yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
buddy
Part of speech: noun
pron
verb
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: First appears c. 1788, in the writings of Charles Dibdin, of uncertain origin. Possibly from *bruddy, *bruthy, a child-talk alteration of brother. Alternatively, perhaps from British colloquial butty (“companion”), also the form of an older dialect term meaning workmate, associated with coal mining. Itself believed derived from 1530 as booty fellow, a partner with whom one shares booty or loot. Alternatively, compare Scots buddo, bodda (“buddy, kiddo, dear”), related to Icelandic budda (“purse"; also "short, stout person”).
Base: bud
Affixes: -y
Inflected forms:
form: buddies
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: buddies
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: buddying
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: buddied
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: buddied
pos: verb
tags: past
form: more buddy
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most buddy
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: A friend or casual acquaintance.
pos: noun
examples: They have been buddies since they were in school.
He told us we ought to think of Jesus as our buddy and all. He said he talked to Jesus all the time. Even when he was driving his car. That killed me.
gloss: A partner for a particular activity.
pos: noun
examples: drinking buddies
training buddies [mentor/mentee]
gloss: An informal and friendly address to a stranger, usually male; a friendly (or occasionally antagonistic) placeholder name for a person one does not know.
pos: noun
examples: Hey, buddy, I think you dropped this.
gloss: A person far removed from the conversation.
pos: pron
examples: I found some earphones in the pocket, buddy must have been pissed.
Buddy's loaded. 'Got like three houses.
gloss: To assign a buddy, or partner, to.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: If you are being formally buddied, have a good chat with your buddy and find out their interests -- these should more or less match your own.
gloss: Resembling a bud.
pos: adj
examples: Some of the dwarfer varieties are full of buddy growths in the early stages and these must be cut down and thrown away.
Translations:
coroner
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: law
medicine
sciences
Etymology: From Middle English coroner, from Old French curuner, from Medieval Latin custōs placitōrum corōnae (“guardian of the crown's pleas”). The function was originally to protect royal properties.
Inflected forms:
form: coroners
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A public official who presides over an inquest into unnatural deaths, and who may have (or historically had) additional powers such as investigating cases of treasure trove.
pos: noun
tags: Commonwealth
Ireland
Japan
examples: The coroner confirmed the cause of death.
gloss: A medical doctor who performs autopsies and determines time and cause of death from a scientific standpoint.
pos: noun
tags: Canada
US
examples: A report from the coroner was presented in court.
gloss: The administrative head of a sheading.
pos: noun
Related words: coronial
Derived words: coronership
Translations:
bagman
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: golf
government
hobbies
lifestyle
politics
sports
Etymology: Etymology tree
Old Norse baggibor.?
Old French baguebor.?
Middle English bagge
English bag
Proto-Indo-European *mon-
Proto-Germanic *mann-
Proto-West Germanic *mann
Old English mann
Middle English man
Middle English -man
English -man
English bagman
From bag + -man.
Inflected forms:
form: bagmen
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: bag man
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A person who collects, transports, or distributes illicit money, especially for the purpose of bribery, extortion, or the making of other improper payments.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
New-Zealand
US
informal
examples: The accused are only the latest in a string of alleged bagmen, vote-riggers and ward-heelers charged with wrongdoing.
You're going to pick up seven million dollars of cartel money? […] Jimmy, you are an attorney, not a bagman.
gloss: A caddy.
pos: noun
gloss: A staff assistant to a senior police officer (such as a Detective Sergeant for a Detective Inspector).
pos: noun
tags: UK
dated
gloss: A secretary of (and keeper of equipment for) a Morris dancing side.
pos: noun
tags: UK
gloss: A bookmaker.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
slang
gloss: A tramp, hobo.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
dated
slang
gloss: A travelling salesman.
pos: noun
tags: UK
dated
slang
gloss: An officer assigned to travel with the president and carry the "nuclear football".
pos: noun
tags: US
slang
examples: […] in a locked metal suitcase carried on the President's travels by a warrant officer irreverently known as "the bagman."
The bagman clutching the nuclear football like an undertaker at a wedding. Cameras flashed and clicked, recording the scene. 'Good morning, Mr President,' they chorused.
gloss: A prominent fundraiser for a political party or similar cause.
pos: noun
tags: Canada
informal
examples: 2016, David Akin, "Tory 'bagman' boasts about party's bank account, Toronto Sun, 28 May,
Proud to call himself the "bagman" of the Conservative Party, former senator Irving Gerstein boasted about the financial health of his party Friday.
Translations:
sneaker
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
natural-sciences
Etymology: From sneak + -er. The shoes sense is a reference to the quietness of the shoes.
Base: sneak
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: sneakers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who sneaks.
pos: noun
examples: Beshrew the man who on such a day as this, the general festival, should affect to stand aloof. I am none of those sneakers. I am free of the corporation, and care not who knows it.
gloss: An athletic shoe with a soft, rubber sole. A trainer.
pos: noun
tags: Atlantic-Canada
Australia
Florida
New-Zealand
Northeastern
US
gloss: A vessel of drink.
pos: noun
tags: UK
archaic
dialectal
examples: Spectator
I have just left the right worshipful and his myrmidons about a sneaker of five gallons!
gloss: A large cup (or small basin) with a saucer and cover.
pos: noun
tags: India
archaic
gloss: A sneaker male.
pos: noun
examples: These sneakers may go on this way indefinitely, or, if one of the big males somehow dies or disappears, a sneaker male's hormones will trigger a huge growth spurt and he'll metamorphose into an alpha male.
Synonyms: kicks
tennis shoe
trainer
runner
takkie
rubber shoe
running shoe
Derived words: sneakered
sneakerhead
sneakerization
sneakerless
sneakerlike
sneakernet
sneakerprint
sneaker sock
sneaker wave
sneakery
Translations:
autonomic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: anatomy
medicine
neuroanatomy
neurology
neuroscience
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₂ewder.?
Proto-Indo-European *sóder.?
Proto-Indo-European *h₂ewder.
Ancient Greek αὖ (aû)
Ancient Greek τόν (tón)?
Ancient Greek αὐτός (autós)
Ancient Greek αὐτο- (auto-)
Proto-Indo-European *nem-der.
Proto-Indo-European *németi
Proto-Hellenic *némō
Ancient Greek νέμω (némō)
Proto-Indo-European *-os
Proto-Hellenic *-os
Ancient Greek -ος (-os)
Ancient Greek νόμος (nómos)
▲
Proto-Hellenic *-os
Ancient Greek -ος (-os)
Ancient Greek αὐτόνομος (autónomos)
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-i-eh₂
Proto-Hellenic *-íā
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ᾱ (-ĭ́ā)
Ancient Greek αὐτονομῐ́ᾱ (autonomĭ́ā)bor.
English autonomy
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Latin -icuslbor.
Old French -iquebor.
Middle English -ik
English -ic
English autonomic
From autonomy + -ic.
Inflected forms:
form: autonomical
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Acting or occurring involuntarily, without conscious control.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Pertaining to the autonomic nervous system.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Related words: autonomous
dysautonomic
Derived words: autonomically
autonomic ganglion
autonomicity
autonomic nervous system
autonomics
cardioautonomic
dysautonomia
neuroautonomic
nonautonomic
panautonomic
preautonomic
Translations:
highball
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From high + ball, of the same railroad origins as lowball.
Compound parts: high
ball
Inflected forms:
form: highballs
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: highballing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: highballed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: highballed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To make an estimate which tends toward exaggeration.
pos: verb
examples: If we highball the price, it comes out to $240. If we lowball it, it's closer to $200.
gloss: To move quickly; to hightail.
pos: verb
tags: US
dated
possibly
slang
examples: Booster-equipped 628 highballs west at Glen Lake, Minn., back in 1947.
The water-level route, the whistle and the loud staccato exhaust of this great engine recalled most vividly memories of the New York Central Hudsons highballing along the Hudson River between Harmon and Albany!
Translations:
grotty
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Clipping of grotesque + -y. Piecewise doublet of grody, the American equivalent. Compare Middle English groti, grooti (“slimy, muddy”), from Old English grotiġ (“earthy, dirty”) (modern dialectal English groaty, Scots grotty), which is equivalent to groat + -y. Compare also Scottish Gaelic grod (“rotten, lousy, terrible”), Middle Irish grot (“bitter, sour”).
Originated or popularised by the 1964 film A Hard Day's Night, starring the Beatles and written by Alun Owen.
Affixes: -y
Inflected forms:
form: grottier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: grottiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Unpleasant, dirty, slovenly or offensive.
pos: adj
tags: Commonwealth
Ireland
UK
slang
examples: George: I wouldn't be seen dead in them. They're dead grotty.
Simon: Grotty?
George: Yeah, grotesque.
Translations:
kindergarten
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from German Kindergarten (“kindergarten”, literally “garden of children”), coined by German pedagogue Friedrich Fröbel in 1840.
Inflected forms:
form: kindergartens
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: kindergärten
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
plural
form: kindergarden
pos: noun
tags: alternative
misspelling
Senses:
gloss: An educational institution for young children, usually between ages 4 and 6; nursery school.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
Canada
India
US
gloss: The elementary school grade before first grade.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
Canada
India
US
gloss: The two levels between nursery and prep; the second and third years of preschool.
pos: noun
tags: Philippines
Related words: kindergartner
daycare
Derived words: kinder
kindergarchy
kindergartener
kindergartenize
kinderwhore
kindy
nonkindergarten
prekindergarten
Translations:
neuralgia
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
neurology
neuroscience
pathology
sciences
Etymology: From New Latin neuralgia, from Ancient Greek νεῦρον (neûron, “nerve”) + ἄλγος (álgos, “pain”). By surface analysis, neur- + -algia.
Inflected forms:
form: neuralgias
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An acute, severe, intermittent pain that radiates along a nerve.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Acute emotional distress.
pos: noun
tags: countable
figuratively
uncountable
examples: A century later, the UK’s post-Brexit dispute with Brussels about Northern Ireland’s trading arrangements with the EU has stirred the same neuralgia.
Ukrainian strikes on legitimate military targets far in the Russian rear continue to be points of neuralgia for the Russian milblogger community.
Synonyms: neuralgy
neurodynia
Related words: analgesia
neuritis
neuropathy
pantalgia
polyneuropathy
Derived words: corneal neuralgia
neuralgic
neuralgiform
odontoneuralgia
red neuralgia
trigeminal neuralgia
Translations:
roust
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: 1650s, variant of rouse, possibly influenced by rout.
Inflected forms:
form: rousts
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: rousting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: rousted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: rousted
pos: verb
tags: past
form: rousts
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: roost
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: rost
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: to rout out of bed; to rouse.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: "Why didn't you roust me out?" / "Well, I tried to, but I couldn't; I couldn't budge you." / "Well, all right. Don't stand there palavering all day, but out with you and see if there's a fish on the lines for breakfast. I'll be along in a minute."
1977-1980, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure
Yesterday morn at 6:30 they rousted me up & gave me 2 shots in the behind.
gloss: To harass, to treat in a rough way.
pos: verb
tags: informal
transitive
examples: My client is an ex-convict. He's been constantly harassed by the police... subjected to extreme mental cruelty and public degradation. He's even been denied an adequate place to live! To be very blunt, gentlemen, my client has been thoroughly rousted.
gloss: To arrest.
pos: verb
tags: slang
transitive
gloss: To drive strongly.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: A strong tide or current, especially in a narrow channel.
pos: noun
examples: At the north point of this island, called Ska, goes a very rapid current; like the Roust of Sumburghead
Synonyms: knock up
Derived words: roustabout
rouster
Translations:
shakedown
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Deverbal from shake down. An improvised bed would originally have been made by shaking down straw.
Inflected forms:
form: shakedowns
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: shake-down
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: shake-down
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Extortion, especially through blackmail
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: What is this, a shakedown?
Four Thai police officers charged with murder in connection with the deadly shakedown of a suspected drug dealer in custody were arrested Wednesday after a video clip of the incident shared on social media caused a public furor.
gloss: A thorough search; a frisk
pos: noun
tags: slang
gloss: A trial or test period, especially of a ship or aircraft.
pos: noun
examples: It was planning to use an '807' for one day only as part of a shakedown test, ahead of the fleet's formal entry to service which is currently planned for November.
gloss: An improvised bed.
pos: noun
examples: All sorts of gossip floated about; one story told was that a selector, and not the youngest of that staid and sober party, was found putting his boots into his shakedown at night, and lying outside the entrance of his tent, giving careful directions to some one to call him in time for the morning mail.
"There's nowhere for me to lie down, sir," he answered, and there was in his voice a humbleness which was very distressing. -- "Don't you know anyone in the house who'll give you a shakedown?" -- "No, sir."
‘You two,’ he says, ‘you're not going back tonight. […] I can make you shake-downs on the veranda and we'll have a bite to eat.’
gloss: That tests the performance of a ship or aircraft.
pos: adj
Translations:
porphyry
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
Etymology: From Old French porfire, from Ancient Greek πορφυρίτης λίθος (porphurítēs líthos, “purple stone”), from πορφύρα (porphúra, “purple-fish, purple dye”).
Inflected forms:
form: porphyries
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A hard igneous rock consisting of large crystals in a fine-grained matrix.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A hard igneous rock consisting of large crystals in a fine-grained matrix.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: A quartet of porphyry warriors, locked for all time in stern embrace outside St. Mark's Basilica, were probably carved in the Fourth Century. They are believed to represent the Roman Emperor Diocletian and the three men who held power with him.
Derived words: porphyraceous
porphyric
porphyrogenite → porphyrogenitism
porphyrogeniture
porphyroid
porphyrous
porphyry shell
Translations:
lang: Catalan
word: pòrfir
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 斑岩
roman: bānyán
lang: Finnish
word: porfyyri
lang: French
word: porphyre
lang: French
word: porphyrie
lang: Georgian
word: პორფირი
roman: ṗorpiri
lang: Greek
word: πορφυρίτης
roman: porfyrítis
lang: Hindi
word: सुम्माक़
roman: summāq
lang: Indonesian
word: porfiria
lang: Italian
word: porfido
lang: Japanese
word: 斑岩
roman: hangan
lang: Korean
word: 반암
roman: banam
lang: Portuguese
word: pórfiro
lang: Romanian
word: porfiră
lang: Romanian
word: porfir
lang: Russian
word: порфир
roman: porfir
lang: Spanish
word: pórfido
lang: Old Spanish
word: arroham
lang: Urdu
word: سماق
roman: summāq
platelet
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
cytology
hematology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *pleth₂-
Proto-Indo-European *-us
Proto-Indo-European *pléth₂us
Proto-Hellenic *plətús
Ancient Greek πλατύς (platús)bor.
Vulgar Latin *platta
Old French platebor.
Middle English plate
English plate
Proto-Indo-European *-lós
Proto-Indo-European *-elós
Proto-Italic *-elos
Latin -lus
Latin -ellus
Old French -el
Proto-Indo-European *-tós
Proto-Italic *-tosder.?
Late Latin -ittus
Old French -et
Old French -eletbor.
Middle English -let
English -let
English platelet
From plate + -let.
Inflected forms:
form: platelets
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A small colorless disk-shaped particle found in the blood of mammals, which plays an important role in the formation of blood clots.
pos: noun
Translations:
breaststroke
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From breast + stroke.
Compound parts: breast
stroke
Inflected forms:
form: breaststrokes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: breaststrokes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: breaststroking
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: breaststroked
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: breaststroked
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A swimming stroke in which the swimmer lies face down, the arms being swept forward, outward and back under the water and the legs are kicked like a frog's
pos: noun
gloss: To swim using this stroke.
pos: verb
Translations:
backstroke
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: compound
Topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
swimming
Etymology: From back + stroke.
Compound parts: back
stroke
Inflected forms:
form: backstrokes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: backstrokes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: backstroking
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: backstroked
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: backstroked
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A backhanded stroke or blow.
pos: noun
examples: He observed that Cid Ruy-dias was an excellent knight; but not equal to the Lord of the Flaming-sword, who with one back-stroke [translating revés] had cut two fierce and monstrous giants through the middle.
gloss: A stroke swum lying on one's back, while rotating both arms through the water as to propel the swimmer backwards.
pos: noun
gloss: The pull on the tail of the rope that swings the bell through a full circle (compare handstroke)
pos: noun
gloss: To swim the backstroke.
pos: verb
Synonyms: back crawl
Related words: breaststroke
butterfly stroke
sidestroke
Derived words: backstroker
Translations:
SAW
Part of speech: intj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: Islam
lifestyle
religion
Etymology: From Arabic
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: صَلَّى اللّٰهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ (ṣallā llāhu ʕalayhi wa-sallama, “peace be upon him”)
pos: intj
tags: proscribed
sometimes
Translations:
self-conjugate
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *swé?
Proto-Indo-European *selbʰ-der.
Proto-Germanic *selbaz
Old English self
Old English self-
Middle English self-
English self-
English conjugate
English self-conjugate
From self- + conjugate.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of a subatomic particle that is identical to its antiparticle; includes all gauge bosons except the charged W-boson and gluons.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
W-boson
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
Etymology: Coined by Chinese physicists Tsung-Dao Lee and Yang Chen-Ning in 1960; the W is believed to stand for weak.
Inflected forms:
form: W-bosons
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: W boson
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: a fundamental particle, a gauge boson, that, together with the Z-boson, mediates the weak nuclear force; it has a charge of ± 1
pos: noun
tags: particle
Translations:
Z-boson
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
Etymology: Coined by American physicist Sheldon Glashow in 1961. The use of Z was not explained but may stand for zero.
Inflected forms:
form: Z-bosons
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Z boson
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: a fundamental particle, a gauge boson, that, together with the W-boson, mediates the weak nuclear force; it has a charge of 0
pos: noun
tags: particle
Translations:
GAA
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Inflected forms:
form: GAAs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: goals against average, a sports statistic
pos: noun
Translations:
n-tuple
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: mathematics
sciences
Inflected forms:
form: n-tuples
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A tuple containing n terms.
pos: noun
examples: Two probabilistic interpretations of the n-tuple recognition method are put forward in order to allow this technique to be analysed with the same Bayesian methods used in connection with other neural network models.
The continuous n-tuple classifier was proposed by the author as a new type of n-tuple classifier that is ideally suited to problems where the input is continuous or multi-level rather than binary.
Therefore an image processing technique that utilises a trainable n-tuple pattern recognition algorithm is under investigation.
Translations:
kaon
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
Etymology: From contracted pronunciation of K-meson.
Inflected forms:
form: kaons
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: any of four unstable subatomic particles, mesons, they are a combination of a strange quark or antiquark and either an up or down quark or antiquark
pos: noun
tags: particle
examples: K⁰: strange quark + down antiquark
K (antiparticle of K⁰): down quark + strange antiquark
K⁺: strange quark + up antiquark
K⁻ (antiparticle of K⁺): up quark + strange antiquark
Translations:
antiquark
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₂ent-
Proto-Indo-European *-s
Proto-Indo-European *h₂énts
Proto-Indo-European *-i
Proto-Indo-European *h₂énti
Ancient Greek ᾰ̓ντῐ́ (ăntĭ́)
Ancient Greek ἀντι- (anti-)der.
English anti-
English quark
English antiquark
From anti- + quark.
Inflected forms:
form: antiquarks
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The antiparticle of a quark.
pos: noun
tags: particle
Translations:
foon
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: Blend of fork + spoon.
Compound parts: fork
spoon
Inflected forms:
form: foons
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of spork.
pos: noun
Translations:
Tweedle-dum
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: The names "Tweedledum" and "Tweedledee" first appeared in print in one of John Byrom's epigrams, which satirised the disagreements between Handel and Bononcini. They were made popular by Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking-Glass.
Inflected forms:
form: Tweedle-dums
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One of a pair (the other of the pair being Tweedle-dee) of nominally different (often: but practically identical) things.
pos: noun
examples: Some ſay, compar’d to Bononcini, / That Mynheer Handel’s but a Ninny; / Others aver, that he to Handel / Is ſcarcely fit to hold a Candle: / Strange all this Difference ſhould be, / ’Twixt Tweedle-dum and Tweedle-dee!
How can we get the tweedle-dums and the tweedle-dees together for united action in the interests of the masses of the people?
Suppose we have any axiom of the form: (2) For every Tweedledee there is a Tweedledum R-related to it. Axioms of the form (2) cut two ways. They can be construed as putting a limit on the Tweedledees: only those exist for which there is an R-related Tweedledum. On the other hand, they can be seen as postulating the existence of a rich collection of Tweedledums. There are so many of them that there is at least one R-related to every single Tweedledee.
"She can't tell a Tweedle-dum from a Tweedle-dee."
Tweedledum’s chum stood with his hand resting lightly on the back of her arm, as if to turn her away from some potentially corrupting sight. [...] I stood my ground, smiled, and introduced myself. "I'm looking for Timothy Butler. That must be you." [...] I calmed down enough to notice that Timothy Butler was clenching and unclenching his right hand in an effort at self-control. Tweedledum noticed it too. She rushed to his defense.
Translations:
Tweedle-dee
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: The names "Tweedledum" and "Tweedledee" first appeared in print in one of John Byrom's epigrams, which satirised the disagreements between Handel and Bononcini. They were made popular by Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking-Glass.
Inflected forms:
form: Tweedle-dees
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One of a pair (the other of the pair being Tweedle-dum) of nominally different (often: but practically identical) things.
pos: noun
examples: Some ſay, compar’d to Bononcini, / That Mynheer Handel’s but a Ninny; / Others aver, that he to Handel / Is ſcarcely fit to hold a Candle: / Strange all this Difference ſhould be, / ’Twixt Tweedle-dum and Tweedle-dee!
How can we get the tweedle-dums and the tweedle-dees together for united action in the interests of the masses of the people?
Suppose we have any axiom of the form: (2) For every Tweedledee there is a Tweedledum R-related to it. Axioms of the form (2) cut two ways. They can be construed as putting a limit on the Tweedledees: only those exist for which there is an R-related Tweedledum. On the other hand, they can be seen as postulating the existence of a rich collection of Tweedledums. There are so many of them that there is at least one R-related to every single Tweedledee.
"She can't tell a Tweedle-dum from a Tweedle-dee."
Translations:
cavalcade
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Celtic *kaballosder.?
Latin caballus
Latin -icō
Late Latin caballicō
Old Italian cavalcare
Old Italian cavalcatabor.
Old French cavalcade
French cavalcadebor.
English cavalcade
From French cavalcade, from Old French cavalcade, from Old Italian cavalcata, from cavalcare (“to ride on horseback”), from Medieval Latin caballicō, from Vulgar Latin caballus (“horse”). Doublet of chevauchee.
Inflected forms:
form: cavalcades
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: cavalcades
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: cavalcading
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: cavalcaded
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: cavalcaded
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A procession of riders, vehicles, ships, etc.
pos: noun
tags: collective
examples: To the onlooker, and particularly to those whose memories go back to pre-grouping days, the modern cavalcade of "V2s" and "B1s" is apt to become a little monotonous; but to any running man the general utility characteristics of these two classes are a perfect godsend at times of exceptional pressure, when it is often a case of "first in—first out" with locomotive allocations at sheds.
gloss: A ceremonial parade.
pos: noun
examples: For the first three hours all went as well as could be expected, and then an accident happened that nearly lost us the pleasure of the company of our venerable friend Billali, whose litter was leading the cavalcade.
In the second row of the cavalcade were Francie, Fanny's god-daughter, now thirteen years old and already elegant in long frilled pantalettes, tartan skirts, and a leghorn hat with streamers, …
gloss: A trail ride, usually more than one day long.
pos: noun
examples: Stranleigh found no difficulty in getting a cavalcade together at Bleacher’s station, an amazingly long distance west of New York.
gloss: An often dramatic series or chain of events or things.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
examples: As soon as I visited this website, a cavalcade of dialog boxes started to appear on my screen; that's when I realized my computer was infected with a virus.
gloss: To move as part of a series or group, such as marchers in a parade or snow in an avalanche, especially in large numbers or in a chaotic or dangerous fashion
pos: verb
examples: Great numbers of horse were still cavalcading, but […]
[…] although for the most part he believed the devil was too good a general to let his soldiers waste their time in cavalcading about on broom-sticks.
Related words: cavalier
cavalry
Derived words: aquacade
autocade
motorcade
tractorcade
Translations:
provocateur
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from French provocateur. Doublet of provocator.
Inflected forms:
form: provocateurs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who engages in provocative behavior.
pos: noun
examples: Near-synonyms: provoker (sometimes synonymous), agitator
Gerard Mortier, an iconoclastic impresario and one of the opera world’s premier provocateurs, will become general manager and artistic director of the New York City Opera in 2009.
Cannes is smacking its lips in anticipation of filmmaker and provocateur Michael Moore's latest jeremiad against the US administration, which receives its premiere at the film festival today.
gloss: An undercover agent who incites suspected persons to partake in or commit criminal acts.
pos: noun
examples: Near-synonyms: agitator, inciter
Related words: entrapment
incitement
Translations:
bilious
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
Etymology: From French bilieux, from Latin bīliōsus (“full of bile”), from bīlis (“bile”) + -ōsus (“full of”).
Inflected forms:
form: more bilious
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most bilious
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to something containing or consisting of bile.
pos: adj
gloss: Resembling bile, especially in color.
pos: adj
examples: Does money fail?—come to my mint—coin paper,
Till gold be at a discount, and ashamed
To show his bilious face, go purge himself,
In emulation of her vestal whiteness.
His complexion was pale, not of that deadly pallor which is a kind of neutral beauty, but of a bilious, yellow hue; his colorless hair was short and scarcely extended beyond the circle formed by the hat around his head, and his light blue eyes seemed destitute of any expression.
The business-center of Schoenstrom took up one side of one block, facing the railroad. It was a row of one-story shops covered with galvanized iron, or with clapboards painted red and bilious yellow.
A beautiful girl once told me of a recurring nightmare in which she lay in the center of a large dark room and felt her face expand until it filled the whole room, becoming a formless mass while her eyes ran in bilious jelly up the chimney.
gloss: Suffering from real or supposed liver disorder, especially excessive secretions of bile.
pos: adj
examples: Perry tells me that Mr. Cole never touches malt liquor. You would not think it to look at him, but he is bilious—Mr. Cole is very bilious.
gloss: Peevishly ill-humored, irritable or bad tempered; irascible.
pos: adj
examples: The glorified spirit of a great statesman and philosopher dawdling, like a bilious old Nabob at a watering-place, over quarterly reviews and novels—dropping in to pay long calls—making excursions in search of the picturesque!
The boarders, sharp-tongued bilious widows, pursued the only man in the establishment, a mild, bald creature who worked in La Samaritaine […]
Related words: atrabilious
bile
Derived words: antibilious
biliously
biliousness
bilious vomiting syndrome
nervo-bilious
nonbilious
sanguineobilious
unbilious
Translations:
phlogiston
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: From New Latin phlogiston, coined by Georg Ernst Stahl in 1702, from Ancient Greek φλογιστόν (phlogistón), neuter of φλογιστός (phlogistós, “burnt up, inflammable”), from φλογίζω (phlogízō, “to set fire to”), from φλόξ (phlóx, “flame”).
Inflected forms:
form: phlogistons
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The hypothetical fiery principle formerly assumed to be a necessary constituent of combustible bodies and to be given up by them in burning.
pos: noun
tags: historical
uncountable
usually
examples: […] air was universally reputed to be a simple or elementary body. It was liable, according to the phlogistians, to vitiation, by the addition to it of phlogiston[…] being more or less phlogisticated, according to the degree of its power to support respiration and combustion.
Stahl argued that phlogiston could explain combustion, a central concern of eighteenth-century chemistry.
Translations:
fruiterer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Late Middle English fruiterē̆r (“fruit grower; fruit dealer”), from fruitē̆r (“fruit dealer; household official having charge of fruit”) + -er (it is unclear why the second suffix was added). Fruitē̆r is derived from Anglo-Norman fruitier or French fruitier (“fruit-seller”), from fruit (“fruit”) (from Latin frū̆ctus (“produce, product, fruit; enjoyment, satisfaction”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰruHg- (“to have enjoyment of; make use of”)) + -ier (suffix forming names of jobs).
Inflected forms:
form: fruiterers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who sells fruit.
pos: noun
tags: UK
examples: [T]he very ſame day did I fight with one Samſon Stockefiſh a Fruiterer behinde Greyes Inne: Ieſu, Ieſu, the mad dayes that I haue ſpent!
And Knight laughed, and drew her close and kissed her the second time, which operations he performed with the carefulness of a fruiterer touching a bunch of grapes so as not to disturb their bloom.
A good few Indian fruiterers who were right in the centre of Johannesburg never made the 'mistake' of serving a black man, or even another Indian, before a white customer, no matter who had come first.
Translations:
dowager
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle French douagere, douagiere, from douage (“dower”), from the verb douer (“to endow”), from Latin dōtō (“to endow”), from dōs (“dowry”).
Inflected forms:
form: dowagers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A widow holding property or title derived from her late husband.
pos: noun
examples: A reclusive dowager owned the pastures across the river, and her farmhands ran beef cattle on them.
“I don't mean all of your friends—only a small proportion—which, however, connects your circle with that deadly, idle, brainless bunch—the insolent chatterers at the opera, the gorged dowagers, the worn-out, passionless men, the enervated matrons of the summer capital, the chlorotic squatters on huge yachts,[…]!”
gloss: The widow of the holder of a title (usually a member of the peerage or a baronet); used in combination with the title she held during her husband's lifetime.
pos: noun
examples: the Earl and Countess of Whiteacre, and the Earl's mother, the dowager Countess of Whiteacre
Sir George Sitwell, Bt. and Lady Sitwell, and Sir George's mother, the dowager Lady Sitwell
gloss: Any lady of dignified bearing, especially an older one.
pos: noun
examples: A stately dowager entered the ballroom, and all eyes were upon her.
Related words: dower
Derived words: dowagerish
dowagerism
dowagerlike
dowagerly
dowager's hump
empress dowager
queen dowager
Translations:
lang: Albanian
word: e ve
lang: Arabic
word: أرملة
lang: Dutch
word: douairière
lang: Finnish
word: perijätär
lang: French
word: douairière
lang: Galician
word: viúva herdeira
lang: Galician
word: rexente
lang: German
word: Witwe von Stand
lang: Irish
word: baintreach dhuair
lang: Italian
word: vedova
lang: Norman
word: douaithiéthe
lang: Polish
word: wdowa z tytułem po zmarłym mężu
lang: Romanian
word: văduvă
lang: Russian
word: вдо́вствующая
roman: vdóvstvujuščaja
lang: Russian
word: вдова́
roman: vdová
lang: Spanish
word: viuda
villous
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
natural-sciences
Etymology: From Latin villus (“shaggy hair”).
Inflected forms:
form: more villous
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most villous
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: villose
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Hairy, covered with soft long hair.
pos: adj
gloss: Covered with villi.
pos: adj
examples: Giardia causes villous blunting.
Related words: villosity
villus
microvillus
Derived words: villous lipfern
Translations:
lumpen
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English lump
English -en
English lumpen
From lump + -en (adjectival suffix).
Inflected forms:
form: lumpens
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Lump-like.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: [About prominent critics lambasting his film 2001:] New York was the only really hostile city. Perhaps there is a certain element of the lumpen literati that is so dogmatically atheist and materialist and Earth-bound that it finds the grandeur of space and the myriad mysteries of cosmic intelligence anathema.
This something, which is neither body nor machine but interior and alien to them both, pertains to the 'meat' in Gibson's world insofar as the 'meat' - that useless corporeal remainder discarded by the machine - retains an excess that cannot be reduced to the lumpen mass of fleshy existence.
Using the last two as an example, there is a constant sense of contrast in the poem, in this case between the streamlined ship which will surge through the water and the mere lumpen shape of the clumsy iceberg.
Billy and Dandy had draped a tarp over the body but the shape itself looked lumpen and grotesque.
a slaloming winger putting lumpen defenders on their backsides, or even a sneaky centre-forward, using his boundless energy to lead the press and force mistakes.
gloss: A member of the lumpenproletariat.
pos: noun
examples: In Sydorenko's memorable words: "Our ideals as 'lumpens' are: to find a cozy place, to eat well, to multiply and to die peacefully. A 'lumpen' does not have a nationality, nor does he have a fatherland. Nor conscience. He remains beyond politics and morality."
Derived words: lumpenly
Translations:
sorted
Part of speech: adj
intj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Put into some order by sorting.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: a sorted list of numbers
gloss: In good order, under control.
pos: adj
tags: informal
not-comparable
usually
examples: I have to get my life sorted.
gloss: In possession of a sufficient supply, especially of narcotics.
pos: adj
tags: UK
not-comparable
slang
examples: Sorted for E's & Wizz (song by UK band Pulp)
gloss: A general expression of approval or completion
pos: intj
tags: UK
slang
examples: A: Did you book the train tickets?
B: Yep, sorted!
Derived words: ill-sorted
many-sorted logic
multisorted
nonsorted
sortedness
unsorted
Translations:
methamphetamine
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From meth- + amphetamine; 1945–1950.
Base: amphetamine
Affixes: meth-
Inflected forms:
form: methamphetamines
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: metamfetamine
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A highly addictive phenethylamine stimulant drug. Its systematic (IUPAC) name is (S)-N-methyl-1-phenylpropan-2-amine.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Near-synonyms: crystal meth, ice (formulation-specific nicknames); speed (also includes other similar drugs)
Methamphetamine is more potent than dexamphetamine which is in turn more potent than its racemate amphetamine.
A cloud of smoke from two pounds of methamphetamine seized by the FBI and incinerated inside a Montana animal shelter sent its workers to the hospital, city officials in Billings said.
Translations:
expeditious
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English expedycius (“useful, fitting”), from Latin expedītus (“disengaged, ready, convenient, prompt; unfettered, unencumbered”), past participle of expediō.
Inflected forms:
form: more expeditious
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most expeditious
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Fast, prompt, speedy.
pos: adj
examples: Near-synonym: expedited
Our coachman and horses are so extremely expeditious!—I believe we drive faster than anybody.
An “expeditious cessation of hostilities” is essential to “stabilise European economies, prevent unintended escalation or expansion of the war and re-establish strategic stability with Russia”, the document says.
gloss: Completed or done with efficiency and speed; facilitating speed.
pos: adj
examples: Near-synonym: expedited
As they thus pressed forward, longing doubtless to exchange the easy curving line, which the sinuosities of the bay compelled them to adopt, for a straiter and more expeditious path, though less conformable to the line of beauty, Sir Arthur observed a human figure on the beach advancing to meet them.
Now, there was a sort of rough-and-ready law in Ireland in those days which was of great convenience to persons desirous of expeditious justice[…].
Related words: expedient
expedite
expedition
expeditionary
expeditiously
Derived words: expeditiousness
unexpeditious
Translations:
Devanagari
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Sanskrit देवनागरी (devanāgarī), compound of दे॒व (devá, “divine”) + नग॑र॒ (nágara, “town; city”).
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of the Devanagari script or of a Devanagari alphabet.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The etymologies gave words from Hindustani in the Devanagari script accompanied by transliterations in parentheses.
Translations:
subminiature
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: arts
hobbies
lifestyle
photography
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *upó
Proto-Italic *supo
Latin sub
Latin sub-der.
English sub-
Latin miniumder.
Italian minio
Proto-Italic *-āzi
▲
Latin -ereinflu.
Latin -āre
Italian -are
Italian miniare
Proto-Indo-European *-tew-?
Proto-Indo-European *-r-eh₂?
Latin -tūra
Italian -tura
Italian miniaturabor.
English miniature
English subminiature
From sub- + miniature.
Inflected forms:
form: subminiatures
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Compact or smaller than miniature.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Vacuum tubes and other circuit components have been produced in miniature and subminiature versions.
gloss: of photography equipment and techniques using a smaller frame than 35mm
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Other Minolta cameras from $27 to $270, including subminiature, "snapshot," 35mm rangefinder and single lens reflex models...
gloss: Any item smaller than that considered miniature, especially electronic and electromechanical devices
pos: noun
examples: One of these Raytheon Subminiatures takes the place of two old style tubes and its small size results in lower microphonics.
gloss: A subminiature camera, generally with a frame smaller than 35mm
pos: noun
examples: The popularity of today’s wide-angle lenses and the subminiatures with their inherently great depth of field testify to the success of this technique.
Derived words: subminiaturize
Translations:
roadblock
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English road
English block
English roadblock
From road + block.
Inflected forms:
form: roadblocks
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: roadblocks
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: roadblocking
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: roadblocked
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: roadblocked
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Something that blocks or obstructs a road.
pos: noun
gloss: An obstacle or impediment.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
examples: to hit roadblocks
[…] let’s get back to Earl, who had run into a roadblock in his desire to administer wedgies. As it turns out, underpants didn’t exist in the 18th century and without underpants, the whole wedgie business becomes a problem.
Transgender people face roadblocks in accessing healthcare, and it’s not going away even after archaic rules denying healthcare access to transgender people are lifted and more of us become insured.
America’s jobs recovery hit a major roadblock in August as the Delta variant threatened the labor market recovery, and the US economy added far fewer jobs than expected.
Over the past decade, the products hit roadblocks. Siri ran into technological hurdles, including clunky code that took weeks to update with basic features, said John Burkey, a former Apple engineer who worked on the assistant.
gloss: To prevent, to hinder.
pos: verb
tags: idiomatic
informal
transitive
Translations:
orse
Part of speech: adv
adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: law
Etymology: From Latin [Term?].
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: otherwise.
pos: adv
tags: UK
not-comparable
gloss: otherwise.
pos: adj
tags: UK
not-comparable
Translations:
leathery
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Celtic *letrosbor.
Proto-Germanic *leþrą
Proto-West Germanic *leþr
Old English leþer
Middle English lether
English leather
Proto-Indo-European *-kos
Proto-Germanic *-gaz
Proto-West Germanic *-g
Old English -iġ
Middle English -y
English -y
English leathery
From leather + -y.
Inflected forms:
form: more leathery
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: leatherier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most leathery
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: leatheriest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Having the consistency, feel, or texture of leather.
pos: adj
examples: The beef jerky was tough and leathery.
The Agaricales have basidiocarps which are fleshy to subfleshy or rarely, almost leathery (but if the latter then the hymenophore is not poroid).
It is a staggering work, leathery and reliclike, with most of Pop Art embedded in its fragile surfaces.
Translations: