nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: factious Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin factiosus (“divisive; inclined to separate”); derivative of factio. Pronunciation: /ˈfækʃəs/ 1. Of, pertaining to, or caused by factions. 2. Given to or characterized by discordance or insubordination. Example: I heard that she left off powder, patches, and rouge, for a month when his third consort died, and he grew religious—whether out of grief or gratitude, I never heard; then she grew factious, for the sake of your own King, and thought to strew the way to the altar with straws instead of flowers. I applaud her spirit in fighting for a crown.
Word: factiousness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English factious 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 factiousness From factious + -ness. 1. The state of being factious. Labels: uncountable, usually
Word: deracinate Part of Speech: verb Etymology: PIE word *wréh₂ds First attested in 1609; calque of French déraciner on the basis of -ate (verb-forming suffix), from racine (“root”), from Latin rādīx, rādīcis (“a root”). Pronunciation: /dɪˈɹæsɪneɪt/, /dɪˈɹæsəneɪt/ 1. To pull up by the roots; to uproot; to extirpate. Example: Divert and crack, rend and deracinate, The unity and married calm of states Quite from their fixture! Example: The State has no tool delicate enough to deracinate the rooted habits and tangled affections of the family; the two sexes, whether happy or unhappy, are glued together too tightly for us to get the blade of a legal penknife in between them. 2. To force (people) from their homeland to a new or foreign location. 3. To liberate or be liberated from a culture or its norms. Labels: intransitive, transitive Example: Observing the highest echelons of Indian society, she notes the way in which some Indians become completely — almost absurdly — anglicized or deracinated.
Word: factitious Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Borrowed from Latin factītius (“artificial”), alternative form of factīcius, from faciō (“to make, do”). Doublet of fetish. Pronunciation: /fækˈtɪʃəs/ 1. Created by humans; artificial. Example: [...] if from erosion of the gums, by such things as restore them, strengthen and bind them; if wanting, it may be helped by the factitious; their ſordes are removed, by washing and cleaning them; and their blacknesse, by dentifrices. Example: Most men, even in this comparatively free country, through mere ignorance and mistake, are so occupied with the factitious cares and superfluously coarse labors of life that its finer fruits cannot be plucked by them. 2. Counterfeit, fabricated, fake. Labels: formal Example: […] To prevent a prisoner's escape, to prevent his suborning testimony, and arranging a factitious tale with those without, may justify many precautions." Example: "Well, mater," he said, in a voice of factitious calm, "I've got it." He was looking up at the ceiling. "Got what?" "The National Scholarship. Swynnerton says it's a sheer fluke. But I've got it. Great glory for the Bursley School of Art!"
Word: factitiousness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English factitious 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 factitiousness From factitious + -ness. 1. The quality of being factitious. Labels: uncountable
Word: Churrigueresque Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Named for José Benito Churriguera (1665-1725), a Spanish architect and sculptor. See -esque. 1. Relating to a Spanish baroque architectural style that started in the late 17th century to the early 18th century; characterized by flamboyant ornamentation Labels: not-comparable
Word: Nate Part of Speech: name Pronunciation: /neɪt/ 1. A diminutive of the male given names Nathan, Nathanael and Nathaniel, and also a female given name Natalie.
Word: Nate Part of Speech: name Etymology: A variant of Neat. 1. A surname.
Word: ice age Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Perhaps a calque of German Eiszeit. 1. A period of long-term reduction in the temperature of Earth's surface and atmosphere, resulting in the presence of major polar ice sheets that reach the ocean and calve icebergs. Example: The earth is currently in the Late Cenozoic Ice Age, an ice age that began 33.9 million years ago with the Antarctic Ice Cap. 2. Any of several glacial periods (within a scientific ice age) marked by episodes of extensive glaciation alternating with episodes of relative warmth (interglacial). Labels: colloquial Example: The cause of ice ages, Köppen decided, is to be found in cool summers, not brutal winters.
Word: varicose vein Part of Speech: noun 1. An abnormally swollen or dilated vein. Example: Back there in the rolling, olive-clad hills is a splendid region of whose existence most of the visitors to the Riviera are unaware. There are no garish restaurants or casinos, no hot doggeries or Slopsy-kola signs, no half-naked women or twitching varicose veins being paraded. 2. The medical condition of having such veins, especially in the legs. Labels: in-plural
Word: varicose Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From varix, via Middle English [Term?] from Latin varix, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *wers-. By surface analysis, varic- + -ose. See also Old Church Slavonic врьхъ (vrĭxŭ, “top, peak”), Ancient Greek ἕρμα (hérma, “reef, rock, hill”), Lithuanian viršus (“top”). Pronunciation: /ˈvæɹ.ɪ.kəʊs/, /ˈvɛɹ.ə.koʊs/ 1. Abnormally swollen, dilated or knotty. Labels: usually
Word: varicosis Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From varic- + -osis. 1. The condition of being varicose or of having varicose veins Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: vasectomy Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From vas- (“vas deferens”) + -ectomy (“surgery involving the excision or removal of a body part”). Pronunciation: /vəˈsɛktəmi/ 1. The surgical incision of all or part of the vas deferens as a means of male sterilization. Example: The experimental vasectomy operation was performed under sodium pentobarbital (50 mg/kg body weight, i.p) anesthesia via a lower midabdominal incision as described elsewhere. Example: In fact, at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., so many men sign up for vasectomies during March Madness that appointments reach “max capacity,” said Dr. Tobias S. Kohler, a urologist and men’s health expert at the medical center who has observed this phenomenon ever since he was an attending physician a decade ago.
Word: vas deferens Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From New Latin vās dēferēns, itself from vās (“vessel, duct”) + dēferēns (“carrying off”, present active participle of dēferō (“to carry off”)). Pronunciation: /ˌvæz ˈdɛfəɹəns/ 1. The duct in the testicle that carries semen from the epididymis to the ejaculatory duct. Example: “Do you love Alexa?” “Woah, I’m not a one-woman man.” Of course not, his vasa deferentia must be on call round-the-clock.
Word: Vaseline Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative letter-case form of vaseline. Labels: alt-of
Word: petroleum jelly Part of Speech: noun 1. A pale yellow semisolid mixture of hydrocarbons obtained from petroleum; used in lubricants and ointments. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: petrolatum Part of Speech: noun 1. Petroleum jelly.
Word: vastness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English vast 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 vastness From vast + -ness. Pronunciation: /ˈvæstnəs/ 1. The quality of being vast. Labels: uncountable Example: He was thinking; but the glory of the song, the swell from the great organ, the clustered lights, […], the height and vastness of this noble fane, its antiquity and its strength—all these things seemed to have their part as causes of the thrilling emotion that accompanied his thoughts. 2. Something vast. Labels: countable Example: He had a feeling that he was lost in the vastness of a huge forest.
Word: Vatican Part of Speech: name Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin Vātī̆cānus (“Vatican Hill”), further etymology unknown. The connection to vāticinārī (“to prophesy, oracle”) is folk-etymological. Pronunciation: /ˈvæ.tɪ.kən/ 1. The official residence of the Pope within Vatican City, the Vatican or Apostolic Palace. 2. The papal government; the papacy, the Holy See. Labels: metonymically 3. A city-state in Southern Europe, an enclave within the city of Rome, Italy. Example: Unlike most other countries in the world, citizenship in Vatican City isn’t solely provided to people that are born in the country. As there are no hospitals in the Vatican State, virtually no one is born in there. Instead, Vatican citizenship is provided on a ‘jus officii’ basis. 4. The Vatican Hill in Rome, where the palace and Vatican City are located. Example: He [Caligula] began to build a circus upon the Vatican.
Word: Vatican Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin Vātī̆cānus (“Vatican Hill”), further etymology unknown. The connection to vāticinārī (“to prophesy, oracle”) is folk-etymological. Pronunciation: /ˈvæ.tɪ.kən/ 1. Relating to the Vatican City state. Labels: not-comparable Example: Unlike most other countries in the world, citizenship in Vatican City isn’t solely provided to people that are born in the country. As there are no hospitals in the Vatican State, virtually no one is born in there. Instead, Vatican citizenship is provided on a ‘jus officii’ basis.
Word: vaulting Part of Speech: noun 1. The practice of constructing vaults, or a particular method of such construction. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. A vaulted structure; such structures treated as a group. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Spreading over the high vaultings and walls, the traditional scenes from the life of Christ are depicted on an immense scale. 3. The sport of gymnastics and dance routines performed on horseback, and on the longe line. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: vaulting Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of vault Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: vaulting Part of Speech: adj 1. Leaning upward or over. 2. Exaggerated or overreaching. Labels: figuratively Example: Vaulting ambition. Example: On Long Bets […] there is an open bet between the British astrophysicist Martin Rees, a noted worrier over apocalyptic possibilities, and Harvard University’s Steven Pinker, famous for his vaulting optimism. 3. Performing.
Word: vaulting horse Part of Speech: noun 1. An apparatus with an upholstered body but no pommels; since about 2000 replaced with vault, also called vaulting table.
Word: vegetable marrow Part of Speech: noun 1. The marrow squash. Labels: UK
Word: vehemence Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English vehemens, vemance, from Old French vëemence, vehemence, from Latin vehementia (“eagerness, strength”), from vehemens (“eager”). Pronunciation: /ˈviːəmən(t)s/, /ˈviːhəmən(t)s/ 1. An intense concentration, force or power. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: The bear attacked with vengeance and vehemence. 2. A wild or turbulent ferocity or fury. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: His response was bursting with hatred and vehemence. Example: This worrisome tendency was on display in recent weeks as Israelis reacted with striking vehemence to remarks by UN secretary general, Ban Ki-moon, and US ambassador to Israel, Daniel Shapiro. 3. Eagerness, fervor, excessive strong feeling. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: I could not wonder at the vehemence of her care, her very soul was tenderness […]
Word: veined Part of Speech: adj Pronunciation: /veɪnd/ 1. Having veins or veinlike markings. Labels: in-compounds, sometimes Example: veined cheese, veined marble Example: These blue-vein’d violets whereon we lean Never can blab, nor know not what we mean.
Word: veined Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /veɪnd/ 1. simple past and past participle of vein Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: veining Part of Speech: noun 1. An arrangement of veins or veinlike markings. Example: 1890, Ambrose Bierce, “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge”, in Tales of Soldiers and Civilians, New York: Lovell, Corvell & Co., 1891, p. 32, He looked at the forest on the bank of the stream, saw the individual trees, the leaves and the veining of each leaf—saw the very insects upon them, the locusts, the brilliant-bodied flies, the gray spiders stretching their webs from twig to twig. Example: His downcast eyes followed the silent veining of the oaken slab. Beauty: it curves: curves are beauty.
Word: veining Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of vein Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: velveteen Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From velvet + -een. Compare veloutine, from French. Pronunciation: /ˈvɛlvətiːn/ 1. A cotton fabric with a short pile, resembling velvet. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: […] I'm trying to build a story that not only unlocks the velveteen secrets of her teenager's heart, but also contains action, development, along with—God help me—some imitation of meaning.
Word: vending machine Part of Speech: noun Etymology: This name for such a machine is attested since 1889. The concept of such a machine is centuries older (for more, see Wikipedia at vending machine § History). Pronunciation: /ˈvɛndɪŋ məˌʃiːn/ 1. An automatic machine that dispenses merchandise (often food or beverages) in return for payment (originally coins; now also often paper money, credit cards, and wirelessly via digital payment apps). Example: Meronyms: bill acceptor, card swipe, change slot, coin return, coin slot, flavor strip Example: It is not clear to all operators of vending machines, though, that their future lies in dispensing meals, rather than snacks or candy.
Word: scholarship Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English scholar Proto-Germanic *skapjaną Proto-Germanic *-skapiz Proto-West Germanic *-skapi Old English -sċiepe Middle English -schipe English -ship English scholarship From scholar + -ship. Pronunciation: /ˈskɒləʃɪp/, /ˈskɑːləɹʃɪp/ 1. A grant-in-aid to a student. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: There were proposals to revive choir scholarships, because a shortage of regular choristers meant that weddings often went choirless. Example: Since I was a teenager I have had to play different characters, negotiating the cultural expectations of a Pakistani family, Brit-Asian rudeboy culture, and a scholarship to private school. 2. The character or qualities of a scholar. Labels: countable, uncountable 3. The activity, methods or attainments of a scholar. Labels: countable, uncountable 4. The sum of knowledge accrued by scholars; the realm of refined learning. Labels: uncountable Example: I found the website and found people mingling scholarship with faith – great googly moogly! 5. The first year of high school, often accompanied by exams that needed to be passed before advancement to the higher grades. Labels: Australia, countable, dated, uncountable
Word: scholarship Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree English scholar Proto-Germanic *skapjaną Proto-Germanic *-skapiz Proto-West Germanic *-skapi Old English -sċiepe Middle English -schipe English -ship English scholarship From scholar + -ship. Pronunciation: /ˈskɒləʃɪp/, /ˈskɑːləɹʃɪp/ 1. To attend an institution on a scholarship. Labels: intransitive Example: Up from the tenements of the Lower East Side, he had scholarshiped at Cornell and Harvard Law. 2. To grant a scholarship to. Labels: transitive Example: In the first year, twenty children were scholarshiped to attend the Kids Across America Kamp in Branson, Missouri. Example: Judith Lewis is a doctoral student at State University, and she also works full-time as an academic tutor for 10 scholarshiped student athletes.
Word: vendetta Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Italian vendetta (“revenge”), from Latin vindicta. See vindicate, avenge. Pronunciation: /vɛnˈdɛtə/, [vɛnˈdɛɾə] 1. Revenge. 2. A bitter, destructive feud, normally between two families, clans, or factions, in which each injury or slaying is revenged: a blood feud. Example: The families had been locked in a bitter vendetta for generations. 3. A motivational grudge against a person or faction, which may or may not be reciprocated; the state of having it in for someone. Example: personal vendetta Example: blood vendetta
Word: venerable Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle French vénérable, from Old French, from Latin venerabilis. Pronunciation: /ˈvɛnəɹəbl/, /ˈvɛnɹəbl/ 1. Commanding respect because of age, dignity, character or position. Example: Dotcom mania was slow in coming to higher education, but now it has the venerable industry firmly in its grip. Since the launch early last year of Udacity and Coursera, two Silicon Valley start-ups offering free education through MOOCs, massive open online courses, the ivory towers of academia have been shaken to their foundations. 2. Worthy of reverence. Example: We looked at the venerable stream not in the vivid flush of a short day that comes and departs for ever, but in the pacific yet august light of abiding memories. 3. Ancient, antiquated or archaic. Example: And then bills were sent in, and the question arose, what could Jude do with his great-aunt's heavy old furniture if he left the town to travel he knew not whither? This, and the necessity of ready money, compelled him to decide on an auction, much as he would have preferred to keep the venerable goods. 4. Made sacred especially by religious or historical association. 5. Giving an impression of aged goodness and benevolence.
Word: grant-in-aid Part of Speech: noun 1. The giving of national funds to subsidize a local or regional project. 2. Providing funds to an institution (such as a school) or person to subsidize a specific project or activity, such as a scholarship.
Word: veneration Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle French vénération, from Old French veneracion, from Latin veneratio. Pronunciation: /ˌvɛnəˈɹeɪʃən/ 1. The act of venerating or the state of being venerated. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. Profound reverence, respect or awe. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: In Miss Jemima's eyes an autograph letter of her sister, Miss Pinkerton, was an object of as deep veneration as would have been a letter from a sovereign. 3. Religious zeal, idolatry or devotion. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: venereal disease Part of Speech: noun 1. Any of several contagious diseases, such as syphilis, gonorrhea, and chlamydia, usually contracted through sexual activity (sometimes by sexual abuse). Labels: countable, dated, historical, uncountable
Word: vengeful Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From venge + -ful. Pronunciation: /ˈvɛnʒ.fəl/ 1. Vindictive or wanting vengeance. Example: His chains now broken, the prisoner turned a vengeful eye toward his former captors. Example: A vengeful mother-of-three has been jailed for 168 days after being convicted of killing a neighbour's kitten by microwaving the 10-week-old pet.
Word: ventilate Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English, borrowed from Latin ventilātus, past participle of ventilō. Pronunciation: /ˈvɛntɪleɪt/ 1. To replace stale or noxious air with fresh. 2. To circulate air through a building, etc. 3. To provide with a vent. 4. To expose something to the circulation of fresh air. 5. To expose something to public examination or discussion. Example: "Well, I did my best. I had no hopes, and it has worked out as I thought. It is a pure waste of time." "Not at all," Malone answered. "It has ventilated an evil. There were reporters in court. Surely some of them have some sense. They will note the injustice." Example: The WR has dropped its plan to close Yeovil Junction station. As we predicted on page 376 of the June issue, there has been strong opposition to the suggestion and on July 10 local opinion ventilated its case at a Yeovil Town Hall meeting attended by Mr. G. F. Fiennes, General Manager of the WR. 6. To provide manual or mechanical breathing to (a patient). Labels: transitive 7. To breathe. Labels: intransitive Example: Patients with cervical injuries usually arrive in the intensive care unit (ICU) already intubated. However, with some high thoracic or low cervical lesions, patients who ventilate independently in the emergency department may arrive in the ICU without assisted ventilation. 8. To shoot with a firearm; to pierce with bullets. Labels: slang, transitive Example: If we went in and there was no burglar, and we got into a shooting with the homeowner and ventilated him, that would be a little difficult to explain. 9. To stab (a person). Labels: slang, transitive Example: 2020, James Arthur Ray, The Business of Redemption What I learned on the bus that night was that I didn't want to be "ventilated" (stabbed), raped by one of the "Cheetos" (gay men), or beaten to a pulp […]
Word: ventilation Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French ventilation, from Old French ventilacion, from Late Latin ventilatio, from Latin ventilo. Morphologically ventilate + -ion. Pronunciation: /ˌvɛntɪˈleɪʃ(ə)n/ 1. The replacement of stale or noxious air with fresh. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: So you punched out a window for ventilation. Was that before or after you noticed you were standing in a lake of gasoline? 2. The mechanical system used to circulate and replace air. Labels: countable, uncountable 3. An exchange of views during a discussion. Labels: countable, uncountable 4. The public exposure of an issue or topic. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: "No, Mr. Malone, I will place no restriction upon your correspondence, since the ventilation of the facts is the object of your journey; but I demand that you shall give no particulars as to your exact destination, and that nothing be actually published until your return." 5. The bodily process of breathing; the inhalation of air to provide oxygen, and the exhalation of spent air to remove carbon dioxide. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: This toxin impairs ventilation by causing inflammation in the bronchioles. 6. Ellipsis of mechanical ventilation. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, ellipsis, uncountable Example: It is time to try to wean this patient from ventilation.
Word: interruption Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English interrupcioun, from Old French interrupcion, from Latin interruptio. Pronunciation: /ˌɪntəˈɹʌpʃən/ 1. The act of interrupting, or the state of being interrupted. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: One morning I had been driven to the precarious refuge afforded by the steps of the inn, after rejecting offers from the Celebrity to join him in a variety of amusements. But even here I was not free from interruption, for he was seated on a horse-block below me, playing with a fox terrier. Example: The dirty secret of the internet is that all this distraction and interruption is immensely profitable. Web companies like to boast about "creating compelling content", or offering services that let you "stay up to date with what your friends are doing"[…]and so on. 2. the act of breaking into someone else’s speech. Labels: countable, uncountable 3. A time interval during which there is a cessation of something. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: carbon dioxide Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˌkɑː.bən daɪˈɒk.saɪd/, /ˌkɑɹ.bən daɪˈɑk.saɪd/, /ˌkɑɹ.bən daɪˈɒk.saɪd/, /ˌkɐː.bən dɑɪˈɒk.sɑɪd/, /ˌkaː.bən daɪˈɒk.saɪd/ 1. The normal oxide of carbon, CO₂; a colorless, odorless gas formed during respiration and combustion and consumed by plants during photosynthesis. Labels: uncountable Example: There were dozens of presentations in 2008, including: [… Example: Oxygen levels on Earth skyrocketed 2.4 billion years ago, when cyanobacteria evolved photosynthesis: the ability to convert water and carbon dioxide into carbohydrates and waste oxygen using solar energy.
Word: dead air Part of Speech: noun 1. An unintended interruption in a broadcast during which nothing is transmitted: a silent period on radio or a silent period with no picture on television. Labels: idiomatic, uncountable Example: They fired the production engineer because too many moments of dead air were interrupting the broadcast. 2. A quiet or awkward moment in a conversation where neither individual is speaking. Labels: broadly, idiomatic, uncountable Example: Today we're going to try sitting with silence a bit. Don't worry about any moments of dead air in the conversation. 3. Air that is subject to little or no ventilation, thus, little to no air exchange. Labels: uncountable Example: Sealing up the house so perfectly, without planning for any active ventilation to replace the passive ventilation that you have eliminated, is not a good idea, because it encourages pockets of dead air. If you're going to seal it up so tight, then you need to plan for active ventilation through a filter, rather than no ventilation at all.
Word: ventilator Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From ventilate + -or; cf. Latin ventilator. Pronunciation: /ˈvɛntɪleɪtə/ 1. A device that circulates fresh air and expels stale or noxious air. 2. A machine that moves breathable air into and out of the lungs of a patient who is unable to breathe sufficiently. Example: Near-synonym: respirator 3. Some behaviour or happening that relieves a tense atmosphere or situation. Labels: figuratively Example: A lover's quarrel is made up of jealousies, doubts, hopes, fears, and all sorts of fantastic fancies: a matrimonial dispute, on the contrary, is composed of familiar and ordinary matter, a sort of ventilator to the temper! 4. A play or an actor so bad as to empty the theater. Labels: obsolete, slang
Word: ventricle Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From late Middle English, from Latin ventriculus (“the belly”), diminutive of venter (“the belly”). Doublet of ventriculus. Pronunciation: /ˈvɛn.tɹɪk.əl/ 1. Any small cavity within a body; a hollow part or organ, especially: Example: The muscular ventricles pump blood by contracting their fibers in response to electrical stimulation. Example: “It gave me the wrong one. I thought, wow, if a heart surgeon was using AI to find the lower ventricle… what sort of world would we be living in?” 2. Any small cavity within a body; a hollow part or organ, especially: Example: the ventricle of memory 3. Any small cavity within a body; a hollow part or organ, especially: Labels: archaic Example: [On birds] Where omitting the more general Properties, of having two Ventricles, and picking up stones to conveigh them into their second Ventricle, the Gizzern, (which provision and instinct is a supply for the want of teeth;) […] 4. Any small cavity within a body; a hollow part or organ, especially: Labels: archaic
Word: ventriloquist Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English ventriloquy Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō) Proto-Hellenic *-tās Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs) Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)bor. Latin -istader. Old French -istebor. Middle English -ist English -ist English ventriloquist From ventriloquy + -ist. Pronunciation: /vɛnˈtɹɪl.ə.kwɪst/ 1. A person, especially an entertainer, who practices ventriloquism. Example: Most ridiculous is the discomfiture which attends the opponents of predication, who, like the ventriloquist Eurycles, have the voice that answers them in their own breast. Example: "Oh, I am a ventriloquist," said the little man. "I can throw the sound of my voice wherever I wish, so that you thought it was coming out of the Head. […]"
Word: ventriloquism Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English ventriloquy Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō) Proto-Indo-European *-mos Proto-Indo-European *-mós Ancient Greek -μός (-mós) Ancient Greek -ισμός (-ismós)der. English -ism English ventriloquism From ventriloquy + -ism. Pronunciation: /vɛnˈtɹɪloʊˌkwɪzəm/ 1. The art of projecting one's voice without moving the lips so that it appears to come from another source, such as a dummy. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: verbosity Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle French verbosité, from Late Latin verbōsitās. By surface analysis, verbose + -ity. Pronunciation: /vəˈbɒsəti/, /vɚˈbɑsəti/ 1. The excess use of words, especially using more than are needed for clarity or precision. Labels: countable, rhetoric, uncountable Example: With Christie's words about "all-talk-no-action" in mind, notice that Obama and his two secretaries of state, Hillary Clinton and John Kerry, as well as his vice president, Joe Biden, were all senators, the last two serving for two or three decades, respectively. Not forgetting the ill-fated secretary of defense, Senator Chuck Hagel. Their capacity for talking so much and saying so little is astonishing. Their verbosity is unpalatable.
Word: verge on Part of Speech: verb 1. To approach or come close to something; to border or be on the edge of something. Labels: idiomatic, transitive Example: His actions verge on insanity, making everyone nervous. Example: The excitement in the room began to verge on chaos.
Word: verger Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English verge 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 verger From verge (“rod”) + -er. Pronunciation: /ˈvɜːd͡ʒə/, /ˈvɝd͡ʒɚ/ 1. One who carries a verge, or emblem of office. 2. A lay person who takes care of the interior of a church and acts as an attendant during services, where he or she carries the verge (or virge). In the United States, the office is generally combined with that of sexton. Labels: Ireland, UK Example: "We have often seen each other," said Little Dorrit, recognising the sexton, or the beadle, or the verger, or whatever he was, "when I have been at church here." Example: As soon as we were all in the night the verger rolled shut the doors and blotted out the chandeliers. 3. An usher; also, in major ecclesiastical landmarks, a tour guide. Labels: Commonwealth, Ireland, UK 4. An attendant upon a dignitary, such as a bishop or dean, a justice, etc. Labels: Commonwealth, Ireland, UK Example: When she came to her place she opened the book, and perused it, and saw the pictures, but frowned and blushed; and then shut it, (of which several took notice,) and calling the verger, bade him bring her the old book, wherein she was formerly wont to read.
Word: versed Part of Speech: adj Pronunciation: /vɝst/, /vɜːst/ 1. Knowledgeable or skilled, either through study or experience; familiar; practiced. Example: deep versed in books and shallow in himself Example: opinions […] derived from studying the Scriptures, wherein he was versed beyond any person of his age
Word: versed Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /vɝst/, /vɜːst/ 1. past of verse Labels: form-of, past
Word: vespers Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English vespers, from Old French vespres (French vêpres), from Ecclesiastical Latin vesperae (“vespers”), substantivisation of relational Late Latin vesperus (“evening”), from vesper (“evening”) + -us. Euphemistic use first as Vèpres éphésiennes (“Ephesian Vespers”), coined in 1890 by historian Théodore Reinach by analogy with the Sicilian Vespers. Pronunciation: /ˈvɛspɝz/ 1. The sixth of the seven canonical hours, an evening prayer service Labels: plural, plural-only, uncountable 2. A massacre Labels: euphemistic, uncountable
Word: vespers Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English vespers, from Old French vespres (French vêpres), from Ecclesiastical Latin vesperae (“vespers”), substantivisation of relational Late Latin vesperus (“evening”), from vesper (“evening”) + -us. Euphemistic use first as Vèpres éphésiennes (“Ephesian Vespers”), coined in 1890 by historian Théodore Reinach by analogy with the Sicilian Vespers. Pronunciation: /ˈvɛspɝz/ 1. plural of vesper Labels: form-of, plural
Word: canonical hours Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of canonical hour Labels: form-of, plural
Word: vested Part of Speech: adj Pronunciation: /ˈvɛstɪd/ 1. Settled, fixed or absolute, with no contingencies. Example: All legislative Powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States, which shall consist of a Senate and House of Representatives. 2. Dressed or clothed, especially in vestments. Example: The Pope, vested in mitre and cope, is greeted by a newly created Cardinal.
Word: vested Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ˈvɛstɪd/ 1. simple past and past participle of vest Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: vested interest Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Popularized in sociology by Thorstein Veblen, The Vested Interests and the Common Man (1919). But used earlier, e.g. by Winston Churchill: * 1899, Winston Churchill, The River War, an Account of the Reconquest of the Sudan, page 15: The name of the General was a sufficient guarantee that the slave trade was being earnestly attacked. The Khedive would gladly have stopped at the guarantee, and satisfied the world without disturbing 'vested interests.' But... 1. An indefeasible right or title, distinguished from a contingent interest, which could be defeated (i.e. cease) if a certain event occurred. Example: I saw them enjoying a special privilege which had been theirs so long that it had become a vested interest: they seemed to think it was a law ordained of nature that they should be forever life's favorite sons. 2. A fixed right granted to an employee, especially under a pension plan. 3. A stake, often financial, in a particular outcome. 4. A group of people or organizations with such a stake, especially those that seek to control an existing system or activity from which they derive benefit. Labels: in-plural Example: Today, under compulsion of patriotic devotion, fear, shame and bitter need, and under the unprecedentedly shrewd surveillance of public officers bent on maximum production, the great essential industries controlled by the vested interests may, one with another, be considered to approach—perhaps even conceivably to exceed—a fifty-percent efficiency; […] Example: But it was not a question of evidence, of guilt or innocence. Tom Mooney was bitterly hated by the vested interests of San Francisco. He had to be gotten out of the way. 5. An exceptionally strong interest in protecting or promoting something to one's own advantage. Example: Pervasive changes unfold spontaneously from new system structures. No one need engage in sacrifice or coercion, except, perhaps, to prevent people with vested interests from ignoring, distorting, or restricting relevant information. Example: Even the creation of a self-interested class of welfare bureaucrats and white-collar beneficiaries was not without its virtues: like the farmers, the much-maligned ‘lower middle class’ now had a vested interest in the institutions and values of the democratic state.
Word: guapo Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈɡwɑpoʊ̯/ 1. Alternative form of gwop. Labels: alt-of, alternative, uncountable Example: […] It’s for the guapo, can't waste time with the diamonds, I’m tryna git swallow
Word: vestment Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English vestement, vestment, from Old French vestement, from Latin vestīmentum. By surface analysis, vest + -ment. Compare French vêtement. Pronunciation: /ˈvɛstmənt/ 1. A robe, gown, or other article of clothing worn as an indication of office. Example: The priest wore a white vestment during the ceremony. Example: Medieval paintings often depict bishops in ornate vestments. 2. Any of the special articles of clothing worn by members of the clergy etc., especially a garment worn at the celebration of the Eucharist. Example: liturgical vestment Example: ceremonial vestment 3. Clothing. Labels: plural, plural-only 4. An article of clothing, especially an outer garment. Labels: archaic
Word: veteran Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French vétéran, from Latin veterānus. Pronunciation: /ˈvɛ.tə.ɹən/, /ˈvɛ.tɹən/, [ˈvɛ.t̬ə.ɹən], [ˈvɛ.ɾə.ɹən] 1. A person with long experience of a particular activity. Example: The company's new hires were nervous, but the veterans were self-assured because, as one summarized it, "this isn't our first rodeo." Example: Private-equity nabobs bristle at being dubbed mere financiers.[…]Much of their pleading is public-relations bluster. Clever financial ploys are what have made billionaires of the industry’s veterans. “Operational improvement” in a portfolio company has often meant little more than promising colossal bonuses to sitting chief executives if they meet ambitious growth targets. That model is still prevalent today. 2. A person with long experience of a particular activity. Example: We honor veterans and senior citizens with a ten percent discount. Example: For 55-year-old U.S. Army veteran Sae Joon Park, this was the hardest moment of his life. […] Park's story reflects both the challenges of life after combat and the perils that noncitizen veterans face if caught in the legal system — realities made harsher amid the Trump administration's push for record deportations. 3. A group, animal, etc. with long experience of a particular activity. Labels: figuratively Example: Their mules were clearly veterans. They seemed to know what to do even better than the teenage farmhand who was driving the team. Example: Most of the cars which we call "veterans" today were on view at the Motor Show of 1911.
Word: veteran Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French vétéran, from Latin veterānus. Pronunciation: /ˈvɛ.tə.ɹən/, /ˈvɛ.tɹən/, [ˈvɛ.t̬ə.ɹən], [ˈvɛ.ɾə.ɹən] 1. Having had long experience, practice, or service. Labels: not-comparable Example: The insinuating eloquence and delicate flattery of veteran diplomatists and courtiers. Example: Nothing could be more business-like than the construction of the stout dams, and nothing more gently rural than the limpid lakes, with the grand old forest trees marshalled round their margins like a veteran army that had marched down to drink, only to be stricken motionless at the water’s edge. 2. Of or relating to former members of the military armed forces, especially those who served during wartime. Labels: not-comparable
Word: veterinary Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin veterīnārius, from veterīnus and veterīnae (“cattle;"beasts of burden/of draught"”); compare with veterinarian. Pronunciation: /ˈvɛtɪnɹi/, /ˈvɛtɹɪnɹi/, /vɛtɪnɛɹi/, /ˈvɛtəɹɪnɛɹi/, /ˈvɛtɹɪnɛɹi/ 1. Of or relating to the medical or surgical treatment of non-human animals, especially domestic and farm animals. Example: Max used all his veterinary knowledge to save the goose stuck in the fence. Example: The talented artist quickly became fluent in English, found work at a pizzeria and dreamed of becoming a veterinary assistant.
Word: veterinary Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin veterīnārius, from veterīnus and veterīnae (“cattle;"beasts of burden/of draught"”); compare with veterinarian. Pronunciation: /ˈvɛtɪnɹi/, /ˈvɛtɹɪnɹi/, /vɛtɪnɛɹi/, /ˈvɛtəɹɪnɛɹi/, /ˈvɛtɹɪnɛɹi/ 1. A veterinary surgeon; a veterinarian. Example: Mr. Ward may rightly be considered the wizard of the north, for he was the pioneer of "practical pussyology" apart from the regular qualified veterinary who may look with a kind and pitying eye on cats' ailments and infirmities […]
Word: veterinary surgeon Part of Speech: noun 1. A doctor who practices veterinary medicine; a vet.
Word: veterinary medicine Part of Speech: noun 1. The branch of medicine that deals with the causes, diagnosis, and treatment of diseases and injuries of animals, especially domestic and farm animals. Labels: uncountable
Word: vexatious Part of Speech: adj Etymology: a 1650 vexation + -ous Pronunciation: /vɛkˈseɪʃəs/ 1. Causing vexation or annoyance; teasing; troublesome. Example: Although this letter is vexatious, I must not forget that my little entertainment has brought me a visiter in the Marquess of Wentworthdale, on an errand of no small moment, as the Countess of Rotheles may soon learn, to her surprise, for I shall, probably, see him at the Opera to-night. 2. Full of trouble or disquiet Labels: archaic Example: He leads a vexatious life. 3. Commenced for the purpose of giving trouble, without due cause. Example: a vexatious lawsuit 4. In the habit of starting vexatious litigation and therefore liable to have restraints placed on one's ability to access the courts. Example: a vexatious litigant
Word: vexed Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English vexed, vexede, vexit, vixid, equivalent to vex + -ed. Pronunciation: /ˈvɛkst/ 1. annoyed, irritated or distressed Example: She became more and more vexed as she struggled to cope with the demands of the job. Example: He would be left in no doubt that they were annoyed. He might even go so far as to deduce that they were quite vexed. 2. much debated, discussed or disputed Example: The question, however, as to whether rinderpest bile is capable of producing the disease in a herd innoculated with it is a very vexed one, and round this point heated controversies have been waged in other places than in Natal. Example: I leave aside the vexed questions about whether one or two peploi were woven and presented to Athena during the Greater (every four years) and Lesser (every year) Panathenaic festivals […]
Word: vexed Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English vexed, vexede, vexit, vixid, equivalent to vex + -ed. Pronunciation: /ˈvɛkst/ 1. simple past and past participle of vex Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: viaduct Part of Speech: noun Etymology: A blend of Latin via (“highway; road”) + English (aque)duct. Pronunciation: /ˈvaɪədʌkt/, /ˈvaɪəˌdʌk(t)/ 1. A bridge with several spans that carries rail or road traffic over a valley or other obstacles. Example: […] St. Bede's at this period of its history was perhaps the poorest and most miserable parish in the East End of London. Close-packed, crushed by the buttressed height of the railway viaduct, rendered airless by huge walls of factories, it at once banished lively interest from a stranger's mind and left only a dull oppression of the spirit. Example: The L.C.C. [London County Council] considers viaducts in London objectionable and a hindrance to town planning and would like to abolish all the Southern Railway lines on viaducts in South London. [Nothing much happened, they still exist.]
Word: vibrant Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From French vibrant, from Latin vibrans, present participle of vibrare (“to vibrate”). See vibrate. Pronunciation: /ˈvaɪbɹənt/ 1. Pulsing with energy or activity. Example: He has a vibrant personality. 2. Lively and vigorous. 3. Vibrating, resonant or resounding. Example: Mock their pale vigils, void and vain, / Whether, more curious than humane, / Like Augurs old, they pore / On the still-vibrant fibre's frame; Example: A vibrant voice in the true sense is of course desirable 4. Bright.
Word: vibrant Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From French vibrant, from Latin vibrans, present participle of vibrare (“to vibrate”). See vibrate. Pronunciation: /ˈvaɪbɹənt/ 1. Any of a class of consonants including taps and trills.
Word: pétillant Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Borrowed from French pétillant. 1. Of wine, cider, etc.: sparkling, fizzy. Labels: not-comparable
Word: vibration Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From French vibration, from Latin vibrātiō (“a shaking or brandishing”), from vibrō (“shake, vibrate”); see vibrate. Morphologically vibrate + -ion. Pronunciation: /vaɪˈbɹeɪʃən/ 1. The act of vibrating or the condition of being vibrated. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: You will see a tiny flutter, a shiver, a vibration along the luff. That flutter is your friend. 2. Any periodic process, especially a rapid linear motion of a body about an equilibrium position. Labels: countable, uncountable 3. A single complete vibrating motion. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The moon, which had been slowly ascending, now shone through an open space between the trees; and the rippling waters of the brook gave back her light in luminous vibrations. 4. A vibrational energy of spiritual nature through which mediumistic and other paranormal phenomena are conveyed or affected. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: "And the sitters?" "I expect Professor Challenger may wish to bring a friend or two of his own." "They will form a horrible block of vibrations! We must have some of our own sympathetic people to counteract it." Example: "Witches feel that anyone who is against them has to be destroyed. The method is to give the victim what we call a whispering. It is similar to the aborigine ceremony in Australia of singing someone to death. The witches gather in a circle and focus their hate on the persons they have in mind. These vibrations from their minds and voices carry whispers to the one who they are working against." 5. An instinctively sensed emotional aura or atmosphere. Labels: broadly, countable, in-plural, often, slang, uncountable Example: I'm pickin' up good vibrations / She's giving me the excitations. Example: The procession circled the district, symbolically purging the area of its “evil,” which paraders described as the “bad vibrations” from tourists and youths in Hippie clothes not living up to Hippie standards.
Word: vicarage Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English vicar Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂tos Proto-Italic *-ātos Latin -ātus Proto-Indo-European *-ikos Proto-Italic *-ikos Latin -icus Latin -āticus Latin -āticum Old French -agebor. Middle English -age English -age English vicarage From vicar + -age. Pronunciation: /ˈvɪkəɹɪd͡ʒ/ 1. The residence of a vicar. Labels: countable Example: Atlantic gales constantly buffet Morwenstow, whose seven hamlets together constitute Cornwall's most northerly parish. The village is dotted with trees moulded into weird shapes by the wind, and above the trees rise the vicarage chimneystacks resembling miniature church towers. 2. The benefice, duties, or office of a vicar. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: vice- Part of Speech: prefix Etymology: Derived from Latin vice (“in place of”), ablative form of vicis (“alternation, turn”). Compare viscount. Pronunciation: /ˌvaɪ̯s-/, /ˌvʌɪ̯s-/, /ˌvʌi̯s-/, /ˌvəi̯s-/, /ˌvɑe̯s-/ 1. Taking the place or rank of (another person); deputy. Labels: morpheme
Word: doubtful Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English doutfull, douteful, equivalent to doubt + -ful. Pronunciation: /ˈdaʊtfəl/ 1. Subject to, or causing doubt. 2. Experiencing or showing doubt, skeptical. 3. Undecided or of uncertain outcome. 4. Fearsome, dreadful. Labels: obsolete 5. Improbable or unlikely. 6. Suspicious, or of dubious character. Example: Yet it is not the predominant views of the experts but the views of a minority, mostly of rather doubtful standing in their profession, which are taken up and spread by the intellectuals. 7. Unclear or unreliable. Example: The pupils of her great eyes were large in the doubtful lamplight, swallowing their green fires in deep pools of mystery and darkness.
Word: doubtful Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English doutfull, douteful, equivalent to doubt + -ful. Pronunciation: /ˈdaʊtfəl/ 1. A doubtful person or thing. Example: They had their lists of Liberals and of the doubtfuls who still remained doubtful. As the election drew near, the force of the whole organization was turned upon these unrepentant doubtfuls.
Word: vice admiral Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˌvaɪsˈædmɪɹəl/ 1. A person holding a naval rank between rear admiral and full admiral.
Word: vice president Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From vice- + president. 1. A deputy to a president, often empowered to assume the position of president on their death or absence. 2. An executive in a business in charge of a department or branch.