. Example: In an era when political leaders promise deliverance from decline through America’s purported preeminence in scientific research, the news that science is in deep trouble in the United States has been as unwelcome as a diagnosis of leukemia following the loss of health insurance. 2. The business of providing insurance. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: After five years in banking, I switched to insurance. 3. Any attempt to forestall an unfavorable event. Labels: figuratively, uncountable, usually Example: The sky was clear, but I took my umbrella for insurance. 4. A bet made after the deal, which pays off if the dealer has blackjack. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: I only take insurance if the count is right. 5. An insurance policy. Labels: countable, usually Example: "The children need to get back to some level of normalcy and their families can certainly use some respite to deal with things such as insurances, licences and other things they have lost," he said. 6. A company providing insurance policies; an insurer. Labels: countable, usually Example: 'They don't say so yet, but the suggestion is incendiarism. […]' 'Why should they think anything wrong?' 'These insurances go a lot by the fire brigade report. I suppose the officer in charge has suggested something.'
Word: d'oh Part of Speech: intj Etymology: Imitative. Popularised by the cartoon character Homer Simpson in the TV show The Simpsons. Voice actor Dan Castellaneta has said that he modelled his version on the drawn-out "do-o-o-o" sound made by Jimmy Finlayson in the films of Laurel and Hardy. The OED has references from the BBC as far back as 1945. Pronunciation: /doʊ(ʔ)/, /dəʊ(ʔ)/ 1. Expresses frustration or anger, especially at one’s own stupidity. Example: —I just paid for our food. —You didn't have to. It's free. —D'oh!
Word: level Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *leyH-der. Proto-Indo-European *-dʰromder. Proto-Italic *līðrā? Latin lībra Proto-Indo-European *-lós Proto-Indo-European *-elós Proto-Italic *-elos Latin -la Latin libella Old French livelbor. Middle English level English level From Middle English level, from Old French livel, liveau m, later nivel, niveau, from Latin libella f (“a balance, a level”), diminutive of libra f (“a balance, a level”); see libra, librate. Doublet of libella and niveau. The verb is from Middle English levelen, from the noun. Pronunciation: /ˈlɛvəl/, [ˈlɛvəl] ~ [ˈlɛvl̩] 1. The same height at all places; parallel to a flat ground. Example: This table isn't quite level; see how this marble rolls off it? Example: the smooth and level pavement 2. At the same height as some reference; constructed as level with. Example: We tried to hang the pictures so that the bottom of the frames were level with the dark line in the wallpaper. Example: Nanny Broome was looking up at the outer wall. Just under the ceiling there were three lunette windows, heavily barred and blacked out in the normal way by centuries of grime. Their bases were on a level with the pavement outside, a narrow way which was several feet lower than the road behind the house. 3. Unvaried in frequency. Example: His pulse has been level for 12 hours. 4. Unvaried in volume. Example: His voice has been unchanged. It has been level for 12 hours. 5. Calm. Example: He kept a level head under stress. Example: He kept a level gaze. 6. In the same position or rank. Example: Young boys and girls Are level now with men. Example: After a poor start to the season, Roy Hodgson's men are now unbeaten in four matches and 10th in the Premier League table, level with Aston Villa on 11 points. 7. Straightforward; direct; clear. Example: a very plain and level account 8. Well balanced; even; just; steady; impartial. Example: a level head; a level understanding Example: a level consideration 9. Of even tone; without rising or falling inflection; monotonic. Example: Intonation or tone is either level, rising, or falling, marked respectively 10. Perpendicular to a gravitational force. Example: The earth's oceans remain level in relation to the pull of gravity.
Word: level Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *leyH-der. Proto-Indo-European *-dʰromder. Proto-Italic *līðrā? Latin lībra Proto-Indo-European *-lós Proto-Indo-European *-elós Proto-Italic *-elos Latin -la Latin libella Old French livelbor. Middle English level English level From Middle English level, from Old French livel, liveau m, later nivel, niveau, from Latin libella f (“a balance, a level”), diminutive of libra f (“a balance, a level”); see libra, librate. Doublet of libella and niveau. The verb is from Middle English levelen, from the noun. Pronunciation: /ˈlɛvəl/, [ˈlɛvəl] ~ [ˈlɛvl̩] 1. To adjust so as to make as flat or perpendicular to the ground as possible. Labels: transitive Example: You can level the table by turning the pads that screw into the feet. Example: This pitfall, beginning in February and finishing in May, resulted in a drop of about 3 ft. in the platform level; during this period it was necessary to level the track three times weekly, and impose a service slack of 15 m.p.h. The subsidence appears now to have finished, and normal speed is once again permitted. 2. To destroy by reducing to ground level; to raze. Labels: transitive Example: The hurricane leveled the forest. Example: He levels mountains and he raises plains. 3. To progress to the next level. Labels: intransitive Example: I levelled after defeating the dragon. 4. To aim or direct (a weapon, a stare, an accusation, etc). Labels: transitive Example: He levelled an accusation of fraud at the directors. The hunter levels the gun before taking a shot. Example: Bertram de Gordon, standing on the castle wall, levelled a quarrel out of a crossbow. 5. To direct or impose (a penalty, fine, etc) at or upon (someone) [with on or against or at]. Labels: transitive Example: If the right of killing salmon belong exclusively to the King, and consequently to his donatories, why has not the Legislature secured the right by levelling penalties against such as should encroach upon it … ? Example: How can the Minister reconcile the first statement with the clause, when he is in fact levelling punishment at the woman and not at the errant father … ? 6. To make the score of a game equal. Labels: intransitive Example: Holt was furious referee Michael Oliver refused to then award him a penalty after Ledley King appeared to pull his shirt and his anger was compounded when Spurs immediately levelled. 7. To bring to a common level or plane, in respect of rank, condition, character, privilege, etc. Labels: figuratively, transitive Example: to level all the ranks and conditions of men 8. To adjust or adapt to a certain level. Labels: transitive Example: to level remarks to the capacity of children Example: For all his mind on honour fixed is, / To which he levels all his purposes. 9. To speak honestly and openly [with with ‘someone’] (see: level with). Labels: intransitive Example: Sean, I'll level with you. This could get ugly. Do you have a gun? 10. To replace (an irregular form) with a more common form; to remove irregularities or complexities, such as within a paradigm; to regularize.
Word: mist Part of Speech: noun Etymology: The noun is from Middle English mist, from Old English mist (“mist; darkness; dimness (of eyesight)”), from Proto-Germanic *mihstaz (“mist, fog”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃migʰstos, from the root *h₃meygʰ- (“cloud, fog, drizzle”). Cognate with Scots mist (“mist, fog”), West Frisian mist (“mist”), Dutch mist (“mist”), Swedish mist (“mist, fog”), Icelandic mistur (“mist”), West Frisian miegelje (“to drizzle”), Dutch dialectal miggelen, miegelen (“to drizzle”), Lithuanian miglà (“fog”), Sanskrit मेघ (megha, “cloud”), Russian мгла (mgla, “fog, haze”). The verb is from Middle English misten, from Old English mistian. Pronunciation: /mɪst/ 1. Water or other liquid finely suspended in air. (Compare fog, haze.) Labels: countable, uncountable Example: It was difficult to see through the morning mist. 2. A layer of fine droplets or particles. Labels: countable Example: There was an oily mist on the lens. 3. Anything that dims, darkens, or hinders vision. Labels: countable, figuratively, uncountable Example: His passion cast a mist before his sense. Example: Alas, I do not have the strength to continue writing. Already, mist veils my eyes.
Word: mist Part of Speech: verb Etymology: The noun is from Middle English mist, from Old English mist (“mist; darkness; dimness (of eyesight)”), from Proto-Germanic *mihstaz (“mist, fog”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃migʰstos, from the root *h₃meygʰ- (“cloud, fog, drizzle”). Cognate with Scots mist (“mist, fog”), West Frisian mist (“mist”), Dutch mist (“mist”), Swedish mist (“mist, fog”), Icelandic mistur (“mist”), West Frisian miegelje (“to drizzle”), Dutch dialectal miggelen, miegelen (“to drizzle”), Lithuanian miglà (“fog”), Sanskrit मेघ (megha, “cloud”), Russian мгла (mgla, “fog, haze”). The verb is from Middle English misten, from Old English mistian. Pronunciation: /mɪst/ 1. To form mist. Labels: intransitive Example: It's misting this morning. 2. To spray fine droplets on, particularly of water. Labels: transitive Example: I mist my tropical plants every morning. 3. To rain in very fine droplets. Labels: intransitive Example: ... it's misting outside. When it mists outside it's half fog and half rain. Example: On this particular early morning , with a bitter cold rain misting down, Seminov was reaching the end of his endurance. 4. To cover with a mist. Labels: transitive Example: The lens was misted. Example: her breath will mist or staine the stone 5. To be covered by tears. Labels: transitive Example: My eyes misted when I remembered what had happened. 6. To disperse into a mist, accompanying operation of equipment at high speeds.
Word: mist Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /mɪst/ 1. past of miss Labels: form-of, obsolete, past Example: you shall be mist at Court
Word: transfer Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *terh₂-der. Proto-Indo-European *térh₂t Proto-Indo-European *-ónts Proto-Indo-European *tr̥h₂ónts Proto-Indo-European *tr̥h₂n̥ts Proto-Italic *trāns Proto-Italic *trāns- Latin trāns- Proto-Indo-European *bʰer- Proto-Indo-European *bʰéreti Proto-Italic *ferō Latin ferō Latin trānsferōder. English transfer From Latin trānsferō (“to bear across”). Distant doublet of translate. See also collate and confer, delate and defer, as well as prelate and prefer among others. Pronunciation: /tɹɑːnsˈfɜː/, /tɹænsˈfɜː/, /tɹænsˈfɚ/, /ˈtɹæns.fɚ/ 1. To move or pass from one place, person or thing to another. Labels: transitive Example: to transfer the laws of one country to another; to transfer suspicion 2. To convey the impression of (something) from one surface to another. Labels: transitive Example: to transfer drawings or engravings to a lithographic stone 3. To exit one mass transit vehicle and board another (typically one belonging to a different line or mode of transportation) to continue a journey. Example: transfer to the Blue Line 4. To be or become transferred. Labels: intransitive 5. To arrange for something to belong to or be officially controlled by somebody else. Labels: transitive Example: The title to land is transferred by deed. 6. To 'carry' or apply anything (a concept, a name...) from one type of thing to a different type of thing. Labels: transitive Example: The ancient Romans named the planet Mars by transferring that name from a deity of their pantheon to the planet appearing in the night sky. 7. To move from a wheelchair to another seating surface, or to a wheelchair from another seating surface. Labels: intransitive
Word: transference Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /tɹænsˈfəɹəns/, /ˈtɹænsfəɹəns/, /ˈtɹansf(ə)ɹ(ə)ns/, /ˈtɹɑːnsf(ə)ɹ(ə)ns/, /ˈtɹanzf(ə)ɹ(ə)ns/ 1. The act of conveying from one place to another; the act of transferring or the fact of being transferred. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. The process by which emotions and desires, originally associated with one person, such as a parent, are unconsciously shifted to another. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Furthermore, although probably few analysts still believe that transference occurs only in the context of the psychoanalytic situation, many hold that this phenomenon pertains only to object relationships. I submit, however, that the characteristic features of transference can be observed in other situations as well, especially in the area of learned skills.⁶ Thus, speaking a language with a foreign accent is one of the most striking everyday examples of transference. In the traditional concept of transference, one person (the analysand) behaves toward another (the analyst) as if the latter were someone else, previously familiar to him; and the subject is usually unaware of the actual manifestations of his own transferred behavior. In exactly the same way, persons who speak English (or any other language) with a foreign accent treat English as if it were their mother tongue; and they are usually unaware of the actual manifestations of their transferred behavior. […] Example: Those who argue for laws against sex between therapists and clients say that consent is not a simple matter for the person who goes to another for help. They point in particular to the dynamic of "transference," during which a client may re-enact a parental relationship with the therapist.
Word: Robert Part of Speech: name Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *kreH-der. Proto-Germanic *hrōþiz Proto-Indo-European *bʰerHǵ- Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Indo-European *bʰer(H)ǵ-tó-s Proto-Germanic *berhtaz Proto-Germanic *Hrōþiberhtaz Proto-West Germanic *Hrōþiberhtder. Frankishder. Anglo-Norman Robertder. English Robert From Anglo-Norman Robert, from the Old Frankish cognate of Old High German Hrodperht (normalised form: Ruodberht), from Proto-West Germanic *Hrōþiberht, from Proto-Germanic *Hrōþiberhtaz (literally “shining glory”). Doublet of Rupert. Pronunciation: /ˈɹɑ.bɚt/, /ˈɹɒb.ət/, /ˈɹɔb.ət/ 1. A male given name from the Germanic languages. Example: My brother Robert? Old Sir Robert's son? / Colbrand the giant, that same mighty man? Example: I hadn't even considered names for a girl. Robby it would be. Robert Douglas. Where the Douglas came from is another story, but the Robert came from me because I liked the sound. Robert was formal, dignified, important. Robert. And that was nearly as nice as the chance I'd have to call my little brother Rob and Robby. 2. A French surname originating as a patronymic.
Word: araba Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Ottoman Turkish عربه (modern Turkish araba). 1. A horse-drawn carriage once used for transportation in pre-modern Turkey. Labels: historical Example: No one but a native of the luxurious East could ever have invented an araba, with its comfortable cushions, and its gaily painted roof, and gilded pillars. The prettiest are those of brown and gold, with rose-coloured draperies, through which the breeze flutters to your cheek as blandly as though it loved the tint that reminded it of the roses of the past season amid which it had wandered." Example: I found the examination of these antiquities much less pleasant than to look at the many troops of children assembled on the plain to play; and to watch them as they were dragged about in little queer arobas, or painted carriages, which are there kept for hire.
Word: aroba Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of araba. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: skid flip Part of Speech: noun 1. A bowl where the ball skids a long way before it starts to roll.
Word: spare ball Part of Speech: noun 1. The situation where all ten pins are knocked down with the second throw in a frame. The points scored by the next ball rolled (in the next frame) are added to the spare's frame's score.
Word: nutter Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English nutter, notere, equivalent to nut + -er. Pronunciation: /ˈnʌtə/, /ˈnʌtər/ 1. A person who gathers nuts. 2. An eccentric, insane, crazy or reckless person. Labels: Ireland, UK, derogatory, informal, sometimes Example: That bird who's hanging' out with you is mad like cat piss / Like bread and jam, or a knife going with butter / Face it son, your missus is a nutter! Example: When I asked Mr Robinson why he'd made his own attempts, he said, 'It gets to be a bug. And I suppose I'm a nutter.'
Word: nutter Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Blend of nut + butter. Pronunciation: /ˈnʌtə/, /ˈnʌtər/ 1. nut butter Labels: obsolete, uncountable Example: Nut Butter (Table Nutter) is also recommended. Example: Among the miscellaneous articles examined, 27 samples of vegetable fat resembling lard were purchased for analysis under the various names of nut lard, nut butter, nutter, palmine, &c. These were passed as genuine.
Word: brivla Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Lojban brivla. 1. A Lojban predicate word. Specifically, a word which may be used to express a selbri relation (a statement of truth of one kind or another) between a number of arguments. Gismu, lujvo and fu'ivla are all brivla. Labels: Lojban Example: Brivla are "content words", i.e., categorematic. When acting as selbri they are roughly comparable to verbs (or adjectives (or even nouns), if the selbri's arity is one), and when acting as sumti (e.g., due to being prefixed with "le") they are comparable to nouns. If a brivla modifies another one (thereby forming a "tanru"), the modifying brivla would be comparable to an adverb or adjective (*), depending on whether the modified brivla is acting as selbri or sumti, respectively. // Footnote: (*) - the modifying brivla could instead be comparable, in some cases, to the modified brivla's predicate. Example: They often have no semantic meaning in themselves, though they may affect the semantics of brivla to which they are attached.
Word: ⠷ Part of Speech: character 1. Renders the print sequence of, including the independent word of. Labels: letter
Word: ⠷ Part of Speech: punct 1. ( (variant opening parenthesis)
Word: impecunious Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From im- + pecunious, from Latin pecūniōsus, from pecūnia (“money”) + -ōsus (“full of”). Pronunciation: /ˌɪm.pəˈkjuː.ni.əs/, /ˌɪm.pɪˈkjuː.ni.əs/ 1. Lacking money. Labels: not-comparable Example: When I, good friends, was called to the bar, I'd an appetite fresh and hearty, But I was, as many young barristers are, An impecunious party. Example: "Then what became of her?" "Her? Which 'her'? The park is full of 'hers.'" "The lady with the green feathers in her hat. A big Gainsborough hat. I am quite sure it was Miss Hartuff." "Not improbably. I presume she does sometimes take the air. And possibly she may be the happy owner of a Gainsborough hat with green feathers." "Don't be frivolous, please. She was in that victoria." "Then perhaps she was too impecunious to drive both ways."
Word: lionised Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of lionise Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: Black Sea Part of Speech: name Etymology: Calque of Ottoman Turkish قره دكز (Kara Deñiz, “Black Sea”) (modern Turkish Karadeniz) (from kara (“black, dark; north”) + deniz (“sea”)). Compare Russian Чёрное мо́ре (Čórnoje móre). The Turkish word is derived from the languages of the Near East, which is ultimately from an Old Iranian name: the primary Ancient Greek name Πόντος Ἄξεινος (Póntos Áxeinos) (first attested in 462 BC) is a rendering of Old Iranian *axšaina- (“dark-colored”). The naming is according to the system in which color names indicated the cardinal points (black [or dark] for north, red for south, white for west, and green or light blue for east); compare Red Sea. It is supposedly named as such by the Achaemenids; see Iranica for details. 1. An inland sea bound by Southeastern Europe in the west, Eastern Europe in the north and northeast, and Turkey in the south.
Word: Caucasus Part of Speech: name Etymology: Via Latin Caucasus, from Ancient Greek Καύκασος (Kaúkasos). Pronunciation: /ˈkɔːkəsəs/ 1. A mountain range in Eastern Europe between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea, on territory of Russia, Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan, which includes the ranges of Greater Caucasus and Lesser Caucasus. Example: Oh who can hold a fire in his hand / By thinking on the froſtie Caucaſus? / Or cloy the hungry edge of appetite, / by bare imagination of a Feaſt? Example: […] from the long and rugged ravines of the Caucasus, […] 2. The Hindu Kush, anciently known by Latin and Greek translated variants as the 'Caucasus of India' since the time of Alexander the Great. 3. A geopolitical region in Eastern Europe and Western Asia, deriving its name from the aforementioned mountains.