nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: stalk Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English stalke, stelke, stalk, perhaps from Old English *stealc, *stielc, *stealuc, from Proto-West Germanic *staluk, *stalik, from Proto-Germanic *stalukaz, *stalikaz, diminutive of Proto-Germanic *stalô, *staluz (“support, stem, stalk”), from Proto-Indo-European *stel- (“to place, stand; be stiff; stud, post, trunk, stake, stem, stalk”). Cognates Cognate with Dutch staal (“sample”), steel (“stem”), German Stiel (“stalk”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål stilk (“stalk, stem”), Faroese stjølur (“bottom part of a sheaf”), Icelandic stilkur (“stalk, stem”), Norwegian Nynorsk stilk, stylk (“stalk, stem”), styl (“lower part of a straw”), Swedish stjälk (“stalk, stem”), Albanian shtalkë (“crossbeam, board used as a door hinge”), Welsh telm (“frond”), Ancient Greek στειλειή (steileiḗ, “beam”), Old Armenian ստեղն (stełn, “trunk, stalk”). Pronunciation: /stɔːk/, /stoːk/, /staːk/, /stɔk/, /stɑk/ 1. The stem or main axis of a plant. Example: a stalk of wheat, rye, or oats; the stalks of maize or hemp Example: Three chairs of the steamer type, all maimed, comprised the furniture of this roof-garden, with […] on one of the copings a row of four red clay flower-pots filled with sun-baked dust from which gnarled and rusty stalks thrust themselves up like withered elfin limbs. 2. The petiole, pedicel, or peduncle of a plant. Example: grape stalks 3. Something resembling the stalk of a plant, such as the stem of a quill. Example: they appear to be made up of little Bladders , like those in the Plume or Stalk of a Quill 4. An ornament in the Corinthian capital resembling the stalk of a plant, from which the volutes and helices spring. 5. One of the two upright pieces of a ladder. 6. A stem or peduncle, as in certain barnacles and crinoids. 7. The narrow basal portion of the abdomen of a hymenopterous insect. 8. The peduncle of the eyes of decapod crustaceans. 9. An iron bar with projections inserted in a core to strengthen it; a core arbor. 10. Informally, a construction which generalizes that of the notion of the ring of germs of functions near a point to the context of arbitrary sheaves. Formally, given a sheaf ℱ on a space X, and a point x in X, the direct limit of the sections of F on the open neighborhoods of x ordered by reverse inclusion. See Stalk (sheaf) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia 11. The penis. Labels: slang
Word: stalk Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English stalken, from Old English *stealcian (as in bestealcian (“to move stealthily”), stealcung (“stalking”)), from Proto-West Germanic *stalukōn, from Proto-Germanic *stalukōną (“to stalk, move stealthily”) (compare Dutch stelkeren, stolkeren (“to tip-toe, tread carefully”), Danish stalke (“to high step, stalk”), Norwegian dialectal stalka (“to trudge”)), from *stalkaz, *stelkaz (compare Old English stealc (“steep”), Old Norse stelkr, stjalkr (“knot (bird), red sandpiper”)), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)telg, *(s)tolg- (compare Middle Irish tolg (“strength”), Lithuanian stalgùs (“stiff, defiant, proud”)). Alternate etymology connects Proto-Germanic *stalkōną to a frequentative form of *stelaną (“to steal”). Pronunciation: /stɔːk/, /stoːk/, /staːk/, /stɔk/, /stɑk/ 1. To approach slowly and quietly in order not to be discovered when getting closer. Labels: transitive Example: As for shooting a man from behind a wall, it is cruelly like to stalking a deer. Example: But they had already discovered that he could be bullied, and they had it their own way; and presently Selwyn lay prone upon the nursery floor, impersonating a ladrone while pleasant shivers chased themselves over Drina, whom he was stalking. 2. To (try to) follow or contact someone constantly, often resulting in harassment.ᵂᵖ Labels: transitive Example: My ex-girlfriend is stalking me. Example: villages stalked by the threat of famine 3. To walk slowly and cautiously; to walk in a stealthy, noiseless manner. Labels: intransitive Example: [Bertran] stalks close behind her, like a witch's fiend, / Pressing to be employed. Example: O ay, stalk on, stalk on, the fowl sits 4. To walk behind something, such as a screen, for the purpose of approaching game; to proceed under cover. Labels: intransitive Example: The king[…]crept under the shoulder of his led horse;[…]"I must stalk," said he. Example: One underneath his horse, to get a shoot doth stalk. 5. Of a person's social media activity: to look through thoroughly or obsessively; to keep tabs on, generally avoiding contact. Labels: Internet, transitive Example: Coordinate term: lurk Example: Hate when I'm stalking someone's Insta and I like one of their old pics. Makes me wanna burrow underground n' hibernate for a season or two.
Word: stalk Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English stalken, from Old English *stealcian (as in bestealcian (“to move stealthily”), stealcung (“stalking”)), from Proto-West Germanic *stalukōn, from Proto-Germanic *stalukōną (“to stalk, move stealthily”) (compare Dutch stelkeren, stolkeren (“to tip-toe, tread carefully”), Danish stalke (“to high step, stalk”), Norwegian dialectal stalka (“to trudge”)), from *stalkaz, *stelkaz (compare Old English stealc (“steep”), Old Norse stelkr, stjalkr (“knot (bird), red sandpiper”)), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)telg, *(s)tolg- (compare Middle Irish tolg (“strength”), Lithuanian stalgùs (“stiff, defiant, proud”)). Alternate etymology connects Proto-Germanic *stalkōną to a frequentative form of *stelaną (“to steal”). Pronunciation: /stɔːk/, /stoːk/, /staːk/, /stɔk/, /stɑk/ 1. A particular episode of trying to follow or contact someone. 2. The hunting of a wild animal by stealthy approach. Example: When the stalk was over (the antelope took alarm and ran off before I was within rifle shot) I came back.
Word: stalk Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Attested 1530 in the sense "to walk haughtily", perhaps from Old English stealc (“steep”), from Proto-Germanic *stelkaz, *stalkaz (“high, lofty, steep, stiff”); see above. Pronunciation: /stɔːk/, /stoːk/, /staːk/, /stɔk/, /stɑk/ 1. To walk haughtily. Labels: intransitive Example: With manly mien he stalked along the ground. Example: Then stalking through the deep, / He fords the ocean.
Word: stalk Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Attested 1530 in the sense "to walk haughtily", perhaps from Old English stealc (“steep”), from Proto-Germanic *stelkaz, *stalkaz (“high, lofty, steep, stiff”); see above. Pronunciation: /stɔːk/, /stoːk/, /staːk/, /stɔk/, /stɑk/ 1. A haughty style of walking.
Word: achlamydate Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From a- (“not”) + Ancient Greek χλᾰμῠ́ς (khlămŭ́s) ((Latinized form: khlamýd)-) + -ate, from Ancient Greek ἀ- (a-, “not”) + χλαμύς (khlamús, “cloak, mantle”). 1. Not possessing a mantle. Example: an achlamydate gastropod
Word: achlamydeous Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From a- + Ancient Greek χλαμύς (khlamús, “mantle, cloak”) + -ous. By surface analysis, a + chlamydeous. 1. having no perianth Labels: not-comparable
Word: acholia Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From New Latin acholia, from Ancient Greek ἀ- (a-, “not”) + χολή (kholḗ, “bile”). 1. Deficiency or absence of bile. Labels: uncountable Example: The intensely bilious color of the liver shows that the discoloration of the contents of the intestines is not due to arrested production of bile, that is to acholia. Example: This then illustrates acholia in the literal sense of the word, and explains the absence of icterus in spite of the complete obliteration of the ductus communis choledochus.
Word: acholous Part of Speech: adj Pronunciation: /eɪˈkəʊləs/ 1. Lacking bile. Labels: not-comparable
Word: unabridged Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Germanic *un- Proto-West Germanic *un- Old English un- Middle English un- English un- English abridged English unabridged From un- + abridged. 1. Not abridged, shortened, expurgated or condensed; complete. Labels: not-comparable Example: an unabridged dictionary
Word: unabridged Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Germanic *un- Proto-West Germanic *un- Old English un- Middle English un- English un- English abridged English unabridged From un- + abridged. 1. An unabridged publication, especially a reference work. 2. An unabridged publication, especially a reference work. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis Example: it would seem to indicate that arcane’s restoration to general usage is fairly recent and we may expect that it will move from the comparative obscurity of the unabridgeds to proper listing in general use
Word: purge Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English purgen, from Old French purgier, from Latin pūrgō (“to make pure, to cleanse”), from pūrus (“clean, pure”) + agō (“to make, to do”). Pronunciation: /pɜːd͡ʒ/, /pɜɹd͡ʒ/ 1. To clean thoroughly; to rid of impurities; to cleanse; to clear of (something unwanted). Labels: transitive Example: After the process, the machine purges the chamber before venting it to remove toxic gases. 2. To remove by cleansing; to wash away. Labels: transitive 3. To free from sin, guilt, or burden. Labels: transitive Example: Purge away our sins, for thy name’s sake. Example: We'll join our cares to purge away / Our country’s crimes. 4. To evacuate (the bowels or the stomach); to defecate or vomit. Labels: intransitive, transitive 5. To cause someone to purge; to operate (on somebody) using a cathartic or emetic, or in a similar manner. Labels: transitive Example: "What did they die of?” I asked. / "Fevers. The doctor came and bled them and purged them, but they still died." / "He bled and purged babies?" / "They were two and three. He said it would break the fever. And it did. But they … they died anyway." 6. To forcibly remove, for example, from political activity. Labels: transitive Example: Deng Xiaoping was purged twice during the Cultural Revolution, but managed to return to power after Mao's death. 7. To forcibly remove people by an organization. Labels: transitive Example: Cromwell had Colonel Pride purge Parliament of royalists who opposed Charles I's execution. Example: Late triumphs of Russian science are scaring the very dogwater out of large elements in our society, and we both fear more "purging" instead of more effort at catching up. 8. To clear of a charge, suspicion, or imputation. Labels: transitive 9. To clarify; to clear the dregs from (liquor). Labels: transitive 10. To become pure, as by clarification. Labels: intransitive 11. To have or produce frequent evacuations from the intestines, as by means of a cathartic. Labels: intransitive 12. To trim, dress, or prune. Labels: transitive 13. Of topical skincare: to force underlying acne to rise to the surface in response to ingredients that increase cell turnover, causing a temporary increase in blemishes. Labels: transitive Example: Differin is purging my skin. 14. Of skin: to undergo the process of purging. Labels: intransitive Example: My skin is purging.
Word: purge Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English purgen, from Old French purgier, from Latin pūrgō (“to make pure, to cleanse”), from pūrus (“clean, pure”) + agō (“to make, to do”). Pronunciation: /pɜːd͡ʒ/, /pɜɹd͡ʒ/ 1. An act or instance of purging. 2. An evacuation of the bowels or the stomach; a defecation or vomiting. 3. Something which or someone who purges; especially, a medicine that evacuates the intestines; a cathartic. Example: he prescribes a Purge or a Vomit 4. A forcible removal of people, for example, from political activity. Example: Stalin liked to ensure that his purges were irreversible. Example: One of the few surviving Bolsheviks with real power, Mikoyan had been brought to Moscow by Stalin in 1926, had escaped innumerable purges, and had demonstrated an uncanny ability to survive and to associate himself with the right faction at the right time. 5. An act or instance of the cleansing of pipes. 6. A red or reddish liquid that seeps out from raw muscular meat consisting mostly of water and protein; "meat juice". 7. The temporarily worsening of acne due to the introduction of skincare products that increase cell turnover, bringing underlying blemishes to the surface more quickly.
Word: service Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ser-der.? Proto-Italic *serwos Latin servus Proto-Indo-European *-(i)yós Proto-Italic *-ijos Proto-Italic *-ios Old Latin -ios Latin -ius Latin -ia Latin -itia Latin servitiumbor. Old French servisebor. Old English serfis Middle English servise English service From Middle English servise, from Old English serfis, from Old French servise (French service), from the verb servir, from Latin servitium (compare Portuguese serviço, Italian servizio, Norman sèrvice, Spanish servicio), from servus (“servant; serf; slave”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ser-wo-s (“guardian”), possibly from *ser- (“watch over, protect”). Displaced native Old English þeġnung. Pronunciation: /ˈsɜːvɪs/, [ˈsɜːvɪs], /ˈsɝvɪs/, [ˈsɝvɪs] 1. To serve. Labels: transitive Example: They service the customer base. Example: The USS Manila Bay, in the next group south of Taffy 3, services aircraft from eleven different squadrons that aren't attached to her own flight group, and, at one point, has representatives from no less than four other carriers' airgroups on her flight deck at the same time. 2. To serve. Labels: transitive Example: He is going to service the car. Example: 2 GWM businessmen seek young GM to service nice small country home in So. NH 3. To serve. Labels: transitive Example: One obvious way is press releases, which should be sent to your region's reporters, editors and columnists, the wire services, professional publications. […] Servicing the media should be an everyday thing. Example: […] instead of expending so much of their PR effort on servicing the media. 4. To make a repayment or pay interest (on a debt). Labels: transitive Example: It continues to be laden with intense debt servicing costs. 5. To inseminate through sexual intercourse. Labels: euphemistic, transitive 6. To perform a sexual act upon. Labels: transitive, vulgar Example: He serviced her several times a week. 7. To attack. Labels: euphemistic, transitive Example: to service a target Example: target servicing
Word: service Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Properly, the tree that bears sorb fruit, from Middle English serves, plural of serve (“sorb apple, serviceberry”), from Old English syrfe, from Vulgar Latin *sorbea, from Latin sorbus (“service tree”). See sorb. Pronunciation: /ˈsɜːvɪs/, [ˈsɜːvɪs], /ˈsɝvɪs/, [ˈsɝvɪs] 1. Service tree. 2. The sorb; the fruit of this tree.
Word: cruise Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Dutch kruisen (“cross, sail around”), from kruis (“cross”), from Middle Dutch cruce, from Latin crux. Pronunciation: /kɹuːz/, /kɹʉwz/, /kɹuz/, /kɹʉːz/, /kɾʉz/ 1. A sea or lake voyage, especially one taken for pleasure. Example: Judge Short had gone to town, and Farrar was off for a three days' cruise up the lake. I was bitterly regretting I had not gone with him when the distant notes of a coach horn reached my ear, and I descried a four-in-hand winding its way up the inn road from the direction of Mohair. Example: He departed with the Naniwa and the Hashidate²⁰ for a two day cruise, skirting the Wuchiu and Hui Ch’uan Islands and the shore of Fukien Province. 2. Portion of aircraft travel at a constant airspeed and altitude between ascent and descent phases. 3. A period spent in the Marine Corps. Labels: US, informal Example: I ended my cruise of four years in the Marine Corps at the first Officers' Training Camp for enlisted men at Quantico […] Example: The New Orleans had to have numerous alterations made, and as the Chicago was just about going into commission, I was ordered to that ship to finish my cruise. 4. A car enthusiasts' event where they drive their vehicles in a group. Example: Near-synonym: car show 5. A period of reducing the dosage of PEDs instead of cycling them off as opposed to a full-dosed cycle (blast). Labels: slang
Word: cruise Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Borrowed from Dutch kruisen (“cross, sail around”), from kruis (“cross”), from Middle Dutch cruce, from Latin crux. Pronunciation: /kɹuːz/, /kɹʉwz/, /kɹuz/, /kɹʉːz/, /kɾʉz/ 1. To sail about, especially for pleasure. Labels: intransitive Example: He and Gerald usually challenged the rollers in a sponson canoe when Gerald was there for the weekend; or, when Lansing came down, the two took long swims seaward or cruised about in Gerald's dory, clad in their swimming-suits; and Selwyn's youth became renewed in a manner almost ridiculous,[…]. 2. To travel at constant speed for maximum operating efficiency. Labels: intransitive 3. To move about an area leisurely in the hope of discovering something, or looking for custom. Labels: transitive 4. To inspect (forest land) for the purpose of estimating the quantity of lumber it will yield. Labels: ambitransitive 5. To actively seek a romantic partner or casual sexual partner by moving about a particular area; to troll. Labels: ambitransitive, colloquial 6. To attempt to pick up as a casual sexual partner; hit on Labels: colloquial, transitive Example: 1970-1975, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure Lot of not too bad looking boys there but when M came in I knew right then: him. Very thin & feminine, brown hair fluffed around his sharp featured face. So I began cruising him. Example: I saw you cruise that white guy over there. The one with the wavy hair (yeah). I cruised him too, but I couldn't get through. 7. To walk while holding on to an object (stage in development of ambulation, typically occurring at 10 months). Labels: intransitive 8. To win easily and convincingly. Labels: intransitive Example: Germany cruised to a World Cup victory over the short-handed Australians. 9. To take part in a cruise (car enthusiasts' event where they drive their vehicles in a group). Labels: intransitive 10. To have a period of reducing the dosage of PEDs instead of cycling them off as opposed to going through a full-dosed cycle (blast). Labels: slang Example: blast and cruise
Word: cruise Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /kɹuːz/, /kɹʉwz/, /kɹuz/, /kɹʉːz/, /kɾʉz/ 1. A small cup; cruse. Example: And she said, As the Lord thy God liveth, I have not a cake, but an handful of meal in a barrel, and a little oil in a cruse: and, behold, I am gathering two sticks, that I may go in and dress it for me and my son, that we may eat it, and die.
Word: reliable Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree English rely Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlis Proto-Italic *-ðlis Latin -bilis Latin -ābilis Old French -ablebor. Middle English -able English -able English reliable From rely + -able. Pronunciation: /ɹɪˈlaɪəbl̩/ 1. Suitable or fit to be relied on; worthy of dependence, reliance or trust; dependable, trustworthy Example: a reliable witness to the truth of the miracles Example: the best means, and the most reliable pledge, of a higher object 2. Such that either a sent packet will reach its destination, even if it requires retransmission, or the sender will be told that it didn't.
Word: reliable Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English rely Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlis Proto-Italic *-ðlis Latin -bilis Latin -ābilis Old French -ablebor. Middle English -able English -able English reliable From rely + -able. Pronunciation: /ɹɪˈlaɪəbl̩/ 1. Something or someone reliable or dependable Example: the old reliables
Word: cruise control Part of Speech: noun 1. A system that maintains a vehicle at constant set speed, usually until the brake or accelerator is pressed. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The crash-involved truck driver had activated the vehicle’s traditional cruise control, which is only able to maintain a set speed and does not reduce that speed based on vehicles ahead. 2. A state of being where tasks are completed easily and routinely. Labels: countable, figuratively, uncountable Example: Liverpool goalkeeper Pepe Reina was badly at fault as Ramires scored at the near post after 11 minutes and Chelsea looked in cruise control when Drogba continued his love affair with the FA Cup final and Wembley with an angled finish beyond Reina. Example: He seemed happy living life in cruise control, which pissed me off.
Word: trust Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English trust, trost (“trust, protection”). Long considered a borrowing from Old Norse traust (“confidence, help, protection”), from Proto-Germanic *traustą, but the root vocalism is incompatible, so trust has come to be considered a reflex of an unattested Old English *trust, from a rare zero-grade Proto-Germanic variant of the same root also attested in Middle High German getrüste (“host”). Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *deru- (“be firm, hard, solid”). Cognates Cognate with Saterland Frisian Traast (“comfort, solace”), West Frisian treast (“comfort, consolation, solace”), Dutch troost (“comfort, consolation”), German Trost (“comfort, consolation”), Low German Troost (“comfort, consolation”), Luxembourgish Trouscht (“consolation”), Danish trøst (“comfort, solace”), Icelandic traust (“faith, trust; confidence”), Norwegian Nynorsk trøst, trøyst (“consolation”), Swedish tröst (“comfort, consolation”), Gothic 𐍄𐍂𐌰𐌿𐍃𐍄𐌹 (trausti, “covenant, pact”). Doublet of tryst. More at true, tree. Pronunciation: /tɹʌst/, [t͡ʃʰɹ̥ʌst], /tɹɐst/, /tɹʊst/ 1. Confidence in or reliance on some person or quality. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: He needs to regain her trust if he is ever going to win her back. Example: to lose trust in someone 2. Dependence upon something in the future; hope. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Such trust have we through Christ. 3. Confidence in the future payment for goods or services supplied; credit. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: I was out of cash, but the landlady let me have it on trust. 4. That which is committed or entrusted; something received in confidence; a charge. Labels: countable, uncountable 5. That upon which confidence is reposed; ground of reliance; hope. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: O Lord God, thou art my trust from my youth. 6. Trustworthiness, reliability. Labels: countable, rare, uncountable 7. The condition or obligation of one to whom anything is confided; responsible charge or office. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: I do profess to be no less than I seem; to serve him truly that will put me in trust Example: 17th century, John Denham, Of Justice Reward them well, if they observe their trust. 8. The confidence vested in a person who has legal ownership of a property to manage for the benefit of another. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: I put the house into my sister's trust. 9. An arrangement whereby property or money is given to be held by a third party (a trustee), on the basis that it will be managed for the benefit of, or eventually transferred to, a stated beneficiary; for example, money to be given to a child when he or she reaches adulthood. Labels: countable, uncountable 10. A group of businessmen or traders organised for mutual benefit to produce and distribute specific commodities or services, and managed by a central body of trustees. Labels: countable, uncountable 11. Affirmation of the access rights of a user of a computer system. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: trust Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English trust, trost (“trust, protection”). Long considered a borrowing from Old Norse traust (“confidence, help, protection”), from Proto-Germanic *traustą, but the root vocalism is incompatible, so trust has come to be considered a reflex of an unattested Old English *trust, from a rare zero-grade Proto-Germanic variant of the same root also attested in Middle High German getrüste (“host”). Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *deru- (“be firm, hard, solid”). Cognates Cognate with Saterland Frisian Traast (“comfort, solace”), West Frisian treast (“comfort, consolation, solace”), Dutch troost (“comfort, consolation”), German Trost (“comfort, consolation”), Low German Troost (“comfort, consolation”), Luxembourgish Trouscht (“consolation”), Danish trøst (“comfort, solace”), Icelandic traust (“faith, trust; confidence”), Norwegian Nynorsk trøst, trøyst (“consolation”), Swedish tröst (“comfort, consolation”), Gothic 𐍄𐍂𐌰𐌿𐍃𐍄𐌹 (trausti, “covenant, pact”). Doublet of tryst. More at true, tree. Pronunciation: /tɹʌst/, [t͡ʃʰɹ̥ʌst], /tɹɐst/, /tɹʊst/ 1. To place confidence in, to rely on, to confide in. Labels: transitive Example: We cannot trust anyone who deceives us. Example: If I live to see it, I will never trust his word after. 2. To have faith in; to rely on for continuing support or aid. Labels: intransitive Example: In God We Trust Example: Trust in me, just in me / Shut your eyes and trust in me 3. To give credence to; to believe; to credit. Labels: transitive Example: Trust me, you looke well. 4. To hope confidently; to believe (usually with a phrase or infinitive clause as the object) Labels: transitive Example: I trust you have cleaned your room? Example: I trust to come unto you, and speak face to face. 5. to show confidence in a person by entrusting them with something. Labels: transitive Example: Whom, with your power and fortune, sir, you trust, Now to suspect is vain. 6. To commit, as to one's care; to entrust. Labels: transitive Example: Merchants were not willing to trust precious cargoes to any custody but that of a man-of-war. 7. To give credit to; to sell to upon credit, or in confidence of future payment. Labels: transitive Example: Merchants and manufacturers trust their customers annually with goods. 8. To rely on (something), as though having trust (on it). Labels: intransitive, with-to Example: to trust to luck Example: Having lost the book, he had to trust to his memory for further details. 9. To risk; to venture confidently. Labels: archaic, transitive Example: [Beguiled] by thee to trust thee from my side. 10. To have trust; to be credulous; to be won to confidence; to confide. Labels: intransitive Example: More ſhould I queſtion thee, and more I muſt, / Though more to know, could not be more to truſt: […] Example: I will trust and not be afraid. 11. To sell or deliver anything in reliance upon a promise of payment; to give credit. Labels: archaic, intransitive
Word: trust Part of Speech: intj Etymology: From Middle English trust, trost (“trust, protection”). Long considered a borrowing from Old Norse traust (“confidence, help, protection”), from Proto-Germanic *traustą, but the root vocalism is incompatible, so trust has come to be considered a reflex of an unattested Old English *trust, from a rare zero-grade Proto-Germanic variant of the same root also attested in Middle High German getrüste (“host”). Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *deru- (“be firm, hard, solid”). Cognates Cognate with Saterland Frisian Traast (“comfort, solace”), West Frisian treast (“comfort, consolation, solace”), Dutch troost (“comfort, consolation”), German Trost (“comfort, consolation”), Low German Troost (“comfort, consolation”), Luxembourgish Trouscht (“consolation”), Danish trøst (“comfort, solace”), Icelandic traust (“faith, trust; confidence”), Norwegian Nynorsk trøst, trøyst (“consolation”), Swedish tröst (“comfort, consolation”), Gothic 𐍄𐍂𐌰𐌿𐍃𐍄𐌹 (trausti, “covenant, pact”). Doublet of tryst. More at true, tree. Pronunciation: /tɹʌst/, [t͡ʃʰɹ̥ʌst], /tɹɐst/, /tɹʊst/ 1. Ellipsis of trust me, often used sarcastically or self-mockingly. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis, slang Example: You'll get your money back bro, trust. Example: P.S. Capitalizing MINORITY really doesn't help your cause bruh. Trust.
Word: trust Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English trust, trost (“trust, protection”). Long considered a borrowing from Old Norse traust (“confidence, help, protection”), from Proto-Germanic *traustą, but the root vocalism is incompatible, so trust has come to be considered a reflex of an unattested Old English *trust, from a rare zero-grade Proto-Germanic variant of the same root also attested in Middle High German getrüste (“host”). Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *deru- (“be firm, hard, solid”). Cognates Cognate with Saterland Frisian Traast (“comfort, solace”), West Frisian treast (“comfort, consolation, solace”), Dutch troost (“comfort, consolation”), German Trost (“comfort, consolation”), Low German Troost (“comfort, consolation”), Luxembourgish Trouscht (“consolation”), Danish trøst (“comfort, solace”), Icelandic traust (“faith, trust; confidence”), Norwegian Nynorsk trøst, trøyst (“consolation”), Swedish tröst (“comfort, consolation”), Gothic 𐍄𐍂𐌰𐌿𐍃𐍄𐌹 (trausti, “covenant, pact”). Doublet of tryst. More at true, tree. Pronunciation: /tɹʌst/, [t͡ʃʰɹ̥ʌst], /tɹɐst/, /tɹʊst/ 1. Secure, safe. Labels: obsolete 2. Faithful, dependable. Labels: obsolete 3. of or relating to a trust.
Word: cloudcuckooland Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of cloud-cuckoo-land. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: The very idea is straight out of cloudcuckooland!
Word: gauntlet Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English gauntelett, gantlett, a borrowing from Old French gantelet (“gauntlet worn by a knight in armor, a token of one's personality or person, and symbolizing a challenge”), diminutive of gant (“glove”), a borrowing from Frankish *want (“glove; mitten”) and reinforced by Medieval Latin wantus (“glove”) itself borrowed from the former, from Proto-Germanic *wantuz (“glove; mitten”). Cognate with Dutch want (“mitten; shroud”), German Low German Want (“shroud”), Danish vante (“mitten”), Swedish vante (“glove; mitten”), Faroese vøttur (“glove; mitten”). Pronunciation: /ˈɡɔːnt.lət/ 1. Protective armor for the hands, formerly thrown down as a challenge to combat. Example: The hands were defended by Gauntlets, these were sometimes of chain mail, but oftener of small plates of iron rivetted together, in imitation of the lobster's tail, so as to yield every motion of the hand, some gauntlets inclosed the whole hand, as in a box or case, others were divided into fingers, each finger consisting of eight or ten separate pieces, the inside gloved with buff leather, some of these reached no higher than the wrist, others to the elbow; the latter were stiled long armed gauntlets: many of them are to be seen in the Tower; for a representation of one of them, see plate 26, fig 6. 2. A long glove covering the wrist. Example: The hawk no longer darts forth from the gauntlet to soar through the air for his prey. Example: Solventproof rubber gauntlets under solventproof sleeves closed at the wrists should be worn. 3. A rope on which hammocks or clothes are hung for drying. 4. An eruption of pellagra on the hands.
Word: gauntlet Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Modified, under the influence of etymology 1, from gantlope, from Swedish gatlopp (“passageway”), from Old Swedish gata (“lane”) + lopp (“course”), from löpa (“to run”) ] 1. Two parallel rows of attackers who strike at a criminal as punishment. Labels: archaic 2. A simultaneous attack from two or more sides. 3. Any challenging, difficult, or painful ordeal, often one performed for atonement or punishment. Labels: figuratively Example: [John] Winthrop ran the gantlet of daily slights from his neighbors. 4. A fight against swarms of relatively minor enemies in the form of multiple waves, often but not always preceding a boss. 5. Overlapping parallel rail tracks; either to allowing passage through a narrow opening in each direction without switching, or to allow vehicles of a larger gauge to pass through a station without hitting the platforms.
Word: chiasmus Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin chiasmus, from Ancient Greek χῑασμός (khīasmós), from χῑάζω (khīázō, “to mark with an X”), from χ (kh, “chi”). Pronunciation: /kaɪˈæzməs/ 1. An inversion of the relationship between the elements of phrases. Labels: countable, rhetoric, uncountable Example: The book of Habakkuk has been discovered to consist of a closely knit chiastic structure throughout. This is the first poem of such length to stand revealed as a literary unit of this kind, though chiasmus has already been discovered throughout many psalms[…] Example: John F. Kennedy is more famous for his chiasmus than for many of his policies: "Ask not what your country can do for you—ask what you can do for your country."
Word: jackass Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From jack + ass. Pronunciation: /ˈd͡ʒækæs/ 1. A male donkey. Labels: countable 2. A foolish or stupid person. Labels: US, countable 3. An inappropriately rude or obnoxious person. Labels: US, countable Example: Bobby, only jackasses go around saying how much money they make. 4. A kind of bootleg liquor. Labels: US, slang, uncountable Example: As the vintner Louis Foppiano recalled years later, Sonoma County during Prohibition became a center for bootlegging, not of wine, but of spirits. 'There were some big stills hidden up in the hills of Sonoma, some producing five hundred gallons of Jackass [spirits made from spring water and sugar] a day.' Example: By now the wine counties were rife with the activity of the illegal wine trade and the force of the Prohibition Unit was hustling to keep up. At the start of the year, Officer William Navas had staged a raid on the dining room at Healdsburg's Hotel Sotoyome and discovered 'jackass' brandy […] 5. The laughing kookaburra. Labels: Australia, countable, obsolete
Word: jackass Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From jack + ass. Pronunciation: /ˈd͡ʒækæs/ 1. To behave very obnoxiously. Labels: intransitive, rare
Word: jackass Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From the phonetic similarity of "jack, ace" to "jackass". Pronunciation: /ˈd͡ʒækæs/ 1. A jack and an ace as a starting hand in Texas hold 'em. Labels: slang
Word: jenny-ass Part of Speech: noun 1. A female donkey. Example: c. 1849, G. Herbert Rodwell, Old London Bridge, London: Henry Lea, Chapter 15, p. 158, […] this little donkey could not be trusted in the road, for it was always getting under the wheels, because it would not let its mother, a fine fat old jenny ass in the shafts, alone. Example: But a man who holds so tightly to what he calls his rights over what he calls his debts will hold tightly also to what he calls his rights over her whom he calls his wife. No sir smile neighbour shall covet his ox or his wife or his manservant or his maidservant or his jackass. / —Or his jennyass, Buck Mulligan antiphoned.
Word: jenny Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Partially from generic use of the female given name Jenny (cf. Jane) and partially from informal pronunciations of engine. Pronunciation: /ˈd͡ʒɛni/ 1. A device for spinning thread from fiber onto multiple spindles (also called spinning jenny). 2. A female creature of certain kinds: 3. A female creature of certain kinds: 4. A female creature of certain kinds: Example: Of course all the stock went by road and the house cat—a jenny it was—was put into a basket and driven in the trap along with one or two particular things and the women. 5. A female creature of certain kinds: Labels: Australia 6. A catmill. 7. In billiards and similar games, a powerful follow shot with plenty of topspin. Example: Cream's potting had been extraordinary, extraordinary, I remember, said Goff. I never saw anything like it. We were watching breathless, as he set himself for a long thin jenny, with the black of all balls.
Word: jenny Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Partially from generic use of the female given name Jenny (cf. Jane) and partially from informal pronunciations of engine. Pronunciation: /ˈd͡ʒɛni/ 1. To wind finished lace onto cards ready for sale.
Word: she-ass Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English she asse; equivalent to she- + ass. 1. A female donkey.
Word: simian Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin sīmia (“ape, monkey”), from Ancient Greek σιμός (simós, “snub-nosed”). Pronunciation: /ˈsɪm.i.ən/ 1. Of or pertaining to apes and monkeys. 2. Bearing resemblance to an ape or monkey; apelike or monkeylike. Example: In “Benguelê” (which refers to slaves’ nostalgic longing for Africa) he makes extensive use of crouching, stooped bodies in a simian, loping walk, arms hanging loosely and head down to suggest tribal dances, rituals, animals, a precivilization.
Word: simian Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin sīmia (“ape, monkey”), from Ancient Greek σιμός (simós, “snub-nosed”). Pronunciation: /ˈsɪm.i.ən/ 1. An ape or monkey, especially an anthropoid (infraorder Simiiformes). Example: The simians would require no special orientation courses to teach them the reasons for fighting, such as, “To make the world safe for Demagocracy,” or whatnot.
Word: shrewdness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English shrewd Proto-Germanic *-inōną Proto-Indo-European *-dyé- Proto-Germanic *-atjaną Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Germanic *-þuz Proto-Germanic *-assuz Proto-Germanic *-inassuz Proto-West Germanic *-nassī Old English -nes Middle English -nesse English -ness English shrewdness From shrewd + -ness. 1. The quality of being shrewd. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: A man with less worldly shrewdness would never have seen how things really stood; a man with less pliability could never have adapted himself to them. It must always be remembered, that his whole administration was one long struggle: he had to maintain his master on the throne, and himself in the ministry; and this was done by sheer force of talent. Example: At the centre of Stalin’s superiority over his competitors was certainly his intense will, just as Napoleon ranked what he called ‘moral fortitude’ higher in a general than genius or experience. When Milovan Djilas said to Stalin during the Yugoslav-Soviet discussions in Moscow during the war that the Serbian politician Gavrilović was ‘a shrewd man’, Stalin commented, as though to himself: ‘Yes, there are politicians who think shrewdness is the main thing in politics. . . .’⁴⁴ His was a will-power taken to a logical extreme. There is something non-human about his almost total lack of normal restraints upon it. 2. An invented collective name for a group of apes. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: bear cub Part of Speech: noun 1. A young bear.
Word: she-bear Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English sche bere; equivalent to she- + bear. 1. A female bear (as opposed to a he-bear, male bear). Example: Elisha [...] was able to call upon two she-bears to come and eat up the children who had treated him irreverently[.] Example: two she-bears came out of the woods and tore forty-two of the boys.
Word: Reykjavik Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Icelandic Reykjavík (literally “Bay of Smoke”). Pronunciation: /ˈɹɛk.jə.vɪk/, /ˈɹeɪk.jə.vɪk/ 1. The capital city of Iceland.
Word: Reykjavík Part of Speech: name Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Icelandic Reykjavík (literally “bay of smokes”). Literally translated as Reekwich. Pronunciation: /ˈɹɛk.jə.vɪk/, /ˈɹeɪk.jə.vɪk/ 1. The capital city of Iceland.
Word: aimer Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From aim + -er. Pronunciation: /ˈeɪ̯məː/, [ˈeɪ̯məː], /ˈeɪ̯mɚ/, [ˈeɪ̯mɚ] ~ [ˈeɪ̯mɹ̩] 1. One who aims; one who is responsible for aiming. Example: After joining the RAF, he trained as a bomb aimer in Oxfords, Ansons and Wellingtons before joining a squadron of Lancasters.
Word: Skopje Part of Speech: name Etymology: Transliteration of Macedonian Скопје (Skopje). Pronunciation: /ˈskɒp.jeɪ/, /ˈskɒp.jə/, /ˈskoʊp.jeɪ/ 1. The capital city of North Macedonia. 2. North Macedonia, especially in the Greek media. Labels: metonymically
Word: Vaduz Part of Speech: name Etymology: From German Vaduz, via Rhaeto-Romance auadutg, from Latin aquaeductus. Pronunciation: /vəˈduːts/ 1. A town and municipality, the capital of Liechtenstein.
Word: immature Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle French immature. Partially displaced unripe, from Old English unrīpe (“unripe, immature”). Pronunciation: /ɪməˈtjʊə(ɹ)/, /ɪməˈt͡ʃʊə(ɹ)/, /ɪməˈt͡ʃə(ɹ)/ 1. Occurring before the proper time; untimely, premature (especially of death). Labels: archaic Example: And thou also canst best account for the causes of her immature death […]. 2. Not fully formed or developed; not grown. 3. Childish in behavior; juvenile. Example: You're only young once, but you can be immature the rest of your life. Example: The man was immature for throwing a tantrum.
Word: immature Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle French immature. Partially displaced unripe, from Old English unrīpe (“unripe, immature”). Pronunciation: /ɪməˈtjʊə(ɹ)/, /ɪməˈt͡ʃʊə(ɹ)/, /ɪməˈt͡ʃə(ɹ)/ 1. An immature member of a species. Example: There are many genera and even families of Brachypylina for which immatures are not yet known, and thus numerous examples of adult convergence and misclassification remain to be revealed: such is the case with Hypozetes. Example: While on a walk the next morning I found what looked like a patch of old growth habitat - perhaps somewhere the fires had missed - and to my astonishment saw a female Red-lored Whistler accompanied by an immature.
Word: Malta Island Part of Speech: name Etymology: Malta + island 1. The largest island of Malta.
Word: Comino Part of Speech: name 1. An island of the Republic of Malta.
Word: Gozo Part of Speech: name Etymology: Ultimately from Maltese Għawdex. Pronunciation: /ˈɡəʊzəʊ/, /ˈɡoʊzoʊ/ 1. The second-largest island of the Republic of Malta.
Word: Maltese Islands Part of Speech: name 1. An archipelago in the Mediterranean Sea making up the Republic of Malta.
Word: Valletta Part of Speech: name Etymology: Named after Jean de Valette, a French nobleman and 49th Grand Master of the Order of Malta Pronunciation: /vəˈlɛtə/ 1. The capital city of Malta.
Word: Chisinau Part of Speech: name 1. Alternative spelling of Chișinău. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: Moreover, in the case of Moldova, Chisinau has been the sole engine of growth (in 1997, Chisinau grew by around 10 percent, fueled by a construction boom, while Moldova overall had just a 1.3 percent growth). Example: In addition, a consensus has not been reached over the legal status of Transnistria, and the authority of the Moldovan government in Chisinau has not yet been extended over the Transnistrian territory.
Word: Monte Carlo Part of Speech: name Etymology: Borrowed from Italian Mónte Càrlo (literally “Mount Charles”). Named after Charles III, Prince of Monaco (1818–1889). Pronunciation: /ˌmɒn.tiː ˈkɑː.ləʊ̯/, /ˌmɔːn.tiː ˈkɑː.ləʊ̯/, /ˌmɔn.ti ˈkɑɹ.loʊ̯/, /ˌmɑn.ti ˈkɑɹ.loʊ̯/, /ˌmɒn.ti ˈkɑɹ.loʊ̯/ 1. A ward of Monaco, Europe, famous for its casinos. Example: "Why do people go if they invariably lose?" asked the blind man. "My dear fellow, why do they go to Monte Carlo?" was the retort, accompanied by a tolerant shrug. 2. Ellipsis of Monte Carlo method. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis Example: The probability density of the Bayesian posterior was estimated by Metropolis-coupled Markov chain Monte Carlo, with multiple incrementally heated chains.
Word: Monte Carlo Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Italian Mónte Càrlo (literally “Mount Charles”). Named after Charles III, Prince of Monaco (1818–1889). Pronunciation: /ˌmɒn.tiː ˈkɑː.ləʊ̯/, /ˌmɔːn.tiː ˈkɑː.ləʊ̯/, /ˌmɔn.ti ˈkɑɹ.loʊ̯/, /ˌmɑn.ti ˈkɑɹ.loʊ̯/, /ˌmɒn.ti ˈkɑɹ.loʊ̯/ 1. A commonly served drink consisting of beer and grenadine. 2. An informal dance competition, where contestants in one quarter of the floor are eliminated by a randomly drawn card representing the corner.
Word: Barents Island Part of Speech: name 1. An island of Svalbard.
Word: Edge Island Part of Speech: name 1. An island of Svalbard.
Word: North East Land Part of Speech: name Etymology: Calque of Norwegian Nordaustlandet, from the definite singular of nord + aust + land. 1. An island of Svalbard, Norway.
Word: King Charles Land Part of Speech: name 1. A group of islands east of Svalbard.
Word: Prince Charles Foreland Part of Speech: name 1. An island of Svalbard.
Word: Spitsbergen Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Dutch Spitsbergen, from spits (“pointed, pointy”) + bergen (“mountains”), see there. Pronunciation: /ˈspɪtsˌbɛə(ɹ)ɡən/, /ˈspɪtsˌbɜː(ɹ)ɡən/ 1. Svalbard: An archipelago, territory, and unincorporated area of Norway northeast of Greenland, in the Arctic Ocean. Labels: dated 2. The largest island of this archipelago.
Word: White Island Part of Speech: name Etymology: # Calque of Norwegian Nynorsk Kvitøya (literally “White Island”). # Named by James Cook on 1 November 1769 in reference to its white appearance, either due to the presence of volcanic steam or guano deposits. 1. An island of Svalbard, Norway 2. An uninhabitable volcanic island in the Bay of Plenty, New Zealand.
Word: Longyearbyen Part of Speech: name Pronunciation: /ˈlɔŋˌjiɹ.bjɛn/, /ˈlɔŋˌjɪə.bjen/ 1. A port town, the capital of Svalbard, Norway; the largest settlement in Svalbard.
Word: ursine Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Mid 16th century, from Latin ursīnus, adjectival form of ursus (“bear”) + -ine. Pronunciation: /ˈɜː.saɪn/, /ˈɝsaɪn/, /ˈɝsɪn/ 1. Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of bears. Example: The British chief having undergone the ursine embrace of the Seikh monarch, the whole cavalcade proceeded towards the town. Example: […] the old man's eccentricities, sometimes bordering on the ursine, repelled the juniors […] 2. Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of the bear subfamily Ursinae. Example: 2004, in Donald G. Lindburg and Karen Baragona (eds.), Giant Pandas: Biology and Conservation, Berkeley: University of California Press, Part Two, Introduction, p. 37, https://books.google.ca/books?id=bFKrwj73REIC&pg=PA37 3. Covered in stiff bristles.
Word: ursine Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Mid 16th century, from Latin ursīnus, adjectival form of ursus (“bear”) + -ine. Pronunciation: /ˈɜː.saɪn/, /ˈɝsaɪn/, /ˈɝsɪn/ 1. A bear.
Word: pentagon Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle French pentagone, from Late Latin pentagōnum, from Ancient Greek πεντάγωνον (pentágōnon), noun use of the neuter of the adjective πεντάγωνος (pentágōnos, “five-angled”), from πέντε (pénte, “five”) + -γωνος (-gōnos, “angled”). Equivalent to penta- + -gon. Pronunciation: /ˈpɛn.təˌɡɑn/, /ˈpɛn.tə.ɡən/, /ˈpɛn.tə.ɡɒn/ 1. A polygon with five sides and five angles. Example: Imagine a vast sheet of paper on which straight Lines, Triangles, Squares, Pentagons, Hexagons, and other figures, instead of remaining fixed in their places, move freely about, […] 2. A fort with five bastions.
Word: glad Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English glad, gled, from Old English glæd (“shining; bright; cheerful; glad”), from Proto-Germanic *gladaz (“shiny; gleaming; radiant; happy; glossy; smooth; flat”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰladʰ-, from *ǵʰelh₂- (“to shine”). Cognate with Scots gled, glaid (“shining; bright; glad”), Saterland Frisian glääd (“smooth; sleek”), West Frisian glêd (“smooth”), Dutch glad (“smooth; sleek; slippery”), German glatt (“smooth; sleek; slippery”), Danish, Norwegian and Swedish glad (“glad; happy; cheerful”), Icelandic glaður (“glad; joyful; cheery”), Latin glaber (“smooth; hairless; bald”), Russian гла́дкий (gládkij, “smooth”). Doublet of glatt. Pronunciation: /ɡlæd/, /ɡlad/, /ɡlaːd/, /ɡlæːd/, /ɡlɛd/ 1. Pleased; happy; gratified. Labels: predicative, usually Example: I'm glad the rain has finally stopped. Example: I'm always glad to be of service. 2. Having a bright or cheerful appearance; expressing or exciting joy; producing gladness. Labels: obsolete, predicative, usually Example: Her conversation / More glad to me than to a miser money is. Example: Glad Eevening & glad morn crownd the fourth day.
Word: glad Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English glad, gled, from Old English glæd (“shining; bright; cheerful; glad”), from Proto-Germanic *gladaz (“shiny; gleaming; radiant; happy; glossy; smooth; flat”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰladʰ-, from *ǵʰelh₂- (“to shine”). Cognate with Scots gled, glaid (“shining; bright; glad”), Saterland Frisian glääd (“smooth; sleek”), West Frisian glêd (“smooth”), Dutch glad (“smooth; sleek; slippery”), German glatt (“smooth; sleek; slippery”), Danish, Norwegian and Swedish glad (“glad; happy; cheerful”), Icelandic glaður (“glad; joyful; cheery”), Latin glaber (“smooth; hairless; bald”), Russian гла́дкий (gládkij, “smooth”). Doublet of glatt. Pronunciation: /ɡlæd/, /ɡlad/, /ɡlaːd/, /ɡlæːd/, /ɡlɛd/ 1. To make glad. Labels: archaic, predicative, transitive, usually Example: that which gladded all the warrior train Example: Each drinks the juice that glads the heart of man.