nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: thread Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English thred, þred, threed, from Old English þrǣd, from Proto-Germanic *þrēduz, from Proto-Indo-European *treh₁-tu-s, from *terh₁- (“rub, twist”). Cognates Cognate with Yola dreade (“thread”), Saterland Frisian Träid (“thread, wire”), Cimbrian draat (“string, thread”), Dutch draad (“thread, wire”), German Draht (“thread, wire”), Luxembourgish Drot (“wire”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk and Swedish tråd (“thread, wire”), Faroese tráður (“thread”), Icelandic þráður (“thread”). Non-Germanic cognates include Albanian dredh (“twist, turn”). More at throw. Pronunciation: /ˈθɹɛd/, [ˈθɹʷɛd] 1. To pass a thread through the eye of a needle. Labels: transitive 2. To fix (beads, pearls, etc.) upon a thread that is passed through; to string. Labels: transitive 3. To make one's way through or between (a constriction or obstacles). Labels: figuratively, transitive Example: to thread through narrow passages Example: I think I can thread my way through here, but it’s going to be tight. 4. To make one's way through or between (a constriction or obstacles). Labels: figuratively, transitive Example: He threaded his way through legal entanglements. 5. To pass through; to pierce through; to penetrate. Labels: figuratively, transitive Example: And when the Miners by theſe Shafts or Adits do ſtrike or threed a Vein of any Metal […] then the Metal which is digged […] is called Oar […] Example: Tom out here will have leave to thrid you with bullets. 6. To interweave as if with thread; to intersperse. Labels: transitive Example: [...] the urban landscape threaded with parks and trees to the horizon. The enormous sky over that flat line dazzled clear blue or filled with towers of cumulus clouds. Example: [...] dark hair threaded with gray pulled back from a face still beautiful in spite of clear evidence of the passage of time. 7. To form a screw thread on or in (a bolt, hole, etc.). Labels: transitive Example: Coordinate term: tap Example: to thread a bolt 8. To remove (facial hair) by way of a looped thread that is tightly wound in the middle. Labels: ambitransitive Example: to thread your eyebrows and trim them 9. To feed (a sewing machine or otherwise a projecting or exposing mechanism, such as a projector, a camera, etc.) with film. Labels: ambitransitive 10. To pass (a film or tape) through a projector, recorder, etc. so as to correct its path. Labels: transitive 11. Of boiling syrup: To form a threadlike stream when poured from a spoon. Labels: intransitive
Word: entire Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English entere, enter, borrowed from Anglo-Norman entier, from Latin integrum, accusative of integer (“whole”), from Proto-Italic *əntagros (“untouched”). Doublet of entier and integer. Pronunciation: /ɪnˈtaɪə/, /ənˈtaɪə/, /ɪnˈtaɪɚ/, /ənˈtaɪɚ/ 1. Whole; complete. Labels: not-comparable, postpositional, sometimes Example: We had the entire building to ourselves for the evening. Example: No man is an Iland, intire of it ſelfe; euery man is a peece of the Continent, a part of the maine; […] 2. Having a smooth margin without any indentation. Labels: not-comparable Example: Spores tetrahedral, paraphyses mastoid-claviform, scales smooth, entire. 3. Consisting of a single piece, as a corolla. Labels: not-comparable 4. Complex-differentiable on all of ℂ. Labels: not-comparable 5. Not gelded. Labels: not-comparable Example: On top of that, he was entire, which meant his bloodline could carry on. 6. Morally whole; pure; sheer. Labels: not-comparable Example: See now, whether pure fear and entire cowardice doth not make thee / wrong this virtuous gentlewoman to close with us. Example: No man had ever a heart more entire to the king. 7. Internal; interior. Labels: not-comparable Example: Depp is the wound, that dints the parts entire
Word: entire Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English entere, enter, borrowed from Anglo-Norman entier, from Latin integrum, accusative of integer (“whole”), from Proto-Italic *əntagros (“untouched”). Doublet of entier and integer. Pronunciation: /ɪnˈtaɪə/, /ənˈtaɪə/, /ɪnˈtaɪɚ/, /ənˈtaɪɚ/ 1. The whole of something; the entirety. Labels: archaic, countable, uncountable Example: In the entire of the Poems we never hear of a merchant ship of the Greeks. Example: ‘Then is the City Magistrate the entire of your family now?’ 2. An uncastrated horse; a stallion. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: He asked why Hijaz was an entire. You know what an entire is, do you not, Anna? A stallion which has not been castrated. 3. A complete envelope with stamps and all official markings: (prior to the use of envelopes) a page folded and posted. Labels: countable, uncountable 4. Porter or stout as delivered from the brewery. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: poke Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English poken, perhaps from Middle Dutch poken or Middle Low German poken, both from Proto-West Germanic *pukōn or similar, which is itself of uncertain origin, but may be from an imitative Proto-Germanic root *puk-. Doublet of poach. Compare Nordic cognates Swedish påka (“to poke, muck with a stick”), påk (“club, limb; dagger”), pykel (“small poker”), dialectal Norwegian pauka (“to walk stomping, etc”), pauk (“weak, slow person”). Central European noun-cognates refer to “dagger, bad knife, poker (for a fireplace)”, with analog verbs. To a Proto-Germanic *pauk-, *puk-, meanig, “to stick, muck with a stick”. Pronunciation: /pəʊk/, /poʊk/ 1. To prod or jab with an object such as a finger or a stick. Example: Ward showed good pace to beat the advancing Reina to the ball and poke a low finish into the corner. 2. To stir up a fire to remove ash or promote burning. 3. To rummage; to feel or grope around. Labels: figuratively Example: I poked about in the rubble, trying to find my lost keys. 4. To modify the value stored in (a memory address). Labels: dated, transitive Example: The 200 UDGs may be used either by paging between 10 sets of 20 UDGs or, alternatively, by displaying 96 different characters by poking the system variable CHARS with 256 less than the starting address of your graphics. Example: If you try to poke a value outside this range into a byte, Basic will beep you with an ILLEGAL QUANTITY error. 5. To put a poke (device to prevent leaping or breaking fences) on (an animal). Labels: transitive Example: to poke an ox Example: I find from their testimony , which was not contradicted , that the placing of such a poke upon such a colt in such a pasture is not considered dangerous, and that farmers are accustomed so to poke their own horses, but that they are not accustomed to put pokes on or 'hamper' horses owned by other persons without the authorization of the owner. 6. To thrust at with the horns; to gore. Labels: transitive 7. To notify (another user) of activity on social media or an instant messenger. Labels: informal, transitive Example: Indeed, when we poke users who normally do not have access to our profiles, they will be able to temporarily see our Basic Info, Work Info, and Education Info. 8. To thrust (something) in a particular direction such as the tongue. Labels: transitive 9. To penetrate in sexual intercourse. Labels: slang, transitive, vulgar Example: Maj. Cloutier commented to Lt. Clemm, "You know what they say about a girl who smokes: If she smokes, she pokes." Example: He chewed her nipples and clitoris until they bled, and poked her until she could hardly walk. Grandpa never got enough sex […]
Word: poke Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English poke, from Anglo-Norman poke (whence pocket), from Frankish *poka. More at pocket. Doublet of pouch. Pronunciation: /pəʊk/, /poʊk/ 1. A sack or bag, especially a paper bag. Labels: Appalachia, archaic Example: And then he drew a dial from his poke, And, looking on it with lack-lustre eye, Says very wisely, ‘It is ten o'clock[…]’ Example: When the Pig is proffered, hold vp the poke. 2. A long, wide sleeve. 3. An ice cream cone. Labels: Northern-Ireland, Scotland 4. A bag of chips. Labels: Northern-Ireland, Scotland
Word: poke Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Clipping of pocan (“pokeweed”) or directly borrowed from Powhatan pocan. See pocan for more. Pronunciation: /pəʊk/, /poʊk/ 1. Pokeweed, and its berries. Labels: dialectal, uncountable Example: [W]hen rodents were scarce they ate chestnuts and rhubarb and poke and other wild food[.]
Word: poke Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Hawaiian poke (literally “to cut crosswise into pieces”). Pronunciation: /ˈpoʊkeɪ/, /ˈpoʊki/, /pəʊk/, /poʊk/ 1. Slices or cubes of raw fish or other raw seafood, mixed with sesame oil, seaweed, sea salt, herbs, spices, or other flavorful ingredients. Labels: Hawaii, uncountable Example: Though I'd often eaten sashimi, poke was then completely new to me—delicious rubies of cubed fish dressed in light sesame oil, garnished with minced bits of reddish-brown seaweed and the ground centers of kukui nuts (see recipe, next page). Example: The fishmonger offered the poke in plastic tubs, without ceremony, just as I had always known it in Honolulu, where I grew up and where some of the best poke is sold at a liquor store, Tamura’s. Then, a few years back, poke started appearing on stray restaurant menus, sometimes identified as Hawaiian crudo or ceviche.
Word: pokey Part of Speech: adj Pronunciation: /ˈpoʊ.ki/ 1. Of a room or house, of small volume, cramped. Example: He loved the little pokey kitchen, where men’s boots tramped, and the dog slept with one eye open for fear of being trodden on; where the lamp hung over the table at night, and everything was so silent. 2. Slow. Labels: slang 3. Of a car, fast. Labels: slang
Word: pokey Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈpoʊ.ki/ 1. Prison. Labels: slang, with-definite-article 2. A knife. Labels: Multicultural-London-English, slang Example: Grip my pokey, ching down these punks
Word: pokeweed Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From poke + weed. The first element is from Powhatan pocan. Pronunciation: /ˈpoʊkˌwid/ 1. A poisonous North American plant, Phytolacca americana, with reddish stems, broad leaves, clusters of white flowers, and dark purple berries. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Native Americans introduced whites and slaves to several edible greens including marigold, milkweed, and pokeweed (Whit 2007). Slaves boiled pokeweed and often mixed it with turnip greens because it was thought that the two vegetables enhanced each other's flavor.
Word: poke salad Part of Speech: noun Etymology: poke (“pokeweed”) + salad or sallet. “Poke salad” and “poke sallet” mean the same thing—carefully boiled pokeweed. Uncooked pokeweed is poisonous. Given that “salad” connotes “raw,” many speakers favor the original “sallet” which connotes “cooked greens.” Pronunciation: /ˌpoʊk ˈsæləd/, /ˌpoʊk ˈsælɪt/ 1. A food made from boiled pokeweed leaves, which are poisonous unless cooked properly. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The Harvard man went back into the kitchen and sat down at a rickety table covered with a red-checked oil-cloth. On it were spread the spoiled ham, a dish of poke salad, a corn pone, and a pot of weak coffee. Example: Whereas to most people, “salad” is made with raw greens, “poke salad” shoots and greens must be cooked, the cooking water changed and discarded several times. […] There are many documented deaths from eating improperly prepared “poke salad.” 2. Pokeweed, the leafy plant used to make such a dish. Labels: Appalachia, Southern-US, countable, uncountable Example: If some of ya'll never been down south too much / I'm gonna tell you a little bit about this / So that you'll understand what I'm talking about / Down there we have a plant that grows out in the woods, and the fields / And it looks something like a turnip green / Everybody calls it polk salad Example: (see more at pokeweed)
Word: poke salad Part of Speech: noun Etymology: poke (“cubed raw fish”) + salad Pronunciation: /ˌpoʊ.keɪ ˈsæləd/ 1. A Hawaiian food made from diced raw fish, seasoning, diced fruit and vegetables, and sometimes rice. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: […] a wide range of creative seafood dishes (the Hawaiian-style poke salad with ahi tuna is a local favorite).
Word: wasteland Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Inherited from Middle English wast lond, modification of earlier weste lond, from Old English weste land (“wasteland”); equivalent to waste + land. Pronunciation: /ˈweɪs(t)ˌland/, /ˈweɪs(t)ˌlənd/, /ˈweɪs(t)ˌlænd/, /ˈwæes(t)ˌlɛnd/, /ˈwæes(t)ˌlɘnd/ 1. A place with no remaining resources; a desert. Example: Ten years of drought had left the area a wasteland. Example: 2007, Kai Hansen, "To Mother Earth", Gamma Ray, Land of the Free II. Here create another wasteland / On and on 'til nothing's there / Here it comes, the devastation / Poisoning the air 2. Any barren or uninteresting place. Example: After his experiences, he no longer found western Kansas such a wasteland. Example: Keep your eyes glued to that set until the station signs off. I can assure you that what you will observe is a vast wasteland. 3. A devastated, uninhabitable area. 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. Example: How many nuclear missiles would have to be launched at the United States to turn it into a complete wasteland? 4. Unused land. Example: Azaz and Ray were nominated individually for what, at first glance, looked like a project to transform wasteland at South Tottenham station into a community garden.
Word: murder Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English murder, murdre, mourdre, alteration of earlier murthre (“murder”) (see murther), from Old English morþor (“secret slaying, unlawful killing”) and Old English myrþra (“murder, homicide”), both from Proto-West Germanic *morþr, from Proto-Germanic *murþrą (“death, killing, murder”), from Proto-Indo-European *mr̥tro- (“killing”), from Proto-Indo-European *mer-, *mor-, *mr̥- (“to die”). Akin to Gothic 𐌼𐌰𐌿𐍂𐌸𐍂 (maurþr, “murder”), Old High German mord (“murder”), Old Norse morð (“murder”), Old English myrþrian (“to murder”) and morþ. The -d- in the Middle English form may have been influenced in part by Anglo-Norman murdre, from Old French murdre, from Medieval Latin murdrum (whence the English doublet of murdrum), from Frankish *morþr, *murþr (“murder”), from the same Germanic root, though this may also have been wholly the result of internal development (compare burden, from burthen). (crows): Attested at least since 1475. Pronunciation: /ˈmɜːdə(ɹ)/, /ˈmɝ.dɚ/ 1. To illegally kill (a person or persons) with intent, especially with predetermination Example: The woman found dead in her kitchen was murdered by her husband. Example: In the meane time it chaunced, that Marcus Papyrius ſtroke one of the Galles on the heade with his ſtaffe, because he preſumed to ſtroke his bearde: with whiche iniurie the Gaulle beeing prouoked, ſlue Papyrius (as he ſate) with hys ſworde, and therewith the ſlaughter being begun with one, all the reſidue of thoſe auncient fatherly men as they ſat in theyr Chayres were ſlaine and cruelly murthered. 2. To kill violently. Labels: colloquial, excessive Example: My uncle’s dog murdered my cat. 3. To defeat decisively. Labels: colloquial, excessive, figuratively, transitive Example: Our team is going to murder them. 4. To kick someone's ass or chew someone out (used to express one’s anger at somebody). Labels: colloquial, excessive, figuratively Example: He's torn my best shirt. When I see him, I'll murder him! 5. To botch or mangle. Example: Dr. Caius, the Frenchman in the play, and Evans the Welshman, "Gallia et Guallia," succeed pretty well in their efforts to murder the language. 6. To devour, ravish. Labels: UK, colloquial, figuratively Example: I could murder a hamburger right now. Example: “Is that so? Well, I could murder a cup of tea,” said Auntie Flip.
Word: optics Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Medieval Latin opticus (“optic, optical”), from Ancient Greek ὀπτικός (optikós), equivalent to optic + -ics. Pronunciation: /ˈɒptɪks/, /ˈɑptɪks/ 1. The physics of light and vision: basic optical science. Labels: plural, singular Example: a PhD in the optics of liquid crystals 2. Technology that makes use of such physics: applied optical science; business lines making use of such technology. Labels: plural, singular Example: defense R&D investments in both optics and electronics 3. The light-related aspects of a device. Labels: plural, singular Example: the optics of liquid crystals under certain laboratory conditions Example: The optics of this telescope are particularly good. 4. Perception, image, public relations, especially in politics. Labels: figuratively, plural, singular Example: Near-synonyms: appearances, spectacle, theatrics; choreography Example: His policy prescription was sound, but the optics were horrible.
Word: optics Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈɒptɪks/, /ˈɑptɪks/ 1. plural of optic Labels: form-of, plural
Word: foo Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Mandarin 府 (fǔ). Pronunciation: /fuː/ 1. Alternative form of fu: an administrative subdivision of imperial China; the capital of such divisions. Labels: alt-of, alternative, historical, obsolete
Word: foo Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Chinese 福 (fú, “fortunate; prosperity, good luck”), via its use as 福星 (Fúxīng, “Jupiter”) in Chinese statues of the Three Lucky Stars, picked up from c. 1935 as a nonsense word in Bill Holman's Smokey Stover comic strip, whence it was picked up by Pogo, Looney Tunes, and others. Used by Jack Speer as the name of a mock god of mimeography in the 1930s. Popularized in computing contexts by the Tech Model Railroad Club's 1959 Dictionary of the TMRC Language, which incorporated it into a parody of the Buddhist chant om mani padme hum, possibly under the influence of WWII military slang FUBAR, which had been repopularized by Joseph Heller's Catch-22. Pronunciation: /fuː/ 1. A metasyntactic variable used to represent an unspecified entity. If part of a series of such entities, it is often the first in the series, and followed immediately by bar. Labels: uncountable Example: Suppose we have two objects, foo and bar. 2. Alternative letter-case form of Foo (“placeholder god”). Labels: alt-of, slang, uncountable
Word: foo Part of Speech: intj Etymology: A minced form of fuck. Pronunciation: /fuː/ 1. Expression of disappointment or disgust. Example: Oh foo – the cake burnt!
Word: foo Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /fuː/ 1. Pronunciation spelling of fool. Labels: alt-of, pronunciation-spelling, slang Example: [page 10:] "I knew you'd be scared," Reggie laughed. "What are you doin', foo? You must be crazy. You don't scare me." "Then why did you almost fall out of that chair? I scare everyone." [page 38:] "This is coo," said Fred. "It's almost like being there." "We are there, foo!" said Reggie as the boys slapped palms.
Word: spirit Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *(s)peys-der.? Latin spīrō Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Italic *-tus Latin -tus Latin spīritus Old French espiritbor. Middle English spirit English spirit From Middle English spirit, from Old French espirit (“spirit”), from Latin spīritus (“breath; spirit”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)peys- (“to blow, breathe”). Compare inspire, respire, transpire, all ultimately from Latin spīrō (“to breathe, blow, respire”). In this sense, displaced native Middle English gast (from Old English gāst), whence modern English ghost. Doublet of spiritus, spirytus, sprite, spright, and esprit. Pronunciation: /ˈspɪɹɪt/, /ˈspiɹɪt/, /ˈspɪɾɪt/ 1. To carry off, especially in haste, secrecy, or mystery. Example: I felt as if I had been spirited into some castle of felicity. Example: When I was young and full of grace, I sprited a rattlesnake. When I was young, a fever fell my spirit; I will not tell. You're on your honor not to tell. 2. Sometimes followed by up: to animate with vigour; to excite; to encourage; to inspirit. Example: Civil dissensions often spirit the ambition of private men. Example: [H]e left behind many Officers and private Men, vvho novv ſpirit-up and aſſiſt thoſe obſtinate People to continue in their Rebellion.
Word: eles Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Clipping of elephant. Pronunciation: /ˈɛliːz/ 1. plural of ele Labels: form-of, plural
Word: voces Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of vox Labels: form-of, plural
Word: in spirit Part of Speech: prep_phrase 1. Non-physically; in one's thoughts only. Example: I can’t make it to the party, but I’ll be there in spirit. Example: For I in spirit saw thee move ⁠Thro’ circles of the bounding sky; ⁠Week after week: the days go by: Come quick, thou bringest all I love. 2. In mood or manner. Example: Her writing has undergone a transformation; her newer works differ from the older ones in spirit.
Word: seed Part of Speech: verb Etymology: ] From Middle English seed, sede, side, from Old English sēd, sǣd (“seed, that which is sown”), from Proto-West Germanic *sād, from Proto-Germanic *sēdą, from Proto-Indo-European *seh₁- (“to sow, throw”). Cognates Cognate with Yola zeade (“seed”), North Frisian sead, seed, siad, Siid, sädj, säid (“seed”), Saterland Frisian Säid (“seed”), West Frisian sied (“seed”), Dutch zaad (“seed”), German Saat (“seed; sowing”), Limburgish zaod (“seed”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, and Norwegian Nynorsk sæd (“seed”), Faroese and Icelandic sáð (“seed”), Swedish säd (“seed”), Gothic *𐍃𐌴𐌸𐍃 (*sēþs, “seed”); also Latin serō (“to sow, plant”), Latvian sēt (“to sow”), Lithuanian sėti (“to sow”), Bulgarian се́я (séja, “to sow, plant”), Czech sít (“to sow”), Macedonian сее (see, “to sow”), Polish siać (“to sow”), Russian се́ять (séjatʹ, “to sow”), Serbo-Croatian се̏јати, sȅjati, си̏јати, sȉjati (“to sow”), Slovak siať (“to sow”), Slovene sejáti (“to sow”), Ukrainian сі́яти (síjaty, “to sow”). More at sow. Pronunciation: /siːd/ 1. To plant or sow an area with seeds. Labels: transitive Example: I seeded my lawn with bluegrass. 2. To shed seeds (refers to plants) Labels: reflexive Example: These poppies have not seeded themselves yet. 3. To cover thinly with something scattered; to ornament with seedlike decorations. Labels: transitive Example: […] AGRYPNIA, or Vigilance, in yellovv, a ſable mantle, ſeeded vvith vvaking eies, and ſiluer fringe: […] 4. To start; to provide, assign or determine the initial resources for, position of, state of. Labels: transitive Example: A venture capitalist seeds young companies. Example: The tournament coordinator will seed the starting lineup with the best competitors from the qualifying round. 5. To allocate a seeding to a competitor. Example: Everybody likes to second‐guess computers, including who seed the pros. Nothing could have better exposed the vulnerability of the computer seeding than the spectacle of clay‐court experts looking like weekend hackers on grass. 6. To leave (files) available for others to download through peer-to-peer file sharing protocols (e.g. BitTorrent). Labels: Internet, transitive 7. To be qualified to compete, especially in a quarter-final, semi-final, or final. Labels: intransitive Example: The tennis player seeded into the quarters. 8. To scatter small particles within (a cloud or airmass) in order to trigger the formation of rain. Example: A number of clouds were seeded to help provide rain to a drought-stricken area. 9. To produce seed. Labels: intransitive 10. To grow to maturity. Labels: intransitive 11. To ejaculate inside the penetratee during intercourse, especially in the rectum. Labels: slang, vulgar
Word: seed Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From see + -d (“past tense suffix; variant of -ed”). Pronunciation: /siːd/ 1. simple past and past participle of see Labels: dialectal, form-of, participle, past Example: Presently a rioting noise was heard without. Starting up, the landlord cried, "That's the Grampus's crew. I seed her reported in the offing this morning; a three years' voyage, and a full ship. Hurrah, boys; now we'll have the latest news from the Feegees."
Word: spirit away Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ˈspɪɹ.ɪt əˌweɪ/ 1. To remove without anyone's noticing. Labels: transitive Example: The paintings were spirited away under cover of darkness. Example: Twice my tent was turned inside out in my absence, once my clothes were spirited away while I was bathing, and the night before we broke up the camp I was within an ace of being murdered. 2. To carry off through the agency of a spirit or through some magical means. Labels: transitive Example: "But far up in the country, in the mountain districts, we still often hear of fairies having been seen, of their spiriting people away into the mountains, and such like.
Word: root Part of Speech: verb Etymology: PIE word *wréh₂ds From Middle English rote, root, roote (“the underground part of a plant”), from late Old English rōt, from Old Norse rót (“root”), from Proto-Germanic *wrōts (“root”), from Proto-Indo-European *wréh₂ds (“root”); Doublet of wort, radish, and radix. Cognate with Scots ruit, rute (“root”), Danish rod (“root”), Faroese and Icelandic rót (“root”), Norwegian and Swedish rot (“root”). Pronunciation: /ɹuːt/, /ɹʉwt/, /ɹut/, /ɹʉːt/, /ɹʊt/ 1. To grow roots; to enter the earth, as roots; to take root and begin to grow. Example: The cuttings are starting to root. Example: In deep grounds the weeds root the deeper. 2. To prepare, oversee, or otherwise cause the rooting of cuttings. Example: We rooted some cuttings last summer. 3. To fix firmly; to establish. Example: If any irregularity chanced to intervene and to cause misapprehensions, he gave them not leave to root and fasten by concealment. Example: Small theater companies come and go very quickly — many times after one show — but community response to Triangle has been strong, and there is a good chance that they will make it through those early growing stages and firmly root. 4. To get root or privileged access on (a computer system or mobile phone), often through bypassing some security mechanism. Labels: slang, transitive Example: We rooted his box and planted a virus on it. Example: I want to root my Android phone so I can remove the preinstalled crapware.
Word: root Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English wrōten (“to dig with the snout”), from Old English wrōtan, from Proto-West Germanic *wrōtan, from Proto-Germanic *wrōtaną (“to dig out, to root”). Related to Old English wrōt (“snout; trunk”). Loss of initial w- probably due to influence from the related noun (Etymology 1). Pronunciation: /ɹuːt/, /ɹʉwt/, /ɹut/, /ɹʉːt/, /ɹʊt/ 1. To turn up or dig with the snout. Labels: ambitransitive Example: A pig roots the earth for truffles. Example: Such tunges ſhuld be torne out by the harde rootes, 2. To seek favour or advancement by low arts or grovelling servility; to fawn. Labels: broadly Example: Thou elvish-marked, abortive, rooting hog! 3. To rummage; to search as if by digging in soil. Labels: intransitive Example: rooting about in a junk-filled drawer 4. Of a baby: to turn the head and open the mouth in search of food. Labels: intransitive Example: When your baby is rooting, his head will turn to the side and he will open and close his mouth. If you put your finger in your baby's hand, she has a grasping reflex that makes her curl her fingers around yours and hold on. 5. To root out; to abolish. Labels: transitive Example: I will go root away the noisome weeds. Example: The Lord rooted them out of their land [...] and cast them into another land. 6. To tug or pull at the reins aggressively by driving the head downwards while wearing a bit. 7. To sexually penetrate. Labels: Australia, Ireland, New-Zealand, slang, vulgar
Word: root Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English wrōten (“to dig with the snout”), from Old English wrōtan, from Proto-West Germanic *wrōtan, from Proto-Germanic *wrōtaną (“to dig out, to root”). Related to Old English wrōt (“snout; trunk”). Loss of initial w- probably due to influence from the related noun (Etymology 1). Pronunciation: /ɹuːt/, /ɹʉwt/, /ɹut/, /ɹʉːt/, /ɹʊt/ 1. An act of rummaging or searching. Example: It was always sensible to get off the busy streets if you were going to have a root inside your girlfriend's bra. Example: It'll come to me eventually, but I think I'll go over to Bristol tomorrow afternoon and have a root through the medical school library. 2. An act of sexual intercourse. Labels: Australia, New-Zealand, slang, vulgar Example: Fancy a root? Example: Ken was in the good mood he'd been in for weeks. Nothing like a regular root to turn him into the jolly green giant. 3. A sexual partner. Labels: Australia, New-Zealand, slang, vulgar
Word: root Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Possibly an alteration of rout (“to make a loud noise”), influenced by hoot. Pronunciation: /ɹuːt/, /ɹʉwt/, /ɹut/, /ɹʉːt/, /ɹʊt/ 1. To cheer (on); to show support (for) and hope for the success of. (See root for.) Labels: US, intransitive Example: I'm rooting for you, don't let me down! Example: Let me root, root, root for the home team,
Word: functional root Part of Speech: noun 1. A function which, when applied a given number of times, equals another given function. Example: x²+1 is the functional 2nd root of x⁴+2x²+2.
Word: lattice Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English latis, from Middle French lattis (“lathing”), from Old French lattis, from latte (“a lath”), from Frankish *lattu (“a lath”), from Proto-Germanic *laþô (“board; plank; ledge”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)latn-, *(s)lat- (“beam; log”). Cognate with Old High German latta (“lath”), (German Latte), Old English lætt (“lath”), Middle Low German lāde (“plank, counter, sales counter”), German Laden (“shop”). More at lath. Pronunciation: /ˈlæt.ɪs/ 1. A flat panel constructed with widely-spaced crossed thin strips of wood or other material, commonly used as a garden trellis. Example: It was now in ruin: the deer had climbed the broken palings, and reposed among the flowers; grass grew on the threshold, and the swinging lattice creaking to the wind, gave signal of utter desertion. Example: As we descended the long wooden stairway that leads from the central tower to the Island of Inchgarvie, the straight and simple outlines of the internal viaduct stood out in sharp contrast to the long sweep of the massive tubular arms of the cantilevers, and the complicated network of the lattice cross girders. 2. A bearing with vertical and horizontal bands that cross each other. 3. A regular spacing or arrangement of geometric points, often decorated with a motif. 4. A model of the tuning relationships of a just intonation system, comprising an array of points in a periodic multidimensional pattern. 5. In any of several technical senses, a substructure with properties analogous to those the set of points with integer coordinates bears in relation to the full Euclidian space these points are contained in. 6. In any of several technical senses, a substructure with properties analogous to those the set of points with integer coordinates bears in relation to the full Euclidian space these points are contained in. 7. In any of several technical senses, a substructure with properties analogous to those the set of points with integer coordinates bears in relation to the full Euclidian space these points are contained in. 8. A partially ordered set in which every pair of elements has a unique supremum and a unique infimum.
Word: lattice Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English latis, from Middle French lattis (“lathing”), from Old French lattis, from latte (“a lath”), from Frankish *lattu (“a lath”), from Proto-Germanic *laþô (“board; plank; ledge”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)latn-, *(s)lat- (“beam; log”). Cognate with Old High German latta (“lath”), (German Latte), Old English lætt (“lath”), Middle Low German lāde (“plank, counter, sales counter”), German Laden (“shop”). More at lath. Pronunciation: /ˈlæt.ɪs/ 1. To make a lattice of. Example: to lattice timbers 2. To close, as an opening, with latticework; to furnish with a lattice. Example: to lattice a window
Word: cancer Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Latin cancer (“crab”), a calque of Ancient Greek καρκίνος (karkínos, “crab; ulcer; cancer”), possibly cognate, applied to cancerous tumors because of a supposed resemblence between their enlarged veins and the legs of a crab. Doublet of canker and chancre. Pronunciation: /ˈkænsə/, /ˈkæːnsə/, /ˈkænsɚ/ 1. A disease in which the cells of a tissue undergo uncontrolled (often rapid) proliferation. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: She's ill. She's dying. She has cancer of the pancreas, stomach, just about everywhere... She's been dying for about six years now. We're getting used to it. Example: If successful, Edison and Ford—in 1914—would move society away from the[…]hazards of gasoline cars: air and water pollution, noise and noxiousness, constant coughing and the undeniable rise in cancers caused by smoke exhaust particulates. 2. Something damaging that spreads throughout something else. Labels: countable, figuratively, uncountable Example: I began by telling the President that there was a cancer growing on the Presidency, and if the cancer was not removed, the President himself would be killed by it. Example: The disease of the self runs through my blood; It's a cancer fatal to my soul.
Word: cancer Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Borrowed from Latin cancer (“crab”), a calque of Ancient Greek καρκίνος (karkínos, “crab; ulcer; cancer”), possibly cognate, applied to cancerous tumors because of a supposed resemblence between their enlarged veins and the legs of a crab. Doublet of canker and chancre. Pronunciation: /ˈkænsə/, /ˈkæːnsə/, /ˈkænsɚ/ 1. Extremely unpleasant and annoying. Labels: offensive, slang, vulgar Example: I used to love this game, but the new meta is straight up cancer.
Word: Capricornus Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Middle English, borrowed from Latin Capricornus, from capra (“goat”) and cornū (“horn”), calque of Ancient Greek Αἰγοκέρως (Aigokérōs, “horned goat; name of constellation”), calque of Akkadian 𒀯𒋦𒈧𒄩 (suḫurmāšu), from Sumerian 𒀯𒋦𒈧𒄩 (ᴹᵁᴸSUḪUR.MAŠ, “the Goat-Fish; name of constellation”). Pronunciation: /ˌkæpɹɪˈkɔːnəs/, /ˌkæpɹɪˈkɔːɹnəs/ 1. A constellation of the zodiac traditionally figured in the shape of a goat or the mythical sea goat (upper half goat, lower half fish). 2. Capricorn, one of the signs.
Word: regulus Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Latin regulus. 1. An impure metal formed beneath slag during the smelting of ores.
Word: rego Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English register Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *-Hō Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō Proto-Italic *-tiō Latin -tiō Latin -ātiōlbor. Old French -ationbor. Middle English -acioun English -ation English registration English -o English rego From registration + -o (diminutive suffix). Pronunciation: /ˈɹɛdʒəʊ/ 1. Registration for a motor vehicle. Labels: Australia, New-Zealand, colloquial, uncountable, usually Example: The police pulled me over for driving with an expired rego. Example: You might give these people a badge or some livery for their boat and you can give them a discount on the rego of their boat. 2. The fee required for such registration. Labels: Australia, New-Zealand, colloquial, uncountable, usually Example: David couldn′t drive his car as he hadn′t paid his rego. 3. The registration number of a motor vehicle, used by police to access registration details such as the identity of the owner. Labels: Australia, New-Zealand, colloquial, countable, usually Example: “They also got the regos of the cars. There were two commercial travelers whose cars were trapped inside by the pickets, and they got hit with writs.[…]” Example: A line of cars was parked along one side, presumably belonging to the sex workers and their clients. ‘Get their regos,’ Borghini said to one of his people.
Word: toad Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English tode, toode, tadde, tade, from Old English *tāde, a shortened variant of Old English tādie, tādiġe (“toad”). Cognate with Scots tade, taid, taed, ted (“toad”). Compare also Danish tudse (“toad”), possibly originally from the same prehistoric root; also Swedish tåssa, tossa (“toad”), Old English tāxe (“toad”), Old English tosca (“toad”) by contrast. Pronunciation: /toʊd/, /təʊd/ 1. An amphibian, a kind of frog (broad sense, order Anura) with shorter hindlegs and a drier, wartier skin, many in family Bufonidae. Example: Shortly he heard the trolls coming. They had a fiddler with them, and some began dancing, while others fell to eating the Christmas fare on the table - some fried bacon, and some fried frogs and toads, and other nasty things which they had brought with them. Example: 1971, Jim Morrison, Ray Manzarek, Robby Krieger & John Densmore, "Riders on the Storm", The Doors, L.A. Woman. There's a killer on the road / His brain is squirmin' like a toad 2. A contemptible or unpleasant person. Labels: derogatory 3. An ugly person. Labels: derogatory
Word: toad Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English tode, toode, tadde, tade, from Old English *tāde, a shortened variant of Old English tādie, tādiġe (“toad”). Cognate with Scots tade, taid, taed, ted (“toad”). Compare also Danish tudse (“toad”), possibly originally from the same prehistoric root; also Swedish tåssa, tossa (“toad”), Old English tāxe (“toad”), Old English tosca (“toad”) by contrast. Pronunciation: /toʊd/, /təʊd/ 1. To expel (a user) permanently from a MUD or similar system, so that their account is deleted. Labels: Internet, informal, transitive
Word: frog and toad Part of Speech: noun 1. Road. Labels: Cockney, slang Example: I'm just going down the frog and toad to see my old china Dave. (= I'm just going down the road to see my friend Dave.)
Word: piglet Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From pig + -let (diminutive suffix). Attested from 1855. Displaced Old English fearh. Pronunciation: /ˈpɪɡ.lət/ 1. A young swine, one not yet mature. Example: Near-synonyms: shoat, porkling, porklet, porket Example: Very little was this piglet, And of course was not a big pig,
Word: sheepfold Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Inherited from Middle English shepefald, perhaps from Late Old English sċēapa falde (literally “sheep's fold”), equivalent to sheep + fold. Pronunciation: /ˈʃiːp.fəʊld/ 1. An enclosure for keeping sheep. Example: If civilized life had covered over the ancient verities, Dumuzi learns in his tragic death that the sheepfold is still there to reclaim him. 2. A flock of sheep. Example: We weep because the Lord’s sheepfold is guarded by wolves; we despair because truth gasps for breath amid lies.
Word: tramp Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English trampen (“to walk heavily”), from Middle Low German trampen (“to stamp”) (trampeln (“to walk with heavy steps”), see trample) or from Middle Dutch trampen (“to stamp”), from Proto-West Germanic *trampan (“to step”). Doublet of tremp. Cognate with Dutch trampen (“to stamp, kick, step”), dialectal German trampen (“to step, walk, tread”), whence commoner German trampeln (“to trample”). Probably related to trap. Pronunciation: /ˈtɹæmp/, [ˈtɹeə̯mp] ~ [ˈtɹɛə̯mp], /ˈtɹæːmp/, [ˈtɹeːmp] ~ [ˈtɹɛːmp], /ˈtɹamp/ 1. The act of walking with heavy steps. Example: My dear sirs, did you actually imagine that one could not follow every clumsy move you made, with Joolby's low comedy tramp and the other two stealing in like a couple of hired assassins in a penny gaff melodrama? 2. A homeless person; a vagabond. Labels: derogatory, sometimes Example: [S]he had expected to discover a burglar of one or another accepted type—either a dashing cracksman in full-blown evening dress, lithe, polished, pantherish, or a common yegg, a red-eyed, unshaven, burly brute in the rags and tatters of a tramp. 3. A disreputable, promiscuous woman; a slut. Labels: derogatory Example: I can't believe you'd let yourself be seen with that tramp. Example: Claudia is such a tramp; making out with all those men when she has a boyfriend. 4. Any ship which does not have a fixed schedule or published ports of call. Example: I was so happy on board that ship, I could not have believed it possible. We had the beastliest weather, and many discomforts; but the mere fact of its being a tramp-ship gave us many comforts; we could cut about with the men and officers, stay in the wheel-house, discuss all manner of things, and really be a little at sea. Example: Then I think I conceive of other worlds and vast structures that pass us by, within a few miles, without the slightest desire to communicate, quite as tramp vessels pass many islands without particularizing one from another. 5. A long walk, possibly of more than one day, in a scenic or wilderness area. Labels: Australia, New-Zealand Example: I got in with the American Fur Company and set out for another tramp to trade with the Indians on the North and South Platte Rivers. Example: The starting place for the tramp is reached over a gravel road that begins on Route 3 about a mile south of Gorham spur. 6. Of objects, stray, intrusive and unwanted. Example: Your last delivery of copper ore contained half a hundredweight of tramp metal. 7. A metal plate worn by diggers under the hollow of the foot to save the shoe. 8. Shaking or juddering of a vehicle's driving axle under hard acceleration or braking, caused by the suspension not fully restraining it, and leading to reduction in tire traction.
Word: tramp Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English trampen (“to walk heavily”), from Middle Low German trampen (“to stamp”) (trampeln (“to walk with heavy steps”), see trample) or from Middle Dutch trampen (“to stamp”), from Proto-West Germanic *trampan (“to step”). Doublet of tremp. Cognate with Dutch trampen (“to stamp, kick, step”), dialectal German trampen (“to step, walk, tread”), whence commoner German trampeln (“to trample”). Probably related to trap. Pronunciation: /ˈtɹæmp/, [ˈtɹeə̯mp] ~ [ˈtɹɛə̯mp], /ˈtɹæːmp/, [ˈtɹeːmp] ~ [ˈtɹɛːmp], /ˈtɹamp/ 1. To walk with heavy footsteps. 2. To walk for a long time (usually through difficult terrain). Example: We tramped through the woods for hours before we found the main path again. 3. To hitchhike. 4. To tread upon forcibly and repeatedly; to trample. Labels: transitive 5. To travel or wander through. Labels: transitive Example: to tramp the country 6. To cleanse, as clothes, by treading upon them in water. Labels: Scotland, transitive Example: Soak them [blankets, etc.], add to the water in which the linens were washed some soap, and also some of the preparation to produce a strong lather; rub or tramp them, then rinse and dry. 7. To scram; begone. Labels: colloquial, intransitive Example: She hesitated, “be off—tramp, march,” he exclaimed, in a tone which the poor girl dared not disobey. She left the room, and Edward followed her to the door. Example: Tramp, my lad. Bundle out of this, please, hand over hand, and double quick. 8. To shake or judder under hard acceleration or braking, referring to the movement of a vehicle's driving axle caused by the suspension not fully restraining it, leading to reduction in tire traction. Labels: intransitive
Word: tramp Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Clipping of trampoline (ultimately related to the verb via German trampeln). Pronunciation: /ˈtɹæmp/, [ˈtɹeə̯mp] ~ [ˈtɹɛə̯mp], /ˈtɹæːmp/, [ˈtɹeːmp] ~ [ˈtɹɛːmp], /ˈtɹamp/ 1. Clipping of trampoline, especially a very small one. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, clipping
Word: first-degree murder Part of Speech: noun 1. The criminal offence of murder in a form considered by law to be the most serious; the precise distinction may vary by jurisdiction but typically involves premeditation, or the choice of victim or other circumstances being regarded as especially blameworthy. Labels: Canada, US, countable, uncountable 2. An act that constitutes the crime of first-degree murder. Labels: Canada, US, countable, uncountable
Word: murder in the first degree Part of Speech: noun 1. Synonym of first-degree murder. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: obese Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin obēsus, derived from obedō (“to devour, eat away”), from ob (“away”) + edō (“to eat”). Pronunciation: /oʊˈbis/, /əʊˈbiːs/, /əˈbiːs/ 1. Extremely overweight, especially: weighing more than 20% (for men) or 25% (for women) over their conventionally ideal weight determined by height and build; or, having a body mass index over 30 kg/m². Example: The president, being 74, a man and someone categorised as obese, is in a higher-risk category for Covid-19. Example: But it can be recalled that Locsin earlier called out DepEd for seemingly being “unaffected” by the actions of a teacher who body-shamed her by describing her ^([sic]) “an obese person” in a Physical Education (PE) educational material after the agency issued an apology.
Word: obese Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin obēsus, derived from obedō (“to devour, eat away”), from ob (“away”) + edō (“to eat”). Pronunciation: /oʊˈbis/, /əʊˈbiːs/, /əˈbiːs/ 1. A person who is obese. Example: Despite a large scattering of HR decay rate, even present in healthy subjects, a ₂ and ΔHR were significantly lower in obeses and COPDs. Example: Subjects were grouped as Group 1 and Group 2 according to VAI, and normals, overweights and obeses according to BMI.
Word: observatory Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from French observatoire, equivalent to observe + -atory. Pronunciation: /əbˈzɜːvət(ə)ɹi/, /əbˈzɝvətɔɹi/ 1. A place where stars, planets and other celestial bodies are observed, usually through a telescope; also place for observing meteorological or other natural phenomena. Example: The corporation of Harvard University have passed a vote closing the observatory in Cambridge to the public on Saturday evenings. 2. A lookout (vantage point with a view of the surrounding area)
Word: bark Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English barken, berken, borken, from Old English beorcan (“to bark”), from the Proto-West Germanic *berkan (“to bark”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰerg- (“to make a noise, growl, bark”), from *bʰer- (“to drone, hum, buzz”). Cognate with Icelandic berkja (“to bark, bluster”), Icelandic barki (“throat, windpipe”), dialectal Lithuanian burgė́ti (“to growl, grumble, grouch, quarrel”), Serbo-Croatian brbljati (“to murmur”). For the noun, compare Old English beorc, bearce (“barking”).. Pronunciation: /bɑːk/, /bɑɹk/ 1. To make a short, loud, explosive noise with the vocal organs (said of animals, especially dogs). Labels: intransitive Example: The neighbour's dog is always barking. Example: The seal barked as the zookeeper threw fish into its enclosure. 2. To make a clamor; to make importunate outcries. Labels: intransitive Example: And therefore they bark, and say the scripture maketh heretics. Example: Where there is the barking of the belly, there no other commands will be heard, much less obeyed. 3. To speak sharply. Labels: transitive Example: The sergeant barked an order. Example: Plainly he was prepared to bark out an interminable succession of charges against the Wanderer.
Word: bark Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English barken, berken, borken, from Old English beorcan (“to bark”), from the Proto-West Germanic *berkan (“to bark”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰerg- (“to make a noise, growl, bark”), from *bʰer- (“to drone, hum, buzz”). Cognate with Icelandic berkja (“to bark, bluster”), Icelandic barki (“throat, windpipe”), dialectal Lithuanian burgė́ti (“to growl, grumble, grouch, quarrel”), Serbo-Croatian brbljati (“to murmur”). For the noun, compare Old English beorc, bearce (“barking”).. Pronunciation: /bɑːk/, /bɑɹk/ 1. The short, loud, explosive sound uttered by a dog, a fox, and some other animals. 2. An abrupt loud vocal utterance. Labels: figuratively Example: Fox’s clumsy figure, negligently dressed in blue and buff, seemed unprepossessing; only his shaggy eyebrows added to the expression of his face; his voice would rise to a bark in excitement. Example: Long before Shap platform showed up around a corner and the two arms on the gradient post drooped in both directions at once, Duchess of Buccleuch's amiable throbbing purr at the stack [funnel, chimney] had become a fierce freight-engine bark, as she resolutely dragged at her enormous load. 3. The quick opening of the hi-hat cymbal as it is hit, followed by its timely closing. 4. (video games) A short, repeatable, and unobtrusive voiceline spoken by an NPC. Labels: countable