yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
interpret
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: From Middle English interpreten, from Old French enterpreter, (French interpréter), from Latin interpretor (“to explain, expound, interpret”), past participle interpretatus, from interpres (“an agent, broker, explainer, interpreter, negotiator”), from inter (“between”) + -pres, probably the root of pretium (“price”); -pres is probably connected with Ancient Greek φράζειν (phrázein, “to point out, show, explain, declare, speak”), from which φραδή (phradḗ, “understanding”), φράσις (phrásis, “speech”); see phrase.
Inflected forms:
form: interprets
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: interpreting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: interpreted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: interpreted
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To decode the meaning of a topic and then act, whether to continue researching the topic, follow through, act in opposition, or further the understanding through sharing an interpretation.
pos: verb
gloss: To explain or tell the meaning of; to translate orally into intelligible or familiar language or terms. applied especially to language, but also to dreams, signs, conduct, mysteries, etc.
pos: verb
examples: to interpret an Indian speech
The Holy Bible, Matthew i. 23.
Emmanuel, which being interpreted is, God with us.
The Holy Bible, Genesis xli. 8.
And Pharaoh told them his dreams; but there was none that could interpret them unto Pharaoh.
The use of algorithms in policing is one example of their increasing influence on our lives.[…]who, if anyone, is policing their use[?] Such concerns were sharpened further by the continuing revelations about how the US National Security Agency (NSA) has been using algorithms to help it interpret the colossal amounts of data it has collected from its covert dragnet of international telecommunications.
gloss: To apprehend and represent by means of art; to show by illustrative representation.
pos: verb
examples: The actor interpreted the character of Hamlet with great skill.
The way the musician interpreted a sonata was quite special.
an artist interprets a landscape
gloss: To convey what a user of one language is saying or signing, in real time or shortly after that person has finished communicating, to a user of a different language.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: He interpreted at the meeting between the Chinese and French associates.
gloss: To analyse or execute (a program) by reading the instructions as they are encountered, rather than compiling in advance.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Synonyms: translate
explain
contrue
solve
render
expound
elucidate
decipher
unfold
unravel
Related words: interpretable
interpretament
interpretation
interpretative
interpret away
interpreter
interpretive
interpretted
misinterpret
reinterpret
Derived words: interpretory
overinterpret
preinterpret
Translations:
asterism
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: astronomy
chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἀστερισμός (asterismós, “a group of stars”), from ἀστήρ (astḗr, “star”). Analyzable as aster- + -ism.
Base: aster
Inflected forms:
form: asterisms
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An unofficial constellation (small group of stars that forms a visible pattern).
pos: noun
examples: The Big Dipper, Summer Triangle, and Orion's Belt are asterisms.
Of the constellations, or asterisms. [...] It therefore became necessary to adopt a more general method of distinguishing them. This was accomplished by portioning out the heavens into imaginary figures, of men, birds, fishes, &c. called Constellations or Asterisms.
Like Pisces and Capricorn, Aquarius is located in that part of the sky known as "Astral Sea," a region inhabited by water asterisms such as Eridanus, Cetus (the Whale), and the Dolphin.
gloss: A rarely used typographical symbol of three asterisks arranged in a triangle, ⁂, used to call attention to a passage or to separate subchapters in a book. Distinct from a dinkus which also uses asterisks to separate.
pos: noun
gloss: A star-shaped figure exhibited by some crystals by reflected light (as in a star sapphire) or by transmitted light (as in some mica).
pos: noun
Related words: aster
asterisk
asteroid
asteroidal
catasterism
constellation
starstone
stellar
syzygy
Derived words: asterismal
Translations:
presence
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
Etymology: Through Old French presence, from Latin praesentia (“a being present”), from praesentem. Displaced native Old English andweardnes.
Inflected forms:
form: presences
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: presencing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: presenced
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: presenced
pos: verb
tags: past
form: præsence
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: To make or become present.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
examples: Presence means: the constant abiding that approaches man, reaches him, is extended to him. But what is this source of this extending reach to which the present belongs as presencing, insofar as there is presence? True, man always remains approached by the presencing of something actually present without explicitly heeding presencing itself.
Within a completely neutral horizon, the primordial continuous stream of experience is presenced without interruption. As this time, the past and future have no meaning apart from the now in which they are presenced.
Just as the bread and butter can be presenced as more than just the bread and the butter, so baking a loaf of bread can be more than just the baking, the baker, and the bread.
2005, James Phillips, Heidegger's Volk: Between National Socialism and Poetry, Stanford University Press, →ISBN (paperback), page 118,
From the overtaxing of the regime's paranoiac classifications and monitoring of the social field, Heidegger was to await in vain the presencing of that which is present, the revelation of the Being of beings in its precedence to governmental control.
Benner (1984) captures the essence of this when she describes presencing as the art of 'being with' a person without the need to be 'doing to' the person.
Translations:
Midianite
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English Midian
Proto-Indo-European *-tósder.
Ancient Greek -της (-tēs)der.
Ancient Greek -ῑ́της (-ī́tēs)der.
Latin -ītēsbor.
French -iteder.
English -ite
English Midianite
From Midian + -ite.
Inflected forms:
form: Midianites
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A member of an ancient northern Arabian people.
pos: noun
Translations:
maisonette
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from French maisonnette. Doublet of mansionette.
Inflected forms:
form: maisonettes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: maisonnette
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A small house.
pos: noun
gloss: An apartment, often on two floors.
pos: noun
Translations:
meets
Part of speech: prep
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Forming a combination or nexus of.
pos: prep
examples: The taste of an eggplant could be described as pepper meets tomato.
The concept of the movie was Fantastic Voyage meets The Devil Wears Prada.
Translations:
exposed
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Open (especially to something), unconcealed and/or unprotected (and therefore vulnerable, susceptible).
pos: adj
tags: usually
with-to
examples: exposed to light; exposed to water; exposed to abuse; exposed to danger
an exposed path (trail, etc) up the mountain (one with a drop-off on one or both sides)
The monastery perched on an exposed cliff.
The soldiers needed to find cover fast. Their current position was very exposed.
The bike chain is open and exposed to tough environmental conditions such as temperature changes, humidity, rain, dirt and road salt.
exposed beam
exposed brick
Translations:
beeline
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: compound
Topics: business
mining
Etymology: From bee + line, due to the belief that a bee returns to its hive in a straight course, originally an Americanism.
Compound parts: bee
line
Inflected forms:
form: beelines
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: bee-line
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: beelines
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: beelining
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: beelined
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: beelined
pos: verb
tags: past
form: bee-line
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A very direct or quick path or trip.
pos: noun
examples: to make / strike a beeline for / to something
The children made a beeline to the swimming pool.
Discussing these and kindred topics they made a beeline across the back of the Customhouse and passed under the Loop Line bridge where a brazier of coke burning in front of a sentrybox or something like one attracted their rather lagging footsteps.
Hershie made a beeline for Thomas's table, not making eye-contact with the others — old-guard activists who still saw him as a tool of the war-machine.
gloss: A dynamite fuse made with a small quantity of dynamite powder along its length, so that the spark travels quickly and at a specific known rate.
pos: noun
tags: historical
gloss: To travel in a straight line, ignoring established paths of travel.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
transitive
examples: A uniformed policeman came off the elevator and beelined for the nurse's station. I beelined into the stairwell. I wasn't in the mood for chatting with the police.
Suddenly, a woman beelines to the president, climbs to join him on his platform, there’s no security around to stop her and leans in for a kiss.
Translations:
resolved
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more resolved
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most resolved
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Determined; fixed in one's purpose.
pos: adj
Translations:
decent
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French décent, or its source, Latin decēns, present participle of decet (“it is fitting or suitable”), from Proto-Indo-European *deḱ- (“to take, accept, to receive, greet, be suitable”) (compare Ancient Greek δοκέω (dokéō, “to appear, seem, think”), δέχομαι (dékhomai, “to accept”); Sanskrit दशस्यति (daśasyáti, “shows honor, is gracious”), दाशति (dāśati, “makes offerings, bestows”)). Meaning ‘kind, pleasant’ is from 1902.
Inflected forms:
form: more decent
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most decent
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Appropriate; suitable for the circumstances.
pos: adj
gloss: Having a suitable conformity to basic moral standards; showing integrity, fairness, or other characteristics associated with moral uprightness.
pos: adj
gloss: Sufficiently clothed or dressed to be seen.
pos: adj
tags: informal
examples: Are you decent? May I come in?
gloss: Fair; acceptable; okay.
pos: adj
examples: He's a decent saxophonist, but probably not good enough to make a career of it.
A canister of flour from the kitchen had been thrown at the looking-glass and lay like trampled snow over the remains of a decent blue suit with the lining ripped out which lay on top of the ruin of a plastic wardrobe.
And ‘blubbing’ . . . Blubbing went out with ‘decent’ and ‘ripping’. Mind you, not a bad new language to start up. 1920s schoolboy slang could be due for a revival.
I'm all for opening new stations (Transport Scotland is planning another at East Linton, about halfway between Drem and Dunbar), but they are useless without a decent service.
gloss: Significant; substantial.
pos: adj
examples: There are a decent number of references out there, if you can find them.
gloss: Conforming to perceived standards of good taste.
pos: adj
examples: I had a cup of tea - the last decent cup of tea for many days; and in a room that most soothingly looked just as you would expect a lady’s drawing-room to look, we had a long quiet chat by the fireside.
gloss: Comely; shapely; well-formed.
pos: adj
tags: obsolete
examples: And ſable ſtole of Cipres Lawn,
Over thy decent ſhoulders drawn.
Antonyms: bad
immoral
indecent
underdressed
inadequate
poor
unsatisfactory
Related words: decency
decently
Derived words: decentish
decentness
do the decent thing
half-decent
halfway decent
jolly D
semidecent
undecent
Translations:
landed
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English londed, from Old English ġelandod. By surface analysis, land + -ed.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: In possession of land.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: landed gentry
gloss: Consisting of land, especially with a single owner.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: a landed estate
Derived words: landed cost
landed gentry
landed immigrant
landed society
nonlanded
unlanded
landed property
landed estate
Translations:
sized
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English size
English -ed
English sized
From size + -ed.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Having a certain size. Usually used in combination with an adverb or a noun.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: A badly-sized pair of shoes.
A pea-sized creature.
The preposterous altruism too![…]Resist not evil. It is an insane immolation of self—as bad intrinsically as fakirs stabbing themselves or anchorites warping their spines in caves scarcely large enough for a fair-sized dog.
An artificial kidney these days still means a refrigerator-sized dialysis machine. Such devices mimic the way real kidneys cleanse blood and eject impurities and surplus water as urine.
Translations:
koko
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Cf. Burmese ကုက္ကို (kukkui).
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The tree Albizia lebbeck.
pos: noun
Translations:
astroid
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἄστρον (ástron, “a star”) + εἶδος (eîdos, “form, likeness”).
Inflected forms:
form: astroids
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A hypocycloid with four cusps.
pos: noun
Translations:
transsexuality
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From trans- + sexuality or transsexual + -ity.
Base: sexuality
Affixes: trans-
Inflected forms:
form: transsexualities
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The state, condition, or properties of being transsexual.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The psychological diagnosis of gender identity disorder.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Synonyms: transsexualness
transsexualism
transsex
Related words: sex reassignment surgery
male-to-female
female-to-male
gender dysphoria
gender identity disorder
intersexuality
transgender
transvestite
Derived words: transphobia
transphobe
transphobic
Translations:
cycloid
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
geometry
human-sciences
mathematics
medicine
natural-sciences
psychoanalysis
psychology
sciences
zoology
Etymology: From cyclo- + -oid.
Base: cyclo
Inflected forms:
form: cycloids
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The locus of a point on the circumference of a circle that rolls without slipping on a fixed straight line.
pos: noun
examples: In the firſt Courſe there was a Shoulder of Mutton, cut into an Æquilateral Triangle, a Piece of Beef into a Rhomboides, and a Pudding into a Cycloid.
gloss: A fish having cycloid scales.
pos: noun
gloss: Resembling a circle; cycloidal.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Thin and rounded, with smooth edges.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: characterized by alternating high and low moods.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Related words: epicycloid
hypocycloid
Spirograph™
Derived words: circloid
cycloidal
cycloidal arch
cycloidal engine
Translations:
spirograph
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *sper-
Proto-Indo-European *sper-yeh₂-
Ancient Greek σπεῖρα (speîra)der.
Latin spīra
Ancient Greek -ο- (-o-)der.
Latin -o-bor.
English -o-
English spiro-
English graph
English spirograph
From spiro- + graph.
Inflected forms:
form: spirographs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: an instrument for measuring and recording the depth and rapidity of breathing movements
pos: noun
Translations:
rebuttal
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: law
Etymology: Etymology tree
English rebut
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 rebuttal
From rebut + -al.
Inflected forms:
form: rebuttals
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of contradicting something by making a contrary argument, or presenting contrary evidence.
pos: noun
examples: For those who imagine the capital flows with milk and honey, or avocado and sourdough, Edmonton is your rebuttal. Once full of light industry, today it has some of the most deprived areas in England.
gloss: A statement, designed to refute or negate specific arguments put forward by opponents.
pos: noun
gloss: A pleading by a defendant in reply to the evidence put forward by a plaintiff or the prosecution.
pos: noun
Related words: rebut
rebuttable
rebutter
Derived words: counterrebuttal
prebuttal
rebuffal
right of rebuttal
Translations:
cloverleaf
Part of speech: adj
noun
verb
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From clover + leaf.
Compound parts: clover
leaf
Inflected forms:
form: clover-leaf
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: cloverleafs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: cloverleaves
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: clover-leaf
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: cloverleafs
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: cloverleafing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: cloverleafed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: cloverleafed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: clover-leaf
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: In the form of the leaf of a clover plant; cloverleafed.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: a fancy cloverleaf motif
gloss: The leaf of a clover plant.
pos: noun
examples: Cloverleaves have a pealike flavor and make a nice accent among salad greens.
gloss: (with plural cloverleafs or cloverleaves) Ellipsis of cloverleaf interchange.
pos: noun
tags: US
examples: The off-ramp will lead you along the cloverleaf to your next on-ramp.
By the time we got into Tulsa Town
We had eighty-five trucks in all
But there's a roadblock up on the cloverleaf
And them bears was wall-to-wall.
gloss: To turn by following a cloverleaf, or as if by following one.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Hay told a military historian that Allen precipitated “the debacle” by “allowing his lead company to pursue the VC down the trail” instead of forming a perimeter and cloverleafing at the first sign of the enemy.
Related words: in clover
Derived words: cloverleaf antenna
cloverleaf interchange
cloverleaf model
clover-leaf roll
clover-leaf sight
clover-leaf skull
cloverleaf skull
cloverleaf stack
cloverleaf tongue
clover leaf weevil
parclo
Translations:
lengthy
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English length
Proto-Indo-European *-kos
Proto-Germanic *-gaz
Proto-West Germanic *-g
Old English -iġ
Middle English -y
English -y
English lengthy
From length + -y.
Inflected forms:
form: lengthier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: lengthiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Having length; long and overextended, especially in time rather than dimension.
pos: adj
examples: a lengthy text
a lengthy discussion
a laborious and lengthy process
She died last night after a lengthy illness.
They received lengthy prison terms.
They traced the ancient lineages of two species to reveal the insects' lengthy history of asexual reproduction.
“In light of the current state of our country, I struggled to find the right words of wisdom for you today,” Obama says in her lengthiest public remarks to date about the protests taking place in the wake of the killing of George Floyd.
Without the help of the IEEPA, the Trump administration would have to take a slower approach, launching lengthier trade investigations and abiding by other trade laws to back the tariff threats.
gloss: Speaking or writing at length; long-winded.
pos: adj
examples: If, in addition to being a lengthy preacher, he had also been a Rev. Mr. Mumbles or a Rev. Dr. Drone, the penance thus endured by his people would have been intolerably severe.
Related words: lengthful
lengthish
lengthsome
Derived words: lengthily
lengthiness
Translations:
pounce
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From French ponce, from Latin pūmex. Doublet of pumice.
Inflected forms:
form: pounces
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: pounces
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: pouncing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: pounced
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: pounced
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A type of fine powder, as of sandarac, or cuttlefish bone, sprinkled over wet ink to dry the ink after writing or on rough paper to smooth the writing surface.
pos: noun
tags: historical
uncountable
usually
examples: At the Thorn, or at a meagre kitchen table, or even on the carpenter’s workbench, he spreads open the portfolio, lights a candle stub, slices a fresh quill, and arranges pounce pot and ink well.
gloss: Charcoal dust, or some other coloured powder for making patterns through perforated designs, used by embroiderers, lacemakers, etc.
pos: noun
tags: historical
uncountable
usually
gloss: To sprinkle or rub with pounce powder.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to pounce paper, or a pattern
Derived words: pounce wheel
Translations:
unbeknownst
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Variant of unbeknown with excrescent -st.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Without the knowledge of.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
with-to
examples: He went home early, unbeknownst to his mother.
Theon’s redemption scene convincingly threatens to kill him right there on the beaches of Dragonstone, dying for a good cause unbeknownst to anyone but the rapscallions who watched him die, but at last it swerves into something genuinely heroic.
Translations:
hullabaloo
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Possibly a rhyming reduplication of halloo (used as a greeting or to catch attention; used in hunting to urge on pursuers), hilloa, hullo (variants of “hello”), and similar words.
Inflected forms:
form: hullabaloos
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: hallaballoo
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: hallabaloo
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: hulabaloo
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: hullaballoo
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: hellaballoo
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: hellabaloo
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: hullabaloos
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: hullabalooing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: hullabalooed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: hullabalooed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A clamour, a commotion; a fuss or uproar.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: They made such a hullabaloo about the change that the authorities were forced to change it back.
[…]The truth of all this hullaballoo was that Rigby had a sly pension which, by an inevitable association of ideas, he always connected with the maintenance of an Aristocracy.
Certainly they had brought with them some rotten hippo–meat, which couldn’t have lasted very long, anyway, even if the pilgrims hadn’t, in the midst of a shocking hullabaloo, thrown a considerable quantity of it overboard.
'Sarah, could you bring me the calendar from the wall over there? Does it say the right date?' 'Two days behind – and small wonder no one tore it off with all the hullaballoo going on. Ever so pretty, isn't it?' said Sarah as she handed the calendar to Jessamy.
He was so fascinated by the sight of this bald wolf that he would have lost his flock, perhaps himself been eaten and certainly been beaten to the bone for negligence had not the goats themselves raised their heads, snuffed danger and run off, bleating and whinnying, so that the men came, firing guns, making hullabaloo, scaring the wolves away.
gloss: To make a commotion or uproar.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: They roared, they danced, they hullaballoed, they pinched one another; they behaved like young savages – but I knew I had got them safe.
"Nonsense, child," said my father, smiling. "Did you ever see a stone thrown into the pond? there's a great splash, and a few circles on the water, and that's about all, isn't it? Well, when I die there'll be a great splash of tears and hullaballooing, and a few circles of tender recollections, and then the surface will smooth itself over, and it'll be all right again."
Ho, hullaballoing clan / Agape, with woe / In your beaks, on the gabbing capes!
Twitter broke the news, and soon enough, the media hullaballooed over this latest act of art vandalism.
In addition to size, manufacturers hope to attract buyers with added gadgetry despite disappointing sales of 3D televisions, an innovation hullaballooed at CES last year only to flop in stores.
Translations:
shrug
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English schruggen, shrukken, probably of North Germanic origin related to Danish skrugge, skrukke (“to stoop; crouch”), Swedish skruga, skrukka (“to huddle; crouch”), all from or related to Old Norse skrykkva, from Proto-Germanic *skrinkwaną. Compare also Old English scrincan (“to shrink”). More at shrink.
Inflected forms:
form: shrugs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: shrugs
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: shrugging
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: shrugged
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: shrugged
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A lifting of the shoulders to signal indifference or a casual lack of knowledge.
pos: noun
examples: He dismissed my comment with a shrug.
gloss: A cropped, cardigan-like garment with short or long sleeves, typically knitted.
pos: noun
gloss: To raise (the shoulders) to express uncertainty, lack of concern, (formerly) dread, etc.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
examples: I asked him for an answer and he just shrugged.
When he saw the problem, he just shrugged and started fixing it.
He[…] shrugs his shoulders when you talk of securities.
Derived words: macaroni shrug
shruggy
shrugger
shruggie
Translations:
lang: Belarusian
word: по́ціск плячы́ма
roman: pócisk pljačýma
lang: Bulgarian
word: вди́гане на ра́мене
roman: vdígane na rámene
lang: Catalan
word: encongiment d'espatlles
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 聳肩 /耸肩
roman: sǒngjiān
lang: Danish
word: skuldertræk
lang: Dutch
word: schouderophalen
lang: Esperanto
word: ŝultromovado
lang: Esperanto
word: ŝultrumado
lang: Finnish
word: olankohautus
lang: French
word: haussement d'épaules
lang: German
word: Schulterzucken
lang: German
word: Achselzucken
lang: Hungarian
word: vállrándítás
lang: Italian
word: spalluccia
lang: Polish
word: wzruszenie ramionami
lang: Portuguese
word: encolhida de ombros
lang: Portuguese
word: dar de ombros
lang: Russian
word: пожима́ние плеча́ми
roman: požimánije plečámi
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: crathadh
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: слијегање раменима
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: slijeganje ramenima
lang: Spanish
word: encogimiento de hombros
lang: Swedish
word: axelryckning
lang: Ukrainian
word: зни́зування плечи́ма
roman: znýzuvannja plečýma
philatelist
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English philately
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 philatelist
From philately + -ist.
Inflected forms:
form: philatelists
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person who collects and studies postage stamps.
pos: noun
examples: M. Laruelle, who had been born in Languion, in the Moselle country, but whose father, a rich philatelist of remote habits, had moved to Paris, usually spent his summer holidays as a boy with his parents in Normandy.
Translations:
amm
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of amnesia (a potent sativa-dominant strain of marijuana).
pos: noun
Translations:
marmite
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
French marmitebor.
English marmite
Borrowed from French marmite.
Inflected forms:
form: marmites
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A rounded cooking pot of various designs, commonly pot-bellied, with or without tripod, handles, lid etc; originally earthenware but currently more commonly of cast iron or other metals.
pos: noun
examples: 1824 Thomas Gill. The Technical Repository p. 180: XXXV: On the French Marmite, or Pot-au-Feu: and on preparing Bouillon with it
My little boy having been ill of a fever for forty days, I have learned from his attendant how to make the celebrated soup (bouillon) of Paris: and finding it to be superior to any that I ever before tasted, I take the liberty to send you the directions necessary to enable any one to prepare this cheap and desirable food.
Earthen-pots with covers, made to hold from one to seven pounds of meat, are found in every family. The marmite bought for me was for one-and-a-half pound only: this quantity of lean meat (bœufmaigre), was always part of the leg or shoulder: it was put into the marmite, which was then filled up with cold water, about five pints, and placed on the hearth, close to the wood-fire; and when it began to simmer or boil gently, it threw up a scum, which was carefully taken off from time to time with a spoon, for the space of threequarters of an hour, which perfectly cleansed the meat and water from every impurity.
Translations:
quilter
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English quilt
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 quilter
From quilt + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: quilters
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person whose hobby or profession is making quilts.
pos: noun
gloss: A person whose hobby or profession is making quilts.
Mary's house showcases fabrics galore because she is a quilter.
pos: noun
gloss: A person who uses a hand or machine stitch to decorate a quilt, or to sew together the layers of a quilt.
pos: noun
tags: UK
gloss: A person who performs the entire process of making a patchwork quilt, whether or not it is decorated with quilting stitches.
pos: noun
tags: US
Translations:
quilt
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English quilte, quylte, from Anglo-Norman quilte and Old French coilte, cuilte (compare French couette), from Latin culcita. Doublet of quoit.
Inflected forms:
form: quilts
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: quilts
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: quilting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: quilted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: quilted
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A bed covering consisting of two layers of fabric stitched together, with insulation between, often having a decorative design.
pos: noun
examples: My grandmother is going to sew a quilt.
gloss: A roll of material with sound-absorbing properties, used in soundproofing.
pos: noun
gloss: A quilted skirt worn by women.
pos: noun
gloss: Something composed of a variety of stitched-together parts; a patchwork.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
examples: Her humor was as bawdy as ever, and evenly placed throughout. Early on […] she alternated alternated jokes and stanzas, providing a wonderful quilt of her musical and story-telling talents.
gloss: To construct a quilt.
pos: verb
gloss: To construct something, such as clothing, using the same technique.
pos: verb
examples: Get up, get up for shame, the blooming morne / Upon her wings presents the god unshorne. / See how Aurora throwes her faire / Fresh-quilted colours through the aire; / Get up, sweet slug-a-bed, and see / The dew bespangling herbe and tree.
Two hundred Sempſtreſſes were employed to make me Shirts, and Linen for Bed and Table, all of the ſtrongeft and coarſeſt kind they could get; which, however, they were forced to quilt together in ſeveral Folds, for the thickeſt was ſome degrees finer than Lawn.
gloss: To beat or thrash.
pos: verb
tags: UK
obsolete
slang
examples: I am glad, said Mr. Slick, that cussed critter, that schoolmaster, hasn't yet woke up. I'm most afeerd if he had aturned out afore we started, I should have quilted him, for that talk of his last night sticks in my crop considerable hard.
Related words: batting
cotton
pinking shears
sew
Derived words: bedquilt
continental quilt
crazy quilt
honeycomb quilt
memory quilt
nanoquilt
patchwork quilt
quillow
quiltlike
quiltmaker
quiltmaking
quilt show
quilty
quilter
quilting
quilting bee
quilting needle
Translations:
speleology
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From French spéléologie, coined by Émile Rivière in 1890. The word can be broken down as speleo- + -logy.
Base: speleo
Inflected forms:
form: speleologies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The scientific study of caves.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: The recreational activity of exploring caves.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
Related words: speleological
spelunk
caving
potholing
Derived words: biospeleology
speleologist
Translations:
mausoleum
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English mausoleum, from Latin Mausōlēum, from Ancient Greek Μαυσωλεῖον (Mausōleîon, “Mausoleum, the grand tomb built around 353–351 BCE at Halicarnassus for Mausolus, a ruler of Caria and satrap of the Achaemenid Empire; one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World”), from Μαύσωλος (Maúsōlos, “Mausolus”) + -εῖον (-eîon, noun-forming suffix meaning “place or building associated with a specific purpose or person”).
By surface analysis, Mausolus + -eum.
Base: Μαύσωλος
Affixes: -εῖον
Inflected forms:
form: mausoleums
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: mausolea
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: mausolæum
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: A large stately tomb or a building housing such a tomb or several tombs.
pos: noun
examples: Holonym: cemetery
gloss: A gloomy, usually large room or building.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
examples: As Amazon reaches maximum ubiquity in our lives (“Alexa, play Led Zeppelin”), as online shopping turns malls into mausoleums, it’s been illuminating to see exactly how a package makes the final leg of its journey.
Derived words: mausoleal
mausolean
Translations:
koji
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 麹 (kōji).
Inflected forms:
form: kojis
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A substance that is produced by letting a mold, especially Aspergillus oryzae, grow on rice, barley, soybeans, etc., used to make fermented products such as sake, amazake, miso, and soy sauce.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: The mold used in such a preparation.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
Translations:
right-wing
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: government
politics
Etymology: From the seating arrangement in the French parliament after the French Revolution.
Inflected forms:
form: more right-wing
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most right-wing
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: rightwing
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: right wing
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Of a view, group, or ideology: emphasizing conservatism, traditional values, free-market capitalism, and limited government intervention.
pos: adj
examples: It should be noted that there is now no intelligentsia that is not in some sense "Left". Perhaps the last right-wing intellectual was T. E. Lawrence. Since about 1930 everyone describable as an “intellectual” has lived in a state of chronic discontent with the existing order.
From the start of its operations in Colombia, the company was on guard against the decadeslong civil strife in the country between left-wing guerrilla and right-wing paramilitary groups, witnesses have testified.
Translations:
left-wing
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: government
politics
Etymology: From the seating arrangement in the French parliament after the French Revolution.
Inflected forms:
form: more left-wing
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most left-wing
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: leftwing
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: left wing
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Of political ideologies: favoring political, social, and economic equality.
pos: adj
examples: From the start of its operations in Colombia, the company was on guard against the decadeslong civil strife in the country between left-wing guerrilla and right-wing paramilitary groups, witnesses have testified.
Translations:
guffaw
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Early 18th century, originally Scots, probably onomatopoeic.
Inflected forms:
form: guffaws
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: guffaws
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: guffawing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: guffawed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: guffawed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A boisterous laugh.
pos: noun
examples: On opening the little door, two hairy monsters flew at my throat, bearing me down, and extinguishing the light; while a mingled guffaw from Heathcliff and Hareton put the copestone on my rage and humiliation.
He walked to the edge and they heard his hoarse guffaw of laughter as the arrows clanged and clattered against his impenetrable mail.
He heaved up with a sulfurous curse, braced his legs and glared about him, with a burst of coarse guffaws in his ears and the reek of unwashed bodies in his nostrils.
When Time magazine named Ann Coulter among its 100 "most influential people" last week, alongside such heavyweights as Ariel Sharon, Bill Clinton, Nelson Mandela, Kim Jong Il and the Dalai Lama, the choice produced guffaws online.
gloss: To laugh boisterously.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: He guffawed at his adversaries.
Peter, on the contrary, threw back his head and guffawed thunderously.
Translations:
snippet
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: From snip + -et. Compare snippock.
Base: snip
Affixes: -et
Inflected forms:
form: snippets
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: snippets
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: snippeting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: snippetting
pos: verb
tags: nonstandard
participle
present
rare
form: snippeted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: snippeted
pos: verb
tags: past
form: snippetted
pos: verb
tags: nonstandard
participle
past
rare
form: snippetted
pos: verb
tags: nonstandard
past
rare
Senses:
gloss: A small part of something, such as a song or fabric; sample.
pos: noun
examples: From the snippet I heard of their rehearsal, they sound pretty good.
He cut his coats without waste; according to his embroidered cloth, they were very small ends and snippets that lay about upon the table […]
On another occasion a "Schools" class, No. 30911 Dover, with a load of eight bogies on the same train was badly delayed by signals all the way, but made very determined attempts to pick up time whenever possible. This resulted in a sustained speed of 50 m.p.h. up Sole Street bank and several snippets in the "eighties".
Miss Honey smiled. It was extraordinary, she told herself, how this little snippet of a girl seemed suddenly to be taking charge of her problems, and with such authority, too.
gloss: A text file containing a relatively small amount of code, useless by itself, along with instructions for inserting that code into a larger codebase.
pos: noun
gloss: To produce a snippet (small part) of; to excerpt.
pos: verb
tags: often
transitive
examples: We snippeted the blog posts for display on the home page.
gloss: To make small cuts, to snip, particularly with scissors.
pos: verb
examples: All day long while the light lasted he sewed and snippetted […]
Derived words: DNA snippet
in-snippet
snippet journalism
snippety
Translations:
listless
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Middle English lystles
English listless
From Middle English lystles, equivalent to list (“desire”) + -less. Compare German lustlos and Dutch lusteloos (“lethargic, listless”). Doublet of lustless.
Base: list
Affixes: -less
Inflected forms:
form: more listless
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most listless
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Lacking energy, enthusiasm, or liveliness.
pos: adj
examples: I passed whole days on the lake alone in a little boat, watching the clouds, and listening to the rippling of the waves, silent and listless.
What an entirely different set of beings were those Stokesley children in lesson-time. . . . Poor, listless, stolid, deplorable logs, with bowed backs and crossed ankles, pipy voices and heavy eyes!
The scene with Mrs. Wallace had broken his spirit, and he was listless now, indifferent to what happened.
“Listless, inattentive, distracted,” he recited. “A daydreamer. Tries his best, but is too slow.”
Translations:
underscore
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
Etymology: From under- + score.
Base: score
Affixes: under-
Inflected forms:
form: underscores
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: underscores
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: underscoring
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: underscored
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: underscored
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A line drawn or printed beneath text; the character _.
pos: noun
examples: He walks into the house and picks up a pen. The thought he has is a brilliant idea. He must write it down. Only two words need to be written. The underscore adds importance. / BOUNTY HUNTER
gloss: A piece of background music.
pos: noun
gloss: To underline; to mark a line beneath text.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: By convention, Rubyists usually underscore their method names.
gloss: To emphasize or draw attention to.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: I wish to underscore the importance of proper formatting.
The tale thus underscores in expressive form the semiparadoxical fact that traders can lie by telling the truth.
Not trusting filmgoers to catch the drift, Ms. Coppola underscores the women’s attempts to gussy up with snippets of arch dialogue.
Biden on Monday unveiled new measures to tackle antisemitism on college campuses and senior officials underscored the need to combat anti-Jewish hate.
Related words: underbar
undertie
ampersand
asterisk and asterism
at sign
backslash
bullet
dagger
degree symbol
number sign
prime
tilde
vertical bar
pipe
Translations:
burgundy
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: 1881, from attributive use of Burgundy (“wine from Burgundy”) from Burgundy wine, from Burgundy (“region of France”) + wine.
Inflected forms:
form: more burgundy
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most burgundy
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of a deep purple red color like that of Burgundy wine.
pos: adj
examples: She and her beige-chemised assistant entered the salonlike fourth-floor showroom and were ushered into a smaller private room with burgundy carpeting that matched Rubylee's J. Tiktiner print dress.
Translations:
topaz
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
Etymology: From Old French topace (compare French topaze), from Ancient Greek τόπαζος (tópazos).
Inflected forms:
form: topazes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A silicate mineral of aluminium and fluorine, usually tinted by impurities.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: An often clear, yellowish-brown gemstone cut from this.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: In the market‐place stand the fruitsellers, who sell all kinds of fruit: ripe figs, with their bruised purple flesh, melons, smelling of musk and yellow as topazes, citrons and rose‐apples and clusters of white grapes, round red‐gold oranges, and oval lemons of green gold.
Although there are dozens of different types of gems, among the best known and most important are diamond, ruby and sapphire, emerald and other gem forms of the mineral beryl, chrysoberyl, tanzanite, tsavorite, topaz and jade.
gloss: A yellowish-brown color, like that of the gemstone.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: Or (gold or yellow), in blazoning by precious stones.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: Elgin. Topaz a Saltier and Chief Ruby, on a Canton Pearl a Lyon Rampant Saphyr, which last is their paternal Coat; and the Field Topaz, and Saltier, and Chief Ruby, was the Arms of King Robert the Bruce, they altering the Field from Pearl (as he bore it) to Topaz. / Eglington. Quarterly, 1st and 4th, Saphyr three Flower-de-Liss Topaz, for Montgomery; 2d and 3d, Ruby three Anulets Topaz', ston'd Saphyr, for the Title of Eglington; […]
The Field is Ruby, on a Bend Topaz, three Martlets Diamond. […] 4. Pearl, on a Bend Diamond, nine Annulets conjoined in three Links Topaz.
(1) Pearl, a Cross, Ruby, with the Effigies of our Saviour thereon, Topaz, born in Memory of one of the Family's fighting against the Turks. (2) Topaz, a Chief Indented, Saphire. (3) Ruby, three covered Cups, Topaz […]
gloss: Either of two species of very large hummingbirds in the genus Topaza.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: A ruby-topaz hummingbird, Chrysolampis mosquitus, the male of which has bright ruby feathers on the head and topaz on the throat
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: Of a yellowish-brown color, like that of the gemstone.
pos: adj
Derived words: topazine
topazlike
Translations:
lang: Cherokee
word: ᏙᏆᏏ-ᏓᎶᏂᎨᎢ
roman: doquasi-dalonigei
lang: French
word: topaze
lang: Swahili
word: rangi ya topazi
cerulean
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Latin caeruleus (“blue”) + -an, from caelum (“sky, heaven”) + -uleus (diminutive suffix).
Base: caeruleus
Affixes: -an
Inflected forms:
form: ceruleans
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: cærulean
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: more cerulean
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most cerulean
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: cærulean
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A greenish-blue color.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: For our blues we have the azures and ceruleans, lapis lazulis, the light and dusty, the powder blues, the deeps: royal, sapphire, navy, and marine […]
gloss: Any of various lycaenid butterflies of the genus Jamides.
pos: noun
tags: countable
gloss: Sky-blue.
pos: adj
examples: As far to the west as Monica could see, her world was a sea of fog, […]. Above it arched a cerulean sky; as the sun climbed to the zenith, […], the fog gradually took on a bluish tinge.
Oh Ramona, if there was only some kind of future / And these cerulean skies / Something in our skies, something in our skies
But what you don't know is that that sweater is not just blue, it's not turquoise, it's not lapis, it's actually cerulean. And you're also blithely unaware of the fact that in 2002, Oscar de la Renta did a collection of cerulean gowns. And then I think it was Yves Saint Laurent, wasn't it, who showed cerulean military jackets?
Translations: