nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: carrier Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English cariere, partly from carien + -ere, after Anglo-Norman carier, cariour, and partly directly from Anglo-Norman. By surface analysis, carry + -er. Pronunciation: /ˈkæɹi.ə/, /ˈkaɹɪjə/, /ˈkæɹi.ɚ/, /ˈkɛɹi.ɚ/, /ˈkaɾe.əɾ/ 1. A person or object that carries someone or something else. Example: armored personnel carrier Example: The air which is but […] a carrier of the sounds. 2. A person or object that carries someone or something else. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis Example: Two weeks later, I reported to Pensacola, Florida, for duty aboard CV-48, the USS Saipan, a boxy old carrier the Navy retired from fleet duty and reassigned for use in training. 3. A person or object that carries someone or something else. Labels: broadly Example: And each was hideously powerful: an attack carrier could destroy a world, a force of cruisers and spinship destroyers could destroy a sun. Example: The first carrier completely ignored us, sir! Blew through the Malta’s debris field and headed straight for Earth! 4. A person or object that carries someone or something else. Labels: UK, abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis 5. A carrier pigeon. 6. A person or company in the business of shipping freight. Example: The roads [are] crowded with carriers, laden with rich manufactures. 7. A signal such as radio, sound, or light that is modulated to transmit information. 8. A mobile network operator; wireless carrier. 9. A certified airline. Example: Southwest, the nation’s largest domestic carrier, is installing seats with less cushion and thinner materials — a svelte model known in the business as “slim-line.” 10. That which drives or carries. 11. That which drives or carries. 12. That which drives or carries. 13. That which drives or carries. 14. That which drives or carries. Labels: especially 15. A catalyst or other intermediary in a chemical reaction. 16. A person or other organism that has a genetic trait, mutation or infection liable to cause a disease, but displays no symptoms. 17. A charge carrier. 18. A liquid or gas used as a medium for another substance. Example: Linseed oil is often used as the carrier for pigment in oil painting. Example: inert carrier gas
Word: sexist Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From sex + -ist, after sexism. Pronunciation: /ˈsɛksɪst/ 1. Unfairly discriminatory against one sex in favour of the other. Example: What was all that about? Well, like all women, she's shoe-mad. 't's a bit sexist, isn't it? Do you know one woman who isn't obsessed with shoes? No, but I only know one woman. And she just left the room shouting "THE SHOES!" Example: Yes, sometimes my lyrics are sexist / But you lovely bitches and hoes / Should know I'm trying to correct this
Word: sexist Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From sex + -ist, after sexism. Pronunciation: /ˈsɛksɪst/ 1. A person who discriminates on grounds of sex; someone who practises sexism. Example: When you argue […] that since fewer women write good poetry this justifies their total exclusion, you are taking a position analogous to that of the racist—I might call you in this case a "sexist"—who says that since so few Negroes have held positions of importance relative to the majority race, their exclusion from history books is a matter of good judgement rather than discrimination. Both the racist and the sexist are acting as if all that has happened had never happened, and both of them are making decisions and coming to conclusions about someone's value by referring to factors which are in both cases irrelevant. Example: I don't blame racists, sexists, lookists, or any other “ists” for what they personify and perpetuate. They are mere hostages of their egos.
Word: telephone Part of Speech: verb Etymology: The noun is derived from tele- (prefix meaning ‘from a distance’) + -phone (suffix denoting a device which makes a sound), modelled after German Telephon (“early apparatus converting sound into electrical signals”) (dated) (now German Telefon). The word was first used to refer to the modern device in 1876 by the Scottish-born Canadian-American engineer Alexander Graham Bell (1847–1922). The prefix tele- is ultimately derived from Ancient Greek τῆλε (têle, “afar, far away, far off”), from Proto-Indo-European *kʷelh₁- (“to turn end-over-end; to revolve around; hence, to dwell, sojourn”). The suffix -phone is ultimately from Ancient Greek φωνή (phōnḗ, “sound; voice”), and Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂- (“to say; to speak”). Noun sense 4.4 (“system of communication using musical notes”) is borrowed from French téléphone (“kind of megaphone; system of communication using musical notes”). The verb is derived from the noun. Pronunciation: /ˈtɛlɪfəʊn/, /ˈtɛləˌfoʊn/, [ˈtɛɫ-], [ˈteɫəˌfəʉn], [ˈteɫəˌfɐʉn] 1. To convey (information, a message, news, etc.) using a telephone (noun sense 1). Labels: transitive Example: David telephoned his apologies to his mother. On the way we had had our first puncture, and had taken some time to change the wheel, as we were unable to find the jack. Example: He telephoned what he knew to his chief, the information such as to cause the smug complacency of that gentlemen in his henchman's prowess to vanish from his expression, […] 2. To (attempt to) contact (someone) using a telephone. Labels: transitive Example: The length ganger saw the train passing with the van derailed and promptly telephoned the Sandbach signalman, who restored his signals to danger, but not in time to stop the train before the final derailment occurred. 3. To provide (a place) with a telephone system. Labels: obsolete, transitive Example: The London County Council prepared careful estimates for telephoning London in 1898, and those estimates were submitted to Parliament. It contended that it could provide a telephone service for the County Council area of London at £38 per subscriber capital outlay, after setting aside the necessary funds for the debt charge and after paying the Post Office the 10 per cent. royalty. 4. To transmit (sounds) over a distance. Labels: obsolete, transitive Example: Do you hear the chemical accents of the sun? / Do you telephone the roar of the waters over the earth? 5. To (attempt to) contact someone using a telephone; to make a telephone call. Labels: intransitive Example: I came down like a wolf on the fold, didn't I? Why didn't I telephone? Strategy, my dear boy, strategy. This is a surprise attack, and I'd no wish that the garrison, forewarned, should escape. Example: Having completed their task, Fireman Page telephoned from a lineside box to the next signal cabin, briefly reported the incident and said that, as no high explosive had dropped and the track was safe, they proposed proceeding "at caution".
Word: public key cryptography Part of Speech: noun 1. The subfield of cryptography in which all information used to encode a message is assumed to be publicly available. Labels: uncountable
Word: keystone Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From key + stone. Definition 4 (retail) possibly originated in the jewelry industry in the magazine called "Jewelers' Circular-Keystone". Pronunciation: /ˈkiː.stəʊn/ 1. The top stone of an arch. Example: The tunnel, which is 1,000 yd. long, had been closed to passenger traffic since November 17, 1949, after some of the keystones had worked loose. 2. Something on which other things depend for support. Example: Tension between empirical and theoretical knowledge is keystone to sociological and to organizational theories, as early as in Marx's and Weber's frameworks. 3. A retail price that is double the cost price; a markup of 100%. 4. The combination of the shortstop and second baseman.
Word: keystone Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From key + stone. Definition 4 (retail) possibly originated in the jewelry industry in the magazine called "Jewelers' Circular-Keystone". Pronunciation: /ˈkiː.stəʊn/ 1. To distort (an image) by projecting it onto a surface at an angle, which for example causes a square to look like a trapezoid. Labels: transitive 2. To double the cost price in order to determine the retail price; to apply a markup of 100%. Labels: transitive
Word: arch Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂erkʷ- Proto-Indo-European *h₂erkʷos Proto-Italic *arkuos Latin arcus Old French arc Old French archebor. Middle English arch English arch From Middle English arch, arche, from Old French arche (“an arch”), a feminine form of arc, from Latin arcus (“a bow, arc, arch”). Doublet of arc and arco. Displaced native Old English bīeġels and Old English hwealf. Pronunciation: /ɑɹt͡ʃ/, /ɑːt͡ʃ/, /ɑɹk/, /ɑːk/ 1. An inverted U shape. 2. An arch-shaped arrangement of trapezoidal stones, designed to redistribute downward force outward. 3. An architectural element having the shape of an arch 4. Any place covered by an arch; an archway. Example: to pass into the arch of a bridge 5. An arc; a part of a curve. Labels: archaic 6. A natural arch-shaped opening in a rock mass. 7. The curved part of the bottom of a foot.
Word: arch Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂erkʷ- Proto-Indo-European *h₂erkʷos Proto-Italic *arkuos Latin arcus Old French arc Old French archebor. Middle English arch English arch From Middle English arch, arche, from Old French arche (“an arch”), a feminine form of arc, from Latin arcus (“a bow, arc, arch”). Doublet of arc and arco. Displaced native Old English bīeġels and Old English hwealf. Pronunciation: /ɑɹt͡ʃ/, /ɑːt͡ʃ/, /ɑɹk/, /ɑːk/ 1. To form into an arch shape. Labels: transitive Example: The cat arched its back. Example: GBR will either be letting operating contracts or running rail companies directly, depending on which party wins the next General Election. Whichever it is, you can be forgiven for arching an eyebrow at an infrastructure company being placed in overall control. 2. To cover with an arch or arches. Labels: transitive
Word: arch Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂er-der.? Proto-Indo-European *h₂ergʰ-der.? Ancient Greek ἄρχω (árkhō) Ancient Greek ἀρχι- (arkhi-)der. Latin archi-bor. Old English arċe- Middle English arch- English arch- English arch From the prefix arch-. "Principal" is the original sense; "mischievous" is via onetime frequent collocation with rogue, knave, etc. Pronunciation: /ɑɹt͡ʃ/, /ɑːt͡ʃ/, /ɑɹk/, /ɑːk/ 1. Knowing, clever, mischievous. Example: I attempted to hide my emotions, but an arch remark escaped my lips. Example: [He] spoke his request with so arch a leer. 2. Cute, sly, prematurely wise. Labels: Ireland 3. Principal; primary. Example: They were arch enemies. Example: the most arch act of piteous massacre
Word: arch Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂er-der.? Proto-Indo-European *h₂ergʰ-der.? Ancient Greek ἄρχω (árkhō) Ancient Greek ἀρχι- (arkhi-)der. Latin archi-bor. Old English arċe- Middle English arch- English arch- English arch From the prefix arch-. "Principal" is the original sense; "mischievous" is via onetime frequent collocation with rogue, knave, etc. Pronunciation: /ɑɹt͡ʃ/, /ɑːt͡ʃ/, /ɑɹk/, /ɑːk/ 1. A chief. Labels: obsolete Example: My worthy arch and patron comes to-night. 2. Synonym of god (“person who owns and runs a multi-user dungeon”).
Word: arch Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂er-der.? Proto-Indo-European *h₂ergʰ-der.? Ancient Greek ἄρχω (árkhō) Ancient Greek ἀρχι- (arkhi-) Proto-Indo-European *teḱ- Proto-Indo-European *tetḱ- Proto-Indo-European *-ō Proto-Indo-European *tétḱō Proto-Hellenic *téktōn Ancient Greek τέκτων (téktōn) Ancient Greek ἀρχιτέκτων (arkhitéktōn)bor. Latin architectus Proto-Indo-European *-tew-? Proto-Indo-European *-r-eh₂? Latin -tūra Latin architectūralbor. French architecturebor. English architectureclip. English arch Clipping of architecture. Pronunciation: /ɑɹt͡ʃ/, /ɑːt͡ʃ/, /ɑɹk/, /ɑːk/ 1. An architecture; a computer architecture or instruction set architecture. Example: In the Linux kernel, arch-specific code lives in the arch directory of the source tree.
Word: key signature Part of Speech: noun 1. An indication of the key of a composition, giving the number of sharps or flats in the corresponding scale. Example: The key signatures of D major and b minor both have two sharps.
Word: mode Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Old French mode (masculine), from Latin modus (“measure, due measure, rhythm, melody”). Doublet of modus. Pronunciation: /moʊd/, /məʊd/, /mod/ 1. A particular means of accomplishing something. Example: What was the mode of entry? Example: An effectual and inexpensive mode of Protecting Wall-Trees from Spring-Frosts. 2. A particular means of accomplishing something. Labels: especially Example: common-mode Example: differential-mode 3. A particular means of accomplishing something. Example: longitudinal mode Example: transverse mode 4. A particular means of accomplishing something. Example: In insert mode, characters typed are directly inserted into the buffer. 5. A particular means of accomplishing something. Example: airplane mode; night mode Example: The car was then placed into its Level 2 driving mode, much like you would for the current adaptive cruise control systems. 6. A particular means of accomplishing something. Example: Campaign mode (the career mode that includes the notorious Gran Turismo driving school) is off limits while offline. Also unavailable offline: buying new cars, viewing your garage, editing car liveries, and even the "taking photos of fancy cars in exotic scenery" mode. Example: I've stumbled over gaming's simplest hurdles, been humiliated by the lowliest of enemies and will often go for an easy mode if one's available, and yet I've run through Bloodborne twice without ever really breaking much of a sweat. 7. A particular means of accomplishing something. 8. A particular means of accomplishing something. 9. A particular means of accomplishing something. Example: It makes relatively little difference in mode choice except that some high income people avoid bus trips of 100 miles or more and except for the tendency of upper income people when traveling on business to travel by air. 10. A particular state of being, or frame of mind. Example: After a series of early setbacks, her political campaign is in crisis mode. Example: After being stabbed, he went into survival mode until he got to the hospital. 11. The most frequently occurring value in a distribution. 12. One of several common scales in modern Western music, one of which corresponds to the modern major scale and one to the natural minor scale. 13. One of several common scales in modern Western music, one of which corresponds to the modern major scale and one to the natural minor scale. 14. In lace-making, a small decorative piece inserted into a pattern. 15. In lace-making, a small decorative piece inserted into a pattern. Labels: obsolete
Word: mode Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From French mode f (“fashion, trend”). Pronunciation: /moʊd/, /məʊd/, /mod/ 1. Style or fashion; popular trend. Example: Her wardrobe is always in mode. Example: The dress she wore was no longer a cheap blue serge but a handsome tricolette, richly trimmed according to the prevailing mode.
Word: scale Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English scale, from Latin scāla, usually in plural scālae (“a flight of steps, stairs, staircase, ladder”), for *skand-slā, from scandō (“to climb”); see scan, ascend, descend, etc. Doublet of scala. Pronunciation: /skeɪl/, [skeɪ̯(ə)ɫ], /skæɪl/, [skæɪ̯(ə)ɫ] 1. A ladder; a series of steps; a means of ascending. Labels: obsolete 2. An ordered, usually numerical sequence used for measurement; means of assigning a magnitude. Example: Please rate your experience on a scale from 1 to 10. Example: The magnitude of an earthquake is measured on the open-ended Richter scale. 3. Size; scope. Example: There are some who question the scale of our ambitions. Example: We live our lives in three dimensions for our threescore and ten allotted years. Yet every branch of contemporary science, from statistics to cosmology, alludes to processes that operate on scales outside of human experience: the millisecond and the nanometer, the eon and the light-year. 4. The ratio of depicted distance to actual distance. Example: This map uses a scale of 1:10. 5. A line or bar associated with a drawing, used to indicate measurement when the image has been magnified or reduced. Example: Even though precision can be carried to an extreme, the scales which now are drawn in (and usually connected to an appropriate figure by an arrow) will allow derivation of meaningful measurements. 6. A series of notes spanning an octave, tritave, or pseudo-octave, used to make melodies. 7. A mathematical base for a numeral system; radix. Example: the decimal scale, the binary scale 8. Gradation; succession of ascending and descending steps and degrees; progressive series; scheme of comparative rank or order. Example: There is a certain scale of duties […] which for want of studying in right order, all the world is in confusion. Example: City's players and supporters travelled from one end of the emotional scale to the other in those vital seconds, providing a truly remarkable piece of football theatre and the most dramatic conclusion to a season in Premier League history. 9. A standard amount of money to be paid for a service, for example union-negotiated amounts received by a performer or writer; similar to wage scale or pay grade. Example: Sally wasn't the star of the show, so she was glad to be paid scale.
Word: scale Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English scale, from Latin scāla, usually in plural scālae (“a flight of steps, stairs, staircase, ladder”), for *skand-slā, from scandō (“to climb”); see scan, ascend, descend, etc. Doublet of scala. Pronunciation: /skeɪl/, [skeɪ̯(ə)ɫ], /skæɪl/, [skæɪ̯(ə)ɫ] 1. To change the size of something whilst maintaining proportion; especially to change a process in order to produce much larger amounts of the final product. Labels: transitive Example: We should scale that up by a factor of 10. 2. To climb to the top of. Labels: transitive Example: Hilary and Norgay were the first known to have scaled Everest. Example: At last I came to the great barrier-cliffs; and after three days of mad effort—of maniacal effort—I scaled them. I built crude ladders; I wedged sticks in narrow fissures; I chopped toe-holds and finger-holds with my long knife; but at last I scaled them. Near the summit I came upon a huge cavern. 3. To tolerate significant increases in throughput or other potentially limiting factors. Labels: intransitive Example: That architecture won't scale to real-world environments. 4. To weigh, measure or grade according to a scale or system. Labels: transitive Example: Scaling his present bearing with his past. Example: The kitchen-dining-buffet car scales 49.2 tons. 5. To take measurements from (an engineering drawing), treating them as (or as if) reliable dimensional instructions. Labels: transitive Example: Every single drawing in the specification has a warning in its title block which reads, "Do not scale this drawing."
Word: scale Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English scale, from Old French escale, from Frankish and/or Old High German skala, from Proto-Germanic *skalō. Cognate with Old English sċealu (“shell, husk”), whence the modern doublet shale. Further cognate with Dutch schaal, German Schale, French écale. Pronunciation: /skeɪl/, [skeɪ̯(ə)ɫ], /skæɪl/, [skæɪ̯(ə)ɫ] 1. Part of an overlapping arrangement of many small, flat and hard pieces of keratin covering the skin of an animal, particularly a fish or reptile. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Fish that, with their fins and shining scales, / Glide under the green wave. 2. A small piece of pigmented chitin, many of which coat the wings of a butterfly or moth to give them their color. Labels: countable, uncountable 3. A flake of skin of an animal afflicted with dermatitis. Labels: countable, uncountable 4. Part of an overlapping arrangement of many small, flat and hard protective layers forming a pinecone that flare when mature to release pine nut seeds. Labels: countable, uncountable 5. The flaky material sloughed off heated metal. Labels: uncountable 6. Scale mail (as opposed to chain mail). Labels: countable, uncountable 7. Limescale. Labels: uncountable 8. A scale insect. Labels: countable, uncountable 9. The thin metallic side plate of the handle of a pocketknife. Labels: countable, uncountable 10. An infestation of scale insects on a plant; commonly thought of as, or mistaken for, a disease. Labels: US, uncountable
Word: scale Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English scale, from Old French escale, from Frankish and/or Old High German skala, from Proto-Germanic *skalō. Cognate with Old English sċealu (“shell, husk”), whence the modern doublet shale. Further cognate with Dutch schaal, German Schale, French écale. Pronunciation: /skeɪl/, [skeɪ̯(ə)ɫ], /skæɪl/, [skæɪ̯(ə)ɫ] 1. To remove the scales of. Labels: transitive Example: Please scale that fish for dinner. 2. To become scaly; to produce or develop scales. Labels: intransitive Example: The dry weather is making my skin scale. 3. To strip or clear of scale; to descale. Labels: transitive Example: to scale the inside of a boiler 4. To take off in thin layers or scales, as tartar from the teeth; to pare off, as a surface. Labels: transitive Example: 1684-1690, Thomas Burnet, Sacred Theory of the Earth if all the mountains and hills were scaled, and the earth made even 5. To separate and come off in thin layers or laminae. Labels: intransitive Example: Some sandstone scales by exposure. Example: Those that cast their shell are the lobster and crab; the old skins are found, but the old shells never; so it is likely that they scale off. 6. To scatter; to spread. Labels: Scotland, UK, dialectal 7. To clean, as the inside of a cannon, by the explosion of a small quantity of powder. Labels: transitive Example: cannons […]caused to be scaled and loaded
Word: scale Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Inherited from Northern Middle English scale (non-Northern scole), from Old Norse skál (“bowl”) from Proto-Germanic *skēlō. Compare Danish skål (“bowl, cup”), Dutch schaal, German Schale, Old High German scāla, Old English scealu (“cup”). Pronunciation: /skeɪl/, [skeɪ̯(ə)ɫ], /skæɪl/, [skæɪ̯(ə)ɫ] 1. A device to measure mass or weight. Example: After the long, lazy winter I was afraid to get on the scale. 2. Either of the pans, trays, or dishes of a balance or scales.
Word: basketball Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Celtic *baskis Proto-Brythonicder. Late Latin bascauda Anglo-Norman bascatbor. Middle English basket English basket Proto-Indo-European *bʰel-der. Proto-Germanic *balluz Old English *beall Middle English bal English ball English basketball From basket + ball. Pronunciation: /ˈbɑːs.kɪt.bɔːl/, /ˈbæs.kɪt.bɔl/, /ˈbæs.kɪt.bɑl/ 1. A sport in which two opposing teams of five players strive to put a ball through a hoop. Labels: uncountable Example: to play basketball Example: He pursued basketball as his career. 2. The particular kind of ball used in the sport of basketball. Labels: countable
Word: basketball Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Celtic *baskis Proto-Brythonicder. Late Latin bascauda Anglo-Norman bascatbor. Middle English basket English basket Proto-Indo-European *bʰel-der. Proto-Germanic *balluz Old English *beall Middle English bal English ball English basketball From basket + ball. Pronunciation: /ˈbɑːs.kɪt.bɔːl/, /ˈbæs.kɪt.bɔl/, /ˈbæs.kɪt.bɑl/ 1. To play basketball. Labels: informal, intransitive Example: by high school he was basketballing with the best of an all-Negro league 2. To throw in a similar way to when shooting a basketball. Labels: informal, transitive Example: He took a sip from a paper coffee-cup , crumpled it up and basketballed it into a small rubbish bin about five feet from him.
Word: IP address Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Short for Internet Protocol address. 1. A number assigned to each computer's or other device's network interface, which are active on a network. supporting the Internet Protocol, in order to distinguish each network interface, and hence each networked device) from every other network interface anywhere on the network. Labels: Internet
Word: ovine Part of Speech: adj Etymology: The adjective is borrowed from Late Latin ovīnus (“ovine”) + English -ine (suffix with the sense ‘of or relating to’ forming adjectives). Ovīnus is derived from Latin ovis (“sheep”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ówis (“sheep”), possibly from *h₂ew- (“to clothe oneself, dress; to be dressed”) in the sense of something that provides woollen clothing) + -īnus (suffix with the sense ‘of or relating to’ forming adjectives). By surface analysis, ove- + -ine. The noun is derived from the adjective. Pronunciation: /ˈəʊvaɪn/, /ˈoʊˌvaɪn/ 1. Of, being, pertaining to, or resembling a sheep; also, (not comparable) of an animal: from the genus Ovis. Labels: comparable Example: […] Dr. [Mauro] Legni reported to him a month afterward that the ovination had been successful, and that no marked differences had been observable between the vesicles produced by the ovine and those produced by the vaccine lymph. Dr. Legni added, that he had continued to propagate the ovine lymph on children. Example: Satyr was a gleam of classical memory on the part of Moreau,—his face ovine in expression, like the coarser Hebrew type; his voice a harsh bleat 2. Resembling a sheep in character; acquiescent, easily influenced, passive, or willing to follow a leader blindly. Labels: comparable, figuratively Example: The Patient from being Maniacl, or raging mad, became vvholly Ovine or Sheepiſh; he bleated perpetually, and chevv'd the Cud: […] Example: At present, municipal councillors play at party politics by organizing the ovine members who do not know how to vote until a Party Whip tells them, and opposing independent candidates at the elections.
Word: ovine Part of Speech: noun Etymology: The adjective is borrowed from Late Latin ovīnus (“ovine”) + English -ine (suffix with the sense ‘of or relating to’ forming adjectives). Ovīnus is derived from Latin ovis (“sheep”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ówis (“sheep”), possibly from *h₂ew- (“to clothe oneself, dress; to be dressed”) in the sense of something that provides woollen clothing) + -īnus (suffix with the sense ‘of or relating to’ forming adjectives). By surface analysis, ove- + -ine. The noun is derived from the adjective. Pronunciation: /ˈəʊvaɪn/, /ˈoʊˌvaɪn/ 1. An animal from the genus Ovis; a sheep. 2. A person regarded as resembling a sheep in character; one who is acquiescent, easily influenced, passive, or willing to follow a leader blindly; a sheep. Labels: figuratively Example: At present, municipal councillors play at party politics by organizing the ovine members who do not know how to vote until a Party Whip tells them, and opposing independent candidates at the elections. The remedy for this is the exclusion of ovines from the municipal panel.
Word: baa Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Compare German bäh, mäh; an imitative word. Notes on phonological development The pronunciation /bɑː/ is perhaps a development from earlier /bæː/ reflecting the shift of /æː/ to /ɑː/ during the 18th and 19th centuries. Compare Early Modern English bae, bea, both "to baa", respectively displaying the then current pronunciation of Middle English /aː/ as /æː/ and the failure of Middle English /ɛː/ to raise, and the replacement of mew with meow for another instance where recent sound change has made onomatopoeia opaque. Pronunciation: [bɑː], [bæ], [bɑ], [bæ̰ː], [bæ̰ˀæ̰ˀæ̰ˀæ̰ˀ] 1. The characteristic cry or bleating of a sheep or (broader) a sheep or goat. Labels: onomatopoeic Example: Near-synonyms: bleat, bleating
Word: baa Part of Speech: intj Etymology: Compare German bäh, mäh; an imitative word. Notes on phonological development The pronunciation /bɑː/ is perhaps a development from earlier /bæː/ reflecting the shift of /æː/ to /ɑː/ during the 18th and 19th centuries. Compare Early Modern English bae, bea, both "to baa", respectively displaying the then current pronunciation of Middle English /aː/ as /æː/ and the failure of Middle English /ɛː/ to raise, and the replacement of mew with meow for another instance where recent sound change has made onomatopoeia opaque. Pronunciation: [bɑː], [bæ], [bɑ], [bæ̰ː], [bæ̰ˀæ̰ˀæ̰ˀæ̰ˀ] 1. The characteristic cry of a sheep or (broader) a sheep or goat. Labels: onomatopoeic
Word: baa Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Compare German bäh, mäh; an imitative word. Notes on phonological development The pronunciation /bɑː/ is perhaps a development from earlier /bæː/ reflecting the shift of /æː/ to /ɑː/ during the 18th and 19th centuries. Compare Early Modern English bae, bea, both "to baa", respectively displaying the then current pronunciation of Middle English /aː/ as /æː/ and the failure of Middle English /ɛː/ to raise, and the replacement of mew with meow for another instance where recent sound change has made onomatopoeia opaque. Pronunciation: [bɑː], [bæ], [bɑ], [bæ̰ː], [bæ̰ˀæ̰ˀæ̰ˀæ̰ˀ] 1. To make the characteristic cry of a sheep or (broader) a sheep or goat. Example: Near-synonyms: blat, bleat (broad enough to include calves too) Example: He treble baas for help, but none can get.
Word: baa Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Arabic بَاء (bāʔ). 1. The letter ب in the Arabic script.
Word: bleat Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English bleten, from Old English blǣtan (“to bleat”), from Proto-West Germanic *blātijan, from Proto-Germanic *blētijaną (“to bleat”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰleh₁- (“to howl, cry, bleat”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰel- (“to make a loud noise”). Cognate with Scots blete, bleit, West Frisian bâlte, blaaien, blêtsje (“to bleat”), Dutch blaten (“to bleat”), Low German bleten (“to bleat”), German blaßen, blässen (“to bleat”). Pronunciation: /ˈbliːt/ 1. The characteristic cry of a sheep or a goat. Labels: onomatopoeic
Word: bleat Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English bleten, from Old English blǣtan (“to bleat”), from Proto-West Germanic *blātijan, from Proto-Germanic *blētijaną (“to bleat”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰleh₁- (“to howl, cry, bleat”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰel- (“to make a loud noise”). Cognate with Scots blete, bleit, West Frisian bâlte, blaaien, blêtsje (“to bleat”), Dutch blaten (“to bleat”), Low German bleten (“to bleat”), German blaßen, blässen (“to bleat”). Pronunciation: /ˈbliːt/ 1. Of a sheep, goat, or calf: to make its characteristic cry; of a human, to mimic this sound. Labels: onomatopoeic Example: Near-synonym: baa (sheep and goat) Example: In the year 1633, the Bridget Nuns, near Xanthus, behaved like sheep, jumping about and bleating continuously. 2. Of a person, to complain. Labels: derogatory, informal Example: Near-synonyms: kvetch, moan, whinge, whine, holler Example: The last thing we need is to hear them bleating to us about organizational problems. 3. Of a person, to say things of little importance to the listener. Labels: derogatory, informal Example: Near-synonyms: drone on, go on Example: She came skipping to me just now, clapping her little hands and bleating about how very, very happy she was, dear Mrs Travers. The silly young geezer. I nearly conked her one with my trowel.
Word: spim Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Blend of spam + IM (instant messaging). Pronunciation: /spɪm/ 1. Unsolicited messages sent to cellular phones. Labels: uncountable, usually 2. Unsolicited commercial messages sent via an instant messaging system. Labels: Internet, uncountable, usually
Word: iso Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈaɪsəʊ/, /ˈaɪsoʊ/ 1. Clipping of isolation. Labels: colloquial, countable, uncountable 2. Clipping of isolation. Labels: colloquial, countable, uncountable Example: “I can remember lining up against them and saying, ‘This is the 15th iso that you’re going to get.’ ” 3. Clipping of isomorphism. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, countable, uncountable
Word: iso Part of Speech: prep 1. Initialism of in search of. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Word: bray Part of Speech: verb Etymology: The verb is derived from Middle English brayen, brai, bray, braye (“of a person or animal: to vocalize loudly; of the weather: to make a loud sound, howl, roar”), from Old French brai, braire (“of an animal: to bray; of a person: to cry or shout out”) (modern French braire (“of an animal: to bray; of a person: to shout; to cry, weep”)), possibly from Vulgar Latin *bragiō, from Gaulish *bragu (compare Breton breugiñ (“to bray”), brammañ (“to flatulate”), Cornish bramma, brabma (“to flatulate”), Old Irish braigid (“to flatulate”)), from Proto-Celtic *brageti, *bragyeti (“to flatulate”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰreHg- (“to flatulate; to stink”); cognate with Latin fragrō (“to smell”). Alternatively, the word could be from a Germanic source, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *brekaną (“to break”), and cognate with frangere (“to break, shatter”). The noun is derived from the verb, or from Middle English brai, brait (“shriek; outcry”), from Old French brai, brait (“a cry”), from braire (“of an animal: to bray; of a person: to shout; to cry, weep”); see above. Pronunciation: /bɹeɪ/ 1. Of an animal (now chiefly of animals related to the ass or donkey, and the camel): to make its cry. Labels: intransitive Example: Whenever I walked by, that donkey brayed at me. Example: When she went to the famous ass-race [...], it was not, like other ladies, to hear those poor animals bray, nor see fellows run naked, or to hear country squires in bob wigs and white girdles make love at the side of a coach and cry, "Madam, this is dainty weather." 2. To make a harsh, discordant sound like a donkey's bray. Labels: broadly, intransitive Example: He threw back his head and brayed with laughter. Example: Heard ye the din of battle bray, / Lance to lance, and horſe to horſe? / Long Years of havock urge their deſtined courſe, / And thro' the kindred ſquadrons mow their way. 3. To make or utter (a shout, sound, etc.) discordantly, loudly, or in a harsh and grating manner. Labels: transitive Example: [N]ow ſtorming furie roſe, / And clamour ſuch as heard in Heav'n till now / Was never, Arms on Armour claſhing bray'd / Horrible discord, and the madding Wheeles / Of brazen Chariots rag'd; [...] Example: Just then the chiefs their tribes arrayed, / And wild and garish semblance made, / The chequered trews, and belted plaid, / And varying notes the war-pipes brayed, / To every varying clan; [...]
Word: bray Part of Speech: noun Etymology: The verb is derived from Middle English brayen, brai, bray, braye (“of a person or animal: to vocalize loudly; of the weather: to make a loud sound, howl, roar”), from Old French brai, braire (“of an animal: to bray; of a person: to cry or shout out”) (modern French braire (“of an animal: to bray; of a person: to shout; to cry, weep”)), possibly from Vulgar Latin *bragiō, from Gaulish *bragu (compare Breton breugiñ (“to bray”), brammañ (“to flatulate”), Cornish bramma, brabma (“to flatulate”), Old Irish braigid (“to flatulate”)), from Proto-Celtic *brageti, *bragyeti (“to flatulate”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰreHg- (“to flatulate; to stink”); cognate with Latin fragrō (“to smell”). Alternatively, the word could be from a Germanic source, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *brekaną (“to break”), and cognate with frangere (“to break, shatter”). The noun is derived from the verb, or from Middle English brai, brait (“shriek; outcry”), from Old French brai, brait (“a cry”), from braire (“of an animal: to bray; of a person: to shout; to cry, weep”); see above. Pronunciation: /bɹeɪ/ 1. The cry of an animal, now chiefly that of animals related to the ass or donkey, or the camel. 2. Any discordant, grating, or harsh sound. Labels: broadly Example: It seems a very nest—warm and snug, and green—for human life; with the twilight haze of time about it, almost consecrating it from the aching hopes and feverish expectations of the present. Who would think that the bray and roar of multitudinous London sounded but some sixty miles away? Example: [...] Mr. [Edmund] Gosse's blank verse is sweet and varied, and full mostly of a graceful melody. If it has not the trumpet's power, neither has it the trumpet's bray, but rather a flute-like tone of its own.
Word: bray Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English brayen (“to break or crush into pieces”), from Anglo-Norman breier, Old French breie, breier, broiier (modern French broyer (“to crush, grind”)), possibly from Frankish *brekan (“to break”), from Proto-Germanic *brekaną (“to break”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰreg- (“to break”); thus making the English word a doublet of break. Pronunciation: /bɹeɪ/ 1. To crush or pound, especially using a pestle and mortar. Labels: archaic, transitive Example: Though thou ſhouldeſt bray a fool in a morter among wheate with a peſtell, yet will not his fooliſhneſſe depart from him. Example: Their heads and ſhoulders are painted red with the roote Pocone brayed to powder, mixed with oyle, this they hold in ſommer to preſerue them from the heate, and in winter from the cold. 2. To hit (someone or something). Labels: UK, Yorkshire, broadly, transitive Example: If anything he brayed him all the harder – the old family bull recognising his fighting days were close to over.
Word: hee-haw Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Onomatopoeic coinage. Pronunciation: /ˈhiː.hɔ̰̃ː/ 1. The cry of an ass or donkey. Labels: countable 2. Nothing. Labels: Scotland, slang, uncountable Example: Apart from one cool fight sequence, she pretty much does hee-haw - just like Iron Man. Example: People like Dick Advocaat, who knew hee-haw about Scottish football's history, set about whittling away little bits of our tradition on the grounds... well, let's be honest, that they were an inconvenience.
Word: hee-haw Part of Speech: intj Etymology: Onomatopoeic coinage. Pronunciation: /ˈhiː.hɔ̰̃ː/ 1. The cry of an ass or donkey.
Word: hee-haw Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Onomatopoeic coinage. Pronunciation: /ˈhiː.hɔ̰̃ː/ 1. Of an ass or donkey, to make its typical vocalisation. Labels: intransitive Example: An old Jack donkey came galloping and hee-hawing in great excitement at the sight of the horses and mules. 2. To mimic the cry of an ass or donkey; to make a noise resembling a donkey's vocalisations. Labels: intransitive Example: The ladies were not much the wiser, though, I confess, they were not far removed from the door. The great men inside talked indistinctly and technically, and once Doctor Dillon was so unfeeling as to crack a joke—they could not distinctly hear what—and hee-haw brutally over it.
Word: IP Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Initialisms (see definitions). 1. Initialism of intraperitoneal. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, not-comparable
Word: IP Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Initialisms (see definitions). 1. Initialism of intellectual property. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable Example: In the past year, Disney has announced 4 sequels and one reboot, but not a single new IP Example: You cannot just do whatever you want with someone else's IP! 2. Initialism of Indigenous peoples. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, uncountable 3. Initialism of interpositive. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism 4. Initialism of innings pitched (“the statistic reporting the number of innings pitched by a pitcher”). Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, invariable 5. Initialism of immunoprecipitation. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, uncountable 6. Initialism of insertion point (where text, etc. will be added in a document). Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable 7. Initialism of instruction pointer (CPU register). Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable 8. Initialism of inflectional phrase. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable 9. Initialism of incontinentia pigmenti. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable 10. Initialism of instrument panel. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable 11. Initialism of injured party. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable 12. Initialism of initial permutation. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable 13. Ellipsis of IP address. Labels: Internet, abbreviation, alt-of, countable, ellipsis, uncountable 14. Ellipsis of IP address. Labels: Internet, countable, metonymically, uncountable Example: This IP made a disruptive edit! 15. An Iraqi police officer, or the Iraqi police as a whole. Labels: US, countable, initialism, slang, uncountable 16. Initialism of Irish pennant. Labels: US, abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, slang, uncountable 17. Abbreviation of inpatient. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, uncountable
Word: IP Part of Speech: name Etymology: Initialisms (see definitions). 1. Initialism of Internet Protocol. Labels: Internet, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism Example: IP address 2. Initialism of Ingress Protection Rating. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism 3. Initialism of International Paper. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Word: IP Part of Speech: phrase Etymology: Initialisms (see definitions). 1. Initialism of in possession. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism Example: Prison nursing staff will carefully evaluate whether an individual should have 'IP' (in possession) medication.
Word: elephantine Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin elephantīn(us). By surface analysis, elephant + -ine. Pronunciation: /ɛl.əˈfæn.tin/, /ɛl.əˈfæn.taɪn/, /ˈɛl.ə.fən.tin/, /ˈɛl.ə.fən.taɪn/ 1. Of, relating to, resembling, or characteristic of elephants. Example: The scene around them was currently plunged into gloom. Dark mists swirled round them and elephantine shapes lurked indistinctly in the shadows. Example: This last summer Hanecki had captured Lenin’s imagination with his plans to found a trading company of his own in Europe, or take a partnership in some existing firm and make guaranteed monthly remittances to the Party out of his profits. This was not a Russian pipe dream: every move had been worked out with impressive precision. Kuba hadn’t thought of it himself, it was the brainchild of the elephantine genius Parvus, who had been writing to him from Constantinople. Parvus, once as poor as any other Social Democrat, had gone to Turkey to organize strikes, and now wrote frankly that he had all the money he needed (if rumor was right, he was fabulously wealthy) and that the time had come for the Party too to get rich. 2. Very large. Example: He comes into Brewer from the south, seeing it in the smoky shadow before dawn as a gradual multiplication of houses among the trees beside the road and then as a treeless waste of industry, shoe factories and bottling plants and company parking lots and knitting mills converted to electronics parts and elephantine gas tanks lifting above trash-filled swampland yet lower than the blue edge of the mountain from whose crest Brewer was a warm carpet woven around a single shade of brick. Example: Ugly, clumsy and far from silent, with elephantine point mechanisms at the car sheds, it nevertheless works and has been brought up to date electrically for further public service.
Word: elephantine Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin elephantīn(us). By surface analysis, elephant + -ine. Pronunciation: /ɛl.əˈfæn.tin/, /ɛl.əˈfæn.taɪn/, /ˈɛl.ə.fən.tin/, /ˈɛl.ə.fən.taɪn/ 1. Any member of the subfamily Elephantinae of elephants and their extinct close relatives.
Word: wit Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English witen, woten, from Old English weotan, witan, from Proto-West Germanic *witan, from Proto-Germanic *witaną (“to know”), from Proto-Indo-European *wóyde (“to know”), from *weyd- (“to see”). Cognates Cognate with North Frisian waase, wed, weet (“to know”), Saterland Frisian wíete (“to know”), West Frisian wite, witte (“to know”), Alemannic German wüsse (“to know”), Cimbrian bizzan (“to know”), Dutch and Low German weten (“to know”), German wissen (“to know”), Limburgish wéïte (“to know; to remember”), Luxembourgish wëssen (“to know”), Vilamovian wysa, wyssa (“to know”), Yiddish וויסן (visn, “to know”), Danish vide (“to know”), Elfdalian witå (“to know”), Faroese and Icelandic vita (“to know”), Jutish veer (“to know”), Norwegian Bokmål vide, vite (“to know”), Norwegian Nynorsk veta, vita, våtå (“to know”), Scanian veda (“to know”), Swedish veta (“to know”), Gothic 𐍅𐌹𐍄𐌰𐌽 (witan, “to know”); also Breton gouzout (“to know”), Cornish godhvos, goffos (“to know”), Irish feadair (“to know”), Welsh gwybod (“to know”), Latin videō (“to see”), Ancient Greek οἶδ’ (oîd’), οἶδα (oîda, “to know”), Albanian vizë (“line, stripe, track; dash”), Latvian veids (“form, kind, mode, type”), Lithuanian veidas (“face; front; appearance, aspect, look”), Belarusian ве́даць (vjédacʹ, “to know”), Bulgarian вям (vjam, “to know”), Czech vědět (“to know”), Polish wiedzieć (“to know”), Russian ве́дать (védatʹ, “to know”), Serbo-Croatian vedeti, viedieti (“to know”), Slovak vedieť (“to know”), Slovene vedeti (“to know”), Ukrainian ві́дати (vídaty, “to know; to deal, manage”), Armenian գիտեմ (gitem, “I know”), գիտենալ (gitenal), գիտնալ (gitnal, “to know”), Avestan 𐬬𐬀𐬉𐬛 (vaēd, “find”), 𐬬𐬌𐬛 (vid, “know, understand”), Persian نوید (navid / nawīd, nuwēd, “invitation; annunciation; good news”), Tocharian A ime (“awareness, consciousness, memory, thought”), Tocharian B īme (“awareness, consciousness, memory, thought”), ūwe (“educated, knowledgeable, learned”), Sanskrit विद् (vid, “to know; to find; to consider as”). Compare guide. Pronunciation: /wɪt/ 1. To know, be aware of (constructed with of when used intransitively). Labels: ambitransitive Example: You committed terrible actions — to wit, murder and theft — and should be punished accordingly. Example: They are meddling in matters that men should not wit of.
Word: wit Part of Speech: prep Etymology: From with. Pronunciation: /wɪt/ 1. Pronunciation spelling of with. Labels: Southern-US, alt-of, pronunciation-spelling
Word: hen Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English hen, from Old English henn (“hen”), from Proto-West Germanic *hannju, from Proto-Germanic *hanjō (“hen”), from Proto-Indo-European *kan-, *kana- (“to sing”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Hanne (“hen”), West Frisian hin (“hen”), Dutch hen (“hen”), German Low German Heen (“hen”), German Henne (“hen”), Danish høne (“hen”), Swedish höna (“hen”), Icelandic hæna (“hen”). Related to Old English hana (“cock, rooster”). Also cognate to Latin cicōnia (“stork”), Latin canō (“to sing”), Russian каню́к (kanjúk, “buzzard”). Compare Russian пету́х (petúx, “rooster, cock”) from Russian петь (petʹ, “to sing”). Etymology 1, noun sense 7 after cock (“male chicken; man's penis”). Pronunciation: /hɛn/, /hɪn/, /hen/ 1. A female chicken (Gallus gallus), especially a sexually mature one kept for her eggs. Example: She was a fat, round little woman, richly apparelled in velvet and lace, […]; and the way she laughed, cackling like a hen, the way she talked to the waiters and the maid,[…]—all these unexpected phenomena impelled one to hysterical mirth, and made one class her with such immortally ludicrous types as Ally Sloper, the Widow Twankey, or Miss Moucher. 2. A female of other bird species, particularly a sexually mature female fowl. Example: In Tain, north of Inverness, staff detected 11 males and at least seven hens – the highest number there since 2011. 3. A female fish (especially a salmon or trout) or crustacean. Labels: uncommon Example: As spawning time approaches – autumn or very early winter in most rivers, though in some late-run streams salmon may spawn as late as January or February – the hen's colouration becomes first a matt-pewter and then a drab dark brown-grey. The cock fish, in contrast, begins to gain some brighter colours. 4. A woman. Labels: figuratively Example: Hen, a woman. A cock and hen club; a club composed of men and women. 5. A woman. Labels: UK, figuratively, informal 6. A hen night. Labels: UK, informal 7. An affectionate term of address used to women or girls. Labels: Scotland, informal Example: Don't cry, hen. Everything will be all right. 8. The penis of a trans woman. Example: Coordinate term: cock 9. A henlike person of either sex. Labels: derogatory, figuratively, uncommon 10. The hard clam (Mercenaria mercenaria), a bivalve shellfish. 11. A large pewter pot used in a tavern. Labels: obsolete