nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: kata Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From Ancient Greek κατά (katá, “downwards”). Compare cata-. Pronunciation: /ˈkætə/ 1. In a direction analogous to down, but along the additional axis added by the fourth dimension. Example: Your right half would move ana, let us say, and your left half would move kata. The two halves would, in their parallel spaces, move past the plane of rotation, and then they would swing back into our space. Example: Added to the conventional FPS control keys are two extra keys that move the player in ana and kata direction in 4d space. If you go in this extra direction the space around you changes, the room transforms.
Word: kata Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈkætə/ 1. Alternative form of gata (“type of Armenian pastry”). Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: order Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂er-der. Proto-Italic *ordōder. Latin ōrdinem Old French ordneder. Middle English ordre English order From Middle English ordre, from Old French ordre, ordne, ordene (“order, rank”), from Latin ōrdinem, accusative of ōrdō (“row, rank, regular arrangement”, literally “row of threads in a loom”), from Proto-Italic *ordō (“to arrange”), probably ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂or-d-, from *h₂er-. Related to Latin ōrdior (“begin”, literally “begin to weave”). In sense “request for purchase”, compare bespoke. Doublet of ordo. Compare typologically Russian поря́док (porjádok) (akin to ряд (rjad)). Pronunciation: /ˈɔː.də/, /ˈoɹ.dɚ/, [ˈoɹ.ɾɚ], /ˈoː.də/, [ˈoː.ɾə] 1. To set in some sort of order. Labels: transitive Example: We need to order them alphabetically. 2. To arrange, set in proper order. Labels: transitive Example: The books in the shelf need ordering. 3. To issue a command to; to charge. Labels: transitive Example: to order troops to advance Example: He ordered me to leave. 4. To request some product or service; to secure by placing an order. Labels: transitive Example: You can now order most products to be delivered to your home. Example: to order groceries 5. To admit to holy orders; to ordain; to receive into the ranks of the ministry. Example: persons presented to be ordered deacons
Word: untrustworthy Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Germanic *un- Proto-West Germanic *un- Old English un- Middle English un- English un- English trustworthy English untrustworthy From un- + trustworthy. Pronunciation: /ˌʌnˈtɹʌstˌwɜː(ɹ)ði/ 1. Not deserving of trust; unreliable. Example: While a corrupt Chuch and untrustworthy nobles and kings scraped for power, businessmen in Italy honored pledges of businessmen from England and Scandinavia. This trust (some have called it honor among thieves) is still a hallmark of modern brokerage.
Word: hangdog Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From hang + dog. 1. A base, degraded person.
Word: hangdog Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From hang + dog. 1. Low; sneaking; ashamed. Labels: not-comparable Example: The poor colonel went out of the room with a hangdog look. Example: Asper Argo, the Well-Beloved, Commdor of the Korellian Republic greeted his wife’s entry by a hangdog lowering of his scanty eyebrows. To her at least, his self-adopted epithet did not apply. Even he knew that.
Word: hangdog Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From hang + dog. 1. To move or loiter in a sneaking or ashamed manner. Example: With a twenty-one to three victory, Pinewood high-stepped it off the field while our Falcons hangdogged their way to the locker room. Example: Just a few stragglers left hangdogging around, latchkey types with no place to be, cutting up in the dim and bleachered gym perimeter.
Word: hang-by Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From hang + by. 1. A dependent; a hanger-on. Labels: derogatory, obsolete Example: ; I am not afraid of you nor them neither, your hang-by's here. You must have your poets, and your potlings; your solados and foolados; to follow you up and down the city
Word: hangbird Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From hang + bird. 1. A Baltimore oriole (Icterus galbula), whose nest is suspended from the limb of a tree.
Word: hanger Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Inherited from Middle English hanger, haunger, hangere, equivalent to hang + -er. Cognate with West Frisian hinger (“hanger”), Dutch hanger (“hanger”), German Hänger (“hanger”), Henker (“hangman”), Danish hænger (“hanger”), Norwegian henger (“hanger”), Swedish hängare (“hanger”). Pronunciation: /ˈhæŋ.ə/, [ˈhæŋ.ə], /ˈhɛŋ.ɘ/, [ˈhɛŋ.ɘ], /ˈhæŋ.ɚ/ 1. One who hangs, or causes to be hanged; a hangman, paper hanger, etc. 2. A person who attempts suicide by hanging. Example: With the jumpers and the drowners, McGee, you don't pick up a pattern. That's because a jumper damned near always makes it the first time, and a drowner is usually almost as successful, about the same rate as hangers. 3. That by which a thing is suspended. 4. That by which a thing is suspended. 5. That by which a thing is suspended. 6. That by which a thing is suspended. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis 7. A short and broad backsword, worn so to hang at the side, especially popular in the 18th century. Labels: historical Example: [H]is shoulder was graced with a broad buff belt, from whence depended a huge hanger with a hilt like that of a backsword […]. Example: I made an offer to go for my books and chest of clothes, but he swore I should not move out of his sight; and if I did he would cut my throat, at the same time taking his hanger. 8. A steep, wooded slope. Labels: UK Example: About the tenth of July in the same Summer a pair of sparrow-hawks bred in an old crow's nest on a low beech in the same hanger; and as their brood, which was numerous, began to grow up, became so daring and ravenous, that they were a terror to all the dames in the village that had chickens or ducklings under their care. Example: 'Twould blow like this through holt and hanger 9. A hanging pitch; a pitch (typically a breaking ball or slider) that is poorly executed, hence easy to hit. Labels: slang 10. Synonym of spectacular mark. Labels: informal 11. A device secured by a bolt and used to attach a carabiner. Example: Climbers use anchors or bolts that are already placed in the rock. They clip onto them with metal hangers. Climbers don't need to place the anchors themselves, so they can focus on making the difficult climbing moves. Example: In marine areas (sea cliffs), even stainless steel bolts and hangers corrode rapidly.
Word: hanger Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Blend of hunger + anger. Pronunciation: /ˈhæŋ.ɡəː/, [ˈhæŋ.ɡəː], /ˈhɛŋ.ɡɘː/, [ˈhɛŋ.ɡɘː], /ˈhæŋ.ɡɚ/ 1. Hunger and anger, especially when the anger is induced by the hunger. Labels: slang, uncountable Example: The physiology of hanger. The carbohydrates, proteins and fats in everything you eat are digested into simple sugars (such as glucose), amino acids and free fatty acids. These nutrients pass into your bloodstream from where they are distributed to your organs and tissues and used for energy […]
Word: hanger-on Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Agent noun of hang on. 1. Someone who hangs on, or sticks to, a person, place, or service. Example: Her love was sought, I do aver, / By twenty beaux and more; / The king himself has follow'd her / When she has walk'd before. / But now her wealth and finery fled, / Her hangers-on cut short all […] Example: Not that he was what is commonly called a Screw; that is to say he was not a mere screw; but he was acute and malicious; saw everybody's worth and position at a glance; could not bear to expend his choice wines and costly viands on hangers-on and toadeaters, though at the same time no man encouraged and required hangers-on and toadeaters more. 2. An onsetter. Labels: historical
Word: oh boy Part of Speech: intj 1. An expression of delight or joy. Labels: colloquial Example: Oh, boy! I can't wait to tell my friends about this! 2. An expression of dismay, resignation, frustration, or annoyance (sarcastic). Labels: colloquial Example: Oh, boy. This is going to be a lot of work. Example: Oh, boy. Now what do I do?
Word: NES Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ɛn iː ɛs/ 1. Initialism of night eating syndrome. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable 2. Initialism of native English speaker. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable 3. Initialism of Nintendo Entertainment System. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable Example: The strategy that has dominated recently for the last couple of years is to tap the d-pad as fast as humanly possible with one finger, known as hypertapping in the gaming community. In NES Tetris, this skill is crucial, since the speed increases when moving up levels, culminating in level 29, where the pieces usually drop to the bottom of the board in less than ⅓ of a second. However, hypertapping has several limitations. Example: The internal NES clock must accurately measure down to milliseconds for its games to work properly.
Word: NES Part of Speech: name Pronunciation: /ɛn iː ɛs/ 1. Initialism of News Election Service. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism 2. Initialism of National Election Studies. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism 3. Initialism of Nortel Energy Saver. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism 4. Initialism of National Employment Service of Canada). Labels: Canada, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism 5. Abbreviation of Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of
Word: ouch Part of Speech: intj Etymology: Uncertain. Some sources say the interjection is attested since 1838 (and specifically in American English) and derives ultimately from German autsch, perhaps specifically via Pennsylvania German outch (“cry of pain”), as early attestations of the interjection are from Pennsylvania. However, others say the interjection is a "mere" or "natural" exclamation attested since the mid 1600s, and the 1933 OED cites one instance of a verb "ouch" in 1654, "Sancho Pancas Runs Ouching round the mountaine like a ranck-Asse". Pronunciation: /ˈaʊt͡ʃ/ 1. An expression of one's own physical pain. Example: Ouch! You stepped on my toe! That hurt! 2. An expression in sympathy at another's pain. Example: Ouch! Her sunburn looks awful. 3. A reply to an insult seen as savage (frequently one that is tongue-in-cheek or joking). Example: Ouch. How could you say that? 4. An expression of disappointment. Example: Ouch, I really wanted to do that. 5. Expressing surprise at the high price of something. Labels: slang Example: Ouch, one hundred thousand dollars for a car! I could never afford that!
Word: ouch Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Uncertain. Some sources say the interjection is attested since 1838 (and specifically in American English) and derives ultimately from German autsch, perhaps specifically via Pennsylvania German outch (“cry of pain”), as early attestations of the interjection are from Pennsylvania. However, others say the interjection is a "mere" or "natural" exclamation attested since the mid 1600s, and the 1933 OED cites one instance of a verb "ouch" in 1654, "Sancho Pancas Runs Ouching round the mountaine like a ranck-Asse". Pronunciation: /ˈaʊt͡ʃ/ 1. Something that causes discomfort or pain. Labels: informal Example: RhuliGel soothes the itches and ouches of summer.
Word: ouch Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Uncertain. Some sources say the interjection is attested since 1838 (and specifically in American English) and derives ultimately from German autsch, perhaps specifically via Pennsylvania German outch (“cry of pain”), as early attestations of the interjection are from Pennsylvania. However, others say the interjection is a "mere" or "natural" exclamation attested since the mid 1600s, and the 1933 OED cites one instance of a verb "ouch" in 1654, "Sancho Pancas Runs Ouching round the mountaine like a ranck-Asse". Pronunciation: /ˈaʊt͡ʃ/ 1. To exclaim "ouch!" in discomfort or pain. Labels: intransitive Example: Imperturbability your skill, not mine / I ouch out loud and clear / Your forgiveness, like Pope's divine / I'm just an angry queer
Word: ouch Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Variant forms. 1. Alternative form of ouche. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: put out feelers Part of Speech: verb Etymology: An allusion to animals which use their feelers to gain awareness of their surroundings. 1. To explore or watch for; to ask around; to investigate. Labels: idiomatic Example: I will put out feelers and see what I can find out about that.
Word: feeler Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English feler, feeler, felar, equivalent to feel + -er. Animal organ definition from 1660s. Transferred sense of "proposal put forth to observe the reaction it gets" is from 1830. Pronunciation: /ˈfiːlə/, /ˈfiːləɹ/ 1. Someone or something that feels. Labels: literally Example: Are you more of a feeler or more of a thinker? 2. An antenna or appendage used for feeling, especially on an insect. 3. Something ventured to test another's feelings, opinion, or position. Labels: figuratively Example: I sent out some feelers but they didn't seem interested. Example: This survey is designed to get a feeler about how the citizens feel about the proposed new highway. 4. a presumptive person; someone who bases on gut feeling, such as assuming or imagining that something said or done, whether positive or negative, was for a person despite having no concrete confirmation but gut feeling, or someone who assumes one's affection is reciprocated, or indulges in one's own wishful thinking or flatters oneself Labels: Philippines, figuratively Example: All I can say to you is be cool, stick together and do your best to keep your 'affairs' away from the administration's "feelers" because there's no justice in the justice business.
Word: hyperlink Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From hyper- + link, or a blend of hypertext + link. Pronunciation: /ˈhaɪpə(ɹ)ˌlɪŋk/ 1. Some text or a graphic in an electronic document that can be activated to display another document or trigger an action. Labels: Internet Example: Click the hyperlink to go to the next page. 2. The URL or other address that defines a hyperlink's target or function. Labels: broadly Example: Copy the hyperlink and paste it into an email.
Word: hyperlink Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From hyper- + link, or a blend of hypertext + link. Pronunciation: /ˈhaɪpə(ɹ)ˌlɪŋk/ 1. To point to another document by a hyperlink. Example: Their Web page hyperlinks to your Web site. 2. To add a hyperlink to a document. Example: One valuable thing a blogger often does is hyperlink to magazine and newspaper stories or other interesting blogs, she says. 3. To use a hyperlink to jump to a document. Example: Indeed, what consumers will see on a Web site is likely to vary depending on the point or Web page at which they access the Web site, how many pages they “hyperlink” through when reviewing the site, and how much of the page containing the disclosure is displayed by consumers' Web browsers without requiring additional scrolling.
Word: put away Part of Speech: verb 1. To put (something) in its usual storage place; to place out of the way, clean up. Labels: transitive Example: Please put away the tools when you are finished. Example: I put the clothes away so as to neaten the room. 2. To store, add to one's stores for later use. Labels: transitive Example: putting a little away for a rainy day Example: Preparing for the worst, they put away food for the winter. 3. To consume (food or drink), especially in large quantities. Labels: colloquial, transitive Example: You wouldn't think such a small person could put away so much food. Example: "Beautiful!" gasped the curate, gazing at Limpet with watering eyes; and Limpet, who seemed to find the curate's definition perfectly correct, put away the rest of his beer with professional skill, and waited for the curate to finish - a business which the curate, driven to desperation, accomplished in three frantic gulps that bereft him wholly of breath, and caused his eyes to water more than ever. 4. To send (someone) to prison or mental asylum. Labels: transitive Example: After he was convicted, they put him away for 10 years. 5. To kill someone. Labels: transitive Example: It's Decoration Day. And I knew the Hill Boys would put us away, but my Daddy wasn't afraid. He said "We'll fight till the last Lawson's last living day" 6. To knock out an opponent. Labels: broadly, transitive Example: He put away his opponent in the first round. 7. To discard, divest oneself of. Labels: formal, literary, transitive Example: When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things. 8. To fend off, deflect; to dismiss. Labels: obsolete, transitive Example: Also he told kynge Arthur that he shold mysse hym / yet had ye leuer than al your landes to haue me ageyne / A sayd the kynge / syn ye knowe of your aduenture puruey for hit / and put awey by your craftes that mysauenture / Nay said Merlyn it wylle not be / soo he departed from the kynge. 9. To divorce. Labels: archaic, transitive Example: And the pharyſes cam and axed hym a queſtion: whether it were laufull foꝛ a mã to putt awaye hys wyfe. 10. To take a large lead in a game, especially enough to guarantee victory or make the game no longer competitive. Example: They put the game away by scoring three touchdowns in the fourth quarter. 11. To strike out a batter. 12. To catch a fly ball or tag out a baserunner. 13. To hit the ball in such a way that the opponent cannot reach it; see passing shot.
Word: put one over Part of Speech: verb 1. To succeed in a deception. Labels: idiomatic 2. To fool, trick, or deceive. Labels: idiomatic, with-on Example: "[Y]ou surely aren't thinking you can put one over on me in this business? Tell me, you don't take me for that sort of ivory-skulled boob?" Example: He is the bad-boy-made-good, and in Brazil, particularly in Rio de Janeiro, everyone loves someone who can put one over on authority.
Word: put forth Part of Speech: verb 1. To give or supply; to make or create (implies trying or striving). Labels: transitive Example: to put forth an effort Example: Now, Marcus, now, thy Virtue’s on the Proof: / Put forth thy utmost Strength, work ev’ry Nerve, / And call up all thy Father in thy Soul: 2. To extend forward (a body part or something held). Labels: transitive Example: Put forth thy hand, reach at the glorious gold. Example: […] he put forth the end of the rod that was in his hand, and dipped it in an honeycomb […] 3. To advance, offer, propose (often verbally). Labels: transitive Example: They put forth queſtions of Aſtrologie, / VVhich Fauſtus anſwerd with ſuch learned ſkill, / As they admirde and wondred at his wit. Example: Another parable put he forth unto them, saying, The kingdom of heaven is likened unto a man which sowed good seed in his field: 4. To send (someone) out, remove (someone) from a place. Labels: obsolete, transitive Example: […] they begot no children vntill they were put forth of Paradise […] Example: Then stood there up one in the council, a Pharisee, named Gamaliel, a doctor of the law, had in reputation among all the people, and commanded to put the apostles forth a little space; 5. To emit, send out, give off (light, odour, etc.). Labels: transitive Example: For inward light alas / Puts forth no visual beam. Example: […] now the Moon beginning to put forth her Silver Light, as the Poets call it (tho’ she looked at that Time more like a Piece of Copper) Jones called for his Reckoning […] 6. To grow, shoot, bud, or germinate. Labels: intransitive, transitive Example: […] her hedges even-pleach’d, / Like prisoners wildly overgrown with hair, / Put forth disorder’d twigs; Example: […] [t]ake from vnder Walls, or the like, where Nettles put forth in abundance, the Earth which you shall there finde […] 7. (of a ship) To leave (a port or haven). Labels: intransitive, transitive Example: […] order for sea is given; / They have put forth the haven [—] / Where their appointment we may best discover, / And look on their endeavour. Example: And where but from Nantucket, too, did that first adventurous little sloop put forth, partly laden with imported cobblestones—so goes the story—to throw at the whales, in order to discover when they were nigh enough to risk a harpoon from the bowsprit?
Word: put to Part of Speech: verb 1. To ask or pose a question, or make a proposal or suggestion. Example: I'll put it to the committee and see what they say.
Word: defenestrate Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Latin dē Etruscan *𐌚𐌍𐌄𐌔𐌕𐌓𐌀 (*fnestra)bor.? Latin fenestra Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *-Hō Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō Proto-Italic *-tiō Latin -tiō Latin -ātiō New Latin dēfenestrātiōder. English defenestrationbf. English defenestrate First attested in 1904; back-formation from defenestration on the basis of -ate (verb-forming suffix), from New Latin dē- (“out”) + fenestra (“window”) + -ātiō (“-ation”). Pronunciation: /dɪˈfɛnɪstɹeɪt/, /dəˈfɛnɪstɹeɪt/ 1. To eject or throw (someone or something) from or through a window. Labels: transitive Example: I defenestrated a clock to see if time flies! 2. To throw out; to remove or dismiss (someone) from a position of power or authority. Labels: transitive Example: The cultural historians of science 'feel the need to defenestrate science, or at least take it off its pedestal' (Pumfrey. Rossi & Slawinski 1991. p. 3). Example: Ever since he helped to defenestrate Richard Nixon in 1974, Mr Woodward has been a sort of super-reporter ... 3. To remove a Windows operating system from (a computer). Labels: humorous, slang, transitive Example: This posting was written on a Windows 95 PC, Defenestrate it immediately. Install Linux. :-) Example: ◦ Enable one-click uninstalls of unwanted OS and application features with a Defenestrate icon.
Word: grandiloquent Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle French grandiloquent, from Latin grandiloquus, from grandis (“great, full”) + loquēns, present participle of loquor (“to speak”). Compare eloquent. Pronunciation: /ɡɹænˈdɪl.ə.kwənt/ 1. Given to using language in a showy way by using an excessive number of difficult words to impress others; bombastic; turgid. Example: The American people believe that they have a free country, and we are treated to grandiloquent speeches about our flag and our reputation for freedom and enlightenment.
Word: infundibulated Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From infundibulum (“a funnel-shaped cavity or organ”), from Latin infundibulum (“funnel”), from īnfundō (“pour in or upon”). 1. funnel-shaped
Word: omphaloskepsis Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Ancient Greek ὀμφαλός (omphalós, “navel”) + σκέψις (sképsis, “perception, reflection”). Pronunciation: /ˌɒmfələˈskɛpsɪs/ 1. The contemplation of or meditation upon one's navel; navel-gazing. Labels: uncountable 2. Ratiocination to the point of self-absorption. Labels: figuratively, uncountable Example: Act we must; for we cannot sit rapt in educational omphaloscepsis while youngsters grow up and become the fathers and mothers of the next generation. Example: 1952, William Harold Ingrams, Hong Kong, H. M. Stationery Off., page 22, … like the Muslims who saw Mecca as the world's navel, the British saw London as the world's capital. Omphaloscepsis has always been one of the world's troubles.
Word: magic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *megʰ-der. Proto-Indo-European *megʰ-ú-s Proto-Indo-Iranian *magʰúš Proto-Iranian *magúš Old Persian 𐎶𐎦𐏁 (m-gu-š /⁠maguš⁠/)bor. Ancient Greek μάγος (mágos) Proto-Indo-European *-kos Proto-Hellenic *-kos Ancient Greek -κός (-kós) Ancient Greek -ικός (-ikós) Ancient Greek μαγικός (magikós)bor. Latin magicus Old French magiquebor. Middle English magik English magic From Middle English magik, magyk, from Old French magique (noun and adjective), from Latin magicus (adjective), magica (noun use of feminine form of magicus), from Ancient Greek μαγικός (magikós, “magical”), from μάγος (mágos, “magus”). Ultimately from Old Iranian, probably derived from Proto-Indo-European *meh₂gʰ- (“to be able to, to help; power, sorcerer”). Displaced Old English ġealdor (whence Middle English galder) and dwimmer. Pronunciation: /ˈmad͡ʒɪk/, /ˈmæd͡ʒɪk/ 1. Having supernatural talents, properties or qualities attributed to magic. Labels: not-comparable Example: a magic wand Example: a magic dragon 2. Producing extraordinary results, as though through the use of magic. Labels: not-comparable Example: a magic moment 3. Pertaining to conjuring tricks or illusions performed for entertainment etc. Labels: not-comparable Example: a magic show Example: a magic trick 4. Great; excellent. Labels: colloquial, not-comparable Example: I cleaned up the flat while you were out. —Really? Magic! 5. Describing the number of nucleons in a particularly stable isotopic nucleus; 2, 8, 20, 28, 50, 82, 126, and 184. Labels: not-comparable 6. Being a literal number or string value with no meaning or context, not defined as a constant or variable Labels: not-comparable Example: The code is full of magic numbers and we can't figure out what they mean.
Word: magic Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *megʰ-der. Proto-Indo-European *megʰ-ú-s Proto-Indo-Iranian *magʰúš Proto-Iranian *magúš Old Persian 𐎶𐎦𐏁 (m-gu-š /⁠maguš⁠/)bor. Ancient Greek μάγος (mágos) Proto-Indo-European *-kos Proto-Hellenic *-kos Ancient Greek -κός (-kós) Ancient Greek -ικός (-ikós) Ancient Greek μαγικός (magikós)bor. Latin magicus Old French magiquebor. Middle English magik English magic From Middle English magik, magyk, from Old French magique (noun and adjective), from Latin magicus (adjective), magica (noun use of feminine form of magicus), from Ancient Greek μαγικός (magikós, “magical”), from μάγος (mágos, “magus”). Ultimately from Old Iranian, probably derived from Proto-Indo-European *meh₂gʰ- (“to be able to, to help; power, sorcerer”). Displaced Old English ġealdor (whence Middle English galder) and dwimmer. Pronunciation: /ˈmad͡ʒɪk/, /ˈmæd͡ʒɪk/ 1. To produce, transform (something), (as if) by magic. Labels: transitive Example: He pictured them standing about the dim hallway, magicked into immobility, glazed and mute, one with a hand raised, another bending to set down a bag, and Licht before them, nodding and twitching like a marionette, as usual. Example: The Western professionals magic so much money offshore that it is impossible to put a reliable figure on it.
Word: know-it-all Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English know English it Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.? Proto-Indo-European *h₂elnós Proto-Germanic *allaz Proto-West Germanic *all Old English eall Middle English all English all English know-it-all From know + it + all. Pronunciation: /ˈnəʉ.ɪt.oːl/ 1. Someone who claims to be knowledgeable or an expert in something, obnoxiously dismissing the opinions, advice, suggestions, etc. of others. Labels: US, derogatory Example: We had it all figured out, but this know-it-all marched in with "the correct way of solving it", leaving our experiment in shambles. Example: The same holds true for supporting details—they help you to learn more about a topic. Be a know it all by sharing these details and supporting details with friends.
Word: splash Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Probably an alteration of plash (compare spatter, spill for the initial s-). Pronunciation: /splæʃ/ 1. The sound made by an object hitting a liquid. Labels: onomatopoeic Example: I heard a splash when the rock landed in the pond. 2. A small amount of liquid. Example: I felt a splash of rain, so I put up my hood. Example: I felt a splash of water on my leg as the car drove into the nearby puddle. 3. A small amount (of color). Example: The painter put a splash of blue on the wall to make it more colorful 4. A mark or stain made from a small amount of liquid. Example: There was a visible splash on his pants after he went to the bathroom. 5. An impact or impression. Example: The new movie made quite a splash upon its release. 6. A splash screen. Labels: informal Example: When the splash appears with Please wait, wait for Windows to start configuration. 7. A body press; a move where the wrestler jumps forward from a raised platform such as the top turnbuckle, landing stomach first across an opponent lying on the ground below. 8. A cosmetic powder to whiten the complexion. Labels: dated 9. A large, prominent headline or article. Example: So for a local newspaper, a splash on a fatal crash is just the first of a series of reports. Example: After the brouhaha and the newspaper headline splashes, each of these contentious items would simply die its own quiet death to be replaced by a newer scandal: […] 10. A splash page. 11. The shooting down of an aircraft over water. Labels: slang Example: Hits were observed, but again the poor functioning of VT ammunition hindered in effecting a splash. 12. The bleeding caused by a knife wound. Labels: Multicultural-London-English, slang Example: Jojo caught up and gave him a splash Slap that wap, get rid of them plats 13. A knife. Labels: Multicultural-London-English, slang Example: You grip your splash for fashion—me and you, we ain’t got the same intentions.
Word: splash Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Probably an alteration of plash (compare spatter, spill for the initial s-). Pronunciation: /splæʃ/ 1. To hit or agitate liquid so that part of it separates from the principal liquid mass. Labels: intransitive Example: sit and splash in the bathtub Example: I know the reason I feel so blessed / My heart still splashes inside my chest 2. (of a liquid) To disperse suddenly as a result of an impulse; to splatter. Labels: intransitive Example: Water splashed everywhere. 3. To hit or agitate (liquid) so that part of it separates from the principal liquid mass. Labels: transitive Example: She splashed water onto her face. Example: I accidentally splashed some coffee on my keyboard. 4. To hit or expel liquid at. Labels: transitive Example: The children were splashing each other playfully in the sea. Example: When she comes in the door, splash her with perfume. 5. To create an impact or impression; to print, post, or publicize prominently. Labels: transitive Example: The headline was splashed across newspapers everywhere. Example: The March 5, 1978 issue of National Reader […] contained an exciting front page headline -- "Most Major Hollywood Stars Are Gay or Bisexual!!!!" Splashed on the cover are photos of Rock Hudson, Shaun and David Cassidy, […] and, last but not least, Lily Tomlin. 6. To spend (money). Labels: transitive Example: After pay day I can afford to splash some cash and buy myself a motorbike. 7. To roughly fill with color. Labels: figuratively Example: This was pure theatre, with a 60,000 crowd at Wembley adding colour to the fight to face either England or Denmark in Sunday's final, the stadium splashed with the red of Spain at one end and the victorious blue of Italy at the other as crowds flocked back in ever bigger numbers after pandemic restrictions were lifted. 8. To launch a ship. Labels: transitive Example: In the two years following Midway, Japanese shipyards managed to splash only six additional fleet carriers. The United States in the same period added seventeen, along with ten medium carriers and eighty-six escort carriers. 9. To shoot down (an aircraft) over water. Labels: slang Example: Planes were sighted at about 5000 yards, fire was opened at 4500 yards; the first plane was splashed about 1800 yards from the ship, the second was splashed about 3000 yards from the ship and rudder shifted to hard right. 10. To stab (a person), causing them to bleed. Labels: Multicultural-London-English, transitive Example: Grab him, don't panic, rambo under my jacket Nap him, splash him, then I'm petrol bath my jacket
Word: put to rest Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From put + to + rest. 1. To settle or finish, especially a question or discussion. Example: Let's try to put this question to rest once and for all.
Word: ABC Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English abece, ABC, from the first three letters of the Latin alphabet, standing for the whole alphabet. Pronunciation: /eɪ biː ˈsiː/ 1. The English alphabet. Labels: US, countable, plural, uncountable, usually Example: Do you know your ABC? (US: Do you know your ABCs?) 2. A type of poem in which the lines start with the letters of the alphabet in order. Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable 3. A primer for teaching the Latin alphabet and first elements of reading. Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable 4. The fundamentals of any subject. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: the ABC of finance Example: This was the Alma Mater of the Brigade, where it learned its A B C of military tactics. 5. A straightforward, uniform playing style, often focusing on betting for value, folding weak hands, and avoiding bluffing. Labels: countable, uncountable 6. A British alphabetized guidebook listing trains and their stations. Labels: UK, countable, uncountable Example: "That will do. How are the trains for Netherhempsfield?" Greatorex put down the notebook and took up an "ABC." Example: For this reason his heart sank when, emerging from his study into the great hall at quarter to eleven, he met Beaver already dressed and prepared to be entertained; it was only a momentary vexation, however, for while he wished him good morning he noticed that his guest had an A.B.C. in his hands and was clearly looking out a train. 7. Ellipsis of ABC store. Labels: US, abbreviation, alt-of, countable, ellipsis, regional, uncountable
Word: ABC Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Initialisms. 1. Initialism of atomic, biological and chemical, the three main categories of weapon of mass destruction. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, not-comparable 2. Initialism of already been chewed. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, not-comparable, slang Example: She'd chew the gum until she was finished with it for the day and store it in a tiny box in the refrigerator until she wanted another chew. If I accidentally threw out her gum, she was able to find someone else's ABC gum (already been chewed). 3. Initialism of activated B-cell-like. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, not-comparable
Word: ABC Part of Speech: phrase Etymology: Initialisms. 1. Initialism of anything but Chardonnay, a backlash against Chardonnay wine, seen as ubiquitous. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism Example: He thought he was up-to-date on all the latest wine lingo until a longtime wine writer returned his sample request card with a bold, hand-written note on it that stated, “Send me all samples—ABC!” ¶ “ABC” threw my friend for a loop. When he called me, I translated the cryptic phrase—ABC is winespeak for “Anything But Chardonnay.” 2. Initialism of abstinence, be faithful, use a condom, a sex education policy developed in response to the epidemic of HIV/AIDS in Africa. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism Example: A final example of the iatrogenic effects of international public interventions is the impact on condom use that resulted from the “ABC” (Abstinence, Be Faithful, Use Condoms) approach to AIDS prevention, which has dominated programmatic efforts in Nigeria since about 2000. The President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), created under US President George W. Bush's administration, promoted a conservative approach to AIDS prevention through its ABC messages, which were (1) abstinence is the only true prevention; (2) if one is in a sexual relationship, stay faithful to one partner; and (3) if one can't do either, use condoms. 3. Initialism of always be charging, a recommendation to remember to charge or be left without use by a low battery at an inopportune time. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism 4. Initialism of anything but Conservative. Labels: Canadian, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Word: ABC Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Like QWERTY, the name is based on the first letter keys. 1. A keyboard layout in which all keys are arranged in alphabetical order in English. Labels: uncountable
Word: output Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From out + (verb) put; nominalisation of put out. Pronunciation: /ˈaʊtpʊt/, /ˈawtpɵt/, /ˈæɔtpʊt/, /ˈæʊtpʊt/, /ˈʌʊtpʉt/ 1. That which is produced by something, especially that which is produced within a particular time period or from a particular effort. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The factory increased its output this year. Example: Output at the Pen-ch'i mine, which produced somewhat under 1 million tons annually during 1942-1944, was around 500,000 tons in 1949. 2. That which is produced by something, especially that which is produced within a particular time period or from a particular effort. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: a six-page output; six pages of output 3. That which is produced by something, especially that which is produced within a particular time period or from a particular effort. Labels: countable, uncountable 4. That which is produced by something, especially that which is produced within a particular time period or from a particular effort. Labels: countable, uncountable 5. That which is produced by something, especially that which is produced within a particular time period or from a particular effort. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: output Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From out + (verb) put; nominalisation of put out. Pronunciation: /ˈaʊtpʊt/, /ˈawtpɵt/, /ˈæɔtpʊt/, /ˈæʊtpʊt/, /ˈʌʊtpʉt/ 1. To produce, create, or complete. Example: We output 1400 units last year. 2. To send data out of a computer, as to an output device such as a monitor or printer, or to send data from one program on the computer to another. Example: When I hit enter, it outputs a bunch of numbers.
Word: Wikipedian Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Wikipedia + -ian (compare encyclopedist). Pronunciation: /wɪ.kɪˈpiː.dɪ.ən/ 1. A person who contributes to Wikipedia, especially a regular contributor well versed in the ways of the website. Example: He is proud to be a Wikipedian. Example: That is because Wikipedians, as they call themselves, can not only contribute whatever they want but can also edit entries posted by other writers as they see fit.
Word: Wikipedian Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Wikipedia + -ian (compare encyclopedist). Pronunciation: /wɪ.kɪˈpiː.dɪ.ən/ 1. Of or relating to Wikipedia. Labels: not-comparable Example: Many scholars of Wikipedian theology theorize that if consensus is ever reached, Wikipedia will spontaneously disappear. Example: In these Googlial Wikipedian times, a vast collection of wordbooks may seem slow, unnecessary or both.
Word: bath Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₁- Proto-Germanic *baþą Proto-West Germanic *baþ Old English bæþ Middle English bath English bath From Middle English bath, baþ, from Old English bæþ (“bath”), from Proto-West Germanic *baþ, from Proto-Germanic *baþą (“bath”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₁- (“to warm”). Corresponding inherited verbs are beath and bathe. Cognate with Danish, Dutch, Norwegian, and Swedish bad (“bath”), Faroese and Icelandic bað (“bath”), German Bad (“bath”). Pronunciation: /bɑːθ/, [bɑːθ], [bäːt̪ʰ], [bäːt̪], /bɐːθ/ 1. A tub or pool which is used for bathing: bathtub. 2. A building or area where bathing occurs. Example: Among the ancients, the public baths were of amazing extent and magnificence. 3. Clipping of bathroom. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, informal Example: The master bath has two sinks. 4. The act of bathing; an instance of this; the taking of a bath. 5. Specifically, bathing by immersing the body in water, rather than through other means, or an instance of this. Example: Do you prefer baths or showers? 6. An act of immersing the body in a specified substance, especially for hygiene, pleasure, or wellness, or a facility for this: e.g. mud bath, steam bath. Example: Radio-active baths are said to act favourably in a sexual direction. So too with arsenical springs, cold water treatment, and hydrotherapy. 7. The body of liquid one bathes in. 8. A substance or preparation in which something is immersed. Labels: broadly Example: a bath of heated sand, ashes, steam, or hot air Example: He takes the prepared charcoal used by artists, brings it to a white heat, and suddenly plunges it in a bath of mercury, of which the globules instantly penetrate the pores of charcoal, and may be said to metallize it.
Word: bath Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₁- Proto-Germanic *baþą Proto-West Germanic *baþ Old English bæþ Middle English bath English bath From Middle English bath, baþ, from Old English bæþ (“bath”), from Proto-West Germanic *baþ, from Proto-Germanic *baþą (“bath”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₁- (“to warm”). Corresponding inherited verbs are beath and bathe. Cognate with Danish, Dutch, Norwegian, and Swedish bad (“bath”), Faroese and Icelandic bað (“bath”), German Bad (“bath”). Pronunciation: /bɑːθ/, [bɑːθ], [bäːt̪ʰ], [bäːt̪], /bɐːθ/ 1. To wash a person or animal in a bath. Labels: Commonwealth, transitive Example: Somewhere to bath the baby: don't invest in a plastic baby bath. The bathroom handbasin is usually a much more convenient place to bath the baby. If your partner is more able, this could be a task he might take on as his, bathing the baby in a basin or plastic bown on the floor. Example: For grooming at home, obviously the choice is yours whether you wish to bath the dog in your own bath or sink, or if you want to buy one specifically for the purpose. 2. To bathe (oneself); to have a bath. Labels: Commonwealth, informal, intransitive Example: “Oh, dear no, not me; I never bath, ’tis the cat has been bathing, in a warm sea bath; I’ll tell you how I manage: I bought a large pickle-jar, and so I have it filled every morning with hot sea water, proportionate to the thermometerical heat my finger can bear, and that I stile Tink-a-tink’s bath; in which I immerge him all but his head, for a quarter of an hour; and he looks so pretty, and receives so much benefit, you would be surprised.” Example: A man's home may be handy to the mine, in which case he would not need to lose the bath, but if he lived any distance away he would bath at the mine.
Word: bath Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Hebrew בַּת (baṯ). Pronunciation: /bɑːθ/, [bɑːθ], [bäːt̪ʰ], [bäːt̪], /bɐːθ/ 1. A former Hebrew unit of liquid volume (about 23 L or 6 gallons). Labels: historical Example: Ye shall have just balances, and a just ephah, and a just bath. The ephah and the bath shall be of one measure, that the bath may contain the tenth part of an homer, and the ephah the tenth part of an homer: the measure thereof shall be after the homer.
Word: appendment Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Latin appendō Old French apendrebor. Middle English appenden English append Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥ Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥tom Proto-Italic *-mentom Latin -mentum Old French -mentbor. Middle English -ment English -ment English appendment From append + -ment. Pronunciation: /əˈpɛndmənt/ 1. The act or practice of appending. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Provision of integrity service requires the calculation of Integrity Checksum Value (ICV) and its appendment to the data. Example: Many commenters strongly encouraged the Secretary to adopt “appendment” rather than “amendment and correction” procedures. They argued that the term “correction” implies a deletion of information and that the proposed rule would have allowed covered entities to remove portions of the record at their discretion. Commenters indicated that appendment rather than correction procedures will ensure the integrity of the medical record and allow subsequent health care providers access to the original information as well as the appended information.
Word: uh-oh Part of Speech: intj Pronunciation: /ˌʌˈəʊ/, [ˈʔʌ̆ʔ˦əʊ˨], /ˌʌˈoʊ/, [ˈʔʌ̆ʔ˦oʊ˨] 1. An exclamation of error, concern, or awareness of a problem. Labels: informal Example: Uh-oh! I made a mistake. Example: Uh-oh. I emerged from the Underground station at London King's Cross the other day to find a dense throng of people filling the main line station's concourse.
Word: uh Part of Speech: intj Etymology: Onomatopoeia of the natural expression of thought. Compare with er. Pronunciation: /ʌː/, /ə/ 1. Expression of thought, confusion, or uncertainty. Example: Uh, who was that? 2. Expression of discomfort or reservation; a hesitation preceding awkward information or innuendo. Example: He's receiving some, uh, special attention from the manager. 3. Space filler or pause during conversation. Example: Uh, let me see... 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: uh Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Onomatopoeia of the natural expression of thought. Compare with er. Pronunciation: /ʌː/, /ə/ 1. An occurrence of the interjection "uh". 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: uh Part of Speech: article 1. Pronunciation spelling of a Labels: alt-of, colloquial, pronunciation-spelling Example: Gimme uh dollar.
Word: uh Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈʌ/ 1. Alternative form of a (“The fourth semiquaver (sixteenth note) of a beat”). Labels: alt-of, alternative, informal
Word: oh Part of Speech: intj Etymology: Inherited from Middle English o. Pronunciation: /əʊ/, [ö̞], /oʊ/ 1. Expression of surprise. Example: Oh! I didn't see you there. 2. Expression of wonder, amazement, or awe. Example: Oh, wow! That's amazing. 3. Expression of understanding, affirmation, recognition, or realization. Example: Oh, so that's how it works. 4. A word to precede an annoyed remark. Example: Oh, leave me alone. 5. A word to precede an added or offhand comment or afterthought. Example: Oh, and don't forget your coat. Example: What if he says, "Oh, I need to see your ID"? 6. An invocation or address (similar to the vocative in languages with noun declension), often with a term of endearment. Example: Oh, gosh. Example: Oh baby, baby, how was I supposed to know / That something wasn't right here? 7. Exclamation for drama or emphasis. Labels: often, poetic Example: Oh, when will it end? Example: Oh by what plots, by what forſwearings, betrayings, oppreſsions, impriſonments, tortures, poyſonings, and vnder what reaſons of State, and politique ſubteltie, haue theſe forenamed Kings, […] pulled the vengeance of GOD vpon them-ſelues, […] 8. Expression of pain. See ouch. Example: Oh! That hurt. Example: "Oh! Oh!——I can't bear it————It is too much.——I die.—————I am going——" were Polly's expreſſions of extaſy: […] 9. Space filler or extra syllable, especially in (popular) music. Example: I'm off with the raggle-taggle gypsy-oh. 10. Expression of mild scepticism. Labels: interrogative Example: "You should watch where you're going!" "Oh?"
Word: oh Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Inherited from Middle English o. Pronunciation: /əʊ/, [ö̞], /oʊ/ 1. An utterance of oh; a spoken expression of surprise, acknowledgement, etc. Example: There were ohs and ahs, and the people twisted about as they looked for her. Then they began to applaud.
Word: oh Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Inherited from Middle English o. Pronunciation: /əʊ/, [ö̞], /oʊ/ 1. To utter the interjection oh; to express surprise, etc. Labels: intransitive Example: A quarter of an hour elapsed, and then, after several rings at the door-bell, a smothered laugh, and a good deal of ohing and ahing, the door was thrown open, and one by one, as they were announced, in came the expected characters.
Word: oh Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English o, oo, from Old English ō, from Latin ō. Pronunciation: /əʊ/, [ö̞], /oʊ/ 1. The name of the Latin script letter O/o. Example: One genuine recycled local glass of aitch-two-oh Example: Exes and Ohs: A Downtown Girl's (Mostly Awkward) Tales of Love, Lust, Revenge, and a Little Facebook Stalking