yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
regulus
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Latin regulusbor.
English regulus
Borrowed from Latin regulus.
Inflected forms:
form: reguli
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: reguluses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An impure metal formed beneath slag during the smelting of ores.
pos: noun
Translations:
rego
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English register
Proto-Indo-European *-tis
Proto-Indo-European *-Hō
Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō
Proto-Italic *-tiō
Latin -tiō
Latin -ātiōlbor.
Old French -ationbor.
Middle English -acioun
English -ation
English registration
English -o
English rego
From registration + -o (diminutive suffix).
Inflected forms:
form: regos
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Registration for a motor vehicle.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
New-Zealand
colloquial
uncountable
usually
examples: The police pulled me over for driving with an expired rego.
You might give these people a badge or some livery for their boat and you can give them a discount on the rego of their boat.
They gave us permission to drive in Australia under the British rego, meaning we still had our GB number plates.
When you come to buy or sell a car, every state has its own regulations, particularly with rego (registration).
gloss: The fee required for such registration.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
New-Zealand
colloquial
uncountable
usually
examples: David couldn′t drive his car as he hadn′t paid his rego.
gloss: The registration number of a motor vehicle, used by police to access registration details such as the identity of the owner.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
New-Zealand
colloquial
countable
usually
examples: “They also got the regos of the cars. There were two commercial travelers whose cars were trapped inside by the pickets, and they got hit with writs.[…]”
A line of cars was parked along one side, presumably belonging to the sex workers and their clients. ‘Get their regos,’ Borghini said to one of his people.
Derived words: rego plate
Translations:
piglet
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From pig + -let (diminutive suffix). Attested from 1855. Displaced Old English fearh.
Base: pig
Affixes: -let
Inflected forms:
form: piglets
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A young pig.
pos: noun
examples: Very little was this piglet,
And of course was not a big pig,
Translations:
sheepfold
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English shepefald, perhaps from Late Old English sċēapa falde (literally “sheep's fold”), equivalent to sheep + fold.
Compound parts: sheep
fold#Etymology_2
Inflected forms:
form: sheepfolds
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An enclosure for keeping sheep.
pos: noun
examples: If civilized life had covered over the ancient verities, Dumuzi learns in his tragic death that the sheepfold is still there to reclaim him.
gloss: A flock of sheep.
pos: noun
examples: We weep because the Lord’s sheepfold is guarded by wolves; we despair because truth gasps for breath amid lies.
Translations:
obese
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Latin obēsus, derived from obedō (“to devour, eat away”), from ob (“away”) + edō (“to eat”).
Inflected forms:
form: more obese
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: obeser
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most obese
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: obesest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: obeses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Extremely overweight, especially: weighing more than 20% (for men) or 25% (for women) over their conventionally ideal weight determined by height and build; or, having a body mass index over 30 kg/m².
pos: adj
examples: The president, being 74, a man and someone categorised as obese, is in a higher-risk category for Covid-19.
But it can be recalled that Locsin earlier called out DepEd for seemingly being “unaffected” by the actions of a teacher who body-shamed her by describing her ^([sic]) “an obese person” in a Physical Education (PE) educational material after the agency issued an apology.
gloss: A person who is obese.
pos: noun
examples: Despite a large scattering of HR decay rate, even present in healthy subjects, a ₂ and ΔHR were significantly lower in obeses and COPDs.
Subjects were grouped as Group 1 and Group 2 according to VAI, and normals, overweights and obeses according to BMI.
Antonyms: scrawny
thin
emaciated
anorexic
starved
willowy
Translations:
observatory
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
French observatoirebor.
English observatory
Borrowed from French observatoire, equivalent to observe + -atory.
Base: observe
Affixes: -atory
Inflected forms:
form: observatories
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A place where stars, planets and other celestial bodies are observed, usually through a telescope; also place for observing meteorological or other natural phenomena.
pos: noun
examples: The corporation of Harvard University have passed a vote closing the observatory in Cambridge to the public on Saturday evenings.
gloss: A lookout (vantage point with a view of the surrounding area)
pos: noun
Synonyms: observatorium
Translations:
fingernail
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From Middle English finger neil(e); equivalent to finger + nail. Compare Middle English nayl of fynger (“fingernail”) and Old English handnæġl (“fingernail”). Compare also Saterland Frisian Fingernail (“fingernail”), West Frisian fingerneil (“fingernail”), Dutch vingernagel (“fingernail”), German Fingernagel (“fingernail”), Danish fingernegl (“fingernail”), Swedish fingernagel (“fingernail”), Norwegian fingernegl (“fingernail”), Icelandic fingurnögl (“fingernail”).
Compound parts: finger
nail
Inflected forms:
form: fingernails
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: finger nail
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: finger-nail
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The hard, flat translucent covering near the tip of a human finger, useful for scratching and fine manipulation.
pos: noun
Translations:
vacation
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: law
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English vacation, vacacion, vacacioun, from Anglo-Norman vacacioun, from Old French vacacion, vacation, from Latin vacātiō. Equivalent to vacate + -ion.
Base: vacate
Affixes: -ion
Inflected forms:
form: vacations
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: vacations
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: vacationing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: vacationed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: vacationed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: An extended trip or journey away from home for rest or pleasure.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: We were on vacation in Florida this year.
gloss: An extended period of leisure time away from work or school.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Schoolchildren are on vacation this week.
gloss: A period during which official activity or business is formally suspended; an official holiday from university, law courts etc.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The act of vacating something; moving out.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The Conservative Party’s vacation of the centre ground gave an opportunity to its opponents.
gloss: The act of making legally void.
pos: noun
tags: US
countable
uncountable
gloss: Freedom from some business or activity.
pos: noun
tags: countable
general
uncountable
gloss: Free time given over to a specific purpose; occupation, activity.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
examples: The first exploited his, sundrie waies, and excelleth in military exploits, and utilitie of his publike vacations.
gloss: To spend or take a vacation.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: This year, we’re vacationing in Mexico.
Synonyms: annual leave
break
day off
getaway
holiday
leave
leave of absence
pause
recess
time away
time off
vac
vacation
vaca
vacay
Related words: celebration
Derived words: adventurecation
baecation
come on vacation, leave on probation
coolcation
daycation
foodcation
gaycation
girlcation
grippy socks vacation
grippy sock vacation
haycation
homecation
ladycation
long vacation
mancation
microvacation
minivacation
naycation
nearcation
nonvacation
postvacation
prevacation
racecation
recation
sexcation
sleepcation
staycation
summer vacation
Vacation Bible
Vacation Bible School
vacation day
vacationer
vacationgoer
vacation home
vacationist
Vacationland
vacationland
vacationless
vacationship
vacation time
vaca
vacay
workcation
Translations:
colorful
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From color + -ful.
Base: color
Affixes: -ful
Inflected forms:
form: more colorful
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most colorful
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: colourful
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Commonwealth
Senses:
gloss: Possessing prominent and varied colors.
pos: adj
tags: US
examples: It was a colourful vase with red and white hoops on the lid, and red bands above and below the main frieze. These bands also carry a metope pattern in white of triple lines and blobs, which can just be distinguished on the photographs.
[Sen. John Curtis] gives colorful socks to other lawmakers on their birthdays.
Blue and gold macaws are not native to Caracas. But over the past two decades their numbers in Venezuela's capital have skyrocketed, with hundreds of these birds now flying freely across the city, and dazzling locals with their colorful feathers and peculiar calls.
gloss: Interesting, multifaceted, energetic, distinctive.
pos: adj
tags: US
examples: One of the most colourful people in motor racing, he writes in a colourful manner.
gloss: Profane, obscene, offensive (usually in the phrase colourful language).
pos: adj
tags: US
euphemistic
examples: Hussain celebrated reaching his ton with a gesture towards the media centre, pointing to the number three on the back of his shirt and offering some colourful language.
Synonyms: multicolored
polychromatic
Derived words: colorfully
colorfulness
colourful bluetail
noncolorful
uncolorful
Translations:
thumbnail
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: compound
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: From thumb + nail. Compare West Frisian tommeneil (“thumbnail”), Dutch duimnagel (“thumbnail”), German Daumennagel (“thumbnail”).
The phrase thumbnail sketch was first attested 1852. Verb sense attested 1930s.
Compound parts: thumb
nail
Inflected forms:
form: thumbnails
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: thumbnails
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: thumbnailing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: thumbnailed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: thumbnailed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: The fingernail on the thumb.
pos: noun
gloss: A rough sketch (e.g., the size of one's thumbnail).
pos: noun
gloss: A small picture, used as a compact representation of a larger image.
pos: noun
gloss: A picture displayed by posts and videos pre-clicked conveying the matters discussed/shown in that post.
pos: noun
gloss: To describe concisely.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To create a smaller representation of (a larger image).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Related words: icon
thumbshot
Derived words: thumbnail moon
thumbnailer
Translations:
attract
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Latin attractus, past participle of attrahere (“to draw to, attract”), from ad (“to”) + trahere (“to draw”).
Inflected forms:
form: attracts
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: attracting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: attracted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: attracted
pos: verb
tags: past
form: no-table-tags
pos: verb
tags: table-tags
form: glossary
pos: verb
tags: inflection-template
form: attract
pos: verb
tags: infinitive
form: attract
pos: verb
tags: first-person
present
singular
form: attracted
pos: verb
tags: first-person
past
singular
form: attract
pos: verb
tags: present
second-person
singular
form: attractest
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
second-person
singular
form: attracted
pos: verb
tags: past
second-person
singular
form: attractedst
pos: verb
tags: archaic
past
second-person
singular
form: attracts
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: attracteth
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
singular
third-person
form: attracted
pos: verb
tags: past
singular
third-person
form: attract
pos: verb
tags: plural
present
form: attracted
pos: verb
tags: past
plural
form: attract
pos: verb
tags: present
subjunctive
form: attracted
pos: verb
tags: past
subjunctive
form: attract
pos: verb
tags: imperative
present
form: -
pos: verb
tags: imperative
past
form: attracting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: attracted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
Senses:
gloss: To pull toward without touching.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: A magnet attracts iron filings.
All bodies, and all the parts of bodies, mutually attract themselves, and one another.
The reason plaque forms isn’t entirely known, but it seems to be related to high levels of cholesterol inducing an inflammatory response, which can also attract and trap more cellular debris over time.
gloss: To draw by moral, emotional or sexual influence; to engage or fix, as the mind, attention, etc.; to invite or allure.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to attract admirers
Advertising is designed to attract customers.
His big smile and brown eyes instantly attracted me.
Attracted by thy beauty still to gaze.
gloss: To incur.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Using the minibar in a hotel room attracts additional charges.
Synonyms: allure
attract
draw
Antonyms: repel
chase
Related words: attraction
attractive
attractor
Derived words: attractability
attractable
attractancy
attract attention
attractee
attracticide
attractile
attractin
attractingly
attract mode
attract screen
chemoattract
counterattract
minor-attracted person
nonattracting
opposites attract
reattract
unattracting
you attract more flies with honey than vinegar
Translations:
attractive
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle French attractif, from Late Latin attractīvus, equivalent to attract + -ive.
Base: attract
Affixes: -ive
Inflected forms:
form: more attractive
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most attractive
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Causing attraction; having the quality of attracting by inherent force.
pos: adj
gloss: Having the power of charming or alluring by agreeable qualities; enticing.
pos: adj
examples: That's a very attractive offer.
gloss: Pleasing or appealing to the senses, especially of a potential romantic partner.
pos: adj
examples: He is an attractive fellow with a trim figure.
[…] or I keysmash my feelings away every time there is an attractive picture of them that surfaced on the internet and since every picture is an attractive picture, let's just say my keyboard knows the pain I have to go through.
Synonyms: alluring
appealing
appetizing
attracting
attractive
bewitching
captivating
charming
coying
desirable
enchanting
engaging
enticing
enticive
exciting
fascinating
fetching
heart-throbbing
illecebrous
inviting
prepossessing
seducing
seductive
taking
tempting
witching
winning
winsome
Antonyms: repulsive
ugly
repulsive
ugly
unattractive
repelling
unalluring
unenticing
Related words: beauty
Derived words: attractively
attractiveness
attractive nuisance
attractivity
chemoattractive
counterattractive
nonattractive
superattractive
Translations:
bulb
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: anatomy
medicine
nautical
neuroanatomy
neurology
neuroscience
sciences
transport
Etymology: Etymology tree
Ancient Greek βολβός (bolbós)bor.
Latin bulbusder.
English bulb
Inherited from Middle English bulb, bolbe, from Latin bulbus (“bulb, onion”), from Ancient Greek βολβός (bolbós, “plant with round swelling on underground stem”).
Inflected forms:
form: bulbs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: bulbs
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: bulbing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: bulbed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: bulbed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: The bulb-shaped underground portion of a plant such as a tulip, consisting of a shortened stem and many fleshy scale leaves, from which the rest of the plant may be regrown.
pos: noun
examples: the plants which grow in the earth from seed or bulbs.
Once it [a snowdrop variety] became established, some bulbs were lifted and passed on to be chipped (i.e. cut into small pieces and grown on).
gloss: The medulla oblongata.
pos: noun
tags: dated
gloss: Any solid object rounded at one end and tapering on the other, possibly attached to a larger object at the tapered end.
pos: noun
examples: the bulb of the aorta
gloss: Any solid object rounded at one end and tapering on the other, possibly attached to a larger object at the tapered end.
pos: noun
examples: an incandescent bulb
an LED bulb
a fluorescent tube bulb
gloss: A bulbous protuberance at the forefoot of certain vessels to reduce turbulence.
pos: noun
gloss: An onion.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
gloss: To take the shape of a bulb; to swell.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
Related words: bulbiferous
bulbil
bulbous
Derived words: bulbar
bulbectomy
bulbhead
bulbheaded
bulb horn
bulbitis
bulbless
bulblet
bulblike
bulboid
bulbophile
bulb-out
bulb tee
bulby
bus bulb
dim-bulb
dim bulb
dry bulb temperature
dry-bulb temperature
Edison bulb
endbulb
flashbulb
gliobulb
hair bulb
hemibulb
hot bulb
lamp-bulb
lamp bulb
light bulb
Mandelbulb
not the brightest bulb
not the brightest bulb in the chandelier
pseudobulb
rebulb
tulip bulb
urethral bulb
wet-and-dry-bulb hygrometer
wet bulb
wet-bulb
wet bulbing
wet-bulb temperature
wet bulb temperature
Translations:
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 泡
roman: pāo
lang: Dutch
word: bol
lang: Finnish
word: kupu
lang: French
word: bulbe
lang: Greek
word: βολβός
roman: volvós
lang: Ido
word: bulbo
lang: Luhya
word: eglopu
lang: Malayalam
word: ബൾബ്
roman: baḷbŭ
lang: Portuguese
word: bulbo
lang: Romanian
word: bulb
lang: Russian
word: утолще́ние
roman: utolščénije
lang: Russian
word: вы́пуклость
roman: výpuklostʹ
lang: Russian
word: ша́рик
roman: šárik
lang: Spanish
word: bulbo
lang: Swahili
word: glopu
canvas
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: computer-graphics
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
nautical
physical-sciences
sciences
transport
Etymology: From Middle English canevas, from Anglo-Norman, from Old Northern French canevas (compare Old French chanevas, chenevas) from a root derived from Latin cannabis, from Ancient Greek κάνναβις (kánnabis). Compare French canevas, resulting from a blend of the Old French and a Picard dialect word, itself from Old Northern French. Doublet of cannabis and hemp.
Inflected forms:
form: canvases
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: canvasses
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: canvass
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: canvases
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: canvasing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: canvased
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: canvased
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A type of coarse cloth, woven from hemp (traditionally) or from cotton and polyesters, useful for making sails, tents, and overcoats or as a surface for paintings.
pos: noun
examples: The term canvas is very widely used, as well to denote the coarse fabrics employed for kitchen use, as for strainers, and wraps for meat, as for the best quality of ordinary table and shirting linen.
gloss: A piece of such cloth stretched across a frame on which one may paint an artwork.
pos: noun
examples: She is painting a moonlight scene on the canvas.
Light, rich as that which glows on the canvas of Claude.
A local doctor had bought one canvas and but for that lucky chance he would have been out of pocket.
gloss: A mesh of loosely woven cotton strands or molded plastic to be decorated with needlepoint, cross-stitch, rug hooking, or other crafts.
pos: noun
gloss: A basis for creative work.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
examples: The author takes rural midwestern life as a canvas for a series of tightly woven character studies
gloss: A region on which graphics can be rendered.
pos: noun
gloss: Sails in general.
pos: noun
examples: The double desire of being able to overtake a weaker flying enemy, or to escape when pursued by a stronger, has induced the owners to overmast their cruisers, and to spread too much canvass; and the great number of men, many of them not seamen, who being upon deck when a ship heels suddenly are huddled down to leeward, and increase by their weight the effect of the wind.
gloss: A tent.
pos: noun
examples: He spent the night under canvas.
gloss: A rough draft or model of a song, air, or other literary or musical composition; especially one to show a poet the measure of the verses he is to make.
pos: noun
gloss: Athletic shoes.
pos: noun
tags: Nigeria
gloss: To cover (an area or object) with canvas.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Derived words: blank canvas
canvasback
canvasboard
canvasful
canvasless
canvaslike
canvasman
canvassy
Canvastown
canvaswork
empty canvas
Java canvas
new canvas
noncanvas
on the canvas
under canvas
value proposition canvas
Translations:
countable
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
mathematics
sciences
Etymology: From Middle English countable, equivalent to count (“to enumerate”) + -able.
Base: count
Affixes: -able
Inflected forms:
form: countables
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Capable of being counted; having a quantity.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Finite or countably infinite; having a one-to-one correspondence (bijection) with a subset of the natural numbers.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Finite or countably infinite; having a one-to-one correspondence (bijection) with a subset of the natural numbers.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Freely usable with the indefinite article and with numbers.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: In these extracts the word abuse is used in the sense of ‘an individual piece of invective’ or ‘an abusive comment’ and is clearly a countable noun.
gloss: A noun that is countable.
pos: noun
Related words: countability
Derived words: axiom of countable choice
countability
countable additivity
countableness
countable noun
countable set
countably
noncountable
second-countable
subcountable
uncountable
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: изброим
roman: izbroim
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 可數 /可数
roman: kěshǔ
lang: Czech
word: spočetný
lang: Dutch
word: aftelbaar
lang: Finnish
word: numeroituva
lang: French
word: dénombrable
lang: Galician
word: contábel
lang: German
word: abzählbar
lang: Hungarian
word: megszámlálható
lang: Japanese
word: 可算
roman: kasan
lang: Persian
word: شمارشپذیر
lang: Polish
word: przeliczalny
lang: Portuguese
word: contável
lang: Slovene
word: števen
lang: Spanish
word: numerable
lang: Swedish
word: uppräknelig
grub
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English grubben, grobben, from Old English *grubbian, from Proto-West Germanic *grubb-, from Proto-Germanic *grubb- (compare Middle Dutch grobben (“to scrape, scramble, grab”), Old High German grubilōn (“to dig, search”), German grübeln (“to meditate, ponder”)), from Proto-Germanic *grub- (“to dig”) (see *grabaną).
The noun sense of "larva" is from Middle English grub, grubbe, grobbe, crubbe and may derive from the notion of "digging insect" from the verb above, or from the uncertainly related Middle English grub (“dwarfish fellow”). Compare West Frisian krobbe (“beetle”). The slang sense of "food" is first recorded 1659, and has been linked with birds eating grubs or with bub (“drink”).
Inflected forms:
form: grubs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: grob
pos: noun
tags: alternative
UK
dialectal
form: grubs
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: grubbing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: grubbed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: grubbed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: grob
pos: verb
tags: alternative
UK
dialectal
Senses:
gloss: An insect, especially a beetle, at an immature stage of its life cycle.
pos: noun
tags: countable
gloss: Food.
pos: noun
tags: slang
uncountable
examples: pub grub
"The rice ration's down to nearly damn-all in the kampongs, but we keep finding dumps of grub in the forest."
gloss: A dirty person.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
countable
slang
uncountable
gloss: A despicable person; a lowlife.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
countable
slang
uncountable
gloss: A short, thick man; a dwarf.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
examples: John Romane, a short clownish grub, would bear the whole carcase of an ox, yet never tugged with him.
gloss: To scavenge or in some way scrounge, typically for food.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To dig; to dig up by the roots; to root out by digging; often followed by up.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
examples: to grub up trees, rushes, or sedge
They do not attempt to grub up the root of sin.
Yet there was no time to be lost if I was ever to get out alive, and so I groped with my hands against the side of the grave until I made out the bottom edge of the slab, and then fell to grubbing beneath it with my fingers.
gloss: To supply with food.
pos: verb
tags: dated
slang
transitive
gloss: To eat.
pos: verb
tags: dated
slang
examples: “[…] John dear, we must give this little fellow his supper, you know.”
“Of course we must, my darling.”
“He has been grubbing and grubbing at school,” said Bella, looking at her father’s hand and lightly slapping it, “till he’s not fit to be seen. O what a grubby child!”
Related words: caterpillar
maggot
worm
grade-grub
grave
groove
Derived words: bardee grub
bardi grub
bardy grub
canegrub
cattle grub
curl grub
grass grub
grub and bub
grubber
grubbery
grubble
grubby
grub hoe
grubhouse
grubless
grublike
grubling
grub out
grub-saw
grub screw
grubstake
grub-stake
grub up
grubwork
grubworm
pub grub
Tasmanian grass grub
witchety grub
grub along
Translations:
penchant
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: card-games
games
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from French penchant, present participle of pencher (“to tilt, to lean”), from Middle French, from Old French pengier (“to tilt, be out of line”), from Vulgar Latin *pendicāre, a derivative of Latin pendere (“to hang”).
Inflected forms:
form: penchants
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Taste, liking, or inclination (for).
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: He has a penchant for fine wine.
Marie even then began the course which, in after-years, secured her so vast an influence in the court,—alternately taking up and laying down her claim to the youthful monarch's penchant; administering to his amusement, and ready to encourage his passing fancies.
THE LONDON & NORTH WESTERN RAILWAY. By O. S. Nock. Ian Allan. 30s.
[...] One scarcely imagined, for example, that the great steel works at Crewe owed its existence to Sir Richard Moon's penchant for the principle of "Do it yourself", a principle born of a methodical, economical and far-seeing mind.
2019, Idles, "Never Fight a Man With a Perm", Joy as an Act of Resistance.
I said I've got a penchant for smokes and kicking douches in the mouth / Sadly for you my last cigarette's gone out
Just like Marple, there's a plaque at the London terminus [Paddington] commemorating a fictional character - a polite, friendly little bear from darkest Peru who has a penchant for marmalade sarnies.
gloss: A card game resembling bezique.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: In the game of penchant, any queen and jack of different suits held at the same time.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Synonyms: desire
Translations:
clue
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Variant of clew (“a ball of thread or yarn”), from Middle English clew, clewe, clowe, clue, clwe, clyw, clywe, from Old English clēowen, clīewen, clīowen, clīwen, clȳwe, clȳwen (“ball, sphere; skein”), from Proto-West Germanic *kliuwīn (“ball, clump”), from Proto-Germanic *kliuwīną, *klewô (“bale, ball, clump, mass”), from Proto-Indo-European *glew- (“to ball up, clump together; lump, swelling”). Sense evolution with reference to the one which the mythical Theseus used to guide him out of the Minotaur's labyrinth. More at clew.
Cognates
Cognate with Cimbrian khnaul (“ball of yarn”), Dutch kluwe, kluwen (“ball thread or yarn, clew”), German Knäuel (“ballyarn; tangle”), Norwegian Nynorsk kljå (“a loom weight”); also Sanskrit ग्लौ (glau, “the moon; camphor; the earth”).
Inflected forms:
form: clues
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: clew
pos: noun
tags: alternative
archaic
Senses:
gloss: A strand of yarn etc. as used to guide one through a labyrinth; something which points the way, a guide.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
examples: she had even had in the past a small smug conviction that in the domestic labyrinth she always kept the clue.
gloss: Information which may lead one to a certain point or conclusion.
pos: noun
examples: Give me a clue because the question is too vague.
Black tracks on the magneto, a hairline crack in the flywheel casing, pitted points or a spitless exhaust — all are clues to potential conkouts
gloss: An object or a kind of indication which may be used as evidence.
pos: noun
examples: The detectives were looking for some clues at the scene of the crime.
gloss: Insight or understanding ("to have a clue [about]" or "to have clue". See have a clue, clue stick)
pos: noun
examples: I had little clue that I was being carefully monitored by the CCTV.
gloss: The text that indicates an answer in a crossword puzzle.
pos: noun
Synonyms: signature
Related words: evidence
red herring
Derived words: cluebat
cluebie
Cluedo
clueful
clueless
cluelike
cluey
microclue
no clue
unclue
clue-by-four
clue card
cluestick
clue stick
context clue
get a clue
have a clue
not have a clue
what was your first clue
Translations:
responsible
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: entertainment
lifestyle
theater
Etymology: From Middle French responsable, from Old French responsable, responsible, formed from the root of Latin responsus, from respondere. The spelling of the English word is taken from the Old French variant responsible. By surface analysis, response + -ible.
Inflected forms:
form: more responsible
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most responsible
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: responsibles
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Having the duty of taking care of something; answerable for an act performed or for its consequences; accountable; amenable, especially legally or politically.
pos: adj
tags: postpositional
examples: Parents are responsible for their child's behaviour.
gloss: Being a primary cause of a situation or action and thus able to be blamed or credited for it.
pos: adj
tags: postpositional
examples: Who is responsible for this mess?
[…]Karius was a danger to his own team, responsible for Madrid’s two other goals and last seen wandering aimlessly around the pitch – alone, distraught and clearly traumatised – to ask forgiveness, hands clasped, from the thousands of Liverpool supporters.
gloss: Answerable to (a superior).
pos: adj
gloss: Involving important duties; involving a degree of personal accountability on the part of the person concerned.
pos: adj
examples: She has a responsible position in the firm.
gloss: Having good judgment in decision-making.
pos: adj
examples: But was it responsible governance to pass the Longitude Act without other efforts to protect British seamen? Or might it have been subterfuge—a disingenuous attempt to shift attention away from the realities of their life at sea.
gloss: Able to be trusted; reliable; trustworthy.
pos: adj
examples: He looks like a responsible guy.
gloss: Capable of rational conduct and thus morally accountable for one's behavior.
pos: adj
gloss: The person who bears the responsibility for something.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
examples: Were this not so, long since would we have traced directly home the responsibility for the war on Freedom in the Philippines. Long since, would we have hanged the responsibles as traitors to our country.
gloss: An actor taking on the lesser roles in repertory theatre.
pos: noun
examples: […] first appeared on August Bank Holiday, 1901, at Grand Theatre, Llandudno, playing "responsibles" with Edward Compton; […]
'Well, the Cardinal is the heavy part, isn't it?' 'I know.' 'Then,' said I, 'you'd better go'; and one of the Responsibles took it on, and was perfect on the night.
Antonyms: irresponsible
Related words: irresponsible
respond
response
responsibility
responsibleness
responsibly
Derived words: co-responsible
eco-responsible
irresponsibility
irresponsible
nonresponsible
responsibility
responsibilize
responsibleness
responsible trading
responsibly
semiresponsible
superresponsible
unresponsible
Translations:
unidentified
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *né
Proto-Indo-European *n̥-
Proto-Germanic *un-
Proto-West Germanic *un-
Old English un-
Middle English un-
English un-
English identified
English unidentified
From un- + identified.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Not identified; having an unknown or unnamed identity.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The U.S. and Canada are investigating three unidentified flying objects shot down over North America in the past three days. Militaries have adjusted radars to try to spot more incursions.
Translations:
uncomfortable
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *né
Proto-Indo-European *n̥-
Proto-Germanic *un-
Proto-West Germanic *un-
Old English un-
Middle English un-
English un-
English comfortable
English uncomfortable
From un- + comfortable.
Inflected forms:
form: more uncomfortable
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most uncomfortable
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Not comfortable; causing discomfort.
pos: adj
examples: The class squirmed and fidgeted in the uncomfortable new chairs.
Edward Churchill still attended to his work in a hopeless mechanical manner like a sleep-walker who walks safely on a well-known round. But his Roman collar galled him, his cossack stifled him, his biretta was as uncomfortable as a merry-andrew's cap and bells.
The coaches were filthy outside and did not appear to have been painted or washed for years. Inside there were uncomfortable seats covered with a cane-like material.
gloss: Experiencing discomfort physically.
pos: adj
gloss: Experiencing discomfort mentally and emotionally.
pos: adj
examples: Sharing a house with them made me uncomfortable.
gloss: Experiencing discomfort mentally and emotionally.
pos: adj
examples: It was clear that the film's apparent celebration of psychopathy made many audience members uncomfortable.
Antonyms: comfortable
Related words: discomfortable
Derived words: uncomfortableness
uncomfortably
Translations:
lang: Azerbaijani
word: rahatsız
lang: Catalan
word: incòmode
lang: German
word: unbehaglich
lang: Hindi
word: असहज
roman: ashaj
lang: Irish
word: aineascair
lang: Macedonian
word: непри́јатност
roman: nepríjatnost
lang: Russian
word: стеснённый
roman: stesnjónnyj
lang: Spanish
word: incómodo
lang: Spanish
word: a disgusto
insistence
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: fencing
government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
war
Etymology: From Middle English insistence, derived from Old French insister (“to insist”). Compare Middle French insistance. Morphologically insist + -ence.
Base: insist
Affixes: -ence
Inflected forms:
form: insistences
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The state of being insistent.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: He made gourd-rattles (known in ever so many parts of the world) in which he rattled dried seeds or small pebbles with a most beguiling and rain-like insistence[.]
The extreme depth of these channels, and the insistence of the Board of Trade on a headway of 150 ft. for the unrestricted passage of large ships, necessitated a high bridge with two main spans, and a central pier on Inchgarvie.
gloss: An urgent demand.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The forcing of an attack through the parry, using strength.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Related words: insist
Derived words: overinsistence
uninsistence
Translations:
opposition
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: astronomy
board-games
chess
games
government
human-sciences
law
logic
mathematics
natural-sciences
philosophy
politics
sciences
Etymology: From Middle English opposicioun, from Old French oposicion (whence French opposition), from Late Latin oppositiō, translating Ancient Greek ἀντίθεσις (antíthesis), from the past participle stem of classical Latin oppōnō (“to set against”). Equivalent to oppose + -ition.
Base: oppose
Affixes: -ition
Inflected forms:
form: oppositions
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The action of opposing or of being in conflict.
pos: noun
examples: The two politicians are in opposition to the bill.
The proposal met with strong opposition from local residents.
Terra Firma is an Alliance political party formed after the First Contact War. Its policy agenda is based on the principle that Earth must 'stand firm' against alien influences. This covers a variety of legislation. Recent activities by Terra Firma include opposition to a law requiring high school alien language study, a proposal to increase tariffs on alien imports, and leading a popular movement to mark the First Contact War with a public holiday.
That worries the government, which fears that environmental activism could become the foundation for more general political opposition.
gloss: An opposite or contrasting position.
pos: noun
examples: Near-synonym: oppositeness
These ideas are in opposition to each other.
gloss: The apparent relative position of two celestial bodies when one is at an angle of 180 degrees from the other as seen from the Earth.
pos: noun
gloss: A political party or movement opposed to the party or government in power.
pos: noun
examples: leader of the opposition
gloss: In United States intellectual property law, a proceeding in which an interested party seeks to prevent the registration of a trademark or patent.
pos: noun
gloss: A position in which the player on the move must yield with his king allowing his opponent to advance with his own king.
pos: noun
gloss: The difference of quantity or quality between two propositions having the same subject and predicate.
pos: noun
Antonyms: apposition
Derived words: antiopposition
controlled opposition
counter-opposition
counteropposition
His Majesty's Opposition
leader of the opposition
nonopposition
oppositional
oppositionism
oppositionist
opposition parry
opposition research
political opposition
reopposition
square of opposition
Translations:
oppose
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English opposen, from Old French opposer, from Latin ob (“before, against”) + Medieval Latin pono (“to put”), taking the place of Latin opponere (“to oppose”).
Inflected forms:
form: opposes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: opposing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: opposed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: opposed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: no-table-tags
pos: verb
tags: table-tags
form: glossary
pos: verb
tags: inflection-template
form: oppose
pos: verb
tags: infinitive
form: oppose
pos: verb
tags: first-person
present
singular
form: opposed
pos: verb
tags: first-person
past
singular
form: oppose
pos: verb
tags: present
second-person
singular
form: opposest
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
second-person
singular
form: opposed
pos: verb
tags: past
second-person
singular
form: opposedst
pos: verb
tags: archaic
past
second-person
singular
form: opposes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: opposeth
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
singular
third-person
form: opposed
pos: verb
tags: past
singular
third-person
form: oppose
pos: verb
tags: plural
present
form: opposed
pos: verb
tags: past
plural
form: oppose
pos: verb
tags: present
subjunctive
form: opposed
pos: verb
tags: past
subjunctive
form: oppose
pos: verb
tags: imperative
present
form: -
pos: verb
tags: imperative
past
form: opposing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: opposed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
Senses:
gloss: To attempt to stop the progression of; to resist or antagonize by physical means, or by arguments, etc.; to contend against.
pos: verb
examples: to oppose the king in battle
to oppose a bill in Congress
There is still time to oppose this plan.
I am […] too weak / To oppose your cunning.
gloss: To object to.
pos: verb
examples: Many religious leaders oppose cloning humans.
gloss: To present or set up in opposition; to pose.
pos: verb
examples: They are opposed to any form of hierarchy.
, Book I
I may […] oppose my single opinion to his.
[T]hree walls had been left standing, with large intervals between each; and they would certainly oppose a most formidable interruption to an invader.
gloss: To place in front of, or over against; to set opposite; to exhibit.
pos: verb
examples: Her grace sat down […] / In a rich chair of state; opposing freely / The beauty of her person to the people.
Synonyms: be against
fight
check
bar
block
prevent
take on
counter
contest
resist
confront
face
combat
defy
thwart
contradict
withstand
stand up to
hinder
struggle against
obstruct
fly in the face of
take issue with
be hostile to
counterattack
speak out against
be in opposition to
be in defiance of
strive against
set one's face against
take a stand
make a stand against
dispute
Antonyms: support
Related words: opponent
opposer
opposite
opposition
Derived words: opposability
opposable
opposably
opposal
opposee
opposeless
opposure
reoppose
Translations:
socialist
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *sekʷ-
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *sokʷéh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-ṓy
Proto-Indo-European *sokʷh₂ṓy
Proto-Indo-European *-yós
Proto-Indo-European *sokʷyós
Proto-Italic *sokjos
Latin sokios
Latin socius
Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.?
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālis
Latin sociālisbor.
Middle French socialbor.
English social
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)
Proto-Hellenic *-tās
Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs)
Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)bor.
Latin -istader.
Old French -istebor.
Middle English -ist
English -ist
English socialist
From social + -ist.
Inflected forms:
form: more socialist
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most socialist
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: Socialist
pos: adj
tags: alternative
adjective
noun
form: socialists
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Socialist
pos: noun
tags: alternative
adjective
noun
Senses:
gloss: Of, relating to, supporting, or advocating socialism.
pos: adj
examples: ...it must be remembered that in a Socialist farm or manufactory, each labourer would be under the eye not of one master, but of the whole community.
I am convinced there is only one way to eliminate these grave evils, namely through the establishment of a socialist economy, accompanied by an educational system which would be oriented toward social goals.
gloss: One who supports or advocates socialism.
pos: noun
examples: A contest, who can do most for the common good, is not the kind of competition which Socialists repudiate.
Antonyms: capitalist
capitalistic
free enterpriser
Derived words: antisocialist
anti-socialist
champagne socialist
eco-socialist
ecosocialist
Marxian socialist
National Socialist
neosocialist
neo-socialist
palaeosocialist
palaeo-socialist
paleosocialist
paleo-socialist
postsocialist
post-socialist
presocialist
pre-socialist
prosocialist
pro-socialist
pseudosocialist
pseudo-socialist
Radical Socialist
radical socialist
Sacred Heart socialist
Translations:
detonator
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
Etymology: From detonate + -or.
Base: detonate
Affixes: -or
Inflected forms:
form: detonators
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A device used to detonate an explosive device etc.
pos: noun
gloss: A small explosive device attached to the railhead to provide an audible warning when a train passes over it.
pos: noun
tags: UK
examples: Warning messages were relayed to the signalmen at Slough East and Dolphin Junction boxes with such celerity that the up main signals were replaced to danger in front of the express before it finally stopped. The signalman at Dolphin Junction just had time to replace the down main signals and pull the emergency lever to lay detonators in front of the fast approaching 7 p.m. Paddington-Reading train.
gloss: Any explosive whose action is practically instantaneous.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
gloss: A gun fired by a percussion cap.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
Related words: detonate
detonation
blasting cap
Derived words: microdetonator
pencil detonator
Translations:
anonymous
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Borrowed into English around 1600 from Late Latin anonymus, from Ancient Greek ᾰ̓νώνῠμος (ănṓnŭmos, “without name”), from ᾰ̓ν- (ăn-, “un-”) with ὄνῠμᾰ (ónŭmă), Aeolic and Doric dialectal form of ὄνομᾰ (ónomă, “name”). English equivalent anonym + -ous, its full etymology being an- + -onym + -ous.
Base: anonym
Affixes: -ous
Inflected forms:
form: more anonymous
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most anonymous
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Lacking a name; not named, for example an animal not assigned to any species .
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Without any name acknowledged of a person responsible.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: an anonymous pamphlet
an anonymous subscription
anonymous author or painter
gloss: Of unknown name; whose name is withheld
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: an anonymous author
an anonymous benefactor
No customer personal data will be retained unless it is rendered anonymous.
The shift in the balance of power online has allowed anyone to publish to the world, from dispirited teenagers in south London to an anonymous cyber-dissident in a Middle East autocracy.
gloss: Lacking individuality.
pos: adj
tags: comparable
figuratively
examples: an anonymous office block in a soulless industrial estate
Antonyms: onymous
Related words: anomia
anonymal
anonymity
anonymize
anonymosity
pseudonymous
John Doe
unknown
Derived words: anon
anonym
anonymous class
anonymouse
anonymously
anonymousness
anonymous pipe
anonymous proxy
anonymous sculpture
nonanonymous
Translations:
tumult
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Old French tumulte, from Latin tumultus (“noise, tumult”).
Inflected forms:
form: tumults
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Confused, agitated noise as made by a crowd.
pos: noun
examples: Till in loud tumult all the Greeks arose.
gloss: A violent commotion or agitation, often with a confusion of sounds.
pos: noun
examples: the tumult of the elements
the tumult of the spirits or passions
This is what I wanted my story 'Snapshot' to sound like — a very cold surface, with heat and passion beneath. The icy surface is going to break and you're totally engulfed in the tumult.
Football is a game of tumult and glory, of small disappointments and lingering dreams, and Mata has played long enough at the highest level to appreciate these truths.
gloss: A riot or uprising.
pos: noun
Synonyms: uproar
ruckus
hurly-burly
Related words: tumultuous
Translations: