nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: connectivity Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English connective Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-ts Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ts Latin -itāsder. Old French -itebor. Middle English -ite English -ity English connectivity From connective + -ity. 1. The state of being connected. Labels: uncountable Example: Since submitting our Strategic Outline Business Case to the DfT last summer, MPs, government ministers and even the new Prime Minister have started talking about our £2 billion proposals as the answer to poor rail connectivity between the East Midlands and the West Midlands. 2. The ability to make a connection between two or more points in a network. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Near-synonym: connectability 3. In a graph, a measure of concatenated adjacency (the number of ways that points are connected to each other) Labels: countable
Word: peercast Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-West Germanic *pūrijan Old English *pȳran Middle English peren English peer Proto-Indo-European *bʰer-der.? Proto-Germanic *braidaz Proto-West Germanic *braid Old English brād Middle English brod English broad Proto-Germanic *kas- Proto-Germanic *kastōną Old Norse kastabor. Middle English casten English cast English broadcast English -cast English peercast From peer + -cast. 1. To transmit streaming media via a peer-to-peer network.
Word: taa Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Mandarin 塔 (tǎ, “pagoda”). 1. A kind of pagoda in China and Japan.
Word: taa Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Arabic تَاء (tāʔ). 1. The letter ت in the Arabic script.
Word: taa Part of Speech: intj 1. Alternative form of ta (“thanks”). Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: phyla Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈfaɪlə/ 1. plural of phylum and phylon Labels: form-of, plural
Word: genera Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin genera (“clans”). Pronunciation: /ˈd͡ʒɛnəɹə/ 1. plural of genus Labels: form-of, plural
Word: pagoda Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Portuguese pagode (“Hindu temple, Hindu idol, pagoda coin”), from any of various Dravidian languages' words of respectful address to Hindu gods and idols and their temples, including Malayalam പകോതി (pakōti, “Durga temple”), Kannada, and Tamil பகவதி (pakavati, “Durga, Parvati”), possibly corrupted under the influence of Portuguese pagão (“pagan”), all ultimately from Sanskrit भगवती (bhagavatī, “Holy One, used for goddesses”). Previously but mistakenly connected with various other languages from Persia to China. Pronunciation: /pəˈɡoʊ.də/, /pəˈɡəʊ.də/ 1. A Hindu temple. Labels: Hinduism, obsolete Example: This King of Calycut was a Bramene, as others his Predeceſſours alſo were, which amongſt the Malabars are Prieſts, and for that it is a cuſtome and anncient order obſerved, that all the Kings doe dye in one Pagode, which is the houſe of praiers to their Idolls... Example: All your Religious Women who assist at the Performances of Pagod Ceremonies, are unexceptionably great Whores. 2. A tall building in an Indian, Burmese, or Thai style erected at Hindu or Buddhist temples in South and Southeast Asia, a stupa surmounted with a high point. Labels: Hinduism, uncommon 3. A multi-storey tower in a Chinese style used in various contexts across East Asia and Nepal, usually with upturned curving roofs above each storey. Example: He declared he would ascend the highest pinnacle of the highest pagod in Japan. Example: On the journey southwards over the flat, fertile plains, paddy fields stretched away on each side of the line, and the landscape was broken only by wooden villages and stately pagodas. 4. Alternative form of pagod, an idol, chiefly in South and Southeast Asia. Labels: alt-of, alternative, archaic 5. A unit of currency, a coin made of gold or half gold, issued by various dynasties and colonial powers in southern India. Labels: historical Example: [T]he Mahrattas having offered Alimerdy Khan his liberty for a lak of Pagodas; he does in the Nabob's name desire that the Governor of Madras would receive jewels and money to that amount into his custody, […] Example: I, in about two hours, notwithstanding the utmost caution, found myself minus upwards of six hundred pagodas […] . 6. Short for pagoda sleeve. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, rare
Word: stupa Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Learned borrowing from Sanskrit स्तूप (stūpa). Doublet of tope. Pronunciation: /ˈstuːpə/ 1. A Buddhist monument used to house relics of the Buddha or others, especially dome-shaped monuments in the Indian style. Example: He mounded so much honey on the top of the buns that they looked like miniature stupas. Example: I cupped her cheeks and thought of the lotus flowers at the thresholds of Buddhist stupas, their pale petals resting in the palms of the faithful.
Word: stupa Part of Speech: noun 1. A stupe (medicated cloth or sponge).
Word: patio Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Spanish patio, either from Old Occitan patu or pati (compare Occitan and Catalan pati), from Late Latin pactus, from Latin pactum (“pact, agreement, bargain”), hence a doublet of pact, or alternatively from Latin patēre (“to lie open”). Pronunciation: /ˈpæt.i.əʊ/, /ˈpæt.i.oʊ/, [ˈpæɾ.i.oʊ], /ˈpæt.i.əʉ/, [ˈpæɾ.i.əʉ] 1. A paved outside area, adjoining a house, used for dining or recreation. 2. An inner courtyard typical of traditional houses in some regions of Spain. Example: The flat looks out on a patio on one side and a churro café on the other.
Word: patio door Part of Speech: noun 1. A sliding door, usually made of glass, that opens onto a patio, deck or garden. Labels: in-plural
Word: telly Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Shortened form of tele(vision) + -y. Pronunciation: /ˈtɛli/ 1. Television. Labels: Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, colloquial, countable, uncountable Example: Not much on telly tonight, as usual! Example: You're from telly! 2. A television set. Labels: Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, colloquial, countable, uncountable Example: We've got a new flat-screen telly. 3. Telegraph. Labels: Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, colloquial, countable, uncountable 4. Telephone. Labels: Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, colloquial, countable, uncountable 5. Teleport. Labels: Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, colloquial, countable, uncountable 6. Telecommunication. Labels: Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, colloquial, countable, uncountable
Word: telly Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Shortened form of (ho)tel and/or (mo)tel + -y. Pronunciation: /ˈtɛli/ 1. A hotel or motel. Labels: Canada, Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, US, colloquial, slang Example: I'm staying at the telly this weekend.
Word: telly Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From tell + -y, related to the writing advice show, don't tell. Pronunciation: /ˈtɛli/ 1. Inclined to telling (by explicitly stating facts), instead of showing (by conveying an impression so that events are described in the narrative). Labels: Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, colloquial, informal Example: I think my problem with it is that it's a) a little "telly" not "showy" in comparison to the rest […] Example: There's a way to make this more showy and less telly. It's like you're in a hurry to get on with the rest of the story.
Word: bagwash Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From bag + wash. 1. A type of laundry in which the washing was returned to the customer in a bag, undried and unpressed. Labels: historical, uncountable
Word: bambou Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From French bambou, from Portuguese bambu, from Malay bambu, from Kannada ಬಮ್ಬು (bambu). 1. Alternative form of bamboo. Labels: alt-of, alternative, countable, uncommon, uncountable Example: The Chowpaul is simply a very light bed or sofa, over which a large bambou forms an arch. But as this is not a sufficient defence against the sun, it is always attended by a servant carrying a chata or parasol.
Word: whirlybird Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From whirly + bird. 1. A helicopter. Labels: slang Example: ... and then this whirlybird that I headed for, I had my goggles off... 2. A samara. Labels: informal 3. A wind-powered roof turbine. Labels: colloquial
Word: banc Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English bank, from Old French banc. Doublet of banco, bank, and bench. Pronunciation: /bæŋk/ 1. A bench; a high seat, or seat of distinction or judgment. 2. A tribunal or court. Example: all the banc business of each county must be done in that county
Word: banc Part of Speech: noun Etymology: A respelling of bank. Pronunciation: /bæŋk/ 1. Used to associate a nonbanking affiliate of a bank with the bank's brand name without using the word bank. Labels: US
Word: shoal Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English schold, scholde, from Old English sċeald (“shallow”), perhaps from Proto-Germanic *skalidaz, past participle of *skaljaną (“to go dry, dry up, become shallow”), from *skalaz (“parched, shallow”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kelh₁- (“to dry out”). Cognate with Low German Scholl (“shallow water”), German schal (“stale, flat, vapid”). Compare shallow. Pronunciation: /ʃəʊl/ 1. Shallow. Labels: archaic Example: shoal water Example: But that part of the coast being shoal and bare, / And rough with reefs which ran out many a mile, / His port lay on the other side o' the isle.
Word: shoal Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English schold, scholde, from Old English sċeald (“shallow”), perhaps from Proto-Germanic *skalidaz, past participle of *skaljaną (“to go dry, dry up, become shallow”), from *skalaz (“parched, shallow”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kelh₁- (“to dry out”). Cognate with Low German Scholl (“shallow water”), German schal (“stale, flat, vapid”). Compare shallow. Pronunciation: /ʃəʊl/ 1. A sandbank or sandbar creating a shallow. Example: 'Twas early June, the new grass was flourishing everywheres, the posies in the yard—peonies and such—in full bloom, the sun was shining, and the water of the bay was blue, with light green streaks where the shoal showed. Example: The god himself with ready trident stands, / And opes the deep, and spreads the moving sands, / Then heaves them off the shoals. 2. A shallow in a body of water. Example: The depth of your pond should be six feet; and on the sides some shoals for the fish to sun themselves in and to lay their spawn. Example: Wolsey, that once trod the ways of glory, / And sounded all the depths and shoals of honour.
Word: shoal Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English schold, scholde, from Old English sċeald (“shallow”), perhaps from Proto-Germanic *skalidaz, past participle of *skaljaną (“to go dry, dry up, become shallow”), from *skalaz (“parched, shallow”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kelh₁- (“to dry out”). Cognate with Low German Scholl (“shallow water”), German schal (“stale, flat, vapid”). Compare shallow. Pronunciation: /ʃəʊl/ 1. To arrive at a shallow (or less deep) area. 2. To cause a shallowing; to come to a more shallow part of. Labels: transitive Example: Noting the rate at which she shoals her water -[…] 3. To become shallow. Example: The colour of the water shows where it shoals.
Word: shoal Part of Speech: noun Etymology: 1570, presumably from Middle English *schole (“school of fish”), from Old English sċeolu, sċolu (“troop or band of people, host, multitude, division of army, school of fish”), from Proto-West Germanic *skolu, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kelH- (“to divide, split, separate”). Cognate with West Frisian skoal (“shoal”), Middle Low German schōle (“multitude, troop”), Dutch school (“shoal of fishes”). Doublet of school. Pronunciation: /ʃəʊl/ 1. Any large number of persons or things. Example: Shoals of tourists Example: great shoals of people 2. A large number of fish (or other sea creatures) of the same species swimming together. Labels: collective Example: c. 1661, Edmund Waller, On St. James's Park Beneath, a shoal of silver fishes glides. Example: He came directly from the shoal which we had just before entered, and in which we had struck three of his companions, as if fired with revenge for their sufferings.
Word: shoal Part of Speech: verb Etymology: 1570, presumably from Middle English *schole (“school of fish”), from Old English sċeolu, sċolu (“troop or band of people, host, multitude, division of army, school of fish”), from Proto-West Germanic *skolu, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kelH- (“to divide, split, separate”). Cognate with West Frisian skoal (“shoal”), Middle Low German schōle (“multitude, troop”), Dutch school (“shoal of fishes”). Doublet of school. Pronunciation: /ʃəʊl/ 1. To collect in a shoal; to throng. Example: The fish shoaled about the place.
Word: basilic Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From French basilique. Doublet of basilic (etymology 2) and basil. Pronunciation: /ˈbæsɪlɪk/ 1. A basilica.
Word: basilic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Ancient Greek βασιλικός (basilikós). Doublet of basilic (etymology 1) and basil. Pronunciation: /bəˈsɪlɪk/ 1. royal; kingly 2. basilican 3. Relating to certain parts, anciently supposed to have a specially important function in the animal economy, such as the basilic vein.
Word: crypto-revisionism Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Ancient Greek κρῠ́πτω (krŭ́ptō) Ancient Greek κρῠπτός (krŭptós)der. English crypto- Proto-Italic *wre- Latin re-der. Old French re-bor. Middle English re- English re- English vision English revision 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 revisionism English crypto-revisionism From crypto- + revisionism. Pronunciation: /kɹɪptoʊɹɪˈvɪʒəˌnɪzəm/ 1. The political use of historical revisionism. Labels: uncountable
Word: organisation Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle French organisation, equivalent to organise + -ation. Pronunciation: /ˈɔː.ɡə.naɪˌzeɪ.ʃən/, /ˌoɹ.ɡə.nɪˈzeɪ.ʃən/, /ˌoː.ɡə.nɑeˈzæɪ.ʃən/, [ˌoː.ɡə.nɑe̯ˈzæɪ.ʃən] 1. Non-Oxford British English and Australian standard spelling of organization. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: […] a number of commentators have noted how, during meetings and in committees, for example, organisation members often experience an attack of the sillies by playing the fool and horsing around. Example: We know that many male City employees still go to lapdancing clubs for a fun night out. We know City organisations have struggled in their vaunted attempts to get more women on boards.
Word: deceased Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From decease + -ed, from Middle English deceas via Old French [Term?], from Latin dēcessus (“departure”), equivalent to dēced-, variation of dēcēdō, dēcēdere (“to go away”). Pronunciation: /dɪˈsiːst/, /diˈsist/, /dɪˈsist/, /diˈsizd/, /dɪˈsizd/ 1. No longer alive; dead. Labels: not-comparable Example: 1969, Monty Python, Dead Parrot Sketch That parrot is definitely deceased, and when I purchased it not 'alf an hour ago, you assured me that its total lack of movement was due to it bein' tired and shagged out following a prolonged squawk. Example: Publicity handouts from Dick's long-deceased record label would have us believe that he was born in Cleveland in 1952. 2. Belonging to the dead. Labels: not-comparable Example: The executor's commission for winding up the deceased estate was 3.5%. 3. One who has died. Labels: not-comparable 4. Overwhelmed to the point of being figuratively dead. Labels: excessive, not-comparable Example: You look so good, I'm deceased! Example: I am deceased, my nuts have been busted.
Word: deceased Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From decease + -ed, from Middle English deceas via Old French [Term?], from Latin dēcessus (“departure”), equivalent to dēced-, variation of dēcēdō, dēcēdere (“to go away”). Pronunciation: /dɪˈsiːst/, /diˈsist/, /dɪˈsist/, /diˈsizd/, /dɪˈsizd/ 1. Synonym of dead (“those who have died”). Labels: euphemistic Example: The deceased was interred in his local churchyard. Example: a memorial to the deceased of two World Wars 2. One who has died. In property law, the alternate term decedent is generally used in US English. In criminal law, “the deceased” refers to the victim of a homicide. Example: Deceased had already made a will in his favour before her marriage, but—and Mr. Philips wagged an expressive forefinger—the prisoner was not aware of that. What had induced the deceased to make a fresh will, with the old one still extant, he could not say.
Word: coherent Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ḱe? Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm Proto-Italic *kom Proto-Italic *kom- Latin con- Latin haereō Latin cohaereō Latin cohaerēnsder. Middle French coherentder. English coherent From Middle French coherent, from Latin cohaērēns, from co- + haereō. By surface analysis, cohere + -ent. Pronunciation: /kəʊˈhɪə.ɹənt/, /koʊˈhɛɹ.ənt/, /koʊˈhiɹ.ənt/, /koːˈhɪɹ.ənt/, /kəʉˈhɪə.ɹənt/ 1. Unified; sticking together; making up a whole. Example: These people professed that the universe was one coherent thing; but they were not fond of the universe. Example: A sentence like this one cannot be understood unless somehow we can store the underlined words for several seconds, while we wait for the rest of the sentence to arrive, with the information needed to complete a coherent thought. 2. Orderly, logical and consistent. Example: At present she is unable to give any coherent account of the past, and the doctors hold out no hopes of the reestablishment of her reason. Example: Perhaps Khrushchev did have a coherent plan in mind at the time he placed the nuclear missiles in Cuba. 3. Aesthetically ordered. 4. Having a natural or due agreement of parts; harmonious: a coherent design. 5. Of waves having the same direction, wavelength and phase, as light in a laser. 6. Attaching or pressing against an organ of the same nature. 7. Belonging to a specific class of sheaves having particularly manageable properties closely linked to the geometrical properties of the underlying space. See Coherent sheaf on Wikipedia.Wikipedia 8. In a technical sense, determined by the (topology of) the subsets. Formally, Such that 𝒯 is the finest topology on T for which the inclusion maps ιₐ:C_a→T are continuous, where each C_a is considered with its subspace topology. 9. Finitely generated and such that all finitely generated submodules are finitely presented. 10. Such that every finitely generated (left) ideal is finitely presented.
Word: quantum leap Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Possibly calque of Danish kvantespring. Pronunciation: /ˈkwɒntəm liːp/ 1. The discontinuous change of the state of an electron in an atom or molecule from one energy level to another. 2. An abrupt, extreme change. Labels: figuratively Example: In the end, perhaps the practice of prayer effects a quantum leap of its own kind. It takes us, spontaneously and unexplainably, into the realm of spiritual energy. Example: The beacon was a Prothean artifact unearthed on the Alliance colony of Eden Prime. Its resemblance to the Prothean data banks recovered on Mars provoked immediate interest from the Alliance and the Citadel Council. It proved to be a solid state data storage device, part of a galaxy-spanning comm network similar to the modern extranet. Intact Prothean 'paleo-technology' is rare; the beacon seemed to promise another quantum leap of technology, akin to the discovery of the mass effect drive and relays. 3. A large, massive, significant change. Labels: figuratively, informal, nonstandard Example: I was at the elections in Namibia. We had problems there, … But I would say that this is a quantum leap forward when you think of the Mengistu government and the horrible repression, the famine, the tyranny that existed under him, and you see this movement toward freedom and democracy over there. Although there, admittedly, have been problems, this is a giant step in the right direction. Example: A GIANT LEAP FORWARD Humanity is about to face a quantum leap forward. […]
Word: quantum leap Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Possibly calque of Danish kvantespring. Pronunciation: /ˈkwɒntəm liːp/ 1. To manifest, to forward the reality of. Labels: slang
Word: abampere Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From ab- (“absolute”) + ampere. Pronunciation: /æˈbæmpɪɹ/, /æˈbæmpɪə/ 1. Unit of electrical current in electromagnetic and Gaussian cgs systems of units, equal to 10 amperes in SI units.
Word: quantum mechanics Part of Speech: noun 1. The branch of physics which studies matter and energy at the level of atoms and other elementary particles, and substitutes probabilistic mechanisms in place of classical Newtonian ones. Labels: uncountable 2. Something overly complicated or detailed. Labels: broadly, uncountable
Word: wave-particle duality Part of Speech: noun 1. The concept applying to all matter and radiation, but most evident in light and particles such as the electron, that properties of waves and of particles are exhibited simultaneously
Word: wavefunction Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From wave + function. Pronunciation: /ˈweɪv.fʌŋ(k).ʃən/ 1. A mathematical function that describes the propagation of the quantum mechanical wave associated with a particle (or system of particles), related to the probability of finding the particle in a particular region of space. Example: The interpretation of the wavefunction was one of the thorny issues facing the early pioneers of quantum theory.
Word: orbital Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Borrowed from Medieval Latin orbitālis, from orbita (“a track or rut; a circuit, orbit”) + -ālis (“-al”, adjectival suffix), equivalent to orbit + -al. Doublet of orbitalis. Pronunciation: /ɔː.bɪt.əl/, /ɔː.bɪt.l̩/, /ɔɹ.bət.l̩/ 1. Of or relating to, or forming an orbit (such as the orbit of a moon, planet, or spacecraft). Labels: not-comparable Example: The 1.2-meter-diameter (4-foot-diameter) telescope has set off on a monthlong journey to its orbital destination of the sun-Earth Lagrange point L2, which is nearly 1 million miles (1.6 million kilometers) away from Earth and also home to NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope. Euclid will keep pace with Earth as our planet orbits the sun. 2. Of or relating to the eye socket (eyehole). Labels: not-comparable 3. (of roads, railways) Passing around the outside of an urban area. Labels: UK, not-comparable Example: The M25 is an orbital motorway around London. Example: The rail orbital routes outside of the M25 and South Coast are challenging. The corridors aren't particularly reliable, and in some places they don't exist. [...] But the reliability and journey times, particularly on the orbital routes: one train an hour from Gatwick Airport to Reading? Surely we can do better than that?
Word: orbital Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Medieval Latin orbitālis, from orbita (“a track or rut; a circuit, orbit”) + -ālis (“-al”, adjectival suffix), equivalent to orbit + -al. Doublet of orbitalis. Pronunciation: /ɔː.bɪt.əl/, /ɔː.bɪt.l̩/, /ɔɹ.bət.l̩/ 1. A specification of the energy and probability density of one or more electrons at any point in an atom or molecule, representable as a wave function. 2. Ellipsis of orbital motorway. Labels: UK, abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis 3. Ellipsis of orbital sander. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis Example: As with most power tools, orbitals can be divided into light and heavy-duty categories.
Word: cahoots Part of Speech: noun Etymology: PIE word *ḱóm From earlier cahoot + -s (suffix forming regular plurals of nouns). Cahoot is probably borrowed: * from French cahute (“hut, shack”), from Dutch kajuit (“cabin on a ship”), from Middle Low German kajüte, probably from Middle Dutch kayhute; further etymology uncertain, possibly borrowed from Old French *cahute, chahute (whence Middle French quahute), a blend of cabane (“cabin, hut, shack”) + hute (“hut”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kewH- (“to conceal, hide; to cover; hide, skin”)); or * from French cohorte (“group of people supporting the same person or thing, cohort”), from Latin cohors (“cohort; crowd”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm (“beside, by; near; with”) + *ǵʰer- (“to enclose”) (and if so, a doublet of cohort). Pronunciation: /kəˈhuːts/, /kəˈhuts/ 1. Chiefly preceded by in: collaboration or collusion, chiefly for a nefarious reason. Labels: plural, plural-normally Example: Those two are definitely in cahoots. Example: There was no stage on the road, and no vehicle in the place except these mighty wagons. Accordingly I struck a bargain with a wagoner, who took my baggage. 'You may go with me,' said he, 'but may-be you can't go cahoots with me in my eatin' fixin's, stranger.' 2. plural of cahoot (“a company or partnership; a group of people working together, chiefly for a nefarious reason, hence, a collaboration or collusion; an accomplice, partner”) Labels: form-of, plural, plural-normally, uncommon
Word: cahoots Part of Speech: verb Etymology: PIE word *ḱóm From earlier cahoot + -s (suffix forming regular plurals of nouns). Cahoot is probably borrowed: * from French cahute (“hut, shack”), from Dutch kajuit (“cabin on a ship”), from Middle Low German kajüte, probably from Middle Dutch kayhute; further etymology uncertain, possibly borrowed from Old French *cahute, chahute (whence Middle French quahute), a blend of cabane (“cabin, hut, shack”) + hute (“hut”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kewH- (“to conceal, hide; to cover; hide, skin”)); or * from French cohorte (“group of people supporting the same person or thing, cohort”), from Latin cohors (“cohort; crowd”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm (“beside, by; near; with”) + *ǵʰer- (“to enclose”) (and if so, a doublet of cohort). Pronunciation: /kəˈhuːts/, /kəˈhuts/ 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of cahoot Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: quantum number Part of Speech: noun 1. One of certain integers or half-integers that specify the state of a quantum mechanical system (such as an electron in an atom).
Word: Hilbert space Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Named after German mathematician David Hilbert (1862–1943). 1. A generalized Euclidean space in which mathematical functions take the place of points; crucial to the understanding of quantum mechanics and other applications. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: vector space Part of Speech: noun 1. A set of elements called vectors, together with some field and operations called addition (mapping two vectors to a vector) and scalar multiplication (mapping a vector and an element in the field to a vector), satisfying a list of constraints; equivalently, a module over a field. Example: A vector space is a set of vectors which can be linearly combined. Example: Each vector space has a basis and dimension.
Word: elementary Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English elementare, from Latin elementārius (“elementary”), from elementum (“one of the four elements of antiquity; fundamentals”) + -ārius (adjective-forming suffix). Cognate with French élémentaire. By surface analysis, element + -ary. Pronunciation: /ˌɛlɪˈmɛntəɹi/, /ˌɛlɪˈmɛntɹi/, /ˌɛləˈmɛntəɹi/, /ˌɛləˈmɛntɹi/ 1. Relating to the basic, essential or fundamental part of something. 2. Very simple. 3. Relating to an elementary school. 4. Fundamental: serving as a building block for more complicated structures or processes. Example: The physics of elementary particles in the 20th century was distinguished by the observation of particles whose existence had been predicted by theorists sometimes decades earlier. 5. Fundamental: serving as a building block for more complicated structures or processes. 6. Fundamental: serving as a building block for more complicated structures or processes. 7. Fundamental: serving as a building block for more complicated structures or processes. 8. Fundamental: serving as a building block for more complicated structures or processes. 9. Straightforward, employing only basic techniques; not requiring substantial knowledge (of some particular domain, object, etc.). 10. Straightforward, employing only basic techniques; not requiring substantial knowledge (of some particular domain, object, etc.). 11. Sublunary; not celestial; belonging to the sublunary sphere, to which the four classical elements (earth, air, fire and water) were confined; composed of or pertaining to these four elements. Labels: archaic
Word: elementary Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English elementare, from Latin elementārius (“elementary”), from elementum (“one of the four elements of antiquity; fundamentals”) + -ārius (adjective-forming suffix). Cognate with French élémentaire. By surface analysis, element + -ary. Pronunciation: /ˌɛlɪˈmɛntəɹi/, /ˌɛlɪˈmɛntɹi/, /ˌɛləˈmɛntəɹi/, /ˌɛləˈmɛntɹi/ 1. Ellipsis of elementary school. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, ellipsis, informal, uncountable Example: At Lakeside Elementary I learned to appreciate the forest. Example: He was my dentist. My mom took me to him back in elementary and junior high. 2. A supernatural being associated with the elements. Labels: countable Example: The demon (or elementary) of the South-West wind was particularly dreaded, as being the gini of fever and madness. Example: […] the spiritual man is either translated like Enoch and Elias to the higher state, or falls down lower than an elementary again […]
Word: subatomic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *upó Proto-Italic *supo Latin sub Latin sub-der. English sub- Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Hellenic *ə- Ancient Greek ἀ- (a-) Proto-Indo-European *temh₁- Proto-Indo-European *-né- Ancient Greek τέμνω (témnō) Proto-Indo-European *-ós Proto-Hellenic *-ós ▲ Ancient Greek -ος (-os)influ. Ancient Greek -ός (-ós) Ancient Greek *τομός (*tomós) Ancient Greek ἄτομος (átomos)bor. Latin atomusbor. Middle French athomebor. Middle English attome English atom Proto-Indo-European *-ikos Proto-Italic *-ikos Latin -icuslbor. Old French -iquebor. Middle English -ik English -ic English atomic English subatomic From sub- + atomic. Pronunciation: /ˌsʌbəˈtɒmɪk/, /ˌsʌbəˈtɑːmɪk/ 1. Relating to particles that are constituents of the atom, or are smaller than an atom; such as proton, neutron, electron, etc. Labels: not-comparable Example: We humans are so stuck in the middle of the cosmic scales — in average height, one-hundredth of one-septillionth (10^-24) the size of the observable universe, and with typical life spans of a couple octillion attoseconds. And an attosecond is an eternity compared with the lifetime of the elusive Higgs boson, a subatomic particle that exists for one-thousandth of an attosecond before decaying. 2. Relating to something that is smaller in scale than the diameter of a hydrogen atom. Labels: not-comparable Example: The electron microscope is able to resolve detail at the subatomic level.
Word: take a dump Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From slang use of dump in reference to an act of defecation. 1. To defecate. Labels: euphemistic, slang Example: Samantha took a dump this morning when she woke up.
Word: mathematical economics Part of Speech: noun 1. A sub-field of economics which aims at expressing economic theories with mathematical formulae. Labels: uncountable
Word: econometrics Part of Speech: noun Etymology: An adaptation of the French économétrie. Coined by Norwegian economist Ragnar Frisch in 1926. Compare the earlier German Oekonometrie (now generally spelt Ökonometrie), first used (in a different sense) by Polish economist Paweł Ciompa in 1910. Pronunciation: /ɪˌkɒn.əˈmɛt.ɹɪks/, /ɪˌkɑ.nəˈmɛt.ɹɪks/, /ɪˌkɔn.əˈmet.ɹɪks/ 1. The branch of economics that applies statistical methods to the empirical study of economic theories and relationships. Labels: uncountable Example: The credibility revolution in econometrics was an understandable reaction to the identification of causal mechanisms by assertion, often controversial and sometimes incredible. Example: Here is a poetic finding from econometrics: As the rich get richer, they want more from other humans, not less.
Word: peonage Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English peon Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂tos Proto-Italic *-ātos Latin -ātus Proto-Indo-European *-ikos Proto-Italic *-ikos Latin -icus Latin -āticus Latin -āticum Old French -agebor. Middle English -age English -age English peonage From peon + -age. Pronunciation: /ˈpiːənɪdʒ/ 1. The state of being a peon; the system of paying back debt through servitude and labour; loosely, any system of involuntary servitude. Example: But there was work to be done down in the Salinas Valley where César Chávez was organizing the grape pickers and lettuce workers out of their state of un-unionized peonage. Example: "It wasn't just the crowds," Luis said softly. "I saw with my own eyes that Díaz's México is a Potemkin village, Miguel. The México profundo where the poor are so hungry they eat grass and bark. I met Indians whose land is being devoured by Díaz's cronies, entire towns swallowed up, and the people reduced to peonage. I talked to Mexican railroad workers who are paid a fraction of what the American owners pay their own countrymen for the same work."
Word: servitude Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle French servitude, from Latin servitūdō, from Latin servus (“slave”). Equivalent to serve + -itude. Pronunciation: /ˈsɜːvɪtʃuːd/, /-tjuːd/, /ˈsərvəˌt(j)ud/, /ˈsɝvɪtud/ 1. The state of being a slave; slavery; being forced to work for others or do their bidding without one's consent or against one's will, either in perpetuity or for a period of time over which one has little or no control. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: In spite of the importance of this route it remained until a few years ago very insecure. Overhung almost its entire length by the inaccessible fastnesses of Lololand, the passing caravans dared journey only with convoy, and even then were frequently overwhelmed by raiders from the hills, who carried off both trader and goods into the mountains, the former to lifelong servitude. Example: Balfour, who had sought refuge in Argentina, was extradited, and sentenced to a long term of penal servitude at Parkhurst Prison in the Isle of Wight. 2. A qualified beneficial interest severed or fragmented from the ownership of an inferior property and attached to a superior property or to some person other than the owner; the most common form is an easement. Labels: countable, uncountable 3. Service rendered in the army or navy. Labels: countable, dated, uncountable 4. Servants collectively. Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable 5. The act of serving (food or drink, etc.); service. Labels: archaic, countable, uncountable Example: The usual routine of confections and pastry follows, after which a galore of fruits of all kinds, with a chassè of excellent Mocha, the immediate servitude of which, after good dining, is, I think, universally acknowledged to be a great exhiliration^([sic]).
Word: acrolith Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἀκρόλιθος (akrólithos). By surface analysis, acro- + -lith. 1. An ancient Greek wooden statue furnished with a rupestral head and limbs. Labels: historical
Word: fringe Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English frenge, from Old French frenge, from Vulgar Latin *frimbia, a metathesis of Latin fimbriae (“fibers, threads, fringe”, plural), of uncertain origin. Compare German Franse and Danish frynse. Displaced native Middle English fnæd (“fringe”), Middle English byrd (“fringe”), Middle English fasel (“fringe”) from Old English fæs (“fringe”), and Old English fnæs (“fringe”). Doublet of fimbria. Pronunciation: /fɹɪnd͡ʒ/ 1. A decorative border. Example: the fringe of a picture Example: The walls were hung with blue silk, edged with silver fringe; and the closely-drawn blue velvet curtains swept the ground. 2. A decorative border. Labels: broadly Example: He walked up the heath’s western edge, beside a fringe of scrub where hogweed grew in tangles and brambles rose taller than him. 3. A marginal or peripheral part. Labels: also, figuratively Example: the confines of grace and the fringes of repentance Example: Dos Santos, who has often been on the fringes at Spurs since moving from Barcelona, whipped in a fantastic cross that Pavlyuchenko emphatically headed home for his first goal of the season. 4. A group of people situated on the periphery of a larger community. Example: About an hour later, the two were sitting at a comparatively isolated table in a restaurant called Sickler’s, downtown, a highly favored place among, chiefly, the intellectual fringe of students at the college—the same students, more or less, who, had they been Yale or Harvard men, might rather too casually have steered their dates away from Mory’s or Cronin’s. 5. A group of people situated on the periphery of a larger community. Labels: also, attributive Example: a fringe group of the party 6. The periphery of an area, especially a town or city. Example: He lives on the fringe of London. Example: Moreover, although a number of lines penetrate to the fringes of the English Lake District, this is the only one which actually passes through it. 7. The periphery of an area, especially a town or city. Labels: Australia Example: All the fringe people thought it was such a good house, ingenious in fact, and erected similar makeshift housing for themselves. 8. Synonym of bangs: hair hanging over the forehead, especially a hairstyle where it is cut straight across. Labels: UK Example: Her fringe is so long it covers her eyes. Example: In a few minutes Mrs. Athelny appeared. She had taken her hair out of the curling pins and now wore an elaborate fringe. 9. A light or dark band formed by the diffraction of light. Example: interference fringe 10. Non-mainstream theatre. Example: The Fringe Example: Edinburgh Fringe 11. The peristome or fringe-like appendage of the capsules of most mosses. 12. The area around the green. 13. A daypart that precedes or follows prime time.
Word: fringe Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English frenge, from Old French frenge, from Vulgar Latin *frimbia, a metathesis of Latin fimbriae (“fibers, threads, fringe”, plural), of uncertain origin. Compare German Franse and Danish frynse. Displaced native Middle English fnæd (“fringe”), Middle English byrd (“fringe”), Middle English fasel (“fringe”) from Old English fæs (“fringe”), and Old English fnæs (“fringe”). Doublet of fimbria. Pronunciation: /fɹɪnd͡ʒ/ 1. Outside the mainstream. Example: So was the cellist Charlotte Moorman, muse to Nam June Paik and proactivist champion of all things fringe.
Word: fringe Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English frenge, from Old French frenge, from Vulgar Latin *frimbia, a metathesis of Latin fimbriae (“fibers, threads, fringe”, plural), of uncertain origin. Compare German Franse and Danish frynse. Displaced native Middle English fnæd (“fringe”), Middle English byrd (“fringe”), Middle English fasel (“fringe”) from Old English fæs (“fringe”), and Old English fnæs (“fringe”). Doublet of fimbria. Pronunciation: /fɹɪnd͡ʒ/ 1. To decorate with fringe. Labels: transitive Example: [Y]onder cloud / That rises upward always higher, / ⁠And onward drags a labouring breast, / ⁠And topples round the dreary west, / A looming bastion fringed with fire. Example: Presently she saw the King's palace. Pillars of ice held up the roof fringed with icicles, which would have sparkled splendidly if there had been any sun. 2. To serve as a fringe; to border. Labels: transitive Example: Purple bonnets fringed soft, pink, querulous faces on pillows in bath chairs. Example: The Japanese Archipelago, fringing the eastern edge of Asia, has a rich avifauna, including what is probably the rarest bird in the world - the Toki or Japanese Crested Ibis, and one of the most recently discovered birds - the Okinawa Rail.
Word: hinge Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English henge (“hinge”), from Old English *henġ or *henġe (“hinge”), from Proto-West Germanic *hangiju or *hangī; compare Old English *henġe- in henġeclif (“overhanging cliff”), Old English henġen (“hanging; that upon which a thing is hung”). Akin to Scots heenge (“hinge”), Saterland Frisian Hänge (“hinge”), Low German henge (“hook, hinge, handle”), Dutch heng (“moving leaf of a hinge”), Dutch geheng (“hinge”), Middle Dutch henghe, hanghe (“hook, hinge, handle”), Scots hingel (“any attachment by which something is hung or fastened”), Dutch hengel (“hook”), hengsel (“handle”), dialectal German Hängel (“hook, joint”), Henkel (“handle, hook”), Danish hængsel (“hinge”), Faroese hongsl (“hinge”), Icelandic hengsli (“hinge”), Norwegian hengsel (“hinge”), Swedish hängsle (“suspender”), Old English hōn (“to hang”), Old English hangian (“to cause to hang, hang up”). More at hang. Pronunciation: /ˈhɪnd͡ʒ/, [ˈhɪnd͡ʒ] 1. A jointed or flexible device that allows the pivoting of a door etc. Example: The massy portals of the churches swung creaking on their hinges; and some lay dead on the pavement. 2. A naturally occurring joint resembling such hardware in form or action, as in the shell of a bivalve. Example: The pedicel of the pollinium is articulated as before by a hinge to the disc; it can move freely only in one direction owing to one end of the disc being upturned. 3. A stamp hinge, a folded and gummed paper rectangle for affixing postage stamps in an album. 4. A principle, or a point in time, on which subsequent reasonings or events depend. Example: This argument was the hinge on which the question turned. Example: But let me say, with all deference, that these positions do not appear to me to touch the hinge of the argument before us. 5. The median of the upper or lower half of a batch, sample, or probability distribution. 6. One of the four cardinal points, east, west, north, or south. Example: If when the Moon is in the Hinge at East, / The Birth breaks forward from its native rest; / Full Eighty Years, if you two Years abate, / This Station gives, and long defers its Fate Example: In ruine reconcil'd: nor slept the winds / Within thir stony caves, but rush'd abroad / From the four hinges of the world, and fell 7. A movement that presents itself as rotation when an off-centre fixed point is taken into account. 8. In polyamory, a person connected emotionally or sexually to two others who are not connected to each other. 9. To be in poor health; to be out of sorts. Labels: dialectal
Word: hinge Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English henge (“hinge”), from Old English *henġ or *henġe (“hinge”), from Proto-West Germanic *hangiju or *hangī; compare Old English *henġe- in henġeclif (“overhanging cliff”), Old English henġen (“hanging; that upon which a thing is hung”). Akin to Scots heenge (“hinge”), Saterland Frisian Hänge (“hinge”), Low German henge (“hook, hinge, handle”), Dutch heng (“moving leaf of a hinge”), Dutch geheng (“hinge”), Middle Dutch henghe, hanghe (“hook, hinge, handle”), Scots hingel (“any attachment by which something is hung or fastened”), Dutch hengel (“hook”), hengsel (“handle”), dialectal German Hängel (“hook, joint”), Henkel (“handle, hook”), Danish hængsel (“hinge”), Faroese hongsl (“hinge”), Icelandic hengsli (“hinge”), Norwegian hengsel (“hinge”), Swedish hängsle (“suspender”), Old English hōn (“to hang”), Old English hangian (“to cause to hang, hang up”). More at hang. Pronunciation: /ˈhɪnd͡ʒ/, [ˈhɪnd͡ʒ] 1. To attach by, or equip with a hinge. Labels: transitive 2. To depend on something. Labels: intransitive Example: Games can hinge on the sort of controversial decision made by Taylor in the 10th minute. After Rivière collected Gabriel Obertan’s pass and sashayed beyond Daley Blind he drew the United centre-half into a rash, clumsy challenge but, puzzlingly, Taylor detected no penalty. 3. The breaking off of the distal end of a knapped stone flake whose presumed course across the face of the stone core was truncated prematurely, leaving not a feathered distal end but instead the scar of a nearly perpendicular break. Labels: transitive Example: The flake hinged at an inclusion in the core. 4. To bend. Labels: obsolete Example: Be thou a Flatterer now, and ſeeke to thriue / By that which ha's^([sic – meaning has]) vndone thee; hindge thy knee, / And let his very breath whom thou'lt obſerue / Blow off thy Cap: [...] 5. To move or already be positioned in such a fashion that it presents itself as rotation when an off-centre fixed point is taken into account.
Word: forge Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English forge, from Old French forge, early Old French faverge, from Latin fabrica (“workshop”), from faber (“workman in hard materials, smith”) (genitive fabri). Cognate with Franco-Provençal favèrge. Doublet of fabric and fabrica. Partially displaced English smithy. * Computing sense perhaps derived from the early SourceForge service, launched in 1999. Pronunciation: /fɔːd͡ʒ/, /fɔɹd͡ʒ/, /fo(ː)ɹd͡ʒ/, /foəd͡ʒ/ 1. A furnace or hearth where metals are heated prior to hammering them into shape. Example: Close to the hump-backed bridge on the lane leading into the Hambleden Valley is a mid-19th-century smithy, its inside walls hung with tools of the blacksmith's trade, though decorative wrought-ironwork is now the main product from its glowing forge. 2. A workshop in which metals are shaped by heating and hammering them. 3. The act of beating or working iron or steel. Example: In the greater bodies the forge was easy. 4. A web-based collaborative platform for developing and sharing software. Example: If the project uses a forge like GitLab, GitHub, or BitBucket, it can be very easy to search all past commit logs […]
Word: forge Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English forgen, from Anglo-Norman forger and Old French forgier, from Latin fabrico (“to frame, construct, build”). Doublet of fabricate. Pronunciation: /fɔːd͡ʒ/, /fɔɹd͡ʒ/, /fo(ː)ɹd͡ʒ/, /foəd͡ʒ/ 1. To shape a metal by heating and hammering. Example: On Mars's armor forged for proof eterne Example: Orion hit a rabbit once; but though sore wounded it got to the bury, and, struggling in, the arrow caught the side of the hole and was drawn out.[…]. Ikey the blacksmith had forged us a spearhead after a sketch from a picture of a Greek warrior; and a rake-handle served as a shaft. 2. To form or create with concerted effort. Example: The politician's recent actions are an effort to forge a relationship with undecided voters. Example: Those names that the schools forged, and put into the mouth of scholars, could never get admittance into common use. 3. To create a forgery of; to make a counterfeit item of; to copy or imitate unlawfully. Example: He had to forge his ex-wife's signature. The jury learned the documents had been forged. 4. To make falsely; to produce, as that which is untrue or not genuine; to fabricate. Example: That paltry story is untrue, / And forged to cheat such gulls as you.
Word: forge Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Make way, move ahead, most likely an alteration of force, but perhaps from forge (n.), via notion of steady hammering at something. Originally nautical, in reference to vessels. Pronunciation: /fɔːd͡ʒ/, /fɔɹd͡ʒ/, /fo(ː)ɹd͡ʒ/, /foəd͡ʒ/ 1. To move forward heavily and slowly (originally as a ship); to advance gradually but steadily; to proceed towards a goal in the face of resistance or difficulty. Labels: often Example: The party of explorers forged through the thick underbrush. Example: We decided to forge ahead with our plans even though our biggest underwriter backed out. 2. To advance, move or act with an abrupt increase in speed or energy. Labels: sometimes Example: With seconds left in the race, the runner forged into first place. Example: Let's forge past that runner on the inside.
Word: archpriest Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English archepreest, archeprest, archiprest, ercheprest, erchepreste; compare Old French archeprestre and Medieval Latin archipresbyter; equivalent to arch- + priest. Piecewise doublet of archpresbyter. 1. The highest rank given to a married priest. 2. An honorific title applied to a priest who has a specific function.