nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: keepsake Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From keep + sake. Pronunciation: /ˈkiːp.seɪk/ 1. An object given by a person and retained in memory of something or someone; something kept for sentimental or nostalgic reasons. Example: And yet I should have dearly liked, I own, to have touched her lips; to have questioned her, that she might have opened them; to have looked upon the lashes of her downcast eyes, and never raised a blush; to have let loose waves of hair, an inch of which would be a keepsake beyond price: in short, I should have liked, I do confess, to have had the lightest licence of a child, and yet to have been man enough to know its value. Example: My little keepsake—only a brooch—lay on the table at her bedside, with her prayer-book, and the miniature portrait of her father which she takes with her wherever she goes. 2. Specifically, a type of literary album popular in the nineteenth-century, containing scraps of poetry and prose, and engravings. Labels: historical Example: He had brought the last “Keepsake,” the gorgeous watered-silk publication which marked modern progress at that time; and he considered himself very fortunate that he could be the first to look over it with her, dwelling on the ladies and gentlemen with shiny copper-plate cheeks and copper-plate smiles, and pointing to comic verses as capital and sentimental stories as interesting. Example: […]it was the Italy that we know from the steel engravings in old keepsakes and annuals, from the vignettes on music-sheets and the drop-curtains at theatres; an Italy that we can never confess to ourselves—in spite of our own changes and of Italy’s—that we have ceased to believe in.
Word: deluxe Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Borrowed from French de luxe (“of luxury”), from Latin luxus (“excess”). Pronunciation: /dəˈlʌks/, /dɪˈlʌks/, /diˈlʌks/ 1. Very fine in quality or luxurious. Example: The band released a deluxe version of their LP, containing bonus tracks and with a personal message by all the members in the sleeve. Example: “I have here, sir,” he said, “one of the deluxest editions de luxe now in print. Observe the handsome tree calf binding, notice the gold gilt crinkle edges and stand aghast with admiration before the profuse and artistic illustrations.”
Word: deluxe Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from French de luxe (“of luxury”), from Latin luxus (“excess”). Pronunciation: /dəˈlʌks/, /dɪˈlʌks/, /diˈlʌks/ 1. Something that is deluxe. Example: We'll take three burger platters. Make one a deluxe, please. Example: Several of the deluxes are reported to have taken the $500 Victor set on the “emergency” angle.
Word: luxurious Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English luxurious, from Old French luxurios (modern French luxurieux), from Latin lū̆xuriōsus (“rank, luxuriant, profuse, excessive, immoderate”), from lū̆xuria (“rankness, luxury”), from lū̆xus (“extravagance, luxury”). By surface analysis, luxury + -ous. Pronunciation: /lʌɡˈʒʊəɹi.əs/, /lʌɡˈzjʊə-/, /lʌkˈʃʊə-/, /-lʌkˈsjʊə-/, /lʌɡˈʒɵːɹɪjəs/ 1. Very fine in quality and comfortable. Example: a luxurious hotel suite Example: With her luxurious furnishings and spacious accommodation the Invicta, which is 350-ft. long and has a gross tonnage of 4,178, resembles a small liner. 2. Enjoying the pleasures of luxury, accustomed to luxury. Labels: dated Example: Invalids, and luxurious persons, require more artificial arrangements for travelling on the camel. Example: When one looks at the elegantly dressed people round the gaming table, who perhaps laugh at everything which impresses other people with awe, who scoff at the Church and the Bible, one could scarcely think it possible that these enlightened, pleasure-loving, luxurious men of the world, carry on in secret, cabalistic nonsense, turning over cards, fortune telling, studying the significance of signs and dreams […]
Word: luxury Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English luxurie, from Old French luxurie, from Latin luxuria (“rankness, luxury”), from luxus (“extravagance, luxury”). Pronunciation: /ˈlʌk.ʃə.ɹi/, /ˈlʊk.ʃə.ɹi/, /ˈlʌk.ʃə.ɾe/, /ˈlʌk.ʃə.ɾi/, /ˈlʌɡ.ʒə.ɹi/ 1. Very wealthy and comfortable surroundings; the state of being that they create. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Near-synonyms: splendor, grandeur, grandness, decadence 2. Something desirable but expensive and that one can live without. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: “[…] We are engaged in a great work, a treatise on our river fortifications, perhaps? But since when did army officers afford the luxury of amanuenses in this simple republic? […]” Example: And with Millennial and Gen Z consumers accounting for a growing proportion of spending, the luxury market is increasingly sensitive to the social and environmental causes they identify with. […] With all this in mind, here are CNN Style’s best small luxuries for the conscientious gift giver: […] 3. Something that is pleasant and desirable but not necessary in life (whether expensive or not). Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Sir Humphrey Appleby: Bernard, what do you want? / Bernard Woolley: I want to have a clear conscience. / […] / Sir Humphrey Appleby: When did you acquire this taste for luxuries (laugh track)? Example: As the 1857 to Manchester Piccadilly rolls in, I scan the windows and realise there are plenty of spare seats, so I hop aboard. The train is a '221'+'220' combo to allow for social distancing - a luxury on an XC train as normally you're playing sardines, so I make the most of it. 4. Lustfulness; sexual desire or attraction. Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable Example: Fie on sinnefull phantasie: Fie on Lust, and Luxurie: 5. Copulation; the act or action of sex. Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable Example: Let not the Royall Bed of Denmark be / A Couch for Luxury and damned Incest.
Word: luxury Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English luxurie, from Old French luxurie, from Latin luxuria (“rankness, luxury”), from luxus (“extravagance, luxury”). Pronunciation: /ˈlʌk.ʃə.ɹi/, /ˈlʊk.ʃə.ɹi/, /ˈlʌk.ʃə.ɾe/, /ˈlʌk.ʃə.ɾi/, /ˈlʌɡ.ʒə.ɹi/ 1. Very expensive. 2. Not essential but desirable and enjoyable and indulgent. 3. Pertaining to the top-end market segment for mass production mass market vehicles, above the premium market segment.
Word: agency Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂eǵ- Proto-Indo-European *-eti Proto-Indo-European *h₂éǵeti Proto-Italic *agō Latin agō Latin agēns Proto-Indo-European *-(i)yós Proto-Italic *-ijos Proto-Italic *-ios Old Latin -ios Latin -ius Latin -ia Medieval Latin agēntiabor. English agency From Medieval Latin agentia, from Latin agēns (present participle of agere (“to act”)), agentis (cognate with French agence, see also agent). Pronunciation: /ˈeɪ.d͡ʒən.si/ 1. The capacity, condition, or state of acting or of exerting power. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: A few advances there are in the following papers tending to assert the superintendence and agency of Providence in the natural world. Example: Because structure in this argument means institutions— pregiven norms, values, beliefs, and practices— it is open-textured, incomplete, cannot guarantee its own applications, therefore, all behavior is action, has agency (Garfinkel 1964; Strauss et al. 1963). 2. The capacity of individuals to act independently and to make their own free choices. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: moral agency Example: individual agency 3. A medium through which power is exerted or an end is achieved. Labels: countable, uncountable 4. The office or function of an agent; also, the relationship between a principal and that person's agent. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: authority of agency 5. An establishment engaged in doing business for another; also, the place of business or the district of such an agency. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: As an employment agency you have a responsibility to supply work to the individual agency worker, as well as a service to the client. 6. A department or other administrative unit of a government; also, the office or headquarters of, or the district administered by, such unit of government. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry Example: Central Intelligence Agency
Word: cadaver Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English cadaver, from Latin cadāver. Pronunciation: /kəˈdæv.ə(ɹ)/, /kəˈdɑːv.ə(ɹ)/, /kəˈdeɪ.və(ɹ)/, /kəˈdævɚ/ 1. A dead body; especially the corpse of a human to be dissected. Labels: literary Example: He and his best friend saw a cadaver and ran screaming. Example: “Then my first year of med school, we got our first cadavers, and there was so much data inside. You can be sure a patient will lie about how much they drink or how much they smoke, but with a cadaver, all the information is there.”
Word: agenda Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂eǵ- Proto-Indo-European *-eti Proto-Indo-European *h₂éǵeti Proto-Italic *agō Latin agō Latin agendader. English agenda From Latin agenda (“things that ought to be done”), future passive participle (gerundive) of agō (“to do, act, make”). Pronunciation: /əˈd͡ʒɛn.də/, [əˈd͡ʒɛn.də], /əˈd͡ʒɪn.də/, [əˈd͡ʒɪ̟n.də] 1. A temporally organized plan for matters to be attended to. Example: Where the Joker preys on our fears of random, irrational acts of terror, Bane has an all-consuming, dictatorial agenda that’s more stable and permanent, a New World Order that’s been planned out with the precision of a military coup. 2. A list of matters to be taken up (as at a meeting). 3. A notebook used to organize and maintain such plans or lists, an agenda book, an agenda planner. Example: A homework agenda, sometimes called a student planner, is a notebook often used to help your child keep track of daily homework assignments. Example: It may be better to simply buy an agenda at the drug store for five dollars, but you need to keep this stuff accurate. 4. An ulterior motive; a program of various such motives. Labels: figuratively Example: These plans are the complete opposite of the path pursued by Emmanuel Macron since 2017. His agenda has exacerbated both income and wealth inequality, while there has been no change in investment, job creation or growth. Example: I haven't got an agenda / I haven't еven got a gender 5. A ritual. Labels: obsolete
Word: agenda Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂eǵ- Proto-Indo-European *-eti Proto-Indo-European *h₂éǵeti Proto-Italic *agō Latin agō Latin agendader. English agenda From Latin agenda (“things that ought to be done”), future passive participle (gerundive) of agō (“to do, act, make”). Pronunciation: /əˈd͡ʒɛn.də/, [əˈd͡ʒɛn.də], /əˈd͡ʒɪn.də/, [əˈd͡ʒɪ̟n.də] 1. plural of agendum Labels: archaic, form-of, plural
Word: agenda Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂eǵ- Proto-Indo-European *-eti Proto-Indo-European *h₂éǵeti Proto-Italic *agō Latin agō Latin agendader. English agenda From Latin agenda (“things that ought to be done”), future passive participle (gerundive) of agō (“to do, act, make”). Pronunciation: /əˈd͡ʒɛn.də/, [əˈd͡ʒɛn.də], /əˈd͡ʒɪn.də/, [əˈd͡ʒɪ̟n.də] 1. To add an item to an official schedule. Labels: US, formal
Word: Middle Ages Part of Speech: name Pronunciation: /ˌmɪdl̩ ˈeɪdʒɪz/ 1. The period of primarily European history between the decline of the Western Roman Empire (antiquity) and the early modern period or the Renaissance; the time between c. 500 and 1500 CE. Example: The Geography of the middle Ages, ſays Mr. Juncker, ought to begin with the Diviſion of the Roman Empire made by Theodoſius the Great, about the End of the fourth Century, and muſt not reach farther than the Time of the Emperor Maximilian I. who divided Germany into Circles in the beginning of the XVIth Century. Example: Middle''' Age denotes the ſpace of time commencing from Conſtantine, and ending at the taking of Conſtantinople by the Turks, in the fifteenth century. Martin. Dial. Geogr. in Pref. Mem. de Trev. an. 1729. p. 1359. See alſo Bibl. Univ. T. 12. p. 393. ſeq.
Word: aggravated Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ˈæɡ.ɹə.veɪ̯tɪd/ 1. simple past and past participle of aggravate. Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: aggravated Part of Speech: adj Pronunciation: /ˈæɡ.ɹə.veɪ̯tɪd/ 1. Having been the subject of aggravation; frustrated and angry. 2. Having become worse, more severe, or more dangerous. Example: The cruel fallacy, long acted upon, that the insane were insensible to cold, and to other modifications of pain, is exploded; and under the new system, they are treated with the tenderest care, and ample provision is made for their every physical want. The old system inculcated that insane minds could not be stungby insult or shame, dishonor or injustice; the new teaches that “harshness and abuse fall with tenfold force upon minds impaired and enervated by disease; that in most cases of insanity enough of intelligence and feeling are retained to render the patient fully sensible of the import and the cruelty of what is said; and that in many cases the mind, instead of becoming obluse, or deadened, is endowed with an unusual sensitiveness, with an acuteness of perception, upon which the insults and insinuations of the rude, or the indelicate, or the cruel, must produce the most aggravated pain.” Example: The cough seems to come from the depths of the abdomen, and causes pain in muscles and the chest: this remains a short time after the cough, which is followed by great exhaustion; cough especially aggravated at night and on lying down; sputum composed of thick yellow mucus. 3. Having become worse, more severe, or more dangerous.
Word: aggravate Part of Speech: verb Etymology: The adjective is first attested in 1471 in Middle English, the verb in 1530; from Latin aggravātus, perfect passive participle of aggravō (“to add to the weight of, make worse, oppress, annoy”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (adjective-forming suffix)), from ad- (“to”) + gravō (“to make heavy”), from gravis (“heavy”) + -ō (verb-forming suffix). See grave and compare aggrieve and aggrege. Participial usage of the adjective up until Early Modern English. By surface analysis, ag- + grave (“heavy”) + -ate (“verb suffix”). Pronunciation: /ˈæɡ.ɹə.veɪ̯t/ 1. To make (an offence) worse or more severe; to increase in offensiveness or heinousness. Example: Once more, the more to aggrauate the note, With a foule Traitors name ſtuffe I thy throte, And wiſh (ſo pleaſe my Soueraigne) ere I moue, What my tong ſpeaks, my right drawn ſword may proue Example: The defense made by the prisoner's counsel did rather aggravate than extenuate his crime. 2. To make (any bad thing) worse. Labels: broadly Example: to aggravate my woes. Example: […] to aggravate the horrors of the scene 3. To give extra weight or intensity to; to exaggerate, to magnify. Labels: archaic Example: He aggravated the story. 4. To pile or heap (something heavy or onerous) on or upon someone. Labels: obsolete Example: In order to lighten the crown still further, they aggravated responsibility on ministers of state. 5. To exasperate; to provoke or irritate. Labels: colloquial, often, proscribed Example: If both were to aggravate her parents, as my brother and sister do mine. Example: Ben Bella was aggravated by having to express himself in French because the Egyptians were unable to understand his Arabic.
Word: aggravate Part of Speech: adj Etymology: The adjective is first attested in 1471 in Middle English, the verb in 1530; from Latin aggravātus, perfect passive participle of aggravō (“to add to the weight of, make worse, oppress, annoy”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (adjective-forming suffix)), from ad- (“to”) + gravō (“to make heavy”), from gravis (“heavy”) + -ō (verb-forming suffix). See grave and compare aggrieve and aggrege. Participial usage of the adjective up until Early Modern English. By surface analysis, ag- + grave (“heavy”) + -ate (“verb suffix”). Pronunciation: /ˈæɡɹəvət/ 1. Aggravated. Labels: obsolete 2. Loaded, burdened, weighed down. Labels: obsolete 3. Heightened, intensified. Labels: obsolete 4. Under ecclesiastical censure, excommunicated. Labels: obsolete
Word: aggressive Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd Proto-Italic *ad Proto-Italic *ad- Latin ad- Proto-Indo-European *gʰredʰ-der. Latin gradior Latin aggredior Latin aggressuslbor. English aggress Proto-Indo-European *-wós Proto-Indo-European *-iHwósder. Latin -īvus Old French -ifbor. Middle English -yf English -ive English aggressive From aggress + -ive. Compare with French agressif. Pronunciation: /əˈɡɹɛs.ɪv/ 1. Characterized by aggression; highly combative; prone to behave in a way that involves attacking (especially if unjustly) or arguing. Example: an aggressive policy, war, person, nation Example: When a new aggressive fish is added to an aquarium with an already-established, territorial fish, the established fish will probably fight to protect its territory (the whole tank). 2. Exploiting every opportunity to be applied. Labels: especially Example: This paper describes how aggressive loop unrolling is done in a retargetable optimizing compiler. Example: Since the most aggressive type of optimization a program can be subjected to is parallelization, understanding a program before attempting to parallelize it is a very important step. 3. Of a tumor or disease, that spreads quickly or extensively; virulent; malignant. 4. Involving high risk for potentially high reward. Example: an aggressive stock; an aggressive portfolio 5. Female but having a male or masculine gender presentation; butch. Labels: US Example: For quotations using this term, see Citations:aggressive.
Word: aggressive Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd Proto-Italic *ad Proto-Italic *ad- Latin ad- Proto-Indo-European *gʰredʰ-der. Latin gradior Latin aggredior Latin aggressuslbor. English aggress Proto-Indo-European *-wós Proto-Indo-European *-iHwósder. Latin -īvus Old French -ifbor. Middle English -yf English -ive English aggressive From aggress + -ive. Compare with French agressif. Pronunciation: /əˈɡɹɛs.ɪv/ 1. One who is aggressive. 2. A (Black) woman who presents as masculine; a butch. Labels: US Example: [...]; usually the femme is the ho [at the costume party], and the butch/aggressive is the pimp. [...] An aggressive is a masculine-identified woman like the category of butch; aggressive is the contemporary term among younger masculine-identified women.
Word: aggressively Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd Proto-Italic *ad Proto-Italic *ad- Latin ad- Proto-Indo-European *gʰredʰ-der. Latin gradior Latin aggredior Latin aggressuslbor. English aggress Proto-Indo-European *-wós Proto-Indo-European *-iHwósder. Latin -īvus Old French -ifbor. Middle English -yf English -ive English aggressive Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der. Proto-Germanic *līkąder. Proto-Germanic *-līkaz Proto-Germanic *-ê Proto-Germanic *-līkê Proto-West Germanic *-līkē Old English -līċe Middle English -ly English -ly English aggressively From aggressive + -ly. 1. In an aggressive manner. Example: Yes, there were instances of grandstanding and obsessive behaviour, but many were concealed at the time to help protect an aggressively peddled narrative of [Oscar] Pistorius the paragon, the emblem, the trailblazer. Example: The service aggressively maintained its position until I produced evidence proving it was untrue - including a recording of one of the calls with a senior MI5 officer.
Word: aggrieved Part of Speech: adj 1. Angry or resentful due to unjust treatment. Example: I am aggrieved at the conditions which have been forced upon me. Example: Steven Fletcher headed in for Wolves late on, who were denied a penalty and what appeared to be a legitimate equaliser in stoppage time. Wolves boss Mick McCarthy will rightly be aggrieved by those two decisions. 2. Having one's rights denied or curtailed. Example: The aggrieved person may present their petition to the court for review.
Word: aggrieved Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of aggrieve Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: aggrieve Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English agreven, from Old French agrever; a (Latin ad) + grever (“to burden, injure”), from Latin gravare (“to weigh down”), from gravis (“heavy”). See grieve, and compare with aggravate. Pronunciation: /əˈɡɹiːv/ 1. To cause someone to feel pain or sorrow to; to afflict Labels: transitive Example: Right is positive; wrong is negative—is merely the negation of right; as cold is the negation of heat—darkness of light. That a thing may be wrong, it is necessary that there be some other thing in relation to which it is wrong—some condition which it fails to satisfy; some law which it violates; some being whom it aggrieves. 2. To grieve; to lament. Labels: intransitive, obsolete
Word: aghast Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English agast, agasted, past participle of agasten (“to terrify”), from Old English a- (compare with Gothic 𐌿𐍃- (us-), German er-, originally meaning "out") + gæstan (“to terrify, torment”): compare Gothic 𐌿𐍃𐌲𐌰𐌹𐍃𐌾𐌰𐌽 (usgaisjan, “to terrify”, literally “to fix, to root to the spot with terror”); akin to Latin haerere (“to stick fast, cling”). By surface analysis, a- + ghast/gast. See gaze. Pronunciation: /əˈɡæst/, /əˈɡɑːst/, /əˈɡast/ 1. Terrified; struck with amazement; showing signs of terror or horror. Example: I was aghast when the incident unfolded in front of me. Example: Betraide by fortune and ſuſpitious loue, Threatned with frowning wrath and iealouſie, Surpriz’d with feare and hideous reuenge, I ſtand agaſt: […]
Word: agile Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From earlier agil, borrowed from Latin agilis (“agile, nimble”), from agō (“do, act; move”). See agent. Pronunciation: /ˈæd͡ʒ.aɪl/, /ˈæd͡ʒ.əl/, /ˈæd͡ʒ.ɑel/, /ˈɛd͡ʒ.aɪl/, [ˈɛd͡ʒ.ɑe̯ɫ] 1. Having the faculty of quick motion in the limbs; apt or ready to move; loose-jointed. Example: an agile creature Example: an agile wit 2. Characterised by quick motion. Example: agile movements 3. Of or relating to agile software development, a technique for iterative and incremental development of software involving collaboration between teams. Example: agile methods
Word: agile Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From earlier agil, borrowed from Latin agilis (“agile, nimble”), from agō (“do, act; move”). See agent. Pronunciation: /ˈæd͡ʒ.aɪl/, /ˈæd͡ʒ.əl/, /ˈæd͡ʒ.ɑel/, /ˈɛd͡ʒ.aɪl/, [ˈɛd͡ʒ.ɑe̯ɫ] 1. Agile software development. Labels: uncountable
Word: agility Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From late Middle English, borrowed from Middle French agilité, from Latin agilitās, from agilis (“nimble, fleet, quick”), equivalent to agile + -ity. Pronunciation: /əˈd͡ʒɪl.ɪ.ti/, /əˈd͡ʒɪl.ə.ti/, [əˈd͡ʒɪl.ə.ɾi] 1. The quality of being agile; the power of moving the limbs quickly and easily; quickness of motion Labels: uncountable Example: His superior agility countered his lack of strength. 2. A faculty of being agile in body, mind, or figuratively. Labels: countable
Word: agitated Part of Speech: adj Pronunciation: /ˈæd͡ʒɪteɪtɪd/ 1. Angry, annoyed, bothered or worked up. Example: By quarter to six all this had me so awake and agitated that even the Balinese wind chimes that I hung up in the garden to relax me began to sound like Big Ben. 2. Of a solution or substance, violently and chaotically moving around, such as due to being shaken.
Word: agitated Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ˈæd͡ʒɪteɪtɪd/ 1. simple past and past participle of agitate Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: agitate Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English agitat(e) (“set in motion”), borrowed from Latin agitātus, perfect passive participle of agitō (“to put in motion”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), frequentative of agō (“to drive, move, push”), see -tō. Cognate with French agiter. See also act and agent. Pronunciation: /ˈæ.d͡ʒɪ.teɪt/ 1. To disturb or excite; to perturb or stir up (a person). Labels: transitive Example: He was greatly agitated by the news. 2. To cause to move with a violent, irregular action; to shake. Labels: transitive Example: to agitate water in a vessel Example: The wind agitates the sea. 3. To participate in political agitation (sense 3). Example: NAMBLA is working to build a coalition of gay, lesbian, progressive and civil liberties groups to agitate against the increasing state attacks on gay men who associate with boys. 4. To set in motion; to actuate. Labels: obsolete, transitive 5. To discuss or debate. Labels: archaic, transitive Example: Your speech at the time a bill for the regency was agitated now lies before me. 6. To mull over, or think deeply about; to consider, to devise. Labels: archaic, transitive Example: Politicians agitate desperate designs.
Word: agitation Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From French agitation, from Latin agitātiō (“movement, agitation”). Pronunciation: /ædʒ.ɪˈteɪ.ʃən/ 1. The act of agitating, or the state of being agitated; the state of being disrupted with violence, or with irregular action; commotion. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: During a storm the sea is in agitation. 2. A disturbance of personal tranquillity; disturbance of someone's peace of mind; an emotion combining irritation, restlessness and aggravation; a feeling of being riled up or bothered to the point of experiencing distress and tension. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: She causes great agitation within me. 3. Excitement of public feeling by discussion, appeals, etc. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: the antislavery agitation Example: labor agitation 4. Examination or consideration of a subject in controversy, or of a plan proposed for adoption; earnest discussion; debate. Labels: archaic, countable, uncountable Example: […] a logical agitation of the matter […] Example: […] the project now in agitation […] 5. Putting into motion by shaking or stirring, often to achieve mixing. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: ago Part of Speech: postp Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ud-s-? Proto-Indo-European *h₂u-s-? Proto-Germanic *uz- Proto-West Germanic *uʀ- Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰeh₁-der. Proto-Germanic *gāną Proto-West Germanic *gān Proto-West Germanic *uʀgān Old English āgān Middle English agon English ago From Middle English ago, agon (“passed”), past participle of agon (“to depart, escape, pass”), from Old English āgān (“to go away, pass away, go forth, come to pass”), from Proto-Germanic *uz- (“out”), *gāną (“to go”), equivalent to a- + gone, and by surface analysis, a- + go. Cognate with German ergehen (“to come to pass, fare, go forth”). Compare also Old Saxon āgangan (“to go or pass by”), Gothic 𐌿𐍃𐌲𐌰𐌲𐌲𐌰𐌽 (usgaggan, “to go forth”). Pronunciation: /əˈɡəʊ/, /əˈɡoʊ/, [əˈɡʌo], /ˈə.ɡo/, [ɐ.ɡoˑ] 1. Before now, before the present time Example: I got married ten years ago. Example: When they first met in 2000, my dad told my mom how he had gotten the money. The story begins 20 years ago.
Word: ago Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ud-s-? Proto-Indo-European *h₂u-s-? Proto-Germanic *uz- Proto-West Germanic *uʀ- Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰeh₁-der. Proto-Germanic *gāną Proto-West Germanic *gān Proto-West Germanic *uʀgān Old English āgān Middle English agon English ago From Middle English ago, agon (“passed”), past participle of agon (“to depart, escape, pass”), from Old English āgān (“to go away, pass away, go forth, come to pass”), from Proto-Germanic *uz- (“out”), *gāną (“to go”), equivalent to a- + gone, and by surface analysis, a- + go. Cognate with German ergehen (“to come to pass, fare, go forth”). Compare also Old Saxon āgangan (“to go or pass by”), Gothic 𐌿𐍃𐌲𐌰𐌲𐌲𐌰𐌽 (usgaggan, “to go forth”). Pronunciation: /əˈɡəʊ/, /əˈɡoʊ/, [əˈɡʌo], /ˈə.ɡo/, [ɐ.ɡoˑ] 1. Gone; gone by; gone away; passed; passed away. Labels: archaic, dialectal, not-comparable Example: in days ago / in days agone 2. Nearly gone; dead. (used in Devonshire at the turn of the 19th century) Labels: archaic, dialectal, not-comparable Example: Woe the day—she is agone!
Word: agony Part of Speech: noun Etymology: 14th century, via Old French and Latin from Ancient Greek ἀγωνία (agōnía, “emulation, competition, struggle”), from ἀγών (agṓn, “contest”). Specifically of the struggle that precedes death (mortal agony) from the 1540s. By surface analysis, agon + -y. The sense of "extreme pain" from c. 1600. Pronunciation: /ˈæɡ.ə.ni/, /ˈeɪ̯ɡ.ə.ni/ 1. Extreme pain or anguish. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: When the weight fell on her foot, she cried out in agony. 2. The sufferings of Jesus Christ in the Garden of Gethsemane (often capitalized). Labels: countable, uncountable Example: And being in an agonie, he prayed more earneſtly,[…]. 3. Violent contest or striving. Labels: countable, dated, uncountable Example: The world is convulsed by the agonies of great nations. 4. Paroxysm of joy; keen emotion. Labels: countable, dated, uncountable Example: With cries and agonies of wild delight. 5. The last struggle of life; death struggle. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: agonized Part of Speech: adj Pronunciation: /ˈæ.ɡən.aɪzd/ 1. Alternative spelling of agonised. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: agonized Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ˈæ.ɡən.aɪzd/ 1. simple past and past participle of agonize Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: agonizing Part of Speech: adj Pronunciation: /ˈæɡ.ə.naɪ.zɪŋ/ 1. Causing physical or mental agony. Example: It was an agonizing twenty-minute wait for the results.
Word: agonizing Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ˈæɡ.ə.naɪ.zɪŋ/ 1. present participle and gerund of agonize Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: agonizing Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈæɡ.ə.naɪ.zɪŋ/ 1. The act of one who agonizes. Example: I never breathed a word of my doubts and mental agonizings to my mother; I spoke to her only of my bodily sufferings; yet she knew it all, and I knew that she knew.
Word: agonize Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From French agoniser, from Late Latin agonizare, from Ancient Greek ἀγωνίζομαι (agōnízomai, “to fight, contend”). See agony. By surface analysis, agon + -ize. Pronunciation: /ˈæɡ.ɪ.naɪz/, /ˈæɡ.ə.naɪz/, /ˈæɡ.ɪ.nɑez/ 1. To writhe with agony; to suffer violent anguish. Labels: intransitive Example: His Touch, if tremblingly alive all o’er, / To smart, and agonize at ev’ry pore? 2. To struggle; to wrestle; to strive desperately, whether mentally or physically. Labels: intransitive, literary Example: So I took a last stare round, agonizing to see if there was any way of escape; but the stone walls and roof were solid enough to crush me, and the stack of casks too closely packed to hide more than a rat. 3. To cause agony or anguish in someone. Labels: transitive Example: That dreadful bill […] was one of the chief torments of her life. At all hours of the night or day it was waiting just round the corner of her consciousness, ready to spring upon her and agonise her […] 4. To act as an agonist upon; to combine with a receptor on a cell to produce a physiological reaction. Labels: transitive
Word: durational pattern Part of Speech: noun 1. Foreground details, such as rhythmic units or rhythmic gestures, as projected against a background metric structure.
Word: metric structure Part of Speech: noun 1. Regular rhythmic components of a song, including its metre and tempo.
Word: presto Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From Italian presto (“quickly”). Pronunciation: /ˈpɹɛstəʊ/, /ˈpɹɛstoʊ/ 1. Very fast or quickly; a directive for the musician(s) to play in a very quick tempo. Labels: not-comparable
Word: presto Part of Speech: intj Etymology: From Italian presto (“quickly”). Pronunciation: /ˈpɹɛstəʊ/, /ˈpɹɛstoʊ/ 1. Used by magicians when performing a trick; ta-da; voilà. Example: So I put my hand into the hat and presto! Out comes a rabbit! Example: You know the old man's ivory leg, well I dreamed he kicked me with it ; and when I tried to kick back, upon my soul, my little man, I kicked my leg right off! And then, presto! Ahab seemed a pyramid, and I, like a blazing fool, kept kicking at it.
Word: presto Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Italian presto (“quickly”). Pronunciation: /ˈpɹɛstəʊ/, /ˈpɹɛstoʊ/ 1. A pair of fives as a starting hand in Texas hold 'em. Labels: slang, uncountable
Word: allegro Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Italian allegro. Pronunciation: /əˈlɛɡɹoʊ/, /əˈleɪɡɹoʊ/ 1. A tempo mark directing that a passage is to be played in a quick, lively tempo, faster than allegretto but slower than presto. 2. An expressive mark indicating that a passage is to be played in a lively or happy manner, not necessarily quickly. 3. A passage having this mark. Example: And what mean these outbursts and objurgations of his, you will ask; these suggestions, furtive, rhapsodical, mystical; this furibund allegro about Money, Mediums, and Bohemia; [...]
Word: allegro Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Borrowed from Italian allegro. Pronunciation: /əˈlɛɡɹoʊ/, /əˈleɪɡɹoʊ/ 1. played in a quick, lively tempo Labels: not-comparable
Word: allegro Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Borrowed from Italian allegro. Pronunciation: /əˈlɛɡɹoʊ/, /əˈleɪɡɹoʊ/ 1. in a quick and lively manner Labels: not-comparable
Word: register Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Medieval Latin registrum, from Late Latin regesta (“list, items recorded”), from Latin regerō (“to record, to carry back”), from re- + gerō (“to carry, bear”). Compare Latin registoria (“a treasurer”). Some senses influenced by association with unrelated Latin regō (“to rule”). Pronunciation: /ˈɹɛd͡ʒ.ɪ.stə/, /ˈɹɛd͡ʒ.ɪ.stɚ/, /ˈɹɛd͡ʒ.ə.stɚ/, /ˈɹed͡ʒ.ɪ.stə/, /ˈɹed͡ʒ.ə.stə/ 1. To enter in a register; to enlist. Labels: transitive 2. To sign-up, especially to vote. Labels: transitive Example: I am running for President to take this country in a new direction. But I can’t do it alone. I need you. Whether it’s the first time, or the first time in a long time, I need you to register and vote on November 4th. 3. To record, especially in writing. Labels: transitive Example: Tottenham, who lost William Gallas to injury before the end, struggled to find any sort of response and did not register a single shot on target. Example: In every way dinner proved up beyond my expectations, and I registered a note that the cook, whoever or whatever he might be, was a capable man at his trade. 4. To buy the full version of trial software by providing one's details and payment. Labels: ambitransitive Example: This is a trial version, and will expire in 30 days. Please register! 5. To express outward signs. Labels: transitive Example: Members of Boston's lesbian and gay community participated in the protest to register anger at the hotel's exploitative treatment of women workers. 6. To record officially and handle specially. Labels: transitive 7. To make or adjust so as to be properly or precisely aligned. Labels: especially, transitive 8. To place one's name, or have one's name placed in a register. Labels: intransitive Example: They registered for school. 9. To make an impression. Labels: intransitive Example: You’re not listening. You’ve gone off inside your head on one of your riffs and the plain fact that your son is ill hasn’t even registered. The plain fact that I have to wake up every morning and listen to him asking—unbearably asking—why his father isn’t home hasn’t registered. 10. To be in proper alignment; to align or correspond exactly. Labels: intransitive Example: The slightly smaller hind print may overlap but seldom registers precisely in the front track. Example: […] but cat tracks are slightly more staggered, and on each side the back foot registers directly on the track of the front foot. 11. To voluntarily sign over for safe keeping, abandoning complete ownership for partial. 12. To perceive or comprehend; pick up on. Labels: transitive Example: I did not register that look to mean anything more than an innocent, friendly smile. 13. To occur; become realised or noticed; dawn on. Labels: intransitive Example: It did not register with me at the time that he'd end up betraying me, making off with all my savings.
Word: beat level Part of Speech: noun 1. The main level of a piece.
Word: agree Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English agreen, from Old French agreer (“to accept or receive kindly”), from a gré (“favorably”), from Latin ad (“to”) + gratum (“pleasing”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *gʷerH- (“to welcome, greet, praise”). Pronunciation: /əˈɡɹiː/, /əˈɡɹi/ 1. To be in harmony about an opinion, statement, or action; to have a consistent idea between two or more people. Labels: intransitive Example: All parties agree in the expediency of the law. Example: I mostly agree with what you said, but I consider your last point to be unfair. 2. To give assent; to accede. Labels: intransitive Example: It was agreed to meet here at midday. Example: The workers did not agree to the new terms offered by the trade union. 3. To yield assent to; to approve. Labels: Ireland, UK, transitive Example: We agreed a bargain yesterday. Example: ... and there, after a good while in discourse, we did agree a bargain of £5,000 with Sir Roger Cuttance for my Lord Sandwich for silk, cinnamon, ... 4. To make a stipulation by way of settling differences or determining a price; to exchange promises; to come to terms or to a common resolve; to promise. Labels: intransitive Example: Agree with thine adversary quickly, whiles thou art in the way with him; lest at any time the adversary deliver thee to the judge, and the judge deliver thee to the officer, and thou be cast into prison. Example: But he answered one of them, and said, Friend, I do thee no wrong: didst not thou agree with me for a penny? 5. To resemble; to coincide; to correspond; to tally. Labels: intransitive Example: The picture does not agree with the original. Example: The two scales agree exactly. 6. To suit or be adapted in its effects; to do well. Labels: intransitive Example: The same food does not agree with every constitution. 7. To correspond to (another word) in a grammatical category, such as gender, number, case, or person. Labels: intransitive Example: In Romanian, all articles, adjectives, and pronouns agree in gender, number and case with the noun they refer to. 8. To consent to a contract or to an element of a contract. Labels: intransitive
Word: agreed Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /əˈɡɹiːd/, /əˈɡɹid/ 1. simple past and past participle of agree Labels: form-of, participle, past Example: It was agreed to move to a new headquaters.
Word: agreed Part of Speech: adj Pronunciation: /əˈɡɹiːd/, /əˈɡɹid/ 1. In harmony. Example: We are much more agreed on goals than on methods. Example: Grammarians are agreed that contact clauses are a paratactic construction of two independent clauses.
Word: agreed Part of Speech: intj Pronunciation: /əˈɡɹiːd/, /əˈɡɹid/ 1. Indicates agreement on the part of the speaker. Example: Totally agreed!
Word: agrees Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /əˈɡɹiːz/ 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of agree Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person Example: The Chilean Amphijubula Schust. (Schuster, 1970a) which has the facies of a small Frullania and agrees with Frullania in leaf insertion and branching, has a nontiered seta with 16 epidermal cell rows surrounding 4 inner rows.
Word: agreeable Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English agreable, from Old French agreable. Equivalent to agree + -able. Pronunciation: /əˈɡɹiːəbəl/, /əˈɡɹɪbəl/, /əˈɡɹiəbəl/ 1. Able to agree; possible to be agreed. Example: an agreeable contract 2. Pleasant to the senses or the mind; pleasing, satisfying, palatable. Example: a man with agreeable manners Example: not completely agreeable remarks 3. Willing; ready to agree or consent. Labels: dated Example: If the committee is agreeable, we'll make an arrangement agreeable to both sides. Example: These Frenchmen give unto the said captain of Calais a great sum of money, so that he will be but content and agreeable that they may enter into the said town. 4. Agreeing or suitable; followed by to, or rarely by with. Example: That which is Agreeable to the Nature of one thing, is many times Contrary to the Nature of another. 5. Pursuant, conformant, accordant. Labels: adverbial Example: Agreeable to the order of the day, the House took up the report. Example: And I do not know of any Indian or Indians that have taken upon them to give up any lands to the White people other than agreeable to the treaty , nor would I accept of any but from the nation
Word: agreeable Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English agreable, from Old French agreable. Equivalent to agree + -able. Pronunciation: /əˈɡɹiːəbəl/, /əˈɡɹɪbəl/, /əˈɡɹiəbəl/ 1. Something pleasing; anything that is agreeable. Example: The disagreeables of travelling are necessary evils, to be encountered for the sake of the agreeables of resting and looking round you.
Word: agricultural Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Middle French agriculturebor. Proto-Indo-European *h₂eǵ-? Proto-Indo-European *h₂éǵros Proto-Italic *agros Latin ager Proto-Indo-European *kʷelh₁- Proto-Indo-European *-eti Proto-Indo-European *kʷélh₁eti Proto-Italic *kʷelō Latin colō Proto-Indo-European *-tew-? Proto-Indo-European *-r-eh₂? Latin -tūra Latin cultūra Latin agricultūrabor. Middle English agriculture English agriculture English -al English agricultural From agriculture + -al. Pronunciation: /ˌæɡ.ɹɪˈkʌl.tjʊə.ɹəl/, /ˌæɡ.ɹɪˈkʌl.tʃə.ɹəl/ 1. Of or pertaining to agriculture. Example: the agricultural class Example: an agricultural tool 2. As if played with a scythe. 3. Coarse or uncultured. Labels: UK, derogatory, euphemistic 4. Clumsy or tactless. Labels: UK, euphemistic
Word: agricultural Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Middle French agriculturebor. Proto-Indo-European *h₂eǵ-? Proto-Indo-European *h₂éǵros Proto-Italic *agros Latin ager Proto-Indo-European *kʷelh₁- Proto-Indo-European *-eti Proto-Indo-European *kʷélh₁eti Proto-Italic *kʷelō Latin colō Proto-Indo-European *-tew-? Proto-Indo-European *-r-eh₂? Latin -tūra Latin cultūra Latin agricultūrabor. Middle English agriculture English agriculture English -al English agricultural From agriculture + -al. Pronunciation: /ˌæɡ.ɹɪˈkʌl.tjʊə.ɹəl/, /ˌæɡ.ɹɪˈkʌl.tʃə.ɹəl/ 1. A product or commodity from agriculture. Example: In what follows we divide commodities into three group—energy, metals, and agriculturals—and use equity indexes that are sensible for each commodity group.
Word: ague Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English agu, ague, borrowed from Middle French (fievre) aguë, “acute (fever)” (Modern French fièvre aiguë), from Late Latin (febris) acuta (“acute fever”), from Latin acūtus (“sharp, acute”) + febris (“fever”). Doublet of acute. Pronunciation: /ˈeɪ.ɡju/ 1. An acute fever. Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable 2. An intermittent fever, attended by alternate cold and hot fits. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: He had to capture some character and get out of that rest room before his ague got so bad that the sergeant had to carry him to and from the booth every day. Example: He shivered all the while, so violently, that it was quite as much as he could do to keep the neck of the bottle between his teeth, without biting it off. “I think you have got the ague,” said I. “I’m much of your opinion, boy,” said he. “It’s bad about here,” I told him. “You’ve been lying out on the meshes, and they’re dreadful aguish. Rheumatic too.” 3. The cold fit or rigor of an intermittent fever. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: fever and ague 4. A chill, or state of shaking, as with cold. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: November 23, 1698, John Dryden, letter to Mrs Stewart I ’scap’d with one cold fit of an ague 5. Malaria. Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable Example: Where I’m from, people have learned that mosquitoes carry ague.
Word: ague Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English agu, ague, borrowed from Middle French (fievre) aguë, “acute (fever)” (Modern French fièvre aiguë), from Late Latin (febris) acuta (“acute fever”), from Latin acūtus (“sharp, acute”) + febris (“fever”). Doublet of acute. Pronunciation: /ˈeɪ.ɡju/ 1. To strike with an ague, or with a cold fit. Labels: transitive
Word: ahead Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From a- + head. Perhaps originally a nautical term, beyond the head (of a ship), then drifting into more general English usage where it is used to describe something as being in front of. Pronunciation: /əˈhɛd/ 1. At or towards the front; in the direction one is facing or moving. Labels: not-comparable Example: The island was directly ahead. Example: Just ahead you can see the cliffs. 2. So as to be further advanced, either spatially or in an abstract sense; to be superior. Labels: not-comparable Example: He finished two laps ahead of me. Example: In all of his classes Jack was ahead. 3. In or for the future. Labels: not-comparable Example: There may be tough times ahead. Example: You've got to think ahead so as not to be unprepared. 4. To a later time. Labels: not-comparable Example: Set the clock ahead an hour. Example: Push the deadline ahead a day, from the 20th to the 21st. 5. At an earlier time; beforehand; in advance. Labels: not-comparable Example: He paid his rent ahead. 6. To an earlier time. Labels: not-comparable Example: Push the deadline ahead a day, from the 21st to the 20th. Example: […] committees in Congress hae a March 15 deadline for reporting their "views and estimates" to the budget committees. The Senate Republican leadership, eager to get a jump on the annual budget process, moved the deadline ahead to March 1 for Senate committees.
Word: aid Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English aide, eide, ayde, from Old French eide, aide, from aidier, from Latin adiūtō, adiūtāre (“to assist, help”). Cognates include Spanish ayuda, Portuguese ajuda and Italian aiuto. Pronunciation: /eɪd/ 1. Help; assistance; succor, relief. Labels: uncountable Example: He came to my aid when I was foundering. Example: An unconstitutional method of obtaining aid. 2. A helper; an assistant. Labels: countable Example: It is not good that man should bee alone, let vs make vnto him an aide like to himselfe. 3. Something which helps; a material source of help. Labels: countable Example: Slimming aids include dietary supplements and appetite suppressants. Example: The human is so poorly designed for aquatic adventures that he cannot even see in the water without artificial aids. 4. An historical subsidy granted to the crown by Parliament for an extraordinary purpose, such as a war effort. Labels: UK, countable Example: In this parliament was granted to the king for defence against the Scots two aids and two quindecims, the which two aids did not extend over two quindecims. 5. An exchequer loan. Labels: UK, countable 6. A pecuniary tribute paid by a vassal to his feudal lord on special occasions. Labels: countable 7. Alternative form of aide (“an aide-de-camp”). Labels: alt-of, alternative, countable Example: Suddenly, the general's aid entered the room and walked in a straight line, coming to a halt in front of the desk, standing at attention, waiting for the general to recognize him, allowing the aid to speak. 8. The rider's use of hands, legs, voice, etc. to control the horse. Labels: countable, in-plural
Word: aid Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English aiden, from Old French eider, aider, aidier, from Latin adiuto, frequentative of adiuvō (“assist”, verb). Pronunciation: /eɪd/ 1. To provide support to; to further the progress of; to help; to assist. Labels: transitive Example: You speedy helpers […] Appear and aid me in this enterprise. Example: Smith is aided in his quest by an elfin, time-jumping alien with psychic powers played by another Coen brothers veteran, A Serious Man star Michael Stuhlbarg. 2. To climb with the use of aids such as pitons. Example: Rather than climb into a bottomless off-width crack, we aided an 80-foot A2 to A3 crack to the top of a pedestal. By very tenuous face climbing, we gained entry to the crack, which we followed to a tree beneath the big chimney.