nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: swerve Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English swerven, swarven, from Old English sweorfan (“to file; rub; polish; scour; turn aside”), from Proto-Germanic *swerbaną (“to rub off; wipe; mop”), from Proto-Indo-European *swerbʰ- (“to turn; wipe; sweep”). Cognate with West Frisian swerve (“to wander; roam; swerve”), Dutch zwerven (“to wander; stray; roam”), Low German swarven (“to swerve; wander; riot”), Swedish dialectal svärva (“to wipe”), Icelandic sverfa (“to file”). Pronunciation: /swɜːv/, /swɝv/ 1. To stray; to wander; to rove. Labels: archaic Example: A maid thitherward did run, / To catch her sparrow which from her did swerve. 2. To go out of a straight line; to deflect. Example: with the slipping of the pommel , the point swerved 3. To wander from any line prescribed, or from a rule or duty; to depart from what is established by law, duty, custom, or the like; to deviate. Example: I swerve not from thy commandments. Example: They swerve from the strict letter of the law. 4. To bend; to incline; to give way. Example: The battle swerved. 5. To climb or move upward by winding or turning. Example: The tree was high; / Yet nimbly up from bough to bough I swerved. 6. To turn aside or deviate to avoid impact. 7. Of a projectile, to travel in a curved line Example: Snodgrass also saw a free-kick swerve just wide before Arsenal, with Walcott and Fabregas by now off the bench, turned their vastly superior possession into chances in the closing moments 8. To drive in the trajectory of another vehicle to stop it, to cut off. Example: The French invaders, like an infuriated animal that has in its onslaught received a mortal wound, felt that they were perishing, but could not stop, any more than the Russian army, weaker by one half, could help swerving. 9. To go out of one's way to avoid; to snub. Labels: slang, transitive Example: If I see that type o' muthafucka in the club I just swerve him.
Word: swerve Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English swerven, swarven, from Old English sweorfan (“to file; rub; polish; scour; turn aside”), from Proto-Germanic *swerbaną (“to rub off; wipe; mop”), from Proto-Indo-European *swerbʰ- (“to turn; wipe; sweep”). Cognate with West Frisian swerve (“to wander; roam; swerve”), Dutch zwerven (“to wander; stray; roam”), Low German swarven (“to swerve; wander; riot”), Swedish dialectal svärva (“to wipe”), Icelandic sverfa (“to file”). Pronunciation: /swɜːv/, /swɝv/ 1. A sudden movement out of a straight line, for example to avoid a collision. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The distinction between using a skill subconsciously and employing it in the full knowledge of what was happening made a dramatic difference. I could execute a swerve to avoid an obstacle in a fraction of the time it previously took. 2. A deviation from duty or custom. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: […] indubitable evidence of a swerve from the principle of the work. 3. Synonym of drift (“sideways movement imparted by spin bowler”). Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: swipe Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From earlier swip (with a short vowel), from Middle English swippen, swype (“to move violently”), from Old English sweopian, swipian, swippan (“to scourge, strike, beat, lash”), from Proto-West Germanic *swippjan, *swipōn, *swipēn, from Proto-Germanic *swipōną, *swipjaną, *swipāną (“to move”), from Proto-Indo-European *sweyb- (“to bend, sway, swing, sweep, swerve, turn”). Cognate with German schwippen (“sway back and forth”), Danish svippe (“to smack; crack a whip”), Icelandic svipa (“riding crop, whip”). Related to sweep, swoop. Pronunciation: /swaɪp/ 1. To grab or bat quickly. Labels: intransitive Example: The cat swiped at the shoelace. 2. To strike with a strong blow in a sweeping motion. Labels: transitive 3. To scan or register by sliding (a swipecard etc.) through a reader. Labels: transitive Example: He swiped his card at the door. 4. To interact with a touch screen by drawing one's finger rapidly across it. Labels: intransitive, transitive Example: Swipe left to hide the toolbar. Example: This is the iPhone lock screen with its default Earth wallpaper. To unlock your phone, swipe the slider from left to right. 5. To swipe right on (someone) on a dating application. Labels: informal, transitive Example: Zac Efron needs a date. […] But would the actor resort to apps to find a partner? Joking, he said, “Amazingly, when I signed up for Tinder, nobody swiped me! They thought it was fake … That never happened.” Example: Yas (Vivian Oparah): That is your truth. And, by the way, your man swiped me on Tinder, like, a week ago. […] Eric (Benjamin Sarpong-Broni): Mmm, no, I didn't. I didn't swipe you. […] Or anybody. […] I didn't swipe her. 6. To steal or snatch. Labels: informal, transitive Example: Hey! Who swiped my lunch? Example: "From Miss Hemmingway. Miss Hemmingway! But—but how did they come into her possession?" / "How?" I said. "Because she jolly well stole them. Pinched them! Swiped them![…]" 7. To drink. Labels: obsolete, slang
Word: swipe Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From earlier swip (with a short vowel), from Middle English swippen, swype (“to move violently”), from Old English sweopian, swipian, swippan (“to scourge, strike, beat, lash”), from Proto-West Germanic *swippjan, *swipōn, *swipēn, from Proto-Germanic *swipōną, *swipjaną, *swipāną (“to move”), from Proto-Indo-European *sweyb- (“to bend, sway, swing, sweep, swerve, turn”). Cognate with German schwippen (“sway back and forth”), Danish svippe (“to smack; crack a whip”), Icelandic svipa (“riding crop, whip”). Related to sweep, swoop. Pronunciation: /swaɪp/ 1. A quick grab, bat, or other motion with the hand or paw; a sweep. Labels: countable 2. A strong blow given with a sweeping motion, as with a bat or club. Labels: countable 3. An act of interacting with a touch screen by drawing the finger rapidly across it. Labels: countable Example: Some New Yorkers are moving beyond the swipe to venture into flirtatious panel discussions and speed dating sessions. 4. An act of passing a swipecard through a card reader. Labels: countable Example: Owning a car in New York City is seen as a liability by many, especially when a quick Uber ride or the swipe of a MetroCard can easily get you where you need to go. 5. A rough guess; an estimate or swag. Labels: countable, informal Example: Take a swipe at the answer, even if you're not sure. 6. An attack, insult or critical remark. Labels: countable, informal Example: The politician took a swipe at his opponents. Example: Biden‘s Twitter account then acknowledged the swipe, quote-tweeting Sanders shortly after the debate saying, “I’ve worked my whole life to overcome a stutter. And it’s my great honor to mentor kids who have experienced the same. It’s called empathy. Look it up.” 7. Poor, weak beer or other inferior alcoholic beverage; rotgut. Labels: uncountable Example: Woozy with swipe was the only way I could stay down with patience for work. Example: JJ: Did a lot of people drink? KP: Down here, oh yeah, a lot of them made their own swipe, their own potato and pineapple swipe.
Word: extravagant Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Inherited from Middle English extravagaunt, from Middle French extravagant and its etymon Medieval Latin extravagans, present participle of extravagor (“to wander beyond”), from Latin extra (“beyond”) + vagor (“to wander, stray”). Pronunciation: /ɪkˈstɹævəɡənt/ 1. Exceeding the bounds of something; roving; hence, foreign. Example: The extravagant and erring spirit hies / To his confine. 2. Extreme; wild; excessive; unrestrained. Example: extravagant acts, praise, or abuse Example: There appears something nobly wild and extravagant in great natural geniuses. 3. Exorbitant Example: According to this saga of intellectual-property misanthropy, these creatures [patent trolls] roam the business world, buying up patents and then using them to demand extravagant payouts from companies they accuse of infringing them. Often, their victims pay up rather than face the costs of a legal battle. 4. Profuse in expenditure; prodigal; wasteful. Example: an extravagant man Example: extravagant expense
Word: exorbitant Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English exorbitant, through Old French from Late Latin exorbitāns, present active participle of exorbitō (“to go out of the track”), from ex (“out”) + orbita (“wheel-track”); see orbit. Compare French exorbitant. Pronunciation: /ɪɡˈzɔːbɪtənt/, /ɛɡˈzɔːbɪtənt/, /ɪɡˈzoɹbətənt/, /ɛɡˈzoɹbətənt/ 1. Exceeding proper limits; excessive or unduly high; extravagant. Example: It’s a nice car, but they are charging an exorbitant price for it. Example: You also have to pay exorbitant interest if you have credit card debt.
Word: immoderate Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English inmoderat, immoderate, from Latin immoderātus, see -ate (adjective-forming suffix). 1. Not moderate; excessive. Example: Many of the initial responses to GPT-4’s exam prowess were predictably immoderate: AI can keep up with human lawyers, or apply to Stanford, or make “education” useless.
Word: stimuli Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈstɪm.jʊˌlaɪ̯/, /ˈstɪm.jʊˌliː/, /ˈstɪm.jəˌlaɪ̯/ 1. plural of stimulus Labels: form-of, plural
Word: shameless Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Germanic *skamō Proto-Indo-European *lewh₁- Proto-Indo-European *lewHs-der. Proto-Germanic *leusaną Proto-Germanic *lausaz Proto-Germanic *-lausaz Proto-Germanic *skamōlausaz Proto-West Germanic *skamulaus Old English sċamlēas Middle English schameles English shameless From Middle English schameles, shameles, from Old English sċamlēas, sċeamlēas (“without shame; shameless”), from Proto-Germanic *skamalausaz (“shameless”), equivalent to shame + -less. Cognate with West Frisian skamteleas (“shameless”), Dutch schaamteloos (“shameless”), German schamlos (“shameless”), Danish skamløs (“shameless”), Swedish skamlös (“shameless”), Icelandic skammlaus (“shameless; unashamed”). Pronunciation: /ˈʃeɪ̯mlɪs/, /ˈʃeɪ̯mləs/, /ˈʃæ̝ɪ̯mləs/ 1. Having no shame, no guilt nor remorse over something considered wrong; immodest, brazen; unable to feel disgrace. 2. Not subject to other people’s shaming or reproach. Labels: obsolete Example: Near-synonyms: blameless, unblameable Example: He shall be as now nameles, But he shall not be blameles, Nor he shall not be shameles; For sure he wrought amys, […]
Word: immodest Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Italic *n̥- Latin in-bor. Middle English in- English im- English modest English immodest From im- + modest. Pronunciation: /ɪˈmɑdəst/ 1. Without customary restraint or modesty of expression; shameless.
Word: modesty Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French modestie, from Latin modestia; equivalent to modest + -y. Pronunciation: /ˈmɒd.ə.sti/ 1. The quality of being modest; having a limited and not overly high opinion of oneself and one's abilities. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: At her invitation he outlined for her the succeeding chapters with terse military accuracy ; and what she liked best and best understood was avoidance of that false modesty which condescends, turning technicality into pabulum. 2. Moderate behaviour; reserve. Labels: uncountable, usually 3. Pudency, avoidance of sexual explicitness. Labels: specifically, uncountable, usually Example: ... but the cars of chaste women have either coverings thrown over them, or white sheets hung over; for instance, on the cars of the female part of the family of the deceased Nawabs Khanduran and Muzaffar Khan, there used generally to be fastened thick dirty white cloths, and in like manner also on their palanquins—although one brother was the chief treasurer, and the other a commander of seven thousand men. And most assuredly this is a requirement of modesty; for one whose palanquin or cart is turned out with much splendour, verily the idea comes to the minds of the sight-seers and common people, that in it there must be some lovely one, bright as the morning, the envy of the fairies. Hence, for the cars or palanquins for women to ride in to be greatly embroidered is, in the opinion of certain men of standing, who are worthy to be trusted, of great infamy.
Word: lewd Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English lewed, lewd, leued (“unlearned, lay, lascivious”), from Old English lǣwede (“unlearned, ignorant, lay”), of uncertain origin. Formally similar to a derivative of the past participle of Old English lǣwan (“to reveal, betray”) in the sense of "exposed as being unlearned" or "easily betrayed, clueless", from Proto-West Germanic *lāwijan, from Proto-Germanic *lēwijaną (“to betray”), from *lēwą (“an opportunity, cause”), from Proto-Indo-European *lēw- (“to leave”). If so, then cognate with Old High German gilāen, firlāen (“to betray”), Gothic 𐌲𐌰𐌻𐌴𐍅𐌾𐌰𐌽 (galēwjan, “to give over, betray”), Gothic 𐌻𐌴𐍅 (lēw, “an opportunity, cause”). Or, according to the OED, probably from Vulgar Latin *laigo-, from Late Latin lāicus (“of the people”), from Ancient Greek λαϊκός (laïkós). Pronunciation: /ljuːd/, /luːd/ 1. Lascivious, sexually promiscuous, rude. Example: Onstage he was known for ricochet riffs on politics, social issues and cultural matters both high and low; tales of drug and alcohol abuse; lewd commentaries on relations between the sexes; and lightning-like improvisations on anything an audience member might toss at him. 2. Lay; not clerical. Labels: obsolete Example: So these great clerks their little wisdom show / To mock the lewd, as learn'd in this as they. 3. Uneducated. Labels: obsolete Example: My ſcoles are not for unthriftes untaught, / For frantick faitours half mad and half ſtraught; / But my learning is of another degree / To taunt theim like liddrons, lewde as thei bee. 4. Vulgar, common; typical of the lower orders. Labels: obsolete Example: But the Jews, which believed not, […] took unto them certain lewd fellows of the baser sort, […] and assaulted the house of Jason. Example: Too lewd to work, and ready for any kind of mischief. 5. Base, vile, reprehensible. Labels: obsolete
Word: lewd Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English lewed, lewd, leued (“unlearned, lay, lascivious”), from Old English lǣwede (“unlearned, ignorant, lay”), of uncertain origin. Formally similar to a derivative of the past participle of Old English lǣwan (“to reveal, betray”) in the sense of "exposed as being unlearned" or "easily betrayed, clueless", from Proto-West Germanic *lāwijan, from Proto-Germanic *lēwijaną (“to betray”), from *lēwą (“an opportunity, cause”), from Proto-Indo-European *lēw- (“to leave”). If so, then cognate with Old High German gilāen, firlāen (“to betray”), Gothic 𐌲𐌰𐌻𐌴𐍅𐌾𐌰𐌽 (galēwjan, “to give over, betray”), Gothic 𐌻𐌴𐍅 (lēw, “an opportunity, cause”). Or, according to the OED, probably from Vulgar Latin *laigo-, from Late Latin lāicus (“of the people”), from Ancient Greek λαϊκός (laïkós). Pronunciation: /ljuːd/, /luːd/ 1. A sexually suggestive image, particularly one which does not involve full nudity. Example: Nudes, lewds and smutty outhouse cards, although they can be bought in some of the rowdy joints, are a negligible percentage of the total, and are unobtainable in the chain stores, drugstores and travel stations which are the outlets for […] Example: […] also put it, he learned “the difference between nudes and lewds."
Word: lewd Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English lewed, lewd, leued (“unlearned, lay, lascivious”), from Old English lǣwede (“unlearned, ignorant, lay”), of uncertain origin. Formally similar to a derivative of the past participle of Old English lǣwan (“to reveal, betray”) in the sense of "exposed as being unlearned" or "easily betrayed, clueless", from Proto-West Germanic *lāwijan, from Proto-Germanic *lēwijaną (“to betray”), from *lēwą (“an opportunity, cause”), from Proto-Indo-European *lēw- (“to leave”). If so, then cognate with Old High German gilāen, firlāen (“to betray”), Gothic 𐌲𐌰𐌻𐌴𐍅𐌾𐌰𐌽 (galēwjan, “to give over, betray”), Gothic 𐌻𐌴𐍅 (lēw, “an opportunity, cause”). Or, according to the OED, probably from Vulgar Latin *laigo-, from Late Latin lāicus (“of the people”), from Ancient Greek λαϊκός (laïkós). Pronunciation: /ljuːd/, /luːd/ 1. To express lust; to behave in a lewd manner. Labels: ambitransitive, slang Example: "Well then,” dropping her bathrobe, lewding her lips, “how 'bout some lovee?” Example: Now, the men could just have been watching the unusual APC running on the road, or just lewding at the women. 2. To sexualize a character, especially in a fan illustration. Labels: slang, transitive
Word: lewd Part of Speech: verb 1. Alternative form of lude (“take the drug quaalude”). Labels: alt-of, alternative, slang Example: Babbs, after many days of glumming in his Purina Chow redoubt, strolls over, lewding out, “Hi, Je-e-e-ed!” to Kesey's three-year-old son. Example: I was just lewding around, fucking furiously, drinking and doping and daring the devil.
Word: vile Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English vile, vyle, vyl, from Anglo-Norman ville, Old French vil, vile, from Latin vīlis. Pronunciation: /vaɪ(ə)l/ 1. Morally low; base; despicable. Example: vile accusation Example: vile man 2. Causing physical or mental repulsion; horrid. Example: I glimpsed a vile squid-like creature in the depths. Example: The medicine had a vile taste and smell.
Word: vile Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English vile, vyle, vyl, from Anglo-Norman ville, Old French vil, vile, from Latin vīlis. Pronunciation: /vaɪ(ə)l/ 1. That which is vile; vileness. Labels: uncountable Example: “I had seen those two work before—in the smoking-room the day prior to their attack on you, if I recollect it correctly, and so, knowing their methods, I am convinced that their enmity is a sufficient guarantee of the integrity of its object. Men such as they must cleave only to the vile, hating all that is noblest and best.”
Word: lascivious Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin lascīviōsus, from lascīvia (“sportiveness, lustfulness”). Pronunciation: /ləˈsɪvɪ.əs/, /-vi.əs/, /ləˈsɪvi.əs/ 1. Wanton; lewd, driven by lust, lustful. Example: Sir, I will answer anything. But I beseech you, if't be your pleasure and most wise consent, as partly I find it is, that your fair daughter, at this odd-even and dull watch o'the night, transported with no worse nor better guard but with a knave of common hire, a gondolier, to the gross clasps of a lascivious Moor – if this be known to you, and your allowance, we then have done you bold and saucy wrongs; but if you know not this, my manners tell me we have your wrong rebuke. Example: The colonel and his sponsor made a queer contrast: Greystone [the sponsor] long and stringy, with a face that seemed as if a cold wind was eternally playing on it. […] But there was not a more lascivious reprobate and gourmand in all London than this same Greystone.
Word: lustful Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English lustful, from Old English lustfull (“desirous, wishful”); equivalent to lust + -ful. Cognate with Dutch lustvol (“lustful, lusty”), German lustvoll (“pleasurable”), Swedish lustfyllt (“pleasurable”), Swedish lustfyllda (“lustful”). Pronunciation: /ˈlʌst.fəl/ 1. Full of lust; driven by lust. Example: Many of the so-called rites of these secret societies were so patently ridiculous, that it is quite obvious that they were merely an excuse for men and women to indulge in sex-play and lustful gratification, frequently of an abnormal kind.
Word: marble Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Inherited from Middle English marble, marbre; from Anglo-Norman and Old French marbre, from Latin marmor, from Ancient Greek μάρμαρος (mármaros), perhaps related to μαρμάρεος (marmáreos, “gleaming”). The forms from French displaced Old English marma, which had previously been borrowed from Latin. Pronunciation: /ˈmɑː.bəl/, [ˈmɑː.bəl] ~ [ˈmɑː.bl̩], /ˈmɑɹ.bəl/, [ˈmɑɹ.bəl] ~ [ˈmɑɹ.bl̩] 1. A metamorphic rock of crystalline limestone. Labels: uncountable Example: Open thy marble jaws, O tomb / And hide me, earth, in thy dark womb. 2. A small ball used in games, originally of marble but now usually of glass or ceramic. Labels: countable 3. Statues made from marble. Labels: countable, in-plural, uncountable Example: The Elgin Marbles were originally part of the temple of the Parthenon. Example: [I]t was a portrait of the Library, though not strictly correct as to its contents, since all the best of the marbles displayed in various parts of the house were brought into the painting by the artist, who made it up into a picturesque composition according to his own taste. 4. The marbling in meat. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The marble is graded using the Australian system.
Word: marble Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Inherited from Middle English marble, marbre; from Anglo-Norman and Old French marbre, from Latin marmor, from Ancient Greek μάρμαρος (mármaros), perhaps related to μαρμάρεος (marmáreos, “gleaming”). The forms from French displaced Old English marma, which had previously been borrowed from Latin. Pronunciation: /ˈmɑː.bəl/, [ˈmɑː.bəl] ~ [ˈmɑː.bl̩], /ˈmɑɹ.bəl/, [ˈmɑɹ.bəl] ~ [ˈmɑɹ.bl̩] 1. To cause (something to have) the streaked or swirled appearance of certain types of marble, for example by mixing viscous ingredients incompletely, or by applying paint or other colorants unevenly. Labels: transitive Example: The small clouds which chequered the sky, as they passed along, spread their flitting shadows on the distant mountains, and seemed to marble them; a beauty which I do not recollect has struck any painter. Example: In the operation of marbling the edges of the books, [...] 2. To get or have the streaked or swirled appearance of certain types of marble, for example due to the incomplete mixing of viscous ingredients, or the uneven application of paint or other colorants. Labels: intransitive Example: Scent the entire batch and then color half with the blue colorant. Pour both parts back into your soap pot. Do not stir. Pour in a circular motion into a block mold. The pouring action will cause the soap to marble. 3. To cause meat, usually beef, pork, or lamb, to be interlaced with fat so that its appearance resembles that of marble. Labels: transitive Example: Their flesh is soft (tender), and they throw a portion of their fat among the lean so as to marble it. The beef is of a better quality and they take on fat much easier. Example: The Merino sheep is likely to put his weight largely into tallow around the stomach, intestines and on his kidneys, instead of mixing fairly with the meat, instead of marbling the meat. 4. To become interlaced with fat; (of fat) to interlace through meat. Labels: intransitive Example: We've gone mostly to black bulls — Angus bulls because today the packers like black cattle. They seem to marble better. Example: As we feed these cattle corn their meat marbles. By marbling, I mean the red meat cells are surrounded with fat 5. To lace or be laced throughout. Labels: broadly, figuratively Example: Was he the reason for the bitterness that seemed to marble her character? Example: 'Nobody who has been to war ever talks about it,' he says. But then he does talk, and generously, mining his memory and following the vein of a life marbled with experience: 'I mean, I am in my nineties; […]'
Word: marble Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Inherited from Middle English marble, marbre; from Anglo-Norman and Old French marbre, from Latin marmor, from Ancient Greek μάρμαρος (mármaros), perhaps related to μαρμάρεος (marmáreos, “gleaming”). The forms from French displaced Old English marma, which had previously been borrowed from Latin. Pronunciation: /ˈmɑː.bəl/, [ˈmɑː.bəl] ~ [ˈmɑː.bl̩], /ˈmɑɹ.bəl/, [ˈmɑɹ.bəl] ~ [ˈmɑɹ.bl̩] 1. Made of, or resembling, marble. Example: a marble mantel Example: marble paper 2. Cold; hard; unfeeling. Labels: figuratively Example: a marble heart
Word: marjoram Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Old French majorane, from Medieval Latin maiōrana. Pronunciation: /ˈmɑːd͡ʒ(ə)ɹəm/, /ˈmɑɹd͡ʒəɹəm/ 1. A herb of the mint family, Origanum majorana, having aromatic leaves. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The Lillie I condemned for thy hand, / And buds of marierom had ſtolne thy haire Example: Among the ancients, especially the Romans, marjoram was known to have an aphrodisiac value. 2. The leaves of this plant, especially dried, used in flavouring food. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: shroomer Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From shroom + -er. 1. A person who gathers wild mushrooms. Labels: informal 2. A person who consumes hallucinogenic mushrooms for their effects. Labels: slang
Word: marl Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English marle, from Old French marle, from Late Latin margila, diminutive of marga (“marl”). Doublet of marla. Pronunciation: /mɑːl/, /mɑɹl/ 1. A mixed earthy substance, consisting of carbonate of lime, clay, and possibly sand, in very variable proportions, and accordingly designated as calcareous, clayey, or sandy. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Marle is indeed, as it is in name, the fat or (marrovv) of the earth: […] it is therfore a fat, oyly and vnctious ground, lying in the belly of the earth, vvhich is of vvarme and moiſt temperature, and ſo moſt fertill, ſeeing that heat and moyſture be the father and mother of generation and grovvth; […] Foure ſorts of Marle be found in this VVeald, knovvne aſunder by the difference of colours, and thereby alſo differing in degrees of goodneſſe one from the other: […] Example: ... uneasie steps / Over the burning Marle, not like those steps / On Heavens Azure...
Word: marl Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English marle, from Old French marle, from Late Latin margila, diminutive of marga (“marl”). Doublet of marla. Pronunciation: /mɑːl/, /mɑɹl/ 1. To cover (the ground) with marl (noun sense). Labels: transitive Example: [I]n this ſhort time vve haue ſeene many arable grounds, vvhich for ſundry yeeres after the marling of them, haue plentifully borne VVheat and other Graine, to be novv become vnfruitfull, and ſo vvill they continue, albeit they ſhould novv [be] marled againe. And this commeth to paſſe by the ignorance of the right manner of ordering the Marle, […]
Word: marl Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /mɑːl/, /mɑɹl/ 1. To cover, as part of a rope, with marline, marking a peculiar hitch at each turn to prevent unwinding.
Word: marl Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Nyunga maarl. Pronunciation: /mɑːl/, /mɑɹl/ 1. A species of bandicoot, Perameles myosurus, of southern Western Australia. Labels: Australia
Word: pliant Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English pliaunt, from Old French ploiant, present participle of ploiier (“to fold”). Pronunciation: /ˈplaɪənt/ 1. Capable of plying or bending; readily yielding to force or pressure without breaking. Example: a pliant thread Example: pliant wax 2. Easily influenced; tractable. Labels: figuratively Example: I muſt haue wanton Poets, pleaſant wits, Muſitians, that with touching of a ſtring May draw the pliant king which way I pleaſe: […] Example: [A]nd it is without all controuerſie, that learning doth make the minds of men gentle, generous, maniable, and pliant to gouernment; whereas Ignorance makes them churliſh, thwart, and mutinous; […]
Word: recluse Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Old French reclus, past participle of reclure, from Latin reclūdere (“to disclose, to open”), from re- + claudō (“close”). Pronunciation: /ɹɪˈkluːs/, /ˈɹɛkluːs/, /ɹɪˈklus/, /ˈɹɛklus/, /ɹɪˈklʉːs/ 1. Sequestered; secluded, isolated. Labels: archaic Example: a recluse monk or hermit Example: Hermits themſelves are not recluſe enough to ſeclude that ſubtile ſpirit, Vanity: […] 2. Hidden, secret. Labels: archaic
Word: recluse Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Old French reclus, past participle of reclure, from Latin reclūdere (“to disclose, to open”), from re- + claudō (“close”). Pronunciation: /ɹɪˈkluːs/, /ˈɹɛkluːs/, /ɹɪˈklus/, /ˈɹɛklus/, /ɹɪˈklʉːs/ 1. A person who lives in self-imposed isolation or seclusion from the world, especially for religious purposes; a hermit. Labels: archaic Example: The recluse in the fable kept a cat to keep off the rats, and then a cow to feed the cat with milk, and a man to keep the cow and so on. My ambitions also grew like the family of the recluse. Example: First, the president’s uncle died in 1985. Kaczynski was publicly revealed as the Unabomber more than a decade later, in 1996, when he was captured; before that, he had lived as a recluse in the Montana wilderness. 2. The place where a recluse dwells; a place of isolation or seclusion. Labels: archaic, obsolete Example: that day of appearance taken out of the recluse and committed to safe custody 3. Ellipsis of recluse spider. Labels: US, abbreviation, alt-of, archaic, ellipsis 4. See also Thesaurus:recluse Labels: archaic
Word: recluse Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Old French reclus, past participle of reclure, from Latin reclūdere (“to disclose, to open”), from re- + claudō (“close”). Pronunciation: /ɹɪˈkluːs/, /ˈɹɛkluːs/, /ɹɪˈklus/, /ˈɹɛklus/, /ɹɪˈklʉːs/ 1. To shut; to seclude. Labels: archaic, obsolete, transitive
Word: recombination Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Italic *wre- Latin re-der. Old French re-bor. Middle English re- English re- Middle English combinacioun English combination English recombination From re- + combination. 1. Combination a second or subsequent time. 2. The formation of genetic combinations in offspring that are not present in the parents. 3. The reverse of dissociation. 4. The process by which the plasma of electrons and protons produced after the Big Bang condensed into hydrogen, or the epoch in which this process occurred.
Word: recondite Part of Speech: adj Pronunciation: /ˈɹɛk(ə)nˌdaɪt/, /ɹɪˈkɒndaɪt/, /ˈɹɛkənˌdaɪt/, /ɹəˈkɑnˌdaɪt/, /ɹiˈkɑnˌdaɪt/ 1. Difficult, obscure. Example: a recondite tractate on alchemy Example: But I hope this new Messenger from Heauen doth bring happie tidings of some munificent and liberall Patron to these rauishing (but impouerishing) studies, by whose gracious bountie the most recondite mysteries of this abstruse and diuine science [astronomy] shall at length be manifested. 2. Difficult, obscure. Example: [T]here was in the man much learning, and that of the more inward & recondit, a great Antiquary, and one that had a certain large poſſeſſion of Divine and Humane Lawes. Example: [T]he Apoſtle Paul had taken up many things out of theſe Recondite and Apocryphal Writings. 3. Difficult, obscure. Example: It is delightful to see this recondite scholar [Thomas Browne]—this contemplative and refining dreamer—in the centre of his happy nor unworthy household. Example: Our musician [Johann Sebastian Bach] rapidly became known far and wide throughout the musical centres of Germany as a learned and recondite composer, as a brilliant improviser, and as an organist beyond rivalry. 4. Difficult, obscure. Example: They afford a lesson to the modern metaphysical and recondite writers not to overvalue their works. Example: In the play of Fancy, Wordsworth, to my feelings, is not always graceful, and sometimes recondite. 5. Hidden or removed from view. Labels: archaic Example: The Eye is somewhat recondit betweene its Orbite. Example: My recondite eye sits distent quaintly behind the flesh-hill, and looks as little as a tomtit's. 6. Hidden or removed from view. Labels: archaic, obsolete, rare Example: Recondite, (aculeus) concealed within the abdomen, seldom exposed to view. 7. Hidden or removed from view. Labels: archaic, rare Example: Animals of this class are so recondite in their habits... so little known to naturalists beyond the more common species.
Word: recondite Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈɹɛk(ə)nˌdaɪt/, /ɹɪˈkɒndaɪt/, /ˈɹɛkənˌdaɪt/, /ɹəˈkɑnˌdaɪt/, /ɹiˈkɑnˌdaɪt/ 1. A recondite (hidden or obscure) person or thing. Labels: rare Example: [T]he Duchess, and the dandies, and the member's wife and all the rest of their tribulations, were happily hidden from the view by the towering bouquets of the gold plateau vases at the head of the room. [...] A contra-dance after supper was felt to be a national duty; but behind those fatal vases a plot had already been concocted by the recondites for rewarding their previous self-denial, not by a quadrille, but a galoppe. Example: Whether subsidence plunged the huge morass, / With vegetation, soil, and trees, en masse— / Or, if the flood had drown'd the boggy all, / As streaming torrents roar'd in surly bawl— / Let dons decide, on whom these points devolve; / Such recondites are truely hard to solve. 2. A scholar or other person who is recondite, that is, who has mastery over his or her field, including its esoteric minutiae. Labels: rare Example: Here we have an uncommon acquaintance with the conditions of society in the mass, which, perhaps, some of our recondites would hardly be disposed to expect in the case of a man of a character so eminent and philosophical as [Dugald] Stewart, and addicted to studies removing him so far from the sphere of common mortals. Example: If the administrative economists should adopt the widespread practice of their pedagogue colleagues and express themselves, in major policy papers as elsewhere, in mathematical equations rather than words, administrative prerogative would be reinforced by recourse to the professional recondites. [...] This is a serious matter, since any obscurantism and any retreat from public accountability by the civil service cause distrust of people against their government, and of the legislative branch against the bureaucracy.
Word: recondite Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ˈɹɛk(ə)nˌdaɪt/, /ɹɪˈkɒndaɪt/, /ˈɹɛkənˌdaɪt/, /ɹəˈkɑnˌdaɪt/, /ɹiˈkɑnˌdaɪt/ 1. To conceal, cover up, hide. Labels: obsolete, rare, transitive Example: Tendons: recondited, and hidde in their Muscle, as if they were in a purse imposed. Example: Theſe Species are conveyed to the Brain by the Optick Nerve, and are laid up in the Magazine of the Memory, otherways we ſhould not remember the Object any longer than it is in our Preference; and a remembring of thoſe Objects is nothing elſe but the Fancy's reviewing, or more properly the Soul of Man by the Fancy reviewing of theſe intentional Species, formerly received from the viſible Object unto the Organ of the Eye, and recondited into the Seat of the Memory.
Word: unbefuckinglievable Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From unbelievable + -fucking-, intensifying infix. Pronunciation: /ˌʌnbɪˌfəkɪŋˈliːvəbl/ 1. Far beyond belief; completely extraordinary. Labels: vulgar Example: The Red Sox were down three games and came back to beat the Yankees‽ That’s just unbefuckinglievable‼
Word: shader Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From shade + -er. Pronunciation: /ˈʃeɪdɚ/ 1. One who, or that which, shades. 2. A set of software instructions used to calculate rendering effects on graphics hardware.
Word: shady Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From shade + -y. Compare Saterland Frisian skaadich, skaddich (“shady”), German schattig (“shady”). Pronunciation: /ˈʃeɪdi/ 1. Abounding in shades. 2. Causing shade. Example: The shady trees cover him with their shadow. 3. Overspread with shade; sheltered from the glare of light or sultry heat. Example: you may have rooms both for summer and winter; shady for summer, and warm for winter Example: I know the shadiest breeziest spots, hidden tables surrounded by trees that have lived longer than the neighborhoods around them. 4. Not trustworthy; disreputable. Labels: informal Example: He is a shady character. Example: No sunshine in my life, the way I deal is shady 5. Mean, cruel. Labels: UK, slang Example: They were being proper shady to him. Even if you don't like someone, locking them out, stealing their clothes and ganging up on them to take the piss is just childish. Example: I didn't even ask her to be in the 'Increase the Peace' campaign, which was well shady, 'cos if anyone knows anything about rudes and violence and getting dragged into stuff it's Uma.
Word: shaggy Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Old English sċeacga Middle English *schagge English shag Proto-Indo-European *-kos Proto-Germanic *-gaz Proto-West Germanic *-g Old English -iġ Middle English -y English -y English shaggy From shag + -y. Pronunciation: /ˈʃæɡi/, /ˈʃeɪ̯ɡi/ 1. Having long, thick, and uncombed hair, fur or wool. Example: a shaggy dog Example: They waited until Dorothy awoke the next morning. The little girl was quite frightened when she saw the great pile of shaggy wolves, but the Tin Woodman told her all. She thanked him for saving them and sat down to breakfast, after which they started again upon their journey. 2. Having a surface like shaggy hair; with a rough nap. 3. Confused, muddled. Labels: figuratively Example: Universal and Blumhouse’s M3gan is exactly the right amount of ridiculous, which is why it can afford to be a little shaggy toward the end.
Word: shale Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English schale (“shell, husk; scale”), from Old English sċealu (“shell, husk, pod”), from Proto-West Germanic *skalu, from Proto-Germanic *skalō, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kelH- (“to split, cut”), from *(s)kel- (“to split, cleave”). See also West Frisian skaal (“dish”), Dutch schaal (“shell”), schalie (“shale”), German Schale (“husk, pod”); also Lithuanian skalà (“splinter”), Old Church Slavonic скала (skala, “rock, stone”), Polish skała (“rock”), Albanian halë (“fish bone, splinter”), Sanskrit कल (kalá, “small part”); also Hittite [script needed] (iškalla, “to tear apart, slit open”), Lithuanian skélti (“to split”), Ancient Greek σκάλλω (skállō, “to hoe, harrow”). Doublet of scale. See also shell. Pronunciation: /ʃeɪl/ 1. A shell, scale or husk; a cod or pod. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: the green shales of a bean Example: Mr. Lyell next visited the red and green shales of Cabotville, north of Springfield in Massachusetts, where some of the best Ornithichnites have been procured, chiefly in the green shale. 2. A fine-grained sedimentary rock of a thin, laminated, and often friable, structure. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: As on all large green roofs, the soil is not dirt exactly but a gravel-like growing medium of granulated pumice, shales, clays and other minerals. Example: Five years in, ARPA–E’s priorities have shifted, too, for the same reason. The cheap natural gas freed from shale by horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing (or fracking) has helped kill off bleeding-edge programs like Electrofuels, a bid to use microbes to turn cheap electricity into liquid fuels, […] 3. The shale oil and shale gas segment of the oil and gas industry. Labels: countable, metonymically, uncountable Example: American shale’s placid responses to energy whirlwinds are becoming an enduring feature of the U.S. oil industry. In recent years, public drillers under investor pressure to be profitable have treated spiking oil prices as an opportunity to return more cash to shareholders—and lock in prices for futures sales. A wave of consolidation has swept out the privately held operators that were quick to add new barrels when prices screened higher. The upshot is that companies aren’t likely to add new rigs unless oil prices hit between $75 and $85 a barrel and stay there for several months, analysts and executives say. […] So far, U.S. shale’s temperance has been a boon to Trump. A steady increase in U.S. production has helped soften spikes in crude prices after his campaigns against Venezuela and now Iran—both major oil producers. The Energy Information Administration expects the national oil output to have hit about 13.7 million barrels a day in February, up nearly 600,000 barrels from when Trump took office. But these gains have been the fruit of technical prowess in the field, not the pursuit of growth. Shale companies have become proficient at drilling fewer but much longer horizontal wells, which allows them to trim costs and still extract more crude. They routinely frack multiple wells at the same time and do so virtually around the clock, which also saves on costs.
Word: shale Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English schale (“shell, husk; scale”), from Old English sċealu (“shell, husk, pod”), from Proto-West Germanic *skalu, from Proto-Germanic *skalō, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kelH- (“to split, cut”), from *(s)kel- (“to split, cleave”). See also West Frisian skaal (“dish”), Dutch schaal (“shell”), schalie (“shale”), German Schale (“husk, pod”); also Lithuanian skalà (“splinter”), Old Church Slavonic скала (skala, “rock, stone”), Polish skała (“rock”), Albanian halë (“fish bone, splinter”), Sanskrit कल (kalá, “small part”); also Hittite [script needed] (iškalla, “to tear apart, slit open”), Lithuanian skélti (“to split”), Ancient Greek σκάλλω (skállō, “to hoe, harrow”). Doublet of scale. See also shell. Pronunciation: /ʃeɪl/ 1. To take off the shell or coat of.
Word: shriek Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From obsolete shrick (1567), shreke, variants of earlier screak, skricke (before 1500), from Middle English scrycke, from a North Germanic/Scandinavian language (compare Swedish skrika, Danish skrige, Icelandic skríkja), from Proto-Germanic *skrīkijaną, *skrik- (compare English screech). More at screech. Pronunciation: /ʃɹiːk/ 1. A sharp, shrill outcry or scream; a shrill wild cry caused by sudden or extreme terror, pain, or the like. Example: Shrieks, clamours, murmurs, fill the frighted town. Example: Sabor, the lioness, was a wise hunter. To one less wise the wild alarm of her fierce cry as she sprang would have seemed a foolish thing, for could she not more surely have fallen upon her victims had she but quietly leaped without that loud shriek? 2. An exclamation mark. Labels: UK, slang
Word: shriek Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From obsolete shrick (1567), shreke, variants of earlier screak, skricke (before 1500), from Middle English scrycke, from a North Germanic/Scandinavian language (compare Swedish skrika, Danish skrige, Icelandic skríkja), from Proto-Germanic *skrīkijaną, *skrik- (compare English screech). More at screech. Pronunciation: /ʃɹiːk/ 1. To utter a loud, sharp, shrill sound or cry, as do some birds and beasts; to scream, as in a sudden fright, in horror or anguish. Labels: intransitive Example: Feebly ſhe ſhriekt, but ſo feebly indeed / That Britomart heard not the ſhrilling ſound. Example: It was the owl that shrieked. 2. To utter sharply and shrilly; to utter in or with a shriek or shrieks. Labels: transitive Example: The ghostly owl, shrieking his baleful note. Example: She shrieked his name to the dark woods.
Word: sycophantic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Ancient Greek σῡκοφᾰντῐκός (sūkophăntĭkós). By surface analysis, sycophant + -ic. Pronunciation: /sɪkəˈfæntɪk/ 1. Excessively eager to please, especially for personal gain; obsequious, flattering. Example: The sycophantic slags all say / "I knew him first, and I knew him well" Example: I melt into a sycophantic soup, and all that’s left to do is giggle, fawn and swoon.
Word: syne Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From Middle English syne, syn, sin, a contracted form of sithen (“since”). More at sithen. Pronunciation: /saɪn/, /səin/ 1. Subsequently; then. Labels: Northern-England, Scotland, not-comparable Example: At last he comes, and on his knee The wee tots a'thegether cling, An' ilk yen strives to catch his ee, Syne tugs his cwoat an' bids him sing. Example: Sic a pair o' friends aa nivvor seed either before or syne. 2. Late. Labels: Northern-England, Scotland, not-comparable Example: [Each rogue] shall be discovered either soon or syne. Example: "I had rather it came to-morrow than a month hence. Come, I know, it will; and, as your country folks say, better soon than syne […] 3. Before now; ago. Labels: Northern-England, Scotland, not-comparable Example: I eat, drink, and sleep as sound as I did twenty years syne; yes, I laugh heartily too, and find as many subjects to employ that faculty upon as ever; fools, fops, and knaves, grow as rank as formerly, yet here and there, […] Example: Camden Lyde had come to dwell in Mapleblade, a long while syne. His father had been in times past the parish parson, and the son was kindly affectionate to the old village scenes, and to the faces that seemed in some sort to belong to him[…]
Word: syne Part of Speech: prep Etymology: From Middle English syne, syn, sin, a contracted form of sithen (“since”). More at sithen. Pronunciation: /saɪn/, /səin/ 1. Since. Labels: Northern-England, Scotland Example: I've niver set fute i' Gibb's Ha' syne his father's death. Example: Shoo's […] gitten fair pratty, syne Maister Allen gat wed.
Word: synecdoche Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Latin synecdochē, from Ancient Greek συνεκδοχή (sunekdokhḗ, “receiving together”) from σύν (sún, “with”) + ἐκ (ek, “out of”) + δέχεσθαι (dékhesthai, “to accept”), this last element related to δοκέω (dokéō, “to think, suppose, seem”). Pronunciation: /sɪˈnɛk.də.ki/, /sɪˈnɛk.doʊ.ki/ 1. A figure of speech that uses the name of a part of something to represent the whole, or the whole to represent a part, or a specific kind or instance to represent the general category, or the general category to represent a specific kind or instance, or the constituent material to represent the thing made from it. Labels: countable, rhetoric, uncountable Example: Synecdoche the whole for part will take, Or part for whole, just for the metre's sake. Example: "Holocaust" can become a tired synecdoche for war crimes in general. 2. The use of this figure of speech. Labels: countable, rhetoric, uncountable
Word: tabby Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Mid 17th century French tabis, from Arabic عَتَّابِيّ (ʕattābiyy), ultimately from Arabic الْعَتَّابِيَّة (al-ʕattābiyya), a quarter of Baghdad (named for a Prince عَتَّاب (ʕattāb)) which is associated with the manufacture of a certain type of waved silk. See also taffeta, another type of silk whose name derives from the Persian تافته (tâfta, “woven cloth”) and shares a similar etymological origin. Pronunciation: /ˈtæb.i/ 1. A kind of waved silk, usually called watered silk, manufactured like taffeta, but thicker and stronger. The watering is given to it by calendering. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: "Ay, ay; she wore a flowered silk tabby sacque, on band days," said Toole, who had an eye and a corner in his memory for female costume, "a fine showy—I remember." 2. A concrete mixture of lime with shells, gravel, or stones, in equal proportions, with an equal proportion of water. When dry, this becomes as hard as rock. Labels: uncountable 3. A brindled cat. Labels: countable Example: A wise tabby, a blinking sphinx, watched from her warm sill. Pity to disturb them. Mohammed cut a piece out of his mantle not to wake her. 4. A woman, irrespective of age, but often used for a young, attractive woman. Labels: Australia, countable, slang, uncountable Example: ‘The kids go for a drive in a borrowed car, park on another street between the corner lamps, and then there’s ructions because some little tabby gets up the stick.’ 5. An old maid or gossip. Labels: archaic, countable
Word: tabby Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Mid 17th century French tabis, from Arabic عَتَّابِيّ (ʕattābiyy), ultimately from Arabic الْعَتَّابِيَّة (al-ʕattābiyya), a quarter of Baghdad (named for a Prince عَتَّاب (ʕattāb)) which is associated with the manufacture of a certain type of waved silk. See also taffeta, another type of silk whose name derives from the Persian تافته (tâfta, “woven cloth”) and shares a similar etymological origin. Pronunciation: /ˈtæb.i/ 1. Having a wavy or watered appearance. Example: a tabby waistcoat 2. Brindled; diversified in color. Example: a tabby cat
Word: tabby Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Mid 17th century French tabis, from Arabic عَتَّابِيّ (ʕattābiyy), ultimately from Arabic الْعَتَّابِيَّة (al-ʕattābiyya), a quarter of Baghdad (named for a Prince عَتَّاب (ʕattāb)) which is associated with the manufacture of a certain type of waved silk. See also taffeta, another type of silk whose name derives from the Persian تافته (tâfta, “woven cloth”) and shares a similar etymological origin. Pronunciation: /ˈtæb.i/ 1. To give a wavy or watered appearance to (a textile). Labels: transitive