nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: donation Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English donacion, donation, from Middle French donation, from Latin dōnātiō (“a present”), from dōnō (“to give”), from dōnum (“a gift”). Recorded in English since the 15th century. Equivalent to donate + -ion. Pronunciation: /dəʊˈneɪʃən/, /doʊˈneɪʃən/ 1. A voluntary gift or contribution for a specific cause. Example: They were collecting donations for the elderly at Christmas. Example: And some donation freely to estate On the bless'd lovers. 2. The act of giving or bestowing; a grant. Example: After donation there is an absolute change and alienation of the property of the thing given.
Word: manufacture Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle French manufacture, from Old French, from Medieval Latin manūfactūra (“a making by hand”), from manūfactus, a compound of manū factus, manū being ablative of manus (“hand”), and factus past participle of faciō (“to do, make”). Compare manual, facture. Pronunciation: /ˌmænjuˈfækt͡ʃɚ/, /ˌmænjəˈfækt͡ʃɚ/, /ˌmænəˈfækt͡ʃɚ/, /ˌmanjʊˈfaktʃə/, /ˌmanjəˈfaktʃə/ 1. The action or process of making goods systematically or on a large scale. Example: After years of exporting the gum base to be used as an ingredient in the manufacture of regular chewing gum, the cooperative recently decided to start making its own gum using only chicle gum base and natural flavorings and sweeteners, Chicza said. 2. Anything made, formed or produced; product. Example: The roads [are] crowded with carriers, laden with rich manufactures. Example: Thus, a patented manufacture should be either better in quality or cheaper in cost than that which it is intended to supplant. 3. The process of such production; generation, creation. Labels: figuratively Example: Our lawgivers take special pride in the ever active manufacture of new bills and laws. 4. A watch manufacturer that makes its own parts, rather than assembling watches from parts obtained from other firms.
Word: manufacture Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle French manufacture, from Old French, from Medieval Latin manūfactūra (“a making by hand”), from manūfactus, a compound of manū factus, manū being ablative of manus (“hand”), and factus past participle of faciō (“to do, make”). Compare manual, facture. Pronunciation: /ˌmænjuˈfækt͡ʃɚ/, /ˌmænjəˈfækt͡ʃɚ/, /ˌmænəˈfækt͡ʃɚ/, /ˌmanjʊˈfaktʃə/, /ˌmanjəˈfaktʃə/ 1. To make things, usually on a large scale, with tools and either physical labor or machinery. Example: Scientists are learning how to manufacture sperm and egg cells from other types of cell; others are developing "alternative" wombs Example: An effort was made to fit the flexible tube at least 3 mm deep onto the vasculature; (2) for the remaining systems, 3D-printed polyethylene terephthalate (PET) reservoir blocks were manufactured by PrintPlace using FDM technology. The additively manufactured PET reservoir blocks were previously applied and proven to effectively circulate the agent through the healing network [6]. 2. To work (raw or partly wrought materials) into suitable forms for use. Labels: transitive Example: to manufacture wool into blankets Example: The instrument of this dumbing down in Nineteen Eighty-Four was Newspeak, the official language of the English Socialist Party (Ingsoc). Newspeak was a sort of Totalitarian Esperanto that sought gradually to diminish the range of what was thinkable by eliminating, contracting and manufacturing words. 3. To fabricate; to create false evidence to support a point. Labels: derogatory Example: The collegian keeps manufacturing new excuses for their tardiness. Example: Digital technology has made it so easy to manufacture lies that it's become difficult to separate fact from fiction.
Word: dispose Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Borrowed from French disposer. Pronunciation: /dɪsˈpoʊz/, /dɪˈspəʊz/ 1. To eliminate or to get rid of something. Labels: intransitive, with-of Example: I dispose of my trash in the garbage can. 2. To distribute or arrange; to put in place. Example: Now, dear soldiers, march away: / And how thou pleasest, God, dispose the day! Example: Marianne’s pianoforte was unpacked and properly disposed of, and Elinor’s drawing were affixed to the walls of their sitting rooms. 3. To deal out; to assign to a use. Example: what he designed to bestow on her funeral, he would rather dispose among the poor 4. To incline. Example: In these uncertain times, I am disposed towards caution. Example: Endure and conquer; Jove will soon dispose / To future good our past and present woes. 5. To bargain; to make terms. Labels: obsolete Example: She had disposed with Caesar. 6. To regulate; to adjust; to settle; to determine. Labels: obsolete Example: the knightly forms of combat to dispose
Word: dispose Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from French disposer. Pronunciation: /dɪsˈpoʊz/, /dɪˈspəʊz/ 1. The disposal or management of something. Labels: obsolete Example: By thus doing, he submits himself to God's rod, commits himself to the dispose of his providence; yea, by thus doing, he casteth the lot of his present and future condition into the lap of his creditors, and leaves the whole dispose thereof to the Lord […] 2. Behaviour; disposition. Labels: obsolete
Word: profession Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *per-der.? Proto-Indo-European *per-der.? Proto-Indo-European *pér Proto-Indo-European *-o Proto-Indo-European *pró Proto-Indo-European *pro- Proto-Italic *pro- Latin prō- Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂-der. Proto-Italic *fatēōr Latin fateor Latin profiteor Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *-Hō Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō Proto-Italic *-tiō Latin -tiō Latin professiōnembor. Old French professionbor. Anglo-Norman professiounbor. Middle English professioun English profession From Middle English professioun, from Anglo-Norman professioun, Old French profession (“declaration of faith, religious vows, occupation”), from Latin professiō (“avowal, public declaration”), from the participle stem of profitērī (“to profess”). By surface analysis, profess + -ion. Pronunciation: /pɹəˈfɛʃ.ən/, /pɹəˈfeʃ.ən/ 1. A declaration of faith. Example: She died only a few years after her profession. Example: Rosario was a young novice belonging to the monastery, who in three months intended to make his profession. 2. A declaration of faith. Example: I congratulate you upon the wisdom that withheld you from entering yourself a member of the Protestant Association […] it is likely to bring an odium upon the profession they make, that will not soon be forgotten. 3. A declaration of faith. Example: Despite his continued professions of innocence, the court eventually sentenced him to five years. Example: I scarcely know any thing that really interests me, and I would give a great deal not to be so quick-sighted as I am; it would be so pleasant to believe only a tithe of the professions that are made me. 4. A professional occupation. Example: My father was a barrister by profession. Example: “You are very idle, Cashel; I am sure of that. It is too provoking to throw away so much money every year for nothing. Besides, you must soon be thinking of a profession.” “I shall go into the army,” said Cashel. “It is the only profession for a gentleman.” 5. A professional occupation. Labels: collective Example: His conduct is against the established practices of the legal profession.
Word: pebble Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English pibel (also in pibleston), from Old English papolstān (“pebble-stone”), from Old English *papol, *pyppel, *pæbbel of unknown origin + Old English stān. Compare Albanian popël. Pronunciation: /ˈpɛbəl/, [ˈpʰɛbəl] ~ [ˈpʰɛbl̩] 1. A small stone, especially one rounded by the action of water. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Then let the pebbles on the hungry beach Fillip the stars; Example: And trifles for choice matters, worth a sponge; As children gathering pebbles on the shore. 2. A particle from 4 to 64 mm in diameter, following the Wentworth scale. Labels: countable, uncountable 3. A small droplet of water intentionally sprayed on the ice that cause irregularities on the surface. Labels: countable, uncountable 4. Transparent and colourless rock crystal. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Brazilian pebble 5. A form of slow-burning gunpowder in large cubical grains. Labels: countable, uncountable 6. A small piece of crack cocaine. Labels: countable, slang, uncountable Example: You ain't got your Glock for the summer / And you ain't gonna pop for your gunner / You ain't in the whip with them pebbles (Nah) / You ain't on the strip with the rebels (Nah)
Word: pebble Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English pibel (also in pibleston), from Old English papolstān (“pebble-stone”), from Old English *papol, *pyppel, *pæbbel of unknown origin + Old English stān. Compare Albanian popël. Pronunciation: /ˈpɛbəl/, [ˈpʰɛbəl] ~ [ˈpʰɛbl̩] 1. To pave with pebbles. Labels: transitive 2. To deposit water droplets on the ice. Labels: transitive Example: to pebble the ice between games 3. To give (leather) a rough appearance with small rounded prominences. Labels: transitive 4. To place a pebble at (a vertex of a graph) according to certain rules, in a pebble game. Labels: transitive
Word: calix Part of Speech: noun 1. Archaic spelling of calyx. Labels: alt-of, archaic
Word: dismount Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From dis- + mount, probably a calque of Old French desmonter. Pronunciation: /dɪsˈmaʊnt/ 1. To (cause to) get off (something). Labels: ambitransitive Example: She carefully dismounted from the horse. Example: She carefully dismounted the horse. 2. To make (a mounted drive) unavailable for use. Labels: ambitransitive Example: The VMS operator tried to dismount the Unix hard drive with the DISMOUNT DISK$NFSMOUNT command, instead of umount /mnt/nfshome. Example: PROBLEM: A volume periodically dismounts. There are two drives with one volume on each. From time to time, the second volume dismounts and the drive shuts down. 3. To come down; to descend. Labels: intransitive Example: But now the bright sun ginneth to dismount. 4. To throw (cannon) off their carriages. Labels: transitive
Word: dismount Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From dis- + mount, probably a calque of Old French desmonter. Pronunciation: /dɪsˈmaʊnt/ 1. The act of stepping down from something being ridden, such as a skateboard. Example: Nice dismount! 2. The part of a routine in which the gymnast detaches from an apparatus. Example: It was a stylish routine, let down by a sloppy dismount.
Word: tenuous Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Irregularly formed from Latin tenuis (“thin, slight”) + -ous. Compare tenuious. Pronunciation: /ˈtɛn.ju.əs/ 1. Thin in substance or consistency. Example: The aether was thought to be of tenuous strands. Example: Far from being amicable, the numbers seemed to turn their backs on each other, and I couldn't find a pair with even the most tenuous connection. 2. Insubstantial. Example: His argument was not convincing in the debate, considering how tenuous it was. Example: July 18 2012, Scott Tobias, AV Club The Dark Knight Riseshttp://www.avclub.com/articles/the-dark-knight-rises-review-batman,82624/ Picking up eight years after The Dark Knight left off, the film finds Gotham enjoying a tenuous peace based on Harvey Dent’s moral ideals rather than the ugly truth of his demise. 3. Precarious, dependent upon unreliable things. Example: Paulina's repeated, almost anxious iteration of the lawfulness of her actions serves as a reminder of women's tenuous stance before the law in early modern English society. Example: Is this connected to "pro-gay" Governor Weld's contract with some in the community—gay rights in exchange for keeping sex out of the picture? Those willing to make this 'bargain with the devil' depend for their tenuous status on keeping the rest of us in line, moralizing about the need to behave "beyond reproach," clarifying to the straight public that there are good gays and bad ones.
Word: gray-collar Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From gray and collar by extension of white-collar and blue-collar, perhaps with gray being seen as intermediate between white and blue. 1. Of or pertaining to working-class professions that do not involve significant manual labor, such as skilled technical professions, combining elements of blue-collar and white-collar. Example: But if you look at the employment trends in the country, you find that the white-collar (and gray-collar) activities have become increasingly important... Example: 1964, National Ice Association: Forty-Seventh Annual Convention, Democratic Party Convention, OK State Fed of Labor Your present plan is rated, not for the so-called blue collar people, it’s rated for white-collar and that thin gray line, the gray-collar worker. In many small businesses you don’t know who is blue-collar and who is white-collar, the boss often doing all kinds of work around the firm.
Word: open-collar Part of Speech: adj 1. Of or pertaining to work that is performed from home, especially by means of the Internet. Labels: idiomatic, informal, not-comparable Example: The white-collar worker and open-collar professional have been imbued from earliest schooling with an individualist, anti-labor organizational ethic. Added to this, the new technologies are being utilized, in some cases, to restore patterns of home work and piece work. Example: In qualitative studies, open-collar workers said they felt they accomplished more because there were fewer interruptions. Employers also find that offering telecommuting positions can give them a recruiting advantage.
Word: black-collar Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From black market and -collar. 1. Of or pertaining to employment in the black market; that is, to engagement in illicit trade or distribution of untaxed goods and services. Labels: not-comparable, rare Example: Rewards necessarily drop for the former — not only because their numbers increase relatively but also because their output per man-hour does not rise as rapidly as that of the black-collar worker. Example: What attitudes, types of ideas and particular experiences would lead a "blue collar worker" to perceive the evidence of the defendant's guilt differently than a white, pink or black collar worker? 2. Relating to creative work. Labels: not-comparable, slang Example: black-collar worker Example: In Helsinki, the inner-city workers' housing which was once uniformly red, now occupied by ‘black-collar’ workers—creative industry types who wear a T-shirt to work—votes solidly green. 3. Relating to coalminers and oil workers. Labels: not-comparable Example: Even if you add to this the 4200 jobs created each year by the energy-efficiency measures for which the Rudd government claims credit, it is completely negated by the ‘black-collar’ jobs being added as Queensland and New South Wales expand coal exports. 4. Relating to the clergy. Labels: not-comparable, rare Example: This is scarcely the first crisis involving what an Australian victims' group, Broken Rites, has termed black-collar crime. But never before has a scandal cast doubts on the judgment and authority of a pope.
Word: green-collar Part of Speech: adj Etymology: By analogy with other compounds in -collar, especially white-collar and blue-collar, and taking green to represent the environment, environmentalism, and so on. 1. Of or pertaining to employment in the environment or environmentalism industries. Example: 1976, Patrick Heffernan, “Jobs for the Environment — The Coming Green Collar Revolution”, in Jobs and Prices in the West Coast Region: Hearing before the Joint Economic Committee, Congress of the United States, Ninety-Fourth Congress, Second Session, U.S. Government Printing Office, page 134, Example: 1997, Geoff Mulgan, Perri 6 [sic], et al., The British Spring: A Manifesto for the Election After Next, Demos, page 26, The United States, Canada, Germany, and Denmark are all generating hundreds of thousands of new 'green collar' jobs, especially for young people, achieving remarkable reductions in energy, water, waste disposal and materials costs. 2. Of or pertaining to rural, agricultural employment; often contrasted with urban blue-collar employment. Example: 1983, U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Forestry, Water Resources, and Environment, Cultivation of Marihuana in National Forests: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Forestry, Water Resources, and Environment, […], U.S. Government Printing Office, page 32, American [marihuana] growers, who have more recently become known as America's "green-collar" workers because of the bright green color of their product, […] Example: Blue-collar 29.7 33.5 Green-collar 21.2 10.0 White-collar 25.0 31.7 Grey-collar 24.0 24.8
Word: ergo Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From Middle English ergo, from Latin ergō. Pronunciation: /ˈɛɚɡoʊ/, /ˈɝɡoʊ/ 1. Consequently, therefore, or thus. Labels: not-comparable Example: "I merely made an individual application of a general rule. All women love flattery—ergo, Miss Arundel liked it." Example: The pirates who invaded this fort left Sparrow locked in his cell; ergo, they are not his allies.
Word: ergo Part of Speech: conj Etymology: From Middle English ergo, from Latin ergō. Pronunciation: /ˈɛɚɡoʊ/, /ˈɝɡoʊ/ 1. therefore (especially in syllogisms)
Word: ergo Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈɛɚɡoʊ/, /ˈɝɡoʊ/ 1. Clipping of ergometer (rowing machine). Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, slang
Word: ergo Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Clipping of ergonomic. Pronunciation: /ˈɛɚɡoʊ/, /ˈɝɡoʊ/ 1. An ergonomic factor or characteristic. Labels: informal Example: I just love the ergos on this knife. It just feels great and carries so well.
Word: facsimile Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin fac simile (“make like”), from fac (“make”) (imperative of facere (“make”)) + simile (neuter of similis (“like, similar”)). Pronunciation: /fækˈsɪm.ə.li/ 1. A copy or reproduction. Labels: countable Example: To paraphrase the critic of the Times, if one may make the facsimile of a human being out of bronze, why not the facsimile of a Brillo carton out of plywood? 2. Reproduction in the exact form as the original. Labels: uncountable Example: Indeed his rendering is so excellent an example of mediæval learning and latinity that, even at the risk of sating the learned reader with too many antiquities, I have made up my mind to give it in fac-simile, together with an expanded version for the benefit of those who find the contractions troublesome. 3. A fax, a machine for making and sending copies of printed material and images via radio or telephone network. Labels: countable, uncountable 4. The image sent by the machine itself. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: facsimile Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Latin fac simile (“make like”), from fac (“make”) (imperative of facere (“make”)) + simile (neuter of similis (“like, similar”)). Pronunciation: /fækˈsɪm.ə.li/ 1. To send via a facsimile machine; to fax. Labels: transitive 2. To make a copy of; to reproduce. Labels: transitive Example: “What is a turtle?” asked I, facsimileing the graceful attitude of Don José, and leaning both my arms full-length on the table, while I stared him undauntedly in the face, as if he had been no more than an ordinary man. Example: The branch at the top [of the figure] is facsimiled from that in the hand of Adam, in Durer’s Adam and Eve.
Word: table tennis Part of Speech: noun 1. A game or sport (similar to tennis) that involves the hitting of a light plastic ball with rackets (called paddles, or bats in Britain) across a table fashioned like a miniature tennis court. Labels: uncountable Example: An AI-powered robot has beaten elite players at table tennis in a landmark achievement for a machine faced with a human athlete in a real-world competitive sport.
Word: Japanize Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Hokkien 日本 /Ji̍t-púnbor. Malay Jepangbor. Portuguese Japãobor. ▲ Malay Jepangbor. Dutch Japanbor. English Japan Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)bor. Late Latin -izōder. Middle French -iserbor. Middle English -isen English -ize English Japanize From Japan + -ize. 1. To Nipponize. Labels: transitive Example: Multiplying five times as rapidly as the whites, the Japs must someday―unless the problem is met now―absolutely control this Coast. Just as Hawaii and the Sacramento valley have been Japanized, so will the state of Washington. Example: His latest, Tokyo Godfathers, may sound like a gangster film, but rather it's Kon's attempt to Japanize a Western tradition that goes back to Charles Dickens and beyond: the heartwarming holiday story.
Word: diadromous Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From dia- (“across”) + -dromous (< Ancient Greek δρόμος (drómos, “running, path, way”)). Compare Modern Greek διάδρομος (diádromos, “corridor”). 1. that travels between salt water and fresh water as part of its life cycle Labels: not-comparable
Word: catadromous Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From cata- + -dromous, by analogy with anadromous. Compare catanadromous. 1. Living in fresh water as an adult, but breeding in the sea. Example: Bird migration routes favor marshes and river valleys, as do, more obviously, the movement of anadromous salmon and, the mirror image, catadromous eels, to mention only two of the numerous migrating fish species. 2. Of a fern in which the first veins in a frond segment are produced towards the base of the frond.
Word: pareidolia Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from German Pareidolie, constructed from Ancient Greek παρα- (para-, “alongside”) + εἴδωλον (eídōlon, “image”) + -ία (-ía). By surface analysis, par- + eidolia. Pronunciation: /ˌpæɹ.aɪˈdəʊ.li.ə/, /ˌpæɹ.iˈdoʊ.li.ə/, /ˌpæɹ.aɪˈdoʊ.li.ə/, /ˌpɛɹ.iˈdoʊ.li.ə/, /ˌpɛɹ.aɪˈdoʊ.li.ə/ 1. The tendency to interpret a vague stimulus as something known to the observer, such as interpreting marks on Mars as canals, seeing shapes in clouds, or hearing hidden messages in music. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: This last is called by Dr. Kahlbaum, changing hallucination, partial hallucination, perception of secondary images, or pareidolia. Example: Pareidolia underlies several forms of divination.
Word: microorganism Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From micro- + organism. Pronunciation: /ˌmaɪ.kɹəʊˈɔː.ɡəˌnɪz.m̩/, /ˌmaɪ.kɹoʊˈɔɹ.ɡəˌnɪz.m̩/ 1. An organism that is too small to be seen by the unaided eye; especially, a single-celled organism, such as a bacterium. Example: The cud is then reswallowed by the ruminant and further digested by specialized microorganisms that live in the rumen. Example: Bacillus anthracis: from the first up to the sixth day, this microorganism was isolatable, or in other words still alive.
Word: fecundity Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin fēcunditās (“fruitfulness, fertility”), from fēcundus, equivalent to fecund + -ity. Pronunciation: /fɪˈkʌndɪtɪ/ 1. Ability to produce offspring. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: In the early days the reviewers compared him to the late Douglas Adams, but then Terry went on to write books as enthusiastically as Douglas avoided writing them, and now, if there is any comparison to be made of anything from the formal rules of a Pratchett novel to the sheer prolific fecundity of the man, it might be to P. G. Wodehouse. 2. Ability to cause growth or increase. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: [I]t would not be very much less absurd for someone to write about New York City after having spent only a few years or a few decades in this metropolis of inexhaustible adventure, of terrifying emotional fecundity, of uncapturable character. 3. Number, rate, or capacity of offspring production. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: The soil spawned humanity, as it bred frogs in the Rains, and the gap of the sickness of one season was filled to overflowing by the fecundity of the next. 4. Rate of production of young by a female. Labels: uncountable, usually
Word: octet Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From oct- (“eight”) + -et. Pronunciation: /ɒkˈtɛt/ 1. A group or set of eight of something. 2. A group of eight musicians performing together. Example: An octet of waiters sang her "Happy Birthday". 3. A composition for such a group of musicians. 4. A byte of eight bits. Abbreviation: o 5. A group of three bits, representing any of eight possible values. Labels: rare Example: This is done by breaking down each set of permissions (user, group, and other) to represent an octet.
Word: dine Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English dynen, from Old French disner (“to dine, eat the main meal of the day”), from Vulgar Latin *disiūnāre (“to eat breakfast”), from *disieiūnāre (“to break the fast”), from Late Latin, from dis- + iēiūnō (“to fast”), from Latin ieiūnus. Pronunciation: /daɪn/ 1. To eat; to eat dinner or supper. Labels: intransitive 2. To give a dinner to; to furnish with the chief meal; to feed. Labels: transitive Example: Brown accompanied his jolly landlord and the rest of his friends into the large and smoky kitchen, where this savoury mess reeked on an oaken table, massy enough to have dined Johnnie Armstrong and his merry-men. Example: I dined them, treated them, listened to the truth of their hearts, stole their names and through this means bluffed and bartered my way into courthouse, palace and colonial manor. 3. To dine upon; to have to eat. Labels: obsolete, transitive
Word: dine Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English dynen, from Old French disner (“to dine, eat the main meal of the day”), from Vulgar Latin *disiūnāre (“to eat breakfast”), from *disieiūnāre (“to break the fast”), from Late Latin, from dis- + iēiūnō (“to fast”), from Latin ieiūnus. Pronunciation: /daɪn/ 1. Dinnertime. Labels: obsolete, uncountable
Word: embrace Part of Speech: noun Etymology: The verb is derived from Middle English embracen (“to clasp in one's arms, embrace; to reach out eagerly for, welcome; to enfold, entwine; to ensnare, entangle; to twist, wrap around; to gird, put on; to lace; to be in or put into bonds; to put a shield on the arm; to grasp (a shield or spear); to acquire, take hold of; to receive; to undertake; to affect, influence; to incite; to unlawfully influence a jury; to surround; to conceal, cover; to shelter; to protect; to comfort; to comprehend, understand”) [and other forms], from Old French embracer, embracier (“to kiss”) (modern French embrasser (“to kiss; (dated) to embrace, hug”)), from Late Latin *imbracchiāre, from in- (prefix meaning ‘in, inside, within’)) + bracchium (“arm”). The English word is analysable as em- + brace. The noun is derived from the verb. Pronunciation: /ɛmˈbɹes/, /ɛmˈbɹeɪs/, /ɪmˈbɹeɪs/ 1. An act of putting arms around someone and bringing the person close to the chest; a hug. Example: [E]yes, looke your laſt, / Armes take your laſt embrace: and lips, O you / The doores of breath, ſeale with a righteous kiſſe / A dateleſſe bargain to ingroſſing death: […] Example: That Gentleman I mean to make the model of my Fortunes, and in his chaſt imbraces keep alive the memory of my loſt lovely Loveleſe: he is ſomewhat like him too. 2. An enclosure partially or fully surrounding someone or something. Labels: figuratively Example: When he reached the ridge the outlying fog crept across the summit, caught him in its embrace, and wrapped him from her gaze. Example: We were now within the embrace of a broad bay flanked on either hand by a low promontory. 3. Full acceptance (of something). Labels: figuratively Example: And it was the white blood which sent him to the minister, which rising in him for the last and final time, sent him against all reason and all reality, into the embrace of a chimera, a blind faith in something read in a printed Book. Example: It then occurred to Barbara, and recurred more strongly after she had learned of Ricky's marriage and her sale of the school in England, her eager embrace of Islam, and the total handing over of her lot to Joe Ramdez, that there had been no secret state of mind in Ricky. 4. An act of enfolding or including. Labels: figuratively Example: In India men are enjoined to be fully awake to the fact that they are in the closest relation to things around them, body and soul, and that they are to hail the morning sun, the flowing water, the fruitful earth, as the manifestation of the same living truth which holds them in its embrace.
Word: refuse Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Borrowed into late Middle English from Middle French refusé, past participle of refuser (“to refuse”). Displaced native Middle English wernen (“to refuse”) likely due to the similar sounding Middle English warnen Pronunciation: /ˈɹɛfjuːs/ 1. Discarded, rejected.
Word: refuse Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed into late Middle English from Middle French refusé, past participle of refuser (“to refuse”). Displaced native Middle English wernen (“to refuse”) likely due to the similar sounding Middle English warnen Pronunciation: /ˈɹɛfjuːs/ 1. Collectively, items or material that have been discarded; rubbish, garbage. Labels: uncountable
Word: refuse Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English refusen, from Old French refuser, from Vulgar Latin *refūsāre, a blend of Classical Latin refūtāre (whence also refute) and recūsāre (whence also recuse). Pronunciation: /ɹɪˈfjuːz/, /ɹɪˈfjuz/, /ɹɪˈfjʉːz/, /ɹəˈfjʉːz/ 1. To decline (a request or demand). Labels: transitive Example: My request for a pay rise was refused. Example: After the death of his [Verney's] first wife, he proposed to Florence Nightingale but she refused him. Later he married her sister, and for many years Claydon was Miss Nightingale's second home. 2. To decline a request or demand, forbear; to withhold permission. Labels: intransitive Example: I refuse to listen to this nonsense any more. Example: I asked the star if I could have her autograph, but she refused. 3. To withhold (something) from (someone); to not give it to them or to bar them from having it. Labels: ditransitive Example: If we bang or scream they will spray us with some pepper or something else that's in an aeresol ^([sic]) can, and they wear gas masks, while the rest of us have to breathe the fumes in, and it makes us very sick and they refuse us medical treatment. 4. To throw back, or cause to keep back (as the centre, a wing, or a flank), out of the regular alignment when troops are about to engage the enemy. Example: to refuse the right wing while the left wing attacks 5. To disown. Labels: obsolete, transitive Example: Refuse thy name.
Word: refuse Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English refusen, from Old French refuser, from Vulgar Latin *refūsāre, a blend of Classical Latin refūtāre (whence also refute) and recūsāre (whence also recuse). Pronunciation: /ɹɪˈfjuːz/, /ɹɪˈfjuz/, /ɹɪˈfjʉːz/, /ɹəˈfjʉːz/ 1. refusal Labels: obsolete Example: This ſpoken, readie with a proud refuſe [...]
Word: refuse Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Italic *wre- Latin re-der. Old French re-bor. Middle English re- English re- English fuse English refuse From re- + fuse. Pronunciation: /ɹiːˈfjuːz/ 1. To fuse again, as with, or after, heating or melting.
Word: pernicious Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English, from Old French pernicios, from Latin perniciōsus (“destructive”), from perniciēs (“destruction”), from per (“through”) + nex (“slaughter, death”). Pronunciation: /pəˈnɪʃəs/, /pɚˈnɪʃəs/ 1. Causing much harm in a subtle way. Example: pernicious influence Example: pernicious effects 2. Causing death or injury; deadly. 3. Insidiously villainous: intending to cause harm, especially in a subtle way.
Word: pernicious Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Analyzable as pernīx ("swift") + -ious. 1. swift; celeritous. Labels: obsolete
Word: embark Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French embarquer, from em- + barque (“small ship”). Compare with Portuguese embarcar, Spanish abarcar. Pronunciation: /ɪmˈbɑːk/, /ɛmˈbɑːk/, /ɪmˈbɑɹk/, /ɛmˈbɑɹk/ 1. To go aboard a craft or vessel for transportation. Example: All passengers please embark now. Example: [S]ee them embarqued; / And tell me if the VVinds and Seas befriend them. 2. To start, begin. Example: Phil embarked on his journey yesterday. Example: "This is uncommonly nice of you, Nora," he said, before she had had the chance to embark on any explanation; […] 3. To cause to go on board a vessel or boat; to put on shipboard. Labels: transitive 4. To engage, enlist, or invest (as persons, money, etc.) in any affair. Labels: transitive Example: He embarked his fortune in trade. Example: It was the reputation of the sect upon which St. Paul embarked his salvation.
Word: embark Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁én Proto-Italic *en Proto-Italic *en- Latin in- Old French en-bor. Middle English en- English en- English em- English bark English embark From em- + bark. Pronunciation: /ɪmˈbɑːk/, /ɛmˈbɑːk/, /ɪmˈbɑɹk/, /ɛmˈbɑɹk/ 1. To cover or enclose with bark. Labels: transitive
Word: forty-five Part of Speech: num Pronunciation: /ˌfɔɹtiˈfaɪv/, /ˌfɔːtiˈfaɪv/ 1. Cardinal number after forty-four and before forty-six.
Word: forty-five Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˌfɔɹtiˈfaɪv/, /ˌfɔːtiˈfaɪv/ 1. A .45-caliber firearm. Example: The robber brandished a forty-five at the cashier to make her empty the till for him. Example: The phoenix he helped create Out of control boy without a dad Shot the gun that startled my life While I drove him with a forty-five
Word: universism Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English universe Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō) Proto-Indo-European *-mos Proto-Indo-European *-mós Ancient Greek -μός (-mós) Ancient Greek -ισμός (-ismós)der. English -ism English universism From universe + -ism. 1. a movement advocating personal reason and experience and over faith and dogma Labels: uncountable Example: https://web.archive.org/web/20061012073457/http://open-site.org/Society/Religion/Universism/ Universism is a modern rational religious philosophy that began in 2003 with princples laid out by Ford Vox. Universists choose their beliefs according to the dictates of their own life experience and reason. Example: http://www.themystica.com/mystica/articles/u/universism.html Universism is a philosophy of The Universist Movement. Universism, though not a definitive philosophy, is a progressive, naturalistic worldview in which all meaning and purpose is understood through personal reason and experience; thus, being a religion of reason.
Word: universist Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English universe 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 universist From universe + -ist. 1. One who exclusively applies personal reason and experience to existential, religious and moral questions, accepts and is inspired by the natural uncertainty of the human state, and denies the validity of revelation, faith and dogma.
Word: universist Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree English universe 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 universist From universe + -ist. 1. Of or relating to universists or universism.
Word: expire Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English expire, from Middle French expirer, from Latin expīrō, exspīrō, from ex- (“out”) + spīrō (“breathe, be alive”). Pronunciation: /ɪkˈspaɪə(ɹ)/, /ɛkˈspaɪə(ɹ)/ 1. To die. Labels: intransitive Example: The patient expired in hospital. Example: And then, his head ſinking on his pillow, he expired; at about half an hour after ten. 2. To lapse and become invalid. Labels: intransitive Example: My library card will expire next week. 3. To come to an end; to conclude. Labels: intransitive Example: And when the thousand yeeres are expired, Satan shall be loosed out of his prison, […] 4. To exhale; to breathe out. Labels: ambitransitive Example: Anatomy exhibits the lungs in a continual motion of inspiring and expiring air. Example: This chafed the boar; his nostrils flames expire. 5. To give forth insensibly or gently, as a fluid or vapour; to emit in minute particles. Labels: transitive Example: the expiring of cold out of the inward parts of the earth in winter 6. To bring to a close; to terminate. Labels: transitive Example: Expire the term / Of a despised life. 7. To cause to lapse; to invalidate. Labels: transitive Example: The site expires cached pages that are older than 24 hours.
Word: negress Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From French négresse, from nègre. Equivalent to Negro + -ess. Pronunciation: /ˈniːɡɹɪs/ 1. A black female. Labels: dated, literary Example: Directly they were trotted off in their little pea-green and gilt carriage, guardian negress and all, I went into the shop, about which I had all this time been loafingly prowling, and called, clapping my hands, for some violet sherbet, […] Example: Hardly anywhere in the world will you find a negress driving a car. A negress acting as a chauffeur is still more extraordinary. Barely conceivable even in Harlem, but that was certainly where the car was from.
Word: hermit Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English hermite, heremite, eremite, from Old French eremite, from Ecclesiastical Latin, Late Latin eremita, from Ancient Greek ἐρημίτης (erēmítēs, “person of the desert”) from ἐρημία (erēmía, “desert, solitude”), from ἔρημος (érēmos) or ἐρῆμος (erêmos, “uninhabited”) plus -ίτης (-ítēs, “one connected to, a member of”). Doublet of eremite. Displaced native Old English ānsetla. Pronunciation: /ˈhɝmɪt/, /ˈhɜːmɪt/ 1. A religious recluse; someone who lives alone for religious reasons; an eremite. 2. A recluse; someone who lives alone and shuns human companionship. Example: Solitary the thrush, / The hermit withdrawn to himself, avoiding the settlements, / Sings by himself a song. Example: Millie told him he sounded like some batty hermit who lived in a cave. 3. A spiced cookie made with molasses, raisins, and nuts. 4. A hermit crab. Example: Because hermits are decapods and do not live within their own shells, they are not considered to be true crabs. 5. Any in the subfamily Phaethornithinae of hummingbirds.
Word: hermitage Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English hermytage, ermitage, from Old French ermitage, hermitaige, from Latin erēmīta, borrowed from Ancient Greek ἐρημίτης (erēmítēs, “hermit”). By surface analysis, hermit + -age. Pronunciation: /ˈhɜːmɪtɪd͡ʒ/, /ˈhɜr.mə.tɪdʒ/, /ˈhɜːrmɪtɪdʒ/ 1. A house or dwelling where a hermit lives. Example: But vvhat a vvretched, and diſconſolate Hermitage is that Houſe, vvhich is not viſited by thee [God], and vvhat a VVayue, and Stray is that Man, that hath not thy Markes vpon him? Example: I saw the huge rocking-stone, that had been violently depressed by him as he sprang, fly back when relieved of his weight till, for the first time during all these centuries, it got beyond its balance, fell with a most awful crash right into the rocky chamber which had once served the philosopher Noot for a hermitage, and, I have no doubt, for ever sealed the passage that leads to the Place of Life with some hundreds of tons of rock. 2. A place of seclusion. Example: Temptation is an obsequious servant that has no objection to the country, and we know that it takes up its lodging in hermitages as well as in cities; and that in the most remote and inaccessible desert it keeps company with the fugitive solitary. 3. A period of seclusion.
Word: Yale Part of Speech: name Etymology: Ultimately borrowed from Welsh Iâl, from iâl (“clearing, cultivated upland”). The surname is habitational. The university is named for Elihu Yale, a notable early benefactor. Pronunciation: /jeɪl/ 1. A university in the eastern United States. Example: But all this still does not rise to the level of a constitutional crisis, according to Jack Balkin, a Yale law professor who has written in depth about the term along with University of Texas professor Sanford Levinson. Democrats in Congress can go to the courts to have their subpoenas enforced, although Balkin said that is not an ideal path. 2. A romanisation scheme originating from Yale University. 3. A romanisation scheme originating from Yale University. Example: Coordinate term: Jyutping 4. A romanisation scheme originating from Yale University. 5. A romanisation scheme originating from Yale University. 6. Iâl, a commote of medieval Wales. Labels: historical 7. A surname transferred from the place name.
Word: Yale Part of Speech: name 1. A language spoken in Papua New Guinea, sometimes called Nagatman (the name of a village where it is spoken) 2. A people in Papua New Guinea associated with the Yale language
Word: Capella Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Latin capella (“she-goat; kid”). 1. A bright double star in the constellation Auriga; Alpha (α) Aurigae. Example: Over the snow-covered roofs could be seen a decorated cross with chains, and above it the rising triangle of Charles’s Wain^([sic – meaning Auriga]) with the yellowish light of Capella.
Word: Capella Part of Speech: name Etymology: Borrowed from Catalan Capella. 1. A surname from Catalan.
Word: friar Part of Speech: noun Etymology: PIE word *bʰréh₂tēr From Middle English frere, from Old French frere, from Latin frāter (“brother”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰréh₂tēr (“brother”). Doublet of bhai, brother, bru, frater, pal, and vai. Pronunciation: /ˈfɹaɪə/, /ˈfɹaɪɚ/ 1. A member of a mendicant Christian order such as the Augustinians, Carmelites (white friars), Franciscans (grey friars) or the Dominicans (black friars). 2. A white or pale patch on a printed page caused by poor inking. Labels: dated 3. An American fish, the silverside. 4. An American fish, the silverside.
Word: friary Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From friar (“brother in a religious order”) + -y (nominal suffix), from Latin frater (“brother”), from Latin. Piecewise doublet of fratery. Pronunciation: /ˈfɹaɪəɹi/ 1. A house or convent where friars (members of certain religious communities) live. Example: For this reason, Francis asked that part of the friary garden always be left untouched, so that wild flowers and herbs could grow there, and those who saw them could raise their minds to God, the Creator of such beauty.
Word: friary Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From friar + -y (adjectival suffix). Piecewise doublet of pally. Pronunciation: /ˈfɹaɪəɹi/ 1. Like a friar; relating to friars or to a convent. Example: Saint Francis with his Friery kowle in a corne-field.
Word: celibate Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Probably from the noun (“celibacy”) or from celibacy on the model of privacy/private, etc. Alternatively, from Latin caelebs (“single”) + -ate. Pronunciation: /ˈsɛləbət/ 1. Not married. Labels: not-comparable 2. Abstaining from sexual relations and pleasures. Labels: broadly, not-comparable Example: Members of religious communities sometimes take vows to remain celibate. Example: Juanita went celibate for a while and then started going out with Da5id and eventually got married to him.
Word: celibate Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin caelebs + -ate (noun-forming suffix) Pronunciation: /ˈsɛləbət/ 1. One who is not married, especially one who has taken a religious vow not to get married, usually because of being a member of a religious community. Labels: uncountable Example: Even during the ages that priestly marriage was permitted, celibates obtained a higher reputation for sanctity and virtue than married priests, who infinitely more than celibates were believed subject to infestation by demons.
Word: celibate Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Latin caelebs + -ate (verb-forming suffix) Pronunciation: /ˈsɛləbət/ 1. To practice celibacy. Labels: intransitive, rare Example: However, be that as it may, Stason celebrated with the boys while Hessel celibated alone. Example: These kids were winding up 45 years and 4 days of celebrating. Me? I'm winding up seven years of celibating looking for a patient virgin.
Word: celibate Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From French célibat (“celibacy”), from Latin caelibātus (“celibacy”), from caelebs (“unmarried”); compare German Zölibat (“celibacy”). Equivalent to Latin caelebs + -ate (forming nouns denoting a rank, a state) Pronunciation: /ˈsɛləbət/ 1. A celibate state; celibacy. Labels: obsolete, uncountable Example: He […] preferreth holy Cœlibate before the eſtate of Marriage, […] Example: And Mrs Gorman had had several admirers, both before and after Mr Gorman, and even during Mr Gorman, and Watt at least two well defined romances, in the course of his celibate.
Word: shoehorn Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From shoe + horn. Pronunciation: /ˈʃuːˌhɔːn/, /ˈʃuːˌhɔɹn/ 1. A smooth tool that assists in putting the foot into a shoe, by sliding the heel in after the toe is in place. 2. Anything by which a transaction is facilitated; a medium. Labels: derogatory Example: I was about sixty feet ahead of this film in many spots, which speaks rather poorly for it. And I resented the heartthrobs which were planted in my bosom with a shoehorn via the "little child" process. 3. Anything which draws on or allures; an inducement. Labels: obsolete Example: Now you cannot but observe, that most of our fine young Ladies readily fall in with the Direction of the Graver sort, to retain in their Service, by some small Encouragement, as great a Number as they can of supernumerary and insignificant Fellows, which they use like Whiflers, and commonly call Shoeing-Horns. These are never designed to know the length of the Foot, but only when a good Offer comes to whet and spur him up to the Point. Nay 'tis the Opinion of that grave Lady, Madam Matchwell, that it's absolutely convenient for every prudent Family to have several of these Implements about the House, to clap on as occasion serves, and that every Spark ought to produce a Certificate of his being a Shoeing-Horn, before he be admitted as a Shoe. A certain Lady, whom I could name, if it was necessary, has at present more Shoeing-Horns of all Sizes, Countries, and Colours, in her Service, than ever she had new Shoes in her Life.
Word: shoehorn Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From shoe + horn. Pronunciation: /ˈʃuːˌhɔːn/, /ˈʃuːˌhɔɹn/ 1. To use a shoehorn. Labels: literally 2. To force (something) into (a tight space); to squeeze (something) into (a schedule, etc); to exert great effort to insert or include (something); to include (something) despite potent reasons not to. Labels: figuratively, transitive Example: I shoehorned his dozen burgeoning bags into the backseat of my tiny car, and off we went. Example: His staff want to shoehorn an extra stop into his already packed campaigning schedule. 3. To force some current event into alignment with some (usually unconnected) agenda, especially when it is fallacious. Labels: figuratively, transitive Example: People claiming to be psychic may shoehorn an event into fulfillment of some vague past prediction. Example: After the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon on September 11, 2001, fundamentalist Christian evangelists Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson shoehorned the events to their agenda. They claimed that "liberal civil liberties groups, feminists, homosexuals and abortion rights supporters bear partial responsibility...because their actions have turned [my] god's anger against America."