nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: Quidditch Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Coined by British author J. K. Rowling in her 1997 book Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. In Quidditch Through the Ages, Rowling gives some etymological information, hinting that the word evolved from Queerditch (compound of queer + ditch), with some spelling variation as would be expected in real life Middle English, namely Kwidditch, Kweerditch. Pronunciation: /ˈkwɪdɪt͡ʃ/ 1. A fictional ball game played between two teams of seven players riding flying broomsticks, using four balls and six elevated ring-shaped goals. Labels: uncountable Example: Maybe you wish your parents were smarter or funnier or richer or better looking, but you might as well wish for a spot on the local Quidditch team. Example: Turn to the south, and you see the Central Acropolis, a five-story palace where the nobles might have sat to watch plaza ceremonies or the famous Quidditch-like Mayan ball games.
Word: you-know-who Part of Speech: pron Etymology: From you + know + who. 1. Person or entity whose name one does not want to mention but which is known to the person to whom one is speaking. Example: And 'St—'st—'st and What's-his-name, and also You-know-who / The task of filling up the blanks I'd rather leave to you.
Word: alcohol Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Akkadian 𒎎𒋆𒁉𒍣𒁕 (guḫlum)bor. Aramaic כוחלא (kuḥlā)bor. Arabic كُحْل (kuḥl) Andalusian Arabic اَلْكُحُول (al-kuḥūl)bor. Medieval Latin alcoholder. Middle English alcofol English alcohol First attested in the 15th century from Middle English alcofol, from Middle French alcohol or Spanish alcohol, derived from the Medieval Latin rendering alcohol transmitted in medical or alchemical literature of Arabic اَلْكُحْل (al-kuḥl, “kohl”), which in Andalusian Arabic also bore the form كُحُول (kuḥūl), قُحُول (quḥūl); bearing thus the meaning of stibnite first, then generalized in meaning to a powder obtained by triturating a material, then also to liquids obtained by boiling down, and specialized to mean spirit of wine, ethanol, in the 18th century, then the narrow chemical sense after 1850. Doublet of alcool and kohl. Various old etymological notes. * Bartholomew Traheron in his 1543 translation of John of Vigo introduces the word as a term used by "barbarous" (Moorish) authors for "fine powder": the barbarous auctours use alcohol, or (as I fynde it sometymes wryten) alcofoll, for moost fine poudre. * William Johnson in his 1657 Lexicon Chymicum glosses the word as antimonium sive stibium. By extension, the word came to refer to any fluid obtained by distillation, including "alcohol of wine", the distilled essence of wine. * Libavius in Alchymia (1594) has vini alcohol vel vinum alcalisatum. * Johnson (1657) glosses alcohol vini as quando omnis superfluitas vini a vino separatur, ita ut accensum ardeat donec totum consumatur, nihilque fæcum aut phlegmatis in fundo remaneat. * Some authorities, including Rachel Hajar, suggest that the ultimate etymon was the Arabic term اَلْغَوْل (al-ḡawl, “bad effect, evil result of headache”) (as used in Qur’an verse 37:47, but this word is rather poetical and could for topical reasons not have been picked up from Arabic by Medieval writers, and aside from that the relation to stibium is well documented. Pronunciation: /ˈæl.kə.hɒl/, /ˈæl.kə.hɔl/, /ˈæl.kə.hɑl/, /ˈɑl.kə.hɔl/, /ˈɑl.kə.hɑl/ 1. Any of a class of organic compounds (such as ethanol) containing a hydroxyl functional group (-OH). Labels: countable Example: Our stomachs and livers have an enzyme known as alcohol dehydrogenase that breaks down ethanol to make it less toxic for our bodies, said Atlanta gastroenterologist Dr. Preston Stewart. 2. Ethanol. Labels: colloquial, countable, uncountable 3. Beverages containing ethanol, collectively. Labels: uncountable Example: Risk is everywhere. From tabloid headlines insisting that coffee causes cancer (yesterday, of course, it cured it) to stern government warnings about alcohol and driving, the world is teeming with goblins. 4. Any very fine powder. Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable
Word: fluffy Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From fluff + -y. Compare German flauschig (“fluffy”). Pronunciation: /ˈflʌfi/ 1. Covered with fluff. Example: Fluffy bunny rabbits are really nice to stroke. 2. Light; soft; airy. Example: I like my scrambled eggs to be light and fluffy in texture. 3. Warm and comforting. Labels: colloquial Example: Being in love with my boyfriend gives me a fluffy feeling inside. 4. Not clearly defined or explained; fuzzy. Labels: colloquial Example: Someone sold you the fluffy idea that brains triumphs^([sic]) over strength when you were picked last for the sports team. 5. Lightweight; superficial; lacking depth or seriousness. Example: And she is represented reading with great concentration, and not some fluffy novel but the rather politically oriented and literary Le Figaro, its title prominent if upside down in the foreground. Example: There was, I think, always a fluffy element to the neo-Pagan movement, but since the Internet explosion of the mid-to-late 1990s, it's got much, much worse. Most of it can be blamed on commercial drivers, as the publishers who produced neo-Pagan material (and the authors who work for them) realised that there was a vast market for teen-witch kits, bogus grimoires, etc, and set out to exploit it […]
Word: fluffy Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From fluff + -y. Compare German flauschig (“fluffy”). Pronunciation: /ˈflʌfi/ 1. Someone or something that has a fluffy texture. Labels: informal Example: Children can pamper the fluffies in the pets' corner […] 2. A person who is superficial, who lacks depth or seriousness. Labels: derogatory, informal Example: The world is overrun with fluffies. There was, I think, always a fluffy element to the neo-Pagan movement, but since the Internet explosion of the mid-to-late 1990s, it's got much, much worse. Most of it can be blamed on commercial drivers, as the publishers who produced neo-Pagan material (and the authors who work for them) realised that there was a vast market for teen-witch kits, bogus grimoires, etc, and set out to exploit it […] 3. A babycino (frothy milk drink). Labels: New-Zealand
Word: smitten Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English smiten, from Old English smiten, ġesmiten, from Proto-Germanic *smitanaz, past participle of Proto-Germanic *smītaną (“to hurl; fling”), equivalent to smite + -en (past participle ending). Pronunciation: /ˈsmɪ.tn̩/ 1. Affected by an act of smiting. Example: [A] smited man is a man struck; a smitten man is a man affected by the act of smiting: […] Example: There was a tense silence over the throng as the old man stood and looked at the figure at his feet. There were shadows on the earl's face, and his hands shook, for the smitten man was his son. 2. Affected by an act of smiting. Example: There is not, I am persuaded, an individual of the many Nature-smitten enthusiasts who yearly visit the wild glens of Kincardineshire, that would not walk barefoot a hundred miles to kneel at the tomb of him who founded the beautifully-situated village of Balrangle. Example: One of the side benefits of such has been making the acquaintances of similarly smitten enthusiasts, and inevitably they are keen to share both plants and experiences. 3. Affected by an act of smiting. Example: At the end of the long procession came a smitten woman. […] I think of the women who have fastened the tendrils of their heart's affection round unworthy men, and have married them, hoping, trusting and believing that their love and influence would be powerful enough to win the men to sobriety and virtue. Alas! how mistaken they have been! Example: In “The Soldier Maid,” a woman falls in love with the cross-dressed woman, thinking she is a man. The smitten woman, then, perceives herself in heterosexual mode – though the person to whom she is attracted is actually female.
Word: smitten Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English smiten, from Old English smiten, ġesmiten, from Proto-Germanic *smitanaz, past participle of Proto-Germanic *smītaną (“to hurl; fling”), equivalent to smite + -en (past participle ending). Pronunciation: /ˈsmɪ.tn̩/ 1. past participle of smite. Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: ritardando Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Borrowed from Italian ritardando, gerund of ritardare (“to delay, to slow down”). 1. Gradually decelerating the tempo of a piece of music, especially at the end of the piece. Labels: not-comparable
Word: ritardando Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Borrowed from Italian ritardando, gerund of ritardare (“to delay, to slow down”). 1. Having a gradually decelerating tempo. Labels: not-comparable
Word: ritardando Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Italian ritardando, gerund of ritardare (“to delay, to slow down”). 1. An instance of gradually decelerating the tempo of a piece of music.
Word: tattoo Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From earlier tattaow, tattow, a borrowing from a Polynesian language, e.g. Samoan tatau (“tattoo; to tap, to strike”). Pronunciation: /tæˈtuː/, /təˈtuː/, [tʰæˈtʰʉw], [tʰæˈtʰuː], [tʰæˈtʰʊw] 1. An image made on a body part, usually the skin with ink and a needle. Example: His shirt sleeves were turned up, so upon his brawny arms his tattooes were visible. Example: Nothing pleases a Burman more than to be asked to show his tattooes. He is as delighted as a collector of curios in England. They consist of a series of pictures of tigers, lions, elephants, dragons, demons, and what-not, surrounded by mottoes invoking good fortune, and round waist and knees the whole is framed by a neat floral or scroll pattern. 2. A method of decorating a body part, usually the skin, by inserting colored substances under the surface with a sharp instrument (usually a solenoid-driven needle).
Word: tattoo Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From earlier tattaow, tattow, a borrowing from a Polynesian language, e.g. Samoan tatau (“tattoo; to tap, to strike”). Pronunciation: /tæˈtuː/, /təˈtuː/, [tʰæˈtʰʉw], [tʰæˈtʰuː], [tʰæˈtʰʊw] 1. To apply a tattoo to (someone or something). Example: She made Silas tattoo an anchor on her arm like his 2. To hit the ball hard, as if to figuratively leave a tattoo on the ball. Example: Jones tattoos one into the gap in left; that will clear the bases.
Word: tattoo Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From earlier tap-to, borrowed from Dutch taptoe, from tap (“tap; faucet on a cask”) + toe (“to; shut”). More at tap, to. Pronunciation: /tæˈtuː/, /təˈtuː/, [tʰæˈtʰʉw], [tʰæˈtʰuː], [tʰæˈtʰʊw] 1. A signal played five minutes before taps (lights out). Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Study goes on until tattoo, which, when Pops was at the Point, was sounded at 9.30, followed by taps at 10. 2. A signal by drum or bugle ordering soldiers to return to their quarters. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The bumblebee's mane glowed in the morning light—each hair sharp and distinct to Eragon—and its blurred wings generated a gentle bombilation, like a tattoo played on a drum. 3. A military display or pageant. Labels: countable, uncountable 4. A rhythmic tapping. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: the right hand became restless and began to beat out a silent tattoo upon the tabletop
Word: tattoo Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From earlier tap-to, borrowed from Dutch taptoe, from tap (“tap; faucet on a cask”) + toe (“to; shut”). More at tap, to. Pronunciation: /tæˈtuː/, /təˈtuː/, [tʰæˈtʰʉw], [tʰæˈtʰuː], [tʰæˈtʰʊw] 1. To tap rhythmically on, to drum. Example: He had looked at the clock many scores of times; and at the street, where the rain was pattering down, and the people as they clinked by in pattens, left long reflections on the shining stone: he tattooed at the table: he bit his nails most completely […]
Word: tattoo Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Hindi टट्टू (ṭaṭṭū). Pronunciation: /tæˈtuː/, /təˈtuː/, [tʰæˈtʰʉw], [tʰæˈtʰuː], [tʰæˈtʰʊw] 1. A pony of a certain breed from India.
Word: hectare Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from French hectare, formed from Ancient Greek ἑκατόν (hekatón, “hundred”) + are, equivalent to hect- + are. Pronunciation: /ˈhɛk.tɛə/, /ˈhɛk.tɑː/, /ˈhɛk.tɛɹ/, /ˈhektaː/, /ˈhektɛː/ 1. A unit of surface area (symbol ㏊) equal to 100 ares (that is, 10,000 square metres, one hundredth of a square kilometre, or approximately 2.5 acres), used for measuring the areas of geographical features such as land and bodies of water. Example: With careful planning almost anyone can turn the dream of owning a small farm or a few hectares of country land into a reality. Example: One hectare (about 2.5 acres) of forest cleared and converted to ranchland or crops produces a piece of land worth, on average, $200 to $500.
Word: liter Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈliː.tə/, /ˈli.tɚ/, [ˈli.ɾɚ] 1. Alternative form of litre, one cubic decimeter. Labels: US, alt-of, alternative
Word: liter Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of litter. Labels: alt-of, alternative, obsolete
Word: caveat emptor Part of Speech: phrase Etymology: Latin for “buyer beware”; from Latin caveat (“may he / she / subject-noun beware”), the third-person subjunctive of caveō (“to beware”) + ēmptor (“buyer”). Pronunciation: /ˈkeɪ.viˌæt ˈɛmp.tɔ(ɹ)/, /ˈkæv.iˌɑt ˈɛmp.tɔɹ/, /-ˌæt-/, /-ət-/, /-təɹ/ 1. Used as a warning to anyone purchasing something that there may be unforeseen problems or faults with the item that is purchased. Example: In an email she wrote that the lack of regulation “leads to difficulty extrapolating available evidence to various products on the consumer market given the differences in chemical composition and purity.” She cautioned the public to weigh “both potential benefits and risks,” to which I would add caveat emptor — buyer beware. 2. A provision of Roman law which gave the seller of a house the legal right to keep quiet about any defects of the house. Labels: historical
Word: millibar Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *sem- Proto-Indo-European *sm̥- Proto-Indo-European *-is Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-ih₂ Proto-Indo-European *smih₂ Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰes- Proto-Indo-European *-lom Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰéslom ▲ Proto-Indo-European *-ih₂ Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰéslih₂ Proto-Indo-European *smih₂ǵʰéslih₂ Proto-Italic *smīɣeslī Latin mīlleder. French milli- English milli- English bar English millibar From milli- + bar. 1. A non-SI unit of pressure equal to 100 pascals, used primarily to report atmospheric pressure.
Word: fall asleep Part of Speech: verb 1. To pass from a state of wakefulness into sleep. Example: She wakened in sharp panic, bewildered by the grotesquerie of some half-remembered dream in contrast with the harshness of inclement fact, drowsily realizing that since she had fallen asleep it had come on to rain smartly out of a shrouded sky. 2. To be affected by paresthesia; to go numb. Labels: figuratively, idiomatic Example: My left leg has fallen asleep! 3. To die (often seen on gravestones). Labels: euphemistic, poetic Example: And he kneeled downe, and cried with a loud voice, Lord lay not this sinne to their charge. And when he had said this, he fell asleepe. And Saul was consenting vnto his death.
Word: fall ill Part of Speech: verb 1. To become ill, to get sick, to sicken. Labels: intransitive Example: We come into contact with germ-infested surfaces all day, every day, but we don’t keep falling catastrophically ill.
Word: fall in love Part of Speech: verb 1. To come to have feelings of love, particularly romantic love. Labels: intransitive Example: I fell in love with him the moment I first saw him. Example: Have you ever fallen in love? 2. To come to have feelings of love towards each other. Labels: intransitive, reciprocal Example: They met, fell in love, got married, and lived happily ever after. Example: 'Cause we were just kids when we fell in love Not knowing what it was I will not give you up this time. 3. To come to have feelings of intense liking directed at another person or a thing. Labels: intransitive Example: I have just fallen in love with Rome!
Word: fall pregnant Part of Speech: verb 1. To become pregnant. Labels: formal, intransitive, literary Example: We were delighted when I fell pregnant with my first son.
Word: bar code Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of barcode. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: bar code Part of Speech: verb 1. Alternative spelling of barcode. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: bar chart Part of Speech: noun 1. A data visualization tool (graph) that uses rectangular bars to represent and compare numeric values across different categories, with the length of each bar proportional to the value it represents.
Word: contra- Part of Speech: prefix Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ḱe? Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm Proto-Italic *kom Proto-Italic *kom- Proto-Indo-European *-teros Proto-Italic *-teros Proto-Italic *komterosder. Proto-Italic *komterād Latin contrābor. English contra- From Latin contrā (“against”). Doublet of counter-. 1. Against; in opposition to. Labels: morpheme
Word: counter- Part of Speech: prefix Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ḱe? Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm Proto-Italic *kom Proto-Italic *kom- Proto-Indo-European *-teros Proto-Italic *-teros Proto-Italic *komterosder. Proto-Italic *komterād Latin contrāder. Old French contre- Anglo-Norman countre-bor. Middle English counter- English counter- From Middle English counter-, cownter-, countre-, from Anglo-Norman countre-, from Old French contre, ultimately from Latin contra (“against”). Doublet of contra-. Pronunciation: /ˈkaʊn.tə/, /ˈkaʊn.tɚ/, /ˌkaʊn.tɚ/, /ˈkæɔn.tə/ 1. In opposition to. Labels: morpheme
Word: col- Part of Speech: prefix 1. Alternative form of co- / con- (before l). Labels: alt-of, alternative, morpheme
Word: col- Part of Speech: prefix 1. Alternative form of colo- (before a vowel). Labels: alt-of, alternative, morpheme
Word: com- Part of Speech: prefix Etymology: From Latin com (“with”), an archaic form of cum (“with”). Pronunciation: /ˌkəm/, /ˈkʌm/, /ˌkɑːm/, /ˈkɒm/ 1. The form of con- used before b, m, and p Labels: morpheme Example: Commingle
Word: cor- Part of Speech: prefix Etymology: From the Latin cor-, the prerhotic form of con-. 1. prerhotic form of con- Labels: morpheme
Word: cyber- Part of Speech: prefix Etymology: From cybernetic. Pronunciation: /ˈsaɪ.bə(ɹ)/, /ˈsaɪ.bəɹ/ 1. Relating to the Internet or cyberspace, or to computers more generally. Labels: Internet, morpheme
Word: extra- Part of Speech: prefix Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰ Proto-Indo-European *-s Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰs Proto-Indo-European *-teros Proto-Indo-European *h₁eǵʰsteros Proto-Italic *eksteros Latin exter Latin extrā English extra- From Latin extra (“outside, except, beyond”, adverb and preposition), from exter (“being on the outside”). 1. Outside of, beyond. Labels: morpheme Example: extramarital: outside of marriage
Word: package Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Equivalent to pack + -age. Possibly influenced by Anglo-Latin paccagium or Old French pacquage. Pronunciation: /ˈpæk.ɪd͡ʒ/ 1. Something which is packed, a parcel, a box, an envelope. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: A dirty package was left in my home. 2. Something which consists of various components, such as a piece of computer software. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Did you test the software package to ensure completeness? Example: It’s now created a system where creators should be afraid to make a series that dares to end on a cliffhanger or save anything for future seasons, lest their story forever be left unfinished. And viewers are afraid to commit to any show that isn’t a completely aired package lest they spend 10-30 hours on something that ends up unresolved, which has happened dozens and dozens of times, creating a vast “show graveyard” within Netflix. 3. A piece of software which has been prepared in such a way that it can be installed with a package manager. Labels: countable, uncountable 4. The act of packing something. Labels: archaic, uncountable Example: for, it has often happened that, without any accident at ſea, heavy averages, owing to bad package and ſtowage only, have been demanded, and paid by inſurers Example: The Company's instructions to the supracargoes of their ships are very particular as to the mode of package and stowage. 5. Something resembling a package. Labels: countable, uncountable 6. A package holiday. Labels: countable, uncountable 7. A football formation. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: the "dime" defensive package Example: For third and short, they're going to bring in their jumbo package. 8. The male genitalia. Labels: countable, euphemistic, uncountable, vulgar Example: The women usually wore bikini tops with shorts, swimsuits underneath cover-ups or just swimsuits. Men came in various types of trunks, from traditional boxers, to Speedos, to G-string trunks that showcased their packages. 9. A charge made for packing goods. Labels: historical, uncountable 10. A group of related stories spread over several pages. Labels: countable, uncountable 11. Synonym of wrap (“complete news report ready for broadcast”). Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Attend a news conference, and prepare a wrap or package.
Word: package Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Equivalent to pack + -age. Possibly influenced by Anglo-Latin paccagium or Old French pacquage. Pronunciation: /ˈpæk.ɪd͡ʒ/ 1. To pack or bundle something. 2. To travel on a package holiday. 3. To prepare (a book, a television series, etc.), including all stages from research to production, in order to sell the result to a publisher or broadcaster.
Word: hetero- Part of Speech: prefix Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *sem- Proto-Indo-European *sḿ̥teros Proto-Hellenic *hə́teros Ancient Greek ἕτερος (héteros)lbor. English hetero- Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek ἕτερος (héteros, “other, another, different”). 1. Varied, heterogeneous; a set that has variety with respect to the root. Labels: morpheme Example: heterogamous Example: heterochromatic 2. Heterocyclic: a cyclic compound with multiple elements in its ring. The non-carbon atoms are known as heteroatoms. Labels: morpheme Example: heteroalkene Example: heteroaddition 3. A heterogeneous mixture. Labels: morpheme Example: heterofunctionalization Example: heterofibril 4. Across, spanning multiple distinct kinds of the root, different. Labels: morpheme Example: heterochrome Example: heterocladic 5. Straight, heterosexual. Labels: morpheme Example: heterocentric Example: heteroamorous 6. Other, by another. Labels: morpheme Example: heteroadministered Example: heterobiography 7. Opposite in direction or position. Labels: morpheme Example: heterodromous Example: heterofacial 8. Outside; Synonym of xeno-. Labels: morpheme Example: heterogenetic Example: heterocephaly 9. Asymmetric in shape. Labels: morpheme Example: heterogangliate Example: heteracanth 10. Inconsistent, irregular, or intermittent. Labels: morpheme Example: heterochylia Example: heterodynamic 11. Alternating. Labels: morpheme Example: heterogamous Example: heteroclitic
Word: homo- Part of Speech: prefix Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *sem- Proto-Indo-European *somHós Proto-Hellenic *homós Ancient Greek ὁμός (homós)der. English homo- From Ancient Greek ὁμός (homós, “same”). By surface analysis, hom- + -o-. 1. Same, identical. Labels: morpheme
Word: homo- Part of Speech: prefix Etymology: Back-formation from homosexual, ultimately from Ancient Greek ὁμός (homós, “same”). 1. Of or pertaining to homosexuality or same-sex relations. Labels: morpheme
Word: homo- Part of Speech: prefix Etymology: Back-formation from homologue, ultimately from Ancient Greek ὁμός (homós, “same”). 1. Used to form the names of compounds derived from simpler ones by addition of a methylene group. Labels: morpheme
Word: kidney stone Part of Speech: noun 1. A calculus in the kidney.
Word: hobo Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Unknown. Possibly a contraction of ho, boy or the dialectal English term hawbuck (“lout, clumsy fellow, country bumpkin”). Pronunciation: /ˈhəʊ.bəʊ/, /ˈhoʊ.boʊ/, /ˈhəʉ.bəʉ/ 1. A wandering homeless person, especially (historical) one illegally travelling by rail or (derogatory) a penniless, unemployed bum. Labels: Canada, US Example: He’d heard the word hobo used for travelers, heard it was short for homeward bound, or homeless boy, or Hoboken having something to do with New Jersey. 2. Any migratory laborer, whether homeless or not. Labels: Canada, US 3. A kind of large handbag. Example: Avoid bulky styles such as duffle sacks, buckets, doctors' satchels, and hobos.
Word: hobo Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Unknown. Possibly a contraction of ho, boy or the dialectal English term hawbuck (“lout, clumsy fellow, country bumpkin”). Pronunciation: /ˈhəʊ.bəʊ/, /ˈhoʊ.boʊ/, /ˈhəʉ.bəʉ/ 1. To be a hobo, tramp, bum etc. Labels: intransitive Example: Joe idly hoboed through half the country till he realized hoboing never gets you anywhere in life.
Word: vagabond Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Old French vagabond, from Late Latin vagābundus, from Latin vagari (“wander”). Compare moribund. Pronunciation: /ˈvæ.ɡə.bɒnd/, /ˈvæ.ɡə.bɑnd/ 1. A person on a trip of indeterminate destination and/or length of time. 2. One who usually wanders from place to place, having no fixed dwelling, or not abiding in it, and usually without the means of honest livelihood. Example: Foꝛ when thou tylleſt the grounde ſhe ſhall hẽcefoꝛth not geve hyꝛ power vnto the. A vagabunde and a rennagate ſhalt thou be vpon the erth. Example: "Here is the beastly thing. 'Every person professing to tell fortunes or using any subtle craft, means or device to deceive and impose on any of His Majesty's subjects shall be deemed a rogue and a vagabond', and so on and so forth."
Word: vagabond Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Old French vagabond, from Late Latin vagābundus, from Latin vagari (“wander”). Compare moribund. Pronunciation: /ˈvæ.ɡə.bɒnd/, /ˈvæ.ɡə.bɑnd/ 1. To roam, as a vagabond
Word: vagabond Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Old French vagabond, from Late Latin vagābundus, from Latin vagari (“wander”). Compare moribund. Pronunciation: /ˈvæ.ɡə.bɒnd/, /ˈvæ.ɡə.bɑnd/ 1. Floating about without any certain direction; driven to and fro. Labels: not-comparable Example: To heaven their prayers / Flew up, nor missed the way, by envious winds / Blown vagabond or frustrate. Example: Truly, the worships of the Mystery wandered as did men, and between filchings and borrowings the gods had as vagabond a time of it as did we.
Word: get knotted Part of Speech: intj 1. A mildly offensive expression of refusal. Labels: UK, imperative, slang Example: You want me to go to the party with you? Get knotted!
Word: dwell upon Part of Speech: verb 1. Alternative form of dwell on. Labels: alt-of, alternative, formal, transitive
Word: memoria Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Latin memoria, from memor (“mindful, remembering”). Doublet of memoir and memory. Pronunciation: /məˈmɔɹi.ə/ 1. One of the five canons of classical rhetoric: the discipline of memory and recall. Labels: uncountable
Word: arrive Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English arriven, ariven, from Old French ariver, from Early Medieval Latin adrīpāre (“to land, come ashore”), derived from Latin rīpa (“shore, river-bank”). Displaced native oncome, tocome. For the semantic evolution, compare Old English ġelandian, ġelendan, lendan (“to arrive at land; land”) > Middle English alenden, landen (“to arrive; arrive at shore; land”). Pronunciation: /əˈɹaɪv/ 1. To reach; to get to a certain place. Labels: copulative, intransitive Example: We've just arrived at the hotel to book in, so we should arrive at Mike’s in time for lunch. Example: He arrived home for two days. 2. To obtain a level of success or fame; to succeed. Labels: intransitive Example: He had finally arrived on Broadway. Example: Evidence that the Irish had arrived socially was the abrupt decline in the number of newspaper articles accusing them of brawling and other crimes. 3. To come; said of time. Labels: intransitive Example: The time has arrived for us to depart. 4. To happen or occur. Labels: intransitive Example: Happy! to whom this glorious death arrives. 5. To achieve orgasm; to cum; to ejaculate. Labels: Ireland, UK, intransitive, often, slang, vulgar 6. To reach; to come to. Labels: archaic, transitive Example: Ere he arrive the happy isle. Example: Ere we could arrive the point proposed. 7. To bring to shore. Labels: intransitive, obsolete Example: and made the sea-trod ship arrive them
Word: arrival Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English arivaile, arivaille, arrival, arryvaile, arryvaylle, aryvayle, aryvaylle, from Middle French arrivaille, from arriver; equivalent to arrive + -al. Pronunciation: /əˈɹaɪ.vl̩/ 1. The act of arriving (reaching a certain place). Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The early arrival of the bride created a stir. Example: And wander we to see thy honest son, Who will of thy arrival be full joyous. 2. The fact of reaching a particular point in time. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: He celebrated the arrival of payday with a shopping spree. Example: O gentlemen, the time of life is short! To spend that shortness basely were too long, If life did ride upon a dial’s point, Still ending at the arrival of an hour. 3. The fact of beginning to occur; the initial phase of something. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The arrival of puberty can be especially challenging for transgender youth. Example: a raw scraping in the back of his throat, which announced the arrival of a bad cold 4. The attainment of an objective, especially as a result of effort. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The arrival of the railway made the local tourist industry viable. Example: All the admirals had grown up in sail, and many of them viewed the arrival of steam with undisguised dislike […] 5. A person who has arrived; a thing that has arrived. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: There has been a significant growth in illegal arrivals. Example: 1823, Lord Byron, Don Juan, London: John Hunt, Canto 11, stanza 68, p. 137, Saloon, room, hall o’erflow beyond their brink, And long the latest of arrivals halts, ’Midst royal dukes and dames condemned to climb, And gain an inch of staircase at a time.
Word: departure Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Old French deporteure (“departure; figuratively, death”). By surface analysis, depart + -ure. Pronunciation: /dɪˈpɑː(ɹ)tjə(ɹ)/, /dɪˈpɑː(ɹ)t͡ʃə(ɹ)/ 1. The act of departing or something that has departed. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The departure was scheduled for noon. Example: The departure was not unduly prolonged. In the road Mr. Love and the driver favoured the company with a brief chanty running: “Got it?—No, I ain't, 'old on,—Got it? Got it?—No, 'old on sir.” 2. A deviation from a plan or procedure. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: any departure from a national standard Example: There are several significant departures, however, from current practice. 3. A death. Labels: countable, euphemistic, uncountable Example: The time of my departure is at hand. Example: His timely departure […] barred him from the knowledge of his son's miseries. 4. The distance due east or west made by a ship in its course reckoned in plane sailing as the product of the distance sailed and the sine of the angle made by the course with the meridian. Labels: countable, uncountable 5. The difference in easting between the two ends of a line or curve. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The area is computed by latitudes and departures. 6. The desertion by a party to any pleading of the ground taken by him in his last antecedent pleading, and the adoption of another Labels: countable, uncountable 7. Division; separation; putting away. Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable Example: no other remedy […] but absolute departure
Word: depart Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Old French departir, from Late Latin departiō (“to divide”), from dē- (“away from”) + partiō (“part, divide”). Pronunciation: /dɪˈpɑːt/, /dɪˈpɑɹt/ 1. To leave. Labels: intransitive Example: […] he that hath no ſtomacke to this feaſt, Let him depart, […] Example: The glory is departed from Israel. 2. To set out on a journey. Labels: intransitive Example: And soo she receyued hym vpon suffysaunt seurte / so alle her hurtes were wel restored of al that she coude complayne / and thenne he departed vnto the Courte of kyne Arthur / and there openly the reed knyghte of the reed laundes putte hym in the mercy of syre Launcelot and syr Gawayne Example: Elizabeth saw her friend depart for Port-Breedy, […] 3. To die. Labels: euphemistic, intransitive Example: […] his Tongue, Sounds euer after as a ſullen Bell Remembred, knolling a departing Friend. Example: Lord, now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace. 4. To disappear, vanish; to cease to exist. Labels: figuratively, intransitive Example: For youth departs, and pleasure flies, And life consumes away, Example: An extraordinary joie de vivre had come over them all as soon as the shaky feeling departed from their legs. 5. To deviate (from), be different (from), fail to conform. Labels: intransitive Example: His latest statements seemed to depart from party policy somewhat. Example: to depart from a title or defence in legal pleading 6. To go away from; to leave. Labels: transitive Example: [...] he [...] did pray them only to do no thing against the honor of God, & rather to depart the territories of his empire, then to suffer their consciences to be forced. Example: Then, departing the palace, he [Thomas Becket] asked the king's immediate permission to leave Northampton; [...] 7. To lose control of an aircraft; to "depart" (sense 5) from controlled flight (with the aircraft as the direct object) Labels: ambitransitive Example: The envelope protection system allows the pilot to maneuver at high angles of attack without the risk of departing the airplane 8. To divide up; to distribute, share. Labels: obsolete, transitive Example: and so all the worlde seythe that betwyxte three knyghtes is departed clerely knyghthode, that is Sir Launcelot du Lake, Sir Trystrams de Lyones and Sir Lamerok de Galys—thes bere now the renowne. Example: Then fortified hee his trenches, and departed them in foure quarters, wherein he made good store of fires, in such distance one from another, as are woont to be made in a campe. 9. To separate, part. Labels: obsolete, transitive Example: Syr knyght[,] said the two squyers that were with her[,] yonder are two knyghtes that fyghte for thys lady, goo thyder and departe them[…]. Example: I .N. take thee .N. to my wedded wife, to haue ⁊ to holde from this day forwarde, for better, for wurſe, for richer, for poorer, in ſickenes, and in health, to loue, and to cheriſhe, til death vs departe: according to Goddes holy ordeinaunce: And therto I plight thee my trouth.
Word: depart Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Old French departir, from Late Latin departiō (“to divide”), from dē- (“away from”) + partiō (“part, divide”). Pronunciation: /dɪˈpɑːt/, /dɪˈpɑɹt/ 1. Division; separation, as of compound substances. Labels: obsolete 2. A going away; departure. Labels: obsolete Example: at my depart for France Example: Of that short Roll of friends writ in my heart Which with thy name begins, since their depart, Whether in the English Provinces they be, Or drinke of Po, Sequan, or Danubie,
Word: taxation Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English taxacioun, from Anglo-Norman taxacion, from Latin taxātio (“rating, appraisal”). By surface analysis, tax + -ation. Pronunciation: /tækˈseɪ.ʃən/ 1. The act of imposing taxes and the fact of being taxed. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Some of this will be down to breakthrough science and technology, breakthrough business models and breakthroughs in behaviour change, but we also need an intensifying focus on public policy, in areas like accounting, reporting and taxation, the last spotlighted by Shaxson. 2. A particular system of taxing people or companies Labels: countable, uncountable 3. The revenue gained from taxes. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Less than one-tenth of the taxation is spent on public improvements of any kind […]
Word: inox Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From French inox. By surface analysis, a clipping of inoxidable or of inoxidizable. 1. Stainless steel. Labels: attributive, uncountable Example: inox steel
Word: ironing Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of iron Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: ironing Part of Speech: noun 1. The act of pressing clothes with an iron, such as a steam iron. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: I hate ironing. 2. Laundry that has been washed and is ready to be ironed. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: I really should make a start on the ironing soon. 3. Laundry that has recently been ironed. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: I really should put the ironing away.
Word: perfect number Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Calque of Latin numerus perfectus, with this use of perfectus itself a semantic loan from Ancient Greek τέλειος (téleios). 1. A number that is the sum of all of its divisors except itself. Example: The factors of 6 are 1, 2, 3 and 6, and 1 + 2 + 3 = 6, so 6 is a perfect number. Example: The factors of 28 are 1, 2, 4, 7, 14 and 28, and 1 + 2 + 4 + 7 + 14 = 28, so 28 is a perfect number.
Word: long-winded Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From long + winded. Pronunciation: /ˈlɔŋˌwɪndəd/ 1. Tediously long in speaking; consuming much time; unnecessarily verbose. Example: He launched into a long-winded discussion of the relative merits of asphalt and concrete. Example: But which analysis is the right one? Well, as in any serious field of research, the consequences of making different assumptions about a particular phenomenon are often so complex and far-reaching that the full implications of the decision to adopt one analysis rather than another are not always immediately apparent. Thatʼs a rather long-winded way of saying that itʼs not always obvious what the right answer is!
Word: excessive number Part of Speech: noun 1. An abundant number.
Word: deficient number Part of Speech: noun 1. A number that is greater than the sum of all of its divisors except itself. Example: The factors of 22 are 1, 2 and 11 and 22, and 1 + 2 + 11 = 14, which is less than 22, so 22 is a deficient number.
Word: defective number Part of Speech: noun 1. A deficient number.
Word: psychologist Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English psycholog(y) Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō) Proto-Hellenic *-tās Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs) Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)bor. Latin -istader. Old French -istebor. Middle English -ist English -ist English psychologist From psycholog(y) + -ist. Pronunciation: /ˌsaɪˈkɑl.ə.d͡ʒɪst/ 1. An expert in the field of psychology. Example: I don't go into this with the idea of it turning out wrong but in the conviction that it's going to be stupendous. You're a poor psychologist, Nickle, but never mind […] Example: Not much later—perhaps only two or three weeks later he has discovered meaning in them; he knows that they say "The cat sat on the hat." How this happens no one really knows, despite the efforts of philosophers and psychologists over two and a half millennia to study the phenomenon.
Word: marcher Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English marcher, marchere, marcheyre, marchier, marchowrys pl; equivalent to march (from Anglo-Norman and Old French; akin to Old English germearc, Gothic marka (“boundary”)) + -er (inhabitant suffix). Pronunciation: /ˈmɑːtʃə/, /ˈmɑɹt͡ʃɚ/ 1. An inhabitant of a march (border country); specifically, a marcher lord. Labels: historical 2. A border territory, a march (now only in (attributive) use). Labels: historical Example: Here is a scene of the marcher state of which they were margraves being turned into a duchy under Henry II Jasomirgott, who has made his capital at Vienna.
Word: marcher Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English march 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 marcher From march + -er (agent noun suffix). Pronunciation: /ˈmɑːtʃə/, /ˈmɑɹt͡ʃɚ/ 1. One who marches; one who participates in a march. Example: Mr. Nelson covered the Selma-to-Montgomery freedom marches, including Bloody Sunday, on March 7, 1965, when 600 marchers were attacked with billy clubs and tear gas.
Word: shithouse Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From shit + house. Compare Middle Low German schîthûs, German Scheißhaus, Swedish skithus, Icelandic skíthús. Pronunciation: /ˈʃɪtˌhaʊs/ 1. An outhouse, an outbuilding used as a lavatory. Labels: slang, vulgar Example: He would rather slop out his Punjabis' shithouses than kiss the arse of some limp-wristed war profiteer in Civvy Street, thank you. 2. A coward; one who is overly fearful or timid. Labels: Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, derogatory, slang, vulgar 3. A filthy place. Labels: slang, vulgar Example: You will be less amused when I ask you when you will take your turn cleaning out this shithouse. Example: It immediately caught my attention that the area was a total shithouse. Open C-ration cans, cardboard boxes, discarded socks and underwear, you name it, it was scattered all over the damn place.
Word: shithouse Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From shit + house. Compare Middle Low German schîthûs, German Scheißhaus, Swedish skithus, Icelandic skíthús. Pronunciation: /ˈʃɪtˌhaʊs/ 1. Of poor quality. Labels: Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, not-comparable, slang, vulgar Example: The stupefied bus driver kept ranting and raving at him. “You could have been stuffed, mate! Once the water splits it would have been the most shithouse moment in your life, and the last one! This beach is for crocs only![…]” Example: The story goes that when she applied for the job, they were fearful of hiring her because she was ‘much more shithouse than them’. I cannot imagine anyone being worse than those two but she did give it a good go.
Word: shithouse Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From shit + house. Compare Middle Low German schîthûs, German Scheißhaus, Swedish skithus, Icelandic skíthús. Pronunciation: /ˈʃɪtˌhaʊs/ 1. To engage in persistent unsporting behaviour or gamesmanship; to play in a cynical, ugly manner; to cheat without being punished. Labels: Ireland, UK, slang
Word: furlong Part of Speech: noun Etymology: PIE word *dlongʰos From Middle English furlong, forlong (“unit of distance about one-eighth of a mile; quantity of land equal to one square furlong; racetrack for foot races; foot race”) [and other forms], from Old English furlang, furlung, from furh (“a furrow”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *perḱ- (“to dig; to open; to rip up”) + lang (“long”, adjective) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *dlongʰos (“long”)), originally the typical length of a furrow in an average field. Pronunciation: /ˈfɜːlɒŋ/, /ˈfɝˌlɔŋ/ 1. A unit of distance equal to one-eighth of a mile (220 yards, or 201.168 metres), now mainly used in measuring distances in farmland and horse racing. Example: Novv vvould I giue a thouſand furlongs of Sea, for an Acre of barren ground: Long heath, Brovvne firrs, any thing; the vvills aboue be done, but I vvould faine dye a dry death. Example: And the winepreſſe vvas troden vvithout the citie, and blood came out of the vvinepreſſe, euen vnto the horſe bridles, by the ſpace of a thouſand and ſixe hundred furlongs. 2. A unit of land area one furlong (sense 1) square (ten acres, or about four hectares). Labels: dated 3. An undefined portion of an unenclosed field. Labels: UK, dated, dialectal 4. Synonym of stadion (“a Greek unit of distance based on standardized footraces, equivalent to about 185.4 metres”). Labels: historical 5. Synonym of headland (“unploughed boundary of a field”). Labels: dialectal 6. Synonym of land (“the ground left unploughed between furrows”). Labels: dialectal 7. Synonym of land (“any of several portions into which a field is divided for ploughing”). Labels: dialectal
Word: quart Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English quart, quarte, from Old French quarte, carte, from Latin quartus (“one-fourth”). Cognate with Spanish cuarto (“quarter; room, quarters”). Pronunciation: /kwɔːt/, /kwɔɹt/, /kɔɹt/, /kwoːt/ 1. A unit of liquid capacity equal to two pints; one-fourth (quarter) of a gallon. Equivalent to 1.136 liters in the UK and 0.946 liter (liquid quart) or 1.101 liters (dry quart) in the U.S. 2. Four successive cards of the same suit. Example: A tierce major is good against any other tierce; a quart minor is good against a tierce major. Example: Carrados ought to have won the point and divided tricks, leaving his opponent a minor quart and a solitary trio—about 15 on the hand. By a careless discard he threw away both chances and the final score stood at 205-112. 3. A fourth; a quarter; hence, a region of the earth. Labels: obsolete Example: Camber did possesse the Westerne quart. 4. The fourth defensive position; quarte. Example: [W]e behold two men with lion-look, with alert attitude, side foremost, right foot advanced; flourishing and thrusting, stoccado and passado, in tierce and quart; intent to skewer one another.
Word: quart Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English quarte, querte, from Old Norse kyrt, *kvirt, neuter of Old Norse kyrr, kvirr (“quiet, still, peaceful”), from Proto-Germanic *kwerruz (“calm, satisfied, pacified”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷerh₂- (“heavy”). Cognate with Scots quert, quart (“alive, in good health, sound”), Scots querty (“vivacious, active, in good spirits”), Danish kvær (“quiet”), Norwegian Nynorsk kvar, kvær, kverr (“still, quiet”), Icelandic kyrr (“still, calm, unmoving”). Pronunciation: /kwɔːt/, /kwɔɹt/, /kɔɹt/, /kwoːt/ 1. Safe, sound; healthy. Labels: dialectal, obsolete
Word: quart Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English quarte, querte, from Old Norse kyrt, *kvirt, neuter of Old Norse kyrr, kvirr (“quiet, still, peaceful”), from Proto-Germanic *kwerruz (“calm, satisfied, pacified”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷerh₂- (“heavy”). Cognate with Scots quert, quart (“alive, in good health, sound”), Scots querty (“vivacious, active, in good spirits”), Danish kvær (“quiet”), Norwegian Nynorsk kvar, kvær, kverr (“still, quiet”), Icelandic kyrr (“still, calm, unmoving”). Pronunciation: /kwɔːt/, /kwɔɹt/, /kɔɹt/, /kwoːt/ 1. Safety, soundness; health. Labels: obsolete, uncountable Example: Now if ye felt your belly in ſuche caſe, that ye muſt be fayne al daye to tende it with warme clothes, oꝛ els ye were not able to abide the payne, would ye recken your belly ſicke oꝛ whole? I wene ye would recken your belly not in good quart.
Word: quart Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Dialectal alteration of thwart. Pronunciation: /kwɔːt/, /kwɔɹt/, /kɔɹt/, /kwoːt/ 1. Transverse. Labels: dialectal 2. Contentious or quarrelsome. Labels: dialectal
Word: quart Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Dialectal alteration of thwart. Pronunciation: /kwɔːt/, /kwɔɹt/, /kɔɹt/, /kwoːt/ 1. Crosswise; across. Labels: dialectal
Word: quart Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Dialectal alteration of thwart. Pronunciation: /kwɔːt/, /kwɔɹt/, /kɔɹt/, /kwoːt/ 1. To thwart. Labels: dialectal
Word: you can't get a quart into a pint pot Part of Speech: proverb 1. You cannot fit a large object or amount in something smaller. Labels: literally 2. One cannot achieve the impossible. Labels: figuratively Example: They've asked me to get from London to New York by five o'clock, but it's half past four now, and you can't get a quart into a pint pot! Example: The centenary of Britain's most famous train has called for a commemorative and descriptive work and in this 40-page illustrated booklet the author has tried—with some success, to pour a quart into a pint pot.