yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
thrips
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Ancient Greek θρίψ (thríps)bor.
English thrips
Borrowed from Ancient Greek θρίψ (thríps, “wood-worm”).
Inflected forms:
form: thrips
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: thripses
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: thrip
pos: noun
tags: alternative
alternative
singular
Senses:
gloss: Any of the many small insects of the order Thysanoptera, especially those that attack useful plants.
pos: noun
examples: The turnrows and margins of the fields should be cultivated often enough to prevent the growth of weeds, many forms of which harbor the onion thrips.
2002, Thrips, article in International Wildlife Encyclopedia Volume 19, Picture caption, page 2676,
The thousands of thrips species include among their number the smallest of all winged insects.
Bleaching and stippling on viburnum foliage infested with greenhouse thrips. Because this sluggish thrips feeds openly on the underside of leaves, it is controlled by thorough coverage with insecticidal soap or oil.
Translations:
thrum
Part of speech: noun
verb
adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Imitative.
Inflected forms:
form: thrums
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: thrums
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: thrumming
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: thrummed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: thrummed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: thrumb
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A thrumming sound; a hum or vibration.
pos: noun
examples: a profusion of insects, which produced a continuous thrum
Pungent sweat and heatedly trodden grass, fumes of tea and porter, thrum of hooves from the paddock, the strikings-up and dyings-down of the band all fused into an extreme for Antonia, whose own senses, boastful, stood up to it.
gloss: A spicy taste; a tang.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
examples: The trailblazing Oaxacan chef Alejandro Ruiz […] has spiked this black-bean sauce with a hidden depth charge of flavor: patches of foliage from a local avocado tree. The leaves electrify the sauce with an unexpected thrum of black licorice.
gloss: To cause a steady rhythmic vibration in (something), usually by plucking.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: She watched as he thrummed the guitar strings absently.
gloss: To make a monotonous drumming noise.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: to thrum on a table
They were hardly seated, and I had hardly waved good-by to Denver, before he was off, the big motor thrumming with immense birdlike power.
This doesn’t detract from the fun of bargaining at the variety of Hong Kong’s night markets (those who don’t like to haggle should stay away) that often thrum with shoppers till midnight. The best in town are the Ladies’ Market, for inexpensive women’s clothing, bags, and accessories, and the Temple Street Night Market, for an astonishing selection of everything from clothes and CDs to luggage and shoes—even fortune tellers—at the Yau Ma Tei end of the street.
gloss: Made of or woven from thrum.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: In Paris, there are scarce two orders of beings more different: for the legislative and executive powers of the shop not resting in the husband, he seldom comes there:—in some dark and dismal room behind, he sits commerce-less, in his thrum nightcap, the same rough son of Nature that Nature left him.
Translations:
tibia
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: anatomy
arachnology
biology
entertainment
entomology
lifestyle
medicine
music
natural-sciences
sciences
zoology
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin tībia (“shin bone, leg”).
Inflected forms:
form: tibias
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: tibiae
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The inner and usually the larger of the two bones of the leg or hind limb below the knee, the shinbone.
pos: noun
examples: Her anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) and medial collateral ligament (MCL) are torn and Vonn has a lateral fracture of the tibial plateau, the upper end of the tibia or shin bone.
gloss: The second segment from the end of an insect's leg, between the femur and tarsus.
pos: noun
gloss: The third segment from the end of an arachnid's leg, between the patella and metatarsus.
pos: noun
gloss: A musical instrument of the flute kind, originally made of the leg bone of an animal.
pos: noun
examples: The musician on the left is playing the zampogna, a bagpipe with two chanters and two drones. The zampogna is thought to be the bag-provided descendant of the ancient mouth-blown divergent pipes of the Romans, known as the tibia.
Synonyms: bone flute
shin
shinbone
shin bone
Derived words: basitibia
distitibia
foretibia
mesotibia
metatibia
midtibia
tibial
tibia valga
tibia vara
tibiiform
Translations:
tic
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: medicine
neurology
neuroscience
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
French ticbor.
English tic
Borrowed from French tic.
Inflected forms:
form: tics
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: tics
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: ticcing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: ticced
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: ticced
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A sudden, nonrhythmic motor movement or vocalization.
pos: noun
examples: Tourette syndrome is a neurodevelopmental condition characterized by multiple tics. A tic is a sudden, rapid, repetitive, non-rhythmic movement (e.g. eye blinking) or vocalization (e.g. throat clearing).
gloss: Something that is done or produced habitually or characteristically.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
examples: Boyle revives some of the stylistic tics which found themselves being ripped off by geezer-gangster Britflicks back in the day, but now the freezeframes are briefer, sharper; the movie itself refers back to the original with variant flashback versions of famous scenes, but also Super 8-type images of the boys’ poignant boyhood in primary school.
gloss: To exhibit a tic; to undergo a sudden, semi-voluntary muscle movement.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Patients often describe the need to tic as the mounting of inner tension, localized either to the body region where the tic is about to occur or throughout the body.
Derived words: ticcer
ticcy
ticless
ticlike
Translations:
tilter
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English tilt
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Proto-Italic *-āzijos
Latin -āriusnom.
Latin -āriusbor.
Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz
Proto-West Germanic *-ārī
Old English -ere
Middle English -ere
English -er
English tilter
From tilt + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: tilters
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who tilts something.
pos: noun
examples: I love the way everyone tilts their heads as they scan the shelves. That's how I think of us book readers: we're head tilters.
gloss: One who jousts.
pos: noun
gloss: One who fights.
pos: noun
gloss: One who operates a tilt hammer.
pos: noun
Translations:
tilth
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English tilthe, from Old English tilþ, tilþe, corresponding to till + -th (abstract nominal suffix).
Base: till
Affixes: -th
Inflected forms:
form: tilths
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Agricultural labour; husbandry.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The state of being tilled, or prepared for a crop; culture.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The land is in good tilth and ready to plant.
gloss: Cultivated land
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Escaped from thicket and from fen at last he saw the tilth of men.
gloss: Rich cultivated soil.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: One morning she was kneeling on an old grain sack on the wet black soil, turning the thick rich tilth over and smoothing it ready for the new lettuces.
Related words: till
tillage
Derived words: earth-tilth
tilther
Translations:
tine
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English tine, alteration of Middle English tinde, tind, from Old English tind, from Proto-West Germanic *tind, Proto-Germanic *tindaz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃dénts (“tooth, peg”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Tiende, Tiene (“prong, tine”), German Zind, Zint (“prong”). Compare also the related English tind and German Zinne.
Inflected forms:
form: tines
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: tiner
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: tinest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: tyne
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A spike or point on an implement or tool, especially a prong of a fork or a tooth of a comb.
pos: noun
examples: The tines of the fork were quite evidently of iron or steel, the girl did not know which, while the handle and the spoon were of the same material as the smaller vessels.
Sitting at the table one day, I held the fork in my left hand and pierced a piece of fried chicken. I put the knife through the second tine, as we had been strictly taught, and began to saw against the bone.
gloss: A small branch, especially on an antler or horn.
pos: noun
examples: “I answer not the challenge of my prisoner,” said Front-de-Bœuf; “nor shalt thou, Maurice de Bracy.—Giles,” he continued, “hang the franklin’s glove upon the tine of yonder branched antlers:[…]
“By my faith, sirs,” he continued, half turning in his saddle to address his escort, “unless my woodcraft is sadly at fault, it is a stag of six tines and the finest that we have roused this journey.
gloss: A wild vetch or tare.
pos: noun
tags: dialectal
gloss: small, diminutive
pos: adj
Related words: prong
tooth
tool
Derived words: tine test
tres-tine
Translations:
tipper
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English tip
English -er
English tipper
From tip + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: tippers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Someone who tips; someone who gives a gratuity.
pos: noun
examples: The Americans are among the most generous tippers in the world.
gloss: A small moustache.
pos: noun
tags: slang
gloss: A goods vehicle with a tippable body, used for carrying loose materials such as gravel or rubble; a tipper truck, tipper lorry, or dump truck.
pos: noun
tags: UK
gloss: A device for loading goods such as coal by tipping them.
pos: noun
gloss: One who gives private hints about racing or financial speculation, etc.; a tipster.
pos: noun
gloss: A cutting tool used to cut off or trim the horns of livestock; a horn tipper.
pos: noun
gloss: A person who tips or discharges a load, or dumps waste (especially illegally with the latter).
pos: noun
examples: The staff discharging the coal from the wagons is known as teemers or tippers; they are employed by the dock-owners.
Antonyms: nontipper
Related words: tipping
dumpcart
dumper
tumbril
Derived words: bin tipper
cow tipper
fly-tipper
flytipper
Tipper and See-Saw Time
Translations:
toby
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: tobies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A drinking mug, in the shape of a human head with a hat atop; a Toby jug.
pos: noun
gloss: The valve that mediates the connection between a mains water-supply and a premises's own plumbing.
pos: noun
tags: New-Zealand
UK
gloss: The road or highway.
pos: noun
tags: UK
dated
slang
examples: 1931, Eric Blair (the real name of George Orwell), "Hop-picking" in The New Statesman of 17th October 1931.
It is no wonder that itinerant agricultural workers travel on the toby and sleep in casual wards between jobs.
gloss: A kind of inferior cigar of a long slender shape, tapered at one end.
pos: noun
tags: US
dated
regional
gloss: The Moorish idol, Zanclus cornutus
pos: noun
gloss: Any of several species of pufferfish in the genus Canthigaster
pos: noun
Derived words: high toby
toby box
tobyman
toby rib
Translations:
tog
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Shortened from earlier togemans, togeman (“cloak, loose coat”), from Middle English tog, toge, togue, from Old French togue, from Latin toga (“cloak, mantle”) (compare the doublets toga and toge). Togeman(s) was an old thieves' and vegabonds' cant for "cloak; coat". By the 1700s the noun tog was used as a shortened form, then with the meaning "coat"; before 1800 the word (in this sense usually in the plural; see togs) started to mean "clothing". The verb tog ("to dress up") came shortly after. The unit of thermal resistance was coined in the 1940s after the clo, a unit of thermal insulation of clothing, which was itself derived from clothes or clothing.
Inflected forms:
form: togs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: togs
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: togging
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: togged
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: togged
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A cloak.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
slang
gloss: A coat.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
slang
examples: I have a rorty gal, also a knowing pal, / And merrily together we jog on, / I doesn't care a flatch, as long as I've a tach, / Some pannum for my chest, and a tog on.
gloss: swimwear.
pos: noun
tags: New-Zealand
slang
gloss: A unit of thermal resistance, being ten times the temperature difference (in °C) between the two surfaces of a material when the flow of heat is equal to one watt per square metre
pos: noun
gloss: To dress (often with up or out).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: “[…] if you call my duds a ‘livery’ again there'll be trouble. It's bad enough to go around togged out like a life saver on a drill day, but I can stand that 'cause I'm paid for it. […]”
Derived words: toggery
tog bag
Translations:
tome
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle French tome, from Latin tomus (“section of larger work”), from Ancient Greek τόμος (tómos, “section, roll of papyrus, volume”), from τέμνω (témnō, “to cut, separate”).
Inflected forms:
form: tomes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One in a series of volumes.
pos: noun
gloss: A large or scholarly book.
pos: noun
examples: The professor pulled a dusty old tome from the bookshelf.
And Sam presents Tyrion with A Song Of Ice And Fire, a tome in which Tyrion’s own role, far from that of the clever hero or Machiavellian snake, doesn’t even exist.
One senses, picking up Twenge’s tome — 515 pages before you get to the appendix — an attempt to quell past criticisms. “I see this book as my magnum opus,” she said.
Derived words: hecatontome
microtome
monotome
tomeful
tomelet
Translations:
Tony
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Clipping of Anthony /Antony.
The statuettes awarded by the American Theatre Wing are formally known as “Antoinette Perry Awards for Excellence in Theatre”; they are named for Antoinette Perry (1888–1946), an actress, director, producer and co-founder of the American Theatre Wing, who was nicknamed Tony.
Inflected forms:
form: Tonys
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Tonies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of the statuettes awarded by the American Theatre Wing.
pos: noun
examples: She was first nominated for a Tony in 1990 for “The Grapes of Wrath,” and she was nominated again, in 1996, for “Buried Child” — both times for best featured actress in a play.
Translations:
tooter
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English toot
English -er
English tooter
From toot + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: tooters
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person or device that toots; a pipe or horn, or the person who plays it.
pos: noun
examples: "Gimme the tooter." Dan took the tin dinner-horn, but paused before he blew.
gloss: A straw used to inhale cocaine.
pos: noun
tags: slang
gloss: The anus.
pos: noun
tags: derogatory
slang
vulgar
Related words: the tooter the sweeter
Derived words: the rooter to the tooter
Translations:
Torah
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Hebrew תּוֹרָה (tōrā, “instruction, law or teaching”).
Inflected forms:
form: Torahs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Torot
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Toroth
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Toráh
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Torāh
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Tōrāh
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A specially written scroll containing the five books of Moses, such as those used in religious services.
pos: noun
examples: Holonyms: Old Testament, Tanakh
An anonymous donor has provided us with a lovely new Torah.
gloss: A book containing the five books of Moses.
pos: noun
examples: There was a lovely leather-bound Torah on the bookshelf.
Translations:
toroid
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: mathematics
sciences
Inflected forms:
form: toroids
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A surface generated by a closed curve (especially a circle) rotating about, but not intersecting or containing, an axis in its own plane.
pos: noun
examples: Toroid and lumen diameter were easily controlled by micromold design, and toroid thickness was controlled by seeding density. When harvested, toroids' were stable, but underwent predictable changes over time with their lumens narrowing.
However, because of the lack of guiding principles for the construction of toroids, researchers have not widely studied the self-assembly of toroidal nanostructures as compared with the work on other supramolecular architectures.
gloss: A surface generated by a closed curve (especially a circle) rotating about, but not intersecting or containing, an axis in its own plane.
pos: noun
Related words: toroidal
Derived words: hypertoroid
microtoroid
semitoroid
supertoroid
toroidic
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: тороид
roman: toroid
lang: Finnish
word: toroidi
lang: German
word: Toroid
lang: Polish
word: toroid
lang: Russian
word: тороид
roman: toroid
lang: Spanish
word: toroide
lang: Ukrainian
word: тороїд
roman: torojid
Tory
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: government
politics
Etymology: From Irish tóraí (“pursuer”), from tóir (“pursuit”). The first recorded use in English is from a 1646 letter by James Butler, Earl of Ormond, to a Colonel O'Brien, describing bandits and thieves on main roadways.
Inflected forms:
form: Tories
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A member or supporter of the Conservative Party, which evolved from Royalist politicians; historically associated with upholding the rights of the monarchy and the privileges of the established Church.
pos: noun
tags: UK
gloss: One who is like a British Tory; someone politically conservative.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
gloss: A member or supporter of the Conservative Party of Canada, one of that party's predecessors, or an affiliated provincial political party.
pos: noun
tags: Canadian
examples: The latest Tory budget continued the trend begun in 2000 by making further small cuts in family income taxes.
gloss: A member of the political factions that sought to prevent the exclusion of James, Duke of York, from the throne of England in the 17th century.
pos: noun
tags: derogatory
historical
gloss: An Irish rebel fighting against English rule at the end of the Confederate War and Cromwellian invasion; later extended to other rebels or bandits.
pos: noun
tags: derogatory
historical
examples: Ho! Master Teague, what is your story? / I went to the wood and kill’d a tory; / […] I hunted him in, and I hunted him out, / Three times through the bog, about and about; / When out of a bush I saw his head, / So I fired my gun, and I shot him dead.
gloss: A loyal British subject during the American Revolution.
pos: noun
tags: US
historical
gloss: A Union sympathizer in the Confederate States during the American Civil War.
pos: noun
tags: US
historical
gloss: Of or belonging to the Tory Party or the Conservative Party.
pos: adj
tags: UK
not-comparable
gloss: Of or belonging to the Conservative Party of Canada, one of that party's predecessors, or an affiliated provincial political party.
pos: adj
tags: Canadian
not-comparable
Translations:
tousle
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English touselen, equivalent to touse + -le. Cognate with German Low German tuseln, Bavarian zusseln, züsseln.
Base: touse
Affixes: -le
Inflected forms:
form: tousles
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: tousling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: tousled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: tousled
pos: verb
tags: past
form: touzle
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: toozle
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: towsle
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: towzle
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: tussle
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: tossle
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: tousles
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: touzle
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: toozle
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: towsle
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: towzle
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: tussle
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: tossle
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: To put into disorder; to tumble; to touse; to muss.
pos: verb
gloss: The action of ruffling or setting in disorder.
pos: noun
examples: Cassie reached over and gave Sammy's dark hair a tousle.
Translations:
towhee
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Imitative of the call of the eastern towhee, Pipilo erythrophthalmus.
Inflected forms:
form: towhees
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of several species of birds of the genera Pipilo and Melozone.
pos: noun
Translations:
trawl
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: 16th century, borrowed from Dutch tragelen (“to pull with a towline, trawl”), from Middle Dutch traghelen, from traghel (“dragnet”) (presumably from Latin tragula (“dragnet”)), and as such root-cognate with English drag and dray.
Inflected forms:
form: trawls
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: trawls
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: trawling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: trawled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: trawled
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A net or dragnet used for trawling.
pos: noun
gloss: A long fishing line having many short lines bearing hooks attached to it; a setline.
pos: noun
gloss: An exhaustive search.
pos: noun
examples: I embarked on a trawl through my uncle's papers in search of his missing will.
gloss: To take (fish or other marine animals) with a trawl.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
examples: The fisherman went out to trawl the deep sea for shrimp.
gloss: To fish from a slow-moving boat.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: They used a large net to trawl for fish along the coast.
gloss: To make an exhaustive search for something within a defined area.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: We need to trawl through the data to find meaningful patterns.
Related words: troll
Derived words: pelagic trawl
trawl whiting
trawlwire
trawlable
trawlboat
trawler
trawlman
trawlnet
trawlwarp
untrawled
Translations:
trimer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: From tri- + -mer.
Base: tri
Inflected forms:
form: trimers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An oligomer composed of three monomers.
pos: noun
Translations:
triode
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *tréyes
Proto-Indo-European *tri-
Proto-Italic *tri-
Latin tri-der.
English tri-
Proto-Indo-European *sed-der.
Proto-Indo-European *sodós?
Proto-Hellenic *hodós
Ancient Greek ὁδός (hodós)bor.
English -ode
English triode
From tri- + -ode.
Base: tri
Inflected forms:
form: triodes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A thermionic valve containing an anode, a cathode, and a control grid; small changes to the charge on the grid control the flow from cathode to anode, which makes amplification possible.
pos: noun
Translations:
troika
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Russian тро́йка (trójka, “a group of three”).
Inflected forms:
form: troikas
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: troiki
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A Russian carriage drawn by a team of three horses abreast.
pos: noun
examples: A great writer of the last epoch, comparing Russia to a swift troika galloping to an unknown goal, exclaims 'Oh, troika, birdlike troika, who invented thee!' and adds, in proud ecstasy, that all the peoples of the world stand aside respectfully to make way for the recklessly galloping troika to pass.
When Gogol wrote his great passage on the troika speeding across the steppes, he likened it to Russia itself, advancing across the earth.
Travelling part of the way by rail and the remainder by troika, he reached Orenburg shortly before Christmas.
gloss: A party or group of three, especially a ruling council of three people in Soviet or Russian contexts.
pos: noun
examples: The investigator suspected the poor dead bastards were just a vodka troika that had cheerily frozen to death.
The bare troika of Boolean operators brought them into metaphorical being.
“He said, 'Let me get the best people.' And that's what he did. He got John Kalodner and Gary Gersh and Tom Zutaut, and they became stars in their own right.” Over the ensuing decade, that troika of talent-finders would bring a host of multiplatinum artists—from Cher and Aerosmith to Guns N' Roses and Nirvana—to Geffen.
No longer is the best picture going to be a toss-up between that troika of national-historical heavies: Argo, Lincoln and Zero Dark Thirty.
Synonyms: triad
Translations:
tuber
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: agriculture
anatomy
business
horticulture
lifestyle
medicine
sciences
Etymology: From Latin tūber (“bump, hump, swelling”).
Inflected forms:
form: tubers
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: tubera
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
plural
possibly
uncommon
Senses:
gloss: A fleshy, thickened underground stem of a plant, usually containing stored starch, for example a potato or arrowroot.
pos: noun
gloss: A thickened rootstock.
pos: noun
gloss: A rounded, protuberant structure in a human or animal body.
pos: noun
Related words: tubercle
tubercular
Derived words: fleshtuber
lignotuber
microtuber
minituber
perituber
storage tuber
supertuberation
tuberal
tuber cinereum
tuber fleeceflower
tuberiferous
tuberiform
tuberin
tuberization
tuberize
tuberless
tuberlike
tuberoid
tuberosity
tuberosphere
Translations:
tubule
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin tubulus, diminutive of tubus.
Inflected forms:
form: tubules
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A small pipe or fistular body; a little tube.
pos: noun
examples: renal tubule
Translations:
tuff
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *tewh₂-der.
Proto-Italic *tūβosder.
Oscanbor.?
Latin tōfusder.
Italian tufobor.
French tufbor.
English tuff
From French tuffe, tuf, from Italian tufo, from Latin tōfus. Doublet of tufa.
Inflected forms:
form: tuffs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A light porous rock, now especially a rock composed of compacted volcanic ash varying in size from fine sand to coarse gravel.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: This is what makes an ignimbrite; the general term for this kind of volcaniclastic rock is ‘tuff’.
Translations:
tulle
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from French tulle, named after French Tulle (a town), named after Latin Tūtēla (a Roman deity), from Latin tūtēla (whence English tutelary), from Latin tueor (whence tutor, tutorial).
Inflected forms:
form: tulles
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A kind of silk lace or light netting, used for clothing, veils, etc.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: I kept thinking of Marie Osmond — standing there at the altar, so brave in white tull ^([sic]). "Marriage isn't just for life," she said, "it's for eternity."
‘Before I forget, there is one turquoise tulle fabric I think you would love . . .’
Neer imagined Jane in tulle and leather and sequins and knew the answer.
Translations:
tupelo
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Creek topilwa < íto 'tree' + opílwa 'swamp'.
Inflected forms:
form: tupelos
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of several trees of the genus Nyssa which grow in swampy regions on the eastern, southern and midwestern United States.
pos: noun
gloss: Any of several trees of the genus Nyssa which grow in swampy regions on the eastern, southern and midwestern United States.
pos: noun
Derived words: large tupelo
swamp tupelo
tupelo-gum
water tupelo
Translations:
turgid
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Latin turgeō
Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-der.
Proto-Italic *-iðos
Latin -idus
Latin turgidusbor.
English turgid
From Latin turgidus (“swollen, inflated”), from turgeō (“to swell”).
Inflected forms:
form: more turgid
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most turgid
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Distended beyond the natural state by some internal agent, especially fluid, or expansive force.
pos: adj
examples: I have a turgid limb.
A vegetable that is fully moist and firm will seem both crisp and more tender than the same vegetable limp from water loss. When we bite down on a vegetable turgid with water, the already-stressed cell walls readily break and the cells burst open; in a limp vegetable, chewing compresses the walls together, and we have to exert much more pressure to break through them.
gloss: Of a river, inundated with excess water as from a flood; swollen.
pos: adj
examples: The Jiet River lay before them, as thick and turgid as a gorged snake, its crosshatched surface reflecting the same ghastly hue that pervaded the Burning Plains.
gloss: Overly complex and difficult to understand; grandiloquent; bombastic.
pos: adj
examples: These were all basic tenets, but the principals wrote them down as if they had never heard them before—and maybe they hadn’t, or at least not for many years. Perhaps that’s why bureaucratic prose becomes so turgid, whatever the bureaucracy.
Sounding rather suspiciously like Professor H. Bloom’s turgid studies of artistic influenza[…]
Published TV-scholarship sure reflects this mood. And the numbingly dull quality to most “literary” television analyses is due less to the turgid abstraction scholars employ to make television seem an OK object of aesthetic inquiry […]
Related words: turgescence
turgescent
turgidity
turgidness
turgor
Derived words: subturgid
turgidly
unturgid
Translations:
tusked
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English tuskyd; equivalent to tusk + -ed.
Base: tusk
Affixes: -ed
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Furnished with tusks; having tusks.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
tusker
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Germanic *tunþskaz
Proto-West Germanic *tunsk
Old English tūsc
Old English tūx
Middle English tusk
English tusk
English -er
English tusker
From tusk + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: tuskers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An animal, such as a bull elephant or a boar, with large tusks.
pos: noun
examples: By climbing trees they had had a fairly good view of the herd, which they described as numbering several large tuskers, a great many cows and calves, and full-grown bulls whose ivory would be worth having.
The massive tusker leading the herd stopped in his tracks. His ears went out, his long sinuous trunk up.
Negotiations to acquire a fine tusker from one young partner in another village fell through; so on the eve of the actual feast, Songi humiliated him by asking him to come to the feast as if he were the rival chief, the guest of honor. The man was deeply shamed by the invitation since he could not possibly reciprocate, and he had to send the tusker itself as payment for the invitation gifts.
Translations:
tweeze
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Back-formation from tweezers.
Inflected forms:
form: tweezes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: tweezing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: tweezed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: tweezed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To pluck or grasp using tweezers.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Stamp-men tweeze their treasures to avoid smudging, wear, tear; to hold them up to the light or pick them out of benzine baths in search of watermarks.
He held his usual levee at his lodgings; he spent the usual hours washing and dressing; he rubbed his teeth with a red root, tweezed out hairs with a silver tweezer, tied his cravat to admiration, and issued at four precisely as perfectly equipped as if the Rue Royale had been St. James's Street and the Prince himself had hung upon his arm.
gloss: To shape by plucking out hairs with tweezers.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Here Mrs. Lawrence had smiled to soften the anxiety of her blue eyes under their frowning, carefully tweezed brows.
He’d run his lacquered, dusky pink index finger over his tweezed mustache and say […]
gloss: To pluck out hairs using tweezers.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Word to the wise: if you must tweeze solo, stick to plucking only the obvious stray hairs.
Translations:
lang: German
word: mit der Pinzette anfassen
lang: German
word: mit der Pinzette entfernen
lang: Portuguese
word: pinçar
lang: Spanish
word: pinzar
lang: Turkish
word: cımbızla almak
lang: Turkish
word: cımbızla yolmak
typic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English type
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Latin -icuslbor.
Old French -iquebor.
Middle English -ik
English -ic
English typic
From type + -ic.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Relating to a type.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
typify
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: sciences
Inflected forms:
form: typifies
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: typifying
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: typified
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: typified
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To embody, exemplify; to represent by a form, image, model, or resemblance.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: His attitude typifies the attitude of young people today.
gloss: To portray stereotypically.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The angry captain typified all new sailors as incompetent.
gloss: To serve as a typical or reference specimen of.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The chosen specimen typifies plants belonging to that species.
Related words: type
typical
typically
typification
Translations:
umber
Part of speech: adj
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle French ombre (“umber”), from terre d'ombre (“dark ochre”), from Old French umbre (“shade, shadow”), from Latin umbra. Doublet of umbra.
Inflected forms:
form: umbre
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: umbers
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: umbering
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: umbered
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: umbered
pos: verb
tags: past
form: umbre
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Of a reddish brown colour, like that of the pigment.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Their harps are of the umber shade / That hides the blush of waking day.
gloss: To give a reddish-brown colour to.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Armies o'er armies heap'd, the locusts came,
Like clouds in autumn umbering all the sky […]
Derived words: burnt umber
Translations:
umbra
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: astronomy
mathematics
natural-sciences
sciences
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin umbra (“shadow”). Doublet of umber.
Inflected forms:
form: umbras
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: umbrae
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: umbræ
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
plural
Senses:
gloss: The fully shaded inner region of a shadow cast by an opaque object.
pos: noun
gloss: The fully shaded inner region of a shadow cast by an opaque object.
pos: noun
gloss: The central region of a sunspot.
pos: noun
gloss: A shadow.
pos: noun
tags: literary
gloss: An uninvited guest brought along by one who was invited.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
gloss: One of the family Umbridae of mudminnows.
pos: noun
gloss: One of genus Umbrina of drums (family Sciaenidae).
pos: noun
gloss: An element of the umbral calculus.
pos: noun
examples: In order to set up such an algorithm, we need the notion of multiplicative inverse of an umbra. Two umbrae are said to be multiplicative inverse to each other when αγ ≡ u.
Derived words: adumbrate
antumbra
Bernoulli umbra
penumbra
umbral
umbra recta
umbra versa
umbrella
Translations:
lang: Afrikaans
word: kernskaduwee
lang: Catalan
word: ombra
lang: Finnish
word: sydänvarjo
lang: Finnish
word: täysvarjo
lang: Finnish
word: umbra
lang: German
word: Kernschatten
lang: Japanese
word: 本影
lang: Polish
word: cień
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: umbra
lang: Swedish
word: umbra
lang: Swedish
word: kärnskugga
unary
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: computer
computing
engineering
information-theory
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
Etymology: From Latin ūnus (“one”) + -ary, on the pattern of binary, ternary, etc.
Affixes: -ary
Inflected forms:
form: unaries
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Consisting of or involving a single element or component.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Her work is a renunciation of the old narrative, a throwing away of the cotton reel, an enunciation of the unary signifier, fort, that is meaningless in itself.
gloss: Of an operation, function, procedure, or logic gate, taking exactly one operand, argument, parameter, or input; having domain of dimension 1.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Negation is a unary operation.
Zadeh’s claim is that if the meaning of an expression (X) can be modeling by a fuzzy membership function variable, then the meaning of an expression such as “very X” is simply a membership function over the same variable determined by applying a unary operator to the membership function for X.
On the other hand, blank spaces should not be used for unary operators such as unary minus (−), address of (&), indirection (*), member access (.), increment (++), and decrement (−−).
gloss: The unary, or bijective base-1, numeral system.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Unary coding, an entropy encoding for natural numbers.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Derived words: unary operation
unary operator
Translations:
uprise
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English uprisen, from Old English ūprīsan (“to rise up”), equivalent to up- + rise. Cognate with Icelandic upprisa (“resurrection”), Middle Low German oprīsinge (“uprising”). Compare also Icelandic uppreisn (“an uprising, revolt”).
Base: rise
Affixes: up-
Inflected forms:
form: uprises
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: uprising
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: uprose
pos: verb
tags: past
form: uprisen
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: uprises
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To rise; to get up.
pos: verb
tags: archaic
examples: 1874, Marcus Clarke, For the Term of His Natural Life Chapter VI
The great sky uprose from this silent sea without a cloud. The stars hung low in its expanse, burning in a violent mist of lower ether.
With the day, though not so early as the sun, uprose Miss Susan Nipper.
gloss: To have an upward direction or inclination.
pos: verb
tags: archaic
examples: The voice grew faint: there came a further change; / Once more uprose the mystic mountain range: / Below were men and horses pierc'd with worms, / And slowly quickening into lower forms; […]
gloss: To rebel or revolt; to take part in an uprising.
pos: verb
examples: They had decided to uprise rather than face punishment, and they wanted all the help they could get.
gloss: The act of rising; appearance above the horizon; rising.
pos: noun
examples: I told her of my sufferings and my madness,
And how, awakened from that dreamy mood
By Liberty’s uprise, the strength of gladness
Came to my spirit in my solitude; […]
Translations:
uranyl
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Ancient Greek οὐρᾰνός (ourănós)
Ancient Greek Οὐρᾰνός (Ourănós)der.
Latin Ūranusbor.
English Uranus
Proto-Indo-European *-om
Proto-Italic *-om
Latin -umder.
English -ium
English uranium
Proto-Indo-European *swel-der.?
Ancient Greek ῡ̔́λη (hū́lē)der.
Frenchder.
English -yl
English uranyl
From uranium + -yl.
Inflected forms:
form: uranyls
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The divalent radical UO₂²⁺, conveniently regarded as a residue of many uranium compounds.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
uremia
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
Etymology: From Ancient Greek οὖρον (oûron, “urine”) + αἷμα (haîma, “blood”).
Inflected forms:
form: uremias
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: uraemia
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: uræmia
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Blood poisoning resulting from the retention of waste products usually excreted as urine.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
vail
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: history
human-sciences
nautical
sciences
transport
vexillology
Etymology: From Middle English valen; either from Anglo-Norman valer or a clipping of avalen. Compare avale.
Inflected forms:
form: vails
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: vailing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: vailed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: vailed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To lower, let fall; to allow or cause to sink.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
transitive
examples: Then let them vale a bonet of their proud ſayle,
[…] when he shall know it lies in vs,
To banish him, and then to call him home,
Twill make him vaile the topflag of his pride,
And feare to offend the meanest noble man.
[…] Vail your regard
Upon a wrong’d, I would fain have said, a maid!
gloss: To lower or “dip” a carried flag or banner in a salute by a forward reducing of the angle of the pike/flagstaff with respect to the ground; in extreme instances, as when saluting a monarch, both the banner and the finial of the pike are allowed to rest upon the ground.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To lower a sail, in salute or otherwise.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
obsolete
examples: Both we will walke vpon the loftie cliffes,
And Chriſtian Merchants that with Ruſſian ſtems
Plow vp huge furrowes in the Caſpian ſea,
Shall vaile to vs, as Lords of al the Lake.
gloss: To remove as a sign of deference, as a hat.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
transitive
examples: […] Now the time is come
That France must vail her lofty-plumed crest
And let her head fall into England’s lap.
[…] the Templar […], without vailing his bonnet, or testifying any reverence for the alleged sanctity of the relic, took from his neck a gold chain, which he flung on the board […]
gloss: To pay homage, bow, submit, defer (to someone or something); to yield, give way (to something).
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
obsolete
examples: She would with rich and constant pen
Vail to her mistress Dian;
[…] when a Man does not readily vail to the Opinions of approved Authors, which have been received with respect and submission by others
1692, Robert South, Discourses on Various Subjects and Occasions, Boston: Bowles & Dearborn, 1827, Discourse 5, p. 370,
Thy convenience must vail to thy neighbour’s necessity.
Translations:
valine
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English valerian
Proto-Indo-European *-nós
Proto-Indo-European *-iHnos
Proto-Italic *-īnos
Latin -īnusder.
Old French -inbor.
Middle English -in
English -ine
English valine
From valerian + -ine.
Inflected forms:
form: valines
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An essential amino acid 2-amino-3-methylbutanoic acid found in most animal proteins.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
vanner
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English van
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Proto-Italic *-āzijos
Latin -āriusnom.
Latin -āriusbor.
Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz
Proto-West Germanic *-ārī
Old English -ere
Middle English -ere
English -er
English vanner
From van (“vehicle”) + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: vanners
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who owns and drives a van.
pos: noun
Translations:
vaunt
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English vaunten, from Anglo-Norman vaunter, variant of Old French vanter, from Latin vānus (“vain, boastful”).
Inflected forms:
form: vaunts
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: vaunting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: vaunted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: vaunted
pos: verb
tags: past
form: vaunts
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To speak boastfully.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: "The number," said he, "is great, but what can be expected from mere citizen soldiers? They vaunt and menace in time of safety; none are so arrogant when the enemy is at a distance; but when the din of war thunders at the gates they hide themselves in terror."
gloss: To speak boastfully about.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To boast of; to make a vain display of; to display with ostentation.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Near-synonym: flaunt
Charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up.
My vanquisher, spoiled of his vaunted spoil.
gloss: An instance of vaunting; a boast.
pos: noun
examples: the spirits beneath, whom I seduced / with other promises and other vaunts
“In every vaunt you make,” she said, “I have my triumph. I single out in you the meanest man I know, the parasite and tool of the proud tyrant, that his wound may go the deeper, and may rankle more. Boast, and revenge me on him! […]”
He has answered me back, vaunt for vaunt, rhetoric for rhetoric. He has lifted the only shield I cannot break, the shield of an impenetrable pomposity.
Derived words: vaunter
Translations:
veery
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Probably imitative of the bird's call. Attested since the 19th century.
Inflected forms:
form: veeries
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An American thrush (Catharus fuscescens) common in the Northern United States and Canada.
pos: noun
examples: In such safe retreats, when the somber shade is brightened here and there with stray beams of sunlight, in the warmth of which myriad insects bathe their wings and flutter away their little span of life, humming a quaint refrain to the gargle of the rivulet, the Veery meets his mate — the song rises — the wooed is won — the home is made.
Translations:
veldt
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: veldts
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Dated spelling of veld.
pos: noun
examples: And Thane nodded and staggered blindly upward, only to sag again in a heap upon the veldt.
South of the Zambesi, the frontier-line separates the high veldt and the low veldt regions, the line itself sometimes running along the crest and sometimes through the middle of the broken escarpment where the high granite tablelands break down towards the sea.
You can extend the idea of isograms to sentences that don't repeat any letters. Interestingly, there are several English sentences that use each letter exactly once. They're all pretty weird and either borrow from other languages or use acronyms that were later accepted as English words. For example:
Veldt jynx grimps waqf zho buck
As I'm typing this, my word processor is marking each of the above words (save for “buck”) as spelled incorrectly, though I promise they're real words. Honest.
In the flatness of the veldts, one would want to communicate with someone else in order to provide theme and variation to the unbounded and unfettered thoughts stretching outward, inspired by the immense sameness of this place.
I forgot, in short, that I’d spent nearly five years scanning the veldt for threats, indulging in the most neurotic form of magical thinking, convinced that my monitoring of Twitter alone was what stood between Trump and national ruin, just as Erica Jong believed that her concentration and vigilance were what kept her flight from plunging into the sea.
Translations: