nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: paternal Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Old French paternal (“of a father”) (12th c.), from Vulgar Latin paternālis (“paternal”), from Latin paternus (“of or pertaining to a father, paternal”), from pater (“father”). Pronunciation: /pəˈtɜː.nəl/, /pəˈtɜɹ.nəl/, /pəˈtøː.nəl/ 1. Of or pertaining to one's father, his genes, his relatives, or his side of a family. Example: paternal grandfather Example: It was with a natural touch of pride that Norbourne Courtenaye paced his paternal hall, while waiting for his uncle, with whom he was going to ride. 2. Of or pertaining to one's father, his genes, his relatives, or his side of a family. 3. Of or pertaining to one's father, his genes, his relatives, or his side of a family. Example: Thus, ere the ſeeds of vice were ſown, / Liv'd men in better ages born, / Who plow'd with oxen of their own / Their ſmall paternal field of corn. 4. Of or pertaining to one's father, his genes, his relatives, or his side of a family.
Word: paternal Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Old French paternal (“of a father”) (12th c.), from Vulgar Latin paternālis (“paternal”), from Latin paternus (“of or pertaining to a father, paternal”), from pater (“father”). Pronunciation: /pəˈtɜː.nəl/, /pəˈtɜɹ.nəl/, /pəˈtøː.nəl/ 1. A person related through the father, or his side of the family; a paternal relative. Labels: rare Example: Divide what? The estate that came from the father to the son. Amongst whom? The paternal brothers. If it means, that paternals and maternals shall now divide, as paternals formerly did, the whole sentence operates nothing; for without, the half blood on both sides, would have taken. But say it establishes a well-known standard to divide by, and that this standard excludes the maternals, then every word, as well as this word "only," has a material effect and energy. Example: If there are both paternal and maternal uncles and aunts, the maternals take a third, even if there is only one of them, and whether male or female, and the paternals two-thirds, even though there is only one of them, and whether male or female. If the maternals are of one kind, a male has the portion of two females.
Word: maternal Part of Speech: adj Etymology: PIE word *méh₂tēr The adjective is derived from Late Middle English maternal, maternall, from Middle French maternel (“maternal”) (modern French maternel (“maternal; native”)), or from its etymon Late Latin māternālis (“maternal”), from Latin māternus (“maternal; related to the mother or her side of the family”) + -ālis (suffix forming adjectives of relationship from nouns). Māternus is derived from māter (“mother”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *méh₂tēr (“mother”)) + -rnus (suffix forming adjectives). The English word is cognate with Italian maternale, materno, Portuguese maternal, materno, Spanish maternal, materno. The noun is derived from the adjective. Pronunciation: /məˈtɜːnəl/, /məˈtɝnəl/ 1. Of or pertaining to a mother; having the characteristics of a mother; motherly. Example: His weakness seemed to bring out her maternal instincts. Example: However, the Hebrew (I ſay) is the moſt antient and maternall Language; for Adam uſed it, and all men before the Flood, as is manifeſt from the Scripture, and Fathers. 2. Related through the mother, or her side of the family. Example: Toby is my maternal uncle. Example: Doctor [Alexander] MacWhorter was of Scotch extraction. His maternal ancestors were among the first emigrants from Scotland to the North of Ireland; and the family of his father removed to the same country about the time of his father's birth. 3. Derived from the mother as opposed to the foetus during pregnancy. Example: The facts which have now been stated warrant, I think, the conclusion, that the human placenta does not consist of two parts, maternal and fœtal, that no cells exist in its substance, and that there is no communication between the uterus and the placenta by large arteries and veins. Example: Undernutrition occurs when dietary intake cannot meet nutritional requirements. The synthesis of maternal and fetal tissue or breast milk, and the associated costs of maternal maintenance increase nutrient requirements during pregnancy and lactation.
Word: maternal Part of Speech: noun Etymology: PIE word *méh₂tēr The adjective is derived from Late Middle English maternal, maternall, from Middle French maternel (“maternal”) (modern French maternel (“maternal; native”)), or from its etymon Late Latin māternālis (“maternal”), from Latin māternus (“maternal; related to the mother or her side of the family”) + -ālis (suffix forming adjectives of relationship from nouns). Māternus is derived from māter (“mother”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *méh₂tēr (“mother”)) + -rnus (suffix forming adjectives). The English word is cognate with Italian maternale, materno, Portuguese maternal, materno, Spanish maternal, materno. The noun is derived from the adjective. Pronunciation: /məˈtɜːnəl/, /məˈtɝnəl/ 1. A mother. Labels: dated, informal, rare Example: In the necessarily brief space allotted to a review in these pages it would be impossible to sketch out the story at any length. Suffice it that there are two fathers, two sons and two daughters; the maternals, for once, go for little, but there is an Aunt Philly—a conception, that starts out in the intense reality of existence. Example: [...] I would especially bring to your attention the manifest propriety of discountenancing any familiarity from your mothers when in society. If obliged to go with your tiresome maternals to any social gathering, you may reclaim your freedom immediately upon entering the room by slipping abstractedly away in the direction of the piano, and from thenceforth being artlessly forgetful of all messages forwarded to you, and miraculously blind to all beckonings and elevation of fans. 2. A person related through the mother, or her side of the family; a maternal relative. Labels: rare Example: Divide what? The estate that came from the father to the son. Amongst whom? The paternal brothers. If it means, that paternals and maternals shall now divide, as paternals formerly did, the whole sentence operates nothing; for without, the half blood on both sides, would have taken. But say it establishes a well-known standard to divide by, and that this standard excludes the maternals, then every word, as well as this word "only," has a material effect and energy. Example: If there are both paternal and maternal uncles and aunts, the maternals take a third, even if there is only one of them, and whether male or female, and the paternals two-thirds, even though there is only one of them, and whether male or female. If the maternals are of one kind, a male has the portion of two females.
Word: beeves Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of beef: cows, bulls, or steers. Labels: archaic, form-of, humorous, plural Example: And levy a tribute unto the LORD of the men of war which went out to battle: one soul of five hundred, both of the persons, and of the beeves, and of the asses, and of the sheep: Example: ...bells and babies are valuable alſo here, and for which, (or one bead of cornelion) you ſhall have in exchange, Sheep (big tail'd like thoſe in Syria and Perſia) Beeves and Buffaloes, big-bond, fat, and Camel-backt...
Word: par Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Abbreviations 1. Abbreviation of paragraph. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of Example: And this particular Chisolm — as the papers had spelled out in headlines and opening pars — had been a soldier, a corporal in the British Army. 2. Abbreviation of parenthesis. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of 3. Abbreviation of parish. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of
Word: par Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Abbreviations 1. Abbreviation of parallel. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of
Word: par Part of Speech: prep Etymology: Borrowed from French par (“through, by”), from Latin per (“through”). Doublet of per. Pronunciation: /pɑː/, /pɑɹ/, [pʰɑɹ], [pʰɑ˞] 1. By; with. Labels: in-compounds
Word: par Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Latin pār (“equal”). 1. Equal value; equality of nominal and actual value; the value expressed on the face or in the words of a certificate of value, as a bond or other commercial paper. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: It also means that when a right-wing Jewish group such as the ZOA chooses to overlook Bannon’s well-documented links to anti-Semitic white nationalists, it puts itself on a moral par with J.V.P. Bannon is the man who expressly called Breitbart News “the platform for the alt-right,” knowing full-well the toxic range of opinion encompassed by the term. 2. Equality of condition or circumstances. Labels: countable, uncountable 3. The allotted number of strokes to reach the hole. Labels: uncountable Example: He needs to make this shot for par. 4. A hole in which a player achieves par. Labels: countable Example: Kaymer started with six straight pars before making a birdie on the seventh and an eagle on the eighth. 5. An amount which is taken as an average or mean. Labels: UK, countable, uncountable
Word: par Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Borrowed from Latin pār (“equal”). 1. To reach the hole in the allotted number of strokes. Labels: transitive Example: He will need to par every hole in order to win this game.
Word: par Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of parr (“young salmon”). Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: par Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Borrowed from Jamaican Creole, itself from partner. 1. To associate, to chill, to hang. Labels: Multicultural-London-English Example: Par with the hard heads and young offenders. Example: I par with the best, this is bars in the flesh.
Word: parch Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English parchen, paarchen (“to parch; dry; roast”), of uncertain origin. Perhaps a variant of Middle English perchen (“to roast”). Pronunciation: /pɑɹt͡ʃ/, /pɑːtʃ/ 1. To burn the surface of, to scorch. Labels: transitive Example: The sun today could parch cement. 2. To roast, as dry grain. Labels: transitive Example: Ye shall eat neither bread, nor parched corn. 3. To dry to extremity; to shrivel with heat. Labels: transitive Example: The patient’s mouth is parched from fever. Example: They vvould go over board vvith a Rope faſtned about them, that by drenching themſelves a vvhile in the Sea, they might eaſe the internal Heat vvhich parched them; and vvhen they ſtood any of them to ſteer the Veſſel, they vvould have their Feet in a Pail of Sea VVater to refrigerate 'em. 4. To make very thirsty. Labels: colloquial, transitive Example: We're parched, hon. Could you send up an ale from the cooler? Example: In my haste I stumbled , and fell over one of the wounded; he groaned, and prayed me for a cup of water to cool the thirst that parched him. 5. To boil something slowly (Still used in Lancashire in parched peas, a type of mushy peas). Labels: archaic, transitive 6. To become superficially burnt; to become sunburned. Labels: intransitive Example: The locals watched, amused, as the tourists parched in the sun, having neglected to apply sunscreen or bring water.
Word: parch Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English parchen, paarchen (“to parch; dry; roast”), of uncertain origin. Perhaps a variant of Middle English perchen (“to roast”). Pronunciation: /pɑɹt͡ʃ/, /pɑːtʃ/ 1. The condition of being parched. Example: Yet here he is, not at the head, but somewhere toward the rear of the serpentine queue wending its way through all this parch […].
Word: park Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English park, from Old French parc (“livestock pen”), from Medieval Latin parcus, parricus, from Frankish *parrik (“enclosure, pen, fence”). Cognate with Dutch perk (“enclosure; flowerbed”), Old High German pfarrih, pferrih (“enclosure, pen”), Old English pearroc (“enclosure”) (whence modern English paddock), Old Norse parrak, parak (“enclosure, pen; distress, anxiety”), Icelandic parraka (“to keep pent in under restraint and coercion”). More at parrock, paddock. Pronunciation: /pɑɹk/, [pʰɑɹk], [pɑɹk], /pɑːk/, [pʰɑː(ʔ)k] 1. To bring (something such as a vehicle) to a halt or store in a specified place. Labels: transitive Example: You can park the car in front of the house. Example: I parked the drive heads of my hard disk before travelling with my laptop. 2. To defer (a matter) until a later date. Labels: figuratively, informal, transitive Example: Let's park that until next week's meeting. Example: The Harry Potter spin-off prequel series Fantastic Beasts has been “parked” by Warner Bros, according to its director David Yates. 3. To bring together in a park, or compact body. Labels: transitive Example: to park artillery, wagons, automobiles, etc. 4. To enclose in a park, or as in a park. Labels: transitive Example: O, negligent and heedless discipline! How are we park'd and bounded in a pale, A little herd of England's timorous deer, Mazed with a yelping kennel of French curs! 5. To hit a home run; to hit the ball out of the park. Labels: transitive Example: He really parked that one. 6. To engage in romantic or sexual activities inside a nonmoving vehicle that was driven to a suitable spot for that purpose. Labels: US, intransitive, slang Example: They stopped at a romantic overlook, shut off the engine, and parked. Example: "What did you do after that?" he asked. - "Went parking over at Silver Lake," replied Betty without hesitation. "Why?" - "I just wondered. Have fun?" "As a matter of fact, I did. Marty's a swell dancer." "That's not what I meant." "What did you mean?" - "I mean after. Parking." - "Yes I did […]" 7. To sit, recline, or put, especially in a manner suggesting an intent to remain for some time. Labels: informal, reflexive, sometimes, transitive Example: He came in and parked himself in our living room. Example: Park your bags in the hall. 8. To invest money temporarily in an investment instrument considered to relatively free of risk, especially while awaiting other opportunities. Labels: transitive Example: We decided to park our money in a safe, stable, low-yield bond fund until market conditions improve. 9. To register a domain name, but make no use of it (See domain parking) Labels: Internet 10. To enclose in a park, or partially enclosed basin. Labels: transitive 11. To promenade or drive in a park. Labels: dated, intransitive 12. To display style or gait on a park drive. Labels: dated, intransitive
Word: parse Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Possibly from Middle English pars (“parts, shares; parts of speech, grammar”), from Old French pars (plural of part (“part, portion, share”)), from Latin pars (“part, piece, share”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *per- (“to carry forth; to sell”). Pronunciation: /pɑːz/, [pʰɑːz], /pɑɹs/, /pɑɹz/ 1. To resolve (a sentence, etc.) into its elements, pointing out the several parts of speech, and their relation to each other by agreement or government; to analyze and describe grammatically. Labels: ambitransitive 2. To examine closely; to scrutinize. Labels: transitive 3. To split (a file or other input) into pieces of data that can be easily manipulated or stored. Labels: ambitransitive 4. To resolve (a string of code or text) into its elements to determine if it conforms to a particular grammar. Labels: transitive 5. Of a string of code or text, sentence, etc.: to conform to rules of grammar, to be syntactically valid. Labels: intransitive Example: This sentence doesn't parse.
Word: parse Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Possibly from Middle English pars (“parts, shares; parts of speech, grammar”), from Old French pars (plural of part (“part, portion, share”)), from Latin pars (“part, piece, share”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *per- (“to carry forth; to sell”). Pronunciation: /pɑːz/, [pʰɑːz], /pɑɹs/, /pɑɹz/ 1. An act of parsing; a parsing. Example: The parse will fail if the program contains an unrecognised keyword. 2. The result of such an act; a parsing. Example: This parse is incorrect and indicates a fault in the parser.
Word: architect Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle French architecte, from Latin architectus, from Ancient Greek ἀρχιτέκτων (arkhitéktōn, “master builder”), from ἀρχι- (arkhi-, “chief”) + τέκτων (téktōn, “builder”). By surface analysis, archi- + -tect. Pronunciation: /ˈɑː.kɪˌtɛkt/, /ˈɑɹ.kɪˌtɛkt/ 1. A professional who designs buildings or other structures, or who prepares plans and superintends construction. Example: Plato made the causes of things to be matter, ideas, and an efficient architect. Example: This was the second time in the last few months that she was asked to install a urinal in a luxury residential project, and she said she knows many other designers and architects who have been specifying home urinals in their projects. 2. A person who plans, devises or contrives the achievement of a desired result. Example: Peisistratus was the first architect of the Iliad and the Odyssey. Example: French winger Hatem Ben Arfa has also taken plenty of plaudits recently and he was the architect of the opening goal with some superb trickery on the left touchline. 3. An honorific given to architects. Usually capitalized or abbreviated as Arch./Ar. before the person's name. Labels: Philippines
Word: architect Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle French architecte, from Latin architectus, from Ancient Greek ἀρχιτέκτων (arkhitéktōn, “master builder”), from ἀρχι- (arkhi-, “chief”) + τέκτων (téktōn, “builder”). By surface analysis, archi- + -tect. Pronunciation: /ˈɑː.kɪˌtɛkt/, /ˈɑɹ.kɪˌtɛkt/ 1. To design, plan, or orchestrate. Labels: transitive Example: He architected the military coup against the government. Example: Dacker was his own architect, (or, as he sometimes said, he architected his own fortunes,) and his own carpenter.
Word: wordbook Part of Speech: noun Etymology: 1590, from word + book. Compare West Frisian wurdboek (“dictionary”), German Low German Woordenbook, Wöörbook (“dictionary”), Dutch woordenboek (“dictionary”), German Wörterbuch (“dictionary”), Danish ordbog (“dictionary”), Swedish ordbok (“dictionary”). Pronunciation: /ˈwɝdˌbʊk/, /ˈwɜːdˌbʊk/ 1. A reference book that lists words. Labels: especially 2. A reference book that lists words. 3. The libretto of an opera.
Word: cardiologist Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From cardio- + -logist. Pronunciation: /ˌkɑːdiˈɒlədʒɪst/, /ˌkɑɹdiˈɑlədʒɪst/ 1. A physician who specializes in medical problems related to the heart. Example: The homeless guy thus ends up getting treated by one of the best cardiologists in the city.
Word: undead Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English undede, equivalent to un- + dead. The first attestation is from around 1400. The term was revived, popularized, and imbued with supernatural connotations by its usage in Bram Stoker's novel Dracula (1897). Pronunciation: /ʌnˈdɛd/, /ˈʌndɛd/ 1. Not dead; alive. Labels: not-comparable, obsolete 2. Pertaining to a corpse, though having qualities of life. Labels: not-comparable 3. Being animate, though non-living. Labels: not-comparable Example: When Anna and John finally break out of their self-centered bubbles to the shock that they must battle to the death an undead neighbor in a giant snowman costume, it plays like a poignant comment on movie teenagers' tendency to indulge their inner lives, ignorant of the world around them.
Word: undead Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English undede, equivalent to un- + dead. The first attestation is from around 1400. The term was revived, popularized, and imbued with supernatural connotations by its usage in Bram Stoker's novel Dracula (1897). Pronunciation: /ʌnˈdɛd/, /ˈʌndɛd/ 1. A creature that is undead; that is, dead but still animate. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Innocent VIII lent credibility to the actual existence of undeads, an action that perpetuated, and even stimulated, vampire hysteria. 2. A creature that is undead; that is, dead but still animate. Labels: countable, plural, plural-only, uncountable, with-definite-article Example: In the zombie movie, an army of the undead accosted some unsuspecting teenagers. Example: "You will do me a service," the undead said to him.
Word: patch Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English patche, of uncertain origin. Perhaps an alteration of earlier Middle English placche (“patch, spot, piece of cloth”), from Old English *plæċċ, *pleċċ (“a spot, mark, patch”), from Proto-West Germanic *plakkju, from Proto-Germanic *plakjō (“spot, stain”). For the loss of l compare pat from Middle English platten. Germanic cognates would then include Middle English plecke, dialectal English pleck (“plot of ground, patch”), West Frisian plak (“place, spot”), Low German Plakk, Plakke (“spot, piece, patch”), Dutch plek (“spot, place, stain, patch”), Dutch plak (“piece, slab”), Swedish plagg (“garment”), Faroese plagg (“cloth, rag”). Or, possibly a variant of Old French pieche, dialectal variant of piece (“piece”). Compare also Old Occitan petaç (“patch”). Pronunciation: /pæt͡ʃ/ 1. To mend by sewing on a piece or pieces of cloth, leather, or the like. Example: My coat needs patching. Example: That concertina was a wonder in its way. The handles that was on it first was wore out long ago, and he'd made new ones of braided rope yarn. And the bellows was patched in more places than a cranberry picker's overalls. 2. To mend with pieces; to repair by fastening pieces on. 3. To make out of pieces or patches, like a quilt. Example: I patched together this quilt. 4. To join or unite the pieces of; to patch the skirt. 5. To employ a temporary, removable electronic connection, as one between two components in a communications system. Example: [the control panel of hovercraft The Logos has lit up after being jumped by The Hammer] Sparky: She lives again. Crew member of The Hammer via radio: You want us to patch an uplink to reload the software, Sparky? Sparky: Yeah, that'd be swell. And can you clean the windshield while you're at it? 6. To repair or arrange in a hasty or clumsy manner Example: The truce between the two countries has been patched up. 7. To make the changes a patch describes; to apply a patch to the files in question. Hence: 8. To make the changes a patch describes; to apply a patch to the files in question. Hence: 9. To connect two pieces of electrical equipment using a cable. Example: I'll need to patch the preamp output to the mixer.
Word: patch Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Perhaps borrowed from Italian pazzo or paggio; the form influenced by folk etymological association with patch (Etymology 1). Pronunciation: /pæt͡ʃ/ 1. A paltry fellow; a rogue; a ninny; a fool. Labels: archaic Example: Shylock: The patch is kind enough, but a huge feeder, Snail-slow in profit, and he sleeps by day More than the wild-cat;[…] Example: Caliban: What a pied ninny's this! Thou scurvy patch![…]
Word: professor Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English professor, professour, from Anglo-Norman proffessur and its etymon Latin professor (“declarer, person who claims knowledge”), from the past participle stem of profiteor (“profess”). By surface analysis, profess + -or. Pronunciation: /pɹəˈfɛs.ə/, /pɹəˈfɛs.ɚ/, /pɹəˈfes.ə/ 1. The most senior rank for an academic at a university or similar institution. Example: Professor is what you become after teaching for twenty to thirty years. 2. A teacher or faculty member at a college or university regardless of formal rank. Labels: Philippines, US, informal 3. One who professes something, such as a religious doctrine. Labels: archaic Example: […] I alvvayes thought / It vvas both impious and vnnaturall, / That ſuch immanity and bloody ſtrife / Should reigne among Profeſſors of one Faith. Example: As for Religion, I have not said, much lesse meant irreverently of it, or of the Professors thereof. 4. A practitioner, one who (publicly) practises or teaches an art or skill. Labels: obsolete Example: Two young men of familiar acquaintance … were one euening at a common Inne of this town (as I haue heard) where the one of them shewed his skill on the Virginals, to the no little contentement of the hearers. Nowe as diuers guests of the house came into the room to listen, so among the rest entered an artificiall Conny-catcher, who as occasion serued, in the time of ceissing betweene the seueral toyes and fancies hee plaid: very much commended his cunning, quicke hand, and such qualities praiseworthy in such a professour. 5. A pianist in a saloon, brothel, etc. Labels: US, slang Example: You could hear […] pianos under the hands of whorehouse professors sounding like they came with keys between the keys. 6. The puppeteer who performs a Punch and Judy show; a Punchman.
Word: perfidy Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle French perfidie, from Latin perfidia from perfidus (“faithless, treacherous, false”), from fides (“faith”); related to, for example, English fidelity. Pronunciation: /ˈpɜː.fɪ.di/, /ˈpɝ.fɪ.di/ 1. A state or act of violating faith or allegiance; violation of a promise or vow, or of trust. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. An illegitimate act of deception, such as using symbols like the Red Cross or white flag in a false claim of surrender to gain proximity to an enemy for purposes of attack. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Stratagems must be carefully distinguished strategy from perfidy, since the former are allowed, whereas the latter is prohibited. Example: Abuse of a protective emblem amounts to perfidy and constitutes a war crime under the customary law of armed conflict. 3. A state or act of deceit. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Germans could not get over the perfidy of it. It was unbelievable that the English, having degenerated to the stage where suffragettes heckled the Prime Minister and defied the police, were going to fight. Example: Honda Motor Co. is the latest victim of e-mail perfidy, which started when a phony chain letter promised that the automaker would give away free cars.
Word: convict Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English convicten, from Anglo-Norman convicter, from Latin convictus, the past participle of convincō (“to convict”). Doublet of convince. Displaced native Old English forwyrċan (“to convict, condemn”). Pronunciation: /kənˈvɪkt/ 1. To find guilty, as a result of legal proceedings, or (informal) in a moral sense. Labels: transitive Example: He was a convicted felon. Example: His remarks convicted him of a lack of sensitivity. 2. To convince, persuade; to cause (someone) to believe in (something). Example: Rivian CEO RJ Scaringe is standing by his decision not to integrate Apple’s CarPlay into the company’s EVs, even as rivals embrace it. […] Speaking on The Verge’s Decoder podcast, Scaringe said Rivian aims to build a “seamless digital experience” entirely within its own software ecosystem. This means that Rivian will simply be offering native access to key apps like Apple Music, Spotify, Google Maps, and YouTube, according to MacRumors. […] Rivian’s software approach mirrors that of Tesla, which also relies on its own app integrations rather than Apple’s. […] The Rivian CEO added that the company is preparing to introduce AI-powered features within 18 months, including native voice-to-text messaging. Scaringe said this upcoming AI suite will further justify the brand’s decision to control the in-vehicle experience. “We’re really convicted on this,” the CEO said. While he acknowledged that some customers may avoid Rivian due to the lack of CarPlay, Scaringe said he’s “very confident” in the choice. “Some of those decisions not everyone’s going to agree with,” he said. “That’s okay.”
Word: convict Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English convicten, from Anglo-Norman convicter, from Latin convictus, the past participle of convincō (“to convict”). Doublet of convince. Displaced native Old English forwyrċan (“to convict, condemn”). Pronunciation: /ˈkɒnvɪkt/, /ˈkɑnvɪkt/ 1. A person convicted of a crime by a judicial body. 2. A person deported to a penal colony. 3. The convict cichlid (Amatitlania nigrofasciata), also known as the zebra cichlid, a popular aquarium fish, with stripes that resemble a prison uniform. 4. A common name for the sheepshead (Archosargus probatocephalus), owing to its black and gray stripes.
Word: penitent Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English, from Old French, from Latin paenitēns, poenitēns (“penitent”), present participle of paeniteō, poeniteō (“to cause to repent; to regret, repent”). Doublet of penitente. Pronunciation: /ˈpɛnɪtənt/ 1. Feeling pain or sorrow on account of one's sins or offenses; feeling sincere guilt. Example: Be penitent, and for thy fault contrite. Example: If thou be penitent and grieved, or desirous to be so, these heinous sins shall not be laid to thy charge. 2. Doing penance. Example: […] But we that know what ’tis to faſt and pray, / Are penitent for your default to day.
Word: penitent Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English, from Old French, from Latin paenitēns, poenitēns (“penitent”), present participle of paeniteō, poeniteō (“to cause to repent; to regret, repent”). Doublet of penitente. Pronunciation: /ˈpɛnɪtənt/ 1. One who repents of sin; one sorrowful on account of their transgressions. 2. One under church censure, but admitted to penance; one undergoing penance. Example: Wamba, who defeated the Saracens in an attempt upon Spain, was deprived of the crown, because he had been clothed in the habit of a penitent, while labouring under the influence of poison, administered by the ambitious Erviga! 3. One under the direction of a confessor.
Word: peremptory Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Anglo-Norman peremptorie, parentorie et al. (Modern French péremptoire), and its source, Latin peremptōrius (“deadly; precluding debate, decisive”), from perimō (“destroy, thwart”), from per- (“thorough”) + emō (“to obtain, buy”). Pronunciation: /pəˈɹɛmptəɹi/ 1. Precluding debate or expostulation; not admitting of question or appeal. Example: there is no reason but if any of the outlawries be indeed without error, but it should be a peremptory plea to the person in a writ of error, as well as in any other action. 2. Of a date or deadline, absolutely requiring compliance or attendance; brooking no further delay; proceeding whether a party attends or not; final. Example: As this trial has now been postponed multiple times, there will be an adjournment to April 24, peremptory on the parties. 3. Positive in opinion or judgment; absolutely certain, overconfident, unwilling to hear any debate or argument (especially in a pejorative sense); dogmatic. Example: He marched under a placard reading "End Bossiness Now" but decided it was a little too peremptory, not quite British, so changed the slogan on subsequent badges, to "End Bossiness Soon." 4. Firmly determined, resolute; obstinate, stubborn. Labels: obsolete 5. Accepting no refusal or disagreement; imperious, dictatorial. Example: Upon the other hand, there are a great many people who, having no private property of their own, and being always on the brink of sheer starvation, are compelled to do the work of beasts of burden, to do work that is quite uncongenial to them, and to which they are forced by the peremptory, unreasonable, degrading Tyranny of want. Example: […] less surprising than that he had been depressed by a book. Something was making him nibble at the edge of stale ideas as if his sturdy physical egotism no longer nourished his peremptory heart.
Word: peremptory Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Anglo-Norman peremptorie, parentorie et al. (Modern French péremptoire), and its source, Latin peremptōrius (“deadly; precluding debate, decisive”), from perimō (“destroy, thwart”), from per- (“thorough”) + emō (“to obtain, buy”). Pronunciation: /pəˈɹɛmptəɹi/ 1. A challenge to the admission of a juror, without the challenger needing to show good cause. Example: Each side was allowed 20 peremptories, and the prosecution used 18 of its allotment.
Word: performance Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English parfourmaunce; equivalent to perform + -ance. Pronunciation: [pəˈfɔː.məns], [pɚˈfoɹ.məns], [pəˈfoː.məns] 1. The act of performing; carrying into execution or action; execution; achievement; accomplishment; representation by action. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: the performance of an undertaking or a duty Example: Though the result wasn't what we were hoping for, I have to commend the performance of the team, never giving up until the end. 2. That which is performed or accomplished; a thing done or carried through; an achievement; a deed; an act; a feat; especially, an action of an elaborate or public character. Labels: countable, uncountable 3. A live show or concert. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The band played a mix of old and new songs during their 90-minute performance. Example: We saw the whole ballet performance from the front row. 4. The amount of useful work accomplished estimated in terms of time needed, resources used, etc. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Better performance means more work accomplished in shorter time and/or using fewer resources. 5. The actual use of language in concrete situations by native speakers of a language, as opposed to the system of linguistic knowledge they possess (competence), cf. linguistic performance. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: gynecologist Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Ancient Greek γυνή (gunḗ, “woman”) (genitive form γυναικός) + -λογία (-logía, “branch of study”), itself the combination form of -λόγος (-lógos, “word, knowledge, reason”). By surface analysis, gynecology + -ist or gyneco- + -logist. Pronunciation: /ˌɡaɪnəˈkɒləd͡ʒɪst/, /ˌd͡ʒaɪnəˈkɒləd͡ʒɪst/ 1. A physician specializing in diseases of the female reproductive system. Labels: US Example: Dr. Schirren: The members of this round table keep on speaking about urologists and gynecologists but you never mention andrologists. Example: From now on, too, general practitioners should, as Southard emphasized, be urged to be at least as familiar with the general principles and methods of the psychiatrist as they are with those of the gynecologist, the dermatologist, and the pædiatrist.
Word: polypropylene Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *pleh₁- Proto-Indo-European *polh₁ús Ancient Greek πολῠ́ς (polŭ́s)lbor. English poly- English propylene English polypropylene From poly- + propylene. 1. A thermoplastic resin made by the polymerization of propylene, and used for films, fibres, or moulding materials. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Near-synonym: ♷
Word: Chumash Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Yiddish חומש (khumesh), from Hebrew חֻמָּשׁ (khumásh), from חֲמִישָּׁה (khamishá, “five”). Pronunciation: /ˈxʊməʃ/, /ˈhʊməʃ/, /xuːˈmɑːʃ/ 1. Any book of the Pentateuch. Labels: Judaism 2. The Pentateuch collectively.
Word: Chumash Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Ineseño čʰumaš (“the Santa Barbara Channel Island people”). Pronunciation: /ˈt͡ʃumɑʃ/, /ˈt͡ʃumæʃ/, /ˈʃumɑʃ/ 1. A member of a particular Native American people of southern California.
Word: Chumash Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Ineseño čʰumaš (“the Santa Barbara Channel Island people”). Pronunciation: /ˈt͡ʃumɑʃ/, /ˈt͡ʃumæʃ/, /ˈʃumɑʃ/ 1. The colonial given language name of this tribe.
Word: perpetrator Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin perpetrātor. By surface analysis, perpetrate + -or. Pronunciation: /ˈpɜː(ɹ).pɪˌtɹeɪt.ə(ɹ)/ 1. One who perpetrates; especially, one who commits an offence or crime. Example: perpetrator of violence
Word: perp Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Clipping of perpetrator. Pronunciation: /pɜːp/, /pɝp/, /pøːp/ 1. A perpetrator. Labels: slang Example: "We have the perp in custody," the policeman said. Example: Got himself fired for pulling a sword on an acknowledged perp. Slid it right through the fabric of the perp’s shirt, gliding the flat of the blade along the base of his neck, and pinned him to a warped and bubbled expanse of vinyl siding on the wall of the house that the perp was trying to break into.
Word: perp Part of Speech: adj Pronunciation: /pɜːp/, /pɝp/, /pøːp/ 1. Clipping of perpendicular. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, clipping Example: a perp window
Word: perp Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Clipping of perpetual futures or perpetual bond. Pronunciation: /pɜːp/, /pɝp/, /pøːp/ 1. A perpetual bond. 2. Perpetual futures. Example: Autopsies carried out since then [Oct 2025 crypto crash] suggest that much of the damage can be traced to investors having piled into financial products known as perpetual futures. So-called perps allow traders to make highly leveraged bets, up to 100-to-1 on some crypto exchanges, to boost their returns on market moves.
Word: personal Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English personal, personele, from Anglo-Norman personel, personal, personell, Old French personal, personel, from Late Latin persōnālis (“of a person, personly”), equivalent to person + -al. Doublet of personnel. Pronunciation: /ˈpɜː.sə.nəl/, /ˈpɜːs.nəl/, /ˈpɜɹ.sə.nəl/, /ˈpɜɹs.nəl/ 1. Pertaining to persons (human beings as opposed to things or animals). 2. Of or pertaining to a particular person; relating to, or affecting, an individual, or each of many individuals Example: personal values; personal desire Example: Her song was her personal look at the values of friendship. 3. Dealing with subjects about which one wishes (or people usually wish) to maintain privacy or discretion; not for public view; sensitive, intimate. Example: personal reasons Example: You can't read my diary—it is personal. 4. Intended for sexual use. Labels: euphemistic Example: personal lubricant; personal massager 5. Pertaining to the external or bodily appearance; corporeal; bodily. Example: personal charms Example: The most rapid and most seductive transition in all human nature is that which attends the palliation of a ravenous appetite.[…]Can those harmless but refined fellow-diners be the selfish cads whose gluttony and personal appearance so raised your contemptuous wrath on your arrival? 6. Done in person; without an intermediary. Example: a personal interview Example: a personal meeting 7. Relating to an individual, their character, conduct, motives, or private affairs, in an invidious and offensive manner Example: personal reflections or remarks Example: Only factual argumentation, no need to get personal. 8. Of a noun or pronoun, having reference particular to humans and other entities having personality such as a named animal, a deity, a personification, etc. 9. Related to grammatical first, second, etc. persons. Example: a personal pronoun 10. Denoting ownership. Example: one's personal vehicle, as opposed to a company vehicle
Word: personal Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English personal, personele, from Anglo-Norman personel, personal, personell, Old French personal, personel, from Late Latin persōnālis (“of a person, personly”), equivalent to person + -al. Doublet of personnel. Pronunciation: /ˈpɜː.sə.nəl/, /ˈpɜːs.nəl/, /ˈpɜɹ.sə.nəl/, /ˈpɜɹs.nəl/ 1. An advertisement by which an individual attempts to meet others with similar interests. Labels: in-plural 2. One's own property or asset Example: 1748, Tobias Smollett (translator), Alain-René Lesage (original), The Adventures of Gil Blas of Santillane In addition to this, a coarse shirt quite new, a pair of my father's shoes quite old, and, what rejoiced me more than all the rest, a rouleau of twenty rials in a linen rag. Behold the sum total of my personals. Example: I've had my cell ransacked, savagely searched, and as a result, had my legal papers stolen and destroyed, allong with what little personal clothing and other personals I had.
Word: perspicacious Part of Speech: adj Etymology: First attested 1548, from Late Latin perspicācitās (“discernment”), from Latin perspicax (“sharp-sighted”), from perspiciō (“look through”), from per- (“through”) + speciō (“look at”). See also perspective. Pronunciation: /ˌpɜː.spɪˈkeɪ.ʃəs/, /ˌpɜːɹ.spɪˈkeɪ.ʃəs/ 1. Of acute discernment; having keen insight; mentally perceptive. Labels: figuratively Example: As a gay prisoner my incarceration has given me a perspicacious view of our judicial system. 2. Able to physically see clearly; quick-sighted; sharp-sighted. Labels: obsolete
Word: pert Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English pert, perte, aphetic form of apert. Pronunciation: /pɜːt/, /pɝt/ 1. Attractive. 2. Well-formed; shapely. Example: pert breasts 3. Lively; alert and cheerful; bright. Example: Goe Philoſtrate, / Stirre vp the Athenian youth to merriments, / Awake the peart and nimble ſpirit of mirth, / Turne melancholy foorth to funerals: […] Example: He was instantly attracted to Gladys's pert, fey humor and her good nature. 4. Especially of children or social inferiors: cheeky, impertinent. Labels: archaic Example: Says Mrs. Jervis, Pamela, don’t be pert to his Honour? You ſhould know your Diſtance; you ſee his Honour was only in Jeſt. Example: [T]he Major began to think that Pen was growing exceedingly pert and conceited, and that the world made a great deal too much of him. 5. Open; evident; unhidden. Labels: obsolete Example: Some parled as perte · as prouyd well after, / And clappid more ffor þe coyne · þat þe kyng oweth hem / Thanne ffor comfforte of þe comyne […] 6. Clever. Labels: obsolete
Word: pert Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English pert, perte, aphetic form of apert. Pronunciation: /pɜːt/, /pɝt/ 1. To behave with pertness; to misbehave. Labels: intransitive, obsolete
Word: pert Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English pert, perte, aphetic form of apert. Pronunciation: /pɜːt/, /pɝt/ 1. An impudent person. Labels: obsolete
Word: perverse Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English perverse, pervers, from Old French pervers, from Latin perversum (“thoroughly turned”), past participle of pervertere, from per- (“thoroughly”) + vertere (“to turn”). Pronunciation: /pɚˈvɝs/, /pəˈvɜːs/ 1. Turned aside while against something, splitting off from a thing. Example: Any man who succeeds in diverting the public taste, or in turning back a perverse stream which will flow in the direction of the ditch, leaves a mark, as it were, and cannot be overlooked by posterity. Example: But in the same sense are modern Nietzsche's screams against the perverse (diverted) diffusion of these elemental pleas to reason for “reasons,” for the reasons—and place—of our fall in nonsense. 2. Morally wrong or evil; wicked; perverted. Example: Looking at Barbara one would have considerable difficulty detecting a perverse side to her nature. Her expression was demure, shy, and apprehensive. But she recognized the demonic aspect of her personality and admitted it. I felt most alive when I felt most perverse. At college, sleeping with boys had a perverse quality. I slept with a boy friend of one of my girl friends, and I was proud of it. I bragged about it because I had done something perverse. Another time, I slept with a man, fat and ugly, who paid me for it. I was very proud. I felt I had the ability to do something different. 3. Obstinately in the wrong; stubborn; intractable. 4. Wayward; vexing; contrary. Example: [The researchers] noticed many of their pieces of [plastic marine] debris sported surface pits around two microns across.[…]Closer examination showed that some of these pits did, indeed, contain bacteria, and that in several cases these bacteria were dividing and thus, by the perverse arithmetic of biological terminology, multiplying. Example: Where this perverse sign flip occurs depends on the values of other parameters […]. 5. Ignoring the evidence or the judge's opinions.
Word: perverse Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English perverse, pervers, from Old French pervers, from Latin perversum (“thoroughly turned”), past participle of pervertere, from per- (“thoroughly”) + vertere (“to turn”). Pronunciation: /pɚˈvɝs/, /pəˈvɜːs/ 1. A chiral opposite of something; a mirror image with opposite handedness. Labels: archaic Example: If two antipodal points move continuously on the sphere, they trace out what are called symmetric figures. These figures have corresponding elements equal, and are equal in area, but are not in general superposable. The one is, in fact, the perverse of the other.
Word: perverse Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English perverse, pervers, from Old French pervers, from Latin perversum (“thoroughly turned”), past participle of pervertere, from per- (“thoroughly”) + vertere (“to turn”). Pronunciation: /pɚˈvɝs/, /pəˈvɜːs/ 1. To pervert. Labels: archaic, nonstandard Example: This rule hath been always for the commodity of that kingdom, where as the powers have been thus by them perversed. Example: And though impartial history now and then cast the alow (halo) of a martyr over an unsuccessful patriot's grave; yet even that was not always sure; tyrants often perversed history, sullied by adulation or by fear; — but whetever that last verdict might have been; for him who dared to struggle against despotism, when he struggled in vain, there was no honor on earth; victorious tyranny marked the front of virtue with the brand of a criminal.
Word: petty Part of Speech: noun Etymology: The adjective is derived from Middle English peti, pety (“little, small; minor”) [and other forms], from Anglo-Norman petit, Middle French petit, and Old French peti, petit, pitet (“young; little, small; inferior; insignificant”) (modern French petit), ultimately of imitative origin. It is no longer thought that the word is derived from Celtic. Doublet of petit and petite. The noun is derived from the adjective. Pronunciation: /ˈpɛt.i/, [ˈpʰɛɾ.i], /ˈpet.i/ 1. An outbuilding used as a lavatory; an outhouse, a privy. Labels: dialectal, euphemistic, informal Example: If these houses had been built by his Lordship every one would have had his petty, at all events dividing the odour & also having a chance that some of the occupiers would clean out—but a common occupation is nobody's business, unless the owner of all the buildings takes it in hand. Example: Cottages occupied by Betty Hines and others; petty in a very filthy state, wants walling. Two petties belonging to Mr. James Parr to be walled, and one next Thomas Wilkinson's to be removed further off. 2. A class or school for young schoolboys. Labels: historical Example: […] I took my seat in what was denominated, "The Idle Class", that is, at the very bottom of the school, where all those who have not received some previous instruction in Latin are placed. I however soon got out of that disgraceful and ignorant form, passed with rapidity and eclat the under and upper petty, and entered into the upper first, […] Example: [S]uch a difference of age between lads at a public school puts intimacy out of the question—a junior ensign being no more familiar with the commander-in-chief at the Horse-Guards; or a barrister on his first circuit with my Lord Chief Justice on the bench, than the newly-breeched infant in the Petties with a senior boy in a tailed coat. 3. A little schoolboy, either in grade or size. Labels: also, figuratively, in-plural, obsolete Example: [S]ome of them, which were the Petties and Punies of that ſchoole, whereof old Martin [Marprelate] was the maſter; though then he was but as ſome blinde and obſcure pariſh Clarke that taught in the Belfrie, not preſuming, as hee doth nowe, to preſſe into the Church, (that place in reſpect of the appurtenances being fitter for him) began but rawly with their little a, b, c. Example: As the maiden therefore vvas comming into the market place, (for there vvere the ſchools for peties kept, of reading and vvriting) the Decemvirs man (a broker to ſerve his maſters luſt) laid hold upon her, avovving that ſhe vvas his bond-ſervants daughter, and therefore his bond-maid: commanding her to follovv him, and threatning beſides, that if ſhe made any ſtays, he vvould have her avvay perforce.
Word: scarab Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle French scarabée, from Latin scarabaeus (“beetle”). Doublet of scarabaeus, now obsolete. Pronunciation: /ˈskæɹəb/, /ˈskaɹəb/, /ˈskɛɹəb/, /ˈskaɾəb/ 1. A beetle of the species Scarabaeus sacer, sacred to the ancient Egyptians. 2. Any species of beetle belonging to the family Scarabaeidae. 3. A symbol, seal, amulet, or gem fashioned to resemble the sacred beetle. Example: The scarab, which is a very small one, Leo had insisted upon having set in a massive gold ring, such as is generally used for signets, and it was this very ring that I now picked up. 4. The currency sign ¤. Labels: slang