nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: step Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Germanic *stapjaną Proto-West Germanic *stappjan Old English stæppan Middle English steppen English step From Middle English steppen, from Old English steppan (“to step, go, proceed, advance”), stepe (“step”), from Proto-West Germanic *stappjan, from Proto-Germanic *stapjaną (“to step”), *stapiz (“step”), from Proto-Indo-European *stebʰ- (“to support, stomp, curse, be amazed”). Cognate with West Frisian stappe (“to step”), North Frisian stape (“to walk, trudge”), Dutch stappen (“to step, walk”), Walloon steper (“to walk away, leave”), German stapfen (“to trudge, stomp, plod”) and further to Slavic Polish stąpać (“to stomp, stamp, step, tread”), Russian ступать (stupatʹ) and Polish stopień (“step, stair, rung, degree”), Russian степень (stepenʹ). Related to stamp, stomp. Pronunciation: /stɛp/ 1. To move the foot in walking; to advance or recede by raising and moving one of the feet to another resting place, or by moving both feet in succession. Labels: intransitive Example: A “moving platform” scheme[…]is more technologically ambitious than maglev trains even though it relies on conventional rails. Local trains would use side-by-side rails to roll alongside intercity trains and allow passengers to switch trains by stepping through docking bays. 2. To walk; to go on foot; especially, to walk a little distance. Labels: intransitive Example: Come one, come all. Step right up! Example: to step to one of the neighbors 3. To walk slowly, gravely, or resolutely. Labels: intransitive Example: Home from his Morning-Task , the Swain retreats, His flock before him stepping to the fold. 4. To dance. Example: At arms length with left hands clasped they moved back where facing each other they stepped in time to their dance embrace. Example: She clapped, but instead of walking her back to the table, Alex took her hand and pulled her gently towards him, slipping his arm around her waist again and stepping her off on the first beat of the next dance. 5. To move mentally; to go in imagination. Labels: figuratively, intransitive Example: They are stepping almost three thousand years back into the remotest antiquity. 6. To set, as the foot. Labels: transitive Example: One of the women, Elsie, stepped her foot inside to help the woman. 7. To fix the foot of (a mast) in its step; to erect. Labels: transitive Example: We put everything straight, stepped the long-boat's mast for our skipper, who was in charge of her, and I was not sorry to sit down for a moment. 8. To advance a process gradually, one step at a time. Labels: transitive 9. To depart. Labels: intransitive, slang Example: You best step, cuz things are about to jump off. 10. To be confrontational. Labels: intransitive, slang Example: You tryna be steppin right now? You better bring it if so.
Word: step Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English stepchildclip. Proto-Indo-European *(s)tew- Proto-Germanic *steupa- Proto-West Germanic *steupa- Old English stēop- Middle English step- English step- English sibling English stepsiblingclip. English step Clipping of stepchild and stepsibling. Pronunciation: /stɛp/ 1. A stepchild. Labels: colloquial Example: [Krazy Kat, after complimenting a woman on her nice polite little child:] Boy or girl? [Woman:] Step – but well brung up. 2. A stepsibling. Labels: colloquial Example: So for Richard and Barbara, Jeff and Kari, the impossibly varied collection of steps and halves that is another legacy of my father.
Word: steppe Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From German Steppe or French steppe, in turn from Russian степь (stepʹ, “flat grassy plain”) or Ukrainian степ (step). There is no generally accepted earlier etymology, but there is a speculative Old East Slavic reconstruction *сътепь (sŭtepĭ, “trampled place, flat, bare”), related to топот (topot), топтать (toptatĭ). Pronunciation: /stɛp/ 1. The grasslands of Eastern Europe and Asia. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Nevertheless be it remarked, that even a Russian steppe has tumuli and gold ornaments […] Example: Enkidu was the hairy man of the wild steppes, and Gilgamesh was the hero of civilization; but now the contrast is between Gilgamesh, the king, the man of political power, the heroic man of action, the extrovert, and Utnapishtim, the man of religious authority, the introvert, the sage. 2. A vast, cold, dry, grassy plain. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Grasslands: The Steppe biome is a dry, cold, grassland that is found in all of the continents except Australia and Antarctica. It is mostly found in the USA, Mongolia, Siberia, Tibet and China. There isn't much humidity in the air because Steppe is located away from the ocean and close to mountain barriers.
Word: flatbed Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From flat + bed. Pronunciation: /ˈflætˌbɛd/ 1. An open freight vehicle with no sides, designed to carry heavy or outsized loads. 2. A railway freight car with no sides; a flatcar. Example: The Rotrac E2 shunter was built by German manufacturer Zwiehoff and has been subject to a 14-month trial to prove it can replace diesel traction for moving flatbed wagons in and out of the depot. 3. Clipping of flatbed trolley. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, clipping 4. A document scanner with a flat bed.
Word: flatbed Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From flat + bed. Pronunciation: /ˈflætˌbɛd/ 1. Having a flat bed. Labels: not-comparable Example: I can't scan the whole document quickly because I only have a flatbed scanner. Example: The accident left the contents of a flatbed trailer scattered across all three lanes.
Word: flatbed Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From flat + bed. Pronunciation: /ˈflætˌbɛd/ 1. To transport by flatbed. Example: Tatiana went from working the pulley that lifted the treadless tank and placed it on tread, to painting the red star on a finished tank ready to be flatbedded and put into production. Example: 'Well, we won't know about prints till we can flatbed his SUV back to Middle Street and check, but given he left the car in a hurry, my guess is we'll find something, maybe quite a lot.
Word: cultural wealth Part of Speech: noun 1. The collection of arts, architecture, etc. that help to define the culture of a region. Labels: uncountable, usually
Word: adulterous Part of Speech: adj Pronunciation: /əˈdʌltəɹəs/ 1. Of, or characterized by adultery. Example: adulterous behaviour Example: adulterous man
Word: koti Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of kothi (“Indian gender role”). Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: lapsi Part of Speech: noun 1. Apostates who renounced their faith under persecution by the Ancient Roman authorities. Labels: historical, plural, plural-only
Word: omena Part of Speech: noun 1. In Kenya, small fish dried and milled into flour. Labels: uncountable Example: The women grow maize, beans, peas and sorghum, and are particularly happy with weaning foods taught by the Agricultural Extension staff because these foods are within their reach physically and economically: maize and bean flour, sorghum and pea flour, or flour from maize and omena (the omena fish is easily gotten from Lake Victoria). Example: Well dried tiny fish (omena) can be mixed with grain such as maize or millet and milled into flour. The flour should be prepared in amounts which should not be kept for longer than 2 weeks since it is likely to go bad. The dried omena can also be prepared into powder separately and this can be added in spoonfuls to the food during preparation.
Word: Fuchs Part of Speech: name Etymology: From German Fuchs. Doublet of Fox and Vos. Pronunciation: /fjuːks/ 1. A surname from German.
Word: large Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English large, from Old French large, from Latin larga, feminine of largus (“abundant, plentiful, copious, large, much”), of uncertain ultimate origin; see there for more. Along with big, it mostly displaced Middle English stoor and muchel (the latter surviving in much under a different meaning). Pronunciation: /lɑːd͡ʒ/, /lɑɹd͡ʒ/, /læɹd͡ʒ/ 1. Of considerable or relatively great size or extent. Example: Russia is a large country. The fruit-fly has large eyes for its body size. He has a large collection of stamps. Example: We drove back to the office with some concern on my part at the prospect of so large a case. Sunning himself on the board steps, I saw for the first time Mr. Farquhar Fenelon Cooke. 2. That is large (the manufactured size). Labels: especially 3. Abundant; ample. Labels: obsolete Example: We have yet large day. Example: He prefers teachers with large experience, but often has positions for beginners who have had a thorough preparation. 4. Full in statement; diffuse; profuse. Labels: archaic Example: And where hit please yow to saye that I haue holden my lady youre Quene yeres and wynters / vnto that I shal euer make a large ansuer "And where it please you to say that I have holden my lady your queen years and winters, unto that I shall ever make a large answer" Example: I might be very large upon the importance and advantages of education. 5. Free; unencumbered. Labels: obsolete Example: Of burdens all he set the Paynims large. 6. Unrestrained by decorum; said of language. Labels: obsolete Example: Some large jests he will make. 7. Crossing the line of a ship's course in a favorable direction; said of the wind when it is abeam, or between the beam and the quarter.
Word: large Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English large, from Old French large, from Latin larga, feminine of largus (“abundant, plentiful, copious, large, much”), of uncertain ultimate origin; see there for more. Along with big, it mostly displaced Middle English stoor and muchel (the latter surviving in much under a different meaning). Pronunciation: /lɑːd͡ʒ/, /lɑɹd͡ʒ/, /læɹd͡ʒ/ 1. An old musical note, equal to two longas, four breves, or eight semibreves. Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable 2. Liberality, generosity. Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable 3. A thousand dollars/pounds. Labels: countable, plural, slang, uncountable Example: Getting a car tricked out like that will cost you 50 large. Example: "We'll call you anything we want," Dave said. "You owe us eighty-five large, Ace, and what we've got for collateral on that money so far is a shitload of Arm & Hammer baking soda worth about a buck-fifty. We'll call you Hubert J. Motherfucker if we want to." 4. One of several common sizes to which an item may be manufactured, larger than a medium. Labels: especially, uncountable 5. An item labelled or denoted as being that size. Labels: countable, especially Example: One small coffee and two larges, please. 6. One who fits an item of that size. Labels: countable, especially
Word: large Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From Middle English large, from Old French large, from Latin larga, feminine of largus (“abundant, plentiful, copious, large, much”), of uncertain ultimate origin; see there for more. Along with big, it mostly displaced Middle English stoor and muchel (the latter surviving in much under a different meaning). Pronunciation: /lɑːd͡ʒ/, /lɑɹd͡ʒ/, /læɹd͡ʒ/ 1. Before the wind.
Word: ski Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Norwegian ski, from Old Norse skíð (“stick of wood, snowshoe”), from Proto-Germanic *skīdą (“stick”), from Proto-Indo-European *skey- (“to cut, split”) (see also shed). Cognate with Old English sċīd (“stick of wood”) (modern shide), Old High German skit (Modern German Scheit (“log”)). Pronunciation: /skiː/, /ʃiː/ 1. One of a pair of long flat runners designed for gliding over snow or water. Example: Disaster at the newly opened ski resort where hard-driving tycoon Hudson is determined to double his not insubstantial investment while his ex-wife Mia is making whoopee with one of the locals championing ecology. Example: We skied back the way we had come for about thirty minutes when I saw her. Mary was hanging upside down by the tips of her skies from a tree well. 2. One of a pair of long flat runners under some flying machines, used for landing. 3. A trip made by skiing. Example: to go for a ski
Word: ski Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Norwegian ski, from Old Norse skíð (“stick of wood, snowshoe”), from Proto-Germanic *skīdą (“stick”), from Proto-Indo-European *skey- (“to cut, split”) (see also shed). Cognate with Old English sċīd (“stick of wood”) (modern shide), Old High German skit (Modern German Scheit (“log”)). Pronunciation: /skiː/, /ʃiː/ 1. To move on skis. Labels: intransitive Example: Townsend hare inhabit this area, particularly above the cabin, and a skier is likely to have one explode from a tree well and disappear into the whiteness as he skis by. Life is a constant bivouac for them -- they spend days huddled in tree wells during storms -- but I suspect they are as content and warm in their luxurious coats as we are in a cabin. Example: We skied back the way we had come for about thirty minutes when I saw her. Mary was hanging upside down by the tips of her skies from a tree well. 2. To travel over (a slope, etc.) on skis; to travel on skis at (a place), (especially as a sport). Labels: transitive Example: We spent the winter holidays skiing the Alps
Word: carrot Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Inherited from Middle English karette and Middle French carotte, both from Latin carōta, from Ancient Greek καρωτόν (karōtón). Doublet of carotte and related to caraway. Displaced native Middle English more, from Old English more, moru (“edible root, parsnip, carrot”), related to German Möhre (“carrot”). * Noun sense of "motivational tool" refers to carrot and stick. * Verb sense in felt manufacture refers to the orange colour of drying furs. Pronunciation: /ˈkæɹət/, /ˈkɛɹət/ 1. A vegetable with a nutritious, juicy, sweet root that is often orange in colour, Daucus carota, family Apiaceae, especially the subspecies sativus. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: In general, beets, carrots, and turnips are all of aphrodisiac value in erotic dietary. 2. A shade of orange similar to the flesh of most carrots (also called carrot orange). Labels: countable, uncountable 3. Any motivational tool; an incentive to do something. Labels: countable, figuratively, uncountable Example: Essentially, lawmakers replaced the sticks with carrots. Example: In 2022, when the Biden administration finally succeeded in passing a major climate bill, it consisted almost entirely of carrots—tax credits and subsidies for green energy. 4. Someone from a rural background. Labels: UK, countable, derogatory, slang, uncountable 5. A police officer from somewhere within the British Isles, but specifically outside of Greater London. Labels: UK, countable, slang, uncountable 6. A redhead; a ginger-haired person Labels: countable, slang, uncountable
Word: carrot Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Inherited from Middle English karette and Middle French carotte, both from Latin carōta, from Ancient Greek καρωτόν (karōtón). Doublet of carotte and related to caraway. Displaced native Middle English more, from Old English more, moru (“edible root, parsnip, carrot”), related to German Möhre (“carrot”). * Noun sense of "motivational tool" refers to carrot and stick. * Verb sense in felt manufacture refers to the orange colour of drying furs. Pronunciation: /ˈkæɹət/, /ˈkɛɹət/ 1. To treat (an animal pelt) with a solution of mercuric nitrate as part of felt manufacture. Labels: transitive
Word: musta Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Written form of a reduction of must have. 1. Contraction of must + have. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, colloquial, contraction Example: He musta guessed. There's no other explanation. Example: I ran out the kitchen and down the narrow hallway. I passed a staircase on my right that led to the apartment upstairs where T.C. and Miss Lady lived. I'd never been invited up there but I had a colorful picture in my little head about how grand it musta been.
Word: bootstrap Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From boot + strap. The sense "pull up (without aid)" comes from the phrase pull oneself up by one's bootstraps. Pronunciation: /ˈbuːtˌstɹæp/ 1. A loop (leather or other material) sewn at the side or top rear of a boot to help in pulling the boot on. 2. A means of advancing oneself or accomplishing something without aid. Labels: figuratively Example: He used his business experience as a bootstrap to win voters. 3. The process by which the operating system of a computer is loaded into its memory. 4. The process necessary to compile the tools that will be used to compile the rest of the system or program. 5. Any method or instance of estimating properties of an estimator (such as its variance) by measuring those properties when sampling from an approximating distribution.
Word: bootstrap Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From boot + strap. The sense "pull up (without aid)" comes from the phrase pull oneself up by one's bootstraps. Pronunciation: /ˈbuːtˌstɹæp/ 1. To help (oneself) without the aid of others. Example: Sam spent years bootstrapping himself through college. Example: I was born into that shitty town, maleness, in the remains of outdated ideals and misplaced machismo and repression and there are some good people stuck living there. They are not in charge. They did not build it. And I don’t feel okay just moving out and saying “fuck y’all — bootstrap your way out or die out, I was never one of you.” I want to make it a better, healthier place—not spend all my time talking about how shitty it is and how anyone who would choose to live there deserves it. 2. To load the operating system into the memory of a computer. Usually shortened to boot. 3. To compile the tools that will be used to compile the rest of a system or program. Example: Bootstrapping means building the GNU C Library, GNU Compiler Collection and several other key system programs. 4. To build or put together (something) by first building or putting together the tools, building blocks, ideas, etc., necessary to build (the thing). Labels: broadly Example: And she finds the plan. She doesn't remember it; she bootstraps it from first principles, in a handful of minutes, just like she's done a hundred times before. 5. To employ a bootstrap method. 6. To expand or advance an activity or a collection based solely on previous actions, work, findings, etc. Example: Gradually, more and more terms were discovered, especially as there was a tendency in the literature to list a number of related terms together, thus allowing me to bootstrap new terms found accompanying those originally searched for.
Word: strap Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From a variant of earlier strope (“loop on a harness”), from Middle English strope, stroppe, from Late Old English strop, stropp (“a band, thong, strap; oar-thong”) and Old French estrope (“strap, loop on a harness”), both from Latin stroppus, struppus (“strap”), from Ancient Greek στρόφος (stróphos, “rope”) (compare strophe), from στρέφω (stréphō, “to twist”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *strebʰ- (compare Proto-West Germanic *stroppōn (“to twist, writhe”)). Cognate with Scots strap, strop (“strap, band, thong”), Dutch strop (“noose, strop, loop”), Low German Strop (“strap”), German Struppe, Strüppe, Strippe (“string, cord”), Danish strop (“strap”), Swedish stropp (“strap, loop”). Pronunciation: /stɹæp/, /stɹap/, /stɾap/, /stɹɛp/ 1. To beat or chastise with a strap; to whip, to lash. Labels: transitive 2. To fasten or bind with a strap. Labels: transitive Example: I strapped my son into the back seat. Example: Can't breathe right now / You believe me, don't you? Please believe what I just said / See, The Dead ain't touring and this wasn't all in my head / See, they took me by the hand and invited me right in / Then they showed me something, I don't even know where to begin / Strapped down to my bed, feet cold and eyes red / I'm out of my head, am I alive, am I dead? / Can't remember what they said 3. To sharpen by rubbing on a strap; to strop. Labels: transitive Example: to strap a razor 4. To slap or stroke the muscled areas of a horse with a cloth or pad, a form of massage meant to improve muscle tone. Labels: transitive
Word: maa Part of Speech: intj Etymology: Onomatopoeic. Pronunciation: /mɑː/, /mæː/, [mæ̰ː ~ mæˀæˀæ] 1. A bleating sound, as that of a sheep or goat.
Word: maa Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Onomatopoeic. Pronunciation: /mɑː/, /mæː/, [mæ̰ː ~ mæˀæˀæ] 1. To make such a sound. Labels: intransitive Example: Now it's even worse! The goat maas all the time. And the smell... Example: Now the twins started to cry and Malachy clung to Mam, sobbing. The cows mooed, the sheep maaed […]
Word: tension Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ten- Proto-Indo-European *tend- Proto-Indo-European *-eti Proto-Indo-European *téndeti Proto-Italic *tendō Latin tendō Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *-Hō Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō Proto-Italic *-tiō Latin -tiō Latin tēnsiōder. Middle French tensionbor. English tension Borrowed from Middle French tension, from Latin tēnsiō. Pronunciation: /ˈtɛnʃən/, /ˈtɛnʃn̩/ 1. The condition of being held in a state between two or more forces, which are acting in opposition to each other. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: My tensions with Eric over his alleged past actions have been fully resolved. 2. A psychological state of being tense. Labels: countable, uncountable 3. A feeling of nervousness, excitement, or fear that is created in a movie, book, etc.; suspense. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: This popular characterization of the Devil incorporates the Trickster archetype. Both are smart, energetic, lying, quick to take advantage of an opportunity. Both have latent narrative appeal in their generation of tension and conflict, their unpredictability, their defiance of hierarchy and authority. 4. The state of an elastic object which is stretched in a way which increases its length. Labels: countable, uncountable 5. A force transmitted through a rope, string, cable, or similar object (used with prepositions on, in, or of, e.g., "The tension in the cable is 1000 N", to convey that the same magnitude of force applies to objects attached to both ends). Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Most of the overhead system is of the weight-tensioned type, constant tension being automatically applied by balance weights. 6. Voltage. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: tension Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ten- Proto-Indo-European *tend- Proto-Indo-European *-eti Proto-Indo-European *téndeti Proto-Italic *tendō Latin tendō Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *-Hō Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō Proto-Italic *-tiō Latin -tiō Latin tēnsiōder. Middle French tensionbor. English tension Borrowed from Middle French tension, from Latin tēnsiō. Pronunciation: /ˈtɛnʃən/, /ˈtɛnʃn̩/ 1. To place an object in tension, to pull or place strain on. Example: We tensioned the cable until it snapped.
Word: move Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *m(y)ewh₁- Proto-Indo-European *-yeti Proto-Indo-European *-éyeti Proto-Indo-European *m(y)owh₁éyetider. Proto-Italic *moweō Latin movēre Old Northern French moverbor. Middle English moven English move From Middle English moven, moeven, meven, borrowed from Old Northern French mover, moveir and Old French mouver, moveir (“to move”) (compare modern French mouvoir from Old French movoir), from Latin movēre (“move; change, exchange, go in or out, quit”), from Proto-Indo-European *m(y)ewh₁- (“to move, drive”). Cognate with Lithuanian mauti (“to push on, rush”), Sanskrit मीवति (mī́vati, “pushes, presses, moves”), Middle Dutch mouwe (“sleeve”). Largely displaced native English stir, from Middle English stiren, sturien, from Old English styrian. See also Old English hrēran. Pronunciation: /muːv/ 1. The act of moving; a movement. Example: A slight move of the tiller, and the boat will go off course. Example: The drummer Cynthia praised her best friends' dance moves to the music. 2. An act for the attainment of an object; a step in the execution of a plan or purpose. Example: He made another move towards becoming a naturalized citizen. 3. A formalized or practiced action used in athletics, dance, physical exercise, self-defense, hand-to-hand combat, etc. Example: She always gets spontaneous applause for that one move. Example: He can win a match with that one move. 4. The event of changing one's residence. Example: The move into my fiancé's house took two long days. Example: They were pleased about their move to the country. 5. A change in strategy. Example: I am worried about our boss's move. Example: It was a smart move to bring on a tall striker to play against the smaller defenders. 6. A transfer, a change from one employer to another. Example: Robin van Persie squandered United's best chance late on but otherwise it was a relatively comfortable afternoon for Liverpool's new goalkeeper Simon Mignolet, who has yet to concede a Premier League goal since his £9m summer move from Sunderland. 7. The act of moving a token on a gameboard from one position to another according to the rules of the game. Example: The best move of the game was when he sacrificed his rook in order to gain better possession. Example: It's your move! Roll the dice! 8. A round, in which each player has a turn. Labels: plural-normally Example: You can win in three moves if you do that. 9. Within the Minimalist Program, a fundamental operation of syntactic construction
Word: dune Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Partly from a dialectal form of down; and partly from Dutch duin (from Middle Dutch dune) or from Middle Low German dûne; all ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *dūn, *dūnā, of uncertain origin; possibly from Proto-Celtic *dūnom (“stronghold, rampart”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰuHnom (“enclosure”), from *dʰewh₂- (“to finish, come full circle”). Doublet of down (which see). Pronunciation: /djuːn/, /d͡ʒuːn/, /dun/, /dɪu̯n/ 1. A ridge or hill of sand piled up by currents of wind or water. Example: Heavy line segments (lengthened for clarity) indicate locations of deep-sea dunes. Example: In the early 2000s, space probes [confirmed Mars as] having dunes […] Their shapes are identical to their Saharan cousins', but they are ten times bigger. In contrast, underwater dunes are a hundred times smaller than their counterparts on solid ground. This universality of dunes is a blessing for physicists: their comparative study confirmed the models that describe the formation of dunes on Earth.
Word: pharaoh Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English pharao (also as pharaon, farao, faraon, etc.), from Old English Pharao, from Late Latin Pharaō, from Koine Greek Φαραώ (Pharaṓ), from Biblical Hebrew פַּרְעֹה (Parʿō), from Egyptian pr:aA (pr-ꜥꜣ, “palace; pharaoh”, literally “pr (“house”) + ꜥꜣ (“great, big”)”) Pronunciation: /ˈfɛː.ɹəʊ/, /ˈfɛə.ɹəʊ/, /ˈfɛɹ(ˌ)oʊ/, /ˈfeɪ(ˌ)ɹoʊ/, /ˈfæɹ.oʊ/ 1. The supreme ruler of Ancient Egypt; a formal address for the sovereign seat of power as personified by the "king" in an institutional role of Horus son of Osiris; often used by metonymy for Ancient Egyptian sovereignty Labels: countable, historical, uncountable Example: Instances: see Thesaurus:pharaoh Example: And the Egyptians ſhall know that I am the Lord, when I haue gotten me honour vpon Pharaoh, vpon his charets, and vpon his horſemen. 2. The card game faro. Labels: uncountable Example: "I pray, when I play pharaoh at White's, that the cards fall as they have come to my hand in this large gamble," Anstis said.
Word: graphic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin graphicus (“belonging to painting or drawing”), from Ancient Greek γραφικός (graphikós, “belonging to painting or drawing, picturesque, of or for writing; of style, lively”), from γραφή (graphḗ, “drawing, painting, writing, a writing, description, etc.”), from γράφω (gráphō, “scratch, carve”) (cognate with English carve). Pronunciation: /ˈɡɹæfɪk/ 1. Drawn, pictorial. Example: The design team has created a new graphic language for the promotional material of this campaign. 2. Explicit, vivid, descriptive, often in relation to depictions of sex or violence. Example: We are not publishing these images because of the graphic nature of the content. Example: In the bodycam footage he is heard using graphic language to berate her. 3. Relating to or reminiscent of graphic arts. Example: That practice started on a 2018 visit to Ethiopia, where he encountered Jimma thrones, hewn from a single piece of wood with graphic cutouts. 4. Having a texture that resembles writing, commonly created by exsolution, devitrification and immiscibility processes in igneous rocks. Example: graphic granite
Word: graphic Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin graphicus (“belonging to painting or drawing”), from Ancient Greek γραφικός (graphikós, “belonging to painting or drawing, picturesque, of or for writing; of style, lively”), from γραφή (graphḗ, “drawing, painting, writing, a writing, description, etc.”), from γράφω (gráphō, “scratch, carve”) (cognate with English carve). Pronunciation: /ˈɡɹæfɪk/ 1. A drawing or picture. 2. A computer-generated image as viewed on a screen forming part of a game or a film etc. Labels: plural Example: I've just played this new computer game: the graphics are amazing. 3. A moth of the subfamily Melipotini.
Word: roof Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English rof, from Old English hrōf (“roof, ceiling; top, summit; heaven, sky”), from Proto-Germanic *hrōfą (“roof”). Cognate with Scots ruif (“roof, ceiling”), Dutch roef (“cabin on a boat”), Icelandic hróf (“shed”), Irish cró (“pen, barn, cabin”), Proto-Slavic *stropъ (“roof, ceiling”). Compare Faroese rógv (“something high up”). Pronunciation: /ɹuːf/, /ɹʊf/, /ɹʉwf/, /ɾuːf/, /ɾʉf/ 1. The external covering at the top of a building. Example: The roof was blown off by the tornado. Example: 'Twas the house I'd seen the roof of from the beach. 2. The top external level of a building. Example: Let's go up to the roof. Example: When this old world starts getting me down And people are just too much for me to face, I climb way up to the top of the stairs And all my cares just drift right into space On the roof, it's peaceful as can be And there, the world below can't bother me... 3. The upper part of a cavity. Example: The palate is the roof of the mouth. Example: As Bent pulled away to the far post, Agbonlahor opted to go it alone, motoring past Gary Caldwell before unleashing a shot into the roof of the net. 4. The surface or bed of rock immediately overlying a bed of coal or a flat vein. 5. An overhanging rock wall. 6. A hat. Labels: archaic, slang Example: Tom thought his cap a very knowing affair, but confessed that he had a hat in his hat-box; which was accordingly at once extracted from the hind-boot, and Tom equipped in his go-to-meeting roof, as his new friend called it.
Word: roof Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English rofen, roven (“to roof”), from the noun (see above). Pronunciation: /ɹuːf/, /ɹʊf/, /ɹʉwf/, /ɾuːf/, /ɾʉf/ 1. To cover or furnish with a roof. Labels: transitive Example: A trench about ten feet deep was dug in the ground and roofed over with sticks and earth so as to form a dark tunnel. 2. To traverse buildings by walking or climbing across their roofs. 3. To put into prison, to bird. Labels: slang, transitive Example: Did you see them, David? I mean, did you see them looking at me? I-I'm walking out of the court, and everybody was practically – yeah, they were gawking. […] I mean, Noah roofed me, I proved it, end of story. Example: I’m open, hype off the chronic I was smoking, feeling zooted That Brooklyn shit got me stupid I’m loose, kid – that’s what the overproof did What the ruck you looking at, son? You’ll get roofed, kid! 4. To shelter as if under a roof. Labels: transitive Example: They reached him: the pieces of rock had roofed him over—he was without injury or scratch. Example: It built him softly round, it roofed him warmly over, it rested, all so firm, on selection.
Word: ceiling Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English celing (“paneling; (bed) cover or hanging”), from celen (“to cover or panel walls”) (from Old French celer (“to conceal”)) + -ing (gerund-forming suffix). By surface analysis, ceil + -ing. Pronunciation: /ˈsiːlɪŋ/, /ˈsilɪŋ/ 1. The overhead closure of a room. Example: The dining room had an ornate ceiling. 2. The upper limit of an object or action. Example: […] and only at Barnet did Tappin give Empire of India a burst to bring us up to the 60 m.p.h. speed ceiling of the London area. Example: Market forces naturally move the economy to the equilibrium, and the price ceiling has no effect on the price or the quantity sold. 3. The highest altitude at which an aircraft can safely maintain flight. 4. The measurement of visible distance from ground or sea level to an overcast cloud cover; under a clear sky, the ceiling measurement is identified as "unlimited." Example: Even though it was cloudy, there was still enough ceiling for the Blue Angels to perform a great show. 5. The smallest integer greater than or equal to a given number. Example: The ceiling of 4.5 is 5; the ceiling of −4.5 is −4. 6. The inner planking of a vessel. 7. The maximum permitted level in a financial transaction. 8. The overhead interior surface that covers the upper limits of a room.
Word: ceiling Part of Speech: verb Etymology: See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form. Pronunciation: /ˈsiːlɪŋ/, /ˈsilɪŋ/ 1. present participle and gerund of ceil Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: Rauma Part of Speech: name 1. A town and municipality of Satakunta, Finland. 2. A municipality of Møre og Romsdal, Norway. 3. A river in Møre og Romsdal, Norway.
Word: Nordic countries Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of Nordic country Labels: form-of, plural Example: “It is completely improper to equate the excessive consumption of spirits, typical of the Nordic countries, to the moderate and conscious consumption of quality products with lower alcohol content, such as beer and wine”.
Word: constructivist Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree English constructive 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 constructivist From constructive + -ist. 1. Of or relating to constructivism. Labels: not-comparable Example: The importance of this constructivist perspective, as opposed to a theory of sexual essentialism which posits sexuality as biologically determined, is that it allows us to think about sex within a social, historical and cultural context. We can ask questions which recognize the importance of our sexual preference, our class, our race Example: Social norm scholarship in criminal law, I would suggest, is best understood as a type of constructivist social theory. The emerging literature attempts to explain behavior by focusing on shared interpretations of social practice.
Word: constructivist Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English constructive 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 constructivist From constructive + -ist. 1. An advocate of constructivism.
Word: interstitial Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin interstitiālis. By surface analysis, interstitium + -al. Pronunciation: /ɪntəˈstɪʃəl/, /ɪntəɹˈstɪʃəl/ 1. Of, relating to, or situated in an interstice. Labels: not-comparable Example: The novel's interstitial chapters. Example: The outer surface is covered with variable amounts of dental plaque and saliva. The inner surface is bathed in interstitial fluid or lymph.
Word: interstitial Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin interstitiālis. By surface analysis, interstitium + -al. Pronunciation: /ɪntəˈstɪʃəl/, /ɪntəɹˈstɪʃəl/ 1. A web page, usually carrying advertising, displayed when leaving one content page for another. Labels: Internet Example: An interstitial appeared before the download. Example: Interstitials should be used sparingly. Display an ad only the first time the user accesses a piece of content, not every time. 2. An interstitial discontinuity in a crystal. Example: 2008, E. G. Seebauer et al., Defect Engineering for Ultrashallow Junctions using Surfaces, in P. J. Timans, E. P. Gusev, H. Iwai, D.-L. Kwong, M. C. Öztürk, F. Roozeboom (editors), Advanced Gate Stack, Source/Drain, and Channel Engineering for Si-Based CMOS 4: New Materials, Processes, and Equipment, ECS Transactions: Volume 13, Issue 1, page 56, The second mechanism, which is the primary focus of the present paper, involves insertion of interstitials into dangling bonds at the surface.
Word: gland Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Late 17th century borrowing from French glande, alteration of Old French glandre, from Latin glandulae (“throat glands, tonsils”), plural of glandula (“a little acorn”), from glāns (“an acorn”) + -ula (diminutive nominal suffix). Pronunciation: /ɡlænd/, [ɡleənd] ~ [ɡlɛənd], /ɡland/, /ɡlæːnd/, [ɡleːnd] ~ [ɡlɛeːnd] 1. A specialized cell, group of cells, or organ of endothelial origin in the human or animal body that synthesizes a chemical substance, such as hormones or breast milk, and releases it, often into the bloodstream (endocrine gland) or into cavities inside the body or its outer surface (exocrine gland). 2. A specialized cell, group of cells, or organ of endothelial origin in the human or animal body that synthesizes a chemical substance, such as hormones or breast milk, and releases it, often into the bloodstream (endocrine gland) or into cavities inside the body or its outer surface (exocrine gland). 3. A secretory structure on the surface of an organ. 4. A stuffing box used to seal a rotating or reciprocating shaft against a fluid. Example: The gland of a tap/faucet is usually packed with string which has been soaked in tallow or similar grease.
Word: gland Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Early 19th century, probably from Scots glam (“vice, clamp”), probably from a variant of clam (“clam; clamp, vise”). Related to clamp. Pronunciation: /ɡlænd/, [ɡleənd] ~ [ɡlɛənd], /ɡland/, /ɡlæːnd/, [ɡleːnd] ~ [ɡlɛeːnd] 1. A compressable cylindrical case and its contents around a shaft where it passes through a barrier, intended to prevent the passage of a fluid past the barrier, used for example around a ship’s propeller shaft or around a tap, valve or faucet.
Word: piste Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from French piste. Pronunciation: /pɪst/, /piːst/ 1. A downhill trail. Example: They were skiing on the piste. 2. The field of play of a fencing match. 3. The track left by somebody riding a horse. Labels: archaic
Word: oven Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English oven, from Old English ofn (“oven”), from Proto-West Germanic *ofn (“oven”), from Proto-Germanic *uhnaz, *uhwnaz (“oven”). Cognate with West Frisian ûne (“oven”), Dutch oven (“oven”), Low German Aven (“oven”), German Ofen (“oven”), Danish and Norwegian Bokmål ovn (“oven”), Faroese ovnur (“oven”), Icelandic ofn (“oven”), Norwegian Nynorsk omn (“oven”), Swedish ugn (“oven”), Finnish uuni (“oven”), Gothic 𐌰𐌿𐌷𐌽𐍃 (auhns, “oven”)), probably from a Proto-Indo-European *aukʷ- (“cooking pot”), *Hukʷ-, *ukʷnos (compare Sanskrit उखा (ukhā, “boiler, cauldron”), Albanian anë (“vessel, cooker”), Latin aulla, olla (“pot, jar”), Ancient Greek ἰπνός (ipnós, “oven, furnace”)). The modern pronunciation shows a sound change in which Middle English /ɔv/ is changed to /uv/; compare the phonetic development of Coventry and shovel. Pronunciation: /ˈʌ.vn̩/, /ˈʌv.ən/ 1. A chamber used for baking or heating. Example: Baby I'm hot just like an oven / I need some lovin' 2. A very hot place. Labels: colloquial, figuratively Example: The ballroom that evening was an absolute oven. I probably perspired more dancing then during the afternoon ballgame.
Word: oven Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English oven, from Old English ofn (“oven”), from Proto-West Germanic *ofn (“oven”), from Proto-Germanic *uhnaz, *uhwnaz (“oven”). Cognate with West Frisian ûne (“oven”), Dutch oven (“oven”), Low German Aven (“oven”), German Ofen (“oven”), Danish and Norwegian Bokmål ovn (“oven”), Faroese ovnur (“oven”), Icelandic ofn (“oven”), Norwegian Nynorsk omn (“oven”), Swedish ugn (“oven”), Finnish uuni (“oven”), Gothic 𐌰𐌿𐌷𐌽𐍃 (auhns, “oven”)), probably from a Proto-Indo-European *aukʷ- (“cooking pot”), *Hukʷ-, *ukʷnos (compare Sanskrit उखा (ukhā, “boiler, cauldron”), Albanian anë (“vessel, cooker”), Latin aulla, olla (“pot, jar”), Ancient Greek ἰπνός (ipnós, “oven, furnace”)). The modern pronunciation shows a sound change in which Middle English /ɔv/ is changed to /uv/; compare the phonetic development of Coventry and shovel. Pronunciation: /ˈʌ.vn̩/, /ˈʌv.ən/ 1. To cook in an oven. Labels: colloquial, informal, transitive Example: I'm gonna oven the pie for about 30 minutes, mate.
Word: hobbit Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Coined in its current sense by J. R. R. Tolkien in the 1930s, featured in the novels The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. Jocularly etymologized by him as from a hypothetical Old English *holbytla (literally “hole-builder”), from hol (“hole”) + bytlan (“to build”) + -a (“-er”). Tolkien was possibly influenced by similar terms for house-sprites (probably from Hob, a hypocoristic form of Robert), or an isolated mention of hobbits (with hobgoblins following immediately afterwards) in a list of sprites and bogies from the 19th-century Denham Tracts. Pronunciation: /ˈhɒbɪt/, [-ɪʔ] 1. A member of a fictional race of small humanoids with shaggy hair and hairy feet. Example: It was his thirty-third birthday and already he had […] a little round tummy like a hobbit 2. A member of a fictional race of small humanoids with shaggy hair and hairy feet. Labels: humorous 3. An extinct species of hominin, Homo floresiensis, with a short body and relatively small brain, fossils of which have been recovered from the Indonesian island of Flores. Example: Although partial remains of other Hobbits have surfaced at the same site, they say it could have been an isolated colony of inbred people who shared the same genetic abnormalities. Example: And in the island regions of southeast Asia, where the descendants of erectus, and the Hobbit, and any similar relict populations lived, climate changes would have greatly disrupted connections between regions and populations, as sea levels rose and fell by 100 metres or more. 4. A socially unappealing, overly academic student. Labels: US, slang, uncommon
Word: hobbit Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Probably from hoppet, hobbet (“basket”). 1. A Welsh unit of weight, equal to four Welsh pecks, or 168 pounds. 2. An old unit of volume (2+¹⁄₂ bushels, the volume of 168 pounds of wheat). Labels: archaic
Word: deceive Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English deceyven, from Anglo-Norman deceivre, from Latin dēcipiō (“to deceive; beguile; entrap”), from dē- (“from”) + capiō (“to seize”); see captive. Compare conceive, perceive, receive. Displaced native Old English beswīcan. Pronunciation: /dɪˈsiːv/ 1. To trick or mislead. Labels: transitive Example: It feels painful to begin seeing clearly, that you’ve been deceived by the very people and institutions you trusted to guide you. Example: I know—for Death, who comes for me From regions of the blest afar, Where there is nothing to deceive, Hath left his iron gate ajar, […]
Word: deception Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English decepcioun, from Old French decepcion, from Latin dēcipiō (“to deceive”). Pronunciation: /dɪˈsɛpʃən/ 1. An instance of actions and/or schemes fabricated to mislead someone into believing a lie or inaccuracy. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: deliberate deception Example: pure deception
Word: fee Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English fee, fe, feh, feoh, from Old English feoh (“cattle, property, wealth, money, payment, tribute, fee”) with contamination from Old French fieu, fief (from Medieval Latin fevum, a variant of feudum (see feud), from Frankish *fehu (“cattle, livestock”); whence fief), both from Proto-Germanic *fehu (“cattle, sheep, livestock, owndom”), from Proto-Indo-European *péḱu (“livestock”). Cognates Cognate with Saterland Frisian Fäi (“cattle, livestock”), West Frisian fee (“livestock”), Cimbrian biighe, viighe (“animal, beast”), Dutch vee (“cattle, livestock”), German Viech (“animal, beast”), Vieh (“livestock”), German Low German Veeh (“cattle, livestock, property”), Luxembourgish Véi (“cattle”), Vilamovian fi, fī, fii, fiih (“cattle, livestock”), Yiddish פֿי (fi), פֿיך (fikh, “cattle, livestock”), Danish and Faroese fæ (“cattle, livestock”), Icelandic fé (“assets, livestock, money”), Norwegian Bokmål and Norwegian Nynorsk fe (“cattle, livestock”), Swedish fä (“beast, cattle, dolt”), Gothic 𐍆𐌰𐌹𐌷𐍉 (faihō), 𐍆𐌰𐌹𐌷𐌿 (faihu, “possessions, property; riches, wealth; money”); also Latin pecū (“cattle”), Old Prussian pecku (“cattle”), Armenian ասր (asr, “fleece, wool”), Avestan 𐬞𐬀𐬯𐬎 (pasu, “livestock”), Bactrian ποσο (poso, “sheep”), Central Kurdish پەز (pez, “sheep”), Northern Kurdish pez (“sheep”), Ossetian фыс (fys, “sheep”), Talysh pəs, пәс (“sheep”), Sanskrit पशु (paśu, “cattle”). Pronunciation: /fiː/ 1. An amount charged for a privilege. Example: late fee Example: license fee 2. An amount charged for professional services. Example: legal fees Example: consulting fees 3. An additional monetary payment charged for a service or good, especially one that is minor compared to the underlying cost. 4. An inheritable estate in land, whether absolute and without limitation to potential heirs (fee simple) or with limitations to particular kinds of heirs (fee tail). 5. A right to the use of a superior's land as a stipend for certain services to be performed, typically military service. Labels: historical 6. Synonym of fief: the land so held. Labels: historical 7. An inheritable estate in land held of a feudal lord on condition of performance of certain services, typically military service. Labels: historical 8. Synonym of possession. Labels: figuratively, obsolete Example: Once did she hold the gorgeous East in fee; And was the safeguard of the west: the worth Of Venice did not fall below her birth, Venice, the eldest Child of Liberty. Example: What doth the poor man's son inherit? Stout muscles and a sinewy heart, A hardy frame, a hardier spirit; King of two hands, he does his part In every useful toil and art; A heritage, it seems to me, A king might wish to hold in fee. 9. Money paid or bestowed; payment; emolument. Labels: obsolete 10. A prize or reward. Only used in the set phrase "A finder's fee" in Modern English. Labels: obsolete Example: For though sweet love to conquer glorious bee, / Yet is the paine thereof much greater than the fee.