nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: vegetable Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Italic *weg-o-der.? Proto-Indo-European *weǵ- Proto-Indo-European *-yeti Proto-Indo-European *-éyeti Proto-Indo-European *woǵéyetider. Proto-Italic *wogeōder.? Latin vegeō Latin vegetus Latin vegetāre, vegetō Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlis Proto-Italic *-ðlis Latin -bilis Latin vegetābilisbor. Old French vegetablebor. Middle English vegetable English vegetable From Middle English vegetable, from Old French vegetable, from Latin vegetābilis (“able to live and grow”), derived from vegetāre (“to enliven”). Displaced Old English wyrt and ofett, whence modern wort and ovest. Related to vigil, vigour, vajra, and waker. Pronunciation: /ˈvɛd͡ʒ.tə.bəl/, [ˈvɛd͡ʒ.tə.bɫ̩], /ˈvɛd͡ʒ.ə.tə.bəl/, [ˈvɛd͡ʒ.ə.tə.bɫ̩], /ˈvɛt͡ʃ.tə.bəl/ 1. Of or relating to plants. Labels: not-comparable Example: This substance is vegetable, not mineral. Example: On an early winter afternoon, clear but not cold, when the vegetable world was a weird multitude of skeletons through whose ribs the sun shone freely, a gleaming landau came to a pause on the crest of a hill in Wessex. 2. Of or relating to vegetables. Labels: not-comparable
Word: tulip Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle French tulipe, from earlier tulipan, from Ottoman Turkish دلبند (tülbent, dülbent, “cheesecloth”), from Classical Persian دلبند (dulband, “turban”). Doublet of turban. Pronunciation: /ˈtulɪp/, /ˈtjuːlɪp/, /ˈtʃuːlɪp/ 1. A type of flowering plant, genus Tulipa. Example: "The sturdy burghers of Holland took the tulip mania so badly that single bulbs that could not flower till another year would sell for more than $2000 apiece." Example: He looked round the poor room, at the distempered walls, and the bad engravings in meretricious frames, the crinkly paper and wax flowers on the chiffonier; and he thought of a room like Father Bryan's, with panelling, with cut glass, with tulips in silver pots, such a room as he had hoped to have for his own. 2. The flower of this plant.
Word: caipirinha Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Brazilian Portuguese caipirinha (literally “little hillbilly”). Pronunciation: /ˌkaɪ.pɪˈɹiː.njə/ 1. A traditional Brazilian alcoholic drink prepared with cachaça, lime juice, sugar, and ice. Example: They thought of, I don’t know, monkeys and caipirinhas and samba.” Example: Oh, no! Oh, no! Aunt Hoda got into the caipirinha supply. Everybody, watch yourself, she gets grabby.
Word: cachaça Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Portuguese cachaça, of uncertain origin. Pronunciation: /kəˈʃɑː.sə/, /kəˈʃɑ.sə/ 1. A type of distilled spirit made from fermented sugar cane juice, popular in Brazil, used as one of the ingredients of a caipirinha. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: A line of ants heads across the table, detouring around the bottle of cachaça that is now empty. Example: Neat cachaça put fire in your belly and stilled the pangs of hunger.
Word: hand-hole Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From hand + hole. 1. A small hole in a steam boiler for the insertion of the hand in cleaning, etc.
Word: unvail Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From un- + vail. 1. Obsolete spelling of unveil. Labels: alt-of, obsolete
Word: upbar Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From up- + bar. Pronunciation: /ʌpˈbɑː(ɹ)/ 1. To fasten with a bar. Labels: rare, transitive 2. To remove the bar or bars of, as a gate; to unbar. Labels: obsolete, transitive Example: He running down , the gate to him upbar'd
Word: habit Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English habit, from Latin habitus (“condition, bearing, state, appearance, dress, attire”), from habeō (“to have, hold, keep”). Distantly related to gift. Replaced Middle English abit, from Old French abit, itself from the same Latin source. Displaced native Old English þēaw, wuna, and ġewuna. Pronunciation: /ˈhæb.ɪt/, /ˈhæb.ət/ 1. An action performed on a regular basis. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: It’s become a habit of mine to have a cup of coffee after dinner. Example: a man of very shy, retired habits 2. An action performed repeatedly and automatically, usually without awareness. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: By force of habit, he dressed for work even though it was holiday. 3. An addiction. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: kick the habit Example: He has a 10-cigar habit.
Word: habit Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English habiten, from Old French habiter, from Latin habitāre (“to dwell, abide, keep”), frequentative of habeō (“to have, hold, keep”); see have. Pronunciation: /ˈhæb.ɪt/, /ˈhæb.ət/ 1. To clothe. Labels: transitive Example: Ritson, who was a native of the bishoprick of Durham, tells us that the fairies frequented many parts of it; that they were described as being of the smallest size, and uniformly habited in green. Example: Here I began my shopping, was interviewed by dressmakers, and naturally had much to do to habit myself for civilized life again. 2. To inhabit. Labels: archaic, transitive
Word: habit Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English habiten, from Old French habiter, from Latin habitāre (“to dwell, abide, keep”), frequentative of habeō (“to have, hold, keep”); see have. Pronunciation: /ˈhæb.ɪt/, /ˈhæb.ət/ 1. A long piece of clothing worn by monks and nuns. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: It’s interesting how Catholic and Buddhist monks both wear habits. 2. A piece of clothing worn for a specific activity; a uniform. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The new riding habits of the team looked smashing! Example: Sidesaddle riding habits were prestigious tailored sportswear appropriate for the equestrian pursuits of the truly wealthy. 3. Outward appearance; attire; dress. Labels: archaic, countable, uncountable Example: Noble and milde this Perſean ſeemes to be, If outward habit Iudge the inward man. Example: Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy. 4. Form of growth or general appearance and structure of a plant or crystal. Labels: countable, form-of, uncountable
Word: habitable Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English abitable, habytable, from Middle French habitable, from Latin habitābilis (“habitable”), from habitō (“dwell, live”). By surface analysis, habit (“inhabit”) + able. Pronunciation: /ˈhæbɪtəbəl/, /ˈhabɪtəb(ə)l/ 1. Safe and comfortable, where humans, or other animals, can live; fit for habitation. Example: After we found the freshwater spring we were more confident that the place was habitable. Example: Humankind has never found any other habitable planets apart from Earth. 2. Of an astronomical object: capable of supporting, or giving rise to, life.
Word: habitat Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin habitat (“it dwells, lives”), the 3rd person singular present active indicative form of habitō (“to live or dwell”). In Linnaeus and similar authors, the geographical ranges of species were customarily denoted in Latin by a sentence beginning with "Habitat", e.g. "Habitat in Europa" ("It lives in Europe"), and it thus became the convention to refer to the geographical range as the "habitat". Compare the English derivations of exit, floruit, ignoramus, and tenet from Latin finite verbs reanalyzed as English nouns. Pronunciation: /ˈhæb.ɪ.tæt/, [ˈhæb.ɪ.tæʔ] 1. Conditions suitable for an organism or population of organisms to live. Labels: uncountable Example: This park offers important amphibian habitat and breeding area. 2. A range; a place where a species naturally occurs. Labels: countable 3. A terrestrial or aquatic area distinguished by geographic, abiotic and biotic features, whether entirely natural or semi-natural. Labels: countable Example: rights-of-way are usually perceived as disturbance zones that provide a habitat and corridor for non-native species. 4. A place in which a person lives. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: this book is just the impetus you need to clear the clutter and reorganize your habitat.
Word: habitual Part of Speech: adj Etymology: The adjective is derived from Late Middle English habitual (“of one's inherent disposition”), from Medieval Latin habituālis (“customary; habitual”), from Latin habitus (“character; disposition; habit; physical or emotional condition; attire, dress”) + -ālis (suffix forming adjectives of relationship); analysable as habit + -ual. Habitus is derived from habeō (“to have; to hold; to own; to possess”) (possibly ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *gʰeh₁bʰ- (“to grab, take”)) + -tus (suffix forming action nouns from verbs). The noun is derived from the adjective. Pronunciation: /həˈbɪ.tʃʊ.əl/, /həˈbɪ.tʃwəl/, /-tjʊ-/, /həˈbɪ.t͡ʃʊ.əl/, /həˈbɪ.t͡ʃ(w)əl/ 1. Of or relating to a habit; established as a habit; performed over and over again; recurrent, recurring. Example: Her habitual lying was the reason for my mistrust. Example: Thomas Aquinas attributeth preparation vnto free-vvill, but not conuerſion. Now this preparation hee thus coloureth, that it is indeed a furtherance to the habituall grace of cõuersion, but yet through the free aſsiſtance of God mouing vs inwardly. 2. Regular or usual. Example: Professor Franklein took his habitual seat at the conference table. Example: Our hearts are ſaid to be purified by faith; Acts 15. 9. not our lives onely in the acts of holineſſe and purity, but our heart in the habituall frame of them. 3. Of a person or thing: engaging in some behaviour as a habit or regularly. Example: He’s a habitual chain-smoker. Example: [N]o drunkard (i.e.) no Habituall, Impenitent drunkard, ſhall come into Gods Kingdome. 4. Pertaining to an action performed customarily, ordinarily, or usually. Example: In English, for instance, the Habitual Aspect (used to construction) can combine freely with Progressive Aspect, to give such forms as used to be playing. Example: The majority of South Arawak, Pareci-Xingu, and Peruvian Arawak languages have a three-fold aspect distinction: completive (completed, perfective or telic action); progressive (action/state in progress; also a durative meaning); and habitual.
Word: habitual Part of Speech: noun Etymology: The adjective is derived from Late Middle English habitual (“of one's inherent disposition”), from Medieval Latin habituālis (“customary; habitual”), from Latin habitus (“character; disposition; habit; physical or emotional condition; attire, dress”) + -ālis (suffix forming adjectives of relationship); analysable as habit + -ual. Habitus is derived from habeō (“to have; to hold; to own; to possess”) (possibly ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *gʰeh₁bʰ- (“to grab, take”)) + -tus (suffix forming action nouns from verbs). The noun is derived from the adjective. Pronunciation: /həˈbɪ.tʃʊ.əl/, /həˈbɪ.tʃwəl/, /-tjʊ-/, /həˈbɪ.t͡ʃʊ.əl/, /həˈbɪ.t͡ʃ(w)əl/ 1. One who does something habitually, such as a serial criminal offender. Labels: colloquial Example: It has been suggested that we should classify prisoners as casuals and habituals. If a casual is to be distinguished from an habitual simply by the length of his sentence, this classification would hardly answer. Example: However, in an era when legal punishment was dominated by principles of classical justice and Victorian political economy, what else could one do with the habituals other than provide for an accumulation of prison sentences: the more repeated one's crime, the longer one might be sentenced to imprisonment. 2. A construction representing something done habitually. Example: Since any situation that can be protracted sufficiently in time, or that can be iterated a sufficient number of times over a long enough period – and this means, in effect, almost any situation – can be expressed as a habitual, it follows that habituality is in principle combinable with various other aspectual values, namely those appropriate to the kind of situation that is prolonged or iterated. Example: Indeed, [Thomas] Givón (1994: 323) suggests the habitual is a 'hybrid modality', sharing some features of realis (higher assertive certainty) and some of irrealis ('lack of specific temporal reference; lack of specific evidence; …').
Word: habitually Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree English habitual Middle English -ly English -ly English habitually From habitual + -ly. Pronunciation: /həˈbɪtju.əli/, /həˈbɪt͡ʃu.əli/, /həˈbɪt͡ʃəli/ 1. By habit; in a habitual manner. Labels: not-comparable Example: He is habitually inattentive of time. 2. Occurring regularly or usually. Labels: not-comparable Example: Professor Franklein is habitually pessimistic. Example: Such recognition is a much-needed boost for Scotland's habitually busiest station.
Word: hacienda Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish hacienda. Doublet of faena and fazenda. Pronunciation: /ˌhæsiˈɛndə/, /ˌ(h)ɑsiˈɛndə/, [ɐˈsjɛn̪.d̪ɐ], [ɐˈʃɛn̪.d̪ɐ], [hɐˈsjɛn̪.d̪ɐ] 1. A large homestead in a ranch or estate, usually in places where Colonial Spanish culture has had architectural influence. Example: The hot day was over, and the light failing rapidly, when Appleby, who had just finished comida, sat by a window of the hacienda San Cristoval with an English newspaper upon his knee. Example: The writer Juan Rulfo, whose 1955 novel, “Pedro Páramo,” still stands as the central monument of modern Mexican literature, grew up in Jalisco and vividly depicted its arid, sun-blasted landscapes in his writing, while the architect Luis Barragán, who moved from Guadalajara to Mexico City in the 1930s, carried with him an appreciation for his home state’s cloisters, haciendas and humble country buildings, which he translated in his own work as austere, inscrutable volumes of stucco.
Word: hack Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Variations of hatch, heck. Pronunciation: /hæk/ 1. A board upon which the falcon's food is placed; used by extension for the state of partial freedom in which they are kept before being trained. 2. A food-rack for cattle. 3. A rack used to dry something, such as bricks, fish, or cheese. 4. A grating in a mill race.
Word: hack Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Variations of hatch, heck. Pronunciation: /hæk/ 1. To lay (bricks) on a rack to dry. 2. To keep (young hawks) in a state of partial freedom, before they are trained.
Word: hack Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Abbreviation of hackney (“an ordinary horse”), probably from place name Hackney. Pronunciation: /hæk/ 1. A horse for hire, especially one which is old and tired. Example: A cold wind, a piercing rain, and a bad road, with a worse hack (for his own horses had been knocked up), rendered more acute the misery which he, as a parted lover, was bound to feel. 2. A person, often a journalist, hired to do routine work. Example: I got by on hack work for years before I finally published my novel. Example: [W]e know how the life of any hack, legal or literary, in a curacy, or in a marching regiment, or at a merchant’s desk, is dull of routine, and tedious of description. 3. Someone who is available for hire; hireling, mercenary. Labels: derogatory 4. The driver of a taxicab (hackney cab). Labels: slang 5. A vehicle let for hire; originally, a hackney cab, now typically a taxicab. Labels: Canada, US, colloquial Example: On horse, on foot, in hacks and gilded chariots. Example: The interurban wasn't running because of the holiday, and the hacks, if there were any, would have been clustered round the Post Tavern at the other end of town. 6. A hearse. Example: 1920s, Jimmie Rodgers, Frankie and Johnny Bring out the rubber-tired buggie/Bring out the rubber-tired hack/I'm takin' my Johnny to the graveyard/But I ain't gonna bring him back 7. An untalented writer. Labels: derogatory Example: Dason is nothing but a two-bit hack. Example: He's nothing but the typical hack writer. 8. One who is professionally successful despite producing mediocre work. (Usually applied to persons in a creative field.) Labels: derogatory 9. A talented writer-for-hire, paid to put others' thoughts into felicitous language. Labels: derogatory 10. A political agitator. 11. A person who frequently canvasses for votes, either directly or by appearing to continuously act with the ulterior motive of furthering their political career. Labels: UK, derogatory 12. A writer who hires himself out for any sort of literary work; an overworked man; a drudge. Labels: obsolete Example: Here lies poor Ned Purdon, from misery freed, / Who long was a bookseller's hack. 13. A procuress. Labels: obsolete
Word: hack Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Abbreviation of hackney (“an ordinary horse”), probably from place name Hackney. Pronunciation: /hæk/ 1. To make common or cliched; to vulgarise. Labels: dated 2. To ride a horse at a regular pace; to ride on a road (as opposed to riding cross-country etc.). 3. To live the life of a drudge or hack. Labels: obsolete Example: Poor madam , now condemn'd to hack The rest of life with anxious Jack 4. To use as a hack; to let out for hire. 5. To use frequently and indiscriminately, so as to render trite and commonplace. Example: The word "remarkable" has been so hacked of late. 6. To drive a hackney cab. Example: When I was hacking in Brooklyn, I used to run him over to the Court Street restaurants, where he'd sit in Nick and Tony's Pizzeria […]
Word: hack Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Unclear. Perhaps imitative; compare hock, hawk. Alternatively, perhaps from hack (“chop; do something difficult”) via the idea of doing something (like breathing) or with difficulty. Pronunciation: /hæk/ 1. To cough noisily. Labels: intransitive Example: This cold is awful. I can't stop hacking.
Word: hack Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Unclear. Perhaps imitative; compare hock, hawk. Alternatively, perhaps from hack (“chop; do something difficult”) via the idea of doing something (like breathing) or with difficulty. Pronunciation: /hæk/ 1. A dry cough. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. A hacking; a catch in speaking; a short, broken cough. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: he speaks to this very question: which he does with so many hacks and hesitations
Word: hack Part of Speech: intj Etymology: Unclear. Perhaps imitative; compare hock, hawk. Alternatively, perhaps from hack (“chop; do something difficult”) via the idea of doing something (like breathing) or with difficulty. Pronunciation: /hæk/ 1. An onomatopoeia for coughing. Example: Haaaack... Oooooooog... A-CHOO! That was terrible.. I gotta get in shape...
Word: hack Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From hackysack. Pronunciation: /hæk/ 1. A small ball usually made of woven cotton or suede and filled with rice, sand or some other filler, for use in hackeysack.
Word: hack Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From hackysack. Pronunciation: /hæk/ 1. To play hackeysack.
Word: Galician Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree English Galicia Proto-Indo-European *-nós Proto-Italic *-nos Latin -nus Latin -ānus Old French -ainder. Middle English -an English -an English Galician From Galicia (“region in northwest Spain”) + -an. Pronunciation: /ɡəˈlɪs.i.ən/, /ɡəˈlɪʃ.ən/ 1. Of, from or relating to Galicia, Spain. Example: The subsequent oil slicks that reached the coast resulted in severe ecological and economic consequences for the Galician coast and the Bay of Biscay. Example: "I have been asked over by Dr. Maupuis of the Institut Métapsychique to see some of the experiments which he is conducting upon a Galician medium." 2. Of or pertaining to the Galician language. Example: This vowel is similar to the Catalan sound in the words Jordi or sola and to the Galician sound in the words ola or po.
Word: Galician Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English Galicia Proto-Indo-European *-nós Proto-Italic *-nos Latin -nus Latin -ānus Old French -ainder. Middle English -an English -an English Galician From Galicia (“region in northwest Spain”) + -an. Pronunciation: /ɡəˈlɪs.i.ən/, /ɡəˈlɪʃ.ən/ 1. A native or inhabitant of Galicia, Spain. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The little Galician was sitting nibbling a biscuit with a glass of red wine before him. Example: In Argentina, too, there is a community of Welsh-speakers. Similarly some Galicians, Catalans and Basques have retained their mother tongues in ways that had they remained, respectively in the United Kingdom or Spain, might have been more difficult to do. 2. The language of Galicia; a Romance language spoken in the northwestern corner of the Iberian peninsula. Labels: uncountable Example: Rosalia de Castro became a crucial element in this early nationalist cultural campaign: she spoke Galician as her first language and she was literate, educated, and sympathetic to the group's progressive aims.
Word: Galician Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree English Galicia Proto-Indo-European *-nós Proto-Italic *-nos Latin -nus Latin -ānus Old French -ainder. Middle English -an English -an English Galician From Galicia (“region in Central Europe (Etymology 2)”) + -an. Pronunciation: /ɡəˈlɪs.i.ən/, /ɡəˈlɪʃ.ən/ 1. Of, from or relating to Galicia, a geographic region in Poland and Ukraine. Example: Victor Adler was born in a small Moravian town on the Galician border.
Word: Galician Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English Galicia Proto-Indo-European *-nós Proto-Italic *-nos Latin -nus Latin -ānus Old French -ainder. Middle English -an English -an English Galician From Galicia (“region in Central Europe (Etymology 2)”) + -an. Pronunciation: /ɡəˈlɪs.i.ən/, /ɡəˈlɪʃ.ən/ 1. A native or inhabitant of Galicia, a geographic region in Poland and Ukraine. Example: According to Manuilsky, some Galicians idealized the Austro-Hungarian past for the empire's promotion of national autonomy, yet the Habsburgs had discouraged Eastern Galicia's economic development, whereas the Soviet power would 'turn Lviv into one of the biggest industrial centres of Soviet Ukraine.'
Word: mine Part of Speech: pron Etymology: From Middle English min, myn, from Old English mīn, from Proto-West Germanic *mīn, from Proto-Germanic *mīnaz, from Proto-Indo-European *méynos. Cognate with Saterland Frisian mien, West Frisian myn, Dutch mijn, Low German mien, German mein, Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish min, Faroese and Icelandic mín. Pronunciation: /maɪ̯n/, /ˈmaɪ.ɪn/ 1. That or those belonging to me. Example: The house itself is mine, but the land is not. Example: These books are mine. 2. That or those belonging to me. Example: Mine has been a long journey. Example: ‘My name’s Felix Leiter,’ said the American. ‘Glad to meet you.’ ‘Mine’s Bond - James Bond.’ 3. That or those belonging to me. Example: Mine for only a week so far, it already feels like an old friend. 4. That or those belonging to me. Labels: informal Example: We had the party at mine. 5. That or those belonging to me. Example: This house of mine is over 100 years old. Example: You have something of mine.
Word: mine Part of Speech: det Etymology: From Middle English min, myn, from Old English mīn, from Proto-West Germanic *mīn, from Proto-Germanic *mīnaz, from Proto-Indo-European *méynos. Cognate with Saterland Frisian mien, West Frisian myn, Dutch mijn, Low German mien, German mein, Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish min, Faroese and Icelandic mín. Pronunciation: /maɪ̯n/, /ˈmaɪ.ɪn/ 1. My; belonging to me. Labels: archaic, nonstandard Example: Well, then, fix it up nice, waiter, and make mine baked hash an’ mashed ’taters and stewed corn and waiter!—plain white bread, no fancy rolls! 2. My; belonging to me. Labels: archaic, nonstandard Example: […] Flesh and blood, / You, brother mine, that entertain'd ambition, / […] 3. My; belonging to me. Labels: archaic, nonstandard Example: Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord: / […] Example: 1930 Winter, Packard Motor Car Company, The Packard Magazine, Volume 9, Number 2, page 6, Mine host, it seemed, did favors for everybody...
Word: mine Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English, from Old French mine, from Late Latin mina, from Gaulish (compare to Welsh mwyn, Irish mianach (“ore”)), from Proto-Celtic *meinis (“ore, metal”). Pronunciation: /maɪ̯n/, /ˈmaɪ.ɪn/ 1. An excavation from which ore or solid minerals are taken, especially one consisting of underground tunnels. Example: Meronyms: mine shaft, mineshaft; mine car Example: This diamond comes from a mine in South Africa. 2. Any source of wealth or resources. Labels: figuratively Example: She's a mine of information about the history of mathematics. Example: To those seeking information about train services on the Continent, Cook's Continental Guide is always a mine of accurate information. 3. A passage dug toward or underneath enemy lines, which is then packed with explosives. Example: The most famous mine of the American Civil War led to the Battle of the Crater. 4. A device intended to explode when stepped upon or touched, or when approached by a ship, vehicle, or person. Example: Holonym: minefield Example: His left leg was blown off after he stepped on a mine. 5. A type of firework that explodes on the ground, shooting sparks upward. 6. The cavity made by a caterpillar while feeding inside a leaf. 7. A machine or network of machines used to extract units of a cryptocurrency. Example: A change to the blockchain method was contemplated to allow mines to hog less electric power.
Word: mine Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English, from Old French mine, from Late Latin mina, from Gaulish (compare to Welsh mwyn, Irish mianach (“ore”)), from Proto-Celtic *meinis (“ore, metal”). Pronunciation: /maɪ̯n/, /ˈmaɪ.ɪn/ 1. To remove (rock or ore) from the ground. Labels: ambitransitive Example: Crater of Diamonds State Park is the only place in the world where visitors can mine their own diamonds. 2. To dig into, for ore or metal. Example: Lead veins have been traced […] but they have not been mined. 3. To sow mines (the explosive devices) in (an area). Labels: transitive Example: We had to slow our advance after the enemy mined the road ahead of us. 4. To damage (a vehicle or ship) with a mine (an explosive device). Labels: transitive 5. To dig a tunnel or hole; to burrow in the earth. Labels: intransitive Example: the mining cony 6. To dig away, or otherwise remove, the substratum or foundation of; to lay a mine under; to sap; to undermine. Example: They mined the walls. Example: Too lazy, perhaps, to cut [these immense trees] down, the spoilers […] had mined them, and placed a quantity of gunpowder in the cavity. 7. To ruin or destroy by slow degrees or secret means. Labels: broadly, figuratively 8. To tap into. Labels: broadly, figuratively 9. To pick one's nose. Labels: slang 10. To earn new units of cryptocurrency by doing certain calculations. Example: Bitcoin supporters say that estimates of its carbon footprint are overstated. And if the computers that mine and help transact bitcoins are attached to an electric grid that uses wind and solar power, they add, mining and using it will become cleaner over time.
Word: mine Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from French mine. Pronunciation: /maɪ̯n/, /ˈmaɪ.ɪn/ 1. Alternative form of mien. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: hers Part of Speech: pron Etymology: From Middle English hires, heres, hers, attested since the 1300s. Equivalent to her + -s (compare -'s). Pronunciation: /ˈhɜːz/, /əz/, /ˈhɔːz/, /ˈhɝz/, /ɚz/ 1. That or those belonging to her; the possessive case of she, used without a following noun. Example: That handbag is hers. These gloves are also hers. Example: Mine is the blue one, and hers is the red one. 2. Her house or home. Labels: informal Example: Let's go over to hers.
Word: hers Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English hires, heres, hers, attested since the 1300s. Equivalent to her + -s (compare -'s). Pronunciation: /ˈhɜːz/, /əz/, /ˈhɔːz/, /ˈhɝz/, /ɚz/ 1. plural of her Labels: form-of, plural
Word: ours Part of Speech: pron Etymology: From Middle English oures, attested since the 1300s. Equivalent to our + -s (compare -'s); formed by analogy to his. Displaced ourn (from Middle English ouren) in standard speech. Pronunciation: /ˈaʊəz/, /ɑːz/, /ˈaʊɚz/, /ɑɹz/ 1. That or those belonging to us. Example: You can't take that! It's ours! Example: Could we ask you to move, please. These seats are ours. 2. That or those belonging to us. Example: We should ask for it back. After all, it is ours. Example: Don't you think that ours looks much nicer than theirs? 3. That or those belonging to any entity that the speaker is a part of or identifies with, such as place of employment or education, nation, region, language, etc. Example: French food is better than ours. 4. That or those belonging to people in general. Example: As we get older, maintaining an active social life should be a priority of ours. 5. That or those belonging to everyone being addressed. Labels: colloquial Example: Good evening everyone. How are we all tonight? I know I've got my happy face on; have we all got ours on too? 6. That or those belonging to an individual being addressed; used especially to a person in the speaker's care, or to whom advice or instruction is being given. Labels: colloquial Example: Hello Mrs Miggins. How are we feeling this morning? Oh, what's that bottle of tablets under our chair? Is that ours? 7. Used to imply connection between the speaker's experiences or activities and a group of listeners. Labels: colloquial Example: Hey guys, in this video I'll show you how I make my upside-down sponge cake. There are lots of recipes for these, but ours is the best. 8. Our house or home. Labels: informal Example: You can stay the night at ours if you like.
Word: theirs Part of Speech: pron Etymology: From Middle English theires, attested since the 1300s. Equivalent to their + -s (compare -'s); formed by analogy to his. Displaced theirn (from Middle English theiren, formed by analogy to mine, thine) in standard speech. Pronunciation: /ðɛəz/, /ðɛːz/, /ðɛɚz/, /ðɛɹz/, /ðeːz/ 1. That or those belonging to them; the possessive case of they, used without a following noun. Example: This luggage is theirs. These passports are also theirs. Example: Theirs cost a lot more than ours. 2. Their house or home. Labels: informal Example: Let's go over to theirs.
Word: very Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From Middle English verray, from Old French verai (“true”), from Early Medieval Latin vērāgus, from Classical Latin vērāx, derived from vērus, from Proto-Italic *wēros, from Proto-Indo-European *weh₁ros. Distantly cognate with the Old English wǣr (“true”). Over time displaced the use of a number of Germanic words or prefixes to convey the sense 'very' such as fele, full-, mægen, sore, sin-, swith, (partially) wel. Pronunciation: /ˈvɛɹi/, /ˈveɹi/, /ˈvɛɾe/, /ˈvɛɾi/ 1. To a great extent or degree. Labels: not-comparable Example: That dress is very you. Example: Not very many (of them) had been damaged. 2. Conforming to fact, reality or rule; true. Labels: not-comparable 3. Used to firmly establish that nothing else surpasses in some respect. Labels: not-comparable Example: He was the very best runner there. Example: This is my very own treehouse.
Word: very Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English verray, from Old French verai (“true”), from Early Medieval Latin vērāgus, from Classical Latin vērāx, derived from vērus, from Proto-Italic *wēros, from Proto-Indo-European *weh₁ros. Distantly cognate with the Old English wǣr (“true”). Over time displaced the use of a number of Germanic words or prefixes to convey the sense 'very' such as fele, full-, mægen, sore, sin-, swith, (partially) wel. Pronunciation: /ˈvɛɹi/, /ˈveɹi/, /ˈvɛɾe/, /ˈvɛɾi/ 1. True, real, actual. Labels: literary, not-comparable, usually Example: the fierce hatred of a very woman Example: the very blood and bone of our grammar 2. The same; identical. Labels: not-comparable, usually Example: He proposed marriage in the same restaurant, at the very table where they first met. Example: That's the very tool that I need. 3. With limiting effect: mere. Labels: not-comparable, usually Example: The very idea of climbing the ladder brings me out in a sweat. Example: The very idea/thought!
Word: helping verb Part of Speech: noun 1. An auxiliary verb; a verb that accompanies the main verb in a clause. Example: Such verbs as can be formed through the present and past times without the aid of any of these helping verbs, are called principal verbs, and are formed thus:
Word: kingdom Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English kingdom, kyngdom, from Old English cyningdōm from Proto-Germanic *kuningadōmaz, equivalent to king + -dom. Cognate with Scots kingdom, West Frisian keuningdom, Dutch koningdom, German Königtum, Danish kongedømme, Swedish kungadöme, and Icelandic konungdómur. Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ǵenh₁- Proto-Indo-European *-yós Proto-Germanic *kunją Proto-Indo-European *-n̥kʷo-der.? Proto-Indo-European *-nós Proto-Indo-European *-iHnos Proto-Germanic *-īnaz Proto-Indo-European *-kos Proto-Germanic *-gaz ? Proto-Germanic *-ingaz Proto-Germanic *kuningaz Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁- Proto-Indo-European *-mos Proto-Indo-European *dʰóh₁mos Proto-Germanic *dōmaz Proto-Germanic *-dōmaz Proto-Germanic *kuningadōmaz Proto-West Germanic *kuningadōm Old English cyningdōm Middle English kingdom English kingdom Pronunciation: /ˈkɪŋdəm/, /ˈkəŋdəm/, /ˈkɪŋɡdəm/ 1. A realm having a king or queen as its actual or nominal sovereign. Example: In 1924 the Hashemite King Hussein was driven out of the Hedjaz by Ibn Saud, and a state of war sprang up between the new kingdoms of Saudi Arabia and Trans-Jordan. Example: A few other key remappings occur when you use the United Kingdom country... 2. A realm, region, or conceptual space where something is dominant. Example: the kingdom of thought Example: the kingdom of the dead 3. A rank in the classification of organisms, below domain and above phylum; a taxon at that rank (e.g. the plant kingdom, the animal kingdom). Example: The Organized and inorganized kingdoms are distinguished from each other by peculiarities of chemical composition, of form and structure, and of actions or functions. Example: It has micobiont from Ascomycota and Basidiomycota belonging to kingdom Fungi and photobiont from Trebouxia species.
Word: jump Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From Middle English jumpen (“to walk quickly, run, jump”), probably of Middle Low German or North Germanic origin, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *gumpōną ~ *gumbōną (“to hop, skip, bounce”), an iterative verb. The OED suggests an imitative origin. Related to jumble. In the sense “to propel oneself” it displaced leap partially and spring largely. Cognates Cognate with German Low German jumpen (“to jump”), archaic German gumpen (“to jump, hop, bounce”), dialectal German gampen (“to hop”), Alemannic German gumpe (“to leap, jump”), Walser dialect kumpu, Old Norse gopta (“to jump; make jump”) Danish gumpe (“to jolt”), Swedish gumpa (“to jump”), Danish gimpe (“to move up and down”), Middle English jumpren, jumbren (“to mix, jumble”). Pronunciation: /d͡ʒʌmp/, /d͡ʒʊmp/ 1. Exactly; precisely Labels: not-comparable, obsolete Example: Thus twice before, and jump at this dead hour, With martial stalk hath he gone by our watch.
Word: jump Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English jumpen (“to walk quickly, run, jump”), probably of Middle Low German or North Germanic origin, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *gumpōną ~ *gumbōną (“to hop, skip, bounce”), an iterative verb. The OED suggests an imitative origin. Related to jumble. In the sense “to propel oneself” it displaced leap partially and spring largely. Cognates Cognate with German Low German jumpen (“to jump”), archaic German gumpen (“to jump, hop, bounce”), dialectal German gampen (“to hop”), Alemannic German gumpe (“to leap, jump”), Walser dialect kumpu, Old Norse gopta (“to jump; make jump”) Danish gumpe (“to jolt”), Swedish gumpa (“to jump”), Danish gimpe (“to move up and down”), Middle English jumpren, jumbren (“to mix, jumble”). Pronunciation: /d͡ʒʌmp/, /d͡ʒʊmp/ 1. Exact; matched; fitting; precise. Labels: obsolete Example: jump names Example: Thus twice before, and jump at this dead hour, / With martial stalk hath he gone by our watch
Word: jump Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Compare French jupe (“a long petticoat, a skirt”) and English jupon. Pronunciation: /d͡ʒʌmp/, /d͡ʒʊmp/ 1. A kind of loose jacket for men.
Word: both Part of Speech: det Etymology: From Middle English bothe, boþe, from Old English bā þā (“both the; both those”) and possibly reinforced by Old Norse báðir, from Proto-Germanic *bai. Cognate with Saterland Frisian bee (“both”), West Frisian beide (“both”), Dutch beide (“both”), German beide (“both”), Swedish både, båda, Danish både, Norwegian både, Icelandic báðir. Replaced Middle English bō, from Old English bā, a form of Old English bēġen. A remnant of the Indo-European dual grammatical number. Pronunciation: /bəʊθ/, [bəʊθ], /bəwθ/, /bəwf/, [boʊθ] 1. Each of the two; one and the other; referring to two individuals or items. Example: Both (the/my) children are such dolls. Example: Which one do you need? ―I need both of them.
Word: both Part of Speech: pron Etymology: From Middle English bothe, boþe, from Old English bā þā (“both the; both those”) and possibly reinforced by Old Norse báðir, from Proto-Germanic *bai. Cognate with Saterland Frisian bee (“both”), West Frisian beide (“both”), Dutch beide (“both”), German beide (“both”), Swedish både, båda, Danish både, Norwegian både, Icelandic báðir. Replaced Middle English bō, from Old English bā, a form of Old English bēġen. A remnant of the Indo-European dual grammatical number. Pronunciation: /bəʊθ/, [bəʊθ], /bəwθ/, /bəwf/, [boʊθ] 1. Each of the two, or of the two kinds. Example: Did you want this one or that one? ―Give me both. Example: They were both here.
Word: both Part of Speech: conj Etymology: From Middle English bothe, boþe, from Old English bā þā (“both the; both those”) and possibly reinforced by Old Norse báðir, from Proto-Germanic *bai. Cognate with Saterland Frisian bee (“both”), West Frisian beide (“both”), Dutch beide (“both”), German beide (“both”), Swedish både, båda, Danish både, Norwegian både, Icelandic báðir. Replaced Middle English bō, from Old English bā, a form of Old English bēġen. A remnant of the Indo-European dual grammatical number. Pronunciation: /bəʊθ/, [bəʊθ], /bəwθ/, /bəwf/, [boʊθ] 1. Including both of (used with and). Example: I (can) both sing and dance. Example: Both you and I are students. 2. Including all of (used with and). Labels: obsolete Example: […] having much aduantage both in number, valure, and forepreparation […] Example: Both mongrel, puppy, whelp, and hound.
Word: hole Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Germanic *hulaz Proto-Germanic *hulą Proto-West Germanic *hol Old English hol Middle English hole English hole Inherited from Middle English hole, hol, from Old English hol (“orifice, hollow place, cavity”), from Proto-West Germanic *hol (“hole”), from Proto-Germanic *hulą (“hollow space, cavity”), noun derivative of Proto-Germanic *hulaz (“hollow”), which is of uncertain ultimate origin. Related to hollow. Cognate with Dutch, Faroese, and Icelandic hol (“hole”), Danish hul (“hole”), Faroese, Icelandic, and Norn hola (“hole”), Norwegian Bokmål hol (“depression, hole, cavern”), Swedish hål (“hole”), French houle (“swell of water”). Compare unrelated Finnish kolo (“hole”). Pronunciation: /həʊl/, [hɔʊɫ], /hɒl/, /hɐʉl/, /hoʊl/ 1. To make holes in (an object or surface). Labels: transitive Example: Shrapnel holed the ship's hull. 2. To destroy. Labels: broadly, transitive Example: She completely holed the argument. 3. To go into a hole. Labels: intransitive Example: Good master Picklock, with your worming brain, And wriggling engine-head of maintenance, Which I shall see you hole with very shortly! A fine round head, when those two lugs are off, To trundle through a pillory! 4. To drive into a hole, as an animal, or a billiard ball or golf ball. Labels: transitive Example: If the player holes the red ball, he scores three, and upon holing his adversary's ball, he gains two; and thus it frequently happens, that seven are got upon a single stroke, by caramboling and holing both balls. Example: Woods holed a standard three foot putt 5. To cut, dig, or bore a hole or holes in. Labels: transitive Example: to hole a post for the insertion of rails or bars
Word: hole Part of Speech: adj Pronunciation: /həʊl/, [hɔʊɫ], /hɒl/, /hɐʉl/, /hoʊl/ 1. Obsolete spelling of whole. Labels: alt-of, obsolete Example: Such was the arrangement of the alphabet over the hole North. 2. Misspelling of whole. Labels: alt-of, misspelling
Word: wood Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁ Proto-Indo-European *dwi- Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁- Proto-Indo-European *h₁weydʰh₁- Proto-Indo-European *-us Proto-Indo-European *(h₁)wéydʰ(h₁)us Proto-Germanic *widuz Proto-West Germanic *widu Old English widu Old English wudu Middle English wode English wood From Middle English wode, from Old English wudu, widu (“wood, forest, grove; tree; timber”), from Proto-West Germanic *widu, from Proto-Germanic *widuz (“wood”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁weydʰh₁- (“to separate”). The spelling developed as it did in wool. Cognate with Dutch wede (“wood, twig”), Middle High German wite (“wood”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish ved (“wood”), Elfdalian wið (“wood, timber”), Faroese and Icelandic viður (“wood”), Norwegian Nynorsk ved (“wood, firewood”), vid (“wide, broad”). Further cognates include Irish fiodh (“a wood, tree”), Irish fid (“tree”) and Welsh gwŷdd (“trees”), from Proto-Celtic *widus (“wood”). Unrelated to Dutch woud (“forest”), German Wald (“forest”) (see English wold). Pronunciation: /wʊd/, /wɵd/, /wʉd/, /(ʋ)ʊɖ/ 1. The substance making up the central part of the trunk and branches of a tree. Used as a material for construction, to manufacture various items, etc. or as fuel. Labels: uncountable Example: This table is made of wood. Example: There was lots of wood on the beach. 2. The wood from a particular species of tree. Labels: countable Example: Teak is much used for outdoor benches, but a number of other woods are also suitable, such as ipé, redwood, etc. Example: A few woods, such as cedar and redwood, are prized for their rugged naturalness and they age so beautifully that they are generally left unfinished. 3. A forested or wooded area. Labels: countable, often Example: A wood beyond this moor was viewed as a border area in the seventeenth century. Example: He got lost in the woods beyond Seattle. 4. Firewood. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: We need more wood for the fire. Example: We toted in the wood and got the fire going nice and comfortable. Lord James still set in one of the chairs and Applegate had cabbaged the other and was hugging the stove. 5. A type of golf club, the head of which was traditionally made of wood. Labels: countable 6. A woodwind instrument. Labels: countable, uncountable 7. An erection of the penis. Labels: slang, uncountable Example: That girl at the strip club gave me wood. 8. Chess pieces. Labels: slang, uncountable Example: […] White has nothing but a lot of frozen wood on the board while Black operates on the Q-side.
Word: wood Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁ Proto-Indo-European *dwi- Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁- Proto-Indo-European *h₁weydʰh₁- Proto-Indo-European *-us Proto-Indo-European *(h₁)wéydʰ(h₁)us Proto-Germanic *widuz Proto-West Germanic *widu Old English widu Old English wudu Middle English wode English wood From Middle English wode, from Old English wudu, widu (“wood, forest, grove; tree; timber”), from Proto-West Germanic *widu, from Proto-Germanic *widuz (“wood”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁weydʰh₁- (“to separate”). The spelling developed as it did in wool. Cognate with Dutch wede (“wood, twig”), Middle High German wite (“wood”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish ved (“wood”), Elfdalian wið (“wood, timber”), Faroese and Icelandic viður (“wood”), Norwegian Nynorsk ved (“wood, firewood”), vid (“wide, broad”). Further cognates include Irish fiodh (“a wood, tree”), Irish fid (“tree”) and Welsh gwŷdd (“trees”), from Proto-Celtic *widus (“wood”). Unrelated to Dutch woud (“forest”), German Wald (“forest”) (see English wold). Pronunciation: /wʊd/, /wɵd/, /wʉd/, /(ʋ)ʊɖ/ 1. To cover or plant with trees. Labels: transitive Example: Their be ii good bellys, a chales, and a few veſtments of litil valure, the ſtuff beſide is not worth xl s. lead ther ys non except in ii gutters the which the p’or hath convey’d in to ye town, but that is ſuar yt is metely wodey’d in hege rowys. 2. To hide behind trees. Labels: intransitive, reflexive Example: Immediatly, the other boate lying ready with their shot to skoure the place for our hand weapons to lande upon, which was presently done, although the land was very high and steepe, the Savages forthwith quitted the shoare, and betooke themselves to flight: wee landed, and having faire and easily followed for a smal time after them, who had wooded themselves we know not where […] 3. To supply with wood, or get supplies of wood for. Labels: transitive Example: to wood a steamboat or a locomotive Example: Many passengers would save a little by helping to “wood the boat,” i. e., by carrying wood down the bank and throwing it on the boat, a special ticket being issued on that condition. 4. To take or get a supply of wood. Labels: intransitive Example: In this little Iſle of Mevis, more than twenty Years ago, I have remained a great time together, to Wood and Water and refreſh my Men […]
Word: wood Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English wood, from Old English wōd (“mad, insane”). See the full etymology at wode. 1. Mad, insane, crazed. Labels: archaic Example: And then he flue on hir as he were wood, / And on hir breeche did hack and foyne a-good. Example: And like a lion wood amongst them fares, Dealing his dreadfull blowes with large dispence
Word: wood Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Back-formation from peckerwood. 1. A peckerwood. Labels: US, offensive, slang, sometimes Example: He further stated that "I can't remember ever seeing a wood [white inmate] assault a nigger without being provoked". Example: Other than shout-outs to fellow "woods," I found no references on their record to racism, and after getting to know the members, I think Woodpile's message is the opposite of what the L.A. Times construed it to be — they want to bring hardcore white guys to rap music, rather than alienating anyone of any race.
Word: former Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Inherited from Middle English former, comparative of forme (“first”), from Old English forma (“first”), descended from Proto-Germanic *frumô. Parallel to prior (via Latin), as comparative form from same Proto-Indo-European root. Related to first and fore (thence before), from Proto-Germanic. Pronunciation: /ˈfɔɹmɚ/, /ˈfɔːmə/ 1. Previous. Labels: not-comparable Example: A former president Example: the former East Germany 2. First of aforementioned two items. Used with the, often without a noun. Labels: not-comparable Example: The former is a good idea but the latter is not. Example: We have two cars, a red one and a blue one. We won the former on a game show.
Word: former Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Inherited from Middle English formere. By surface analysis, form + -er. Pronunciation: /ˈfɔɹmɚ/, /ˈfɔːmə/ 1. Someone who forms something; a maker; a creator or founder. Example: Dave was the former of the company. 2. An object used to form something, such as a template, gauge, or cutting die. Example: The brick arch was built using a wooden former. 3. Someone in, or of, a certain form (class). Labels: UK Example: Fifth-former. Example: Sixth-former.