nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: provenance Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from French provenance (“origin”), from Middle French provenant, present participle of provenir (“come forth, arise”), from Latin provenio (“to come forth”). Pronunciation: /ˈpɹɒ.və.nəns/, /ˈpɹɒ.vəˌnɒns/, /ˈpɹɑ.və.nəns/, /ˈpɹoʊ.və.nɑns/ 1. Place or source of origin. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Many supermarkets display the provenance of their food products. Example: Within this melee of intersections between English and Cantonese, the students, being themselves bilingually fluent, were able to navigate with perfect ease in communicative contexts where the provenance of a certain term or expression matters little. 2. The place and time of origin of some artifact or other object. See Usage notes below. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: This spear is of Viking provenance. Example: Further support for the Shansi provenance came in 1965, when a bronze quadruped with identical ornamentation and of approximately the same size as the Freer example was unearthed in tomb 126, at Fen-shui-ling, Ch'ang-chih, Shansi Province. 3. The history of ownership of a work of art. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The picture is of royal provenance. 4. The copy history of a piece of data, or the intermediate pieces of data used to compute a final data element, as in a database record or web site (data provenance). Labels: countable, uncountable 5. The execution history of computer processes which were used to compute a final piece of data (process provenance). Labels: countable, uncountable 6. Background; history; place of origin. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: provenance Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Borrowed from French provenance (“origin”), from Middle French provenant, present participle of provenir (“come forth, arise”), from Latin provenio (“to come forth”). Pronunciation: /ˈpɹɒ.və.nəns/, /ˈpɹɒ.vəˌnɒns/, /ˈpɹɑ.və.nəns/, /ˈpɹoʊ.və.nɑns/ 1. To establish the provenance of something
Word: family Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Late Middle English famylye, from Latin familia (“a household”). Displaced native Old English hīred. Doublet of familia. Pronunciation: /ˈfæm(ɪ)li/, /ˈfaməlɪj/, /ˈfamɪlɪj/, /ˈfamlɪj/, /ˈfaːməlɪj/ 1. Suitable for children and adults. Labels: not-comparable Example: It's not good for a date, it's a family restaurant. Example: Some animated movies are not just for kids, they are family movies. 2. Homosexual. Labels: not-comparable, slang Example: I knew he was family when I first met him.
Word: family Part of Speech: name Labels: no-gloss
Word: grammar Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English gramere, from Old French gramaire (“classical learning”), from unattested Vulgar Latin *grammāria, an alteration of Latin grammatica, from Ancient Greek γραμματική (grammatikḗ, “skilled in writing”), from γράμμα (grámma, “line of writing”), from γράφω (gráphō, “write”), from Proto-Indo-European *gerbʰ- (“to carve, scratch”). Displaced native Old English stæfcræft; a doublet of glamour, glamoury, gramarye, and grimoire. Piecewise doublet of grammatic. Pronunciation: /ˈɡɹæm.ə(ɹ)/, /ˈɡɹæm.ɚ/, [ˈɡɹɛəm.ɚ], [ˈɡɹæːm.ɚ], [ˈɡɹam.ɚ] 1. A system of rules and principles for the structure of a language, or of languages in general. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. A system of rules and principles for the structure of a language, or of languages in general. Labels: uncountable 3. Actual or presumed prescriptive notions about the correct use of a language. Labels: uncountable 4. A book describing the grammar (noun sense 1 or noun sense 2) of a language. Labels: countable 5. A formal system specifying the syntax of a language. Labels: countable Example: Because real lexicons are big and complex, from a software engineering perspective it is best to write simple grammars that have a simple, well-defined way, of pulling out the information they need from vast lexicons. That is, grammars should be thought of as separate entities which can access the information contained in lexicons. We can then use specialised mechanisms for efficiently storing the lexicon and retrieving data from it. 6. A formal system defining a formal language. Labels: countable 7. The basic rules or principles of a field of knowledge or a particular skill. Labels: countable, figuratively Example: We must learn a new grammar of power in a world that is made up more of the common good – or the common bad – than of self-interest or national interest. 8. A book describing these rules or principles; a textbook. Labels: UK, archaic, countable Example: a grammar of geography Example: To turn this sort of mixture of a gossip and a gospel into anything like a grammar of Distributism has been quite impossible. 9. Ellipsis of grammar school. Labels: UK, abbreviation, alt-of, countable, ellipsis, informal, uncountable Example: He’s the old man’s only son. Some baby! Yep, right behind ya. Nope, he donno me. I was in Grammar when he was in High. 10. A set of component patterns, along with the rules for connecting them, which can be combined to form more complex patterns such as large still lifes, oscillators, and spaceships. Labels: countable Example: Hickerson has a computer program which found a spaceship with speed c/3. In fact a whole grammar of them. Example: Within a few hours of finding the first period 2 ship, Dean had discovered a grammar for constructing an infinite number of different short, wide, period 2 spaceships. A grammar is an "alphabet" of "components", along with rules for the possible sequences of connections between components. Components are simply the identifiable pieces of a ship which reappear over and over in different ships in different combinations.
Word: grammar Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English gramere, from Old French gramaire (“classical learning”), from unattested Vulgar Latin *grammāria, an alteration of Latin grammatica, from Ancient Greek γραμματική (grammatikḗ, “skilled in writing”), from γράμμα (grámma, “line of writing”), from γράφω (gráphō, “write”), from Proto-Indo-European *gerbʰ- (“to carve, scratch”). Displaced native Old English stæfcræft; a doublet of glamour, glamoury, gramarye, and grimoire. Piecewise doublet of grammatic. Pronunciation: /ˈɡɹæm.ə(ɹ)/, /ˈɡɹæm.ɚ/, [ˈɡɹɛəm.ɚ], [ˈɡɹæːm.ɚ], [ˈɡɹam.ɚ] 1. To discourse according to the rules of grammar; to use grammar. Labels: intransitive, obsolete Example: She is in her Moods, and her Tenses: / I'll Grammar with you, / And make a trial how I can decline you
Word: there Part of Speech: intj Etymology: From Middle English there, ther, thare, thar, thore, from Old English þēr, þǣr, þār (“there; at that place”), from Proto-West Germanic *þār, from Proto-Germanic *þar (“at that place; there”), from Proto-Indo-European *tó-r (“there”), from demonstrative pronominal base *to- (“the, that”) + adverbial suffix *-r. Cognate with Scots thar, thair (“there”), North Frisian dear, deer, där (“there”), Saterland Frisian deer (“there”), West Frisian dêr (“there”), Dutch daar (“there”), Low German dar (“there”), German da, dar- (“there”), Danish der (“there”), Norwegian der (“there”), Swedish där (“there”), Icelandic þar (“in that place, there”). Pronunciation: /ðə(ɹ)/, /ðɛə(ɹ)/, /ðɛː(ɹ)/, /ðɜː(ɹ)/, /ðɛː/ 1. Used to offer encouragement or sympathy; see also there, there and there now. Example: There, there. Everything is going to turn out all right. 2. Used to express victory or completion. Example: There! That knot should hold.
Word: there Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English there, ther, thare, thar, thore, from Old English þēr, þǣr, þār (“there; at that place”), from Proto-West Germanic *þār, from Proto-Germanic *þar (“at that place; there”), from Proto-Indo-European *tó-r (“there”), from demonstrative pronominal base *to- (“the, that”) + adverbial suffix *-r. Cognate with Scots thar, thair (“there”), North Frisian dear, deer, där (“there”), Saterland Frisian deer (“there”), West Frisian dêr (“there”), Dutch daar (“there”), Low German dar (“there”), German da, dar- (“there”), Danish der (“there”), Norwegian der (“there”), Swedish där (“there”), Icelandic þar (“in that place, there”). Pronunciation: /ðə(ɹ)/, /ðɛə(ɹ)/, /ðɛː(ɹ)/, /ðɜː(ɹ)/, /ðɛː/ 1. That place (previously mentioned or otherwise implied). Example: We need someone to take us from here to there. Example: anyway what was the use of my having come from Oakland it was not natural to have come from there yes write about it if I like or anything if I like but not there, there is no there there. 2. That situation; that position. Example: You rinse and de-string the green beans; I'll take it from there.
Word: there Part of Speech: pron Etymology: From Middle English there, ther, thare, thar, thore, from Old English þēr, þǣr, þār (“there; at that place”), from Proto-West Germanic *þār, from Proto-Germanic *þar (“at that place; there”), from Proto-Indo-European *tó-r (“there”), from demonstrative pronominal base *to- (“the, that”) + adverbial suffix *-r. Cognate with Scots thar, thair (“there”), North Frisian dear, deer, där (“there”), Saterland Frisian deer (“there”), West Frisian dêr (“there”), Dutch daar (“there”), Low German dar (“there”), German da, dar- (“there”), Danish der (“there”), Norwegian der (“there”), Swedish där (“there”), Icelandic þar (“in that place, there”). Pronunciation: /ðə(ɹ)/, /ðɛə(ɹ)/, /ðɛː(ɹ)/, /ðɜː(ɹ)/, /ðɛː/ 1. Used as an expletive subject of be in its sense of “exist”, with the semantic, usually indefinite subject being postponed or (occasionally) implied. Example: There are two apples on the table. [=Two apples are on the table.] Example: There is no way to do it. [=No way to do it exists.] 2. Used with other intransitive verbs of existence, in the same sense, or with other intransitive verbs, adding a sense of existence. Example: If x is a positive number, then there exists [=there is] a positive number y less than x. Example: There remain several problems with this approach. [=Several problems remain with this approach.] 3. Used with other verbs, when raised. Example: There seems to be some difficulty with the papers. [=It seems that there is some difficulty with the papers.] Example: I expected there to be a simpler solution. [=I expected that there would be a simpler solution.] 4. That. Labels: idiomatic, in-compounds Example: therefor, thereat, thereunder 5. Appended to words of greeting etc. Labels: colloquial Example: Hi there, young fellow. Example: Oh, hello there, Bob, how are you doing?
Word: there Part of Speech: contraction 1. Misspelling of they’re. Labels: alt-of, contraction, misspelling
Word: there Part of Speech: det 1. Misspelling of their. Labels: alt-of, misspelling
Word: er Part of Speech: intj Etymology: Mimetic (sound of hesitation). Pronunciation: /ɜː/, /ɜɹ/ 1. Said when hesitating in speech. Labels: informal Example: “Er...Feathered Omen, hoot not,” he continued uneasily, “Son of Tanit, hoot not!” Example: As the years go by, speech reverts to childhood levels of disfluency, with more pauses, more errors, more repeated words, but even the peak years are not great: up to 8 percent of the average person’s word output consists of meaningless fillers and placeholders like um, uh and er.
Word: er Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Mimetic (sound of hesitation). Pronunciation: /ɜː/, /ɜɹ/ 1. To utter the word er when hesitating in speech. Labels: informal, intransitive, transitive Example: um and er Example: He ummed and erred his way through the presentation.
Word: er Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Mimetic (sound of hesitation). Pronunciation: /ɜː/, /ɜɹ/ 1. An occurrence of the interjection "er". Example: Although Shakespeare refers to “hums and ha’s,” sifting through etiquette manuals and public-speaking guides turns up scant evidence of a prohibition against ums, ers and uhs, which are profuse in the first recording of Thomas Edison’s voice, in 1888. Mr. Erard, rather ingeniously, traces the prohibition on um and other speech flaws to the advent of radio in the early 1920s.
Word: er Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ɜː/, /ɜɹ/ 1. The name of the Cyrillic script letter Р / р.
Word: lead Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English led, leed, from Old English lēad (“lead”), from Proto-West Germanic *laud (“lead”), possibly borrowed from Proto-Celtic *ɸloudom, from Proto-Indo-European *plewd- (“to flow”). Cognate with Scots leid, lede (“lead”), North Frisian lud, luad (“lead”), West Frisian lead (“lead”), Dutch lood (“lead”), Low German Lod (“solder, plummet”), German Lot (“solder, plummet, sounding line”), Swedish lod (“solder, plummet”), Icelandic lóð (“a plumb, weight”), Irish luaidhe (“lead”) Latin plumbum (“lead”), Finnish luoti (“bullet”). Doublet of loth. More at flow. * (graphite in a pencil): Graphite was once believed to be a form of lead; see black lead and plumbago. Pronunciation: /ˈlɛd/, [ˈlɛd] 1. A heavy, pliable, inelastic metal element, having a bright, bluish color, but easily tarnished; both malleable and ductile, though with little tenacity. It is easily fusible, forms alloys with other metals, and is an ingredient of solder and type metal. Atomic number 82, symbol Pb (from Latin plumbum). Labels: uncountable 2. A plummet or mass of lead attached to a line, used in sounding depth at sea or to estimate velocity in knots. Labels: countable 3. A thin strip of type metal, used to separate lines of type in printing. Labels: countable, uncountable 4. Vertical space in advance of a row or between rows of text. Also known as leading. Labels: uncountable Example: This copy has too much lead; I prefer less space between the lines. 5. Sheets or plates of lead used as a covering for roofs. Labels: countable, uncountable 6. A roof covered with lead sheets or terne plates. Labels: countable Example: I would have the tower two stories, and goodly leads upon the top. Example: These rooms were on a level with the apartments of our friends Bows and Costigan next door at No. 4; and by reaching over the communicating leads, Grady could command the mignonette-box which bloomed in Bows’s window. 7. A thin cylinder of graphite used in pencils. Labels: countable 8. Bullets; ammunition. Labels: countable, slang, uncountable Example: They pumped him full of lead. Example: All my life I want money and power Respect my mind or die from lead shower 9. X-ray protective clothing lined with lead. Labels: countable, in-plural, uncountable Example: You must remember to wear your leads.
Word: lead Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English led, leed, from Old English lēad (“lead”), from Proto-West Germanic *laud (“lead”), possibly borrowed from Proto-Celtic *ɸloudom, from Proto-Indo-European *plewd- (“to flow”). Cognate with Scots leid, lede (“lead”), North Frisian lud, luad (“lead”), West Frisian lead (“lead”), Dutch lood (“lead”), Low German Lod (“solder, plummet”), German Lot (“solder, plummet, sounding line”), Swedish lod (“solder, plummet”), Icelandic lóð (“a plumb, weight”), Irish luaidhe (“lead”) Latin plumbum (“lead”), Finnish luoti (“bullet”). Doublet of loth. More at flow. * (graphite in a pencil): Graphite was once believed to be a form of lead; see black lead and plumbago. Pronunciation: /ˈlɛd/, [ˈlɛd] 1. To cover, fill, or affect with lead. Labels: transitive Example: continuous firing leads the grooves of a rifle. 2. To place leads between the lines of. Labels: historical, transitive Example: to lead a page Example: leaded matter
Word: lead Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English leden, from Old English lǣdan (“to lead”), from Proto-West Germanic *laidijan, from Proto-Germanic *laidijaną (“to cause one to go, lead”), causative of Proto-Germanic *līþaną (“to go”), from Proto-Indo-European *leyt- (“to leave, die”). Cognate with West Frisian liede (“to lead”), Dutch leiden (“to lead”), German leiten (“to lead”), Danish and Norwegian Bokmål lede (“to lead”), Norwegian Nynorsk leia (“to lead”), Swedish leda (“to lead”), Faroese and Icelandic leiða (“to lead”). Related to Old English līþan (“to go, travel”). Pronunciation: /ˈliːd/, [ˈlɪi̯d] 1. Foremost. Labels: not-comparable Example: The contestants are all tied; no one has the lead position. Example: For the first time ever, the senior architect and lead developer for a key enterprise system on NASA's ongoing Mars Exploration Rover mission shares the secrets to one of the most difficult technology tasks […] 2. Main, principal, primary, first, chief, foremost. Labels: not-comparable Example: the lead guitarist in band Example: the lead developer on a software project
Word: lead Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Perhaps from a confusion or conflation with read, which has a single spelling for both past and present tenses, but has differing pronunciations in the same way as lead, i.e. the present's vowel is /i/, and the past's is /ɛ/. See also red and redd, the obsolete spellings of read. 1. Misspelling of led. Labels: alt-of, misspelling
Word: ilk Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Inherited from Middle English ilke, from Old English ilca, conjectured as from Proto-Germanic *ilīkaz, a compound of *iz and *-līkaz from the noun *līką (“body”). The sense of “type”, “kind” is from the application of the phrase of that ilk to families: the word thus came to mean family. Pronunciation: /ɪlk/ 1. Very; same. Labels: Northern-England, Scotland, not-comparable Example: By semblaunt, was that ilke image
Word: ilk Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Inherited from Middle English ilke, from Old English ilca, conjectured as from Proto-Germanic *ilīkaz, a compound of *iz and *-līkaz from the noun *līką (“body”). The sense of “type”, “kind” is from the application of the phrase of that ilk to families: the word thus came to mean family. Pronunciation: /ɪlk/ 1. A type, race or category; a group of entities that have common characteristics such that they may be grouped together. Example: "Hinkydink” or “Bathhouse John,” or others of that ilk, were proprietors of the most notorious dives in Chicago[…] Example: The cow is of the bovine ilk; One end is moo, the other, milk.
Word: arise Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English arisen, from Old English ārīsan (“to arise, get up; rise; spring from, originate; spring up, ascend”), from Proto-Germanic *uzrīsaną (“to rise up, arise”), equivalent to a- + rise. Cognate with Scots arise, aryse (“to arise, rise up, come into existence”), Middle Low German errīsen (“to stand up, arise”), Old High German irrīsan (“to rise up, fall”), Gothic 𐌿𐍂𐍂𐌴𐌹𐍃𐌰𐌽 (urreisan, “to arise”). Eclipsed Middle English sourden, sorden, borrowed from Old French sordre, sourdre (“to arise, originate, fly up”). Pronunciation: /əˈɹaɪz/, /əˈɹɑez/, [əˈɹɑe̯z] 1. To come up from a lower to a higher position. Labels: intransitive Example: to arise from a kneeling posture 2. To come up from one's bed or place of repose; to get up. Labels: intransitive Example: He arose early in the morning. 3. To spring up; to come into action, being, or notice; to become operative, sensible, or visible; to begin to act a part; to present itself. Labels: intransitive Example: A cloud arose and covered the sun. Example: A new challenge will arise every time you think you've solved the last one.
Word: arise Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English arisen, from Old English ārīsan (“to arise, get up; rise; spring from, originate; spring up, ascend”), from Proto-Germanic *uzrīsaną (“to rise up, arise”), equivalent to a- + rise. Cognate with Scots arise, aryse (“to arise, rise up, come into existence”), Middle Low German errīsen (“to stand up, arise”), Old High German irrīsan (“to rise up, fall”), Gothic 𐌿𐍂𐍂𐌴𐌹𐍃𐌰𐌽 (urreisan, “to arise”). Eclipsed Middle English sourden, sorden, borrowed from Old French sordre, sourdre (“to arise, originate, fly up”). Pronunciation: /əˈɹaɪz/, /əˈɹɑez/, [əˈɹɑe̯z] 1. Arising, rising. Labels: obsolete Example: And if before the Sunne haue meaſured heauen With triple circuit thou regreet vs not, We meane to take his mornings next ariſe. For meſſenger, he will not be reclaim’d, And meane to fetch thee in deſpight of him.
Word: arose Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /əˈɹoʊz/ 1. simple past of arise Labels: form-of, past 2. past participle of arise Labels: colloquial, form-of, nonstandard, participle, past Example: And I was tane for him, and he for me, And thereupon theſe errors are arroſe. Example: Mr Bray, diſregarding his own intereſt, and the great profit which would have aroſe from finiſhing his Courſe of Lectures on the plan he had formed,[…]
Word: arisen Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /əˈɹɪzən/ 1. past participle of arise Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: Moslem Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈmɒzləm/, /ˈmɒsləm/ 1. Dated spelling of Muslim. Labels: derogatory, often Example: [T]he Moslems footraced around the Kaba three times at top speed, to demonstrate to the observant Koreish that they were in excellent physical condition; […]
Word: Moslem Part of Speech: adj Pronunciation: /ˈmɒzləm/, /ˈmɒsləm/ 1. Dated spelling of Muslim. Labels: derogatory, often Example: Eliza Wyatt's Mirror-Images attempts to explore the conflict between modern and traditional ways of life for residents of an unnamed Moslem country, with an emphasis on women.
Word: Muslim Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed around 1615 from Arabic مُسْلِم (muslim, “one who submits”), the active participle of أَسْلَمَ (ʔaslama, “he submitted”), verb form IV from the triliteral root س ل م (s l m), "to be whole, intact". The verbal noun إسْلام (ʔislām) means literally "submission". In a religious sense, الْإِسْلَام (al-ʔislām) translates to "faith, piety", and مُسْلِم (muslim) to "one who has (religious) faith or piety". Pronunciation: /ˈmʊz.lɪm/, /ˈmʉz.lɪm/, /ˈmʌz.ləm/, /ˈmʊs.lɪm/, /ˈmʊs.ləm/ 1. An adherent of Islam. Example: It was gouerned by Macuac, which conditioned with Amrus that euery Egyptian should pay an Egyptian peece of Gold, and to entertaine three dayes euery Muslim which passed that way. Example: Muslims invented the concept of zero, which is a foundation for the numbering system used throughout the world. 2. A person who internalizes the Islamic cultural tradition, or way of thinking, as a frame of reference. Example: These secular Muslims, identified on the basis of cultural origin, are recognized neither by devout Muslims nor by average citizens or mainstream media in the West. Example: Of course, the ⟨five⟩ pillars of faith do not represent all rituals important to Muslims; and ways were developed in which they could subsume other rituals under the politically safe rubrics of nationalism or culture, which from the earliest times until the 1980s were not generally topics attacked by the government. From this practice the concepts of 'cultural Muslim', 'ethnic Muslim' and, less frequently, 'nationalist Muslim' evolved. 3. A member of a predominantly Muslim South Slavic ethnic group (usually a Bosniak), irrespective of actual religious beliefs (used historically in Yugoslavia but persisting to some degree in some former Yugoslav states). Labels: historical
Word: Muslim Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Borrowed around 1615 from Arabic مُسْلِم (muslim, “one who submits”), the active participle of أَسْلَمَ (ʔaslama, “he submitted”), verb form IV from the triliteral root س ل م (s l m), "to be whole, intact". The verbal noun إسْلام (ʔislām) means literally "submission". In a religious sense, الْإِسْلَام (al-ʔislām) translates to "faith, piety", and مُسْلِم (muslim) to "one who has (religious) faith or piety". Pronunciation: /ˈmʊz.lɪm/, /ˈmʉz.lɪm/, /ˈmʌz.ləm/, /ˈmʊs.lɪm/, /ˈmʊs.ləm/ 1. Being or relating to a believer of Islam. Example: The notion of blood purity was first elaborated in Europe, where it was used to separate Old Christians from Spain’s New Christians—women and men of Jewish and Muslim origin whose ancestors had converted to Christianity. Example: Kaplan-Miller said she first joined the Sisterhood of Salaam Shalom, an interfaith organization that was founded by a Muslim and a Jewish woman in suburban New Jersey, shortly after the 2016 election.
Word: Muslim Part of Speech: name Etymology: Borrowed around 1615 from Arabic مُسْلِم (muslim, “one who submits”), the active participle of أَسْلَمَ (ʔaslama, “he submitted”), verb form IV from the triliteral root س ل م (s l m), "to be whole, intact". The verbal noun إسْلام (ʔislām) means literally "submission". In a religious sense, الْإِسْلَام (al-ʔislām) translates to "faith, piety", and مُسْلِم (muslim) to "one who has (religious) faith or piety". Pronunciation: /ˈmʊz.lɪm/, /ˈmʉz.lɪm/, /ˈmʌz.ləm/, /ˈmʊs.lɪm/, /ˈmʊs.ləm/ 1. A barangay of Guindulungan, Maguindanao del Sur, Philippines.
Word: Islam Part of Speech: name Etymology: Etymology tree Arabic أَسْلَمَ (ʔaslama) Arabic إِسْلَام (ʔislām)bor. English Islam From Arabic إِسْلَام (ʔislām, “submission, surrender”), verbal noun of أَسْلَمَ (ʔaslama). First attested in 1610. Pronunciation: /ˈɪs.lɑːm/, /ˈɪz.lɑːm/, /ɪsˈlɑːm/, /ɪzˈlɑːm/ 1. A monotheistic Abrahamic religion followed by Muslims that is based on the teachings of Muhammad and the Qur'an. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: “When people see a woman covered, or she is in modest attire, that represents Islam to them,” Lbhalla says. “So as a result, we are receiving the brunt of the hostility. They take out their fears or their hate for Islam and Muslims out on us.” 2. A monotheistic Abrahamic religion followed by Muslims that is based on the teachings of Muhammad and the Qur'an. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: It is no doubt true that other civilizations, prior to, or wholly alien to, the medieval West, such as the Roman Empire, Byzantium, Islam, or China, were familiar with forms of higher education which a number of historians, for the sake of convenience, have sometimes described as universities. 3. A male given name. Labels: uncountable, usually 4. A surname. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: “When I’m dressed like this, they know,” says Lufta Islam, touching her hijab and long dress. ” ‘OK, she’s a Muslim girl.’ “
Word: chat room Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈtʃæt(ˌ)ɹum/ 1. Part of a website or other network where visitors can converse in typed messages. Labels: Internet Example: If he got flamed for his lies or his ignorance, he simply moved to another chat room. Example: Similarly, Fingilish usually refers to transliterated Farsi in chatrooms, text messages, and the like.
Word: copyright Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From copy + right. Pronunciation: /ˈkɑpiˌɹaɪt/, /ˈkɒpiˌɹaɪt/ 1. The right by law to be the entity which determines who may publish, copy and distribute a piece of writing, music, picture or other work of authorship. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: Copyright is a separate legal area from trademarks. Example: One of the important points that would have to be examined in such a discussion would be how far the growth of this class has been artificially stimulated by the law of copyright.¹ 2. Such an exclusive right as it pertains to one or more specific works. Labels: countable, usually Example: The artist lost the copyrights to her songs when she signed the contract. Example: The images are still copyright of the original artist. 3. A violation of copyright law; copyright infringement. Labels: informal, nonstandard, uncountable, usually Example: no copyright intended Example: Anyone accused of copyright would have sixty days to opt-out of the Copyright Claims Board process, in which case the plaintiff would have to seek legal action in court.
Word: copyright Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From copy + right. Pronunciation: /ˈkɑpiˌɹaɪt/, /ˈkɒpiˌɹaɪt/ 1. To obtain or secure a copyright for some literary or other artistic work. Labels: intransitive, transitive Example: Every book will be copyrighted that the publisher believes will have such a market as will justify him in going to the expense of copyrighting to prevent competition from other publishers. Example: Further, Mr. Mullins writes FOR YOU-THE-PEOPLE, copyrighting to protect listings and to make a statement—but willingly shares his work for, after all, if it is not read then of what worth is a book? 2. To flag for copyright violation, to copystrike. Labels: informal, nonstandard, transitive Example: I won’t play this track, I don’t wanna get copyrighted.
Word: SAU Part of Speech: noun 1. Initialism of school administrative unit. Labels: US, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Word: ⠁ Part of Speech: character 1. Renders the print letter a, including the independent word a. Labels: letter
Word: ⠁ Part of Speech: num 1. The digit 1
Word: cork Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English cork (“oak bark, cork”), from Middle Dutch curc (“cork (material or object)”), either from Spanish corcho (“cork (material or object)”) (also corcha or corche) or from Old Spanish alcorque (“cork sole”). Doublet of cortex. Pronunciation: /kɔɹk/, /kɔːk/ 1. The dead protective tissue between the bark and cambium in woody plants, with suberin deposits making it impervious to gasses and water. Labels: uncountable 2. The dead protective tissue between the bark and cambium in woody plants, with suberin deposits making it impervious to gasses and water. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: I confess my confidence was shaken by these actions, though I knew well enough that his leg was no more cork than my own Example: Because cork is porous, it expands and contracts with changes in humidity. 3. A bottle stopper made from this or any other material. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Snobs feel it's hard to call it wine with a straight face when the cork is made of plastic. 4. An angling float, also traditionally made of oak cork. Labels: countable, uncountable 5. The cork oak, Quercus suber. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: cork Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English cork (“oak bark, cork”), from Middle Dutch curc (“cork (material or object)”), either from Spanish corcho (“cork (material or object)”) (also corcha or corche) or from Old Spanish alcorque (“cork sole”). Doublet of cortex. Pronunciation: /kɔɹk/, /kɔːk/ 1. To seal or stop up, especially with a cork stopper. Labels: transitive Example: 2014, Paul Salopek, Blessed. Cursed. Claimed., National Geographic (December 2014)https://web.archive.org/web/20150212214621/http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2014/12/pilgrim-roads/salopek-text Arms draped on shoulders, kick-stepping in circles, they swing bottles of wine. Purpled thumbs cork the bottles. The wine leaps and jumps behind green glass. 2. To blacken (as) with a burnt cork. Labels: transitive 3. To leave the cork in a bottle after attempting to uncork it. 4. To fill with cork. 5. To fill with cork. Labels: transitive Example: He corked his bat, which was discovered when it broke, causing a controversy. Example: Apparently I used to have some good power even though I was little, but the team we were playing against thought I had corked the bat. I kid you not! They paid $200 to have the bat popped off to prove they were right. 6. To injure through a blow; to induce a haematoma. Labels: Australia, transitive Example: The vicious tackle corked his leg. Example: Injuries, which seemed to be of an inconsequential nature, were often sustained, such as a sprained ankle, a dislocated phalanx, a twisted foot, a corked leg and so on. 7. To position one's drift net just outside of another person's net, thereby intercepting and catching all the fish that would have gone into that person's net. Example: Kate remembered then, the family fish camp a mile or so up Amartuq Creek, the very creek across the mouth of which Yuri Andreev had tried to cork Joe Anahonak not half an hour before. Example: But its soon apparent that there are more boats than fish—at least for the moment. We all drift quietly, keeping an eye out for other boats and other nets. Corking another guy's net is a screaming—bastard offense. 8. To block (a street) illegally, to allow a protest or other activity to take place without traffic. Labels: transitive Example: […] corking the streets is a challenge to capitalist ideologies, like skateboarding in parking lots and walkways […]
Word: cork Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From the traversal path resembling that of a corkscrew. Pronunciation: /kɔɹk/, /kɔːk/ 1. An aerialist maneuver involving a rotation where the rider goes heels over head, with the board overhead.
Word: cork Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From the traversal path resembling that of a corkscrew. Pronunciation: /kɔɹk/, /kɔːk/ 1. To perform such a maneuver.
Word: cork Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From the traversal path resembling that of a corkscrew. Pronunciation: /kɔɹk/, /kɔːk/ 1. Having the property of a head over heels rotation. Labels: not-comparable
Word: facet Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁- Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁k- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *dʰh₁kyéti Proto-Italic *θakjō Proto-Italic *fakjō Latin faciō Proto-Italic *-jēs Latin -iēs Latin faciēs Late Latin facia Old French face Middle French face French face Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Italic *-tosder.? Late Latin -ittus Old French -et Middle French -et French -etder. French -ette French facettebor. English facet Borrowed from French facette. Pronunciation: /ˈfæs.ɪt/, /ˈfas.ɪt/, /ˈfɛs.ət/ 1. Any one of the flat surfaces cut into a gem. Example: This facet of the diamond was masterfully cut to enhance its value. 2. One among many similar or related, yet still distinct things. Labels: figuratively Example: The child's learning disability was only one facet of the problems contributing to his delinquency. 3. One of a series of things, such as steps in a project. Example: We had just about completed the research facet of the project when the order came to cancel it. 4. One member of a compound eye, as found in insects and crustaceans. 5. A smooth circumscribed surface. Example: the articular facet of a bone 6. Any of the small joints at each segment of the spine that provide stability and help guide motion 7. The narrow plane surface between flutings of a column; a fillet. 8. A face of codimension 1 of a polytope. 9. A criterion that can be used to sort and filter, such as the colour or size of products in an online store.
Word: facet Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁- Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁k- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *dʰh₁kyéti Proto-Italic *θakjō Proto-Italic *fakjō Latin faciō Proto-Italic *-jēs Latin -iēs Latin faciēs Late Latin facia Old French face Middle French face French face Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Italic *-tosder.? Late Latin -ittus Old French -et Middle French -et French -etder. French -ette French facettebor. English facet Borrowed from French facette. Pronunciation: /ˈfæs.ɪt/, /ˈfas.ɪt/, /ˈfɛs.ət/ 1. To cut a facet into a gemstone.
Word: eyelash Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From eye + lash. Pronunciation: /ˈaɪlæʃ/ 1. One of the hairs which grows along the edge of eyelids.
Word: eyelid Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English eyelidd, eye-led, eiȝelid, eghe-lydd, yȝe-lydd, ehlid, yhelidd, from an unrecorded Old English *ēaghlid (“eyelid”), from Proto-West Germanic *augahlid (“eyelid”), equivalent to eye + lid. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Oogenlid (“eyelid”), West Frisian eachlid (“eyelid”), Dutch ooglid (“eyelid”), German Low German Ooglidd (“eyelid”), German Augenlid (“eyelid”). Generally superseded non-native Middle English palpebre (“eyelid”), borrowed from Latin palpebra (“eyelid”) (see Modern English palpebra). Pronunciation: /ˈaɪ.lɪd/ 1. A thin skin membrane that covers and moves over an eye. Example: By his neeſings a light doth ſhine, and his eyes are like the eye-liddes of the morning. Example: […] the frightened or insane eyes of an animal, sometimes with eyelids closed in escapeful slumber.
Word: eyesore Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English eye sor, eie-sor, eyen soore, eæge-sare, equivalent to eye + sore. Pronunciation: /ˈaɪsɔː/, /ˈaɪsoɹ/ 1. An eye lesion. 2. A displeasing sight; something prominently ugly or unsightly. Example: The building, towering over its surroundings with its square concrete frame and reflective walls of gold-tinted glass, was an eyesore visible throughout the city. Example: Two entrants shared this award for their work on two quite different stations, but with the same purpose of bringing a redundant station building back into use for the benefit of the community, with the added result of conserving an historic building. Saltash Town Council bought Saltash station building after it had become very decrepit and 'an eyesore' - such that it was nearly pulled down to make way for housing.
Word: awake Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ud-s-? Proto-Indo-European *h₂u-s-? Proto-Germanic *uz- Proto-West Germanic *uʀ- Old English ar- Old English ā- Proto-Indo-European *weǵ-der. Proto-Germanic *wakaną Proto-West Germanic *wakan Old English wacan Old English āwacan Middle English awaken Middle English awake English awake From Middle English awake, a shortened form of awaken (“awakened, awake”), past participle of Middle English awaken (“to awaken”). See verb below. Compare Saterland Frisian woak (“awake”), German Low German waak (“awake”), German wach (“awake”). Pronunciation: /əˈweɪk/, /əˈweːk/, [əˈweːk], [əˈwɛːk] 1. Not asleep; conscious. Labels: not-comparable, predicative Example: By quarter to six all this had me so awake and agitated that even the Balinese wind chimes that I hung up in the garden to relax me began to sound like Big Ben. 2. Alert, aware. Labels: broadly, figuratively, not-comparable, predicative Example: They were awake to the possibility of a decline in sales. Example: The Baker was a two-handed hitter, and seemed perfectly awake to the business before him.
Word: awake Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ud-s-? Proto-Indo-European *h₂u-s-? Proto-Germanic *uz- Proto-West Germanic *uʀ- Old English ar- Old English ā- Proto-Indo-European *weǵ-der. Proto-Germanic *wakaną Proto-West Germanic *wakan Old English wacan Old English āwacan Middle English awaken English awake From Middle English awaken and awakien, from Old English āwacan and āwacian. By surface analysis, a- + wake. Pronunciation: /əˈweɪk/, /əˈweːk/, [əˈweːk], [əˈwɛːk] 1. To become conscious after having slept. Labels: intransitive, predicative Example: Awake! for Morning in the Bowl of Night, Has flung the Stone that puts the Stars to Flight: And Lo! the Hunter of the East has caught The Sultán's Turret in a Noose of light. 2. To cause (somebody) to stop sleeping. Labels: predicative, transitive Example: Thenne she called the heremyte syre Vlfyn I am a gentylwoman that wold speke with the knyght whiche is with yow / Thenne the good man awaked Galahad / & badde hym aryse and speke with a gentylwoman that semeth hath grete nede of yow / Thenne Galahad wente to her & asked her what she wold Example: [This ant] I ſuffered to lye above an hour in the Spirit; and after I had taken it out, and put its body and legs into a natural poſture, remained moveleſs about an hour; but then , upon a ſudden, as if it had been awaken out of a drunken ſleep, it ſuddenly reviv'd and ran away... 3. To make aware of something. Labels: predicative, transitive 4. To excite or to stir up something latent. Labels: predicative, transitive 5. To rouse from a state of inaction or dormancy. Labels: figuratively, predicative, transitive 6. To come out of a state of inaction or dormancy. Labels: figuratively, intransitive, predicative Example: 1867-1879, Edward Augustus Freeman, The History of the Norman Conquest of England The national spirit again awoke. Example: Awake to righteousness, and sin not. 7. Used in a phrasal verb: to awake to (“to become awake of something and its possibile effects or results.”). Labels: predicative Example: It took her some time to awake to the dangers of her situation. 8. Used in a phrasal verb: to awake to (“to be roused from one's sleep, due to a noise or other stimulus.”). Labels: predicative Example: this morning, I awoke to the sound of my neighbor's barking dog.
Word: advocate Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English advocat, advoket, from Old French advocat, from Latin advocātus (“an advocate”), from the substantivization of the perfect passive participle of advocāre (“to call for”) (see -ate (noun-forming suffix)), from a calque of Ancient Greek παράκλητος (paráklētos) (whence English paraclete). Doublet of advoke, avocat, avouch, and avow. The verb derives from the noun on the basis of -ate (verb-forming suffix). Pronunciation: /ˈæd.və.kət/ 1. Someone whose job is to speak for someone's case in a court of law; a counsel. 2. Anyone who argues the case of another; an intercessor. Example: I neuer did incense his Maiestie / Against the Duke of Clarence, but haue bin / An earnest aduocate to plead for him. 3. A person who speaks in support of something, or someone; proponent Example: "I think," replied the young advocate, unwilling to give up a point in which his feelings were interested, "that even you would believe in Walter Maynard's success in life, if you knew him. What has brought the world to its present state, but individual talent?" Example: He became a tireless advocate for the needs of adults with IMD throughout Britain and internationally. 4. A person who supports others to make their voices heard, or ideally for them to speak up for themselves. Example: Since she started working with her advocate, she has become much more confident.
Word: advocate Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English advocat, advoket, from Old French advocat, from Latin advocātus (“an advocate”), from the substantivization of the perfect passive participle of advocāre (“to call for”) (see -ate (noun-forming suffix)), from a calque of Ancient Greek παράκλητος (paráklētos) (whence English paraclete). Doublet of advoke, avocat, avouch, and avow. The verb derives from the noun on the basis of -ate (verb-forming suffix). Pronunciation: /ˈæd.və.kət/, /ˈæd.və.keɪt/, /əɖvɵˈkeʈ/ 1. To plead in favour of; to defend by argument, before a tribunal or the public; to support, vindicate, or recommend publicly. Labels: transitive Example: 7 March, 1624, Robert Sanderson, sermon at the Assizes, at Lincoln To advocate the cause of thy client. Example: 16 June, 1784, Edmund Burke, speech on reform of representation in the House of Commons This is the only thing distinct and sensible, that has been advocated. 2. To encourage support for something. Labels: transitive Example: I like trees, but I do not advocate living in them. Example: Those who have advocated the closure of the G.C. have so far failed to say by which alternative route this North-to-West traffic could be carried. 3. To engage in advocacy. Labels: intransitive Example: We have been advocating for changes in immigration law. Example: And why has no one in the [rail] industry advocated for a universal requirement for face covering (even if it's just a scarf or old tea towel), [...]. 4. To appeal from an inferior court to the Court of Session. 5. To call a case before itself for decision.
Word: awoke Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /əˈwəʊk/ 1. simple past of awake Labels: form-of, past 2. past participle of awake Labels: form-of, participle, past, rare
Word: were Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂wes-der. Proto-Germanic *wēzīn Proto-West Germanic *wāʀīn Old English wǣre Middle English were English were Inherited from Middle English were, weren, from Old English wǣre, wǣron, wǣren, from Proto-West Germanic *wāʀun, *wāʀīn, from Proto-Germanic *wēzun, *wēzīn, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂wes-. More at was. Pronunciation: /wə(ɹ)/, /wɜː/, /wɛː/, /wɜː(ɹ)/, /weː/ 1. second-person singular simple past indicative of be Labels: form-of, indicative, past, second-person, singular Example: John, you were the only person to see him. 2. plural simple past indicative of be Labels: form-of, indicative, past, plural Example: We were about to leave. Example: Mary and John, you were right. 3. simple subjunctive of be Example: I wish that it were Sunday. Example: I wish that I were with you. 4. first/third-person singular simple past indicative of be. Labels: Ireland, Multicultural-London-English, Northern-England, first-person, form-of, indicative, past, singular, third-person
Word: were Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Inherited from Middle English were, wer, see wer. 1. Alternative form of wer (“man; wergeld”). Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: 1799-1805, Sharon Turner, History of the Anglo-Saxons Every man was valued at a certain sum, which was called his were. Example: If by that he failed to pay or give security for the were, or fine, at which murder was legally rated; he might be put to death by the relatives of the murdered man.
Word: were Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Back-formation from werewolf and other terms in were-, from the same source as English wer, were (“man”) (above). 1. The collective name for any kind of person that changes into another form under certain conditions, including the werewolf. Labels: slang
Word: bore Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *bʰerH-der. Proto-Germanic *burōną Proto-West Germanic *borōn Old English borian Middle English boren English bore From Middle English boren, from Old English borian (“to pierce”), from Proto-West Germanic *borōn, from Proto-Germanic *burōną. Compare Danish bore, Norwegian Bokmål bore, Dutch boren, German bohren, Old Norse bora. Cognate with Latin forō (“to bore, to pierce”), Latin feriō (“strike, cut”) and Albanian birë (“hole”). Sense of wearying may come from a figurative use such as "to bore the ears"; compare German drillen. Pronunciation: /bɔː(ɹ)/, /boɹ/, /bo(ː)ɹ/, /boə/ 1. To inspire boredom in somebody. Labels: transitive Example: to bore someone to death Example: Reading books really bores me; films are much more exciting. 2. To make a hole through something. Labels: transitive Example: I'll believe as soon this whole earth may be bored. Example: On June 8, 1872, the London & North Western Railway obtained powers to quadruple its main line, and a new tunnel was bored for the up and down slow lines. 3. To make a hole with, or as if with, a boring instrument; to cut a circular hole by the rotary motion of a tool. Labels: intransitive Example: to bore for water or oil Example: An insect bores into a tree. 4. To form or enlarge (something) by means of a boring instrument or apparatus. Labels: transitive Example: to bore a steam cylinder or a gun barrel; to bore a hole Example: short but very powerful jaws, by means whereof the insect can bore […] a cylindrical passage through the most solid wood 5. To make (a passage) by laborious effort, as in boring; to force a narrow and difficult passage through. Labels: transitive Example: to bore one’s way through a crowd Example: What bustling crowds I bored. 6. To be pierced or penetrated by an instrument that cuts as it turns. Labels: intransitive Example: This timber does not bore well. 7. To glare (as if to drill a hole with the eyes). Labels: intransitive Example: Their eyes bore into my back. 8. To push or drive (a boxer into the ropes, a boat out of its course, etc.). Labels: slang, transitive Example: The right hand of Curtis was open too much ; but he nevertheless had the best of the hitting in this round, till Inglis bored him down, out of the ropes. Example: Hanlan, it seems, led at about a mile, when Beach's steamer bored him, and to avoid the danger of being swamped, he put on a violent spurt and drew well clear of Beach, getting some lengths lead. 9. To push forward in a certain direction with laborious effort. Labels: intransitive Example: They take their flight […] boring to the west. 10. To fool; to trick. Labels: obsolete