nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: rocket Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Italian rocchetta, from Old Italian rocchetto (“rocket”, literally “a bobbin”), diminutive of rocca (“a distaff”), from Lombardic rocko (“spinning wheel”), from Proto-West Germanic *rokkō, from Proto-Germanic *rukkô (“a distaff, a staff with flax fibres tied loosely to it, used in spinning thread”). Cognate with Old High German rocco, rocko, roccho, rocho ("a distaff"; > German Rocken (“a distaff”)), Swedish rock (“a distaff”), Icelandic rokkur (“a distaff”), Middle English rocke (“a distaff”). More at rock⁴. For the meaning development, compare fuselage, ultimately from Latin fūsus (“spindle, spinning wheel”). Pronunciation: /ˈɹɒk.ɪt/, /ˈɹɑk.ɪt/, /ˈɹɑ.kət/ 1. A projectile. 2. A projectile. 3. A projectile. Example: As Elon Musk returns his focus to his businesses, one of his most important companies just had another setback: A SpaceX Starship rocket exploded in an immense fireball Wednesday during a routine ground test. Example: Asked by Gallup in 1949 whether “men in rockets will be able to reach the moon” within the next 50 years, just 15% said yes. About five years later, confidence in the men in rockets’ prospects had more than doubled to 38%. […] In a Gallup poll conducted near the start of 1955, just 9% said they’d like to go along on the first rocket ship to the moon if asked, and two years later, just 5% said they’d volunteer to be the first one up in a spacecraft. 4. A projectile. 5. Figurative uses. Labels: figuratively Example: Fernandinho launched a rocket that flew just over. Gundogan's shot hit off Sviatchenko and Gordon and went out. City pressed and pressed. 6. Figurative uses. Labels: UK, figuratively, slang Example: The Burmese nurse who'd gone with her was crying, for which she'd no doubt get a rocket from matron. Example: While Solborg and Lemaigre were dreaming of revolts, Donovan had learned of Solborg’s insubordination and meddling. He sent him a “rocket” ordering him out of North Africa and back to Lisbon at once. 7. Figurative uses. Labels: figuratively, slang 8. Figurative uses. Labels: Scotland, figuratively, slang Example: Why were the Luddites named efter Ned Ludd? A wee rocket. A wee fucken fairy bampot. A pure hooligan, smashing stuff up. A ned. Ned Ludd. 9. Figurative uses. Labels: East, England, South, figuratively, slang
Word: rocket Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Italian rocchetta, from Old Italian rocchetto (“rocket”, literally “a bobbin”), diminutive of rocca (“a distaff”), from Lombardic rocko (“spinning wheel”), from Proto-West Germanic *rokkō, from Proto-Germanic *rukkô (“a distaff, a staff with flax fibres tied loosely to it, used in spinning thread”). Cognate with Old High German rocco, rocko, roccho, rocho ("a distaff"; > German Rocken (“a distaff”)), Swedish rock (“a distaff”), Icelandic rokkur (“a distaff”), Middle English rocke (“a distaff”). More at rock⁴. For the meaning development, compare fuselage, ultimately from Latin fūsus (“spindle, spinning wheel”). Pronunciation: /ˈɹɒk.ɪt/, /ˈɹɑk.ɪt/, /ˈɹɑ.kət/ 1. To accelerate swiftly and powerfully. Labels: ambitransitive Example: With Free Guy, Reynolds gets just a little more in touch with his Carrey side via nothing less than his own version of The Truman Show, shorn of its daydream dread and rocketed into the age of Fortnite. 2. To fly vertically. 3. To rise or soar rapidly. Example: The project was attractive because of the ability to maximise the use of existing and decommissioned railways, minimise land take, and decrease the amount of disruption during the project. With London land prices rocketing, there was also a significant financial incentive. Example: The cost of food in the UK had rocketed by 25% since 2019, the researchers calculated, but if the post-Brexit trade restrictions were not in place then this increase would be only 17% – nearly a third lower. 4. To experience sudden fame, popularity, or success. Example: After spending years in obscurity, the band finally rocketed last week. 5. To carry something in a rocket. 6. To attack something with rockets.
Word: rocket Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from French roquette, from Italian ruchetta, diminutive of ruca, from Latin eruca. Cognate to arugula, rucola, eruca, roquette. Pronunciation: /ˈɹɒk.ɪt/, /ˈɹɑk.ɪt/, /ˈɹɑ.kət/ 1. A leaf vegetable of species Eruca sativa or Eruca vesicaria. Labels: uncountable 2. Any plant of the genus Eruca. Labels: countable Example: And avoid certain aphrodisiac foods, such as onions and rockets. 3. Rocket larkspur (Consolida regalis, syn. Delphinium consolida). Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: projectile Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Medieval Latin prōiectilis (“projectile”), from Latin prōiectus, perfect passive participle of prōiciō (“throw forth; extend; expel”). Pronunciation: /pɹə(ʊ)ˈd͡ʒɛktʌɪl/, /pɹə(ʊ)ˈd͡ʒɛktɪl/, /pɹəˈd͡ʒɛk.taɪl/, /pɹəˈd͡ʒɛk.tl̩/ 1. An object intended to be or having been shot from a weapon. 2. Any object propelled or thrown through space by the application of a force, such as strong wind.
Word: projectile Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Medieval Latin prōiectilis (“projectile”), from Latin prōiectus, perfect passive participle of prōiciō (“throw forth; extend; expel”). Pronunciation: /pɹə(ʊ)ˈd͡ʒɛktʌɪl/, /pɹə(ʊ)ˈd͡ʒɛktɪl/, /pɹəˈd͡ʒɛk.taɪl/, /pɹəˈd͡ʒɛk.tl̩/ 1. Projecting or impelling forward. Labels: not-comparable Example: a projectile force; a projectile weapon 2. Caused or imparted by impulse or projection; impelled forward. Labels: not-comparable Example: A free and strong Projectile Motion of the Blood must occasion a florid Appearance upon the Skin in such Constitutions
Word: carnival Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle French carnaval, from Italian carnevale, possibly from the Latin phrase carnem levāmen (“meat dismissal”). Other scholars suggest Latin carnuālia (“meat-based country feast”) or carrus nāvālis (“boat wagon; float”) instead. Doublet of carnaval. Pronunciation: /ˈkɑːnɪvəl/, [ˈkɑːnɪvl̩], /ˈkɑɹnɪvəl/, [ˈkɑɹnɪvl̩], /ˈkaːnɪvəl/ 1. Any of a number of festivals held just before the beginning of Lent. Example: Carnival of Brazil Example: Venice Carnival 2. A festive occasion marked by parades and sometimes special foods and other entertainment. Example: Like most human activities, ballooning has sponsored heroes and hucksters and a good deal in between. For every dedicated scientist patiently recording atmospheric pressure and wind speed while shivering at high altitudes, there is a carnival barker with a bevy of pretty girls willing to dangle from a basket or parachute down to earth. 3. A traveling amusement park, called a funfair in British English. Labels: US Example: We all got to ride the merry-go-round when they brought their carnival to town. Example: When the carnival came to town, every one wanted some cotton candy. 4. A context in which transgression or inversion of the social order is given temporary license. Derived from the work of Mikhail Bakhtin. Example: The social environment contains the ambiguous traces of carnival: it resists the ideology of capitalism and, at the same time, reproduces the capitalist social order. 5. A gaudily chaotic situation. Labels: figuratively Example: a carnival of idiocy
Word: carnival Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle French carnaval, from Italian carnevale, possibly from the Latin phrase carnem levāmen (“meat dismissal”). Other scholars suggest Latin carnuālia (“meat-based country feast”) or carrus nāvālis (“boat wagon; float”) instead. Doublet of carnaval. Pronunciation: /ˈkɑːnɪvəl/, [ˈkɑːnɪvl̩], /ˈkɑɹnɪvəl/, [ˈkɑɹnɪvl̩], /ˈkaːnɪvəl/ 1. To participate in a carnival. Labels: informal, rare 2. To move about playfully or wildly. Labels: literary Example: The spot is a marvel of beauty and taste; and here, where dust and sun carnivaled for so many years, thousands of every class congregate to listen each evening to music discoursed for the amusement of oi polloi. Example: Sitting in the Chevy, Saturday night on Main Street carnivaling around her, she told herself that she understood, that Ross had made a mistake, had pre-arranged this celebration for tonight and thought that his date with her was tomorrow.
Word: salvation Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *solh₂- Proto-Indo-European *-wós Proto-Indo-European *sl̥h₂-wós Proto-Italic *salawos Latin salvus Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti Proto-Indo-European *-h₂tiinflu. Proto-Italic *-ājō Proto-Italic *-āō Latin -ō Latin salvō Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *-Hō Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō Proto-Italic *-tiō Latin -tiō Latin salvātiō Old French salvacionbor. Middle English savacioun English salvation From Middle English savacioun, from Old French savaciun, salvaciun, from Latin salvātiō. Displaced native Old English hǣlu. Pronunciation: /sælˈveɪ.ʃn̩/ 1. The process of being saved, the state of having been saved (from hell). Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Collective salvation is not possible without personal salvation, but the latter is achievable. 2. The act of saving, rescuing (in any context), providing needed safety or liberation; something that does this. Labels: countable, often, uncountable Example: Though this is not meant as a medical advice, smoking grass was an occasional salvation; it reduced the nausea, raised my spirits and even gave me a small appetite. 3. The process of being restored or made new for the purpose of becoming saved; the process of being rid of the old poor quality conditions and becoming improved. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: If the Government believes that part of the railways' salvation is to be found in ridding them of extraneous concerns, it should have had the courage either to close the railway works down as quickly as possible, or to hive them off as an entirely separate concern, [...].
Word: salvation Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *solh₂- Proto-Indo-European *-wós Proto-Indo-European *sl̥h₂-wós Proto-Italic *salawos Latin salvus Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti Proto-Indo-European *-h₂tiinflu. Proto-Italic *-ājō Proto-Italic *-āō Latin -ō Latin salvō Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *-Hō Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō Proto-Italic *-tiō Latin -tiō Latin salvātiō Old French salvacionbor. Middle English savacioun English salvation From Middle English savacioun, from Old French savaciun, salvaciun, from Latin salvātiō. Displaced native Old English hǣlu. Pronunciation: /sælˈveɪ.ʃn̩/ 1. To save, in the religious sense; to bring to salvation. Labels: rare
Word: cramp Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Germanic *krampôder. Frankish *krampōder. Proto-Germanic *krampôder. Middle Dutch crampeder. Old French crampebor. Middle English crampe English cramp From Middle English crampe, from Old French crampe (“cramp”), from Frankish *krampa (“cramp”), from Proto-West Germanic *krampu, from Proto-Germanic *krampō (“cramp, clasp”). Distant relative of English crop. Pronunciation: /kɹæmp/ 1. A painful contraction of a muscle which cannot be controlled; (sometimes) a similar pain even without noticeable contraction. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: He retired hurt at 31 due to a leg cramp. Example: August 1534, Margaret Roper (or Thomas More in her name), letter to Alice Alington the cramp also that divers nights gripeth him in his legs. 2. That which confines or contracts. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: A narrow Fortune is undoubtedly a Cramp to a great Mind. Example: How does it grate upon his thankleſs ear, / Crippling his pleaſures with the cramp of fear! 3. A clamp for carpentry or masonry. Labels: countable, uncountable 4. A piece of wood having a curve corresponding to that of the upper part of the instep, on which the upper leather of a boot is stretched to give it the requisite shape. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: cramp Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Germanic *krampôder. Frankish *krampōder. Proto-Germanic *krampôder. Middle Dutch crampeder. Old French crampebor. Middle English crampe English cramp From Middle English crampe, from Old French crampe (“cramp”), from Frankish *krampa (“cramp”), from Proto-West Germanic *krampu, from Proto-Germanic *krampō (“cramp, clasp”). Distant relative of English crop. Pronunciation: /kɹæmp/ 1. (of a muscle) To contract painfully and uncontrollably. Labels: intransitive 2. To affect with cramps or spasms. Labels: transitive Example: The collar of the tunic scratched my neck, the steel helmet made my head ache, and the puttees cramped my leg muscles. 3. To prohibit movement or expression of. Labels: figuratively, transitive Example: You're cramping my style. Example: But the front of the animal , which was in full , was narrow and cramped , and unequal in dignity to the side 4. To restrain to a specific physical position, as if with a cramp. Labels: transitive Example: You're going to need to cramp the wheels on this hill. Example: when the gout cramps my joints 5. To fasten or hold with, or as if with, a cramp iron. 6. To bind together; to unite. Labels: broadly Example: The […] fabric of universal justice is well cramped and bolted together in all its parts. 7. To form on a cramp. Example: to cramp boot legs
Word: cramp Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Germanic *krampôder. Frankish *krampōder. Proto-Germanic *krampôder. Middle Dutch crampeder. Old French crampebor. Middle English crampe English cramp From Middle English crampe, from Old French crampe (“cramp”), from Frankish *krampa (“cramp”), from Proto-West Germanic *krampu, from Proto-Germanic *krampō (“cramp, clasp”). Distant relative of English crop. Pronunciation: /kɹæmp/ 1. cramped; narrow Labels: archaic Example: […] the result was those folio volumes of MSS. now in the British Museum, in which inquirers into the history of that period find so much interesting material in such a confused state and in such a dreadfully cramp handwriting.
Word: minstrel gallery Part of Speech: noun 1. A balcony or loft for musicians in a hall or church.
Word: minstrel Part of Speech: verb Etymology: The noun is derived from Middle English minstral, menestrel (“actor; juggler; mime; musician; singer; storyteller; (military) soldier playing a horn or trumpet as a signal”) [and other forms], from Anglo-Norman menestrel [and other forms] and Old French menestrel (“artisan; servant; itinerant musician or poet; worker”) [and other forms] (modern French ménestrel (“minstrel”)), from Late Latin ministerialis (“official or retainer owing household and military service to a feudal lord, a ministerial or ministerialis”), from Latin ministerium (“employment, ministration; office of a minister, ministry; action or attendance by an inferior person such as a slave, service”) + -ālis (suffix forming adjectives). Ministerium is derived from minister (“accomplice; agent; aide; attendant; servant; waiter”) (probably ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *mey-n- (“little, small”) + *-yōs (“-er”, comparative suffix) + *-teros (contrastive or oppositional suffix forming adjectives)) + -ium (suffix forming abstract nouns). Doublet of ministerial and ministerialis. The verb is derived from the noun. Pronunciation: /ˈmɪnstɹ(ə)l/ 1. To play (a tune on a musical instrument); to sing (a song). Labels: also, attributive, figuratively, transitive Example: Blest be the impulse which did urge me forth, / Minstrelling winds with music, which did melt / Into kind ears like softly opening showers, / To those who asked if beggar wanted bread. Example: And instantly from the depts of the black recesses behind the reredos of the altar there slid like slanting light-rays through the air a little creature, a tenuous grey bird, an embodied breeze, a flash of life. It settled, still minstreling its luted sibboleth, to a fluttering rest in the panting bosom of Areta. 2. To act as a minstrel; to entertain by playing a musical instrument, singing, etc. Labels: also, attributive, figuratively, intransitive Example: Crown me, therefore,—and minstrelling near to thy fanes, Bacchus, thickly-adorned with rosy chaplets will I dance with a full-bosomed maid. Example: [T]here are hotels in Kertch, the keepers of which bring over a band of musicians, singing men and singing women, especially the latter, every year for the amusement of [ship] masters, who, […] lavishly distribute bottles of champagne, and other delicacies, to these minstreling angels—women, and pay away their roubles as if they were coppers.
Word: troupe Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Attested 1825; Unadapted borrowing from French troupe, which see for more. Doublet of troop, and possibly also of thorp and dorp. Pronunciation: /tɹuːp/ 1. A company of, often touring, actors, singers or dancers. Example: Meanwhile, the bills on the main stages skewed towards mainstream pop, with mixed results. Lorde’s Friday evening Other stage appearance was one of the weekend’s highlights. The staging and choreography were fantastic – a giant glass tank on a hydraulic platform, in and around which a troupe of dancers acted out the highs and lows of a teenage party Example: Army choirs and troupes perform at some of North Korea's biggest state events. 2. Any group of people working together on a shared activity.
Word: troupe Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Attested 1825; Unadapted borrowing from French troupe, which see for more. Doublet of troop, and possibly also of thorp and dorp. Pronunciation: /tɹuːp/ 1. To tour with a troupe. Labels: intransitive
Word: invade Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Latin invādō (“enter, invade”). Pronunciation: /ɪnˈveɪd/ 1. To move into. Labels: transitive Example: Under some circumstances police are allowed to invade a person's privacy. Example: Which becomes a body, and doth then invade / The state of life, out of the griesly shade. 2. To enter by force, usually in order to conquer. Labels: transitive Example: Argentinian troops invaded the Falkland Islands in 1982. Example: After shaking off a pre-dawn counterattack on Tinian Monday, the American forces that invaded that island Sunday broadened and deepened their hold. Heavy casualties were inflicted on the Japanese in breaking up the attack and five enemy tanks destroyed. 3. To infest or overrun. Labels: transitive Example: The picnic was invaded by ants. 4. To attack; to infringe; to encroach on; to violate. Example: The king invaded the rights of the people. Example: There are only two ways to remedy the mute-swan situation: Pay people to locate nests and addle their eggs (addling means shaking each egg hard to kill the embryo inside; if you smash the eggs, the birds will lay replacements, but swans will sit on addled eggs and not lay more), or authorized licensed hunters to shoot the birds. Addling is not only time consuming and expensive, but it's also dangerous because swans regard people who invade their nesting territory as just a larger kind of raccoon. 5. To make an unwelcome or uninvited visit or appearance, usually with an intent to cause trouble or some other unpleasant situation.
Word: recite Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English reciten, from Old French reciter, from Latin recitō. Pronunciation: /ɹɪˈsaɪt/ 1. To repeat aloud (some passage, poem or other text previously memorized, or in front of one's eyes), often before an audience. Labels: transitive Example: Janice is able to recite pi to 100 decimals. Example: "I feel the seat. I feel the seat against my arm. I feel my hands," recites Edmonds, her eyes still closed. 2. To list or enumerate something. Labels: transitive 3. To deliver a recitation. Labels: intransitive
Word: recite Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Italic *wre- Latin re-der. Old French re-bor. Middle English re- English re- English cite English recite From re- + cite. Pronunciation: /ˌɹiˈsaɪt/ 1. Alternative spelling of re-cite (which is the preferred spelling, to avoid needless homography). Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: recitation Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French récitation, from Latin recitatio, equivalent to recite + -ation. Pronunciation: /ˌɹɛsɪˈteɪʃən/, /ˌɹɛsəˈteɪʃən/, /ˌɹesəˈtæɪʃən/ 1. The act of publicly reciting something previously memorized. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The recitation will air nationally and be featured at Raymond James Stadium in Tampa, Florida. 2. The material recited. Labels: countable, uncountable 3. A regularly scheduled class, in a school, in which discussion occurs of the material covered in a parallel lecture. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: I shall now endeavor to give some account of the College.... Some then go to a recitation of the lesson they have learnt the previous evening. Some return to their rooms till the breakfast-bell, about seven or after. At eight the sludy bell rings. All must then go in their rooms and continue there, even if they have no lessons to learn, unless they attend a recitation which occupies an hour. Example: 1896, Frank Norris, "The 'English Courses' of the University of California", reprinted in, 1986, Novels and Essays, Library of America, →ISBN, page 1109, In the "announcement of courses" published annually by the faculty of the University of California the reader cannot fail to be impressed with the number and scope of the hours devoted by the students to recitations and lectures upon the subject of "literature." 4. A reiteration; a setting down, e.g. for ease of reference, of something previously established. Labels: countable, uncountable 5. A part of a song's lyrics that is spoken rather than sung. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: rating Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ˈɹeɪtɪŋ/, [ˈɹeɪɾɪŋ] 1. present participle and gerund of rate Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: rating Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈɹeɪtɪŋ/, [ˈɹeɪɾɪŋ] 1. A position on a scale. 2. An evaluation of status, especially of financial status. Example: They have a poor credit rating. Example: A self-proclaimed source of mediation and unbiased ratings of millions of businesses across the country, the BBB receives the majority of its revenue from membership fees paid by hundreds of thousands of companies. […] But through its months-long investigation of the BBB, CNNMoney found that this rating system – a key part of what the organization’s reputation is built on – is seriously flawed, with more than 100 companies in hot water with government agencies receiving A ratings 3. A number, letter, or other mark that refers to the ability of something. Example: He has a high chess rating. 4. A quantitative measure of the audience of a television program. Example: A rating, at best, is an indication of how many people saw what you gave them. 5. A seaman in a warship. Example: Some 400 Russian ratings are living in the western French port, awaiting delivery of their controversial new command-and-control ship, the Vladivostok. 6. An enlisted seaman not a commissioned officer or warrant officer. Labels: UK Example: In the Royal Navy the ratings, in order, are: ordinary seaman, able seaman, leading seaman, petty officer and chief petty officer. Example: Fifty officers and seven hundred and fifty ratings from the two British ships were picked up by the Japanese, together with the survivors from the Pope
Word: carousel Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From French carrousel, from Italian carosello, from Sicilian caruseḍḍu and/or Neapolitan carusiello. Uncertain. Some suggested a derivation from carro (“cart”), from Latin carrus, but this does not fit the criteria of an appropriate morphological reconstruction. Not believed to be related to carousal. Pronunciation: /ˌkærəˈsɛl/, /ˌkæɹəˈsɛl/, /ˈkæɹəsɛl/, /ˌkæɹəˈzɛl/ 1. A pleasure ride, typically found at amusement parks and fairs and accompanied by music, consisting of a slowly revolving circular platform on which are fixed various seats, frequently shaped like horses or other animals, cars, etc., which may also move up and down; a merry-go-round. Example: That's one nice thing about carrousels,^([sic]) they always play the same song. 2. A revolving device for item delivery or display. Example: After collecting his suitcase at the baggage carousel, he left the airport. Example: It struck me as a perky, whine-free name—the kind of standard-issue handle that could be found on necklaces hanging off carousels in roadside souvenir shops, next to the saltwater taffy. 3. The rotating glass plate in a microwave oven. 4. A visual component that displays a horizontal series of items one at a time. 5. An equestrian discipline in which groups of riders make various formations. 6. A tilting match or tournament accompanied by games, shows, and allegorical performances. Labels: historical 7. Synonym of jukebox (“automated carousel for the storage and retrieval of tapes, CD-ROMs, etc.”).
Word: carousel Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From French carrousel, from Italian carosello, from Sicilian caruseḍḍu and/or Neapolitan carusiello. Uncertain. Some suggested a derivation from carro (“cart”), from Latin carrus, but this does not fit the criteria of an appropriate morphological reconstruction. Not believed to be related to carousal. Pronunciation: /ˌkærəˈsɛl/, /ˌkæɹəˈsɛl/, /ˈkæɹəsɛl/, /ˌkæɹəˈzɛl/ 1. To revolve or change places.
Word: carrousel Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of carousel. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: correspond Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle French correspondre, from Latin com- (“with”) + respondeo (“to match, to answer to”), equivalent to co- + respond. Pronunciation: /ˌkɒɹɪˈspɒnd/, /ˌkɒɹəˈspɒnd/, /ˌkoɹəˈspɑnd/, /ˌkɑɹəˈspɑnd/, /ˌkoɹəˈspɒnd/ 1. To be equivalent or similar in character, quantity, quality, origin, structure, function etc. Labels: intransitive Example: Coordinate term: equate 2. To exchange messages, especially by postal letter, over a period of time. Labels: intransitive Example: I've been corresponding with my German pen pal for three years. 3. To have sex with. Labels: obsolete Example: He pleaded guilty to the charge, so far as acknowledging that he had corresponded with other women lately, in order to get the better of his affection for me, but the experiment had failed, and he found that he should be for ever miserable. Example: When a Babylonian and his wife had a mind to correspond, they always first lit up the fuming pan, imagining it improved the passion.
Word: carouse Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle French carousser (“to quaff, drink, swill”), from German gar aus (literally “all out, quite out”), from gar austrinken (“to drink up entirely, guzzle”). Compare German Garaus. Pronunciation: /kəˈɹaʊz/ 1. To engage in a noisy or drunken social gathering. Labels: intransitive Example: We are all going to carouse at Brian's tonight. Example: The prospect of two hundred (or more) loitering and carousing patrons streaming out of the club at 1 a.m. is profoundly disturbing to us. 2. To drink to excess. Labels: intransitive, transitive Example: If I survive this headache, I promise no more carousing at Brian’s. Example: […] the cup-bearers did fill great gems made in form of cups with ancient wine, and the Demons caroused to Lord Juss deep draughts in honour of this day of his nativity.
Word: carouse Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle French carousser (“to quaff, drink, swill”), from German gar aus (literally “all out, quite out”), from gar austrinken (“to drink up entirely, guzzle”). Compare German Garaus. Pronunciation: /kəˈɹaʊz/ 1. A large draught of liquor. Example: […] therefore forward I went with my hey-de-gaies to Ilford, where I againe reſted, and was by the people of the towne and countrey there-about very very wel welcomed, being offred carowſes in the great ſpoon, one whole draught being able at that time to haue drawne my little wit drye; […] Example: Had our great Pallace the capacity To Campe this hoaſt, we all would ſup together, And drinke Carowſes to the next dayes Fate […] 2. A drinking bout; a carousal. Example: The early feast and late carouse. Example: PORSON […] would not only frequently “steal a few hours from the night,” but see out both lights and liquids, and seem none the worse for the carouse.
Word: warship Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From war + ship. Pronunciation: /ˈwɔːˌʃɪp/, /ˈwɔɹˌʃɪp/ 1. Any ship built or armed for naval combat. 2. A spacecraft built or armed for space warfare.
Word: Royal Navy Part of Speech: name 1. The naval warfare force of the United Kingdom.
Word: above-board Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From above + board (“table”). First attested in 1610. Said by Johnson to have been borrowed from gamblers, who, when they change their cards, put their hands under the table. Pronunciation: /əˈbʌvˌbɔɹd/ 1. In open sight; without trick, concealment, or deception. Labels: not-comparable Example: fair and aboveboard Example: Nothing illegal about any of this to my knowledge. Indeed, this is the very above-board racket of running an independent political committee. Everyone does it. Left, right, center and none of the above. And anyway, why shouldn't a true pay-triot get paid?
Word: above-board Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From above + board (“table”). First attested in 1610. Said by Johnson to have been borrowed from gamblers, who, when they change their cards, put their hands under the table. Pronunciation: /əˈbʌvˌbɔɹd/ 1. Honestly; openly. Labels: not-comparable
Word: hull-down Part of Speech: adj 1. Of a ship: so far distant that only the masts and sails are visible above the horizon. Labels: not-comparable Example: In the morning a homeward-bound ship passed us hull down,—the first we had seen for months; […] Example: Shortly they would be hull-down. 2. Of a tank: stopped with its hull protected by ground to the front, so that its occupants or weapons have a line of sight forward. Labels: not-comparable
Word: hull-up Part of Speech: adj 1. Of a ship: at a distance such that the hull is visible above the horizon. Labels: not-comparable
Word: continues Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /kənˈtɪn.juːz/, /kənˈtɪn.juz/ 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of continue Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: continues Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /kənˈtɪn.juːz/, /kənˈtɪn.juz/ 1. plural of continue Labels: form-of, plural
Word: carousal Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From carouse (“to engage in a noisy or drunken social gathering”, verb) + -al (suffix forming nouns denoting actions by verbs to which it is attached), possibly also influenced by an erroneous understanding of the meaning of carousel (“merry-go-round”). Pronunciation: /kəˈɹaʊz(ə)l/ 1. The state of carousing; (drunken) revelry; (countable) an instance of this; a noisy social gathering, often with much alcohol consumption. Labels: uncountable Example: —The ſun vvas ſet—they had done their vvork; the nymphs had tied up their hair afreſh—and the ſvvains vvere preparing for a carouſal— […] Example: Drawing near, / Loud from the chambers of the bridge below, / Sounds of carousal came and song, / And unveiled women bade the advancing youth / Come merry-make with them.
Word: runs Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Usually said to allude to the fact that an affected person is frequently running to get to a toilet immediately. Sometimes said to allude to the runniness (runny consistency) of the stool. Pronunciation: /ɹʌnz/ 1. plural of run Labels: form-of, plural
Word: runs Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Usually said to allude to the fact that an affected person is frequently running to get to a toilet immediately. Sometimes said to allude to the runniness (runny consistency) of the stool. Pronunciation: /ɹʌnz/ 1. Diarrhea/diarrhoea. Labels: often, plural, plural-only, slang, with-definite-article Example: He missed several days of school because he had the runs. They think it was a Norovirus infection. Example: We also had a bad case of runs since we were not used to the rich meat.
Word: runs Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Usually said to allude to the fact that an affected person is frequently running to get to a toilet immediately. Sometimes said to allude to the runniness (runny consistency) of the stool. Pronunciation: /ɹʌnz/ 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of run Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: litotes Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Learned borrowing from Late Latin lītotēs, from Ancient Greek λιτότης (litótēs, literally “plainness”), from λιτός (litós, “simple”). Pronunciation: /laɪˈtəʊ.tiːz/ 1. A figure of speech whereby something is stated by denying its opposite. Labels: countable, rhetoric, uncountable Example: The delicacy which prompts a later generation to reject that name is by no means necessarily a result of stricter habits, is far more often due to the flatness which comes of untiring repetition and to the greater piquancy of litotes. 2. A figure of speech whereby something is stated by denying its opposite. Labels: countable, especially, rhetoric, uncountable
Word: camaraderie Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from French camaraderie. Recent American pronunciations such as /ˌkɑməˈɹɑdəɹi/ and /ˌkɑmˈɹɑdəɹi/ are influenced by the cognate comrade. Pronunciation: /ˌkæməˈɹɑːdəɹi/, /ˌkæməˈɹædəɹi/, /ˌkɑm(ə)ˈɹɑdəɹi/, /ˌkæm(ə)ˈɹɑdəɹi/ 1. A close friendship in a group of friends or teammates. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Moreover, a spirit of camaraderie exists between the staff of the railway and its regular patrons. Example: And regardless of their differences, they always act with such camaraderie and complicity among themselves. 2. A spirit of familiarity and closeness, especially when expressed somewhat boisterously. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: There was not one of Napoleon's intimate friends, however high in rank, who would have ventured to indulge in the sort of camaraderie which was kept up between the Emperor and his old moustaches.
Word: growler Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From growl + -er. Sense "jug" is 19th century American slang, of uncertain origin. Pronunciation: /ˈɡɹaʊlə/, /ˈɡɹaʊlɚ/ 1. A person, creature or thing that growls. 2. A horse-drawn cab with four wheels. Labels: historical, slang Example: He had evidently studied the driver of a London growler, and produced a good sound readable type of man. Example: The ordinary London growler is considerably less wide than a gentleman's brougham. 3. A small iceberg or ice floe which is barely visible over the surface of the water. Example: A great ‘growler’ iceberg was sighted this afternoon at a distance of approximately half a mile; the size of a large London house, more or less. Example: As the cruise ship Explorer was picking its way through the Antarctic sea ice, it hit what experts believe was a "growler" - a huge iceberg shorn from the Antarctic ice shelf. 4. A kind of jug, often with a handle, used to carry beer and preserve carbonation. Labels: Australia, Canada, US, informal Example: […] their favoring breeze has the stink of nickel whiskey on its breath, and their sea is a growler of lager and ale […] Example: This container was a round lidded tin with a handle and was colloquially called a growler. […] to get daddy or mommy a growler of beer, which was, by the way, approximately a quart. 5. A pork pie. Labels: UK, Yorkshire, dialectal Example: Now, on first impression, a pork pie - or a ‘growler’ if you're from Yorkshire - looks like a delicious snack. 6. The vulva. Labels: UK, slang Example: On our first meeting he'd asked me if I dyed my hair. I told him I did and his follow up^([sic]) question had been the much under rated^([sic]), "What colour's your growler then?" 7. A fish of the perch family, abundant in North American rivers, so named from the sound it emits. Labels: US, dialectal 8. A device for checking electrical equipment for short circuits etc. Example: Includes voltmeters, ammeters, circuit testers, armature tester (external growler), field tester, (internal growler), coil and condenser tester, etc. Example: A Growler is one of the most versatile tools for electric motor service, whether a starter motor or a generator. The growler gets its name because of a growling noise it emits upon finding an electrical short.
Word: pleasurable Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree English pleasure Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlis Proto-Italic *-ðlis Latin -bilis Latin -ābilis Old French -ablebor. Middle English -able English -able English pleasurable From pleasure + -able. Pronunciation: /ˈplɛʒəɹəbəl/ 1. That gives pleasure Example: The massage was a pleasurable experience. Example: c. 1620, Francis Bacon, letter of advice to Sir George Villiers Planting of orchards is very […] pleasurable.
Word: cannula Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Late Latin cannula, canula (“tubular surgical instrument”), from Latin cannula (“reed; small reed- or tube-shaped object”), from canna (“cane; reed; object made from or shaped like a cane or reed”) + -ula (feminine form of -ulus (diminutive suffix). Canna is derived from Ancient Greek κᾰ́ννᾰ (kắnnă, “reed”), from Akkadian 𒂵𒉡𒌑𒌝 (qanûm, “cane; reed”). The plural form cannulae is borrowed from Late Latin cannulae. Pronunciation: /ˈkænjʊlə/, /ˈkænjələ/, /ˈkænjʊli/, /-aɪ/, /ˈkænjəli/ 1. A tube inserted into the body to drain or inject fluid. Example: Two or three cannulæ are requisite also for washing out the sinuses. Example: The cannula had come askew in his nose and he pushed it straight, his hand moving slowly, like the hand of a man who is dreaming with his eyes open. 2. A hose or tube that connects directly from an oxygen bottle or other source to the user's nose, commonly used by aircraft pilots or others needing direct oxygen breathing apparatus.
Word: travesty Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From French travesti (“disguised, burlesqued”), past participle of travestir (“to disguise”), borrowed from Italian travestire (“to dress up, disguise”), from tra- (“across”) + vestire (“to dress”), from Latin vestiō (“to clothe, dress”), from Proto-Italic *westis (“clothing”), from Proto-Indo-European *wéstis (“dressing”) from verbal root *wes- (“to dress, clothe”); cognate to English wear. Doublet of travesti. Pronunciation: /ˈtɹæv.ɪs.ti/, /ˈtɹæv.əs.ti/ 1. An absurd, grotesque, misrepresentative or grossly inferior likeness or imitation. Example: A battlefield trial is a travesty of justice. Example: The second edition is not a recast, but absolutely a travesty of the first. 2. A pastiche, parody, or stylistic imitation; a burlesque literary or artistic imitation (typically of a more serious work). 3. An appalling event, situation or outcome (especially in relation to another outcome to which it is grossly inferior). Labels: proscribed, sometimes Example: Spurs survived the scare - and such was their domination after the break that it would have been a travesty had Arsenal escaped Wembley, hosting a Premier League record attendance of 83,222, with a draw.
Word: travesty Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From French travesti (“disguised, burlesqued”), past participle of travestir (“to disguise”), borrowed from Italian travestire (“to dress up, disguise”), from tra- (“across”) + vestire (“to dress”), from Latin vestiō (“to clothe, dress”), from Proto-Italic *westis (“clothing”), from Proto-Indo-European *wéstis (“dressing”) from verbal root *wes- (“to dress, clothe”); cognate to English wear. Doublet of travesti. Pronunciation: /ˈtɹæv.ɪs.ti/, /ˈtɹæv.əs.ti/ 1. To make a travesty of; to parody. Labels: transitive
Word: docilely Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree Latin docilisder. Middle French docilebor. Middle English docyle English docile Middle English -ly English -ly English docilely From docile + -ly. Pronunciation: /ˈdɑ.səl.li/, /ˈdɑ.saɪl.li/, /ˈdɑ.sə.li/ 1. Submissively or obediently. Example: My uncle returns to his mess of papers, dismissing us; and I go docilely back to my sewing.
Word: crucible Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin crucibulum (“night-lamp, metallurgic melting-pot”), apparently a derivative of crux (“cross”), perhaps by analogy to thūribulum (“censer”) and suffix -bulum, or from crucio (“to torment”). Pronunciation: /ˈkɹuː.sɪ.bəl/ 1. A cup-shaped piece of laboratory equipment used to contain chemical compounds when heating them to very high temperatures. Example: In one corner of the closet was a very small furnace, with a glowing fire in it, and on the fire a kind of duplicate crucible—two crucibles connected by a tube. One of these crucibles was nearly full of lead in a state of fusion, but not reaching up to the aperture of the tube, which was close to the brim. Example: He turned the downstairs drawing room into a lab, installing a furnace, crucible, and fume hood, and stocking it with hundreds of beakers, flasks, pipes, and balances. 2. A heat-resistant container in which metals are melted, usually at temperatures above 500°C, commonly made of graphite with clay as a binder. 3. The bottom and hottest part of a blast furnace; the hearth. 4. A very difficult and trying experience, that acts as a refining or hardening process. Labels: figuratively Example: But, in considering an author and his works as one, a sufficient distinction is not drawn between the ideal and the real: the last is only given by being past through the crucible of the first. Example: We should give our support to the liberation of the captive nations of the world and deliver our compatriots from their crucible of suffering. In other words, we should take up the difficult task of reshaping the world’s destiny by destroying the tyrannical Communist rule now afflicting the earth and by delivering humankind from the Red holocaust.
Word: family reunion Part of Speech: noun 1. An infrequent gathering of family members or distant relatives who are usually geographically separated.
Word: impetus Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Latin impetus (“a rushing upon, an attack, assault, onset”), from impetō (“to rush upon, attack”), from in- (“upon”) + petō (“to seek, fall upon”). Pronunciation: /ˈɪm.pə.təs/, /ɪmˈpiː.təs/ 1. Anything that impels; a stimulating factor. Example: The outbreak of World War II in 1939 gave a new impetus to receiver development. Example: Once set a strong mind thinking, and you have done all that it needs for its education. It matters little what is the first impetus, so that it only be set to work. 2. A force, either internal or external, that impels; an impulse. 3. The force or energy associated with a moving body; a stimulus. 4. A principle of motive force, held as equivalent to weight times velocity by John Buridan, in an auxiliary theory of Aristotelian dynamics introduced by John Philoponus, describing projectile motion against gravity as linear until it transitions to a vertical drop and the intellectual precursor to the concepts of inertia, momentum and acceleration in classical mechanics. 5. An activity in response to a stimulus.
Word: fall off a truck Part of Speech: verb 1. Of an item of merchandise, to come into a person's possession without having been paid for; to be acquired illegally; to have been stolen. Labels: US, euphemistic, idiomatic Example: He said he bought it at the markets but I think it fell off a truck.
Word: auricle Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin auricula (“the external ear”), diminutive of auris (“the ear”). Doublet of auricula. Pronunciation: /ˈɔː.ɹɪk.əl/, /ˈɔɹ.ək.əl/ 1. Any appendage in the shape of an ear or earlobe. 2. Any appendage in the shape of an ear or earlobe. 3. Synonym of atrium. 4. Synonym of atrium.
Word: porporino Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Italian. Pronunciation: /ˌpɔː(ɹ)pəˈɹiːnəʊ/ 1. A composition of mercury, tin, and sulphur, forming a yellow powder, sometimes used by mediaeval artists as a cheaper alternative to gold. Labels: historical, obsolete, uncountable
Word: cheaper Part of Speech: adj 1. comparative form of cheap: more cheap Labels: comparative, form-of Example: Apprenticeship programmes supply the industry with an ongoing cohort of qualified talent. It is much cheaper to train new people than to pay inflated wages to attract existing talent. Apprenticeships are also a useful way of teaching the practical, hands-on skills that the modern railway needs.
Word: cheapest Part of Speech: adj 1. superlative form of cheap: most cheap Labels: form-of, superlative Example: Since the mid-1980s, when Indonesia first began to clear its bountiful forests on an industrial scale in favour of lucrative palm-oil plantations, “haze” has become an almost annual occurrence in South-East Asia. The cheapest way to clear logged woodland is to burn it, producing an acrid cloud of foul white smoke that, carried by the wind, can cover hundreds, or even thousands, of square miles.
Word: Aras an Uachtaran Part of Speech: name Etymology: Irish From Áras an Uachtaráin, literally the hall of the president. 1. The official residence of the Irish president, situated in Phoenix Park in Dublin.
Word: propose Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English proposen, from Anglo-Norman proposer (verb), propos (noun), Middle French proposer (verb), propos (noun), from Latin prōpōnō, prōpōnere, with conjugation altered based on poser. Doublet of propound. Pronunciation: /pɹəˈpəʊz/, /pɹəˈpoʊz/, [pɹəˈpəʊz], /pɹəˈpəʉz/, [pɹəˈpɐʉz] 1. To suggest a plan, course of action, etc. Labels: transitive Example: I propose going to see a film. Example: to propose an alliance 2. To ask for a person's hand in marriage. Labels: intransitive, sometimes, with-to Example: He proposed to her last night and she accepted him. Example: After the death of his [Verney's] first wife, he proposed to Florence Nightingale but she refused him. Later he married her sister, and for many years Claydon was Miss Nightingale's second home. 3. To intend. Labels: transitive Example: He proposes to set up his own business. Example: I propose to relate, in several volumes, the history of the people of New England. 4. To talk; to converse. Labels: obsolete Example: HERO. Good Margaret, run thee to the parlour; There shalt thou find my cousin Beatrice Proposing with the prince and Claudio 5. To set forth. Labels: obsolete Example: […]so weighty was the cup, That being propos'd brimful of wine, one scarce could lift it up.
Word: propose Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English proposen, from Anglo-Norman proposer (verb), propos (noun), Middle French proposer (verb), propos (noun), from Latin prōpōnō, prōpōnere, with conjugation altered based on poser. Doublet of propound. Pronunciation: /pɹəˈpəʊz/, /pɹəˈpoʊz/, [pɹəˈpəʊz], /pɹəˈpəʉz/, [pɹəˈpɐʉz] 1. An objective or aim. Labels: obsolete Example: whose aime hath beene to make us not good and wittie, but wise and learned; She hath attained her propose.
Word: Orange Order Part of Speech: name Etymology: Its name is a tribute to the Dutch-born Protestant king William of Orange, who defeated the army of Catholic king James VII & II in the Williamite War in Ireland (1688–1691). 1. A Northern Ireland religious and political organisation, loyal to the British crown and with strong anti-Catholicism policies.
Word: fleadh Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Irish fleadh, classical/dialectal/superseded spelling of fleá, from Old Irish fled, from Proto-Celtic *wlidā. Pronunciation: /flɑː/, /flɔː/, /flaː/ 1. An Irish music festival with competitions for the best performance on various instruments.
Word: Gaeltacht Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Irish Gaeltacht. Pronunciation: [ˈɡeɪltəxt] 1. An officially recognised area where the Irish language is the predominant language in daily use. Labels: Ireland
Word: triose Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From tri- + -ose. Pronunciation: /ˈtɹaɪoʊs/, /-oʊz/ 1. A sugar or saccharide containing three carbon atoms. Trioses are the smallest monosaccharides. Dihydroxyacetone and L-/D-glyceraldehyde are the only trioses.
Word: tetrose Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From tetr- (“four”) + -ose (“sugar”). 1. A sugar or saccharide containing four carbon atoms.
Word: pentose Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Internationalism, from penta- (“five”) + -ose. 1. A sugar or saccharide containing five carbon atoms. Example: Ribose, found in RNA, is a common pentose.