nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: address Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd Proto-Italic *ad Proto-Italic *ad- Latin ad- Old French a- Proto-Italic *dwizrektos Proto-Indo-European *h₃reǵ- Proto-Indo-European *-eti Proto-Indo-European *h₃réǵeti Proto-Italic *dwizregō Latin dīrigō Latin dīrēctus Proto-Indo-European *-yetider. Latin -iāre Vulgar Latin *dīrēctiāre Old French drecier Old French adrecierbor. Middle English adressen English address From Middle English adressen (“to radise erect, adorn”), from Old French adrecier (“to straighten, address”) (modern French adresser), from Proto-Romance *addīrēctiāre, from ad- (“to; towards”) + *dīrēctiāre (“to guide; to direct”), from Latin dīrēctus (“straight; right”), from dīrigō (“to lay straight; to direct”), itself from regō (“to govern, to rule”). Cognate with Spanish aderezar (“to garnish; dress (food); to add spices”). Pronunciation: /əˈdɹɛs/, /ˈædɹɛs/ 1. Direction. Labels: obsolete 2. Direction. Labels: archaic, in-plural Example: [H]e was thus agreeable, and I neither insensible of his Perfections, nor displeased at his Addresses to me […]. 3. Direction. Example: a man of pleasing or insinuating address 4. Direction. 5. Direction. Labels: Commonwealth 6. Direction. Example: Mr. Gregson, who had listened to this address with considerable impatience, could contain himself no longer. Example: I watched her without knowing, with a prevision that she was going to address me, though with no sort of idea as to the subject of her address. 7. Direction. Example: Where we once sent love letters in a sealed envelope, or stuck photographs of our children in a family album, now such private material is despatched to servers and clouds operated by people we don't know and will never meet. Perhaps we assume that our name, address and search preferences will be viewed by some unseen pair of corporate eyes, probably not human, and don't mind that much. Example: The President's address is 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW in Washington, D.C. 8. Direction. Example: I went to his address but there was nobody there. 9. Direction. Example: The program will crash if there is no valid data stored at that address. 10. Direction. Labels: Internet 11. Preparation. Labels: archaic Example: This is one bad effect of a good Character—it invites applications from the unfortunate and there needs no small degree of address to gain the reputation of Benevolence without incurring the expence.— Example: The warmth of Father Pedro's constitution had formerly drawn him into some scrapes from which it required all his address to disengage himself, and rendered him exceedingly cautious ever after. 12. Preparation. Labels: obsolete Example: But now again she makes address to speak. 13. Preparation. Labels: Scotland
Word: comer Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English comere, equivalent to come + -er. Pronunciation: /ˈkʌmɚ/ 1. One in a race who is catching up to others and shows promise of winning. 2. An ambitious person; one who is catching up in some contest and has a likelihood of victory; Labels: figuratively Example: This guy is is a real comer. Example: The transition from comer to also-ran can be quick. 3. One who arrives. Example: The champ will face all comers. Example: It was soon apparent that no every day comer was at the door. One servant whispered […] it was the bishop […]
Word: study Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Inherited from Middle English studien, from Old French estudier (Modern French étudier), from estudie (noun), borrowed from Latin studium. Displaced Old English cneordlæcan. Pronunciation: /ˈstʌd.i/, [ˈstʌɾ.i], /ˈstʊd.i/, /(ɪ)ˈsʈəɖ.i/ 1. To review materials already learned in order to make sure one does not forget them, usually in preparation for an examination. Labels: intransitive, literary, transitive, usually Example: Students are expected to start studying for final exams in March. Example: I need to study my biology notes. 2. To take a course or courses on a subject. Labels: literary, transitive Example: I study medicine at the university. 3. To acquire knowledge on a subject with the intention of applying it in practice. Labels: transitive Example: Biologists study living things. Example: In 2015, scientists found that 82 percent of glaciers studied in China had decreased in size. 4. To look at carefully and minutely. Labels: transitive Example: He studied the map in preparation for the hike. 5. To fix the mind closely upon a subject; to dwell upon anything in thought; to muse; to ponder. Labels: transitive Example: July 10, 1732, Jonathan Swift, letter to Mr. Gay and The Duchess of Queensberry I found a moral first, and studied for a fable. Example: There is no occasion to study attire so long as one is suitably clothed for the warm days of September. 6. To endeavor diligently; to be zealous. Labels: archaic, intransitive Example: And that ye study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you […]
Word: sleepy Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Germanic *slēpaz Proto-West Germanic *slāp Proto-Indo-European *-kos Proto-Germanic *-gaz Proto-West Germanic *-g Proto-West Germanic *slāpag Old English *slǣpiġ Middle English slepy English sleepy From Middle English slepy, from Old English *slǣpiġ (attested in unslǣpiġ (“sleepless”)), from Proto-West Germanic *slāpag (“sleepy”), equivalent to sleep + -y. Cognate with Saterland Frisian släipich (“sleepy”), West Frisian sliepich (“sleepy”), dialectal Dutch slapig, slepig (“sleepy”), German Low German slapig, släpig, slöpig (“sleepy”), archaic German schlafig (“sleepy”). Pronunciation: /ˈsliːpi/ 1. Tired; feeling the need for sleep. Example: She wak'd her sleepy crew. 2. Suggesting tiredness. Example: At the very moment he cried out, David realised that what he had run into was only the Christmas tree. Disgusted with himself at such cowardice, he spat a needle from his mouth, stepped back from the tree and listened. There were no sounds of any movement upstairs: no shouts, no sleepy grumbles, only a gentle tinkle from the decorations as the tree had recovered from the collision. 3. Tending to induce sleep. Example: a sleepy drink or potion Example: [T]he yong L. Roger Mortimer, […] hauing corrupted his Keepers, or (as ſome others vvrite) hauing potioned them vvith a ſleepy drinke, eſcaped out of the Tovver of London, getting ouer clearely vvithout any empeachment into France. 4. Dull; lazy. Labels: figuratively Example: 'Tis not sleepy business; But must be looked to speedily and strongly. 5. Quiet; without bustle or activity. Labels: figuratively Example: a sleepy English village Example: Experts believe a pandemic welfare programme for poorer Brazilians has encouraged robbers to plan bold raids in sleepy regional cities where bank branches are storing more cash.
Word: sleepy Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Germanic *slēpaz Proto-West Germanic *slāp Proto-Indo-European *-kos Proto-Germanic *-gaz Proto-West Germanic *-g Proto-West Germanic *slāpag Old English *slǣpiġ Middle English slepy English sleepy From Middle English slepy, from Old English *slǣpiġ (attested in unslǣpiġ (“sleepless”)), from Proto-West Germanic *slāpag (“sleepy”), equivalent to sleep + -y. Cognate with Saterland Frisian släipich (“sleepy”), West Frisian sliepich (“sleepy”), dialectal Dutch slapig, slepig (“sleepy”), German Low German slapig, släpig, slöpig (“sleepy”), archaic German schlafig (“sleepy”). Pronunciation: /ˈsliːpi/ 1. The gum that builds up in the eye; sleep, gound. Labels: in-plural, informal, uncountable Example: "Did he always leave the sleepy in his eyes?" "Never removed it; let it build up in the comers of his eyes over the weeks until it was heavy enough to fall […] Example: But the nightdress was heavy, the sleepy in her eyes was heavy, her hair (she made a mustache of one of its locks) was heavy and smelled of cigarettes […] 2. Shingleback. Labels: Australia, countable, uncountable
Word: ping pong Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Onomatopoeic. The name “ping-pong” was in wide use before British manufacturer J. Jaques & Son Ltd trademarked it in 1901. Jaques sold the rights to the “ping-pong” name in the United States to Parker Brothers. Registered in the United States in 1930, Ping-Pong (with dash) is still a registered wordmark of Parker Brothers, Inc. Contrary to a common misconception, the word does not originate from Chinese 乒乓 (pīngpāng), though there are possibilities that the coiners encountered Chinese themselves. Pronunciation: /ˈpɪŋˌpɒŋ/, /ˈpiŋˌpɒŋ/, /ˈpɪŋˌpɔŋ/, /ˈpɪŋˌpɑŋ/ 1. Table tennis. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Our correspondent seems to hope that the unclean, playing Ping-Pong with the clean, will become unpleasantly conscious of his uncleanness and reform. 2. An instance of figuratively bouncing something or someone back and forth. Labels: countable, figuratively, uncountable Example: To be conscious is to be subject to just such a ping-pong of recurring nervous activities that effect muscle tone on one side and brain discharge on the other. 3. The exchange of proposed amendments between the House of Commons and House of Lords, particularly at the end of a session when compromises have to be made to complete the legislative process within the limited time available. Labels: UK, countable, uncountable 4. A size of photograph a little larger than a postage stamp. Labels: countable, dated, uncountable Example: As only bust or half-length figures are all the ping pong photographer attempts, only one or two small plain backgrounds is all that is necessary. Generally two are used, a light one and a dark one. 5. A small, shallow steelpan drum. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Most ping pongs were 35- to 45-gallon drums. The larger drum had room for more notes; the tones were also louder and clearer and could be sustained longer.
Word: ping pong Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Onomatopoeic. The name “ping-pong” was in wide use before British manufacturer J. Jaques & Son Ltd trademarked it in 1901. Jaques sold the rights to the “ping-pong” name in the United States to Parker Brothers. Registered in the United States in 1930, Ping-Pong (with dash) is still a registered wordmark of Parker Brothers, Inc. Contrary to a common misconception, the word does not originate from Chinese 乒乓 (pīngpāng), though there are possibilities that the coiners encountered Chinese themselves. Pronunciation: /ˈpɪŋˌpɒŋ/, /ˈpiŋˌpɒŋ/, /ˈpɪŋˌpɔŋ/, /ˈpɪŋˌpɑŋ/ 1. To figuratively bounce or be bounced back and forth. Labels: intransitive, transitive 2. To figuratively bounce or be bounced back and forth. Labels: intransitive, transitive 3. To play the game of ping pong. Labels: intransitive
Word: tabernacle Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English tabernacle (14th century), from Old French tabernacle, from Latin tabernāculum (“tent, booth, shed”), the diminutive of taberna (“hut, shed”). By surface analysis, taberna + -cle. Pronunciation: /ˈtæbɚnækl̩/, /ˈtæbənækl̩/ 1. Any temporary dwelling; a hut, tent, or booth. Example: The tabernacles of robbers proſper, and they that prouoke God are ſecure, into whoſe hand God bringeth abundantly. 2. The portable tent used before the construction of the temple, where the shekinah (presence of God) was believed to dwell. Example: […]ſo Moſes finiſhed the worke. Then a cloud couered the Tent of the Congregation, and the glory of the Lord filled the Tabernacle. And Moſes was not able to enter into the Tent of the Congregation, becauſe the cloud abode thereon, and the glory of the Lord filled the Tabernacle. And when the cloud was taken vp from ouer the Tabernacle, the children of Iſrael went onward in all their iourneys: But if the cloud were not taken vp, then they iourneyed not, till the day that it was taken vp. For the cloud of the Lord was vpon the Tabernacle by day, and fire was on it by night, in the ſight of all the houſe of Iſrael, throughout all their iourneys. 3. The Jewish Temple at Jerusalem (as continuing the functions of the earlier tabernacle). Labels: broadly 4. Any portable shrine used in heathen or idolatrous worship. 5. A sukkah, the booth or 'tabernacle' used during the Jewish Feast of Sukkot. 6. A small ornamented cupboard or box used for the reserved sacrament of the Eucharist, normally located in an especially prominent place in a church. Example: The tabernacle is to be situated "in churches in a most worthy place with the greatest honor." The dignity, placing, and security of the Eucharistic tabernacle should foster adoration before the Lord really present in the Blessed Sacrament of the altar. 7. A temporary place of worship, especially a tent, for a tent meeting, as with a venue for revival meetings. Example: It was over these innocent necessary precautions that the local committees always showed their meanness. They liked giving over only one contribution to the evangelist, but they wanted nothing said about it till they themselves had been taken care of--till the rent of the hall or the cost of building a tabernacle, the heat, the lights, the advertising, and other expenses had been paid. 8. Any house of worship, especially a Mormon meetinghouse. Labels: broadly 9. Any abode or dwelling place, or especially the human body as the temporary dwelling place of the soul, or life. Labels: figuratively 10. A hinged device allowing for the easy folding of a mast 90 degrees from perpendicular, as for transporting the boat on a trailer, or passing under a bridge.
Word: tabernacle Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English tabernacle (14th century), from Old French tabernacle, from Latin tabernāculum (“tent, booth, shed”), the diminutive of taberna (“hut, shed”). By surface analysis, taberna + -cle. Pronunciation: /ˈtæbɚnækl̩/, /ˈtæbənækl̩/ 1. To dwell; to abide for a time. Labels: intransitive 2. To instill or reside within, as a quality or virtue, Labels: figuratively, intransitive Example: What mortal man cannot determine, that is determined by the Olympian father through his child, in whom are tabernacled loveliness, augustness, strength, and graciousness[…]
Word: vestry Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Anglo-Norman vesterie, from Old French vestiaire (“room for vestments, dressing room”), from Latin vestiarium (“wardrobe”). Doublet of vestiary. Pronunciation: /ˈvɛstɹi/ 1. A room in a church where the clergy put on their vestments and where these are stored; also used for meetings and classes. Example: The choirboys change into their cassocks in the vestry. Example: What a day, eh? Demmy, it's like the commencement of the rainy season in Bengal. But you'll find my carriage is watertight. Come along, my mother and Emmy are in the vestry. 2. An assembly of persons (ad hoc or recurrent) who manage parochial affairs; so called because usually held in a vestry. 3. A committee of parishioners elected to administer the temporal affairs of a parish. Example: Near-synonyms: parochial church council, PCC, parish council (ecclesiastical sense, uncommon) Example: The vestry meets on the first Tuesday of every month.
Word: allegory Part of Speech: verb Etymology: The noun is derived from Late Middle English allegorie (“symbolic interpretation; symbolism; (Christianity) one of the four methods of interpreting the Bible”) + English -y (suffix forming abstract nouns denoting a condition, quality, or state). Allegorie is borrowed from Anglo-Norman allegorie and Middle French allegorie (“narrative with a hidden meaning; such a meaning or its interpretation”) (modern French allégorie), and directly from their etymon Latin allēgoria (“figurative or metaphorical language, allegory; parable”) (whence Late Latin allēgoria (“allegorical interpretation of the Bible”)), from Ancient Greek ᾰ̓λληγορῐ́ᾱ (ăllēgorĭ́ā, “figurative or metaphorical language”), probably from ἀλληγορος (allēgoros, “allegorical”) (though only attested in Byzantine Greek) + -ῐ́ᾱ (-ĭ́ā, suffix forming feminine abstract nouns). Ἀλληγορος (Allēgoros) is derived from ᾰ̓́λλος (ắllos, “another; different”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂el- (“beyond; other”)) + ἠγόρ- (ēgór-, the imperfect stem of ἀγορεύω (agoreúō, “to speak in the assembly; to say, speak”)) + -ος (-os, suffix forming certain inflections of adjectives); and ἀγορεύω (agoreúō) from ᾰ̓γορᾱ́ (ăgorā́, “assembly; assembly place; market place; speech”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ger- (“flock, herd; to gather”)) + -εύω (-eúō, suffix forming verbs). The verb is derived from the noun. Pronunciation: /ˈælɪɡəɹi/, /ˈælɪɡɹi/, /ˈæləˌɡɔɹi/ 1. Synonym of allegorize. Labels: archaic, transitive 2. Synonym of allegorize. Labels: archaic, transitive 3. Synonym of allegorize. Labels: archaic, transitive 4. Synonym of allegorize. Labels: archaic, intransitive 5. Synonym of allegorize. Labels: archaic, intransitive
Word: sinister Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *senh₂- Proto-Indo-European *senh₂-is-? Proto-Italic *senisteros Latin sinister Late Latin sinextrum Old French senestrebor. Middle English sinistre English sinister From Middle English sinistre (“unlucky”), from Old French senestre, sinistre (“left”), from Latin sinister (“left hand”). Pronunciation: /ˈsɪ.nɪ.stə/, /ˈsɪ.nɪ.stəɹ/, /ˈsə.nə.stə/, /sɪˈnɪ.sʈə(ɾ)/ 1. Inauspicious, ominous, unlucky, illegitimate. Example: bar sinister Example: All the several ills that visit earth / Brought forth by night, with a sinister birth. 2. Evil or seemingly evil; indicating lurking danger or harm. Example: sinister influences Example: the sinister atmosphere of the crypt 3. Of the left side. Labels: archaic Example: my Mothers bloud / Runs on the dexter checke, and this ſiniſter / Bounds in my fathers: Example: His ſicatrice, with an Embleme of warre, heere on his ſiniſter cheeke; 4. Of the left side. Labels: archaic Example: The shield was divided into five, with two coats of arms on the dexter side (the right-hand side from the point of view of the bearer of the shield)—London and Southampton—and three on the sinister side—Salisbury, Winchester and Portsmouth. 5. Wrong, as springing from indirection or obliquity; perverse; dishonest. Labels: obsolete Example: Nimble and sinister tricks and shifts. Example: He scorns to undermine another's interest by any sinister or inferior arts.
Word: rogue Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Uncertain. From either: * Earlier English roger (“a begging vagabond who pretends to be a poor scholar from Oxford or Cambridge”), possibly from Latin rogō (“to ask”). * Middle French rogue (“arrogant, haughty”), from Old Northern French rogre (“aggressive”), from Old Norse hrokr (“excess, exuberance”), for which see Icelandic hroki (“arrogance”), though OED does not document this. * Celtic; see Breton rog (“haughty”). Pronunciation: /ˈɹəʊɡ/, /ˈɹoʊ̯ɡ/ 1. A scoundrel, rascal or unprincipled, deceitful, and unreliable person. Example: And meet time it was, when yon usher, vinegar-faced rogue that he is, began to inquire what popish trangam you were wearing […] Example: He had told more lies in his time, and undergone more baseness of stratagem in order to stave off a small debt, or to swindle a poor creditor, than would have sufficed to make a fortune for a braver rogue. 2. A mischievous scamp. Example: Ah, you sweet little rogue, you! 3. A vagrant. 4. Malware that deceitfully presents itself as antispyware. Example: An entry in the Microsoft Malware Protection Center's Threat Research & Response Blog shows that rogue AV, also known as scareware, is ruling the malware roost, as 6 top of the 10 malicious programs removed by the MSRT (Malicious Software Removal Tool) in the US in October were 'rogues'. Example: Next, click the "Installed on" heading in the Windows 7 uninstaller to sort the list by date, and see if any programs have the same date and time stamps as your rogues. 5. An aggressive animal separate from the herd, especially an elephant. Example: If he is a rogue, and there's any truth to territoriality at all, we got a good chance of spotting him between Cape Scott and South Beach. 6. A horse, mule, or donkey that is difficult to control; a refractory horse, especially a racehorse. Labels: Australia Example: The rogues among the horses and mules sought every chance to break the line and hide under shady trees where sweet grass grew. 7. A plant that shows some undesirable variation. Example: 2000 Carol Deppe, Breed Your Own Vegetable Varieties, Totnes: Chelsea Green Pub. Maintaining varieties also requires selection, however. It's usually referred to as culling or roguing. ...we examine the [plant] population and eliminate the occasional rogue. 8. A character class focusing on stealthy conduct. Example: As a rogue, I weave together light and heavy attacks, sometimes holding a button longer to charge an attack and build up the stagger meter on an enemy.
Word: rogue Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Uncertain. From either: * Earlier English roger (“a begging vagabond who pretends to be a poor scholar from Oxford or Cambridge”), possibly from Latin rogō (“to ask”). * Middle French rogue (“arrogant, haughty”), from Old Northern French rogre (“aggressive”), from Old Norse hrokr (“excess, exuberance”), for which see Icelandic hroki (“arrogance”), though OED does not document this. * Celtic; see Breton rog (“haughty”). Pronunciation: /ˈɹəʊɡ/, /ˈɹoʊ̯ɡ/ 1. Vicious and solitary. Example: Mosquito. One lone rogue mosquito. 2. Large, destructive and unpredictable. Labels: broadly 3. Deceitful, unprincipled. Labels: broadly Example: In the minds of Republican hard-liners, the "Silent Majority" of Americans who had elected the President, and even Nixon's two Democrat predecessors, China was a gigantic nuke-wielding rogue state prepared to overrun the free world at any moment. 4. Mischievous, unpredictable. Example: Even without hovering drones, a lurking assassin, a thumping score and a denouement, the real-life story of Edward Snowden, a rogue spy on the run, could be straight out of the cinema. But, as with Hollywood, the subplots and exotic locations may distract from the real message: America’s discomfort and its foes’ glee.
Word: rogue Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Uncertain. From either: * Earlier English roger (“a begging vagabond who pretends to be a poor scholar from Oxford or Cambridge”), possibly from Latin rogō (“to ask”). * Middle French rogue (“arrogant, haughty”), from Old Northern French rogre (“aggressive”), from Old Norse hrokr (“excess, exuberance”), for which see Icelandic hroki (“arrogance”), though OED does not document this. * Celtic; see Breton rog (“haughty”). Pronunciation: /ˈɹəʊɡ/, /ˈɹoʊ̯ɡ/ 1. To cull; to destroy plants not meeting a required standard, especially when saving seed, rogue or unwanted plants are removed before pollination. Example: 2000 Carol Deppe, Breed Your Own Vegetable Varieties, Totnes: Chelsea Green Pub. Maintaining varieties also requires selection, however. It's usually referred to as culling or roguing. ...we examine the [plant] population and eliminate the occasional rogue. Example: Our skill as roguers was being tested. After we had rogued a field the field was inspected and the potatoes classified Stock Seed, A, B or H. In those days, between Stock seed and Class A, there was £2 per ton of potatoes difference. 2. To cheat. Labels: dated, transitive Example: And then to think that Mark should have rogued me of five shiners! He was clever—that's a fact. 3. To give the name or designation of rogue to; to decry. Labels: obsolete Example: he Atheists may endeavour to rogue and ridicule all incorporeal Substance 4. To wander; to play the vagabond; to play knavish tricks. Labels: intransitive, obsolete Example: if hee be but once so taken idlely roguing
Word: fetish Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁- Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁k- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *dʰh₁kyéti Proto-Italic *θakjō Proto-Italic *fakjō Latin faciō Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Italic *-tos Latin -tus Latin factus Proto-Indo-European *-ikos Proto-Italic *-ikos Latin -īcus Proto-Indo-European *-(i)yós Proto-Italic *-ijos Proto-Italic *-ios Old Latin -ios Latin -ius Latin -īcius Latin factīcius Portuguese feitiçobor. French fétichebor. English fetish Borrowed from French fétiche, from Portuguese feitiço, from Latin factīcius (“artificial”). Doublet of factitious. Pronunciation: /ˈfɛt.ɪʃ/, /ˈfiː.tɪʃ/ 1. Something which is believed to possess, contain, or cause spiritual or magical powers; an amulet or a talisman. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The idols and fetishes were being dressed up and whitewashed, receiving sacrifices. 2. A figure representing the spirit of a deity, human, or animal; an idol or voodoo doll. Labels: countable, dated, uncountable Example: This was the trunk of a large wooden doll […] now entirely defaced by a long career of vicarious suffering. […] The last nail had been driven in with a fiercer stroke than usual, for the Fetish on that occasion represented aunt Glegg. Example: "It is not difficult for a negro to believe that he is a Zombie, and a very bad one at that. The step to Baron Samedi is simple. Mr. Big encourages the idea by having the Baron's fetish at his elbow. You saw it in his room." 3. Sexual fixation to or arousal at something abnormally sexual or nonsexual, such as an object or a nonsexual part of the body. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: I know a guy who has a foot fetish. Example: a fetish for leather 4. An irrational or abnormal preoccupation or fixation on some object or activity; an obsession. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: He has been talking about the same topic for hours on end, I suspect he may have a fetish Example: However, I am not prone to sensitiveness, and the following of a sense of duty, wherever it may lead, has always been a kind of fetich with me throughout my life; which may account for the honors bestowed upon me by three republics and the decorations and friendships of an old and powerful emperor and several lesser kings, in whose service my sword has been red many a time. 5. A recurrent theme of a specific thing. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: caber Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *kápros Proto-Italic *kapros Latin caper Latin *capreus Medieval Latin *capriōbor. Scottish Gaelic cabarbor. English caber From Scottish Gaelic cabar (“spar, pole”). Pronunciation: /ˈkeɪbə/, /ˈkɑː-/, /ˈkeɪbɚ/, /ˈkɑ-/ 1. A long, thick log held upright at one end and tossed in the Highland games.
Word: lunacy Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From lun(atic) + -acy. Pronunciation: /ˈluː.nə.si/, /ˈljuː.nə.si/ 1. The state of being mad, insanity Labels: countable, uncountable 2. The state of being mad, insanity Labels: countable, uncountable 3. Something deeply misguided. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Two days have passed since that day of lunacy. What a noise and a fuss and a chattering and an uproar there was! And what a welter of unseemliness and disorder and stupidity and bad manners! And I the cause of it all! Yet part of the scene was also ridiculous—at all events to myself it was so.
Word: qualify Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French qualifier (“to qualify”). Equivalent to quality + -fy. Pronunciation: /ˈkwɒl.ɪ.faɪ/, /ˈkwɑ.lɪ.faɪ/, /ˈkwɑ.lə.faɪ/, /ˈkwɔl.ɪ.fɑe/, /ˈkwɒl.ə.faɪ/ 1. To describe or characterize something by listing its qualities. Labels: transitive 2. To successfully fall under some category or description by meeting requisite conditions. Labels: intransitive Example: Descartes's methodism with its regulative criterion leads him to explicitly deny that accidentally true belief qualifies as knowledge. Example: But if it is done in conjunction with repointing of the building, the work would probably qualify as a major capital improvement. 3. To make someone competent or eligible for some position or task. Labels: transitive Example: They usually spoke of this connection as a longing for the purer life of Attic civilization, but that was a delusion which even they recognized — the position of slaves and women hardly qualified Classical antiquity as an ideal of freedom. 4. To become competent or eligible for some position or task. Labels: intransitive, reflexive Example: He had qualified himself for municipal office by taking the oaths to the sovereigns in possession. 5. To certify or license someone for something. Labels: transitive 6. To modify, limit, restrict or moderate something; especially to add conditions or requirements for an assertion to be true. Labels: transitive Example: O! never say that I was false of heart, Though absence seem'd my flame to qualify 7. To mitigate, alleviate (something); to make less disagreeable. Labels: archaic, transitive Example: he balmes and herbes thereto applyde, / And euermore with mighty spels them charmd, / That in short space he has them qualifyde, / And him restor'd to health, that would haue algates dyde. 8. To compete successfully in some stage of a competition and become eligible for the next stage. Labels: intransitive 9. To give individual quality to; to modulate; to vary; to regulate. Labels: transitive Example: It hath no larynx […] to qualify the sound. 10. To throw and catch each object at least twice. Labels: transitive Example: to qualify seven balls you need at least fourteen catches
Word: qualify Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French qualifier (“to qualify”). Equivalent to quality + -fy. Pronunciation: /ˈkwɒl.ɪ.faɪ/, /ˈkwɑ.lɪ.faɪ/, /ˈkwɑ.lə.faɪ/, /ˈkwɔl.ɪ.fɑe/, /ˈkwɒl.ə.faɪ/ 1. An instance of throwing and catching each prop at least twice.
Word: think of Part of Speech: verb 1. To create in one's mind; to originate an idea through thought. Example: I only had ten minutes to think of a solution. Example: I told him about everything I could think of; and what I couldn't think of he did. He asked about six questions during my yarn, but every question had a point to it. At the end he bowed and thanked me once more. As a thanker he was main-truck high; I never see anybody so polite. 2. Used to suggest an aberrant thought, idea or action. Example: Oh no! I put the casserole in the freezer and the ice cream in the oven. What was I thinking of? 3. Consider, used to emphasise a reason to act in a certain way. Labels: imperative, often Example: We can't employ a gardener as well as a handyman. Think of the expense! Example: I can't turn down the offer. Think of what we could do with that money! 4. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see think, of. (to think on the subject of) Example: I spend a lot of time thinking of Karen and the times we shared.
Word: visionary Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree English vision Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzios Latin -āriusder. Middle English -arie English -ary English visionary From vision + -ary. Pronunciation: /ˈvɪʒn̩(ə)ɹi/, /ˈvɪʒəˌnɛɹi/ 1. Having vision or foresight. Example: No more theſe ſeenes my meditation aid, / Or lull to reſt the viſionary mind. 2. Imaginary or illusory. Example: I wrapp’d myself in grandeur then, And donn’d a visionary crown— Yet it was not that Fantasy Had thrown her mantle over me— But that, among the rabble—men, Lion ambition is chain’d down— […] Example: To many, the visionary hope which is born of the imagination may seem the very mockery of nothing. We cannot imagine what we have never experienced. 3. Prophetic or revelatory. Example: Here frequent, at the viſionary hour, / When muſing midnight reigns or ſilent noon, / Angelic harps are in full concert heard, / And voiced chaunting from the wood-crown’d hill, / The deepening dale, or inmoſt ſilvan glade[…] 4. Idealistic or utopian. Example: a visionary scheme or project Example: I confeſs, the Merit of this Candour and Condeſcenſion is very much leſſened ; becauſe your Lordſhip hardly leaves us Room to offer our good Wiſhes ; removing all our Difficulties, and ſupplying our Wants, faſter than the moſt viſionary Projector can adjuſt his Schemes.
Word: visionary Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English vision Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzios Latin -āriusder. Middle English -arie English -ary English visionary From vision + -ary. Pronunciation: /ˈvɪʒn̩(ə)ɹi/, /ˈvɪʒəˌnɛɹi/ 1. Someone who has visions; a seer. 2. An impractical dreamer. Example: For seven years [Christopher Columbus] begged persistently for aid, but in vain. He was looked upon as a visionary, and the very boys in the street mocked him as a lunatic. At length he was permitted to lay his plans before a committee of learned men, but only to have them ridiculed, the council dismissing him as a foolish enthusiast. Example: In a military sense Russia is defenceless, and we all supposed it a proof that they were mere visionaries when they started negotiations by insisting upon not surrendering any Russian territory to the Germans. 3. Someone who has creative and positive ideas about the future. Example: Robertson was finally asked to step down at the end of 1961. His successor would be Dr Beeching, who was seen as both visionary and axeman.
Word: portent Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Latin portentum, participle of portendere, from portendō (“to predict, to foretell”). Pronunciation: /ˈpɔɹtənt/, /ˈpɔːtɛnt/, /ˈpɔɹtɛnt/, /ˈpo(ː)ɹtɛnt/, /ˈpoətɛnt/ 1. Something that portends an event about to occur, especially an unfortunate or evil event; an omen. Example: It was a portent of things to come. 2. A portending; significance Example: a howl of dire portent 3. Something regarded as portentous; a marvel; prodigy.
Word: revelation Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English revelacioun, from Old French revelacion, from Latin revēlātiō (“disclosure”), from revēlō (“to disclose”), re (“again”) + vēlō (“to cover”); by surface analysis, revelate + -ion. Pronunciation: /ˌɹɛv.əˈleɪ.ʃən/, /ˌɹev.əˈlæɪ.ʃən/ 1. The act of revealing or disclosing. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The revelation of the culprits' identities was cathartic for the populace. Example: Magicians talk about the revelation at the end of a trick. 2. Something that is revealed. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The revelaciõ of Jeſus Chꝛiſte / which god gave vnto hĩ / foꝛto ſhewe vnto his ſervaunt[es] thyng[es] which muſte ſhoꝛtly come to paſſe. Example: But it was much more than a mere ship. Its systems, processes, and technology were so advanced that they dwarfed every accomplishment of the Citadel species. Its grandeur and complexity rivaled the greatest creations of the Protheans—the mass relays and the Citadel. It may have even surpassed them. And if Saren could learn and understand how it worked, he could seize all that power for himself. He’d spent his entire life preparing for a moment like this. Everything he’d ever done—his military service, his career with the Spectres—was only a prelude to this revelation. Now he had found his true purpose; destiny had led him here. 3. Something dramatically disclosed. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: This invention was a revelation for farmers throughout the region, who immediately adopted it. 4. A manifestation of divine truth. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: This does not mean that God has difficulty overcoming obstacles; if one questions whether revelation is ‘a simple matter’, this need not refer to whether or not God has to exert himself greatly to overcome these obstacles, or whether he is grieved or suffers in some way to overcome these obstacles. 5. Something that turns out to be a great success. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: This invention was a revelation for farming throughout the region, where it doubled crop yields. Example: Upon the more developed taste of the present Jewish public, Goldfaden's operettas do not make much impression, but half a century ago his plays were a revelation to the people in Eastern Europe and caused a furor throughout the Jewish settlement in Russia.
Word: reveal Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English revēlen, from Old French reveler, from Latin revēlāre (“to reveal, uncover”), from re- (“back, again”) + vēlāre (“to cover”), from vēlum (“a cloth, covering, curtain, veil, awning, sail”) (whence also English veil, English unveil, English voile, Russian вуаль (vualʹ), Russian завуали́ровать (zavualírovatʹ, “to veil”) (compare typologically)). Also compare typologically English uncloak, dismantle, divest, invest, unmask, Russian разобла́чать (razobláčatʹ) (akin to облаче́ние (oblačénije), срыва́ть покро́вы (sryvátʹ pokróvy) (покро́в (pokróv, “cover, covering”)). Pronunciation: /ɹɪˈviːl/, /ɹɪˈvil/, [ɹɪˈvɪil], /ɹəˈviːl/ 1. The outer side of a window or door frame. Example: The building has a one-story rusticated limestone base and a canopied entrance with a doorman beneath an attractive, rusticated limestone window reveal on the second floor and a very impressive and ornate limestone window reveal on the third floor flanked by female figureshttps://www.cityrealty.com/nyc/carnegie-hill/1105-park-avenue/review/7216. 2. A revelation; an uncovering of what was hidden in the scene or story. Labels: informal, usually Example: The comedian had been telling us about his sleep being disturbed by noise. Then came the reveal: he was sleeping on a bed in a department store. Example: A simple dolly or crane move can be used for an effective reveal. A subject fills the frame, then with a move, something else is revealed.
Word: reveal Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English revēlen, from Old French reveler, from Latin revēlāre (“to reveal, uncover”), from re- (“back, again”) + vēlāre (“to cover”), from vēlum (“a cloth, covering, curtain, veil, awning, sail”) (whence also English veil, English unveil, English voile, Russian вуаль (vualʹ), Russian завуали́ровать (zavualírovatʹ, “to veil”) (compare typologically)). Also compare typologically English uncloak, dismantle, divest, invest, unmask, Russian разобла́чать (razobláčatʹ) (akin to облаче́ние (oblačénije), срыва́ть покро́вы (sryvátʹ pokróvy) (покро́в (pokróv, “cover, covering”)). Pronunciation: /ɹɪˈviːl/, /ɹɪˈvil/, [ɹɪˈvɪil], /ɹəˈviːl/ 1. To uncover; to show and display that which was hidden. Labels: transitive Example: c. 1625, Edmund Waller, Of the Danger His Majesty (being Prince) Escaped in the Road at St Andero Light was the wound, the prince's care unknown, / She might not, would not, yet reveal her own. Example: The dispatches revealed details of corruption and kleptocracy that many Tunisians suspected, but could not prove, and would cite as they took to the streets. 2. To communicate that which could not be known or discovered without divine or supernatural instruction. Labels: transitive
Word: compelling Part of Speech: verb Etymology: By surface analysis, compel + -ing. Pronunciation: /kəmˈpɛlɪŋ/ 1. present participle and gerund of compel Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: compelling Part of Speech: adj Etymology: By surface analysis, compel + -ing. Pronunciation: /kəmˈpɛlɪŋ/ 1. very interesting; able to capture and hold one's attention Example: The novel was so compelling that I couldn't put it down. Example: The dirty secret of the internet is that all this distraction and interruption is immensely profitable. Web companies like to boast about "creating compelling content", or offering services that let you "stay up to date with what your friends are doing", "share the things you love with the world" and so on. 2. capable of causing someone to believe or agree Example: He made a compelling argument. Example: Terry's goal looked to have put Chelsea in control on the stroke of half-time but Arsenal's response presented a compelling case for Wenger's insistence that reports of his side's demise have been greatly exaggerated. 3. strong and forceful; that causes one to feel like they must do something Example: I would need a very compelling reason to leave my job.
Word: compelling Part of Speech: noun Etymology: By surface analysis, compel + -ing. Pronunciation: /kəmˈpɛlɪŋ/ 1. An act of compulsion; an obliging somebody to do something.
Word: compel Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ḱe? Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm Proto-Italic *kom Proto-Italic *kom- Latin con- Proto-Indo-European *pel- Proto-Indo-European *pelh₂-der. Proto-Indo-European *-né-der. Proto-Italic *pelnōder. Latin pellō Latin compellerebor. Middle French compellirbor. Middle English compellen English compel From Middle English compellen, borrowed from Middle French compellir, from Latin compellere, itself from com- (“together”) + pellere (“to drive”). Displaced native Old English nīedan. Pronunciation: /kəmˈpɛl/ 1. To drive together, round up. Labels: archaic, literally, transitive Example: The shepherds compelled the stray sheep into the fold as night began to fall. 2. To overpower; to subdue. Labels: transitive Example: She had one of those perfect faces, which irresistibly compel the soul of a man. 3. To force, constrain, or coerce. Labels: transitive Example: Logic compels the wise, while fools feel compelled by emotions. Example: Congratulations, your courage compels respect. 4. To forcefully or powerfully motivate (a course of action). Labels: transitive Example: As the novel progresses, it picks up a propulsive energy, the kind that compels you to keep reading straight through to the end. 5. To have a strong, irresistible force (on someone or something). Labels: transitive 6. To exact, extort, (make) produce by force. Labels: transitive Example: Commissions, which compel from each / The sixth part of his substance. Example: The Queen has nothing but the power to execute the laws, to adjust grievances and to compel order. 7. To force to yield; to overpower; to subjugate. Labels: obsolete Example: Easy sleep their weary limbs compell'd. Example: And I will fetch you forage from all fields, / For I compel all creatures to my will. 8. To gather or unite in a crowd or company. Labels: obsolete Example: in one troop compell'd 9. To call forth; to summon. Labels: obsolete Example: She had this knight from far compeld. Example: the pow'rs that I compel / Shall throw thee hence, and make thy head run ope the gates of hel
Word: hark Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English herken, herkien, from Old English *hercian, *heorcian, *hiercian, from Proto-West Germanic *hauʀikōn, *hauʀukōn, derived ultimately from Proto-Germanic *hauzijaną (“to hear”) + formative/intensive -k (see also the related hīeran, whence English hear). Equivalent to hear + -k. Cognate with Scots herk (“to hark”), North Frisian harke (“to hark”), West Frisian harkje (“to listen”), obsolete Dutch horken (“to hark, listen to”), Middle Low German horken (“to hark”), German horchen (“to hark, harken to”). Pronunciation: /hɑː(ɹ)k/ 1. To listen attentively. Labels: archaic, imperative, often Example: But harke, I heare the footing of a man. Example: Hark! the herald angels sing / Glory to the new born King
Word: hark Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English herken, herkien, from Old English *hercian, *heorcian, *hiercian, from Proto-West Germanic *hauʀikōn, *hauʀukōn, derived ultimately from Proto-Germanic *hauzijaną (“to hear”) + formative/intensive -k (see also the related hīeran, whence English hear). Equivalent to hear + -k. Cognate with Scots herk (“to hark”), North Frisian harke (“to hark”), West Frisian harkje (“to listen”), obsolete Dutch horken (“to hark, listen to”), Middle Low German horken (“to hark”), German horchen (“to hark, harken to”). Pronunciation: /hɑː(ɹ)k/ 1. A whisper
Word: shallows Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of shallow Labels: form-of, plural
Word: shallows Part of Speech: noun 1. An area in a large body of water with many shallow areas. Labels: plural, plural-only Example: You'll have to navigate carefully through these shallows.
Word: shallows Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of shallow Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: decision Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Derived from Middle French, from Latin dēcīsiō, dēcīsiōnis, from dēcīdō (“to decide”). Pronunciation: /dɪˈsɪʒn̩/, [dɪˈsɪʒn̩] 1. The act of deciding. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. A choice or judgement. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: It is the decision of the court that movies are protected as free speech. Example: His life has always been filled with big decisions. 3. Firmness of conviction. Labels: uncountable Example: After agonizing deliberations, they finally proceeded with decision. 4. A result arrived at by the judges when there is no clear winner at the end of the contest. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: He has won twice by knockout, once by decision. 5. A win or a loss awarded to a pitcher. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: decision Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Derived from Middle French, from Latin dēcīsiō, dēcīsiōnis, from dēcīdō (“to decide”). Pronunciation: /dɪˈsɪʒn̩/, [dɪˈsɪʒn̩] 1. To defeat an opponent by a decision of the judges, rather than by a knockout
Word: delicate Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English delicat, from Latin dēlicātus (“giving pleasure, delightful, soft, luxurious, delicate, (in Medieval Latin also) fine, slender”), from dēlicia + -ātus (see -ate (adjective-forming suffix)), usually in plural dēliciae (“pleasure, delight, luxury”), from dēliciō (“to allure, entice”), from dē- (“away”) + laciō (“to lure, to deceive”), from Proto-Italic *lakjō (“to draw, pull”), of unknown ultimate origin. Compare delight, delicious and Spanish delgado (“thin, skinny”). The noun is from a substantivization of the adjective (see -ate). Pronunciation: /ˈdɛl.ɪ.kət/, /ˈdɛl.ɪ.kɪt/, /ˈdɛl.ə.kɪt/, /ˈdel.ɪ.kɪt/ 1. Easily damaged or requiring careful handling. Example: Those clothes are made from delicate lace. Example: The negotiations were very delicate. 2. Characterized by a fine structure or thin lines. Example: Her face was delicate. Example: The spider wove a delicate web. 3. Intended for use with fragile items. Example: Set the washing machine to the delicate cycle. 4. Refined; gentle; scrupulous not to trespass or offend; considerate; said of manners, conduct, or feelings. Example: delicate behaviour Example: delicate attentions 5. Of weak health; easily sick; unable to endure hardship. Example: a delicate child Example: delicate health 6. Unwell, especially because of having drunk too much alcohol. Labels: informal Example: Please don't speak so loudly: I'm feeling a bit delicate this morning. 7. Addicted to pleasure; luxurious; voluptuous; alluring. Labels: obsolete Example: This [Haarlem] is a very delicate towne, and hath one of the fairest Churches, of the Gotiq design, I had seene. 8. Pleasing to the senses; refined; adapted to please an elegant or cultivated taste. Example: a delicate dish Example: delicate flavour 9. Slight and shapely; lovely; graceful. Example: Caſ[ſio]. She is a moſt exquiſite Lady. […] Indeede ſhe is a moſt freſh and delicate creature. 10. Light, or softly tinted; said of a colour. Example: a delicate shade of blue 11. Of exacting tastes and habits; dainty; fastidious. 12. Highly discriminating or perceptive; refinedly critical; sensitive; exquisite. Example: a delicate taste Example: a delicate ear for music 13. Affected by slight causes; showing slight changes. Example: a delicate thermometer
Word: delicate Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English delicat, from Latin dēlicātus (“giving pleasure, delightful, soft, luxurious, delicate, (in Medieval Latin also) fine, slender”), from dēlicia + -ātus (see -ate (adjective-forming suffix)), usually in plural dēliciae (“pleasure, delight, luxury”), from dēliciō (“to allure, entice”), from dē- (“away”) + laciō (“to lure, to deceive”), from Proto-Italic *lakjō (“to draw, pull”), of unknown ultimate origin. Compare delight, delicious and Spanish delgado (“thin, skinny”). The noun is from a substantivization of the adjective (see -ate). Pronunciation: /ˈdɛl.ɪ.kət/, /ˈdɛl.ɪ.kɪt/, /ˈdɛl.ə.kɪt/, /ˈdel.ɪ.kɪt/ 1. A delicate item of clothing, especially underwear or lingerie. Example: Don't put that in with your jeans: it's a delicate! 2. A choice dainty; a delicacy. Labels: obsolete Example: With Abstinence all Delicates he Sees, / And can regale himself with Toast and Cheese. 3. A delicate, luxurious, or effeminate person. Labels: obsolete Example: A council of war was called, and the delicates met in the great cabin ; the platform was rigged up on the forecastle, the yard-rope rove, and the signal made for all boats to attend execution Example: If Lucullus were not a waster and a delicate given to belly-cheare. 4. A moth of the species Mythimna vitellina.