yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
antagonist
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: anatomy
authorship
biochemistry
biology
broadcasting
chemistry
communications
film
journalism
literature
media
medicine
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
publishing
sciences
television
writing
Etymology: From Latin antagonista, from Ancient Greek ἀνταγωνιστής (antagōnistḗs, “opponent”) (ἀντί (antí, “against”) + ἀγωνιστής (agōnistḗs, “a combatant, pleader, actor”)), from ἀνταγωνίζομαι (antagōnízomai, “to antagonize”).
Inflected forms:
form: antagonists
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An opponent or enemy.
pos: noun
examples: our antagonists in these controversies
Antagonist of Heav’ns Almightie King
[H]is eyes vacant—his face haggard—his head drooping, the spectacle of such an antagonist to the vigorous Edward, moved only pity in the few, and ridicule in the many.
gloss: One who antagonizes or stirs.
pos: noun
gloss: A chemical that binds to a receptor but does not produce a physiological response, blocking the action of other agonist chemicals, such as endogenous chemical messengers.
pos: noun
examples: 2001: The calcium antagonists represent one of the top ten classes of prescription drugs in terms of commercial value, with worldwide sales of nearly $10 billion in 1999. — Leslie Iversen, Drugs: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford 2001, p. 41)
gloss: The main character or force opposing the protagonist in a literary work or drama.
pos: noun
examples: So God forbid I'm seen just as an average human being / I mean, imagine if antagonists lacked any evil scheme
gloss: A muscle that acts in opposition to another.
pos: noun
examples: A flexor, which bends a part, is the antagonist of an extensor, which extends it.
Antonyms: protagonist
agonist
Related words: agonistes
antagonise
antagonism
antagonize
Derived words: antagonistic
archantagonist
calcantagonist
-fiban
-kinra
-lukast
radioantagonist
receptor antagonist
sartan
-setron
-tant
Translations:
pare
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English paren, from Old French parer (“to arrange, prepare, trim”), from Latin parō (“to prepare, arrange; to provide, furnish; to resolve, purpose”) (related to pariō (“to bear, to give birth to; to spawn, produce, beget; to procure, acquire”)), from a Proto-Indo-European *per- (“to bring forward, bring forth”).
Inflected forms:
form: pares
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: paring
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: pared
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: pared
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To remove the outer covering or skin of something with a cutting device, typically a knife.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Victor pared some apples in preparation to make a tart.
gloss: To reduce, diminish or trim gradually something as if by cutting off.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Albert had to pare his options down by disregarding anything beyond his meager budget.
Also referring to the deeds of certain Border Ruffians, he said, rapidly paring away his speech, like an experienced soldier, keeping a reserve of force and meaning, “They had a perfect right to be hung.”
From May 29 another 10 min. are being pared from the southbound journey, and the time over the 504.4 miles from Paris to Hendaye will come down to 6 hr. 58 min., an average of 72.4 m.p.h. with two intermediate stops.
gloss: To trim the hoof of a horse.
pos: verb
gloss: To sharpen a pencil.
pos: verb
tags: Ireland
slang
Derived words: cheesepare
cheeseparing
pare away
pare down
pare off
parer
pare to the bone
paring
paring knife
unpared
Translations:
sunroof
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: automotive
transport
vehicles
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *sóh₂wl̥der.
Proto-Germanic *sunnô
Proto-Germanic *sunnǭ
Proto-West Germanic *sunnā
Old English sunne
Middle English sonne
English sun
English roof
English sunroof
From sun + roof.
Inflected forms:
form: sunroofs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A fixed or operable opening in a vehicle roof (car or truck) which allows fresh air and/or light to enter the passenger compartment. A sunroof may include a transparent or opaque panel and may be manually operated or power driven.
pos: noun
Translations:
EEPROM
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
Inflected forms:
form: EEPROMs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Electrically erasable programmable read-only memory.
pos: noun
Translations:
UV-EPROM
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: ultraviolet-erasable programmable read-only memory
pos: noun
Translations:
apricot
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Alteration of apricock (with influence from French abricot), itself an alteration of abrecock (with influence from Latin apricum (“sunny place”)), from dialectal Catalan abrecoc, abricoc, variants of standard albercoc, from Arabic الْبَرْقُوق (al-barqūq, “plums”), from Byzantine Greek βερικοκκία (berikokkía, “apricot tree”), from Ancient Greek πραικόκιον (praikókion), from Late Latin (persica) praecocia (literally “(peaches) which ripen early”), (mālum) praecoquum (literally “(apple) which ripens early”). Doublet of precocious.
Inflected forms:
form: apricots
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: apricock
pos: noun
tags: alternative
archaic
form: abricock
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: more apricot
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most apricot
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: apricock
pos: adj
tags: alternative
archaic
form: abricock
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: A round sweet and juicy stone fruit, resembling peach or plum in taste, with a yellow-orange flesh, lightly fuzzy skin and a large seed inside.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: pickled apricots
gloss: The apricot tree, Prunus armeniaca.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A pale yellow-orange colour, like that of an apricot fruit.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A dog with an orange-coloured coat.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The junction of the brain and brain stem on a target, used as an aiming point to ensure a one-shot kill.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Seven hundred and seventy-eight yards, though I didn't know the exact measurement at the time, plus the fact that the bullet ripped through the victim's apricot tipped me to the fact that we were probably dealing with an experienced sniper.
I'd aim right for the apricot. The medulla. You'd die instantly.
“See the nose?” Slater asked. He’d drawn a face on the watermelon with a Sharpie. “Aim right below it, at the philtrum. That way, the bullet's gonna go straight through and hit the apricot. Carmen told you about the apricot?”
In my first lesson. The apricot was the sniper's nickname for the medulla oblongata, the cone-shaped mass of neurons that connected the brain to the spinal cord.
gloss: A testicle.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
UK
countable
dated
plural-normally
slang
uncountable
examples: Hot water has always made my apricots sag.
Maybe before I die they'll have some sort of mechanical cock and balls because all of the steroids that I used, ^([sic]) put my apricots and kielbasa out of commission.
gloss: Of a pale yellowish-orange colour, like that of an apricot.
pos: adj
Related words: precocious
Derived words: apricotini
apricotlike
apricot tree
apricotty
apricoty
aprium
desert apricot
Irish apricot
Japanese apricot
Manchurian apricot
plucot
plumcot
pluot
sea apricot
Translations:
souvenir
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from French souvenir (literally “memory”). Compare memento.
Inflected forms:
form: souvenirs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: souvenier
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: souvenirs
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: souveniring
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: souvenired
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: souvenired
pos: verb
tags: past
form: souvenier
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: An item of sentimental value, that is given or kept to remember an event or location.
pos: noun
examples: Back then, nobody knew in the schoolyard / Now then, you have grown up to be this hard / Go then, walk through this world with your heart scarred / You're the souvenir of sadness
The tourists stuck to the safe confines of the gift shop, where they bought souvenir combs, shot glasses, oversize pencils, and blocks of cedar painted with rhyming poems and shellacked to a high gloss.
gloss: To take (something) as a souvenir, especially illicitly, for example during wartime.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: "Doubletime up to the ville and souvenir me one cute orphan, man, but be sure you get a dirty one, a really skuzzy one."
The word is they're waiting for some blokes who had gone off souveniring before the order was announced.
Translations:
seine
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Old English seġne, from Proto-West Germanic *sagīna, from Latin sagēna, from Ancient Greek σαγήνη (sagḗnē, “dragnet”), of unknown origin.
Inflected forms:
form: seines
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: sean
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: sein
pos: noun
tags: alternative
archaic
form: seines
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: seining
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: seined
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: seined
pos: verb
tags: past
form: sean
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: sein
pos: verb
tags: alternative
archaic
Senses:
gloss: A long net having floats attached at the top and sinkers (weights) at the bottom, used in shallow water for catching fish.
pos: noun
examples: We all went on Monday Evening to the sea shore, to see the scene Drawn: this is a most curious Work: and all done by Women.
We learn from the Halifax papers that the catch of mackarel at St. Margaret's Bay, is enormous, varying from 120 to 300 barrels at a haul of the seines and nets, bidding fair to exceed all former years.
They were too busy hauling at ropes, collectively drawing a large seine across the bay before them – and singing their hearts out.
gloss: To use a seine, to fish with a seine.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
examples: This was especially the case with seining for pilchards.
Translations:
cosy
Part of speech: adj
noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Scots cosie, from Old Scots colsie, but ultimate derivation is unknown. Possibly of North Germanic origin, such as Norwegian kose seg (“to have a cozy time”), from Old Norse kose sig, from koselig, koslig, perhaps ultimately from Old High German kōsa; see modern German kosen (“to cuddle”).
Inflected forms:
form: cosier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: cosiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: cozy
pos: adj
tags: alternative
US
form: cosie
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Scotland
form: cosey
pos: adj
tags: alternative
archaic
form: cozey
pos: adj
tags: alternative
archaic
form: cozie
pos: adj
tags: alternative
archaic
form: cosies
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: cozy
pos: noun
tags: alternative
US
form: cosie
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Scotland
form: cosey
pos: noun
tags: alternative
archaic
form: cozey
pos: noun
tags: alternative
archaic
form: cozie
pos: noun
tags: alternative
archaic
form: cosies
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: cosying
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: cosied
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: cosied
pos: verb
tags: past
form: cozy
pos: verb
tags: alternative
US
form: cosie
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Scotland
form: cosey
pos: verb
tags: alternative
archaic
form: cozey
pos: verb
tags: alternative
archaic
form: cozie
pos: verb
tags: alternative
archaic
Senses:
gloss: Affording comfort and warmth; snug; social and comfortable.
pos: adj
tags: UK
examples: Mr. Pickwick expressed the pleasure it would afford him to meet the medical fellows; and Mr. Bob Sawyer had informed him that he meant to be very cosey, and that his friend Ben was to be one of the party, they shook hands and separated
One of us must marry well; Meg didn't, Jo won't, Beth can't, yet,—so I shall, and make everything cosy all round.
gloss: Warm and comfortable.
pos: adj
tags: UK
examples: I feel very cosy here in my bed.
gloss: A padded or knit covering put on an item to keep it warm, especially a teapot or egg.
pos: noun
tags: UK
gloss: A padded or knit covering for any item (often an electronic device such as a laptop computer).
pos: noun
tags: UK
gloss: A work of crime fiction in which sex and violence are downplayed or treated humorously, and the crime and detection take place in a small, socially intimate community.
pos: noun
tags: UK
gloss: To become snug and comfortable.
pos: verb
tags: UK
gloss: To become friendly with.
pos: verb
tags: UK
examples: He spent all day cosying up to the new boss, hoping for a plum assignment.
Related words: cosy along
cosy up
cosy up to
cozen
Derived words: cosified
cosily
cosiness
cosy catastrophe
cosy up
cozy up
uncosy
cushion-cosy
cushion cosy
egg cosy
egg cozy
loo-roll cosy
loo roll cosy
tea cosy
tea cozy
toilet roll cosy
toilet-roll cosy
Translations:
cartouche
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: Egyptology
architecture
cartography
cooking
engineering
firearms
food
geography
government
history
human-sciences
lifestyle
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
sciences
tools
war
weaponry
Etymology: Borrowed from French cartouche, from Italian cartuccia, from carta, from Latin charta, from Ancient Greek χάρτης (khártēs). Doublet of cartridge.
Inflected forms:
form: cartouches
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An ornamental figure, often on an oval shield.
pos: noun
gloss: An oval figure containing the characters of an important personal name, such as that of royal or divine people.
pos: noun
examples: Besides the uncial writing on the convex side of the sherd at the top, painted in dull red, on what had once been the lip of the amphora, was the cartouche already mentioned as being on the scarabaeus, which we had also found in the casket.
In 1762, Jean-Jacques Barthélemy, a French priest who was a scholar of Eastern languages, had made the inspired guess that the cartouches set off words of great importance, such as the names of gods or rulers.
gloss: A decorative emblem on a globe or map.
pos: noun
gloss: A paper cartridge.
pos: noun
gloss: A wooden case filled with balls, to be shot from a cannon.
pos: noun
gloss: A gunner's bag for ammunition.
pos: noun
gloss: A military pass for a soldier on furlough.
pos: noun
gloss: A parchment disc placed on top of food to limit evaporation, or to prevent a skin forming on soups and stews.
pos: noun
Related words: escutcheon
serekh
Translations:
lang: Arabic
word: خَرْطُوش
roman: ḵarṭūš
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 卡圖什 /卡图什
roman: kǎtúshí
lang: Czech
word: kartuše
lang: Czech
word: kartuš
lang: Danish
word: kartouche
lang: Egyptian
word: Sn-n:nw*W-V9
roman: šnw
lang: Faroese
word: skreytramma
lang: Finnish
word: kartussi
lang: French
word: cartouche
lang: German
word: Kartusche
lang: Hungarian
word: kartus
lang: Japanese
word: カルトゥーシュ
roman: karutūshu
lang: Polish
word: kartusz
lang: Russian
word: карту́ш
roman: kartúš
lang: Slovak
word: kartuša
lang: Spanish
word: cartucho
lang: Swedish
word: kartusch
lang: Swedish
word: kartouche
lang: Turkish
word: kartuş
formaldehyde
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English form(yl)
Akkadian 𒎎𒋆𒁉𒍣𒁕 (guḫlum)bor.
Aramaic כוחלא (kuḥlā)bor.
Arabic كُحْل (kuḥl)
Andalusian Arabic اَلْكُحُول (al-kuḥūl)bor.
Latin alcoholder.
Proto-Indo-European *de
Proto-Indo-European *-h₁
Proto-Indo-European *déh₁
Proto-Italic *dē
Latin dē
Latin de-der.
Proto-Indo-European *wed-
Proto-Indo-European *-r̥
Proto-Indo-European *wódr̥
Proto-Hellenic *údōr
Ancient Greek ῡ̆̔́δωρ (hū̆́dōr)
Ancient Greek ῠ̔δρο- (hŭdro-)der.
German Aldehydbor.
English aldehyde
English formaldehyde
From form(yl) + aldehyde.
Inflected forms:
form: formaldehydes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The simplest aldehyde, HCHO, a colourless gas that has many industrial applications; it dissolves in water to give formol (10%) and formalin.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The shark chosen to replace the original was injected with 224 gallons of formaldehyde, ten times the amount used on the first shark and in a stronger concentration.
Back in 2006, Hirst found himself at the centre of a different debate arising out of the need to refurbish or update formaldehyde pieces that are prone to decay. It related to the piece that made him famous: the formaldehyde shark The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living (1991), which had been bought by the US hedge fund billionaire Steve Cohen for $8m.
Translations:
pumice
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Anglo-Norman and Old French pomis (“pumice stone”), from Latin pūmex (“pumice stone”). Doublet of pounce.
Inflected forms:
form: pumices
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: pumices
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: pumicing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: pumiced
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: pumiced
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A light, porous type of pyroclastic igneous rock, formed during explosive volcanic eruptions when liquid lava is ejected into water or air as a froth containing masses of gas bubbles, which are frozen into the rock as the lava solidifies.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The wind blew close to the ground - it rooted among the tussock grass - slithered along the road, so that the white pumice dust swirled in our faces - settled and sifted over us and was like a dry-skin itching for growth on our bodies.
gloss: To abrade or roughen with pumice.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Related words: pumiceous
Translations:
mope
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Late Middle English (as a noun meaning "simpleton, fool"), probably related to mop (“young of an animal, moppet”).
Alternatively, of North Germanic origin, related to Swedish mopa (“to sulk”), Danish måbe, themselves borrowed from Low German mopen (“to make faces, gape”), of uncertain ultimate origin, but compare Proto-West Germanic *mauwu (“protruding lip, pout”). Compare also German muffen, French moue.
Inflected forms:
form: mopes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: moping
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: moped
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: moped
pos: verb
tags: past
form: mopes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To carry oneself in a depressed, lackadaisical manner; to give oneself up to low spirits; to pout, sulk.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To make spiritless and stupid.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: The act of moping
pos: noun
examples: When she gets upset, she has a little mope, and then gets over it.
gloss: A dull, spiritless person.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
examples: putting gulleries on some or other till they have made by their humouring or gulling ex stulto insanum, a mope or a noddy
gloss: A bottom feeder who "mopes" around a pornography studio hoping for his big break and often does bit parts in exchange for room and board and meager pay.
pos: noun
examples: 2011: LA Weekly, documenting uses dating to the 1990s
The porn industry is many things. Subtle is not one of them. So when Porn Inc. went searching for a job title for people like Stephen Hill, the choice was "mope." It's based on the off-camera life of these fringe actors, hangers-on who mope around the studios hoping for a bit role, which if they're lucky might bring them $50 plus food — and the chance to have sex with a real, live woman.https://web.archive.org/web/20110310155324/http://www.laweekly.com/2011-02-24/news/porn-machete-murder/
Related words: mope-eyed
Derived words: mope about
mope around
mopeful
moper
mopery
mopey
mopingly
mopish
Translations:
pestilence
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English, from Old French, from Latin pestilentia (“plague”), from pestilens (“infected, unwholesome, noxious”); equivalent to pestilent + -ence.
Base: pestilent
Affixes: -ence
Inflected forms:
form: pestilences
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any epidemic disease that is highly contagious, infectious, virulent and devastating.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: 1485, Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur, Book XVII, Chapter iii, leaf 347r
and hit was in the realme of Logrys and soo bifelle grete pestylence & grete harme to both Realmes
"And it was in the realm of Logris; and so befell great pestilence and great harm to both realms."
Thou shalt not be afraid for the terror by night; nor for the arrow that flieth by day;
Nor for the pestilence that walketh in darkness; nor for the destruction that wasteth at noonday.
"Take it, Christian dogsǃ take the palaces, the gardens, the mosques, the abode of our fathers - take plague with them; pestilence is the enemy we fly; if she be your friend, hug her to your bosoms. The curse of Allah is on Stamboul, share ye her fateǃ"
It was reserved for Christians to torture bread, the staff of life, bread for which children in whole districts wail, bread, the gift of pasture to the poor, bread, for want of which thousands of our fellow beings annually perish by famine; it was reserved for Christians to torture the material of bread by fire, to create a chemical and maddening poison, burning up the brain and brutalizing the soul, and producing evils to humanity, in comparison of which, war, pestilence, and famine, cease to be evils.
The pestilence slew and slew, and ceased not by day or by night, and those who escaped from the pestilence were slain of the famine.
The snowshoe-rabbits build up through the years until they reach a climax when they seem to be everywhere; then with dramatic suddenness their pestilence falls upon them.
gloss: Anything harmful to morals or public order.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
countable
uncountable
Related words: pest
pesticide
pestilent
virulence
Translations:
mange
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
medicine
natural-sciences
pathology
sciences
veterinary
zoology
Etymology: From Middle English manjewe, manjeue, from Old French manjue, derived from mangier (“to eat”) (modern French manger (“to eat”)), from Latin manducare.
Inflected forms:
form: manges
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A skin disease of nonhuman mammals caused by parasitic mites (Sarcoptes spp., Demodecidae spp.).
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: Not yet come! [the] worrying of wolves, biting of mad dogs, the manges, and the—
Translations:
myxomatosis
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English myxoma
Proto-Indo-European *-tis
Ancient Greek -τις (-tis)
Ancient Greek -σῐς (-sĭs)
Ancient Greek -ωσις (-ōsis)bor.
New Latin -ōsislbor.
English -osis
English myxomatosis
From myxoma + -osis.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A usually fatal viral disease of rabbits, causing skin tumors.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: In addition to new diseases, Quammen touches on many of the examples often included in standard disease ecology or epidemiology courses—for example, myxomatosis in nonnative rabbits of Australia, and mutation rates in RNA versus DNA viruses.
“A lot of factors have contributed to the rabbit population explosion: there was the pandemic, when no one could hunt for two years; they’ve become immune to myxomatosis; and the female can produce seven or eight offspring every two months,” Foix says.
gloss: A condition characterized by the growth of many myxomata (tumors of primitive connective tissue).
pos: noun
tags: broadly
uncountable
Synonyms: myxo
mixi
myxy
Derived words: myxomatotic
Translations:
erudite
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Latin ērudītus, participle of ērudiō (“educate, train”), from e- (“out of”) + rudis (“rude, unskilled”). Doublet of erudit.
Inflected forms:
form: more erudite
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most erudite
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: erudites
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Learned, scholarly, with emphasis on knowledge gained from books.
pos: adj
examples: The professor gave an erudite lecture that impressed everyone in the audience.
His erudite knowledge of ancient history made him a sought-after speaker.
She was praised for her erudite contributions to the academic journal.
At all events, if it involved any secret information in regard to old Roger Chillingworth, it was in a tongue unknown to the erudite clergyman, and did but increase the bewilderment of his mind.
Elmer Moffatt had been magnificent, rolling out his alternating effects of humour and pathos, stirring his audience by moving references to the Blue and the Gray, convulsing them by a new version of Washington and the Cherry Tree […], dazzling them by his erudite allusions and apt quotations.
THE CONCISE ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF WORLD RAILWAY LOCOMOTIVES. Edited by P. Ransome-Wallis. Hutchinson. 50s. [...] The most erudite locomotive engineer could not fail to excavate new knowledge from this remarkably comprehensive volume, [...]
Perhaps his erudite mind does not quite yet grasp how to transform his beloved scholarly explorations into effective papal politics.
Cruz was obviously analogizing Bernie Sanders to the Bolsheviks and Hillary Clinton to the Mensheviks. The oleaginous Texan is an erudite slyboots, but his history is off-kilter.
gloss: a learned or scholarly person
pos: noun
Translations:
mote
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English mot, from Old English mot (“grain of sand; mote; atom”), from Proto-West Germanic *mot (“grain of dirt or sand, speck”). Perhaps linked to English mud.
Compare West Frisian mot (“peat dust”), Dutch mot (“dust from turf; sawdust; grit”), Low German mut (“peat dust, grit”), Norwegian mutt (“speck; mote; splinter; chip”), Italian mota (“mud”), Spanish mota (“speck”).
Inflected forms:
form: motes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A small particle; a speck.
pos: noun
examples: Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother’s eye.
What shall a Mote up to a Monarch rise?
An Emmet match an Emperor in might?
I wanted to shrink myself to a mote of dust, plunge into this pool I held in my own cyclopean hands, soar down these runs of light to places where light itself was born from this colloquy of dust.
Translations:
moat
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: business
climatology
meteorology
natural-sciences
Etymology: From Middle English mote, from Old French mote (“mound, embankment”); compared also to Old French motte (“hillock, lump, clod, turf”), from Medieval Latin mota (“a mound, hill”), of Germanic origin, perhaps via Frankish *mot, *motta (“mud, peat, bog, turf”), from Proto-Germanic *mutô, *mudraz, *muþraz (“dirt, filth, mud, swamp”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)mut- (“dark, dirty”).
Cognate with Alemannic German Mott, Mutte (“peat, turf”), Bavarian Mott (“peat, turf”), dialectal Dutch mot (“dust, fine sand”), Saterland Frisian mut (“grit, litter, humus”), Swedish muta (“to drizzle”), Old English mot (“speck, particle”). More at mote, mud, smut.
As term for a business strategy, popularized by American investor Warren Buffett.
Inflected forms:
form: moats
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: moats
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: moating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: moated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: moated
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A deep, wide defensive ditch, normally filled with water, surrounding a fortified habitation.
pos: noun
gloss: An aspect of a business which makes it more "defensible" from competitors, because of the nature of its products, services or franchise or for some other reason.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
examples: No matter how good your company's product is or how quickly the industry is growing, if there is no moat, competitors will invade your castle and burn it down.
“I think ‘moats’ are lame,” Mr. Musk had said during a Tesla earnings call. It was a criticism of an economic principle that Mr. Buffett had coined in 1999 and that has become something of a mantra for his faithful: Invest in businesses “that have wide, sustainable moats around them.”
Moreover, where older firms might have to stave off competitors and engage in practices like predatory pricing to keep the competition at bay, platform monopolies have a built-in moat. Since a platform’s value comes from its number of users—a phenomenon known as the network effect—competing against large platforms is nigh impossible since its monopoly position makes it inherently more useful.
gloss: A circular lowland between a resurgent dome and the walls of the caldera surrounding it.
pos: noun
gloss: A clear ring outside the eyewall of a tropical cyclone.
pos: noun
gloss: A hill or mound.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
gloss: To surround with a moat.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Related words: motte
cunette
Derived words: economic moat
Gaussian moat
moatlike
moaty
Translations:
adversary
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English adversarie, from Anglo-Norman aversaire (in Wace's Life of Saint Margaret) and Old French aversier, aversaire (French adversaire), from Latin adversārius, from adversus (“turned toward”). By surface analysis, adverse + -ary.
Inflected forms:
form: adversaries
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person, group, or thing that opposes or attacks another person or group; an opponent or rival.
pos: noun
examples: He prepared to fight his adversary.
In the political drama that Donald Trump has created in Washington, he could not have dreamed up a more formidable adversary than James Comey.
The real bombshell it contains is not the confidence of the spy agencies that Russia hoped to subvert American democracy. It is that US intelligence experts effectively confirmed that for the second election in a row, Trump acolytes repeatedly used, knowingly or otherwise, misinformation produced by the spies of one of America’s most sworn foreign adversaries to try to win a US election.
Antonyms: hero
ally
Translations:
brine
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English brine, bryne, from Old English brīne, from Proto-West Germanic *brīnā, from Proto-Germanic *brīnǭ (“salt water, brine”) (compare Scots brime, West Frisian brein, Dutch brijn (“brine”), West Flemish brijne), of unknown ultimate origin, but probably from Proto-Indo-European *bʰreyH- (“to cut, maim”).
Cognates include Old Irish ro·bria (“may hurt, damage”), Latin friāre (“to rub, crumble”), Slovene bríti (“to shave, shear”), Albanian brej (“to gnaw”), Sanskrit बृणाति (bṛṇā́ti, “they injure, hurt”).
Alternatively, from Proto-Indo-European *mriHnós, from *móri (compare Latin marīnus).
Inflected forms:
form: brines
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: brines
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: brining
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: brined
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: brined
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Salt water; water saturated or strongly impregnated with salt; a salt-and-water solution for pickling.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: Do you want a can of tuna in oil or in brine?
Philander went into the next room[…]and came back with a salt mackerel that dripped brine like a rainstorm. Then he put the coffee pot on the stove and rummaged out a loaf of dry bread and some hardtack.
gloss: The sea or ocean; the water of the sea.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: Ariell: Not a ſoule
 But felt a Feauer of the madde, and plaid
 Some tricks of deſperation ; all but Mariners
 Plung'd in the foaming bryne, and quit the veſſell ;
 Then all a fire with me the Kings ſonne Ferdinand
 With haire vp-ſtaring (then like reeds, not haire)
 Was the firſt man that leapt ; cride hell is empty,
 And all the Diuels are heere.
"Ho, aboard the Salt Junk Sarah,
Rollin" home across the line,
The Bo'sun collared the Captain's hat
And threw it in the brine.
gloss: To preserve food in a salt solution.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To prepare and flavor food (especially meat) for cooking by soaking in a salt solution.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Antonyms: debrine
desalinate
Related words: bittern
Derived words: brine fly
brine lake
brineless
brine pool
brine shrimp
brinicle
brinish
briny
leach brine
debrine
embrine
briner
Translations:
prawn
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: First attested early 1400s as various Middle English forms prayne, prane, praune, and prawne, which present no clear cognates in languages other than English. The forms suggest a hypothetical Old English form *prægn, where *æg would have evolved into Middle English *ay, but it is unclear if the word is of Germanic origin, from another European language, or loaned from a substrate. In the Isle of Wight, a word prankle ("prawn") is recorded and thought to be related. Century, following Skeat, suggested transposition of an unrecorded Old French *parne, *perne related to Spanish perna (“a flat shellfish”), Old Italian perna and diminutive pernochie, parnocchie, glossed as "shrimps or prawne, fishes" by John Florio, but the OED considers Florio's entry incorrect and the suggested connection semantically and phonologically implausible.
Etymology 1, noun sense 3 ("woman with attractive body and unattractive face") is from the idea of discarding the head of a prawn before eating it.
Inflected forms:
form: prawn
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: prawns
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: prawns
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: prawning
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: prawned
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: prawned
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A crustacean of the suborder Dendrobranchiata.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The aphrodisiac nature of prawns is evident in an epigram by the Greek poet Asclepiades.
gloss: A crustacean, sometimes confused with shrimp.
pos: noun
tags: Commonwealth
countable
uncountable
gloss: Synonym of butterface: A woman with an attractive body but an unattractive face.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
colloquial
countable
derogatory
uncountable
examples: She's a prawn!
gloss: A fool, an idiot.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
countable
slang
uncountable
examples: This is utter dribble. I've not read much worse than this in a long time - and he admits he doesn't know - "or so I am told". Get real, you prawn.
He didn't say he was accused of that, prawn.
gloss: To fish for prawns.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
Derived words: Aesop prawn
Alaskan prawn
banana prawn
come the raw prawn
common prawn
deep-sea prawn
deepwater prawn
Dublin Bay prawn
furrowed prawn
giant tiger prawn
great northern prawn
green prawn
Indian prawn
king prawn
kuruma prawn
lawn prawn
long-clawed prawn
mantis prawn
monsoon river prawn
mudprawn
musical prawn
Oriental river prawn
Parktown prawn
pistol prawn
porn and prawn
prawn chip
prawn cocktail
prawn cocktail offensive
prawn cracker
prawn crisp
prawner
prawn killer
prawnlike
prawn sandwich brigade
prawn toast
prawny
queen prawn
river prawn
royal red prawn
sandprawn
school prawn
snapping prawn
soldier prawn
spot prawn
tiger prawn
Translations:
amongst
Part of speech: prep
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From amongs + -t (excrescent), from among + -s (genitive). By surface analysis, among + -st (excrescent). Root among from Old English ongemang, from on (“in”) + gemang (“assemblage, mingling”).
Base: amongs
Affixes: -t
Inflected forms:
form: among
pos: prep
tags: alternative
form: amongest
pos: prep
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: amoungst
pos: prep
tags: alternative
archaic
form: amoungest
pos: prep
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: Denotes a mingling or intermixing with distinct or separable objects. See usage note at amidst.
pos: prep
examples: Janek feels very at ease amongst his friends, but gets incredibly nervous when meeting new people.
And novv thee vvorſhip, mongſt that bleſſed throng / Of heauenlie Poets and Heroes ſtrong.
The smart little locomotives, mostly 0-6-0 saddletanks, which are always busy shunting traffic amongst the vast dockside warehouses, belong to the Manchester Ship Canal Railway, a line of considerable importance.
Antonyms: outside
outwith
without
Translations:
amazing
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From amaze + -ing, from Old English āmasian.
Base: amaze
Affixes: -ing
Inflected forms:
form: more amazing
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most amazing
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Causing wonder and amazement; very surprising.
pos: adj
examples: “It’s been amazing, the amount of emails and congratulations,” the Snow White and the Huntsman star, 36, told Ryan Seacrest Friday on his radio show.
gloss: Possessing uniquely wonderful qualities; very good.
pos: adj
tags: informal
examples: “I didn’t think I would be a fan of the swaddling, but the swaddling’s pretty amazing,” she says.
2014, November 6, WAAY-TV (Huntsville, AL), VIDEO: "Sitting next to him was amazing" says student of General Via
"I think it was pretty amazing that he picked our school out of a lot of schools to come speak to us about what he has done, and what our country has done, to help us gain our freedom," Mucci said, “sitting next to him was amazing.”
2014, November 8, Nick McCarvel, "Wozniacki's marathon debut was amazing, Djokovic says", USA TODAY Sports
"Running a marathon is definitely an amazing experience."
Synonyms: awesome
Related words: amazement
Derived words: amazingish
amazingly
amazingness
awesomazing
unamazing
Translations:
tod
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English tod, of unknown origin. Possibly influenced by Etymology 2, due to its bushy tail.
Inflected forms:
form: tods
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A male fox.
pos: noun
gloss: A fox in general.
pos: noun
tags: Scotland
examples: Who am Ah? Ah'm tod, whey Ah'm tod, ye knaw. Canniest riever on moss and moor!
gloss: Someone like a fox; a crafty person.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
Related words: Todd
todd
Derived words: tod and lambs
Translations:
sie
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English sien, from Old English sīgan (“to sink, descend”), from Proto-Germanic *sīganą, *sīhwaną (“to strain, drop”), from Proto-Indo-European *seykʷ- (“to pour, strain”). Cognate with Dutch zijgen (“to filter”), German seihen (“to strain, sieve”), Icelandic síga (“to lower”).
Inflected forms:
form: sies
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: sying
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: sied
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: sied
pos: verb
tags: past
form: sigh
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: sey
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: sye
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: sies
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: sigh
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: sey
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: sye
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: To sink; fall; drop.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To fall, as in a swoon; faint.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To drop, as water; trickle.
pos: verb
tags: dialectal
intransitive
gloss: To sift.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To strain, as milk; filter.
pos: verb
tags: dialectal
transitive
gloss: A drop.
pos: noun
Translations:
vegetarianism
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Attested since circa 1847, when the British Vegetarian Society was founded. From vegetarian + -ism.
Base: vegetarian
Affixes: -ism
Inflected forms:
form: vegetarianisms
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The practice of following a vegetarian diet.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: Vegetarianism, he said, is an idea “that has three things going for it all at once—economics, health and compassion.”
What sets her apart from our current ascetics with their practice of transcendental meditation, diet, vegetarianism, ashram simplicities, yoga is that with them the deprivations and rigors‐are undergone for the pay‐off—for tranquility, for thinness, for the hope of a long, life—or frequently, it seems, to fill the hole of emptiness so painful to the narcissist.
Right now, my family’s special collision of vegetarianism and Judaism necessitates a good bit of chocolate. But when Passover ends, that doesn’t mean we should put the chocolate cake, or the chocolate milk, away.
Translations:
maggot
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English magot, magat, maked, probably a metathetic alteration of maddock, maðek (“worm", "maggot”), originally a diminutive form of a base represented by Old English maþa (Scots mathe), from Proto-West Germanic *maþō, from Proto-Germanic *maþô, from the Proto-Indo-European root *mat, which was used in insect names, equivalent to made + -ock. Near-cognates include Dutch made, German Made and Swedish mask, Icelandic maðkur (“worm, grub, maggot”).
The use of maggot to mean a fanciful or whimsical thing derives from the folk belief that a whimsical or crotchety person had maggots in their brain.
Base: made
Affixes: -ock
Inflected forms:
form: maggots
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: maggoting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: maggoted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: maggoted
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To rid (an animal) of maggots.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: In the summer I had to get the sheep penned twice a day to maggot them and I needed a good dog.
Translations:
peep
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
birdwatching
natural-sciences
ornithology
Etymology: From Middle English pepen. Compare Dutch piepen (“peep”), German Low German piepen (“to peep”), German piepen and pfeifen, all probably onomatopoeic.
Inflected forms:
form: peeps
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: peeps
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: peeping
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: peeped
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: peeped
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A short, soft, high-pitched sound, as made by a baby bird.
pos: noun
gloss: A feeble utterance or complaint.
pos: noun
examples: I don't want to hear a peep out of you!
gloss: The sound of a steam engine's whistle; typically shrill.
pos: noun
examples: With a "peep" from a high-pitched whistle, the train would leave by the crossover to the down line, […].
"Peep, peep," said Edward, "I'm ready."
"Peep, peep, peep," said Henry, "so am I."
gloss: A sandpiper or other small wader.
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
examples: When I spotted two small warm-brown scaley-plumaged ‘peeps’ with yellow legs, my commentary immediately identified them as Least Sandpipers.
gloss: To make a soft, shrill noise like a baby bird.
pos: verb
gloss: To speak briefly with a quiet voice.
pos: verb
Related words: cheep
chirp
Derived words: peepy
Translations:
cot
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: nautical
transport
Etymology: Borrowed from Hindi खाट (khāṭ), from Sauraseni Prakrit 𑀔𑀝𑁆𑀝𑀸 (khaṭṭā), from Sanskrit खट्वा (khaṭvā, “bedstead”).
Inflected forms:
form: cots
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A simple bed, especially one for portable or temporary purposes.
pos: noun
tags: Canada
Philippines
US
examples: There was a flickering of lanterns about the camp that night, and a rumor that brought men out of their cots to the tent doors, a paddling of the naked feet of doolie-bearers and the rush of a galloping horse.
gloss: A bed for infants or small children, with high, often slatted, often moveable sides.
pos: noun
tags: Commonwealth
Ireland
UK
gloss: A wooden bed frame, slung by its corners from a beam, in which officers slept before the introduction of bunks.
pos: noun
tags: historical
Derived words: carrycot
chuck one's toys out of the cot
cot-bed
cot-caught merger
cot death
cotless
Cotman
fingercot
finger cot
life cot
meat-safe cot
pigscot
portacot
three hots and a cot
throw one's rattle out of the cot
throw one's toys out of the cot
Translations:
bustier
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from French bustier, from buste + -ier.
Inflected forms:
form: bustiers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A tight-fitting women's top, often strapless, which covers the bust and sometimes extends over the belly, worn either as an undergarment or as outerwear.
pos: noun
examples: The clothes were equally frothy: teacup silk skirts, a bubbly wool coat in Bazooka pink, satin bustiers with huge fan pleats across the front, metallic peplum jackets and flamboyantly patterned tights.
Next came the narrow silk straps of her bustier. She pushed the satin fabric down, toward her waist, exposing her breasts.
Translations:
explore
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: medicine
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰ
Proto-Indo-European *-s
Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰs
Proto-Italic *eks
Latin ex
Latin ex-
Latin plōrō
Latin explōrōder.
Middle French explorerder.
English explore
From Middle French explorer, from Latin explōrāre (“to investigate, search out”), itself said to be originally a hunters' term meaning "to set up a loud cry", from ex- (“out”) + plōrāre (“to cry”), but the second element is also explained as "to make to flow" (from pluere (“to flow”)).
Inflected forms:
form: explores
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: exploring
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: explored
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: explored
pos: verb
tags: past
form: explores
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To seek for something or after someone.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
obsolete
gloss: To examine or investigate something systematically.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The committee has been exploring alternative solutions to the problem at hand.
Bats host many high-profile viruses that can infect humans, including severe acute respiratory syndrome and Ebola. A recent study explored the ecological variables that may contribute to bats’ propensity to harbor such zoonotic diseases by comparing them with another order of common reservoir hosts: rodents.
gloss: To travel somewhere in search of discovery.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: It was around that time that the expedition began exploring the Arctic Circle.
gloss: To examine diagnostically.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To (seek) experience first hand.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: It is normal for a boy of this age to be exploring his sexuality.
gloss: To be engaged exploring in any of the above senses.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: He was too busy exploring to notice his son needed his guidance.
gloss: To wander without any particular aim or purpose.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: The boys explored all around till cold and hunger drove them back to the campfire one by one.
They stayed together during three dances, went out on to the terrace, explored wherever they were permitted to explore, paid two visits to the buffet, and enjoyed themselves much in the same way as if they had been school-children surreptitiously breaking loose from an assembly of grown-ups.
gloss: To seek sexual variety, to sow one's wild oats.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: An exploration; a tour of a place to see what it is like.
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
examples: Daylight was fading quickly, but I was still keen to have a little explore of the town and beach.
Related words: exploration
explorative
exploratory
Derived words: explorable
explorement
explorer
exploringly
explorista
explornography
reexplore
sexplore
Translations: