nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: cue Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Variant of queue, from French queue (“tail”). Pronunciation: /kjuː/, /kjʉw/, /kju/, /kjʉ/, /kɪʊ/ 1. A straight tapering stick used to hit the balls in various games. 2. The tail; the end of a thing; especially, a tail-like twist of hair worn at the back of the head; a queue. Labels: obsolete Example: Fat, short, radiant, General Chattesworth—in full, artillery uniform—was there, smiling, and making little speeches to the ladies, and bowing stiffly from his hips upward—his great cue playing all the time up and down his back, and sometimes so near the ground when he stood erect and threw back his head, that Toole, seeing Juno eyeing the appendage rather viciously, thought it prudent to cut her speculations short with a smart kick.
Word: cue Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Variant of queue, from French queue (“tail”). Pronunciation: /kjuː/, /kjʉw/, /kju/, /kjʉ/, /kɪʊ/ 1. To take aim on the cue ball with the cue and hit it. 2. To form into a cue; to braid; to twist.
Word: culler Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From cull + -er. Pronunciation: /ˈkʌl.ə/, /ˈkʌl.əɹ/ 1. One who picks or chooses. 2. One who picks or chooses. Example: Outside the usual occupational groups at risk for such diseases (farmers, veterinarians, animal handlers, cullers), anyone with regular animal contact, such as pet owners and those who keep livestock species near their home, may be at risk.
Word: culls Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /kʌlz/ 1. plural of cull Labels: form-of, plural, plural-only
Word: culls Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /kʌlz/ 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of cull Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: culver Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English culver, from Old English culufre, culfre, culfer, possibly borrowed from Vulgar Latin *columbra, from Latin columbula (“little pigeon”), from Latin columba (“pigeon, dove”). Pronunciation: /ˈkʌlvə/ 1. A dove or pigeon, now specifically of the species Columba palumbus. Labels: UK Example: Had he ſo doen, he had him ſnatcht away, / More light then Culuer in the Faulcons fiſt. Example: The palsie plagues my pulses when I prigg yoͬ: piggs or pullen your culuers take, or matchles make your Chanticleare or sullen
Word: culver Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From culverin, perhaps by confusion with culver (“dove or pigeon”). Pronunciation: /ˈkʌlvə/ 1. A culverin, a kind of handgun or cannon. Example: Falcon and culver on each tower / Stood prompt, their deadly hail to shower; […]
Word: cupric Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Ultimately from Latin cuprum (“copper”). See -ic. Pronunciation: /ˈkjuːpɹɪk/ 1. Of, pertaining to, or derived from, copper; containing copper. Labels: not-comparable 2. Containing copper with an oxidation number of 2 Labels: not-comparable
Word: cur Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English curre (“watchdog, small hunting dog, mongrel, mutt”), perhaps of Middle Low German or North Germanic origin, possibly from Old Norse kurr (“grumbling”), itself of imitative origin. Compare Middle Dutch corre (“domestic dog, yard dog, watch-dog”), dialectal Dutch korre (“dog, yard dog”), dialectal Swedish kurre (“a dog”). Compare also Old Norse kurra (“to growl; grumble”), Middle Low German kurren, korren (“to growl”). Compare also Middle Dutch querie (“female dog, bitch”). Pronunciation: /kɜː/, /kɝ/, /kʌr/, /køː/, /keː/ 1. A contemptible or inferior dog. Labels: dated, humorous Example: A fals double tunge is more fiers and fell Then Cerberus the cur couching in the kenel of hel; Wherof hereafter, I thinke for to write, Example: you have many enemies, that know not why they are so, but, like to village-curs, bark when their fellows do. 2. A detestable person. Labels: dated, humorous Example: This butcher's cur is venom-mouth'd, and I have not the power to muzzle him. Example: "Who 's a cur - now - hey?" 3. A sheepdog or watchdog. Labels: archaic, dialectal Example: Then send our Curs to gather up the Sheep Example: "He's a good sharp cur," or "a good cur," is said of any dog that barks at strangers and guards his master's property.
Word: curia Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Italic *kowiriomder. Old Latin coviriader. Latin curiabor. English curia Borrowed from Latin curia. Pronunciation: /ˈkjʊəriə/ 1. Any of the subdivisions of a tribe in ancient Rome Labels: historical 2. The Roman senate during the republic Labels: historical 3. Any of several medieval councils or courts of justice Labels: historical
Word: curlew Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English curlew, from Old French courlieu (see French courlis), claimed to be imitative of the bird's cry but apparently assimilated with dialectal *corliu (“runner, messenger”), a variant of coureur (the bird is adept at running). Pronunciation: /ˈkɜːlju/, /ˈkɜːlu/, /ˈkɝlu/ 1. Any of several migratory wading birds in the genus Numenius, remarkable for their long, slender, downcurved bills. Example: The corncrake nested in the unmown field Answers its mate, across the misty stream On fitful wing the startled curlews fly, And in his sedgy bed the lark, for joy that Day is nigh [...] 2. A stone curlew (Burhinidae spp.). Labels: Australia Example: That quivering wail from the billabong lying murkily mystic towards the East was only the cry of the fearing curlew.
Word: curr Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Imitative. 1. To coo like an owl. Labels: archaic, intransitive Example: 1798, William Wordsworth, The Idiot Boy, first published in 1798, Lyrical Ballads, with a Few Other Poems, republished in 1827, The Poetical Works of Wordsworth, 1872, page 53, The owlets hoot, the owlets curr, / And Johnny's lips they burr, burr, burr, 2. To purr like a cat. Labels: archaic, intransitive
Word: curter Part of Speech: adj 1. comparative form of curt: more curt Labels: comparative, form-of
Word: cusp Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin cuspis (“a point, spear, pointed end”); first used in astrology. Doublet of cuspid and cuspis. Pronunciation: /kʌsp/, /kʊsp/ 1. A sharp point or pointed end. 2. An important moment when a decision is made that will determine future events. Labels: figuratively Example: Newcastle were 11 points adrift of Spurs following their 5-0 mauling at the hands of the north London club in February. But a sixth successive Premier League win puts them on the cusp of European football next season as they surged 15 points clear of seventh-placed Everton, who have five games left to play. 3. A point of a curve where the curve is continuous but has no derivative, but such that it has a derivative at every nearby point. 4. A point made by the intersection of two curved lines or curved structures, a common motif in Gothic architecture. 5. A boundary between zodiacal signs and houses. 6. Any of the pointed parts of a canine tooth or molar. 7. A flap of a valve of a heart or blood vessel. 8. A point of transition. Example: I see freight returning in a big way. The 2016 reconnection of the Helwith Bridge quarries can produce up to three heavy trains a day. The nearby and much bigger Horton quarry is also on the cusp of rail reconnection.
Word: cusp Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Latin cuspis (“a point, spear, pointed end”); first used in astrology. Doublet of cuspid and cuspis. Pronunciation: /kʌsp/, /kʊsp/ 1. To behave in a reckless or dangerous manner. Labels: slang
Word: cyanic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree English cyan Proto-Indo-European *-ikos Proto-Italic *-ikos Latin -icuslbor. Old French -iquebor. Middle English -ik English -ic English cyanic From cyan + -ic. Pronunciation: /saɪˈænɪk/ 1. Of cyanogen or its derivatives 2. azure-blue Example: The dark bank of the wall rode up. The deep cyanic sky. 3. Containing an anthocyanin
Word: cycad Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From translingual Cycas (“genus of tropical trees”). Pronunciation: /ˈsaɪkəd/, /ˈsaɪkæd/ 1. Any plant of the division Cycadophyta, having a stout and woody trunk with a crown of large, hard and stiff, evergreen leaves. Example: As has been already remarked, the occurrence of genuine Cycads in the Carboniferous vegetation has not been demonstrated, and the same holds good of all the Palaeozoic floras. True Cycads, therefore, so far as known, make their first appearance in the Trias, at the commencement of the Mesozoic period, where they are represented by the genera Pterophyllum, Zamites, and Podozamites. Example: Then, after incomputable years, he was no longer man but a man-like beast, roving in forests of giant fern and calamite, or building an uncouth nest in the boughs of mighty cycads.
Word: cyst Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *(s)kewH-? Proto-Indo-European *ḱewh₁-der.? Ancient Greek κῠ́ω (kŭ́ō)? Ancient Greek κύστις (kústis)der. Late Latin cystisder. English cyst From Late Latin cystis, from Ancient Greek κύστις (kústis, “anatomical sac”). Pronunciation: /sɪst/ 1. A pouch or sac without opening, usually membranous and containing morbid matter, which develops in one of the natural cavities or in the substance of an organ.
Word: dactyl Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin dactylus, from Ancient Greek δάκτυλος (dáktulos, “finger”), three bones of the finger corresponding to three syllables. Doublet of dactylus and date. Pronunciation: /ˈdæktɪl/ 1. A metrical foot of three syllables (— ⏑ ⏑), one long followed by two short, or one accented followed by two unaccented. Example: Now the Bard, glad to get an audience, […] / stuck fast with his first hexameter, / Not one of all whose gouty feet would stir. // But ere the spavin'd dactyls could be spurr'd / Into recitative, in great dismay / Both cherubim and seraphim were heard / To murmur loudly through their long array; […] Example: —My name is absurd too: Malachi Mulligan, two dactyls. But it has a Hellenic ring, hasn't it?
Word: dahl Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of dal. Labels: alt-of, alternative, countable, uncountable
Word: dais Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English deis, from Anglo-Norman deis, from Old French deis, dois (modern French dais), from Latin discum, accusative singular of discus (“discus, disc, quoit; dish”) (Late Latin discum (“table”)), from Ancient Greek δίσκος (dískos, “discus, disc; tray”), from δικεῖν (dikeîn, “to cast, to throw; to strike”). Cognate with Italian desco, Occitan des. Doublet of desk, disc, discus, dish, disk, and diskos. Pronunciation: /ˈdeɪ.ɪs/, /ˈdeɪs/, /ˈdeɪəs/, /ˈdaɪəs/ 1. A raised platform in a room for a high table, a seat of honour, a throne, or other dignified occupancy, such as ancestral statues; a similar platform supporting a lectern, pulpit, etc., which may be used to speak from. Example: Many of the figures, clad in mail from head to foot, were ranged above the dais; and she could almost fancy a skeleton form beneath, or that wild and fearful eyes glared through the apertures of the closed visors. Example: At last we came to the head of the cave, where there was a rock daïs almost exactly similar to the one on which we had been so furiously attacked, a fact that proved to me that these daïs must have been used as altars, probably for the celebration of religious ceremonies, and more especially of rites connected with the interment of the dead. On either side of this daïs were passages leading, Billali informed me, to other caves full of dead bodies. 2. A bench, a settle, a pew. Labels: Northern, UK, historical Example: [page 211] The Mer-man he stept o'er ae deas, / And he has steppit over three: / "O maiden, pledge me faith and troth! / O Marstig's daughter, gang wi' me!" […] [pages 213–214] Notes on The Mer-man. […] I remember having seen in the hall of the ruined castle of Elan Stalker, in the district of Appin, an old oaken deas, which was so contrived as to serve for a sittee; at meal-times the back was turned over, rested upon the arms, and became a table; and at night the seat was raised up, and displayed a commodious bed for four persons, two and two, feet to feet, to sleep in. I was told, that this kind of deas was formerly common in the halls of great houses, where such œconomy, with respect to bed-room, was very necessary. Example: DAIS, Dess, Deas […] A long board, seat or bench erected against a wall. […] A pew in a church 3. An elevated table in a hall at which important people were seated; a high table. Labels: obsolete Example: As the principal table was always placed upon a dais, it began very soon, by a natural abuse of words, to be called itself a Dais, and people were said to sit at the dais, instead of at the table upon the dais. 4. The canopy over an altar, etc.
Word: dammer Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English dammer, dammar, equivalent to dam + -er. 1. One who builds a dam.
Word: dammer Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of damar. Labels: alt-of, alternative, countable, uncountable
Word: darkle Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Back-formation from darkling. Equivalent to dark + -le. Pronunciation: /ˈdɑːk(ə)l/, /ˈdɑɹk(ə)l/ 1. To be dark; to be visible only darkly. Example: Thus to their hopeless eyes the night was shown, / And grimly darkled o'er the faces pale [...]. 2. To become dark; to show indistinctly.
Word: dasher Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English dash Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzios Latin -āriusnom. Latin -āriusbor. Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz Proto-West Germanic *-ārī Old English -ere Middle English -ere English -er English dasher From dash + -er. Pronunciation: /ˈdæʃə(ɹ)/ 1. A person who dashes; a fast runner. 2. That which dashes or agitates. Example: the dasher of a churn 3. A dashboard or splashboard. Labels: US 4. The lower boards around the edge of the rink. 5. One who makes an ostentatious parade or display. Labels: archaic, colloquial
Word: dauber Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English daubere, equivalent to daub + -er. Pronunciation: /ˈdɔːbə(ɹ)/ 1. One who, or that which, daubs; especially, a coarse, unskillful painter. Labels: derogatory Example: After he had exerted all his powers to produce a masterpiece of art, the canons, upon viewing the picture, pronounced it a contemptible performance, and the artist a miserable dauber; and Vandyck could hardly obtain payment for his work. Example: I want to be great, or nothing. I won't be a common-place dauber, so I don't intend to try any more. 2. A pad or ball of rags, covered with canvas, for inking plates. 3. A type of thick marker pen used to mark a bingo card. Example: Said she wasn't going but she went still / Likes her gentlemen not to be gentle / Was it a Mecca dauber or a betting pencil? 4. A low and gross flatterer. Labels: archaic 5. The mud wasp; the mud dauber.
Word: daunt Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Old French danterbor. Latin domitō Old French donterbor. Middle English daunten English daunt From Middle English daunten, from Old French danter, donter (“to tame”), from Latin domitō (“tame”, verb), frequentative of Latin domō (“tame, conquer”, verb), from Proto-Italic *domaō, from Proto-Indo-European *demh₂- (“to domesticate, tame”). Doublet of dompt. Pronunciation: /dɔːnt/, /dɔnt/, /dɑnt/ 1. To discourage, intimidate. Labels: transitive Example: [The English] valiantly, and with the ſlaughter of many, put backe the enemy: which was ſo farre from daunting the Normans, that by it they were more whetted to re-enforce themſelues vpon them[…] Example: Death I'll meet, my soul no terrors daunting, Take the life for which thy heart is panting, Spare not thou, though he spare, his life granting, Or let death end us both at a blow. 2. To overwhelm. Labels: transitive
Word: davit Part of Speech: noun Etymology: The word davit is derived from Middle English and Old French daviot, which is a diminutive of David; thus it means "little David", maybe because those small cranes can handle a much bigger lifeboat. Pronunciation: /ˈdeɪvɪt/, /ˈdævət/ 1. A spar formerly used on board of ships, as a crane to hoist the flukes of the anchor to the top of the bow, without injuring the sides of the ship. 2. A crane, often working in pairs and usually made of steel, used to lower things over an edge of a long drop off, such as lowering a maintenance trapeze down a building or launching a lifeboat over the side of a ship. Example: A solid, pyramid-like hummock of ice, left to starboard as the steamer ascended, and which projected close alongside the upper, or boat-deck, as she fell over, had caught, in succession, every pair of davits to starboard, bending and wrenching them, smashing boats, and snapping tackles and gripes, until, as the ship cleared herself, it capped the pile of wreckage strewing the ice in front of, and around it, with the end and broken stanchions of the bridge.
Word: decant Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From French décanter, from Medieval Latin dēcanthāre, from dē- + canthus (“beak of a cup or jug”). Pronunciation: /dəˈkænt/ 1. To pour off (a liquid) gently, so as not to disturb the sediment. Labels: transitive Example: After washing, the insoluble lime soap is decomposed with hot dilute sulphuric acid. The melted fatty acids thus rise as an oil to the surface, when they are decanted. 2. To pour from its original vessel into one intended for a different use or appearance. Labels: transitive Example: to decant wine 3. To flow. Labels: archaic, intransitive Example: Swincombe, formerly Swan-combe, runs to the north of the ridge, and has the sources of its river in the Fox Tor mires and near Childe's Tomb. It runs north-east, and then abruptly passes north to decant into the West Dart. 4. To remove (a clone or other artificially-gestated baby) from its chamber, vat, or artificial womb. Example: “We also predestine and condition. We decant our babies as socialized human beings, as Alphas or Epsilons, as future sewage workers or future …” He was going to say “future World controllers,” but correcting himself, said “future Directors of Hatcheries,” instead. 5. To rehouse people while their buildings are being refurbished or rebuilt.
Word: decant Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From French décanter, from Medieval Latin dēcanthāre, from dē- + canthus (“beak of a cup or jug”). Pronunciation: /dəˈkænt/ 1. A portion of perfume unofficially sold in a smaller bottle. Example: In addition to decants, minis, and used bottles of vintage, perfume nips are a fun way to try out vintage, and they seem to be all over the Internet.
Word: defier Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From defy + -er. Pronunciation: /dɪˈfaɪ(j)ə(ɹ)/ 1. Someone who dares, challenges or defies. Example: She droops not; and her eyes rising so high might be hidden by distance; but, being what they are, they cannot be hidden; through the treble veil of crape which she wears, the fierce light of a blazing misery, that rests not for matins or for vespers, for noon of day or noon of night, for ebbing or for flowing tide, may be read from the very ground. She is the defier of God. She is also the mother of lunacies, and the suggestress of suicides.
Word: defter Part of Speech: adj 1. comparative form of deft: more deft Labels: comparative, form-of
Word: defter Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Turkish defter, from Arabic دَفْتَر (daftar), from Aramaic דהפתּיר (defter), from Ancient Greek διφθέρα (diphthéra). Doublet of letter. 1. A type of tax register that was used in the Ottoman Empire. Labels: historical
Word: degum Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *de Proto-Indo-European *-h₁ Proto-Indo-European *déh₁ Proto-Italic *dē Latin dē Latin dē-der. English de- English gum English degum From de- + gum. Pronunciation: /diːˈɡʌm/, /diːˈɡʊm/ 1. To remove gum from. Labels: transitive Example: Degumming involves the removal of phospholipids and other non-triglyceride materials.
Word: delft Part of Speech: noun Etymology: After the Dutch city of Delft. Pronunciation: [dɛɫft] 1. Alternative form of Delft (“style of earthenware”). Labels: alt-of, alternative, uncountable
Word: delft Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: [dɛɫft] 1. A delf; a mine, quarry, pit or ditch. Example: The delfts would be so flown with waters, that no gins or machines could […] keep them dry.
Word: delver Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English delvere, from Old English delfere (“a digger”), equivalent to delve + -er. 1. One who digs or delves, as with a spade. Example: Their armour and weapons were found at times, by delvers and dykers, for centuries after; are found at times unto this day, beneath the rich drained cornfields which now fill up that black half-mile[.]
Word: demit Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Latin dēmittō (“send or bring down, let fall”). Pronunciation: /dɪˈmɪt/ 1. To let fall; to depress; to yield. Labels: transitive 2. To relinquish an office, membership, authority, etc.; to resign, as from a Masonic lodge.
Word: demit Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin dēmittō (“send or bring down, let fall”). Pronunciation: /dɪˈmɪt/ 1. The act of demitting. 2. A document certifying that a person has (honourably) demitted, as from a Masonic lodge.
Word: denude Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle French dénuder, from Latin dēnūdāre, from dē- + nūdus (“bare”). Pronunciation: /dɪˈnjuːd/ 1. To divest of all covering; to make bare or naked; to strip. Example: He denuded himself of his clothes. Example: Widespread deforestation has led to lands being denuded. 2. To remove (something or someone) of their possessions or assets. Example: Their property was seized, denuded and confiscated. Example: The service was denuded of its capacity to deliver. 3. To strip (a mountain, volcano, or other geological formation) by erosion of outer layers so as to lay bare the inner structure. Example: The well-known hill of Arthur’s Seat, which overlooks the city of Edinburgh, and many castle-crowned crags of the Forth and Clyde valleys, are the worn and denuded relics of these small volcanoes.
Word: derate Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *de Proto-Indo-European *-h₁ Proto-Indo-European *déh₁ Proto-Italic *dē Latin dē Latin dē-der. English de- English rate English derate From de- + rate. Pronunciation: /diːˈɹeɪt/ 1. To lower the rated capability of any rated equipment or material. Example: The derated engine sold at a lower price, but had the same components as the standard model.
Word: detent Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From French détente, from Latin tendō (“to stretch”). Pronunciation: /dɪˈtɛnt/, /ˈdiːtɛnt/ 1. That which locks or unlocks a movement; a catch (stopping mechanism), pawl, or dog; especially, in clockwork, the catch which locks and unlocks the wheelwork in striking. Example: A UHF tuner having 70 detent positions with fine tuning capability at all locations. Coarse tuning is accomplished via a toothed, detented disk and a spirally-extending rim having a follower lever operable therewith.
Word: detent Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From French détente, from Latin tendō (“to stretch”). Pronunciation: /dɪˈtɛnt/, /ˈdiːtɛnt/ 1. The action of locking or unlocking movement by way of a detent mechanism
Word: Dewar Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Scottish Gaelic deòradh (“pilgrim, stranger”), an occupational surname for a custodian of holy relics. It could also be an habitational surname, from Dewar, Scottish Borders. The flask is named for James Dewar, who is credited with its invention. Pronunciation: /ˈdjuːwə(ɹ)/ 1. A surname from Scottish Gaelic. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. An unincorporated community in Black Hawk County, Iowa, United States. Labels: countable, uncountable 3. A city in Okmulgee County, Oklahoma, United States. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: Dewar Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Scottish Gaelic deòradh (“pilgrim, stranger”), an occupational surname for a custodian of holy relics. It could also be an habitational surname, from Dewar, Scottish Borders. The flask is named for James Dewar, who is credited with its invention. Pronunciation: /ˈdjuːwə(ɹ)/ 1. A glass or metal double-walled flask for holding a liquid without much loss or gain of heat; a vacuum bottle or thermos. Generally used for scientific purposes and in particular for cryogenic work.
Word: dey Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English deye, deie, daie, from Old English dǣġe (“maker of bread; baker; dairy-maid”), from Proto-West Germanic *daigijā, from Proto-Germanic *daigijǭ (“kneader of bread, maid”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeyǵʰ- (“to knead, form, build”). Cognate with Swedish deja, Icelandic deigja (“dairy-maid”); compare dairy, dough, lady. Pronunciation: /deɪ/ 1. A servant who has charge of the dairy; a dairymaid. Labels: Scotland, UK, dialectal
Word: dey Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From French dey, from Algerian Arabic داي from Ottoman Turkish دایی (modern Turkish dayı). Pronunciation: /deɪ/ 1. The ruler of the Regency of Algiers (now Algeria) under the Ottoman Empire. Labels: historical Example: […] the reigning Dey of Algiers (half of whose twenty-eight predecessors are said to have met violent ends) lost his temper with the French consul, struck him in the face with a fly-whisk, and called him ‘a wicked, faithless, idol-worshipping rascal’.
Word: dey Part of Speech: pron Pronunciation: /deɪ/ 1. Pronunciation spelling of their, representing African-American Vernacular English. Labels: alt-of, pronunciation-spelling 2. Pronunciation spelling of there, representing African-American Vernacular English or Caribbean English. Labels: alt-of, pronunciation-spelling Example: “Boy, is horrors over dey, for so,” he said, obviously excited and anxious to be the bearer of extraordinary news. “Wat happen, somebody dead?” 3. Pronunciation spelling of they, representing dialects with th-stopping in English Labels: alt-of, pronunciation-spelling
Word: dey Part of Speech: intj Etymology: From Tamil டேய் (“hey!”). Pronunciation: [ˈde(ː)], /deɪ/ 1. An informal Tamil-language term of address used when trying to get someone's attention. Labels: Manglish, Singlish Example: Dey! Did you press the lift button? What? You have pressed the button for the tenth time? Example: Dei, you think what, President’s Star Charity ah?
Word: diatom Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From (deprecated) genus name Diatoma, from Ancient Greek διάτομος (diátomos, “cut through, cut in half”). Pronunciation: /ˈdaɪ.ə.təm/, /ˈdaɪ.əˌtɔm/ 1. Any of a group of minute unicellular algae having a siliceous covering of great delicacy, now categorized as class Diatomophyceae or division Bacillariophyta. Example: Diatoms are enclosed in two shells that fit together like a pillbox. Example: Diatoms are characterized by a cell wall called a fistula made of silica, which usually has two overlapping sections.
Word: diatom Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From di- + atom. Pronunciation: /daɪˈæ.təm/ 1. A molecule composed of two atoms of the same element; a homonuclear diatomic molecule. Example: We show here, through a systematic study of the covalent chemical bond covering the entire periodic system, that the maximum bond multiplicity is six. The maximum value is reached by the tungsten diatom, W₂. No other pair of atoms in the periodic system (atomic numbers smaller than about 100) reaches a higher bond order.
Word: dibble Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Possibly dib (“to dab lightly”) + -le (frequentative suffix indicating repetition or continuousness); however, the word dibble is attested earlier than dib. Pronunciation: /ˈdɪb(ə)l/ 1. A pointed implement used to make holes in the ground in which to set out plants or to plant seeds. Example: Pol[ixenes] Then make you[r] Garden rich in Gilly'vors, / And do not call them baſtards. / Per[dita] Ile not put / The Dible in earth, to ſet one ſlip of them: […] Example: Earth'd up, here lies an imp o' hell, / Planted by Satan's dibble— / Poor silly wretch, he's damned himsel', / To save the Lord the trouble.
Word: dibble Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Possibly dib (“to dab lightly”) + -le (frequentative suffix indicating repetition or continuousness); however, the word dibble is attested earlier than dib. Pronunciation: /ˈdɪb(ə)l/ 1. To make holes or plant seeds using, or as if using, a dibble. Labels: transitive Example: And as in winter, when the frost breaks up, / At winter's end, before the spring begins, / And a warm west wind blows, and thaw sets in— / After an hour a dripping sound is heard / In all the forests, and the soft-strewn snow / Under the trees is dibbled thick with holes, / And from the boughs the snowloads shuffle down; […] Example: It was Digory who had the bright idea of eating four each and planting the ninth; for, as he said, "if the bar off the lamp-post turned into a little light-tree, why shouldn’t this turn into a toffee-tree?" So they dibbled a small hole in the turf and buried the piece of toffee. 2. To use a dibble; to make holes in the soil. Labels: intransitive Example: There is another method of ſowing wheat in rows uſed in ſome counties, which is termed dibbling in the language of agricultors, and consiſts in making perpendicular holes one inch and half or two inches deep, as is commonly done in planting potato-roots; theſe holes are made by a man, who has a proper ſtaff ſhod with iron in each hand, and as he walks backwards is able by looking at the part of the row already made to keep nearly in a ſtraight line, and to make two holes at once at about nine inches diſtant from each other every way. Example: I would as soon be gored by my ain bull that gangs on Dalmakittenleys, as have ill luck, and sorrow, and mischance, drilled and dibbled into my frail body by the spiteful een of an auld hag. 3. To dib or dip frequently, as in angling. Labels: intransitive Example: And neere to them ye see the lesser dibling Teale Example: Natural fly-fishing, which comes under the heads of dibbling, daping and dabbing, is a method with which the largest fish are taken, and requires a deal of nicety and circumspection. The general rule in this way of angling is to fish with a line about half the length of your rod; but if there is wind stirring, with as much as it will carry out; but you need hardly ever fish with more than the first length, as dibbling must be performed as near as possible to the bank that you stand on; therefore a long rod and a short line is the best, which you will command with ease, and be able to shelter yourself from the sight of the fishes, behind bushes, stumps of trees, &c. The line you dib with should be very strong; for when you have struck a good fish, you will have a hard bout with him before you kill him, for want of a greater length of line: […]
Word: dibble Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From the character of Officer Charlie Dibble, a New York Police Department officer, in the Hanna-Barbera cartoon series Top Cat (first broadcast in the US in 1961, and in the UK in 1962 under the title Boss Cat). Pronunciation: /ˈdɪb(ə)l/ 1. A police officer, especially one serving with Greater Manchester Police. Labels: UK, countable, slang Example: Remember this story about police hunting a metal detector enthusiast suspected of digging 20 holes in a school playing field in Cornwall? It’s taken a rather unusual twist. Pop superstar Robbie Williams appears to have ’fessed up to the crime. The former Take That star, who is a keen metal detecting enthusiast, retweeted the West Briton newspaper’s version of the story, telling ‘Dibble’ – a Mancunian slang term for the police which comes from the character Officer Dibble in the cartoon Top Cat – to ‘do one’, vowing the police will never catch him alive. 2. Preceded by the: the police. Labels: UK, slang, uncountable Example: Watch out, lads! Here comes the dibble! Example: In Moss Side they called the police Dibble, after Officer Dibble in the cartoon Top Cat, so the name had sprung from that.
Word: dickey Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Dickey. Pronunciation: /ˈdɪki/ 1. Alternative form of dicky. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: ...and she was just in time to see Mr. Boyne Sillery hand her aunt into a carriage, jump in himself, when it drove off with a rapidity which scarcely allowed her to observe that a large imperial was on the top, and her aunt's servant, with a huge bandbox, on the dickey. Example: Every Sunday night at eight o'clock punctually the form of David Emmons, arrayed in his best clothes, with his stiff white dickey, and a nosegay in his buttonhole, was seen to advance up the road toward Maria Brewster's, as he had been seen to advance every Sunday night for the last twenty-five years, but that was all.
Word: dickey Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Unknown; see the main entry. Pronunciation: /ˈdɪki/ 1. Alternative form of dicky (“doubtful, troublesome, in poor condition”). Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: dimer Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From di- + -mer. Pronunciation: /ˈdaɪmə(ɹ)/ 1. A molecule consisting of two identical halves, formed by joining two identical molecules, sometimes with a single atom acting as a bridge. Example: Non-polymerized lamins are dimers and they can polymerize to structures such as head to tail or by unparallel dimers which aggregate in tetramers and polymerize to thick fibers.
Word: dint Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English dint, dent, dünt, from Old English dynt (“dint, blow, strike, stroke, bruise, stripe; the mark left by a blow; the sound or noise made by a blow, thud”), from Proto-Germanic *duntiz (“a blow”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰen- (“to strike, hit”). Cognate with Swedish dialectal dunt, Icelandic dyntr (“a dint”). Doublet of dent. Pronunciation: /dɪnt/ 1. Especially in by dint of: force, power. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: O, now you weep; and, I perceive, you feel / The dint of pity Example: It was by dint of passing strength / That he moved the massy stone at length. 2. The mark left by a blow; an indentation or impression made by violence; a dent. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: [D]epe wͭ dynt the ſword enforced furſt / had ranſakt through his ribs ⁊ ſwete whyte breſt at once had burſt. Example: His hands had made a dint, and hurt his maid; / Explored her limb by limb, and feared to find / So rude a gripe had left a livid mark behind. 3. A blow, stroke, especially dealt in a fight. Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable Example: Much daunted with that dint, her sence was dazd […] Example: Between them cross-bows stood, and engines wrought / To cast a stone, a quarry, or a dart, // From whence, like thunder's dint, or lightnings new, / Against the bulwarks stones and lances flew.
Word: dint Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English dinten, from the noun. Compare Old Norse dynta. Pronunciation: /dɪnt/ 1. To dent. Example: Your helmet was dinted in as if by a great shot. Example: And, in that moment came one, fierce and wild of aspect, in dinted casque and rusty mail who stood and watched--ah God!
Word: dint Part of Speech: contraction Pronunciation: /dɪnt/ 1. Pronunciation spelling of didn’t. Labels: alt-of, contraction, pronunciation-spelling
Word: diode Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From di- (“two”) + -ode. Learned formation, coined by William Henry Eccles in 1919, after Ancient Greek δίοδος (díodos, “passage through”), which however is formed not with δι- (di-, “two”) but with δια- (dia-, “through”). Pronunciation: /ˈdaɪ.əʊd/, /ˈdaɪ.oʊd/ 1. An electronic device that allows current to flow in one direction only; used chiefly as a rectifier. Example: I propose to give the name diode to a tube with two electrodes. Example: If a crystal or a diode is used, the amplifier-voltmeter combination may be used with an amplitude-modulated source; or with a c-w source, the detector may be connected to a microammeter or galvanometer as an indicating device.
Word: dipole Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From di- + pole. Pronunciation: /ˈdʌɪpəʊl/, /ˈdaɪˌpoʊl/ 1. Any object (such as a magnet, polar molecule or antenna) that is oppositely charged at two points (or poles). 2. Any molecule or radical that has delocalised positive and negative charges. 3. A dipole antenna.
Word: distal Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁ Proto-Indo-European *d(w)is- Proto-Italic *dis- Latin dis- Proto-Indo-European *steh₂- Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁ti Proto-Indo-European *-yeti Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁yeti Proto-Indo-European *sth₂éh₁yeti Proto-Italic *staējō Proto-Italic *staēō Latin stō Latin distō Latin distānsder. Old French distantbor. Middle English distaunt English distant English -al English distal From distant + -al. Pronunciation: /ˈdɪs.təl/ 1. Remote from the point of attachment or origin. Example: the distal end of a bone or muscle Example: Among the hypothesized diagnoses was metastatic carcinoma. In metastatic cancer, metastases are most frequent in the axial skeleton and are rare in the distal parts of the appendicular skeleton[…]. 2. Facing the wisdom tooth or temporomandibular joint on the same side of the jaw. 3. Far or farther from the speaker.
Word: dobbin Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Dobbin, a common name given to workhorses. Pronunciation: /ˈdɒbɪn/, /ˈdɑbɪn/ 1. An old jaded horse. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. Sea gravel mixed with sand. Labels: UK, dialectal, uncountable 3. Synonym of horse (illegitimate study aid) Labels: countable, dated, slang, uncountable
Word: doer Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English doer, doar, doere, from Old English dōere (“a doer; worker”), equivalent to do + -er. Pronunciation: /ˈduː.ə/, [ˈdʊu̯.ə], /ˈdu.ɚ/, [ˈdʊu̯.ɚ] ~ [ˈdʊu̯.ɹ̩] 1. Someone who does, performs, or executes; an active person, an agent. Example: a doer of good Example: By the wisdom proclaimed of old the doer must suffer.
Word: doff Part of Speech: noun Etymology: PIE word *h₂epó The verb is derived from Late Middle English doffen (“to take off (clothing); to remove (headwear) as a sign of respect; to remove (grease) by skimming”), a contraction of Middle English do off, don off, from Old English dōn of, from dōn (“to do; to put; to take off, remove”) + of (“from; off”). Dōn is derived from Proto-West Germanic *dōn (“to do; to place, put”), from Proto-Germanic *dōną (“to do; to make; to place, put”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁- (“to do; to place, put”). By surface analysis, do + off. Compare don (by surface analysis, do + on), dout (do + out), dup (do + up). The noun is derived from the verb. Pronunciation: /dɒf/, /dɔf/, /dɑf/ 1. Followed by off: an act of putting off or turning away someone with an excuse, etc. Labels: obsolete, rare Example: Faith, Lelia has een giuen him the doff off here, and has made hir father almoſt ſtarke mad.
Word: doge Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Partly from Middle French doge and partly from its etymon, Italian doge, from Venetan doxe, from Latin ducem, accusative of dux (“leader; commander; ruler”). Doublet of duc, duce, duke, and dux. Pronunciation: /dəʊdʒ/, /dəʊʒ/, /ˈdəʊ.dʒeɪ/, /doʊd͡ʒ/, /doʊʒ/ 1. The chief magistrate in the republics of Venice and Genoa. Labels: historical Example: In the thirteenth century, a new method of appointing the doge, by the famous ballot of Venice, a complicated mixture of choice and chance, was adopted. Example: This reply was one of the first important pronouncements to be made by Antonio Grimani, who on 6 July had been elected seventy-fourth Doge of Venice in succession to Leonardo Loredan.
Word: doge Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From dog, probably as a sensational spelling of doggy like monke. First attested in the 2005 episode "Biz Cas Fri 1" from Homestar Runner. Pronunciation: /dəʊdʒ/, /dəʊʒ/, /dəʊɡ/, /ˈdɒɡ.i/, /ˈdəʊ.ɡi/ 1. Deliberate misspelling of doggy. Labels: Internet, alt-of, deliberate, humorous, misspelling 2. Specifically, a Shiba Inu, as in the doge meme. Labels: Internet, humorous Example: Bobsled wasn't the only Dogecoin-backed sporting success. Fans of Nascar will recognise the car driven by Josh Wise, emblazoned, as it is, with the adorable little doge on its bonnet (pictured above).
Word: doge Part of Speech: verb Etymology: See DOGE. 1. Alternative letter-case form of DOGE. Labels: alt-of Example: Since the lab has been "doged," a petition posted to Change.org by Evgeny Stambulchik asked for signatures to oppose the layoff of the NIST Atomic Spectroscopy Group and has garnered 2,500 signatures as of reporting time. There is also a campaign website.
Word: dogger Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Dutch, from dogger (“codfish”). Pronunciation: /ˈdɒ.ɡə/, /ˈdɑ.ɡɚ/ 1. A two-masted fishing vessel, used by the Dutch until around the 18th century.
Word: dogger Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Old English [Term?]? Proto-Germanic *-gô Proto-West Germanic *-gō Old English -ga Old English dogga Middle English dogge English dog Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzios Latin -āriusnom. Latin -āriusbor. Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz Proto-West Germanic *-ārī Old English -ere Middle English -ere English -er English dogger From dog (verb) + -er. Pronunciation: /ˈdɒ.ɡə/, /ˈdɑ.ɡɚ/ 1. A participant in the sexual activity of dogging. Labels: UK
Word: dogger Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈdɒ.ɡə/, /ˈdɑ.ɡɚ/ 1. A sort of stone, found in the mines with the true alum rock, chiefly of silica and iron.
Word: dogger Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Old English [Term?]? Proto-Germanic *-gô Proto-West Germanic *-gō Old English -ga Old English dogga Middle English dogge English dog Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzios Latin -āriusnom. Latin -āriusbor. Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz Proto-West Germanic *-ārī Old English -ere Middle English -ere English -er English dogger From dog + -er. Pronunciation: /ˈdɒ.ɡə/, /ˈdɑ.ɡɚ/ 1. A person employed to kill wild dogs and dingos, in the pastoral industry and rural areas. Labels: Australia Example: One of the roaming doggers, Anderson, has since been speared.
Word: dogger Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From dog (“part of a crane that holds the items to be lifted”) + -er, from the fact that such a person would often ride on the load lifted by the crane when carrying out their duty. Created as a gender-neutral substitute for the older term dogman. Pronunciation: /ˈdɒ.ɡə/, /ˈdɑ.ɡɚ/ 1. A dogman. Labels: Australia, New-Zealand
Word: dogger Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From dog + -er (suffix forming slang or colloquial equivalents of words). Pronunciation: /ˈdɒ.ɡə/, /ˈdɑ.ɡɚ/ 1. Synonym of doggo (“a dog”). Labels: diminutive, endearing, humorous Example: Howsabout I feed all you little doggers some dinner?! Example: Get over here you little dogger! That belly needs some scritchin!
Word: dole Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English dol, from Old English dāl (“portion, share, division, allotment”), from Proto-Germanic *dailą (“part, deal”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰayl- (“part, watershed”). Cognate with Polish dola (“fate, cut”), Old Church Slavonic дѣлити (děliti, “divide”). More at deal. First attested in the late 12th c. The verb is first attested in the mid-15th c. Pronunciation: /dəʊl/, [dɒʊl], /dɒl/, /doʊl/ 1. Distribution; dealing; apportionment. Labels: uncountable Example: c. 1650s, John Cleveland, Upon Phillis Walking in a Morning before Sun-rising At her general dole, / Each receives his ancient soul. 2. Distribution; dealing; apportionment. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Go not away, thou weary soul: / Heaven has in store a precious dole / Even on Bethsaida's cold and darksome height, [...] 3. Money or other goods given as charity. Labels: broadly, uncountable Example: So sure the dole, so ready at their call, / They stood prepar'd to see the manna fall. Example: Devereux […] was beholden, not only for his fun, but occasionally for his daily bread and even his liberty, to those benovolent^([sic]) doles. 4. Payment by the state to the unemployed; unemployment benefits. Labels: informal, often, uncountable Example: I get my dole paid twice a week. Example: I've been on the dole for two years now. 5. A boundary; a landmark. Labels: countable Example: Curſed be he which tranſlateth the bounds and dolles of his Neighbor. 6. A void space left in tillage. Labels: UK, countable, dialectal
Word: dole Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English dol, from Old English dāl (“portion, share, division, allotment”), from Proto-Germanic *dailą (“part, deal”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰayl- (“part, watershed”). Cognate with Polish dola (“fate, cut”), Old Church Slavonic дѣлити (děliti, “divide”). More at deal. First attested in the late 12th c. The verb is first attested in the mid-15th c. Pronunciation: /dəʊl/, [dɒʊl], /dɒl/, /doʊl/ 1. To distribute alms, etc., in small amounts; to share out small portions of a meager resource. Labels: intransitive 2. To distribute (as, alms) in small amounts; to share out (small portions of a meager resource). Labels: transitive
Word: dole Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English dole (“grief”), from Old French doel (compare French deuil), from Late Latin dolus, from Latin doleo. Pronunciation: /dəʊl/, [dɒʊl], /dɒl/, /doʊl/ 1. A sorrow or grief; dolour. Labels: archaic, uncountable Example: Syr said sir gyngalyn I wote not what knyȝt he was / but wel I wote that he sygheth and maketh grete dole. "Sir, said Sir Gingalin, I wot not what knight he was, but well I wot that he sigheth, and maketh great dole." Example: But ten slow mornings past, and on the eleventh / Her father laid the letter in her hand, / And closed the hand upon it, and she died. / So that day there was dole in Astolat. 2. Dolus. Labels: Scotland, uncountable
Word: dole Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /dəʊl/, [dɒʊl], /dɒl/, /doʊl/ 1. Alternative form of dhole (“Asian wild dog”). Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: dopant Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English dope Proto-Indo-European *-onts Latin -ns Latin -āns Old French -antbor. Proto-Indo-European *-onts Proto-Germanic *-ndz Proto-West Germanic *-andī Old English -ende Middle English -ant English -ant English dopant From dope + -ant. Pronunciation: /ˈdəʊpənt/ 1. A substance added in small amounts to a pure material, such as semiconductor, to alter its original electrical or optical properties; a doping agent. Example: It should be noted that even though both types of disorder can be annealed at temperatures well below those where diffusion of the dopant species occurs, there are still defects present.
Word: dor Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English dorre, dore, from Old English dora (“humming insect”), from Proto-West Germanic *dorō, from Proto-Germanic *durô (“bumblebee, humming insect”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰer-, *dʰreh₁n- (“bee, hornet, drone”). Related to Saterland Frisian Doarne (“hornet”), Middle Low German dorne (“bumblebee”), Middle Dutch dorne (“bumblebee”), Dutch dar (“drone”), Old English drān (“drone”). More at drone. Pronunciation: /ˈdɔː(ɹ)/ 1. Any of species Geotrupes stercorarius of large European dung beetles that make a droning noise while flying. 2. Any flying insect which makes a loud humming noise, such as the June bug or a bumblebee.
Word: dor Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Compare dor (“a beetle”), and hum, humbug. Pronunciation: /ˈdɔː(ɹ)/ 1. A trick, joke, or deception. Labels: obsolete Example: To say you were impotent! I am ashamed on 't! To make yourself no man? to a fresh maid too, A longing maid? upon her wedding-night also, To give her such a dor?
Word: dote Part of Speech: verb Etymology: The verb is derived from Middle English doten, from Middle Low German doten (“to be foolish”) or Middle Dutch doten (“to be silly”). Doublet of doit (Scottish English). The noun in the sense of "imbecile" is derived from Middle English dote (“simpleton”), itself from doten (see above). The noun in the sense of "darling" and "decay" is derived from the modern verb. Pronunciation: /dəʊt/, /doʊt/ 1. To be weakly or foolishly fond of somebody. Labels: intransitive, stative, usually, with-on Example: Little Bill's parents just keep doting on him. Example: Jules doted on Chris, spending hours while Chris was at school assembling vast cities out of microscopic Lego pieces to surprise him when he returned. 2. To act in a foolish manner; to be senile. Labels: archaic, intransitive Example: He survived the use of his reason, grew infatuated, and doted long before he died. Example: Time has made you dote, and vainly tell / Of arms imagined in your lonely cell. 3. To rot, decay. Labels: intransitive, obsolete, rare