yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
haar
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Attested since the late 17th century, alongside Scots haar (“cold easterly wind; misty wind; cold fog or mist”).
Perhaps ultimately from Middle Dutch hare (“cold wind”) or a related Low German word; compare Dutch harig (“windy; foggy, misty”), Saterland Frisian harig (“misty”).
Alternatively, perhaps simply a northern English or Scottish variant of hoar, or a borrowing of Old Norse hárr (“hoary”).
Inflected forms:
form: haars
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: harr
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: har
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Thick, cold, wet fog along the northeastern coast of Northern England and Scotland.
pos: noun
tags: Northern-England
Scotland
countable
especially
uncountable
examples: The traffic noise used to be constant, at times as thick as the haar, the sea fog that sometimes rolls in here from the North Sea.
gloss: A wind, especially one from the east, which blows in this fog.
pos: noun
tags: Scotland
countable
especially
uncountable
examples: […] westerly haar, which wraps everything up in white wool, and blots out sea and sky, and chokes the depressed wayfarer-not to speak of the penetrating chill which even in June goes down into the marrow of your bones, and makes the[…]
[An] easterly haar was blowing in off the sea, the cold wind bringing with it a thick fog that crawled under the collar and clung to the skin. Ahead, the road disappeared as the fog hid anything on either side of the hedges save for the[…]
Derived words: haary
Translations:
apod
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From a- + -pod.
Base: a
Inflected forms:
form: apods
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Lacking feet; apodal.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Lacking a ventral fin.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: An animal without feet.
pos: noun
Translations:
ba
Part of speech: noun
particle
Morphological type: simple
Topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
Etymology: Borrowed from Egyptian bꜣ, G53-Z1
Inflected forms:
form: bas
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: bah
pos: particle
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A being's soul or personality, represented as a bird-headed figure, which survives after death but must be sustained with offerings of food.
pos: noun
tags: Egyptian
examples: Any ordinary person who has ever floated out of his body during a nap knows what a Ba is, but unfortunately the dogmas of our materialistic culture constrain the person to ignore and repress his experience.
But the Ba, I remembered, could be seen as the mistress of your heart and might or might not decide to speak to you, just as the heart cannot always forgive.
gloss: Used to indicate a tentative suggestion.
pos: particle
tags: Manglish
Singlish
singular-normally
examples: I think you should go see a doctor ba.
gloss: Used to indicate confident speculation.
pos: particle
tags: Manglish
Singlish
singular-normally
examples: rich pple in here... 15" Conti for 800? thats a little steep... same class as ps4s? / 18" tires about 600 to 750 bah...
Related words: what
lah1–14
lor2–3
lor1
ah6
leh1–2
mah
leh3–6
one1–3
hor1
know
nia
only
sia
hor2
ah1–3
hah1–3
meh
ba2
leh7–11
ba1
liao
already
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A. F. (1992)
in
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ba-dum-ching
ba-dum-tss
Translations:
babul
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed both from French baboul and from Hindi बबूल (babūl, “babul tree”), probably ultimately from Sanskrit वव्वोल (vavvola, “acacia”).
Inflected forms:
form: babuls
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: babool
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A tree native to South Asia, Vachellia nilotica subsp. indica, formerly Acacia nilotica subsp. indica.
pos: noun
examples: In place of Putney's golden gorse / The sickly babul blooms.
Translations:
bai
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: bais
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A marshy meadow in sub-Saharan Africa.
pos: noun
examples: One thing about the bais that I hadn't fully taken on board while reading about them was that they tend to be waterlogged because they are usually associated with marshes, streams or springs. […] venturing into the bai, but […] plunging into the bai because […]
Gorillas (and other wildlife) frequent such bais, which are waterlogged and sunny, because of the sodium-rich sedges and asters that grow beneath the open sky.
Translations:
SA
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: SAs
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: SA's
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: SAing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: SA'ing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: SAed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: SAed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: SA'd
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: SA'd
pos: verb
tags: past
form: SA'ed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: SA'ed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To sexually assault (someone).
pos: verb
tags: Internet
transitive
examples: This time CPS did really investigate a lot more thoroughly, and the CPS worker said that she believes Allison was SA'ed by her dad, but that the role of CPS is to *remove children from abusive homes* and since Allison does not live in the abusive home, the duty falls to me to go thru the family court system to get no-visitation orders in place.
Remind me of that night and while I threw away the clothes I was SA'd in,, the clothes I wore to be around him make me feel gross too and
I just saw that! She doesn’t know anything! She’s regurgitating bull for a video to make money! And her subs won’t question it!! They apparently like middle aged woman attacking a little girl who was SA’d! Absolutely vile and disgusting
Unfortunately, the dark side of the music industry isn’t new. In 1989, Alanis Morissette was 15 years old when she was SA’d by several men during the start of her music career. In 1992-93, R. Kelly SA’d Aaliyah when she was 13 or 14 years old. In 2005, Lady Gaga was SA’d by a record producer when she was 19 years old. This shouldn’t be happening, but somehow a lot of shady behavior is often swept under the rug.
These same type of men will make disgusting “jokes” about SA’ing women they politically disagree with, a big target of theirs will be teenage girls. When said girls tell them to rightfully get lost out come the “jokes” about wanting to SA them or hoping the girls get SA’ed.
Translations:
Victoria
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Latin Victōria, from victōria (“victory”). Doublet of Vitória. The given name can also be analyzed as the male name Victor + -ia. The places were named in honour of Queen Victoria of Great Britain.
Base: Victor
Affixes: -ia
Inflected forms:
form: Victorias
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One of an American breed of medium-sized white pigs with a slightly dished face and very erect ears.
pos: noun
gloss: A Victoria plum.
pos: noun
examples: Pears are practically a failure, and there are no early or late Plums, but Victorias are a heavy crop, of small inferior fruits.
gloss: vagina
pos: noun
tags: slang
Translations:
abuela
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Spanish abuelabor.
English abuela
Borrowed from Spanish abuela.
Inflected forms:
form: abuelas
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A Hispanic grandmother.
pos: noun
examples: I, an abuela-aged woman of Northern European ancestry, have lived within 50 miles of the Mexican border most of my life. Mexican culture is part of my life as much as any of my DNA cultures, if not more, and I love it all.
8 a.m. Wake up early for breakfast at an abuela’s house
[L]ook no further than this week’s surreal exchange between Sen. Josh Hawley and a Berkeley law professor insisting that men can and do get pregnant. Yes, that happened, in a Senate hearing. You say that to an abuela, and the most likely response will be “que?” followed by a quick “adios!”
On the east side of San Jose, Calif., there is an abuela who seems to have more grandchildren than she can count.
Together, the abuelas wrote pleading letters to international organizations and the pope, and posed as baby supply saleswomen and housekeepers to more closely surveil children they thought might be their relations.
I speak of Yemeni bodega owners and Mexican abuelas.
Translations:
amiga
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish amiga (“female friend”).
Inflected forms:
form: amigas
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A female friend.
pos: noun
tags: Latin-America
Translations:
familia
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: law
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin familia (“family”). Doublet of family.
Inflected forms:
form: familiae
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A household or religious community under one head, regarded as a unit.
pos: noun
tags: historical
examples: Joska's elder brother Phuro was, however, seen as the leader of his familia. As one of the oldest males in the hamlet, with a familia that consisted of sons, bora and sons-in-law, Phuro's position as head of his familia was given by his age and by his authority as father.
gloss: The paterfamilias, his legitimate descendants and their wives, all persons adopted into his family and their wives, and all slaves belonging to the household.
pos: noun
tags: Roman
Translations:
grito
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Spanish gritobor.
English grito
Borrowed from Spanish grito.
Inflected forms:
form: gritos
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A Mexican outcry characterized by ululation, used as an expression before a battle cry or ranchera.
pos: noun
examples: During the post-election turmoil, an estimated fifteen thousand people gathered at the Angel of Independence on Independence Day 1988 for a grito organized by the PAN that the party described as an event “that signifies the authentic freedom of Mexico” and that focused on repudiating electoral fraud.
The night doesn’t begin to end until someone starts pouring tequila, plays this song [“Por Tu Maldito Amor”], and belts out a grito in their best Chente voice — operatic and soaring with a tinge of melancholy.
Translations:
Melburnian
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From the Latin name for Melbourne, Melburnia, + -ian.
The term can be traced back to 1876, when the case for Melburnian over Melbournian was made in the Melbourne Grammar School publication, the Melburnian. 'The diphthong, ‘ou’ is not a Latin diphthong: hence, we argued this way, Melburnia would be [the] Latin form of name, and from it comes Melburnian.'
Affixes: -ian
Inflected forms:
form: Melburnians
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: more Melburnian
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most Melburnian
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: A native or inhabitant of the city of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
pos: noun
gloss: Of, from or relating to the city of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
pos: adj
Translations:
Sydneysider
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English Sydney
Proto-Indo-European *seh₁-der.
Proto-Germanic *sīdaz
Proto-Germanic *sīdǭ
Old English sīde
Middle English side
English side
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 Sydneysider
From Sydney + side + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: Sydneysiders
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Sydney-sider
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A native or inhabitant of the city of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
pos: noun
Translations:
benzoin
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Arabic لُبَان (lubān)
Proto-Indo-European *yew-
Proto-Indo-European *-os
Proto-Indo-European *yéwos
Proto-Indo-Iranian *yáwas
Sanskrit यव (yava)bor.?
Proto-Austronesian *zawa
Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *zawabor.?
Old Javanese jawa
Old Javanese -i
Old Javanese Jawi
Javanese ꦗꦮꦶ (jawi)der.
Arabic جَاوَة (jāwa)
Arabic ـِيّ (-iyy)
Arabic جَاوِيّ (jāwiyy)
Arabic لُبَان جَاوِيّ (lubān jāwiyy)bor.
Catalan benjuíder.
Middle French benjoinder.
English benzoin
From Middle French benjoin, from Catalan benjuí, from Arabic لُبَان جَاوِيّ (lubān jāwiyy, “Javanese frankincense”). The first word is from Proto-West Semitic *laban- (“white”), the second from جاوة (jāwa, “Java”) (from Javanese ꦗꦮ (jawa)).
The initial lu was probably lost because it was taken as the definite article in Romance. Compare oliban.
Inflected forms:
form: benzoins
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A resinous substance, dry and brittle, obtained from Styrax benzoin, a tree of Sumatra, Java, etc., having a fragrant odor, and slightly aromatic taste. It is used in the preparation of benzoic acid, in medicine, and as a perfume.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: These following bodies do not draw: smaragd, achates, corneolus, pearl, jaspis, chalcedonius, alabaster, porphyry, coral, marble, touchstone, haematites, or bloodstone; smyris, ivory, bones, ebontree, cedar, cypress, pitch, softer rosin, camphire, galbanum, ammoniac, storax, benzoin, loadstone, asphaltum.
Aromatics were used, too, especially in necromancy, and an old recipe of that sort comprises Musk, Myrrh, Frankincense, Red Storax, Mastick, Olibanum, Saffron, Benzoin and Labdanum.
Nedde: In Arab countries, a mixture of various perfumes, with benzoin and amber predominating, is so called. This mixture, which is black in colour, is formed into a small cylinder and used aphrodisiacally.
gloss: An aromatic hydroxy ketone, 2-hydroxy-1,2-di(phenyl)ethanone, synthesized from benzaldehyde; any derivative of this compound.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The spicebush, Lindera benzoin.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Related words: benjamin
Derived words: benjamin
benzene
benzoic
benzoinated
deoxybenzoin
flowers of benzoin
furoin
Translations:
hammock
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: broadcasting
media
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish hamaca, from Taíno *hamaka (compare Lokono hamaka, Wayuu jama'a), from Proto-Arawak *hamaka. Columbus, in the narrative of his first voyage, says: “A great many Indians in canoes came to the ship to-day for the purpose of bartering their cotton, and hamacas, or nets, in which they sleep.”
Inflected forms:
form: hammocks
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: hammocks
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: hammocking
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: hammocked
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: hammocked
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A swinging couch or bed, usually made of netting or canvas about six feet (1.8 meters) wide, suspended by clews or cords at the ends.
pos: noun
examples: […] the poore ſaylers, who […] commonly get forthwith into their beds (or hamackoes) reſting their tyred bodies […]
[W]ho vvould not rather Sleep Quietly upon a Hammock, vvithout either Cares in his Head, or Crudities in his Stomach, then lye Carking upon a Bed of State, vvith the Qualms and Tvvinges that accompany Surfeits and Exceſs?
gloss: A piece of land thickly wooded, and usually covered with bushes and vines.
pos: noun
tags: US
gloss: To lie in a hammock.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: "I fancied that we — I and who? — hammocked among the summer breezes."
gloss: To hang in a way that resembles a hammock.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: "She hammocked their plaids between the table and the bed, then edged her way past Kenneth as she approached the central hearth."
gloss: To make something be wrapped tight, like in a hammock.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: "She hammocked her breasts into her bra, snapped it, hitched at it, and gave herself a profile glance in the mirror."
gloss: To schedule (a new or unpopular programme) between two popular ones in the hope that viewers will watch it.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Derived words: banana hammock
hammockless
hammocklike
hammock litter
hammock netting
hammocky
hammocked
hammocking
Translations:
bal
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: bals
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The surface of a mine.
pos: noun
tags: Cornwall
examples: The surface of the mine is called the bal, and every level and shaft has a name.
Penny arrived dressed for the day as a bal-maiden and told us all about the delights of a surface worker's life at a mine in Pendeen days, which was, she told us, what a bal-maiden did.
"Oo will do un, maister?" asked Jim.
"The bal authorities," said Hunt.
Translations:
pyramidion
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From New Latin pyramidion, from Latin pyramis. See pyramid.
Inflected forms:
form: pyramidia
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: pyramidions
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The small pyramid which crowns or completes an obelisk or pyramid.
pos: noun
Translations:
upbraid
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English upbreyden, from Old English upbreġdan, equivalent to up- + braid. Compare English umbraid (“to upbraid”), Icelandic bregða (“to draw, brandish, braid, deviate from, change, break off, upbraid”). See up, and braid (transitive).
Base: braid
Affixes: up-
Inflected forms:
form: upbraids
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: upbraiding
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: upbraided
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: upbraided
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To criticize severely.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: How much doth thy kindness upbraid my wickedness!
Then began he to upbraid the cities wherein most of his mighty works were done, because they repented not:
When Chrysostom was lying on his bier in the valley, and Marcella looked down from the high rock, Ambrosio, the dead man’s comrade, cried out on her, upbraiding her with bitter words—“Oh basilisk of our mountains!” Nor do I think Ambrosio spoke too strongly.
Indeed, on several occasions, the Bishop of Lincoln was forced to upbraid both abbess and nuns for unseemliness in dress and behaviour.
Dalio had no qualms about upbraiding a junior employee in front of me and dozens of his colleagues.
Mr. Trump and Vice President JD Vance upbraided the president of Ukraine in the Oval Office last Friday, then cut off military aid to the U.S. ally.
gloss: To charge with something wrong or disgraceful; to reproach
pos: verb
tags: archaic
transitive
examples: Yet do not upbraid us our distress.
Afterward he appeared unto the eleven as they sat at meat, and upbraided them with their unbelief and hardness of heart, because they believed not them which had seen him after he was risen.
gloss: To treat with contempt.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
examples: There also was that mighty monarch laid, Low under all, yet above all in pride; That name of native fire did foul upbraid, And would, as Ammon's son, be magnify'd.
gloss: To object or urge as a matter of reproach
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
examples: Those that have been bred together, are more apt to envy their equals when raised: for it doth upbraid unto them their own fortunes, and pointeth at them.
gloss: To utter upbraidings.
pos: verb
tags: archaic
intransitive
gloss: To vomit; retch.
pos: verb
tags: Northern-England
UK
archaic
dialectal
Translations:
tamp
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Probably a back-formation from tampin (misinterpreted as tamping), a variant of tampion.
Inflected forms:
form: tamps
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: tamping
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: tamped
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: tamped
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To plug up with clay, earth, dry sand, sod, or other material, as a hole bored in a rock.
pos: verb
gloss: To drive in or pack down by frequent gentle strokes
pos: verb
examples: Tamp earth so as to make a smooth place.
Typically for the 'get-on-with-it' era, the railway and military worked like demons to restore the vital rail link. The crater was rapidly filled in and the earth tamped solid, the wreckage was removed by breakdown trains, new rails and sleepers were rushed forward by willing hands, and US Army bulldozers piled in. By 2020 on the same day, both tracks were open for traffic again where there had been a gaping pit just hours before.
Related words: tampon
tamper
Derived words: tampable
tamp down
tamper
tamping
tamping iron
tamping rod
Translations:
lang: Czech
word: zmírnit
lang: German
word: reduzieren
lang: German
word: dämpfen
lang: German
word: mindern
lang: German
word: abschwächen
lang: German
word: herunterfahren
lang: German
word: unterdrücken
mulch
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: agriculture
business
horticulture
lifestyle
Etymology: Probably from Middle English melsche, molsh (“soft”), from Old English melsċ, milisċ (“mellow; mild; sweet”, literally “honeyed”), probably from Proto-Germanic *mili (“honey”). Compare Icelandic milska (“a honeyed beverage”).
Inflected forms:
form: mulches
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: mulsh
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: mulches
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: mulching
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: mulched
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: mulched
pos: verb
tags: past
form: mulsh
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: Any material used to cover the top layer of soil to protect, insulate, or decorate it, or to discourage weeds or retain moisture.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: An organic mulch is a mulch made of natural substances such as leaves or grass clippings.
An interim report by investigators from the Rail Accident Investigation Branch found extensive evidence of crushed leaf mulch on the railhead at many sites on the approach to Salisbury Tunnel Junction.
gloss: To apply mulch.
pos: verb
examples: Mulch your vegetable garden to retain moisture and keep weeds down.
gloss: To turn into mulch.
pos: verb
examples: I decided to mulch the grass clippings.
Derived words: mulchable
mulcher
mulching mower
nonmulched
unmulched
Translations:
PB
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: PBs
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: PBing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: PBed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: PBed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To set a new personal best.
pos: verb
tags: informal
intransitive
usually
examples: Vocab-wise, medalling and PB-ing are now totally part-and-parcelled, and most experts in South Korea believe podiumed, finalled and all-comered are not far off lexiconing.
Speaking after yesterday's race, Ellie, from Walsall, said: 'I would have loved to get the gold but you can't have everything. ¶ 'I've been PBing every time I swim so I can't ask for any more.'
"It's definitely a goal of mine because I haven't done a personal record in a long time. I'm definitely looking forward to PBing," said the American, who has run 9.75sec this year. "Hopefully the conditions will be good, my start's better and everything is working well so I can accomplish one of my goals."
I'm only 20. Dwain Chambers is 36 now, Kim Collins is 38 and still PBing. These guys have long careers so hopefully I can push on and hope for something similar.
I PBed my go-to twisting descent not once but twice, all the while feeling totally in control, each run thrillingly rapid but never reckless.
Translations:
TO
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: TOs
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: TO's
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: TOing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: TO'ing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: TOd
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: TOd
pos: verb
tags: past
form: TOed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: TOed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: TO'd
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: TO'd
pos: verb
tags: past
form: TO'ed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: TO'ed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: T.O.
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: to organize a tournament, to be a TO
pos: verb
examples: TOing
Translations:
bam
Part of speech: intj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Onomatopoeic.
Inflected forms:
form: bams
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Representing a loud noise or heavy impact.
pos: intj
examples: The wind knocked the tree over last night. Bam! It nearly scared me to death.
We all looked up from the maps, silent, and listened to the hurried footsteps in the entryway. They padded up the red carpet, bam-bam-bam, and across the landing and then up the next flight at a gallop, bam-bam-bam.
gloss: Representing a sudden or abrupt occurrence.
pos: intj
examples: She said she dumped him. Now — bam! — they're back together.
gloss: A ned; a bampot.
pos: noun
tags: Scotland
slang
Synonyms: bang
blam
pow
wham
dishoom
Derived words: bammo
kabam
wham, bam, thank you ma'am
Translations:
bap
Part of speech: noun
intj
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Originally Scottish English, of unknown origin.
Inflected forms:
form: baps
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: baps
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: bapping
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: bapped
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: bapped
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A soft bread roll, originally from Scotland.
pos: noun
examples: burger bap
gloss: A woman's breast.
pos: noun
tags: Ireland
UK
in-plural
slang
gloss: The head.
pos: noun
tags: Ireland
slang
examples: He lost the bap.
Mrs Dudley came bouncing back, hand swinging, big stain on her right bap like she'd been shot or Da had got at her in an alleyway.
gloss: A friend or buddy.
pos: noun
tags: humorous
gloss: The sound of a light blow or slap.
pos: intj
tags: informal
examples: Damian rolls Mr. McNutt over and beats the tar out of him with a series of punches, glasses on or not.
BAP! BAP! SMACK! BAP! BAP! "You and your men are going to get my family killed!" hollers Damian.
Elizabeth continued into the living room and saw Velvet napping on the cool linoleum under the dining room table. She stopped to stroke her silky side and the puppy's tail went bap, bap, bap against the floor in greeting.
gloss: To hit lightly.
pos: verb
tags: informal
transitive
examples: “Actually, I like you growling when we're in our bedchamber. It, um . . . makes me think of all the things we do.” “Oh.” He processed that for a moment, then grinned down at her. “I'll take that as permission to growl at you all the more, then!” “Wolfer!” She bapped him again with the back of her fingers.
She lightly bapped him on the head, then continued […]
Derived words: chip bap
Translations:
bat
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Dialectal variant (akin to dialectal Swedish natt-batta) of Middle English bakke, balke, of North Germanic origin. Perhaps compare Old Norse (leðr)blaka (literally “(leather) flapper”), from leðr + blaka (“to flap”).
Compare Old Swedish natbakka, Old Danish nathbakkæ.
Inflected forms:
form: bats
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: bats
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: batting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: batted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: batted
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Any flying mammal of the order Chiroptera, usually small and nocturnal, insectivorous or frugivorous.
pos: noun
examples: The Bat—they called him the Bat. Like a bat he chose the night hours for his work of rapine; like a bat he struck and vanished, pouncingly, noiselessly; like a bat he never showed himself to the face of the day.
As well as being worth millions of dollars to the Texan agriculture industry, these mammals are worth millions of dollars to the state’s tourism industry. Texas is home to the world’s largest known bat colony (in Comal County), and the world’s largest urban bat colony (in Austin). Bat watching is a common activity, with the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department offering more bat-viewing sites than anywhere else in the US.
gloss: An old woman.
pos: noun
tags: derogatory
examples: "Isn't it lovely?" I smiled and thought: "Yes it is. It's also a Blackbird, you silly old bat!
gloss: To hit with a bat or (figuratively) as if with a bat.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: He batted the ball away with a satisfying thwack.
We batted a few ideas around.
gloss: To take a turn at hitting a ball with a bat in sports like cricket, baseball and softball, as opposed to fielding.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To strike or swipe as though with a bat.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: The cat batted at the toy.
gloss: To bate or flutter, as a hawk.
pos: verb
tags: UK
dialectal
obsolete
Derived words: bat around
bat a thousand
bat away
bat deep
bat five hundred
bat for both sides
bat for the other side
bat for the other team
bat in
bat one thousand
bat out
bat round
batter
bat the breeze
bat up
did not bat
Translations:
MC
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
Inflected forms:
form: MCs
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: MCing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: MCed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: MCed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To emcee, to act as a master of ceremonies.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To rap.
pos: verb
examples: British rapheads do not usually have a great appreciation for rap acts with a pop edge. And having credits that include a stint MCing for Belgium’s hugely successful pop-dance group Technotronic is something that’s best not mentioned in hip-hop circles.
Translations:
TA
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: TAs
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: TA's
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: TAing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: TA'ing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: TAed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: TAed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: TA'd
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: TA'd
pos: verb
tags: past
form: TA'ed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: TA'ed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: TAd
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: TAd
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To act as a teaching assistant (for a class).
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
transitive
examples: The university offered me a chance to TA this semester.
I really want to TA Programming 1 some day.
Translations:
YC
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
war
Etymology: Combination of prefix C and prefix modifier Y
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: prototype cargoplane (prefix)
pos: noun
tags: US
Translations:
sanction
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle French sanction, from Latin sānctiō.
Inflected forms:
form: sanctions
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: sanctions
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: sanctioning
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: sanctioned
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: sanctioned
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: An approval, by an authority, generally one that makes something valid.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The whalers had been operating in the contested waters off the island with sanction from the Japanese government.
The idea that it was more comfortable in the house than out of it, did much towards reconciling his lordship. He felt positively glad that, as his wife had acted without his sanction, she should be subject to all possible inconvenience, as if such could be felt in Henrietta's state of mind.
gloss: A penalty, punishment, or some coercive measure, intended to ensure compliance; especially one adopted by several nations, or by an international body.
pos: noun
tags: countable
in-plural
uncountable
examples: The United States enacted a new round of sanctions against the apartheid regime of South Africa.
gloss: A law, treaty, or contract, or a clause within a law, treaty, or contract, specifying any of the above.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: To ratify; to make valid.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To give official authorization or approval to; to countenance.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The school's inaction further sanctions this misbehavior.
Many of the most earnest Protestants were business men, to whom lending money at interest was essential. Consequently first Calvin, and then other Protestant divines, sanctioned interest.
gloss: To penalize (a state etc.) with sanctions.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The generative AI chatbot, ChatGPT, can be duped into providing detailed advice on how to commit crimes — ranging from money laundering to the export of weapons to sanctioned countries — a tech startup found.
Synonyms: ban
boycott
estoppel
injunction
interdiction
embargo
penalties
proscription
sanction
taboo
Antonyms: permission
endorsement
support
confirmation
allowance
backing
Related words: blacklist
condemnation
prohibit
Derived words: antisanction
antisanctions
countersanction
cybersanctions
nonsanction
pragmatic sanction
presanction
presanctions
sanctional
sanctionary
sanctioneer
sanctionism
sanctionist
sanctionless
secondary sanction
nonsanctioned
resanction
sanctionability
sanctionable
sanctioner
sanctionment
unsanctioned
unsanctioning
Translations:
think
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-West Germanic *þankijan
Old English þenċan
Middle English thinken
English think
From Middle English thinken, thynken, thenken, thenchen, from Old English þenċan, from Proto-West Germanic *þankijan, from Proto-Germanic *þankijaną (“to think”), from Proto-Indo-European *teng- (“to think, feel, know”).
Cognate with Scots think, thynk (“to think”), North Frisian teenk, taanke, tanke, tånke (“to think”), Saterland Frisian toanke (“to think”), West Frisian tinke (“to think”), Dutch denken, dinken (“to think”), Afrikaans dink (“to think”), Low German denken, dinken (“to think”), German denken (“to think”), Danish tænke (“to think”), Swedish tänka (“to think”), Norwegian Bokmål tenke (“to think”), Norwegian Nynorsk tenkja (“to think”), Icelandic þekkja (“to know, recognise, identify, perceive”), Gothic þagkjan (“to think”), Latin tongeō (“know”).
Inflected forms:
form: thinks
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: thinck
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: thinke
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: An act of thinking; consideration (of something).
pos: noun
tags: UK
uncountable
usually
examples: I'll have a think about that and let you know.
Translations:
eye
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₃ekʷ-der.
Proto-Germanic *augô
Proto-West Germanic *augā
Old English ēage
Middle English eye
English eye
From Middle English eye, yë, eyghe, from Old English ēage (“eye”), from Proto-West Germanic *augā, from Proto-Germanic *augô (“eye”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃okʷ-, *h₃ekʷ- (“eye; to see”). Related to ogle.
Cognates
Cognate with Scots ee, eh (“eye”), North Frisian Oog, uug (“eye”), Saterland Frisian Oge, Ooge (“eye”), West Frisian each (“eye”), Alemannic German, Bavarian Aug (“eye”), Central Franconian Au, Auch, Ooch (“eye”), Dutch oog (“eye”), German Aug, Auge (“eye”), Low German Auge, Oog (“eye”), Luxembourgish A (“eye”), Vilamovian aojg, aug, oüg (“eye”), Yiddish אויג (oyg, “eye”), Danish øje (“eye”), Elfdalian oga (“eye”), Faroese eyga (“eye”), Icelandic auga (“eye”), Norwegian Bokmål øye (“eye”), Norwegian Nynorsk aua, aue, auga, auge (“eye”), Scanian yva (“eye”), Swedish öga (“eye”), Crimean Gothic oeghene (“eyes”), Gothic 𐌰𐌿𐌲𐍉 (augō, “eye”).
Other Indo-European cognates include Latin oculus (whence English oculus), Lithuanian aki̇̀s, Old Church Slavonic око (oko), Albanian sy, Ancient Greek ὄψ (óps, “(poetic) eye; face”) and ὄσσε (ósse, “eyes”), Armenian ակն (akn), Avestan 𐬀𐬱𐬌 (aši, “eyes”), Sanskrit अक्षि (ákṣi).
The archaic plural form eyen is from Middle English eyen, from Old English ēaġan, nominative and accusative plural of ēaġe (“eye”).
Inflected forms:
form: eyes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: eyeing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: eying
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
rare
form: eyed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: eyed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To carefully or appraisingly observe (someone or something).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: After eyeing the document for half an hour, she decided not to sign it.
They went out and eyed the new car one last time before deciding.
Each downcast monk in silence takes / His place a newmade grave around, / Each one his brother sadly eying.
gloss: To appear; to look.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
obsolete
examples: My becomings kill me, when they do not eye well to you.
gloss: To remove the reproductive buds from (potatoes).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Once the potatoes have been rumbled they require 'eyeing' with a turning knife or hand peeler.
My first assignment was eyeing old potatoes. The Siegler brothers would buy potatoes so old they looked like an octopus. My job was to make them look presentable and, of course, sellable.
gloss: To allow (fish eggs) to develop so that the black eye spots are visible.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Eggs were collected from the Taylor Creek, Upper Truckee River, and Blackwood Creek traps and transported to this station to be eyed […]
Derived words: eye up
eyeable
ineye
uneyeable
Translations:
CT
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: medicine
sciences
Inflected forms:
form: CTs
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: CTing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: CTed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: CTed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To perform a CT scan on.
pos: verb
tags: informal
transitive
examples: There's a certain something that emanates from a confused patient that this fellow doesn't have. I sure wish I had more 'terps. Well, we're not going to CT him right away. There are two other fellows before him. “Get a plain film of his head, Tim. […]”
Translations:
IA
Part of speech: intj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: inshallah; God willing
pos: intj
tags: Arabic
English
Translations:
zak
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Afrikaans sak (“bag”). Doublet of sac and sack.
Inflected forms:
form: zaks
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Money.
pos: noun
tags: South-Africa
countable
slang
uncountable
gloss: Sixpence or a small amount of money.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
bel
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Named after Alexander Graham Bell.
Inflected forms:
form: bels
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A measure of relative power, defined as log₁₀(P ₁/P ₂), where P₁ and P₂ are the measured and reference power respectively.
pos: noun
Translations:
beginner
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: entertainment
lifestyle
theater
Etymology: From Middle English begynner, equivalent to begin + -er. Cognate with West Frisian begjinner (“beginner”), Dutch beginner (“beginner”), Low German begünner (“beginner”), Danish nybegynder (“beginner, novice”, literally “new-beginner”).
Base: begin
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: beginners
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Someone who is just starting at something, or has only recently started.
pos: noun
examples: I'm new to learning Finnish: I'm just a beginner.
gloss: Someone who sets something in motion.
pos: noun
examples: The beginner of the games lit the ceremonial torch.
gloss: An actor who is present on stage in the first moments of a play.
pos: noun
examples: On the stage, the beginners for the first piece had taken their places — the chorus were there, scared but determined, and in the wings waited Harlequin, in the person of Charles Lyall […]
Synonyms: amateur
newbie
abecedarian
alphabetarian
apprentice
beginner
bun
colt
first-timer
fledgling
FNG
fresh meat
freshman
greenhorn
greenie
greener
homo novus
inceptor
initiate
Johnny-come-lately
learner
neophyte
newb
newbro
new chum
newcomer
newfag
newfriend
newling
noob
n00b
novice
novitiate
nozzer
nub
nubcake
puny
pup
probationer
probationist
probie
recruit
stranger
rookie
tenderfoot
trainee
tyro
tyrone
younker
Antonyms: campaigner
cognoscente
connoisseur
expert
journeyman
knowbie
master
maven
old hand
old sweat
oldbie
oldtimer
skilled person
specialist
trouper
veteran
Related words: new
naive
inexperienced
unskilled person
Derived words: beginnerish
beginner slope
beginner's trap
prebeginner
Translations:
ben
Part of speech: prep
adv
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English ben, bene, variation of bin, binne (“within”), from Old English binnan (“within, in, inside of, into”), equivalent to be- + in.
Base: in
Affixes: be-
Inflected forms:
form: benner
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: benmost
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In, into.
pos: prep
tags: Northern-England
Scotland
examples: And he was waving to me to creep in, so I just did and then just to skip ben the front and then in the lobby.
gloss: Inside.
pos: adv
tags: Northern-England
Scotland
not-comparable
gloss: Inner, interior.
pos: adj
Translations:
bran
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English bran, branne, bren, from Old French bren, bran (“bran, filth”), from Gaulish brennos (“rotten”), from Proto-Celtic *bragnos (“rotten, foul”) (compare Welsh braen (“stench”), Irish bréan (“rancid”), Walloon brin (“excrement”)), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰreHg- (compare Latin fragrāre (“to smell strongly”), Dutch brak (“hound”)).
Inflected forms:
form: brans
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: brans
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: branning
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: branned
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: branned
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: The broken coat of the seed of wheat, rye, or other cereal grain, separated from the flour or meal by sifting or bolting; the coarse, chaffy part of ground grain.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: To clean (metal) using a branner.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Translations:
OR
Part of speech: conj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: business
computer
computing
electrical
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
energy
engineering
human-sciences
logic
mathematics
natural-sciences
philosophy
physical-sciences
physics
science
sciences
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Inclusive or; either one proposition or the other is true or both.
pos: conj
gloss: A lexical symbol to implement inclusive or in a computer language.
pos: conj
gloss: A logic gate to implement inclusive or.
pos: conj
gloss: The binary operator inclusive or, true if one at least one of two inputs is true. In infix notation.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: The proof (Tables 9 and 10) of idempotence for both OR and AND follows from examining the definition of each operation under the constraint that both inputs have the same value.
Antonyms: NOR
Translations:
positron
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
Etymology: From positive + -tron (electron). Coined by American physicist Carl Anderson in 1932 to replace the earlier term antielectron.
Base: positive
Affixes: -tron
Inflected forms:
form: positrons
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The antimatter equivalent of an electron, having the same mass but a positive charge.
pos: noun
tags: particle
examples: The notion of a positron weapon remains the stuff of science fiction.
If these particles carry unit positive charge the curvatures and ionizations produced require the mass to be less than twenty times the electron mass. These particles will be called positrons.
Translations:
payment
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Old French paiement. Equivalent to pay + -ment.
Base: pay
Affixes: -ment
Inflected forms:
form: payments
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of paying.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: An instance of that act; a sum of money paid in exchange for goods or services, or the transaction that conveys it.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: “[…] This is Mr. Churchill, who, as you are aware, is good enough to come to us for his diaconate, and, as we hope, for much longer; and being a gentleman of independent means, he declines to take any payment.” Saying this Walden rubbed his hands together and smiled contentedly.
In a report published on October 31, Transport Focus said that a number of train companies were unable to convince it about their ability to sell a full range of tickets, handle cash payments, and avoid excessive queues at ticket machines.
Related words: scot
Derived words: advance payment
autopayment
back payment
balloon payment
bullet payment
copayment
counter payment
counter-payment
counterpayment
cyberpayment
dation in payment
down payment
e-payment
equalization payment
forepayment
grease payment
inpayment
kick payment
lubrication payment
make off without payment
making off without payment
micropayment
mispayment
multipayment
outpayment
overpayment
parachute payment
payment card
payment order
payment schedule
payment service
payment terminal
PITI payment
pittance payment
prepayment
proof of payment
repayment
severance payment
short payment
taxpayment
telepayment
time-payment
transfer payment
underpayment
warrant of payment
Translations:
Pernambuco
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Portuguese Pernambucobor.
English Pernambuco
Borrowed from Portuguese Pernambuco.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The hard, reddish wood of a tree of the tribe Caesalpinieae, often used as dyewood; especially Paubrasilia echinata, used to make violin bows.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: When I annealed the bows over heat, the smell was quite different from the Pernambuco wood we are used to.
[P]ernambucco – the finest brasil from Brazil, so strong it almost resembles iron – became the favoured material for good bows.
Translations:
benzol
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
Etymology: From benzo- + -ol (“oil”).
Base: benzo
Inflected forms:
form: benzols
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: benzole
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: An impure benzene (mixed with toluene etc), used in the arts as a solvent, and for various other purposes.
pos: noun
gloss: benzyl alcohol
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
gloss: Synonym of benzene.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
Related words: benzene
Derived words: monochlorobenzol
nitrobenzol
Translations:
vert
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
Etymology: From Middle English vert, borrowed from Old French vert, from Vulgar Latin virdis, syncopated from Classical Latin viridis. Doublet of virid, which was borrowed directly from Latin.
Inflected forms:
form: verts
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A green colour, now only in heraldry; represented in engraving by diagonal parallel lines 45 degrees counter-clockwise.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The field of the arms (shield), which is vert (green), represents the open country of Great Britain.
gloss: Green undergrowth or other vegetation growing in a forest, as a potential cover for deer.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
countable
uncountable
gloss: The right to fell trees or cut shrubs in a forest.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
countable
uncountable
examples: “I understand thee,” said the King, “and the Holy Clerk shall have a grant of vert and venison in my woods of Warncliffe.”
gloss: In blazon, of the colour green.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Related words: vert russe
vt. in heraldic contexts.
Translations: