nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: spoor Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Early 19th century, from Afrikaans spoor, from Dutch spoor (“track”). Akin to Old English and Old Norse spor (whence Danish spor), and German Spur, all from Proto-Germanic *spurą. Compare spurn. Pronunciation: /spʊə/, /spɔː/, /spʊɹ/, /spɔɹ/, /spʉːɹ/ 1. The track, trail, droppings, or scent of an animal. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: We all stopped to examine that monstrous spoor. If it were indeed a bird - and what animal could leave such a mark? - its foot was so much larger than an ostrich's that its height upon the same scale must be enormous. Example: Even poor Nobs appeared dejected as we quit the compound and set out upon the well-marked spoor of the abductor.
Word: spoor Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Early 19th century, from Afrikaans spoor, from Dutch spoor (“track”). Akin to Old English and Old Norse spor (whence Danish spor), and German Spur, all from Proto-Germanic *spurą. Compare spurn. Pronunciation: /spʊə/, /spɔː/, /spʊɹ/, /spɔɹ/, /spʉːɹ/ 1. To track (an animal) by following its spoor. Labels: transitive
Word: trek Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Afrikaans trek, from Dutch trekken, from Middle Dutch trekken (weak verb) and trēken (“to trek, place, bring, move”, strong verb), from Old Dutch *trekkan, *trekan, from Proto-West Germanic *trekan, from Proto-Germanic *trekaną, *trakjaną (“to drag, haul, scrape, pull”), from Proto-Indo-European *dreg- (“to drag, scrape”). Pronunciation: /tɹɛk/ 1. A journey by ox wagon. Labels: South-Africa 2. The Boer migration of 1835–1837. Labels: South-Africa 3. A slow or difficult journey. Example: We're planning a trek up Kilimanjaro. Example: Early the next morning I set off on the long and hazardous trek through jungles and hills into Assam, and regretfully said "good-bye" to the gallant little Burma Railways, which had functioned to the last and played a big part in evacuating many thousands of refugees and wounded soldiers in the path of the rapidly advancing Japanese. 4. A long walk. Example: I would drive to the shops from here; you can walk, but it's quite a trek.
Word: trek Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Afrikaans trek, from Dutch trekken, from Middle Dutch trekken (weak verb) and trēken (“to trek, place, bring, move”, strong verb), from Old Dutch *trekkan, *trekan, from Proto-West Germanic *trekan, from Proto-Germanic *trekaną, *trakjaną (“to drag, haul, scrape, pull”), from Proto-Indo-European *dreg- (“to drag, scrape”). Pronunciation: /tɹɛk/ 1. To make a slow or arduous journey. Labels: intransitive Example: Before that they had been a good deal on the move, trekking about after the white man, who was one of those rolling stones that keep going round after a soft job. 2. To journey on foot, especially to hike through mountainous areas. Labels: intransitive 3. To travel by ox wagon. Labels: South-Africa 4. To travel by walking. Labels: Nigeria
Word: braai Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Afrikaans braai (“to grill”), from Dutch braden (“roast”). Pronunciation: /ˈbɹaɪ̯/, [ˈbɹʷaɪ̯], /ˈbɹaː/, [ˈbɹʷaː] 1. A barbecue (grill), especially an open outdoor grill built specifically for the purpose of braaing. Labels: South-Africa, countable, uncountable 2. A social meeting including the braaing of meat; a cookout. Labels: Botswana, South-Africa, Zimbabwe, countable, uncountable Example: Come over to our place for a braai. 3. Meat cooked by this method. Labels: uncountable
Word: braai Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Borrowed from Afrikaans braai (“to grill”), from Dutch braden (“roast”). Pronunciation: /ˈbɹaɪ̯/, [ˈbɹʷaɪ̯], /ˈbɹaː/, [ˈbɹʷaː] 1. To grill meat over an open flame (not on a gas grill). Labels: South-Africa, ambitransitive Example: […] so we decide to braai some ribs for supper. Example: You sniff the air. Smoke. Spices. One of the residents on the road has been, or perhaps is still, braaing.
Word: kraal Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From colonial Dutch kraal, from Portuguese curral. Doublet of corral. Pronunciation: /kɹɑːl/, /kɹɔːl/ 1. In Central and Southern Africa, a small rural community. Example: Onanis is the permanent residence of a kraal of very poor Hill-Damaras, who subsist chiefly upon the few wild roots which their sterile neighborhood produces. Example: ‘The paraffin box covered with newsprint, and the primus, and the bucket standing on the floor, and a photo of our kraal’s chief on the wall.’ 2. In Central and Southern Africa, a rural village of huts surrounded by a stockade. Example: A kraal was a homestead and usually included a simple fenced-in enclosure for animals, fields for growing crops, and one or more thatched huts. 3. An enclosure for livestock. Example: The animal, which is now six years old, was born naturally from the mating of a female goat with a male sheep sharing the same kraal.
Word: kraal Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From colonial Dutch kraal, from Portuguese curral. Doublet of corral. Pronunciation: /kɹɑːl/, /kɹɔːl/ 1. To enclose (livestock) within a kraal or stockade. Labels: transitive Example: […] he knew that one of these beasts was in the habit of harassing the goat-kids, which, for better security, he had kraaled against the wall of the house.
Word: laager Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From South African Dutch lager (“camp”) (modern Afrikaans laer), from German Lager, from Middle High German leger, from Old High German legar, from Proto-Germanic *legrą. Doublet of lager and lair. Pronunciation: /ˈlɑː.ɡə/, /ˈli.ɡəɹ/ 1. A defensive encampment encircled by wagons, especially by South African Boers. Example: Wagons […] can be readily formed into a laager, a camp, by being drawn into a circle, with the oxen placed inside and so kept safe from the attacks of wild beasts. Example: “And for how long d'you think you're going to be safe in the cities?” Louis persisted. “Just a matter of time, then our frontiers will shrink as we draw our little laager more and more tightly.” 2. A temporary formation of armoured vehicles for resupply.
Word: laager Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From South African Dutch lager (“camp”) (modern Afrikaans laer), from German Lager, from Middle High German leger, from Old High German legar, from Proto-Germanic *legrą. Doublet of lager and lair. Pronunciation: /ˈlɑː.ɡə/, /ˈli.ɡəɹ/ 1. To arrange in a circular formation for defence. Labels: transitive Example: At the foot of this isolated mount, whereof the aspect somehow filled me with alarm, we camped on the night of January 21, taking no precautions against attack by way of laagering the wagons. 2. To camp in a circular formation. Labels: intransitive Example: That evening, we laagered close to a large open area covered with elephant grass about six feet high.
Word: dorp Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Dutch dorp, which see for more. Doublet of dorf and thorp, and possibly also of troop and troupe. Pronunciation: /dɔː(ɹ)p/ 1. A village or small town; a town considered provincial. Labels: South-Africa Example: Omnium rerum viciſſitudo eſt, ones falling, is anothers riſing, and ſo fell it out with that ruind Dorpe or hamlet, which after it had relapſt into the Lordes handes for want of reparations, and there were not men enough in it to defend the ſhore from inuaſion, one Cerdicus a Plaſhing Saxon, that had reueld here and there with his battleaxe, on the bordring bankes of the decrepite ouerworne village now ſurnamed Gorleſtone threw forth his anchor, and with the aſſiſtance of his ſpeare, in ſtead of a pikeſtaffe, leapt agroũd like a ſturdie bruite, and his yeomen bolde caſt their heeles in their necke, and friſkt it after him, […] Example: When the aforesaid alderman or another wishes to express mild contemptuosity for his fellows and himself in future I would suggest “old fossils” or “old has beens,” or “old fogies,” then the Sir Galahads that are always riding—or driving—about in this progressive dorp will not have any cause to complain.
Word: Numbers Part of Speech: name 1. The Book of Numbers, the fourth of the Books of Moses in the Old Testament of the Bible, the fourth book in the Torah. Example: For in the book of Numbers is it writ, When the man dies, let the inheritance Descend unto the daughter.
Word: sadistic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree English sadist Proto-Indo-European *-ikos Proto-Italic *-ikos Latin -icuslbor. Old French -iquebor. Middle English -ik English -ic English sadistic From sadist + -ic. Pronunciation: /səˈdɪstɪk/ 1. Delighting in or feeling pleasure from the pain or humiliation of others. Example: Together, with the help of the drunkard Haymitch (Woody Harrelson), the only District 12 citizen ever to win the Games, they challenge tributes that range from sadistic volunteers to crafty kids like the pint-sized Rue (Amandla Stenberg) to the truly helpless and soon-to-be-dead. 2. Of behaviour which takes pleasure in the pain or humiliation of others. 3. Causing a high degree of pain or humiliation. Labels: colloquial
Word: bad taste in one's mouth Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Refers to the feeling of nausea or its aftereffects. 1. A feeling that something is morally despicable as to cause nausea. Labels: idiomatic Example: The more I thought of my orders, the more it left a bad taste in my mouth. 2. A feeling of guilt, responsibility, or embarrassment as to cause nausea. Labels: idiomatic Example: Knowing that I had inadvertently aided a killer, left me with a bad taste in my mouth. 3. A feeling of disappointment and frustration. Labels: idiomatic
Word: pashmak Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Persian پشمک (pašmak), diminutive of پشم (pašm, “wool”). 1. A type of Persian candy floss or cotton candy made from sesame oil and sugar. Labels: uncountable
Word: babe in arms Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English [Term?]. 1. An infant. Labels: idiomatic Example: He was still a babe in arms when his father died overseas.
Word: snake oil Part of Speech: noun 1. A fraudulent, ineffective potion or nostrum; panacea. Labels: idiomatic, uncountable 2. A traditional Chinese medicine used to treat joint pain. Labels: uncountable 3. A type of 19th-century patent medicine sold in the United States that claimed to contain snake fat, supposedly a Native American remedy for various ailments. Labels: uncountable 4. Any product with exaggerated marketing but questionable or unverifiable quality. Labels: idiomatic, uncountable Example: As for the IRP, Secretary of State Grant Shapps continues to peddle snake oil, smoke and mirrors. His reaction to near-universal IRP condemnation from politicians, local and national media, and all but a few rail specialists was to dismiss the lot of us (in the condescending and patronising tone we have now come to expect) as "critics and naysayers".
Word: widely Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From Middle English wijdly, equivalent to wide + -ly. Pronunciation: /ˈwaɪdli/ 1. In a wide manner; across a wide area. Example: I'm widely travelled. 2. Commonly; generally; to a great degree. Labels: figuratively Example: In 1866 Colonel J. F. Meline noted that the rebozo had almost disappeared in Santa Fe and that hoop skirts, on sale in the stores, were being widely used. Example: Kim Jong-il, who has died aged 69, was the general secretary of the Workers party of Korea, and head of the military in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK). He was one of the most reclusive and widely condemned national leaders of the late 20th and early 21st century, leaving his country diplomatically isolated, economically broken and divided from South Korea.
Word: points Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /pɔɪnts/ 1. plural of point Labels: form-of, plural
Word: points Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /pɔɪnts/ 1. Movable rails which can be used to switch a train from one railway track to another. Labels: Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, plural, plural-only 2. Exaggerated speech or gestures used for emphasis during a performance. Labels: plural, plural-only Example: In my concentrated week at Stratford I found that, although as a theatregoer for decades I could not help marking what the old actors called 'points' now and again, […] Example: The nineteenth century acting technique of making points was encouraged by the dramaturgy of the melodramas which dominated the stage. The style was in fact difficult to avoid in many popular plays.
Word: points Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /pɔɪnts/ 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of point Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: contemptible Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English contemptible, from Latin contemptibilis. By surface analysis, contempt + -ible. Pronunciation: /kənˈtɛmptəbəl/ 1. Deserving contempt. Example: But a Devil came in juſt in the God-ſpeed, and told them; Gentlemen Philoſophers, (ſays he) if you vvould knovv the VVretched'ſt, and moſt contemptible thing in the VVorld; It is an Alchymiſt: […] Example: Miss Ward's match, indeed, when it came to the point, was not contemptible: Sir Thomas being happily able to give his friend an income in the living of Mansfield […] 2. Carrying or having contempt; contemptuous. Labels: obsolete Example: One of the above petitioners had frequently praised Edward in the presence of Robert; but it was evidently disliked by the latter, and always drew from him some contemptible remark reflecting on the humility of his origin. Example: But what a contemptible notion must he entertain of this House!
Word: chalkboard Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From chalk + board. Pronunciation: /ˈt͡ʃɔːk.bɔː(ɹ)d/, /ˈt͡ʃɔk.bɔː(ɹ)d/ 1. A slate or enamel board for writing on with chalk; a predecessor to a whiteboard.
Word: chalkboard Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From chalk + board. Pronunciation: /ˈt͡ʃɔːk.bɔː(ɹ)d/, /ˈt͡ʃɔk.bɔː(ɹ)d/ 1. To write or draw on a chalkboard. Example: If you live in a home where painting walls isn't permitted, chalkboarding is still an option for you.
Word: uncover Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English uncoveren, equivalent to un- + cover. Pronunciation: /ʌnˈkʌvɚ/, /ʌnˈkʌvə(ɹ)/ 1. To remove a cover from. Example: The model railway was uncovered. 2. To reveal the identity of. Example: The murderer has finally been uncovered. 3. To show openly; to disclose; to reveal. Example: To uncover his perjury to the oath of his coronation. Example: But Levinson said in an interview that the stalemate uncovers a flaw in the US system. 4. To remove one's hat or cap as a mark of respect. Labels: intransitive, reflexive Example: Alfred, surprised to meet his father, whom he thought absent from home, […] stood, holding his firelock in one hand, and his hat in the other, having uncovered himself as soon as he perceived his father. Example: The English soldiers were directed in general orders to salute and uncover before the Host as it passed, and here in the wilderness the old religion held firm sway. 5. To expose the genitalia. Labels: intransitive, reflexive Example: The phallus had power to subdue the attacks of demons and the Evil Eye; and the female organs were potent over elemental disturbances, thus a woman uncovering herself could quell a storm. 6. To expose (lines of formation of troops) successively by the wheeling to right or left of the lines in front. Labels: transitive
Word: brava Part of Speech: intj Etymology: From Italian brava, feminine of bravo. Pronunciation: /ˈbɹɑ.və/ 1. Alternative form of bravo spoken to a female performer Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: BRAVA! Brava! Brava! to Caryl Rivers for her article “Why Can't Hollywood See That 35 Is Beautiful, Too?” It's about time people recognized the double standard in films where men and women are concerned. Example: When ballet stars perform in San Francisco, they always dine at Bali’s, the domain of a Manchurian-born Armenian, owner Armen Baliantz. […] An ex-ballerina herself, she has now brought all her discipline, grace, and charm to the running of Bali’s, and all we can say is “brava!”
Word: brava Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Italian brava, feminine of bravo. Pronunciation: /ˈbɹɑ.və/ 1. A shout of "brava!".
Word: brodi Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of brodo Labels: form-of, plural
Word: bubo Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Late Middle English, from Medieval Latin būbō, from Ancient Greek βουβών (boubṓn, “groin, swelling”). Pronunciation: /ˈbjuː.bəʊ/, /ˈbu.boʊ/, /ˈbju.boʊ/ 1. An inflamed swelling of a lymph node, especially in the armpit or groin, due to an infection such as bubonic plague, gonorrhea, tuberculosis, or syphilis. Example: If a Bubo or Carbuncle appear, set on Leeches not far from it, if it be in an ignoble part; ...
Word: bigger Part of Speech: adj Pronunciation: /ˈbɪɡəː/, [ˈbɪɡəː], /ˈbɪɡɚ/, [ˈbɪɡɚ] ~ [ˈbɪɡɹ̩] 1. comparative form of big: more big Labels: comparative, form-of Example: That whereas, and whereby, and by which, the major, and most greater, and most bigger, and most stronger party, […] Example: When you're well enough off so's you don't have to fret about anything but your heft or your diseases you begin to get queer, I suppose. And the queerer the cure for those ailings the bigger the attraction. A place like the Right Livers' Rest was bound to draw freaks, same as molasses draws flies.
Word: bigger Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ˈbɪɡəː/, [ˈbɪɡəː], /ˈbɪɡɚ/, [ˈbɪɡɚ] ~ [ˈbɪɡɹ̩] 1. To make or become bigger. Labels: nonstandard, rare Example: She's in along with mother, talking about the college; it's to be biggered, sir. Example: But I had to grow bigger. So bigger I got. I biggered my factory. I biggered my roads.
Word: digging Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈdɪɡɪŋ(ɡ)/ 1. The action performed by a person or thing that digs. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. A place where ore is dug, especially certain localities in California, Australia, etc. where gold is obtained. Labels: countable, uncountable 3. Accommodation; lodgings; digs. Labels: colloquial, countable, dated, uncountable 4. Region; locality. Labels: archaic, colloquial, countable, in-plural, often, uncountable Example: This knock-down argument in favour of big mosquitoes used the Hoosier up, and the logician started on a new track, to explain how numerous bear were in his "diggins," where he represented them to be "about as plenty as blackberries, and a little plentifuler.”
Word: digging Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ˈdɪɡɪŋ(ɡ)/ 1. present participle and gerund of dig Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: scope Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Italian scopo (“purpose”), from Latin scopus (“target”), from Ancient Greek σκοπός (skopós), from σκέπτομαι (sképtomai), from Proto-Indo-European *speḱ-. Etymologically related to skeptic and spectrum. Pronunciation: /skəʊp/, /skoʊp/, /skəʉp/, [skɐʉp], /skɐʉp/ 1. The breadth, depth or reach of a subject; the extent of applicability or relevance; a domain, purview or remit. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Environmental impacts lie outside the scope of this report. Example: Such transactions fall within the scope of VAT. 2. A device used in aiming a projectile, through which the person aiming looks at the intended target. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Coastie yanked her eye away from the night scope when those big lights were caught by it and amplified in intensity. Her entire view had gone white in an instant. “I can't see!” Temporarily blinded, she let touch become her primary sense, dropped the M40, and grabbed her alternate weapon, an M16 with an ACOG day scope that was already registered for the same distance. 3. Potential range of action; degree of freedom; opportunity. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: My job doesn't give me much scope for personal development. Example: It is also true that the vast majority of teachers are highly skilled and experienced professionals who are already doing an excellent job in the classroom, thus leaving relatively little scope for improvement. 4. The region of program source code in which a given identifier is meaningful, or a given object can be accessed. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: A variable's scope is the region of a program within which the variable can be referred to by its simple name. Secondarily, scope also determines when the system creates and destroys memory for the variable. Scope is distinct from visibility, which applies only to member variables and determines whether the variable can be used from outside of the class within which it is declared. 5. The shortest sub-wff of which a given instance of a logical connective is a part. Labels: countable, uncountable 6. The region of an utterance to which some modifying element applies. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: the scope of an adverb 7. Ellipsis of any word ending in -scope, such as endoscope, periscope, telescope, microscope, oscilloscope, and so on. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, ellipsis, uncountable 8. Any medical procedure that ends in the suffix -scopy, such as endoscopy, colonoscopy, bronchoscopy, etc. Labels: colloquial, countable, uncountable
Word: scope Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Italian scopo (“purpose”), from Latin scopus (“target”), from Ancient Greek σκοπός (skopós), from σκέπτομαι (sképtomai), from Proto-Indo-European *speḱ-. Etymologically related to skeptic and spectrum. Pronunciation: /skəʊp/, /skoʊp/, /skəʉp/, [skɐʉp], /skɐʉp/ 1. To perform a cursory investigation of; scope out. Labels: informal, transitive Example: We don't know, so let's scope the action before having another shoot out. Example: “Let's scope the scene.” The gang advanced, searching for humanity. 2. To perform any medical procedure that ends in the suffix -scopy, such as endoscopy, colonoscopy, bronchoscopy, etc. Labels: colloquial Example: The surgeon will scope the football player's knee to repair damage to a ligament. 3. To define the scope of something. Example: Before scoping the investigation and developing a work plan, it is necessary to establish reasonable goals and objectives. Example: The purpose of witness interviews is multi-faceted but generally includes scoping the investigation, understanding the facts and issues at play, and assessing the accountability of individuals and possible defences for the company and[…] 4. To limit (an object or variable) to a certain region of program source code. Example: If we locally scope the user's login name, it won't be accessible from outside this function. 5. To examine under a microscope. Labels: informal Example: The entomologist explained that he could not tell what species of springtail we were looking at without scoping it. 6. To observe a bird using a spotting scope. Labels: informal Example: `Maybe there was another darker bird and it had flown away before we could scope it?' `Yes there must have been,' came the grim-faced reply.
Word: scope Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin scopa. Pronunciation: /skəʊp/, /skoʊp/, /skəʉp/, [skɐʉp], /skɐʉp/ 1. A bundle, as of twigs. Labels: obsolete
Word: calling Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English callyng, kallyng, kalland, from Old English *cealliende and Old Norse kallandi, equivalent to call + -ing. Pronunciation: /ˈkɔːlɪŋ/, [kʰolɪŋ], /kaːlɪn/, /ˈkɔlɪŋ/, [kʰɔlɪŋ] 1. present participle and gerund of call Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: calling Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English calling, callynge, equivalent to call + -ing. Pronunciation: /ˈkɔːlɪŋ/, [kʰolɪŋ], /kaːlɪn/, /ˈkɔlɪŋ/, [kʰɔlɪŋ] 1. A strong urge (to do some particular thing with or in one's life, for example to become religious, to help the poor, or to be an entertainer). 2. A job or occupation. Example: Private-equity nabobs bristle at being dubbed mere financiers. Piling debt onto companies’ balance-sheets is only a small part of what leveraged buy-outs are about, they insist. Improving the workings of the businesses they take over is just as core to their calling, if not more so. Much of their pleading is public-relations bluster.
Word: bunting Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Possibly from dialect bunting (“sifting flour”), from Middle English bonten (“to sift”), hence the material used for that purpose. Possibly from Germanic bundt (“to bind or tie together”). Pronunciation: /ˈbʌntɪŋ/ 1. Strips of material used as festive decoration, especially in the colours of the national flag. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. A thin cloth of woven wool from which flags are made; it is light enough to spread in a gentle wind but resistant to fraying in a strong wind. Labels: countable, uncountable 3. Flags considered as a group. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: bunting Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English bunting, bountyng, buntynge (also as Middle English buntyle), of uncertain origin. Possibly a reference to speckled plumage, from an unrecorded Middle English *bunt (“spotted, speckled, pied”) akin to Dutch bont, Middle Low German bunt, bont, German bunt (“multi-coloured”) + -ing. Pronunciation: /ˈbʌntɪŋ/ 1. Any of various songbirds of the genus Emberiza, having short bills and brown or gray plumage.
Word: bunting Part of Speech: noun Etymology: 1922, apparently from Scots buntin (“plump, short and thick (esp. of children)”), itself an old term of endearment for children (1660s); the sense “plump” dates to the 1500s, and may be related to bunt (“belly of a sail”). Possibly related to butt (“(both noun and verb sense: buttocks; strike with head)”) or to bunny (“rabbit”). Compare with the nursery rhyme Bye, baby Bunting (1731), either of same origin or influenced this sense. Pronunciation: /ˈbʌntɪŋ/ 1. A warm, often hooded infant garment, as outerwear or sleepwear, similar to a sleeper or sleepsack; especially as baby bunting or bunting bag.
Word: bunting Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ˈbʌntɪŋ/ 1. present participle and gerund of bunt Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: bunting Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈbʌntɪŋ/ 1. A pushing action. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. A strong timber; a stout prop. Labels: countable, uncountable 3. An old boys' game, played with sticks and a small piece of wood. Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable
Word: probably Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From Middle English probably, probabily, equivalent to probable + -ly. Pronunciation: /ˈpɹɒb.ə.bli/, /ˈpɹɒb.li/, /ˈpɹɑ.bə.bli/, /ˈpɹɑ.(b)li/, /ˈpɹɑə(b)li/ 1. In all likelihood. Example: She probably has arrived by now. Example: She has probably arrived by now.
Word: smudge Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Derived from the verb (see below). Doublet of smutch. Pronunciation: /smʌd͡ʒ/ 1. A blemish or smear, especially a dark or sooty one. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: There was a smudge on the paper. 2. Dense smoke, such as that used for fumigation. Labels: countable, uncountable 3. A heap of damp combustibles partially ignited and burning slowly, placed on the windward side of a house, tent, etc. to keep off mosquitoes or other insects. Labels: US, countable, uncountable Example: Then "smudges" are in vogue,—heaps of damp combustibles placed on the windward side of the house and partially ignited, that their inky steams may smother the mosquitoes while we take our chance. I have had a "smudge" made in a chafing-dish at my bedside, after a serious deliberation between choking and being devoured at small mouthfuls; and I conscientiously recommend choking, or running the risk of it, at least. Example: We had taken about ten pounds of trout; and the first procedure, after reaching the camp, was to build a smudge or smoke-fire, to drive away these abominable gnats, who, fortunately, take flight with the first whiff of smoke. 4. A quantity of herbs used in suffumigation. Labels: countable, especially, uncountable Example: Devil's dirt or asafetida ground together with fenugreek and black cumin seed is used as a smudge against witches and […]
Word: smudge Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English *smogen (attested in the gerund smogynge (“soiling, smudging”)), of obscure origin. Compare Middle English besmudded, bismuddet (“filthy”), Middle English smod (“filth, obscene behaviour”), Middle Dutch smoddich (“filthy, dirty”), German schmutzig (“dirty, filthy”). Pronunciation: /smʌd͡ʒ/ 1. To obscure by blurring; to smear. 2. To soil or smear with dirt. 3. To use dense smoke to protect from insects. 4. To stifle or smother with smoke. 5. To burn herbs as a cleansing ritual (suffumigation). Labels: intransitive 6. To subject to ritual burning of herbs (suffumigation, smudging). Labels: transitive Example: This is easily done using incense to smudge yourself or taking a cleansing bath. To smudge your body use an incense mixture such as sandalwood, lavender, frankincense or myrrh.
Word: misplace Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *mey-? Proto-Indo-European *meyth₂-der. Proto-Germanic *missaz Proto-Germanic *missa- Proto-West Germanic *missa- Old English mis- Middle English mys- English mis- English place English misplace From mis- + place. Pronunciation: /mɪsˈpleɪs/ 1. To put something somewhere and then forget its location; to mislay. Labels: transitive Example: I might have misplaced my umbrella; do you know where it is? Example: At least once a week a patient will come into Dr. Thomas Loepfe’s busy geriatric clinic in Lacrosse, Wisconsin, with a worry. She will tell him she’s been misplacing her glasses lately, or he’ll say he’s concerned about losing the car keys. 2. To apply one's talents inappropriately. Labels: figuratively Example: Bart Groothuijze, who runs the Castodian foundation promoting safer motorbiking, blames a misplaced sense of freedom and vanity. 3. To put something in the wrong location. Example: Every word in English of more than one Syllable has a fixed accent established by the custom of the language, to misplace which is as offensive to the propriety of speech, as to missound the vowel.
Word: mitzva Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From ancient Hebrew text and scrolls. 1. A meritorious deed or action. Labels: Jewish Example: Something that God would smile upon: a mitzvah. 2. An order from rabbis or a commandment from the Bible Labels: Jewish Example: Helping the elderly man to cross the street was a fine mitzvah for Robert.
Word: audiotape Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From audio + tape. 1. A magnetic tape that stores analog sound for later playback on a tape player. Example: I thought of an old ad for Memorex audiotape. It showed a crystal glass being shattered by sound vibrations. By pure harmonics. 2. Any of a cassette tape, eight-track tape, reel-to-reel tape, DAT, etc.
Word: audiotape Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From audio + tape. 1. To record onto audiotape. Labels: transitive
Word: squeal Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Inherited from Middle English squelen, probably from Old Norse skvala (“to squeal, bawl”), from Proto-Germanic *skwel- (“to chatter, babble, scream”), perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *skel-, from *kelh₁- (“to ring, resound, cry”). Compare Old Norse skval (“a squeal”, noun), Swedish skvallra (“to babble, chatter, tell on”). Pronunciation: /skwiːl/, /skwil/ 1. A high-pitched sound, such as the scream of a child or a female person, or noisy worn-down brake pads. 2. The cry of a pig.
Word: squeal Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Inherited from Middle English squelen, probably from Old Norse skvala (“to squeal, bawl”), from Proto-Germanic *skwel- (“to chatter, babble, scream”), perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *skel-, from *kelh₁- (“to ring, resound, cry”). Compare Old Norse skval (“a squeal”, noun), Swedish skvallra (“to babble, chatter, tell on”). Pronunciation: /skwiːl/, /skwil/ 1. To scream with a shrill, prolonged sound. Labels: ambitransitive Example: The children squealed with delight while opening their Christmas presents. 2. To make a squealing noise. (of an object) Example: The brakes squeal terribly. Example: We continue through suburban Newcastle along the edge of the Tyne, before squealing around the tight curves onto the magnificent High Level bridge, which affords glorious views across Newcastle and along the river before arriving at journey's end. 3. To give sensitive information about someone to a third party; to rat on someone. Labels: intransitive, slang Example: You'd better not squeal on me to the cops.
Word: applesauce Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From apple + sauce. 1. Alternative spelling of apple sauce. Labels: alt-of, alternative, countable, uncountable Example: Because Mother had been so busy making applesauce, dinner was a little late that night. 2. Nonsense, balderdash, bunk, piffle. Labels: US, countable, dated, slang, uncountable
Word: applesauce Part of Speech: intj Etymology: From apple + sauce. 1. Nonsense! Labels: US, dated, slang
Word: background Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From back + ground. Compare backstory. Pronunciation: /ˈbæk.(ɡ)ɹaʊnd/ 1. Less important or less noticeable in a scene or system. Labels: not-comparable Example: background noise Example: The antivirus program runs on a background thread.
Word: background Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From back + ground. Compare backstory. Pronunciation: /ˈbæk.(ɡ)ɹaʊnd/ 1. One's social heritage, or previous life; what one did in the past. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The lawyer had a background in computer science. 2. A part of the picture that depicts scenery to the rear or behind the main subject; context. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Earless ghost swift moths become “invisible” to echolocating bats by forming mating clusters close[…]above vegetation and effectively blending into the clutter of echoes that the bat receives from the leaves and stems around them. Many insects probably use this strategy, which is a close analogy to crypsis in the visible world — camouflage and other methods for blending into one’s visual background. 3. An extra who appears in the background, with no speaking role. Labels: countable, uncountable 4. Information relevant to the current situation about past events; history. Labels: countable, uncountable 5. A less important feature of scenery (as opposed to foreground). Labels: countable, uncountable Example: There was tons of noise in the background. Example: The photographer let us pick a background for the portrait. 6. The image or color over which a computer's desktop items are shown (e.g. icons or application windows). Labels: countable, uncountable 7. A type of activity on a computer that is not normally visible to the user. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The antivirus program is running in the background. 8. Ellipsis of background radiation. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, ellipsis, uncountable Example: low-background
Word: background Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From back + ground. Compare backstory. Pronunciation: /ˈbæk.(ɡ)ɹaʊnd/ 1. To place in the background. Labels: transitive Example: Ha! I see Venus’ transit now;—lo! a new planet there;—and behind all, an infinite starry nebulousness, as if thy being were backgrounded by some spangled vail of mystery. 2. To put in a position that is not prominent. Labels: figuratively, transitive Example: One aspect of the story that appears interesting is that the alleged rapist and victim are only referred to by name together in the same sentence once. In all the other sentences, one receives more focus, while the other is backgrounded. 3. To gather and provide background information (on). 4. To increase the weight and immunity of (a calf) by feeding with forage and grains, as an intermediate stage in cattle production, between weaning and placement in a feedlot. Labels: transitive
Word: background Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ˈbæk.(ɡ)ɹaʊnd/ 1. simple past and past participle of backgrind Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: apodeictic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἀποδεικτικός (apodeiktikós). Compare Latin apodicticus. Pronunciation: /ˌapəˈdaɪk.tɪk/ 1. Affording proof; demonstrative. Labels: not-comparable 2. Incontrovertible; demonstrably true or certain. Labels: not-comparable 3. Of the characteristic feature of a proposition that is necessary (or impossible): perfectly certain (or inconceivable) or incontrovertibly true (or false); self-evident. Labels: not-comparable Example: 1855, John Miller Dow Meiklejohn (translator), 1787, Immanuel Kant, Critique of Pure Reason, 2nd Edition, Thus, moreover, the principles of geometry- for example, that "in a triangle, two sides together are greater than the third," are never deduced from general conceptions of line and triangle, but from intuition, and this a priori, with apodeictic certainty. Example: Aristotle does, indeed, distinguish between (1) Logic, or Analytic, as the theory or method of arriving at true or apodeictic conclusions; and (2) Dialectic as the method of arriving at conclusions that are accepted or pass current[ly] as true,...
Word: jazzy Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree English jazz Proto-Indo-European *-kos Proto-Germanic *-gaz Proto-West Germanic *-g Old English -iġ Middle English -y English -y English jazzy From jazz + -y. Pronunciation: /ˈd͡ʒæzi/ 1. In the style of jazz. 2. Flashy or showy. 3. Lacking focus; jittery or jangly. Example: Your mother-of-pearl teeth, hard thighs, heaving ribcage — The smooth back of your adolescent neck, Your hot testicles swimming with future generations, And that rhinoceros horn there that makes you shiver all jazzy — You are where I get my fantasies, nigra. Example: John was waiting in the health club's juice bar, wearing a gray pinstriped Oxford suit and a blue Hermes tie. "You look all jazzy," Tyler said as he approached his partner. "I got you a cup of coffee."
Word: MV Part of Speech: noun 1. Initialism of motor vessel. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism 2. Initialism of motor vehicle. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism 3. Initialism of merchant vessel. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism Example: Near-synonyms: merchant ship, merchantman 4. Initialism of mitral valve. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism 5. Initialism of mechanical ventilation. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism 6. Initialism of measured variable. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism 7. Initialism of modern variety. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism 8. Initialism of music video. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Word: MV Part of Speech: name 1. Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, a federal state of Germany.
Word: dungarees Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From dungaree + -s, from Hindi डूंगरी (ḍūṅgrī, “coarse calico”), from the name of a village. Pronunciation: /ˌdʌŋ.ɡəˈɹiːz/ 1. Heavy denim pants or trousers, usually with bib and braces, worn especially as work clothing. Labels: plural, plural-only Example: Helen donned a pair of faded dungarees and grabbed her knapsack before rushing off to school. Example: Next came a domeshaped sukhpal (palanquin), its silver plated pole being borne by eight sturdy troopers wearing red flowing kurtas, silk kamarbunds, and silk dungarees.
Word: jodhpurs Part of Speech: noun Etymology: 1913 (earlier as jodhpur breeches, 1899), from Jodhpur, former state in northwestern India. The city at the heart of the state was founded 1459 by Rao Jodha, a local ruler, and is named for him. Pronunciation: /ˈd͡ʒɒdpəz/, /ˈd͡ʒəʊdpəz/, /ˈd͡ʒɑdpɚz/ 1. Flared riding trousers of heavy cloth, fitting tightly from knee to ankle. Labels: plural, plural-only Example: "What's the big idea?" Dorothy sprang in beside him, looking very trim and boyish in jodhpurs and dark flannel shirt over which she wore a thin brown sweater. Example: The man in jodphurs muttered, ‘Is why black people can't get on. You see how these waiters behaving? And they black like hell too, you know.’
Word: gurner Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From gurn + -er. 1. A person who performs at gurning
Word: girning Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Metathesized form of grin. 1. A light-hearted competition in which people girn (make elaborate faces) through a horse collar; most popular in rural parts of England. Labels: Northern-England
Word: girning Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Metathesized form of grin. 1. present participle and gerund of girn Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: girn Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English gyrnen, a metathesised form of grinnen, grennen. More at grin. Pronunciation: /ɡɜː(ɹ)n/ 1. To grimace; to snarl. Labels: dialectal Example: The poor lass was sitting bemoaning herself - "Were it nae for thy girning face, I would knock the big, winnow the corn, and grun the meal." Example: At seventy-five or eighty I will be like a child myself, frail and cantankerous, a girning, burdensome old devil. 2. To whinge, moan, complain. Labels: Northern-England, Scotland Example: And Jim was just girning all the time. I telled him to shut it. 3. To make elaborate unnatural and distorted faces as a form of amusement or in a girning competition. Labels: intransitive
Word: girn Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English gyrnen, a metathesised form of grinnen, grennen. More at grin. Pronunciation: /ɡɜː(ɹ)n/ 1. A vocalization similar to a cat's purring. Example: A different vocalization, a girn, simiular to a cat's purring, was observed in infants reunited with their mothers...
Word: minus Part of Speech: prep Etymology: From Middle English mynus, from Latin minus, neuter form of minor, comparative form of parvus (“small, little”), from the Proto-Indo-European root *mey- (“few, small”). Pronunciation: /ˈmaɪ.nəs/, /ˈmɑe.nəs/, [ˈmɑe̯.nəs], /maj.nŭs/ 1. Made less or reduced by (followed by an expression of number or quantity). Example: Seven minus two is five. 2. Without; deprived of. Labels: informal Example: I walked out minus my coat.
Word: minus Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English mynus, from Latin minus, neuter form of minor, comparative form of parvus (“small, little”), from the Proto-Indo-European root *mey- (“few, small”). Pronunciation: /ˈmaɪ.nəs/, /ˈmɑe.nəs/, [ˈmɑe̯.nəs], /maj.nŭs/ 1. The minus sign (−). Example: On the third day a Master Barnard brings me up a slate full of plusses, minusses, x, y, z’s, and other letters of the alphabet, in a most amiable algebraical confusion. 2. A negative quantity. 3. A downside or disadvantage. Example: He valued Roderick’s friendship with the highest value he put on anything nowadays. Over the years they had assessed each other’s plusses and minusses and settled for the difference. Example: As with LCR tout court the question is less to do with the plusses and minusses of the individual ideologies in themselves than in their relationship with their opposite numbers, in this case of Reason with Emotion.
Word: minus Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English mynus, from Latin minus, neuter form of minor, comparative form of parvus (“small, little”), from the Proto-Indo-European root *mey- (“few, small”). Pronunciation: /ˈmaɪ.nəs/, /ˈmɑe.nəs/, [ˈmɑe̯.nəs], /maj.nŭs/ 1. Being a negative quantity; pertaining to a deficit or reduction. Labels: not-comparable Example: a minus number 2. That is below zero by (a specified amount) on a scale. Labels: not-comparable Example: minus seven degrees 3. Worse off than before; out of pocket. Labels: colloquial, not-comparable, obsolete Example: The races being finished, we left Epsom for London, Mordaunt's natural vile temper not being at all improved by being three hundred pounds minus by the week's speculation […] . 4. Ranking just below (a designated rating). Labels: not-comparable, postpositional Example: He got a grade of B minus for his essay.
Word: minus Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English mynus, from Latin minus, neuter form of minor, comparative form of parvus (“small, little”), from the Proto-Indo-European root *mey- (“few, small”). Pronunciation: /ˈmaɪ.nəs/, /ˈmɑe.nəs/, [ˈmɑe̯.nəs], /maj.nŭs/ 1. To subtract. Labels: colloquial, transitive Example: For example, in solving the following equation, x + 4 = 9, the child using the negating mechanism will reason, "minussing 4" undoes "plussing 4" therefore, if x + 4 = 9 then x = 5 and will not see any point in using any intermediate steps. Example: (The terms positive and negative feedback are now part of everyday language where the meanings are reversed: in cybernetic systems, positive feedback is undesirable for it indicates that the discrepancy is “plussing,” rather than “minussing” to zero.)
Word: costume Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from French costume, from Italian costume, from Latin consuētūdō (“custom, habit”). Doublet of consuetude, custom, and kastom. Verb circa 1802, perhaps modelled on French costumer. Pronunciation: /ˈkɒs.tjuːm/, /ˈkɒs.t͡ʃuːm/, /ˈkɑsˌt(j)um/, /ˈkɑsˌt͡ʃum/, /ˈkɑs.tʊm/ 1. A style of dress, including garments, accessories and hairstyle, especially as characteristic of a particular country, period or people. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: the sight of thousands of people gathered to watch men walk the streets openly in female costume Example: The apology came after a netizen claimed Soberano was supposedly doing a black face, but the latter said, in defense, it was just a “costume.” 2. An outfit or a disguise worn as fancy dress etc. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: We wore gorilla costumes to the party. 3. A set of clothes appropriate for a particular occasion or season. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The bride wore a grey going-away costume. 4. A swimming costume. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: They call their bathing suits down there "costumes."
Word: costume Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Borrowed from French costume, from Italian costume, from Latin consuētūdō (“custom, habit”). Doublet of consuetude, custom, and kastom. Verb circa 1802, perhaps modelled on French costumer. Pronunciation: /ˈkɒs.tjuːm/, /ˈkɒs.t͡ʃuːm/, /kɑsˈt(j)um/, /kɑsˈt͡ʃum/, /ˈkɑsˌt(j)um/ 1. To dress or adorn with a costume or appropriate garb. Example: Seated on the carpet, by the side of this basin, was seen Mr. Rochester, costumed in shawls, with a turban on his head. His dark eyes and swarthy skin and Paynim features suited the costume exactly. He looked the very model of an Eastern emir, an agent or a victim of the bowstring. Example: "The Chengtu revolutionaries were fantastically colourful in the Szechwanese manner—they costumed themselves as heroes of the stage and their energies were chiefly occupied in tying ropes across the main streets so that when Imperial officials rode by in their litters they would have to get down and crawl under, losing face.
Word: compliance Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English comply Proto-Indo-European *-(i)yós Proto-Italic *-ijos Proto-Italic *-ios Old Latin -ios Latin -ius Latin -iader. Old French -ancebor. Middle English -aunce English -ance English compliance From comply + -ance. Pronunciation: /kəmˈplaɪ.əns/, /kəmˈplɑe.əns/, [kəmˈplɑe̯.əns] 1. An act of complying. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: strict compliance Example: regulatory compliance 2. The state of being compliant. Labels: uncountable Example: The software ensures compliance with data protection laws. 3. The tendency of conforming with or agreeing to the wishes of others. Labels: uncountable Example: His quick compliance with the order impressed the officer. 4. A measure of the extension or displacement of a loaded structure; its flexibility. Labels: countable, uncountable 5. The accuracy with which a patient follows an agreed treatment plan. Labels: countable, uncountable 6. The department of a business that ensures all government regulations are complied with. Labels: uncountable