yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
gimbal
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: aerospace
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: Alteration of gemel, from Old French gemel, jumel (“twin”) (French jumeau), from Latin gemellus.
Inflected forms:
form: gimbals
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: gimbals
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: gimbaling
pos: verb
tags: US
participle
present
form: gimballing
pos: verb
tags: UK
participle
present
form: gimbaled
pos: verb
tags: US
participle
past
form: gimbaled
pos: verb
tags: US
past
form: gimballed
pos: verb
tags: UK
participle
past
form: gimballed
pos: verb
tags: UK
past
Senses:
gloss: A device for suspending something, such as a ship's compass, so that it will remain level when its support is tipped.
pos: noun
examples: The lamp wriggled in its gimbals, the barometer swung in circles, the table altered its slant every moment […]
1934, A. E. W. Mason, “The Chronometer,” Chapter II, in Dilemmas, London: Hodder & Stoughton,
He lifted the chronometer off the gimbals on which it was slung in the mahogany case and showed the number engraved upon the bottom.
gloss: To suspend using a gimbal or gimbals.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: 1918, Richard Dehan (Clotilde Graves), That Which Hath Wings, New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, Chapter 32,
[…] he conned his course in masterly fashion by aid of the roller-map, protected by its transparent, rainproof casing, or the compass, clock, altimeter, and other instruments gimballed in the wooden frame in front of the pilot’s seat.
gloss: To move a reaction engine about on a gimbal so as to obtain pitching and yawing correction moments.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To swivel, move on an axis.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
Translations:
glen
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English glen, borrowed from Irish gleann and Scottish Gaelic gleann, Old and Middle Irish glend, glenn (“mountain valley”), from Proto-Celtic *glendos (“valley”), hypothetically from Proto-Indo-European *glend- (“shore”) but the word may have been borrowed from a non-Indo-European substrate language. Compare Manx glion, Welsh glyn. Doublet of glyn.
Inflected forms:
form: glens
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A secluded and narrow valley, especially one with a river running through it; a depression between hills; a dale.
pos: noun
examples: What riches too, of gold and jewels, might not be hidden among those forest-shrouded glens and peaks? And beyond, and beyond again, ever new islands, new continents perhaps, an inexhaustible wealth of yet undiscovered worlds.
Translations:
glom
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Scottish English glom, glaum (“to grab or snatch at”), a variant of clam, claum (“to clutch, seize, grasp, reach for”), from Middle English *clammen, from Old English clæmman (“to pinch, press, inclose”), from Proto-West Germanic *klammjan. Related to clamp.
Inflected forms:
form: gloms
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: glomming
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: glommed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: glommed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: glomb
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: glomp
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: To take.
pos: verb
tags: informal
transitive
examples: Mac glommed a handful of Bott's hair and ear and twisted it, “Ya be listenin' ta me now that I 'ave yer attention. And ifin ya don't, I'll be obliged ta hack off yer pretty little ear wif me blade. Would ya like that, Mr. Mouth,[…]
As soon as I was alone I glommed a quick gander into the bedroom, saw the Bonham punk was resting quietly under the covers. I withdrew, made myself cozy in an easy chair, began burning gaspers and reading magazines.
Currently scripting RKO B westerns, under yet another monicker, the work fronted by a politically acceptable hack writer who glommed a 35 percent cut.
gloss: To grab hold of, seize; catch, grab or latch onto.
pos: verb
tags: informal
intransitive
examples: Winslow glommed at once onto the benefits of such an arrangement. “So I would set the terms, conditions, and whatever fee I chose to pay myself?” “You catch on quick!” said the cuddly clerk impishly.
known what she was thinking, for his mind had glommed at the same time onto the same possibility: that Margo's grumpy but otherwise seemingly harmless, neighbor, whom they had interviewed before, could, after all, be the kidnapper.
Bisexuals, she said, glommed onto lesbians because they feared their fathers, or had been devastated by ex-boyfriends.
In short, blood comes through the artery (arteriole) and material gloms onto the nephron before twisting through the near (proximal) tubes, looping the loop, twisting through the distant (distal) tubes, and collecting itself at the other end.
gloss: To clump up, to seize together into a lump or conglomeration.
pos: verb
tags: informal
intransitive
examples: “The oil pan cracked, the engine seized, and the internal parts glommed together.”
Her frosty red lipstick kept glomming at the corners of her mouth, giving her an unnatural clown frown. Hailey later heard they, too, had divorced. Standing there, facing Leonard's steely gaze and imposing figure, Hailey had no problem[…]
The following day when Fiona had gone to pour the poteen into a smaller bottle so that she could use the bigger one to store cooking oil, nearly a half a dozen undissolved aspirin tablets were glommed at the bottom of the bottle.
Derived words: glommer
glom on
glom onto
glomp
Translations:
glycol
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Ancient Greek γλῠκῠ́ς (glŭkŭ́s)
Akkadian 𒎎𒋆𒁉𒍣𒁕 (guḫlum)bor.
Aramaic כוחלא (kuḥlā)bor.
Arabic كُحْل (kuḥl)
Andalusian Arabic اَلْكُحُول (al-kuḥūl)bor.
Medieval Latin alcoholder.
Middle English alcofol
English alcohol
English -ol
English glycol
From Ancient Greek γλῠκῠ́ς (glŭkŭ́s, “sweet”) + English -ol.
Inflected forms:
form: glycols
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any aliphatic diol.
pos: noun
gloss: A thick, colourless liquid, C₂H₄(OH)₂, of a sweetish taste, produced artificially from certain ethylene compounds and used as an antifreeze; ethylene glycol.
pos: noun
Derived words: butyleneglycol
butylene glycol
chloramphenicol
diethylene glycol
glycol ether
glycolic
glycolmethacrylate
glycol nucleic acid
glycoluric
macrogol
methoxypolyethylene glycol
monoethylene glycol
monomethoxypolyethylene glycol
monopropylene glycol
neopentyl glycol
nitroglycol
polyethylene glycol
polyglycol
polyoxybenzylmethylenglycolanhydride
polypropylene glycol
propylene glycol
thiodiglycol
thioglycol
trigly
Translations:
gnarl
Part of speech: noun
verb
adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Back-formation from gnarled.
Inflected forms:
form: gnarls
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: gnarls
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: gnarling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: gnarled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: gnarled
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A knot in wood; a knurl or a protuberance with twisted grain, on a tree.
pos: noun
gloss: Something resembling a knot in wood, such as in stone or limbs.
pos: noun
gloss: To knot or twist something.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: Gnarled, knotty, twisted.
pos: adj
Derived words: gnarly
gnarley
Translations:
lang: Finnish
word: pahkura
lang: Finnish
word: kyhmy
lang: Spanish
word: nudo
godwit
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Origin unknown. A surface analysis would suggest Old English *gōdwiht as the term's ultimate origin, corresponding to good + wight (“creature”), but the term is attested only since late Middle English. The Oxford English Dictionary considers the term to probably have originally been imitative of the bird's call.
Base: good
Inflected forms:
form: godwits
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of four species of long-billed migratory wading birds in the genus Limosa, of the family Scolopacidae.
pos: noun
examples: My foot-boy shall eat pheasants, calvered salmons, / Knots, godwits, lampreys: I myself will have / The beards of barbels, served instead of salads […]
Translations:
goer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: firefighting
government
Etymology: From Middle English goere, equivalent to go + -er. Compare German Geher (“goer, walker”).
Base: go
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: goers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who, or that which, goes.
pos: noun
examples: Such a man
Might be a copy to these younger times;
Which, follow’d well, would demonstrate them now
But goers backward.
1845, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Letter to Hannah Macaulay dated 19 December, 1845 in G. Otto Trevelyan (ed.), The Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay, New York: Harper, 1875, Volume 2, p. 149,
Lord John has been all day in his inner library. His antechamber has been filled with comers and goers, some talking in knots, some writing notes at tables.
[…] the two classes of men; on the one hand the steady goers of superhuman strength […] plodding and persevering, […]; on the other the gifted, the inspired […]
He despised the museum and its goers for everything they didn’t know.
gloss: Anything, especially a machine such as a motor car, that performs well, or operates successfully.
pos: noun
tags: informal
examples: I bought her secondhand, but she's a good little goer.
gloss: A person, often a woman, who enjoys sexual activity.
pos: noun
tags: UK
slang
examples: Norman: Is your wife a ... goer ... eh? Know what I mean? Know what I mean? Nudge nudge.
He winked at Parsons. "If I'm any judge, she must've bin a right little goer in 'er day."
'[…](Intimate, man to man) Eh, I bet she's a goer, int she sunshine? She's got a fair pair of knockers on her too.'
'I can tell that yer a right little goer, hey Larsie?!' I call over two slappers and slip them a few hundred! Before I know it me and Lars and the two slappers are rolling around a giant bed with the hungriest genitals in Gay Paree!
gloss: A foot (body part).
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
examples: […] a double Mantle cast
A’ thwart his Shoulders, his faire goers g[r]ac’st
With fitted shooes; and in his hand, a Dart
gloss: A horse, considered in reference to its gait.
pos: noun
tags: dated
examples: a safe goer
These Horses, which are very much bought up in England, are remarkable for being good natural Pacers, strong, easy Goers, hardy, gentle, well-broken, and, above all, not apt to tire.
‘I’d like nothing better this minute,’ said Mr Browne stoutly, ‘than a rattling fine walk in the country or a fast drive with a good spanking goer between the shafts.’
gloss: A fire incident in progress.
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: […] multiple calls on Southwark's ground. From the radio traffic it sounded like they had a goer.
Translations:
gravid
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Latin gravō
Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-der.
Proto-Italic *-iðos
Latin -idus
Latin gravidusder.
English gravid
From Latin gravidus (“laden, pregnant”), from gravis (“heavy”).
Inflected forms:
form: more gravid
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most gravid
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Pregnant.
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
examples: In vast state incubators, rows upon rows of gravid bottles will supply the world with the population it requires. The family system will disappear; society, sapped at its very base, will have to find new foundations; and Eros, beautifully and irresponsibly free, will flit like a gay butterfly from flower to flower through a sunlit world.
The gravest problems of obstetrics and forensic medicine were examined with as much animation as the most popular beliefs on the state of pregnancy such as the forbidding to a gravid woman to step over a country stile lest, by her movement, the navelcord should strangle her creature
One slender hand was raised in a graceful gesture gravid with meaning.
The minute she'd settled into the seat next to him, her billowing widow's rig had got redisposed to reveal her neatly gravid waistline, at which, now, he nodded.
Translations:
grout
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English growte, grut, from Old English grūt (“dregs; coarse meal”), from Proto-West Germanic *grūt, from Proto-Germanic *grūtą (compare Dutch gruit (“dregs”), German Grauß, Norwegian grut (“ground”)), lengthening of Proto-Germanic *grutą, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *gʰer- (“to grind, rub”). Related to grit.
Inflected forms:
form: grouts
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: grewt
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: groute
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: grut
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: grouts
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: grouting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: grouted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: grouted
pos: verb
tags: past
form: grewt
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: groute
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: grut
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A thin mortar used to fill the gaps between tiles and cavities in masonry.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Coarse meal; groats.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
countable
uncountable
gloss: Dregs, sediment.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
countable
in-plural
uncountable
examples: grouts of tea
gloss: A kind of beer or ale.
pos: noun
tags: UK
countable
obsolete
uncountable
gloss: To insert mortar between tiles.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: I spent the whole afternoon grouting the kitchen floor.
* Stitching and grouting fractures in masonry, insertion of date marker tabs for monitoring.
gloss: To affix with mortar.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The year before the pandemic, a sump tank attached to a waste pond sprang a leak and had to be grouted shut.
Related words: groat
grits
gruel
Derived words: grouter
grout float
groutlike
grouty
regrout
Translations:
gumbo
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Kimbundu ingomboder.
French gombobor.
▲
French gombo
Louisiana Creole gombobor.
English gumbo
Borrowed from Louisiana French gombo, possibly via Louisiana Creole gombo, from Kimbundu ingombo, plural of kingombo (“okra”); compare Portuguese quingombó.
Inflected forms:
form: gumbos
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: gombo
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of okra: the plant or its edible capsules.
pos: noun
tags: countable
gloss: A soup or stew popular in Louisiana, consisting of a strong stock, meat or shellfish, a thickener (often okra), and the "Holy Trinity" of celery, bell peppers, and onions.
pos: noun
tags: countable
gloss: A fine silty soil that when wet becomes very thick and heavy.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: The team stuck fast in the black muck, and every effort to extricate them served only to imbed them more hopelessly in the sticky gumbo.
There are no poorer roads in all the United States than the "gumbo" roads of the south—gumbo being the name give a certain kind of mud or clay that is particularly sticky, clings tenaciously, seems to have no bottom, and will not support any weight.
The red gumbo soil uttered ugly sucking sounds at the touch of a man's boot.
Derived words: gumbo limbo
gumbo z'herbes
Translations:
gummer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English gum
English -er
English gummer
From gum + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: gummers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person or machine that applies gum.
pos: noun
examples: […] then goes to the gummer, who applies a gum comprising oxide of gold and other ingredients.
gloss: A punch-cutting tool, or machine for deepening and enlarging the spaces between the teeth of a worn saw.
pos: noun
gloss: A cow or sheep etc. that has lost all of its teeth.
pos: noun
Translations:
gunny
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *gʷʰen-
Proto-Indo-European *-tis
Proto-Indo-European *gʷʰéntis
Proto-Germanic *gunþiz
Old Norse gunnr
Proto-Indo-European *kelh₂-der.
Proto-Indo-European *kelh₂tís
Proto-Germanic *hildiz
Old Norse hildr
Old Norse Gunnhildrder.
Middle English gunne
English gun
Proto-Indo-European *-kos
Proto-Germanic *-gaz
Proto-West Germanic *-g
Old English -iġ
Middle English -y
English -y
English gunny
From gun + -y.
Inflected forms:
form: gunnier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: gunniest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Resembling or characteristic of a gun.
pos: adj
tags: informal
gloss: Full of guns or gunplay.
pos: adj
tags: informal
examples: 1918, B. M. Bower, Skyrider
"Aw, ferget them two guns!" Bland surrendered. "This is sure the gunniest country I ever stopped in. Even the Janes–"
Translations:
gyp
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Perhaps from the term gypsy (“Roma”), due to a stereotype of the Roma as swindlers. Compare jew (“defraud”), from Jew, and welsh (“swindle by defaulting on a debt”), from Welsh.
Could also be derived from dupe, with the same pattern (yod coalescence) as idiot becomes eejit in Scottish English.
Inflected forms:
form: gyps
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: gip
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: jip
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: gyps
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: gypping
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: gypped
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: gypped
pos: verb
tags: past
form: gip
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: jip
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A cheat or swindle; a rip-off.
pos: noun
tags: derogatory
offensive
sometimes
examples: Why do we have to buy this new edition of the textbook when there’s almost no difference between it and the previous one? What a gyp!
gloss: Synonym of gypsy (“contra dance step”).
pos: noun
gloss: To cheat or swindle.
pos: verb
tags: derogatory
offensive
sometimes
examples: The cab driver gypped me out of ten bucks by taking the longer route.
You better watch out; they'll try to gyp you if you don't know what you're doing.
They're talkin' bout the night Santa went crazy
The night St. Nicholas flipped
Broke his back for some milk and cookies
Sounds to me like he was tired of gettin' gypped
On Wednesday, Goldberg used a derogatory term associated with Romany people while discussing former president Donald Trump, saying that his supporters are “people who still believe that he got gypped somehow in the election”.
Derived words: full gyp
hall gyp
Translations:
gypsum
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Latin gypsum, from Ancient Greek γύψος (gúpsos). Doublet of gesso.
Inflected forms:
form: gypsums
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: gypsa
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: gypse
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: A mineral consisting of hydrated calcium sulphate. When calcinated, it forms plaster of Paris.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: ...but he has been able to analyze the matter removed, and to prove it, by chemical evidence, to consist of Prussian blue, and gypsum principally.
Besides being abundant, gypsum is easily refined into a powder for plaster or formed into sheets of wallboard.
Translations:
gyrate
Part of speech: verb
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
natural-sciences
Etymology: Back-formation from gyration, on the basis of -ate (verb-forming suffix), from gyre (“to spin around; to gyrate, to whirl; (rare) to make (something) spin or whirl around; to spin, to whirl”) + -ation (suffix indicating actions or processes), further from Late Middle English giren (“to turn (something) away; to cause (something) to revolve or rotate; to travel in a circle”), from Old French girer (“to turn”), from Latin gȳrō (“to turn in a circle, rotate; to circle or revolve around”), from gȳrus (“circle; circular motion; circuit, course”) + -ō (first conjugation verb-forming suffix), from Ancient Greek γῦρος (gûros, “a circle, a ring”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *gew- (“to bend; to curve”). By surface analysis, gyre + -ate (verb-forming suffix).
Base: gyre
Affixes: -ation
Inflected forms:
form: gyrates
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: gyrating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: gyrated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: gyrated
pos: verb
tags: past
form: more gyrate
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most gyrate
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: To revolve round a central point; to move spirally about an axis, as a tornado.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: The stripper gyrated sexily around a pole.
Many companies built up pretariff inventories, and gyrating tariff rates make it tricky for retailers to set prices.
gloss: Having coils or convolutions.
pos: adj
Translations:
hackle
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: fishing
hobbies
lifestyle
Etymology: From Middle English hakle (compare the compound meshakele), from Old English hæcla, hacele, from Proto-Germanic *hakulǭ, equivalent to hack + -le. Cognate with Dutch hekel, German Hechel.
Base: hack
Affixes: -le
Inflected forms:
form: hackles
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: hackles
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: hackling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: hackled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: hackled
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: An instrument with steel pins used to comb out flax or hemp.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: One of the long, narrow feathers on the neck of birds, most noticeable on the rooster.
pos: noun
tags: countable
in-plural
uncountable
usually
gloss: A feather used to make a fishing lure or a fishing lure incorporating a feather.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: By extension (because the hackles of a rooster are lifted when it is angry), the hair on the nape of the neck in dogs and other animals; also used figuratively for humans.
pos: noun
tags: countable
in-plural
uncountable
usually
examples: When the dog got angry, his hackles rose and he growled.
Suppose it happened to be the case that the majority of individuals raised their hackles only when they were truly intending to go on for a very long time in the war of attrition. The obvious counterploy would evolve: individuals would give up immediately when an opponent raised his hackles.
gloss: A type of jagged crack extending inwards from the broken surface of a fractured material.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A plate with rows of pointed needles used to blend or straighten hair.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A feather plume on some soldier's uniforms, especially the hat or helmet.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Any flimsy substance unspun, such as raw silk.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Pluck; courage or energy.
pos: noun
tags: slang
uncountable
examples: "COME ALONG YE GRASS-COMBERS, SHOW some hackle," David Ingram, striding ahead, turned back and called.
gloss: To dress (flax or hemp) with a hackle; to prepare fibres of flax or hemp for spinning.
pos: verb
examples: Then, with a smile that seemed to have all the freshness of the matutinal hour in it, she bent again to her work of hackling flax.
gloss: To separate, as the coarse part of flax or hemp from the fine, by drawing it through the teeth of a hackle or hatchel.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To tear asunder; to break into pieces.
pos: verb
tags: archaic
transitive
examples: the other divisions of the kingdom being hackled and torn to pieces
Derived words: hackleback
hackler
hackly
saddle hackle
hackle up
Translations:
haiku
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 俳(はい)句(く) (haiku), from Middle Chinese 俳 (beaj, “paralleled [writing]”) + 句 (kɨoᴴ, “line”).
Inflected forms:
form: haiku
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: haikus
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A Japanese poem in three lines, the first and last consisting of five morae, and the second consisting of seven morae, usually with an emphasis on the season or a naturalistic theme.
pos: noun
examples: Some of the results resemble haikus.
gloss: A three-line poem in any language, with five syllables in the first and last lines and seven syllables in the second, usually with an emphasis on the season or a naturalistic theme.
pos: noun
examples: Haiku, a poem
five beats, then seven, then five
ends as it began.
Synonyms: hokku
Related words: haikai
senryū: a short humorous poem similar to the haiku
Derived words: haikuish
haikuist
haikulike
limeraiku
mathemaku
pseudohaiku
Translations:
lang: Arabic
word: هَايْكُو
roman: haykū
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 俳句
roman: páijù
lang: Danish
word: haiku
lang: Esperanto
word: hajko
lang: Finnish
word: haiku
lang: French
word: haïku
lang: Georgian
word: ჰაიკუ
roman: haiḳu
lang: German
word: Haiku
lang: Hindi
word: हाइकु
roman: hāiku
lang: Icelandic
word: hæka
lang: Indonesian
word: haiku
lang: Japanese
word: 俳句
roman: haiku
lang: Korean
word: 하이쿠
roman: haiku
lang: Malay
word: haiku
lang: Marathi
word: हाइकु
roman: hāiku
lang: Norwegian
word: haiku
lang: Polish
word: haiku
lang: Portuguese
word: haiku
lang: Portuguese
word: haicai
lang: Russian
word: ха́йку
roman: xájku
lang: Russian
word: хо́кку
roman: xókku
halide
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English hal(ogen)
Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-der.
Proto-Italic *-iðos
Latin -idusder.
English -ide
English halide
From hal(ogen) + -ide.
Inflected forms:
form: halides
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any salt of any halogen acid (such as hydrochloric acid, hydrofluoric acid, or hydroiodic acid).
pos: noun
examples: sulfur halides such as disulfur dichloride
gloss: Any salt of any halogen acid (such as hydrochloric acid, hydrofluoric acid, or hydroiodic acid).
pos: noun
tags: especially
examples: Potassium iodide is a halide.
gloss: The anionic form of a halogen atom (a group 17 element).
pos: noun
examples: Iodide is a halide.
Derived words: acyl halide
alkyl halide
dihalide
halided
hydrogen halide
hydrohalide
metal halide lamp
monohalide
organohalide
oxohalide
oxyhalide
pentahalide
pseudohalide
selenyl halide
tetrahalide
trihalide
vinyl halide
Translations:
lang: Arabic
word: هَالِيت
roman: hālīt
lang: Catalan
word: halur
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 鹵化物 /卤化物
roman: lǔhuàwù
lang: Dutch
word: halogenide
lang: Esperanto
word: halogenido
lang: Farefare
word: yaaride
lang: Finnish
word: halidi
lang: French
word: halogénure
lang: German
word: Halit
lang: German
word: Halogenid
lang: Italian
word: alogenuro
lang: Japanese
word: ハロゲン化物
roman: halogenkabutsu
lang: Kazakh
word: галогенид
roman: galogenid
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: halitt
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: stensalt
lang: Portuguese
word: haleto
lang: Romanian
word: halogenură
lang: Spanish
word: haluro
lang: Swedish
word: bergsalt
lang: Swedish
word: halit
lang: Swedish
word: stensal
lang: Turkish
word: halojenür
lang: Welsh
word: halid
halite
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἅλς (háls, “salt”), + -ite.
Affixes: -ite
Inflected forms:
form: halites
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Native salt; sodium chloride NaCl as a mineral; rock salt.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The surface of halite was always sort of trippy, he thought, like a hallucinogen.
gloss: An oxyanion containing a halogen in the +3 oxidation state.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Synonyms: halogenite
Related words: halitic
Derived words: cryptohalite
hydrohalite
Translations:
hamal
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Arabic حَمَّال (ḥammāl)bor.
English hamal
Borrowed from Arabic حَمَّال (ḥammāl, “porter”).
Inflected forms:
form: hamals
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: hammal
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: hamaul
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: hummal
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: hummaul
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A porter in Turkey and nearby countries.
pos: noun
Translations:
happed
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more happed
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most happed
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Wrapped; covered; cloaked.
pos: adj
tags: Scotland
examples: All happed with flowers in the green wood were.
Translations:
harpy
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
Etymology: Ultimately from Middle French harpie, from Latin harpyia, from Ancient Greek ἅρπυιᾰ (hárpuiă, literally “snatcher”), from ἁρπάζω (harpázō, “to snatch, seize”). Compare rapacious. Middle English had arpie.
Inflected forms:
form: harpies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A mythological creature generally depicted as a bird-of-prey with the head of a maiden, a face pale with hunger and long claws on her hands personifying the destructive power of storm winds.
pos: noun
examples: Both table and provisions vanish'd quite,
With sound of harpies' wings and talons heard.
gloss: A shrewish woman.
pos: noun
tags: derogatory
examples: But her most subtle wiles proved ineffectual in ridding her, even for a moment, of her harpy jailer[…]
[…] Ed Miliband has yet to come up with a definition of “the squeezed middle” that excludes anyone, but you can bet your bottom dollar he has these laptop-wielding harpies in mind.
gloss: One who is rapacious or ravenous; an extortioner.
pos: noun
examples: c. 1772, Oliver Goldsmith, letter to Mrs. Bunbury
The harpies about me all pocket the pool.
gloss: Any of a number of eagle-like birds of prey of the subfamily Harpiinae, especially the species Harpia harpyja.
pos: noun
gloss: The European moor buzzard or marsh harrier (Circus aeruginosus).
pos: noun
Related words: harridan
Derived words: harpy bat
harpy eagle
harpy fly
harpyish
harpylike
Translations:
hasp
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English haspe, hespe, from Old English hæsp, hæpse (“hasp; clasp; fastening”), from Proto-West Germanic *haspijā, from Proto-Germanic *haspijǭ, *hapsijǭ (“hasp”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kamb- (“to bend; crook”).
Cognate with Middle Dutch haspe, Middle Low German haspe, hespe, German Low German Haspel (“spindle of yarn”), German Häspe, Danish haspe, Swedish hasp, Icelandic hespa (“clamp; hasp; skein of yarn”).
Inflected forms:
form: hasps
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: hasping
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: hasped
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: hasped
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To shut or fasten with a hasp, or as with a hasp.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: He is hasped and hooped and hirpling with pain,
limping and looped in it.
Translations:
heaver
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *kap-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *kapyéti
Proto-Germanic *habjaną
Proto-West Germanic *habbjan
Old English hebban
Middle English heven
English heave
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Proto-Italic *-āzijos
Latin -āriusnom.
Latin -āriusbor.
Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz
Proto-West Germanic *-ārī
Old English -ere
Middle English -ere
English -er
English heaver
From heave + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: heavers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who, or that which, heaves or lifts; a laborer employed on docks in handling freight.
pos: noun
examples: a coal heaver
gloss: A bar used as a lever.
pos: noun
examples: The spar snapping under them in the slings, as they sought, with heavers, to beat down the icy sail.
Derived words: coalheaver
Translations:
hedger
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English hegger, equivalent to hedge + -er.
Base: hedge
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: hedgers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who makes or mends hedges.
pos: noun
examples: But what of that vast number of the human kind who were always in the background? What of the hewers of wood and drawers of water, the swineherds, the shepherds, the carpenters, the hedgers and cobblers?
gloss: One who hedges, for example in betting.
pos: noun
Translations:
heeler
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: government
politics
Etymology: Etymology tree
Middle English hele
English heel
English -er
English heeler
From heel + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: heelers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A gamecock that strikes well with its heels or spurs.
pos: noun
gloss: A quick runner.
pos: noun
examples: That a crowd of Sydney stealers,
Jockeys, pugilists and spielers
Brought some horses, real heelers,
Came and put us through.
gloss: A dog that readily comes to heel.
pos: noun
examples: If your dog is a good heeler, you'll find some competition in the obedience ring.
gloss: A dog used for cattle droving.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
examples: [A] blue roan, a kind of dog that Jennifer had never seen before. She asked Tim what it was, and he said it was a "heeler", but when she pressed him to say if that was a breed or not, he could not tell her. It was a heeler because it went for the heels of the cattle and not their heads, apparently.
gloss: A dependent and subservient hanger-on of a political patron.
pos: noun
tags: US
dated
slang
examples: The army of hungry heelers who do their bidding.
gloss: The rodeo performer who ropes the steer by its hind feet after the header has turned it.
pos: noun
gloss: A student journalist at Yale University.
pos: noun
tags: US
Derived words: blue heeler
Lancashire Heeler
ward heeler
Translations:
hetman
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: history
human-sciences
sciences
Etymology: From Polish hetman, probably from Middle High German houbetman, heuptman (“commander”), from Old High German houbitman, from Proto-West Germanic *haubidamann. Compare modern German Hauptmann (“captain”), Haupt, Mann. The Polish e in hetman attests to a borrowing from an East Central German dialect, in which Middle High German -öu- gives -ē-. Doublet of head man.
Inflected forms:
form: hetmans
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: hetmen
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A Cossack headman or general.
pos: noun
gloss: Title used by the second-highest military commander in Poland and Lithuania (15th to 18th century).
pos: noun
Related words: ataman
hegumen
Derived words: hetmanate
hetmanship
Translations:
hex
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: First attested about 1830, from Pennsylvania German hexe (“to practice witchcraft”), from German hexen (compare Hexe (“witch”)). The noun appeared later, in the 1850s. Cognate to Norwegian Bokmål heks (“witch”) and Dutch heks (“witch”), Dutch beheksen (“to bewitch”), Old English hægtesse (“witch, hag”). Doublet of hag.
Inflected forms:
form: hexes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: hexing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: hexed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: hexed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: hexes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To cast a spell on (specifically an evil spell), to bewitch.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: An evil spell or curse.
pos: noun
gloss: A witch.
pos: noun
gloss: A spell (now rare but still found in compounds such as hex sign and hexcraft).
pos: noun
tags: rare
Derived words: dehex
hexcraft
hexology
hex sign
unhex
hexer
Translations:
hexane
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *swéḱs
Proto-Hellenic *hwéks
Ancient Greek ἕξ (héx)
Ancient Greek ἑξα- (hexa-)der.
Latin hexa-der.
English hexa-
English hex-
Proto-Indo-European *-nós
Proto-Italic *-nos
Latin -nus
Latin -ānusder.
English -ane
English hexane
From hex- + -ane.
Inflected forms:
form: hexanes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of five isomeric aliphatic hydrocarbons, C₆H₁₄. They are colorless, volatile liquids.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
hexed
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more hexed
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most hexed
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Cursed; afflicted with bad luck.
pos: adj
Translations:
hilted
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English hilt
English -ed
English hilted
From hilt + -ed.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Having a hilt.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: It was with a hilted knife maybe? I’m told, in the big world it’s bloody knives they use.
Then he became aware of a princely figure in a caftan of green sarcenet clasped about his loins by a long tongued belt from which hung a scimitar hilted in ivory and gold.
gloss: Having a hilt of a specified type.
pos: adj
tags: in-compounds
not-comparable
examples: A steel-hilted sword, inlaid with gold, and decked with a knot of ribbon which fell down in a rich tassel, equipped his side […]
The grim-visaged pirate captain, in his laced cap, rich jacket, and short white knee-trunks, with heavy gold chains round his neck, and jewel-hilted dagger in belt, was a striking and characteristic feature of New York life at the close of the seventeenth century.
Derived words: unhilted
Translations:
hilum
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: anatomy
biology
botany
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin hīlum (“a trifle; a spot on a seed”).
Inflected forms:
form: hila
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: hile
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: hilus
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The eye of a bean or other seed, or the center of that eye; the mark or scar at the point of attachment of an ovule or seed to its base or support.
pos: noun
examples: The hilum is very prominent in some species and nearly flat in others.
On the tip of each corn kernel is a hilum, collectively known as the "black layer," where it is attached to the cob. While corn is growing, nutrients are being transferred from the rest of the cob to the kernels through the hilum.
gloss: The nucleus of a starch grain.
pos: noun
examples: In central hilum starch grains the grain is laid down around the hilum in the form of concentric layers.
gloss: A depression or fissure through which ducts, nerves, or blood vessels enter and leave a gland or organ.
pos: noun
examples: [The pancreas] is a hook-shaped gland, about 15 cm long, that lies transversely across the upper abdomen, with the head in the C-shaped curve of the duodenum[…], extending to the left as the body behind the stomach and ending as the tail lying against the hilum of the spleen.
The shadows of the hila on chest X-ray are mainly formed by the pulmonary arteries (PAs) and some of their main branches and the upper pulmonary veins (PVs).
In the large majority of normal patients, the hila appear equal in size on frontal radiographs; comparison of the two hila is helpful in patients with a unilateral abnormality.
Related words: hilar
Translations:
hoagie
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Uncertain. Often suggested to derive from hog, either in reference to Hog Island, a site of shipyards that employed Italian immigrants (who were supposedly called hoggies and who supposedly packed these sandwiches for lunch), or in reference to pork as an ingredient.
Inflected forms:
form: hoagies
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: hoagy
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: hoggie
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A sandwich made on a long Italian bread or Italian roll.
pos: noun
tags: Mid-Atlantic
Pennsylvania
US
examples: I'm going to Wawa to get a hoagie for lunch. Do any of yuhz want anything?
Translations:
hob
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Related to hub, but the ultimate origin of both words is obscure.
Inflected forms:
form: hobs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: hobs
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: hobbing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: hobbed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: hobbed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A kind of cutting tool, used to cut the teeth of a gear.
pos: noun
gloss: The flat projection or iron shelf at the side of a fire grate, where things are put to be kept warm.
pos: noun
tags: historical
examples: They went into a dingy room lined with books and littered with papers, where there was a blazing fire. A kettle steamed upon the hob, and in the midst of the wreck of papers a table shone, with plenty of wine upon it, and brandy, and rum, and sugar, and lemons.
gloss: The top cooking surface on a cooker. It typically comprises several cooking elements (often four), usually called rings.
pos: noun
tags: Commonwealth
Ireland
UK
examples: And the first sound in the house was the bang, bang of the poker against the raker, as Morel smashed the remainder of the coal to make the kettle, which was filled and left on the hob, finally boil.
gloss: A rounded peg used as a target in several games, especially in quoits.
pos: noun
gloss: A male ferret.
pos: noun
gloss: The hub of a wheel.
pos: noun
examples: August 31 1776, George Washington, letter to the President of Congress
the wheels of the carriages sinking up to the hobs rendered it impossible for our whole force to drag them.
gloss: To create (a gear) by cutting with a hob.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To engage in the process of cutting gears with a hob.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
Derived words: hobless
hot as the hobs of Hell
Translations:
hock
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Clipping of hockamore, from German.
Inflected forms:
form: hocks
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: hocks
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: hocking
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: hocked
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: hocked
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A Rhenish wine, of a light yellow color, either sparkling or still, from the Hochheim region; often applied to all Rhenish wines.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: That night he strolled into the Palette Club about eleven o’clock, and found Trevor sitting by himself in the smoking-room drinking hock and seltzer.
The dinner that they sat down to in the fly-specked dining-room was of boiled beef and carrots, with a turgid ginger pudding to follow, though Grierson went down to the cellar himself and found some dusty bottles of hock, overlooked for years because there was no demand for it in a beer-drinking community.
gloss: To disable by cutting the tendons of the hock; to hamstring; to hough.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Translations:
hogan
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Navajo hooghanbor.
English hogan
Borrowed from Navajo hooghan (“dwelling, house”).
Inflected forms:
form: hogans
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A one-room Native American (especially Navajo) dwelling or lodge, constructed of wood and earth and covered with mud.
pos: noun
examples: The wives of warriors were under strict instructions not to leave their hogans until the men had returned, hopefully successful, from their martial adventures abroad […].
Translations:
hogger
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: ball-games
curling
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Etymology: Etymology tree
English hog
English -er
English hogger
From hog + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: hoggers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who, or that which, hogs.
pos: noun
examples: Against these heroes are the puritans, the hoggers of profit, the shysters, the obfuscators, the do-nothings.
gloss: A stocking without a foot, worn by coal miners at work.
pos: noun
gloss: A marijuana cigarette.
pos: noun
tags: slang
gloss: A shot that comes to rest short of or on the far hog line and is removed from play.
pos: noun
gloss: The engineer of a locomotive.
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: Twenty- five demerit marks would make most hoggers sit up and take notice ; but not Jones.
What had happened was this : A yardgoat crew had gone into this lead and left the gate wide open, and neither the hogger nor the fire boy on the passenger saw this open switch right in broad daylight.
"Go ahead and laugh," snapped the conductor. "But I'll bet this kid will be bossin' a Monarch, maybe even No. 23, long before you get to be hogger of a yardgoat!"
Even though he was a veteran railroader, many white hoggers snubbed him until they saw that he was thoroughly qualified, a response that would not have greeted a new white runner.
Derived words: hogger pump
left lane hogger
right lane hogger
Translations:
holm
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English holm, holme, from Old English holm (“wave, ocean, water, sea, islet”) and Old Norse holmr, holmi (“islet”), both from the Proto-Germanic *hulmaz (“rising ground, hill, island”), from Proto-Indo-European root *kelH- (“to rise, be elevated, be prominent; hill”).
Cognate with Old Saxon holm, Middle Low German holm, German Holm, Middle Dutch holm, Danish holm, Swedish holme, Norwegian Bokmål holme, Icelandic hólmur.
Inflected forms:
form: holms
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: holme
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: Small island, islet.
pos: noun
gloss: An island in a lake, river or estuary; an eyot.
pos: noun
gloss: Any small island, but especially one near a larger island or the mainland, sometimes with holly bushes; an islet, often in Norse-influenced place-names.
pos: noun
tags: Orkney
Scotland
dialectal
gloss: Rich flat land near a river, prone to flooding.
pos: noun
Translations:
holt
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English holt, from Old English holt (“forest, wood, grove, thicket; wood, timber”), from Proto-West Germanic *holt, from Proto-Germanic *hultą (“wood”), from Proto-Indo-European *kald-, *klād- (“timber, log”), perhaps corresponding to a root noun *kél(h₂)d ~ *kól(h₂)d ~ *kl̥(h₂)d- (literally “chopped (wood)”), from Proto-Indo-European *kelh₂-, *kleh₂- (“to beat, hew, break, destroy, kill”).
Cognate with Scots holt (“a wood, copse, thicket”), North Frisian holt (“wood, timber”), West Frisian hout (“timber, wood”), Dutch hout (“wood, timber”), German Holz (“wood”), Icelandic holt (“woodland, hillock”), Old Irish caill (“forest, wood, woodland”), Ancient Greek κλάδος (kládos, “branch, shoot, twig”), Slovene kol (“stake”), Albanian shul (“door latch”). Doublet of hout. See also clade and cladus, possible doublets via Proto-Indo-European.
Inflected forms:
form: holts
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: hoult
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: A small piece of woodland or a woody hill; a copse.
pos: noun
examples: As over Holt and Heath, as thorough Frith and Fell;
[the gale] 'Twould blow like this through holt and hanger.
Once, at our cottage at Dodford, a tiny thatched village under a steep holt full of foxgloves...
gloss: The lair of an animal, especially of an otter.
pos: noun
examples: Where the river begins to slow, at the beginning of the pool, its left bank is bound by the open roots of oak, ash, alder, and sycamore. To hunted otters these trees offered holding as secure as any in the country of the Two Rivers. Harper, the aged hound—he was fourteen years old—knew every holt in the riverside trees of Knackershill Copse, and although he had marked at all of them, only once had he cracked the rib of an otter found in the pool.
Related words: firth
grove
hurst
shaw
thicket
tree
wald
weald
wold
wood
woods
Translations: