nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: subject Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Medieval Latin subiectō, iterative of subiciō (“throw, lay, place”), from sub (“under, at the foot of”) + iaciō (“throw, hurl”). Pronunciation: /səbˈd͡ʒɛkt/, /sʌbˈd͡ʒɛkt/ 1. To cause (someone or something) to undergo a particular experience, especially one that is unpleasant or unwanted. Labels: transitive Example: I came here to buy souvenirs, not to be subjected to a tirade of abuse! 2. To make subordinate or subservient; to subdue or enslave; to subjugate. Labels: transitive
Word: subject clause Part of Speech: noun 1. a clause that is the subject of a sentence
Word: intransitive verb Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ɪnˌtɹænsətɪv ˈvɜːb/, /ɪnˌtɹænzətɪv ˈvɜːb/ 1. An action verb which does not take a direct object. Example: In the English language, ‘sleep’ is an intransitive verb. Example: “‘Feel’ is an intransitive verb in your sentence and is modified by an adjective.”
Word: irregular Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English irreguler, from Old French irreguler, from Medieval Latin or Late Latin irrēgulāris, from in- + regularis, equivalent to ir- + regular. Pronunciation: /ɪˈɹɛɡ.jʊ.lə/, /ɪˈɹɛɡ.jə.lɚ/, /ɪˈɹeɡ.jə.lə/ 1. Nonstandard; not conforming to rules or expectations. Example: ‘ “It would be most irregular Grandpa!” says Miss Cecily frowning and tapping her foot. “Well, we’re a pretty irregular family so that’s neither here nor there,” says the old man, impish like. [...] ’ 2. Of a surface, rough. 3. Without symmetry, regularity, or uniformity. Example: The hovel stood in the centre of what had once been a vegetable garden, but was now a patch of rank weeds. Surrounding this, almost like a zareba, was an irregular ring of gorse and brambles, an unclaimed vestige of the original common. Example: Near by, where the crystal clear River Llugwy is crossed by a bridge, stands a small and ancient church built of massive, irregular boulders. 4. Of a polygon, not regular; having sides that are not equal or angles that are not equal. 5. Of a polyhedron, whose faces are not all regular polygons (or are not equally inclined to each other). 6. Of a word, not following the regular or expected patterns of inflection in a given language. Example: "Calves", "cacti", and "children" are irregular plurals. Example: "To buy" is an irregular English verb: its past simple and past participle tense is "bought".
Word: irregular Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English irreguler, from Old French irreguler, from Medieval Latin or Late Latin irrēgulāris, from in- + regularis, equivalent to ir- + regular. Pronunciation: /ɪˈɹɛɡ.jʊ.lə/, /ɪˈɹɛɡ.jə.lɚ/, /ɪˈɹeɡ.jə.lə/ 1. A soldier who is not a member of an official military force and who may not use regular army tactics. 2. One who does not regularly attend a venue. Example: There's one neighborhood tavern where the regulars and irregulars go after a hard day to unlax and rewind, throw back a few, and just hang out - you know the one.
Word: negative clause Part of Speech: noun 1. a clause that states a negative
Word: simple present Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From simple (“accompanied by no modal or auxiliary verb”) + present (“current time”). 1. The present tense; a verb or sentence in this tense. Labels: uncountable, usually
Word: present continuous Part of Speech: noun 1. A tense that describes an ongoing action in the present. In English it is formed by use of a form of be with a present participle. Labels: uncountable
Word: future Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English future, futur, from Old French futur, from Latin futūrus, irregular future active participle of sum (“to be”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰuH- (“to become, be”). Cognate with Old English bēo (“to become, will be; to be”). More at be. Doublet of futur. Displaced native Old English tōweard, which took on a different meaning as toward, and Middle English afterhede (“future”, literally “afterhood”) in the given sense. Pronunciation: /ˈfjuː.t͡ʃəː/, [ˈfjʊu̯.t͡ʃəː], /ˈfju.t͡ʃɚ/, [ˈfjʊu̯.t͡ʃɚ] ~ [ˈfjʊu̯.t͡ʃɹ̩] 1. The time ahead; those moments yet to be experienced. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: This solitary attitude stems in part from a deep sense of fatalism and futility, a profound social effect of the genophage that caused krogan numbers to dwindle to a relative handful. Not only are they angry that the entire galaxy seems out to get them, the krogan are also generally pessimistic about their race's chances of survival. The surviving krogan see no point to building for the future; there will be no future. The krogan live with an attitude of "kill, pillage, and be selfish, for tomorrow we die." 2. Something that will happen in moments yet to come. Labels: countable, uncountable 3. Goodness in what is yet to come. Something to look forward to. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: There is no future in dwelling on the past. Example: Think of banking today and the image is of grey-suited men in towering skyscrapers. Its future, however, is being shaped in converted warehouses and funky offices in San Francisco, New York and London, where bright young things in jeans and T-shirts huddle around laptops, sipping lattes or munching on free food. 4. The likely prospects for or fate of someone or something in time to come. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Again, it's unlikely they will return to traffic, but futures have been secured for four that will be heading to heritage railways [...]. 5. Verb tense used to talk about events that will happen in the future; future tense. Labels: countable, uncountable 6. Alternative form of futures. Labels: alt-of, alternative, countable, uncountable 7. An object that retrieves the value of a promise. Labels: countable, uncountable 8. A minor-league prospect. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: future Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English future, futur, from Old French futur, from Latin futūrus, irregular future active participle of sum (“to be”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰuH- (“to become, be”). Cognate with Old English bēo (“to become, will be; to be”). More at be. Doublet of futur. Displaced native Old English tōweard, which took on a different meaning as toward, and Middle English afterhede (“future”, literally “afterhood”) in the given sense. Pronunciation: /ˈfjuː.t͡ʃəː/, [ˈfjʊu̯.t͡ʃəː], /ˈfju.t͡ʃɚ/, [ˈfjʊu̯.t͡ʃɚ] ~ [ˈfjʊu̯.t͡ʃɹ̩] 1. Having to do with or occurring in the future. Labels: not-comparable Example: Future generations will either laugh or cry at our stupidity. Example: So this was my future home, I thought! Certainly it made a brave picture. I had seen similar ones fired-in on many a Heidelberg stein. Backed by towering hills,[…]a sky of palest Gobelin flecked with fat, fleecy little clouds, it in truth looked a dear little city; the city of one's dreams.
Word: conditional Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From French conditionnel, from Old French condicionel, equivalent to condition + -al. Pronunciation: /kənˈdɪʃ.ə.nəl/, /kənˈdɪʃ.nəl/ 1. Limited by a condition. Labels: not-comparable Example: I made my son a conditional promise: I would buy him a bike if he kept his room tidy. Example: Every covenant of God with man […] may justly be made (as in fact it is made) with this conditional punishment annexed and declared. 2. Stating that one sentence is true if another is true. Labels: not-comparable Example: "A implies B" is a conditional statement. Example: A conditional proposition is one which asserts the dependence of one categorical proposition on another. 3. Expressing a condition or supposition. Labels: not-comparable Example: a conditional word, mode, or tense
Word: conditional Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From French conditionnel, from Old French condicionel, equivalent to condition + -al. Pronunciation: /kənˈdɪʃ.ə.nəl/, /kənˈdɪʃ.nəl/ 1. A conditional sentence; a statement that depends on a condition being true or false. 2. The conditional mood. 3. A statement that one sentence is true if another is. Example: "A implies B" is a conditional. Example: Disjunctives may be turned into conditionals 4. An instruction that branches depending on the truth of a condition at that point. Example: if and while are conditionals in some programming languages. 5. A condition (a limitation or restriction). Example: The former is called the law, which hath his promises, conditionals, and comminations or threats, accordingly; the other is called the gospel, or rather the free promises hanging not on conditions on our behalf, but simply on God's verity and mercy, although they require conditions, but not as hanging thereon; of which promises the gospel may well be called a publication. Example: GOD grant us to be clean beasts, to cleave the hoofs accordingly, that is, to give the old man meat, meet for the owers, that is, the law with his appurtenances, conditionals, promises, and comminations; and to give to the new man the gospel and sweet free promises, as appertaineth; and then doubtless we shall walk in the right high-way unto eternal life, that is, in Christ Jesus, the end of the law and the fulfilling of the promises, in whome they be yea and Amen.
Word: superlative Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English superlatyf, from Old French superlatif, from Late Latin superlātīvus, from Latin superlātus (“carried above, over; extravagant, of hyperbole”), past participle of superfero (“carry over”), from super (“above”) + fero (“bear, carry”). Pronunciation: /suːˈpɜːlətɪv/, /sjuːˈpɜːlətɪv/, /sʉwˈpəːlətɪv/, /sʉːˈpɜːlətɪv/, /suˈpɝlətɪv/ 1. Having the power to carry something or someone above, over or beyond others. Labels: literally, not-comparable 2. Exceptionally good; of the highest quality. Labels: figuratively, not-comparable Example: The Governor-General was entertaining at a civil banquet in the evening. He is reported as having made a “superlative speech, congratulating the Victorians on their loyalty; […].” 3. Of or relating to the superlative degree (a degree of comparison of adjectives and adverbs). Labels: not-comparable
Word: superlative Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English superlatyf, from Old French superlatif, from Late Latin superlātīvus, from Latin superlātus (“carried above, over; extravagant, of hyperbole”), past participle of superfero (“carry over”), from super (“above”) + fero (“bear, carry”). Pronunciation: /suːˈpɜːlətɪv/, /sjuːˈpɜːlətɪv/, /sʉwˈpəːlətɪv/, /sʉːˈpɜːlətɪv/, /suˈpɝlətɪv/ 1. The extreme (e.g. highest, lowest, deepest, farthest, etc) extent or degree of something. Example: A twist is accordingly something especially good, and a big twist is the superlative of excellence. 2. The degree of comparison of an adjective or adverb used when comparing three or more entities in terms of a certain property or a certain way of doing something. In English, the superlative of superiority is formed by adding the suffix -est or the word most (e.g. tiniest, most fully); the superlative of inferiority, by adding the word least (e.g. least big, least fully). 3. An adjective or adverb in the superlative degree. Example: Daniel is amazing, wonderful, fantastic, and many other superlatives I can’t think of right now! Example: Sometimes it feels like there are no more superlatives left. Seriously, what else can be said about this little guy with the No 10 shirt and magic in his feet other than to ask, perhaps, whether there is anyone who wants to persist with the argument that Pelé, or Diego Maradona, or any of the others, have ever played this sport any better?
Word: neuter Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Inherited from Middle English neutre, from Latin neuter, from ne (“not”) + uter (“either”), a semantic loan from Koine Greek οὐδέτερος (oudéteros); compare English either, English whether, and neither. Pronunciation: /ˈnjuːtə/, /ˈn(j)utɚ/ 1. Neutral; on neither side; neither one thing nor another. Labels: not-comparable, uncommon, usually Example: But if I could, by Him that gave me life, I would attach you all and make you stoop Unto the sovereign mercy of the king; But since I cannot, be it known to you I do remain as neuter. Example: This is certain, that in all our Undertakings God will be either our Friend or our Enemy. For Providence never stands neuter […] 2. Having a form which is not masculine nor feminine; or having a form which is not of common gender. Labels: not-comparable, usually Example: a neuter noun Example: the neuter definite article 3. Intransitive. Labels: not-comparable, usually Example: a neuter verb 4. Sexless: having no or imperfectly developed sex organs. Labels: not-comparable, usually Example: […] I should never have anticipated that natural selection could have been efficient in so high a degree, had not the case of these neuter insects convinced me of the fact. 5. Sexless, nonsexual. Labels: literary, not-comparable, usually Example: Rich girls stayed home and got married and then "put out" occasionally, but only as their wifely duty. Prior to the sexual revolution in the 1960s southern belles were the most neuter members of the human race[.] 6. Castrated; having had the reproductive organs removed. Labels: not-comparable, usually
Word: neuter Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Inherited from Middle English neutre, from Latin neuter, from ne (“not”) + uter (“either”), a semantic loan from Koine Greek οὐδέτερος (oudéteros); compare English either, English whether, and neither. Pronunciation: /ˈnjuːtə/, /ˈn(j)utɚ/ 1. An organism, either vegetable or animal, which at its maturity has no generative organs, or but imperfectly developed ones, as a plant without stamens or pistils, as the garden Hydrangea; especially, one of the imperfectly developed females of certain social insects, as of the ant and the common honeybee, which perform the labors of the community, and are called workers. 2. One who has been neutered; eunuch. Labels: offensive, sometimes, uncommon Example: the information i acquire may help me finalize my decision to become a neuter. let me say that castration is (for me) in no way a short term goal. it's something i've heard about, thought about, and believe may benefit me personally. Example: I WOULD SOONER BECOME A NEUTER no seriously tell me where the libido-suppressing pills are 3. The act of neutering (typically an animal) Example: Well, we've had a young (probably around a year old, but I'm guessing), intact (he's scheduled for a neuter, but it's one of those "when we get a spare minute" type of things) male Shih-tzu/shih-tzu mix come in about a month ago. 4. A person who takes no part in a contest; someone remaining neutral. Example: But if you should beecome eyther a counterfayt Protestant, or a perverse Papist, or a colde and carelesse newter (which God forbid) the harme could not be expressed which you should do to your native Cuntrie. Example: Friends, neuters, enemies, all are as one, to make a fool a madman is their sport […]. 5. The neuter gender. 6. A noun of the neuter gender; any one of those words which have the terminations usually found in neuter words. 7. An intransitive verb or state-of-being verb. Example: Make one do, or act (to), fare fare, fare agire, with an accusative when the verb is a neuter, and with a dative when otherwise. Example: Compound verbs other than those already spoken of whereby neuters are made active, are very rare, as I have already hinted under the head of nouns.
Word: neuter Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Inherited from Middle English neutre, from Latin neuter, from ne (“not”) + uter (“either”), a semantic loan from Koine Greek οὐδέτερος (oudéteros); compare English either, English whether, and neither. Pronunciation: /ˈnjuːtə/, /ˈn(j)utɚ/ 1. To remove sex organs from an animal to prevent it from having offspring; to castrate or spay, particularly as applied to domestic animals. Labels: transitive 2. To rid of sexuality. Labels: transitive Example: The neutering extends to Believe’s guest stars, with warm-and-fuzzy verses from Ludacris (“I love everything about you / You’re imperfectly perfect”), Big Sean (“I don’t know if this makes sense, but you’re my hallelujah”), Nicki Minaj (who at least squeaks a “bitches” into her verse), and especially Drake, whose desire to hug and kiss the object of his affection on “Right Here” is reminiscent of The Red Hot Chili Peppers on Krusty’s Comeback Special. 3. To drastically reduce the effectiveness of something. Labels: transitive Example: Congress neutered the bill by adding an exception for big corporations. Example: Here wrangling, bitty conflicts neutered change. 4. To make grammatically neuter. Labels: transitive Example: At their religious services Am Tikva makes all attempts to de-genderize the liturgy by neutering English nouns and pronouns and, when Hebrew is used, by using both masculine and the feminine forms of the language.
Word: personal pronoun Part of Speech: noun 1. A pronoun which, in English, refers to one or a combination of the following Example: Mondays come with questions of couples Where and with whom did you go? Avoiding the personal pronoun She hopes it doesn't show Shopping with her lover in the city Two women holding hands don't get a stare If the kids at school knew what they do Would they hate her? Why should they care? 2. A pronoun which, in English, refers to one or a combination of the following: 3. A pronoun which, in English, refers to one or a combination of the following: 4. A pronoun which, in English, refers to one or a combination of the following: 5. Any pronoun, with an antecedent, standing in as the subject or object of a verb.
Word: direct verb Part of Speech: noun 1. A verb that agrees in person and number with the subject of a clause, by conjugation. Conjugation is a form of inflection.
Word: ordinal number Part of Speech: noun 1. A word that expresses the relative position of an item in a sequence. Example: First, second and third are the ordinal numbers corresponding to one, two and three. 2. A natural number used to denote position in a sequence. Example: In the expression a₃, the "3" is an ordinal number. 3. Such a number generalised to correspond to any cardinal number (the size of some set); formally, the order type of some well-ordered set of some cardinality a, which represents an equivalence class of well-ordered sets (exactly those of cardinality a) under the equivalence relation "existence of an order-preserving bijection". Example: 1950, Frederick Bagemihl (translator), Erich Kamke, Theory of Sets, Dover (Dover Phoenix), 2006, page 137, For not only do the antinomies a) to e) disappear when we admit as elements of sets only such sets, ordinal numbers, and cardinal numbers as are bounded above by a fixed cardinal number, but we see also that paradoxes always arise if we collect into a set any sets, cardinal numbers, or ordinal numbers which are not bounded above by a fixed cardinal number. Example: 1960 [D. Van Nostrand], Paul R. Halmos, Naive Set Theory, 2017, Dover, Republication, page 80, Is there a set that consists exactly of all the ordinal numbers? It is easy to see that the answer must be no. If there were such a set, then we could form the supremum of all ordinal numbers. That supremum would be an ordinal number greater than or equal to every ordinal number. Since, however, for each ordinal number there exists a strictly greater one (for example, its successor), this is impossible; it makes no sense to speak of the "set" of all ordinals.
Word: regular Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From Middle English reguler, from Anglo-Norman reguler, Middle French reguler, regulier, and their source, Latin rēgulāris (“continuing rules for guidance”), from rēgula (“rule”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₃reǵ- (“move in a straight line”). Pronunciation: /ˈɹɛɡjʊlə/, /ˈɹɛɡjəlɚ/, [ˈɹɛɡjɪ̈lɚ], /ˈɹɛɡl̩ɚ/, [ˈɹɛɡl̩ɚ] 1. Regularly, on a regular basis. Labels: archaic, dialectal, nonstandard, not-comparable Example: Though no minister would visit the Skerburnfoot, or, if he went, departed quicker than he came, the girl Ailie attended regular at the catechising at the mains of Sker. Example: "There's only twenty men staying in the house regular," said Ahearne, showing him around[.]
Word: regular Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English reguler, from Anglo-Norman reguler, Middle French reguler, regulier, and their source, Latin rēgulāris (“continuing rules for guidance”), from rēgula (“rule”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₃reǵ- (“move in a straight line”). Pronunciation: /ˈɹɛɡjʊlə/, /ˈɹɛɡjəlɚ/, [ˈɹɛɡjɪ̈lɚ], /ˈɹɛɡl̩ɚ/, [ˈɹɛɡl̩ɚ] 1. A member of the British Army (as opposed to a member of the Territorial Army or Reserve). 2. A frequent, routine visitor to an establishment. Example: Bartenders usually know their regulars by name. 3. A member of the armed forces or police force. 4. A member of the armed forces or police force. Labels: Singapore Example: Boss, this is the situation. They were regulars in the army. They’ve left the army and are taxi drivers now. He was a commando and he was a state boxer. They don’t earn much and there’s no end. 5. A frequent customer, client or business partner. Example: This gentleman was one of the architect's regulars. 6. A character who appears in every episode of a TV series; a member of the regular cast. Example: When it comes to regulars, some shows feature ensemble casts in which all the characters are more or less equal and the focus of the show shifts from one member of the ensemble to another from episode to episode. 7. A coffee with one cream and one sugar. Labels: Canada 8. Anything that is normal or standard. Example: You separate the marbles by color until you have four groups, but then you notice that some of the marbles are regulars, some are shooters, and some are peewees. 9. A member of a religious order who has taken the three ordinary vows. 10. A number for each year, giving, added to the concurrents, the number of the day of the week on which the Paschal full moon falls. 11. A fixed number for each month serving to ascertain the day of the week, or the age of the moon, on the first day of any month.
Word: compound sentence Part of Speech: noun 1. A sentence that contains two or more independent clauses, joined by a conjunction (such as 'but', 'and') or punctuation (such as ',').
Word: stem Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *steh₂- Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥ Proto-Indo-European *stéh₂mn̥ Proto-Indo-European *-is Proto-Indo-European *sth₂mnís Proto-Germanic *stamniz Proto-West Germanic *stamni Old English stemn Middle English stemme English stem From Middle English stem, stemme, stempne, stevin, from Old English stemn (“stem”), from Proto-West Germanic *stamni, from Proto-Germanic *stamniz (“stem, tree stalk”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *steh₂- (“to stand, stay”). Cognates Cognate with Dutch stam (“stem”), German Stamm (“stem”), Danish and Norwegian stamme (“stem”), Danish stavn, stævn (“stem of a boat”), Faroese stavnur (“stem of a boat”), stovnur (“institution, public body, foundation, basis”), Icelandic stafn (“stem of a boat”), stofn (“trunk, stock, livestock, stem”), Norn stomna, stimna (“strength, ability”), Swedish stäm (“tree trunk, stem”), stäv (“stem of a boat”), stomme (“frame, structure”), Gothic 𐍃𐍄𐍉𐌼𐌰 (stōma, “substantial grounds, just cause”), Asturian estame (“stamen”), Aragonese estambre (“stamen”), Catalan estam (“stamen”), French étaim (“yarn”), Galician estame (“stamen, yarn”), Italian stame (“stamen”), Portuguese estame (“stem, yarn”), Spanish Spanish estambre (“stamen, a type of yarn”), Latin stāmen (“warp of a loom, thread hanging from a distaff”), Ancient Greek στῆμα (stêma, “stamen of a flower”), στάμνος (stámnos, “earthen jar, bottle for racking off wine”), Albanian shtamë (“pot, jar, pitcher, jug”), Sanskrit स्थामन् (sthā́man, “place, strength”). Doublet of stamen. Not related to English stoma, which is a Greek loan inherited through New Latin. Pronunciation: /stɛm/, /stɪm/, /stem/ 1. To remove the stem from. Example: to stem cherries; to stem tobacco leaves 2. To be caused or derived; to originate. Example: The current crisis stems from the short-sighted politics of the previous government. Example: Weight stigma often stems from an idea that patients are at fault for their body size. 3. To descend in a family line. 4. To direct the stem (of a ship) against; to make headway against. Example: Nor is the pre-eminent tremendousness of the great Sperm Whale anywhere more feelingly comprehended, than on board of those prows which stem him. 5. To hit with the stem of a ship; to ram. Labels: obsolete Example: As when two warlike Brigandines at sea, / With murdrous weapons arm'd to cruell fight, / Doe meete together on the watry lea, / They stemme ech other with so fell despight, / That with the shocke of their owne heedlesse might, / Their wooden ribs are shaken nigh a sonder […] 6. To ram (clay, etc.) into a blasting hole.
Word: stem Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English stemmen, a borrowing from Old Norse stemma (“to stop, stem, dam”) (whence Danish stemme/stæmme (“to stem, dam up”)), from Proto-Germanic *stammijaną. Cognate with German stemmen, Middle Dutch stemmen, stempen. Compare stammer. Pronunciation: /stɛm/, /stɪm/, /stem/ 1. To stop, hinder (for instance, a river or blood). Labels: transitive Example: to stem a tide Example: [They] stem the flood with their erected breasts. 2. To move the feet apart and point the tips of the skis inward in order to slow down the speed or to facilitate a turn. 3. To use a stance with the feet spread apart, bracing them in opposite directions against the two walls of a chimney or dihedral.
Word: stem Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /stɛm/, /stɪm/, /stem/ 1. Alternative form of steem. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: stem Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Acronym of science, technology, engineering, (and) mathematics. Pronunciation: /stɛm/, /stɪm/, /stem/ 1. Alternative form of STEM. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: Stem (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) fields are a particular cause for concern because within them there are more pronounced stereotypes, extreme competitiveness and gender inequities regarding the abilities and competencies of black male and female students.
Word: stem Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Blend of stud + femme. Pronunciation: /stɛm/, /stɪm/, /stem/ 1. Alternative spelling of stemme (“lesbian who combines stud and femme traits”). Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: tense Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English tens, from Old French tens (modern French temps), from Latin tempus. Doublet of tempo and tempus. Pronunciation: /tɛns/ 1. The property of indicating the point in time at which an action or state of being occurs or exists. Labels: uncountable Example: Dyirbal verbs are not inflected for tense. 2. An inflected form of a verb that indicates tense. Labels: countable Example: English only has a past tense and a non-past tense; it has no future tense. Example: In ſo moche that if any verbe be of the thyꝛde coniugation I ſet out all his rotes and tenſes[…] 3. A grammatical aspect. Labels: countable, proscribed 4. A verb form or construction indicating a combination of tense, aspect, and mood. Labels: countable, proscribed Example: The "simple present" tense in English can have several meanings. Example: The Spanish teacher told the student to use the imperfect tense instead of the preterite tense.
Word: tense Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English tens, from Old French tens (modern French temps), from Latin tempus. Doublet of tempo and tempus. Pronunciation: /tɛns/ 1. To apply a tense to. Labels: transitive Example: tensing a verb
Word: tense Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Borrowed from Latin tēnsus, one form of the past participle of tendō (“stretch”). Pronunciation: /tɛns/ 1. Showing signs of stress or strain; not relaxed. Example: You need to relax, all this overtime and stress is making you tense. Example: "Attention," the tense man called out in Greek. "This is Lieutenant Kazamakis of the Cypriot Provisional Guard. You will immediately surrender all weapons and slowly come down the stairs, hands above your head." No answer. 2. Characterized by strain (on the nerves, emotions, etc). (Compare charged.) Example: Chi stops, but her eyes continue to pierce right through me and into Karima. A tense moment later, she drops her eyes back to the terminal and scans the data once more. The showdown is over, at least for the moment. 3. Pulled taut, without any slack. 4. Produced with relative constriction of the vocal tract.
Word: tense Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Borrowed from Latin tēnsus, one form of the past participle of tendō (“stretch”). Pronunciation: /tɛns/ 1. To make tense. Labels: transitive 2. To become tense. Labels: intransitive Example: The driver and the man shouted angrily at each other and I tensed, ready for violence. But soon everyone in the tap-tap joined in, capping remarks, joking, telling chicken and goat stories.
Word: degrees of comparison Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of degree of comparison Labels: form-of, plural
Word: interjection Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English interjeccioun, from Old French interjection (13th century), from Latin interiectiōnem, accusative singular of interiectiō (“throwing or placing between; interjection”), perfect passive participle of intericiō (“throw or place between”), from inter (“between”) + iaciō (“throw”). Displaced Old English betwēoxāworpennes (literally “between-thrown-out-ness”), a calque of the Latin. Pronunciation: /ɪn.təˈdʒɛk.ʃən/, /ˌɪn.tɚˈd͡ʒɛk.ʃən/ 1. An exclamation or filled pause; a word or phrase with no particular grammatical relation to a sentence, often an expression of emotion. Example: 322. The parts of speech which are neither declined nor conjugated, are called by the general name of particles. 323. They are adverbs, prepositions, conjunctions, and interjections. Example: Some evidence confirming our suspicions that topicalised and dislocated constituents occupy different sentence positions comes from Greenberg (1984). He notes that in colloquial speech the interjection man can occur after dislocated constituents, but not after topicalised constituents: cf. (21) (a) Bill, man, I really hate him (dislocated NP) (21) (b) ^✽Bill, man, I really hate (topicalised NP) 2. An interruption; something interjected Example: Mnuchin, asked about climate change in a CNBC interview after his comments about Thunberg, argued there were bigger issues that also needed to be addressed. When a host noted clean air rules as an example of something that might be more urgent, Mnuchin ignored the interjection.
Word: ending Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English endynge, endyng, endinge, from Old English endung, ġeendung (“ending”), equivalent to end + -ing. Cognate with Dutch ending (“ending”), German Endung (“ending”). Pronunciation: /ˈɛndɪŋ/ 1. A termination or conclusion. 2. The last part of something. Example: The book has a happy ending. Example: The film has an unexpected ending. 3. The last morpheme of a word, added to some base to make an inflected form (such as -s in "dogs"). Example: Spanish verb forms have different endings depending on the tense, mood and person. Example: Using diachronic evidence from Swedish, I will show that inflectional endings may be maintained as “less cumulative” inflections, or even degrammaticalize into a derivational suffix or a clitic.
Word: ending Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English ending, endyng, endende, from Old English endiende, from Proto-Germanic *andijōndz, present participle of Proto-Germanic *andijōną (“to end”), equivalent to end + -ing. Pronunciation: /ˈɛndɪŋ/ 1. present participle and gerund of end Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: declension Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From late Middle English declinson, from Middle French declinaison (Modern French: déclinaison), from Latin dēclīnātiō. Doublet of declination. Pronunciation: /dɪˈklɛn.ʃən/ 1. A falling off, decay or descent. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Refinement of feeling, intellectual tastes, and a noble hospitality, were among the features of his character; and hoary years brought no mental declension, and drew no shade over the ardent affections by which he was distinguished, and in whose reciprocity, was his undeclining solace. Example: The custom of rolling a burning wheel down a hill […] might well pass for an imitation of the sun's course in the sky, and the imitation would be especially appropriate on Midsummer Day when the sun's annual declension begins. 2. The act of declining a word; the act of listing the inflections of a noun, pronoun or adjective in order. Labels: countable, uncountable 3. The product of that act; a list of declined forms. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: a page full of declensions 4. A way of categorizing nouns, pronouns, or adjectives according to the inflections they receive. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: In Latin, 'amicus' belongs to the second declension. Most second-declension nouns end in '-i' in the genitive singular and '-um' in the accusative singular.
Word: comparative Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ḱe? Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm Proto-Italic *kom Proto-Italic *kom- Latin con- Latin pār Latin compār Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti Proto-Indo-European *-h₂tiinflu. Proto-Italic *-ājō Proto-Italic *-āō Latin -ō Latin comparō Proto-Indo-European *-wós Proto-Indo-European *-iHwósder. Latin īvus Latin comparātīvusbor. Old French comparatifbor. Middle English comparatif English comparative From Middle English comparatif, from Middle French comparatif, from Latin comparātīvus, equivalent to comparātus, from comparāre (“to compare”) + -ive, from Latin -īvus. Pronunciation: /kəmˈpæɹətɪv/, /kəmˈpɛɹətɪv/ 1. Of or relating to comparison. Example: He gave us a comparative example to illustrate how the human mind works. Example: that kind of animals that have the comparative faculty, by which they compare things together, deliberate and resolve. 2. Using comparison as a method of study, or founded on something using it. Example: A comparative study between Homo Sapiens and Homo neanderthalensis. Example: comparative anatomy 3. Approximated by comparison; relative. Example: I've passed the test with comparative ease. Example: The Olympics, the weather and a comparative lack of heavyweight clashes so far this season have been cited as reasons for the drop in viewers. 4. Comparable; bearing comparison. Labels: obsolete Example: And need he had of slumber yet, for none / Had suffered more—his hardships were comparative / To those related in my grand-dad's Narrative.
Word: comparative Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ḱe? Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm Proto-Italic *kom Proto-Italic *kom- Latin con- Latin pār Latin compār Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti Proto-Indo-European *-h₂tiinflu. Proto-Italic *-ājō Proto-Italic *-āō Latin -ō Latin comparō Proto-Indo-European *-wós Proto-Indo-European *-iHwósder. Latin īvus Latin comparātīvusbor. Old French comparatifbor. Middle English comparatif English comparative From Middle English comparatif, from Middle French comparatif, from Latin comparātīvus, equivalent to comparātus, from comparāre (“to compare”) + -ive, from Latin -īvus. Pronunciation: /kəmˈpæɹətɪv/, /kəmˈpɛɹətɪv/ 1. The degree of comparison of an adjective or adverb used when comparing two entities in terms of a certain property or a certain way of doing something. In English, the comparative of superiority is formed by adding the suffix -er or the word more (e.g. bigger, more fully); the comparative of equality, by adding the word as (e.g. as big, as fully); the comparative of inferiority, by adding the word less (e.g. less big, less fully). 2. An adjective or adverb in the comparative degree. 3. Data used to make a comparison. Labels: in-plural Example: Investment ratios are positive. Comparative or trend data are required to draw final conclusions. The absence of comparatives and trend data constrains the conclusions. 4. An equal; a rival; a compeer. Labels: obsolete Example: Gerrard ever was / His full comparative. 5. One who makes comparisons; one who affects wit. Labels: obsolete Example: Every beardless vain comparative.
Word: Castilian Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Castile + -ian as a calque of Spanish castellano (“Of or related to Castile, Spain, or the Spanish language”). Doublet of castellano, castellanus, castellan, and chatelain. Pronunciation: /kəˈstɪljən/ 1. The Castilian dialect of Spanish, often (especially historically) considered the prestige dialect of Spanish. 2. Synonym of Spanish, the language of Spain and its former colonies.
Word: Castilian Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Castile + -ian as a calque of Spanish castellano (“Of or related to Castile, Spain, or the Spanish language”). Doublet of castellano, castellanus, castellan, and chatelain. Pronunciation: /kəˈstɪljən/ 1. A native of Castile.
Word: Castilian Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Castile + -ian as a calque of Spanish castellano (“Of or related to Castile, Spain, or the Spanish language”). Doublet of castellano, castellanus, castellan, and chatelain. Pronunciation: /kəˈstɪljən/ 1. Of, from, or relating to Castile. Labels: not-comparable
Word: Spaniard Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English Spaignarde, from Old French Espaignard, from Espaigne. Equivalent to Spain + -ard. Pronunciation: /ˈspæn.jəd/, /ˈspæn.jɚd/ 1. A person of a Romance ethnic group native to Iberia, comprising the ethnic majority of Spain. Example: Wenger sent on Cesc Fabregas and Van Persie to try to finish Leeds off and with 14 minutes left the switch paid off as the Spaniard sent Bendtner away down the right and his wonderful curling cross was headed in by Van Persie at the far post. 2. A citizen of Spain.
Word: Aussie Part of Speech: name Etymology: From a clipping of Australian (or Australia) + -ie. The spelling likely adopted the visual template of the pre‐existing personal diminutive Aussie (from Austin or Augusta). However, while the personal nickname retains standard English phonics with a voiceless /s/, the pronunciation of the national slang (IPA⁽ᵏᵉʸ⁾: /ˈɒzi/) was driven by a highly productive morphophonological template in Commonwealth slang that strongly favors short stressed vowels and lenited consonants. The clipped base promotes the historically unstressed initial vowel to the short IPA⁽ᵏᵉʸ⁾: /ɒ/. This reflects a broader Commonwealth phonological rule where the /ɔː/ typically associated with the ⟨au⟩ digraph is shortened before a tautosyllabic /s/ or /s/‐cluster (as in austral). To lock in this short vowel on the page and prevent readers from reverting to an open‐syllable pronunciation, writers doubled the s as a structural dummy consonant. This created an orthographic trap. The spelling effectively represents a conservative /ˈɔːsi/, preserving the standard phonetic values of both the long vowel and the voiceless fricative. However, the egalitarian colloquial register actively demanded the lenited (voiced) /z/ (compare Tassie, Brissie, possie, cossie). Thus, the dialect compromised by writing the conservative, etymological ⟨ss⟩, while speaking the colloquial /z/. Though popularized internationally as military slang from 1915 onwards, early printed evidence shows the clipping was already active in Australian sporting vernacular by at least 1913. * 1913 January 29, The Referee, Sydney, page 14: “Aussie,” as the “heads” prefer to call Australian, won by 1min 14sec from the second boat, Lilian. Pronunciation: /ˈɔzi/, /ˈɒzi/, /ˈɒsi/, /ˈɔsi/, /ˈɑzi/ 1. A diminutive of the male given names Austin, Osborn, or Oswald. 2. A diminutive of the female given names Augusta or Austina. 3. the nation or continent of Australia (now uncommon except in sporting chants and in New Zealand). Labels: colloquial 4. An Australian (person). Labels: colloquial 5. An Australian Shepherd dog. Labels: colloquial 6. The Australian dollar. Labels: slang
Word: Aussie Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From a clipping of Australian (or Australia) + -ie. The spelling likely adopted the visual template of the pre‐existing personal diminutive Aussie (from Austin or Augusta). However, while the personal nickname retains standard English phonics with a voiceless /s/, the pronunciation of the national slang (IPA⁽ᵏᵉʸ⁾: /ˈɒzi/) was driven by a highly productive morphophonological template in Commonwealth slang that strongly favors short stressed vowels and lenited consonants. The clipped base promotes the historically unstressed initial vowel to the short IPA⁽ᵏᵉʸ⁾: /ɒ/. This reflects a broader Commonwealth phonological rule where the /ɔː/ typically associated with the ⟨au⟩ digraph is shortened before a tautosyllabic /s/ or /s/‐cluster (as in austral). To lock in this short vowel on the page and prevent readers from reverting to an open‐syllable pronunciation, writers doubled the s as a structural dummy consonant. This created an orthographic trap. The spelling effectively represents a conservative /ˈɔːsi/, preserving the standard phonetic values of both the long vowel and the voiceless fricative. However, the egalitarian colloquial register actively demanded the lenited (voiced) /z/ (compare Tassie, Brissie, possie, cossie). Thus, the dialect compromised by writing the conservative, etymological ⟨ss⟩, while speaking the colloquial /z/. Though popularized internationally as military slang from 1915 onwards, early printed evidence shows the clipping was already active in Australian sporting vernacular by at least 1913. * 1913 January 29, The Referee, Sydney, page 14: “Aussie,” as the “heads” prefer to call Australian, won by 1min 14sec from the second boat, Lilian. Pronunciation: /ˈɔzi/, /ˈɒzi/, /ˈɒsi/, /ˈɔsi/, /ˈɑzi/ 1. Australian. Labels: Australia, New-Zealand, South-Africa, UK, colloquial, not-comparable, usually Example: From the Marvel Mixmaster to the Miracle Microwave, every time a new-fangled gadget has lobbed into the Aussie kitchen, Aussie mums have changed their cooking styles accordingly. Example: Most Aussie officers seemed this way to me; always cool, deliberate, and extremely rational in their decision making, a far cry from the American leadership I had seen during my first year in the army.
Word: banana bender Part of Speech: noun 1. A native or inhabitant of Queensland, Australia. Labels: Australia, humorous Example: “Not now, you banana bender! The Commencement Speech takes place at the dinner tonight.” “Banana bender! I'm not from Queenland, I'll ‘ave you know. And I needs to test out the mike in advance. Always have trouble with those things.” Example: If Billy Lane hadn't given him such a firm handshake, Henry reckons he'd be wondering if all the Banana-benders shook like a girl.
Word: crow eater Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of croweater. Labels: Australia, alt-of, alternative
Word: sandgroper Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From sand + groper. The sense “Western Australian” may originate either as a reference to the relatively large proportion of desert in the state or to gold mining during the rushes of the 19th Century. 1. An inhabitant of Western Australia. Labels: Australia, humorous Example: On both occasions the sandgropers downed the ‘big V’, as indeed they did in 1947 at Hobart when finishing second; the VFL′s only other defeat in 68 pre-state of origin carnival games came in 1911 against South Australia in Adelaide. Example: Leonard not only accepted, he told the club he could help sign several West Australians. The Foreign Legion policy was born and, through Leonard′s personal contacts, South [Melbourne] signed Sandgropers Brighton Diggins and Bill Faul (both from Subiaco) and Gilbert Beard (South Fremantle). 2. Any species of the family Cylindrachetidae of subterranean insects, found in Australia, New Guinea and Argentina. Example: The sandgroper is not unique to Western Australia, being found elsewhere in Australia and also in New Guinea,[…]. Example: Most species are small, 4 to 15 mm in length, although some sandgropers (Cylindrachetidae) can reach the length of 40 mm.
Word: Taswegian Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Blend of Tasmanian + Glaswegian. Royal Australian Navy slang from about 1930. Possibly a reference to the cold climate of Tasmania, comparing it to the cold climate of Glasgow. Pronunciation: /tæzˈwiːd͡ʒən/, /tæzˈwiːd͡ʒiən/ 1. A Tasmanian seaman. Labels: Australia, slang 2. A native or inhabitant of Tasmania. Labels: Australia, derogatory, humorous, sometimes Example: The town is filled with lovely, lovely Taswegians, the kindest and most generous people I have ever met. Example: The new year is also vigorously celebrated further south during the Hobart Summer Festival (p646), when Taswegians stuff themselves with food, wine and song.
Word: Territorian Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From territory + -an. Pronunciation: /ˌtɛɹɪˈtɔːɹi.ən/ 1. A native or inhabitant of the Northern Territory, Australia. Labels: Australia, demonym Example: Territorians also could elect a representative to Federal Parliament (a right granted in 1923). Example: 1998 December, Minister for Health, Family and Community Services, Northern Territory Legislative Assembly, speech, quoted in 2008, Tess Lea, Bureaucrats and Bleeding Hearts: Indigenous Health in Northern Australia, page 25, Put simply, Aboriginal Territorians have drastically poorer health across virtually all causes of disease. Life expectancy at birth for indigenous men in the Northern Territory is 57 years compared to 77 years for other male Territorians.
Word: kiwi Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Māori kiwi. Pronunciation: /ˈkiːwi/ 1. A flightless bird of the order Apterygiformes native to New Zealand. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. Alternative letter-case form of Kiwi (“a person from New Zealand”). Labels: alt-of, countable, uncountable 3. A New Zealand dollar. Labels: countable, informal, uncountable 4. A kiwifruit (Actinidia chinensis var. deliciosa). Labels: countable, uncountable 5. A green-yellow colour, like that of kiwifruit flesh (also called kiwi green). Labels: uncountable 6. A member of the air force who does not fly. Labels: countable, slang, uncountable Example: And as its role grew in importance, ground commanders, or kiwis as they were called, made many mistakes in judgment […] 7. A testicle. Labels: countable, plural-normally, slang, uncountable Example: Now Rex he was a Texan out of New Orleans and he travelled with the carnival shows He ran bumper cars, sucked cheap cigars and he candied up his nose He got wind of the big brown beaver so he thought he'd take himself a peek But the beaver was quick and he grabbed him by the kiwis And he ain't pissed for a week (and a half)
Word: kiwi Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Borrowed from Māori kiwi. Pronunciation: /ˈkiːwi/ 1. Alternative letter-case form of Kiwi (“of or from New Zealand”) Labels: alt-of, informal
Word: kiwi Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Genericized trademark from the brand of shoe polish originating in Australia, from Māori kiwi. Pronunciation: /ˈkiːwi/ 1. Any kind of black shoe polish. Labels: Singapore, slang, uncountable
Word: kiwi Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Genericized trademark from the brand of shoe polish originating in Australia, from Māori kiwi. Pronunciation: /ˈkiːwi/ 1. To polish (boots) with black shoe polish. Labels: Singapore, slang Example: Johari Salleh: Ya, ya. Better not waste time. Must prepare, tomorrow morning got inspection. Teo Ah Beng: Ya lah, must kiwi the boots. Can borrow [lend] me your cloth? Krishnamoorthy: Ya, no problem. You better kiwi quickly. 11 pm lights off. […]
Word: pom Part of Speech: noun Etymology: A clipping of pomegranate. In reference to the British, first attested in Australia in 1912 as rhyming slang for immigrant with additional reference to the likelihood of sunburn turning their skin pomegranate red. As a cocktail, originally American. Pronunciation: /pɒm/, /pɑm/, /pɔm/ 1. An Englishman; a Briton; a person of British descent. Labels: Australia, New-Zealand, South-Africa, derogatory, mildly, slang Example: I could see more than mere humour in car stickers that read ‘Grow your own Dope: Plant a Pom’ ... ‘Keep Australia Beautiful: Shoot a Pom’. Example: The prize for being Australia′s original pom goes to the enterprising pirate William Dampier, who made the first investigations ashore about 40 years after Tasman and nearly 100 years before Cook. 2. A cocktail containing pomegranate juice and vodka.