nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: bridge Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English brigge, from Old English brycġ (“bridge”), from Proto-Germanic *brugjō, *brugjǭ (“bridge”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰerw-, *bʰrēw- (“wooden flooring, decking, bridge”). Cognates Cognate with Scots brig, brigg (“bridge”), Yola burge (“bridge”), North Frisian brag, Bröch (“bridge”), Saterland Frisian Brääch, Brääg (“bridge”), West Frisian brêge (“bridge”), Dutch brug (“bridge”), German Brücke (“bridge”), Limburgish brögk (“bridge”), Luxembourgish Bréck (“bridge”), Vilamovian bryk (“bridge”), Yiddish בריק (brik, “bridge”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål brygge (“jetty, pier, wharf”), Faroese, Icelandic bryggja (“pier”), Norwegian Nynorsk brygge, bryggje (“jetty, pier, wharf”), Swedish brygga (“bridge; pier”). The verb is from Middle English briggen, from Old English brycġian (“to bridge, make a causeway, pave”), derived from the noun. Cognate with Dutch bruggen (“to bridge”), Middle Low German bruggen (“to bridge”), Old High German bruccōn (“to bridge”) (whence Modern German brücken). The sense of a part of a stringed instrument is a semantic loan from German Steg, from Old High German steg. Pronunciation: /bɹɪd͡ʒ/ 1. To be or make a bridge over something. Example: With enough cable, we can bridge this gorge. Example: On this occasion, the damage was far more serious. The sea wall was breached completely for a distance of over 50 yd., and the gap had to be bridged by a temporary timber viaduct. 2. To span as if with a bridge. Example: The two groups were able to bridge their differences. Example: Before another word was spoken Inspector Beedel had appeared, and the grip of bone and muscle on the straining wrists was changed to one of steel. Less than thirty seconds bridged the whole astonishing transformation. 3. To transition from one piece or section of music to another without stopping. Example: We need to bridge that jam into "The Eleven". 4. To connect two or more computer buses, networks etc. with a bridge. 5. To go to the bridge position. 6. To employ the bridge tactic. (See Noun section.)
Word: bridge Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From the earlier game biritch, probably from Russian бирю́ч (birjúč) or бири́ч (biríč); else from Turkish bir-üç (“one-three”). Pronunciation: /bɹɪd͡ʒ/ 1. Any of a certain family of trick-taking card games. Labels: uncountable Example: Bidding is an essential element of the game of bridge. 2. Any of a certain family of trick-taking card games. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: She played in a bridge tournament in Las Vegas last year.
Word: branch Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English branche, braunche, bronche, from Old French branche, branke, from Late Latin branca (“footprint”, later also “paw, claw”) (whence Middle High German pranke, German Pranke (“paw”)), of unknown origin. Perhaps of Celtic origin, from a hypothetical Gaulish *vranca, from Proto-Indo-European *wrónk-eh₂. If so, then Indo-European cognates include Old Norse rá, vró (“angle, corner”), and possibly Lithuanian rankà (“hand”), Old Church Slavonic рѫка (rǫka, “hand”), Albanian rangë (“yardwork”). The verb is from Middle English braunchen, from the noun. Pronunciation: /bɹɑːnt͡ʃ/, /bɹænt͡ʃ/ 1. The woody part of a tree arising from the trunk and usually dividing. Example: Selfe loue, to him ſelf tender, to the reſt tough, / Is, of iuſt iuſtice, neither roote, braunce, nor bough. / Loue (namely ſelfe loue) corruptibly growyng, / Is cheefe lodeſter of lets, in iuſtice ſhowing. Example: And they played softly in the Aeolian mode a music that was like the wailing of wind through bare branches on a moonless night, and the Red Foliot leaned forth from his high seat and recited this lamentation: […] 2. Any of the parts of something that divides like the branch of a tree. Example: the branch of an antler, a chandelier, or a railway 3. A creek or stream which flows into a larger river. Labels: Southern-US Example: branch water 4. One of the portions of a curve that extends outwards to an indefinitely great distance. Example: the branches of a hyperbola 5. A location of an organization with several locations. Example: Our main branch is downtown, and we have branches in all major suburbs. 6. A line of family descent, in distinction from some other line or lines from the same stock; any descendant in such a line. Example: the English branch of a family Example: his father, a younger branch of the ancient stock 7. A local congregation of the LDS Church that is not large enough to form a ward; see Wikipedia article on ward in LDS church. Labels: Mormonism 8. An area in business or of knowledge, research. Example: We live our lives in three dimensions for our threescore and ten allotted years. Yet every branch of contemporary science, from statistics to cosmology, alludes to processes that operate on scales outside of human experience: the millisecond and the nanometer, the eon and the light-year. 9. A certificate given by Trinity House to a pilot qualified to take navigational control of a ship in British waters. 10. A sequence of code that is conditionally executed. 11. A group of related files in a source control system, including for example source code, build scripts, and media such as images. 12. A branch line. 13. A path of vertices of degree 2, ending at vertices whose degree is not 2.
Word: branch Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English branche, braunche, bronche, from Old French branche, branke, from Late Latin branca (“footprint”, later also “paw, claw”) (whence Middle High German pranke, German Pranke (“paw”)), of unknown origin. Perhaps of Celtic origin, from a hypothetical Gaulish *vranca, from Proto-Indo-European *wrónk-eh₂. If so, then Indo-European cognates include Old Norse rá, vró (“angle, corner”), and possibly Lithuanian rankà (“hand”), Old Church Slavonic рѫка (rǫka, “hand”), Albanian rangë (“yardwork”). The verb is from Middle English braunchen, from the noun. Pronunciation: /bɹɑːnt͡ʃ/, /bɹænt͡ʃ/ 1. To arise from the trunk or a larger branch of a tree. Labels: intransitive 2. To produce branches. Labels: intransitive Example: The tree throve and branched so heavily that the windows of Lower West and the Doll's Flat were darkened. 3. To (cause to) divide into separate parts or subdivisions. Labels: ambitransitive 4. To jump to a different location in a program, especially as the result of a conditional statement. Labels: intransitive 5. To strip of branches. Labels: transitive Example: They cut down a young pear-tree, branch it, and carry it home. 6. To discipline (a union member) at a branch meeting. Labels: colloquial, transitive Example: His staff were 'not journalists, but Communists', he maintained. Nonetheless, in 1948 his vigorous editorship took the paper's circulation to 120,000 a day. The following year, he was 'branched' by the National Union of Journalists for an intemperate attack on Fleet Street.
Word: curtain Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Inherited from Middle English curtine, from Old French cortine, from Late Latin cōrtīna (“curtain”), a calque from Ancient Greek. Pronunciation: /ˈkɜːtn̩/, /ˈkɜɹt(ə)n/, [ˈkʰɜɹʔn̩] 1. A piece of cloth covering a window, bed, etc. to offer privacy and keep out light. Example: He drew the curtains at 11:00pm before falling asleep. Example: Thus the red damask curtains which now shut out the fog-laden, drizzling atmosphere of the Marylebone Road, had cost a mere song, and yet they might have been warranted to last another thirty years. A great bargain also had been the excellent Axminster carpet which covered the floor; as, again, the arm-chair in which Bunting now sat forward, staring into the dull, small fire. 2. A similar piece of cloth that separates the audience and the stage in a theater. Example: “H'm !” he said, “so, so—it is a tragedy in a prologue and three acts. I am going down this afternoon to see the curtain fall for the third time on what[…]will prove a good burlesque ; but it all began dramatically enough. It was last Saturday[…]that two boys, playing in the little spinney just outside Wembley Park Station, came across three large parcels done up in American cloth.[…]” 3. The beginning of a show; the moment the curtain rises. Labels: broadly Example: He took so long to shave his head that we arrived 45 minutes after curtain and were denied late entry. 4. The flat area of wall which connects two bastions or towers; the main area of a fortified wall. Example: Captain Rense, beleagring the Citie of Errona for us, […] caused a forcible mine to be wrought under a great curtine of the walles […]. 5. Death, final curtain. Labels: euphemistic, in-plural, sometimes Example: For life is quite absurd / And death's the final word / You must always face the curtain with a bow. 6. That part of a wall of a building which is between two pavilions, towers, etc. 7. A flag; an ensign. Labels: derogatory, obsolete Example: Their ragged curtains poorly are let loose 8. The uninterrupted stream of fluid that falls onto a moving substrate in the process of curtain coating.
Word: curtain Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Inherited from Middle English curtine, from Old French cortine, from Late Latin cōrtīna (“curtain”), a calque from Ancient Greek. Pronunciation: /ˈkɜːtn̩/, /ˈkɜɹt(ə)n/, [ˈkʰɜɹʔn̩] 1. To cover (a window) with a curtain; to hang curtains. Labels: transitive Example: In a large bedroom upstairs, the window of which was thickly curtained with a great woollen shawl lately discarded by the landlady, Mrs. Rolliver, were gathered on this evening nearly a dozen persons, all seeking vinous bliss; all old inhabitants of the nearer end of Marlott, and frequenters of this retreat. Example: The window, softly curtained with dotted swiss, became the focus of my desperate hour-by-hour attention. 2. To hide, cover or separate as if by a curtain. Labels: figuratively, transitive Example: And, after conflict such as was supposed / The wandering prince and Dido once enjoy'd, / When with a happy storm they were surprised / And curtain'd with a counsel-keeping cave, / We may, each wreathed in the other's arms, / Our pastimes done, possess a golden slumber; Example: But poetry in a more restricted sense expresses those arrangements of language, and especially metrical language, which are created by that imperial faculty; whose throne is curtained within the invisible nature of man.
Word: curve Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Attested since the 1690s, from Latin curvus (“bent, curved”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to bend, curve, turn”) + *-wós. Doublet of curb, shrink, carcer, and cancer. Pronunciation: /kɜːv/, [ˈkʰɜːv], /kɚv/, [ˈkʰɚv] 1. Bent without angles; crooked; curved. Labels: obsolete Example: a curve line Example: a curve surface
Word: curve Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Attested since the 1690s, from Latin curvus (“bent, curved”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to bend, curve, turn”) + *-wós. Doublet of curb, shrink, carcer, and cancer. Pronunciation: /kɜːv/, [ˈkʰɜːv], /kɚv/, [ˈkʰɚv] 1. A gentle bend, such as in a road. Example: You should slow down when approaching a curve. Example: But when we reflect that across the road at the centre of the arc of each curve there was a barricade, and cannon placed to rake the' intervals between the different barricades, the difficulties of the ascent, which is very steep, would be increased even to insurmountability. 2. A simple figure containing no straight portions and no angles; a curved line. Example: She scribbled a curve on the paper. Example: However, it should be possible to give more sophisticated spherical spline curves based on the de Castaljau method that are computed using multiple slerps between pairs of points and which work well for arbitrary knot positions (indeed, knot insertion methods for spline curves should suffice for this, cf Farin [1993]) 3. A grading system based on the scale of performance of a group used to normalize a right-skewed grade distribution (with more lower scores) into a bell curve, so that more can receive higher grades, regardless of their actual knowledge of the subject. Example: The teacher was nice and graded the test on a curve. 4. A grading system based on the scale of performance of a group used to normalize a right-skewed grade distribution (with more lower scores) into a bell curve, so that more can receive higher grades, regardless of their actual knowledge of the subject. Labels: broadly, nonstandard 5. A continuous map from a one-dimensional space to a multidimensional space. Labels: analytic 6. A one-dimensional figure of non-zero length; the graph of a continuous map from a one-dimensional space. 7. An algebraic curve; a polynomial relation of the planar coordinates. 8. A one-dimensional continuum. 9. The attractive shape of a woman's body. Labels: informal, plural-normally
Word: curve Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Attested since the 1690s, from Latin curvus (“bent, curved”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to bend, curve, turn”) + *-wós. Doublet of curb, shrink, carcer, and cancer. Pronunciation: /kɜːv/, [ˈkʰɜːv], /kɚv/, [ˈkʰɚv] 1. To bend; to crook. Labels: transitive Example: to curve a line Example: to curve a pipe 2. To cause to swerve from a straight course. Labels: transitive Example: to curve a ball in pitching it 3. To bend or turn gradually from a given direction. Labels: intransitive Example: the road curves to the right Example: […] the shoulders not too wide above, bowing outward from the top to the breast; the back flat from shoulder to tail; the ribs extending horizontally and backwards, and then curving down barrelwise; […] 4. To grade on a curve (bell curve of a normal distribution). Labels: transitive Example: The teacher will curve the test. 5. To reject, to turn down romantic advances. Labels: slang, transitive Example: I was once curved three times by the same woman.
Word: coat Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Germanic *kuttôbor. Latin cotta Old French cottebor. Middle English cote English coat From Middle English cote, coate, cotte, from Old French cote, cotte (“outer garment with sleeves”), from Latin cotta (“undercoat, tunic”), from Proto-Germanic *kuttô, *kuttǭ (“cowl, woolen cloth, coat”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷewd-, *gud- (“woolen clothes”). Cognate with Old High German kozza, kozzo (“woolen coat”) (German Kotze (“coarse woolen blanket; woolen cape”)), Middle Low German kot (“coat”), Middle Dutch cote (“coat”), Ancient Greek βεῦδος (beûdos, “woman's attire”). Pronunciation: /ˈkoʊ̯t/, [ˈkʰoʊ̯t], /ˈkəʊ̯t/, [ˈkʰəʊ̯t], /ˈkoʈ/ 1. An outer garment covering the upper torso and arms. Labels: countable Example: It was April 22, 1831, and a young man was walking down Whitehall in the direction of Parliament Street. He wore shepherd's plaid trousers and the swallow-tail coat of the day, with a figured muslin cravat wound about his wide-spread collar. Example: Mind you, clothes were clothes in those days.[…]Frills, ruffles, flounces, lace, complicated seams and gores: not only did they sweep the ground and have to be held up in one hand elegantly as you walked along, but they had little capes or coats or feather boas. 2. A covering of material, such as paint. Labels: countable Example: fresh coat of paint Example: Fruit of all kinds, in coat / Rough or smooth rined, or bearded husk, or shell. 3. The fur or feathers covering an animal's skin. Labels: countable Example: Near-synonym: pelt Example: When the dog shed its coat, it left hair all over the furniture and the carpet. 4. Canvas painted with thick tar and secured round a mast or bowsprit to prevent water running down the sides into the hold (now made of rubber or leather). Labels: uncountable 5. A petticoat. Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable Example: a child in coats 6. The habit or vesture of an order of men, indicating the order or office; cloth. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Men of his coat should be minding their prayers. Example: She was sought by spirits of richest coat. 7. A coat of arms. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Hark, countrymen! either renew the fight, / Or tear the lions out of England's coat. 8. A coat card. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Here's a trick of discarded cards of us! We were ranked with coats as long as old master lived.
Word: coat Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Germanic *kuttôbor. Latin cotta Old French cottebor. Middle English cote English coat From Middle English cote, coate, cotte, from Old French cote, cotte (“outer garment with sleeves”), from Latin cotta (“undercoat, tunic”), from Proto-Germanic *kuttô, *kuttǭ (“cowl, woolen cloth, coat”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷewd-, *gud- (“woolen clothes”). Cognate with Old High German kozza, kozzo (“woolen coat”) (German Kotze (“coarse woolen blanket; woolen cape”)), Middle Low German kot (“coat”), Middle Dutch cote (“coat”), Ancient Greek βεῦδος (beûdos, “woman's attire”). Pronunciation: /ˈkoʊ̯t/, [ˈkʰoʊ̯t], /ˈkəʊ̯t/, [ˈkʰəʊ̯t], /ˈkoʈ/ 1. To cover with a coating of some material. Labels: transitive Example: The frying pan was coated with a layer of non-stick material, making it easier to wash. Example: Door grab handles have been coated with an anti-microbial finish. 2. To cover like a coat. Labels: transitive 3. To clothe. Labels: archaic, transitive
Word: beautiful Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *dewh₂-der.? Proto-Italic *dwenos Old Latin duenos Old Latin *duenelos Latin bellus Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-ts Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ts Proto-Italic *-tāts Latin -itātem Vulgar Latin *bellitātem Anglo-Norman biautébor. Middle English beaute Proto-Indo-European *pleh₁- Proto-Indo-European *-nós Proto-Indo-European *pl̥h₁nós Proto-Germanic *fullaz Proto-Germanic *-fullaz Old English -ful Middle English -ful Middle English bewteful English beautiful From Middle English bewteful, beautefull (“attractive to the eye, beautiful”), equivalent to beauty + -ful. In this sense, largely displaced Old English fæġer (whence fair). Pronunciation: /ˈbjuːtɪ.fəl/, /ˈbjuːtɪ.fʊl/, /ˈbju.tɪ.fəl/, [bju.ɾə.fəl] 1. Possessing beauty, impressing the eye; attractive. Example: Anyone who has ever met her thought she was absolutely beautiful. Example: There's a beautiful lake by the town. 2. Possessing beauty, impressing the eye; attractive. Example: the house beautiful 3. That one likes very much. Example: He was a beautiful person; he would drop everything to help you. Example: You've done a beautiful thing today. 4. Affording pleasure to any of the senses, especially that of hearing; delightful. Example: Beethoven's most beautiful sonata Example: It's beautiful outside, let's go for a walk. 5. Impressing with charm in an intellectual or moral way, through inherent suitability or elegance. Example: The skater performed a beautiful axel.
Word: beautiful Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *dewh₂-der.? Proto-Italic *dwenos Old Latin duenos Old Latin *duenelos Latin bellus Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-ts Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ts Proto-Italic *-tāts Latin -itātem Vulgar Latin *bellitātem Anglo-Norman biautébor. Middle English beaute Proto-Indo-European *pleh₁- Proto-Indo-European *-nós Proto-Indo-European *pl̥h₁nós Proto-Germanic *fullaz Proto-Germanic *-fullaz Old English -ful Middle English -ful Middle English bewteful English beautiful From Middle English bewteful, beautefull (“attractive to the eye, beautiful”), equivalent to beauty + -ful. In this sense, largely displaced Old English fæġer (whence fair). Pronunciation: /ˈbjuːtɪ.fəl/, /ˈbjuːtɪ.fʊl/, /ˈbju.tɪ.fəl/, [bju.ɾə.fəl] 1. Someone who is beautiful. Can be used as a term of address. Example: The man was faithful to his wife, ignoring the many blonde beautifuls who surrounded him wherever he went. Example: Hey, beautiful!
Word: brick Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Late Middle English brik, bryke, bricke, from Middle Low German and Middle Dutch bricke ("cracked or broken brick; tile-stone"; modern Dutch brik), ultimately related to Proto-West Germanic *brekan (“to break”), whence also Old French briche and French brique (“brick”). Compare also German Low German Brickje (“small board, tray”). Related to break. The social media slang sense derives from memes about building up one's feed “brick by brick”, analogizing bricks with reels that inform the algorithm. Pronunciation: /ˈbɹɪk/, /ˈbɹɘk/ 1. To build, line, or form with bricks. Labels: transitive Example: to be bricked alive (as a form of capital punishment) Example: If the ground is strong right up to the surface, a few yards are usually sunk and bricked before the engines and pit top are erected 2. To make into bricks. Labels: transitive Example: The plant, which is here described, for bricking fine ores and flue dust, was designed and the plans produced in the engineering department of the Selby smelter. 3. To hit someone or something with a brick. Labels: slang, transitive 4. To make (an electronic device) non-functional and usually beyond repair, as a result of software or configuration issues. Labels: slang, transitive Example: My VCR was bricked during the lightning storm. Example: Just need to project against users from deleting NK.BIN and bricking the device. 5. Of an electronic device, to become non-functional, especially in a way beyond repair, as a result of software or configuration issues. Labels: intransitive, slang Example: My phone bricked halfway through the videoconference. 6. To blunder; to screw up. Labels: intransitive, slang
Word: brick Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Late Middle English brik, bryke, bricke, from Middle Low German and Middle Dutch bricke ("cracked or broken brick; tile-stone"; modern Dutch brik), ultimately related to Proto-West Germanic *brekan (“to break”), whence also Old French briche and French brique (“brick”). Compare also German Low German Brickje (“small board, tray”). Related to break. The social media slang sense derives from memes about building up one's feed “brick by brick”, analogizing bricks with reels that inform the algorithm. Pronunciation: /ˈbɹɪk/, /ˈbɹɘk/ 1. Extremely cold. Labels: New-York, colloquial, not-comparable Example: And while the tropics are definitely the place to be when it's brick outside, rocking a snorkel on the beach only works when you're snorkeling. Example: He was always hanging tight with me and since he had access to a ride . . . it made traveling easier. I mean it was no biggie brain buster to take the train, but when it's brick outside . . . fuck the A train.
Word: bone marrow Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈbəʊn ˌmæɹəʊ/, /ˈboʊn ˌmɛɚoʊ/ 1. The fatty vascular tissue that fills the cavities of bones, being the place where new blood cells are produced. Labels: uncountable, usually
Word: cell Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English celle, selle, from Old English cell (attested in inflected forms), from Latin cella (“chamber, small room, compartment”), later reinforced by Old French cel, sele, Old French cele. Ultimately from Proto-Italic *kelnā, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱelneh₂, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱel- (“to cover”). Doublet of cella and hall. Pronunciation: /sɛl/ 1. To place or enclose in a cell. Labels: transitive Example: Myself a recluse from the world, And celled under ground, Lest that the gould, the precious stones, And pleasures, here be found
Word: cell Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Ellipsis of cell phone, itself a clipping of cellular phone, from cellular + phone. Pronunciation: /sɛl/ 1. A cellular phone. Labels: Australia, India, New-Zealand, Philippines, US, informal
Word: stem cell Part of Speech: noun 1. A primal undifferentiated cell from which a variety of other cells can develop through the process of cellular differentiation. Example: Stem cells are characterized by their ability to self-renew and to produce numerous differentiated cell types, and are directly responsible for generating and maintaining tissues and organs.
Word: leukemia Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From German Leukämie, from Ancient Greek λευκός (leukós, “white”) + αἷμα (haîma, “blood”). By surface analysis, leuk- + -emia. Pronunciation: /luːˈkiːmi.ə/ 1. Any of a class of types of cancer affecting the blood cells, especially the white blood cells (usually with massive leukocytosis), and the blood cell–forming (hematopoietic) tissues. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The subjects suffered from lymphoblastic and myeloid leukemias. Example: In an era when political leaders promise deliverance from decline through America’s purported preeminence in scientific research, the news that science is in deep trouble in the United States has been as unwelcome as a diagnosis of leukemia following the loss of health insurance.
Word: leukocyte Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English leuko- Ancient Greek κῠ́τος (kŭ́tos)der. Latin cytader. English -cyte English leukocyte From leuko- + -cyte. Pronunciation: /ˈluːkə(ʊ)sʌɪt/ 1. Any of a class of blood cells that play various roles in cell-mediated immunity. Example: In disease of the spleen, especially Banti's disease or fibro-adenia of the spleen, the increase of leukocytes is absent or slight, with no relative lymphocytosis. Example: Iberdomide, a cereblon modulator promoting degradation of the transcription factors Ikaros and Aiolos, which affect leukocyte development and autoimmunity, is being evaluated for the treatment of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE).
Word: erythrocyte Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From erythro- (“red”) + -cyte (“cell”), referring to the red color of hemoglobin when oxygen is bound to it. Pronunciation: /əˈɹɪθɹəˌsaɪt/ 1. A hemoglobin-containing cell, especially as found in humans but more generally present in the blood of most vertebrates, that is involved with the transport of oxygen; such cells are usually anucleate in humans and many other animals. Example: The want of success of these names may be attributed to their awkwardness in sound or sense; "erythrocyte" seems the best of them, but is unfortunately four-syllabled. Example: Granular, basic, or punctate degeneration of the erythrocyte is a condition in which this cell presents fine or coarse granules that have an affinity for basic stains.
Word: overdrew Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /oʊ.vɚ.dɹu/ 1. simple past of overdraw Labels: form-of, past
Word: overdraw Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *úp Proto-Indo-European *-er Proto-Indo-European *upér Proto-Germanic *uber Old English ofer- Middle English over- English over- English draw English overdraw From over- + draw. 1. To withdraw more money from an account than there is credit; to make an overdraft 2. To use a device for shooting arrows shorter than the draw of the bow. 3. To exaggerate. Labels: dated 4. To draw over the top of existing content. 5. To draw the air in through a harmonica while adjusting the mouth so that the note goes up a half tone.
Word: overdraw Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *úp Proto-Indo-European *-er Proto-Indo-European *upér Proto-Germanic *uber Old English ofer- Middle English over- English over- English draw English overdraw From over- + draw. 1. The process by which, during the rendering of a three-dimensional scene, a pixel is replaced by one that is closer to the viewpoint, as determined by their Z coordinates. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: themselves Part of Speech: pron Etymology: Morphologically them + -selves. Pronunciation: /ðɛmˈsɛlvz/, [ðɛmˈsɛɫvz], /ðəmˈsɛlvz/, [ðəmˈsɛɫvz], /ðemˈselvz/ 1. The reflexive case of they, the third-person plural personal pronoun. The group of people, animals, or objects previously mentioned, as the object of a verb or following a preposition (also used for emphasis). Labels: pronoun, reflexive, third-person Example: They’ve hurt themselves. Example: They fought among themselves. 2. The reflexive case of they, the third-person singular personal pronoun. The single person previously mentioned, as the object of a verb or following a preposition (also used for emphasis). Labels: pronoun, reflexive, third-person Example: Would whoever stole my phone please make themselves known. Example: I don't want anyone to fight among themselves.
Word: thyself Part of Speech: pron Etymology: From Middle English thy-selfe, thiself, thi-zelf, equivalent to thy + -self. Compare Middle English thou-self. Pronunciation: /ðaɪˈsɛlf/ 1. yourself (as the object of a verb or preposition or as an intensifier); reflexive case of thou Labels: archaic, dialectal, literary Example: Thou hast only thyself to blame. Example: Thou thyself art to blame.
Word: overeat Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *úp Proto-Indo-European *-er Proto-Indo-European *upér Proto-Germanic *uber Old English ofer- Middle English over- English over- English eat English overeat From over- + eat. Pronunciation: /ˌoʊvɚˈit/, /ˌəʊvə(ɹ)ˈiːt/ 1. To eat too much. Labels: intransitive 2. To eat too much of. Labels: ambitransitive Example: Overeat meat and you will not be flipping the genetic switches to grow a new body; instead, you will be opting for an early death even as you tone and strengthen your muscles. 3. To surfeit with eating. Labels: dated, reflexive Example: Mr. Nollekens, when he dined out of late years, always over-ate himself, particularly with the pastry and dessert. Example: At breakfast they overate themselves with buttered toast, and "had eaten so much that they could not learn with any pleasure," […]
Word: overate Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ˌoʊ.vɚˈeɪt/ 1. simple past of overeat Labels: form-of, past
Word: overeaten Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /oʊ.vɚ.it.ən/ 1. past participle of overeat Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: overhang Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Old English oferhangan, corresponding to over- + hang. Pronunciation: /əʊvəˈhaŋ/, /ˈəʊvəhaŋ/, /ˈoʊvəɹˌhæŋ/ 1. To hang over (something). Labels: transitive Example: Her brow was overhung with coins of gold, / That sparkled o'er the auburn of her hair [...]. Example: At that time, the upper part of the tower overhanged its base by about fourteen feet. 2. To impend. Labels: intransitive
Word: overhang Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Old English oferhangan, corresponding to over- + hang. Pronunciation: /əʊvəˈhaŋ/, /ˈəʊvəhaŋ/, /ˈoʊvəɹˌhæŋ/ 1. The volume that tips the balance between the demand and the supply toward demand lagging supply. 2. That portion of the roof structure that extends beyond the exterior walls of a building. 3. A fatty roll of pubis flab that hangs over one's genitals; a FUPA. 4. Anything that overhangs or protrudes over its base, such as a wave immediately before breaking, or a protruding cliff or rock wall. Example: These are firstly for products which need a cool room; secondly for products which can be stored on a standard pallet without overhang; and thirdly for products known as "the uglies" which always overhang a standard pallet.
Word: overhung Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /oʊvəɹˈhʌŋ/ 1. simple past and past participle of overhang Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: overhung Part of Speech: adj Pronunciation: /ˈoʊvəɹˌhʌŋ/ 1. Covered over; ornamented with hangings. Labels: not-comparable Example: [T]he former, is but a vacant edifice; gilded, it may be, and overhung with old votive gifts, yet useless, nay pestilentially unclean[.] 2. Suspended from above or from the top. Labels: not-comparable Example: an overhung door 3. That hangs over; overhanging. Labels: not-comparable Example: Though almost engulfed by Bedford, Elstow's claim to villagedom is still maintained by two fine rows of timber-framed, overhung, black-and-white cottages and the timber and herringbone-brick Swan pub.
Word: overhear Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English overheren, from Old English oferhīeran (“to overhear, hear, disobey, disregard, neglect”), equivalent to over- + hear. Cognate with Dutch overhoren (“to hear, hear about”), German überhören (“to not hear, ignore”), Danish overhøre (“to overhear”), Icelandic yfirheyra (“to hear”), Gothic *𐌿𐍆𐌰𐍂𐌷𐌰𐌿𐍃𐌾𐌰𐌽 (*ufarhausjan, “to disregard, disobey”) (in 𐌿𐍆𐌰𐍂𐌷𐌰𐌿𐍃𐌴𐌹𐌽𐍃 (ufarhauseins)). Pronunciation: /oʊ.vɚˈhɪɚ/ 1. To hear something that was not meant for one's ears. Labels: ambitransitive Example: I was hanging clothes in the garden and I overheard the neighbours talking about Sheila's pregnancy. Example: "It is incomprehensible," replied Sir Fergus, dropping his voice so that the old man could not overhear.
Word: tendency Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Medieval Latin tendentia, from tendens, present participle of tendō. Pronunciation: /ˈtɛn.dən.si/, /ˈten.dən.si/ 1. A likelihood of behaving in a particular way or going in a particular direction; a tending toward. Example: Denim has a tendency to fade. Example: I have a tendency to get bored after the first half an hour of a movie. 2. An organised unit or faction within a larger political organisation. Example: Mao launched the struggle against the vulgar materialist tendency within the party as early as 1937. Example: In stark contrast to the Europeanist tendency within the party and the Suez Group, this group had a short history.
Word: overheard Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ˌəʊ.vəˈhɜːd/, /ˌoʊ.vɚˈhɝd/ 1. simple past and past participle of overhear Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: overlay Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English overleyen, from Old English oferleċġan, from Proto-West Germanic *obarlaggjan, from Proto-Germanic *uberlagjaną, equivalent to over- + lay. Cognate with Saterland Frisian uurläze, úurlääse, Dutch overleggen, German Low German overleggen, överleggen, German überlegen, Swedish överlägga, Norwegian overlegge. Compare overlie. Pronunciation: /ˌəʊ.vəˈleɪ/, /ˌoʊvɚˈleɪ/ 1. To lay, spread, or apply (something) over or across (something else); to overspread. Labels: transitive Example: Near-synonyms: cover, superimpose, superpose Example: She will now overlay the crust with fruit. 2. To overwhelm; to press excessively upon. Example: when any country is overlaid by the multitude which live upon it 3. To lie over (someone, especially a child) in order to smother it; to suffocate. Labels: archaic, transitive Example: And this womans childe died in the night: because she ouerlaid it. Example: a heap of ashes that o'erlays your fire 4. To put an overlay on. Labels: transitive 5. To bet too much money on. Labels: transitive Example: […] he has 'overlaid' his book, and has not succeeded in 'getting round' by bets against the other horses.
Word: overlay Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English overleyen, from Old English oferleċġan, from Proto-West Germanic *obarlaggjan, from Proto-Germanic *uberlagjaną, equivalent to over- + lay. Cognate with Saterland Frisian uurläze, úurlääse, Dutch overleggen, German Low German overleggen, överleggen, German überlegen, Swedish överlägga, Norwegian overlegge. Compare overlie. Pronunciation: /ˈəʊ.vəˌleɪ/, /ˈoʊvɚˌleɪ/ 1. An image to be overlaid on another; a superimposition or diapositive. 2. A piece of paper pasted upon the tympan sheet to improve the impression by making it stronger at a particular place. 3. Odds which are set higher than expected or warranted. Favorable odds. 4. A horse going off at higher odds than it appears to warrant, based on its past performances. 5. A decal attached to a computer keyboard to relabel the keys. Example: The keyboard overlay can be a memory jogger and a great help with spelling. In this way the keyboard makes word processing more accessible to younger as well as special needs children. 6. A block of program code that is loaded over something previously loaded, so as to replace the functionality. Example: This concept can be extended further by allowing a primary overlay to call a secondary overlay, and so on. However, we will limit ourselves here to the use of primary overlays. Before proceeding further, you need to understand the memory map of the computer, which is a diagram showing the use to which the memory of the computer is put. 7. A pop-up covering an existing part of the display. Labels: Internet 8. A cravat. Labels: Scotland 9. A covering over something else. Example: The first, on January 1, 1883, was attributed to the overlay becoming surcharged with water, due to insufficient drainage, and causing a slip. Example: I really appreciate the clear explication of Dworkin's understanding of male sexuality. In this we see, without the overlay of polemic that infuses her non-fiction, how Dworkin can proceed from basic feminist principles to create an almost seamless, sophistic argument for sexism.
Word: overlay Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past of overlie Labels: form-of, past
Word: overlaid Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /oʊ.vɚ.leɪd/ 1. simple past and past participle of overlay Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: overlie Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English overlien, overliggen, equivalent to over- + lie (“to be reclined”). Compare West Frisian oerlizze, German überliegen, Danish overligge, Swedish överligga, Norwegian overligge. Pronunciation: /ˌoʊvɚˈlaɪ/ 1. To lie over or upon Example: The new sediment layers overlie the older rock formations. 2. To suffocate by lying upon Labels: transitive
Word: overlain Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /oʊ.vɚ.leɪn/ 1. past participle of overlie Labels: form-of, participle, past Example: It is usually rapidly progressing osteolytic lesions that initiated just prior to death, such as those that occur in malignant cancers that tend to present the most problems in recognition. Examples of such lesions exist in anatomical collections in individuals documented to have died of cancer. If similar lesions were found in archaeological remains, distinguishing them from post-depositional defects might be challenging, particularly if they were overlain with taphonomic damage[…].
Word: overpay Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *úp Proto-Indo-European *-er Proto-Indo-European *upér Proto-Germanic *uber Old English ofer- Middle English over- English over- English pay English overpay From over- + pay. Pronunciation: /oʊ.vɚ.peɪ/ 1. To pay too much. Labels: ambitransitive Example: I think we overpaid for that old car. Example: Be careful not to overpay when buying second-hand items. 2. To be more than an ample reward for. Labels: transitive
Word: overpaid Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /oʊ.vɚ.peɪd/ 1. simple past and past participle of overpay Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: override Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English overriden, from Old English oferrīdan, equivalent to over- + ride. Cognate with Dutch overrijden, German überreiten, Danish override. Pronunciation: /əʊ.vəˈɹaɪd/, /oʊ.vɚˈɹaɪd/ 1. To ride across or beyond something. Labels: transitive Example: Around 50 people were evacuated from a rush-hour London Overground service on October 12, after an eight-car train overrode the buffers at Enfield Town station. 2. To ride over the top of something, usually forcibly. Labels: transitive Example: Separation of the caboose from the VAN train had caused the train to go into emergency braking and when Extra 3119 West struck the third rack car, the car overrode the locomotive, destroyed the remaining superstructure, and caused the locomotive to overturn the north rail. The near-instantaneous derailment of the rest of the train followed immediately. 3. To ride a horse too hard. Labels: transitive 4. To counteract the normal operation of something; to countermand with orders of higher priority. Labels: intransitive, transitive Example: In automotive design, safety should override lesser factors such as cosmetics and corner-cutting. Example: Congress promptly overrode the president's veto, passing the bill into law. 5. To give commands of a higher priority to an automated system; to take manual control of an automated system Labels: transitive Example: Manual controls allow the user to override the camera's default settings. 6. To define a new behaviour of a method by creating the same method of the superclass with the same name and signature. Labels: transitive Example: How the cat runs is defined in the method run() of the class Cat, which overrides the same method with the same signature of superclass called Mammal.
Word: override Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English overriden, from Old English oferrīdan, equivalent to over- + ride. Cognate with Dutch overrijden, German überreiten, Danish override. Pronunciation: /ˈəʊ.vəˌɹaɪd/, /ˈoʊ.vɚˌɹaɪd/ 1. A mechanism, device or procedure used to counteract an automatic control. Example: The bill passed with 72 members voting for the override and 46 against. 2. A royalty. 3. A device for prioritizing audio signals, such that certain signals receive priority over others. 4. A method with the same name and signature as a method in a superclass, which runs instead of that method, when an object of the subclass is involved.
Word: overrode Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ˌəʊ.vəˈɹəʊd/, /ˌoʊ.vəˈɹoʊd/ 1. simple past of override Labels: form-of, past 2. past participle of override Labels: form-of, nonstandard, participle, past
Word: overridden Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English overridden, from Old English oferriden, past participle of oferrīdan (“to ride over”), equivalent to over- + ridden. Pronunciation: /ˌəʊ.vəˈɹɪd.ən/, /ˌoʊ.vɚˈɹɪd.ən/ 1. past participle of override Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: overrun Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *úp Proto-Indo-European *-er Proto-Indo-European *upér Proto-Germanic *uber Old English ofer- Middle English over- English over- English run English overrun From over- + run. Pronunciation: /ˌəʊ.vəˈɹʌn/, /ˌoʊ.vɚˈɹʌn/ 1. To defeat an enemy and invade in great numbers, seizing the enemy positions conclusively. Labels: transitive Example: But news that the North Vietnamese had launched an invasion more akin to the blitzkrieg of Poland than to a Maoist "people's war," and had overrun my old base camp 30 miles up Thunder Road from Saigon, turned my heart to lead. 2. To infest, swarm over, flow over. Labels: transitive Example: The vine overran its trellis; the field is overrun with weeds. Example: those barbarous nations that over-ran the world 3. To run past; to run beyond. Labels: transitive Example: The athlete overran the finish line and kept going. Example: One line overruns another in length. 4. To run past; to run beyond. Labels: transitive Example: The aircraft didn't stop in time and overran the runway. 5. To continue for too long. Labels: intransitive Example: The performance overran by ten minutes, which caused some people to miss their bus home. 6. To carry (some type, a line or column, etc.) backward or forward into an adjacent line or page. Labels: transitive 7. To go beyond; to extend in part beyond. Labels: transitive Example: In machinery, a sliding piece is said to overrun its bearing when its forward end goes beyond it. Example: all of these services, including mSpy, function with the same kind of predatory subscription scheme, luring you in with free trials that autorenew as abhorrently expensive monthly or yearly subscriptions. canceling the service requires reaching out to support, so users are typically unable to avoid overrunning the trial. 8. To abuse or oppress, as if by treading upon. Labels: transitive Example: None of them the feeble overren. Example: Fortunately, in April 1979, Congress codified the United States' support for the brave people of the Republic of China with the passage of the Taiwan Relations Act. This gave our friends the cover to develop the vibrant economy and flourishing democracy we see today and prevented them from being overrun by the same tyrants who are now in the process of eradicating democracy in Hong Kong.
Word: overrun Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *úp Proto-Indo-European *-er Proto-Indo-European *upér Proto-Germanic *uber Old English ofer- Middle English over- English over- English run English overrun From over- + run. Pronunciation: /ˈəʊ.vəˌɹʌn/, /ˈoʊ.vɚˌɹʌn/ 1. An instance of overrunning. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Some of the stadiums being built for the World Cup soccer tournament, scheduled for next year, have also been criticized for delays and cost overruns, and have become subjects of derision as protesters question whether they will become white elephants. Example: Tesla’s first decade was plagued by unmet deadlines, technical snafus and cost overruns. 2. An instance of overrunning. Labels: countable, uncountable 3. The amount by which something overruns. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: At least this year's overrun isn't as unmanageable as last year! 4. An area of terrain beyond the end of a runway that is kept flat and unobstructed to allow an aircraft that runs off the end of the runway to stop safely. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The runway has 7,000 feet of paved surface, plus a 2,000-foot grass overrun. 5. Air that is whipped into a frozen dessert to make it easier to serve and eat. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: If ice cream has too much overrun, it will be airy and foamy and will lack flavor.
Word: overran Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ˌəʊ.vəˈɹæn/, /ˌoʊ.vɚˈɹæn/ 1. simple past of overrun Labels: form-of, past
Word: oversee Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English overseen, ouverseen, from Old English ofersēon (“to observe, oversee; to overlook, neglect”), equivalent to over- + see. Pronunciation: /ˌəʊ.vəˈsiː/, [ˌəʊ̯.vəˈsiː], /ˌoʊ.vɚˈsi/, [ˌoʊ̯.vɚˈsi], /ˌəʉ.vəˈsiː/ 1. To survey, look at something in a wide angle. Labels: literally, transitive 2. To supervise, guide, review or direct the actions of a person or group. Labels: figuratively, transitive Example: It is congress's duty to oversee the spending of federal funds. Example: And overseeing them all, like a raddled old good-ish fairy, is Bill Nighy, playing a superannuated rocker hoping to get a Christmas number one with his cynically repackaged version of Love Is All Around. 3. To inspect, examine. Labels: transitive Example: Gamekeepers oversee a hunting ground to see to the wildlife's welfare and look for poachers. 4. To fail to see; to overlook, ignore. Labels: obsolete, transitive Example: Thereat the Elfe did blush in priuitee, / And turnd his face away; but she the same / Dissembled faire, and faynd to ouersee. 5. To observe secretly or unintentionally. Labels: transitive
Word: oversaw Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /oʊ.vɚ.sɔ/ 1. simple past of oversee Labels: form-of, past
Word: overseen Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /oʊ.vɚ.sin/ 1. past participle of oversee Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: oversell Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *úp Proto-Indo-European *-er Proto-Indo-European *upér Proto-Germanic *uber Old English ofer- Middle English over- English over- English sell English oversell From over- + sell. Pronunciation: /oʊ.vɚ.sɛl/ 1. To agree to sell more of something than one can supply. Labels: transitive 2. To be too eager in attempting to sell something. Labels: transitive 3. To praise something to excess. Labels: transitive Example: I don't want to oversell it, but [second clause] Example: I don't want to oversell it, but you've got to check out that new restaurant on Third Street. 4. To sell for a higher price than; to exceed in sale price. Labels: obsolete, transitive Example: One whose beauty / Would oversell all Italy