nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: spatial Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin spatium + -al. Pronunciation: /ˈspeɪ.ʃəl/, /ˈspæɪ.ʃəl/ 1. Pertaining to (the dimension of) space. Labels: not-comparable Example: In the one case these are spatial, in the other chromatic, in the third moral; and would be what the Germans call intensiv in a fourth case, if I were to say, "Camphor smells milder than ammonia." Example: The single-imaging optic of the mammalian eye offers some distinct visual advantages. Such lenses can take in photons from a wide range of angles, increasing light sensitivity. They also have high spatial resolution, resolving incoming images in minute detail. 2. Pertaining to (outer) space. Labels: not-comparable, uncommon Example: It was a land that could no longer be seriously described as underdeveloped, a land that has been able to achieve remarkably high rates of growth in its industrial production and gross national product since 1928, and a land that would shortly send into outer space the first man-made, and eventually also the first manned, spatial vehicle. Example: By following the roadmap suggested by Godunov himself, the next step in order to reduce truncation errors in a context of large gradients should be to set up moving mesh methods; a suggestion from the man who created the scheme by means of which were achieved computations of the Apollo spatial vehicle during its reentry into Earth's atmosphere [20], is most probably worth being worked out!
Word: spectacle Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English spectacle, from Middle French spectacle, from Latin spectāculum (“a show, spectacle”), from spectō (“to see, behold”), frequentative of speciō (“to see”). See species. Doublet of spectaculum. Pronunciation: /ˈspɛktəkl̩/ 1. An exciting or extraordinary scene, exhibition, performance etc. Example: The horse race was a thrilling spectacle. Example: VVith ſcoffes and ſcornes, and contumelious taunts, / In open Market-place produc't they me, / To be a publique ſpectacle to all: / Here, ſayd they, is the Terror of the French, / The Scar-Crovv that affrights our Children ſo. 2. An embarrassing or unedifying scene or situation. Example: He made a spectacle out of himself. 3. Attributive form of spectacles. Labels: attributive, form-of Example: Some very interesting relics of Adam and Eve were shown us, that were brought from America; such as a fine-tooth comb, made of thorns, a part of a pair of leather spectacle frames, without glasses, a boot jack made of ebony, and a set of pawpaws of props, with the backs filled with a hard substance, resembling lava. 4. The brille of a snake. 5. A frame with different coloured lenses on a semaphore signal through which light from a lamp shines at night, often a part of the signal arm.
Word: spire Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English spire, spyre, spier, spir, from Old English spīr, from Proto-Germanic *spīrō, *spīrǭ (“peak; point; tip; stalk”). Cognate with Dutch spier, German Low German Spier, German Spier, Spiere, Danish spir, Norwegian spir and spire, Swedish spira, Icelandic spíra. Pronunciation: /spaɪə/, /ˈspaɪ.ə/, /ˈspaɪ.ɚ/ 1. The stalk or stem of a plant. Labels: archaic 2. A young shoot of a plant; a spear. Example: Clara had pulled a button from a hollyhock spire, and was breaking it to get the seeds. 3. Any of various tall grasses, rushes, or sedges, such as the marram, the reed canary-grass, etc. 4. A sharp or tapering point. Example: A beech wood with silver firs in it rolled down the face of the hill, and the maze of leafless twigs and dusky spires cut sharp against the soft blueness of the evening sky. Example: This park’s strange and beautiful rock formations were formed by the Yellowstone River and various streams that have cut through the rock over millions of years, carving out hoodoos, spires and caprocks. The name Makoshika comes from a Lakota word for badlands. 5. A tapering structure built on a roof or tower, especially as one of the central architectural features of a church or cathedral roof. Example: The spire of the church rose high above the town. 6. The top, or uppermost point, of anything; the summit. Example: the spire and top of praises 7. A tube or fuse for communicating fire to the charge in blasting.
Word: spire Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English spire, spyre, spier, spir, from Old English spīr, from Proto-Germanic *spīrō, *spīrǭ (“peak; point; tip; stalk”). Cognate with Dutch spier, German Low German Spier, German Spier, Spiere, Danish spir, Norwegian spir and spire, Swedish spira, Icelandic spíra. Pronunciation: /spaɪə/, /ˈspaɪ.ə/, /ˈspaɪ.ɚ/ 1. to sprout, to send forth the early shoots of growth; to germinate. Example: In gentle Ladies breste and bounteous race / Of woman kind it fayrest Flowre doth spyre, / And beareth fruit of honour and all chast desyre. Example: It is not so apt to spire up as the other sorts, being more inclined to branch into arms. 2. To grow upwards rather than develop horizontally. 3. To furnish with a spire. Labels: transitive
Word: spire Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Old French spirer, and its source, Latin spīrō (“to breathe”). Pronunciation: /spaɪə/, /ˈspaɪ.ə/, /ˈspaɪ.ɚ/ 1. To breathe. Labels: intransitive, obsolete
Word: spire Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle French spire. Pronunciation: /spaɪə/, /ˈspaɪ.ə/, /ˈspaɪ.ɚ/ 1. One of the sinuous foldings of a serpent or other reptile; a coil. Example: A dragon's fiery form bely'd the god: Sublime on radiant spires he rode. 2. A spiral. 3. The part of a spiral generated in one revolution of the straight line about the pole.
Word: splay Part of Speech: verb Etymology: PIE word *dwís The verb is derived from Middle English splaien, splayen (“to display; to spread out, unfurl (a flag, etc.); (cooking) to cut open (a fish) lengthwise and lay it open; (figurative) to appear; to spread”), an aphetic form of Middle English displaien, displayen (“to display”): see display. The adjective and adverb are derived from the verb, or from splayfoot (noun) or splayfooted (adjective). The noun is derived from the verb. Pronunciation: /spleɪ/ 1. To spread, spread apart, or spread out (something); to expand. Labels: transitive Example: Thiſſame ſo great a chaunge of the world, begoonne within a fewe yeares after Chriſt was putte to death, to be made generall and common through al the whold worlde, and withoute any maintenaunce or ſupportacion of mã [man], it encreaced from tyme to tyme ſtill more and more, vntyll the piece of leauen beeyng miengled in three peckes of meale did leauen and turne al the whole batche, and vntill the graine of muſtard ſeed beeyng digged into the yearth, did ferre and wyde ſpleigh his boughes abrode ouer Aſia, ouer Afrike, and Europe. Example: The Lydian maiden in her web did portray to her full / […] / Aſteriee ſtruggling with an Erne which did away hir beare, / And ouer Leda ſhe had made a Swan his wings to ſplay. 2. To construct a bevel or slope on (something, such as the frame or jamb of a door or window); to bevel, to slant, to slope. Labels: transitive Example: When entrance and egress [through a door] are constant, it may be supposed that the valves will be absent or unfastened,—that people will be passing more quickly than when the entrance and egress are unfrequent, and that the square angles of the wall will be inconvenient to such quick passers through. […] [T]hese angles, which would be worn away by friction, should at once be bevelled off, or, as it is called, splayed, and the most contracted part of the aperture made as short as possible, […] 3. To rearrange (a splay tree) so that a desired element is placed at the root. Labels: transitive 4. To dislocate (a body part such as a shoulder bone). Labels: transitive 5. To unfurl or unroll (a banner or flag). Labels: obsolete, transitive Example: Ye grounde yow vpon Godfrey, that grysly gargons face, / Your stondarde, Syr Olifranke, agenst me for to splay: […] Example: We rendred then with ſaftie for our liues, / Our Enſignes ſplayed, and manyging our armes, / With furder fayth, that from all kinde of giues, / Our ſouldiours ſhould remayne withouten harmes: […] 6. To have, or lie in, an oblique or slanted position. Labels: intransitive 7. To spread out awkwardly; to sprawl. Labels: intransitive Example: "What a finger!" says Mrs. Ponto, and indeed it was a finger, as knotted as a turkey's drumstick, and splaying all over the piano. When she had banged out the tune slowly, she began a different manner of "Gettin' up Stairs," and did so with a fury and swiftness quite incredible.
Word: splay Part of Speech: adj Etymology: PIE word *dwís The verb is derived from Middle English splaien, splayen (“to display; to spread out, unfurl (a flag, etc.); (cooking) to cut open (a fish) lengthwise and lay it open; (figurative) to appear; to spread”), an aphetic form of Middle English displaien, displayen (“to display”): see display. The adjective and adverb are derived from the verb, or from splayfoot (noun) or splayfooted (adjective). The noun is derived from the verb. Pronunciation: /spleɪ/ 1. Oblique, slanted. 2. Turned outward; spread out. Example: to sit splay-legged 3. Crooked, distorted, out of place. Labels: figuratively Example: splay shoulders Example: In the German mind, as in the German language, there does seem to be something splay, something blunt-edged, unhandy, and infelicitous,—some want of quick, fine, sure perception, which tends to balance the great superiority of the Germans in knowledge, and in the disposition to deal impartially with knowledge.
Word: splay Part of Speech: adv Etymology: PIE word *dwís The verb is derived from Middle English splaien, splayen (“to display; to spread out, unfurl (a flag, etc.); (cooking) to cut open (a fish) lengthwise and lay it open; (figurative) to appear; to spread”), an aphetic form of Middle English displaien, displayen (“to display”): see display. The adjective and adverb are derived from the verb, or from splayfoot (noun) or splayfooted (adjective). The noun is derived from the verb. Pronunciation: /spleɪ/ 1. In an oblique or slanted manner; obliquely, slantedly. 2. Of walking, etc.: with the feet turned outwards; in a splayfooted manner.
Word: splay Part of Speech: noun Etymology: PIE word *dwís The verb is derived from Middle English splaien, splayen (“to display; to spread out, unfurl (a flag, etc.); (cooking) to cut open (a fish) lengthwise and lay it open; (figurative) to appear; to spread”), an aphetic form of Middle English displaien, displayen (“to display”): see display. The adjective and adverb are derived from the verb, or from splayfoot (noun) or splayfooted (adjective). The noun is derived from the verb. Pronunciation: /spleɪ/ 1. An outward spread of an object such as a bowl or cup. 2. A bevel, slant, or slope, especially of the frame or jamb of a door or window, by which an opening is made larger at one face of the wall than at the other, or larger at each of the faces than it is between them. Labels: also, attributive Example: The daylight was so lowered by the impervious roof of cloud overhead that it scarcely reached further into Lord Mountclere's entrance-hall than to the splays of the windows, even but an hour or two after midday; […] 3. The amount of such a bevel, slant, or slope. Labels: also, attributive 4. A widening of a minor road where it forms a junction with a major road to ensure that the view of traffic on the major road by drivers on the minor road is not obstructed. Example: visibility splay 5. The view to the left or right which a driver on a minor road has of traffic on the major road; also, a plan showing this.
Word: splay Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English splaien, splayen, a variant of spaien, spayen (“to remove the ovaries of (a female animal), spay; to stab or kill (an animal)”): see spay. Pronunciation: /spleɪ/ 1. Synonym of spay (“to destroy or remove the ovaries and/or uterus (of a female animal) to prevent pregnancy”). Labels: Shropshire, transitive Example: Sovves alſo are ſplaied as vvell as camels, but tvvo daies before, they be kept from meat; then hang they them by the forelegs for to make inciſion into their matrice [womb], and to take forth their ſtones: and by this means they vvill ſooner grovv to be fat. Example: Eſc[alus]. Hovv vvould you liue Pompey? by being a bavvd? […] the Lavv vvould not allovv it Pompey; nor it ſhall not be allovved in Vienna. / Clo[wne, i.e., Pompey Bum, a pimp]. Do's your VVorſhip meane to geld and ſplay all the youth of the City?
Word: splendid Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *spln̥d-eh₁-der. Latin splendeō Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-der. Proto-Italic *-iðos Latin -idus Latin splendidus English splendid From Latin splendidus, from splendere (“to shine”) + -idus (“adjective forming suffix”). Pronunciation: /ˈsplɛndɪd/ 1. Possessing or displaying splendor; shining; very bright. Example: a splendid sun Example: It is distinguished from xanthocobaltic nitrate by its crystalline form, and by yielding a splendid cinnabarred precipitate with a solution of iodine in potassium iodide […] 2. Gorgeous; magnificent; sumptuous; of remarkable beauty. Example: a splendid palace Example: a splendid procession 3. Brilliant, excellent, of a very high standard. Example: "We've fallen on our feet and no mistake," said Peter. "This is going to be perfectly splendid. That old chap will let us do anything we like." Example: November 2 2014, Daniel Taylor, "Sergio Agüero strike wins derby for Manchester City against 10-man United," guardian.co.uk Hart had to make two splendid saves as Van Persie and Di María took aim and Fellaini should really have done better with a headed chance.
Word: splice Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Circa 1525, borrowed from Middle Dutch splissen (Modern Dutch splitsen); akin to Middle Dutch splitten (“to split”), German spleißen (“to split, splice”), Spliss (“split ends, hair breakage”), French épisser (also from Dutch). The Dutch word originally referred only to the fraying of the ropes' ends but was then also used for the entire process of fraying and retying; hence the peculiar semantic development from “split” to “join”. The same development occurred in German. Pronunciation: /ˈsplaɪ̯s/, /ˈsplɐɪ̯s/, /ˈsplɜɪ̯s/, /ˈsplʌɪ̯s/, /ˈspləɪ̯s/ 1. A junction or joining of ropes made by splicing them together. 2. The electrical and mechanical connection between two pieces of wire or cable. 3. That part of a bat where the handle joins the blade. Example: If the ball hits the splice, it is likely to dolly up for an easy catch. 4. Bonding or joining of overlapping materials. 5. The process of removing intron sequences from the pre-messenger RNA, and then joining together exons.
Word: splice Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Circa 1525, borrowed from Middle Dutch splissen (Modern Dutch splitsen); akin to Middle Dutch splitten (“to split”), German spleißen (“to split, splice”), Spliss (“split ends, hair breakage”), French épisser (also from Dutch). The Dutch word originally referred only to the fraying of the ropes' ends but was then also used for the entire process of fraying and retying; hence the peculiar semantic development from “split” to “join”. The same development occurred in German. Pronunciation: /ˈsplaɪ̯s/, /ˈsplɐɪ̯s/, /ˈsplɜɪ̯s/, /ˈsplʌɪ̯s/, /ˈspləɪ̯s/ 1. To unite, as two ropes, or parts of a rope, by a particular manner of interweaving the strands, the union being between two ends, or between an end and the body of a rope. 2. To unite, as spars, timbers, rails, etc., by lapping the two ends together, or by applying a piece which laps upon the two ends, and then binding, or in any way making fast. 3. To unite in marriage. Labels: slang Example: But come, it's getting dreadful late, you had better be turning flukes--it's a nice bed; Sal and me slept in that ere bed the night we were spliced. Example: Ah! thinkin’ o’ gettin’ spliced, you two? 4. To unite as if splicing. Labels: figuratively Example: He argues against attempts to splice different genres or species of literature into a single composition. 5. To remove intron sequences from the pre-messenger RNA, and then join together exons. 6. To add, remove and/or replace several array/data elements in one operation.
Word: splitter Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English split 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 splitter From split + -er. Pronunciation: /ˈsplɪtə(ɹ)/, /ˈsplɪtɚ/, [ˈsplɪɾɚ] 1. A person or a thing that splits. 2. A wedge used to cut logs down the middle. 3. A quarry worker who splits slate into sheets. 4. A scientist in one of various fields who prefers to split categories such as species or dialects up into smaller groups. Labels: colloquial 5. A split-finger fastball. 6. A draggable vertical or horizontal bar used to adjust the relative sizes of two adjacent windows. 7. A wheaten cake split and buttered when hot. Labels: US 8. One who splits hairs in argument, etc. 9. A device with two electrical plugs that plugs into an electrical outlet, effectively converting the electrical outlet into two; socket converter. 10. A line segment through one of the vertices of a triangle that bisects the perimeter of the triangle.
Word: sprain Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Origin unknown. Noun attested since 1601; verb attested 1622. Possibly borrowed from Middle French espraindre (“to squeeze or press out”), from Latin exprimere (“to squeeze out, express”), in which case cognate to express. Pronunciation: /spɹeɪn/ 1. To weaken, as a joint, ligament, or muscle, by sudden and excessive exertion, as by wrenching; to overstrain, or stretch injuriously, but without luxation Example: He sprained his knee after falling off the bicycle. Example: Hi! I suppose you're expecting the Roadrunner! Well, he sprained a giblet cornering a sharp coive the other day, uh, so, uh, I'm standing in for him.
Word: sprain Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Origin unknown. Noun attested since 1601; verb attested 1622. Possibly borrowed from Middle French espraindre (“to squeeze or press out”), from Latin exprimere (“to squeeze out, express”), in which case cognate to express. Pronunciation: /spɹeɪn/ 1. The act or result of spraining; lameness caused by spraining Example: a bad sprain of the wrist
Word: spree Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Unknown. According to Douglas Harper’s Online Etymological Dictionary, “a word of uncertain origin. Perhaps [Barnhart] an alteration of French esprit (“lively wit”) (see esprit). According to Klein, Irish spré seems to be a loan-word from Old Norse sprakr. Watkins proposes a possible origin as an alteration of Scots spreath (“cattle raid”), from Gaelic sprédh, spré (“cattle; wealth”), from Middle Irish preit, preid (“booty”), ultimately from Latin praeda (“plunder, booty”)”. Pronunciation: /spɹiː/ 1. Uninhibited activity. Labels: in-compounds Example: spending spree Example: Then all three major builders were called upon to deliver 105 Berkshires before the buying spree was over. 2. A merry frolic; especially, a drinking frolic. Labels: dated Example: Tradition says she spent the last two years of her life in the strange den I have been speaking of, after having indulged herself in one final, triumphant and satisfying spree. Example: It would be a long time before he could be like the majority of these men of the road, who roamed until the hunger for drink and for women mastered them, and then went to work with a purpose in mind, and stopped when they had the price of a spree.
Word: spree Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Unknown. According to Douglas Harper’s Online Etymological Dictionary, “a word of uncertain origin. Perhaps [Barnhart] an alteration of French esprit (“lively wit”) (see esprit). According to Klein, Irish spré seems to be a loan-word from Old Norse sprakr. Watkins proposes a possible origin as an alteration of Scots spreath (“cattle raid”), from Gaelic sprédh, spré (“cattle; wealth”), from Middle Irish preit, preid (“booty”), ultimately from Latin praeda (“plunder, booty”)”. Pronunciation: /spɹiː/ 1. To engage in a spree. Labels: intransitive, rare Example: And I never spreed with the fellows as a student any more than I had enjoyed myself with the lads in the playground.
Word: sprig Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English sprig, sprigge, of uncertain origin. Perhaps from Middle Low German sprik, spricke (“a dry, easily broken twig that has fallen from a tree; sprig”). Compare also dialectal English sprag (“sprig, twig”), English spray (“branch”), Old English spræc (“a shoot”), German Low German Spricke, Sprick (“dry branch, twig”). Pronunciation: /spɹɪɡ/ 1. A small shoot or twig of a tree or other plant; a spray. Example: a sprig of laurel or of parsley Example: […] from this bush in the dooryard, / With delicate-color’d blossoms and heart-shaped leaves of rich green, / A sprig with its flower I break. 2. An ornament resembling a small shoot or twig. 3. One of the separate pieces of lace fastened on a ground in applique lace. 4. A youth; a lad. Labels: derogatory, humorous, mildly, sometimes Example: a sprig whom I remember, with a whey-face and a satchel, not so many years ago 5. A brad, or nail without a head. 6. A small eyebolt ragged or barbed at the point. 7. A house sparrow.
Word: sprig Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English sprig, sprigge, of uncertain origin. Perhaps from Middle Low German sprik, spricke (“a dry, easily broken twig that has fallen from a tree; sprig”). Compare also dialectal English sprag (“sprig, twig”), English spray (“branch”), Old English spræc (“a shoot”), German Low German Spricke, Sprick (“dry branch, twig”). Pronunciation: /spɹɪɡ/ 1. To decorate with sprigs, or with representations of sprigs, as in embroidery or pottery. Labels: transitive 2. To nail the sole onto a shoe. Labels: transitive
Word: sprite Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English sprite, spryt, spreyte, from Old French esprit (“spirit”), from Latin spīritus. Doublet of spirit, spiritus, spirytus, spright, and esprit. (computer graphics): First used by Danny Hillis at Texas Instruments in the late 1970s. (meteorology): An acronym for Stratospheric Perturbations Resulting from Intense Thunderstorm Electrification. Pronunciation: /spɹaɪt/ 1. Any of various supernatural beings, loosely defined: Example: He who torments the chafer's sprite Weaves a bower in endless night. 2. Any of various supernatural beings, loosely defined: 3. Any of various supernatural beings, loosely defined: 4. A two-dimensional image or animation that is integrated into a larger scene. 5. A large electrical discharge that occurs high above the cumulonimbus cloud of an active thunderstorm, which appears as a luminous red or orange flash. 6. The green woodpecker, or yaffle (Picus viridis). 7. Any of various African damselflies of the genus Pseudagrion (of which, Australian species are named riverdamsels). 8. A spayed female ferret. 9. Alternative form of spright (“frame of mind, disposition”). Labels: alt-of, alternative, obsolete
Word: sprite Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English sprite, spryt, spreyte, from Old French esprit (“spirit”), from Latin spīritus. Doublet of spirit, spiritus, spirytus, spright, and esprit. (computer graphics): First used by Danny Hillis at Texas Instruments in the late 1970s. (meteorology): An acronym for Stratospheric Perturbations Resulting from Intense Thunderstorm Electrification. Pronunciation: /spɹaɪt/ 1. To draw a (specifically) pixel art sprite. Labels: informal Example: sprited the new NPCs
Word: spry Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From British dialectal sprey, from Old Norse sprækr (“nimble, lively”) from Proto-Germanic *sprēkiz (“lively”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)preg- (“to strew, jerk, sprinkle, scatter”). Cognate with Icelandic sprækur (“lively, spry”), Norwegian sprek (“lively, healthy”), dialectal Swedish sprygg (“brisk, very active, skittish”). More at spark. Related to sprack, sprig, sprug, freckle. Pronunciation: /spɹaɪ/ 1. Having great power of leaping or running; nimble; active. Example: What follows is a bunch of nonstop goofery involving chase sequences, dream sequences, fast-changing costumes and an improbable beard, a little musical help from Flight Of The Conchords, and ultimately a very physical confrontation with a surprisingly spry Victoria. 2. Vigorous; lively; cheerful; sprightly. Example: "I'm not sure about whether I shall go. I am the most incurably lazy devil that ever stood in shoe leather—that is, when the fit is on me, for I can be spry enough at times." Example: The Captain folded his brow into a look of intense perplexity. 'You seem exceedingly spry for a man who demolished an entire bottle of brandy and better part of an ounce of shag in a single evening.' 'And very nice too,' said the tramp. 'Now as to breakfast?'
Word: spurt Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From earlier spirt, sprit (“to sprout”), from Middle English sprytten, from Old English spryttan, from Proto-West Germanic *spruttjan, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)per- (“to strew, sow, sprinkle”). Pronunciation: /spɜːt/, /spɜɹt/ 1. To cause to gush out suddenly or violently in a stream or jet. Labels: transitive 2. To rush from a confined place in a small stream or jet. Labels: intransitive Example: Thus the small jet, which hasty hands unlock, / Spurts in the gardener's eyes who turns the cock. Example: With that he pulled open his shirt, and with his long sharp nails opened a vein in his breast. When the blood began to spurt out, he took my hands in one of his, holding them tight, and with the other seized my neck and pressed my mouth to the wound, so that I must either suffocate or swallow some to the . . . Oh, my God! My God! What have I done?
Word: spurt Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From earlier spirt, sprit (“to sprout”), from Middle English sprytten, from Old English spryttan, from Proto-West Germanic *spruttjan, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)per- (“to strew, sow, sprinkle”). Pronunciation: /spɜːt/, /spɜɹt/ 1. A brief gush, as of liquid spurting from an orifice or a cut/wound. Example: a spurt of water; a spurt of blood 2. Ejaculation of semen. Labels: slang Example: "Clean all your spurt off me, man." And so I did. 3. A shoot; a bud. Labels: obsolete Example: The Garden Sperages[…]send out at first certaine greene spurts or buds peeping forth of the ground.
Word: spurt Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Uncertain. May be derived from Etymology 1. Pronunciation: /spɜːt/, /spɜɹt/ 1. A moment, a short period of time. 2. A sudden brief burst of, or increase in, speed, effort, activity, emotion or development. Example: The boss's visit prompted a brief spurt of activity. Example: I seem to remember talking wanderingly to myself during that last spurt. 3. The act of spurting, or something spurted Example: He thrust against her and deep inside, she felt his spurt of semen. Her clit jumped in response, and Lily tumbled into an orgasm that shook her clear to her toes.
Word: spurt Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Uncertain. May be derived from Etymology 1. Pronunciation: /spɜːt/, /spɜɹt/ 1. To make a strong effort for a short period of time. Labels: intransitive Example: The bullion market spurted on Thursday. Example: The runners spurted to the last lap as if they had extracted new energy from the applauds of the audience.
Word: squaw Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Massachusett squàw (“woman”), from Proto-Algonquian *eθkwe·wa (“(young) woman”). Cognate with Abenaki -skwa (“female, wife”), Mohegan-Pequot sqá, Cree iskwew / ᐃᐢᑫᐧᐤ (iskeyw, “woman”), Ojibwe ikwe (“woman”). In the 1970s, some non-linguists began to claim that the word originally meant vagina; this has been discredited. The first English attestation of the word is found in a book called Mourt’s Relation: A Journey of the Pilgrims at Plymouth written in 1622, where the "squa sachim or Massachusets Queen" is mentioned in a journal entry from September 20, 1621. Pronunciation: /skwɔː/ 1. A woman, wife; especially a Native American woman. Labels: ethnic, offensive, slur Example: The Indian maids, of course, turned out to be a few fat old squaws who knew all about white men.
Word: squire Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English esquire, from Old French escuier, from Latin scūtārius (“shield-bearer”), from scūtum (“shield”). Pronunciation: /ˈskwaɪə/, /ˈskwaɪɚ/ 1. A shield-bearer or armor-bearer who attended a knight. Example: A Squire he had, whose name was Ralph[.] 2. A title of dignity next in degree below knight, and above gentleman. See esquire. Labels: error-lua-exec 3. A male attendant on a great personage. 4. A landowner from the English gentry during the early modern period. Labels: historical Example: Third Suitor was Young Country Squire, well born, Perſon indifferent, Cloaths (fondly worn)[.] 5. A devoted attendant or follower of a lady; a beau. 6. A title of office and courtesy. See under esquire. 7. A term of address to a male equal. Labels: UK, colloquial Example: Sorry squire, I've had a look 'round the back of the shop, and uh, we're right out of parrots. 8. An Australian snapper (Chrysophrys auratus), a food fish also found in eastern Asia. 9. A grass emperor (Lethrinus laticaudis), of coral reefs of the western Pacific.
Word: squire Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English esquire, from Old French escuier, from Latin scūtārius (“shield-bearer”), from scūtum (“shield”). Pronunciation: /ˈskwaɪə/, /ˈskwaɪɚ/ 1. To attend as a squire. Labels: transitive 2. To attend as a beau, or gallant, for aid and protection. Labels: transitive Example: [O]n ſome occaſions, he diſplayed all his fund of good humour, vvith a vievv to beguile her ſorrovv; he importuned her to give him the pleasure of ’ſquiring her to ſome place of innocent entertainment; and, finally, inſiſted upon her accepting a pecuniary reinforcement to her finances, vvhich he knevv to be in a moſt conſumptive condition. Example: Perceiving, however, that I had on my best wig, she offered, if I would ’squire her there, to send home the footman.
Word: squire Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English squire, borrowed from Middle French esquierre (“rule, carpenter's square”), or from Old French esquire, another form of esquarre (“square”). Cognate with French équerre. Doublet of square. Pronunciation: /ˈskwaɪə/, /ˈskwaɪɚ/ 1. A ruler; a carpenter's square; a measure. Labels: obsolete Example: But temperaunce, said he, with golden squire, / Betwixt them both can measure out a meane. Example: do not you know my lady's foot by the squire.
Word: squirt Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English squirten, squyrten, of uncertain origin; probably onomatopoeic. Akin to swirl. Compare Low German swirtjen (“to squirt”) and Swedish water onomatopoeias skvala, skvalp, skvimpa, and skvätta; Icelandic skvetta; and Norwegian skvette. Pronunciation: /skwɝt/, /skwɜːt/ 1. An instrument from which a liquid is forcefully ejected in a small, quick stream. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The Karo-Bataks of Sumatra have a rain-making ceremony which lasts a week. The men go about with bamboo squirts and the women with bowls of water, and they drench each other or throw the water into the air and cry, "The rain has come," when it drips down on them. 2. A small, quick stream; a jet. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: a squirt of body lotion Example: Chances are you′ll get a squirt of citrus juice in your eye. 3. The whole system of flow in the vicinity of a source. Labels: countable, uncountable 4. A burst of noise. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: As the connection was broken, the receiver let out a shrill squirt of static. 5. An annoyingly pretentious person; a whippersnapper. Labels: countable, slang, uncountable Example: He was still there when I came up, a squirt with his hat over one eye and a camera hung round his neck and a grin on his squirt face. I thought maybe I had seen him around town, but maybe not, the squirts look so much alike when they grind them out of journalism school. 6. A small child. Labels: Australia, Ireland, New-Zealand, Philippines, UK, US, countable, slang, uncountable Example: Hey squirt! Where you been? Example: 1986, Alethea Helbig, Agnes Perkins, Cutlass Island, entry in Dictionary of American Children′s Fiction, 1960-1984: Recent Books of Recognized Merit, page 137, Hurd returns with Mal, Mr. Eph, and Gumbo, the “town squirt” of twelve, and the boys′ activities come out. 7. Female ejaculate. Labels: slang, uncountable, vulgar 8. An act of urination. Labels: countable, informal, uncountable Example: Excuse me, I need to take a squirt. 9. A maneuver in which a kayak is forced into a nearly vertical position. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: squirt Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English squirten, squyrten, of uncertain origin; probably onomatopoeic. Akin to swirl. Compare Low German swirtjen (“to squirt”) and Swedish water onomatopoeias skvala, skvalp, skvimpa, and skvätta; Icelandic skvetta; and Norwegian skvette. Pronunciation: /skwɝt/, /skwɜːt/ 1. To be thrown out, or ejected, in a rapid stream, from a narrow orifice. Labels: intransitive Example: The toothpaste squirted from the tube. Example: 1865, Sabine Baring-Gould, The Book of Werewolves, 2008, Forgotten Books, page 121, His servants would stab a child in the jugular vein, and let the blood squirt over him. 2. To cause to be ejected, in a rapid stream, from a narrow orifice. Labels: transitive Example: The hard-featured miscreant[…] coolly rolled his tobacco in his cheek, and squirted the juice into the fire grate. Example: It can squirt this poison in jets up to a distance of one metre and usually aims at the eyes of its victim. 3. To emit, eject or excrete (something). Labels: broadly, transitive Example: Among the hallmarks that all fungi share is the way they eat. They squirt out enzymes to break down nearby organic material and then soak it in. Fungi can also produce vast number of spores, which can survive in all sorts of extreme conditions for years. 4. To hit with a rapid stream of liquid. Labels: transitive Example: Ask the child to squirt the target with water. 5. To throw out or utter words rapidly; to prate. Labels: figuratively, obsolete, transitive Example: he'll be ready to squirt his Wits at his own Shadow 6. To ejaculate. Labels: intransitive, slang, vulgar Example: Women who squirt rhapsodize about the experience, reporting that it elicits feelings of empowerment and a deeper connection to their own bodies. 7. To forcefully maneuver against the current so that the end of a kayak is forced nearly vertical. Example: Let's start by assuming that you are going to tail squirt as you leave an eddy andd enter the flowing water. 8. To 3D print (a firearm). Labels: Internet, transitive
Word: stack Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English stack, stacke, stakke, stak, from Old Norse stakkr (“a barn; haystack; heap; pile”), from Proto-Germanic *stakkaz (“a barn; rick; haystack”). The data structure sense is a calque of Dutch stapel, introduced by Edsger W. Dijkstra. Cognate with Icelandic stakkur (“stack”), Swedish stack (“stack”), Danish stak (“stack”), Norwegian stakk (“stack”). Related to stake and sauna. Pronunciation: /stæk/ 1. To arrange in a stack, or to add to an existing stack. Labels: transitive Example: Please stack those chairs in the corner. Example: James Hanson, the striker who used to stack shelves in a supermarket, flashed a superb header past Shay Given from Gary Jones's corner 10 minutes after the break. 2. To arrange the cards in a deck in a particular manner, especially for cheating. Labels: transitive Example: This is the third hand in a row where you've drawn four of a kind. Someone is stacking the deck! 3. To arrange or fix to obtain an advantage; to deliberately distort the composition of (an assembly, committee, etc.). Labels: broadly, transitive Example: to be stacked against (someone) Example: The Government was accused of stacking the parliamentary committee. 4. To take all the money another player currently has on the table. Labels: transitive Example: I won Jill's last $100 this hand; I stacked her! 5. To crash; to fall. Labels: Australia, US, slang, transitive Example: Jim couldn't make it today as he stacked his car on the weekend. Example: 1975, Laurie Clancy, A Collapsible Man, Outback Press, page 43, Miserable phone calls from Windsor police station or from Russell Street. ‘Mum, I′ve stacked the car; could you get me a lawyer?’, the middle-class panacea for all diseases. 6. To operate cumulatively. Example: A magical widget will double your mojo. And yes, they do stack: if you manage to get two magical widgets, your mojo will be quadrupled. With three, it will be octupled, and so forth. 7. To place (aircraft) into a holding pattern. Labels: transitive 8. To collect precious metal in the form of various small objects such as coins and bars. Labels: informal, intransitive 9. To have excessive ink transfer.
Word: stadium Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin stadium (“a measure of length, a race course”) (commonly one-eighth of a Roman mile; translated in early English Bibles by furlong), from Ancient Greek στάδιον (stádion, “a measure of length, a running track”), especially the track at Olympia, which was one stadium in length. The Greek word may literally mean "fixed standard of length" (from στάδιος (stádios, “firm, fixed”), from Proto-Indo-European *steh₂-, whence also stand and Latin stare). Doublet of stade, stadion, and estadio. Displaced native Old English spyrd. Pronunciation: /ˈsteɪ.di.əm/ 1. A venue where sporting events are held. Example: He is going for a cricket match at the stadium. Example: In a convulsion that has caught many in Brazil and beyond by surprise, waves of protesters denounced their leaders for dedicating so many resources to cultivating Brazil’s global image by building stadiums for international events, when basic services like education and health care remain woefully inadequate. 2. An Ancient Greek racecourse, especially, the Olympic course for foot races. 3. Synonym of stadion, a Greek unit of length equivalent to about 185 m. Labels: historical Example: Dionysiodorus[…]sent a letter ad superos after he was dead, from the centre of the earth, to signify what distance the same centre was from the superficies of the same, viz. 42,000 stadiums […]. 4. A kind of telemeter for measuring the distance of an object of known dimensions, by observing the angle it subtends. 5. A graduated rod used to measure the distance of the place where it stands from an instrument having a telescope, by observing the number of the graduations of the rod that are seen between certain parallel wires (stadia wires) in the field of view of the telescope. 6. A life stage of an organism.
Word: stag Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English stagge, steg, from Old English stagga, stacga (“a stag”) and possibly Old Norse steggi, steggr (“a male animal”), both from Proto-Germanic *staggijô, *staggijaz (“male, male deer, porcupine”), probably from Proto-Indo-European *stegʰ-, *stengʰ- (“to sting; rod, blade; sharp, stiff”). Doublet of steg (“gander”). Cognate with Icelandic steggi, steggur (“tomcat, male fox”). Related to staggard, staggon. Pronunciation: /ˈstæɡ/, [ˈstæɡ], /ˈsteɪ̯ɡ/, [ˈsteɪ̯ɡ] 1. An adult male deer, especially a red deer and especially one in high adulthood versus a young adult. Labels: countable Example: The city recently carried out a deer census, determining there are 313 stags (males), 798 does (females) and 214 fawns (babies) in Nara Park. 2. A young horse (colt or filly). Labels: Scotland, countable 3. A male turkey: a turkeycock. Labels: UK, countable, uncountable 4. A romping girl; a tomboy. Labels: broadly, countable, obsolete 5. An improperly or late castrated bull or ram – also called a bull seg (see note under ox). Labels: countable 6. An outside irregular dealer in stocks, who is not a member of the exchange. Labels: countable 7. One who applies for the allotment of shares in new projects, with a view to sell immediately at a premium, and not to hold the stock. Labels: countable 8. An unmarried man; a bachelor; a man not accompanying a woman at a social event. Labels: attributive, countable, usually Example: a stag dance; a stag party; a stag bar 9. A social event for men held in honor of a groom on the eve of his wedding, attended by male friends of the groom; sometimes a fundraiser. Labels: countable Example: The stag will be held in the hotel's ballroom. 10. An informer. Labels: countable, slang Example: We had two disturbers of the harmony of the ship; I mean two stags or informers, one named Robert Wilson, the other John Hewit, from the north of Ireland. 11. Guard duty. Labels: UK, slang, uncountable Example: Between shifts on stag or manning the radio, we grabbed a few hours sleep. Example: Three days were spent on standby or patrols and a fourth day on guard, with at least eight hours on stag. 12. A stag beetle (family Lucanidae). Labels: countable Example: Members of the genus Pasimachus […] can be confused with stag beetles […] but stags have elbowed antennae. 13. The Eurasian wren, Troglodytes troglodytes. Labels: countable
Word: stag Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English stagge, steg, from Old English stagga, stacga (“a stag”) and possibly Old Norse steggi, steggr (“a male animal”), both from Proto-Germanic *staggijô, *staggijaz (“male, male deer, porcupine”), probably from Proto-Indo-European *stegʰ-, *stengʰ- (“to sting; rod, blade; sharp, stiff”). Doublet of steg (“gander”). Cognate with Icelandic steggi, steggur (“tomcat, male fox”). Related to staggard, staggon. Pronunciation: /ˈstæɡ/, [ˈstæɡ], /ˈsteɪ̯ɡ/, [ˈsteɪ̯ɡ] 1. To act as a "stag", an irregular dealer in stocks. Labels: UK, intransitive 2. To watch; to dog, or keep track of. Labels: transitive
Word: stag Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From Middle English stagge, steg, from Old English stagga, stacga (“a stag”) and possibly Old Norse steggi, steggr (“a male animal”), both from Proto-Germanic *staggijô, *staggijaz (“male, male deer, porcupine”), probably from Proto-Indo-European *stegʰ-, *stengʰ- (“to sting; rod, blade; sharp, stiff”). Doublet of steg (“gander”). Cognate with Icelandic steggi, steggur (“tomcat, male fox”). Related to staggard, staggon. Pronunciation: /ˈstæɡ/, [ˈstæɡ], /ˈsteɪ̯ɡ/, [ˈsteɪ̯ɡ] 1. Of a man, attending a formal social function without a date. Labels: not-comparable Example: My brother went stag to prom because he couldn't find a date.
Word: stager Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From stage + -er. 1. An actor on the stage. 2. One who stages a theatrical performance. Example: Here the principal stagers of saints' plays appear to have been the civic authorities, and guilds or confreries, and the popularity of this type of drama owed much to the cult of saints[…] 3. One who has long acted on the stage of life; a practitioner; a person of experience, or of skill derived from long experience. 4. A horse used in drawing a stagecoach.
Word: stagger Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English stakeren, from Old Norse stakra (“to push, stagger”). Cognate with dialectal Danish stagre. Pronunciation: /ˈstæɡə/, /ˈstæɡɚ/, /ˈsteɪ̯ɡɚ/ 1. An unsteady movement of the body in walking or standing as if one were about to fall; a reeling motion. Example: 7 October 2012, Paolo Bandini in The Guardian, Denver Broncos 21 New England Patriots 31 - as it happened Put down the rosary beads folks, I believe hell may just have frozen over. Peyton Manning drops back, sees nothing open and runs for a first down. If you can call that running. More like the stagger of a wounded rhino. Did the job, though Example: Afy slowly gathered in the sense of the words. She gasped twice, as if her breath had gone, and then, with a stagger and a shiver, fell heavily to the ground. 2. A disease of horses and other animals, attended by reeling, unsteady gait or sudden falling. Example: parasitic staggers Example: apoplectic or sleepy staggers 3. Bewilderment; perplexity. 4. The spacing out of various actions over time. Example: 19 April 2016, Rachel Roddy in The Guardian, Rachel Roddy’s Roman spring vegetable stew recipe I don’t include cured pork, although it is very nice, and rather than putting everything in the pan at once I prefer a stagger of ingredients, which ensures each one gets the right amount of time. 5. The difference in circumference between the left and right tires on a racing vehicle. It is used on oval tracks to make the car turn better in the corners. 6. The horizontal positioning of a biplane, triplane, or multiplane's wings in relation to one another.
Word: stagger Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English stakeren, from Old Norse stakra (“to push, stagger”). Cognate with dialectal Danish stagre. Pronunciation: /ˈstæɡə/, /ˈstæɡɚ/, /ˈsteɪ̯ɡɚ/ 1. To sway unsteadily, reel, or totter. Labels: intransitive Example: She began to stagger across the room. Example: Deep was the wound; he staggered with the blow. 2. To sway unsteadily, reel, or totter. Labels: transitive Example: The powerful blow of his opponent's fist staggered the boxer. Example: That hand shall burn in never-quenching fire / That staggers thus my person. 3. To sway unsteadily, reel, or totter. Labels: intransitive Example: 1708, Joseph Addison, The Present State of the War, and the Necessity of an Augmentation Example: The enemy staggers. 4. Doubt, waver, be shocked. Labels: intransitive Example: He [Abraham] staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief. 5. Doubt, waver, be shocked. Labels: transitive Example: He will stagger the committee when he presents his report. Example: [W]hoſoever vvill be curious to read the future ſtory of this intricate VVarre (if it be poſsible to compile a ſtory of it) he vvill find himſelfe much ſtagger'd, and put to a kind of riddle; […] 6. Have multiple groups doing the same thing in a uniform fashion, but starting at different, evenly spaced, times or places (attested from 1856). Labels: transitive 7. Have multiple groups doing the same thing in a uniform fashion, but starting at different, evenly spaced, times or places (attested from 1856). Labels: transitive Example: We will stagger the starting positions for the race on the oval track. 8. Have multiple groups doing the same thing in a uniform fashion, but starting at different, evenly spaced, times or places (attested from 1856). Labels: transitive Example: We will stagger the run so the faster runners can go first, then the joggers. Example: The evening peak (5.30-5.45) is more concentrated than the morning (9–9.15), but it had not been intensified in the 12 months to last November; this is attributed by London Transport partly to efforts to persuade firms to stagger their hours.
Word: stagger Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From stag + -er. Pronunciation: /ˈstæɡə/, /ˈstæɡɚ/, /ˈsteɪ̯ɡɚ/ 1. One who attends a stag night. Labels: UK Example: Tallinn no longer takes pride in the title of 'favourite destination of British staggers'.
Word: staid Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From an obsolete spelling of stayed, the past participle of stay, used as an adjective. Pronunciation: /steɪd/, /sted/ 1. Not capricious or impulsive; sedate, serious, sober. Example: Put thy ſelfe / Into a hauiour of leſſe feare, ere wildneſſe / Vanquiſh my ſtayder Senſes. Example: The hours of study, the hours of recreation, the sports, the pastimes, the casualties, which in the staider years of life pass without note or comment, alike are wrapped and muffled in the one roseate haze. 2. Always fixed in the same location; stationary. Labels: rare Example: 'Tis not age or height alone / Can secure the staidest throne / From the reach of Change or Death,— […] Example: [I]n a common sailor's life sleep is not a regular thing as we have it on shore, and perhaps that staid glazy and sedate-looking eye, which a hard-worked seaman usually has, is really caused by broken slumber. He is never completely awake, but he is never entirely asleep.