nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: heap Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English hepe, from Old English hēap, from Proto-West Germanic *haup, from Proto-Germanic *haupaz (compare Dutch hoop, German Low German Hupen, German Haufen), from Proto-Indo-European *koupos (“hill”) (compare Lithuanian kaũpas, Albanian qipi (“stack”), Avestan 𐬐𐬂𐬟𐬀 (kåfa)). Pronunciation: /hiːp/, /heːp/ 1. A crowd; a throng; a multitude or great number of people. Example: A Heap of Vassals, and Slaues: […] A People that is without Naturall Affection, […] A Nation without Morality, without Letters, Arts, or Sciences Example: He had plenty of friends, heaps of friends in the parliamentary sense 2. A pile or mass; a collection of things laid in a body, or thrown together so as to form an elevation. Example: a heap of earth; a heap of stones Example: Huge heaps of slain around the body rise. 3. A great number or large quantity of things. Example: a vast heap, both of places of scripture and quotations Example: I have noticed a heap of things in my life. 4. A data structure consisting of trees in which each node is greater than all its children. 5. Memory that is dynamically allocated. Example: You should move these structures from the stack to the heap to avoid a potential stack overflow. 6. A dilapidated place or vehicle. Labels: colloquial Example: My first car was an old heap. Example: Chuffy: It's on a knife edge at the moment, Bertie. If he can get planning permission, old Stoker's going to take this heap off my hands in return for vast amounts of oof. 7. A lot, a large amount. Labels: colloquial Example: Thanks a heap! Example: [W]e went to the play, and Pen was struck all of a heap with Miss Fotheringay … And he’s fallen in love with her—and I’m blessed if he hasn’t proposed to her […]
Word: heap Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English hepe, from Old English hēap, from Proto-West Germanic *haup, from Proto-Germanic *haupaz (compare Dutch hoop, German Low German Hupen, German Haufen), from Proto-Indo-European *koupos (“hill”) (compare Lithuanian kaũpas, Albanian qipi (“stack”), Avestan 𐬐𐬂𐬟𐬀 (kåfa)). Pronunciation: /hiːp/, /heːp/ 1. To pile in a heap. Labels: transitive Example: He heaped the laundry upon the bed and began folding. 2. To form or round into a heap, as in measuring. Labels: transitive Example: Cry a reward, to him who shall first bring News of that vanished Arabian, A full-heap’d helmet of the purest gold. 3. To supply in great quantity. Labels: transitive Example: They heaped praise upon their newest hero. Example: Then, in January, a creeping tsunami of train cancellations, triggered by major staff absences as a result of the aggressive transmissibility of Omicron, heaped further misery on rail users.
Word: heap Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From Middle English hepe, from Old English hēap, from Proto-West Germanic *haup, from Proto-Germanic *haupaz (compare Dutch hoop, German Low German Hupen, German Haufen), from Proto-Indo-European *koupos (“hill”) (compare Lithuanian kaũpas, Albanian qipi (“stack”), Avestan 𐬐𐬂𐬟𐬀 (kåfa)). Pronunciation: /hiːp/, /heːp/ 1. very or much; representing broken English stereotypically or comically attributed to Native Americans Labels: not-comparable, offensive, possibly Example: Chuckaway too no good. Heap water, little chuckaway. Heap sticks, and still little chuckaway. Example: We are all familiar with the stereotyped broken English which writers of Western stories, comic strips, and similar literature put into the mouths of Indians: 'me heap big chief', 'you like um fire water', and so forth.
Word: hearse Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English herse, hers, herce, from Old French herce in the sense "triangular framework used to support candles". Ultimately the same word as Old French herce (“harrow”), from Latin *herpicem, accusative singular of *herpex, a variant form of hirpex (“harrow”). The agricultural device's name comes from Oscan hirpus (“wolf”), a reference to a harrow's many teeth. The term for wolf may ultimately be from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰers- (“stiff, rigid, bristled”). The Oscan term is related to Latin hīrsūtus (“bristly, shaggy”), whence English hirsute. The TLFi considers the "framework to support candles" sense of the French word to be derived more specifically from Medieval Latin hercia; in any case, this is ultimately from the same source. (Du Cange sees in hercia a contraction of an extended form *herpicia. It may instead simply be a Latinization of Old French herce.) Doublet of herse (“kind of gate”). Pronunciation: /hɜːs/, /hɝs/ 1. A framework of wood or metal placed over the coffin or tomb of a deceased person, and covered with a pall; also, a temporary canopy bearing wax lights and set up in a church, under which the coffin was placed during the funeral ceremonies. 2. A grave, coffin, tomb, or sepulchral monument. Example: underneath this sable hearse Example: Beside the hearse a fruitful palm tree grows, 3. A bier or handbarrow for conveying the dead to the grave. Example: Set down, set down your honourable load, / If honour may be shrouded in a hearse. 4. A carriage or vehicle specially adapted or used for transporting a dead person to the place of funeral or to the grave.
Word: hearse Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English herse, hers, herce, from Old French herce in the sense "triangular framework used to support candles". Ultimately the same word as Old French herce (“harrow”), from Latin *herpicem, accusative singular of *herpex, a variant form of hirpex (“harrow”). The agricultural device's name comes from Oscan hirpus (“wolf”), a reference to a harrow's many teeth. The term for wolf may ultimately be from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰers- (“stiff, rigid, bristled”). The Oscan term is related to Latin hīrsūtus (“bristly, shaggy”), whence English hirsute. The TLFi considers the "framework to support candles" sense of the French word to be derived more specifically from Medieval Latin hercia; in any case, this is ultimately from the same source. (Du Cange sees in hercia a contraction of an extended form *herpicia. It may instead simply be a Latinization of Old French herce.) Doublet of herse (“kind of gate”). Pronunciation: /hɜːs/, /hɝs/ 1. To enclose in a hearse; to entomb. Labels: dated Example: I would my daughter were dead at my foot, and the jewels in her ear! would she were hearsed at my foot, and the ducats in her coffin!
Word: hearse Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /hɜːs/, /hɝs/ 1. Alternative form of hearst (“A hind (female deer) in the second or third year of her age”). Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: heave Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English heven, hebben, from Old English hebban, from Proto-West Germanic *habbjan, from Proto-Germanic *habjaną (“to take up, lift”), from Proto-Indo-European *kapyéti, from the root *kap-. See also have. Cognates Cognate with West Frisian heffe, Dutch heffen ("to raise", "to lift"), German heben ("to raise", "to lift"), Danish hæve ("to raise", "to lift"), Albanian kap (“to grasp, seize”), Old Irish cáin (“law, tribute”), cacht (“prisoner”), Latin capiō (“to take”), Latvian kàmpt (“to seize”), Ancient Greek κάπτω (káptō, “to gulp down”), κώπη (kṓpē, “handle”)). (To lift, to raise): Compare typologically Russian поднима́ть (podnimátʹ), подня́ть (podnjátʹ) (akin to има́ть (imátʹ), име́ть (imétʹ) < Proto-Slavic *jьmati, *jьměti). Pronunciation: /ˈhiːv/, [ˈhɪi̯v] 1. To lift with difficulty; to raise with some effort; to lift (a heavy thing). Labels: transitive Example: We heaved the chest-of-drawers up to the second-floor landing. Example: He hove himself out of the bed. 2. To throw, cast. Labels: transitive Example: They hove rocks into the pond. Example: The cap'n hove the body overboard. 3. To rise and fall. Labels: intransitive Example: Her chest heaved with emotion. Example: Frequent for breath his panting bosom heaves. 4. To utter with effort. Labels: transitive Example: She heaved a sigh and stared out of the window. Example: The wretched animal heaved forth such groans. 5. To pull up with a rope or cable. Labels: transitive Example: Heave up the anchor there, boys! 6. To lift (generally); to raise, or cause to move upwards (particularly in ships or vehicles) or forwards. Labels: archaic, transitive Example: Here a little child I stand, / Heaving up my either hand; […] 7. To be thrown up or raised; to rise upward, as a tower or mound. Labels: intransitive Example: The grovving Tovv'rs like Exhalations riſe, / And the huge Columns heave into the Skies. Example: where heaves the turf in many a mouldering heap 8. To displace (a vein, stratum). Labels: transitive 9. To cause to swell or rise, especially in repeated exertions. Labels: archaic, transitive Example: The wind heaved the waves. 10. To move in a certain direction or into a certain position or situation. Labels: ambitransitive Example: to heave the ship ahead Example: Pausing there I waited until the foremost Sagoth hove into sight. 11. To retch, to make an effort to vomit; to vomit. Labels: intransitive Example: The smell of the old cheese was enough to make you heave. 12. To make an effort to raise, throw, or move anything; to strain to do something difficult. Labels: intransitive Example: She [The Church of England] had ſtruggl'd and heav'd at a Reformation; ever ſince Wicliffs dayes, for about a 150 years together: […] 13. To rob; to steal from; to plunder. Labels: UK, obsolete Example: Ben mort (good vvench) ſhal you and I heaue a booth, mill a ken, or nip a bung? ſhall you and I rob a houſe, or cut a purſe?
Word: heave Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English heven, hebben, from Old English hebban, from Proto-West Germanic *habbjan, from Proto-Germanic *habjaną (“to take up, lift”), from Proto-Indo-European *kapyéti, from the root *kap-. See also have. Cognates Cognate with West Frisian heffe, Dutch heffen ("to raise", "to lift"), German heben ("to raise", "to lift"), Danish hæve ("to raise", "to lift"), Albanian kap (“to grasp, seize”), Old Irish cáin (“law, tribute”), cacht (“prisoner”), Latin capiō (“to take”), Latvian kàmpt (“to seize”), Ancient Greek κάπτω (káptō, “to gulp down”), κώπη (kṓpē, “handle”)). (To lift, to raise): Compare typologically Russian поднима́ть (podnimátʹ), подня́ть (podnjátʹ) (akin to има́ть (imátʹ), име́ть (imétʹ) < Proto-Slavic *jьmati, *jьměti). Pronunciation: /ˈhiːv/, [ˈhɪi̯v] 1. An effort to raise something, such as a weight or one's own body, or to move something heavy. Labels: countable Example: We gave one more heave and the wall toppled over at last. Example: July made no reply but that of a sigh. For she was thinking of the heave she must make to see herself lifted from the ground. 2. An upward motion; a rising; a swell or distention, as of the breast in difficult breathing, of the waves, of the earth in an earthquake, etc. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: and now the bed shook, the curtains rattled so, that I could scarce hear the sighs and murmurs, the heaves and pantings that accompanied the action, from the beginning to the end Example: The slab and piles will work together to resist 'ground heave' (the upward movement of the ground as it tries to push up into the box). 3. A horizontal dislocation in a metallic lode, taking place at an intersection with another lode. Labels: countable, uncountable 4. The measure of extent to which a nautical vessel goes up and down in a short period of time. Labels: countable, uncountable 5. An effort to vomit; retching. Labels: countable, uncountable 6. Broken wind in horses. Labels: attributive, countable, rare, uncountable Example: The dust would have to be watched out for with a heave horse, and most alfalfa hay... Example: The late stage is recognized by horse people as the true "heave" horse and at this stage most of the airways are partially or completely obstructed. 7. A forceful shot in which the ball follows a high trajectory Labels: countable, uncountable Example: That left 15 needed from Boult's final set. Two dots were followed by a heave over deep mid-wicket, then came the outrageous moment of fortune.
Word: hector Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Hector (“in Greek and Roman mythology, a character in Homer’s Iliad who is the greatest warrior of Troy”), from Late Middle English Hector (“warrior with the qualities of Hector”), from Latin Hectōr or Ancient Greek Ἕκτωρ (Héktōr), from ἕκτωρ (héktōr, “holding fast”), from ἔχειν (ékhein), present active infinitive of ἔχω (ékhō, “to have, own, possess; to hold”), from Proto-Indo-European *seǵʰ- (“to hold; to overpower”). The verb is derived from the noun. Pronunciation: /ˈhɛktə/, /ˈhɛktɚ/ 1. Sometimes in the form Hector: a blustering, noisy, turbulent fellow; a braggart, bully. Example: Luc[ia]. VVhat would you do you dowty Hectors? / Kick. Hectors! upon my honour, if we can find them out, we'll beat your Gallants for this. / […] Luc. Advant, you Hectors, we are not fit for you: […]
Word: hector Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Hector (“in Greek and Roman mythology, a character in Homer’s Iliad who is the greatest warrior of Troy”), from Late Middle English Hector (“warrior with the qualities of Hector”), from Latin Hectōr or Ancient Greek Ἕκτωρ (Héktōr), from ἕκτωρ (héktōr, “holding fast”), from ἔχειν (ékhein), present active infinitive of ἔχω (ékhō, “to have, own, possess; to hold”), from Proto-Indo-European *seǵʰ- (“to hold; to overpower”). The verb is derived from the noun. Pronunciation: /ˈhɛktə/, /ˈhɛktɚ/ 1. To dominate or intimidate in a blustering way; to bully, to domineer. Labels: transitive Example: Theſe Nimrods (ſay they) grew great by the Strength of their Limbs and their Vices, engraved their Murthers upon their Shields, and Hectored all the Little and Peaceable People into Peaſantry. Example: It was a common thing for an honeſt Man, when he came Home at Night, to find another Fellow domineering in his Family, hectoring his Servants, calling for Supper, and pretending to go to Bed with his Wife. 2. To behave like a hector or bully; to bluster, to swagger; to bully. Labels: intransitive Example: […] I was ſent for by the marſhall, huffed and hectored ſtrangely, thretned, &c., in fine, muſte give bonds to the good behaviour; I refuſed, […] Example: Leave me alone! Will you leave me alone! Hectored by women all my life—hectored by women—first one, then another. I won't stand it—I won't stand it—
Word: hedge Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English hegge, from Old English heċġ, from Proto-West Germanic *haggju, from Proto-Germanic *hagjō, from Proto-Indo-European *kagʰyóm (“enclosure”). Cognate with Dutch heg, German Hecke. Doublet of hey (a choreographic figure) and quay. More at haw. Pronunciation: /ˈhɛd͡ʒ/, /ˈhed͡ʒ/, /ˈhe̝d͡ʒ/ 1. A thicket of bushes or other shrubbery, especially one planted as a fence between two portions of land, or to separate the parts of a garden. Example: He trims the hedge once a week. Example: But then I had the [massive] flintlock by me for protection. ¶[…]The linen-press and a chest on the top of it formed, however, a very good gun-carriage; and, thus mounted, aim could be taken out of the window[…], and a 'bead' could be drawn upon Molly, the dairymaid, kissing the fogger behind the hedge, little dreaming that the deadly tube was levelled at them. 2. A barrier (often consisting of a line of persons or objects) to protect someone or something from harm. Example: Then Satan answered the Lord, and said, Doth Job fear God for nought? Hast not thou made an hedge about him, and about his house, and about all that he hath on every side? thou hast blessed the work of his hands, and his substance is increased in the land. 3. A mound of earth, stone- or turf-faced, often topped with bushes, used as a fence between any two portions of land. Labels: Cornwall, Devon, UK, West-Country 4. A noncommittal or intentionally ambiguous statement. Example: When not inaccurate, much commentary on the contents of Hobson-Jobson is couched in hedges or relies on speculative estimates in the absence of exact information. 5. Contract or arrangement reducing one's exposure to risk (for example the risk of price movements or interest rate movements). Example: The asset class acts as a hedge. Example: A hedge is an investment position intended to offset potential losses/gains that may be incurred by a companion investment. In simple language, a hedge is used to reduce any substantial losses/gains suffered by an individual or an organization. 6. With indication of a person's upbringing, or professional activities, taking place by the side of the road; being third-rate, poor, shoddy. Labels: Ireland, UK, attributive, figuratively Example: Attalus[…]made him so dead-drunke that insensibly and without feeling he might prostitute his beauty as the body of a common hedge-harlot, to Mulettiers, Groomes and many of the abject servants of his house. Example: He then traced them from place to place, till at last he found two of them drinking together, with a third person, at a hedge-tavern near Aldersgate.
Word: hedge Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Inherited from Middle English heggen, from the noun (see above). Pronunciation: /ˈhɛd͡ʒ/, /ˈhed͡ʒ/, /ˈhe̝d͡ʒ/ 1. To enclose with a hedge or hedges. Labels: transitive Example: to hedge a field or garden 2. To obstruct or surround. Labels: transitive Example: Therefore, behold, I will hedge up thy way with thorns, and make a wall, that she shall not find her paths. Example: Lollius Urbius […] drew another wall […] to hedge out incursions from the north. 3. To offset the risk associated with. Labels: transitive 4. To avoid verbal commitment. Labels: ambitransitive Example: He carefully hedged his statements with weasel words. 5. To construct or repair a hedge. Labels: intransitive 6. To reduce one's exposure to risk. Labels: intransitive
Word: heed Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English heden, from Old English hēdan (“to heed, take care, observe, attend, guard, take charge, take possession, receive”), from Proto-West Germanic *hōdijan (“to heed, guard”), from Proto-Indo-European *kadʰ- (“to heed, protect”). Cognate with West Frisian hoedje (“to heed”), Dutch hoeden (“to heed”), German hüten (“to heed”). Pronunciation: /ˈhiːd/, [ˈhɪi̯d] 1. Careful attention. Labels: uncountable Example: Then for a few minutes I did not pay much heed to what was said, being terribly straitened for room, and cramped with pain from lying so long in one place.
Word: heed Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English heden, from Old English hēdan (“to heed, take care, observe, attend, guard, take charge, take possession, receive”), from Proto-West Germanic *hōdijan (“to heed, guard”), from Proto-Indo-European *kadʰ- (“to heed, protect”). Cognate with West Frisian hoedje (“to heed”), Dutch hoeden (“to heed”), German hüten (“to heed”). Pronunciation: /ˈhiːd/, [ˈhɪi̯d] 1. To guard, protect. Labels: obsolete 2. To mind; to regard with care; to take notice of; to attend to; to observe. Labels: transitive Example: With pleasure Argus the musician heeds. Example: "It comes back to me that I wanted to say something to the driver and that I couldn't make him heed me." 3. To pay attention, care. Labels: archaic, intransitive
Word: heighten Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English heightenen, hyghtenen, equivalent to height + -en (verbal suffix). Pronunciation: /ˈhaɪ̯.tən/, [ˈhaɪ̯tn̩], [ˈhaɪ̯ʔn̩] 1. To make high; to raise higher; to elevate. Example: Black Bridge, near Machynlleth, is being heightened by one metre in a £3.6 million project to reduce delays caused by flooding. 2. To advance, increase, augment, make larger, more intense, stronger etc. Example: to heighten beauty Example: to heighten a flavor or a tint
Word: hemoglobin Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Originally hematinoglobulin, from hematin (from Ancient Greek αἷμα (haîma, “blood”) + -in) + -o- + globulin (from Latin globus (“ball, sphere”) + -in). Pronunciation: /ˌhimoʊˈɡloʊbɪn/, /ˈhiməˌɡloʊbɪn/, /ˌhiːmə(ʊ)ˈɡləʊbɪn/ 1. The iron-containing substance in red blood cells that transports oxygen from the lungs to the rest of the body; it consists of a protein (globulin), and haem (a porphyrin ring with an atom of iron at its centre). Labels: US, countable, uncountable
Word: hep Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Shortening. Pronunciation: /hɛp/ 1. hepatitis. Labels: informal, uncountable 2. Abbreviation of high-energy physics. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, uncountable
Word: hep Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Alteration of hip. Pronunciation: /hɛp/ 1. A hip of a rose; a rosehip. Labels: obsolete
Word: hep Part of Speech: adj Etymology: US slang of unknown or disputed origin, first recorded 1903. Robert Gold suggested that it is a variant of hip, from white jazz fans’ mishearing African American musicians. Jonathon Green suggests a connection to a 19th century interjection used to drive horses; compare gee up. Pronunciation: /hɛp/ 1. Aware, up-to-date. Labels: dated, slang Example: I was pleased, as I put him hep on the Wilbert-Phyllis situation and revealed the part he was expected to play in it, to note that he showed no signs of being about to issue the presidential veto. 2. Cool, hip, sophisticated. Labels: dated, slang Example: And I was struck to notice that though the band was only Jumble imitation of our style, it was quite a hep combination, with some feel of the beat, not like those dreadful records of the English bands I'd heard back home which never can play slow, and never can play easy to the limbs.
Word: hep Part of Speech: verb Etymology: US slang of unknown or disputed origin, first recorded 1903. Robert Gold suggested that it is a variant of hip, from white jazz fans’ mishearing African American musicians. Jonathon Green suggests a connection to a 19th century interjection used to drive horses; compare gee up. Pronunciation: /hɛp/ 1. To make aware of. Labels: US, dated, slang Example: I hepped him to the situation.
Word: hep Part of Speech: intj Pronunciation: /hɛp/ 1. Alternative form of hup (“part of marching cadence”). Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: Hep, two, three four! Hep, two, three four!
Word: hep Part of Speech: intj Etymology: From German hep or Hepp-Hepp, an interjection used to attack Jewish people. The origin of the German source is unknown, but may come from a goatherd’s call. Pronunciation: /hɛp/ 1. A rallying cry in attacks on the Jewish people. Labels: historical Example: Let us hope that the modern “Hep-Hep” cry of Antisemitism of to-day will be accompanied by a similar level of Judaism.
Word: heredity Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle French heredité, from Latin hērēditas (“condition of being an heir”), from hēres (“heir”). Pronunciation: /hɪˈɹɛdɪti/, /həˈɹɛdəti/ 1. Hereditary transmission of the physical and genetic qualities of parents to their offspring; the biological law by which living beings tend to repeat their characteristics in their descendants. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: laws of heredity Example: genetics and heredity
Word: hermaphroditic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree English hermaphrodite Proto-Indo-European *-ikos Proto-Italic *-ikos Latin -icuslbor. Old French -iquebor. Middle English -ik English -ic English hermaphroditic From hermaphrodite + -ic. 1. Of or pertaining to hermaphrodism; being a hermaphrodite. Labels: not-comparable 2. Possessing the reproductive organs of both sexes. Labels: not-comparable 3. Relating to the metaphysical integration of two complementary principles, often framed as masculine and feminine, active and receptive, solar and lunar, force and form, etc. Labels: not-comparable Example: Balanced force is personified by hermaphroditic union of the two principles. 4. Unisex. Labels: humorous, not-comparable Example: At twenty-five she [Clifton Baker] spoke all the most useful living languages and wrote the four most important dead ones. Eight letters (which she never by any chance used) after her hermaphroditic name were some evidence of a scientific grounding […] 5. Of, related to, or having both male and female connectability for fastening. Labels: not-comparable
Word: hermetic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Medieval Latin hermeticus, irregular derivation of Hermes Trismegistus, the god and mythological alchemist, said to possess a magic ability to seal treasure chests so that nothing could access their contents. Pronunciation: /hə(ɹ)ˈmɛtɪk/ 1. Pertaining to the ancient Greek Olympian god Hermes. Labels: Greek, capitalized 2. Pertaining to Hermes Trismegistus or the writings attributed to him. Labels: capitalized 3. One who follows/worships Hermes. Labels: capitalized Example: "As above, so below" is an axiom from Hermetic mysticism, and in this Hermetic vision of physiology the tongue is connected through the spinal column to the penis. 4. Pertaining to alchemy or occult practices; magical, alchemical. Example: Newton subscribed to the hermetic notion that the true knowledge of the universe had been earlier revealed by God to the ancients, the prisci theologi. 5. Hermetically sealed. 6. Isolated, away from outside influence. Example: In other words, it is a mistake to regard this or any film text 'as if it were merely hermetic', or an isolated island. Example: Increasingly isolated in the military's hermetic world, as winter stretched endlessly onward, Gamelin was finally overcome by an insidious complacency in the adequacy of his fellow generals, their British counterparts and his own troops.
Word: heroism Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From French héroïsme, equivalent to hero + -ism. Pronunciation: /ˈhɛɹəʊɪzəm/, /ˈhɛɹoʊɪzəm/, /ˈhiɹoʊɪzəm/ 1. The qualities characteristic of a hero, such as courage, bravery, fortitude, selflessness, etc.; the display of such qualities. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: He does all sorts of cool shit, and he subtly rediscovers his own heroism without making a big thing out of it. But he’s a supporting character, and he knows it. Example: At the time, with the D-Day invasion of Europe going on, their heroism was hardly noticed. Plenty of other heroes were dying elsewhere. Plenty of bigger bits of history were being made.
Word: hesitation Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Latin haereō Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Italic *-tos Latin -tus Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti Proto-Indo-European *-h₂tiinflu. Proto-Italic *-ājō Proto-Italic *-āō Latin -ō Latin -tō ▲ Latin -tō Latin -itō Latin -titō Latin haesitō Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *-Hō Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō Proto-Italic *-tiō Latin -tiō Latin haesitātiōbor. English hesitation From Latin haesitātiōnem, accusative singular of haesitātiō (“hesitating, stammering”), from haesitō (“hesitate”). Displaced native Old English ġewand. Pronunciation: /ˌhɛzɪˈteɪʃən/, /ˌhezɪˈtæɪʃən/, /ˌhezəˈtæɪʃən/ 1. An act of hesitating Labels: countable, uncountable 2. Doubt; vacillation. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: She carried out the order without hesitation. 3. A faltering in speech; stammering. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: hibernation Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin hībernātus, from hībernō, from hībernus (“wintry, of or pertaining to winter”). Pronunciation: /ˌhaɪ.bəːˈneɪ.ʃən/, [ˌhaɪ.bəːˈneɪ.ʃn̩], /ˌhaɪ.bəɹˈneɪ.ʃən/, [ˌhaɪ.bɚˈneɪ.ʃn̩] 1. A state of minimum power consumption, inactivity and metabolic depression in some animals during winter. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The bears are in hibernation. Example: The bears come out of hibernation in March. 2. A hypothetical state of minimum power consumption, inactivity and metabolic depression in humans during long space flights. Labels: countable, uncountable 3. A standby state which conserves power by writing the contents of the memory to disk and completely power off the computer, in order that one will resume the session from the disk. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: hidebound Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From hide (“animal skin”, noun) + bound (“tied”, adjective). Pronunciation: /ˈhaɪd.baʊnd/ 1. Bound with the hide of an animal. Example: Open the box in which his large hidebound book is kept. The faint smell of manure, over 150 years old, still rises from thick yellowing pages, and you begin to live his life. Example: But no matter where their place of residence, they were always accompanied by the hidebound chest that held the family papers. 2. Having the skin adhering so closely to the ribs and back as not to be easily loosened or raised; emaciated. Example: Some of the horses were looking hidebound, and I promised the sergeant that I'd buy a couple of hundredweight of linseed for them when I went on leave. Linseed was a cosy idea; it reminded me of peacetime conditions. 3. Having the bark so close and constricting that it impedes the growth. Example: It hath been observed that hacking of trees in their bark, both downright, and across, so as you make them rather in slices than in continued hacks, doth great good to trees; and especially delivereth them from being hide-bound, and killeth their moss. 4. Stubborn; narrow-minded; inflexible. Labels: figuratively Example: And how can a man teach with autority, which is the life of teaching, how can he be a Doctor in his book as he ought to be, or else had better be silent, whenas all he teaches, all he delivers, is but under the tuition, under the correction of his patriarchal licencer to blot or alter what precisely accords not with the hidebound humor which he calls his judgement. Example: In fact, such unfortunate persons have no resource but to become what we call Pedants; to ensconce themselves in a safe world of habitudes, of applicable or inapplicable traditions; not coveting, rather avoiding the general daylight of common-sense, as very extraneous to them and their procedure; by long persistence in which course they become Completed Pedants, hidebound, impenetrable, able to defy the hostile extraneous element; an alarming kind of men 5. Niggardly; penurious; stingy. Labels: obsolete Example: 1644-1646, Francis Quarles, Boanerges and Barnabas hath my purse been hidebound to my hungry brother?
Word: hie Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English hien, hyen, highen, heiȝen, hiȝen, from Old English hīgian (“to hie, hasten, strive”), from Proto-West Germanic *hīgōn, from Proto-Germanic *hīgōną (“to breathe, snort”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱēygʰ- (“swift, fierce, violent”). Cognate with Dutch hijgen (“to pant”), German heichen (“to choke, gasp for breath”), Danish hige (“to aspire, long”), Latin cieō (“set in motion, invoke, provoke”), Ancient Greek κινέω (kinéō, “move, set in motion”). Pronunciation: /haɪ/ 1. To hasten; to go quickly, to hurry. Labels: intransitive, poetic Example: But after her lover Amyntas hied. Example: Hath pleased you, and eased you, and sweet slumber seized you. And now to bed I hie. 2. To hurry (oneself). Labels: poetic, reflexive Example: My husband hies him home. Example: Some have conjectured hastily that all Southerners in town hie themselves to cafés at nightfall. 3. To urge (a horse) to the left with a cry of "hie". Labels: transitive
Word: hie Part of Speech: intj Etymology: From Middle English hien, hyen, highen, heiȝen, hiȝen, from Old English hīgian (“to hie, hasten, strive”), from Proto-West Germanic *hīgōn, from Proto-Germanic *hīgōną (“to breathe, snort”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱēygʰ- (“swift, fierce, violent”). Cognate with Dutch hijgen (“to pant”), German heichen (“to choke, gasp for breath”), Danish hige (“to aspire, long”), Latin cieō (“set in motion, invoke, provoke”), Ancient Greek κινέω (kinéō, “move, set in motion”). Pronunciation: /haɪ/ 1. A call to turn a horse to the left. Labels: dialectal
Word: hinder Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English hindren, from Old English hindrian, from Proto-Germanic *hindrōną, *hinderōną (“to hinder”), from Proto-Germanic *hinder (“back”) (adverb). Cognate with Dutch hinderen and German hindern, Latin contra (“back, against”). Pronunciation: /ˈhɪndəː/, [ˈhɪndəː], /ˈhɪndɚ/, [ˈhɪndɚ] ~ [ˈhɪndɹ̩] 1. To make difficult to accomplish; to act as an obstacle; to frustrate. Labels: transitive Example: A drought hinders the growth of plants. Example: We doubt not of a faire and luckie Warre, / Since God ſo graciouſly hath brought to light / This dangerous Treaſon, lurking in our way, / To hinder our beginnings. 2. To delay or impede; to keep back, to prevent. Labels: ambitransitive Example: She hindered a man from committing suicide. Example: Then let me goe, and hinder not my courſe: [...] 3. To cause harm. Labels: obsolete, transitive Example: If me and a certain character met, the guy that invented the cigarette, I'd murder that son of a gun in the first degree. Now it ain't 'cause that I don't smoke myself and I don't reckon they hinder your health. I've smoked them all my life and I ain't dead yet.
Word: hinder Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Inherited from Middle English hinder, comparative form of hind: more hind. Pronunciation: /ˈhaɪ̯n.dəː/, [ˈhaɪ̯n.dəː], /ˈhaɪ̯n.dɚ/, [ˈhaɪ̯n.dɚ] ~ [ˈhaɪ̯n.dɹ̩], /ˈhaːn.dɚ/ 1. Of or belonging to that part or end which is in the rear or hind, or which follows. Labels: not-comparable Example: the hinder end of a wagon Example: the hinder parts of a horse
Word: hinder Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Inherited from Middle English hinder, comparative form of hind: more hind. Pronunciation: /ˈhaɪ̯n.dəː/, [ˈhaɪ̯n.dəː], /ˈhaɪ̯n.dɚ/, [ˈhaɪ̯n.dɚ] ~ [ˈhaɪ̯n.dɹ̩], /ˈhaːn.dɚ/ 1. comparative form of hind: more hind Labels: comparative, form-of
Word: hinder Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Inherited from Middle English hinder, comparative form of hind: more hind. Pronunciation: /ˈhaɪ̯n.dəː/, [ˈhaɪ̯n.dəː], /ˈhaɪ̯n.dɚ/, [ˈhaɪ̯n.dɚ] ~ [ˈhaɪ̯n.dɹ̩], /ˈhaːn.dɚ/ 1. The buttocks. Labels: euphemistic, slang Example: Like martial arts, in-line skating is predicated on the notion that sooner or later you're going to end up on your hinder.
Word: hircine Part of Speech: adj Etymology: First attested in its present form in 1650–1660: From Middle English hircyne, from Latin hircīnus (“of a goat”, “goat-scented”); equivalent to hircus (“a male goat”) + -īnus (“-ine”). Cognate with French hircin. By surface analysis, hirc- (“buck, male goat”) + -ine. Compare caprine, haedine. Pronunciation: /ˈhɜːsaɪn/, /ˈhɝsaɪn/, /ˈhɝsɪn/ 1. Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of goats. Labels: not-comparable Example: They are monſtrouſly fat, and have a moſt hircine ſmell. Example: 1838, Hypericaceæ, entry in The Penny Cyclopaedia, Volume 12, page 411, Many are objects of ornament, but they are little cultivated because they have frequently a disagreeable hircine odour. 2. Possessed of an odour reminiscent of goats. 3. Libidinous; lustful.
Word: hircine Part of Speech: noun Etymology: First attested in its present form in 1650–1660: From Middle English hircyne, from Latin hircīnus (“of a goat”, “goat-scented”); equivalent to hircus (“a male goat”) + -īnus (“-ine”). Cognate with French hircin. By surface analysis, hirc- (“buck, male goat”) + -ine. Compare caprine, haedine. Pronunciation: /ˈhɜːsaɪn/, /ˈhɝsaɪn/, /ˈhɝsɪn/ 1. A fossil amorphous resin which, when burnt, gives off a pungent, hircinous aroma. Labels: uncountable
Word: hive Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English hyve, from Old English hȳf, from Proto-West Germanic *hūfi, from Proto-Indo-European *kuHp- (“water vessel”), from *kew- (“to bend, curve”). See also Dutch huif (“beehive”), Danish dialect huv (“ship’s hull”); also Latin cūpa (“tub, vat”), Ancient Greek κύπη (kúpē, “gap, hole”), κύπελλον (kúpellon, “beaker”), Sanskrit कूप (kū́pa, “cave”). Doublet of coupe, cup, and keeve. The computing term was chosen as an in-joke relating to bees; see this for more. Pronunciation: /haɪv/ 1. A structure, whether artificial or natural, for housing a swarm of honeybees. Example: First, for thy Bees a quiet Station find, / And lodge 'em under Covert of the Wind: / For Winds, when homeward they return, will drive / The loaded Carriers from their Ev'ning Hive. 2. The bees of one hive; a swarm of bees. Example: When that the general is not like the hive, to whom the foragers shall all repair, what honey is expected? 3. A place swarming with busy occupants; a crowd. Example: There the horde of Roman robbers mock at a barbarous adversary. / There the hive of Roman liars worship a gluttonous emperor-idiot. 4. A section of the registry. Example: Windows builds the registry from the five registry hives[…] Example: For devices built with hive-based registry implementation, the registry data are broken into three different hives — the boot hive, system hive, and user hive.
Word: hive Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English hyve, from Old English hȳf, from Proto-West Germanic *hūfi, from Proto-Indo-European *kuHp- (“water vessel”), from *kew- (“to bend, curve”). See also Dutch huif (“beehive”), Danish dialect huv (“ship’s hull”); also Latin cūpa (“tub, vat”), Ancient Greek κύπη (kúpē, “gap, hole”), κύπελλον (kúpellon, “beaker”), Sanskrit कूप (kū́pa, “cave”). Doublet of coupe, cup, and keeve. The computing term was chosen as an in-joke relating to bees; see this for more. Pronunciation: /haɪv/ 1. To collect (bees) into a hive. Labels: transitive Example: to hive a swarm of bees 2. To store (something other than bees) in, or as if in, a hive. Labels: transitive Example: Hiving wisdom with each studious year. 3. To form a hive-like entity. Labels: intransitive 4. To take lodging or shelter together; to reside in a collective body. Labels: intransitive Example: The patch is kind enough, but a huge feeder, / Snail-slow in profit, and he sleeps by day / More than the wild-cat; drones hive not with me; / Therefore I part with him; and part with him / To one what I would have him help to waste / His borrowed purse. […] Example: 1725, Alexander Pope, letter to Martha Blount […] to get into warmer houses, and hive together in cities 5. Of insects: to enter or possess a hive.
Word: hive Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /haɪv/ 1. An itchy, red, swollen area of the skin; singular or attributive form of hives. Example: […] if you are allergic to it, the skin produces a localized red, itchy reaction, a hive. The hive appears within minutes of the allergy skin test and lasts up to approximately 24 hours. Example: Most people will develop a small, itchy hive at the site of the sting that will subside in 30 to 60 minutes (sting may be accompanied by burning pain). Each ant inflicts seven to eight stings. Within 4 hours, a small blister will develop at the site.
Word: hoot Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English houten, huten, hoten, of North Germanic origin, from or related to Old Swedish huta (“to cast out in contempt”), related to Middle High German hiuzen, hūzen (“to call to pursuit”), Swedish hut! (“begone!”, interjection), Dutch hui (“ho, hallo”), Danish huj (“ho, hallo”). Pronunciation: /huːt/, /hʉːt/, [hïɯt] 1. A derisive cry or shout. Example: My performance drew hoots of derision from the crowd. 2. The cry of an owl. Example: I heard the hoot of an owl. Whoo, whoo! 3. A fun event or person. Labels: slang Example: The party at the weekend was such a hoot! Thanks for the invite. 4. A small particle; a whit or jot. Example: We don't care a hoot about what you think. Example: Well, it was Sunday morning, and the wheat nothing like ripe; but it was a chance, and I got onto my reaper and banged down every hoot of it before Monday night.
Word: hoot Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English houten, huten, hoten, of North Germanic origin, from or related to Old Swedish huta (“to cast out in contempt”), related to Middle High German hiuzen, hūzen (“to call to pursuit”), Swedish hut! (“begone!”, interjection), Dutch hui (“ho, hallo”), Danish huj (“ho, hallo”). Pronunciation: /huːt/, /hʉːt/, [hïɯt] 1. To cry out or shout in contempt. Example: Matrons and girls shall hoot at thee no more, 2. To make a hoo, the cry of an owl. Example: The clamorous owl that nightly hoots and wonders / At our quaint spirits. Example: Outside an owl was hooting most dismally in the darkness. The villa was on a by-road, and there was no human sound to link them up with life. 3. To assail with contemptuous cries or shouts; to follow with derisive shouts. Example: Mary felt extremely offended when the workers hooted at her. Example: And I will be content, that Partridge, and the rest of his Clan, may hoot me for a Cheat and Impostor, if I fail in any single Particular of Moment. 4. To sound the horn of a vehicle. Example: When you arrive to pick me up, hoot, and I'll come outside.
Word: hoot Part of Speech: noun Etymology: A variant of utu (influenced by etymology 1), borrowed from Māori utu (“payment, revenge, payback”). Pronunciation: /huːt/, /hʉːt/, [hïɯt] 1. Money, especially in the form of cash given as payment. Labels: New-Zealand, slang, uncountable Example: On the construction you could make a pot of hoot in no time. You oughter be able to get two or three quid a day when things is busy.
Word: hoplite Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Ancient Greek ὁπλίτης (hoplítēs, “heavily armed foot-soldier”), from ὅπλον (hóplon, “arms, armor, weapon”) (from which English hopl-). Compare Latin hoplomachus (“gladiator”). Pronunciation: /ˈhɒplaɪt/ 1. A heavily-armed infantry soldier of Ancient Greece, wielding a one-handed spear and an aspis. Labels: historical Example: […] it was in the line of "hoplites" that the mass of citizen-soldiers were to be found. Example: However important the use of hoplites against, or in support of, troops of other arms had become, their chief function was still to fight other hoplites, though the battles of the early fourth century were very different from the ponderous confrontations that had filled King Xerxes and his courtiers with contempt.
Word: hopscotch Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From hop + scotch (“scratch”). Pronunciation: /ˈhɑpˌskɑt͡ʃ/, /ˈhɒpˌskɒt͡ʃ/ 1. A child's game, in which a player, hopping on one foot, drives a stone from one compartment to another of a figure traced or scotched on the ground. Labels: uncountable Example: No-one. Meade’s timberyard. Piled balks. Ruins and tenements. With careful tread he passed over a hopscotch court with its forgotten pickeystone.
Word: hopscotch Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From hop + scotch (“scratch”). Pronunciation: /ˈhɑpˌskɑt͡ʃ/, /ˈhɒpˌskɒt͡ʃ/ 1. To move by hopping. Labels: figuratively, intransitive Example: As he hopscotched around the world on his Gulfstream IV — he got rid of his homes but kept his private plane — he found himself spending more and more time in Los Angeles, and he also rediscovered his interest in politics and philosophy. 2. To move back and forth between adjacent patterns by or as if by hopping. Labels: figuratively, intransitive Example: Although the events described hop-scotch back and forth in time, the story moves along in an orderly fasion ^([sic]) and is rarely rambling.
Word: horde Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Recorded in English since 1555. From Middle French horde, from German Horde, from Polish horda, from Russian орда́ (ordá, “horde, clan, troop”), probably from Kipchak Turkic (compare Tatar урда (urda, “horde”)), ultimately from Proto-Turkic *ordu (“place of staying of the army, ruler etc.”). Cognates include Turkish ordu (“camp, army”), Mongolian орд (ord, “court, castle, royal compound, camp, horde”) and Kalmyk орда (orda). Doublet of orda and Urdu. Pronunciation: /hɔːd/, /hɔɹd/, /hoːd/, /ho(ː)ɹd/, /hoəd/ 1. A wandering troop or gang; especially, a clan or tribe of a nomadic people (originally Tatars) migrating from place to place for the sake of pasturage, plunder, etc.; a predatory multitude. 2. A large number of people or things. Example: We were beset by a horde of street vendors who thought we were tourists and would buy their cheap souvenirs. Example: It is true, the more progressive members of our horde lived in the caves above the river.
Word: horde Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Recorded in English since 1555. From Middle French horde, from German Horde, from Polish horda, from Russian орда́ (ordá, “horde, clan, troop”), probably from Kipchak Turkic (compare Tatar урда (urda, “horde”)), ultimately from Proto-Turkic *ordu (“place of staying of the army, ruler etc.”). Cognates include Turkish ordu (“camp, army”), Mongolian орд (ord, “court, castle, royal compound, camp, horde”) and Kalmyk орда (orda). Doublet of orda and Urdu. Pronunciation: /hɔːd/, /hɔɹd/, /hoːd/, /ho(ː)ɹd/, /hoəd/ 1. To travel en masse; to flock. Labels: intransitive Example: "What wouldst thou insinuate?" replied Elmuton, sarcastically; “has he not been watched, and secretly discovered hordeing with Christians?
Word: hortatory Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle French hortatoire, from Latin hortor (“encourage”). Pronunciation: /ˈhɔːtətəɹi/, /ˈhɔɹtətɔɹi/ 1. Giving exhortation or advice; encouraging. Example: The words were ordinary enough, and to my mind there was in them something so hortatory that I almost smiled. Example: Some of these books were, on the face of it, frivolous and facetious; but many, on the other hand, were serious and prophetic, moral and hortatory.
Word: hortatory Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle French hortatoire, from Latin hortor (“encourage”). Pronunciation: /ˈhɔːtətəɹi/, /ˈhɔɹtətɔɹi/ 1. Exhortation or advice; incitement; encouragement. Example: I did not know enough of the Book to understand his hortatory but it seemed to please Miz Ann, who thanked him for his blessings, said she did not require his other services, and that he had paid for his meal with his message. 2. That which exhorts, incites, or encourages. Example: For here as in other points the development of the theory of Ethics would seem to be somewhat impeded by the preponderance of practical considerations; and perhaps a more complete detachment of the theoretical study of right conduct from its practical application is to be desired for the sake even of the latter itself: since a treatment which is a compound between the scientific and the hortatory is apt to miss both the results that it would combine; the mixture is bewildering to the brain and not stimulating to the heart.
Word: hornbeam Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Late Middle English hornbeme, hernbem, hernebem (“European hornbeam (Carpinus betulus)”), from horn (“antler or horn of an animal; etc.”) + bem (“tree; piece of metal, wood, etc.”) (referring to a tree with wood as hard as horn): * Horn is from Old English horn (“horn”), from Proto-West Germanic *horn (“horn”), from Proto-Germanic *hurną (“horn”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱerh₂- (“horn; head, top”). * Bem is from Old English bēam (“tree; piece of wood”), from Proto-West Germanic *baum (“tree; piece of wood”), possibly from Proto-Germanic *bagmaz (“tree; piece of wood”); further etymology uncertain, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *bʰh₂ǵʰ-mo-s (“branch”) or *bʰuH- (“to appear; to be; to become; to grow”). By surface analysis, horn + beam (“only in compounds: tree”). Pronunciation: /ˈhɔːnbiːm/, /ˈhoɹnˌbim/ 1. A tree of the genus Carpinus, having smooth grey bark and a ridged trunk, the wood being white and very hard, found in temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere. Labels: countable Example: The Horn-beam, in Latine the Carpinus, is planted of Sets; though it may likevviſe be raiſed from the Seeds, […] Thus it vvill advance to a conſiderable Tree. 2. A tree of the genus Carpinus, having smooth grey bark and a ridged trunk, the wood being white and very hard, found in temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere. Labels: countable 3. A tree of the genus Carpinus, having smooth grey bark and a ridged trunk, the wood being white and very hard, found in temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere. Labels: countable Example: Betulus, or the Hornebeame tree grovveth great, & very like vnto the Elme, or vvich Hazell tree, hauing a great body: the vvood or timber vvherof […] in time it vvaxeth ſo hard, that the toughnes and hardnes of it, may be rather compared vnto horne then vnto vvood, and therfore it vvas called Hornebeame, or Hardbeame: […] 4. The wood of these trees or one species of them; (countable) a sample of such wood. Labels: uncountable