nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: Babylon Part of Speech: name Etymology: Partially inherited from Old English Babilōn/Babȳlōn, partially from Latin Babylōn, from Ancient Greek Βαβυλών (Babulṓn), from Akkadian 𒆍𒀭𒊏𒆠 (Bābilim, literally “Gate of God”); the name of the ancient Chaldean capital and Biblical city of the Apocalypse. Doublet of Babel. Pronunciation: /ˈbæb.ɪ.lɒn/, /ˈbæb.ɪ.lɑn/, /ˈbæb.ɪ.lɔn/, /ˈbɛb.ə.lɒn/, [ˈbɛb.ə.lɔ̟n] 1. An ancient city, the ancient capital of Babylonia in modern Iraq, built on the banks of the Euphrates. Labels: historical Example: Standing afarre off for the feare of her torment, saying, Alas, alas, that great citie Babylon, that mighty citie: for in one houre is thy iudgement come. 2. A governate in Iraq. 3. Any city of great wealth, luxury and vice. Example: Mother[…]considered that the exclusiveness of Peter's circle was due not to its distinction, but to the fact that it was an inner Babylon of prodigality and whoredom, from which every Kensingtonian held aloof, except on the conventional tip-and-run excursions in pursuit of shopping, tea and theatres. 4. Western civilization, seen as corrupt and materialistic, and contrasted with Zion. Labels: Rastafari 5. The police. Labels: Jamaica, Multicultural-London-English Example: When I was the first officer on the scene at a nightclub brawl, I was picked up by the throat and strangled by a huge Rastafarian who was trying to kill me. I was losing consciousness when Marlon told him to let me go. I remember him saying, ‘She’s alright for Babylon. Put her down.’ He dropped me and I ran to the station with massive bruises around my neck. 6. An unincorporated community in Fulton County, Illinois, United States. 7. A town and village therein, in Suffolk County, Long Island, New York, United States. 8. A surname.
Word: vermiculate Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Borrowed from Latin vermiculatus (“inlaid in wavy lines”), past participle of vermiculor (“to be full of worms or worm-eaten”), from vermiculus (“little worm”). Pronunciation: /vəˈmɪk.jʊlˌeɪt/, /vəˈmɪk.jəlˌeɪt/, /vɜː-/, /vɚˈmɪk.jəlˌeɪt/ 1. To decorate with lines resembling the tracks of worms.
Word: vermiculate Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Borrowed from Latin vermiculatus (“inlaid in wavy lines”), past participle of vermiculor (“to be full of worms or worm-eaten”), from vermiculus (“little worm”). Pronunciation: /vəˈmɪk.jʊl.ət/, /vəˈmɪk.jəl.eɪt/, /vɜː-/, /vɚˈmɪk.jəlˌət/ 1. Like a worm; resembling a worm. 2. Vermiculated.
Word: dread Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English dreden, from Old English drǣdan (“to fear, dread”), aphetic form of ondrǣdan (“to fear, dread”), from Proto-West Germanic *andarādan, equivalent to Old English and- + rǣdan (whence read); corresponding to an aphesis of earlier adread. Akin to Old Saxon antdrādan, andrādan (“to fear, dread”), Old High German intrātan (“to fear”), Middle High German entrāten (“to fear, dread, frighten”). Pronunciation: /dɹɛd/ 1. To fear greatly. Labels: transitive 2. To anticipate with fear. Example: I'm dreading getting the results of the test, as it could decide my whole life. Example: Day by day, hole by hole our bearing reins were shortened, and instead of looking forward with pleasure to having my harness put on as I used to do, I began to dread it. 3. To be in dread, or great fear. Labels: intransitive Example: Dread not, neither be afraid of them. 4. To style (the hair) into dreadlocks. Labels: transitive
Word: dread Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English drede, dred, from the verb (see above). Cognate with Old Frisian drēd, drēde (“fear, dread”). Pronunciation: /dɹɛd/ 1. Great fear in view of impending evil; fearful apprehension of danger; anticipatory terror. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: My visit to the doctor is filling me with dread. Example: the secret dread of divine displeasure 2. Reverential or respectful fear; awe. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The fear of you, and the dread of you, shall be upon every beast of the earth. Example: His sceptre shows the force of temporal power, / The attribute to awe and majesty, / Wherein doth sit the dread and fear of kings. 3. Somebody or something dreaded. Labels: countable, uncountable 4. A person highly revered. Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable Example: Una, his dear dread 5. Fury; dreadfulness. Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable Example: The mightie ones, affrayd of every chaunges dread 6. A Rastafarian. Labels: countable, uncountable 7. Clipping of dreadlock. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, countable, in-plural, slang, uncountable Example: Jesus Christ had dreads / So shake 'em / I ain't got none / But I'm planning on growing some. 8. Clipping of dreadnought. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, countable, historical, slang, uncountable Example: The Royal Navy sent six dreads and four BCs to intercept the German raiding force.
Word: dread Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English drede, dredde, dradde, ydreddyd (“feared, dreaded, honoured”), past participle of Middle English dreden (“to fear, dread”). See above. Pronunciation: /dɹɛd/ 1. Terrible; greatly feared; dreaded. Example: With cat-like tread / Upon our prey we steal / In silence dread / Our cautious way we feel Example: I even remember thinking that no human being would go down that dread path again. 2. Awe-inspiring; held in fearful awe. Labels: archaic Example: The acts made in the first Parliament of our most high and dread soveraigne Charles [I], by the grace of God, King of Great Britaine, France, and Ireland, defender of the faith, &c. […] [book title]
Word: shinjitai Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Transliteration from Japanese 新(しん)字(じ)体(たい) (shinjitai). 1. The simplified form of Japanese kanji used after 1947. Example: However, when a traditional “correct” radical has been obscured by the postwar adoption of a simplified form (shinjitai), that radical is simply ignored.
Word: vast Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle French vaste, from Latin vastus (“void, immense”). Related to waste and German Wüste. Pronunciation: /vɑːst/, /vast/, /væst/ 1. Very large or wide (literally or figuratively). Example: The Sahara desert is vast. Example: There is a vast difference between them. 2. Very great in size, amount, degree, intensity, or especially extent. Example: The exiguity and ſmallneſſe of ſome ſeeds extending to large productions is one of the magnalities of nature, ſomewhat illuſtrating the work of the Creation, and vaſt production from nothing. Example: Another place where, from the aesthetic point of view, a long tunnel would have been a real blessing, is East London as viewed from the carriage window on the old Great Eastern line. Despite a vast change from crowded slums to tracts of wasteland, due to its grim wartime experience, this approach still provides a shabby and unworthy introduction to the great capital. 3. Waste; desert; desolate; lonely. Labels: obsolete Example: the empty, vast, and wandering air
Word: vast Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle French vaste, from Latin vastus (“void, immense”). Related to waste and German Wüste. Pronunciation: /vɑːst/, /vast/, /væst/ 1. A vast space. Labels: poetic Example: they have seemed to be together, though absent, shook hands, as over a vast, and embraced, as it were, from the ends of opposed winds.
Word: belonging Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁ep-der. Proto-Indo-European *h₁épsder. Proto-Indo-European *h₁epider. Proto-Indo-European *h₁pi Proto-Germanic *bider. Proto-Germanic *bi- Proto-West Germanic *bi- Old English be- Middle English be- Proto-Germanic *langōną Proto-West Germanic *langōn Old English langian Middle English longen Middle English belongen English belong Proto-Germanic *-ungō Old English -ung Middle English -ynge English -ing English belonging From belong + -ing. Pronunciation: /bɪˈlɒŋɪŋ/, /bɪˈlɔŋɪŋ/, /bɪˈlɑŋɪŋ/ 1. The feeling that one belongs. Labels: uncountable Example: I have a feeling of belonging in London. Example: A need for belonging seems fundamental to humans. 2. Something physical that is owned. Labels: countable, in-plural Example: Make sure you take all your belongings when you leave. Example: […] Thyself and thy belongings Are not thine own so proper as to waste Thyself upon thy virtues, they on thee. 3. Family; relations; household. Labels: colloquial, countable, dated, plural, plural-only, uncountable Example: When Lady Kew said Sic volo, sic jubeo [Thus I will, thus I command], I promise you few persons of her ladyship’s belongings stopped, before they did her biddings, to ask her reasons. Example: As soon as the principal personages were seated, the verandah of the house was filled silently by the muffled-up forms of Lakamba’s female belongings.
Word: belonging Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English belonginge, belanging, belangand, equivalent to belong + -ing. Pronunciation: /bɪˈlɒŋɪŋ/, /bɪˈlɔŋɪŋ/, /bɪˈlɑŋɪŋ/ 1. present participle and gerund of belong Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: fetus Part of Speech: noun Etymology: A learned borrowing from Latin fētus (“offspring”). Doublet of fawn. Pronunciation: /ˈfiːtəs/ 1. An unborn or unhatched vertebrate showing signs of the mature animal. Labels: Australia, Canada, US, also Example: Several feti were removed from every rats' uterus, stripped of their membranes and allowed to lie in the peritoneal cavity connected to the placenta by the umbilical cord and with the placenta still attached to the uterine wall. 2. A human embryo after the eighth week of gestation. Labels: Australia, Canada, US, also Example: The sequence is: molecules in reproductive systems, then gametes, zygotes, morulas, blastocysts, and then fetuses. Example: Though scientists do not know how stress affects gestation, Fukuda theorizes that the vulnerability of Y-bearing sperm cells, male embryos and/or male fetuses to stress is why “subtle significant changes in sex ratios” occur. […] The factors that filter out who “gets through” from conception to birth include chromosomal or genetic abnormalities of the fetus or the mother’s stress response to changes in her environment, Catalano said. 3. A neonate. Labels: Australia, Canada, US, also, archaic Example: The real essence of that or any other sort of substances, it is evident, we know not; and therefore are so undetermined in our nominal essences, which we make ourselves, that, if several men were to be asked concerning some oddly-shaped fœtus, as soon as born, whether it were a man or no, it is past doubt one should meet with different answers.
Word: manoeuvre Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle French manœuvre (“manipulation, manoeuvre”) and manouvrer (“to manoeuvre”), from Old French manovre (“handwork, manual labour”), from Medieval Latin manopera, manuopera (“work done by hand, handwork”), from manu (“by hand”) + operari (“to work”). First recorded in the Capitularies of Charlemagne (800 AD) to mean "chore, manual task", probably as a calque of the Frankish *handwerc (“hand-work”). Compare Old English handweorc, Old English handġeweorc, German Handwerk. Pronunciation: /məˈnuːvə/, /məˈnuːvɚ/ 1. Commonwealth standard spelling of maneuver. Example: The system also reacts to unexpected traffic situations and handles them independently by employing evasive manoeuvres within the lane or by braking manoeuvres
Word: manoeuvre Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle French manœuvre (“manipulation, manoeuvre”) and manouvrer (“to manoeuvre”), from Old French manovre (“handwork, manual labour”), from Medieval Latin manopera, manuopera (“work done by hand, handwork”), from manu (“by hand”) + operari (“to work”). First recorded in the Capitularies of Charlemagne (800 AD) to mean "chore, manual task", probably as a calque of the Frankish *handwerc (“hand-work”). Compare Old English handweorc, Old English handġeweorc, German Handwerk. Pronunciation: /məˈnuːvə/, /məˈnuːvɚ/ 1. Commonwealth standard spelling of maneuver. Example: Three pairs of double doors are provided on each side, wide enough to take pallet trucks, and strengthened floors to allow the trucks to manoeuvre inside the vehicle.
Word: manœuvre Part of Speech: noun 1. Dated spelling of manoeuvre. Example: She delighted in schemes and in projects; she governed her husband by a series of manœuvres, whose only fault was their being entirely wasted; as a simple wish, openly expressed, would have answered every purpose. Example: […] but then it came of itself: it was not elicited by meretricious arts and calculated manœuvres; and one had but to accept it — to answer what he asked […]
Word: manœuvre Part of Speech: verb 1. Dated spelling of manoeuvre. Example: We can ask how long it was before the team scored its first goal; or how long the centre-forward spent in manœuvring the ball towards the goal; and even how long the ball was in flight between his kicking it and its going between the goal-posts. But we cannot ask how many seconds were occupied in the scoring of the goal. Example: Mr.Marples has thus manœuvred himself into a corner.
Word: bludgeon Part of Speech: noun Etymology: First attested in 1730. Origin uncertain, perhaps of Cornish origin (recorded as blogon c. 1450) or from Middle French bougeon, a diminutive of bouge (“club, stick”). Pronunciation: /ˈblʌd͡ʒ.ən/, /ˈblʊd͡ʒ.ən/ 1. A short, heavy club, often of wood, which is thicker or loaded at one end. Example: We smashed the radio with a steel bludgeon.
Word: bludgeon Part of Speech: verb Etymology: First attested in 1730. Origin uncertain, perhaps of Cornish origin (recorded as blogon c. 1450) or from Middle French bougeon, a diminutive of bouge (“club, stick”). Pronunciation: /ˈblʌd͡ʒ.ən/, /ˈblʊd͡ʒ.ən/ 1. To strike or hit with something hard, usually on the head; to club. Labels: transitive Example: The apprehended rioter was bludgeoned to death. Example: They didn't get shot to death in hold-ups, strangled to death in rapes, stabbed to death in saloons, bludgeoned to death with axes by parents or children or die summarily by some other act of God. 2. To coerce someone, as if with a bludgeon. Labels: transitive Example: Their favorite method was bludgeoning us with the same old arguments in favor of their opinions. Example: Gianna Parasini: You've never worked in the corporate world, have you, Commander? You can't bludgeon through bureaucracy. Shepard: I can bludgeon pretty hard.
Word: inn Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English in, inn, from Old English inn (“a dwelling, house, chamber, lodging”); akin to Icelandic inni (“a dwelling place, home, abode”), Faroese inni (“home”). Pronunciation: /ɪn/ 1. Any establishment where travellers can procure lodging, food, and drink. Example: [H]ow much more agreeable to himself to get into snug quarters in a chateau, [...] rather than take up with the miserable lodgement, and miserable fare of a country inn. Example: One morning I had been driven to the precarious refuge afforded by the steps of the inn, after rejecting offers from the Celebrity to join him in a variety of amusements. But even here I was not free from interruption, for he was seated on a horse-block below me, playing with a fox terrier. 2. A tavern. 3. One of the colleges (societies or buildings) in London, for students of the law barristers. Example: the Inns of Court the Inns of Chancery Serjeants’ Inns 4. The town residence of a nobleman or distinguished person. Labels: UK, dated Example: Leicester Inn 5. A place of shelter; hence, dwelling, residence, abode. Labels: obsolete Example: But nowe ſadde Winter welked hath the day, / And Phœbus weary of his yerely taſ-ke: / Yſtabled hath his ſteedes in lowlye laye / And taken vp his ynne in Fiſhes haſ-ke. Example: Therefore with me ye may take vp your In / For this ſame night.
Word: inn Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English in, inn, from Old English inn (“a dwelling, house, chamber, lodging”); akin to Icelandic inni (“a dwelling place, home, abode”), Faroese inni (“home”). Pronunciation: /ɪn/ 1. To take lodging; to lodge or house oneself. Labels: intransitive, obsolete Example: But where do you intend to inn to-night? Example: We inned at the signe of the Swan. 2. To lodge or house (someone or something). Labels: obsolete, transitive Example: I have but Inn'd my horse since, master Cockstone. Example: These Inn'd themselves all Night in Knights-bridge Fields.
Word: vampire bat Part of Speech: noun 1. Any of the three small bats of the subfamily Desmodontinae, native to Central and South America, which use their teeth to cut the skin of larger animals while they are asleep and surreptitiously drink blood, their sole source of food. Example: I noticed a peculiarity which distinguished these bats from any others with which I had come in contact (and on the Rio Negro my experiences in this respect had been ghastly and terrible: men wither and die there from nightly visitations of vampire bats).
Word: fruit bat Part of Speech: noun 1. Any of several tropical fruit-eating bats of the family Pteropodidae; a megabat.
Word: he'll Part of Speech: contraction Etymology: Contraction of he (wi)ll and he shall Pronunciation: /hiːl/, /hɪl/ 1. Contraction of he + will. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, contraction 2. Contraction of he + shall. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, contraction
Word: analog-to-digital converter Part of Speech: noun 1. A device that converts an infinite resolution analog signal to a finite resolution digital signal. Example: Coordinate term: digital-to-analog converter
Word: question Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English questioun, from Anglo-Norman questiun, from Old French question, from Latin quaestiōnem, accusative of quaestiō (“a seeking, investigation, inquiry, question”), from quaerere (“to seek, ask, inquire”), of uncertain origin, but possibly from Proto-Italic *kʷaizeō, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷeh₂- (“to acquire”). Partially displaced native Old English āscung. Compare also Middle Low German quēstie (“questioning; inquiry”), Middle High German questje (“question”). Cognates include English quest. Pronunciation: /ˈkwɛs.tʃən/, /ˈkwɛs.tjən/, /ˈkwɛʃ.tʃən/, /ˈkwɛʃ.tən/, /ˈkʋɛs.tʃən/ 1. A worded or expressed sentence, phrase, or only a word on its own, which asks for information, a reply, or a response; an interrogative. Example: What is your question? 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. A subject or topic for consideration or investigation. Example: The question of seniority will be discussed at the meeting. Example: There was a question of which material to use. 3. A doubt or challenge about the truth, accuracy, or validity of a matter. Example: His claim to the property has come under question. Example: The story is true beyond question. 4. A proposal to a meeting as a topic for deliberation. Example: I move that the question be put to a vote. 5. Interrogation by torture. Labels: archaic, historical, with-definite-article Example: I, not at all ambitious of the crown of martyrdom, resolved to temporize: so that, when I was brought to the question the second time, I made a solemn recantation […] Example: The Scottish privy council had power to put state prisoners to the question. 6. Talk; conversation; speech. Labels: obsolete Example: Made she no verbal question?
Word: question Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English questionen, questyonen, partly from Middle French questionner and partly from the noun. Pronunciation: /ˈkwɛs.tʃən/, /ˈkwɛs.tjən/, /ˈkwɛʃ.tʃən/, /ˈkwɛʃ.tən/, /ˈkʋɛs.tʃən/ 1. To ask questions of; to interrogate; to ask for information. Labels: transitive Example: Yet he lingered in Perryville with the determination of seeing Ruth, and questioning her about Helen Murray's letters. Example: However, a Carlisle newspaper got hold of the story, and at the half-yearly meeting of the Caledonian Railway Company, held on March 17, 1863, a shareholder, Mr. Meiklem, questioned the Chairman, Lt.-Col. Salkeld, regarding a "Chase of Engines," described in the newspaper article. The Chairman admitted that the statements made in the article were perfectly true. 2. To raise doubts about; have doubts about. Labels: transitive Example: Question things. I have the most fun when I'm writing questioning things that people do not question- the assumptions that everybody knows are true. Example: He questioned South Korean claims that China is a major source of its pollution. 3. To ask a question or questions; inquire or seek to know; examine. Labels: intransitive Example: He that questioneth much shall learn much. 4. To argue; to converse; to dispute. Labels: intransitive, obsolete Example: I pray you, think you question with the Jew.
Word: ko Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 劫 (kō). Pronunciation: /ˈkəʊ/ 1. A local shape to which the ko rule applies; a ko shape. Example: Black gets an easy game by just filling the ko. 2. ko fight Example: Black wins the ko easily. 3. a stone in a ko in atari, a ko stone Example: Black recaptures the ko and white has to find another ko threat.
Word: diner Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English dine 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 diner From dine + -er. Pronunciation: /ˈdaɪ̯nə/, [ˈdaɪ̯nə], /ˈdaɪ̯nɚ/, [ˈdaɪ̯nɚ] ~ [ˈdaɪ̯nɹ̩] 1. Someone who dines. Example: The most rapid and most seductive transition in all human nature is that which attends the palliation of a ravenous appetite.[…]Can those harmless but refined fellow-diners be the selfish cads whose gluttony and personal appearance so raised your contemptuous wrath on your arrival? Example: When it comes to Chinese food I have always operated under the policy that the less known about the preparation the better. A wise diner who is invited to visit the kitchen replies by saying, as politely as possible, that he has a pressing engagement elsewhere. 2. Someone who gives a dinner. Labels: rare Example: In the noble science of gastronomy, likewise, he who can not afford to collect a cellar of wines, and accumulate the rarities of distant climes and seasons, will make but little progress, For, though the diner and the dinee, the host and the guest, have similar sources open to them, yet the most practised parasite can not attain to the same regular course of study, as the Amphitryon Millionaire. Example: f I was broke, we’d just hang out at his place or my place looking at videos. This was very new and very different for me. Like I said, I’d been used to being wined and dined, you know, being the “dinee”. Is that a word? Anyway, now, I’m the “diner”. Does that make any sense? You know what I’m trying to say, right? 3. A car in a railroad train that serves meals. Example: Pacific No. 60123, H. A. Ivatt, a Leeds engine with 12 corridors, but no diners, went by, however. Example: The diner is everybody's kitchen. 4. A typically small restaurant, historically modeled after a railroad dining car, that serves lower-class fare, normally having a counter with stools along one side and booths on the other. Labels: US
Word: diner Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Catalan diner. Doublet of denar, denarius, denier, dinar, dinero, and dinheiro. 1. A commemorative currency of Andorra, not legal tender, divided into 100 centims.
Word: conk Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Variant or figurative use of conch. Attested since the nineteenth century. Pronunciation: /kɒŋk/, /kɑŋk/ 1. The shelf- or bracket-shaped fruiting body of a bracket fungus (also called a shelf fungus), i.e. a mushroom growing off a tree trunk. 2. A nose, especially a large one. Labels: slang 3. Alternative spelling of conch. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: conk Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Variant or figurative use of conch. Attested since the nineteenth century. Pronunciation: /kɒŋk/, /kɑŋk/ 1. To hit, especially on the head. Labels: slang Example: She came skipping to me just now, clapping her little hands and bleating about how very, very happy she was, dear Mrs Travers. The silly young geezer. I nearly conked her one with my trowel. I'd always thought her half-baked, but now I think they didn't even put her in the oven.
Word: conk Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From congolene, the brand name of a hair-straightening product. Pronunciation: /kɒŋk/, /kɑŋk/ 1. A hairstyle involving the chemical straightening and styling of kinky hair. Labels: US, dated
Word: conk Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From congolene, the brand name of a hair-straightening product. Pronunciation: /kɒŋk/, /kɑŋk/ 1. To chemically straighten tightly curled hair. Labels: US, dated Example: The barbecue cook, wearing a dirty white apron, his conked hair reddish and metallic in the pale sun, and a cigarette between his lips, stood in the doorway, watching them.
Word: conk Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Unknown. Attested since the early twentieth century. Pronunciation: /kɒŋk/, /kɑŋk/ 1. To fail or show signs of failing, cease operating, break down. Labels: colloquial, often Example: Therefore, have two or more engines, so that there is still some power left if one engine conks. Example: I watch television when it's playing, but it done conked out. Everything is conked out. 2. To become unconscious. Labels: colloquial, often
Word: hooter Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English hoot 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 hooter From hoot + -er. Pronunciation: /ˈhuː.tə(ɹ)/, /ˈhu.tɚ/, [ˈhu.ɾɚ] 1. A person who hoots. 2. The horn in a motor vehicle. 3. A siren or steam whistle, especially one in a factory and used to indicate the beginning or the end of a working day or shift. Labels: UK Example: Suddenly, far down and beyond the toun there came a screech as the morning grew, a screech like an hungered beast in pain. The hooters were blowing in the Segget Mills. Example: When the right-away was given, Driver Gibson would give a sonorous blast on Cardean's deep-toned hooter, and amid a flurry of swirling steam the train would move majestically out, with nearly half the city of Carlisle—or so it would appear—as onlookers on the platform. 4. A nose, especially a large one. Labels: slang Example: Aye, it may be a joke to you, but it's his nose. He can't help having a hideous great hooter! And his poor little head, trembling under the weight of it! Example: Shouldn't worry me, I thought, but sure enough, 20 seconds later the smell of wafting cigarette smoke drifts over the back of my seat and up my hooter. 5. An owl. 6. A woman's breast. Labels: US, especially, plural-normally, slang 7. A penis. Labels: slang Example: There, nestled in one of her gloved palms was a massive, blue-veined hooter with a pus-filled bump on it the size of a pecan. It was his hooter and his pus-filled bump. ¶ “You ole rascal,” she said, and gently lowered his dick between his legs. Example: He called it “Hooterville,” mainly because he was such a fan of Petticoat Junction, and he really enjoyed getting his hooter worked on. 8. A large cannabis cigarette. Labels: slang 9. The tiniest amount; a whit or jot. Labels: dated Example: G.G. understood that I meant the licence, and said he didn't care a hooter about failing his driving test.
Word: cher Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of 'cher. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: faire Part of Speech: adj 1. Obsolete spelling of fair. Labels: Early, Modern, alt-of, obsolete
Word: faire Part of Speech: noun 1. Obsolete spelling of fair. Labels: Early, Modern, alt-of, obsolete
Word: fer Part of Speech: prep Pronunciation: /fə(ɹ)/ 1. Pronunciation spelling of for. Labels: British, Southern, alt-of, dialectal, especially, pronunciation-spelling Example: “[…] Them rich fellers, they don't make no bad breaks with their money. They watch it all th' time b'cause they know blame well there ain't hardly room fer their feet fer th' pikers an' tin-horns an' thimble-riggers what are layin' fer 'em. […]” Example: This mornin’ she rails out at me fer dunkin’ my cooky and she says COFFEE IS FER SIPPIN’ AND NOT FER SAUCERIN’ . . .
Word: paire Part of Speech: noun 1. Obsolete form of pair. Labels: alt-of, obsolete
Word: greenhouse Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From green + house ("house for growing greens"), in reference to the produce grown within. Pronunciation: /ˈɡɹiːnhaʊs/, /ˈɡɹːnˌ(h)aʊs/ 1. A building used to grow plants, particularly one with large glass windows or plastic sheeting to trap heat from sunlight even in intemperate seasons or climates. Example: The royal party had dined in the greenhouse, the coup d'œil of which was as striking as it was new. Vast stands of the most costly exotics reached to the glass roof, which was partly covered by a luxuriant vine, or by a small scarlet creeper. 2. The glass of a plane's cockpit. Labels: UK, dated, slang Example: In the slang of the Royal Air Force man, the cockpit of his plane is the ‘pulpit’ or ‘office’, the glass covering over it the ‘greenhouse’. 3. A structure that shields the operating table to protect against bacteria. Example: Figure 2.6 shows the diagram Charnley published of the airflow in the 'greenhouse'; it can be seen that reasonable downward unidirectional airflow was achieved close to the operating table. Example: The greenhouse system for providing a nearly bacteria-free operating environment consists of a 10 by 10-foot aluminum frame with plexiglass panes forming three sides and a polyvinyl curtain forming the fourth side. […] However, the greenhouse contains its own light supply, while this is an extra with the air curtain unit. 4. A hot state in global climate.
Word: greenhouse Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From green + house ("house for growing greens"), in reference to the produce grown within. Pronunciation: /ˈɡɹiːnhaʊs/, /ˈɡɹːnˌ(h)aʊs/ 1. To place (plants) in a greenhouse. Labels: transitive 2. To nurture in order to promote growth. Labels: figuratively, transitive Example: It's almost impossible to make judgements when you're being playful – as by definition it's spontaneous activity – so your baby ideas get nurtured and greenhoused better.
Word: vapour Part of Speech: noun 1. British standard spelling of vapor. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: A mild vapour is thrown out, and not a hot steam; the invention appears to control the amount of the vapor, and and ^([sic]) even the force of the fire which produces it.
Word: vapour Part of Speech: verb 1. British standard spelling of vapor.
Word: greenhouse effect Part of Speech: noun Etymology: First attested in 1901 by Swedish meteorologist Nils Gustaf Ekholm. 1. The process by which a planet is heated by solar radiation which is retained by its atmosphere. Example: Firstly, the atmosphere may act like the glass of a green-house, letting through the light rays of the sun relatively easy, and absorbing a great part of the dark rays emitted from the ground, and it thereby may raise the mean temperature of the earth's surface. Example: It is time to stop waffling so much and say that the evidence is pretty strong that the greenhouse effect is here.
Word: sphere of influence Part of Speech: noun Etymology: In reference to Anglo-German colonial rivalry in Africa. First use appears c. 1885. 1. A spatial region over which a state has a level of cultural, economic, military or political exclusivity. Example: Under the Monroe Doctrine, the United States considered Central and South America within its sphere of influence, therefore justifying American interference with these countries' domestic politics. Example: […]it does not mean that the major powers have a right to chop the globe into spheres of influence as colonial empires did centuries ago. 2. A concept division over which a person, organization, etc. exerts control. Labels: broadly, figuratively
Word: spectacles Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈspɛktəkl̩z/ 1. plural of spectacle Labels: form-of, plural
Word: spectacles Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈspɛktəkl̩z/ 1. A pair of lenses set in a frame worn on the nose and ears in order to correct deficiencies in eyesight or to ornament the face. Labels: plural, plural-only Example: He needed to get new spectacles because his original ones had broken. 2. Synonym of pair (“score of zero runs in both innings”). Labels: plural, plural-only, slang
Word: specs Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /spɛks/ 1. Abbreviation of spectacles. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, colloquial, plural, plural-only 2. Specifications: plural of spec Labels: colloquial
Word: specs Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /spɛks/ 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of spec Labels: colloquial, form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: lunettes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of lunette Labels: form-of, plural
Word: lunettes Part of Speech: noun 1. A particular kind of spectacles/glasses, consisting of two circular lenses connected by a half-circle bridge over the nose. Labels: plural, plural-only
Word: aire Part of Speech: noun 1. Obsolete spelling of air. Labels: alt-of, countable, obsolete, uncountable
Word: première Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of premiere. Labels: alt-of, alternative, uncommon Example: At yet another première, she watches William file out of the theatre with Agnes at his side.
Word: première Part of Speech: verb 1. Alternative spelling of premiere. Labels: alt-of, alternative, uncommon
Word: premiere Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From French première (“first”). Pronunciation: /pɹəˈmɪɚ/, /pɹɪ-/, /-ˈmiɚ/, /ˈpɹɛmjɛə/ 1. The first showing of a film, play or other form of entertainment, often held as a special event with celebrity guests. 2. The first episode of a television show or a particular season of that show. 3. In a series of narrative works, the installment that is chronologically set first. 4. The leading woman of a group, especially in a theatrical cast.
Word: premiere Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From French première (“first”). Pronunciation: /pɹəˈmɪɚ/, /pɹɪ-/, /-ˈmiɚ/, /ˈpɹɛmjɛə/ 1. Of a film or play, to play for the first time. Labels: intransitive Example: The new film premieres this weekend. Example: His two most recent films are last year's Greyhound, a Hanks-penned World War Two thriller in which he plays a naval commander, and now News of the World, a Western set in the years immediately following the close of the US Civil War, directed by Paul Greengrass, which is premiering around the world on Netflix tomorrow. 2. To present a film or play for the first time. Labels: transitive Example: The local theatre will premiere its latest play this week.
Word: è Part of Speech: character 1. Found in words borrowed from other languages. Labels: letter, lowercase 2. Used poetically instead of e in order to indicate that it is pronounced, as opposed to mute. Labels: letter, lowercase Example: My wingèd helmet and my wingèd heel
Word: occhio Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Italian occhio (“eye”). Doublet of oculus. 1. A sound hole Labels: rare
Word: stoopid Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Perhaps imitative of the American pronunciation of stupid, or implying the referent would spell the word that way. 1. Eye dialect spelling of stupid, used as an emphatic form of the word. Labels: alt-of, humorous, pronunciation-spelling Example: Did you read what he wrote? How stoopid was that?
Word: Eis Part of Speech: name Etymology: Borrowed from German Eis. 1. A surname from German.
Word: OTT Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Initialism of over the top. Pronunciation: /oʊ tiː ˈtiː/, /əʊ tiː ˈtiː/ 1. Initialism of over the top. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism Example: Even for her, though, this one was OTT: a skin-tight ankle-length gold pleated gown, simultaneously retro and futuristic. Example: Insider secret: Her makeup artist often uses Armani Fluid Sheer Glow Enhancer Highlighter to add that sheen without any OTT chunky glitters.
Word: OTT Part of Speech: name Etymology: Abbreviation of Ottawa. 1. Abbreviation of Ottawa. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of
Word: kumquat Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Cantonese 柑橘 (gam¹ gwat¹) or 金橘 (gam¹ gwat¹, literally “golden tangerine”). Related to loquat – same second character. Pronunciation: /ˈkʌmkwɑt/, /ˈkʌmkwɒt/ 1. A small, orange citrus-like fruit which is native to Asia (Citrus japonica, syn. Fortunella japonica).
Word: olim Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Hebrew עולים (olím). 1. plural of oleh Labels: form-of, plural
Word: coup Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Reborrowed in modern times from modern French coup (“blow, strike”), from Old French coup, colp, from Late Latin colpus, from Latin colaphus. Doublet of cope and colpus. The same Old French word had been borrowed into Middle English as coupe, caupe (with different pronunciation). Pronunciation: /kuː/, /ku/ 1. A quick, brilliant, and highly successful act. Example: The conference was a major coup for Robarts, who received congratulations for his 'expert handling' of the 'risky venture.' Example: While the price was considered a coup for Morgan, enhancing his reputation on Wall Street, Carnegie had a different explanation for his selling price. 2. Of Native Americans, a blow against an enemy delivered in a way that demonstrates bravery. Labels: US, historical Example: Among the Blackfeet the capture of a shield, bow, gun, war bonnet, war shirt, or medicine pipe was deemed a coup. Example: Thus, for a horseman to ride over and knock down an enemy, who was on foot, was regarded among the Blackfeet as a coup, for the horseman might be shot at close quarters, or might receive a lance thrust. 3. A coup d'état. Example: Military coups and the military regimes which follow from them are so much a feature of third world politics that their presence or absence in any given region might almost be taken as a rough and ready touchstone of third worldliness. Example: It was the military's discontent with what was happening in the country and in the military that led to the first military coup in January 1966. The First Republic was brought to an ignoble end and replaced with a military government. 4. A takeover of one group by another. Labels: broadly Example: Liz Truss’s government is in chaos after the chancellor refused to confirm he would bring forward his budget to calm the markets and the home secretary accused fellow MPs of a coup against the prime minister. […] Backbenchers also expressed outrage at [Suella] Braverman’s suggestion of a “coup” against Truss. 5. A single roll of the wheel at roulette, or a deal in rouge et noir. Example: After seven coups he had won six times. He lost on the seventh when thirty came up. 6. One of various named strategies employed by the declarer to win more tricks, such as the Bath coup.
Word: coup Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Reborrowed in modern times from modern French coup (“blow, strike”), from Old French coup, colp, from Late Latin colpus, from Latin colaphus. Doublet of cope and colpus. The same Old French word had been borrowed into Middle English as coupe, caupe (with different pronunciation). Pronunciation: /kuː/, /ku/ 1. To execute a coup. Labels: intransitive Example: The squaws of another race will sing the death-song of their benefactor, and woe to the Sioux if the Northern Cheyennes get a chance to coup ! 2. To subject (a nation) to a coup d'état. Labels: informal, transitive Example: We will coup whoever we want! Deal with it. Example: In response to the accusation that the US government organised a coup against Evo Morales in Bolivia in order for Tesla to secure lithium there, Musk tweeted: “We will coup whoever we want! Deal with it.” 3. To empty out, overturn, or tilt, such as from a cart or wheelbarrow. Labels: transitive
Word: coup Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English coupen (“to buy; (figuratively) to pay for”), from Old Norse kaupa (“to buy, bargain, barter, exchange”). 1. To exchange, barter. Labels: Northern-England, Scotland Example: How that he had been couped from hand to hand, ſometimes kept againſt his will as Captive, ſometimes beſieged, ſometimes brought to battle againſt his will by the Duglaſſes to fight againſt the Earl of Lenox, […] Example: [W]hen he had gotten, beſide twelve chalder of victuall, a hundred pound ſterling a-year, from the Engliſh, out of the ſtipends of other kirks, all contented him not; but he made almoſt a trade of couping horſes.
Word: pulmonary embolism Part of Speech: noun 1. The embolism or obstruction of a pulmonary artery, usually by a detached blood clot from a leg or pelvic vein, which causes a stoppage of blood into the lungs; symptoms include shortness of breath, chest pain, fainting, and sometimes death.
Word: superfluous Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English superfluous, from Latin superfluus (“superfluous”) + -ous, from superfluō (“overflow”), from super (“above, more than, over”) + fluō (“flow”). Compare mellifluous and fluid, also from Latin. Literally corresponds to overflow, which is from Germanic, rather than Latin. Pronunciation: /suːˈpɜːflu.əs/, /sjʊˈpɜːflu.əs/, /suˈpɝflu.əs/, /səˈpɜːflu.əs/ 1. In excess of what is required or sufficient. Example: With a full rain suit, carrying an umbrella may be superfluous. Example: Then I began to play in timid fashion, venturing only twenty or thirty gulden at a time. Meanwhile, I observed and took notes. It seemed to me that calculation was superfluous, and by no means possessed of the importance which certain other players attached to it, even though they sat with ruled papers in their hands, whereon they set down the coups, calculated the chances, reckoned, staked, and—lost exactly as we more simple mortals did who played without any reckoning at all.
Word: orangery Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From French orangerie; equivalent to orange + -ery. Pronunciation: /ˈɒrɪndʒərɪ/ 1. A greenhouse in which orange trees are grown. 2. A garden or plantation where orange trees are grown.
Word: murex Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Latin murex. Pronunciation: /ˈmjʊɚ.ɛks/ 1. Any of the genus Murex of marine gastropods. Example: The bank of crushed murex shell that Professor Bosanquet found here, and again at Palaikastro, in company with a whole mass of Kamáres pottery, shows that the men of Sidon and Tyre were not the first to practise the dying of purple. Example: The murexes (family Muricidae) are one of the most beautiful and sought-after families by shell collectors.
Word: caltrop Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English calketrappe, from Old English calcatrippe, from Medieval Latin calcatrippa (“thistle”), from Latin calx or calcare (“to tread”) + trappa (“trap”). Pronunciation: /ˈkæltɹəp/, /ˈkaltɹəp/, /ˈkɔːltɹəp/ 1. A metal object, usually small, with spikes arranged so that, when thrown onto the ground, one always faces up as a threat to pedestrians, horses, and vehicles (also used as a heraldic charge). Example: […] her father, the emperor Alexius, who reigned AD 1081-1118, ordered caltrops to be cast in front of his archers […] Example: By Sung times, several different types of caltrops had been developed. As in earlier times, both caltrops could be made from both wood and iron... 2. The starthistle, Centaurea calcitrapa, a plant with sharp thorns. Labels: colloquial 3. Any of a number of flowering plants in the family Zygophyllaceae, including several members of the genus Kallstroemia and the species Tribulus terrestris, native to warm temperate and tropical regions.
Word: pundit Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Sanskrit पण्डा (paṇḍā) Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Indo-Iranian *-tás Sanskrit -इत (-ita) Sanskrit पण्डित (paṇḍita)bor. Hindi पंडित (paṇḍit)bor. Urdu پَنْڈِٹ (panḍiṭ)bor. English pundit Borrowed from Hindi पंडित (paṇḍit) / Urdu پنڈت (panḍit), from Sanskrit पण्डित (paṇḍita, “scholar, learned man, teacher, philosopher”). Doublet of pandit. Pronunciation: /pɐɳ.ɖɪt̪/, /pɐ̃ɳ.ɖɪt̪/, /pəɳ.ɖɪt̪/, /pʌɳ.ɖɪt̪/, /poɳ.ɖit̪/ 1. An expert in a particular field, especially as called upon to provide comment or opinion in the media; a commentator, a critic. Example: This week we introduce Jenny Walker, who will be The Observer's expert pundit for the duration of the World Cup. 2. A learned person in India; someone with knowledge of Sanskrit, philosophy, religion and law; a Hindu scholar. Example: Pundits in black gowns, with spectacles on their noses and undigested wisdom in their insides; bearded headmen of the wards; [...] all these people and more also you might find in the white room. 3. A native surveyor in British India, trained to carry out clandestine surveillance beyond British borders. Labels: historical Example: At every hundredth pace the Pundit would automatically slip one bead. Each complete circuit of the rosary thus represented ten thousand paces.
Word: homophones Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of homophone Labels: form-of, plural
Word: hippocampus Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Late Latin hippocampus, from Ancient Greek ἱππόκαμπος (hippókampos, from ῐ̔́ππος (hĭ́ppos, “horse”) + κάμπος (kámpos, “sea-monster”)). The anatomy sense is so named from its resemblance to the seahorse. By surface analysis, hippo- + campus. Pronunciation: /ˌhɪpə(ʊ)ˈkæm.pəs/, /ˌhɪpəˈkæm.pəs/, [ˌhɪpəˈkɛəm.pəs], /ˌhɪpoʊˈkæm.pəs/, [ˌhɪpoʊˈkɛəm.pəs] 1. A mythological creature with the front head and forelimbs of a horse and the rear of a fish. 2. A part of the brain located inside the temporal lobe, consisting mainly of grey matter. It is a component of the limbic system and plays a role in memory and emotion. Example: Holonyms: limbic system < brain < central nervous system, CNS Example: The hippocampus is central to the laying down of memories.
Word: strongyla Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Latin strongyla. 1. Rounded needle-shaped spiracle on sponges. Example: The dermal spicules are strongyla with rather unequal cuds, one end being slightly thicker... Example: The spines are grouped at either end of the strongyla, leaving the centre of the shaft smooth, but often a few scattered spines occur along the shaft.
Word: bu Part of Speech: noun 1. Abbreviation of bushel, a unit of weight or dry measure. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of 2. Clipping of bureau. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, clipping
Word: lettre Part of Speech: noun 1. Obsolete form of letter. Labels: alt-of, obsolete
Word: nu body Part of Speech: noun 1. nucleosome
Word: su Part of Speech: noun Etymology: See xu. 1. Alternative form of xu (“former Vietnamese currency”). Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: 100 su = 1 Vietnam dong Example: Old people pine for the days when a serving of rice cost a 100 su coin.
Word: le Part of Speech: article Etymology: Borrowed from French le (“the”). Popularized especially by the expression le sigh. Pronunciation: /lə/, /leɪ/, /liː/ 1. the Labels: humorous, informal Example: Le mew. Le purr. Example: Waiter: 'Bonjour! I am le waiter on this ship! [...] Ah! Le strong silent type!'
Word: le Part of Speech: prep Etymology: borrowed from Old French lez (“side”). Pronunciation: /lə/, /li/, /leɪ/ 1. Next to, near (still used in some place names). Labels: obsolete Example: Chester-le-Street is a town in County Durham near an old Roman road. Example: Dalton-le-Dale, Hetton-le-Hole, Witton-le-Wear
Word: block Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /blɒk/, /blɑk/ 1. Misspelling of bloc. Labels: alt-of, misspelling
Word: get off Part of Speech: intj 1. Indicates annoyance or dismissiveness. Labels: intransitive Example: "And you're the only person in the country who can do it." "Get off," she said skeptically.