nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: aspiration Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From aspirate + -ion or borrowed from Latin aspīrātiō. 1. The action of aspirating. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. A burst of air that follows the release of some consonants. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: In Cambodian, aspiration is phonemic, so /p/ and /pʰ/ are different phonemes. 3. The withdrawal of fluid, tissue, or other substance, usually through a hollow needle from a body cavity, cyst, or tumor. Labels: countable, uncountable 4. The silent breaking h beginning some French words, largely of Germanic origin. Labels: countable, uncountable 5. The process of lenition involving writing a digraph with h, especially at the beginning of a word. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: no use Part of Speech: noun 1. Condition of being pointless, useless, not worth doing, especially because it is not likely to succeed. Labels: uncountable Example: It was no use trying the lift. Even at the best of times it was seldom working, and at present the electric current was cut off during daylight hours. 2. No point or advantage. Labels: colloquial, uncountable Example: No use crying over spilt milk. Example: There is no use in studying medicine if there are too many doctors already.
Word: usefulness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English useful Proto-Germanic *-inōną Proto-Indo-European *-dyé- Proto-Germanic *-atjaną Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Germanic *-þuz Proto-Germanic *-assuz Proto-Germanic *-inassuz Proto-West Germanic *-nassī Old English -nes Middle English -nesse English -ness English usefulness From useful + -ness. Pronunciation: /ˈjuːsfəlnəs/ 1. The quality or degree of being useful. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The usefulness of his latest reorganisation has been disputed. Example: Always kept in the background, and undervalued by Lady Anne, who disliked the spirit of active usefulness which characterized her youngest daughter, this was the first time that Isabella had been loved for herself;...
Word: callsign Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From call + sign. 1. Alternative form of call sign. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: On Friday night, eight US Air Force KC-135 Stratotankers took off from Altus, Oklahoma, according to data from FlightRadar24. Over Kansas the tankers refueled two groups of planes, identified on air traffic control audio by their callsigns MYTEE11 FLT and MYTEE21 FLT. The callsign MYTEE has previously been associated with special activity flights by B-2 bombers, and multiple flight trackers on social media said the planes being refueled were B-2 bombers out of Whiteman Air Force Base in Missouri.
Word: utiliser Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English utilise Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzios Latin -āriusnom. Latin -āriusbor. Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz Proto-West Germanic *-ārī Old English -ere Middle English -ere English -er English utiliser From utilise + -er. 1. One who utilises.
Word: chevalet Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from French chevalet. 1. A rack or rest used in woodwork or glassworking.
Word: circular file Part of Speech: noun Etymology: In reference to the wastebasket's cylindrical shape, and the act of throwing things away rather than filing them in cabinets. 1. The trash container; the wastebasket. Labels: humorous, idiomatic Example: He was completely underqualified for the job, so I put his resume directly into the circular file.
Word: round file Part of Speech: noun 1. A metal file with a circular or rounded shape, used for shaping round surfaces. Example: Use a round file to deburr the pipe. 2. The trash; the wastebasket. Labels: humorous Example: My junk mail goes straight into the round file the moment it arrives.
Word: tag along Part of Speech: verb 1. To accompany, join, or follow; to go with. Labels: idiomatic Example: If you ever visit the bamboo gardens, I'd like to tag along. Example: Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to go on an overnight drunk, and in 10 days I'm going to set out to find the shark that ate my friend and destroy it. Anyone who wants to tag along is more than welcome.
Word: PCV Part of Speech: noun 1. Initialism of passenger-carrying vehicle (typically, a bus). Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable 2. Initialism of positive crankcase ventilation. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable 3. Initialism of permanent capital vehicle. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
Word: PCV Part of Speech: name 1. Initialism of Partido Comunista de Venezuela. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Word: telling Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ˈtɛlɪŋ/ 1. present participle and gerund of tell Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: telling Part of Speech: adj Pronunciation: /ˈtɛlɪŋ/ 1. Having force, or having a marked effect; weighty, effective. Example: a telling blow 2. Revealing information; bearing significance. Example: a telling smile Example: But ever since the concept of "hamartia" recurred through Aristotle's Poetics, in an attempt to describe man's ingrained iniquity, our impulse has been to identify a telling defect in those brought suddenly and dramatically low. 3. Serving to convince. Example: telling evidence
Word: telling Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Gerund from the verb tell, from tell + -ing. Pronunciation: /ˈtɛlɪŋ/ 1. The act of narration. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. The disclosure of information. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: There may he sit and smile, or creep among the ships, or moan and sigh round islands in his great content—the miser lord of wealth in gems and pearls beyond the telling of all fables. 3. Counting, numbering. Labels: archaic, countable, uncountable 4. Ability to determine. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: "One white man." said Bill, after a brief inspection. "Out on his line, I s'pose, and there's no tellin' when he'll be back. So we won't wait. We'll just serve notice on him."
Word: out and out Part of Speech: adv 1. Completely; thoroughly. Labels: dated, not-comparable Example: 1921, Bernadotte Perrin (translator), "Tiberius and Caius Gracchus", Plutarch's Lives, Loeb Classics However, he soon saw that the senate was hostile to him out and out, and that the good will of Fannius towards him had lost his edge, and therefore again began to attach the multitude to himself by other laws […]
Word: rapidly Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁reh₁p-der. Proto-Italic *rapjō Latin rapiō Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-der. Proto-Italic *-iðos Latin -idus Latin rapidusder. Middle French rapidebor. ▲ Latin rapidusbor. English rapid Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der. Proto-Germanic *līkąder. Proto-Germanic *-līkaz Proto-Germanic *-ê Proto-Germanic *-līkê Proto-West Germanic *-līkē Old English -līċe Middle English -ly English -ly English rapidly From rapid + -ly. Pronunciation: /ˈɹæpɪdli/ 1. With speed; in a rapid manner. Example: She packed her case rapidly and hurried out. Example: We expressed our readiness, and in ten minutes were in the station wagon, rolling rapidly down the long drive, for it was then after nine. We passed on the way the van of the guests from Asquith.
Word: memorial Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Late Latin memoriale, neuter of memorialis. By surface analysis, memory + -ial. Pronunciation: /məˈmɔːɹi.əl/, /məˈmoʊɹi.əl/ 1. Memory; recollection. Labels: obsolete 2. Something, such as a monument, by which someone or something is remembered. Example: These mementoes or memorials [sculptural national monuments], though in the present age the unphilosophical and sciolistic spirit of some have led them to regard with contempt this method of honouring the illustrious great, excite a laudable admiration for the service or benefit to which they testify, and are living realities to perpetuate at once the respect entertained by the nation, both for the individual himself and the performance that has entitled him to their gratitude. Example: Although the country branch lines may pass, they leave with those who have known them so well an ineffaceable memory[,] and for those who will follow after[,] a memorial in the form of embankment, cutting and tunnel with here and there a station building or railway cottage that time does not destroy. 3. A chronicle or memoir. 4. A note or memorandum. Labels: archaic 5. A service of remembrance or commemoration. 6. A statement of facts set out in the form of a petition to a person in authority, a court or tribunal, a government, etc. Example: Captain Surman […] immediately addressed a memorial to the governor, stating that an act of Providence had sent him into port for the preservation of the lives of those on board; he therefore trusted he should be allowed to refit and depart.
Word: memorial Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Late Latin memoriale, neuter of memorialis. By surface analysis, memory + -ial. Pronunciation: /məˈmɔːɹi.əl/, /məˈmoʊɹi.əl/ 1. Serving as a remembrance of someone or something; commemorative. Example: a memorial building Example: There high in air, memorial of my name, / Fix the smooth oar, and bid me live to fame. 2. Contained in the memory. Example: a memorial possession 3. Mnemonic; assisting the memory. Labels: archaic Example: This succession of Aspirate, Soft, and Hard, may be expressed by the memorial word ASH.
Word: recognition Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Inherited from Middle English recognicion, from Middle French recognicion, recognition and its etymon Latin recognitiōnem (accusative of recognitiō), from recognitus, past participle of recognōscere. Pronunciation: /ˌɹɛkəɡˈnɪʃ(ə)n/ 1. The act of recognizing or the condition of being recognized (matching a current observation with a memory of a prior observation of the same entity). Labels: uncountable, usually Example: He looked at her for ten full minutes before recognition dawned. Example: Warwick observed, as they passed through the respectable quarter, that few people who met the girl greeted her, and that some others whom she passed at gates or doorways gave her no sign of recognition; from which he inferred that she was possibly a visitor in the town and not well acquainted. 2. Acceptance as valid or true. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: The law was a recognition of their civil rights. Example: With fresh material, taxonomic conclusions are leavened by recognition that the material examined reflects the site it occupied; a herbarium packet gives one only a small fraction of the data desirable for sound conclusions. Herbarium material does not, indeed, allow one to extrapolate safely: what you see is what you get[…] 3. Official acceptance of the status of a new government by that of another country. Labels: uncountable, usually 4. Honour, favourable note, or attention. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: The charity gained plenty of recognition for its efforts, but little money. 5. The propriety consisting for antibodies to bind to some specific antigens and not to others. Labels: uncountable, usually 6. A return of the feu to the superior. Labels: historical, uncountable, usually
Word: lie through one's teeth Part of Speech: verb 1. To tell an obvious untruth. Labels: idiomatic Example: When a politician claims he can lower taxes without cutting spending, he's lying through his teeth.
Word: founding Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ˈfaʊ̯ndɪŋ/, /ˈfaʊ̯ndiŋ/, /ˈfæʊ̯ndɪŋ/, /ˈfaːndɪŋ/ 1. present participle and gerund of found Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present Example: So after learning a great deal about iron founding and much more about pike fishing, one regretfully took leave of a shop full of kindly characters and proceeded to a worse lot of odours in the brass foundry.
Word: founding Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈfaʊ̯ndɪŋ/, /ˈfaʊ̯ndiŋ/, /ˈfæʊ̯ndɪŋ/, /ˈfaːndɪŋ/ 1. The establishment of something. Example: the founding of the republic Example: Do foundings of transnational organizations appear to spur foundings of national organizations, or vice versa?
Word: founding Part of Speech: adj Pronunciation: /ˈfaʊ̯ndɪŋ/, /ˈfaʊ̯ndiŋ/, /ˈfæʊ̯ndɪŋ/, /ˈfaːndɪŋ/ 1. Who or that founds (establishes or starts) or founded. Labels: not-comparable Example: The founding fathers of our country.
Word: lip service Part of Speech: noun Etymology: First use appears c. 1590, in A Treatise against Witchcraft by Henry Holland. Compare earlier lip-labour. 1. Promising but empty talk; words without action or intention. Labels: idiomatic, uncountable Example: The candidate gave lip service to fixing the problems, but it is doubtful that he will do much. Example: Don’t madam me, — I can’t bear none of your lip service. I’m a plain-spoken woman, that’s what I am, and I like other people’s tongues to be as plain as mine. 2. Cunnilingus (sometimes also referred to as giving lip). Labels: slang, uncountable, vulgar Example: Jack gave Samantha lip service.
Word: trounce Part of Speech: verb Etymology: The origin of the verb is unknown; it is perhaps related to Old French troncer, troncher, troncir, tronchir (“to cut; to cut a piece from; to retrench”), from Old French tronce, tronche (“stump; piece of wood”). However, the English and Old French words differ in meaning. The noun is derived from the verb. Pronunciation: /tɹaʊns/ 1. To beat severely; to thrash. Labels: transitive Example: I tell you, I meane to trounce him after twenty in the hundred, and have a bout with him with two ſtaves and a pike for this geare. Example: There is a Law among them that whoſoever beats one of thoſe Clerks ſo, that his Cap fall to the ground, he is liable to a very ſevere penalty (if I well remember to looſe his hand) which nevertheleſs happens frequently in the Cabac: but to prevent the worſt when a Layman is minded to beat one of thoſe Muſhrooms, he firſt takes off his Cap and then trounces him off ſo long as he will, which done he ſets the Cap upon the right Block again. 2. To beat or overcome thoroughly, to defeat heavily; especially (games, sports) to win against (someone) by a wide margin. Labels: transitive Example: The Mexican team trounced the Americans by 10 goals to 1. Example: Mar[ina]. Crowd the Fidler is not there: / And my mind delighted is / With no ſtroke ſo much as his. / Mop[so]. If not he, / There will bee / Drone the Piper that will trounce it. / Mar. But if Crowd / Struck alowd, / Lord me thinks how I could bounce it. 3. To chastise or punish physically or verbally; to scold with abusive language. Labels: transitive Example: Say I, write I, or dooe I, what I can, he will haunt and trounce me perpetually, with ſpiritiſh workes of ſupererogation, inceſſant tormentours of the civilian and devine. Example: Though the senators are eminently courteous to each other, they have no more hesitation in speaking out their minds, upon occasion, than have the members of the House [of Representatives]. John P[arker] Hale, with [William Henry] Seward on his side, unmercifully trounces President [Franklin] Pierce and the slaveholders; and General [Lewis] Cass, helped out by Mr. [John Middleton] Clayton, most valiantly abuses England and Lord Palmerston. 4. To punish by bringing a lawsuit against; to sue. Labels: UK, regional, transitive Example: Slept hard till 8 o'clock, then waked by Mr. Clerke's being come to consult me about Field's business, which we did by calling him up to my bedside, and he says we shall trounce him. Example: Whereupon Mr. Weaver did threaten them, and (to uſe his own Expreſſion) would cauſe them to be trounced, taking down their Names. And the Grand Jury broke up without acting.
Word: trounce Part of Speech: noun Etymology: The origin of the verb is unknown; it is perhaps related to Old French troncer, troncher, troncir, tronchir (“to cut; to cut a piece from; to retrench”), from Old French tronce, tronche (“stump; piece of wood”). However, the English and Old French words differ in meaning. The noun is derived from the verb. Pronunciation: /tɹaʊns/ 1. An act of trouncing: a severe beating, a thrashing; a thorough defeat. Example: He sprang on his prey with a pounce, / And he gave it a jerk and a trounce; / Then crunched up its bones / On the grass or the stones, / This carnivoristicous Ounce, / 'Ticous Ounce! / This carnivoristicous Ounce! Example: She could hear the maid beating the pillows—a trounce for each—and tossing them into a pile where they fell with a plump.
Word: trounce Part of Speech: verb Etymology: The verb is derived from Middle English traunce, trauncen, trancen (“to move about (?); to prance (?); to trample the ground”) (whence modern English trance with the same senses), possibly either: * from Middle English trauncen, transen (“to pass from life to death, die”), from Old French transir (“to cut through, pass through”), from Latin trānsīre, present active infinitive of trānseō (“to cross, traverse; to go over (to a side or faction); to pass over; to exceed, surpass; of time: to elapse, pass; (figuratively) to cease, pass away”), from trāns (“across; beyond”) + eō (“to go”); or * a blend of Middle English tramplen (“to tread on, trample”) + dauncen (“to dance”) or prauncen (“to prance”). The noun is probably derived from the verb. Pronunciation: /tɹaʊns/ 1. To walk heavily or with some difficulty; to tramp, to trudge. Labels: UK, dialectal, intransitive Example: There were no railways then—well, not in Hazelworth, at any rate—and as coach-fares would have absorbed most of our stock of "Sunday pennies," we had to "trounce" every inch of our way to Manchester. Example: I am what a Yorkshireman would call a 'Lanky,' and perhaps as poor a specimen of the cotton county's human produce as ever trounced barefoot through its lanes, or shuddered at the sound of its factory bells. 2. To pass across or over; to traverse. Labels: UK, dialectal, intransitive Example: "And at school everyone knows I'm Dana Winslow's younger sister. Mr. Johnson, the science teacher, even calls me Dana sometimes." / Dana looked up then. "Do you answer him?" / "I have to. If I don't he thinks I'm not participating." Aly got up and trounced over to the bookcase. 3. To travel quickly over a long distance. Labels: UK, dialectal, intransitive Example: Lyra trounces into the kitchen, a smile on her face. "Good morning, everyone! Morning, Grandpa. Morning, Gramps." Example: Don't thank us, then, she snaps, and trounces off down the road.
Word: trounce Part of Speech: noun Etymology: The verb is derived from Middle English traunce, trauncen, trancen (“to move about (?); to prance (?); to trample the ground”) (whence modern English trance with the same senses), possibly either: * from Middle English trauncen, transen (“to pass from life to death, die”), from Old French transir (“to cut through, pass through”), from Latin trānsīre, present active infinitive of trānseō (“to cross, traverse; to go over (to a side or faction); to pass over; to exceed, surpass; of time: to elapse, pass; (figuratively) to cease, pass away”), from trāns (“across; beyond”) + eō (“to go”); or * a blend of Middle English tramplen (“to tread on, trample”) + dauncen (“to dance”) or prauncen (“to prance”). The noun is probably derived from the verb. Pronunciation: /tɹaʊns/ 1. A walk involving some difficulty or effort; a trek, a tramp, a trudge. Labels: UK, dialectal Example: An' what a trounce it's bin! I declare to goodness I'm as out o' wynt as an owd pair o' ballis, wi' walkin so far. 2. A journey involving quick travel; also, one that is dangerous or laborious. Labels: UK, dialectal Example: Sec a trounce we've hed ower t' fells!
Word: personnel Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from French personnel. Doublet of personal. Pronunciation: /pɝ.səˈnɛl/, /pɝsˈnɛl/, /pɜː.səˈnɛl/, /pɜːsˈnɛl/, /pɵː.sɘˈnɛl/ 1. Collection of people in an organization, such as employees and office staff, members of the military, etc. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: People like to see such friendly relationship existing between the respective personnels of their Army, Navy and Marine Corps. Example: Newspapers in "capitalist" ownership, universities presided over by "reactionary" governing bodies, broadcasting systems owned by conservative governments have all been known to influence public opinion in the direction of socialism, because this was the conviction of the personnel. 2. A member of an organization such as an army. Labels: countable, nonstandard Example: An army personnel has been killed in action in a gunfight after security forces intercepted terrorists making an infiltration attempt near the Line of Control (LoC) in Jammu and Kashmir's Rajouri district, officials said today. Example: An army personnel was seen to torture an injured protester. 3. A human resources department. Labels: uncountable Example: I've just had a letter from personnel.
Word: max Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Abbreviation of maximum. Pronunciation: /mæks/ 1. Maximum; maximal. Labels: informal, not-comparable
Word: max Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Abbreviation of maximum. Pronunciation: /mæks/ 1. at the most; maximum. Labels: informal, not-comparable Example: Four days max, then, to get them to safety.
Word: max Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Abbreviation of maximum. Pronunciation: /mæks/ 1. Clipping of maximum. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, countable, informal, uncountable 2. An extreme, a great extent. Labels: countable, informal, uncountable Example: He pushed himself to the max. 3. Gin. Labels: countable, obsolete, slang, uncountable Example: Oh! for a glass of max! Example: 'I remember,' said the pale man, 'the fust night as the Dandy ever came to this crib; he sat at this very table, and drank max with Charley Chatfield. […]
Word: max Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Abbreviation of maximum. Pronunciation: /mæks/ 1. To reach the limit; to reach the maximum. Labels: usually Example: He maxed out his odds of dating Rebecca. Example: She maxed out all her credit cards while she was out of work. 2. To relax. Labels: especially, informal
Word: Olympics Part of Speech: name Etymology: Etymology tree English Olympic Old English -as Middle English -es English -s English Olympics From Olympic + -s. 1. Synonym of Olympic Games. Labels: plural, plural-only Example: According to Russian deputy prime minister Dmitrii Kozak, every ruble spent on preparations for the Sochi Olympics has been justified.
Word: Olympics Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English Olympic Old English -as Middle English -es English -s English Olympics From Olympic + -s. 1. Any real or perceived competition. Labels: derogatory, figuratively, often, slang, uncountable Example: A champion in the beauty Olympics
Word: increasingly Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From Middle English encreessingli, equivalent to increasing + -ly. 1. Increasing in amount or intensity. Labels: not-comparable Example: After the introduction of the Highland Railway class, the progress of the 4-6-0 was tardy for some years.Then, when designers were increasingly turning to it as the answer to their growing motive power problems, production of 4-6-0s swelled into a flood tide. Example: Sydney is a fast city, and the pace is becoming increasingly more frantic.
Word: agri-entertainment Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂eǵ-? Proto-Indo-European *h₂éǵros Proto-Italic *agros Latin agerder. English agri- English entertainment English agri-entertainment From agri- + entertainment. 1. The diversification of farming to nonproductive activities that entertain the public, such as children's petting areas. Labels: uncountable 2. A permission granted to customers to pick their own produce, thereby reducing labor costs. Labels: uncountable
Word: peoples Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈpiːpəlz/ 1. plural of people (“a race, group or nationality”) Labels: form-of, plural Example: The course studies the history of Africa and the peoples who lived there. 2. plural of person Labels: form-of, nonstandard, plural Example: "There's been a misunderstanding, that's all," Franklin explained. "As soon as I get you off of my back, my peoples are gonna start sending out product just like before." Example: I was cool with everybody. That was a major thing, because at that time Park Hill peoples couldn't go to Stapleton, and vice versa.
Word: peoples Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ˈpiːpəlz/ 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of people Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: Mexican standoff Part of Speech: noun Etymology: First use appears c. 1876 in the US. Three-way gun standoffs, popularized in spaghetti westerns such as The Good, The Bad and The Ugly (1966), have come to be called Mexican standoffs, though this usage appears to date to the 1990s, notably in reference to Reservoir Dogs (1992); earlier usage refers to this as a three-way standoff or triangular standoff. 1. A stalemate, or a confrontation among two or more sides that no side can win. Labels: slang Example: “Go-!” said he sternly then. “We will call it a stand-off, a Mexican stand-off, you lose your money, but you save your life!” Example: ‘Monk’ Cline, who got a Mexican stand-off from Dave Rowe has signed with Louisville. 2. A stalemate, or a confrontation among two or more sides that no side can win. Labels: slang 3. A stalemate, or a confrontation among two or more sides that no side can win. Labels: slang Example: “Either way you want it,” says Babbs, grinning in the most frightening manner now, like the next step is eight karate chops to the gizzards and giblets. Suddenly it is a Mexican standoff—with both sides glaring but nobody swinging a punch yet. 4. A stalemate, or a confrontation among two or more sides that no side can win. Labels: slang Example: Looks like we got us a Mexican Standoff. Example: [About Reservoir Dogs] In this scene, and in the three-way shootout, a Mexican standoff, the extreme, almost operatic violence is grazed with black comedy 5. A stalemate, or a confrontation among two or more sides that no side can win. Labels: slang 6. A near-collision between two trains; an averted cornfield meet.
Word: pointing Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From point + -ing. Pronunciation: /ˈpɔɪntɪŋ/, /ˈpɔɪnɪŋ/ 1. The action of the verb to point. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: For the sake of convenience, we may call these pointings or signifyings the secondary phase of meaning. 2. The filling of joints in brickwork or masonry with mortar. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The necessary works were extensive and included replacing missing and damaged slates and other roof repairs (in order to make the building watertight), pointing and drainpipe replacement, and extensive replacement of rotten floorboarding. 3. Mortar that has been placed between bricks to fill the gap. Labels: collective, countable, proscribed, singular, sometimes, uncountable, usually 4. The act or art of punctuating; punctuation. Labels: countable, uncountable 5. The rubbing off of the point of the wheat grain in the first process of high milling. Labels: countable, uncountable 6. The act or process of measuring, at the various distances from the surface of a block of marble, the surface of a future piece of statuary; also, a process used in cutting the statue from the artist's model. Labels: countable, uncountable 7. In Anglican chant: Labels: uncountable 8. In Anglican chant: Labels: countable Example: Psalm pointings sometimes differ between psalters. 9. Synonym of nikud. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: In this chapter, for any word from the Hebrew component of Yiddish, the spelling of the corresponding Hebrew etymon is given, with the diacritical signs corresponding to its vowels according to the Tiberian pointing.
Word: pointing Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From point + -ing. Pronunciation: /ˈpɔɪntɪŋ/, /ˈpɔɪnɪŋ/ 1. present participle and gerund of point Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: Americophile Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Americo- + -phile. 1. a lover of the United States or their way of life
Word: consistent Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Borrowed from Latin cōnsistēntem, present participle of cōnsistō (“to agree with; to continue”), from con- (prefix indicating a being or bringing together of several objects) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm (“beside, by, near, with”)) + sistō (“to cause to stand; to place, set”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *stísteh₂ti (“to be standing up; to be getting up”), from the root *steh₂- (“to stand (up)”)). By surface analysis, consist + -ent. Pronunciation: /kənˈsɪs.tənt/, /ˈkən.sɪs.ʈenʈ/ 1. Of a regularly occurring, dependable nature. Example: The consistent use of Chinglish in China can be very annoying, apart from some initial amusement. Example: He is very consistent in his political choices: economy good or bad, he always votes Labour! 2. Compatible, accordant. Example: As I had once done thus in my breaking away from my Parents, ſo I could not be content now, but I muſt go and leave the happy View I had of being a rich and thriving Man in my new Plantation, only to purſue a raſh and immoderate Deſire of riſing faſter than the Nature of the Thing admitted; and thus I caſt my ſelf down again into the deepeſt Gulph of human Miſery that ever Man fell into, or perhaps could be conſiſtent with Life and a State Health of in the World. Example: When I do myself the honour of speaking to you next on the subject, I shall hope to receive a more favourable answer than you have now given me; though I am far from accusing you of cruelty at present, because I know it to be the established custom of your sex to reject a man on the first application, and perhaps you have even now said as much to encourage my suit as would be consistent with the true delicacy of the female character. 3. Of a set of statements: such that no contradiction logically follows from them. Example: When we ask whether ideas or terms are consistent or inconsistent with each other, the question really is, in what manner the relation presupposed between the ideas qualifies them for being combined as terms of a judgment. Example: Part of establishing a foundation for geometry was demonstrating that the axioms were consistent – that they could never lead to contradictions.
Word: consistent Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Latin cōnsistēntem, present participle of cōnsistō (“to agree with; to continue”), from con- (prefix indicating a being or bringing together of several objects) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm (“beside, by, near, with”)) + sistō (“to cause to stand; to place, set”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *stísteh₂ti (“to be standing up; to be getting up”), from the root *steh₂- (“to stand (up)”)). By surface analysis, consist + -ent. Pronunciation: /kənˈsɪs.tənt/, /ˈkən.sɪs.ʈenʈ/ 1. Objects or facts that are coexistent, or in agreement with one another. Labels: in-plural, rare Example: The Diurnal motion of the primum mobile, is it not from Eaſt to Weſt? And the annual motion of the Sun through the Ecliptick, is it not on the contrary from Weſt to Eaſt? How then can you make theſe motions being conferred on the Earth, of contraries to become conſiſtents? 2. A kind of penitent who was allowed to assist at prayers, but was not permitted to receive the holy sacraments. Labels: historical Example: [F]rom the fourth century onwards, the Eastern Church divided penitents into four classes. […] The consistentes (the last class—συστάντες, consistentes) "stand together with the faithful, and do not go out with the catechumens. Last comes participation in the sacraments (ἁγιασμάτων)."
Word: coaming Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From earlier coming, apparently from comb (“crest”) + -ing; however, exact origin uncertain. Pronunciation: /ˈkəʊ.mɪŋ/ 1. On a boat, the vertical side of above-deck structures, such as the coach roof, hatch, and cockpit. 2. A raised frame, designed to deflect or prevent entry of water, around an opening (e.g., a hatch or skylight) in a flat surface, such as a roof or deck. Example: Creepers threaded the wrecked windows of the coaches, ancient and chalky brown with their riveted seams and welted coamings like something proofed for descents into the sea.
Word: Angela Part of Speech: name Etymology: Feminine form of Church Latin Angelus, from Ancient Greek ἄγγελος (ángelos, “messenger, angel”). Pronunciation: /ˈænd͡ʒələ/ 1. A female given name from Ancient Greek. Example: Faire Angela (quoth she) men do her call, / No whit lesse faire, then terrible in fight: / She hath the leading of a Martiall / And mighty people, dreaded more then all / The other Saxons, which do for her sake / And love, themselves of her name Angles call. Example: And the child was named Angela for the Angelus which rang the midnight hour, the New Year, the minute of her coming and because she was a little angel anyway. ibid., page 39: The man says his name is Mr. Dimino and that's his wife, Angela, behind the counter. I tell him that's my mother's name. No kiddin', kid. Your mother is Angela? I didn't know the Irish had any Angelas.
Word: Alfred Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Middle English Alfred, from Old English Ælfrǣd, from ælf (“elf”) + rǣd (“counsel”). Doublet of Alfredo and Avery. Equivalent to elf + rede. The modern pronunciation with /f/ is a spelling pronunciation; the name in Old English was pronounced with [v], as shown in its Middle English descendant Alured (in which u stands for modern v). Pronunciation: /ˈælfɹəd/, /ˈælfɚd/ 1. Alfred the Great, early king of England. 2. A male given name from Old English. Example: Unfortunately for me my father had combined diplomacy with a study of Anglo-Saxon history and, of course with my mother's consent, he gave me the name of Alfred, one of his heroes ( I believe she had boggled at Aelfred ). This Christian name, for some inexplicable reason, had become corrupted in the eyes of our middle-class world; it belonged exclusively now to the working class and was usually abbreviated to Alf. Perhaps that was why Doctor Fisher, the inventor of Dentophil Bouquet, never called me anything but Jones, even after I married his daughter. Example: You give a kid a name like Cameron / or Alfred, or something like that, / and they end up wearing glasses / and looking at computers for the rest of their life. 3. A surname originating as a patronymic. Labels: rare 4. A place in the United States: 5. A place in the United States: 6. A place in the United States: 7. A place in the United States: 8. A community in Alfred and Plantagenet township, Ontario, Canada.
Word: Karl Part of Speech: name Etymology: From German and North Germanic (Scandinavian) Karl, from Germanic. Doublet of Charles. 1. A male given name from the Germanic languages, equivalent to English Charles. Example: “We are pleased that LSST has now been named the Vera C. Rubin Observatory,” said Rubin’s sons Allan Rubin, David Rubin, and Karl Rubin in a statement.
Word: Franklin Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English frankelein (“freeholder”), see franklin. The place names are mostly named after American statesman Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790). Pronunciation: /ˈfɹæŋklɪn/ 1. A one-hundred-dollar bill, which carries the portrait of Benjamin Franklin. Labels: US, informal Example: That night, I bought a stack of spirit money. In U.S. currency, of course. I would make it rain Franklins in the spirit world. 2. A Franklin half dollar. 3. A member of the Franklin society, a social club at Whittier College founded in 1921. Example: Nixon beat a Franklin for student body president. [He had] learned that being hated by the right people was no impediment to political success.
Word: crack whore Part of Speech: noun Etymology: crack + whore. First use appears c. 1990. See cite below. 1. A person addicted to crack cocaine who finances the habit through prostitution. Labels: derogatory, slang, vulgar Example: A crack whore nicknamed Princess from the Forties Houses in South Jamaica had turned up dead. Example: A fella looking dapper / And he's sittin' with a slapper / Then I see it's a pimp / And his crack whore 2. Any sexually promiscuous or adulterous woman. Labels: broadly, derogatory, slang, vulgar
Word: periderm Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From peri- + -derm. 1. The outer layer of plant tissue comprising the phellem, phellogen and the phelloderm. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. The perisarc; the hard outer layer of hydroids and other marine animals. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: partly Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree English part Middle English -ly English -ly English partly From part + -ly. Pronunciation: /ˈpɑɹtli/, /ˈpɑːtli/ 1. In part, or to some degree, but not completely. Labels: not-comparable Example: They had partly finished the house, so they could move in before winter. Example: The car was partly visible in the garage.
Word: pirate articles Part of Speech: noun 1. The standard operating procedures for buccaneers in the late 17th century; covered division of plunder, behaviour, punishment and compensation etc. Labels: plural, plural-only
Word: radio frequency integrated circuit Part of Speech: noun 1. An integrated circuit containing analog circuitry operating at frequencies in and above the ultrahigh frequency band.
Word: stopgap Part of Speech: noun Etymology: The noun is derived from stop (“to close or block (an opening)”) + gap, from the phrase to stop a gap. The adjective is from an attributive use of the noun, and the verb is derived from the noun. Pronunciation: /ˈstɒpɡæp/, /ˈstɑpˌɡæp/ 1. That which stops up or fills a gap or hole. Labels: rare Example: [A] bit of ink and paper which has long been an innocent wrapping or stop-gap may at last be laid open under the one pair of eyes which have knowledge enough to turn it into the opening of a catastrophe. 2. Something spoken to fill up an uncomfortable pause in speech; a filled pause or filler. Labels: figuratively 3. A short-term fix or temporary measure used until something better can be obtained; that which serves as an expedient in an emergency; a band-aid solution. Labels: figuratively Example: The small company used their old product with a few kludged enhancements as a stopgap until they could develop a new product. Example: Perhaps I shall be told that this wintry exhibition is a mere stopgap and makeshift, until a fresh supply of bright new paintings can be procured, and that it is ultra vires to obtain such for love or money before the merry month of May. 4. A short-term fix or temporary measure used until something better can be obtained; that which serves as an expedient in an emergency; a band-aid solution. Labels: figuratively, specifically Example: As witness the following. Mr Strudwick, the regular master of the form, happened on one occasion to be away for a couple of days, and a stop-gap was put in in his place. The name of the stop-gap was Mr Somerville Smith. He and Farnie exchanged an unspoken declaration of war almost immediately.
Word: stopgap Part of Speech: adj Etymology: The noun is derived from stop (“to close or block (an opening)”) + gap, from the phrase to stop a gap. The adjective is from an attributive use of the noun, and the verb is derived from the noun. Pronunciation: /ˈstɒpɡæp/, /ˈstɑpˌɡæp/ 1. Short-term; temporary. Labels: not-comparable Example: They put a stopgap solution in place, but need something more permanent. 2. Filling a gap or pause. Labels: not-comparable
Word: stopgap Part of Speech: verb Etymology: The noun is derived from stop (“to close or block (an opening)”) + gap, from the phrase to stop a gap. The adjective is from an attributive use of the noun, and the verb is derived from the noun. Pronunciation: /ˈstɒpɡæp/, /ˈstɑpˌɡæp/ 1. To stop up or fill (a physical gap or hole, or a hiatus). Labels: transitive 2. To use something as a short-term fix or temporary measure until a better alternative can be obtained. Labels: intransitive 3. To use something as a short-term fix or temporary measure until a better alternative can be obtained. Labels: intransitive, specifically
Word: burgher Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English burger, burgher, burghere, equivalent to burgh + -er (“inhabitant of”). Likely merged with and reinforced by Middle Dutch burgher (Modern Dutch: burger); from Middle High German burger (Modern German: Bürger); from Old High German burgāri (“inhabitant of a fortress”); derivative of burg (“fortress, citadel”), from Proto-West Germanic *burg, from Proto-Germanic *burgz, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰerǵʰ- (“fortified elevation”). Compare also Old English burgwaras (“inhabitants of a burg, burghers, citizens”) and Serbo-Croatian purger. More at borough. Pronunciation: /ˈbɜː(ɹ)ɡə(ɹ)/ 1. A citizen of a borough or town, especially one belonging to the middle class. Example: When General Grant started on his tour around the world, the City of Brotherly Love was selected as the point of departure, and thence he set sail for Europe with the benisons of the sturdy burghers of the Quaker City. 2. A citizen of a borough or town, especially one belonging to the middle class. 3. A citizen of a borough or town, especially one belonging to the middle class. 4. A prosperous member of the community; a middle-class citizen (may connote complacency).
Word: heritage Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English heritage, from Old French eritage, heritage (modern French héritage), ultimately derived (through suffixation) from Latin hērēs. By surface analysis, herit + -age. Pronunciation: /ˈhɛɹ.ɪ.tɪd͡ʒ/, /ˈhɛɹ.ə.tɪd͡ʒ/, [ˈhɛɹ.ə.ɾɪd͡ʒ] 1. An inheritance; property that may be inherited. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Now unſpeakable happy are all thoſe that have ſuch an heritage: can we thinke they will part with it? No verily, […] they will not part with ſuch an inheritance as Chriſt is, rich, fat, alwayes fruitfull, and never decaying. 2. A tradition; a practice or set of values that is passed down from preceding generations through families or through institutional memory. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: In fact it was a multifarious agglomerate of many little countries, gathered by marriage, heritage and luck, in the course of centuries, and now united in the hand of this Duke Wilhelm. Example: The first is that learning, continuous learning, is an intrinsic part of the American tradition. In some ways it constitutes the core of our social heritage, and no doubt accounts for the tremendous organizational and productive achievements which have taken place in this country. However, it is possible to move away from, even to lose one's heritage. 3. A birthright; the status acquired by birth, especially of but not exclusive to the firstborn. Labels: countable, uncountable 4. Having a certain background, such as growing up with a second language. Labels: attributive, countable, uncountable Example: a heritage speaker; a heritage language Example: The university requires heritage Spanish students to enroll in a specially designed Spanish program not available to non-heritage students.
Word: regional Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle French régional, from Latin regiōnālis. Pronunciation: /ˈɹiː.d͡ʒə.nəl/, /ˈɹiːd͡ʒ.nəl/, /ˈɹi.d͡ʒə.nəl/, /ˈɹid͡ʒ.nəl/, /ˈɹiː.d͡ʒnəl/ 1. Of, or pertaining to, a specific region or district. Labels: not-comparable Example: Near-synonyms: intraregional, locoregional Example: regional playoffs 2. Of, or pertaining to, a large geographic region. Labels: not-comparable Example: regional rainfall patterns 3. Of, or pertaining to, one part of the body. Labels: not-comparable Example: Near-synonym: locoregional Example: regional nerve block 4. Of a state or other geographic area, denoting those parts which are not metropolitan, but are somewhat densely populated and usually contain a number of significant towns. Labels: Australia, not-comparable Example: The new Remoteness Structure covers the whole of Australia and classifies Australia into regions which share common characteristics of remoteness. There are six Remoteness Areas in the Structure: Major Cities of Australia, Inner Regional Australia, Outer Regional Australia, Remote Australia, Very Remote Australia and Migratory. Example: The wheatlands region stretching across Australia offers a graphic illustration of the processes of social and economic change in rural and regional Australia.
Word: regional Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle French régional, from Latin regiōnālis. Pronunciation: /ˈɹiː.d͡ʒə.nəl/, /ˈɹiːd͡ʒ.nəl/, /ˈɹi.d͡ʒə.nəl/, /ˈɹid͡ʒ.nəl/, /ˈɹiː.d͡ʒnəl/ 1. An entity or event with scope limited to a single region. Example: In the CPE^([Customer Premises Equipment]) market, all seven regionals are selling several sizes of private branch exchanges (PBX) and key systems for smaller customers. Example: Regionals are among the fastest growing companies and, as the name implies, are those carriers that for the most part provide service to only one region of the country and generate revenue of under $100 million.
Word: championship Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *kh₂em-der. Proto-Indo-European *kh₂ém-po-s Proto-Italic *kampos Latin campusbor. Proto-West Germanic *kamp Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Germanic *-janą Proto-West Germanic *-jan Proto-West Germanic *kampijan Proto-Germanic *-jô Proto-West Germanic *-jō Frankish *kampijōbor. Medieval Latin campiō Old French champiunbor. Middle English champioun English champion Proto-Germanic *skapjaną Proto-Germanic *-skapiz Proto-West Germanic *-skapi Old English -sċiepe Middle English -schipe English -ship English championship From champion + -ship. Pronunciation: /ˈtʃæm.pi.ən.ʃɪp/ 1. A competition to determine a champion, especially the final of a series of competitions. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. The position of champion, or winner. Labels: countable, uncountable 3. Defense or support of some cause. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: His championship of civil rights eventually bore fruit. Example: They had also dropped their championship of Jones, who had given up hope of getting his farm back and gone to live in another part of the county.
Word: mainstream Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From main + stream. Cognate with Icelandic meginstraumur (“a main current, mainstream”). Pronunciation: /ˈmeɪn.stɹiːm/, /ˈmeɪn.stɹim/, /ˈmæɪn.stɹiːm/ 1. Used or accepted broadly rather than by small portions of population, market, scientific community, etc. Example: They often carry stories you won't find in the mainstream media. Example: As unsubstantiated claims receive significant backing, skeptics and defenders of mainstream science enter the fray.
Word: mainstream Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From main + stream. Cognate with Icelandic meginstraumur (“a main current, mainstream”). Pronunciation: /ˈmeɪn.stɹiːm/, /ˈmeɪn.stɹim/, /ˈmæɪn.stɹiːm/ 1. The principal current in a flow, such as a river or flow of air 2. That which is common; the norm. Labels: usually Example: ideas outside of the mainstream Example: George Herbert Walker Bush of Phillips Andover Academy and Yale University proclaimed in the first Presidential candidates' debate that he was “in touch with the mainstream of America.”
Word: mainstream Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From main + stream. Cognate with Icelandic meginstraumur (“a main current, mainstream”). Pronunciation: /ˈmeɪn.stɹiːm/, /ˈmeɪn.stɹim/, /ˈmæɪn.stɹiːm/ 1. To popularize, to normalize, to render mainstream. Labels: transitive Example: Just as the gang peace movement desired to mainstream hardcore bangers into civic society, The Chronic wanted to drive hardcore rap into the popstream. Example: Acknowledging the role X plays in mainstreaming the worst constituencies makes for awkward conversations with those who continue to use it. 2. To become mainstream. Labels: intransitive Example: In a nonchurch context, we can look more explicitly at formerly New Age practices to see if and how they have mainstreamed. 3. To educate (a disabled student) together with non-disabled students. Labels: US, transitive Example: Despite these beliefs, the decision to send my son to a regular school was not made easily. I didn't know of any child as disabled as he who had been mainstreamed.
Word: asf Part of Speech: noun 1. Initialism of age-sex-from: what is your age, what sex are you, and where are you from? Labels: Internet, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, uncountable, usually Example: JanEdoeSN87: asf SumLAguy19: 18/m/California