yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
twisted
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: The sense "intertwined" comes from twist (verb) by the late 15th century. The sense "mentally disturbed, perverted" is probably from twist (“mental peculiarity, perversion”, noun), which is attested by 1811.
Inflected forms:
form: more twisted
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most twisted
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Consisting of two or more threads, strands or the like intertwined; formed by twisting or twining.
pos: adj
gloss: Mentally or emotionally distorted or unsound; perverted.
pos: adj
tags: also
with-up
examples: twisted sense of humor
The murders were committed by a twisted sociopath.
I was a hard niggah, but not twisted enough to eat and socialize with my peeps knowing I was planning on robbing them before the night was over.
It was almost noon, and we still had more than a hundred miles to go. They would be tough miles. Very soon, I knew, we would both be completely twisted. But there was no going back, and no time to rest. We would have to ride it out.
gloss: Bent out of shape or out of place; distorted; contorted.
pos: adj
tags: broadly
examples: Don't get this twisted. Just because I don't hate you doesn't mean we're friends.
gloss: Bent out of shape or out of place; distorted; contorted.
pos: adj
tags: broadly
gloss: Under heavy influence of intoxicants, usually alcohol and marijuana; very intoxicated.
pos: adj
examples: Dude I’m so twisted right now.
"Man is he high!" someone whispered. "Man, he's twisted! But on what? On what?"
gloss: Having a spiral ornament inside.
pos: adj
gloss: Intimately associated or connected; united; combined.
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
obsolete
Translations:
matchlock
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From match + lock.
Compound parts: match
lock
Inflected forms:
form: matchlocks
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Early type of firearm, using a smoldering piece of cord to fire the powder in the firing pan.
pos: noun
tags: historical
examples: I crept silently up the hill-road, but the fuse of my matchlock was wetted with the rain, and I could not slay Daoud Shah from afar.
gloss: The gunlock used in such a weapon, having a slow smouldering match.
pos: noun
Translations:
flintlock
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From flint + lock.
Compound parts: flint
lock
Inflected forms:
form: flintlocks
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An early type of firearm, using a spring-loaded flint to strike sparks into the firing pan.
pos: noun
examples: But then I had the flintlock by me for protection. ¶ There were giants in the days when that gun was made; for surely no modern mortal could have held that mass of metal steady to his shoulder. The linen-press and a chest on the top of it formed, however, a very good gun-carriage; and, thus mounted, aim could be taken out of the window,[…].
gloss: A type of lock used on muskets, rifles, and pistols from the early 17th to the mid-19th century.
pos: noun
Derived words: flintlock mechanism
Translations:
blowback
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: computing
engineering
firearms
government
mathematics
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
rail-transport
railways
sciences
tools
transport
war
weaponry
Etymology: Deverbal from blow back.
Inflected forms:
form: blowbacks
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: blow-back
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A type of action where the pressure from the fired cartridge blows a sliding mechanism backward to extract the fired cartridge, chamber another cartridge, and cock the hammer.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The Israeli UZI submachine gun, one the most easily recognized examples of a blowback firearm, is well known for its simplicity, ease of manufacture, low maintenance, and utter reliability.
gloss: An unintended adverse result, especially of covert political action.
pos: noun
tags: countable
figuratively
uncountable
examples: All of the other retired C.I.A. officers who appeared before the subcommittee today acknowledged that the problem of the “domestic blowback” of agency propaganda had been a genuine problem, out most of them dismissed the mounting concern over C.I.A.'s past employment of American journalists as misguided.
During Congressional hearings on the agency in the mid-1970's, it was revealed that some of the agency's programs to plant false information in the foreign press had resulted in items being published by American news organizations. This phenomenon, known as blowback, was sharply criticized by the committees at the time, and the C.I.A. has since been required to take precautions so that such false information does not affect political debate in this country.
It is a story about blowback from Sunni Islamist extremists who went to Syria from various Arab countries and were allowed to assemble there in the aftermath of the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in 2003.
gloss: The act of shotgunning (inhaling from a pipe etc. and exhaling into another smoker's mouth).
pos: noun
tags: countable
slang
uncountable
examples: Paranoid I was being ripped off, I 'tested' the potency of the skunk on a wasp by trapping it under a glass, and giving it a blowback.
gloss: On a steam locomotive, the reversal of exhaust gases when the regulator is closed without using the blower.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The Boulogne stop lasted a few minutes, during which I was surprised to see no use was made of the blower. In this country, if you shut the regulator without the blower on, the odds are there will be a blowback.
gloss: Synonym of backscatter.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Related words: blow forward
Derived words: karmic blowback
Translations:
elusive
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Latin elusus, past participle of eludo (“to parry a blow, to deceive”).
Inflected forms:
form: more elusive
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most elusive
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Evading capture, comprehension or remembrance.
pos: adj
examples: The elusive criminal was arrested
The temporary elusive goal / To reach the solace, to feed once more upon the synthetic reaper of loss / No matter the outcome, the cost
gloss: Difficult to make precise.
pos: adj
examples: A precise definition of diarrhea is elusive
Charley chased the elusive idea through all the nooks and crannies of his drowning consciousness.
gloss: Rarely seen.
pos: adj
examples: While you're sniffing the trunks of the ponderosas to see if they're butterscotch, vanilla, strawberry, or the elusive chocolate variety, watch for Brown Creepers, an elusive variety of bird.
Synonyms: elusory
Related words: elude
Derived words: elusively
elusiveness
unelusive
Translations:
manufactured
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more manufactured
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most manufactured
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: manmade; produced by humans rather than nature
pos: adj
gloss: not genuine; contrived
pos: adj
tags: broadly
examples: a manufactured boy band
Derived words: manufactroversy
manufactured consent
manufactured home
nonmanufactured
unmanufactured
Translations:
stressful
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From stress + -ful.
Base: stress
Affixes: -ful
Inflected forms:
form: more stressful
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most stressful
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Irritating; causing stress.
pos: adj
examples: I have always argued that change becomes stressful and overwhelming only when you've lost any sense of the constancy of your life. You need firm ground to stand on. From there, you can deal with that change.
Whether you need to recover from a stressful day, a strenuous workout or even an injury or surgery, restorative yoga may be just the thing for you.
gloss: Mentally taxing.
pos: adj
Synonyms: trying
Related words: stress
stressed
Derived words: nonstressful
overstressful
stressfully
stressfulness
unstressful
Translations:
fathered
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more fathered
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most fathered
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
pos: adj
tags: no-gloss
Translations:
parental
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
Etymology: From Middle French parental, from Latin parentālis, from parens (“parent”).
Inflected forms:
form: more parental
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most parental
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: parentals
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of or relating to a parent.
pos: adj
gloss: Befitting a parent; affectionate; tender.
pos: adj
gloss: Of the generation of organisms that produce a hybrid.
pos: adj
examples: This, following Bateson, we may call the parental generation or P generation. Subsequent generations are called filial generations (abbreviated F) and their numerical order is indicated by a subscript, [...]
gloss: A person fulfilling a parental role.
pos: noun
examples: Nowadays there are all kinds of potential parentals besides parents, grandparents, aunts and uncles, step-parents, in-laws, older siblings and cousins, and those in civil unions.
Antonyms: filial
Related words: paternal
maternal
Derived words: alloparental
bioparental
biparental
coparental
diparental
extraparental
filioparental
godparental
grandparental
heteroparental
interparental
monoparental
multiparental
nonparental
parental alienation
parental alienation syndrome
parental control
parental duty
parental figure
parental home
parentalism
parentality
parental leave
parental love
parentally
parental rights
parental unit
preparental
quasiparental
stepparental
tetraparental
triparental
uniparental
unparental
Translations:
lang: Albanian
word: prindëror
lang: Albanian
word: prindërore
lang: Arabic
word: وَالِدِيّ
roman: wālidiyy
lang: Aromanian
word: pãrintescu
lang: Aromanian
word: pãrinteascã
lang: Belarusian
word: бацько́ўскі
roman: bacʹkówski
lang: Belarusian
word: ба́цькаўскі
roman: bácʹkawski
lang: Belarusian
word: радзі́цельскі
roman: radzícjelʹski
lang: Bulgarian
word: роди́телски
roman: rodítelski
lang: Catalan
word: parental
lang: Czech
word: rodičovský
lang: Dutch
word: ouderlijk
lang: Esperanto
word: gepatra
lang: Finnish
word: vanhempien
lang: French
word: parental
lang: German
word: elterlich
lang: Greek
word: γονικός
roman: gonikós
lang: Greek
word: γονεϊκός
roman: goneïkós
lang: Hungarian
word: szülői
lang: Italian
word: parentale
lang: Latin
word: parentālis
lang: Macedonian
word: родителски
roman: roditelski
lang: Polish
word: rodzicielski
lang: Portuguese
word: parental
lang: Romanian
word: părintesc
lang: Romanian
word: părintească
lang: Russian
word: роди́тельский
roman: rodítelʹskij
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: ро̀дитељскӣ
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: ròditeljskī
lang: Slovak
word: rodičovský
lang: Slovene
word: starševski
lang: Spanish
word: parental
lang: Ukrainian
word: ба́тьківський
roman: bátʹkivsʹkyj
lang: Ukrainian
word: роди́тельський
roman: rodýtelʹsʹkyj
fullback
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: American-football
ball-games
football
games
hobbies
lifestyle
rugby
soccer
sports
Etymology: From full + back.
Compound parts: full
back
Inflected forms:
form: fullbacks
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An offensive back whose primary jobs are to block in advance of the halfback on running plays and for the quarterback on passing plays.
pos: noun
gloss: A position behind the main line of backs in both rugby union and rugby league. In rugby union, they wear number 15 jersey at the start of play and are the last line of defence responsible for catching punts.
pos: noun
gloss: A defensive player who assists the goalie in preventing the opposing team from scoring.
pos: noun
gloss: A player who plays on the left or right side of defence.
pos: noun
examples: For long, awkward spells, City looked out of their depth. Dani Alves and Jordi Alba attacked like whippets from the full-back positions.
Related words: centre-back
wing-back
Translations:
inedible
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From in- + edible.
Base: edible
Affixes: in-
Inflected forms:
form: inedibles
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: not edible; not appropriate, worthy, or safe to eat
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: inedible dinner
inedible food
gloss: Anything inedible; that which is not a foodstuff.
pos: noun
Antonyms: edible
Translations:
countersink
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *ḱe?
Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm
Proto-Italic *kom
Proto-Italic *kom-
Proto-Indo-European *-teros
Proto-Italic *-teros
Proto-Italic *komterosder.
Proto-Italic *komterād
Latin contrāder.
Old French contre-
Anglo-Norman countre-bor.
Middle English counter-
English counter-
English sink
English countersink
From counter- + sink.
Inflected forms:
form: countersinks
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: countersinks
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: countersinking
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: countersank
pos: verb
tags: past
form: countersunk
pos: verb
tags: past
form: countersunk
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
Senses:
gloss: A conical recess, typically machined at the mouth of a hole to admit a screw (with a matching taper) so that the screw sits flush with a surface.
pos: noun
gloss: The cutter used to cut such a recess. (Also used, at less depth, for edge-breaking/deburring.)
pos: noun
examples: Holonym: center drill (combined drill and countersink)
gloss: To create such a conical recess.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to countersink a hole for a screw
gloss: To cause to sink even with or below the surface.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
examples: to countersink a screw or bolt into woodwork
I countersank into the locust just enough to make the nailhead flush.
Related words: diesinking
sink
spotface
Derived words: back-countersink
countersinker
Translations:
counterbore
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *ḱe?
Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm
Proto-Italic *kom
Proto-Italic *kom-
Proto-Indo-European *-teros
Proto-Italic *-teros
Proto-Italic *komterosder.
Proto-Italic *komterād
Latin contrāder.
Old French contre-
Anglo-Norman countre-bor.
Middle English counter-
English counter-
Proto-Indo-European *bʰerH-der.
Proto-Germanic *burōną
Proto-West Germanic *borōn
Old English borian
Middle English boren
English bore
English counterbore
From counter- (“against”) + bore (“hole”).
Inflected forms:
form: counterbores
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: counterbores
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: counterboring
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: counterbored
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: counterbored
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A cylindrical recess, typically machined at the mouth of a hole to admit a screw (such as a cap screw) so that the screw sits flush with a surface.
pos: noun
gloss: The cutter used to cut such a recess. (Also used, at less depth, for spotfacing.)
pos: noun
examples: Meronyms: flute, pilot (the land at the tip, which rides the hole as a guide), shank
gloss: To create such a cylindrical recess.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Related words: spotface
Translations:
flush
Part of speech: noun
verb
adv
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From Middle English flusshen, fluschen, of uncertain origin. Compare dialectal flusk (“to fly at, startle a bird out of the bush”) and flusker (“to flutter, fly irregularly”). Perhaps related to Middle English flasshen, flasschen, flaschen, see flash; or a Middle English blend of flowen (“to flow”) + guschen (“to gush”). Compare Saterland Frisian flutskje, German Low German flutschen, German flutschen.
Compound parts: flowen
guschen
Inflected forms:
form: flushes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: flushes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: flushing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: flushed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: flushed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A group of birds that have suddenly started up from undergrowth, trees, etc.
pos: noun
examples: As when a Faulcon hath with nimble flight / Flowne at a flush of Ducks foreby the brooke […].
gloss: To cause to take flight from concealment.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The dogs flushed the deer from the woods.
gloss: To take suddenly to flight, especially from cover.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: A covey of quail flushed from the undergrowth.
But then as little VVrens but nevvly fledge, / […] / His fellovv noting his agilitie, / Thinkes he as vvell may venter as the other, / So fluſhing from one ſpray vnto another, / Gets to the top, and then enbold'ned flies, / Vnto an height paſt ken of humane eyes: […]
The birds seem to lie very close and must be nearly stepped on before they will flush.
AWACS is survivable due to its ability to flush on warning, to maneuver at jet speeds, to maintain awareness of the developing air situation and to command weapons as appropriate, including weapons for its own defense.
gloss: Suddenly and completely.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: I landed flush on the couch.
Translations:
quarterback
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: American-football
ball-games
football
games
hobbies
lifestyle
rugby
sports
Etymology: From quarter + back, in reference to the position in front of the halfback position.
Base: quarter
Inflected forms:
form: quarterbacks
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: quarterbacks
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: quarterbacking
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: quarterbacked
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: quarterbacked
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: An offensive back whose primary job is to pass the ball in a play.
pos: noun
tags: Canadian
examples: Standing 6-foot-6, 237 pounds, Herbert’s size and arm strength are consistent with a prototypical N.F.L. quarterback, and he led the Ducks to a Pac-12 championship and a victory at the Rose Bowl in January with not much talent at receiver.
Houston Texans head coach DeMeco Ryans defended Azeez Al-Shaair after the linebacker was ejected from Sunday’s game for throwing a late hit on Jacksonville Jaguars quarterback Trevor Lawrence. […] “A lot of the quarterbacks in this day and age, they try to take advantage of the rule where they slide late, and they try to get an extra yard. And now you’re a defender, a lot of onus is on the defender, right?”
gloss: An offensive back who receives the snap (hike) and then blocks the defense from crossing the line of scrimmage; a blocking back.
pos: noun
tags: historical
gloss: A position just behind the forwards, or one who plays this position.
pos: noun
tags: historical
gloss: To play the position of quarterback.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To lead a team or group; to be primarily responsible for some group project or activity.
pos: verb
tags: broadly
figuratively
transitive
examples: Wayman's major responsibility is to quarterback the team, coordinating business development, project scheduling and management and quality control.
Related words: cornerback
dimeback
linebacker
nickelback
Derived words: armchair quarterback
dimeback
Monday-morning quarterback
Monday morning quarterback
nickelback
Translations:
lang: Catalan
word: rerequart
lang: Finnish
word: pelinrakentaja
lang: French
word: quart-arrière
lang: French
word: quarterback
lang: Georgian
word: კვოტერბეკი
roman: ḳvoṭerbeḳi
lang: German
word: Quarterback
lang: Japanese
word: クォーターバック
roman: kuōtābakku
lang: Marathi
word: क्वार्टरबॅक
roman: kvārṭarbĕk
lang: Russian
word: квотербек
roman: kvoterbek
hand-off
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: American-football
aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
ball-games
business
computing
engineering
football
games
hobbies
lifestyle
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
rugby
sciences
sports
Etymology: Etymology tree
English hand offdeverb.
English hand-off
Deverbal from hand off.
Inflected forms:
form: hand-offs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A pass made in a backward direction.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The transfer of the radar identification of an aircraft from one controller to another when the aircraft enters the receiving controller's airspace and radio communications with the aircraft are transferred.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The passing of a completed project to another person or group.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The act of pushing an opponent away with an open hand.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The transfer of control to another subsystem.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Vertex shaders are algorithms that transform the vertex information stored in the model before handoff to the rasterizer.
Related words: drop-off
Translations:
fastener
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English fasten
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 fastener
From fasten + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: fasteners
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Something or someone that fastens.
pos: noun
examples: The mechanic replaced the damaged fastener.
This type of fastener is resistant to corrosion.
metal fastener
industrial fastener
tighten a fastener
gloss: Something or someone that fastens.
pos: noun
Derived words: diaper fastener
hook-and-loop fastener
hook-and-pile fastener
nappy fastener
paper fastener
pop fastener
slide fastener
snap fastener
zip fastener
Translations:
lang: Belarusian
word: за́сцежка
roman: záscježka
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 緊固物 /紧固物
roman: jǐngùwù
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 鋏 /铗
roman: jiá
lang: Dutch
word: sluiting
lang: Finnish
word: kiinnittäjä
lang: French
word: fermeture
lang: German
word: Verschluss
lang: German
word: Schloss
lang: German
word: Schließe
lang: German
word: Schließer
lang: German
word: Halterung
lang: German
word: Klammer
lang: German
word: Befestiger
lang: German
word: Befestigungselement
lang: Japanese
word: ファスナー
roman: fasunā
lang: Khmer
word: កន្លាស់
roman: kɑɑkɑnlah
lang: Khmer
word: គន្លឹះ
roman: kɔɔkŭənlɨh
lang: Korean
word: 파스너
roman: paseuneo
lang: Russian
word: застёжка
roman: zastjóžka
lang: Russian
word: агра́ф
roman: agráf
lang: Spanish
word: fijador
lang: Spanish
word: sujetadora
lang: Spanish
word: agrafe
lang: Spanish
word: sujetador
lang: Tagalog
word: talasok
lang: Ukrainian
word: за́стібка
roman: zástibka
lang: Uzbek
word: ilgak
tweet
Part of speech: noun
verb
intj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Onomatopoeic of the sound made by a bird. Compare twitter. The social media senses evolved from earlier Twitter update, twit (noun), twitter (verb).
Inflected forms:
form: tweets
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: tweets
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: tweeting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: tweeted
pos: verb
tags: past
form: twote
pos: verb
tags: Internet
nonstandard
past
form: tweeted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: twote
pos: verb
tags: Internet
nonstandard
participle
past
form: twoten
pos: verb
tags: Internet
nonstandard
participle
past
Senses:
gloss: The sound of a bird; any short high-pitched sound or whistle.
pos: noun
examples: [Ignatz, dropping Officer Pupp's police whistle into the lake:] The fishes will have lots of fun tweeting tweets on it.
gloss: An entry posted on the microblogging service Twitter.
pos: noun
examples: Every few seconds, a tweet appears and vanishes somewhere on the globe.
For example, as you edit a tweet in Twitter, the number of characters left is updated as you type.
A tweet can be received via SMS to your cell phone […]
gloss: An entry on any microblogging service.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
examples: He was watching the media coverage, talking to his lawyers. And we saw that because of his tweets on Truth Social, or his posts on Truth Social.
gloss: To produce a short high-pitched sound, similar to that of certain birds.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: [Ignatz, dropping Officer Pupp's police whistle into the lake:] The fishes will have lots of fun tweeting tweets on it.
gloss: To post an entry to Twitter.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
examples: In Saudi Arabia, one of the most conservative societies, one online rebel has rocked the Islamic establishment with tweeted allegations of corruption within the ruling royal family.
=Mr Trump tweeted: "Big day planned on national security tomorrow. Among many other things, we will build the wall!"
First, an apology. Tweet in haste and repent at leisure. When I first heard about the idea, before I had properly examined it, I actually tweeted that this was [a] welcome 'innovation' from a state-controlled train operator.
gloss: To post an entry to any microblogging site.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
broadly
examples: In response to the motion, Trump tweeted on Truth Social
As Georgetown public policy prof Dan Moynihan tweeted on Bluesky yesterday, the editors of the Times “are not falling for [Rufo’s] game, they are co-producing it.”
gloss: used to represent the sound of a bird twittering: twit.
pos: intj
examples: I've got two loves / And they go tweet (×9) like little birds
Related words: skeet
toot
xeet
Translations:
defragment
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *de
Proto-Indo-European *-h₁
Proto-Indo-European *déh₁
Proto-Italic *dē
Latin dē
Latin dē-der.
English de-
English fragment
English defragment
From de- + fragment.
Inflected forms:
form: defragments
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: defragmenting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: defragmented
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: defragmented
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To run a process that collects fragments of files and sorts them into contiguous sections on one or more hard disks or hard disk partitions, thus speeding up file management.
pos: verb
examples: SSDs don't need defragmenting. Windows wont' even let you try to defragment an SSD. However, if you could defragment an SSD, you might shorten the device's lifespan.
Translations:
desalination
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *de
Proto-Indo-European *-h₁
Proto-Indo-European *déh₁
Proto-Italic *dē
Latin dē
Latin dē-der.
English de-
English salination
English desalination
From de- + salination.
Inflected forms:
form: desalinations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The process of removing salt from sea water in order to make drinking water.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
cartoonist
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: comics
literature
media
publishing
Etymology: Etymology tree
English cartoon
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)
Proto-Hellenic *-tās
Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs)
Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)bor.
Latin -istader.
Old French -istebor.
Middle English -ist
English -ist
English cartoonist
From cartoon + -ist.
Inflected forms:
form: cartoonists
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who creates a cartoon or strip cartoon.
pos: noun
gloss: One who both writes and illustrates comic books or graphic novels.
pos: noun
Derived words: editorial cartoonist
pocket cartoonist
political cartoonist
webcartoonist
Translations:
cluck
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English clokken, clocken, from Old English cloccian (“to cluck, make a noise”), from Proto-West Germanic *klukkwōn, from Proto-Germanic *klukkwōną (“to make a sound, cluck”), of imitative origin.
Cognate with Scots clok, clock (“to cluck”), Dutch klokken (“to cluck”), Low German klucken (“to cluck”), German glucken (“to cluck”), Danish klukke (“to cluck”), Swedish klucka (“to cluck”), Icelandic klökkva (“to sob, whine, cluck”).
Inflected forms:
form: clucks
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: clutch
pos: noun
tags: alternative
dialectal
form: clock
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: clucks
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: clucking
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: clucked
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: clucked
pos: verb
tags: past
form: clutch
pos: verb
tags: alternative
dialectal
form: clock
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The sound made by a hen, especially when brooding, or calling her chicks.
pos: noun
gloss: Any sound similar to this.
pos: noun
gloss: A kind of tongue click used to urge on a horse.
pos: noun
gloss: A setting hen.
pos: noun
tags: Texas
gloss: To make low clicking sounds (refers to hens).
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: "I came across him once," he continued, "when he was playing down on the main road to Skaug; there he sat in the middle of the road with a lot of hens around him, I counted seven, and there were more round about in the wood, for I heard them clucking and calling behind every bush."
gloss: To cause (the tongue) to make a clicking sound.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: My mother clucked her tongue in disapproval.
gloss: To call together, or call to follow, as a hen does her chickens.
pos: verb
examples: When she, poor hen, fond of no second brood,
Has clucked thee to the wars and safely home.
gloss: To suffer withdrawal from heroin.
pos: verb
tags: UK
Related words: cackle
Derived words: dumb cluck
clucker
cluck one's tongue
clucky
Translations:
perambulate
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *per-der.
Proto-Italic *peri-
Latin per-
Proto-Indo-European *h₂ent-
Proto-Indo-European *-s
Proto-Indo-European *h₂énts?
Proto-Indo-European *h₂m̥bʰíder.
Proto-Italic *amβi
Latin ambi-
Proto-Indo-European *h₂elh₂-der.
Proto-Italic *alō
Latin *alō
Latin ambulō
Latin perambulō
Latin perambulātusbor.
English perambulate
Borrowed from Latin perambulō, perambulātus. Equivalent to per- + ambulate.
Base: ambulate
Affixes: per-
Inflected forms:
form: perambulates
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: perambulating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: perambulated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: perambulated
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To walk about, roam or stroll; to ambulate.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Take, for instance, one of the most wretched classes of the community, the poor fellows who perambulate the streets as Sandwich Men. These are farmed out by certain firms.
They dragged themselves from the swamp singly, and in twos and threes, more dead than alive, mere perambulating skeletons, until at last there were thirty of us.
gloss: To inspect (an area) on foot.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The officials, in their gowns of grey, with a white St. Andrew’s cross on back and breast, and a white cloth carried before them on a staff, perambulated the city, adding the terror of man’s justice to the fear of God’s visitation.
Related words: amble
Derived words: absquatulate
perambulation
perambulator
Translations:
thirty-eight
Part of speech: num
noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: thirty-eights
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The cardinal number immediately following thirty-seven and preceding thirty-nine.
pos: num
gloss: .38-caliber revolver.
pos: noun
examples: He was shooting cans with his thirty-eight
Blue takes a small grey satchel down from the shelf and packs it with his thirty-eight, a pair of binoculars, a notebook and other tools of the trade.
Translations:
engrossing
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more engrossing
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most engrossing
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: engrossings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Utterly consuming one's time and attention.
pos: adj
examples: an engrossing documentary
The good news about “The Silence” is that it’s engrossing and that, at 83, DeLillo’s syntax is as prickly as ever.
gloss: The act of one who engrosses, or buys up wholesale.
pos: noun
Translations:
strappy
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English strap
English -y
English strappy
From strap + -y.
Inflected forms:
form: strappier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: strappiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of or characterized by straps.
pos: adj
examples: Looking luminous in a yellow, strappy Cavalli dress with her sun-kissed hair cascading down her back, the pop star-turned-actress demands that the reporter shake her groove thing like Beyonce does in her hit video "Crazy in Love."
The click-click-click of strappy stilettos has given way to the clomp-clomp-clomp of platforms and wedges on the Milan catwalk.
We read newspaper accounts of the Reagans' black-tie evenings, where the women wore long, shimmering gowns and strappy high heels and everyone toasted equally elegant foreign guests.
Translations:
sixty-eight
Part of speech: num
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: sixty eight
pos: num
tags: alternative
form: sixtyeight
pos: num
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The cardinal number immediately following sixty-seven and preceding sixty-nine.
pos: num
Translations:
sixty-seven
Part of speech: num
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: sixty seven
pos: num
tags: alternative
form: sixtyseven
pos: num
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The cardinal number immediately following sixty-six and preceding sixty-eight.
pos: num
Translations:
retrain
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Italic *wre-
Latin re-der.
Old French re-bor.
Middle English re-
English re-
Proto-Indo-European *dʰregʰ-der.?
Latin trahere
Vulgar Latin *tragīnāre
Old French traïnerder.
Old French trainder.
Middle English trayne
English train
English retrain
From re- + train.
Inflected forms:
form: retrains
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: retraining
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: retrained
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: retrained
pos: verb
tags: past
form: retrains
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To train again; especially, to train or study in a new subject or job
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
examples: New York City's largest hospital has agreed to retrain some unionized employees whose jobs were to be eliminated under an austerity drive, the hospital and its largest labor union said yesterday.
In 1995, Sharon Brown and her husband, Daryck, founded Environmental and Occupational Safety Services at their kitchen table. The company, which retrains workers in the fields of environmental engineering and cleanup, started to grow by winning contracts from the state of New Jersey and later branched out to do work for the federal government as well.
If we choose to change our diets and consistently eat healthier foods we retrain our brains, and the foods we initially found distasteful will become enjoyable.
The process of retraining a large volume of pilots, who have been idle for different periods of time over the past year is complex and challenging.
For about $1,000 per student annually, the program retrained teachers and administrators and paid for new classroom materials, better aligned to cognitive research.
gloss: An instance of training again.
pos: noun
examples: This adds a bit of complexity as it means that our solution should not retrain for every request coming in but be able to determine whether a retrain is worth it for a given request or whether the model is already up to date.
Translations:
detrain
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: climatology
meteorology
natural-sciences
rail-transport
railways
transport
Etymology: From de- + train.
Base: train
Affixes: de-
Inflected forms:
form: detrains
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: detraining
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: detrained
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: detrained
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To exit from a train; to disembark.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: If you plan to detrain at the next stop, please begin gathering your belongings.
As the train came to a halt at the depot, Anne detrained swiftly and ran toward the river.
Lucy, loved by everyone in her family, refused to detrain and insisted on staying aboard for the entire journey.
At Bouira the detachment detrained, and the balance of the journey was made in the saddle.
Here my party detrained, but the train proceeded to Souk Ahras via Duvivier.
Arriving at York under the station's magnificent curved roof is always a delight. Detraining, I ponder my next move.
gloss: To remove (a passenger or passengers) from a train; to evacuate (passengers) from a train.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Following the accident passengers were detrained through the rear cab.
The trouble occurred on the 10.5 a.m. Paddington-Bristol trip, when gangers' tools left on the track near Swindon punctured one of the unit's fuel tanks and the passengers had to be detrained to wait for the down "Merchant Venturer".
gloss: To reduce one's training, particularly during the offseason, in preparation for a cycle of retraining.
pos: verb
gloss: To transfer air from an organized air current to the surrounding atmosphere.
pos: verb
Derived words: detrainment
Translations:
sixty-six
Part of speech: num
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: sixty six
pos: num
tags: alternative
form: sixtysix
pos: num
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The cardinal number immediately following sixty-five and preceding sixty-seven.
pos: num
Translations:
renowned
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more renowned
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most renowned
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Famous, celebrated, or well-known; widely praised or highly honored.
pos: adj
examples: The movie Three Stars is about world-renowned chefs.
Translations:
sixty-five
Part of speech: num
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: sixty five
pos: num
tags: alternative
form: sixtyfive
pos: num
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The cardinal number immediately following sixty-four and preceding sixty-six.
pos: num
Translations:
zorb
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Etymology: Originally the trademarked name of a particular brand of sphere; perhaps from orb.
Inflected forms:
form: zorbs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: zorbs
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: zorbing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: zorbed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: zorbed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A large, transparent, inflatable ball, inside which a person may be secured and then rolled downhill.
pos: noun
examples: Uneven plains that are interspersed with pebbles and rocks are likely to cause punctures in the zorbs.
There's even a kids' zorb for the under six.
An Interlaken entrepreneur […] came across the activity in the Swiss canton of Valais (the Rhone Valley) and ended up buying the 'zorbs' from a German manufacturer.
gloss: To roll downhill or engage in sports in a zorb ball.
pos: verb
examples: People who've zorbed in New Zealand, say Swiss mountains are too steep to allow the leisurely roll-out that's the real thrill.
We hadn't even zorbed. Not all bad news then.
Vieira zorbed — that is, rolled down a hill within an inflatable ball.
Translations:
urbano
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
Etymology: From Spanish urbano, from Spanish música urbana.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: An umbrella term for various popular Latin American music genres.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: With so many flavors, the album may be a sign that KAROL G is transitioning from the world of urbano to the broader category of Latin pop.
Translations:
computability
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: computing
computing-theory
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Latin computārelbor.
French computerbor.
English compute
Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr
Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom
Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlis
Proto-Italic *-ðlis
Latin -bilis
Latin -ābilis
Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-ts
Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ts
Proto-Italic *-tāts
Latin -tās
Latin -abilitas
Middle French -abletébor.
Middle English -ablete
English -ability
English computability
From compute + -ability.
Inflected forms:
form: computabilities
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The property of being computable by purely mechanical means.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
computable
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: computing
computing-theory
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
set-theory
Etymology: Etymology tree
Latin computārelbor.
French computerbor.
English compute
Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr
Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom
Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlis
Proto-Italic *-ðlis
Latin -bilis
Latin -ābilis
Old French -ablebor.
Middle English -able
English -able
English computable
From compute + -able.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Capable of being computed, or enumerated.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Of a problem, solvable by a Turing machine or any thereto Turing-equivalent model; Turing-computable.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: of a number, able to be approximated to arbitrary precision by a computable function
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Of a countably infinite set, having a computable indicator function.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Antonyms: non-computable
uncomputable
Derived words: computability
computable analysis
computable function
computably
incomputable
noncomputable
precomputable
recomputable
semicomputable
Translations:
punnet
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Uncertain. First appears in the 1820s. Perhaps a diminutive of pun, a dialect variant of pound, the weight + -et. The suggestion that it is an eponym of Reginald Crundall Punnett (1875–1967), geneticist and grower of strawberries, is not chronologically possible. The suggestion it was an ancestor of his lacks evidence.
Very likely to have originated from the french word bannette, wicker basket for bread proofing.
Inflected forms:
form: punnets
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A small basket or receptacle for collecting and selling fruit, particularly strawberries.
pos: noun
tags: Commonwealth
Ireland
UK
examples: Thus, according to the same Year-Book, a sea-kale punnet measures 8 in. in diameter at the top and 7½ in. at the bottom, being 2 in. deep, while a radish punnet is 8 in. in diameter and 1 in. deep, if to hold six “hands,” or 9 in. by 1 in. for twelve “hands.” A mushroom punnet is 7 in. by 1 in., while a salading punnet is 5 in. by 2 in.
Another type of splint basket, called a punnet, was used in the strawberry trade of New York City between 1815 and 1850.[…]Punnets and pottles found little favor except in the vicinity of Boston and New York and were soon discarded for more convenient and less expensive packages.
Most of the fruit for market is picked and sold in punnets, but for jam making buckets are used, similar to the raspberry bucket.
Early this season, Ross Lill got together with a plastics firm to produce a flat tray to replace the commonly used punnet.
However we recommend, particularly in cooler climates, sowing tomato seeds into a seed tray or punnet and allowing the seedlings to grow before they are transplanted into the garden.
‘But rather than spend £5 on a small punnet of exotic berries, a family would be better off buying regular and larger quantities of fresh fruit and vegetables from their local market.[…]’
Translations:
firewood
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From Middle English ferwode, fyrewoode, equivalent to fire + wood.
Compound parts: fire
wood
Inflected forms:
form: firewoods
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Wood intended to be burned, typically for heat.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: After many days of hard work, we finally had enough firewood for the winter.
Translations:
urna
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: Buddhism
lifestyle
religion
Etymology: From Sanskrit ऊर्णा (ūrṇā, “wool, thread”).
Inflected forms:
form: urnas
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A spiral or circular dot placed on the forehead of Buddhist images as an auspicious mark.
pos: noun
examples: The urna is not worn by all, nor the monastic dress of the magnificent image of the Buddhistic prince on the right side of the great Buddha in the chanḍi Mĕndut.
The ûrna or mark upon the forehead and the long pierced ear lobes so generally characteristic of Buddhist images are not present in this instance.
Between the eyes is a curl of hair (urna), one of the identifying features of a Buddha, and the thing that looks like a nose is a miraculous light emanating from the urna (it can also be interpreted as the Nepali figure “one”, conveying the unity of all things).
Translations:
free-for-all
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: video-games
Inflected forms:
form: free-for-alls
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Chaos; a chaotic situation lacking rules or control.
pos: noun
tags: idiomatic
examples: When the fire alarm went off, it was a free-for-all.
Competition was the order of the day: the industrial warfare of the sixties was a free-for-all.
[…] this was a consequence of building Tubes by means of a competitive free-for-all. Each company wanted to expand its territory at the expense of the others.
gloss: A deathmatch, sometimes specifically one in which every player is pitted against all the others.
pos: noun
gloss: Of a fight, competition, etc., characterized by the absence or scarcity of formal rules or limitations.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Men, as well as women, were springing in to the rope and pulling. No longer was it team against team, but all Oakland against all San Francisco, festooned with a free-for-all fight.
Then Lucy told him about the great passion of her father—about the long, time-honored custom of free-for-all races, and the great races that had been run in the past; […]
But, he added, “Twitter obviously cannot become a free-for-all hellscape where anything can be said with no consequences!”
Related words: kick bollocks scramble
law of the jungle
Translations:
chaplain
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English chapeleyn, from Old French chapelain, from Medieval Latin, Late Latin cappellānus, from cappella. Doublet of capelin. Displaced Old English handprēost.
Inflected forms:
form: chaplains
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A member of a religious body who is (often, although not always, of the clergy) officially assigned to provide pastoral care at an institution, group, private chapel, etc.
pos: noun
examples: The Railway Mission's regionally based chaplains perform the role of impartial 'friend' to anyone working on the railway, regardless of their faith.
gloss: A person without religious affiliation who carries out similar duties in a secular context.
pos: noun
Derived words: archchaplain
chaplaincy
chaplainry
chaplainship
college chaplain
domestic chaplain
football chaplain
hospital chaplain
lay chaplain
military chaplain
naval chaplain
prison chaplain
school chaplain
sports chaplain
street chaplain
unchaplained
Translations: