nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: courtesy Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English curteisie, curtesie, from Anglo-Norman curtesie, from Old French curteisie, cortoisie. Equivalent to courteous + -y (abstract noun suffix). By surface analysis, court + -esy. Pronunciation: /ˈkɜːtəsi/, /ˈkɝɾəsi/ 1. Alternative form of curtsey. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: courtesy Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English curteisie, curtesie, from Anglo-Norman curtesie, from Old French curteisie, cortoisie. Equivalent to courteous + -y (abstract noun suffix). By surface analysis, court + -esy. Pronunciation: /ˈkɜːtəsi/, /ˈkɝɾəsi/ 1. Given or done as a polite gesture. Labels: not-comparable Example: We paid a courtesy visit to the new neighbors. 2. Supplied free of charge. Labels: not-comparable Example: The event planners offered courtesy tickets for the reporters.
Word: associate Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English associat(e) (used participially as well as adjectively up to Early Modern English), from Latin associātus, the perfect passive participle of associō (“to join, unite”), from ad- + sociō, from socius (“shared, common, kindred”) + -ō (first conjugation verb-forming suffix). Pronunciation: /əˈsəʊʃi.ət/, /əˈsəʊsi.ət/, /əˈsoʊʃi.ət/, /əˈsoʊsi.ət/, /əˈsoʊʃi.ɪt/ 1. Joined with another or others and having lower status. Labels: not-comparable Example: The associate editor is someone who has some experience in editing but not sufficient experience to qualify for a senior post. 2. Having partial status or privileges. Labels: not-comparable Example: He is an associate member of the club. 3. Following or accompanying; concomitant. Labels: not-comparable 4. Connected by habit or sympathy. Labels: dated, not-comparable Example: associate motions Example: These associate ideas are gradually formed into habits of acting together, by frequent repetition, while they are yet separately obedient to the will; as is evident from the difficulty we experience in gaining so exact an idea of the front of St. Paul's church, as to be able to delineate it with accuracy, or in recollecting a poem of a few pages.
Word: associate Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From the substantivization of the above adjective, see -ate (noun-forming suffix) and Etymology 1 for more. Pronunciation: /əˈsəʊʃi.ət/, /əˈsəʊsi.ət/, /əˈsoʊʃi.ət/, /əˈsoʊsi.ət/, /əˈsoʊʃi.ɪt/ 1. A person united with another or others in an act, enterprise, or business; a partner or employee. Example: Allow me to introduce my business associates, Alice and Bob, who are senior VPs for ops and strategy, respectively. Example: Associates must wash hands before returning to work 2. Somebody with whom one works, coworker, colleague. 3. A companion; a comrade. 4. One that habitually accompanies or is associated with another; an attendant circumstance. 5. A member of an institution or society who is granted only partial status or privileges. 6. One of a pair of elements of an integral domain (or a ring) such that the two elements are divisible by each other (or, equivalently, such that each one can be expressed as the product of the other with a unit). 7. A casual friend, acquaintance
Word: associate Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English associat(e) (“associated, allied”) (the verb *associaten is not found in Middle English writings and only attested at a later period), see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and Etymology 1 for more. Doublet of associe. Pronunciation: /əˈsəʊʃieɪt/, /əˈsəʊsieɪt/, /əˈsoʊʃieɪt/, /əˈsoʊsieɪt/ 1. To join in or form a league, union, or association. Labels: intransitive 2. To spend time socially; keep company. Labels: intransitive Example: She associates with her coworkers on weekends. Example: Before the race he associated only with other skiers. 3. To join as a partner, ally, or friend. Labels: transitive Example: He associated his name with many environmental causes. 4. To connect or join together; combine. Labels: transitive Example: particles of gold associated with other substances 5. To connect evidentially, or in the mind or imagination. Labels: transitive Example: I always somehow associate Chatterton with autumn. Example: He succeeded in associating his name inseparably with some names which will last as long as our language. 6. To endorse. Labels: reflexive Example: She refused to associate herself with the petition. Example: Mr. President, I rise to associate myself with the remarks of my senior Senator from Louisiana who has led this fight successfully for many years 7. To be associative. 8. To accompany; to be in the company of. Labels: obsolete, transitive Example: Friends should associate friends in grief and woe
Word: prosperity Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English prosperite, from Old French prosperitet, from Latin prosperitās, equivalent to prosper + -ity. Pronunciation: /pɹɑˈspɛɹ.ɪ.ti/, /pɹɒˈspɛɹ.ɪ.ti/ 1. The condition of being prosperous: having good fortune and a fortune. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Near-synonym: thriving Example: “Eating meat means prosperity in the coming year,” the roastery wrote on Weibo on February 5, days before the Lunar New Year began.
Word: phreaker Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From phreak + -er. 1. Synonym of phreak.
Word: john school Part of Speech: noun Etymology: john (“(slang) a prostitute's client”) + school 1. A police-run program in which men arrested for soliciting prostitutes agree to attend lectures from former prostitutes as an alternative to paying a fine or spending time in jail. Labels: US, colloquial
Word: free of charge Part of Speech: adj Pronunciation: /fɹiː ʌv t͡ʃʰɑɹd͡ʒ/ 1. Not requiring any payment. Labels: not-comparable Example: Buy two and pay for just one – the other is free of charge.
Word: free of charge Part of Speech: adv Pronunciation: /fɹiː ʌv t͡ʃʰɑɹd͡ʒ/ 1. Without any payment being required. Labels: not-comparable Example: They were giving the tickets away free of charge.
Word: helix Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin helix, from Ancient Greek ἕλιξ (hélix, “something twisted or spiral”). Pronunciation: /ˈhiːlɪks/ 1. A curve on the surface of a cylinder or cone such that its angle to a plane perpendicular to the axis is constant; the three-dimensional curve seen in a screw or a spiral staircase. 2. A small volute under the abacus of a Corinthian capital. 3. The incurved rim of the external ear. Example: helix piercing 4. An upside down midair 360° spin in playboating.
Word: helix Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Latin helix, from Ancient Greek ἕλιξ (hélix, “something twisted or spiral”). Pronunciation: /ˈhiːlɪks/ 1. To form or cause to form a helix. Example: A large positive inclination gives a chip which will helix out of the space between the face mill and the workpiece. Example: When the shaft is unsupported, the large torque tends to helix the inner core, and if the casing is not stiff enough, it will helix the casing also.
Word: Gretel Part of Speech: name 1. A diminutive of the female given name Margarete, from German. 2. A fictional character in the German fairy tale Hansel and Gretel.
Word: MDC Part of Speech: noun 1. Initialism of Metropolitan Detention Center. Labels: US, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism 2. Initialism of mapped diagnostic context. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism 3. Initialism of multiple description coding. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism 4. Initialism of Major Diagnostic Category. Labels: US, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism 5. Abbreviation of methylenedioxycathinone. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of 6. Initialism of modification detection code. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism 7. Initialism of mobile digital computer. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism 8. Initialism of mobile data computer. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Word: MDC Part of Speech: name 1. Initialism of Milk Development Council. Labels: UK, abbreviation, alt-of, historical, initialism 2. Initialism of Miami Dade College. Labels: US, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism 3. Initialism of Missouri Department of Conservation. Labels: US, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism 4. Initialism of MUMPS Development Committee. Labels: US, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism 5. Initialism of Movement for Democratic Change. Labels: Zimbabwe, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism Example: According to Ncube, the MDC believed, from 2000, that Britain's interest in Zimbabwe had more to do with concern for white farmers than black Zimbabweans. 6. Initialism of Motorola data communications. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Word: Movement for Democratic Change Part of Speech: name 1. A political party in Zimbabwe, founded in 1999. Abbreviation: MDC.
Word: Neville Part of Speech: name Etymology: * A Norman baronial surname, de Neville, from place names in Normandy, Néville, from Old French Neville (literally “Néel's estate”) or Neuville (literally “new settlement”), equivalent to nuef + ville. * Also as an Irish surname, from Ó Niadh (see Nee) or Ó Cnaimhín (see Nevin). Pronunciation: /ˈnɛvəl/ 1. A surname from Old French. Labels: countable 2. A male given name transferred from the surname, of 16th century and later usage. Labels: countable 3. A placename: Labels: countable, uncountable 4. A placename: Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, ellipsis, uncountable 5. A placename: Labels: countable, uncountable 6. A placename: Labels: countable, uncountable 7. A placename: Labels: countable, uncountable 8. A placename: Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: dero Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From derelict. Pronunciation: /ˈdeəɹ.əʊ/, /ˈdɛɹəʊ/ 1. A homeless person, a tramp; a social derelict, especially an alcoholic. Labels: Australia Example: If some shabby looking “dero” turns up at the gate no need to call the cops, its me. Example: Finn was affected with the dero shakes, wobbling one way or another to steady his position, as the hawks, looking down at him, casually flew out of range.
Word: alpha helix Part of Speech: noun 1. A secondary structure found in many proteins, in which the amino acids are arranged in a coil, or helix, with almost no free space on the inside and all side chains being pointed towards the outside
Word: jackaroo Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Obscure. Possibly from an Aboriginal term meaning wandering white man. 1. A white man living outside of a white settlement. Labels: Australia, obsolete 2. A trainee station manager or owner, working as a stockman or farm hand; formerly, a young man of independent means working at a station in a supernumerary capacity to gain experience. Labels: Australia Example: But this is the tale of a Jackaroo that came from a foreign strand, / And the fight that he fought with Saltbush Bill, the King of the Overland. Example: A Jackeroo lived, as a kind of gentleman apprentice, in the squatter′s or manager′s homestead, not in the men′s huts; but most of his daily work was done side by side with the working ‘hands’.
Word: jackaroo Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Obscure. Possibly from an Aboriginal term meaning wandering white man. 1. To work as a jackaroo. Labels: intransitive Example: Bill has gone jackarooing out west.
Word: IWF Part of Speech: name 1. Initialism of International Walking Federation: an association of volkssport organizations and clubs. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Word: IWF Part of Speech: noun 1. Initialism of investable weight factor, the proportion of a company's shares available for public trading. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism Example: Those proposed changes included shortening the “seasoning period” for new IPOs from 12 months to six months, waiving the investable weight factor (IWF) requirement for MegaCap companies to make at least 10 percent of their shares publicly available, and waiving the requirements for MegaCap companies to demonstrate profitability in the latest quarter of the financial year along with the previous four quarters.
Word: octapus Part of Speech: noun 1. Misspelling of octopus. Labels: alt-of, misspelling
Word: Akimel O'odham Part of Speech: noun 1. Pima, a Uto-Aztecan people of southwest Arizona. The Pima language is a dialect of O'odham. Labels: plural, plural-only
Word: tax return Part of Speech: noun 1. A declaration of income etc. for tax purposes: a report of income, deductions, contributions, and related financial information filed by a taxpayer with a national or local tax authority, used by the authority to determine the amount of taxation, usually consisting of forms completed by the taxpayer Example: Stealing people's mail / On a Friday night / Drivin' in the mountains / Winding 'round and 'round / Rummage through your mailboxes / Take your mail back to town / And we got license plates, wedding gifts, tax returns / Checks to politicians from real estate firms / Money, bills, and canceled checks / Pretty funny pictures of your kids / Gonna steal your mail
Word: bimbo Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Italian bimbo (“a child, a male baby”), variant of bambino (“child”). Originated in Italian American theater, attested 1919, as “stupid, inconsequential man”, by 1920 developed sense of “floozie, attractive and stupid woman”. Popularized in 1920s by Jack Conway of entertainment magazine Variety, who also popularized baloney (“nonsense”) and palooka (“large stupid man”). Revived in popularity in 1980s US political sex scandals. Pronunciation: /ˈbɪmbəʊ/, /ˈbɪmboʊ/ 1. A physically attractive person, typically a woman or otherwise feminine in appearance, who lacks intelligence. Labels: derogatory, slang Example: Anyway, to make a long, dull story even duller, I come from a time when a guy like me used to come into a joint like this and pick up a young chick like you and… call her a ‘bimbo’. Example: a. 1992, P. J. O’Rourke, a sketch A bimbo is a woman who is not pretty enough to be a model, not smart enough to be an actress, and not nice enough to be a poisonous snake. 2. A stupid or foolish person. Labels: dated, derogatory, slang Example: And one had to remember that most of the bimbos to whom Roberta Wickham had been giving the bird through the years had been of the huntin', shootin' and fishin' type, fellows who had more or less shot their bolt after saying 'Eh, what?' and slapping their leg with a hunting crop. Example: Isn't he the bimbo who took the bread out of the mouths of the Thursday Review people? Chuck the blighter out of the window and we want to see him bounce.
Word: script kiddie Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈskɹɪpt ˌkɪdi/ 1. A (usually amateur) hacker who compromises files on others' computers or launches attacks on computer systems, using widely distributed computer programs or scripts rather than developing their own. Labels: derogatory, informal Example: Generally speaking, script kiddies are bored individuals without girlfriends or boyfriends who can think of nothing better to do on a Saturday night than make people come into work to fix a failing system. Example: It is important to realize that the motive behind the script kiddie or recreational hacker is a more ego-driven destruction of data without a hidden moral, political, or economic agenda.
Word: biconcave Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁ Proto-Indo-European *dwi- Proto-Italic *dwi- Latin bi-bor. English bi- English concave English biconcave From bi- + concave. 1. Having both sides that are concave. Labels: not-comparable Example: a biconcave lens Example: the biconcave vertebrae
Word: carry the bat Part of Speech: verb 1. To bat throughout the whole of an innings, being one of the openers and remaining not out when 10 wickets have fallen.
Word: dau Part of Speech: noun 1. Abbreviation of daughter or daughter of. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of Example: Jane, dau John
Word: saith Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Old English sæġþ, from seċġan. Pronunciation: /sɛθ/, /seɪθ/, /ˈseɪ.əθ/ 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of say Labels: archaic, form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person Example: And the Lord spake unto Moses, Go unto Pharaoh, and say unto him, Thus saith the LORD, Let my people go, that they may serve me. Example: And they shall be mine, saith the Lord of hosts, in that day when I make up my jewels; and I will spare them, as a man spareth his own son that serveth him.
Word: saith Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of saithe (“type of fish”). Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: wyth Part of Speech: prep 1. Obsolete spelling of with. Labels: alt-of, obsolete
Word: naw Part of Speech: intj Etymology: In Scottish use, from Scots naw, naa, na, from Middle English na, from Old English nā (“no, never”). More generally, a colloquial, unarticulated form of no; compare nah. More at no. Pronunciation: /nɔː/, /nɔ/, /nɑ/ 1. No. Labels: informal Example: But listen Willis You do understand, don't you? Naw, I don't think so. Larry? Example: "Naw, no trouble. Just pulled off the road for about ten minutes, maybe, when a couple of Nip fighters banked overhead. They were after something or other." "Is that right?" Mac replied. 2. Pronunciation spelling of not. Labels: Jamaica, alt-of, pronunciation-spelling
Word: deg Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Abbreviations Pronunciation: /dɛɡ/ 1. Abbreviation of degree. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable 2. Clipping of degradation. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, uncountable
Word: deg Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /dɛɡ/ 1. To sprinkle, moisten. Labels: Northern-England, dialectal Example: Degged with dew, dappled with dew / Are the groins of the braes that the brook treads through, / Wiry heathpacks, flitches of fern, / And the beadbonny ash that sits over the burn.
Word: ecotourism Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *weyḱ- Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *wóyḱos Proto-Hellenic *wóikos Ancient Greek οἶκος (oîkos) Latin oeco- French éco- English eco- Proto-Indo-European *terh₁- Proto-Indo-European *-nos Proto-Indo-European *tórh₁nos Proto-Hellenic *tórnos Ancient Greek τόρνος (tórnos)bor. Latin tornus Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti Proto-Indo-European *-h₂tiinflu. Proto-Italic *-ājō Proto-Italic *-āō Latin -ō Latin tornō Old French torner Old French tourder. English tour Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō) Proto-Indo-European *-mos Proto-Indo-European *-mós Ancient Greek -μός (-mós) Ancient Greek -ισμός (-ismós)der. English -ism English tourism English ecotourism From eco- + tourism. Pronunciation: /ˌiːkəʊˈtʊəɹɪz(ə)m/, /ˌɛkoʊˈtʊɹɪzəm/, /ˌikoʊˈtʊɹɪzəm/ 1. Responsible (sustainable) travel to natural areas supporting the fauna, flora, and local economy. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: Driven by a search for the perfectly "grammable" shot, ecotourism is everywhere on the rise, though it rarely delivers on the promise of its name, which is to reconcile the impulse to consume nature with the desire to conserve it.
Word: Nagasaki Part of Speech: name Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 長崎(ながさき) (Nagasaki). Pronunciation: /ˌnɑːɡəˈsɑːki/, /ˌnæɡəˈsaːki/, /ˌnaːɡəˈsaːki/ 1. A port city, the capital and largest city of Nagasaki Prefecture, in southwestern Kyushu, Japan, famous as the country's early modern entrepot and for its nuclear bombing on 9 August 1945 at the end of World War II. Example: VINCENT: Tens of thousands killed before sundown; nobody's killed people that fast since Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Example: This slab is where the atomic bombs that were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki 75 years ago were put together. It’s the assembly point for the dawning of the atomic age. 2. A port city, the capital and largest city of Nagasaki Prefecture, in southwestern Kyushu, Japan, famous as the country's early modern entrepot and for its nuclear bombing on 9 August 1945 at the end of World War II. 3. A prefecture of Japan.
Word: three-dimensional Part of Speech: adj 1. Existing in three dimensions. Labels: not-comparable, usually 2. Having depth, or the illusion of depth, as well as height and width. Labels: comparable, idiomatic, not-comparable, usually 3. Lifelike. Labels: comparable, idiomatic, not-comparable, usually Example: A good novel needs three-dimensional characters.
Word: two-dimensional Part of Speech: adj 1. Existing in two dimensions. Labels: not-comparable, usually Example: Of course, it is impossible to show what a holograph is really like in a two dimensional picture such as this. Example: We show that in the two-dimensional case, every objective, isotropic and isochoric energy function which is rank-one convex on #92;mathrm#123;GL#125;#43;(2) is already polyconvex on #92;mathrm#123;GL#125;#43;(2). 2. Not creating the illusion of depth; lacking detail or believability. Labels: idiomatic, not-comparable, usually Example: a two-dimensional character in a play
Word: mutual Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French mutuel, from Latin mūtuus. Displaced native Old English ġemǣne. Pronunciation: /ˈmjuːt͡ʃuəl/ 1. Having the same relationship, each to each other. Example: They were mutual enemies. 2. Collective, done or held in common. Example: Mutual insurance. 3. Reciprocal. Example: They had mutual fear of each other. 4. Possessed in common. Example: They had been introduced by a mutual friend. Example: On his area the pursuer built a dwelling-house, of which the gable and garden-wall were mutual with his neighbour Smith […] 5. Owned by the members.
Word: mutual Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French mutuel, from Latin mūtuus. Displaced native Old English ġemǣne. Pronunciation: /ˈmjuːt͡ʃuəl/ 1. A mutual fund. 2. A mutual organization. 3. Either of a pair of people who follow each other's social media accounts. Labels: Internet
Word: website Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *webʰ-der. Proto-Germanic *webaną Proto-Germanic *wabją Old English webb Middle English web English web Proto-Indo-European *teḱ- Proto-Indo-European *-éyti Proto-Indo-European *tḱéyti Proto-Indo-European *tḱey-der. Proto-Italic *sinō Latin sinō Latin situsder. Anglo-Norman sitebor. Middle English site English site English website From web + site. Pronunciation: /ˈwɛb(ˌ)saɪt/ 1. A collection of interlinked web pages on the World Wide Web that are typically accessible from the same base URL and reside on the same server. Labels: Internet Example: Meronym: webpage Example: You can find complete information about the products on the company's website.
Word: PDF Part of Speech: name Pronunciation: /pi di ɛf/ 1. Initialism of Parkinson's Disease Foundation, now just Parkinson's Foundation. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, obsolete 2. Abbreviation of People's Defence Force (“armed paramilitary anti-military-rule rebel group in Myanmar”). Labels: abbreviation, alt-of
Word: PDF Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /pi di ɛf/ 1. Initialism of Portable Document Format, a standard for representing electronic documents, allowing them to be transmitted and reproduced accurately with the same printed layout. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable Example: DjVu was developed at AT&T Research by Yan LeCun et al. in 1966. It generates files that are smaller than PDF files. […] PDF primarily encodes graphics and text as vectorized data, whereas DjVu primarily encodes them as pixmap images. 2. Initialism of portable document format (“a document in PDF format”). Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable Example: The reMarkable PDF reader is really targeted at the digital writing market, rather than the digital reading market, though most serious e-readers support pens for annotations and signatures. Example: Teams are required to clearly highlight the relevant specification or standard (e.g., ASTM number, VOC content) directly on the PDF for each material to demonstrate compliance. Provide PDFs of basic technical information for materials lacking specific requirements. For example, printouts from store websites or packaging showing material properties are acceptable. 3. Alternative letter-case form of pdf (“probability density function”). Labels: alt-of, countable, uncountable 4. Initialism of pop directional format. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
Word: PDF Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /pi di ɛf/ 1. To convert (something) to PDF format. Labels: transitive
Word: oh my heck Part of Speech: intj 1. for "Hell" from "Oh my hell" or "Oh hell!" Labels: Mormonism, US, euphemistic
Word: tumorigenesis Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English tumor Latin -i-bor. English -i- Proto-Indo-European *ǵenh₁- Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *ǵénh₁tis Proto-Hellenic *génetis Ancient Greek γένεσῐς (génesĭs)der. Latinbor. English -genesis English tumorigenesis From tumor + -i- + -genesis. 1. Production of a new tumor or tumors. 2. The process involved in the production of a new tumor or tumors.
Word: conduct Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Late Latin conductus (“defense, escort”), from Latin conductus, perfect passive participle of condūcō (“bring together”); see also conduce. Displaced native Old English þēaw. Doublet of conduit. Pronunciation: /ˈkɒndʌkt/, /ˈkɑndʌkt/ 1. The act or method of controlling or directing. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: There are other restrictions imposed upon the conduct of war, not by the law of nature primarily, but by the laws of war first, and by the law of nature as seconding and ratifying the laws of war. Example: the conduct of the state, the administration of its affairs, its policy, and its laws, are for more uncertain 2. Skillful guidance or management. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: If thou wilt ſtay with me renowmed man, / And lead thy thouſand horſe with my conduct, / Beſides thy ſhare of this Egyptian prize, / Thoſe thouſand horſe shall ſweat with martiall ſpoyle / Of conquered kingdomes, and of Cities ſackt, […] Example: 1722 (first printed) Edmund Waller, Poems, &c. written upon several occasions, and to several persons Conduct of armies is a prince's art. 3. Behaviour; the manner of behaving. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Good conduct will be rewarded and likewise poor conduct will be punished. Example: when she came to recall the affectionate and natural manner of the young Indian girl, and all the evidences of good faith and sincerity she had seen in her conduct during the familiar intercourse of their journey, she rejected the idea with the unwillingness of a generous disposition to believe ill of others 4. Plot. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The book of Job, indeed, in conduct and diction, bears a considerable resemblance to some of his dramas. 5. Convoy; escort; person who accompanies another. Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable Example: I will be your conduct. Example: In my conduct shall your ladies come. 6. Something which carries or conveys anything; a channel; an instrument; a conduit. Labels: archaic, countable, uncountable Example: although thou hast been conduct of my chame 7. A priest hired to hold services without secure title; now a chaplain. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: […] at this present it is one of the most goodly and uniform Colledges in Europe; wherein is a Master, 60 Fellows, 67 scholars, 4 Conducts, 3 Publique Professours […] besides officers and servants of the foundation, with many other students, being in all 440. Example: Cory in 1722 obtained a licence of non-residence from Bishop Fleetwood, his patron, he being at that time one of the conducts, or chaplains, of King’s College.
Word: conduct Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Late Latin conductus (“defense, escort”), from Latin conductus, perfect passive participle of condūcō (“bring together”); see also conduce. Displaced native Old English þēaw. Doublet of conduit. Pronunciation: /kənˈdʌkt/ 1. To lead, or guide; to escort. Labels: archaic, transitive Example: I can conduct you, lady, to a low / But loyal cottage, where you may be safe. 2. To lead; to direct; to be in charge of (people or tasks) Labels: transitive Example: The commander conducted thousands of troops. Example: to conduct the affairs of a kingdom 3. To behave. Labels: reflexive, transitive Example: He conducted himself well. 4. To serve as a medium for conveying; to transmit (heat, light, electricity, etc.) Labels: transitive Example: Water and many other liquids do not conduct heat well. Wildland fuels in general, wood, and wood products conduct heat slowly, and so do soil and rocks. Example: The metal easily conducts electricity and doesn't rust in water, properties that have made it valuable in uses from household plumbing and electric wiring 5. To direct, as the leader in the performance of a musical composition. Labels: transitive Example: For a while, Walter Pohlmann, a well-known German conductor, conducted the orchestra in Compound 3. Later, Willi Mets, who had conducted the world-renowned Leipzig Symphony Orchestra, conducted the Compound 3 orchestra. 6. To act as a conductor (as of heat, electricity, etc.); to carry. Labels: intransitive 7. To carry out (something organized) Labels: transitive Example: The world's largest surveyor of deepwater oil fields won a contract to conduct a survey of the French Gulf of Lion to map sand reserves.
Word: driveway moment Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Marketing coinage of NPR (National Public Radio), who used the phrase to encourage listeners to send in stories about what they had been listening to. 1. A brief compulsion to finish listening to something on the radio before leaving one's car. Example: I had another driveway moment today, this time listening to David Sedaris. Example: For Paul Deering in Rochester, New York, the "Rhapsody In Blue" segment was a, quote, "driveway moment," although he writes that the transfixing occurred in his kitchen.
Word: eng. Part of Speech: noun 1. Abbreviation of engine. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of
Word: dynes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of dyne Labels: form-of, plural
Word: rear Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English reren (“to raise”), from Old English rǣran (“to raise, set upright, promote, exalt, begin, create, give rise to, excite, rouse, arouse, stir up”), from Proto-West Germanic *raiʀijan, from Proto-Germanic *raizijaną, *raisijaną (“to cause to rise, raise”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁rey- (“to lift oneself, rise”). Cognate with Scots rere (“to construct, build, rear”), Icelandic reisa (“to raise”), Gothic 𐍂𐌰𐌹𐍃𐌾𐌰𐌽 (raisjan, “to cause to rise, lift up, establish”), German reisen (“to travel”, literally “to rear up and depart”); and a doublet of raise. More at rise. Related to rise and raise, which is used for several of its now archaic or obsolete senses and for some of its senses that are currently more common in other dialects of English. Pronunciation: /ˈɹɪə/, [ˈɹʷɪə̯], /ˈɹɪː/, /ˈɹɪjə/, /ˈɹiə/ 1. To bring up to maturity, as offspring; to educate; to instruct; to foster. Labels: transitive Example: He wants a father to protect his youth, and rear him up to virtue. 2. To breed and raise. Labels: transitive Example: The family has been rearing cattle for 200 years. 3. To rise up on the hind legs. Labels: intransitive Example: The horse was shocked, and thus reared. 4. To get angry. Labels: intransitive, usually 5. To rise high above, tower above. Labels: intransitive Example: By my side reared a solid stone wall, and beneath was simply the room we stood in, for the space below the stairway was not enclosed. 6. To raise physically or metaphorically; to lift up; to cause to rise, to elevate. Labels: literary, transitive Example: Poverty reared its ugly head. (appeared, started, began to have an effect) Example: The monster slowly reared its head. 7. To construct by building; to set up Labels: rare, transitive Example: to rear defenses or houses Example: to rear one government on the ruins of another. 8. To raise spiritually; to lift up; to elevate morally. Labels: rare, transitive Example: It reareth our hearts from vain thoughts. 9. To lift and take up. Labels: obsolete, transitive Example: And hauing her from Trompart lightly reard, / Vpon his Courser set the louely lode, 10. To rouse; to strip up. Labels: obsolete, transitive Example: And seeks the tusky boar to rear.
Word: rear Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English rere, from Anglo-Norman rere, ultimately from Latin retro. Compare arrear. Doublet of retro. Pronunciation: /ˈɹɪə/, [ˈɹʷɪə̯], /ˈɹɪː/, /ˈɹɪjə/, /ˈɹiə/ 1. Being behind, or in the hindmost part; hindmost. Labels: not-comparable Example: the rear rank of a company Example: sit in the rear seats of a car
Word: rear Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From Middle English rere, from Anglo-Norman rere, ultimately from Latin retro. Compare arrear. Doublet of retro. Pronunciation: /ˈɹɪə/, [ˈɹʷɪə̯], /ˈɹɪː/, /ˈɹɪjə/, /ˈɹiə/ 1. early; soon Labels: UK, dialectal, not-comparable Example: Then why does Cuddy leave his cot so rear!
Word: rear Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English rere, from Anglo-Norman rere, ultimately from Latin retro. Compare arrear. Doublet of retro. Pronunciation: /ˈɹɪə/, [ˈɹʷɪə̯], /ˈɹɪː/, /ˈɹɪjə/, /ˈɹiə/ 1. The back or hindmost part; that which is behind, or last in order. Example: Nipt with the lagging rear of winters froſt. 2. Specifically, the part of an army or fleet which comes last, or is stationed behind the rest. Example: When the fierce Foe hung on our brok'n Rear 3. The buttocks or bottom.
Word: rear Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English rere, from Anglo-Norman rere, ultimately from Latin retro. Compare arrear. Doublet of retro. Pronunciation: /ˈɹɪə/, [ˈɹʷɪə̯], /ˈɹɪː/, /ˈɹɪjə/, /ˈɹiə/ 1. To place in the rear; to secure the rear of. 2. To sodomize (perform anal sex) Labels: UK, transitive, vulgar
Word: rear Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English reren, from Old English hrēran (“to move, shake, agitate”), from Proto-Germanic *hrōzijaną (“to stir”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱroHs- (“to mix, stir, cook”). Cognate with Dutch roeren (“to stir, shake, whip”), German rühren (“to stir, beat, move”), Swedish röra (“to touch, move, stir”), Icelandic hræra (“to stir”). Pronunciation: /ˈɹɪə/, [ˈɹʷɪə̯], /ˈɹɪː/, /ˈɹɪjə/, /ˈɹiə/ 1. To move; stir. Labels: transitive 2. To carve. Labels: transitive Example: Rear that goose! 3. To revive, bring to life, quicken. (only in the phrase, to rear to life) Labels: obsolete, regional Example: He healeth the blind and he reareth to life the dead.
Word: rear Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English rere, from Old English hrēr, hrēre (“not thoroughly cooked, underdone, lightly boiled”), from hrēran (“to move, shake, agitate”), from Proto-Germanic *hrōzijaną (“to stir”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱroHs- (“to mix, stir, cook”). Related to Old English hrōr (“stirring, busy, active, strong, brave”), Dutch roeren (“to stir, shake, whip”), German rühren (“to stir, beat, move”), Swedish röra (“to touch, move, stir”), Icelandic hræra (“to stir”). Pronunciation: /ˈɹɪə/, [ˈɹʷɪə̯], /ˈɹɪː/, /ˈɹɪjə/, /ˈɹiə/ 1. (of eggs) Underdone; nearly raw. Labels: dialectal 2. (of meats) Rare. Labels: US Example: Fred ordered a rear steak along with a glass of beer as he took a seat at an empty table
Word: corner Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English corner, from Anglo-Norman cornere (compare Old French cornier, corniere (“corner”)), from Old French corne (“corner, angle”, literally “a horn, projecting point”), from Vulgar Latin *corna (“horn”), from Latin cornua, plural of cornū (“projecting point, end, horn”). The sense of "angle, corner" in Old French is not found in Latin or other Romance languages. It was possibly calqued from Frankish *hurnijā (“corner, angle”), which is similar to, and derived from *hurn, the Frankish word for "horn". * Displaced native cognate Middle English hirn, herne, from Old English hyrne, from Proto-Germanic *hurnijǭ (“little horn, hook, angle, corner”), whence modern English hirn (“nook, corner”), itself related to horn. Also displaced native Old English sċēat. Pronunciation: /ˈkɔːnə(ɹ)/, /ˈkɔɹnɚ/ 1. To drive (someone or something) into a corner or other confined space. Labels: transitive Example: The cat had cornered a cricket between the sofa and the television stand. Example: In Juazeiro do Norte, demonstrators cornered the mayor inside a bank for hours and called for his impeachment, while thousands of others protested teachers’ salaries. 2. To trap in a position of great difficulty or hopeless embarrassment. Labels: transitive Example: The reporter cornered the politician by pointing out the hypocrisy of his position on mandatory sentencing, in light of the politician's own actions in court. 3. To put (someone) in an awkward situation. Labels: transitive 4. To get sufficient command of (a stock, commodity, etc.), so as to be able to manipulate its price. Labels: transitive Example: The buyers attempted to corner the shares of the railroad stock, so as to facilitate their buyout. Example: It's extremely hard to corner the petroleum market because there are so many players. 5. To turn a corner or drive around a curve. Labels: transitive Example: As the stock car driver cornered the last turn, he lost control and spun out. 6. To handle while moving around a corner in a road or otherwise turning. Labels: intransitive Example: That BMW corners well, but the suspension is too stiff. 7. To supply with corners. Labels: transitive Example: Tool for cornering and cutting off copper switch blades
Word: corner Part of Speech: intj Etymology: From Middle English corner, from Anglo-Norman cornere (compare Old French cornier, corniere (“corner”)), from Old French corne (“corner, angle”, literally “a horn, projecting point”), from Vulgar Latin *corna (“horn”), from Latin cornua, plural of cornū (“projecting point, end, horn”). The sense of "angle, corner" in Old French is not found in Latin or other Romance languages. It was possibly calqued from Frankish *hurnijā (“corner, angle”), which is similar to, and derived from *hurn, the Frankish word for "horn". * Displaced native cognate Middle English hirn, herne, from Old English hyrne, from Proto-Germanic *hurnijǭ (“little horn, hook, angle, corner”), whence modern English hirn (“nook, corner”), itself related to horn. Also displaced native Old English sċēat. Pronunciation: /ˈkɔːnə(ɹ)/, /ˈkɔɹnɚ/ 1. Spoken by service staff such as waiters when walking around a corner, to warn other staff and prevent a collision.
Word: corner Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From corn + -er. Piecewise doublet of grainer. Pronunciation: /ˈkɔːnə(ɹ)/, /ˈkɔɹnɚ/ 1. One who corns, or preserves food in salt. Example: Big firms received rebates from railroads in which they owned stock, paid off city officials in order to obtain a low-cost water supply, and fought meat-inspection laws, and meat packers speculated in pork and beef corners.
Word: mil. Part of Speech: noun 1. Abbreviation of military. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of 2. Alternative spelling of mil. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: mil Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Ultimately from Latin millesimum. The clippings come by way of the clipped words (e.g., millilitre, millimetre, milliradian). Pronunciation: /mɪl/ 1. An angular mil, a unit of angular measurement equal to ¹⁄₆₄₀₀ of a complete circle. At 1000 metres one mil subtends about one metre (0.98 m). Also ¹⁄₆₀₀₀ and ¹⁄₆₃₀₀ are used in other countries. 2. A unit of measurement equal to ¹⁄₁₀₀₀ of an inch (25.4 µm), usually used for thin objects, such as sheets of plastic. Example: For this task, I prefer the plastic sheeting that is 10 mils thick. Example: If made of plastic, is minimum of at least 2.25 mils (thousandths of an inch) thick. 3. A former subdivision (¹⁄₁₀₀₀) of the Maltese lira. 4. Clipping of milliliter. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, informal Example: We told her to give her daughter ten mils of cough syrup and to call us back if the cough gets worse. 5. Clipping of millimeter. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, informal Example: For this task, I prefer the plastic bars that are 10 mils in diameter. Example: Party like it's 2024, hear a knocking at my door / It's the police let them in, bust a 9 mil through their skin 6. Clipping of milliradian. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, informal Example: A dot in a mil-dot reticle represents one mil, which corresponds to a few inches at 100 yards.
Word: mil Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Clipping of million. Pronunciation: /mɪl/ 1. Clipping of million. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, informal Example: Word has it that they were offered a cool ten mil to sell their farm to the land developers. Example: The cheapest shack in this part of the woods would probably set the buyer back at least a couple of mil.
Word: mil Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Clipping of military. Pronunciation: /mɪl/ 1. Clipping of military Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, not-comparable
Word: script kiddy Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of script kiddie. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: r. Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Originally from Latin r., abbreviating Latin rēgnāvit (“[he/she/it] ruled”), the third-person singular perfect active indicative of rēgnāre (“to rule, to reign”). Now often parsed as an abbreviation of English ruled or reigned. 1. Ruled, reigned, used to show that provided dates are the period of a ruler's authority rather than their birth and death. Example: Byzantine emperor Manuel I Komnenos (r. 1143–1180)
Word: r. Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Abbreviations. 1. Abbreviation of rare. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of 2. Abbreviation of revision. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of 3. Abbreviation of royal. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of Example: Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc. 4. Abbreviation of right. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of Example: r. com. car. a.
Word: r. Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Abbreviations. 1. Abbreviation of rule. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of 2. Abbreviation of ruble. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of Example: The paper-money in circulation is inconvertible, but has a forced currency. The notes represent 100 rubles; 50 rs., 25 rs., 10 rs., 5 rs., 3 rs., and 1 ruble, and are plainly stamped with their value. 3. Abbreviation of river. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of
Word: web site Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈwɛbˌsaɪt/ 1. Alternative form of website. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: puerile Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin puerīlis (“childish”), from puer (“child, boy”). By surface analysis, puer + -ile. Pronunciation: /ˈpjʊə.ɹaɪl/, /ˈpjʊɹɪl/, /ˈpjʊɹaɪl/ 1. Childish; trifling; silly. Example: 1850, Thomas De Quincey, French and English Manners (originally published in Hogg's Instructor The French have been notorious through generations for their puerile affectation of Roman forms, models, and historic precedents. Example: From the table he had received the gout; from the alcove a tendency to convulsions; from the grandeeship a pride so vast and puerile that he seldom heard anything that was said to him and talked to the ceiling in a perpetual monologue; from the exile, oceans of boredom, a boredom so persuasive that it was like pain,—he woke up with it and spent the day with it, and it sat by his bed all night watching his sleep. 2. Characteristic of, or pertaining to, a boy or boys; compare puellile.
Word: tref Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Compare Welsh tref (“town”). Pronunciation: /ˈtɹɛf/ 1. A hamlet in Britain in pre-Saxon times. Labels: historical
Word: tref Part of Speech: adj Etymology: See treyf. 1. Alternative form of treyf (“not kosher”). Labels: alt-of, alternative, not-comparable
Word: fetta Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of feta. Labels: alt-of, alternative, countable, uncountable
Word: hal Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Arabic حَال (ḥāl, literally “state, condition”) 1. A special temporary state of consciousness, generally understood to be the product of a Sufi's spiritual practices while on his way toward God.
Word: ital Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Blend of I + vital. Pronunciation: /ˈaɪtəl/ 1. Pure, natural food suiting a Rastafari lifestyle. Labels: Iyaric, Jamaica, countable, uncountable Example: On the other side of the spectrum are the many ital restaurants that adhere to the Rastafarian dietary laws (no meat, fish or salt). Example: The minister declined the offer of a parley and "itals"―the term for vegetarian dishes that the Dreads favored.
Word: ital Part of Speech: adj 1. Abbreviation of italic. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, not-comparable
Word: caballo Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Celtic *kaballosder.? Late Latin caballus Spanish caballobor. English caballo Borrowed from Spanish caballo (“horse”). 1. A horse. Example: The very idea of a false step of my caballo made the blood run cold. Example: Impatiently turning his caballo's head he started the animal at an easy one-step gait in a southerly direction.
Word: possessive case Part of Speech: noun 1. case used to express direct possession, ownership, origin, etc. Though similar in many ways to the genitive case, it is not always the same. Languages that have the possessive case include English and Quenya. Example: Substantives in the English tongue, have only two terminations for case: the nominative, which merely expresses the name of the thing, and the possessive, or genitive case, made by the addition of s, with an apostrophe before it, which denotes property: all other realtions between substantives, as this also very often, are expressed by different prepositions: for example---a freeman's rights; or the rights of a freeman. When one thing is expressed as belonging to another, then one of the substantives is said to govern the other in the genitive, or possessive case; thus, Milton's poems; the king's gift; William's book. Here the former substantive, ending in s, marked with an apostrophe, is the word governed; as Milton's: the latter is the word that governs; as, poems: the former is in the genitive case, which is marked thus, 's, which mark is called the possessive 's.
Word: capuchin monkey Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From the resemblance to the dress of a Capuchin monk. 1. Any New World monkey of the subfamily Cebinae.
Word: daffodil Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Variant of Middle English affodill (“ramson”), from Medieval Latin affodillus, from Latin asphodelus, from Ancient Greek ἀσφόδελος (asphódelos), of Pre-Greek origin. The initial d- is perhaps from merging of the article in Dutch de affodil, the Netherlands being a source for bulbs (compare adder, apron, newt, nickname, orange and umpire for this rebracketing process). Doublet of asphodel. Pronunciation: /ˈdæfəˌdɪl/ 1. A bulbous plant of the genus Narcissus, with yellow flowers and a trumpet shaped corona, especially Narcissus pseudonarcissus, the national flower of Wales. Labels: countable Example: When daffadils begin to peere, / With heigh the Doxy ouer the dale, / Why then comes in the ſweet o’ the yeere, / For the red blood raigns in yͤ winters pale. Example: I wandered lonely as a Cloud / That floats on high o’er Vales and Hills, / When all at once I saw a crowd / A host of dancing Daffodills; / Along the Lake, beneath the trees, / Ten thousand dancing in the breeze. 2. A brilliant yellow color, like that of a daffodil. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Where ships of purple gently toss / On seas of daffodil, / Fantastic sailors mingle, / And then—the wharf is still.
Word: daffodil Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Variant of Middle English affodill (“ramson”), from Medieval Latin affodillus, from Latin asphodelus, from Ancient Greek ἀσφόδελος (asphódelos), of Pre-Greek origin. The initial d- is perhaps from merging of the article in Dutch de affodil, the Netherlands being a source for bulbs (compare adder, apron, newt, nickname, orange and umpire for this rebracketing process). Doublet of asphodel. Pronunciation: /ˈdæfəˌdɪl/ 1. Of a brilliant yellow color, like that of a daffodil.
Word: capuchin Part of Speech: noun Etymology: First use appears c. 1589, from French capuchin, from earlier capucin, from Italian cappuccino, ultimately from Late Latin cappa (“cape, hood”). Pronunciation: /ˈkæp.ə.t͡ʃɪn/, /ˈkæp.jə.t͡ʃɪn/, /-ʃɪn/, /kəˈpu.t͡ʃɪn/, /kəˈpju.t͡ʃɪn/ 1. A monk in the Order of Friars Minor Capuchin; (generally) a Franciscan. Example: “That is something,” said the capuchin, “but not the most essential. Are you certain that he is a Christian?” 2. A garment consisting of a cloak and hood, made in imitation of the dress of Capuchin monks. Example: Of Ermine is his doublet — / His Capuchin gay — 3. A capuchin monkey. 4. A hooded pigeon.