📖 E — The English dictionary · page 11

eloquence — Everyday, meaning 1: The skill of speaking or writing well in a way that moves people.↗ Example: He spoke with great eloquence.↗ · Her eloquence won the vote.↗ · The gift of eloquence made her a fine speaker.↗

eloquent — Everyday, meaning 1: Able to speak or write well, clearly and movingly, so that people are persuaded or touched.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (of a look, silence or gesture) Showing a feeling clearly without words.↗ Example: Martin Luther King gave eloquent speeches about freedom.↗ · Our class captain made an eloquent speech at assembly.↗ · Her silence was more eloquent than any words.↗ · The Water Rat spoke eloquently about the joys of the river.↗ · The dog gave me an eloquent look at its empty bowl.↗ · She wrote an eloquent letter to the council about saving the library.↗ · You don't need long words to be eloquent; you need clear ones.↗ · His eyes were quite eloquent, and his words possessed a magic power; he offered her his hand, and she was obliged to follow him.↗

elsewhere — Everyday, meaning 1: In or to another place, somewhere else.↗ Example: The shop was closed, so we went elsewhere.↗ · My keys aren't here; they must be elsewhere.↗ · It rained in our town but was sunny elsewhere.↗ · If the bench is wet, sit elsewhere.↗ · Meanwhile, elsewhere in the forest, the wolf was waiting.↗ · The rest of the class is elsewhere in the school.↗ · If they were not dead, they had flown elsewhere.↗ · Elsewhere in the SY, the ‘tongue’ (or ‘wedge’) appears as the symbol of a central balance between two extremities, e.g. (Sefer Yetzirah, Sefaria community translation)↗ · Instead, the SY may be intimating a twofold pronunciation of Resh known among certain mediveal Jewish communities in Babylonia and elsewhere, which does indeed preserve a distinguish between ‘single’ Resh and ‘double’ Resh.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Sefaria community translation)↗

elucidation — In Jewish tradition, meaning 1: An explanation that makes something clear.↗

elude — Everyday, meaning 1: To escape from someone or something by being clever or fast, so they cannot catch or find you.↗ Example: The quail always eluded the falcon.↗ · The thief eluded the police for a week.↗ · Thetis changed her shape to elude Peleus.↗ · The answer eluded me.↗

elul — In Jewish tradition, meaning 1: The sixth month of the Hebrew calendar, around August and September.↗ Example: So the wall was finished in the twenty and fifth day of the month Elul, in fifty and two days.↗ (Writings NEH.6.15, JPS 1917)↗

elysium — Everyday, meaning 1: A place of perfect peace and happiness, a heavenly land where good people are sent after death (old use in myths).↗ Example: They were sent to Elysium after death.↗ · The garden was like Elysium.↗ · The quiet valley seemed a little Elysium.↗

em — Everyday, meaning 1: (slang, informal) A spoken short form of "them", often written 'em.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (UK, Ireland) A sound people make when they pause or are unsure, like "um" or "erm".↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (printing) A unit of width equal to the size of the type; an em dash is a long dash.↗ Example: Pick 'em up and put 'em away.↗ · "What's the answer?" "↗ Em...↗ I think it's 24."↗ · Let 'em play outside for a bit.↗ · I've got two sweets left, do you want 'em?↗ · Em, sorry, I forgot my homework.↗ · Use an em dash — like this — to add an aside.↗ · “Not one of 'em,” says she.↗ · However, this is grammatically peculiar, as immot is usually only the construct plural of אֵם em 'mother', whose absolute plural is rather אִמָּהוֹת immahot.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Sefaria community translation)↗

email — Everyday, meaning 1: An email is a message sent from one computer or phone to another over the internet.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Email is the system for sending such messages.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: To email is to send an email.↗ Example: Jack received 6 emails in the morning.↗ · He got 3 emails in the afternoon.↗ · How many emails did he get in the day?↗ · How many more emails in the morning than in the evening?↗ · I emailed my teacher my project.↗ · Gran sends me an email every week.↗ · Check the email address before you press send.↗ · Never open an email from someone you don't know.↗

emanate — In Jewish tradition, meaning 1: To flow out or come forth from a source, like light from the sun.↗ Example: 3) Primitive water emanated from the air.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877)↗ · 4) Fire or ether emanated from the water.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877)↗ · Magnificence, which emanate from its own proper essence.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1887)↗

emanation — Everyday, meaning 1: Something that comes out from a source, such as a light, a smell or a spirit.↗ Example: This child was an emanation of the god.↗ · The sweet smell was an emanation from the flowers.↗ · Heat is an emanation from the fire.↗ · These are the ten emanations of number.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1887)↗ · He endeavors to show how the ideal became, after numerous emanations, more condensed, palpable and concrete.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877)↗ · Our author endeavors to show the gradual emanation of all things from God, which were completely finished in ten spheres.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877)↗

emancipated — Everyday, meaning 1: Freed from slavery.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Freed from rules, control or limits that kept someone down, such as old rules about what women could do.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (law) Of a young person: legally free from their parents' control before adulthood (rare).↗ Example: Millions of enslaved people were emancipated in the USA in the 1860s.↗ · The emancipated workers built their own schools and churches.↗ · Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation was signed in 1863.↗ · Women felt more emancipated after they won the right to vote.↗ · The emancipated slaves celebrated with songs of freedom.↗ · Our history lesson was about how the slaves were emancipated in the British colonies.↗

emancipation — Everyday, meaning 1: Being set free from slavery or from strict control by others.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Getting equal rights and freedoms, for example for women or a group of people.↗ Example: The Emancipation Proclamation was signed by Abraham Lincoln in 1863.↗ · Emancipation meant that enslaved people were free.↗ · The fight for women's emancipation included the right to vote.↗ · Many people celebrate Emancipation Day.↗ · Frederick Douglass spoke out for emancipation.↗ · Catholic emancipation in Britain and Ireland came in 1829.↗

embalm — Everyday, meaning 1: To embalm a dead body is to treat it with special chemicals or salts so it does not rot quickly.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: In ancient Egypt, embalming was part of making a mummy.↗ Example: The ancient Egyptians embalmed their kings and queens.↗ · Embalming a pharaoh took about seventy days.↗ · They used natron salt to dry out the body before embalming it.↗ · The museum showed tools used to embalm mummies.↗ · Some families choose to have a loved one embalmed before the funeral.↗ · The embalmers wrapped the body in linen.↗ · He is wrapped in yellow linen, and embalmed with spices.↗ · And Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his father.↗ (Torah GEN.50.2, JPS 1917)↗ · And they embalmed him, and he was put in a coffin in Egypt.↗ (Torah GEN.50.26, JPS 1917)↗ · And forty days were fulfilled for him; for so are fulfilled the days of embalming.↗ (Torah GEN.50.3, JPS 1917)↗

embankment — Everyday, meaning 1: A long bank of earth or stone built to carry a road or railway, or to stop a river from flooding.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A raised wall or path along a river, such as the Thames Embankment in London.↗ Example: The train ran along a high embankment.↗ · The river burst over the embankment in the flood.↗ · We walked along the Thames Embankment in London.↗ · Workers built an embankment to protect the town.↗ · Never play on the railway embankment.↗ · Grass and wild flowers grew on the steep embankment.↗ · After a time she re-appeared as a bamboo growing on the embankment of the tank in which she had been drowned.↗

embark — Everyday, meaning 1: To embark is to go on board a ship or aircraft to start a journey.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (embark on) To embark on something is to start something new and big, such as a long task or quest.↗ Example: The sailors embark at dawn.↗ · We embarked on the ferry to the island.↗ · She embarked on a long journey to find her brother.↗ · The appearance of this root in the SY’s introductory paragraph serves as a reminder that although we embark upon a text rich in vivid, grounded symbolism—even anthropomorphism—we should not hasten to take such symbolic language overly literally.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Sefaria community translation)↗

embarrass — Everyday, meaning 1: To embarrass someone means to make them feel shy, silly or uncomfortable in front of others.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To be embarrassed means to feel that way.↗ Example: Please don't embarrass me in front of my friends!↗ · He was embarrassed when he called the teacher «Mum».↗ · I felt embarrassed about my messy room.↗ · Dad embarrasses me when he dances.↗ · She was too embarrassed to ask for help.↗ · Don't be embarrassed — everyone makes mistakes.↗ · They embarrassed him by laughing at his drawing.↗ · I was embarrassed that I forgot her name.↗

embarrassed — Everyday, meaning 1: Feeling shy, awkward or a bit ashamed because of something you did or something that happened in front of other people, often with a red face.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Past of «embarrass»: made someone feel this way.↗ Example: I was embarrassed when I tripped on the stage.↗ · He felt embarrassed about his answer, but the teacher said it was a good try.↗ · She went red and looked embarrassed.↗ · Don't laugh at people when they're embarrassed.↗ · Mum embarrassed me by singing loudly in the shop.↗ · I'm too embarrassed to ask for help.↗ · Everyone feels embarrassed sometimes — it passes.↗ · ‘No, I can’t say I do,’ replied the King, somewhat embarrassed.↗

embarrassing — Everyday, meaning 1: Embarrassing describes something that makes you feel shy, silly or uncomfortable in front of other people.↗ Example: It was embarrassing when I slipped in the lunch hall.↗ · How embarrassing — I wore odd socks!↗ · Mum told an embarrassing story about me as a baby.↗ · Don't share embarrassing photos of friends online.↗ · My most embarrassing moment was forgetting my lines.↗ · It's embarrassing to sing in front of the class.↗ · That was embarrassing for the whole team.↗ · Forgetting someone's name can be embarrassing.↗ · The king's offer was naturally rather embarrassing to the Princess Badoura.↗

embarrassment — Everyday, meaning 1: A feeling of being shy, silly or uncomfortable because of something you did or something that happened in front of others.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A person or thing that makes you feel this way.↗ Example: My face went red with embarrassment.↗ · To my embarrassment, I called my teacher «Mum».↗ · She hid her embarrassment by laughing.↗ · Don't tease people to cause them embarrassment.↗ · Embarrassment is a feeling that soon goes away.↗ · The burst ball was an embarrassment for the team.↗ · By this time the princess had recovered from the first embarrassment of meeting, and proceeded to make her speech of welcome.↗ · Nonetheless, English translators have usually shied away from the this-worldly symbolism of the ‘Holy Wind’, much preferring immaterial ‘Spirit’ either out of theological embarrassment or deference to tradition.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Sefaria community translation)↗

embassy — Everyday, meaning 1: An embassy is the official building in a foreign country where an ambassador and their staff work to represent their own country.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: An embassy is also the group of people who work there.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: An embassy can also mean an important journey or mission on which a person is sent to speak for their country or ruler.↗ Example: The Ukrainian Embassy is in London.↗ · My aunt got her visa at the embassy.↗ · If you lose your passport abroad, go to your embassy.↗ · Guards stood outside the embassy gates.↗ · The ambassador works in the embassy.↗ · I am travelling on a secret embassy, but you must not ask me any questions, for I cannot betray my secret."↗

embedded — Everyday, meaning 1: Embedded means fixed firmly inside something else, like a stone stuck in mud.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (grammar) An embedded clause is a part of a sentence put inside the main sentence, usually between commas.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (computers) An embedded video or picture is placed inside a web page.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: An embedded journalist travels with soldiers to report.↗ Example: The fossil was embedded in the rock.↗ · A splinter was embedded in my finger.↗ · Add an embedded clause to your sentence: The cat, who was hungry, meowed.↗ · The teacher embedded a video in the slides.↗ · The ring was embedded with tiny diamonds.↗ · Kindness is embedded in our school rules.↗ · Observing it to be much swollen and inflamed, he examined it and found a large thorn embedded in the ball of the foot.↗

embellish — Everyday, meaning 1: To make something more beautiful by adding decorations.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To add extra details to a story to make it more exciting, often ones that are not true.↗ Example: We embellished our cards with glitter and stars.↗ · The queen's dress was embellished with pearls.↗ · Grandpa likes to embellish his fishing stories.↗ · Don't embellish the facts in a news report.↗ · She embellished her poem with lovely describing words.↗ · The book cover was embellished with gold letters.↗

ember — Everyday, meaning 1: An ember is a small piece of wood or coal that is still glowing hot after a fire has died down.↗ Example: The embers of the campfire glowed orange.↗ · Pour water on the embers before you leave.↗ · Wind can blow embers far and start a bushfire.↗ · We toasted marshmallows over the hot embers.↗ · The last embers faded in the fireplace.↗ · Never walk barefoot near embers.↗ · From a neighbor's fire she brought hither a red, red ember.↗