yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
serialize
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English serial
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)bor.
Late Latin -izōder.
Middle French -iserbor.
Middle English -isen
English -ize
English serialize
From serial + -ize.
Inflected forms:
form: serializes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: serializing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: serialized
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: serialized
pos: verb
tags: past
form: serialise
pos: verb
tags: alternative
UK
Senses:
gloss: To write a television program, novel, or other form of entertainment as a sequence of shorter works with a common story.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To publish (a book, play, etc.) in regular instalments, e.g. in a magazine.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To convert an object into a sequence of bytes that can later be converted back into an object with equivalent properties.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Synonyms: marshal
Antonyms: deserialize
Related words: serial
serialization
Derived words: reserialize
serializability
serializable
serializer
unserialize
Translations:
tentatively
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English tentative
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English tentatively
From tentative + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more tentatively
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most tentatively
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a tentative manner.
pos: adv
examples: This last activity was studied in the second paper of this series and it was suggested tentatively that the peculiarly adaptive discoördination in this and other reactions might be due to the pull of part upon part, acting through the substrate.
Translations:
buttoning
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: buttonings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A fastening with buttons.
pos: noun
examples: He threw himself as he spoke upon a chair, and indolently, but gracefully, received the kind offices of Albert, who undid the coarse buttonings of the leathern gamashes which defended his legs[…]
Translations:
anomalously
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English anomalous
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English anomalously
From anomalous + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more anomalously
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most anomalously
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In an anomalous manner.
pos: adv
Translations:
angelically
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From angelic + -ally or angelical + -ly.
Base: angelic
Affixes: -ally
Inflected forms:
form: more angelically
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most angelically
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In an angelic manner.
pos: adv
examples: Yet here was this girl, who called him up to the heights of young life again: and a brave girl; and she bled for the weak, had no shrinking from the women underfoot: for the reason, that she was a girl sovereignly pure, angelically tender.
Which would you rather be if you had the choicedivinely beautiful or dazzlingly clever or angelically good?"
After hundreds of listens, Odessey and Oracle still sounds like a paragon of poignant psychedelic pop, rendered in orchestral splendor and adorned with indelible melodies that are to cry for, sung in the honeyest of tones by the angelically melancholy [Colin] Blunstone.
Antonyms: diabolically
infernally
Translations:
animatedly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English animated
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English animatedly
From animated + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more animatedly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most animatedly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In an animated manner; with animation.
pos: adv
Translations:
annoyingly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English annoying
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English annoyingly
From annoying + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more annoyingly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most annoyingly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In an annoying manner.
pos: adv
examples: Flies buzzed annoyingly around my head.
Translations:
appreciatively
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English appreciative
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English appreciatively
From appreciative + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more appreciatively
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most appreciatively
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In an appreciative manner.
pos: adv
examples: Mr Carrados laughed appreciatively as he turned the pages of the book.
ESTRAGON: I've forgotten. (Chews.) That's what annoys me. (He looks at the carrot appreciatively, dangles it between finger and thumb.) I'll never forget this carrot. (He sucks the end of it meditatively.) Ah yes, now I remember.
Translations:
appallingly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English appalling
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English appallingly
From appalling + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more appallingly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most appallingly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In an appalling manner.
pos: adv
examples: She performed appallingly on standard neurological tests, which are, as Sacks perceptively notes, specifically designed to deconstruct the whole person into a stack of 'abilities'.
Translations:
winnower
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English winnow
English -er
English winnower
From winnow + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: winnowers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person who winnows.
pos: noun
gloss: A form of fan or basket used for winnowing.
pos: noun
Translations:
venogram
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
sciences
Etymology: From veno- + -gram.
Base: veno
Inflected forms:
form: venograms
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An X-ray of a vein that has been injected with an opaque material
pos: noun
Translations:
yem
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: business
clothing
fashion
lifestyle
manufacturing
textiles
Etymology: Borrowed from Vietnamese yếm, from Proto-Vietic *ʔiɛmʔ (“breastplate”), from Old Chinese 裺 (/*qromʔ/, /*qoms/, “bib worn by infants”).
Inflected forms:
form: yems
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A Vietnamese bodice with a halterneck and a V-shaped bottom worn by women on the torso, originally as an underbodice and now also as an outer garment.
pos: noun
Translations:
orgue
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: government
military
politics
war
Etymology: From French orgue, from Latin organum (“organ, instrument, tool”), from Ancient Greek ὄργανον (órganon, “organ, instrument, tool”). Doublet of organ, organon, and organum.
Inflected forms:
form: orgues
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of a number of long, thick pieces of timber, pointed and shod with iron, and suspended, each by a separate rope, over a gateway, to be let down in case of attack.
pos: noun
gloss: A piece of ordnance, consisting of a number of musket barrels arranged so that a match or train may connect with all their touchholes, and a discharge be secured almost or quite simultaneously.
pos: noun
Translations:
geopolitical
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Pre-Greek der.
Proto-Hellenic *gayader.
Ancient Greek γαῖᾰ (gaîă)clip.
Ancient Greek γῆ (gê)
Ancient Greek -ο- (-o-)
Ancient Greek γεω- (geō-)der.
English geo-
English politic
Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.?
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālisbor.
Old French -albor.
▲
Latin -ālis
Old French -elbor.
▲
Latin -ālisbor.
Middle English -al
English -al
English political
English geopolitical
From geo- (“geographical”) + political.
Inflected forms:
form: more geopolitical
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most geopolitical
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of or relating to geopolitics.
pos: adj
examples: Weinersmith, who is best known for his webcomic Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal, describes the polystate as a geopolitical entity in which multiple overlapping states exist — but each “state” consists of citizens who have agreed to the laws of a single non-geographic state; typical geographically-bound nations, or traditional “geostates”, would be replaced by “polystates”, which are collections of “anthrostates”.
Call it boasting or benevolence, however, the response to the tragedy illustrates the era of “disaster diplomacy,” or the use of foreign aid for influence in a geopolitical competition.
In a blog post, the company [Google] said there was “a global competition taking place for A.I. leadership within an increasingly complex geopolitical landscape. We believe democracies should lead in A.I. development.”
Translations:
hubcap
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From hub + cap.
Compound parts: hub
cap
Inflected forms:
form: hubcaps
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: hub cap
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A decorative and protective disk that covers the hub of a motor car wheel.
pos: noun
Translations:
Jericho
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English Iericho, from Old English Iericho, from Latin Ierīchō, from Ancient Greek Ἰερῑχώ (Ierīkhṓ), from Biblical Hebrew יְרִיחוֹ (yərīḥō), recorded early as Ugaritic 𐎊𐎗𐎃 (yrḫ). Regarding the "place of concealment" sense, see 2 Samuel 10:5.
Inflected forms:
form: Jerichos
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A place of retirement or concealment.
pos: noun
tags: informal
Translations:
lordosis
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: anatomy
biology
medicine
natural-sciences
pathology
sciences
zoology
Etymology: Etymology tree
Ancient Greek λορδός (lordós)
Proto-Indo-European *-tis
Ancient Greek -τις (-tis)
Ancient Greek -σῐς (-sĭs)
Ancient Greek -ωσις (-ōsis)bor.
New Latin -ōsislbor.
English -osis
English lordosis
From Ancient Greek λορδός (lordós, “bent backward”) + English -osis.
Inflected forms:
form: lordoses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The normal concave, backwards curvature of the spine in the cervical and lumbar regions.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: An abnormal excessive concave, backwards curvature of the spine, causing in normal human physiology a hollow in the back (lumbar lordosis, hollow back, saddle back) or the neck (cervical lordosis).
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A body posture of some female mammals, indicating receptivity to copulation. It involves lowering of the forelimbs but with the rear limbs extended and hips raised, ventral arching of the spine and a raising, or sideward displacement, of the tail.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Derived words: hyperlordosis
kypholordosis
lordotic
Translations:
lang: Arabic
word: قَعَس
roman: qaʕas
lang: Bulgarian
word: лордо́за
roman: lordóza
lang: Czech
word: hyperlordóza
lang: Finnish
word: lordoosi
lang: French
word: lordose
lang: German
word: Lordose
lang: Greek
word: λόρδωση
roman: lórdosi
lang: Norwegian
word: svaie ryggen
lang: Polish
word: lordoza
lang: Portuguese
word: lordose
lang: Russian
word: лордо́з
roman: lordóz
lang: Spanish
word: lordosis
lang: Swedish
word: svankrygg
lang: Swedish
word: lordos
lang: Arabic
word: قَعَس
roman: qaʕas
lang: Bulgarian
word: лордо́за
roman: lordóza
lang: Czech
word: hyperlordóza
lang: Finnish
word: lordoosi
lang: French
word: lordose
lang: German
word: Lordose
lang: Greek
word: λόρδωση
roman: lórdosi
lang: Norwegian
word: svaie ryggen
lang: Polish
word: lordoza
lang: Portuguese
word: lordose
lang: Russian
word: лордо́з
roman: lordóz
lang: Spanish
word: lordosis
lang: Swedish
word: svankrygg
lang: Swedish
word: lordos
nard
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English narde, from Old French narde, Latin nardus, from Ancient Greek νάρδος (nárdos), from Phoenician [Term?], Sanskrit नलद (nálada, “Indian narde”). Doublet of nardus.
Inflected forms:
form: nards
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A flowering plant of species Nardostachys jatamansi, in the valerian family, that grows in the Himalayas and is used as a perfume, an incense, a sedative, and an herbal medicine.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A fragrant oil from the plant, formerly much prized.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: […]there cam a womã with an alablaſter boxe of oyntment / called narde / that was pure and coſtly / and ſhe brake the boxe ãd powred it on his heed.
The Roman poet Horace refers to a lecherous old fop "scented with nard."
gloss: American spikenard (Aralia racemosa), a North American perennial herb with an aromatic root.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Synonyms: nardus
Derived words: Indian nard
spikenard
Translations:
wherry
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English whery (“small boat”), of obscure origin but cognate to French houari and Breton ouari, as well as Welsh chweri (“small boat”).
Inflected forms:
form: wherries
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: wherries
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: wherrying
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: wherried
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: wherried
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A boat or light ship used to navigate inland waterways.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: O how I should like to see her floating in the water yonder, turban and all, with her train streaming after her, and her nose like the beak of a wherry.
He went out for Freshman rowing but didn't make any of the crews and took to rowing by himself in a wherry three afternoons a week.
gloss: A flat-bottomed vessel once employed by British merchants, notably in East Anglia, sometimes converted into pleasure boats.
pos: noun
tags: countable
historical
examples: Here I used to enjoy myself in playing about the bridge stairs, and often in the watermen's wherries, with other boys. On one of these occasions there was another boy with me in a wherry, and we went out into the current of the river: while we were there two more stout boys came to us in another wherry, and, abusing us for taking the boat, desired me to get into the other wherry-boat. Accordingly I went to get out of the wherry I was in; but just as I had got one of my feet into the other boat the boys shoved it off, so that I fell into the Thames; and, not being able to swim, I should unavoidably have been drowned, but for the assistance of some watermen who providentially came to my relief.
The river was astir early and late with barges, wherries, and craft of every description.
gloss: A liquor made from the pulp of crab-apples after the verjuice is extracted.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: To travel or transport in a wherry.
pos: verb
Related words: ferry
Translations:
grapnel
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: nautical
transport
Etymology: From Middle English grapnel, from Anglo-Norman, from Old French grapil, grapin. Compare modern French grappin.
Inflected forms:
form: grapnels
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: grapnels
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: grapneling
pos: verb
tags: US
participle
present
form: grapnelling
pos: verb
tags: UK
participle
present
form: grapneled
pos: verb
tags: US
participle
past
form: grapneled
pos: verb
tags: US
past
form: grapnelled
pos: verb
tags: UK
participle
past
form: grapnelled
pos: verb
tags: UK
past
Senses:
gloss: A small anchor, having more than two flukes, used for anchoring a small vessel.
pos: noun
examples: […] we espied towards the North end of the Iland ye light of a great fire thorow the woods, to the which we presently rowed: when wee came right ouer against it, we let fall our Grapnel neere the shore, & sounded with a trumpet a Call […]
1790, William Bligh, A Narrative of the Mutiny on Board his Majesty’s Ship Bounty, London: George Nicol, Entry for 1 June, 1789,
At dawn of day we got on shore, and tracked the boat into shelter; for the wind blowing fresh without, and the ground being rocky, I was afraid to trust her at a grapnel, lest she might be blown to sea: I was, therefore, obliged to let her ground in the course of the ebb.
gloss: A device with a multiple hook at one end and attached to a rope, which is thrown or hooked over a firm mooring to secure an object attached to the other end of the rope.
pos: noun
gloss: A grappling iron.
pos: noun
examples: […] the wind dying away, the signal was made for casting anchor, when both ships came to in 26 fathom water; but the Resolution expecting to come to with her small stream anchor, let the whole run out, and lost both anchor and hauser, besides the ship’s grapnel in looking for it.
With anxious grapnels I had sounded my pocket, and only brought up a few pieces of silver ...
“[…] Why, you’ve flung your grapnel over the doctor, and he’s coming courting forthwith.”
But by the mercy o’ God to heretics, what were left o’ my poor ship got a hold on that guarda-costa’s timbers wi’ her grapnels, what time we climbs aboard her.
gloss: To connect (ships) with a grapnel.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Translations:
cringle
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: nautical
transport
Inflected forms:
form: cringles
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: crengle
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: crenkle
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: cringles
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: cringling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: cringled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: cringled
pos: verb
tags: past
form: crengle
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: crenkle
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A short piece of rope, arranged as a grommet around a metal ring, used to attach tackle to a sail etc.
pos: noun
examples: "Lower till that rope-loop […] till the cringle was down on the boom. Then I'd tie her up the way you said, and then I'd hoist up the peak and throat halyards again."
gloss: A withe for fastening a gate.
pos: noun
gloss: To fasten or attach with a cringle.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Translations:
double-time
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: government
military
politics
war
Inflected forms:
form: double-times
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: double-timing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: double-timed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: double-timed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: doubletime
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: To march at double time.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To order troops to march at double time.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: […]after ten or fifteen minutes of preparation, he stopped the artillery and instructed Corporal Lamb to double-time his platoon to the intermediate knoll under cover of fire from the machine guns.
Translations:
uttermost
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English, alteration of uttermest. Compare inmost and innermost.
Inflected forms:
form: uttermosts
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: utmost
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The utmost; the highest or greatest degree; the farthest extent.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: Thou know'st that all my fortunes are at sea;
Neither have I money, nor commodity
To raise a present sum: therefore, go forth;
Try what my credit can in Venice do:
That shall be rack'd, even to the uttermost,
To furnish thee to Belmont, to fair Portia.
Go, presently inquire, and so will I,
Where money is; and I no question make,
To have it of my trust or for my sake.
[…]So we cried to him, "O Rais, what is the matter?"; and he replied saying, "Seek ye deliverance of the Most High from the strait into which we have fallen and bemoan yourselves and take leave of one another; for know that the wind hath gotten the mastery of us and hath driven us into the uttermost of the seas of the world."
The free way will call for uttermosts in civilization, self-discipline and human excellence.
Translations:
uncleanness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English unclennesse, from Old English unclǣnnes; equivalent to unclean + -ness.
Base: unclean
Affixes: -ness
Inflected forms:
form: uncleannesses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The state of being unclean
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: [W]e haue bꝛokẽ thy ſtatutes ⁊ cõmaundementes agayne, ⁊ mengled o^ꝛ ſelues wᵗ the vnclẽnes of the outlandiſh heithen.
gloss: The result or product of being unclean.
pos: noun
tags: countable
Synonyms: uncleanliness
Translations:
negrito
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: negritos
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Either of two species of bird in the genus Lessonia.
pos: noun
gloss: A Mexican shrub of the vervain family, Citharexylum berlandieri.
pos: noun
Translations:
hipshot
Part of speech: adj
adv
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From hip + shot.
Compound parts: hip
shot
Inflected forms:
form: more hipshot
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most hipshot
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: more hipshot
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most hipshot
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Having a dislocated hip.
pos: adj
gloss: Clumsy, awkward.
pos: adj
tags: dated
gloss: Standing with one hip lower than the other.
pos: adj
tags: US
colloquial
examples: No degree of the allegorical avoided an excuse to present an impudently hipshot youth, or a captive maiden in some appealing form of restraint
gloss: With one hip lower than the other.
pos: adv
examples: Slocum [...] watched the horses and mules. Most stood hipshot, sleeping on their feet, nothing bothered them.
The two stubby horses, dusty and sweaty from the road, were standing hip-shot and bored, and Bernan sat on the driver's box with reins slack and his elbows on his knees.
Translations:
baler
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English bale
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Proto-Italic *-āzijos
Latin -āriusnom.
Latin -āriusbor.
Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz
Proto-West Germanic *-ārī
Old English -ere
Middle English -ere
English -er
English baler
From bale (verb) + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: balers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A machine for creating bales, e.g., of hay or cotton.
pos: noun
examples: Farmer Jones is in straits because his baler is broken down and he's got three fields of hay ready to bale.
gloss: A person who creates bales, either by operating or feeding such a machine, or by creating the bales by hand.
pos: noun
examples: Hank worked as a baler for Farmer Jones part time, to make ends meet.
Derived words: baler twine
Translations:
lang: Finnish
word: paalaaja
lang: Greek
word: δεματοποιητής
roman: dematopoiitís
lang: Spanish
word: empacador
banditry
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English bandit
English -ry
English banditry
From bandit + -ry.
Inflected forms:
form: banditries
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Acts characteristic of a bandit; armed robbery.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The merchant refused to travel in the region due to the ongoing banditry.
Translations:
bankroll
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Compound of bank + roll.
Inflected forms:
form: bankrolls
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: bankrolls
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: bankrolling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: bankrolled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: bankrolled
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A roll of banknotes or other paper currency, carried in lieu of a wallet.
pos: noun
examples: Phil kept his bankroll in his front pocket, as it made too much of a lump to sit on.
gloss: The monetary assets of a person or organization.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
examples: Microsoft is a corporation with an extremely large bankroll.
gloss: To fund a project; to underwrite something.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Professor Stebbins didn't need to apply for government grants because his lab was bankrolled by a large pharmaceutical corporation.
Pathfinder is keen to stress it is not insolvent, but owner Barry Cordell, who is in his late 80s, has decided he can no longer bankroll the company.
Derived words: California bankroll
Michigan bankroll
Texas bankroll
Translations:
grilse
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English grills, grilles, of unknown origin. Cognate with Scots grils, grissill, girls (“young salmon”). Compare English grawl, Scots grawl, graulse (“young salmon, grilse”).
Inflected forms:
form: grilses
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: gilse
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A young salmon after its first return from the sea.
pos: noun
examples: [T]hey ca' it fasting when they hae the best o' fish frae Hartlepool and Sunderland by land carriage, forbye trouts, gilses, salmon, and a' the lave o't, and so they make their very fasting a kind of luxury and abomination; […]
In our own tongue salmon are fry as babies, parr as children, smolt as adolescents, and grilse as adults.
Translations:
smolt
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Probably an alteration of smelt, due to smolt (“smooth”). See above.
Inflected forms:
form: smolts
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A young salmon two or three years old, when it has acquired its silvery color.
pos: noun
Translations:
bare-bones
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Inflected forms:
form: more bare-bones
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most bare-bones
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Minimalist; lacking that which is not essential.
pos: adj
tags: idiomatic
examples: Meals on early space flights were bare-bones affairs; able to supply nutrition, but severely lacking in palatability.
Considering their civilization endured both the immense disaster of the Scourge and the brutal kett invasion, angara possess remarkably advanced technology. Their starships, while generally small and bare-bones functional, are more than capable of keeping pace with Andromeda Initiative vessels.
gloss: Describes a computer sold preassembled, but without certain essential components, such as a processor, memory, and hard drive.
pos: adj
tags: idiomatic
examples: Emil bought a bare-bones rig and a new CPU at the computer show, then popped in his old hard drive.
Synonyms: austere
bare
bare-bones
bargain
basic
cheap
default
discreet
economy
elemental
elementary
essential
foundational
fundamental
incomplex
light
modest
plain
pure
restrained
rudimentary
run-of-the-mill
simple
slimline
spartan
standard
stripped down
stripped
uncomplicated
unembellished
uninvolved
unmodified
unvarnished
vanilla
Antonyms: all singing
all dancing
deluxe
fully-loaded
Related words: barebone
feature creep
kitchen-sinky
bells and whistles
skeleton crew
common
Translations:
bather
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English bathe
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Proto-Italic *-āzijos
Latin -āriusnom.
Latin -āriusbor.
Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz
Proto-West Germanic *-ārī
Old English -ere
Middle English -ere
English -er
English bather
From bathe + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: bathers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who bathes (cleans oneself with water, for example in a bathtub).
pos: noun
examples: When using sitz tubs that have been placed in a bathtub, the bather can use the tub's sides to assist their movement. Otherwise, to make it easier for the bather to get up and down, it helps to elevate the sitz tub on blocks.
gloss: One who immerses oneself in water for pleasure or refreshment: one who swims (for example at a lake or beach).
pos: noun
examples: Both bathers on the beach and bathers in the water at the time of sample collection were categorized as fewer than 20, 20-100, 101-200, and more than 200.
It's also generally wise to recruit lifeguards to ensure visitor safety, as bathers can panic in the water and require assistance.
gloss: One who gives a bath to another.
pos: noun
examples: Even though becoming a dog groomer requires training, many grooming salons will hire somebody with no experience to be a dog bather and will then train that person to become a dog groomer.
gloss: A sunbather
pos: noun
gloss: A bathing costume
pos: noun
Translations:
bathers
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Abbreviation of bathing suit.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A swimsuit; a bathing costume.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
South
Tasmania
Western
examples: The bathers they wore looked sort of the same as now, but their hair was really different.
No one here wore bathers. Both boys wore their homemade underpants, the brand name, ‘Sydney Flour’, emblazoned across the back, as old flour bags were not wasted, but recycled.
I was looking at a pair of bathers to buy and talking about the life of the bathers and how to extend their life.
Translations:
rebuffing
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: rebuffings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A rebuff; the act by which somebody is rebuffed.
pos: noun
Translations:
buffing
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: buffings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Material removed by the action of someone who buffs.
pos: noun
examples: the burning machine for blowing dirt and buffings off the work
Translations:
bobtail
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: compound
Topics: agriculture
business
card-games
lifestyle
poker
Etymology: From bob + tail.
Compound parts: bob
tail
Inflected forms:
form: bobtails
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: bobtails
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: bobtailing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: bobtailed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: bobtailed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A short, or deliberately shortened tail.
pos: noun
gloss: An animal that has a bobtail, such as certain canines or nags.
pos: noun
gloss: A tractor which performs without its trailer.
pos: noun
gloss: A tractor-trailer that is relatively short in length.
pos: noun
gloss: A tractor-trailer that is relatively short in length.
pos: noun
gloss: An open-ended straight or four flush.
pos: noun
tags: attributive
often
examples: a bobtail flush
gloss: A bobtail squid.
pos: noun
gloss: A bobtail skink.
pos: noun
gloss: To drive a tractor without its trailer.
pos: verb
examples: 2002. David Diamond. The Trucker & The Professor, Wired (magazine), Issue 9.12http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/9.12/sheffi.html?pg=2&topic=&topic_set=
He deposits his trailer at a Marten facility in nearby Stockton, and then drives without the trailer - that's called "bobtailing".
gloss: To drive a truck or other vehicle without its trailer.
pos: verb
examples: 2003. Bergmann Co. Bergmann's Cleaning History:https://web.archive.org/web/20071012131035/http://bergmanns.com/company_history.asp
W.C. Bergmann was supplementing his meager lamplighter's income by "bobtailing"… picking up laundry and cleaning in his horse drawn truck...
Derived words: bobtail flush
bobtail lizard
bobtail squid
bobtail trophon
Kurilian Bobtail
ragtag and bobtail
rag, tag and bobtail
ragtail and bobtail
tag-rag and bobtail
Translations:
lang: Finnish
word: nuppi
lang: Polish
word: ciągnik siodłowy bez naczepy
bethink
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English bethenken, bithenchen (“to think about, consider”) from Old English beþenċan, biþenċan (“to think upon, remind, consider, remember”), from Proto-Germanic *biþankijaną; equivalent to be- + think. Akin to Old High German pidenchan (German bedenken), Gothic 𐌱𐌹𐌸𐌰𐌲𐌺𐌾𐌰𐌽 (biþagkjan), Dutch bedenken.
Base: think
Affixes: be-
Inflected forms:
form: bethinks
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: bethinking
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: bethought
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: bethought
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To think about, to recollect.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
transitive
gloss: To think of (something or somebody) or that (followed by clause); to remind oneself, to consider, to reflect upon.
pos: verb
tags: reflexive
examples: Baſ[ſanio]. Be aſſured you may. / Iew [i.e., Shylock]. I will be aſſured I may: and that I may be aſſured, I will bethinke mee, may I ſpeake with Anthonio?
Mens daily occaſions for themſelves or friends, and the neceſities of common life, require the doing of a thouſand things vvithin the compaſs of a fevv dayes, for vvhich it vvould puzzle the beſt Textman that liveth; readily to bethink himself of a ſentence in the Bible, clear enough to ſatisfie a ſcrupulous conſcience of the lavvfulneſs and expediency of vvhat he is about to do; […]
I heard the Sky-lark singing in the sky; / And I bethought me of the playful Hare:
Though eager to spring down the path and meet him, yet, amid all the forgetfulness of joy, she had bethought her of her aged parent, and returned that she too might share the happiness of their meeting.
It was natural that in the hour of tribulation Lord Lambeth and Mr. Percy Beaumont should have bethought themselves of a gentleman whose attractions had been thus vividly depicted; […]
One day, among the days, he bethought him of this and fell lamenting for that the most part of his existence was past and he had not been vouchsafed a son, to inherit the kingdom after him, even as he had inherited it from his fathers and forebears; by reason whereof there betided him sore cark and care and chagrin exceeding.
Having censured the circumcision, she bethought her of kindred topics, and asked Aziz when he was going to be married.
However, and just before I was due to take the entrance exam at the age of thirteen, my mother bethought herself that it might be worth taking a look at the place where I was due to be conscripted for the next five formative years.
He showed the two men from Vinland how to fit the rubber masks over their noses. “Bethink you to outbreathe through your mouths, and you’ll be fine.”
gloss: To meditate, ponder; to consider.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To determine, resolve.
pos: verb
Derived words: umbethink
unbethink
Translations:
clickable
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: business
computing
engineering
entertainment
graphical-user-interface
lifestyle
manufacturing
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: c. 1943 (entertainment), c. 1965 (manufacturing), c. 1985 (computing) click + -able
Base: click
Affixes: -able
Inflected forms:
form: clickables
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: That establishes rapport with an audience.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: That retains its shape after being cut by a blade or punched by a die.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Causing some action to occur when clicked with a mouse or other pointing device.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Putting a clickable link in your post is easy.
gloss: Any element that can be clicked by the user.
pos: noun
examples: The design strategy was to boil down the story's 17 pages to simple language, 5 sing-along songs and 5 games, with about 100 total clickables throughout the program.
Synonyms: hot
Derived words: clickability
clickably
nonclickable
unclickable
Translations:
viscometer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
Etymology: Etymology tree
English visco-
Proto-Indo-European *meh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr
Proto-Indo-European *-trom
Proto-Hellenic *-tron
Ancient Greek -τρον (-tron)
Ancient Greek μέτρον (métron)der.
English -meter
English viscometer
From visco- + -meter.
Inflected forms:
form: viscometers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An instrument used to measure the viscosity of a liquid.
pos: noun
Translations:
cupful
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English copful, copfull, cupfulle, cuppefulle, equivalent to cup + -ful. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Kopful (“cupful”), West Frisian kopfol (“cupful”).
Base: cup
Affixes: -ful
Inflected forms:
form: cupfuls
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: cupsful
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The amount necessary to fill a cup.
pos: noun
examples: Add a cupful of milk to the sauce.
But as things were it was manageable enough, and we did not ship a cupful of water.
gloss: A half pint, i.e. eight ounces
pos: noun
Related words: breakfastcupful
coffeecupful
eggcupful
teacupful
Translations:
disrespectfully
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English disrespectful
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English disrespectfully
From disrespectful + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more disrespectfully
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most disrespectfully
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a disrespectful manner; with a lack of respect.
pos: adv
examples: As a matter of fact its narrow ornate façade presented not a single quiet space that the eyes might rest on after a tiring attempt to follow and codify the arabesques, foliations, and intricate vermiculations of what some disrespectfully dubbed as “near-aissance.”
She became disrespectfully referred to locally as the "Crab" on account of her extraordinary manoeuvrability.
Translations:
vagabonding
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Old French vagabondder.
English vagabond
English -ing
English vagabonding
From vagabond + -ing.
Inflected forms:
form: more vagabonding
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most vagabonding
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Wandering, unfixed.
pos: adj
examples: Oh God, what bond or dutie is it that we owe not to our Soveragne Creators benignitie, in that he hath beene pleased to cleare and enfranchise our beliefe from those vagabonding and arbitrary devotions, and fixt it upon the eternall base of his holy word?
Translations:
nep
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English neppe, nepe, nepte, nept, from Old English nepte, nefte, from Latin nepeta. Compare Dutch neppe, nippe (“catnip”). Doublet of nepeta.
Inflected forms:
form: neps
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: nip
pos: noun
tags: alternative
dialectal
Senses:
gloss: Catmint, catnip; Nepeta cataria.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: Nep is generally used for women to procure their courses, being taken inwardly or outwardly, either alone or with other convenient herbs in a decoction to bathe them, of sit over the hot fumes thereof.
Translations:
biking
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The act, process, or sport of riding a bike (in any sense thereof).
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Professional biking is plagued with controversies over drug use.
Turnip Rock is located in a portion of eastern Michigan dubbed the Thumb, where 140 miles of coastline and waterfront towns offer a variety of outdoor activities, including biking, walking and kayaking.
gloss: The act, process, or sport of riding a bike (in any sense thereof).
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Harley-Davidson fans have been biking up this highway in huge numbers this week, on their way to Sturgis.
Derived words: biking jacket
biking shorts
e-biking
mountain biking
Translations:
hugging
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: huggings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of giving a hug.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: There began to be some movement preparatory to the resumption of our journey, and, after many huggings and kissings, the family parted, and the wagon drove off[…]
Translations:
tugging
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: tuggings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The action of something that tugs; a pull.
pos: noun
examples: Yet there began to be insistent tuggings as if from a dream that could not be recalled.
Translations:
poetically
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English poetikly, poetycally, poyetikly; equivalent to poetical + -ly.
Base: poetical
Affixes: -ly
Inflected forms:
form: more poetically
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most poetically
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a poetic manner.
pos: adv
examples: One who had caught a glimpse of the shining yet solemn eyes of the youth, as he walked home, would wonder no longer that he should talk as he did—so sedately, yet so poetically—so long-windedly, if you like, yet so sensibly—even wisely.
I found out from his mate that he was a Longfellow fan, and the fireman complained bitterly that, not being poetically inclined himself, he often wished that Alfred would put a sock in it."
The bungled phrase, the slipshod paragraph, the inept metaphor, the irrelevant excursion, the disproportionate development, the feeble conclusion, are indeed all failures of meaning, and the more poetically ambitious the verbal structure in which they occur, the deeper and more substantive the failure may be.
I want to cry for a life unlived, floating beautifully, poetically, all these years just out of reach.
Translations:
punishable
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English punish
Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr
Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom
Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlis
Proto-Italic *-ðlis
Latin -bilis
Latin -ābilis
Old French -ablebor.
Middle English -able
English -able
English punishable
From punish + -able.
Inflected forms:
form: more punishable
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most punishable
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Subject to punishment; appropriate for punishment.
pos: adj
examples: Littering in this area is punishable by a fine of up to $100.
Wearing a face covering also remains a requirement on all Transport for London services, where it has become a Condition of Carriage. This means that while non-compliance is no longer a criminal offence and punishable with a fine, passengers can still be asked to leave or prevented from boarding.
In Virginia, as in most of the country, jaywalking has long been punishable by a fine but very rarely enforced. A penalty that is invoked sporadically and capriciously is not fair to those who get socked with it, as state and federal courts have declared many times.
Texas law treats evading arrest det w/veh as a serious offense. It often begins as a state jail felony, punishable by up to two years and a $10,000 fine.
Antonyms: dispunishable
nondisciplinary
nonpunishable
unpunishable
Translations:
buttery
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English buttry, equivalent to butter + -y. Piecewise doublet of butyric, butter ultimately being from Latin būtȳrum and -y being a doublet of -ic.
Base: butter
Affixes: -y
Inflected forms:
form: butteries
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A rowie.
pos: noun
tags: Scotland
examples: "We used to make 50 tins of butteries just for our Saturday trade, now it's about 20 tins, se we've seen a real shift which we've put down to an increased focus on health."
Translations:
harper
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English harpere, from Old English hearpere (“harpist, harper”), equivalent to harp + -er. Cognate with Middle Low German harpære (“harper”), German Harfer and Harfner (“harper”).
Base: harp
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: harpers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A harpist, especially one who plays a traditional harp without pedals.
pos: noun
examples: The Harpe. […]
 A harper with his wreſt maye tune the harpe wrong
 Mys tunying of an Inſtrument ſhal hurt a true ſonge
gloss: An old Irish brass coin bearing the emblem of a harp.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
examples: the harper that was gathered amongst us to pay the piper
Derived words: Harper
harpress
Translations:
harpist
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English harp
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)
Proto-Hellenic *-tās
Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs)
Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)bor.
Latin -istader.
Old French -istebor.
Middle English -ist
English -ist
English harpist
From harp + -ist.
Inflected forms:
form: harpists
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Someone who plays a harp, especially a pedal harp.
pos: noun
Translations:
nonessential
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English non-
English essential
English nonessential
From non- + essential.
Inflected forms:
form: non-essential
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: nonessentials
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: non-essential
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Not required; not essential.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Codex entries provide additional but nonessential information about topics of interest in Mass Effect.
gloss: Something that is not essential.
pos: noun
Antonyms: essential
required
necessary
mandatory
Translations:
corpulence
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Old French corpulence, from Latin corpulentia.
Inflected forms:
form: corpulences
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: corpulency
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The characteristic or state of being corpulent.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Corpulence is a beauty: girls are fattened to a vast bulk by drenches of curds and cream thickened with flour, and are duly disciplined when they refuse.
Translations:
bilocation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: parapsychology
pseudoscience
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁
Proto-Indo-European *dwi-
Proto-Italic *dwi-
Latin bi-bor.
English bi-
English location
English bilocation
From bi- + location.
Inflected forms:
form: bilocations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The ability to be, or fact of being, in two places at once.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Throyle explained about the mysterious shamanic power known as bilocation, which enables those with the gift literally to be in two or more places, often widely separated, at the same time.
Translations:
stereotyping
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: stereotypings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The process of making something into a stereotype.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
ambling
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: amblings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of one who ambles.
pos: noun
examples: the amblings of a horse
Translations:
unhurried
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *né
Proto-Indo-European *n̥-
Proto-Germanic *un-
Proto-West Germanic *un-
Old English un-
Middle English un-
English un-
English hurried
English unhurried
From un- + hurried.
Inflected forms:
form: more unhurried
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most unhurried
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Not hurried; not rushed.
pos: adj
examples: She proceeded at a moderate, unhurried pace.
Far less straightforward was what happened at about 0130 on Friday June 2 1944, as a long goods train was chuffing and clanking its unhurried way across the darkened landscape towards Soham, from Ely.
Translations: