nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: cola Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From a Niger-Congo language, compare Temne kola, Mandinka kola. The beverage "Coca-Cola" was what made the term widely known, and popularized the spelling with c instead of k. Pronunciation: /ˈkəʊ.lə/, /ˈkoʊlə/ 1. The kola plant, genus Cola, famous for its nut, or one of these nuts. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. A beverage or a drink made with kola nut flavoring, caramel and carbonated water. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: cola Part of Speech: noun Etymology: See colon. Pronunciation: /ˈkəʊ.lə/, /ˈkoʊlə/ 1. plural of colon Labels: dated, form-of, plural Example: In this part, the author presents a prosodic hierarchy describing syllables, moras, feet, cola and a typology for words and stress.
Word: cola Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Spanish cola (“tail”), from Vulgar Latin coda, from Latin cauda, or from its diminutive caudula. Doublet of queue and coda. Pronunciation: /ˈkəʊ.lə/, /ˈkoʊlə/ 1. A cluster of buds on a cannabis plant.
Word: feta Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Greek φέτα (féta), from Italian fetta (“slice”). Pronunciation: /ˈfɛtə/ 1. A variety of curd cheese made from sheep’s or goat’s milk and originating from Greece. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Before there were MAHA moms and trad wives boasting homemade bread and feta on social media, there was a societal push to get Americans back into the kitchen.
Word: kefalotyri Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Greek κεφαλοτύρι (kefalotýri), from the Greek words for "head" and "cheese" : κεφαλο- (kefalo-) + τυρί (tyrí); see cephalo-. Pronunciation: /ˌkɛfələʊˈtɪɹi/ 1. A Greek cheese similar to parmesan. Labels: uncountable
Word: parmesan Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French parmesan, from an earlier Vulgar Latin *parmēsānus, restructuring of Latin parmēnsis (from Latin Parma). Compare Italian parmigiano, Catalan parmesà, Portuguese parmesão, Sicilian parmisanu, Spanish parmesano Pronunciation: /ˈpɑːmɪˌzæn/, /ˌpɑːmɪˈzæn/, /ˈpɑː(ɹ).məˌzɑːn/, /ˈpɑɹ.məˌʒɑn/, /ˈpɑːməzən/ 1. A hard, full-fat Italian cheese from Parma or its neighboring province Reggio Emilia. Labels: uncountable, usually 2. A similar cheese produced elsewhere. Labels: broadly, uncountable, usually Example: Most of the parmesan in our grocery store comes from Wisconsin. 3. Money. Labels: slang, uncountable, usually Example: Finesse a nigga with some counterfeits, but now I'm countin' this / Parmesan where my accountant lives, in fact I'm downin' this
Word: asiago Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Named after the northern Italian town of Asiago. 1. A hard Italian cheese similar to Parmesan. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: fulminate Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Inherited from Middle English fulminaten, borrowed from Latin fulminātus, perfect passive participle of fulminō (“to lighten, hurl or strike with lightning”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from fulmen (“lightning which strikes and sets on fire, thunderbolt”), from earlier *fulgmen, *fulgimen, from fulgeō, fulgō (“flash, lighten”). Doublet of fulmine. More at fulgent. Pronunciation: /ˈfʌlmɪneɪt/, /ˈfʊlmɪneɪt/, /-əneɪt/ 1. To make a verbal attack. Labels: figuratively, intransitive Example: In short, the criticism which the great lexicographer fulminated against an unfortunate author, seems to have been adopted by the profession as applicable to everything under the sun […] Example: To be sure, Trump has fulminated on Twitter against the judges who rebuffed him. But his tirades have earned him a reprimand––if a brief, vague one––from his own Supreme Court nominee. 2. To issue as a denunciation. Labels: figuratively, transitive Example: They fulminated the most hostile of all decrees. Example: While they were the opposition, Democrats fulminated that the Republicans were so deep in the pockets of Big Pharma that they wouldn’t even let the government negotiate lower drug prices. 3. To thunder or make a loud noise. Labels: intransitive 4. To strike with lightning; to cause to explode. Labels: archaic, transitive Example: the present owners couldn't afford the electric bills anymore, several amateur gaffers, sad to say, having already been fulminated trying to bootleg power in off the municipal lines. 5. to act as lightning, appearing quickly and destructively Labels: figuratively
Word: fulminate Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From fulminic acid + -ate (“salt or ester”). By surface analysis, fulmine + -ate. Pronunciation: /ˈfʌlmɪneɪt/, /ˈfʊlmɪneɪt/, /-əneɪt/ 1. Any salt or ester of fulminic acid, mostly explosive. Example: On 19 February a jubilant Bigeard announced that his 3rd R.P.C. had seized eighty-seven bombs, seventy kilos of explosive, 5,120 fulminate of mercury detonators, 309 electric detonators, etc.
Word: explosion Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From French explosion, from Latin explōsiōnis, genitive form of explōsio, from explōdo (“to drive out by clapping”), from ex- and plōdo (“to clap or strike”). For more information see explode. Pronunciation: /ɪkˈspləʊ.ʒən/, /ɛkˈsploʊ.ʒən/, /ɪkˈsploʊ.ʒən/ 1. A violent release of energy (sometimes mechanical, nuclear, or chemical); an act or instance of exploding. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: A man was injured by an explosion caused by drilling into a missed shot at the Mendota mine above Silver Plume, Colo. 2. The sound of an explosion. Labels: countable, uncountable 3. A sudden, uncontrolled or rapid increase, expansion, or bursting out. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: As with the Lejeuneaceae, this pattern of massive speciation appears to be correlated with the Cretaceous explosion of the angiosperms and the simultaneous creation of a host of new microenvironments, differing in humidity, light intensity, texture, etc. Example: Meteorologists describe this medieval warm epoch as the ‘Little Optimum’, and they cite it as the explanation of such phenomena as the Viking explosion into Russia, France, Iceland, and the northwestern Atlantic.
Word: nuclear Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin nū̆cleus, a contraction of the adjective nuculeus, masculine of feminine nuculea (“pertaining to a small nut”) from nucula + adjectival suffix -eus, -ea, -eum. The Latin nucula + -āris adds up to nuculāris, a term that in English becomes nucular; the Latin nuculea + -āris, becomes Latin nuculeāris (“relative to what pertains to small nut”), later contracted into nuclear. By surface analysis, nucleus + -ar. Compare muscle and Latin mūsculus; muscular and mūsculāris. Pronunciation: /ˈn(j)u.kli.ɚ/, /ˈnjuː.klɪə(ɹ)/, /ˈn(j)u.kjə.lɚ/ 1. Pertaining to the nucleus of an atom. Labels: not-comparable 2. Involving energy released by nuclear reactions (fission, fusion, radioactive decay). Labels: not-comparable Example: a nuclear reactor Example: nuclear technology 3. Relating to a weapon that derives its force from rapid release of energy through nuclear reactions. Labels: not-comparable Example: a nuclear explosion Example: a nuclear power 4. Having nuclear weapons. Labels: not-comparable Example: They will blame him for pursuing the ideological aim of destruction of Israel – something many Iranians don't support. They will blame him for what they perceive as a folly – his belief that achieving nuclear status would render his regime invincible. 5. Involving an extreme course of action, or one with severe consequences. Labels: broadly, figuratively, not-comparable Example: nuclear option, nuclear solution Example: The states begging for aid get turned away; and sharp cuts in government employment, spending, and, eventually, pension payments are the only alternative future, beyond the nuclear solution of defaulting on our debt. 6. Pertaining to the nucleus of a cell. Labels: not-comparable Example: However, the DNA in a bacterial cell is a single circular molecule and there is no separate nuclear compartment. 7. Pertaining to a centre around which something is developed or organised; central, pivotal. Labels: archaic, not-comparable Example: Nuclear Polynesian languages include Hawaiian and Samoan. 8. Relating to, being of, or comprising the nuclear family. Labels: not-comparable Example: Somehow it is much easier to convey the emotions of gayness — the feelings of outsideness —through anthropomorphism. Gay poet and limerist Edward lear uses animals and creatures perfectly this way […] Even the Muppets — as mainstream and heterosexual as some of them may be — are favorites among many gay men […] Look at Mr. Toad in The Wind in the Willows, such a silly, pompous queen, and even Randall Jarrell's The Animal Family has a lot to say about non-human and non-nuclear arrangements.
Word: nuclear Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin nū̆cleus, a contraction of the adjective nuculeus, masculine of feminine nuculea (“pertaining to a small nut”) from nucula + adjectival suffix -eus, -ea, -eum. The Latin nucula + -āris adds up to nuculāris, a term that in English becomes nucular; the Latin nuculea + -āris, becomes Latin nuculeāris (“relative to what pertains to small nut”), later contracted into nuclear. By surface analysis, nucleus + -ar. Compare muscle and Latin mūsculus; muscular and mūsculāris. Pronunciation: /ˈn(j)u.kli.ɚ/, /ˈnjuː.klɪə(ɹ)/, /ˈn(j)u.kjə.lɚ/ 1. Nuclear power. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The growth in wind capacity at first lagged behind the expansion of nuclear installations, but then it started to grow faster and is now outpacing nuclear. 2. Nuclear weapon Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Admiral Burke believed that we would be able to beat off an amphibious attack, even if staged in conjunction with heavy aerial bombing, long enough to refer back to Washington and obtain authorization to use nuclears.
Word: vilify Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Late Latin vīlificāre (“vilify”). Equivalent to vile + -ify. Compare vilipend. Pronunciation: /ˈvɪl.ɪ.faɪ/ 1. To say defamatory things about someone or something; to speak ill of. Labels: transitive 2. To belittle through speech; to put down. Labels: transitive Example: As one of the largest producers of genetically modified (GM) seeds in the country, Monsanto has been vilified by activists who describe GM products as 'frankenfood.' Example: "Those who deliberately vilify China and sabotage the friendship between our two countries and do damage to our long-term friendship and benefits out of their sectoral or selfish interest will be cast aside in history,” he said. “Their children will be ashamed of mentioning their names."
Word: detonate Part of Speech: verb Etymology: First attested in 1729; either borrowed from French détoner or directly from Latin dētonātus, perfect passive participle of dētonō (“to thunder down (strongly); (figuratively, of a person) to thunder, speak threateningly, to rage; to stop thundering”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from dē- (“off, from”) + tonō (“to thunder”)). Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)tenh₂-. The current interlingual meaning seems to be a new formation in postclassical times (to thunder → make a large noise → explode), compare explode. Pronunciation: /ˈdɛtəneɪt/, /ˈdɛtəˌneɪt/, [ˈdɛɾəˌneɪt], [ˈdɛʔ.əˌneɪt], /ˈdetənæɪt/ 1. To explode, blow up Labels: intransitive 2. To explode, blow up Labels: especially, intransitive 3. To cause to explode. Labels: transitive Example: The engineers detonated the dynamite and watched the old building collapse. 4. To express sudden anger. Labels: figuratively, intransitive Example: As Oscar turned to greet Yvonne, she could see every muscle in his body contract in anger. Then he detonated. “What the hell are you doing here without an appointment? […]
Word: wealthy Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English welthy, welþi, equivalent to wealth + -y. Cognate with Middle Dutch weldech, weeldech (“magnificent, luscious, lavish”). Pronunciation: /ˈwɛl.θi/, /ˈʋɛːl.d̪iː/, /ˈʋɛːl.t̪hiː/, /ˈʋel.d̪iː/, /ˈʋel.t̪(h)iː/ 1. Possessing financial wealth; rich. Example: As a result of these causes the grazier marks himself off fairly sharply from the rest of Australia. He has always spent a considerable proportion of the time in the capital cities, in each of which he has formed a club to which, besides the graziers, only a few of the wealthiest and most prominent of the city dwellers are admitted. Example: As people stall feed through the years, or if they are wealthier to begin with, the money is used to build houses and buy metal roof sheets, or to buy bicycles, ox-carts and breeding cows. 2. Abundant in quality or quantity; profuse.
Word: wealthy Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English welthy, welþi, equivalent to wealth + -y. Cognate with Middle Dutch weldech, weeldech (“magnificent, luscious, lavish”). Pronunciation: /ˈwɛl.θi/, /ˈʋɛːl.d̪iː/, /ˈʋɛːl.t̪hiː/, /ˈʋel.d̪iː/, /ˈʋel.t̪(h)iː/ 1. Synonym of rich: the wealthy people of a society or of the world collectively. Labels: countable, plural, plural-only, uncountable Example: ... whether consumption patterns of the wealthy are more or less polluting than those of the poor depends on the contaminant in question. Example: The wealthy pay most of the taxes but the uberwealthy hardly pay any at all: they hold stock and property and live off debt borrowed against that collateral. 2. A rich person. Labels: countable, uncommon Example: F. Scott Fitzgerald never got over Ginevra King's dad reminding him he wasn't a wealthy and needed to aim lower. Example: it was possible for a group like the Libertarians to hope that a couple of weakminded wealthies might donate the seed money to get a campaign rolling.
Word: past tense Part of Speech: noun 1. A grammatical form (often a verb form) that refers to an event, transaction, occurrence, or object that happened (or had happened), or existed, at some time before now (the applicable reference time). Example: This is a report on a study of the use of the past tense forms in the 53 Japanese samples compiled for the Louvain International Database of Spoken English Interlanguage (LINDSEI) project. Example: As you have studied Spanish, you have probably had the feeling that there are just too many past tenses.
Word: past tense Part of Speech: verb 1. To to end the life of something; to kill. Labels: transitive
Word: present tense Part of Speech: noun 1. A grammatical tense whose principal function is to locate a situation or event in the present time. Example: Animals—lions and zebras and beautiful snakes—live vividly in the present tense, in a bright unconsciousness of time. That is their innocence and their limitation. Humans carry with them their experiences, their pasts; men and women work with a knowledge of consequences and, doing so, impose order on the chaotic present and project consequences into the future.
Word: future tense Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /fjuːt͡ʃʰɚ tɛns/ 1. The tense or time form of a verb used to refer to an event or occurrence that has not yet happened or is expected to happen in the future. Example: The future tense came into being as the verbs sculan and willan lost their ancient power as finite verbs and turned into future auxiliaries.
Word: unknown Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English *unknowen, *uniknowen, uniknowe, from Old English unġecnāwen (“unknown”), equivalent to un- + known. Pronunciation: /ʌn(ˈn)əʊn/, /ʌnˈnoʊn/ 1. Not known; unidentified; not well known. Labels: postpositional, sometimes Example: The Celebrity, by arts unknown, induced Mrs. Judge Short and two other ladies to call at Mohair on a certain afternoon when Mr. Cooke was trying a trotter on the track. The three returned wondering and charmed with Mrs. Cooke; they were sure she had had no hand in the furnishing of that atrocious house. Example: I suspect that this large and complex military railway system, shrouded in official secrecy for most of its operational life, remains unknown to many people.
Word: unknown Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English *unknowen, *uniknowen, uniknowe, from Old English unġecnāwen (“unknown”), equivalent to un- + known. Pronunciation: /ʌn(ˈn)əʊn/, /ʌnˈnoʊn/ 1. A variable (usually x, y or z) whose value is to be found. 2. Any thing, place, or situation about which nothing is known; an unknown fact or piece of information. Example: Had God walked close beside her into the unknown? Example: I think I learned more from my family than they did from me in the brief idyllic time we spent together. None of them much more than a mile from home, they carried the aura of a close-knit community as a shield against against the unknown. 3. A person of no identity; a nonentity. Example: How does it feel, / how does it feel? / To be on your own, / with no direction home / A complete unknown, / like a rolling stone Example: Khaleque, the landowner, who had contributed most of the money needed to transform the neglected burial-place of an unknown into a mazar, masked his pride and pleasure with difficulty. He solemnly declared: ‘Perhaps now we shall be forgiven for neglecting the saint all these years.’
Word: unknown Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English *unknowen, *uniknowen, uniknowe, from Old English unġecnāwen (“unknown”), equivalent to un- + known. Pronunciation: /ʌn(ˈn)əʊn/, /ʌnˈnoʊn/ 1. past participle of unknow Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: skin Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English skyn, skinn, from Old English scinn, from Old Norse skinn (“animal hide”), from Proto-Germanic *skinþą, from Proto-Indo-European *sken- (“to split off”), nasal variant of *skeh₁i-d- (“to cut”). Partially displaced native Old English hȳd (“skin, hide”), from which derives hide. Cognate with Dutch schinde (“bark”), dialectal German Schinde (“fruit peel”); also Breton skant (“scales”), Old Irish cenn (“covering, shell”), Irish scáin (“to tear, burst”), Latin scindō (“to split, divide”), Sanskrit छिनत्ति (chinátti, “to split”). Pronunciation: /skɪn/ 1. To injure the skin of. Labels: transitive Example: He fell off his bike and skinned his knee on the concrete. 2. To remove the skin and/or fur of an animal or a human. Labels: transitive 3. To high five. Labels: colloquial 4. To apply a skin to (a computer program). Labels: colloquial, transitive Example: Can I skin the application to put the picture of my cat on it? 5. To use tricks to go past a defender. Labels: UK, transitive Example: The Russian, sometimes out of sorts in recent weeks, was seeing plenty of the ball on the left-hand side up against Hunt, a 20-year-old right-back making his first Huddersfield start. Arshavin skinned the youngster at the first opportunity and crossed for Bendtner, who could not direct his close-range effort on target. 6. To become covered with skin or a skin-like layer. Labels: intransitive Example: A wound eventually skins over. Example: Lefotver acrylic paint will often skin as it partially dries. 7. To cover with skin, or as if with skin; hence, to cover superficially. Labels: transitive Example: It will but skin and film the ulcerous place. 8. To produce, in recitation, examination, etc., the work of another for one's own, or to use cribs, memoranda, etc., which are prohibited. Labels: US, archaic, slang 9. To strip of money or property; to cheat. Labels: dated, slang 10. To sneak off. Labels: intransitive, obsolete, slang 11. To remove the top layers of paint from, revealing parts of the underlying medium or canvas. Labels: transitive 12. Short for skin up (“travel uphill on skis, snowboard, or bicycle”) Labels: abbreviation, alt-of
Word: per annum Part of Speech: prep_phrase Etymology: Borrowed from Late Latin per annum, English from the 16th century. 1. In a year. Example: Salt fish for dinner twice every week, or 104 times per annum, is abominable. 2. For a year. Example: Areas of no more than ten acres of crown land may be granted as bee-arms on annual licenses, the rent being one shilling an acre per annum.
Word: clap Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English clappen, from Old English clæppan, *clappian, from Proto-West Germanic *klappijan, *klappōn, from Proto-Germanic *klappōną (“to clap”). Cognate with Dutch klappen, Icelandic klappa, Faroese klappa and Danish klappe. Pronunciation: /klæp/ 1. The act of striking the palms of the hands, or any two surfaces, together. Example: He summoned the waiter with a clap. 2. The explosive sound of thunder. Example: The deafening claps of thunder and the dazzling flashes of lightning which lit up the ghastly scene testified that the artillery of heaven had lent its supernatural pomp to the already gruesome spectacle. Example: With each clap of thunder echoing from one high building to another the noise was terrific. 3. Any loud, sudden, explosive sound made by striking hard surfaces together, or resembling such a sound. Example: Off in the distance, he heard the clap of thunder. Example: Give the door such a clap, as you go out, as will shake the whole room. 4. A slap with the hand, usually in a jovial manner. Example: His father's affection never went further than a handshake or a clap on the shoulder. 5. A single, sudden act or motion; a stroke; a blow. Example: What, fifty of my followers at a clap! Example: But it took him a long time to get down-stairs, and a still longer to undo the fastenings, repenting (I dare say) and taken with fresh claps of fear at every second step and every bolt and bar. 6. The nether part of the beak of a hawk. 7. A dropping of cow dung (presumably from the sound made as it hits the ground) Labels: Yorkshire Example: “Oh! get some coo clap (cow dung), mix it wi’ fish oil (whale oil), put it on, and let it stop on all neet.”
Word: clap Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English clappen, from Old English clæppan, *clappian, from Proto-West Germanic *klappijan, *klappōn, from Proto-Germanic *klappōną (“to clap”). Cognate with Dutch klappen, Icelandic klappa, Faroese klappa and Danish klappe. Pronunciation: /klæp/ 1. To strike the palms of the hands together, creating a sharp sound. Labels: intransitive Example: The children began to clap in time with the music. Example: To hear a flutter echo, all one needs is a pair of parallel surfaces (and they need not be very large), stand between them, and clap hands. Nowhere else in the vast garden were there any flutters. 2. To applaud. Labels: transitive Example: The audience loudly clapped the actress, who responded with a deep curtsey. Example: It isn’t the singers they are clapping; it's the composer. 3. To slap with the hand in a jovial manner. Labels: transitive Example: He would often clap his teammates on the back for encouragement. 4. To bring two surfaces together forcefully, creating a sharp sound. Labels: ambitransitive Example: He clapped the empty glass down on the table. Example: She clapped the book shut. 5. To slam (a door or window); formerly often construed with to. Labels: obsolete Example: Hostesse clap to the doores. Example: The doors around me clapped. 6. To create or assemble (something) hastily (usually followed by up or together). Labels: transitive Example: We should clap together a shelter before nightfall. Example: The rival factions clapped up a truce. 7. To set or put, usually in haste. Labels: transitive Example: The sheriff clapped him in jail. Example: She was the prettiest thing I'd ever clapped eyes on. 8. To shoot (somebody) with a gun. Labels: slang 9. To defeat. Labels: broadly, slang, transitive Example: He started a fight but then got clapped immediately. 10. To have sex, fornicate, copulate. Labels: slang
Word: clap Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Uncertain. Probably from Old French clapoir (“bubo, inflammation from infection”), from clapier (“brothel”). May also be from old, unsafe treatments for gonorrhea, such as clapping the penis between a book and a hard surface to break up obstructions in the urethra and permit urination. Attested from the 16th century. Pronunciation: /klæp/ 1. Synonym of gonorrhea. Labels: slang, usually, with-definite-article Example: With the mischiefe of the melt and maw, / The clape and the canker,— Example: I stepped out of my tent in Marrakech one night to get a bar of candy and caught your dose of clap when that Wac I never even saw before hissed me into the bushes.
Word: publish Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English publicen (by analogy with banish, finish), from Old French publier, from Latin publicare (“to make public, show or tell to the people, make known, declare, also (and earlier) confiscate for public use”), from publicus (“pertaining to the people, public”); see public. Pronunciation: /ˈpʌblɪʃ/, /ˈpʊblɪʃ/ 1. To issue (something, such as printed work) for distribution and/or sale. Labels: transitive Example: The Times published the investigative piece about the governor both in print and online. Example: Most of the sketches Faulkner published in 1925 appeared in the Sunday magazine section of the New Orleans Times-Picayune. 2. To announce to the public. Labels: transitive Example: The Secretary of Health and Human Services published a press release on May 22, 2013. Example: The Bolshevik government published an announcement of the tsar's death. 3. To issue the work of (an author). Labels: transitive Example: Grove Press published many avant-garde authors. 4. To disseminate (a message) publicly via a newsgroup, forum, blog, etc. Labels: Internet, transitive 5. To issue a medium (e.g. publication). Labels: intransitive Example: Major city papers still publish daily. 6. To have one's work accepted for a publication. Labels: intransitive Example: She needs to publish in order to get tenure. 7. To be made available in a printed publication or other medium. Labels: intransitive Example: The article first published online, then in print the next day. 8. To make (information such as an event) available to components that wish to be notified (subscribers). 9. To preach (as a Jehovah's Witness).
Word: pat Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English pat (“a blow, stroke”), alteration (with loss of medial l) of *plat (> Scots plat (“a blow, buffet”)), from Old English plætt (“a sounding blow, a smack”), from Proto-West Germanic *platt (“a smack, slap, blow”), from Proto-Germanic *plat- (“to strike, beat”), from Proto-Indo-European *blod-, *bled- (“to strike, beat”). Cognate with Middle Dutch plat (“a smack, blow, slap”), Middle Low German plat (“a smack, blow, beating”), Middle High German plaz, blaz (“a resounding blow, bang, crash”). For loss of l, compare patch for platch; pate for plate, etc. See plat. Pronunciation: /pæt/, [pʰæt], [pʰæt̚], [pʰæˀt̚] 1. The sound of a light slap or tap with a soft flat object, especially of a footstep. Example: We heard a pat on the door. 2. A light tap or slap, especially with the hands. Example: Give Mary a pat on the shoulder to get her attention. 3. A flattish lump of soft matter, especially butter or dung. Example: It looked like a tessellated work of pats of butter.
Word: pat Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English *patten, alteration (with loss of medial l) of platten, pletten (“to pat”), from Old English plættan (“to buffet, strike, slap, smack, give a sounding blow”), from Proto-West Germanic *plattjan, from Proto-Germanic *plat- (“to strike, beat”), from Proto-Indo-European *blod-, *bled- (“to strike, beat”). Cognate with Middle Dutch platten, pletten (“to strike, bruise, crush, rub”), German platzen (“to split, burst, break up”), Bavarian patzen (“to pat”), Swedish plätta, pjätta (“to pat, tap”). For loss of l, compare patch for platch; pate for plate, etc. See plat. Pronunciation: /pæt/, [pʰæt], [pʰæt̚], [pʰæˀt̚] 1. To (gently) tap the flat of one's hand on a person or thing. Example: To show affection, he decided he would pat the boy on the head. Example: He came round to each of us to pat and speak to us for the last time; his voice sounded very sad. 2. To hit lightly and repeatedly with the flat of the hand to make smooth or flat Example: I patted the cookie dough into shape. Example: Before they went to see Glinda, however, they were taken to a room of the Castle, where Dorothy washed her face and combed her hair, and the Lion shook the dust out of his mane, and the Scarecrow patted himself into his best shape, and the Woodman polished his tin and oiled his joints. 3. To stroke or fondle (an animal). Compare pet. Labels: Australia, New-Zealand, South-Africa, UK Example: Do you want to pat the cat? 4. To gently rain.
Word: pat Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English *patten, alteration (with loss of medial l) of platten, pletten (“to pat”), from Old English plættan (“to buffet, strike, slap, smack, give a sounding blow”), from Proto-West Germanic *plattjan, from Proto-Germanic *plat- (“to strike, beat”), from Proto-Indo-European *blod-, *bled- (“to strike, beat”). Cognate with Middle Dutch platten, pletten (“to strike, bruise, crush, rub”), German platzen (“to split, burst, break up”), Bavarian patzen (“to pat”), Swedish plätta, pjätta (“to pat, tap”). For loss of l, compare patch for platch; pate for plate, etc. See plat. Pronunciation: /pæt/, [pʰæt], [pʰæt̚], [pʰæˀt̚] 1. Exactly suitable, fitting, apt; timely, convenient, opportune, ready for the occasion; especially of things spoken. Example: a pat expression Example: Your scruples and arguments bring to my mind a story so pat, you may think it is coin’d, on purpose to answer you, out of my mint; but, I can assure you, I saw it in print. 2. Trite, being superficially complete, lacking originality. Example: While most AIDS activists and researchers I spoke with agreed I shouldn't offer pat safe/unsafe categories, let me share some pretty widely accepted information. Example: The pat answer is that college students should consider graduate school as a way to delay a job search until things turn around, and that more high school students should go to college to improve their prospects.
Word: pat Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From Middle English *patten, alteration (with loss of medial l) of platten, pletten (“to pat”), from Old English plættan (“to buffet, strike, slap, smack, give a sounding blow”), from Proto-West Germanic *plattjan, from Proto-Germanic *plat- (“to strike, beat”), from Proto-Indo-European *blod-, *bled- (“to strike, beat”). Cognate with Middle Dutch platten, pletten (“to strike, bruise, crush, rub”), German platzen (“to split, burst, break up”), Bavarian patzen (“to pat”), Swedish plätta, pjätta (“to pat, tap”). For loss of l, compare patch for platch; pate for plate, etc. See plat. Pronunciation: /pæt/, [pʰæt], [pʰæt̚], [pʰæˀt̚] 1. Opportunely, in a timely or suitable way. Example: Now might I do it pat 2. Perfectly. Example: He has the routine down pat. 3. Straight, right, exactly, precisely. Example: Wauwa Pease says of the strategic position of the Pirates in the dining room: “They have taken the table near the upper doorway so they can make a speedy exit in case their lair is raided.” Of course, the Wauwas stand pat in the middle of the dining room, having nothing to fear. Example: His nose sitteth flat on the face of him as it were a dab of clay, and I can see pat up his nostrils a summer day’s journey into his head.
Word: pat Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /pæt/, [pʰæt], [pʰæt̚], [pʰæˀt̚] 1. Clipping of patent. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, clipping 2. Clipping of pattern. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, clipping Example: Work in pat to next underarm marker, sm, place next st on holder[…]
Word: pat Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Clipping of patrician. Pronunciation: /pæt/, [pʰæt], [pʰæt̚], [pʰæˀt̚] 1. Upper-class, nobby. Labels: slang
Word: tap Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Persian or Urdu تب (tab, “malarial fever”), ultimately from Sanskrit ताप (tāpa, “fever; heat; pain, torment”). Pronunciation: /tæp/, [tʰæp], /tɐːp/ 1. A malarial fever. Labels: East, India, uncountable Example: According to the Yunani hakims dengue is a "tap safrow"—a fever due to excess of bile, and it is wonderful the amount of dark colored bile that passes away after a purgative, especially if that is not administered until the third day. Example: […] in despair, he fell back on the unfailing reason (to the native mind) for every unaccountable action, and declared that the horses had tap, or fever. ¶ "Oh, that's all nonsense, Sooka!" replied Blunt to this assertion of his subordinate. They were walking along between the rows of stalls, making their morning inspection, and closely examining into the condition of every animal: "that's all nonsense! there's no tap here. Every one of them is as cool and nice as he can be—perfect pictures of condition most of them, No, no; there's no fever whatever amongst them."
Word: primary Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Borrowed from Latin prīmārius (“of the first (rank); chief, principal; excellent”), from prīmus (first; whence the English adjective prime) + -ārius (whence the English suffix -ary); compare the French primaire, primer, and premier. Doublet of premier. Pronunciation: /ˈpɹaɪ.m(ə.)ɹi/, /ˈpɹaɪˌmɛɹ.i/, /ˈpɹaɪ.mə.ɹi/, /ˈpɹɑe.m(ə.)ɹiː/, /ˈpɹaɪ.m(ə.)ɹiː/ 1. First or earliest in a group or series. Example: Children attend primary school, and teenagers attend secondary school. Example: the church of Christ, in its primary institution 2. Main; principal; chief; placed ahead of others. 3. Earliest formed; fundamental. Example: Preferred stock has primary claim on dividends, ahead of common stock. 4. Illustrating, possessing, or characterized by, some quality or property in the first degree; having undergone the first stage of substitution or replacement. 5. Relating to the place where a disorder or disease started to occur. 6. Relating to day-to-day care provided by health professionals such as nurses, general practitioners, dentists etc.
Word: primary Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Latin prīmārius (“of the first (rank); chief, principal; excellent”), from prīmus (first; whence the English adjective prime) + -ārius (whence the English suffix -ary); compare the French primaire, primer, and premier. Doublet of premier. Pronunciation: /ˈpɹaɪ.m(ə.)ɹi/, /ˈpɹaɪˌmɛɹ.i/, /ˈpɹaɪ.mə.ɹi/, /ˈpɹɑe.m(ə.)ɹiː/, /ˈpɹaɪ.m(ə.)ɹiː/ 1. A primary election; a preliminary election to select a political candidate of a political party, or the first round of a two-round election. Example: In recent primaries, for example, nearly 4% of absentees were rejected in Philadelphia; 8% in Kentucky; and 20% in parts of New York City. Example: Before Americans pick a president in November, they get to pick the candidates in a series of primaries and caucuses. […] Biden could still win New Hampshire’s primary through a write-in campaign, but the first sanctioned Democratic contest is in South Carolina in February. 2. The first year of grade school. 3. A base or fundamental component; something that is irreducible. 4. The most massive component of a gravitationally bound system, such as a planet in relation to its satellites. 5. A primary school. Example: Excellence in Cities offers a further development of this approach, whereby secondary schools operate with small clusters of primaries as mini-EAZs. 6. Any flight feather attached to the manus (hand) of a bird. Example: `Good Lord, look at that swiftlet, it's got two primaries missing from its left wing!' 7. A primary colour. Example: By adding and subtracting the three primaries, cyan, yellow, and magenta are produced. These are called subtractive primaries. 8. The first stage of a thermonuclear weapon, which sets off a fission explosion to help trigger a fusion reaction in the weapon's secondary stage. 9. A radar return from an aircraft (or other object) produced solely by the reflection of the radar beam from the aircraft's skin, without additional information from the aircraft's transponder. 10. The primary site of a disease; the original location or source of the disease. Example: unknown primary Example: most common primaries 11. A directly driven inductive coil, as in a transformer or induction motor that is magnetically coupled to a secondary.
Word: primary Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Borrowed from Latin prīmārius (“of the first (rank); chief, principal; excellent”), from prīmus (first; whence the English adjective prime) + -ārius (whence the English suffix -ary); compare the French primaire, primer, and premier. Doublet of premier. Pronunciation: /ˈpɹaɪ.m(ə.)ɹi/, /ˈpɹaɪˌmɛɹ.i/, /ˈpɹaɪ.mə.ɹi/, /ˈpɹɑe.m(ə.)ɹiː/, /ˈpɹaɪ.m(ə.)ɹiː/ 1. To challenge (an incumbent sitting politician) for their political party's nomination to run for re-election, through running a challenger campaign in a primary election, especially one that is more ideologically extreme. Labels: US, intransitive, transitive Example: In the New England town where he ran a “couple of night clubs” . he was “primarying the mayor." Example: What political facts of life underpin the hopes and dreams of democratic politicians who would take on the awesome task of “primarying” a two-term incumbent governor 2. To take part in a primary election. Labels: US, intransitive, transitive Example: Both were worried that Bailey would break some of their delegate commitments to keep them from primarying. Example: First, I'd challenge my opponent for the convention nomination. If I didn't prevail at the convention, that would be my answer. I wouldn't “primary” him—meaning, I wouldn't force a statewide primary election if he and I were the only two candidates in the field.
Word: madeleine Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from French madeleine, from earlier gâteau à la Madeleine, after the given name Madeleine (“Magdalene”), of uncertain reference: attributed in some sources to a 19th-century pastry cook Madeleine Paulmier, whose existence is now considered dubious. In sense 2, used with reference to the cake's function in the extract below, taken from Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time. Pronunciation: /ˈmad(ə)lɪn/, /ˈmad(ə)lɛn/, /ˈmædələn/, /ˌmædəˈleɪn/ 1. A French type of small gateau or sponge cake, often shaped like an elongated scallop shell. Example: And suddenly the memory revealed itself. The taste was that of the little piece of madeleine which on Sunday mornings at Combray […] my aunt Léonie used to give me, dipping it first in her own cup of tea or tisane. Example: Madeleine batter can be made in advance and refrigerated. 2. Something which brings back a memory; a source of nostalgia or evocative memories. Labels: figuratively Example: The Robe was thus fixed in my mind as a symbol, and in my memory as a madeleine, of Jewish evil. Example: Every five years or so, in the middle of another task, I'll look at them and a particular cover will bring memory flooding back like a madeleine.
Word: tapas Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Spanish tapas, the plural of tapa (“appetizer, tapa; cap, lid (cover of a container)”) (from the fact that plates of tapas were originally placed on the tops of glasses of alcoholic beverages as lids), from Gothic *𐍄𐌰𐍀𐍀𐌰 (*tappa), from Proto-Germanic *tappô (“plug; tap”), from Proto-Indo-European *deh₂p- (“to lose; to sacrifice”). Doublet of tap. Pronunciation: /ˈtæpæs/, /-pəs/, /ˈtæpəs/, /ˈtɑː-/ 1. A variety of Spanish small savoury food items or snacks such as croquettes, cured meat, potato salad, and seafood, originally served with sherry and now often with other alcoholic beverages as well. Labels: plural, plural-normally Example: The snacks are called tapas because in the old days a piece of toast was served, too, so that you might have a "top" on your glass of sherry, a lid that would prevent the flies from getting into the glass. Example: Most food scholars agree that the tapas tradition originated in the wine-growing regions of Andalusia, eventually spreading throughout the country. The Moors (Muslim Arabs), who dominated Spain from the beginning of the eighth century until the end of the fifteenth century, settled in the same area, and their meze tradition undoubtedly had an influence on the rise of the tapa.
Word: tapas Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Sanskrit तप् (tap, “heat; to be hot”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *tep- (“to be warm or hot”). Related to tepid. Pronunciation: /ˈtæp.æs/, /ˈtæp.əs/, /ˈt̪ɐ.pɐs/ 1. (The practice of) asceticism and self-discipline. Labels: Hinduism, Jainism, uncountable
Word: tapas Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From tapa + -s. 1. plural of tapa Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Tangiers Part of Speech: name 1. Alternative form of Tangier. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: Tarragona Part of Speech: name Etymology: Borrowed from Catalan Tarragona, ultimately from Latin Tarracō. Pronunciation: /tɑːɹəˈɡəʊnə/, /tæɹəˈɡəʊnə/ 1. A city and port in Catalonia, Spain. 2. A province of Catalonia, Spain. 3. A municipality of Davao Oriental, Philippines. Example: Meronyms: Cabagayan, Central, Dadong, Jovellar, Limot, Lucatan, Maganda, Ompao, Tomoaong, Tubaon — barangays of Tarragona
Word: Tashkent Part of Speech: name Etymology: Etymology tree Chagatai تاش (taš) Chagatai کند (känd) Chagatai تاشکند (taškänd) Uzbek Toshkentbor. Russian Ташкент (Taškent)bor. English Tashkent Borrowed from Russian Ташкент (Taškent), borrowed from Uzbek Toshkent, from Chagatai تاشکند (taškänd), from تاش (taš, “stone”) + کند (känd, “city”). Pronunciation: /ˌtɑːʃˈkɛnt/, /ˌtæʃˈkɛnt/ 1. The capital city of Uzbekistan. Example: The Uzbek opera house and the Uzbek dramatic theater, both in Tashkent, are of recent origin and arose under Soviet influence. 2. A region of Uzbekistan 3. A district of Uzbekistan
Word: payroll Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From pay + roll. Pronunciation: /ˈpeɪˌɹəʊl/, /ˈpeɪˌɹoʊl/, /ˈpæɪ̯ˌɹəʉl/, /ˈpæɪ̯ˌɹɐʉl/, /ˈpeˌɹol/ 1. A list of employees who receive salary or wages, together with the amounts due to each. Example: Magazines kept aristocrats on the payroll to facilitate access to jet-set playgrounds like Corfu and Mustique. 2. The total sum of money paid to employees. 3. The calculation of salaries and wages and the deduction of taxes etc.; the department in a company responsible for this. 4. Bribes paid to people. Labels: euphemistic Example: I know that the deal started with the boys in Santiago, because they’ve been on the d’Anconia pay roll for centuries — well, no, ‘pay roll’ is an honorable word, it would be more exact to say that d’Anconia Copper has been paying them protection money for centuries — isn't that what your gangsters call it? Example: We can spread a rumor this cop was dirty. Look, Tom, we have newspaper people on the payroll, don't we?
Word: payroll Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From pay + roll. Pronunciation: /ˈpeɪˌɹəʊl/, /ˈpeɪˌɹoʊl/, /ˈpæɪ̯ˌɹəʉl/, /ˈpæɪ̯ˌɹɐʉl/, /ˈpeˌɹol/ 1. To place on a payroll (noun sense 1). Labels: transitive Example: Grantees may elect to payroll the enrollees through their own payroll system if the payroll system is consistent with regulations contained herein.
Word: Tehran Part of Speech: name Etymology: A diacriticless transliteration of Iranian Persian تِهران (tehrân), from Classical Persian تَهران (tahrān). See there for more. Pronunciation: /tɛˈɹæn/, /ˌtɛˈɹɑːn/ 1. The capital city of Iran, the seat of Tehran County's Central District and the capital of Tehran Province. Example: Three days after the presidential elections, Tehran was in upheaval. 2. A county of Iran, around the city. 3. Tehran Province, one of the 31 provinces in Iran. 4. The Tehran Conference (1943). 5. The government of Iran. Labels: metonymically Example: I want to add one more thing to that: one thing that you will read in all the reporting of the war; all the decision making; all the ways this has turned into a mess for the administration — one thing you’ll see is that they just did not expect this level of resistance from Tehran; they did not expect this level of sophistication from Tehran — they just didn’t expect it at all.
Word: Tel Aviv Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Hebrew תֵּל אָבִיב (tel 'avív), from the title of Nahum Sokolow's translation of Theodor Herzl's Altneuland (“The Old New Land”). From תֵּל (tél, “hill formed by ancient ruins”), symbolizing the Old, and אָבִיב ('avív, “spring”), symbolizing the New. Pronunciation: /ˌtɛl.əˈvɪv/, /ˌtɛl.əˈviːv/ 1. A city in Israel that later merged with Jaffa to form Tel Aviv-Yafo. Example: Israel intercepted a missile fired by Hezbollah near Tel Aviv on Wednesday, an unprecedented attack by the militant group that reached deep into the country’s commercial heartlands and marked a new escalatory step in the conflict between the two sides. 2. A district in Israel. Labels: broadly 3. The municipality of Tel Aviv-Yafo. 4. The center of Tel Aviv-Yafo.
Word: Tirana Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Albanian Tiranë/Tirana. Pronunciation: /tɪˈɹɑː.nə/ 1. A municipality, the capital and largest city of Albania, located in the center of the country west of the mountain of Dajti on the plain of Tirana; it is the seat of its eponymous county and municipality. 2. A county of Albania.
Word: Tobago Part of Speech: name Etymology: Probably from Spanish tabaco (“tobacco”), thus a doublet of tobacco. Pronunciation: /təˈbeɪ.ɡəʊ/ 1. An island and ward of the Caribbean, part of Trinidad and Tobago.
Word: Tokyo Part of Speech: name Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 東(とう)京(きょう) (Tōkyō, literally “eastern capital”), as opposed to Kyoto in the west, from Middle Chinese 東 (tuwng, “east”) + 京 (kjaeng, “capital”). Pronunciation: /ˈtoʊ.ki.oʊ/, /ˈtoʊk.joʊ/, /ˈtəʊ.ki.əʊ/ 1. A prefecture and capital city of Japan. Example: The first phase of the project, connecting Tokyo and Nagoya, is scheduled to be completed in 2027 and is expected to cut traveling time between those cities by half. 2. The Japanese government. Labels: metonymically Example: Tokyo required certain military technologies and some raw materials that its main European ally already possessed, and also needed new markets for its Southeast Asian products in order to keep the local economies alive. Example: Meanwhile, Japan must bolster its own defenses and substantially increase defense spending to meet new threats. Tokyo should swallow some of its suspicions and move more quickly to rebuild frayed ties with South Korea. It should make cooperation with the United States a cornerstone of its engagement throughout the Indo-Pacific and with NATO. It is a full agenda and there is no time to lose.
Word: Transylvania Part of Speech: name Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *terh₂-der. Proto-Indo-European *térh₂t Proto-Indo-European *-ónts Proto-Indo-European *tr̥h₂ónts Proto-Indo-European *tr̥h₂n̥ts Proto-Italic *trāns Proto-Italic *trāns- Latin trans- Proto-Indo-European *sel-der.? Latin silva Proto-Indo-European *-nós Proto-Italic *-nos Latin -nus Latin -ānus Latin silvānus Proto-Indo-European *-(i)yós Proto-Italic *-ijos Proto-Italic *-ios Old Latin -ios Latin -ius Latin -ia ▲ Hungarian Erdeuelucalq. Medieval Latin Trānsylvānialbor. English Transylvania Learned borrowing from Medieval Latin Trānsylvānia, alternative spelling of Trānssilvānia, from trāns (“across”) + silvānus (“forest”, relational adjective) + -ia (abstract noun suffix), i.e. “region across the forest”, a calque of Hungarian Erdély, from erdő (“forest”) + elv/elü (“region beyond”). By surface analysis, tran- + sylvan + -ia. Pronunciation: /ˌtɹæn.səlˈveɪ.ni.ə/, /-.njə/ 1. A historical region in western Romania.
Word: york Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Back-formation from yorker. Pronunciation: /jɔː(ɹ)k/ 1. to bowl a yorker at a batsman, especially to get a batsman out in this way.
Word: york Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Perhaps imitative. Pronunciation: /jɔː(ɹ)k/ 1. To vomit. Labels: slang Example: BADGER: They're eating blueberry pies... […] Okay, finally, Kirk, he can't take it anymore. He yorks! Now it's just down to Chekov and Spock.