nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: lop Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English loppe (“flea, spider”), from Old English loppe (“spider, silk-worm, flea”), from Proto-Germanic *luppǭ (“flea, sandflea", originally, "jumper”), from Proto-Germanic *luppijaną (“to jump, dart”). Cognate with Danish loppe (“flea”), Swedish loppa (“flea”). Compare also Middle High German lüpfen, lupfen (“to raise”, obsolete also “to rise”). Pronunciation: /lɒp/, /lɑp/, /lɔp/ 1. A flea. Labels: Geordie Example: Hadway wi ye man, ye liftin wi lops. Example: Lice, That's nick name to the stuff called Lops
Word: lop Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Back-formation from lopsided. Pronunciation: /lɒp/, /lɑp/, /lɔp/ 1. (usually offensive) A disabled person, a cripple. Labels: US, dated, slang Example: "He's a lop; it mentions here about his getting up to the stand with his crippled leg but it doesn't say which one." 2. Any of several breeds of rabbits whose ears lie flat.
Word: lope Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English lopen, from Old Norse hlaupa (“to leap, jump”). See leap. Cognate with German laufen (“walk, run”), Danish løbe (“run”), Dutch lopen (“walk, run”), Norwegian løpe (“run”). Doublet of leap. Pronunciation: /ləʊp/, /loʊp/ 1. To travel an easy pace with long strides. Example: He loped along, hour after hour, not fast but steady and covering much ground. Example: Scott hurried down the dark path, lifted the canoe from the muddy rock to the moss, took out the packs, and loped back. toward the cabin. As he passed the window he glanced inside. 2. To jump, leap. Labels: intransitive, obsolete Example: And as he cam by a ryver, in hys woodnes he wolde have made hys horse to have lopyn over the watir; and the horse fayled footyng and felle in the ryver Example: 1621-22, Thomas Middleton et al, The Spanish Gypsy he that lopes on the ropes
Word: lope Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English lopen, from Old Norse hlaupa (“to leap, jump”). See leap. Cognate with German laufen (“walk, run”), Danish løbe (“run”), Dutch lopen (“walk, run”), Norwegian løpe (“run”). Doublet of leap. Pronunciation: /ləʊp/, /loʊp/ 1. An easy pace with long strides. Example: Hares have larger, leaner bodies, longer legs, and longer ears than the true rabbit. They also run with a lope instead of a hop. It is thought that they developed this more stream-lined body and swifter gait from running on the plains […] Example: Then he was gone, not with the flashing quick steps that Lao Bingyi and Wei Jintai had employed but with the long lope of a wolf that knows to pace himself for a hunt.
Word: lopper Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From lop + -er. 1. A person who lops. 2. A gardening tool used for lopping.
Word: lopper Part of Speech: verb 1. To turn sour and coagulate from too long standing, as milk. Labels: intransitive
Word: loquat Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Cantonese 盧橘 /卢橘 (lou⁴ gwat¹). Pronunciation: /ˈloʊkwɑt/, /ˈləʊkwɒt/ 1. Any of species Eriobotrya japonica of trees (Japanese medlar, Chinese plum, Japanese plum). Example: Japan Mespilus, or Loquat. Example: As far as the eye can see, one observes nothing but loquat orchards growing luxuriantly on the low, rich land, where the roots never suffer from lack of water. 2. The fruit of this tree, which is as large as a small plum, but grows in clusters, and contains four or five large seeds.
Word: lossy Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From loss + -y. Pronunciation: /ˈlɒsi/, /ˈlɔsi/, /ˈlɑsi/ 1. Of a communication channel, subject to loss of signal strength. 2. Of an electricity transmission line, subject to various forms of power loss. 3. Of an algorithm for converting or compressing data, reducing the amount of information in data. Example: JPEG is a lossy image compression format.
Word: louver Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Inherited from Middle English lover, from Old French lovier, lover (“skylight”), from Medieval Latin *lōdārium (attested as lōvārium), extension of lōdium, of unclear origin, but probably of Germanic origin and related to Frankish *laubijā (“shelter”). Pronunciation: /ˈluːvə/, /ˈluːvɚ/ 1. A type of turret on the roof of certain medieval buildings designed to allow ventilation or the admission of light. Example: But darknesse dred and daily night did hover / Through all the inner parts, wherein they dwelt; / Ne lightned was with window, nor with lover, / But with continuall candle-light […]. 2. A series of sloping overlapping slats or boards which admit air and light but exclude rain etc. Labels: in-plural 3. Any of a system of slits, as in the hood of an automobile, for ventilation.
Word: lowboy Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Possibly from low + French bois (“wood”). Pronunciation: /ˈləʊbɔɪ/ 1. A low chest of drawers. Example: Puffing rhythmically, Jones set one of his beautiful dragon-entwined flambeaux on the low-boy with the gleaming drinks […]. 2. A semi-trailer designed for hauling vehicles and other mobile equipment, with two drops in deck height: one right after the gooseneck and one right before the wheels; so named because the trailer's main deck is situated close to the ground for easy loading and unloading of vehicles and equipment. Example: Before the grave was half filled a truck entered the cemetery gates towing a lowboy with a tractor chained to the bed. 3. A precursor to the hi-hat drum, with a pair of cymbals low to the ground that are struck with a foot pedal.
Word: luge Part of Speech: noun Etymology: The noun is borrowed from Swiss French or Franco-Provençal luge, from Medieval Latin scludia, from Late Latin sclodia, of Celtic origin, from Gaulish *stludio, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *sleydʰ- (“to slide, slip; to be slick or slippery”). If so, it is related to sled and sleigh. Sense 2.2 (“drinking utensil”) is from its resemblance to the tracks on which luges race. The verb is derived from the noun. Cognates * Irish slaod (“raft, float”) * Old Breton stloit (“sliding; traction”) (modern Breton stlej (“sleigh”)) * Welsh llithr (“slide, slippage”) Pronunciation: /luː(d)ʒ/, /luʒ/ 1. A racing sled for one or two people that is ridden with the rider or riders lying on their back. Labels: also, attributive, countable 2. The sport of racing on luges. Labels: also, attributive, broadly, uncountable 3. A piece of bone, ice or other material with a channel down which a drink (usually alcoholic) can be poured into someone's mouth. Labels: also, attributive, broadly, countable Example: The luge was a block of ice, sometimes up to three-and-one-half feet long, which had narrow grooves etched into it. Alcohol was poured onto one end of the luge and as the alcohol traveled down the narrow grooves in the block of ice, it was cooled and then ran directly into the mouth of the waiting drinker on the other end. Example: Kegs of beer were set up around every corner. There was also a liquor luge—a giant block of ice, slanted at a 45-degree angle and carved with a convenient path for shots to be poured down and into the mouths of anyone who was thirsty.
Word: luge Part of Speech: verb Etymology: The noun is borrowed from Swiss French or Franco-Provençal luge, from Medieval Latin scludia, from Late Latin sclodia, of Celtic origin, from Gaulish *stludio, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *sleydʰ- (“to slide, slip; to be slick or slippery”). If so, it is related to sled and sleigh. Sense 2.2 (“drinking utensil”) is from its resemblance to the tracks on which luges race. The verb is derived from the noun. Cognates * Irish slaod (“raft, float”) * Old Breton stloit (“sliding; traction”) (modern Breton stlej (“sleigh”)) * Welsh llithr (“slide, slippage”) Pronunciation: /luː(d)ʒ/, /luʒ/ 1. To ride a luge; also, to participate in the sport of luge. Labels: also, attributive, intransitive 2. To slide or slip down a slope. Labels: also, attributive, figuratively, intransitive Example: [Norman] Ollestad was only 11 when a small plane carrying him, his father and his father's girlfriend to a ski race slammed into the San Gabriel Mountains west of Los Angeles during a blizzard. […] After the girlfriend luged to her death halfway down the icy slope, Ollestad had to pick his way down alone, following the trail of her blood.
Word: lugger Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English lug Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzios Latin -āriusnom. Latin -āriusbor. Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz Proto-West Germanic *-ārī Old English -ere Middle English -ere English -er English lugger From lug (verb) + -er (suffix forming agent nouns, and frequentative verbs). Pronunciation: /ˈlʌɡə/, /ˈlʌɡəɹ/ 1. Someone or something that lugs (“drags or hauls, especially something heavy”). Labels: also, figuratively Example: Tireur: […] A dravver, puller, plucker, baler, lugger, tugger, tovver; […] Example: The horse [a racehorse] was a lugger – lugging into the rail all the time. I had to fight hard to keep him running straight and we won – but the stewards said I interfered with another horse and I was moved to second. 2. Someone or something that lugs (“drags or hauls, especially something heavy”). Labels: also, figuratively Example: Micheal Kelleher was employed by the Swift Co., on Sept. 10, 1914, as a meat lugger. While engaged in carrying meat to the storage plant elevator a tag fastener was tossed toward him by a fellow employe. It struck him over the right eye. He lost the sight of the eye. Example: Robert Taillon, a lugger at Rapid, testified that in December 1997, Carlos Diaz and Michel Labrosse began to train Rene Delage as a lugger for the large transformers. 3. Someone or something that lugs (“drags or hauls, especially something heavy”). Labels: also, figuratively Example: The feds also figured that the casino's annual payroll was $350,000. An estimated 50 luggers were employed to bring gamblers to Reading. 4. Someone or something that lugs (“drags or hauls, especially something heavy”). Labels: also, derogatory, figuratively, slang Example: The Canadian [Ned] Hanlan represents what since the introduction of the slide may be called the scientific side of sculling; his Australian competitor [Elias Connell Laycock], though by no means such a mere "lugger" as his countryman [Edward] Trickett, trusts much less to style and mechanical finish. 5. Someone or something that lugs (“drags or hauls, especially something heavy”). Labels: Australia, US, also, figuratively, slang
Word: lugger Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree English lug Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzios Latin -āriusnom. Latin -āriusbor. Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz Proto-West Germanic *-ārī Old English -ere Middle English -ere English -er English lugger From lug (verb) + -er (suffix forming agent nouns, and frequentative verbs). Pronunciation: /ˈlʌɡə/, /ˈlʌɡəɹ/ 1. Synonym of lug (“to drag or haul (someone or something, especially when heavy); to carry, to pull”). Labels: transitive Example: But once as I vvent luggering home my load, / I ſavv tvvo Maſtives [mastiffs] fighting in the Road; […] Example: Mace and Svvord-bearers go before a King. / Methinks vvhen e're I ſee Authority, / Lugger a heavy Fool upon her Sholders / Before me, I have State beſtovved upon me, / And have a leaden Mace carried before me. 2. To tease (someone). Labels: figuratively, obsolete, transitive 3. To move heavily while, or as if, laden with goods; to lumber. Labels: intransitive Example: Up into that jumble of shacks with the trail snaking amidst came the ox-cart caravans of the priests, luggering along with goods for the mission at the Cathedral of St. Albert on the Sturgeon. Example: I take my gin outside, sit in the sun filtering through the vines into the courtyard outside my kitchen door, and listen to […] the cars luggering down the road, looking for somewhere to park to disgorge their occupants who tomorrow will be at school or university or work but today are heading for the cool and salt of the sea.
Word: lugger Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English lug(sail) Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzios Latin -āriusnom. Latin -āriusbor. Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz Proto-West Germanic *-ārī Old English -ere Middle English -ere English -er ? English lugger The noun is possibly from lug(sail) (“quadrilateral sail bent upon a yard that crosses the mast obliquely”) + -er (suffix forming nouns relating to the root words such as by location or purpose), but compare Dutch logger (“small sailing vessel, lugger”), possibly from Middle Dutch loggen, luggen (“to fish with a dragnet”). The verb is derived from the noun. Pronunciation: /ˈlʌɡə/, /ˈlʌɡəɹ/ 1. A small sailing vessel having two or three masts and a running bowsprit, carrying lugsails. Example: pearling lugger Example: [A]ll veſſels belonging in the vvhole, or in part, to any of his Majeſty's ſubjects, called Cutters, Luggers, Shallops, or VVherries, (of vvhat built ſoever), […] and all ſhips or veſſels belonging as aforeſaid, armed for reſiſtance, […] ſhall be forfeited, together vvith all the goods, if any, vvhich ſhall be laden thereon, and all her guns, tackle and furniture.
Word: lugger Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree English lug(sail) Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzios Latin -āriusnom. Latin -āriusbor. Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz Proto-West Germanic *-ārī Old English -ere Middle English -ere English -er ? English lugger The noun is possibly from lug(sail) (“quadrilateral sail bent upon a yard that crosses the mast obliquely”) + -er (suffix forming nouns relating to the root words such as by location or purpose), but compare Dutch logger (“small sailing vessel, lugger”), possibly from Middle Dutch loggen, luggen (“to fish with a dragnet”). The verb is derived from the noun. Pronunciation: /ˈlʌɡə/, /ˈlʌɡəɹ/ 1. To sail a lugger (etymology 2, noun sense 1). Labels: intransitive Example: [H]e has luggered all through Indonesia, from New Guinea to Singapore, and fluently speaks Dutch, Spanish, Portuguese, and a dozen dialects of Malay. Happening to be in Darwin with his lugger when the war started, he promptly enlisted in the hope of seeing overseas service; but a tropic linguist is too valuable for Darwin's defence, so there he has to stay. Example: [M]any Europeans and other aliens […] sought their fortunes on land by fossicking for gold and other precious minerals, and on sea along the coastline by luggering for pearl shell, trochus shell and the sea slug trepang or bêche de mer.
Word: lugger Part of Speech: noun Etymology: A variant of laggar. Pronunciation: /ˈlʌɡə/, /ˈlʌɡəɹ/ 1. Alternative form of laggar (“the jugger (Falco jugger), a mid-sized falcon native to the Indian subcontinent, Afghanistan, Iran, and Myanmar”). Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: Falconry is a difficult art to master, some species more so than others. Sakers and Luggers are known to be problematic, and easy to lose, or to lose patience with.
Word: lull Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English lullen, lollen. Originally, perhaps expressive in origin from la-la-la or lu-lu-lu sounds made in calming a child. Compare Finnish laulaa (“to sing”) and Hiligaynon lala (“to sing a lullaby”). Cognate with Scots lul, lule, loll (“to lull, put to sleep, howl, caterwaul”), Dutch lollen (“to sing badly, caterwaul”), Dutch lullen (“to chatter, prate, cheat, deceive”), Low German lullen (“to lull”), German lullen (“to lull”), Danish lulle (“to lull, sing to sleep”), Swedish lulla (“to lull”), Icelandic lúlla (“to lull”). Pronunciation: /lʌl/, /lʊl/ 1. A period of rest or soothing. 2. A period of reduced activity; a respite. Example: After this departure there is a lull—one can almost feel the weary station breathing thankfulness!—broken only by the car-sleeper departing at 10.25 from Platform 6 […]. There is normally another lull from 1.45 to 4.30 a.m. till the daily round begins again, […]. 3. A period without waves or wind. Example: […] during the lull, wind shifted to S. E. […] Example: After the lull the wind does not appear to have blown with any great strength […] 4. An extended pause between sets of waves. Example: It is advisable to leave the surf zone during the lull between sets of larger waves, waiting outside the surf zone for a lull. Example: About 2 hours in, a long lull cleared everyone out, and then it started getting a little more consistent and pushing chest ta neck high.
Word: lull Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English lullen, lollen. Originally, perhaps expressive in origin from la-la-la or lu-lu-lu sounds made in calming a child. Compare Finnish laulaa (“to sing”) and Hiligaynon lala (“to sing a lullaby”). Cognate with Scots lul, lule, loll (“to lull, put to sleep, howl, caterwaul”), Dutch lollen (“to sing badly, caterwaul”), Dutch lullen (“to chatter, prate, cheat, deceive”), Low German lullen (“to lull”), German lullen (“to lull”), Danish lulle (“to lull, sing to sleep”), Swedish lulla (“to lull”), Icelandic lúlla (“to lull”). Pronunciation: /lʌl/, /lʊl/ 1. To cause to rest by soothing influences; to compose; to calm Labels: transitive Example: To lull him soft a sleepe Example: Such ſweet compulſion doth in muſick ly, / To lull the daughers of Neceſſity, 2. To become gradually calm; to subside; to cease or abate. Labels: intransitive Example: The storm lulled. 3. To give somebody a false sense of security so that an unpleasant situation takes the person by surprise. Labels: transitive Example: They lulled us into thinking we still had time.
Word: lulu Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Probably from American stage magician Lulu Hurst (1869–1950). Pronunciation: /ˈluːlu/ 1. A remarkable person, object, or idea. Labels: slang Example: The funny part was, though, we were the worst skaters on the whole goddam^([sic]) rink. I mean the worst. And there were some lulus, too. Example: Mon-sewer, you are a lulu! 2. A very attractive or alluring person. Labels: slang 3. A very bad mistake or error. Labels: slang
Word: lulu Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From the phrase in lieu. Pronunciation: /ˈluːlu/ 1. A fixed allowance paid to a legislator in lieu of reimbursement for actual expenses. Labels: slang
Word: lummox Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Unknown. First attested in 1825 in East Anglian slang. Perhaps from "dumb ox", influenced by lumbering; or from or cognate to dialectal verb lummock (“move about heavily or clumsily”), itself a word of uncertain origin. Pronunciation: /ˈlʌməks/ 1. A clumsy, stupid person; an awkward bungler. Labels: informal Example: You've broken the plates, you great lummox! Example: As a rule, a knight is a lummux, and sometimes even a labrick, and hence open to pretty poor arguments when they come glibly from a superstition-monger, but even he could see the practical side of a thing once in a while; […]
Word: lumper Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From lump + -er. Pronunciation: /ˈlʌmpə/, /ˈlʌmpɚ/ 1. An extra laborer hired to assist in the loading or unloading of a truck or a ship. Example: There were owners of lines of schooners, large contributors to the societies, and small men, their few craft pawned to the mastheads, with bankers and marine-insurance agents, captains of tugs and water-boats, riggers, fitters, lumpers, salters, boat-builders, and coopers, and all the mixed population of the water-front. 2. A scientist in one of various fields who prefers to keep categories such as species or dialects together in larger groups. 3. A militiaman. Labels: dialectal 4. Synonym of lumpman (“type of salt worker”). Labels: historical
Word: lumper Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈlʌmpə/, /ˈlʌmpɚ/ 1. A lamprey. Labels: dialectal
Word: lumper Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ˈlʌmpə/, /ˈlʌmpɚ/ 1. To lumber; to plod. Labels: archaic, intransitive Example: Over piggeries, and mixens, and apples, and hay, / They lumpered straight into the night; / And finding bylong where a halter-path lay, / At dawn reached Tim's house […] Example: But, my dear woman, why ever have ye come lumpering up to Rainbarrows at this time o' night?
Word: lutz Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From the surname of Austrian skater Alois Lutz, who invented the jump. Pronunciation: /lʌts/, /lʊts/ 1. A jump in which the skater takes off from the back outside edge of one skate, rotates counterclockwise and lands on the back outside edge of the other skate. Example: Meissner fell three times, on two triple lutzes and a triple flip, to drop from fourth, the worst performance by a defending champion in at least 50 years.
Word: lutz Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /lʌts/, /lʊts/ 1. A kind of marble (spherical toy) with bands of copper or goldstone flakes.
Word: luxe Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From French luxe, from Latin luxus. Cognate with English lock. Pronunciation: /luks/, /lʌks/ 1. Luxury. Labels: uncountable Example: When it comes to advertising, he says, the much talked-about idea that luxe is recession-proof has been proven not to be the case. Example: With sleek bucket bags, totes and backpacks priced from $460 to $950, Mansur Gavriel is targeting women who want low-key luxe and value without overt logos or labeling.
Word: luxe Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From French luxe, from Latin luxus. Cognate with English lock. Pronunciation: /luks/, /lʌks/ 1. Luxurious, sophisticated. Example: A pair of luxe Scottish golf resorts operated by Donald Trump suffered millions of dollars in losses during 2015, according to recent filings with a U.K. government agency, adding another complication to Trump's pitch for the White House, in which he has frequently emphasized his business acumen. Example: The luxe department store Barneys New York announced this week that it would launch a new Instagram-ready cannabis department called The High End.
Word: lye Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English leye, lye, from Old English lēah, lēag (“lye”), from Proto-West Germanic *laugu, from Proto-Germanic *laugō, from Proto-Indo-European *lewh₃- (“to wash”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Loge, Looie (“lye”), Dutch loog (“lye”), German Low German Loge, Loje, Loog (“lye”), German Lauge (“lye”). Compare typologically Ancient Greek ῥύμμα (rhúmma) < ῥύπτω (rhúptō, “to cleanse, to wash”); Russian м́ыло (ḿylo) (a nomen instrumenti of мыть (mytʹ)). Pronunciation: /laɪ/ 1. An alkaline liquid made by leaching ashes (usually wood ashes). Labels: countable, uncountable 2. Potassium or sodium hydroxide (caustic soda). Labels: countable, uncountable Example: She had not left the lye in too long so that the hair would fall out in clumps later.
Word: lye Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English leye, lye, from Old English lēah, lēag (“lye”), from Proto-West Germanic *laugu, from Proto-Germanic *laugō, from Proto-Indo-European *lewh₃- (“to wash”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Loge, Looie (“lye”), Dutch loog (“lye”), German Low German Loge, Loje, Loog (“lye”), German Lauge (“lye”). Compare typologically Ancient Greek ῥύμμα (rhúmma) < ῥύπτω (rhúptō, “to cleanse, to wash”); Russian м́ыло (ḿylo) (a nomen instrumenti of мыть (mytʹ)). Pronunciation: /laɪ/ 1. To treat with lye.
Word: lye Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Variant of lie (“to rest horizontally”) now used in a specialised sense; compare sett. Pronunciation: /laɪ/ 1. Obsolete spelling of lie. Labels: alt-of, obsolete Example: Now negligent of sports I lye, And now as other Fawkners use, I spring a mistresse, sweare, write, sigh and weepe: And the game kill'd, or lost, goe talk, and sleepe. Example: But when his foe lyes proſtrate on the plain, He ſheaths his paws, uncurls his angry mane; And, pleas'd with bloudleſs honours of the day, Walks over, and diſdains th' inglorious Prey,[…]
Word: lye Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Variant of lie (“to rest horizontally”) now used in a specialised sense; compare sett. Pronunciation: /laɪ/ 1. Obsolete spelling of lie. Labels: alt-of, obsolete 2. A short side line, connected with the main line; a turn-out; a siding. Labels: UK Example: Brakevan lye. [same page in the main text] There is also an inclined lye for brakevans at each end of the yard.
Word: lysine Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *lewh₁-der. Ancient Greek λύω (lúō) Proto-Indo-European *-tis Ancient Greek -τις (-tis) Ancient Greek -σις (-sis) Ancient Greek λῠ́σῐς (lŭ́sĭs)der. Latin lysisbor. English lysis Proto-Indo-European *-nós Proto-Indo-European *-iHnos Proto-Italic *-īnos Latin -īnusder. Old French -inbor. Middle English -in English -ine English lysine From lysis + -ine, in reference to its tendency to participate in catalysis. Pronunciation: /ˈlaɪsiːn/ 1. An amino acid, C₆H₁₄N₂O₂, in L- or D-forms. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. An amino acid, C₆H₁₄N₂O₂, in L- or D-forms. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Lysine is an essential amino acid required for many body functions, including growth and bone development in children; calcium absorption and maintenance of the correct nitrogen balance in the body; maintenance of lean body mass; production of antibodies, hormones, and enzymes; collagen formation and repair of tissue.
Word: macer Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English macer, from Anglo-Norman macer, from mace (“mace”). 1. A mace bearer; specifically, an officer of a court in Scotland.
Word: macer Part of Speech: noun 1. A cardsharp. Labels: slang Example: Indeed, Moran was a profession cheat, a sharper of more than ordinary dimensions — a macer, in criminal parlance. He had made card sharping a life's work — second only to shooting […]
Word: macers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of macer Labels: form-of, plural
Word: macho Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish macho (“male”), from Latin masculus. Doublet of male. Pronunciation: /ˈmæt͡ʃ.əʊ/, /ˈmɑ.t͡ʃoʊ/ 1. Masculine in an overly assertive or aggressive way. Very masculine. Labels: informal Example: macho culture Example: I like sports because I enjoy knowing that many of these macho athletes have to vomit before a big game. Any guy who would take a job where you gotta puke first is my kinda guy.
Word: macho Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish macho (“male”), from Latin masculus. Doublet of male. Pronunciation: /ˈmæt͡ʃ.əʊ/, /ˈmɑ.t͡ʃoʊ/ 1. A macho person; a man who is masculine in an overly assertive or aggressive way. Example: You can tell a macho, he has a funky walk / His western shirts and leather, always look so boss 2. A very masculine man. 3. Machismo Example: […] about how the military is anti-gay and uses intimidation and peer pressure. How it promotes a sense of false macho and patriotism. Example: Though there was plentiful evidence to the contrary that should have made plain to him the hairy masculine macho of German gays, Hitler's stereotyped image perceived them as woman-like, surrendering, and therefore essentially weak. 4. The striped mullet of California (Mugil cephalus, syn. Mugil mexicanus). 5. A male llama.
Word: machos Part of Speech: noun 1. Synonym of machismo. Labels: uncountable
Word: magma Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *mh₂ǵyéti Ancient Greek μάσσω (mássō) Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥ Ancient Greek -μα (-ma) Ancient Greek μάγμα (mágma)der. English magma From Ancient Greek μάγμα (mágma, “paste”). Pronunciation: /ˈmæɡ.mə/ 1. A mixture of molten silicate rock, crystals, and gas within the earth, which may be erupted as lava or cool in place to form igneous intrusions. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: By the pathside, there are occasional large boulders that shown black crystals the size of a fingernail; these are pyroxene minerals that had time to crystallise out deep within the chamber of liquid rock – or magma – beneath the volcano. 2. A basic algebraic structure consisting of a set equipped with a single binary operation. Labels: countable, uncountable 3. Any soft doughy mass. Labels: countable, uncountable 4. The residuum after expressing the juice from fruits. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: malted Part of Speech: adj 1. Processed into malt. Labels: not-comparable
Word: malted Part of Speech: noun 1. A malted milk; a milkshake with malted milk powder. Labels: informal Example: Among the most popular from the late nineteenth century on were malteds, milkshakes, and ice cream floats. […] Malted milk beverages were viewed as healthy, complete meal drinks that had particular appeal for men […]
Word: malted Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of malt Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: mambo Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Haitian Creole manbo (“voodoo priestess”) (ultimately from Yoruba mambo (“to talk”)), in later senses via Cuban Spanish mambo (“dance”). Pronunciation: /ˈmæmbəʊ/, /ˈmɑmboʊ/ 1. A voodoo priestess (in Haiti) Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The mambo next presented a container of water to the cardinal points, then poured libations to the centerpost of the peristyle, the axis along which the spirits were to enter. Example: The manbo showed her how to take small handfuls of liquid and spread it on her skin always moving in the upward direction. 2. A Latin-American musical genre, adapted from rumba, originating from Cuba in the 1940s, or a dance or rhythm of this genre. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: mambo Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Haitian Creole manbo (“voodoo priestess”) (ultimately from Yoruba mambo (“to talk”)), in later senses via Cuban Spanish mambo (“dance”). Pronunciation: /ˈmæmbəʊ/, /ˈmɑmboʊ/ 1. To perform this dance. Labels: intransitive
Word: marc Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle French marc, from Old French marcher (“to trample”). Pronunciation: /mɑːk/, /mɑɹk/ 1. The refuse matter that remains after fruit, particularly grapes, has been pressed. Labels: uncountable, usually 2. An alcoholic spirit distilled from the marc of grapes. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: There were a few men in the café sitting with coffee and glasses of kirsch or marc on the tables. Example: The fire was restoked and the army of wine-bottles gave way to a smaller phalanx of brandies, Armagnacs and Marcs, to offset the large bowls of coffee from which rose plumes of fragrance.
Word: marc Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /mɑːk/, /mɑɹk/ 1. Alternative form of mark (“various half-pound units of mass, various European currencies”). Labels: alt-of, alternative, historical, uncommon
Word: marcel Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Apparently from the French name Marcel, but accounts vary regarding who invented the style. Pronunciation: /mɑː(ɹ)ˈsɛl/ 1. A hairstyle characterized by deep waves made by a curling iron. 2. A marcel wave.
Word: marcel Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Apparently from the French name Marcel, but accounts vary regarding who invented the style. Pronunciation: /mɑː(ɹ)ˈsɛl/ 1. To wave (hair) by the marcel method. Labels: transitive Example: Like women sitting for two hours under the marcelling irons only to wonder two days later how soon they would need another appointment. 2. To wave. Labels: figuratively, transitive
Word: marlin Part of Speech: noun Etymology: A contraction of marlinspike, named so because of its pointed snout. Pronunciation: /ˈmɑɹ.lɪn/ 1. Any species of game fish belonging to either of the genera Tetrapturus or Makaira, with a crested dorsal fin and a pointed, spear-like projection of the upper jaw.
Word: marque Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from French marque. Doublet of mark. Ultimately cognate with marquee. Pronunciation: /ˈmɑː(ɹ)k/ 1. A brand of a manufactured product, especially of a motor car. Example: The group wants Rover as its luxury marque and MG as the performance car. Example: And there seems to be an intrinsic disconnect between a high-end marque and the utilitarian nature of an S.U.V. 2. A license to pass the limits of a jurisdiction, or boundary of a country, for the purpose of making reprisals or privateering; the document recording this license. 3. A ship commissioned for making captures.
Word: marrer Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From mar + -er. 1. One who mars or injures. Labels: rare
Word: maw Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English mawe, maghe, maȝe, from Old English maga (“stomach; maw”), from Proto-West Germanic *magō, from Proto-Germanic *magô (“belly; stomach”), from Proto-Indo-European *mak-, *maks- (“bag, bellows, belly”). Cognates Cognate with West Frisian mage, Dutch maag (“stomach; belly”), German Low German Maag, German Magen (“stomach”), Danish mave, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish mage (“stomach; belly”), and also with Welsh megin (“bellows”), archaic Russian мошна́ (mošná, “pocket, bag”), Lithuanian mãkas (“purse”), Finnish maha (“stomach”), Estonian magu (“stomach”). Pronunciation: /mɔː/, /mɔ/, /mɑ/ 1. The stomach, especially of an animal. Labels: archaic, countable, uncountable Example: So Death shall be deceav'd his glut, and with us two / Be forc'd to satisfie his Rav'nous Maw. 2. The upper digestive tract (where food enters the body), especially the mouth and jaws of a fearsome and ravenous creature; craw. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: To save poor lambkins from the eagle's maw Example: “I saw the opening maw of hell, With endless pains and sorrows there; Which none but they that feel can tell— Oh, I was plunging to despair. 3. The mouth. Labels: countable, derogatory, slang, uncountable Example: Shut your maw! Example: She fumbled with her bag, and produced from its little maw a scented handkerchief. 4. Any large, insatiable or perilous opening. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Adam requires a touch of feminine lace and a whisper of diaphanous silk, not a direct vision of the gaping maw of the human vulva. Example: One two! I was born in a cross-fire hurricane. And I howled at the maw in the drivin' rain. But it's all right now, in fact, it's a gas. But it's all right. I'm Jumpin' Jack Flash. It's a gas, gas, gas. 5. Appetite; inclination. Labels: obsolete, uncountable Example: Unless you had more maw to do me good. 6. The swim bladder of a fish, especially when used as food in Chinese cuisine. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: fish maw: The buoyancy bladder of a fish similar in appearance to the mammalian lung. The maw of the conger pike is used in Chinese cooking and is usually sold in dried form which needs reconstituting for about 3 hours and treating with[…] Example: Fish maw is the commercial term for the dried swim bladders of large fish like sturgeon. Fish maw has no fishy taste and absorbs the flavors of other ingredients.
Word: maw Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Variant of ma. Pronunciation: /mɔː/, /mɔ/, /mɑ/ 1. Mother. Labels: colloquial, dialectal
Word: maw Part of Speech: noun Etymology: See mew (“a gull”), Norwegian måke (“a gull”) Pronunciation: /mɔː/, /mɔ/, /mɑ/ 1. A gull.
Word: mazier Part of Speech: adj 1. comparative form of mazy: more mazy Labels: comparative, form-of
Word: measle Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English mesel, from Old French mesel (“leprous”), from Latin misellus (“wretched", "unfortunate”), diminutive of miser (“wretched, sick”), of unknown ultimate origin. Pronunciation: /ˈmiːzəl/, /ˈmizəl/ 1. A red spot of the kind that appears on the skin of someone suffering from measles. 2. A tapeworm larva.
Word: meated Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From meat + -ed. 1. Fed; fattened. 2. Having a specified kind of meat. Labels: in-compounds Example: September 20, 1837, William Cullen Bryant, Calhoun’s Diminished Stature At this moment the rabbit sprang from his arms and disappeared among the brush wood. "Go to pot," said the man, "you are a good-for-nothing dry-meated beast, to make the best of you."
Word: mediad Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Latin mediālisbor. English medial English -ad English mediad From medial + -ad. 1. Toward the middle line.
Word: medial Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *me Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-? Proto-Indo-European *-dʰe Proto-Indo-European *médʰi Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *médʰyos Proto-Italic *meðios Latin medius Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.? Proto-Italic *-ālis Latin -ālis Latin mediālisbor. English medial Borrowed from Latin mediālis (“middle”), from medius (“that is in the middle or midst”) + -ālis (“-al”, adjectival suffix). Pronunciation: /ˈmiː.di.əl/ 1. Of or pertaining to a mean or average. Example: medial allegation 2. Situated in or near the middle; not at either end. Example: The medial side of the knee faces the other knee, while the outer side of the knee is lateral. Example: Her anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) and medial collateral ligament (MCL) are torn and Vonn has a lateral fracture of the tibial plateau, the upper end of the tibia or shin bone. 3. Situated in or near the middle; not at either end. Example: Mönckeberg medial sclerosis 4. Situated in or near the middle; not at either end. 5. Situated in or near the middle; not at either end. 6. Situated in or near the middle; not at either end. Example: Thus, when he drew up instructions in lawyer language, he expressed the important words by an initial, a medial, or a final consonant, and made scratches for all the words between; his clerks, however, understood him very well. 7. Situated in or near the middle; not at either end.
Word: medial Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *me Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-? Proto-Indo-European *-dʰe Proto-Indo-European *médʰi Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *médʰyos Proto-Italic *meðios Latin medius Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.? Proto-Italic *-ālis Latin -ālis Latin mediālisbor. English medial Borrowed from Latin mediālis (“middle”), from medius (“that is in the middle or midst”) + -ālis (“-al”, adjectival suffix). Pronunciation: /ˈmiː.di.əl/ 1. Any of various things that occur in the middle. 2. Any of various things that occur in the middle.
Word: medico Part of Speech: noun 1. A physician or medical doctor; sometimes also a medical student. Labels: informal Example: 1894, Ivan Dexter, Talmud: A Strange Narrative of Central Australia, published in serial form in Port Adelaide News and Lefevre's Peninsula Advertiser (SA), Chapter XV, http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks16/1600641.txt She had travelled with her father as far as the Springs, and both of them were in utter ignorance of the fate which had overtaken the young medico during the journey. Example: He has been an Army medico since the Spanish War, active student of X-ray leprosy treatments and degassing processes.
Word: medics Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of medic Labels: form-of, plural
Word: medics Part of Speech: noun 1. The science of medicine. Labels: obsolete, uncountable
Word: medlar Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English medler, medeler, from Old French medler, meslier, from medle, mesdle (“medlar fruit”), from Latin mespilum, from Ancient Greek μέσπιλον (méspilon). Related to the rare mesple, via Proto-West Germanic *mespilā. Displaced Old English openærs (“open-arse”) (and similar names, from anatomical comparison). Pronunciation: /ˈmɛdlə/, /ˈmɛdlɚ/, /ˈmedlɘ/ 1. Mespilus germanica, common medlar (now often Crataegus germanica). 2. Any tree of the genus Mespilus, now Crataegus sect. Mespilus, including many species now in other genera. 3. Any of several similar trees that bear similar fruit: 4. Any of several similar trees that bear similar fruit: 5. Any of several similar trees that bear similar fruit: 6. Any of several similar trees that bear similar fruit: 7. Any of several similar trees that bear similar fruit: 8. Any of several similar trees that bear similar fruit: 9. The fruit of such trees, similar to small apples 10. The fruit of such trees, similar to small apples: 11. A woman or a woman's genitalia (as the fruit's appearance resembles an "open-arse"). Labels: derogatory Example: I was once before him for getting a wench with child....but I was fain to forswear it; they would else have married me to the rotten medlar.
Word: meed Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English meede, mede, from Old English mēd, meord, meard, meorþ (“meed, reward, pay, price, compensation, bribe”), from Proto-West Germanic *miʀdu, from Proto-Germanic *mizdō (“meed”), from Proto-Indo-European *misdʰéh₂, from Proto-Indo-European *mey- (“to exchange”). Cognate with obsolete Dutch miede (“wages”), Low German Meed (“rent”), German Miete (“rent”), Gothic 𐌼𐌹𐌶𐌳𐍉 (mizdō, “meed, reward, payment, recompense”); further Ancient Greek μισθός (misthós, “wage”), Old Church Slavonic мьзда (mĭzda, “reward”), Sanskrit मीळ्ह (mīḷhá), Sanskrit मीढ (mīḍhá), Avestan 𐬨𐬍𐬲𐬛𐬀 (mīžda). Pronunciation: /miːd/ 1. A payment or recompense made for services rendered or in recognition of some achievement; reward; award. Labels: archaic, literary Example: For well ſhe wiſt,as true it was indeed / That her liues Lord and patrone of her health / Right well deſerued as his duefull meed, / Her loue,her ſeruice,and her vtmoſt wealth. Example: Brought up in darkness, and the child of sin, Yet, as the meed of spotless innocence, Just Heaven permitted her by one good deed To work her own redemption, after death. 2. A gift; bribe. 3. Merit; worth. Labels: dated Example: […]my meed hath got me fame:[…] Example: In any case, his life would be in ignominy and would be brief, and he would have lost irretrievably the meed of valour.
Word: meed Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English meden, from Old English *mēdian (“to reward, bribe”), from Proto-West Germanic *miʀdōn, from Proto-Germanic *mizdōną (“to reward”), from Proto-Indo-European *misdʰ- (“to pay”). Cognate with German Low German meden (“to hire, lease, rent”), German mieten (“to rent”). Pronunciation: /miːd/ 1. To reward; bribe. Labels: transitive 2. To deserve; merit. Labels: transitive
Word: megohm Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From meg- + ohm. 1. Alternative form of megaohm. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: mere Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English mere, mer, from Anglo-Norman meer, from Old French mier, from Latin merus (“pure, unmixed, undiluted”), from Proto-Indo-European *mer- (“to sparkle, gleam”). Cognate with Old English āmerian, āmyrian (“to purify, examine, revise”). The Middle English word was perhaps influenced by or conflated with sound-alike Middle English mere (“glorious, noble, splendid, fine, pure”), from Old English mǣre (“famous, great, excellent, sublime, splendid, pure, sterling”), from Proto-West Germanic *mārī, from Proto-Germanic *mērijaz. Pronunciation: /mɪə̯/, /mɪː/, /mɪjə/, /mɪɚ/, /miə/ 1. Just, only; no more than, pure and simple, neither more nor better than might be expected. Example: The mere thought of pineapple on pizza makes me want to throw up. Example: The mere suggestion that the queen’s brother tried to kill your boy would be considered treason. 2. Pure, unalloyed . Labels: obsolete Example: So oft as I this history record, / My heart doth melt with meere compassion[…]. Example: Meere [translating pure] ignorance, and wholy relying on others, was verily more profitable and wiser, than is this verball, and vaine knowledge[…]. 3. Nothing less than; complete, downright . Labels: obsolete Example: If every man might have what he would[…]we should have another chaos in an instant, a meer confusion. Example: This freedom of expostulation exalted his mother's ire to meer frenzy […].
Word: mere Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English mere, from Old English mǣre, ġemǣre (“boundary; limit”), from Proto-Germanic *mairiją (“boundary”), from Proto-Indo-European *mey- (“to fence”). Cognate with Dutch meer (“a limit, boundary”), Icelandic mærr (“borderland”), Swedish landamäre (“border, borderline, boundary”). Pronunciation: /mɪə̯/, /mɪː/, /mɪjə/, /mɪɚ/, /miə/ 1. Boundary, limit; a boundary-marker; boundary-line. Example: The Troian Brute did first that Citie found, / And Hygate made the meare thereof by West, / And Ouert gate by North: that is the bound / Toward the land; two riuers bound the rest.
Word: mere Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English mere, from Old English mǣre, ġemǣre (“boundary; limit”), from Proto-Germanic *mairiją (“boundary”), from Proto-Indo-European *mey- (“to fence”). Cognate with Dutch meer (“a limit, boundary”), Icelandic mærr (“borderland”), Swedish landamäre (“border, borderline, boundary”). Pronunciation: /mɪə̯/, /mɪː/, /mɪjə/, /mɪɚ/, /miə/ 1. To limit; bound; divide or cause division in. Labels: obsolete, transitive 2. To set divisions and bounds. Labels: intransitive, obsolete 3. To decide upon the position of a boundary; to position it on a map. Example: What chance is there of revising this example of case law to include an exception to the generally cited rule when an administrative boundary has been mered in the past to coincide with a private property boundary?
Word: mere Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English mere, from Old English mere (“lake, pool,” in compounds and poetry “sea”), from Proto-West Germanic *mari (“sea”), from Proto-Germanic *mari, from Proto-Indo-European *móri. Cognate with West Frisian mar, 'lake', Dutch meer, 'lake', Low German Meer, and German Meer, 'sea'. Non-Germanic cognates include Latin mare, Breton mor, and Russian мо́ре (móre). Doublet of maar and mare (“a large, dark plain; a lake on Titan”). Pronunciation: /mɪə̯/, /mɪː/, /mɪjə/, /mɪɚ/, /miə/ 1. Synonym of sea, a large body of salt water. Labels: obsolete 2. Synonym of inlet, an arm of the sea. Labels: obsolete 3. A body of standing water, inclusive of lakes, ponds, and pools, especially any broad and shallow one. Labels: UK, dialectal, literary Example: When making for the Brooke, the Falkoner doth espie On River, Plash, or Mere, where store of Fowle doth lye: Example: The meres of Shropshire and Cheshire. 4. Synonym of marsh. Labels: UK, dialectal Example: Cully Barnaby: Right to roam, Dad. She has got a point. DCI Tom Barnaby: But it's a mere. Who'd want to walk across a mere?
Word: mere Part of Speech: noun Etymology: See mayor. Pronunciation: /mɪə̯/, /mɪː/, /mɪjə/, /mɪɚ/, /miə/ 1. Alternative form of mayor and mair. Labels: alt-of, alternative, obsolete
Word: mere Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Māori mere (“more”). Pronunciation: /mɪə̯/, /mɪː/, /mɪjə/, /mɪɚ/, /miə/ 1. A Maori war-club. Example: As Owen prepared to dismiss the matter, Rule produced something that really caught the great man's eye – a greenstone mere, the warclub of the Maori.
Word: merle Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English merle, from Old French merle (French merle), from Latin merula (“blackbird”) (whence the directly borrowed Middle English merule, and compare the taxonomic name Turdus merula), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂mes- (“black, blackbird”). Compare Breton moualch (“ouzel”), Welsh mwyalch (“blackbird, thrush”). Distantly related to the synonymous ouzel. Pronunciation: /mɜːl/, /mɝl/ 1. A Eurasian blackbird, Turdus merula. 2. Any blackbird.
Word: merle Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /mɜːl/, /mɝl/ 1. A type of mottled coloration on dogs. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. A dog having this coloration. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: meson Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Ancient Greek μέσον (méson, “middle”). Doublet of medium. Pronunciation: /ˈmɛs.ɒn/ 1. The mesial plane dividing the body into similar right and left halves. Labels: regional
Word: meson Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From meso- + -on. Coined by Indian physicist Homi Bhabha in 1939, as a modification of the earlier suggestion mesotron. Pronunciation: /ˈmiːzɒn/, /ˈ-sɒn/, /ˈmɛ-/ 1. A member of a group of subatomic particles having a mass intermediate between electrons and protons. (The most easily detected mesons fit this definition.) Labels: obsolete 2. An elementary particle that is composed of a quark and an antiquark, such as a kaon or pion. (Mesons composed of rarer quarks are much heavier.) Labels: particle, specifically
Word: mete Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English meten, from Old English metan (“to measure, mete out, mark off, compare, estimate; pass over, traverse”), from Proto-West Germanic *metan, from Proto-Germanic *metaną (“to measure”), from Proto-Indo-European *med- (“to measure, consider”). Cognate with Scots mete (“to measure”), Saterland Frisian meete (“to measure”), West Frisian mjitte (“to measure”), Dutch meten (“to measure”), German messen (“to measure”), Swedish mäta (“to measure”), Latin modus (“limit, measure, target”), Ancient Greek μεδίμνος (medímnos, “measure, bushel”), Ancient Greek μέδεσθαι (médesthai, “care for”), Old Armenian միտ (mit, “mind”). Pronunciation: /miːt/ 1. To dispense, measure in order to dispense, allot (especially punishment, reward etc.). Labels: transitive, usually Example: Match'd with an agèd wife, I mete and dole Unequal laws unto a savage race Example: Every generation metes out substantially the same punishment to those who fall far below and those who rise high above its standards.