nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: stain Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English steinen, steynen (“to stain, colour, paint”), of North Germanic origin, from Old Norse steina (“to stain, colour, paint”), from steinn (“stone, mineral blue, colour, stain”), from Proto-Norse ᛊᛏᚨᛁᚾᚨᛉ (stainaʀ), from Proto-Germanic *stainaz (“stone”), from Proto-Indo-European *steyh₂- (“to stiffen”). Cognate with Old English stān (“stone”). More at stone. Replaced native Middle English wem (“spot, blemish, stain”), from Old English wamm (“spot, stain”). In some senses, influenced by unrelated Middle English disteynen (“to discolor, remove the colour from"; literally, "de-colour”), from Anglo-Norman desteindre (“to remove the colour from, bleach”), from Old French destaindre (“to remove the color from, bleach”), from des- (“dis-, de-, un-”) + teindre (“to dye”), from Latin tingo. Pronunciation: /steɪn/ 1. A discolored spot or area caused by spillage or other contact with certain fluids or substances. 2. A blemish on one's character or reputation. 3. A substance used to soak into a surface and colour it. Example: The wood will darken whether it is stained or not—the main function of a stain is to enhance the wood's natural color and emphasize its grain. 4. A reagent or dye used to stain microscope specimens so as to make some structures visible. 5. One of a number of non-standard tinctures used chiefly in post-medieval heraldry, especially tenné, murrey, or sanguine.
Word: stain Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English steinen, steynen (“to stain, colour, paint”), of North Germanic origin, from Old Norse steina (“to stain, colour, paint”), from steinn (“stone, mineral blue, colour, stain”), from Proto-Norse ᛊᛏᚨᛁᚾᚨᛉ (stainaʀ), from Proto-Germanic *stainaz (“stone”), from Proto-Indo-European *steyh₂- (“to stiffen”). Cognate with Old English stān (“stone”). More at stone. Replaced native Middle English wem (“spot, blemish, stain”), from Old English wamm (“spot, stain”). In some senses, influenced by unrelated Middle English disteynen (“to discolor, remove the colour from"; literally, "de-colour”), from Anglo-Norman desteindre (“to remove the colour from, bleach”), from Old French destaindre (“to remove the color from, bleach”), from des- (“dis-, de-, un-”) + teindre (“to dye”), from Latin tingo. Pronunciation: /steɪn/ 1. To discolor, as by spilling or other contact with a fluid or substance. Labels: transitive Example: to stain the hand with dye Example: armour stained with blood 2. To taint or tarnish someone's character or reputation Example: of Honour void, Of Innocence, of Faith, of Puritie, Our wonted Ornaments now soild and staind 3. To coat a surface with a stain Example: to stain wood with acids, coloured washes, paint rubbed in, etc. Example: the stained glass used for church windows 4. To become stained; to take a stain. Labels: intransitive 5. To treat (a microscopic specimen) with a dye, especially one that dyes specific features Labels: transitive 6. To cause to seem inferior or soiled by comparison. Example: She stains the ripest virgins of her age. Example: that did all other beasts in beauty stain
Word: filth Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English filth, from Old English fȳlþu, from Proto-West Germanic *fūliþu, equivalent to foul + -th (abstract nominal suffix). Pronunciation: /fɪlθ/ 1. Dirt; foul matter; that which soils or defiles. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: Before we start cooking we need to clean up the filth in this kitchen. 2. Smut; that which sullies or defiles the moral character; corruption; pollution. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: He spends all his time watching filth on pornographic websites. Example: Novv all theſe Precepts do not only tend to beget in us ſuch vertues and diſpoſitions, as are reaſonable and ſuitable to our nature, and every vvay for our temporal convenience and advantage; but ſuch, as do likevviſe exceedingly diſpoſe us to piety and religion, by purifying our ſouls from the droſs and filth of ſenſual delights. 3. A vile or disgusting person. Labels: derogatory, uncountable, usually Example: I think you're scum, I think you're filth. And as far as Elaine's concerned you're to get her out of your filthy mind right now. Example: They were filth, utter filth. I mean, and this tops it. She even bought the video of her sister dying, or at least the sex act that killed her. 4. Weeds growing on pasture land. Labels: US, dated, uncountable, usually Example: Grampa remembers when he had to cut filth with a scythe.
Word: filth Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English filth, from Old English fȳlþu, from Proto-West Germanic *fūliþu, equivalent to foul + -th (abstract nominal suffix). Pronunciation: /fɪlθ/ 1. The police. Labels: Ireland, UK, derogatory, slang, uncountable Example: We were in the middle of stashing the money when the filth arrived. Example: Riding through the city on my bike all day/'Cause the filth took away my licence
Word: smut Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English smutten (“to defile, debase”), related to German Schmutz (“filth, dirt, smut”) and schmutzen (“to make dirty, stain”). Doublet of schmutz. Compare also Old English smitta (“smear; blot; mark; stain; pollution”), Old English besmītan (“to besmut; defile; dirty; pollute; contaminate”). Pronunciation: /smʌt/, /smʊt/ 1. Soot. Labels: uncountable 2. A flake of ash or soot. Labels: countable Example: She reached it soon after half-past two. She found its gloomy nineteenth-century façade, black with the smuts of ninety years, a little daunting, and mounted its broad steps in some trepidation. But she rang the bell hard and knocked firmly. Example: “You can rely on me!” Varya said, still more earnestly and enthusiastically, still leaning heavily on the counter, noticing briefly and forgetting at once that her bare elbow had crushed a stray smut from the Primus mender's booth. 3. Sexually vulgar material; something that is sexual in a dirty way; pornographic material. Labels: uncountable Example: The semiology of smut remains fairly unchanging: pasties, thongs, fetishwear-lite, simulated masturbation with the most unlikely of objects. Example: It is no use to say, well, your anthrostate requires smut to be shielded, but your neighbor’s antrhostate^([sic]) says he can show anything anywhere. The neighbor’s behavior affects you, so you have to have the same rules. 4. Obscene language; ribaldry; obscenity. Labels: uncountable Example: He does not stand upon decency […] but will talk smut, though a priest and his mother be in the room. 5. Any of a range of fungi, mostly Ustilaginomycetes, that cause plant disease in grasses, including cereal crops; the disease so caused. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: If the petals of your garden dianthus (pinks) are stained brown, they too are victims of similar smut. 6. Bad, soft coal containing earthy matter, found in the immediate locality of faults. Labels: countable, uncountable 7. A copper boiler. Labels: archaic, countable, slang
Word: smut Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English smutten (“to defile, debase”), related to German Schmutz (“filth, dirt, smut”) and schmutzen (“to make dirty, stain”). Doublet of schmutz. Compare also Old English smitta (“smear; blot; mark; stain; pollution”), Old English besmītan (“to besmut; defile; dirty; pollute; contaminate”). Pronunciation: /smʌt/, /smʊt/ 1. To stain (or be stained) with soot or other dirt. Labels: ambitransitive Example: it bears a very good Crop , and seldom smuts Example: But the Nis did not forget it to the maids; for the following Sunday when they were going to the dance, be contrived, unknown to them, to smut their faces all over, so that when they got up to dance, every one that was there burst out a laughing at them. 2. To taint (grain, etc.) with the smut fungus. Labels: transitive Example: Mildew also falls upon Corn, and smuts it 3. To become tainted by the smut fungus. Labels: intransitive Example: It smutted to a far greater degree than the year before, say three fourths, or more. I obtained but little more than the seed sown, and that was handsome wheat. This failure I imputed to the same supposed cause which operated the last year. 4. To clear of the smut fungus. Labels: transitive Example: to smut grain for the mill
Word: vulgar Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English vulgare, from Latin vulgāris, from volgus, vulgus (“mob; common folk”), from Proto-Indo-European *welH-. Compare Welsh gwala (“plenty, sufficiency”), Ancient Greek ἁλία (halía, “assembly”), εἰλέω (eiléō, “to compress”), Old Church Slavonic великъ (velikŭ, “great”). Pronunciation: /ˈvʌl.ɡə/, /ˈvʌl.ɡɚ/ 1. Debased; uncouth; distasteful; obscene. Example: vulgar language Example: vulgar words 2. Having to do with ordinary, common people. Labels: derogatory, historical Example: Near-synonyms: vulgate; vulgarized Example: It might be more useful to the English reader […] to write in our vulgar language. 3. Common, usual; of the typical kind. Labels: especially Example: vulgar bush brown (Bicyclus vulgaris) Example: A vulture (V. aura), probably the Acabiry first described by Azara, is here called […] the hunter. It resembles in form the vulgar bird, but it flies high. The head is red, and the wings are black with silver lining, like the noble Bateleur of Africa. 4. Being a vulgar fraction. Example: A fraction is vulgar if it has one integer divided by another integer, as long as the integer that's doing the dividing isn't equal to zero.
Word: vulgar Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English vulgare, from Latin vulgāris, from volgus, vulgus (“mob; common folk”), from Proto-Indo-European *welH-. Compare Welsh gwala (“plenty, sufficiency”), Ancient Greek ἁλία (halía, “assembly”), εἰλέω (eiléō, “to compress”), Old Church Slavonic великъ (velikŭ, “great”). Pronunciation: /ˈvʌl.ɡə/, /ˈvʌl.ɡɚ/ 1. A common, ordinary person. Labels: derogatory, historical Example: Popular antiquarian writings […] frequently focused on the regional vulgars' superstitious beliefs regarding the dead and their ongoing presence—such as popular funeral rites or the vulgars' fear of church yards. 2. The common people. Labels: collective 3. The language of a people, especially the commoners. Example: Therefore you Clowne, abandon: which is in the vulgar, leaue the societie: which in the boorish, is companie, of this female: which in the common, is woman: which together, is, abandon the society of this Female, […]
Word: soldier Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Inherited from Middle English soudeour, from Old French soudier or soudeour (“mercenary”), from Medieval Latin soldarius (“soldier (one having pay)”), from Late Latin solidus, a type of coin. Displaced Old English cempa (whence obsolete kemp). (red herring): An allusion to soldiers' red uniforms; red herring is, reciprocally, a slang term for "soldier". Pronunciation: /ˈsəʊld͡ʒə/, /ˈsɒld͡ʒə/, /ˈsoʊld͡ʒɚ/ 1. A member of a ground-based army, of any rank, but especially an enlisted member. Labels: countable Example: My friends and I saw a soldier questioning a man holding a bag with a gun in his pocket. Example: The Citizens in their rage, imagining that euery poſt in the Churche had bin one of yᵉ Souldyers, ſhot habbe or nabbe at randon uppe to the Roode lofte, and to the Chancell, leauing ſome of theyr arrowes ſticking in the Images. 2. Any member of a military, regardless of specialty. Labels: broadly, countable, nonstandard 3. An enlisted member of a military service, as distinguished from a commissioned officer. Labels: countable, formal Example: She saw a soldier while collecting her baggage at the airport. Example: It were meet that any one, before he came to be a captain, should have been a soldier. 4. A guardsman. 5. A member of the Salvation Army. 6. A low-ranking gangster or member of a gang, especially the mafia, who engages in physical conflict. 7. A piece of buttered bread (or toast), cut into a long thin strip for dipping into a soft-boiled egg. Labels: Australia, Ireland, New-Zealand, UK Example: Beside his egg was a plate of buttered toast, already cut up into soldiers. 8. A term of approbation for a young boy. 9. Someone who fights or toils well. Labels: countable, figuratively Example: [L]et 'em know how important it is to have Runyon Avenue soldiers up in our corners; their loyalty to us is worth more than any award is. 10. A red or cuckoo gurnard (Chelidonichthys cuculus). 11. One of the asexual polymorphic forms of termites, in which the head and jaws are very large and strong. The soldiers serve to defend the nest. 12. A red herring (cured kipper with flesh turned red). Labels: dated, slang 13. A xiangqi piece that moves and captures by advancing one point. Once it has crossed the river, it may also move and capture one point horizontally. 14. A brick, for example in a course of brickwork, that is laid vertically on its shortest end (smallest face), so that its tallest and slimmest face faces the outside of the wall.
Word: soldier Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Inherited from Middle English soudeour, from Old French soudier or soudeour (“mercenary”), from Medieval Latin soldarius (“soldier (one having pay)”), from Late Latin solidus, a type of coin. Displaced Old English cempa (whence obsolete kemp). (red herring): An allusion to soldiers' red uniforms; red herring is, reciprocally, a slang term for "soldier". Pronunciation: /ˈsəʊld͡ʒə/, /ˈsɒld͡ʒə/, /ˈsoʊld͡ʒɚ/ 1. To continue steadfast; to keep striving. Labels: intransitive 2. To serve as a soldier. Labels: intransitive 3. To intentionally restrict labor productivity; to work at the slowest rate that goes unpunished. Labels: intransitive 4. To take a ride on (another person's horse) without permission. Labels: slang, transitive Example: It was the first time I had ever “soldiered” a horse. Soldiering means using a horse without the owner's leave or knowledge. Two of our lost horses we never found. Probably some one was soldiering them!
Word: bathe Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English bathen, from Old English baþian (“to bathe, wash”), from Proto-West Germanic *baþōn, from Proto-Germanic *baþōną (“to bathe”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₁- (“to warm”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian boadje (“to bathe”), Dutch baden (“to bathe”), German Low German baden (“to bathe”), German baden (“to bathe”), Danish bade (“to bathe”), Swedish bada (“to bathe”), Icelandic baða (“to bathe”). More at bath. Compare also bask. Pronunciation: /beɪð/, /beð/, /bɑð/ 1. To clean oneself by immersion in water or using water; to take a bath, have a bath. Labels: intransitive Example: We do not bathe to make ourselves clean, but to keep clean, and for the sake of its health-giving and invigorating effects. Once a week a warm bath, at about 100°, may be used, with plenty of soap, in order to thoroughly cleanse the pores of the skin. Example: A Greek historian Phylarchus describes a white root indigenous to India that caused eunuchism when a person bathed in water in which the root was steeped. 2. To immerse oneself, or part of the body, in water for pleasure or refreshment; to swim. Labels: intransitive Example: 'I feel very guilty,' she said sitting down beside him. 'But I've been bathing every day while you've been lying here.' 3. To clean a person by immersion in water or using water; to give someone a bath. Labels: transitive Example: We bathe our baby before going to bed; other parents do it in the morning if they have time. 4. To apply water or other liquid to; to suffuse or cover with liquid. Labels: transitive Example: She bathed her eyes with liquid to remove the stinging chemical. Example: The nurse bathed his wound with a sponge. 5. To cover or surround. Labels: figuratively, intransitive, transitive Example: The room was bathed in moonlight. Example: A dense fog bathed the city streets. 6. To sunbathe. Labels: intransitive Example: The women bathed in the sun.
Word: bathe Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English bathen, from Old English baþian (“to bathe, wash”), from Proto-West Germanic *baþōn, from Proto-Germanic *baþōną (“to bathe”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₁- (“to warm”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian boadje (“to bathe”), Dutch baden (“to bathe”), German Low German baden (“to bathe”), German baden (“to bathe”), Danish bade (“to bathe”), Swedish bada (“to bathe”), Icelandic baða (“to bathe”). More at bath. Compare also bask. Pronunciation: /beɪð/, /beð/, /bɑð/ 1. The act of swimming or bathing, especially in the sea, a lake, or a river; a swimming bath. Labels: UK, colloquial Example: I'm going to have a midnight bathe tonight. Example: I do not feel disposed to ask any questions, but devote myself entirely to the Governoress, who takes me over to the bathing-house in her boat. I have had my bathe, and am strolling along the sands, waiting for the Countess.
Word: enlarge Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English enlargen, from Old French enlargier, enlargir. By surface analysis, en- + large. Pronunciation: /ɪnˈlɑːd͡ʒ/, /ɪnˈlɑɹd͡ʒ/ 1. To make (something) larger. Labels: transitive Example: We'll need to enlarge our budget if we want to include the helicopter ride in our holiday. 2. To grow larger. Labels: intransitive 3. To increase the capacity of; to expand; to give free scope or greater scope to; also, to dilate, as with joy, affection, etc. Labels: transitive Example: Knowledge enlarges the mind. Example: O ye Corinthians, our […] heart is enlarged. 4. To speak or write at length upon or on (some subject); expand; elaborate Labels: intransitive Example: We are then told of the basilisk killing by staring, and of a mous running round a snake till it rushes into the jaws of death. After copying many such anilities, the author adds only, "but our readers will excuse our enlarging." Example: I shall enlarge upon the Point. 5. To release; to set at large. Labels: archaic Example: Like a Lionesse lately enlarged. Example: Finding no meanes how I might us enlarge, / But if that Dwarfe I could with me convay, / I lightly snatcht him up and with me bore away. 6. To get more astern or parallel with the vessel's course; to draw aft; said of the wind. 7. To extend the time allowed for compliance with (an order or rule). Example: the court would not take farther time to adjourn and deliberate, where the term was near spent, unless the parties would consent to enlarge it
Word: blindness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English blyndnes, blyndnesse, from Old English blindnes (“blindness”), equivalent to blind + -ness. Pronunciation: /ˈblaɪndnəs/ 1. The condition of being blind; unable to see. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: DHPG […] is effective in fighting Cytomegalovirus (CMV), a common virus which, for PWAs, can cause CMV retinitis — a condition which can lead to blindness within weeks. 2. Want of intellectual or moral discernment; mental darkness; ignorance, heedlessness. Labels: figuratively, uncountable, usually Example: A tormenting hunger shuddered through her and she wished she could put aside the power. Oh, to be as others were — blind in that safest of all blindnesses, living only the hypnoidal half-life into which birth-shock precipitated most humans. 3. concealment Labels: obsolete, uncountable, usually
Word: dissent Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English dissenten, from Latin dissentiō, dissentīre (“to differ in sentiments, disagree, be at odds, contradict, quarrel”), from dis- + sentiō, sentīre (see sense). Pronunciation: /dɪˈsɛnt/, /dəˈsɛnt/ 1. To disagree; to withhold assent. Construed with from (or, formerly, to). Labels: intransitive Example: Where a trustee refuses either to assent or dissent, the Court will itself exercise his authority. Example: Those who openly dissented from the acts which the King had carried through the Parliament. 2. To differ from, especially in opinion, beliefs, etc. Labels: intransitive Example: Some are so eristical and teasty, that they will not ... bear with any that dissent. Example: Natural reason dictates, that motion ought to be assigned to the bodies, which in kind and essence most agree with those bodies which do undoubtedly move, and rest to those which most dissent from them. 3. To be different; to have contrary characteristics. Labels: obsolete Example: it was wholly unlawful, in any thing to dissent from him
Word: dissent Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English dissenten, from Latin dissentiō, dissentīre (“to differ in sentiments, disagree, be at odds, contradict, quarrel”), from dis- + sentiō, sentīre (see sense). Pronunciation: /dɪˈsɛnt/, /dəˈsɛnt/ 1. Disagreement with the ideas, doctrines, decrees, etc. of a political party, government or religion. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: ethnopolitical dissent Example: A system that suppresses dissent is fault-intolerant, ignorant and fragile. 2. An act of disagreeing with, or deviating from, the views and opinions of those holding authority. Labels: countable, uncountable 3. A separate opinion filed in a case by judges who disagree with the outcome of the majority of the court in that case Labels: countable, uncountable 4. A violation that arises when disagreement with an official call is expressed in an inappropriate manner such as foul language, rude gestures, or failure to comply. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: City had been woeful, their anger at their own inertia summed up when Samir Nasri received a booking for dissent, and they did not have a shot on target until the 66th minute.
Word: masturbate Part of Speech: verb Etymology: A back-formation from masturbation, or else from Latin masturbātus (see -ate), past participle of masturbor. Further derivation of the Latin verb is uncertain; see masturbor for more. Pronunciation: /ˈmæ.stə.beɪt/, /ˈmæs.tɚ.beɪt/, /ˈmaː.stə.bæɪt/ 1. To stimulate oneself sexually, especially by use of one’s hand or a sex toy made for this purpose, often to the point of ejaculation or orgasm. Labels: intransitive Example: I'm looking for some hot videos to masturbate to. Example: The primary function of a souvenir fetish is so that the offender can relive the actual event within the context of the fantasy, usually while masturbating to maintain sexual arousal and achieve orgasm (Canter et al., 2004). 2. To manually or by other means than one's own genitals stimulate someone else's genitals sexually. Labels: colloquial, transitive Example: Mrs Intiasar’s maids often masturbated her in the morning. It wasn’t something she discussed with anybody, least of all the maids. In fact, she hardly thought about it. 3. To stimulate or please oneself by means of anything, not necessarily sexual, that does not get them anywhere; something that wastes their time; something that does not help others or achieve any important goal. Labels: derogatory, informal
Word: great-grandson Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English great- English grand- Proto-Indo-European *sew-? Proto-Indo-European *sewH- Proto-Indo-European *suHnús Proto-Germanic *sunuz Proto-West Germanic *sunu Old English sunu Middle English sone English son English grandson English great-grandson From great- + grandson. 1. A son of a grandchild.
Word: wedding Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English wedding, weddynge, from Old English weddung (“betrothal, espousal”), equivalent to wed + -ing. Cognate with Middle Dutch weddinghe. Pronunciation: /ˈwɛdɪŋ/, /ˈwedɪŋ/, /ˈwɛdɪŋɡ/ 1. A marriage ceremony; a ritual officially celebrating the beginning of a marriage. Example: Her announcement was quite a surprise, coming a month after she published the words "I hate weddings with a passion and a fury I can only partially explain rationally." Example: Simple and brief was the wedding, as that of Ruth and of Boaz. 2. The joining of two or more parts. Labels: idiomatic Example: The wedding of our three companies took place last week. Example: 1900, Eve Emery Dye, McLoughlin and Old Oregon, 2005 facsimile edition, page 56, That wedding of the fur companies is historic.
Word: wedding Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English wedding, weddynge, from Old English weddung (“betrothal, espousal”), equivalent to wed + -ing. Cognate with Middle Dutch weddinghe. Pronunciation: /ˈwɛdɪŋ/, /ˈwedɪŋ/, /ˈwɛdɪŋɡ/ 1. present participle and gerund of wed Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present Example: Accordingly the Prince, accepting her largesse, sought the King to whom he had pledged his parents (and they were still with him in all weal and welfare) and going in to him made his salam and kissed ground and told him the whole tale of the past and the conditions of death or marriage he had made with the King's daughter and of his wedding her after overcoming her in contention.
Word: wedding Part of Speech: verb Etymology: A conversion of wedding (noun) to a verb. Pronunciation: /ˈwɛdɪŋ/, /ˈwedɪŋ/, /ˈwɛdɪŋɡ/ 1. To participate in a wedding. Labels: humorous, intransitive Example: "Snowball" was the name of this good steed, and great care had evidently been taken in her grooming to make her worthy of her name, her bridle being also gaily decked with coloured ribbons, for, as John said, when attending to these duties, "You don't go out a weddinging every day, do you, old gal?" Example: "Where you goin' get weddinged?" she inquired one day. / "We shall be married at the Episcopal Church, Yin Yang,"
Word: gata Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Armenian գաթա (gatʻa). 1. A kind of pastry in Armenia and some neighboring countries.
Word: gata Part of Speech: noun 1. A police officer. Labels: South-Africa, slang
Word: anima Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Latin anima (“a current of air, wind, air, breath, the vital principle, life, soul”), sometimes equivalent to animus (“mind”), both from Proto-Indo-European *h₂enh₁- (“to breathe, blow”); see animus. Cognate with Ancient Greek ἄνεμος (ánemos, “wind”), Old English anda (“anger, envy, zeal”). More at onde. Pronunciation: /ˈænɪmə/, /ˈænəmə/ 1. The soul or animating principle of a living thing, especially as contrasted with the animus. Example: [W]e cannot chuse but admire the exceeding vividness of the governing faculty or Anima of the Insect, which is able to dispose and regulate so the motive faculties, as to cause every peculiar organ, not onely to move or act so quick, but to do it also so regularly. 2. The inner self (not the external persona) of a person that is in touch with the unconscious as opposed to the persona. Example: In the Jungian model of the psyche, the male has an internalized female counterpart, the anima; while the female has an internalized masculine counterpart, the animus. Example: Dorothy is bodiless and sexless in Tintern Abbey because she is Wordsworth's Jungian anima, an internal aspect of self momentarily projected. 3. The unconscious feminine aspect of a person. Example: The projection-making factor is the anima, or rather the unconscious as represented by the anima.
Word: dominus Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Latin dominus (“master”). Doublet of dan, dom, domine, dominie, and don. Pronunciation: /ˈdɒmɪnəs/ 1. master; sir; a title of respect formerly applied to a knight or clergyman, and sometimes to the lord of a manor, castle or an academic master Labels: historical Example: The vesper bell had rung its parting note; the domini were mostly caged in comfortable quarters, discussing the merits of old port; and the merry student had closed his oak, to consecrate the night to friendship, sack, and claret.
Word: cede Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French ceder, from Old French ceder, from Latin cēdō (“to yield”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱyesdʰ- (“to drive away; to go away”). Cognate with Tocharian B kätk- (“to cross, pass”). Pronunciation: /siːd/ 1. To give up; yield to another. Labels: transitive Example: Edward decided to cede the province. Example: In the late nineteenth century, the Chinese ceded Taiwan to the Japanese. 2. To give up; yield to another. Labels: ditransitive, transitive Example: After figuring out the seating arrangement and ceding him the window seat, I took my own seat by the aisle. 3. To give way. Labels: intransitive
Word: chillun Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈt͡ʃɪl.ən/ 1. Pronunciation spelling of children (plural of chile (“child”)), representing Southern US and African-American Vernacular English Labels: alt-of, pronunciation-spelling Example: [Pogo, to kids:] All right, chillun! The Sunday school lesson is on page 4. Example: “I wants to know why you bringin‘ white chillun to nigger church.”
Word: well done Part of Speech: adj 1. Performed well. Labels: idiomatic Example: It was a job well done. Example: "We've never looked on the Borders Railway as it stands as a job well done. It's part one of a job well done." 2. Well-cooked. 3. Well-cooked. Labels: specifically Example: She liked her steaks well done.
Word: well done Part of Speech: intj 1. An exclamation of praise or endorsement of an achievement. Example: Well done, John. Here's a biscuit for you.
Word: raise Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English reysen, raisen, reisen, from Old Norse reisa (“to raise”), from Proto-Germanic *raisijaną, *raizijaną (“to raise”), causative form of Proto-Germanic *rīsaną (“to rise”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁rey- (“to rise, arise”). According to Kroonen (2013), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃er- (“to stir, rise”). Cognate with Old English rāsian (“to explore, examine, research”), Old English rīsan (“to seize, carry off”), Old English rǣran (“to raise”). Doublet of rear. Pronunciation: /ɹeɪz/ 1. Ellipsis of pay raise (“an increase in wages or salary”). Labels: US, abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis Example: The boss gave me a raise. 2. A shot in which the delivered stone bumps another stone forward. 3. A bet that increases the previous bet. 4. A shaft or a winze that is dug from below, for purposes such as ventilation, local extraction of ore, or exploration. Example: 1944 United States. Bureau of Mines • War Minerals Report 386. Google books It was necessary to spile through the vug, as it was filled with mud. A raise was driven 55 feet to the surface in this vug for ventilation, and it was completed just as the demand for optical calcite ceased. The underground drifts were left well timbered, and mining of this deposit could be started with very little preliminary work. 5. A shoulder exercise in which the arms are elevated against resistance.
Word: raise Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Old Norse hreysi; the spelling came about under the influence of the folk etymology that derived it from the verb. Pronunciation: /ɹeɪz/ 1. A cairn or pile of stones.
Word: fold Part of Speech: noun Etymology: The verb is from Middle English folden, from Old English fealdan, from Proto-West Germanic *falþan, from Proto-Germanic *falþaną (“to fold”), from Proto-Indo-European *pel- (“to fold”). Cognate with Dutch vouwen, German falten. The noun is from Middle English folde, falde, itself derived from the verb. Pronunciation: /ˈfəʊld/, [ˈfɒʊɫd], /ˈfɒld/, /ˈfəwld/, [ˈfɔwɫd] 1. An act of folding. Example: give the bedsheets a fold before putting them in the cupboard. Example: After two reraises in quick succession, John realised his best option for this poker hand was probably a fold. 2. An act of folding. 3. That which is folded together, or which enfolds or envelops. Example: […] There sat the Shadow fear’d of man; Who broke our fair companionship, ⁠And spread his mantle dark and cold; And wrapt thee formless in the fold, […] 4. That which is folded together, or which enfolds or envelops. Example: […] the Ancient Ægyptian Mummies, were ſhrowded in a Number of Folds of Linnen, beſmeared with Gummes, in manner of Seare-Cloth; […] 5. That which is folded together, or which enfolds or envelops. Example: […] the weake wanton Cupid Shall from your necke vnlooſe his amorous fould, […] 6. That which is folded together, or which enfolds or envelops. 7. That which is folded together, or which enfolds or envelops. Labels: obsolete 8. That which is folded together, or which enfolds or envelops. 9. A gentle curve of the ground; gentle hill or valley. 10. The bending or curving of one or a stack of originally flat and planar surfaces, such as sedimentary strata, as a result of plastic (i.e. permanent) deformation. Example: The folds are most abrupt to the eastward; to the west, they diminish in boldness, and become gentle undulations 11. The division between the top and bottom halves of a broadsheet: headlines above the fold will be readable in a newsstand display; usually the fold. Example: Newspaper editors know the importance of putting the most important information “above the fold,” that is, visible when the paper is folded and on the rack. 12. The division between the top and bottom halves of a broadsheet: headlines above the fold will be readable in a newsstand display; usually the fold. Labels: broadly Example: For example, a story that is "page I, above the fold" is considered very important news. In web page design, the fold signifies the place at which the user has to scroll down to get more information. 13. Any of a family of higher-order functions that process a data structure recursively to build up a value. Example: It was Erik Meijer who coined the name hylomorphism to describe a computation that consists of a fold after an unfold. The unfold produces a data structure and the fold consumes it. 14. A section of source code that can be collapsed out of view in an editor to aid readability. 15. One individual part of something described as manifold, twofold, fourfold, etc.
Word: fold Part of Speech: noun Etymology: The noun is from Middle English fold, fald, from Old English fald, falæd, falod (“fold, stall, stable, cattle-pen”), from Proto-West Germanic *falud, from Proto-Germanic *faludaz (“enclosure”). Akin to Scots fald, fauld (“an enclosure for livestock”), Dutch vaalt (“dung heap”), Middle Low German valt, vālt (“an inclosed space, a yard”), Danish fold (“pen for herbivorous livestock”), Swedish fålla (“corral, pen, pound”). The verb is from Late Middle English fooldyn, itself derived from the noun. Pronunciation: /ˈfəʊld/, [ˈfɒʊɫd], /ˈfɒld/, /ˈfəwld/, [ˈfɔwɫd] 1. A pen or enclosure for sheep or other domestic animals. Example: Leaps o're the fence with ease into the fold. 2. Any enclosed piece of land belonging to a farm or mill; yard, farmyard. 3. An enclosure or dwelling generally. 4. A group of sheep or goats, particularly those kept in a given enclosure. Labels: collective 5. Home, family. Labels: figuratively 6. A church congregation, a group of people who adhere to a common faith and habitually attend a given church; also, the Christian church as a whole, the flock of Christ. Example: And other sheepe I haue, which are not of this fold: them also I must bring, and they shall heare my voyce; and there shall be one fold, and one shepheard. 7. A group of people with shared ideas or goals or who live or work together. Labels: figuratively Example: Having suffered the loss of Rooney just as he had returned to the fold, Moyes' mood will not have improved as Liverpool took the lead in the third minute. Example: Most recently, in his ambitious 2015 book, Leaving the Jewish Fold, Endelman significantly enlarges his purview in both time and space to broadly survey the phenomenon of Jewish conversion from early medieval to postmodern times […]
Word: fold Part of Speech: verb Etymology: The noun is from Middle English fold, fald, from Old English fald, falæd, falod (“fold, stall, stable, cattle-pen”), from Proto-West Germanic *falud, from Proto-Germanic *faludaz (“enclosure”). Akin to Scots fald, fauld (“an enclosure for livestock”), Dutch vaalt (“dung heap”), Middle Low German valt, vālt (“an inclosed space, a yard”), Danish fold (“pen for herbivorous livestock”), Swedish fålla (“corral, pen, pound”). The verb is from Late Middle English fooldyn, itself derived from the noun. Pronunciation: /ˈfəʊld/, [ˈfɒʊɫd], /ˈfɒld/, /ˈfəwld/, [ˈfɔwɫd] 1. To confine (animals) in a fold, to pen in. Labels: transitive Example: The star that bids the shepherd fold, Now the top of heaven doth hold. Example: On the same day [Midsummer Eve] people in the Isle of Man were wont to light fires to the windward of every field, so that the smoke might pass over the corn; and they folded their cattle and carried blazing furze or gorse round them several times. 2. To include in a spiritual ‘flock’ or group of the saved, etc. Labels: figuratively, transitive 3. To place sheep on (a piece of land) in order to manure it. Labels: transitive
Word: fold Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English folde, from Old English folde (“earth, land, country, district, region, territory, ground, soil, clay”), from Proto-Germanic *fuldǭ, *fuldō (“earth, ground; field; the world”). Cognate with Old Norse fold (“earth, land, field”), Norwegian and Icelandic fold (“land, earth, meadow”). Pronunciation: /ˈfəʊld/, [ˈfɒʊɫd], /ˈfɒld/, /ˈfəwld/, [ˈfɔwɫd] 1. The Earth; earth; land, country. Labels: dialectal, obsolete, poetic, uncountable
Word: jade Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from French le jade, rebracketing of earlier l'éjade (“jade”), from Spanish piedra de ijada (“flank stone”), via Vulgar Latin *iliata from Latin ilia (“flank”). (Jade was thought to cure pains in the side.) Pronunciation: /d͡ʒeɪd/ 1. A semiprecious stone, either nephrite or jadeite, generally green or white in color, often used for carving figurines. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: Although there are dozens of different types of gems, among the best known and most important are diamond, ruby and sapphire, emerald and other gem forms of the mineral beryl, chrysoberyl, tanzanite, tsavorite, topaz and jade. 2. A bright shade of slightly bluish or greyish green, typical of polished jade stones. Labels: uncountable, usually 3. A succulent plant, Crassula ovata. Labels: uncountable, usually
Word: jade Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Borrowed from French le jade, rebracketing of earlier l'éjade (“jade”), from Spanish piedra de ijada (“flank stone”), via Vulgar Latin *iliata from Latin ilia (“flank”). (Jade was thought to cure pains in the side.) Pronunciation: /d͡ʒeɪd/ 1. Of a grayish shade of green, typical of jade stones. Labels: not-comparable
Word: jade Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English jade, chade, either a variant of yaud or merely influenced by it. Yaud derives from Old Norse jalda (“mare”), from a Uralic language, such as Moksha эльде (elde) or Erzya эльде (elde). See yaud for more. Pronunciation: /d͡ʒeɪd/ 1. A horse too old to be put to work. Example: Shee hath more qualities then a Water-Spaniell, […] Shee can fetch and carry: why a horſe can doe no more; nay, a horſe cannot fetch, but onely carry, therefore is ſhee better then a Iade. Example: That Iade hath eate bread from my Royall hand. / This hand hath made him proud with clapping him. 2. A bad-tempered or disreputable woman. Labels: derogatory, especially Example: You alwayes end with a iades tricke, I knowe you of olde. Example: However, what ſhe withheld from the Infant, ſhe beſtowed with the utmoſt Profuſeneſs on the poor unknown Mother, whom ſhe called an impudent Slut, a wanton Huſſy, an audacious Harlot, a wicked Jade, a vile Strumpet, with every other Appellation with which the Tongue of Virtue never fails to laſh thoſe who bring a Diſgrace on the Sex.
Word: jade Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English jade, chade, either a variant of yaud or merely influenced by it. Yaud derives from Old Norse jalda (“mare”), from a Uralic language, such as Moksha эльде (elde) or Erzya эльде (elde). See yaud for more. Pronunciation: /d͡ʒeɪd/ 1. To fatigue, tire, or weary (someone or something). Labels: transitive Example: [T]he Mind once jaded by an attempt above its Power, it either is diſabl'd for the future, or elſe checks at any vigorous Undertaking ever after, at leaſt is very hardly brought to exert its Force again on any Subject that requires Thought and Meditation. 2. To treat (someone or something) like a jade; to spurn. Labels: obsolete, transitive Example: The nere-yet beaten Horſe of Parthia, / We haue iaded out o'th' Field. 3. To make (someone or something) contemptible and ridiculous. Labels: obsolete, transitive Example: I do not now foole my ſelfe, to let imagination iade mee; for euery reaſon excites to this, that my Lady loues me.
Word: gong Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Malay gong, possibly onomatopoeic. Pronunciation: /ɡɒŋ/, /ɡɔŋ/, /ɡɑŋ/ 1. A percussion instrument consisting of a metal disk that emits a loud resonant sound when struck with a soft hammer. Example: All the time six or eight large Chinese gongs were being beaten by the vigorous arms of as many young men, producing such a deafening discord that I was glad to escape to the round house, where I slept very comfortably with half a dozen smoke-dried human skulls suspended over my head. 2. A medal or award, particularly Knight Bachelor. Labels: UK, slang Example: This grooming of the national mindset explains the retention of 92 "hereditary peers" in the House of Lords: individuals who are gifted a right to sit in the nation's upper chamber and facilitate laws for no other reason than that their ancestor was the illegitimate child of some prince, or willing to spaff a few quid on the title when David Lloyd Gorge was selling of gongs for bribes. 3. A metal target that emits a sound when it has been hit. Example: Weems picked up the hammer and hit the gong so hard that it spun right around on its hanger and fell off.
Word: gong Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Malay gong, possibly onomatopoeic. Pronunciation: /ɡɒŋ/, /ɡɔŋ/, /ɡɑŋ/ 1. To make the sound of a gong; to ring a gong. Labels: intransitive Example: Poor old Pyecraft! He has just gonged, no doubt to order another buttered tea-cake! 2. To send a signal to, using a gong or similar device. Labels: transitive Example: As she was gonged, host Daryl Somers swept rapidly across and salvaged an embarrassing situation by putting his arm around her and asking her whether she had children. 3. To send a signal to, using a gong or similar device. Labels: transitive Example: The driver gonged the pedestrian crossing the tracks, but the pedestrian didn't stop. 4. To give an award or medal to. Labels: UK, slang, transitive Example: In 1972 he was awarded the British Red Cross Silver Medal for his services to the Red Cross. In 1978 he was 'gonged' once again, this time with the Queen's Jubilee Medal, marking the 25th year of her reign.
Word: gong Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English gong, from Old English gong, where it was originally a variant of the noun gang (“a going, walk, journey, way, etc.”), derived from the verb gangan (“to go, walk, travel”), whose relation to go in Proto-Germanic remains unclear. Doublet of gang. Pronunciation: /ɡɒŋ/, /ɡɔŋ/, /ɡɑŋ/ 1. An outhouse: an outbuilding used as a lavatory. Labels: obsolete Example: The Iewe of Tewkysbury which fell into a Gonge vpon the Satyrday. Example: A stately Toye, a preciows peece of pellfe, A gorgeous gong, a worthles painted wall... 2. The contents of an outhouse pit: shit. Labels: obsolete
Word: gong Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Mandarin 功 (gōng, “merit; achievement”). Pronunciation: /ɡɒŋ/, /ɡɔŋ/, /ɡɑŋ/ 1. A kind of cultivation energy, more powerful than qi. Labels: uncountable 2. An advanced practice that cultivates such energy. Labels: uncountable
Word: digital camera Part of Speech: noun 1. An electronic, often battery-powered device for recording and storing photographs in digital format, especially on a flash card. Example: The good thing about digital cameras and digital backs is that they allow you to change ISO in the middle of shooting. You can't do that with film.
Word: consolation Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Old French consolacion (French consolatio), from Latin cōnsōlātiō, from the deponent verb cōnsōlor (“I console, encourage”) with the -tiō suffix, while cōnsōlor comprises the intensifying prefix con- with the deponent verb sōlor (“I comfort, console”). Equivalent to console + -ation. Doublet of consolatio. Pronunciation: /ˌkɑn.səˈleɪ.ʃən/, /ˌkɒn.səˈleɪ.ʃən/ 1. The act or example of consoling; the condition of being consoled. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Moreouer the perfit beleue of this article, worketh in all true chriſten people, aloue to continue in this vnitie, and afeare to be caſte out of the ſame, and it worketh in them that be ſinners and repentant, great comforte, and conſolacion, to obteine remiſſion of ſinne, by vertue of Chriſtes paſſion, and adminiſtracion of his ſacramentes at the miniſters handes, ordained for that purpoſe, [...] Example: [I]f Charles is undone, He'll find half his Acquaintance ruin'd too, and that, you know, is a consolation— 2. The prize or benefit for the loser. Labels: countable, uncountable 3. A consolation goal. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: philosopher's stone Part of Speech: noun Etymology: A misconstruction of philosophers' stone, from Middle English philosophres ston, a calque of Latin lapis philosophōrum. 1. A supposed substance able to turn base metals, such as lead or mercury, into gold or silver, also sometimes claimed to cure any illness (as panacea) or confer immortality (as elixir of life), among other functions. Example: Men talke much […] of the Philoſophers ſtone, that it turneth copper into gold; […] Example: […] I entered with the greatest diligence into the search of the philosopher's stone and the elixir of life. 2. A piece of such a substance.
Word: surface Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French surface. By surface analysis, sur- + face. Doublet of superficies. Pronunciation: /ˈsɜːfɪs/, [ˈsɜːfɪs], /ˈsɜːfəs/, [ˈsɜːfəs], /ˈsɝfɪs/ 1. The external boundary of an object or body. 2. The overside or upside of a flat object such as a table, or of a liquid. Example: A very neat old woman, still in her good outdoor coat and best beehive hat, was sitting at a polished mahogany table on whose surface there were several scored scratches so deep that a triangular piece of the veneer had come cleanly away,[…]. Example: Use the lowest light level required. Be mindful of surface conditions, as some surfaces may reflect more light into the night sky than was intended. 3. The outside hull of a tangible object. Example: Of all the transitions brought about on the Earth’s surface by temperature change, the melting of ice into water is the starkest. It is binary. And for the land beneath, the air above and the life around, it changes everything. Example: [The researchers] noticed many of their pieces of [plastic marine] debris sported surface pits around two microns across. 4. Outward or external appearance. Labels: figuratively Example: On the surface, the spy looked like a typical businessman. Example: Such characters as have nothing but external accompliſhments to recommend them, may indeed be greatly admired and approved by vain and weak underſtandings, which penetrate no deeper than the ſurface; but they are deſpiſed by all the truly ſenſible, and pitied by all the truly good. 5. The locus of an equation (especially one with exactly two degrees of freedom) in a space of more than two dimensions. 6. The story or image suggested by a cryptic clue, when read as a whole sentence without considering wordplay. Example: The surface is clearly about people like you and me, those whose better days are behind us and who now shop at M&S. Example: If you are fooled by the surface you start thinking about internet browsers. But in this case it deviously refers to an animal that feeds by browsing, which is a longer standing use of the word. 7. A portion of the display to which graphics can be rendered. Example: The video player algorithm requires a target surface.