nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: scar Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English scar, scarre, a conflation of Old French escare (“scab”) (from Late Latin eschara, from Ancient Greek ἐσχάρα (eskhára, “scab left from a burn”), and thus a doublet of eschar) and Middle English skar (“incision, cut, fissure”) (from Old Norse skarð (“notch, chink, gap”), from Proto-Germanic *skardaz (“gap, cut, fragment”)). Akin to Old Norse skor (“notch, score”), Old English sċeard (“gap, cut, notch”). More at shard. Displaced native Old English dolg, dolgswæþ, and wundswaþu (“scar”). Not related to scarify. Pronunciation: /skɑɹ/, /skɑː(ɹ)/ 1. A permanent mark on the skin, sometimes caused by the healing of a wound. 2. A permanent negative effect on someone's mind, caused by a traumatic experience. Labels: broadly Example: Thus, it is wise to avoid cultivating an emotional scar, as it can play havoc with your happiness and success. 3. Any permanent mark resulting from damage. Example: Her age-old weapons, flood and fire, left scars on the canyon which time will never efface. Example: But freedom is not enough. You do not wipe away the scars of centuries by saying: Now you are free to go where you want, and do as you desire, and choose the leaders you please. You do not take a person who, for years, has been hobbled by chains and liberate him, bring him up to the starting line of a race and then say, “you are free to compete with all the others,” and still justly believe that you have been completely fair. Thus it is not enough just to open the gates of opportunity. All our citizens must have the ability to walk through those gates.
Word: scar Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English scar, scarre, a conflation of Old French escare (“scab”) (from Late Latin eschara, from Ancient Greek ἐσχάρα (eskhára, “scab left from a burn”), and thus a doublet of eschar) and Middle English skar (“incision, cut, fissure”) (from Old Norse skarð (“notch, chink, gap”), from Proto-Germanic *skardaz (“gap, cut, fragment”)). Akin to Old Norse skor (“notch, score”), Old English sċeard (“gap, cut, notch”). More at shard. Displaced native Old English dolg, dolgswæþ, and wundswaþu (“scar”). Not related to scarify. Pronunciation: /skɑɹ/, /skɑː(ɹ)/ 1. To mark the skin permanently. Labels: transitive Example: Yet I'll not shed her blood; / Nor scar that whiter skin of hers than snow. 2. To form a scar. Labels: intransitive Example: Iron and coal were the magnets that drew railways to this land of lovely valleys and silent mountains—for such it was a century-and-a-half ago, before man blackened the valleys with the smoke of his forges, scarred the green hills with his shafts and waste-heaps, and drove the salmon from the quiet Rhondda and the murmuring Taff. Example: And black skin scars badly. Whatʼs left behind stays pink and angry, always. 3. To affect deeply in a traumatic manner. Labels: figuratively, transitive Example: Seeing his parents die in a car crash scarred him for life.
Word: scar Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English scarre, skarr, skerre, sker, a borrowing from Old Norse sker (“an isolated rock in the sea; skerry”). Cognate with Icelandic sker, Norwegian skjær, Swedish skär, Danish skær, German Schäre. Doublet of skerry and scaur. Pronunciation: /skɑɹ/, /skɑː(ɹ)/ 1. A cliff or rock outcrop. Example: O hark, O hear! how thin and clear, / ⁠And thinner, clearer, farther going! / O sweet and far from cliff and scar / ⁠The horns of Elfland faintly blowing! Example: All round him the long scar smashed into the jungle was a bath of heat. He was clambering heavily among the creepers and broken trunks when a bird, a vision of red and yellow, flashed upwards with a witch-like cry; and this cry was echoed by another. “Hi!” it said. “Wait a minute!” The undergrowth at the side of the scar was shaken and a multitude of raindrops fell pattering. 2. A rock in the sea breaking out from the surface of the water. 3. A bare rocky place on the side of a hill or mountain.
Word: scar Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin scarus (“a kind of fish”), from Ancient Greek σκάρος (skáros, “parrot wrasse, Sparisoma cretense, syn. Scarus cretensis”). Pronunciation: /skɑɹ/, /skɑː(ɹ)/ 1. A marine food fish, the scarus or parrotfish (family Scaridae).
Word: loaf Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *kʷel-der.? Proto-Germanic *hlaibaz Proto-West Germanic *hlaib Old English hlāf Middle English lof English loaf * From Middle English laf, lof, loof, from Old English hlāf (“bread; loaf”), from Proto-West Germanic *hlaib, from Proto-Germanic *hlaibaz (“bread; loaf”), of uncertain origin. Perhaps related to Old English hlifian (“to stand out prominently, tower up”). Cognates Cognate with German Laib (“loaf”), Danish and Swedish lev (“loaf”), Faroese leivur (“an oblong bun”), Icelandic hleifur (“loaf”), Norwegian Nynorsk leiv (“loaf”), Gothic 𐌷𐌻𐌰𐌹𐌱𐍃 (hlaibs), 𐌷𐌻𐌰𐌹𐍆𐍃 (hlaifs, “bread”) (whence Proto-Slavic *xlěbъ (“bread”) (see there for further descendants)), Estonian leib (“black bread”), Finnish leipä (“bread; loaf”); also Latvian klaips (“loaf”), Lithuanian kliẽpas (“loaf”). Doublet of chleb and khleb. * (brain or head): Rhyming slang, ellipsis of loaf of bread. Pronunciation: /ləʊf/, /loʊf/ 1. A block of bread after baking. Example: Philander went into the next room[…]and came back with a salt mackerel that dripped brine like a rainstorm. Then he put the coffee pot on the stove and rummaged out a loaf of dry bread and some hardtack. 2. Any solid block of food, such as meat or sugar. Example: sugar-loaf 3. Ellipsis of loaf of bread: the brain or the head. Labels: Cockney, abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis, slang Example: use one's loaf Example: It is frequently said of Bertram Wooster that he is a man who can think on his feet, and if the necessity arises he can also use his loaf when on all fours. [...] “Why didn't the idiot tell her not to open it?” “It was his first move. ‘I've found a letter from you here, precious,’ she said. ‘On no account open it, angel,’ he said. So of course she opened it.” She pursed the lips, nodded the loaf, and ate a moody piece of crumpet. “So that's why he's been going about looking like a dead fish.” 4. A solid block of soap, from which standard bar soap is cut. 5. A particular still life configuration with seven living cells. Example: It runs for 17331 generations before stabilizing as 136 blinkers, 109 blocks, 65 beehives, 18 loaves, 18 boats, 7 ships, 4 tubs, 3 ponds, 2 toads, and 40 gliders. Example: Running a LWSS into it can produce various debris. One of these reactions produces a loaf. When the loaf is properly hit with other LWSSs, it can be pulled backwards. 6. A catloaf. Labels: informal, slang
Word: loaf Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *kʷel-der.? Proto-Germanic *hlaibaz Proto-West Germanic *hlaib Old English hlāf Middle English lof English loaf * From Middle English laf, lof, loof, from Old English hlāf (“bread; loaf”), from Proto-West Germanic *hlaib, from Proto-Germanic *hlaibaz (“bread; loaf”), of uncertain origin. Perhaps related to Old English hlifian (“to stand out prominently, tower up”). Cognates Cognate with German Laib (“loaf”), Danish and Swedish lev (“loaf”), Faroese leivur (“an oblong bun”), Icelandic hleifur (“loaf”), Norwegian Nynorsk leiv (“loaf”), Gothic 𐌷𐌻𐌰𐌹𐌱𐍃 (hlaibs), 𐌷𐌻𐌰𐌹𐍆𐍃 (hlaifs, “bread”) (whence Proto-Slavic *xlěbъ (“bread”) (see there for further descendants)), Estonian leib (“black bread”), Finnish leipä (“bread; loaf”); also Latvian klaips (“loaf”), Lithuanian kliẽpas (“loaf”). Doublet of chleb and khleb. * (brain or head): Rhyming slang, ellipsis of loaf of bread. Pronunciation: /ləʊf/, /loʊf/ 1. To headbutt Labels: Cockney, slang
Word: loaf Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Probably a back-formation from loafer. Pronunciation: /ləʊf/, /loʊf/ 1. To do nothing, to be idle. Labels: intransitive Example: loaf about, loaf around Example: 2015, Elizabeth Royte, Vultures Are Revolting. Here’s Why We Need to Save Them., National Geographic (December 2015)https://web.archive.org/web/20151213095110/http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2016/01/vultures-text They don’t (often) kill other animals, they probably form monogamous pairs, and we know they share parental care of chicks, and loaf and bathe in large, congenial groups.
Word: yarmulke Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Yiddish יאַרמלקע (yarmlke), from Polish jarmułka (“skullcap”), from Turkic; compare Turkish yağmurluk (“rain apparel”). Pronunciation: /ˈjɑːməlkə/, /ˈjɑ(ɹ)mə(l)kə/ 1. A skullcap worn by religious Jewish males (especially during prayer). Labels: Judaism Example: And I always feel uncomfortable dur­ing the High Holy Days watching people in yarmulkes rushing through the streets, knowing they’ll be swaying and moaning something ancient and indecipherable, even to me. Example: But once Dr. Levenson, who works for the Indian Health Service and wears a colorful tapestry yarmulke, has alerted the tiny network, it almost seems as if we have stepped into Yiddishland.
Word: use one's loaf Part of Speech: verb 1. To think. Labels: Cockney, slang
Word: unobtanium Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of unobtainium. Labels: alt-of, alternative, countable, uncountable Example: Thus the invention of high temperature fuels will enable us to consider cores which are radiation cooled; such cores would be surrounded by large tanks (cooled by water) which in turn would be penetrated by beam holes. The beam holes themselves would probably have to be made of "unobtanium". (This "unobtanium" is a word coined at Atomics International to describe the material needed to make reactor projects feasible.) In between the radiation cooled reactors and the water cooled reactors is a regime suitable for liquid metal (including boiling liquid) cooled reactors. Once again "unobtanium" is needed. Example: As early as 1969, during the initial Phase A studies, Lockheed had taken the initiative in proposing a two-stage fully-reusable design with both stages built of aluminum and using silica tiles for thermal protection. [...] Though that company indeed was in the forefront in developing such tiles, they were items for laboratory research. A design that specified their use had no more intrinsic credibility than one that proposed to use the miracle metals Unobtanium and Wishalloy.
Word: solve Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English solven, from Latin solvō. Pronunciation: /sɒlv/, [sɔɫv], [sɔʊ̯v], /sɑlv/, /sɔlv/ 1. To find an answer or solution to a problem or question; to work out. Example: True piety would effectually solve such scruples. Example: God shall solve the dark decrees of fate. 2. to find out the perpetrator, the motive etc (of crime) Example: to solve a murder to solve a crime 3. To find the values of variables that satisfy a system of equations and/or inequalities. 4. To algebraically manipulate an equation or inequality into a form that isolates a chosen variable on one side, so that the other side consists of an expression that may be used to generate solutions. 5. To loosen or separate the parts of. Labels: transitive 6. To loosen or separate the parts of. Labels: archaic, transitive
Word: solve Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English solven, from Latin solvō. Pronunciation: /sɒlv/, [sɔɫv], [sɔʊ̯v], /sɑlv/, /sɔlv/ 1. A solution; an explanation. Labels: archaic Example: The solve is this, that thou dost common grow. Example: KEVIN: I decided a long time ago that just because I love Raymond, doesn't mean I have to love the people he works with. Good solve, Detective.
Word: resolve Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English resolven, from Old French resolver, a learned borrowing of Latin resolvō (“loosen, thaw, melt, resolve”), equivalent to re- + solve. Piecewise doublet of re-solve. Pronunciation: /ɹɪˈzɒlv/, /ɹiːˈzɒlv/, /ɹɪˈzɑlv/, /ɹɪˈzɔlv/ 1. Determination; will power. Labels: uncountable Example: It took all my resolve to go through with the surgery. Example: Stripped of all bravado, Cersei breaks, and shows the very scared, vulnerable woman who has kept her emotions at bay. “I don’t want to die,” she whimpers, “Not like this.” It’s all the more moving for coming from a character who built her identity on steely resolve and contempt for such hoary conceits as fear. 2. A determination to do something; a fixed decision. Labels: countable Example: And the having individually entertained four such resolves, without perceiving that once brought together, they all mutually expire; this, this ineffable folly, Pierre, brands thee in the forehead for an unaccountable infatuate! Example: His resolve to die is weakening as he grows accustomed to Sophie's absence, and all his attempts to master irresolution only augment it. 3. An act of resolving something; resolution. Labels: countable Example: Still, my mother said she loved me and the conversation soon ended, without resolve; possibly, this is also a dialog which is only beginning, or rather continuing. Example: Some operations require data that, in turn, requires that lightweight components be resolved. In these cases, this option determines whether the user is prompted to approve the resolve or whether components are just resolved automatically.
Word: resolve Part of Speech: verb 1. Alternative spelling of re-solve. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: billionaire Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁ Proto-Indo-European *dwís Proto-Italic *dwis Old Latin duis Latin bisder. French bi- Proto-Indo-European *sem- Proto-Indo-European *sm̥- Proto-Indo-European *-is Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-ih₂ Proto-Indo-European *smih₂ Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰes- Proto-Indo-European *-lom Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰéslom ▲ Proto-Indo-European *-ih₂ Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰéslih₂ Proto-Indo-European *smih₂ǵʰéslih₂ Proto-Italic *smīɣeslī Latin mīlle Italian mille Proto-Indo-European *-ōder. Proto-Indo-European *-Hōder.? Latin -ōnem Italian -one Italian milionebor. Old French million Middle French million French millionbf. French -illion French billionbor. English billion ▲ French million Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzios Latin -āriusder. French -aire French millionnairebor. English millionaire English -aire English billionaire From billion + -aire. Pronunciation: /ˌbɪl.i.əˈnɛə(ɹ)/, /ˌbɪl.jəˈnɛɚ/ 1. Somebody whose wealth is at least one billion (10⁹) currency units (usually understood to exclude holders of hyperinflated currencies). Example: Private-equity nabobs bristle at being dubbed mere financiers.[…]Much of their pleading is public-relations bluster. Clever financial ploys are what have made billionaires of the industry’s veterans. “Operational improvement” in a portfolio company has often meant little more than promising colossal bonuses to sitting chief executives if they meet ambitious growth targets. That model is still prevalent today. Example: The ranks of the billionaire class last year grew by just over 200 to nearly 2,770 people. Their wealth skyrocketed by $2.1 trillion — three times faster than the year before — to a total of $15 trillion. In the United States alone, where 816 billionaires reside, the net worth of this group soared by $1.4 trillion.
Word: millionaire Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From French millionnaire. By surface analysis, million + -aire. Pronunciation: /ˌmɪl.i.əˈnɛə(ɹ)/, /ˌmɪl.jəˈnɛɹ/, /ˈmɪl.jəˌnɛɹ/, /ˌmɪl.jəˈneː(ɹ)/, /ˌmɪl.jəˈneə̯(ɹ)/ 1. Somebody whose wealth is at least one million (10⁶) currency units (usually understood to exclude holders of hyperinflated currencies). Example: Those people who eventually become millionaires typically don't get there through sheer luck or by making one life-changing investment. […] While starting early can increase your likelihood of attaining millionaire status, the investments you choose play an equally important role.
Word: cicatrice Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Latin cicatrix. 1. Alternative form of cicatrix. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: Fanny's scissors moved steadily round the armhole and slit down the sleeve, revealing a surprisingly soft white arm and shoulder. Across the shoulder was an ancient cicatrice.
Word: Old Church Slavonic Part of Speech: name 1. The first literary and liturgical Slavic language.
Word: hundreds and thousands Part of Speech: noun Etymology: PIE word *ḱm̥tóm From hundreds + and + thousands. Sense 2 (“tiny balls or strands of multicoloured sugar”) is from the fact that the confectionery is made up of numerous sugar pieces. Pronunciation: /ˌhʌndɹəds n̩ ˈθaʊz(ə)ndz/, /ˌhʌndɹəds n̩ ˈθaʊz(ə)n(d)z/ 1. An indefinite but emphatically large number. Labels: plural, plural-only Example: 1864 September 12, W. T. Sherman, letter to James M. Calhoun, E. E. Rawson and S. C. Wells, representing City Council of Atlanta, published in 1865, Joel Tyler Headley, Grant and Sherman: Their Campaigns and Generals, 2008, page 592, I myself have seen in Missouri, Kentucky, Tennessee, and Mississippi, hundreds and thousands of women and children fleeing from your armies and desperadoes, hungry, and with bleeding feet. Example: Have there not been hundreds and thousands of people injured in the depression in value of railroad securities? 2. Tiny balls or strands of multicoloured sugar, sprinkled over ice cream, desserts or party foods. Labels: Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, plural, plural-only Example: So there you have them - Onoda, Gund, Eclipse - all squidged together on the same spoon, their flavours intermingling under a bleeding crust of hundreds-and-thousands. Example: Hundreds and thousands, commonly yet boringly called “sprinkles” in North America, are enough to make any child smile. Sprinkled over a cookie and sandwiched around creamy ice cream makes for sheer bliss!
Word: mitigate Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English mitigaten (“to relieve pain, soothe; (swelling) to abate; (hemorrhoids) to relieve; (the mind) to placate, appease; to end, check; to stop, cease”), from mitigat(e) (“mitigated, alleviated, relived”, also used as the past participle of mitigaten) + -en (verb-forming suffix), borrowed from Latin mītigātus, the perfect passive participle of mītigō (“to make soft, ripe; to tame, pacify”), from mītis (“gentle, mild, ripe”) + -igō (“to do, make”), of uncertain origin, but perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *meh₁y- (“mild, soft”). Pronunciation: /ˈmɪt.ɪ.ɡeɪt/ 1. To reduce, lessen, or decrease and thereby to make less severe or easier to bear. Labels: transitive Example: Measures are pursuing to prevent or mitigate the usual consequences of such outrages, and with the hope of their succeeding at least to avert general hostility. Example: But in yielding to it the retaliation has been mitigated as much as possible, both in its extent and in its character... 2. To downplay. Labels: transitive 3. To give force or effect toward preventing a problem. Labels: intransitive, proscribed Example: We've mitigated against the chance of flooding.
Word: mitigate Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English mitigat(e) (“mitigated”, also used as the past participle of mitigaten and of mitigate in Early Modern English), see -ate (adjective-forming suffix) and Etymology 1 for more. 1. Mitigated, alleviated. Labels: obsolete
Word: chickpea Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Calque of French pois chiche, from pois (“pea”) + chiche, from Old French cice, from Latin cicer (“chickpea”). Pronunciation: /ˈt͡ʃɪkˌpiː/, /ˈt͡ʃɪkˌpi/, /ˈt͡ʃəkˌpiː/ 1. An annual plant (Cicer arietinum) in the pea family, widely cultivated for the edible seeds in its short inflated pods. 2. A seed of this plant, often used as a food. Example: Chickpea is valued for its nutritive seeds with high protein content.
Word: linseed Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English linseed, lynseed, lynsede, from Old English līnsǣd (“seed of flax”), from līn (“flax”) (from Proto-Germanic *līną (“flax”)) + sǣd (“seed”). By surface analysis, lin + seed. Pronunciation: /ˈlɪnsiːd/ 1. The seed of the flax plant, which yields linseed oil. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The ancients regarded linseed as a source of medical benefits.
Word: milu Part of Speech: noun 1. Père David's deer, a species of deer native to the river valleys of China.
Word: fresco Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Italian fresco, from Vulgar Latin *friscum, from Proto-Germanic *friskaz. Doublet of fresh and frisk. Pronunciation: /ˈfɹɛskoʊ/, /ˈfɹɛskəʊ/ 1. A cool, refreshing state of the air; coolness, duskiness, shade. Labels: countable Example: […] I [Satan] cannot ſtay Flaring in ſun-ſhine all the day: For, entre nous, we helliſh ſprites, Love more the freſco of the nights; […] 2. An artwork made by applying water-based pigment to wet or fresh lime mortar or plaster. Labels: countable 3. The technique used to make such an artwork. Labels: uncountable
Word: fresco Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Italian fresco, from Vulgar Latin *friscum, from Proto-Germanic *friskaz. Doublet of fresh and frisk. Pronunciation: /ˈfɹɛskoʊ/, /ˈfɹɛskəʊ/ 1. To paint using fresco. Labels: ambitransitive
Word: formation Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English formacioun, formation, borrowed from Old French formacion, from Latin fōrmātiō, from fōrmō (“form”, verb); see form as verb. Morphologically form + -ation. Pronunciation: /fɔːˈmeɪʃ(ə)n/, /fɔɹˈmeɪʃ(ə)n/, /foːˈmæɪʃ(ə)n/ 1. The act of assembling a group or structure. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Some cloud formation was confirmed and rainfall was observed over some islands. 2. Something possessing structure or form. Labels: countable, uncountable 3. The process during which something comes into being and gains its characteristics. Labels: countable, uncountable 4. A grouping of military units or smaller formations under a command, such as a brigade, division, wing, etc. Labels: countable, uncountable 5. A layer of rock of common origin. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Over a broad region, the color of a formation may change. 6. An arrangement of moving troops, ships, or aircraft, such as a wedge, line abreast, or echelon. Often "in formation". Labels: countable, uncountable 7. An arrangement of players designed to facilitate certain plays. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: N'Golo Kanté embodies both sides of this, a player whose early scratchiness was soothed with glorious results in the new 3-4-3 formation, allowed simply to be his best, most wonderfully mobile, diligent, destructive self. 8. The process of influencing or guiding a person to a deeper understanding of a particular vocation. Labels: countable, uncountable 9. A structure made of two categories, two functors from the first to the second category, and a transformation from one of the functors to the other. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: obsequious Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English obsequyous, from Latin obsequiōsus (“complaisant, obsequious”), from obsequium (“compliance”), from obsequor (“comply with, yield to”), from ob (“in the direction of, towards”) + sequor (“follow”) (cf. sequel). Pronunciation: /əbˈsiːkwi.əs/ 1. Excessively eager and attentive to please or to obey instructions; fawning, subservient, servile. Example: Personally I felt shy and uncomfortable at this obsequious adoration, and I read the same feeling in the faces of Lord John and Summerlee, but Challenger expanded like a flower in the sun. Example: Translation falls especially short of this conceit which carries the whole flamboyance of the Spanish language. It was intended as an obsequious flattery of the Condesa, and was untrue. 2. Obedient; compliant with someone else's orders or wishes. Labels: archaic Example: Our ladies were situated as well as it was possible; they had good servants, splendid rooms, obsequious attendants, and had become habituated to the country, so that the loss of the Count was not any thing of moment beyond the pleasure of his society;[…] 3. Of or pertaining to obsequies, funereal. Labels: obsolete Example: […] the ſuruiuer bound / In filliall obligation for ſome tearme To doe obſequious ſorrowe […]
Word: Eastern Farsi Part of Speech: name 1. Dari, the dialect of the Persian language as spoken by approximately one-third of the population of Afghanistan; also referred to as Eastern Persian, Afghan Persian, or simply Persian.
Word: baz Part of Speech: noun 1. A metasyntactic variable used to stand for some unspecified entity; typically the third in a series after foo and bar. Labels: uncountable Example: Suppose we have three objects, foo, bar and baz.
Word: sobriquet Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from French sobriquet (“nickname”), from Middle French soubriquet (“a chuck under the chin”). Pronunciation: /ˈsəʊ.bɹɪ.keɪ/, /ˈsoʊ.bɹɪ.keɪ/, /ˈsoʊ.bɹɪ.kɛt/ 1. A familiar name for a person or thing; a nickname (sometimes assumed by the person, but often given by others) that is descriptive. Example: “The Bard” is a sobriquet of English playwright William Shakespeare. Example: So began the memorable paper-chase for an extremely nebulous shop-assistant and a foreigner whose description began and ended with the sobriquet 'Peter the Italian'.
Word: cadaverous Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin cadāverōsus; compare Middle English cadaverous (“gangrenous, mortified”). 1. Corpselike; hinting of death; imitating a cadaver. Example: The speakers were three men, rather beyond middle life. One was pale and cadaverous, as if every feature gave testimony to the length of his vigils and the rigour of his fasts, while straight black hair hanging down on each side his face added to his wild and neglected appearance. Example: It may have been the sight of that cadaverous ambition and self-complacent meanness, which showed itself in Paley’s yellow face, and twinkled in his narrow eyes, or it may have been a natural appetite for pleasure and joviality, of which it must be confessed Mr. Pen was exceedingly fond, which deterred that luckless youth from pursuing his designs upon the Bench or the Woolsack with the ardour, or rather steadiness, which is requisite in gentlemen who would climb to those seats of honour.
Word: emanate Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰ Proto-Indo-European *-s Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰs Proto-Italic *eks Latin exder. Latin ē Proto-Indo-European *meh₂-der. Proto-Indo-European *meh₂-no-der. Latin mānō Proto-Italic *-āzi ▲ Latin -ereinflu. Latin -āre Latin mānāre Latin ēmānārebor. English emanate From Latin ēmānāre (“to flow out, spring out of, arise, proceed from”), from ē (“out”) + mānāre (“to flow”). Pronunciation: /ˈɛm.əˌneɪt/ 1. To come from a source; issue from. Labels: intransitive Example: Fragrance emanates from flowers. Example: […] this Association has taken into its serious consideration a proposal, emanating from the aforesaid, Samuel Pickwick, Esq., G.C.M.P.C., and three other Pickwickians hereinafter named, […] 2. To send or give out; emit. Labels: rare, transitive Example: […] his baggy, wrinkled suit emanating a diapery stench […]
Word: taciturn Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Back-formation from taciturnity, from Middle English taciturnite, from Latin taciturnitās; or alternatively from French taciturne, likely reinforced by Latin taciturnus, from tacitus (“secret, tacit”). Pronunciation: /ˈtæsɪtɜːn/, /ˈtæsɪtɝn/ 1. Silent; temperamentally untalkative; disinclined to speak. Example: The two sisters could hardly have been more different, one so boisterous and expressive, the other so taciturn and calm. Example: We are each of an unsocial, taciturn disposition, unwilling to speak, unless we expect to say something that will amaze the whole room, and be handed down to posterity with all the eclat of a proverb.
Word: sententious Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin sententiōsus, from sententia (“opinion, purpose”). Pronunciation: /sɛnˈtɛn.ʃəs/ 1. Using as few words as possible; pithy and concise. 2. Tending to use aphorisms or maxims; especially, to such an extent as to engage in trite moralizing, even self-righteously so. Example: His sententious remarks quickly bored the audience. 3. Full of meaning. Labels: obsolete
Word: iconoclastic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree English iconoclast Proto-Indo-European *-ikos Proto-Italic *-ikos Latin -icuslbor. Old French -iquebor. Middle English -ik English -ic English iconoclastic From iconoclast + -ic. 1. Characterized by attack on established and accepted beliefs, customs, or institutions; of or pertaining to iconoclasm. Example: Many of Thomas Hardy's works were considered iconoclastic in his day. Example: I pose the iconoclastic suggestion that even at this late stage in B.R. dieselisation, rigid standardisation might be a shibboleth.
Word: iconoclastic Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English iconoclast Proto-Indo-European *-ikos Proto-Italic *-ikos Latin -icuslbor. Old French -iquebor. Middle English -ik English -ic English iconoclastic From iconoclast + -ic. 1. Synonym of iconoclast.
Word: concomitant Part of Speech: adj Etymology: First attested 1607; from Middle French concomitant, from Latin concomitāns, the present participle of concomitor (“to accompany”), from con- (“together”) + comitor (“to accompany”), from comes (“companion”). Pronunciation: /kənˈkɒmɪtənt/, /kənˈkɑmətənt/, /kənˈkɒmətənt/, /kənˈkɔmətənt/, [kənˈkɔ̟mətənt] 1. Accompanying; conjoining; attending; concurrent. Labels: not-comparable Example: It has therefore pleased our wise Creator to annex to several objects, and to the ideas which we receive from them, as also to several of our thoughts, a concomitant pleasure, […] Example: It is a difficulty to know what view one should adopt; she may drag on for two whole years; in that time her good fortune, with all its concomitant advantages, would be insured to her connexions, after which her death would be the most interesting thing possible, and make an astounding impression. 2. Of or relating to the grammatical aspect which expresses that a secondary action is occurring simultaneously to the primary action of the statement. Labels: not-comparable
Word: concomitant Part of Speech: noun Etymology: First attested 1607; from Middle French concomitant, from Latin concomitāns, the present participle of concomitor (“to accompany”), from con- (“together”) + comitor (“to accompany”), from comes (“companion”). Pronunciation: /kənˈkɒmɪtənt/, /kənˈkɑmətənt/, /kənˈkɒmətənt/, /kənˈkɔmətənt/, [kənˈkɔ̟mətənt] 1. Something happening or existing at the same time. Example: The reflection, that but the next day was to transport her far from London, had, in chasing distrust, with its natural concomitants, restraint and reserve, given a sweet and placid composure to her demeanour. Example: It is also instructive to consider the relation of these dreams to anxiety dreams. In the dreams we have been discussing, a repressed wish has found a means of evading censorship—and the distortion which censorship involves. The invariable concomitant is that painful feelings are experienced in the dream. 2. An invariant homogeneous polynomial in the coefficients of a form, a covariant variable, and a contravariant variable.
Word: malignant Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle French malignant, from Late Latin malignans. See malign. Pronunciation: /məˈlɪɡnənt/ 1. Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Example: malignant temper; malignant revenge; malignant infection Example: […]while, I fear, there will be some white ones, unable to forget that, with malignant heart, and deceitful speech, they have strove to hinder it. 2. Tending to produce death; threatening a fatal issue. Example: malignant diphtheria Example: a malignant tumor
Word: malignant Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle French malignant, from Late Latin malignans. See malign. Pronunciation: /məˈlɪɡnənt/ 1. A deviant; a person who is hostile or destructive to society. Example: As devout Stephen was carried to his burial by devout men, so is it just and equal that malignants should carry malignants […] Example: A malignant in a position of real power immediately becomes a tyrant. 2. A person who fought for Charles I in the English Civil War. Labels: derogatory, historical, obsolete
Word: immutable Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English immutable, from Latin immūtābilis (“unchangeable”); im- + mutable. 1. Unable to be changed without exception. Labels: not-comparable Example: The government has enacted an immutable law. Example: Mutable as is our nature, it delights in the immutable: and we expect as much constancy as if all time, to say nothing of our own changeableness, had not shewn that ever "the fashion of this world passeth away." 2. Not able to be altered in the memory after its value is set initially. Labels: not-comparable Example: Constants are immutable.
Word: immutable Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English immutable, from Latin immūtābilis (“unchangeable”); im- + mutable. 1. Something that cannot be changed.
Word: garrulous Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Adapted borrowing of Latin garrulus (“talkative”) + -ous, from the verb garriō (“to chatter”). Pronunciation: /ˈɡæɹ.ʊ.ləs/, /ˈɡæɹ.jʊ.ləs/, /ˈɡɛɹ.ə.ləs/, /ˈɡɛɹ.jə.ləs/, /ˈɡæɹ.ə.ləs/ 1. Excessively or tiresomely talkative. Example: She lingered for a few moments, and was garrulous over some detail of the household. Example: Crammed with gossip, anecdotes, and confessions . . ., his garrulous, untidy narratives read like a good novel. 2. Excessively wordy and rambling.
Word: iniquitous Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From iniquity + -ous (suffix forming adjectives indicating the presence of a quality in any degree (typically an abundance)). Pronunciation: /ɪˈnɪkwɪtəs/, [-ɾəs] 1. Characterized by iniquity (“deviation from what is right”). Example: "It certainly is a most iniquitous affair," said Mr. Bennet, "and nothing can clear Mr. Collins from the guilt of inheriting Longbourn. But if you will listen to his letter, you may perhaps be a little softened by his manner of expressing himself." Example: Are you aware, sir, that we have gone to enormous expense to resist this iniquitous attempt of yours? 2. Characterized by iniquity (“deviation from what is right”). Example: It is a Maxim among theſe Men, That vvhatever has been done before may legally be done again: And therefore they take ſpecial Care to record all the Deciſions formerly made, even thoſe vvhich have through Ignorance or Corruption contradicted the Rules of common Juſtice, and the general Reaſon of Mankind. Theſe, under the Name of Precedents, they produce as Authorities, and thereby endeavour to juſtify the moſt iniquitous Opinions; […] Example: [Judicial independence] operates as a check upon the legiſlative body in paſſing them [unjust and partial laws]; vvho, perceiving that obſtacles to the ſucceſs of an iniquitous intention are to be expected from the ſcruples of the courts, are in a manner compelled by the very motives of the injuſtice they mediate, to qualify their attempts.
Word: quiescent Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin quiēscēns, quiēscentem. Pronunciation: /kwaɪˈɛsənt/, /kwiˈɛsənt/, [kwaɪ̯ˈɛsn̩t], [kwiˈɛsn̩t] 1. Inactive, quiet, at rest. Example: The bats were quiescent at that time of day, so we slowly entered the cave. Example: In times of national security, the feeling of Patriotism among the masses is so quiescent that it seems hardly to exist—in their case national glory or national danger awakens it, and it leaps up armed cap-a-pie. 2. Not sounded; silent. Example: The k is quiescent in "knight" and "know". 3. Non-proliferating.
Word: inculcate Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Borrowed from Latin inculcātus, perfect passive participle of inculcō (“impress upon, force upon”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (adjective-forming suffix)), from in- (“in”) + calcō (“tread upon, trample”), from calx (“heel”). Participial usage of the adjective up until Early Modern English. Pronunciation: /ˈɪn.kʌl.keɪt/, /ɪnˈkʌl.keɪt/ 1. To teach by repeated instruction. Labels: transitive Example: Those impious Pigs, Who, by frequent squeaks, have dared impugn The settled Swellfoot system, or to make Irreverent mockery of the genuflexions Inculcated by the arch-priest, have been whipt Into a loyal and an orthodox whine. Example: she had a perfect Parisian accent, was musical—all French women sing—had a great deal of tournure, the value of which she was always inculcating on her pupils: "La Grace plus belle que la beauté," was invariably the quotation when putting on her shawl; and, it must be confessed, that never did five English girls put on shawls to such perfection. 2. To induce understanding or a particular sentiment in a person or persons. Labels: transitive Example: all preachers , especially such as be of good temper , and have wisdom with conscience , ought to inculcate and beat upon a peace , silence , and surseance Example: The right defense against false sentiments is to inculcate just sentiments.
Word: inculcate Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Borrowed from Latin inculcātus, perfect passive participle of inculcō (“impress upon, force upon”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (adjective-forming suffix)), from in- (“in”) + calcō (“tread upon, trample”), from calx (“heel”). Participial usage of the adjective up until Early Modern English. Pronunciation: /ˈɪn.kʌl.keɪt/, /ɪnˈkʌl.keɪt/ 1. Inculcated. Labels: not-comparable, obsolete Example: Wee had neede to haue the word of God often inculcate and beaten vpon vs.
Word: dubious Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin dubius; like doubt, from Latin duo (cognate to English two), implying “two alternatives” (yes or no, true or false, etc.). Pronunciation: /ˈd͡ʒuː.bi.əs/, /ˈdjuː.bi.əs/, /-bjəs/, /ˈdu.bi.əs/ 1. Arousing doubt; questionable; open to suspicion. Example: After he made some dubious claims about the company, fewer people trusted him. Example: They were renowned as people of dubious morals. 2. In disbelief; wavering, uncertain, or hesitating in opinion; inclined to doubt; undecided. Example: She was dubious about my plan at first, but later I managed to persuade her to cooperate. Example: Last year, President Obama had large majorities in Congress and hopes of passing a comprehensive climate and energy bill. Next year, he faces a new Congress much more dubious about the reality of climate change and considerably more hostile to international efforts to deal with it. 3. Generally considered imprecise or wrong, but not totally unplayable.
Word: ameliorate Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Alteration of meliorate after French améliorer. Pronunciation: /əˈmiːli.əɹeɪt/ 1. To make better, or improve, something perceived to be in a negative condition. Labels: transitive Example: They offered some compromises in an effort to ameliorate the situation. Example: In every human being there is a wish to ameliorate his own condition. 2. To become better; improve. Labels: intransitive
Word: eschew Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English eschewen, from Anglo-Norman eschiver, (third-person present eschiu), from Frankish *skiuhijan (“to dread, shun, avoid”); thus a doublet of skew. For the pronunciation with /ʃ/, compare the development of marshal from Middle English marschal (/marsˈt͡ʃaːl/) or Middle English myssheve, variant of myschef (“hardship”). Variants in /sk/ are either from unattested Middle English *eskewen (from Old Northern French eskiver; compare skew) or are spelling pronunciations. See also French esquiver. Pronunciation: /ɛsˈt͡ʃuː/, /ɪsˈt͡ʃuː/, /ɪʃˈt͡ʃuː/, /ɛsˈt͡ʃu/, /ɪsˈt͡ʃu/ 1. To avoid; to shun, to shy away from. Labels: formal, transitive Example: And peraduenture my lady the quene sente for hym to that entente that syr Launcelot shold come to her good grace pryuely and secretely wenynge to her that hit was best so to do in eschewyng & dredyng of sklaunder "And peradventure my lady, the queen, sent for him to that intent that Sir Launcelot should come to her good grace privily and secretly, weening to her that it was best so to do, in eschewing and dreading of slander" Example: What cannot be eschew'd must be embrac'd.
Word: Aryan Part of Speech: name Etymology: Originally from Sanskrit आर्य (ā́rya, “noble; noble one”) and + -n. The Sanskrit word is an autonym originally from Proto-Indo-Iranian *áryas (see there for more). Borrowed into English in the 19th century, at first as a term for the Indo-Iranian languages, and later partly extended to the Indo-European languages and peoples following a theory by Friedrich Schlegel that connected the Indo-Iranian words arya/ā́rya with German Ehre (“honor”) and some older Germanic names, thus assuming that it was the original Indo-European autonym meaning "the honorable people". The original meaning of the Indo-Iranian autonym and its possible Indo-European origin/cognates are disputed (see the Wikipedia article for further details). The same Proto-Indo-Iranian root is the ultimate source of the country name Iran. Also the doublet of Arya. Pronunciation: /ˈɛəɹi.ən/, /ˈɛəjən/, /ˈɑːɹi.ən/, /ˈɑːjən/, /ˈɛɹi.ən/ 1. The language of the original Aryans. 2. A male given name of Indian usage.
Word: leeway Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From lee (“side away from the wind”) + way. Pronunciation: [ˈliːˌweɪ] 1. The drift of a ship or aeroplane in a leeward direction. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. A varying degree or amount of freedom or flexibility. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: I don't think we have a lot of leeway when it comes to proper formatting. Example: It was 1.6 [a.m.] when we got the road, and now we had 13 lost minutes to regain. But the "Condor" schedule has so much leeway that, with the diesel power, the loss was easily recouped. 3. An adverse discrepancy or variation in a cumulative process, usually in the phrase make up leeway. Labels: UK, countable, uncountable Example: [...] there was plenty of opportunity to modernise in the years up to 1939, but since then the Second World War and its aftermath of expenditure rigidly controlled by Government held up any progress until at last the purse-strings were unloosed five years ago. But an enormous amount of leeway needs to be made up.
Word: leeward Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree English lee Proto-Indo-European *wert-der. Proto-Germanic *wardaz Old English -weard English -ward English leeward From lee (“side away from the wind”) + -ward (“direction”). Pronunciation: /ˈliːwəd/, /ˈl(j)uːəd/, /ˈliwɚd/, /ˈluːɚd/ 1. On the side sheltered from the wind; in that direction.
Word: leeward Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree English lee Proto-Indo-European *wert-der. Proto-Germanic *wardaz Old English -weard English -ward English leeward From lee (“side away from the wind”) + -ward (“direction”). Pronunciation: /ˈliːwəd/, /ˈl(j)uːəd/, /ˈliwɚd/, /ˈluːɚd/ 1. Away from the direction from which the wind is blowing; downwind. Example: Some hours after midnight, the Typhoon abated so much, that through the strenuous exertions of Starbuck and Stubb—one engaged forward and the other aft—the shivered remnants of the jib and fore and main-top-sails were cut adrift from the spars, and went eddying away to leeward, like the feathers of an albatross, which sometimes are cast to the winds when that storm-tossed bird is on the wing. Example: No lady goat is safe from criminal assault, even on the Sabbath Day, when there is a genteman goat within three miles to leeward of her and nothing in the way but a fence fourteen feet high[…]
Word: AT&T Part of Speech: name Etymology: An initialism of its former name, American Telephone and Telegraph Company. 1. An American telecommunications company that provides voice, video, data, and Internet telecommunications and professional services to businesses, consumers, and government agencies.
Word: gratitude Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *gʷerH- Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Indo-European *gʷr̥Htós Proto-Italic *gʷrātos Latin grātus Proto-Indo-European *-tu- Proto-Indo-European *-d- Proto-Indo-European *-Hō Proto-Italic *-tūdō Latin -tūdō Medieval Latin gratitudōlbor. French gratitudebor. English gratitude From French gratitude, from Medieval Latin grātitūdō (“thankfulness”), from Latin grātus (“thankful”). Displaced Old English þancung. Pronunciation: /ˈɡɹæ.tɪ.tjuːd/, [ˈɡʷɹætʰɪtʰjʊu̯d], /ˈɡɹæ.tɪ.t͡ʃuːd/, [ˈɡɹʷætʰɪt͡ʃʊu̯d], /ˈɡɹæ.tɪ.tud/ 1. The state of being grateful. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: She showed deep gratitude for the support she received. Example: He bowed his head in gratitude to the donors.
Word: grateful Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From grate (“(obsolete) serving to gratify, agreeable, pleasing; grateful, thankful”) + -ful (suffix forming adjectives with the sense of tending to have or thoroughly having a quality). Grate is a learned borrowing from Latin grātus (“agreeable, pleasing; beloved, dear; grateful, thankful”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *gʷerH- (“to express approval, praise; to elevate”). Pronunciation: /ˈɡɹeɪtf(ʊ)l/, /ˈɡɹeɪtf(ə)l/ 1. Of a person or their actions, feelings, etc.: expressing gratitude or appreciation; appreciative, thankful. Example: I’m grateful that you helped me out. Example: I cannot giue thee leſſe to be cal'd gratefull: / Thou thoughtſt to helpe me, and ſuch thankes I giue, / As one neere death to thoſe that vviſh him liue: […] 2. Of a thing or (obsolete) person: pleasing to the mind or senses; agreeable, pleasant, welcome. Labels: archaic Example: [T]his is a guift / Very gratefull, I am ſure of it, to expreſſe / The like kindneſſe my ſelfe, that haue beene / More kindely beholding to you then any: […] Example: Chaſt, nothing better; vvanton, nothing vvorſe, / The grate-fulſt Bleſsing, or the greateſt Curſe.
Word: blasto- Part of Speech: prefix Etymology: From Ancient Greek βλαστός (blastós, “a germ, bud, sprout, shoot”), from βλαστάνω (blastánō, “to bud, sprout, grow, properly of plants, but also of animals”). Pronunciation: /blæstoʊ-/, /blæstə-/ 1. bud; budding; germination Labels: morpheme 2. germ cell Labels: morpheme Example: blastophthoria
Word: Olympic diving Part of Speech: noun 1. A specific competition in the Olympics, involving diving off a ten-meter platform from a three-meter springboard. Labels: uncountable Example: Investors should remember that their scorecard is not computed using Olympic-diving methods: Degree-of-difficulty doesn’t count. Example: Ethical efforts are often best judged like Olympic diving. It is important to compare what people actually accomplish to the degree of difficulty they face.
Word: porciform Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *perḱ- Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *pórḱos Proto-Italic *porkos Latin porcus Latin fōrma Latin -fōrmisder. English -form English porciform From Latin porcus + English -form. 1. having the qualities of a pig Labels: not-comparable
Word: Dubya Part of Speech: name Etymology: Representing a southern United States pronunciation of W, the middle initial of George W. Bush. Pronunciation: /ˈdʌb.jə/ 1. A nickname for and abbreviation of George W. Bush. Labels: derogatory, often
Word: plenipotentiary Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Medieval Latin plēnipotentiārius (“having full power”), Late Latin plēnipotēns, from plēnus (“full”) + potēns (“mighty, powerful”). Pronunciation: /ˌplɛn.ɪ.pəʊˈtɛn.ʃəɹ.i/, /ˌplɛn.ɪ.pəʊˈtɛn.ʃi.əɹ.i/, /plɛn.ɪ.poʊˈtɛn.ʃ(i)əɹ.i/, /plɛn.ɪ.pəˈtɛn.ʃi.ɛɹ.i/ 1. A person invested with full powers, especially as the diplomatic agent of a sovereign state, (originally) charged with handling a certain matter. Example: None but the like-minded can come plenipotentiary to our court. Example: 1937, P. G. Wodehouse, 'Lord Emsworth and Others', Overlook, Woodstock: 2002, p 232. Meeting him in the street and ignoring the foul bowler hat he wore on his walks abroad, you would have put him down as a Bishop in mufti or, at the least, a plenipotentiary at one of the better courts.
Word: plenipotentiary Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Medieval Latin plēnipotentiārius (“having full power”), Late Latin plēnipotēns, from plēnus (“full”) + potēns (“mighty, powerful”). Pronunciation: /ˌplɛn.ɪ.pəʊˈtɛn.ʃəɹ.i/, /ˌplɛn.ɪ.pəʊˈtɛn.ʃi.əɹ.i/, /plɛn.ɪ.poʊˈtɛn.ʃ(i)əɹ.i/, /plɛn.ɪ.pəˈtɛn.ʃi.ɛɹ.i/ 1. Invested with full power. Labels: not-comparable Example: Near-synonyms: omnicompetent; omnipotent, almighty, all-powerful Example: It was written of Henry George Ward, M.P. for Sheffield from 1837 to 1849, that "he was also much occupied with railway enterprise in the days of early speculation." This suggests a hard-bitten man of commerce, but Ward had served in the Diplomatic Service and he was Minister Plenipotentiary to Mexico before retiring in 1827 at the age of 30. 2. Of or relating to a plenipotentiary agent Labels: not-comparable