nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: fake Part of Speech: verb Etymology: The origin is not known with certainty, although first attested in 1775 C.E. in British criminals' slang. It is probably from feak, feague (“to give a better appearance through artificial means, spruce up, embellish”), itself from German Low German fegen, from Middle Low German vēgen, from Old Saxon fegōn, from Proto-West Germanic *fegōn (“to clean up, polish”). Akin to Dutch veeg (“a swipe”), Dutch vegen (“to sweep, wipe”); German fegen (“to sweep, to polish”). Compare also Old English fācn (“deceit, fraud”). Perhaps related also to Old Norse fjúka (“to fade, vanquish, disappear”), Old Norse feikn (“strange, scary, unnatural”). Pronunciation: /feɪ̯k/ 1. To make a counterfeit, to counterfeit, to forge, to falsify. Labels: transitive 2. To make a false display of, to affect, to feign, to simulate. Labels: transitive Example: to fake a marriage Example: to fake happiness 3. To cheat; to swindle; to steal; to rob. Labels: archaic 4. To modify fraudulently, so as to make an object appear better or other than it really is Labels: archaic Example: He had a hundred similar tricks, but I never knew him fake a horse, or sell one as sound if it was not. 5. To improvise, in jazz. Labels: ambitransitive Example: Occasionally the opportunity arises to stand up and "fake" a jazz standard. Example: In the face of this print music culture, 'faking' was the ability—at once respected and disrespected—to improvise a song (or a part in an arrangement) without reading the notation.
Word: fake Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Inherited from Middle English faken (“to coil a rope”). Pronunciation: /feɪ̯k/ 1. One of the circles or windings of a cable or hawser, as it lies in a coil; a single turn or coil.
Word: fake Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Inherited from Middle English faken (“to coil a rope”). Pronunciation: /feɪ̯k/ 1. To coil (a rope, line, or hawser), by winding alternately in opposite directions, in layers usually of zigzag or figure of eight form, to prevent twisting when running out.
Word: fallacy Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English fallaci, fallace, fallas, from Old French fallace (whence -acy), from Latin fallācia (“deception, deceit”), from fallāx (“deceptive, deceitful”), from fallere (“to deceive”). Pronunciation: /ˈfæl.ə.si/, /ˈfɛl.ə.si/ 1. Deceptive or false appearance; that which misleads the eye or the mind. Example: Mr Jones expressed great gratitude to the lady for the kind intentions towards him which she had expressed, and indeed testified, by this proposal; but, besides intimating some diffidence of success from the lady’s knowledge of his love to her niece, which had not been her case in regard to Mr Fitzpatrick, he said, he was afraid Miss Western would never agree to an imposition of this kind, as well from her utter detestation of all fallacy as from her avowed duty to her aunt. Example: I no longer believe in happiness, because I see the fallacy of my first belief; and the examination which that induced, has shewn me the fallacy of all. Shew me a heart without its hidden wound. 2. An argument, or apparent argument, which professes to be decisive of the matter at issue, while in reality it is not; a specious argument. Example: Baldridge also showed the "one molecule of blood," usually held to be the stimulus for attracting sharks, to be another common fallacy, since a molecule of blood does not exist.
Word: falsification Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From false + -ification. 1. The act of falsifying, or making false; a counterfeiting; the giving to a thing an appearance of something which it is not. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The main Christian doctrines and festivals, besides a great mass of affiliated legend and ceremonial, are really quite directly derived from, and related to, preceding Nature worships; and it has only been by a good deal of deliberate mystification and falsification that this derivation has been kept out of sight. 2. A knowingly false statement or wilful misrepresentation. Labels: countable, uncountable 3. The act of showing an item of charge in an account to be wrong. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: fanfare Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from French fanfare; some senses apparently influenced by surface analysis, fan + fare. Pronunciation: /ˈfænfɛə/, /ˈfænfɛɹ/, [ˈfɛənfɛɹ], /ˈfænfeə/ 1. A flourish of trumpets or horns as to announce; a short and lively air performed on hunting horns during the chase. Labels: countable Example: They played a short fanfare to announce the arrival of the king. Example: This new locomotive was turned out of Doncaster works in May, 1934, to a mighty fanfare of trumpets. 2. A show of ceremony or celebration. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The town opened the new library with fanfare and a speech from the mayor. Example: I have arrived to catch the 0830 TfW service to Crewe, worked by a tatty and unrefurbished 175114. As if ashamed of its appearance, it slinks into Platform 2 (instead of Platform 1, where it was expected). No announcement had been made, and we leave without any fanfare.
Word: fanfare Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Borrowed from French fanfare; some senses apparently influenced by surface analysis, fan + fare. Pronunciation: /ˈfænfɛə/, /ˈfænfɛɹ/, [ˈfɛənfɛɹ], /ˈfænfeə/ 1. To play a fanfare. Example: At this the trumpeters again most earnestly fanfared, Example: The miscreant is shamed into just standing there mortified and not fanfaring at all while the others finish the greeting to the arriving guest. 2. To embellish with fanfares. Example: Today the mower's metal music fanfared summer's choir of motley symphonies and high concertos piped or chanted from a treetop, droned above the pollen bee flowers, babbled over stony brook-beds, whispered by the whine of willow, Example: PAM is a guitar song fanfared by massive chords on an acoustic 12-string (probably (ribbed From The Who's contemporary hit 'Pinball Wizard'). 3. To imitate a fanfare, in order to dramatize the presentation or introduction of something. Example: The name of the farm we were staying on was, tun-tun-tah,' I fanfared dramatically, 'Le Tomple, the temple. Spooky eh?' Example: 'Wooooeeee!' fanfared Sweetness Asiim Engineer, throwing her head back and letting her greasy bonny black hair reel out behind her like a banner of anarchy. 4. To introduce with pomp and show. Example: Grindingly, laths of wood yielded to brown and yellow hands, a wrenching and screaming of twisted nails fanfared the discovery of the treasure beneath. Example: Cohorts of charabancs fanfared Offa's province and his concern, negotiating the by-ways from Teme to Trent. 5. To mark an arrival or departure with music, noise, or drama. Example: She stepped neatly into the fray, took up Rover's slack lead and marched him briskly in a northerly direction away from the miniature foe, their retreat fanfared by the triumphant sound of the terrier who obviously thought he had bested an unworthy opponent, and who strutted after them for a few yards, just to make sure they moved well off his territory. Example: Among the memorable characters in this epic enterprise are the power-hungry Kenneth Widmerpool, whose beginnings are inauspicious, but who eventually achieves formidable influence through a series of ruthless manoeuvres, and Sir Magnus Donners, at whose mansion World War II is fanfared with a charade of the seven deadly sins. 6. To publicize or announce. Example: So, did quacks cash in on this, fanfaring their own capacity to quell pain? Example: The launch pad for this was the Seventeenth Party Congress in January 1934, fanfared by press editorials and street slogans assuring the Soviet people that 'Life has become better, life has become happier'. 7. To fan out. Example: Just so, light beaded on tin lanterns, drops fanfared from sprinklers, minnows fluted in pools. Example: These autumn flowers were in full bloom, fanfaring in the cool autumn wind.
Word: farce Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French farce (“farce (style of humor); stuffing”) (in the latter sense, via Middle English fars, farsse), from Old French farse, from Medieval Latin farsa, from the feminine perfect passive participle of Latin farciō (“to stuff”). The theatre sense alludes to the pleasant and varied character of certain stuffed food items. Doublet of farse. Pronunciation: /fɑːs/, /fɑɹs/ 1. A style of humor marked by broad improbabilities with little regard to regularity or method. Labels: uncountable 2. A motion picture or play featuring this style of humor. Labels: countable Example: The farce that we saw last night had us laughing and shaking our heads at the same time. Example: Thus, when he drew up instructions in lawyer language[…]; his clerks […] understood him very well. If he had written a love letter, or a farce, or a ballade, or a story, no one, either clerks, or friends, or compositors, would have understood anything but a word here and a word there. 3. A situation abounding with ludicrous incidents. Labels: uncountable Example: The first month of labor negotiations was a farce. Example: The first match in the magnificent new national stadium was a Euro 2012 qualifier between Romania and France that soon descended into farce as the pitch cut up and players struggled to maintain their footing. Amorebieta at times seemed to be paying homage to that game, but nobody else seemed to have a problem; it was just that Falcao was far better than him. 4. A ridiculous or empty show. Labels: uncountable Example: The United States, he declared, was "a farce controlled by dirty, hook-nosed, circumcised Jew bastards." 5. An elaborate lie. Labels: countable 6. Forcemeat, stuffing. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: farce Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English farcen, from Old French farsir, farcir, from Latin farciō (“to cram, stuff”). Doublet of farse. Pronunciation: /fɑːs/, /fɑɹs/ 1. To stuff with forcemeat or other food items. Labels: transitive Example: The lunch […] consisted […] of […] lobster mayonnaise, cold game sausages, an immense veal and ham pie farced with eggs, truffles, and numberless delicious flavours; besides kickshaws, creams and sweetmeats. 2. To fill full; to stuff. Labels: figuratively, transitive Example: The first principles of religion should not be farced with school points and private tenets. 3. To make fat. Labels: obsolete, transitive Example: [I]f thou would’ſt farce thy leane Ribs with it [pork] too, they would not (like ragged Lathes) rub out ſo many Dublets as they do: […] 4. To swell out; to render pompous. Labels: obsolete, transitive Example: farcing his letter with fustian 5. Alternative form of farse (“to insert vernacular paraphrases into (a Latin liturgy)”). Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: farewell Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English farewel, from fare wel! (and the variants with the personal pronoun "fare ye well" and "fare you well" used in the Renaissance), an imperative expression, possibly further derived from Old English *far wel!, equivalent to fare (“to fare, travel, journey”) + well. Compare Scots farewele, fairweill (“farewell”), Saterland Frisian Foarwäil (“farewell”), West Frisian farwol (“farewell”), German Fahrwol, Fahrwohl, East Frisian forwal, Dutch vaarwel (“farewell (sadly)”), Danish farvel (“farewell”), Norwegian farvel (“farewell”), Swedish farväl (“farewell”), Faroese farvæl (“goodbye”), Icelandic far vel (“farewell”). The extensive list of cognates suggests a postulated ultimate Proto-Germanic phrase of origin, possibly something akin to *far wela. Pronunciation: /fɛəˈwɛl/, /fɛɹˈwɛl/, /feːˈwel/, /ˈfeəˈwel/, /ˈfiəˈwel/ 1. A wish of happiness or safety at parting, especially a permanent departure. Example: He bid farewell to all of his fans. Example: The departure was not unduly prolonged.[…]Within the door Mrs. Spoker hastily imparted to Mrs. Love a few final sentiments on the subject of Divine Intention in the disposition of buckets; farewells and last commiserations; a deep, guttural instigation to the horse; and the wheels of the waggonette crunched heavily away into obscurity. 2. A departure; the act of leaving. Example: See how the morning opes her golden gates, And takes her farewell of the glorious sun. Example: Before I take my farewell of the subject.
Word: farewell Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English farewel, from fare wel! (and the variants with the personal pronoun "fare ye well" and "fare you well" used in the Renaissance), an imperative expression, possibly further derived from Old English *far wel!, equivalent to fare (“to fare, travel, journey”) + well. Compare Scots farewele, fairweill (“farewell”), Saterland Frisian Foarwäil (“farewell”), West Frisian farwol (“farewell”), German Fahrwol, Fahrwohl, East Frisian forwal, Dutch vaarwel (“farewell (sadly)”), Danish farvel (“farewell”), Norwegian farvel (“farewell”), Swedish farväl (“farewell”), Faroese farvæl (“goodbye”), Icelandic far vel (“farewell”). The extensive list of cognates suggests a postulated ultimate Proto-Germanic phrase of origin, possibly something akin to *far wela. Pronunciation: /fɛəˈwɛl/, /fɛɹˈwɛl/, /feːˈwel/, /ˈfeəˈwel/, /ˈfiəˈwel/ 1. Parting, valedictory, final. Labels: not-comparable Example: a farewell discourse; the band's farewell tour Example: “I'm through with all pawn-games,” I laughed. “Come, let us have a game of lansquenet. Either I will take a farewell fall out of you or you will have your sevenfold revenge”.
Word: farewell Part of Speech: intj Etymology: From Middle English farewel, from fare wel! (and the variants with the personal pronoun "fare ye well" and "fare you well" used in the Renaissance), an imperative expression, possibly further derived from Old English *far wel!, equivalent to fare (“to fare, travel, journey”) + well. Compare Scots farewele, fairweill (“farewell”), Saterland Frisian Foarwäil (“farewell”), West Frisian farwol (“farewell”), German Fahrwol, Fahrwohl, East Frisian forwal, Dutch vaarwel (“farewell (sadly)”), Danish farvel (“farewell”), Norwegian farvel (“farewell”), Swedish farväl (“farewell”), Faroese farvæl (“goodbye”), Icelandic far vel (“farewell”). The extensive list of cognates suggests a postulated ultimate Proto-Germanic phrase of origin, possibly something akin to *far wela. Pronunciation: /fɛəˈwɛl/, /fɛɹˈwɛl/, /feːˈwel/, /ˈfeəˈwel/, /ˈfiəˈwel/ 1. Goodbye Example: He said "Farewell!" and left. Example: So farewell hope, and with hope, farewell fear.
Word: farewell Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English farewel, from fare wel! (and the variants with the personal pronoun "fare ye well" and "fare you well" used in the Renaissance), an imperative expression, possibly further derived from Old English *far wel!, equivalent to fare (“to fare, travel, journey”) + well. Compare Scots farewele, fairweill (“farewell”), Saterland Frisian Foarwäil (“farewell”), West Frisian farwol (“farewell”), German Fahrwol, Fahrwohl, East Frisian forwal, Dutch vaarwel (“farewell (sadly)”), Danish farvel (“farewell”), Norwegian farvel (“farewell”), Swedish farväl (“farewell”), Faroese farvæl (“goodbye”), Icelandic far vel (“farewell”). The extensive list of cognates suggests a postulated ultimate Proto-Germanic phrase of origin, possibly something akin to *far wela. Pronunciation: /fɛəˈwɛl/, /fɛɹˈwɛl/, /feːˈwel/, /ˈfeəˈwel/, /ˈfiəˈwel/ 1. To bid farewell or say goodbye. Example: He farewelled viewers with a warm sign-off after each bulletin: "May your news be good news, and goodnight."
Word: fascia Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Latin fascia (“a band, bandage, swathe”). Related to fascēs (“bundle of rods containing an axe with the blade projecting”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰask- (“bundle, band”). Cognate with fajita, fess, and fascism. Pronunciation: /ˈfæʃə/, /ˈfæʃjə/, /ˈfæʃi.ə/, /ˈfeɪʃə/, /ˈfeɪʃjə/ 1. A wide band of material covering the ends of roof rafters, sometimes supporting a gutter in steep-slope roofing, but typically it is a border or trim in low-slope roofing. 2. A face or front cover of an appliance, especially of a mobile phone. 3. A dashboard. Labels: UK 4. A flat band or broad fillet; especially, one of the three bands that make up the architrave, in the Ionic order. 5. A broad well-defined band of color. 6. A band, sash, or fillet; especially, in surgery, a bandage or roller. 7. A sash worn with a cassock by clergy of the Catholic and Anglican churches. 8. The layer of loose tissue, often containing fat, immediately beneath the skin; the stronger layer of connective tissue covering and investing muscles and organs; an aponeurosis. Example: The deepest layer of cervical fascia consists of two main subdivisions: the alar and prevertebral fasciae. Example: Close-up of the fascia surrounding a muscle in an unembalmed cadaver. 9. The signboard above a shop or other location open to the public.
Word: fascination Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin fascinare ("to bewitch"), possibly from Ancient Greek βασκαίνιεν (baskaínien, “to speak ill of; to curse”). Morphologically fascinate + -ion. Pronunciation: /fæsɪˈneɪʃən/ 1. The act of bewitching, or enchanting Labels: archaic, countable, uncountable Example: Little disappointed, then, she turned attention to "Chat of the Social World," gossip which exercised potent fascination upon the girl's intelligence. 2. The state or condition of being fascinated. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: To my fascination, the skies turned all kinds of colours. Example: Sliding down the shaft he lay still, the spear jutting above him its full length, like a horrible stalk growing out of his back. The girl stared down at him in morbid fascination, until Khemsa took her arm and led her through the gate. 3. Something which fascinates. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Life after death had always been a great fascination to him. Example: Though more thoughtful than Madame de Mercœur, yet it asked far more knowledge of society—that wilderness of small intricacies—for her to penetrate into the motives of those who seemed so suddenly struck with her fascination; but she was too clear-headed to be deceived, and set it all down under one general belief in caprice.
Word: fatal Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle French fatal, from Latin fātālis (“fatal”). Pronunciation: /ˈfeɪ.təl/, [ˈfeɪ.ɾɫ̩] 1. Proceeding from, or appointed by, fate or destiny. Labels: archaic, rare Example: She mixed furniture with the same fatal profligacy as she mixed drinks, and this outrageous contact between things which were intended by Nature to be kept poles apart gave her an inexpressible thrill. 2. Foreboding death or great disaster. Labels: archaic, rare Example: Such a scandal as the prosecution of a brother for forgery—with a verdict of guilty—is a most truly horrible, deplorable, fatal thing. It takes the respectability out of a family perhaps at a critical moment, when the family is just assuming the robes of respectability: […] it is a black spot which all the soaps ever advertised could never wash off. 3. Causing death or destruction. Example: a fatal wound; a fatal disease; that fatal day; a fatal mistake Example: Author Rita Mae Brown consistently strings together short comical movie clips which may be fine for screenplays but fatal in novels. Unfortunately, Toder chooses to imitate this model and her story suffers. 4. Causing a sudden end to the running of a program. Example: a fatal error; a fatal exception
Word: fatal Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle French fatal, from Latin fātālis (“fatal”). Pronunciation: /ˈfeɪ.təl/, [ˈfeɪ.ɾɫ̩] 1. A fatality; an event that leads to death. Example: For this same period there have been four fatals and 44 nonfatals in gassy mines. Example: The best accident rate in general aviation is in corporate/executive flying at 0.17 per 100000 hours for fatals and .50 for total accidents. 2. A fatal error; a failure that causes a program to terminate.
Word: fatalism Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English fatal Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō) Proto-Indo-European *-mos Proto-Indo-European *-mós Ancient Greek -μός (-mós) Ancient Greek -ισμός (-ismós)der. English -ism English fatalism From fatal + -ism. 1. The doctrine that all events are subject to fate or inevitable necessity, or determined in advance in such a way that human beings cannot alter them. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Sure, maybe. We know — have long known — that romanticism and fatalism are dialectical lovers.
Word: fatalist Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English fatal Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō) Proto-Hellenic *-tās Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs) Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)bor. Latin -istader. Old French -istebor. Middle English -ist English -ist English fatalist From fatal + -ist. Pronunciation: /ˈfeɪtəlɪst/ 1. One who maintains that all things happen by inevitable necessity; a person who believes in fatalism. Example: ....it is that, with every day, my love for you increases—though that would seem to be almost an impossibility. Why should I not become a fatalist? Remember how, on the third day that we ascended the Shlangenberg, I was moved to whisper in your ear: 'Say but the word, and I will leap into the abyss.' Had you said it, I should have leapt. Do you not believe me?" Example: “Maybe the problem is that you’re a romantic,” says my former lover-slash-friend-slash-male-sensitivity-reader. “And maybe so are the other fatalists.”
Word: fatality Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From French fatalité. equivalent to fatal + -ity. The video game move sense was popularized by the Mortal Kombat series. Pronunciation: /feɪˈtælɪti/, [feɪ̯ˈtʰælɪɾi], /fə-/, /fəˈtælətɪ/, /fəˈtælɪtɪ/ 1. The state proceeding from destiny; invincible necessity, superior to, and independent of, free and rational control. 2. Tendency to death, destruction or danger, as if by decree of fate. 3. That which is decreed by fate or which is fatal; a fatal event. Example: What can I say, or think of this most terrible of fatalities? 4. Death. 5. An accident that causes death. Example: the whole thing felt like being in a near traffic fatality avoided by inches and later not being able to think of the whole thing lest you begin shaking... 6. A person killed. 7. A move used to deliver a coup de grâce to a defeated opponent. Example: My first enchantment with computers came when I was about six years old, in Montreal in the early nineties, playing Mortal Kombat with my oldest brother. He told me about some “fatalities”—gruesome, witty ways of killing your opponent.
Word: fauna Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from New Latin fauna, from Latin Fauna, sister of Faunus (“god of forests and herdsmen”); akin to Ancient Greek θαῦνον (thaûnon, “wild animal, beast”), θώς (thṓs, “jackal, wild dog; panther”), Phrygian δάος (dáos, “wolf”). Pronunciation: /ˈfɔːnə/ 1. Animals considered as a group; especially those of a particular country, region, time, biological group, etc. Labels: uncountable Example: the flora and fauna Example: Japanese waters also support a rich and diverse shark fauna, including the smallest known shark Squaliolus laticaudus, and the bizarre goblin shark, Mitsukurina owstoni. 2. A particular group of animals as distinguished from another. Labels: countable Example: More than this, at least twenty genera, which are common to New Guinea and Aru, do not extend into Ceram, indicating with a force which every naturalist will appreciate, that the two latter countries have received their faunas in a radically different manner. 3. A book cataloguing the animals of a country. Labels: countable
Word: fearless Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree English fear Proto-Indo-European *lewh₁- Proto-Indo-European *lewHs-der. Proto-Germanic *leusaną Proto-Germanic *lausaz Proto-Germanic *-lausaz Proto-West Germanic *-laus Old English -lēas Middle English -les English -less English fearless From fear + -less. Pronunciation: /ˈfɪɹləs/, /ˈfɪələs/ 1. Without fear. Example: "Our fearless reporter"... I'm not fearless, John. I don't like this. Example: England's wicket-keeper in the 50s, he was fearless about standing on the stumps to fastish bowlers[.]
Word: feign Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English feynen, feinen, borrowed from Old French feindre (“to pretend”), from Latin fingere (“to form, shape, invent”). Compare French feignant (present participle of feindre, literally “feigning”). Also compare feint, figment and fiction. Pronunciation: /feɪn/ 1. To make a false show or pretence of; to counterfeit or simulate. Example: The pupil feigned sickness on the day of his exam. Example: They feigned her signature on the cheque. 2. To imagine; to invent; to pretend to do something. Example: He feigned that he had gone home at the appointed time. Example: Then I sent unto him, saying, There are no such things done as thou sayest, but thou feignest them out of thine own heart. 3. To make an action as if doing one thing, but actually doing another, for example to trick an opponent; to feint. Example: Cahill was beaten far too easily for Miller's goal, although the striker deserves the credit for the way he controlled Alan Hutton's right-wing delivery, with his back to goal, feigned to his left then went the other way and pinged a splendid left-foot shot into Hart's bottom right-hand corner.
Word: feint Part of Speech: noun Etymology: The noun is borrowed from French feinte (“dummy, feint”), from feindre (“to fake, feign”), from Old French feindre, faindre, from Latin fingere, the present active infinitive of fingō (“to alter the truth to deceive, dissemble, feign, pretend; to fashion, form, shape”). The verb is derived from the noun. Cognates * English feign, fiction, figment * Italian finta * Occitan fencha, fenha * Old Spanish finta (modern Spanish finta (“dummy, feint”)) Pronunciation: /feɪnt/ 1. A movement made to confuse an opponent; a dummy. Labels: often Example: In October, Friburg had been taken by a Feint of the Duke of Crequi, before the Duke of Lorrain cou'd come to relieve it; […] Example: Nothing could be more uncertain than the intentions of the French marshal [André Masséna], and Lord Wellington [Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington] felt, that by an incautious movement, his army must be seriously committed—Massena's retreat might only be a feint to draw the allies from their position—while by turning Monte Junta, he might make a sudden rush on Torres Vedras. 2. A blow, thrust, or other offensive movement resembling an attack on some part of the body, intended to distract from a real attack on another part. Example: He had some advantage in the difference of our weapons; for his sword, as I recollect, was longer than mine, […] His obvious malignity of purpose never for a moment threw him off his guard, and he exhausted every feint and strategem proper to the science of defence; while, at the same time, he mediated the most desperate catastrophe to our rencounter. Example: It is also possible to deliver a compound riposte by using an indirect feint. The attacking fencer would be open to a compound riposte following a successful parry by their opponent. 3. Something feigned; a false or pretend appearance; a pretence or stratagem. Labels: figuratively Example: [I]f your zeal slackens, how can one help thinking that Mr. Courtly's letter is but a feint to get off from a subject in which either your own, or the private and base ends of others to whom you are partial, or those of whom you are afraid, would not endure a reformation? Example: If you had fallen up against him (as some of them did), and stood there; he would have made a feint of endeavouring to seize you, which would have been an affront to your understanding; […]
Word: feint Part of Speech: verb Etymology: The noun is borrowed from French feinte (“dummy, feint”), from feindre (“to fake, feign”), from Old French feindre, faindre, from Latin fingere, the present active infinitive of fingō (“to alter the truth to deceive, dissemble, feign, pretend; to fashion, form, shape”). The verb is derived from the noun. Cognates * English feign, fiction, figment * Italian finta * Occitan fencha, fenha * Old Spanish finta (modern Spanish finta (“dummy, feint”)) Pronunciation: /feɪnt/ 1. To direct (a blow, thrust, or other offensive movement resembling an attack) on some part of the body, intended to distract from a real attack on another part. Labels: transitive Example: Genevra scowled and said, "His word is wild, / But dastard treason feinteth such disorders: / Treason or witchcraft neither, undefiled, / A Christian court may cherish in its borders." Example: Even Penrod's walk was affected; he adopted a gait which was a kind of taunting swagger; and, when he passed other children on the street, he practised the habit of feinting a blow; then, as the victim dodged, he rasped out the triumphant horse laugh which he gradually mastered to horrible perfection. 2. To direct a feint or mock attack against (someone). Labels: rare, transitive Example: Feint him—use your legs! draw him about! he'll lose his wind then in no time, and you can go into him. 3. To make a feint or mock attack. Labels: also, intransitive, often Example: Ben-Hur feinted with his right hand. The stranger warded, slightly advancing his left arm. Ere he could return to guard, Ben-Hur caught him by the wrist in a grip which years at the oar had made terrible as a vise. Example: My assailant stood a little; in the thick darkness I could see him bob and sidle as though he were feinting at me for an advantageous onfall.
Word: feint Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Borrowed from French feint, the past participle of feindre (“to fake, feign”): see etymology 1. Pronunciation: /feɪnt/ 1. Of an attack or offensive movement: directed toward a different part from the intended strike. Labels: also, not-comparable, often 2. Feigned, counterfeit, fake. Labels: not-comparable, obsolete Example: We force ourselves to be hypocrites, and hide our wrongs from them; we speak of a bad father with false praises; we wear feint smiles over our tears and deceive our children—deceive them, do we?
Word: feint Part of Speech: adj Etymology: A variant of faint (“barely perceptible; not bright, loud, or sharp”). Pronunciation: /feɪnt/ 1. Of lines printed on paper as a handwriting guide: not bold; faint, light; also, of such paper: ruled with faint lines of this sort. Labels: not-comparable
Word: felicitation Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From felicitate + -ion. 1. The act of felicitating; a wishing of joy or happiness; congratulation. Example: The worthy Doctor, rejoicing at the information, determined to set off with all dispatch for the mansion of Mrs. Boville; there to tender in person his affectionate felicitations to Mrs. De Brooke on account of the delightful discovery of his being her cousin;[…]
Word: fellow Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English felauen, felow (“to join (someone) in companionship, friendship, partnership, etc.”) [and other forms], from felowe, felau, felawe (noun): see etymology 1. Pronunciation: /ˈfɛ.ləʊ/, /ˈfɛ.lo/, /ˈfɛ.lou/, /ˈfɛ.loʊ/, /ˈfɛlə/ 1. To address (someone) as "fellow", especially in an insulting manner (see noun sense 10.6). Labels: archaic, transitive Example: 'Don't Fellovv me,' ſaid the Bailiff, 'I am as good a Fellovv as yourſelf, I believe, tho' you have that Ribbond in your Hat there.' Example: "I dare say—I dare day—my good fellow." / "Fellow not me—I won't be fellowed now; I say I have the best of it here—man to man—I am your match." 2. To equal (someone or something); also, to cause or find someone or something to be equal to (another). Labels: archaic, poetic, transitive Example: For my part, let me rather affect and applaud the harmleſs humor of that miſ-called Saint, vvho in an indiſcreet humility called every VVoolf his brother, and every Sheep, yea, every Ant his ſiſter, fellovving himſelf vvith every thing that had life in it, as vvell as himſelf; […] 3. To pair or suit (someone or something) with another; also, to pair or suit someone or something with (another); to arrange (things) in pairs. Labels: obsolete, transitive 4. To associate or join (oneself, someone, or something) with another in companionship or a partnership. Labels: also, obsolete, reflexive, transitive Example: [A] man by nature is rather deſirous to fellow him ſelfe to another and ſo to liue in couple, than to adherd^([sic – meaning adhere?]) himſelfe with many. 5. To cause or portray (someone or something) to be equal to (another). Labels: obsolete, reflexive, sometimes, transitive 6. To associate or go together with (someone or something); to become a partner of (someone or something). Labels: obsolete, poetic, transitive Example: Affection? thy Intention ſtabs the Center. / Thou do'ſt make poſſible things not ſo held, / Communicat'ſt vvith Dreames (hovv can this be?) / VVith vvhat's vnreall: thou coactiue art, / And fellow'ſt nothing. Example: Some fevv there vvere left all to follovv Him: / Eſteeming all to baſe to fellovv Him: / And joyfully receiv'd Him as their Lord, / Deriving their ſalvation from his VVord, […] 7. To associate or join with a someone or something in companionship or a partnership. Labels: intransitive, obsolete, poetic Example: VVhere is the gentleman? 't vvas for his ſake / I vvould have lien vvith you, vvo'd it vvere as lavvfull to fellovv nights vvith him.
Word: feminization Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁(y)-der. Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-m̥h₁n-éh₂ Proto-Italic *θēmanā Proto-Italic *fēmanā Latin fēmina Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)bor. Late Latin -izōder. Middle French -iserbor. Middle English -isen English -ize English feminize Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *-Hō Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō Proto-Italic *-tiō Latin -tiō Latin -ātiōlbor. Old French -ationbor. Middle English -acioun English -ation English feminization From feminize + -ation. Pronunciation: /ˌfɛmɪnɪˈzeɪʃən/ 1. The act of feminizing, or the state of being feminized. Example: America is rapidly becoming the manosphere, but sure, let’s go after the “feminization” of culture. 2. The development of female sex characteristics. 3. The increasing in female population or participation.
Word: fend Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English fenden (“defend, fight, prevent”), shortening of defenden (“defend”), from Old French deffendre (Modern French défendre), from Latin dēfendō (“to ward off”), from dē- + *fendō (“hit, thrust”), from Proto-Italic *fendō, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷʰen- (“strike, kill”). Pronunciation: /ˈfɛnd/, [ˈfɛnd], /ˈfɪnd/, [ˈfɪ̟nd] 1. To take care of oneself; to take responsibility for one's own well-being. Labels: intransitive Example: 1990, Messrs Howley and Murphy, quoted in U.S. House Subcommittee on Labor Standards, Oversight hearing on the Federal Service Contract Act, U.S. Government Printing Office, page 40, Mr. Howley. They are telling him how much they will increase the reimbursement for the total labor cost. The contractor is left to fend as he can. Chairman Murphy. Obviously, he can’t fend for any more than the money he has coming in. Example: The planet was full of creatures in need, who could not really fend, and the law was at its best when it ensured that they were treated with dignity. 2. To defend, to take care of (typically construed with for); to block or push away (typically construed with off). Labels: rare Example: With fern beneath to fend the bitter cold. Example: He fends, he blocks, too skillful to be downed.
Word: fend Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English fenden (“defend, fight, prevent”), shortening of defenden (“defend”), from Old French deffendre (Modern French défendre), from Latin dēfendō (“to ward off”), from dē- + *fendō (“hit, thrust”), from Proto-Italic *fendō, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷʰen- (“strike, kill”). Pronunciation: /ˈfɛnd/, [ˈfɛnd], /ˈfɪnd/, [ˈfɪ̟nd] 1. Self-support; taking care of one's own well-being. Labels: obsolete, uncountable
Word: fend Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English fēnd, feond, from Old English fēond (“adversary, foe, enemy, fiend, devil, Satan”), from Proto-Germanic *fijandz, present participle of *fijaną, from Proto-Indo-European *peh₁- (“to hate”). More at fiend. Pronunciation: /ˈfɛnd/, [ˈfɛnd], /ˈfɪnd/, [ˈfɪ̟nd] 1. An enemy; fiend; the Devil. Labels: UK, dialectal
Word: fermentation Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English fermentacioun, from Latin fermentātiō, fermentātiōnem. By surface analysis, ferment + -ation. Pronunciation: /ˌfɜːmənˈteɪʃən/, /ˌfɜːmɛnˈteɪʃən/, /ˌfɜɹmənˈteɪʃən/, /ˌfɜɹmɛnˈteɪʃən/ 1. Any of many anaerobic biochemical reactions in which an enzyme (or several enzymes produced by a microorganism) catalyses the conversion of one substance into another; especially the conversion (using yeast) of sugars to alcohol or acetic acid with the evolution of carbon dioxide Labels: countable, uncountable 2. A state of agitation or excitement; a ferment. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: [T]he Grace that is then given to us is like a piece of Leven put into a lump of dough, and Faith and Repentance do in all the periods of our life put it into fermentation and activity. Example: The universal fusion of races, languages, and customs, which had gone on for four centuries under Roman rule, had produced a corresponding fusion of creeds, an universal fermentation of human thought and faith.
Word: fertilization Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From French fertilisation; equivalent to fertilize + -ation. 1. The act or process of rendering fertile. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. The act of fecundating or impregnating the gametes of animals, plants, etc.; including the process by which in flowers the pollen renders the ovule fertile, an analogous process in flowerless plants, or the joining of sperm and egg in animals. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: In plants, the ability to recognize self from nonself plays an important role in fertilization, because self-fertilization will result in less diverse offspring than fertilization with pollen from another individual. 3. The act of applying fertilizer to soil. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: fest Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁- Proto-Indo-European *-s Proto-Indo-European *dʰéh₁s Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁stosder. Proto-Italic *θēstos Proto-Italic *fēstosder. Latin fēstus Latin festumder. Middle High German fëst German Festbor. English fest Borrowed from German Fest (“feast, festival, party”), from Middle High German fëst, from Latin festum, from which last are also English feast, festival, festivity, fete, fiesta (see these). Pronunciation: /fɛst/ 1. A gathering for a specified reason or occasion. Labels: in-compounds Example: a Renaissance fest 2. An event in which the act denoted by the previous noun occurs. Labels: in-compounds Example: That same trip would have to go down as the greatest dipping fest in Australian birding history. I had five target species and never saw one, despite spending a week looking for them.
Word: fiduciary Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin fīdūciārius (“held in trust”), from fīdūcia (“trust”). Pronunciation: /fɪˈdjuːʃ.i.əɹ.i/, /fəˈduːʃ.i.eɹ.i/ 1. Relating to an entity that owes to another good faith, accountability and trust, often in the context of trusts and trustees. Labels: not-comparable Example: a fiduciary contract Example: a fiduciary duty 2. Pertaining to paper money whose value depends on public confidence or securities. Labels: not-comparable Example: Indeed, currency would be more effective for not being gold and silver but fiduciary paper money. 3. Accepted as a trusted reference such as a point, value, or marker; fiducial. Labels: nonstandard, not-comparable
Word: fiduciary Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin fīdūciārius (“held in trust”), from fīdūcia (“trust”). Pronunciation: /fɪˈdjuːʃ.i.əɹ.i/, /fəˈduːʃ.i.eɹ.i/ 1. One who holds a thing in trust for another. Example: “We focus on sustainability not because we’re environmentalists, but because we are capitalists and fiduciaries to our clients,” Mr. Fink wrote. 2. One who depends for salvation on faith, without works; an antinomian.
Word: figuration Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Late Middle English figuracion, from Middle French figuration, from Latin figūrō (“to form”). Equivalent to figurate + -ion. Pronunciation: /ˌfɪɡ.jəˈɹeɪ.ʃən/, /ˌfɪɡ.əˈɹeɪ.ʃən/ 1. The act of giving figure or determinate form. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. Form, outline or boundaries. Labels: countable, uncountable 3. Ornamentation or decoration, especially by the addition of figures. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: […]a shift to modernist building typologies in the early 1950s led to the abandonment of symmetry, centrality, and figuration. Since the 1980s, big-box typologies, frosted with postmodern architectural veneer, have dominated. 4. Mixture of concords and discords. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Here and throughout, variation infuses the music, Chopin’s innovative, elastic figuration masking the underlying similarity of bars 23 and 25. 5. Representation through visual forms. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: To recapitulate: consider the human form—skin, bone, and flesh. Consider the painting—surface, structure, and pigment. With a little license, the first gives us the ingredients for what might be called human or “figurative” figuration; the second gives us the ingredients for abstract or “nonfigurative” figuration. 6. A structure through which people are joined, or the process of constructing such structures. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Figurations of interdependent people make up many webs of interdependence, which are characterized in part by different balances of power of many sorts, such as families, states, towns or simply groups.
Word: filtration Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *pel-der. Proto-Germanic *felląder. Proto-West Germanic *feltbor. Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr Proto-Indo-European *-trom Proto-Italic *-trom Latin -trum Latin filtrumlbor. French filtre Proto-Italic *-āzi ▲ Latin -ereinflu. Latin -āre Old French -ier Middle French -er French -er French filtrer Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *-Hō Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō Proto-Italic *-tiō Latin -tiō Latin -ātiōlbor. Old French -ation Middle French -ation French -ation French filtrationbor. English filtration Borrowed from French filtration. Pronunciation: /fɪlˈtɹeɪʃən/ 1. The act or process of filtering; the mechanical separation of a liquid from the undissolved particles floating in it. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. A totally ordered collection of subsets. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: finally Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From Middle English finally, fynaly, fynally, fynaliche, fynalliche, equivalent to final + -ly. Pronunciation: /ˈfaɪ.nə.li/, /ˈfaɪn.li/, /ˈfɑɪ.nə.li/, /ˈfɑɪn.li/ 1. At the end or conclusion; ultimately. Labels: not-comparable Example: The contest was long, but the Romans finally conquered. 2. At bottom; ultimately; when all is considered. Labels: not-comparable Example: In a world in which "like singing,/ the next day's shriek for ease rises," in a world whose "survivors" are "capable of any cry, never done/ clasping in the city's shaken places," it is perhaps not surprising to find a dehumanizing but finally protective system of alienation imposing itself. Example: Cyberneticism is, finally, a refined form of scientism, and therefore it is also more dangerous. This form of scientism is not based on linear causality, as mechanistic thought is; rather, it is based on circular causality. 3. To finish (with); lastly (in the present). Labels: not-comparable, sequence Example: Finally, I washed my dog. Example: Finally, I'd like to thanks all the people who helped to make it this far. 4. Definitively, comprehensively. Labels: not-comparable Example: The question of his long-term success has now been finally settled.
Word: finance Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English finaunce, from Anglo-Norman, Middle French finance, from finer (“to pay ransom”) (whence also English fine (“to pay a penalty”)), from fin (“end”), from Latin fīnis. Original English sense that appeared c. 1400 was “ending”. The sense of “ending or satisfying a debt” originated from French influence: in the sense of “ransom” appeared in the mid 15th century, in the sense of “taxation” appeared in the late 15th century. In the sense of “manage money” first recorded c. 1770. Pronunciation: /fɪˈnæns/, /ˈfaɪnæns/, /faɪˈnæns/ 1. The management of money and other assets. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: And statesmen as well ought to know these things; for a state is often as much in want of money and of such devices for obtaining it as a household, or even more so; hence some public men devote themselves entirely to finance. Example: Finance is seldom romantic. But the idea of peer-to-peer lending comes close. This is an industry that brings together individual savers and lenders on online platforms. Those that want to borrow are matched with those that want to lend. 2. The science of management of money and other assets. Labels: countable, uncountable 3. Monetary resources, especially those of a public entity or a company. Labels: countable, plural-normally, uncountable Example: Who's really in charge of a democracy's finances? 4. The provision of a loan, payment instalment terms, or similar arrangement, to enable a customer to purchase an item without paying the full amount straight away. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Finance on all our new cars is provided by ABC Loans Ltd.
Word: finance Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English finaunce, from Anglo-Norman, Middle French finance, from finer (“to pay ransom”) (whence also English fine (“to pay a penalty”)), from fin (“end”), from Latin fīnis. Original English sense that appeared c. 1400 was “ending”. The sense of “ending or satisfying a debt” originated from French influence: in the sense of “ransom” appeared in the mid 15th century, in the sense of “taxation” appeared in the late 15th century. In the sense of “manage money” first recorded c. 1770. Pronunciation: /fɪˈnæns/, /ˈfaɪnæns/, /faɪˈnæns/ 1. To conduct, or procure money for, financial operations; manage finances. Labels: intransitive 2. To pay ransom. Labels: intransitive, obsolete 3. To manage financially; be financier for; provide or obtain funding for a transaction or undertaking. Labels: transitive Example: His parents financed his college education. Example: He financed his home purchase through a local credit union. 4. To extort ransom from. Labels: obsolete, transitive
Word: firstly Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Coined before 1475, from Middle English fyrst-lyk, equivalent to first + -ly. Pronunciation: /ˈfɜɹstli/ 1. In the first place; before anything else; first. Labels: formal, not-comparable Example: Firstly, I continue to base most species treatments on personally collected material, rather than on herbarium plants. […] Secondly, I continue to base my concepts on intensive study of a limited suite of collections, rather than superficial study of every packet that comes to hand. Example: We'll go into more depth with all the specs shortly so anyone less well versed in espresso speak will understand what I'm harping on about, but firstly let's just talk about using the machine.
Word: firth Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Scots firth, furth, from Northern Middle English fyrth, from either or both of Old English ford and Old Norse fjǫrðr (“firth, fjord”), from Proto-Germanic *ferþu, *ferþuz (“inlet, fjord”), from Proto-Indo-European *pértus (“crossing”), from *per- (“to carry forth”) + *-tus (suffix forming action nouns from verb roots). The English word is a doublet of fjord, ford, port, and fjard. Pronunciation: /fɜːθ/, /fɝθ/, /fɪɹθ/ 1. An arm or inlet of the sea; a river estuary. Example: The descent continues, still more steeply to Dundee (Tay Bridge), and approaching from the bridge itself this sharp descent gives the curious appearance that the station is below the level of the firth. Example: They drove on, every rise in the road lifting their sightline clear of the drystone dykes along the roadside, gifting glimpses of the firth and the islands, the blue peaks of Arran.