nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: fourth Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Inherited from Middle English fourthe, an alteration (due to four) of ferthe, from Old English fēorþa, fēowerþa, from Proto-West Germanic *feurþō, from Proto-Germanic *fedurþô, equivalent to four + -th (ordinal suffix). Cognates Compare West Frisian fjirde, Saterland Frisian fjädde, fjoode, Dutch vierde, German Low German feerde, feerd, German vierte, Danish fjerde, Icelandic fjórði. Pronunciation: /fɔːθ/, /fɔɹθ/, /fo(ː)ɹθ/, /foəθ/ 1. To agree with a proposition or statement after it has already been thirded. Labels: informal Example: If he remembered rightly what took place in the House on the first night of the session, the Attorney General would have to file an information, not only against the noble Lord who proposed the address, and the hon. Member for London who seconded it, but also against the hon. Member who thirded, and the noble Lord who fourthed it, and indeed against every Member in the House. Example: A lisping young “Soundings,” or master’s assistant, sung out “I thecond the mothon,” instantly transferring his beer to our hero’s face. In short the resolution was thirded, fourthed, fifthed, and sixthed, all following suit with the swipes:[…]
Word: third Part of Speech: adj Etymology: PIE word *tréyes From Middle English thirde, thridde, from Old English þridda, from Proto-Germanic *þridjô, from Pre-Germanic *tretyós, a remodeling of Proto-Indo-European *tr̥tyós. Pronunciation: /θɜːd/, /θɚd/, /θɪɹd/, /θøːd/, /θeːd/ 1. The ordinal form of the cardinal number three; Coming after the second. Labels: not-comparable Example: The third tree from the left is my favorite. Example: The second and third quarters of the shield are indecipherable on the stone but clearer in two other representations of the arms, a painted wooden funeral hatchment for Mary Davie[…]
Word: third Part of Speech: noun Etymology: PIE word *tréyes From Middle English thirde, thridde, from Old English þridda, from Proto-Germanic *þridjô, from Pre-Germanic *tretyós, a remodeling of Proto-Indo-European *tr̥tyós. Pronunciation: /θɜːd/, /θɚd/, /θɪɹd/, /θøːd/, /θeːd/ 1. The person or thing in the third position. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Jones came in third. 2. One of three equal parts of a whole. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: He ate a third of the pie. Divided by two-thirds. Example: Around a third of both Black and White respondents said they believed the opposition Labour Party to be institutionally racist. 3. Ellipsis of third gear (of a gearbox). Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis, uncountable Example: Now put it into third. 4. An interval consisting of the first and third notes in a scale. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: They sing in thirds. 5. third base Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The play ended with Jones standing on third. 6. A handicap of one stroke every third hole. Labels: countable, uncountable 7. A third-class degree, awarded to the lowest achievers in an honours degree programme Labels: countable, uncountable 8. One sixtieth of a second, i.e., the third in a series of fractional parts in a sexagesimal number system. Labels: archaic, countable, uncountable Example: […] thirds (sixtieths of seconds), fourths (sixtieths of thirds) and so on, but then it becomes very cumbersome.
Word: third Part of Speech: verb Etymology: PIE word *tréyes From Middle English thirde, thridde, from Old English þridda, from Proto-Germanic *þridjô, from Pre-Germanic *tretyós, a remodeling of Proto-Indo-European *tr̥tyós. Pronunciation: /θɜːd/, /θɚd/, /θɪɹd/, /θøːd/, /θeːd/ 1. To agree with a proposition or statement after it has already been seconded. Labels: informal 2. To divide into three equal parts.
Word: fifth Part of Speech: adj Etymology: PIE word *pénkʷe From Middle English fifthe, fifte, fift, from Old English fīfta (“fifth”), from Proto-Germanic *fimftô (“fifth”) or *femftô, equivalent to five + -th (ordinal suffix). Cognate with Scots fift, fyft (“fifth”), North Frisian fyfde (“fifth”), West Frisian fyfde (“fifth”), Dutch vijfde (“fifth”), Low German fifte, föfte, füfte (“fifth”), German fünfte (“fifth”), Danish femte (“fifth”), Swedish femte (“fifth”), Icelandic fimmta (“fifth”). Pronunciation: /fɪfθ/, /fɪθ/, /fɪft/ 1. The ordinal form of the number five. Labels: not-comparable Example: On Friday, at a former Michelin factory in the north-east of the city, the finishing touches were being put in place for the fifth Dundee design festival, which opens on Monday.
Word: fifth Part of Speech: noun Etymology: PIE word *pénkʷe From Middle English fifthe, fifte, fift, from Old English fīfta (“fifth”), from Proto-Germanic *fimftô (“fifth”) or *femftô, equivalent to five + -th (ordinal suffix). Cognate with Scots fift, fyft (“fifth”), North Frisian fyfde (“fifth”), West Frisian fyfde (“fifth”), Dutch vijfde (“fifth”), Low German fifte, föfte, füfte (“fifth”), German fünfte (“fifth”), Danish femte (“fifth”), Swedish femte (“fifth”), Icelandic fimmta (“fifth”). Pronunciation: /fɪfθ/, /fɪθ/, /fɪft/ 1. The person or thing in the fifth position. 2. The person or thing in the fifth position. Labels: ellipsis 3. One of five equal parts of a whole: one-fifth. 4. A quantity of liquor equal to one-fifth of an American gallon, or, more commonly, 750 milliliters (that is, three quarters of a liter). Labels: US 5. The musical interval between one note and another five scale degrees higher (the fifth note in a scale) Example: Now I've heard there was a secret chord / That David played, and it pleased the Lord / But you don't really care for music, do ya? / It goes like this, the fourth, the fifth 6. The fifth voice in a polyphonic melody.
Word: fifth Part of Speech: verb Etymology: PIE word *pénkʷe From Middle English fifthe, fifte, fift, from Old English fīfta (“fifth”), from Proto-Germanic *fimftô (“fifth”) or *femftô, equivalent to five + -th (ordinal suffix). Cognate with Scots fift, fyft (“fifth”), North Frisian fyfde (“fifth”), West Frisian fyfde (“fifth”), Dutch vijfde (“fifth”), Low German fifte, föfte, füfte (“fifth”), German fünfte (“fifth”), Danish femte (“fifth”), Swedish femte (“fifth”), Icelandic fimmta (“fifth”). Pronunciation: /fɪfθ/, /fɪθ/, /fɪft/ 1. To sing in the fifth voice in a polyphonic melody. Example: Another extension of strict organum is 'fifthing'. Fifthing is a note-against- note method of creating a two-part texture by improvising a second voice over the given tune, starting and ending each musical phrase at the octave and proceeding mainly in fifths above the tune at others times. Example: Each of these three groups contributes some special insight into the nature of fifthing and the context in which it was practiced. 2. To support something fifth, after four others have already done so. Labels: informal, transitive Example: A lisping young “Soundings,” or master’s assistant, sung out “I thecond the mothon,” instantly transferring his beer to our hero’s face. In short the resolution was thirded, fourthed, fifthed, and sixthed, all following suit with the swipes:[…] Example: It was then moved, seconded, thirded, fourthed, and fifthed, “that Jarman be, and is hereby hung, and ought to be kicked.” 3. To divide by five. Labels: nonstandard, transitive Example: 3/5 has been through fifthing. 2/3 has been through thirding. Therefore, 3/5 now needs thirding and 2/3 needs fifthing
Word: metaphysics Part of Speech: noun Etymology: 1560s; plural of metaphysic, from Middle English methaphesik, methaphisik, methaphisique, metaphesyk, methafisik, metaphesyk, methephysyk, from Old French metafisique, methaphisique and Medieval Latin metaphysica, methephisica, from Byzantine Greek μεταφυσικά (metaphusiká), from the title of the collection by Aristotle μετὰ τὰ φυσικά (metà tà phusiká, “Following The Natural World”), a collection that comes after (μετά (metá)) Aristotle's collection entitled τὰ φυσικά (tà phusiká, “The Natural World”), from φυσικός (phusikós, “natural”). By surface analysis, meta- + physics. Pronunciation: /mɛtəˈfɪzɪks/ 1. The branch of philosophy which studies fundamental principles intended to describe or explain all that is, and which are not themselves explained by anything more fundamental; the study of first principles; the study of being insofar as it is being (Latin: ens in quantum ens). Labels: uncountable Example: The late philosopher Morris R. Cohen of CCNY was asked by a student in the metaphysics course, "Professor Cohen how do I know that I exist?" The keen old prof replied, "And who is asking?" Example: Philosophers sometimes say that metaphysics is the study of the ultimate nature of the universe. 2. The view or theory of a particular philosopher or school of thinkers concerning the first principles which describe or explain all that is. Labels: countable Example: The metaphysics of Thomas Aquinas holds that all real beings have both essence and existence. Example: In Aristotelian metaphysics physical objects have both form and matter. 3. The metalogic of physics; the logical framework of physics. Labels: broadly, uncountable Example: Even other universes should be a result of different physics. Without rules, these universes wouldn't exist, because they will have an undefined, thus impossible, nature. We will never understand or guess all possible forms of physics. That's why we have to understand the generic metaphysics. 4. Any fundamental principles or rules. Labels: broadly, uncountable Example: The metaphysics of global power has changed. Markets are now more valuable than territory. 5. The study of a supersensual realm or of phenomena which transcend the physical world. Labels: uncountable Example: I have a collection of books on metaphysics, covering astral projection, reincarnation, and communication with spirits. 6. Displeasingly abstruse, complex material on any subject. Labels: derogatory, uncountable Example: This political polemic strikes me as a protracted piece of overwrought, fog-shrouded metaphysics!
Word: metaphysics Part of Speech: noun Etymology: 1560s; plural of metaphysic, from Middle English methaphesik, methaphisik, methaphisique, metaphesyk, methafisik, metaphesyk, methephysyk, from Old French metafisique, methaphisique and Medieval Latin metaphysica, methephisica, from Byzantine Greek μεταφυσικά (metaphusiká), from the title of the collection by Aristotle μετὰ τὰ φυσικά (metà tà phusiká, “Following The Natural World”), a collection that comes after (μετά (metá)) Aristotle's collection entitled τὰ φυσικά (tà phusiká, “The Natural World”), from φυσικός (phusikós, “natural”). By surface analysis, meta- + physics. Pronunciation: /mɛtəˈfɪzɪks/ 1. plural of metaphysic Labels: form-of, plural
Word: SARS Part of Speech: noun 1. Acronym of severe acute respiratory syndrome; also Sars. Labels: abbreviation, acronym, alt-of, uncountable Example: SARS set off a panic about global spread and contagion. Example: Coronaviruses are worrying because epidemics caused by other members of the viral family, SARS and MERS, have had high death rates: 10 percent for SARS, and about 35 percent for MERS.
Word: SARS Part of Speech: name 1. Initialism of Special Anti-Robbery Squad, a Nigerian police unit known for police brutality and corruption. Labels: Nigeria, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism 2. Initialism of South African Revenue Service. Labels: South-Africa, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Word: Chinese Part of Speech: name Etymology: From China + -ese under influence of Portuguese chinês, replacing older Chinish. Doublet of chinois. In its orientalist sense of "generically exotic, backwards, or poorly organized", sometimes a deliberate marketing strategy to increase sales, as with the German Chinese checkers. In its sense related to the orientation of stage lighting's barn doors, a reference to a supposed resemblance to East Asian eyes. Pronunciation: /t͡ʃaɪˈniːz/, /ˈt͡ʃaɪniːz/, /ˌt͡ʃaɪˈniz/, /ˈt͡ʃaɪˌniz/, /ˌt͡ʃʌɪˈniz/ 1. The Standard Chinese language, written in Chinese characters and spoken and spelled using Standard Mandarin pronunciation. Labels: uncountable Example: 你好 is read “Nǐ hǎo” and means “Hello” in Chinese. Example: The resulting Belter creole is a crazy mix of English, Chinese, romance languages like French, German, Persian, Hebrew, Zulu, and a few other surprises. Farmer says he has over 1,000 Belter words in his personal dictionary, and he keeps adding more as the show’s producers and fans request them. 2. The branch of the Sino-Tibetan language family including Mandarin, Cantonese, Shanghainese, Southern Min, and other closely related language varieties and dialects. Labels: uncountable Example: Suzhounese and Hakka are lesser-known varieties of Chinese. 3. The logographic writing system shared by most Sinitic languages. Labels: uncountable Example: Hong Kong still uses traditional Chinese.
Word: Chinese Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From China + -ese under influence of Portuguese chinês, replacing older Chinish. Doublet of chinois. In its orientalist sense of "generically exotic, backwards, or poorly organized", sometimes a deliberate marketing strategy to increase sales, as with the German Chinese checkers. In its sense related to the orientation of stage lighting's barn doors, a reference to a supposed resemblance to East Asian eyes. Pronunciation: /t͡ʃaɪˈniːz/, /ˈt͡ʃaɪniːz/, /ˌt͡ʃaɪˈniz/, /ˈt͡ʃaɪˌniz/, /ˌt͡ʃʌɪˈniz/ 1. A native, inhabitant, or citizen of China, particularly of the People's Republic of China. Labels: countable, in-plural Example: The Chinese have an incredible history. Example: If the Chinese were a people like the Russians, the Germans or the French, we (I address chiefly American and British readers) would observe any marked increase in their industrial activity or in their national aggressiveness with some misgiving, possibly, but […] 2. A member of the Han Chinese ethnic group, whether in China or overseas. Labels: countable, in-plural Example: The Chinese are present in all parts of the world. Example: And the Iaponians, are longer liv’d, than the Chineſes; […] 3. Ellipsis of Chinese cuisine. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis, uncountable Example: Please don't eat the Chinese. I'm saving it for later. Example: "Do you like to eat Chinese? 4. Ellipsis of Chinese meal (“meal consisting of Chinese cuisine”). Labels: UK, abbreviation, alt-of, colloquial, countable, ellipsis Example: We're going out tonight for a Chinese. 5. Ellipsis of Chinese restaurant (“restaurant serving Chinese cuisine”). Labels: UK, abbreviation, alt-of, colloquial, countable, ellipsis Example: Want to go to the Chinese after work?
Word: trumpet Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English trumpet, trumpette, trompette (“trumpet”), from Old French trompette (“trumpet”), diminutive of trompe (“horn, trump, trumpet”), from Frankish *trumpa, *trumba (“trumpet”), ultimately imitative. Cognate with Old High German trumpa, trumba (“horn, trumpet”), Middle Dutch tromme (“drum”), Middle Low German trumme (“drum”), Old Norse trumba (“pipe; trumpet”). More at drum. Displaced native English beme, from Middle English beme, from Old English bīeme. Pronunciation: /ˈtɹʌmpɪt/ 1. A musical instrument of the brass family, generally tuned to the key of B-flat; by extension, any type of lip-vibrated aerophone, most often valveless and not chromatic. Example: The royal herald sounded a trumpet to announce their arrival. Example: In trumpets for assisting the hearing, all reverbation of the trumpet must be avoided. It must be made thick, of the least elastic materials, and covered with cloth externally. For all reverbation lasts for a short time, and produces new sounds which mix with those which are coming in. 2. Someone who plays the trumpet; a trumpeter. Example: The trumpets were assigned to stand at the rear of the orchestra pit. Example: Next day, he sent a trumpet to the general, with a detail of my misfortune, in hopes of retrieving what I had lost […]. 3. The cry of an elephant, or any similar loud cry. Example: The large bull gave a basso trumpet as he charged the hunters. 4. One who praises, or propagates praise, or is the instrument of propagating it. Labels: figuratively Example: I will the banner from a trumpet take Example: That great politician was pleased to have the greatest wit of those times […] to be the trumpet of his praises. 5. A funnel, or short flaring pipe, used as a guide or conductor, as for yarn in a knitting machine. 6. A kind of traffic interchange involving at least one loop ramp connecting traffic either entering or leaving the terminating expressway with the far lanes of the continuous highway. Example: The result of adopting the latter principle would be that even unimportant T-junctions would be in the form of trumpets or half-cloverleaf junctions. 7. A powerful reed stop in organs, having a trumpet-like sound. 8. Any of various flowering plants with trumpet-shaped flowers, for example, of the genus Collomia. 9. A supporter of Donald Trump, especially a fervent one. Labels: US, capitalized, often, slang
Word: trumpet Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English trumpet, trumpette, trompette (“trumpet”), from Old French trompette (“trumpet”), diminutive of trompe (“horn, trump, trumpet”), from Frankish *trumpa, *trumba (“trumpet”), ultimately imitative. Cognate with Old High German trumpa, trumba (“horn, trumpet”), Middle Dutch tromme (“drum”), Middle Low German trumme (“drum”), Old Norse trumba (“pipe; trumpet”). More at drum. Displaced native English beme, from Middle English beme, from Old English bīeme. Pronunciation: /ˈtɹʌmpɪt/ 1. To sound loudly, be amplified Labels: intransitive Example: The music trumpeted from the speakers, hurting my ears. 2. To play the trumpet. Labels: intransitive Example: Cedric made a living trumpeting for the change of passersby in the subway. 3. Of an elephant, to make its cry. Labels: ambitransitive Example: The circus trainer cracked the whip, signaling the elephant to trumpet. Example: The other, standing nearly head-on toward the hunters, had not proved so good a mark, and though every spear struck not one entered the great heart. For a moment the huge bull stood trumpeting in rage and pain, casting about with its little eyes for the author of its hurt. 4. To give a loud cry like that of an elephant. Labels: ambitransitive Example: The bird trumpeted a second time. Dinah listened to the echo die around her. 5. To proclaim loudly; to promote enthusiastically Labels: transitive Example: Andy trumpeted Jane's secret across the school, much to her embarrassment. Example: They did nothing but publish and trumpet all the reproaches they could devise against the Irish.
Word: tuba Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed in the 19th century from French tuba (“tuba”), German Tuba (“tuba”), originally Baß-Tuba (literally “bass tuba”), or Italian tuba (“tuba”), from Latin tuba (“tube, trumpet, military trumpet”). The Latin term is of obscure ultimate origin, but is possibly connected to tībia (“shinbone, reed-pipe”); see there. Pronunciation: /ˈtjuː.bə/, /ˈtu.bə/ 1. A large brass musical instrument, usually in the bass range, played through a vibration of the lips upon the mouthpiece and fingering of the keys. Example: One version of the large tuba, popular in marching bands, is called a sousaphone in honor of bandsman John Philip Sousa. 2. A large reed stop in organs.
Word: tuba Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin tuba. Pronunciation: /ˈtʊ.bə/ 1. A tube or tubular organ. Example: Compared with skulls of darwini, skulls of andium are smaller with shorter tooth rows (fig. 13), have less globular bullae that taper more gradually to the tubae, and a shorter, proportionately narrower rostrum with nasals usually relatively blunt behind and seldom projecting posteriorly far behind the premaxillae (pl. 11). 2. A type of Roman military trumpet, distinct from the modern tuba. Example: From the eleventh century onwards, the trumpets, which had till then been modelled on the Roman tubae with their straightforward and somewhat rough sound, began to grow longer and thinner as their bells widened. Example: This depicts trumpet blowing angels gripping instruments, of the Roman tubae variety, halfway down with the right hand, the left hand covering their mouth and the mouthpiece.
Word: tuba Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Austronesian *tubah Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *tubah Proto-Malayic *tuba Malay tubabor. English tuba Borrowed from Malay tuba. 1. A Malayan plant whose roots are a significant source of rotenone, Derris malaccensis. Labels: uncountable
Word: tuba Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Tagalog tuba. Pronunciation: /tuˈbə/, /tuˈbaʔ/ 1. A reddish palm wine made from coconut or nipa sap. Labels: Philippines, uncountable
Word: cowbell Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From cow + bell. Pronunciation: /ˈkaʊˌbɛl/ 1. A bell worn by cows; sometimes with an ornate strap. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. A musical instrument, typically found without a clapper. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: This song would sound better with the addition of a cowbell. Example: It's good, but it really needs more cowbell. 3. Misconstruction of bell cow. Labels: alt-of, countable, misconstruction, uncountable Example: The Eagles don't have a cow-bell running back, like Gurley, but they have enough by-committee.
Word: clapper Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English clap 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 clapper From clap + -er. Pronunciation: /ˈklæpɚ/ 1. One who claps; a person who applauds by clapping the hands. 2. An object so suspended inside a bell that it may hit the bell and cause it to ring; a clanger or tongue. 3. A wooden mechanical device used as a scarecrow; bird-scaring rattle, a wind-rattle or a wind-clapper. Example: "Sir, sir! folks' tongues go like the clappers in the fields to drive away the blackbirds. A very little wind makes 'em rattle wonderfully." 4. A clapstick (musical instrument). 5. A pounding block. 6. The chattering damsel of a mill. 7. A slapshot 8. The hinged part of a clapperboard, used to synchronise images and soundtrack, or the clapperboard itself. 9. A person's tongue. Labels: slang Example: Emilia 'tis true could use her clapper with great Dexterity, but he had the same advantages against her, which this had against him; Olimpia 's Tongue was also well hung but she ever had reason on her side, which he with reason could never either blame or oppose, and by both these came his Fortune: […]
Word: clapper Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree English clap 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 clapper From clap + -er. Pronunciation: /ˈklæpɚ/ 1. To ring a bell by pulling a rope attached to the clapper. Labels: transitive Example: It is still necessary to warn clergymen against allowing the lazy and pernicious practice of 'clappering,' i.e. tying the bell-rope to the clapper, and pulling it instead of the bell. 2. To make a repetitive clapping sound; to clatter. 3. Of birds, to make such a noise by repeatedly striking the mandibles together. Example: [W]hile he was away Hinzelmann began suddenly to clapper in the ladies' chamber like a stork, and then said, "Maid Anne, you much go look for your things to-day in the mill-stream."
Word: clapper Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from French clapier. Pronunciation: /ˈklæpɚ/ 1. A rabbit burrow. Labels: obsolete Example: Poore cunnie so bagged, Is soone overlagged Plash burrow, set clapper, For dog is a snapper
Word: cane Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Akkadian 𒂵𒉡𒌑𒌝 (qanûm)bor. Ancient Greek κᾰ́ννᾰ (kắnnă)bor. Latin canna Old French canebor. Middle English cane English cane From Middle English cane, canne, from Old French cane (“sugar cane”), from Latin canna (“reed”), from Ancient Greek κάννα (kánna), from Akkadian 𒄀 (qanû, “reed”). Doublet of canna and kaneh. Related to channel and canal. Pronunciation: /keɪn/ 1. A plant with simple stems, like bamboo or sugar cane, or the stem thereof: Labels: uncountable 2. A plant with simple stems, like bamboo or sugar cane, or the stem thereof: Labels: uncountable 3. A plant with simple stems, like bamboo or sugar cane, or the stem thereof: Labels: uncountable Example: Still, a dozen men with rifles, and cartridges to match, stayed behind when they filed through a white aldea lying silent amid the cane, and the Sin Verguenza swung into slightly quicker stride. 4. A plant with simple stems, like bamboo or sugar cane, or the stem thereof: Labels: Southern, US, countable, uncountable 5. The stem of such a plant adapted for use as a tool: Labels: countable Example: He stalked behind her simple narrative, a kill-joy parent, hasty, intolerant, keeping a special cane to enforce the authority of his sadistic God[.] 6. The stem of such a plant adapted for use as a tool: Labels: countable, uncountable, with-definite-article Example: The teacher gave his student the cane for throwing paper. 7. The stem of such a plant adapted for use as a tool: Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Judgelike thou sitt'st, to praise or to arraign / The flying skirmish of the darted cane. 8. A rod-shaped tool or device, resembling the stem of the plant: Labels: countable Example: After breaking his leg, he needed a cane to walk. Example: The cane was undoubtedly of foreign make, for it had a solid silver ferrule at one end, which was not English hall–marked. 9. A rod-shaped tool or device, resembling the stem of the plant: Labels: countable 10. A rod-shaped tool or device, resembling the stem of the plant: Labels: countable 11. Split rattan, as used in wickerwork and basketry. Labels: uncountable Example: The bed was the most extravagant piece. Its graceful cane halftester rose high towards the cornice and was so festooned in carved white wood that the effect was positively insecure, as if the great couch were trimmed with icing sugar. 12. A local European measure of length; the canna. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: cane Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Akkadian 𒂵𒉡𒌑𒌝 (qanûm)bor. Ancient Greek κᾰ́ννᾰ (kắnnă)bor. Latin canna Old French canebor. Middle English cane English cane From Middle English cane, canne, from Old French cane (“sugar cane”), from Latin canna (“reed”), from Ancient Greek κάννα (kánna), from Akkadian 𒄀 (qanû, “reed”). Doublet of canna and kaneh. Related to channel and canal. Pronunciation: /keɪn/ 1. To strike or beat with a cane or similar implement. 2. To make or furnish with cane or rattan. Labels: transitive Example: to cane chairs Example: In colonial days, threesquare was used to cane chair seats. 3. To destroy; to comprehensively defeat. Labels: New-Zealand, UK, slang Example: Mudchester Rovers were caned 10-0. 4. To do something well, in a competent fashion. Labels: New-Zealand, UK, slang 5. To go very fast. Labels: UK, slang 6. To produce extreme pain. Labels: Australia, UK, intransitive, slang Example: Don’t hit me with that. It really canes! Example: Mate, my legs cane!
Word: tempo Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Italian tempo, from Latin tempus (“time”). Doublet of tense. (truck or cargo van): A genericized trademark, originally associated with the manufacturer Vidal & Sohn Tempo-Werke GmbH. Pronunciation: /ˈtɛm.pəʊ/, /ˈtɛm.poʊ/ 1. A frequency or rate. Example: 10 calls per hour isn't a bad start, but we'll need to up the tempo if we want to reach our target of selling insurance policies. 2. A move which is part of one's own plan or strategy and forces, e.g. by means of a check or attacking a piece, the opponent to make a move which is not bad but of no use (the player gains a tempo, the opponent loses a tempo), or equivalently a player achieves the same result in fewer moves by one approach rather than another. 3. The timing advantage of being on lead, thus being first to initiate a strategy to develop tricks for one's side. 4. The timing of a particular event – earlier or later than in an alternative situation. Example: the tempo effect in fertility measurements 5. The number of beats per minute in a piece of music; also, an indicative term denoting approximate rate of speed in written music (examples: allegro, andante) Example: The conductor asked the orchestra to increase the tempo. Example: The song has a slow tempo that makes it relaxing. 6. The steady pace set by the frontmost riders. 7. A small truck or cargo van with three or four wheels, commonly used for commercial transport and deliveries (particularly in Asian and African countries). Example: From the back door of a tempo with his too-strong hands he lifted a woman wearing red clothes, like a precious jewel wrapped in gold embroidered cloth. 8. A rapid rate of play by the offense resulting from reducing the amount of time which elapses after one play ends and the next starts.
Word: tempo Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Clipping of temporary. Pronunciation: /ˈtɛm.pəʊ/, /ˈtɛm.poʊ/ 1. A temporary carport.
Word: sixth Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From earlier sixt, from Middle English sixte, from Old English siexta, from Proto-Germanic *sehstô. By surface analysis, six + -th (ordinal suffix). Pronunciation: /sɪksθ/, [sɪkθ], [sɪk(s)t̪], [sɪks] 1. The ordinal form of the number six. Labels: not-comparable Example: And * God ſaw euery thing that hee had made : and behold, it was very good. And the euening and the moꝛning were the ſixth day. Example: Dr. Ridpath, in his usual happy manner, thanked the Executive Committee and the various members of the Association who had so earnestly cooperated with him in the work of the Sixth Annual Meeting now drawing to a close.
Word: sixth Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From earlier sixt, from Middle English sixte, from Old English siexta, from Proto-Germanic *sehstô. By surface analysis, six + -th (ordinal suffix). Pronunciation: /sɪksθ/, [sɪkθ], [sɪk(s)t̪], [sɪks] 1. The person or thing in the sixth position. 2. One of six equal parts of a whole. Example: On the moon, however the weight of a pound-mass (lb or lbm) is only about one sixth of a pound-force (lbf). 3. The interval between one note and another, five notes higher in the scale; for example C to A, a major sixth, or C to A flat, a minor sixth.
Word: sixth Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From earlier sixt, from Middle English sixte, from Old English siexta, from Proto-Germanic *sehstô. By surface analysis, six + -th (ordinal suffix). Pronunciation: /sɪksθ/, [sɪkθ], [sɪk(s)t̪], [sɪks] 1. To divide by six, equivalent to multiplying a denominator by six. Labels: informal, nonstandard, rare Example: Why would anyone use sixthing when any (N − a²) divisible by 6 would also be divisible by 3? The answer is that sometimes the numerator and/or the denominator is simpler in sixthing,
Word: seventh Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English seventhe, sefte, from Old English seofoþa, from Proto-West Germanic *sebundō, from Proto-Germanic *sebundô. The -n-, lost in northern Proto-West Germanic, was later reinserted by analogy with seven, equivalent to seven + -th. Pronunciation: /ˈsɛvnθ/, /ˈsɛvənθ/ 1. The ordinal form of the number seven. Labels: not-comparable Example: Sozomenus who wrote above twelve hundred years agoe, in his Seaventh Book relates from his own knowledge, that in the Churches of Cyprus and Arabia (places neer to Jeruſalem, and with the firſt frequented by Apoſtles) they had Biſhops in every Village ; and what could thoſe be more then Preſbyters? Example: [H]e, a lollard indeed over his elbovv-cuſhion, in almoſt the ſeaventh part of 40. or 50. years teaches them ſcarce half the principles of religion; and his ſheep oft-times ſit the vvhile to as little purpoſe of benifiting as the ſheep in thir pues at Smithfield; […]
Word: seventh Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English seventhe, sefte, from Old English seofoþa, from Proto-West Germanic *sebundō, from Proto-Germanic *sebundô. The -n-, lost in northern Proto-West Germanic, was later reinserted by analogy with seven, equivalent to seven + -th. Pronunciation: /ˈsɛvnθ/, /ˈsɛvənθ/ 1. The person or thing in the seventh position. Example: He departs with the significant announcement that he will post at the gates six defenders, with himself as the seventh. 2. One of seven equal parts of a whole. 3. A tone of the seventh degree from a given tone, the interval between two such tones, or the two tones sounding in unison.
Word: secondo Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Italian secondo. 1. The second part of a piano duet for four hands. Example: The writing carefully develops equality in the pupil's hands, as well as fostering a keen sense of hearing through interaction with the more complex writing in the secondo part. Example: Whereas the first part of the dance is light and vivacious, the mood now turns more pompous, with heavy off-beats in the secondo right hand. 2. The course that follows the antipasto and primo courses in a full course Italian meal; the meat or fish course. Example: Contorni ( side dishes ) —vegetables and potatoes — are served along with the secondo piatto. Example: The next course, the primo, involves soup , risotto or pasta, and is followed by the secondo — the meat or fish course, usually served alone, except for perhaps a wedge of lemon or tomato. 3. A second-generation migrant to Switzerland; The child of an immigrant to Switzerland. Example: However, public presentation and perception only rarely interpret this generating of flexible identities as an achievement of these "secondos." Example: A key result of our research is that the migration background and the question of cultural identities, in fact, are important for Muslim secondos, but they do not want to be reduced to it.
Word: eighth Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *oḱtṓw Proto-Indo-European *oḱtowós Proto-Germanic *ahtudô Proto-West Germanic *ahtudō Old English eahtoþa Middle English eightethe English eighth Inherited from Middle English eightethe, from Old English eahtoþa, from Proto-Germanic *ahtudô; equivalent to eight + -th (ordinal suffix). Pronunciation: /eɪtθ/, /eɪθ/, /ɛj(ʈ)t̪ʰ/, /e(ʈ)t̪ʰ/ 1. The ordinal form of the number eight. Labels: not-comparable Example: Consequently, in the initial position the white pieces and pawns are placed on the first and second ranks; the black pieces and pawns on the eighth and seventh ranks. Example: In 2023, the birthrate fell for the eighth consecutive year to 0.72, the lowest in the world, from 1.24 in 2015, raising concerns over the economic shock to society from such a rapid pace.
Word: eighth Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *oḱtṓw Proto-Indo-European *oḱtowós Proto-Germanic *ahtudô Proto-West Germanic *ahtudō Old English eahtoþa Middle English eightethe English eighth Inherited from Middle English eightethe, from Old English eahtoþa, from Proto-Germanic *ahtudô; equivalent to eight + -th (ordinal suffix). Pronunciation: /eɪtθ/, /eɪθ/, /ɛj(ʈ)t̪ʰ/, /e(ʈ)t̪ʰ/ 1. The person or thing in the eighth position. 2. One of eight equal parts of a whole. Example: Two bits equals two eighths of a dollar. Example: Scientists from the University of Pennsylvania have determined that the young skull is only an eighth as strong as an adult one. 3. An eighth of an ounce, or approximately 3.5 grams, of marijuana or other drugs. Labels: slang Example: At midday he’d found an ageing eighth of hash in a drawer, a little bundle of cellophane. 4. An interval by doubling in pitch frequency.
Word: eighth Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *oḱtṓw Proto-Indo-European *oḱtowós Proto-Germanic *ahtudô Proto-West Germanic *ahtudō Old English eahtoþa Middle English eightethe English eighth Inherited from Middle English eightethe, from Old English eahtoþa, from Proto-Germanic *ahtudô; equivalent to eight + -th (ordinal suffix). Pronunciation: /eɪtθ/, /eɪθ/, /ɛj(ʈ)t̪ʰ/, /e(ʈ)t̪ʰ/ 1. To divide by eight. Labels: transitive Example: The first step is to eighth the script out. See figure 3.6 overleaf. Eighthing a script is subjective.
Word: ninth Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English nynthe, nynte, from Old English niġoþa, from Proto-Germanic *newundô; the -n- was reinserted by analogy with nine. Equivalent to nine + -th (ordinal suffix). Pronunciation: /naɪnθ/ 1. The ordinal form of the number nine. Labels: not-comparable Example: Ever since El Martinez started asking to be called by the gender-neutral pronouns “they/them” in the ninth grade, they have fielded skepticism in a variety of forms and from a multitude of sources about what it means to identify as nonbinary. Example: Kash Patel, born to Gujarati parents in New York in 1980, was sworn in as the ninth director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation on Friday, in the presence of his girlfriend Alexis Wilkins and his family.
Word: ninth Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English nynthe, nynte, from Old English niġoþa, from Proto-Germanic *newundô; the -n- was reinserted by analogy with nine. Equivalent to nine + -th (ordinal suffix). Pronunciation: /naɪnθ/ 1. The person or thing in the ninth position. 2. One of nine equal parts of a whole. 3. The compound interval between any tone and the tone represented on the ninth degree of the staff above it, as between one of the scale and two of the octave above; the octave of the second, consisting of 13 or 14 semitones (called minor and major ninth).
Word: ninth Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English nynthe, nynte, from Old English niġoþa, from Proto-Germanic *newundô; the -n- was reinserted by analogy with nine. Equivalent to nine + -th (ordinal suffix). Pronunciation: /naɪnθ/ 1. To lose a ninth. Example: οὐ[δ̓] ὲνατεὐεται, should be translated “a tithe (offering or fee) is not given (or paid)”, “no tithing” (literally, “a ninth is not given”, “no ninth-ing”, if I may coin such a word). Example: A yearling "is ninthed" for Semele on Myconos (LSCG 96.23–24); the victim "is not ninthed" for Heracles Thasios 2. To divide by nine. Example: THE NINTHER-MEAN COMBINATION When data are only a little worse than usual, so far as wild and straggling values are concerned, we can do well enough by taking means of the results of ninthing.
Word: tenth Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English tenth, tenthe. Old English had tēoþa (origin of Modern English tithe), but the force of analogy to the cardinal number "ten" caused Middle English speakers to recreate the regular ordinal and re-insert the nasal consonant. Ultimately from Proto-Germanic *tehundô. Equivalent to ten (numeral) + -th (suffix forming ordinals). Pronunciation: /tɛnθ/, [tʰɛn̪θ], /tɪnθ/ 1. The ordinal numeral form of ten; next in order after that which is ninth. Labels: not-comparable Example: My dear young lady, here I am for the tenth time. Example: These words are formed by the rusty iron point with which I write with difficulty in scrapings of soot and charcoal from the chimney, mixed with blood, in the last month of the tenth year of my captivity. 2. Being one of ten equal parts of a whole. Labels: not-comparable Example: The Ephah and the Bath shal be of one measure, that the Bath may containe the tenth part of an Homer, and the Ephah the tenth part of an Homer: the measure thereof shall be after the Homer.
Word: tenth Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English tenth, tenthe. Old English had tēoþa (origin of Modern English tithe), but the force of analogy to the cardinal number "ten" caused Middle English speakers to recreate the regular ordinal and re-insert the nasal consonant. Ultimately from Proto-Germanic *tehundô. Equivalent to ten (numeral) + -th (suffix forming ordinals). Pronunciation: /tɛnθ/, [tʰɛn̪θ], /tɪnθ/ 1. The person or thing coming next after the ninth in a series; that which is in the tenth position. 2. One of ten equal parts of a whole. Example: Economics is a messy discipline: too fluid to be a science, too rigorous to be an art. Perhaps it is fitting that economists’ most-used metric, gross domestic product (GDP), is a tangle too. GDP measures the total value of output in an economic territory. Its apparent simplicity explains why it is scrutinised down to tenths of a percentage point every month. 3. The interval between any tone and the tone represented on the tenth degree of the staff above it, as between one of the scale and three of the octave above; the octave of the third. 4. A temporary aid issuing out of personal property, and granted to the king by Parliament; formerly, the real tenth part of all the movables belonging to the subject. Labels: UK, historical, in-plural 5. A tenth of a mil; a ten-thousandth of an inch.
Word: tenth Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English tenth, tenthe. Old English had tēoþa (origin of Modern English tithe), but the force of analogy to the cardinal number "ten" caused Middle English speakers to recreate the regular ordinal and re-insert the nasal consonant. Ultimately from Proto-Germanic *tehundô. Equivalent to ten (numeral) + -th (suffix forming ordinals). Pronunciation: /tɛnθ/, [tʰɛn̪θ], /tɪnθ/ 1. To divide by ten, into tenths. Example: A regular cistern may be inched or tenthed by the rule given for inching or tenthing the back, copper, or cooler, which inching or tenthing should be entered in a table book for use.
Word: duel Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Medieval Latin duellum (“fight between two men, duel”), itself from Old Latin duellum (“war, fight”), which survived in Classical Latin as a rare byform of bellum and was later reinterpreted as “duel” by unetymological association with duo (“two”). May have entered English through Middle French duel. Pronunciation: /ˈˈd͡ʒuːəl/, /ˈdjuːəl/, /ˈdul/, /ˈd(j)u.əl/ 1. Arranged, regular combat between two private persons, often over a matter of honor. Example: I have often thought since, how different my fate might have been, had I not fallen in love with Nora at that early age; and had I not flung the wine in Quin’s face, and so brought on the duel. Example: Of course, not all the Railway Members were men of such talent. One member was "chiefly eminent as a whist player," and another was known for his duel with a fellow M.P. fought at Wormwood Scrubs in 1840. 2. Historically, the wager of battle (judicial combat). 3. Any battle or struggle between two contending persons, forces, groups, or ideas. Labels: broadly Example: a sniper duel Example: But it leaves them with a few destroyers, the American destroyer force is falling back, and then you have the two cruiser lines with their respective battleships coming in for the big duel.
Word: duel Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Medieval Latin duellum (“fight between two men, duel”), itself from Old Latin duellum (“war, fight”), which survived in Classical Latin as a rare byform of bellum and was later reinterpreted as “duel” by unetymological association with duo (“two”). May have entered English through Middle French duel. Pronunciation: /ˈˈd͡ʒuːəl/, /ˈdjuːəl/, /ˈdul/, /ˈd(j)u.əl/ 1. To engage in a battle. Example: The two dogs were duelling for the bone. Example: The country’s fencing federation has officially recognised lightsaber duelling as a competitive sport, granting the weapon from George Lucas’s space saga the same status as the foil, epee and sabre, the traditional blades used at the Olympics.
Word: Italian Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English Italian, from Medieval Latin Italiānus, from Latin Italia (“Italy”). By surface analysis, Italia + -n. Pronunciation: /ɪˈtæl.jən/, /aɪˈtæl.jən/, /əˈtæl.jən/, /əˈtæ.jən/ 1. Pertaining to Italy. Example: Italian borders 2. Pertaining to its people or their cultures. Example: Italian cuisines 3. Pertaining to their language. Example: Italian verbs 4. Using an italic style; italic. Labels: not-comparable, obsolete Example: It has been shown that there was a great disposition on the part of some German printers, especially Albert Durer, to adopt the rounded Italian type; others preferring the crisp angularity of the Gothic black-letter, even for general purposes; while for books of devotion it appears to have been deemed the more orthodox; the Italian style of type being deemed an innovation.
Word: Italian Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English Italian, from Medieval Latin Italiānus, from Latin Italia (“Italy”). By surface analysis, Italia + -n. Pronunciation: /ɪˈtæl.jən/, /aɪˈtæl.jən/, /əˈtæl.jən/, /əˈtæ.jən/ 1. A person of a Romance ethnic group native to Italy. Labels: countable Example: A tour group of Italians is visiting Westminster Cathedral today. Example: As Di Matteo celebrated and captain John Terry raised the trophy for the fourth time, the Italian increased his claims to become the permanent successor to Andre Villas-Boas by landing a trophy. 2. The official language of Italy, also spoken in San Marino, the Vatican, and parts of Argentina, Slovenia and Switzerland; various varieties (dialects) exist. Labels: uncountable Example: The tour group asked their questions in Italian, and their tour guide translated. Example: In Occitan a stroll, una passejada, is close to the Italian passeggiata, and a reminder of what a public business it is to amble these streets. 3. A style of cuisine or individual dishes of or associated with Italy or Italian people. Labels: uncountable Example: A: What's for dinner tonight? B: I don't know about you, but I'm ready for some Italian tonight! Example: Simple Cannoli, Lemon Ice, or a delicious Tira Mi Su. With so many wonderful recipes, you can eat Italian anytime. 4. Ellipsis of Italian cloth. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, ellipsis Example: They bought a bolt of the finest Italian that can be had this side of Italy. 5. Ellipsis of Italian vermouth, a dark-colored sweet or mildly bitter vermouth. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis, uncountable Example: gin and Italian Example: So the English women would have been interested in American drinks, and in came the gin-and-Italian, for example. 6. Ellipsis of Italian bread. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, ellipsis, uncountable Example: Can I please get a meatball sub on Italian? Thank you! 7. Ellipsis of Italian sandwich. Labels: Maine, abbreviation, alt-of, countable, ellipsis Example: Can I please get an Italian and a beer? Thank you!
Word: IFE Part of Speech: name 1. Initialism of Institution of Fire Engineers. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Word: musical Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English musical, from Old French [Term?], from Medieval Latin mūsicālis, from Latin mūsica (“music”) + -ālis (suffix forming adjectives); equivalent to music + -al. Pronunciation: /ˈmju.zɪ.kəl/ 1. Of, belonging or relating to music, or to its performance or notation. Example: musical proportion Example: musical instruments 2. Pleasing to the ear; sounding agreeably; having the qualities of music; melodious; harmonious. Example: She had a musical voice. 3. Fond of music; discriminating with regard to music; gifted or skilled in music. Example: having a musical ear Example: The child is musical. 4. Pertaining to a class of games in which players move while music plays, but have to take a fixed position when it stops; by extension, any situation where people repeatedly change positions. Example: Musical beds is the faculty sport around here. Example: Musical seats upon an airplane is not a game I recommend.
Word: musical Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English musical, from Old French [Term?], from Medieval Latin mūsicālis, from Latin mūsica (“music”) + -ālis (suffix forming adjectives); equivalent to music + -al. Pronunciation: /ˈmju.zɪ.kəl/ 1. A stage performance, show or film that involves singing, dancing and musical numbers performed by the cast as well as acting. Example: It is unthinkable for a straight play to enjoy a life span like those of the blockbuster musicals or to earn such astronomical grosses. 2. A meeting or a party for a musical entertainment; a musicale.