nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: Olympic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Ancient Greek Ὀλυμπικός (Olumpikós), from Ὄλυμπος (Ólumpos, “Olympus”). Pronunciation: /əˈlɪmpɪk/, /oʊ-/ 1. Of or pertaining to the Olympic Games. Labels: not-comparable Example: Olympic torch Example: Olympic champion 2. Of or pertaining to the Olympic Games. Labels: not-comparable Example: Olympic swimming pool Example: I have heard it said that the young Chamber of Commerce have put on their future programme the project of building an Olympic swimming pool. 3. Very large or powerful. Labels: informal, not-comparable Example: Sid's stomach was practicing gagging motions for an eruption of absolutely Olympic proportions with his cheeks puffing quickly in and out to the beat. Example: That bed was Olympic, and held some of Julia's best-worst memories. 4. Of or pertaining to Olympus, a mountain of Thessaly, fabled as the seat of the gods. Labels: not-comparable, rare 5. Detached or liberated from petty concerns; godlike. Labels: not-comparable, rare Example: According to the late Dr. Otis T. Mason, who was my informant on this subject, he left as a memory of his visit a reputation for mental detachment that was Olympic in its character. Example: The little paper contained none of the customary lampoons on Bloods and Masters. It was Olympic in its aloofness from school politics. 6. Of or pertaining to the ancient city of Olympia. Labels: not-comparable, rare
Word: Olympic Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Ancient Greek Ὀλυμπικός (Olumpikós), from Ὄλυμπος (Ólumpos, “Olympus”). Pronunciation: /əˈlɪmpɪk/, /oʊ-/ 1. Five consecutive ducks. Labels: slang
Word: omelet Part of Speech: noun 1. US standard spelling of omelette. Labels: US, alt-of, standard
Word: omer Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Biblical Hebrew עומר / עֹמֶר ('ómer, “sheaf”). Pronunciation: /ˈəʊmə/, /ˈoʊmɛɹ/, /ˈoʊməɹ/ 1. A former small Hebrew unit of dry volume equal to about 2.3 L or 2.1 quarts. Labels: historical Example: ...that Omer which was every mans daily portion of Manna, is computed to have bin more then might have well suffic'd the heartiest feeder thrice as many meals. Example: And it came to pass, that on the sixth day they gathered twice as much bread, two omers for one man: and all the rulers of the congregation came and told Moses. 2. A vessel of one omer. 3. The sheaf of barley offered on the second day of Passover. Labels: Judaism
Word: omer Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Ellipsis of Sefirat Ha'Omer. Pronunciation: /ˈəʊmə/, /ˈoʊmɛɹ/, /ˈoʊməɹ/ 1. The counting of the omer, that is, the period of 49 days between Passover and Shavuot. Labels: Judaism, uncountable
Word: omniety Part of Speech: noun 1. That which is all-pervading or all-comprehensive; hence, God. Labels: no-plural
Word: omphalic Part of Speech: adj 1. Of or pertaining to the umbilicus, or navel. Example: That omphalic cord will pull like rubber over eight thousand miles. I can never be the same again.
Word: omy Part of Speech: adj 1. Mellow, as land. Labels: UK, dialectal, not-comparable, obsolete
Word: onager Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English onager, onagir (“wild ass; military catapult”), from Anglo-Norman onager, Middle French onager, onagre, Old French onager, onagre (“wild ass; military catapult”) (modern French onagre), from Late Latin onager (“large siege engine”), Latin onager (“wild ass”), from Hellenistic Ancient Greek ὄναγρος (ónagros, “wild ass”), Byzantine Ancient Greek ὄναγρος (ónagros, “large siege engine”), from ὄνος (ónos, “ass”) + ἄγριος (ágrios, “wild”) (from ᾰ̓γρός (ăgrós, “countryside; field”) (possibly ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eǵ- (“to drive”)) + -ῐος (-ĭos, suffix forming adjectives)). The “military engine” sense alludes to the strong recoil of the engine, likened to an onager’s kick; see the 2007 quotation. Pronunciation: /ˈɒnəd͡ʒə/, /-ɡə/, /ˈɑnəd͡ʒɚ/, /ˈɔː-/ 1. The Asiatic wild ass or hemione (Equus hemionus), an animal of the horse family native to Asia; specifically, the Persian onager, Persian wild ass, or Persian zebra (Equus hemionus onager). Example: [I]f the czigithai is not the ſame with the zebra, it may be the Aſiatic animal called onager or wild aſs. The onager ſhould not be confounded with the zebra; but I am uncertain whether the ſame remark is applicable to the onager and czigithai; for, from comparing the relations of travellers, it appears, that there are different kinds of wild aſſes, of which the onager is the moſt remarkable. […] The ſwiftneſs of the onager is mentioned by travellers, who remark, that he runs with ſuch rapidity as to eſcape the hunters, though mounted on horſes; […] Example: The onager, or wild aſs, is ſeen in ſtill greater abundance than the wild horſe; and the peculiarities of its kind are more diſtinctly marked than in thoſe of the tame one. 2. A military engine acting like a sling which threw stones from a bag or wooden bucket powered by the torsion from a bundle of ropes or sinews operated by machinery; a torsion catapult. Labels: historical Example: The onager, meaning "wild ass," derived its name from its powerful recoil, or kick, upon discharge; […] In addition, although Josephus described an onager in action hurling a 100-pound stone over 400 yards, most onagri achieved a shorter range than the ballista, thus exposing their crews to enemy archers.
Word: onanism Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Onan + -ism. In the Book of Genesis, Onan, son of Judah, in fulfillment of the laws of levirate marriage was to impregnate his brother Er's widow, Tamar, in order to raise offspring from the union in his brother's name. In order to avoid raising descendants for his late brother, however, Onan "spilled his semen on the ground when he went in to his brother's wife, so that he would not give offspring to his brother" (Genesis 38:9). Pronunciation: /ˈəʊnəˌnɪzəm/, /ˈoʊnəˌnɪzəm/ 1. Masturbation. Labels: dated, formal, uncountable, usually Example: Hypochondriasis, hysteria, chorea, epilepsy, apoplexy, and palsy, constitute part of the list of dire maladies induced or immediately excited, by onanism and immoderate or ill-timed coition. The memory and intellectual faculties, in general, are enfeebled, and there are instances of complete idiocy, brought on by early and continued onanism, and of insanity from similar excesses later in life. Example: This photograph was far superior. A nude woman was sitting on the edge of a desk next to a globe of the world. The suggested onanism with the piece of chalk intrigued Ignatius. 2. Ejaculating outside the vagina during intercourse; (the performing of) coitus interruptus. Labels: dated, formal, uncountable, usually
Word: ornithon Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Ancient Greek ὀρνιθών (ornithṓn), from ὄρνις (órnis). 1. An aviary; a poultry house.
Word: Origenism Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English Origen Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō) Proto-Indo-European *-mos Proto-Indo-European *-mós Ancient Greek -μός (-mós) Ancient Greek -ισμός (-ismós)der. English -ism English Origenism From Origen + -ism. 1. The teachings of Origen of Alexandria (fl. 3rd century), a Greek Church Father; in particular: Labels: uncountable 2. The teachings of Origen of Alexandria (fl. 3rd century), a Greek Church Father; in particular: Labels: uncountable
Word: orifice Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle French, from Old French, from Late Latin ōrificium (“an opening, literally the making of a mouth”), compound of ōs (“mouth”) + faciō (“to make”). Pronunciation: /ˈɒɹɪfɪs/, /ˈɔɹəfɪs/ 1. A mouth or aperture, such as of a tube, pipe, etc.; an opening. Example: the orifice of an artery or vein; the orifice of a wound; he entered the cave's gaping orifice Example: As none of the ovicells were observed to be closed by the operculum, presumably because they were empty and the opercula were resting on the primary orifice rim, the ovicell closure type is subcleithral rather than cleithral [51 ], at least in some species of the genus. 2. One of the natural external openings of the human or animal body. Example: the vagina and other orifices Example: The maw-worm could emerge unexpectedly from any orifice, including, most alarmingly, the corner of people's eyes. 3. A stupid or objectionable person. Labels: derogatory, slang Example: “Peanuts aren't nuts, you orifice. They're legumes.”
Word: ornithopter Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From French ornithoptère, from Ancient Greek ὄρνιθ- (órnith-) + πτερόν (pterón, “wing”), equivalent to ornitho- + -pter. Pronunciation: /ˈɔː.nɪˌθɒp.tə/, /ˈɔɹ.nɪˌθɑp.tɚ/ 1. An aircraft that generates lift through the flapping of its wings.
Word: Caaba Part of Speech: name 1. Alternative spelling of Kaaba. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: cabesse Part of Speech: noun 1. The finest kind of silk received from India. Labels: obsolete, uncountable
Word: cabezon Part of Speech: noun 1. A California fish (Scorpaenichthys marmoratus), allied to the sculpin.
Word: cabman Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From cab + -man. 1. The driver of a hackney cab. Example: At length we saw a four-wheeler drive up. Out of it, in leisurely fashion, got Lord Godalming and Morris. And down from the box descended a thick-set working man with his rush-woven basket of tools. Morris paid the cabman, who touched his hat and drove away. 2. The driver of a taxi. Example: A girl in the bakery, aged sixteen, used oaths that would have defeated a cabman.
Word: cabree Part of Speech: noun 1. Archaic form of cabri (“pronghorn”). Labels: alt-of, archaic
Word: cacaine Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English cacao Proto-Indo-European *-nós Proto-Indo-European *-iHnos Proto-Italic *-īnos Latin -īnusder. Old French -inbor. Middle English -in English -ine English cacaine From cacao + -ine. 1. The essential principle of cacao, now called theobromine. Labels: archaic, uncountable
Word: cachet Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from French cachet, first appearing in Scottish English, from 1630. Pronunciation: /kæˈʃeɪ/, /ˈkæʃ.eɪ/ 1. A seal, as of a letter. Labels: archaic, countable, uncountable 2. A special characteristic or quality; prestige, especially via association. Labels: countable, figuratively, uncountable Example: I remember when this diner was a quiet hangout, but lately it seems to be losing its cachet. Example: In fact, within the Waffen-SS as a whole, the carrying of a personal weapon such as a pistol or a submachine-gun in addition to or instead of the issue rifle became something of a cachet. 3. A commemorative stamped design or inscription on an envelope, other than a cancellation or pre-printed postage. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The Alcatraz pelican cachet turned out to have a unique history of its own which had been lost over the years. Master cachet designer and artist John Coulthard (1903-1966) of 17 Elm Street Modesto, California, was the creator of the stamp. 4. A sealed envelope containing an item whose price is being negotiated. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The most romantic rite of bargaining is the cachet; even its name suggests a thrilling secrecy. The cachet is used when a broker negotiates the sale of a diamond. 5. A capsule containing a pharmaceutical preparation. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: In order to facilitate taking by the patient, powders are often ordered to be dispensed in cachets. Example: One cachet on an empty stomach first thing in the morning, a second in one and a half hours, a third in one hour afterwards, and a fourth two hours later. 6. A hidden location from which one can observe birds while remaining unseen. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: On my way back to my cachet I met another party of reed-buntings, one of which I bagged; then I sat in my hiding-place for an hour, waiting for geese that never came within range.
Word: cachet Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Borrowed from French cachet, first appearing in Scottish English, from 1630. Pronunciation: /kæˈʃeɪ/, /ˈkæʃ.eɪ/ 1. To mark (an envelope) with a commemorative stamped design or inscription. Labels: transitive
Word: cack Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Onomatopoeia; see cackle. Pronunciation: /kæk/ 1. A squawk. Example: Of course, so excitable a nature must find other than physical outlet for his irrepressible energy, and he accompanies his movements by more or less appropriate notes: scolding cacks, clinking, metallic rattles, musical trills, tree-toadlike krrrings – in fact, he possesses an almost endless vocabulary . Example: […]for on occasions he gives utterance to an entirely uncharacteristic series of cacking notes, and even mounts high in the tree to sing a hesitating medley of the same unmusical cacks, broken whistled calls, and attempted trills. 2. A discordant note. 3. A cackling goose (Branta hutchinsii) Labels: informal Example: […] cacks, " the whitefronts or specklebellies in the Sacramento Valley Example: White geese aren't supposed to be such good eating and most of the gunners want "specs" or "cacks" or Hutchins or Canadas but I'll eat snow geese any time you don't want 'em.
Word: cack Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Onomatopoeia; see cackle. Pronunciation: /kæk/ 1. To squawk. Example: Still fluffy with down, she often attacks the other birds, cacking and flashing her wings, or threatens me as I watch through the tiny peephole of the near box. Example: 2000, Minnesota Ornithologists′ Union, The Loon, Volumes 72-74, page 37, While the Gyrfalcon cacked loudly on each stoop, the owl did not scream. 2. To incorrectly play a note by hitting a partial other than the one intended. Example: The bugler hopes not to cack during his performance. 3. To laugh. Labels: Australian, slang Example: I had to cack when you fell down the stairs.
Word: cack Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English cakken, from Old English *cacian, from Old English cac (“dung; excrement”), from Latin cacāre (“excrete feces”). Cognate with English caca. Compare Dutch kakken (“to defecate”), German kacken (“to relieve oneself; defecate”), Latin cacō (“defecate”) (see there for more); compare also Irish cac (“feces, excrement”). Pronunciation: /kæk/ 1. To defecate. Labels: intransitive Example: Can't cack... won't cack, My bum hole has gone on strike, I've huffed and puffed, grunted and groaned, And squeezed as hard as I liked, I've leant myself backwards, leant to the front, Raised my knees and then put them back, I've gripped the seat and pushed like hell, But still...I can't have a cack. 2. To defecate (on); to shit. Labels: transitive Example: ‘I asked him once if he got nervous before doing it,’ says Astin, ‘and he said he was absolutely cacking himself before going on stage, but as soon as he got there it was fantastic.’ Example: […] through the open door, now directly below his feet, and nearly cacked his breeks when the stretcher skidded slightly on the shiny metal floor. 3. To excrete (something) by defecation. Labels: transitive Example: He smelled the ferrous oxide of blood and the farmyard stench of shit. He'd cacked it. He was empty and he'd cacked his load. The brushman came over, lisping slightly[…] 4. To kill. Labels: US, slang Example: He tried to shoot me, so I cacked him. Example: Stay, by your leave I will put in a distinguo; your goose has cacked. 5. To cheat. Example: Thus was I then to lose my faithfull preceptress, as did the philosophers of the town the white crow of her profession: for besides that she never ransacked her customers, whose taste too she ever studiously consulted, she never cacked her pupils with unconscionable extortions, nor ever put their hard earnings, as she called them, under the contribution of poundage.
Word: cack Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English cakken, from Old English *cacian, from Old English cac (“dung; excrement”), from Latin cacāre (“excrete feces”). Cognate with English caca. Compare Dutch kakken (“to defecate”), German kacken (“to relieve oneself; defecate”), Latin cacō (“defecate”) (see there for more); compare also Irish cac (“feces, excrement”). Pronunciation: /kæk/ 1. An act of defecation. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Can't cack... won't cack, My bum hole has gone on strike, I've huffed and puffed, grunted and groaned, And squeezed as hard as I liked, I've leant myself backwards, leant to the front, Raised my knees and then put them back, I've gripped the seat and pushed like hell, But still...I can't have a cack. 2. Excrement. Labels: countable, slang, uncountable Example: I dive back in along the cobbles, step over the cack, wall an fence closin me down, barbed wire left, razor wire right, follow by puttied-in broken glass, spike rails an stuck-on warnings about dogs. Example: " And have bird cack on their heads , " Jacques agreed cheerfully, to Ash's relief. 3. Rubbish; anything worthless. Labels: countable, slang, uncountable Example: 'See that' said the man, pointing with his fork at a trace of soemthing on the rim, 'that's not been washed properly. That's a bit of old cack on there.' Example: At first, he genuinely didn't recognize her without all that high-gloss cack on her face.
Word: cack Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From cock. Pronunciation: /kæk/ 1. Penis. Labels: slang, uncountable
Word: cack Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Of unknown origin. Possibly from Scots cack (“soft shoe”). Pronunciation: /kæk/ 1. An inexpensive boot or shoe made in the 19th or early 20th century for a baby or young child. Example: To one handling shoes, from cacks to footwear for the oldest men and women , and taking into consideration the trade as it is handled at large not simply in our city , the universally ac- knowledged metropolis of the world , I desire to say that to my mind there is more fakism used to sell shoes than to sell any other necessary article. Example: Nathan D. Chase, a well-to-do boss who accumulated enough wealth to retire in 1850 at middle age, observed that the prices for making shoes remained low from 1837 to 1842: 4 cents for red-bottomed cacks, 8 cents for women's turned slippers, 10 cents for thick-heeled runrounds, 12 cents for set heels, 20 cents for welts. 2. A young child. Labels: slang Example: Ma is calling breakfast. The little cacks are up. Billy, who is only six –and you are eight! –Billy tried to wash himself and got some soap in his eyes. Funny that little cacks like that always get soap in their eyes! Example: Seniors bully cacks because they were bullied as cacks. Old boys who were miserable here send their sons here to make them miserable. It's called tradition.
Word: cack Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /kæk/ 1. obsolete spelling of cake (any sense) Labels: alt-of, obsolete Example: Eye colours for dying blew, almost as good as Indico, made vp in round cacks or pieces, and packed one hundred cacks in a Fardell, worth the Fardell, fiftie to sixtie. Example: the gouerners Expences from the Coart of election, 1651, till the end of October, 1651; to bear & cacks [ beer and cakes ] 6d.; bear and cacks to himself and som other gentlemen, 18. 2d.; bear and cacks with Mr. Downing, 1s. 6d.; bear & a cack, 6d. -3s. 8d. "
Word: catgut Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Possibly an abbreviation of the word cattlegut. Alternatively, it may derive by folk etymology from kitgut or kitstring — the word kit, meaning fiddle, having at some point been confused with the word kit for a young cat. Pronunciation: /ˈkætˌɡʌt/ 1. A cord of great toughness made from the intestines of animals, especially of sheep, used for strings of musical instruments, racquets, sutures etc. Labels: countable Example: The thing about Proust is his combination of the utmost sensibility with the utmost tenacity. He searches out these butterfly shades to the last grain. He is as tough as catgut & as evanescent as a butterfly's bloom. Example: Eventually they carved small paddles to strike the ball and refined this implement with a mesh of catgut. 2. The material from which such cords are made. Labels: uncountable 3. A sort of linen or canvas, with wide interstices. Labels: uncountable 4. Tephrosia virginiana (goat's rue, devil's shoestring). Labels: uncountable
Word: catso Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Italian cazzo (“prick”). 1. A dishonest person; a rogue; a cheat. Labels: archaic Example: I’ll try experiments; ’tis good not to be deceived.—So so, catso! / Who would fear that may destroy? Example: The remark stung Cattaraugus to the quick, and he called Catiline a catapult; this infuriated Catiline beyond endurance, and he threw down the gauntlet and called Cattaraugus a catso. No cat will stand that; so at it they went.
Word: cauf Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From corf (“basket”) (which is a homophone of cauf in some dialects). Pronunciation: /kɔːf/ 1. A chest with holes for keeping fish alive in water. Example: The live fish is now kept in the cauves until sold for consumption in the home-country or abroad.
Word: cauf Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Phonetic respelling. Pronunciation: /kɔːf/ 1. Pronunciation spelling of calf. Labels: alt-of, pronunciation-spelling Example: An estimate at traffick hez been made be sum foaks, at wor set ta tack noatis, an it appear’d, bit average a wun month, thear wor enter’d Pogmoor an Hickam, fifteen wheelbarras, nine turnap rowlers, eighteen cauves, six sither grinders, wun wattar barril, nine haulin-horses, two pol’d cahs, three pair a cuts, wun hearse, sixteen dogs, three sheep, fourteen coil-carts, thurty mules, twenty-five geese, an three pigs.
Word: caulis Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin caulis. Doublet of cole, gobi, and kale. Pronunciation: /ˈkɔːlɪs/ 1. Each of the main stalks which support the volutes and helices of a Corinthian capital. 2. The stalk of a plant, especially a herbaceous stem in its natural state.
Word: caulis Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of cauli Labels: form-of, plural
Word: cauline Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree English caulis Proto-Indo-European *-nós Proto-Indo-European *-iHnos Proto-Italic *-īnos Latin -īnusder. Old French -inbor. Middle English -in English -ine English cauline From caulis + -ine. 1. Growing immediately on a caulis, the main stem of a plant; of or pertaining to a caulis. Labels: not-comparable
Word: cauliform Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From caul(is) + -iform. 1. Having the form of a caulis.
Word: cauma Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Latin cauma (“heat”), from Ancient Greek καῦμα (kaûma, “heat, especially of the sun”). Probably a doublet of calm. Pronunciation: /ˈkaʊmə/ 1. Great heat, as of the body in fever.
Word: cauponize Part of Speech: verb 1. To sell wine or victuals. Labels: intransitive, obsolete
Word: fade Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English fade, vad, vade (“faded, pale, withered, weak”), from Middle Dutch vade (“weak, faint, limp”), from Old French fade (“weak, witless”), of obscure origin. Probably from Vulgar Latin *fatidus, from Latin fatuus (“insipid”). Pronunciation: /feɪd/, /fæɪd/ 1. Weak; insipid; tasteless. Labels: archaic Example: 1825, Francis Jeffrey, Lord Jeffrey, review of Theodric by Thomas Campbell Passages that are somewhat fade. Example: His masculine taste gave him a sense of something fade and ludicrous.
Word: fade Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English fade, vad, vade (“faded, pale, withered, weak”), from Middle Dutch vade (“weak, faint, limp”), from Old French fade (“weak, witless”), of obscure origin. Probably from Vulgar Latin *fatidus, from Latin fatuus (“insipid”). Pronunciation: /feɪd/, /fæɪd/ 1. A golf shot that curves intentionally to the player's right (if they are right-handed) or to the left (if left-handed). Example: If you confine yourself to hitting straight shots while you are developing your golf swing, you are less likely to develop a preference for hitting a fade or a draw. 2. A haircut where the hair is short or shaved on the sides of the head and longer on top. See also high-top fade and low fade. 3. A fight. Labels: slang 4. A gradual decrease in the brightness of a shot or the volume of sound or music (as a means of cutting to a new scene or starting a new song). 5. The act of disappearing from a place so as not to be found; covert departure. Labels: slang Example: Ace could have done a fade. Instead, he gathered all his courage — which was not inconsiderable, even in his middle age — and went to see the Flying Corson Brothers.
Word: fade Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English fade, vad, vade (“faded, pale, withered, weak”), from Middle Dutch vade (“weak, faint, limp”), from Old French fade (“weak, witless”), of obscure origin. Probably from Vulgar Latin *fatidus, from Latin fatuus (“insipid”). Pronunciation: /feɪd/, /fæɪd/ 1. To hit the ball with the shot called a fade. Labels: transitive Example: The Golden Bear faded the ball from left to right with great consistency, so he seldom had to worry about trouble on the left. 2. To grow weak; to lose strength; to decay; to perish gradually; to wither, as a plant. Labels: intransitive Example: The earth mourneth and fadeth away. 3. To lose freshness, color, or brightness; to become faint in hue or tint; hence, to be wanting in color. Labels: intransitive Example: [flowers] that never fade Example: The half-dozen pieces […] were painted white and carved with festoons of flowers, birds and cupids. To display them the walls had been tinted a vivid blue which had now faded, but the carpet, which had evidently been stored and recently relaid, retained its original turquoise. 4. To sink away; to disappear gradually; to grow dim; to vanish. Labels: intransitive Example: The milkman's whistling faded into the distance. Example: He makes a swanlike end, / Fading in music. 5. To cause to fade. Labels: transitive 6. To bet against (someone). Labels: transitive Example: I tried to get some bets that y'all were fixin' to get married but nobody would fade me.
Word: fade Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English fade, fede, of uncertain origin. Compare Old English ġefæd (“orderly, tidy, discreet, well-regulated”). See also fad. Pronunciation: /feɪd/, /fæɪd/ 1. Strong; bold; doughty. Labels: archaic
Word: perv Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Clipping of pervert. Pronunciation: /pɜːv/, /pɝv/ 1. A pervert. Labels: slang Example: It is hoped that you will get at least a taste of kinky practices throughout the ages and come to the understanding that today’s kinky crowd is but the latest in a line of pervs stretching back to the dawn of mankind itself. 2. An ogle; an act of leering or voyeurism. Labels: Australia, UK, slang Example: After the next ball had been bowled the blokes' heads would turn around unobtrusively to have a perv at a bird in a mini-skirt... Example: It transpires that whilst Trev and Boz (me) slowed down to 'take a perv' at the blonde, she too used to keep an eye out for me.
Word: perv Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Clipping of pervert. Pronunciation: /pɜːv/, /pɝv/ 1. To act in a sexually perverted manner. Labels: intransitive, slang, usually Example: God, could you stop perving out over my sister? She's literally 14. 2. To act in a sexually perverted manner. Labels: intransitive, slang, specifically, usually, with-on Example: The soccer coach perved on one of the players as he undressed in the change room.
Word: pervert Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Old French pervertir, itself from the Latin pervertō. Pronunciation: /ˈpəː.vəːt/, /ˈpəː.vət/, /ˈpɚ.vɚt/ 1. One who has been perverted; one who has turned to error, or adopted a twisted sense of values or morals. Labels: dated Example: And yet it is not only tolerated, but perverts are making to it in England and this country, — perverts among the intelligent and the learned. For these things, which I have quoted, are not accusations made in a corner, but have been published in the face of the world by one of the profoundest theologians of the day, and challenge confutation. Example: […] a religious pervert is ever a doubtful product. One separated from the fellows of his youth and the faith of his fathers, by acceptance of a different religion, is of necessity more or less adrift on the sea of life […] 2. A person whose sexual habits are not considered acceptable. Example: Those perverts were trying to spy on us while we changed clothes! Example: I know more damn perverts, at schools and all, than anybody you ever met, and they're always being perverty when I'm around.
Word: pervert Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Old French pervertir, itself from the Latin pervertō. Pronunciation: /pəˈvəːt/, /pɚˈvɚt/ 1. To turn another way; to divert. Labels: transitive Example: Let's follow him, and pervert the present wrath. 2. To corrupt; to cause to be untrue; corrupted or otherwise impure Labels: transitive Example: How could stopping someone from killing himself or herself "pervert the course of justice"? Example: He, in the serpent, had perverted Eve. 3. To misapply, misuse, use for a nefarious purpose Example: He has perverted his talents to dishonest gain. 4. to misinterpret designedly. Example: pervert one's words 5. To become perverted; to take the wrong course. Labels: intransitive Example: After that worde, "better is it to dey than lyve false," and al wolde perverted people false reporte make
Word: parsimonious Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree English parsimony Proto-Indo-European *h₃ed- Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *h₃édosder.? Proto-Italic *-ŏ̄dsos? Old Latin -ōssus Latin -ōsus Old French -usbor. Middle English -ous English -ous English parsimonious From parsimony + -ous. Pronunciation: /pɑː.sɪˈməʊ.ni.əs/, /pɑɹ.sɪˈmoʊ.ni.əs/ 1. Exhibiting parsimony; sparing in the expenditure of money; frugal, possibly to excess. Example: He was regular in his habits, parsimonious, and industrious; but he lacked all talent needed at the bar—he had neither address, nor eloquence, nor ingenuity. Example: Our fathers would have an economical government, even if grand people called it a parsimonious one, and taxes should be no greater than were absolutely necessary to pay for such a government. 2. Using a minimal number of assumptions, steps, or conjectures. Example: Statistical methods offer the ability to enforce parsimonious selection of the most influential potential predictors of each gene's state. 3. Not conceding many goals. Example: They played like a team that was in a hurry to get back to the Premier League. Norwich City had dismantled the most parsimonious defence in the Championship inside the opening quarter of an hour and at the final whistle it was the yellow end, rather than Middlesbrough’s banks of red, where the euphoria could be found.
Word: pact Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English pact, from Middle French pacte, from Old French, and its etymon Latin pactum (“something agreed upon”), from pacīscī (“to agree”). Probably a doublet of patio. Pronunciation: /pækt/ 1. An agreement; a compact; a covenant. Example: write up a pact Example: New sisters at the sorority have to agree to the pact set out by the former members. 2. An agreement between two or more nations 3. An alliance or coalition.
Word: pact Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English pact, from Middle French pacte, from Old French, and its etymon Latin pactum (“something agreed upon”), from pacīscī (“to agree”). Probably a doublet of patio. Pronunciation: /pækt/ 1. To form a pact; to agree formally. Labels: intransitive Example: When national elites pacted in Mexico, they pacted to the advantage of the elites as against the masses and also to the advantage of the center as against the provinces.
Word: pad Part of Speech: verb Etymology: 1554, "bundle of straw to lie on". Unknown, and unclear all senses have common etymology. For sense "ends of a digit", cf. Low German or West Flemish pad (“sole of the foot”), perhaps ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pent- (“to pass”), which would make it related to both path and find. Pronunciation: /pæd/, /pad/, /pɛd/ 1. To stuff. Labels: transitive 2. To furnish with a pad or padding. Labels: transitive 3. To increase the size of, especially by adding undesirable filler. Labels: transitive Example: The author began to pad her succinct stories with trite descriptions to keep up with current market trends. Example: pad one's expenses 4. To imbue uniformly with a mordant. Labels: transitive Example: to pad cloth Example: […] to pad a piece in diluted acetate of alumine to obtain a pale lemon ground […] 5. To deliberately play the ball with the leg pad instead of the bat. Labels: transitive 6. To walk with soft steps. Example: pad down the corridor
Word: pad Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English pade, padde, from Old English padde, from Proto-West Germanic *paddā, from Proto-Germanic *paddǭ (“toad”). Cognate with Dutch pad, German Low German Pad (“toad”), dialectal German Padde, Danish padde, Swedish padda, Icelandic padda (“toad”), and possibly to English paddle. Doublet of pode Pronunciation: /pæd/, /pad/, /pɛd/ 1. A toad. Labels: UK, dialectal
Word: pad Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Dutch pad or Middle Low German pat (“path”). Doublet of path. Pronunciation: /pæd/, /pad/, /pɛd/ 1. A path, particularly one unformed or unmaintained; a track made by animals. Labels: Australia, Ireland, UK, dialectal Example: We led the horses along an animal pad that zigzagged down the one accessible descent. Example: And when the map shows that the creek will no longer take him where he wants to go, then he looks for an animal pad and follows it, getting down on his belly and wriggling under thorny bush when he has to. 2. An easy-paced horse; a padnag. Example: Sometimes a troop of damsels glad, / An abbot on an ambling pad, / Sometimes a curly shepherd lad, / Or long-hair'd page, in crimson clad, / Goes by to Camelot. 3. A robber who infests the road on foot; a highwayman or footpad. Labels: UK, obsolete Example: A Pad came pacing down the way : / The Cur, with never-ceasing tongue , / Upon the passing trav'ler sprung Example: These free-born sounds proceeded from four pads / In ambush laid, who had perceived him loiter / Behind his carriage; and, like handy lads, / Had seized the lucky hour to reconnoitre 4. A tramp or itinerant musician. Labels: UK, obsolete
Word: pad Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Perhaps an alteration of ped. Pronunciation: /pæd/, /pad/, /pɛd/ 1. A type of wickerwork basket, especially as used as a measure of fish or other goods. Labels: UK, dialectal
Word: pad Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Probably partly from Middle Low German pat, partly imitative. Some senses possibly influenced by pad (“soft part of an animal's foot”, noun). Pronunciation: /pæd/, /pad/, /pɛd/ 1. To travel along (a road, path etc.). Labels: transitive Example: Padding the streets for half a crown. 2. To travel on foot. Labels: intransitive 3. To wear a path by walking. Labels: intransitive Example: Who were the strugglers, what war did they wage, / Whose savage trample thus could pad the dank / Soil to a plash? [...] 4. To walk softly, quietly or steadily, especially without shoes. Labels: intransitive Example: Their feet padded softly on the ground, and they crept quite close to him, twitching their noses, while the Rabbit stared hard to see which side the clockwork stuck out... 5. To practise highway robbery. Labels: intransitive, obsolete Example: Their chief Argument is, That they never saw any Witches, therefore there are none. Just as if you or I should say, We never met with any Robbers on the Road, therefore there never was any Padding there.
Word: pad Part of Speech: intj Etymology: Probably imitative, perhaps related to or influenced by Etymology 5, above. Pronunciation: /pæd/, /pad/, /pɛd/ 1. Indicating a soft flat sound, as of bare footsteps. Example: I heard her soft footsteps, pad, pad along the corridor.
Word: pad Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Probably imitative, perhaps related to or influenced by Etymology 5, above. Pronunciation: /pæd/, /pad/, /pɛd/ 1. The sound of soft footsteps, or a similar noise made by an animal etc.
Word: page Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French page, from Latin pāgina, from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂ǵ-. Doublet of pagina. Pronunciation: /peɪd͡ʒ/ 1. One of the many pieces of paper bound together within a book or similar document. Example: The book which he was reading had 213 pages. Example: The graph is on page 30, but I opened the textbook at page 32. 2. One side of a paper leaf in a bound document. 3. A collective memory; noteworthy event; memorable episode. Labels: figuratively Example: a page from history 4. The type set up for printing a page. 5. A screenful of text and possibly other content; especially, the digital simulation of one side of a paper leaf. Example: To view man pages for a command: Type man followed by the name of the command (for example, man ls), and press Return. […] To view the next page: Press Spacebar. The manual advances one page […]. 6. A web page. Labels: Internet 7. A block of contiguous memory of a fixed length. 8. Clipping of memory page. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, clipping
Word: page Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French page, from Latin pāgina, from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂ǵ-. Doublet of pagina. Pronunciation: /peɪd͡ʒ/ 1. To mark or number the pages of, as a book or manuscript. Labels: transitive 2. To turn several pages of a publication. Labels: intransitive, often Example: The patient paged through magazines while he waited for the doctor. 3. To furnish with folios. Labels: transitive
Word: page Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Old French page, possibly via Italian paggio, from Medieval Latin pagius (“servant”), probably from Ancient Greek παιδίον (paidíon, “boy, lad”), from παῖς (paîs, “child”); some sources consider this unlikely and suggest instead Latin pagus (“countryside”), in sense of "boy from the rural regions". Used in English from the 13th century onwards. Pronunciation: /peɪd͡ʒ/ 1. A serving boy; a youth attending a person of high degree, especially at courts, often as a position of honor and education. Labels: historical 2. A youth employed for doing errands, waiting on the door, and similar service in households. Labels: UK 3. A boy or girl employed to wait upon the members of a legislative body. Labels: Canada, US 4. An employee whose main purpose is to replace materials that have either been checked out or otherwise moved, back to their shelves. 5. A contrivance, such as a band, pin, snap, or the like, to hold the skirt of a woman’s dress from the ground. 6. A track along which pallets carrying newly molded bricks are conveyed to the hack. 7. A message sent to someone's pager. Labels: dated Example: Before he could bring it down, the pager clipped to his belt went off. […] If you were a lawyer or a business executive, maybe you could afford to ignore your pages for a while, but when you were a County Sheriff—and one who was elected rather than appointed—there wasn't much question about priorities. Example: Woman, why don't you be answering any of my pages? 8. Any one of several species of colorful South American moths of the genus Urania.
Word: page Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Old French page, possibly via Italian paggio, from Medieval Latin pagius (“servant”), probably from Ancient Greek παιδίον (paidíon, “boy, lad”), from παῖς (paîs, “child”); some sources consider this unlikely and suggest instead Latin pagus (“countryside”), in sense of "boy from the rural regions". Used in English from the 13th century onwards. Pronunciation: /peɪd͡ʒ/ 1. To attend (someone) as a page. Labels: transitive Example: Will these moist trees […]page thy heels 2. To call or summon (someone). Labels: US, obsolete, transitive 3. To contact (someone) by means of a pager or other mobile device. Labels: dated, transitive Example: I'll be out all day, so page me if you need me. Example: It's not even eight thirty and Murray is paging me. 4. To call (somebody) using a public address system to find them. Labels: transitive Example: An SUV parked me in. Could you please page its owner?
Word: painful Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English paynful, peinful, peynful, paynefull, peynefull, equivalent to pain + -ful. Compare Danish pinefuld (“painful”). Pronunciation: /ˈpeɪn.fl̩/ 1. Causing pain or distress, either physical or mental. Example: In a 2008 case report from India, doctors described removing a giant tonsillolith that was making it painful for a young patient to swallow. Example: A rackingly painful disease that affects the joints and finally cripples, it is caused by an imbalance of uric acid in the system. 2. Afflicted or suffering with pain (of a body part or, formerly, of a person). 3. Requiring effort or labor; difficult, laborious. 4. Painstaking; careful; industrious. Labels: archaic Example: The men bestow their times in fishing, hunting, warres, and such manlike exercises, scorning to be seene in any woman-like exercise, which is the cause that the women be very painefull, and the men often idle. Example: To all these painful labourers Johnson shewed a never-ceasing kindness, so far as they stood in need of it. 5. Very bad, poor. Labels: informal Example: His violin playing is painful.
Word: pang Part of Speech: noun Etymology: The origin of the noun is uncertain; it is possibly derived from Middle English *pange, perhaps an altered form of prange, prōnge (“affliction, agony, pain; pointed instrument”) as in prongys of deth (“pangs of death, death throes”), from Anglo-Latin pronga, of unknown origin. Perhaps connected with Middle Dutch prange, pranghe (“instrument for pinching”) (modern Dutch prang (“horse restraint; fetter, neck iron”)), Middle Low German prange (“pole, stake; (possibly) kind of pillory or stocks”), Old English pyngan (“to prick”). The word may thus be related to prong. The verb is derived from the noun. Pronunciation: /ˈpæŋ/, [ˈpʰæŋ], /ˈpeɪ̯ŋ/, [ˈpʰeɪ̯ŋ], /ˈpɛ̃ŋ/ 1. A paroxysm of extreme physical pain or anguish; a feeling of sudden and transitory agony; a throe. Labels: in-plural, often Example: War[wick]. See how the pangs of death do make him grin. / Sal[isbury]. Diſturbe him not, let him paſſe peaceably. Example: He is knight dubb'd with vnhatche'd Rapier, and on carpet conſideration, but he is a diuell in priuate brall, soules and bodies hath he diuorc'd three, and his incenſement at this moment is ſo implacable, that ſatisfaction can be none, but by pangs of death and ſepulcher: Hob, nob, is his word: giu't or take't. 2. A sudden sharp feeling of an emotional or mental nature, as of joy or sorrow. Labels: in-plural, often Example: He had not gone far, when coming on towards him he beheld the portly gentleman, who had walked into his counting-house the day before, and said, "Scrooge and Marley's, I believe?" It sent a pang across his heart to think how this old gentleman would look upon him when they met; but he knew what path lay straight before him, and he took it. Example: He was startled with a piece of information which gave him such an exquisite pang of delight that he could hardly keep the usual quiet of his demeanor.
Word: pang Part of Speech: verb Etymology: The origin of the noun is uncertain; it is possibly derived from Middle English *pange, perhaps an altered form of prange, prōnge (“affliction, agony, pain; pointed instrument”) as in prongys of deth (“pangs of death, death throes”), from Anglo-Latin pronga, of unknown origin. Perhaps connected with Middle Dutch prange, pranghe (“instrument for pinching”) (modern Dutch prang (“horse restraint; fetter, neck iron”)), Middle Low German prange (“pole, stake; (possibly) kind of pillory or stocks”), Old English pyngan (“to prick”). The word may thus be related to prong. The verb is derived from the noun. Pronunciation: /ˈpæŋ/, [ˈpʰæŋ], /ˈpeɪ̯ŋ/, [ˈpʰeɪ̯ŋ], /ˈpɛ̃ŋ/ 1. To cause to have great pain or suffering; to torment, to torture. Labels: transitive Example: Yet if that quarrell, Fortune, to diuorce / It from the bearer, 'tis a ſufferance, panging / As ſoule and bodies ſeuering. Example: And perhaps a not altogether false little story could be written about a man who never visited those most dear to him, because it panged him so to say good-bye when he had to leave.
Word: pang Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past of ping Labels: form-of, nonstandard, past
Word: pant Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English panten, whence also English dialectal pank. Possibly from Old French pantoyer, a byform or of Old French pantoisier (“to be breathless”) (compare modern French panteler (“to gasp for breath”)), of uncertain origin. Possibly from Vulgar Latin *pantasiō (“struggling for breath when having a nightmare”), from Ancient Greek φαντασιόω (phantasióō, “to be subject to hallucinations”), from φαντασία (phantasía, “appearance, image, fantasy”). Pronunciation: /pænt/, /pant/, /pæːnt/, /pɛnt/ 1. A quick breathing; a catching of the breath; a gasp: the panting of animals such as a dog with their tong hung out- as a form of thermoregulation. 2. Eager longing. Labels: figuratively Example: Indeed, the projections, cravings, and everyday frolics common to trysts among buzz-activist Hollywood stars and starlets, plus their many common folk imitators, go forward with eager pant. 3. A violent palpitation of the heart. Labels: obsolete Example: To this great fairy I'll commend thy acts, / Make her thanks bless thee. O thou day o' the world, / Chain mine arm'd neck; leap thou, attire and all; / Through proof of harness to my heart, and there / Ride on the pants triumphing.
Word: pant Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English panten, whence also English dialectal pank. Possibly from Old French pantoyer, a byform or of Old French pantoisier (“to be breathless”) (compare modern French panteler (“to gasp for breath”)), of uncertain origin. Possibly from Vulgar Latin *pantasiō (“struggling for breath when having a nightmare”), from Ancient Greek φαντασιόω (phantasióō, “to be subject to hallucinations”), from φαντασία (phantasía, “appearance, image, fantasy”). Pronunciation: /pænt/, /pant/, /pæːnt/, /pɛnt/ 1. To breathe quickly or in a labored manner, as after exertion or from eagerness or excitement; to respire with heaving of the breast; to gasp. Labels: ambitransitive Example: Pluto pants for breath from out his cell. Example: There is a cavern where my spirit / Was panted forth in anguish. 2. To long eagerly; to desire earnestly. Labels: intransitive Example: As the hart panteth after the water brooks. 3. To long for (something); to be eager for (something). Labels: obsolete, transitive Example: Then shall our hearts pant thee. 4. Of the heart, to beat with unnatural violence or rapidity; to palpitate. Labels: intransitive Example: Yet might her piteous heart be seen to pant and quake 5. To sigh; to flutter; to languish. Labels: intransitive Example: [T]he whiſp'ring Breeze / Pants on the Leaves, and dies upon the Trees. 6. To heave, as the breast. Labels: intransitive 7. To bulge and shrink successively, of iron hulls, etc. Labels: intransitive
Word: pant Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *peh₂- Proto-Indo-European *-énts Proto-Indo-European *ph₂énts? Proto-Hellenic *pánts Ancient Greek πᾶς (pâs) Ancient Greek ἔλεος (éleos) Proto-Indo-European *-eti Proto-Indo-European *-eyéti Proto-Indo-European *-esyéti Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁ti Proto-Indo-European *-yeti Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁yeti Proto-Indo-European *-yeti Proto-Indo-European *-éyeti Ancient Greek -έω (-éō) Ancient Greek ἐλεέω (eleéō) Proto-Indo-European *-mṓ Ancient Greek -μων (-mōn) Ancient Greek ἐλεήμων (eleḗmōn) Ancient Greek Παντελεήμων (Panteleḗmōn)der. Italian Pantalonebor. French pantalonbor. English pantaloon English pantaloons English pantsbf. English pant Back-formation from pants. Pronunciation: /pænt/, /pant/, /pæːnt/, /pɛnt/ 1. A pair of pants (trousers or underpants). Example: To commemorate our 50th anniversary we've rolled out a new pant with our signature blue and white seams. 2. Of or relating to pants. Labels: attributive Example: pant leg
Word: pant Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Unknown. Pronunciation: /pænt/, /pant/, /pæːnt/, /pɛnt/ 1. Any public drinking fountain.