nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: arse bandit Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From arse + bandit. Cf. turd burglar. 1. Alternative form of ass bandit, a gay man. Labels: Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, alt-of, alternative, derogatory, slang Example: DS Gavin Troy: But why would they want to kill her? Unless it was adultery. I suppose they could have been arse bandits. DCI Tom Barnaby: What? Troy: In the wood. Barnaby: You mean homosexuals, Troy. Troy: Well, that's what I said. Barnaby: You are as politically correct as a Nuremberg rally. Example: [...] all the sodomites and catamites, poncey sausage jockeys, arse bandits, turd burglars and fudge packers, fur burger-licking carpet munchers, gormless imbeciles, morons, geeks, cretins and retards […]
Word: YBP Part of Speech: symbol 1. Initialism of years before present. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism Example: Baked clay ornaments and other objects dating from 28,000 YBP have been discovered in Eastern Europe, […]
Word: buggery Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From bugger + -y (nominal suffix). Pronunciation: /ˈbʌɡəɹi/ 1. Anal sex. Labels: Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, countable, uncountable Example: Whosoever shall be convicted of the abominable crime of buggery […] shall be liable at the discretion of the court to be kept in penal servitude for life or for any term not less than ten years. 2. Any sexual act deemed against nature, such as homosexuality, bestiality or necrophilia. Labels: Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, countable, uncountable Example: Whosoever shall be convicted of the abominable Crime of Buggery, committed either with Mankind or with any Animal, shall be liable, at the Discretion of the Court, to be kept in Penal Servitude for Life or for any Term not less than Ten Years. 3. A broken or damaged condition. Labels: Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, countable, slang, uncountable Example: It's gone to buggery.
Word: buggery Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From bugger + y (suffix forming colloquialisms). Pronunciation: /ˈbʌɡəɹi/ 1. Used after an inverted subject pronoun and auxiliary verb or copula to emphatically negate the verb. Labels: Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, colloquial, not-comparable, vulgar Example: Did he help? Did he buggery!
Word: buggery Part of Speech: intj Etymology: From bugger + y (suffix forming colloquialisms). Pronunciation: /ˈbʌɡəɹi/ 1. Synonym of bugger. Labels: Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, slang, vulgar
Word: sadism Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From French sadisme and German Sadismus. Named after the Marquis de Sade, famed for his libertine writings depicting the pleasure of inflicting pain to others. The word for "sadism" (sadisme) was coined or acknowledged in the 1834 posthumous reprint of French lexicographer Boiste's Dictionnaire universel de la langue française; it is reused along with "sadist" (sadique) in 1862 by French critic Sainte-Beuve in his commentary of Flaubert's novel Salammbô; it is reused (possibly independently) in 1886 by Austrian psychiatrist Krafft-Ebing in Psychopathia Sexualis which popularized it; it is directly reused in 1905 by Freud in Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality which definitively established the word. Pronunciation: /ˈseɪdɪzəm/, [ˈseɪɾɪzəm], /ˈsæɪdɪzəm/, /ˈsæɪdəzəm/ 1. The enjoyment of inflicting pain or humiliation without pity. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. Achievement of sexual gratification by inflicting pain or humiliation on others, or watching pain or humiliation inflicted on others. Labels: countable, uncountable 3. Deliberate or wanton cruelty, either mental or physical, to other people, or to animals, regardless of whether for (sexual) gratification. Labels: broadly, countable, uncountable
Word: masochism Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From German Masochismus, coined alongside Sadismus in 1886 by Richard von Krafft-Ebing in his book Psychopathia Sexualis. Named after Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, whose novel "Venus in Furs" explores a sadomasochistic relationship, + -ism. Pronunciation: /ˈmæs.ə.kɪ.zəm/, /ˈmæz.ə.kɪ.zəm/ 1. The (often sexual) enjoyment of receiving pain or humiliation. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: nanti Part of Speech: det Etymology: Borrowing from Sabir nanti, from Italian niente, from Latin ne gentem (“no person, no one”), nec entem, ne entem or ne inde. 1. No; not any. Labels: Polari Example: There was no clown for the pantomime, for he had disappointed us, and of course they couldn't get on without one; so, to keep the concern going, old Johnson, who know I was a good tumbler, came up to me, and said 'he had nanti vampo, and your nabs must fake it;' which means,—We have no clown, and you must do it. Example: She's with the trade your mother charvaed yesterday. Some omees have nanti taste!
Word: whine Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English whynen, hwinen, whinen, from Old English hwīnan (“to rush, to whizz, to squeal, to whine”), from Proto-West Germanic *hwīnan, from Proto-Germanic *hwīnaną, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱwey- (“to hiss, whistle, whisper”). Cognate with Old Norse hvína, whence Icelandic hvína, Norwegian Nynorsk kvina, Swedish vina, and Danish hvine. Despite the strong similarity in sound and meaning, not related with German weinen, Dutch wenen, from Proto-Germanic *wainōną (for which see dialectal English ween (“to weep, lament”)). Pronunciation: /ˈwaɪ̯n/, [ˈwaɪ̯n], /ˈʍaɪ̯n/, [ˈʍaɪ̯n], /ˈw̥aɪ̯n/ 1. A long-drawn, high-pitched complaining cry or sound. Example: The 18-year-old [Justin] Bieber can’t quite pull off the “adult” thing just yet: His voice may have dropped a bit since the days of “Baby,” but it still mostly registers as “angelic,” and veers toward a pubescent whine at times. 2. A peevish or self-pitying complaint or criticism. Example: I need to have a quick whine about my boss before we start talking about the holiday. Example: Eighner, in particular, is infamous for his "what publishers and editors did to poor me" whines.
Word: whine Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English whynen, hwinen, whinen, from Old English hwīnan (“to rush, to whizz, to squeal, to whine”), from Proto-West Germanic *hwīnan, from Proto-Germanic *hwīnaną, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱwey- (“to hiss, whistle, whisper”). Cognate with Old Norse hvína, whence Icelandic hvína, Norwegian Nynorsk kvina, Swedish vina, and Danish hvine. Despite the strong similarity in sound and meaning, not related with German weinen, Dutch wenen, from Proto-Germanic *wainōną (for which see dialectal English ween (“to weep, lament”)). Pronunciation: /ˈwaɪ̯n/, [ˈwaɪ̯n], /ˈʍaɪ̯n/, [ˈʍaɪ̯n], /ˈw̥aɪ̯n/ 1. To utter a high-pitched cry. Labels: intransitive 2. To make a sound resembling such a cry. Labels: intransitive Example: The jet engines whined at take off. 3. To complain or protest with a whine (compare whinge) or as if with a whine, i.e. in a peevish or self-pitying way. Labels: intransitive Example: [S]he was one of your ſoft ſpoken, canting, whining hypocrites, who with a truly jeſuitical art, could wreſt evil out of the moſt inoffenſive thought, word, look or action; […] Example: Feel awfully about Scott... I always knew he couldn't think—he never could—but he had a marvelous talent and the thing is to use it—not whine in public. 4. To move with a whining sound. Labels: intransitive Example: The jet whined into the air. Example: The wind whined and moaned through the trees. 5. To utter with the sound of a whine. Labels: transitive Example: The child whined all his complaints. Example: Kelly Queen was whining that the boss made him put on his tie.
Word: yottagram Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From yotta- + gram. 1. An SI unit of mass equal to 10²⁴ grams. Symbol: Yg
Word: zettagram Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Afroasiatic *sṗɣ? Proto-Semitic *šabʕ-bor.? Proto-Indo-European *septḿ̥ Proto-Italic *septəm Latin septemder. ▲ Proto-Indo-European *septḿ̥ Proto-Hellenic *heptə́ Ancient Greek ἑπτᾰ́ (heptắ)der. English zetta- English gram English zettagram From zetta- + gram. 1. An SI unit of mass equal to 10²¹ grams. Symbol: Zg
Word: exagram Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From exa- + gram. 1. (metrology) An SI unit of mass equal to 10¹⁸ grams. Symbol: Eg Labels: rare
Word: petagram Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From peta- + gram. 1. An SI unit of mass equal to 10¹⁵ grams. Symbol: Pg 2. An SI unit of mass equal to 10¹⁵ grams. Symbol: Pg Sometimes used in Carbon Dioxide numbers, it is equivalent to Metric Gigatons (Giga) 10⁹ x (Ton) 10³ x (kg) 10³ = 10¹⁵
Word: teragram Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From tera- + gram. 1. An SI unit of mass equal to 10¹² grams. Symbol: Tg
Word: gigagram Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From giga- + gram. 1. An SI unit of mass equal to 10⁹ grams. Symbol: Gg Example: Meronyms: picogram < nanogram < microgram < milligram < gram < kilogram < megagram
Word: megagram Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *méǵh₂s Proto-Hellenic *mégas Ancient Greek μέγᾰς (mégăs)der. English mega- English gram English megagram From mega- + gram. 1. An SI unit of mass equal to 10⁶ grams. Symbol: Mg Example: Holonym: gigagram Example: Meronyms: picogram < nanogram < microgram < milligram < gram < kilogram
Word: hectogram Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From French hectogramme. By surface analysis, hecto- + gram. 1. An SI unit of mass equal to 10² grams. Symbol: hg
Word: microgram Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *mey-der.? Ancient Greek μῑκρός (mīkrós) Ancient Greek μῑκρο- (mīkro-)lbor. English micro- English gram English microgram From micro- + gram. Pronunciation: /ˈmaɪ.kɹəˌɡɹæm/, /ˈmaɪ.kɹəʊˌɡɹæm/, [ˈmʌɪ̯.kɹəˌɡɹɛə̯m], /ˈmaɪ.kɹoʊˌɡɹæm/, [ˈmʌɪ̯.kɹoʊˌɡɹɛə̯m] 1. An SI unit of mass equal to 10⁻⁶ grams. Symbol: μg A unit of mass equal to one millionth of a gram, or 0.000 001 grams. Example: Holonyms: milligram < gram < kilogram < megagram < gigagram Example: Meronyms: picogram < nanogram
Word: nanogram Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Ancient Greek νᾶνος (nânos)bor. Latin nānusbor. English nano- English gram English nanogram From nano- + gram. 1. An SI unit of mass equal to 10⁻⁹ grams. Symbol: ng Example: Holonyms: microgram < milligram < gram < kilogram < megagram < gigagram Example: Meronym: picogram
Word: picogram Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Celtic *bekkos Gaulish *bekkosbor.? Latin beccus Old Spanish bico Spanish picobor. English pico- English gram English picogram From pico- + gram. 1. An SI unit of mass equal to 10⁻¹² grams. Symbol: pg Example: Holonyms: nanogram < microgram < milligram < gram < kilogram < megagram < gigagram
Word: femtogram Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *pénkʷe Proto-Germanic *fimf Proto-Indo-European *déḱm̥ Proto-Germanic *tehun Proto-Germanic *fimftehun Old Norse fimmtánder. Danish femtender. English femto- English gram English femtogram From femto- + gram. 1. An SI unit of mass equal to 10⁻¹⁵ grams. Symbol: fg
Word: attogram Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From atto- + gram. 1. An SI unit of mass equal to 10⁻¹⁸ grams. Symbol: ag
Word: zeptogram Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Afroasiatic *sṗɣ? Proto-Semitic *šabʕ-bor.? Proto-Indo-European *septḿ̥ Proto-Hellenic *heptə́ Ancient Greek ἑπτᾰ́ (heptắ)der. English zepto- English gram English zeptogram From zepto- + gram. 1. An SI unit of mass equal to 10⁻²¹ grams. Symbol: zg
Word: yoctogram Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *oḱtṓw Proto-Hellenic *oktṓ Ancient Greek ὀκτώ (oktṓ)der. English yocto- English gram English yoctogram From yocto- + gram. 1. An SI unit of mass equal to 10⁻²⁴ grams. Symbol: yg
Word: beseech Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English besechen, bisechen, prefixed form of Old English sēċan (“to seek or inquire about”); compare the doublet beseek, from the same dialect that gave seek. Cognate with Saterland Frisian besäike (“to visit”), Dutch bezoeken (“to visit, attend, see”), German besuchen (“to visit, attend, see”), Swedish besöka (“to visit, go to see”). By surface analysis, be- + seech. Pronunciation: /bɪˈsiːt͡ʃ/ 1. To beg or implore something of (a person). Labels: formal, transitive Example: Moost noble crysten Quene I byseche yow as ye haue ben euer my specyal good lady and I at al tymes your true poure knyghte vnto my power and as I neuer fayled yow in ryghte nor in wrong sythen the fyrst day kynge Arthur made me knyghte that ye wylle praye for my soule yf that I here be slayne; "Most noble Christian queen, I beseech you as ye have been ever my special good lady, and I at all times your true poor knight unto my power, and as I never failed you in right nor in wrong sithen the first day King Arthur made me knight, that ye will pray for my soul if that I here be slain;" Example: [W]e beſche thee, leaue vs not comfortles, but ſende to vs thine holy ghoſt to comfort vs, and exalte vs vnto thy ſame place, whither our ſauiour Chriſte is gone before: […] 2. To beg or request for (something). Labels: formal, transitive Example: [T]he tickets had all been given out, begged, besought long ago.
Word: beseech Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English besechen, bisechen, prefixed form of Old English sēċan (“to seek or inquire about”); compare the doublet beseek, from the same dialect that gave seek. Cognate with Saterland Frisian besäike (“to visit”), Dutch bezoeken (“to visit, attend, see”), German besuchen (“to visit, attend, see”), Swedish besöka (“to visit, go to see”). By surface analysis, be- + seech. Pronunciation: /bɪˈsiːt͡ʃ/ 1. A request. Labels: archaic, transitive Example: Good madam, hear the suit that Edith urges, With such submiss beseeches; [...]
Word: eggar Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Alteration of egger, in reference to the shape of this moth's cocoon. Pronunciation: /ˈɛɡɚ/, /ˈɛɡə/ 1. Any moth of the family Lasiocampidae.
Word: pools Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /puːlz/ 1. plural of pool Labels: form-of, plural
Word: pools Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /puːlz/ 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of pool Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: Engels Part of Speech: name Etymology: Borrowed from German Engels. Pronunciation: /ˈɛŋɡəlz/ 1. A surname from German. Example: Friedrich Engels
Word: Engels Part of Speech: name 1. plural of Engel Labels: form-of, plural
Word: bier Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English beer, beere, bere, from Old English bēr, (West Saxon) bǣr (“stretcher, bier”), from Proto-West Germanic *bāru, from Proto-Germanic *bērō, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰer- (“to carry, bear”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Beere (“stretcher, bier”), Dutch baar (“bier”), German Bahre (“bier, stretcher”). More at bear. Pronunciation: /bɪə/, /bɪɚ/ 1. A litter to transport the corpse of a dead person. Example: They bore him bare-faced on the bier. Example: When Chrysostom was lying on his bier in the valley, and Marcella looked down from the high rock, Ambrosio, the dead man’s comrade, cried out on her, upbraiding her with bitter words—“Oh basilisk of our mountains!” Nor do I think Ambrosio spoke too strongly. 2. A platform or stand where a body or coffin is placed. Example: On April 5, 1925, Chiang Kai-shek returned from the First Eastern Expedition to the Whampoa Military Academy to officiate at a funeral service for Sun Yat-sen, who had died in Peking on March 12. Huang Chi-lu, then a young professor of political science at the University of Kwangtung and destined to become director of the Kuomintang Archives some forty years later, has informed us of the display of strong emotion evidenced by Chiang on this occasion: "The service was officiated by Mr. Chiang and Liao Chung-k'ai and was attended by over four thousand officers, cadets, and soldiers. As the funeral ceremonies began, Mr. Chiang, unable to control himself, wept bitterly and audibly, causing all in the assembly to shed tears."¹ Three years later, at the conclusion of the Northern Expedition, a similarly melodramatic scene unfolded before the eyes of the public as Chiang visited Sun's bier in the suburbs of Peking. 3. A count of forty threads in the warp or chain of woollen cloth.
Word: poep Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Afrikaans poep. 1. A fart. Labels: South-Africa
Word: leven Part of Speech: num Etymology: See eleven. Pronunciation: /ˈlɛvən/ 1. Pronunciation spelling of eleven. Labels: alt-of, pronunciation-spelling
Word: leven Part of Speech: noun Etymology: See levin. Pronunciation: /ˈlɛvən/ 1. Alternative spelling of levin (“lightning”). Labels: alt-of, alternative, obsolete
Word: leven Part of Speech: verb Etymology: See leaven Pronunciation: /ˈlɛvən/ 1. Obsolete spelling of leaven. Labels: alt-of, obsolete
Word: Chinees Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of Chinee Labels: form-of, plural
Word: dier Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English die Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzios Latin -āriusnom. Latin -āriusbor. Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz Proto-West Germanic *-ārī Old English -ere Middle English -ere English -er English dier From die + -er. 1. One who dies. Example: It's a way of controlling death. A way of gaining the ultimate upper hand. Be the killer for a change. Let someone else be the dier. Example: Since other languages are structurally constrained to say who it was who died and since the original leaves the identity of the dier unexpressed, any translation in the target language is going to be incorrect.
Word: hat Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English hat, from Old English hætt, from Proto-Germanic *hattuz (“hat”), perhaps from a late PIE root Proto-Indo-European *kedʰ- (“to guard, cover, care for, protect”) or wanderwort. Cognate with North Frisian and Danish hat (“hat”), Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish hatt (“hat”), Icelandic hattur (“hat”), Finnish hattu (“hat”), Latin cassis (“helmet”), Lithuanian kudas (“bird's crest or tuft”), Avestan 𐬑𐬀𐬊𐬛𐬀 (xaoda, “hat”), Persian خود (xud, “helmet”), Welsh cadw (“to provide for, ensure”). Compare also hood. Pronunciation: /hæt/, /hat/, /hæ̞ʔ/, /hɛt/ 1. A covering for the head, often in the approximate form of a cone, dome or cylinder closed at its top end, and sometimes having a brim and other decoration. Example: There was a neat hat-and-umbrella stand, and the stranger's weary feet fell soft on a good, serviceable dark-red drugget, which matched in colour the flock-paper on the walls. Example: Denzel walks. Will Smith walks. Mark Wahlberg is wearing a hat! 2. A particular role or capacity that a person might fill. Labels: figuratively Example: It's all a matter of hats, Minister. Example: My mother was wearing several hats in the early fifties: hostess, scout, wife, and mother. 3. Any receptacle from which names or numbers are pulled out in a lottery. Labels: figuratively 4. Any receptacle from which names or numbers are pulled out in a lottery. Labels: broadly, figuratively Example: We're both in the hat: let's hope we come up against each other. 5. A hat switch. Example: The third type of function allows you to check on the state of the joystick's buttons, axes, hats, and balls. 6. The circumflex symbol. 7. The háček symbol. Labels: nonstandard, rare Example: I’lll have to leave it up to antiques experts to tell you when objects were marked that way, but I can tell you it’s called a “hacek” (with the hat over the “c” and pronounced “hacheck”.) It is used to show that a “c” is pronounced as “ch” and an “s” as “sh.” Sometimes linguists just call it the “hat.” 8. The caret symbol ^. Labels: informal 9. User rights on a website, such as the right to edit pages others cannot. Labels: Internet 10. A student who is also the son of a nobleman (and so allowed to wear a hat instead of a mortarboard). Labels: obsolete Example: I knew intimately all the 'Hats' in the University, and I was henceforth looked up to by the 'Caps,' as if my head had gained the height of every hat that I knew.
Word: hat Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English hat, from Old English hætt, from Proto-Germanic *hattuz (“hat”), perhaps from a late PIE root Proto-Indo-European *kedʰ- (“to guard, cover, care for, protect”) or wanderwort. Cognate with North Frisian and Danish hat (“hat”), Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish hatt (“hat”), Icelandic hattur (“hat”), Finnish hattu (“hat”), Latin cassis (“helmet”), Lithuanian kudas (“bird's crest or tuft”), Avestan 𐬑𐬀𐬊𐬛𐬀 (xaoda, “hat”), Persian خود (xud, “helmet”), Welsh cadw (“to provide for, ensure”). Compare also hood. Pronunciation: /hæt/, /hat/, /hæ̞ʔ/, /hɛt/ 1. To place a hat on. Labels: transitive Example: After the maids had hatted and gloved the girls, the carriage was summoned and I was carted around one church after another. 2. To appoint as cardinal. Labels: transitive Example: It was truly a breathtaking rise. From the quiet school, Pope Pius XI had jumped Father Verdier over the heads of innumerable Bishops, made him Archbishop of Paris. Soon he was to be hatted a Prince of the Church and put in charge of the Cathedral of Notre-Dame. 3. To shop for hats. Labels: intransitive Example: We might just go hatting this afternoon […] Example: Watt's need of semantic succour was at times so great that he would set to trying names on things, and on himself, almost as a woman hats.
Word: hat Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /hæt/, /hat/, /hæ̞ʔ/, /hɛt/ 1. simple past of hit Labels: Northern-England, Scotland, form-of, obsolete, past
Word: sad Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English sad, from Old English sæd (“satisfied, full, sated, unable to handle more, weary”), from Proto-West Germanic *sad, from Proto-Germanic *sadaz (“sated, satisfied”), from Proto-Indo-European *seh₂- (“to satiate, satisfy”). Cognate to Saterland Frisian sääd, West Frisian sêd, Dutch zat, German Low German satt, German satt. The interjection sense is a reference to frequent usage of the word as an interjection in the tweets of Donald Trump, American businessman and politician (born 1946), President of the United States (2017–2021; since 2025)); a Trumpism. Pronunciation: /ˈsæd/ 1. Emotionally negative. Example: She gets sad when he's away. Example: Firſt were we ſad, fearing you would not come, / Now ſadder that you come ſo vnprouided:[…] 2. Emotionally negative. Example: The puppy had a sad little face. Example: We need a sad man. Give us a sad man.” Tomo gave the look of a sad man, then followed with the body of a sad man. “That's it, more of that. can you manufacture a mole right here? Yes, a very ugly mole. Right here, on the chin.[…] 3. Emotionally negative. Example: It's a sad fact that most rapes go unreported. Example: The Great Gaels of Ireland are the men that God made mad, / For all their wars are merry and all their songs are sad. 4. Emotionally negative. Example: That's the saddest-looking pickup truck I've ever seen. Example: Heaven knows what cash he got, or blood he spilt, / A sad old fellow was he, if you please[…]. 5. Emotionally negative. Example: […]this is either uſed crude, and called ſulphur vive, and is of a ſadder colour; or after depuration, ſuch as we have in magdeleons or rols of a lighter yellow. Example: sad-coloured clothes 6. Sated, having had one's fill; satisfied, weary. Labels: obsolete 7. Steadfast, valiant. Labels: obsolete Example: The fearefull newes that whilſt the flame doth but begin, Sad pollicie may ſerue to quench the fire: […] 8. Dignified, serious, grave. Labels: obsolete Example: Therfore it nedeth that better prouysion. Were founde for youthe by sad and wyse counsayle Example: Vproſe Sir Guyon, in bright armour clad, / And to his purpoſd iourney him prepar'd: / With him the Palmer eke in habit ſad, / Him ſelfe addreſt to that aduenture hard: […] 9. Naughty; troublesome; wicked. Labels: obsolete Example: Mr. Santon laughed, and merely said,—"Oh, you cruel beauty!" returning to his paper again; but, seated in the bay-window was one, who could not thus lightly look upon the conduct of the coquettish Winnie, for it was evident she was a sad coquette. Example: In ſuch places, it would not be doubted, that a grim Daniel Scroggins, and an aproned Sam Smith, might be found—ſad tipſy fellows, both of them, to whoſe ingenuity this or that mechanical improvement had been due. 10. Unfashionable; socially inadequate or undesirable. Labels: slang Example: I can't believe you use drugs; you're so sad! Example: You’d have to be really sad to wear a shirt like that. 11. Soggy (to refer to pastries). Labels: dialectal 12. Heavy; weighty; ponderous; close; hard. Labels: obsolete Example: sad bread Example: […]his hand, more ſad then lomp of lead,[…]
Word: sad Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English sad, from Old English sæd (“satisfied, full, sated, unable to handle more, weary”), from Proto-West Germanic *sad, from Proto-Germanic *sadaz (“sated, satisfied”), from Proto-Indo-European *seh₂- (“to satiate, satisfy”). Cognate to Saterland Frisian sääd, West Frisian sêd, Dutch zat, German Low German satt, German satt. The interjection sense is a reference to frequent usage of the word as an interjection in the tweets of Donald Trump, American businessman and politician (born 1946), President of the United States (2017–2021; since 2025)); a Trumpism. Pronunciation: /ˈsæd/ 1. To make melancholy; to sadden or grieve (someone). Labels: archaic, transitive Example: 16??, John Webster, Appius and Virginia My father's wondrous pensive, and withal / With a suppress'd rage left his house displeas'd, / And so in post is hurried to the camp: / It sads me much; to expel which melancholy, / I have sent for company.
Word: sad Part of Speech: intj Etymology: From Middle English sad, from Old English sæd (“satisfied, full, sated, unable to handle more, weary”), from Proto-West Germanic *sad, from Proto-Germanic *sadaz (“sated, satisfied”), from Proto-Indo-European *seh₂- (“to satiate, satisfy”). Cognate to Saterland Frisian sääd, West Frisian sêd, Dutch zat, German Low German satt, German satt. The interjection sense is a reference to frequent usage of the word as an interjection in the tweets of Donald Trump, American businessman and politician (born 1946), President of the United States (2017–2021; since 2025)); a Trumpism. Pronunciation: /ˈsæd/ 1. Expressing contempt, ridicule or disgust; bah! Labels: Internet, humorous, sometimes
Word: sad Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of saad (“Arabic letter”). Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: nap Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English nappen, from Old English hnappian (“to doze, slumber, sleep”), from Proto-West Germanic *hnappōn (“to nap”). Cognate with Old High German hnaffezan, hnaffezzan (whence Middle High German nafzen (“to slumber”) whence German dialectal napfezen, nafzen (“to nod, slumber, nap”)). Pronunciation: /næp/ 1. To have a nap; to sleep for a short period of time, especially during the day. 2. To be off one's guard. Labels: figuratively Example: The regulators were caught napping by the financial collapse. Example: I took thee napping, unprepared.
Word: nap Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English nap, from the verb nappen. Pronunciation: /næp/ 1. A short period of sleep, especially one during the day.
Word: nap Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From late Middle English noppe, nappe, from Middle Dutch and Middle Low German noppe, noppen (“to trim the nap”), ultimately from knappen (“to eat, crack”), of imitative origin. Related to the first element of knapsack. Pronunciation: /næp/ 1. A soft or fuzzy surface, generally on fabric or leather. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: I tell thee, Jack Cade the clothier means to dress the commonwealth, and turn it, and set a new nap upon it. Example: On his long, gaunt body, he carried no spare flesh, no superfluous beard, his chin having a soft, economical nap to it, like the worn nap of his broad-brimmed hat. 2. The common direction, on some kinds of fabric, of the hairs making up the pile. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: If the fabric has a nap, make sure all pieces are cut with the nap going the same direction. Example: Instead of grinding the pistons straight around the axis, they are ground diagonally with a special-built machine. As a result, the “nap” of the metal is turned in such a way that, when it meets the “nap” of the cylinder wall, both surfaces quickly develop a high finish which removes the danger of scoring a piston.
Word: nap Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From late Middle English noppe, nappe, from Middle Dutch and Middle Low German noppe, noppen (“to trim the nap”), ultimately from knappen (“to eat, crack”), of imitative origin. Related to the first element of knapsack. Pronunciation: /næp/ 1. To form or raise a soft or fuzzy surface on (fabric or leather).
Word: nap Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From the name of the French emperor Napoleon I of France. Pronunciation: /næp/ 1. A type of bet in British horse racing, based on the experts' best tips. Labels: UK, countable, uncountable Example: 4. Races run on English, Welsh or Scottish racecourses. This criterion was included so that media tipsters ^([sic]) nap selections in general could be analysed; the source of naps, The Racing Rag 'tipster table', summarises the nap selections of newspaper tipsters, who restrict their selection to horses running at racecourses in these countries. 2. A card game in which players take tricks; properly Napoleon. Labels: uncountable 3. A bid to take five tricks in the card game Napoleon. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: nap Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Probably of North Germanic origin, from Old Swedish nappa (“to pluck, pinch”). Related to nab. Pronunciation: /næp/ 1. To grab; to nab. Labels: obsolete
Word: nap Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From French napper, from nappe (“nape”). Pronunciation: /næp/ 1. To cover (something) with a sauce. (usually in the passive) Example: Vanilla ice cream topped with a poached or canned pear half, napped with chocolate sauce, and garnished with toasted sliced almonds.
Word: nap Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English nap (“a bowl”), from Old English hnæpp (“a cup, bowl”), from Proto-West Germanic *hnapp, from Proto-Germanic *hnappaz (“a cup, bowl”). Cognate with Dutch nap (“drinking cup”), Low German Napp (“bowl, cup”), German Napf (“bowl”), Icelandic hnappur (“button, key”). Doublet of hanap. See also nappy. Pronunciation: /næp/ 1. A cup, bowl. Labels: Northern-England, Scotland
Word: dangerous Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English dangerous (“difficult, severe, domineering, arrogant, fraught with danger”), daungerous, from Anglo-Norman [Term?], from Old French dangereus (“threatening, difficult”), from dangier. Equivalent to danger + -ous. Displaced native Old English frēcne. Pronunciation: /ˈdeɪn.ʒ(ə.)ɹəs/, /ˈdeɪn.d͡ʒ(ə.)ɹəs/, /ˈdeɪn.d͡ʒɚ.əs/, /ˈdeɪn.d͡ʒɚs/, /ˈdeɪn.ʒɹəs/ 1. Full of danger. Example: Railway crossings without gates are highly dangerous. Example: [I]t is not fair of you to bring against mankind double weapons! Dangerous enough you are as woman alone, without bringing to your aid those gifts of mind suited to problems which men have been accustomed to arrogate to themselves. 2. Causing danger; ready to do harm or injury. Example: If they incline to think you dangerous, / They have their knaviſh Arts to make you ſo. Example: And the Duke thought: The truth could be worse than he imagines, but even dangerous facts are valuable if you’ve been trained to deal with them. And there’s one place where nothing has been spared for my son—dealing with dangerous facts. 3. In a condition of danger, as from illness; threatened with death. Labels: colloquial, dated
Word: labda Part of Speech: noun 1. Archaic form of lambda. Labels: alt-of, archaic
Word: hexachord Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *swéḱs Proto-Hellenic *hwéks Ancient Greek ἕξ (héx) Ancient Greek ἑξα- (hexa-)der. Latin hexa-der. English hexa- English chord English hexachord From hexa- + chord. 1. A series of six tones denoted with the syllables ut-re-mi-fa-sol-la separated by seconds, the only of which that is a minor second being mi-fa.
Word: combinatoriality Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English combinatorial Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-ts Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ts Latin -itāsder. Old French -itebor. Middle English -ite English -ity English combinatoriality From combinatorial + -ity. 1. A quality shared by some twelve-tone tone rows by which the row and one of its transformations combine to form a pair of aggregates.
Word: inversion Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin inversiōnem. Pronunciation: /ɪnˈvɚ.ʒən/, /ɪnˈvɜː.ʃən/ 1. The action of inverting. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. The act of being in an inverted state; being upside down, inside out, or in a reverse sequence. Labels: countable, uncountable 3. The reversal of an interval; the move of one pitch in an interval up or down an octave. Labels: countable, uncountable 4. The position of a chord which has a note other than the root as its bass note. Labels: countable, uncountable 5. The flipping of a melody or contrapuntal line so that high notes become low and vice versa; the reversal of a pitch contour. Labels: countable, uncountable 6. A segment of DNA in the context of a chromosome that is reversed in orientation relative to a reference karyotype or genome. Labels: countable, uncountable 7. A situation where air temperature increases with altitude (the ground being colder than the surrounding air). Labels: countable, uncountable 8. A section of a roller coaster where passengers are temporarily turned upside down. Labels: countable, uncountable 9. Deviation from standard word order, as for example by putting the predicate before the subject. It takes place in questions with auxiliary verbs; in normal, affirmative clauses beginning with a negative particle, for the purpose of emphasis; and in other rhetorical devices or unusual situations. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Question formation involves the phenomenon commonly known as subject-auxiliary inversion, a change in word order in which the auxiliary moves in front of the subject. 10. An operation on a group, analogous to negation. Labels: countable, uncountable 11. Homosexuality, particularly in early psychoanalysis. Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable Example: We can seldom, therefore, congratulate ourselves on the success of any "cure" of inversion. Example: Equal relationships can only exist between equals. Inversion is the most positive identity possible in the situation as it is now. 12. The catalytic action of invertase. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: serial Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Formed as series + -al, on model of Latin seriālis, from seriēs + -ālis. Cognate to Italian seriale. First use appears c. 1823. See cite below. Pronunciation: /ˈsɪə.ɹɪ.əl/, /ˈsɪɹ.i.əl/ 1. Having to do with or arranged in a series. Labels: not-comparable Example: These singular ribs have a very different direction from that of the serial teeth of the hinge, and cannot be taken for teeth. 2. Who performs a specified action or course of action repeatedly or regularly. Labels: not-comparable Example: The serial killer had a string of victims across seven states. Example: He was a serial entrepreneur, always coming up with a new way to make cash. 3. Published or produced in installments. Labels: not-comparable 4. Of or relating to a grammatical aspect relating to an action that is habitual and ongoing. Labels: not-comparable
Word: serial Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Formed as series + -al, on model of Latin seriālis, from seriēs + -ālis. Cognate to Italian seriale. First use appears c. 1823. See cite below. Pronunciation: /ˈsɪə.ɹɪ.əl/, /ˈsɪɹ.i.əl/ 1. A literary or dramatic work, such as a radio or television programme, published in installments, often numbered and without a specified end. 2. A publication issued in successive parts, often numbered and with no predetermined end. 3. A serial number, esp. one required to activate software. Labels: slang Example: Go to these sites for serials, cracks and keygens. 4. A unit of police officers equipped with shields to tackle a riot. Labels: UK Example: The practice, especially among members of shield serials, of 'whooping like cowboys and indians' and beating of truncheons on riot shields must cease as this tends to frighten and intimidate rioters. Example: The serials worked in pairs, one with long shields and one with short shields.
Word: serial Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Formed as series + -al, on model of Latin seriālis, from seriēs + -ālis. Cognate to Italian seriale. First use appears c. 1823. See cite below. Pronunciation: /ˈsɪə.ɹɪ.əl/, /ˈsɪɹ.i.əl/ 1. to assign a serial number to (especially of aircraft) Labels: transitive
Word: serialism Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From serial + -ism. Calque of the German Reihenmusik. 1. Music, especially from the 20th century, in which themes are based on a definite order of notes of an equal-tempered scale. Labels: uncountable, usually
Word: -ous Part of Speech: suffix Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₃ed- Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *h₃édosder.? Proto-Italic *-ŏ̄dsos? Old Latin -ōssus Latin -ōsus Old French -usbor. Middle English -ous English -ous From Middle English -ous, from Old French -ous, -os, -us, from Latin -ōsus (“full of”). Doublet of -ose and -wise in unstressed position. Many English adjectives ending in -ous were taken from preexisting French or Latin adjectives that end in one of the above suffixes (e.g. envious corresponds directly to Old French envious which in turn corresponds directly to Latin invidiōsus). In addition, -ous (or the variant form -ious) has at times been attached to English nouns to form derived adjectives that lack precedents in French or Latin, such as slumberous from slumber or blizzardous from blizzard. It has also been used in some cases as a means of adapting adjectives borrowed from Latin that originally ended simply in -us, -a, -um (for example, obvious and previous are derived from Latin obvius and praevius, not *obviōsus or *praeviōsus). Pronunciation: /-əs/ 1. Used to form adjectives from nouns, to denote: Labels: morpheme Example: bulb + -ous → bulbous 2. Used to form adjectives from nouns, to denote: Labels: morpheme Example: courage + -ous → courageous Example: joy + -ous → joyous 3. Used to form adjectives from nouns, to denote: Labels: morpheme Example: aptonym + -ous → aptonymous Example: arrhenotoky + -ous → arrhenotokous 4. Used in chemical nomenclature to name chemical compounds in which a specified chemical element has a lower oxidation number than in the equivalent compound whose name ends in the suffix -ic. For example sulphuric acid (H₂SO₄) has more oxygen atoms per molecule than sulphurous acid (H₂SO₃). See Inorganic nomenclature. Labels: morpheme
Word: transposition Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle French transposition, from Medieval Latin transpositio. 1. The act or process of transposing or interchanging. Labels: countable, especially, uncountable 2. A shift of a piece of music to a different musical key by adjusting all the notes of the work equally either up or down in pitch. Labels: countable, uncountable 3. A sequence of moves resulting in a position that may also be reached by another, more common sequence. Labels: countable, uncountable 4. An incorporation of the provisions of a European Union directive into a Member State's domestic law. Labels: European-Union, countable, uncountable
Word: transposition Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle French transposition, from Medieval Latin transpositio. 1. To transpose 2. To take on the role of another person
Word: -one Part of Speech: suffix Etymology: Clipping of ketone, which was analogous to margarone. Further etymology is unclear. Pronunciation: /-əʊn/ 1. a ketone Labels: morpheme 2. any similar compound containing a carbonyl functional group Labels: morpheme
Word: square root Part of Speech: noun 1. The number which, when squared, yields another number. Example: Near-synonym: √ Example: The square roots of 4 are 2 and −2, the square root of 0 is 0, and the square roots of −4 are 2i and −2i. 2. The positive number which, when squared, yields another number: the principal square root. Example: The square root of 4 is 2. No negative real square roots exist. Negative numbers have no real square roots.
Word: cube root Part of Speech: noun 1. Of a number or expression, a number or expression the cube of which is equal to the given number or expression. Example: 3 is the cube root of 27. Example: 0.5 is the cube root of 0.125.
Word: roots Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ɹuːts/, /ɹʊts/ 1. plural of root Labels: form-of, plural
Word: roots Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ɹuːts/, /ɹʊts/ 1. Ancestry. Example: I have both Irish and German roots. 2. Beginnings; origin. Example: Jazz has its roots in blues. 3. Grown-out hair, often of a grey or natural colour. Example: I just coloured my hair and already my roots are showing.
Word: rooted Part of Speech: adj Pronunciation: /ˈɹuːtɪd/, /ɹʊtɪd/ 1. Having roots, or a certain type of roots. Example: deep-rooted 2. Fixed in one position; immobile; unable to move. Example: She stayed rooted in place. Example: Those with fewest attachments or obligations may be most vulnerable to transitions from a more rooted life, before flight, to the new as-yet unrooted or uprooted life. 3. Ingrained, as through repeated use; entrenched; habitual or instinctive. Labels: figuratively Example: 1782 May, Isaac Kimber, Edward Kimber (editors), The Link-Boy, The London Magazine, or, Gentleman′s Monthly Intelligencer, Volume 51, page 205, He will immediately break in on their moſt rooted prejudices ; and with a kind of malignant ſatisfaction hack their darling notions with unſparing rigour and unbluſhing inſolence. Example: The greater part of his property he has acquired himself during years of industry ; but with it he has acquired the most rooted habits of suspicion. 4. Having a basic or fundamental connection (to a thing); based, originating (from). Labels: figuratively, usually Example: Proper Philadelphians, especially before they became Episcopalians, and the unfashionable branches of their families to this day are surely more rooted in Westtown than St. Paul′s, the fashionable favorite. Example: For what is gradually taking hold, I think, is a way of drawing near to God that is far more rooted in history and far more rooted in the gospel than we have been accustomed to. 5. Having a root. 6. In trouble or in strife, screwed. Labels: slang Example: I am absolutely rooted if Ferris finds out about this 7. Broken, damaged, non-functional. Labels: Australia, New-Zealand, slang Example: I'm going to have to call a mechanic, my car's rooted. 8. Having a root (superuser) account that has been compromised. Labels: not-comparable Example: You are rooted. All your base are belong to us.
Word: rooted Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ˈɹuːtɪd/, /ɹʊtɪd/ 1. simple past and past participle of root Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: rootsy Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From roots + -y. 1. Unadorned; suggestive of earlier times. Labels: colloquial Example: Their playing has a fresh but rootsy feel.
Word: root for Part of Speech: verb 1. To support (a favored person, team, or result). Labels: informal, transitive Example: I'm rooting for my cousin's team. Example: I'm rooting for a happy ending to this story.
Word: take root Part of Speech: verb 1. To grow roots into soil. Labels: intransitive, literally Example: Those tulip bulbs have taken root. 2. To become established, to take hold. Labels: figuratively, intransitive Example: The new regulations have yet to take root. Example: You have of late stood out against your brother, and he hath ta'en you newly into his grace; where it is impossible you should take true root but by the fair weather that you make yourself: it is needful that you frame the season for your own harvest.
Word: root about Part of Speech: verb 1. To forage by poking the snout here and there. 2. To search for something in a similar manner. Example: Besides, the father would not give him leave to go, for he said it was no use his trying, who had so little sense; all he could do was to sit in a corner on the hearth, like a cat, rooting about in the ashes and cutting chips. 3. To rummage; to look for something in a somewhat aimless fashion. Labels: figuratively Example: I'm rooting about for ideas for a novel
Word: root around Part of Speech: verb 1. Alternative form of root about. Labels: US, alt-of, alternative, idiomatic Example: She began to root around in her bag for the keys. Example: The pig rooted around in the soil for food.
Word: complex conjugate Part of Speech: noun 1. Of a complex number x, the complex number ◌̅x formed by changing the sign of the imaginary part: The complex conjugate of a + bi is a - bi.
Word: conjugate Part of Speech: verb Etymology: The adjective (as “combined, united”) and noun are first attested in 1471, in Middle English, the verb in 1530; partly from Middle English conjugat(e) (“combined, united”), partly directly borrowed from New Latin coniugātus, the perfect passive participle of Latin coniugō (“to yoke together, combine; (New Latin) to conjugate, decline, inflect”) (see -ate (etymology 1, 2 and 3)), from con- (“with”) + iugō (“to join”). In Classical Latin, the word for conjugate (grammar) was dēclīnō, coniugō is a later back-formation from post-classical coniugātiō (“conjugation, declension”). Pronunciation: /ˈkɒn.d͡ʒə.ɡeɪt/, /ˈkɑn.d͡ʒə.ɡeɪt/, /ˈkɔn.d͡ʒə.ɡæɪt/ 1. To inflect (a verb) for each person, in order, for one or more tenses; to list or recite its principal parts. Labels: transitive Example: In English, the verb 'to be' is conjugated as follows: 'I am', 'you are', 'he/she/it is', 'we are', 'you are', 'they are'. 2. To multiply on the left by one element and on the right by its inverse. 3. To join together, to unite; to juxtapose. Labels: rare Example: The effects of hunger were often conjugated with epidemic disease. 4. To temporarily fuse, exchanging or transferring DNA.
Word: conjugate Part of Speech: noun Etymology: The adjective (as “combined, united”) and noun are first attested in 1471, in Middle English, the verb in 1530; partly from Middle English conjugat(e) (“combined, united”), partly directly borrowed from New Latin coniugātus, the perfect passive participle of Latin coniugō (“to yoke together, combine; (New Latin) to conjugate, decline, inflect”) (see -ate (etymology 1, 2 and 3)), from con- (“with”) + iugō (“to join”). In Classical Latin, the word for conjugate (grammar) was dēclīnō, coniugō is a later back-formation from post-classical coniugātiō (“conjugation, declension”). Pronunciation: /ˈkɒn.d͡ʒə.ɡət/, /ˈkɑn.d͡ʒə.ɡət/, /ˈkɔn.d͡ʒə.ɡət/ 1. Any entity formed by joining two or more smaller entities together. 2. A complex conjugate. 3. More generally, any of a set of irrational or complex numbers that are zeros of the same polynomial with integral coefficients. 4. Given a field extension L / K and an element α ∈ L, any other element β ∈ L that is another root of the minimal polynomial of α over K. 5. A type of pelvic measurement. 6. An explementary angle. 7. A word agreeing in derivation with another word, and therefore generally resembling it in meaning. Example: 17th c, John Bramhall, We have learned in logic, that conjugates are sometimes in name only, and not in deed. 8. A weak and a strong antigen covalently linked together