nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: pace Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English pase, from Anglo-Norman pas, Old French pas, and their source, Latin passus. Doublet of pas and fathom; compare also pass. Cognate with pass, Spanish pasear, paso. Pronunciation: /peɪs/ 1. A step. 2. A step. Example: Even at the duel, standing 10 paces apart, he could have satisfied Aaron’s honor. Example: I have perambulated your field, and estimate its perimeter to be 219 paces. 3. A way of stepping. Example: Netherlands, one of the pre-tournament favourites, combined their undoubted guile, creativity, pace and attacking quality with midfield grit and organisation. 4. A way of stepping. 5. Speed or velocity in general. Example: For with ſuch puiſſance and impetuous maine / Thoſe Champions broke on them, that forſt the fly, / Like ſcattered Sheepe, whenas the Shepherds ſwaine / A Lyon and a Tigre doth eſpye, / With greedy pace forth ruſhing from the foreſt nye. Example: The fastest women runners can run a mile in well under five minutes, but in order to reach that goal they've had to train at a much slower pace over thousands of miles. 6. A measure of the hardness of a pitch and of the tendency of a cricket ball to maintain its speed after bouncing. Example: He didn't bowl a lot of pace in the first T20I. 7. A group of donkeys. Labels: collective Example: […] but at Broadstairs and other places along the coast, a pace of donkeys stood on the sea-shore expectant (at least, their owners were expectant) of children clamouring to ride. Example: A pace of donkeys fans out in different directions. 8. A passage, a route. Labels: obsolete 9. A passage, a route. Labels: obsolete Example: But when she saw them gone she forward went, / As lay her journey, through that perlous Pace [...]. 10. A passage, a route. Labels: obsolete
Word: pace Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English pase, from Anglo-Norman pas, Old French pas, and their source, Latin passus. Doublet of pas and fathom; compare also pass. Cognate with pass, Spanish pasear, paso. Pronunciation: /peɪs/ 1. Describing a bowler who bowls fast balls. Labels: not-comparable
Word: pace Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English pase, from Anglo-Norman pas, Old French pas, and their source, Latin passus. Doublet of pas and fathom; compare also pass. Cognate with pass, Spanish pasear, paso. Pronunciation: /peɪs/ 1. To walk back and forth in a small distance. Example: Groups of men, in all imaginable attitudes, were lying, standing, sitting, or pacing up and down. Example: As we stood waiting for the departure time with the setting sun twinkling on the great brass dome of our 2-4-0, the sound of church bells was the only one apart from the measured tread of the guard slowly pacing towards his van, and, standing at an open window, I more than once heard the fireman's "Right away!" to his mate in acknowledgement of a desultory wave of the unfurled green flag. 2. To walk along or through sth with regular strides. 3. To set the speed. Example: I helped her train for the marathon by pacing her on a bike. Example: The clubs in London, Manchester, Birmingham, etc., hold various track meetings for races varying from one mile to fifty miles, the longer distances being sometimes paced by tandems. 4. To measure by walking.
Word: pace Part of Speech: prep Etymology: From Latin pāce (“in peace”), ablative form of pāx (“peace”). Pronunciation: /ˈpætʃeɪ/, /ˈpɑːtʃeɪ/, /ˈpeɪsiː/ 1. With all due respect to. Labels: formal Example: She is marvelous here, but he (pace many critics) is no bumpkin
Word: pace Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Alteration of archaic Pasch. Pronunciation: /peɪs/ 1. Synonym of Easter.
Word: padre Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Italian padre, Spanish padre, or Portuguese padre (“priest”), which are from Latin pater (“father”). Doublet of ayr, faeder, father, pater, and père. Pronunciation: /ˈpɑdɹeɪ/ 1. A military clergyman. 2. A Roman Catholic or Anglican priest. Example: The Zuma and Manzo Indians of the area were in the habit of going to the missions in the Spanish provinces below the Rio Grande River to solicit the padres to come to teach and baptize them in their villages.
Word: palazzo Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Italian palazzo, from Latin palātium (“palace, large residence”), from Palātium (“Palatine”), one of the seven hills of Rome, where aristocrats built large homes. Doublet of palace and Pfalz. Pronunciation: /pəˈlæt͡səʊ/, /pəˈlɑt͡soʊ/ 1. A large, palatial urban building in Italy. Example: Cecil Spenser's society—who soon shewed he could understand and enter into his views—became a source of great gratification, and his young countryman was almost domesticated at the palazzo. Example: At the piazzas, Romans are usually surrounded by tourists attracted by the classical palazzos, churches, monuments and fountains.
Word: bypass Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English *bypassen, *bipassen (suggested by past participle by-past, bipast), equivalent to by- + pass. Pronunciation: /ˈbaɪpæs/, /ˈbaɪpɑːs/ 1. A road that passes around something, such as a residential area or business district. 2. A replacement road for obsolete road that is no longer in use because devastating natural disasters (earthquakes, tsunamis, landslides). 3. The act of going past or around. 4. A section of pipe that conducts a fluid around some other fixture. 5. An electrical shunt. 6. An alternative passage created to divert a bodily fluid around a damaged organ; the surgical procedure to construct such a bypass. Example: Five of the 16 patients required simultaneous FF bypass and iliaco-femoral bypass; 2, required simultaneous FF bypass and iliac thrombo-endoarterectomy (Table II).
Word: bypass Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English *bypassen, *bipassen (suggested by past participle by-past, bipast), equivalent to by- + pass. Pronunciation: /ˈbaɪpæs/, /ˈbaɪpɑːs/ 1. To avoid an obstacle etc, by constructing or using a bypass. 2. To ignore the usual channels or procedures. Example: More to theyr proper Elements inaugurated none, / Than ſhee to hers by-paſſed, he to his poſſeſſed Throne. Example: Another force, also from the east, has by-passed Peiping and is striking southward. It apparently intends to swing eastward to form a junction, which probably will be effected near Langfang, on the railroad 30 miles southeast of Peiping.
Word: pasta Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Ancient Greek πάσσω (pássō) Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Hellenic *-tós Ancient Greek -τός (-tós) Ancient Greek παστός (pastós) Ancient Greek παστά (pastá)bor. Late Latin pasta Italian pastabor. English pasta Borrowed from Italian pasta (“paste; pasta, noodles”), from Late Latin pasta (“dough, pastry cake, paste”), from Ancient Greek παστά (pastá, “barley porridge”), neuter plural of παστός (pastós, “sprinkled with salt”), from Ancient Greek πάσσω (pássō, “to sprinkle”). Doublet of paste. Pronunciation: /ˈpæs.tə/, [ˈpʰæstə], [ˈpʰastə], [ˈp(ʰ)astə], /ˈpɑ.stə/ 1. Dough made from wheat and water and sometimes mixed with egg and formed into various shapes; often sold in dried form and typically boiled for eating. Labels: uncountable 2. Dough made from wheat and water and sometimes mixed with egg and formed into various shapes; often sold in dried form and typically boiled for eating. Labels: broadly, countable, uncountable 3. A dish or serving of pasta. Labels: uncountable 4. A type of pasta. Labels: countable
Word: pasta Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Latin cōpiō Old French copierbor. Middle English copien English copy Ancient Greek πάσσω (pássō) Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Hellenic *-tós Ancient Greek -τός (-tós) Ancient Greek παστός (pastós) Ancient Greek παστά (pastá)bor. Late Latin pasta Old French pastebor. Middle English paste English paste English copy-paste ▲ Late Latin pasta Italian pastabor. English pasta blend English copypastaclip. English pasta Clipping of copypasta. Pronunciation: /ˈpæs.tə/, [ˈpʰæstə], [ˈpʰastə], [ˈp(ʰ)astə], /ˈpɑ.stə/ 1. A copypasta (block of text which has been copied and pasted from somewhere else, serving as a story or meme).
Word: pasta Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Ancient Greek πάσσω (pássō) Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Hellenic *-tós Ancient Greek -τός (-tós) Ancient Greek παστός (pastós) Ancient Greek παστά (pastá)bor. Late Latin pasta Philippine Spanish pastabor. English pasta Borrowed from Philippine Spanish pasta, from Late Latin pasta (“dough, pastry cake, paste”), from Ancient Greek παστά (pastá, “barley porridge”). Pronunciation: /ˈpæs.tə/, [ˈpʰæstə], [ˈpʰastə], [ˈp(ʰ)astə], /ˈpɑ.stə/ 1. Dental filling. Labels: Philippines, countable, uncountable
Word: human being Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From human (adjective) + being (noun). The word human was originally an adjective, thus requiring a base noun. Pronunciation: /ˌhjuːmən ˈbiːɪŋ/ 1. A person; a large sapient, bipedal primate, with notably less hair than others of that order, of the species Homo sapiens. Example: He began to reflect that in a few Minutes he might possibly deprive a human Being of Life, or might lose his own. Example: The book argues that leftists don’t deserve the status of human beings — that they are, as the title says, unhumans — and that they are waging a shadow war against all that is good and decent, which will end in apocalyptic slaughter if they are not stopped. 2. Any member of the genus Homo, including extinct species. Example: The first real human beings in China lived about 600,000 years ago. Fossils of Gigantopithecus, a Latin name for Giant Ape, were dug up at Lan-t'ien in the early 1960s. Though they looked a lot like apes, the Lan-t'ien people were among the first of our species to make tools. Example: As Australopithecus evolved into the first human being, Homo habilis, and then into the species, Homo sapiens, we have evolved as social beings
Word: being Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Originated 1250–1300 from Middle English being; see be + -ing. Pronunciation: /ˈbiː.ɪŋ/, /ˈbiːŋ/, /ˈbi.ɪŋ/, /ˈbiŋ/ 1. present participle and gerund of be Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: being Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Originated 1250–1300 from Middle English being; see be + -ing. Pronunciation: /ˈbiː.ɪŋ/, /ˈbiːŋ/, /ˈbi.ɪŋ/, /ˈbiŋ/ 1. A living creature. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Minute grew into minute, and still there was no sign of life, nor did the curtain move; but I felt the gaze of the unknown being sinking through and through me, and filling me with a nameless terror, till the perspiration stood in beads upon my brow. 2. The state or fact of existence, consciousness, or life, or something in such a state. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: 1608-1634, John Webster (and perhaps Thomas Heywood), Appius and Virginia Claudius, thou / Wast follower of his fortunes in his being. Example: For the service to be considered was not the service of one servant, but of two servants, and even of three servants, and even of an infinity of servants, of whom the first could not out till the second up, nor the second up till the third in, nor the third in till the first out, nor the first out till the third in, nor the third in till the second up, nor the second up till the first out, every going, every being, every coming consisting with a being and a coming, a coming and a going, a going and a being, nay with all the beings and all the comings, with all the comings and all the goings, with all the goings and all the beings, of all the servants that had ever served Mr. Knott, of all the servants that ever would serve Mr. Knott. 3. That which has actuality (materially or in concept). Labels: countable, uncountable 4. One's basic nature, or the qualities thereof; essence or personality. Labels: countable, uncountable 5. An abode; a cottage. Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable Example: It was a relief to dismiss them [Sir Roger's servants] into little beings within my manor.
Word: being Part of Speech: conj Etymology: Originated 1250–1300 from Middle English being; see be + -ing. Pronunciation: /ˈbiː.ɪŋ/, /ˈbiːŋ/, /ˈbi.ɪŋ/, /ˈbiŋ/ 1. Given that; since. Example: ’Tis a hard matter therefore to confine them, being they are so various and many […].
Word: arsehole Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English arce-hoole, equivalent to arse + hole. Compare Old English ears-þyrel (“anus”, literally “arse-hole”). Pronunciation: /ˈɑː(ɹ)s.hoʊl/ 1. The anus. Labels: Commonwealth, countable, mildly, uncountable, vulgar Example: The moment I sat on the toilet, my crap immediately came out of my arsehole. Example: Second cut, quick flash to the anus careful not to cut any sacs of roe. Then hold up the slimed thing and quickly slit down the other side to the arsehole again. 2. An inconsiderate, mean-spirited, or otherwise contemptible person. (Less offensive than fucker or cunt.) Labels: Commonwealth, countable, derogatory, mildly, offensive, uncountable, vulgar Example: Shut up, you big dummy! – Hey! Don't call me “big dummy”, you arsehole! Example: “He's dead, you arsehole!” I yelled at the top of my lungs, determined to get a word in edgeways. 3. Anything (especially a place) that is unpleasant or undesirable. Labels: broadly, countable, uncountable, vulgar Example: Welcome to [Town X], the arsehole of Britain. 4. A variant of the card game big two. Labels: Ireland, UK, uncountable, vulgar
Word: antipasto Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Italian antipasto (“[food] before the meal”). Doublet of antepast. Pronunciation: /ˌæntiˈpɑstəʊ/, /ˌɑn-/, /-ˈpæs-/ 1. An Italian starter for a meal; normally a cold assortment of salami, cheese, seafood, and vegetables. Example: The antipasto often features fettunta—thin slices of Tuscan bread toasted and salted (the bread itself is unsalted) and perhaps rubbed with garlic (you may prefer to rub it on for yourself, or not if you're due to discuss Uganda or have an interview with Silvio Berlusconi)
Word: starter Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From start + -er. Pronunciation: /ˈstɑː.tə(ɹ)/, /ˈstɑɹ.tɚ/, [ˈstɑɹ.ɾɚ] 1. Someone who starts, or who starts something. Example: The most charitable view taken of them by their colleagues was that, as late starters on the journey away from their Labour past, they had not fully understood that the SDP intended to be something new and not just a Mark II Labour Party […] 2. Someone who starts, or who starts something. 3. Someone who starts, or who starts something. 4. Someone who starts, or who starts something. 5. Something that starts something. 6. Something that starts something. 7. Something that starts something. 8. Something with which to begin; a first property, etc. Example: It's small, but it's a good starter house. 9. The first course of a meal, consisting of a small, usually savoury, dish. Example: “Starters are the best things at restaurants,” agrees Chitra Ramaswamy, the restaurant critic for the Scottish edition of the Times, who lives in Edinburgh. […] I would never go to a restaurant and not have a starter.” 10. A player in the lineup of players that a team fields at the beginning of a game. Example: Goalkeeper Paulo Gazzaniga wasn’t a starter at Fulham. 11. A dog that rouses game. 12. A short length of rope formerly used for casual chastisement in the Navy. Labels: UK, historical 13. Ellipsis of starter signal. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis Example: The colour-light signals admitting directly to the platforms and the inner starters (for short-length departures well up the platforms) are two-aspect, while those immediately beyond them are three-aspect, but elsewhere four-aspect signals have been installed in association with route indicators.
Word: pound sign Part of Speech: noun 1. The symbol £, representing the pound sterling. 2. The symbol # on a telephone. Labels: US 3. The symbol #, denoting weight in pounds. Labels: US Example: A bag of peanuts is marked "5^#".
Word: dissimilarity Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From dis- + similarity or dissimilar + -ity. Pronunciation: /dɪˌsɪmɪˈlæɹɪti/ 1. A lack of similarity or a lack of likeness in appearance to something else. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The experiment was abandoned when one fine day spontaneous combustion of the pulverised coal in the container occurred, and a black cloud of the very finely divided fuel rose into the air by the force of the explosion, and was slowly wafted by the prevailing breeze over the town, upon which it descended with the resemblance of black snow, but with the dissimilarity that it did not melt.
Word: radiation Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Latin radiatio, radiationis. By surface analysis, radiate + -ion. Pronunciation: /ˌɹeɪ.diˈeɪ.ʃən/, /ˌɹæɪ.diˈæɪ.ʃən/, /ɹæ.diˈeɪ.ʃən/ 1. The shooting forth of anything from a point or surface, like diverging rays of light. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The radiation of love from the crowd was addictive to the young singer-songwriters. 2. The shooting forth of anything from a point or surface, like diverging rays of light. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, ellipsis, often, uncountable Example: heat radiation 3. The process of radiating waves or particles. Labels: countable, uncountable 4. The transfer of energy via radiation. Labels: countable, uncountable 5. Radioactive energy. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: It's Christmas at ground zero / And if the radiation level's OK / I'll go out with you / To see all the new / Mutations on New Year's Day 6. A rapid diversification of an ancestral species into many new forms. Labels: countable Example: So the question is: have plants and animals retained over this huge amount of time—whole radiations of mammals have come and gone in this period—have they retained these potentially costly characteristics? Example: The second [canid group] is the radiation of dogs in South America that began when the first canids arrived about 3 Ma, after crossing the Panama land bridge (Fig. 5.4).
Word: background radiation Part of Speech: noun 1. Ionizing radiation that is naturally present in the environment. Labels: uncountable, usually
Word: square foot Part of Speech: noun 1. A unit of area, regardless of its shape, equal to the area of a square whose sides are one foot long. Example: In 1973, we built a new factory in Tahsi in Taoyuan County, which occupied an area of 600,000 square feet. Example: At No. 3 Staunton Street in the city’s SoHo district, the roughly 1,300 square-foot ground floor was once used as a parking space for a Ferrari.
Word: square yard Part of Speech: noun 1. A unit of area (abbreviation sq yd or sq. yd.) equal to the area of a square the sides of which are one yard long (i.e. 3 feet by 3 feet or 9 square feet).
Word: Kubo Part of Speech: name 1. A language spoken in Papua New Guinea.
Word: cubic centimeter Part of Speech: noun 1. US spelling of cubic centimetre. Labels: US, alt-of
Word: square inch Part of Speech: noun 1. A unit of area equal to the area of a square the sides of which are each one inch long.
Word: square mile Part of Speech: noun 1. A unit of area equal to that in a square with 1 mile sides, equivalent to 2.59 km². Example: Since the mid-1980s, when Indonesia first began to clear its bountiful forests on an industrial scale in favour of lucrative palm-oil plantations, “haze” has become an almost annual occurrence in South-East Asia. The cheapest way to clear logged woodland is to burn it, producing an acrid cloud of foul white smoke that, carried by the wind, can cover hundreds, or even thousands, of square miles. 2. A downtown, a city center.
Word: beef Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English beef, bef, beof, borrowed from Anglo-Norman beof, Old French buef, boef (“ox”) (modern French bœuf); from Latin bovem (“ox”), from Proto-Italic *gʷōs, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *gʷṓws. Doublet of cow. Beef in the sense of “a grudge, argument” was originally an American slang expression: * attested as a verb “to complain” in 1888: “He'll beef an' kick like a steer an' let on he won't never wear 'em.”— New York World, 13 May; * attested as a noun “complaint, protest, grievance, sim.” in 1899: “He made a Horrible Beef because he couldn't get Loaf Sugar for his Coffee.”—Fables in Slang (1900) by George Ade, page 80. As to the possible origin of this American usage, it has been suggested that it can be traced back to a British expression for “alarm”, first recorded in 1725: "BEEF 'to alarm, as To cry beef upon us; they have discover'd us, and are in Pursuit of us". The term "beef" in this context would be a Cockney rhyming slang of thief. However, the continuous use of a similar expression, including its assumed semantic shift to 'complaint' in the United States from the 1880s onwards, needs further clarification. Pronunciation: /biːf/, /bɪjf/, /bif/ 1. To complain. Labels: intransitive, slang Example: “Don't you like the Red Room?” “The Red Room!” I gathered from his manner that he had not come to beef about his sleeping accommodation. Example: "Who's Precious?" she beefed when she saw the big tattoo running down my inner arm. 2. To add weight or strength to. Labels: slang, transitive Example: First off, the axle housing was beefed by welding areas where extreme loading is evident (black marked areas). 3. To fart; break wind. Labels: intransitive, slang Example: Ugh, who just beefed in here? 4. To cry. Labels: Yorkshire, intransitive Example: David was beefing last night after Ruth told him off. 5. To fail or mess up. Labels: slang, transitive Example: I beefed my presentation hard yesterday. 6. To feud or hold a grudge against. Labels: Multicultural-London-English, intransitive, slang Example: Those two are beefing right now — best you stay out of it. 7. To sing or speak loudly; to cry out. Labels: Australia, intransitive, slang
Word: beef Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English beef, bef, beof, borrowed from Anglo-Norman beof, Old French buef, boef (“ox”) (modern French bœuf); from Latin bovem (“ox”), from Proto-Italic *gʷōs, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *gʷṓws. Doublet of cow. Beef in the sense of “a grudge, argument” was originally an American slang expression: * attested as a verb “to complain” in 1888: “He'll beef an' kick like a steer an' let on he won't never wear 'em.”— New York World, 13 May; * attested as a noun “complaint, protest, grievance, sim.” in 1899: “He made a Horrible Beef because he couldn't get Loaf Sugar for his Coffee.”—Fables in Slang (1900) by George Ade, page 80. As to the possible origin of this American usage, it has been suggested that it can be traced back to a British expression for “alarm”, first recorded in 1725: "BEEF 'to alarm, as To cry beef upon us; they have discover'd us, and are in Pursuit of us". The term "beef" in this context would be a Cockney rhyming slang of thief. However, the continuous use of a similar expression, including its assumed semantic shift to 'complaint' in the United States from the 1880s onwards, needs further clarification. Pronunciation: /biːf/, /bɪjf/, /bif/ 1. Being a bovine animal that is being raised for its meat. Labels: not-comparable Example: We bought three beef calves this morning. 2. Producing or known for raising lots of beef. Labels: not-comparable Example: beef farms Example: beef country 3. Consisting of or containing beef as an ingredient. Labels: not-comparable Example: beef stew 4. Beefy; powerful; robust. Labels: not-comparable, slang Example: Wow, your audio setup is beef!
Word: approve Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd Proto-Italic *ad Proto-Italic *ad- Latin ad- Proto-Indo-European *per-der.? Proto-Indo-European *per-der.? Proto-Indo-European *pér Proto-Indo-European *-o Proto-Indo-European *pró Proto-Indo-European *pro-der. Proto-Indo-European *bʰuH-der. Proto-Italic *proβwos Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti Proto-Indo-European *-h₂tiinflu. Proto-Italic *-ājō Proto-Italic *-āō Proto-Italic *proβwāō Latin probō Latin approbōder. Old French aproverbor. Middle English aproven English approve From Middle English aproven, appreoven, appreven, apreven, borrowed from Old French aprover, approver, approuvir, appreuver (“to approve”), from Latin approbō, from ad + probō (“to esteem as good, approve, prove”). Doublet of approbate. By surface analysis, ad- + prove. Pronunciation: /əˈpɹuːv/ 1. To officially sanction; to ratify; to confirm; to set as satisfactory. Labels: transitive Example: Although we may disagree with it, we must nevertheless approve the sentence handed down by the court-martial. Example: It has jailed environmental activists and is planning to limit the power of judicial oversight by handing a state-approved body a monopoly over bringing environmental lawsuits. 2. To regard as good; to commend; to be pleased with; to think well of. Labels: transitive Example: We approve the measure of the administration, for it is an excellent decision. 3. To make proof of; to demonstrate; to prove or show practically. Labels: archaic, transitive Example: He had long burned with impatience to approve his valour. Example: 1812–1818, Lord Byron, Child Harolde's Piligrimage 'T is an old lesson; Time approves it true. 4. To consider worthy (to); to be pleased (with); to accept. Labels: intransitive Example: Her mother never approves of any of her boyfriends. She thinks nobody is good enough for her little girl. Example: Their address was in the most dutiful manner, approving of what her majesty had done toward a peace, and dissolve her parliament 5. To show to be worthy; to demonstrate the merits of. Labels: archaic, transitive, usually Example: The first care and concern must be to approve himself to God.
Word: approve Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English approuen, approven, from Old French aprouer; a- + a form apparently derived from the pro, prod, in Latin prōsum (“be useful or profitable”). Compare with improve. Pronunciation: /əˈpɹuːv/ 1. To make profit of; to convert to one's own profit — said especially of waste or common land appropriated by the lord of the manor. Labels: English, transitive
Word: approving Part of Speech: adj Pronunciation: /əˈpɹuː.vɪŋ/ 1. Expressing approbation; commending Example: She flashed an approving smile.
Word: approving Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /əˈpɹuː.vɪŋ/ 1. present participle and gerund of approve Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: approvingly Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree English approving Middle English -ly English -ly English approvingly From approving + -ly. 1. in an approving manner. Example: In his classicising Troilus and Criseyde, set with pagan aplomb in ancient Troy, he approvingly quotes the rhetorician Geoffrey of Vinsauf’s New Poetics.
Word: hydrochloric acid Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˌhaɪdrəʊˌklɔrɪkˈæsɪd/, /ˌhaɪdrə-/ 1. A strong acid made by dissolving the gas hydrogen chloride in water. It reacts with alkalis, bases and many metals to form chlorides; it has many industrial applications. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Near-synonyms: gastric acid, stomach acid, gastric juice (which is mostly hydrochloric acid) Example: If not sufficiently purified, a little hydrochloric or oxalic acid, or caustic potash may be put in the water, according as the stains are from grease or from ink.
Word: alleluia Part of Speech: intj Etymology: Etymology tree Biblical Hebrew הַלְּלוּ (halləlū) Biblical Hebrew יָהּ (yɔh) Biblical Hebrew הַלְּלוּיָהּ (halləlūyɔh)bor. Ancient Greek ἀλληλούϊα (allēloúïa)bor. Latin allēlūialbor. English alleluia Learned borrowing from Latin allēlūia, borrowed from Ancient Greek ἀλληλούϊα (allēloúïa), borrowed from Biblical Hebrew הַלְּלוּיָהּ (halləlūyɔh, “praise the Lord”), from הַלְּלוּ (halləlū, “praise!”) + יָהּ (yɔh, “Lord, Jah”). 1. A liturgical or variant form of hallelujah.
Word: alleluia Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Biblical Hebrew הַלְּלוּ (halləlū) Biblical Hebrew יָהּ (yɔh) Biblical Hebrew הַלְּלוּיָהּ (halləlūyɔh)bor. Ancient Greek ἀλληλούϊα (allēloúïa)bor. Latin allēlūialbor. English alleluia Learned borrowing from Latin allēlūia, borrowed from Ancient Greek ἀλληλούϊα (allēloúïa), borrowed from Biblical Hebrew הַלְּלוּיָהּ (halləlūyɔh, “praise the Lord”), from הַלְּלוּ (halləlū, “praise!”) + יָהּ (yɔh, “Lord, Jah”). 1. A liturgical form of hallelujah. 2. A choral composition incorporating alleluia in its text. Example: Down at the corner, carols bugled steamily from a mission soup-kitchen. There's no escape from it, he thought. Turn on the radio, and its alleluia licks you with tremolo tongue. 3. The plant wood sorrel.
Word: alleluia Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Biblical Hebrew הַלְּלוּ (halləlū) Biblical Hebrew יָהּ (yɔh) Biblical Hebrew הַלְּלוּיָהּ (halləlūyɔh)bor. Ancient Greek ἀλληλούϊα (allēloúïa)bor. Latin allēlūialbor. English alleluia Learned borrowing from Latin allēlūia, borrowed from Ancient Greek ἀλληλούϊα (allēloúïa), borrowed from Biblical Hebrew הַלְּלוּיָהּ (halləlūyɔh, “praise the Lord”), from הַלְּלוּ (halləlū, “praise!”) + יָהּ (yɔh, “Lord, Jah”). 1. Alternative spelling of hallelujah. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: tornados Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /tɔː(ɹ)ˈneɪ.dəʊz/ 1. plural of tornado Labels: form-of, plural
Word: tornados Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /tɔː(ɹ)ˈneɪ.dəʊz/ 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of tornado Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: tornadoes Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /tɔː(ɹ)ˈneɪd.əʊz/ 1. plural of tornado Labels: form-of, plural
Word: tsunami Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 津波 (tsunami), from 津 (tsu, “harbour”) + 波 (nami, “wave”). Pronunciation: /(t)suːˈnɑːmi/, /(t)suˈnæmi/, /(t)suˈnɑmi/, /t͡ʃʊˈnami/ 1. A very large and destructive wave, generally caused by a tremendous disturbance in the ocean, such as an undersea earthquake or volcanic eruption; often a series of waves (a wave train). Example: A tsunami struck Japan recently. Example: A wave simulator in the tank can re-enact tsunamis and northeasters, and imitate wave conditions from midocean. 2. A large and generally unstoppable surge. Labels: figuratively Example: It seemed that what started out as a handful of isolated cases gradually turned into a tsunami of complaints. Example: It set off a tsunami of debate among the more esoteric critics, who either loved it or hated it but could not ignore it.
Word: willy willy Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Yindjibarndi wili wili (or a related language of northwest Australia). 1. A whirlwind, cyclone or tornado; a dust devil. Labels: Australia Example: The willy-willy roared and crackled as it approached; sucked up leaves, branches, plastic, paper and scraps of metal sheet, spiralling them into the sky and then sweeping across the camp-ground and on towards the road. Example: There were sheets of roofing iron torn off by the willy-willy of 1994, tanks with holes in them, a few other cars and tractors, and bits of machinery.
Word: carnage Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French carnage, from a Norman or Picard variant Old Northern French) of Old French charnage, from char (“flesh”), or from Vulgar Latin *carnaticum (“slaughter of animals”), itself from Latin carnem, accusative of caro (“flesh”). By surface analysis, Latin carn- + -age. Pronunciation: /ˈkɑː.nɪdʒ/, /ˈkɑɹ.nɪd͡ʒ/ 1. Death and destruction. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: There was carnage after the school play ended with 96 deaths. Example: Unleash the wolves / Carnage has no rules / Comparison, competition / We'll bury one and all, all 2. The corpses, gore, etc. that remain after a massacre. Labels: uncountable, usually 3. Any great loss by a team; a game in which one team wins overwhelmingly. Labels: figuratively, uncountable, usually Example: The game against Sri Lanka and Australia was carnage with Australia winning by 287 runs. 4. A heavy drinking binge and its aftermath. Labels: figuratively, slang, uncountable, usually Example: The lads had recently returned from a wild summer on the party island of Ibiza, an increasingly popular hotspot for working-class British youth. But this was not a scene of drunken holiday carnage in tacky discos. Example: Within three hours we'd drunk the place dry. Miraculously, we all made it back on the bus, but I've never seen a more bacchanalian scene of wanton debauchery than the ride back to the hotel. It was total carnage. 5. Any chaotic situation. Labels: figuratively, slang, uncountable, usually Example: Mothers and children trapped in poverty in our inner cities, rusted out factories, scattered like tombstones across the across the landscape of our nation, an education system flush with cash, but which leaves our young and beautiful students deprived of all knowledge, and the crime, and the gangs, and the drugs that have stolen too many lives and robbed our country of so much unrealized potential. This American carnage stops right here and stops right now.
Word: fuckwit Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From fuck + wit. Pronunciation: /ˈfʌkwɪt/ 1. A very stupid person. Labels: Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, derogatory, offensive, slang, vulgar Example: “Gizmo, you sound like a fuckwit.” 2. A contemptible person. Labels: Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, derogatory, offensive, slang, vulgar Example: TUPOLSKI: I'm doing my job. I'm not torturing a condemned fuckwit just to satisfy my own sadist vengeance fantasies.
Word: crapulous Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Ancient Greek κραιπᾰ́λη (kraipắlē)der. Latin crāpula Proto-Indo-European *h₃ed- Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *h₃édosder.? Proto-Italic *-ŏ̄dsos? Old Latin -ōssus Latin -ōsus Latin crāpulōsusder. Middle English crapulous English crapulous From late Middle English crapulous, from Latin crapulosus (“drunken”), from crapula (“intoxication”), from Ancient Greek κραιπάλη (kraipálē, “intoxication, hangover”). Compare French crapuleux. Pronunciation: /ˈkɹæpjʊləs/ 1. Characterized by excessive eating or drinking. Example: Now I hear that you've dispensed with Roger's services, presumably to throw your lot in with my brother and his gang of crapulous shills. 2. Suffering physically from the consequences of excessive eating or drinking. 3. Surcharged with liquor; sick from excessive indulgence in drinking or eating. Example: By the time Swelter's monologue was dragging to its crapulous close, Mr. Flay was pacing onwards […] Example: He was in a crapulous state of booze, too, and demanded another thirty shillings.
Word: heavy water Part of Speech: noun 1. Water containing deuterium instead of normal hydrogen (protium) (thus, ²H₂O); used as a moderator in nuclear reactors. Labels: uncountable
Word: pro Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Late Middle English pro, from Latin prō (“on behalf of”). Pronunciation: /pɹəʊ/, /pɹoʊ/ 1. An advantage of something, especially when contrasted with its disadvantages (cons). Example: What are the pros and cons of buying a car? 2. A person who supports a concept or principle.
Word: pro Part of Speech: prep Etymology: From Late Middle English pro, from Latin prō (“on behalf of”). Pronunciation: /pɹəʊ/, /pɹoʊ/ 1. In favor of. Example: He is pro exercise but against physical exertion, quite a conundrum.
Word: pro Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Clipping of professional. Pronunciation: /pɹəʊ/, /pɹoʊ/ 1. A professional sportsman. 2. Professional. Labels: colloquial Example: When it comes to DIY, he's a real pro.
Word: pro Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Clipping of professional. Pronunciation: /pɹəʊ/, /pɹoʊ/ 1. Professional. Example: He landed a pro mentorship gig.
Word: pro Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Clipping of prostitute. Pronunciation: /pɹəʊ/, /pɹoʊ/ 1. A prostitute. Labels: slang Example: 1974, "Fynn" (Sydney Hopkins), Mister God, This Is Anna Millie was one of the dozen or so pros who had a house at the top of the street.
Word: pro Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Clipping of proproctor. Pronunciation: /pɹəʊ/, /pɹoʊ/ 1. A proproctor. Labels: UK, archaic, slang
Word: pro Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Clipping of prophylaxis. Pronunciation: /pɹəʊ/, /pɹoʊ/ 1. A chemical prophylaxis taken after sex to avoid contracting venereal disease. Labels: historical, slang
Word: principi Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of principe Labels: form-of, plural
Word: cubic curve Part of Speech: noun 1. A plane curve defined by an equation whose highest degree is 3. Formally, the set of solutions to an equation of the form Example: a_30x³+a_21x²ʸ+a_12xy²+a_03y³+a_20x²+a_11xy+a_02y²+a_10x+a_01y+a_00=0.
Word: cubic centimetre Part of Speech: noun 1. A unit of volume equal to that of a cube having sides each one centimetre in length, equal to 10⁻⁶ cubic metres and 1 millilitre. Commonly used in fluid measure and for engine sizes. Labels: Canada, UK
Word: term Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *terh₂-? Proto-Indo-European *ter-? Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥ Proto-Indo-European *térmn̥ Proto-Italic *termn̥ Proto-Indo-European *-nós Proto-Italic *-nos Proto-Italic *term(e)nos Latin terminus Old French termebor. Middle English terme English term From Middle English terme, borrowed from Old French terme, from Latin terminus (“a bound, boundary, limit, end; in Medieval Latin, also a time, period, word, covenant, etc.”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *térmn̥ (“stump, end, boundary”). Doublet of terminus and termon. Old English had termen, from the same source. Pronunciation: /tɜːm/, [tʰɜːm] ~ [tʰɐ̝ːm], /tɜɹm/, [tʰɝm] ~ [tʰɚ̞m] 1. To phrase a certain way; to name or call. Labels: transitive Example: Abstraction or prescision ought to be carefully distinguished from two other modes of mental separation, which may be termed discrimination and dissociation. Example: The ability of a segment of a glass sphere to magnify whatever is placed before it was known around the year 1000, when the spherical segment was called a reading stone, essentially what today we might term a frameless magnifying glass or plain glass paperweight.
Word: term Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *terh₂-? Proto-Indo-European *ter-? Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥ Proto-Indo-European *térmn̥ Proto-Italic *termn̥ Proto-Indo-European *-nós Proto-Italic *-nos Proto-Italic *term(e)nos Latin terminus Old French termebor. Middle English terme English term From Middle English terme, borrowed from Old French terme, from Latin terminus (“a bound, boundary, limit, end; in Medieval Latin, also a time, period, word, covenant, etc.”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *térmn̥ (“stump, end, boundary”). Doublet of terminus and termon. Old English had termen, from the same source. Pronunciation: /tɜːm/, [tʰɜːm] ~ [tʰɐ̝ːm], /tɜɹm/, [tʰɝm] ~ [tʰɚ̞m] 1. Born or delivered at term. Labels: colloquial, not-comparable Example: term neonate
Word: term Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Clipping of terminal. Pronunciation: /tɜːm/, [tʰɜːm] ~ [tʰɐ̝ːm], /tɜɹm/, [tʰɝm] ~ [tʰɚ̞m] 1. A computer program that emulates a physical terminal. Labels: informal
Word: term Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Short for terminate, termination, terminated employee, etc. Pronunciation: /tɜːm/, [tʰɜːm] ~ [tʰɐ̝ːm], /tɜɹm/, [tʰɝm] ~ [tʰɚ̞m] 1. To terminate someone's employment. Labels: ambitransitive, informal 2. To delete someone's account. Labels: informal, transitive
Word: term Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Short for terminate, termination, terminated employee, etc. Pronunciation: /tɜːm/, [tʰɜːm] ~ [tʰɐ̝ːm], /tɜɹm/, [tʰɝm] ~ [tʰɚ̞m] 1. One whose employment has been terminated
Word: cubic meter Part of Speech: noun 1. US spelling of cubic metre. Labels: US, alt-of Example: The no. 5 furnace at the Cherepovets works in Russia has a volume of 5,500 cubic meters.
Word: cubic metre Part of Speech: noun 1. A unit of volume equal to that of a cube having sides each one metre in length. Symbol: ㎥.
Word: blanched almond Part of Speech: noun 1. Partly cooked almonds (nuts). Labels: countable, uncountable 2. A subtle yellow shade or hue, like that of blanched almonds. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: blanched almond Part of Speech: adj 1. Of a subtle yellow shade or hue, like that of blanched almonds. Labels: not-comparable
Word: light water Part of Speech: noun Etymology: By reference to atomic weight and atomic mass; more at light hydrogen. 1. Any water molecules (H₂O) containing two protium (¹H, hydrogen-1) atoms. Labels: uncountable 2. Any water molecules (H₂O) containing two protium (¹H, hydrogen-1) atoms. Labels: uncountable 3. Foam formed by water and any of various additives, used in firefighting because it floats on flammable liquids lighter than water. (The additives were originally fluorocarbon surfactants but today are increasingly fluorine-free.) Labels: uncountable Example: The light water (AFFF) of the TACR was to be backed up by fluorinated protein foam instead of standard protein foam. Example: These fires can be extinguished with water spray, alcohol-resistant foam, light water, vaporising liquids ("Halons"), carbon dioxide and dry powder.
Word: ad hominem Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Ellipsis of the Latin expression argumentum ad hominem (“argument at the person”). It can also mean attacking the messenger. 1. Ellipsis of argumentum ad hominem: A fallacious objection to an argument or factual claim by appealing to a characteristic or belief of the person making the argument or claim, rather than by addressing the substance of the argument or producing evidence against the claim; an attempt to argue against an opponent's idea by discrediting the opponent themselves. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis 2. A personal attack. Labels: informal, proscribed
Word: ad hominem Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Ellipsis of the Latin expression argumentum ad hominem (“argument at the person”). It can also mean attacking the messenger. 1. Of or relating to this kind of fallacious objection. Labels: not-comparable Example: Well that's an ad hominem argument.
Word: ad hominem Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Ellipsis of the Latin expression argumentum ad hominem (“argument at the person”). It can also mean attacking the messenger. 1. In an ad hominem manner. Labels: not-comparable Example: He tried to make his case by arguing ad hominem.
Word: ad hominum Part of Speech: phrase 1. Misspelling of ad hominem. Labels: alt-of, misspelling
Word: uber- Part of Speech: prefix Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *úp Proto-Indo-European *-er Proto-Indo-European *upér Proto-Germanic *ubiri German über German über-bor. English uber- Borrowed from German über-. Doublet of over-. Pronunciation: /ˈu.bə(ɹ)/ 1. Super; really; mega-. Labels: augmentative, morpheme, slang Example: Uber-fans forget that even a sporting arena is a public place, not the living room; and that in public places certain rules of conduct apply. Example: And Gisele Bündchen was known as an uber-model, over and above super-models.
Word: umlaut Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree German um- Proto-Indo-European *ḱlew- Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Indo-European *ḱlutós Proto-Germanic *hlūdaz Proto-West Germanic *hlūd Old High German lūt Middle High German lūt German Laut German Umlautbor. English umlaut Borrowed from German Umlaut in the 19ᵗʰ century, from um- or um (“around, re-, trans-”) + Laut (“sound”), from Old High German hlūt. More at loud. Pronunciation: /ˈʊm.laʊt/, /ˈʌmlaʊt/, /ˈumlaʊt/ 1. An assimilatory process whereby a vowel is pronounced more like a following vocoid that is separated by one or more consonants. Example: In fits of concealed despair that went unnoticed even by those close enough to touch, Julien cursed the language of umlauts, eszetts, and gerunds. Example: A tittle is more or less the same thing (the dot over an i, for instance), except that it can be traced back to Medieval Latin for a little mark over or under a letter, such as an accent ague or a cedilla. I don't know whether an umlaut is one or two tittles. Maybe it's a jot and a tittle side by side. 2. The umlaut process (as above) that occurred historically in Germanic languages whereby back vowels became front vowels when followed by syllable containing a front vocoid (e.g. Germanic lūsiz > Old English lȳs(i) > Modern English lice). 3. A vowel so assimilated. 4. The diacritical mark ( ¨ ) placed over a vowel when it indicates a (rounded) front vowel 5. Synonym of diaeresis. Labels: informal Example: "Naïve" takes an umlaut because it is pronounced as two syllables. Example: California, like several other states, prohibits the use of diacritical marks or accents on official documents. That means no tilde (~), no accent grave (`), no umlaut (¨) and certainly no cedilla (¸).
Word: umlaut Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree German um- Proto-Indo-European *ḱlew- Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Indo-European *ḱlutós Proto-Germanic *hlūdaz Proto-West Germanic *hlūd Old High German lūt Middle High German lūt German Laut German Umlautbor. English umlaut Borrowed from German Umlaut in the 19ᵗʰ century, from um- or um (“around, re-, trans-”) + Laut (“sound”), from Old High German hlūt. More at loud. Pronunciation: /ˈʊm.laʊt/, /ˈʌmlaʊt/, /ˈumlaʊt/ 1. To place an umlaut over (a vowel). Labels: transitive Example: We kept some of the foreign alphabet symbols such as the accented and umlauted vowels and Greek letters and used the rest of the space for more esoteric linguistic symbols such as "barred-l," and "engma." 2. To modify (a word) so that an umlaut is required in it. Labels: transitive Example: an umlauting vowel Example: These, together with (some) Romansh lects, belong to our West Rhaetian; the /ȫ/ also supported by two lects from the Ticino which by our criteria are NWIt, and by the partially umlauting lects of Lombardy which together with (some) Engadine lects belong to our East Rhaetian.
Word: approximate Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd Proto-Italic *ad Proto-Italic *ad- Latin ad- Latin proximō Latin approximō Latin approximātusder. Middle English approximat English approximate From Middle English approximat(e) (“close, near (to); similar; intimate”, also used as the past participle of approximaten), from Latin approximātus, the perfect passive participle of approximō (see -ate (adjective-forming suffix)), further from ad- (“to, towards, at”) + proximō (“to come near”). The noun was derived from the adjective through substantivization, see -ate (noun-forming suffix). See also proximate. By surface analysis, ap- + proximate. Pronunciation: /əˈpɹɒk.sɪ.mət/, /əˈpɹɑk.sə.mət/, /əˈpɹɑk.sɪ.mət/ 1. Approaching; proximate; nearly resembling. 2. Nearing correctness; nearly exact; not perfectly accurate. Example: approximate results or values Example: NASA’s Genesis spacecraft has on board an ion monitor to record the speed, density, temperature and approximate composition of the solar wind ions. 3. Drawn close together, but not united.
Word: approximate Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd Proto-Italic *ad Proto-Italic *ad- Latin ad- Latin proximō Latin approximō Latin approximātusder. Middle English approximat English approximate From Middle English approximat(e) (“close, near (to); similar; intimate”, also used as the past participle of approximaten), from Latin approximātus, the perfect passive participle of approximō (see -ate (adjective-forming suffix)), further from ad- (“to, towards, at”) + proximō (“to come near”). The noun was derived from the adjective through substantivization, see -ate (noun-forming suffix). See also proximate. By surface analysis, ap- + proximate. Pronunciation: /əˈpɹɒk.sɪ.mət/, /əˈpɹɑk.sə.mət/, /əˈpɹɑk.sɪ.mət/ 1. An approximate result or quantity. Labels: rare