nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: live Part of Speech: adj Etymology: An apheretic form of alive. Pronunciation: /ˈlaɪ̯v/, [ˈlaɪ̯v], /ˈlaːv/, [ˈlaːv] 1. Having life; that is alive. Labels: attributive Example: The post office will not ship live animals. 2. Being in existence; actual. Example: He is a live example of the consequences of excessive drinking. 3. Having active properties; being energized. Example: Because the vaccinia virus is live, it is important to follow care instructions for the vaccination site. 4. Operational; in actual use rather than in testing etc. 5. Operational; in actual use rather than in testing etc. Example: An object in the heap is live if its address is held in a root, or there is a pointer to it held in another live heap node. 6. Taken from a living animal. Example: live feathers 7. Imparting power; having motion. Example: the live spindle of a lathe Example: a live, or driving, axle 8. Still in active play. Example: a live ball 9. Of a card: not yet dealt or played. Example: As a beginner, when you are in a hand, you should practice counting your outs, or those live cards left in the deck that can improve your hand. 10. Being broadcast ("on the air"), as it happens. Example: The station presented a live news program every evening. Example: Are we live? 11. In person. Example: This nightclub has a live band on weekends. 12. Recorded from a performance in front of an audience. Example: a live album 13. Able to fire or explode (of firearms or explosives). Example: The air force practices dropping live bombs on the uninhabited island. 14. Of an environment where sound is recorded: having noticeable reverberation. Example: A good experiment is to have a friend stand in a fixed position in a moderately live room and talk in a clear voice. Example: It sounds like the instruments were recorded in a fairly live room with reverb added. 15. Electrically charged or energized, usually with a risk of causing electrocution if touched. Example: Use caution when working near live wires. 16. Being a bet which can be raised by the bettor, usually in reference to a blind or straddle. Example: Tommy's blind was live, so he was given the option to raise. 17. Featuring humans; not animated, in the phrases “live actors” or “live action”. 18. Being in a state of ignition; burning. Example: a live coal; live embers Example: Call it a dead language if you want to—it looks to me like those Latinites were the live boys when it came to putting a whole lot of meaning into just two or three words. 19. Vivid; bright. Labels: obsolete Example: the live carnation 20. Energetic, attentive, active. Labels: dated, slang Example: a live man, or orator Example: Now then, Bill, I've recommended to the troop that they take you in, and the fellows have all voted in favor of you. These scouts are a live bunch and they all expect you to make good. 21. Outstanding, top-notch, exhilarating. Labels: slang Example: The party was live, and the music was jammin. All over the beach people in colorful swimsuits were moving to the beat. 22. Of a syllable in languages such as Thai and Burmese: resonating, not ending abruptly.
Word: live Part of Speech: adv Etymology: An apheretic form of alive. Pronunciation: /ˈlaɪ̯v/, [ˈlaɪ̯v], /ˈlaːv/, [ˈlaːv] 1. Of an event, as it happens; in real time; direct. Example: The concert was broadcast live by radio. 2. Of making a performance or speech, in person. Example: He'll be appearing live at the auditorium.
Word: fear Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English feer, fere, fer (“fear”), from Old English fǣr, ġefǣr (“calamity, sudden danger, peril, sudden attack, terrible sight”), from Proto-Germanic *fērō, *fērą (“danger”), from Proto-Indo-European *per- (“to go through, carry forth, try”). Cognate with Dutch gevaar (“danger, risk, peril”), German Gefahr (“danger, hazard, risk”), Danish fare (“danger, hazard, risk”), Faroese and Icelandic fár (“accident, anger, calamity”), Norwegian Bokmål and Norwegian Nynorsk fare (“danger”), Swedish fara (“danger, risk, peril”), Latin perīculum (“danger, risk, trial”), Ancient Greek πεῖρα (peîra, “trial, experiment”), Armenian փորձ (pʻorj, “attempt”). Doublet of peril. The verb is from Middle English feren, from Old English fǣran (“to frighten, raven”), from the noun. Cognate with the archaic Dutch verb varen (“to fear, to cause fear”). Pronunciation: /fɪə/, [fɪə̯], /fɪː/, /fɪjə/, /fɛː/ 1. A strong, unpleasant emotion or feeling caused by actual or perceived danger or threat. Labels: uncountable Example: He was struck by fear on seeing the snake. Example: I corralled the judge, and we started off across the fields, in no very mild state of fear of that gentleman's wife, whose vigilance was seldom relaxed. 2. A phobia, a sense of fear induced by something or someone in particular. Labels: countable Example: Not everybody has the same fears. Example: I have a fear of ants. 3. Something one is afraid of; the object of one’s fear. Labels: countable Example: Spiders are my greatest fear. 4. Terrified veneration or reverence, particularly towards God, gods, or sovereigns. Labels: uncountable Example: The feare of the Lord is the beginning of wisedome. Example: That sacred dread of all offence to him, which is called the Fear of God. 5. A feeling of dread and anxiety when waking after drinking a lot of alcohol, wondering what one did while drunk. Labels: UK, countable, uncountable, with-definite-article Example: Her feeling of humiliation had intensified as the day had gone on and her hangover had worsened. She now also had 'the fear' to contend with, […] Example: He had the fear, that feeling of dread that you've done something really embarrassing. The fear was a hundred times worse than the hangover. No, a thousand times worse.
Word: fear Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English feer, fere, fer (“fear”), from Old English fǣr, ġefǣr (“calamity, sudden danger, peril, sudden attack, terrible sight”), from Proto-Germanic *fērō, *fērą (“danger”), from Proto-Indo-European *per- (“to go through, carry forth, try”). Cognate with Dutch gevaar (“danger, risk, peril”), German Gefahr (“danger, hazard, risk”), Danish fare (“danger, hazard, risk”), Faroese and Icelandic fár (“accident, anger, calamity”), Norwegian Bokmål and Norwegian Nynorsk fare (“danger”), Swedish fara (“danger, risk, peril”), Latin perīculum (“danger, risk, trial”), Ancient Greek πεῖρα (peîra, “trial, experiment”), Armenian փորձ (pʻorj, “attempt”). Doublet of peril. The verb is from Middle English feren, from Old English fǣran (“to frighten, raven”), from the noun. Cognate with the archaic Dutch verb varen (“to fear, to cause fear”). Pronunciation: /fɪə/, [fɪə̯], /fɪː/, /fɪjə/, /fɛː/ 1. To be afraid of (something or someone); to consider or expect (something or someone) with alarm. Labels: transitive Example: I fear the worst will happen. Example: I greatly fear my money is not safe. 2. To feel fear. Labels: intransitive Example: Never fear; help is always near. Example: Fear not, little flock; for it is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the kingdom. 3. To worry about, to feel concern for, to be afraid for [with for]. Labels: intransitive Example: She fears for her son’s safety. 4. To venerate; to feel awe towards. Labels: transitive Example: People who fear God can be found in Christian churches. 5. To regret. Labels: transitive Example: I fear I have bad news for you: your husband has died. 6. To cause fear to; to frighten. Labels: obsolete, transitive Example: Thenne the knyghte sayd to syre Gawayn / bynde thy wounde or thy blee chaunge / for thou bybledest al thy hors and thy fayre armes /[…]/ For who someuer is hurte with this blade he shalle neuer be staunched of bledynge / Thenne ansuerd gawayn hit greueth me but lytyl / thy grete wordes shalle not feare me ne lasse my courage Example: Ythrild with deepe disdaine of his proud threat, She shortly thus; Fly they, that need to fly; Wordes fearen babes. 7. To be anxious or solicitous for. Labels: obsolete, transitive Example: Fearst thou thy person? thou shalt haue a guard: Example: The sins of the father are to be laid upon the children: therefore, I promise ye, I fear you. 8. To suspect; to doubt. Labels: obsolete, transitive Example: Fear you not her courage?
Word: fear Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English fere, feore, from Old English fēre (“able to go, fit for service”), from Proto-Germanic *fēriz (“passable”), from Proto-Indo-European *per- (“to put across, ferry”). Cognate with Scots fere, feir (“well, active, sound”), Middle High German gevüere (“able, capable, fit, serviceable”), Swedish för (“capable, able, stout”), Icelandic fær (“able”). Related to fare. Pronunciation: /fɪə/, [fɪə̯], /fɪː/, /fɪjə/, /fɛː/ 1. Able; capable; stout; strong; sound. Labels: dialectal Example: hale and fear
Word: guts Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ɡʌts/, /ɡʊts/ 1. plural of gut Labels: form-of, plural
Word: guts Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ɡʌts/, /ɡʊts/ 1. The entrails or contents of the abdomen. Labels: plural, plural-only 2. Courage; determination. Labels: broadly, informal, plural, plural-only Example: It must have taken some guts to speak in front of that audience. Example: She doesn't take any nonsense from anyone—she's got guts. 3. Content, substance. Labels: informal, plural, plural-only Example: His speech had no guts in it. 4. The essential, core parts. Labels: informal, plural, plural-only Example: He knew all about the guts of the business: how things actually get done. Example: The guts of this Rolex watch are rock-solid. 5. One's innermost feelings. Labels: informal, plural, plural-only Example: If you need someone to spill your guts out to, I'm here. 6. The ring in the gambling game two-up in which the spinner operates; the centre. Labels: Australia, New-Zealand, plural, plural-only 7. The center of the field. Labels: informal, plural, plural-only
Word: guts Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ɡʌts/, /ɡʊts/ 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of gut Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: guts Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ɡʌts/, /ɡʊts/ 1. To eat greedily. Labels: Australia, informal 2. To show determination or courage (especially in the combination guts out). Labels: informal Example: He gutsed out a 6-1 win.
Word: vomit Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English vomiten, from Latin vomitāre (“vomit repeatedly”), frequentative form of vomō (“be sick, vomit”), from Proto-Indo-European *wemh₁- (“to spew, vomit”). Cognate with Old Norse váma (“nausea, malaise”), Old English wemman (“to defile”). More at wem. Pronunciation: /ˈvɒmɪt/, /ˈvɑmɪt/ 1. To regurgitate or eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth; puke. Labels: intransitive Example: The fish […] vomited out Jonah upon the dry land. 2. To regurgitate and discharge (something swallowed); to spew. Labels: transitive Example: It is the illicit Christmas pudding an incorrigible servant cooks for the little boy one Christmas Day that sparks Oscar's first crisis of belief, for his father, opposed to Christmas pudding on theological grounds, makes the child vomit his helping. 3. To eject from any hollow place; to belch forth; to emit. Example: She snapped and started vomiting curses at us. Example: Like the sons of Vulcan, vomit smoke.
Word: vomit Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English vomiten, from Latin vomitāre (“vomit repeatedly”), frequentative form of vomō (“be sick, vomit”), from Proto-Indo-European *wemh₁- (“to spew, vomit”). Cognate with Old Norse váma (“nausea, malaise”), Old English wemman (“to defile”). More at wem. Pronunciation: /ˈvɒmɪt/, /ˈvɑmɪt/ 1. The regurgitated former contents of a stomach; vomitus. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: For all tables are full of vomite and filthinesse, so that there is no place cleane. 2. The act of regurgitating. Labels: uncountable, usually 3. The act of vomiting. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: He removes his hat without misgiving, he unbuttons his coat and sits down, proffered all pure and open to the long joys of being himself, like a basin to a vomit. 4. Anything that is worthless; rubbish; trash. Labels: informal, uncountable, usually Example: "[Y]ou've spent so much of your life writing romantic vomit for morons that the mushy bit of the brain you did have has gone rancid." 5. That which causes vomiting; an emetic. Labels: countable, obsolete, usually Example: He gives your Hollander a vomit.
Word: stomach Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English stomak, from Old French estomac, from Latin stomachus, from Ancient Greek στόμαχος (stómakhos), from στόμα (stóma, “mouth”). Partially displaced native Old English maga, whence Modern English maw. Pronunciation: /ˈstʌmək/, /ˈstʊmək/, /ˈstʌmɪk/, /ˈstɐmək/, /ˈstɐmɪk/ 1. An organ in animals that stores food in the process of digestion. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Our stomachs and livers have an enzyme known as alcohol dehydrogenase that breaks down ethanol to make it less toxic for our bodies, said Atlanta gastroenterologist Dr. Preston Stewart. Example: A new study suggests people taking popular injected medications for weight loss, including Wegovy, Ozempic, Saxenda and Victoza, may be at higher risk for serious digestive problems such as stomach paralysis, pancreatitis, and bowel obstructions, compared with those taking other types of weight loss medications. 2. The belly. Labels: countable, informal, uncountable Example: Why did you hit me in the stomach? 3. Pride, haughtiness. Labels: obsolete, uncountable Example: Sterne was his looke, and full of stomacke vaine, / His portaunce terrible, and stature tall […] Example: He was a man / Of an unbounded stomach, ever ranking / Himself with princes; 4. An appetite. Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable Example: a good stomach for roast beef Example: You come not home because you have no stomach. / You have no stomach, having broke your fast. 5. A desire, an appetite (for something abstract). Labels: countable, figuratively, uncountable Example: I have no stomach for a fight today. Example: That he which hath no ſtomack to this fight, / Let him depart, his Paſport ſhall be made, 6. The part of a garment that covers a person's stomach. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: […] Mr. Sedley looking grand, with a crush opera-hat on one side of his head and his hand in the stomach of a voluminous white waistcoat.
Word: stomach Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English stomak, from Old French estomac, from Latin stomachus, from Ancient Greek στόμαχος (stómakhos), from στόμα (stóma, “mouth”). Partially displaced native Old English maga, whence Modern English maw. Pronunciation: /ˈstʌmək/, /ˈstʊmək/, /ˈstʌmɪk/, /ˈstɐmək/, /ˈstɐmɪk/ 1. To tolerate (something), emotionally, physically, or mentally; to stand or handle something. Labels: transitive Example: I really can’t stomach jobs involving that much paperwork, but some people seem to tolerate them. Example: I can't stomach her cooking. 2. To be angry. Labels: intransitive, obsolete Example: Let a man, though never so justly, oppose himself unto them that are disordered in their ways; and what one amongst them commonly doth not stomach at such contradiction, storm at reproof, and hate such as would reform them? 3. To resent; to remember with anger; to dislike. Labels: obsolete, transitive Example: O, my good lord, / Believe not all; or, if you must believe, / Stomach not all. Example: The Lion began at first to shew his Teeth, and to Stomach the Affront. 4. To turn the stomach of; to sicken or repel. Labels: obsolete, transitive
Word: suck Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Germanic *sūkaną Proto-West Germanic *sūkan Old English sūcan Middle English souken English suck From Middle English souken, suken, from Old English sūcan (“to suck”), from Proto-West Germanic *sūkan, from Proto-Germanic *sūkaną (“to suck, suckle”), from Proto-Indo-European *sewg-, *sewk- (“to suck”). Cognate with Scots souke (“to suck”), obsolete Dutch zuiken (“to suck”), Limburgish zuken, zoeken (“to suck”). Akin also to Old English sūgan (“to suck”), West Frisian sûge, sûge (“to suck”), Dutch zuigen (“to suck”), German saugen (“to suck”), Danish and Norwegian Bokmål suge (“to suck”), Norwegian Nynorsk and Swedish suga (“to suck”), Icelandic sjúga (“to suck”), Latin sūgō (“suck”), Welsh sugno (“suck”). Related to soak. Pronunciation: /sʌk/, /sʊk/ 1. To use the mouth and lips to pull in (a liquid, especially milk from the breast). Labels: transitive Example: The baby sucked (milk) on her bottle. 2. To perform such an action; to feed from a breast or teat. Labels: intransitive 3. To put the mouth or lips to (a breast, a parent etc.) to draw in milk. Labels: transitive 4. To extract, draw in (a substance) from or out of something. Labels: transitive Example: That she may sucke their life, and drinke their blood, / With which she from her childhood had bene fed. 5. To inhale (air), to draw (breath). Labels: archaic, transitive Example: And ſince we all haue ſuckt on[e] wholſome aire, / And with the ſame proportion of Elements, / Reſolue, I hope we are reſembled, / Uowing our loues to equall death and life, […] 6. To work the lips and tongue on (an object) to extract moisture or nourishment; to absorb (something) in the mouth. Labels: transitive 7. To pull (something) in a given direction, especially without direct contact. Labels: transitive Example: Cigarette smoke was sucked out through the cracks in the glass of the glazed panes overhead the side street and the parking lot. 8. To perform fellatio. Labels: slang, transitive, vulgar Example: 1970-1975, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure the way he arched his back and spread his legs when he wanted me to suck him. Example: Right now, she's content to lie underneath him and suck the warmth out of his body. 9. To be inferior or objectionable: a general term of disparagement, sometimes used with at to indicate a particular area of deficiency. Labels: Canada, US, colloquial, intransitive, sometimes, stative, vulgar Example: Schumacher recalls Bucher had also written “Communism sucks” on the underside of his table Example: it has a few very high points . . . but as a novel, it sucks
Word: stab Part of Speech: noun Etymology: First attested in Scottish English (compare Scots stob, stobbe, stabb (“a pointed stick or stake; a thrust with a pointed weapon”)), from Middle English stabbe (“a stab”), probably a variant of Middle English stob, stub, stubbe (“pointed stick, stake, thorn, stub, stump”), from Old Norse stobbi, stubbi, cognate with Old English stybb. Cognate with Middle Dutch stobbe. Supposed by some to derive from Scottish Gaelic stob (“to prick, to prod, to push, to thrust”); supposed by others to be from a Scots word. Pronunciation: /stæb/ 1. An act of stabbing or thrusting with an object. Example: A knife was flashing in his hand, and just as he was about to take a stab at me, the smith grabbed his arm from behind. 2. A wound made by stabbing. Example: I opened the man's linen robe, and there over his heart was a dagger-wound, and beneath the woman's fair breast was a like cruel stab, through which her life had ebbed away. 3. Pain inflicted on a person's feelings. Example: “I bet you two have really big plans. And might I say, that is just fab,” he said of Lynn's dress. “I'm glad someone noticed,” she replied, seeming to take a stab at me. 4. An attempt. Labels: informal Example: I'll give this thankless task a stab. Example: As yet, we don't know what the comparable figures will be like for the current financial year which ends in March 2022, but we can have a good stab at approximating them. 5. Criticism. 6. A single staccato chord that adds dramatic impact to a composition. Example: a horn stab 7. A bacterial culture made by inoculating a solid medium, such as gelatin, with the puncture of a needle or wire.
Word: stab Part of Speech: verb Etymology: First attested in Scottish English (compare Scots stob, stobbe, stabb (“a pointed stick or stake; a thrust with a pointed weapon”)), from Middle English stabbe (“a stab”), probably a variant of Middle English stob, stub, stubbe (“pointed stick, stake, thorn, stub, stump”), from Old Norse stobbi, stubbi, cognate with Old English stybb. Cognate with Middle Dutch stobbe. Supposed by some to derive from Scottish Gaelic stob (“to prick, to prod, to push, to thrust”); supposed by others to be from a Scots word. Pronunciation: /stæb/ 1. To pierce or to wound (somebody) with a (usually pointed) tool or weapon, especially a knife or dagger. Labels: transitive Example: If you stab him in the heart he won't live long enough to retaliate. Example: "There the cause of death was soon ascertained ; the victim of this daring outrage had been stabbed to death from ear to ear with a long, sharp instrument, in shape like an antique stiletto, which […] was subsequently found under the cushions of the hansom.[…]" 2. To thrust in a stabbing motion. Labels: transitive Example: to stab a dagger into a person 3. To recklessly hit with the tip of a (usually pointed) object, such as a weapon or finger (often used with at). Labels: intransitive Example: He stabbed at my face with the twig but luckily kept missing my eyes. Example: None shall dare / With shortened sword to stab in closer war. 4. To cause a sharp, painful sensation (often used with at). Labels: intransitive Example: The snow from the blizzard was stabbing at my face as I skied down the mountain. 5. To injure secretly or by malicious falsehood or slander. Labels: figuratively, transitive Example: to stab a person's reputation 6. To roughen a brick wall with a pick so as to hold plaster. Labels: transitive 7. To pierce folded sheets, near their back edges, for the passage of thread or wire. Labels: transitive 8. To guide the end of a pipe into a coupling when making up a connection. Labels: transitive Example: [O]ne of the derrickman's jobs is to "stab" the pipe.
Word: stab Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Clipping of stabilizer or stabiliser. Pronunciation: /stæb/ 1. The horizontal or vertical stabilizer of an aircraft. Labels: slang Example: If the pilots used electric pitch trim, it would only pause MCAS for 5s; to deactivate it you have to switch off the STAB TRIM CUTOUT switches.
Word: stab Part of Speech: adj Pronunciation: /stæb/ 1. Clipping of established. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, not-comparable Example: Do you know whether any country offices pay their men by the thousand, or whether they are on stab wages? — I do not know. Some are paid stab wages, but I do not know whether there is much piece-work. Example: The pressmen were granted a stab wage of 36s for a 60 hour week, and the extras for overtime and Sunday work […]
Word: stab Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /stæb/ 1. Clipping of establishment. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, no-plural Example: […] there were 286 overseers and 210 readers occupied in the 501 offices; 2,691 compositors were paid on the stab […]
Word: pull Part of Speech: intj Etymology: Verb from Middle English pullen, from Old English pullian (“to pull, draw, tug, pluck off”), of uncertain ultimate origin. Related to West Frisian pûlje (“to shell, husk”), Middle Dutch pullen (“to drink”), Middle Dutch polen (“to peel, strip”), Low German pulen (“to pick, pluck, pull, tear, strip off husks”), Icelandic púla (“to work hard, beat”). Noun from Middle English pul, pull, pulle, from the verb pullen (“to pull”). Pronunciation: /pʊl/, /pəl/, /pʉl/, /puːl/ 1. Command used by a target shooter to request that the target be released/launched.
Word: push Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English pushen, poshen, posson, borrowed from Middle French pousser (Modern French pousser) from Old French poulser, from Latin pulsare (“to beat, strike”), frequentative of pellere (past participle pulsus). Doublet of pulsate and pulse (verb). Partly displaced native Old English sċūfan, whence Modern English shove. Pronunciation: /pʊʃ/, [pʷʊʃ], /pʉʃ/, [puʃ] 1. A short, directed application of force; an act of pushing. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Give the door a hard push if it sticks. 2. An act of tensing the muscles of the abdomen in order to expel its contents. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: One more push and the baby will be out. 3. A great effort (to do something). Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Some details got lost in the push to get the project done. Example: Let's give one last push on our advertising campaign. 4. An attempt to persuade someone into a particular course of action. Labels: countable, uncountable 5. A force that impels or pressures one to act. Labels: countable, figuratively, uncountable Example: I guess it's just the special curse of working under deadline's push 6. A marching or drill maneuver/manoeuvre performed by moving a formation (especially a company front) forward or toward the audience, usually to accompany a dramatic climax or crescendo in the music. Labels: countable, uncountable 7. A wager that results in no loss or gain for the bettor as a result of a tie or even score Labels: countable, uncountable 8. The addition of a data item to the top of a stack. Labels: countable, uncountable 9. The situation where a server sends data to a client without waiting for a request. Labels: Internet, uncountable Example: server push; a push technology 10. A particular crowd or throng or people. Labels: Australia, UK, countable, obsolete, slang, uncountable Example: Till some wild, excited person Galloped down the township cursing, "Sydney push have mobbed Macpherson, Roll up, Dandaloo!" Example: My father […] was soon as unambiguously Australian as any other member of the rough Rugby pushes that in the years before the Great War made up the mixed and liverly world of South Brisbane. 11. A push shot. Labels: countable, uncountable 12. An attempt to give momentum to a wrestler's career in the form of victories and/or more screen time. Labels: countable, slang, uncountable 13. A push-button, such as a bell push. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: A bell circuit, fed from the train lighting battery, is connected to a push in each berth and functions in conjunction with a luminous indicator mounted over the door and in association with a cancellation push, for use by the car attendant.
Word: push Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Probably French poche. See pouch. Pronunciation: /pʊʃ/, /pʌʃ/ 1. A pustule; a pimple. Labels: UK, dialectal, obsolete Example: a Push rise upon his Nose
Word: count Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ḱe? Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm Proto-Italic *kom Proto-Italic *kom- Latin con- Latin com- Latin putus 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 putō Latin computō Anglo-Norman counterbor. Middle English counten English count From Middle English counten, borrowed from Anglo-Norman conter, from Old French conter (“add up; tell a story”), from Latin computō (“to compute”). In this sense, displaced native Old English tellan, whence Modern English tell. Doublet of compute. Compare typologically reckon, Russian счита́ть (sčitátʹ), счита́ться (sčitátʹsja); the semantic evolution to Mongolian санах (sanax). Pronunciation: /kaʊnt/, /kuːnt/ 1. To recite numbers in sequence. Labels: intransitive Example: Can you count to a hundred? Example: The psychiatrist asked her to count down from a hundred by sevens. 2. To determine the number of (objects in a group). Labels: transitive Example: Count the number of apples in the bag and write down the number on the spreadsheet. Example: The President of the Senate shall, in the presence of the Senate and House of Representatives, open all the certificates and the votes shall then be counted; The person having the greatest number of votes for President, shall be the President,[…] 3. To amount to, to number in total. Labels: intransitive Example: They counted thirty, crowded in a space Which left scarce room for motion or exertion; […] 4. To be of significance; to matter; to be considered (as something); to be included (of something). Labels: figuratively, intransitive Example: Your views don’t count here. Example: It does count if you cheat with someone when you’re drunk. 5. To be an example of something: often followed by as and an indefinite noun. Labels: figuratively, intransitive Example: Apples count as a type of fruit. Example: This excellent man […] counted among the best and wisest of English statesmen. 6. To consider something as an example of something or as having some quality; to account, to regard as. Labels: transitive Example: He counts himself a hero after saving the cat from the river. Example: I count you as more than a friend. 7. To reckon in, to include in consideration. Labels: transitive Example: They walked for three days, not counting the time spent resting. 8. To take account or note (of), to care (for). Labels: intransitive, obsolete Example: […]to make her faire, that no man counts of her beauty. 9. To recount, to tell. Labels: obsolete, transitive 10. To plead orally; to argue a matter in court; to recite a count. Labels: UK, intransitive, obsolete
Word: count Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ḱe? Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm Proto-Italic *kom Proto-Italic *kom- Latin con- Latin com- Latin putus 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 putō Latin computō Anglo-Norman counterbor. Middle English counten English count From Middle English counten, borrowed from Anglo-Norman conter, from Old French conter (“add up; tell a story”), from Latin computō (“to compute”). In this sense, displaced native Old English tellan, whence Modern English tell. Doublet of compute. Compare typologically reckon, Russian счита́ть (sčitátʹ), счита́ться (sčitátʹsja); the semantic evolution to Mongolian санах (sanax). Pronunciation: /kaʊnt/, /kuːnt/ 1. The act of counting or tallying a quantity. Example: Give the chairs a quick count to check if we have enough. Example: Breathe out slowly through your mouth for a count of five. 2. The result of a tally that reveals the number of items in a set; a quantity counted. Example: By the official count, there are something like thirteen hundred species of birds in the Amazon, but Cohn-Haft thinks there are actually a good many more, because people have relied too much on features like size and plumage and not paid enough attention to sound. 3. A countdown. 4. A distinct and separate charge in an indictment or complaint. Example: Zou, who was living in Elephant and Castle, south-east London, was convicted of 11 counts of rape, with two of the offences relating to one victim. He was also convicted of three counts of voyeurism, 10 of possession of an extreme pornographic image, one of false imprisonment and three of possession of a controlled drug with intent to commit a sexual offence. Example: Anthony Williams (32), of Langford Road, Peterborough, was arrested and charged with ten counts of attempted murder, one count of ABH (Actual Bodily Harm), and one count of possession of a bladed article. 5. The number of balls and strikes, respectively, on a batter's in-progress plate appearance. Example: He has a 3–2 count with the bases loaded. 6. An object of interest or account; value; estimation. Labels: obsolete Example: When he was readie to his steede to mount / Vnto his way, which now was all his care and count. 7. Cunt (the taboo swear word) Labels: slang Example: That count deserves a punishment.
Word: count Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ḱe? Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm Proto-Italic *kom Proto-Italic *kom- Latin con- Latin com- Latin putus 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 putō Latin computō Anglo-Norman counterbor. Middle English counten English count From Middle English counten, borrowed from Anglo-Norman conter, from Old French conter (“add up; tell a story”), from Latin computō (“to compute”). In this sense, displaced native Old English tellan, whence Modern English tell. Doublet of compute. Compare typologically reckon, Russian счита́ть (sčitátʹ), счита́ться (sčitátʹsja); the semantic evolution to Mongolian санах (sanax). Pronunciation: /kaʊnt/, /kuːnt/ 1. Countable. Labels: not-comparable Example: For example, the term abuse would require at least one definition for the uncount usage ‘invective, insulting language’, and another for the count usage ‘an item of invective, an insult’. 2. Used to show the amount of like items in a package. Labels: not-comparable
Word: count Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English counte, from Anglo-Norman conte and Old French comte (“count”), from Latin comes (“companion”) (more specifically derived from its accusative form comitem) in the sense of "noble fighting alongside the king". Doublet of comes, comte, and conte. Pronunciation: /kaʊnt/, /kuːnt/ 1. The male ruler of a county. Example: After his marriage, John made a progress through the country with his beautiful Elizabeth, and they purchased towns and villages and lands until he became master of nearly half Rügen, and a very considerable count in the country. His father, old James Dietrich, was made a noble-man, and his brothers and sisters gentlemen and ladies - for what cannot money do? 2. A nobleman holding a rank intermediate between dukes and barons. 3. Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Tanaecia. Other butterflies in this genus are called earls and viscounts.
Word: flow Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English flowe, from the verb (see below). The psychology sense “state of focus” was coined by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi in 1975. Pronunciation: /ˈfləʊ̯/, [ˈfləʊ̯], /ˈflɵʊ̯/, [ˈflɵ̞ʊ̯], /ˈfloʊ̯/ 1. Movement in people or things characterized with a continuous motion, involving either a non solid mass or a multitude. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. The movement of a real or figurative fluid. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Mr. Cooke at once began a tirade against the residents of Asquith for permitting a sandy and generally disgraceful condition of the roads. So roundly did he vituperate the inn management in particular, and with such a loud flow of words, that I trembled lest he should be heard on the veranda. 3. A formalization of the idea of the motion of particles in a fluid, as a group action of the real numbers on a set. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The notion of flow is basic to the study of ordinary differential equations. 4. The rising movement of the tide. Labels: countable, uncountable 5. Smoothness or continuity. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The room was small, but it had good symmetry and flow. 6. The amount of a fluid that moves or the rate of fluid movement. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Turn on the valve and make sure you have sufficient flow. Example: Other devices measure water flow in streams fed by melted ice. 7. A flow pipe, carrying liquid away from a boiler or other central plant (compare with return pipe which returns fluid to central plant). Labels: countable, uncountable 8. A mental state characterized by concentration, focus, and enjoyment of a given task. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The point about flow is that it is enjoyable. As research has shown "the more often athletes experienced flow, the happier they were." But the second is that entering flow actually improves performance. 9. The emission of blood during menstruation. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Tampons can be small or large, slender or thick. From “slender” to “super”, you can pick the size that matches your flow. 10. The ability to skillfully rap along to a beat. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The production on his new mixtape is mediocre but his flow is on point. Example: Now shawty said she feelin' my style, she feelin' my flow […] / My flow, my show brought me the dough / That bought me all my fancy things 11. The sequence of steps taken in a piece of software to perform some action. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: login flow Example: search flow
Word: flow Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English flowen, from Old English flōwan (“to flow”), from Proto-West Germanic *flōan, from Proto-Germanic *flōaną (“to flow”), from Proto-Indo-European *plōw-, lengthened o-grade form of *plew- (“to fly, flow, run”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian flouje (“to flow”), West Frisian floeie (“to flow”), Dutch vloeien (“to flow”), Norwegian flo (“to flow”). Compare also English float. Not cognate with Latin fluō despite similarity. Pronunciation: /ˈfləʊ̯/, [ˈfləʊ̯], /ˈflɵʊ̯/, [ˈflɵ̞ʊ̯], /ˈfloʊ̯/ 1. To move as a fluid from one position to another. Labels: intransitive Example: Rivers flow from springs and lakes. Example: Tears flow from the eyes. 2. To proceed; to issue forth; to emanate. Labels: intransitive Example: Wealth flows from industry and economy. Example: Thoſe thouſand decencies that daily flow ¶ From all her words and actions, mixt with Love 3. To move or match smoothly, gracefully, or continuously. Labels: intransitive Example: The writing is grammatically correct, but it just doesn't flow. Example: […]Virgil,[…]is[…]ſweet and flowing in his Hexameters. 4. To have or be in abundance; to abound, so as to run or flow over. Labels: intransitive Example: […]in that day, that[…]the hils ſhall flow with milke,[…]a fountaine ſhall come forth of the houſe of the Lord,[…] Example: the exhilaration of a night that needed not the influence of the flowing bowl 5. To hang loosely and wave. Labels: intransitive Example: a flowing mantle Example: flowing locks 6. To rise, as the tide; opposed to ebb. Labels: intransitive Example: The tide flows twice in twenty-four hours. Example: The Riuer hath thrice flow’d, no ebbe betweene: 7. To arrange (text in a wordprocessor, etc.) so that it wraps neatly into a designated space; to reflow. Labels: transitive 8. To allow (a liquid) to flow. Labels: transitive Example: The action is usually progressive, and as a certain amount of oil is flowed from the tubing it lowers the pressure on the remaining oil and liberates more gas, thus causing additional oil to flow from the tubing. 9. To cover with water or other liquid; to overflow; to inundate; to flood. Labels: transitive 10. To cover with varnish. Labels: transitive 11. To discharge excessive blood from the uterus. Labels: intransitive
Word: flow Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Uncertain. Perhaps from Old Norse flói (“a large bay, firth”), see floe. Compare Scots flow (“peat-bog, marsh”), Icelandic flói (“marshy ground”). Pronunciation: /ˈfləʊ̯/, [ˈfləʊ̯], /ˈflɵʊ̯/, [ˈflɵ̞ʊ̯], /ˈfloʊ̯/ 1. A bog or mire, especially a rough, waterlogged one. Labels: Scotland Example: […] there are other extensive mosses in this district, commonly called flowes, which it is not probable ever will, or ever can be, converted into arable land. Some of these flowes are found to be 20, 25, or 30 feet deep, and are, besides, such a dead level, that the water has little or no descent; and even supposing they should be cast, or burnt to the bottom, standing pools of dirty water could only stand in their place. Example: Ye'll stick in some flow, Or, ye'll melt in a thow
Word: dust Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English dust, doust, from Old English dūst (“dust, dried earth reduced to powder; other dry material reduced to powder”), from the fusion of Proto-Germanic *dustą (“dust”) and *dunstą (“mist, dust, evaporation”), both from Proto-Indo-European *dʰewh₂- (“to smoke, raise dust”). Cognate with Scots dust, dist (“dust”), Dutch duist (“pollen, dust”) and dons (“down, fuzz”), German Dust (“dust”) and Dunst (“haze”), Swedish dust (“dust”), Icelandic dust (“dust”), Latin fūmus (“smoke, steam”). Also related to Swedish dun (“down, fluff”), Icelandic dúnn (“down, fluff”). See down. Pronunciation: /dʌst/, /dʊst/ 1. To remove dust from. Labels: transitive Example: The cleaning lady needs a stool to dust the cupboard. Example: There were many wooden chairs for the bulk of his visitors, and two wicker armchairs with red cloth cushions for superior people. From the packing-cases had emerged some Indian clubs,[…], and all these articles[…] made a scattered and untidy decoration that Mrs. Clough assiduously dusted and greatly cherished. 2. To remove dust; to clean by removing dust. Labels: intransitive Example: Dusting always makes me cough. 3. To make dusty, to soil with dust. Labels: archaic, transitive 4. Of a bird, to cover itself in sand or dry, dusty earth. Labels: intransitive, reflexive 5. To spray or cover (something) with fine powder or liquid, to sprinkle. Labels: transitive Example: The mother dusted her baby’s bum with talcum powder. 6. To sprinkle (a substance) in the form of dust. Labels: transitive 7. To leave quickly; to rush off. Labels: US, intransitive, slang Example: He added in a casual tone: ‘The girl can dust. I’d like to talk to you a little, soldier.’ 8. To drink up quickly; to toss off. Labels: obsolete, transitive 9. To reduce to a fine powder; to pulverize, to levigate. Labels: obsolete, transitive Example: good Powder differs from bad […]in having more Peter and less Coal; and lastly, in the well dusting of it 10. To strike, beat, thrash. Labels: colloquial, dialectal, transitive 11. To defeat badly, to thrash. Labels: US, slang, transitive 12. To kill. Labels: US, slang, transitive Example: Kyle Reese: You have to be careful because the [Hunter-Killer robots] use infrared. They’re not too bright. John taught us ways to dust them. 13. To deliberately pitch a ball close to (a batter); to brush back. Labels: transitive 14. To attempt to identify the owner of (a cryptocurrency wallet) by sending tiny amounts of cryptocurrency.
Word: sand Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree substratebor. Proto-Indo-European *sámdʰos? Proto-Germanic *samdaz Proto-West Germanic *samd Old English sand Middle English sond English sand Inherited from Middle English sond, sand, from Old English sand, from Proto-West Germanic *samd, from Proto-Germanic *samdaz. See also North Frisian sun, Sön, sönj (“sand”), Saterland Frisian Sound (“sand”), West Frisian sân (“sand”), Dutch zand (“sand”), German and Luxembourgish Sand (“sand”), Yiddish זאַמד (zamd, “sand”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish sand (“sand”), Faroese and Icelandic sandur (“sand”), Latin sabulum (“sand, gravel”), Ancient Greek ἄμαθος (ámathos, “sand”), English dialectal samel (“sand bottom”), Old Irish do·essim (“to pour out”), Latin sentina (“bilge water”), Lithuanian sémti (“to scoop”), Ancient Greek ἀμάω (amáō, “to gather”), ἄμη (ámē, “water bucket”). Pronunciation: /sænd/, [seənd] ~ [sɛənd], /sand/, /sæːnd/, [seːnd] ~ [sɛeːnd] 1. Of a light beige colour, like that of typical sand.
Word: sand Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English sanden, from the noun (see above). Pronunciation: /sænd/, [seənd] ~ [sɛənd], /sand/, /sæːnd/, [seːnd] ~ [sɛeːnd] 1. To abrade the surface of (something) with sand or sandpaper in order to smooth or clean it. Labels: transitive 2. To cover with sand. Labels: transitive Example: Sudden stopping, which could be effected easily by sanding the rails and reversing the driving-gear, was dangerous, because the train might telescope and overwhelm the engine. Example: The golden domes of churches and the freshly sanded paths in the town gardens were a glaring yellow. 3. To blot ink using sand. Labels: historical, transitive Example: The officer wrote until he had finished, read over to himself what he had written, sanded it, and handed it to Defarge, with the words "In secret."
Word: sand Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /sænd/, [seənd] ~ [sɛənd], /sand/, /sæːnd/, [seːnd] ~ [sɛeːnd] 1. Ellipsis of sandpiper. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, colloquial, ellipsis
Word: stone Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *steh₂- Proto-Indo-European *steyh₂- Proto-Indo-European *stoyh₂nos Proto-Germanic *stainaz Proto-West Germanic *stain Old English stān Middle English ston English stone From Middle English ston, stone, stan, from Old English stān, from Proto-West Germanic *stain, from Proto-Germanic *stainaz (“stone”), from Proto-Indo-European *steyh₂- (“to stiffen”). Cognates Cognate with Scots stane (“stone”), Yola sthoan (“stone”), North Frisian stean, stian, stiin, stiinj (“stone”), Saterland Frisian Steen (“stone”), West Frisian stien (“stone”), Alemannic German Steei (“rock, stone”), Bavarian Staa (“rock, stone”), Central Franconian Steen, Stään (“stone”), Dutch steen (“stone”), German Stein (“rock, stone”), German Low German Steen, Stein (“stone”), Luxembourgish Steen (“stone”), Vilamovian śtan (“stone”), Yiddish שטיין (shteyn, “stone”), Danish and Swedish sten (“stone”), Elfdalian stien (“stone”), Faroese steinur (“stone”), Gutnish stain (“rock, stone”), Icelandic steinn (“rock, stone”), Norwegian Bokmål stein, sten (“stone”), Norwegian Nynorsk steidn, stein (“stone”), Gothic 𐍃𐍄𐌰𐌹𐌽𐍃 (stains, “stone”). Compare also Ancient Greek στία (stía, “pebble”), στέαρ (stéar, “tallow”), Lithuanian sténgti (“to be able, make an effort; to oppose”), Russian стена́ (stená, “wall”), Albanian shtëng (“hardened or pressed matter”), Sanskrit स्तिया (stiyā, “still or stagnant water”). Doublet of stain, stean, and stein. Pronunciation: /stəʊ̯n/, /stoʊ̯n/, /stɐʉ̯n/, /ston/, /stoːn/ 1. Constructed of stone. Labels: not-comparable Example: stone walls 2. Having the appearance of stone. Labels: not-comparable Example: stone pot 3. Of a dull light grey or beige, like that of some stones. Labels: not-comparable 4. Used as an intensifier. Labels: not-comparable Example: She is one stone fox. Example: Yeah, he's a stone fuck–up. But he's stand–up, too, don't forget that. 5. Willing to give sexual pleasure but not to receive it. Labels: not-comparable, slang Example: stone butch Example: stone femme
Word: stone Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *steh₂- Proto-Indo-European *steyh₂- Proto-Indo-European *stoyh₂nos Proto-Germanic *stainaz Proto-West Germanic *stain Old English stān Middle English ston English stone From Middle English ston, stone, stan, from Old English stān, from Proto-West Germanic *stain, from Proto-Germanic *stainaz (“stone”), from Proto-Indo-European *steyh₂- (“to stiffen”). Cognates Cognate with Scots stane (“stone”), Yola sthoan (“stone”), North Frisian stean, stian, stiin, stiinj (“stone”), Saterland Frisian Steen (“stone”), West Frisian stien (“stone”), Alemannic German Steei (“rock, stone”), Bavarian Staa (“rock, stone”), Central Franconian Steen, Stään (“stone”), Dutch steen (“stone”), German Stein (“rock, stone”), German Low German Steen, Stein (“stone”), Luxembourgish Steen (“stone”), Vilamovian śtan (“stone”), Yiddish שטיין (shteyn, “stone”), Danish and Swedish sten (“stone”), Elfdalian stien (“stone”), Faroese steinur (“stone”), Gutnish stain (“rock, stone”), Icelandic steinn (“rock, stone”), Norwegian Bokmål stein, sten (“stone”), Norwegian Nynorsk steidn, stein (“stone”), Gothic 𐍃𐍄𐌰𐌹𐌽𐍃 (stains, “stone”). Compare also Ancient Greek στία (stía, “pebble”), στέαρ (stéar, “tallow”), Lithuanian sténgti (“to be able, make an effort; to oppose”), Russian стена́ (stená, “wall”), Albanian shtëng (“hardened or pressed matter”), Sanskrit स्तिया (stiyā, “still or stagnant water”). Doublet of stain, stean, and stein. Pronunciation: /stəʊ̯n/, /stoʊ̯n/, /stɐʉ̯n/, /ston/, /stoːn/ 1. As a stone (used with following adjective). Labels: not-comparable Example: My father is stone deaf. This soup is stone cold. 2. Absolutely, completely (used with following adjectives). Labels: not-comparable, slang Example: I went stone crazy after she left. Example: I said the medication made my vision temporarily blurry, it did not make me stone blind.