yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
filth
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: agriculture
business
lifestyle
Etymology: From Middle English filth, from Old English fȳlþu, from Proto-West Germanic *fūliþu, equivalent to foul + -th (abstract nominal suffix).
Base: foul
Affixes: -th
Inflected forms:
form: filths
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Dirt; foul matter; that which soils or defiles.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: Before we start cooking we need to clean up the filth in this kitchen.
gloss: Smut; that which sullies or defiles the moral character; corruption; pollution.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: He spends all his time watching filth on pornographic websites.
Novv all theſe Precepts do not only tend to beget in us ſuch vertues and diſpoſitions, as are reaſonable and ſuitable to our nature, and every vvay for our temporal convenience and advantage; but ſuch, as do likevviſe exceedingly diſpoſe us to piety and religion, by purifying our ſouls from the droſs and filth of ſenſual delights.
gloss: A vile or disgusting person.
pos: noun
tags: derogatory
uncountable
usually
examples: I think you're scum, I think you're filth. And as far as Elaine's concerned you're to get her out of your filthy mind right now.
They were filth, utter filth. I mean, and this tops it. She even bought the video of her sister dying, or at least the sex act that killed her.
gloss: Weeds growing on pasture land.
pos: noun
tags: US
dated
uncountable
usually
examples: Grampa remembers when he had to cut filth with a scythe.
Translations:
vulgar
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
mathematics
natural-sciences
sciences
taxonomy
Etymology: From Middle English vulgare, from Latin vulgāris, from volgus, vulgus (“mob; common folk”), from Proto-Indo-European *welH-. Compare Welsh gwala (“plenty, sufficiency”), Ancient Greek ἁλία (halía, “assembly”), εἰλέω (eiléō, “to compress”), Old Church Slavonic великъ (velikŭ, “great”).
Inflected forms:
form: more vulgar
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: vulgarer
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most vulgar
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: vulgarest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: vulgare
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: vulgars
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: vulgare
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Debased; uncouth; distasteful; obscene.
pos: adj
examples: vulgar language
vulgar words
a truly vulgar showing of affection
vulgar and highly distressing scenes
Also the rule of false position, with dyuers examples not onely vulgar, but some appertaynyng to the rule of Algeber.
And, placed discreetly among these commonplaces, a few pieces of genuine quality, bizarrely distinguished by craftsmanship from the vulgar products of the machine.
Several years ago I interviewed the CEO of a car manufacturer whose products start in the six figures. He told me his customers could always afford to buy his cars, but in recessions they found it vulgar to do so.
gloss: Having to do with ordinary, common people.
pos: adj
tags: derogatory
historical
examples: Near-synonyms: vulgate; vulgarized
It might be more useful to the English reader […] to write in our vulgar language.
The mechanical process of multiplying books had brought the New Testament in the vulgar tongue within the reach of every class.
Further, the same sacred name in other monuments precedes the vulgar name of King Takellothis, the sixth of the XXII. Dyn., as we have seen.
gloss: Common, usual; of the typical kind.
pos: adj
tags: especially
examples: vulgar bush brown (Bicyclus vulgaris)
A vulture (V. aura), probably the Acabiry first described by Azara, is here called […] the hunter. It resembles in form the vulgar bird, but it flies high. The head is red, and the wings are black with silver lining, like the noble Bateleur of Africa.
gloss: Being a vulgar fraction.
pos: adj
examples: A fraction is vulgar if it has one integer divided by another integer, as long as the integer that's doing the dividing isn't equal to zero.
gloss: A common, ordinary person.
pos: noun
tags: derogatory
historical
examples: Popular antiquarian writings […] frequently focused on the regional vulgars' superstitious beliefs regarding the dead and their ongoing presence—such as popular funeral rites or the vulgars' fear of church yards.
gloss: The common people.
pos: noun
tags: collective
gloss: The language of a people, especially the commoners.
pos: noun
examples: Therefore you Clowne, abandon: which is in the vulgar, leaue the societie: which in the boorish, is companie, of this female: which in the common, is woman: which together, is, abandon the society of this Female, […]
Derived words: Vulgar Era
vulgar fraction
Vulgar Latin
vulgar Marxism
Translations:
blindness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English blyndnes, blyndnesse, from Old English blindnes (“blindness”), equivalent to blind + -ness.
Base: blind
Affixes: -ness
Inflected forms:
form: blindnesses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The condition of being blind; unable to see.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: DHPG […] is effective in fighting Cytomegalovirus (CMV), a common virus which, for PWAs, can cause CMV retinitis — a condition which can lead to blindness within weeks.
gloss: Want of intellectual or moral discernment; mental darkness; ignorance, heedlessness.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
uncountable
usually
examples: A tormenting hunger shuddered through her and she wished she could put aside the power. Oh, to be as others were — blind in that safest of all blindnesses, living only the hypnoidal half-life into which birth-shock precipitated most humans.
gloss: concealment
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
uncountable
usually
Synonyms: ablepsy
blindhood
cecity
sightlessness
Derived words: ad blindness
banner blindness
color-blindness
colour-blindness
colour blindness
color blindness
day blindness
day-blindness
deafblindness
deaf-blindness
domestic blindness
face blindness
fire blindness
hysterical blindness
inattentional blindness
legal blindness
letter blindness
moon blindness
motion blindness
night blindness
nose blindness
perceptual blindness
place blindness
race blindness
race-blindness
red-green color blindness
river blindness
smell blindness
snow blindness
snow-blindness
stereoblindness
time-blindness
voice blindness
willful blindness
word-blindness
word blindness
Translations:
dissent
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Etymology: From Middle English dissenten, from Latin dissentiō, dissentīre (“to differ in sentiments, disagree, be at odds, contradict, quarrel”), from dis- + sentiō, sentīre (see sense).
Inflected forms:
form: dissents
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: dissenting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: dissented
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: dissented
pos: verb
tags: past
form: dissents
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To disagree; to withhold assent. Construed with from (or, formerly, to).
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Where a trustee refuses either to assent or dissent, the Court will itself exercise his authority.
Those who openly dissented from the acts which the King had carried through the Parliament.
gloss: To differ from, especially in opinion, beliefs, etc.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Some are so eristical and teasty, that they will not ... bear with any that dissent.
Natural reason dictates, that motion ought to be assigned to the bodies, which in kind and essence most agree with those bodies which do undoubtedly move, and rest to those which most dissent from them.
If the public dissent from our views, we say that they ought to concur with us.
gloss: To be different; to have contrary characteristics.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
examples: it was wholly unlawful, in any thing to dissent from him
gloss: Disagreement with the ideas, doctrines, decrees, etc. of a political party, government or religion.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: ethnopolitical dissent
A system that suppresses dissent is fault-intolerant, ignorant and fragile.
gloss: An act of disagreeing with, or deviating from, the views and opinions of those holding authority.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A separate opinion filed in a case by judges who disagree with the outcome of the majority of the court in that case
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A violation that arises when disagreement with an official call is expressed in an inappropriate manner such as foul language, rude gestures, or failure to comply.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: City had been woeful, their anger at their own inertia summed up when Samir Nasri received a booking for dissent, and they did not have a shot on target until the 66th minute.
Antonyms: agree
assent
follow
allow
accept
consent
agreement
consensus
capitulation
Related words: minority report
majority opinion
Derived words: dissensus
dissental
dissenter
dissentious
dissentism
dissentive
Translations:
great-grandson
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English great-
English grand-
Proto-Indo-European *sew-?
Proto-Indo-European *sewH-
Proto-Indo-European *suHnús
Proto-Germanic *sunuz
Proto-West Germanic *sunu
Old English sunu
Middle English sone
English son
English grandson
English great-grandson
From great- + grandson.
Inflected forms:
form: great-grandsons
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: great grandson
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: greatgrandson
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A son of a grandchild.
pos: noun
Translations:
wedding
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English wedding, weddynge, from Old English weddung (“betrothal, espousal”), equivalent to wed + -ing. Cognate with Middle Dutch weddinghe.
Base: wed
Affixes: -ing
Inflected forms:
form: weddings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A marriage ceremony; a ritual officially celebrating the beginning of a marriage.
pos: noun
examples: Her announcement was quite a surprise, coming a month after she published the words "I hate weddings with a passion and a fury I can only partially explain rationally."
Simple and brief was the wedding, as that of Ruth and of Boaz.
Rumor has it that there will be a wedding in our village ere the daisies are in bloom.
After the wedding there was singing and concertina-playing in the laundry till late evening.
gloss: The joining of two or more parts.
pos: noun
tags: idiomatic
examples: The wedding of our three companies took place last week.
1900, Eve Emery Dye, McLoughlin and Old Oregon, 2005 facsimile edition, page 56,
That wedding of the fur companies is historic.
Significantly, Grand Metropolitan elaborates upon the wedding of tradition and consumer narcissim that is the distinctively British version of private-sector collective representations;[…].
The wedding of commercial with universal banking would result in more careful project evaluation and selection and a closer monitoring of existing loans.
The wedding of black brass bands and orchestras to jubilee concert companies was a consolidation that favored both promoters and musicians.
Derived words: Birds’ Wedding
black wedding
Blood Wedding
democratic wedding
destination wedding
diamond wedding
double wedding
frog wedding
golden wedding
have been to an Irish wedding
Italian wedding soup
like a spare prick at a wedding
monkey's wedding
pearl wedding
penny wedding
penny-wedding
red wedding
ruby wedding
shotgun wedding
silver wedding
sparrows' wedding
the bride at every wedding
the bride at every wedding and the corpse at every funeral
wedding avenue
wedding band
wedding bells
wedding breakfast
wedding-cake
wedding cake
wedding card
wedding chest
wedding day
wedding-day
wedding dress
wedding finger
wedding-goer
wedding gown
wedding journey
weddingless
wedding march
wedding night
wedding party
wedding planner
wedding reception
wedding registry
wedding-ring
wedding ring
wedding shirt
wedding shower
wedding song
wedding soup
wedding tackle
wedding vow
wedding waltz
weddingwear
weddingzilla
white wedding
Translations:
gata
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Armenian գաթա (gatʻa)bor.
English gata
Borrowed from Armenian գաթա (gatʻa).
Inflected forms:
form: gatas
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: kata
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: katah
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: gatah
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A kind of pastry in Armenia and some neighboring countries.
pos: noun
Translations:
anima
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin anima (“a current of air, wind, air, breath, the vital principle, life, soul”), sometimes equivalent to animus (“mind”), both from Proto-Indo-European *h₂enh₁- (“to breathe, blow”); see animus. Cognate with Ancient Greek ἄνεμος (ánemos, “wind”), Old English anda (“anger, envy, zeal”). More at onde.
Inflected forms:
form: animas
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The soul or animating principle of a living thing, especially as contrasted with the animus.
pos: noun
examples: [W]e cannot chuse but admire the exceeding vividness of the governing faculty or Anima of the Insect, which is able to dispose and regulate so the motive faculties, as to cause every peculiar organ, not onely to move or act so quick, but to do it also so regularly.
gloss: The inner self (not the external persona) of a person that is in touch with the unconscious as opposed to the persona.
pos: noun
examples: In the Jungian model of the psyche, the male has an internalized female counterpart, the anima; while the female has an internalized masculine counterpart, the animus.
Dorothy is bodiless and sexless in Tintern Abbey because she is Wordsworth's Jungian anima, an internal aspect of self momentarily projected.
gloss: The unconscious feminine aspect of a person.
pos: noun
examples: The projection-making factor is the anima, or rather the unconscious as represented by the anima.
Related words: animal
animate
animus
Translations:
dominus
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin dominus (“master”). Doublet of dan, dom, domine, dominie, and don.
Inflected forms:
form: domini
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: master; sir; a title of respect formerly applied to a knight or clergyman, and sometimes to the lord of a manor, castle or an academic master
pos: noun
tags: historical
examples: The vesper bell had rung its parting note; the domini were mostly caged in comfortable quarters, discussing the merits of old port; and the merry student had closed his oak, to consecrate the night to friendship, sack, and claret.
Translations:
cede
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French ceder, from Old French ceder, from Latin cēdō (“to yield”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱyesdʰ- (“to drive away; to go away”). Cognate with Tocharian B kätk- (“to cross, pass”).
Inflected forms:
form: cedes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: ceding
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: ceded
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: ceded
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To give up; yield to another.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Edward decided to cede the province.
In the late nineteenth century, the Chinese ceded Taiwan to the Japanese.
gloss: To give up; yield to another.
pos: verb
tags: ditransitive
transitive
examples: After figuring out the seating arrangement and ceding him the window seat, I took my own seat by the aisle.
gloss: To give way.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
Related words: accede
antecedent
cession
concede
excede
exceed
intercede
precede
proceed
recede
secede
succeed
supercede
supersede
Derived words: cede the field
retrocede
unceded
Translations:
lang: Albanian
word: dorëzohem
lang: Armenian
word: զիջել
roman: ziǰel
lang: Belarusian
word: уступа́ць
roman: ustupácʹ
lang: Belarusian
word: уступі́ць
roman: ustupícʹ
lang: Bulgarian
word: отстъ́пвам
roman: otstǎ́pvam
lang: Bulgarian
word: отстъ́пя
roman: otstǎ́pja
lang: Bulgarian
word: отка́звам се
roman: otkázvam se
lang: Bulgarian
word: отка́жа се
roman: otkáža se
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 放弃
roman: fàngqì
lang: Czech
word: postupovat
lang: Czech
word: postoupit
lang: Dutch
word: aftreden
lang: Dutch
word: uit de weg gaan
lang: Dutch
word: opgeven
lang: Esperanto
word: cedi
lang: Finnish
word: luovuttaa
lang: French
word: céder
lang: German
word: abtreten
lang: German
word: zedieren
lang: German
word: überlassen
lang: Ido
word: cedar
lang: Italian
word: cedere
lang: Japanese
word: 譲渡する
roman: jōto suru
lang: Korean
word: 양도하다
roman: yangdohada
lang: Macedonian
word: о́тстапи
roman: ótstapi
lang: Macedonian
word: отста́пува
roman: otstápuva
lang: Macedonian
word: се о́ткаже
roman: se ótkaže
lang: Macedonian
word: се отка́жува
roman: se otkážuva
lang: Māori
word: tuku
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: avstå
lang: Polish
word: cedować
lang: Polish
word: scedować
lang: Portuguese
word: ceder
lang: Romanian
word: ceda
lang: Russian
word: уступа́ть
roman: ustupátʹ
lang: Russian
word: уступи́ть
roman: ustupítʹ
lang: Russian
word: отка́зываться
roman: otkázyvatʹsja
lang: Russian
word: отказа́ться
roman: otkazátʹsja
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: оду̀стати
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: у̀стукнути
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: odùstati
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: ùstuknuti
lang: Slovak
word: postúpiť
lang: Spanish
word: ceder
lang: Ukrainian
word: уступа́ти
roman: ustupáty
lang: Ukrainian
word: уступи́ти
roman: ustupýty
lang: German
word: nachgeben
lang: Māori
word: tautuku
lang: Spanish
word: ceder
gong
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
Etymology: From Malay gong, possibly onomatopoeic.
Inflected forms:
form: gong ]
pos: noun
tags: canonical
form: gongs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: gongs
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: gonging
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: gonged
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: gonged
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A percussion instrument consisting of a metal disk that emits a loud resonant sound when struck with a soft hammer.
pos: noun
examples: All the time six or eight large Chinese gongs were being beaten by the vigorous arms of as many young men, producing such a deafening discord that I was glad to escape to the round house, where I slept very comfortably with half a dozen smoke-dried human skulls suspended over my head.
gloss: A medal or award, particularly Knight Bachelor.
pos: noun
tags: UK
slang
examples: This grooming of the national mindset explains the retention of 92 "hereditary peers" in the House of Lords: individuals who are gifted a right to sit in the nation's upper chamber and facilitate laws for no other reason than that their ancestor was the illegitimate child of some prince, or willing to spaff a few quid on the title when David Lloyd Gorge was selling of gongs for bribes.
gloss: A metal target that emits a sound when it has been hit.
pos: noun
examples: Weems picked up the hammer and hit the gong so hard that it spun right around on its hanger and fell off.
gloss: To make the sound of a gong; to ring a gong.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Poor old Pyecraft! He has just gonged, no doubt to order another buttered tea-cake!
gloss: To send a signal to, using a gong or similar device.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: As she was gonged, host Daryl Somers swept rapidly across and salvaged an embarrassing situation by putting his arm around her and asking her whether she had children.
gloss: To send a signal to, using a gong or similar device.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The driver gonged the pedestrian crossing the tracks, but the pedestrian didn't stop.
gloss: To give an award or medal to.
pos: verb
tags: UK
slang
transitive
examples: In 1972 he was awarded the British Red Cross Silver Medal for his services to the Red Cross. In 1978 he was 'gonged' once again, this time with the Queen's Jubilee Medal, marking the 25th year of her reign.
Derived words: gong bath
gonglike
gongman
gong show
gongster
nipple gong
slit-gong
sprinkler gong
Translations:
consolation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Etymology: From Old French consolacion (French consolatio), from Latin cōnsōlātiō, from the deponent verb cōnsōlor (“I console, encourage”) with the -tiō suffix, while cōnsōlor comprises the intensifying prefix con- with the deponent verb sōlor (“I comfort, console”). Equivalent to console + -ation. Doublet of consolatio.
Base: console
Affixes: -ation
Inflected forms:
form: consolations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act or example of consoling; the condition of being consoled.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Moreouer the perfit beleue of this article, worketh in all true chriſten people, aloue to continue in this vnitie, and afeare to be caſte out of the ſame, and it worketh in them that be ſinners and repentant, great comforte, and conſolacion, to obteine remiſſion of ſinne, by vertue of Chriſtes paſſion, and adminiſtracion of his ſacramentes at the miniſters handes, ordained for that purpoſe, [...]
[I]f Charles is undone, He'll find half his Acquaintance ruin'd too, and that, you know, is a consolation—
gloss: The prize or benefit for the loser.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A consolation goal.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Synonyms: alleviation
comfort
consolation
ease
liss
release
relief
respite
solace
Antonyms: distress
vexation
Related words: solace
Derived words: consolational
consolation final
consolation goal
consolation prize
Dutch consolation
self-consolation
Translations:
canned
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Preserved in cans.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: canned tomatoes
If you don't have fresh cardoon I'll take canned.
gloss: Previously prepared; not fresh or new; standardized, mass-produced, or lacking originality or customization.
pos: adj
tags: broadly
not-comparable
examples: canned laughter
The form letter included a canned answer stating that what I asked was against policy.
And the punch-lines seem to disappear like clouds across the sky / And the laughter could be real or could be canned
Unfortunately, some of the canned code, which Visual C++ gives to you when creating an application, is not CE aware and gives you compile errors.
The vested owners of all those sun-drenched tract houses may stick around for a while and fight over the region, perhaps thinking that they are reenacting the great historical dramas of the nineteenth century—such is the long-term effect of canned entertainment on the collective imagi­nation.
Throughout the evening, Mr. Christie’s admonition about canned lines and rehearsed speeches hovered and seemed to recalibrate how the crowd — and television viewers — processed what Mr. Rubio said (and resaid, over and over).
gloss: Drunk.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
slang
gloss: Terminated, fired from a job.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Cancelled or thrown away, said of a project or news article.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The raider story was canned by the censor on instructions from the naval authorities.
Antonyms: dried
Derived words: canned air
canned benchmark
canned cheese
canned heat
canned hunt
canned hunting
canned laughter
canned opener
canned ration
canned response
noncanned
uncanned
Translations:
cheep
Part of speech: verb
noun
intj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Onomatopoeic.
Inflected forms:
form: cheeps
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: cheeping
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: cheeped
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: cheeped
pos: verb
tags: past
form: cheeps
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of a small bird, to make short, high-pitched sounds.
pos: verb
examples: […] a brood of ducklings, which had lost their mother, filed into the barn, cheeping feebly and wandering from side to side […]
gloss: To express in a chirping tone.
pos: verb
examples: O Swallow, Swallow, if I could follow, and light / Upon her lattice, I would pipe and trill, / And cheep and twitter twenty million loves.
gloss: A short, high-pitched sound made by a small bird.
pos: noun
gloss: A similar-sounding short high-pitched sound
pos: noun
examples: The radiation trackers clipped to our protective overalls let off soft cheeps, their frequency varying as radioactivity levels changed around us.
gloss: The short, high-pitched sound made by a small bird.
pos: intj
Translations:
zucchini
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian zucchini, plural of zucchino, diminutive of zucca (“squash”). Ultimately related to courgette through the original Latin cucurbita. Compare Sicilian cucuzza.
Inflected forms:
form: zucchinis
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: zucchini
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: zucchina
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: zucchino
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A courgette; a variety of squash, Cucurbita pepo, which bears edible fruit.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
Canada
New-Zealand
Philippines
US
gloss: The edible fruit of this variety of squash.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
Canada
New-Zealand
Philippines
US
Synonyms: courgette
zuke
Related words: zucchetto
Derived words: zoodles
Translations:
placenta
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: anatomy
biology
botany
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
Etymology: Elision for phrases such as New Latin placenta uterī (“womb cake”), placenta uterina (“uterine cake”), from Latin placenta (“flat cake”), because of the flat round shape of the afterbirth.
Inflected forms:
form: placentae
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: placentas
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An organ in most mammals during gestation that supplies food and oxygen to the foetus and passes back waste. It is on the wall of the uterus and links to the foetus through the umbilical cord. It is expelled after birth.
pos: noun
gloss: In flowering plants, the part of the ovary where ovules develop; in non-flowering plants where the spores develop.
pos: noun
Derived words: placenta cake
placental
placenta praevia
placentary
placentation
placentiferous
placentiform
placentitis
placento-
placentome
pseudoplacenta
subplacenta
Translations:
senex
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Latin senex.
Inflected forms:
form: senexes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An older or old man, chiefly as a stock character.
pos: noun
examples: 6. Old Men or Senexes. Frequently these characters have a beautiful young ward who, often, they wish to marry (or wish to marry off to someone the ward doesn’t like) and it is the task of the hero, the male lead, often helped by a shrewd servant or slave (or similar figure) to outwit the senex and marry the girl. Sometimes the senex figure is actually married to a young wife and that poses numerous complications: the old husband is jealous, the young wife unsatisfied in various ways with a different perspective on life.
Now for more about the four birds, explicitly identified with the four evangelists as the four old men or Senexes. Notice the repetition on four as the four Gospel books repeat much of the same history of Christ, perhaps as a result of an editorial effort to achieve uniformity.
It concludes, though, not with an image of resigned heads or rebellious newcomers: instead, after the camera lifts for the final credits to the heavens—the only site for the senexes’ social and educational ideals?—it descends on the playing fields where the school’s ration-book-resourceful porter Rainbow (Edward Rigby) and his youthful assistant are seen collapsed under the frequently-removed rugby posts.
Translations:
senate
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English senat, from Old French senat, from Latin senātus (“council of elders; a senate”), from senex (“old”).
Inflected forms:
form: senates
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: In some bicameral legislative systems, the upper house or chamber.
pos: noun
gloss: A group of experienced, respected, wise individuals serving as decision makers or advisors in a political system or in institutional governance, as in a university, and traditionally of advanced age.
pos: noun
examples: Before the Tyrant's throne
All night his aged Senate sate.
gloss: In Germany, the executive branch of government in the city states of Berlin, Bremen, and Hamburg; the governments of cities that were part of the Hanseatic League; and the bench in a higher appellate court.
pos: noun
Related words: senator
senatorial
senatus
senescent
senile
senior
Derived words: nonsenate
senate-house
Translations:
basso
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
Etymology: From Italian basso, from Latin bassus (“short, low”). Doublet of base and bass.
Inflected forms:
form: bassos
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: bassi
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A bass singer, especially in opera.
pos: noun
gloss: An instrumental part written for a bass instrument.
pos: noun
gloss: The double bass, or contrabasso.
pos: noun
Related words: basso cantante
basso continuo
basso ostinato
basso profondo
basso profundo
basso-relievo
basso-rilievo
Translations:
imbroglio
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian imbroglio (“tangle, entanglement, muddle”) (im-, alternative form of in- (prefix forming verbs denoting derivation) + broglio (“confusion; intrigue, fraud, rigging, stuffing”); see also imbrogliare (“to tangle”)), cognate with and probably from an earlier form of French embrouiller (“to embroil, muddle”) (em- (“em-”), a form of en- (“en-”, prefix meaning ‘caused’) + brouiller (“to confuse, mix up”)).
Inflected forms:
form: imbroglios
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: imbrogli
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A complicated situation; an entanglement.
pos: noun
examples: Into the drawers and china pry, / Papers and books, a huge imbroglio! / Under a tea-cup he might lie, / Or creased, like dogs-ears, in a folio.
Your trip here will never quite go as planned. […] There may be strikes, mixed-up reservations, maddening imbrogli of all sorts. But they will be charming imbrogli because the Italian people are charming, down to the whimsical tone of their language.
I could have phoned you with all this, Tallulah, but knowing you as I have over the years, when you and I have both been a party to some of Duncan's little imbroglios, I thought I should talk to you in person.
He [Edward Michael Adler] was inducted into the imbroglio of the Vietnam War, which so many of his age group and middle class Orthodox Jewish upbringing easily avoided by staying in university or going into the clergy. He didn't.
[David] Cameron's decision to hold a referendum alters the chemistry of politics. The casual way he offered a simple Yes–No referendum to Scotland in 2011 has led to a quasi-insoluble imbroglio over the future of the British Constitution.
Translations:
yonks
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Unknown. First seen in print around 1960. One theory is that it comes from donkey's ears; another is that it is an abbreviation of years, months and weeks.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A long time (especially a longer time than expected); ages
pos: noun
tags: Commonwealth
Ireland
UK
plural
plural-only
slang
examples: Haven’t seen him in yonks!
I’ve been a teacher for yonks–I should really try another career.
This egg is taking yonks to boil.
I rang singer Julie Driscoll […] She said: "I haven't heard from you for yonks[…]"
Alas, the comics for that age group have nearly all picture stories today—and of course the ones for younger readers have been that way for yonks (sorry, years).
It's what Miss Brunskill calls ‘our little backwater’. We're more or less fixtures there and have been for yonks.
“Yonks,” he replies when I ask how long he's been stateside. “It's not like I've become American. I'm in England every year.”
Translations:
possessive
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
Etymology: From Middle French possessif, from Latin possessivus (“of or pertaining to possession”), from possessiō (“possessing”), from possidēre (“to possess”). By surface analysis, possess + -ive.
Inflected forms:
form: more possessive
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most possessive
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: possessives
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to ownership or possession.
pos: adj
gloss: Indicating ownership, possession, origin, etc.
pos: adj
gloss: Unwilling to yield possession of.
pos: adj
examples: He is very possessive of his car.
gloss: The possessive case.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A word used to indicate the possessive case.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Take the rule about pronouns and possessives that Mr. Keegan cited in his challenge to the testing service.
The New York Times, The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal all do the opposite, opting for ’s to mark a singular possessive and a simple apostrophe for plural possessive (Harrises’ and Walzes’).
Related words: possessive pronoun
possessive adjective
possessive determiner
possessive suffix
comitative
genitive
ktetic
proprietive
proprietary
proprietorial
Derived words: nonpossessive
overpossessive
possessival
possessivity
unpossessive
double possessive
independent possessive
possessively
possessiveness
Translations:
lang: Māori
word: kupu whiwhinga
lang: Māori
word: pūriro
lang: Māori
word: rirohanga
syncretic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Back-formation from syncretism: by surface analysis, syncret(ize) + -ic.
Inflected forms:
form: more syncretic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most syncretic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Combining disparate elements in one system, especially as in forms of religious observance, philosophical systems, or artistic creations.
pos: adj
examples: In Islamic villages below Tengger, however, more syncretic communities still celebrate annual village ritual festivals (slametan desa, slametan tuyo) designed to give homage to the spirits of the mountains and insure the flow of their waters.
1999, John B. Henderson, Imagining Boundaries: Changing Confucian Doctrines, Texts, and Hermeneutics, Kai-wing Chow, On Cho Ng, John B. Henderson (editors), Imagining Boundaries: Changing Confucian Doctrines, Texts, and Hermeneutics, State University of New York Press, page 112,
From the point of view of many late Ming and Ch'ing scholars, the most syncretic, as well as the most threatening heretic of all was a nominal Confucian, Wang Yang-ming (1472-1528).
To cite another obvious case, there can be few things more syncretic than Roman Catholic canon law, where the doctrine of a Galilean peasant was built into Roman imperial legality.
Translations:
chamber
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
war
Etymology: From Middle English chambre, borrowed from Old French chambre, from Latin camera, from Ancient Greek καμάρα (kamára, “vaulted chamber”). Doublet of camera.
Inflected forms:
form: chambers
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: chambering
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: chambered
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: chambered
pos: verb
tags: past
form: chambre
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: To enclose in a room.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: She had chambered herself in her room, and wouldn't come out.
gloss: To reside in or occupy a chamber or chambers.
pos: verb
examples: I chambered with Alexander Preston.
gloss: To place in a chamber, as a round of ammunition.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The hunter fired at the geese and missed, then shrugged his shoulders and chambered another cartridge.
gloss: To create or modify a gun to be a specific caliber.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The rifle was originally chambered for 9mm, but had since been modified for a larger, wildcat caliber.
gloss: To prepare an offensive, defensive, or counteroffensive action by drawing a limb or weapon to a position where it may be charged with kinetic energy.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Bob chambered his fist for a blow, but Sheila struck first.
gloss: To be lascivious.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
Synonyms: lust
Translations:
enjoy
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English enjoyen, from Old French enjoier, anjoier, enjoer (“to give joy, receive with joy, rejoice”), equivalent to en- + joy.
Base: joy
Affixes: en-
Inflected forms:
form: enjoys
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: enjoying
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: enjoyed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: enjoyed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: enioy
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: injoy
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: To receive pleasure or satisfaction from something.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Enjoy your holidays! I very much enjoy dancing.
I've really enjoyed you and your sister showing me around.
And we shall sit at endless feast,
⁠Enjoying each the other’s good;
⁠What vaster dream can hit the mood
Of Love on earth?
It is not a crime to enjoy some bacon or a trout or what have you.
Energy has seldom been found where we need it when we want it. Ancient nomads, wishing to ward off the evening chill and enjoy a meal around a campfire, had to collect wood and then spend time and effort coaxing the heat of friction out from between sticks to kindle a flame. With more settled people, animals were harnessed to capstans or caged in treadmills to turn grist into meal.
gloss: To have the use or benefit of something.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: I plan to go travelling while I still enjoy good health.
that the children of Israel may enjoy every man the inheritance of his fathers
Night and day were the same in this prison room, but Tommy's wrist-watch, which enjoyed a certain degree of accuracy, informed him that it was nine o'clock in the evening.
This account fails to provide any basis for doubting that animals of subhuman species enjoy the freedom it defines.
The Indo-Arabic system was introduced into Europe in 1000 CE, but due to resistance from several quarters, centuries elapsed before it finally enjoyed widespread use.
gloss: To be satisfied or receive pleasure; to have fun.
pos: verb
tags: India
intransitive
examples: I enjoyed a lot.
gloss: To have sexual intercourse with.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Never did thy Beautie[…]so enflame my sense With ardor to enjoy thee.
Synonyms: go to bed with
sleep with
Derived words: disenjoy
enjoyable
enjoyee
enjoyer
enjoyful
enjoyingly
enjoyment
enjoy oneself
enjoy your holiday
enjoy your meal
joyability
overenjoy
reenjoy
unenjoyed
unenjoying
Translations:
birch
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: PIE word
 *bʰerHǵós
From Middle English birche, birk, from Old English birċe, bierċe, from Proto-West Germanic *birkijā, from Proto-Germanic *birkijǭ, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰerHǵos.
Cognates
Compare West Frisian bjirk, German Birke, variant of *berkō (compare Dutch berk, Danish birk, Swedish björk, Norwegian bjørk), Sanskrit भूर्ज (bhūrjá), Lithuanian béržas, Czech bříza, Ossetian бӕрз (bærz), Russian берёза (berjóza)), Latin fraxinus (“ash tree, ash javelin”), Albanian bredh.
Inflected forms:
form: birches
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: birches
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: birching
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: birched
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: birched
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Any of various trees of the genus Betula, native to countries in the Northern Hemisphere.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A hard wood taken from the birch tree, typically used to make furniture.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A stick, rod or bundle of twigs made from birch wood, used for punishment.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A birch-bark canoe.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: To punish with a stick, bundle of twigs, or rod made of birch wood.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To punish as though one were using a stick, bundle of twigs, or rod made of birch wood.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: That the morrow would see us arraigned 'fore the Head
 And probably birched with a willow
[…] and was tied to a tree and soundly birched with a bundle of furze
The Mexica were always washing, in water obtained through the aqueduct, or in the lake, and would often go to the popular baths in the numerous stone steam houses (where birching, with grasses, or massage was also available).
Derived words: American white birch
Asian black birch
birchbark
birch beer
birch bolete
birch bracket
birchen
birch-leaved bellflower
birchlike
birch mouse
birch of Jamaica
birch oil
birch partridge
birch sap
birch skeletonizer
birch tar
birch tree
Birch Vale
birch wine
birch wood
birchwood
birchy
black birch
black birch tree
canoe birch
cherry birch
Dahurian birch
Daurian birch
downy birch
dwarf birch
flame birch
Japanese cherry birch
Much Birch
non-birch
northern birch mouse
oil of birch
paper birch
red birch
river birch
silver birch
sweet birch
water birch
weeping birch
white birch
yellow birch
bircher
unbirched
Translations:
lang: Azerbaijani
word: tozağacı
lang: Catalan
word: bedoll
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 樺木 /桦木
roman: huàmù
lang: Danish
word: birk
lang: Dutch
word: berk
lang: Finnish
word: koivu
lang: Finnish
word: koivupuu
lang: Hungarian
word: nyírfa
lang: Icelandic
word: birki
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: bjerk
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: bjørk
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: bjørk
lang: Portuguese
word: bétula
lang: Russian
word: берёза
roman: berjóza
lang: Spanish
word: abedul
lang: Swahili
word: ubao wa mbetula
lang: Swedish
word: björk
lang: Tagalog
word: abedul
lang: Turkish
word: huş
alba
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: communications
journalism
literature
media
poetry
publishing
writing
Etymology: First attested in 1821; borrowed from Occitan alba, ultimately from Latin albus (“white”); compare Spanish alba (“dawn”).
Inflected forms:
form: albas
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A type of lyrical poetry, traditionally Provençal, about lovers who must part at dawn.
pos: noun
Translations:
albo
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English Albanian
English -o
English albo
From Albanian + -o.
Inflected forms:
form: albos
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An Albanian.
pos: noun
tags: US
ethnic
offensive
slur
Translations:
albergo
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian albergo. Doublet of auberge and harbor.
Inflected forms:
form: albergos
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: alberghi
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An Italian inn.
pos: noun
Translations:
nuevo
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish nuevo. Doublet of new.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: New or novel, usually in reference to Latin American culture.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: What young adults have managed to come up with is either nuevo hipster or ultra-nerd, but almost always a bland imitation of the past.
In Chicago, a favourite resto is Topolobampo, celebrity chef Rick Bayless's shrine to nuevo Mexican cuisine.
Translations:
bizarro
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Variant of bizarre, equivalent to bizarre + -o; see that entry for more information. In the sense of “logical inverse”, derived via the comic book character Bizarro, an inverted version of Superman from a planet where “good” means “bad” and so on, and further popularized by "The Bizarro Jerry", a 1996 episode of the sitcom Seinfeld.
Base: bizarre
Affixes: -o
Inflected forms:
form: bizarros
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: weirdo, misfit
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Often described as "the Citizen Kane of dismemberment movies," this cult-movie masterpiece set the standards for the "bizarros-who-turn-their-home-into-a-human-slaughterhouse" horror genre.
Showgirl breasts and round hips that swayed to a sultry beat when she walked and drew heartbreakers and bizarros from the four corners of the earth.
BOOM!, he can't walk, can't talk, he's in a ward at a state institution with thirty retarded bizarros, many of them bizzare^([sic]) […]
gloss: Bizarro fiction.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Bizarro is literature's equivalent to the cult section at the video store.
Bizarro isn't really a new genre. Just a new term.
Not only does it centre on the dire-sounding romance novel, Electra Galaxy's Mr Interstellar Feller (product description: "When a handsome yet stuffy intergalactic cop is forced to enter the Electra Galaxy's Mr Interstellar Feller competition, and is partnered with an Earth cop as his manager and overseer, hilarity and romance ensue"), but it takes the bizarro quotient to new levels.
Related words: mondo bizarro
Translations:
tempest
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Old French tempeste (French tempête), from Latin tempestas (“storm”), from tempus (“time, weather”). Displaced native Old English hrīþ.
Inflected forms:
form: tempests
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: tempests
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: tempesting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: tempested
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: tempested
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A storm, especially one with severe winds.
pos: noun
examples: For a Tempeſt. Take Eurus, Zephyr, Auſter and Boreas, and caſt them together in one Verſe. Add to theſe of Rain, Lightning, and of Thunder (the loudeſt you can) quantum ſufficit. Mix your Clouds and Billows well together till they foam, and thicken your Deſcription here and there with a Quickſand. Brew your Tempeſt well in your Head, before you ſet it a blowing.
BEAT on, proud billows; Boreas blow; / Swell, curled waves, high as Jove's roof; / Your incivility doth ſhow, / That innocence is tempeſt proof; / Though ſurly Nereus frown, my thoughts are calm; / Then ſtrike, Affliction, for thy wounds are balm. [Attributed to Roger L'Estrange (1616–1704).]
As every sailor knows, a spicy gale in the tropic latitudes of the Pacific is far different from a tempest in the howling North Atlantic.
The desert storm was riding in its strength; the travellers lay beneath the mastery of the fell simoom.[…]Roaring, leaping, pouncing, the tempest raged about the wanderers, drowning and blotting out their forms with sandy spume.
gloss: Any violent tumult or commotion.
pos: noun
examples: Comforted with these reflections, the tempest of his soul subsided
They awaited the word "forward"—awaited, too, with beating hearts and set teeth the gusts of lead and iron that were to smite them at their first movement in obedience to that word. The word was not given; the tempest did not break out.
gloss: A fashionable social gathering; a drum.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
gloss: To storm.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
rare
gloss: To disturb, as by a tempest.
pos: verb
tags: poetic
transitive
examples: . . . the seal
And bended dolphins play; part huge of bulk,
Wallowing unwieldy, enormous in their gait,
Tempest the ocean.
Oh! dark lowered the clouds on that horrible eve,
And the moon dimly gleamed through the tempested air.
Derived words: paleotempestology
supertempest
tempestful
tempest in a teacup
tempest in a tea-kettle
tempest in a teapot
tempestite
tempestless
tempest-tossed
tempestuate
tempestuous
untempested
Translations:
terra
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *ters-der.
Proto-Italic *terzā
Latin terrabor.
English terra
Borrowed from Latin terra.
Inflected forms:
form: terras
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: terrae
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Earth, soil, land, or ground as a physical surface.
pos: noun
tags: countable
literary
uncountable
gloss: The material world as opposed to the heavens.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
countable
uncountable
gloss: A continent or large landmass, especially on another planet or moon; e.g. Arabia Terra or Aphrodite Terra.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A lunar highland or mountainous region with relatively high albedo; e.g. Terra Nivium.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Related words: terracotta
terra-japonica
terra Lemnia
terra-mara
terra ponderosa
terra preta
terra rossa
Derived words: Aquaterra
Translations: