nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: hurt Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English hurten, hirten, hertan (“to injure, scathe, knock together”), from Old Northern French hurter ("to ram into, strike, collide with"; > Modern French heurter), perhaps from Frankish *hūrt (“a battering ram”), cognate with Welsh hwrdd (“ram”) and Cornish hordh (“ram”). Compare Proto-Germanic *hrūtaną, *hreutaną (“to fall, beat”), from Proto-Indo-European *krew- (“to fall, beat, smash, strike, break”); however, the earliest instances of the verb in Middle English are as old as those found in Old French, which leads to the possibility that the Middle English word may instead be a reflex of an unrecorded Old English *hyrtan, which later merged with the Old French verb. Germanic cognates include Dutch horten (“to push against, strike”), Middle Low German hurten (“to run at, collide with”), Middle High German hurten (“to push, bump, attack, storm, invade”), Old Norse hrútr (“battering ram”). Alternate etymology traces Old Northern French hurter rather to Old Norse hrútr (“ram (male sheep)”), lengthened-grade variant of hjǫrtr (“stag”), from Proto-Germanic *herutuz, *herutaz (“hart, male deer”), which would relate it to English hart (“male deer”). See hart. Pronunciation: /hɜːt/, /hɝt/ 1. Wounded, physically injured. 2. Feeling physical or emotional pain.
Word: hurt Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English hurten, hirten, hertan (“to injure, scathe, knock together”), from Old Northern French hurter ("to ram into, strike, collide with"; > Modern French heurter), perhaps from Frankish *hūrt (“a battering ram”), cognate with Welsh hwrdd (“ram”) and Cornish hordh (“ram”). Compare Proto-Germanic *hrūtaną, *hreutaną (“to fall, beat”), from Proto-Indo-European *krew- (“to fall, beat, smash, strike, break”); however, the earliest instances of the verb in Middle English are as old as those found in Old French, which leads to the possibility that the Middle English word may instead be a reflex of an unrecorded Old English *hyrtan, which later merged with the Old French verb. Germanic cognates include Dutch horten (“to push against, strike”), Middle Low German hurten (“to run at, collide with”), Middle High German hurten (“to push, bump, attack, storm, invade”), Old Norse hrútr (“battering ram”). Alternate etymology traces Old Northern French hurter rather to Old Norse hrútr (“ram (male sheep)”), lengthened-grade variant of hjǫrtr (“stag”), from Proto-Germanic *herutuz, *herutaz (“hart, male deer”), which would relate it to English hart (“male deer”). See hart. Pronunciation: /hɜːt/, /hɝt/ 1. An emotional or psychological humiliation or bad experience. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: how to overcome old hurts of the past Example: Jules Rimet still gleaming Thirty years of hurt Never stopped me dreaming 2. A bodily injury causing pain; a wound or bruise. Labels: archaic, countable, uncountable Example: I have received a hurt. Example: The cause is a temperate conglutination ; for both bodies are clammy and viscous , and do bridle the deflux of humours to the hurts , without penning them in too much 3. Injury; damage; detriment; harm Labels: archaic, countable, uncountable Example: Thou dost me yet but little hurt. 4. A band on a trip hammer's helve, bearing the trunnions. Labels: countable, uncountable 5. A husk. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: hurt Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Unclear. Suggestions include: from its resemblance to a blue hurtleberry, or from French heurt (a blow, leaving a blue bruise), the latter of which would make it a doublet of hurt Etymology 1; compare the theories about golpe (“purple roundel”)). Pronunciation: /hɜːt/, /hɝt/ 1. A roundel azure (blue circular spot).
Word: input Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English inputten, equivalent to in- + put. Pronunciation: /ˈɪnpʊt/, /ˈɪmpʊt/, /ˈɪnpɵt/, /ˈɪmpɵt/, /ˈɪnpʉt/ 1. The act or process of putting in; infusion. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. That which is put in, as in an amount. Labels: countable, uncountable 3. Contribution of work or information, as an opinion or advice. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: You can provide input via this form. 4. Data fed into a process with the intention of it shaping or affecting the output of that process. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: sound input 5. An input jack. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: model with A/V input
Word: input Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English inputten, equivalent to in- + put. Pronunciation: /ˈɪnpʊt/, /ˈɪmpʊt/, /ˈɪnpɵt/, /ˈɪmpɵt/, /ˈɪnpʉt/ 1. To put in; put on. Labels: intransitive Example: "Following the removal of the Golborne Link from the current Bill and, given the direct importance of maintaining the benefits that the Golborne Link would have delivered for Scotland, the Transport Minister has sought and received confirmation from the UK Minister of State for Transport that Scottish Government Officials will input to the consideration being given to the alternative." 2. To enter data. Labels: transitive Example: The user inputs his date of birth and the computer displays his age. Example: An artificial-intelligence application called Sudowrite wrote the paragraph above. I inputted the text of the first section of “The Metamorphosis” and then pressed a button called Wormhole. The computer composed the continuation. 3. To accept data that is entered. Labels: transitive Example: The program inputs a value for the integer variable num and compares it with the constant integer limit.
Word: inset Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English insetten, from Old English insettan (“to set in, institute, appoint”), equivalent to in- + set. Cognate with Dutch inzetten (“to insert, set in”), Low German insetten (“to set in”), German einsetzen (“to insert, employ”), Danish indsætte (“to insert”), Swedish insätta (“to inset, induct, institute”), Icelandic innsetja (“to install”). Pronunciation: /ˈɪnsɛt/ 1. To set in; infix or implant. Labels: transitive 2. To insert something. Labels: transitive 3. To add an inset to something. Labels: transitive
Word: inset Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English insetten, from Old English insettan (“to set in, institute, appoint”), equivalent to in- + set. Cognate with Dutch inzetten (“to insert, set in”), Low German insetten (“to set in”), German einsetzen (“to insert, employ”), Danish indsætte (“to insert”), Swedish insätta (“to inset, induct, institute”), Icelandic innsetja (“to install”). Pronunciation: /ˈɪnsɛt/ 1. A smaller thing set into a larger thing, such as a small picture inside a larger one. Example: a map of the whole state with city maps as insets Example: The inset of figure 1 shows the geometry of the samples. 2. Anything inserted. 3. A small piece of material used to strengthen a garment. 4. A modular microphone that can be removed from a telephone handset without disassembly. Example: Microphone insets can deteriorate and older examples may produce a permanent frying noise. 5. An opening partway down a shaft, giving access to the intermediate levels.
Word: inset Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English insetten, from Old English insettan (“to set in, institute, appoint”), equivalent to in- + set. Cognate with Dutch inzetten (“to insert, set in”), Low German insetten (“to set in”), German einsetzen (“to insert, employ”), Danish indsætte (“to insert”), Swedish insätta (“to inset, induct, institute”), Icelandic innsetja (“to install”). Pronunciation: /ˈɪnsɛt/ 1. Having been inset. Example: the inset diamonds Example: the inset liners
Word: pigeon Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Latin pīpiō Proto-Indo-European *-ōder. Proto-Indo-European *-Hōder.? Latin -ō Latin pipio Old French pyjonbor. Middle English pygeoun English pigeon Inherited from Middle English pygeoun, borrowed from Old French pyjon, inherited from Late Latin pīpiōnem (“chirping bird”), derived from Latin pīpiāre (“to chirp”), of imitative origin. Partly displaced native English dove. Pronunciation: /ˈpɪ.dʒɪn/, /ˈpɪ.dʒən/, /ˈpə.dʒən/ 1. One of several birds of the family Columbidae within the order Columbiformes. Labels: countable 2. The meat from this bird. Labels: uncountable 3. A person who is a target or victim of a confidence game. Labels: Canada, US, countable, informal 4. A pacifist, appeaser, an isolationist, a dove. Labels: countable 5. A person hired to transport film footage out of a region where transport options are limited. Labels: countable Example: Kalb rushed to the airport and found a "pigeon" to take out the film: an American woman headed for London. Example: At this point, all the commercial airports in Pakistan were closed. The only way to get film out was over land. John promptly hired me to be what was then known in the business as a "Pigeon," and installed me in a comfortable room in his hotel. […] I would then hand-carry his film out of the country, via Peshawar, the Khyber Pass, through the Kabul Gorge, and up to Kabul, Afghanistan, where I would meet a BBC courier and transfer the film bag. 6. A weak or useless person. Labels: Australia, countable, slang
Word: pigeon Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Latin pīpiō Proto-Indo-European *-ōder. Proto-Indo-European *-Hōder.? Latin -ō Latin pipio Old French pyjonbor. Middle English pygeoun English pigeon Inherited from Middle English pygeoun, borrowed from Old French pyjon, inherited from Late Latin pīpiōnem (“chirping bird”), derived from Latin pīpiāre (“to chirp”), of imitative origin. Partly displaced native English dove. Pronunciation: /ˈpɪ.dʒɪn/, /ˈpɪ.dʒən/, /ˈpə.dʒən/ 1. To deceive with a confidence game. Labels: transitive
Word: pigeon Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From pidgin English, from a Chinese Pidgin English pronunciation of English business during trade in the Far East. See pidgin. Pronunciation: /ˈpɪ.dʒɪn/, /ˈpɪ.dʒən/, /ˈpə.dʒən/ 1. Concern or responsibility. Labels: UK, archaic, countable, idiomatic, informal, uncountable Example: It's their pigeon.
Word: drunken Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English drunken, ydronken, idrunken, from Old English druncen, ġedruncen (“drunk; drunken”), from Proto-Germanic *drunkanaz (“drunken”), past participle of Proto-Germanic *drinkaną (“to drink”), equivalent to drink + -en. Cognate with West Frisian dronken (“drunk; drunken”), Dutch dronken (“drunk; drunken”), German betrunken (“drunk; drunken”), Swedish drucken (“drunk; drunken”). Pronunciation: /ˈdɹʌŋkən/ 1. past participle of drink Labels: archaic, form-of, participle, past
Word: drunken Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English drunken, ydronken, idrunken, from Old English druncen, ġedruncen (“drunk; drunken”), from Proto-Germanic *drunkanaz (“drunken”), past participle of Proto-Germanic *drinkaną (“to drink”), equivalent to drink + -en. Cognate with West Frisian dronken (“drunk; drunken”), Dutch dronken (“drunk; drunken”), German betrunken (“drunk; drunken”), Swedish drucken (“drunk; drunken”). Pronunciation: /ˈdɹʌŋkən/ 1. Drunk, in the state of intoxication after having drunk an alcoholic beverage. Example: What shall we do with a drunken sailor? […] / Put him in the longboat and make him bail her / Early in the morning. Example: I ask now to put faces to those names and remove all doubt that the songs I've heard sung in your honor were not a drunken bard's attempt to make a few extra coins. This mission is dire and the reward shall fit you well.[…] 2. Given to habitual excessive use of alcohol. Labels: derogatory 3. Characterized by or resulting from drunkenness. Example: a drunken display of crude exuberance Example: Surviving pictures of the accident show the two locomotives leaning at drunken angles, still covered with flags and evergreens—a mixture of comedy and tragedy. 4. Saturated with liquid. Labels: obsolete 5. Saturated with liquid. Labels: obsolete Example: drunken noodles; drunken duck; drunken fried rice
Word: drunken Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English dronknen, drunkenen, drunknen, from Old English druncnian (“to drown; get drunk”), from Proto-Germanic *drunkanōną (“to get drunk”), from Proto-Germanic *drunkanaz (“drunk; intoxicated”). Cognate with Norwegian drukne, drukna, Icelandic drukna. Pronunciation: /ˈdɹʌŋkən/ 1. To make or become drunk or drunken; to intoxicate. Labels: ambitransitive Example: Yea, upon a stoned couch and drunkened unto death upon the bittered draught of Rome! Example: The dreamy coloring of the land is just too drunkening.
Word: abattis Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈæbətəs/, /ˈæbəti/ 1. Alternative spelling of abatis. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: He withdrew Torfrida and his men into the heart of the forest,—no hint of the place is given by the chronicler,—cut down trees, formed an abattis of trunks and branches, and awaited the enemy.
Word: imply Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English implien, emplien, borrowed from Old French emplier, from Latin implicare (“to infold, involve”), from in (“in”) + plicare (“to fold”). Doublet of employ and implicate. Pronunciation: /ɪmˈplaɪ/ 1. To have as a necessary consequence; to lead to (something) as a consequence. Labels: transitive Example: Correlation does not imply causation Example: The proposition that "all dogs are mammals" implies that my dog is a mammal. 2. To suggest by logical inference. Labels: transitive Example: When I state that your dog is brown, I am not implying that all dogs are brown. 3. To hint; to insinuate; to suggest tacitly and avoid a direct statement. Labels: transitive Example: What do you mean "we need to be more careful with hygiene"? Are you implying that I don't wash my hands? Example: The wrongminded notion of the feminist movement which implied it was anti-male carried with it the wrongminded assumption that all female space would necessarily be an environment where patriarchy and sexist thinking would be absent. 4. To enfold, entangle. Labels: archaic Example: And in his bosome secretly there lay / An hatefull Snake, the which his taile vptyes / In many folds, and mortall sting implyes.
Word: implied Part of Speech: adj Pronunciation: /ɪmˈplaɪd/ 1. Suggested without being stated directly; implicated or hinted at. Example: her implied disapproval of the plan
Word: implied Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ɪmˈplaɪd/ 1. simple past and past participle of imply Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: infer Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Latin inferō, from Latin in- (“in, at, on; into”) + Latin ferō (“bear, carry; suffer”) (cognate to Old English beran, whence English bear), from Proto-Italic *ferō, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰéreti (“to bear, carry”), from the root *bʰer-. Literally “carry forward”, equivalent to “bear in”, as in concluding from a premise. Doublet of inbear. Pronunciation: /ɪnˈfɜː/, /ɪnˈfɝ/, /ɪnˈfɛr/, /ənˈføː/, /ɪnˈfeː/ 1. To introduce (something) as a reasoned conclusion; to conclude by reasoning or deduction, as from premises or evidence. Labels: transitive Example: It is dangerous to infer too much from martial bluster in British politics: at the first hint of trouble, channelling Churchill is a default tactic for beleaguered leaders of all sorts. 2. To lead to (something) as a consequence; to imply. Labels: often, proscribed, transitive Example: a. 1535, Thomas More, letter to Fryth the fyrste parte is not the proofe of the second. but rather contrarywyse the seconde inferreth well yͤ fyrst. Example: This doth infer the zeal I had to see him. 3. To cause, inflict (something) upon or to someone. Labels: obsolete Example: faire Serena[…]fled fast away, afeard / Of villany to be to her inferd[…]. 4. To introduce (a subject) in speaking, writing etc.; to bring in, to adduce. Labels: obsolete Example: Full well hath Clifford played the orator, / Inferring arguments of mighty force.
Word: inferred Part of Speech: adj Pronunciation: /ɪnˈfɜːd/, /ɪnˈfɜɹd/ Labels: no-gloss
Word: inferred Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ɪnˈfɜːd/, /ɪnˈfɜɹd/ 1. simple past and past participle of infer Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: twaddle Part of Speech: noun Etymology: An alteration of twattle (1556), of unknown origin. Pronunciation: /ˈtwɒdəl/, /ˈtwɑdəl/ 1. Empty or silly idle talk or writing; nonsense, rubbish. Labels: uncountable Example: You're talking a load of twaddle. Get your facts straight, man! Example: Still, being unfortunate enough to belong to that small but respectable minority who regard Mr. Tupper's versicular philosophy as superficial and conceited twaddle,—as a new manifestation to these latter days of weakness and sentimentalism under the solemn form of the Oracular,[…]. 2. One who twaddles; a twaddler. Labels: countable
Word: twaddle Part of Speech: verb Etymology: An alteration of twattle (1556), of unknown origin. Pronunciation: /ˈtwɒdəl/, /ˈtwɑdəl/ 1. To talk or write nonsense; to prattle. Example: To Edward […] he was terrible, nerve-inflaming, poisonously asphyxiating. He sat rocking himself in the late Mr. Churchill's swing chair, smoking and twaddling.
Word: interbred Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁én Proto-Indo-European *h₁entér Proto-Italic *n̥ter Latin inter Latin inter-bor. English inter- English bred English interbred From inter- + bred. Pronunciation: /ɪntɚˈbɹɛd/ 1. simple past and past participle of interbreed Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: interbreed Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁én Proto-Indo-European *h₁entér Proto-Italic *n̥ter Latin inter Latin inter-bor. English inter- English breed English interbreed From inter- + breed. Pronunciation: /ɪnteɹˈbɹid/ 1. To breed or reproduce within an isolated community. 2. To breed or reproduce within a heterogenous community, the products of which produce hybrids. Labels: ambitransitive Example: The rypes and our red grouse are identically the same bird, though disease has never been known in the former, and even interbreeding with the red grouse, to the limited extent they are ever likely to do, should do more good than harm. Example: The city's two-inch Environmental Review Technical Manual instructs regulators to consider adverse environmental impacts on "any subspecies" or "any distinct population segment . . . which interbreeds when mature."
Word: polygamy Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Recorded since 1591, from Late Latin polygamia, from Ancient Greek πολυγαμία (polugamía), itself from πολύγαμος (polúgamos, “married to many”), from πολύς (polús, “many”) + γάμος (gámos, “marriage”). Relates to modern prefix and suffix poly- + -gamy. Pronunciation: /pəˈlɪɡ.ə.mi/ 1. The condition of having more than one spouse or marriage partner at one time. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Are there countries where polygamy is legal for both men and women? Example: Miss Griffin was a model of propriety, and I am at a loss to imagine what the feelings of the virtuous woman would have been, if she had known, when she paraded us down the Hampstead Road two and two, that she was walking with a stately step at the head of Polygamy and Mahomedanism. 2. Synonym of polygyny (“marriage of a man to more than one wife, the practice of having several wives at the same time”). Labels: countable, especially, often, uncountable Example: Though Islam allows polygamy, it is frowned upon in many contemporary Muslim societies. Example: Because Mormon polygamy was an unusual family form in nineteenth-century America […] 3. The state or habit of having more than one sexual mate. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: An insect queen actually practices polygamy only one day, while for an alpha-male defending his harem is the very essence of both his status and polygamy. 4. The condition or state of a plant which bears both perfect and unisexual flowers. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: interweave Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁én Proto-Indo-European *h₁entér Proto-Italic *n̥ter Latin inter Latin inter-bor. English inter- English weave English interweave From inter- + weave. Pronunciation: /ˌɪntəˈwiːv/, /ˌɪntəɹˈwiv/, [-ɾəɹ-] 1. To combine (things) through weaving. Labels: transitive 2. To intermingle. Labels: intransitive
Word: interwove Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ˈɪntəɹwoʊv/ 1. simple past of interweave Labels: form-of, past
Word: interwoven Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ˈɪntəˌwəʊvən/, /ˈɪntɚˌwoʊvən/, /ˈɪntəˌwəʉvən/, /ˈəntəˌwɐʉvən/ 1. past participle of interweave Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: keep Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English kepe, kep, from the verb (see above). Pronunciation: /kiːp/, [kiːp], [kʰɪjp], [k̟çi(ː)p], [k(ʰ)i(ː)p] 1. The main tower of a castle or fortress, located within the castle walls. Labels: countable, historical, uncountable 2. The food or money required to keep someone alive and healthy; one's support, maintenance. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: He works as a cobbler's apprentice for his keep. 3. The state of being kept; hence, the resulting condition; case. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: to be in good keep 4. A cap for holding something, such as a journal box, in place. Labels: countable, uncountable 5. The act or office of keeping; custody; guard; care; heed; charge; notice. Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable Example: So Sir Gareth strayned hym so that his olde wounde braste ayen on bledynge; but he was hote and corragyous and toke no kepe, but with his grete forse he strake downe the knyght[…]. Example: Pan, thou god of shepherds all, / Which of our tender lambkins takest keep. 6. That which is kept in charge; a charge. Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable Example: Often he used of his keep / A sacrifice to bring. 7. A mistress (the other woman in an extramarital relationship, generally including sexual relations). Labels: countable, euphemistic, obsolete, uncountable Example: My Darling Girl, In London the other day I heard a piece of news which may amuse you. The French girl who shot her so-called Egyptian prince and is going to be tried for murder, is the fancy woman who was the Prince's 'keep' in Paris during the war […]
Word: kept Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English kept, kepte, from Old English cēpte; see -t. Pronunciation: /ˈkɛpt/ 1. simple past and past participle of keep Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: kneel Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English knelen, from Old English cnēowlian (“to kneel”), equivalent to knee + -le. Cognate with Dutch knielen, Low German knelen, dialectal German knielen, Alemannic German chnüle, Danish knæle, all meaning “to kneel”. Pronunciation: /niːl/, /kniːl/ 1. To rest on one's bent knees, sometimes only one; to move to such a position. Labels: intransitive Example: When the flames at last began to flicker and subside, his lids fluttered, then drooped ; but he had lost all reckoning of time when he opened them again to find Miss Erroll in furs kneeling on the hearth and heaping kindling on the coals, and her pretty little Alsatian maid beside her, laying a log across the andirons. 2. To sink down so that the entrance is level with the pavement, making it easier for passengers to enter. Labels: intransitive 3. To cause to kneel. Labels: transitive Example: She knelt the doll to fit it into the box. Example: Raising the girl with unexpected strength, she bore her towards the chapel, the firesparks flickered in her eyes, as she knelt her burden against the altar step. 4. To rest on (one's) knees. Labels: archaic, reflexive Example: He knelt him down to pray. Example: Just when the damsel kneeled herself to pray.
Word: knelt Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /nɛlt/ 1. simple past and past participle of kneel. Labels: form-of, participle, past Example: Then everybody once more knelt, and soon the blessing was pronounced. The choir and the clergy trooped out slowly, […], down the nave to the western door. […] At a seemingly immense distance the surpliced group stopped to say the last prayer.
Word: kneeled Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /niːld/ 1. simple past and past participle of kneel Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: knit Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English knytten, from Old English cnyttan (“to fasten, tie, bind, knit; add, append”), from Proto-West Germanic *knuttijan, from Proto-Germanic *knutjaną, *knuttijaną (“to make knots, knit”). Cognate with Low German knütten and Old Norse knýta (whence Danish knytte, Norwegian Nynorsk knyta). More at knot. Pronunciation: /nɪt/ 1. To turn thread or yarn into a piece of fabric by forming loops that are pulled through each other. This can be done by hand with needles or by machine. Labels: ambitransitive Example: to knit a stocking Example: The first generation knitted to order; the second still knits for its own use; the next leaves knitting to industrial manufacturers. 2. To create a stitch by pulling the working yarn through an existing stitch from back to front. Labels: ambitransitive Example: Stitches that are knitted look like little V’s when seen from the front. 3. To join closely and firmly together. Labels: figuratively, transitive Example: The fight for survival knitted the men closely together. Example: Lord of my love, to whom in vassalage Thy merit hath my duty strongly knit, To thee I send this written embassage, 4. To become closely and firmly joined; become compacted. Labels: intransitive 5. To grow together. Labels: intransitive Example: All those seedlings knitted into a kaleidoscopic border. 6. To combine from various elements. Labels: transitive Example: The witness knitted together his testimony from contradictory pieces of hearsay. 7. To heal following a fracture. Labels: intransitive Example: I’ll go skiing again after my bones knit. 8. To form into a knot, or into knots; to tie together, as cord; to fasten by tying. Labels: transitive Example: When your head did but ache, I knit my handkercher about your brows, Example: [He] saw heaven opened, and a certain vessel descending upon him, as it had been a great sheet knit at the four corners […] 9. To draw together; to contract into wrinkles. Labels: transitive Example: But meet him now, and be it in the Morne, / When euery one will giue the time of day, / He knits his Brow and ſhewes an angry Eye, / And paſſeth by with ſtiffe vnbowed Knee, / Diſdaining dutie that to vs belongs.
Word: knit Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English knytten, from Old English cnyttan (“to fasten, tie, bind, knit; add, append”), from Proto-West Germanic *knuttijan, from Proto-Germanic *knutjaną, *knuttijaną (“to make knots, knit”). Cognate with Low German knütten and Old Norse knýta (whence Danish knytte, Norwegian Nynorsk knyta). More at knot. Pronunciation: /nɪt/ 1. A knitted garment. Example: There are grey Grecian tops and a light, sheer, silver cardigan. Stylish dark grey tailored trousers, silver thongs and shiny jet-black stilettos. Black sheer blouses with squared bib fronts, and expensive-looking black and dark grey woollen knits. 2. A session of knitting. Example: It's always time for a bit of a knit.
Word: knitted Part of Speech: adj Pronunciation: /ˈnɪtɪd/ 1. Made by knitting. Labels: not-comparable
Word: knitted Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ˈnɪtɪd/ 1. simple past and past participle of knit Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: horseshit Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From horse + shit. 1. Synonym of bullshit (figurative senses). Labels: slang, uncountable, vulgar Example: That scumbag dumped a whole carload of horseshit over his associates. 2. Synonym of bullshit (figurative senses). Labels: slang, uncountable, vulgar Example: He thinks vinegar is alkaline? Don't you realize that's horseshit? 3. Synonym of bullshit (figurative senses). Labels: slang, uncountable, vulgar Example: He claims that he wasn't at that meeting? Don't you realize that's horseshit? 4. Horse feces / manure. Labels: literally, uncountable Example: A huge one. It was my job to mix the horseshit in with the soil. Great big wheelbarrows full of horseshit. We used to drive around to farms that had horses and ask them if we could shovel up their horseshit. Example: The aroma was a mix of cedar, hay and horseshit but somehow, Betty found it pleasantly intoxicating.
Word: horseshit Part of Speech: intj Etymology: From horse + shit. 1. Synonym of bullshit. Labels: slang, vulgar Example: He says he'll pay up next week. Horseshit!
Word: knew Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ˈnjuː/, /ˈn(j)u/, /nɪu̯/ 1. simple past of know Labels: form-of, past 2. past participle of know Labels: colloquial, form-of, nonstandard, participle, past Example: I'll say I've knew this some time and tried to stop it—it was my business to stop it. Example: […]I've knew people that if they got a rag rug on the floor and a kewpie doll lamp on the phonograph they think they're runnin' a parlor house.'
Word: known Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English knowen, from Old English cnāwen (past participle). Morphologically know + -n. Pronunciation: /nəʊn/, /naːn/, /noʊn/, /ˈnɐʉn/, /ˈnɐʉ.wən/ 1. Identified as a specific type; famous, renowned. Example: He was a known pickpocket. Example: Being not knowne, some great persons in the pew I pretended to, and went in, did question my coming in. 2. Accepted, familiar, researched. Example: At the time, Einstein's theory was unknown to most other scientists. Example: As we age, the major arteries of our bodies frequently become thickened with plaque, a fatty material with an oatmeal-like consistency that builds up along the inner lining of blood vessels. The reason plaque forms isn’t entirely known, but it seems to be related to high levels of cholesterol inducing an inflammatory response, which can also attract and trap more cellular debris over time.
Word: known Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English knowen, from Old English cnāwen (past participle). Morphologically know + -n. Pronunciation: /nəʊn/, /naːn/, /noʊn/, /ˈnɐʉn/, /ˈnɐʉ.wən/ 1. Any fact or situation which is known or familiar. Example: You have to tell the knowns from the unknowns. Example: The biological dereplication tool may identify major knowns in a mixture, but it may miss novel minor components. 2. A constant or variable the value of which is already determined.
Word: known Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English knowen, from Old English cnāwen (past participle). Morphologically know + -n. Pronunciation: /nəʊn/, /naːn/, /noʊn/, /ˈnɐʉn/, /ˈnɐʉ.wən/ 1. past participle of know Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: continent Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Latin continens, noun use of present participle of continēre (“to contain”). Pronunciation: /ˈkɒntɪnənt/, /ˈkɑntɪnənt/, /ˈkɑnt(ə)nənt/ 1. One of the main contiguous landmasses, separated by water or geological features, on the surface of a planet, sometimes including its continental shelves and the islands on them. Example: But I should turn mine ears and hear The moanings of the homeless sea, ⁠The sound of streams that swift or slow ⁠Draw down Æonian hills, and sow The dust of continents to be; […] 2. Each of the traditional main regions into which the Earth’s land surface is divided, including both an extent of mainland and various conventionally associated islands, etc; namely, Africa, Europe, Asia, Australasia/Oceania, North America, South America, and Antarctica. 3. A large contiguous landmass as opposed to its islands, peninsulas, and so forth; mainland. Also specifically, the Old World continent of Europe–Asia–Africa: see the Continent. Labels: broadly, obsolete Example: No man is an Iland, intire of it ſelfe; euery man is a peece of the Continent, a part of the maine; […] 4. A large connected expanse of something in general. Labels: figuratively 5. Any continuous tract or area of land; country, connected region. Labels: obsolete 6. Land (as opposed to the water), dry land. Labels: obsolete Example: The carkas with the streame was carried downe, / But th’head fell backeward on the continent. 7. The body or mass of a celestial body such as the sun or moon. Labels: obsolete 8. Container, vessel, something that holds or contains something else. Labels: obsolete 9. Space, capacity. Labels: obsolete 10. The principal or essential points of something viewed collectively: sum, summary, substance. Labels: obsolete Example: […] Here's the scroll, The continent and summary of my fortune.
Word: continent Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English contynent, from Old French continent, from Latin continentem (“continuous; holding together”), present participle of continēre (“to contain”). Pronunciation: /ˈkɒntɪnənt/, /ˈkɑntɪnənt/, /ˈkɑnt(ə)nənt/ 1. Exercising self-restraint; controlled, temperate with respect to one’s bodily needs or passions, especially sex. Example: Have a continent forbearance till the speed of his rage goes slower. Example: Their strength was the strength of men geographically beyond temptation: the poverty of Arabia made them simple, continent, enduring. 2. Having voluntary control over one’s urination or defecation. 3. Not interrupted; connected; continuous, whether in time or space. Labels: obsolete Example: a continent fever Example: Affrike and Europe bordering on your land, And continent to your Dominions: […] 4. Serving to restrain or limit; restraining; opposing. Labels: obsolete Example: There did I ſee that low ſpirited Swaine, [...] hight Coſtard, (Clow[ne]. O mee) ſorted and conſorted contrary to thy eſtabliſhed proclaymed Edict and continent Cannon; Which with, o with, but with this I paſſion to ſay wherewith: / Clo[wne]. With a Wench. Example: Have a continent forbearance till the speed of his rage goes slower. 5. Containing or capable of containing. Labels: obsolete
Word: lightning Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From light(e)n + -ing. Doublet of lightening. Pronunciation: /ˈlaɪt.nɪŋ/, [ˈlʌɪ̯ʔ.nɪŋ], [ˈlɐɪ̯ʔ.nɪŋ] 1. A flash of light produced by short-duration, high-voltage discharge of electricity within a cloud, between clouds, or between a cloud and the earth. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: Although we did not see the lightning, we did hear the thunder. Example: Canst thou send lightnings, that they may go, and say unto thee, Here we are? 2. A discharge of this kind. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: The lightning was hot enough to melt the sand. Example: That tree was hit by lightning. 3. Anything that moves very fast. Labels: figuratively, uncountable, usually Example: Nobs, though, was lightning by comparison with the slow thinking beast and dodged his opponent's thrust with ease. Then he raced to the rear of the tremendous thing and seized it by the tail. 4. Gin. Labels: archaic, slang, uncountable, usually Example: I took some gin but it did little to calm my mood. […] 'Come now, Bess,' she entreated, and poured another glass of lightning. 'Tell your old mother everything.' I took a gulp of the spirit, then babbled all, showing her the loot now in my possession. 5. Obsolete form of lightening. Labels: alt-of, obsolete, uncountable, usually
Word: lightning Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From light(e)n + -ing. Doublet of lightening. Pronunciation: /ˈlaɪt.nɪŋ/, [ˈlʌɪ̯ʔ.nɪŋ], [ˈlɐɪ̯ʔ.nɪŋ] 1. Extremely fast or sudden; moving (as if) at the speed of lightning. Labels: not-comparable Example: The insurgents then began their lightning advance along the Euphrates in the Sunni heartland toward Baghdad.
Word: lightning Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From light(e)n + -ing. Doublet of lightening. Pronunciation: /ˈlaɪt.nɪŋ/, [ˈlʌɪ̯ʔ.nɪŋ], [ˈlɐɪ̯ʔ.nɪŋ] 1. To produce lightning. Labels: childish, impersonal, intransitive, nonstandard Example: Or if it thundered and lightninged, Aunt Frances always dropped everything she might be doing and held Elizabeth Ann tightly in her arms until it was all over. Example: The next day, though it is not only raining but thundering and lightninging as well, antiquing is seen by three-fourths of those present as a lesser evil than free play.
Word: north pole Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˌnɔːθ ˈpəʊl/, /ˌnɔɹθ ˈpoʊl/ 1. The northernmost point on celestial bodies other than Earth. 2. The positive pole of a magnetic dipole that seeks geographic north.
Word: south pole Part of Speech: noun 1. The southernmost point on celestial bodies other than Earth. 2. The negative pole of a magnetic dipole that seeks geographic south. 3. Alternative form of South Pole. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: twaddler Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From twaddle + -er. Pronunciation: /ˈtwɒdələ(ɹ)/, /ˈtwɒdlə(ɹ)/ 1. One who twaddles.
Word: euphemism Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Recorded since 1656; from Ancient Greek εὐφημισμός (euphēmismós), from εὐφημίζω (euphēmízō), from εὔφημος (eúphēmos, “uttering sound of good omen, abstaining from inauspicious words”), from εὖ (eû, “well”) + φήμη (phḗmē, “a voice, a prophetic voice, rumor, talk”), from φημί (phēmí, “to speak, say”). Pronunciation: /ˈjuː.fəˌmɪz.əm/, /ˌjyːˈfɛmizm̩/ 1. The use of a word or phrase to replace another one that is more offensive, blunt or vulgar. Labels: uncountable Example: Akin to it [litotes] is euphemism, which may be applied to the same purpose. Example: In 1946, George Orwell addressed the relationship of language to reality and suggested that euphemism, not imperfect analogy, was the real danger. If we don’t use shocking language to describe a shocking circumstance, can we truly recognize what is happening? 2. A word or phrase that replaces another in this way. Labels: countable Example: When it is said of the martyr St. Stephen, that “he fell asleep,” instead of—he died, the euphemism partakes of the nature of metaphor, intimating a resemblance between sleep and the death of such a person. Example: Euphemistic language turns up in many areas of American life in a variety of situations. Not all euphemisms are alike, but they have one thing in common: They obscure meaning rather than enhance it; they shade the truth.
Word: horse hockey Part of Speech: noun 1. Horse excrement. Labels: uncountable 2. False or deceitful statements; lies; exaggerations; nonsense; horse pucky. (a euphemism for horseshit). Labels: euphemistic, slang, uncountable 3. Polo. Labels: uncountable
Word: horse hockey Part of Speech: intj 1. An expression of disbelief or disgust.
Word: lay Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Inherited from Middle English lay, laye, laie, ley, leye, which may have multiple origins: * Potentially from *læġ-, an unattested variant stem of Old English lagu m (“sea, flood, water, ocean”), if transferred to a-stem inflection (compare Old English dæġ-, dag- (“day”) > Middle English day, daw-); compare plural Middle English lawes and lauen. If so, inherited from Proto-West Germanic *lagu (“water, sea”), from Proto-Germanic *laguz (“water, sea”), from Proto-Indo-European *lókus (“water, body of water, lake”). * Alternatively, borrowed from Old French lai, from Latin lacus (“lake, hollow, hole”), also from Proto-Indo-European *lókus. * Alternatively, borrowed from leg-, a stem of Old Norse lǫgr, from Proto-Germanic *laguz. Compare Icelandic lögur (“liquid, fluid, lake”). All of these theories make it a doublet of loch, Looe, and lough. Pronunciation: /leɪ/ 1. A lake.
Word: lay Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Inherited from Middle English lay, from Old French lai, from Latin lāicus, from Ancient Greek λαϊκός (laïkós). Doublet of laic. Pronunciation: /leɪ/ 1. Not belonging to the clergy, but associated with them. Example: They seemed more lay than clerical. Example: a lay preacher; a lay brother 2. Non-professional; not being a member of an organized institution. Example: It is true that in adopting the short view many of the younger economists have not merely taken over the lay notions bodily. Example: He hasn't caught a mouse since he was a slip of a kitten. Except when eating, he does nothing but sleep. […] It's a sort of disease. There's a scientific name for it. Trau- something. Traumatic symplegia, that's it. This cat has traumatic symplegia. In other words, putting it in simple language adapted to the lay mind, where other cats are content to get their eight hours, Augustus wants his twenty-four. 3. Not trumps. Example: a lay suit 4. Not educated or cultivated; ignorant. Labels: obsolete
Word: lay Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Inherited from Old English læġ. Pronunciation: /leɪ/ 1. simple past of lie (“to be oriented in a horizontal position, situated”) Labels: form-of, past Example: The baby lay in its crib and slept silently. Example: But unlike many other tunnels that lay idle and decaying, Catesby has now found a new use as an aerodynamic wind tunnel for the motor industry.
Word: lay Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Inherited from Middle English lay, from Old French lai (“song, lyric, poem”), from Frankish *laih (“play, melody, song”), from Proto-Germanic *laikaz, *laikiz (“jump, play, dance, hymn”), from Proto-Indo-European *leyg- (“to jump, spring, play”). Akin to Old High German leih (“a play, skit, melody, song”), Middle High German leich (“piece of music, epic song played on a harp”), Old English lācan (“to move quickly, fence, sing”). See lake (“to play”). Contrast German Lied and Lied. Pronunciation: /leɪ/ 1. A ballad or sung poem; a short poem or narrative, usually intended to be sung. Example: I strive, with wakeful melody, to cheer The sullen gloom, sweet Philomel! like thee, And call the stars to listen: every star Is deaf to mine, enamour'd of thy lay. 2. A lyrical, narrative poem written in octosyllabic couplets that often deals with tales of adventure and romance. Example: 1945: "The Lay of Aotrou and Itroun" by JRR Tolkien Sad is the note and sad the lay, but mirth we meet not every day.
Word: lay Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English lay, laye, laiȝe, leyȝe, from Old English lǣh, lēh, northern (Anglian) variants of Old English lēah (“lea”). More at lea. Pronunciation: /leɪ/ 1. A meadow; a lea. Labels: obsolete Example: Having destroyed all old lays, I have no other hay than clover.
Word: lay Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Inherited from Middle English lay, lai, laye, ley, lei, borrowed from Old French lei (“law”). Possibly also from or influenced by the etymologically unrelated Middle English lawe (“law”) (with variants including laige, laiȝh, læȝe), from Old English lagu (“law”). More at law. Pronunciation: /leɪ/ 1. A law. Labels: obsolete Example: A woman worthy of immortall prayse, / Which for this Realme found many goodly layes 2. An obligation; a vow. Labels: obsolete Example: they bound themselues by a sacred lay and oth to fight it out to the last man
Word: lay Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Semantic loan from Yiddish לייגן (leygn, “to put, lay”). Pronunciation: /leɪ/ 1. To don or put on (tefillin (phylacteries)). Labels: Judaism, transitive
Word: laid Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /leɪd/ 1. simple past and past participle of lay Labels: form-of, participle, past 2. simple past and past participle of lie (“to be oriented in a horizontal position, situated”) Labels: colloquial, form-of, participle, past
Word: laid Part of Speech: adj Pronunciation: /leɪd/ 1. Marked with parallel lines, as if ribbed, from wires in the mould. Labels: not-comparable
Word: led Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ˈlɛd/ 1. simple past and past participle of lead Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: led Part of Speech: adj Pronunciation: /ˈlɛd/ 1. Under somebody's control or leadership. Labels: not-comparable 2. Under somebody's control or leadership. Labels: not-comparable
Word: lean Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English lenen (“to lean”), from Old English hleonian, hlinian (“to lean, recline, lie down, rest”), from Proto-West Germanic *hlinēn, from Proto-Germanic *hlināną (“to lean, incline”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱley-. Cognate via Proto-Germanic with Middle Dutch leunen (“to lean”), German lehnen (“to lean”); via Proto-Indo-European with climate, cline. Pronunciation: /ˈliːn/, [ˈlɪi̯n] ~ [ˈlɪ̈i̯n] 1. To incline, deviate, or bend, from a vertical position; to be in a position thus inclining or deviating. Labels: intransitive Example: a leaning column Example: She leaned out of the window. 2. To incline in opinion or desire; to conform in conduct; often with to, toward, etc. Labels: copulative Example: I’m leaning towards voting Conservative in the next election. Example: The Hispanic vote leans Democratic. 3. To rest or rely, for support, comfort, to use as a hard surface for writing, etc. Example: He lean'd not on his fathers but himself. Example: The slightest effort made the patient cough. He would stand leaning on a stick and holding a hand to his side, and when the paroxysm had passed it left him shaking. 4. To hang outwards. 5. To press against. Example: Oppreſs'd with Anguiſh, panting, and o'reſpent, / His fainting Limbs against an Oak he leant.
Word: lean Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English lenen (“to lean”), from Old English hleonian, hlinian (“to lean, recline, lie down, rest”), from Proto-West Germanic *hlinēn, from Proto-Germanic *hlināną (“to lean, incline”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱley-. Cognate via Proto-Germanic with Middle Dutch leunen (“to lean”), German lehnen (“to lean”); via Proto-Indo-European with climate, cline. Pronunciation: /ˈliːn/, [ˈlɪi̯n] ~ [ˈlɪ̈i̯n] 1. An inclination away from the vertical. Example: The trees had various leans toward gaps in the canopy.
Word: lean Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English lene (“lean”), from Old English hlǣne (“lean”), (cognate with Low German leen), perhaps from hlǣnan (“to cause to lean (due to hunger or lack of food)”), from Proto-Germanic *hlainijaną (“to cause to lean”). If so, then related to Old English hlinian, hleonian (“to lean”). Compare Old Norse linr (“mild; soft, limp; weak”), Old High German len (“mild”). Pronunciation: /ˈliːn/, [ˈlɪi̯n] ~ [ˈlɪ̈i̯n] 1. Slim; not fleshy. Example: They will now dedicate several hours at the gym every day to be leaner and stronger. 2. Having little fat. Example: lean steak cuts Example: The butcher and the porkman painted up only the leanest scrags of meat; the baker, the coarsest of meagre loaves. 3. Having little extra or little to spare; scanty; meagre. Example: a lean budget Example: a lean harvest 4. Having a low proportion or concentration of a desired substance or ingredient. Example: A lean ore hardly worth mining. Example: Running on too lean a fuel-air mixture will cause, among other problems, your internal combustion engine to heat up too much. 5. Of a character which prevents the compositor from earning the usual wages; opposed to fat. Labels: archaic Example: lean copy, matter, or type 6. Efficient, economic, frugal, agile, slimmed-down; pertaining to the modern industrial principles of "lean manufacturing". Example: lean management Example: lean manufacturing
Word: lean Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English lene (“lean”), from Old English hlǣne (“lean”), (cognate with Low German leen), perhaps from hlǣnan (“to cause to lean (due to hunger or lack of food)”), from Proto-Germanic *hlainijaną (“to cause to lean”). If so, then related to Old English hlinian, hleonian (“to lean”). Compare Old Norse linr (“mild; soft, limp; weak”), Old High German len (“mild”). Pronunciation: /ˈliːn/, [ˈlɪi̯n] ~ [ˈlɪ̈i̯n] 1. Meat with no fat on it. Labels: uncountable Example: Jack Sprat would eat no fat, / His wife would eat no lean. 2. An organism that is lean in stature. Labels: countable Example: The intermediates and leans are the predominant morphotypes found at the SE-NHR seamounts […] Example: Obese Zuckers, compared to leans, consumed more food under free-feeding conditions.
Word: lean Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English lene (“lean”), from Old English hlǣne (“lean”), (cognate with Low German leen), perhaps from hlǣnan (“to cause to lean (due to hunger or lack of food)”), from Proto-Germanic *hlainijaną (“to cause to lean”). If so, then related to Old English hlinian, hleonian (“to lean”). Compare Old Norse linr (“mild; soft, limp; weak”), Old High German len (“mild”). Pronunciation: /ˈliːn/, [ˈlɪi̯n] ~ [ˈlɪ̈i̯n] 1. To thin out (a fuel-air mixture): to reduce the fuel flow into the mixture so that there is more air or oxygen. Example: He leaned the mixture in an effort to cause a backfire through the carburetor, the generally accepted method of breaking the ice loose. Example: Even the Pilot's Operating Handbooks (POH) for our training airplanes add to our paranoia with their insistence that we not lean the mixture until we're above 5000 feet density altitude.