nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: hobnob Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From hob and nob, hob or nob (“a phrase spoken when making a toast, possibly meaning ‘give and take’; to take turns toasting or buying rounds of drinks”) (archaic), from dialectal hab nab (“to have or have not, in the sense of an invitation to have a drink”), from Old English habban (“to have, possess”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kap- (“to grab, seize”)) + nabban (“to not have”) (from ne (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *né (“not”)) + habban). Pronunciation: /ˈhɒbnɒb/, /ˈhɑbˌnɑb/ 1. To drink together. Labels: intransitive Example: Many a glass of wine have we all of us drank, I have very little doubt, hob-and-nobbing with the hospitable giver, and wondering how the deuce he paid for it. Example: When the dinner was a little forward, and time for wine came, the Emperor fills his own cup—fills the Empress's—fills St. Martin [of Tours]'s,—affectionately hobnobs with St. Martin. […] St. Martin looks round, first, deliberately;—becomes aware of a tatterdemalion and thirsty-looking soul of a beggar at his chair side, who has managed to get his cup filled somehow, also—by a charitable lacquey. St. Martin turns his back on the Empress, and hobnobs with him! 2. To associate with in a friendly manner, often with those of a higher class or status; to fraternize. Labels: derogatory, intransitive, often Example: The ambitious young student hobnobbed with the faculty at the prestigious college he hoped to attend. Example: His favorite spot in the club was the bar, where he could hobnob with the big-wigs. 3. To have or have not; to give or take. Labels: intransitive, obsolete, rare Example: He is knight dubb'd with vnhatche'd Rapier, and on carpet conſideration, but he is a diuell in priuate brall, soules and bodies hath he diuorc'd three, and his incenſement at this moment is ſo implacable, that ſatisfaction can be none, but by pangs of death and ſepulcher: Hob, nob, is his word: giu't or take't. 4. To toast one another by touching glasses. Labels: intransitive, obsolete Example: I have frequently heard one gentleman, in company, say to another, will you hob-nob with me? When this challenge was accepted, the glasses were instantly filled, and then they made the glasses touch or kiss each other. This gentle striking of the drinking vessels I always supposed explained the term hob-nob.
Word: hobnob Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From hob and nob, hob or nob (“a phrase spoken when making a toast, possibly meaning ‘give and take’; to take turns toasting or buying rounds of drinks”) (archaic), from dialectal hab nab (“to have or have not, in the sense of an invitation to have a drink”), from Old English habban (“to have, possess”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kap- (“to grab, seize”)) + nabban (“to not have”) (from ne (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *né (“not”)) + habban). Pronunciation: /ˈhɒbnɒb/, /ˈhɑbˌnɑb/ 1. On friendly terms; in friendly association. Labels: not-comparable
Word: hobnob Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From hob and nob, hob or nob (“a phrase spoken when making a toast, possibly meaning ‘give and take’; to take turns toasting or buying rounds of drinks”) (archaic), from dialectal hab nab (“to have or have not, in the sense of an invitation to have a drink”), from Old English habban (“to have, possess”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kap- (“to grab, seize”)) + nabban (“to not have”) (from ne (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *né (“not”)) + habban). Pronunciation: /ˈhɒbnɒb/, /ˈhɑbˌnɑb/ 1. At random; at a venture; hit and miss. Labels: not-comparable, obsolete Example: The Citizens in their rage, imagining that euery poſt in the Churche had bin one of yᵉ Souldyers, ſhot habbe or nabbe at randon^([sic – meaning random]) uppe to the Roode lofte, and to the Chancell, leauing ſome of theyr arrowes ſticking in the Images.
Word: lassie Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From lass + -ie. Pronunciation: /ˈlæsi/ 1. A young girl, a lass, especially one seen as a sweetheart. Labels: Geordie, Northern-England, Northumbria, Scotland Example: I had been on a message for my father, and was walking home along the road, when I saw a tall, fine lassie coming over the bogland on the right hand side of the road. Example: It was the day of warlocks and apparitions, now happily driven out by the zeal of the General Assembly. Witches pursued their wanchancy calling, bairns were spirited away, young lassies selled their souls to the Evil One, and the Accuser of the Brethren, in the shape of a black tyke, was seen about cottage doors in the gloaming.
Word: crispy Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English crispy (“crisped, curly”), equivalent to crisp + -y. Pronunciation: /ˈkɹɪs.pi/ 1. Having a crisp texture; brittle yet tender. Example: These biscuits are very crispy. Example: Baked rolls should be crispy. 2. Denoting something is impressive or desirable; cool, awesome; fresh. Labels: slang
Word: crispy Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English crispy (“crisped, curly”), equivalent to crisp + -y. Pronunciation: /ˈkɹɪs.pi/ 1. The well-baked fat on the surface of a piece of roasted meat. Labels: informal
Word: of an Part of Speech: phrase 1. Having the same. Labels: dated Example: The two main players were roughly of an age. Example: He and F were of an age and standing, the giants of the house, but F was the braver, and did us the good office of keeping him in order. 2. Indicates a more or less habitual activity during the given part of the day. Labels: dated, idiomatic Example: Of an evening, I like to play chess. i.e., On some evenings, I like to play chess. Example: Of a morning, they would work in their garden. i.e., They generally worked in their garden in the morning.
Word: waning gibbous Part of Speech: adj 1. More than half full in phase, but growing smaller. Labels: not-comparable
Word: pooh-pooh Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From a reduplication of pooh (“an utterance of the word pooh”). Pronunciation: /ˌpuːˈpuː/, /ˈpuˈpu/ 1. To dismiss idly with contempt or derision; to diminish. Labels: transitive Example: [W]hen he went abroad with Dombey and was chasing that vagabond up and down France, J. Bagstock would have pooh-pooh'd you—would have pooh-pooh'd you, Sir, by the Lord! Example: In England, until very late days, we have been accustomed rather to pooh-pooh national Orders, to vote ribbons and crosses tinsel gewgaws, foolish foreign ornaments, and so forth.
Word: crank science Part of Speech: noun 1. Pseudoscience; activity which appears to be science-like but is not founded on proper scientific methods. Labels: derogatory, uncountable, usually Example: While global warming is far from "crank science", as the critics of Kyoto have called it, it is not the science any practising politician is likely to remember from high school, or voters readily comprehend.
Word: left field Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˌlɛft ˈfild/ 1. The part of a baseball field which is beyond the infield and to the left of a person standing on home plate and facing the pitcher. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The double, by pinch-hitter Ruben Sierra, curved sharply toward foul ground in deep left field but then changed its mind and hit the line instead—a big hit, and a smile at last from the great and enigmatically difficult game. 2. The defensive position in the outfield to the left. Labels: countable, uncountable 3. An unexpected, bizarre, or unwatched source (especially in the phrases out of left field and from left field). Labels: countable, figuratively, uncountable Example: Some of her comments really came from left field. I have no idea what she was thinking. Example: There is no serendipity without a flash of insight from left field, an oblique eureka effect. 4. An unusual or unexpected position, or a viewpoint held by very few others in contrast to the majority viewpoint (especially in the phrases out in left field and way out in left field) Labels: countable, figuratively, uncountable Example: Tonne is way out in left field if he thinks a voice writing machine will never be built or that there are no existing prototypes or work being done in this […] Example: Maybe I am way out in left field with this statement, but I don’t think enough people appreciate their mailmen (ladies).
Word: squiggler Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From squiggle + -er. 1. Anything that squiggles. Example: The end of the losing arrived in a Yankee game against Oakland, when the Pinstripes, down by 8-4 in the eighth inning, were granted a succession of feeble singles, nubbed infield squigglers, three walks, and a two-run double, good for six runs and, in time, the win.
Word: eureka Part of Speech: intj Etymology: From Ancient Greek εὕρηκα (heúrēka, “I have found”), perfect active indicative first person singular of εὑρίσκω (heurískō, “to find”). Archimedes supposedly exclaimed this when he figured out how to determine the density of an object. First use appears c. 1603 in a text by Philemon Holland. Pronunciation: /jəˈɹiː.kə/, /jʊˈɹiː.kə/ 1. An exclamation indicating a sudden discovery. Example: Eureka! I have found it! What I mean / To say is, not that love is idleness, / But that in love such idleness has been / An accessory, as I have cause to guess. Example: "Eureka!" he cried, his teeth shining through his beard. "Gentlemen, you may congratulate me and we may congratulate each other. The problem is solved."
Word: eureka Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Ancient Greek εὕρηκα (heúrēka, “I have found”), perfect active indicative first person singular of εὑρίσκω (heurískō, “to find”). Archimedes supposedly exclaimed this when he figured out how to determine the density of an object. First use appears c. 1603 in a text by Philemon Holland. Pronunciation: /jəˈɹiː.kə/, /jʊˈɹiː.kə/ 1. Synonym of constantan (“copper-nickel alloy”). Labels: uncountable
Word: eureka effect Part of Speech: noun 1. The human experience of feeling a sudden sense of insight upon making a discovery or realization. Example: There is no serendipity without a flash of insight from left field, an oblique eureka effect.
Word: Maharastra Part of Speech: name 1. Alternative form of Maharashtra. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: zounds Part of Speech: intj Etymology: Minced form of God's wounds, with reference to the wounds from Christ's crucifixion. Compare strewth, blimey, gadzooks, 'sblood, crikey. Pronunciation: /zuːndz/, /zaʊndz/ 1. Expressing anger, surprise, assertion etc. Labels: dated Example: 'Zounds, a dog, a rat, a mouse, a cat, to scratch a man to death! Example: Bounds, mounds, lounds, founds, kounds, downds, rounds, pounds, zounds! — hounds — ha! hounds — I have it.
Word: eureka moment Part of Speech: noun 1. The moment of a sudden unexpected discovery. Labels: idiomatic Example: 2002, Evolutionary biology's 'Eureka!' moment supposedly took place some time in September or October 1835, during the Beagle's five-week visit to the Galapagos Islands. — London Review of Books, 7 Mar 2002 Example: 2002, The dreams of a farm boy, the eureka moment in a potato field, the confession to a teacher, the confidence in him shown by businessmen and bankers and investors, the breakthroughs in the laboratory, all the years of work, the decisions of the official patent examiners, those hard-fought victories, all of those demonstrations that had come and gone, the entire vision of the future. — The New Yorker, 27 May 2002
Word: hierophany Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from French hiérophanie, as used by Romanian religious historian and philosopher Mircea Eliade (1907–1986) in his book The Sacred and the Profane (1959; translated into English from an unpublished French original), from Ancient Greek ἱερός (hierós, “sacred, holy sign”) + φαίνω (phaínō, “show, appear”). Pronunciation: /ˌhaɪ.əˈɹɒ.fə.ni/, /ˌhaɪˈɹɒ.fə.ni/ 1. A physical manifestation of the holy or sacred, serving as a spiritual eidolon for emulation or worship. Example: Man becomes aware of the sacred, because it manifests itself, shows itself, as something wholly different from the profane. To designate the act of manifestation of the sacred, we have proposed the term hierophany. It is a fitting term, because it does not imply anything further; it expresses no more than is implicit in its etymological content, i.e., that something sacred shows itself to us. It could be said that the history of religions—from the most primitive to the most highly developed—is constituted by a great number of hierophanies, by manifestations of sacred realities. From the most elementary hierophany—e.g., manifestation of the sacred in some ordinary object, a stone or a tree—to the supreme hierophany (which, for a Christian, is the incarnation of God in Jesus Christ) there is no solution of continuity. Example: The technical meaning of symbolism is more extensive than the mere assertion that a particular stone or a specific tree is a hierophany. […] Water symbolism involves the common element of water, but lacks a central hierophany such as unites lunar symbolism. […] But there is, for [Mircea] Eliade, an overarching system which implies a meaning which is more comprehensive than any hierophany standing alone, and this system is implied in each particular hierophany.
Word: darn Part of Speech: adj Etymology: A minced oath of damn. Pronunciation: /dɑɹn/, /daːn/, /dɑːn/ 1. Damn. Labels: euphemistic, not-comparable
Word: darn Part of Speech: adv Etymology: A minced oath of damn. Pronunciation: /dɑɹn/, /daːn/, /dɑːn/ 1. Damned. Labels: euphemistic, not-comparable Example: But I ain't up to my baby tonight / 'Cause it's too darn hot Example: Of the two episodes, “Mortshall” is slightly weaker, while still being pretty darn good. I spent a lot of this season bemoaning the weaker entries, and like I said last time, it’s shit like this that makes me complain when stuff gets super dumb.
Word: darn Part of Speech: intj Etymology: A minced oath of damn. Pronunciation: /dɑɹn/, /daːn/, /dɑːn/ 1. Damn. Labels: euphemistic
Word: darn Part of Speech: verb Etymology: A minced oath of damn. Pronunciation: /dɑɹn/, /daːn/, /dɑːn/ 1. Damn. Labels: euphemistic, transitive
Word: darn Part of Speech: noun Etymology: A minced oath of damn. Pronunciation: /dɑɹn/, /daːn/, /dɑːn/ 1. Damn. Labels: euphemistic Example: His opinion isn't worth a darn.
Word: darn Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English dernen (“to keep secret, hide, conceal (a hole)”), from Old English diernan (“to hide, conceal”), from Proto-West Germanic *darnijan, from Proto-West Germanic *darnī (“hidden, secret”). Related to Old English dyrne, dierne (“secret”, adjective). Pronunciation: /dɑɹn/, /daːn/, /dɑːn/ 1. To repair by stitching with thread or yarn, particularly by using a needle to construct a weave across a damaged area of fabric. Labels: transitive Example: I need to darn these socks again. Example: He spent every day ten hours in his closet, in reading his courses, dozing, clipping papers, or darning his stockings; which last he performed to admiration.
Word: darn Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English dernen (“to keep secret, hide, conceal (a hole)”), from Old English diernan (“to hide, conceal”), from Proto-West Germanic *darnijan, from Proto-West Germanic *darnī (“hidden, secret”). Related to Old English dyrne, dierne (“secret”, adjective). Pronunciation: /dɑɹn/, /daːn/, /dɑːn/ 1. A place mended by darning.
Word: durn Part of Speech: adj Pronunciation: /dɜː(ɹ)n/ 1. darn; damn. Labels: US, euphemistic, informal, not-comparable
Word: durn Part of Speech: adv Pronunciation: /dɜː(ɹ)n/ 1. Darn; damned; extremely. Labels: US, euphemistic, informal, not-comparable Example: The older man eyed him for a moment bale fully. "I'm goin' to set 'em again," he replied, "and don't you touch 'em. I'm goin' to trap where I durn please. There's two of you, but you don't bluff me out, not any." Example: These guys probably had a crudload of sand kicked in their faces in grade school, and now carry this primal sandbox grudge to the poli sci classroom, where they finally have the power over us durn bratty schoolkids.
Word: durn Part of Speech: intj Pronunciation: /dɜː(ɹ)n/ 1. darn; damn Labels: US, euphemistic, informal
Word: durn Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /dɜː(ɹ)n/ 1. Rhoticized pronunciation of doing. Labels: slang Example: How ya durn?
Word: durn Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /dɜː(ɹ)n/ 1. Alternative form of dern (“a doorpost”). Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: Ngan'gityemerri Part of Speech: name 1. An Aboriginal language spoken in the Daly River region of the Northern Territory of Australia of the Southern Daly language family.
Word: yurt Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from French yourte or German Jurte, from Russian ю́рта (júrta, “yurt”), from a Turkic language, from Proto-Turkic *yūrt (“dwelling place”). Pronunciation: /jɜːt/, /jɝːt/, /jʊɹt/ 1. A large, round, semi-permanent tent with vertical walls and a conical roof, usually associated with Central Asia and Mongolia (where it is known as a ger). Example: [T]heir [the Nogais'] cattle grazed on the Little Injik, only seven versts from the boundary line. In summer they kept them in the Black Mountains, and in winter at their auls. They lived in felt yurts, and often changed their place of abode. Example: Gervasius and Borodijin rode on to reconnoitre. As my caravan entered the strip of pasture fringing the shore I saw my people in conversation with Sarts by a yurt at the north-east corner of the lake. They soon returned with the information that the whole neighbourhood, which included Kala Otlak and Bulag Bashi, was known as Dakherukta. There was no tura, but two or three miles off to the west there lived a wealthy Sart who was at the moment away from home attending a wedding at some friends of his. The festivities were taking place on the farther side of the northern mountains.
Word: yurt Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Russian юрт (jurt), from a Turkic language in the sense of “one's native land”, from Proto-Turkic *yūrt (“dwelling place”). Pronunciation: /jɜːt/, /jɝːt/, /jʊɹt/ 1. The natural resources and arable land over which a Cossack stanitsa had exclusive control in their territory. Labels: historical
Word: nosegay Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Late Middle English nōsegai (?), from nōse (“nose”) (from Old English nosu, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *nas- (“nose”)) + gai (“a bright or gay object; an ornament”) (from Old French gai (“cheerful, gay, happy”)); equivalent to nose + gay. Pronunciation: /ˈnəʊzɡeɪ/, /ˈnoʊzˌɡeɪ/ 1. A small bunch of fragrant flowers or herbs tied in a bundle, often presented as a gift; nosegays were originally intended to be put to the nose for the pleasant sensation or to mask unpleasant odours. Example: [N]o more is Pierce Pennileſſe to be cald the Devils Orator for making a Supplication to the Devill, than hee is to bee helde for a Rhethoritian for ſetting foorth Gabrielis Scurvei Rhetor, wherein hee thought to have knockt out the braines of poore Tullies Orator, but in veritie did nothing elſe, but gather a flauntinge unſavory ſore-horſe noſegay out of his well furniſhed garland. Example: Mr. [John] White joins with the reſt of his fellow-voyagers, in vindicating the characters of the Portugueſe ladies from the indiſcriminate cenſure which is caſt on them in Dr. Hawkſworth's account of Captain [James] Cook's firſt voyage: we muſt therefore conclude, that Dr. [Daniel] Solander, and the two gentlemen who were with him, muſt have miſtaken the intent of the noſegays which were ſo plentifully beſtowed on them by the ladies, from their balconies, as they walked through the ſtreets of this place in the evening. 2. An aroma, a scent. Labels: figuratively Example: The 80-year-old Government Opium and Alkaloid Works in Neemuch smells better than it looks. The turfy-chocolaty nosegay of raw opium wafts from hundreds of milk cans.
Word: give-away shop Part of Speech: noun 1. A shop or store where all goods are free of charge.
Word: militate Part of Speech: verb Etymology: First attested in 1598; borrowed from Latin mīlitātus, perfect passive participle from mīlitō, see -ate (verb-forming suffix). Semantically from its cognate, French militer. Pronunciation: /ˈmɪlɪteɪt/ 1. To give force or effect toward; to influence. Example: to militate in favor of a particular result Example: to militate against the possibility of his election 2. To serve as a soldier or participate in warfare. Labels: obsolete Example: This..moues many Italian Caualiers to militate in the warres of Holland.
Word: cipher Part of Speech: noun Etymology: 14th century. From Middle English cifre, from Old French cyfre, cyffre (French chiffre), ultimately from Arabic صِفْر (ṣifr, “zero, empty”), from صَفَرَ (ṣafara, “to be empty”). Doublet of chiffre and zero. Sense 8 (a fault in an organ valve) may be a different word. Pronunciation: /ˈsaɪfə/, /ˈsaɪfɚ/ 1. A numeric character. 2. Any text character. Example: In ſucceeding times this vnderſtanding wiſedome began to be written in Ciphers, and Characters, and letters bearing the forme of beaſtes, birds, and other creatures; […] 3. A combination or interweaving of letters, as the initials of a name. Example: a painter's cipher Example: an engraver's cipher 4. A method of transforming a text in order to conceal its meaning. Example: The message was written in a simple cipher. Anyone could figure it out. Example: He was very early engaged in great ſecrets: For his fatherr, apprehending of what fatal conſequence it would have been to the King’s affairs if his correſpondence had been diſcovered by unfaithful Secretaries, engaged him when very young to write all his letters to England in cypher; ſo that he was generally half the day writing in cypher, or decyphering, and was ſo diſcrect, as well as faithful, that nothing was ever diſcovered by him. 5. A cryptographic system using an algorithm that converts letters or sequences of bits into ciphertext. Example: a public-key cipher 6. Ciphertext; a message concealed via a cipher. Example: The message is clearly a cipher, but I can't figure it out. 7. A grouping of three digits in a number, especially when delimited by commas or periods Example: The probability is 1 in 1,000,000,000,000,000 — a number having five ciphers of zeros. 8. A fault in an organ valve which causes a pipe to sound continuously without the key having been pressed. 9. A hip-hop jam session. Labels: slang Example: They say no girls in the cipher, so I rock solo 10. The path (usually circular) shared cannabis takes through a group, an occasion of cannabis smoking. Labels: slang Example: As the night seemed darker, cops is on a hunt / They interrupt your cipher, and crush your blunt 11. Someone or something of no importance. Example: There he was a mere cypher: here he was lord of the ascendant; the choice spirit, the dominant genius. 12. Zero. Labels: dated Example: O pardon: ſince a crooked Figure may / Atteſt in little place a Million, / And let vs, Cyphers to this great Accompt, / On your imaginarie Forces worke. Example: Firſt, Find what Decimal of a Pound .625 will Repreſent, which is eaſily done if you prepone a Cypher, and half the Number is the Decimal of a Pound. The Number with a Cypher preponed is .0625, ½ is .03125.
Word: cipher Part of Speech: verb Etymology: 14th century. From Middle English cifre, from Old French cyfre, cyffre (French chiffre), ultimately from Arabic صِفْر (ṣifr, “zero, empty”), from صَفَرَ (ṣafara, “to be empty”). Doublet of chiffre and zero. Sense 8 (a fault in an organ valve) may be a different word. Pronunciation: /ˈsaɪfə/, /ˈsaɪfɚ/ 1. To calculate. Labels: dated, intransitive, regional Example: I never learned much more than how to read and cipher. Example: For the mischief that one blockhead, that every blockhead does, in a world so feracious, teeming with endless results as ours, no ciphering will sum up. 2. To write in code or cipher. Labels: intransitive 3. Of an organ pipe: to sound independent of the organ. Labels: intransitive 4. To decipher. Labels: obsolete Example: Yea the illiterate that know not how To cipher what is writ in learned bookes, VVill cote my lothſome treſpaſſe in my lookes.
Word: narrator Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From narrate + -or, from Latin narrātor. By surface analysis, Latin narr- + -ate + -or. Pronunciation: /nəˈɹeɪ.tə/, /ˈnæˌɹeɪ.təɹ/, /ˈnæɹ.ə.təɹ/, /ˈnɛ-/, /nəˈɹeɪ.təɹ/ 1. One who narrates or tells stories. 2. The person or the "voice" whose viewpoint is used in telling a story. 3. The person providing the voice-over in a documentary. Example: Morgan Freeman was the narrator of March of the Penguins.
Word: confuzzle Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Blend of confuse + puzzle. Compare befuzzle. Pronunciation: /kənˈfʌz.əl/ 1. A state of confusion or puzzlement. Labels: childish, slang Example: I was all in a confuzzle last night after the Ellen show, and my mind was going too fast for my typing skills. Example: Always glad to clear up confuzzles since too often I only add to them. ;)
Word: confuzzle Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Blend of confuse + puzzle. Compare befuzzle. Pronunciation: /kənˈfʌz.əl/ 1. To confuse or puzzle. Labels: childish, slang, transitive
Word: kokuji Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 国字(こくじ) (kokuji), from Middle Chinese 國 (kwok, “kingdom, nation”) + 字 (dzì, “[written] character”). Doublet of gukja. 1. Any of the kanji characters invented in Japan.
Word: desalt Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *de Proto-Indo-European *-h₁ Proto-Indo-European *déh₁ Proto-Italic *dē Latin dē Latin dē-der. English de- Proto-Indo-European *sel- Proto-Indo-European *-yétor Proto-Indo-European *sl̥yétor Proto-Italic *saljō?? Latin saliō Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Italic *-tus Latin -tus Latin saltusbor. English salt English desalt From de- + salt. 1. To remove salt from; to desalinate. Labels: transitive
Word: harbour Part of Speech: noun 1. Standard spelling of harbor. Example: In West Wales it has never been possible until recently to exploit the magnificent natural harbour of Milford Haven, for there was no industrial hinterland.
Word: harbour Part of Speech: verb 1. Standard spelling of harbor. Example: The docks, which once harboured tall ships, now harbour only petty thieves. Example: The bare suspicion made it treason to harbour the person suspected.
Word: Cebu Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Spanish Cebú, from Cebuano Sugbo, from sugbo (“to dive into the water”). Pronunciation: /sɛˈbu/, /sɛˈbuː/ 1. An island of Central Visayas, Visayas, Philippines. 2. A province of Central Visayas, Visayas, Philippines. Capital and largest city: Cebu City. Example: Meronyms: Alcantara, Alcoy, Alegria, Aloguinsan, Argao, Asturias, Badian, Balamban, Bantayan, Barili, Bogo, Boljoon, Borbon, Carcar, Carmen, Catmon, Compostela, Consolacion, Cordova, Daanbantayan, Dalaguete, Danao, Dumanjug, Ginatilan, Liloan, Madridejos, Malabuyoc, Medellin, Minglanilla, Moalboal, Naga, Oslob, Pilar, Pinamungajan, Poro, Ronda, Samboan, San Fernando, San Francisco, San Remigio, Santa Fe, Santander, Sibonga, Sogod, Tabogon, Tabuelan, Talisay, Toledo, Tuburan, Tudela — cities and municipalities of Cebu 3. Cebu City (a city, the provincial capital of Cebu, Philippines). 4. Rajahnate of Cebu Labels: historical 5. A barangay of San Isidro, Isabela, Philippines.
Word: rosehip Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From rose + hip. Pronunciation: /ˈɹəʊzˌhɪp/, /ˈɹoʊzˌhɪp/ 1. The fleshy false fruit of a wild rose plant (e.g. sweetbrier, dog rose, burnet rose, etc.), containing the achenes or true fruits.
Word: Igbo Part of Speech: name Etymology: Borrowed from Igbo Ìgbò. Pronunciation: /ˈiːbəʊ/, /ˈiboʊ/, /ˈiɡ.boʊ/ 1. A member of a people of southeast Nigeria.
Word: Igbo Part of Speech: name Etymology: Borrowed from Igbo Ìgbò. Pronunciation: /ˈiːbəʊ/, /ˈiboʊ/, /ˈiɡ.boʊ/ 1. The language spoken by the Igbo people and elsewhere in southern Nigeria. Example: Surprised by her switch to Igbo, he did not speak.
Word: Andy Part of Speech: name Etymology: Clipping of Andrew + -y. Pronunciation: /ˈæn.di/ 1. A diminutive of the male given name Andrew, from Ancient Greek. Example: "Irina? Call me 'Andy,' please." "I think that I would rather call you 'Andrew'." This was flattering, somehow. For everyone I knew called me "Andy"―a name comfortable as an old sneaker. There was dignity in "Andrew," and a kind of depth, complexity. Perhaps I began to fall in love with Irina Kacinzk for seeing more in me than I saw in myself at the time. Of course, from time to time, Irina has called me "Andy." In her most affectionate moments, when she feels comfortable in my love, she even calles me "dear"―"darling." Example: But Andy and Ben, they are lovers, not fighters … and they are going the battered sav. 2. A surname.
Word: Andy Part of Speech: name Etymology: Clipping of Andrea + -y. Pronunciation: /ˈæn.di/ 1. A diminutive of the female given name Andrea, from Ancient Greek.
Word: Andy Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Originates from the live streams of IRL streamer Ice Poseidon on the live streaming service Twitch in early 2017; comedian and actor Andy Milonakis frequently appeared on Ice Poseidon's streams before being supplemented by one Andy Martin, who was given the byname "Mexican Andy" to distinguish him from Milonakis—himself dubbed "Sitting Andy" in June. Subsequently, Ice Poseidon and his audience began referring to people who appeared on his streams by the name Andy and the term spread to other channels on Twitch by late 2017 as a generic name for any Twitch streamer. Pronunciation: /ˈæn.di/ 1. A streamer on live streaming service Twitch. Labels: Internet Example: trump is now a react andy like myself Example: dream stans pulling out the "he has adhd" card to hasan fucking piker the biggest adhd andy on twitch it's so funny 2. A person of any particular kind. Example: VS Code Andy
Word: indelible Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin indēlēbilis (“indestructible”). By surface analysis, in- + delible. Pronunciation: /ɪnˈdɛləbl/ 1. Having the quality of being difficult to delete, remove, wash away, blot out, or efface. Example: This ink spot on the contract is indelible. Example: This stain on my shirt is indelible. 2. Incapable of being canceled, lost, or forgotten. Labels: figuratively Example: That horrible story just might make an indelible impression on the memory. Example: During our investigation it became clear that for three decades many other women had suffered at the hands of our abuser, but they had refused to testify against him because of the indelible stigma it would bring. 3. Incapable of being annulled. Example: November 7, 1678, Thomas Sprat, a sermon preached at the Anniversary Meeting of the Sons of Clergymen in the Church of St Mary-le-Bow They are […] endued with indelible power from above.
Word: fill Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English fillen, fullen, from Old English fyllan (“to fill, fill up, replenish, satisfy; complete, fulfill”), from Proto-West Germanic *fullijan, from Proto-Germanic *fullijaną (“to make full, fill”), from *fullaz (“full”), from Proto-Indo-European *pl̥h₁nós (“full”). Cognate with Scots fill (“to fill”), West Frisian folje (“to fill”), Low German füllen (“to fill”), Dutch vullen (“to fill”), German füllen (“to fill”), Danish fylde (“to fill”), Swedish fylla (“to fill”), Norwegian fylle (“to fill”), Icelandic fylla (“to fill”) and Latin plenus (“full”) Pronunciation: /fɪl/, [ˈfɪɫ], /fɪʊ̯/, [ˈfɪʊ̯] 1. To make full Labels: ergative, transitive Example: She filled a glass with milk. Example: dreams filled with surreal imagery 2. To make full Labels: ergative, transitive Example: The doors opened and guests filled the auditorium. Example: In the evening of the 14th of July, there was a rainfall of 3 or 3½ inches in that locality. The water filled the ditch so full that it overflowed the levees on both sides in many places […] . 3. To make full Labels: ergative, transitive Example: The smell of spring filled the air. Example: […]the drums began to thunder, the sound of trumpets filled the air, the earth trembled beneath their feet, and the hearts of the gazing multitude throbbed with suspense and expectation[…] 4. To become full. Labels: intransitive Example: The bucket filled with rain Example: The room filled with thick smoke. 5. To become full. Labels: intransitive Example: My heart filled with joy. 6. To satisfy or obey (an order, request, or requirement). Labels: transitive Example: The pharmacist filled my prescription for penicillin. Example: We can't let the library close! It fills a great need in the community. 7. To install someone, or be installed, in (a position or office), eliminating a vacancy. Labels: transitive Example: The board of supervisors called a specal election to fill the office, and at such special election Henry C. Andrews was elected judge of probate to fill out the said term. Example: Sorry, no more applicants. The position has been filled. 8. To treat (a tooth) by adding a dental filling to it. Labels: transitive Example: Dr. Smith filled Jim's cavity with silver amalgam. Example: Be that as it may, had the disturbance continued after our having filled the molar, and presuming that nothing had been done to the bicuspid, we might have been still as far as ever from knowing where the trouble lay. 9. To block, obstruct Labels: transitive Example: The drains were filled with gunk and no water could flow off. 10. To supply fully with food; to feed; to satisfy. Labels: transitive Example: Are all the children filled and ready for bed? Example: Whence should we have so much bread in the wilderness, as to fill so great a multitude? 11. To trim (a yard) so that the wind blows on the after side of the sails. Labels: transitive 12. To have sexual intercourse with (a female). Labels: slang, transitive, vulgar Example: Did you fill that girl last night? 13. To ejaculate inside someone or something. Labels: slang, transitive, vulgar
Word: fill Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English fille, vülle, fülle, from Old English fyllu, from Proto-West Germanic *fullī, from Proto-Germanic *fullį̄ (“fullness”). Cognate with German Fülle. Pronunciation: /fɪl/, [ˈfɪɫ], /fɪʊ̯/, [ˈfɪʊ̯] 1. A sufficient or more than sufficient amount. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Don't feed him any more: he's had his fill. Example: Then they set somewhat of food before me, whereof I ate my fill, and gave me somewhat of clothes wherewith I clad myself anew and covered my nakedness; after which they took me up into the ship, […] 2. An amount that fills a container. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The mixer returned to the plant for another fill. 3. The filling of a container or area. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: That machine can do 20 fills per minute. Example: This paint program supports lines, circles, and textured fills. 4. Inexpensive material used to occupy empty spaces, especially in construction. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The ruins of earlier buildings were used as fill for more recent construction. Example: Strippage from a borrow area was first treated as waste, under the contract, but after passage of time was suitable for fill and was so used. 5. Soil and/or human-created debris discovered within a cavity or cut in the layers and exposed by excavation; fill soil. Labels: countable, uncountable 6. An embankment, as in railroad construction, to fill a hollow or ravine; also, the place which is to be filled. Labels: countable, uncountable 7. A short passage, riff, or rhythmic sound that helps to keep the listener's attention during a break between the phrases of a melody. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: bass fill Example: The second part of recomposed Embroidering Golden Banner achieves the brightness and cheerfulness of music, and presents a cheerful passion through sanda playing methods such as left-hind octave fills, right-hand echo decoration, and encircled decoration. 8. Ellipsis of fill light. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, ellipsis, uncountable 9. The weft yarn. Labels: countable, uncountable 10. The answers in a crossword puzzle that are not part of the theme. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: fill Part of Speech: noun Etymology: See thill. Pronunciation: /fɪl/, [ˈfɪɫ], /fɪʊ̯/, [ˈfɪʊ̯] 1. One of the thills or shafts of a carriage. Example: It was a challenge to learn to harness him, guide him slowly back between the fills of the carriage, then to fasten the right buckles and snaps, making the harness and buggy all ready for travel to church or to town.
Word: exist Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From French exister, from Latin existō, exsistō (“I am, I exist, appear, arise”), from ex (“out”) + sistere (“to set, place”) (related to stare (“to stand, to be stood”)), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *stísteh₂ti, from the root *steh₂- (“stand”); see stand. Compare assist, consist, desist, insist, persist, resist. Cognate with Spanish existir, French exister, Italian esistere, German existieren. Pronunciation: /ɪɡˈzɪst/, [ɪɡˈzɪst], /əɡˈzɪst/, [əɡˈzɪst] 1. to be; have existence; have being or reality Labels: intransitive, stative Example: Cognitive dissonance exists when a person possesses two cognitions, one of which is contradictory to the other Example: Various relationships may exist between character and glyph: […]
Word: existent Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin existens, from existere. By surface analysis, exist + -ent. Pronunciation: /ɪɡˈzɪst(ə)nt/, /ɛɡˈzɪst(ə)nt/ 1. existing; having life or being, current; occurring now Labels: not-comparable
Word: existent Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin existens, from existere. By surface analysis, exist + -ent. Pronunciation: /ɪɡˈzɪst(ə)nt/, /ɛɡˈzɪst(ə)nt/ 1. a being or entity that exists independently Labels: archaic
Word: architecture Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂er-der.? Proto-Indo-European *h₂ergʰ-der.? Ancient Greek ἄρχω (árkhō) Ancient Greek ἀρχι- (arkhi-) Proto-Indo-European *teḱ- Proto-Indo-European *tetḱ- Proto-Indo-European *-ō Proto-Indo-European *tétḱō Proto-Hellenic *téktōn Ancient Greek τέκτων (téktōn) Ancient Greek ἀρχιτέκτων (arkhitéktōn)bor. Latin architectus Proto-Indo-European *-tew-? Proto-Indo-European *-r-eh₂? Latin -tūra Latin architectūralbor. French architecturebor. English architecture Borrowed from French architecture, from Latin architectūra. Originally from architect, from Ancient Greek ἀρχιτέκτων (arkhitéktōn, “architect”, literally “arch builder, ext. chief builder, principal craftsman”). Pronunciation: /ˈɑː.kɪˌtɛk.t͡ʃə/, /ˈɑɹ.kɪˌtɛk.t͡ʃɚ/, /ˈɐː.kɪˌtek.t͡ʃə/, /ˈɐː.kəˌtek.t͡ʃə/ 1. The art and science of designing and managing the construction of buildings and other structures, particularly if they are well proportioned and decorated. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The architecture throughout NYC is amazing. Example: April 21, 2017, Max Roscoe, How Your City Is Killing You With Uglinesshttps://web.archive.org/web/20201112015531/https://www.returnofkings.com/118275/how-your-city-is-killing-you-with-ugliness Architecture is the visual public expression of a culture’s achievements, values, and outlook.# The profession of an architect. 2. Any particular style of building design. Labels: countable, uncountable 3. Construction, in a more general sense; frame or structure; workmanship. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Our ſoules, whoſe faculties can comprehend The wondrous Architecture of the world: And meaſure euery wandring planets courſe, Still climing after knowledge infinite, […] Example: the architecture of grasses, plants, and trees 4. A unifying structure. Labels: countable, uncountable 5. A family of CPUs sharing a common instruction set and having partial or full compatibility with software built on each other. Labels: countable, uncountable 6. A specific model of a microchip or CPU. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The Intel architectures have more software written for them. 7. The structure and design of a system or product. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: 2004, Prof P.C.P. Bhatt, (nptel.iitm.ac.in) Module 14: Unix Kernel Architecture The kernel runs the show, i.e. it manages all the operations in a Unix flavored environment. The kernel architecture must support the primary Unix requirements. These requirements fall in two categories namely, functions for process management and functions for file management (files include device files). Process management entails allocation of resources including CPU, memory, and offers services that processes may need. The file management in itself involves handling all the files required by processes, communication with device drives and regulating transmission of data to and from peripherals. Example: The architecture of the company's billing system is designed to support its business goals.
Word: existential Part of Speech: adj Etymology: The adjective is a learned borrowing from Late Latin existentiālis, exsistentiālis (“coming into or relating to existence”) + English -al (suffix meaning ‘of or pertaining to’ forming adjectives; and forming nouns of verbal action). Existentiālis, exsistentiālis are derived from Late Latin existentia, exsistentia (“existence”) + Latin -ālis (suffix forming adjectives of relationship); and existentia, exsistentia from Latin existēns, exsistēns (“being, existing; appearing, emerging; becoming”) (the present active participle of existō, exsistō (“to be, exist; to appear, emerge; to become”), from ex- (prefix meaning ‘away; out’) + sistō (“to cause to stand; to place, set; to halt, stop”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *steh₂- (“to stand (up)”))) + -ia (suffix forming feminine abstract nouns). The noun is derived from the adjective. Pronunciation: /ˌɛɡzɪˈstɛnʃl̩/, /ˌɛɡzɪˈstɛn(t)ʃəl/, /ˌɛksɪ-/ 1. Of or relating to existence. Example: The third univerſal is appetite; every perfect and imperfect living creature acquires ſuſtenance to eate and drink. For exiſtential or ſenſual, I grant many, that there is a Sun that ſhineth, that the fire heateth, &c. yet a blind man and the Paralytick denies both. Example: [T]he essential cause of fiendish guilt, when it makes itself existential and peripheric— […] I find the only explanation of a moral phænomenon not very uncommon in the last moments of condemned felons—viz. the obstinate denial, not of the main guilt, which might be accounted for by ordinary motives, but of some particular act, which had been proved beyond all possibility of doubt, and attested by the criminal's own accomplices and fellow-sufferers in their last confessions: […] 2. Of or relating to existence. Example: an existential risk or threat Example: [Karl] Jaspers' main concern has been with existential dread, which he regards not as a symptom of mental illness, but as a result of rejecting religious faith. He proposes that man's only way out of existential dread is through a "leap into faith" which reconciles man with himself and with God, and provides an experience of the absolute which transcends mere sense experience. 3. Of or relating to existence. Example: In recent books on logic, distinction is made between two orders of inquiry concerning anything. First, what is the nature of it? how did it come about? what is its constitution, origin, and history? And second, What is its importance, meaning, or significance, now that it is once here? The answer to the one question is given in an existential judgment or proposition. The answer to the other is a proposition of value, what the Germans call a Werthurtheil, or what we may, if we like, denominate a spiritual judgment. 4. Of or relating to existentialism (“a philosophical movement emphasizing the uniqueness of each human existence in freely making its self-defining choices”). Example: Some existential thinkers are concerned with artistic expression only indirectly, that is, they are passionately interested critics and analysts of art works. 5. Relating to part of a clause that indicates existence (for example, there is).
Word: existential Part of Speech: noun Etymology: The adjective is a learned borrowing from Late Latin existentiālis, exsistentiālis (“coming into or relating to existence”) + English -al (suffix meaning ‘of or pertaining to’ forming adjectives; and forming nouns of verbal action). Existentiālis, exsistentiālis are derived from Late Latin existentia, exsistentia (“existence”) + Latin -ālis (suffix forming adjectives of relationship); and existentia, exsistentia from Latin existēns, exsistēns (“being, existing; appearing, emerging; becoming”) (the present active participle of existō, exsistō (“to be, exist; to appear, emerge; to become”), from ex- (prefix meaning ‘away; out’) + sistō (“to cause to stand; to place, set; to halt, stop”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *steh₂- (“to stand (up)”))) + -ia (suffix forming feminine abstract nouns). The noun is derived from the adjective. Pronunciation: /ˌɛɡzɪˈstɛnʃl̩/, /ˌɛɡzɪˈstɛn(t)ʃəl/, /ˌɛksɪ-/ 1. Ellipsis of existential clause (“a clause that indicates the existence of something”). Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis Example: In classical accounts of Finnish and Estonian grammar, the possibility of using the so-called partitive subject has been one definitional criterion for the category of existential clauses. […] We argue that existentials form a radial category, with a prototype and less canonical instances, where the prototype is clearly definable but the actual borderline between existentials and other clause types is fuzzy. 2. Ellipsis of existential type (“in a type system: a type that hides the underlying concrete type(s)”). Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis
Word: existentialism Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰ Proto-Indo-European *-s Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰs Proto-Italic *eks Latin ex Latin ex- Proto-Indo-European *steh₂- Proto-Indo-European *stísteh₂ti Proto-Italic *sistō Latin sistō Latin exsistō Latin exsistēns Proto-Indo-European *-(i)yós Proto-Italic *-ijos Proto-Italic *-ios Old Latin -ios Latin -ius Latin -ia Latin exsistentia Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.? Proto-Italic *-ālis Latin -ālis Late Latin exsistentiālislbor. English existential Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō) Proto-Indo-European *-mos Proto-Indo-European *-mós Ancient Greek -μός (-mós) Ancient Greek -ισμός (-ismós)der. English -ism English existentialism From existential + -ism (suffix forming the names of schools of thought, systems, or theories), modelled after German Existentialismus. The word was popularized by the French philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre (1905–1980) in his work L’existentialisme est un humanisme (Existentialism is a Humanism, 1946). Pronunciation: /ˌɛɡzɪˈstɛnʃəlɪz(ə)m/, /ˌɛɡzɪˈstɛnʃlɪz(ə)m/, /ˌɛɡzəˈstɛn(t)ʃəˌlɪzəm/, /ˌɛk-/ 1. A 20th-century philosophical movement emphasizing the uniqueness of each human existence in freely making its self-defining choices; also (generally), a philosophy which emphasizes existence over essence. Labels: uncountable Example: The heyday of existentialism occurred in the mid-twentieth century. Example: This [dialectal] theology takes sides against idealism and for ‘existentialism’, in other words, for a philosophy which makes being its starting-point. But in the idealists there are already highly significant elements of existentialism, as [Eduard] Spranger convincingly urges. 2. The philosophical views of a particular thinker associated with the existentialist movement. Labels: countable Example: Sartre’s existentialism is atheistic, but the existentialism of Marcel is distinctly Christian. Example: In the "existentialisms" of [Martin] Heidegger, [Karl] Jaspers, [Jean-Paul] Sartre, [Gabriel] Marcel, etc., no less than in the "dialectal" or "crisis" theology of Karl Barth and his associates, [Søren] Kirkegaard's thought lives on as a challenge to the twentieth century. 3. Synonym of structuralism (“a school of thought that focuses on exploring the individual elements of consciousness, how they are organized into more complex experiences, and how these mental phenomena correlate with physical events”). Labels: historical, uncountable Example: I sought to 'psychologise' [Franz] Brentano's act as being, existentially, the temporal factor intrinsic to psychological subject-matter. […] My attempt sprang, indeed, from a rather desperate desire somehow to bring intentionalism and existentialism together at close quarters, and to transcend the mere calling of names. Example: [T]here was the argument of existentialism that the qualities of experience, or of the contents of gnomic mind, rather than acts constitute the subject matter of psychology.