nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: multiplex Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *mel-der. Proto-Indo-European *ml̥tós? Proto-Italic *moltos Latin multi- Proto-Indo-European *pel-der.? Latin -plex Latin multiplexlbor. English multiplex Learned borrowing from Latin multiplex, from multi- + -plex. Pronunciation: /ˈmʌl.tiˌplɛks/ 1. Comprising several interleaved parts. Labels: not-comparable 2. Having petals lying in folds over each other. Labels: not-comparable 3. Having multiple members with a particular condition. Labels: not-comparable Example: Supporting an additive model, simplex families […] have less impairment than multiplex families (those with two or more individuals affected) in language processing.
Word: multiplex Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *mel-der. Proto-Indo-European *ml̥tós? Proto-Italic *moltos Latin multi- Proto-Indo-European *pel-der.? Latin -plex Latin multiplexlbor. English multiplex Learned borrowing from Latin multiplex, from multi- + -plex. Pronunciation: /ˈmʌl.tiˌplɛks/ 1. A building or a place where several activities occur in multiple units concurrently or different times. 2. A cineplex. 3. A throwing motion where more than one ball is thrown with one hand at the same time. 4. A grouping of program services as interleaved data packets for broadcast over a network or modulated multiplexed medium. 5. A kind of stereoscopic mapmaking instrument.
Word: multiplex Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *mel-der. Proto-Indo-European *ml̥tós? Proto-Italic *moltos Latin multi- Proto-Indo-European *pel-der.? Latin -plex Latin multiplexlbor. English multiplex Learned borrowing from Latin multiplex, from multi- + -plex. Pronunciation: /ˈmʌl.tiˌplɛks/ 1. To interleave several activities. 2. To combine several signals into one. 3. To convert (a cinema business) into a large complex, or multiplex. Labels: transitive 4. To make a multiplex throw.
Word: multiplexer Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *mel-der. Proto-Indo-European *ml̥tós? Proto-Italic *moltos Latin multi- Proto-Indo-European *pel-der.? Latin -plex Latin multiplexlbor. English multiplex Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzios Latin -āriusnom. Latin -āriusbor. Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz Proto-West Germanic *-ārī Old English -ere Middle English -ere English -er English multiplexer From multiplex + -er. 1. A device that interleaves several activities; a switching device. 2. A device that combines several input signals into a single output signal.
Word: multiplexor Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *mel-der. Proto-Indo-European *ml̥tós? Proto-Italic *moltos Latin multi- Proto-Indo-European *pel-der.? Latin -plex Latin multiplexlbor. English multiplex Proto-Indo-European *-tōr Proto-Italic *-tōr Latin -tor Latin -ātor Old French -eorbor. Middle English -our ▲ Latin -torlbor. English -or English multiplexor From multiplex + -or. 1. Alternative spelling of multiplexer. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: Marvin Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Welsh Merfyn (“Mervyn”), probably from mer (“marrow”) + myn (“eminent”). Pronunciation: /ˈmɑː.vɪn/, /ˈmɑɹ.vɪn/ 1. A male given name from Welsh. Example: "Thank you the marketing division of the Sirius Cybernetic Corporation," said Marvin and trudged desolately up the gleaming curved corridor that stretched out before them. "Let's build robots with Genuine People personalities, they said. So they tried out with me. I'm a personality prototype. You can tell can't you?" 2. A surname from Welsh. 3. A place in the United States: 4. A place in the United States: 5. A place in the United States:
Word: mendacity Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Late Latin mendacitas, from Latin mendāx (“deceitful, deceptive, lying”) + -itās (suffix forming nouns indicating a state of being). Mendāx is derived from mentior (“to deceive, lie”) (from mēns, mentis (“mind; intellect; judgment, reasoning”), from Proto-Indo-European *méntis (“thought”)) + -āx (suffix forming adjectives expressing a tendency or inclination), or from Proto-Indo-European *mend- (“to fault”). By surface analysis, Latin mendāc- + -ity. Pronunciation: /mɛnˈdæsəti/, [-ɾi] 1. The fact or condition of being untruthful; dishonesty. Labels: uncountable Example: Mendacity is not a uniform offence: it changes its colour according to the nature and substance of the offence to which it is rendered or endeavoured to be rendered subservient. Mendacity, employed in drawing down upon an innocent head the destroying sword of justice, is murder: murder, encompassed with all its correspondent terror. Mendacity, employed in the obtainment of money, is but depredation. Yet, while predatory mendacity is punished with death, the punishment for the murderous mendacity is in comparison but a flea-bite. Example: […] Treating the assertion of the witness as the effect, he [Pierre-Simon Laplace] considers as its two possible causes, the veracity or mendacity of the witness on the particular occasion, that is, the truth or falsity of the fact. 2. A deceit, falsehood, or lie. Labels: countable Example: The scandalous bronze-lacker age, of hungry animalisms, spiritual impotencies and mendacities, will have to run its course, till the Pit swallow it. Example: Though the rebels had utterly failed in their purposes, having accomplished nothing but the temporary disabling of two lightly armed vessels, and had retreated before the approach of the only formidable vessel there, they formally, and with a mendacity equalled only by some of their own efforts in that direction, proclaimed that they had "driven out of sight, for a time, the entire hostile fleet," and that the blockade of the port of Charleston was raised.
Word: John Thomas Part of Speech: noun Etymology: * 17th century. From the forenames John and Thomas. * (penis): Compare dick, peter, willy and johnson. 1. The penis. Labels: Cockney, slang Example: 'John Thomas! John Thomas!' and she quickly kissed the soft penis, that was beginning to stir again. 2. A flunkey; a male servant. Labels: archaic, slang Example: We are disposed to think servants an ill-used class. Not only the parlor, not only querulous masters and mistresses, but the press, is against them, and finds its account in ringing the changes on flunkeys, menials, servant-girls, and John Thomases, confident in a sure topic, and safe from reprisal.
Word: John Bull Part of Speech: name Etymology: Introduced by Dr. John Arbuthnot. 1. A personification of England. Example: How much longer are we English to assist foreign nations in misunderstanding us, by holding up that ridiculous lay-figure of our race known by the style and title of John Bull? 2. Something or someone that is stereotypically English. Labels: broadly Example: In spite of these promptings to reflection, ignorance of his neighbours is the character of the typical John Bull. His is a domineering nature, steady in fight, imperious to command, but neither curious nor quick about the life of others. Example: "In the coach in which I rode, there was a vacant seat till our arrival in Birmingham. Leaving Birmingham I found it filled with a fat Englishman, in drab breeches and gaiter boots, the finest specimen of a thorough John Bull that I had seen—weight about sixteen stone. He wore two top coats, a broad brimmed hat, and an enormous red travelling shawl, behind the folds of which his portly double chin was entirely hidden.
Word: John Dory Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Unknown, many theories exist. See the Wikipedia article on John Dory for more. 1. An edible marine fish (Zeus faber or Zeus ocellata), having long dorsal spines.
Word: Johnny Reb Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From the sense of Johnny as a placeholder name for any man and reb, US slang for a Confederate citizen or soldier. 1. Synonym of Confederate: a citizen of the Confederate States of America, particularly a Confederate soldier. Labels: colloquial, historical
Word: Johnny Reb Part of Speech: name Etymology: From the sense of Johnny as a placeholder name for any man and reb, US slang for a Confederate citizen or soldier. 1. Synonym of Confederate States of America. Labels: figuratively Example: When Lincoln heard the news about the fall, All the folks thought he'd throw a great vict'ry ball, But he asked the band to play the song "Dixie" For you, Johnny Reb, and all that you believe.
Word: qasida Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Arabic قَصِيدَة (qaṣīda). Pronunciation: /kaˈsiːdə/, /kəˈsidə/ 1. An Arabic or Persian elegiac monorhyme poem, usually having a tripartite structure. Example: He was delighted to hear some music and listened with emotion to the wild qasidas that the old man sang – songs of the Arab canon full of the wild heart-sickness of the desert. Example: The qasida is a formal multithematic ode addressed to a member of the elite in praise. 2. An Urdu panegyric poem
Word: exonerate Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English exoneraten (attested in past participle exonerated), from Latin exonerātus, past perfect participle of exonerō (“to discharge, unload; to exonerate”), see -ate (verb-forming suffix). Exonerō is from ex- (“out, from”) + onerō (“to burden, lade; to load”) further from onus (oner-) (“a burden, load”) + -ō (first conjugation verb-forming suffix), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃énh₂os (“burden, load”), from *h₃enh₂- (“to charge, onerate”). Compare French exonérer. Pronunciation: /ɪɡˈzɒnəɹeɪt/, /ɛɡ-/, /ɪɡˈzɑnəˌɹeɪt/ 1. To relieve (someone or something) of a load; to unburden (a load). Labels: archaic, transitive 2. Of a body of water: to discharge or empty (itself). Labels: obsolete, reflexive Example: I would examine the Caſpian Sea, and ſee where and how it exonerates it ſelfe, after it hath taken in Volga, Iaxares, Oxus, and thoſe great rivers; at the mouth of Oby, or where? 3. To free (someone) from an obligation, responsibility or task. Labels: transitive 4. To free (someone) from accusation or blame. Labels: transitive
Word: exonerate Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin exonerātus (more at etymology 1), see -ate (adjective-forming suffix). Pronunciation: /ɪɡˈzɒnəɹeɪt/, /ɛɡ-/, /ɪɡˈzɑnəˌɹeɪt/ 1. Freed from an obligation; freed from accusation or blame; acquitted, exonerated. Labels: archaic
Word: qiviut Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Eastern Canadian Inuktitut ᕿᕕᐅᖅ, ᕿᕕᐅᑦ (qifioq, qifiot, “underwool”). Pronunciation: /ˈkɪv.i.ət/ 1. The underwool of the Arctic muskox, used as a fibre. Labels: uncountable Example: She wants me to stay here and learn how to weave baskets and carve ivory and spin qiviut and die of boredom!
Word: becue Part of Speech: verb 1. To make fast a rope to an anchor, used when anchored over a rocky bottom, so as to allow the anchor to be hoisted from its flukes to escape an entrapment on the bottom.
Word: before the mast Part of Speech: adj 1. Having living quarters in the forecastle of a vessel Labels: literally, not-comparable 2. Describing seamen rather than officers Labels: not-comparable Example: Before making lieutenant, he sailed before the mast for five years Example: [...] but under certain circumstances (night watches on a whaling ground) the command of the ship’s deck is also his; therefore the grand political maxim of the sea demands, that he should nominally live apart from the men before the mast, and be in some way distinguished as their professional superior; [...]
Word: spit roast Part of Speech: noun 1. The technique of roasting an animal over a fire, where the cook pokes a rod through the animal and sets the ends on two sticks to suspend the animal over the fire. Example: We're having a hog spit roast at the weekend. 2. A sex position wherein two people penetrate a single sexual partner at the same time, one orally and the other vaginally or anally. Labels: slang, vulgar
Word: spit roast Part of Speech: verb 1. Alternative form of spit-roast. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: belaying pin Part of Speech: noun 1. Any of the short lengths of wood, iron or brass set up in convenient places on a ship to secure running rigging.
Word: bell buoy Part of Speech: noun 1. A buoy on which is mounted a bell with four clappers, hung inside an iron cage, which is rung by the motion of the waves
Word: meta- Part of Speech: prefix Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *me Proto-Indo-European *meth₂? Ancient Greek μετᾰ́ (metắ) Ancient Greek μετᾰ- (metă-)lbor. English meta- Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek μετα- (meta-), from μετά (metá), from Mycenaean Greek 𐀕𐀲 (me-ta), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *meth₂ (“in the middle”). Pronunciation: /mɪˈta/, /məˈtæ/, /mɪˈtæ/, /ˈmɛt.ə/, [ˈmɛɾ.ə] 1. Behind. Labels: morpheme 2. Later or subsequent. Labels: morpheme 3. Situated between two segments. Labels: morpheme, obsolete 4. Having fewer molecules of water than the ortho- equivalent. Labels: morpheme 5. in isomeric benzene derivatives, having the two substituents in alternate (1,3) positions; contrasted with ortho- and para-. Labels: morpheme 6. Relating to metabolism. Labels: morpheme
Word: meta- Part of Speech: prefix Etymology: Back-formation from metaphysics. Pronunciation: /ˈmɛt.ə/, [ˈmɛɾ.ə], /ˈmet.ə/, [ˈmeɾ.ə] 1. Transcending, encompassing. Labels: morpheme 2. Pertaining to a level above or beyond; reflexive or recursive; about itself or about other things of the same type. For example, metadata is data that describes data, metalanguage is language that describes language, etc. Labels: morpheme 3. Having analogies with metaphysics. Labels: morpheme
Word: meta- Part of Speech: prefix Etymology: Back-formation from metamorphism. Pronunciation: /ˈmɛt.ə/, [ˈmɛɾ.ə], /ˈmet.ə/, [ˈmeɾ.ə] 1. Modified by metamorphosis; analogies and derivatives of metamorphism. Labels: morpheme
Word: meta- Part of Speech: prefix Etymology: Back-formation from metastasis. Pronunciation: /ˈmɛt.ə/, [ˈmɛɾ.ə], /ˈmet.ə/, [ˈmeɾ.ə] 1. Consequent on. Labels: morpheme
Word: bell rope Part of Speech: noun 1. A short length of rope, spliced to the eye of the clapper of a ship's bell and by which it is struck. 2. A long length of rope attached by splicing to a church's bell, by which it is struck, and with a sally for holding it. 3. A rope used to ring a bell serving as an old-fashioned doorbell. 4. A lovelock. Labels: obsolete, slang
Word: bells Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /bɛlz/ 1. plural of bell Labels: form-of, plural
Word: bells Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /bɛlz/ 1. Ship's bells; the strokes on a ship's bell, every half-hour, to mark the passage of time. Labels: plural, plural-only 2. Ellipsis of bell-bottoms. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis, plural, plural-only Example: And to him, long bell-bottoms were “arrogant.” So, whenever he was home before I left for school, he would make me stand on the top step of the six steps to the bedroom level of our house and he would inspect my bells.
Word: bells Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /bɛlz/ 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of bell Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: filling station Part of Speech: noun 1. A facility which sells fuel and lubricants for motor vehicles. Example: Here and there, under the porches of ruined filling stations, in the gaping doorways of office buildings, lie heaps of human bones.
Word: yiff Part of Speech: intj Etymology: Yiff was part of a range of onomatopoeic words from a pseudolanguage called Foxish used by the furry role-playing community, ostensibly created by a user named LittleFox or Foxen around 1990. Other terms used by this community included yip, yerf, yaff, yarf, growf, and growlf. Yiff originally meant yes or an exuberant hello. According to LittleFox, the sexual connotations of yiff were influenced by yipp (derived from yip), which originally held these sexual connotations. By 1992, yiff had been assigned a meaning of a sexual proposition, and in modern use within the furry subculture, yiff exclusively refers either to sex between anthropomorphic animals, or pornographic depictions thereof. Pronunciation: /jɪf/ 1. Onomatopeia representing the bark of a fox (especially while mating). 2. Used to express happiness or to state that something is sexually appealing. Labels: informal
Word: yiff Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Yiff was part of a range of onomatopoeic words from a pseudolanguage called Foxish used by the furry role-playing community, ostensibly created by a user named LittleFox or Foxen around 1990. Other terms used by this community included yip, yerf, yaff, yarf, growf, and growlf. Yiff originally meant yes or an exuberant hello. According to LittleFox, the sexual connotations of yiff were influenced by yipp (derived from yip), which originally held these sexual connotations. By 1992, yiff had been assigned a meaning of a sexual proposition, and in modern use within the furry subculture, yiff exclusively refers either to sex between anthropomorphic animals, or pornographic depictions thereof. Pronunciation: /jɪf/ 1. The bark of a fox. Labels: informal, slang, uncountable, usually 2. Sexual intercourse, especially between furries (fictional anthropomorphic animal characters or members of the community surrounding their celebration). Labels: informal, slang, uncountable, usually, vulgar Example: FurryMuck yiffs are like real-life yiffs - there is a time and place for everything. 3. Pornography of or involving furries. Labels: informal, slang, uncountable, usually Example: Do you draw yiff?
Word: yiff Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Yiff was part of a range of onomatopoeic words from a pseudolanguage called Foxish used by the furry role-playing community, ostensibly created by a user named LittleFox or Foxen around 1990. Other terms used by this community included yip, yerf, yaff, yarf, growf, and growlf. Yiff originally meant yes or an exuberant hello. According to LittleFox, the sexual connotations of yiff were influenced by yipp (derived from yip), which originally held these sexual connotations. By 1992, yiff had been assigned a meaning of a sexual proposition, and in modern use within the furry subculture, yiff exclusively refers either to sex between anthropomorphic animals, or pornographic depictions thereof. Pronunciation: /jɪf/ 1. To bark as or similar to a fox. Labels: informal, intransitive, slang 2. Of animals, especially foxes, to mate Labels: ambitransitive, informal, rare, vulgar Example: Monsters snicker at me, succubi refuse to be seen with me, my dog tries to yiff my leg, shopkeepers say ‘No shirt, no shoes, no service’. Example: And even if foxes are allowed to yiff more than once, I’d still have to wait for the vixen to come into heat. 3. Of furries, To have sexual intercourse. Labels: ambitransitive, informal, slang, vulgar Example: I mean, the urge to yiff is a pretty weird thing to admit to. Not something you can just drop into conversation. But look at them, hundreds of them, all gathered together in a Vegas hotel, exchanging information and experiences, the knowledge of their rare urges ever growing. Example: We can tell them how we never stop yiffing and we met at a Starbucks while wearing our suits. 4. To propose cybersex to someone. Labels: informal, intransitive, slang, transitive
Word: yiffer Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Unknown. 1. A long pole, used in scaffolding, that is made of fir.
Word: yiffer Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English yiff Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzios Latin -āriusnom. Latin -āriusbor. Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz Proto-West Germanic *-ārī Old English -ere Middle English -ere English -er English yiffer From yiff + -er. 1. One who yiffs. Example: "I am not at all a Yiffer or a beastiality freak and I generally look down upon those who are only in it for the sex." — http://groups-beta.google.com/group/alt.horror.werewolves/msg/d60c50e2089d6499
Word: yiffiest Part of Speech: adj 1. superlative form of yiffy: most yiffy Labels: form-of, superlative
Word: yiffy Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From yiff + -y. Pronunciation: /ˈjɪfi/ 1. Of or pertaining to yiff (sexual intercourse among furries). Example: It's just a list of furs who enjoy more adult, ie.^([sic]) yiffy, subject matter. 2. Sexually aroused. Labels: slang Example: Hello world, I'm a big-breasted vixen Come on, get yiffy! A whole lot of spooge is what we'll be seein' We'll make you yiffy! 3. Sexually attractive. Labels: slang
Word: yiffing Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of yiff Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present Example: "never do I ever equate yiffing between furries, whether they be between anthro to anthro, anthro to non-anthro or non-anthro to non-anthro species, where both partners are sentient, to be compared to bestiaitly or zoophilia." — https://web.archive.org/web/20080905010013/http://groups-beta.google.com/group/alt.lifestyle.furry/msg/3181e696d0ede98f Example: "Some furs are only able to get here at certain times of the week, and they may read your question about yiffing before seeing this message." — http://groups-beta.google.com/group/alt.lifestyle.furry/msg/d39dda448a8a5b77
Word: yiffed Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of yiff Labels: form-of, participle, past Example: "Spam filtered AND slammed. Vixens yiffed." — http://groups-beta.google.com/group/news.admin.net-abuse.usenet/msg/7665be77a0de8553
Word: yiffs Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of yiff Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: yiffs Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of yiff Labels: form-of, plural
Word: simplified Part of Speech: adj Pronunciation: /ˈsɪmplɪfaɪd/, /ˈsɪmpləfaɪd/ 1. Made more simple; having its complexity reduced. Example: With punctuality nosediving and both overcrowding and cancellations on the rise, a new simplified timetable was introduced in December amid threats from the Mayor that he would ask the Secretary of State for Transport to strip Abellio of the franchise. 2. Relating to simplified Chinese. Example: The traditional form of the character has twice as many strokes as the simplified form.
Word: simplified Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ˈsɪmplɪfaɪd/, /ˈsɪmpləfaɪd/ 1. simple past and past participle of simplify Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: simplified Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈsɪmplɪfaɪd/, /ˈsɪmpləfaɪd/ 1. Ellipsis of simplified Chinese. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis, informal, uncountable
Word: gaslight Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From gas (“flammable gaseous hydrocarbon or hydrocarbon mixture used as a fuel”) + light. Pronunciation: /ˈɡæslaɪt/, /ˈɡæsˌlaɪt/ 1. A lamp which operates by burning piped illuminating gas (or town gas). Labels: countable, historical, uncountable Example: He was renovated and refreshed, his soul was strengthened, and his countenance waxed cheerful, and he began to feel like himself again, under the brown canopy of metropolitan smoke, and among the cabs and gaslights. Example: Open the windows once in awhile^([sic]) and give the air a chance to circulate in and out. In the evening, do not forget that the lamps and gaslights are using up a goodly supply of oxygen also—so freshen things up a little, once in awhile. 2. The light produced by the burning gas in such a lamp. Labels: historical, uncountable Example: A year since I strained my eyes very severely, and have never dared to use them much since by gaslight. Example: Then as the darkness descended, they began to shine with the mellow radiance of gaslight.
Word: gaslight Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From the 1938 stage play Gas Light by the English playwright and novelist Patrick Hamilton (1904–1962), and its 1940 and 1944 film adaptations, in which a husband attempts to convince his wife and others that she is insane by manipulating small elements of their environment. For more details, see also Gaslighting § Etymology on Wikipedia. Pronunciation: /ˈɡæslaɪt/, /ˈɡæsˌlaɪt/ 1. To manipulate someone such that they doubt their own memory, perceptions of reality, or sanity, typically for malevolent reasons. Labels: formal, historical, transitive Example: Sylvia is a beautiful woman whose business-partner husband is "gaslighting" her. (That means he's trying to drive her crazy.) Example: [The men of McHale's Navy] decide to "gaslight" the already befuddled captain, to convince him he is going insane. 2. To deceive, trick, or lie to. Labels: broadly, historical, informal, proscribed, transitive
Word: ember Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English embre, eymbre, aymer, eymere, emeri, from Old English ǣmyrġe, from Proto-West Germanic *aimuʀjā, from Proto-Germanic *aimuzjǭ, a compound of *aimaz + *uzjǭ. The latter is from Proto-Indo-European *h₁ews- (“to burn”). The b is intrusive and was added in English for ease of pronunciation when the vowel of the second syllable (y) disappeared. See also Old High German eimuria (“pyre”), Danish emmer, Swedish mörja (“embers”). Pronunciation: /ˈɛm.bə/, /ˈɛm.bɚ/, /ˈɪm.bɚ/ 1. A piece of coal or wood glowing by heat; a hot coal. 2. Smoldering ash.
Word: ember Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English embryne (“running around, circuit”), from Old English ymbryne (“course; circuit”). Spelling changed through folk etymology. By surface analysis, umb- + run. Pronunciation: /ˈɛm.bə/, /ˈɛm.bɚ/, /ˈɪm.bɚ/ 1. Making a circuit of the year or the seasons; recurring in each quarter of the year, as certain religious days set apart for fasting and prayer. Labels: not-comparable Example: ember fasts Example: ember days
Word: ancillary Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin ancillāris (“ancillary; relating to female slaves”), from ancilla (“slave-woman”). Pronunciation: /ænˈsɪl.ə.ɹiː/, /ˈæn.səˌlɛɹ.i/, [ˈɛn.səˌlɛɹ.i], /ænˈsɪl.ə.ɹi/, [ɛːnˈsɪl.ə.ɹi] 1. Subordinate; secondary; auxiliary. Example: […] how easily he took all things along with him,—the persons, the opinions, and the day, and nature became ancillary to a man. Example: [E]very organ of the body, whatever function it may perform, must also perform the other four functions in an ancillary manner.
Word: ancillary Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin ancillāris (“ancillary; relating to female slaves”), from ancilla (“slave-woman”). Pronunciation: /ænˈsɪl.ə.ɹiː/, /ˈæn.səˌlɛɹ.i/, [ˈɛn.səˌlɛɹ.i], /ænˈsɪl.ə.ɹi/, [ɛːnˈsɪl.ə.ɹi] 1. Something that serves an ancillary function, such as an easel for a painter. Example: Auxiliaries and ancillaries are comprehensive, and include a Westinghouse motor-driven recriprocating compressor used for locomotive braking and general service air, two rotary exhauster sets for train brakes when hauling passenger or fitted freight trains, and an oil-fired train heating boiler. 2. An auxiliary. Labels: archaic
Word: give up Part of Speech: verb 1. To surrender (someone or something); to inform on (someone). Labels: transitive Example: He was surrounded, so gave himself up. Example: They gave him up to the police. 2. To relinquish (something) Labels: transitive Example: He gave up his seat to an old man. Example: The king gave up land in exchange for peace. 3. Devote or dedicate (oneself, one's life, etc.) to something. Labels: transitive Example: I gave myself up to working for this cause. Example: She persuaded us to give up our time to the project. 4. To have someone obtain (something) to one's disadvantage; to concede. Labels: transitive Example: A good pitcher will give up very few home runs. Example: Don't tell them where you are, and try not to give up any clues either. 5. To stop or quit (an activity, etc.). Labels: transitive Example: They gave up the search when it got dark. Example: Once again, the WiFi isn't willing to work. When the guard comes to check tickets, I ask him if it ever works. He rolls his eyes and tells me it rarely does. He says I'll be lucky if I get it to connect. I give up trying. 6. To abandon (someone or something) Labels: transitive Example: I gave up my faith years ago. Example: The semi-streamlined contour of the earlier G.W.R. railcars has been given up in favour of a more utilitarian blunt-nose end, and effective floor space gained thereby. 7. To lose hope concerning (someone or something) Labels: transitive Example: They gave him up for dead. 8. To admit defeat, capitulate; to desist for that reason. Labels: intransitive Example: OK, I give up, you win. Example: Wake in a sweat again / Another day's been laid to waste / In my disgrace / Stuck in my head again / Feels like I'll never leave this place / There's no escape / I'm my own worst enemy / I've given up / I'm sick of feeling / Is there nothing you can say? / Take this all away / I'm suffocating 9. To execute a trade on behalf of another broker. Labels: transitive 10. To acknowledge, recognize as. Labels: US, dialectal, intransitive Example: The next morning, Sunday, I was boxing with R., who had come over with three or four others to swap a few with me. I was given up to be the best boxer around, and I laid them cold as fast as they came at me. 11. To reveal (something). Labels: US, intransitive, slang Example: He gave up that he was the one who opened the door. Example: Well, give it up, Prof! What did you find out!
Word: give up Part of Speech: adj 1. Become fully taken over by a certain quality, activity, trait, etc. Labels: US, dialectal Example: And now She Seems give up to Sin / Too much neglecting grace within
Word: uggo Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From ugly + -o. Pronunciation: /ˈʌɡəʊ/ 1. Ugly. Labels: slang Example: Kids Ways to Say it Better: This category includes stuff like... yuck, icky, uggo, cranky, whiney.etc. Example: (STAR has on an ugly hospital gown.) Mondo-uggo.
Word: uggo Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From ugly + -o. Pronunciation: /ˈʌɡəʊ/ 1. An ugly person. Labels: slang
Word: aretegenic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Coined by Episcopalian theologian Ellen T. Charry in 1997 in "By the Renewing of Your Minds" →ISBN. From Ancient Greek ἀρετή (aretḗ, “virtue”) and γεννάω (gennáō, “to beget”). 1. Conducive to or producing virtue. Example: This aretegenic (virtue producing) function of theology was at the heart of theology prior to modernity. Example: 199?,, Colin E. Gunton, in The Church as a School of Virtue?: Human Formation in Trinitarian Framework, speaking before the Heidelberger Ökumenisches Forum Good theology is aretegenic, productive of virtue.
Word: gullibility Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English gullible Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-ts Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ts Latin -itāsder. Old French -itebor. Middle English -ite English -ity English gullibility From gullible + -ity. Pronunciation: /ɡʌlɪˈbɪlɪti/, /ɡʌləˈbɪləti/ 1. The quality of readily believing information, truthful or otherwise, usually to an absurd extent. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: What distinguishes the core of the rightwing populist electorate is its gullibility to idiocy-promoting rhetoric against climate science.
Word: nincompoop Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Uncertain; the first element nincom- is possibly from the name Nicholas or Nicodemus (compare French nicodème (“foolish or gullible person”), from the Pharisee named Nicodemus mentioned in the Bible who asks Jesus seemingly naive questions: see John 3:1–21), or from ninny (“foolish or silly person”), while the second element -poop could be derived from poop (“(obsolete) to cheat, deceive, fool”). The English lexicographer Samuel Johnson (1709–1784) suggested that the first element might be from Latin non compos (mentis) (“not of sound mind”), but the Oxford English Dictionary notes that this does not correspond with early forms of the word from the 16th century such as nickumpoop and nicompoop. Pronunciation: /ˈnɪŋkəmpuːp/, /ˈnɪŋkəmˌpup/, /ˈnɪn-/ 1. A foolish or silly person. Labels: derogatory Example: The Ship of Fools Fully Fraught and Richly Laden with Asses, Fools, Jack-daws, Ninnihammers, Coxcombs, Slender-wits, Shallowbrains, Paper-Skuls, Simpletons, Nickumpoops, Wiseakers, Dunces, and Blockheads. Declaring their several Natures, Manners, and Constitutions; the occasion why this Ship was built, with the places of their intended Voyage, and a lift of the Officers that bear Command therein [book title]. Example: Yes, you Nicompoop, you are a pretty Fellow to pleaſe a Woman indeed.
Word: hopefully Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-West Germanic *tōhopōnder. Old English tōhopa Old English hopa Middle English hope English hope Proto-Indo-European *pleh₁- Proto-Indo-European *-nós Proto-Indo-European *pl̥h₁nós Proto-Germanic *fullaz Proto-Germanic *-fullaz Old English -ful Middle English -ful English -ful English hopeful Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der. Proto-Germanic *līkąder. Proto-Germanic *-līkaz Proto-Germanic *-ê Proto-Germanic *-līkê Proto-West Germanic *-līkē Old English -līċe Middle English -ly English -ly English hopefully From hopeful + -ly. The use as a sentence adverb first gained currency in the United States and has been explained as a possible calque of German hoffentlich. Pronunciation: /ˈhəʊp.fə.li/, /ˈhoʊp.fə.li/ 1. In a hopeful manner. Example: ‘In fifteen minutes I will be at the carpark, sitting hopefully inside a puce Reliant Scimitar.’ 2. It is hoped that; I hope; we hope. Labels: not-comparable Example: Hopefully, my father will arrive in time for the show. Example: She was buried with her mom and hopefully they are together now.
Word: simplify Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From the French simplifier, equivalent to simple + -ify. Pronunciation: /ˈsɪmplɪfaɪ/, /ˈsɪmpləfaɪ/ 1. To make simpler, either by reducing in complexity, reducing to component parts, or making easier to understand. Labels: transitive Example: In ancient times there existed in the region of the Tung-chia River 佟佳江 in present Liaoning a people called Kao-chü-li 高句驪. In the fifth century they moved their capital to P’ing-jang. The name of the country was simplified to Kao-li 高麗 (Korea). Example: Quizzed on simplifying fares, Heaton-Harris said the Government had inherited a "mix of ticketing and unbelievable, interesting fares up and down the system, and we do want to simplify them". 2. To become simpler. Labels: intransitive Example: Thus, throughout the nineteenth century, linguists generally held that more grammatically complex languages were older and that languages tended to simplify over time—the four grammatical cases of German as contrasted with the seven of Latin, for example.
Word: emaciated Part of Speech: adj Pronunciation: /əˈmeɪ.ʃi.eɪ.tɪd/, /-ˈmeɪ.si-/, /ɪˈmeɪ.siˌeɪ.tɪd/, /ə-/, /i-/ 1. Thin or haggard, especially from hunger or disease. Example: The emaciated prisoners in the death camps were weak and sickly. Example: She arrived at a resort in December 2024, extremely emaciated — staff described her as “so weak she couldn’t walk on her own,” with sunken eyes, protruding bones, yellow fingernails and decaying teeth.
Word: emaciated Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /əˈmeɪ.ʃi.eɪ.tɪd/, /-ˈmeɪ.si-/, /ɪˈmeɪ.siˌeɪ.tɪd/, /ə-/, /i-/ 1. simple past and past participle of emaciate Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: Caroline Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin Carolus + -ine. Pronunciation: /ˈkæɹ.əˌlaɪn/, /ˈkɛɹ.əˌlaɪn/ 1. Synonym of Carolean (“relating to the time of Kings Charles I and II of England or Charles III of the United Kingdom, or of the kings themselves”). Labels: not-comparable Example: For that poem, though in certain ‘strange and high’ qualities it is the inferior of the best jets of the Caroline genius, is one of the most faultless and perfect things in this or indeed in any period of English poetry, and may be said to impart the Caroline essence in a form that can be (in the medical sense) ‘borne’ by all who have any feeling for poetry at all, as hardly anything else does.
Word: Caroline Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin Carolus + -ine. Pronunciation: /ˈkæɹ.əˌlaɪn/, /ˈkɛɹ.əˌlaɪn/ 1. Synonym of Carolean. Example: The shooting star, which dissolved on reaching earth into dew or ‘jelly’, is very common with Carolines.
Word: Caroline Part of Speech: name Etymology: Borrowed in the 17th century from the French form of Carolina, feminine derivative of Carolus, the Latin equivalent of Charles, which came from Middle High German Karl. Pronunciation: /ˈkæɹ.əˌlaɪn/, /ˈkæɹ.əˌlɪn/, /ˈkɛɹ.əˌlaɪn/ 1. A female given name from the Germanic languages. Example: - - - gentle Sophias milk your cows, and if you ask a pretty smiling girl at a cottage door to tell you her name, the rosy lips lisp out Caroline. A great number of children, amongst the lower classes, are Carolines. That does not, however, wholly proceed from the love of the appellation; though I believe that a queen Margery or a queen Sarah would have had fewer namesakes. Example: I used to love saying her name. Caroline, with the "i" always long, because to make it short left it sounding like crinoline, a sweat-stained, mothballed Sunday hat pulled from an attic trunk. But Caroline with the "i" long created a sound roughly equivalent to the idea of a girl. The echo of a song in its three syllables, an age-old lyric not yet faded from memory.
Word: hedonic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἡδονικός (hēdonikós, “pleasant”), equivalent to Ancient Greek ἡδονή (hēdonḗ, “pleasure”) + -ic. Pronunciation: /ˈhiːdənɪk/ 1. Of or relating to pleasure 2. Pursuing pleasure in a devoted manner 3. Of or relating to the hedonists or to hedonism
Word: bent on a splice Part of Speech: adj Etymology: * A splice is used to join two ropes to make one. * Possibly a pun. See bent on and bend. 1. About to be married. Labels: idiomatic
Word: between decks Part of Speech: noun 1. The space between any two decks of a ship 2. Steerage on a passenger ship in which people who cannot afford a cabin travel
Word: steerage Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English steer Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂tos Proto-Italic *-ātos Latin -ātus Proto-Indo-European *-ikos Proto-Italic *-ikos Latin -icus Latin -āticus Latin -āticum Old French -agebor. Middle English -age English -age English steerage From steer + -age. 1. The art of steering. Labels: uncountable 2. The section of a passenger ship that provided inexpensive accommodation with no individual cabins. Labels: countable Example: It is stuffy in the steerage where the second-classers sleep, For there's near a hundred for'ard, and they're stowed away like sheep Example: Hope was alive again in my breast, and I looked about me with greater coolness. I noted that the boats were missing. The steerage told the same tale as the forecastle. The hunters had packed their belongings with similar haste. The Ghost was deserted. It was Maud's and mine. I thought of the ship's stores and the lazarette beneath the cabin, and the idea came to me of surprising Maud with something nice for breakfast. 3. The effect of the helm on a ship. Labels: countable
Word: steerageway Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From steerage + way. Pronunciation: /ˈstɪə.ɹɪd͡ʒˌweɪ/, /ˈstiɹɪd͡ʒˌweɪ/ 1. The minimum speed of a ship, below which it does not answer the helm and cannot be steered. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The latter made one tremendous spurt, then gave up in despair and hauled in his oars. French Pete let go the main-sheet, lost steerageway as he rounded up alongside the motionless skiff, and dragged Joe out.
Word: answer the helm Part of Speech: verb 1. To respond to a movement of the helm by changing direction; only happens if the ship has steerageway. Labels: intransitive
Word: holystone Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Uncertain, but equivalent to holy + stone. As an amulet, probably from holey (“having a hole”). As a scouring stone, variously derived from holey, from the amulet, from its association with Sunday cleaning, from its users' adoption of a kneeling position similar to prayer, and (least likely) from their original provision by raiding graveyards for tombstones. Pronunciation: /ˈhəʊl.ɪ.stəʊn/, /ˈhoʊl.i.stoʊn/ 1. A piece of soft sandstone used for scouring the wooden decks of ships, usually with sand and seawater. 2. A stone with a naturally-formed hole, used by Yorkshiremen for good luck.
Word: holystone Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Uncertain, but equivalent to holy + stone. As an amulet, probably from holey (“having a hole”). As a scouring stone, variously derived from holey, from the amulet, from its association with Sunday cleaning, from its users' adoption of a kneeling position similar to prayer, and (least likely) from their original provision by raiding graveyards for tombstones. Pronunciation: /ˈhəʊl.ɪ.stəʊn/, /ˈhoʊl.i.stoʊn/ 1. To use a holystone. Labels: transitive Example: Six days shalt thou labour and do all thou art able, And on the seventh—holystone the decks and scrape the cable. Example: The boils called sand boils, which form on the front of the knee, are generally produced by small particles of sand being rubbed beneath the skin when the men are kneeling to holystone the decks. Very troublesome sores are thus produced. Great care should, therefore, be taken never to kneel with the bare knees upon a sanded deck.
Word: prayer book Part of Speech: noun 1. A book containing religious prayers, and sometimes also the instructions for church services (e.g., calls and responses). Example: Near-synonyms: breviary, liturgy, missal, portal, portass, psalter, church service 2. The Book of Common Prayer. 3. A small holystone.
Word: emmet Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-West Germanic *āmaitijā Old English ǣmete Middle English ampte English emmet From Middle English ampte, amte, amete, amote, ante, emete, emot, emotte, empt, empte, from Old English ǣmete, ǣmette, ǣmytte, ǣmætte (“ant”), from Proto-West Germanic *āmaitijā (“ant”), of uncertain and debated origin (q.v.), but probably from Proto-Germanic *ē- (“off, away”) + *maitaną (“to cut”), from Proto-Indo-European *meh₂y- (“to cut”). Doublet of ant. Cognates Cognate with Yola emotee, emothee (“ant”), West Frisian eamel, eamelder, eameler (“ant”), Alemannic German Ameisse (“ant”), Bavarian Åmasn, Åmeisn (“ant”), Cimbrian amasa (“ant”), Dutch emt (“ant”), German Ameise, Emse (“ant”), Low German Emk (“ant”), Vilamovian ömys (“ant”), Yiddish אַמייזע (ameyze, “ant”). Pronunciation: /ˈɛmɪt/ 1. An ant. Labels: archaic, dialectal Example: He told him that he saw a vast multitude and a promiscuous, their habitations like molehills, the men as emmets […] Example: 1666, Dr. Edmund King, Philosophical Transactions (1665-1678) Observations Concerning Emmets or Ants, Their Eggs, Production, Progress, Coming to Maturity, Use, &c 2. A tourist. Labels: Cornwall, derogatory
Word: judas Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative letter-case form of Judas (“traitor”). Labels: alt-of Example: There is no better example of such a phenomenon as the infamous moment when Bob Dylan was proclaimed a ‘judas’ for going electric. 2. Alternative letter-case form of Judas (“Judas-hole”). Labels: alt-of Example: Soon he heard a soft grating behind the judas, and he felt—more than he saw—that a pair of eyes were peering at him from within.
Word: Book of Common Prayer Part of Speech: name 1. The liturgy of the Church of England, first compiled by Thomas Cranmer in 1549 after the (Act of Uniformity).
Word: buntline Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From bunt + line. 1. A type of revolver with an exceptionally long barrel. 2. Any, except the outermost, of the ropes extending down to the deck with which a square sail is rolled up to the yard. Example: The only sail that is wholly ours is the spanker. They control absolutely--sheets, halyards, clewlines, buntlines, braces, and down-hauls--every sail on the fore and main. We control the braces on the mizzen, although they control the canvas on the mizzen. Example: “Cast off the topsail sheets, clew garnets, leechlines and buntlines!” The order came thinly through the roar of the wind.
Word: duck-billed platypus Part of Speech: noun 1. The platypus
Word: grin Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English grinnen, from Old English grennian, from Proto-West Germanic *grannjōn, from Proto-Germanic *granjōną. Related to groan. Compare to Middle High German grennen (“to mutter, complain”) and Danish grine (“to show one's teeth, to laugh”) Pronunciation: /ɡɹɪn/ 1. A smile in which the lips are parted to reveal the teeth. Example: When the ceremony was finished a wide grin broke across his face, and it was that grin she saw, relieved and happy all at once. Example: When my son appeared at the door the next day with his schoolbag on his back, the Professor broke into a wide grin and opened his arms to embrace him.
Word: grin Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English grinnen, from Old English grennian, from Proto-West Germanic *grannjōn, from Proto-Germanic *granjōną. Related to groan. Compare to Middle High German grennen (“to mutter, complain”) and Danish grine (“to show one's teeth, to laugh”) Pronunciation: /ɡɹɪn/ 1. To smile, parting the lips so as to show the teeth. Labels: intransitive Example: Why do you grin? Did I say something funny? Example: ‘No,’ said Luke, grinning at her. ‘You're not dull enough! […] What about the kid's clothes? I don't suppose they were anything to write home about, but didn't you keep anything? A bootee or a bit of embroidery or anything at all?’ 2. To express by grinning. Labels: transitive Example: She grinned pleasure at his embarrassment. Example: Grinned horrible a ghastly smile. 3. To show the teeth, like a snarling dog. Labels: dated, intransitive Example: The pangs of death do make him grin. Example: They burned the old gun that used to stand in the dark corner up in the garret, close to the stuffed fox that always grinned so fiercely. Perhaps the reason why he seemed in such a ghastly rage was that he did not come by his death fairly. And why else was he put away up there out of sight?—and so magnificent a brush as he had too. 4. To grin as part of producing a particular facial expression, such as a smile or sneer. Labels: transitive Example: He grinned a broad smile when I told him the result. Example: He grinned a cruel sneer when I begged him to stop.
Word: grin Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English grin, grinne, grine, from Old English grin (“snare, noose”), of uncertain origin, but probably from the merger of Proto-West Germanic *garni and *garnī (“intestine”), ultimately from Proto-Germanic *garniz, *garnō (“guts, intestine”). Related to English yarn. Pronunciation: /ɡɹɪn/ 1. A snare; a gin. Labels: obsolete
Word: dissociate Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁ Proto-Indo-European *d(w)is- Proto-Italic *dis- Latin dis- Proto-Indo-European *sekʷ- Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *sokʷéh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-ṓy Proto-Indo-European *sokʷh₂ṓy Proto-Indo-European *-yós Proto-Indo-European *sokʷyós Proto-Italic *sokjos Latin sokios Latin socius Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti Proto-Indo-European *-h₂tiinflu. Proto-Italic *-ājō Proto-Italic *-āō Latin -ō Latin sociō Latin dissociō ▲ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂tos Proto-Italic *-ātos Latin -ātuslbor. English -ate English dissociate From Latin dissociō + -ate (verb-forming suffix), from dis- (“apart”) + sociō (“join”), from socius (“related, leagued”). Pronunciation: /dɪˈsəʊ.ʃi.eɪt/, /-si-/, /dɪˈsoʊ.ʃi.eɪt/ 1. To cease associating; To part. Labels: intransitive Example: After the big fight, the gang totally dissociated from each other. 2. To cease associating; To part. Labels: intransitive Example: Gerald checked himself into the hospital because he was dissociating. 3. To cease associating; To part. Labels: intransitive 4. To cease associating with; to make unrelated; to sever a connection; to separate. Labels: transitive Example: A number of group members wish to dissociate themselves from the majority. 5. To cease associating with; to make unrelated; to sever a connection; to separate. Labels: transitive Example: We dissociated the lead iodide into its elements by heating