nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: orient Part of Speech: noun Etymology: The noun is derived from Middle English orient, oriente, oryent, oryente, oryentte (“the east direction; eastern horizon or sky; eastern regions of the world, Asia, Orient; eastern edge of the world”), borrowed from Anglo-Norman orient, oriente, and Old French orient (“east direction; Asia, Orient”) (modern French orient), or directly from its etymon Latin oriēns (“the east; daybreak, dawn; sunrise; (participle) rising; appearing; originating”), present active participle of orior (“to get up, rise; to appear, become visible; to be born, come to exist, originate”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃er- (“to move, stir; to rise, spring”). The adjective is derived from Middle English orient (“eastern; from Asia or the Orient; brilliant, shining (characteristic of jewels from the Orient)”), from Middle English orient (noun); see above. Pronunciation: /ˈɔː.ɹɪ.ənt/, /ˈɒɹ.ɪ.ənt/, /ˈɔɹ.i.ənt/ 1. The part of the horizon where the sun first appears in the morning; the east. Example: Loe in the Orient when the gracious light, Lifts vp his burning head, each vnder eye Doth homage to his new appearing ſight, [...] Example: Morn in the white wake of the morning star / Came furrowing all the orient into gold. 2. A pearl originating from the Indian region, reputed to be of great brilliance; (by extension) any pearl of particular beauty and value. Labels: obsolete Example: The chambers of the East are opened in every land, and the sun comes forth to sow the earth with orient pearl. Example: It is indeed an 'extensive Volume,' of boundless, almost formless contents, a very Sea of Thought; neither calm nor clear, if you will; yet wherein the toughest pearl-diver may dive to his utmost depth, and return not only with sea-wreck but with true orients. 3. The brilliance or colour of a high-quality pearl. Labels: broadly
Word: orient Part of Speech: adj Etymology: The noun is derived from Middle English orient, oriente, oryent, oryente, oryentte (“the east direction; eastern horizon or sky; eastern regions of the world, Asia, Orient; eastern edge of the world”), borrowed from Anglo-Norman orient, oriente, and Old French orient (“east direction; Asia, Orient”) (modern French orient), or directly from its etymon Latin oriēns (“the east; daybreak, dawn; sunrise; (participle) rising; appearing; originating”), present active participle of orior (“to get up, rise; to appear, become visible; to be born, come to exist, originate”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃er- (“to move, stir; to rise, spring”). The adjective is derived from Middle English orient (“eastern; from Asia or the Orient; brilliant, shining (characteristic of jewels from the Orient)”), from Middle English orient (noun); see above. Pronunciation: /ˈɔː.ɹɪ.ənt/, /ˈɒɹ.ɪ.ənt/, /ˈɔɹ.i.ənt/ 1. Rising, like the morning sun. Labels: also, dated, figuratively, not-comparable, poetic Example: Moon, that now meetſt the orient sun, now fli'ſt / With the fixt Starrs, fixt in thir Orb that flies, [...] 2. Of the colour of the sky at daybreak; bright in colour, from red to yellow. Labels: dated, not-comparable, poetic Example: Then, I do so like the one or two principal walks, neatly edged with box, cut with most precise regularity, keeping guard over favourite plants:—columbines, bending on their slender stems; rose-bushes, covered with buds enough to furnish roses for months; pinks, with their dark eyes; and the orient glow of the marigold. 3. Of, facing, or located in the east; eastern, oriental. Labels: not-comparable Example: To ſhewe that though this figure of the worlde in playne or flat ſeemeth to haue an ende, yet one imagining that this ſayde carde were ſet vpon a round thing, where the endes ſhoulde touche by the lines, it would plainely appeare howe the Orient part ioyneth with the Occident, as there without the lines it is deſcribed & figured. 4. Of a pearl or other gem: of great brilliance and value; (by extension) bright, lustrous. Labels: not-comparable Example: Thinges to be carried with you, whereof more or leſſe is to be caried for a ſhewe of our commodities to bee made. Kerſies of all orient coulours, ſpecially of ſtamel [a fine worsted], brodecloth of orient colours alſo. Example: [...] He gaue me a rope of the ſame Pearle, but they were blacke, and naught, yet many of them were very great, and a fewe amongſt a number very orient and round, [...]
Word: leafs Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /liːfs/ 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of leaf Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: leafs Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /liːfs/ 1. plural of leaf Labels: form-of, nonstandard, plural
Word: leaves Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈliːvz/, [ˈlɪi̯vz] 1. plural of leaf Labels: form-of, plural 2. from leave: Labels: form-of, plural 3. from leave: Labels: form-of, plural
Word: leaves Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ˈliːvz/, [ˈlɪi̯vz] 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of leave Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: devising Part of Speech: noun 1. the act of creating a plan or some object, especially a will Labels: countable, uncountable Example: I take some kind of comfort in the inexhaustibility of the devisings of nature, that it can keep coming up with new things.
Word: devising Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of devise Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: etcetera Part of Speech: phrase Etymology: From Latin et cetera (“etc.: and the other things”). 1. Alternative form of et cetera. Labels: alt-of, alternative, proscribed Example: “To create life, to use science itself, chemical galvanism, electrobiology, etcetera, etcetera. To reanimate dead tissue, now, whomever unlocks that mystery, is not a man, but a god.” “Like Frankenstein.” “Who?” “Like Dr. Victor Frankenstein.” “Never heard of him.” “Right.”
Word: etcetera Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin et cetera (“etc.: and the other things”). 1. Alternative form of et cetera. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: The Toorkmuns keep their money and little valuable etceteras in large purses made of the skins of camels' necks. Example: Now persons who are not clasified among those whom we have alluded to, have their own ideas on social subjects, and realise that billiard and card playing, loafing around pubs., patronising a play (when opportunity offers) with one’s “best girl,” and in the splenditude of Sunday attire, with a high collar and all the etceteras of masherdom, imagining that it is only a case of “look and conquer,” do not sum up the whole happiness in life.
Word: Kannada Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Kannada ಕನ್ನಡ (kannaḍa). Doublet of Canara. Pronunciation: /ˈkʌn.(n)ə.də/, /ˈkɑːnədə/, /ˈkænədə/ 1. The Dravidian language that is the official language of the state of Karnataka, India. Labels: uncountable 2. The alphasyllabary used to write the aforementioned language, along with Konkani and Tulu. Labels: uncountable
Word: menu Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from French menu. Doublet of menudo and minute. Pronunciation: /ˈmɛn.juː/, /ˈmɛn.ju/, /ˈmɛn.ɪu̯/ 1. The details of the food to be served at a banquet; a bill of fare. Example: After the wedding celebration was over the menu was displayed for dinner. 2. A list containing the food and beverages served at a restaurant, café, or bar. Menus may be printed on paper sheets provided to customers, put on a large poster or display board inside the establishment, displayed outside the restaurant, or digital. Example: The server handed us the menu. Example: We selected duck pâté and chicken goujons from the menu. 3. The food or drinks that are available in a restaurant, café, or bar. Example: They took the chicken sandwich off their menu. Example: We've added a few new dishes to our menu. 4. A list from which the user may select an operation to be performed, often done with a keyboard, mouse, or controller under a graphical user interface. 5. A list or agenda. Example: What's on the menu for today's meeting?
Word: menu Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Borrowed from French menu. Doublet of menudo and minute. Pronunciation: /ˈmɛn.juː/, /ˈmɛn.ju/, /ˈmɛn.ɪu̯/ 1. To include (something) in a menu. Labels: rare, transitive Example: He created this prize-winning dish last December, to serve at a catered dinner that honored benefactors of Nashua Memorial Hospital. At that elaborate holiday repast, Quimby menued the seafood dish as a first course. However, he noted, his dish is substantial enough to serve as a satisfying entree. Example: […] held their own, then that child nutrition program would consider menuing the product in the future. Kater knew he was in trouble when he saw what he was up against that day: pizza and chicken nuggets, two of the most popular school lunches served in today’s schools.
Word: organizer Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *werǵ-der. Ancient Greek ὄργανον (órganon)bor. Latin organum Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)bor. Latin -izō Medieval Latin organizārelbor. Middle French organiserbor. Middle English organizen English organize 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 organizer From organize + -er. Pronunciation: /ˈɔɹɡənaɪzɚ/ 1. A person who arranges the details of a public event. Example: Jennifer Pastore Monroy, executive director of the National Association of Productivity and Organizing Professionals, emphasized that “the relationship that clients build with a professional organizer is a very personal one, and so your experience will depend on what you’re trying to get out of it.” […] “Professional organizers and productivity consultants work a whole spectrum of services to help people,” she explained. 2. A hand-held micro-computer that will perform specific tasks; can be used as an electronic diary, alarm clock, recorder of memos and notes, a portable database etc. Example: I'll add that meeting to my organizer. 3. A non-electronic notebook or calendar or something similar, used to organize one's affairs. 4. A group of cells that, together with the evocator, control differentiation in the embryo; the inductor 5. a recipient, such as a box or a case, used for storing gadgets, trinkets and other knick-knacks; an organizer box Example: desk organizer Example: makeup organizer
Word: hand-held Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From hand + held. Pronunciation: /ˈhændˌhɛld/ 1. Held in one or both hands. Labels: not-comparable Example: He filmed the scene with a hand-held camera. Example: The hand-held game console became popular with children. 2. Small and light enough to be operated while held in one or both hands. Labels: not-comparable Example: This device is small and hand-held, perfect for travel.
Word: hand-held Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From hand + held. Pronunciation: /ˈhændˌhɛld/ 1. A personal digital assistant or video game console that is small enough to be held in the hands. Example: Near-synonyms: handheld console, hand-portable 2. A snack food that is held in the hands while eating. Example: We offer sandwiches, tacos, and other hand-helds.
Word: note Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English note, from Old English not, nōt (“note, mark, sign”) and Old French note (“letter, note”), both from Latin nota (“mark, sign, remark, note”). Pronunciation: /nəʊ̯t/, /noʊ̯t/, /nəʉ̯t/, /nɐʉ̯t/ 1. To notice with care; to observe; to remark; to heed. Labels: transitive Example: If you look to the left, you can note the old cathedral. Example: Note the difference between progesterone and progrestogen: the former is simply a type of the latter. 2. To record in writing; to make a memorandum of. Labels: transitive Example: We noted his speech. 3. To denote; to designate. Labels: transitive Example: The modular multiplicative inverse of x may be noted x⁻¹. 4. To annotate. Labels: transitive 5. To set down in musical characters. Labels: transitive 6. To record on the back of (a bill, draft, etc.) a refusal of acceptance, as the ground of a protest, which is done officially by a notary. Labels: transitive Example: By noting the protest, notaries could date certificates when they were received, making it easier to comply with time restrictions associated with protesting.
Word: note Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English note (“use, usefulness, profit”), from Old English notu (“use, enjoyment, advantage, profit, utility”), from Proto-West Germanic *notu, from Proto-Germanic *nutō (“enjoyment, utilisation”), from Proto-Indo-European *newd- (“to acquire, make use of”). Cognate with West Frisian not (“yield, produce, crop”), Dutch genot (“enjoyment, pleasure”), Dutch nut (“usefulness, utility, behoof”), German Nutzen (“benefit, usefulness, utility”), Icelandic not (“use”, noun). Related also to Old English notian (“to enjoy, make use of, employ”), Old English nēotan (“to use, enjoy”), Old High German niozan (“to use, enjoy”) (Modern German genießen (“to enjoy”)), Modern German benutzen (“to use”). Related to nait. Pronunciation: /nəʊ̯t/, /noʊ̯t/, /nəʉ̯t/, /nɐʉ̯t/ 1. That which is needed or necessary; business; duty; work. Labels: Ireland, Northern-England, Scotland, UK, dialectal, uncountable, usually Example: And have thou that for thy note ! Example: Tha'll keep me at this noit all day... Om always at this noit. 2. Milk-giving by a cow or sow; (specifically) the period following calving or farrowing, during which a cow or sow is most productive and useful. Labels: Ireland, Northern-England, Scotland, UK, dialectal, uncountable, usually Example: The supply of horned cattle at this fair was great, but the business done was confined to fleshy barreners of feeding qualities and superior new-calved heifers, and those at early note, with appearance of being useful; [...] Example: For sale, a Kerry cow, five years old, at her note in May. 3. The milk given by a cow or sow during such period. Labels: Ireland, Northern-England, Scotland, UK, broadly, dialectal, uncountable, usually
Word: log in Part of Speech: verb Etymology: By analogy with clock in. First use of the term appears in 1963 in the publication Compatible Time-Sharing System from the MIT Computation Center. 1. To gain access to a computer system, usually by providing a previously registered username and password. Labels: intransitive, transitive Example: I would like to log in to check my e-mail, but I can't remember my password. 2. To be placed at a certain ranking. Labels: transitive Example: Their cover version of Bobby "Blue" Bland's "Turn On Your Love Light" logged in at number 80 in 1968.
Word: password Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From pass + word. The sentry-passing sense predates the cryptographic sense and was its inspiration. Pronunciation: /ˈpæs.wɜɹd/, /ˈpɑːs.wɜːd/, /ˈpæs.wɜːd/ 1. A word relayed to a person to gain admittance to a place or to gain access to information. Example: Only if a would-be visitor knew the password du jour could he pass; the guards allowed no exceptions. Example: Now, Max, by what combination of circumstances is a rogue to know my password, to be able to forge my signature, to possess himself of my key, and to resemble me personally? And, finally, how is he possibly to determine beforehand whether there is anything in my safe to repay so elaborate a plant? 2. A string of characters used to log in to a computer or network, to access a level in a video game, and so on; archetypally a word but nowadays often an alphanumeric string or a phrase. Example: A strong password has a mixture of lowercase and uppercase letters, numbers, and punctuation marks.
Word: password Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From pass + word. The sentry-passing sense predates the cryptographic sense and was its inspiration. Pronunciation: /ˈpæs.wɜɹd/, /ˈpɑːs.wɜːd/, /ˈpæs.wɜːd/ 1. To protect with a password. Labels: transitive
Word: skyscraper Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Compound of sky + scraper, first applied to tall steel-frame buildings in American cities such as New York City and Chicago in the 1880s. Pronunciation: /ˈskaɪˌskɹeɪpɚ/, /ˈskaɪˌskɹeɪp.ə(ɹ)/ 1. A very tall building with a large number of floors. Example: The fact that land is a commodity of unlimited extent in America, together with the now appreciated fact that most high buildings have been economic failures, spell the doom of the skyscraper concept. Example: As the curve of Sandy Hook blotted from sight the last, low glimpse of the skyscrapers which point Manhattan, Blake touched Annette's arm. 2. A small sail atop a mast of a ship; a triangular skysail. Labels: archaic Example: Skyscraper. A name given to a skysail when it is triangular. 3. Anything very tall or high. Labels: figuratively Example: It was no surprise to see Hanley bat a skyscraper out to left.
Word: teek Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Portuguese teca, from Malayalam തേക്ക് (tēkkŭ) or Tamil தேக்கு (tēkku). Pronunciation: /tiːk/ 1. Obsolete form of teak. Labels: alt-of, countable, obsolete, uncountable Example: The Teek forests, from whence the marine yard at Bombay are furnished with that excellent species of ship timber, lie along the western side of the Gaut Mountains, and other contiguous ridges of hills, on the north and north-east of Basseen; the numerous rivulets that descend from thence affording water-carriage for the timber. I cannot close this account, without remarking the unpardonable negligence we are guilty of, in delaying to build Teek ships of war for the use of the Indians seas.
Word: teek Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Clipping of telekinetic. Pronunciation: /tiːk/ 1. A telekinetic person; a person who has telekinetic abilities. Example: She stood there dumbfounded as the door swung open and banged against the inside wall, narrowly missing her.¶ I did that, she thought. I'm a... teek?
Word: teek Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Clipping of telekinetic. Pronunciation: /tiːk/ 1. To use telekinesis on; to move (something) with the power of one's mind. Labels: transitive Example: Tears of pain came to his eyes—and he didn’t know which hurt more, the pain of the soup on his arm or the real shock he had received when he had forced himself to keep from teeking the falling soup halfway across the room. Example: With a brief psionic push, Nova teeked them aside and into the rock, firing her rifle at the soft areas just above the creature's rib cage.
Word: outage Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From out + -age, on the model of shortage. Pronunciation: /ˈaʊ.tɪd͡ʒ/, [ˈaʊ.ɾɪd͡ʒ], /ˈaʊ.təd͡ʒ/, /ˈæɔ.tɪd͡ʒ/, [ˈæɔ.ɾɪd͡ʒ] 1. A temporary suspension of operation, especially of electrical power supply. Example: [Rural solar plant] schemes are of little help to industry or other heavy users of electricity. Nor is solar power yet as cheap as the grid. For all that, the rapid arrival of electric light to Indian villages is long overdue. When the national grid suffers its next huge outage, as it did in July 2012 when hundreds of millions were left in the dark, look for specks of light in the villages. Example: Along with the planned de-energizations, PG&E customers are also dealing with a number of unplanned power outages – like in Davis, where about 2,700 customers are in the dark, and El Dorado Hills, where more than 5,100 customers are impacted. 2. The amount of something lost in storage or transportation.
Word: plea Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English ple, from Old French plait, plaid, from Medieval Latin placitum (“a decree, sentence, suit, plea, etc., Latin an opinion, determination, prescription, order; literally, that which is pleasing, pleasure”), neuter of placitus, past participle of placere (“to please”). Cognate with Spanish pleito (“lawsuit, suit”). Doublet of placit. See also please, pleasure. Pronunciation: /pliː/ 1. An appeal, petition, urgent prayer or entreaty. Example: Even if only one person answers my plea for someone to correspond with it will be a blessing. Example: a plea for mercy 2. An excuse; an apology. Example: Necessity, the tyrant’s plea. Example: No Plea must serve; ’tis cruelty to spare. 3. That which is alleged or pleaded, in defense or in justification. 4. That which is alleged by a party in support of his cause. 5. An allegation of fact in a cause, as distinguished from a demurrer. 6. The defendant’s answer to the plaintiff’s declaration and demand. 7. A cause in court; a lawsuit; as, the Court of Common Pleas. Example: they or any three of them shall be a Court and have cognizance of pleas real, personal, and mixed.
Word: plea Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English ple, from Old French plait, plaid, from Medieval Latin placitum (“a decree, sentence, suit, plea, etc., Latin an opinion, determination, prescription, order; literally, that which is pleasing, pleasure”), neuter of placitus, past participle of placere (“to please”). Cognate with Spanish pleito (“lawsuit, suit”). Doublet of placit. See also please, pleasure. Pronunciation: /pliː/ 1. To plead; to argue. Labels: England, Scotland, regional Example: With my riches, my unhappiness was increased tenfold; and here, with another great acquisition of property, for which I had pleaed, and which I had gained in a dream, my miseries and difficulties were increasing.
Word: demurrer Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Anglo-Norman demurrer, form of Old French demourer (“to demur”), infinitive used as noun. Pronunciation: /dɪˈmʌɹə/ 1. A motion by a party to a legal action for the immediate or summary judgment of the court on the question of whether, assuming the truth of the matter alleged by the opposite party, it is sufficient in law to sustain the action or defense, and hence whether the party bringing the motion is required to answer or proceed further. Example: In a demurrer filed on 28 February to the Los Angeles county superior court, Franco’s lawyers asked that the lawsuit filed in October by Sarah Tither-Kaplan and Toni Gaal be dismissed, saying none of the alleged events detailed had happened, and the statute of limitations had passed for the accusations.
Word: demurrer Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English demur 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 demurrer From demur + -er. Pronunciation: /dɪməːɹə(ɹ)/ 1. Someone who demurs.
Word: demur Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English demure, demore (“a delay, demur; a sojourn, stay”), from Old French demure, demore, demuere (“a delay, demur”) (modern French demeure), from Old French demorer, demourer (verb): see etymology 1. Pronunciation: /dɪˈmɜː/, /dɪˈmɜɹ/ 1. An act of objecting or taking exception; a scruple; also, an exception taken or objection to something. Example: If publique Aſſemblies of Divines cannot agree upon a right vvay, private Conventicles of illeterate men, vvill ſoon finde a vvrong. Bivious demurres breed devious reſolutions. Paſſengers to heaven are in haſte, and vvill vvalk one vvay or other. Example: All my demurrs but double his attacks; / At laſt he vvhiſpers, "Do; and vve go ſnacks." 2. An act of continuing; a continuance. Labels: obsolete Example: [G]ood People, living vvithin the Limits of true and lavvful Matrimony, ſhall not by Malice or ill VVill, be ſo long detained and interrupted from their Right, as in times paſt they have been: Neither unjuſt Matrymony ſhall have his unjuſt and inceſtuous demoure and continuance, as by delayes to Rome it is vvont to have. 3. An act of lingering or tarrying. Labels: obsolete Example: [A]lbeit his Highneſs had cauſe, as the ſame vvrote, to marvel of your long demor, and lack of expedition of one or other of the things committed to your charge; yet did his Highneſs right vvell perſuade unto himſelf the default not to be in you, but in ſome other cauſe, […] 4. An act of remaining or staying; a residence, a stay. Labels: obsolete Example: VVe ſavv this tovvn only in tranſitu, but it merited a little demurr. 5. A state of having doubts; a hesitation, a pause. Labels: obsolete Example: The King told me, […] That I ſhould have the Character of Ambaſſador Extraordinary, and the ſame Allovvance I ſhou'd have had in Spain: Upon this Offer I made no Demurr, but immediately accepted it, and ſo my Ambaſſy vvas declar'd in May 1674. 6. Synonym of demurrer (“a motion by a party to a legal action for the immediate or summary judgment of the court on the question of whether, assuming the truth of the matter alleged by the opposite party, it is sufficient in law to sustain the action or defence, and hence whether the party bringing the motion is required to answer or proceed further”). Labels: obsolete Example: [W]ith Rejoinders and Replies, / Long Bills, and Anſvvers, ſtuft vvith Lies, / Demurr, Imparlance, and Eſſoign, / The Parties ne'er could Iſſue join: / For Sixteen Years the Cauſe vvas ſpun, / And then ſtood vvhere it firſt begun.
Word: suit Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English sute, borrowed from Anglo-Norman suite and Old French sieute, siute (modern suite), originally a participle adjective from Vulgar Latin *sequita (for secūta), from Latin sequi (“to follow”), because the component garments "follow each other", i.e. are worn together. See also the doublet suite. Cognate with Italian seguire and Spanish seguir. Related to sue and segue. Pronunciation: /sjuːt/, /sɪu̯t/, /sjuʈ/, /suːt/, /sʉwt/ 1. To make proper or suitable; to adapt or fit. Labels: transitive Example: but let your owne Diſcretion be your Tutor: Sute the Action to the Word, the Word to the Action, 2. To be suitable or apt for one's image. Labels: transitive Example: The ripped jeans didn't suit her elegant image. Example: That new top suits you. Where did you buy it? 3. To be appropriate or apt for. Labels: figuratively, transitive Example: The nickname "Bullet" suits her, since she is a fast runner. Example: Ill suits his cloth the praise of railing well. 4. To dress; to clothe. Labels: intransitive Example: So went he suited to his watery tomb. 5. To please; to make content; to fit someone's (or one's own) taste. Labels: intransitive, transitive Example: will build to suit [on for-sale signs marking vacant lots] Example: He is well suited with his place. 6. To agree; to be fitted; to correspond (usually followed by to, archaically also followed by with). Labels: intransitive Example: The place itself was suiting to his care. Example: Give me not an office / That suits with me so ill.
Word: et al. Part of Speech: phrase Etymology: From Latin, abbreviation of et aliī (“and others”) (English: et alii) and its forms and derivatives. Pronunciation: /ɛtˈɔːl/, /ɛtˈɑːl/, /eɪˈtɑːl/, /ɛtˈæl/ 1. And others; to complete a list, especially of persons, as authors of a published work. Example: The total area of mangrove on Tutuila and Aunu'u was estimated at 91 ha by Amerson et al. (1982) and at 52 ha by Cole et al. (1988).
Word: et al. Part of Speech: phrase Etymology: From Latin, abbreviation of and other places (English: et alibi). Pronunciation: /ɛtˈɔːl/, /ɛtˈɑːl/, /eɪˈtɑːl/, /ɛtˈæl/ 1. And elsewhere; to complete a list of places.
Word: synergy Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Ancient Greek συνεργία (sunergía, “cooperation”), from σύν (sún, “with, together”) + ἔργον (érgon, “work”). By surface analysis, syn- + -ergy. Pronunciation: /ˈsɪnəd͡ʒi/, /ˈsɪnəɹd͡ʒi/ 1. A synonym of binding energy. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Depending on the initial condition of the system (initial alphabet and number of elements) the co-evolution of nested local and global hierarchies continues until the system reaches a maximum value of complexity. At least for nuclear systems a quantitative variable called "complexity" can be defined, which increases in an irreversible manner during stellar evolution (Winiwarter, 1983). This variable C is composed of an informational measure I describing the variety of the computed formulas and an energetic measure R describing the relative binding energy or "synergy" permitting the coherence of the system. Example: In short, synergy is the consequence of the energy expended in creating order. It is locked up in the viable system created, be it an organism or a social system. It is at the level of the system. It is not discernible at the level of the system. It is not discernible at the level of the system's components. Whenever the system is dismembered to examine its components, this binding energy dissipates. An ordered library offers systemic possibilities, such as rapid search, selection, and aggregation, that cannot be explained by looking at the books themselves. These possibilities only exist because of the investment made in defining and creating interrelations between the books, their physical arrangement and the catalogues. 2. The cooperation of two or more nerves, muscles, organs, etc. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: the digestive synergy 3. The combined action of two or more drugs where the effects are stronger than their mere sum. Labels: countable, uncountable 4. Benefits resulting from combining different groups, people, objects or processes. Labels: countable, figuratively, uncountable Example: Others argued that the notion of a targeted war on a particular disease inevitably distracted from natural synergies with other areas of research. Example: Remember the eastern leg of HS2 being lopped back to the East Midlands? To this Yorkshireman, this was a tragedy. It removed the umbilical cord designed to connect and bind together the modern advanced manufacturing corridor of England (West Midlands-East Midlands-the reborn Sheffield-Leeds-Teesside-Tyneside), helping it to be capable of competing internationally through the synergy of skills and skilled people.
Word: mop Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English mappe (also as mappel), perhaps borrowed from Walloon mappe (“napkin”), from Latin mappa (“napkin, cloth”). Believed to be from a Semitic source, variously claimed as Phoenician or Punic (the latter by Quintilian). Compare Modern Hebrew מַפָּה (mapá, “a map; a cloth”) (shortened from מַנְפָּה (manpah, “fluttering banner, streaming cloth”)). Doublet of map, nape, and nappe. Pronunciation: /mɒp/, /mɑp/ 1. An implement for washing floors or similar, made of a piece of cloth, or a collection of thrums, or coarse yarn, fastened to a handle. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. A wash with a mop; the act of mopping. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: He gave the floor a quick mop to soak up the spilt juice. 3. A dense head of hair. Labels: countable, humorous, uncountable Example: He ran a comb through his mop and hurried out the door. Example: The hair is very peculiar, being harsh, dry, and frizzly, growing in little tufts or curls, which in youth are very short and compact, but afterwards grow out to a considerable length, forming the compact frizzled mop which is the Papuans' pride and glory. 4. An annual fair where servants were historically hired. Labels: UK, West-Midlands, countable, dialectal, uncountable Example: I means to goo to th' mop, 'er sez, fur I waants a chahinge.[…]'T wuz to w:Muckley mop 'er went. Example: The Mop Fairs attracted the attention of moralists. The hiring system was seen as a means to acquire girls for prostitution; although there is no evidence that this occurred in Stratford, where girls plying for hire were generally accompanied by their formidable mothers. 5. A tassel worn in a buttonhole to indicate ones occupation in such a fair. Labels: UK, countable, obsolete, uncountable Example: Mop Fairs: Today's annual events are the modern version of the old hiring fairs, where people attended seeking employment or to change it. They are named after the practice of hopefully skilled employees carrying tassels, known as mops, in their buttonholes indicating their occupation. Those who had no trade carried a mop head. At the end of the following week, they could change employers or employees, at what was called the Runaway Mop. 6. A firearm particularly if it has a large magazine (compare broom, but still can be related to MP) Labels: Multicultural-London-English, countable, slang, uncountable Example: Mainstream in this ting but I'm fully on opps Got shot with a mop but that boy never dropped 7. Fellatio. Labels: slang, uncountable Example: Had his thot give me mop in the back of my Bimmer 8. A squeezable high-flow paint marker with an extra-wide felt or foam tip. Labels: countable, uncountable 9. A row of ropes dragged along the seabed for catching starfish. Labels: countable, uncountable 10. A drunkard. Labels: countable, slang, uncountable Example: Left his pa's farm and is now working at the city water works. Some say he's got to drink 'cause he works with blue vitriol and that kind of stuff. He was a drunken mop always.
Word: mop Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English mappe (also as mappel), perhaps borrowed from Walloon mappe (“napkin”), from Latin mappa (“napkin, cloth”). Believed to be from a Semitic source, variously claimed as Phoenician or Punic (the latter by Quintilian). Compare Modern Hebrew מַפָּה (mapá, “a map; a cloth”) (shortened from מַנְפָּה (manpah, “fluttering banner, streaming cloth”)). Doublet of map, nape, and nappe. Pronunciation: /mɒp/, /mɑp/ 1. To rub, scrub, clean or wipe with a mop, or as if with a mop. Labels: transitive Example: to mop (or scrub) a floor Example: to mop one's face with a handkerchief 2. To shoplift. Labels: US, slang Example: By “mopping” (stealing) the clothes and accessories necessary to effect their look, or by buying breasts, reconstructed noses, lifted chins, and female genitals, the children turn traditional ideas of labor around: […]
Word: mop Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English moppe (“fool, simpleton; derisive gesture; child, baby, doll”), of obscure origin, but compare Proto-West Germanic *mauwu (“pout, protruding lip”). Compare Low German mop, mops (“simpleton; pugnosed dog”), Dutch mop, mops (“pugnosed dog”), and the verb mope. Pronunciation: /mɒp/, /mɑp/ 1. The young of any animal. Labels: UK, dialectal, obsolete 2. A young girl; a moppet. Labels: UK, dialectal, obsolete 3. A made-up face; a grimace. Example: What mops and mowes it makes! -- Example: Before you can say 'Come' and 'Go,' And breathe twice; and cry 'so, so,' Each one, tripping on his toe, Will be here with mop and mow.
Word: mop Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English moppe (“fool, simpleton; derisive gesture; child, baby, doll”), of obscure origin, but compare Proto-West Germanic *mauwu (“pout, protruding lip”). Compare Low German mop, mops (“simpleton; pugnosed dog”), Dutch mop, mops (“pugnosed dog”), and the verb mope. Pronunciation: /mɒp/, /mɑp/ 1. To make a wry expression with the mouth. Labels: intransitive Example: Flibbertigibbet,[is scared of]moping and mowing, who since possesses chambermaids and waiting-women Example: There were women and children as well as men in the place, and all, ragged and half naked, mopped and mowed at the passers, or, leaping to their feet, defied them with unspeakable words and gestures.
Word: floor Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Inherited from Middle English floor, floour, flor, flore, flour, flur, vlor, from Old English flōr (“floor, pavement; deck; gangplank”), from Proto-West Germanic *flōr, from Proto-Germanic *flōraz (“ground; floor”), from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₂ros (“floor”), from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₂- (“flat”). Cognates Cognate with Scots flair, fluir (“floor”), Saterland Frisian Floor (“floor”), Dutch vloer (“floor”), German Flur (“corridor, hall, hallway, stairwell”), Limburgish Vlǫǫr (“floor”), Low German Floor (“hallway or entrance to a house”), Luxembourgish Flouer (“countryside, farmland”); also Breton and Cornish leur (“floor, ground, surface”), Irish lár (“floor, ground”), Scottish Gaelic làr (“earth, floor, ground”), Manx laare (“bottom, deck, floor; level, storey”), Welsh llawr (“floor, ground”), Latin plānus (“even, flat, level”), Greek απαλάμη (apalámi), παλάμη (palámi, “hand, palm”), Albanian pëllëmbë (“palm”), Latgalian pluons (“thin”), Latvian plāns (“thin”), Lithuanian plonas (“fine, slender, thin”), Belarusian, Macedonian, Russian, and Ukrainian по́ле (póle, “field”), Bulgarian поле́ (polé, “field”), Czech, Polish, and Slovak pole (“field”), Serbo-Croatian по̏ље, pȍlje (“field”), Slovene polje (“field”), Hittite 𒁄𒄭𒅖 (palḫis, “broad, wide”). Related to flat. Pronunciation: /flɔː/, /floɹ/, /floː/, /flo(ː)ɹ/, /floə/ 1. To cover or furnish with a floor. Labels: transitive Example: floor a house with pine boards Example: The huge square box, parquet-floored and high-ceilinged, had been arranged to display a suite of bedroom furniture designed and made in the halcyon days of the last quarter of the nineteenth century,[…]. 2. To strike down or lay level with the floor; to knock down. Example: Sam floored him perpetually, and beat his face to a jelly, without getting a scratch. 3. To hang (a picture on exhibition) near the base of a wall, where it cannot easily be seen. Labels: dated, informal 4. To push (a pedal) down to the floor, especially to accelerate. Labels: slang, transitive Example: our driver floored the pedal Example: I don't remember much about the flight from Chicago to Denver. We landed a little after eleven, and I ran through the airport, ran to my car. Floored it most of the way home. 5. To silence by a conclusive answer or retort. Labels: informal, transitive Example: floor an opponent Example: Floored or crushed by him. 6. To amaze or greatly surprise. Labels: informal, transitive Example: We were floored by his confession. Example: Some of the attendees were “absolutely floored,” said an official familiar with the proceedings. That someone in the U.S. government could “make an argument that is so nakedly against transparency, in light of the unfolding catastrophe, was…shocking and disturbing.” 7. To finish or make an end of. Labels: colloquial, transitive Example: floor a college examination Example: I've floored my little-go work 8. To set a lower bound. Example: floored division
Word: scrub Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Late Middle English shrobbe in the sense of "stunted tree," a variant of shrub, from Old English scrybb. Doublet of shrub. Pronunciation: /skɹʌb/, /skɹʊb/ 1. Mean; dirty; contemptible; scrubby. Labels: obsolete Example: How solitary, how scrub, does this town look! Example: No little scrub joint shall come on my board.
Word: scrub Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Late Middle English shrobbe in the sense of "stunted tree," a variant of shrub, from Old English scrybb. Doublet of shrub. Pronunciation: /skɹʌb/, /skɹʊb/ 1. A thicket or jungle, often specified by the name of the prevailing plant. Labels: uncountable Example: oak scrub Example: I stumbled along through the young pines and huckleberry bushes. Pretty soon I struck into a sort of path that, I cal'lated, might lead to the road I was hunting for. It twisted and turned, and, the first thing I knew, made a sudden bend around a bunch of bayberry scrub and opened out into a big clear space like a lawn. 2. Vegetation judged to be of inferior quality or of little use to humans, though sometimes thick and impenetrable, growing in poor soil or in sand; also, brush. Labels: uncountable 3. One of the common livestock of a region of no particular breed or not of pure breed, especially when inferior in size, etc.; particularly a male animal poorly suited for breeding. Labels: US, countable 4. One who labors hard and lives meanly. Labels: countable, derogatory Example: A sorry scrub, said Mr. High-mind. Example: We should go there in as proper a manner possible; nor altogether like the scrubs about us. 5. One who is incompetent or unable to complete easy tasks. Labels: countable, derogatory, slang Example: Wow, she really scored 0? What a scrub! Example: A scrub is a guy that thinks he's fly And is also known as a buster Always talkin' about what he wants And just sits on his broke ass […] 6. One not on the first team of players; a substitute. Labels: countable, slang 7. A player who whines when outmatched by other players, sometimes by blaming the game mechanics or even accusing the other players of cheating. Labels: Internet, countable, derogatory, slang
Word: scrub Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English scrobben (“groom a horse with a currycomb”); from Middle Dutch schrobben (“clean by scrubbing”). Pronunciation: /skɹʌb/, /skɹʊb/ 1. To rub hard; to wash with rubbing; usually, to rub with a wet brush, or with something coarse or rough, for the purpose of cleaning or brightening Labels: transitive Example: to scrub a floor Example: to scrub your fingernails 2. To rub anything hard, especially with a wet brush; to scour Labels: intransitive 3. To be diligent and penurious Labels: figuratively, intransitive Example: to scrub hard for a living 4. To call off a scheduled event; to cancel. Labels: transitive Example: Engineers had to scrub the satellite launch due to bad weather. 5. To eliminate or to correct data from a set of records to bring it inline with other similar datasets Labels: transitive Example: The street segment data from the National Post Office will need to be scrubbed before it can be integrated into our system. 6. To move a recording tape back and forth with a scrubbing motion to produce a scratching sound, or to do so by a similar use of a control on an editing system. 7. To maneuver the play position on a media editing system by using a scroll bar or touch-based interface.
Word: scrub Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English scrobben (“groom a horse with a currycomb”); from Middle Dutch schrobben (“clean by scrubbing”). Pronunciation: /skɹʌb/, /skɹʊb/ 1. An instance of scrubbing. 2. A cancellation. Example: Unacceptable winds aloft caused four scrubs and one hold; adverse weather caused a scrub; […] 3. A worn-out brush. Example: A scrub [broom worn out] Scopa detrita. 4. One who scrubs. 5. That which scrubs. 6. That which scrubs. 7. Clothing worn while performing surgery. Labels: in-plural 8. Any medical uniform consisting of a short-sleeved shirt and pants (trousers). Labels: broadly, in-plural Example: A man dressed as a lab tech, his blue scrubs startlingly pale against the vivid red and black chaos, moved into sight from behind the SUV. He carried an assault rifle. 9. Informal attire or dress code; morning dress Labels: obsolete, slang Example: The third, which was as homely as its name, and which she reserved for scouring the country and such like rough usage in quite private rural life, was her "Scrub." Example: For one of Lucia's quaint ideas was to divide dresses into three classes, "Hightum," "Tightum" and "Scrub."
Word: byproduct Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English by- Proto-Indo-European *per-der.? Proto-Indo-European *per-der.? Proto-Indo-European *pér Proto-Indo-European *-o Proto-Indo-European *pró Proto-Indo-European *pro- Proto-Italic *pro- Latin prō- Proto-Indo-European *dewk- Proto-Indo-European *déwkti Proto-Italic *doukō Latin dūcō Latin prōdūcō Latin prōductusder. Middle English product English product English byproduct From by- + product. 1. Alternative form of by-product. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: Local workers hike up the side of the mountain and down into the crater at the top to harvest its sulfur—a byproduct of the gas that escapes from the volcano’s vents and collects near the shores of an acidic lake at the crater’s center. The chemical is used in industry worldwide, from making matchsticks to vulcanizing rubber, but Ijen’s sulfur goes mostly to local factories, which use it to bleach sugar.
Word: moisturize Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree English moisture Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)bor. Late Latin -izōder. Middle French -iserbor. Middle English -isen English -ize English moisturize From moisture + -ize. Pronunciation: /ˈmɔɪs.t͡ʃəɹaɪz/ 1. To make more moist. Labels: transitive Example: moisturize your skin 2. To make more humid. Labels: transitive
Word: humid Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Latin ūmeō Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-der. Proto-Italic *-iðos Latin -idus Latin ūmidus Latin hūmidusder. Old French humideder. English humid Borrowed from Old French humide, from Latin humidus (“moist”). Via Proto-Indo-European *wegʷ- (“wet”) related to English weaky. Pronunciation: /ˈhjuːmɪd/ 1. Containing perceptible moisture (usually describing air or atmosphere); damp; moist; somewhat wet or watery. Example: humid earth Example: Evening cloud, or humid bow.
Word: moisture Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English moisture, from Old French moistour (“moisture, dampness, wetness”). Compare French moiteur. Pronunciation: /ˈmɔɪs.t͡ʃə/, /ˈmɔɪs.t͡ʃɚ/, /ˈmɔɪʃ.t͡ʃɚ/ 1. That which moistens or makes damp or wet; exuding fluid; liquid in small quantity. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: drops / beads of moisture Example: I cannot weep; for all my body’s moisture Scarce serves to quench my furnace-burning heart: 2. The state of being moist. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: […] all Exclusion of Open Aire, (which is euer Predatory) maintaineth the Body in his first Freshnesse, and Moisture: Example: Such was the discord, which did first disperse Forme, order, beauty through the universe; While drynesse moisture, coldnesse heat resists, All that we have, and that we are subsists: 3. Skin moisture noted as dry, moist, clammy, or diaphoretic as part of the skin signs assessment. Labels: uncountable, usually