yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
decided
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more decided
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most decided
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: decideds
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Determined; resolute.
pos: adj
examples: A woman of decided opinions
gloss: Clear; unmistakable, definite, unquestionable.
pos: adj
examples: It was a decided victory.
There was a decided ugliness to the patch of waste ground.
The visual indicators are a decided improvement, and have reduced the telephoning by the staff in the signalbox.
gloss: A voter etc. who has reached their decision.
pos: noun
examples: […] but that is a highly flawed procedure if the undecideds differ in major ways from the decideds.
Antonyms: undecided
Derived words: decidedly
decidedness
predecided
underdecided
Translations:
accepted
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd
Proto-Italic *ad
Proto-Italic *ad-
Latin ad-
Proto-Indo-European *kap-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *kapyéti
Proto-Italic *kapjō
Old Latin kapiō
Latin capiō
Latin accipiō
Proto-Indo-European *-tós
Proto-Italic *-tos
Latin -tus
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti
Proto-Italic *-āō
Latin -ō
Latin -tō
Latin acceptārelbor.
Old French accepterder.?
Middle English accepten
English accept
English -ed
English accepted
From accept + -ed.
Inflected forms:
form: more accepted
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most accepted
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Generally approved, believed, or recognized.
pos: adj
Translations:
dropped
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: allowed to drop or fall.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: suddenly disconnected.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Derived words: dragged-and-dropped
dropped waist
Translations:
finished
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more finished
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most finished
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Processed or perfected.
pos: adj
tags: comparable
examples: He gave a very finished, but uninspired performance.
gloss: Completed; concluded; done.
pos: adj
examples: I won't be finished until just before lunch.
The program was finally finished after three hours.
He wasn't finished cleaning up until nearly noon.
He wasn't quite finished with his assignment.
gloss: Done for; doomed; used up.
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
informal
Synonyms: concluded
complete
completed
done
ended
finished
in the books
Antonyms: half-finished
unfinished
continuing
ongoing
unbegun
uncommenced
unstarted
continuous
eternal
lasting
Derived words: finished article
finished goods
finishedness
finished product
high-finished
nonfinished
overfinished
self-finished
semifinished
semi-finished
underfinished
Translations:
presented
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: mathematics
sciences
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Having a specified presentation, or a presentation with specified properties.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
regarded
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Originated on imageboard website 4chan. Popularized on Reddit beginning around 2022 in response to increasing censorship of the words retard and retarded.
Inflected forms:
form: more regarded
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most regarded
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Filter-avoidance spelling of retarded.
pos: adj
tags: Internet
euphemistic
examples: Don't listen to them they're regarded
Statists are very regarded
Can the mods step up and remove these garbage "pls gib MG2 discord :)" posts? Every other post to this subreddit is literally that, and it's getting kinda regarded.
45k as a certified electrician? Where, rural Africa? I work in Indiana, get paid less than I would at most places, and still make way more than that. OP is regarded.
He makes it hard to be a bull right now. For the first and probably only time, I hope and think maybe he's right 👀. Or I'm regarded and now we will see a huge bear market.
Translations:
expressed
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: transcribed
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
occupied
Part of speech: adj
intj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more occupied
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most occupied
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Reserved; engaged.
pos: adj
examples: The stall on the left is occupied.
gloss: Busy; unavailable.
pos: adj
examples: She is occupied at the moment.
gloss: Subjugated; under the control of a foreign (usually military) presence.
pos: adj
examples: My father travelled to occupied Japan in December 1945.
As he creeps towards the main road, someone, another occupied former human, pokes their head around the corner, then calls to others in the strange language, pointing him out. Wheeler stops in his tracks. In another moment, ten or eleven non-people are advancing on him from the road. Two of them are carrying something with them, a limp, badly broken human— a normal human, Wheeler realises with some shock, like him.
gloss: Used to communicate that a toilet is unavailable.
pos: intj
Derived words: human-occupied vehicle
keep someone occupied
multioccupied
overoccupied
underoccupied
unoccupied
Translations:
permitted
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Allowed, authorized.
pos: adj
Antonyms: banned
forbidden
prohibited
Translations:
pointed
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: algebraic-topology
mathematics
sciences
topology
Inflected forms:
form: more pointed
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most pointed
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Sharp, barbed; not dull.
pos: adj
tags: comparable
examples: The warrior brandished a pointed spear.
gloss: Having a certain number of points.
pos: adj
tags: in-compounds
examples: a five-pointed star
gloss: Having a relevance to the matter at hand: pertinent, relevant.
pos: adj
tags: comparable
gloss: In animals, having a coat pattern with points, that is, darkening of the extremities.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The Siamese is a pointed breed of cat.
gloss: Directed negatively at a person or topic.
pos: adj
tags: comparable
examples: a pointed remark
Attention has been called to the report in a New-York paper, which has been made the subject of pointed comment […]
After a harsh police crackdown last week fueled anger and swelled protests, President Dilma Rousseff, a former guerrilla who was imprisoned under the dictatorship and has now become the target of pointed criticism herself, tried to appease dissenters by embracing their cause on Tuesday.
President Taft to-day had a pointed comment for the "new nationalism" that his predecessor has been launching in the West.
gloss: That has a named, but otherwise arbitrary, point (called the basepoint) that remains unchanged during subsequent discussion and is kept track of during all operations.
pos: adj
examples: The class of all pointed spaces forms a category - Top_• - with basepoint preserving continuous maps as morphisms.
gloss: precise, on the dot.
pos: adj
tags: dated
examples: With their usual punctuality, the boys arrive at the pointed hour of three.
Antonyms: blunt
Derived words: bipointed
bullet-pointed
double-pointed needle
Earth-pointed
multipointed
overpointed
pointed cabbage
pointedly
pointedness
sharp-pointed
tripointed
unpointed
well-pointed
Translations:
failed
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: unsuccessful
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Decayed; worn out.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Bankrupt.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The government is unwilling to bail out the failed bank.
Derived words: failed back syndrome
failed state
failed supernova
unfailed
Translations:
established
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Inflected forms:
form: more established
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most established
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Having been in existence for a long time and therefore recognized and generally accepted.
pos: adj
gloss: Of a religion, church etc.: formally recognized by a state as being official within that area.
pos: adj
examples: Anglicanism did manage to strengthen its position in the southern English American colonies after Charles II's restoration (even in cosmopolitan New York), gaining established status in six out of the eventual thirteen.
gloss: Of any social or economic entity: part of the establishment (“groups with socioeconomic power”).
pos: adj
gloss: Explicitly defined, described or recognized as a reference.
pos: adj
Synonyms: estd.
Derived words: established church
established order
established suit
long-established
nonestablished
unestablished
well-established
Translations:
worked
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: ywrought
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Designed or executed in a particular manner or to a particular degree.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: A heavy rich loam is, perhaps, the best of any; but carse lands, and well worked and manured clay soils, are also very suitable.
gloss: Wrought.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: ...the light and elastic spear, made of the India bamboo, and tipped with the most perfectly worked steel, which he now held in his hand...
gloss: Wrought.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: ...and many of them, at least when young, wear only a worked piece of linen over their head.
gloss: Prepared so as to demonstrate the steps required.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Place each error opposite its supposed number, as in the worked example.
Derived words: frost-worked
worked up
handworked
hand-worked
user-worked
Translations:
appointed
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Subject to appointment, as opposed to an election.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: In the United States, the Secretary of State is an appointed position.
Translations:
published
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Issued for sale to the public
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Who has had a publication published
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Derived words: forepublished
multipublished
nonpublished
underpublished
unpublished
Translations:
distinguished
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: mathematics
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English distinguish
English -ed
English distinguished
From distinguish + -ed.
Inflected forms:
form: more distinguished
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most distinguished
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Celebrated, well-known or eminent because of achievements or rank; prestigious.
pos: adj
examples: The lecture was attended by many distinguished mathematicians.
gloss: Having a dignified appearance or demeanor.
pos: adj
examples: Her father was a distinguished gentleman, albeit a poor one.
gloss: Specified, noted.
pos: adj
examples: Let X be a topological space with a distinguished point p.
Derived words: distinguishedly
distinguishedness
distinguished open set
distinguished professor
indistinguished
undistinguished
Translations:
suggested
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more suggested
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most suggested
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
pos: adj
tags: no-gloss
Translations:
distributed
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Inflected forms:
form: more distributed
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most distributed
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Spread across a relatively wide area.
pos: adj
examples: Webster and Wong (2008) found that semivirtual teams had more positive perceptions of their local teammates compared to the distributed teammates […]
gloss: Involving numerous separate computers or entities, rather than the traditional one.
pos: adj
examples: distributed computing
distributed ray tracing
Derived words: biodistributed
codistributed
distributed hash table
distributed ledger
distributedly
distributedness
equidistributed
geodistributed
maldistributed
nondistributed
undistributed
Translations:
needed
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From need + -ed. The adjective is derived from the verb.
Base: need
Affixes: -ed
Inflected forms:
form: more needed
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most needed
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Necessary; being required.
pos: adj
examples: A much-needed rest.
Just-in-time as-needed support for in-house training
And now we're waiting for the very same people to establish GBR, drive through urgently needed fares reform, and come up with imaginative and effective train operating contracts...
Translations:
proposed
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Suggested or planned but not yet implemented.
pos: adj
examples: We discussed the proposed budget for the upcoming fiscal year.
She presented her research on the proposed merger between the two companies.
The proposed changes to the tax system sparked a heated debate.
Translations:
pressed
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: nautical
transport
Inflected forms:
form: more pressed
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most pressed
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Under strain or deprivation.
pos: adj
examples: The staff was even more pressed for useful intelligence about the enemy's intentions than it was about the enemy's capabilities.
He found himself hard pressed.
gloss: Upset, bothered.
pos: adj
tags: Internet
examples: She did what she always does: laid out a trap, and the well-intended took the bait. Like clockwork. Why do we stay so pressed instead of just ignoring her?
gloss: Recruited by a press gang.
pos: adj
examples: The most obvious source for tracking pressed men is the muster books of the individual ships, for these encompass those impressed both afloat and ashore. Yet the muster books are notoriously uneven in quality as an historical source.
Derived words: cold-pressed
hardpressed
hard-pressed
hot-pressed
nonpressed
pressed duck
pressed for time
pressed glass
pressed ham
pressed rice
repressed
Translations:
seated
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: business
clothing
fashion
lifestyle
manufacturing
textiles
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Sitting.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Of a woman's skirt, stretched out and baggy over the wearer's buttocks from much sitting while wearing the skirt.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: ... but she was very conscious, too, of her Saturday-morning appearance - of her blouse, which she'd once unpicked and refashioned in an attempt at 'make-do and mend', and her old tweed skirt, rather seated at the back.
gloss: Fixed; confirmed.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: "Why, everything about the colonel seems so seated, so ingrafted in his nature, so--so very self-satisfied, that I am afraid it would be a difficult task to take the first step in amendment--to convince him of its necessity?
gloss: Located; situated.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Furnished with a seat.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: There was a rush-seated chair with a hole in the seat, — and that […] seemed to be all that the room contained.
Related words: deep-seated
Derived words: multiseated
Translations:
prevision
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English previsioun, from Old French prevision, from Late Latin praevisio, praevisionem, from Latin praevideo.
Inflected forms:
form: previsions
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: prævision
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: previsions
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: previsioning
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: previsioned
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: previsioned
pos: verb
tags: past
form: prævision
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Advance knowledge; foresight.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: I watched her without knowing, with a prevision that she was going to address me, though with no sort of idea as to the subject of her address.
it was the beginning for her of a deeper prevision that, in spite of Miss Overmore's brilliancy and Mrs. Wix's passion, she should live to see a change in the nature of the struggle she appeared to have come into the world to produce.
The whole discussion is concerned with City States, and there is no prevision of their obsolescence.
gloss: A prediction.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: To predict or envision the future.
pos: verb
Translations:
problematical
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Latin problēmaticus + -al. By surface analysis, problematic + -al.
Affixes: -al
Inflected forms:
form: more problematical
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most problematical
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Doubtful or disputed.
pos: adj
gloss: Dubious or ambiguous.
pos: adj
examples: The salt seer attentively listened, accompanying the Foretopman's recital with queer twitchings of his wrinkles and problematical little sparkles of his small ferret eyes.
Synonyms: problematic
Derived words: problematicality
problematicalness
Translations:
kazan
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Russian каза́н (kazán), from a Turkic language. Cognate with Azerbaijani qazan, Kazakh қазан (qazan), Turkish kazan, Uzbek qozon.
Inflected forms:
form: kazans
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: a cauldron or cooking pot used in Central Asian cuisine
pos: noun
examples: A proper kazan also has to be well greased by constant use — it should never be washed with water, or, God forbid, actually scrubbed and scoured. The Uzbeks just wipe it carefully with an oiled cloth; and they will insist and I will second this — that the older the kazan, the better the pilaf.
Translations:
skirted
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Germanic *skurtijǭ
Old Norse skyrtabor.
Middle English skyrte
English skirt
English -ed
English skirted
From skirt + -ed.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Wearing a skirt.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: […] a small glass box in which you wander, swivel, waver, flashing your flesh like a skirted girl doing cartwheels on the lawn.
gloss: Having a skirt.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Carefully the child tried to cover her deformed leg under her skirted pyjamas.
Women should wear skirted suits or dresses with dress shoes; pantsuits are not usually worn.
The women whose new jobs required pants, overalls, or skirted uniforms broke dramatically with convention.
gloss: Bordered.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Passed around; evaded.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: a skirted topic of conversation
gloss: Narrowly missed.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Related words: hobble-skirted
pencil-skirted
poodle-skirted
Derived words: unskirted
Translations:
hala
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Austronesian *paŋudaN
Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *paŋdan
Proto-Oceanic *padran
Proto-Polynesian *fara
Hawaiian halabor.
English hala
Borrowed from Hawaiian hala, ultimately from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *paŋdan. Doublet of pandan via Malay.
Inflected forms:
form: halas
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: hala
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Pandanus tectorius, a screw pine native to Malesia, eastern Australia, and the Pacific Islands.
pos: noun
Translations:
trendy
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English trend
Proto-Indo-European *-kos
Proto-Germanic *-gaz
Proto-West Germanic *-g
Old English -iġ
Middle English -y
English -y
English trendy
From trend + -y.
Inflected forms:
form: trendier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: trendiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: trendies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of, or in accordance with the latest trend, fashion or hype.
pos: adj
tags: informal
examples: I hate those trendy pre-wrinkled shirts.
MDF and HDF – or medium-density fiberboard and high-density fiberboard – are two of the trendiest materials in woodworking these days.
Some people who go to trendy cafés lament getting stuck at the long central table that has to be shared, instead hoping they get a ‘private’ table. But that is foolish. On a recent trip to see family, I got stuck at the big table in a café, too; I ended up making a new friend there and learning about the surrounding town.
gloss: A trendy person.
pos: noun
tags: informal
examples: They're the kids who care. Yet they're the bad kids, and the trendies, the ones who are too cool to let anything matter, are the good kids. It's all twisted around.
Translations:
commentary
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle French commentaire, from Latin commentārius, commentārium (“notebook”), compare French commentaire. See comment.
Inflected forms:
form: commentaries
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A series of comments or annotations; especially, a book of explanations or expositions on the whole or a part of some other work.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: This letter […] was published by him with a severe commentary.
Under each coin was a circular ticket with written particulars of the specimen accompanying it. For some time Carrados took little interest in these commentaries, but presently Hosier noticed that his guest was submitting many of them to a close but quiet scrutiny.
gloss: A brief account of transactions or events written hastily, as if for a memorandum.
pos: noun
tags: countable
plural-normally
uncountable
examples: Caesar's Commentaries on the Gallic War
gloss: An oral relation of an event, especially broadcast by television or radio, as it occurs.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: We listened to the football commentary while watching the match.
Derived words: anti-commentary
audio commentary
commentarial
commentary box
commentary track
critical commentary
DVD commentary
metacommentary
political commentary
running commentary
social commentary
subcommentary
supercommentary
Translations:
polytheist
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *pleh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *polh₁ús
Ancient Greek πολῠ́ς (polŭ́s)lbor.
English poly-
English theist
English polytheist
From poly- + theist.
Inflected forms:
form: polytheists
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: a believer in, or advocate of, polytheism
pos: noun
Translations:
Irishwoman
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English Irish womman, equivalent to Irish + -woman.
Base: Irish
Affixes: -woman
Inflected forms:
form: Irishwomen
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A woman from Ireland.
pos: noun
Translations:
bootleg
Part of speech: verb
noun
adj
Morphological type: compound
Topics: American-football
ball-games
entertainment
football
games
hobbies
lifestyle
music
sports
Etymology: From boot + leg. Originally a nickname given to smugglers in King George III's reign, derived from the smugglers' custom of hiding packages of valuables in their large sea-boots when dodging the king's coastguardsmen.
Compound parts: boot
leg
Inflected forms:
form: bootlegs
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: bootlegging
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: bootlegged
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: bootlegged
pos: verb
tags: past
form: bootlegs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To engage in bootlegging.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
examples: Only certain dishes are allowed—-not fish and lobster, reserved to the state restaurants—-and those paladares that break the rules operate like speakeasies in the time of Prohibition, the fish-bootlegging owners keeping a nervous eye out for informers.
gloss: To engage in bootlegging.
pos: verb
tags: US
ambitransitive
examples: In the 1930s, Grandpa used to bootleg to make ends meet.
In the 1930s, Grandpa used to bootleg whiskey from a still hidden in the backwoods.
gloss: To engage in bootlegging.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
examples: In the 1990s, Grandpa used to bootleg under some sort of Robin-Hood-esque notion.
In the 1990s, Grandpa used to bootleg Windows CD-ROMs.
gloss: To engage in bootlegging.
pos: verb
tags: US
ambitransitive
examples: In the 1930s, Grandpa used to bootleg to make ends meet.
In the 1930s, Grandpa used to bootleg coal from a shaft hidden in the backwoods.
gloss: The part of a boot that is above the instep.
pos: noun
examples: Holonyms: upper < boot
gloss: An illegally produced, transported, or sold product.
pos: noun
examples: He thinks he can cross this border with bootleg and get away with it. I doubt he's right. Maybe years ago, but not nowadays.
gloss: An unauthorized recording; for example, of a live concert.
pos: noun
examples: Years ago I heard a fantastic bootleg of that song. It was my favorite rendition.
gloss: A remix or mashup that is a combination of two songs but that is not authorized and audited for copyright use; primarily in the electronic music scene.
pos: noun
gloss: A play in which the quarterback fakes a handoff, conceals the ball against his hip, and rolls out.
pos: noun
gloss: Illegally produced, transported, or sold.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Near-synonym: pirated
gloss: Being an inferior imitation of something, possibly a counterfeit.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: bootleg coffee
Related words: bathtub gin
doghole
moonshine
Derived words: bootlegger
bootleggery
bootlegging
bootleg ground
Translations:
lang: Polish
word: być zaangażowanym w działalność piracką
uninteresting
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *né
Proto-Indo-European *n̥-
Proto-Germanic *un-
Proto-West Germanic *un-
Old English un-
Middle English un-
English un-
English interesting
English uninteresting
From un- + interesting.
Inflected forms:
form: more uninteresting
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most uninteresting
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Arousing little or no interest; boring or uneventful.
pos: adj
examples: To many, a railway ticket is but an uninteresting bit of pasteboard, which must be purchased before a journey is undertaken, and once obtained, may be stowed away in a convenient pocket and forgotten, until a watchful railway official requests its production.
Antonyms: interesting
Translations:
self-assertive
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *swé?
Proto-Indo-European *selbʰ-der.
Proto-Germanic *selbaz
Old English self
Old English self-
Middle English self-
English self-
English assertive
English self-assertive
From self- + assertive.
Inflected forms:
form: more self-assertive
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most self-assertive
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: determined to advance one's own personality or views
pos: adj
Translations:
allomorph
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
human-sciences
linguistics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: From allo- + -morph.
Base: allo
Inflected forms:
form: allomorphs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of the different crystalline forms of a substance.
pos: noun
gloss: Any of the different phonological representations of a morpheme.
pos: noun
Related words: allophone
Derived words: allomorphic
allomorphism
allomorphy
Translations:
makeweight
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From make + weight.
Compound parts: make
weight
Inflected forms:
form: makeweights
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: make-weight
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Something of inferior quality which is included in a shipment to make up the weight.
pos: noun
examples: 1893, Richard Le Gallienne, in a publisher's report on stories by Ernest Dowson, quoted in Jad Adams, Madder Music, Stronger Wine, page 88.
I would advise you to accept these as an instalment of a volume, (they are not big enough to make one themselves) with the promise that the stories to come should be more striking, more original in theme — not less so, not mere makeweights — than those under consideration.
gloss: Something included to add to the apparent weight or force of an argument.
pos: noun
examples: He added a long litany of peripheral precedents which the judge dismissed as mere makeweights.
Other railway schemes of the earliest period certainly mentioned benefits to agriculture, but only as a make-weight; most of them justified themselves by improved transport of minerals for shipment, […], or by carriage of bulk loads of manufactured goods.
Fashion, as it happens, favors certain rows of the style matrix: museums, connoisseurs, and others are makeweights in the Artworld.
Related words: butcher's thumb
adjectitious
Translations:
stating
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: statings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: statement
pos: noun
examples: Most of Quayle's and Bush's slips follow the basic formula of what the French call lapalissades, the tautological statings of the obvious attributed to the mythical figure of Monsieur la Palice […]
Translations:
tasting
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English tastynge, taastyng, equivalent to taste + -ing (gerundive ending).
Base: taste
Affixes: -ing
Inflected forms:
form: tastings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A small amount of food or drink.
pos: noun
gloss: The taking of a small amount of food or drink into the mouth in order to taste it.
pos: noun
Synonyms: degustation
Derived words: domain tasting
supertasting
tasting menu
tasting note
tasting room
winetasting
Translations:
myrtle
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English mirtille, from Old French mirtille, mirtile, from myrte, from Latin myrtillus, from myrtus + -illus, from Ancient Greek μύρτος (múrtos, “myrtle”).
Base: myrtus
Affixes: -illus
Inflected forms:
form: myrtles
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An evergreen shrub or small tree of the genus Myrtus, native to southern Europe and north Africa.
pos: noun
examples: In the Middle Ages pulverized myrtle leaves were applied to the body as a sexual stimulation.
gloss: Cyrilla species.
pos: noun
gloss: A dark green shade that resembles the color of Myrtus leaves.
pos: noun
Derived words: aniseed myrtle
bog myrtle
bog-myrtle
common myrtle
crape myrtle
creeping myrtle
crêpe myrtle
crepe myrtle
Jew's myrtle
lemon myrtle
Myrtle Bank
Myrtle Beach
myrtle beech
myrtled
myrtlelike
myrtle of the river
Myrtle Park
myrtle rust
myrtle warbler
myrtle wax
native myrtle
Oregon myrtle
rose myrtle
Saharan myrtle
salt myrtle
salt-myrtle
sand myrtle
sea myrtle
sea-myrtle
strawberry myrtle
Tasmanian myrtle
true myrtle
wax myrtle
Translations:
assorted
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more assorted
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most assorted
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Composed of a number of different kinds or types; mixed; miscellaneous.
pos: adj
examples: Nor was I ever able to treat myself to the national drunkard's delight that is the ‘munchy box’: a foot-square pizza carton crammed with onion rings, doner meat shavings, hunks of nan bread and nuggets of assorted bhaji, all served on a bed of Glasgow salad.
Antonyms: accordant
concordant
homogeneous
matched
uniform
unmixed
Translations:
fantasize
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From fantasy + -ize.
Base: fantasy
Affixes: -ize
Inflected forms:
form: fantasizes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: fantasizing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: fantasized
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: fantasized
pos: verb
tags: past
form: fantasise
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: phantasise
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: phantasize
pos: verb
tags: alternative
archaic
Senses:
gloss: To indulge in fantasy; to imagine things only possible in fantasy.
pos: verb
tags: British
English
Oxford
US
intransitive
examples: I fantasized about my ideal date.
gloss: To portray in the mind, using fantasy.
pos: verb
tags: British
English
Oxford
US
intransitive
transitive
examples: Not that Mom and I didn't have our "shared experiences" — it's just that I'd like to forget most of them. I'd rather fantasize us together in that little cafe.
Actress Dana Delany fantasizes about making love with two men.
Derived words: fantasization
fantasizer
refantasize
Translations:
mocking
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: mockings
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: more mocking
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most mocking
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: mockery
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: derisive or contemptuous
pos: adj
gloss: teasing or taunting
pos: adj
examples: mocking laugh
mocking laughter
Derived words: mockingbird
mockingly
mockingness
mocking thrush
mocking wren
unmocking
Translations:
occlude
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin occlūdere, from ob (“before”) and claudere (“to shut”).
Inflected forms:
form: occludes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: occluding
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: occluded
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: occluded
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To obstruct, cover, or otherwise block (an opening, a portion of an image, etc.).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: His reflection is occluded by the mist on the mirror.
gloss: To absorb, as a gas by a metal.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Related words: disocclude
disocclusion
occlusal
occlusion
occlusive
postoccluded
preoccluded
Derived words: malocclude
nonoccluded
occludable
occluded front
occluder
occludin
reocclude
re-occlude
reoccluded
unoccluded
Translations:
diametral
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle French dyametral, from Medieval Latin diametrālis.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of, relating to, or measured across a diameter.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Contrary; diametrically opposed.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Synonyms: diametrical
Derived words: diametrally
nondiametral
Translations:
leguminous
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English leguminous, from Medieval Latin legūminōsus, ultimately from oblique stem of Latin legūmen, legūminis (“bean, pulse”) + -ous.
Affixes: -ous
Inflected forms:
form: more leguminous
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most leguminous
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: leguminose
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Of the Leguminosae family of peas, beans etc.
pos: adj
gloss: Resembling a legume.
pos: adj
Derived words: nonleguminous
Translations:
stopped
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonetics
phonology
sciences
Etymology: From stop + -ed. In some senses, the adjective follows from the verb; in others, it may derive directly from the noun stop.
Base: stop
Affixes: -ed
Inflected forms:
form: more stopped
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most stopped
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Not moving, but not properly parked or berthed; said also of the occupants of such a vehicle.
pos: adj
examples: We were stopped for more than three hours!
They passed a stopped car on the side of the road, but realized there was nothing they could do to help.
gloss: In the state resulting from having stopped.
pos: adj
tags: broadly
examples: A stopped clock is right twice a day.
gloss: Having a stop; being closed at one end.
pos: adj
gloss: In a well-pruned state.
pos: adj
gloss: Made by complete closure of the organs in the mouth; said of certain consonants such as b, d, p, and t.
pos: adj
examples: þ was first voiced and then stopped , becoming d
Derived words: a stopped clock is right twice a day
even a stopped clock is right twice a day
glottal-stopped
nonstopped
pre-stopped
stopped clock illusion
stoppedness
stopped pipe
Translations:
Brix
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Adolf Ferdinand Wenceslaus Brix, a German chemist.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A measure (in degrees) of the amount of dissolved solids in a liquid via its specific gravity; used especially to measure dissolved sugar in fruit juice and wine.
pos: noun
Translations:
bourse
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
botany
hobbies
lifestyle
natural-sciences
philately
Etymology: Borrowed from French bourse, from Old French borse, from Latin bursa, from Ancient Greek βύρσα (búrsa). Doublet of purse, compare Danish børs, Swedish börs, German Börse. See also bursar.
Inflected forms:
form: bourses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A stock exchange.
pos: noun
gloss: A stock exchange.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:bourse.
gloss: A meeting of stamp collectors and/or dealers, where stamps and covers are sold or exchanged.
pos: noun
gloss: The swollen basal part of an inflorescence axis at the onset of fruit development; it bears leaves whose axillary buds differentiate and may grow out as shoots.
pos: noun
Related words: bursar
burse
purse
reimburse
Derived words: interbourse
Translations:
lippy
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From lip (“fleshy protrusion around the opening of the mouth; (slang) verbal impertinence, backtalk”) + -y (suffix forming adjectives with the sense of ‘having the quality of’).
Base: lip
Affixes: -y
Inflected forms:
form: lippier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: lippiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: lippies
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: lippie
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Having prominent lips.
pos: adj
tags: informal
examples: His eyes were large and prominent, his mouth wide and lippy, and as he bent over his books he emitted sundry low growls and grunts, plainly indicating that his temper was none of the sweetest.
gloss: Having a tendency to talk back in a cheeky or impertinent manner.
pos: adj
tags: informal
examples: Don't give me any lip! I don't like how lippy you've been acting lately! Clean your room.
No, it's [Tamil is] a happy, snappy, lippy, and loping lingo anyone can see just makes these guys happy to speak and hear.
I hesitated another moment, then followed her with a vow that I would walk out the instant she got lippy. If she wanted to fire me, fine, I'd go, but I'd be damned if I'd let her lay any crap on me.
His silence conceded the point. Either she'd gotten lippier down the years, or he was getting rusty. Both, probably.
In clothes, language, and manner, he's hip-hop ghetto meets Italian mobster. He's the lippiest, most foul-mouthed, most confrontational kid I've ever met and also one of the funniest.
Wouldn't it just be my luck to come across the lippiest desk nurse in the whole of Miami?
gloss: Lip gloss or lipstick; (countable) a stick of this product.
pos: noun
tags: New-Zealand
UK
also
colloquial
uncountable
examples: Like some kind of masonic handshake, Collie passed Vanya a tube of black lippie. She smeared it carelessly across her wide mouth and handed it to me. My parents would have a hissy fit if they knew I put on lipstick but they weren't around.
I'm worried I'm turning into a 1950s housewife: the other day I found myself tidying up the sitting room and putting on some lippie before Tony got home from work!
'Sorry—just trying on new lippies for tonight,' she confessed, flashing a crimson smile.
A russet shade of sheer lippy proved the finishing touch to Meghan's latest make-up look. It wasn't a full gloss, but appeared to have a balm-like finish, a pretty touch of shine.
Related words: stiff-upper-lippy
Derived words: lippiness
Translations:
eyeliner
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₃ekʷ-der.
Proto-Germanic *augô
Proto-West Germanic *augā
Old English ēage
Middle English eye
English eye
Middle French lignerbor.
English line
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 liner
English eyeliner
From eye + liner.
Inflected forms:
form: eyeliners
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: eye liner
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Makeup used to outline the eye, generally applied along or close to the lashline.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Do you need to wear eyeliner? As with any makeup step, eyeliner is completely optional. From an artistic perspective, if you are wearing eyeshadow, I almost always recommend wearing eyeliner, unless your eyelids and eyelashes are obscured by the eyebrow area. Eyeliner is a basic part of an eye-makeup design because it shapes and defines the eyes and makes the eyelashes look thicker.
Translations:
blusher
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English blush
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 blusher
From blush + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: blushers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who blushes.
pos: noun
tags: countable
gloss: Face makeup that makes the cheeks rosier.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Beside him Lady Partridge, her head tilted up, her face a mask of blusher and brown powder, like someone just back from a skiing holiday, was also clearly elsewhere.
gloss: Any of several closely related, edible species of the genus Amanita, including Amanita rubescens and Amanita novinupta.
pos: noun
tags: countable
Translations:
manliness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English manlynes, manlynesse. By surface analysis, manly + -ness.
Inflected forms:
form: manlinesses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The quality of being manly; the set of qualities, traits and abilities considered appropriate to men (as opposed to women or children); similarity to a man.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: Nought under Heaven so strongly doth allure
The Sense of Man, and all his Mind possess,
As Beauty’s lovely Bait, that doth procure
Great Warriors oft their Rigour to repress;
And mighty Hands forget their Manliness,
With louder plaints the mother spoke her woes,
And blessed the cot where every pleasure rose;
And kissed her thoughtless babes with many a tear,
And clasped them close, in sorrow doubly dear;
Whilst her fond husband strove to lend relief
In all the silent manliness of grief.
‘He he!’ simpered Brass, who, in his deep debasement, really seemed to have changed sexes with his sister, and to have made over to her any spark of manliness he might have possessed.
[…] there was in all their minds a mute questioning of deference and chivalry, of the Bank of England and the Indian Empire, of ringed fingers and lace, though to them all there was something in this of the essence of beauty, which called out the manliness in their girlish hearts, and made them, as they sat at table beneath their mother's eyes, honour her strange severity […]
Yam stood for manliness, and he who could feed his family on yams from one harvest to another was a very great man indeed.
gloss: Male genitals.
pos: noun
tags: euphemistic
rare
uncountable
usually
examples: Dressed only in flip-flops and a fuzzy blue bathrobe, which would be long enough on the mayor of Munchkin Land but on me is literally indecent, I attack the mower in a yanking frenzy, flailing around until the dramatic conclusion, wherein the mower refuses to start even though it is confronted by the full extent of my manliness because my too-short robe has flapped open in a cloud of flying sweat and hurled profanity.
gloss: Humanity, the quality of being human.
pos: noun
tags: rare
uncountable
usually
examples: What might not have happened to men? What if cruelty had grown into a common passion? What if in this interval the race had lost its manliness, and had developed into something inhuman, unsympathetic, and overwhelmingly powerful? I might seem some old-world savage animal, only the more dreadful and disgusting for our common likeness—a foul creature to be incontinently slain.
Translations:
headlock
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From head + lock.
Compound parts: head
lock
Inflected forms:
form: headlocks
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: headlocks
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: headlocking
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: headlocked
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: headlocked
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A wrestling move where the attacker puts their arm tightly round their opponent's head, from which the opponent cannot easily escape.
pos: noun
examples: Your love is like a studded leather headlock
Your kiss, it could put creases in the rain
You're rarer than a can of dandelion and burdock
And those other girls are just post-mix lemonade
gloss: To restrain in a headlock.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Translations:
cassock
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle French casaque (“cloak”).
Inflected forms:
form: cassocks
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An item of clerical clothing: a long, sheath-like, close-fitting, ankle-length robe worn by clergy members of some Christian denominations.
pos: noun
examples: It was a joy to snatch some brief respite, and find himself in the rectory drawing–room. Listening here was as pleasant as talking; just to watch was pleasant. The young priests who lived here wore cassocks and birettas; their faces were fine and mild, yet really strong, like the rector's face; and in their intercourse with him and his wife they seemed to be brothers.
In one of the aisles there was an elaborately carved confessional box and I recognised the village priest in his heavy mountain boots and black cassock as he entered it and drew the dark velvet curtains behind him.
When leading worship, Elsie usually wore a long black cassock and preaching bands. This would, of course, save her from the worry of choosing a suitable costume.
gloss: A military cloak or long coat worn by soldiers or horsemen in the 16th and 17th centuries.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
gloss: A coarse, loose cloak or gown, worn by women, sailors, shepherds, countryfolk etc.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
Derived words: cassocked
uncassock
Translations:
surplice
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English surplys, from Old French surpeliz, from Medieval Latin superpelliceum, from Latin super (“over”) and pellis (“fur”).
Inflected forms:
form: surplices
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A liturgical vestment of the Christian Church in the form of a tunic of white linen or cotton material, with wide or moderately wide sleeves, reaching to the hips or knees, usually featuring lace decoration and embroidered bordures.
pos: noun
examples: On the previous night he had taken the manuscript out of a long neglected chest, containing old shooting jackets, old Oxbridge scribbling books, his old surplice, and battered cap and gown, and other memorials of youth, school, and home.
Beneath an old ebony table were two long carved oak chests. I lifted the lid of one, and at the top was a once-white surplice covered with dust, and beneath was a mass of tracts — Commonwealth Quartos, unbound — a prey to worms and decay.
[…] the flagstones of the floor, the mats, the banners above the choir, the steps of the ambo, the ancient books black with age, the cassocks and surplices, were all inundated with light.
He was a wide man and looked wider in his surplice, especially from our pew, which was close up under the pulpit.
Translations: