nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: mouse Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *múHs Proto-Germanic *mūs Proto-West Germanic *mūs Old English mūs Middle English mous English mouse Inherited from Middle English mous, from Old English mūs, from Proto-West Germanic *mūs, from Proto-Germanic *mūs, from Proto-Indo-European *múHs. Cognates Germanic cognates include Old Frisian mūs, Old Saxon mūs (German Low German Muus), Dutch muis, Old High German mūs (German Maus), Old Norse mús (Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish mus, Faroese and Icelandic mús). Indo-European cognates include Ancient Greek μῦς (mûs), Latin mūs, Spanish mur, Armenian մուկ (muk), Old Church Slavonic мꙑшь (myšĭ) (Russian мышь (myšʹ)), Albanian mi, Persian موش (muš), Northern Kurdish mişk, Sanskrit मूष् (mūṣ). The computing sense was coined by American engineer Bill English in 1965 and first used publicly in a publication titled "Computer-Aided Display Control", in reference to the similarity with the animal. Pronunciation: /maʊs/, /maʊz/, /mʌʊs/ 1. To move cautiously or furtively, in the manner of a mouse (the rodent) (frequently used in the phrasal verb to mouse around). Labels: intransitive 2. To hunt or catch mice (the rodents), usually of cats. Labels: intransitive 3. To close the mouth of a hook by a careful binding of marline or wire. Labels: transitive Example: Captain Higgins moused the hook with a bit of marline to prevent the block beckets from falling out under slack. 4. To navigate by means of a computer mouse. Labels: intransitive Example: I had just moused to the File menu and the pull-down menu repeated the menu bar's hue a dozen shades lighter. Example: Unlike the Flamenco work, the Relation Browser allows users to quickly explore a document space using dynamic queries issued by mousing over facet elements in the interface. 5. To tear, as a cat devours a mouse. Labels: nonce-word, obsolete, transitive Example: [Death] mousing the flesh of men.
Word: half past Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈhɑːf ˌpɑːst/, /ˈhɑːˌpɑːst/, /ˈhɑːpəs(t)/, /ˈhæf ˌpæst/, /ˈhæˌpæst/ 1. Thirty minutes past any hour. Labels: uncountable Example: My train's supposed to arrive at 2. Let's plan on meeting at half past. -Sure, see you at half (past) two then.
Word: router Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From route + -er. Pronunciation: /ˈɹuː.tə(ɹ)/, /ˈɹaʊ.tɚ/ 1. Someone who routes or directs items from one location to another. Example: The router directed the movement of the company's trucks. Example: When the router receives the package, he places the route number on it as well as on the triplicate part of the attached salescheck. 2. Any device that directs packets of information using the equivalent of Open Systems Interconnection layer 3 (network layer) information. Most commonly used in reference to Internet Protocol routers. Example: That’s one of the biggest hurdles of managing a router and your network security in general, it’s a massive chore that is fraught with technical jargon, hurdles and screens saying ‘no’, ‘invalid’ or ‘not available’. 3. A device that connects local area networks to form a larger internet by, at minimum, selectively passing those datagrams having a destination IP address to the network which is able to deliver them to their destination; a network gateway. Labels: Internet Example: The router was configured to forward packets outside of a certain range of IP addresses to its internet uplink port. 4. In integrated circuit or printed circuit board design, an algorithm for adding all wires needed to properly connect all of the placed components while obeying all design rules. 5. A list and record of instructions that follows a part in a manufacturing process.
Word: router Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From rout + -er. Pronunciation: /ˈɹaʊtə(ɹ)/, /ˈɹaʊtɚ/ 1. A power tool used in carpentry for cutting grooves. Example: He made an attractive edge on the table with a router. 2. A plane made like a spokeshave, for working the inside edges of circular sashes. 3. A plane with a hooked tool protruding far below the sole, for smoothing the bottom of a cavity.
Word: router Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From rout + -er. Pronunciation: /ˈɹaʊtə(ɹ)/, /ˈɹaʊtɚ/ 1. to hollow out or cut using a router power tool. Example: An alternative is shown in which the carcase ends are grooved by routering. Example: Figures 276: 10, 11 are typical sliding flush door pulls, the former routered out, but the latter can be turned in a lathe, while 276:12 is an oblong routered version.
Word: noon Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English noen, none, non, from Old English nōn (“the ninth hour”), from a Germanic borrowing of classical Latin nōna (“ninth hour”) (short for nōna hōra), feminine of nōnus (“ninth”). Cognate with Dutch noen, obsolete German Non, Norwegian non. Pronunciation: /nuːn/, /nun/, /nʉn/ 1. The time of day when the Sun seems to reach its highest point in the sky; solar noon. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: On Saturdays, I love to have a lie-in until noon. Example: The race is due to start at noon sharp. 2. The time of day when the Sun seems to reach its highest point in the sky; solar noon. Labels: countable, uncountable 3. The corresponding time in the middle of the night; midnight. Labels: archaic, countable, uncountable Example: So the sad mother at the noon of night / From bloody Memphis stole her silent flight […]. Example: When night was at its noon I heard a voice chanting the Koran in sweetest accents […]. 4. The ninth hour of the day counted from sunrise; around three o'clock in the afternoon. Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable 5. The highest point; culmination. Labels: countable, figuratively, uncountable Example: In the very noon of that brilliant life which was destined to be so soon, and so fatally, overshadowed.
Word: noon Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English noen, none, non, from Old English nōn (“the ninth hour”), from a Germanic borrowing of classical Latin nōna (“ninth hour”) (short for nōna hōra), feminine of nōnus (“ninth”). Cognate with Dutch noen, obsolete German Non, Norwegian non. Pronunciation: /nuːn/, /nun/, /nʉn/ 1. To relax or sleep around midday. Labels: intransitive Example: We presently turned just aside from the trail into an episode of beautiful prairie, one of a succession along the plateau at the crest of the range. At this height of about five thousand feet, the snows remain until June. In this fair, oval, forest-circled prairie of my nooning, the grass was long and succulent, as if it grew in the bed of a drained lake. Example: Between six and nine we made ten miles, which was plenty for a horse carrying triple—man, woman, and armor; then we stopped for a long nooning under some trees by a limpid brook.
Word: noon Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /nuːn/, /nun/, /nʉn/ 1. The letter ن in the Arabic script.
Word: keyboard Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From key + board. Pronunciation: /ˈki.bɔɹd/, /ˈkiːbɔːd/, /ˈkɪjboːd/, /ˈkiboɾd/, [ˈkiboːɾd] 1. A set of keys laid out in a gridlike pattern, used for typing on a typewriter, computer, etc. 2. A component of many instruments, including the piano, organ, and harpsichord, consisting of usually black and white keys that cause different tones to be produced when struck. 3. An electronic device containing a keyboard (preceding sense), especially one that is capable of producing musical sounds when the keys are played.
Word: keyboard Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From key + board. Pronunciation: /ˈki.bɔɹd/, /ˈkiːbɔːd/, /ˈkɪjboːd/, /ˈkiboɾd/, [ˈkiboːɾd] 1. To type on a computer keyboard. Labels: intransitive Example: Keyboarding is the part of this job I hate the most. Example: The earliest hardcore hackers would not stumble in to their predawn keyboarding for another two hours.
Word: dual Part of Speech: adj Etymology: PIE word *dwóh₁ Borrowed from Latin dualis (“two”), from duo (“two”) + adjective suffix -alis. Pronunciation: /ˈd͡ʒuː.əl/, /ˈdjuː.əl/, /ˈdul/, /ˈd(j)u.əl/ 1. Characterized by having two (usually equivalent) components. Labels: not-comparable Example: a dual-motor vehicle 2. Pertaining to two, pertaining to a pair of. Labels: not-comparable Example: dual engine failure Example: dual citizenship 3. Pertaining to a grammatical number in certain languages that refers to two of something, such as a pair of shoes. Labels: not-comparable Example: Modern Arabic displays a dual number, as did Homeric Greek. 4. Exhibiting duality. Labels: not-comparable 5. Being the space of all linear functionals of (some other space). Labels: not-comparable Example: Accordingly, a hyperplane in the sample space is dual to a subspace in the variable space. 6. Being the dual of some other category; containing the same objects but with source and target reversed for all morphisms. Labels: not-comparable Example: Every category is dual to its own dual, so if a statement holds in all categories so does its dual.
Word: dual Part of Speech: noun Etymology: PIE word *dwóh₁ Borrowed from Latin dualis (“two”), from duo (“two”) + adjective suffix -alis. Pronunciation: /ˈd͡ʒuː.əl/, /ˈdjuː.əl/, /ˈdul/, /ˈd(j)u.əl/ 1. Of an item that is one of a pair, the other item in the pair. 2. Of a regular polyhedron with V vertices and F faces, the regular polyhedron having F vertices and V faces. Example: The octahedron is the dual of the cube. The icosahedron is the dual of the dodecahedron. 3. The dual number. 4. Of a vector in an inner product space, the linear functional corresponding to taking the inner product with that vector. The set of all duals is a vector space called the dual space. 5. A head-to-head match or meet between two teams, such as two high schools or colleges. Example: Wrestling duals and meets take place at the Wisconsin Field House. There are no advance single event ticket sales. Example: But Dave agreed to participate in the Bulgarian dual, and that trapped me into having to wrestle, too.
Word: dual Part of Speech: verb Etymology: PIE word *dwóh₁ Borrowed from Latin dualis (“two”), from duo (“two”) + adjective suffix -alis. Pronunciation: /ˈd͡ʒuː.əl/, /ˈdjuː.əl/, /ˈdul/, /ˈd(j)u.əl/ 1. To convert from single to dual; specifically, to convert a single-carriageway road to a dual carriageway. Labels: transitive Example: I have to declare an interest and I do so with some ambivalence because if the road is dualled it is likely to take half of my front garden. Example: The power generation and propulsion systems are dualled to accommodate component failure and maintain propulsion at reduced speed should any part of one system be lost.
Word: weekend Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From week + end. Originally a Northern England regionalism (see 1903 quotation), in more general use from late 19th century. Compare Saterland Frisian Wiekeneende (“weekend”), West Frisian wykein (“weekend”), Dutch weekeinde (“weekend”), German Low German Wekenenn (“weekend”), German Wochenende (“weekend”). Pronunciation: /wiːˈkɛnd/, /ˈwiːˌkɛnd/, /ˈwiˌkɛnd/, /ˈwiːˌkend/ 1. The break in the working week, usually two days including the traditional holy or sabbath day. Thus in Western countries, Saturday and Sunday. Example: “They can live upon barley-meal without a morsel of meat from week-end to week-end, can these miserable Sawnies,” quoth another. Example: […] often took a few boys down there for what we North Country folk call the week-end — Saturday and Sunday; it was also used as a sanatorium if required.
Word: weekend Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From week + end. Originally a Northern England regionalism (see 1903 quotation), in more general use from late 19th century. Compare Saterland Frisian Wiekeneende (“weekend”), West Frisian wykein (“weekend”), Dutch weekeinde (“weekend”), German Low German Wekenenn (“weekend”), German Wochenende (“weekend”). Pronunciation: /wiːˈkɛnd/, /ˈwiːˌkɛnd/, /ˈwiˌkɛnd/, /ˈwiːˌkend/ 1. To spend the weekend. Example: We'll weekend at the beach.
Word: weekend Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From week + end. Originally a Northern England regionalism (see 1903 quotation), in more general use from late 19th century. Compare Saterland Frisian Wiekeneende (“weekend”), West Frisian wykein (“weekend”), Dutch weekeinde (“weekend”), German Low German Wekenenn (“weekend”), German Wochenende (“weekend”). Pronunciation: /wiːˈkɛnd/, /ˈwiːˌkɛnd/, /ˈwiˌkɛnd/, /ˈwiːˌkend/ 1. Of, relating to or for the weekend. Labels: not-comparable Example: I'm wearing my weekend shoes. 2. Occurring at the weekend. Labels: not-comparable Example: a weekend break
Word: weekday Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Inherited from Middle English wykeday, from Old English wicdæġ (“weekday”), from Proto-West Germanic *wikadag, from Proto-Germanic *wikadagaz (“weekday”). By surface analysis, compound of week + day. Compare West Frisian wikedei (“weekday”), Dutch weekdag (“weekday”), German Low German Wekendag (“weekday”), German Wochentag (“weekday”), Danish ugedag (“weekday”), Swedish veckodag (“weekday”), Norwegian ukedag (“weekday”), Faroese vikudagur (“weekday”), Icelandic vikudagur (“weekday”). Pronunciation: /ˈwiːkdeɪ̯/, [ˈwɪi̯kdeɪ̯], /ˈwiːkdæ̝ɪ̯/, [ˈwɪi̯kdæ̝ɪ̯] 1. Any individual day of the week, except those which form the weekend or the single weekly day off; that is: Example: The Nottingham to Skegness route and Robin Hood line from Nottingham to Mansfield and Worksop will continue with their current weekday patterns; linked to the latter is EMR's commitment to carry out a feasibility study into operating Robin Hood trains to Ollerton. Example: TfL reckons that London Overground attracts annual ridership of 185 million from a network of 113 stations and 1,600 weekday services, delivered with an ARL staff numbering 1,500. 2. Any individual day of the week, except those which form the weekend or the single weekly day off; that is: 3. Any individual day of the week, except those which form the weekend or the single weekly day off; that is: 4. Any individual day of the week, except those which form the weekend or the single weekly day off; that is: Labels: Judaism 5. Any day of the week (Monday through Sunday). Labels: archaic
Word: leap year Part of Speech: noun Etymology: PIE word *yóh₁r̥ From Late Middle English lepe-yer, lep-yer (“year with 366 days, leap year”), from lep, lepe (“act of jumping, jump, leap”) (from Old English hlīep, hlȳp, probably ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *klewp- (“to spring; to stumble”)) + yer (“calendrical unit based on a complete revolution of the Earth around the Sun, year”) (from Old English ġēar, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *yóh₁r̥ (“year”)). The English term is analysable as leap (noun) + year, and possibly relates to the phenomenon that any fixed date of a 365-day calendar advances one weekday each year but every date of a 366-day year after February 29 (often seen as the leap day) advances by two weekdays instead. For example, Christmas (December 25) fell on a Saturday in 2004, a Sunday in 2005, a Monday in 2006, and a Tuesday in 2007 but then “leapt” over Wednesday to fall on a Thursday in 2008 which was a leap year. Compare also Old English mōnan hlȳp (“moon’s leap”) and Medieval Latin saltus lūnae (literally “leap moon”), an additional day added every 19 years (a Metonic cycle) to bring the lunar and solar calendars into alignment. Cognates * Old Norse hlaup-ár (“leap year”) Pronunciation: /ˈliːp ˌjɪə/, /ˈlip ˌjɪ(ə)ɹ/ 1. A year in the Julian or Gregorian calendar with an intercalary day added to February (in the Gregorian calendar, February 29), used to adjust for the extra hours of the solar year; a 366-day year. Example: The additional day which occurred every fourth year [after the Julian Reform] was given to February, as being the shortest month, and was inserted in the calendar between the twenty-fourth and twenty-fifth day. February having then twenty-nine days, the twenty-fifth was the sixth of the calends of March, sexto calendas; the preceding, which was the additional or intercalary day, was called bis-sexto calendas, hence the term bissextile, which is still employed to distinguish the year of 366 days. The English denomination of Leap-Year would have been more appropriate if that year had differed from common years in defect, and contained only 364 days. In the ecclesiastical calendar the intercalary day is still placed between the 24th and 25th of February; in the civil calendar it is the 29th. 2. Any other year featuring intercalation, such as a year in a lunisolar calendar with 13 months instead of 12, used to maintain its alignment with the seasons of the solar year. Labels: broadly
Word: hourglass Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From hour + glass. Pronunciation: /ˈaʊəɡlɑːs/ 1. A clock made of two glass vessels connected by a narrow passage through which sand flows. Example: After each game turn, invert the hourglass to reset the time limit for the next player. Example: The sands of thy short life are spent this hour, / And no hand in the universe can turn / Thy hourglass, if these gummed leaves be burnt / Ere thou canst mount up these immortal steps. 2. A cursor, often shaped like an hourglass, indicating that the computer is busy. Example: When I right click the desktop display to check Display Properties, it hangs and shows me only the hourglass instead of the display menu.
Word: hourglass Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From hour + glass. Pronunciation: /ˈaʊəɡlɑːs/ 1. To display the cursor as an hourglass indicating that the computer is busy or processing. Labels: intransitive Example: I have an ADP that I use for reporting that I have used for about a year. I only use it every 3 months, and it has worked up until now. This morning I tried using it, but after trying to open the report, it hourglassed and then showed a "Timeout expired" error. I searched this message and found out how to set the timeout limit, and set it to 300 seconds. Still the same message.
Word: been Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ḱe? Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm Proto-Germanic *ga- Proto-West Germanic *ga- Old English ġe- Proto-Indo-European *bʰuH- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *bʰuHyétider.? Proto-Germanic *beuną Proto-West Germanic *beun Old English bēon Old English ġebēon Middle English been English been From Middle English been (past participle), from Old English (ġe)bēon. By surface analysis, be + -en. Pronunciation: /ˈbɪn/, [ˈbɪn], /ˈbiːn/, [ˈbɪi̯n], /ˈbɛn/ 1. past participle of be. Labels: form-of, participle, past Example: All the fries have been eaten. Example: We're safe, but the car's been totaled. 2. remote past form of be. Example: He been had that job. Example: We been knew they was doing this.
Word: been Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Either from Middle English been (“to be”, infinitive) (from Old English bēon, equivalent to be + -en (infinitive ending)), or from a dialectal use of the preceding past tense form as an infinitive form (compare dialectal use of (I)'s, (I) is in the first person, (he) am in the third person, etc). 1. Synonym of be (infinitival sense). Labels: rare Example: It useta been five foot long. Example: "Bones", says he, "I tink dey's a-goin' to been a war ober de Alabamy question[…]
Word: been Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English been (plural indicative form); equivalent to be + -en (plural present ending). 1. plural simple present of be. Labels: form-of, obsolete, plural, present Example: My love is fair, my love is gay, / As fresh as been the flowers in May; Example: Theſe Beaſtes been of higheſt Regard and Price / To pleaſure Princes and to murder vice.
Word: been Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English been, bene, ben, beon, from Old English bēon (“bees”), equivalent to bee + -en (plural ending). Pronunciation: /biːn/ 1. plural of bee Labels: UK, dialectal, form-of, plural
Word: Saxon Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Partially from Middle English Saxe, Sax; from Old English *Seaxa (attested in plural Seaxan), and Saxoun, from Old French *Saxoun, Saxon (“Saxon”), from Late Latin Saxōnem, accusative of Saxō (“a Saxon”), both from Proto-West Germanic *sahs, from Proto-Germanic *sahsą (“rock, knife”), from Proto-Indo-European *sek- (“to cut”). Doublet of Sais. Cognates Cognate with Middle Low German sasse (“someone speaking Saxon, i.e. (Middle) Low German”), Old English Seaxa (“a Saxon”), Old High German Sahso (“a Saxon”), Icelandic Saxi (“a Saxon”), Estonian saks (“lord; German”), Finnish Saksa (“Germany”). Also cognate to Old English seax (“a knife, hip-knife, an instrument for cutting, a short sword, dirk, dagger”); more at sax. Pronunciation: /ˈsæksən/ 1. A member of an ancient West Germanic tribe that lived at the eastern North Sea coast and south of it. Example: Kenett states that the military works still known by the name of Tadmarten Camp and Hook-Norton Barrow were cast up at this time ; the former, large and round, is judged to be a fortification of the Danes, and the latter, being smaller and rather a quinquangle than a square, of the Saxons. 2. A native or inhabitant of Saxony, Germany. Example: [...] in West Germany Saxony and Saxons became synonymous with Ulbricht's Communist regime, [...] Example: The film taught that socialist competition, through encouraging the collaboration of both men and women and Saxons and Berliners, could overcome the natural antagonism between male industrial mass production and female fashion. 3. An English/British person. Labels: Ireland, Wales, poetic Example: Then came the call to arms, love, the heather was aflame / Down from the silent mountains, the Saxon strangers came. 4. A size of type between German and Norse, 2-point type. Labels: US, dated, rare, uncountable 5. A kind of rapidly spinning ground-based firework.
Word: Saxon Part of Speech: name Etymology: Partially from Middle English Saxe, Sax; from Old English *Seaxa (attested in plural Seaxan), and Saxoun, from Old French *Saxoun, Saxon (“Saxon”), from Late Latin Saxōnem, accusative of Saxō (“a Saxon”), both from Proto-West Germanic *sahs, from Proto-Germanic *sahsą (“rock, knife”), from Proto-Indo-European *sek- (“to cut”). Doublet of Sais. Cognates Cognate with Middle Low German sasse (“someone speaking Saxon, i.e. (Middle) Low German”), Old English Seaxa (“a Saxon”), Old High German Sahso (“a Saxon”), Icelandic Saxi (“a Saxon”), Estonian saks (“lord; German”), Finnish Saksa (“Germany”). Also cognate to Old English seax (“a knife, hip-knife, an instrument for cutting, a short sword, dirk, dagger”); more at sax. Pronunciation: /ˈsæksən/ 1. The language of the ancient Saxons. 2. Upper Saxon, a dialect of modern High German spoken in Saxony. Example: Not everyone from the former GDR states are Saxons – and they do not all speak Saxon, […] Example: But does this mean that Germans nowadays speak Saxon? Far from it, in fact; Saxon is the most widely despised dialect in Germany, by a wide margin. 3. A surname. 4. A male given name transferred from the surname, of modern usage or directly from the noun Saxon. 5. A place name: 6. A place name: 7. A place name: 8. A place name:
Word: Saxon Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Partially from Middle English Saxe, Sax; from Old English *Seaxa (attested in plural Seaxan), and Saxoun, from Old French *Saxoun, Saxon (“Saxon”), from Late Latin Saxōnem, accusative of Saxō (“a Saxon”), both from Proto-West Germanic *sahs, from Proto-Germanic *sahsą (“rock, knife”), from Proto-Indo-European *sek- (“to cut”). Doublet of Sais. Cognates Cognate with Middle Low German sasse (“someone speaking Saxon, i.e. (Middle) Low German”), Old English Seaxa (“a Saxon”), Old High German Sahso (“a Saxon”), Icelandic Saxi (“a Saxon”), Estonian saks (“lord; German”), Finnish Saksa (“Germany”). Also cognate to Old English seax (“a knife, hip-knife, an instrument for cutting, a short sword, dirk, dagger”); more at sax. Pronunciation: /ˈsæksən/ 1. Of, relating to, or characteristic of the Saxons. Example: But his bitch queen was Saxon to the bone and her legacy showed in the sons that Vortigern bred off her. Katigern Minor might be young, but he has become what his grandfather never was – more Saxon than Celt. Example: Eadyth managed to make one of her beekeeping veils into a bridal veil hanging from a circlet of Drifa’s flowers. All this attire was more Saxon than Norse. So she wore her hair in one long braid, Viking style, and at her shoulder was a brooch in a writhing, intertwined animal design. / Her sisters looked just as lovely in their bright gowns, Tyra’s Saxon style, but the others pure Viking. 2. Of, from or relating to Saxony, Germany. 3. Of, relating to, or characteristic of the Saxon language. 4. Of, relating to, or characteristic of England, typically as opposed to a Celtic nationality. Labels: Ireland, Wales, poetic Example: He was a large, very Saxon type of man; that is to say, an English one, having shed the vices and cruelties and developed the patience and cool-headedness.
Word: penny Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Pre-Greekder.? Ancient Greek πατάνη (patánē)bor. Latin patina Latin panna? Latin pannus? Proto-Indo-European *-n̥kʷo-der.? Proto-Indo-European *-nós Proto-Indo-European *-iHnos Proto-Germanic *-īnaz Proto-Indo-European *-kos Proto-Germanic *-gaz ? Proto-Germanic *-ingaz Proto-Germanic *panningaz Proto-West Germanic *panning Old English peniġ Middle English peny English penny From Middle English peny, from Old English peniġ, penniġ, penning (“penny”), from Proto-West Germanic *panning, from Proto-Germanic *panningaz, of uncertain origin (see that page for theories). Doublet of pfennig and fening. Pronunciation: /ˈpɛni/, /ˈpɪni/, /pəni/ 1. In the United Kingdom and Ireland and many other countries, a unit of currency worth ¹⁄₂₄₀ of a pound sterling or Irish pound before decimalisation, or a copper coin worth this amount. Abbreviation: d. Labels: historical Example: Thanks to that penny he had just spent so recklessly [on a newspaper] he would pass a happy hour, taken, for once, out of his anxious, despondent, miserable self. It irritated him shrewdly to know that these moments of respite from carking care would not be shared with his poor wife, with careworn, troubled Ellen. Example: We had not proceeded very far across the south cantilever when we saw a penny lying beside the track, and another a short distance further on. We were to find several more pennies, and some half-pennies, before we reached the north shore. Inspector Bell explained that many passengers try to throw a coin into the Forth, for "good luck," while trains are crossing the bridge. 2. In the United Kingdom, a unit of currency worth ¹⁄₁₀₀ of a pound sterling, or a copper coin worth this amount. Abbreviation: p. 3. In Ireland, a coin worth ¹⁄₁₀₀ of an Irish pound before the introduction of the euro. Abbreviation: p. Labels: historical 4. In the US and (formerly) Canada, a one-cent coin, worth ¹⁄₁₀₀ of a dollar. Abbreviation: ¢. Example: Holy shit! A hundred and eleven pennies! At that point, that dog had more Lincoln in him than Mary Todd. Example: A Treasury spokesperson said the government made its final order of penny blanks this month, and the United States Mint will continue to manufacture pennies only as long as an inventory of penny blanks exists. 5. In various countries, a small-denomination copper or brass coin. 6. A unit of nail size, said to be either the cost per 100 nails, or the number of nails per penny. Abbreviation: d. 7. Money in general. Example: to turn an honest penny Example: What penny hath Rome borne, / What men provided, what munition sent?
Word: penny Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Pre-Greekder.? Ancient Greek πατάνη (patánē)bor. Latin patina Latin panna? Latin pannus? Proto-Indo-European *-n̥kʷo-der.? Proto-Indo-European *-nós Proto-Indo-European *-iHnos Proto-Germanic *-īnaz Proto-Indo-European *-kos Proto-Germanic *-gaz ? Proto-Germanic *-ingaz Proto-Germanic *panningaz Proto-West Germanic *panning Old English peniġ Middle English peny English penny From Middle English peny, from Old English peniġ, penniġ, penning (“penny”), from Proto-West Germanic *panning, from Proto-Germanic *panningaz, of uncertain origin (see that page for theories). Doublet of pfennig and fening. Pronunciation: /ˈpɛni/, /ˈpɪni/, /pəni/ 1. To jam a door shut by inserting pennies between the doorframe and the door. Labels: slang Example: Zach and Ben had only been at college for a week when their door was pennied by the girls down the hall. 2. To circumvent the tripping of an electrical circuit breaker by the dangerous practice of inserting a coin in place of a fuse in a fuse socket. 3. During a meal or as part of a drinking game, to drop a penny in a person's drink with the expectation that they finish it (or some such variation thereof); commonly associated with crewdates at Oxford and swaps at Cambridge. Example: You got pennied! Down it, fresher.
Word: nickel Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from German Nickel, first used in a text by the Swedish mineralogist Axel F. Cronstedt as an abbreviation of Kupfernickel (“a mineral containing copper and nickel”), from Kupfer (“copper”) + Nickel (“insignificant person, goblin”), originally nickname of Nikolaus (“Nicholas”), due to the deceptive silver colour of the relatively valueless ore. Compare cobalt as related to kobolds. Pronunciation: /ˈnɪk.əl/ 1. A silvery elemental metal with an atomic number of 28 and symbol Ni. Labels: uncountable 2. A coin worth 5 cents. Labels: Canada, US, countable Example: That is just objectively terrifying regardless of contexts! He looks like if a nickel did cocaine! 3. Five dollars. Labels: US, broadly, countable, slang, uncountable 4. Five hundred dollars. Labels: US, broadly, countable, slang, uncountable 5. Interstate 5, a highway that runs along the west coast of the United States. Labels: US, countable, slang, uncountable 6. A playing card with the rank of five Labels: countable, slang, uncountable 7. A five-year prison sentence. Labels: US, countable, slang, uncountable 8. A defensive formation with five defensive backs, one of whom is a nickelback, instead of the more-common four. Labels: countable, uncountable 9. An airborne propaganda leaflet. Labels: UK, countable, uncountable Example: Colonel Hazeltine still had trouble persuading air commanders to drop the nickels. Pilots profanely protested against risking their necks on such foolishness. But in the end 15,000,000 leaflets a week were being dropped on Sicily and Italy. Example: Many types of nickels were used in psychological warfare. Classified according to general purpose, there were strategic and tactical leaflets.
Word: nickel Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Borrowed from German Nickel, first used in a text by the Swedish mineralogist Axel F. Cronstedt as an abbreviation of Kupfernickel (“a mineral containing copper and nickel”), from Kupfer (“copper”) + Nickel (“insignificant person, goblin”), originally nickname of Nikolaus (“Nicholas”), due to the deceptive silver colour of the relatively valueless ore. Compare cobalt as related to kobolds. Pronunciation: /ˈnɪk.əl/ 1. Synonym of cheap: Low price and/or low value. Labels: US, dated, idiomatic, not-comparable Example: Let me give you the nickel tour of the office.
Word: nickel Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Borrowed from German Nickel, first used in a text by the Swedish mineralogist Axel F. Cronstedt as an abbreviation of Kupfernickel (“a mineral containing copper and nickel”), from Kupfer (“copper”) + Nickel (“insignificant person, goblin”), originally nickname of Nikolaus (“Nicholas”), due to the deceptive silver colour of the relatively valueless ore. Compare cobalt as related to kobolds. Pronunciation: /ˈnɪk.əl/ 1. To plate with nickel. Labels: transitive 2. To distribute airborne leaflet propaganda. Labels: UK Example: The 422d Bombardment Squadron extended the scope of its operations considerably in April and "attacked" Norwegian targets with the leaflet bomb. The number of cities nickeled per mission also increased until it was common for fifteen to twenty-five to be scheduled as targets for a five-plane mission. Example: We flew numerous nickeling missions over the population centers of Southern France, dropping thousands of pounds of leaflets.
Word: counterfeit Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English counterfeit, countrefet, from Anglo-Norman countrefait, from Old French contrefait, from Latin contra- (“against”) + Latin facere (“to make”). Piecewise doublet of contrafactum. Pronunciation: /ˈkaʊn.tɚˌfɪt/, /ˈkawntəˌfɪt/ 1. False, especially of money; intended to deceive or carry appearance of being genuine. Labels: not-comparable Example: This counterfeit watch looks like the real thing, but it broke a week after I bought it. Example: Finding out Irish people might have been slaves is kind of like finding a counterfeit bill where you're like, "You think I can use this for something?" 2. Inauthentic. Labels: not-comparable Example: counterfeit sympathy Example: How Cownterfet Cowntenaunce of the new get / With Crafty Conueyauance dothe smater and flater, / And Cloked Collucyoun is brought in to clater / With Courtely Abusyoun; […] 3. Assuming the appearance of something; deceitful; hypocritical. Labels: not-comparable Example: an arrant counterfeit rascal
Word: counterfeit Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English counterfeit, countrefet, from Anglo-Norman countrefait, from Old French contrefait, from Latin contra- (“against”) + Latin facere (“to make”). Piecewise doublet of contrafactum. Pronunciation: /ˈkaʊn.tɚˌfɪt/, /ˈkawntəˌfɪt/ 1. A non-genuine article; a fake. Example: Never call a true piece of gold a counterfeit. Example: Some of these counterfeits are fabricated with such exquisite taste and skill, that it is the achievement of criticism to distinguish them from originals. 2. One who counterfeits; a counterfeiter. 3. That which resembles another thing; a likeness; a portrait; a counterpart. Labels: obsolete Example: Thou drawest a counterfeit / Best in all Athens. Example: Even Nature's self envied the same, / And grudged to see the counterfeit should shame / The thing itself. 4. An impostor; a cheat. Labels: obsolete Example: I fear thou art another counterfeit; / And yet, in faith, thou bear'st thee like a king.
Word: counterfeit Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English counterfeit, countrefet, from Anglo-Norman countrefait, from Old French contrefait, from Latin contra- (“against”) + Latin facere (“to make”). Piecewise doublet of contrafactum. Pronunciation: /ˈkaʊn.tɚˌfɪt/, /ˈkawntəˌfɪt/ 1. To falsely produce what appears to be official or valid; to produce a forged copy of. Labels: transitive Example: to counterfeit the signature of another, coins, notes, etc. 2. To produce a faithful copy of. Labels: obsolete, transitive Example: The title page of White's original album includes a descriptive title page that identifies the contents as “the pictures of sondry things collected and counterfeited according to the truth," 3. To feign; to mimic. Labels: obsolete, transitive Example: to counterfeit the voice of another person Example: Full well they laughed with counterfeited glee / At all his jokes, for many a joke had he. 4. Of a turn or river card, to invalidate a player's hand by making a better hand on the board. Labels: transitive
Word: morph Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Back-formation from morpheme, from Ancient Greek μορφή (morphḗ, “form, shape”). Compare German Morph, from Morphem. Attested since the 1940s. Pronunciation: /mɔː(ɹ)f/ 1. A recurrent distinctive sound or sequence of sounds representing an indivisible morphological form; especially as representing a morpheme. Example: Bq. ezpel ['box tree'] likely goes back to *ez-, a morph found in Basque tree names, and *-bel 'dark'. 2. An allomorph: one of a set of realizations that a morpheme can have in different contexts.
Word: morph Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Back-formation from morphism. Attested since the 1950s. See also morphology. Pronunciation: /mɔː(ɹ)f/ 1. A variety of a species, distinguishable from other individuals of the species by morphology or behaviour. Example: Briefly, the yellow morphic males can change their status from paired to satellite and from satellite to the paired one. However, they cannot cross into the status of the red morph.
Word: morph Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Clipping of metamorphose. Pronunciation: /mɔː(ɹ)f/ 1. To change shape, from one form to another, through computer animation. Labels: ambitransitive, colloquial 2. To shapeshift. Example: Meta leapt forward. In midair his lower half morphed, and suddenly he was one-half humanoid, one-half coiled spring. Example: "Would it reflect badly on women if I morphed my bust size up a bit for it? Sorta like wearing a padded bra?" 3. To undergo dramatic change in a seamless and barely noticeable fashion. Labels: broadly Example: By the time politicians in several cities backed down on Tuesday and announced that they would cut or consider reducing fares, the demonstrations had already morphed into a more sweeping social protest, with marchers waving banners carrying slogans like “The people have awakened.” Example: “Highbrow and lowbrow, alternative and mainstream, work and play, CEO and hipster are all morphing together today,” [Richard] Florida enthuses.
Word: morph Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Clipping of metamorphose. Pronunciation: /mɔː(ɹ)f/ 1. A computer-generated gradual change from one image to another. Example: But what is this metasubstance that blinks at us from the apex of the morph, and that in Terminator 2 is hyperbolized in the quicksilver substratum of the T-1000?
Word: morph Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Clipping of morphine. Pronunciation: /mɔː(ɹ)f/ 1. Morphine. Labels: slang, uncountable Example: They're bringing you some morph before long. […] The tube has its own needle, and the medic jabs it in like he has done it a million times, then marks Chickenfeed's forehead so the Rear will know he's already had morphine.
Word: morph Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Clipping of morphodite. Pronunciation: /mɔː(ɹ)f/ 1. A hermaphrodite, an intersex person. Example: I am seeking to correspond with a TV [transvestite] or a natural morph. I want them to be passive (I'm totally non-violent) but open in feelings and ideas. I need no financial support, only moral support from a person with small sex parts.
Word: aloha Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Austronesian *qaləp Proto-Austronesian *qaləpan Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *qaləpan Proto-Oceanic *qalopan Proto-Polynesian *qarofa Hawaiian alohabor. English aloha Borrowed from Hawaiian aloha (“love”), from Proto-Polynesian *qarofa. Doublet of aroha and aropa. Pronunciation: /əˈləʊ.(h)ə/, /əˈloʊˌhɑ/, /əˈloʊ.ə/ 1. Good wishes, love, compassion, peacefulness and affection. Labels: Hawaii Example: When I got back to Hawaii, a feeling of aloha flooded me, and my anxiety vanished. Example: Traveling as the princess regent with a retinue that included Princess Ruth and Queen Kapi‘olani, Lili‘u was welcomed by enormous crowds and lavish outpourings of aloha, as her subjects clasped her knees and kissed her hands and feet to show their reverence. 2. An utterance of aloha (see Interjection, below). Labels: Hawaii
Word: aloha Part of Speech: intj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Austronesian *qaləp Proto-Austronesian *qaləpan Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *qaləpan Proto-Oceanic *qalopan Proto-Polynesian *qarofa Hawaiian alohabor. English aloha Borrowed from Hawaiian aloha (“love”), from Proto-Polynesian *qarofa. Doublet of aroha and aropa. Pronunciation: /əˈləʊ.(h)ə/, /əˈloʊˌhɑ/, /əˈloʊ.ə/ 1. Expressing good wishes when greeting or parting from someone; hello; goodbye. Labels: Hawaii
Word: symptom Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English sinthoma, from Medieval Latin sinthoma, altered by Late Latin symptoma, from Ancient Greek σύμπτωμα (súmptōma, “a happening, accident, symptom of disease”), from stem of συμπίπτω (sumpíptō, “Ι befall”), from συν- (sun-, “together”) + πίπτω (píptō, “to fall”). See also syn-, -oma, -ome. Pronunciation: /ˈsɪm(p)təm/ 1. A perceived change in some function, sensation or appearance of a person that indicates a disease or disorder, such as fever, headache or rash; strictly, a symptom is felt or experienced by the patient, while a sign can be detected by an observer. Example: The doctor told that his coughing and sneezing was the symptom of standing for too long in the rain. Example: Swollen breasts, morning sickness, and a missed period are classic symptoms of pregnancy. 2. A signal; anything that indicates, or is characteristic of, the presence of something else, especially of something undesirable. Labels: figuratively Example: Lying, hiding one's true feelings, and having affairs are typical symptoms of a doomed marriage. Example: "Nay, nay," exclaimed Lord Norbourne, "I cannot go quite so far as that. I have, thanks to your hospitality, laid in a stock of health enough for the ensuing winter: but as to the general benevolence of which you talk, I confess I find no symptoms: if I did, they would alarm me more than those of the gout."
Word: Zuni Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From earlier Zuñi, from American Spanish, from Acoma Western Keres sɨ̂‧ni or a cognate thereof. Pronunciation: /ˈzuː.ni/, /ˈzuː.nji/, /ˈzu.ni/ 1. Of or pertaining to the Zuni people or their traditional language. Labels: not-comparable
Word: Zuni Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From earlier Zuñi, from American Spanish, from Acoma Western Keres sɨ̂‧ni or a cognate thereof. Pronunciation: /ˈzuː.ni/, /ˈzuː.nji/, /ˈzu.ni/ 1. A member of a Native American Pueblo people, native to the Zuni River valley.
Word: Zuni Part of Speech: name Etymology: From earlier Zuñi, from American Spanish, from Acoma Western Keres sɨ̂‧ni or a cognate thereof. Pronunciation: /ˈzuː.ni/, /ˈzuː.nji/, /ˈzu.ni/ 1. The language traditionally spoken by members of this tribe.
Word: pip Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English pippe, from Middle Dutch pip, from post-classical Latin pipita, from Latin pītuīta (“mucus, phlegm, head cold”). Doublet of pituita. Pronunciation: /pɪp/ 1. Any of various respiratory diseases in birds, especially infectious coryza. 2. A disease, malaise or depression in humans. Labels: dated, humorous Example: 1912, D. H. Lawrence, letter to Edward Garnett I've got the pip horribly at present. Example: Fer, as the poit sez, me 'eart 'as got / The pip wiv yearnin' fer - I dunno wot.
Word: pip Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Apparently representing a shortened form of pippin, from Middle English pipin, from Old French pepin (“a seed”) (French pépin). Pronunciation: /pɪp/ 1. A pippin, seed of any kind. Labels: obsolete 2. A pippin, seed of any kind. Labels: UK, obsolete Example: Apple pips are edible, but don't have a pleasant taste. Example: On most of the shores of the ancient Mediterranean, before any historical record, the cultivated grape vine, Vitis vinifera Linn., was grown. Its relationship to the wild vine of Eurasia, Vitis silvestris Gmel., is uncertain. Its pips can mostly be distinguished from those of the wild vine, and have been found in Egypt and Syrian Hama from the fourth millennium BC, at Lachish and Jericho in the early Bronze, at Troy II during the Bronze, in the Peloponnesus from Early Helladic, in Crete from the Early Minoan. 3. Something or someone excellent, of high quality. Labels: US, colloquial Example: She sure is a pip, that one. You need company? 4. P in RAF phonetic alphabet. Labels: UK, World-War-I, dated
Word: pip Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Apparently representing a shortened form of pippin, from Middle English pipin, from Old French pepin (“a seed”) (French pépin). Pronunciation: /pɪp/ 1. To remove the pips from. Labels: transitive Example: Peel and pip the grapes.
Word: pip Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Origin uncertain; perhaps related to Etymology 2, above. Pronunciation: /pɪp/ 1. One of the spots or symbols on a playing card, domino, die, etc. 2. One of the stylised version of the Bath star worn on the shoulder of a uniform to denote rank, e.g. of a soldier or a fireman. 3. A spot; a speck. 4. A spot of light or an inverted V indicative of a return of radar waves reflected from an object; a blip. 5. A piece of rhizome with a dormant shoot of the lily of the valley plant, used for propagation
Word: pip Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Origin uncertain; perhaps related to Etymology 2, above. Pronunciation: /pɪp/ 1. To get the better of; to defeat by a narrow margin. Labels: transitive Example: He led throughout the race but was pipped at the post. Example: Arteta faced much scrutiny after Spurs pipped the Gunners to Champions League football on the final day of last season, with opposite number Conte deservedly hailed for the transformation he had overseen in just a few months at the helm. 2. To hit with a gunshot. Labels: transitive Example: The hunter managed to pip three ducks from his blind.
Word: pip Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Imitative. Pronunciation: /pɪp/ 1. To peep, to chirp. Labels: intransitive 2. To make the initial hole during the process of hatching from an egg.
Word: pip Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Imitative. Pronunciation: /pɪp/ 1. One of a series of very short, electronically produced tones, used, for example, to count down the final few seconds before a given time or to indicate that a caller using a payphone needs to make further payment to continue the call. Example: I could clearly hear the frequent cataclysms of the upstairs lavatory, and my day began with the pips for the morning news in Charlotte Lawless's kitchen.
Word: pip Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Abbreviation of percentage in point. Pronunciation: /pɪp/ 1. The smallest price increment between two currencies in foreign exchange (forex) trading. Example: The set-and-forget trader is playing fundamental direction and is seeking very large moves of 150 to 300 pips. This trader doesn't want to sit and watch the screen but play the longer moves and forces behind forex.
Word: pit Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-West Germanic *puti Old English pytt Middle English pit English pit From Middle English pit, pet, püt, from Old English pytt, from Proto-West Germanic *puti, from Latin puteus (“trench, pit, well”), although there are phonetic difficulties. Pronunciation: /pɪt/, [pʰɪʔt] 1. To make pits in; to mark with little hollows. Labels: transitive Example: Exposure to acid rain pitted the metal. 2. To put (an animal) into a pit for fighting. Labels: transitive 3. To bring (something) into opposition with something else. Labels: transitive Example: Are you ready to pit your wits against one of the world's greatest puzzles? Example: For the 75 years since a district rebellion was put down, The Games have existed as an assertion of the Capital’s power, a winner-take-all contest that touts heroism and sacrifice—participants are called “tributes”— while pitting the districts against each other. 4. To return to the pits during a race for refuelling, tyre changes, repairs etc. Labels: intransitive Example: Bottas had to pit earlier than expected for fresh tyres. Hamilton followed him in next time around and the two drivers were instructed to stay off the kerbs to protect their tyres.
Word: pit Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Dutch pit (“kernel, core”), from Middle Dutch pitte, from Proto-Germanic *pittan (compare dialectal German Pfitze (“pimple”)), oblique of Proto-Germanic *piþō. Compare pith. Pronunciation: /pɪt/, [pʰɪʔt] 1. A seed inside a fruit; a stone or pip inside a fruit. Labels: Northern-US Example: Near-synonym: pip 2. The core of an implosion nuclear weapon, consisting of the fissile material and any neutron reflector or tamper bonded to it. Example: [...] weapons "pits" (the plutonium components of nuclear weapons, named by analogy with the pit of a fruit such as a peach), [...]. Example: The Nagasaki-type [bomb] [...] had a wider range of yield potential depending on the kind of fissile core and tamper assembly, or "pit," used in it.
Word: pit Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Dutch pit (“kernel, core”), from Middle Dutch pitte, from Proto-Germanic *pittan (compare dialectal German Pfitze (“pimple”)), oblique of Proto-Germanic *piþō. Compare pith. Pronunciation: /pɪt/, [pʰɪʔt] 1. To remove the stone from a stone fruit or the shell from a drupe. Labels: transitive Example: One must pit a peach to make it ready for a pie.
Word: pit Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Shortening. Pronunciation: /pɪt/, [pʰɪʔt] 1. A pit bull terrier. Labels: informal Example: I resolved to find all my pits good homes and to get out of the rescue and breeding business.
Word: pit Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From PIT maneuver. Pronunciation: /pɪt/, [pʰɪʔt] 1. To use the PIT maneuver, especially during a car chase.