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Word: bolide Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from French bolide, from Latin bolis, from Ancient Greek βολίς (bolís, “missile, arrow, javelin”). Doublet of bolis. Pronunciation: /ˈboʊ.laɪd/, /ˈboʊ.lɪd/ 1. An extremely bright meteor. 2. Any extraterrestrial body that collides with Earth. Example: The smallest impactor that can penetrate the atmosphere deep enough to cause any damage on the ground is not much smaller than the "Tunguska" bolide that flattened a couple thousand square miles of Siberian forest in 1908. 3. A fireball.
Word: accredited Part of Speech: verb Etymology: * accredit + -ed * From the French accréditer. * See credit. Pronunciation: /əˈkɹɛd.ɪt.əd/ 1. simple past and past participle of accredit Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: accredited Part of Speech: adj Etymology: * First attested in the 1630s. Pronunciation: /əˈkɹɛd.ɪt.əd/ 1. Given official approval after meeting certain standards, as an accredited university; or as disease free cattle. Example: The answer should give us the— But hallo! here are the accredited representatives of the law. Example: The task was more to Appleby's liking than the one he had anticipated, and it was necessary, since the smaller merchants in Cuba and also in parts of Peninsular Spain have no great confidence in bankers, and prefer a packet of golden onzas or a bag of pesetas to the best accredited cheque.
Word: accumulated Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /əˈkjumjəleɪtɪd/, /əˈkjuːmjʊleɪtɪd/ 1. simple past and past participle of accumulate Labels: form-of, participle, past Example: For quotations using this term, see Citations:accumulated.
Word: accumulating Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of accumulate Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present Example: For quotations using this term, see Citations:accumulating.
Word: tendo Achillis Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Latin. 1. The Achilles tendon.
Word: criteria Part of Speech: noun Etymology: The plural form of criterion, formed according to the Ancient Greek -ον (-on) → -α (-a) pluralisation pattern. Pronunciation: /kɹaɪˈtɪə.ɹi.ə/, [kɹaɪ̯ˈtɪə̯.ɹi.ə], /kɹaɪˈtɪɹ.i.ə/, [kɹaɪ̯ˈtɪɹ.i.ə], /kɹɑeˈtɪə.ɹi.ə/ 1. plural of criterion Labels: form-of, plural Example: For quotations using this term, see Citations:criteria.
Word: criteria Part of Speech: noun Etymology: The plural form of criterion, formed according to the Ancient Greek -ον (-on) → -α (-a) pluralisation pattern. Pronunciation: /kɹaɪˈtɪə.ɹi.ə/, [kɹaɪ̯ˈtɪə̯.ɹi.ə], /kɹaɪˈtɪɹ.i.ə/, [kɹaɪ̯ˈtɪɹ.i.ə], /kɹɑeˈtɪə.ɹi.ə/ 1. A single criterion. Labels: countable, nonstandard, proscribed Example: For quotations using this term, see Citations:criteria. 2. A set of criteria. Labels: nonstandard, proscribed, uncountable Example: For quotations using this term, see Citations:criteria.
Word: barn Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English barn, bern, bærn, from Old English bearn, bern, contracted forms of Old English berern, bereærn (“barn, granary”), compound of bere (“barley”) and ærn, ræn (“dwelling, barn”), from Proto-West Germanic *raʀn, from Proto-Germanic *razną (compare Old Norse rann), from pre-Germanic *h₁rh̥₁-s-nó-, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁erh₁- (“to rest”). More at rest and barley. For the use as a unit of surface area, see w:Barn (unit) § Etymology. Pronunciation: [ˈbɑɹn], [ˈbɑɻn], [ˈbaɹn], [ˈbɒən], [ˈbɒɹn] 1. A building, often found on a farm, used for storage or keeping animals such as cattle. Example: One day I was out in the barn and he drifted in. I was currying the horse and he set down on the wheelbarrow and begun to ask questions. 2. A unit of surface area equal to 10⁻²⁸ square metres. 3. An arena. Labels: informal Example: Maple Leaf Gardens was a grand old barn. 4. A warm and cozy place, especially a bedroom; a roost. Labels: slang
Word: barn Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English barn, bern, bærn, from Old English bearn, bern, contracted forms of Old English berern, bereærn (“barn, granary”), compound of bere (“barley”) and ærn, ræn (“dwelling, barn”), from Proto-West Germanic *raʀn, from Proto-Germanic *razną (compare Old Norse rann), from pre-Germanic *h₁rh̥₁-s-nó-, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁erh₁- (“to rest”). More at rest and barley. For the use as a unit of surface area, see w:Barn (unit) § Etymology. Pronunciation: [ˈbɑɹn], [ˈbɑɻn], [ˈbaɹn], [ˈbɒən], [ˈbɒɹn] 1. To lay up in a barn. Labels: transitive Example: But like still-pining Tantalus he sits / And useless barns the harvest of his wits Example: Hypocrites, in like manner, so act holiness that they pass for saints before men, whose censures often barn up the chaff, and burn up the grain.
Word: barn Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English barn, bern, from Old English bearn (“child, son, offspring, progeny”) and Old Norse barn (“child”). Doublet of bairn. Cognate to West Frisian bern (“child, children”), Middle Dutch baren (“child”). Pronunciation: [ˈbɑɹn], [ˈbɑɻn], [ˈbaɹn], [ˈbɒən], [ˈbɒɹn] 1. A child.
Word: lire Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English lire, lyre, from Old English līra (“any fleshy part of the body, muscle, calf of the leg”), from Proto-Germanic *ligwizô, *lihwizô (“thigh, groin”), from Proto-Indo-European *lekʷs-, *lewks- (“groin”). Cognate with Dutch lies (“groin”), Swedish lår (“thigh”). 1. Flesh, brawn, or muscle; the fleshy part of a person or animal in contradistinction to the bone and skin. Labels: Northern-England, Scotland, UK, dialectal 2. The fleshy part of a roast capon, etc. as distinguished from a limb or joint. Labels: Scotland, UK, dialectal
Word: lire Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English lire, lyre, from Old Norse hlýr (“cheeks”, plural). Compare Middle English lere, from Old English hlēor (“cheek, countenance, complexion”). More at leer. 1. The cheek. Labels: Scotland, UK, dialectal 2. Face; appearance of the face or skin; complexion; hue. Labels: Scotland, UK, dialectal
Word: lire Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Old Norse líri. Cognate with Norwegian lira. 1. The Manx shearwater (bird). Labels: Orkney, Scotland, Shetland, UK, dialectal
Word: lire Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Italian lire. 1. plural of lira Labels: form-of, plural
Word: acknowledge Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Recorded since 1553, a blend of Middle English aknowen (“to recognize, acknowledge”) and knowlechen (“to discover, reveal, acknowledge”). The former verb is from Old English oncnāwan, ācnāwan (“to know, recognize, acknowledge”), from on + cnāwan (“to know”). The latter is derived from the noun at hand in knowledge. For the formation compare Latin agnōscō and Russian призна́ть (priznátʹ), with cognate roots. The /k/-sound was preserved by being redistributed to the preceding syllable: /əˈkn-/ > /əkˈn-/. The -c- was inserted accordingly to reflect this pronunciation more clearly. Pronunciation: /əkˈnɒl.ɪd͡ʒ/, [əkˈnɒɫ.ɪd͡ʒ], [əɡˈnɒɫ.ɪd͡ʒ], /əkˈnɑ.lɪd͡ʒ/, [əkˈnɑ.ləd͡ʒ] 1. To admit the knowledge of; to recognize as a fact or truth; to declare one's belief in. Labels: transitive Example: to acknowledge the being of a god Example: I acknowledge my transgressions. 2. To own or recognize in a particular quality, character or relationship; to admit the claims or authority of; to give recognition to. Labels: transitive Example: By my soul, I'll ne'er acknowledge thee. Example: In all thy ways acknowledge Him. 3. To be grateful of (e.g. a benefit or a favour) Labels: transitive Example: to acknowledge a favor Example: They his gifts acknowledged none. 4. To report (the receipt of a message to its sender). Labels: transitive Example: This is to acknowledge your kind invitation to participate in the upcoming debate. 5. To own as genuine or valid; to assent to (a legal instrument) to give it validity; to avow or admit in legal form. Labels: transitive Example: One who has been sheriff may acknowledge a deed executed by him while in office.
Word: acquaintance Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English aqueyntaunce, from Anglo-Norman aquaintaunce, aqueintance, Old French acointance (“friendship, familiarity”), from Old French acointier (“to acquaint”). Compare French accointance. Morphologically acquaint + -ance. Pronunciation: /əˈkweɪntəns/, /ʌˈkweɪn.təns/ 1. A state of being acquainted with a person; originally indicating friendship, intimacy, but now suggesting a slight knowledge less deep than that of friendship; acquaintanceship. Labels: uncountable Example: I know of the man; but have no acquaintance with him. Example: Contract no friendſhip, or even acquaintance, with a guileful man : he reſembles a coal, which when hot burneth the hand, and when cold blacketh it. 2. A person or persons with whom one is acquainted. Labels: countable Example: Montgomery was an old acquaintance of Ferguson. 3. Such people collectively; one's circle of acquaintances (with plural concord). Labels: uncountable Example: Having therefore conſulted with my Wife, and ſome of my Acquaintance, I determined to go again to Sea. Example: Their mother […] was busy in the mean time in keeping up her connections, as she termed a numerous acquaintance, lest her girls should want a proper introduction into the great world. 4. Personal knowledge (with a specific subject etc.). Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The words of these songs were either without meaning, or derived from an idiom with which Watt, a very fair linguist, had no acquaintance.
Word: acquainted Part of Speech: adj Pronunciation: /əˈkweɪntɪd/, /əˈkwæɪntəd/ 1. Personally known; familiar. Labels: often Example: Suppoſe, therefore, a Perſon to have enjoy'd his Sight for thirty Years, and to have become perfectly well acquainted with Colours of all kinds, excepting one particular Shade of Blue, for Inſtance, which it never has been his Fortune to meet with. Example: I have been one acquainted with the night. I have walked out in rain—and back in rain. I have outwalked the furthest city light.
Word: acquainted Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /əˈkweɪntɪd/, /əˈkwæɪntəd/ 1. simple past and past participle of acquaint Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: acquiesce Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French acquiescer, from Latin acquiescō; ad + quiescō (“to rest”), from quies (“rest”). Pronunciation: /ˌækwiˈɛs/ 1. To rest satisfied, or apparently satisfied, or to rest without opposition and discontent (usually implying previous opposition or discontent); to accept or consent by silence or by omitting to object. Labels: intransitive Example: The representatives of the good people of this commonwealth in general assembly convened, having maturely considered the answers of sundry states in the Union, to their resolutions passed at the last session, respecting certain unconstitutional laws of Congress, commonly called the alien and sedition laws, would be faithless indeed to themselves, and to those they represent, were they silently to acquiesce in principles and doctrines attempted to be maintained in all those answers, that of Virginia only excepted. Example: They were compelled to acquiesce in a government which they did not regard as just. 2. To concur upon conviction; to accept tacitly; to assent to; usually, to concur, not heartily but so far as to forbear opposition. Labels: intransitive Example: to acquiesce in an opinion Example: I entirely acquiesce in all the observations you make in your letter; they are worthy of your heart and understanding;
Word: acquiescence Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from French acquiescence. Pronunciation: /ˌæk.wiːˈɛs.əns/ 1. A silent or passive assent or submission, or a submission with apparent consent, distinguished from avowed consent on the one hand, and on the other, from opposition or open discontent; quiet satisfaction. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: reluctant acquiescence Example: sign of acquiescence 2. Inaction, passivity, or neglect to take legal action when it is called for in order to assert, preserve, or safeguard a right, and which inaction implies the abandonment of said right. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: acquire Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English acqueren, from Old French aquerre, from Latin acquirō; ad- + quaerō (“to seek for”). See quest. Pronunciation: /əˈkwaɪɚ/, /əˈkwaɪə/ 1. To get. Labels: transitive 2. To gain, usually by one's own exertions; to get as one's own. Labels: transitive Example: to acquire a skill Example: to acquire decent habits and manners 3. To become affected by an illness. 4. To sample signals and convert them into digital values. 5. To begin tracking a mobile target with a particular detector or sight, generally with the implication that an attack on the target thereby becomes possible. Labels: Canada, US
Word: acquired Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /əˈkwaɪɹd/, /əˈkwaɪəd/ 1. simple past and past participle of acquire Labels: form-of, participle, past Example: For quotations using this term, see Citations:acquired.
Word: acquired Part of Speech: adj Pronunciation: /əˈkwaɪɹd/, /əˈkwaɪəd/ 1. Developed after birth; not congenital. Labels: not-comparable
Word: acquirement Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English acquire Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥ Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥tom Proto-Italic *-mentom Latin -mentum Old French -mentbor. Middle English -ment English -ment English acquirement From acquire + -ment. Pronunciation: /əˈkwaɪə(ɹ)mənt/ 1. Something that has been acquired; an attainment or accomplishment. Labels: archaic, countable, in-plural, uncountable Example: […] his acquirements by industrie were […] enriched and enlarged by many excellent endowments of nature. Example: If she can think, that the part she has had in your education, and your own admirable talents and acquirements, are to be thrown away upon such a worthless creature as Solmes, I could heartily quarrel with her. 2. The act or fact of acquiring something; acquisition. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: […] rules for the acquirement of a taste […] Example: One man's life or death were but a small price to pay for the acquirement of the knowledge which I sought […].
Word: acquiring Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /əˈkwaɪ(ə)ɹɪŋ/ 1. present participle and gerund of acquire Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: acquittal Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From acquit + -al. Pronunciation: /əˈkwɪtəl/, [əˈkwɪtʰəl] ~ [əˈkwɪtʰl̩], /əˈkwɪɾəl/, [əˈkwɪɾəl] ~ [əˈkwɪɾl̩] 1. The act of fulfilling the duties (of a given role, obligation etc.). Labels: archaic, countable, uncountable 2. A legal decision that someone is not guilty with which they have been charged, or the formal dismissal of a charge by some other legal process. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: criminal acquittal Example: absolute acquittal 3. Payment of a debt or other obligation; reparations, amends. Labels: countable, uncountable 4. The act of releasing someone from debt or other obligation; acquittance. Labels: countable, historical, uncountable 5. Avoidance of danger; deliverance. Labels: countable, rare, uncountable
Word: acquitted Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /əˈkwɪtɪd/ 1. simple past and past participle of acquit Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: acquitted Part of Speech: adj Pronunciation: /əˈkwɪtɪd/ 1. Having been acquitted; having gone through a trial that resulted in something other than a guilty verdict. Labels: not-comparable
Word: acrid Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin ācris, from ācer (“sharp”); probably assimilated in form to acid. Compare eager. Pronunciation: /ˈæk.ɹɪd/ 1. Sharp and harsh, or bitter and not to the taste. Example: At that instant, Eragon's back ruptured in an explosion of agony so intense, he experienced it with all five senses: as a deafening, crashing waterfall of sound; a metallic taste that coated his tongue; an acrid, eye-watering stench in his nostrils, redolent of vinegar; pulsing colors; and, above all, the feeling that Durza had just laid open his back. Example: Since the mid-1980s, when Indonesia first began to clear its bountiful forests on an industrial scale in favour of lucrative palm-oil plantations, “haze” has become an almost annual occurrence in South-East Asia. The cheapest way to clear logged woodland is to burn it, producing an acrid cloud of foul white smoke that, carried by the wind, can cover hundreds, or even thousands, of square miles. 2. Causing heat and irritation. Example: The bombardier beetle sprays acrid secretions to defend itself. 3. Caustic; bitter; bitterly irritating. Labels: figuratively Example: That man has an acrid temper. Example: In a chaotic, 90-minute back-and-forth, the two major party nominees expressed a level of acrid contempt for each other unheard-of in modern American politics.
Word: acrobat Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱ- Proto-Indo-European *-rós Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱrós Ancient Greek ᾰ̓́κρος (ắkros) Proto-Indo-European *gʷem- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *gʷm̥yéti Proto-Hellenic *gʷəňňō Proto-Indo-European *gʷeh₂-der. Proto-Hellenic *égʷēn Ancient Greek βαίνω (baínō) Proto-Indo-European *-tósder. Ancient Greek -της (-tēs) Ancient Greek ἀκροβάτης (akrobátēs)bor. French acrobateder. English acrobat From French acrobate, from Ancient Greek ἀκροβάτης (akrobátēs, “walking on tiptoe, climbing aloft”), from ἀκροβατέω (akrobatéō, “to walk on tiptoe”), from ἄκρον (ákron, “highest or farthest point, mountain top, peak”) + βαίνω (baínō, “to walk, step”). Pronunciation: /ˈæk.ɹə.bæt/ 1. An athlete who performs acts requiring skill, agility and coordination, often as part of a circus performance.
Word: acrobat Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱ- Proto-Indo-European *-rós Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱrós Ancient Greek ᾰ̓́κρος (ắkros) Proto-Indo-European *gʷem- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *gʷm̥yéti Proto-Hellenic *gʷəňňō Proto-Indo-European *gʷeh₂-der. Proto-Hellenic *égʷēn Ancient Greek βαίνω (baínō) Proto-Indo-European *-tósder. Ancient Greek -της (-tēs) Ancient Greek ἀκροβάτης (akrobátēs)bor. French acrobateder. English acrobat From French acrobate, from Ancient Greek ἀκροβάτης (akrobátēs, “walking on tiptoe, climbing aloft”), from ἀκροβατέω (akrobatéō, “to walk on tiptoe”), from ἄκρον (ákron, “highest or farthest point, mountain top, peak”) + βαίνω (baínō, “to walk, step”). Pronunciation: /ˈæk.ɹə.bæt/ 1. To practise acrobatics. Example: Tumbling is different from posturing, and means throwing summersets and walking on your hands; and acrobating means the two together […] Example: They seem to think as clowning and acrobating is a downright paradise, and comes as naturally to anybody as the measles. 2. To move like an acrobat (with agility, balance, long leaps, etc.). Labels: figuratively Example: We have known […] veteran reporters, so dumbfounded and confounded by the first fire of Ralph, and his grand and lofty acrobating in elocution, that they up, seized their hat and paper, and sloped, horrified at the prospect of an attempt to “take down” Mr. Emerson. Example: […] I laughed at the very idea of one of those heavy-pouched, blue-clad fellows catching hold of an agile fellow like I was, who had on more than one occasion acrobated from the engine’s tender back to the rear end of the caboose, by swinging and vaulting from truck to truck, underneath long freight trains running at top speed, with no member of the ever-alert train crew having discovered him.
Word: acting Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂eǵ- Proto-Indo-European *-eti Proto-Indo-European *h₂éǵeti Proto-Italic *agō Latin agō Latin ācta Old French actbor. Middle English acte English act English -ing English acting From act + -ing. Pronunciation: /ˈæk.tɪŋ/ 1. Temporarily assuming the duties or authority of another person when they are unable to do their job. Labels: not-comparable Example: The Acting Minister must sign Executive Council documents in a Minister's absence. Example: The CEO is currently in a hospital. The CFO is acting CEO in the meantime.
Word: acting Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂eǵ- Proto-Indo-European *-eti Proto-Indo-European *h₂éǵeti Proto-Italic *agō Latin agō Latin ācta Old French actbor. Middle English acte English act English -ing English acting From act + -ing. Pronunciation: /ˈæk.tɪŋ/ 1. present participle and gerund of act Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present Example: For quotations using this term, see Citations:acting.
Word: acting Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂eǵ- Proto-Indo-European *-eti Proto-Indo-European *h₂éǵeti Proto-Italic *agō Latin agō Latin ācta Old French actbor. Middle English acte English act English -ing English acting From act + -ing. Pronunciation: /ˈæk.tɪŋ/ 1. An action or deed. Labels: archaic, countable Example: […] he does so much magnifie Nature and her Actings in all this material World, as he gives just cause of suspicion that he hath made her a kind of joynt Deess with God in the Affairs thereof; Example: […] I desire this Account may pass with them, rather for a Direction to themselves to act by, than a History of my actings, seeing it may not be of one farthing value to them to note what became of me. 2. Something done by a party—so called to avoid confusion with the legal senses of deed and action. Labels: countable 3. Pretending. Labels: uncountable 4. The occupation of an actor. Labels: uncountable
Word: Māori Part of Speech: name 1. Alternative form of Maori. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: Māori Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of Maori. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: Māori Part of Speech: adj 1. Alternative form of Maori. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: Kuiper belt Part of Speech: name Etymology: Named after the Dutch astronomer Gerard Kuiper (1905–1973), who conjectured the existence of a version of the belt in 1951. Pronunciation: /ˈkaɪ.pə(ɹ).bɛlt/, /ˈkʌɪpə bɛlt/, /ˈkaɪ.pɚ.bɛlt/ 1. A region of space between thirty and fifty astronomical units from the Sun, roughly confined within a thick band around the ecliptic of the Solar System, and populated by many thousands of trans-Neptunian objects. Example: Deep searches for regular satellites around Kuiper belt objects are difficult due to observational limitations, but Haumea is one of the few for which sufficient data exist.
Word: Kuiper belt Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Named after the Dutch astronomer Gerard Kuiper (1905–1973), who conjectured the existence of a version of the belt in 1951. Pronunciation: /ˈkaɪ.pə(ɹ).bɛlt/, /ˈkʌɪpə bɛlt/, /ˈkaɪ.pɚ.bɛlt/ 1. A type of asteroid belt, expected to exist in the outer regions of planetary systems, that forms an annular belt or disc around the system's center, lies beyond the region of major-planet formation, and at its outer extent may reach the inner region of an Oort cloud.
Word: mongol Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative letter-case form of Mongol (“a person with Down's syndrome”). Labels: alt-of, dated, offensive
Word: Ezra Part of Speech: name Etymology: From the Biblical Hebrew עֶזְרָא (ʿezrā). Doublet of Esdras. Pronunciation: /ˈɛzɹə/ 1. The fifteenth book of the Old Testament and a book of the Hebrew Tanakh. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. A Jewish high priest from the fifth century BC. Labels: countable, uncountable 3. A male given name from Hebrew of biblical origin. Labels: countable, uncountable 4. A surname from Hebrew. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: Aaron Part of Speech: name Etymology: Etymology tree Biblical Hebrew אַהֲרֹן (ʾahărōn)bor. Ancient Greek Ἀαρών (Aarṓn)bor. Latin Aaronbor. English Aaron From Latin Aaron, from Ancient Greek Ἀαρών (Aarṓn), from Hebrew אַהֲרֹן (ʾAhărōn), of unknown meaning, possibly meaning “bearer of martyrs”, or perhaps also, or instead, related to the Ancient Egyptian ꜥḥꜣ rw (“warrior lion”), though it has been suggested to also mean “elevated”, “exalted” or “high mountain”. Doublet of Harun. Pronunciation: /ˈɛəɹ.ən/, /ˈæɹ.ən/, /ˈæ.ɹən/, /ˈɛə.ɹən/ 1. The elder brother of Moses in the Book of the Exodus, and in the Quran. Example: And the anger of the Lord was kindled against Moses, and hee said, Is not Aaron the Leuite thy brother? I know that he can speake well. 2. A male given name from Hebrew. Example: - - - the Junior Prom with boys whose names are right out of the grade-school reader, not Aaron and Arnold and Marvin, but Johnny and Billy and Jimmy and Tod. Not Portnoy or Pincus, but Smith and Jones and Brown! Example: Superstar quarterback Aaron Rodgers, who ruptured his left Achilles tendon just four snaps into his New York Jets career, has written off this season as a “lost year,” though he feels he can “play more years” in the NFL. 3. A surname transferred from the given name.
Word: Aaron Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Biblical Hebrew אַהֲרֹן (ʾahărōn)bor. Ancient Greek Ἀαρών (Aarṓn)bor. Latin Aaronbor. English Aaron From Latin Aaron, from Ancient Greek Ἀαρών (Aarṓn), from Hebrew אַהֲרֹן (ʾAhărōn), of unknown meaning, possibly meaning “bearer of martyrs”, or perhaps also, or instead, related to the Ancient Egyptian ꜥḥꜣ rw (“warrior lion”), though it has been suggested to also mean “elevated”, “exalted” or “high mountain”. Doublet of Harun. Pronunciation: /ˈɛəɹ.ən/, /ˈæɹ.ən/, /ˈæ.ɹən/, /ˈɛə.ɹən/ 1. The leader of a group of thieves. Labels: archaic
Word: out Part of Speech: prep Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *úd Proto-Germanic *ūt Proto-West Germanic *ūt Old English ūt ▲ Proto-Germanic *ūt Proto-Germanic *-ai Proto-Germanic *ūtai Proto-West Germanic *ūtē Old English ūte Middle English oute English out From Middle English out, oute, from a combination of Old English ūt (“out”, preposition & adverb), from Proto-West Germanic *ūt, from Proto-Germanic *ūt (“out”); and Old English ūte (“outside; without”, adverb), from Proto-Germanic *ūtai (“out; outside”); both from Proto-Indo-European *úd (“upwards, away”). Cognates Cognate with Scots oot (“out”), Yola out, outh, udh, ut, uth (“out”), North Frisian üt, ütj (“out”), Saterland Frisian uut (“out of”), West Frisian út (“out”), Cimbrian aus, auz (“out, outwards”), Dutch uit (“out”), German and Luxembourgish aus (“out”), Yiddish אויס (oys, “over, finished”), Danish ud (“out; outside”), Icelandic út (“out”), Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish ut (“out”), Gothic 𐌿𐍄 (ut, “out of”). Pronunciation: /ˈäʊ̯t/, /ˈawt/, /ˈuːt/, /ˈʌʉt/, /ˈaʊ̯t/ 1. From the inside to the outside of; out of. Labels: informal, proscribed, sometimes Example: throw it out the window; get it out your mind Example: We are gonna get evicted. —If your fat butt fits out the door, that is.
Word: out Part of Speech: intj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *úd Proto-Germanic *ūt Proto-West Germanic *ūt Old English ūt ▲ Proto-Germanic *ūt Proto-Germanic *-ai Proto-Germanic *ūtai Proto-West Germanic *ūtē Old English ūte Middle English oute English out From Middle English out, oute, from a combination of Old English ūt (“out”, preposition & adverb), from Proto-West Germanic *ūt, from Proto-Germanic *ūt (“out”); and Old English ūte (“outside; without”, adverb), from Proto-Germanic *ūtai (“out; outside”); both from Proto-Indo-European *úd (“upwards, away”). Cognates Cognate with Scots oot (“out”), Yola out, outh, udh, ut, uth (“out”), North Frisian üt, ütj (“out”), Saterland Frisian uut (“out of”), West Frisian út (“out”), Cimbrian aus, auz (“out, outwards”), Dutch uit (“out”), German and Luxembourgish aus (“out”), Yiddish אויס (oys, “over, finished”), Danish ud (“out; outside”), Icelandic út (“out”), Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish ut (“out”), Gothic 𐌿𐍄 (ut, “out of”). Pronunciation: /ˈäʊ̯t/, /ˈawt/, /ˈuːt/, /ˈʌʉt/, /ˈaʊ̯t/ 1. A radio procedure word meaning that the station is finished with its transmission and does not expect a response. Labels: especially Example: Destruction. Two T-72s destroyed. Three foot mobiles down. Out. Example: [Galactic Federation official]: 'Does Samus suspect anything?' / Ship AI: 'No, I do not think so.' / [Galactic Federation official]: 'Good. Monitor her closely.' / Ship AI: 'Affirmative. Out.' 2. A radio procedure word meaning that the station is finished with its transmission and does not expect a response. Labels: especially, humorous, slang Example: Welp, I got nothing else to say. Mikey out. 3. Get out; begone; away! Example: Out, damned spot! Out, I say!
Word: Sleeping Beauty Part of Speech: name Etymology: In the genetics sense, so called because the transposon was brought back to activity from a long evolutionary sleep. 1. A fairy tale originally titled La Belle au bois dormant by Charles Perrault. 2. The main character in this story, who is in unbroken slumber under a magical spell, awaiting the kiss of a prince. Example: How far have we come since the days of our favorite childhood fairy tales if women still need a rescuer like the Cinderellas, Sleeping Beauties, and other helpless maidens of the past? Example: Womanly duties, as Joan thought of them, were fine for girls who imagined themselves as Cinderellas or Sleeping Beauties, good girls rewarded for menial housework and, in the case of Sleeping Beauty, a passivity so profound it was deaf, dumb, blind, and comatose. 3. A transposon used in genetic engineering. 4. One who is asleep at an inappropriate time. Labels: humorous Example: Wake up Sleeping Beauty, school starts in 10 minutes.
Word: Sleeping Beauty Part of Speech: noun Etymology: In the genetics sense, so called because the transposon was brought back to activity from a long evolutionary sleep. 1. Alternative letter-case form of sleeping beauty (Oxalis corniculata). Labels: alt-of
Word: fairy Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English faierie, fairie, from Old French faerie, from fae (from Latin fāta (“goddess of fate”)) + -erie. Equivalent to fay + -ry. Attested in English from about 1330, in King Alisaunder, first in the sense of "enchantment, illusion, dream" ("that thou herdest is fairye") and shortly thereafter "realm of the fays, fairy-land" and "the inhabitants of fairyland, collectively". The re-interpretation of the term as a countable noun denoting individual inhabitants of fairy-land can be traced to the 1390s, but became common only in the 16th century, perhaps due to reinterpreting phrases like faerie knight. Pronunciation: /ˈfɛəɹi/, /ˈfeːɹiː/, /ˈfeːɹi/, /ˈfɛə̯ɹi/, /ˈfɛɹi/ 1. Like a fairy; fanciful, whimsical, delicate.
Word: buttock Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Inherited from Middle English buttok, probably from Old English buttuc (“end; end piece”; also, “short piece of land”). Attested with its current anatomical meaning since 1300. A diminutive form of what is presumably the Old English precursor of butt + -ock (diminutive suffix). Pronunciation: /ˈbʌtək/, [ˈbɐtək], [ˈbʌɾək] 1. Each of the two large fleshy halves of the posterior part of the body between the base of the back, the perineum, and the top of the legs. Labels: plural-normally Example: Run, run, come you hither / Novv, take all my Cuſhions dovvn and thvvack them ſoundly, / After my Feaſt of Millers: for their Buttocks / Have left a peck of flovver in them, beat them carefully […] 2. The convexity of a ship behind, under the stern. Example: There came a blast of freezing wind that made Skell shrug himself against the oaken post on which the ship's buttock rested.
Word: tale Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English tale, from Old English talu (“tale, series, calculation”), from Proto-West Germanic *talu, from Proto-Germanic *talō (“calculation, number”), from Proto-Indo-European *del- (“to reckon, count”). Cognate with West Frisian taal (“speech, language”), Dutch taal (“language, speech”), German Zahl (“number, figure”), Danish tale (“speech”), Icelandic tala (“speech, talk, discourse, number, figure”), Latin dolus (“guile, deceit, fraud”), Ancient Greek δόλος (dólos, “wile, bait”), Albanian ndjell (“to lure”), Northern Kurdish til (“finger”), Old Armenian տող (toł, “row”). Related to tell, talk. Pronunciation: /ˈteːl/, /ˈteɪl/ 1. A rehearsal of what has occurred; narrative; discourse; statement; history; story. Example: the Canterbury Tales Example: And every shepherd tells his tale Under the hawthorn in the dale. 2. A number told or counted off; a reckoning by count; an enumeration. Example: the ignorant, […] who measure by tale, and not by weight Example: In packing, they keep a just tale of the number that every hogshead containeth ... 3. The fraudulent opportunity presented by a confidence man to the mark or victim. Labels: slang 4. An account of an asserted fact or circumstance; a rumour; a report, especially an idle or malicious story; a piece of gossip or slander; a lie. Example: Don't tell tales! Example: “A very welcome, kind, useful present, that means to the parish. By the way, Hopkins, let this go no further. We don't want the tale running round that a rich person has arrived. Churchill, my dear fellow, we have such greedy sharks, and wolves in lamb's clothing.[…]” 5. Number; tally; quota. Labels: obsolete Example: And the tale of the bricks, which they did make heretofore, ye shall lay upon them; ye shall not diminish ought thereof: for they be idle; therefore they cry, saying, Let us go and sacrifice to our God. Example: Both number twice a day the milky dams And once she takes the tale of all the lambs. 6. Account; estimation; regard; heed. Labels: obsolete 7. Speech; language. Labels: obsolete 8. A speech; a statement; talk; conversation; discourse. Labels: obsolete 9. A count; declaration. Labels: obsolete 10. A number of things considered as an aggregate; sum. Labels: archaic, rare 11. A report of any matter; a relation; a version. Labels: archaic, rare Example: […] birds […] are aptest by their voice to tell tales what they find; and likewise by the motion of their flight to express the same.
Word: tale Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English talen, from Old English talian (“to count, calculate, reckon”), from Proto-West Germanic *talōn, from Proto-Germanic *talōną (“to count”), from Proto-Indo-European *del- (“to count, reckon, aim, calculate, adjust”). Cognate with Dutch talen (“to long, care”), German zahlen (“to pay”), Swedish tala (“to speak, talk”), Icelandic tala (“to talk”). Pronunciation: /ˈteːl/, /ˈteɪl/ 1. To speak; discourse; tell tales. Labels: dialectal, obsolete 2. To reckon; consider (someone) to have something. Labels: Scotland, dialectal
Word: tale Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈteːl/, /ˈteɪl/ 1. Alternative form of tael. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: lira Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Italian lira, from Latin lībra (partly via Turkish lira, Arabic لِيرَة (līra), Maltese lira, Greek λίρα (líra), and Hebrew לִירָה (“lirá”), all of which are originally from the Italian). Doublet of arratel, libbra, Libra, libra, litra, litre, livre, and rottol. Pronunciation: /ˈlɪəɹə/ 1. The basic unit of currency in Turkey. 2. The currency of Lebanon (also pound), Syria (also pound), Jordan (also dinar) 3. The former currency of Italy, Malta, San Marino, Cyprus and the Vatican City, superseded by the euro
Word: lira Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Italian lira, from Latin lībra (partly via Turkish lira, Arabic لِيرَة (līra), Maltese lira, Greek λίρα (líra), and Hebrew לִירָה (“lirá”), all of which are originally from the Italian). Doublet of arratel, libbra, Libra, libra, litra, litre, livre, and rottol. Pronunciation: /ˈlɪəɹə/ 1. The former currency of Israel, superseded by the sheqel.
Word: lira Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Ukrainian ліра (lira), ultimately related to the Byzantine lyra (Ancient Greek λύρα (lúra)). Doublet of Lyra, lyra, and lyre. Pronunciation: /ˈlɪəɹə/ 1. A Ukrainian folk musical instrument similar to the hurdy-gurdy.
Word: lira Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin līra (“furrow”). Pronunciation: /ˈlaɪɹə/ 1. Any of a set of fine ridges on the shells of some molluscs
Word: lira Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of lyra. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: The first evidence of the Byzantine lira is in a Persian literary source of the ninth century. Example: Some instruments comprise types which are found, more or less unchanged, also with various nations and periods (recorder, shawm), whereas others belong to smaller regions (byzantine lira, rectangular harp) or only to the territory of Serbia and Macedonia (drums, larger shawms, especially in the Turkish period).
Word: fairy floss Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From fairy + floss. 1. Heated sugar spun into thin threads and collected into a mass, usually on a stick. Labels: Australia, uncountable Example: Disconsolately they shot the water-chute, swung on the swings, ate fairy floss from the booth like nostalgic exiles from fairyland. Example: The girls were already bagging fairy floss, and stockpiling it as fast as they could.
Word: cotton candy Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From cotton + candy; from being a candy appearing like a mass of cotton balls or cotton batting. 1. Melted sugar spun into thin threads and collected into a mass, usually on a stick. Labels: Canada, US, uncountable, usually
Word: candy floss Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈkændi ˌflɒs/ 1. Heated sugar spun into thin threads and collected into a mass, usually on a stick. Labels: Ireland, New-Zealand, UK, uncountable, usually
Word: zyzzyva Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From the name of the genus, taxonomic name Zyzzyva. Pronunciation: /ˈzɪzɪvə/ 1. A tropical American weevil of the genus Zyzzyva. Example: A zyzzyva is a weevil of the genus Zyzzyva. Example: Against the Yak, the zyzzyva zips He yammers, has yaws, he yawns and he yips
Word: cotton boll Part of Speech: noun 1. The round, fluffy clumps in which cotton forms and grows on a cotton plant.
Word: scrabble Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle Dutch schrabbelen, frequentative of schrabben (“to scrape”), equivalent to scrab + -le. More at scrape. Pronunciation: /ˈskɹæbəl/ 1. To scrape or scratch powerfully with hands or claws. Labels: intransitive Example: […] there came no answer, except the echo of my own voice sounding hollow and far off down in the vault. So in despair I turned back to the earth wall below the slab, and scrabbled at it with my fingers, till my nails were broken and the blood ran out; having all the while a sure knowledge, like a cord twisted round my head, that no effort of mine could ever dislodge the great stone. Example: So he scraped and scratched and scrabbled and scrooged, then he scrooged again[.] 2. To gather hastily. Labels: transitive Example: “Oh. The perfect ending to the perfect-- [chuckles] I almost said evening. More like months, though, isn't it? Since we started scrabbling for coins because the damn government took away our-- every thing. They took everything. And the only thing that was left, you idiots either lost, gave away, ate, or just blew up and sank.” 3. To move with difficulty by making rapid movements back and forth with the hands or paws. Labels: intransitive Example: She was on her hands and knees scrabbling in the mud, looking for her missing wedding ring. 4. To scribble. Labels: intransitive Example: David […] scrabbled on the doors of the gate. 5. To mark with irregular lines or letters; to scribble on. Labels: transitive Example: to scrabble paper
Word: scrabble Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle Dutch schrabbelen, frequentative of schrabben (“to scrape”), equivalent to scrab + -le. More at scrape. Pronunciation: /ˈskɹæbəl/ 1. A scramble. Example: a scrabble for dear life
Word: manu Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈmanʉː/ 1. A method of diving similar to a cannonball/bomb but with the lower back entering the water first, causing a large splash. Labels: New-Zealand Example: For those that don't know what a manu is, you've got your standard bomb, which everyone does, where you curl up and enter the water feet first. But a manu is when you are in a v-shape and essentially your tailbone or lower back enters the water first while you hold that v-shape. Example: An area of the outdoor pool at Whakatāne Aquatic Centre has been set aside for manus (bombing) after a nine-year-old boy nearly drowned last month.
Word: manu Part of Speech: noun Etymology: In the sense of a manufacturer; clipping of 'manufacturer' 1. manufacturer Example: But I'm having trouble tracking down a manu using that term.
Word: per anum Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Borrowed from Latin per anum. 1. via the anus Example: If, however, a man had intercourse with a woman per anum he was at one time liable to be put to death.
Word: per nasum Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Borrowed from Latin per nasum. 1. via the nose Labels: not-comparable
Word: per orum Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From per, borrowing from classical Latin per (“through”), and orum as incorrectly formed accusative of ōs (“mouth”). 1. Alternative form of per orem per os; via the mouth; orally Labels: US, alt-of, alternative
Word: neg Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Clipping of negative. Pronunciation: /nɛɡ/ 1. Clipping of negative. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, clipping 2. Clipping of negative. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, rhetoric 3. An expression or implication that one has a negative value judgement of someone in order to make them desire one's approval, especially when trying to pick up a date. Example: The purpose of a neg is to lower a woman's self esteem while actively displaying a lack of interest in her—by telling her she has lipstick on her teeth, for example, or offering her a piece of gum after she speaks. Example: A neg is not an insult but a negative social value judgment that is telegraphed. 4. a penalty for giving an incorrect answer before a tossup has been fully read.
Word: neg Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Clipping of negative. Pronunciation: /nɛɡ/ 1. HIV negative. Labels: not-comparable
Word: neg Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Clipping of negative. Pronunciation: /nɛɡ/ 1. To annoy or irritate deliberately. Labels: UK, slang 2. To express or imply a negative value judgement of someone to make them desire one's approval, especially when trying to pick up a date. Labels: transitive Example: I mean, the thing is, overall you want the chick to feel good about herself around you and because of you. It's true that good negging really helps that, but bad negging—negging where she's already insecure—can kill it. Example: She's an 11. This is going to take some hardcore negging. 3. To leave negative feedback about (someone) in a reputation tracking system. Labels: Internet, transitive Example: I negged the seller who didn't send me the widget I paid for. Example: It is important to leave feedback to warn others in serious situations, but it is also smart to consider the long-term consequences of racking up lots of negatives because you ‘negged’ someone over a small oversight or a misunderstanding over a three-dollar item.
Word: instrument Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English instrument, from Old French instrument, from Latin īnstrūmentum (“an implement, tool”), From īnstruō (“build, construct; arrange”) + -mentum. Pronunciation: /ˈɪnstɹəmənt/, /ˈɪnstɹʊmənt/ 1. A device used to produce music. Example: The violinist was a master of her instrument. Example: The Harpe. […] A harper with his wreſt maye tune the harpe wrong / Mys tunying of an Inſtrument ſhal hurt a true ſonge 2. A means or agency for achieving an aspect. Example: “There the cause of death was soon ascertained ; the victim of this daring outrage had been stabbed to death from ear to ear with a long, sharp instrument, in shape like an antique stiletto, which […] was subsequently found under the cushions of the hansom. […]” Example: On the rocky island of Tungyin, 50 miles off the coast of Red China, is the headquarters of a little-known military unit called the Anti-Communist Salvation Army. The secret army, 30,000 strong, is Chiang Kai-shek's instrument for the long-promised return to the mainland. 3. A measuring or displaying device. Example: The instrument detected an increase in radioactivity. 4. A tool, implement used for manipulation or measurement. Example: The dentist set down his tray of instruments. Example: The scientist recorded the temperature with a thermometer, but wished he had a more accurate instrument. 5. A tool, implement used for manipulation or measurement. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis, plural-normally Example: Flight within clouds must be made by reference to your instruments. 6. A legal document, such as a contract, deed, trust, mortgage, power, indenture, or will, or any of a class of negotiable ones (which can be exchanged for value or money). Example: A bond indenture is the instrument that gives a bond its value. Example: Negotiable instruments are the foundation of the debt markets. 7. A person used as a mere tool for achieving a goal. Labels: figuratively Example: Or useful serving man and instrument, / To any sovereign state. Example: The bold are but the instruments o' the wise.
Word: instrument Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English instrument, from Old French instrument, from Latin īnstrūmentum (“an implement, tool”), From īnstruō (“build, construct; arrange”) + -mentum. Pronunciation: /ˈɪnstɹəmənt/, /ˈɪnstɹʊmənt/ 1. To apply measuring devices. Labels: transitive Example: an instrumented test article 2. To devise, conceive, cook up, plan. Labels: transitive Example: When the Lit. Mongers deign to notice his work, they dismiss him as a "cult writer," another of their standard ploys. Purdy, not really bitter at the instrumented silence and sneers of the bookchat legions, […] 3. To perform upon an instrument; to prepare for an instrument. Example: a sonata instrumented for orchestra
Word: ultracrepidarian Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Attributed to English essayist and writer William Hazlitt, who used it in a letter to William Gifford (see quotation below); from ultra- (“beyond”) + Latin crepida (“a particular style of Greek sandal”) + -arian, evidently formed directly on the Latin proverb ne ultra/supra crepidam ("not beyond the crepida"). The reference is to a Greek story concerning the painter Apelles, who supposedly placed new works on public display and hid behind them to hear and act upon people's reactions. In Book 35 of his Natural History, Pliny the Elder records that a shoemaker noted that one figure had the wrong number of straps on his crepida, a kind of elaborate sandal. Delighted to see it fixed the next day, he supposedly began to critique the form of the leg, so annoying Apelles that the painter came out to tell him to mind his own business: that a shoemaker should restrict his commentary to the shoes. Pronunciation: /ˌʌltɹəˌkɹɛpɪˈdɛəɹiən/ 1. Giving or offering opinions on something beyond one's knowledge or expertise. Labels: derogatory, uncommon Example: […]like a conceited mechanic in a village ale-house, you would set down every one who differs from you as an ignorant blockhead; and very fairly infer that any one who is beneath yourself must be nothing. You have been well called an Ultra-Crepidarian critic. Example: [Inspector Queen] was the only person in New York who might be called, without intent to malign, an Ultracrepidarian critic. It was of the very nature of his job to find fault with small and insignificant details.
Word: ultracrepidarian Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Attributed to English essayist and writer William Hazlitt, who used it in a letter to William Gifford (see quotation below); from ultra- (“beyond”) + Latin crepida (“a particular style of Greek sandal”) + -arian, evidently formed directly on the Latin proverb ne ultra/supra crepidam ("not beyond the crepida"). The reference is to a Greek story concerning the painter Apelles, who supposedly placed new works on public display and hid behind them to hear and act upon people's reactions. In Book 35 of his Natural History, Pliny the Elder records that a shoemaker noted that one figure had the wrong number of straps on his crepida, a kind of elaborate sandal. Delighted to see it fixed the next day, he supposedly began to critique the form of the leg, so annoying Apelles that the painter came out to tell him to mind his own business: that a shoemaker should restrict his commentary to the shoes. Pronunciation: /ˌʌltɹəˌkɹɛpɪˈdɛəɹiən/ 1. One who gives or offers opinions on something beyond one's knowledge (a person passing judgment beyond their expertise). Labels: derogatory, uncommon