yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
sybarite
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: The noun is a learned borrowing from Latin Sybarīta + English -ite (suffix forming demonyms). Sybarīta is derived from Ancient Greek Σῠβᾰρῑ́της (Sŭbărī́tēs, “(noun) inhabitant of Sybaris; (adjective) decadent; self-indulgent”), from Σῠ́βᾰρῐς (Sŭ́bărĭs, “Sybaris”) + -ῑ́της (-ī́tēs, suffix forming demonyms)). Sybaris, a city of Magna Graecia (the coastal parts of Sicily and southern Italy once colonized by Greek settlers), was known for its wealth and the excesses and hedonism of its inhabitants.
The adjective is derived from the noun.
Inflected forms:
form: sybarites
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: more sybarite
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most sybarite
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: A person devoted to luxury and pleasure; a hedonist.
pos: noun
examples: Although the proud lord clothed himself // In purple robes and gem-stones white, // Yet Nero grew to all men’s hate // A wild and cruel sybarite.
Lisa (Sian Breckin), the blondest and wildest of the women; Kim (Jamie Winstone), who is ready and willing; and Tammi (Nichola Burley), the most reluctant sybarite, are from Leeds.
Thus began a dual career as political agitator and upper-crust sybarite. He arranged a packed schedule of antiwar demonstrations by day and Champagne-flooded parties with Oxford’s elite at night.
gloss: Synonym of sybaritic (“of or having the qualities of a sybarite; dedicated to excessive comfort and enjoyment; decadent, hedonistic, self-indulgent”).
pos: adj
Translations:
swale
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Possibly from Middle English swale (“a shady place, a shadow”), perhaps of North Germanic origin; akin to Old Norse svalr (“cool, fresh”), Icelandic svalir (“a balcony running along a wall”).
Inflected forms:
form: swales
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A low tract of moist or marshy land.
pos: noun
gloss: A long narrow and shallow trough between ridges on a beach, running parallel to the coastline.
pos: noun
gloss: A shallow troughlike depression created to carry water during rainstorms or snow melts; a drainage ditch.
pos: noun
gloss: Bioswale, a shallow trough dug into the land on contour (horizontally with no slope), whose purpose is to allow water time to percolate into the soil.
pos: noun
examples: The stored water creates an underground reservoir that aids plant growth for tens of feet below the swale. Swales also prevent gullies from forming by intercepting rainwater, slowing it, spreading it, and storing it in the soil.
gloss: A shallow, usually grassy depression sloping downward from a plains upland meadow or level vegetated ridgetop.
pos: noun
examples: Jane climbed a few more paces behind him and then peeped over the ridge. Just beyond began a shallow swale that deepened and widened into a valley, and then swung to the left.
Derived words: swaly
Translations:
hypnagogic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From French hypnagogique, from Ancient Greek ὕπνος (húpnos, “sleep”) + ἀγωγός (agōgós, “leading”).
Inflected forms:
form: more hypnagogic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most hypnagogic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: hypnogogic
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: That induces sleep; soporific, somniferous.
pos: adj
gloss: That accompanies falling asleep; especially, pertaining to the semi-conscious period immediately preceding sleep.
pos: adj
examples: But if we are in the right mood, a second of such lethargy is enough to make a hypnagogic [translating hypnagogische] hallucination appear, after which perhaps we reawaken, until the oft-repeated performance is brought to an end by sleep.
Very quickly it would come to seem to Lionel Hoffmann that the remainder of his life, all that was not Siri, was of little more substance than those hypnagogic images that flash against our eyelids when, in a state of exhaustion, we begin to sink into sleep.
Antonyms: hypnopompic
Related words: hypnagogue
Derived words: hypnagogic jerk
Translations:
narratology
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From narrate + -ology, after French narratologie.
Base: narrate
Affixes: -ology
Inflected forms:
form: narratologies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The study of narrative structure.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
bowtie
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From bow + tie.
Compound parts: bow
tie
Inflected forms:
form: bowties
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: bow tie
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: bow-tie
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: bow tie
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: bow-tie
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A man's necktie tied in a bow around the throat.
pos: noun
gloss: A kind of road intersection. See Bowtie (road).
pos: noun
tags: US
gloss: Having the shape that the displayed part of a bowtie does when the latter is tied.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The corkscrew pasta holds the cheese sauce better, but all I had in the cupboard was bowtie pasta.
Derived words: bowtied
Sherman's bow tie
Translations:
merciless
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English merciles, mercyles, equivalent to mercy + -less.
Base: mercy
Affixes: -less
Inflected forms:
form: more merciless
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most merciless
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Showing no mercy; cruel and pitiless.
pos: adj
examples: The sun is merciless today, so please take care of yourself.
But the ruthless cleaning up of those streets and merciless treatment of gang members have triggered outrage and concern among human rights organizations, which have condemned Cecot as inhumane and unacceptable.
Translations:
catalyzed
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more catalyzed
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most catalyzed
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: catalysed
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Having undergone catalysis.
pos: adj
Translations:
ascender
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: climbing
hobbies
lifestyle
media
publishing
sports
typography
Etymology: Etymology tree
English ascend
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 ascender
From ascend + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: ascenders
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person or thing that ascends.
pos: noun
gloss: The portion of a lowercase letter that extends above the midline.
pos: noun
examples: Catherine had a paperback called Graphology: The Mind in the Hand, which gave her all sorts of warnings about people’s tendencies and repressions (“Artist or Madman?” “Pet or Brute?”). “It's those enormous ascenders, darling,” she said: “I see a lot of ego.”
gloss: A lowercase letter that has such a portion, such as d or h.
pos: noun
tags: uncommon
gloss: a mechanical device used for ascending on a rope; ascendeur.
pos: noun
Related words: ascend
ascendance
ascendancy
ascendency
ascendant
ascending
ascent
Translations:
lang: Esperanto
word: superliniaĵo
lang: Finnish
word: yläpidennys
lang: German
word: Oberlänge
lang: Hungarian
word: felnyúló szár
lang: Irish
word: éiritheach
lang: Portuguese
word: ascendente
exogamy
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
natural-sciences
Etymology: From exo- + -gamy. Coined by British lawyer and ethnologist John Ferguson McLennan in his Studies in Ancient History, page 25.
Base: exo
Inflected forms:
form: exogamies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: marriage to a person belonging to a tribe or group other than one's own as required by custom or law
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The daughters of Danaüs thus apparently stand for mother-right, which usually occurs in conjunction with exogamy, marriage outside the family or clan.
gloss: the fusion of two unrelated gametes
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Related words: exogamous
intermarriage
Derived words: exogamic
Translations:
diatomic
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: From di- + atomic.
Base: atomic
Affixes: di-
Inflected forms:
form: diatomics
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Consisting of two atoms.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: diatomic molecule
diatomic element
gloss: A diatomic molecule or other species.
pos: noun
Translations:
triatomic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English tri-
English atomic
English triatomic
From tri- + atomic.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Consisting of three atoms.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Ozone is a triatomic form of oxygen.
Translations:
books
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: accounting
business
finance
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Accounting records.
pos: noun
examples: We still have to do this month's books.
Pridger had been burning books and other incriminating matter now for half an hour.
Derived words: booksy
history books
Translations:
horses
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Horsepower.
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: I got four hundred horses tucked under the hood.
This is a diagnostic test of your engine. You're supposed to have an output of a hundred and sixty-eight horses at sixty-two hundred R.P.M.s. You're nowhere near that.
Translations:
overrated
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *úp
Proto-Indo-European *-er
Proto-Indo-European *upér
Proto-Germanic *uber
Old English ofer-
Middle English over-
English over-
English rated
English overrated
From over- + rated.
Inflected forms:
form: more overrated
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most overrated
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: over-rated
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Given an undue amount of credit for quality or merit in a field; not necessarily related to popularity.
pos: adj
examples: My sister is an overrated singer.
I say, “Tom Cruise,” because I know Irene hates Tom Cruise and she'll go on and on about why he's completely overrated.
Translations:
contrail
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: Blend of condensation + trail.
Compound parts: condensation
trail
Inflected forms:
form: contrails
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: contrails
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: contrailing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: contrailed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: contrailed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: An artificial cloud made by the exhaust of jet aircraft or wingtip vortices that precipitate a stream of tiny ice crystals in moist, frigid upper air.
pos: noun
gloss: To produce an artificial cloud of this kind.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
Antonyms: distrail
Translations:
docudrama
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: broadcasting
drama
dramaturgy
entertainment
film
lifestyle
media
television
theater
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *deḱ-der.
Proto-Italic *dokeō
Latin doceō
Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥
Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥tom
Proto-Italic *-mentom
Latin -mentum
Latin documentumbor.
French document
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Proto-Italic *-āzijos
Latin -āriusder.
French -aire
French documentairebor.
English documentary
Ancient Greek δράω (dráō)
Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥
Ancient Greek -μᾰ (-mă)
Ancient Greek δρᾶμᾰ (drâmă)bor.
Late Latin drāmabor.
English drama
blend
English docudrama
Blend of documentary + drama.
Inflected forms:
form: docudramas
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: docu-drama
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A type of drama (a film, play, television show, etc.) that combines elements of documentary and drama, to some extent showing real events and to some extent using actors performing recreations of documented events.
pos: noun
tags: US
countable
uncountable
examples: What he saw was a school system in defeat, in panic. When a man must fight he reaches for such weapons as he has and understands. Early last summer, Phil[lip C.] Lewis stripped the cover off his typewriter, squared a sheet of paper on the platen, and invented DocuDrama. It's a dramatization of the fix the schools are in.
A docu-drama entitled "Crisis in the Local Congregation" on extremism was presented by a group from the Fourth Avenue Methodist Church under the directorship of Mr. Martin Bard.
Ever since Roots, historical "docu[-]dramas" and "mini-series" have flourished on television and competed successfully for top ratings. […] "History" is not sick. On the other hand, the teaching of history may be.
In other words, docudrama covers an amazing variety of dramatic forms, bound together by two things. They are all based on or inspired by reality, by the lives of real people, or by events that have happened in the recent or not too distant past. Furthermore, they would seem to have a higher responsibility to accuracy and to truth than does fiction.
And docudramas would be the perfect epitaph because, though Norman Kingsley Mailer dreamed of being the monarch of the American novel, he was finally the king of faction, the man whose greatest books, a nightmare for any librarian hoping neatly to classify as fiction or non-fiction, consolidated the now standard view that reporting is as important to storytelling as invention.
"Docudrama" is by its nature a confusing genre—neither fish nor fowl, and thus lacking either taste or substance.
Fenny Compton featured in the recent TV docudrama Mr Bates vs The Post Office. It was where the first meeting of postmasters took place in 2009, organised by sub-postmaster Alan Bates to begin mounting a fight for justice in the now well-publicised Post Office scandal.
Translations:
craptastic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Old Dutch krappender.
Old French crappe
Middle French crapebor.
Middle English crappe
English crap
Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂-der.
Proto-Hellenic *pʰáňňō
Ancient Greek φαίνω (phaínō)
Ancient Greek φαντάζω (phantázō)
Proto-Indo-European *-tis
Ancient Greek -τις (-tis)
Ancient Greek -σῐς (-sĭs)
Proto-Indo-European *-kos
Ancient Greek -κός (-kós)
?
Proto-Indo-European *-tós
Proto-Hellenic *-tós
Ancient Greek -τος (-tos)
▲
Ancient Greek -κός (-kós)
?
Ancient Greek -τικός (-tikós)
Ancient Greek φανταστικός (phantastikós)bor.
Late Latin phantasticusbor.
Middle French fantastiquebor.
English fantastic
English -tastic
English craptastic
From crap + -tastic.
Inflected forms:
form: more craptastic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most craptastic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of extremely poor quality.
pos: adj
tags: slang
vulgar
examples: That was the most craptastic movie I've ever seen!
We also received a new logo for products that are craptastic to the nth power. Behold the Lick Ass award.
2003, Kevin J. Maroney, in rec.games.board http://groups.google.com/group/rec.games.board/msg/aaddff7316800eee?dmode=source&hl=en
I've seen far too many games in the American market which have what I consider to be interesting themes wedded to craptastic mechanisms …
2004, Thomas J. Theobald, in borland.public.off-topic http://groups.google.com/group/borland.public.off-topic/msg/9f9b6e3a95f0e155?dmode=source&hl=en
If the GOP were to start acting like it cared (and yes, I believe it is their responsibility at this point, given the ultra-craptastic record they've displayed over these last four years), there might be some hope.
2005, Steve Bass PC Annoyances
"The unofficial story, according to one source, is that the BBC's charter prevents it from “shower[ing] their viewers with craptastic ads …"
Translations:
outdistance
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *úd
Proto-Germanic *ūt
Proto-Germanic *ūt-
Old English ūt-
Middle English ut-
English out-
English distance
English outdistance
From out- + distance.
Inflected forms:
form: outdistances
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: outdistancing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: outdistanced
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: outdistanced
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To run farther or faster than another, or to finish a race with a large margin.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: He could not long outdistance such a runner as the Bishop, whose tremendous strides would surely overhaul him in the end.
Translations:
outcrossing
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: outcrossings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An organism produced by outcrossing
pos: noun
Translations:
outcross
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *úd
Proto-Germanic *ūt
Proto-Germanic *ūt-
Old English ūt-
Middle English ut-
English out-
English cross
English outcross
From out- + cross.
Inflected forms:
form: outcrosses
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: out-cross
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: outcrosses
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: outcrossing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: outcrossed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: outcrossed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: out-cross
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The introduction of unrelated breeding stock to an existing population, especially one which is inbred or homogeneous.
pos: noun
examples: Their two sons, Joseph I and Charles VI went still further in their pursuit of an out-cross by both marrying princesses from the Guelph house of Brunswick.
gloss: A plant or animal produced by such methods.
pos: noun
gloss: to crossbreed different strains of a plant or animal.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Antonyms: incross
inbreed
Translations:
attar
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Persian عطر (atr, “scent”), from Arabic عِطْر (ʕiṭr, “perfume”).
Inflected forms:
form: attars
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: atar
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: athar
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: ittar
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: ottar
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: otter
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: otto
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: âta
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: An essential oil extracted from flowers.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Now, when orange-flowers are distilled with water, we procure the otto of the blossom, which is known commercially as oil of neroli.
I bequeath to you my literary work. Useless though these might be commercially, they are the attar-drops distilled from the long and futile ebullience of my life.
gloss: A perfume made from this oil.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Derived words: attar of roses
Translations:
furnished
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: equipped with whatever is needed
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: supplied with furniture
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Shabby indeed, and small and poorly furnished, and yet his, the home he had made for himself, the home he had been so happy to get back to after his day's work.
Antonyms: unfurnished
Derived words: overfurnished
underfurnished
well-furnished
Translations:
sconce
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English sconce, sconse (“candlestick or lantern (with screen)”), from Old French esconse (“lantern”), from Latin absconsus (“hidden”), perfect passive participle of abscondō (“hide”). Cognate with abscond.
Inflected forms:
form: sconces
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: sconces
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: sconcing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: sconced
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: sconced
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A fixture for a light, which holds it and provides a screen against wind or against a naked flame or lightbulb.
pos: noun
examples: […]tapers put into lanterns or sconces of several-coloured, oiled paper, that the wind might not annoy them.
Golden sconces hang not on the walls.
There wasn't a room that had not been clad, picture-railed, dadoed, panelled, stained, gilded, bordered and generally made over to within an inch of its life - can I interest anyone in a gold cherubic sconce?
gloss: A fixture for a light, which holds it and provides a screen against wind or against a naked flame or lightbulb.
pos: noun
examples: Taking the candle […] she stood with the little flat brass sconce in her hand.
This strange scene was lightd up by candles in high and havy brass sconces.
Also the candles flickering in the blood-red sconces are black and the body on the crucifix is that of a full-breasted woman.
gloss: To impose a fine, a forfeit, or a mulct.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
examples: The Rector sconced him in the buttery-book, but Webberly “wiped it off, with irreverent and unbeseeming language.” For this, he had to apologise, and go without his commons for three months.
gloss: During a meal or as part of a drinking game, to announce some (usually outrageous) deed such that anyone who has done it must drink; similar to I have never; commonly associated with crewdates; very similar to fining at Cambridge University.
pos: verb
examples: I sconce anyone who has ever…
Related words: abscond
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: аплик
roman: aplik
lang: Catalan
word: aplic
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 灯台
roman: dēngtái
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 烛台
roman: zhútái
lang: Czech
word: nástěnný svícen
lang: Dutch
word: kandelaar
lang: Dutch
word: schemerlamp
lang: Finnish
word: lampetti
lang: French
word: applique murale
lang: French
word: applique
lang: German
word: Wandlampe
lang: German
word: Wandleuchte
lang: German
word: Wandleuchter
lang: Greek
word: απλίκα
roman: aplíka
lang: Hungarian
word: fali lámpa
lang: Irish
word: sconsa
lang: Italian
word: candelabro
lang: Italian
word: candeliere da parete
lang: Plautdietsch
word: Wauntlatoarn
lang: Polish
word: kinkiet
lang: Portuguese
word: arandela
lang: Russian
word: бра
roman: bra
lang: Spanish
word: aplique
lang: Swedish
word: applick
lang: Swedish
word: lampett
lang: Turkish
word: aplik
lang: Ukrainian
word: бра
roman: bra
lang: Welsh
word: goleuddal
deadrise
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: nautical
transport
Etymology: From dead + rise.
Compound parts: dead
rise
Inflected forms:
form: deadrises
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The angle between a horizontal line drawn from the keel and the angle of the garboard and its attachment to the keel.
pos: noun
gloss: A straight rise of bottom or floor extended out from the side of the keel at whatever angle of rise a particular boat design calls for.
pos: noun
Translations:
gunwale
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From Middle English gonnewalle, itself from gonne (“gun”) + wale, as it used to support the ship's guns; equivalent to gun + wale.
Compound parts: gun
wale
Inflected forms:
form: gunwales
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: gunnel
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The top edge of the hull of a nautical vessel, at or above where the hull meets the deck.
pos: noun
examples: Holonyms: vessel, watercraft
Translations:
grifo
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Related to Spanish grifa.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Cannabis.
pos: noun
tags: slang
uncountable
examples: […] the smoking in cigarettes or pipes of marihuana or grifo. Its use is as demoralizing as the use of narcotics. Smoking grifo is quite prevalent along the Oregon Short Line Railroad; and Idaho has no law to cope with the use and spread […]
The operator was a man who liked to smoke grifo. Just my luck that day, my friend backpack happened to have a good supply of what I needed to sell to him.
Translations:
cisterna
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
natural-sciences
Etymology: From Latin cisterna. Doublet of cistern.
Inflected forms:
form: cisternae
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of the various membranes sections comprising some organelles like the Golgi apparatus and the endoplasmic reticulum.
pos: noun
Translations:
ampoule
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Borrowed from French ampoule. Etymologically equivalent to amphora + -ule/-le. Doublet of ampulla.
Base: amphora
Affixes: -ule
Inflected forms:
form: ampoules
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: ampule
pos: noun
tags: alternative
US
form: ampul
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A small hermetically sealed vial, often used to contain a sterile solution suitable for injection.
pos: noun
Translations:
soundtrack
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From sound + track.
Compound parts: sound
track
Inflected forms:
form: soundtracks
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: soundtracks
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: soundtracking
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: soundtracked
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: soundtracked
pos: verb
tags: past
form: sound-track
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A narrow strip running down a movie film that carries the recorded sound in synchronization with the pictures.
pos: noun
gloss: The sound (especially the music) component of a movie, video game, etc.
pos: noun
gloss: A recording or compilation of recordings of such music for sale.
pos: noun
gloss: A background sound that is part of a larger event.
pos: noun
examples: There was a startling lack of creativity and if Van Gaal had listened closely he would have made out the mocking chants from the away end, as the visiting fans embarked on the repertoire of songs that formed the soundtrack to David Moyes’s time in the job.
gloss: Popular music associated with a particular historical era or time of one's life, especially nostalgically.
pos: noun
examples: the soundtrack of our relationship
CDs, iPods, and other forms of digital downloading, large numbers of specialty music channels or digitalized television services, satellite radio, and related media, all mean that anyone interested in the soundtrack of the sixties can access any song at any time in almost any place — a dream unbelievable to a sixties teen carrying his or her transistor radio.
But in my young mind, nothing was haphazard, and certain songs that came over the car radio became fundamental parts of the resonating soundtrack of my youth.
gloss: To provide, or to act as, the sound or music component of a film.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The world, in turn, watched, clicked, cried, danced, sang along, swooned, caravanned to stadiums and movie theaters, let her work soundtrack their lives.
Derived words: nonsoundtrack
Translations:
ambo
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: Catholicism
Christianity
Roman-Catholicism
Etymology: Borrowed from Late Latin ambō, from Ancient Greek ἄμβων (ámbōn).
Inflected forms:
form: ambos
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: ambones
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A raised platform in an early Christian church, as well as in the Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox, and Eastern Catholic churches.
pos: noun
examples: ‘It will get settled somehow,’ he thought, and went to the ambo. On going up the steps and turning to the right he saw the priest.
the Emperor arrived and instead of moving directly to his seat climbed to the top level of the ambo, the great three-decker pulpit of polychrome marble.
gloss: A stationary podium used for readings and homilies.
pos: noun
examples: The dignity of the Word of God requires that in the church there be a suitable place from which it may be proclaimed and toward which the attention of the faithful naturally turns during the Liturgy of the Word. It is appropriate that generally this place be a stationary ambo and not simply a movable lectern.
Related words: ambon
lectern
podium
pulpit
Translations:
dory
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: nautical
transport
Etymology: Attested in American English from 1709 C.E.; possibly derived from an indigenous language of the West Indies or Central America, perhaps Miskito.
Inflected forms:
form: dories
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A small flat-bottomed boat with pointed or somewhat pointed ends, used for fishing both offshore and on rivers.
pos: noun
examples: From every schooner, dories were being dropped into the shining, clear water. The sound of voices and the splashes of oars carried across the sea.
He and Gerald usually challenged the rollers in a sponson canoe when Gerald was there for the weekend; or, when Lansing came down, the two took long swims seaward or cruised about in Gerald's dory, clad in their swimming-suits; and Selwyn's youth became renewed in a manner almost ridiculous […]
The dory, and the fisherman who rowed it, are part of the maritime heritage that changed America from a group of shore-bound colonies to a nation with ships that ranged the waters of the world.
It is almost impossible for anyone who loves boats not to rejoice at the sight of a St. Pierre dory. Gaily painted, with lots of sheer and a defiantly jaunty look to them, the dories have been pleasing the eyes of their beholders for nearly a century.
A dory, by definition, is a flat-bottomed boat with two pointed (or nearly pointed) ends. The traditional dories of the Pacific City fleet were just that. Over the years, however, they have evolved into the square-stern variety seen today.
John Wesley Powell […] the one-armed Civil War veteran led nine men in four wooden dories down the untamed and uncharted Colorado River and into the equally untamed and uncharted Grand Canyon.
Translations:
loopy
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English loop
English -y
English loopy
From loop + -y.
Inflected forms:
form: loopier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: loopiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Having loops.
pos: adj
examples: a loopy rollercoaster
gloss: Idiotic; crazy.
pos: adj
tags: slang
gloss: Under the influence of alcohol or a narcotic; drunk.
pos: adj
tags: slang
Derived words: loopily
loopiness
Translations:
antimissile
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: government
military
politics
war
Etymology: Etymology tree
English anti-
English missile
English antimissile
From anti- + missile.
Inflected forms:
form: antimissiles
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Designed to intercept and destroy another missile in flight.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: antimissile defense
antimissile missile
gloss: A missile or system designed to intercept and destroy another missile in flight.
pos: noun
examples: In 1946, it pursued the first antimissiles in Projects Thumper and Wizard. These antimissiles could destroy incoming projectiles traveling at 4000 mph and at altitudes reaching 500000 feet.
Translations:
artless
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₂er-
Proto-Indo-European *h₂értis
Proto-Italic *artis
Latin ars
Latin artemder.
Old French artbor.
Middle English art
English art
Proto-Indo-European *lewh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *lewHs-der.
Proto-Germanic *leusaną
Proto-Germanic *lausaz
Proto-Germanic *-lausaz
Proto-West Germanic *-laus
Old English -lēas
Middle English -les
English -less
English artless
From art + -less.
Inflected forms:
form: more artless
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most artless
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Having or displaying no guile, cunning, or deceit.
pos: adj
examples: And why should I here suppress the delight I received from this amiable creature, in remarking each artless look, each motion of pure undissembled nature, betrayed by his wanton eyes
I am convinced of her being an artless, amiable girl, with very good notions, very seriously good principles, and placing her happiness in the affections and utility of domestic life.
What passions our friendships were in those old days, how artless and void of doubt!
gloss: Free of artificiality; natural.
pos: adj
examples: This pendant has artless charm.
gloss: Lacking art, knowledge, or skill; uncultured and ignorant.
pos: adj
gloss: Poorly made or done; crude.
pos: adj
Derived words: artlessly
artlessness
Translations:
unreasonable
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English unresonable, equivalent to un- + reasonable, originally partly after Latin irratiōnābilis.
Base: reasonable
Affixes: un-
Inflected forms:
form: more unreasonable
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most unreasonable
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Without the ability to reason; unreasoning.
pos: adj
examples: Hold thy desperate hand:
Art thou a man? thy form cries out thou art:
Thy tears are womanish; thy wild acts denote
The unreasonable fury of a beast:
Unseemly woman in a seeming man!
gloss: Not reasonable; going beyond what could be expected or asked for.
pos: adj
examples: For it seemeth to me vnreasonable, to send a prisoner, and not withall to signifie the crimes laid against him.
The will of those who never allow their will to be disputed, unless they happen to be in a good humour, when they relax proportionally, is almost always unreasonable.
The groups claimed the administration’s planned operations targeted the city for its sanctuary status and amount to a violation of their First Amendment right to free speech and Fourth Amendment protections against unreasonable search and seizure, according to the court filing .
Derived words: Wednesbury unreasonable
unreasonableness
unreasonably
Translations:
scullion
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Either from Middle French escouillon (“a swab, cloth”), diminutive of escouve (“broom, twig”) from Latin scopa, or an alteration of Old French souillon (“scullion”) by influence of scullery.
Inflected forms:
form: scullions
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A servant from the lower classes.
pos: noun
examples: They all looked directly at the ſcullion,—the ſcullion had juſt been ſcouring a fiſh-kettle.
"How now, you scullions and cullions: bring hither a pair of cow's hooves to out face this contumelious caitiff."
gloss: A low, base person.
pos: noun
tags: derogatory
obsolete
examples: Away, you scullion! You rampallian! You fustilarian!
Translations:
sodomite
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English sodomyte, sodomite, from Old French Sodomite and Latin sodomīta, from Ancient Greek σοδομίτης (sodomítēs). Equivalent to Sodom + -ite.
Base: Sodom
Affixes: -ite
Inflected forms:
form: sodomites
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who practices sodomy; a sodomist.
pos: noun
tags: derogatory
examples: There ſhalbe no whoꝛe of the daughters of Iſrael, noꝛ a Sodomite of the ſonnes of Iſrael.
The Avestan texts denounce the sodomite as a demon[…]
For example, when one of his programmers and her husband engaged in oral sex in their own bedroom one night, the next morning she was called into Rife's office, where he called her a slut and a sodomite and told her to clean out the desk.
gloss: A native or inhabitant of Sodom.
pos: noun
Related words: sodomitess
sodomitic
sodomitical
sodomy
Sodomite
Derived words: sodomitry
Translations:
criminy
Part of speech: intj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Either from Italian crimine (“crime”), or a minced oath from "Christ's money" (in reference to the silver that Judas was paid for betraying Jesus), or a deformation of Gemini (which was recorded as an oath from the 1660s). First attested in the 1680s.
Inflected forms:
form: crimine
pos: intj
tags: alternative
form: crimini
pos: intj
tags: alternative
form: crimony
pos: intj
tags: alternative
form: by criminy
pos: intj
tags: alternative
form: crimany
pos: intj
tags: alternative
form: crimeny
pos: intj
tags: alternative
form: crimmini
pos: intj
tags: alternative
form: criminny
pos: intj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Expressing surprise or impatience.
pos: intj
tags: euphemistic
Translations:
drat
Part of speech: verb
intj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: An aphetism of od-rat (“God rot”) as a minced oath.
Inflected forms:
form: drats
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: dratting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: dratted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: dratted
pos: verb
tags: past
form: drat!
pos: intj
tags: canonical
Senses:
gloss: To damn or curse.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Drat you and your evil schemes!
Whereat Mr. Fussy Fumer, gravely displeased, hastens home and writes an anonymous letter to Mrs. Gamp, who joins him in dratting the 'imperent upstart,' and denouncing the incompetence of the police.
"Drat that saw-dust, although I shouldn't forget it is the mill that feeds me and mine, but I get so wild when I think of the big fellows I have landed here in days gone by."
And should you be one of those conventional persons who thinks of parasites as abnormal or perhaps goes so far as to drat the varmints, you may be surprised to discover, as I did, that parasites live both inside and outside most organisms in all the kingdoms, which makes parasitism thoroughly normal[…]
gloss: Expressing anger, annoyance or frustration.
pos: intj
examples: Drat! I forgot to post these letters.
Translations:
zerk
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: After Austrian-born American inventor Oscar U. Zerk.
Inflected forms:
form: zerks
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of a class of types of grease nipples, or an instance thereof; (usually, in current usage) any grease nipple.
pos: noun
examples: The moral is, if you don't keep grease in those zerks, you're going to be replacing some expensive parts. To grease through a zerk, you simply push the business end of a grease gun onto the zerk—it will pop right on with a little pressure—and work the handle until a bit of grease can be seen oozing out of the joint you are lubricating.
A lot depends on which type of greaseable U-joint we are talking about. There are two basic types, those that have a zerk fitting at the center of the cross and those that are drilled but have the zerk in the cap. A tiny hole drilled down the center of a U-joint has no effect on strength but a zerk at the cross does.
Figure 14.12 Wipe off the end of a zerk fitting before attaching the grease gun.
Translations:
riser
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: archery
business
carpentry
construction
engineering
government
hobbies
lifestyle
manufacturing
martial-arts
metallurgy
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
sports
war
Etymology: From Middle English ryser, risere, equivalent to rise + -er.
Base: rise
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: risers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Someone or something which rises.
pos: noun
gloss: A platform or stand used to lift or elevate something.
pos: noun
examples: The choir stood on risers for the performance.
gloss: A vertical part of a step on a staircase.
pos: noun
gloss: The main body of a bow.
pos: noun
gloss: A vertical utility conduit, pipe or path between floors of a building for placement of cables (e.g. telephone, networking), or to convey fluids (e.g. gas, water).
pos: noun
gloss: A pipe connecting an individual exhaust port of an internal combustion engine to the muffler, particularly on aircraft.
pos: noun
gloss: A Manx cat with a showable short tail.
pos: noun
gloss: A strip of webbing joining a parachute's harness to the rigging lines.
pos: noun
gloss: A reservoir built into a metal casting mold to prevent the formation of cavities in the casting as the metal shrinks on cooling.
pos: noun
gloss: A male's erection.
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
countable
Derived words: dry riser
early riser
high-riser
late riser
midriser
Pfizer riser
wet riser
Translations:
lang: Indonesian
word: penaik
sanderling
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: First recorded 1600s. Possibly a descendant from Old English *sandyrðling, from sand (“sand”) + yrðling (“plowman”), though not attested in Old or Middle English.
Compound parts: sand
yrðling
Inflected forms:
form: sanderlings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A small wading bird, of species Calidris alba, that breeds in the Arctic and winters on sandy shores and estuaries around the world.
pos: noun
Translations:
puckish
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Puck + -ish, after the mischievous fairy in English folklore who is also a character in Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream.
Base: Puck
Affixes: -ish
Inflected forms:
form: more puckish
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most puckish
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Having a tendency to play tricks on people or tease people by making silly jokes about them; mischievous.
pos: adj
examples: He has a puckish sense of humor.
She has a puckish attitude.
He has a puckish grin.
They are so puckish for their love of practical jokes.
Wolfowitz spoke softly to Yasa, who evidently had no idea who he was but responded with a puckish smile.
“Chandler Bing,” wrote Matthew Perry in his puckish, self-mocking memoir, “changed the way that America spoke”.
Translations:
spoonbill
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From spoon + bill, owing to the shape of the animal's beak.
Compound parts: spoon
bill
Inflected forms:
form: spoonbills
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of various large, long-legged wading birds of the genus Platalea, in the ibis family Threskiornithidae, that have a large, flat, spatulate bill.
pos: noun
gloss: A species of fish, Polyodon spathula, native to the river basins of Mississippi, Ohio, and Missouri, or its extinct close relatives.
pos: noun
tags: US
Derived words: African spoonbill
black-faced spoonbill
Eurasian spoonbill
roseate spoonbill
royal spoonbill
yellow-billed spoonbill
Translations:
moorhen
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From Middle English morhen, perhaps from Old English *mōrhenn, an alteration of Old English worhenn (compare coordinate masculine term mōrhana, a possible corruption of worhana (“pheasant”)), equivalent to moor + hen.
Compound parts: moor
hen
Inflected forms:
form: moorhens
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of various medium-sized water birds of the genus Gallinula, of the rail family, that feed in open water margins.
pos: noun
examples: The pond was another favourite place to visit. Moorhens strutted from the neighbouring bushes, and a bevy of Muscovy ducks, a study in black, white and red, waddled from the farmyard hard by to enjoy a refreshing splash.
gloss: A female red grouse, Lagopus lagopus scotica.
pos: noun
tags: UK
Synonyms: moggy
Related words: moorbird
moorcock
moorfowl
Derived words: common moorhen
dusky moorhen
European moorhen
lesser moorhen
Translations:
kobold
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: arts
fantasy
folklore
history
human-sciences
literature
media
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
publishing
sciences
Etymology: Borrowed from German Kobold. Doublet of cobalt.
Inflected forms:
form: kobolds
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: kobolde
pos: noun
tags: plural
rare
form: cobold
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: An ambivalent, sometimes vindictive, spirit that is capable of materialising as an object or human, often a child; a sprite.
pos: noun
tags: German
examples: 1904, Andrew Lang (collector), author and translator not identified, The Mermaid and the Boy, The Brown Fairy Book, page 176,
At this point a cock crew, and the youth jumped up hastily saying : 'Of course I shall ride with the king to the war, and if I do not return, take your violin every evening to the seashore and play on it, so that the very sea-kobolds who live at the bottom of the ocean may hear it and come to you.'
Movers, in the first chapter of his Phönizier, says that that group of deities called Dactyls, Cabiri, Corybantes, and Cyclopes, were similar to those old Germanic divinities now known as Kobolds.
gloss: A mischievous elf or goblin, or one connected (and helpful) to a family or household.
pos: noun
tags: German
examples: a. 1867, George MacDonald, The Shadows, 2000 [1980], The Golden Key and Other Stories, page 96,
The king had seen all kinds of gnomes, goblins, and kobolds at his coronation; […] .
On the other hand, the kobolds, brownies, and other household sprites who are not merely benign, but helpful, if well treated; the elf-maids who marry mortals, the swan-maidens, and the like, bear the stamp of Teutonic fancy.
Among the nonhuman creatures that peopled rural Europe in the Middle Ages — the fairies, elves, dwarfs, trolls, and kobolds — there were beneficent female spirits who patronized those households that treated them well.
In Germany also the kobolds are rather troublesome than otherwise, to the miners, taking pleasure in frustrating their objects, and rendering their toil unfruitful.
gloss: One of a diminutive and usually malevolent race of beings, often with a reptilian or dog-like appearance.
pos: noun
examples: There were also various trolls like great smiling badgers, brownies darting about laughing, dwarves with large gray heads, sensuous mermaids, stony kobolds, green gnomes, sirens and many elves, who were busy purifying the sacred hilltop in a mythological cooperation marvelous to the soul's perception.
Translations:
bootylicious
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *dʰewbʰ- ~ *dʰubʰ-
Proto-Indo-European *-mḗn
Proto-Indo-European *bʰudʰmḗn
Proto-Germanic *butmaz
Proto-West Germanic *botm
Old English botm
Middle English botme
English bott(om)
Old English -iġ
Middle English -y
English -y
English botty?
English booty
Proto-Indo-European *de
Proto-Indo-European *-h₁
Proto-Indo-European *déh₁
Proto-Italic *dē
Late Latin dē
Late Latin dē-
Proto-Indo-European *deh₃-der.?
Proto-Italic *lakjō
Late Latin laciō
Late Latin dēliciō
Late Latin dēliciae
Proto-Indo-European *h₃ed-
Proto-Indo-European *-os
Proto-Indo-European *h₃édosder.?
Proto-Italic *-ōtsos or *-otsos
Late Latin -ōsus
Late Latin dēliciōsusbor.
Anglo-Norman deliciousbor.
Middle English delicious
English delicious
English -licious
English bootylicious
From booty + -licious. First attested in the 1990s and popularized by the song "Bootylicious" (2001) by Destiny's Child.
Inflected forms:
form: more bootylicious
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most bootylicious
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: bootilicious
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Voluptuously attractive, especially of a woman's buttocks.
pos: adj
tags: slang
examples: I don't think you're ready for this jelly / I don't think you're ready for this / 'Cause my body too bootylicious for ya, babe
Is it OK for a chunky, 40-something white guy to feel bootylicious? Oh, how I hope it's acceptable, because if feeling bootylicious is wrong, I don't wanna be right.
He lingered for a few minutes, vacantly watching a bootylicious black girl bump and grind to Pink’s catchy smash, “Get the Party Started.”
It’s your daughter with a tank top that says porn star, hot pants that say bootylicious and, of course, underneath ... the kiddie thong.
gloss: Bad; weak.
pos: adj
tags: nonce-word
slang
examples: Your bark was loud, but your bite wasn't vicious / And them rhymes you were kickin' were quite bootylicious
Derived words: bootyliciousness
Translations:
ritz
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Back-formation from ritzy.
Inflected forms:
form: ritzes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: ritzing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: ritzed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: ritzed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A display of ostentatious elegance.
pos: noun
tags: informal
uncountable
gloss: To behave in an ostentatiously elegant manner.
pos: verb
tags: informal
examples: What would I do with them in the room except dream all night through of ritzing around the world with swells?
Fuller remembered visiting Hammond in his office. “He was dressed like a movie senator with black ribbon pince-nez. Almost ritzed me out of the office.”
Translations:
ritzy
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From the Ritz Hotels of New York, London, etc (now Ritz-Carlton Hotels) + -y, from Ritz hotel founder César Ritz, from southern Switzerland. For the surname see Ritz. Compare English glitzy.
Affixes: -y
Inflected forms:
form: ritzier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: ritziest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Elegant and luxurious.
pos: adj
examples: His list of sexual contacts was quite long, and included ladies from some of the ritzier establishments of ill repute across the border.
Translations: