nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: patient Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English pacient, from Middle French patient, from Old French pacient, from Latin patiens, present participle of patior (“to suffer, endure”), from Proto-Indo-European *peh₁- (“to hate, hurt”). Pronunciation: /ˈpeɪ̯ʃənt/, [ˈpʰeɪ̯ʃənt] ~ [ˈpʰeɪ̯ʃn̩t], /ˈpɛjʃənt/, /ˈpæɪ̯ʃənt/, [ˈpʰæ̝ɪ̯ʃənt] ~ [ˈpʰæ̝ɪ̯ʃn̩t] 1. Willing to wait if necessary; not losing one's temper while waiting. Example: Be patient: your friends will arrive in a few hours. Example: Asari Cultural VI: Due to our lifespan-sometimes reaching 1,000 years of age-we are patient in our decisions, and prefer long-term solutions over short-term gains. 2. Constant in pursuit or exertion; persevering; calmly diligent. Example: patient endeavour Example: a patient wait 3. Physically able to suffer or bear. Labels: obsolete Example: To this outward structure was joined that strength of constitution, patient of severest toil and hardship; insomuch that for the most part of his life, in the fiercest extremity of cold, he took no other advantage of a fire, than at the greatest distance that he could, to look upon it.
Word: patient Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English pacient, from Middle French patient, from Old French pacient, from Latin patiens, present participle of patior (“to suffer, endure”), from Proto-Indo-European *peh₁- (“to hate, hurt”). Pronunciation: /ˈpeɪ̯ʃənt/, [ˈpʰeɪ̯ʃənt] ~ [ˈpʰeɪ̯ʃn̩t], /ˈpɛjʃənt/, /ˈpæɪ̯ʃənt/, [ˈpʰæ̝ɪ̯ʃənt] ~ [ˈpʰæ̝ɪ̯ʃn̩t] 1. A person or animal that receives health care from a doctor, nurse, dentist, allied health practitioner, or other person educated in health care. Example: Hello, is your practice currently accepting new patients? I'd like to become a patient there if so. Example: At the veterinary clinic, caring for the patients successfully and dealing with the patients’ owners successfully are both necessary skills. 2. The noun or noun phrase that is semantically on the receiving end of a verb's action. Example: The subject of a passive verb is usually a patient. Example: The number of a first or second person participant is generally marked for both agent and patient in all aspects. 3. One who, or that which, is passively affected; a passive recipient. Example: Malice is a passion so impetuous and precipitate, that it often involves the agent and the patient. Example: For it seems clear that the subject of change is the changed, i.e. the patient -- on one proviso. the proviso is that there be an agent or changer.
Word: marry Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English marien, from Anglo-Norman marïer, from Latin marītāre (“to wed”), from marītus (“husband, suitor”), from mās (“man, male”), of uncertain origin. Possibly from Proto-Indo-European *méryos (“young man”), same source as Sanskrit मर्य (márya, “suitor, young man”). Compare its feminine derivatives: Welsh morwyn (“girl”), merch (“daughter”), Crimean Gothic marzus (“wedding”), Ancient Greek μεῖραξ (meîrax, “boy; girl”), Lithuanian marti̇̀ (“bride”), Avestan 𐬨𐬀𐬌𐬭𐬌𐬌𐬀 (maⁱriia, “yeoman”).) Displaced native Old English hīwian. Pronunciation: /ˈmæɹi/, /ˈmɛɹi/, /ˈmaɾe/, /ˈmaɾɪ/ 1. To enter into the conjugal or connubial state; to take a husband or a wife. Labels: intransitive Example: Neither of her daughters showed any desire to marry. Example: I forfeited my inheritance and married outside my parents' faith. 2. To enter into marriage with one another. Labels: intransitive Example: Jack and Jenny married soon after they met. 3. To take as husband or wife. Labels: transitive Example: In some cultures, it is acceptable for an uncle to marry his niece. Example: First Xavier (Vernon Chatman): You're about as deep as a bowl of soup, and your tongue is as sharp as a soup spoon. Second Xavier (Vernon Chatman): Hey, say what you want about me, but lay off the soup. First Xavier: If you love soup so much, why don't you marry soup? Second Xavier: 'cause I'm already married. To justice. First Xavier: Yeah. Only a blind girl would marry you. 4. To arrange for the marriage of; to give away as wife or husband. Labels: transitive Example: He was eager to marry his daughter to a nobleman. Example: THe kyngdom̃ of hevẽ is lyke vnto a certayne kinge / which maryed his ſonne[…]. 5. To unite in wedlock or matrimony; to perform the ceremony of joining spouses; to bring about a marital union according to the laws or customs of a place. Labels: transitive Example: A justice of the peace will marry Jones and Smith. Example: His daughter was married some five years ago to a tailor's apprentice. 6. To acquire by marriage. Labels: transitive Example: I wanted to marry wealth and power, and got both. 7. To join or connect. See also marry up. Labels: figuratively, intransitive Example: There’s a big gap here. These two parts don’t marry properly. Example: I can’t connect it, because the plug doesn’t marry with the socket. 8. To unite; to join together into a close union. Labels: figuratively, transitive Example: The attempt to marry medieval plainsong with speed metal produced interesting results. Example: Turn, O backsliding children, saith the Lord; for I am married unto you. 9. To place (two ropes) alongside each other so that they may be grasped and hauled on at the same time. 10. To join (two ropes) end to end so that both will pass through a block.
Word: marry Part of Speech: intj Etymology: From Middle English Marie, referring to Mary, the Virgin Mary. Mid-14th century. Pronunciation: /ˈmæɹi/, /ˈmɛɹi/, /ˈmaɾe/, /ˈmaɾɪ/ 1. A term of asseveration: indeed!, in truth! Labels: obsolete Example: You that be of the court, & eſpecially ye ſworn chaplains beware of a leſſon that a great man taught me at my firſt coming to the court he told me for a good will, he thoughte it wel. He ſayd vnto me. You muſt beware how ſo euer ye do that ye cõtrary not the king, let him haue his ſaiyngs, folow him, go with him. Mary out vpon this counſel, ſhal I ſay, as he ſayes? Example: I have chequed him for it, and the young lion repents; marry, not in ashes and sackcloth, but in new silk and old sack.
Word: stoic Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin stōicus (noun via Middle English Stoycis pl), from Ancient Greek Στωϊκός (Stōïkós), from Ποικίλη Στοά (Poikílē Stoá, “the Stoa Poikile”, literally “painted portico”), the portico in Athens where Zeno of Citium was teaching. Pronunciation: /ˈstəʊ.ɪk/, /ˈstoʊ.ɪk/, /ˈstoːɪk/ 1. Proponent of stoicism, a school of thought, from in 300 B.C.E. up to about the time of Marcus Aurelius, who holds that by cultivating an understanding of the logos, or natural law, one can be free of suffering. Example: The anima mundi, to whose disposal of his own personal destiny the Stoic consents, is there to be respected and submitted to, but the Christian God is there to be loved; and the difference of emotional atmosphere is like that between an arctic climate and the tropics, though the outcome in the way of accepting actual conditions uncomplainingly may seem in abstract terms to be much the same. 2. A person indifferent to pleasure or pain. Example: Even a Rolls-Royce owner, I began to feel, would be a stoic to travel across Europe by car when the "Rheingold" is on offer.
Word: stoic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin stōicus (noun via Middle English Stoycis pl), from Ancient Greek Στωϊκός (Stōïkós), from Ποικίλη Στοά (Poikílē Stoá, “the Stoa Poikile”, literally “painted portico”), the portico in Athens where Zeno of Citium was teaching. Pronunciation: /ˈstəʊ.ɪk/, /ˈstoʊ.ɪk/, /ˈstoːɪk/ 1. Of or relating to the Stoics or their ideas. 2. Not affected by pain or distress. 3. Not displaying any external signs of being affected by pain or distress. Example: It makes a tremendous emotional and practical difference to one whether one accept the universe in the drab discolored way of stoic resignation to necessity, or with the passionate happiness of Christian saints.
Word: Glagolitic alphabet Part of Speech: noun 1. The Glagolitic writing system, the oldest known Slavonic alphabet.
Word: reincarnation Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Italic *wre- Latin re-der. Old French re-bor. Middle English re- English re- Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Italic *n̥- Latin in-bor. Middle English in- English in- English carnate English incarnate English reincarnate Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *-Hō Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō Proto-Italic *-tiō Latin -tiō Latin -ātiōlbor. Old French -ationbor. Middle English -acioun English -ation English -ion English reincarnation From reincarnate + -ion. Pronunciation: /ˌɹiːɪŋkɑː(ɹ)ˈneɪʃən/ 1. A rebirth of a soul, in a physical life form, such as a body. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Near-synonyms: metempsychosis, transmigration (both broadly synonymous) Example: He is believed to be the reincarnation of Jesus. 2. A fresh embodiment. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Kibbutz life is a present-day reincarnation of pioneer days' morality. 3. A new, considerably improved, version. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: a reincarnation of an old video game
Word: rebirth Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Italic *wre- Latin re-der. Old French re-bor. Middle English re- English re- Proto-Indo-European *bʰer- Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *bʰértisder. Proto-Germanic *burþiz Old Norse burðrbor. Middle English birthe English birth English rebirth From re- + birth. Pronunciation: /ɹiːˈbɜːθ/, /ɹiˈbɝθ/ 1. Reincarnation; new birth subsequent to one's first. Example: A theistic version of the above doctrine of transmigratory existence is presented best in the Bhagavadgitā which compares the rebirth of the soul in another body to changing of clothes, […] 2. Revival, reinvigoration. Example: And it was the spread of modern nationalism in the aftermath of Napoleon's defeat that mainly accounted for the nineteenth-century rebirth of the “Handelian” oratorio in Germany, where it had never thrived before, […] 3. Spiritual renewal. Example: The rebirth of Baptism affirms that Christ the healer shares our life. Example: Rather, in 1 Pet 3:21, those who have experienced rebirth in Christ, presumably through baptism, are promised an eschatological reward.
Word: rebirth Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Italic *wre- Latin re-der. Old French re-bor. Middle English re- English re- Proto-Indo-European *bʰer- Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *bʰértisder. Proto-Germanic *burþiz Old Norse burðrbor. Middle English birthe English birth English rebirth From re- + birth. Pronunciation: /ɹiːˈbɜːθ/, /ɹiˈbɝθ/ 1. To cause to be born again, spiritually renewed, or revived. Labels: transitive Example: D’Alessandro fashioned it upon a book he wrote, the lost stories he rebirthed and cherished. 2. To be born again, spiritually renewed, or revived. Labels: intransitive Example: As I rebirthed and did the LRT, I began to love and accept myself as a woman. Example: “And how ’bout me?” / “Two life sentences, probably.” / “The one life,” says Johnny, laughing, “isn’t enough? They don’t satisfy one, they want two? Maybe when I rebirth again, I owe them another next life.”
Word: absolute zero Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈæb.səˌlut ˈzi.ɹoʊ/, /ˌæb.səˈljut ˈzi.ɹoʊ/ 1. The coldest possible temperature, equivalent to zero on the Kelvin scale, or approximately −273.15 °C, −459.67 °F; a total absence of heat; the temperature at which the motion of all molecules would cease. 2. A person or thing of absolutely no consequence. Labels: derogatory, slang
Word: impact crater Part of Speech: noun 1. A crater formed from a hypervelocity impact, typically of a meteorite, as opposed to one formed by other means such as vulcanism. 2. A crater formed by a process involving impact (not necessarily a hypervelocity one). Example: The accident occurred at 1413:42. Ground scars and wreckage scatter indicated that the airplane crashed into the Everglades in a right wing down, nose down attitude. The location of the primary impact crater was 25° 55’ north latitude, 80° 35’ west longitude, or approximately 17 miles northwest of MIA.
Word: shed light on Part of Speech: verb 1. To illuminate; to make clear. Labels: also, figuratively, transitive Example: The new instruments will shed some light on the history of these rocks. Example: There was another noticeable circumstance that shed light on human nature and Grim's knowledge of it.
Word: treasure Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Inherited from Middle English tresour, from Old French tresor (“treasury”), from Latin thēsaurus (“treasure”), from Ancient Greek θησαυρός (thēsaurós, “treasure house”). Mostly displaced native Old English goldhord (See goldhoard) and Old English ġestrēon. Doublet of thesaurus. Pronunciation: /ˈtɹɛʒə/, /ˈtɹɛʒɚ/, [ˈt͡ʃɹɛʒɚ] 1. A collection of valuable things; accumulated wealth; a stock of money, jewels, etc. Labels: countable, literally, uncountable Example: It seems there was a worm that slept upon a pile of treasure, which it had zealously heaped up under a stone bluff. Example: "Now," resumed Silver, "here it is. You give us the chart to get the treasure by, and drop shooting poor seamen and stoving of their heads in while asleep. You do that, and we'll offer you a choice. Either you come aboard along of us, once the treasure shipped, and then I'll give you my affy-davy, upon my word of honour, to clap you somewhere safe ashore. 2. Anything greatly valued. Labels: countable, figuratively Example: Ye shall be peculiar treasure unto me. Example: You have ſent me a Treaſure, and I vvould not ſhare time to tell you ſo, till I had ſomevvhat ſatisfied the thirſt I had to drink dovvn many of thoſe Excellent Sermons, vvhich I have ſo long deſired: […] 3. Anything greatly valued. Labels: countable, figuratively, uncountable Example: "Hello, Treasure," he said without turning round. For a second she hesitated, standing in the soft light of the lamp, the deep blue of the rug making a background for her, the black fur collar of her coat framing the vivid beauty of her face. Example: 'My treasure!' cried the fond lady, 'why didn't you tell Auntie sooner?' and for reply Cyril hung his head and whispered the fatal insuperable excuse of childhood: 'I didn't like to.' 4. Anything greatly valued. Labels: countable, euphemistic, figuratively, in-plural, literary, uncountable
Word: treasure Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Inherited from Middle English tresour, from Old French tresor (“treasury”), from Latin thēsaurus (“treasure”), from Ancient Greek θησαυρός (thēsaurós, “treasure house”). Mostly displaced native Old English goldhord (See goldhoard) and Old English ġestrēon. Doublet of thesaurus. Pronunciation: /ˈtɹɛʒə/, /ˈtɹɛʒɚ/, [ˈt͡ʃɹɛʒɚ] 1. To consider to be precious; to value highly. Labels: transitive Example: Oh, this ring is beautiful! I’ll treasure it forever. Example: I LOVE it, I love it ; and who shall dare To chide me for loving that old Arm-chair ? I've treasured it long as a sainted prize ; I've bedewed it with tears, and embalmed it with sighs. 2. To store or stow in a safe place. Labels: transitive Example: The rose-buds, withered as they were, were still treasured under his cuirass, and nearest to his heart. 3. To amass or collect together as though a treasure. Labels: transitive Example: He seems to have carefully treasured up all the tales he heard, and he wrote and published them, under the feigned name of Gian Alesio Abbatutis, in his native dialect, not long before his death. 4. To enrich. Labels: obsolete, transitive
Word: treasure trove Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Anglo-Norman tresor trové (“found treasure”), calque of Latin thesaurus inventus, where the past participle trové was interpreted in English as a noun. Perhaps related to trophy. 1. A hidden treasure, subsequently discovered. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: ' All these larger transactions have taken place in Harlem or Florida. Always the next man in the link was an unknown negro, in all cases a white-collar man, prosperous, educated, who said he guessed they were treasure-trove, Blackbeard's treasure.' 2. A valuable discovery. Labels: countable, uncountable 3. Precious metal objects that were buried or concealed by an unknown owner. Labels: uncountable, usually 4. A place where many things of value can be found. Labels: countable, figuratively, uncountable Example: His house is a treasure trove of weird socks. Example: So while Hobson-Jobson is a veritable treasure trove of scholarly knowledge, unless it can be independently verified, that knowledge is best used with caution.
Word: cash register Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈkæʃ.ɹɛd͡ʒ.ɪ.stə(ɹ)/ 1. A machine that tabulates the amount of sales transactions, makes a permanent and cumulative record of them, and has a drawer in which cash can be kept. 2. A point of sale.
Word: treasury Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English tresorie, from Old French tresorie, from tresor (“treasure”), from Latin thēsaurus (“treasure”), from Ancient Greek θησαυρός (thēsaurós, “treasure house”). Displaced native Old English māþmhūs. Pronunciation: /ˈtɹɛʒ.ə.ɹi/, /ˈtɹɛʒ.ɚ.i/ 1. A place where treasure is stored safely. 2. A place where state or royal money and valuables are stored. 3. Ellipsis of treasury department. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis 4. Ellipsis of treasury bond. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis 5. Ellipsis of digital-asset treasury company. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis 6. A collection of artistic or literary works. 7. A treasure. Labels: obsolete Example: Now since he hath the grace, thus gracelesse be His neighbors sweare he'le swell with treasurie.
Word: treasurer Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English tresorer, from Old French tresorer, from tresor + -er. Displaced native Old English māþmhierde. Pronunciation: /ˈtɹɛʒəɹə(ɹ)/ 1. The government official in charge of the Treasury. 2. The head of a corporation's treasury department. 3. The official entrusted with the funds and revenues of an organization such as a club.
Word: last but not least Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Rhetoric: A possible/common pattern to arrange a speech or essay suggests putting your strongest and thus most important argument favoring your own opinion first and conclude with the weakest, thus least important argument. Pronunciation: /ˈlæst bʌt nɑt ˈlist/, /ˈlɑːst bʌt nɒt ˈliːst/ 1. An expression to start the last item of a list, emphasising that while it is listed last, it is just as important as the rest of the items. Example: And, last but not least, Pep Guardiola’s tactical mastery shone through despite setbacks.
Word: archipelago Part of Speech: noun Etymology: The noun is borrowed from Italian arcipelago (“Aegean Sea; group of many islands”), from arci- (variant of archi- (prefix meaning ‘foremost, primary’)) + pelago (“(open) sea”): * Archi- is derived from Latin archi-, from Ancient Greek ᾰ̓ρχῐ- (ărkhĭ-, prefix denoting primary authority or importance), from ἄρχω (árkhō, “to begin; to lead, rule”) or ᾰ̓ρχός (ărkhós, “leader, ruler”); further etymology uncertain, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *h₂er- (“to fit, put together”) or *h₂ergʰ- (“to begin; to command, rule”). * Pelago is from Latin pelagus (“sea”), from Ancient Greek πέλᾰγος (pélăgos, “sea”); further etymology uncertain, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₂- (“flat”) or a non-Indo-European language. By surface analysis, archi- (prefix meaning ‘foremost, primary’) + -pelago (suffix meaning ‘sea’). Noun sense 2.1 (“sea with many islands”) is from the fact that the Aegean Sea has many islands, and noun sense 2.2 (“group of many islands”) represents a shift of meaning from the sea to the islands in such a sea. The verb is derived from the noun. cognates * Greek αρχιπέλαγος (archipélagos) Pronunciation: /ˌɑːkɪˈpɛlɪɡəʊ/, /-lə-/, /ˌɑɹkəˈpɛləˌɡoʊ/, /-t͡ʃə-/ 1. Preceded by the, and often in the form Archipelago: the Aegean Sea. Labels: archaic Example: [M]any other iles within the Archpelago that is yͤ Gulf be twix Grese and Turkye that cometh from the Grekes see in to the grete see before Constantynople, thorow the brace of Seynt George· Example: [W]hen in his imagination he had ſettled his rout, through Holland and France to Sicily, vvhich he had long vviſhed to ſee, and from thence to the Archipelago, he breathed freer, and felt himſelf more reconciled to exiſtence. 2. A sea or other body of water with many islands. Labels: broadly 3. A group of many islands. Labels: broadly, collective Example: I have not met with any account of the land birds being so tame, in any other quarter of the world, as at the Galapagos and Falkland Islands. And it may be observed that of the few archipelagoes of any size, which when discovered were uninhabited by man, these two are among the most important. Example: For many years past the whale-ship has been the pioneer in ferreting out the remotest and least known parts of the earth. She has explored seas and archipelagoes which had no chart, where no [James] Cook or [George] Vancouver had ever sailed. 4. A thing comprising many other scattered things. Labels: figuratively Example: the Gulag Archipelago Example: [T]he continent was an archipelago of insulated communities, in which men were separated as much by their social jealousies as by the natural impediments to union and combination.
Word: archipelago Part of Speech: verb Etymology: The noun is borrowed from Italian arcipelago (“Aegean Sea; group of many islands”), from arci- (variant of archi- (prefix meaning ‘foremost, primary’)) + pelago (“(open) sea”): * Archi- is derived from Latin archi-, from Ancient Greek ᾰ̓ρχῐ- (ărkhĭ-, prefix denoting primary authority or importance), from ἄρχω (árkhō, “to begin; to lead, rule”) or ᾰ̓ρχός (ărkhós, “leader, ruler”); further etymology uncertain, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *h₂er- (“to fit, put together”) or *h₂ergʰ- (“to begin; to command, rule”). * Pelago is from Latin pelagus (“sea”), from Ancient Greek πέλᾰγος (pélăgos, “sea”); further etymology uncertain, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₂- (“flat”) or a non-Indo-European language. By surface analysis, archi- (prefix meaning ‘foremost, primary’) + -pelago (suffix meaning ‘sea’). Noun sense 2.1 (“sea with many islands”) is from the fact that the Aegean Sea has many islands, and noun sense 2.2 (“group of many islands”) represents a shift of meaning from the sea to the islands in such a sea. The verb is derived from the noun. cognates * Greek αρχιπέλαγος (archipélagos) Pronunciation: /ˌɑːkɪˈpɛlɪɡəʊ/, /-lə-/, /ˌɑɹkəˈpɛləˌɡoʊ/, /-t͡ʃə-/ 1. To scatter or strew (a place, or something) with things that collectively resemble a group of many islands. Labels: rare, transitive Example: As the seas level, as the seas / Swept into ripples by the breeze, / And archipelagoed by trees, / Majestic spreading oaks, that rise / Like island walls against the skies. Example: There is no debating that there is a Gardener whose gardens are spontaneous as a sunup, no crimson and purple clouds archipelagoing the morning skies.
Word: harmony Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English armonye, from Old French harmonie, armonie, from Latin harmonia, from Ancient Greek ἁρμονία (harmonía, “joint, union, agreement, concord of sounds”), either from or cognate with ἁρμόζω (harmózō, “to fit together”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂er- (“to join, fit, fix together”). First attested in 1602. Doublet of harmonia. Pronunciation: /ˈhɑːmə.ni/, /ˈhɑ̟ɹ.mə.ni/, /ˈhɐːmə.ni/, /ˈhaɾ.mə.ne/, /-nɪ/ 1. Agreement or accord. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: December 4 2010, Evan Thomas, "Why It’s Time to Worry", in Newsweek America's social harmony has depended at least to some degree on economic growth. It is easier to get along when everyone, more or less, is getting ahead. 2. A pleasing combination of elements, or arrangement of sounds. Labels: countable, uncountable 3. The academic study of chords. Labels: countable, uncountable 4. Two or more notes played simultaneously to produce a chord. Labels: countable, uncountable 5. The relationship between two distinct musical pitches (musical pitches being frequencies of vibration which produce audible sound) played simultaneously. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: I did not know anything more about music,only about finger exercises, difficult tasks, contradictions in the theory of harmony, and tedious piano lessons from a sarcastic teacher who saw in my […] 6. A literary work which brings together or arranges systematically parallel passages of historians respecting the same events, and shows their agreement or consistency. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: a harmony of the Gospels
Word: proprietor Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Probably from proprietary + -or. Pronunciation: /pɹəˈpɹaɪətɚ/ 1. An owner. Example: Here the proprietor has had the good sense of holding on to the good old fashion of giving his customers their moneyworth of good wines and liquors. Example: The [Washington] Post's proprietor through those turbulent [Watergate] days, Katharine Graham, held a double place in Washington’s hierarchy: at once regal Georgetown hostess and scrappy newshound, ready to hold the establishment to account. That is a very American position. British journalists shun complete respectability, feeling a duty to be ready to savage the mighty, or rummage through their bins. 2. A sole owner of an unincorporated business, also called a sole proprietor. 3. One of the owners of an unincorporated business, a partner. 4. One or more persons to whom a colonial territory is assigned, like a fief, including its administration. Example: From 10 September 1621 till 12 June 1632, Sir William Alexander, styled Earl of Stirling and Viscount of Canada, was proprietor of the Scottish colony Nova Scotia.
Word: gopher Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Perhaps an adaptation of Cajun French gaufre (literally “honeycomb, waffle”), based on the analogy of holes in the ground to the indentations in a honeycomb or a waffle (doublet of waffle). Alternatively, from Muskogean. Pronunciation: /ˈɡəʊfə/, /ˈɡoʊfɚ/ 1. A small burrowing rodent native to North and Central America, especially in the family Geomyidae (pocket gophers). 2. A ground squirrel (Marmotinae spp.). 3. A gopher tortoise (Gopherus spp.). 4. A gopher rockfish (Sebastes carnatus). 5. A Go programmer. Labels: slang Example: I'm not at all advocating for any Gophers to switch to Haskell—there are far too many reasons to keep coding and deploying Go solutions to address here.
Word: gopher Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈɡəʊfə/, /ˈɡoʊfɚ/ 1. Alternative spelling of gofer (“worker who runs errands”). Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: Crackpot Texan oil magnate Felix Happer (Burt Lancaster) gets the idea that a small Scottish fishing village would be a marvellous acquisition for his so-rich-it-makes-you-sick company, Knox Oil and Gas, so he sends an executive gopher named MacIntyre (because that sounds Scottish, yeah – played by Peter Riegert) to close the deal and get the pipeline pencilled in.
Word: Yankee Doodle Part of Speech: name Etymology: Mid-1700s, from Yankee ("derogatory, American colonist") doodle ("fool") dandy ("foppish or vain man"), the chorus of the eponymous song. Originally a derisive term and song about American colonists created by British regulars during the French and Indian War, from the alleged tendency for Americans to place feathers in their hats in imitation of the fashions of British aristocracy; the usage of dandy insinuated that Americans were low-class and lacked masculinity. The song was quickly reclaimed by Americans, who added verses mocking the British, and it came to prominence as a patriotic tune during the American Revolution. Doodle is likely from Low German dudel (“fool; one who plays music badly”). Yankee is of uncertain origin, but likely ultimately from Dutch Janke, a pet name. See Yankee. 1. A song or nursery rhyme about colonial Americans, later adopted as a patriotic song of the United States.
Word: Yankee Doodle Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Mid-1700s, from Yankee ("derogatory, American colonist") doodle ("fool") dandy ("foppish or vain man"), the chorus of the eponymous song. Originally a derisive term and song about American colonists created by British regulars during the French and Indian War, from the alleged tendency for Americans to place feathers in their hats in imitation of the fashions of British aristocracy; the usage of dandy insinuated that Americans were low-class and lacked masculinity. The song was quickly reclaimed by Americans, who added verses mocking the British, and it came to prominence as a patriotic tune during the American Revolution. Doodle is likely from Low German dudel (“fool; one who plays music badly”). Yankee is of uncertain origin, but likely ultimately from Dutch Janke, a pet name. See Yankee. 1. A native or inhabitant of British America or, later, the United States. Labels: archaic, derogatory, sometimes 2. An American citizen born on the 4th of July. Labels: dated
Word: swarf Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English *swarf, *swerf, from Old English ġeswearf, ġesweorf (“iron filings; rust”) and/or Old Norse svarf (“metallic dust”), both from Proto-Germanic *swarbą (“that which is rubbed off; shavings”), from Proto-Germanic *swerbaną (“to mop, wipe; to rub off”); see further at swerve. The word is cognate to Old English sweorfan (“to rub, scour; to file”). Pronunciation: /swɔːf/, /swɔɹf/ 1. The waste chips or shavings from an abrasive activity, such as metalworking, a saw cutting wood, or the use of a grindstone or whetstone. Labels: uncountable Example: Filings of iron, called Swarf, the barrel — — 0 [shillings] 2 [pence] Example: The softest and almost the cleanest iron for turning for cotton and other machinery is made from wrought iron swarf (or turnings). Sometimes the swarf is worked by itself, but commonly a ball is made of good swarf, and while hot, fine swarf is thrown into the furnace, and the ball is rolled about so that the swarf adheres to it, and it is then taken to the hammer. 2. A particular waste chip or shaving. Labels: countable Example: These swarfs, especially if they are of the tin bronze type, can usually be re-melted, after passing over a magnetic separator, by adding a small percentage to each charge of the alloy issued to the foundry for melting. Example: Harrogate looked at the ground. A black swarf packed with small parts in a greasy mosaic.
Word: swarf Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English *swarf, *swerf, from Old English ġeswearf, ġesweorf (“iron filings; rust”) and/or Old Norse svarf (“metallic dust”), both from Proto-Germanic *swarbą (“that which is rubbed off; shavings”), from Proto-Germanic *swerbaną (“to mop, wipe; to rub off”); see further at swerve. The word is cognate to Old English sweorfan (“to rub, scour; to file”). Pronunciation: /swɔːf/, /swɔɹf/ 1. To grind down. Labels: transitive Example: A machine for swarfing the joining edges of parts or sub-assemblies having compound angle surfaces is announced by the Rockford Machine Tool Co., Rockford, 111. Example: Hydraulic mill is used for swarfing the joining edges of parts or sub-assemblies with compound surfaces.
Word: swarf Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English swarven, swerven (“to go; to deviate, turn aside; to stagger, be unsteady; to swerve”), from Old English sweorfan (“to wipe; to polish; to rub, scour; to file”), from Proto-Germanic *swerbaną (“to mop, wipe; to rub off”). The word is cognate to Middle Dutch swerven (“to rove; to stray”) (whence Dutch zwerven (“to roam”)), Low German swarven (“to rove; to stray; to riot”), Old Norse svarfa (“to sweep; to be agitated, upset”), Norwegian svarva (“to agitate”), sverva (“to whirl”). See swerve. Pronunciation: /swɔːf/, /swɔɹf/ 1. To grow languid; to faint. Labels: Scotland, intransitive, obsolete Example: Meg, rinnin like a flae in blanket, / Her coats upon a lang nail hanket, / That gart her coup the creels [i.e., fall head over heels] an' ſqueel, / "Ah! Sirce, I'm gruppet by a de'il!" / An' as ſhe near the threſhold lay, / Wae's me! ſhe near hand ſwarf'd away! Example: Moreover, the evil reputation of the master, and his strange and doubtful end, or at least, sudden disappearance, prevented any, excepting the most desperate of men, to seek any advice or opinion from the servant; wherefore, the poor vermin was likely at first to swarf for very hunger.
Word: swarf Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English swarven, swerven (“to go; to deviate, turn aside; to stagger, be unsteady; to swerve”), from Old English sweorfan (“to wipe; to polish; to rub, scour; to file”), from Proto-Germanic *swerbaną (“to mop, wipe; to rub off”). The word is cognate to Middle Dutch swerven (“to rove; to stray”) (whence Dutch zwerven (“to roam”)), Low German swarven (“to rove; to stray; to riot”), Old Norse svarfa (“to sweep; to be agitated, upset”), Norwegian svarva (“to agitate”), sverva (“to whirl”). See swerve. Pronunciation: /swɔːf/, /swɔɹf/ 1. A faint or swoon. Labels: obsolete Example: And when they had ſo continued feaſting for a ſhort time, they had been ſo ſerved before, and the food was ſo rare and excellent, that they fell into a ſwarf, and cried out, Cant[icle of Canticles] ii. 4, 5. 'He hath brought me into the banqueting-houſe, and his banner over me was love. O ſtay me with flaggons, comfort me with apples, for I am ſick of love.'
Word: Schatz Part of Speech: name Etymology: * As a German and Jewish surname, from Schatz (“treasure”). * Also as a Jewish surname, from an acronym derived from Hebrew שליח ציבור (shalíakh tsibúr), "congregation's emissary," of the Hazzan. Pronunciation: /ʃæts/ 1. A surname.
Word: dedo Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Spanish and Portuguese dedo (“digit, finger”), from Old Spanish and Old Galician-Portuguese dedo, from Latin digitus, from Proto-Indo-European *deyǵ- (“to show, to point out”). Doublet of digit. 1. A traditional short Spanish unit of length, usually about equal to 1.75 cm. Labels: historical 2. A traditional short Portuguese unit of length, usually about equal to 1.8 cm. Labels: historical
Word: oak Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Inherited from Middle English ake, hok, oek, ok, oke, from Old English aac, āc, ǣċ, from Proto-West Germanic *aik, from Proto-Germanic *aiks (“oak”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eyǵ- (“oak”). Cognates From Proto-Germanic: Scots aik, ake, yik (“oak”), North Frisian iake, iik (“oak”), Saterland Frisian Eeke (“oak”), West Frisian iik (“oak”), Cimbrian aicha, oach (“oak”), Dutch eik (“oak”), German Eiche (“oak”), Luxembourgish Eech (“oak”), Vilamovian aach, aeh́, ǡh́ (“oak”), Danish eg (“oak”), Faroese, Icelandic, and Norwegian Nynorsk eik (“oak”), Norwegian Bokmål eik, ek (“oak”), Swedish ek (“oak”). From Proto-Indo-European: Latin aesculus (“Italian oak”), Ancient Greek αἰγίλωψ (aigílōps, “Turkey oak”), Albanian enjë (“English yew; stinking juniper”), Latvian ozols (“oak”), Lithuanian ąžuolas (“oak”). Pronunciation: /əʊk/, /oʊk/, /woʊk/ 1. A deciduous tree with distinctive deeply lobed leaves, acorns, and notably strong wood, typically of England and northeastern North America, included in genus Quercus. Labels: countable Example: It was not far from the house; but the ground sank into a depression there, and the ridge of it behind shut out everything except just the roof of the tallest hayrick. As one sat on the sward behind the elm, with the back turned on the rick and nothing in front but the tall elms and the oaks in the other hedge, it was quite easy to fancy it the verge of the prairie with the backwoods close by. Example: Instead there were the white of aspens, streaks of branch and slender trunk glistening from the green of leaves, and the darker green of oaks, and through the middle of this forest, from wall to wall, ran a winding line of brilliant green which marked the course of cottonwoods and willows. 2. The wood of the oak. Labels: uncountable 3. A rich brown color, like that of oak wood. Labels: countable, uncountable 4. Any tree of the genus Quercus, in family Fagaceae. Labels: countable, uncountable 5. Any tree of other genera and species of trees resembling typical oaks of genus Quercus in some ways. Labels: countable, uncountable 6. Any tree of other genera and species of trees resembling typical oaks of genus Quercus in some ways. Labels: countable, uncountable 7. Any tree of other genera and species of trees resembling typical oaks of genus Quercus in some ways. Labels: countable, uncountable 8. Any tree of other genera and species of trees resembling typical oaks of genus Quercus in some ways. Labels: countable, uncountable 9. Any tree of other genera and species of trees resembling typical oaks of genus Quercus in some ways. Labels: countable, uncountable 10. The outer (lockable) door of a set of rooms in a college or similar institution. (Often in the phrase sport one's oak.) Labels: countable, uncountable Example: [E]very set of rooms has two doors, and I soon learned that the outer door, which is thick and solid, is called the oak, and to shut it is termed, to sport. Example: It was hardly the thing for a master to sport his oak where another member of the staff was concerned. 11. The flavor of oak. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: oak Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Inherited from Middle English ake, hok, oek, ok, oke, from Old English aac, āc, ǣċ, from Proto-West Germanic *aik, from Proto-Germanic *aiks (“oak”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eyǵ- (“oak”). Cognates From Proto-Germanic: Scots aik, ake, yik (“oak”), North Frisian iake, iik (“oak”), Saterland Frisian Eeke (“oak”), West Frisian iik (“oak”), Cimbrian aicha, oach (“oak”), Dutch eik (“oak”), German Eiche (“oak”), Luxembourgish Eech (“oak”), Vilamovian aach, aeh́, ǡh́ (“oak”), Danish eg (“oak”), Faroese, Icelandic, and Norwegian Nynorsk eik (“oak”), Norwegian Bokmål eik, ek (“oak”), Swedish ek (“oak”). From Proto-Indo-European: Latin aesculus (“Italian oak”), Ancient Greek αἰγίλωψ (aigílōps, “Turkey oak”), Albanian enjë (“English yew; stinking juniper”), Latvian ozols (“oak”), Lithuanian ąžuolas (“oak”). Pronunciation: /əʊk/, /oʊk/, /woʊk/ 1. Having a rich brown color, like that of oak wood. Labels: not-comparable 2. Made of oak wood or timber. Labels: not-comparable Example: an oak table, oak beam, etc.
Word: oak Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Inherited from Middle English ake, hok, oek, ok, oke, from Old English aac, āc, ǣċ, from Proto-West Germanic *aik, from Proto-Germanic *aiks (“oak”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eyǵ- (“oak”). Cognates From Proto-Germanic: Scots aik, ake, yik (“oak”), North Frisian iake, iik (“oak”), Saterland Frisian Eeke (“oak”), West Frisian iik (“oak”), Cimbrian aicha, oach (“oak”), Dutch eik (“oak”), German Eiche (“oak”), Luxembourgish Eech (“oak”), Vilamovian aach, aeh́, ǡh́ (“oak”), Danish eg (“oak”), Faroese, Icelandic, and Norwegian Nynorsk eik (“oak”), Norwegian Bokmål eik, ek (“oak”), Swedish ek (“oak”). From Proto-Indo-European: Latin aesculus (“Italian oak”), Ancient Greek αἰγίλωψ (aigílōps, “Turkey oak”), Albanian enjë (“English yew; stinking juniper”), Latvian ozols (“oak”), Lithuanian ąžuolas (“oak”). Pronunciation: /əʊk/, /oʊk/, /woʊk/ 1. To expose to oak in order for the oak to impart its flavors. Labels: transitive
Word: compositional grammar Part of Speech: noun 1. consciously employed musical grammar.
Word: natural grammar Part of Speech: noun 1. A musical grammar which arises spontaneously in a musical culture (as opposed to an artificial grammar).
Word: metrical structure Part of Speech: noun 1. The pattern of the beats in a piece of music, which includes meter, tempo, and all other rhythmic aspects. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. The pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a poem. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: politically correct Part of Speech: adj Etymology: The earliest known attestation occurs in the United States in the late 18th century, in response to a toast made to the United States instead of to the people of the United States. In the early twentieth century the term was associated with the dogmatic application of Stalinist and Communist Party doctrine, and later popularized by Mao Zedong in his essay Where Do Correct Ideas Come From?(1963) which equated “correct” with “the disciplined acceptance of a party line”. In the 1970s it was adopted by wider left-wing politics. The first known use in this sense was by Toni Cade in her anthology The Black Woman (1970). It was subsequently used in a statement by Karen DeCrow in December 1975 in her capacity as president of the National Organization for Women. In the 1980s it acquired the pejorative sense when used to mock conformist liberal academics, their stereotypical political views and alleged attempts to control language. 1. Possessing or conforming to the correct political positions; following the official policies of the government or a political party. Example: Sentiments and expressions of this inaccurate kind prevail in our common, even in our convivial, language. Is a toast asked? ‘The United States’, instead of the ‘People of the United States’, is the toast given. This is not politically correct. Example: [On] the one hand we should demand that the poet's work conform to the correct political tendency, on the other hand we have the right to expect that his work be of high quality. … I want to show you that the political tendency of a work can only be politically correct if it is also literarily correct. That means that the correct political tendency includes a literary tendency. For, just to clarify things right away, this literary tendency, which is implicitly or explicitly contained in every correct political tendency – that, and nothing else constitutes the quality of a work. 2. Sensitive to giving offense on the grounds of race, sex, etc. Labels: derogatory, idiomatic, sometimes Example: A man cannot be politically correct and a chauvinist too. Example: Why do they call camels "Ships-of-the-desert" ? [...] Because they're full of Iranian seamen. (NOW, being politically correct you must, of course, substitute "martian" What a clever joke this becomes! Hopefully, there are no martians listening. ) 3. Stereotypically left-wing; possessing or conforming to stereotypical left-wing social views. Labels: derogatory, idiomatic Example: Don Imus, Bernard McGuirk, Trent Lott, Larry Summers, the Duke lacrosse team, Jimmy the Greek, the kid who yelled "water buffalo" at Penn, Howard Cosell, Jon Stewart, Chief Illiniwek, Jackie Mason and "South Park" all have in common only one thing: They have not been Politically Correct. Example: From foie gras produced without making birds suffer to "sustainable" fish, British retailers and restaurants are fast embracing politically correct food, helped by celebrity-fuelled pressure.
Word: politically correct Part of Speech: verb Etymology: The earliest known attestation occurs in the United States in the late 18th century, in response to a toast made to the United States instead of to the people of the United States. In the early twentieth century the term was associated with the dogmatic application of Stalinist and Communist Party doctrine, and later popularized by Mao Zedong in his essay Where Do Correct Ideas Come From?(1963) which equated “correct” with “the disciplined acceptance of a party line”. In the 1970s it was adopted by wider left-wing politics. The first known use in this sense was by Toni Cade in her anthology The Black Woman (1970). It was subsequently used in a statement by Karen DeCrow in December 1975 in her capacity as president of the National Organization for Women. In the 1980s it acquired the pejorative sense when used to mock conformist liberal academics, their stereotypical political views and alleged attempts to control language. 1. To modify in a way that is considered more respectful to minorities. Labels: transitive Example: There is nothing new or progressive in the politically corrected vocabularies that now amuse the prejudiced. Example: Thus, although Pastoral Paul contradicts, updates, and politically corrects Paul of the authentic letters in accordance with the horizontalized, non-sectarian interest of the Pastorals, he does this as an extension of a decidedly this-worldly, conservative paraenesis which may be seen as Paul's own contradiction of his apocalyptic eschatological interpretation. 2. To modify in a way that conforms more to the official position of a government or political party. Labels: transitive Example: Even a senior Chinese scholar-official who had been politically correcting my arguments and opinions throughout the conference smiled and accepted that the academic standards to which we both had to comply were quite different—I would be ridiculed by my own colleagues were I to adopt the standards of China, which he nonetheless deemed the (officially sanctioned) correct ones.
Word: stability conditions Part of Speech: noun 1. Pitch configurations, as considered "out of time". Labels: plural, plural-only Example: Time-span and prolongational reductions depend on stability conditions.
Word: well-formedness rules Part of Speech: noun 1. The conditions for hierarchy. Labels: plural, plural-only
Word: transformational rule Part of Speech: noun 1. A rule that modifies a well-formed structure (in limited ways). 2. A rule that takes an input and changes it in some restricted way to result in a surface structure.
Word: correctly Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree English correct Middle English -ly English -ly English correctly From correct + -ly. Pronunciation: /kəˈɹɛk(t).li/ 1. In a correct manner. Example: Most people couldn't pronounce Daragh's name correctly, so he went by the name of "Dave" instead. Example: Bruhat rattled off a head-spinning 29 correctly spelled words in 90 seconds, including heautophany, nachschläge and puszta.
Word: politically Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree English politic English -al English political Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der. Proto-Germanic *līkąder. Proto-Germanic *-līkaz Proto-Germanic *-ê Proto-Germanic *-līkê Proto-West Germanic *-līkē Old English -līċe Middle English -ly English -ly English politically From political + -ly. 1. In a political manner. Example: tackle a matter politically 2. Regarding politics, in a way connected to politics. Example: politically insensitive Example: a politically-charged speech
Word: prolongational reduction Part of Speech: noun 1. The pattern, as perceived, of tension and relaxation among events in various levels of structure, projected from time-span reduction. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: determiner Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English determine 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 determiner From determine + -er. Pronunciation: /dɪˈtɜː.mɪ.nə(ɹ)/, /dɪˈtɝ.mɪ.nɚ/ 1. Someone or something that determines, or helps to determine, something else. Example: Near-synonym: definer Example: In quality management, the determiners of quality sometimes differ across use cases. 2. Someone or something that determines, or helps to determine, something else. Example: Near-synonyms: decider, decisor, disposer, definer, arbiter, arbitrator, decisionmaker Example: He is the determiner [usually referring to God (in theological contexts) and job roles (in administrative contexts)] 3. A member of a class of words functioning in a noun phrase to identify or distinguish a referent without describing or modifying it. Example: Near-synonym: determinative (broadly synonymous) Example: Definite articles, indefinite articles, and cardinal numbers acting as quantifiers are types of determiners. 4. A dependent function in a noun phrase that marks it as definite or indefinite. This function is usually filled by words in the determinative class but may be filled by other elements such as a genitive pronoun. Example: Near-synonym: determinative (broadly synonymous) Example: In the sentence "Many people voted for him," the word many is a determiner.