nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: onslaught Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From on- + slaught. Formed after Middle Dutch aenslag, aenslach, equivalent to aen + slag, although slaught corresponds to Middle Dutch slacht; slag is cognate with the English weaving term sley. Compare Dutch aanslag and German Anschlag. Pronunciation: /ˈɒn.slɔːt/, /ˈɔnsloːt/, /ˈɑn.slɔt/, /ˈɔn.slɔt/, /ˈɑn.slɑt/ 1. A fierce attack. 2. A large number of people or things resembling an attack. Labels: broadly Example: They opened the doors and prepared for the onslaught of holiday shoppers. Example: The inevitable Baggies onslaught followed as substitute Simon Cox saw his strike excellently parried by keeper Bunn, with Cox heading the rebound down into the ground and agonisingly over the bar.
Word: operant Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English operant, from Latin operāns. 1. That operates to produce an effect. Example: thy most operant poison Example: I tell you frankly, if Paul Aubry is guilty I hope is convicted and punished; but if one of the others is guilty I hope he—or she—is punished, and if I knew anything operant to that end I certainly would not withhold it.
Word: operant Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English operant, from Latin operāns. 1. An operative person or thing. 2. Any of a class of behaviors that produce consequences by operating (i.e., acting) upon the environment.
Word: ophidian Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin ophidia (from Ancient Greek ὄφις (óphis, “snake”)) + -ian. Pronunciation: /oʊˈfɪdi.ən/ 1. Any species of the suborder Serpentes; a snake or serpent. Example: Vertebral structure is critical for the identification of fossil snakes, because vertebrae are among the most easily fossilized parts of ophidians. Example: It has long been known that ophidians have lost not only their front legs but also every embryonic trace of these limbs and their associated shoulder girdle (to such a degree that we cannot determine how many cervical vertebrae they have).
Word: ophidian Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin ophidia (from Ancient Greek ὄφις (óphis, “snake”)) + -ian. Pronunciation: /oʊˈfɪdi.ən/ 1. Of or pertaining to the suborder Serpentes; of, related to, or characteristic of a snake or serpent. Example: The ophidian beast began to glow eerily, and Aaron could discern a fine webwork of veins and capillaries running throughout the creature's body. Example: A less obvious asset of snakes is their very light and supple jaws, which arose in the course of ophidian evolution to permit the ingestion of extraordinarily large meals (at maximum, more than 100% of their body mass).
Word: originate Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Medieval Latin orīginātus, perfect passive participle of orīginō (“to begin, give rise to”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix) for more), from orīgō (orīgin- in compounds) + -ō. Compare Italian originare and Spanish originar. Pronunciation: /əˈɹɪd͡ʒɪneɪt/, /əˈɹɪd͡ʒɪnæɪt/, /əˈɹəd͡ʒənæɪt/ 1. To cause (someone or something) to be; to bring (someone or something) into existence; to produce or initiate a person or thing. Labels: transitive Example: Einstein originated the theory of relativity. Example: At Putney Bridge the train description transmissions for eastbound trains must be originated as there is no manned signal cabin on the London Transport system beyond this point; [...]. 2. To come into existence; to have origin or beginning; to spring, be derived (from, with). Labels: intransitive Example: The scheme originated with the governor and council. Example: The idea of fitting a crane to an engine for shunting duties, primarily in works yards, appears to have originated with the North London Railway engine in 1872.
Word: originate Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Medieval Latin orīginātus, see Etymology 1 and -ate (adjective-forming suffix) for more. By surface analysis, origin + -ate. 1. Founded on, having its origin in (something). Labels: not-comparable, obsolete, rare Example: My Testimony to and Abhorrence of every Invasion..against Christs Royal prerogative,..Originate upon and derivate from that which they call the Supremacy
Word: outmanoeuvre Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *úd Proto-Germanic *ūt Proto-Germanic *ūt- Old English ūt- Middle English ut- English out- English manoeuvre English outmanoeuvre From out- + manoeuvre. 1. To perform manoeuvres or movements more successfully or better than; to surpass or get the advantage of in manoeuvring; to outgeneral. Labels: UK, transitive
Word: outplay Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *úd Proto-Germanic *ūt Proto-Germanic *ūt- Old English ūt- Middle English ut- English out- English play English outplay From out- + play. Pronunciation: /aʊtˈpleɪ/ 1. To excel or defeat in a game; to play better than. Labels: transitive Example: We were outplayed at tennis, but we outplayed them at football. Example: When Littlefinger really starts to bare his teeth, talking about a game he plays where he assumes the worst of people’s intentions, I started to hope the producers had outplayed us one last time, and that he was aware they were trying to play him.
Word: outpray Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *úd Proto-Germanic *ūt Proto-Germanic *ūt- Old English ūt- Middle English ut- English out- Proto-Indo-European *preḱ- Proto-Italic *preks Latin prex Latin precārī Late Latin precāre Old French proiier Anglo-Norman preierbor. Middle English preien English pray English outpray From out- + pray. 1. To exceed or surpass in prayer. Labels: transitive
Word: outstay Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *úd Proto-Germanic *ūt Proto-Germanic *ūt- Old English ūt- Middle English ut- English out- English stay English outstay From out- + stay. 1. To stay beyond or longer than. Labels: transitive Example: Podson stayed till after five, though he handsomely apologized for outstaying a call. "The fact is, I never think of the time, when I get talking to a really intelligent woman..."
Word: outspoken Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From outspeak, equivalent to out- + spoken. 1. Speaking, or spoken, freely, openly, or boldly; vocal; frank. Example: an outspoken man Example: an outspoken rebuke
Word: outspoken Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From outspeak, equivalent to out- + spoken. 1. past participle of outspeak. Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: outwards Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From Middle English outwardes, from Old English ūtweardes; equivalent to outward + -s or out + -wards. Cognate with German auswärts. Pronunciation: /ˈaʊtwɚdz/, /ˈaʊtwədz/, /ˈæotwɘdz/ 1. From the interior toward the exterior; in an outward direction. Example: Light falling on them is not reflected outwards. 2. Outwardly; (merely) on the surface. Labels: obsolete Example: Wo be to you scrybes, and pharises ypocrites, for ye are lyke unto paynted tombes which appere beautyfull outwardes: but are within full off deed mens bones and of all fylthynes.
Word: outweigh Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *úd Proto-Germanic *ūt Proto-Germanic *ūt- Old English ūt- Middle English ut- English out- Proto-Indo-European *weǵʰ- Proto-Indo-European *wéǵʰeti Proto-Germanic *weganą Proto-West Germanic *wegan Old English wegan Middle English weyen English weigh English outweigh From out- + weigh. Pronunciation: /ˌaʊtˈweɪ/ 1. To exceed in weight or mass. Labels: transitive Example: The King your brother is now hard at hand, Meete with the foole, and rid your royall ſhoulders Of ſuch a burden, as outweighs the ſands And all the craggie rockes of Caſpea. 2. To exceed in importance or value. Labels: transitive Example: The advantage […] was so great that it would have taken a lot of failures to outweigh it. Example: The trials have revealed that the advantage of extra seating capacity is more than outweighed by slower station working, as the double-deck train affords one door for 22 seats, compared with 10 or 12 in ordinary compartment stock.
Word: overlook Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English overloken; equivalent to over- + look. Pronunciation: /ˈəʊ.vəˌlʊk/, /ˈoʊ.vɚˌlʊk/, /ˈo.vəɹ.lʉk/ 1. A vista or point that gives a view down toward something else. Example: Normally a visitor does not participate in one activity to the exclusion of others. One main activity, such as swimming, will be supplemented by other activities and use of other facilities, such as picnicking, hiking, stopping at an overlook, and so forth.
Word: overpaint Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From over- + paint. 1. To color or describe too strongly. Example: OK, you've painted me a picture well enough; you don't need to overpaint it. 2. To apply the final layers of paint over underpainting. 3. To paint over (something). Example: This antique chair's inlays have been overpainted, but we can restore its finish. 4. To paint too much: with too thick a coating of paint. Example: This antique chair has been overpainted to the point that you can't discern the carved details. 5. To erase by drawing graphics over the top.
Word: overreach Part of Speech: noun Etymology: The verb is from Middle English overrechen (“to rise above; to extend beyond or over; to encroach; to catch, overtake; to reach; to obtain wrongfully (?); to take up (a book) to revise it”) [and other forms], equivalent to over- + reach; the noun is derived from the verb or from the phrase to reach over. Pronunciation: /ˈəʊvə(ˌ)ɹiːt͡ʃ/, /ˈoʊvə(ɹ)ˌɹit͡ʃ/ 1. An act of extending or reaching over, especially if too far or too much; overextension. Labels: also, countable, figuratively, uncountable Example: It may not be much of a stretch to say that there had always been something comforting about the earlier periods of judicial activism. [...] Ideology aside, one may concede that such Supreme Court activism was far less frightening in its institutional overreach than a wholesale creation of new and public law by the judicial branch would be. Example: [T]hat's something that I think everyone in the White House understood was danger. We thought it was necessary, But I'm sympathetic to folks who looked at it and said, this is looking like potential overreach. 2. Of a horse: an act of striking the heel of a forefoot with the toe of a hindfoot; an injury caused by this action. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The hunter's [i.e., hunting horse's] legs should be washed with warm water, carefully examined for thorns, overreaches, &c., and the legs should be rubbed dry, and well hand rubbed, by which means a free circulation of the blood will be promoted. Example: Overreach.—This unpleasant noise, known also by the terms ‘clicking’, ‘overreach’, &c., arises from the toe of the hind foot knocking against the shoe of the fore foot.
Word: overstay Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *úp Proto-Indo-European *-er Proto-Indo-European *upér Proto-Germanic *uber Old English ofer- Middle English over- English over- English stay English overstay From over- + stay. 1. To remain present after the agreed or appropriate departure time. Labels: intransitive 2. To remain present beyond the limits of. Labels: transitive Example: He overstayed his welcome. Example: "[H]e had overstayed his three-score and ten years by something like twenty years. He must have been ninety, if he was a day!"
Word: overstay Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *úp Proto-Indo-European *-er Proto-Indo-European *upér Proto-Germanic *uber Old English ofer- Middle English over- English over- English stay English overstay From over- + stay. 1. The act of staying too long. Example: For example, if USCIS approves a change of status or extension of stay for a nonimmigrant, the alien may be authorized to remain in the country beyond his or her original period of admission without qualifying as an overstay.
Word: oyster Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English oystre, from Old English ostre, reinforced or superseded by Anglo-Norman oistre, which is from Old French oistre, uistre (compare modern French huître); both lines (Old English and Old French) from Latin ostrea, from Ancient Greek ὄστρεον (óstreon). Doublet of ostro (“a purple dye”). Pronunciation: /ˈɔɪ.stə/, /ˈɔɪ.stɚ/, /ˈɔɪ.st͡ʃɚ/ 1. Any of certain marine bivalve mollusks, especially those of the family Ostreidae (the true oysters), usually found adhering to rocks or other fixed objects in shallow water along the seacoasts, or in brackish water in the mouth of rivers. Example: Piſt. Why then the world's mine Oyſter, which I, with ſword will open. Example: He was a bold man that first ate an oyster. 2. The delicate oyster-shaped morsel of dark meat contained in a small cavity of the bone on each side of the lower part of the back of a fowl. Example: Cut remaining skin on back. Remove the oyster (choice dark meat in spoon-shaped bone on back) with the leg. 3. A pale beige color tinted with grey or pink, like that of an oyster. 4. A person who keeps secrets. Labels: colloquial Example: Hard and sharp as flint, from which no steel had ever struck out generous fire; secret, and self-contained, and solitary as an oyster. Example: I will not be a human oyster. No, I will lay my cards on the table, which is assuredly a thing that oysters do not do. 5. Something at one's disposal. Labels: figuratively Example: He asked a major Chicago retailer with a large store in the heart of the city about the socioeconomic character of his customers. The man replied proudly that the entire range of economic classes was his oyster. 6. A shoplifter. Labels: UK, slang 7. Ellipsis of Oyster card. Labels: UK, abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis, slang
Word: oyster Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English oystre, from Old English ostre, reinforced or superseded by Anglo-Norman oistre, which is from Old French oistre, uistre (compare modern French huître); both lines (Old English and Old French) from Latin ostrea, from Ancient Greek ὄστρεον (óstreon). Doublet of ostro (“a purple dye”). Pronunciation: /ˈɔɪ.stə/, /ˈɔɪ.stɚ/, /ˈɔɪ.st͡ʃɚ/ 1. Of a pale beige colour tinted with grey or pink, like that of an oyster.
Word: oyster Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English oystre, from Old English ostre, reinforced or superseded by Anglo-Norman oistre, which is from Old French oistre, uistre (compare modern French huître); both lines (Old English and Old French) from Latin ostrea, from Ancient Greek ὄστρεον (óstreon). Doublet of ostro (“a purple dye”). Pronunciation: /ˈɔɪ.stə/, /ˈɔɪ.stɚ/, /ˈɔɪ.st͡ʃɚ/ 1. To fish for oysters. Labels: intransitive Example: Most Fishneck watermen oystered in winter, using the same small skiffs from which they potted crabs in summer. Sometimes two men oystered from the same boat or took along a son or younger brother to cull oysters (separate those of legal size from undersized ones and shell).
Word: packer Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English pakker, pakkere, packare, equivalent to pack + -er. Pronunciation: /ˈpækɚ/, /ˈpækə/ 1. A person whose business is to pack things; especially, one who packs food for preservation Example: He works as a pork packer. Example: a household goods packer 2. A person whose business is to pack things; especially, one who packs food for preservation Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, clipping 3. A software program that compresses code or data. Example: Many times, the malware authors will use packers and even encryption tools to disguise their software […] 4. A ring of packing or a special device to render gastight and watertight the space between the tubing and bore of an oil well. Labels: US 5. An artificial penis or similar object worn by a drag king, trans man, etc., inside the trousers. 6. An object inserted to hold a space open for the purpose of alignment; a spacer or shim. Labels: New-Zealand 7. A kind of trunk for luggage. Labels: dated 8. A packhorse. Labels: Australia 9. A dustpan. Labels: Nigeria
Word: pallor Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English pallour, from Old French palor (“paleness, pallor”), from Latin pallor, from palleō (“to look pale, blanch”). Pronunciation: /ˈpælɚ/, /ˈpælə/ 1. Unnatural paleness, especially as a sign of sickness or distress. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: pallor of the complexion Example: ‘Sir,’ said the butler, turning to a sort of mottled pallor, ‘that thing was not my master, and there’s the truth. My master’—here he looked round him and began to whisper—‘is a tall fine build of a man, and this was more of a dwarf.’
Word: pappy Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From pap + -y. Pronunciation: /ˈpæpi/ 1. Like pap; soft; mushy.
Word: pappy Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English papa Proto-Germanic *-j-, *-ij- Proto-West Germanic *-i, *-ī Old English -iġ Middle English -y English -y English pappy From papa + -y. Pronunciation: /ˈpæpi/ 1. A father. Labels: colloquial, regional 2. A grandfather. Labels: colloquial, regional
Word: paragon Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French paragon, paragone, from Old Italian paragone, from paragonare (“to test on a touchstone”), perhaps from Ancient Greek παρακονᾶν (parakonân, “to sharpen, whet”), from παρά- (pará-) + ἀκόνη (akónē, “whetstone, sharpening stone”), from ἀκή (akḗ, “point, edge”) (from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱ- (“sharp”)). Pronunciation: /ˈpæɹəɡən/, /ˈpæɹəˌɡɔn/, /ˈpæɹəˌɡɑn/, /ˈpær əˌɡɒn/, /ˈpær əˌɡən/ 1. A person of preeminent qualities, who acts as a pattern or model for others. Example: In the novel, Constanza is a paragon of virtue who would never compromise her reputation. Example: What a piece of worke is man! how Noble in Reaſon? […] the beauty of the world, the Parragon of Animals; 2. A companion; a match; an equal. Labels: obsolete Example: Philoclea, who indeed had no paragon but her sister Example: Nathlesse proud man himselfe the other deemed, Having so peerlesse paragon ygot 3. Comparison; competition. Labels: obsolete Example: good by paragone / Of euill, may more notably be rad, / As white seemes fairer, macht with blacke attone […]. 4. The size of type between great primer and double pica, standardized as 20-point. Labels: dated 5. A flawless diamond of at least 100 carats. Example: The "Koh-i-noor," or "Mountain of Light," is the eighth and smallest of these paragon diamonds (all diamonds weighing over a hundred carats are called Paragon); but it was originally the largest diamond ever known, weighing uncut 900 carats. . . this matchless gem of 900 carats which once belonged to the Great Mogul, and was the very paragon of paragons.
Word: paragon Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French paragon, paragone, from Old Italian paragone, from paragonare (“to test on a touchstone”), perhaps from Ancient Greek παρακονᾶν (parakonân, “to sharpen, whet”), from παρά- (pará-) + ἀκόνη (akónē, “whetstone, sharpening stone”), from ἀκή (akḗ, “point, edge”) (from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱ- (“sharp”)). Pronunciation: /ˈpæɹəɡən/, /ˈpæɹəˌɡɔn/, /ˈpæɹəˌɡɑn/, /ˈpær əˌɡɒn/, /ˈpær əˌɡən/ 1. To compare; to parallel; to put in rivalry or emulation with. Example: for want of a bigger , to paragon the little one with Artesia's length 2. To compare with; to equal; to rival. Example: Few or none could for Feature paragon with her, and much less excel her. Example: In arms anon to paragon the morn, / The morn new-riſing, whoſe vermillion hand / Draws from the bright'ning front of heav'n ſerene / The humid curtains of tempeſtuous night, / Mardonius mounts his courſer. 3. To serve as a model for; to surpass. Example: He hath achieved a maid / That paragons description and wild fame. 4. To be equal; to hold comparison.
Word: parthenogenesis Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From partheno- + -genesis, from Ancient Greek παρθένος (parthénos, “virgin”) and γένεσις (génesis, “origin, creation, generation”). Pronunciation: /ˌpɑːθɪnəʊˈd͡ʒɛnɪsɪs/, /ˌpɑːθənəʊˈd͡ʒɛnɪsɪs/, /ˌpɑɹθɪnoʊˈd͡ʒɛnɪsɪs/, /ˌpɑɹθənoʊˈd͡ʒɛnɪsɪs/ 1. Referring to various aspects of asexual reproduction: Labels: countable, uncountable, usually Example: Scientists say the birth is the second confirmed instance of a shark being conceived by parthenogenesis, a process in which an unfertilised egg develops into a new individual. 2. Referring to various aspects of asexual reproduction: Labels: uncountable, usually Example: An all female race, the asari reproduce through a form of parthenogenesis. Each asari can attune her nervous system to that of another individual of any gender, and of any species, to reproduce. This capability has led to unseemly and inaccurate rumors about asari promiscuity. Example: As an “all-female” humanoid species not bound to the traditional forms of mating, in that they reproduce through a form of telepathic parthenogenesis, the design of the Asari collapses boundaries of sex and sexuality. The Asari are a species rendered as Other, even in comparison to the various beings populating the gameworld. 3. figurative uses of the biological senses Labels: countable, uncountable, usually Example: We may learn, to be sure, plenty of lessons from Shakespeare. We are not likely to have kingdoms to divide, crowns foretold us by weird sisters, a father’s death to avenge, or to kill our wives from jealously ; but Lear may teach us to draw the line more clearly between a wise generosity and a loose-handed weakness of giving ; Macbeth, how one sin involves another, and forever another, by a fatal parthenogenesis, and that the key which unlocks forbidden doors to our will or passion leaves a stain on the hand, that may not be so dark as blood, but that will not out ; Hamlet, that all the noblest gifts of person, temperament, and mind slip like sand through the grasp of an infirm purpose ; Othello, that the perpetual silt of some one weakness, the eddies of a suspicious temper depositing their one impalpable layer after another, may build up a shoal on which an heroic life and an otherwise magnanimous nature may bilge and go to pieces. 4. Virgin birth, in reference to the Virgin Mary and Jesus Christ. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: So one might reasonably be led to hold, for instance, that the parthenogenesis of Christ does not beget faith in Christ […] Example: His theology offers four objections on dogmatic grounds commonly adduced by contemporary Protestant criticism to cast doubt on Mary’s parthenogenesis.
Word: parthenogenetic Part of Speech: adj 1. Of, pertaining to, or produced by, parthenogenesis. Labels: not-comparable Example: parthenogenetic forms Example: "And that the germ plasm is different from the parthenogenetic egg?" "Why, surely!" I cried, and gloried in my own audacity.
Word: patchy Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree English patch Proto-Indo-European *-kos Proto-Germanic *-gaz Proto-West Germanic *-g Old English -iġ Middle English -y English -y English patchy From patch + -y. Pronunciation: /ˈpæt͡ʃi/ 1. Full of, or covered with, patches; abounding in patches. 2. Not constant or continuous; intermittent or uneven. Example: patchy clouds Example: a patchy performance
Word: patrician Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French patricien, from Latin patricius, derived from patrēs cōnscrīptī (“Roman senators”). May also have been derived from Latin patricius + -ian Pronunciation: /pəˈtɹɪʃən/ 1. A member of any of the families constituting the populus Romanus, or body of Roman citizens, before the development of the plebeian order; later, one who, by right of birth or by special privilege conferred, belonged to the senior class of Romans, who, with certain property, had by right a seat in the Roman Senate. Labels: Ancient-Rome Example: Noble Patricians, Patrons of my right, / Defend the iuſtice of my Cauſe with Armes. 2. A person of high birth; a nobleman. Example: The emperor elevated several loyal families to the status of patricians. 3. One familiar with the works of the Christian Fathers; one versed in patristic lore or life.
Word: patrician Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French patricien, from Latin patricius, derived from patrēs cōnscrīptī (“Roman senators”). May also have been derived from Latin patricius + -ian Pronunciation: /pəˈtɹɪʃən/ 1. Of or pertaining to the Roman patres (“fathers”) or senators, or patricians. Example: […] I ſee Th’ Inſulting Tyrant prancing o’er the Field Strow’d with Rome’s Citizens, and drench’d in Slaughter, His Horſe’s Hoofs wet with Patrician Blood. Example: The cognomen was first used in patrician families, who were distinguished from the plebeians by their three names. 2. Of or pertaining to a person of high birth; noble; not plebeian; aristocratic. Example: born in the patrician file of society 3. Characteristic of or appropriate to a person of high birth; classy. Example: Hanks' taste in projects and directors is undoubtedly patrician and with a few exceptions like 1993's Philadelphia, the first mainstream film about the Aids crisis, rarely provocative 4. Politically active to help people in lower classes, especially in a patronizing or condescending way. Example: It will speed the shrivelling of the patrician “one nation” Tories, who tried to curb the extremes of Thatcherism and ended by providing its veils. Example: Saint-Simon was certainly a radical, and hostile to inherited privilege, but his bourgeois 'socialism' was of a patrician kind. Science, being a firm and certain kind of knowledge, a 'religion of Newton' or 'cult of Reason' essentially plays the key role in his grand scheme for social engineering.
Word: patriotic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From French patriotique, from Late Latin patriōticus, from Ancient Greek πατριωτικός (patriōtikós), from πατριώτης (patriṓtēs), equivalent to patriot + -ic. Pronunciation: /pæt.ɹiˈɒ.tɪk/, /peɪ.tɹiˈɒ.tɪk/, /peɪ.tɹiˈɑ.tɪk/ 1. Inspired by or showing patriotism; done out of love of one's country; zealously and unselfishly devoted to the service of one's country Example: a patriotic statesman Example: a patriotic song
Word: patriotic Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From French patriotique, from Late Latin patriōticus, from Ancient Greek πατριωτικός (patriōtikós), from πατριώτης (patriṓtēs), equivalent to patriot + -ic. Pronunciation: /pæt.ɹiˈɒ.tɪk/, /peɪ.tɹiˈɒ.tɪk/, /peɪ.tɹiˈɑ.tɪk/ 1. A postage stamp, Civil War token, etc. bearing a patriotic design. Example: Most patriotics in copper or brass are common. They are rare in off-metals.
Word: patriotism Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English patriot 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 patriotism From patriot + -ism. Pronunciation: /ˈpætɹi.əˌtɪzəm/, /ˈpeɪtɹi.əˌtɪzəm/ 1. Love of one's country; devotion to the welfare of one's compatriots; passion which inspires one to serve one's country. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: That public virtue, which among the ancients was denominated patriotism, is derived from a strong sense of our own interest in the preservation and prosperity of the free government of which we are members. Example: In the hour of death we shall have the consolation to see established in the land of our fathers the most wonderful work of wisdom and disinterested patriotism that has ever yet appeared on the globe. 2. The actions of a patriot. Labels: countable, uncountable 3. The desire to compete sharply with, and perhaps also dominate, other nations; nationalism. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Near-synonyms: chauvinism, superpatriotism Example: Patriotism cannot be good. What produces war is the desire for an exclusive good for one’s own nation – that is called patriotism. And so to abolish war, it is necessary to abolish patriotism, and to abolish patriotism, it is necessary first to become convinced that it is an evil.
Word: partisan Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From French partisan, from Italian partigiano (“defender of a party”), from parte (“part”). Doublet of partigiano. Attested in English from the late 15th century in the noun sense of "party adherent", and in related adjective senses from the 16th century. The "guerrilla fighter" sense influenced by Serbo-Croatian partizan, Russian партиза́н (partizán), from the same source. The sense of "guerrilla fighter" is from c. 1690. The adjective in the military sense dates from the early 18th century. Pronunciation: /ˈpɑː.tɪˌzæn/, /ˌpɑː.tɪˈzæn/, /ˈpɑɹ.tɪ.zən/, [-ɾɪ], /ˈpɑɹ.tə.zən/ 1. An adherent to a party or faction. Example: "Strong partisans of neither party, Indiana farmers failed to act as a block […]" 2. A fervent, sometimes militant, supporter or proponent of a party, cause, faction, person, or idea. 3. A member of a band of detached light, irregular troops acting behind occupying enemy lines in the ways of harassment or sabotage; a guerrilla fighter. 4. The commander of a body of detached light troops engaged in making forays and harassing an enemy. Labels: archaic
Word: partisan Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From French partisan, from Italian partigiano (“defender of a party”), from parte (“part”). Doublet of partigiano. Attested in English from the late 15th century in the noun sense of "party adherent", and in related adjective senses from the 16th century. The "guerrilla fighter" sense influenced by Serbo-Croatian partizan, Russian партиза́н (partizán), from the same source. The sense of "guerrilla fighter" is from c. 1690. The adjective in the military sense dates from the early 18th century. Pronunciation: /ˈpɑː.tɪˌzæn/, /ˌpɑː.tɪˈzæn/, /ˈpɑɹ.tɪ.zən/, [-ɾɪ], /ˈpɑɹ.tə.zən/ 1. Serving as commander or member of a body of detached light troops. Example: partisan officer, partisan corps 2. Adherent to a party or faction; especially, having the character of blind, passionate, or unreasonable adherence to a party. Example: They were blinded by partisan zeal. Example: Having put partisan interests to one side, Greenwood set about making teamwork a watchword for her chairmanship, while seeking the broadest possible participation in subsequent inquiries. 3. Devoted to or biased in support of a party, group, or cause. Example: partisan politics Example: England will regard it as a measure of justice for Frank Lampard's disallowed goal against Germany in Bloemfontein at the 2010 World Cup - but it was also an illustration of how they rode their luck for long periods in front of a predictably partisan home crowd.
Word: partisan Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From French partizaine, from Middle French partizaine, partisanne etc., from Italian partigiana, related to Etymology 1 above (apparently because it was seen as a typical weapon of such forces). Pronunciation: /ˈpɑː.tɪˌzæn/, /ˌpɑː.tɪˈzæn/, /ˈpɑɹ.tɪ.zən/, [-ɾɪ], /ˈpɑɹ.tə.zən/ 1. A long-handled spear with a triangular, double-edged blade having lateral projections, in some forms also used in boar hunting. Labels: historical Example: I had as lief have a reed that will do me no service as a partisan I could not heave. Example: Salisbury and his attendants were also now drawing near, with bills and partisans brandished, and bows already bended. 2. A soldier armed with such a weapon. Labels: obsolete
Word: pastime Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From earlier passtime, pass-time, from Middle English passe tyme, passetyme, calque of Middle French passetemps. Pronunciation: /ˈpæs.taɪm/, /ˈpɑːs.taɪm/ 1. Something which amuses, and serves to make time pass agreeably. Example: Chatting is a pleasant pastime. Example: Hunting and fishing, the most important employments of mankind in the rude state of society, become in its advanced state their most agreeable amusements, and they pursue for pleasure what they once followed from necessity. In the advanced state of society, therefore, they are all very poor people who follow as a trade what other people pursue as a pastime.
Word: pastime Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From earlier passtime, pass-time, from Middle English passe tyme, passetyme, calque of Middle French passetemps. Pronunciation: /ˈpæs.taɪm/, /ˈpɑːs.taɪm/ 1. To sport; to amuse oneself. Labels: intransitive, obsolete
Word: pathway Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English pathwei, equivalent to path + way. Cognate with German Pfadweg, Afrikaans padweg. Pronunciation: /ˈpɑːθˌweɪ/, /ˈpæθˌweɪ/ 1. A footpath or other path or track. Example: follow the pathway Example: go down the pathway 2. A sequence of biochemical compounds, and the reactions linking them, that describe a process in metabolism or catabolism. Example: On the other hand, it can be observed that, with small exceptions, the S. pneumonia strains are the only Streptococci equipped with homospermidine biosynthesis and pyruvate oxidation pathways, which have been found to be involved in pathogenicity mechanisms [50 ] and in the counteraction of oxidative stress [51 ]. 3. A course of action. Labels: figuratively Example: the pathway to success Example: Similarly, although both clinical pathway and case management programmes seek to improve system efficiency, critical pathways concentrate on high-volume conditions with high costs in which care is generally patternable […]
Word: patrimony Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From earlier patrimoyne, from patremoyne, from Middle French patrimoine/patremoine, semilearned borrowing from Latin patrimōnium, from pater (“father”) + -mōnium (“state, condition”). First attested in 1513. By surface analysis, patri- + -mony. Compare matrimony. Displaced native Old English fæderġestrēon. Pronunciation: /ˈpat.ɹɪ.mə.ni/, /ˈpæt.ɹɪˌmoʊ.ni/ 1. A right or estate inherited from one's father; or, in a larger sense, from any male ancestor. 2. Formerly, a church estate or endowment.
Word: pave Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Old French paver (“to pave, to cover”), from Vulgar Latin *pavāre (“to beat down, to smash”), from Latin pavīre (“to beat, strike, ram, tread down”). Pronunciation: /peɪv/ 1. To cover something with paving slabs. Labels: UK 2. To cover with stone, concrete, blacktop or other solid covering, especially to aid travel. Labels: Canada, US Example: They paved Paradise and put up a parking lot. 3. To pave the way for; to make easy and smooth. Labels: figuratively, transitive Example: After two weeks Miguel began to circulate freely about the city in his truck, albeit with the long, chrome-plated pistol cocked and ready on his lap. It wouldn't be for three more years that Gonzo would tell Miguel about the secret leverage that paved his path to freedom.
Word: paver Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English pave Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzios Latin -āriusnom. Latin -āriusbor. Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz Proto-West Germanic *-ārī Old English -ere Middle English -ere English -er English paver From pave + -er. Pronunciation: /ˈpeɪvɚ/ 1. A flat stone used to pave a pathway, such as a walkway to one's home. Example: red brick pavers 2. One who paves; one who lays pavement. 3. A road paving machine, a machine to lay asphalt on roads.
Word: payer Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English pay Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzios Latin -āriusnom. Latin -āriusbor. Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz Proto-West Germanic *-ārī Old English -ere Middle English -ere English -er English payer From pay + -er (“subject of action”). Pronunciation: /ˈpeɪ.ɚ/ 1. One who pays; specifically, the person by whom a bill or note has been, or should be, paid. Example: The company is the largest tax payer in the region. Example: Health insurance depends on both the payer and the provider. 2. A swaption which gives its holder the option to enter into a swap in which they pay the fixed leg and receive the floating leg.
Word: peak Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From earlier peake, peek, peke, from Middle English pek (in place names), itself an alteration of pike, pyke, pyk (“a sharp point, pike”), from Old English pīc, piic (“a pike, needle, pin, peak, pinnacle”), from Proto-West Germanic *pīk, from Proto-Germanic *pīkaz (“peak”). Cognate with Dutch piek (“pike, point, summit, peak”), Danish pik (“pike, peak”), Swedish pik (“pike, lance, point, peak”), Norwegian pik (“peak, summit”). More at pike. Pronunciation: /piːk/ 1. A point; the sharp end or top of anything that terminates in a point; as, the peak, or front, of a cap. Example: A less risky method is to lift your whisk or beater to check the condition of the peaks of the egg whites; the foam should be just stiff enough to stand up in well-defined, unwavering peaks. 2. The highest value reached by some quantity in a time period. Example: The stock market reached a peak in September 1929. Example: By last year, family income was 8 percent lower than it had been 11 years earlier, at its peak in 2000, according to inflation-adjusted numbers from the Census Bureau. 3. The top, or one of the tops, of a hill, mountain, or range, ending in a point. Example: They reached the peak after 8 hours of climbing. 4. The whole hill or mountain, especially when isolated. Example: To the South we observed a large plain some ten miles wide, with snowy peaks rising on the farther side. In front was a hill projecting into the plain, on which stood a mani wall; and this latter discovery made me feel quite confident that I was on the high road to Lhassa. 5. visor (horizontal part of a cap sticking out in front and shading the wearer's eyes) Labels: UK 6. The upper aftermost corner of a fore-and-aft sail. Example: peak-halyards Example: peak-brails 7. The narrow part of a vessel's bow, or the hold within it. 8. The extremity of an anchor fluke; the bill. 9. A local maximum of a function, e.g. for sine waves, each point at which the value of y is at its maximum. 10. Something of exceptional quality. Labels: Internet, uncountable Example: There's so much peak on this website!
Word: peak Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From earlier peake, peek, peke, from Middle English pek (in place names), itself an alteration of pike, pyke, pyk (“a sharp point, pike”), from Old English pīc, piic (“a pike, needle, pin, peak, pinnacle”), from Proto-West Germanic *pīk, from Proto-Germanic *pīkaz (“peak”). Cognate with Dutch piek (“pike, point, summit, peak”), Danish pik (“pike, peak”), Swedish pik (“pike, lance, point, peak”), Norwegian pik (“peak, summit”). More at pike. Pronunciation: /piːk/ 1. To raise the point of (a gaff) closer to perpendicular. Labels: transitive 2. To exceed the maximum signal amplitude of (a piece of equipment), resulting in clipping of the signal. Labels: transitive 3. To reach a highest degree or maximum. Labels: intransitive Example: Historians argue about when the Roman Empire began to peak and ultimately decay. 4. To rise or extend into a peak or point; to form, or appear as, a peak. Labels: intransitive Example: There peaketh up a mightie high mounte. 5. To reach the highest level of success or greatness in one's lifetime. Labels: intransitive 6. To reach the point of strongest effect from a drug. Labels: intransitive 7. Ellipsis of peak trans. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis Example: I came to this via sport but the thing that really peaked me was this. Example: My friend peaked me last year, at the GRA [Gender Recognition Act] consultation.
Word: peak Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From earlier peake, peek, peke, from Middle English pek (in place names), itself an alteration of pike, pyke, pyk (“a sharp point, pike”), from Old English pīc, piic (“a pike, needle, pin, peak, pinnacle”), from Proto-West Germanic *pīk, from Proto-Germanic *pīkaz (“peak”). Cognate with Dutch piek (“pike, point, summit, peak”), Danish pik (“pike, peak”), Swedish pik (“pike, lance, point, peak”), Norwegian pik (“peak, summit”). More at pike. Pronunciation: /piːk/ 1. At the greatest extent; maximum. Example: peak oil, Peak TV 2. Maximal, quintessential, archetypical, strictly with positive connotations; representing the culmination of its type. Labels: slang Example: Knowing obscure 19th-century slang is peak nerd. 3. Bad. Labels: Multicultural-London-English, dated Example: When they're tryna get the girl to the crib and she leaves, it's peak / Tryna keep it discreet and she tweets, it's peak / See me rolling with 20 man deep, it's peak / Yo rudeboy, pull up, repeat, it's peak Example: Tempting, but I think it's actually something I need to do. Like, I get what they did was peak, but I have to take some responsibility, you know? 4. Unlucky; unfortunate. Labels: Multicultural-London-English, dated Example: You didn't get a spot? That's peak. 5. Very good or high-quality. Labels: Internet Example: That movie last night was so peak. Example: [Siri:] Joz said, team, these apricots are peak. Have they always been this good? Why has no one told me?
Word: peak Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Unknown. Perhaps related to Etymology 1 above in the sense of "becoming pointed" through emaciation. Pronunciation: /piːk/ 1. To become sick or wan. Labels: intransitive 2. To acquire sharpness of figure or features; hence, to look thin or sickly. Labels: intransitive Example: Dwindle, peak, and pine. 3. To pry; to peep slyly. Labels: intransitive
Word: peak Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /piːk/ 1. Alternative form of peag (“wampum”). Labels: alt-of, alternative, uncountable
Word: peak Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /piːk/ 1. Misspelling of pique. Labels: alt-of, misspelling
Word: pearl Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Inherited from Middle English perle, from Old French perle of uncertain etymology. Probably via unattested Medieval Latin *pernula, from Latin perna (“haunch; a marine bivalve shaped like a leg of lamb”) but also derived from Medieval Latin perla, from Latin perula (“little bag”). Its typographic use follows the name given by Jean Jannon to the type used in his miniature editions of Vergil, Horace, & the New Testament in the 1620s, which were the smallest printed works to his time. Its surfing use derives from the supposed resemblance to pearl diving. Pronunciation: /pɜːl/, [pʰəːɫ], /pɝl/, [pʰɚɫ] 1. To set or adorn with pearls, or with mother-of-pearl. Labels: figuratively, sometimes, transitive Example: Syed Omar began to walk to the airport. Sweat pearled his tough brown skin, his fat bounced in rhythm. 2. To cause to resemble pearls in shape; to make into small round grains. Labels: transitive Example: to pearl barley 3. To cause to resemble pearls in lustre or iridescence. Labels: transitive Example: A Teaching Company Scheme developing new technology for pearling light bulbs was established in October […] 4. To resemble pearl or pearls. Labels: intransitive 5. To bead; to form droplets. Labels: intransitive Example: I'm left here with the memory of all their shining words, like drops of water pearling on the window-pane Example: Blood pearled on the blade, its aroma filling the air. 6. To hunt for pearls Labels: intransitive Example: to go pearling 7. To sink the nose of one's surfboard into the water, often on takeoff. Labels: intransitive Example: Used a pointed tip today and learned why I kept pearling with my round tipped board. Round noses like to dig into the water, causing frustrating wipeouts. 8. Of the nose of the surfboard: to sink in this manner. Labels: intransitive Example: He couldn't even turn the board or raise the nose. Consequently, the board pearled, nose-dived into the water, throwing Lee off almost like being thrown from a horse. But he persisted. 9. Of aquatic plants: to produce visible bubbles on the stems and leaves during photosynthesis, usually in a simulated environment like an aquarium. Labels: intransitive 10. To use an ender pearl to teleport by throwing it.
Word: peck Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English pecken, pekken, variant of Middle English piken, picken, pikken (“to pick, use a pointed implement”). More at pick. Pronunciation: /pɛk/ 1. To strike or pierce with the beak or bill (of a bird). Labels: ambitransitive Example: The birds pecked at their food. Example: The rooster had been known to fly on her shoulder and peck her neck, so that now she carried a stick or took one of the children with her when she went to feed the fowls. 2. To form by striking with the beak or a pointed instrument. Labels: transitive Example: to peck a hole in a tree 3. To strike, pick, thrust against, or dig into, with a pointed instrument, especially with repeated quick movements. 4. To seize and pick up with the beak, or as if with the beak; to bite; to eat; often with up. Example: This fellow pecks up wit as pigeons peas. Example: 1713 September 14, letter to Joseph Addison, The Guardian, issue 160. I HAVE laid a wager, with a friend of mine, about the pigeons that used to peck up the corn which belonged to the ants. 5. To do something in small, intermittent pieces. Example: He has been pecking away at that project for some time now. 6. To type by searching for each key individually. 7. To type in general. Labels: rare 8. To kiss briefly. Example: At half past eight, Mr. Dursley picked up his briefcase, pecked Mrs. Dursley on the cheek, and tried to kiss Dudley good-bye but missed, because Dudley was now having a tantrum and throwing his cereal at the walls.
Word: peck Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English pecken, pekken, variant of Middle English piken, picken, pikken (“to pick, use a pointed implement”). More at pick. Pronunciation: /pɛk/ 1. An act of striking with a beak. 2. A small kiss.
Word: peck Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Probably from Anglo-Norman pek, pekke, of uncertain origin. Pronunciation: /pɛk/ 1. One quarter of a bushel; a dry measure of eight quarts; equal to approximately 9092 cubic centimeters in the imperial system or 8810 cubic centimeters in the U.S. system. Example: Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers. Example: 22,110 bushels of French beans, at 6d. per peck, or 2s. per bushel 2. Similar units in other systems of measure, such as the Roman modius or Chinese dou. 3. A great deal; a large or excessive quantity. Example: She figured most children probably ate a peck of dirt before they turned ten. Example: a peck of uncertainties and doubts
Word: peck Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Variant of pick (“to throw”). Pronunciation: /pɛk/ 1. To throw. Labels: regional 2. To lurch forward; especially, of a horse, to stumble after hitting the ground with the toe instead of the flat of the foot. Example: Anyhow, one of them fell, another one pecked badly, and Jerry disengaged himself from the group to scuttle up the short strip of meadow to win by a length.
Word: peck Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /pɛk/ 1. Discoloration caused by fungus growth or insects. Labels: uncountable Example: an occurrence of peck in rice
Word: peck Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /pɛk/ 1. Food. Labels: UK, obsolete, slang, uncountable Example: Gemmen, have you ordered the peck and booze for the evening?
Word: peck Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /pɛk/ 1. Misspelling of pec. Labels: alt-of, misspelling
Word: peculiarity Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English peculiar Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-ts Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ts Latin -itāsder. Old French -itebor. Middle English -ite English -ity English peculiarity From peculiar + -ity. Pronunciation: /pɪˌkjuliˈɛɹɪti/, /pɪˌkjuːliˈæɹɪti/ 1. The state or quality of being peculiar; individuality; singularity. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The peculiarity of meeting six people on a usually deserted trail only struck me later on. Example: “'There is always a moment when the familiar becomes the strange,'” Cora recited, as she stood looking around at the bustling open docking area of Tamayo Point. “'Look at your own hand and you will eventually notice the variation of textures, the growth of nails and the fade of scars, the peculiarity of having five fingers instead of three.'” 2. That which is peculiar; a special and distinctive characteristic or habit; a particularity. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: I had often heard of Miss Marchmont, and of her peculiarities (she had the character of being very eccentric), but till now had never seen her. Example: I thought Alice and H. J. P. would have fainted at the full spectacle; but we are fast getting used to the little peculiarities of foreigners and I trust they will forgive us many sins in return. 3. Exclusive possession or right. Labels: countable, uncountable