nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: axial Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂eǵ-? Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱs-der. Proto-Italic *aksis Latin axisbor. English axis English -al English axial From axis + -al. Pronunciation: /ˈæk.sɪ.əl/, /ˈæk.si.əl/ 1. Relating to, resembling, or situated on an axis Example: The axial asymmetry of Mercury's inertia ellipsoid may result in a torque that counterbalances the tidal torque 2. Belonging to the axis of the body, or to the axis of any appendage or organ Example: the axial skeleton Example: the axial bones 3. In the same direction as the axis, parallel to the axis. Example: The secondary xylem usually consists of axial and radial elements. 4. Oriented parallel to the axis running through the centre of a cyclohexane ring, as opposed to equatorial. See Axial bond. Labels: physical
Word: axial Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂eǵ-? Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱs-der. Proto-Italic *aksis Latin axisbor. English axis English -al English axial From axis + -al. Pronunciation: /ˈæk.sɪ.əl/, /ˈæk.si.əl/ 1. A flight feather that appears between the primaries and secondaries on some birds. 2. A plane parallel to the surface of a tooth.
Word: axeman Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From axe + man. 1. A man who wields an axe. Labels: also, figuratively Example: If you charge into the Upper Egyptians head-on, they may pepper your axemen with arrows from on top of the cliff. Example: Robertson was finally asked to step down at the end of 1961. His successor would be Dr Beeching, who was seen as both visionary and axeman. 2. A musician who plays a guitar or saxophone. Labels: informal Example: Ex-Aerosmith axeman Joe Perry has finished recording his first solo effort, "I've Got the Rock 'n' Rolls Again."
Word: axolotl Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Orthographic borrowing from Classical Nahuatl āxōlōtl. Pronunciation: /ˈæk.səˌlɒ.təl/, /ˈæk.səˌlɑ.təl/ 1. A critically endangered salamander found in the elevated lakes of Mexico, Ambystoma mexicanum. Example: She is going on a tour to see axolotls at Mexico.
Word: trema Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Ancient Greek τρῆμα (trêma, “hole”), from τετραίνω (tetraínō, “perforate”), used for the dots on dice, via Dutch trema and French tréma. Pronunciation: /ˈtɹiː.mə/, /ˈtɹɛm.ə/ 1. A diacritic consisting of two dots ( ¨ ) placed over a letter, used among other things to indicate umlaut or diaeresis.
Word: awakener Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From awaken + -er. 1. One who, or that which, awakens.
Word: awakening Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From awaken + -ing. Pronunciation: /əˈweɪ̯kənɪŋ/ 1. Rousing from sleep, in a natural or a figurative sense; rousing into activity; exciting Example: the awakening city Example: an awakening discourse
Word: awakening Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From awaken + -ing. Pronunciation: /əˈweɪ̯kənɪŋ/ 1. The act of awaking, or ceasing to sleep. 2. A revival of religion, or more general attention to religious matters than usual. 3. Being roused into action or activity. Labels: figuratively Example: When I invited women to decide for themselves which rite of passage to talk or write about, I found that only a few chose their sexual awakening. 4. The act of becoming aware of something.
Word: awakening Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From awaken + -ing. Pronunciation: /əˈweɪ̯kənɪŋ/ 1. present participle and gerund of awaken Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: awakenment Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English awaken Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥ Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥tom Proto-Italic *-mentom Latin -mentum Old French -mentbor. Middle English -ment English -ment English awakenment From awaken + -ment. 1. An awakening.
Word: awanting Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Hellenic *ə- Ancient Greek ἀ- (a-)der. English a- English wanting English awanting From a- + wanting. 1. missing; wanting; deficient or absent Labels: not-comparable Example: 1852?: William Hamilton In either case criticism was required, and criticism was awanting.
Word: award Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English awarden, from Anglo-Norman awarder, from Medieval Latin *exwardare, from Latin ex (“out”) + Medieval Latin wardare, guardare (“to observe, regard, guard”); see ward, guard, regard. Pronunciation: /əˈwɔːd/, /əˈwɔɹd/ 1. A judgment, sentence, or final decision. Specifically: The decision of arbitrators in a case submitted. Example: Citing the damages that Ms. Lewis and Mr. Heslin had requested, Mr. Jones called the award a “major victory” in a video posted on Infowars on Thursday night, even as he urged viewers to buy products from his website to stave off what he portrayed as financial ruin. 2. The paper containing the decision of arbitrators; that which is warded. 3. Funding that has been granted for the conduct of a research project. 4. A trophy or medal; something that denotes an accomplishment, especially in a competition. A prize or honor based on merit. 5. A negotiated set of employment conditions and minimum wages for a particular trade or industry; an industrial award. Labels: Australia, New-Zealand Example: The AMIEU^([Australasian Meat Industry Employees Union]) first developed into a powerful organisation in the early years of the twentieth century, and after the first industry-wide collective agreement was made in 1911, collective bargaining prevailed in the industry until 1917, when the employers sought an award from the Queensland Industrial Court. The first award was issued on March 12, 1918. Example: A further 17 per cent responded that the agreement replaced ‘most’ aspects of the award, leaving the large majority (67 per cent) claiming that the agreement replaced only ‘some’ aspects of the award.
Word: award Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English awarden, from Anglo-Norman awarder, from Medieval Latin *exwardare, from Latin ex (“out”) + Medieval Latin wardare, guardare (“to observe, regard, guard”); see ward, guard, regard. Pronunciation: /əˈwɔːd/, /əˈwɔɹd/ 1. To determine; to make or grant an award. Labels: intransitive Example: To assert its control, Vietnam has since established Spratly Island as a township in Truòng Sa district, organized local elections and tours in the Spratlys, and has continued to award oil exploration contracts. 2. To give (an award). Labels: transitive Example: Four or five of these medals are awarded every year. Example: He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. 3. To give (a person) an award. Labels: transitive Example: He was awarded with the Nobel Prize for Literature. 4. To give by sentence or judicial determination; to assign or apportion, after careful regard to the nature of the case. Labels: transitive Example: The arbitrators awarded damages to the complainant. Example: To review / The wrongful sentence, and award a new. 5. (in an examination) To give marks for a correct answer. Labels: UK, transitive Example: Do not award marks for data from previous questions.
Word: awarder Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From award + -er. 1. One who awards, or assigns by sentence or judicial determination; a judge, arbitrator or umpire.
Word: aware Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Inherited from Middle English aware, iwar, iware, ywar, from Old English ġewær (“aware”), from Proto-West Germanic *gawar, from Proto-Germanic *waraz (“aware, cautious”), from Proto-Indo-European *worós (“attentive”), from *wer- (“to heed; watch out”). Cognate with Dutch gewaar, German gewahr, Danish var, Swedish var, Icelandic varr. Pronunciation: /əˈwɛə/, [əˈwɛə̯] ~ [əˈwɛː], /əˈwɛː/, /əˈweː/, /əˈweə/ 1. Vigilant or on one's guard against danger or difficulty. Example: Stay aware! Don't let your guard down. 2. Conscious or having knowledge of something; awake. Example: Are you aware of what is being said about you? Example: Gotta get going. I wasn’t aware that it was already so late.
Word: aware Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Inherited from Middle English aware, iwar, iware, ywar, from Old English ġewær (“aware”), from Proto-West Germanic *gawar, from Proto-Germanic *waraz (“aware, cautious”), from Proto-Indo-European *worós (“attentive”), from *wer- (“to heed; watch out”). Cognate with Dutch gewaar, German gewahr, Danish var, Swedish var, Icelandic varr. Pronunciation: /əˈwɛə/, [əˈwɛə̯] ~ [əˈwɛː], /əˈwɛː/, /əˈweː/, /əˈweə/ 1. To make (someone) aware of something. Labels: nonstandard, transitive Example: Conſcience is the director of all our actions, and diſcriminates them all, with the intentions of our hearts; awares us of the crime of the one, and the virtue of the other.
Word: awarn Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English awarnye; equivalent to a- + warn. Pronunciation: /əˈwɔː(ɹ)n/ 1. To warn. Labels: obsolete, transitive Example: That every bird and beast awarned made To shrowd themselves
Word: awash Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Hellenic *ə- Ancient Greek ἀ- (a-)der. English a- Proto-Indo-European *wed- Proto-Indo-European *-sḱéti Proto-Indo-European *wodsḱéti Proto-Germanic *waskaną Proto-West Germanic *waskan Old English wascan Middle English wasshen English wash English awash From a- + wash. Pronunciation: /əˈwɒʃ/ 1. Washed by the waves or tide (of a rock or strip of shore, or of an anchor, etc., when flush with the surface of the water, so that the waves break over it); covered with water. Example: The former rock is awash at low water […] Example: The deck was continually awash with the sea which came inboard over the rail and through the scuppers. 2. Covered, overspread (with or in something). Labels: broadly Example: Tonight, his mind was awash with visions: Example: In the Sumerian language the word for water also means semen, and since Enki is the god of water, he is therefore the god of semen. In this ode to the Great Father, the land of the Sumerians is literally awash with semen.
Word: aweary Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Hellenic *ə- Ancient Greek ἀ- (a-)der. English a- English weary English aweary From a- + weary. Pronunciation: /əˈwɪə̯ɹi/, /əˈwɪɹi/, /əˈwɪɚi/, /əˈwiɹi/, /əˈwiːɹe/ 1. Weary, tired. Labels: poetic Example: […] my little body is aweary of this great world. Example: She said, 'I am aweary, aweary, / I would that I were dead!'
Word: aweather Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From a- + weather; distantly cognate in structure to German Gewitter. Pronunciation: /əˈwɛðɚ/ 1. On the weather side, or toward the wind; in the direction from which the wind blows (See upwind) Example: Helm aweather!
Word: aweigh Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From a- + weigh. Pronunciation: /əˈweɪ/ 1. Of a ship's anchor: Having been lifted off the sea bed in preparation for sailing; hanging by its rode, atrip. Labels: not-comparable, postpositional 2. Of a ship or its crew: Prepared to sail. Labels: not-comparable
Word: aweless Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English aweles; by surface analysis, awe + -less. Pronunciation: /ˈɔːlɪs/, /-ləs/, /ˈɔlɪs/ 1. Without fear; fearless, unafraid. Example: New-wrought were the knights' broad bucklers, bright without fleck or stain, / And their helms were a flashing splendour, as rode that gallant train / After the aweless Siegfried through the heart of Burgundia-land; / Never therein did heroes so goodly-apparelled stand. Example: […] In the town / The aweless Trojans armed themselves the while / War-eager, praying to the Gods to grant / Respite from slaughter, breathing-space from toil. 2. Wanting reverence; void of respectful fear; irreverent. Example: A proud heart, evidencing itself in a saucy, malapert, aweless, and careless carriage, is most unbeseeming the condition of servants, and highly displeasing to God in them, as being opposite to that property of fear and trembling which ought to accompany their obedience: "Be obedient with fear and trembling." Example: What Miss Anna Seward called 'the wit and aweless impoliteness of the stupendous creature' [Samuel Johnson] bore down every one before it. […] And Dean Barnard, invoking the aid of his friends against the aweless impoliteness, and submitting himself to be taught by their better accomplishments, has told us in lively verse with what good humour it was borne by [Joshua] Reynolds. 3. Inspiring no awe. Labels: obsolete Example: Aye me! I ſee the ruine of my Houſe: / The Tyger now hath ſeiz'd the gentle Hinde, / Inſulting Tiranny beginnes to Jutt / Vpon the innocent and aweleſſe throne: […] Example: Needs muſt you lay your heart at his diſpoſe, / Subiected tribute to commanding loue, / Againſt whoſe furie and vnmatched force, / The awleſſe Lion could not wage the fight, / Nor keepe his Princely heart from Richards hand: […]
Word: awe-struck Part of Speech: adj 1. Alternative form of awestruck. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: awesomeness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English awesome 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 awesomeness From awesome + -ness. Pronunciation: /ˈɔːsəmnəs/ 1. The quality of being awesome. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: Traditional religions try to capture the awesomeness and subdue the terror with their sense of fate, as did Nietzsche. We should not deny that such notions are naturalistic just because they are also religious. Example: The bogan likes playing Epic Leads because the bogan is on an inexorable quest for maxtreme awesomeness.
Word: awful Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English agheful, awfull, auful, aȝefull, equivalent to awe + -ful. Compare Old English eġeful, eġefull (“terrifying; awful”). The “very bad” sense is a pejorative semantic shift from the original sense of “awe-inspiring”. Pronunciation: /ˈɔːfʊl/, /ˈɔːfəl/, [ˈɔːfɫ̩], /ˈoːfəl/, [ˈoːfɫ̩] 1. Very bad. Example: The smell of my socks is awful. Example: We saw such an awful film last night that we left the theater before the end. 2. Exceedingly great; usually applied intensively. Example: I have learnt an awful amount today. Example: Shepard: You seem to know an awful lot about me. Geth: Extranet data sources. Insecure broadcasts. All organic data sent out is received. We watch you. 3. Causing fear or horror; appalling, terrible. Labels: dated Example: There was an air of gravity and importance about the garb of the person, and something indescribably odd, I might say awful, in the perfect, stonelike stillness of the figure, that effectually checked the testy comment which had at once risen to the lips of the irritated artist. Example: At our old pastimes in the hall ⁠We gambol’d, making vain pretence ⁠Of gladness, with an awful sense Of one mute Shadow watching all. 4. Awe-inspiring; filling with profound reverence or respect; profoundly impressive. Labels: archaic Example: As I am seen could I but gaze on Thee / Awful in majesty and royal might Example: God ought not to be commixed in our actions, but with awful reverence, and an attention full of honour and respect. 5. Struck or filled with awe or reverence. Labels: archaic Example: She spoke about Mr. Pendennis (a worthy little gentleman enough, but there are others as good as he) with an awful reverence, as if he had been the Pope of Rome on his throne, and she a cardinal kneeling at his feet, and giving him incense. 6. Terror-stricken. Labels: obsolete 7. Prone to a particular temptation. Labels: Ireland, especially Example: "It's her imagination, that's what it is," Millie said. "She's awful for imagining things, Wilfred agreed with me." Example: Tommy was just an awful man for the paper - couldn't get enough of the stuff! He'd have had the very Yellow Pages down him!
Word: awful Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From Middle English agheful, awfull, auful, aȝefull, equivalent to awe + -ful. Compare Old English eġeful, eġefull (“terrifying; awful”). The “very bad” sense is a pejorative semantic shift from the original sense of “awe-inspiring”. Pronunciation: /ˈɔːfʊl/, /ˈɔːfəl/, [ˈɔːfɫ̩], /ˈoːfəl/, [ˈoːfɫ̩] 1. Awfully; dreadfully; terribly. Labels: colloquial, not-comparable Example: The race was run, and the dog ran "awful". 2. Very, extremely. Labels: Canada, US, colloquial, not-comparable Example: That's an awful big house. Example: She seemed awful nice when I met her yesterday.
Word: aweful Part of Speech: adj 1. Obsolete spelling of awful. Labels: alt-of, obsolete Example: Sir Thomas and Lady Bertram received her very kindly, and Sir Thomas seeing how much she needed encouragement, tried to be all that was conciliating; he had to work against a most untoward gravity of deportment—and Lady Bertram, without taking half so much trouble, or speaking one word where he spoke ten, by the mere aid of a good-humoured smile, became immediately the less aweful character of the two. 2. Misspelling of awful. Labels: alt-of, misspelling
Word: awfully Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree English awful Middle English -ly English -ly English awfully From awful + -ly. Pronunciation: /ˈɔː.fʊ.li/, /ˈɔː.fə.li/, /ˈɔː.fli/, /ˈɔ.f(ə.)li/, /ˈɑ.f(ə.)li/ 1. Badly, terribly. Example: She led after the swimming and cycling, but ran awfully and came in fourth. 2. Very; exceedingly; extremely; excessively. Labels: not-comparable Example: It was wondrous. 'I'm awfully glad I came now,' his thought ran; 'I'm managing it rather well.' Example: It’s awfully considerate of you to think of me here / And I’m most obliged to you for making it clear that I’m not here 3. In a manner inspiring awe. Labels: archaic 4. Reverently. Labels: archaic 5. Fearfully. Labels: obsolete Example: I returned to the inn yard, and, impressed by my remembrance of the face, looked awfully around for it. It was not there.
Word: awfulness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English aghfulnesse, equivalent to awful + -ness. 1. The state or quality of being awful. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: Out came old Teenie, buzzing mad as a whole nest of wasps. Muttered awfulnesses came from her great padded bonnet. Example: "Why is the awfulness of families such a popular reason for starting another?" 2. The quality of striking with awe, or with reverence Labels: uncountable, usually Example: […] the knocking at the gate, which succeeds to the murder of Duncan, produced to my feelings an effect for which I could never account: the effect was—that it reflected back upon the murder a peculiar awfulness and a depth of solemnity […] Example: It is only when actually gazing on an active volcano that one can fully realize its awfulness and grandeur. Whence comes that inexhaustible fire whose dense and sulphurous smoke forever issues from this bare and desolate peak? 3. The state of being struck with awe; a spirit of solemnity; profound reverence. Labels: uncountable, usually
Word: awhape Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Compare a- + whap (“a blow”). 1. To confound; to terrify; to amaze. Labels: obsolete, transitive
Word: awhile Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From Old English āne (“(for) a”) hwīle (“while”). Pronunciation: /əˈwaɪl/, /əˈʍaɪl/ 1. For some time; for a short time. Labels: not-comparable Example: Sit with me awhile. Example: Take two cupfuls of rolled oats, put in bread pan, turn on four cupfuls of boiling water, stir for awhile. 2. In the meantime; during an implicit ongoing process. Labels: US, not-comparable Example: Can I get you a drink awhile?
Word: awing Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Hellenic *ə- Ancient Greek ἀ- (a-)der. English a- English wing English awing From a- + wing. Pronunciation: /əˈwɪŋ/ 1. On the wing; flying; fluttering. Labels: not-comparable Example: Close upon the window-glass pressed our eager faces— Hearts and torches all aflare, frame on frame of laces, Wreathing roses all abloom, Cupids all awing, Valentines—and valentines! swung along the string,
Word: awing Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ˈɔː.ɪŋ/ 1. present participle and gerund of awe Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: awk Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂ep Proto-Indo-European *-o Proto-Indo-European *h₂epó Proto-Indo-European *h₃ekʷ- Proto-Indo-European *h₂époh₃kʷos Proto-Germanic *abuhaz Old Norse ǫfugrder. Middle English awke English awk From Middle English awke, from Old Norse ǫfugr, ǫfigr, afigr (“turned backwards”) (whence Danish avet (“backwards”), Swedish avig (“turned backwards”)), from Proto-Germanic *abuhaz. Cognate with German äbich, Gothic 𐌹𐌱𐌿𐌺𐍃 (ibuks, “turned back”). Akin to Sanskrit अपाच् (apāc, “turned away”). Compare dialectal Danish ave (“to turn”), Dutch averechts (“opposite, backwards, contrary”), Icelandic öfga (“to reverse”). Pronunciation: /ɔːk/, /ɑːk/ 1. Odd; out of order; perverse. Labels: obsolete 2. Wrong, or not commonly used; clumsy; sinister. Labels: obsolete Example: the awk end of hir charmed rod 3. Clumsy in performance or manners; not dexterous; awkward. Labels: UK, dialectal, obsolete Example: […] whose wild and madbrain humour nothing fitteth so just, as the stalest dudgen or absurdest balductum, that they or their mates can invent in odd and awk speeches […] 4. Awkward; uncomfortable. Labels: US, slang
Word: awk Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂ep Proto-Indo-European *-o Proto-Indo-European *h₂epó Proto-Indo-European *h₃ekʷ- Proto-Indo-European *h₂époh₃kʷos Proto-Germanic *abuhaz Old Norse ǫfugrder. Middle English awke English awk From Middle English awke, from Old Norse ǫfugr, ǫfigr, afigr (“turned backwards”) (whence Danish avet (“backwards”), Swedish avig (“turned backwards”)), from Proto-Germanic *abuhaz. Cognate with German äbich, Gothic 𐌹𐌱𐌿𐌺𐍃 (ibuks, “turned back”). Akin to Sanskrit अपाच् (apāc, “turned away”). Compare dialectal Danish ave (“to turn”), Dutch averechts (“opposite, backwards, contrary”), Icelandic öfga (“to reverse”). Pronunciation: /ɔːk/, /ɑːk/ 1. Perversely; in the wrong way. Labels: obsolete Example: Ill huſbandry drowſeth at fortune ſo awke, / good huſbandry rowſeth him ſelfe like a hawke.
Word: awk Part of Speech: name Pronunciation: /ɔːk/, /ɑːk/ 1. Alternative letter-case form of AWK. Labels: alt-of Example: One thing awk is good for is picking out and possibly rearranging columns within command output. Example: Must have exp w/ shell, incl Bash, & command line text processing incl grep, awk, & sed.
Word: awk Part of Speech: intj Pronunciation: /ɔːk/, /ɑːk/ 1. Alternative spelling of och. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: awkly Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂ep Proto-Indo-European *-o Proto-Indo-European *h₂epó Proto-Indo-European *h₃ekʷ- Proto-Indo-European *h₂époh₃kʷos Proto-Germanic *abuhaz Old Norse ǫfugrder. Middle English awke English awk Middle English -ly English -ly English awkly From awk + -ly. 1. In an unlucky or perverse manner. Labels: obsolete 2. Awkwardly. Labels: obsolete
Word: awkward Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂ep Proto-Indo-European *-o Proto-Indo-European *h₂epó Proto-Indo-European *h₃ekʷ- Proto-Indo-European *h₂époh₃kʷos Proto-Germanic *abuhaz Old Norse ǫfugrder. Middle English awke English awk Proto-Indo-European *wert-der. Proto-Germanic *wardaz Old English -weard English -ward English awkward From awk (“odd, clumsy”) + -ward. Compare Middle English aukeward (“in the wrong direction”). Pronunciation: /ˈɔːk.wəd/, /ˈaːk.wɐd/, /ˈɔk.wɚd/, /ˈɑk.wɚd/, /ˈoː.kwəd/ 1. Lacking dexterity in the use of the hands, or of instruments. Example: John was awkward at performing the trick. He'll have to practice to improve. 2. Not easily managed or effected; embarrassing. Example: That was an extremely awkward moment. Everyone was watching. Example: An awkward silence had fallen. 3. Lacking social skills, or uncomfortable with social interaction. Example: I'm very awkward at parties. Example: Things got awkward when my boss tried a cheesy pick-up line on me. 4. Perverse; adverse; difficult to handle. Example: He's a right awkward chap. Example: These cabinets are going to be very awkward when we move.
Word: awkward Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂ep Proto-Indo-European *-o Proto-Indo-European *h₂epó Proto-Indo-European *h₃ekʷ- Proto-Indo-European *h₂époh₃kʷos Proto-Germanic *abuhaz Old Norse ǫfugrder. Middle English awke English awk Proto-Indo-European *wert-der. Proto-Germanic *wardaz Old English -weard English -ward English awkward From awk (“odd, clumsy”) + -ward. Compare Middle English aukeward (“in the wrong direction”). Pronunciation: /ˈɔːk.wəd/, /ˈaːk.wɐd/, /ˈɔk.wɚd/, /ˈɑk.wɚd/, /ˈoː.kwəd/ 1. Someone or something that is awkward. Example: Another important branch of deportment was to seat the awkwards stiffly on the extreme edge of a chair, fold the hands on the very precarious lap, droop the eyes in a pensive way. Example: 'What periods are you talking about?' / 'The monthly awkwards. Didn't the girls at Molyneux have them when you were managing director?' / The Rabbit leaned forward, sniffing the air in the immediate vicinity. 'Either you've been drinking or you've got some girl into trouble. Or am I being unfair to you and it's both?'
Word: awl Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English aul, alle, al, from Old English æl, from Proto-West Germanic *al, from Proto-Germanic *alaz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁ólos. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Äil (“awl”), Dutch aal (“awl”), German Low German Ahl (“awl”), German Ahle (“awl”), Icelandic alur (“awl”). Spelling was influenced by the Old English synonym awel, awul (“awl”), from Proto-West Germanic *ahwal, from Proto-Germanic *ahwalaz (“fork, hook”), of unknown origin. Doublet of elsen. Pronunciation: /ɔːl/, /oːl/, /ɔl/, /ɑl/ 1. A pointed instrument for piercing small holes, as in leather or wood; used by shoemakers, saddlers, cabinetmakers, etc. The blade is differently shaped and pointed for different uses, as in the brad awl, saddler's awl, shoemaker's awl, etc. Example: He dressed himself in some old ragged clothes, and took a tame white bear, which he had, with him, as well as an awl, some pitch, and twine. 2. Any of various hesperiid butterflies.
Word: awlwort Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From awl + wort. Pronunciation: /ˈɔːlwɜː(ɹ)t/ 1. An aquatic plant, Subularia aquatica, with awl-shaped leaves. Labels: uncountable, usually
Word: awn Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Inherited from Middle English aw(u)ne, agune, from Old Norse ǫgn (compare Danish avne), from Proto-Germanic *aganō, *ahanō (“chaff”) (compare Old English agnu, Dutch agen, German Ahne, Agen), from Proto-Indo-European *aḱanā (compare Latin agna (“ear of wheat”), Lithuanian ašni̇̀s (“edge, blade”), Czech osina, Ancient Greek ἄκαινα (ákaina, “spike, prick”), ἄκανος (ákanos, “pine-thistle”), Sanskrit अशनि (aśáni, “thunderbolt, arrow tip”)), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱ- (“sharp”). More at edge. Pronunciation: /ɔːn/ 1. The bristle or beard of barley, oats, grasses, etc., or any similar bristlelike appendage; arista. Example: In one exotic genus, Aristida, the awn is compound, having three forks or branches; another exotic genus, Pappophorum, is remarkable in having the flowering glume armed with a dozen or more awns.
Word: awned Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From awn + -ed. 1. Furnished with an awn, or long bristle-shaped tip; bearded. Labels: not-comparable Example: ... between three roses seeded and awned proper, a chevron gules, ... Example: […] commonly two-awned ; but in some flowers the awns are nearly obsolete; in others there are[…]
Word: awning Part of Speech: noun Etymology: 1615-25 (nautical sense only); from *awn + -ing, reduction of Middle French auvans (“sloping roof”), from Old French anvant (1180), from Gaulish *an(de)bannā (“eaves”) (compare Occitan ambans (“parapet”)), form of *ande- (intensive prefix) (compare Welsh an-, Old Irish ind-) + *bandā (“horn; peak”) (compare Welsh ban, Irish beann). Pronunciation: /ˈɔːnɪŋ/, /ˈɔnɪŋ/, /ˈɑnɪŋ/ 1. A rooflike cover, usually of canvas, extended over or before any place as a shelter from the sun, rain, or wind. Example: At Nairobi the mail waits an hour-and-a-half. The station has three long platforms, mostly covered in awnings, the island connected with the main platform (which is used by the mails in both directions) by a subway. Example: But instead, the distinctive ironwork and glass platform awnings have been carefully refurbished, while making them compatible with the overhead wiring. Kettering's island Platform 2/3 is especially noteworthy. Although it dates from 1879, when the station was enlarged to four platforms, the same original (1857) patterns for the delicate cast-ironwork seem to have been used - […]. 2. That part of the poop deck which is continued forward beyond the bulkhead of the cabin.
Word: awninged Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From awning + -ed. 1. Having an awning. Labels: not-comparable Example: […] he thought how often he had seen [the house] blazing with lights, its steps awninged and carpeted, and carriages waiting in double line to draw up at the curbstone. Example: He stood in the shadows of the awninged terrace, a bit dizzy from the climb:
Word: awnless Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree English awn Proto-Indo-European *lewh₁- Proto-Indo-European *lewHs-der. Proto-Germanic *leusaną Proto-Germanic *lausaz Proto-Germanic *-lausaz Proto-West Germanic *-laus Old English -lēas Middle English -les English -less English awnless From awn + -less. 1. Without awns or beard; said of grain.
Word: awny Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From awn + -y. Pronunciation: /ˈɔːni/ 1. Having awns; bearded, bristly
Word: awork Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Hellenic *ə- Ancient Greek ἀ- (a-)der. English a- Proto-Indo-European *werǵ- Proto-Indo-European *-om Proto-Indo-European *wérǵom Proto-Germanic *werką Proto-West Germanic *werk Old English weorc Middle English werk English work English awork From a- + work. 1. At work; in action. Labels: not-comparable, obsolete Example: […]and ſo the dyſputation beganne, ſette a woꝛke by the Prolocutor with a verye ſhorte pꝛæludium.
Word: aworking Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Hellenic *ə- Ancient Greek ἀ- (a-)der. English a- English working English aworking From a- + working. 1. At work; in action. Labels: not-comparable, obsolete
Word: awrong Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Hellenic *ə- Ancient Greek ἀ- (a-)der. English a- English wrong English awrong From a- + wrong. 1. Wrongly. Labels: obsolete
Word: awry Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From Middle English awry, awrie. By surface analysis, a- + wry. Pronunciation: /əˈɹaɪ/, /əˈɹɑɪ/, /ˈɔː.ɹi/ 1. Obliquely, crookedly; askew. 2. Perversely, improperly.
Word: awry Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English awry, awrie. By surface analysis, a- + wry. Pronunciation: /əˈɹaɪ/, /əˈɹɑɪ/, /ˈɔː.ɹi/ 1. Turned or twisted toward one side; crooked, distorted, out of place; wry. Example: The frame was awry. 2. Wrong or distorted; perverse, amiss, off course Labels: figuratively Example: There is something awry with this story. Example: It came inside 50 minutes and moments later Cavani should have had a 12th. Pogba and Shaw combined before the left-back’s cross teed up the striker but his radar was awry.
Word: avail Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English availen (“to be of use”), from Old French a (“to”) + vail from valoir (“to be worth”), from Latin valere (“to be worthy, strong”). Pronunciation: /əˈveɪl/ 1. To turn to the advantage of. Labels: often, reflexive, transitive Example: I availed myself of the opportunity. Example: It asserts that the museum has clear protocols for dealing with any form of discrimination or discontent, which it says [Tanya] Barson never availed herself of, […] 2. To be of service to. Labels: transitive Example: Artifices will not avail the sinner in the day of judgment. 3. To promote; to assist. Labels: transitive 4. To be of use or advantage; to answer or serve the purpose; to have strength, force, or efficacy sufficient to accomplish the object. Labels: intransitive Example: The plea in court must avail. Example: This scheme will not avail. 5. To provide; to make available. Labels: Africa, India Example: With this initiative, Valucard becomes an open system that is not limited to point of sale (POS) transactions, but now avails cash to its holders in various locations nationwide. 6. To use or take advantage of (an opportunity or resource). Labels: Africa, India Example: You can avail discounts on food. Example: Over 85.3% of all persons who have adopted this method of contraception availed this service from government facilities.
Word: avail Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English availen (“to be of use”), from Old French a (“to”) + vail from valoir (“to be worth”), from Latin valere (“to be worthy, strong”). Pronunciation: /əˈveɪl/ 1. Effect in achieving a goal or aim; purpose, use (now usually in negative constructions). Labels: countable, uncountable Example: I tried fixing it to no avail. Example: Labor, without economy, is of little avail. 2. Proceeds; profits from business transactions. Labels: US, countable, uncountable Example: the avails of their own industry 3. An advertising slot or package. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The salesperson at an affiliate TV station might prepare an avail which offers two weeks of spots in early and late news[…]. Example: At an avail, the ad server plays out the MPEG-2 audio/video elementary streams. 4. A press avail. Labels: US, countable, uncountable Example: While holding an avail yesterday, the candidate lashed out at critics. 5. Non-binding notice of availability for work. Labels: UK, countable, uncountable 6. A readily available stock of oil. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Total crude oil avails (production plus purchases) of even highly "self-sufficient" refiners are far greater than their reported refinery inputs. 7. Benefit; value, profit; advantage toward success. Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable Example: I shal take the aduenture sayd Balen that god wille ordeyne me / but the swerd ye shalle not haue at this tyme by the feythe of my body / ye shalle repente hit within short tyme sayd the damoysel/ For I wold haue the swerd more for your auaylle than for myne / for I am passyng heuy for your sake Example: hardy Citizens[…]sticke not to sacrifice their honours and consciences, as those of old, their lives, for their Countries availe and safety. 8. Effort; striving. Labels: countable, obsolete, poetic, uncountable Example: And ev'n now, though he breathless lies, his sails / Are struggling with the winds, for our avails / T'explore a passage hid from human tract, / Will fame him in the enterprise or fact.
Word: avail Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English availen (“to be of use”), from Old French a (“to”) + vail from valoir (“to be worth”), from Latin valere (“to be worthy, strong”). Pronunciation: /əˈveɪl/ 1. Clipping of available. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, colloquial Example: In another incident, Henry allegedly sent Areu a video titled "Fastest interview" in which a woman flashes her vagina to a man during a job interview and then immediately receives a job offer. Henry allegedly followed up the video by texting Areu, "Are you avail for anchor interview." Example: Bravoholic NYC resident Trace Bechter, who attended the sentencing, disagreed with Stein's understanding of Housewives as purely scripted entertainment. "I thought, that can't be true, because if this current season of RHOSLC was written, we need completely new scriptwriters." (Bravo, I'm avail.)
Word: availability Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From available + -ity; attested since the early 1800s. Pronunciation: /əˌveɪ.ləˈbɪl.ɪ.ti/, [əˌveɪ.ləˈbɪl.ɪ.ɾi] 1. The quality of being available. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: What is your availability this week? Example: With an axleload of 16¾ tons they have a fairly wide [route] availability and they have been designed for ease of maintenance. 2. That which is available. Labels: countable, usually Example: We have several availabilities.
Word: availableness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English available 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 availableness From available + -ness. 1. Competent power; validity; efficacy Labels: uncountable Example: the availableness of a title 2. The quality of being available. Labels: uncountable
Word: availably Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree English available Middle English -ly English -ly English availably From available + -ly. Pronunciation: /əˈveɪl.əb.li/ 1. In an available manner
Word: availment Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English avail Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥ Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥tom Proto-Italic *-mentom Latin -mentum Old French -mentbor. Middle English -ment English -ment English availment From avail + -ment. 1. Profit; advantage. Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable
Word: avalanche Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From French avalanche, from Franco-Provençal (Savoy) avalançhe, blend of aval (“downhill”) and standard lavençhe, from Vulgar Latin *labanka (compare Occitan lavanca, Italian valanga), of uncertain origin, perhaps an alteration of Late Latin lābīna (“landslide”) (compare Franco-Provençal (Dauphiné) lavino, Romansh lavina), from Latin lābēs, from lābor (“to slip, slide”). Pronunciation: /ˈævəlɑːnʃ/, /ˈævəlæn(t)ʃ/ 1. A large mass or body of snow and ice sliding swiftly down a mountain side, or falling down a precipice. Example: They were drinking from a fountain / That was pouring like an avalanche / Coming down the mountain 2. A fall of earth, rocks, etc., similar to that of an avalanche of snow or ice. 3. A sudden, great, or irresistible descent or influx; anything like an avalanche in suddenness and overwhelming quantity. Labels: broadly Example: Yes, but she talked it away. She uses a whole language to herself. Her discourse is an avalanche of words, beneath which the hearers are overwhelmed. Example: I stepped into an avalanche, it covered up my soul
Word: avalanche Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From French avalanche, from Franco-Provençal (Savoy) avalançhe, blend of aval (“downhill”) and standard lavençhe, from Vulgar Latin *labanka (compare Occitan lavanca, Italian valanga), of uncertain origin, perhaps an alteration of Late Latin lābīna (“landslide”) (compare Franco-Provençal (Dauphiné) lavino, Romansh lavina), from Latin lābēs, from lābor (“to slip, slide”). Pronunciation: /ˈævəlɑːnʃ/, /ˈævəlæn(t)ʃ/ 1. To descend like an avalanche. Labels: intransitive Example: Whenever the stage stopped to change horses, we would wake up, and try to recollect where we were—[…] We began to get into country, now, threaded here and there with little streams. These had high, steep banks on each side, and every time we flew down one bank and scrambled up the other, our party inside got mixed somewhat. First we would all be down in a pile at the forward end of the stage, nearly in a sitting posture, and in a second we would shoot to the other end, and stand on our heads. […] ¶ Every time we avalanched from one end of the stage to the other, the Unabridged Dictionary would come too; and every time it came it damaged somebody. Example: Soon the sun’s warmth makes them shed crystal shells Shattering and avalanching on the snow-crust— 2. To come down upon; to overwhelm. Labels: transitive Example: The shelf broke and the boxes avalanched the workers. Example: The applications were doubtless snowed under in the maze of official correspondence which avalanched the new government. 3. To propel downward like an avalanche. Labels: transitive Example: When our artist and I were dropped down our first coal-mine, we felt a leetle bit anxious. It was something new. But we have been avalanched down the incline from Peak Forest, and boomeranged round the sudden curve at Rowsley, and have run the gauntlet at Penistone and King’s Cross without ever taking the precaution to say “God help us.” Example: The scuppers could not carry off the burden of water on the schooner’s deck. She rolled it out and took it in over one rail and the other; and at times, nose thrown skyward, sitting down on her heel, she avalanched it aft.
Word: lurker Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From lurk + -er, agent suffix. Pronunciation: /ˈlɜː.kə/, /ˈlɝ.kɚ/ 1. One who lurks. Example: It troubled me that there should have been a lurker on the stairs, on that night of all nights in the year, and I asked the watchman, on the chance of eliciting some hopeful explanation as I handed him a dram at the door, whether he had admitted at his gate any gentleman who had perceptibly been dining out? 2. A user who observes a community rather than participating; someone who reads or takes advantage of content on a website, newsgroup, etc. but does not contribute. Labels: Internet Example: However, less than half of lurkers went online that often. Those who post also are more likely than lurkers to use the Internet for both work and pleasure. Posters use the Internet to communicate more with others than lurkers do. Example: It’s not unusual for people to join video calls with their camera off and microphone muted, but such lurkers can at least be called upon to speak. 3. A small fishing-boat. Labels: UK, archaic, dialectal 4. An impostor; a quack. Labels: UK, obsolete, slang Example: In every large town sham official documents, with crests, seals, and signatures, can be got for half-a-crown. Armed with these, the patterer becomes a ‘lurker,’—that is, an impostor; his papers certify any and every ‘ill that flesh is heir to.’
Word: avale Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English avalen, from Old French avaler (“to descend”), a univerbation of a val (“to the valley”). 1. To cause to descend; to lower; to let fall Labels: obsolete, transitive 2. To bring low; to abase. Labels: obsolete, transitive 3. To descend; to fall; to dismount. Labels: intransitive, obsolete Example: And from their sweaty courses did avale.
Word: avant Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Abbreviated from avant-garde. 1. The front of an army; the vanguard. Labels: obsolete
Word: avant-courier Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From French avant-coureur, with alteration of second element after courier. 1. A person dispatched before another person or company, to give notice of his or their approach; a scout or herald. Example: Mr Farrer reached Calcutta some time before them, announcing himself as the avant-courier of His Majesty's new court, in which he was to be the leading advocate. Example: Her heart sickened with impatience, the time seemed longer now that they drew so near; gradually, the long shadows mingled together, objects became confused, and it was necessary to light the lamps and flambeaux, and the avant-courier began to sound his horn: it was dangerous to risk meeting another carriage in the then state of the roads.
Word: lurk Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English lurken, from Old Norse *lúrka, possibly from Proto-Germanic *lūrukōną (“to be lying in wait, lurk”), equivalent to lour + -k (frequentative suffix). Cognate with Norwegian Nynorsk lurka (“to sneak away, go slowly”), dialectal Swedish lurka (“to dawdle, be slow in one's work”), Saterland Frisian lüürkje (“to look secretly, spy”), West Frisian luorkje (“to lurk”), Middle Low German lûrken (“to deceitfully stalk”). Pronunciation: /lɜːk/, /lɝk/ 1. To remain concealed in order to ambush. Example: Even without hovering drones, a lurking assassin, a thumping score and a denouement, the real-life story of Edward Snowden, a rogue spy on the run, could be straight out of the cinema. But, as with Hollywood, the subplots and exotic locations may distract from the real message: America’s discomfort and its foes’ glee. Example: Things lurking in the dark / They like to leave a mark / Inside of you 2. To remain unobserved. Example: Thus my plight was evil indeed, for I had nothing now to burn to give me light, and knew that 'twas no use setting to grout till I could see to go about it. Moreover, the darkness was of that black kind that is never found beneath the open sky, no, not even on the darkest night, but lurks in close and covered places and strains the eyes in trying to see into it. Example: But in time pressure ... Sammy played 40 QxPch????, thinking it was mate- he completely forgot about that Black Bishop lurking innocently at the other end of the board. 3. To hang out or wait around a location, preferably without drawing attention to oneself. Example: if we find the sophist lurking, we must round him up by royal command of the argument 4. To read an Internet forum without posting comments or making one's presence apparent. Labels: Internet 5. To saddle (a person) with an undesirable task or duty. Labels: UK, slang, transitive Example: As junior dogsbody, he was lurked with this mission.
Word: lurk Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English lurken, from Old Norse *lúrka, possibly from Proto-Germanic *lūrukōną (“to be lying in wait, lurk”), equivalent to lour + -k (frequentative suffix). Cognate with Norwegian Nynorsk lurka (“to sneak away, go slowly”), dialectal Swedish lurka (“to dawdle, be slow in one's work”), Saterland Frisian lüürkje (“to look secretly, spy”), West Frisian luorkje (“to lurk”), Middle Low German lûrken (“to deceitfully stalk”). Pronunciation: /lɜːk/, /lɝk/ 1. The act of lurking. Example: At two p.m. a man had called on him, and had produced one of his advertisements, and had asked him if that was all square—no bobbies on the lurk. Example: There were enemies on the lurk and time was against him. 2. A swindle. Labels: Australia, UK, obsolete, slang
Word: avant-guard Part of Speech: noun 1. The vanguard or advanced body of an army. Labels: archaic
Word: avarice Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂ew- Proto-Indo-European *h₂ew-eh₁yeti Latin aveō Latin avārus Proto-Indo-European *-(i)yós Proto-Italic *-ijos Proto-Italic *-ios Old Latin -ios Latin -ius Latin -ia Latin -itia Latin avāritiabor. Old French avaricebor. Middle English avarice English avarice From Middle English avarice, from Old French, from Latin avāritia, from avārus (“greedy”). Pronunciation: /ˈævəɹɪs/, /ˈævəɹəs/, /ˈævɹəs/ 1. Excessive or inordinate desire of gain; greed for wealth Labels: uncountable, usually Example: By multiplying the means of gratification, by promoting the introduction and circulation of the precious metals, those darling objects of human avarice and enterprise, it serves to vivify and invigorate the channels of industry, and to make them flow with greater activity and copiousness. 2. Inordinate desire for some supposed good. Labels: uncountable, usually
Word: avaricious Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English avaricious, from Old French avaricieux, from avarice, from Latin avaritia (“greed”), from avarus (“greedy”), of avere (“crave, long for”). Pronunciation: /ˌævəˈɹɪʃəs/ 1. Actuated by avarice; extremely greedy for wealth or material gain; immoderately desirous of accumulating property. Example: In a word, he was called a hard, avaricious, rapacious man, whose chief business was to enrich himself...
Word: avarous Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Latin avarus 1. Avaricious. Labels: uncommon Example: It is a just matter of lamentation when souls which have been clad with zeal as with scarlet, constantly forward for the glory of God, fall to such apostasy as with Demas to embrace the dunghill of this world, and with an avarous hausture to lick up the mud of corruption. Example: [Winners] will receive what they truly crave: fame. Fame and the undying adoration and admiration of the rest of us mere mortals. Plus of course the fabulous State Prize, which will be of sufficient attraction to excite even the most avarous teams.