nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: tensor Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from New Latin tensor (“that which stretches”), equivalent to tense + -or. Anatomical sense from 1704. Introduced in the 1840s by William Rowan Hamilton as an algebraic quantity unrelated to the modern notion of tensor. The contemporary mathematical meaning was introduced (as German Tensor) by Woldemar Voigt (1898) and adopted in English from 1915 (in the context of general relativity), obscuring the earlier Hamiltonian sense. The mathematical object is so named because an early application of tensors was the study of materials stretching under tension. (See, for example, Cauchy stress tensor on Wikipedia.Wikipedia ) Pronunciation: /ˈtɛn.sə/, /ˈtɛn.sɔː/, /ˈtɛn.sɚ/, /ˈtɛn.sɔɹ/ 1. A muscle that tightens or stretches a part, or renders it tense. 2. A mathematical object that describes linear relations on scalars, vectors, matrices and other algebraic objects, and is represented as a multidimensional array. Example: The tensor #92;alpha#95;#123;ij#125; should really be called a “tensor of second rank,” because it has two indexes. A vector—with one index—is a tensor of the first rank, and a scalar—with no index—is a tensor of zero rank. 3. A mathematical object that describes linear relations on scalars, vectors, matrices and other algebraic objects, and is represented as a multidimensional array. 4. A norm operation on the quaternion algebra. Labels: obsolete
Word: tensor Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Borrowed from New Latin tensor (“that which stretches”), equivalent to tense + -or. Anatomical sense from 1704. Introduced in the 1840s by William Rowan Hamilton as an algebraic quantity unrelated to the modern notion of tensor. The contemporary mathematical meaning was introduced (as German Tensor) by Woldemar Voigt (1898) and adopted in English from 1915 (in the context of general relativity), obscuring the earlier Hamiltonian sense. The mathematical object is so named because an early application of tensors was the study of materials stretching under tension. (See, for example, Cauchy stress tensor on Wikipedia.Wikipedia ) Pronunciation: /ˈtɛn.sə/, /ˈtɛn.sɔː/, /ˈtɛn.sɚ/, /ˈtɛn.sɔɹ/ 1. To compute the tensor product of two tensors or algebraic structures.
Word: tenter Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Via Old French, perhaps from Latin tentorium. Pronunciation: /ˈtɛntəɹ/ 1. A framework upon which cloth is stretched and dried. 2. One who takes care of, or tends, machines in a factory; a kind of assistant foreman. 3. A kind of governor, or regulating device.
Word: tenter Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Via Old French, perhaps from Latin tentorium. Pronunciation: /ˈtɛntəɹ/ 1. To stretch cloth on such a framework. Labels: transitive 2. To admit extension; to be stretchable. Labels: intransitive Example: Woollen cloth will tenter, linen scarcely.
Word: tercel Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of tiercel. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: termer Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English term Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzios Latin -āriusnom. Latin -āriusbor. Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz Proto-West Germanic *-ārī Old English -ere Middle English -ere English -er English termer From term + -er. Pronunciation: /ˈtɜː(ɹ)mə(ɹ)/ 1. Someone who is in a certain term Example: first-termer 2. One who has an estate for a term of years or for life. 3. One who resorted to London during the law term only, in order to practise tricks, to carry on intrigues, or the like. Labels: obsolete Example: For termers, or some clerklike serving-man, Who scarce can spell th' hard names
Word: terser Part of Speech: adj 1. comparative form of terse: more terse Labels: comparative, form-of
Word: theist Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁- Proto-Indo-European *-s Proto-Indo-European *dʰéh₁s Proto-Hellenic *tʰehós Ancient Greek θεός (theós) Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō) Proto-Hellenic *-tās Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs) Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)bor. Latin -istader. Old French -istebor. Middle English -ist English -ist English theist From Ancient Greek θεός (theós, “god”) + English -ist. Pronunciation: /ˈθiːɪst/ 1. One who believes in the existence of a god or gods. Example: The term stands in contradistinction to theism which, in its widest sense, means belief in a personal god, goddess, gods and /or goddesses. Example: The theist is a man firmly persuaded of the existence of a Supreme Being as good as He is powerful, who has formed all beings with extension, vegetating, sentient and reflecting; who perpetuates their species, who punishes crimes without cruelty, and rewards virtuous actions with kindness.
Word: thorpe Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /θɔːp/, /θɔɹp/ 1. Obsolete spelling of thorp (“village”). Labels: alt-of, obsolete Example: A plague upon the people fell, / A famine after laid them low, / Then thorpe and byre arose in fire, / For on them brake the sudden foe; […]
Word: thrips Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Ancient Greek θρίψ (thríps, “wood-worm”). 1. Any of the many small insects of the order Thysanoptera, especially those that attack useful plants. Example: The turnrows and margins of the fields should be cultivated often enough to prevent the growth of weeds, many forms of which harbor the onion thrips. Example: 2002, Thrips, article in International Wildlife Encyclopedia Volume 19, Picture caption, page 2676, The thousands of thrips species include among their number the smallest of all winged insects.
Word: thrum Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Imitative. Pronunciation: /θɹʌm/ 1. A thrumming sound; a hum or vibration. Example: a profusion of insects, which produced a continuous thrum Example: Pungent sweat and heatedly trodden grass, fumes of tea and porter, thrum of hooves from the paddock, the strikings-up and dyings-down of the band all fused into an extreme for Antonia, whose own senses, boastful, stood up to it. 2. A spicy taste; a tang. Labels: figuratively Example: The trailblazing Oaxacan chef Alejandro Ruiz […] has spiked this black-bean sauce with a hidden depth charge of flavor: patches of foliage from a local avocado tree. The leaves electrify the sauce with an unexpected thrum of black licorice.
Word: thrum Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Imitative. Pronunciation: /θɹʌm/ 1. To cause a steady rhythmic vibration in (something), usually by plucking. Labels: transitive Example: She watched as he thrummed the guitar strings absently. 2. To make a monotonous drumming noise. Labels: intransitive Example: to thrum on a table Example: They were hardly seated, and I had hardly waved good-by to Denver, before he was off, the big motor thrumming with immense birdlike power.
Word: thrum Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English thrum, throm (> Anglo-French trome), from Old English *þrum (found in tungeþrum (“ligament of the tongue”)) from Proto-Germanic *þrumą. Cognate with German Trumm, Trümmer and Old Norse þrǫmr (“edge, brim”), and more distantly to Latin termen. Pronunciation: /θɹʌm/ 1. The ends of the warp threads in a loom which remain unwoven attached to the loom when the web is cut. Example: The twister is given a harness filled with thrums or short ends of the old warp which has been returned from the looms. These thrums of silk are all that remain of the last warps. 2. A fringe made of such threads. Labels: in-plural 3. Any short piece of leftover thread or yarn; a tuft or tassel. 4. A threadlike part of a flower; a stamen. 5. A tuft, bundle, or fringe of any threadlike structures, as hairs on a leaf, fibers of a root. 6. A bundle of minute blood vessels, a plexus. 7. Small pieces of rope yarn used for making mats or mops. Labels: in-plural 8. A mat made of canvas and tufts of yarn. 9. A shove out of place; a small displacement or fault along a seam.
Word: thrum Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English thrum, throm (> Anglo-French trome), from Old English *þrum (found in tungeþrum (“ligament of the tongue”)) from Proto-Germanic *þrumą. Cognate with German Trumm, Trümmer and Old Norse þrǫmr (“edge, brim”), and more distantly to Latin termen. Pronunciation: /θɹʌm/ 1. Made of or woven from thrum. Labels: not-comparable Example: In Paris, there are scarce two orders of beings more different: for the legislative and executive powers of the shop not resting in the husband, he seldom comes there:—in some dark and dismal room behind, he sits commerce-less, in his thrum nightcap, the same rough son of Nature that Nature left him.
Word: thrum Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English thrum, throm (> Anglo-French trome), from Old English *þrum (found in tungeþrum (“ligament of the tongue”)) from Proto-Germanic *þrumą. Cognate with German Trumm, Trümmer and Old Norse þrǫmr (“edge, brim”), and more distantly to Latin termen. Pronunciation: /θɹʌm/ 1. To furnish with thrums; to insert tufts in; to fringe. Example: 1644-1646, Francis Quarles, Boanerges and Barnabas—Wine and Oyle for […] afflicted Soules are we born to thrum caps or pick straw? 2. To insert short pieces of rope-yarn or spun yarn in. Example: to thrum a piece of canvas, or a mat, thus making a rough or tufted surface
Word: thrum Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Apparently a reduced form of the stem of threepenny/threepence through a sequence such as /ˈθrɛp(ə)n-/ > /ˈθrʊp(ə)m-/ > /ˈθrʊm-/ (> /ˈθɹʌm-/). Pronunciation: /θɹʌm/ 1. A threepenny bit. Labels: obsolete, slang
Word: thymus Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From New Latin thymus, from Ancient Greek θύμος (thúmos, “warty excrescence, (also, as used by Galen) thymus gland”). Pronunciation: /ˈθaɪ.məs/ 1. Ellipsis of thymus gland (“A ductless gland, consisting mainly of lymphatic tissue, located behind the top of the breastbone. It is most active during puberty, after which it shrinks in size. It plays an important role in the development of the immune system and produces lymphocytes.”). Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis Example: For a very long time the role of the thymus in the body was a complete mystery.
Word: tibia Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Latin tībia (“shin bone, leg”). Pronunciation: /ˈtɪbiə/ 1. The inner and usually the larger of the two bones of the leg or hind limb below the knee, the shinbone. Example: Her anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) and medial collateral ligament (MCL) are torn and Vonn has a lateral fracture of the tibial plateau, the upper end of the tibia or shin bone. 2. The second segment from the end of an insect's leg, between the femur and tarsus. 3. The third segment from the end of an arachnid's leg, between the patella and metatarsus. 4. A musical instrument of the flute kind, originally made of the leg bone of an animal. Example: The musician on the left is playing the zampogna, a bagpipe with two chanters and two drones. The zampogna is thought to be the bag-provided descendant of the ancient mouth-blown divergent pipes of the Romans, known as the tibia.
Word: tic Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from French tic. Pronunciation: /tɪk/, /tək/ 1. A sudden, nonrhythmic motor movement or vocalization. Example: Tourette syndrome is a neurodevelopmental condition characterized by multiple tics. A tic is a sudden, rapid, repetitive, non-rhythmic movement (e.g. eye blinking) or vocalization (e.g. throat clearing). 2. Something that is done or produced habitually or characteristically. Labels: broadly Example: Boyle revives some of the stylistic tics which found themselves being ripped off by geezer-gangster Britflicks back in the day, but now the freezeframes are briefer, sharper; the movie itself refers back to the original with variant flashback versions of famous scenes, but also Super 8-type images of the boys’ poignant boyhood in primary school.
Word: tic Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Borrowed from French tic. Pronunciation: /tɪk/, /tək/ 1. To exhibit a tic; to undergo a sudden, semi-voluntary muscle movement. Labels: intransitive Example: Patients often describe the need to tic as the mounting of inner tension, localized either to the body region where the tic is about to occur or throughout the body.
Word: tic Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Clipping of ticket. Pronunciation: /tɪk/, /tək/ 1. Clipping of ticket. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, informal
Word: tilter Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From tilt + -er. Pronunciation: /ˈtɪltɚ/, /ˈtɪltə/ 1. One who tilts something. Example: I love the way everyone tilts their heads as they scan the shelves. That's how I think of us book readers: we're head tilters. 2. One who jousts. 3. One who fights. 4. One who operates a tilt hammer.
Word: tilth Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English tilthe, from Old English tilþ, tilþe, corresponding to till + -th (abstract nominal suffix). Pronunciation: /tɪlθ/ 1. Agricultural labour; husbandry. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. The state of being tilled, or prepared for a crop; culture. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The land is in good tilth and ready to plant. 3. Cultivated land Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Escaped from thicket and from fen at last he saw the tilth of men. 4. Rich cultivated soil. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: One morning she was kneeling on an old grain sack on the wet black soil, turning the thick rich tilth over and smoothing it ready for the new lettuces.
Word: tine Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English tine, alteration of Middle English tinde, tind, from Old English tind, from Proto-West Germanic *tind, Proto-Germanic *tindaz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃dénts (“tooth, peg”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Tiende, Tiene (“prong, tine”), German Zind, Zint (“prong”). Compare also the related English tind and German Zinne. Pronunciation: /taɪn/ 1. A spike or point on an implement or tool, especially a prong of a fork or a tooth of a comb. Example: The tines of the fork were quite evidently of iron or steel, the girl did not know which, while the handle and the spoon were of the same material as the smaller vessels. Example: Sitting at the table one day, I held the fork in my left hand and pierced a piece of fried chicken. I put the knife through the second tine, as we had been strictly taught, and began to saw against the bone. 2. A small branch, especially on an antler or horn. Example: “I answer not the challenge of my prisoner,” said Front-de-Bœuf; “nor shalt thou, Maurice de Bracy.—Giles,” he continued, “hang the franklin’s glove upon the tine of yonder branched antlers:[…] Example: “By my faith, sirs,” he continued, half turning in his saddle to address his escort, “unless my woodcraft is sadly at fault, it is a stag of six tines and the finest that we have roused this journey. 3. A wild vetch or tare. Labels: dialectal
Word: tine Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Unknown, possibly related to etymology 1. 1. small, diminutive
Word: tine Part of Speech: noun Etymology: See teen (“affliction”). 1. Trouble; distress; teen. Labels: obsolete Example: As wither'd Weed through cruel Winter's Tine Example: And now has brave Sir Thynnè, Escaped all sorrow and tine; Now sleeps she sweet full many a sleep, On brave Sir Thynnè's arm.
Word: tine Part of Speech: verb Etymology: See tind. 1. To kindle; to set on fire. Labels: obsolete Example: Coals of contention and hot vengeance tin'd. Example: The Air attrite to Fire, as late the Clouds / Juſtling or puſht with Winds rude in thir ſhock / Tine the ſlant Lightning, […] 2. To rage; to smart. Labels: obsolete Example: Ne was there salve, ne was there medicine, / That mote recure their wounds; so inly they did tine.
Word: tine Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English tynen, from Old English tȳnan, from tūn (“enclosure”) (modern town). 1. To shut in, or enclose. Labels: archaic Example: When I was then surrounded on every side by the fiends, and tined about by the blindness of the darkness, then hove I my eyes up and looked hither and yond, whether any help were to come to me, that I might be rescued; […] Example: “Terrible trying,” said Oak. “I’ve been wet through twice a-day, either in snow or rain, this last fortnight. Cainy and I haven’t tined our eyes to-night.”
Word: tipper Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English tip Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzios Latin -āriusnom. Latin -āriusbor. Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz Proto-West Germanic *-ārī Old English -ere Middle English -ere English -er English tipper From tip + -er. Pronunciation: /ˈtɪpɚ/, /ˈtɪpə(ɹ)/ 1. Someone who tips; someone who gives a gratuity. Example: The Americans are among the most generous tippers in the world. 2. A small moustache. Labels: slang 3. A goods vehicle with a tippable body, used for carrying loose materials such as gravel or rubble; a tipper truck, tipper lorry, or dump truck. Labels: UK 4. A device for loading goods such as coal by tipping them. 5. One who gives private hints about racing or financial speculation, etc.; a tipster. 6. A cutting tool used to cut off or trim the horns of livestock; a horn tipper. 7. A person who tips or discharges a load, or dumps waste (especially illegally with the latter). Example: The staff discharging the coal from the wagons is known as teemers or tippers; they are employed by the dock-owners.
Word: tipper Part of Speech: noun Etymology: So called from the first brewer of it, one Thomas Tipper. Pronunciation: /ˈtɪpɚ/, /ˈtɪpə(ɹ)/ 1. A kind of ale brewed with brackish water obtained from a particular well. Example: a pint of the celebrated staggering ale or Real Old Brighton Tipper at supper
Word: toby Part of Speech: noun 1. A drinking mug, in the shape of a human head with a hat atop; a Toby jug. 2. The valve that mediates the connection between a mains water-supply and a premises's own plumbing. Labels: New-Zealand, UK 3. The road or highway. Labels: UK, dated, slang Example: 1931, Eric Blair (the real name of George Orwell), "Hop-picking" in The New Statesman of 17th October 1931. It is no wonder that itinerant agricultural workers travel on the toby and sleep in casual wards between jobs. 4. A kind of inferior cigar of a long slender shape, tapered at one end. Labels: US, dated, regional 5. The Moorish idol, Zanclus cornutus 6. Any of several species of pufferfish in the genus Canthigaster
Word: tofus Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of tophus. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: tofus Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of tofu Labels: form-of, plural
Word: tog Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Shortened from earlier togemans, togeman (“cloak, loose coat”), from Middle English tog, toge, togue, from Old French togue, from Latin toga (“cloak, mantle”) (compare the doublets toga and toge). Togeman(s) was an old thieves' and vegabonds' cant for "cloak; coat". By the 1700s the noun tog was used as a shortened form, then with the meaning "coat"; before 1800 the word (in this sense usually in the plural; see togs) started to mean "clothing". The verb tog ("to dress up") came shortly after. The unit of thermal resistance was coined in the 1940s after the clo, a unit of thermal insulation of clothing, which was itself derived from clothes or clothing. Pronunciation: /tɒɡ/, /tɔɡ/, /tɑɡ/ 1. A cloak. Labels: archaic, slang 2. A coat. Labels: archaic, slang Example: I have a rorty gal, also a knowing pal, / And merrily together we jog on, / I doesn't care a flatch, as long as I've a tach, / Some pannum for my chest, and a tog on. 3. swimwear. Labels: New-Zealand, slang 4. A unit of thermal resistance, being ten times the temperature difference (in °C) between the two surfaces of a material when the flow of heat is equal to one watt per square metre
Word: tog Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Shortened from earlier togemans, togeman (“cloak, loose coat”), from Middle English tog, toge, togue, from Old French togue, from Latin toga (“cloak, mantle”) (compare the doublets toga and toge). Togeman(s) was an old thieves' and vegabonds' cant for "cloak; coat". By the 1700s the noun tog was used as a shortened form, then with the meaning "coat"; before 1800 the word (in this sense usually in the plural; see togs) started to mean "clothing". The verb tog ("to dress up") came shortly after. The unit of thermal resistance was coined in the 1940s after the clo, a unit of thermal insulation of clothing, which was itself derived from clothes or clothing. Pronunciation: /tɒɡ/, /tɔɡ/, /tɑɡ/ 1. To dress (often with up or out). Labels: transitive Example: “[…] if you call my duds a ‘livery’ again there'll be trouble. It's bad enough to go around togged out like a life saver on a drill day, but I can stand that 'cause I'm paid for it. […]”
Word: tog Part of Speech: adv 1. Abbreviation of together. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, not-comparable Example: Row 1 (Right side): Slip 1, K1, K2 tog, YO, K 10, (K2 tog, YO) twice, K3.
Word: tog Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Clipping of tautog. 1. A tautog, a large wrasse native to the eastern coast of North America. Example: Though most jetty anglers fish the tip when looking for blackfish, tog can often be found along the entire structure. Example: However, many locations hold plenty of keeper tog to 8 pounds, with several monster white chins over the 10-pound mark, particularly along the East End of the Sound.
Word: tog Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Clipping of tautog. 1. To fish for tautog. Labels: transitive Example: Another mindset that seems to work well for new togging recruits is to ask them to wait until the fish ‘takes the rod down’.
Word: tog Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Clipping of photographer. 1. A photographer, especially a professional one. Labels: informal Example: Funny you should ask, I had a "scene" with a photographer, at yesterdays' Wedding, over the Groom's lapel Mic, the Groom was ok with it, but the tog, said it would spoil his photos, the Groom had a light jacket on, so it was visible, but, what else can you do? Example: If the tog said he'd deliver A grade shots but actually delivered D grade – tog is at fault
Word: togged Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From tog + -ed. 1. Dressed; clothed. Labels: not-comparable Example: [I]f you call my duds a ‘livery’ again there'll be trouble. It's bad enough to go around togged out like a life saver on a drill day, but I can stand that 'cause I'm paid for it. What I won't stand is to have them togs called a livery.
Word: tome Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle French tome, from Latin tomus (“section of larger work”), from Ancient Greek τόμος (tómos, “section, roll of papyrus, volume”), from τέμνω (témnō, “to cut, separate”). Pronunciation: /təʊm/, /toʊm/ 1. One in a series of volumes. 2. A large or scholarly book. Example: The professor pulled a dusty old tome from the bookshelf. Example: And Sam presents Tyrion with A Song Of Ice And Fire, a tome in which Tyrion’s own role, far from that of the clever hero or Machiavellian snake, doesn’t even exist.
Word: Tony Part of Speech: name Etymology: Clipping of Anthony /Antony. The statuettes awarded by the American Theatre Wing are formally known as “Antoinette Perry Awards for Excellence in Theatre”; they are named for Antoinette Perry (1888–1946), an actress, director, producer and co-founder of the American Theatre Wing, who was nicknamed Tony. Pronunciation: /ˈtoʊni/, /ˈtəʊni/ 1. A male given name, a short form of Anthony/Antony Example: For a micromoon and Friday the 13th full moon to occur together is extraordinarily rare. The last time it happened was in 1832 and it won't happen again for more than 500 years according to Tony Rice, a meteorologist and engineer at NASA. 2. A female given name. 3. A surname transferred from the given name
Word: Tony Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Clipping of Anthony /Antony. The statuettes awarded by the American Theatre Wing are formally known as “Antoinette Perry Awards for Excellence in Theatre”; they are named for Antoinette Perry (1888–1946), an actress, director, producer and co-founder of the American Theatre Wing, who was nicknamed Tony. Pronunciation: /ˈtoʊni/, /ˈtəʊni/ 1. Any of the statuettes awarded by the American Theatre Wing. Example: She was first nominated for a Tony in 1990 for “The Grapes of Wrath,” and she was nominated again, in 1996, for “Buried Child” — both times for best featured actress in a play.
Word: tooter Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From toot + -er. Pronunciation: /ˈtuːtəː/, [ˈtʰʊu̯tʰəː], /ˈtʉːtəː/, [ˈtʰʊ̈ʉ̯tʰəː], /ˈtʉːɾəː/ 1. A person or device that toots; a pipe or horn, or the person who plays it. Example: "Gimme the tooter." Dan took the tin dinner-horn, but paused before he blew. 2. A straw used to inhale cocaine. Labels: slang 3. The anus. Labels: derogatory, slang, vulgar
Word: Torah Part of Speech: name Etymology: Borrowed from Hebrew תּוֹרָה (tōrā, “instruction, law or teaching”). Pronunciation: /ˈtɔːɹə/, [ˈtʊɹɑ] 1. The first five books of the Hebrew Scriptures, traditionally attributed to Moses and therefore also known as the Five Books of Moses. Example: Holonyms: Tanakh, Hebrew Bible, Jewish Bible, Septuagint Example: Tradition holds that the Torah was handed down to Moses on Mount Sinai. 2. The full body of written Jewish law, including the Tanakh, the Talmud, the Mishnah and the midrashic texts. Labels: Judaism Example: It says in the Torah that both gossip and murder cause irreparable damage. 3. The whole of Jewish law, both written and unwritten. Labels: Judaism 4. The encompassing philosophy of Judaism. Labels: Judaism
Word: Torah Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Hebrew תּוֹרָה (tōrā, “instruction, law or teaching”). Pronunciation: /ˈtɔːɹə/, [ˈtʊɹɑ] 1. A specially written scroll containing the five books of Moses, such as those used in religious services. Example: Holonyms: Old Testament, Tanakh Example: An anonymous donor has provided us with a lovely new Torah. 2. A book containing the five books of Moses. Example: There was a lovely leather-bound Torah on the bookshelf.
Word: toroid Part of Speech: noun 1. A surface generated by a closed curve (especially a circle) rotating about, but not intersecting or containing, an axis in its own plane. Example: Toroid and lumen diameter were easily controlled by micromold design, and toroid thickness was controlled by seeding density. When harvested, toroids' were stable, but underwent predictable changes over time with their lumens narrowing. Example: However, because of the lack of guiding principles for the construction of toroids, researchers have not widely studied the self-assembly of toroidal nanostructures as compared with the work on other supramolecular architectures. 2. A surface generated by a closed curve (especially a circle) rotating about, but not intersecting or containing, an axis in its own plane.
Word: torr Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English torr, from Old English torr. 1. Archaic form of tor. Labels: alt-of, archaic
Word: torr Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Clipping of Torricelli; named after Italian physicist Evangelista Torricelli (1608–1647), who discovered the principle of the barometer. 1. A unit of pressure that is equal to approximately 0.001316 atmospheres or 133.3 pascals.
Word: Tory Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Irish tóraí (“pursuer”), from tóir (“pursuit”). The first recorded use in English is from a 1646 letter by James Butler, Earl of Ormond, to a Colonel O'Brien, describing bandits and thieves on main roadways. Pronunciation: /ˈtɔː.ɹi/, /ˈtoɹ.i/ 1. A member or supporter of the Conservative Party, which evolved from Royalist politicians; historically associated with upholding the rights of the monarchy and the privileges of the established Church. Labels: UK 2. One who is like a British Tory; someone politically conservative. Labels: broadly 3. A member or supporter of the Conservative Party of Canada, one of that party's predecessors, or an affiliated provincial political party. Labels: Canadian Example: The latest Tory budget continued the trend begun in 2000 by making further small cuts in family income taxes. 4. A member of the political factions that sought to prevent the exclusion of James, Duke of York, from the throne of England in the 17th century. Labels: derogatory, historical 5. An Irish rebel fighting against English rule at the end of the Confederate War and Cromwellian invasion; later extended to other rebels or bandits. Labels: derogatory, historical Example: Ho! Master Teague, what is your story? / I went to the wood and kill’d a tory; / […] I hunted him in, and I hunted him out, / Three times through the bog, about and about; / When out of a bush I saw his head, / So I fired my gun, and I shot him dead. 6. A loyal British subject during the American Revolution. Labels: US, historical 7. A Union sympathizer in the Confederate States during the American Civil War. Labels: US, historical
Word: Tory Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Irish tóraí (“pursuer”), from tóir (“pursuit”). The first recorded use in English is from a 1646 letter by James Butler, Earl of Ormond, to a Colonel O'Brien, describing bandits and thieves on main roadways. Pronunciation: /ˈtɔː.ɹi/, /ˈtoɹ.i/ 1. Of or belonging to the Tory Party or the Conservative Party. Labels: UK, not-comparable 2. Of or belonging to the Conservative Party of Canada, one of that party's predecessors, or an affiliated provincial political party. Labels: Canadian, not-comparable
Word: Tory Part of Speech: name Etymology: Short for Victoria when used as a female name, and for Victor or Salvatore when used as a male name. Pronunciation: /ˈtɔː.ɹi/, /ˈtoɹ.i/ 1. A female given name. 2. A male given name.
Word: Tory Part of Speech: name Pronunciation: /ˈtɔː.ɹi/, /ˈtoɹ.i/ 1. Ellipsis of Tory Island, County Donegal, Ireland. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis
Word: tousle Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English touselen, equivalent to touse + -le. Cognate with German Low German tuseln, Bavarian zusseln, züsseln. Pronunciation: /ˈtaʊ.zəl/, /ˈtaʊ.səl/, /ˈtɔs.əl/, /ˈtʌs.əl/, /ˈtus.əl/ 1. To put into disorder; to tumble; to touse; to muss.
Word: tousle Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English touselen, equivalent to touse + -le. Cognate with German Low German tuseln, Bavarian zusseln, züsseln. Pronunciation: /ˈtaʊ.zəl/, /ˈtaʊ.səl/, /ˈtɔs.əl/, /ˈtʌs.əl/, /ˈtus.əl/ 1. The action of ruffling or setting in disorder. Example: Cassie reached over and gave Sammy's dark hair a tousle.
Word: touter Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From tout + -er. 1. One who seeks customers, as for an inn, a public conveyance, shops, etc.: hence, an obtrusive candidate for office.
Word: towhee Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Imitative of the call of the eastern towhee, Pipilo erythrophthalmus. Pronunciation: /ˈtoʊhiː/ 1. Any of several species of birds of the genera Pipilo and Melozone.
Word: trawl Part of Speech: noun Etymology: 16th century, borrowed from Dutch tragelen (“to pull with a towline, trawl”), from Middle Dutch traghelen, from traghel (“dragnet”) (presumably from Latin tragula (“dragnet”)), and as such root-cognate with English drag and dray. Pronunciation: /tɹɔːl/, /tɹoːl/, /tɹɔl/, /tɹɑl/, /tɹɒl/ 1. A net or dragnet used for trawling. 2. A long fishing line having many short lines bearing hooks attached to it; a setline. 3. An exhaustive search. Example: I embarked on a trawl through my uncle's papers in search of his missing will.
Word: trawl Part of Speech: verb Etymology: 16th century, borrowed from Dutch tragelen (“to pull with a towline, trawl”), from Middle Dutch traghelen, from traghel (“dragnet”) (presumably from Latin tragula (“dragnet”)), and as such root-cognate with English drag and dray. Pronunciation: /tɹɔːl/, /tɹoːl/, /tɹɔl/, /tɹɑl/, /tɹɒl/ 1. To take (fish or other marine animals) with a trawl. Labels: ambitransitive Example: The fisherman went out to trawl the deep sea for shrimp. 2. To fish from a slow-moving boat. Labels: intransitive Example: They used a large net to trawl for fish along the coast. 3. To make an exhaustive search for something within a defined area. Labels: intransitive Example: We need to trawl through the data to find meaningful patterns.
Word: trimer Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From tri- + -mer. 1. An oligomer composed of three monomers.
Word: triode Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *tréyes Proto-Indo-European *tri- Proto-Italic *tri- Latin tri-der. English tri- Proto-Indo-European *sed-der. Proto-Indo-European *sodós? Proto-Hellenic *hodós Ancient Greek ὁδός (hodós)bor. English -ode English triode From tri- + -ode. Pronunciation: /ˈtɹaɪ.əʊd/, /ˈtɹaɪ.oʊd/ 1. A thermionic valve containing an anode, a cathode, and a control grid; small changes to the charge on the grid control the flow from cathode to anode, which makes amplification possible.
Word: troika Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Russian тро́йка (trójka, “a group of three”). Pronunciation: /ˈtɹɔɪ.kə/ 1. A Russian carriage drawn by a team of three horses abreast. Example: A great writer of the last epoch, comparing Russia to a swift troika galloping to an unknown goal, exclaims 'Oh, troika, birdlike troika, who invented thee!' and adds, in proud ecstasy, that all the peoples of the world stand aside respectfully to make way for the recklessly galloping troika to pass. Example: When Gogol wrote his great passage on the troika speeding across the steppes, he likened it to Russia itself, advancing across the earth. 2. A party or group of three, especially a ruling council of three people in Soviet or Russian contexts. Example: The investigator suspected the poor dead bastards were just a vodka troika that had cheerily frozen to death. Example: The bare troika of Boolean operators brought them into metaphorical being.
Word: trompe Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From French trompe. Doublet of trump and tulumba. 1. A trumpet; a trump. Labels: obsolete 2. Alternative form of tromp (“blowing apparatus in a forge”). Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: tuber Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin tūber (“bump, hump, swelling”). Pronunciation: /ˈtjuːbə(ɹ)/, /ˈtubɚ/ 1. A fleshy, thickened underground stem of a plant, usually containing stored starch, for example a potato or arrowroot. 2. A thickened rootstock. 3. A rounded, protuberant structure in a human or animal body.
Word: tuber Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Latin tuba Latin tubusder. Middle French tubeder. English tube English -er English tuber From tube + -er. Pronunciation: /ˈtjuːbə(ɹ)/, /ˈtubɚ/ 1. One who tubes.
Word: tubule Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin tubulus, diminutive of tubus. Pronunciation: /ˈtjuːbjuːl/, /ˈtubjul/ 1. A small pipe or fistular body; a little tube. Example: renal tubule
Word: tuff Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *tewh₂-der. Proto-Italic *tūβosder. Oscanbor.? Latin tōfusder. Italian tufobor. French tufbor. English tuff From French tuffe, tuf, from Italian tufo, from Latin tōfus. Doublet of tufa. Pronunciation: /tʌf/ 1. A light porous rock, now especially a rock composed of compacted volcanic ash varying in size from fine sand to coarse gravel. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: This is what makes an ignimbrite; the general term for this kind of volcaniclastic rock is ‘tuff’.
Word: tuff Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Eye dialect of tough. Pronunciation: /tʌf/ 1. Eye dialect spelling of tough. Labels: alt-of, pronunciation-spelling Example: Tuff Stuff teaches that while life may go smoothly most of the time, ... Example: … yet never to make us so strong as the strongest of Men, whose Sinnews are tuffer, and Bones stronger, and Joints closer, and Flesh firmer, than ours are … 2. Impressive, amazing, awesome, cool. Labels: Internet, ironic, often Example: bro thinks he's tuff
Word: tulle Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from French tulle, named after French Tulle (a town), named after Latin Tūtēla (a Roman deity), from Latin tūtēla (whence English tutelary), from Latin tueor (whence tutor, tutorial). Pronunciation: /tjuːl/, /tuːl/, /tʊl/ 1. A kind of silk lace or light netting, used for clothing, veils, etc. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Jane smiled up at him through the tulle. […] He became entangled in the tulle veil. Example: I kept thinking of Marie Osmond — standing there at the altar, so brave in white tull ^([sic]). "Marriage isn't just for life," she said, "it's for eternity."
Word: tupelo Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Creek topilwa < íto 'tree' + opílwa 'swamp'. Pronunciation: /ˈtuːpəloʊ/ 1. Any of several trees of the genus Nyssa which grow in swampy regions on the eastern, southern and midwestern United States. 2. Any of several trees of the genus Nyssa which grow in swampy regions on the eastern, southern and midwestern United States.
Word: turgid Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Latin turgeō Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-der. Proto-Italic *-iðos Latin -idus Latin turgidusbor. English turgid From Latin turgidus (“swollen, inflated”), from turgeō (“to swell”). Pronunciation: /ˈtɜːd͡ʒɪd/, /ˈtəːd͡ʒɪd/, /ˈtɚ.d͡ʒɪd/, /ˈtʌɾd͡ʒɪd/, /ˈtøːd͡ʒəd/ 1. Distended beyond the natural state by some internal agent, especially fluid, or expansive force. Example: I have a turgid limb. Example: A vegetable that is fully moist and firm will seem both crisp and more tender than the same vegetable limp from water loss. When we bite down on a vegetable turgid with water, the already-stressed cell walls readily break and the cells burst open; in a limp vegetable, chewing compresses the walls together, and we have to exert much more pressure to break through them. 2. Of a river, inundated with excess water as from a flood; swollen. Example: The Jiet River lay before them, as thick and turgid as a gorged snake, its crosshatched surface reflecting the same ghastly hue that pervaded the Burning Plains. 3. Overly complex and difficult to understand; grandiloquent; bombastic. Example: These were all basic tenets, but the principals wrote them down as if they had never heard them before—and maybe they hadn’t, or at least not for many years. Perhaps that’s why bureaucratic prose becomes so turgid, whatever the bureaucracy. Example: Sounding rather suspiciously like Professor H. Bloom’s turgid studies of artistic influenza[…]
Word: tusked Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English tuskyd; equivalent to tusk + -ed. 1. Furnished with tusks; having tusks. Labels: not-comparable
Word: tusked Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of tusk Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: tusker Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Germanic *tunþskaz Proto-West Germanic *tunsk Old English tūsc Old English tūx Middle English tusk English tusk English -er English tusker From tusk + -er. 1. An animal, such as a bull elephant or a boar, with large tusks. Example: By climbing trees they had had a fairly good view of the herd, which they described as numbering several large tuskers, a great many cows and calves, and full-grown bulls whose ivory would be worth having. Example: The massive tusker leading the herd stopped in his tracks. His ears went out, his long sinuous trunk up.
Word: tusker Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Old Norse torfskeri, from torf (“turf”) + skera (“to cut”), whence also Scottish Gaelic tairsgeir, toirsgeir, treidhsgeir and later forms like toirsgian (assimilated to sgian (“knife”)). Known in print from the early 19th century, but doubtless much older. 1. A tool used in peat cutting, a type of turf spade similar to a cascrom. Labels: Orkney, Scotland, Shetland, UK, especially
Word: tweeze Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Back-formation from tweezers. Pronunciation: /twiz/ 1. To pluck or grasp using tweezers. Labels: transitive Example: Stamp-men tweeze their treasures to avoid smudging, wear, tear; to hold them up to the light or pick them out of benzine baths in search of watermarks. Example: He held his usual levee at his lodgings; he spent the usual hours washing and dressing; he rubbed his teeth with a red root, tweezed out hairs with a silver tweezer, tied his cravat to admiration, and issued at four precisely as perfectly equipped as if the Rue Royale had been St. James's Street and the Prince himself had hung upon his arm. 2. To shape by plucking out hairs with tweezers. Labels: transitive Example: Here Mrs. Lawrence had smiled to soften the anxiety of her blue eyes under their frowning, carefully tweezed brows. Example: He’d run his lacquered, dusky pink index finger over his tweezed mustache and say […] 3. To pluck out hairs using tweezers. Labels: intransitive Example: Word to the wise: if you must tweeze solo, stick to plucking only the obvious stray hairs.
Word: twiner Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From twine + -er. 1. One who or that which twines. Example: a “twiner” of tales 2. Any plant that twines about a support.
Word: typic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree English type Proto-Indo-European *-ikos Proto-Italic *-ikos Latin -icuslbor. Old French -iquebor. Middle English -ik English -ic English typic From type + -ic. 1. Relating to a type. Labels: not-comparable
Word: typify Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ˈtɪpɪfaɪ/ 1. To embody, exemplify; to represent by a form, image, model, or resemblance. Labels: transitive Example: His attitude typifies the attitude of young people today. 2. To portray stereotypically. Labels: transitive Example: The angry captain typified all new sailors as incompetent. 3. To serve as a typical or reference specimen of. Labels: transitive Example: The chosen specimen typifies plants belonging to that species.
Word: ulan Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of uhlan. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: umber Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle French ombre (“umber”), from terre d'ombre (“dark ochre”), from Old French umbre (“shade, shadow”), from Latin umbra. Doublet of umbra. Pronunciation: /ˈʌmbə/, /ˈʌmbɚ/ 1. A brown clay, somewhat darker than ochre, which contains iron and manganese oxides. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: I'll put myself in poor and mean attire, And with a kind of umber smirch my face; The like do you; so shall we pass along, And never stir assailants. 2. Alternative form of umbrere. Labels: alt-of, alternative, countable, uncountable 3. A grayling. Labels: countable, uncountable 4. A dusky brown African wading bird (Scopus umbretta) allied to the shoebill and herons; a hamerkop. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: umber Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle French ombre (“umber”), from terre d'ombre (“dark ochre”), from Old French umbre (“shade, shadow”), from Latin umbra. Doublet of umbra. Pronunciation: /ˈʌmbə/, /ˈʌmbɚ/ 1. Of a reddish brown colour, like that of the pigment. Labels: not-comparable Example: Their harps are of the umber shade / That hides the blush of waking day.
Word: umber Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle French ombre (“umber”), from terre d'ombre (“dark ochre”), from Old French umbre (“shade, shadow”), from Latin umbra. Doublet of umbra. Pronunciation: /ˈʌmbə/, /ˈʌmbɚ/ 1. To give a reddish-brown colour to. Labels: transitive Example: Armies o'er armies heap'd, the locusts came, Like clouds in autumn umbering all the sky […]
Word: umbra Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Latin umbra (“shadow”). Doublet of umber. Pronunciation: /ˈʌmbɹə/ 1. The fully shaded inner region of a shadow cast by an opaque object. 2. The fully shaded inner region of a shadow cast by an opaque object. 3. The central region of a sunspot. 4. A shadow. Labels: literary 5. An uninvited guest brought along by one who was invited. Labels: archaic 6. One of the family Umbridae of mudminnows. 7. One of genus Umbrina of drums (family Sciaenidae). 8. An element of the umbral calculus. Example: In order to set up such an algorithm, we need the notion of multiplicative inverse of an umbra. Two umbrae are said to be multiplicative inverse to each other when αγ ≡ u.
Word: unary Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin ūnus (“one”) + -ary, on the pattern of binary, ternary, etc. Pronunciation: /ˈjuːnəɹi/ 1. Consisting of or involving a single element or component. Labels: not-comparable Example: Her work is a renunciation of the old narrative, a throwing away of the cotton reel, an enunciation of the unary signifier, fort, that is meaningless in itself. 2. Of an operation, function, procedure, or logic gate, taking exactly one operand, argument, parameter, or input; having domain of dimension 1. Labels: not-comparable Example: Negation is a unary operation. Example: Zadeh’s claim is that if the meaning of an expression (X) can be modeling by a fuzzy membership function variable, then the meaning of an expression such as “very X” is simply a membership function over the same variable determined by applying a unary operator to the membership function for X.
Word: unary Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin ūnus (“one”) + -ary, on the pattern of binary, ternary, etc. Pronunciation: /ˈjuːnəɹi/ 1. The unary, or bijective base-1, numeral system. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. Unary coding, an entropy encoding for natural numbers. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: uprise Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English uprisen, from Old English ūprīsan (“to rise up”), equivalent to up- + rise. Cognate with Icelandic upprisa (“resurrection”), Middle Low German oprīsinge (“uprising”). Compare also Icelandic uppreisn (“an uprising, revolt”). 1. To rise; to get up. Labels: archaic Example: 1874, Marcus Clarke, For the Term of His Natural Life Chapter VI The great sky uprose from this silent sea without a cloud. The stars hung low in its expanse, burning in a violent mist of lower ether. Example: With the day, though not so early as the sun, uprose Miss Susan Nipper. 2. To have an upward direction or inclination. Labels: archaic Example: The voice grew faint: there came a further change; / Once more uprose the mystic mountain range: / Below were men and horses pierc'd with worms, / And slowly quickening into lower forms; […] 3. To rebel or revolt; to take part in an uprising. Example: They had decided to uprise rather than face punishment, and they wanted all the help they could get.
Word: uprise Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English uprisen, from Old English ūprīsan (“to rise up”), equivalent to up- + rise. Cognate with Icelandic upprisa (“resurrection”), Middle Low German oprīsinge (“uprising”). Compare also Icelandic uppreisn (“an uprising, revolt”). 1. The act of rising; appearance above the horizon; rising. Example: I told her of my sufferings and my madness, And how, awakened from that dreamy mood By Liberty’s uprise, the strength of gladness Came to my spirit in my solitude; […]
Word: uranyl Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Ancient Greek οὐρᾰνός (ourănós) Ancient Greek Οὐρᾰνός (Ourănós)der. Latin Ūranusbor. English Uranus Proto-Indo-European *-om Proto-Italic *-om Latin -umder. English -ium English uranium Proto-Indo-European *swel-der.? Ancient Greek ῡ̔́λη (hū́lē)der. Frenchder. English -yl English uranyl From uranium + -yl. 1. The divalent radical UO₂²⁺, conveniently regarded as a residue of many uranium compounds. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: uremia Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Ancient Greek οὖρον (oûron, “urine”) + αἷμα (haîma, “blood”). 1. Blood poisoning resulting from the retention of waste products usually excreted as urine. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: vail Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English vayle, from Old French vail, from valoir (“to be worth”), from Latin valeō (“to be worth”). Pronunciation: /veɪl/ 1. Profit; return; proceeds. Labels: obsolete Example: My house is as t’were the Caue, where the yong Out-lawe hoords the stolne vayles of his occupation […] 2. Money given to servants by visitors; a gratuity; also vale. Labels: in-plural, obsolete Example: Do you remember, how many Rich Gowns and Petticoats, how many lac’d Pinners, Hoods, Scarfs, and Nightrails, I have given you, since the three Years you have serv’d me, together with many other Vails, Perquisites, and Profits you have enjoy’d in my Service? Example: […] it is a maxim among the gentlemen of our cloth, that those masters who promise the most, perform the least; and I have often heard them say, they have found the largest vails in those families where they were not promised any.
Word: vail Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English valen; either from Anglo-Norman valer or a clipping of avalen. Compare avale. Pronunciation: /veɪl/ 1. Submission. Labels: obsolete