nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: gypsy Part of Speech: verb Etymology: See Gypsy. Compare bohemian, from Bohemia. Pronunciation: /ˈd͡ʒɪp.si/ 1. To roam around the country like a gypsy. Labels: intransitive Example: The rest of the day is spent out of doors "Gypsying", and families greatly enjoy themselves on these occasions. 2. To perform the gypsy step in contra dancing. Example: Look at the person you're gypsying with, and convey the message that you notice them as a person and that you're glad that they're there, […] Example: The only one I know of is The Tease by Tom Hinds which starts with the actives gypsying and then swinging their neighbors and ends with contra […]
Word: ŭ Part of Speech: symbol 1. A dictionary transcription for the STRUT vowel
Word: let's go Part of Speech: phrase 1. Hortative of go, particularly as a cheer expressing encouragement. Labels: form-of, hortative Example: Let's go to the beach next Saturday. Example: Let's go, team! C'mon! 2. Let us begin or get started. (a call to put a plan into action) 3. Hurry up; be quick. Labels: colloquial Example: Let's go, practice starts in five minutes. 4. Bring it on. (an incitement to fight) Labels: colloquial Example: You think you're so tough, huh? Let's go then! 5. Yay. (an expression of pleasure, joy, relief, or satisfaction) Labels: colloquial Example: Our team is up two points already, let's go!
Word: spur Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English spure, spore, from Old English spora, spura, from Proto-West Germanic *spurō, from Proto-Germanic *spurô, from Proto-Indo-European *sperH- (“to kick”). Pronunciation: /spɜː/, /spɝ/, /spʌr/, /spøː/, /speː/ 1. A rigid implement, often roughly y-shaped, that is fixed to one's heel for the purpose of prodding a horse. Often worn by, and emblematic of, the cowboy or the knight. Example: Lives he, good uncle? thrice within this hour I saw him down; thrice up again, and fighting; From helmet to the spur all blood he was. Example: Tvvo ſorts of ſpurs ſeem to have been in uſe about the time of the Conqueſt, one called a pryck, having only a ſingle point like the gaffle of a fighting cock; the other conſiſting of a number of points of a conſiderable length, radiating from and revolving on a center, thence named the rouelle or vvheel ſpur. 2. A jab given with the spurs. Example: I had hardly said the word, when Kit jumped into the saddle, and gave his horse a whip and a spur — and off it cantered, as if it were in as great a hurry to be married as Kit himself. 3. Anything that inspires or motivates, as a spur does a horse. Labels: figuratively Example: She is a theame of honour and renowne, / A ſpurre to valiant and magnanimous deeds, / Whoſe preſent courage may beate downe our foes, / And fame in time to come canonize us, [...] 4. An appendage or spike pointing rearward, near the foot, for instance that of a rooster. 5. Any protruding part connected at one end, for instance a highway that extends from another highway into a city. 6. Roots, tree roots. Example: […] the strong-bas'd promontory / Have I made shake; and by the spurs pluck'd up / The pine and cedar […] Example: I do note / That grief and patience, rooted in them both, / Mingle their spurs together. 7. A mountain that shoots from another mountain or range and extends some distance in a lateral direction, or at right angles. Example: But a narrow spur of rocks arched out and over the hole, ending in an outcrop perhaps a hundred feet across. 8. A spiked iron worn by seamen upon the bottom of the boot, to enable them to stand upon the carcass of a whale to strip off the blubber. 9. A brace strengthening a post and some connected part, such as a rafter or crossbeam; a strut. 10. The short wooden buttress of a post. 11. A projection from the round base of a column, occupying the angle of a square plinth upon which the base rests, or bringing the bottom bed of the base to a nearly square form. It is generally carved in leafage. 12. Ergotized rye or other grain. 13. A wall in a fortification that crosses a part of a rampart and joins to an inner wall. 14. A piece of timber fixed on the bilgeways before launching, having the upper ends bolted to the vessel's side. 15. A curved piece of timber serving as a half to support the deck where a whole beam cannot be placed. 16. A branch of a vein. 17. A very short branch line of a railway line. 18. A short branch road of a motorway, freeway or major road. 19. A short thin side shoot from a branch, especially one that bears fruit or, in conifers, the shoots that bear the leaves.
Word: spur Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English spure, spore, from Old English spora, spura, from Proto-West Germanic *spurō, from Proto-Germanic *spurô, from Proto-Indo-European *sperH- (“to kick”). Pronunciation: /spɜː/, /spɝ/, /spʌr/, /spøː/, /speː/ 1. To prod (especially a horse) on the side or flank, with the intent to urge motion or haste, to gig. Labels: transitive Example: Draw, archers, draw your arrows to the head! Spur your proud horses hard, and ride in blood; Amaze the welkin with your broken staves! 2. To urge or encourage to action, or to a more vigorous pursuit of an object Labels: transitive Example: My desire / (More sharp than filed steel) did spur me forth... Example: But the latest Santa Fe development, while not spurring the Rock Island to any further acceleration, has drawn fire from a totally unexpected quarter. 3. To put spurs on. Labels: transitive Example: to spur boots 4. To press forward; to travel in great haste. Labels: intransitive 5. To form a spur (senses 17-18 of the noun) Example: It spurs off the Robin Hood line, providing ten miles of single-line test track with a three-mile double section, capable of testing up to 75mph.
Word: spur Part of Speech: noun Etymology: See sparrow. Pronunciation: /spɜː/, /spɝ/, /spʌr/, /spøː/, /speː/ 1. A tern.
Word: spur Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Short for spurious. Pronunciation: /spɜː/, /spɝ/, /spʌr/, /spøː/, /speː/ 1. A spurious tone, one that interferes with a signal in a circuit and is often masked underneath that signal.
Word: spur Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /spɜː/, /spɝ/, /spʌr/, /spøː/, /speː/ 1. The track of an animal, such as an otter; a spoor.
Word: spur Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /spɜː/, /spɝ/, /spʌr/, /spøː/, /speː/ 1. Alternative form of speer. Labels: alt-of, alternative, dialectal, obsolete Example: I haue yonder vncouered a faire girle, Ile be ſo bolde as ſpurre her, vvhat might a bodie call her name? Example: Are you come, old Maſter? Very good, your Horſe is well ſet up; but ere you part, I'll ride you, and ſpur your Reverend Juſticeſhip ſuch a queſtion, as I ſhall make the ſides of your Reputation bleed, truly I will. Now muſt I play at Bo-peep.
Word: delude Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English deluden, borrowed from Latin dēlūdō (“mock, deceive”), from de + lūdō (“to make sport of, to mock”). See ludicrous. Pronunciation: /dɪˈluːd/, /dɪˈljuːd/, /dəˈluːd/ 1. To deceive into believing something which is false; to lead into error; to dupe. Labels: transitive Example: Ralph Wiggum is generally employed as a bottomless fount of glorious non sequiturs, but in “I Love Lisa” he stands in for every oblivious chump who ever deluded himself into thinking that with persistence, determination, and a pure heart he can win the girl of his dreams. Example: To delude the nation by an airy phantom. 2. To frustrate or disappoint. Labels: obsolete, transitive Example: It deludes thy search.
Word: touchdown Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From touch + down. Pronunciation: /ˈtʌt͡ʃ.daʊn/ 1. A six-point score occurring when the ball enters possession of a team's player in the opponent's end zone. Labels: Canadian, countable, uncountable Example: Today I scored my first touchdown. Example: “I must have caught 45 or 50 touchdowns in that right corner,” he told The Baltimore Sun in 2009. “It was sloped some, a little downhill, which helped me speedwise. I wasn’t all that fast.” 2. A defensive action of grounding the ball in the team's own in-goal to stop the play. Labels: countable, uncountable 3. A try (scoring play of grounding the ball in the opposing team's in-goal). Labels: countable, uncountable Example: A first Test try by Fergus McFadden and a Tomas O'Leary touchdown helped Ireland to a 15-12 half-time lead. 4. The moment when an aircraft or spacecraft makes first or final contact with the ground during a landing. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The passengers audibly relaxed at touchdown. Example: And I think it's gonna be a long, long time / 'Til touchdown brings me 'round again to find / I'm not the man they think I am at home / Oh, no, no, no[…] 5. The moment of contact of a tornado with the ground. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The American Red Cross sent me to Alabama within twenty-four hours of the tornado's touchdown, and I visited the communities of Oak Grove and Rock Creek four subsequent times.
Word: dreamwork Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Compound of dream + work. 1. An attempt to discover the deeper meaning that a dream might contain. Labels: uncountable
Word: Dutch courage Part of Speech: noun Etymology: This dates back to a time of intense political rivalry between England and the Netherlands, and was originally an ethnic slur. 1. The courage or bravado induced by alcohol. Labels: idiomatic, uncountable Example: I was beginning to wish I'd had the sense to spend the last hour in a pub. Dutch courage would have been better than no courage at all. 2. An alcoholic drink, taken to bolster one's courage. Labels: idiomatic, uncountable Example: Another five minutes wait and we finally raise glasses in a toast to the evening. ‘So, what's the plan?’ ‘Well, we can go straight to the casino after this or we can get half a skinful of Dutch courage.’
Word: cocaine Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Aymarader. Quechua kukabor. Aymara kukabor. Spanish cocabor. English coca Proto-Indo-European *-nós Proto-Indo-European *-iHnos Proto-Italic *-īnos Latin -īnusder. Old French -inbor. Middle English -in English -ine English cocaine From coca + -ine, from Quechua kuka. First use appears c. 1874. Pronunciation: /kə(ʊ)ˈkeɪn/, /ˈkəʊkeɪˌʌɪn/, /koʊˈkeɪn/, /ˈkoʊˌkeɪn/ 1. An addictive drug derived from coca (Erythroxylum) or prepared synthetically, used sometimes medicinally as a local anesthetic and, often illegally, as a stimulant. Labels: uncountable 2. An addictive drug derived from coca (Erythroxylum) or prepared synthetically, used sometimes medicinally as a local anesthetic and, often illegally, as a stimulant. Labels: countable, uncountable, usually Example: Holmes, who loathed every form of society with his whole Bohemian soul, remained in our lodgings in Baker-street, buried among his old books, and alternating from week to week between cocaine and ambition, the drowsiness of the drug, and the fierce energy of his own keen nature. Example: All I get, uh, is this cup of cold coffee and cocaine / And your ugly face, look out 3. Any chemical derivative of this drug. Labels: countable
Word: cocaine Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Aymarader. Quechua kukabor. Aymara kukabor. Spanish cocabor. English coca Proto-Indo-European *-nós Proto-Indo-European *-iHnos Proto-Italic *-īnos Latin -īnusder. Old French -inbor. Middle English -in English -ine English cocaine From coca + -ine, from Quechua kuka. First use appears c. 1874. Pronunciation: /kə(ʊ)ˈkeɪn/, /ˈkəʊkeɪˌʌɪn/, /koʊˈkeɪn/, /ˈkoʊˌkeɪn/ 1. Synonym of cocainize. Example: […] cocaining the eye, then introducing a speculum, or having an assistant hold the lids open with retractors.
Word: delay Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English delaien, borrowed from Anglo-Norman delaier, Old French deslaier, from des- + Old French laier (“to leave”), a conflation of Old Frankish *lattjan ("to delay, hinder"; from Proto-Germanic *latjaną (“to delay, hinder, stall”), from Proto-Indo-European *leh₁d- (“to leave, leave behind”)), and Old Frankish *laibijan ("to leave"; from Proto-Germanic *laibijaną (“to leave, cause to stay”), from Proto-Indo-European *leyp- (“to remain, continue”)). Doublet of dally. Akin to Old English latian (“to delay, hesitate”), Old English latu (“a delay, a hindrance”), Old English lǣfan (“to leave”). More at let (to hinder), late, leave. Pronunciation: /dɪˈleɪ̯/, [dɪˈleɪ̯], /dəˈleɪ̯/, [dəˈleɪ̯] 1. A period of time before an event occurs; the act of delaying; procrastination; lingering inactivity. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: the delay before the echo of a sound Example: Two twenty minutes' delays. 2. An audio effects unit that introduces a controlled delay. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The 8-bit sound quality of many early delays did indeed leave a lot to be desired (compare this to the 16-bit digital technology of CDs) 3. Synonym of promise (“object representing delayed result”). Labels: countable, uncountable 4. An amount of time provided on each move before one's clock starts to tick; a less common time control than increment. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: delay Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English delaien, borrowed from Anglo-Norman delaier, Old French deslaier, from des- + Old French laier (“to leave”), a conflation of Old Frankish *lattjan ("to delay, hinder"; from Proto-Germanic *latjaną (“to delay, hinder, stall”), from Proto-Indo-European *leh₁d- (“to leave, leave behind”)), and Old Frankish *laibijan ("to leave"; from Proto-Germanic *laibijaną (“to leave, cause to stay”), from Proto-Indo-European *leyp- (“to remain, continue”)). Doublet of dally. Akin to Old English latian (“to delay, hesitate”), Old English latu (“a delay, a hindrance”), Old English lǣfan (“to leave”). More at let (to hinder), late, leave. Pronunciation: /dɪˈleɪ̯/, [dɪˈleɪ̯], /dəˈleɪ̯/, [dəˈleɪ̯] 1. To put off until a later time; to defer. Labels: transitive Example: My lord delayeth his coming. 2. To retard; to temporarily stop, detain, or hinder. Labels: transitive Example: The mail is delayed by a heavy fall of snow. Example: Mr. Cooke had had a sloop yacht built at Far Harbor, the completion of which had been delayed, and which was but just delivered. […] The Maria had a cabin, which was finished in hard wood and yellow plush, and accommodations for keeping things cold. 3. To wait, hesitate, tarry. Labels: intransitive Example: Don't delay; this special offer ends at midnight! Example: Don't delay Something tells me I gotta go away 4. To allay; to temper. Labels: obsolete, transitive Example: The watery showers delay the raging wind.
Word: delay Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English delaien, from Old French delaiier, a variant of delaissier. 1. To dilute, temper. Labels: obsolete 2. To assuage, quench, allay. Labels: obsolete Example: Those dreadfull flames she also found delayd / And quenched quite like a consumed torch […].
Word: aciculate Part of Speech: adj 1. Furnished with aciculae. 2. acicular (needle-shaped) Example: The chief points of difference between specimens of the two are that those of R. mutabilis are more setaceous, but less aciculate on the barren stems, the terminal leaflets are more frequently narrowed at the base, though occasionally they have the ovate form usual in the Plymouth plant. 3. Marked with fine irregular streaks as if scratched by a needle.
Word: wandering albatross Part of Speech: noun 1. A large seabird, Diomedea exulans, with a very large wingspread. Example: ‘Well, there are lots of different subspecies of them, but the wandering albatross sort of looks like a bigger, more aristocratic seagull, with webbed feet and giant gliding wings. They partner for life and can live up to fifty years. They fly enormous distances to get the right food for their young.’
Word: bon mot Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from French bon mot (literally “good word”). Pronunciation: /bɒn məʊ/, /bɒ̃ məʊ/, /ˌbɑn ˈmoʊ/ 1. A clever saying, phrase, or witticism; often, a witty riposte in dialogue. Example: But ſo it is: our Writer has met with a Bon Mot of this Cato’s; which, according to his ſhallow Underſtanding and ſilly Interpretation, he preſages will ever live as a noble Free-thinking Saying. Example: ―In England, dear Sir, ſaid I, we ſit all at our eaſe. The old French officer would have ſet me at unity with myſelf, in caſe I had been at variance,—by ſaying it was a bon mot—and as a bon mot is always worth ſomething at Paris, he offered me a pinch of ſnuff.
Word: camper Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English camp 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 camper From camp (verb) + -er. Pronunciation: /ˈkæmpɚ/, /ˈkæmpə/ 1. A person who camps, especially in a tent etc. Example: There were thousands of campers at the music festival. Example: They're indispensable for backpackers, campers and anyone else who plans to be away from a power outlet for a while; indeed, both the Solar and the Eco Player are ruggedly built, with rubberized nonscratchable surfaces. 2. A motor vehicle with a rear compartment for living and sleeping in. Example: The moonshiners are now only a memory, but the sunrisers have grown into many hundreds, with trailers and campers pulling into Red Rock Canyon days early for a good parking spot. 3. A person who stays in one spot during a first-person shooting game, to guard an item etc. Labels: derogatory 4. A person who stays too long at a table after eating. Labels: slang Example: I'm trying to get rid of the campers on table seven.
Word: camper Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree English camp Proto-Indo-European *-yōs Proto-Germanic *-izô Proto-West Germanic *-iʀō Proto-Germanic *-ōzô Proto-West Germanic *-ōʀō Old English -ra Middle English -ere English -er English camper From camp (adjective) + -er. Pronunciation: /ˈkæmpɚ/, /ˈkæmpə/ 1. comparative form of camp: more camp Labels: comparative, form-of
Word: boxing glove Part of Speech: noun 1. A padded mitten, designed to protect the hand while punching, and worn in boxing.
Word: kI Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From 氣, 気. 1. A term indicating intrinsic energy; usually associated with martial art – karate, judo, aikido, etc. – practitioners who consider ki important to performing at the highest level.
Word: anent Part of Speech: prep Etymology: From Middle English anent, anentes, anempt (“insofar as, inasmuch as, in comparison with, with respect to, as regards, concerning, in the opinion or judgment of; next to, close to, up to, near, adjoining, across from, over against, facing”), from Old English on efn (“by; near”), from on + efn. Compare Dutch neven, German neben. Pronunciation: /əˈnɛnt/ 1. Concerning, with regard to, about, in respect to, as to, insofar as, inasmuch as, apropos. Labels: archaic Example: Mr Bloom and Stephen entered the cabman’s shelter, an unpretentious wooden structure, where, prior to then, he had rarely, if ever, been before; the former having previously whispered to the latter a few hints anent the keeper of it […] Example: 1937, L. Ron Hubbard, letter to Russell Hays, quoted in Literary Correspondence: Letters and Journals, p. 101, I have just found out something with which to repay that very kind favor of yours anent the "lift" angle on stories. 2. In the opinion or judgment of. Labels: obsolete 3. Against, in front of, fronting; before; opposite; over against, on the other side. Labels: obsolete Example: […] if Painter did ever abide in the old bark mill said to be anent his brother's freehold. 4. In a line with; side by side with; on a level with. Labels: obsolete Example: ANENT, opposite. Usually "ovver-anent."
Word: chai Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Romani ćhaj (“Romani girl, daughter”). 1. A female Romani.
Word: chai Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Hindustani चाय / چائے (cāy, “tea”), from Classical Persian چَای (čāy) (and Turkish çay, and cognates) from Sinitic 茶 (chá). Doublet of cha and tea; see that page for extended history. Pronunciation: /t͡ʃaɪ/ 1. Ellipsis of masala chai, a beverage made with black teas, steamed milk and sweet spices, based loosely on Indian recipes. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis, uncountable, usually Example: ‘So much for making chai,ʼ she teases, but lets him do the rest of the work. He adds the tea leaves to the boiling milk, then strains the liquid into cups. 2. Any tea beverage, but especially milk tea, regardless of whether it is spiced. Labels: India, uncountable, usually Example: We were drinking some chai — the ashram version — watered down, boring, no spices, lots of water, just a smidgen of tea and even less milk. Example: I fix myself a cup of chai - slightly strong black tea with just a touch of hot milk and no spices... the kind that Babuji would have liked on a morning like this — and sipping my chai, I walk barefoot on the moist grass in the backyard
Word: chai Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Hebrew חַי (kháy, “alive”). Pronunciation: /xaɪ/ 1. A Jewish symbol representing life, traditionally worn as an amulet. Labels: Judaism Example: Nothing hangs on the walls, though a stained-glass Hebrew chai leans against the window. Example: Today, he [Drake] wears a diamond-studded Chai, a symbol of the Jewish word for life, and has his mother pressuring him to marry "a nice Jewish girl," according to Heeb magazine.
Word: chai Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from French chai, from Occitan. Pronunciation: /ʃɛ/ 1. A place above ground for storing wine casks. Example: The Kanon era lasted a mere 10 years, yet he had the château constructed, invested substantially in the vineyard and chais, and established the wine as one of the leading labels in the area.
Word: chai Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Russian чай (čaj, “tea”). Doublet of cha and tea. 1. Russian tea. Labels: rare, uncountable Example: They say in New York that the aristocracy of the Back Bay can talk nothing but Tolstoi and drink nothing but chai (Russian tea). Example: A reader can imagine sitting at Walter’s kitchen table, a cup of chai (Russian tea) at hand, listening to the white-haired gentleman recalling events.
Word: blogger Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *weyh₁-? Proto-Indo-European *wiHrós Proto-Germanic *weraz Proto-Indo-European *h₂el- Proto-Indo-European *h₂életi Proto-Germanic *alaną Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Germanic *-þiz Proto-Germanic *aldiz Proto-Germanic *weraldiz Proto-West Germanic *weraldi Old English weorold Middle English world English world Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁ Proto-Indo-European *dwi- Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁- Proto-Indo-European *h₁weydʰh₁-der. Proto-Germanic *wīdaz Old English wīd English wide English -wide English worldwide Proto-Indo-European *webʰ-der. Proto-Germanic *webaną Proto-Germanic *wabją Old English webb Middle English web English web English World Wide Web English Web Proto-Indo-European *legʰ- Proto-Indo-European *-yeti Proto-Indo-European *légʰyeti Proto-Germanic *ligjaną Old Norse liggjader.? Middle English logge English log Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂ǵosder.? Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂g-der.? Proto-Germanic *bōks Proto-West Germanic *bōk Old English bōc Middle English bok English book English logbook English log English weblog English blog 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 blogger From blog + -er. Pronunciation: /ˈblɒ.ɡə/, /ˈblɔ.ɡəɹ/ 1. A contributor to a blog (from weblog) or online journal. Labels: Internet Example: The New York Times called it “another signal moment for bloggers,” while over at HardwareGeeks.com (“a community for sophisticated geeks and geekettes”), they were flying the victory flag: “A blogger with a White House Press pass? Just another sign of the times and another indication that bloggers are as powerful as regular media.”
Word: OED Part of Speech: name 1. Initialism of Oxford English Dictionary. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism Example: While the OED itself does not feature these definitions, they do appear in other reference books produced by the publisher, as well as online dictionary Lexico, which takes its content from OUP dictionaries.
Word: outlier Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English outlie 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 outlier From outlie + -er. Pronunciation: /ˈaʊtˌlaɪə(ɹ)/, /ˈʌʊtˌlaɪɚ/ 1. A person or thing situated away from the main body or outside its proper place. Example: Observing as an outlier from Scotland, Hynes sums up the industry problem: "The conversation we've had for this article is really about creating an environment in which better decisions can be taken, isn't it? 2. An exception. Labels: figuratively Example: And in a world where police officers are mostly paired by species (zebras with zebras, hippos with hippos, etc.), Judy and Nick’s rare bunny/fox combo marks them as outliers. 3. A part of a formation separated from the rest of the formation by erosion. 4. A value in a statistical sample which does not fit a pattern that describes most other data points; specifically, a value that lies 1.5 IQR beyond the upper or lower quartile.
Word: lier Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English lier, equivalent to lie + -er. Compare ligger, lidger, ledger. Pronunciation: /ˈlaɪ.ə/, /ˈlaɪ.ɚ/ 1. A person or thing that lies, in the sense of being horizontal. 2. A lie-abed; one who stays in bed late.
Word: lier Part of Speech: noun Etymology: See the main lemma. Pronunciation: /ˈlaɪ.ə/, /ˈlaɪ.ɚ/ 1. Obsolete spelling of liar. Labels: alt-of, obsolete 2. Misspelling of liar. Labels: alt-of, misspelling
Word: flop Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Recorded since 1602, probably a variant of flap with a duller, heavier sound. Pronunciation: /flɒp/, /flɑp/, /flɔp/ 1. To fall heavily due to lack of energy. Labels: intransitive Example: He flopped down in front of the television, exhausted from work. Example: There was [in the clock in Lyons Cathedral] a centre puppet of the Virgin Mary; and close to her, a small pigeon-hole, out of which another and a very ill-looking puppet made one of the most sudden plunges I ever saw accomplished: instantly flopping back again at sight of her, and banging his little door violently, after him. 2. To cause to drop heavily. Labels: transitive Example: The tired mule flopped its ears forward and trudged on. 3. To fail completely; not to be successful at all (of a movie, play, book, song etc.). Labels: informal, intransitive Example: The latest album flopped and so the studio canceled her contract. 4. To pretend to be fouled in sports, such as basketball, hockey (the same as to dive in soccer) Labels: intransitive Example: It starts with Chris Paul, because Blake didn't really used to flop like that, you know, last year. Example: While Stern chastised Vogel for on Thursday calling the Heat "the biggest flopping team in the NBA," he did intimate that he sees merit in the sentiment. 5. To strike about with something broad and flat, as a fish with its tail, or a bird with its wings; to rise and fall; to flap. Labels: intransitive Example: The brim of a hat flops. 6. To have (a hand) using the community cards dealt on the flop. Labels: transitive Example: Both players flopped sets! Cards dealt on the flop: Q95. Player A's hole cards: 55 (making three of a kind: 555). Player B's hole cards: QQ (making three of a kind: QQQ). 7. To stay, sleep or live in a place. Labels: intransitive, slang Example: […] not just the old material goal of "three hots and a place to flop," […] Example: They have opened up crypts and basements as immense pads where vagrant and impoverished hippies can flop for the night. 8. To flip; to reverse (an image). Labels: transitive Example: The possibilities of this type of shot are almost limitless. By quartering the screen and duplicating and flopping the picture, a kaleidoscopic effect is achieved. Example: […] in order to flop the image left-to-right, or all printing will appear reversed. 9. To deny someone parole. Labels: slang, transitive Example: I've been incarcerated going on 9½ years. I have never been back on the streets or given a chance to prove myself to society. Every time I would meet the parole board they would flop me telling me I would be a threat to society.
Word: flop Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Recorded since 1602, probably a variant of flap with a duller, heavier sound. Pronunciation: /flɒp/, /flɑp/, /flɔp/ 1. A heavy, passive fall; a plopping down. 2. A complete failure, especially in the entertainment industry. Example: Well I know your little baby sister / She thinks that I'm a flop / But I guess that you know that it's true / I spent more time at the bottom than the top 3. The first three cards turned face-up by the dealer in a community card poker game. Example: The flop didn't help you but probably did help the other hands. Example: Here are six tips to help you play successfully on the flop (the first three communal cards). 4. Dung, as in cow-flop. Example: "Maybe as you think," he said, "because as I've the misfortune of an accidental slip on a cow-flop therefore I has the inability of an unborn babe, ... Example: ... cowpat or cow-flop, Cow dung, often used dry as heating fuel. 5. A flophouse. Labels: slang Example: He was kind of worn but the tooth said he'd never lost a fight or slept in a flop.
Word: flop Part of Speech: intj Etymology: Recorded since 1602, probably a variant of flap with a duller, heavier sound. Pronunciation: /flɒp/, /flɑp/, /flɔp/ 1. Indicating the sound of something flopping. Example: "One step. Steady. Another step. Flop! I got him!"
Word: flop Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Recorded since 1602, probably a variant of flap with a duller, heavier sound. Pronunciation: /flɒp/, /flɑp/, /flɔp/ 1. Right, squarely, flat-out. Labels: not-comparable Example: She fell flop on the floor. 2. With a flopping sound. Labels: not-comparable
Word: flop Part of Speech: noun Etymology: A variant capitalization of FLOP, a syllabic acronym of floating-point operations. Pronunciation: /flɒp/, /flɑp/, /flɔp/ 1. Abbreviation of floating-point operation. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of Example: The Correlator can perform 750 billion ‘flops’, or simple calculations, per second. 2. One floating-point operation per second, a unit of measure of processor speed. Example: The gigaflop supercomputers of today are almost useless. What is needed is a teraflop machine. That’s a machine that can run at a trillion flops, a trillion floating-point operations per second, or roughly a thousand times as fast as Cray Y-MP8.
Word: floppy Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree English flop Proto-Indo-European *-kos Proto-Germanic *-gaz Proto-West Germanic *-g Old English -iġ Middle English -y English -y English floppy From flop + -y. Pronunciation: /ˈflɒ.pi/ 1. Limp, not hard, firm, or rigid; flexible. Example: The smile, the white collar worn with a dark shirt, the floppy breast-pocket handkerchief would surely be famous when the chaps in the rows behind were mere forgotten grins and frowns.
Word: floppy Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English flop Proto-Indo-European *-kos Proto-Germanic *-gaz Proto-West Germanic *-g Old English -iġ Middle English -y English -y English floppy From flop + -y. Pronunciation: /ˈflɒ.pi/ 1. A floppy disk. Labels: dated 2. An insurgent in the Rhodesian Bush War, called as such for the way they "flop" when shot. Labels: Rhodesia, South-Africa, slang Example: "Ja, our job is not to think or make decisions. We just here to slay floppies," remarked Koos. 3. A comic book. Labels: informal Example: We suggest that the impact of comic books is greater than it may first appear. Though individual sales of floppies may be low compared to, say, dollar grosses on motion pictures or may reach fewer viewers than a summer blockbuster […]
Word: diskette Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From disk + -ette, by analogy with cassette. Pronunciation: /dɪsˈkɛt/ 1. A small, flexible, magnetic disk for storage and retrieval of data. 2. An 8-inch floppy disk. Labels: dated
Word: floppy disk Part of Speech: noun 1. A removable disk used for storing digital data, measuring between 2 and 8 inches diagonally and storing between 80 KB and 240 MB. Example: A hacker starts with nothing but a dream and a floppy disk and presently finds himself in a business that's doubled and trebled. Example: The floppy disk itself is a magnetically coated flexible plastic disk which is mounted in a protective envelope and can be used as a mass data storage medium.
Word: Miriam Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Hebrew מִרְיָם (Miryam), possibly from Aramaic מרים (Maryām, “bitter”), from a root מר (m-r) meaning "to be bitter". The meaning of this name which is the Old Testament equivalent of Mary has been debated for centuries. Some other explanations are mutiny / rebellion / disobedience from a root מרי (m-r-y). Pronunciation: /ˈmɪɹi.əm/ 1. The sister of Moses and Aaron and the daughter of Amram and Jochebed. Example: And Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a timbrel in her hand; and all the women went out after her with timbrels and with dances. 2. Synonym of Mary, mother of Jesus, chiefly in contexts emphasizing her historical or Jewish identity. 3. A female given name from Hebrew.
Word: Miriam Part of Speech: name 1. Alternative spelling of Meriam. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: Leah Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Hebrew לֵאָה (Le'a). Pronunciation: /ˈliːə/ 1. The elder daughter of Laban, sister to Rachel, and first wife of Jacob. Example: And Laban had two daughters: the name of the elder was Leah, and the name of the younger was Rachel. Leah was tender eyed; but Rachel was beautiful and well-favoured. 2. A female given name from Hebrew. Example: "I'm Leah Brennan. How can I help you...Gideon?" He gave a short laugh. "Leah! Nice name. Between the two of us, we sound like the Old Testament, don't we?" 3. A surname.
Word: Rachel Part of Speech: name Etymology: Borrowed from Late Latin Rāchēl, from Ancient Greek Ῥαχήλ (Rhakhḗl), from Biblical Hebrew רָחֵל (rāḫēl, “ewe”). Doublet of Raquel. Pronunciation: /ˈɹeɪ.tʃəl/ 1. Younger daughter of Laban, sister to Leah, and second wife of Jacob. Example: And Laban had two daughters: the name of the elder was Leah, and the name of the younger was Rachel. Leah was tender eyed; but Rachel was beautiful and well favoured. And Jacob loved Rachel; and said, I will serve thee seven years for Rachel thy younger daughter. 2. A female given name from Hebrew. Example: Rachel is another modest, nun-like name, of the same order as Judith, and has the appropriate signification of a lamb. Example: She keeps saying, You are mistaken Rachel. She says my name in that heavy earnest way. The Jewish Ra-chel. I like my name like that. I have always been pleased when people said Ra-chel. But when she says it, it is as if she was taking me over. Through my name. 3. A census-designated place in Lincoln County, Nevada, United States; named for the first baby born in the town. 4. A census-designated place in Marion County, West Virginia, United States; named for the daughter of a local mine owner.
Word: Rachel Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Late Latin Rāchēl, from Ancient Greek Ῥαχήλ (Rhakhḗl), from Biblical Hebrew רָחֵל (rāḫēl, “ewe”). Doublet of Raquel. Pronunciation: /ˈɹeɪ.tʃəl/ 1. Synonym of Rachel sandwich.
Word: bay Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Iberiander. Late Latin baiader.? French baieder. English bay From French baie, from Late Latin baia, probably ultimately from Iberian or Basque badia. Partly displaced native Old English byht, whence bight. Pronunciation: /ˈbeɪ̯/, /ˈbeː/, /ˈbæ̝ɪ̯/ 1. A body of water (especially the sea) contained by a concave shoreline. Example: This hotel has a great view across the bay. Example: 'Twas early June, the new grass was flourishing everywheres, the posies in the yard—peonies and such—in full bloom, the sun was shining, and the water of the bay was blue, with light green streaks where the shoal showed. 2. A bank or dam to keep back water.
Word: bay Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Germanic *bazją Proto-West Germanic *baʀi Old English berġe? Old English beġerclip.? Old English *beġ Latin bācader. Old French baieder. Middle English baye English bay From Middle English baye, baie, from Old English beġ (“berry”), as in beġbēam (“berry-tree”), conflated with Old French baie, from Latin bāca (“berry”). Pronunciation: /ˈbeɪ̯/, /ˈbeː/, /ˈbæ̝ɪ̯/ 1. A tree or shrub of species Laurus nobilis (family Lauraceae), having dark green leaves and berries. Labels: countable 2. Bay leaf, the leaf of this or certain other species of tree or shrub, used as a herb. Labels: uncountable 3. Mahogany of species Swietenia macrophylla obtained from Campeche in Mexico. Labels: uncountable 4. The leaves of this shrub, woven into a garland used to reward a champion or victor; hence, fame, victory. Labels: archaic, countable, in-plural, uncountable Example: both you here with many a cursed oth, / Sweare she is yours, and stirre vp bloudie frayes, / To win a willow bough, whilest other weares the bayes. Example: The patriot's honours and the poet's bays. 5. A tract covered with bay trees. Labels: US, countable, dialectal, uncountable 6. A berry. Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable
Word: bay Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English, from Old French baee, beee, from the verb beer (“gape open”), from Early Medieval Latin batāre. Compare Modern French baie. More at bevel, badinage. Pronunciation: /ˈbeɪ̯/, /ˈbeː/, /ˈbæ̝ɪ̯/ 1. An opening in a wall, especially between two columns. 2. An internal recess; a compartment or area surrounded on three sides. Example: Wrex: And Shepard--I like what you've done with the Normandy. Got tired of always hanging around the cargo bay before. Example: A “moving platform” scheme[…]is more technologically ambitious than maglev trains even though it relies on conventional rails. Local trains would use side-by-side rails to roll alongside intercity trains and allow passengers to switch trains by stepping through docking bays. 3. A display unit in a shop or store, especially a large metal one. Example: end bay Example: gondola bay 4. A section of ceiling delineated by supports such as rafters or vaulting ribs. 5. Each of the spaces, port and starboard, between decks, forward of the bitts, in sailing warships. 6. A bay platform. Example: There is a short bay at the west end of each platform, but neither is used for passenger trains. 7. A bay window. 8. A room for editing video footage or physical film.
Word: bay Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From the root *bai, combined with aphetized form of abay; verbal form of baier, abaier. Pronunciation: /ˈbeɪ̯/, /ˈbeː/, /ˈbæ̝ɪ̯/ 1. The excited howling of dogs when hunting or being attacked. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The hunt is up, the morn is bright and grey, / The fields are fragrant, and the woods are green. / Uncouple here, and let us make a bay / And wake the Emperor and his lovely bride, / And rouse the Prince, and ring a hunter's peal, / That all the court may echo with the noise. 2. The climactic confrontation between hunting-dogs and their prey. Labels: broadly, countable, uncountable 3. A state of being obliged to face an antagonist or a difficulty, when escape has become impossible. Labels: figuratively, uncountable Example: Embolden'd by despair, he stood at bay. Example: The most terrible evils are just kept at bay by incessant efforts.
Word: bay Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From the root *bai, combined with aphetized form of abay; verbal form of baier, abaier. Pronunciation: /ˈbeɪ̯/, /ˈbeː/, /ˈbæ̝ɪ̯/ 1. To howl. Labels: intransitive Example: The hounds at nearer distance hoarsely bay'd. Example: For at the last shall the thunder, fleeing to escape from the doom of the gods, roar horribly among the Worlds; and Time, the hound of the gods, shall bay hungrily at his masters because he is lean with age. 2. To bark at; hence, to follow with barking; to bring or drive to bay. Labels: transitive Example: to bay the bear Example: Spit, and throw stones, cast mire upon me, set / The dogs o'th' street to bay me 3. To pursue noisily, like a pack of hounds. Labels: transitive
Word: bay Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English bay, bai, from Old French bai, from Latin badius (“reddish brown, chestnut”). Pronunciation: /ˈbeɪ̯/, /ˈbeː/, /ˈbæ̝ɪ̯/ 1. Of a reddish-brown colour with a black mane and tail. Labels: especially Example: Mr. Free also owned restaurants and bred horses. His bay gelding, Packett's Landing, won almost $800,000 in his five-year career in the late 1980's and early 1990's.
Word: bay Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English bay, bai, from Old French bai, from Latin badius (“reddish brown, chestnut”). Pronunciation: /ˈbeɪ̯/, /ˈbeː/, /ˈbæ̝ɪ̯/ 1. A brown colour/color of the coat of some horses. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. A horse of this color. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: […] browns are the soberest, bays are the worst tempered, and chestnuts are the most foolish.
Word: factual Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From fact + -ual, modeled after, and by analogy with, actual. Pronunciation: /ˈfæk.tʃ(u)əl/, /ˈfæk.(t)ʃ(ʊ)əl/, /ˈfæk.tj(ʊ)əl/, /ˈfɛk.(t)ʃ(ʉː)əl/ 1. Pertaining to or consisting of objective claims. Example: This hypothesis goes by many names, including group resistence, the threshold effect, and the gender paradox. Because the hypothesis holds such wide appeal, it is worth revisiting the logic behind it. The hypothesis is built on the factual observation that fewer females than males act antisocially. Example: If, as Marx claimed, these factual views were held by the ideologists of the nineteenth century and if these factual claims could be proven false, then Marx could claim to have refuted certain tenets of capitalist political philosophy on a purely […] 2. True, accurate, corresponding to reality. Example: A book of this type is necessarily mainly factual, but it is diversified by many incidents and sidelights which help to give life to a story now accorded its due place in railway history. Example: He knew Guardian's real name. Did he dare play that card? "Yes ma'am, that's factual information. All of it."
Word: factual Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From fact + -ual, modeled after, and by analogy with, actual. Pronunciation: /ˈfæk.tʃ(u)əl/, /ˈfæk.(t)ʃ(ʊ)əl/, /ˈfæk.tj(ʊ)əl/, /ˈfɛk.(t)ʃ(ʉː)əl/ 1. Programmes having content based on facts, such as documentaries. Labels: uncountable Example: The BBC is increasing its budget for factual this year.
Word: tumble Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English tumblen (“to fall over and over again, tumble”), frequentative of Middle English tumben (“to fall, leap, dance”), from Old English tumbian, from Proto-West Germanic *tumbōn, tūmōn, from Proto-Germanic *tumbōną, tūmōną (“to turn, rotate”). Cognate with Middle Dutch tumelen (whence Dutch tuimelen), Middle Low German tumelen, tummelen, German taumeln, Danish tumle, Swedish tumla, tumbla (“to tumble”), Faroese tumla, tumbla (“to walk heavily and noisily, stagger”). Pronunciation: /ˈtʌmbl̩/, /ˈtʊmbl̩/ 1. A fall, especially end over end. Example: I took a tumble down the stairs and broke my tooth. 2. A disorderly heap. Example: When at last we stopped in a tumble of bodies on the grass, laughing, and in Dad's case, out of breath, we were like little kids (I mean 5 or 6! After all I am 12!) at the end of a playground session. 3. An act of sexual intercourse. Labels: informal Example: Wouldn't it be jolly now, / To take our Aertex panters off / And have a jolly tumble in / The jolly, jolly sun? Example: When you've just had a tumble between the sheets and are feeling rumpled and lazy, she may want to get up so she can make the bed.
Word: tumble Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English tumblen (“to fall over and over again, tumble”), frequentative of Middle English tumben (“to fall, leap, dance”), from Old English tumbian, from Proto-West Germanic *tumbōn, tūmōn, from Proto-Germanic *tumbōną, tūmōną (“to turn, rotate”). Cognate with Middle Dutch tumelen (whence Dutch tuimelen), Middle Low German tumelen, tummelen, German taumeln, Danish tumle, Swedish tumla, tumbla (“to tumble”), Faroese tumla, tumbla (“to walk heavily and noisily, stagger”). Pronunciation: /ˈtʌmbl̩/, /ˈtʊmbl̩/ 1. To fall end over end; to roll over and over. Labels: intransitive Example: He who tumbles from a tower surely has a greater blow than he who slides from a molehill. Example: “Heavens!” exclaimed Nina, “the blue-stocking and the fogy!—and yours are pale blue, Eileen!—you’re about as self-conscious as Drina—slumping there with your hair tumbling à la Mérode! Oh, it's very picturesque, of course, but a straight spine and good grooming is better.[…]” 2. To throw headlong. Labels: transitive Example: His hand went after his revolver almost that instant mine did. I was a second too quick for him, for my shot tumbled him from his mule just as his ball whistled harmlessly past by my head. Example: [Spillikins] was played with ivory or bone pieces about five inches long with assorted ends. These were tumbled out of a box into a pile on the table and each player, using a specially designed tool, would try in turn to remove a spillikin without upsetting the others in the pile. 3. To perform gymnastics such as somersaults, rolls, and handsprings. Labels: intransitive 4. To drop rapidly. Labels: intransitive Example: Share prices tumbled after the revelation about the company's impending failure. 5. To smooth and polish (e.g. gemstones or pebbles) by means of a rotating tumbler. Labels: transitive 6. To have sexual intercourse. Labels: informal, intransitive 7. To move or rush in a headlong or uncontrolled way. Labels: intransitive Example: Whether he ever thought of it at all, might be a question ; but, if he ever did chance to cast his mind that way after a comfortable dinner, no doubt, like a good sailor, he took it to be a sort of call of the watch to tumble aloft, and bestir themselves there, about something which he would find out when he obeyed the order, and not sooner. 8. To muss, to make disorderly; to tousle or rumple. Example: to tumble a bed 9. To obscure the audit trail of funds by means of a tumbler. Example: Now it’s easy to purchase bitcoins on any number of mainstream markets and “tumble” them so that their point of purchase is obscured. 10. To comprehend; often in tumble to. Labels: UK, obsolete, slang Example: Speaking of this language, a costermonger said to me: "The Irish can't tumble to it anyhow; the Jews can tumble better, but we're their masters. Some of the young salesmen at Billingsgate understand us, — but only at Billingsgate; […]
Word: humility Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English humilite, from Old French (h)umilité, from Latin humilitas (“lowness, meanness, baseness, in Late Latin humility”), from humilis (“low, lowly, humble, earth”). Equivalent to humble + -ity, with /mb/ reduced to /m/ (compare plumbing). Displaced native Old English ēaþmōdnes. Doublet of omertà. Pronunciation: /hjuːˈmɪlɪti/ 1. The characteristic of being humble; humbleness in character and behavior. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: You can tell his humility is real by how he treats ordinary people. Example: She had established a character for humility, discretion, noiselessness and religion which Mrs. Piper greatly regretted losing.
Word: rebate Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Old French rabatre < batre. See also abate. Pronunciation: /ˈɹiːbeɪt/, /ɹəˈbeɪt/ 1. A deduction from an amount that is paid; an abatement. 2. The return of part of an amount already paid. 3. The edge of a roll of film, from which no image can be developed. 4. A rectangular groove made to hold two pieces (of wood etc) together; a rabbet. Example: For your existing windows, the glazing rebates will also have to be deepened to provide the extra gap. 5. A piece of wood hafted into a long stick, and serving to beat out mortar. 6. An iron tool sharpened something like a chisel, and used for dressing and polishing wood. 7. A kind of hard freestone used in making pavements.