nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: thrown Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English throwen, from Old English þrāwen, ġeþrāwen, from Proto-Germanic *þrēanaz, from Proto-Germanic *þrēaną. Doublet of thran. Morphologically throw + -n. Pronunciation: /θɹəʊn/, /θɹoʊn/ 1. Launched by throwing. Labels: not-comparable Example: a thrown weapon 2. Twisted into a single thread, as silk or yarn. Labels: not-comparable 3. Confused; perplexed. Labels: not-comparable, slang Example: I was totally thrown by his bizarre remarks.
Word: thrust Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English þrusten, from Old Norse þrysta, from Proto-Germanic *þrustijaną, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *trewd-. Pronunciation: /θɹʌst/, /θɹʊst/ 1. An attack made by moving the sword parallel to its length and landing with the point. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Pierre was a master swordsman, and could parry the thrusts of lesser men with barely a thought. 2. A push, stab, or lunge forward. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The cutpurse tried to knock her satchel from her hands, but she avoided his thrust and yelled, "Thief!" Example: Tilehurst […] began to pedal unhurryingly towards the anticipated lane, with the easy thrust of a man who has just made a substantial meal and knows that he has plenty of time and to spare for his appointment. 3. The force generated by propulsion, as in a jet engine. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Spacecraft are engineering marvels, designed to resist the thrust of liftoff, as well as the reverse pressure of the void. Example: the pectoral fins are capable of generating high thrust during flutter 4. The primary effort; the goal. Labels: countable, figuratively, uncountable Example: Ostensibly, the class was about public health in general, but the main thrust was really sex education. Example: “The main thrust of it was that Britain is losing out, that Brexit it not delivering, our economy is in a weak position,” said the source.
Word: thrust Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English þrusten, from Old Norse þrysta, from Proto-Germanic *þrustijaną, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *trewd-. Pronunciation: /θɹʌst/, /θɹʊst/ 1. To make advance with force. Labels: intransitive Example: We thrust at the enemy with our forces. 2. To force something upon someone. Labels: transitive Example: I asked her not to thrust the responsibility on me. Example: It is my earnest hope that the bitter lessons China has learned may prove instructive to countries and governments, and especially those in Asia which now face the same threat of Communism. Often it is not easy for most people to realize the presence of this threat in their midst, and by the time they do, it may already be too late to prevent its thrusting them behind the Iron Curtain at least for a time. 3. To push out or extend rapidly or powerfully. Labels: transitive Example: He thrust his arm into the icy stream and grabbed a wriggling fish, astounding the observers. Example: Towers thrusting skyward. 4. To push or drive with force; to shove. Labels: transitive Example: to thrust anything with the hand or foot, or with an instrument Example: Into a Dungeon thruſt, to work with Slaves? 5. To enter by pushing; to squeeze in. Labels: intransitive Example: And thrust between my father and the god. 6. To stab; to pierce; usually with through.
Word: tread Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English treden, from Old English tredan, from Proto-West Germanic *tredan, from Proto-Germanic *trudaną. Pronunciation: /tɹɛd/ 1. To step or walk (on or across something); to trample. Labels: intransitive Example: He trod back and forth wearily. Example: Don't tread on the lawn. 2. To step or walk upon. Labels: transitive Example: Actors tread the boards. 3. To proceed, to behave (in a certain manner). Labels: figuratively Example: to tread lightly, to tread gently Example: to tread carefully, to tread cautiously, to tread warily 4. To beat or press with the feet. Example: to tread a path; to tread land when too light; a well-trodden path 5. To work a lever, treadle, etc., with the foot or the feet. Example: Round about them was a circle of girls and wives of the neighbouring tenants; "they trod the spinning-wheels with diligent feet, or were using the scraping carding-combs," as an author has it. 6. To go through or accomplish by walking, dancing, etc. Example: I am resolved to forsake Malta, tread a pilgrimage to fair Jerusalem. Example: They have measured many a mile, / To tread a measure with you on this grass. 7. To crush under the foot; to trample in contempt or hatred; to subdue; to repress. Example: Through thee will we push down our enemies: through thy name will we tread them under that rise up against us. 8. To copulate; said of (especially male) birds. Labels: intransitive Example: When Turtles tread, and Rookes and Dawes, And Maidens bleach their summer smockes: 9. To copulate with (a hen). Labels: transitive Example: But if a child sees a cockerel tread a hen, or two dogs coupling, well and good. It should see these things. Example: This bird used to try to tread her fellow-hens. 10. To crush grapes with one's feet to make wine Labels: transitive
Word: tread Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English tred, from treden (“to tread”). Pronunciation: /tɹɛd/ 1. A step taken with the foot. 2. A manner of stepping. Example: She is coming, my own, my sweet; / Were it ever so airy a tread, / My heart would hear her and beat. 3. The sound made when someone or something is walking. Example: The steps fell lightly and oddly, with a certain swing, for all they went so slowly; it was different indeed from the heavy creaking tread of Henry Jekyll. Utterson sighed. "Is there never anything else?" he asked. Example: But when, after a singularly heavy tread and the jingle of spurs on the platform, the door flew open to the newcomer, he seemed a realization of our worst expectations. 4. A way; a track or path. Labels: obsolete Example: And the queint Mazes in the wanton greene, For lacke of tread are vndistinguishable. 5. A walking surface in a stairway on which the foot is placed. Example: The dog was waiting for him, her paws on the second tread, pere regardant with a happy lolling tongue. 6. The grooves carved into the face of a tire, used to give the tire traction. 7. The grooves on the bottom of a shoe or other footwear, used to give grip or traction. 8. The chalaza of a bird's egg; the treadle. 9. The act of avian copulation in which the male bird mounts the female by standing on her back. 10. The top of the banquette, on which soldiers stand to fire over the parapet. 11. A bruise or abrasion produced on the foot or ankle of a horse that interferes, or strikes its feet together.
Word: trod Part of Speech: verb Etymology: See tread. Pronunciation: /tɹɒd/, /tɹɔd/, /tɹɑd/, [tɹɔ̟d], /tɾɔd/ 1. simple past of tread Labels: form-of, past
Word: trod Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English trod, past participle of treden; see tread. Compare Norwegian trod (“a path”). Pronunciation: /tɹɒd/, /tɹɔd/, /tɹɑd/, [tɹɔ̟d], /tɾɔd/ 1. To walk heavily or laboriously; plod; tread Example: Sir ; to me the noble lord seems to trod close in the foot-steps of his fellow-labourers in the ministerial vineyard, and u crow over us with the same reason Example: It renders the paths, and the banks of the bayous in that region almost impassable in autumn, until the cattle have trodded it down.
Word: trod Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Old English trodu (“track, trace”), from the same source as tread. Pronunciation: /tɹɒd/, /tɹɔd/, /tɹɑd/, [tɹɔ̟d], /tɾɔd/ 1. A track or pathway. Example: In many ways this process replicates the stone trods or pannierways which date from the mediaeval period and are a feature of many parts of the North York Moors.
Word: trodden Part of Speech: adj Pronunciation: /ˈtɹɒ.dən/, /ˈtɹɑ.dən/ 1. crushed by being walked on.
Word: trodden Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ˈtɹɒ.dən/, /ˈtɹɑ.dən/ 1. past participle of tread Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: unbind Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English unbinden, from Old English unbindan, onbindan (“to unbind; untie”), from Proto-West Germanic *andabindan, from Proto-Germanic *andabindaną, equivalent to un- + bind. Cognate with Dutch ontbinden, German entbinden, Gothic 𐌰𐌽𐌳𐌱𐌹𐌽𐌳𐌰𐌽 (andbindan). Pronunciation: /ʌnˈbaɪnd/ 1. To take bindings off. Labels: transitive 2. To set free from a debt, contract or promise. Labels: figuratively, transitive 3. To disable some kind of connection in software, such as a key binding. Labels: transitive Example: Unbinds the specified key from a command
Word: unbound Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ʌnˈbaʊnd/ 1. simple past and past participle of unbind Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: unbound Part of Speech: adj Pronunciation: /ʌnˈbaʊnd/ 1. Not bound. Labels: not-comparable Example: Near-synonyms: unconstrained, unrestrained, unencumbered; unfettered, fetterless Example: The terms of the contract inadvertently left certain unbound aspects to subjective interpretation. 2. Not bound. Labels: not-comparable Example: Near-synonyms: unfettered, fetterless, unrestrained, unchained, unshackled, shackleless, unmanacled, unhandcuffed Example: The hostages' hands were left unbound. 3. Not bound. Labels: not-comparable Example: an unbound book Example: Beneath an old ebony table were two long carved oak chests. I lifted the lid of one, and at the top was a once-white surplice covered with dust, and beneath was a mass of tracts — Commonwealth Quartos, unbound — a prey to worms and decay. 4. Not bound. Labels: not-comparable Example: Helium-2 is unbound, as it is energetically favorable for it to split into two separate protons.
Word: underlie Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English underlien, underliggen, from Old English underliċġan (“to underlie, to be subject to, give way to”), equivalent to under- + lie. Cognate with Dutch onderliggen (“to lie below, lie on the bottom of”), German unterliegen (“to lie under, be subject to, succumb”). Pronunciation: /ˌʌn.dəˈlaɪ/, /ˌʌn.dɚˈlaɪ/, /ˌan.dəˈlɑɪ/ 1. To lie in a position directly beneath something. Labels: intransitive 2. To lie under or beneath. Labels: transitive Example: A stratum of clay underlies the surface gravel. 3. To serve as a basis of; form the foundation of. Labels: transitive Example: a doctrine underlying a theory Example: […] she was carved into the bole of a red cedar tree. Sun and storm had bleached the wood, moss here and there softened the crudeness of the modelling; sincerity underlay every stroke. 4. To be subject to; be liable to answer, as a charge or challenge. Labels: transitive Example: The knight of Ivanhoe […] underlies the challenge of Brian der Bois Guilbert. 5. To underlay.
Word: underlay Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English underleyen, from Old English underleċġan (“to underlay, prop, support”), equivalent to under- + lay. Cognate with Dutch onderleggen (“to lay or put under”), German unterlegen (“to underlay”), Swedish underlägga (“to underlay”). Pronunciation: /ʌndəɹˈleɪ/ 1. simple past of underlie Labels: form-of, past
Word: underlay Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English underleyen, from Old English underleċġan (“to underlay, prop, support”), equivalent to under- + lay. Cognate with Dutch onderleggen (“to lay or put under”), German unterlegen (“to underlay”), Swedish underlägga (“to underlay”). Pronunciation: /ʌndəɹˈleɪ/ 1. To lay (something) underneath something else; to put under. Labels: transitive 2. To provide a support for something; to raise or support by something laid under. Labels: transitive Example: to underlay a cut, plate, or the like, for printing 3. To put a tap on (a shoe). Labels: transitive 4. To incline from the vertical. Labels: ambitransitive
Word: underlay Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English underlay, underlei, equivalent to under- + lay. Pronunciation: /ˈʌndəɹˌleɪ/ 1. A layer (of earth, etc.) that lies under another; substratum. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. A soft floor covering that lies under a carpet. Labels: countable, uncountable 3. Anything that is underlaid. Labels: countable, uncountable 4. A piece of paper pasted under woodcuts, stereotype plates, etc. in a form, to bring them up to the necessary level for printing. Labels: countable, historical, uncountable 5. Lyrics; or more specifically, the way in which lyrics are assigned to musical notes. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The underlay in bar 3 is unclear in Handel's manuscript.
Word: underlain Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ʌndəɹˈleɪn/ 1. past participle of underlie Labels: form-of, participle, past Example: Phylles was still smirking at him, but there was a degree of uncertainty behind her expression, that had perhaps underlain her earlier hostility as well.
Word: understand Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English understanden, from Old English understandan (“to understand”), from Proto-West Germanic *understandan (“to stand between, understand”), from Proto-Germanic *understandaną (“to stand between, understand”), equivalent to Old English under- (“between, inter-”) + standan (“to stand”) (Modern English under- + stand). Cognate with Old Frisian understonda (“to understand, experience, learn”), Old High German understantan (“to understand”), Middle Danish understande (“to understand”). Compare also Saterland Frisian understunda, unnerstounde (“to dare, survey, measure”), Dutch onderstaan (“to undertake, presume”), German unterstehen (“to be subordinate”). Pronunciation: /ˌʌndəˈstænd/, /ˌʌndəˈstand/, /ˌʊndəˈstand/, /ˌəndəˈstand/, /ˌʌndəɾˈstand/ 1. To know the meaning of; to parse or have parsed correctly; to comprehend. Labels: intransitive, transitive, usually Example: Can you repeat what you just said? I didn't understand. Example: Thus, when he drew up instructions in lawyer language, he expressed the important words by an initial, a medial, or a final consonant, and made scratches for all the words between; his clerks, however, understood him very well. 2. To know the meaning of; to parse or have parsed correctly; to comprehend. Labels: intransitive, transitive, usually Example: ‘[…] I came back here, had a wank and finished that book.’ ‘The Naked Lunch?’ ‘Yeah.’ ‘What did you reckon?’ ‘Crap.’ ‘You’re just saying that because you didn’t understand it,’ said Adrian. ‘I’m just saying that because I did understand it,’ said Tom. ‘Any road up, we’d better start making some toast.[…]’ 3. To be thoroughly familiar with; to be able to undertake properly. Labels: transitive, usually Example: The students understood the assignment. 4. To comprehend a fact or principle; to regard or come to regard a belief as such. Labels: transitive, usually Example: I understand that company policy says I can't get a refund, but can you make an exception? Example: There's been no formal declaration, but it's understood that a state of war exists between the two countries 5. To know the intent, motives or character of; (of events) to know the causes of or reasons for. Labels: transitive Example: One day you say you love me, the next you ignore me—I don't understand you! 6. To believe or infer, to think one grasps sufficiently despite potentially incomplete knowledge. Labels: transitive Example: I've been given to understand that you have a package for me? Example: At least four people are understood to have been injured. 7. To regard as present when not. Labels: transitive Example: In the imperative mood, the word “you” is usually understood. Example: ‘I understand that the district was considered a sort of sanctuary,’ the Chief was saying. 8. To stand underneath, to support. Labels: humorous, rare Example: LAUNE: Ay, and what I do too: look thee, I'll but lean, and my staff understands me. SPEED: It stands under thee, indeed. LAUNCE:Why, stand-under and under-stand is all one.
Word: understand Part of Speech: intj Etymology: From Middle English understanden, from Old English understandan (“to understand”), from Proto-West Germanic *understandan (“to stand between, understand”), from Proto-Germanic *understandaną (“to stand between, understand”), equivalent to Old English under- (“between, inter-”) + standan (“to stand”) (Modern English under- + stand). Cognate with Old Frisian understonda (“to understand, experience, learn”), Old High German understantan (“to understand”), Middle Danish understande (“to understand”). Compare also Saterland Frisian understunda, unnerstounde (“to dare, survey, measure”), Dutch onderstaan (“to undertake, presume”), German unterstehen (“to be subordinate”). Pronunciation: /ˌʌndəˈstænd/, /ˌʌndəˈstand/, /ˌʊndəˈstand/, /ˌəndəˈstand/, /ˌʌndəɾˈstand/ 1. Uh-huh, I see; a way to acknowledge something said by the other speaker. Labels: Malaysia, Singapore
Word: understood Part of Speech: adj Pronunciation: /ʌndəˈstʊd/, /ʌndɚˈstʊd/ 1. Having been comprehended.
Word: understood Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ʌndəˈstʊd/, /ʌndɚˈstʊd/ 1. simple past and past participle of understand Labels: form-of, participle, past Example: Three crewmembers are understood to have been injured in the explosion.
Word: understood Part of Speech: intj Pronunciation: /ʌndəˈstʊd/, /ʌndɚˈstʊd/ 1. Indicates comprehension on the part of the speaker.
Word: undertake Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English undertaken; equivalent to under- + take (after undernim). Pronunciation: /ˌʌndəˈteɪk/, /ˌʌndɚˈteɪk/, /ˌɐndəˈtæɪk/ 1. To take upon oneself; to start, to embark on (a specific task etc.). Labels: transitive Example: This said, he sat; and expectation held His look suspense, awaiting who appeared To second, or oppose, or undertake The perilous attempt. 2. To commit oneself (to an obligation, activity etc.). Labels: intransitive Example: He undertook to exercise more in future. Example: […] if King Lewis vouchsafe to furnish us With some few bands of chosen soldiers, I’ll undertake to land them on our coast And force the tyrant from his seat by war. 3. To pass a slower moving vehicle on the curbside rather than on the side closest to oncoming traffic. Labels: UK, informal 4. To pledge; to assert, assure; to dare say. Labels: archaic, intransitive Example: That is her ransom; I deliver her; And those two counties I will undertake Your grace shall well and quietly enjoy. Example: […] if those Persons who are curious in collecting either Minerals, or the Shells, Teeth, or other Parts of Animal Bodies that have been buried in the Earth, do but search the Hills after Rains, and the Sea-Shores after Storms, I dare undertake they will not lose their Labour. 5. To take by trickery; to trap, to seize upon. Labels: obsolete, transitive 6. To assume, as a character; to take on. Labels: obsolete Example: Quince. […] you must needs play Pyramus. Bottom. Well, I will undertake it. 7. To engage with; to attack, take on in a fight. Labels: obsolete Example: It is not fit your lordship should undertake every companion that you give offence to. 8. To have knowledge of; to hear. Labels: obsolete Example: Ne he his mouth would open unto wight, Untill that Guyon selfe unto him spake, And called Brigadore, (so was he hight,) Whose voice so soone as he did undertake, Eftsoones he stood as still as any stake, 9. To have or take charge of. Labels: obsolete Example: To the water side I must conduct your grace; Then give my charge up to Sir Nicholas Vaux, Who undertakes you to your end.
Word: undertake Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English undertaken; equivalent to under- + take (after undernim). Pronunciation: /ˌʌndəˈteɪk/, /ˌʌndɚˈteɪk/, /ˌɐndəˈtæɪk/ 1. The passing of slower traffic on the curbside rather than on the side closest to oncoming traffic. Labels: UK, informal
Word: undertook Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ʌndəˈtʊk/, /ʌndɚˈtʊk/, /ʊndəˈtʊk/, /ʌndəɹˈtʉk/ 1. simple past of undertake Labels: form-of, past
Word: undertaken Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ʌndə(ɹ)ˈteɪkən/ 1. past participle of undertake Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: underwrite Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English underwriten, from Old English underwrītan (“to write at the foot of, write under, subscribe”). Compare Dutch onderschrijven (“to endorse”), German unterschreiben (“to sign; endorse”), Danish underskrive (“to sign; endorse”). By surface analysis, under- + write. Pronunciation: /ˈʌndəɹaɪt/, /ʌndəˈɹaɪt/ 1. To write below or under; subscribe. Labels: transitive 2. To subscribe (a document, policy etc.) with one's name. Labels: intransitive, obsolete, transitive 3. To sign; to put one's name to. Labels: transitive 4. To agree to pay by signing one's name; subscribe. Labels: transitive 5. Specifically, to assume financial responsibility for something, and guarantee it against failure. Labels: transitive Example: Dr. Beeching's obvious intent is that if Scottish—and similarly unprofitable English and Welsh—railways are to be maintained, it must be done by an unconcealed subsidy; he is determined that the railways shall no longer be preoccupied with—and derided for—immense deficits which include the burden of social services the State must openly underwrite, if it wants them. 6. To act as an underwriter. Labels: intransitive Example: The broker who procures the insurance […]ought not, by underwriting the policy, to deprive the parties of his unbiased testimony. 7. To support, lend support to, guarantee the basis of. Labels: transitive 8. To submit to; put up with. Labels: obsolete, transitive Example: Diſguiſe the holy ſtrength of their command: / And vnder write in an obſeruing kinde
Word: underwrote Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ʌn.dɚˈɹoʊt/ 1. simple past of underwrite Labels: form-of, past
Word: underwritten Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ʌn.dɚˈɹɪt.ən/ 1. past participle of underwrite Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: undo Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English undōn, from Old English ondōn, from Proto-West Germanic *andadōn (“to undo”), equivalent to un- + do. Cognate with West Frisian ûndwaan, ûntdwaan (“to undo; rid”), Dutch ontdoen (“to undo”). Pronunciation: /ʌnˈduː/ 1. To reverse the effects of an action. Labels: transitive Example: Fortunately, we can undo most of the damage to the system by the war. Example: What's done can't be undone. 2. To unfasten. Labels: transitive Example: Could you undo my buckle for me? 3. To unfasten the clothing of (a person). Labels: colloquial, transitive Example: PROSTITUTE: Undo me. There's a dear. 4. To impoverish or ruin, as in reputation; to cause the downfall of. Labels: figuratively, transitive Example: Woe is me, for I am undone!
Word: undo Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English undōn, from Old English ondōn, from Proto-West Germanic *andadōn (“to undo”), equivalent to un- + do. Cognate with West Frisian ûndwaan, ûntdwaan (“to undo; rid”), Dutch ontdoen (“to undo”). Pronunciation: /ʌnˈduː/ 1. An operation that reverses a previous action. Labels: transitive Example: How many undos does this program support?
Word: undo Part of Speech: adj Pronunciation: /ʌnˈduː/ 1. Misspelling of undue. Labels: alt-of, misspelling, transitive
Word: undid Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ʌnˈdɪd/ 1. simple past of undo Labels: form-of, past
Word: undone Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Germanic *un- Proto-West Germanic *un- Old English un- Middle English un- English un- English done English undone From un- + done. Pronunciation: /ʌnˈdʌn/ 1. Not done. Labels: not-comparable Example: Even so, it was found necessary to leave certain tasks undone.
Word: undone Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English undon, from Old English ondōn, from Proto-Germanic *andadōnaz, past participle of *andadōną (“to undo”), equivalent to undo + -en (past participle ending). Cognate with Dutch ontdaan (“stripped, undone, upset”). Pronunciation: /ʌnˈdʌn/ 1. Not fastened. Labels: not-comparable Example: Your flies are undone. 2. Ruined; brought to nought. Labels: not-comparable Example: Woe is me, for I am utterly undone! Example: Your hopes are murdered and undone.
Word: undone Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English undon, from Old English ondōn, from Proto-Germanic *andadōnaz, past participle of *andadōną (“to undo”), equivalent to undo + -en (past participle ending). Cognate with Dutch ontdaan (“stripped, undone, upset”). Pronunciation: /ʌnˈdʌn/ 1. past participle of undo Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: unwind Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English unwinden, from Old English unwindan (“to unwind; unwrap”), from Proto-Germanic *andawindaną (“to unwind”); equivalent to un- + wind (“to coil”). Cognate with Dutch ontwinden (“to unwind”). Pronunciation: /ʌnˈwaɪnd/ 1. To separate (something that is wound up) Labels: transitive Example: to unwind a ball of yarn Example: Could you unwind about a foot of ribbon so I can finish the package? 2. To disentangle Labels: obsolete, transitive Example: […]but being not so skilful as in every point to unwind themselves where the snares of glossing speech do lie to entangle them,[…] 3. To relax; to chill out; to rest and become relieved of stress Labels: colloquial, intransitive Example: After work, I like to unwind by smoking a pipe while reading the paper. 4. To be or become unwound; to be capable of being unwound or untwisted. Labels: intransitive 5. To close out a position, especially a complicated position. Labels: transitive 6. To undo something. Labels: transitive 7. To navigate back through (a call stack) so as to generate a stack trace etc. Labels: transitive Example: If the expression is a throw, we unwind the stack seeking a handler expression. 8. Synonym of unroll (“replace a loop with a sequence”). Labels: transitive 9. To unravel or explain. Labels: figuratively, transitive
Word: unwind Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English unwinden, from Old English unwindan (“to unwind; unwrap”), from Proto-Germanic *andawindaną (“to unwind”); equivalent to un- + wind (“to coil”). Cognate with Dutch ontwinden (“to unwind”). Pronunciation: /ʌnˈwaɪnd/ 1. Any mechanism or operation that unwinds something. Example: The NEWPC argument specifies the address to which control should be returned after the unwind is complete. If it is omitted, its default is for control to return to the PC saved in the call frame next outermost to the unwound ones. Example: A primary function of the unwind is to provide a guided web into the slitter rewinder for accuracy in locating the web for slitting or to realign the edge of the web in a straight rewinding operation.
Word: unwound Part of Speech: verb Etymology: See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form. Pronunciation: /ʌnˈwaʊnd/ 1. simple past and past participle of unwind Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: unwound Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From un- + wound (“to hurt”). Possibly backformed from the more common unwounded. Pronunciation: /ʌnˈwuːnd/ 1. to make (someone’s) wounds go away, to heal Labels: rare, transitive Example: The time travelling episode offers us restored wholeness of many kinds, ranging from physical (the ‘unwounding’ of wounded men) to spiritual and metaphysical (our transcending the tragedy of before and after). Example: "When I'm wounded, I go after people hard and I try to unwound myself," Trump said in a much-anticipated interview with Fox News' Megyn Kelly that aired Tuesday night on Fox.
Word: uphold Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English upholden, equivalent to up- + hold. Compare Dutch ophouden (“to stop, cease, hold up”), German aufhalten (“to stop, halt, detain”). Compare also Middle Low German upholt, Old Norse upphald (“uphold, support”). Pronunciation: /ˌʌpˈhəʊld/ 1. To hold up; to lift on high; to elevate. Example: The mournful train/ Echoed her grief, [...]/ With groans, and hands upheld, to move his mind, /Besought his pity to their helpless kind 2. To keep erect; to support; to sustain; to keep from falling Example: A man's pride shall bring him low: but honour shall uphold the humble in spirit. Example: That misbegotten devil, Falconbridge, /In spite of spite, alone upholds the day. 3. To support by approval or encouragement; to vindicate; to confirm (something which has been questioned) Example: let any moral come along and she would uphold it Example: but there was still a connexion upheld among the different ideas, which succeeded each other.
Word: upheld Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ʌpˈhɛld/ 1. simple past and past participle of uphold Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: upset Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English upset (“the act of setting up; establishment”), from Middle English upsetten, corresponding to up- + set. Cognate with Middle Low German upset (“setup; arrangement”). Pronunciation: /ʌpˈsɛt/, /ɐpˈset/ 1. Angry, distressed, or unhappy Labels: predicative Example: He was upset when she refused his friendship. Example: My children often get upset with their classmates. 2. Feeling unwell, nauseated, or ready to vomit. Example: His stomach was upset, so he didn't want to move. Example: Bryan came home from school with an upset tummy.
Word: upset Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English upset (“the act of setting up; establishment”), from Middle English upsetten, corresponding to up- + set. Cognate with Middle Low German upset (“setup; arrangement”). Pronunciation: /ˈʌp.sɛt/, /ˈɐp.set/ 1. Disturbance or disruption. Labels: uncountable Example: My late arrival caused the professor considerable upset. 2. An unexpected victory of a competitor or candidate that was not favored to win. Labels: countable Example: But it is probably the biggest upset for the away side since Ronnie Radford smashed a famous goal as Hereford defeated Newcastle 2-1 in 1972. Example: Sanders’s win in Michigan was one of the greatest upsets in modern political history. 3. An overturn. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: "collision and upset": impact with another object or an overturn for whatever reason. 4. An upset stomach. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: “Bob, let's cancel the baby sitter. With this upset stomach, I can't go out tonight.” “Sure you can, Liz! Try Pepto-Bismol. Hospital tests prove it relieves upsets. And it's great for indigestion or nausea, too!” 5. An upper set; a subset (X,≤) of a partially ordered set with the property that, if x is in U and x≤y, then y is in U. Labels: countable, uncountable 6. The dangerous situation where the flight attitude or airspeed of an aircraft is outside the designed bounds of operation, possibly resulting in loss of control. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The Board determines that the probable cause of this accident was the unfavorable interaction of severe vertical air drafts and large longitudinal control displacements resulting in a longitudinal upset from which a successful recovery was not made. 7. A woven row supporting the foundation rods for the uprights of a basket. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Willow basket making, an artisan inserting bye-stakes in the upsets.
Word: upset Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English upset (“the act of setting up; establishment”), from Middle English upsetten, corresponding to up- + set. Cognate with Middle Low German upset (“setup; arrangement”). Pronunciation: /ʌpˈsɛt/, /ɐpˈset/ 1. To make (a person) angry, distressed, or unhappy. Labels: transitive Example: I’m sure the bad news will upset him, but he needs to know. 2. To disturb, disrupt or adversely alter (something). Labels: transitive Example: Introducing a foreign species can upset the ecological balance. Example: The fatty meat upset his stomach. 3. To tip or overturn (something). Labels: transitive Example: 1924, W. D. Ross translator, Aristitle, Metaphysics, Book 1, Part 9, The Classical Library, Nashotah, Wisconsin, 2001. But this argument, which first Anaxagoras and later Eudoxus and certain others used, is very easily upset; for it is not difficult to collect many insuperable objections to such a view. 4. To defeat unexpectedly. Labels: transitive Example: Truman upset Dewey in the 1948 US presidential election. 5. To be upset or knocked over. Labels: intransitive Example: The carriage upset when the horse bolted. Example: [T]he locomotive exploded and upset, and was completely wrecked. 6. To set up; to put upright. Labels: obsolete Example: R. of Brunne with sail on mast upset 7. To thicken and shorten a soft or heated piece of metal, by forging or hammering on the end, to shape, for example, rivets or internal combustion engine valves. 8. To shorten (a tire) in the process of resetting, originally by cutting it and hammering on the ends. 9. To support with an upset (type of woven row). Labels: transitive Example: Very coarse work is sided up without an upsett, or is upsetted with a pair instead of a wale.
Word: wake Part of Speech: verb Etymology: A merger of two verbs of related/similar form and meaning: * Middle English waken, Old English wacan, from Proto-West Germanic *wakan, from Proto-Germanic *wakaną. * Middle English wakien, Old English wacian, from Proto-West Germanic *wakēn, from Proto-Germanic *wakāną. Pronunciation: /ˈweɪ̯k/, [ˈweɪ̯k], /ˈweːk/, /ˈwæɪ̯k/, [ˈwæ̝ɪ̯k] 1. (often followed by up) To stop sleeping. Labels: intransitive Example: I woke up at four o'clock this morning. Example: How long I slept I cannot tell, for I had nothing to guide me to the time, but woke at length, and found myself still in darkness. 2. (often followed by up) To make somebody stop sleeping; to rouse from sleep. Labels: transitive Example: The neighbour's car alarm woke me from a strange dream. Example: And the Angell that talked with me, came againe and waked me, […] 3. To put in motion or action; to arouse; to excite. Labels: figuratively, transitive Example: Not for my life, leſt fierce remembrance wake My ſudden rage to tear thee joint by joint. Example: Even Richard's crusade woke little interest in his island realm. 4. To be excited or roused up; to be stirred up from a dormant, torpid, or inactive state; to be active. Labels: figuratively, intransitive Example: and gentle Aires due at thir hour To fan the Earth now wak'd, Example: Then wake, my soul, to high desires, And earlier light thine altar fires: […] 5. To watch, or sit up with, at night, as a dead body. Example: Dougal said that being alone with the dead on that floor of the tower (for naebody cared to wake Sir Robert Redgauntlet like another corpse) he had never daured^([sic]) to answer the call, but that now his conscience checked him for neglecting his duty; […] 6. To be or remain awake; not to sleep. Example: The father waketh for the daughter when no man knoweth, and the care for her taketh away sleepe; Example: And oft though wiſdom wake, ſuspicion ſleeps At wiſdoms Gate, 7. To be alert; to keep watch Labels: obsolete Example: Command unto the guards that they diligently wake. 8. To sit up late for festive purposes; to hold a night revel. Labels: obsolete Example: The king doth wake to-night, and takes his rouse, Keeps wassail, and the swaggering upspring reels.
Word: wake Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English wake, from Old English wacu, from Proto-Germanic *wakō, related to the verb *wakjaną. Pronunciation: /ˈweɪ̯k/, [ˈweɪ̯k], /ˈweːk/, /ˈwæɪ̯k/, [ˈwæ̝ɪ̯k] 1. A period after a person's death before or after the body is buried, cremated, etc.; in some cultures accompanied by a party or collectively sorting through the deceased's personal effects. Example: Where any person has died whilst being, or suspected of being, a case or carrier or contact of an infectious disease, the Director may by order prohibit the conduct of a wake over the body of that person or impose such conditions as he thinks fit on the conduct of such wake […] 2. The state of forbearing sleep, especially for solemn or festive purposes; a vigil. Example: The warlike wakes continued all the night, And funeral games played at new returning light. Example: The wood nymphs, deckt with daises trim, Their merry wakes and pastimes keep. 3. A yearly parish festival formerly held in commemoration of the dedication of a church. Originally, prayers were said on the evening preceding, and hymns were sung during the night, in the church; subsequently, these vigils were discontinued, and the day itself, often with succeeding days, was occupied in rural pastimes and exercises, attended by eating and drinking. Labels: Church-of-England, historical Example: 1523–1525, Jean Froissart, John Bourchier, 2nd Baron Berners (translator), Froissart's Chronicles Great solemnities were made in all churches, and great fairs and wakes throughout all England. Example: And every village smokes at wakes with lusty cheer. 4. The act of waking, or state of being awake. Labels: obsolete, often, poetic Example: Making such difference 'twixt wake and sleep. Example: Singing her flatteries to my morning wake. 5. A number of vultures assembled together. Labels: collective
Word: wake Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Probably from Middle Low German or Middle Dutch wake, from or akin to Old Norse vǫk (“a hole in the ice”) ( > Danish våge, Icelandic vök), from Proto-Germanic *wakwō (“wetness”), from Proto-Indo-European *wegʷ- (“moist, wet”). Pronunciation: /ˈweɪ̯k/, [ˈweɪ̯k], /ˈweːk/, /ˈwæɪ̯k/, [ˈwæ̝ɪ̯k] 1. The path left behind a ship on the surface of the water. 2. The disturbance which follows an object, person or animal moving through water. 3. The turbulent air left behind a flying aircraft. 4. The area behind a moving person or object. Labels: figuratively Example: The player left the rest of the field trailing in her wake. Example: This effect followed immediately in the wake of his earliest exertions. 5. The perturbation behind a body moving through a fluid.
Word: woke Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Shortened from woken or woken up, or derived from dialectal use of woke (past participle of wake). The sense of being aware of social injustice dates to at least the 1930s. The derogatory use has been most commonly used as of the 2020s. Pronunciation: /wəʊk/, /woʊk/, /wəʉk/, /wɐʉk/, /wok/ 1. Awake: conscious and not asleep. Labels: not-comparable, usually 2. Alert, aware of what is going on, or well-informed, especially of racial and other social justice issues. Labels: not-comparable, slang, usually Example: Waking up is a damn sight harder than going to sleep, but we’ll stay woke up longer. Example: If You’re Woke You Dig It [title] 3. Holding progressive views or attitudes, principally with regard to social justice. Labels: broadly, derogatory, not-comparable, often, slang, usually Example: But the cultural conflict between these two post-revolutionary styles — between frat guys and feminist bluestockings, Gamergaters and the diversity police, alt-right provocateurs and “woke” dudebros, the mouthbreathers who poured hate on the all-female “Ghostbusters” and the tastemakers who pretended it was good — is likely here to stay. Example: Like, if I tweet or hashtag about how you didn’t do something right or used the wrong verb, then I can sit back and feel pretty good about myself, cause, "Man, you see how woke I was, I called you out." That’s not activism. That’s not bringing about change. 4. Promoting cancel culture, identitarianism, pontification, victim mentality, or virtue signalling. Labels: broadly, derogatory, not-comparable, slang, usually Example: The famous author of Harry Potter, J K Rowling, found herself at the centre of a woke storm after liking a tweet by Maya Forstater, who lost her job in 2019 after tweeting that “male people are not women”. The reaction was immediate, with some accusing Forstater of “killing trans people with her hate” for simply expressing an opinion. Example: Many on the ‘woke right’ who for some time have spoken against cancel culture, have chosen to embrace a version of their own, boycotting companies that support progressive causes, for example. The overwhelming support for DeSantis’ fight against Disney in Florida is one such illustration. The boycott of Bud Light over the company’s paid promotional social media posts using trans influencer Dylan Mulvaney is another.
Word: woke Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Shortened from woken or woken up, or derived from dialectal use of woke (past participle of wake). The sense of being aware of social injustice dates to at least the 1930s. The derogatory use has been most commonly used as of the 2020s. Pronunciation: /wəʊk/, /woʊk/, /wəʉk/, /wɐʉk/, /wok/ 1. A person with progressive views or attitudes. Labels: countable, derogatory, often, slang Example: Not to beat a dead horse, but it would appear that the wokes are in an abusive relationship with the speech policemen, given that some of their favored terms are being abruptly disallowed (like trigger warning or “preferred” pronouns). 2. A progressive ideology, in particular with regards to social justice. Labels: derogatory, slang, uncountable Example: Tim Bale, a professor of politics at Queen Mary University in London, said the war on woke kicked off as a counter to the “silent revolution” of liberal and progressive attitudes during the economic boom of the decades up to 2008. Example: The woke is the new religion of the left.
Word: woke Part of Speech: verb Etymology: See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form. Pronunciation: /wəʊk/, /woʊk/, /wəʉk/, /wɐʉk/, /wok/ 1. simple past of wake Labels: form-of, past 2. past participle of wake Labels: colloquial, dialectal, form-of, participle, past Example: […] have woke out of dreams, mayhap in which the beloved was smiling on you, whispering love-words-oh! how sweet and fondly remembered! Example: It has its tempers and its gentle moods. Yesterday it slept as we did, and now it has woke after a quiet night.
Word: waked Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ˈweɪkt/ 1. simple past and past participle of wake Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: woken Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Morphologically woke + -n. Pronunciation: /ˈwəʊ.kən/, /ˈwoʊ.kən/ 1. past participle of wake Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: woken Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From woke + -en. Pronunciation: /ˈwəʊ.kən/, /ˈwoʊ.kən/ 1. To make or become woke or woker. Labels: ambitransitive Example: The “wokening” industry swallowed Orr's latest incarnation—the new, improved Rory Rabineau—as a perfect antidote to the perceived poison of his uninsurable “mental instability.” Example: Which is why progressivism ain't no religion; it's a cult. Instead of the Ten Commandments, it's political correctness. Instead of any meaningful spiritual awakening, it's a performative woke'''ning.
Word: wear Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *wes- Proto-Indo-European *-yeti Proto-Indo-European *-éyeti Proto-Indo-European *woséyeti Proto-Germanic *wazjaną Proto-West Germanic *waʀjan Old English werian Middle English weren English wear Inherited from Middle English weren, werien, from Old English werian (“to clothe, cover over; put on, wear, use; stock (land)”), from Proto-West Germanic *waʀjan, from Proto-Germanic *wazjaną (“to clothe”), from Proto-Indo-European *wes- (“to dress, put on (clothes)”). Cognate to Sanskrit वस्ते (váste), Ancient Greek ἕννυμι (hénnumi, “put on”), Latin vestis (“garment”) (English vest), Albanian vesh (“dress up, wear”), Tocharian B wäs-, Old Armenian զգենում (zgenum), Welsh gwisgo, Hittite 𒉿𒀸- (waš-). Originally a weak verb (i.e. with a past tense in -ed), it became irregular during the Middle English period by analogy with verbs like beren (whence bear) and teren (whence tear). Pronunciation: /wɛə/, /wɛː/, /wɛ(ə)ɹ/, [wɛɚ], [wɛɹ] 1. To have on: Labels: transitive Example: He's wearing some nice pants today. Example: She wore her medals with pride. 2. To have on: Labels: transitive Example: He wears eyeglasses. Example: She wears her hair in braids. 3. To have on: Labels: transitive Example: She wore a smile all day. Example: He walked out of the courtroom wearing an air of satisfaction. 4. To erode: Example: You're going to wear a hole in the bottom of those shoes. Example: The water has slowly worn a channel into these rocks. 5. To erode: Labels: copulative, intransitive Example: The tiles were wearing thin due to years of children's feet. Example: His stock of money[…] began to wear very low. 6. To erode: Example: His neverending criticism has finally worn my patience. Example: Toil and care soon wear the spirit. 7. To erode: Labels: colloquial, intransitive Example: Her high pitched voice is really wearing on me lately. 8. To endure: Labels: colloquial Example: I know you don't like working with him, but you'll just have to wear it. 9. To endure: Labels: intransitive Example: Don't worry, this fabric will wear. These pants will last you for years. Example: This color wears so well. I must have washed this sweater a thousand times. 10. To endure: Labels: intransitive Example: wear on, wear away. Example: As the years wore on, we seemed to have less and less in common. 11. To bring (a sailing vessel) onto the other tack by bringing the wind around the stern (as opposed to tacking when the wind is brought around the bow); to come round on another tack by turning away from the wind.
Word: wear Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *wes- Proto-Indo-European *-yeti Proto-Indo-European *-éyeti Proto-Indo-European *woséyeti Proto-Germanic *wazjaną Proto-West Germanic *waʀjan Old English werian Middle English weren English wear Inherited from Middle English weren, werien, from Old English werian (“to clothe, cover over; put on, wear, use; stock (land)”), from Proto-West Germanic *waʀjan, from Proto-Germanic *wazjaną (“to clothe”), from Proto-Indo-European *wes- (“to dress, put on (clothes)”). Cognate to Sanskrit वस्ते (váste), Ancient Greek ἕννυμι (hénnumi, “put on”), Latin vestis (“garment”) (English vest), Albanian vesh (“dress up, wear”), Tocharian B wäs-, Old Armenian զգենում (zgenum), Welsh gwisgo, Hittite 𒉿𒀸- (waš-). Originally a weak verb (i.e. with a past tense in -ed), it became irregular during the Middle English period by analogy with verbs like beren (whence bear) and teren (whence tear). Pronunciation: /wɛə/, /wɛː/, /wɛ(ə)ɹ/, [wɛɚ], [wɛɹ] 1. Clothing. Labels: in-compounds, uncountable Example: footwear; outdoor wear; maternity wear 2. Damage to the appearance and/or strength of an item caused by use over time. Labels: uncountable Example: Now, I still think that for this box of matches to have escaped the wear of time for immemorial years was a most strange, as for me it was a most fortunate, thing. 3. Fashion. Labels: uncountable Example: Motley's the onely weare. 4. Wearing. Labels: uncountable Example: It is obvious, of course, that a cylinder so applied is not for constant wear, and it is not intended in any way to correct any error of refraction, but is used merely as an exercise for a few minutes at a time at repeated intervals. In case of Oblique Astigmatism the wearing of the correction will frequently fail to give satisfaction when complicated by oblique muscular trouble, […] Example: Prolonged wear of the interceptor body armor outer tactical vest (OTV) is frequently blamed for common complaints of neck and shoulder pain. […] Even if patients improved after a period of light duty and shoulder rehabilitation, many complained of pain after returning to OTV wear when their shoulders again became the focal point of weight distribution.
Word: wear Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English weren, werien, from Old English werian (“to guard, keep, defend; ward off, hinder, prevent, forbid; restrain; occupy, inhabit; dam up; discharge obligations on (land)”), from Proto-West Germanic *warjan, from Proto-Germanic *warjaną (“to defend, protect, ward off”), from Proto-Indo-European *wer- (“to close, cover, protect, save, defend”). Cognate with Scots wer, weir (“to defend, protect”), Dutch weren (“to aver, ward off”), German wehren (“to fight”), Swedish värja (“to defend, ward off”), Icelandic verja (“to defend”). 1. To guard; watch; keep watch, especially from entry or invasion. Labels: UK, dialectal, transitive 2. To defend; protect. Labels: UK, dialectal, transitive 3. To ward off; prevent from approaching or entering; drive off; repel. Labels: UK, dialectal, transitive Example: to wear the wolf from the sheep 4. To conduct or guide with care or caution, as into a fold or place of safety. Labels: UK, dialectal, transitive
Word: wear Part of Speech: noun 1. Dated form of weir. Labels: alt-of, dated Example: Cool and clear, cool and clear, / By shining shingle, and foaming wear;