nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: mechanically Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *megʰ-der.? Ancient Greek μηχανή (mēkhanḗ) Proto-Indo-European *-kos Proto-Hellenic *-kos Ancient Greek -κός (-kós) Ancient Greek -ικός (-ikós) Ancient Greek μηχανικός (mēkhanikós)bor. Latin mēchanicusder. Old French mecaniquebor. Middle English mechanic Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.? Proto-Italic *-ālis Latin -ālisbor. Old French -albor. ▲ Latin -ālis Old French -elbor. ▲ Latin -ālisbor. Middle English -al Middle English mechanical English mechanical 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 mechanically From mechanical + -ly. Pronunciation: /məˈkænɪkli/ 1. From a mechanical point of view. Example: mechanically speaking 2. In a mechanical manner, mindlessly, thoughtlessly, automatically, without thinking. Example: My fears, however, made me mechanically close my thighs; but the very touch of his hand insinuated between them, disclosed them and opened a way for the main attack. Example: "Of what avail," and her eyes wandered mechanically round, "is all the luxury by which I am surrounded, if it serve only as a barrier to all kindly feelings?"
Word: confidently Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree English confident Middle English -ly English -ly English confidently From confident + -ly. Pronunciation: /ˈkɑnfɪdəntli/, /ˈkɒnfɪdəntli/ 1. In a confident manner; with confidence; with strong assurance; positively. Example: Alice confidently stepped up on the platform to give her maiden speech as CEO.
Word: incessantly Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree English incessant Middle English -ly English -ly English incessantly From incessant + -ly. Pronunciation: /ɪnˈsɛs.ənt.li/ 1. In a manner without pause or stop, especially to the point of annoyance; not ceasing. Labels: not-comparable Example: He jabbered incessantly and annoyed everyone. Example: We see the eye subdued, the practised smile, / The word well weighed before it pass the lip, / And know not of the misery within: / Yet there it works incessantly, and fears / The time to come; for time is terrible, / Avenging, and betraying. 2. Immediately. Labels: not-comparable, obsolete
Word: vividly Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree Latin vīviduslbor. English vivid Middle English -ly English -ly English vividly From vivid + -ly. Pronunciation: /ˈvɪvɪdli/ 1. In a vivid manner. Example: Here, in the transept and choir, where the service was being held, one was conscious every moment of an increasing brightness; colours glowing vividly beneath the circular chandeliers, and the rows of small lights on the choristers' desks flashed and sparkled in front of the boys' faces, deep linen collars, and red neckbands. Example: The water-level route, the whistle and the loud staccato exhaust of this great engine recalled most vividly memories of the New York Central Hudsons highballing along the Hudson River between Harmon and Albany!
Word: mightily Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From Middle English mightili (“with might, powerfully, strongly; forcefully, violently; greatly; etc.”), from Old English meahtiglice (“with might, powerfully, mightily”), from meahtiġ, mihtiġ (“powerful, mighty”) + -līċe (suffix forming adverbs). Mihtiġ is derived from Proto-Germanic *mahtīgaz (“mighty”), from *mahtiz (“force, strength; ability, power”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *megʰ- (“to be able”)) + *-gaz (suffix with the sense ‘being; doing; having’ forming adjectives). By surface analysis, mighty + -ly (suffix forming adverbs). Pronunciation: /ˈmaɪtɪli/, [-ɾɪ-] 1. In a mighty manner. Labels: literary Example: The chivalrous knights entered the lists and fought mightily. Example: So cry Hand & Hyle the eldest of the fathers of Albions / Little-ones; to destroy the Divine Saviour: the Friend of Sinners. / Building Castles in desolated places, and strong Fortifications. / Soon Hand mightily devour'd & absorb'd Albions Twelve Sons. 2. In a mighty manner. Example: Sir, I ſhal not be ſlacke, in ſigne vvhereof / Pleaſe ye vve may contriue this afternoone, / And quaffe carovvſes to our Miſtreſſe health, / And do as aduerſaries do in lavv, / Striue mightily, but eate and drinke as friends. Example: But let man and beaſt be couered with ſackecloth, and cry mightily vnto God: yea, let them turne euery one from his euill way, and from the violence that is in their hands. 3. In a mighty manner. Example: [A]lthough he vvas a man mightely friended, yet vvas he by a publike decree baniſhed into one of the Abſyrtides, iſlan ds vpon the coaſt of Libvrnia. Example: Time, O mighty and mightily peopled city, / Time is busy with thee. 4. In a mighty manner. Labels: informal Example: He sounded mightily proud of himself. Example: Therein thou vvrong'ſt thy Children mightily. 5. In a mighty manner. Labels: obsolete Example: [T]his group of the lion and the man [a sculpture] now bear an unfinished, unwrought appearance, but you cannot look at it a moment, and not instantly avow the majesty and grandeur of the idea that once lay there so mightily embodied. Example: O, mightily seated and / Throned are our masters, / And steadily rooted; […]
Word: intimately Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree English intimate 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 intimately From intimate + -ly. Pronunciation: /ˈɪntɪmətli/ 1. In an intimate manner. Example: I have tried to find friends like me […] but have failed to form even one prolonged relationship. Only a few of them could understand how I felt and a couple of them allowed me to express my love as intimately and vigorously as I wanted to.
Word: resolutely Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree English resolute Middle English -ly English -ly English resolutely From resolute + -ly. Pronunciation: /ˈɹɛz.əˌlutli/, /ˌɹɛz.əˈlutli/, /ˈɹɛz.əˌl(j)uːtli/, /ˌɹɛz.əˈl(j)uːtli/ 1. In a determined, unyielding manner. Example: Dorcas, faithful to her “young gentlemen,” denied strenuously that it could have been John’s voice she heard, and resolutely declared, in the teeth of everything, that it was Mr. Inglethorp who had been in the boudoir with her mistress. Example: It was applied methodically, carefully, resolutely, as in the fashion of a Satin-bird with charcoal, desiccated wood or blue from laundry-bags.
Word: nicely Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From Middle English nycely; equivalent to nice + -ly. Pronunciation: /ˈnʌɪsli/ 1. Fastidiously; carefully. Labels: obsolete Example: He lookt askew with his mistrustfull eyes, / And nicely trode, as thornes lay in his way, / Or that the flore to shrinke he did auyse [...]. 2. Precisely; with fine discernment or judgement. Example: All told, we had scarce two miles to run; but the navigation was delicate, the entrance to this northern anchorage was not only narrow and shoal, but lay east and west, so that the schooner must be nicely handled to be got in. Example: An army – especially in peace time – is a very complex and nicely adjusted affair […]. 3. Pleasantly; satisfactorily. Example: 1986-1987, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure He was a sweet boy, but became the kind of man I can do nicely without.
Word: delicately Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree English delicate Middle English -ly English -ly English delicately From delicate + -ly. Pronunciation: /ˈdɛlɪkətli/ 1. In a delicate manner; exquisitely. Example: The gingerbread was delicately, if imprecisely, captured by the brushstrokes. Example: The intergrown foliage atop a xylosma hedge appears to be delicately balanced on long wooden fingers. 2. Tactfully. Example: He approached the main subject delicately.
Word: princely Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English princely, pryncely, equivalent to prince + -ly (adjectival suffix). Compare Dutch prinselijk. Pronunciation: /ˈpɹɪnsli/ 1. Relating to a prince. Example: princely birth or character Example: And when the princely Perſean Diadem, Shall ouerweigh his wearie witleſſe head, And fall like mellowed fruit, with ſhakes of death, In faire Perſea noble Tamburlain Shall be my Regent, and remaine as King: 2. Similar or comparable to a prince. 3. Befitting a prince. Example: a princely sum Example: No expense was spared in making it a princely residence.
Word: princely Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From prince + -ly (adverbial suffix). Pronunciation: /ˈpɹɪnsli/ 1. In the manner of a royal prince's conduct. Example: […] my appetite was not princely gote, […] Example: Oilman Hall and I tried to interest him in noticing Morgan Robertson, who was passing near the corner of Sixth Avenue and Twenty-third Street, princely dressed in a frock coat and top hat.
Word: doubly Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From Middle English dowbly, doubli, dubli, doubeliche, equivalent to double + -ly. Pronunciation: /ˈdʌb.li/, /ˈdʌ.bəl.li/ 1. In a double manner; with twice the severity or degree. Labels: not-comparable, usually Example: My mother was always doubly careful when winding the grandfather clock. Example: Losing a teenmover is doubly painful; so Black continues to make moves. 2. In two ways Labels: not-comparable Example: Stealing and then lying about it is doubly wrong. 3. with duplicity Labels: not-comparable, obsolete
Word: jiggy Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree English jig Proto-Indo-European *-kos Proto-Germanic *-gaz Proto-West Germanic *-g Old English -iġ Middle English -y English -y English jiggy From jig + -y. Pronunciation: /ˈd͡ʒɪɡi/ 1. Resembling or suggesting a jig. Example: [1916], 2004, Annie Hamilton Donnell, Miss Theodosia's Heartstrings http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&vid=ISBN1419134671&id=qU0TRF3GqzIC&pg=PA46&lpg=PA46&sig=omSLlDSrnJuoz4MXcYZv4kmsWCM “He likes jiggy tunes best—please sing him jiggy tunes.” Example: [1965] 1997, Alan Lomax, Jean Ritchie, Folk Songs of the Southern Appalachians http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&vid=ISBN0813109272&id=7zF6mDo_GJgC&pg=PA1&lpg=PA1&sig=Jp2rPhf8QBFjX6DvPObEbPJqmWg We have always known this “little foolish thing”—Dad’s description of “The Swapping Song.” Very often it is used for baby-bouncing, because of its jiggy rhythm. 2. Crazy. Labels: slang Example: He's gone completely jiggy. 3. Jittery, fidgety, restless, excited. Labels: slang Example: If I was too jiggy to hold the syringe, he'd shoot me up. 4. Extravagant, wonderful, excellent, enjoyable, exciting, stylish, cool, successful. Labels: slang Example: Get yourself some jiggy gear. 5. Having fun, enjoying oneself totally; losing one's inhibitions, especially when dancing or performing to music. Labels: slang Example: Just can't sit Gotta get jiggy wit it Example: Latin groovers get jiggy at the mercury-hot Conga Room on Wilshire Boulevard.
Word: five-by-five Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From radio communications phrase dating from the 1950s. The first five referred to a rating of signal clarity, the other to reception strength. See Signal strength and readability report on Wikipedia.Wikipedia 1. Loud and clear. Labels: idiomatic, informal, not-comparable Example: "Hon, are you getting good data from us?" "Five-by-five." "Any sign of hostiles?" "Nope." "Can I get a few more syllables from you?" Example: McInnis nodded, and Carter keyed the mic. "CAONCI-Site-43 calling Overwatch Command," he intoned in his best radio voice. Veiksaar smirked. "CAONCI-Site-43, Overwatch Command. Do you read?" The response came immediately, to the visible relief of all nine of them. Even Wettle. "Five by five, CAONCI-Site-43. Five by five." 2. Fine; OK. Labels: idiomatic, informal, not-comparable
Word: five-by-five Part of Speech: noun 1. A performance in which a player accumulates five points in each of five statistical categories (points, rebounds, assists, steals, and blocks) in a single game. 2. Someone whose body is roughly shaped like a square; a short and fat person. Labels: figuratively, slang Example: "Yeah? No stuff? You, a date? Wad yuh know. What is she, a five-by-five?" Example: "The muscle was Oscar Huong, a real Mr. five-by-five. Father supposedly a black Marine boxing champion. The brains was Nguyen Trinh—or 'Nugey,' for short. He had no idea who his daddy was."
Word: hereafter Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From Old English hēræfter (“in the aftertime; later on”). By surface analysis, here + after. Pronunciation: /hɪɹˈæftɚ/, /hɪəˈɹɑːftə/ 1. From now on. Labels: not-comparable 2. Sequentially after this point (in time, in the writing constituting a document, in the movement along a path, etc.) Labels: not-comparable 3. In time to come; in some future time or state. Labels: dated, not-comparable Example: She should have died hereafter; / There would have been a time for such a word. Example: […] when hereafter he from war shall come / And bring his Trojans peace and triumph […]
Word: hereafter Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Old English hēræfter (“in the aftertime; later on”). By surface analysis, here + after. Pronunciation: /hɪɹˈæftɚ/, /hɪəˈɹɑːftə/ 1. A future existence or state. Labels: countable, uncommon, uncountable 2. Existence after death. Labels: countable, poetic, uncommon, uncountable Example: 'Tis the Divinity that stirs within us; / 'Tis Heaven itself that points out an hereafter, / and intimates eternity to man.
Word: hereafter Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Old English hēræfter (“in the aftertime; later on”). By surface analysis, here + after. Pronunciation: /hɪɹˈæftɚ/, /hɪəˈɹɑːftə/ 1. Future. Labels: archaic, not-comparable
Word: conspectus Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin cōnspectus (“survey”). 1. A detailed survey or overview of a subject. Example: Already the whole of his past life had vividly presented itself to him—myriads of tiny incidents, long forgotten, now standing out sharply in their due sequence. He had mastered this conspectus in a flash of time, and was already tired of it.
Word: Bundestag Part of Speech: name Etymology: Etymology tree German Bund German -es- German Tag German Bundestagbor. English Bundestag Borrowed from German Bundestag. Pronunciation: /ˈbʊndəsˌtɑːɡ/ 1. The federal/state parliament of Germany. Example: The vote in the Bundestag (parliament) on Thursday makes defiling foreign flags equal to the crime of defiling the German flag.
Word: welch Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Alternative form of welsh, from Welsh. Pronunciation: /wɛlt͡ʃ/ 1. A person who defaults on an obligation, especially a small one. Example: She's a welch. That watering-can isn't hers: I lent it to her three years ago.
Word: welch Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Alternative form of welsh, from Welsh. Pronunciation: /wɛlt͡ʃ/ 1. To fail to repay a small debt. 2. To fail to fulfill an obligation. Example: I welched. I'm a welcher. Didn't I tell you? Example: MICHAEL: Clemenza promised Rosato three territories in the Bronx after he died, and then you took over and welched.
Word: welsher Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From welsh + -er. 1. Alternative spelling of welcher. Labels: UK, alt-of, alternative
Word: SPD Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Abbreviation 1. Initialism of schizoid personality disorder. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable 2. Initialism of schizotypal personality disorder. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable 3. Initialism of sadistic personality disorder. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable 4. Initialism of sensory processing disorder. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable 5. Initialism of spectral power distribution. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable 6. Initialism of serial presence detect. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable 7. Initialism of summary plan description. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable 8. Initialism of surge protective device (surge protector). Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable 9. Initialism of symphysis pubis dysfunction. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
Word: SPD Part of Speech: name Etymology: Abbreviation 1. Shimano Pedaling Dynamics
Word: SPD Part of Speech: name Etymology: Borrowed from German SPD (“Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands”). 1. Initialism of Social Democratic Party of Germany (“Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands”). Labels: German, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism Example: Albrecht Lein reports that the core of the Braunschweig Antifa was made up of KPD and SPD members in their forties and fifties who had avoided the front, though Catholic workers’ organizations and other forces were also involved. Example: In a quirk of German politics, the governing coalitions are often given names. The previous coalition government, headed by the SPD (red), included the Green Party (green) and Liberal Party (yellow) - together they were known as the “traffic light” coalition.
Word: FDP Part of Speech: name 1. Initialism of Free Democratic Party of Germany (Freie Demokratische Partei); a German centrist classical liberal political party. Labels: German, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Word: nonmodern Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From non- + modern. 1. Having characteristics of past times; not modern. Labels: not-comparable
Word: nonmodern Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From non- + modern. 1. One who is not modern. Example: The headscarf is a perfect tool to block the nonmoderns from participating in the class privileges that the modern state represents.
Word: CDU Part of Speech: noun 1. Initialism of crude distillation unit. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Word: CDU Part of Speech: name 1. Initialism of Christian Democratic Union (of Germany) (“Christlich Demokratische Union”) (a major mainstream German political party) Labels: German, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism Example: “I am certain that this so-called ‘firewall’ will stop after this election,” AfD youth wing leader Hannes Gnauck told CNN Sunday evening. He added, “There will be a CDU after Friedrich Merz, and this CDU will have to work together with the AfD.”
Word: lighting Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *lewk-der. Proto-Germanic *leuhtaz Proto-West Germanic *leuht Old English lēoht Middle English light English light English -ing English lighting From light + -ing. Pronunciation: /ˈlaɪtɪŋ/, [-ɾɪŋ] 1. The equipment used to provide illumination; the illumination so provided. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The acetylene gas lighting in the station offices and platforms at Kyle of Lochalsh recently has been replaced by electric lighting. Example: The dawn of the oil age was fairly recent. Although the stuff was used to waterproof boats in the Middle East 6,000 years ago, extracting it in earnest began only in 1859 after an oil strike in Pennsylvania.[…]It was used to make kerosene, the main fuel for artificial lighting after overfishing led to a shortage of whale blubber. Other liquids produced in the refining process, too unstable or smoky for lamplight, were burned or dumped. 2. The act of activating such equipment, or of igniting a flame etc. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: We've observed plenty of strikings followed by lightings, so even if we should not say that the strikings cause the lightings, isn't it at least reasonable to predict, and to believe, that the next time we strike a match in similar conditions, it will be followed by a lighting? 3. The process of annealing metals. Labels: countable, dated, uncountable
Word: lighting Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *lewk-der. Proto-Germanic *leuhtaz Proto-West Germanic *leuht Old English lēoht Middle English light English light English -ing English lighting From light + -ing. Pronunciation: /ˈlaɪtɪŋ/, [-ɾɪŋ] 1. present participle and gerund of light Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: blook Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Blend of blog + book. Pronunciation: /blʊk/, /blʉk/ 1. A book serialized on a blog (weblog) platform. 2. A book about blogging. 3. A printed book containing content which first appeared on a blog. Example: 2006: "'Blooks are the new books, a hybrid literary form at the cutting edge of both literature and technology,' said Bob Young, founder of self-publishing site Lulu which organised and sponsored the prize." US cook wins blogging book prize BBC Online, 3 April 2006.
Word: militia Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin mīlitia (“army, military force/service”), from mīles (“soldier”). Doublet of militsia. The use of "militia" rather than "police" to refer to the police force (of Belarus and some other countries) originated in the USSR. Pronunciation: /məˈlɪʃə/ 1. An army of trained civilians, which may be an official reserve army, called upon in time of need, the entire able-bodied population of a state which may also be called upon, or a private force not under government control. Example: He coasts down to a dead stop in the middle of the channel, makes a scan for militia men and wireheads, and finds none. 2. Synonym of militsia: the national police force of certain countries (e.g. Belarus).
Word: Ghandi Part of Speech: name 1. Misspelling of Gandhi. Labels: alt-of, misspelling
Word: camino Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish camino. 1. The route followed on a pilgrimage through Spain.
Word: derogation Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Old French derogacion (French dérogation), from Latin dērogātiō. Pronunciation: /ˌdɛɹəˈɡeɪʃən/ 1. An act which belittles; disparagement. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Always have the greatest excesses and the most reprehensible practices been committed when backed up by or given the sanction of religion. But all this represents no derogation of the original phallic cult per se. It merely proves that the gods have always been what we have made them. 2. The act of derogating; the temporary or partial nullification of a law. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Two sets of Mk. 2 coaches hauled by Class 37s were introduced on peak Rhymney services during the summer. The coaches do not comply with the Persons with Reduced Mobility (PRM) standards and would therefore need a derogation to continue in passenger service after 31 December.
Word: abrogating Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of abrogate Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: derogating Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of derogate Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: greave Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English greve, from Old English grǣfe, grǣfa (“bush, bramble, grove, thicket, copse, brush-wood (for burning), fuel”), probably related to Proto-Germanic *grōbō (“ditch, hole”). Cognate with Scots greve, greave (“grove”). Compare also Proto-Germanic *grainiz (“twig”), of unknown origin, whence Old Norse grein (“branch, bough”). Closely related to Old English grāf, grāfa (“grove”). See grove. Pronunciation: /ɡɹiːv/ 1. A bush; a tree; a grove. Labels: obsolete Example: she fled into that covert greave 2. A bough; a branch. Labels: obsolete
Word: greave Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English greve, greyve, from Old English grǣfa, grēfa (“pit, cave, hole, grave, trench”), from Proto-Germanic *grēbō, an ablaut variant of to *grōbō (“pit, ditch”) (whence doublet of groove) , from Proto-Indo-European *gʰrebʰ- (“to dig, scratch, scrape”). Cognate with North Frisian groop (“pit, sewer, gutter”), Dutch groef (“pit, hole, gutter”), German Grube (“pit, hole”), Icelandic gröf (“pit, grave”). Also related to grave. Pronunciation: /ɡɹiːv/ 1. A ditch or trench. Labels: obsolete
Word: greave Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English greve, grayve, from Old French greve (“shin”), of uncertain origin; possibly from Egyptian Arabic جورب (“stocking, leg cover”). Watkins suggests a connection with greve (“part in the hair”), due to the resemblance of the medial ridge to a part in the hair, from graver (“to part (the hair); engrave”), of Germanic origin, from Frankish *graban (“to engrave”); if so, related to Etymology 2 above. Pronunciation: /ɡɹiːv/ 1. A piece of armour that protects the leg, especially the shin, and occasionally the tops of the feet. Labels: historical Example: And through the stained windows bright, / From o'er the red-tiled eaves, / The sunlight blazed with colored light / On golden helms and greaves. Example: Then he cast off his breast-plate, thigh pieces, and greaves, while Alleyne followed his example.
Word: greave Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Back-formation from greaves (“residue left after animal fat has been rendered”). Pronunciation: /ɡɹiːv/ 1. To clean (a ship's bottom); to grave. Labels: transitive
Word: monstrous Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English monstrous, from Old French monstrueuse, monstrüos, from Latin mōnstrōsus. Compare monstruous. By surface analysis, monster + -ous. Pronunciation: /ˈmɑnstɹəs/, /ˈmɒnstɹəs/ 1. Hideous or frightful. Example: So bad a death argues a monstrous life. 2. Enormously large. Example: a monstrous height Example: The chiding billovv ſeemes to pelt the cloudes, / The vvinde ſhak'd ſurge, vvith high and monſtrous mayne, / Seemes to caſt vvater, on the burning Beare, […] 3. Freakish or grotesque. Example: The irregular and monstrous births Example: He, therefore, that refuses to do good to them whom he is bound to love […] is unnatural and monstrous in his affections. 4. Of, or relating to a mythical monster; full of monsters. Example: Where thou, perhaps, under the whelming tide / Visitest the bottom of the monstrous world. 5. Marvellous; exceedingly strange; fantastical. Labels: obsolete Example: The whole story was monstrous, and only worthy of the superstitious days in which it was written. 6. Disabled; crippled. (A severe slur used to describe persons with disabilities.) Labels: derogatory, offensive
Word: comeuppance Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English come up Proto-Indo-European *-(i)yós Proto-Italic *-ijos Proto-Italic *-ios Old Latin -ios Latin -ius Latin -iader. Old French -ancebor. Middle English -aunce English -ance English comeuppance From come up (“to appear before a judge”) + -ance. Pronunciation: /kʌmˈʌpəns/ 1. Retribution or outcome that is justly deserved. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: So when Brown's second wife turned out a reg'lar ternygrunt, I wa'n't in no wise upset, for he needed a comeuppance, an' he got it in her. Example: The Sunday edition of the principal morning paper even expressed some bitterness under the heading, "Gilded Youths of the Fin-de-Siecle"--this was considered the knowing phrase of the time, especially for Sunday supplements--and there is no doubt that from certain references in this bit of writing some people drew the conclusion that Mr. George Amberson Minafer had not yet got his comeuppance, a postponement still irritating.
Word: apple blossom Part of Speech: noun 1. The flower of an apple tree that will eventually turn into an apple. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: jake Part of Speech: adj Pronunciation: /dʒeɪk/ 1. Synonym of OK: adequate, satisfactory, acceptable. Labels: slang Example: ‘What do you care? Just keep your nose clean and everything will be jake.’ Example: Wouldn't you just like to see me now, Marion, wouldn't you? I'm not bitter. O no. I'm quite calm. Completely relaxed. But when you come to me in Mayfair when things are as they ought to be, don't try to move in and think things are going to be jake again.
Word: jake Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /dʒeɪk/ 1. A juvenile male turkey. Labels: US, countable, uncountable Example: The spring turkey woods are occupied by roaming bands of jakes — year-old males with strong mating urges but inferior body size. 2. A police officer, a law enforcement officer (sometimes especially one on foot rather than in a patrol car). Labels: Multicultural-London-English, New-York, countable, especially, slang, uncountable Example: A radio is a box, a razor blade is a ox / fat diamonds is rocks and jakes is cops. Example: And I ain't trying to see no highway chase with Jake 3. Jamaica ginger. Labels: US, slang, uncountable Example: It is possible that the governments have found the cause of the poisoned “jake” in their investigations into the Jamaica ginger deaths throughout the South and Southwest. 4. A Discordian prank involving a large number of people sending bizarre letters or parcels to a targeted individual. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Hello, I'm afraid in some regards I'm too discordian for my own good and I forgot to either write down the jake-dupe's address, or include it in my repost when I suggested today as jake day.... Example: It strikes me that organizing a jake over the net is a bad idea, because Hormel could conceivably find out about it before it happens. That's not going to stop me from participating though. 5. A rustic; a yokel. Labels: US, countable, slang, uncountable
Word: jake Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /dʒeɪk/ 1. To play a Discordian prank on (somebody), involving a large number of people sending bizarre letters or parcels to that person. Labels: transitive
Word: Jake Part of Speech: name Etymology: Originally a medieval variant of Jack; today also used as a diminutive form of Jacob and James. Pronunciation: /d͡ʒeɪk/ 1. A male given name. Example: Brett smiled at him. "I've promised to dance this with Jacob," she laughed. "You've a hell of a biblical name, Jake." Example: Her attendant - Jake, she had called him, which seemed an appropriate name for a redheaded, no-neck redneck with the muscles of a dedicated weight lifter - -
Word: down the drain Part of Speech: prep_phrase 1. Wasted or irretrievable. Labels: idiomatic Example: Well, my sense of humanity has gone down the drain Behind every beautiful thing there's been some kind of pain. 2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see down, the, drain.
Word: waved Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /weɪvd/ 1. simple past and past participle of wave Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: waved Part of Speech: adj Pronunciation: /weɪvd/ 1. Having a wave-like form or outline; undulating. 2. Wavy. Example: For quotations using this term, see Citations:waved. 3. Having on the margin a succession of curved segments or incisions.
Word: poss. Part of Speech: adj 1. Abbreviation of possessive (form). Labels: abbreviation, alt-of 2. Abbreviation of possible. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of
Word: poss. Part of Speech: adv 1. Abbreviation of possibly. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of Example: Apparently m > n in khân, khâin “which” (Av. katāma-?), poss. under the influence of khin “who” (*kahya-nā?). Example: The latter sense was modified by two other terms meaning “a lot of money”: long bread (poss. influenced by the Fr. baguette) and heavy bread (poss. influenced by unleavened bread).
Word: moonlight Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *meh₁-? Proto-Indo-European *mḗh₁n̥s Proto-Germanic *mēnô Proto-West Germanic *mānō Old English mōna Middle English mone Proto-Indo-European *lewk-der. Proto-Germanic *leuhtaz Proto-West Germanic *leuht Old English lēoht Middle English light Middle English moonelight English moonlight The noun is derived from Middle English moonelight, monelight, mone lyght (“light of the moon; (heraldry) pattern of moons on the field of a heraldic banner”), from mon, mone (“moon”) (from Old English mōna (“moon”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *mḗh₁n̥s (“moon; month”)) + light (“light”) (from Old English lēoht (“light”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *lewk- (“bright; to see; to shine”)). By surface analysis, moon + light. The verb is derived from the noun. Verb sense 1.1 (“to secretly leave premises without paying the rent”) is a back-formation from moonlight flit, while verb sense 1.2 (“to make a night-time attack on a tenant farmer”) is probably a back-formation from moonlighter. cognates * Dutch maanlicht * German Mondlicht * Scots muinlicht, munelicht * West Frisian moanneljocht Pronunciation: /ˈmuːnlaɪt/, /ˈmunˌlaɪt/ 1. The light reflected from the Moon, which seems to emanate from it. Labels: also, attributive, uncountable, usually Example: Meronym: moonbeam Example: Than Ripheus him ſelf adioynd, & myghty moſt with launce / Came Iphitus onto my ſide, by monelight met by chaunce. 2. The silvery colour of the light reflected by the Moon. Labels: archaic, uncountable, usually 3. Synonym of moonshine (“illegally produced or smuggled spirits”). Labels: UK, archaic, dialectal, uncountable, usually Example: Barter'd for game from chace or warren won, / Yon cask holds moonlight, run when moon was none; / And late-snatch'd spoils lie stow'd in hutch apart, / To wait the associate higgler's evening cart. Example: A fast-sailing lugger will soon bring you there though, snug stowed under hatches, like a cask of moonlight. 4. Chiefly in to do a moonlight: short for moonlight flit (“an act of secretly leaving premises without paying the rent, supposedly at night by the light of the Moon; hence, any act of escaping at night”). Labels: countable, informal, usually 5. A picture of a scene illuminated by light reflected by the Moon. Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable, usually 6. A journey made at night when the Moon is shining. Labels: US, countable, obsolete, rare, uncountable, usually 7. An oratorical competition; also, a participant in such a competition. Labels: US, countable, obsolete, uncountable, usually
Word: moonlight Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *meh₁-? Proto-Indo-European *mḗh₁n̥s Proto-Germanic *mēnô Proto-West Germanic *mānō Old English mōna Middle English mone Proto-Indo-European *lewk-der. Proto-Germanic *leuhtaz Proto-West Germanic *leuht Old English lēoht Middle English light Middle English moonelight English moonlight The noun is derived from Middle English moonelight, monelight, mone lyght (“light of the moon; (heraldry) pattern of moons on the field of a heraldic banner”), from mon, mone (“moon”) (from Old English mōna (“moon”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *mḗh₁n̥s (“moon; month”)) + light (“light”) (from Old English lēoht (“light”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *lewk- (“bright; to see; to shine”)). By surface analysis, moon + light. The verb is derived from the noun. Verb sense 1.1 (“to secretly leave premises without paying the rent”) is a back-formation from moonlight flit, while verb sense 1.2 (“to make a night-time attack on a tenant farmer”) is probably a back-formation from moonlighter. cognates * Dutch maanlicht * German Mondlicht * Scots muinlicht, munelicht * West Frisian moanneljocht Pronunciation: /ˈmuːnlaɪt/, /ˈmunˌlaɪt/ 1. To do a moonlight flit: to secretly leave premises without paying the rent, supposedly at night by the light of the Moon. Labels: informal, intransitive 2. To make a night-time attack on a tenant farmer not supporting the policies of the Irish National Land League. Labels: Ireland, historical, intransitive 3. To do work for pay (sometimes illegally, secretly, or without paying income tax on the earnings) which is in addition to a main job, often in the evening or at night. Labels: informal, intransitive Example: There are three individual rear seats. They all slide, they all fold, or they can all be removed completely, so that you can moonlight as a van. Example: Investigators discover that Captain Ospina was forced to take a second job, moonlighting in a bar, in order to make ends meet for his family. 4. To do work for pay (sometimes illegally, secretly, or without paying income tax on the earnings) which is in addition to a main job, often in the evening or at night. Labels: informal, intransitive Example: Mr. [Jeffrey] Katzenberg, who moonlights as a top [Joe] Biden official and has worked with Mr. [George] Clooney on philanthropy for decades, reached out to him to see if there was an off-ramp, according to three people familiar with the matter. 5. To do work for pay (sometimes illegally, secretly, or without paying income tax on the earnings) which is in addition to a main job, often in the evening or at night. Labels: informal, intransitive Example: Some proteins have a primary function of acting as enzymes, but moonlight by carrying out secondary roles such as signal transduction or transcriptional regulation. 6. Of a tenant farmer: to be attacked for not supporting the policies of the Irish National Land League. Labels: Ireland, historical, transitive
Word: moonlights Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of moonlight Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: moonlighting Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of moonlight Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: moonlighting Part of Speech: noun 1. The act of, or a period of, working on the side (at a secondary job), often in the evening or during the night, either openly or secretly. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Aiming for sky-high productivity, the company discourages the distractions and fatigue of moonlighting by paying people enough that most choose not to bother with a second job. 2. Moonshining. Labels: countable, dated, rare, uncountable
Word: moonlighted Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From moon + lighted. 1. Illuminated by moonlight. Labels: not-comparable Example: “It came downstairs as I went up,” said the trooper, “and crossed the moonlighted window with a loose black mantle on […]” Example: I sat for hours afterwards, gazing out of the cavern entrance at the moonlighted grove, silent and desolate beyond any telling.
Word: moonlighted Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From moonlight + -ed. 1. simple past and past participle of moonlight Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: brilliance Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From brilliant + -ance. Compare French brillance. Pronunciation: /ˈbɹɪljən(t)s/ 1. The quality of being exceptionally effulgent (giving off light). Labels: uncountable, usually Example: [G]arishly enough they [gas jets] glared there, transparently wannish as it were shamed, like blinking night-things surprised by the brilliance of day, they having so flared and stared for months, or years, inasmuch as they were now blazing diminished, with streaks and rays in the flame, as if by effort: […] 2. The quality of having extraordinary mental capacity. Labels: uncountable, usually 3. Magnificence; resplendence. Labels: UK, uncountable, usually Example: What brilliance it took from Harry Kane to control the cross and place the ball into the top corner.
Word: sultry Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From sulter (“verb (obsolete), a variant of swelter”) + -y; compare sweltry. Pronunciation: /ˈsʌltɹi/, /ˈsəl-/ 1. Hot and humid; sweltering. Example: Other ſignes of the Hiues fullneſſe and readineſſe to ſwarm are at the Hiue-doore, […] Fourthly, their firſt lying forth in foggy and ſultrie mornings & euenings, & going in again when the aire is cleere. Example: On recollecting myself, I diſcovered that I had almoſt reached the entrance of the lagoon, and determined to venture in, if poſſible, to take a few fiſh, […] I ſoon caught more trout than I had preſent occaſion for, and the air was too hot and ſultry to admit of their being kept for many hours, even though ſalted or barbecued. 2. Emitting great heat. Example: The battlefield—an undulating, parched, and dusty expanse—is lying under the sultry sun of a July afternoon. 3. Sexually enthralling. Labels: figuratively Example: When Chicanos think about us at all, they perpetuate the stereotypes. Gabacho depiction of us as emotionally unchecked, sultry women lusting after pale bodies is just an extension of the fantasy they have about all women. Such dishonest portrayals are why Chicanas are "breaking the silence," as Rita Sánchez calls it. Example: Geeta Dutt was the wife of Guru Dutt and largely sang for the heroines in his films. Her voice was sultrier than the others, often recognisable by a slightly erotic quality felt through a distinctive quivering in the voice as heard in the song ‘Na Jao Saiyan Chuda Ke Baiyan’ (‘Don’t let go of my wrist my love’) from Sahib Bibi Aur Ghulam (Abrar Alvi, 1962) […]
Word: eavesdropping Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English eavesdrop Proto-Germanic *-ungō Old English -ung Middle English -ynge English -ing English eavesdropping From eavesdrop + -ing. Pronunciation: /ˈivsˌdɹɒ.piŋ/ 1. verbal noun of eavesdrop: Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The detective kept them in view. He made his way casually along the inside of the shelter until he reached an open scuttle close to where the two men were standing talking. Eavesdropping was not a thing Larard would have practised from choice, but there were times when, in the public interest, he had to do it, and this was one of them. 2. verbal noun of eavesdrop: Labels: countable, uncountable 3. verbal noun of eavesdrop: Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: eavesdropping Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree English eavesdrop Proto-Germanic *-ungō Old English -ung Middle English -ynge English -ing English eavesdropping From eavesdrop + -ing. Pronunciation: /ˈivsˌdɹɒ.piŋ/ 1. present participle and gerund of eavesdrop Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: subliminal Part of Speech: adj Etymology: PIE word *upó The adjective is derived from sub- (prefix meaning ‘beneath, under’) + liminal (“of or pertaining to an entrance or threshold”) (from Latin līminālis, from līmen (“doorstep, threshold; doorway, entrance; beginning, commencement”) (possibly ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *Heh₃l- (“to bend, bow; elbow”)) + *-mn̥ (suffix forming action nouns or result nouns from verbs)) + -ālis (suffix forming adjectives of relationship from nouns)). The English word is borrowed from German subliminal, or a calque of German unterschwellig (“subliminal”, literally “beneath the threshold”). The noun is derived from the adjective. Pronunciation: [ˌsʌbˈlɪm.ɪ.nl̩], [səˈblɪm.ɪ.nl̩], /səˈblɪm.ɪ.nəl/, /ˌsabˈlɪm.ɪ.nəl/, [ˌsabˈlɪm.ɪ.nl̩] 1. Of a stimulus: below the limen or threshold of conscious perception, especially if still able to produce a response; also (generally), below the threshold where a response can be produced. 2. Without directed awareness or thought; subconscious (dated), unconscious. 3. Of an advertisement, a message, etc.: conveyed in a manner that a person is unaware of being influenced by it. Labels: broadly
Word: subliminal Part of Speech: noun Etymology: PIE word *upó The adjective is derived from sub- (prefix meaning ‘beneath, under’) + liminal (“of or pertaining to an entrance or threshold”) (from Latin līminālis, from līmen (“doorstep, threshold; doorway, entrance; beginning, commencement”) (possibly ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *Heh₃l- (“to bend, bow; elbow”)) + *-mn̥ (suffix forming action nouns or result nouns from verbs)) + -ālis (suffix forming adjectives of relationship from nouns)). The English word is borrowed from German subliminal, or a calque of German unterschwellig (“subliminal”, literally “beneath the threshold”). The noun is derived from the adjective. Pronunciation: [ˌsʌbˈlɪm.ɪ.nl̩], [səˈblɪm.ɪ.nl̩], /səˈblɪm.ɪ.nəl/, /ˌsabˈlɪm.ɪ.nəl/, [ˌsabˈlɪm.ɪ.nl̩] 1. Chiefly preceded by the: something which is below the limen or threshold of conscious perception. 2. Chiefly preceded by the: the subconscious (dated) or unconscious self. 3. An advertisement, a message, etc., which is conveyed in a manner that a person is unaware of being influenced by it. Labels: broadly 4. An audio or video recording, often consisting of ambient music or white noise with hidden affirmations, intended to produce physical or psychological changes in the listener through repetition. Labels: Internet Example: She spent all night listening to a subliminal to change her eye color.
Word: Thames Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Middle English Temse, Temese, from Old English Temes, Temese (compare Welsh Tafwys), from Latin Tamesis, Tamesas. Variant spellings with h arose in Middle English due to the mistaken assumption of a Greek etymology. The Latin name is from Proto-Brythonic *Tamesis, from Proto-Celtic *tamesās (“river, waters”, literally “darkness”), a masculine ā-stem of *tames, Proto-Indo-European *tm̥Hes-, zero-grade of *témHes-, *témHos- (“darkness”), an s-stem from the root *temH- (“dark”). Related to Proto-Celtic *temeslos (“darkness”), *temos (“dark”). A parallel in Proto-Celtic of "dark, darkness" taking on the figurative meaning of "water" can also be found in Proto-Celtic *dubros (“water, dark”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰubrós (“dark”), yielding Welsh dŵr (“water”), Irish dobhar (“water, sea, dark, gloomy”). Hydronyms with their origin in this term also occur elsewhere in Europe, for example Portugal's Douro. Alternatively from Proto-Celtic *tā-, *tāyo- (“to melt, flow”), from Proto-Indo-European *teh₂- (“to melt”), or from unknown non-Indo-European root. Possible cognates include the names of rivers and tributaries such as: * Taff, Tamar (from Latin Tamarus), Tame, Tavy, Team, Teifi (from Welsh Teifi, from Old Welsh Tebi, Teibi), Teme, and Teviot (Latin Tefius, Teifius) in Great Britain * Tambre (from Latin Tamaris), Támega (in Galician, Portuguese Tâmega, Latin Tamice), Támoga or Támboga (Latin Tamega), and Tamuxe, all of them flowing through Galicia (Spain) and northern Portugal * Tamaran in France * Tammaro (from Latin Tamarus) in Italy * Demer in Belgium * Tamyras in Phoenicia * Tiberis (Tiber) * Tons, Tamasa (from Sanskrit तमसा (tamasā)) in India More at Thames. Pronunciation: /tɛmz/, /θeɪmz/ 1. A river in southern England, flowing 336 km (209 mi.) from Gloucestershire, through Wiltshire, Oxfordshire, Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Surrey and Greater London, and between Essex and Kent to the Thames Estuary and North Sea. Example: Near-synonym: (dated) Isis 2. A sea area centred on the Thames Estuary. 3. A river in Ontario, Canada, flowing 258 km (160 mi.) to Lake St. Clair. 4. A river in the U.S. State of Connecticut flowing 24 km (15 mi.) past New London to Long Island Sound. 5. A town in Thames-Coromandel district, Waikato, New Zealand, situated on the Firth of Thames (a large bay) and the Coromandel Peninsula. 6. A surname.
Word: Last Supper Part of Speech: name 1. The Passover meal that Jesus ate with his disciples on the night before his death.
Word: Last Supper Part of Speech: noun 1. An artistic representation of this event.
Word: disciple Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English disciple, discipul, from Old English discipul (“disciple, scholar”), from Latin discipulus (“pupil, learner”). Later influenced or superseded in Middle English by Old French deciple. Pronunciation: /dɪˈsaɪ.pəl/ 1. A person who learns from another, especially one who then teaches others. 2. An active follower or adherent of someone, or some philosophy etc. Example: And it came to pass, as Jesus sat at meat in the house, behold, many publicans and sinners came and sat down with him and his disciples. Example: By some paradoxical evolution rancour and intolerance have been established in the vanguard of primitive Christianity. Mrs. Spoker, in common with many of the stricter disciples of righteousness, was as inclement in demeanour as she was cadaverous in aspect. 3. A wretched, miserable-looking man. Labels: Ireland
Word: disciple Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English disciple, discipul, from Old English discipul (“disciple, scholar”), from Latin discipulus (“pupil, learner”). Later influenced or superseded in Middle English by Old French deciple. Pronunciation: /dɪˈsaɪ.pəl/ 1. To convert (a person) into a disciple. Labels: transitive 2. To train, educate, teach. Labels: transitive Example: fraile youth is oft to follie led, / Through false allurement of that pleasing baite, / That better were in vertues discipled […] 3. To train, educate, teach. Labels: transitive Example: Most recently, messengers to the 2025 SBC Annual Meeting passed the resolution On Restoring Moral Clarity through God’s Design for Gender, Marriage, and the Family, which resolves among many beliefs that “we encourage churches to disciple their members in a biblical view of marriage, sexuality, parenting, and the sanctity of life.”