nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: schema Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Latin schēma, from Ancient Greek σχῆμα (skhêma, “form, shape”). Doublet of scheme. Pronunciation: /ˈskiːmə/, /ˈskimə/ 1. An outline or image universally applicable to a general conception, under which it is likely to be presented to the mind (for example, a body schema). 2. A formal description of the structure of a database: the names of the tables, the names of the columns of each table, and the data type and other attributes of each column. Example: The database schema defines how the tables are organized. 3. A formal description of data, data types, and data file structures, such as XML schemas for XML files. 4. A formula in the metalanguage of an axiomatic system, in which one or more schematic variables appear, which stand for any term or subformula of the system, which may or may not be required to satisfy certain conditions. 5. A monastic habit in the Greek Orthodox Church.
Word: schist Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From French schiste, from Latin schistos lapis (“the stone that is easy to split”), from Ancient Greek σχιστός (skhistós, “splittable”), from σχίζω (skhízō, “to split”). Pronunciation: /ʃɪst/ 1. Any of a variety of coarse-grained crystalline metamorphic rocks with a foliated structure that allows easy division into slabs or slates. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Although it shows under the microscope traces of the original gabbro structure and of the original gabbro minerals, no one would hesitate from a microscopical examination to class it with the schists. Example: 1915, Charles Will Wright, Geology and Ore Deposits of Copper Mountain and Kasaan Peninsula, Alaska, US Geological Survey, Professional Paper 87, page 29, Narrow bands of schist are interstratified with these limestones, and in turn narrow beds of limestone are interstratified with the schists.
Word: scoria Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Inherited from Middle English, from Latin scōria, from Ancient Greek σκωρία (skōría), from σκῶρ (skôr, “dung”). Pronunciation: /ˈskɔː.ɹi.ə/, /ˈskoɹ.i.ə/ 1. The slag or dross that remains after the smelting of metal from an ore. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The like stuff is in Anacharsis: hot metal; full of scoriae, which should and could have been smelted out, but which will not. 2. Rough masses of rock formed by solidified lava, and which can be found around a volcano's crater. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: To the south lay broken shapes of scoria in a lava bed as far as the eye could see. Example: An excellent guidebook by Drs Kilburn and McGuire of University College London reveals that these unpromising pieces of debris are scoria and lithic fragments of the March 1944 eruption.
Word: scoter Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Uncertain. Pronunciation: /ˈskəʊ.tə/, /ˈskoʊ.tɚ/ 1. Any one of several species of northern sea ducks of the genus Melanitta. Example: When I went birdwatching, I saw lots of scoters.
Word: scrim Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Attested since the end of the 18th century. Origin unknown. In one of the earliest mentions, "The Statistical Account of Scotland", 1793, by John Sinclair, page 593, we read in a paragraph devoted to weavers: "Besides these, they are now much employed in working a thin kind of coarse linen called Silesias, vulgarly Scrims, whereof each piece is 27 or 30 inches broad". Pronunciation: /skɹɪm/ 1. A kind of light cotton or linen fabric, often woven in openwork patterns, used for curtains, etc,. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. A large military scarf, usually camouflage coloured and used for concealment when not used as a scarf. Labels: countable, uncountable 3. A woven, nonwoven or knitted fabric composed of continuous strands of material used for reinforcing or strengthening membranes. Labels: countable, uncountable 4. A theater drop that appears opaque when a scene in front is lighted and transparent or translucent when a scene in back is lighted. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Mummified mannequins dangling above the set, illuminated from within, were a heavy-handed touch, but the designer George Tsypin’s translucent scrims and painted drops beautifully conveyed the passage of sun-blasted days and bone-chilling nights on the edge of civilization. 5. A sheet of gauze etc. used to reduce the intensity of light. Labels: countable, uncountable 6. Thin canvas glued on the inside of panels to prevent shrinking, checking, etc. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: scrim Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Attested since the end of the 18th century. Origin unknown. In one of the earliest mentions, "The Statistical Account of Scotland", 1793, by John Sinclair, page 593, we read in a paragraph devoted to weavers: "Besides these, they are now much employed in working a thin kind of coarse linen called Silesias, vulgarly Scrims, whereof each piece is 27 or 30 inches broad". Pronunciation: /skɹɪm/ 1. To use a scrim.
Word: scrim Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From scrimmage. Pronunciation: /skɹɪm/ 1. A practice match between one or more organized teams usually in preparation for a more competitive format, such as a tournament. Labels: Internet Example: As a team, the players decided to focus less on streaming (a major source of income) and more on in-house scrims, VOD review and practice, hoping to become a better team.
Word: scrim Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From scrimmage. Pronunciation: /skɹɪm/ 1. To participate in a scrim. Labels: Internet Example: Accusations of him drinking instead of scrimming with the team, not attending practices at all and playing guitar instead of scrimming surfaced.
Word: scutum Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Latin scūtum (“shield”). Doublet of escudo, scudo, scute, and écu. Pronunciation: /ˈskjuːtəm/ 1. An oblong shield made of boards or wickerwork covered with leather, with sometimes an iron rim; carried chiefly by the heavily armed infantry of the Roman army. Labels: Roman, historical 2. A scute. 3. A shield-like protection, such as the scutum protecting the back of a hard tick (cf. alloscutum, conscutum). Example: A tick's eye, if present, is a mere roundish lucent area at the margin of the scutum about opposite the second coxa. 4. One of the two lower valves of the operculum of a barnacle. 5. The kneecap.
Word: secant Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin secāns, present participle of secō (“to cut”). Pronunciation: /ˈsiːkənt/ 1. A straight line that intersects a curve at two or more points. 2. In a right triangle, the reciprocal of the cosine of an angle. Symbol: sec
Word: secant Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin secāns, present participle of secō (“to cut”). Pronunciation: /ˈsiːkənt/ 1. That cuts or divides. Labels: not-comparable
Word: seidel Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from German Seidel (“beer mug or a serving of beer of about a third of a liter”). Pronunciation: /ˈzaɪd(ə)l/, /ˈsaɪdl̩/, /ˈzaɪdl̩/ 1. A large beer mug or tankard, especially one with a lid. Example: Others, I swear, crossed themselves at least mentally, and whispered a prayerish aside into their seidels.
Word: sen Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From a syncopation of Middle English selven, selfen, variants of selfe, self. More at self. Pronunciation: /sɛn/ 1. Self. Labels: East-Midlands, Yorkshire Example: "Hear all, see all, say nowt. Eyt all, sup all, pay nowt. An if ivver tha does owt fer nowt, mek sure tha does it fer thi sen."
Word: sen Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 銭(せん) (sen). Pronunciation: /sɛn/ 1. A unit of Japanese currency, worth one hundredth of a yen. 2. A coin of this value. Example: Before leaving the Kyndam I had bought in exchange what I thought to be enough yens and sens to see me through.
Word: sen Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Indonesian sen, from Dutch cent, from Old French cent (“hundred”). See further etymology at cent. Pronunciation: /sɛn/ 1. A unit of Indonesian currency, worth one hundredth of a rupiah.
Word: sen Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Malay sen, from English cent. See further etymology at cent. Pronunciation: /sɛn/ 1. A unit of Malaysian currency, worth one hundredth of a ringgit. 2. A coin of this value.
Word: sen Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Thai เส้น (sên). Pronunciation: /sɛn/ 1. A unit of length equal 20 wa, 40 meters. Labels: uncountable
Word: sepal Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From French sépale, from New Latin sepalum. Pronunciation: /ˈsɛp(ə)l/, /ˈsiːp(ə)l/ 1. One of the component parts of the calyx, particularly when such components are not fused into a single structure. Example: When the sepals are distinct, or separate from each other, the calyx is said to be polysepalous. Example: The sepal and the petal are essentially leaf-like in form and anatomy but generally simpler in detailed structure than a foliage leaf.
Word: sepoy Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Portuguese sipae, from Urdu سِپاہی (sipāhī) / Hindi सिपाही (sipāhī), from Classical Persian سِپَاهِی (sipāhī, “soldier, horseman”), from سِپَاه (sipāh, “army”). Doublet of spahi and sipahi. Pronunciation: /ˈsiːˌpɔɪ/, /sɪˈpɔɪ/ 1. A native soldier of the East Indies, employed in the service of a European colonial power, notably the British India army (first under the British-chartered East India Company, later in the crown colony), but also France and Portugal. Labels: historical Example: If our door were in the hands of the Sepoys the place must fall, and the women and children be treated as they were in Cawnpore. Example: They proved to be the wives of a body of sepoys, also from the 5th Regiment of Bombay Native Infantry; the sepoys had perished, and their families been enslaved, when their pattamar had been captured by the Qawasim some months before. 2. The holder of an infantry enlisted rank equivalent to private in other countries. Labels: India, Nepal, Pakistan
Word: septic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Ancient Greek σηπτικός (sēptikós, “characterized by putridity”), from σηπτός (sēptós), from σήπω (sḗpō). Pronunciation: /ˈsep.tɪ̝k/, [ˈsep.tʰɪ̝k], /ˈsɛp.tɪk/, [ˈsɛp.tʰɪk] 1. Of or pertaining to sepsis. 2. Causing sepsis or putrefaction. 3. Of or pertaining to sewage or the disposal of sewage. Example: septic tank Example: a septic system
Word: septic Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Ancient Greek σηπτικός (sēptikós, “characterized by putridity”), from σηπτός (sēptós), from σήπω (sḗpō). Pronunciation: /ˈsep.tɪ̝k/, [ˈsep.tʰɪ̝k], /ˈsɛp.tɪk/, [ˈsɛp.tʰɪk] 1. A substance that causes sepsis or putrefaction. Example: 1750, John Pringle, Further Experiments on Substances Resisting Putrefaction, in 1809, Charles Hutton, George Shaw, Richard Pearson (editors), The Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Volume X: 1750—1755, page 86, But, in the prosecution of this subject, he had met with very few real septics; and found many substances, commonly accounted such, of a quite opposite nature. 2. A person who has sepsis. Labels: dated Example: Acid-base balance data revealed moderately abnormal metabolic balance for both septics and nonseptics (in either direction) with normal respiratory balance or mild alkalosis. 3. A septic tank; a system for the disposal of sewage into a septic tank, a septic system. Example: The question is whether there are any spatial differences in how septics impact water quality, and whether these spatial variations should be considered when regulating septic improvement or removal.
Word: septic Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin septem (“seven”) + -ic. Pronunciation: /ˈsep.tɪ̝k/, [ˈsep.tʰɪ̝k], /ˈsɛp.tɪk/, [ˈsɛp.tʰɪk] 1. A mathematical object (function, curve, surface, etc.) of degree seven. Example: Enriques states that it is possible to construct a family of septics with a singular curve of degree 7 and genus 4 having a triple point that degenerates to the above configuration[…]. Example: Now consider the two septics C = U⁷ᵢ₌₁Cᵢ, D = U⁷ᵢ₌₁Dᵢ and note that for i = 1,2,3,4,5,6 the lines Cᵢ and Dᵢ are parallel, so that the intersection of two septics S' consists of 6⁶^([sic]) + 6 + 1 = 43 points and it is the singular set of a foliation of degree 6.
Word: septic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin septem (“seven”) + -ic. Pronunciation: /ˈsep.tɪ̝k/, [ˈsep.tʰɪ̝k], /ˈsɛp.tɪk/, [ˈsɛp.tʰɪk] 1. Of the seventh degree or order. Labels: not-comparable
Word: septic Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Short form of Cockney rhyming slang septic tank (“Yank”). Pronunciation: /ˈsep.tɪ̝k/, [ˈsep.tʰɪ̝k], /ˈsɛp.tɪk/, [ˈsɛp.tʰɪk] 1. An American, a Yank. Labels: Australia, New-Zealand, UK, ethnic, slang, slur Example: Typical septic. Can't understand why the rest of the world thinks he's a fuck-knuckle. Example: “Didn′t enjoy the septics,” he says jokingly about the Americans.
Word: serine Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Old Chinese 絲 (*sə)der.? Ancient Greek σήρ (sḗr) Proto-Indo-European *-kos Proto-Hellenic *-kos Ancient Greek -κός (-kós) Ancient Greek -ῐκός (-ĭkós) Ancient Greek σηρῐκός (sērĭkós)bor. Latin sēricusder. English serine From Latin sericus (“silken”). The compound was first obtained from silk protein, a particularly rich source, in 1865. See also serge. Pronunciation: /ˈsɪə(ɹ)iːn/ 1. A nonessential amino acid, CH₂OH.CH(NH₂)COOH, found in most animal proteins, notably silk. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: serum Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ser- Proto-Indo-European *sér-o-der. Proto-Italic *serom Latin serumder. English serum From Latin serum (“whey”). Cognates include French sérum, Spanish suero, Italian siere, siero, Portuguese soro. Doublet of suero. Pronunciation: /ˈsɪəɹəm/, /ˈsiːɹəm/, /ˈsɪɹəm/, /ˈsiɹəm/ 1. Ellipsis of blood serum. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, ellipsis, uncountable 2. Blood serum used as a blood product, in the practice of medicine: blood serum from the tissues of immunized animals (human or nonhuman), containing antibodies and used to transfer immunity to another individual (human or nonhuman). Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Near-synonym: antiserum 3. A watery liquid from animal tissue, especially one that moistens the surface of serous membranes or that is exuded by such membranes when they become inflamed, such as in edema or a blister. Labels: countable, uncountable 4. The watery portion of certain other animal fluids, such as milk; whey. Labels: countable, uncountable 5. A skincare product of varying consistencies with a high concentration of one or more active ingredients, for a targeted purpose, such as preventing acne, repairing sun damage, or moisturizing. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: servo Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Clipping of servomotor. Pronunciation: /ˈsɜː.vəʊ/, /ˈsɝ.voʊ/ 1. A servomechanism. Example: A Lockheed Type 6 remote servo adds a 1.9 multiplier to the pedal pressures and, at about £140, is rather cheaper than all the Girling single line remote servos I′ve seen advertised. Example: If you are using Futaba servos with the application, make sure that you change the data values accordingly. 2. A servomechanism.
Word: servo Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Clipping of servomotor. Pronunciation: /ˈsɜː.vəʊ/, /ˈsɝ.voʊ/ 1. To control by means of servocontrol
Word: servo Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Clipping of service station + -o. Pronunciation: /ˈsɜː.vəʊ/, /ˈsɝ.voʊ/ 1. A service station, being a place to buy petrol for cars etc., as well as various convenience items, with or without actual car service facilities. Labels: Australia, New-Zealand Example: Two hours later Susan pulled the Pajero off the road onto the floodlit apron of the servo at the end of the Bowen bypass. Example: Crude oil is purchased in US dollars, so the price of the petrol at your local servo is heavily influenced by the rate of exchange between the greenback and the Aussie dollar.
Word: shad Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English shadde, from Old English sceadd, possibly from Celtic (compare Scottish Gaelic sgadan (“herring”), Welsh ysgadan) or from Scandinavian/North Germanic (compare dialectal Norwegian skadd (“small whitefish”), Old Norse skata (“kind of fish”)), but the order of borrowing is unclear and the ultimate origin of these words is obscure. Pronunciation: /ʃæd/ 1. Any one of several species of food fishes that make up the genus Alosa in the family Clupeidae, to which the herrings also belong; river herring. Example: Each river had its village and its iron bridge that the train crossed with a blast of its whistle, and the girls bathing in the icy water leaped like shad as it passed, unsettling travelers with their fleeting breasts. 2. Any bluefish of the species Pomatomus saltatrix. Labels: South-Africa
Word: shalom Part of Speech: intj Etymology: Borrowed from Hebrew שָׁלוֹם (šālóm, “peace, well-being; Hello, good-bye”). Doublet of salaam, the same word via Arabic. Pronunciation: /ʃɑːˈloʊm/, /ʃəˈləʊm/ 1. A traditional Jewish greeting or farewell. Labels: Judaism
Word: shalom Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Hebrew שָׁלוֹם (šālóm, “peace, well-being; Hello, good-bye”). Doublet of salaam, the same word via Arabic. Pronunciation: /ʃɑːˈloʊm/, /ʃəˈləʊm/ 1. The traditional Jewish greeting of "shalom". Labels: countable Example: He exchanged shaloms with a group of young people coming out of the synagogue and turned left toward a corner. 2. Peace. Labels: Judaism, uncountable Example: In Hebrew, bonai shalom means “builders of peace,” and the congregation welcomes both Jews and non-Jews to participate in all aspects of the community.
Word: shalom Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Borrowed from Hebrew שָׁלוֹם (šālóm, “peace, well-being; Hello, good-bye”). Doublet of salaam, the same word via Arabic. Pronunciation: /ʃɑːˈloʊm/, /ʃəˈləʊm/ 1. To greet somebody with "shalom".
Word: shaw Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Old English sċeaga, scaga. Cognate with Old Norse skógr (“forest, wood”), whence Danish skov (“forest”). Doublet of scaw. Pronunciation: /ʃɔː/, /ʃɔ/, /ʃɑ/ 1. A thicket; a small wood or grove. Labels: dated, dialectal Example: All this herd sire Lamorak / and on the morne sir lamorak took his hors and rode vnto the forest / and there he mette with two knyghtes houynge vnder the wood shawe Example: Thenne said sire kay I requyre you lete vs preue this aduenture / I shal not fayle you said sir Gaherys / and soo they rode that tyme tyl a lake / that was that tyme called the peryllous lake / And there they abode vnder the shawe of the wood 2. The leaves and tops of vegetables, especially potatoes and turnips. Labels: Scotland Example: Up here the hills were brave with the beauty and the heat of it, but the hayfield was still all a crackling dryness and in the potato park beyond the biggings the shaws drooped red and rusty already.
Word: shaw Part of Speech: intj Etymology: From an onomatopoeic/gibberishlike origin from Hollow Knight and its character Hornet while fighting her, and occasionally she plays one of multiple voice clips. Pronunciation: /ʃɔː/, /ʃɔ/, /ʃɑ/ 1. A kind of battle cry or warning. Labels: slang 2. Censored spelling of shit.
Word: shay Part of Speech: noun Etymology: A back-formation from chaise (originally from French), with the /z/ of that word taken as the plural ending -s. Pronunciation: /ʃeɪ/ 1. A chaise. Labels: archaic Example: The poſt-ſhay ſhall be at the door by ſix o'clock in the morning; and if Miſs Fanny does not get into it, vvhy I vvill, and ſo there's an end of the matter. Example: Master sent me over with the shay-cart, to carry your luggage up to the house. He’d ha’ sent some saddle-horses, but he thought you’d rather walk, being a cold day.
Word: sheave Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English, from a Germanic base akin to German Scheibe, late Old Norse skífa (“slice”), all ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *skey- (“to split”). For more see shive. Pronunciation: /ʃiːv/ 1. A wheel having a groove in the rim for a rope to work in, and set in a block, mast, or similar; the wheel of a pulley. Example: To an exceptional degree the duties on these inclines have been passed on from father to son; many a boy has begun his working life in oiling the sheaves and, after passing through every grade, has reached the age of retirement in the responsible position of brakesman. 2. A sliding scutcheon for covering a keyhole.
Word: sheave Part of Speech: verb Etymology: See sheaf. Pronunciation: /ʃiːv/ 1. To gather and bind into a sheaf. Example: From him did forty million serfs (...) receive Rich freeborn lifelong land, whereon to sheave Their country's harvest.
Word: shill Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Unknown; attested as verb 1914, as noun 1916. Perhaps an abbreviation of shillaber, attested 1913. The word entered English via carny, originally denoting a carnival worker who pretends to be a member of the audience in an attempt to elicit interest in an attraction. Speculatively an extended form of German Schieber (“black marketeer, profiteer”) via *shi-la-ber. There are some suggestions that it originates in the surname Shilaber or Shillibeer, especially George Shillibeer, but proposed origins are dubious as the word is first attested in North America in the 20th century, while proposed models are 19th century British. American humorist Benjamin Penhallow Shillaber (1814–1890) was known to write under the name Mrs. Ruth Partington to lend credibility to some of his ideas. This is one more possible origin of the word, although there is no specific evidence supporting a connection. Pronunciation: /ʃɪl/ 1. A person paid to endorse a product while pretending to be impartial. Example: carnival barkers and their shills, fleecing the rubes Example: Witnesses have testified that Jim Jones (like a few other professional faith-healers) used shills part of the time […] 2. Any person enthusiastically endorsing a product; especially, one who is getting paid for the endorsement. Labels: derogatory Example: On the screen, there was that quack again, playing the shill for yet another drug company. Example: Meanwhile, an influence operation by Iranian shill accounts began amplifying commentary critical of the war almost immediately after the first US strikes on Iran. 3. An accomplice at a confidence trick during an auction or gambling game, such as an accomplice of the seller who bids to drive up the price. Example: Near-synonyms: inside man, potted plant (contextually synonymous) Example: Sniping is necessary because if you bid before the last minute it just gives the shills more time to screw you over. 4. A house player in a casino. Example: There may even be a casino shill sitting adjacent to you. Normally, the casino shills are gorgeous women, and sometimes men, so enjoy the scenery.
Word: shill Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Unknown; attested as verb 1914, as noun 1916. Perhaps an abbreviation of shillaber, attested 1913. The word entered English via carny, originally denoting a carnival worker who pretends to be a member of the audience in an attempt to elicit interest in an attraction. Speculatively an extended form of German Schieber (“black marketeer, profiteer”) via *shi-la-ber. There are some suggestions that it originates in the surname Shilaber or Shillibeer, especially George Shillibeer, but proposed origins are dubious as the word is first attested in North America in the 20th century, while proposed models are 19th century British. American humorist Benjamin Penhallow Shillaber (1814–1890) was known to write under the name Mrs. Ruth Partington to lend credibility to some of his ideas. This is one more possible origin of the word, although there is no specific evidence supporting a connection. Pronunciation: /ʃɪl/ 1. To promote or endorse in return for payment, especially dishonestly; sometimes extended sarcastically even to those not paid but strongly biased in favor. Labels: derogatory, intransitive, transitive Example: That contractor seems to be shilling for a certain brand of building materials. Example: That contractor seems to be shilling that specific epoxy.
Word: shill Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ʃɪl/ 1. To put under cover; to sheal.
Word: shill Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ʃɪl/ 1. To shell. Labels: UK, dialectal, obsolete
Word: shim Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Unknown; from Kent. Originally a piece of iron attached to a plow; sense of “thin piece of wood” from 1723, sense of “thin piece of material used for alignment or support” from 1860. Pronunciation: /ʃɪm/ 1. A wedge. 2. A thin piece of material, sometimes tapered, used for alignment or support. Example: Near-synonym: shimstock (uncountable) Example: The second adjustment [to a door that keeps swinging open] will require the screws to be loosened, and a shim or packing piece pushed behind the hinge to bring it into line. 3. A small library that transparently intercepts and modifies calls to an API, usually for compatibility purposes. Example: Shims intercept Win32 API calls from legacy applications, as defined by system administrators, and then modify the call before passing the code to Windows for execution. 4. A kind of shallowly cutting plow used in tillage to break the ground and clear it of weeds. 5. A small metal device used to pick open a lock. 6. A thin device inserted into a card reader by a criminal to facilitate fraud.
Word: shim Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Unknown; from Kent. Originally a piece of iron attached to a plow; sense of “thin piece of wood” from 1723, sense of “thin piece of material used for alignment or support” from 1860. Pronunciation: /ʃɪm/ 1. To fit one or more shims to a piece of machinery or other assembly; to adjust (something) by using shims. Labels: ambitransitive 2. To adjust the homogeneity of a magnetic field (after the mechanical devices once used for the purpose). 3. To intercept and modify calls to (an API), usually for compatibility purposes. Labels: transitive 4. To attack a point-of-sale card reader with a shim. Labels: ambitransitive
Word: shim Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Blend of she + him. Pronunciation: /ʃɪm/ 1. A transsexual person, especially a trans woman; (loosely) a drag queen or transvestite. Labels: derogatory, informal, often Example: He — or "Shim" (she/him), as film director John Waters called the actor Divine — was as much a paradoxical as a perverse fellow. Example: "We call him shim— short for 'she-him.' 2. A person characterised by both male and female traits, or by ambiguous male-female traits; a hermaphrodite. Labels: derogatory, informal, often Example: […] that I was a hermaphrodite, and that things would probably be getting much, much worse as other "parts" of me began to grow manly and I made the full transformation into a "shim."
Word: shiv Part of Speech: noun Etymology: First attested 1915. From chive, chieve, chife, chiv (“knife”), from Romani chive, chiv, chivvomengro (“knife, dagger, blade”). Pronunciation: /ʃɪv/ 1. A knife, especially a makeshift one fashioned from something not normally used as a weapon (like a plastic spoon or a toothbrush). Labels: countable, slang Example: It's perhaps fitting that I write this introduction in jail—that graduate school of survival. Here you learn how to use toothpaste as glue, fashion a shiv out of a spoon and build intricate communication networks. Example: Mr. Simpson finished “If I Did It” with the help of a ghostwriter, but after a public outcry, the book was shelved, and the woman who had agreed to publish it lost her job. “Basically, I got the shiv,” Ms. Regan said in a phone interview this week. 2. A particular woody by-product of processing flax or hemp. Labels: uncountable
Word: shiv Part of Speech: verb Etymology: First attested 1915. From chive, chieve, chife, chiv (“knife”), from Romani chive, chiv, chivvomengro (“knife, dagger, blade”). Pronunciation: /ʃɪv/ 1. To stab (someone) with a shiv. Labels: slang, transitive Example: Anyway, that's how Jimmie came to be shivved and left to bleed out in the shower. 2. To stab (someone) with anything not normally used as a stabbing weapon. Labels: broadly, slang, transitive
Word: shoji Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 障子 (shōji). 1. A door or partition consisting of a wooden frame covered in rice paper, used in traditional Japanese architecture.
Word: sial Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Coined by Eduard Suess in 1909, in Das Antlitz der Erde, as a blend of translingual Si (silicon) + Al (aluminum). 1. The rocks rich in silicon and aluminum that form the upper layer of the earth's crust, which lies beneath all continental landmasses. Labels: uncountable
Word: sial Part of Speech: particle Etymology: Borrowed from Malay sial. 1. Alternative form of sia. Labels: Manglish, Singlish, alt-of, alternative
Word: sib Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English sib, from Old English sibb (“related, akin, sib”), from Proto-Germanic *sibjaz (“related”), from Proto-Indo-European *sebʰ-, *swebʰ- (“one's own”). Cognate with West Frisian besibbe (“related”), Middle Dutch sibbe (“related”), Middle Low German sibbe (“related”), Middle High German sippe (“related”), Icelandic sifi (“related”). Pronunciation: /sɪb/ 1. Having kinship or relationship; related by same-bloodedness; kindred. Example: […] they are sibber to you than ever Miss Innes was or will be; and if like to bid me, […] Example: seeing that his Majesty is "sibber to him than all the brothers and sons he has in the world." So far, James Haig had played his part with consummate skill. 2. Akin (to); similar (to). Example: […] we are so much the sibber to Christ that we suffer; […] Example: 1701. June 19. Dewar of Lassody against Scott of Spencerfield's Factor and Creditors. […]; and that creditors seemed to be much sibber to these annualrents than the factors.
Word: sib Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English sib, sibbe, from Old English sibb (“relationship; gossip; friendliness, kindness; love, friendship, peace, concord, unity, tranquility; peace of mind; a relative, kinsman, kinswoman”), from Proto-West Germanic *sibbju, from Proto-Germanic *sibjō (“kinship”), from Proto-Indo-European *sebʰ-, *swebʰ- (“one's own”). Cognate with West Frisian sibbe (“relative, family member”), Dutch sibbe (“sib”), German Sippe (“tribe, clan”), Icelandic sifjar (“in-laws”), Latin suus (“one's own”). Pronunciation: /sɪb/ 1. Kindred; kin; kinsmen; a body of persons related by blood in any degree. 2. A kinsman; a blood relation; a relative, near or remote; one closely allied to another; an intimate companion. Example: But she got up to go, and Domenico obeyed me too in mock meekness, making himself sib and coeval to Hortense, submissive to frowning elder brother, something incestuous in it. 3. A sibling, brother or sister (irrespective of gender) 4. Any group of animals or plants sharing a corresponding genetic relation 5. A group of individuals unilaterally descended from a single (real or postulated) common ancestor
Word: sib Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English *sibben, *sibbien, from Old English sibbian (“to make peace; rejoice”), from Proto-Germanic *sibjōną (“to reconcile”), Proto-Indo-European *sebʰ-, *swebʰ- (“one's own”). Cognate with German sippen (“to be in relationship with, become related to”). Pronunciation: /sɪb/ 1. To bring into relation; establish a relationship between; make friendly; reconcile. Labels: transitive
Word: sib Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From the abbreviation SIB, or self-injurious behavior, a behavior found in autism. Pronunciation: /sɪb/ 1. To engage in repetitive behaviors such as eye-poking, skin-picking, hand-biting, or head-banging. Labels: intransitive
Word: sibyl Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin Sibylla, from Ancient Greek Σίβυλλα (Síbulla). Pronunciation: /ˈsɪ.bəl/, [ˈsɪ.bɫ̩] 1. A pagan female oracle or prophetess, especially the Cumaean sibyl. Example: A Sybill that had numbred in the world The Sun to courſe, two hundred compaſſes, In her Prophetticke furie ſow'd the Worke: Example: "Are you very anxious," asked he, "to consult the sibyl?" "Nay," replied Francesea; "I want faith." "You will," replied he, "nevertheless be amused with Madame de I'Hôpital's tact; she knows enough of the history of the individuals around to give a shrewd guess at the favourite fantasy of each, and that it will be successful is the summing up of her prophecy. She tells each what he wishes, and so obtains an easy belief."
Word: sifter Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From sift + -er. Pronunciation: /ˈsɪftɚ/ 1. A tool for sifting, especially one for powdered cooking ingredients. Example: Near-synonym: sieve 2. One who sifts. Labels: rare Example: He was employed as a sifter. 3. Any lamellirostral bird, as a duck or goose, so called because it sifts or strains its food from the water and mud by means of the lamellae of the beak.
Word: silage Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Alteration (probably by influence of silo) of ensilage (1881), itself from French ensilage, from ensiler (“put in a silo”), from Spanish ensilar. Pronunciation: /ˈsaɪlɪd͡ʒ/ 1. Fermented green forage fodder stored in an airtight silo or clamp. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: Compared to the corn silages, the sweetclover silages are much higher in digestible crude protein, but lower in total digestible nutrients.
Word: silage Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Alteration (probably by influence of silo) of ensilage (1881), itself from French ensilage, from ensiler (“put in a silo”), from Spanish ensilar. Pronunciation: /ˈsaɪlɪd͡ʒ/ 1. To ensile.
Word: silane Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈsʌɪleɪn/, /ˈsɪleɪn/ 1. Any of a group of silicon hydrides that are analogous to alkanes (the paraffin hydrocarbons); especially the parent compound SiH₄. 2. Monosilane (SiH₄). 3. Any organic derivative of monosilane.
Word: silt Part of Speech: noun Etymology: PIE word *sḗh₂l From Middle English silte, cilte, cylte, perhaps from Middle English silen ("to filter; strain"; equivalent to sile + -t), or cognate with Norwegian and Danish sylt (“salt marsh”), Middle Low German sulte (“salt-marsh”), German Sülze (“meat in aspic”), ultimately from Proto-Germanic *sultijō (“salty water; brine”). Related to Old English sealt (“salt”). Pronunciation: /sɪlt/ 1. Mud or fine earth deposited from running or standing water. Labels: uncountable Example: A large tube is then followed over several silt banks to surface after a total dive of 200 m in a large passage containing an active streamway – The San Agustin Way. 5 m before the passage surfaces another line junction is passed, ... 2. Any material with similar physical characteristics, regardless of its origins or transport. Labels: broadly, uncountable 3. A particle from 3.9 to 62.5 microns in diameter, following the Wentworth scale. Labels: countable Example: Above the lower headcut, phreatophytic mesquite and little leaf sumac hug the banks, drawing pendulate water from the silts remaining from former marsh deposits and sending long taproots into channel stores. Example: The gravels, initially deposited by surf-zone processes during the Pleistocene low stands in this area were drowned by quartzose sands, and then the prodeltaic silts and clays deposited by the seaward prograding-feather edge of the Holocene Orange Delta were subsequently integrated into the delta-front by bioturbation.
Word: silt Part of Speech: verb Etymology: PIE word *sḗh₂l From Middle English silte, cilte, cylte, perhaps from Middle English silen ("to filter; strain"; equivalent to sile + -t), or cognate with Norwegian and Danish sylt (“salt marsh”), Middle Low German sulte (“salt-marsh”), German Sülze (“meat in aspic”), ultimately from Proto-Germanic *sultijō (“salty water; brine”). Related to Old English sealt (“salt”). Pronunciation: /sɪlt/ 1. To clog or fill with silt. Labels: transitive 2. To become clogged with silt. Labels: intransitive Example: Subject to flooding by the six small rivers coming together just west of the city, the main river below the city has long been shallow and subject to silting. The Communists have both maintained the earlier pattern of dredging the river, and have built a bypass flood canal around the city on the south side to relieve flood pressures. Though dredging can keep the river navigable for small ships, a new artificial port, Sinkang, able to take 10,000 ton ships at all times, was created at T'ang-ku. This is kept open for about two months during winter by icebreakers. Example: They are city-dwellers, men whose lives pass in the shadows of buildings, whose lungs are silted with coalsmoke, and few will ever cross the sea. 3. To flow through crevices; to percolate. Labels: ambitransitive
Word: sima Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From the Ancient Greek σιμός (simós, “bent upwards”). 1. The upturned edge of a roof which acts as a gutter; a cyma.
Word: sima Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Coined by Eduard Suess in 1909, in Das Antlitz der Erde, as a blend of silicon + magnesium. 1. The lower layer of the earth's outer crust that underlies the sial and is rich in silica, iron, and magnesium. Labels: uncountable
Word: simar Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from French simarre (“type of robe”), from Italian cimarra, zimarra. Doublet of chimer. 1. A woman's loose, long dress or robe; sometimes specifically, an undergarment or chemise. Labels: archaic, historical Example: [T]heir beautiful tresses were braided and incensed; and they were wrapped in symars whiter than alabaster. Example: [T]he profusion of her sable tresses, which, each arranged in its own spiral of twisted curls, fell down upon as much of a snow-white neck and bosom as a simarre of the richest Persian silk, […] 2. A type of ecclesiastical vestment, similar to a cassock. 3. A light covering; a cloak or mantle. Labels: obsolete
Word: sinter Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From German Sinter. Doublet of cinder. Pronunciation: /ˈsɪntə/, /ˈsɪntəɹ/ 1. An alluvial sediment deposited by a mineral spring. Example: That water at a high temperature can hold quartz in solution is well illustrated by the deposits of silicious sinter, thrown down by thermal springs, […] Example: It has steaming lakes, pools, and streams, healing baths and springs, acidulous basins of emerald, opal, and orange, and tinted terraces of sinter. 2. A mass formed by sintering. Example: Consider a copper sinter material with spherical sinter particles in an early stage of the sintering process, see Fig. 3.5(a). 3. A mixture of iron ore and fluxes added to a blast furnace. Example: A combination of fully and partly automatic working provides speed, efficiency and manpower economy in unloading coal, home ore, foreign ore and coke and concentrates from incoming wagons and loading outgoing wagons for despatch to the company's Ebbw works with export ore and sinter.
Word: sinter Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From German Sinter. Doublet of cinder. Pronunciation: /ˈsɪntə/, /ˈsɪntəɹ/ 1. To heat a compacted powder mass to form a hardened mass. Example: Most, if not all, metals may be sintered. Example: A properly made, fully sintered and fully annealed metal clay piece should be able to stand up to any traditional metalsmithing technique.
Word: sire Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English sire, from Old French sire, the nominative singular of seignor; from Latin senior, from senex. Doublet of seigneur, seignior, senhor, senior, señor, senyor, signore, and sir. Cognate with French monsieur. Pronunciation: /saɪə(ɹ)/ 1. A lord, master, or other person in authority, most commonly used vocatively: formerly in speaking to elders and superiors, later only when addressing a sovereign. 2. A male animal that has fathered a particular offspring (especially used of domestic animals and/or in biological research). 3. A father; the head of a family; the husband. Labels: obsolete Example: He but a Duke, would haue his Sonne a King, / And raiſe his iſſue like a louing Sire. Example: Sometimes, also, he reproached himself, for abandoning those abodes where his father had dwelt. “Who knows,” said he to himself, “whether the shades of the departed are allowed to pursue, every where, the objects of their affection? Perhaps it is only permitted them to wander about the spot where their ashes repose! Perhaps in this moment does the spirit of my sire regret the absence of his son, while distance prevents my hearing his voice, exerted to recall me.[”] 4. A creator; a maker; an author; an originator. Labels: obsolete Example: Most musical of mourners, weep again! / Lament anew, Urania!—He died, / Who was the sire of an immortal strain, […] 5. The vampire who turned another person. Example: There is a toxin in a vampire’s fangs that will infect its victim when the sire drinks deeply and fully of their blood. Example: Ever since Antonio’s escape from his sire in 1942, he had never been tempted to return to the vampire fold.
Word: sire Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English sire, from Old French sire, the nominative singular of seignor; from Latin senior, from senex. Doublet of seigneur, seignior, senhor, senior, señor, senyor, signore, and sir. Cognate with French monsieur. Pronunciation: /saɪə(ɹ)/ 1. To father; to beget. Labels: transitive Example: In these travels, my father sired thirteen children in all, four boys and nine girls. 2. To turn (another person) into a vampire. Labels: transitive Example: “Do you think they were wannabes, then? Groupies who found a willing vamp to sire them?” Example: He wondered if she regretted siring him. Or marrying him.
Word: sisal Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Named after Sisal, Yucatán. Pronunciation: /ˈsaɪsəl/ 1. A Central American plant, Agave sisalana, cultivated for its sword-shaped leaves that yield fibers used for rope. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. The fibre of the plant. Labels: countable, uncountable 3. A sisal mat. Labels: countable, rare, uncountable Example: Our bedding consisted of a single sisal or straw mat.
Word: siskin Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From dialectal German Sisschen, Zeischen, diminutive form of Middle High German zīsec, apparently ultimately from Proto-Slavic *čižь (compare e.g. Polish czyżyk). Pronunciation: /ˈsɪskɪn/ 1. A small green and yellow European finch, Carduelis spinus spinus or Carduelis spinus, now Spinus spinus. Example: I sat there on a bench in dappled shade, beside an aviary full of brightly feathered finches and siskins fluttering about. Example: Many of these classic methods are still used, with some modern improvements. For example, with the aid of special microphones and automated sound detection software, ornithologists recently reported […] that pine siskins (Spinus pinus) undergo an irregular, nomadic type of nocturnal migration. 2. Any of various similar birds in subfamily Carduelinae, principally in the genus Spinus.
Word: situs Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Latin situs (“position, site”). Doublet of site and sitio. Pronunciation: /ˈsaɪtəs/ 1. The position, especially the usual, normal position, of a body part or part of a plant. 2. The method in which the parts of a plant are arranged. 3. The location of a property as used for taxation or other legal purposes. 4. The portion of an address comprising the street number and the street name, such as 3912 Park Drive.
Word: skeet Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Pseudo-archaic alteration of shoot, perhaps with reference to Old Norse skjóta; compare Scots skite (“to dart, to shoot”). The name for a form of trapshooting is attested from the 1920s, see quotations below. Senses related to ejaculation of semen likely derive from this, but compare also squirt, skite, or scoot. The word skeet is attested in reference to working class persons in US English from the 19th century, or the Newfoundland and Labrador regionalism may derive from other terms such as skite or skeeter; see quotation below. Pronunciation: /skiːt/ 1. A form of trapshooting using clay targets to simulate birds in flight. Labels: uncountable Example: THE ARTICLE on the sport of Skeet that appeared in the June issue of WILD LIFE described the layout of the Skeet field, installation of the traps, and the rules and regulations for Skeet shooting. Example: The longer I shoot skeet the more convinced I am that it is the greatest game ever devised for the users of shotguns. Skeet has brought home to shooters the need of properly fitting guns and the benefit of straighter stocks 2. A hand consisting of a 9, a 5, a 2, and two other cards lower than 9. Labels: countable 3. The ejaculation of semen. Labels: slang, uncountable 4. A young working-class person who may be loud, disruptive and poorly educated. Labels: Newfoundland, countable, slang Example: A small part at least of the language associated with younger speakers originates in local words that appear to have undergone local meaning change. A good example is skeet. This term may be related to skite which in neighbouring Prince Edward Island can mean a 'young scoundrel' (Pratt 1988), or to the American terms skeester/skeeter, definied by the Dictionary of American Regional English (Cassidy and Hall 1985) as 'rascal, rogue'. If older NLE speakers know this word at all, they would probably use it in this sense. Among younger speakers, however, it has much the same meaning as such British slang terms as chav, charver or scally, or even the North American white trash.
Word: skeet Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Pseudo-archaic alteration of shoot, perhaps with reference to Old Norse skjóta; compare Scots skite (“to dart, to shoot”). The name for a form of trapshooting is attested from the 1920s, see quotations below. Senses related to ejaculation of semen likely derive from this, but compare also squirt, skite, or scoot. The word skeet is attested in reference to working class persons in US English from the 19th century, or the Newfoundland and Labrador regionalism may derive from other terms such as skite or skeeter; see quotation below. Pronunciation: /skiːt/ 1. To shoot or spray. Labels: ambitransitive Example: ‘Aoow! You skeeted the water right in my ear. It’s busted my eardrum. I can’t even hear.’ ‘Gimme here. Let me skeet some.’ Example: When her left hook connected with his nose, blood skeeted out and stained her top. 2. To ejaculate. Labels: slang, vulgar Example: To the window (To the window). To the wall (To the wall). Till the sweat drop down my balls (My balls). Till all these bitches crawl (Crawl). Till all skeet skeet motherfucker (Motherfucker). Example: "Good, then," I said, my joint about to skeet like a water pistol. I was surprised too. I was known for having supreme dick control, and I could usually last a lot longer than this.
Word: skeet Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Unknown. Compare Icelandic skeið (“spoon”), from Old Norse skeið (“a sheath”). Attested from the 15th century; see quotation below. Pronunciation: /skiːt/ 1. A long-handled shovel or scoop. Labels: obsolete Example: My werk & labour schal be to tellyn what is þis wose of þe vij. dedly synnes, & how ʒe schul caste out þis wose, ffirst wyth with a skeet of contricyoun, and after wyth a skauell of confession, and þanne schouelyn out clene þe crummys, wyth þe schouele of satisfaccyoun. 2. A scoop with a long handle, used to wash the sides of a vessel and formerly to wet the sails or deck. Example: The best method for wetting the after sails is with a garden syringe or small engine[…] For the head sails a skeet made of tough ash, having a good long handle ; the head or skeeting part curves scimitar fashion, to be about three and a half feet in length, and scooped out an inch and a half in width by two and a half inches in depth
Word: skeet Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Unknown. Compare Icelandic skeið (“spoon”), from Old Norse skeið (“a sheath”). Attested from the 15th century; see quotation below. Pronunciation: /skiːt/ 1. To wet the sails or deck of a vessel. Labels: dated Example: It is a customary rule in all sailing matches that the sails of competing vessels should not be skeeted (i.e. wetted), except when the vessel is on a wind
Word: skeet Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Uncertain. Compare Manx skeetagh (“nosy”, adverb). Compare also English peek (“to look slyly; a quick glance”, verb or noun) or skit (“to caper; to be skittish”, verb). Pronunciation: /skiːt/ 1. news or gossip Labels: uncountable
Word: skeet Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Uncertain. Compare Manx skeetagh (“nosy”, adverb). Compare also English peek (“to look slyly; a quick glance”, verb or noun) or skit (“to caper; to be skittish”, verb). Pronunciation: /skiːt/ 1. to spy through the front windows of somebody else's house