nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: credibility Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from French crédibilité, from Medieval Latin credibilitas, from Latin credibilis. By surface analysis, credible + -ity. Pronunciation: /kɹɛd.əˈbɪ.ɫɪ.ti/ 1. A reputation impacting one's ability to be believed. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: After weeks of blowing smoke, her credibility with me was next to nil. Example: The inability of Trump's own spokespeople to speak authoritatively on the president's thinking and actions -- a challenge even Trump himself has acknowledged -- has left the White House with an enormous credibility gap, and has tarnished the reputations of many of its most visible spokespeople. 2. A believability of statements by a witness, as measured by whether the testimony is probable or improbable when judged by common experience. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: credence Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English credence, from Old French credence, from Medieval Latin crēdentia (“belief, faith”), from Latin crēdēns, present active participle of crēdō (“loan, confide in, trust, believe”). Compare French croyance, French créance, Italian credenza, Portuguese crença, Romanian credință, Spanish creencia. Doublet of credenza. Pronunciation: /ˈkɹiː.dəns/, /ˈkɹi.dəns/, [ˈkɹi.ɾəns] 1. Acceptance of a belief or claim as true, especially on the basis of evidence. Labels: uncountable Example: Based on the scientific data, I give credence to this hypothesis. 2. Credential or supporting material for a person or claim. Labels: rare, uncountable Example: He presented us with a letter of credence. 3. A small table or credenza used in certain Christian religious services. Labels: countable 4. A cupboard, sideboard, or cabinet, particularly one intended for the display of rich vessels or plate on open shelves. Labels: countable 5. A subjective probability estimate of a belief or claim. Labels: countable Example: My credence in the proposition is around 90%.
Word: credence Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English credence, from Old French credence, from Medieval Latin crēdentia (“belief, faith”), from Latin crēdēns, present active participle of crēdō (“loan, confide in, trust, believe”). Compare French croyance, French créance, Italian credenza, Portuguese crença, Romanian credință, Spanish creencia. Doublet of credenza. Pronunciation: /ˈkɹiː.dəns/, /ˈkɹi.dəns/, [ˈkɹi.ɾəns] 1. To give credence to; to believe. Labels: obsolete
Word: auction Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin auctiō (“an increase, auction”), from augere (“to increase”). Pronunciation: /ˈɔːkʃən/, /ˈɔkʃən/, /ˈɑkʃən/ 1. A public event where goods or property are sold to the highest bidder. Example: Auctions come in a wide variety. In a “Dutch auction”, often used to sell flowers and fruit, prices start high and gradually drop until a bidder is willing to pay up. A “Japanese auction” is a bit like poker: bids rise with each round and anyone who wants to win must bid every time. Vendors using auctions rid themselves of the headache of choosing prices and instead just pick the rules bidders must follow. 2. The first stage of a deal, in which players bid to determine the final contract.
Word: auction Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Latin auctiō (“an increase, auction”), from augere (“to increase”). Pronunciation: /ˈɔːkʃən/, /ˈɔkʃən/, /ˈɑkʃən/ 1. To sell at an auction. Labels: transitive
Word: perceive Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English perceyven, borrowed from Old French percevoir, perceveir, from Latin percipiō, past participle perceptus (“take hold of, obtain, receive, observe”), from per (“by, through”) + capiō (“to take”); see capable. Compare conceive, deceive, receive. Pronunciation: /pəˈsiːv/, /pɚˈsiv/ 1. To become aware of, through the physical senses, to see; to understand. Labels: transitive Example: Go from the presence of a foolish man, when thou perceivest not in him the lips of knowledge. Example: Morton was in fearful time pressure and at first did not realize he was mated. He snatched up his King and swung it around wildly, finally perceiving that there was no square for the critter, 2. To interpret something in a particular way. Example: John was perceived to be a coward by his comrades
Word: unequal Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English unequale, equivalent to un- + equal. Compare German unegal (“unlevel, uneven”). Pronunciation: /ʌnˈiːkwəl/ 1. Not the same. 2. Out of balance. 3. Inadequate; insufficiently capable or qualified. Labels: comparable Example: unequal to the task 4. Erratic, inconsistent. Example: Her manner to Francesca was very unequal. Sometimes it had all the frankness of their early intimacy; at other times it was forbidding, and even petulant.
Word: unequal Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English unequale, equivalent to un- + equal. Compare German unegal (“unlevel, uneven”). Pronunciation: /ʌnˈiːkwəl/ 1. One who is not an equal.
Word: marinate Part of Speech: verb Etymology: First attested in 1645; adapted from either French mariner or the earlier attested Italian marinare (“to pickle, marinate”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (adjective-forming suffix)), from Late Latin marina (“brine, salt water”), short for aqua marina (“sea water”), from Latin marinus (“marine, of the sea”), from Latin mare (“the sea”) from Proto-Indo-European *móri (“the sea”). Pronunciation: /ˈmæɹɪneɪt/ 1. To allow a sauce or flavoring mixture to absorb into something; to steep or soak something in a marinade to flavor or prepare it for cooking. Labels: ergative, transitive Example: You'll get a better flavour from the chicken if you marinate it first. Example: After the chicken has marinated for two hours, discard the remaining marinade. 2. To allow a substance to be absobed into the hair or scalp. Labels: ambitransitive Example: oblucy: "vinegar... to marinate the scalp... oil... to lubricate the scalp..." Example: Let your scalp marinate while you shave. 3. Of a substance, to absorb into the hair or scalp. Labels: ambitransitive Example: a rejuvenating oil you use to saturate your hair and let it marinate from 15 minutes to 2 hours Example: [...] hair rather than the scalp, but as always, experiment. You can also play around with how long you leave the mixture on your head — some people have better results after letting the ACV marinate for a few minutes. 4. Of ideas or feelings, to mentally develop over time. Labels: intransitive 5. Especially of a haircut, to settle in and for one to get used to it. Labels: figuratively, informal Example: It's not a bad haircut! You just got to let it marinate!
Word: marinate Part of Speech: adj Etymology: First attested in 1645; adapted from either French mariner or the earlier attested Italian marinare (“to pickle, marinate”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (adjective-forming suffix)), from Late Latin marina (“brine, salt water”), short for aqua marina (“sea water”), from Latin marinus (“marine, of the sea”), from Latin mare (“the sea”) from Proto-Indo-European *móri (“the sea”). Pronunciation: /ˈmæɹɪneɪt/ 1. Marinated. Labels: not-comparable, rare
Word: mercenary Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English mercenarye (“someone paid to work, hireling”), from Latin mercēnārius (“hired for money”), from mercēs (“reward, wages, price”). Pronunciation: /ˈmɜː.sə.nə.ɹi/, /ˈmɜː.sən.ɹi/, /ˈmɝ.sə.ˌnɛɹ.i/ 1. One motivated by gain, especially monetary. Labels: archaic Example: J. Argyrofylus, a mercenary Greek, who came to teach school in Italy, after the sacking of Constantinople by the Turks, used to maintain that Cicero understood neither Philosophy nor Greek Example: Such a man emphatically deserves the name of fortune-hunter—a wretch as detestable in society, as destructive of domestic happiness! And if, when marriages are consummated on such plans, there be afterwards between the parties the least appearance of regard, and the common forms of decorum, it is more than can reasonably be expected, and infinitely more than such mercenaries deserve. 2. A person employed to fight in an armed conflict who is not a member of the state or military group for which they are fighting and whose primary motivation is private gain. Example: He exhorts the emperor to revive the courage of his subjects by the example of manly virtue; to banish luxury from the court and from the camp; to substitute in the place of the Barbarian mercenaries, an army of men interested in the defence of their laws and of their property Example: If a mercenary died, that was one fewer man to pay. Mercenaries were an efficient way to run a military campaign especially in view of the employer's ability to hire and fire when and if the situation demanded 3. One hired to engage in a figurative battle, as a corporate takeover, a lawsuit, or a political campaign. Labels: figuratively
Word: mercenary Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English mercenarye (“someone paid to work, hireling”), from Latin mercēnārius (“hired for money”), from mercēs (“reward, wages, price”). Pronunciation: /ˈmɜː.sə.nə.ɹi/, /ˈmɜː.sən.ɹi/, /ˈmɝ.sə.ˌnɛɹ.i/ 1. Motivated by personal gain. Example: Success is never so interesting as struggle—not even to the successful, not even to the most mercenary forms of ambition.
Word: magnate Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed into late Middle English from Late Latin magnātēs, plural of magnās, from magnus (“great”), mid 15th c. Pronunciation: /ˈmæɡneɪt/, /ˈmæɡnət/ 1. Powerful industrialist; captain of industry. Example: I have decided to become an oil magnate, after spending quite some time reading the dictionary definition of the word magnate. Example: With a suitable amount of life experience under her belt, she sat down and conjured up the sexiest, most delicious Italian wine magnate she could imagine, had him make his biggest mistake, and gave him a wife on the run. 2. A person of rank, influence or distinction in any sphere. Example: He mingled with the Magnates of his land; / Join'd the carousals of the great and gay, […] Example: […] but there is not an illiterate Justice of the Peace, or rural magnate in the form of a country squire, that would not detect such a man as an empirie at once, if he rested his claim to such an appointment on the score of his scholarship. 3. In medieval and early modern Italy, a member of a legally defined category of especially wealthy patrician families, often deprived of the right to political participation by republican governments. Labels: historical Example: Those considered politically dangerous could be excluded from office by declaring them magnates, while cancellation of magnate status was a mark of favour, a means of political patronage.
Word: mercantile Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Italic *merks Latin merx Latin mercor Latin mercantem Italian mercante Latin -īlemder. Italian -ile Italian mercantilebor. French mercantilebor. English mercantile Borrowed from French mercantile, from Italian mercantile, from mercante (“merchant”), from Latin mercāns (“trading”). Pronunciation: /ˈmɜːkənˌtaɪl/, /ˈmɝ.kənˌtaɪl/, /-ˌtil/ 1. Concerned with the exchange of goods for profit. Labels: not-comparable Example: No sign was over his door; in fact—as with old banks and mercantile houses—advertising in any shape was scorned, and it would have been felt as beneath his dignity to paint, for the benefit of strangers, the name of an establishment the trade of which came solely by connection based on personal respect. 2. Of or relating to mercantilism. Labels: not-comparable
Word: gentile Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from French gentil (“gentile”), from Latin gentīlis (“of or belonging to the same people or nation”), morphologically from gēns (“clan; tribe; people, family”) + adjective suffix -īlis (“-ile”). Doublet of gentle, genteel, jaunty, and Gentoo. See also gens, gender, genus, and generation. Pronunciation: /ˈd͡ʒɛntaɪl/ 1. A non-Jewish person. Labels: Judaism Example: And he said, It is a light thing that thou shouldest be my seruant to raise vp the tribes of Iacob, and to restore the preserued of Israel: I will also giue thee for a light to the Gentiles, that thou mayest be my saluation, vnto the end of the earth. Example: Yea farther, ſo glorious, and raviſhing were the firſt dawnings of Goſpel light, which brought ſuch glad tidings of Salvation to Mankind, as that not only the Jews, but alſo ſome ſober minded, inquiſitive Gentiles rejoyced in this Light for a ſeaſon […] who yet never had a through work of Converſion on their hearts: […] 2. A non-Mormon person. Labels: Mormonism 3. A noun derived from a proper noun which denotes something belonging to or coming from a particular city, nation, or country. Example: Gentiles are denominative nouns denoting belonging to or coming from a particular country, nation, or city. Gentiles are formed from proper nouns by secondary suffixes.
Word: forage Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English forage, from Old French fourage, forage, a derivative of fuerre (“fodder, straw”), from Frankish *fōdar (“fodder, sheath”), from Proto-Germanic *fōdrą (“fodder, feed, sheath”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂- (“to protect, to feed”). Cognate with Old High German fuotar (German Futter (“fodder, feed”)), Old English fōdor, fōþer (“food, fodder, covering, case, basket”), Dutch voeder (“forage, food, feed”), Danish foder (“fodder, feed”), Icelandic fóðr (“fodder, sheath”). More at fodder, food. Unrelated to modern French forage (“drilling”), whose first element is ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰerH- (“to pierce”). Pronunciation: /ˈfɒɹ.ɪd͡ʒ/, /ˈfoɹɪd͡ʒ/, [ˈfo̞ɹɪd͡ʒ], /ˈfɑɹɪd͡ʒ/ 1. Fodder for animals, especially cattle and horses. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The hermit was apparently somewhat moved to compassion by the anxiety as well as address which the stranger displayed in tending his horse; for, muttering something about provender left for the keeper's palfrey, he dragged out of a recess a bundle of forage, which he spread before the knight's charger. Example: To invade the corn, and to their cells convey / The plundered forage of their yellow prey 2. An act or instance of foraging. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: He [the lion] from forage will incline to play. Example: [Charles] Mawhood completed his forage unmolested, and returned to Philadelphia. 3. The demand for fodder, etc., by an army from the local population. Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable
Word: forage Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English forage, from Old French fourage, forage, a derivative of fuerre (“fodder, straw”), from Frankish *fōdar (“fodder, sheath”), from Proto-Germanic *fōdrą (“fodder, feed, sheath”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂- (“to protect, to feed”). Cognate with Old High German fuotar (German Futter (“fodder, feed”)), Old English fōdor, fōþer (“food, fodder, covering, case, basket”), Dutch voeder (“forage, food, feed”), Danish foder (“fodder, feed”), Icelandic fóðr (“fodder, sheath”). More at fodder, food. Unrelated to modern French forage (“drilling”), whose first element is ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰerH- (“to pierce”). Pronunciation: /ˈfɒɹ.ɪd͡ʒ/, /ˈfoɹɪd͡ʒ/, [ˈfo̞ɹɪd͡ʒ], /ˈfɑɹɪd͡ʒ/ 1. To search for and gather food for animals, particularly cattle and horses. Example: The message said that the party intended to hunt and forage through this region, for a month or two, afore it went back into the Canadas. 2. To rampage through, gathering and destroying as one goes. Example: And your great-uncle's, Edward the Black Prince, / Who on the French ground play'd a tragedy, / Making defeat on the full power of France, / Whiles his most mighty father on a hill / Stood smiling to behold his lion's whelp / Forage in blood of French nobility. 3. To rummage. Example: Using the blankets for a basket, we sent up the books, instruments, and clothes to swell our growing midden on the deck; and then Nares, going on hands and knees, began to forage underneath the bed. 4. Of an animal: to seek out and eat food.
Word: foreign Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English foreyn, forein, from Old French forain, from Vulgar Latin *forānus (“outsider, outlander”), from Latin forās (“outside, outdoors”) or forīs (“outside, outdoors”). Displaced native Old English elþēodiġ (“foreign”) and now-dialectal English fremd, from Old English fremde (“strange, foreign”). The silent -g- added perhaps by analogy with reign (compare also sovereign which was similarly altered). Pronunciation: /ˈfɒɹɪn/, /ˈfɒɹən/, /ˈfɔɹɪn/, /ˈfɔɹən/, /ˈfɑɹɪn/ 1. Located outside a country or place, especially one's own. Example: foreign markets; foreign soil Example: He liked visiting foreign cities. 2. Originating from, characteristic of, belonging to, or being a citizen of a country or place other than the one under discussion. Example: foreign car; foreign word; foreign citizen; foreign trade Example: There are many more foreign students in Europe since the Erasmus scheme started. 3. Relating to a different nation. Example: foreign policy; foreign navies Example: Plus, the Department of Justice has argued in the past that SGEs are subject to the emoluments clause, which means they cannot take payments from foreign governments. 4. Not characteristic of or naturally taken in by an organism or system. Example: foreign body; foreign substance; foreign gene; foreign species 5. Alien; strange; uncharacteristic. Example: It was completely foreign to their way of thinking. Example: [T]his deſign is not ſo foreign from ſome Peoples Thoughts, […] 6. Held at a distance; excluded; exiled. Labels: obsolete Example: Kept him a foreign man still; which so grieved him, / That he ran mad and died. 7. From a different legal jurisdiction (state, province), even if within the same country. Labels: Canada, US 8. Belonging to a different organization, company etc. Example: My bank charges me $2.50 every time I use a foreign ATM. 9. Outside, outdoors, outdoor. Labels: obsolete
Word: foreign Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English foreyn, forein, from Old French forain, from Vulgar Latin *forānus (“outsider, outlander”), from Latin forās (“outside, outdoors”) or forīs (“outside, outdoors”). Displaced native Old English elþēodiġ (“foreign”) and now-dialectal English fremd, from Old English fremde (“strange, foreign”). The silent -g- added perhaps by analogy with reign (compare also sovereign which was similarly altered). Pronunciation: /ˈfɒɹɪn/, /ˈfɒɹən/, /ˈfɔɹɪn/, /ˈfɔɹən/, /ˈfɑɹɪn/ 1. A foreign person Labels: informal Example: The messaging instructions come in two sets: one for domestics, another for the foreigns. 2. A foreign person Labels: obsolete 3. A foreign person Labels: obsolete 4. A foreign vehicle Labels: obsolete 5. A foreign vehicle Labels: slang Example: In the foreign switching lanes and we riding […] A island I wanna live somewhere silent I'm shining I'm bout to flood my neck with diamonds Yeah I've been spitting facts these niggas lying I'm driving stolens, foreigns, yeah I'm riding 6. An outhouse; an outdoor toilet. Labels: obsolete Example: Ful foule ys þat forreyne Þat ys comoun for al certeyne. 7. A foreign area Labels: dialectal 8. A foreign area Labels: obsolete, plural-normally 9. Short for various phrases, including foreign language, foreign parts, and foreign service. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of
Word: native Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Inherited from Middle English natif, from Old French natif, from Latin nātīvus, from nātus (“birth”). Doublet of naive and neif. Displaced native Middle English thedisch, equivalent to (puristic) theed + -ish. By surface analysis, Latin nat- + -ive. Compare also inborn. Pronunciation: /ˈneɪtɪv/, /ˈneɪtəv/ 1. Belonging to one by birth. Example: This is my native land. Example: English is not my native language. 2. Characteristic of or relating to people inhabiting a region from prehistoric times. Example: Many native artists studied abroad. Example: Native peoples in the continental United States are called Native Americans or American Indians. 3. Alternative letter-case form of Native (of or relating to the native inhabitants of the Americas, or of Australia). Labels: alt-of 4. Born or grown in the region in which it lives or is found; not foreign or imported. Example: native oysters or strawberries Example: Clover is not native to the Americas, but it is firmly established there. 5. Which occurs of its own accord in a given locality, to be contrasted with a species introduced by humans. Example: The naturalized Norway maple often outcompetes the native North American sugar maple. 6. Pertaining to the system or architecture in question. Example: This is a native back-end to gather the latest news feeds. Example: The native integer size is sixteen bits. 7. Occurring naturally in its pure or uncombined form. Example: native aluminium Example: native salt 8. Arising by birth; having an origin; born. Example: Anaximander's opinion is, that the gods are native, rising and vanishing again in long periods of times. 9. Original; constituting the original substance of anything. Example: native dust Example: Must I thus leave thee Paradise? thus leave Thee Native Soile, these happie Walks and Shades, Fit haunt of Gods? 10. Naturally related; cognate; connected (with). Example: The head is not more native to the heart, […] Than is the throne of Denmark to thy father.
Word: native Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Inherited from Middle English natif, from Old French natif, from Latin nātīvus, from nātus (“birth”). Doublet of naive and neif. Displaced native Middle English thedisch, equivalent to (puristic) theed + -ish. By surface analysis, Latin nat- + -ive. Compare also inborn. Pronunciation: /ˈneɪtɪv/, /ˈneɪtəv/ 1. A person who is native to a place; a person who was born in a place. 2. A person of aboriginal descent, as distinguished from a person who was or whose ancestors were foreigners or settlers/colonizers. Alternative letter-case form of Native (aboriginal inhabitant of the Americas or Australia). Example: Mail trains are limited to first and second class passengers, but on the mixed trains third class is also provided, and this is patronised exclusively by natives. Example: Dr John Reid, a historian called to testify for Mr Marshall, distinguished between the fur trade at the truckhouses and a smaller scale trade between natives and settlers: "It seems that there were native persons who were selling small amounts […]" 3. A native speaker. 4. A native plant or animal. 5. An oyster of species Ostrea edulis.
Word: indigenous Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Borrowed from Late Latin indigenus (“native, born in a country”), from indi- (indu-), an old derivative of in (“in”), gen- the root of gignō (“give birth to”), and English -ous. Compare indigene, Ancient Greek ἐνδογενής (endogenḗs, “born in the house”), and the separately formed piecewise doublet endogenous. Unrelated to Indian. Pronunciation: /ɪnˈdɪdʒɪnəs/, /ɪnˈdɪd͡ʒənəs/, /ɪnˈdɪd͡ʒɪnəs/, /ɪnˈdaɪ.d͡ʒɛ.nʊs/ 1. Native to a land, especially before colonization. Labels: not-comparable Example: The Aboriginals were indigenous to Victoria before the World War. Example: Not only the Indian, but many indigenous insects, birds, and quadrupeds, welcomed the apple-tree to these shores. 2. Native to a land, especially before colonization. Labels: not-comparable Example: The Ainu are the indigenous ethnic group of Japan's Hokkaido Island. Example: About 98 per cent of Taiwan's inhabitants are Han Chinese, a diverse mix of ethnic and linguistic groups, including Hakka, Cantonese and Fujianese, who came from China's southern coast. Taiwan's other two per cent are from one of the nine indigenous tribes, which are scattered throughout the island but largely concentrated along the east coast and in the Central Mountain Range. 3. Innate, inborn. Labels: not-comparable Example: She was a native and essential cook, as much as Aunt Chloe,—cooking being an indigenous talent of the African race. Example: He had all the tricks of a newspaper boy indigenous in him. 4. Original to a geographical area. Labels: not-comparable Example: That style of pottery is indigenous to that region.
Word: nirvana Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Sanskrit निर्वाण (nirvāṇa, “blown or put out, extinguished”), from निस् (nis, “out”) + वा (vā, “to blow”), the second part cognate with Russian ве́тер (véter, “wind”), weather, vent and wind. Pronunciation: /nɪrˈvɑːn(ɑː)/, /nɪəˈvɑː.nə/, /nəˈvɑː.nə/, /nɪɹˈvɑ.nə/, /nəɹˈvɑ.nə/ 1. Complete cessation of dukkha; a blissful state attained through realization of sunyata; enlightened experience. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. State of paradise; heightened or great pleasure or peace; a state of universal perfection and bliss. Labels: colloquial, countable, uncountable Example: Welcome to this celebration of legal abortion. I wish January 22 meant more than that. The truth is that we are not winging our way to a state of nirvana for reproductive rights. Example: Though we don’t all reach nirvana when we swim, swimming may well be that last refuge from connectivity — and, for some, the only way to find the solitary self.
Word: sororal Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *swé Proto-Indo-European *h₁ésh₂r̥ Proto-Indo-European *su-h₁ésh₂-ōr? Proto-Indo-European *swé Proto-Indo-European *-sōr ? Proto-Indo-European *swésōr Proto-Italic *swezōr Latin soror Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.? Proto-Italic *-ālis Latin -ālisbor. Old French -albor. ▲ Latin -ālis Old French -elbor. ▲ Latin -ālisbor. Middle English -al English -al English sororal From Latin soror (“sister”) + English -al (adjectival suffix). Pronunciation: /səˈɹɔːɹ(ə)l/, /səˈɹɔɹəl/ 1. Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of a sister or sisters; sisterlike, sisterly. Labels: not-comparable 2. Related through a sister. Labels: archaic, not-comparable Example: sororal nephew
Word: once removed Part of Speech: adj 1. One generation apart. Labels: not-comparable Example: Phil and Andre are first cousins once removed.
Word: quarry Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English quarere, from Medieval Latin quarreria (1266), literally a “place where stones are squared”, from Old French quarrière (compare modern French carrière), from Vulgar Latin *quadraria, from Latin quadrō (“to square”), itself from quadra (“a square”), from quattuor (“four”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kʷetwóres (“four”). Pronunciation: /ˈkwɒɹ.i/, /ˈk(w)ɔɹ.i/, /ˈkwɑɹ.i/ 1. A site for mining stone, such as limestone, or slate. Example: Michelangelo personally quarried marble from the world-famous quarry at Carrara. Example: Yet theſe are the men cry'd out againſt for ſchiſmaticks and ſectaries; as if, while the Temple of the Lord was building, ſome cutting, ſome ſquaring the marble, others hewing the cedars, there ſhould be a ſort of irrationall men who could not conſider there muſt be many ſchiſms and many diſſections made in the quarry and the timber, ere the houſe of God can be built.
Word: quarry Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English quarere, from Medieval Latin quarreria (1266), literally a “place where stones are squared”, from Old French quarrière (compare modern French carrière), from Vulgar Latin *quadraria, from Latin quadrō (“to square”), itself from quadra (“a square”), from quattuor (“four”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kʷetwóres (“four”). Pronunciation: /ˈkwɒɹ.i/, /ˈk(w)ɔɹ.i/, /ˈkwɑɹ.i/ 1. To obtain (or mine) stone by extraction from a quarry. Labels: transitive Example: The incloſing of this country might alſo be effected, were the landlord to quarry the ſtones, and build the walls at his expence, and the tenant to carry the materials, and pay intereſt for the money advanced by the landlord. Example: The stone of which this town and church was built, is somewhat of the nature of "rotten limestone,"—is quite light in color,—quarries out regularly and easily,—is soft, when first quarried, but becomes hard on exposure to the air. 2. To extract or slowly obtain by long, tedious searching. Labels: figuratively, transitive Example: They quarried out new, interesting facts about ancient Egypt from old papyri. Example: The second part of Aristotle's work requires little description. […] It has been largely quarried by the grammarians and lexicographers of later ages, from whom modern students of Athenian antiquities have derived their information; […]
Word: quarry Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English quyrre, querre, quirre, from Anglo-Norman quiree (“entrails of deer placed on the hide and given to dogs of the chase as a reward”) (influenced by cuir (“skin (of an animal)”), from Latin corium (“a hide”)), from coree (“entrails, viscera”), from Vulgar Latin corata (“entrails”), from Latin cor (“heart”). Pronunciation: /ˈkwɒɹ.i/, /ˈk(w)ɔɹ.i/, /ˈkwɑɹ.i/ 1. A part of the entrails of a hunted animal, given to the hounds as a reward. Labels: obsolete, uncountable Example: Quarry, among hunters, is ſometimes uſed for part of the viſcera of the beaſt taken; given by way of reward to the hounds. 2. An animal, often a bird or mammal, which is hunted. Labels: uncountable Example: Is it not our very Caſe now, that when our Souls, Good-Names, Bodies and Fortunes are at Stake, we muſt be running out at Check, after every Crow, Buzzard, or Jack-daw that comes in the way, and leave the main Chance at laſt at Six and Seven? Nay, and here's this more in't too, that the Quarry would not be worth the taking up neither, if we could Catch it; beſide, that it flies away ſtill before us, and is never to be Overtaken. Example: Nofi Raranta, 37, the town's main clove dealer, is also the top hunter, employing about a hundred men who comb the surrounding forests for quarry. 3. An object of search or pursuit. Labels: countable Example: In a verſe, when a worde of three ſillables cannot thruſt in but ſidelings, to joynt him even, we are oftentimes faine to borrowe ſome leſſer quarry of elocution from the Latine, alwaies retaining this for a principle, that a leake of indeſinence , as a leake in a ſhip, muſt needly be ſtopt with what matter ſoever. Example: Meanwhile his Ladie, which this outrage ſaw, / Whileſt they together for the quarrey ſtroue, / Into the couert did her ſelfe withdrw, / And cloſely hid her ſelfe within the groue.
Word: quarry Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English quyrre, querre, quirre, from Anglo-Norman quiree (“entrails of deer placed on the hide and given to dogs of the chase as a reward”) (influenced by cuir (“skin (of an animal)”), from Latin corium (“a hide”)), from coree (“entrails, viscera”), from Vulgar Latin corata (“entrails”), from Latin cor (“heart”). Pronunciation: /ˈkwɒɹ.i/, /ˈk(w)ɔɹ.i/, /ˈkwɑɹ.i/ 1. To secure prey; to prey, as a vulture or harpy. Example: What's an Eternal Circulation of the ſame Things, as well as the ſame Steps, without Advancing one Inch of Ground towards his Journey's End, but Ixion in the Wheel? And all this while, with Cares, and Horrors at his Heart, like the Vultur that's Day and Night Quarrying upon Prometheus's Liver.
Word: quarry Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Alteration of quarrel (“diamond-shaped piece of coloured glass forming part of a stained glass window; square tile”). Pronunciation: /ˈkwɒɹ.i/, /ˈk(w)ɔɹ.i/, /ˈkwɑɹ.i/ 1. A diamond-shaped tile or pane, often of glass or stone. Example: The boyes playing at ſtooleball, by chaunce broke a quarry of the glaſſe, whereupon he complayned to the Towneſhip, and either had, or did his utmoſt to haue the poor boy whipt, […] Example: A window towards the eaſt (whoſe fractured quarries proclaimed the ravages of time) admitted a dim, ſhadowy light, over the whole manſion.
Word: once-removed Part of Speech: adj 1. Alternative form of once removed. Labels: alt-of, alternative, not-comparable
Word: kibbutz Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Hebrew קִבּוּץ (kibúts), derived from the verb קָבַץ (kaváts, “to gather, collect, assemble”). Not related to kibitz. Pronunciation: /kɪˈbʊts/, /kɪˈbuːts/, /kiː-/ 1. A community, usually an agricultural one in Israel, based on a high level of social and economical sharing, equality, direct democracy and tight social relations. Example: The kibbutzim along the Gaza border have been socialist communes and some of the most tenacious bastions of the Israeli left. I know people from those kibbutzim who, after years of almost daily rocket attacks from Gaza, still clung to the hope of peace, as if to a religious cult.
Word: Michaelmas Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Middle English Michelmasse, Myghelmesse; equivalent to Michael + -mas. Pronunciation: /ˈmɪkəlməs/ 1. A Christian feast celebrated on the 29th of September in honour of the archangel Michael. Example: To make Capons […] [S]ome for this Purpoſe make it their Buſineſs after Harveſt-time to go to Markets for buying up Chickens, and between Michaelmas and All-hollantide caponize the Cocks, when they have got large enough to have Stones [i.e., testes] of ſuch a Bigneſs that they may be pulled out; for if they are too little, it can't be done; […] 2. Ellipsis of Michaelmas term. Labels: Ireland, UK, abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis
Word: iff Part of Speech: conj Pronunciation: /ɪf ən(d)ˈəʊn.li ɪf/, /ɪf ən(d)ˈoʊn.li ɪf/ 1. Abbreviation of if and only if. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of Example: A rectangle is a square iff all four of its sides have the same length.
Word: iff Part of Speech: conj 1. Obsolete spelling of if. Labels: alt-of, obsolete Example: For iff the patient be aſhamed to diſcloſe hiſ wounde to the phyſician which knoweth it not , phyſicke can not helpe him.
Word: cleistogamy Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Ancient Greek κλειστός (kleistós, “closed”) + -gamy. 1. The production of flowers which do not open and are self-fertilized in the bud. Labels: uncountable Example: In a species that produces fruits from self-pollination and from cross-pollination, self-pollinated fruits generally produce many more seeds than fruits produced from cross-pollination. This suggests the likelihood that cleistogamy arose in those species because cross-pollination was not always effective.
Word: heading Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree substratebor.? Proto-Indo-European *kap-? Proto-Indo-European *kap- Proto-Indo-European *káput Proto-Germanic *haubudą Old English hēafod Middle English heed English head English -ing English heading From head + -ing. Pronunciation: /ˈhɛdɪŋ/ 1. present participle and gerund of head Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: heading Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree substratebor.? Proto-Indo-European *kap-? Proto-Indo-European *kap- Proto-Indo-European *káput Proto-Germanic *haubudą Old English hēafod Middle English heed English head English -ing English heading From head + -ing. Pronunciation: /ˈhɛdɪŋ/ 1. The title or topic of a document, article, chapter, or of a section thereof. Example: put the information under the "Advantages" heading 2. The direction into which a seagoing or airborne vessel's bow is pointing (apparent heading) and/or the direction into which it is actually moving relative to the ground (true heading) 3. Material for the heads of casks, barrels, etc. 4. A gallery, drift, or adit in a mine, particularly one driving through a solid body of coal or ore; also, the end of a drift or gallery; the vein above a drift. Example: http://undergroundcoal.com.au/fundamentals/01_process.aspx Once access has been gained into the coal seam, workings are developed by mining a series of roadways (or headings). These roadways are tunnels largely, if not totally, within the seam, usually rectangular in shape though on occasions they may have an arched or even circular profile. 5. The extension of a line ruffling above the line of stitch. 6. The end of a stone or brick which is presented outward. 7. A strip of material at the hoist end of a flag, used for attaching the flag to its halyard.
Word: belong Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁ep-der. Proto-Indo-European *h₁épsder. Proto-Indo-European *h₁epider. Proto-Indo-European *h₁pi Proto-Germanic *bider. Proto-Germanic *bi- Proto-West Germanic *bi- Old English be- Middle English be- Proto-Germanic *langōną Proto-West Germanic *langōn Old English langian Middle English longen Middle English belongen English belong From Middle English belongen, bilongen, from Middle English be- + longen (“to be fitting, be suitable”), from Old English langian (“to pertain to, suit”), equivalent to be- + long (“to belong”). Compare Saterland Frisian beloangje (“to attain, reach, meet”), Dutch belangen (“to concern”), German belangen (“to sue, concern”). Pronunciation: /bɪˈlɒŋ/, /bɪˈlɔŋ/, /bɪˈlɑŋ/ 1. To have its proper place. Labels: intransitive Example: Where does this book belong? It belongs on the top shelf. 2. To have its proper place. Labels: intransitive Example: You don’t belong here — get out. 3. To have its proper place. Labels: intransitive, with-to Example: I don’t belong to the Southside Crew. 4. To have its proper place. Labels: dated, informal, intransitive, obsolete Example: " We have," he says, "in these parts a provincial usage of the word "belong:" as, "belong to Halifax," "belong to Leeds: "or, more commonly, "belong Halifax," "belong Leeds:" meaning, live there. Example: Ah! this is the elder of the two - not the one who belongs to Cornwall - I can see that chap still there, holding on to yonder spar. 5. To be the property of, or be bound to by dependency or as an attribute. Labels: intransitive, with-to Example: That house belongs to me. Example: Sunning himself on the board steps, I saw for the first time Mr. Farquhar Fenelon Cooke. He was dressed out in broad gaiters and bright tweeds, like an English tourist, and his face might have belonged to Dagon, idol of the Philistines. 6. To be the spouse or partner of. Labels: intransitive, with-to Example: John wanted to ask Mary out on a date, but learned that Mary belonged to another man. 7. (followed by to) To be an element of (a set). The symbol ∈ means belongs to. Labels: intransitive Example: Suppose x belongs to #92;mathbb#123;R#125;… 8. To be deserved by. Labels: obsolete, transitive Example: More evils belong us than happen to us. 9. To do something habitually or customarily. Labels: Cornwall Example: Belong. To be accustomed; to be due. He belongs to go every day. The 'bus belongs to start soon. Example: […] she belong to behave now she's growed up.
Word: belong Part of Speech: prep Etymology: Compare Australian Kriol blanga, Bislama blong, Tok Pisin bilong, and Torres Strait Creole blong. Pronunciation: /bɪˈlɒŋ/, /bɪˈlɔŋ/, /bɪˈlɑŋ/ 1. Of, belonging to. Example: Jim Campbell, Charlie, Dick, ... Fred, lubra b’longa him, me, thass all. Example: By an’ bye ’im grow ’m up make ’m good fella stockman b’longta you.
Word: dirigiste Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Borrowed from French dirigiste, from diriger (“to run, to direct”), from Latin dirigere (“to direct, to steer”). Pronunciation: /dɪɹəˈʒist/, /dɪɹɪˈʒist/ 1. Controlled or guided by a central authority, as in an economy. Example: The repeated crises in dirigiste systems are in essence crises of information since the abolition of the market leaves the central planner bereft of that economic knowledge which is required for harmony. Example: Certainly, popular demands and the force of circumstances have already pushed the Biden administration towards a dirigiste programme of government-led recovery that has no real precedent since the 1960s.
Word: dirigiste Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from French dirigiste, from diriger (“to run, to direct”), from Latin dirigere (“to direct, to steer”). Pronunciation: /dɪɹəˈʒist/, /dɪɹɪˈʒist/ 1. An advocate or practitioner of dirigisme. Example: Warren wants to centralize economic decisions, creating a Department of Economic Development — a top-down council of government dirigistes.
Word: definitely Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree English definite 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 definitely From definite + -ly. Pronunciation: /ˈdɛf.ɪ.nɪt.li/, /ˈdɛf.ə.nɪt.li/, /ˈdɛf.nɪt.li/ 1. Without question and beyond doubt. Example: Joe definitely doesn't know how to drive a tractor. Example: She said she wasn't coming, definitely. 2. In a definite manner; decisively. Example: It was really impossible on board that ship to get away definitely from Almayer Example: And the Nose definitely turned away.
Word: Chinatown Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From China + town. Pronunciation: /ˈtʃaɪnətaʊn/, /ˈt͡ʃaɪnəˌtaʊn/ 1. A district of a city or town (in a country other than China) in which there is a large concentration of Chinese residents and businesses. Example: She grabbed his hand again and marched him under the fake Oriental archway that heralded the beginning of Chinatown. Example: Freud’s itinerary in the novel hews neatly to what he and his colleagues really did on their trip to the U.S.: They visited Chinatown and Central Park and the Met. They made it down to Coney Island, though Jung and Freud’s boat ride through the Tunnel of Love seems to be a Doctorowian flight of fancy. 2. A similar district filled with East Asians and Southeast Asians. Labels: broadly, proscribed
Word: Chinatown Part of Speech: name Etymology: From China + town. Pronunciation: /ˈtʃaɪnətaʊn/, /ˈt͡ʃaɪnəˌtaʊn/ 1. Several neighborhoods in the United States with concentrations of Chinese people or businesses: 2. Several neighborhoods in the United States with concentrations of Chinese people or businesses: 3. Several neighborhoods in the United States with concentrations of Chinese people or businesses: 4. Several neighborhoods in the United States with concentrations of Chinese people or businesses: 5. Several neighborhoods in the United States with concentrations of Chinese people or businesses: 6. Several neighborhoods in the United States with concentrations of Chinese people or businesses: 7. Several neighborhoods in the United States with concentrations of Chinese people or businesses: 8. Several neighborhoods in the United States with concentrations of Chinese people or businesses: 9. Several neighborhoods in the United States with concentrations of Chinese people or businesses: 10. Several neighborhoods in the United States with concentrations of Chinese people or businesses: 11. Several neighborhoods in the United States with concentrations of Chinese people or businesses: 12. Several neighborhoods in the United States with concentrations of Chinese people or businesses: 13. Several neighborhoods in the United States with concentrations of Chinese people or businesses: 14. Several neighborhoods in the United States with concentrations of Chinese people or businesses: 15. Several neighborhoods in the United States with concentrations of Chinese people or businesses: 16. Several neighborhoods in the United States with concentrations of Chinese people or businesses: 17. Several neighborhoods in the United States with concentrations of Chinese people or businesses: 18. Several neighborhoods in the United States with concentrations of Chinese people or businesses: 19. Several neighborhoods in the United States with concentrations of Chinese people or businesses: Example: Freud’s itinerary in the novel hews neatly to what he and his colleagues really did on their trip to the U.S.: They visited Chinatown and Central Park and the Met. They made it down to Coney Island, though Jung and Freud’s boat ride through the Tunnel of Love seems to be a Doctorowian flight of fancy. 20. Several neighborhoods in the United States with concentrations of Chinese people or businesses: 21. Several neighborhoods in the United States with concentrations of Chinese people or businesses:
Word: dreadlocks Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Jamaican Creole dreadlocks, from dread (“of or relating to a dread”, adjective) (from dread (“(usually black) male member of the Rastafarian movement who wears his hair in dreadlocks”, noun), from English dread (“reverential or respectful fear; awe”), referring to the awe inspired by God) + English locks (plural of lock (“length or tuft of hair”)). The English word is analyzable as dread (“Rastafarian”, attributive) + locks. Pronunciation: /ˈdɹɛdlɒks/, /ˈdɹɛdˌlɑks/ 1. A hairstyle worn by Rastafarians and others in which the hair is left to grow long, and twisted into matted strings. Labels: plural, plural-normally Example: The patient history may point to the use of tight hairstyles that put tension on the hair root or hair treatments that increase the vulnerability to traction-related damage. The physician should evaluate for a history of tight ponytails, buns, chignons, braids, twists, weaves, cornrows, dreadlocks, sisterlocks, and hair wefts in addition to the usage of religious hair coverings.
Word: dreadlocks Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Borrowed from Jamaican Creole dreadlocks, from dread (“of or relating to a dread”, adjective) (from dread (“(usually black) male member of the Rastafarian movement who wears his hair in dreadlocks”, noun), from English dread (“reverential or respectful fear; awe”), referring to the awe inspired by God) + English locks (plural of lock (“length or tuft of hair”)). The English word is analyzable as dread (“Rastafarian”, attributive) + locks. Pronunciation: /ˈdɹɛdlɒks/, /ˈdɹɛdˌlɑks/ 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of dreadlock Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: dreads Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Abbreviation of dreadlocks. Sense of “Rastafarian person” by synecdoche. Pronunciation: /dɹɛdz/ 1. dreadlocks Labels: colloquial, plural, plural-only
Word: dreads Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Abbreviation of dreadlocks. Sense of “Rastafarian person” by synecdoche. Pronunciation: /dɹɛdz/ 1. A Rastafarian person.
Word: dreads Part of Speech: verb Etymology: See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form. Pronunciation: /dɹɛdz/ 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of dread Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: locks Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /lɒks/, /lɑks/ 1. plural of lock Labels: form-of, plural
Word: locks Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /lɒks/, /lɑks/ 1. A head of hair; tresses. Labels: plural, plural-only 2. Dreadlocks. Labels: colloquial, plural, plural-only
Word: locks Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /lɒks/, /lɑks/ 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of lock Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: coenure Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Ancient Greek κοινός (koinós, “common”) + οὐρά (ourá, “tail”). 1. the larva of Taenia coenurus, the canine tapeworm - causes staggers in sheep
Word: coro Part of Speech: noun 1. Syllabic abbreviation of coroutine.
Word: lido Part of Speech: noun Etymology: After Lido (Lido di Venezia), an island with a long beach in Venice, Italy, site of Europe’s first modern beach resort (1857), from Italian lido (“beach, shore”), from Latin litus (“shore”) (hence also English littoral (“of the shore”)). The name is aspirational, evoking glamorous Venice; compare Venetian Pool, another outdoor pool named for Venice. Pronunciation: /ˈlaɪ.dəʊ/, /ˈliː.dəʊ/ 1. Part of the sea by a beach sectioned off for swimming and other aquatic activities. Labels: UK 2. An outdoor swimming pool. Labels: UK
Word: lido Part of Speech: noun 1. Clipping of lidocaine Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, slang, uncountable
Word: boeuf Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from French bœuf (“ox”). Pronunciation: /ˈbɜːf/ 1. A bovine. Example: Howbeit, that country bringeth forth certain kinds of goodly great wild bœufes: to wit, the Biſontes, mained with a collar, like Lions: and the Vri, a mightie ſtrong beaſt, and a ſwift: which the ignorant people call Buffles, whereas indeed the Buffle is bred in Affrica, and carieth ſome reſemblance of a calfe rather, or a ſtag.