nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: admin Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Clipping of administrator or administration. Pronunciation: /ˈædˌmɪn/, /ədˈmɪn/, /ˈəɖ.mɪn/ 1. To serve as an administrator for or of. Labels: informal, transitive
Word: numen Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Latin nūmen. Pronunciation: /ˈnjuː.mən/, /ˈnuː.mən/ 1. A divinity, especially a local or presiding god. Example: The Egyptians were doubtless the most singular of all the Pagans, and the most oddly discrepant from the rest in their manner of worship; yet nevertheless, that these also agreed with the rest in those fundamentals of worshipping one supreme and universal Numen […] Example: Where were Secretaries James and Foster and Senator Joseph, those dear daft numina who’d mothered over Oedipa’s so temperate youth? 2. An influence or phenomenon at once mystical and transcendent. Example: […]but never did the places or the persons turn into idols for my irrational worship. It was only the numen in them that I loved, who, as I passed by abstracted, whispered some immortal word in my ear.
Word: katzenjammer Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from German Katzenjammer (“hangover”, literally “the wailing of cats”); a determinative compound formed from Katze (“cat”) + -n- + Jammer (“wailing; lamentation”). Pronunciation: /ˈkætsənd͡ʒæmə(ɹ)/ 1. A hangover. Example: Also, I had found my way into the realm of the mind, and I was intellectually intoxicated. (Alas! as I was to learn at a later period, intellectual intoxication too, has its katzenjammer.) Example: In those days a still-birth brought as high as ten dollars and after riding the shoot-the-chutes we always left a little stale beer for the morning because the finest thing in the world for Katzenjammer is a glass of stale beer. 2. Jitters; discord; confusion. Example: Tell you the truth, I've had an intimation from the State Department—unofficially, of course—that whenever a soldier of fortune demands a fleet of gunboats in a case of revolutionary katzenjammer, I should cut the cable, give him all the tobacco he wants, and after he's shot take his clothes, if they fit me, for part payment of my salary. 3. Depression.
Word: sportsmanship Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From sports + -manship. 1. The good attitude/behaviour displayed by players of a game; fairness, determination, magnanimity, courtesy towards opponents, and winning or losing gracefully. Labels: uncountable, usually 2. The behaviour exhibited in playing sports, either good or bad. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: James showed good sportsmanship in consoling Shankar after his wicket fell.
Word: poor sport Part of Speech: noun 1. Someone who exhibits ungracious behaviour during a game, whether winning or losing. 2. Someone who cannot take a joke.
Word: grudge Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Germanicder. Old French grouchier, groucierder. Middle English grucchen English grutchder. English grudge A variant of grutch (mid 15th-century, younger than begrudge), from Middle English grucchen (“to murmur, complain, feel envy, begrudge”), from Old French grouchier, groucier (“to murmur, grumble”), of Germanic origin, probably ultimately imitative. Akin to Middle High German grogezen (“to howl, wail”), German grocken (“to croak”). Compare also Old Norse krytja (“to murmur”), Old High German grunzen (“to grunt”). Pronunciation: /ɡɹʌd͡ʒ/ 1. Deep-seated and/or long-term animosity or ill will about something or someone, especially due to perceived mistreatment. Labels: countable Example: to have, hold, owe or bear a grudge against someone Example: Bag. And if I do not my good Lord damme me for it I haue an old grudge at him cole black curre,
Word: grudge Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Germanicder. Old French grouchier, groucierder. Middle English grucchen English grutchder. English grudge A variant of grutch (mid 15th-century, younger than begrudge), from Middle English grucchen (“to murmur, complain, feel envy, begrudge”), from Old French grouchier, groucier (“to murmur, grumble”), of Germanic origin, probably ultimately imitative. Akin to Middle High German grogezen (“to howl, wail”), German grocken (“to croak”). Compare also Old Norse krytja (“to murmur”), Old High German grunzen (“to grunt”). Pronunciation: /ɡɹʌd͡ʒ/ 1. To be unwilling to give or allow (someone something). Example: Wee shall finde our whole life so necessarily ioyned with sorrow, that we ought rather delight (and take pleasure) in Gods louing chastisements, and admonitions, then any way murmure and grudge at our crosses, or tribulations : Example: If we of the central land were to grudge you what is beneficial, and not to compassionate your wants, then wherewithal could you foreigners manage to exist? 2. To grumble, complain; to be dissatisfied. Labels: obsolete Example: And the pharises, and scribes grudged sainge: He receaveth to his company synners [...]. 3. To hold or harbour with malicious disposition or purpose; to cherish enviously. Labels: obsolete Example: Perish they / That grudge one thought against your majesty!
Word: grudge match Part of Speech: noun 1. a bout between two teams or competitors who have a history of competitiveness between them
Word: swiftly Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From Middle English swiftly, swyftely, swiftliche, from Old English swiftlīċe (“swiftly”), equivalent to swift + -ly. Pronunciation: /ˈswɪftli/ 1. In a swift manner; quickly; with quick motion or velocity; fleetly. Example: Mrs. Piper cut short these piracies by swiftly removing his spoon. Example: The head of the North Tyne is reached at Deadwater, 36 miles from Hexham. The river has its source just on the English side of the Border, at the foot of Peel Fell, the most westerly spur of the Cheviots. At first it is a sluggish stream (hence the name Deadwater) but begins to flow more swiftly before it reaches Kielder.
Word: promotion Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *per-der.? Proto-Indo-European *per-der.? Proto-Indo-European *pér Proto-Indo-European *-o Proto-Indo-European *pró Proto-Indo-European *pro- Proto-Italic *pro- Latin prō- Proto-Indo-European *m(y)ewh₁- Proto-Indo-European *-yeti Proto-Indo-European *-éyeti Proto-Indo-European *m(y)owh₁éyetider. Proto-Italic *moweō Latin moveō Latin prōmoveō Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *-Hō Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō Proto-Italic *-tiō Latin -tiō Late Latin prōmotiōder. Old French promocionbor. Middle English English promotion Late Middle English, from Old French promocion, from Late Latin prōmotiō, from Latin prōmoveō (“to move forward”). Equivalent to promote + -ion. Pronunciation: /pɹəˈməʊʃn̩/, /pɹəˈmoʊʃn̩/ 1. An advancement in rank or position. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: I'll have to give myself a promotion! 2. Dissemination of information in order to increase its popularity. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: the promotion of the idea of global warming in schools 3. An event intended to increase the reach or image of a product or brand. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The price cut is serving as a promotion of the manufacturer's new beverage varieties. 4. Transformation of a pawn into a piece (by reaching the opponent's back rank). Labels: countable, uncountable 5. Forward motion. (Contrast remotion.) Labels: countable, uncountable Example: By simple promotion and remotion, assisted by some flexure and extension, the distal spines of each would reach and scratch the substratum and, on remotion, sweep coarse particles posteriorly and dorsally. Example: In other arthropods, promotion-remotion of the leg is accomplished at other joints. For example, in spiders promotion-remotion occurs at the coxa-trochanter joint, insects utilize the body-coxa joint, and […]
Word: jealousy Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English jalousie, from Old French jalousie, equivalent to jealous + -y. Doublet of jalousie. Related also to zeal, zealous. Displaced native Old English æfest and Old English nīþ. Pronunciation: /ˈd͡ʒɛl.ə.si/ 1. A state of being jealous; a jealous attitude. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Jealousy was, however, aroused among the English nobility at the favouritism shown the Dutch newcomer. Example: […]the jealousy of his foes of each other's share in the booty[…]. 2. A state of being jealous; a jealous attitude. Labels: archaic, countable, uncountable Example: For euer I supoosed that he had ben to yonge and to tendyr to take vpon hym these aduentures / And therfore by my wille I wold haue dryuen hym aweye for Ialousy that I had of his lyf / for it maye be no yong knyghtes dede that shal enchyeue this aduenture to the ende
Word: radiate Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin radiātus, perfect passive participle of radiō (“to radiate, furnish with spokes, give out rays, radiate, shine”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from radius (“a spoke, ray”). Pronunciation: /ˈɹeɪdieɪt/ 1. To extend, send or spread out from a center like radii. Example: Crewe North Motive Power Depot is to be modernised completely. This includes the provision of a new coaling plant, ash handling plant, and two new locomotive sheds of the latest roundhouse type, each with 32 roads radiating from a 70-ft. dia. turntable. Example: Oban is not a terminus; its routes radiate by sea, rail and road. 2. To emit rays or waves. Labels: transitive Example: The stove radiates heat. 3. To come out or proceed in rays or waves. Labels: intransitive Example: The heat radiates from a stove. Example: Light radiates from luminous bodies directly to our eyes. 4. To illuminate. Labels: transitive 5. To expose to ionizing radiation, such as by radiography. 6. To manifest oneself in a glowing manner. Labels: transitive Example: Slim, sensual Richard Hell radiates a commanding coolness. 7. To spread into new habitats, migrate. Labels: intransitive 8. To broadcast by radio. Labels: obsolete, transitive Example: Programmes marked thus will be radiated by Droitwich, but not by London and North National transmitters.
Word: radiate Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin radiātus (see Etymology 1 and -ate (adjective-forming suffix) for more). Pronunciation: /ˈɹeɪdieɪt/, /ˈɹeɪdi.ət/ 1. Radiating from a center; having rays or parts diverging from a center; radiated. Example: a radiate crystal 2. Surrounded by rays, such as the head of a saint in a religious picture; (heraldry) radiant. Example: […] and (2) the radiate or Eastern crown, usually five rays being shown. The see of Ely bears the apocryphal coat of St. Ethelreda: gules, three open crowns or. Azure, three open crowns or, are the arms of[…] Example: On a wreath of the colors argent and tenné four lightning flashes barbed radiate pilewise of the first, a Roman helm or garnished gules. 3. Having parts radiating from the center, like the petals in many flowers. 4. Consisting of a disc in which the florets are tubular. 5. Having radial symmetry, like a sea star. 6. Belonging to the Radiata.
Word: radiate Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From a substantivation of the above adjective through the associated taxon's name (Radiata), see -ate (noun-forming suffix). 1. One of the Radiata.
Word: entice Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English enticen, from Old French enticier (“to stir up or excite”), from a Vulgar Latin *intitiāre (“I set on fire”), from in- + titiō (“firebrand (tool)”), from Proto-Italic *tītjō (“heating”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *teih₁- (“to become hot, melt or to end”). Pronunciation: /ɪnˈtaɪs/ 1. To lure; to attract by arousing desire or hope. Labels: transitive Example: I enticed the little bear into the trap with a pot of honey. Example: Blackboard sketches, geological maps, diagrams of molecular structure, astronomical photographs, MRI images, the many varieties of statistical charts and graphs: These pictorial devices are indispensable tools for presenting evidence, for explaining a theory, for telling a story. And, on top of all that, they are ornaments; they entice and intrigue and sometimes delight.
Word: 'e Part of Speech: pron Etymology: A representation of the pronunciation of he by a speaker who does not use the voiceless glottal fricative or transition ([h]). 1. Pronunciation spelling of he Labels: alt-of, pronunciation-spelling
Word: 'e Part of Speech: pron 1. Alternative spelling of 'ee. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: 'a Part of Speech: pron 1. Alternative form of a (“he, she, they”). Labels: alt-of, alternative, archaic
Word: 'a Part of Speech: verb 1. Alternative form of a (“have, had”). Labels: alt-of, alternative, archaic
Word: 'a Part of Speech: particle 1. Alternative form of a (“to”). Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: Say, these stripes, stripes sure don’t worry me. But these chains, chains goin’ ’a kill me dead. Example: Well, this one’s ’ere all right. Captain’s wife or somefink, the mate says. Least, that’s what I think he’s tryin’ ’a say, because he can’t speak no English.
Word: astrophobia Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂eHs- Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr Proto-Indo-European *h₂stḗr Proto-Hellenic *astḗr Ancient Greek ἀστήρ (astḗr) Ancient Greek ᾰ̓́στρον (ắstron)der. English astro- Ancient Greek -φοβία (-phobía)der. Latin New Latinbor. English -phobia English astrophobia From astro- + -phobia. 1. A fear of stars and celestial space. Labels: uncountable Example: Presenting 14 unnerving segments, featured phobias include caetophobia (fear of hairs), henophobia (fear of young virgin girls), coprophobia (fear of feces), mysophobia (fear of contamination and germs), mazeophobia (fear of being lost), astrophobia (fear of celestial objects), mageirocophobia (fear of cooking) and oneirophobia (fear of dreams).
Word: valet Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French valet, from Old French vaslet, from Medieval Latin *vassellittus, diminutive of Late Latin vassallus (“manservant, domestic, retainer”), from vassus (“servant”), from Gaulish *wassos (“young man, squire”), from Proto-Celtic *wastos (“servant”) (compare Old Irish foss and Welsh gwas). Doublet of varlet. Pronunciation: /ˈvæleɪ/, /ˈvælɪt/, /væˈleɪ/ 1. A man's personal male attendant, responsible for his clothes and appearance. 2. A hotel employee performing such duties for guests. 3. A female performer in professional wrestling, acting as either a manager or personal chaperone; often used to attract and titillate male members of the audience. 4. A female chaperone who accompanies a man, and is usually not married to him. 5. A person employed to clean or park cars. Labels: US Example: A HEROIC dad who helped deliver his new-born baby in the back of his car had to explain to his car valet that he wasn't involved in illegal crime. 6. A person employed to assist the jockey and trainer at a racecourse. 7. A wooden stand on which to hold clothes and accessories in preparation for dressing. 8. A kind of goad or stick with an iron point.
Word: valet Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French valet, from Old French vaslet, from Medieval Latin *vassellittus, diminutive of Late Latin vassallus (“manservant, domestic, retainer”), from vassus (“servant”), from Gaulish *wassos (“young man, squire”), from Proto-Celtic *wastos (“servant”) (compare Old Irish foss and Welsh gwas). Doublet of varlet. Pronunciation: /ˈvæleɪ/, /ˈvælɪt/, /væˈleɪ/ 1. To serve (someone) as a valet. Labels: transitive Example: You can valet me, can you? Bother valeting me! I like to put on my own clothes, and brush them, too, when they are on; and if I only knew how to black my own boots, by George I should like to do it! Example: […] the red-haired boy who had valeted me in the morning appeared in a plain suit of black. 2. To clean and service (a car), as a valet does. Labels: Ireland, UK, transitive Example: He revealed: “We had been through a lot and I decided the car needed to be cleaned out after Georgina had to deliver the baby in the car. “You can imagine the scene when I left the car in for valeting. I got some funny looks and I had to explain to the guy that I wasn’t up to anything illegal because it did look a bit like a crime scene.” 3. To leave (a car) with a valet to park it. Labels: US, transitive Example: I asked Giacomo if he ever valeted his car, and he twisted his face into a grimace as he replied, “Rarely, but I have done it. Nervous time.” Example: “‘Is this a date?’” Ms. Ludbrook recalled thinking during dinner. “I had valeted my car, and he hadn’t. He said, ‘Bye,’ and went to his car. Clearly this was not a date.”
Word: cut red tape Part of Speech: verb Etymology: from cut "to remove" + red tape "excessive bureaucratic procedures" 1. To reduce bureaucracy. Labels: US, idiomatic Example: This insurance company is an expert at cutting red tape to process your claim faster.
Word: vanity Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From va(i)n + -ity, from Middle English vanite, from Old French vanité, from Latin vānitas, from vānus, whence English vain. Doublet of vanitas. Pronunciation: /ˈvænɪti/, /ˈvænəti/, [-ɾi] 1. That which is vain, futile, or worthless; that which is of no value, use or profit. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Then I said in my heart, As it happeneth to the fool, so it happeneth even to me and why then was I more wise? Then I said in my heart that this is also vanity. / For there is no more remembrance of the wise than the fool forever; seeing that which now is in the days to come shall all be forgotten. And how dieth the wise man? as the fool. 2. Excessive pride in or admiration of one's own abilities, appearance, achievements, or possessions. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: To make a man in love with you gives an instant hold on his vanity; and with that, you can do any thing. Vanity is the real lever with which Archimedes said he could move the earth; so, try what you can effect with Sir Robert. Example: Try to second guess what people see / All the time it's just your vanity / No one's impressed and you wonder why / Well it is, it shows in the eyes 3. A dressing table used to apply makeup, preen, and coif hair, in which the table is normally quite low and similar to a desk. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: She was sitting in front of her vanity, brushing out her hair. 4. A washbasin installed into a permanently fixed storage unit, used as an item of bathroom furniture. Labels: countable, uncountable 5. Any idea, theory or statement that is without foundation. Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable Example: It is a vanity to say that if two stones are dropped from a tower, the heavier will experience the greater acceleration. Example: To help the matter, the alchemists call in likewise many vanities out of astrology.
Word: savoir-faire Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from French savoir-faire (“know-how”), from savoir (“to know (how)”) + faire (“to do”). Pronunciation: /ˌsævwɑːˈfɛə/, /ˌsævwɑɹˈfɛɹ/ 1. The ability to do or say what is appropriate for the occasion. Labels: uncountable Example: Dr. Brighton-Pomfrey had the savoir-faire of a successful consultant; he prided himself on being all things to all men; but just for an instant he was at a loss what sort of thing he had to be here. Example: I am also deeply thankful to my editor Judy Knipe, whose savoir-faire and perfectionism gave the book its final polish and shape.
Word: weakling Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From weak + -ling. Pronunciation: /ˈwiːkˈlɪŋɡ/, /ˈwiːklɪŋɡ/ 1. A person of weak or even sickly physical constitution. Example: “Mon Dieu!” he soliloquized, “but they are all alike. Cheating, murdering, lying, fighting, and all for things that the beasts of the jungle would not deign to possess—money to purchase the effeminate pleasures of weaklings. And yet withal bound down by silly customs that make them slaves to their unhappy lot while firm in the belief that they be the lords of creation enjoying the only real pleasures of existence. 2. A person of weak character, lacking in courage and/or moral strength. Labels: figuratively Example: c.1551, Hugh Latimer, a sermon in Lincolnshire We may not be weaklings because we have a strong enemy. Example: Donald Trump has lashed out against his own supporters, calling them gullible “weaklings” for questioning the transparency of a secretive government inquiry into the late high-profile socialite and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
Word: weakling Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From weak + -ling. Pronunciation: /ˈwiːkˈlɪŋɡ/, /ˈwiːklɪŋɡ/ 1. weak, either physically, morally or mentally
Word: chiral Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰes- Proto-Indo-European *-ōr Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰésōr Proto-Hellenic *kʰéhər Ancient Greek χείρ (kheír) English -al English chiral From Ancient Greek χείρ (kheír, “hand”) + English -al. Pronunciation: /ˈkaɪɹəl/ 1. that exhibits chirality; as in the left-handed and right-handed versions of a helix, or a molecule with L- and D- stereoisomers. Labels: not-comparable, physical Example: In the close vicinity of a chiral nanostructure, the circular dichroism of a biomolecule could be greatly enhanced, due to the interaction with the local superchiral fields.
Word: chirality Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From chiral + -ity = chir- + -ality. Pronunciation: /kaɪˈɹælɪti/ 1. The phenomenon, in chemistry, physics and mathematics, in which objects are mirror images of each other, but are otherwise identical; handedness. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: what the fuck Part of Speech: phrase 1. An intensive form of what. Labels: interrogative, slang, vulgar Example: What the fuck were you thinking? What the fuck was I thinking? What the fuck are you doing? Example: What the fuck is going on? What the fuck just happened? What the fuck is wrong with you?
Word: what the fuck Part of Speech: intj 1. Used to express astonishment, shock, incredulity, or disbelief (as an ellipsis of longer expressions). Labels: vulgar Example: The proof is on my computer. It’s on all these people’s computers, and everyone around here is just going along with that. What the fuck? [quoting Emilia Jones as Reality Winner in the film Winner] 2. Used to express nonchalance or the dismissal of any consequences of something one is about to do. Labels: vulgar Example: I finally said “eh, what the fuck” and quit my job. Example: Every now and then say, "What the fuck." "What the fuck" gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future.
Word: décolleté Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Borrowed from French décolleté, from décolleter (“to bare the neck and shoulders”). Pronunciation: /dɪˈkɒləteɪ/ 1. Having a low neckline that reveals the cleavage. Example: "She does not remember my short frocks at all, Lord Henry. But I remember her very well at Vienna thirty years ago, and how décolletée she was then."
Word: décolleté Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from French décolleté, from décolleter (“to bare the neck and shoulders”). Pronunciation: /dɪˈkɒləteɪ/ 1. A low-cut neckline that reveals the cleavage.
Word: allergy Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂el- Proto-Indo-European *h₂élyos Proto-Hellenic *áľľos Ancient Greek ᾰ̓́λλος (ắllos) Proto-Indo-European *werǵ- Proto-Indo-European *-om Proto-Indo-European *wérǵom Proto-Hellenic *wérgon Ancient Greek ἔργον (érgon) German Allergiebor. English allergy Borrowed from German Allergie. Coined by Austrian pediatrician Clemens von Pirquet in 1906 from Ancient Greek ἄλλος (állos, “other”) + ἔργον (érgon, “work, activity”), on the model of Energie. Pronunciation: /ˈæl.əɹ.d͡ʒi/, [ˈæl.ə.dʒi], [ˈæl.ɚ.d͡ʒi] 1. A disorder of the immune system causing adverse reactions to substances (allergens) not harmful to most and marked by the body's production of histamines and associated with atopy, anaphylaxis, and asthma; any condition of hypersensitivity to a substance. Labels: broadly Example: My dad can't live with pets because of an allergy. 2. A disorder of the immune system causing adverse reactions to substances (allergens) not harmful to most and marked by the body's production of histamines and associated with atopy, anaphylaxis, and asthma; any condition of hypersensitivity to a substance. Labels: broadly 3. An antipathy, as toward a person or activity. Labels: figuratively, informal Example: He has an allergy to reality TV.
Word: plimsoll Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Samuel Plimsoll, a Bristol merchant who created a system of marks and symbols for the waterline of ships. The shoe was possibly named because the line of its sole resembled the Plimsoll line of ship. Pronunciation: /ˈplɪmsoʊl/ 1. A rubber-soled lace-up canvas shoe for sports or onboard ships; a precursor of trainers. Labels: Ireland, UK Example: “Yes, there are two distinct sets of footprints, both wearing rubber shoes—one I think ordinary plimsolls, the other goloshes,” replied the sergeant. Example: While here, now, a large boy, a famous bully, swaggered to the front to bend, leering, and offer his satirical backside to be ineffectually beaten with a plimsoll by the gentle Scot. 2. The plimsoll symbol ⦵ (or o) that is used as a superscript in the notation of thermodynamics to indicate an arbitrarily chosen non-zero reference point.
Word: dap Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Onomatopoeic, from the sound made when a person runs while wearing daps. Pronunciation: /dæp/ 1. A plimsoll. Labels: Wales, West-Country, plural-normally Example: I somehow expected them to shout obscenities, and was glad I had come ordinarily dressed, in a sports shirt, an old linen jacket, jeans and daps. 2. A notch cut in one timber to receive another. 3. Vulva or vagina. Labels: slang
Word: dap Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Onomatopoeic, from the sound made when a person runs while wearing daps. Pronunciation: /dæp/ 1. To run or go somewhere quickly. Example: I'll just dap down to the shop. 2. To create a hollow indentation. 3. To drop the bait gently onto the surface of the water.
Word: dap Part of Speech: noun Etymology: US 1971, originally by black soldiers during the Vietnam war, associated with Black Power movement. Originally an elaborate handshake, later specifically a fistbump. Verb originally give dap. Presumably onomatopoeic, or influenced by tap, dab, etc. Alternatively, from earlier slang usage as abbreviation of dapper. Also explained as an acronym, such as “Dignity for Afro People” or “Dignity And Pride”; this may be a backronym or unrelated, but accords with phrasal use as “give DAP” (compare “give respect”). More speculative etymologies derive it from Vietnamese đẹp (“beautiful”), though this is unlikely. Pronunciation: /dæp/ 1. Elaborate handshake, especially hooking thumbs. Example: ... where many officers look the other way when blacks ‘give dap’ (the power shake) ... Example: These bloods just give dap just so they won't be called Uncle Toms. 2. A fist bump.
Word: dap Part of Speech: verb Etymology: US 1971, originally by black soldiers during the Vietnam war, associated with Black Power movement. Originally an elaborate handshake, later specifically a fistbump. Verb originally give dap. Presumably onomatopoeic, or influenced by tap, dab, etc. Alternatively, from earlier slang usage as abbreviation of dapper. Also explained as an acronym, such as “Dignity for Afro People” or “Dignity And Pride”; this may be a backronym or unrelated, but accords with phrasal use as “give DAP” (compare “give respect”). More speculative etymologies derive it from Vietnamese đẹp (“beautiful”), though this is unlikely. Pronunciation: /dæp/ 1. To greet with a dap.
Word: major key Part of Speech: noun 1. A musical key based upon a major scale.
Word: bateau Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from French bateau. Pronunciation: /bætˈəʊ/ 1. A small, flat-bottomed type of boat.
Word: Vincent Part of Speech: name Etymology: Borrowed from French Vincent, from Latin Vincentius, from vincēns (“conquering”), from the verb vincō. Pronunciation: /ˈvɪnsənt/ 1. A male given name from Latin. Labels: countable Example: Starry starry night. Flaming flowers that brightly blaze Swirling clouds in violet haze Reflect in Vincent's eyes of china blue. Example: Even their names hinted at a childishness they would never grow out of. When Vincent himself was grown-up, he wondered if this was why they had given their unlooked-for son such a mature name - although later still Vincent suspected that he might have been named for the Vincent Rapide motorbike. As with most things to do with Billy and Georgie, it was too late to ask. 2. A surname originating as a patronymic. Labels: countable 3. A number of places in the United States: Labels: countable, uncountable 4. A number of places in the United States: Labels: countable, uncountable 5. A number of places in the United States: Labels: countable, uncountable 6. A number of places in the United States: Labels: countable, uncountable 7. A number of places in the United States: Labels: countable, uncountable 8. A number of places in the United States: Labels: countable, uncountable 9. A settlement in Aquin commune, Sud department, Haiti. Labels: countable, uncountable 10. A former commune in Jura department, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, France, now part of Vincent-Froideville commune. Labels: countable, uncountable 11. A suburb in the City of Townsville, Queensland, Australia. Labels: countable, uncountable 12. A local government area in Perth, Western Australia; in full, the City of Vincent. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: oui Part of Speech: intj Etymology: Borrowed from French oui (“yes”). Pronunciation: /wiː/ 1. Synonym of yes. Labels: dated
Word: vocative case Part of Speech: noun 1. case of address, case used for a noun identifying the person or thing being addressed. It corresponds to the archaic English particle "O" as used in solemn or poetic address e.g.: Hear me, O Albion! Languages that regularly employ the vocative include Arabic, Bengali, Bulgarian, Czech, Georgian, Greek, Hawaiian, Hindi-Urdu, Irish, Latin, Latvian, Lithuanian, Ojibwe, Polish, Romanian, Russian, Ruthenian/Rusyn, Sanskrit, Scottish Gaelic, Serbo-Croatian, Slovak, Tamil and Ukrainian.
Word: doc Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Clipping of doctor. Pronunciation: /dɒk/, /dɑk/ 1. A doctor. Labels: informal Example: One Nation, a new 501(c)4 linked to the Karl-Rove-backed American Crossroads super PAC, is spending more than $1.9 million on print, radio and digital ads highlighting the efforts of Illinois Sen. Mark Kirk, North Carolina Sen. Richard Burr, New Hampshire Sen. Kelly Ayotte, Ohio Sen. Rob Portman and Pennsylvania Sen. Pat Toomey to pass the “doc fix” legislation that realigned payments to Medicare providers with inflation.
Word: doc Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Clipping of document. Pronunciation: /dɒk/, /dɑk/ 1. A document, especially (in professional jargon) a piece of technical documentation or legal evidence. Labels: informal, plural-normally Example: [see title]
Word: doc Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Clipping of documentary. Pronunciation: /dɒk/, /dɑk/ 1. A documentary. Labels: informal Example: If you think watching a doc about a spelling bee isn't the most entertaining way to spend ninety minutes, think again. Example: On the subject of fat men, I was watching a doc about a mountain of flab called Paul last night and Ludo said that he was very proud that the fattest man in the world was English.
Word: doc Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Clipping of doctorate. Pronunciation: /dɒk/, /dɑk/ 1. Clipping of doctorate. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, clipping
Word: grande Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Borrowed from Italian grande. Doublet of grand and grandee. Pronunciation: /ˈɡɹɑndeɪ/, /ˈɡɹændeɪ/ 1. Of a cup of coffee: smaller than venti but larger than tall, usually 16 ounces (~ 455 ml). Labels: US, not-comparable
Word: grande Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Italian grande. Doublet of grand and grandee. Pronunciation: /ˈɡɹɑndeɪ/, /ˈɡɹændeɪ/ 1. A grande cup of coffee. Labels: US Example: As she went to work the only concern prominent in her mind was a strong desire for a couple of grandes from Starbucks. Example: Kevin considered bumming a cig, but he doubted any of them would part with one. Clutching their Starbucks grandes, guarding their garment bags with practiced eyes—how much sympathy could they be expected to muster?
Word: grande Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Spanish grande. Doublet of grand. 1. Alternative form of grandee. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: Console yourself with the practical philosophy of our countryman, Private Curtis, who was the picture of a Spanish Grande of the first class, and whom I once heard after a Lenten dinner extemporize with great good-humour this Leonine distich:⁠—“Quod deficit in ferculis / Supplebitur in poculis!” Example: When we read in almost every book in which the life of Philip is described that he was a man of haughty character with an aversion to every vulgarity; when we read of his ability in courting ladies, his manly beauty, his fine dress as a Spanish grande, we incline to think that before us stands a nobleman of kindred feelings, of carefully fostered nobility.
Word: grande Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From French grande, feminine of grand. Pronunciation: /ˈɡɹænd/ 1. Alternative form of grand. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: Almost symbolically, Lopahin still plays the peasant and Lyubov the grande mistress. Example: A supremely happy family waved goodbye to an elderly grande dame and a namesake who had just enrolled in her first lesson in becoming a grande lady.[…]In Litchfield, Connecticut, the Hutchinson brothers rushed to tell the grande old dame her daughter was making history.
Word: passé Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From French passé (“passed”, past participle of passer (“to pass”)). Pronunciation: /ˈpæ.seɪ/, /pæˈseɪ/ 1. Dated; out of style; old-fashioned. Labels: colloquial Example: Mary felt annoyed at the girl; just because bras had become passé, did a girl with so pronounced a bosom have to cater to fashion? In this case practicality dictated a bra, and Mary stood at the desk feeling herself flushing with disapproval. Example: I never thought you'd be a junkie, because heroin is so passé. 2. Past one's prime; worn; faded. Example: The coaching stock is in general in a very passé condition, but the ex-royal saloon, though needing a coat of paint outside, as another photograph shows, is spotless inside.
Word: passé Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From French passé (“passed”, past participle of passer (“to pass”)). Pronunciation: /ˈpæ.seɪ/, /pæˈseɪ/ 1. An attack that passes the target without hitting.
Word: anthropoid Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἀνθρωποειδής (anthrōpoeidḗs). By surface analysis, anthrop- + -oid. Pronunciation: /ˈænθɹəpɔɪd/ 1. Having characteristics of a human, usually in terms of shape or appearance. Example: “And I am sorry for the man she loves,” said the girl, “for he loves her. I never met him, but from what Jane tells me he must be a very wonderful person. It seems that he was born in an African jungle, and brought up by fierce, anthropoid apes.” Example: The origin and development of language led to the differentiation of man from all other forms of animal life. Without this form of thought-communication and preservation man would never have achieved any higher degree of cerebration than the anthropoid ape. 2. Having characteristics of a human, usually in terms of shape or appearance. 3. Having characteristics of an ape.
Word: anthropoid Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἀνθρωποειδής (anthrōpoeidḗs). By surface analysis, anthrop- + -oid. Pronunciation: /ˈænθɹəpɔɪd/ 1. An anthropoid animal. Example: The tribe of anthropoids over which Kerchak ruled with an iron hand and bared fangs, numbered some six or eight families, each family consisting of an adult male with his females and their young, numbering in all some sixty or seventy apes. Example: Here and there a little group of shattered Indians marked where one of the anthropoids had turned to bay, and sold his life dearly.
Word: rollback Part of Speech: noun Etymology: The noun is a deverbal from roll back. The verb is a back-formation from the noun despite being redundant to roll back. 1. A return to a prior state by undoing some operation, especially of policy or price changes. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The mining industry also had a hand in two other rollbacks. One was a decision to withdraw a Clinton rule that reduced by 80 percent the permissible standard for arsenic in drinking water. Example: A bidder that knows it may acquire power at a lower price if it withdraws demand early will be more inclined to do so than a bidder that knows it cannot cause a price rollback. 2. A return to a prior state by undoing some operation, especially of policy or price changes. Labels: countable, uncountable 3. A return to a prior state by undoing some operation, especially of policy or price changes. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Near-synonyms: reversion, revert (sometimes synonymous) 4. The situation where a rollercoaster fails to reach the top of a hill and instead rolls backward. Labels: countable, uncountable 5. A form of flatbed truck adapted or designed specifically to carry other vehicles, for use in recovery (wrecking, salvage) or for transporting. Labels: countable, informal, uncountable Example: Near-synonym: tow truck (loosely often synonymous) 6. The strategy of forcing a change in the major policies of a state, usually by replacing its ruling regime, or by totally annihilating an enemy's armed forces and occupying the country, as was done in World War II to Italy, Germany, and Japan. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: During the 1990s the Pope, who played such a central role in the rollback of communism, was one of the few international figures who could be heard speaking out against the new capitalist order. Example: Politically, Brzezinski was a centrist, or conservative, Democrat. He criticised both the Eisenhower administration’s “rollback” policy towards communism in Europe, and the Nixon-Kissinger detente. 7. An uncommanded reduction in the thrust of a jet engine. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The data was examined with respect to oil pressure. This showed that both the left and right engines' oil pressure generally follow each other until the start of the final acceleration, which resulted in first the right and then the left engines rolling back. The left engine oil pressure rose, as expected, as the engine accelerated: the right engine pressure, however, started to decrease, even though the engine was also accelerating prior to its rollback. Whilst, this observation, on the right engine, was based on only a few data points, it can be inferred that this was due to an oil temperature increase at, or close to, the start of the final acceleration. However, the loss of QAR data so close to the left engine rollback meant that it was not possible to draw a similar conclusion for the left engine.
Word: rollback Part of Speech: verb Etymology: The noun is a deverbal from roll back. The verb is a back-formation from the noun despite being redundant to roll back. 1. To return to the previous state. Labels: transitive Example: The server is unstable, we need to rollback the changes. 2. To reduce thrust without having been commanded to do so. Labels: intransitive Example: The first test involved placing the restriction immediately upstream of the FOHE. As it was known that the engine would almost certainly rollback during the first acceleration attempt, only the fourth accident acceleration was attempted: the rollback occurred as predicted. Testing was also conducted with the restriction at the LP pump inlet, with the rollback also occurring as predicted during the fourth acceleration.
Word: commit point Part of Speech: noun 1. In a DBMS, a point in time at which all updates to a database, or group of records in a database, are guaranteed to have been written to disk, and the journal or log records of that action have also been so committed. Future updates may be undone to that point if necessary.
Word: fall of wicket Part of Speech: noun 1. The side's total score when a particular batsman was out. Example: The second fall of wicket was 250 runs.
Word: arrangement Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd Proto-Italic *ad Proto-Italic *ad- Latin ad- Old French a- Proto-Indo-European *(H)rek-der. Proto-Celtic *reketi Gaulish *rekosbor.? Proto-Indo-European *h₃reǵ-der. Proto-Germanic *rinkanąder. Proto-Germanic *rankaz Frankish *rankbor.? Vulgar Latin *rencus Old French reng Proto-Italic *-āzi ▲ Latin -ereinflu. Latin -āre Old French -ier Old French rengier Old French arangier French arranger Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥ Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥tom Proto-Italic *-mentom Latin -mentum Old French -ment Middle French -ment French -ment French arrangementbor. English arrangement From French arrangement. Morphologically arrange + -ment. Pronunciation: /əˈɹeɪnd͡ʒmənt/ 1. The act of arranging. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. The manner of being arranged. Labels: countable, uncountable 3. A collection of things that have been arranged. Labels: countable, uncountable 4. A particular way in which items are organized. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The single-imaging optic of the mammalian eye offers some distinct visual advantages. Such lenses can take in photons from a wide range of angles, increasing light sensitivity. They also have high spatial resolution, resolving incoming images in minute detail. It’s therefore not surprising that most cameras mimic this arrangement. 5. Preparations for some undertaking. Labels: countable, in-plural, often, uncountable 6. An agreement. Labels: countable, uncountable 7. An adaptation of a piece of music for other instruments, or in another style. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: solemn Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English solempne, solemne (“performed with religious ceremony or reverence; devoted to religious observances, sacred; ceremonious, formal; of a vow: made under a religious sanction, binding; religious celebration, celebration of a feast day; famous, well-known; important; grand, imposing; awe-inspiring, impressive; grave, serious; dignified; enunciated or held formally”) [and other forms], from Old French solempne, solemne (“serious, solemn”) [and other forms], or from its etymon Late Latin sōlempnis, sōlennis, from Latin sōlemnis, from sollemnis (“appointed, established, fixed; common, customary, ordinary, ritual, traditional, usual; ceremonial, religious, solemn; festive; annual, yearly”) [and other forms]. The further etymology is uncertain; sollus (“entire, whole”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *solh₂- (“whole”)) + epulum (“banquet, feast”) (in the sense of a ritual; perhaps ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₁ed- (“to eat”)) has been suggested. Pronunciation: /ˈsɒləm/, /ˈsɑləm/ 1. Of or pertaining to religious ceremonies and rites; (generally) religious in nature; sacred. Labels: specifically 2. Characterized by or performed with appropriate or great ceremony or formality. Labels: broadly Example: Whereas the accentuated linearism, the angular stylization of the folds, the rhythmical course of the outlining and the solemn frontality conjoined with an air of regality in the pose seem to recall the formal repertory of the Corbolinus Master and his group […] 3. Deeply serious and sombre; grave. Labels: broadly 4. Inspiring serious feelings or thoughts; sombrely impressive. Labels: broadly 5. Cheerless, gloomy, sombre. Labels: broadly, obsolete
Word: drizzle Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Perhaps a back-formation from dryseling, a dissimilated variant of Middle English drysning (“a falling of dew”), from Northumbrian Old English drysnan (“to extinguish”), related to Old English drēosan (“to fall, to decline”), making it cognate to modern English droze and drowse. Compare also dialectal Swedish drösla. Pronunciation: /ˈdɹɪzəl/, [ˈdɹɪzl̩] 1. To rain lightly. Labels: impersonal Example: We had planned a picnic for Joe's birthday, but it ended up drizzling all day. 2. To shed slowly in minute drops or particles. Labels: ambitransitive Example: And from mine eyes the drizling teares descend, As on your boughes the ysicles depend. Example: When the sun sets, the air doth drizzle dew; But for the sunset of my brother’s son It rains downright. 3. To pour slowly and evenly, especially oil or honey in cooking. Labels: transitive Example: The recipe says to toss the salad and then drizzle olive oil on it. 4. To cover by pouring in this manner. Labels: transitive Example: The recipe says to toss the salad and then drizzle it in olive oil. 5. To urinate. Labels: slang Example: She'll be right back, had to drizzle before we leave. 6. To carry out parfilage, the process of unravelling. Labels: dated Example: She found that all those ladies who did not play at cards occupied their fingers with parfilage.[...] Here, the work was called drizzling. Ladies begged their friends to give them pieces of the gold lace used on uniforms and the gold tassels of sword-belts, they picked out the metal threads, and by selling these they realised considerable sums. Prince Leopold himself drizzled continually[...]
Word: drizzle Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Perhaps a back-formation from dryseling, a dissimilated variant of Middle English drysning (“a falling of dew”), from Northumbrian Old English drysnan (“to extinguish”), related to Old English drēosan (“to fall, to decline”), making it cognate to modern English droze and drowse. Compare also dialectal Swedish drösla. Pronunciation: /ˈdɹɪzəl/, [ˈdɹɪzl̩] 1. Light rain. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Up here, it's a 'dreich' day with steady drizzle. Deep drainage channels either side of the track are already more like streams: Rannoch Moor is a wet place. 2. Very small, numerous, and uniformly dispersed water drops, mist, or sprinkle. Unlike fog droplets, drizzle falls to the ground. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: No longer pouring, the rain outside slowed down to a faint drizzle. 3. Water. Labels: countable, slang, uncountable Example: Stop drinking all of my drizzle! 4. Something that is drizzled. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The warm apple tart, made to order, had a definitively crisp shell. Its filling of apples was tender and sweet, and the drizzle of caramel rum sauce added sophistication. Example: Thick shavings of Parmesan were plentiful, but the drizzle of “white truffle oil” promised on the menu had been forgotten. 5. A cake onto which icing, honey or syrup has been drizzled in an artistic manner. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The rest of the day is spent trying to concentrate on ingredient labels, ordering supplies, baking some fairy cakes for a hen party and two lemon drizzles, one for a new baby and one for an old dear's birthday.
Word: reverence Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English reverence (noun) and reverencen (verb), from Old French reverence and Latin reverentia, from Latin revereor (“to stand in awe, respect, revere”), from re- + vereor, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *wer- (“to cover, heed, notice”). Pronunciation: /ˈɹɛv.ə.ɹəns/, /ˈɹɛv.ɹəns/ 1. Veneration; profound awe and respect, normally in a sacred context. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Professional hunters and trackers die too, in the pursuit of dangerous animals every year. Stones and his client voice reverence for what they call “fair chase”: an ethical distinction observed in certain sporting circles in which the quarry is felt to have a sporting chance of survival. 2. An act of showing respect, such as a bow. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: August 2, 1758, Oliver Goldsmith, A Letter from a Traveller Make twenty reverences upon receiving […] about twopence. 3. The state of being revered. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: When discords, and quarrels, and factions, are carried openly and audaciously, it is a sign the reverence of government is lost. 4. A form of address for some members of the clergy. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Your Reverence 5. That which deserves or exacts manifestations of reverence; reverend character; dignity; state. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Thou hast so wrong'd mine innocent child and me That I am forced to lay my reverence by.