nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: stranger Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰ Proto-Indo-European *-s Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰs Proto-Indo-European *-teros Proto-Indo-European *h₁eǵʰsteros Proto-Italic *eksteros Latin exter Latin extrā Proto-Indo-European *-nós Proto-Italic *-nos Latin -nus Latin -ānus Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Indo-European *-éyos Proto-Italic *-ejos Proto-Italic *-eos Latin -eus Latin -āneus Latin extrāneusder. Old French estrange Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzios Latin -āriusnom. Latin -ārius Old French -ier Old French estrangierbor. Middle English straunger English stranger From Middle English straunger, from Old French estrangier (“foreign, alien”), from estrange, from Latin extraneus (“foreign, external”) (whence also English estrange), from extra (“outside of”). Cognate with French étranger (“foreigner, stranger”) and Spanish extranjero (“foreigner”). Displaced native Old English fremde (literally “strange or unfamiliar person”). Pronunciation: /ˈstɹeɪnd͡ʒə(ɹ)/, /ˈstɹeɪnd͡ʒɚ/ 1. To estrange; to alienate. Labels: obsolete, transitive Example: Dowered with our curse, and strangered with our oath
Word: carnal Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English carnal, from Old French charnel, from Late Latin carnālis (“fleshy”), from oblique stem of Latin carō, carnis (“meat, flesh”) + -ālis (whence -al). Pronunciation: /ˈkɑɹnəl/ 1. Relating to the physical and especially sexual appetites or activities. Example: At the town of Mendes, in the principal temple, there was a living male goat, with which, if the statement of Herodotus is to be accepted, naked female worshippers actually had carnal intercourse. 2. Worldly or earthly; temporal. 3. Of or relating to the body or flesh.
Word: Waray-Waray Part of Speech: name Etymology: Borrowed from Waray-Waray Waray-Waray, from Waray. Pronunciation: /ˌwa.ɾaɪ̯ ˈwa.ɾaɪ̯/ 1. A central Philippine Visayan language from the islands of Samar, Biliran, and northeast Leyte.
Word: redirect Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From re- + direct. 1. To give new direction to, change the direction of. Labels: transitive Example: redirect output to /dev/null Example: The furious reaction in Germany after 200,000 protective masks destined for Berlin mysteriously went missing in Thailand and were allegedly redirected to the US is a case in point. There is no solid proof Trump approved the heist. But it’s the sort of thing he would do – or so people believe. 2. To instruct to go, inquire, elsewhere. Labels: transitive 3. To substitute an address or pointer to a new location. Labels: transitive 4. To send to a new location by substituting an address or pointer. Example: You will be redirected shortly.
Word: redirect Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From re- + direct. 1. A redirection. 2. An examination of a witness, following cross-examination, by the party that conducted the direct examination, re-examination. 3. The substitution of one address or identifier for another one, so as to navigate to a different location. Example: On July 8, 2025 Glitch project hosting and user profiles will be shut down. Your Glitch dashboard will remain available as usual through the end of 2025, with access to download all of your code for your projects, as well as a new feature to set up redirects for your project subdomains so your URLs keep working.
Word: shank Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Inherited from Middle English sceonke, schank, schanke, shanke, schonke, sconke, sschanke, from Old English sċanca, sċeanca, sċeonca (“leg”), from Proto-West Germanic *skankō, from Proto-Germanic *skankô (“shank; thigh”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)keng- (“to hobble, limp; to tilt”). Cognates Cognate with West Frisian skonk (“leg”), Dutch schenkel (“shank”), German and Luxembourgish Schenkel (“thigh”), Danish skank (“shank; leg”), Norwegian Nynorsk skank, skonk (“thigh; foot”), Swedish skank, skånk (“leg”); also Cornish kamm (“pace, step”), Irish céim (“pace, step”), Manx keim (“degree, pace, stage, step”), Scottish Gaelic ceum (“pace, step”), Welsh cam (“pace, step”), Greek σκάω (skáo), σκάζω (skázo, “to burst, explode”), Bulgarian and Macedonian шега́ (šegá, “jest, joke; prank”). Pronunciation: /ˈʃæŋk/, [ˈʃʰæŋk], /ˈʃeɪ̯ŋk/, [ˈʃʰeɪ̯ŋk], /ˈʃɛ̃ŋk/ 1. To travel on foot. Labels: Ulster, archaic 2. To stab, especially with an improvised blade. Labels: slang 3. To remove another's trousers, especially in jest; to depants. Labels: slang 4. To misstrike the ball with the part of the club head that connects to the shaft. Labels: transitive 5. To hit or kick the ball in an unintended direction. Labels: transitive Example: Marouane Chamakh then spurned a great chance to kill the game off when he ran onto Andrey Arshavin's lofted through ball but shanked his shot horribly across the face of goal. 6. To fall off, as a leaf, flower, or capsule, on account of disease affecting the supporting footstalk; usually followed by off. Labels: intransitive Example: the gerrnens of these swelled, and on four out of the six I have now got fine pods, above 1% inch in length, with the seeds externally visible; whereas the flower stalks of the many other flowers all shanked off. 7. To provide (a button) with a shank (loop forming an eye). Labels: transitive Example: The system is suitable for shanking all kind of sewn buttons (jackets, coats, blouses, shirts, trousers). 8. To apply the shank to a shoe, during the process of manufacturing it. Example: I take those metal shanks, slide the backs of them in glue and make them lie down on the shoe-bottoms, […] Last week they ran a contest to see which shankers shanked fastest. I'm not embarrassed to say I beat them all.
Word: shank Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Inherited from Middle English sceonke, schank, schanke, shanke, schonke, sconke, sschanke, from Old English sċanca, sċeanca, sċeonca (“leg”), from Proto-West Germanic *skankō, from Proto-Germanic *skankô (“shank; thigh”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)keng- (“to hobble, limp; to tilt”). Cognates Cognate with West Frisian skonk (“leg”), Dutch schenkel (“shank”), German and Luxembourgish Schenkel (“thigh”), Danish skank (“shank; leg”), Norwegian Nynorsk skank, skonk (“thigh; foot”), Swedish skank, skånk (“leg”); also Cornish kamm (“pace, step”), Irish céim (“pace, step”), Manx keim (“degree, pace, stage, step”), Scottish Gaelic ceum (“pace, step”), Welsh cam (“pace, step”), Greek σκάω (skáo), σκάζω (skázo, “to burst, explode”), Bulgarian and Macedonian шега́ (šegá, “jest, joke; prank”). Pronunciation: /ˈʃæŋk/, [ˈʃʰæŋk], /ˈʃeɪ̯ŋk/, [ˈʃʰeɪ̯ŋk], /ˈʃɛ̃ŋk/ 1. Bad. Labels: slang
Word: crimper Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From crimp + -er (agent noun suffix) or, for the climbing hold, + -er (patient suffix). Pronunciation: /ˈkɹɪmpɚ/, /ˈkɹɪmpə(ɹ)/ 1. A small climbing hold that can only be held with the tips of a person's fingers. 2. A person who crimps when climbing. 3. A hairdresser. Labels: UK 4. A device for giving hair a wavy appearance. 5. Someone who adds pleats to fabric for clothes, drapery, etc. 6. A tool used to crimp, to join two pieces of metal. 7. An instrument for crimping or ruffling pastry when making a pie. 8. A curved board or frame over which the upper of a boot or shoe is stretched to the required shape. 9. A machine for crimping or ruffling textile fabrics.
Word: jug hold Part of Speech: noun 1. A large climbing hold that is big enough to wrap a hand around, similar to the handle of a jug.
Word: dyno Part of Speech: noun 1. A dynamic climbing move or jump to reach a hold that cannot otherwise be reached. 2. A dynamometer. Labels: informal
Word: grigri Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From grigri, and possibly related to French grimper (“to climb”). 1. A belay device that incorporates an assisted braking system, trademark of French company Petzl.
Word: grigri Part of Speech: noun Etymology: See gris-gris. 1. Alternative spelling of gris-gris. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: downclimb Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From down + climb. 1. To climb down a climbing route, often for endurance training.
Word: dresser Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English dressure, dressor, dressour, a borrowing from Old French drecëur, drecëure, from the verb dresser. Pronunciation: /ˈdɹɛsə/ 1. An item of kitchen furniture, like a cabinet with shelves, for storing crockery or utensils. Labels: UK Example: The pewter plates on the dresser / Caught and reflected the flame, as shields of armies the sunshine. Example: But it went through her like a flash of hot fire when, in passing, he lurched against the dresser, setting the tins rattling, and clutched at the white pot knobs for support. 2. An item of bedroom furniture, like a low chest of drawers (bureau), often with a mirror. Labels: US
Word: dresser Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English dresser, equivalent to dress + -er. Pronunciation: /ˈdɹɛsə/ 1. One who dresses in a particular way. Example: He's a very snappy dresser. 2. A wardrobe assistant (who helps actors put on their costume). Example: The leading lady also went out of her way to congratulate the young neophyte effusively on her triumph—and then slapped her unfortunate dresser on very insufficient provocation; […] 3. A servant to royalty etc. who helps them with tasks such as dressing. Example: In the Queen's coach are the Queen's stateroom and bathroom, the Royal Family lounge, lady-in-waiting's compartment and bathroom, and dresser's room. Example: The former royal butler Guy Hunting recalls the uphill task faced by the Princess's dresser, Isobel Mathieson, each morning. 'During her many years with Princess Margaret, the biggest challenge Isobel faced each day was separating the royal body from its bed. 4. A surgeon's assistant who helps to dress wounds etc. Example: On the very day that I had come to this conclusion, I was standing at the Criterion Bar, when someone tapped me on the shoulder, and turning round I recognized young Stamford, who had been a dresser under me at Bart's. Example: Boatmen and passengers — a Chinese assistant manager and a Tamil hospital dresser whom Crabbe had met before, two Malays of occupation undefined — helped Crabbe into the launch, but Vythilingam did not move, did not even seem to see. 5. A football hooligan who wears designer clothing; a casual. Labels: UK Example: Because we were the first by a long way to turn trendy, we're still the only dressers in Scotland and our enemies were easily recognised: denims and DM's, skinheads and parkas. 6. A mechanical device used in grain mills for bolting. 7. A mechanical device used in ore mills for dressing (e.g., comminution, sorting, sifting). Example: ore dresser 8. A table or bench on which meat and other things are dressed, or prepared for use. Labels: dated 9. A kind of pick for shaping large coal. 10. One who dresses or prepares stone. Example: At the dressing sheds the slate-dresser saws the blocks into various sizes and then splits the smaller units into sheets.
Word: scullery Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Inherited from Middle English squylerie, from Anglo-Norman squillerie (“office of the servant in charge of plates”), from escuele (“bowl, dish”), from Latin scutella. Pronunciation: /ˈskʌləɹi/ 1. A small room, next to a kitchen, where washing up and other domestic chores are done. Labels: archaic Example: Opposite the signal the line on one side is shut in by a high blank wall; on the other side are houses, but coming below the butt-end of a scullery the signal does not happen to be visible from any road or from any window. Example: With the ring of light from his lantern dancing from side to side, he lurched across the yard, kicked off his boots at the back door, drew himself a last glass of beer from the barrel in the scullery, and made his way up to bed, where Mrs. Jones was already snoring.
Word: refer Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English referren, from Old French referer, from Latin referre. The noun (used in journalism) is from the verb. Doublet of relate. See also infer, collate and confer, delate and defer, as well as prelate and prefer among others. Pronunciation: /ɹɪˈfɜː/, /ɹɪˈfɝ/, /ɹɪˈfɛr/, /ɹəˈføː/, /ɹɪˈfeː/ 1. To direct the attention of (someone toward something). Labels: transitive Example: The shop assistant referred me to the help desk on ground floor. 2. To submit to (another person or group) for consideration; to send or direct elsewhere. Labels: transitive Example: He referred the matter to the principal. Example: The doctor may refer patients to a psychiatrist. 3. To place in or under by a mental or rational process; to assign to, as a class, a cause, source, a motive, reason, or ground of explanation. Labels: transitive Example: He referred the phenomena to electrical disturbances. 4. To mention (something); to direct attention (to something). Labels: intransitive Example: To explain the problem, the teacher referred to an example in another textbook. Example: Her counsel has complained of the charge of the judge, as unprecedented, an innovation on our rules of practice, misconstructive of the true meaning of the law, and referring to laws not applicable to the sale. 5. To make reference to; to be about; to relate to; to regard; to allude to. Labels: intransitive, stative Example: The recipe referred to several unusual ingredients. 6. To be referential to another element in a sentence. 7. To point to either a specific location in computer memory or to a specific object. Labels: intransitive Example: In C, the pointer obtained by &a refers to the variable a. Example: Hence, the precise number of bytes to which the pointer refers to is not known. The compiler must know the number of bytes to which a pointer refers to in order to apply dereference operation 8. To require to resit an examination. Labels: transitive Example: Smith's marks in the finals were unsatisfactory and he was referred. 9. To have the meaning of, to denote. Labels: intransitive Example: The nickname "Big Apple" refers to the city of New York. Example: In programming, a "memory leak" refers to a situation where memory is or stays unnecessarily allocated. 10. To cause (pain) to be felt elsewhere. Labels: transitive Example: Inferior head refers pain to the TMJ area and the superior head refers pain to the zygomatic area. 11. To apparently relocate; to be felt in another place than where it is actually caused. Example: Pain from the hip often refers to the knee.
Word: refer Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English referren, from Old French referer, from Latin referre. The noun (used in journalism) is from the verb. Doublet of relate. See also infer, collate and confer, delate and defer, as well as prelate and prefer among others. Pronunciation: /ˈɹiːfə/, /ˈɹifɚ/ 1. A blurb on the front page of a newspaper issue or section that refers the reader to the full story inside the issue or section by listing its slug or headline and its page number. Example: A refer on page 1 of the Tuesday, Aug. 4, 2015, edition of The Herald-News contained incorrect information about the story “Neighbors at odds over Joliet liquor license” that appeared on Page 4 of the same edition. Example: Looking at the refers on page 2, it's obvious that May became something of an accidental women's issue.
Word: scullery maid Part of Speech: noun 1. In a large house, a domestic servant, of lowest status, whose job is to wash dishes and perform other menial chores. Labels: historical
Word: status Part of Speech: noun Etymology: A learned borrowing from Latin status. A doublet of state and estate. Pronunciation: /ˈsteɪ.təs/, /ˈsteɪt.əs/, [ˈsteɪɾ.əs], /ˈstæt.əs/, [ˈstæɾ.əs] 1. A person’s condition, position or standing relative to that of others. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Superstition is highly correlated with economic status. Example: This time, there’s no great discrepancy in status; both fiancés are part of the urban, white-collar middle class. 2. Prestige or high standing. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The king has status in his kingdom, and the pauper has status within his immediate group of peers. Example: It is no secret that the military was a bastion of racism and sexism keeping blacks and women in the housekeeping and other non-status jobs. 3. A situation or state of affairs. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Near-synonym: footing Example: What's the status of the investigation? 4. The legal condition of a person or thing. Labels: countable, uncountable 5. The legal condition of a person or thing. Labels: Canada, countable, uncountable, usually Example: He is a status Indian. 6. A function of some instant messaging applications, whereby a user may post a message that appears automatically to other users, if they attempt to make contact. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: I'm just about to update my status to "busy". Example: I read your status last night / You posted that someone else was holding you tight 7. Short for status epilepticus or status asthmaticus. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, uncountable
Word: domestic servant Part of Speech: noun 1. A servant employed in a grand or middle class household.
Word: MSG Part of Speech: noun 1. Initialism of monosodium glutamate. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable Example: “We use it in drinks. We use it in desserts. We use it in savory food. It’s in almost everything. Salt, sugar and MSG – I always joke that they’re the Chinese Trinity of seasonings.” 2. Any chemically free glutamate. Labels: broadly, countable, uncountable
Word: MSG Part of Speech: name 1. Initialism of Madison Square Garden. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism Example: New Clues Point to Taylor Swift Wedding Event at M.S.G. [title]
Word: air raid Part of Speech: noun 1. An attack on a surface target by aircraft. Example: Air raids on London, which first began on an intensive scale on September 7, occasioned a certain amount of disorganisation to transport services of all kinds. Example: The L.N.E.R. locomotive damaged beyond repair in the air raid on York, on April 29, 1942, was No. 4469, Sir Ralph Wedgewood, a class "A 4" Pacific. 2. A passing-heavy offensive scheme based on a shotgun formation with four wide receivers and a single running back.
Word: external Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Late Middle English, from Medieval Latin externus (“outward, external”), from exter/exterus (“on the outside, outward”). Pronunciation: /ɪkˈstɜː.nəl/, /ɛkˈstɜː.nəl/, /ɛkˈstɜɹ.nəl/, /ɪkˈstɜɹ.nəl/, /ekˈstɜː.nəl/ 1. Outside of something; on the exterior. Example: This building has some external pipework. Example: Her virtues graced with external gifts. 2. Outside of something; on the exterior. 3. Outside of something; on the exterior. Labels: relational 4. Capable of being perceived outwardly. 5. Capable of being perceived outwardly. Example: The external circumstances are greatly different. 6. Provided by something or someone outside of the entity (object, group, company etc.) considered. Example: external authority, external force 7. Relating to or connected with foreign nations or institutions. Example: external trade or commerce; the external relations of a state or kingdom 8. Having existence independent of the mind. Example: external reality 9. For or concerning students registered with and taking the examinations of a university but not resident there. Example: external degrees 10. Not contained in the main computer. 11. Using a disk or tape drive rather than the main memory.
Word: external Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Late Middle English, from Medieval Latin externus (“outward, external”), from exter/exterus (“on the outside, outward”). Pronunciation: /ɪkˈstɜː.nəl/, /ɛkˈstɜː.nəl/, /ɛkˈstɜɹ.nəl/, /ɪkˈstɜɹ.nəl/, /ekˈstɜː.nəl/ 1. The exterior; outward features or appearances. Labels: plural-normally Example: To a non-Christian who has never experienced but only observed the externals of Christianity, it appears to be merely another spiritual system, but to a person who has left one of the other religions and embraced the Christian faith, it is most definitely The Way, and all else pales to insignificance. 2. The exterior; outward features or appearances. Labels: plural-normally Example: They had been such declared, such personal enemies, that, even in a court, it seemed wonderful how a decent external could be given to their reconciliation. Example: He was indeed a creature who by externals at all events had more in common with another genus than with that humanity among which fate had cast him, and his familiar nickname of "The Toad" crudely indicated what that species might be. 3. A variable that is defined in the source code but whose value comes from some external source.
Word: families Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of family Labels: form-of, plural
Word: fire watch Part of Speech: noun 1. The act of watching for the occurrence of fires, for example during wartime bombing raids or in forested areas in hot and dry conditions. 2. A person designated to keep a lookout for fire.
Word: Pacific Ocean Part of Speech: name Etymology: cf. Pacific. Portuguese explorer Magellan called the ocean pacífico (“peaceful”) (in c. 1519) because, after sailing through the stormy seas off Cape Horn, the expedition found calm waters. 1. An ocean, the world's largest body of water, to the east of Asia and Australasia and to the west of the Americas. Example: The Santa Barbara oil spill has environmentalists and California officials scrambling as an estimated 105,000 gallons of oil may have spilled into the Pacific Ocean and onto the Golden State’s coast. Example: In a Saturday news release, NORAD said the fighters were working to redirect the turboprop west, out over the Pacific Ocean, before it crashed on Ketron Island.
Word: pacific Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle French pacifique. Pronunciation: /pəˈsɪfɪk/ 1. Calm, peaceful. Example: The policeman on the beat moved up the avenue impressively. […] Trying doors as he went, twirling his club with many intricate and artful movements, turning now and then to cast his watchful eye adown the pacific thoroughfare, the officer, with his stalwart form and slight swagger, made a fine picture of a guardian of the peace. 2. Preferring peace by nature; avoiding violence. Example: The long-continued hostilities which had for centuries divided the south and the north divisions of the Island of Britain, had been happily terminated by the succession of the pacific James I, to the English crown. Example: "Oh, of course I'm not really in favour of hanging," admitted Mr Carlyle. "Nobody really is. But we go on hanging. Mr Drishna is a dangerous animal who for the sake of pacific animals must cease to exist. […]"
Word: Manila hemp Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Manila + hemp 1. The fibre of the abaca. Labels: uncountable
Word: asperge Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Latin aspergō (compare aspersion from the same verb). Pronunciation: /əˈspɜː(ɹ)d͡ʒ/ 1. To sprinkle. Labels: transitive Example: First let him go up to the principal Altar and asperge it on every side.
Word: asperge Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Clipping of aspergillum. Pronunciation: /əˈspɜː(ɹ)d͡ʒ/ 1. An aspergillum.
Word: canonical Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English canonycal, from Medieval Latin canōnicālis. By surface analysis, canon + -ical. Pronunciation: /kəˈnɒn.ɪ.kəl/, [kəˈnɒn.ɪ.kɫ̩], /kəˈnɑ.nɪ.kəl/, [kəˈnɑ.nɪ.kɫ̩], /kəˈnɔn.ɪ.kəl/ 1. Present in a canon, religious or otherwise. Example: The Gospel of Luke is a canonical New Testament book. Example: In a word, they were made uſe of by the immediate ſucceſſors of the Apoſtles, and many of them read in the Public Aſſemblies of Chriſtians, as Canonical Scripture, without the leaſt mark of Diſtinction, in point of Autority[…] 2. According to recognised or orthodox rules. Example: The men played golf in the most canonical way, with no local rules. Example: While bills are being brought into the House of Commons to regulate every thing, from the sweeps crying "sweep," to "emancipation, vote by ballot, and free trade," is there no county member whose "time and talents" are devoted to "domestic policy," who will bring in a bill "for the better regulation of the marriage ceremony," and put the canonical hours later in the day? 3. Stated or used in the most basic and straightforwardly applicable manner. Example: the reduction of a linear substitution to its canonical form 4. Prototypical. 5. In conformity with canon law. 6. In the form of a canon. 7. Of or pertaining to an ecclesiastical chapter. 8. In canonical form. 9. Distinguished among entities of its kind, so that it can be picked out in a way that does not depend on any arbitrary choices. Example: It turns out that ordered pairs can be defined in set theory, e.g. as (x,y)#58;#61;#92;#123;#92;#123;x,y#92;#125;,y#92;#125;. Note that in no sense is such a definition canonical. 10. Related to or part of the canon of a fictional universe; officially part of a fictional work’s established continuity. Labels: slang
Word: canonical Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English canonycal, from Medieval Latin canōnicālis. By surface analysis, canon + -ical. Pronunciation: /kəˈnɒn.ɪ.kəl/, [kəˈnɒn.ɪ.kɫ̩], /kəˈnɑ.nɪ.kəl/, [kəˈnɑ.nɪ.kɫ̩], /kəˈnɔn.ɪ.kəl/ 1. The formal robes of a priest. Labels: plural, plural-only Example: He, good man, could make but little of his solitary friend, and must many a time have been startled out of his canonicals by the strange, alien speeches which he heard. Example: Mr Altham rose, as in duty bound, in honour to a priest, and a priest who, as he dimly discerned by his canonicals, was not altogether a common one. 2. A URL presented in canonical form. Labels: Internet Example: Google advises canonicals as one of the preferred methods of treating duplicate content in your CMS.
Word: noncanonical Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From non- + canonical. 1. Not canonical. Labels: not-comparable
Word: canonic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Late Latin canonicus (“canonic”). 1. canonical
Word: mangle Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English mangelen, manglen, from Anglo-Norman mangler, mahangler, frequentative of either Old French mangonner (“to cut to pieces”) or mahaigner (“to mutilate”), of Germanic origin, for which see mayhem. Alternate etymology derives mangle from Middle English *mankelen, a frequentative form of manken (“to mutilate”), from Old English *mancian, bemancian (“to maim”). More at mank. Pronunciation: /ˈmæŋ.ɡ(ə)l/, /ˈmeɪ̯ŋ.ɡ(ə)l/, /ˈmɛ̃ŋ.ɡ(ə)l/ 1. To change, mutilate, or disfigure by cutting, tearing, rearranging, etc. Labels: transitive Example: mangled with ghastly wounds through plate and mail Example: c. 1703-20, Jonathan Swift, A Letter to a Very Young Lady on Her Marriage when they are disposed to mangle a play or a novel 2. To modify (an identifier from source code) so as to produce a unique identifier for internal use by the compiler, etc. Labels: transitive
Word: mangle Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Ca. 1700, from Dutch mangel, from Early Modern German Mangel (15th c.), enhanced form (by analogy with other tool names in -el) of Middle High German mange, from Medieval Latin manga, manganum, from Ancient Greek μάγγανον (mánganon). Doublet of mangonel. Pronunciation: /ˈmæŋ.ɡ(ə)l/, /ˈmeɪ̯ŋ.ɡ(ə)l/, /ˈmɛ̃ŋ.ɡ(ə)l/ 1. A hand-operated device with rollers, for wringing laundry. 2. The mangle attached to wringer washing machines, often called the wringer. Example: There was a bright-red plastic baby-bath, a car tyre, a rusty mangle, and something that looked like a primitive version of a washing machine.
Word: mangle Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Ca. 1700, from Dutch mangel, from Early Modern German Mangel (15th c.), enhanced form (by analogy with other tool names in -el) of Middle High German mange, from Medieval Latin manga, manganum, from Ancient Greek μάγγανον (mánganon). Doublet of mangonel. Pronunciation: /ˈmæŋ.ɡ(ə)l/, /ˈmeɪ̯ŋ.ɡ(ə)l/, /ˈmɛ̃ŋ.ɡ(ə)l/ 1. To wring laundry. Labels: archaic, transitive
Word: mangle Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish mangle, mangue, probably from an Arawak language (such as Taíno), or a Cariban language. Pronunciation: /ˈmæŋ.ɡ(ə)l/, /ˈmeɪ̯ŋ.ɡ(ə)l/, /ˈmɛ̃ŋ.ɡ(ə)l/ 1. Synonym of mangrove. Labels: Caribbean, US 2. Synonym of mangrove. Labels: Caribbean, US 3. Synonym of mangrove. Labels: Caribbean, US
Word: proximal Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *prokʷe Proto-Indo-European *prokʷism̥mos Latin proximus English -al English proximal From Latin proximus, superlative form of prope (“near, nigh”). Pronunciation: /ˈpɹɒksɪməl/ 1. Closer to the point of attachment or observation. 2. Facing toward another tooth. The proximal surfaces of a tooth are those that touch or are close to neighboring teeth. 3. Closer to the speaker.
Word: coffin Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English coffyn, from Old Northern French cofin (“sarcophagus", earlier "basket, coffer”), from Latin cophinus (“basket”), a loanword from Ancient Greek κόφινος (kóphinos, “a basket”). Doublet of coffer. Displaced native Old English þrūh. Pronunciation: /ˈkɒfɪn/, /ˈkɔfɪn/, /ˈkɑfɪn/ 1. A closed box in which the body of a dead person is placed for burial. Example: […] Passing the apple-tree blows of white and pink in the orchards, / Carrying a corpse to where it shall rest in the grave, / Night and day journeys a coffin. Example: 20 May 2018, Hadley Freeman in The Guardian, Is Meghan Markle the American the royals have needed all along? I’d always found the royals a cold proposition, Diana excepted, but the sight of that little boy, his head bent, not daring to look up at his mother’s coffin in front of him was, and remains, genuinely heartbreaking. 2. The eighth Lenormand card. 3. A casing or crust, or a mold, of pastry, as for a pie. Labels: archaic Example: Of the paste a coffin I will rear. Example: Take your mallard and put him into the iuyce of the sayde Onyons, and season him with pepper, and salte, cloues and mace, then put your Mallard into the coffin with the saide iuyce of the onyons. 4. A conical paper bag, used by grocers. Labels: obsolete Example: The smoke of this Hearbe, which they receaue at the mouth through certaine coffins, suche as the Grocers do vse to put in their Spices. 5. The hollow crust or hoof of a horse's foot, below the coronet, in which is the coffin bone. 6. A storage container for nuclear waste. 7. A combination fence obstacle where the horse jumps a set of rails, strides downhill to a ditch, and then goes back uphill to another jump.
Word: coffin Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English coffyn, from Old Northern French cofin (“sarcophagus", earlier "basket, coffer”), from Latin cophinus (“basket”), a loanword from Ancient Greek κόφινος (kóphinos, “a basket”). Doublet of coffer. Displaced native Old English þrūh. Pronunciation: /ˈkɒfɪn/, /ˈkɔfɪn/, /ˈkɑfɪn/ 1. To place in a coffin. Labels: transitive Example: Indians do not hinder the progress of their dead by embalming or tight coffining. Example: The chest in which she is coffined washes ashore and is brought to the Lord Cerimon.
Word: coffin Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Cornish koghyn (“exploratory trench”), with spelling likely influenced by etymology 1. Pronunciation: /ˈkɒfɪn/, /ˈkɔfɪn/, /ˈkɑfɪn/ 1. An exploratory trench used when first digging a mine. Labels: Cornwall, obsolete 2. A deep ditch. Labels: Cornwall, broadly
Word: oblong Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English oblong, oblonge, borrowed from Latin oblongus. Pronunciation: /ˈɒblɒŋ/, /ˈɑblɔŋ/, /ˈɑblɑŋ/, /ˈɔblɔŋ/, [ˈɔ̟blɔ̟ŋ] 1. Having a length and width that are different; not square or circular. Example: The room was quite dark. The oblong window showed the night sky pricked here and there with stars. 2. Roughly rectangular or elliptical. Example: Plant upright spreading hardy, vigorous and productive; berry, oblong, round, medium size, sweet but rather ideipid. 3. Having the horizontal axis of a page longer than the vertical; In landscape orientation. Example: Of the smaller oblong formats, none is specifically designated for music. Example: Mass cycles and motets had never been presented in small oblong format, so far as we can tell.
Word: oblong Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English oblong, oblonge, borrowed from Latin oblongus. Pronunciation: /ˈɒblɒŋ/, /ˈɑblɔŋ/, /ˈɑblɑŋ/, /ˈɔblɔŋ/, [ˈɔ̟blɔ̟ŋ] 1. Something with an oblong shape. Example: They sat at the tables—I suppose you know how they are arranged, as a sort of hollow oblong, with the auctioneer at one end and the attendant showing the coins up and down in the middle? 2. A rectangle with length and width that are different. Example: Jessamy looked round her in a puzzled way, but there was nothing to see but the pale oblong of what looked like a star-pierced sky behind the bars of the nursery window. 3. An ellipse with minor and major axes that are different.
Word: oblong Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English oblong, oblonge, borrowed from Latin oblongus. Pronunciation: /ˈɒblɒŋ/, /ˈɑblɔŋ/, /ˈɑblɑŋ/, /ˈɔblɔŋ/, [ˈɔ̟blɔ̟ŋ] 1. To extend so as to form an oblong shape. Labels: transitive Example: […]; by John Denmans hom lot on the north sid the front by a salt crek the reare to the comon which hom lot with all the upland oblonging to it conteining to about fourtie acers more or lese with about one acer & half of salt medo liing before the said house[…] Example: That the Gilbert tract, according to his opinion and the law, ought to have been oblonged up the creek. That by oblonging it across the creek, it afforded Elijah Robertson, who superintended the surveying, an opportunity of laying a warrant not located there, for himself, and thereby takes 5,000 acres. 2. To give an oblong shape to. Labels: transitive Example: A. Why, by dropping them off of cars or dropping them off of trucks or some way it would oblong them . Example: His silhouette: broad shoulders, big legs, a square face oblonged by a crest of thick hair and almost lantern jaw.
Word: prolate Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin prolatum, past participle of proferre (“to extend, lengthen”). Pronunciation: /ˈpɹəʊ.leɪt/, /pɹəʊˈleɪt/ 1. Elongated at the poles. Example: A cigar is a prolate spheroid.
Word: prolate Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Latin prolatum, past participle of proferre (“to extend, lengthen”). Pronunciation: /ˈpɹəʊ.leɪt/, /pɹəʊˈleɪt/ 1. To utter; to pronounce. Labels: obsolete, transitive Example: Prolate it right.
Word: spheroid Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Ancient Greek σφαῖρᾰ (sphaîră)bor. Latin sphaera Late Latin sphērader. Old French spherebor. Middle English spere English sphere Ancient Greek -ο- (-o-)der. Latin -o- Proto-Indo-European *weyd- Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *wéydos Proto-Hellenic *wéidos Ancient Greek εἶδος (eîdos) Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *-ēs Ancient Greek -ης (-ēs) Ancient Greek -ειδής (-eidḗs) Latin -oīdēslbor. English -oid English spheroid From sphere + -oid. 1. Of a shape similar to a squashed sphere.
Word: spheroid Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Ancient Greek σφαῖρᾰ (sphaîră)bor. Latin sphaera Late Latin sphērader. Old French spherebor. Middle English spere English sphere Ancient Greek -ο- (-o-)der. Latin -o- Proto-Indo-European *weyd- Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *wéydos Proto-Hellenic *wéidos Ancient Greek εἶδος (eîdos) Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *-ēs Ancient Greek -ης (-ēs) Ancient Greek -ειδής (-eidḗs) Latin -oīdēslbor. English -oid English spheroid From sphere + -oid. 1. A solid of revolution generated by rotating an ellipse about its major (prolate), or minor (oblate) axis. Example: UFOs are reported as being either oblate (saucer-shaped) or prolate (cigar-shaped) spheroids.
Word: solid of revolution Part of Speech: noun 1. A solid produced by taking a particular two-dimensional curve and rotating it through 360° about an axis. The curve will sweep out a surface, and the region inside the surface defines a solid. Example: A cylinder is a solid of revolution generated by rotating a rectangle about one of its axes.
Word: indoors Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From in + doors, originally two words, representing earlier within doors. Pronunciation: /ɪnˈdɔːz/, /ɪnˈdɔɹz/ 1. Inside, into, or within a building. Labels: not-comparable Example: We stayed indoors to avoid the brutal heat. Example: We went indoors when it started to rain.
Word: indoors Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From in + doors, originally two words, representing earlier within doors. Pronunciation: /ɪnˈdɔːz/, /ɪnˈdɔɹz/ 1. The interior of a building; the space inside buildings generally. Example: I prefer the indoors to the outdoors.
Word: indoor Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From (with)in + door, first attested 1711. Pronunciation: /ˈɪndɔː/, /ˈɪndoɹ/ 1. Situated in, or designed to be used in, or carried on within, the interior of a building. Labels: not-comparable Example: These fireworks are not for indoor use!
Word: outdoor Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *úd Proto-Germanic *ūt Proto-Germanic *ūt- Old English ūt- Middle English ut- English out- English door English outdoor From out- + door. Pronunciation: /aʊtˈdɔː/ 1. Situated in, designed to be used in, or carried on in the open air. Labels: not-comparable Example: A very neat old woman, still in her good outdoor coat and best beehive hat, was sitting at a polished mahogany table on whose surface there were several scored scratches so deep that a triangular piece of the veneer had come cleanly away,[…]. 2. Pertaining to charity administered or received away from, or independently from, a workhouse or other institution. Labels: not-comparable Example: Believing social policy should be directed by experts to bring about the greatest happiness of the greatest number, Benthamites judged the old Poor Law outdoor relief system a recipe for waste and idleness.
Word: outdoor Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *úd Proto-Germanic *ūt Proto-Germanic *ūt- Old English ūt- Middle English ut- English out- English door English outdoor From out- + door. Pronunciation: /aʊtˈdɔː/ 1. To publicly display a child after it has been named
Word: dashing Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English daschande, equivalent to dash + -ing. Pronunciation: /ˈdæʃɪŋ(ɡ)/ 1. Spirited, audacious and full of high spirits. 2. Chic, fashionable. Example: All heads turned as the dashing young man entered the room.
Word: dashing Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English daschande, equivalent to dash + -ing. Pronunciation: /ˈdæʃɪŋ(ɡ)/ 1. present participle and gerund of dash Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: dashing Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English dasshyng, dasshynge, equivalent to dash + -ing. Pronunciation: /ˈdæʃɪŋ(ɡ)/ 1. The action of the verb to dash. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: tourist Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *terh₁- Proto-Indo-European *-nos Proto-Indo-European *tórh₁nos Proto-Hellenic *tórnos Ancient Greek τόρνος (tórnos)bor. Latin tornus Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti Proto-Indo-European *-h₂tiinflu. Proto-Italic *-ājō Proto-Italic *-āō Latin -ō Latin tornō Old French torner Old French tourder. English tour Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō) Proto-Hellenic *-tās Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs) Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)bor. Latin -istader. Old French -istebor. Middle English -ist English -ist English tourist From tour + -ist. Doublet of turista. Pronunciation: /ˈtʊəɹɪst/, /ˈtɔːɹɪst/, /ˈtoːɹɪst/, /ˈtɵːɹɪst/, /ˈtʊɹɪst/ 1. Someone who travels for pleasure rather than for business; a leisure visitor. Example: Tourist shops are full of kitsch. Example: Sunning himself on the board steps, I saw for the first time Mr. Farquhar Fenelon Cooke. He was dressed out in broad gaiters and bright tweeds, like an English tourist, and his face might have belonged to Dagon, idol of the Philistines. 2. One who only has a superficial interest in something. Labels: derogatory Example: Marla - the big tourist. The faker. 3. An unwelcome newcomer, or appropriator, especially one who is inflammatory or uninformed, usually to seek attention, moral approval and superiority over the established hobbyists. Labels: Internet, derogatory, slang 4. A member of the visiting team in a match. Labels: informal 5. A guest user on a computer system. Labels: dated Example: This popularity was supposedly due to M.I.T.'s tolerance of "tourists" on its system. Example: The online tourists then uploaded the files to share with other BBS aficionados.
Word: tourist Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *terh₁- Proto-Indo-European *-nos Proto-Indo-European *tórh₁nos Proto-Hellenic *tórnos Ancient Greek τόρνος (tórnos)bor. Latin tornus Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti Proto-Indo-European *-h₂tiinflu. Proto-Italic *-ājō Proto-Italic *-āō Latin -ō Latin tornō Old French torner Old French tourder. English tour Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō) Proto-Hellenic *-tās Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs) Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)bor. Latin -istader. Old French -istebor. Middle English -ist English -ist English tourist From tour + -ist. Doublet of turista. Pronunciation: /ˈtʊəɹɪst/, /ˈtɔːɹɪst/, /ˈtoːɹɪst/, /ˈtɵːɹɪst/, /ˈtʊɹɪst/ 1. To travel as a tourist. Labels: intransitive Example: “You can’t go touristing anymore like you used to, but weekends away — traditionally crammed into sneaking out of work slightly early on a Friday in a dash to have some repose — now mean heading out on a Wednesday night, logging on to work and coming back Monday night,” said Tom Caton, the co-founder and chief revenue officer of AirDNA […]
Word: tourist trap Part of Speech: noun 1. An establishment, such as a shop or display, where tourists are encouraged to spend money on goods or services not necessarily of good value. Labels: derogatory Example: As for Will Deverill, less critical of Nature’s handicraft, he found the inns over-civilised; the Post and the Bräu were too fine for his taste: they had come thus far in search of solitude and Alpine wilds, and they lighted instead on a sort of miniature Grindelwald, with half-a-dozen inns, a respectable café, experienced (or in other words extortionate) guides, and a regular tourist-trap for the sale of chamois-horns and carved models of châlets. Example: For fifteen minutes they walked morosely and in silence through the steep streets where the shops are tourist-traps, alluringly baited with corals and trinkets.
Word: did not bat Part of Speech: phrase 1. Denotes a player who did not bat in an innings played by their side.
Word: DNB Part of Speech: phrase 1. Initialism of did not bat. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism 2. Initialism of draw, no bet, which means that if there’s a tie you get your money back. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism 3. Initialism of Diplomate of National Board. Labels: India, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism 4. Initialism of drum and bass. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Word: East Sussex Part of Speech: name 1. A county in south east England bordered by Kent, Surrey, West Sussex and the English Channel.
Word: West Sussex Part of Speech: name 1. A county in south-east England, bordered by East Sussex, Hampshire, Surrey and the English Channel.
Word: Greater London Part of Speech: name 1. An administrative region of England, combining the City of London and 32 London boroughs, including the City of Westminster, three Royal Boroughs and 28 London Boroughs. 2. A ceremonial county of England, combining all of the administrative region except the City of London, which is its own ceremonial county.
Word: Hereford and Worcester Part of Speech: name 1. A county in the West Midlands of England, formed from the short-lived merger of Herefordshire and Worcestershire. Labels: historical
Word: Humberside Part of Speech: name Etymology: Etymology tree English Humber Proto-Indo-European *seh₁-der. Proto-Germanic *sīdaz Proto-Germanic *sīdǭ Old English sīde Middle English side English side English -side English Humberside From Humber + -side. Pronunciation: /ˈhʌm.bə(ɹ)ˌsaɪd/ 1. A former county in northeastern England created from parts of Yorkshire and Lincolnshire. Replaced in 1996 by the East Riding of Yorkshire, North Lincolnshire and North East Lincolnshire. Labels: historical
Word: Isle of Wight Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Old English Wiht, Wihte iegland, from Proto-Celtic *Wextā, compare Welsh Ynys Wyth and Latin Vectis (c.150). Pronunciation: /ˌaɪl ə(v)ˈwaɪt/ 1. An island, county, and unitary authority off the south coast of England, in the English Channel opposite Southampton. 2. An unincorporated community, the county seat of the Isle of Wight County, Virginia, United States.
Word: Merseyside Part of Speech: name Etymology: Etymology tree English Mersey Proto-Indo-European *seh₁-der. Proto-Germanic *sīdaz Proto-Germanic *sīdǭ Old English sīde Middle English side English side English -side English Merseyside From Mersey + -side. Pronunciation: /ˈmɜː.ziˌsaɪd/, [ˈmeː.ziˌsaɪð̠] 1. A metropolitan county in northwestern England bordering Greater Manchester, Lancashire and Cheshire. Example: United were second-best for long periods as they struggled to adapt to an unfamiliar line-up and were ultimately fortunate to leave Merseyside with their unbeaten league run still intact.
Word: North Yorkshire Part of Speech: name 1. A ceremonial county in northeastern England, formed in 1974 and bordering the East Riding of Yorkshire, West Yorkshire, South Yorkshire, Lancashire, Cumbria and County Durham. 2. A unitary authority of the county of North Yorkshire, England. 3. North Riding of Yorkshire. Labels: archaic
Word: South Yorkshire Part of Speech: name 1. A metropolitan county in northeastern England bordering West Yorkshire, East Riding of Yorkshire, North Yorkshire, Lincolnshire, Derbyshire, and Nottinghamshire.
Word: Tyne and Wear Part of Speech: name Etymology: Named after the two main rivers in the county. 1. A metropolitan county in the north-east of England, bordering County Durham and Northumberland.
Word: West Yorkshire Part of Speech: name 1. A metropolitan county in northern England bordering Derbyshire, South Yorkshire, North Yorkshire, Lancashire and Greater Manchester. 2. West Riding of Yorkshire Labels: archaic
Word: East Riding of Yorkshire Part of Speech: name 1. A unitary authority and ceremonial county in the north east of England. 2. A historical division of the former county or Yorkshire England.
Word: North Riding of Yorkshire Part of Speech: name 1. A historical division of the former county of Yorkshire in England, abolished in 1974 in favor of the ceremonial county and local government district of North Yorkshire.
Word: West Riding of Yorkshire Part of Speech: name 1. A local government district and ceremonial county in the north east of England. 2. A historical division of Yorkshire.
Word: Wrexham Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Old English personal name Wryhtel + -es + Old English hamm (“water meadow”). Pronunciation: /ˈɹɛksəm/ 1. A town in Wrexham borough, in northeastern Wales. 2. A county borough in northeastern Wales, named after the town, formerly belonging to Denbighshire and Clwyd.
Word: Camden Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Old English campas (“enclosure”) + denu (“valley”). Pronunciation: /ˈkæmdən/ 1. An English habitational surname from Old English. 2. A male given name transferred from the surname, of modern usage. 3. A place name: 4. A place name: 5. A place name: 6. A place name: 7. A place name: 8. A place name: 9. A place name: 10. A place name: 11. A place name: Example: Portland also makes a good base from which to explore the rest of southern coastal Maine, from the shops of Kennebunkport to the sprawling L.L. Bean flagship store in Freeport to the charming towns of Bath, Rockland and Camden further up Route 1. 12. A place name: 13. A place name: 14. A place name: 15. A place name: 16. A place name: 17. A place name: 18. A place name: 19. A place name: 20. A place name: 21. A place name: 22. A place name: 23. A place name: 24. A place name: 25. A place name: 26. A place name: 27. A place name: