nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: snag Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /snæɡ/, /snaɡ/, /snæːɡ/, /snɛɡ/, /sneɪ̯ɡ/ 1. Acronym of sensitive new age guy. Labels: abbreviation, acronym, alt-of, informal, uncommon Example: Over time, the ‘sensitive’ aspect of the SNAG has become paramount. Example: Mediadates offers handy tips for online dating virgins and a list of popular abbreviations used in website chatrooms. So you can tell a shag from a "Snag" - sensitive new age guy.
Word: snap Part of Speech: intj Etymology: Etymology tree Middle Dutch snappen Dutch snappenbor. Low German snappenbor. English snap From Dutch snappen (“to bite; seize”) or Low German snappen (“to bite; seize”), ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *snappōn, from Proto-Germanic *snappōną (“to snap; snatch; chatter”), intensive form of *snapāną (”to snap; grab”, whence Old Norse snapa (“to get; scrounge”)), from Proto-Indo-European *snop-; compare Lithuanian snãpas (“beak, bill”). (One alternative hypothesis links the Germanic words to *snu-, an expressive root deriving words meaning “nose”, “snout”, “sniff” etc., but this is phonetically unsound.) In any case influenced by onomatopoeia; note expressions such as snip-snap, containing the formally unrelated snip. Cognate with West Frisian snappe (“to get; catch; snap”), German schnappen (“to grab”), Swedish snappa (“to snatch”). The verb is derived from the noun. Pronunciation: /snæp/ 1. The cry used in a game of snap when winning a hand. 2. "I've got one the same!", "Me too!" Labels: Australia, UK, broadly Example: Snap! We've both got pink buckets and spades. 3. Used to express agreement. Labels: UK, broadly 4. Used in place of an expletive to express surprise, usually in response to a negative statement or news; often used facetiously. Labels: Canada, US Example: I just ran over your phone with my car. —Oh, snap! 5. Used after something is said by two people at exactly the same time. Labels: Australia, New-Zealand, UK Example: —Wasn't that John? —Wasn't that John? —Snap!
Word: snap Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Middle Dutch snappen Dutch snappenbor. Low German snappenbor. English snap From Dutch snappen (“to bite; seize”) or Low German snappen (“to bite; seize”), ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *snappōn, from Proto-Germanic *snappōną (“to snap; snatch; chatter”), intensive form of *snapāną (”to snap; grab”, whence Old Norse snapa (“to get; scrounge”)), from Proto-Indo-European *snop-; compare Lithuanian snãpas (“beak, bill”). (One alternative hypothesis links the Germanic words to *snu-, an expressive root deriving words meaning “nose”, “snout”, “sniff” etc., but this is phonetically unsound.) In any case influenced by onomatopoeia; note expressions such as snip-snap, containing the formally unrelated snip. Cognate with West Frisian snappe (“to get; catch; snap”), German schnappen (“to grab”), Swedish snappa (“to snatch”). The verb is derived from the noun. Pronunciation: /snæp/ 1. Done, made, performed, etc., quickly and unexpectedly, or without deliberation. Labels: attributive, informal, not-comparable Example: a snap judgment or decision Example: a snap political convention
Word: snarl Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English snarlen, frequentative of snaren (“to trap, tangle”). Equivalent to snare + -le. Pronunciation: /ˈsnɑː(ɹ)l/ 1. To entangle; to complicate; to involve in knots. Labels: transitive Example: to snarl a skein of thread Example: And from her backe her garments she did teare, / And from her head oft rent her snarled heare[…] 2. To become entangled. Labels: intransitive 3. To place in an embarrassing situation; to ensnare; to make overly complicated. Labels: transitive Example: November 9, 1550, Hugh Latimer, Sermon Preached at Stanford [the] question that they would have snarled him with 4. To be congested in traffic, or to make traffic congested. Labels: intransitive, transitive 5. To form raised work upon the outer surface of (thin metal ware) by the repercussion of a snarling iron upon the inner surface; to repoussé
Word: snarl Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English snarlen, frequentative of snaren (“to trap, tangle”). Equivalent to snare + -le. Pronunciation: /ˈsnɑː(ɹ)l/ 1. A knot or complication of hair, thread, or the like, difficult to disentangle. Example: His eye was alerted by a flutter of white seen through the snarl of branches between his stump and the Mere, and on looking more closely was surprised to see Mary sitting about a hundred yards below him on a mossy log, opposite the islet. 2. An intricate complication; a problematic difficulty; a knotty or tangled situation. Example: Bond grinned again as he thought of Damon's exasperation at having to dish out a lot of soft soap to Washington when he probably had plenty of other Anglo-American snarls to disentangle. 3. A slow-moving traffic jam. Example: The biggest cities feel the most acute impact of the last mile – of the squads of trucks and vans, the parcel hubs and sorting centres, the parking snarls and the discarded boxes.
Word: snarl Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Frequentative of earlier snar (“to growl”), perhaps from Middle Low German snorren (“to drone”), of probably imitative origin. Equivalent to snar + -le. Related to German schnarren (“to rattle”) and schnurren (“to hum, buzz”). Pronunciation: /ˈsnɑː(ɹ)l/ 1. To growl angrily by gnashing or baring the teeth; to gnarl; to utter grumbling sounds. Labels: intransitive 2. To complain angrily; to utter growlingly. Labels: transitive 3. To speak crossly; to talk in rude, surly terms. Labels: intransitive Example: It is malicious and unmanly to snarl at the little lapses of a pen, from which Virgil himself stands not exempted.
Word: snarl Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Frequentative of earlier snar (“to growl”), perhaps from Middle Low German snorren (“to drone”), of probably imitative origin. Equivalent to snar + -le. Related to German schnarren (“to rattle”) and schnurren (“to hum, buzz”). Pronunciation: /ˈsnɑː(ɹ)l/ 1. The act of snarling; a growl; a surly or peevish expression; an angry contention. 2. A growl, for example that of an angry or surly dog, or similar; grumbling sounds. 3. A squabble.
Word: sneak Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Possibly from Middle English sniken (“to creep, crawl”), from Old English snīcan (“to creep, crawl”), from Proto-West Germanic *snīkan, from Proto-Germanic *snīkaną (“to creep, crawl”), of sound-symbolic origin; compare formally unrelated snake, snoop, snook, snoke, and snoot. Cognate with Danish snige (“to sneak”), Swedish snika (“to sneak, hanker after”), Icelandic sníkja (“to sneak, hanker after”). Possibly related to snitch. Pronunciation: /sniːk/ 1. One who sneaks; one who moves stealthily to acquire an item or information. Example: My little brother is such a sneak; yesterday I caught him trying to look through my diary. 2. The act of sneaking 3. A cheat; a con artist. Example: I can't believe I gave that sneak $50 for a ticket when they were selling for $20 at the front gate. 4. An informer; a tell-tale. 5. A ball bowled so as to roll along the ground; a daisy-cutter Labels: obsolete 6. A sneaker; a tennis shoe. Labels: US Example: We would have been laughed off the street in Philadelphia if we were seen wearing sneaks. In the big city, the young population wore loafers or boots. 7. A play where the quarterback receives the snap and immediately dives forward. 8. Ellipsis of sneak preview Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis Example: At a "sneak preview," of course, the public is also on hand and can make their reactions felt much to the humiliation of the principals. At a sneak of "The Sandpiper," starring Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton, the audience laughed so loud during one love scene that the dejected producer promptly cut the scene out of the picture. At a sneak of "The Outrage" in San Francisco it was decided not to give names at the outset to test public response: nearly half the audience left before the picture was 20 minutes old. […] The worst sneak, it is told, occurred one night when nearly the entire audience marched out on "Paris When It Sizzles” leaving the producer and director alone and forlorn in the theater. Example: An exciting lineup of pre-release screenings, giving audiences nationwide a chance to see the top new offerings before their official release. Films include:[…] ▪ A sneak preview of the new Highball.TV film Mother of All Shows at the Stirling Festival Theatre in Stirling, ON, where the film was shot. With director Melissa D’Agostino. ▪ In Vancouver, a sneak of The Great Salish Heist, Darrell Dennis’ hilarious new no-budget Indigenous caper flick. 9. An unworthy or deceptive entry in a list of high-ranking people or things. Labels: derogatory, slang
Word: sneak Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Possibly from Middle English sniken (“to creep, crawl”), from Old English snīcan (“to creep, crawl”), from Proto-West Germanic *snīkan, from Proto-Germanic *snīkaną (“to creep, crawl”), of sound-symbolic origin; compare formally unrelated snake, snoop, snook, snoke, and snoot. Cognate with Danish snige (“to sneak”), Swedish snika (“to sneak, hanker after”), Icelandic sníkja (“to sneak, hanker after”). Possibly related to snitch. Pronunciation: /sniːk/ 1. To creep or go stealthily; to come or go while trying to avoid detection, as a person who does not wish to be seen. Labels: intransitive Example: He decided to sneak into the kitchen for a second cookie while his mom was on the phone. Example: Some of these were dressed most gorgeously, others becomingly, and several sneaked in with fantail bangers, calling themselves "Gentlemen of the Nineteenth Century." 2. To take something stealthily without permission. Labels: transitive Example: I went to sneak a chocolate but my dad caught me. 3. To stealthily bring someone something. Labels: ditransitive Example: She asked me to sneak her a phone next month. 4. To hide, especially in a mean or cowardly manner. Labels: dated, transitive Example: [Slander] sneaks its head. 5. To inform an authority of another's misdemeanours. Labels: informal, intransitive, with-on Example: If you sneak on me I'll bash you!
Word: sneak Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Possibly from Middle English sniken (“to creep, crawl”), from Old English snīcan (“to creep, crawl”), from Proto-West Germanic *snīkan, from Proto-Germanic *snīkaną (“to creep, crawl”), of sound-symbolic origin; compare formally unrelated snake, snoop, snook, snoke, and snoot. Cognate with Danish snige (“to sneak”), Swedish snika (“to sneak, hanker after”), Icelandic sníkja (“to sneak, hanker after”). Possibly related to snitch. Pronunciation: /sniːk/ 1. In advance; before release to the general public. Labels: not-comparable Example: The company gave us a sneak look at their new electronic devices. 2. In a stealthy or surreptitious manner. Labels: not-comparable Example: I was able to get a sneak peek at the guest list. Example: I have ordered House Atreides to occupy Arrakis to mine the spice, thus replacing their enemies the Harkonnens. House Atreides will not refuse because of the tremendous power they think they will gain. Then, at an appointed time, Baron Harkonnen will return to Arrakis and launch a sneak attack on House Atreides. I have promised the Baron five legions of my Sardaukar terror troops.
Word: snide Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Probably from a dialectal variant of snithe (“sharp, cutting, cold”). See snithe (adjective). Alternatively, possibly a metathetic corruption of Middle English snythand (“piercing (the heart), cold, biting”, literally and figuratively). More at snithe (verb). Compare typologically cutting, Russian ко́лкий (kólkij) (akin to коло́ть (kolótʹ)). Pronunciation: /snaɪd/ 1. Disparaging or derisive in an insinuative way. Example: Don't make snide remarks to me. Example: You write your snide bullshit from a dark room because that's what the angry do nowadays. I was nice to you, don't torture me for it. 2. Tricky; deceptive; false; spurious; contemptible. Example: Have nothing to do with snide goods; let it be known throughout the world that the farmers and dairymen, yea, and those engaged in other industries in the great State of Illinois, produce only the best of everything in their lines, and we will be the last to feel the effects of over-production. Example: I knew without studying them that the rings and the watch were snide, and the jewel a paste one; but they were damn fine counterfeits.
Word: snide Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Probably from a dialectal variant of snithe (“sharp, cutting, cold”). See snithe (adjective). Alternatively, possibly a metathetic corruption of Middle English snythand (“piercing (the heart), cold, biting”, literally and figuratively). More at snithe (verb). Compare typologically cutting, Russian ко́лкий (kólkij) (akin to коло́ть (kolótʹ)). Pronunciation: /snaɪd/ 1. An underhanded, tricky person given to sharp practice; a sharper; a cheat. Labels: countable 2. Counterfeit money. Labels: uncountable
Word: snipe Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English snipe, snype (a type of bird), from Old Norse snípa, as in mýrisnípa (“moor snipe”). Akin to Norwegian snipe. The verb originated in the 1770s among soldiers in British India where a hunter skilled enough to kill the elusive snipe was dubbed a "sniper". The term sniper was first attested in 1824 in the sense of the word "sharpshooter". Pronunciation: /snaɪp/ 1. Any of various limicoline game birds of the genera Gallinago, Lymnocryptes and Coenocorypha in the family Scolopacidae, having a long, slender, nearly straight beak. 2. A fool; a blockhead. Example: For I mine own gained knowledge should profane,/ If I would time expend with such a snipe,/ But for my sport and profit. 3. A shot fired from a concealed place. 4. A member of the engineering department on a ship. Labels: slang 5. A goal. Labels: slang
Word: snipe Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English snipe, snype (a type of bird), from Old Norse snípa, as in mýrisnípa (“moor snipe”). Akin to Norwegian snipe. The verb originated in the 1770s among soldiers in British India where a hunter skilled enough to kill the elusive snipe was dubbed a "sniper". The term sniper was first attested in 1824 in the sense of the word "sharpshooter". Pronunciation: /snaɪp/ 1. To hunt snipe. Labels: intransitive Example: The pleasures of Bay bird shooting should not be spoken of in the same sentence with cocking or sniping. 2. To shoot at individuals from a concealed place. Labels: intransitive 3. To shoot with a sniper rifle. Labels: broadly, intransitive 4. To watch a timed online auction and place a winning bid against (the current high bidder) at the last possible moment. Labels: transitive Example: I am the type who is liable to snipe you With two seconds left to go, whoa. Example: Tip: Adding a few cents to your maximum bid is particularly effective when you're sniping. (..) Last-second bidding is called sniping, and 15 percent of all eBay auctions are won within the last minute. 5. To nose (a log) to make it drag or slip easily in skidding. Labels: transitive 6. To score a goal. Labels: slang 7. To move the ball quickly in a different direction. Example: The breakthrough duly arrived after 35 minutes, an absolute beauty of a team goal scored by Lozano. First Khedira was robbed deep in the Mexico half. Hernández sniped away from Jérôme Boateng and Mats Hummels. A flurry of skimmed passes across the wide-open spaces of the Germany defence left Lozano in space in the area. With the stadium howling for him to shoot he cut inside Özil, who had tracked back to right-back, and buried the ball past Neuer.
Word: snipe Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Probably from snip or a cognate Pronunciation: /snaɪp/ 1. A cigarette butt. Labels: slang 2. An end of a log remaining after timber has been cut away. 3. An animated promotional logo during a television show. 4. A strip of copy announcing some late breaking news or item of interest, typically placed in a print advertisement in such a way that it stands out from the ad. 5. A bottle of wine measuring 0.1875 liters, one fourth the volume of a standard bottle; a quarter bottle or piccolo.
Word: snipe Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Either from sneap or a figurative development from Etymology 1. Pronunciation: /snaɪp/ 1. A sharp, clever answer; sarcasm. 2. A note or sticker attached to an existing poster to provide further information (e.g. an event is sold out, political criticism, etc.). Example: [R]egular campaign posters are easily adapted to the student market by sniping them. […] The student snipe should say something like, "FOR STUDENTS ONLY: 5 EVENTS FOR AS LITTLE AS $20.00!"
Word: snipe Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Either from sneap or a figurative development from Etymology 1. Pronunciation: /snaɪp/ 1. To make malicious, underhand remarks or attacks. Labels: intransitive Example: Capitalizing on the restive mood, Mr. Farage, the U.K. Independence Party leader, took out an advertisement in The Daily Telegraph this week inviting unhappy Tories to defect. In it Mr. Farage sniped that the Cameron government — made up disproportionately of career politicians who graduated from Eton and Oxbridge — was “run by a bunch of college kids, none of whom have ever had a proper job in their lives.” Example: After the president held a White House event announcing a shared venture, with up to $500 billion of funding[…] Elon Musk sniped on X that the money for the venture wasn’t really there. 2. To attach a note or sticker to (an existing poster) to provide further information, political criticism, etc. Labels: transitive Example: Campus newspaper advertising rates are inexpensive, flyers can be simple because the ticket-price message is strong, and regular campaign posters are easily adapted to the student market by sniping them. Example: At the time, a poster cost more to snipe than to print. The company quoted us $1.50 per poster, and made such a point of guaranteeing coverage, I decided to covertly follow one of their crews around one night to see for myself.
Word: snout Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English snowte, snout, snute, from Old English *snūt, *snūte or Middle Low German snûte, from Proto-West Germanic *snūt, from Proto-Germanic *snūtaz. Compare Saterland Frisian Snuute (“snout”), West Frisian snút (“snout”), Dutch snuit or snoet (“snout; cute face”), German Low German Snuut (“snout”), German Schnauze, Schnute (“snout”). Doublet of snoot. Pronunciation: /snaʊt/, /snʌʊt/ 1. The long, projecting nose, mouth, and jaw of a beast, as of pigs. Example: The pig rooted around in the dirt with its snout. 2. The front of the prow of a ship or boat. Example: The dinghy was trailing astern at the end of its painter, and Merrion looked at it as he passed. He saw that it was a battered-looking affair of the prahm type, with a blunt snout, and like the parent ship, had recently been painted a vivid green. 3. A person's nose. Labels: derogatory Example: His glasses kept slipping further down onto his prominent snout. Example: Whether his snout a perfect nose is, And not an elephant's proboscis 4. The nozzle of a pipe, hose, etc. Example: If you place the snout right into the bucket, it won't spray as much. 5. The anterior prolongation of the head of a gastropod; a rostrum. 6. The anterior prolongation of the head of weevils and allied beetles; a rostrum. 7. Tobacco; cigarettes. Labels: UK, slang Example: (Bob, p. 55:) Charlie was the most vicious screw on the block ... He caught me with the two ounces of snout right in my hand, caught me by the hair, and swung me round in the exercise yard ... (Spider, p. 175:) She brings me snout and sweets, and sometimes a cake from Mum. Example: LIZ. I only got one left. / FRED (calls). Get us some snout. / MIKE. Five or ten? 8. The terminus of a glacier. 9. A police informer. Labels: slang 10. A butterfly in the nymphalid subfamily Libytheinae, notable for the snout-like elongation on their heads.
Word: snout Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English snowte, snout, snute, from Old English *snūt, *snūte or Middle Low German snûte, from Proto-West Germanic *snūt, from Proto-Germanic *snūtaz. Compare Saterland Frisian Snuute (“snout”), West Frisian snút (“snout”), Dutch snuit or snoet (“snout; cute face”), German Low German Snuut (“snout”), German Schnauze, Schnute (“snout”). Doublet of snoot. Pronunciation: /snaʊt/, /snʌʊt/ 1. To furnish with a nozzle or point.
Word: so-called Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From so + called. Pronunciation: /ˈsəʊˌkɔːld/, /ˈsoʊˌkɔld/ 1. So named; commonly called. Labels: not-comparable Example: the so-called Ising mode Example: About 200 guests were invited and entertained to lunch in the so-called booking hall at Waterloo; the contractors, Spiers & Pond Limited, were much praised for organising the repast, with attendant cloak room facilities, so well in such unfavourable surroundings. 2. commonly called by such a name, but false or unfitting. Labels: ironic, not-comparable Example: These so-called "assistants" are making our jobs harder, not easier! Example: […]dawdling away the hours in the Park as if all the world and its millions of honest hard workers were created solely for the casual diversion of the so-called 'upper' classes,[…]
Word: solitary Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English solitarie, borrowed from Latin sōlitārius. Doublet of solitaire. Pronunciation: /ˈsɑlɪˌtɛɹi/, /ˈsɒlɪt(ə)ɹi/ 1. One who lives alone, or in solitude; an anchorite, hermit or recluse. Labels: countable Example: He brooded and intrigued fantastically. He was becoming one of the big-time solitaries. And he wasn't meant to be a solitary. He was meant to be in active life, a social creature. Example: Tilling my own grave to keep me level Jam another dragon down the hole Digging to the rhythm and the echo of a solitary siren One that pushes me along and leaves me so Desperate and ravenous 2. Ellipsis of solitary confinement. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis, uncountable Example: The prisoners who started the riot were moved to solitary. 3. The state of being solitary; solitude Labels: uncountable Example: You must wonder why I'm relentless and all strung out/I'm consumed by the chill of solitary
Word: solitary Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English solitarie, borrowed from Latin sōlitārius. Doublet of solitaire. Pronunciation: /ˈsɑlɪˌtɛɹi/, /ˈsɒlɪt(ə)ɹi/ 1. Living or being by oneself; alone; having no companion present Labels: not-comparable Example: The solitary, lumbering trolls of Scandinavian mythology would sometimes be turned to stone by exposure to sunlight. Barack Obama is hoping that several measures announced on June 4th will have a similarly paralysing effect on their modern incarnation, the patent troll. Example: Though we don’t all reach nirvana when we swim, swimming may well be that last refuge from connectivity — and, for some, the only way to find the solitary self. 2. Performed, passed, or endured alone. Labels: not-comparable Example: a solitary journey Example: a solitary life 3. Not much visited or frequented; remote from society Labels: not-comparable Example: a solitary residence or place 4. Not inhabited or occupied; without signs of inhabitants or occupation; desolate; deserted Labels: not-comparable Example: the solitary desert Example: How doth the city sit solitary, that was full of people! 5. Gloomy; dismal, because of not being inhabited. Labels: not-comparable 6. Single; individual; sole. Labels: not-comparable Example: a solitary example Example: On once more we swung, bumping uneasily along in the antique narrow-gauge coach, with gloomy woods and gathering night outside, shouts and songs (and quacks) inside—this was not at all the sort of train ordained by the logical strategists in Paris—then grinding to a stop at a mysterious halt which was no more than a nameboard in the pinewoods, without even a footpath leading to it, but nevertheless with a solitary passenger stolidly waiting. 7. Not associated with others of the same kind. Labels: not-comparable
Word: solitary Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈsɑlɪˌtɛɹi/, /ˈsɒlɪt(ə)ɹi/ 1. Archaic form of solitaire (“Rodrigues solitaire”). Labels: alt-of, archaic
Word: sophist Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin sophista and sophistes, borrowed from Ancient Greek σοφιστής (sophistḗs, “wise one”), from σοφίζομαι (sophízomai, “to become wise”). Pronunciation: /ˈsɒfɪst/, /ˈsoʊfɪst/ 1. Alternative letter-case form of Sophist, certain teachers in Ancient Greece, particularly skilled orators. Labels: alt-of, historical 2. A teacher who uses plausible but fallacious reasoning. Labels: figuratively 3. One who is captious, fallacious, or deceptive in argument. Labels: broadly, figuratively Example: [T]hey have acted in this Calumny both the injuſtice of the Tyrant, and the forgery of the Sophiſt. 4. Synonym of sophister (“university student who has completed at least one year”). Labels: dated
Word: soubrette Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from French soubrette, from Occitan soubreta (“coy”) (feminine of soubret), from soubra (Provençal sobrar), from Latin superare (“be above”). Pronunciation: /suːˈbɹɛt/ 1. A female attendant or servant, especially one who is cheeky or mischievous, often featuring in theatrical comedies. Example: At present I have only a soubrette's part, with an apron and pockets, and a ballad; but, as I said before, luck's all in this world, and I have every requisite for being lucky. Example: Greatly mystified, the curate turned to examine another picture, the cryptic title of which was, "The superintendent and the soubrette - our reporter puts a pornographic parson's pot on." In this the superintendent, distinguished by a clerical coat and a Methodistical brand of whisker, was delineated in the act of riotously drinking from a bottle labelled "champagne," having evidently accommodated the soubrette - a lady in extremely abbreviated skirts - with his only glass.
Word: souse Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English souse (“to salt pickle”) also a noun (“liquid for pickling,” “pickled pig parts”), from Old French sous (“preserved in salt”), from Frankish *sultija (“saltwater, brine”), from Proto-Germanic *sultijō (“saltwater, brine”). Cognate with Old Saxon sultia (“saltwater”), Old High German sulza (“brine”). Pronunciation: /saʊs/ 1. Something kept or steeped in brine. Example: And he that can rear up a pig in his house, / Hath cheaper his bacon, and sweeter his souse. 2. Something kept or steeped in brine. Labels: Appalachia, US 3. Something kept or steeped in brine. Labels: Caribbean 4. Something kept or steeped in brine. 5. Something kept or steeped in brine. 6. The act of sousing; a plunging into water. 7. A drunkard. Example: "If there's any, giving in charge here I'll give you in charge for sneaking my beer, you slop-bellied old souse!" exclaimed Peter.
Word: souse Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English souse (“to salt pickle”) also a noun (“liquid for pickling,” “pickled pig parts”), from Old French sous (“preserved in salt”), from Frankish *sultija (“saltwater, brine”), from Proto-Germanic *sultijō (“saltwater, brine”). Cognate with Old Saxon sultia (“saltwater”), Old High German sulza (“brine”). Pronunciation: /saʊs/ 1. To immerse in liquid; to steep or drench. Labels: transitive Example: (Although I bee well soused in this showere,) Example: For then I viewd his body fall and ſowſe / Into the fomy maine, […] 2. To steep in brine; to pickle. Labels: transitive
Word: souse Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Obscure origin. Compare Middle German sûs (“noise”). Pronunciation: /saʊs/ 1. The act of sousing, or swooping. Example: Eft fierce retourning as a foulcon fayre, / That once hath failed of her souse full neare 2. A heavy blow. Example: With that his murdrous mace he vp did reare, / That seemed nought the souse thereof could beare,
Word: souse Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Obscure origin. Compare Middle German sûs (“noise”). Pronunciation: /saʊs/ 1. To strike, beat. Labels: dialectal, transitive 2. To fall heavily. Labels: dialectal, intransitive Example: Him so transfixed she before her bore / Beyond his croupe, the length of all her launce; / Till, sadly soucing on the sandy shore, / He tombled on an heape, and wallowd in his gore. Example: Thus on some silver swan or tim'rous hare / Jove's bird comes sowsing down from upper air 3. To pounce upon. Labels: obsolete, transitive Example: [The gallant monarch] like an eagle o'er his eyrie towers, / To souse annoyance that comes near his nest.
Word: souse Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Obscure origin. Compare Middle German sûs (“noise”). Pronunciation: /saʊs/ 1. Suddenly, without warning. Labels: archaic, dialectal, not-comparable Example: Mr Nash […] suddenly taking the gentleman by the collar of his coat, and waistband of his breeches, threw him souse over the parapet to the object of his love.
Word: souse Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from French, from Old French sous (plural of sout), from Latin solidus. Compare solidus (“gold coin of the late Roman empire”). Pronunciation: /saʊs/ 1. A sou (the French coin). Labels: obsolete 2. A small amount. Labels: dated
Word: souse Part of Speech: noun Etymology: First appeared online during the Bush administration. Pronunciation: /saʊs/ 1. Pronunciation spelling of source. Labels: Internet, US, alt-of, pronunciation-spelling
Word: span Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *(s)pend-der. Proto-Germanic *spannō Old English spann Middle English spanne English span From Middle English spanne, from Old English spann, from Proto-Germanic *spannō (“span, handbreadth”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)pend- (“to stretch”). Cognate with Dutch span, spanne, German Spanne. The sense “pair of horses” is probably from Old English ġespan, ġespann (“a joining; a fastening together; clasp; yoke”), from Proto-West Germanic [Term?]. Cognate with Dutch gespan, German Gespann. Pronunciation: /spæn/, /span/, /spæːn/, /spɛn/ 1. The full width of an open hand from the end of the thumb to the end of the little finger used as an informal unit of length. 2. Any of various traditional units of length approximating this distance, especially the English handspan of 9 inches forming ⅛ fathom and equivalent to 22.86 cm. 3. A small space or a brief portion of time. Labels: broadly Example: He has a short attention span and gets bored within minutes. Example: "Why in ten thousand years scarce will the rain and storms lessen a mountain top by a span in thickness?" 4. A portion of something by length; a subsequence. Example: For example, in OpenOffice.org or Microsoft Word, each span of text can have a style that defines key characteristics about the text: • What font it uses • Whether it's normal, bolded, italicized, […] 5. The spread or extent of an arch or between its abutments, or of a beam, girder, truss, roof, bridge, or the like, between supports. Example: The force of the explosion demolished one pair of piers and two spans of the bridge crashed down into the river on top of the barges. 6. The length of a cable, wire, rope, chain between two consecutive supports. 7. A rope having its ends made fast so that a purchase can be hooked to the bight; also, a rope made fast in the center so that both ends can be used. 8. A pair of horses or other animals driven together; usually, such a pair of horses when similar in color, form, and action. Labels: Canada, US 9. The space of all linear combinations of vectors within a set. 10. The time required to execute a parallel algorithm on an infinite number of processors, i.e. the shortest distance across a directed acyclic graph representing the computation steps. Example: We use the term span (also called depth, or dependence depth) to refer to the number of parallel steps assuming an unbounded number of processors. 11. wingspan of a plane or bird
Word: span Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English spannen, from Old English spannan, from Proto-Germanic *spannaną (“to stretch, span”). Cognate with German spannen, Dutch spannen. Pronunciation: /spæn/, /spæːn/ 1. To extend across (a gap or space between two sides). Labels: transitive Example: The suspension bridge spanned the canyon. Example: The rivers were spanned by arches of solid masonry. 2. To cover or extend over (an area or distance). Labels: transitive Example: The parking lot spans three acres. Example: The forest spans the entire valley. 3. To extend through (a period of time). Labels: transitive Example: The novel spans three centuries. Example: His career spanned five decades. 4. To measure by the span of the hand with the fingers extended, or with the fingers encompassing the object. Labels: transitive Example: to span a space or distance; to span a cylinder Example: Mine hand alſo hath laid the foundation of the earth, and my right hand hath ſpanned the heauens: when I call vnto them, they ſtand vp together. 5. To generate an entire space by means of linear combinations. 6. To be matched, as horses. Labels: US, dated, intransitive 7. To fetter, as a horse; to hobble. Labels: transitive Example: We spanned the dogs high up a corrie to the south of the ridge […]
Word: span Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English span, from Old English spann, from Proto-Germanic *spann, first and third person singular preterit indicative of Proto-Germanic *spinnaną (“to spin”). Pronunciation: /spæn/ 1. simple past of spin Labels: dated, form-of, past, uncommon Example: But when Adam delued, and Eue ſpan, VVho was then a Gentleman? Example: So they went in to where Gudruda sat spinning in the hall, singing as she span.
Word: spandrel Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From a diminutive in -el of Anglo-Norman spaundre, of uncertain origin, perhaps from Old French espandre (“to expand, extend, spread”). More at spawn, expand. In the field of biology first used by Stephen Jay Gould and Richard Lewontin. 1. The space (often more or less triangular) between the outer curve of an arch (the extrados) and a straight-sided figure that bounds it; the space between two contiguous arches and a straight feature above them. Example: Usual practice then builds a wall above each curved end of the arch, known as a spandrel, which directly joins the bridge's sidewalls. […] With sidewalls and spandrels in place, you can fill the space between them with material up to the height of the bridge deck, and then place the road or railway on top. 2. Horizontal member between the windows of successive storeys of a tall building. Example: 2002, Kerstin Lang, Seismic Vulnerability of Existing Buildings, vdf Hochschulverlag AG, page 25, Due to the fact that the walls are joined by floors and spandrels, a coupling effect is produced. Depending on the extent of the spandrels, this coupling effect will be bigger or smaller. 3. The triangular space under a stair; the material that fills the space. 4. An oriental rug having a pattern of arches; the design in the corners of such a rug, especially in a prayer rug. 5. A phenotypic characteristic that evolved as a side effect of an adaptation in response to evolutionary pressure. Example: Another type of theory emphasises the sometimes accidental nature of evolution. A spandrel is a structure arising as a by-product of some other architectural configuration. In evolutionary terms, a spandrel is some trait of an organism which emerges not through direct adaptionist or exaptationist means, but rather as a side effect of some other evolutionary development. 6. soffit (usually used to describe metal or corrugated plastic types of roof soffit) Labels: Philippines
Word: spare Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English spare, spar, from Old English spær (“sparing, scant”), from Proto-Germanic *sparaz, from Proto-Indo-European *sph₁rós, from the root *speh₁-. Compare Dutch spaar(zaam), German spar(sam) and spär(lich), Swedish spar(sam), Icelandic sparr (“sparing”); also Latin (pro)sperus (“lucky”), Old Church Slavonic споръ (sporŭ, “plentiful”), Albanian shperr (“earn money”), Persian سپار (sepâr, “entrust; deposit”), Ancient Greek σπαρνός (sparnós, “rare”), Sanskrit स्फिर (sphirá, “thick”). Pronunciation: /spɛə(ɹ)/, /spɛɚ/, /speː/, /speə/, /spiə/ 1. Extra. Example: I have no spare time. Example: if that no spare cloths he had to give 2. Extra. Example: a spare anchor; a spare wheel or tyre 3. Extra. Example: We could rent out the spare room. Example: Shepard: I take it this is your first time here? Wrex: Meant to tell you Shepard. Earth reminds me of home. Guess you'll be needing a new planet too. That's okay. Tuchanka's got room to spare and a guard dog named Kalros. 4. Not plentiful. Example: a spare diet Example: Jones’ sad eyes betray a pervasive pain his purposefully spare dialogue only hints at, while the perfectly cast Brolin conveys hints of playfulness and warmth while staying true to the craggy stoicism at the character’s core. 5. Not plentiful. Example: I’m naked to the bone, With nakedness my shield. Myself is what I wear: I keep the spirit spare. 6. Not plentiful. Example: He was spare, […]but discreet of speech. Example: Under Hartmut Warkuss, its design director until 2003, Volkswagen styling celebrated its Teutonic origins and the spare modernist tradition expressed in Braun radios and coffee makers, reference points for the neomodern simplicity of the iPod. 7. Not plentiful. Example: O, give me the spare men, and spare me the great ones. 8. Very angry; frustrated or distraught. Labels: UK, informal Example: When he found out that someone had broken the window, he went spare. Example: The poor girl is going spare, stuck in the house all day with the kids like that.
Word: spare Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English spare, spar, from Old English spær (“sparing, scant”), from Proto-Germanic *sparaz, from Proto-Indo-European *sph₁rós, from the root *speh₁-. Compare Dutch spaar(zaam), German spar(sam) and spär(lich), Swedish spar(sam), Icelandic sparr (“sparing”); also Latin (pro)sperus (“lucky”), Old Church Slavonic споръ (sporŭ, “plentiful”), Albanian shperr (“earn money”), Persian سپار (sepâr, “entrust; deposit”), Ancient Greek σπαρνός (sparnós, “rare”), Sanskrit स्फिर (sphirá, “thick”). Pronunciation: /spɛə(ɹ)/, /spɛɚ/, /speː/, /speə/, /spiə/ 1. The act of sparing; moderation; restraint. Example: men slaine, then without any spare at all they trampled over the dead carkasses 2. Parsimony; frugal use. Example: Pourd out their plenty, without spight or spare: 3. An opening in a petticoat or gown; a placket. 4. That which has not been used or expended. 5. A spare part. Labels: especially Example: I stopped to help out. Do you have a spare? [Said by one motorist to another with a flat tire.] 6. A spare part. Example: People sometimes forget that world-class logistics also involve inventory management in warehouses full of spares. 7. A superfluous or second-best person. Example: an heir and a spare Example: The whole Heir versus Spare thing? Wasn't it a bit late for that tired childhood dynamic? 8. The right of bowling again at a full set of pins, after having knocked all the pins down in less than three bowls. If all the pins are knocked down in one bowl it is a double spare; in two bowls, a single spare. 9. The act of knocking down all remaining pins in second ball of a frame; this entitles the pins knocked down on the next ball to be added to the score for that frame. 10. A free period; a block of school during which one does not have a class. Labels: Canada Example: I also remember watching David Letterman's short-lived morning show on TV when I had a spare during my school schedule. 11. assistant or extra hand (typically on buses and lorries) Labels: Myanmar
Word: spare Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English sparen, sparien, from Old English sparian (“to spare, show mercy to, refrain from injuring or destroying”), from Proto-Germanic *sparōną, *sparāną (“to save, keep, spare”), from Proto-Indo-European *sper- (“to be productive, earn”). Cognate with Scots spar, spare, spair (“to spare”), West Frisian sparje (“to save, spare”), Dutch sparen (“to save, spare”), German sparen (“to save, conserve, economise”), Swedish spara (“to save, save up”), Icelandic spara (“to save, conserve”). Pronunciation: /spɛə(ɹ)/, /spɛɚ/, /speː/, /speə/, /spiə/ 1. To show mercy, to have mercy on. Labels: intransitive 2. To show mercy, to have mercy on. Labels: intransitive 3. To show mercy, to have mercy on. Labels: transitive Example: For jealousy is the rage of a man: therefore he will not spare in the day of vengeance. Example: Cologne Hauptbahnhof is reached in the small hours, and the traveller new to postwar Germany is spared the sight of the devastated city. 4. To show mercy, to have mercy on. Labels: specifically, transitive Example: Kill me, if you please, or spare me. Example: Reggie Clemons has one last chance to save his life. After 19 years on death row in Missouri for the murder of two young women, he has been granted a final opportunity to persuade a judge that he should be spared execution by lethal injection. 5. To keep. Labels: intransitive Example: I, who at some times spend, at others spare, / Divided between carelessness and care. 6. To keep. Labels: transitive Example: Thou that day / Thy Father's dreadful thunder didst not spare Example: He that hath knowledge, spareth his words: and a man of understanding is of an excellent spirit. 7. To keep. Labels: transitive Example: All the time he could spare from the necessary cares of his weighty charge, from assaults, and the naturall refreshing of his body, be bestowed in praier and seruing of God 8. (to give up): To deprive oneself of, as by being frugal; to do without; to dispense with; to give up; to part with. Labels: transitive Example: Where angry Jove did never spare / One breath of kind and temperate air. Example: Poor Jack, farewell! / I could have better spared a better man
Word: sparkle Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English sparkel, sparkle, sparcle, equivalent to spark + -le (diminutive suffix). In some modern uses deverbal from etymology 2 below. Pronunciation: /ˈspɑː.kəl/, /ˈspɑɹ.kəl/ 1. A little spark; a scintillation. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: As sparckles from the Anduile vse to fly, / When heauie hammers on the wedge are swaid Example: The lamp was shaded, and the fire was dim, when suddenly the log, which had burnt through, gave way; a shower of sparkles rose from the hearth, and a bright blaze illuminated the room, falling full on Francesca's face, as she bent over the patient. 2. Brilliance; luster. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: the sparkle of a diamond 3. Liveliness; vivacity. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: the sparkle of his conversation over dinner 4. The quality of being sparkling or fizzy; effervescence. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: sparkle Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English sparklen, sperclen, equivalent to spark + -le (frequentative verb). Cognate with West Frisian sparkelje (“to sparkle”), Dutch sparkelen (“to sparkle”). Pronunciation: /ˈspɑː.kəl/, /ˈspɑɹ.kəl/ 1. To emit sparks; to throw off ignited or incandescent particles Labels: intransitive Example: The wood was sparkling in the bonfire. 2. To shine as if throwing off sparks; to emit flashes of light; to scintillate; to twinkle Labels: broadly Example: The stars sparkle in the sky. Example: Here, in the transept and choir, where the service was being held, one was conscious every moment of an increasing brightness; colours glowing vividly beneath the circular chandeliers, and the rows of small lights on the choristers' desks flashed and sparkled in front of the boys' faces, deep linen collars, and red neckbands. 3. To manifest itself by, or as if by, emitting sparks; to glisten; to flash. Labels: intransitive Example: I see bright honour sparkle through your eyes. 4. To emit little bubbles, as certain kinds of liquors; to effervesce Labels: intransitive Example: sparkling wine Example: sparkling water 5. To emit in the form or likeness of sparks. Labels: transitive Example: That the bright glister of their beames cleare / Did sparckle forth great light, and glorious did appeare. 6. To disperse. Labels: obsolete, transitive 7. To scatter on or over. Labels: obsolete, transitive
Word: spate Part of Speech: noun Etymology: The noun is derived from Middle English spate, spait (“a flood”), influenced by Scots spate (“torrent of water, flood; heavy downpour of rain; (figurative) bout of drinking; large crowd of people; flood of events, words, etc.”). The further etymology of the Middle English and Scots words is uncertain; they are possibly related to English spatter and Dutch spatten (“to spatter, splash”), possibly ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *sp(y)ēw-, *spyū- (whence English spit (“to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.”)), which is imitative of spitting. The verb is derived from the noun, probably influenced by Scots spate (“to flood, swell; to rain heavily; (figurative) to scold fiercely”). Pronunciation: /speɪt/ 1. A (sudden) flood or inundation of water; specifically, a flood in or overflow of a river or other watercourse due to heavy rain or melting snow; (uncountable, archaic) flooding, inundation. Labels: Scotland, countable Example: Thys Lepidium that Pliny & Paul [of Aegina] deſcribe⸝ groweth plentuouſly about the water ſyde that rynneth thorow Morpeth in Northumberland⸝ in ſuche places as great heapes of ſtones are caſten together wyth the myght of a great ſpat or flood. Example: Arous'd by bluſtering vvinds an' ſpotting thovves, / In mony a torrent dovvn the ſnavv-broo rovves; / VVhile craſhing ice, borne on the roaring ſpeat, / Svveeps dams, an' mills, an' brigs, a' to the gate; […] 2. A sudden heavy downpour of rain. Labels: Scotland, countable Example: Doun comes a jaw o' droukin' rain / Upon their honours— / God sends a spate outower the plain, / Or mebbe thun'ers. 3. A sudden increase or rush of something; a flood, an outburst, an outpouring. Labels: Scotland, countable, figuratively Example: Thy rural loves are nature's ſel; / Nae bombaſt ſpates o' nonſenſe ſwell; / Nae ſnap conceits, but that ſweet ſpell / O' witchin love, […] Example: Here is a fine spate of work—a day diddled away, and nothing to show for it!
Word: spate Part of Speech: verb Etymology: The noun is derived from Middle English spate, spait (“a flood”), influenced by Scots spate (“torrent of water, flood; heavy downpour of rain; (figurative) bout of drinking; large crowd of people; flood of events, words, etc.”). The further etymology of the Middle English and Scots words is uncertain; they are possibly related to English spatter and Dutch spatten (“to spatter, splash”), possibly ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *sp(y)ēw-, *spyū- (whence English spit (“to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.”)), which is imitative of spitting. The verb is derived from the noun, probably influenced by Scots spate (“to flood, swell; to rain heavily; (figurative) to scold fiercely”). Pronunciation: /speɪt/ 1. To (suddenly) flood or inundate (a river or other watercourse) with water. Labels: Scotland, archaic, transitive Example: [H]e paused in a reverie of wilderment and wonder when he could not discern the old fishing-places—they were deeply and darkly flooded for many yards on every side of the spated stream. Example: A few of the very best angling streams in the Highlands are almost perennial in their flow; the Halladale, on the contrary, is subject to spating. 2. To (suddenly) rain heavily; to pour. Labels: Scotland, archaic, intransitive