yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
formulate
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English formula
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-tós
Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂tos
Proto-Italic *-ātos
Latin -ātuslbor.
English -ate
English formulate
From formula + -ate.
Inflected forms:
form: formulates
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: formulating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: formulated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: formulated
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To put into a clear and definite form of statement or expression.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: He failed to formulate his ideas more clearly.
The Assembly then formulated its demands, which were thirty in number, including the removal of all Huguenot temples built near churches
Another source of evidence supporting the conclusion that children learn language by formulating a set of rules comes from the errors that they produce. A case in point are overgeneralized past tense forms like comed, goed, seed, buyed, bringed, etc. frequently used by young children.
Look closely at the pretty seashell print on these blouses. They’re actually formulated from mathematical equations!
Translations:
handholding
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From hand + holding.
Compound parts: hand
holding
Inflected forms:
form: handholdings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The holding of hands.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: “I want to fuck gender. What does that mean? It means taking gender, a beautiful, wonderful thing and rockin it just right. Most cisfolk, they're stuck holding hands. And that's not to say no cisfolk fuck gender, or that hand holding isn't its own amazing thing. […]”
gloss: Strong personal support or reassurance.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Holding hands.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Deeply and ostentatiously in love.
pos: adj
tags: broadly
not-comparable
Translations:
blenny
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Latin blennius, blendius, from Ancient Greek βλέννα (blénna, “mucus, slime”) (whence Modern Greek βλέννα (vlénna)), because of its slimy coating. From Proto-Indo-European *mel- (“soft”).
Inflected forms:
form: blennies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A true blenny, any of various marine fishes from the suborder Blennioidei or order Blenniiformes that are generally small and elongated which dwell on the sea floor, including scaled and scaleless forms and dramatically divergent appearance, in several families.
pos: noun
gloss: A true blenny, any of various marine fishes from the suborder Blennioidei or order Blenniiformes that are generally small and elongated which dwell on the sea floor, including scaled and scaleless forms and dramatically divergent appearance, in several families.
pos: noun
gloss: A true blenny, any of various marine fishes from the suborder Blennioidei or order Blenniiformes that are generally small and elongated which dwell on the sea floor, including scaled and scaleless forms and dramatically divergent appearance, in several families.
pos: noun
gloss: A true blenny, any of various marine fishes from the suborder Blennioidei or order Blenniiformes that are generally small and elongated which dwell on the sea floor, including scaled and scaleless forms and dramatically divergent appearance, in several families.
pos: noun
gloss: A true blenny, any of various marine fishes from the suborder Blennioidei or order Blenniiformes that are generally small and elongated which dwell on the sea floor, including scaled and scaleless forms and dramatically divergent appearance, in several families.
pos: noun
gloss: A true blenny, any of various marine fishes from the suborder Blennioidei or order Blenniiformes that are generally small and elongated which dwell on the sea floor, including scaled and scaleless forms and dramatically divergent appearance, in several families.
pos: noun
gloss: A number of fish of similar appearance not closely related.
pos: noun
gloss: A number of fish of similar appearance not closely related.
pos: noun
gloss: A number of fish of similar appearance not closely related.
pos: noun
gloss: A number of fish of similar appearance not closely related.
pos: noun
Derived words: blackflap blenny
butterfly blenny
eel-blenny
eelblenny
fangblenny
freckled blenny
Japanese snake blenny
jewelled blenny
kappie blenny
Montagu's blenny
tompot blenny
Translations:
lang: Asturian
word: pixapu
lang: Asturian
word: babosu
lang: Asturian
word: babayu
lang: Catalan
word: bavosa
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 䲁 /鳚
roman: wèi
lang: Czech
word: slizoun
lang: Finnish
word: limakala
lang: French
word: blennie
lang: Galician
word: lorcha
lang: Galician
word: mógaro
lang: German
word: Schleimfischartiger
lang: Greek
word: βλέννος
roman: vlénnos
lang: Italian
word: bavosa
lang: Portuguese
word: blênio
lang: Russian
word: морска́я соба́чка
roman: morskája sobáčka
lang: Turkish
word: horozbina
pilchard
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From earlier pilcher, adapted to the suffix -ard. Further etymology unknown. Compare Dutch pelser.
Affixes: -ard
Inflected forms:
form: pilchard
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: pilchards
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of various small oily fish related to herrings, family Clupeidae.
pos: noun
examples: 1839, John Hookham Frere (translator), The Birds, lines 76–77, in Acharnians and two other plays
He longs occasionally for human diet,
His old Athenian fare: pilchards, for instance.
Translations:
sprat
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English sprotte, from Old English sprot. Older source is unknown. Cognate with German Sprotte, Dutch sprot. Compare sprout.
Inflected forms:
form: sprat
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: sprats
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: sprats
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: spratting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: spratted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: spratted
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Any of various small, herring-like, marine fish in the genus Sprattus, in the family Clupeidae.
pos: noun
gloss: Any of various similar fish of other genera.
pos: noun
gloss: Anything petty or insignificant.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
gloss: A sixpence.
pos: noun
tags: UK
obsolete
slang
examples: The price of a case (five shillings piece bad) from the smasher is about one shilling; an alderman (two and sixpence) about sixpence; a peg (shilling) about threepence; a downer or sprat (sixpence) about twopence.
gloss: To manure (land) with sprats (the fish).
pos: verb
tags: historical
transitive
examples: […] spratting the land. This treatment is supplemented by about half a ton of artificial manure, largely made up of a mixture of superphosphate and some nitrogenous manure.
Related words: spratting
pilchard
sardine
Derived words: a sprat to catch a mackerel
throw a sprat to catch a mackerel
European sprat
slender sprat
spratlike
spratter
Translations:
goby
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Latin gobius (“gudgeon”), from Ancient Greek κωβιός (kōbiós), a type of small fish, of unknown ultimate origin. See also gudgeon.
Inflected forms:
form: goby
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: gobies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of various small fish from the large family Gobiidae, in which the pelvic fins are fused to form a disc-shaped sucker.
pos: noun
examples: “It’s estimated that 10,000 yellowfin gobies died … as well as hundreds of striped bass and hundreds of sturgeon,” and the bloom probably is impacting all aquatic species in the area “to some degree,” Traverso said.
gloss: A gudgeon, a fish of the subfamily Gobioninae, such as a common gudgeon (Gobio gobio).
pos: noun
examples: For acclimatization in the Barents Sea he recommends using the fish fauna of East Kamchatka and the Bering Sea, especially the Atka mackerel, the Goby Gobio gobio lepidolaemus (half scaled goby) and a species of flatfish, in the[…]
Other fish species include Barbel Barbus barbus, Goby Gobio gobio, Minnow Phoxinus phoxinus, Dace Leuciscus leuciscus, Chub Leuciscus cephalus, Ide Leuciscus idus, Nase Chondrostona nasus, Burbot Lota lota, Pike Esox lucius[…]
[...] undermonth Chondrostoma nasus, bleak Alburnus alburnus, goby Gobio gobio, pine Esox lucius, perch Perca fluviatilis, ruffe Gymnocephalus cernuus, spiny loach Cobitis taenia, stone loach Nemacheilus barbatulus, sculpin Cottus gobio, and burbot Lota lota (Pavlov et al., 1981).
Related words: mudskipper
Derived words: Amur goby
atomgoby
black goby
burrowing goby
common goby
coral goby
coralgoby
dartgoby
dart goby
dart-goby
dwarfgoby
dwarf goby
dwarf goby
eel goby
fairygoby
freshwater goby
frill goby
fringefin goby
ghostgoby
ghost goby
glider goby
glidergody
gobyeel
gobylike
mangrove goby
marble goby
marbled goby
mud goby
mudgoby
naked goby
oyster goby
prawn goby
pygmygoby
reefgoby
reef-goby
reef goby
river goby
sailfin goby
sand goby
shrimp goby
shrimpgoby
silt goby
sleeper-goby
sleepy goby
sponge goby
Stevcic's goby
streamgoby
tadpole goby
tiger goby
true goby
Translations:
dotted
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: computing
engineering
entertainment
lifestyle
mathematics
music
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English dot
English -ed
English dotted
From dot + -ed.
Inflected forms:
form: more dotted
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most dotted
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Made up of a series of dots.
pos: adj
examples: Please print your name and address clearly on the dotted line.
gloss: That contains dots.
pos: adj
tags: usually
examples: The dotted name java.util.Scanner is the fully qualified name of the Scanner class.
gloss: With a dot after, increasing the value of the duration by half of the basic note.
pos: adj
gloss: Covered with irregularly scattered objects.
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
examples: The woods filtered men and the fields became dotted.
Related words: dashed
dash-dotted
Derived words: dotted bar line
dotted decimal
dotted gizzard shad
dotted line
dottedness
dotted note
dotted quad
dotted Swiss
double-dotted
polka-dotted
sign on the dotted line
soft-dotted
undotted
Translations:
enrol
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: enrols
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: enrolling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: enrolled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: enrolled
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: UK, New Zealand, Australia, Ireland, and Canada standard spelling of enroll.
pos: verb
Translations:
grandstand
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From grand + stand.
Compound parts: grand
stand
Inflected forms:
form: grandstands
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: grandstands
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: grandstanding
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: grandstanded
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: grandstanded
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: The seating area at a stadium or arena; the bleachers.
pos: noun
gloss: The audience at a public event.
pos: noun
gloss: To behave dramatically or showily to impress an audience or observers; to pander to a crowd.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Many politicians prefer to grandstand on hot-button issues rather than enact tough policy changes.
Derived words: grandstand finish
Translations:
Ganesha
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Sanskrit गणेश (gaṇeśa)bor.
English Ganesha
Borrowed from Sanskrit गणेश (gaṇeśa).
Inflected forms:
form: Ganesa
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Ganesh
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The psychedelic drug 2,5-dimethoxy-3,4-dimethylamphetamine.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
titty
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From tit + -y. Sense of sister perhaps from baby talk form of sissy.
Base: tit
Affixes: -y
Inflected forms:
form: titties
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: tiddy
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: tittie
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A breast.
pos: noun
tags: slang
vulgar
examples: That hot bird will show you her titties for a fiver, mate!
There was a girl in the mattress factory with me during the war, girl about thirty. A big one, kind of a fat face, big behind to her, big titties, kind of a girl should be human and soft with a man.
A hooker named Suzibelle Hickins
 Found London and Cambridge fine pickin’s
 She would jiggle her titties
 As the tail of two cities,
 That dirty and hot little Dickens!
damn girl is your titty a penis because i want to suck on it
gloss: A nipple.
pos: noun
tags: slang
vulgar
examples: And I tried to suck your titty hole for milk for my Cheerios
gloss: A kitten.
pos: noun
gloss: A sister or girl.
pos: noun
tags: Scotland
colloquial
Derived words: city titty
itty bitty titty committee
kitty's titties
man titty
tittied
titty bar
titty fuck
tittyfuck
titty juice
titty skittle
tittytainment
titty-toucher
titty twister
tough titty
tough titty said the kitty
whiny-ass titty baby
Translations:
polysemy
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
semantics
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *pleh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *polh₁ús
Ancient Greek πολῠ́ς (polŭ́s)lbor.
English poly-
Ancient Greek σῆμα (sêma)lbor.
English seme
English polyseme
English -y
English polysemy
From polyseme + -y.
Inflected forms:
form: polysemies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The quality characteristic of a polyseme, a sign (such as a word or symbol) that has multiple meanings (senses), often including multiple similar ones.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: Fifty years ago the linguist and semanticist Stephen Ullmann wrote that polysemy, the fact that some words have a network of multiple but related meanings, is "the pivot of semantic analysis" […]
Polysemy proliferates in natural language: Virtually every word is polysemous to some extent.
Translations:
thylakoid
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
cytology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
Etymology: From Ancient Greek θύλακος (thúlakos, “sack, bag”) + -oid.
Affixes: -oid
Inflected forms:
form: thylakoids
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: a folded membrane within plant chloroplasts from which grana are made, used in photosynthesis
pos: noun
Translations:
granum
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
natural-sciences
Etymology: From the late 19th c., from Latin grānum (“grain, seed or small kernel”). Doublet of corn, grain, gram, and grao.
Inflected forms:
form: grana
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A stack-like structure in plant chloroplasts that contain chlorophyll; the site of photosynthesis.
pos: noun
Translations:
chloroplast
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
cytology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
Etymology: From chloro- + -plast.
Base: chloro
Inflected forms:
form: chloroplasts
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An organelle, found in the cells of green plants and in photosynthetic algae, where photosynthesis takes place, characterized by a high concentration of chlorophyll and two membranes.
pos: noun
Translations:
incidental
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
Etymology: Etymology tree
English incident
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 incidental
From incident + -al.
Inflected forms:
form: more incidental
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most incidental
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: incidentals
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Loosely associated; of limited relevance except indirectly; only accidentally related.
pos: adj
examples: That character, though colorful, is incidental to the overall plot.
incidental evidence
gloss: Existing tangentially, being a byproduct, a tangent, or a likely consequence.
pos: adj
examples: Injuries are incidental to contact sports: they're going to happen.
gloss: Occurring by chance.
pos: adj
gloss: Entering or approaching, prior to reflection (more frequently incident).
pos: adj
gloss: Minor items, not further defined. Incidental expense.
pos: noun
examples: She's costing us a lot in incidentals.
gloss: Something that is incidental.
pos: noun
Synonyms: contingent
serendipitous
Antonyms: inevitable
necessary
impossible
intentional
Related words: incident
incidence
Derived words: coincidental
incidental expense
incidentally
incidental music
incidentalness
incidentaloma
incidentalome
nonincidental
unincidental
Translations:
circadian
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
natural-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker-der.
Ancient Greek κίρκος (kírkos)bor.
Latin circus
Latin circum
Latin circā
Proto-Indo-European *dyew-
Proto-Indo-European *-s
Proto-Indo-European *dyḗws
Proto-Italic *djous
Latin diēs
Proto-Indo-European *-nós
Proto-Italic *-nos
Latin -nus
Latin -ānus
Old French -ainder.
Middle English -an
English -an
English circadian
From Latin circā (“around”) + diēs (“day”) + English -an. Compare circannual.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of, relating to, or showing rhythmic behaviour with a period of approximately 24 hours; especially of a biological process.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The circadian clock is involved in the regulation of the diurnal sleep-wake cycle, […].
To summarize, the circadian system, particularly the SCN, controls the circadian pattern of melatonin release in mammals.
The most obvious circadian rhythm is the daily cycle of sleep and activity.
Circadian clocks developed early in evolution in single-celled organisms, before the animal and plant kingdom split from one another. The original clocks probably functioned to protect the cells from damage induced by high UV radiation.
In addition, the truck driver’s schedule involved sleeping at irregular times, including times when the body’s circadian rhythms are geared toward being awake. He was also awake at times when his circadian rhythms were geared toward being asleep. The time of the crash, about 1:36 a.m., is when sleepiness tends to be greater and performance capabilities are lower.
Translations:
circulate
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: mathematics
sciences
Etymology: Borrowed from Late Latin circulātus, perfect passive participle of Late Latin circulō (“to make circular, encircle”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), a later collateral form of circulor (“form a circle (of men) around oneself”), from circulus (“a circle”). See also Middle English circulat(e) (“(alchemy) changed by continuous distillation in a closed vessel”).
Affixes: -ate
Inflected forms:
form: circulates
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: circulating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: circulated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: circulated
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: to move in circles or through a circuit
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: to cause (a person or thing) to move in circles or through a circuit
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: to move from person to person, as at a party
pos: verb
examples: In both the 2005 and 2013 papal elections there were whispers circulating that back in 1976 Francis had failed to help the two priests in their hour of need.
gloss: to spread or disseminate
pos: verb
examples: to circulate money or gossip
gloss: to become widely known
pos: verb
gloss: Of decimals: to repeat.
pos: verb
Synonyms: put about
spread
disseminate
Derived words: circulatable
circulation
circulative
circulator
cocirculate
intercirculate
miscirculate
recirculate
Translations:
lang: Finnish
word: kierittää
lang: Finnish
word: pyörittää
lang: Hebrew
word: סובב
roman: sovév
fairway
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: golf
government
hobbies
lifestyle
military
nautical
politics
sports
transport
war
Etymology: From fair + way.
Compound parts: fair
way
Inflected forms:
form: fairways
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The area between the tee and the green, where the grass is cut short.
pos: noun
gloss: Any tract of land free from obstacles.
pos: noun
gloss: A channel either from offshore, in a river, or in a harbor that has enough depth to accommodate the draft of large vessels. (JP 4-01.6)
pos: noun
gloss: A navigable channel in a harbour, offshore etc; the usual course taken by vessels in such places.
pos: noun
examples: By good fortune, paddle as I pleased, the tide was still sweeping me down; and there lay the Hispaniola right in the fairway, hardly to be missed.
Lights of ships moved in the fairway—a great stir of lights going up and going down.
This gives clearance for shipping of 95 ft. between high water and the underneath side of the roadway when raised. A clear fairway of 95 ft. width also is provided.
Related words: draft
watercraft
Derived words: fairway wood
Translations:
sprocket
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: architecture
engineering
mechanical
mechanical-engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: Unknown. First attested in the 16th century. Perhaps related to Italian rocchetto (“spool”), spoletta (“spool”), sprone (“spur”), or English spoke, spike, spur.
Inflected forms:
form: sprockets
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: splocket
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A toothed wheel that enmeshes with a chain or other perforated band.
pos: noun
gloss: The tooth of such a wheel.
pos: noun
tags: plural-normally
gloss: A flared extension at the base of a sloped roof.
pos: noun
gloss: A placeholder name for an unnamed, unspecified, or hypothetical manufactured good or product.
pos: noun
examples: Suppose we have a widget factory that produces 100 widgets per year, and a sprocket factory that produces 200 sprockets per year.
Derived words: intersprocket
sprocketed
sprocketless
sprocket wheel
Translations:
plectrum
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: anatomy
biology
entertainment
lifestyle
medicine
music
natural-sciences
sciences
zoology
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin plēctrum, from Ancient Greek πλῆκτρον (plêktron, “anything to strike with, an instrument for striking the lyre, a spear point”), from πλήσσειν (plḗssein, “to strike, to smite, to sting”). Displaced native Old English sleġel.
Inflected forms:
form: plectrums
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: plectra
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: plectron
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A small piece of plastic, metal, ivory, etc., for plucking the strings of a guitar, lyre, mandolin, etc.
pos: noun
examples: For sounds in winter nights, and often in winter days, I heard the forlorn but melodious note of a hooting owl indefinitely far; such a sound as the frozen earth would yield if struck with a suitable plectrum, the very lingua vernacula of Walden Wood, and quite familiar to me at last, though I never saw the bird while it was making it.
gloss: A projection of bone or other stiff tissue, such as the ridges in some insects' stridulatory organs.
pos: noun
Derived words: plectral
plectric
Translations:
lang: Greek
word: πλήκτρο
roman: plíktro
lang: Turkish
word: plektrum
horrific
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin horrificus, from horreō (“to be afraid”) + -ficō (“to make”).
Inflected forms:
form: more horrific
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most horrific
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: horrifick
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Causing horror; horrifying.
pos: adj
examples: a horrific sight
a horrific injury
Translations:
Percy
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: government
military
politics
war
Etymology: Proper noun senses 1 (surname) and 3 (place names) are derived from Norman Percy (“a baronial surname”), from Percy-en-Auge (“a place in Pays d’Auge, Normandy, France”, literally “Percy in Auge”), from Old French Perci, from Late Latin Persiacum, from Latin Persius (“a Gallo-Roman nomen gentile”), from Etruscan 𐌐𐌄𐌓𐌔𐌖 (persu); further etymology uncertain, possibly from 𐌘𐌄𐌓𐌔𐌖 (φersu, “mask”).
Proper noun sense 2 (given name) is either from the above, or is a clipping of Perc(ival) + -y (suffix forming familiar names).
The common noun is derived from the proper noun. Sense 2 (“penis”) is probably from the fact that Percy and penis begin with the same letter.
Affixes: -y
Inflected forms:
form: Percies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A male person regarded as unmanly or weak; a sissy.
pos: noun
tags: also
attributive
derogatory
slang
examples: The military arm is considerably bothered by the problem of what to do with him [the conscientious objector]. It tacitly invites the rank and file to have a lark with him in barracks, in the hope that if he is bullied and told that he will be shot next morning, and mobbed and pilloried and photographed in The Daily Sketch as Percy (all Percies are now—shade of Hotspur!—supposed to be cowards) he will, perhaps, stop giving trouble.
He never palliated his villainy, never helped old ladies across the street to show that he was a sweet kid au fond or prated about his Oedipus complex like the Percy boys who portray heavies today.
gloss: A male conscientious objector.
pos: noun
tags: also
attributive
derogatory
historical
slang
gloss: An educated soldier; specifically, an officer.
pos: noun
tags: also
attributive
derogatory
slang
examples: ["]I must admit I'm not terribly good at figures." / "Never met an officer as was," said Sam. "Most of the young Percies in our mob had to take their boots off to count up to twenty. But don't worry about that. Aunty'll give you the figures. She's got 'em all in her head, like a bleedin' adding machine. It's her handwriting and spelling that gets everybody down. It's soddin' awful she can't read it herself five minutes after."
gloss: Chiefly in point Percy at the porcelain: the penis.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
UK
humorous
slang
Translations:
linebacker
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: American-football
ball-games
football
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Etymology: Etymology tree
English line
English backer
English linebacker
From line + backer.
Inflected forms:
form: linebackers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The defensive players who are in position behind the defensive linemen and in front of the safeties and cornerbacks and whose principal responsibilities are to tackle runners and to defend against shorter passes.
pos: noun
examples: The linebacker corralled the runner who had slipped through the hole.
While Brown distracted the usually hyperfocused Mangini, safety Kerry Rhodes and linebackers Eric Barton and Jonathan Vilma grabbed a cooler of Gatorade and surreptitiously assumed their positions according to plan.
Houston Texans head coach DeMeco Ryans defended Azeez Al-Shaair after the linebacker was ejected from Sunday’s game for throwing a late hit on Jacksonville Jaguars quarterback Trevor Lawrence.
Translations:
bandit
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
government
hobbies
lifestyle
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
sports
war
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian bandito (“outlawed”), a derivative of Italian bandire (“to ban”), from Late Latin bandīre, an alteration (due to Gothic 𐌱𐌰𐌽𐌳𐍅𐌾𐌰𐌽 (bandwjan, “to signal”)) of Late Latin bannīre (“to ban”), from Frankish *bannan (“to ban”). Doublet of bandito.
Inflected forms:
form: bandits
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: banditti
pos: noun
tags: archaic
plural
form: bandits
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: banditing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: bandited
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: bandited
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: One who robs others in a lawless area, especially as part of a group.
pos: noun
examples: Do you recollect a story my nurse told us of a Sicilian bandit, the terror of the country?—how he saved a young child from a cottage on fire, brought it up delicately, and far removed from his own pursuits; while, at his execution, his chief regret was the future provision for that boy?
gloss: An outlaw.
pos: noun
gloss: One who cheats others.
pos: noun
gloss: An aircraft identified as an enemy, but distinct from "hostile" or "threat" in that it is not immediately to be engaged.
pos: noun
gloss: A runner who covertly joins a race without having registered as a participant.
pos: noun
tags: slang
gloss: Synonym of arse bandit.
pos: noun
tags: UK
dated
derogatory
slang
gloss: To rob, or steal from, in the manner of a bandit.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
examples: First, she read the bandit news in the paper, and was rather disappointed to learn that her man had evidently taken a night off from banditing. An imitator of the bandit had made an unsuccessful attempt to hold up a drug-store, and had backed out and run when the nervy proprietor reached for a gun; but that was all.
As the sanctuary was bandited at least once, it may be that the silver wine cups I have are from the treasure.
Synonyms: bandit
bandito
brigand
latron
rapparee
Related words: pirate
Derived words: arse bandit
ass bandit
back-door bandit
bail bandit
banditism
banditry
Beltway bandit
blue light bandit
booty bandit
botty bandit
communist bandit
dumpster bandit
garbage bandit
gas meter bandit
make out like a bandit
multi-armed bandit
one-arm bandit
one-armed bandit
pussy bandit
shag-bandit
shag bandit
squeegee bandit
time bandit
trash bandit
Translations:
redound
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Anglo-Norman redunder, Middle French redonder, and their source, Latin redundō, from red- + undō (“surge”), from unda (“a wave”).
Inflected forms:
form: redounds
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: redounding
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: redounded
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: redounded
pos: verb
tags: past
form: redounds
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To swell up (of water, waves etc.); to overflow, to surge (of bodily fluids).
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
obsolete
examples: For every dram of hony therein found / A pound of gall doth over it redound […].
gloss: To contribute to an advantage or disadvantage for someone or something.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: The honour done to our religion ultimately redounds to God, the author of it.
The fact that in one case the advance redounds to private advantage and in the other, theoretically, to the public good, does not alter the core assumptions common to both.
He [Sam Altman] came with a message that was both chilling and inspiring: without proper controls, advanced artificial intelligence might spell doom—but if you trust OpenAI to build it first, the technology will redound to the good of humanity.
gloss: To contribute to the honour, shame etc. of a person or organisation.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: I did not omit even our Sports and Paſtimes, or any other Particular which I thought might redound to the Honour of my Country.
One thing about the ‘John McCain-didn’t-sleep-with-a-lobbyist’ story redounds to the New York Times’ credit.
Runciman viewed many of the Crusades’ protagonists with sympathy, but he thought that the movement as a whole was destructive and did not redound to the honour of the faith.
gloss: To reverberate, to echo.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To reflect (honour, shame etc.) to or onto someone.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To attach, come back, accrue to someone; to reflect back on or upon someone (of honour, shame etc.).
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: His infamous behaviour only redounded back upon him when he was caught.
[…] that is, they concede the accuracy of certain classic attacks on communism, but in ways that redound on their opponents.
gloss: To arise from or out of something.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To roll back; to be sent or driven back.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
usually
examples: The evil, soon driven back, redounded as a flood on those from whom it sprung.
gloss: A coming back, as an effect or consequence; a return.
pos: noun
Related words: redundance
redundancy
redundant
Translations:
evils
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of evil eye (“dirty look”).
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: Don't go giving me evils!
gloss: Synonym of evil eye (“cursed gaze”).
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: I saw her trying to give me evils!
Translations:
intentions
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Desire to court, marry, date, woo or sleep with someone.
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
euphemistic
figuratively
examples: He has intentions on your daughter.
Translations:
biped
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin bipēs, bipedis. Alternatively analyzable as bi- + -ped.
Base: bi
Inflected forms:
form: bipeds
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An animal, being, or construction that goes about on two feet (or two legs).
pos: noun
examples: This knave, […] shoes horses better than e'er a man betwixt us and Iceland; and so he gives up his practice on the bipeds, the two-legged and unfledged species, called mankind, and betakes him entirely to shoeing of horses.
He was badgered in that witness-box for an hour. By a distracting repetition of cross-examination he was forced to confess that he had seen and spoken to a human biped in broad daylight, yet could not recollect one singularity to distinguish this phantom from the flat mass of humanity.
Luján, or, rather, the biped which used to be Luján, walks right up to him. He is a little shorter than Wheeler, but much heavier-set. Rooted to the spot, not thinking clearly, Wheeler holds his violin up, as if this will shield him. The conductor takes the instrument from his unresisting hands and breaks its neck underfoot, perfunctorily, as if crushing a box for recycling.
Translations:
remorseless
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English remorse
Proto-Indo-European *lewh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *lewHs-der.
Proto-Germanic *leusaną
Proto-Germanic *lausaz
Proto-Germanic *-lausaz
Proto-West Germanic *-laus
Old English -lēas
Middle English -les
English -less
English remorseless
From remorse + -less.
Inflected forms:
form: more remorseless
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most remorseless
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Without remorse, mercy or pity.
pos: adj
gloss: Unyielding or relentless.
pos: adj
examples: She was, in fact, constitutionally impervious to statistics and preferred to study the be-headphoned group of fifteen or so lethargic wanderers who were taking even less notice of the remorseless squawkings than she was.
Derived words: remorselessly
remorselessness
unremorseless
Translations:
considered
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more considered
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most considered
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Having been carefully thought out; maturely reflected upon.
pos: adj
examples: It is my considered opinion that the accused is innocent.
Translations:
exalted
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more exalted
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most exalted
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Praised, honored.
pos: adj
examples: exalted position
exalted rank
exalted status
He spoke of the president in the most exalted terms.
gloss: Noble, sublime; heavenly.
pos: adj
gloss: Elated; blissful.
pos: adj
examples: She felt an exalted joy after the victory.
Derived words: exaltedly
exaltedness
unexalted
Translations:
exalting
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more exalting
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most exalting
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: that uplifts, that exalts.
pos: adj
examples: The best proof of their exalting presence among us is, that we believe and hope, where our grandfathers ridiculed and doubted.
Translations:
boiled
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more boiled
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most boiled
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Cooked in boiling water.
pos: adj
gloss: Having reached the boiling point.
pos: adj
gloss: Angry.
pos: adj
tags: colloquial
gloss: Drunk.
pos: adj
tags: colloquial
examples: I got a closing at four o'clock in the Chrysler building and I'm boiled as an owl.
gloss: very hot
pos: adj
Derived words: boiled custard
boiled egg
boiled frog
boiled rag
half-boiled
hard boiled
hot boiled beans
nonboiled
preboiled
semiboiled
soft boiled
unboiled
Translations:
anaphora
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: Christianity
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₂en-
Proto-Hellenic *aná
Ancient Greek ᾰ̓νᾰ́ (ănắ)
Ancient Greek ἀνα- (ana-)
Proto-Indo-European *bʰer-
Proto-Indo-European *bʰéreti
Proto-Hellenic *pʰérō
Ancient Greek φέρω (phérō)
Ancient Greek ᾰ̓νᾰφέρω (ănăphérō)
Ancient Greek -ᾱ (-ā)
Ancient Greek -η (-ē)
Ancient Greek ᾰ̓νᾰφορᾱ́ (ănăphorā́)bor.
English anaphora
From Ancient Greek ἀναφορά (anaphorá, “a carrying back”), from ἀνά (aná, “up”) + φέρω (phérō, “I carry”).
Inflected forms:
form: anaphoras
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: anaphora
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: anaphoras
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: anaphors
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: anaphors
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The repetition of a phrase at the beginning of phrases, sentences, or verses, used for emphasis.
pos: noun
tags: countable
rhetoric
uncountable
examples: Anaphora elegantly begins
With the same word or phrase successive lines.
gloss: An expression that refers to a preceding expression.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The most solemn part of the Divine Liturgy or the Mass during which the offerings of bread and wine are consecrated as body and blood of Christ.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Related words: antecedent
deixis
indexical
Derived words: anaphoric
donkey anaphora
null anaphora
Translations:
backs
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The backyard of the University.
pos: noun
tags: with-definite-article
Translations:
scree
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Probably a back-formation from screes, from Old Norse skriða (“landslide, landslip”); compare skríða (“to glide”) (from Proto-Germanic *skrīþaną (“to crawl; to glide; to walk”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kreyt-, *(s)ker- (“to bend, turn”)). The word is cognate with Icelandic skriða (“avalanche; landslide, landslip; steep mountain- or hillside made up of gravel and loose rocks”).
Inflected forms:
form: screes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: screes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: screeing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: screed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: screed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Loose stony debris on a slope.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: To the north the towering scree-strewn slopes of Saddleback begin to draw nearer as we start the abrupt descent towards Keswick.
Struggling down the slope,
There's not much hope.
I begin to try to ride the scree
But the rocks are tumbling all around me.
Sprawled prone among the rocks, the team waited for a reply to their request to fire. […] Occasional rounds zinged off the scree, each with a different pitch.
gloss: Similar debris made up of broken building material such as bricks, concrete, etc.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
uncountable
examples: Acres of the industrial port had been reduced to desolation, half-walls, half-chimneys, crazy sticks of steel that looped up out of concrete scree. The temptation not to clear and rebuild must have been strong.
gloss: A slope made up of scree at the base of a cliff, mountain, etc.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: The next landmark was an apachita 'cairn', at the top of a steep scree. Each pilgrim carried a stone to the summit, spat on it, and threw it on to the cairn — the purpose being, I was told, to relieve the soul of its sins […]
Also, special to Crete, and probably derived from some aspect of its climactic history, is cementation. Many screes are converted, in whole or in part, into concrete-like breccias. Carapaces of cemented scree encrust steep slopes. Cliffs of conglomerate or marl are covered with a layer of re-deposited limestone and look like hard rock. However, the loose contents are apt to trickle out through a breach in the crust, resulting in the jagged and hollow cliffs which are a picturesque feature of Crete
gloss: To traverse scree downhill.
pos: verb
examples: We decided it would be fun to go down the face of the mountain screeing ("skiing" on scree).
Related words: colluvium
talus
Derived words: scree plot
Translations:
backing
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: broadcasting
entertainment
film
lifestyle
media
music
television
Etymology: Etymology tree
English back
English -ing
English backing
From back + -ing.
Inflected forms:
form: backings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Support, especially financial.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: It's a volunteer organization that works with backing from the city and a few grants.
gloss: A liner or other material added behind or underneath.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The cardboard backing gives the notebook a little extra stiffness.
An old print was discovered some time ago in an arch at Waterloo Dock Goods Station[,] Liverpool, in use as a backing on which to write time sheets.
In general, the locomotives are painted dark green; the numberplates are brass, with a red backing, and are usually carried on the tank side.
gloss: A backdrop.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The simplest and cheapest answer is to introduce a scenic backing of some kind, a backdrop, a drape, some flats to restrict the shot and obscure whatever is outside.
gloss: Musicians and vocalists who support the main performer.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The mounting of a horse or other animal.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The action of putting something back; a switching into reverse.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Providing support for the main performer.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Derived words: linebacking
sealant backing
Translations:
scratched
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more scratched
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most scratched
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Produced by scratching.
pos: adj
examples: My Lord, my thanks; but theſe ſcratcht limbs of mine have ſpoke my love and truth unto my friends, more than my tongue ere could: my mind's the ſame it ever was to you; where I find worth, I love the keeper, till he let it go, And then I follow it.
Translations:
scission
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Via Middle English and Old French, from Late Latin scissio, scissionem, from Latin scindere.
Inflected forms:
form: scissions
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of division, separation, cutting, cleaving, or severing; cleavage.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The resulting delamination of the two lipid monolayers causes a “lens” to form, the further growth of which creates a spherical droplet that is then released by scission at the neck.
Translations:
casting
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: computing
engineering
falconry
hobbies
hunting
lifestyle
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
Etymology: From Middle English castyng, castinge, equivalent to cast + -ing.
Base: cast
Affixes: -ing
Inflected forms:
form: castings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act or process of selecting actors, singers, dancers, models, etc.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A manufacturing process using a mold.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: An object made in a mold.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: The practice of casting steel seems the most difficult of all the foundry arts, for despite every care, a percentage of the work is liable to be faulty and disappointing, but at Crewe, generally, a very good class of casting was turned out.
gloss: The regurgitation of fur, feathers, and other undigestible material by hawks, to clean and empty their crops.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: “What, ho! sir knave,” exclaimed Roland, “is it thus you feed the eyasse with unwashed meat, as if you were gorging the foul brancher of a worthless hoodie-crow, by the mass? and thou hast neglected its castings also for these two days.[…]”
gloss: The excreta of an earthworm or similar creature.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The act of converting between data types.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Of hounds, the act of spreading out and searching for a scent.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: "The dogs were no sooner let loose, than the hare was afoot. This time there was no stopping or casting, but the hounds were soon in full cry, and after half-an-hour's run, the hare came dancing down the moor towards me."
Derived words: baitcasting
casting agent
casting call
casting-couch
casting couch
casting-net
casting net
casting vote
casting weight
central casting
diecasting
die-casting
die casting
gigacasting
investment casting
leafcasting
leaf-casting
leaf casting
lifecasting
linecasting
lost-wax casting
megacasting
out of central casting
ray casting
rheocasting
robocasting
runecasting
shadowcasting
shame-casting
slipcasting
spellcasting
stunt casting
surf casting
surf-casting
Translations:
bonding
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
networking
physical-sciences
sciences
Inflected forms:
form: bondings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act by which something is bonded or joined together.
pos: noun
examples: A systems view of reality allows one to see that it is made of successive layers of bonded elements, each layer with properties emergent from the previous one: atoms are particular bondings of more elementary particles[…]
gloss: A relationship between a parent and offspring that establishes the basis for an ongoing mutual attachment.
pos: noun
gloss: A close friendship that develops between people, often as a result of intense experiences, as those shared in military combat.
pos: noun
examples: a work bonding session
sibling bonding
gloss: A method of aggregating multiple network interfaces on a computer into a single logical interface
pos: noun
gloss: An arrangement by which goods remain in the customs warehouses until the duties are paid.
pos: noun
Derived words: antibonding
bonding jumper
bonding orbital
bonding protocol
cross-bonding
hydrogen-bonding
nonbonding
pair bonding
prebonding
Translations:
defended
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: law
Etymology: Etymology tree
English defend
English -ed
English defended
From defend + -ed.
Inflected forms:
form: more defended
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most defended
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Having defenses.
pos: adj
examples: For example, in the boreal forest where browsing by hares in winter is an important source of mortality, the juvenile-phase is more defended chemically against browsing by hares in winter than is the conspecific mature-phase (Table 2).
This result corroborates the Hypothesis 2 that the less defended fast-growing species can be replaced over time by more defended slower-growing species.
Understandably, the more extreme the condition, the more defended the family and professionals can be.
gloss: In which the defendant responds to the allegations made against them, typically by filing a defense or counterclaim in court.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: If this simpler procedure were adopted in a defended case the cost would be about 29l. if counsel were employed, and about 27l. if no counsel or solicitor were employed.
But only in less than 5% there was a court order in a defended case (Müller-Alten, 1984).
The Court of Appeal used the case to make a strong call for the removal of fault-based grounds, arguably at the expense of deciding in Mrs Owens' favour, and openly acknowledged that a lower threshold for behaviour is used in undefended cases scrutinised by a legal adviser at a divorce centre rather than a judge in a court in a defended case.
Derived words: overdefended
undefended
Translations: