nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: monthly Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From month + -ly (adjectival suffix), perhaps via Middle English *monethly (attested only adverbially), from Old English mōnaþlīċ (“monthly”), from Proto-West Germanic *mānōþlīk, from Proto-Germanic *mēnōþlīkaz (“monthly”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian moundelk (“monthly”), German monatlich (“monthly”), Danish månedlig (“monthly”), Swedish månatlig (“monthly”), Norwegian Bokmål månedlig (“monthly”), Icelandic mánaðarlegur (“monthly”). Pronunciation: /ˈmʌnθli/ 1. Occurring every month. Labels: not-comparable Example: It's time give the dog its monthly bath. Example: all of these services, including mSpy, function with the same kind of predatory subscription scheme, luring you in with free trials that autorenew as abhorrently expensive monthly or yearly subscriptions. canceling the service requires reaching out to support, so users are typically unable to avoid overrunning the trial.
Word: monthly Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From Middle English monethly, equivalent to month + -ly (adverbial suffix). Cognate with Saterland Frisian moundelk (“monthly”), Dutch maandelijks (“monthly”), German monatlich (“monthly”), Swedish månatligen (“monthly”). Pronunciation: /ˈmʌnθli/ 1. Every month. Labels: not-comparable Example: Rent must be paid monthly.
Word: monthly Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English monethly, equivalent to month + -ly (adverbial suffix). Cognate with Saterland Frisian moundelk (“monthly”), Dutch maandelijks (“monthly”), German monatlich (“monthly”), Swedish månatligen (“monthly”). Pronunciation: /ˈmʌnθli/ 1. A publication that is published once a month. Example: Of the 10 monthlies with the worst declines in January, four were Condé Nast magazines: Wired, Architectural Digest, Vogue and Lucky. 2. The menstrual period. Labels: euphemistic Example: Katherine assumed she was having her monthly. She could recall times when her own monthly was so intense that it showed on her face.
Word: weekly Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From Middle English wykely (adverb), equivalent to week + -ly (adverbial suffix) or week + -ly (adjectival suffix). Compare Dutch wekelijks (“weekly”), German wöchentlich (“weekly”), Danish ugentlig (“weekly”), Norwegian ukentlig (“weekly”), Icelandic vikulega (“weekly”), Swedish veckovis (“weekly”). Pronunciation: /ˈwiːk.li/ 1. Once every week. Labels: not-comparable Example: She visits her mother weekly. 2. Every week. Labels: not-comparable
Word: weekly Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English wykely (adverb), equivalent to week + -ly (adverbial suffix) or week + -ly (adjectival suffix). Compare Dutch wekelijks (“weekly”), German wöchentlich (“weekly”), Danish ugentlig (“weekly”), Norwegian ukentlig (“weekly”), Icelandic vikulega (“weekly”), Swedish veckovis (“weekly”). Pronunciation: /ˈwiːk.li/ 1. Of or relating to a week. Labels: not-comparable 2. Happening once a week, or every week. Labels: not-comparable Example: He's going for his weekly check-up at the hospital. Example: In summer, we cut the grass on a weekly basis.
Word: weekly Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English wykely (adverb), equivalent to week + -ly (adverbial suffix) or week + -ly (adjectival suffix). Compare Dutch wekelijks (“weekly”), German wöchentlich (“weekly”), Danish ugentlig (“weekly”), Norwegian ukentlig (“weekly”), Icelandic vikulega (“weekly”), Swedish veckovis (“weekly”). Pronunciation: /ˈwiːk.li/ 1. A publication that is published once a week.
Word: quarterly Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree English quarter Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der. Proto-Germanic *līkąder. Proto-Germanic *-līkaz Proto-West Germanic *-līk Old English -līċ Middle English -ly English -ly English quarterly From quarter + -ly (adjectival). 1. Occurring once every quarter year (three months); taking place quarter-yearly. Labels: not-comparable Example: quarterly rent payments Example: The FBI began publishing national quarterly crime reports last year, but has not done so for the first two quarters of 2021, stating that they require at least 60% of agencies to submit NIBRS data in order to publish quarterly data. 2. (of a coat of arms) Divided into four parts crosswise. Labels: not-comparable Example: The arms of Hohenzollern is quarterly argent and sable.
Word: quarterly Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English quarter Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der. Proto-Germanic *līkąder. Proto-Germanic *-līkaz Proto-West Germanic *-līk Old English -līċ Middle English -ly English -ly English quarterly From quarter + -ly (adjectival). 1. A periodical publication that appears four times per year. Example: “We’re hoping (that) getting the message out in the quarterlies is going to teach people, as well as their supervisors … you can’t do this stuff,” FBI assistant director Candice Will told CNN this week.
Word: quarterly Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree English quarter Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der. Proto-Germanic *līkąder. Proto-Germanic *-līkaz Proto-Germanic *-ê Proto-Germanic *-līkê Proto-West Germanic *-līkē Old English -līċe Middle English -ly English -ly English quarterly From quarter + -ly (adverbial suffix). 1. Once every quarter year (three months). Labels: not-comparable 2. In the four, or in two diagonally opposite, quarters of a shield. Labels: not-comparable Example: It consisted of the arms of the City of London, Middlesex (three seaxes, or Saxon swords), Buckingham (a swan), and Hertford (a hart), arranged quarterly, on a background of crimson and ermine mantling […]. Example: Within a blue garter inscribed "Great Northern Railway Ireland" is a shield, on which are marshalled the arms of the principal towns in the company's area. The shield is divided quarterly with the arms of Dublin in the first quarter, Londonderry in the second quarter, Enniskillen in the third, and Belfast in the fourth; and overall is a gold inescutcheon (a small shield placed in the centre of the large shield) charged with the red left hand of Ulster.
Word: half-yearly Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From half-year + -ly; or half- + yearly. 1. Of which there are two in a year; once every six months semiannual; biyearly. Labels: not-comparable Example: However, a Carlisle newspaper got hold of the story, and at the half-yearly meeting of the Caledonian Railway Company, held on March 17, 1863, a shareholder, Mr. Meiklem, questioned the Chairman, Lt.-Col. Salkeld, regarding a "Chase of Engines," described in the newspaper article. The Chairman admitted that the statements made in the article were perfectly true.
Word: half-yearly Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From half-year + -ly; or half- + yearly. 1. Twice in a year; semiannually. Labels: not-comparable
Word: mortgage Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English morgage and Middle French mortgage, from Anglo-Norman morgage, from Old French mort gage (“dead pledge”), after a translation of judicial Medieval Latin mortuum wadium, with wadium from Frankish *wadi (“wager, pledge”). Compare gage and also wage. So called because rents and profits from the land were owed to the lender for as long as the gage existed (comparable to interest on a loan today), as opposed to the living gage, in which rents and profits automatically reduced the debt (paying it off over time). Pronunciation: /ˈmɔːɡɪd͡ʒ/, /ˈmoːɡɪd͡ʒ/, /ˈmoɹ.ɡɪd͡ʒ/, /ˈmoːɡəd͡ʒ/, /ˈmɔɾɡɪd͡ʒ/ 1. A legal agreement in which a borrower pledges real property as collateral for a loan used to purchase or refinance that property. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The appriser, therefore, (as the holder of a mortgage was then called,) entered upon possession, and in the language of Hotspur, "came me cranking in," and cut the family out of another monstrous cantle of their remaining property. 2. The state of being pledged. Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable Example: lands given in mortgage
Word: mortgage Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English morgage and Middle French mortgage, from Anglo-Norman morgage, from Old French mort gage (“dead pledge”), after a translation of judicial Medieval Latin mortuum wadium, with wadium from Frankish *wadi (“wager, pledge”). Compare gage and also wage. So called because rents and profits from the land were owed to the lender for as long as the gage existed (comparable to interest on a loan today), as opposed to the living gage, in which rents and profits automatically reduced the debt (paying it off over time). Pronunciation: /ˈmɔːɡɪd͡ʒ/, /ˈmoːɡɪd͡ʒ/, /ˈmoɹ.ɡɪd͡ʒ/, /ˈmoːɡəd͡ʒ/, /ˈmɔɾɡɪd͡ʒ/ 1. To borrow against a property, to obtain a loan for another purpose by giving away the right of seizure to the lender over a fixed property such as a house or piece of land; to pledge a property in order to get a loan. Labels: transitive Example: to mortgage a property, an estate, or a shop Example: We mortgaged our house in order to start a company. 2. To pledge and make liable; to make subject to obligation; to achieve an immediate result by paying for it in the long term. Labels: figuratively, transitive Example: She mortgaged her future for the pleasures of the relationship with the sculptor, a relationship she knew would be short. Example: Like a latter-day Faustus who has mortgaged his soul to the pursuit of his art, Harrison now desperately craves the paternal love from which his learning has estranged him.
Word: endowment mortgage Part of Speech: noun 1. A type of mortgage (typically a loan to buy a house) where, over the term of the loan, the borrower's regular payments to the lender cover only the interest charged by the lender. At the same time, the borrower makes regular payments into a separate savings or investment plan. When this plan matures, the borrower uses the proceeds to repay the principal of the loan.
Word: chocolate Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish chocolate, from Classical Nahuatl chocolātl, of uncertain origin. See that entry for more information. Pronunciation: /ˈtʃɒk.(ə.)lət/, /ˈtʃɔːk.(ə.)lət/, /ˈtʃɔk.(ə.)lɪt/, /ˈtʃɑk.(ə.)lɪt/, /ˈtʃɒk.lət/ 1. A food made from ground roasted cocoa beans. Labels: uncountable Example: Chocolate is a very popular treat. Example: In eighteenth century France, many aphrodisiac dishes and pastries were compounded with chocolate. 2. A drink made by dissolving this food in boiling milk or water. Labels: uncountable Example: Chocolate came in those fairy cups of India china, which made the delight of our grandmothers, and whose value was such, that the poet satirist considered their loss to be the severest trial to a woman's feelings—alias her temper;... 3. A single, small piece of confectionery made from chocolate. Labels: countable Example: He bought her some chocolates as a gift. She ate one chocolate and threw the rest away. Example: Madame de Pompadour was fond of chocolates spiced with vanilla and amber. 4. A dark, reddish-brown colour/color, like that of chocolate (also called chocolate brown). Labels: uncountable Example: As he cooked it the whole thing turned a rich, deep chocolate. Example: A small boy clutching a Negro woman’s hand walked toward us. He looked all Negro to me: he was rich chocolate with flaring nostrils and beautiful teeth. 5. A cat having a chocolate-colored coat. Labels: countable 6. A black person. Labels: countable, slang Example: "I suppose you have some of your sweet chocolates working for you?" Barney nodded. Example: “How is my sexy chocolate?” Mark says on the other end. 7. A black person. Labels: slang, uncountable Example: I can consume as much of you as I want to without gaining weight. Sexy chocolate is what you are. Example: “Yes Lucas, you're some fine sexy chocolate”, she whispered, her long dark hair covering her face and the curves bursting out of her dress.
Word: chocolate Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish chocolate, from Classical Nahuatl chocolātl, of uncertain origin. See that entry for more information. Pronunciation: /ˈtʃɒk.(ə.)lət/, /ˈtʃɔːk.(ə.)lət/, /ˈtʃɔk.(ə.)lɪt/, /ˈtʃɑk.(ə.)lɪt/, /ˈtʃɒk.lət/ 1. Made of or containing chocolate. 2. Having a dark reddish-brown colour/color. 3. Black (relating to any of various ethnic groups having dark pigmentation of the skin). Labels: slang Example: She was a chocolate honey with all the assets necessary to never have to work hard to pay her bills. Example: Therefore, African Americans complexion range from fair to mahogony. When a baby is born, it's always a mystery of the hue of the child. Sometimes the child will be as white as the slave owner or as chocolate as a great great grandparent.
Word: chocolate Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish chocolate, from Classical Nahuatl chocolātl, of uncertain origin. See that entry for more information. Pronunciation: /ˈtʃɒk.(ə.)lət/, /ˈtʃɔːk.(ə.)lət/, /ˈtʃɔk.(ə.)lɪt/, /ˈtʃɑk.(ə.)lɪt/, /ˈtʃɒk.lət/ 1. To add chocolate to; to cover (food) in chocolate. Labels: rare, transitive 2. To treat blood agar by heating in order to lyse the red blood cells in the medium. Labels: rare Example: Other formulations have been adopted to supply these growth factors; these include heating or "chocolating" the blood agar to release NAD directly from the erythrocytes in the agar medium. Example: It is a chocolated blood agar but here whole horse blood is used.
Word: cream Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English creime, creme, from Old French creme, cresme, blend of Late Latin chrisma (“ointment”) (from Ancient Greek χρῖσμα (khrîsma, “unguent”)), and Late Latin crāmum (“cream”), from Gaulish *crama (compare Welsh cramen (“scab, skin”), Breton crammen), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)krama- (compare Middle Irish screm (“surface, skin”), Dutch schram (“abrasion”), Lithuanian kramas (“scurf”)). Doublet of crema and crème. Displaced native Old English rēam (“cream”) (> modern ream). Figurative sense of "most excellent element or part" appears from 1581. Verb meaning "to beat, thrash, wreck" is 1929, U.S. colloquial. The U.S. standard of identity is from 21 CFR 131.3(a). Pronunciation: /kɹiːm/ 1. Cream-coloured; having a yellowish white colour. Labels: not-comparable
Word: cream Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English creime, creme, from Old French creme, cresme, blend of Late Latin chrisma (“ointment”) (from Ancient Greek χρῖσμα (khrîsma, “unguent”)), and Late Latin crāmum (“cream”), from Gaulish *crama (compare Welsh cramen (“scab, skin”), Breton crammen), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)krama- (compare Middle Irish screm (“surface, skin”), Dutch schram (“abrasion”), Lithuanian kramas (“scurf”)). Doublet of crema and crème. Displaced native Old English rēam (“cream”) (> modern ream). Figurative sense of "most excellent element or part" appears from 1581. Verb meaning "to beat, thrash, wreck" is 1929, U.S. colloquial. The U.S. standard of identity is from 21 CFR 131.3(a). Pronunciation: /kɹiːm/ 1. To puree, to blend with a liquifying process. Labels: transitive Example: Cream the vegetables with the olive oil, flour, salt and water mixture. 2. To turn a yellowish white color; to give something the color of cream. Labels: transitive 3. To obliterate, to defeat decisively. Labels: slang, transitive Example: We creamed the opposing team! Example: First up, the Hungarian election, where Prime Minister Viktor Orban and his Fidesz Party got absolutely creamed. 4. To ejaculate or become wet (used of either gender). Labels: intransitive, slang, vulgar Example: Danny Zuko: You are supreme / The chicks’ll cream / For grease lightning. 5. To be very enthusiastic about or attracted to something (used especially of women). Labels: broadly, intransitive, slang, vulgar 6. To ejaculate in (clothing or a bodily orifice). Labels: slang, transitive, vulgar 7. To rub, stir, or beat (butter) into a light creamy consistency. Labels: transitive 8. To skim, or take off by skimming, as cream. Labels: transitive 9. To take off the best or choicest part of. Labels: figuratively, transitive 10. To furnish with, or as if with, cream. Labels: transitive Example: Please cream these two coffees and leave the others black. Example: creaming the fragrant cups 11. To gather or form cream. Labels: intransitive
Word: cyan Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek κύανος (kúanos), a shade of blue variously described as similar to cornflower, copper carbonate, and lapis lazuli, Mycenaean Greek 𐀓𐀷𐀜 (ku-wa-no), possibly from Hittite [script needed] (kuwannan-, “a precious stone; copper; shade of blue”). Compare modern Greek κυανός (kyanós), also used for cyan. Pronunciation: /ˈsaɪˌæn/, /ˈsaɪ.ən/, /saɪˈæn/, /sʌɪˈæn/, [ˈsəjan] 1. An additive secondary colour midway between green and blue, evoked by wavelengths between ~490 and ~520 nm. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: CMYK stands for cyan, magenta, yellow, and black. This four component color system is standard for most types of color printing, since black is an ink color in printing but is simply the absence of color in video.
Word: cyan Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek κύανος (kúanos), a shade of blue variously described as similar to cornflower, copper carbonate, and lapis lazuli, Mycenaean Greek 𐀓𐀷𐀜 (ku-wa-no), possibly from Hittite [script needed] (kuwannan-, “a precious stone; copper; shade of blue”). Compare modern Greek κυανός (kyanós), also used for cyan. Pronunciation: /ˈsaɪˌæn/, /ˈsaɪ.ən/, /saɪˈæn/, /sʌɪˈæn/, [ˈsəjan] 1. Of the colour cyan.
Word: bombard Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English bombard, from Middle French bombarde (“a bombard, mortar, catapult"; also "a bassoon-like musical instrument”), from Latin bombus (“buzzing; booming”). The modern pronunciation is from modern French bombarde. Pronunciation: /ˈbɒmˌbɑːd/, /ˈbɑmˌbɑɹd/ 1. A medieval primitive cannon, used chiefly in sieges for throwing heavy stone balls. Example: They planted in divers places twelve great bombards, wherewith they threw huge stones into the air, which, falling down into the city, might break down the houses. 2. A bassoon-like medieval musical instrument. Labels: obsolete 3. A large liquor container made of leather, in the form of a jug or a bottle. Labels: obsolete Example: […] yond same black cloud, yond huge one, / looks like a foul bombard that would shed his liquor. 4. A bombardment. Labels: poetic, rare Example: With mines and parallels contracts the space; Then bids the battering floats his labors crown And pour their bombard on the shuddering town 5. A bombardon.
Word: bombard Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From French bombarder, from Middle French bombarde (“a bombard”). Pronunciation: /ˌbɒmˈbɑːd/, /ˌbɑmˈbɑɹd/, /bəmˈbɑɹd/ 1. To continuously attack something with bombs, artillery shells or other missiles or projectiles. Example: The enemy's stronghold was bombarded for 3 hours straight. 2. To attack something or someone by directing objects at them. Labels: figuratively Example: My correspondent, who was riding in the first coach, comments that the small standard tender did not take kindly to this gay progress, and signified its disapproval from time to time by bombarding the train with lumps of coal! 3. To continuously send or direct (at someone) Labels: figuratively Example: I was bombarded with WhatsApp messages after appearing on the news. Example: Please don't bombard me with questions right now, I'll answer them at the end of the statement. 4. To direct at a substance an intense stream of high-energy particles, usually sub-atomic or made of at most a few atoms.
Word: pigment Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English pigment, from Latin pigmentum (“pigment”), itself from pingō (“to paint”) + -mentum; variants of this word may have been known in Old English (e.g. 12th century pyhmentum). Doublet of pimiento, pimento, and piment. Pronunciation: /ˈpɪɡ.mənt/, /ˈpəɡ.mənt/ 1. Any color in plant or animal cells. Example: Chlorophyll is the pigment responsible for most plants' green colouring. 2. A dry colorant, usually an insoluble powder. Example: Umber is a pigment made from clay containing iron and manganese oxide. 3. Wine flavoured with spices and honey. Labels: obsolete Example: Oswald, broach the oldest wine-cask; place the best mead, the richest morat, the most sparkling cyder, the most odoriferous pigment, upon the board; […]
Word: pigment Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English pigment, from Latin pigmentum (“pigment”), itself from pingō (“to paint”) + -mentum; variants of this word may have been known in Old English (e.g. 12th century pyhmentum). Doublet of pimiento, pimento, and piment. Pronunciation: /ˈpɪɡ.mənt/, /ˈpəɡ.mənt/ 1. To add color or pigment to something. Labels: transitive
Word: homonym Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin homōnymum, from Ancient Greek ὁμώνυμον (homṓnumon), nominalized from the neuter of ὁμώνῠμος (homṓnŭmos, “homonymous”). By surface analysis, hom- + -onym. Pronunciation: /ˈhɒmənɪm/, /ˈhɑmənɪm/ 1. A word that sounds or is spelled the same as another word (but not necessarily both). Labels: broadly 2. A word that sounds or is spelled the same as another word (but not necessarily both). Labels: broadly
Word: dye Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English deye, from Old English dēah, dēag (“color, hue, dye”), from Proto-West Germanic *daugu (“color, shade”), from *daugan (“to conceal, be dark”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰewh₂- (“to smoke, raise dust, camouflage”). Cognates Cognate with Old High German tougan (“dark, secretive”), tougal (“dark, hidden, covert”), Old English dēagol, dīegle (“dark, hidden, secret”), Old English dohs, dox (“dusky, dark”). See dusk. Pronunciation: /daɪ/ 1. A colorant, especially one that has an affinity to the substrate to which it is applied. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: While the yarn is soaking in its water and vinegar bath, I prepare a selection of dyes for my preferred colorway. Isolate each dye in its own jar and place it in the larger dyepot. 2. Any hue or color. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: dye Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Fom Middle English deien, from Old English dēagian, from the noun. Pronunciation: /daɪ/ 1. To colour with dye, or as if with dye. Labels: ambitransitive Example: You look different. Have you had your hair dyed? Example: But tho’ Black cannot be Dyed to the laſt perfection either in Wool or Hair without Woad, the Hatters have quite left off their accuſtomed uſe of it in the Dying of Hatts, and believe at the ſame time, that too ſtrong a Black makes the Hairs or Nap fall off, which is very neceſſary for the ſale and beauty of the Hatts, though this rather proceeds from the hand of the Workman that dreſſes them than in Dying them, or the Hairs not being ſufficiently fulled, or ſtrongly enough united to the felt; […]
Word: dye Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /daɪ/ 1. Archaic spelling of die (“a cube used in games of chance”). Labels: alt-of, archaic Example: The Superficies was compoſed of ſeveral bits of Wood, about the bigneſs of a Dye, but ſome larger than others. Example: If a dye were marked with one figure or number of spots on four sides, and with another figure or number of spots on the two remaining sides, it would be more probable, that the former would turn up than the latter;
Word: finale Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Italian finale (“ending”), from Late Latin fīnālis, from Latin fīnis (“end; boundary, limit”). Doublet of final. Pronunciation: /fɪˈnɑːli, fə-/, /fəˈnɑli, fɪ-/, /fəˈnæli 1. The grand end of something, especially of a show or piece of music. Example: Andre Santos equalised and the outstanding Theo Walcott put Arsenal ahead for the first time before Juan Mata's spectacular strike set up the finale for an enthralling encounter. 2. The chronological conclusion of a series of narrative works.
Word: maul Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English malle (“mace, maul”), from Anglo-Norman mail, from Old French mail, from Latin malleus (“hammer”). Doublet of malleus. Pronunciation: /mɔːl/ 1. A heavy long-handled hammer, used for splitting logs by driving a wedge into them, or in combat. 2. A situation where the player carrying the ball, who must be on his feet, is held by one or more opponents, and one or more of the ball carrier's team mates bind onto the ball carrier. 3. The fruit of the Washingtonia species.
Word: maul Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English malle (“mace, maul”), from Anglo-Norman mail, from Old French mail, from Latin malleus (“hammer”). Doublet of malleus. Pronunciation: /mɔːl/ 1. To handle someone or something in a rough way. 2. To savage; to cause serious physical wounds. Labels: usually Example: The bear mauled him in a terrible way. Example: The embattled heavy cruiser is not in immediate danger of sinking, but is being badly mauled. 3. To criticise harshly. Labels: figuratively Example: The latest film by the Cohen brothers was mauled by the press, and was a box-office flop to boot. 4. To beat with a maul. Labels: transitive 5. To play rough, to fondle intensively. Labels: slang Example: 28 year old big, burly, bearded grizzly looking for other bears to maul me! Facial/body hair, brains a plus!
Word: skim milk Part of Speech: noun 1. Non-fat milk; milk that has had the cream removed. Labels: Australia, Canada, US, countable, uncountable Example: We like to drink skim milk instead so as to consume fewer calories.
Word: stock car Part of Speech: noun 1. A racing car, such as those sanctioned by NASCAR and ARCA, nominally or notionally based on one of the regular production models available for purchase by the public. Example: Stock cars can't have all the modifications of other racing cars. 2. A railway car for carrying livestock.
Word: kerosene Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Ancient Greek κηρός (kērós, “wax”) + -ene; a name trademarked in 1854. An older term for kerosene was carbon oil. Pronunciation: /ˈkɛɹəsiːn/ 1. A thin, often colorless or blue or straw-colored petroleum-based fuel, heavier than gasoline/petrol or naphtha but lighter than diesel, used primarily as jet fuel but also for heating and lighting in some remote or impoverished areas. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The kerosene lasted all winter, so the furnace kept us always warm. Example: The dawn of the oil age was fairly recent. Although the stuff was used to waterproof boats in the Middle East 6,000 years ago, extracting it in earnest began only in 1859 after an oil strike in Pennsylvania.[…]It was used to make kerosene, the main fuel for artificial lighting after overfishing led to a shortage of whale blubber. Other liquids produced in the refining process, too unstable or smoky for lamplight, were burned or dumped.
Word: candidate Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin candidātus (“a person who is standing for public office”, noun), from candidus (“dazzling white, shining, clear”) + -ātus, -āta, -ātum (participial adjective-forming suffix), in reference to Roman candidates wearing bleached white togas as a symbol of purity at a public forum. By surface analysis, candid + -ate (noun-forming suffix). Pronunciation: /ˈkæn.dɪ.dət/, /ˈkæn.dɪ.deɪt/, /ˈkandɪdət/, /ˈkæn.dɪ.dɪt/, [ˈkɛən.dɪ.dɪt] 1. A person who seeks to be elected or appointed to a position or privilege. Example: Smith announced he was the party's candidate for the next election. Example: All candidates who miss the deadline or make a spelling mistake in their applications are automatically rejected. 2. A person who is thought likely or worthy to gain a position or privilege. Labels: figuratively 3. A participant in an examination. Example: Candidates must remain silent for the entirety of the exam. 4. Someone or something likely or suited to undergo or be chosen for a purpose. Example: After being presented with various suitors, she decided none of the candidates were the kind of man she was looking for. Example: In the past two years, NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope has located nearly 3,000 exoplanet candidates ranging from sub-Earth-sized minions to gas giants that dwarf our own Jupiter. 5. A student taking a degree who has finished the coursework but has other remaining requirements such as a dissertation. Example: a Ph.D. candidate 6. The recipient of certain academic degrees, now mainly awarded in Scandinavia. 7. A gene which may play a role in a given disease.
Word: candidate Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Latin candidātus (“a person who is standing for public office”, noun), from candidus (“dazzling white, shining, clear”) + -ātus, -āta, -ātum (participial adjective-forming suffix), in reference to Roman candidates wearing bleached white togas as a symbol of purity at a public forum. By surface analysis, candid + -ate (noun-forming suffix). Pronunciation: /ˈkæn.dɪ.deɪt/, /ˈkandɪdɛjt/, [ˈkɛən.dɪ.deɪt], /ˈkæn.dɪ.dæɪt/ 1. To stand as a candidate for an office, typically for a religious one. Labels: uncommon Example: The matter of candidating for a pulpit is not a matter of difference between congregations and Rabbis, but between Rabbis themselves. Example: Furthermore, the fact that a school principal has only been in a large school six weeks does not prevent his candidating for principal of a larger school with larger salary. 2. To make or name (something) as a candidate (to be chosen or deemed suitable for a purpose). Labels: nonstandard, uncommon Example: Performance comparison of solar energy conversion candidated for SPS. (From NASA, Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center, Houston 1977.) Example: In this program if a processor becomes idle, then all feasible activities requiring that kind of processor will be candidated for scheduling. If the number of candidates is more than the number of available processors, activities with higher priority ...
Word: candidate Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Latin candidātus (“dressed in white”, adjective); see Etymology 1 for further derivations. By surface analysis, candid + -ate (verb-forming suffix). Pronunciation: /ˈkæn.dɪ.deɪt/, /ˈkandɪdɛjt/, [ˈkɛən.dɪ.deɪt], /ˈkæn.dɪ.dæɪt/ 1. To make white; to whitewash. Labels: figuratively, obsolete, rare, transitive, uncommon
Word: gossip Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English godsybbe, godsib (“a close friend or relation, a confidant; a godparent”), from Old English godsibb (“godparent, sponsor”), equivalent to god + sib. Doublet of godsib. For sense evolution to "gossip, discussing others' personal affairs," compare French commérage. Pronunciation: /ˈɡɒsɪp/, /ˈɡɑsɪp/, /ˈɡɑsəp/, /ˈɡɔsɪp/, [ˈɡɔ̟səp] 1. Someone who likes to talk about other people's private or personal business. Labels: countable Example: Be careful what you say to him: he’s a bit of a gossip. Example: A losing Gamester, who is obliged to drive into the City to dispose of a little South Sea Stock, gives the Hint there. The Gossips at Garraway’s have it in a Moment: At One it is buzz’d on Change, and the circulating Whisper in the Boxes interrupts the Play at Night. 2. Idle talk about someone’s private or personal matters, especially about someone not present. Labels: uncountable Example: According to the latest gossip, their relationship is on the rocks. Example: I have a juicy piece of gossip to share with you. 3. Idle conversation in general. Labels: uncountable Example: The parlor was always bright and attractive, the chessboard ready, the piano in tune, plenty of gay gossip, and a nice little supper set forth in tempting style. 4. A genre in contemporary media, usually focused on the personal affairs of celebrities. Labels: uncountable Example: a gossip columnist Example: a gossip blog 5. Communication done using a gossip protocol. Labels: countable, uncountable 6. A sponsor; a godfather or godmother; the godparent of one's child or godchild, or the parent of one's godchild. Labels: countable, historical, uncountable Example: ’tis not a maid, for she hath had gossips [i.e. she could not be a virgin, because she has children with godparents] Example: Should a great Lady, that was invited to be a Gossip, in her place send her Kitchen-Maid, ’twould be ill taken; 7. A familiar acquaintance. Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable Example: My noble gossips, ye have been too prodigal: I thank ye heartily; 8. Title used with the name of one's child's godparent or of a friend. Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable Example: What, ho, gossip Ford! what, ho! Example: He was old and infirm, he wrote, and Gossip Death was waiting for him on the moor; but before he went to join him he would like to see Susan’s boy again.
Word: gossip Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English godsybbe, godsib (“a close friend or relation, a confidant; a godparent”), from Old English godsibb (“godparent, sponsor”), equivalent to god + sib. Doublet of godsib. For sense evolution to "gossip, discussing others' personal affairs," compare French commérage. Pronunciation: /ˈɡɒsɪp/, /ˈɡɑsɪp/, /ˈɡɑsəp/, /ˈɡɔsɪp/, [ˈɡɔ̟səp] 1. To talk about someone else's private or personal business, especially in a manner that spreads the information. Labels: intransitive Example: This Place then is no other than the Chandler’s Shop; the known Seat of all the News; or, as it is vulgarly called, Gossiping, in every Parish in England. Example: Godfrey felt guilty at having gossiped to Olive about Lettie’s changes in her will. 2. To talk idly. Labels: intransitive Example: […] on seats beneath the trees, the old men group of an evening to drink their ale and gossip over village politics; Example: "Tut! tut! The unchanging woman. They gossiped in my time and they gossip still." 3. To stand godfather to; to provide godparents for. Labels: obsolete Example: […] a world Of pretty, fond, adoptious christendoms [i.e. Christian names], That blinking Cupid gossips. Example: The Pleasure I used to take in telling my Boy Stories of the Battles, and asking my Girl Questions about the Disposal of her Baby, and the Gossiping of it, is turned into inward Reflection and Melancholy. 4. To enjoy oneself during festivities, to make merry. Labels: obsolete Example: […] those baby eyes That never saw the giant world enraged; Nor met with fortune other than at feasts, Full of warm blood, of mirth, of gossiping. 5. To communicate using a gossip protocol. Labels: intransitive
Word: martyr Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English martir, from Old English martyr, itself a borrowing from Ecclesiastical Latin martyr, from Ancient Greek μάρτυρ (mártur), later form of μάρτυς (mártus, “witness”). Pronunciation: /ˈmɐːtə(ɹ)/, [ˈmɐːtə(ɹ)], [ˈmɐːɾə(ɹ)], /ˈmɑːtə(ɹ)/, /ˈmɑɹ.tɚ/ 1. One who willingly accepts being put to death or willingly accepts challenging and exposing iniquity done to oneself for adhering openly to one's religious beliefs; notably, saints canonized after red martyrdom. Example: The apostle Stephen was the first Christian martyr. Example: Fr. Felipe Císcar Puig was a Valencian priest who is also also considered a martyr of the sacramental seal because he was martyred after keeping confessions secret during the religious persecution of the Spanish Civil War. 2. One who sacrifices their life, station, or something of great personal value, for the sake of principle or to sustain a cause. Labels: broadly 3. One who suffers greatly or constantly, even involuntarily. Example: Stan is a martyr to arthritis, Chris is a martyr to Stan's endless moaning about it. Example: He'd been a martyr to asthma all his life. 4. Someone who exaggerates their pain and suffering in order to gain sympathy. Labels: derogatory Example: You have a great life! Stop trying to play the martyr!
Word: martyr Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English martir, from Old English martyr, itself a borrowing from Ecclesiastical Latin martyr, from Ancient Greek μάρτυρ (mártur), later form of μάρτυς (mártus, “witness”). Pronunciation: /ˈmɐːtə(ɹ)/, [ˈmɐːtə(ɹ)], [ˈmɐːɾə(ɹ)], /ˈmɑːtə(ɹ)/, /ˈmɑɹ.tɚ/ 1. To make someone into a martyr by putting them to death for adhering to, or acting in accordance with, some belief, especially religious; to sacrifice on account of faith or profession. Labels: transitive Example: Fr. Felipe Císcar Puig was a Valencian priest who is also also considered a martyr of the sacramental seal because he was martyred after keeping confessions secret during the religious persecution of the Spanish Civil War. 2. To persecute. Labels: transitive Example: Some religious and other minorities were martyred until extinction. 3. To torment; to torture. Labels: transitive Example: Hark, wretches, how I mean to martyr you. This one hand yet is left to cut your throats, Whiles that Lavinia ’tween her stumps doth hold The basin that receives your guilty blood. Example: […]The louely Amoret, whoſe gentle hart Thou martyreſt with ſorow and with ſmart,[…]
Word: fuchsia Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From New Latin, after the genus Fuchsia, itself named after German botanist Leonhart Fuchs (1501–1566). Pronunciation: /ˈfjuːʃə/, /ˈfuːksi.ə/ 1. A popular garden plant, of the genus Fuchsia, of the Onagraceae family, shrubs with red, pink or purple flowers. Example: Drenched were the cold fuchsias, round pearls of dew lay on the flat nasturtium leaves 2. A purplish-red colour, the color of fuchsin, an aniline dye. Example: She tilted a hand topped with long rectangular nails in furious fuchsia towards her cheeks and fluttered the fingers, fanning. Example: Born in the mid-2010s, the concept of the girlboss promised a utopia where women could bulldoze into workplaces, pull up a seat at male-dominated tables and become a celebrated CEO on the Forbes 30 Under 30 List by the ripe age of 23 (and do it all, of course, wearing a fuchsia blazer and a balayage hairdo).
Word: fuchsia Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From New Latin, after the genus Fuchsia, itself named after German botanist Leonhart Fuchs (1501–1566). Pronunciation: /ˈfjuːʃə/, /ˈfuːksi.ə/ 1. Having a purplish-red colour. Labels: not-comparable
Word: available Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English available, avayllable, avayleable, equivalent of avail + -able. Pronunciation: /əˈveɪ.lə.bəl/, [əˈveɪ.lə.bɫ̩], /əʋ.leː.bɘl/, /ə.ʋeː.lə.bɘl/, /ə.ʋɛː.lə.bɘl/ 1. Such as one may avail oneself of; capable of being used for the accomplishment of a purpose. Example: We have an available candidate. Example: For this scene, a large number of supers are engaged, and in order to further swell the crowd, practically all the available stage hands have to ‘walk on’ dressed in various coloured dominoes, and all wearing masks. 2. Readily obtainable. Example: The list shows the available products in the store. 3. Valid. Example: This is an available plea. 4. Having sufficient power, force, or efficacy to achieve the purpose; availing, effective. Labels: archaic Example: One thing however, I finally settled upon—and that was, if I ever did meet him that I would shoot him precisely as I would shoot a mad dog. In order to make this plan available, I had […] armed myself with a revolver. Example: The different navigations she had to pass through for this purpose were such that only an independent method of propulsion would be available. 5. Free to meet someone, speak on the telephone, enter a romantic relationship, or the like. Example: I have a question for you when you're available. Example: Hi, this is Mark Smith calling. Is your mother available?
Word: update Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From up- + date. Earliest usages from 1940s (see Citations). Pronunciation: /ˈʌp.deɪt/, /ʌpˈdeɪt/ 1. An additional piece of information, an addition to existing information. Example: I just made an update to my blog about my trip to Rome. 2. An additional piece of information, an addition to existing information. Example: He gave me an update on the situation in New York. 3. A change in information, a modification of existing or known data. Example: Our database receives an update every morning at 3 AM. Example: I have a couple of updates to install on your laptop. 4. A change in information, a modification of existing or known data. Example: stochastic update 5. A version of something which is newer than other versions. Example: You should try the update: it rocks. Example: The mid-season update for MW3 is here, introducing quite a bit of content across all three of CoD’s modes.
Word: update Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From up- + date. Earliest usages from 1940s (see Citations). Pronunciation: /ˈʌp.deɪt/, /ʌpˈdeɪt/ 1. To bring (a thing) up to date. Labels: transitive Example: I need to update my records to take account of the most recent transaction. 2. To bring (a person) up to date: to inform (a person) about recent developments. Labels: transitive Example: Update me on what happened while I was away. 3. To change one's credence in a proposition in response to new evidence. Labels: ambitransitive Example: I need to update on the new data. Example: How can I update my priors?
Word: homophone Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From French homophone; equivalent to homo- (“same”) + -phone (“sound”). Pronunciation: /ˈhɒməfəʊn/, /ˈhɑməfoʊn/, /ˈhɔməfəʉn/, /homofon/, [ˈhɒ(ː)məfoːn] 1. A word which is pronounced the same as another word but differs in spelling or meaning or origin. 2. A letter or group of letters which are pronounced the same as another letter or group of letters.
Word: bergamot Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From French bergamote, from Italian bergamotta, from Ottoman Turkish بك آرمودی (beg armudu, literally “a lord's pear”), denoting a fattish kind of pear. The European word developed the sense of a fruit of a certain citrus cultivar in the late 17th century. Pronunciation: /ˈbɝɡəˌmɑt/, /ˈbɜːɡəˌmɒt/ 1. A tree of the orange family (Citrus × limon, syn. Citrus bergamia), having a roundish or pear-shaped fruit, from the rind of which an essential oil of delicious odor is extracted, much prized as a perfume. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. The fruit from the bergamot tree. Labels: countable, uncountable 3. The essence or perfume made from the fruit. Labels: countable, uncountable 4. A variety of snuff perfumed with bergamot. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The better hand […] gives the nose its bergamot. 5. Either of two plants of the mint family noted for their bergamot-like scent: Labels: countable, uncountable 6. Either of two plants of the mint family noted for their bergamot-like scent: Labels: countable, uncountable 7. A variety of pear. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: One of my Neighbours has a Bergamot Pear Tree, that was brought from England in a Box , about the Year 1643
Word: bergamot Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Bergamo. Pronunciation: /ˈbɝɡəˌmɑt/, /ˈbɜːɡəˌmɒt/ 1. A coarse tapestry, manufactured from flock of cotton or hemp, mixed with ox's or goat's hair. Labels: uncountable, usually
Word: handcuffs Part of Speech: noun Etymology: 1775, from hand + cuff (“end of shirtsleeve”). Possibly influenced by Old English handcops, from hand + cops (“fetter, chains”), but due to lack of continuity (centuries between Old English and modern term), generally analyzed as a re-invention. 1. A fastening consisting of two metal rings, designed to go around a person's wrists, and connected by a chain or hinge. Labels: plural, plural-only Example: It was the sergeant who had spoken to me, and he was now looking round at the company, with his handcuffs invitingly extended towards them in his right hand, and his left on my shoulder. Example: Security is tight inside and outside the building, guarded by a bewildering collection of soldiers, policemen and gendarmes. Relatives watch as prisoners in handcuffs and leg irons shuffle past. 2. Any abstract constraint, such as rules, regulations, or lack of resources. Labels: figuratively, plural, plural-only Example: They complained that their rules of engagement were handcuffs that guaranteed counterproductivity.
Word: handcuffs Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of handcuff Labels: form-of, plural
Word: handcuffs Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of handcuff Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: rat Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English raat, rat, ratt, ratte, rotte, from Old English ræt, rætt, from Proto-West Germanic *ratt, from Proto-Germanic *rattaz, *rattō (“rat”), of uncertain origin, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *Hreh₃d- (“to gnaw, scrape, scratch”). However, the rat may have been unknown in Northern Europe in antiquity, and the Proto-Germanic word may have referred to a different animal; see *rattaz for more. Attestation of this family of words begins in the 12th century. Cognates Cognate with North Frisian root (“rat”), Saterland Frisian Rotte (“rat”), West Frisian rôt (“rat”), Dutch rat, rot (“rat”), German Ratte (“rat”), Luxembourgish Rat (“rat”), Vilamovian rot, rott (“rat”), Yiddish ראַץ (rats, “rat”), Danish and Norwegian Bokmål rotte (“rat”), Faroese and Icelandic rotta (“rat”), Norwegian Nynorsk rotta, rotte, røtte (“rat”), Swedish råtta (“rat”), Latin rattus, ratus (“rat”) (whence Asturian ratu (“mouse”), Catalan rata (“rat”), French rat (“rat”), Italian ratto (“rat”), Portuguese rato (“rat”), Spanish rata (“rat”), rato (“male rat”)); also Latin rōdō (“to bite, gnaw, nibble; to backbite, disparage, slander”), Sanskrit रदति (radati, “to scrape, scratch; to cut path, pave; to lead river into a channel; to bestow, convey”). Some of the Germanic cognates show considerable consonant variation, e.g. Middle Low German ratte, radde; Middle High German rate, ratte, ratze. The irregularity may be symptomatic of a late dispersal of the word, although Kroonen accounts for it with a Proto-Germanic stem *raþō nom., *ruttaz gen., showing both ablaut and a Kluge's law alternation, with the variation arising from varying remodellings in the descendants. Kroonen states that this requires a Proto-Indo-European etymon in final *t and is incompatible with the usual derivation from Proto-Indo-European *Hreh₃d- (“to scrape, scratch, gnaw”). Pronunciation: /ɹæt/, /ɹat/, /ɾat/, /ɹɛt/ 1. To hunt or kill rats. Labels: usually 2. To betray a political party, cause or principle; to betray someone, to desert a person or thing. Labels: intransitive 3. To work as a scab, going against trade union policies. Labels: informal, intransitive 4. To backcomb (hair). Labels: US Example: In 1962, the higher a girl's hair was ratted the more available she was, it was simply understood. 5. To inform on someone; to betray someone to the police or authorities. Labels: intransitive Example: He ratted on his coworker. Example: He is going to rat us out!
Word: rat Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English ratten, further etymology unknown. Compare Middle Low German retten (“to tear, tear up”), Middle High German ratzen (“to scratch; rasp; tear”). Could be related to write. See also rit. Pronunciation: /ɹæt/, /ɹat/, /ɾat/, /ɹɛt/ 1. A scratch or a score. Labels: regional 2. A place in the sea with rapid currents and crags where a ship is likely to be torn apart in stormy weather. Labels: regional
Word: rat Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English ratten, further etymology unknown. Compare Middle Low German retten (“to tear, tear up”), Middle High German ratzen (“to scratch; rasp; tear”). Could be related to write. See also rit. Pronunciation: /ɹæt/, /ɹat/, /ɾat/, /ɹɛt/ 1. To scratch or score. Labels: regional Example: He ratted a vertical line on his face with a pocket knife. 2. To tear, rip, rend. Labels: obsolete, rare, regional Example: Ratted to shreds. 3. Damn, drat, blast; used in oaths. Example: “But, rat me, sir,” cried Foster in bewilderment, “tis too generous—'pon honour it is. I can't consent to it. No, rat me, I can't.”
Word: rat Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ɹæt/, /ɹat/, /ɾat/, /ɹɛt/ 1. A ration. Labels: slang Example: With regards to the testing of his product, the initial blood analysis had come back confirming huge, distinctive nutritional superiority for Stewart's military ration pack. Given that the policy of the British Army is to be fully ready for war at the drop of a hat, he was sitting on the potential of supplying new rats for the entire army […]
Word: unvariable Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Germanic *un- Proto-West Germanic *un- Old English un- Middle English un- English un- English variable English unvariable From un- + variable. 1. Invariable. Labels: obsolete