nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: depravation Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle French dépravation, from Latin dēprāvātiō (“perversion, distortion, corruption, depravity”). Pronunciation: /dɛp.ɹəˈveɪ.ʃən/ 1. Detraction; depreciation. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. The act of depraving, or making anything bad; the act of corrupting. Labels: countable, uncountable 3. The state of being depraved or degenerated; degeneracy; depravity. Labels: countable, uncountable 4. Change for the worse; deterioration; morbid perversion. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: deprecation Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle French deprecation (French: déprécation), from Latin dēprecātiōnem, from dēprecātiō (“deprecation, invocation”), from dēprecor (“to avert, warn off; to deprecate”). Pronunciation: /ˌdɛpɹɪˈkeɪʃən/ 1. The act of deprecating. Labels: uncountable 2. A praying against evil; prayer that an evil may be removed or prevented; strong expression of disapprobation. Labels: countable 3. An entreaty for a pardon; a petitioning. Labels: countable, uncountable 4. An imprecation or curse. Labels: countable
Word: depreciation Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *de Proto-Indo-European *-h₁ Proto-Indo-European *déh₁ Proto-Italic *dē Latin dē Latin de- Proto-Indo-European *per-der.? Proto-Indo-European *per-der.? Proto-Indo-European *pér Proto-Indo-European *-o Proto-Indo-European *pró Proto-Indo-European *-ti ? Proto-Indo-European *próti Proto-Italic *pretjom Latin pretium 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 Late Latin dēpretiārebor. French déprécier Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *-Hō Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō Proto-Italic *-tiō Latin -tiō Latin -ātiōlbor. Old French -ation Middle French -ation French -ation French dépréciationbor. English depreciation Borrowed from French dépréciation. Pronunciation: /dɪˌpɹiːʃɪˈeɪʃən/ 1. The state of being depreciated; disparagement. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. The decline in value of assets. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: asset depreciation Example: currency depreciation 3. The measurement of the decline in value of assets. Not to be confused with impairment, which is the measurement of the unplanned, extraordinary decline in value of assets. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: annual depreciation
Word: deprivation Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˌdɛp.ɹɪˈveɪʃən/ 1. The act of depriving, dispossessing, or bereaving. Labels: countable Example: Without doubt, respondent [Darrell E.] Burch alleges a serious deprivation of liberty; yet equally clearly he alleges no violation of the Fourteenth Amendment. […] Taken together, the decisions indicate that for deprivations worked by such random and unauthorized departures from otherwise unimpugned and established state procedures the State provides the process due by making available adequate postdeprivation remedies. 2. The act of depriving, dispossessing, or bereaving. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: A Roman, elected in 896 by the Roman faction in a popular tumult, to succeed Formosus. He had twice incurred a sentence of deprivation of orders, as a subdeacon and as a priest. 3. The state of being deprived; lack. Labels: uncountable Example: He was suffering from deprivation of sleep. Example: The deprivation of anything whose possession is consistent with the nature of the Being which wants it, is a defect. But ignorance is a deprivation of something which is consistent with the nature of intelligence: it is a deprivation of knowledge.
Word: deputation Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle French députation, from Late Latin deputatio. Pronunciation: /ˌdɛpjuːˈteɪʃən/ 1. The act of deputing, or of appointing or commissioning a deputy or representative; office of a deputy or delegate; vicegerency. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The authority of conscience stands founded upon its vicegerency and deputation under God. 2. The person or persons deputed or commissioned by another person, party, or public body to act in his or its behalf; a delegation. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The general sent a deputation to the enemy to propose a truce. Example: A deputation came to the Hotel de Ville from the district of the Mathurins, where the people had assembled, appointed a president and other officers, and begun to make a list of the citizens who were able to bear arms. 3. Among Christian missionaries, the process or period of time during which they raise support in preparation for going to their mission field. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: derivation Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English derivacioun, borrowed from Middle French dérivation, from Latin dērīvātiō, dērīvātiōnem. Morphologically derive + -ation. Pronunciation: /ˌdɛ.ɹɪˈveɪ.ʃ(ə)n/ 1. A leading or drawing off of water from a stream or source. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. The act of receiving anything from a source; the act of procuring an effect from a cause, means, or condition, as profits from capital, conclusions or opinions from evidence. Labels: countable, uncountable 3. The act of tracing origin or descent; an instance thereof (for example, an etymology). Labels: countable, uncountable Example: the derivation of a word from an Indo-European root 4. Forming a new word by changing the base of another word or by adding affixes to it. Labels: countable, uncountable 5. The state or method of being derived; the relation of origin when established or asserted. Labels: countable, uncountable 6. That from which a thing is derived. Labels: countable, uncountable 7. That which is derived; a derivative; the result of a deduction. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: There were also letters to scientists and other scholars, pages of derivations of mathematics and physics formulae, and copious writings on alchemy and religion. 8. The process of deriving one thing from another, especially in logic; a deduction. Labels: countable, uncountable 9. The process of deriving one thing from another, especially in logic; a deduction. Labels: countable, uncountable 10. The process of application of the derivative operator to a function, yielding another function called the derived function of the first. Labels: countable, uncountable 11. An algebraic generalization of the derivative operator (from its natural setting in the ring of real-valued functions) to a general associative algebra over a field. Formally, (given an algebra A over a field K) a K-linear endomorphism that satisfies Leibnitz's Law. Labels: countable, uncountable 12. An algebraic generalization of the derivative operator (from its natural setting in the ring of real-valued functions) to a general associative algebra over a field. Formally, (given an algebra A over a field K) a K-linear endomorphism that satisfies Leibnitz's Law. Labels: countable, uncountable 13. A drawing of humors or fluids from one part of the body to another, to relieve or lessen a morbid process. Labels: countable, historical, uncountable
Word: desecration Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /dɛ.sɪˈkɹeɪ.ʃən/, /dɛ.səˈkɹeɪ.ʃən/, /dɛ.zəˈkɹeɪ.ʃən/ 1. An act of disrespect or impiety towards something considered sacred. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: It seemed a desecration and an unhallowed thing to touch that sleeping image of the live man by my side. Example: In the same year as the Furness objection, sadder tidings befell St Pancras Priory at Lewes, in East Sussex. Despite it having the distinction of being the earliest Cluniac monastery in Great Britain, petitions to prevent the Brighton Lewes & Hastings Railway from imposing on its site with its Lewes line failed. The line was approved and, as if as an act of deliberate desecration and assertion of the railways' power, passed over the site of the high altar.
Word: desiccation Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French dessiccation, from Late Latin desiccatio, desiccationem, from Latin desicco. Pronunciation: /ˌdɛsɪˈkeɪʃən/ 1. The state or process of being desiccated Labels: uncountable 2. An act or occurrence of desiccating Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The most important mortality affecting the larval population was most probably caused by the repeated desiccations of the marsh in the summer.
Word: designation Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English designacioun, from Latin dēsignātiō, and partly (especially in sense 5) from design + -ation. By surface analysis, designate + -ion. Pronunciation: /dɛzɪɡˈneɪʃən/ 1. An act or instance of designating Labels: countable, uncountable 2. Selection and appointment for a purpose or office. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: His designation as chief justice was controversial. Example: July 2021, Omar Marrero, quoted in CyberNewshttps://web.archive.org/web/20210805184306/https://www.puertoricoheadlinenews.com/15-million-allocated-for-non-profit-organizations/ The designation of funds by Governor Pedro Pierluisi will also allow non-profit entities to continue providing services to communities 3. That which designates; a distinguishing mark or name; distinctive title; appellation. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The Romans evolved a quite different system of nomenclature, which in its classical form consisted of three names, the praenomen (e.g. Marcus), nomen (e.g. Tullius), and cognomen (e.g. Cicero), and two other designations (the name of the father and of the tribe): […] Example: Man is the most aggressive animal in the sea (and on the land as well), and all the "man-eater" stories in history will not change this designation. 4. Signification, meaning, for example of a word or phrase. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: It doesn't list all the connotations that the term may have in various contexts: it specifies the designation of the term, or one of the designations of the term. 5. Purpose, aim, intention. Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable Example: Deſignation, or Deſign, (Lat[in] and French) a purpoſing or contriving. Example: But ſo far as Words are of Uſe and Signification, ſo far is there a conſtant connexion between the Sound and the Idea; and a Designation, that the one ſtand for the other: without which Application of them, they are nothing, but ſo much inſignificant Noiſe.
Word: desolation Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Inherited from Middle English desolacioun, from Middle French, Old French desolacion f, from Latin dēsōlātiō f. Pronunciation: /ˌdɛsəˈleɪʃən/ 1. The act of desolating or laying waste; destruction of inhabitants; depopulation. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. The state of being desolated or laid waste Labels: countable, uncountable Example: I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh; When your fear cometh as desolation, and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish cometh upon you. Example: One or two uncovered masses appeared like the lingering foot-prints of desolation; but in general where the statelier trees had not taken root, the soil was luxuriantly covered with heath and the golden blossomed furze. 3. A place or country wasted and forsaken. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: desperation Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English desperacion, desperacioun, desperation, disparacion, disperacion, disperacioun, dispiracioune, dysperacioun, from Middle French desperation and its etymon Latin dēspērātiō, dēspērātiōnis. By surface analysis, desperate + -ion. Pronunciation: /ˌdɛspəˈɹeɪʃən/ 1. The act of despairing or becoming desperate; a giving up of hope. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: in desperation Example: utter desperation 2. A state of despair, or utter hopelessness; abandonment of hope. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation. 3. Reckless fury. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: "The PM’s private reassurances are worthless given her track record of u-turns and her clear desperation to cling to power." 4. Ellipsis of bladder desperation. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, ellipsis, uncountable
Word: despicable Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Late Latin dēspicābilis, from Latin dēspicor, a variant of dēspiciō (“to despise”), from de (“down”) + speciō (“to look at, behold”). First attested in the 1550s. Equivalent to despise + -able. Pronunciation: /dɪˈspɪkəbəl/, /ˈdɛspɪkəbəl/ 1. Fit or deserving to be despised; contemptible; mean. Example: The physical penis is consumed by despicable fish, animals of the turgid depths, but the higher phallus, the image of resurrection through the goddess, is fashioned as a sacred icon.
Word: despicable Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Late Latin dēspicābilis, from Latin dēspicor, a variant of dēspiciō (“to despise”), from de (“down”) + speciō (“to look at, behold”). First attested in the 1550s. Equivalent to despise + -able. Pronunciation: /dɪˈspɪkəbəl/, /ˈdɛspɪkəbəl/ 1. A wretched or wicked person. Example: Robbers assemble other robbers for the purpose of robbery; but Christians gather thieves, bandits, and other despicables for the purpose of spiritual transformation.
Word: despoliation Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin dēspoliātiō, from dēspoliō. 1. A stripping or plundering; spoliation. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Time has taken a terrible revenge upon mankind for his despoliation of the valleys and his defilement of the mountains, yet the industries and the railways of South Wales still put the bravest front upon an outlook which all may hope is becoming less saddening and less grim.
Word: destination Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin dēstinātiō, from dēstinō (“to destine”). Pronunciation: /dɛstɪˈneɪʃən/ 1. The place set for the end of a journey or to which something is sent; place or point aimed at. Labels: countable Example: arrive at your destination 2. The act of destining or appointing. Labels: archaic, countable, uncountable 3. Purpose for which anything is destined; predetermined end, object, or use; ultimate design. Labels: countable, uncountable 4. A goal. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: This plan will help us reach our destination, victory in the election this fall.
Word: desultory Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin dēsultōrius (“hasty, casual, superficial”), from dēsultor (“a circus rider who jumped from one galloping horse to another”), from dēsiliō (“jump down”), from dē (“down”) + saliō (“jump, leap”). Pronunciation: /ˈdɛs.əl.t(ə).ɹi/, /ˈdɛz.əl.t(ə).ɹi/, /ˈdɛs.əlˌtɔɹ.i/, /ˈdɛz.əlˌtɔɹ.i/ 1. Jumping, or passing, from one thing or subject to another, without order, planning, or rational connection; lacking logical sequence. Example: Near-synonyms: aimless, chaotic, disconnected, erratic, haphazard, meandering, quodlibetic, quodlibetical, random, rambling, scattered, unmethodical, unsystematic, wandering Example: He wandered round, cleaning up in a desultory way. 2. Out of course; by the way; not connected with the subject. Example: Near-synonyms: extraneous, incidental, irrelevant, nongermane, spurious, stray, unconnected, ungermane, unrelated Example: I made a desultory remark while I was talking to my friend. 3. Disappointing in performance or progress. Example: Near-synonyms: half-assed, halfhearted Example: As we stood waiting for the departure time with the setting sun twinkling on the great brass dome of our 2-4-0, the sound of church bells was the only one apart from the measured tread of the guard slowly pacing towards his van, and, standing at an open window, I more than once heard the fireman's "Right away!" to his mate in acknowledgement of a desultory wave of the unfurled green flag. 4. Leaping, skipping or flitting about, generally in a random or unsteady manner. Labels: obsolete
Word: deteriorate Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Learned borrowing from Late Latin dēteriorātus, perfect passive participle of Late Latin dēteriorō (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), further from Latin dēterior (“worse”). Cognate with French détériorer. Pronunciation: /dɪˈtɪə.ɹɪə.ɹeɪt/, /dɪˈtɪə.ɹɪ.eɪt/, /dɪˈtɪɹ.iə.ɹeɪt/, /diˈtɪɹ.iə.ɹeɪt/, /dəˈtɪɹ.iə.ɹeɪt/ 1. To make worse; to make inferior in quality or value; to impair. Labels: transitive Example: to deteriorate the mind Example: The art of war, like every other art, ecclesiastical architecture alone excepted, was greatly deteriorated during those years of general degradation[…] 2. To grow worse; to be impaired in quality; to degenerate. Labels: intransitive Example: During this fine run through Fife the weather had deteriorated rapidly, and as we passed Wormit and came onto the Tay Bridge heavy rain clouds were piled over the sea. Example: The condition of the tunnel continued to deteriorate, aggravated by the vibration from the heavy traffic, and stories of trains emerging with dislodged bricks on their roofs are probably not exaggerated.
Word: deterioration Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from French détérioration; morphologically deteriorate + -ion. Pronunciation: /dɪˌtɪəɹɪəˈɹeɪʃən/, /dɪˌtɪəɹɪˈeɪʃən/, /dəˌti.ɹi.əˈɹeɪ.ʃən/, /dəˌtiɹiˈeɪʃən/ 1. The process of making or growing worse, or the state of having grown worse. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: From 1945 onwards, deterioration in the condition of the brickwork in the arch soffits was kept under close observation, and in 1951 it was decided that strengthening must be undertaken. Example: The Queen may be celebrating her jubilee but the Queen's English Society, which has railed against the misuse and deterioration of the English language, is to fold.
Word: determination Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English determinacion, determynacioun, from Old French determinacion, from Latin dēterminātiō. Morphologically determine + -ation. Pronunciation: /dɪˌtɜːmɪˈneɪʃən/ 1. The act of determining, or the state of being determined. Labels: countable Example: the determination of the wavelength of light Example: the determination of the level of salt in sea water 2. The act of determining, or the state of being determined. Labels: countable, uncountable 3. The act of determining, or the state of being determined. Labels: countable, uncountable 4. The act of determining, or the state of being determined. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: I am indebted to a friend for the determination of most of these shells. 5. Direction or tendency to a certain end; impulsion. Labels: countable, uncountable 6. The quality of mind which reaches definite conclusions; decisive character; resoluteness; fortitude. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Through sheer determination, we managed to escape from the tornado. 7. The state of decision; a judicial decision, or ending of controversy. Labels: countable 8. That which is determined upon; result of deliberation; purpose; conclusion formed; fixed resolution. Labels: countable Example: The tribunal has reached a determination in respect of this matter. 9. A flow, rush, or tendency to a particular part Labels: countable, uncountable Example: a determination of blood to the head 10. Bringing to an end; termination; limit. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: If a lease is determined by notice, forfeiture or frustration, all incumbrances will normally end automatically with the determination of the lease and can therefore be ignored. Example: So should that beauty which you hold in lease Find no determination: then you were Yourself again after yourself's decease […]
Word: detonation Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From French détonation; equivalent to detonate + -ion. Pronunciation: /dɛtəˈneɪʃən/ 1. An explosion or sudden report made by the near-instantaneous decomposition or combustion of unstable substances. Specifically, combustion that spreads supersonically via shock compression. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: the detonation of gun cotton 2. An explosion or sudden report made by the near-instantaneous decomposition or combustion of unstable substances. Specifically, combustion that spreads supersonically via shock compression. Labels: broadly, countable, uncountable Example: a nuclear detonation Example: carbon detonation 3. Engine knocking, a type of improper combustion in gasoline piston engines. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: devastation Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle French dévastation. Pronunciation: /ˌdɛ.vəˈsteɪ.ʃən/, /ˌdɛ.vəˈsteɪ.ʃn̩/ 1. The act of devastating, or the state of being devastated; a laying waste. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Perhaps as startling as the sheer toll was the devastation to some of the state’s well-known locales. Boardwalks along the beach in Seaside Heights, Belmar and other towns on the Jersey Shore were blown away. Amusement parks, arcades and restaurants all but vanished. Bridges to barrier islands buckled, preventing residents from even inspecting the damage to their property. 2. Waste or misapplication of the assets of a deceased person by an executor or administrator; devastavit. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: deviation Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle French deviation, from Medieval Latin deviatio. Morphologically deviate + -ion. Pronunciation: /ˌdiː.viˈeɪʃən/, /ˌdiviˈeɪʃən/, /ˌdiː.viˈæɪʃən/ 1. The act of deviating; wandering off the correct or true path or road. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. A departure from the correct way of acting. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The combination of Archie Jones’s working-class, Cockney accent, Samad’s Asian-English and Clara’s Creolized Caribbean English represent socio-linguistic deviations from Standard English as the centripetal forces of language undermining any notion of a homoglossic centre to the nation’s language and culture. 3. The state or result of having deviated; a transgression; an act of sin; an error; an offense. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: mankind’s deviation from divine will 4. A detour in a road or railway. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: "A rough place, my last district; sixty navvies on the Springbank deviation works, let alone eighty of these dole bugs to attend to." 5. A detour to one side of the originally-planned flightpath (for instance, to avoid weather); the act of making such a detour. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The flightcrew observed en route thunderstorms both visually and on the airplane's weather radar, so they requested and received clearance for a deviation to the left of course from the HNL Combined Center Radar Approach Control (CERAP). 6. The voluntary and unnecessary departure of a ship from, or delay in, the regular and usual course of the specific voyage insured, thus releasing the underwriters from their responsibility. Labels: countable, uncountable 7. The shortest distance between the center of the target and the point where a projectile hits or bursts. Labels: countable, uncountable 8. For interval variables and ratio variables, a measure of difference between the observed value and the mean. Labels: countable, uncountable 9. The signed difference between a value and its reference value. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: devout Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *de Proto-Indo-European *-h₁ Proto-Indo-European *déh₁ Proto-Italic *dē Latin dē Latin dē- Proto-Indo-European *h₁wegʷʰ- Proto-Indo-European *-yeti Proto-Indo-European *-éyeti Proto-Indo-European *h₁wogʷʰéyeti Proto-Italic *woɣʷeō Latin voveō Latin dēvoveō Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Italic *-tos Latin -tus Ecclesiastical Latin dēvōtusbor. Old French devotbor. Middle English devout English devout Inherited from Middle English devout. From Middle English devout, devot, from Old French devot (French dévot), from Latin dēvōtus, perfect passive participle of dēvōveō. Doublet of devote. Pronunciation: /dɪˈvaʊt/, /dəˈvʌʊt/ 1. Devoted to religion or to religious feelings and duties; pious; extremely religious; godly. Example: a devout man, and one that feared God Example: We must be constant and devout in the worship of our God. 2. Expressing devotion or piety. Labels: archaic Example: devout sighs; devout eyes; a devout posture 3. Warmly devoted; hearty; sincere; earnest. Example: devout wishes for one's welfare
Word: devout Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *de Proto-Indo-European *-h₁ Proto-Indo-European *déh₁ Proto-Italic *dē Latin dē Latin dē- Proto-Indo-European *h₁wegʷʰ- Proto-Indo-European *-yeti Proto-Indo-European *-éyeti Proto-Indo-European *h₁wogʷʰéyeti Proto-Italic *woɣʷeō Latin voveō Latin dēvoveō Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Italic *-tos Latin -tus Ecclesiastical Latin dēvōtusbor. Old French devotbor. Middle English devout English devout Inherited from Middle English devout. From Middle English devout, devot, from Old French devot (French dévot), from Latin dēvōtus, perfect passive participle of dēvōveō. Doublet of devote. Pronunciation: /dɪˈvaʊt/, /dəˈvʌʊt/ 1. A devotee. Labels: obsolete 2. A devotional composition, or part of a composition; a devotion. Labels: obsolete
Word: dhow Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Arabic دَاو (dāw). Pronunciation: /daʊ/ 1. A traditional sailing vessel used along the coasts of Arabia, East Africa, and the Indian Ocean, generally having a single mast and a lateen sail. Example: I suppose I must have slept for seven or eight hours, getting the first real rest that I had had since the night before the loss of the dhow, for when I woke the sun was high in the heavens. Example: Joshua continued preparing breakfast, Bijan returned to piloting the dhow offshore and Pourghasem returned to his watch.[…]Several dhows were on the water and some fishermen were already at work.
Word: diabetes Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin diabētēs (“siphon”), from Ancient Greek διαβήτης (diabḗtēs), from Ancient Greek διαβαίνω (diabaínō, “to pass through”). Pronunciation: /ˌdaɪəˈbiːtiːz/, /ˌdaɪəˈbiːtɪs/, /ˌdaɪəˈbitiz/, [ˌdaɪəˈbiɾiz], /ˌdaɪəˈbitɪs/ 1. Diabetes mellitus; any of a group of metabolic diseases whereby a person (or other animal) has high blood sugar due to an inability to produce, or inability to metabolize, sufficient quantities of the hormone insulin. Labels: uncountable Example: In the UK, one in 10 people over 40 live with type 2 diabetes, while one in four have high blood pressure, a condition described as a “silent killer” because it increases the risk of heart attack and stroke but rarely causes symptoms beforehand. 2. Any food or beverage with a high amount of sugar. Labels: humorous, slang, uncountable Example: This milkshake is pure diabetes, as my friends and I agreed on as a joke when we first came to Black Tap. 3. Diabetes insipidus; any condition characterized by excessive or incontinent urine, now specifically as caused by impaired production of, or response to, the antidiuretic hormone vasopressin. Labels: uncountable Example: A Sheeps or Goats bladder being burnt, and the ashes given inwardly, helps the Diabetes, or continuall pissing. Example: The lady laboured under a Diabetes, in consequence of having used the waters injudiciously for another complaint; and, that she might not be an impediment to the carriage, by ordering it to halt,as often as she should have occasion to disembogue, she had provided herself with a leathern contrivance […].
Word: dictation Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Late Latin dictātiō, noun of action from dictātus, the perfect passive participle of dictō. By surface analysis, dictate + -ion. Pronunciation: /dɪkˈteɪʃən/ 1. Dictating, the process of speaking for someone else to write down the words. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Since I learned shorthand, I can take dictation at eighty words a minute. 2. An activity in school where the teacher reads a passage aloud and the students write it down. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: We had reading and geography and Canadian history and dictation today. 3. The act of ordering or commanding. Labels: countable Example: ...jurors in England have formerly understood it to be their right and duty to judge only according to their consciences, and not to submit to any dictation from the court, either as to law or fact. 4. Orders given in an overbearing manner. Labels: uncountable Example: His habit, even with friends, was that of dictation.
Word: dictum Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin dictum (“proverb, maxim”), from dictus (“having been said”), perfect passive participle of dico (“to say”). Compare Spanish dicho (“saying”). Doublet of dict. Pronunciation: /ˈdɪk.təm/ 1. An authoritative statement; a dogmatic saying; a maxim, an apothegm. Example: This should not surprise us who know that van Gogh wrote: 'To paint and to love women is incompatible'; van Gogh was right for himself, which does not mean that he was right for everybody, and I will not draw from his dictum the probably incorrect conclusion that 'To paint and to love literature is incompatible.' Example: […]a dictum which he had heard an economics professor once propound[…] 2. A judicial opinion expressed by judges on points that do not necessarily arise in the case, and are not involved in it. 3. The report of a judgment made by one of the judges who has given it. 4. An arbitrament or award.
Word: differentiation Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁ Proto-Indo-European *d(w)is- Proto-Italic *dis- Latin dis- Proto-Indo-European *bʰer- Proto-Indo-European *bʰéreti Proto-Italic *ferō Latin ferō Latin differō Latin differēns Proto-Indo-European *-(i)yós Proto-Italic *-ijos Proto-Italic *-ios Old Latin -ios Latin -ius Latin -ia Latin differentia New Latin differentiō New Latin differentiātusbor. English differentiate Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *-Hō Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō Proto-Italic *-tiō Latin -tiō Latin -ātiōlbor. Old French -ationbor. Middle English -acioun English -ation English -ion English differentiation From differentiate + -ion, from different + -iate, from differ + -ent, from Middle English differen, from Old French differer, from Latin differō (“carry apart, put off, defer; differ”), from dis- (“apart”) + ferō (“carry, bear”); cognate with Ancient Greek διαφέρω (diaphérō, “to differ”). Pronunciation: /dɪf.əˌɹɛn.ʃiˈeɪ.ʃən/, /ˌdɪf.əˌɹɛn.ʃiˈeɪ.ʃən/, /dɪf.əˌɹen.ʃiˈæɪ.ʃən/, /dəf.əˌɹen.ʃiˈæɪ.ʃən/ 1. The act or process of differentiating (generally, without a specialized sense). Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The level of kinesthetic differentiations was established for every individual by using device called kinesthesiometer which allows testing in aquatic environment 2. The act or process of differentiating (generally, without a specialized sense). Labels: countable, uncountable 3. The process by which the components of multicellular life (cells, organs, etc.) are produced and acquire function, as when a seed develops the root and stem, and the initial stem develops the leaf, branches, and flower buds. Labels: countable, uncountable 4. The evolutionary process by which one taxonomic group (species, genus, variety, etc.) becomes distinct from another, or acquires distinct features; the result of such a process: distinctness. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Any hope that the pierines would help to define “the level at which r-K phenomena should be sought has been dashed: apparently species groups (or subgenera, or splitters' genera) are r- or K-selected in the holarctic, whereas in Tatochila the same amount of differentiation is found among populations in a complex in which the process of speciation has not yet been completed. 5. The process of separation of cooling magma into various rock types. Labels: countable, uncountable 6. The process of applying the derivative operator to a function; of calculating a function's derivative. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The integration and differentiation of vital function on the one hand, and the preparation and composition of food-material on the other hand form — as we will become fully aware further on — the two great divisions in the subject-matter of the science of organization, divisions corresponding to the fundamental biplicity of all advanced organization, its animal and its vegetative life.
Word: diffident Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin diffīdentem, present participle of diffīdere (“to mistrust”). Doublet of defiant. Pronunciation: /ˈdɪfɪdənt/ 1. Lacking confidence in others; distrustful. Labels: archaic 2. Lacking self-confidence; timid; modest Example: Having therefore—but hold, as we are diffident of our own abilities, let us here invite a superior power to our assistance. Example: Emma is spoiled by being the cleverest of her family. At ten years old, she had the misfortune of being able to answer questions which puzzled her sister at seventeen. She was always quick and assured: Isabella slow and diffident.
Word: digest Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English digesten, from Latin dīgestus, past participle of dīgerō (“carry apart”), from dī- (for dis- (“apart”)) + gerō (“to carry”), influenced by Middle French digestion. Partly displaced native Old English meltan (intransitive) and mieltan (transitive), both “to melt, to digest,” whence Modern English melt. Pronunciation: /daɪˈd͡ʒɛst/, /dəˈd͡ʒɛst/ 1. To distribute or arrange methodically; to work over and classify; to reduce to portions for ready use or application. Labels: transitive Example: to digest laws Example: joining them together and digesting them into order 2. To separate (the food) in its passage through the alimentary canal into the nutritive and nonnutritive elements; to prepare, by the action of the digestive juices, for conversion into blood; to convert into chyme. Labels: transitive Example: In the morning giue them [horses] barley or prouender, a little at a time in diſtinct or ſeueral portions, tvvice or thrice one after another, ſo as he may chevv and eke diſgeſt it thoroughly, othervviſe if he rauen it, as he vvil do hauing much at a time, he rendreth it in his dung vvhole and not diſgeſted. 3. To think over and arrange methodically in the mind; to reduce to a plan or method; to receive in the mind and consider carefully; to get an understanding of; to comprehend. Labels: transitive Example: Feelingly digest the words you speak in prayer. Example: How shall this bosom multiplied digest / The senate's courtesy? 4. To bear comfortably or patiently; to be reconciled to; to brook. Example: I never can digest the loss of most of Origen's works. 5. To expose to a gentle heat in a boiler or matrass, as a preparation for chemical operations. Labels: transitive 6. To undergo digestion. Labels: intransitive Example: I just ate an omelette and I'm waiting for it to digest. Example: I was at the Mathematical School, where the Maſter taught his Pupils after a Method ſcarce imaginable to us in Europe. The Propoſition and Demonſtration were fairly written on a thin Wafer, with Ink compoſed of a Cephalick Tincture. This the Student was to ſwallow upon a faſting Stomach, and for three days following eat nothing but Bread and Water. As the Wafer digeſted, the Tincture mounted to his Brain, bearing the Propoſition along with it. 7. To cut with one or more restriction endonucleases. Labels: transitive 8. To suppurate; to generate pus, as an ulcer. Labels: intransitive, obsolete Example: The Lips of the Abſceſs digeſted vvell, but from vvithin it onely gleeted, and thruſt out Fat, vvhich vve daily cut off vvithout the loſs of a drop of blood, and dreſſed up the Abſceſs vvith mundif. ex apio, continuing the uſe of diſcutient Fomentations and Cataplaſins. 9. To cause to suppurate, or generate pus, as an ulcer or wound. Labels: obsolete, transitive 10. To ripen; to mature. Labels: obsolete, transitive Example: well-digested fruits 11. To quieten or reduce (a negative feeling, such as anger or grief). Labels: obsolete, transitive
Word: digest Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin dīgesta, neuter plural of dīgestus, past participle of dīgerō (“separate”). Pronunciation: /ˈdaɪd͡ʒɛst/, /ˈdaɪd͡ʒəst/ 1. That which is digested; especially, that which is worked over, classified, and arranged under proper heads or titles. Example: By also relating the tales included in the anthology to various facts of that development, he leaves no doubt that this volume constitutes a veritable digest of the remarkable strides made by the genre in recent years. 2. A compilation of statutes or decisions analytically arranged; a summary of laws. Example: Comyn's Digest Example: the United States Digest 3. Any collection of articles, as an Internet mailing list including a week's postings, or a magazine arranging a collection of writings. Example: Reader's Digest is published monthly. Example: The weekly email digest contains all the messages exchanged during the past week. 4. The result of applying a hash function to a message.
Word: digestible Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Old French digestible, equivalent to digest + -ible. Pronunciation: /daɪˈdʒɛstəbəɫ/ 1. Capable of being digested. Labels: not-comparable
Word: digress Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Latin digressum, past participle of digredi. Pronunciation: /daɪˈɡɹɛs/, /dɪˈɡɹɛs/ 1. To step or turn aside; to deviate; to swerve; especially, to turn aside from the main subject of attention, or course of argument, in writing or speaking. Labels: intransitive Example: Moreover she beginneth to digress in latitude. Example: In the pursuit of an argument there is hardly room to digress into a particular definition as often as a man varies the signification of any term. 2. To turn aside from the right path; to transgress; to offend. Labels: intransitive Example: Thy overflow of good converts to bad; And thy abundant goodness shall excuse This deadly blot in thy digressing son.
Word: dilapidation Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From dilapidate. Pronunciation: /dəˌlæp.əˈdeɪ.ʃən/ 1. The state of being dilapidated, reduced to decay, partially ruined. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. The act of dilapidating, damaging a building or structure through neglect or intentionally. Labels: countable, uncountable 3. Ecclesiastical waste: impairing of church property by an incumbent, through neglect or intentionally. Labels: UK, countable, uncountable 4. Money paid at the end of an incumbency by the incumbent or his heirs for the purpose of putting the parsonage etc. in good repair for the succeeding incumbent. Labels: countable, in-plural, uncountable
Word: dilatation Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Old French dilatation, from Late Latin dīlātātio, early 15th c. Pronunciation: /ˌdaɪleɪˈteɪʃ(ə)n/, /dɪleɪˈteɪʃ(ə)n/, /ˌdaɪləˈteɪʃ(ə)n/ 1. Prolixity; diffuse discourse. Labels: uncountable, usually 2. The act of dilating; expansion; an enlarging on all sides; the state of being dilated Labels: uncountable, usually Example: These [boys being groomed as prostitutes] are sold by their parents (sometimes stolen from them), about the age of 4, and educated, while they are also subjected to a special physical training, which includes massage of the gluteal regions to favor development, dilatation of the anus, and epilation (which is not, however, practised by Chinese women). 3. A dilation or enlargement of a canal or other organ. Labels: uncountable, usually
Word: dilation Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From dilate + -ion, late 16th c. Pronunciation: /daɪˈleɪʃən/ 1. The act of dilating. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. State of being dilated; expansion; dilatation. Labels: countable, uncountable 3. Delay. Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable Example: The wise queen, however she might seem to have a fair opportunity offered to her suit, finds it not good to apprehend it too suddenly; as desiring by this small dilation to prepare the ear and heart of the king for so important a request 4. In morphology, a basic operation (denoted ⊕) that usually uses a structuring element for probing and expanding the shapes contained in the input image. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: dill Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English dile, from Old English dile (“dill, anise”); from Proto-Germanic *deliz, of uncertain, probably non-Indo-European origin, possibly a west European substrate. Cognate with Old Saxon dilli, Dutch dille, Swedish dill, German Dill. Pronunciation: /dɪl/ 1. Anethum graveolens (the type species of the genus Anethum), a herb, the seeds of which are moderately warming, pungent, and aromatic, formerly used as a soothing medicine for children; also known as dillseed. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The life of one plant would be affected by another. Rue was definitely hostile to basil, rosemary to hyssop, but coriander, dill and chervil lived on the friendliest of terms[.] Example: The importance of Nowruz is reflected in an elaborate sabzi polo, the herbed rice capped with a crunchy tahdig, the crust formed from lettuce, rice mixed with yogurt or lavash or another thin flatbread. On Wednesday night, I opted for sheveed polo, a simpler and quicker dill rice, but I can’t wait to nail that crunchy tahdig tonight. 2. A cucumber pickled with dill flavoring. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: dill Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English dile, from Old English dile (“dill, anise”); from Proto-Germanic *deliz, of uncertain, probably non-Indo-European origin, possibly a west European substrate. Cognate with Old Saxon dilli, Dutch dille, Swedish dill, German Dill. Pronunciation: /dɪl/ 1. To cook or flavor with dill. Example: My mother would pickle them and dill them, and we still had an abundance of fresh vegetables left.
Word: dill Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Variant of dull Pronunciation: /dɪl/ 1. To still; to assuage; to calm; to soothe, as one in pain. Example: The noise of the Queen's voyage to France is dilled down ; no money for her furniture will be got in haste; and the Cardinal has no will of her mother. Example: The innocent was punished. The gear is payed and the thieves dilled down.
Word: dill Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Perhaps a backformation from dilly (“silly”). Pronunciation: /dɪl/ 1. A fool. Labels: Australia, informal Example: He could go over and monster his way among the poms, but he was that drunk he'd probably only make a dill of himself.
Word: disarm Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English desarmen (“to divest of arms”), from Anglo-Norman desarmer. Pronunciation: /dɪsˈɑː(ɹ)m/, /dɪsˈɑɹm/ 1. To deprive of weapons; to deprive of the means of attack or defense; to render defenseless. Labels: transitive Example: [recreation of speech given in 1775] They tell us, sir, […] that we are weak―unable to cope with so formidable an adversary. But when shall we be stronger? […] Will it be when we are totally disarmed, and a British guard shall be stationed in every house? Example: The Japanese armored cruiser Nisshin has been hit badly. Shells have sheared off several main guns and virtually disarmed the vessel. In the middle of all this, one Ensign Isoroku Yamamoto loses two fingers to the remains of an explosion. 2. To deprive of the means or the disposition to harm; to render harmless or innocuous. Labels: transitive Example: to disarm a man's wrath Example: ON THE NARROW GAUGE. By P. B. Whitehouse. Nelson 30s. [...] In an introductory note Mr. Whitehouse disarms any criticism from narrow-gauge aficionados as immersed in the subject as himself by pointing out that his book has no pretensions to the status of a new narrow-gauge textbook; [...]. 3. To lay down arms; to stand down. Labels: intransitive 4. To reduce one's own military forces. Labels: intransitive 5. To render into a state in which something is no longer armed, or prepared for use (such as to disable the security systems on). Labels: transitive Example: You can open and close all the doors you want during this delay. Just keep in mind that if you have to re-enter, and it has been close to a minute, you may want to disarm and then re-arm just to be on the safe side.
Word: disarm Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English desarmen (“to divest of arms”), from Anglo-Norman desarmer. Pronunciation: /dɪsˈɑː(ɹ)m/, /dɪsˈɑɹm/ 1. The act of depriving a person of a weapon they carry. Example: As a brief background, the gun disarms originally taught to S.A.C. Airmen as part of the Combative Measures program were taken from Kodokan Goshin-Jutsu.
Word: disarray Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English disareyen (“to disarray”), from Middle French desarroyer, from Old French desareer, from des- (“dis-”) + areer (“to array”). Pronunciation: /dɪsəˈɹeɪ/ 1. To throw into disorder; to break the array of. Labels: transitive Example: Who with fiery steeds / Oft disarray'd the foes in battle ranged. 2. To take off the dress of; to unrobe. Labels: transitive Example: So as she bad, that witch they disaraid
Word: disarray Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English disareyen (“to disarray”), from Middle French desarroyer, from Old French desareer, from des- (“dis-”) + areer (“to array”). Pronunciation: /dɪsəˈɹeɪ/ 1. A lack of array or regular order; disorder; confusion. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: So, in order to apply a good medicine to the hurt parts of the wildish psyche, in order to aright relationship to the archetype of the Wild Woman, one has to name the disarrays of the psyche accurately. Example: Tottenham pushed forward in an attempt to complete the recovery - but only succeeded in leaving themselves wide open to Chelsea's attacks and Redknapp's side ended in total disarray. 2. Confused attire; undress; dishabille. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: disavow Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From dis- + avow, or from Old French desavouer. Pronunciation: /dɪsəˈvaʊ/ 1. To strongly and solemnly refuse to own or acknowledge; to deny responsibility for, approbation of, and the like. Labels: transitive Example: He was charged with embezzlement, but he disavows the crime. 2. To deny; to show the contrary of; to deny legitimacy or achievement of any kind. Labels: transitive Example: Because of her dissatisfaction, she now disavows the merits of socialism.
Word: disbar Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁ Proto-Indo-European *d(w)is- Proto-Italic *dis- Latin dis- Old French des-bor. ▲ Latin dis-bor. Middle English dis- English dis- English bar English disbar From dis- + bar. Pronunciation: /dɪsˈbɑː(ɹ)/ 1. To expel from the bar, or the legal profession; to deprive (an attorney, barrister, or counselor) of his or her status and privileges as such. Labels: transitive 2. To exclude (a person) from something. Labels: transitive Example: The friends of Holmes have been criticising the action of the board in disbarring him on the ground that it was too severe […]
Word: disburse Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Old French desbourser (Modern French débourser). By surface analysis, dis- + burse (“purse”). Pronunciation: /dɪsˈbɝs/, [dɪsˈpɝs] 1. To pay out, expend; usually from a public fund or treasury. Example: The consequent traffic is so grave that, last year, councils in England and Wales demanded that the government disburse £1bn a year to them so they could repair roads and tackle congestion.
Word: disc Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Ancient Greek δίσκος (dískos)der. Latin discusbor. French disquebor. English disc From French disque, from Latin discus, from Ancient Greek δίσκος (dískos, “disk, quoit, platter”). Doublet of dais, desk, discus, dish, disk, and diskos. Pronunciation: /dɪsk/ 1. A thin, flat, circular plate or similar object. Example: A coin is a disc of metal. Example: ; the top one is acted on by the spindle and disc d, moved by the lever e; 2. An intervertebral disc. 3. Something resembling a disc. Example: Venus's disc cut off light from the Sun. Example: [A] peculiar luminous and sinuous marking appeared on the unillumined half of the inner planet, and almost simultaneously a faint dark mark of a similar sinuous character was detected upon a photograph of the Martian disc. 4. A vinyl phonograph or gramophone record. Example: Turn the disc over, after it has finished. 5. The flat surface of an organ, as a leaf, any flat, round growth. 6. Ellipsis of flying disc; synonym of frisbee; generic name for the trademark Frisbee. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis 7. Alternative form of disk Labels: alt-of, alternative