nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: dim Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English dim, dym, from Old English dim, dimm (“dim, dark, gloomy; wretched, grievous, sad, unhappy”), from Proto-West Germanic *dimm, from Proto-Germanic *dimmaz (“dark”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰem- (“to whisk, smoke; obscure”). Compare Faroese dimmur (“dark”), Icelandic dimmur (“dark”) and dimma (“darkness”). Pronunciation: /dɪm/ 1. To make something less bright. Labels: transitive Example: He dimmed the lights and put on soft music. 2. To become darker. Labels: intransitive Example: The lights dimmed briefly when the air conditioning was turned on. 3. To render dim, obscure, or dark; to make less bright or distinct. Example: a king among his courtiers,[…] who out to dim the lustre of all his attendants Example: Now ſet the ſun, and twilight dimm'd the ways, […] 4. To deprive of distinct vision; to hinder from seeing clearly, either by dazzling or clouding the eyes; to darken the senses or understanding of. Example: And with our Sun-bright armour as we march, Weel chaſe the Starrs from heauen, and dim their eies That ſtand and muſe at our admyred armes. Example: Her starry eyes were dimm'd with streaming tears. 5. To diminish, dull, or curtail. Labels: figuratively Example: All these setbacks had started to dim the hopes of the students. Example: Nothing will dim their spirit of resilience.
Word: dim Part of Speech: adj Pronunciation: /dɪm/ 1. Clipping of diminished. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, not-comparable
Word: BTU Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /biː.tiː.juː/ 1. Initialism of British thermal unit. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Word: thermal Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From French thermal, from New Latin *thermalis, from Ancient Greek θέρμη (thérmē, “heat”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷʰer- (“to heat, warm”). Pronunciation: /ˈθɜːməl/, /ˈθɝməl/ 1. Pertaining to heat or temperature. Labels: not-comparable Example: Similar studies of rats have employed four different intracranial resorbable, slow sustained release systems—surgical foam, a thermal gel depot, a microcapsule or biodegradable polymer beads. 2. Providing efficient insulation so as to keep the body warm. Labels: not-comparable 3. Caused or brought about by heat. Labels: not-comparable 4. Having a rough finish from treatment with a blowtorch. Labels: not-comparable
Word: thermal Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From French thermal, from New Latin *thermalis, from Ancient Greek θέρμη (thérmē, “heat”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷʰer- (“to heat, warm”). Pronunciation: /ˈθɜːməl/, /ˈθɝməl/ 1. A column of rising air in the lower atmosphere created by uneven heating of a planet's surface. Example: The hawk had mounted its thermal by the time he got to the yard, flapping its wings violently against the updraft. 2. FLIR. 3. thermocline.
Word: thermal Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From French thermal, from New Latin *thermalis, from Ancient Greek θέρμη (thérmē, “heat”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷʰer- (“to heat, warm”). Pronunciation: /ˈθɜːməl/, /ˈθɝməl/ 1. To create a rough finish on stone by treating it with a high-temperature blowtorch. 2. To fly an unpowered aircraft in a thermal (column of rising air).
Word: ratio Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Latin ratiō. Doublet of ration and reason. Pronunciation: /ˈɹeɪ.ʃi.əʊ/, /ˈɹeɪ.ʃəʊ/, /ˈɹeɪ.si.əʊ/, /ˈɹeɪ.ʃoʊ/, /ˈɹeɪ.ʃiˌoʊ/ 1. A number representing a comparison between two named things. Example: Scientists believe that the sex ratio is equal at conception, explained Steven Orzack, president and senior research scientist of the Fresh Pond Research Institute in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Example: On Monday, the issuer announced the addition of four new transfer partners — three airlines and one hotel chain — to its credit card rewards program, along with improved transfer ratios for several existing partners. 2. The relative magnitudes of two quantities (usually expressed as a quotient). 3. Ellipsis of ratio decidendi. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis 4. The number of comments to a post or other expression on social media relative to the number of likes; a high ratio suggests disagreement with the contents of the original post.
Word: ratio Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Borrowed from Latin ratiō. Doublet of ration and reason. Pronunciation: /ˈɹeɪ.ʃi.əʊ/, /ˈɹeɪ.ʃəʊ/, /ˈɹeɪ.si.əʊ/, /ˈɹeɪ.ʃoʊ/, /ˈɹeɪ.ʃiˌoʊ/ 1. To respond to a post or message on social media in a greater number than the number of likes the post receives, especially to condemn or mock the original poster. Labels: Internet, transitive Example: The politician's post was quickly ratioed due to its controversial nature. Example: “Don’t help elect Trump, you egotistical billionaire a**hole,” the protester yelled. “Go back to getting ratioed on Twitter. Go back to Davos with the other billionaire elites who think they know how to run the world. That’s not what democracy is.”
Word: ratio Part of Speech: intj Etymology: Borrowed from Latin ratiō. Doublet of ration and reason. Pronunciation: /ˈɹeɪ.ʃi.əʊ/, /ˈɹeɪ.ʃəʊ/, /ˈɹeɪ.si.əʊ/, /ˈɹeɪ.ʃoʊ/, /ˈɹeɪ.ʃiˌoʊ/ 1. Indicates disagreement with a post the user disagrees with or dislikes. Labels: neologism Example: L + ratio Example: "Ratio. YoungBoy is better." "What?" "Make better music. You fell off."
Word: vice versa Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Borrowed from Latin ablative absolute vice versā (“the position having been reversed”), from feminine third declension noun vicis (“arrangement, order, position”) + feminine ablative singular of perfect passive participle versus, from vertō (“to turn, to reverse”). Pronunciation: /ˈvaɪsɪ ˈvɜːsə/, /ˈvaɪsə-/, /vaɪs-/, /ˈvaɪsi ˈvɝsə/ 1. The same but with the two items mentioned reversed. Labels: not-comparable Example: Since there are two contestants left in the race, either Bob will come first place and Alice second place, or vice versa. Example: The most loved scholar of the university wrote a memorable diary to his students, and vice versa, the students wrote to him.
Word: sink Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English synken, from Old English sincan, from Proto-West Germanic *sinkwan, from Proto-Germanic *sinkwaną, from Proto-Indo-European *sengʷ- (“to fall, sink”). Compare West Frisian sinke, Low German sinken, Dutch zinken, German sinken, Danish and Norwegian Bokmål synke, Swedish sjunka. In the causative sense, it replaced Old English senċan (“make sink”) from Proto-Germanic *sankwijaną. Pronunciation: /ˈsɪŋk/, /ˈsiŋk/, /zɪŋk/ 1. A basin used for holding water for washing. Example: Roy: The work was fiiine. There was nothing wrong with the work. But they caught him... He pissed in the sink. Jen: Oh. Oh! Roy: Yeah... Jen: Which sink? Roy: All the sinks. Yeah, he basically went on a pee parade around the house. Jen: Oh God, I have to fire him. 2. A drain for carrying off wastewater. 3. A sinkhole. 4. A depression in land where water collects, with no visible outlet. 5. A heat sink. 6. A place that absorbs resources or energy. 7. A habitat that cannot support a population on its own but receives the excess of individuals from some other source. 8. Descending motion; descent. Labels: uncountable Example: An excessive sink rate at touchdown can cause the aircraft's landing gear to collapse. 9. Descending motion; descent. Labels: uncountable Example: Jones has a two-seamer with heavy sink. 10. An object or callback that captures events. 11. A destination vertex in a transportation network. 12. A node in directed graph for which all of its edges go into it; one with no outgoing edges. 13. An abode of degraded persons; a wretched place. 14. A depression in a stereotype plate. 15. A stage trapdoor for shifting scenery. 16. An excavation smaller than a shaft. 17. One or several systems that remove currency from the game's economy, thus controlling or preventing inflation.
Word: nationalism Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from French nationalisme, equivalent to national + -ism. Pronunciation: /ˈnæʃənəlɪz(ə)m/, /ˈnaʃənl̩ɪz(ə)m/, /ˈnæʃn̩(ə)lɪz(ə)m/, /ˈnæʃ(ə)nəˌlɪzəm/ 1. A more extreme form of patriotism; the idea of a more extreme support for one's country, people or culture. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Communists, socialists, and Islamists are against nationalism. Example: Perhaps the explanation of the Chinese situation most generally accepted by historians is nationalism, a phenomenon which has always occurred when a people of distinctive cultural characteristics becomes aware of foreign domination. Napoleonic domination in Italy and Germany a century ago created nationalism there, as did Turkish domination in the Balkans and the Arab countries. 2. Support for the creation of a sovereign nation (which does not currently exist). Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Basque nationalism Example: Kurdish nationalism 3. Support for the union of Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland. Labels: Ireland, UK, countable, uncountable
Word: Pantocrator Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Latin pantocrator, from Hellenistic Ancient Greek παντοκράτωρ (pantokrátōr). Pronunciation: /pænˈtɒkɹətə/ 1. The ruler of everything, especially as an epithet for Jesus Christ; an artistic depiction of Jesus in this aspect. Example: 1942, On the dome, and again behind the altar, was Christ Pantocrator, the Ruler of All — Rebecca West, Black Lamb and Grey Falcon (Canongate 2006, p. 988)
Word: cat and mouse Part of Speech: noun 1. A relationship in which two parties closely monitor and challenge one another in a suspicious or self-protective manner, often because each party is attempting to gain an advantage over the other. Labels: uncountable Example: The Allied and the enemy submarine played a game of cat and mouse, checking up on each other's whereabouts and strategies. Example: The hackers played a cat and mouse game with the system administrators: the hackers kept trying new tricks, and the system administrators kept mounting electronic defenses. 2. A form of attack in which the attacker toys with the victim by inflicting minor damage or letting the victim have futile hopes of escape before finally finishing the victim off. Labels: uncountable Example: He was thinking how wonderful this game of cat and mouse was. He loved the game and the feeling of control he had over this poor innocent girl. Example: The payback for that would come in the form of a prolonged game of cat and mouse, finally culminating in a deadly game that he had perfected years earlier. 3. A children's game in which one player (the "cat") attempts to break through a ring of players to catch another player (the "mouse") in the centre. Labels: uncountable
Word: cat and mouse Part of Speech: verb 1. Alternative form of cat-and-mouse. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: And I've made up my mind not to be cat and moused any more. Example: She was attractive in her white uniform and Brown had cat and moused her for a long time without real enthusiasm.
Word: cornhole Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From corn + hole. (anus): From the old-fashioned practice of using dried corncobs instead of toilet paper in outdoor privies. Pronunciation: /ˈkɔɹnˌhoʊl/ 1. A small room connected to a threshing floor. Labels: UK, countable, dated, uncountable Example: The cornhole was a small, brick room opening off the threshing floor, about six or seven feet high, […] variously known as the cornhole or cornbin, and was designed for flail threshing, holding the grain until it was winnowed. Example: A small room may be found opening off the threshing floor on one side […] This is the cornhole, a mid-eighteenth-century development so far known only in Staffordshire and Suffolk, with a few in east Sussex. 2. A game similar to beanbag toss, popular in Ohio, in which a bag filled with corn feed is thrown into a hole. Labels: US, uncountable Example: Cornhole, the indigenous pastime of Cincinnati's west side, is basically a democratized version of horseshoes. Example: Cincinnatians, of course, know the true meaning of cornhole. The homegrown bag-toss game, which some suggest was even invented here, requires few tools: some beanbags, a box with a hole in it, and… well, that's it, really. 3. The anus. Labels: countable, slang, uncountable, vulgar
Word: cornhole Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From corn + hole. (anus): From the old-fashioned practice of using dried corncobs instead of toilet paper in outdoor privies. Pronunciation: /ˈkɔɹnˌhoʊl/ 1. To have anal intercourse with; to penetrate anally. Labels: slang, vulgar Example: He'd just sent away two more guards from the women's side for having lesbian affairs with the prisoners, and one male guard who'd got caught cornholing colored boys.
Word: busker Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English busk 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 busker From busk + -er. Pronunciation: /ˈbʌskɚ/, /ˈbʌskə/ 1. A person who solicits donations while entertaining the public, often by playing a musical instrument, on a street or in another public area such as a park or marketplace.
Word: babysat Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of babysit Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: isocratic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἰσοκρατία (isokratía, “equality of strength or power”) + -ic. 1. Of or relating to isocracy. Labels: not-comparable 2. which resolves a solute using a solvent system that does not change composition during the run. Labels: not-comparable
Word: garbologist Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English garbology Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō) Proto-Hellenic *-tās Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs) Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)bor. Latin -istader. Old French -istebor. Middle English -ist English -ist English garbologist From garbology + -ist. 1. One who examines refuse using archaeological techniques. Example: A garbologist forages through waste paper baskets in search of interesting documents. Example: 1998 October, Trash Talk, Boys' Life, page 10, Garbologists discovered the leachate, mostly water mixed with rotting garbage, actually aided in decomposing other trash in the area. 2. A garbage collector. Labels: Australia, humorous
Word: testimony Part of Speech: noun Etymology: PIE word *tréyes Inherited from Middle English testimonie, from Old French testimonie, from Latin testimōnium (“testimony”). Pronunciation: /ˈtɛstɪmoʊni/, /ˈtɛstɪməni/ 1. Statements made by a witness in court. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The Missouri prosecutors' case against Clemons, based partly on incriminating testimony given by his co-defendants, was that Clemons was part of a group of four youths who accosted the sisters on the Chain of Rocks Bridge one dark night in April 1991. Example: “The suspected cause of the death is believed to be the consumption of tainted alcoholic beverages,” KPL said. “Officials are in the process of collecting detailed information, evidence, and witness testimonies and are expected to release an official statement soon.” 2. An account of first-hand experience. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: [Thou] for the testimony of truth, hast borne / Universal reproach. 3. In a church service (or religious service), a personal account, such as one's conversion, testimony of faith, or life testimony. Labels: countable, uncountable 4. Witness; evidence; proof of some fact. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: This new win is testimony to the tactical skill of their coach. Example: And whoſoeuer ſhall not receiue you, noꝛ heare you, when yee depart thence, *ſhake off the duſt vnder your feet, foꝛ a teſtimonie against them: Uerely I ſay vnto you, it ſhalbe moꝛe tolerable for Sodom and Gomoꝛrha in the day of iudgement, then foꝛ that citie.
Word: hornbill Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From horn + bill. Pronunciation: /ˈhɔːn.bɪl/, /ˈhɔːɹn.bɪl/ 1. Any of various birds of the family Bucerotidae, with bills resembling a cow's horns. Many species have a casque above the bill, and many imprison their young in a tree. Example: I saw what they were, hornbills, white head with a black streak of feather on top, a long grey tail, and a huge red beak that curved down, bigger than his head.
Word: quetzal Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Spanish quetzal, from Classical Nahuatl quetzalli (“brightly colored tail feather, quetzal feather”), from quetza (“to raise, lift”); see also Classical Nahuatl quetzaltōtōtl (“quetzal bird”). Pronunciation: /ˈkɛt.səl/, /kɛtˈsɑl/ 1. Any trogon of the genus Pharomacrus, especially a resplendent quetzal (Pharomacrus mocinno), which has very long tail feathers and is found in Guatemala and Costa Rica. Example: Included among the images that Rigoberta Menchú uses in order to subtly convey her people's ethnicity is an image of Guatemala as the "land of the quetzal." Example: A strikingly beautiful bird, the quetzal is the national emblem of Guatemala, appearing on its currency and postage. The quetzal ranges from southern Mexico to Costa Rica. 2. A monetary unit used in Guatemala, equal to 100 centavos. Example: In 2002 Guatemala officially declared the U.S. dollar as legal tender to circulate in parallel to the national currency, the quetzal. This is not likely to last for long as the quetzal is not widely accepted and is considered a weak store of value. Example: In this situation, they chose a policy mix of moderate monetary tightening, tight fiscal policy, and central bank intervention in the foreign exchange market to prevent excessive appreciation of the quetzal, without pursuing an exchange rate target[…].
Word: trogon Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from translingual Trogon, from the present active participle of Ancient Greek τρώγω (trṓgō, “to chew, to gnaw”). Pronunciation: /ˈtɹəʊɡɒn/ 1. A bird in the family Trogonidae from the order Trogoniformes, most of which live in Central and South America, have colorful feathers, and nest in holes in trees.
Word: spank the monkey Part of Speech: verb 1. To masturbate by stimulating one's penis. Labels: colloquial, idiomatic, vulgar
Word: al dente Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Borrowed from Italian al dente (literally “to the tooth”). Pronunciation: /æl ˈdɛn.teɪ/, /æl ˈdɛn.ti/ 1. Firm to the bite, cooked just right. Labels: usually
Word: sympathy Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French sympathie, from Late Latin sympathīa (“feeling in common”), from Ancient Greek σῠμπᾰ́θειᾰ (sŭmpắtheiă, “fellow feeling”), from σῠμπᾰθής (sŭmpăthḗs, “affected by like feelings; exerting mutual influence, interacting”) + -ῐᾰ (-ĭă, “-y”, nominal suffix). Equivalent to sym- (“acting or considered together”) + -pathy (“feeling”). Pronunciation: /ˈsɪm.pəθ.i/ 1. A feeling of pity or sorrow for the suffering or distress of another. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: If you want sympathy you’ll find it in the dictionary between shit and syphilis. Sympathy may pay well in the short term, but if you cash in on sympathy, it will take everything from you in the long run. Example: And all told, Trump’s second term has actually led to the most sympathy for migrants on record in the 21st century, per Gallup. Fully 79% of Americans now say immigration is a “good thing,” compared with 64% last year. 2. A feeling of pity or sorrow for the suffering or distress of another. Labels: countable, in-plural, uncountable Example: While you'll probably have her sympathies if your condominium association wants to preapprove your storm door, you'll need to work harder for her support if your boss at the music megastore demands you grow a goatee to help lend the place some indie cred. 3. A feeling of pity or sorrow for the suffering or distress of another. Labels: countable, uncountable 4. Inclination to think or feel alike; emotional or intellectual accord; common feeling. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Oh vvhat a ſimpathie of vvoe is this, / As farre from helpe, as Lymbo is from bliſſe. 5. Inclination to think or feel alike; emotional or intellectual accord; common feeling. Labels: countable, in-plural, uncountable 6. Inclination to think or feel alike; emotional or intellectual accord; common feeling. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Many people in Hollywood were blacklisted merely because they were suspected of Communist sympathies. 7. An affinity, association or mutual relationship between people or things such that they are correspondingly affected by any condition. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: He observed, also, the frequent sympathy of volcanic and terremotive action in remote districts of the earth's surface, thus showing how deeply seated must be the cause of these convulsions. Example: A peculiarity of were-animals is the sympathy that exists between their animal form and that of the human with whom it is connected. 8. An affinity, association or mutual relationship between people or things such that they are correspondingly affected by any condition. Labels: countable, uncountable 9. An affinity, association or mutual relationship between people or things such that they are correspondingly affected by any condition. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: tidal wave Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈtaɪdəlweɪv/ 1. A large and sudden rise and fall in the tide. 2. A large, sudden, and disastrous wave of water caused by a tremendous disturbance in the ocean; a tsunami. (See Usage notes below.) Labels: proscribed Example: The last tidal wave here killed twenty and left thousands homeless. 3. A large, sudden inundation of water from the storm surge, or waves of that surge; a sudden surge of river water. Labels: proscribed Example: During the day conditions worsened quickly—for example, a 2-6-0 on the Uckfield line suddenly encountered flood water high enough to enter its ashpan and extinguish its fire—until lock gates up-river at Barcombe gave way and a tidal wave rolled down the valley meeting head-on a spring tide rolling up from the coast. 4. A sudden and powerful surge. Labels: figuratively Example: As the doors opened, a tidal wave of people flooded into the room. Example: I was overcome by a tidal wave of emotions. 5. A crest of ocean water; a wave. Labels: archaic 6. A crest of ocean water resulting from tidal forces.
Word: NYPD Part of Speech: name 1. Initialism of New York Police Department. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism Example: An NYPD officer struck in the arm by a bullet allegedly fired by a teen gunman ignored his wound and gave chase to the 16-year-old suspect, cops said Tuesday.
Word: LAPD Part of Speech: name 1. Initialism of Los Angeles Police Department. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism Example: Other members of the LAPD who were involved in the disaster have also remained anonymous, their discipline under seal.
Word: LAPD Part of Speech: noun 1. Link Access Procedures, D channel; specified in ITU-T Q.920 and ITU-T Q.921. The second layer protocol on the ISDN protocol stack. Labels: plural, plural-only
Word: policeman Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *tpelH- Proto-Hellenic *ptólis Ancient Greek πόλις (pólis) Proto-Indo-European *-tósder. Ancient Greek -της (-tēs) Ancient Greek πολῑ́της (polī́tēs) Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-i-eh₂ Proto-Hellenic *-íā Ancient Greek -ῐ́ᾱ (-ĭ́ā) Ancient Greek πολῑτείᾱ (polīteíā)bor. Latin politiabor. Middle French policeder. English police Proto-Indo-European *mon- Proto-Germanic *mann- Proto-West Germanic *mann Old English mann Middle English man Middle English -man English -man English policeman From police + -man. Pronunciation: /pəˈliːsmən/ 1. A police officer, usually a male. Example: The policeman who arrests the "Red" does not understand the theories the "Red" is preaching; if he did, his own position as bodyguard of the monied class might seem less pleasant to him. Example: Meanwhile Nanny Broome was recovering from her initial panic and seemed anxious to make up for any kudos she might have lost, by exerting her personality to the utmost. She took the policeman's helmet and placed it on a chair, and unfolded his tunic to shake it and fold it up again for him. 2. A glass rod capped at one end with rubber, used in a chemistry laboratory for gravimetric analysis. 3. Any skipper of the genus Coeliades. 4. Synonym of enforcer. Example: A team may have a policeman or enforcer.
Word: policewoman Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English police Proto-Germanic *wībą Proto-West Germanic *wīb Old English wīf Proto-Indo-European *mon- Proto-Germanic *mann- Proto-West Germanic *mann Old English mann Old English wīfmann Middle English woman Middle English -woman English -woman English policewoman From police + -woman. 1. A female police officer.
Word: nibble Part of Speech: noun Etymology: The verb is derived from Late Middle English nebillen, nebyll (“to peck away at (something), nibble; (figurative) to attempt to sing (a part of a song)”); further etymology uncertain, possibly from Middle Low German nibbelen (“to eat in small bites, peck”) (modern German Low German nibbeln, gnibbeln, knibbeln), possibly a variant of knabbelen, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *gnet- (“to press”) or imitative. The noun is derived from the verb. Cognates * Middle Dutch cnibbelen (modern Dutch knibbelen (“to gnaw; to murmur”), nibbelen (“to nibble”)) * Saterland Frisian nibje (“to nibble”) * West Frisian knibbelje Pronunciation: /ˈnɪbl̩/, /ˈnɪb(ə)l/ 1. An act of taking a small, quick bite, or several of such bites, especially with the front teeth; the bite or bites so taken. Example: [H]e would sit on a wet rock, with a rod as long and heavy as a Tartar's lance, and fish all day without a murmur, even though he should not be encouraged by a single nibble. 2. A light bite of a person or animal, or part of their body, especially one which is loving or playful; a nip. 3. An amount of food that is or can be taken into the mouth through a small bite; a small mouthful. Example: Yo'r sheep will be a' folded, a reckon, Measter Pratt, for there'll ne'er be a nibble o' grass to be seen this two month, according to my reading; […] 4. A slight show of interest in something, such as a commercial opportunity or a proposal. Labels: figuratively 5. Grass or other vegetation eaten by livestock; forage, pasturage. Labels: obsolete, rare Example: On the northern slopes of the light-earthed hills the moss had come over the herbage, and the sweet nibble of the sheep was souring.
Word: nibble Part of Speech: noun Etymology: A pun on the homophony of byte and bite. Pronunciation: /ˈnɪbl̩/, /ˈnɪb(ə)l/ 1. A unit of memory equal to half a byte, or chiefly four bits. Example: I own several abaci and two books on how to use them, but they all have four counters below the bar and one counter above it. […] The bottom four counters of each abacus can be used to represent a "nybble," and the upper counter on each can be used for parity. Example: At every negative-going transition it reads a 4-bit ADPCM nybble (there are 2 nybbles per byte) and stores it in a memory-resident table.
Word: in two shakes of a lamb's tail Part of Speech: prep_phrase 1. Synonym of in two shakes. Labels: idiomatic Example: I'll be there in two shakes of a lamb's tail.
Word: harvest Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English harvest, hervest, from Old English hærfest (“autumn, harvest-time; August”), from Proto-West Germanic *harbist, from Proto-Germanic *harbistaz (“harvest-time, autumn, fall”), from *harbaz, from Proto-Indo-European *kerp-. Cognates Cognate with Sylt North Frisian Hārefst, West Frisian hjerst, Dutch herfst, German Herbst, dated German Low German Harvst, Danish and Norwegian Bokmål høst, Norwegian Nynorsk haust; further with Latin carpere (“to seize”), Ancient Greek καρπός (karpós, “fruit”), κείρω (keírō, “to cut off”). Pronunciation: /ˈhɑɹ.vəst/, /ˈhɑɹ.vɪst/, /ˈhɑː(ɹ)vɪst/, /ˈhɑː(ɹ)vəst/, /ˈhaːvəst/ 1. The process of gathering the ripened crop; harvesting. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The constant rain made the harvest a nightmare this year. 2. The yield of harvesting, i.e., the gathered crops or fruits. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: This year's cotton harvest was great but the corn harvest was disastrous. Example: Hester Earle and Violet Wayne were moving about the aisle with bundles of wheat-ears and streamers of ivy, for the harvest thanksgiving was shortly to be celebrated, while the vicar stood waiting for their directions on the chancel steps with a great handful of crimson gladioli. 3. The product or result of any exertion or course of action; reward or consequences. Labels: broadly, countable, uncountable Example: The surveillance mission yielded a healthy harvest of intel. Example: The pope's principal harvest was in the jubilee. 4. The season of gathering ripened crops; specifically, the time of reaping and gathering grain. Labels: countable, uncountable 5. The third season of the year; autumn; fall. Labels: UK, countable, dialectal, uncountable Example: Harvest is usually very damp and rainy. Example: Libra, or the Balance holdeth in the Navel, the Reins, and the lower parts of the Womb. The Scorpion keepeth the Bladder, Buttocks, and other privatives [sic] of Man or Woman. The Sagitary dwelleth in the Thighs and Buttocks; and theſe three are the ſigns of Harveſt. 6. A modern pagan ceremony held on or around the autumn equinox, which is in the harvesting season. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: harvest Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English harvest, hervest, from Old English hærfest (“autumn, harvest-time; August”), from Proto-West Germanic *harbist, from Proto-Germanic *harbistaz (“harvest-time, autumn, fall”), from *harbaz, from Proto-Indo-European *kerp-. Cognates Cognate with Sylt North Frisian Hārefst, West Frisian hjerst, Dutch herfst, German Herbst, dated German Low German Harvst, Danish and Norwegian Bokmål høst, Norwegian Nynorsk haust; further with Latin carpere (“to seize”), Ancient Greek καρπός (karpós, “fruit”), κείρω (keírō, “to cut off”). Pronunciation: /ˈhɑɹ.vəst/, /ˈhɑɹ.vɪst/, /ˈhɑː(ɹ)vɪst/, /ˈhɑː(ɹ)vəst/, /ˈhaːvəst/ 1. To bring in a harvest; reap; glean. Labels: transitive Example: We harvested the apples in September already. 2. To take a living organism as part of a managed process to gather food or resources, often with the intention of maintaining a healthy population. Labels: transitive Example: An efficient rifle or shotgun can harvest a deer for venison. 3. To take (an organ) from an organ donor. Labels: transitive 4. To be occupied bringing in a harvest. Labels: intransitive Example: We're going to harvest day and night, because the weather is about to turn sour. 5. To win, achieve a gain. Labels: transitive Example: The rising star harvested well-deserved acclaim, even an Oscar under 21.
Word: cancel Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English cancellen, from Anglo-Norman canceler (“to cross out with lines”) (modern French chanceler (“to stagger, sway”)), from Old French canceler, from Latin cancellō (“to make resemble a lattice”), from cancellus (“a railing or lattice”), diminutive of cancer (“a lattice”). Pronunciation: /ˈkæn.sl̩/, [ˈkɛən.sl̩ ~ ˈkeən.sl̩] 1. To cross out something with lines etc. Labels: transitive Example: A deed may be avoided by delivering it up to be cancelled; that is, to have lines drawn over it in the form of latticework or cancelli; the phrase is now used figuratively for any manner of obliterating or defacing it. 2. To invalidate or annul something. Labels: transitive Example: He cancelled his order on their website. Example: "I don't know what your agreement was, Herr Professor, but if it had money in it, cancel it. I want him to learn that lesson, too." 3. To mark something (such as a used postage stamp) so that it can't be reused. Labels: transitive Example: This machine cancels the letters that have a valid zip code. 4. To offset or equalize something. Labels: transitive Example: The corrective feedback mechanism cancels out the noise. 5. To remove a common factor from both the numerator and denominator of a fraction, or from both sides of an equation. Labels: transitive Example: Such a 2-handle cancels the 1-handle so the manifold is D⁴. 6. To stop production of a programme. Labels: transitive 7. To suppress or omit; to strike out, as matter in type. Labels: dated 8. To shut out, as with a railing or with latticework; to exclude. Labels: obsolete Example: cancelled from heaven 9. To kill. Labels: slang 10. To cease to provide financial or moral support to (someone deemed unacceptable); to disinvite. Compare cancel culture. Labels: neologism, transitive Example: Bill Gates is canceled. Gwen Stefani and Erykah Badu are canceled. Despite his relatively strong play in the World Cup, Cristiano Ronaldo has been canceled. Taylor Swift is canceled and Common is canceled and, Wednesday, Antoni Porowski, a “Queer Eye” fan favorite was also canceled. Needless to say, Kanye West is canceled, too. Example: We Spoke to Joan Cornellá, the Artist Who Really Should Have Been Cancelled By Now [title]
Word: cancel Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English cancellen, from Anglo-Norman canceler (“to cross out with lines”) (modern French chanceler (“to stagger, sway”)), from Old French canceler, from Latin cancellō (“to make resemble a lattice”), from cancellus (“a railing or lattice”), diminutive of cancer (“a lattice”). Pronunciation: /ˈkæn.sl̩/, [ˈkɛən.sl̩ ~ ˈkeən.sl̩] 1. A cancellation. Labels: US 2. A cancellation. Labels: US 3. An enclosure; a boundary; a limit. Labels: obsolete Example: A prison is but a retirement, and opportunity of serious thoughts, to a person whose spirit[…]desires no enlargement beyond the cancels of the body. 4. The suppression on striking out of matter in type, or of a printed page or pages. 5. The page thus suppressed. 6. The page that replaces it.
Word: closing Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈkləʊzɪŋ/, /ˈkloʊzɪŋ/ 1. The act by which something is closed. Example: openings and closings of doors 2. The end or conclusion of something. Example: the closing of a popular play 3. The final procedure in a house sale, when documents are signed and recorded. 4. In morphology, the erosion of the dilation of a set.
Word: closing Part of Speech: adj Pronunciation: /ˈkləʊzɪŋ/, /ˈkloʊzɪŋ/ 1. Pertaining to the finish or ending of a series of events; occurring at the end or after all others. Labels: not-comparable Example: I'd like to add some closing words. Example: The closing scene of Miller's "Death of a Salesman" cannot but evoke a feeling of deep pathos.
Word: closing Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ˈkləʊzɪŋ/, /ˈkloʊzɪŋ/ 1. present participle and gerund of close Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: one's days are numbered Part of Speech: phrase 1. Some period of time, such as a term of employment or a lifetime, is coming to an end. Labels: idiomatic Example: If his performance does not improve very soon, his days at this company are numbered. Example: The days of steam on the railways of Kent are now indeed numbered, and when stage two of the electrification is completed through Tonbridge to Ashford, Folkestone and Dover a long and honourable chapter in transport will be virtually closed.
Word: Grecized Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of Grecize Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: coastline Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From coast + line. 1. The shape, outline, or boundary of a coast. (The term coastline is generally used to describe the approximate boundaries at relatively large spatial scales.) Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The sweep of the rocky Southern California coastline off Point Fermin. Example: Tarbarrels and bonfires were lighted along the coastline of the four seas on the summits of the Hill of Howth, Three Rock Mountain, Sugarloaf, Bray Head, the mountains of Mourne, the Galtees, the Ox and Donegal and Sperrin peaks, the Nagles and the Bograghs, the Connemara hills, the reeks of M’ Gillicuddy, Slieve Aughty, Slieve Bernagh and Slieve Bloom.
Word: chronological Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Ancient Greek χρόνος (khrónos)bor. English chrono- Proto-Indo-European *leǵ- Ancient Greek λόγος (lógos) Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-i-eh₂ Proto-Hellenic *-íā Ancient Greek -ῐ́ᾱ (-ĭ́ā) Ancient Greek -λογῐ́ᾱ (-logĭ́ā)bor. Latin -logialbor. French -logiebor. English -logy Proto-Indo-European *-ikos Proto-Italic *-ikos Latin -icuslbor. Old French -iquebor. Middle English -ic Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.? Proto-Italic *-ālis Latin -ālisbor. Old French -albor. ▲ Latin -ālis Old French -elbor. ▲ Latin -ālisbor. Middle English -al Middle English -ical English -ical English -logical ▲ English chrono- ▲ English -logy English chronology ▲ English -ical English chronological From chrono- + -logical or chronology + -ical. Pronunciation: /ˌkɹɒnəˈlɒd͡ʒɪkəl/, /ˌkɹɑnəˈlɑd͡ʒɪkəl/, /ˌkɹɔnəˈlɔd͡ʒɪkəl/, /ˌkɹɒnəˈlɒd͡ʒəkəl/, [ˌkɹɔ̟nəˈlɔ̟d͡ʒəkəl] 1. Relating to time, or units of time. Example: He is 67 in chronological age, but has the mind and body of someone 55. 2. In order of time from the earliest to the latest. Example: The live report lists all the events in chronological order. Example: A Book of Death and Fish is about one Peter MacAulay, an unremarkable individual who has the sea and its promises always with him, experiencing the usual strains of growing up and growing old – the death of a friend, his parents, marriage and children – all set out in chronological order and divided into two books, Migration and Turbulence. 3. In order of time from the earliest to the latest.
Word: Rijnsburg Part of Speech: name 1. A village in South Holland, Netherlands.
Word: benedick Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From the character in William Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing. 1. A recently married man, especially one who has long held out against marriage.
Word: inborn Part of Speech: adj Pronunciation: /ˈɪn.bɔːn/, /ˈɪn.bɔɹn/ 1. Innate; possessed by an organism at birth. Labels: not-comparable Example: inborn talent Example: inborn instincts 2. Inherited; hereditary. Labels: not-comparable 3. Native; indigenous. Labels: not-comparable
Word: éclair Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰ Proto-Indo-European *-s Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰs Proto-Italic *eks Latin ex Latin ex- Proto-Indo-European *kelh₁- Proto-Indo-European *-rós Proto-Indo-European *kl̥h₁rós Proto-Italic *klāros Latin clārus 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 clārō Latin exclārāre Vulgar Latin *exclāriāre Old French esclairer French éclairerdeverb. French éclairbor. English éclair Borrowed from French éclair. Pronunciation: /ɪˈklɛə/, /eɪ-/, /ɪˈklɛɹ/, /ɪˈkleː/, /ɪˈkleə/ 1. A small, chocolate-covered, creme-filled pastry puff in a general oblong shape, typically larger than the miniature French version.
Word: eclair Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of éclair. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: killjoy Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From kill + joy, first attested in 1776. Pronunciation: /ˈkɪlˌd͡ʒɔɪ/ 1. A person who is anti-fun, or prevents others from having fun. Labels: derogatory Example: “If you mean me, sir, I call you and every one else to the inspection of my professional life. As to Christian or unchristian, I repudiate your canting palavering Christianity; and as to the way in which I spend my income, it is not my principle to maintain thieves and cheat offspring of their due inheritance in order to support religion and set myself up as a saintly Killjoy....” Example: What kill-joy have we here? […] I feel it in my bones some rascal is come to Galing, one that bringeth ill hap in his pocket and a shadow athwart the sun on this our day of festival.
Word: sing the praises of Part of Speech: verb 1. to commend (someone or something’s) attributes to others Labels: idiomatic Example: She is only coming to gloat over my bedraggled and flowerless borders and to sing the praises of her own detestably over-cultivated garden. I’m sick of being told that it’s the envy of the neighbourhood; it’s like everything else that belongs to her—her car, her dinner-parties, even her headaches, they are all superlative; no one else ever had anything like them.
Word: remote control Part of Speech: noun 1. A device used to operate an appliance (such as a television, vehicle, or mechanical toy) from a short distance away. Labels: countable Example: A single slice of this could leave you supine in front of the Queen's speech without even the wherewithal to reach for the remote control. 2. A means of operating a device from a distance, such as radio control or wire-guided control. Labels: uncountable Example: The bomb was detonated by remote control.
Word: masterpiece Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From master + piece, a calque of Dutch meesterstuk or German Meisterstück (“masterpiece”). Piecewise doublet of maestropiece and masterstick. Compare also journeyman's piece. Pronunciation: /ˈmæstɚˌpis/, /ˈmɑːstəˌpiːs/ 1. A piece of work that has been given much critical praise, especially one that is considered the greatest work of a person's career. Example: The design, when finally developed, was a slight disappointment to Monsieur Deplis, who had suspected Icarus of being a fortress taken by Wallenstein in the Thirty Years' War, but he was more than satisfied with the execution of the work, which was acclaimed by all who had the privilege of seeing it as Pincini's masterpiece. 2. A work of outstanding creativity, skill or workmanship. Example: Masterpieces are not completed, they are abandoned. Example: “‘Man is amazing, but he is not a masterpiece,’ he said, keeping his eyes fixed on the glass case. ‘Perhaps the artist was a little mad. […]’ 3. A work created in order to qualify as a master craftsman and member of a guild.
Word: scalp Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English scalp, skalp, scalpe (“crown of the head; skull”). Originally a northern word, and therefore probably from a North Germanic source, although the sense-development is unclear; compare Sylt North Frisian Skolp (“dandruff”), Old Norse skálpr (“sheath”), Old Swedish skalp, Dutch schelp (“shell”). Pronunciation: /skælp/ 1. The top of the head; the skull. Labels: dialectal 2. The part of the head where the hair grows from, or used to grow from. Example: By the bare scalpe of Robin Hoods fat Fryer, / This fellow were a King, for our wilde faction. Example: The original titanium mesh plate that was inserted in the summer of 2010 was removed last June since it was causing his scalp to break down. 3. The part of the head where the hair grows from, or used to grow from. Labels: historical Example: Some tribes used to collect scalps to prove how many of the enemy they had killed in battle. Example: The most disturbing thing about Disneyland is seeing all those smiling people walking around wearing Mickey Mouse's severed scalp. 4. The part of the head where the hair grows from, or used to grow from. Example: He bears for Arms : Argent, on a chevron invected gules, between two bugle-horns sable, stringed of the second in chief, and the attires of a stag affixed to the scalp in base of the third, two fasces chevronways or. 5. A victory, especially at the expense of someone else. Labels: figuratively Example: [At the American State Convention in 1856 the Hon E. M. Yerger of Yazoo said that] he came up to the great council fire of his people, not like his friends Cobb, Hillyer and Brooke, with no scalps at his girdle that he had had a fight and a glorious victory. Example: His mind is quick to perceive a weak place in the enemy's armor, as he glances over the exchanges, and when he "goes for" a solitary foe he always returns with the scalp hanging at his girdle. 6. A bed or stratum of shellfish. Labels: Scotland 7. The top; the summit. Labels: figuratively Example: the snowy scalp of Ben Cruachan
Word: scalp Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English scalp, skalp, scalpe (“crown of the head; skull”). Originally a northern word, and therefore probably from a North Germanic source, although the sense-development is unclear; compare Sylt North Frisian Skolp (“dandruff”), Old Norse skálpr (“sheath”), Old Swedish skalp, Dutch schelp (“shell”). Pronunciation: /skælp/ 1. To remove the scalp (part of the head from where the hair grows), by brutal act or accident. Example: Next morning, the Indians attacked us and one of our hunters, George Huffman, was killed and scalped. As soon as Baldwin heard the shooting, he came to our assistance. 2. To resell, especially tickets, usually for an inflated price, often illegally. Labels: Canada, US, slang Example: Tickets were being scalped for $300. Example: Tickets sold online through Craigslist, eBay, and other forums, where the purchaser cannot physically see them, run a greater risk of being counterfeit—but counterfeiters have been known to scalp tickets in person outside the venue as well, […] 3. To bet on opposing competitors so as to make a profit from the bookmaker. Example: The only sure thing about scalping the Series today is that the scalper is paying the bookie a greater profit because he is making a greater number of bets. 4. On an open outcry exchange trading floor, to buy and sell rapidly for one's own account, aiming to buy from a seller and a little later sell to a buyer, making a small profit from the difference (roughly the amount of the bid/offer spread, or less). 5. To screen or sieve ore before further processing. Example: scalped ore 6. To remove the skin of. Example: We must […]"scalp" the whole lid [of the eye]. 7. To remove the grass from. Labels: transitive 8. To destroy the political influence of. Labels: transitive 9. To brush the hairs or fuzz from (wheat grains, etc.) in the process of high milling.
Word: fingertip Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From finger + tip. Compare tiptoe and toetip. Pronunciation: /ˈfɪŋɡɚˌtɪp/ 1. The tip of the human finger. Example: The traditional Thai greeting, the wai, is generally offered first by the youngest of the two people meeting, with their hands pressed together, fingertips pointing upwards as the head is bowed to touch their face to the hands. Example: They were all professional to their fingertips, knew each other very well, and knew their disciplines backwards.
Word: fingertip Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From finger + tip. Compare tiptoe and toetip. Pronunciation: /ˈfɪŋɡɚˌtɪp/ 1. To move or deflect with the fingertips. Labels: transitive Example: Then Rogne released Forrest with a diagonal ball and the winger tormented Broadfoot again before blasting a shot which McGregor managed to fingertip over his bar.
Word: pomelle Part of Speech: noun 1. A specific type of woodgrain in lumber and veneers, also known as "quilted" from the French. Labels: uncountable
Word: pomelle Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From French. 1. An ornamental knob.
Word: wink Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English wynken, from Old English wincian (“to wink, make a sign, close the eyes, blink”, weak verb), from Proto-West Germanic *winkōn (“to close one's eyes”), from Proto-Indo-European *weng- (“to bow, bend, arch, curve”). Cognate with Middle Low German winken (“to blink, wink”), German winken (“to nod, beckon, make a sign”). Related also to Saterland Frisian wäänke, Dutch wenken (“to beckon, motion”), Latin vacillare (“sway”), Lithuanian véngti (“to swerve, avoid”), Albanian vang (“tire, felloe”), Sanskrit वङ्गति (vaṅgati, “(he, she) limps”), French guigner (“to eye, sneak a look at”). Pronunciation: /ˈwɪŋk/, [ˈwɪŋk] 1. An act of winking (a blinking of only one eye), or a message sent by winking. 2. A brief period of sleep; especially forty winks. Example: I couldn't bear to leave him where he is. I shouldn't sleep a wink for thinking of him. Example: I shan't sleep a wink. 3. A brief time; an instant. 4. The smallest possible amount. Example: It’s many’s the time I shot the selfsame rifiie before, and it’s many ’s the time after, but niver a wink of the same have I seen. 'T was the sight of a lifetime. 5. A subtle allusion. Example: The film includes a wink to wartime rationing.
Word: wink Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Clipping of tiddlywink. Pronunciation: /ˈwɪŋk/, [ˈwɪŋk] 1. Synonym of tiddlywink (“small disc used in the game of tiddlywinks”).