nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: corpuscle Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin corpusculum, diminutive of corpus (“body”). Pronunciation: /ˈkɔːˌpʌsəl/, /ˈkɔɹˌpʌsəl/ 1. A minute particle; an atom; a molecule. Example: [b]y mixing divers Liquors, very odd and remarkable Productions and Changes of Colours may be effected, of which no cause can be more obvious and rational than that the saline Corpuscles of one Liquor do variously act upon or unite with the tinging Corpuscles of another, so as to make them swell, or shrink, (whereby not only their bulk but their density also may be changed,) or to divide them into smaller Corpuscles, (whereby a colour'd Liquor may become transparent,) or to make many of them associate into one cluster, whereby two transparent Liquors may compose a colour'd one. Example: It is the object of the mechanical atomistic philosophy to confound synthesis with synartesis, or rather with mere juxtaposition of corpuscles separated by invisible interspaces. 2. A protoplasmic animal cell; especially, such as float free, like blood, lymph, and pus corpuscles; or such as are embedded in an intercellular matrix, like connective tissue and cartilage corpuscles. Example: They gave me blood tests, of course. All kinds of blood tests testing my white corpuscles, testing my red corpuscles, testing one against the other.
Word: corpulent Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English corpulent, from Old French corpulent, from Latin corpulentus. Pronunciation: /ˈkɔːpjələnt/, /ˈkɔːpjʊlənt/, /ˈkoɹpjəlɪnt/ 1. Large in body; fat; overweight. Example: corpulent person 2. Physical, material, corporeal. Labels: obsolete
Word: corrugation Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˌkɔɹ.əˈɡeɪ.ʃən/ 1. The process of corrugating; contraction into wrinkles or alternate ridges and grooves. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: According to the pilot, ships were taking hard punishment in the storm. But from this altitude the corrugations of the seas looked no higher to the eye than the ridges of your palate feel to the tongue. 2. washboarding (the appearance of ripples or bumps on a dirt or gravel road) Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: convocation Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English convocacioun, from Old French convocation, from Latin convocatio, convocationem. Pronunciation: /kɒn.vəˈkeɪ.ʃən/, /kɑn.vəˈkeɪ.ʃən/ 1. The act of calling or assembling by summons. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. An assembly or meeting. Labels: countable, uncountable 3. An assembly of the clergy, by their representatives, to consult on ecclesiastical affairs. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Convocation will sit in York too, so the northern church can have its say in how we worship God. 4. An academic assembly, in which the business of a university is transacted. Labels: countable, uncountable 5. A flock of eagles. Labels: collective, countable, uncountable
Word: co-relation Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ḱe? Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm Proto-Italic *kom Proto-Italic *kom- Latin con- Latin co-der. English co- English relation English co-relation From co- + relation. 1. Corresponding relation.
Word: corollary Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English, from Late Latin corōllārium (“money paid for a garland; gift, gratuity, corollary; consequence, deduction”), from corōlla (“small garland”), diminutive of corōna (“crown”). Pronunciation: /kɒˈɹɒləɹi/, /ˈkɒɹələɹi/, /ˈkɔɹəˌlɛɹi/, /kɔˈɹoʊˌlɛɹi/ 1. A gift beyond what is actually due; an addition or superfluity. 2. An a fortiori occurrence, as a result of another effort without significant additional effort. Example: Finally getting that cracked window fixed was a nice corollary of redoing the whole storefront. Example: Amidst the lingering consequences of what was probably a lab made pandemic, heightened political turmoil in a world of nuclear weapons, and, as mankind’s first synthetic mind comes closer by the day to waking up, the unknowable implications of general artificial intelligence, the truth is we are clearly at risk of cataclysm. But that is the corollary of life in an age of wonder, a precious gift impossible without the natural dangers inherent of tremendous progress. In other words: yes, we are at risk of the apocalypse, and that is good. 3. A proposition which follows easily from the statement or proof of another proposition. Example: We have proven that this set is finite and well ordered; as a corollary, we now know that there is an order-preserving map from it to the natural numbers.
Word: corollary Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English, from Late Latin corōllārium (“money paid for a garland; gift, gratuity, corollary; consequence, deduction”), from corōlla (“small garland”), diminutive of corōna (“crown”). Pronunciation: /kɒˈɹɒləɹi/, /ˈkɒɹələɹi/, /ˈkɔɹəˌlɛɹi/, /kɔˈɹoʊˌlɛɹi/ 1. Occurring as a natural consequence or result; attendant; consequential. Labels: not-comparable Example: However, given current sensibilities about individual privacy and data protection, the recording of oral data is becoming increasingly onerous for researchers who are obliged to navigate an often time-consuming and complex series of administrative requirements and corollary review processes in order to be granted ethics clearance. 2. Forming a proposition that follows from one already proved. Labels: not-comparable, rare
Word: corroboration Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English corroboracioun, borrowed from Late Latin corrōborātiō (“strengthening”). 1. The act of corroborating, strengthening, or confirming; addition of strength; confirmation. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Fallacious enough doctrine when wielded against one's prejudices, but in corroboration of cherished suspicions not without likelihood. Example: Social media lighted up with corroborations that lower Manhattan was the meteorological equivalent of the jungles of Borneo. 2. That which corroborates. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Urban Dictionary records at least 66 of the terms found by the present research, but as this dictionary liberally accepts words, definitions, and sample sentences based solely on the say-so of contributors, in the absence of corroboration from other sources the authenticity of some entries must remain dubious.
Word: corvette Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from French corvette. Pronunciation: /kɔːɹˈvɛt/ 1. A flush-decked warship of the 17th-18th centuries having a single tier of guns; it ranked next below a frigate; – called in the United States navy a sloop of war. Labels: historical 2. In a modern navy, a lightly armed and armoured blue water warship, smaller than a frigate, capable of transoceanic duty. 3. In a modern navy, a lightly armed and armoured blue water warship, smaller than a frigate, capable of transoceanic duty. Labels: broadly
Word: cottage Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Late Middle English, from Anglo-Norman cotage and Medieval Latin cotagium, from Old Northern French cot, cote (“cottage, hut”) + -age (“surrounding property”), from Old Norse kot, from Proto-Germanic *kutą, *kuta- (“shed”), probably of non-Indo-European origin, possibly borrowed from Proto-Finno-Ugric/Proto-Uralic *kota (“hut, tent”), probably akin to Proto-Iranian *kátah (“house; roof”). However, also compare Dutch and English hut. Cognates Cognate with Saterland Frisian Koate (“cottage, hut, small house”), Dutch kot (“ramshackle housing”), German Kate, Kote (“cot, cottage, hut”), Norwegian Bokmål kote (“cot, cottage, hut”), Norwegian Nynorsk kot, kott (“small house; small room”), Norwegian Nynorsk kote, kotto, kåte (“hut”), Swedish kåta (“cot, cottage, hut”), Ainu コタン (kotan, “village; town; island; land; country; place”), Akkala Sami куэһть (kueht’, “hut, tent”), Brahui کڈی (kuḍḍī / kuḍī, “hut, small house; wife”), Erzya кудо (kudo, “house”), Estonian koda (“building, house”), Finnish kota (“house, hut”), Hungarian ház (“house”), Kildin Sami куэдтҍ (kuedt’, “hut”), Komi-Permyak керку (kerku, “house, hut”) Komi-Zyrian керка (kerka, “house; family”), Livonian kuodā (“house”), Malayalam കുടി (kuṭi, “dwelling, house; hut; clan”), Moksha куд (kud, “house”), Mongolian хот (xot), ᠬᠣᠲᠠ (qota, “city, town”), Northern Sami goahti (“hut, tent; den, lair”), Southern Sami gåetie (“house; range; tent”), Tamil குடி (kuṭi, “ryot; tenants; citizens; family, household; descent, lineage; caste, race; house, mansion; village”), Udmurt корка (korka, “house, hut”), Ume Sami gåhtie (“tent”), Votic kõta (“house”); also Abkhaz ақыҭа (akəta, “village; community”), Armenian քաղաք (kʻaġakʻ, “city, town”), Belarusian, Russian, and Ukrainian ха́та (xáta, “house, hut”), Czech and Polish chata (“hut”), Gurani کەَ (ka, “house”), Pashto کلی (kəlay, “village”), Persian کده (kade, “house; village”), Northern Kurdish kedî (“domestic”), Yaghnobi кат (kat, “house”). Old Northern French cote is probably from Old Norse kot (“hut”), cognate of Old English cot of same Proto-Germanic origin. Slang sense “public toilet” from 19th century, due to resemblance. Pronunciation: /ˈkɒt.ɪd͡ʒ/, /ˈkɑt.ɪd͡ʒ/, [ˈkɑɾ.ɪd͡ʒ], /ˈkɑt.əd͡ʒ/, [ˈkɑɾ.əd͡ʒ] 1. A small house. Example: So when four years were wholly finished, / She threw her royal robes away. / “Make me a cottage in the vale,” she said, / “Where I may mourn and pray. 2. A seasonal home of any size or stature, a recreational home or a home in a remote location. Example: Most cottages in the area were larger and more elaborate than my home. Example: Thinks I to myself, “Sol, you're run off your course again. This is a rich man's summer ‘cottage’ and if you don't look out there's likely to be some nice, lively dog taking an interest in your underpinning.” 3. A public lavatory. Labels: UK, archaic, slang 4. A meeting place for homosexual men. Labels: Polari
Word: cottage Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Late Middle English, from Anglo-Norman cotage and Medieval Latin cotagium, from Old Northern French cot, cote (“cottage, hut”) + -age (“surrounding property”), from Old Norse kot, from Proto-Germanic *kutą, *kuta- (“shed”), probably of non-Indo-European origin, possibly borrowed from Proto-Finno-Ugric/Proto-Uralic *kota (“hut, tent”), probably akin to Proto-Iranian *kátah (“house; roof”). However, also compare Dutch and English hut. Cognates Cognate with Saterland Frisian Koate (“cottage, hut, small house”), Dutch kot (“ramshackle housing”), German Kate, Kote (“cot, cottage, hut”), Norwegian Bokmål kote (“cot, cottage, hut”), Norwegian Nynorsk kot, kott (“small house; small room”), Norwegian Nynorsk kote, kotto, kåte (“hut”), Swedish kåta (“cot, cottage, hut”), Ainu コタン (kotan, “village; town; island; land; country; place”), Akkala Sami куэһть (kueht’, “hut, tent”), Brahui کڈی (kuḍḍī / kuḍī, “hut, small house; wife”), Erzya кудо (kudo, “house”), Estonian koda (“building, house”), Finnish kota (“house, hut”), Hungarian ház (“house”), Kildin Sami куэдтҍ (kuedt’, “hut”), Komi-Permyak керку (kerku, “house, hut”) Komi-Zyrian керка (kerka, “house; family”), Livonian kuodā (“house”), Malayalam കുടി (kuṭi, “dwelling, house; hut; clan”), Moksha куд (kud, “house”), Mongolian хот (xot), ᠬᠣᠲᠠ (qota, “city, town”), Northern Sami goahti (“hut, tent; den, lair”), Southern Sami gåetie (“house; range; tent”), Tamil குடி (kuṭi, “ryot; tenants; citizens; family, household; descent, lineage; caste, race; house, mansion; village”), Udmurt корка (korka, “house, hut”), Ume Sami gåhtie (“tent”), Votic kõta (“house”); also Abkhaz ақыҭа (akəta, “village; community”), Armenian քաղաք (kʻaġakʻ, “city, town”), Belarusian, Russian, and Ukrainian ха́та (xáta, “house, hut”), Czech and Polish chata (“hut”), Gurani کەَ (ka, “house”), Pashto کلی (kəlay, “village”), Persian کده (kade, “house; village”), Northern Kurdish kedî (“domestic”), Yaghnobi кат (kat, “house”). Old Northern French cote is probably from Old Norse kot (“hut”), cognate of Old English cot of same Proto-Germanic origin. Slang sense “public toilet” from 19th century, due to resemblance. Pronunciation: /ˈkɒt.ɪd͡ʒ/, /ˈkɑt.ɪd͡ʒ/, [ˈkɑɾ.ɪd͡ʒ], /ˈkɑt.əd͡ʒ/, [ˈkɑɾ.əd͡ʒ] 1. To stay at a seasonal home, to go cottaging. 2. To have homosexual sex in a public lavatory; to practice cottaging. Labels: Polari, intransitive
Word: counteract Part of Speech: noun 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- Proto-Indo-European *h₂eǵ- Proto-Indo-European *-eti Proto-Indo-European *h₂éǵeti Proto-Italic *agō Latin agō Latin ācta Old French actbor. Middle English acte English act English counteract From counter- + act. Pronunciation: /ˈkaʊntəɹˌækt/ 1. An action performed in opposition to another action. Example: This flesh and blood of Christ's human body, as the redeeming substance, should have been eaten by man as an act of obedience to the command, 'Take, eat,' &c., as a counteract to the act of disobedience, and as a work meet for repentance. Example: Every time there is a march by the Ku Klux Klan or a swastika painted on a Jewish building, there could be a counteract of reconciliation within twenty-four hours.
Word: counteract Part of Speech: verb 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- Proto-Indo-European *h₂eǵ- Proto-Indo-European *-eti Proto-Indo-European *h₂éǵeti Proto-Italic *agō Latin agō Latin ācta Old French actbor. Middle English acte English act English counteract From counter- + act. Pronunciation: /ˈkaʊntəɹˌækt/, /ˌkaʊntəɹˈækt/ 1. To have a contrary or opposing effect or force on someone or something. Labels: transitive Example: Another tide is raised at the same time on the opposite side of the revolving earth; which is owing to the greater centrifugal motion of that side of the earth, which counteracts the gravitation of bodies near its surface. Example: 1911, 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica - Dome In India, in the “great mosque” of Jama Masjid (a.d. 1560) and the Gol Gumbaz, or tomb of Mahommed Adil Shah (a.d. 1630) at Bijapur, the domes are carried on pendentives consisting of arches crossing one another and projecting inwards, and their weight counteracts any thrust there may be in the dome. 2. To deliberately act in opposition to, to thwart or frustrate. Labels: transitive Example: It took a long time for the place to warm up and to counteract the cold and enable their fingers to cope with the delicate task of moulding, the men would often surround themselves with blocks of iron heated in the furnace. Example: 2016, Margaret Corvid writing in the New Statesman, Five practical things you can do to fight Donald Trump if you live in the UK When people hear my American accent, they want to talk to me about Donald Trump. They want to ask me what happened, and why. But most of all, they ask me – with fear filling their voices – what they can do, as individuals, to counteract him, here, from the United Kingdom.
Word: couple Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English couple, from Old French couple, from Latin cōpula. Doublet of copula. Pronunciation: /ˈkʌp.əl/, [ˈkʌp.ɫ̩], /ˈkə.pᵻl/, [kɐ.pɘl] 1. Two of the same kind connected or considered together. Example: A couple of police officers appeared at the door. Example: 'Tis in some sort with Friends (Pardon the Coarseness of the illustration) as it is with Dogs in Couples. They should be of the same Size; and Humour; and That which Pleases the One should Please the Other 2. Two partners in a romantic or sexual relationship. Example: The number of Souls in the Kingdom being uſually reckon'd one Million and a half, Of theſe I calculate there may be about tvvo hundred thouſand Couple vvhoſe VVives are Breeders, from vvhich Number I Subſtract thirty Thouſand Couples, vvho are able to maintain their ovvn Children, […] Example: Having a beloved couple (Jim and Pam, Cory and Topanga) exchange vows was once a foolproof way to juice TV ratings. 3. A small number. Labels: informal Example: A couple of billiard balls, all mud and dirt, two battered hats, a champagne bottle […] Example: ‘Oh, merely a couple of hundred a year, but the work is slight, and it need not interfere very much with one’s other occupations.’ 4. One of the pairs of plates of two metals which compose a voltaic battery, called a voltaic couple or galvanic couple. 5. A turning effect created by forces that produce a non-zero external torque. 6. A couple-close. 7. That which joins or links two things together; a bond or tie; a coupler. Example: I’ll keep my stables where / I lodge my wife; I’ll go in couples with her; Example: As we passed the deserted mountain-dairy, we must have crossed the fresh track of a hare, because the hounds became rather uneasy in the couples.
Word: couple Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English couple, from Old French couple, from Latin cōpula. Doublet of copula. Pronunciation: /ˈkʌp.əl/, [ˈkʌp.ɫ̩], /ˈkə.pᵻl/, [kɐ.pɘl] 1. Two or (a) small number of. Labels: Canada, US, informal, not-comparable Example: Put any couple guys in a tricked out car and a couple of bandannas […]" He trailed off. Example: Since we were now living so close, at least those couple hours of talking together helped boost our spirits.
Word: couple Part of Speech: det Etymology: From Middle English couple, from Old French couple, from Latin cōpula. Doublet of copula. Pronunciation: /ˈkʌp.əl/, [ˈkʌp.ɫ̩], /ˈkə.pᵻl/, [kɐ.pɘl] 1. Two or a few, a small number of. Labels: Canada, US, colloquial Example: A couple fewer people show up every week. Example: I'll be there in a couple minutes.
Word: couple Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English couple, from Old French couple, from Latin cōpula. Doublet of copula. Pronunciation: /ˈkʌp.əl/, [ˈkʌp.ɫ̩], /ˈkə.pᵻl/, [kɐ.pɘl] 1. To join (two things) together, or (one thing) to (another). Labels: transitive Example: Now the conductor will couple the train cars. Example: I've coupled our system to theirs. 2. To join in wedlock; to marry. Labels: dated, transitive Example: I am just going to perform a very good office, it is to assist with the archbishop, in degrading a parson who couples all our beggars 3. To join in sexual intercourse; to copulate. Labels: intransitive Example: On their wedding night they coupled nine times. Example: She had the brilliant inventor and craftsman Daedalus construct her an artificial cow, in which she hid and induced the bull to couple with her […] 4. To cause (two animals) to copulate, to bring (two animals) together for mating. Labels: transitive Example: The Parilia was generally considered to be the best time for coupling the rams and the ewes. 5. To enter (multiple horses with the same owner) into a race so that a single bet can be placed on any of them winning. Labels: transitive
Word: covet Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English coveten, coveiten, coveyten, from Old French covoitier (modern French convoiter), from covoitié (“desire”), presumably modified from Latin cupiditas. Pronunciation: /ˈkʌvɪt/ 1. To wish for with eagerness; to desire possession of, often enviously. Labels: transitive Example: What Netflix really covets is closer to its current competencies: WBD's “intellectual property”, or in plain English, franchises such as Harry Potter, Game of Thrones, Friends, pictured, and The Sopranos. 2. To long for inordinately or unlawfully; to hanker after (something forbidden). Labels: transitive 3. To yearn; to have or indulge an inordinate desire, especially for another's possession. Labels: intransitive Example: No! He covets. That is his nature. And how do we begin to covet, Clarice? Do we seek out things to covet? Make an effort to answer now.
Word: glade Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English glade, glode, glede (“a gleam of light, bright space, an open space; an open or cleared space in a forest; a bright patch of sky; a bright surface of snow or ice”), of uncertain origin, perhaps from Old English *glǣd, *glād, related to Old English glæd (“shining, bright”), (compare Old Norse glaðr (“bright”)). Pronunciation: /ɡleɪd/ 1. An open passage through a wood; a grassy open or cleared space in a forest. Example: […] are creating more "glades," or cleared trails through the woods, for less experienced (blue) skiers. They're a throwback to the first days of skiing, before resorts cut wide swaths of trees, and machines rolled and packed the snow. Example: […] and meads and glades so eternally vernal, that the grass shot up by the spring, untrodden, unwilted, remains at midsummer. 2. An everglade. Labels: colloquial 3. An open space in the ice on a river or lake. 4. A bright surface of ice or snow. Example: a glade of ice 5. A gleam of light. Labels: obsolete 6. A bright patch of sky; the bright space between clouds. Labels: obsolete
Word: glamour Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Scots glamour (“magic”), alteration of Middle English gramere (“grammar”), from Old French gramaire. Doublet of glamoury, gramarye, grammar, and grimoire. A connection has also been suggested with Old Norse glámr (“the moon", also "the name of a ghost”, poetic byname, literally “the pale one”) and glámsýni (“glamour, illusion”, literally “glam-sight”). From Grettir's Saga aka Grettis Saga, one of the Sagas of Icelanders, after the hero has been cursed by Glam, aka Glamr: "...he was become so fearsome a man in the dark, that he durst go nowhither alone after nightfall, for then he seemed to see all kinds of horrors. And that has fallen since into a proverb, that "Glam lends eyes", or gives Glamsight to those who see things nowise as they are." Pronunciation: /ˈɡlæmə/, /ˈɡlæmɚ/ 1. Originally, enchantment; magic charm; especially, the effect of a spell that causes one to see objects in a form that differs from reality, typically to make filthy, ugly, or repulsive things seem beauteous. Labels: uncountable Example: They often murmur to themselves, they speak To one another seldom, for their woe Broods maddening inwardly and scorns to wreak Itself abroad; and if at whiles it grow To frenzy which must rave, none heeds the clamour, Unless there waits some victim of like glamour, To rave in turn, who lends attentive show. 2. Alluring beauty or charm (often with sex appeal). Labels: uncountable Example: glamour magazines; a glamour model 3. Any excitement, appeal, or attractiveness associated with a person, place, or thing; that which makes something appealing. Labels: uncountable Example: The idea of being a movie star has lost its glamour for me. Example: “The North Pole was one of these places, I remember. Well, I haven’t been there yet, and shall not try now. The glamour’s off.” 4. Any artificial interest in, or association with, objects, or persons, through which they appear delusively magnified or glorified. Labels: countable, uncountable 5. A kind of haze in the air, causing things to appear different from what they really are. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: When the golden October comes, with its witching of hazy air that makes a glamour for all things and any landscape, we shall see these offspring of poetic myth stretch out beside the creeks, breaking the tender hulls for their magical chincapins, and feeding on them and on the dreams of which they are the talismans. 6. An item, motif, person, image that by association improves appearance. Labels: countable 7. A beautiful woman. Labels: countable, slang Example: One of the Qantas staff, a glamour, made her way over to us.
Word: glamour Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Borrowed from Scots glamour (“magic”), alteration of Middle English gramere (“grammar”), from Old French gramaire. Doublet of glamoury, gramarye, grammar, and grimoire. A connection has also been suggested with Old Norse glámr (“the moon", also "the name of a ghost”, poetic byname, literally “the pale one”) and glámsýni (“glamour, illusion”, literally “glam-sight”). From Grettir's Saga aka Grettis Saga, one of the Sagas of Icelanders, after the hero has been cursed by Glam, aka Glamr: "...he was become so fearsome a man in the dark, that he durst go nowhither alone after nightfall, for then he seemed to see all kinds of horrors. And that has fallen since into a proverb, that "Glam lends eyes", or gives Glamsight to those who see things nowise as they are." Pronunciation: /ˈɡlæmə/, /ˈɡlæmɚ/ 1. To enchant; to bewitch. Labels: transitive
Word: glaze Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English glasen, from glas (“glass”) (Modern English glass), from Old English glæs, from Proto-Germanic *glasą. Related to glazen. In the sense of "overcompliment", originated in November 2021 and popularized throughout 2022, and allegedly suggests the spattering of semen on the complimented person, following "the visual of a donut being glazed"; could be derived by analogy of sugarcoating first before a sexual connotation is taken separately. The noun is from the verb. Pronunciation: /ɡleɪz/ 1. The vitreous coating of pottery or porcelain; anything used as a coating or color in glazing. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. A transparent or semi-transparent layer of paint. Labels: countable, uncountable 3. A smooth coating of ice formed on objects due to the freezing of rain; glaze ice. Labels: countable, uncountable 4. Any smooth, transparent layer or coating. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: […] In the distance the flowing glaze, the breast of the river, with a wind-dapple here and there, […] 5. A smooth edible coating applied to food. Labels: countable, uncountable 6. Broth reduced by boiling to a gelatinous paste, and spread thinly over braised dishes. Labels: countable, uncountable 7. A glazing oven; glost oven. Labels: countable, uncountable 8. A window. Labels: Polari, countable, uncountable 9. Excessive complimenting or praise, especially in a cringeworthy way. Labels: countable, derogatory, slang, uncountable
Word: glaze Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English glasen, from glas (“glass”) (Modern English glass), from Old English glæs, from Proto-Germanic *glasą. Related to glazen. In the sense of "overcompliment", originated in November 2021 and popularized throughout 2022, and allegedly suggests the spattering of semen on the complimented person, following "the visual of a donut being glazed"; could be derived by analogy of sugarcoating first before a sexual connotation is taken separately. The noun is from the verb. Pronunciation: /ɡleɪz/ 1. To install windows. Labels: transitive 2. To apply a thin, transparent layer of coating. Labels: transitive Example: to glaze a doughnut Example: An overfired biscuit has insufficient porosity for glazing. 3. To become glazed or glassy. Labels: intransitive 4. Of eyes: to take on an uninterested appearance; to glaze over. Labels: intransitive 5. To ejaculate onto someone's body. Labels: slang, transitive, vulgar 6. To compliment or praise excessively in a cringeworthy way. Labels: derogatory, intransitive, slang, sometimes, transitive, vulgar
Word: gleam Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English glem, gleam, gleme (“shaft of light; part of a comet’s tail; reflected sparkle; dawn; daylight; radiance (physical or spiritual); something fleeting”), from Old English glǣm (“gleam”), from Proto-Germanic *glaimiz (“brightness; splendour”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰley- (“to shine”). Cognates * German Low German Gleem (“shine, luster, gloss”) * Faroese glæma (“gleam, glimmer”) * Old High German glīmen (“to glow, shine”); gleimo, glīmo (“glowworm”) (Middle High German glīme, gleime) * Old Saxon glīmo (“brightness”) Pronunciation: /ɡliːm/, /ɡlim/ 1. An appearance of light, especially one which is indistinct or small, or short-lived. Labels: countable Example: Is not yon gleame, the ſhuddering morne that flakes, / VVith ſiluer tinctur, the eaſt vierge of heauen? Example: Sailing between Madagaſcar and Zeyloon (at or Near this place) in a dark night ſuddenly there happened a gleam of light, ſo bright that he could eaſily read by it. Amazed he vvas at this alteration; but at length perceived it vvas occaſioned by a number of Fiſh, vvhoſe glittering ſhells made that artificial light in the night, and gave the Sea a vvhite repercuſſion: […] 2. An indistinct sign of something; a glimpse or hint. Labels: countable, figuratively, uncountable Example: The rescue workers preserved a gleam of optimism that the trapped miners might still survive. Example: On the fifteenth of June a gleam of hope appeared. 3. A bright, but intermittent or short-lived, appearance of something. Labels: countable, figuratively, uncountable 4. A look of joy or liveliness on one's face. Labels: countable, figuratively, uncountable Example: [H]is black visage lighted up with a curious, mischievous gleam. Example: Sunny, thank you for that smile upon your face / Sunny, thank you, thank you for the gleam that flows its grace 5. Sometimes as hot gleam: a warm ray of sunlight; also, a period of warm weather, for instance, between showers of rain. Labels: countable, obsolete Example: The Pepper-trees live in Italie; the ſhrub of Caſia or the Canell likevviſe in the Northerly regions; the Frankincenſe tree alſo hath been knovvne to live in Lydia: but vvhere vvere the hote gleames of the Sunne to be found in thoſe regions, either to drie up the vvateriſh humor of the one, or to concot and thicken the gumme and roſin of the other? Example: [W]e felt a brisk gale coming from off the Coaſt of America, but ſo violently hot, that vve thought it came from ſome burning Mountain on the ſhore, and vvas like the heat from the mouth of an Oven. Juſt ſuch another gleam I felt one afternoon alſo, as I lay anchor at the Groin in July 1694. it came vvith a Southerly VVind: both theſe vvere follovved by a Thunder-ſhovver. 6. Brightness or shininess; radiance, splendour. Labels: obsolete, uncountable Example: Then vvas the faire Dodonian tree far ſeene, / Vpon ſeauen hills to ſpread his gladſome gleame, / And conquerours bedecked vvith his greene, / Along the bancks of the Auſonian ſtreame: […] Example: In the clear azure gleam the flocks are ſeen, / And floating foreſts paint the vvaves vvith green.
Word: gleam Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English glemen (“to shine; to glance, look”) [and other forms], from glem, gleam (noun) (see etymology 1) + -en (suffix forming the infinitive of verbs). Cognate with German Low German glemen (“to glow, shine”). Pronunciation: /ɡliːm/, /ɡlim/ 1. Chiefly in conjunction with an adverb: to cause (light) to shine. Labels: transitive Example: Many a dry drop ſeem'd a vveeping teare, / Shed for the ſlaughtred husband by the vvife. / The red bloud reek'd to ſhevv the Painters ſtrife, / And dying eyes gleem'd forth their aſhie lights, / Like dying coales burnt out in tedious nights. 2. To shine, especially in an indistinct or intermittent manner; to glisten, to glitter. Labels: intransitive Example: Quick to redeem the Prey their plighted Lords / Advance, the Palace gleams vvith ſhining Svvords. Example: Beneath an oak he laid him down, / That in the blaze gleamed ruddy brown, […] 3. To be strongly but briefly apparent. Labels: figuratively, intransitive Example: Mr. Crawley spoke these words without hesitation, even with eloquence, standing upright, and with something of a noble anger gleaming over his poor wan face; and, I think that while speaking them, he was happier than he had been for many a long day.
Word: gleam Part of Speech: verb Etymology: A variant of Middle English gleimen, gleym (“to smear; to make slimy or sticky; to fill up (the stomach); to nauseate; of a slimy or viscous substance: to be stuck together; (figuratively) to captivate, ensnare; to infect with heresy”) [and other forms], probably a blend of glet (“slimy or viscous matter produced by animals; mucus, phlegm; congestion of mucus or phlegm in the body; viscosity”), gleu (“substance used to stick things together, glue; viscous medicine made from plants”), etc. + Old Norse kleima (“to daub, smear”) (whence Old English clǣman (“to smear”)) (ultimately from Proto-Germanic *klaimijaną (“to smear with clay, to mortar”), from *klaimaz (“clay; mortar”), from Proto-Indo-European *gleh₁y- (“to glue, stick; to smear”)). Pronunciation: /ɡliːm/, /ɡlim/ 1. Of a hawk or other bird of prey: to disgorge filth from its crop or gorge. Labels: intransitive, obsolete Example: Gleam, a term uſed after a hawk hath caſt and gleameth, or throweth up filth from her gorge.
Word: glee Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English gle, from Old English glēo, glīġ, glēow, glīw (“glee, pleasure, mirth, play, sport; music; mockery”), from Proto-West Germanic *glīw, from Proto-Germanic *glīwą (“joy, mirth”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰlew- (“to joke, make fun, enjoy”). Cognate with Scots gle, glie, glew (“game, play, sport, mirth, joy, rejoicing, entertainment, melody, music”), Icelandic glý (“joy, glee, gladness”), Ancient Greek χλεύη (khleúē, “joke, jest, scorn”). A poetic word in Middle English, the word was obsolete by 1500, but revived late 18c. Pronunciation: /ɡliː/ 1. Joy; happiness; great delight, especially from one's own good fortune or from another's misfortune. Labels: uncountable Example: I watched with glee while your kings and queens fought for ten decades for the gods they made. Example: Even without hovering drones, a lurking assassin, a thumping score and a denouement, the real-life story of Edward Snowden, a rogue spy on the run, could be straight out of the cinema. But, as with Hollywood, the subplots and exotic locations may distract from the real message: America’s discomfort and its foes’ glee. 2. Music; minstrelsy; entertainment. Labels: uncountable 3. An unaccompanied part song for three or more solo voices, not necessarily merry. Labels: countable Example: Sometimes they had glees, when Captain Strong’s chest was of vast service, and he boomed out in a prodigious bass, of which he was not a little proud.
Word: glee Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English gleen, glewen, from Old English glēowian (“to sing, play an instrument, jest”), from Proto-West Germanic *glīwōn, from Proto-Germanic *glīwōną. Cognate with Icelandic glýja (“to be gleeful”). Pronunciation: /ɡliː/ 1. To sing a glee (unaccompanied part song).
Word: glitter Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English gliteren, from Old Norse glitra, from Proto-Germanic *glitrōną (“to glitter”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰley-. Pronunciation: /ˈɡlɪtə/, /ˈɡlɪtəɹ/, [ˈɡlɪɾɚ] 1. A bright, sparkling light; shininess or brilliance. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: As yet there had been no symptom of the news having any better foundation than in the fears of those who brought it, but The Boot had not been deserted five minutes, when there appeared, coming across the fields, a body of men who, it was easy to see, by the glitter of their arms and ornaments in the sun, and by their orderly and regular mode of advancing. Example: This to them seems most like mother earth in color, and therefore best, as it is, to enhance the beauty of flowers instead of detracting from their exquisite shades. What a contrast to the glitter and show of our silver vases, which represent generally little else but their cost. 2. A shiny, decorative adornment, sometimes sprinkled on glue to make simple artwork. Labels: countable, uncountable 3. Glitz. Labels: countable, figuratively, uncountable
Word: glitter Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English gliteren, from Old Norse glitra, from Proto-Germanic *glitrōną (“to glitter”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰley-. Pronunciation: /ˈɡlɪtə/, /ˈɡlɪtəɹ/, [ˈɡlɪɾɚ] 1. To sparkle with light; to shine with a brilliant and broken light or showy luster; to gleam. Example: a glittering sword Example: the glittering ornaments on a Christmas tree 2. To be showy, specious, or striking, and hence attractive. Example: the glittering scenes of a court
Word: gloomy Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From gloom + -y. Cognate with Saterland Frisian glumig (“dark, gloomy”). Pronunciation: /ˈɡluːmi/, /ˈɡlumi/ 1. Not very illuminated; dim because of darkness, especially when appearing depressing or frightening. Example: The cavern was gloomy. 2. Suffering from gloom; melancholy; dejected. Example: a gloomy temper or countenance Example: The report was slightly gloomier than in June, when unemployment rates eased in more than half of all U.S. states for a third straight month and only five states reported jobless rate increases.
Word: gloomy Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From gloom + -y. Cognate with Saterland Frisian glumig (“dark, gloomy”). Pronunciation: /ˈɡluːmi/, /ˈɡlumi/ 1. Someone or something that is gloomy or pessimistic. Labels: informal Example: A word, finally, on how to go about this publicity business. If it should prove difficult to announce casts in the dailies, or at least in the weekly gloomies, it could surely be arranged that information be available, as soon as the casts are settled, at the opera house in question. Example: As well, Russians did not use the confusion of Y2K to launch a preemptive nuclear strike against the United States, as Internet "gloomies" had cautioned, now wagging their online tails in Internet chat rooms as "pollies" (Pollyannas) rubbed salt in their paranoid wounds.
Word: glorification Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English glorificacion, glorificacioun, from Middle French glorification and its etymon Latin glōrificātiō. By surface analysis, glorify + -ication. 1. The act of glorifying or the state of being glorified. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. Specifically, the ascension (of Christ or humans) to the glory of heaven. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Christ was guiding evolution toward a state of glorification so that humanity could finally merge with God in eternal perfection. 3. The worshiping of a deity; extolment or laudation. Labels: countable, uncountable 4. The portrayal of something as being ideal; idealization. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: goad Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English gode, from Old English gād (“goad”), from Proto-Germanic *gaidō (compare Old Norse gedda (“pike (fish)”), Lombardic gaida (“spear”)), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰey- (compare Old Irish gath (“spear”), Sanskrit हिन्वति (hinvati), हिनोति (hinoti, “to urge on, throw”), हेति (heti, “missile, projectile”)). Doublet of gad and yard; see also xyston. Pronunciation: /ɡəʊd/, /ɡoʊd/ 1. A long, pointed stick used to prod animals. Example: the daily goad urging him to the daily toil 2. That which goads or incites; a stimulus. Labels: figuratively Example: I might have been an unfortunate little bull in a Spanish arena, I got so smartingly touched up by these moral goads.
Word: goad Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English gode, from Old English gād (“goad”), from Proto-Germanic *gaidō (compare Old Norse gedda (“pike (fish)”), Lombardic gaida (“spear”)), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰey- (compare Old Irish gath (“spear”), Sanskrit हिन्वति (hinvati), हिनोति (hinoti, “to urge on, throw”), हेति (heti, “missile, projectile”)). Doublet of gad and yard; see also xyston. Pronunciation: /ɡəʊd/, /ɡoʊd/ 1. To prod with a goad. 2. To encourage or stimulate. 3. To incite or provoke. Example: goading a boy to fight
Word: gown Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English gowne, from Anglo-Norman goune, gune (“fur-trimmed coat, pelisse”), from Old French goune, from Late Latin gunna (“leather garment, a fur”). Cognate with Manx gooyn, Irish gúna. Pronunciation: /ˈɡaʊ̯n/, /ˈɡæʊ̯n/, /ˈɡaːn/ 1. A loose, flowing upper garment. 2. A woman's ordinary outer dress, such as a calico or silk gown. 3. The official robe of certain professionals, clerics, and scholars, such as university students and officers, barristers, judges, etc. Example: VVhat is he an honeſt man? the deuill he is, he is the Parſon of the Towne, You thinke ther’s no knauerie hid vnder a black gowne, […] 4. The official robe of certain professionals, clerics, and scholars, such as university students and officers, barristers, judges, etc. 5. The university community, especially as contrasted with the local populace. Labels: metonymically Example: In the perennial town versus gown battles, townies win some violent battles, but the collegians are winning the war. 6. A loose wrapper worn by gentlemen within doors; a dressing gown. 7. Any sort of dress or garb. 8. The robe worn by a surgeon.
Word: gown Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English gowne, from Anglo-Norman goune, gune (“fur-trimmed coat, pelisse”), from Old French goune, from Late Latin gunna (“leather garment, a fur”). Cognate with Manx gooyn, Irish gúna. Pronunciation: /ˈɡaʊ̯n/, /ˈɡæʊ̯n/, /ˈɡaːn/ 1. To dress in a gown, to don or garb with a gown.
Word: grabber Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English grab 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 grabber From grab + -er. Pronunciation: /ˈɡɹæb.ə(ɹ)/ 1. One who, or that which, grabs or seizes. Example: Another money grabber, according to Ms. Chapman, is the woman who makes $30,000-$40,000 or more a year, but lives as though she makes twice as much. 2. Something that captures one's attention. Example: The one new tune that was a real grabber had a great slow chanting chorus, "Stand up, you have a right to fight!" Example: Get to the story and make sure that line 6 or 7 is a grabber. TV viewers have attention spans of fifteen seconds, and then they hit the remote. 3. A machine in an amusement arcade containing prizes which the player must attempt to pick up with a mechanical grabbing arm.
Word: grader Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From grade + -er (agent noun suffix) or + -er (measurement suffix) (sense 4). Pronunciation: /ˈɡɹeɪdɚ/, /ˈɡɹeɪdə/ 1. A machine used in road maintenance, construction, and mining for leveling large surfaces. Example: The blade-grader is a long steel-framed carriage under which is fixed a steel blade capable of being tilted at various angles: its principal use is in trimming cutting-slopes. 2. A machine used to sort food by size or quality. 3. One who grades, or that by means of which grading is done or facilitated. Example: the graders of a school examination 4. One who belongs to a certain grade at school. Labels: in-compounds Example: a first-grader Example: The episode follows two different stories: in one, the show’s resident bigot, Eric Cartman, is outraged to learn that fellow fourth grader Clyde has risen to prominence as a white nationalist podcaster who makes offensive claims about women, Jewish people, Black people and other minority groups to goad them into debating him in exploitative viral videos (“WOKE STUDENT TOTALLY PWNED”).
Word: grail Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English graal, greal, from Old French graal, greal (“cup”), from Medieval Latin gradalis, possibly corrupted over time from Latin crater (“bowl”). Pronunciation: /ɡɹeɪl/ 1. The Holy Grail. Example: The quest for the Grail is not archeology. It's a race against evil. If it is captured by the Nazis, the armies of darkness will march all over the face of the earth. Do you understand me? 2. Something eagerly sought or quested for. Example: Becoming an astronaut was his grail. Example: How many of them had found the item they dreamt of, their personal grails?
Word: grail Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English grayel, from Old French grael, ultimately from Latin graduale. Doublet of gradual. Pronunciation: /ɡɹeɪl/ 1. A book of offices in the Roman Catholic Church; a gradual. Example: antiphonals, missals, grails, processionals, etc.
Word: grail Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Uncertain; perhaps a reduced form of gravel. Pronunciation: /ɡɹeɪl/ 1. Small particles of earth; gravel. Labels: poetic, uncountable Example: Hereof this gentle knight vnweeting was, / And lying downe vpon the sandie graile, / Drunke of the streame, as cleare as cristall glas [...].
Word: grail Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Compare Old French graite slender. Pronunciation: /ɡɹeɪl/ 1. One of the small feathers of a hawk.
Word: grainy Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English greyny, equivalent to grain + -y. Piecewise doublet of corny. Pronunciation: /ˈɡɹeɪni/ 1. Resembling grains; granular. Example: grainy image Example: grainy sound 2. Coarsely ground or gritty.
Word: grand Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English grand, grond, graund, graunt, from Anglo-Norman graunt, from Old French grant, from Latin grandis. Doublet of grande and grandee. Pronunciation: /ˈɡɹænd/, [ˈɡɹʷænd] ~ [ɡɹʷand], /ˈɡɹand/, [ɡɹʷand], [ɡɹʷand] ~ [ɡɹʷänd] 1. Large, senior (high-ranking), intense, extreme, or exceptional Labels: augmentative Example: among the grandest orchestras of our time Example: The Grand Viziers of the Ottoman Empire. 2. Large, senior (high-ranking), intense, extreme, or exceptional Labels: augmentative Example: a grand mountain Example: a grand army 3. Large, senior (high-ranking), intense, extreme, or exceptional Labels: augmentative Example: a grand monarch Example: a grand view 4. Large, senior (high-ranking), intense, extreme, or exceptional Labels: augmentative Example: a grand lodge Example: a grand vizier 5. Standing in the second or some more remote degree of parentage or descent (see grand-). Example: grandfather, grandson, grand-child 6. Fine; lovely. Labels: Ireland, Northern-England, colloquial Example: A cup of tea? That'd be grand. 7. Containing all the parts proper to a given form of composition.
Word: grand Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English grand, grond, graund, graunt, from Anglo-Norman graunt, from Old French grant, from Latin grandis. Doublet of grande and grandee. Pronunciation: /ˈɡɹænd/, [ˈɡɹʷænd] ~ [ɡɹʷand], /ˈɡɹand/, [ɡɹʷand], [ɡɹʷand] ~ [ɡɹʷänd] 1. A thousand of some unit of currency, such as dollars or pounds. (Compare G.) Example: For quotations using this term, see Citations:grand. 2. A thousand RPM. Labels: colloquial Example: One grand, two grand RPM Example: The engine, with more compression, carburetion, and cam timing than the Ambassador, could lounge comfortably below four grand and then rush to 7500 rpm, aided and abetted by a light flywheel and a close-ratio five-speed box. 3. A grand piano
Word: grand Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From granddaughter, grandfather, grandmother, grandson, etc. Pronunciation: /ˈɡɹænd/, [ˈɡɹʷænd] ~ [ɡɹʷand], /ˈɡɹand/, [ɡɹʷand], [ɡɹʷand] ~ [ɡɹʷänd] 1. A grandparent or grandchild. Example: Once, in Maryland, he met four families of slaves who had all been together for a hundred years: great-grands, grands, mothers, fathers, aunts, uncles, cousins, children. Example: Her granddaughter and great-granddaughter went with us as chaperones. Did I ever tell you that she had six grands and two great-grands? […] And Emily agrees with me it's a shame that I don't even have a grand.