yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
shirk
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: First use appears c. 1633, in the publications of Shackerley Marmion, apparently from association with shark (verb), or otherwise directly from German Schurke (“rogue, knave”).
Inflected forms:
form: shirks
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: shirking
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: shirked
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: shirked
pos: verb
tags: past
form: shirks
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To avoid, especially a duty, responsibility, etc.; to stay away from.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: the usual makeshift by which they try to shirk difficulties
Back in school, you ever get busted for trynna walk and have some administrator tell you / "Son, you can shirk your obligations, / and try to be different from your peers, / but responsibility, your future / is gonna find you!"
gloss: To evade an obligation; to avoid the performance of duty, as by running away.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: If you have a job, don't shirk from it by staying off work.
September 7, 1830, Lord Byron, letter to Mr. Murray
One of the cities shirked from the league.
Shapiro and Stiglitz (1984) develop a dynamic model in which firms induce workers to work hard by paying high wages and threatening to fire workers caught shirking.
gloss: To procure by petty fraud and trickery; to obtain by mean solicitation.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: You that never heard the call of any vocation, […] that shirk living from others, but time from yourselves.
gloss: One who shirks, who avoids a duty or responsibility.
pos: noun
examples: I may add here that, coming as the soldiers did from all avocations and stations in life, these details for fatigue often brought together men few of whom had any practical knowledge of the work in hand; so that aside from the shirks, who could work but would not, there were other who would but could not, at least intelligently.
Synonyms: shrink
blow off
cop out
dog
doss
duck
flinch
goldbrick
goof off
lollygag
malinger
procrastinate
shirk
slack off
soldier
swing the lead
weasel out
Related words: lazy
idler
truancy
Derived words: multishirk
shirker
shirky
unshirking
Translations:
interference
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: board-games
chess
games
hobbies
human-sciences
law
lifestyle
linguistics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
sciences
sports
Etymology: From interfere + -ence. The sense in physics was likely introduced by English polymath Thomas Young, which he used as early as 1801 in a paper in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society.
Base: interfere
Affixes: -ence
Inflected forms:
form: interferences
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of interfering with something, or something that interferes.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Somewhat impeded by constant political interference of one sort or another, British Railways are nevertheless pressing ahead with a mammoth modernisation programme; [...]
"With magic in limited use and hidden, it was possible to enhance the various magic resistances of humans, and to keep certain forms of magic from being possible. If magic enters common usage, this interference becomes infeasible."
gloss: The illegal obstruction of an opponent in some ball games.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: They were glued to the TV, as the referee called out a fifteen yard penalty for interference.
gloss: An effect caused by the superposition of two systems of waves.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A distortion on a broadcast signal due to atmospheric or other effects.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: They wanted to watch the game on TV, but there was too much interference to even make out the score on the tiny screen.
gloss: In United States patent law, an inter partes proceeding to determine the priority issues of multiple patent applications; a priority contest.
pos: noun
tags: US
countable
uncountable
gloss: The interruption of the line between an attacked piece and its defender by sacrificially interposing a piece.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A negative or inappropriate language transfer.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Antonyms: noninterference
Derived words: biointerference
catastrophic interference
catcher interference
catcher's interference
co-channel interference
conducted interference
constructive interference
destructive interference
interference drag
interference filter
interference fit
interference fringes
interference maximum
interference microscope
interference pattern
negative interference
pan-assay interference compound
positive interference
quantum interference
RNA interference
run interference
thin-film interference
tortious interference
Translations:
subtract
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: arithmetic
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin subtractus, perfect passive participle of subtrahō (“to draw from beneath; withdraw, remove”); from sub (“under”) + trahō (“to draw, pull, drag”).
Inflected forms:
form: subtracts
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: subtracting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: subtracted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: subtracted
pos: verb
tags: past
form: substract
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: To remove or reduce; especially to reduce a quantity or number.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: If you subtract the $100 for gas from the total cost, it was a fairly inexpensive trip.
I could add and subtract and multiply and divide, but I entered the wilderness when words became equations. […] The axioms of arithmetic imply that when you expand (a + b)², for example, you get a² + 2ab + b² in the following way: (a + b)² is equal to (a + b)(a + b). Each term in one parentheses multiplies the terms in the other: a × a = a² ; a × b = ab; b × a = ab; b × b = b². Combining the terms, a² + ab + ab + b² = a² + 2ab + b². In a similar way, a² – b², a squared number subtracted from another squared number, called a difference of squares, becomes (a – b)(a + b), which becomes a² + ab – ab – b², which is a² – b².
Antonyms: add
summate
Translations:
dejected
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English deject
English -ed
English dejected
From deject + -ed.
Inflected forms:
form: more dejected
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most dejected
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Sad and dispirited.
pos: adj
examples: He looked dejected after hearing the bad news.
The team sat dejected in the locker room after their loss.
feel dejected
look dejected
sit dejected and silent
1818, Benjamin Franklin, Memoirs, Philadelphia: T.S. Manning, Volume I, p. 73,
I pitied poor Miss Read’s unfortunate situation, who was generally dejected, seldom cheerful, and avoided company […]
Translations:
amate
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Spanish (papel) amate (“amate paper”), from Classical Nahuatl āmatl (“paper”).
Inflected forms:
form: amates
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Paper produced from the bark of adult Ficus trees.
pos: noun
gloss: An art form based on Mexican bark painting from the Otomi culture.
pos: noun
Translations:
megabyte
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *méǵh₂s
Proto-Hellenic *mégas
Ancient Greek μέγᾰς (mégăs)der.
English mega-
Proto-Indo-European *bʰeyd-
Proto-Indo-European *bʰéydt
Proto-Germanic *bītaną
Proto-West Germanic *bītan
Old English bītan
Middle English biten
English bite
English byte
English megabyte
From mega- + byte.
Inflected forms:
form: megabytes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One million (10⁶, or 1,000,000) bytes or 1,000 kilobytes.
pos: noun
tags: formal
examples: The IBM 2301 Drum Storage (Figure 20) provides random access storage of approximately 4 million bytes at a data rate of 1.2 megabytes per second.
This 70-megabyte [69,889,536 bytes] data module contains fixed heads in addition to the normal access heads.
AT&T Wireless Services Inc. in Redmond, Washington, is currently offering $1 per megabyte as its cheapest rate for General Packet Radio Service wireless service, which can provide 20K to 40K bit/sec. throughput. But that price is only if a subscriber buys the most megabytes per month now being offered: 200MB of data for $199 a month.
The overage charge on this plan has been reduced to 10 cents per megabyte over the limit. Previously, the company charged 25 cents per megabyte for overages.
gloss: A mebibyte.
pos: noun
tags: informal
examples: One megabyte is 1,048,576 bytes. One megahertz, however is a million Hertz.
Defaults to 2 megabytes (2,097,152 bytes).
By default, each log file [...] is exactly 5 megabytes (5,242,880 bytes) in size.
Synonyms: MB
㎆
Related words: mebibit
mebibyte
megabit
Derived words: submegabyte
Translations:
Serb
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Serbo-Croatian Srbi, from Proto-Slavic *sьrbъ (“ally, Serb, Sorb”), from Proto-Indo-European *ser- (“to protect, watch over”); akin to Latin servo (“to guard, to protect”), Old English searu (“weapons, armor”), Lithuanian sárgas (“watchman”), Ancient Greek ἥρως (hḗrōs, “hero”), Avestan 𐬵𐬀𐬭𐬀𐬌𐬙𐬌 (haraⁱti), 𐬵𐬀𐬎𐬭𐬎𐬎𐬀𐬌𐬙𐬌 (haᵘruuaⁱti, “to guard”). Doublet of Sorb.
Inflected forms:
form: Serbs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person of Serb descent (not necessarily from Serbia). (Compare Serbian.)
pos: noun
examples: Dozens of NATO peacekeepers were injured after they were attacked by ethnic Serbs in northern Kosovo, during protests over the installation of ethnically Albanian mayors.
gloss: Of or pertaining to the Serbs; Serbian.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: A prominent Kosovo Serb politician, Oliver Ivanovic, was shot dead outside his party offices Tuesday morning, halting talks between Kosovar and Serb delegates that had been set to resume that day.
Translations:
finis
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English finis, from Latin fīnis (“end; limit”). Doublet of fin, fine, and finish.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of a book or other work: the end.
pos: noun
examples: He had gone through the work from the title-page to the finis at least forty times, and had just commenced it over again.
Highly providential was the appearance on the scene of Corny Kelleher when Stephen was blissfully unconscious that, but for that man in the gap turning up at the eleventh hour, the finis might have been that he might have been a candidate for the accident ward, […]
Translations:
senti
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Shortened from sentimental.
Inflected forms:
form: more senti
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most senti
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Sentimental, emotional.
pos: adj
tags: India
Pakistan
Philippines
Translations:
sente
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: lisente
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A subdivision of currency, equal to one hundredth of a Lesotho loti.
pos: noun
Translations:
preamble
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
networking
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: From Middle English preamble, from Old French preambule (French préambule), from Medieval Latin praeambulum, from praeambulō (“to walk before”).
Inflected forms:
form: preambles
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: præamble
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: preambles
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: preambling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: preambled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: preambled
pos: verb
tags: past
form: præamble
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A short preliminary statement or remark, especially an explanatory introduction to a formal document or statute.
pos: noun
examples: There was, however, one proposal which, had it reached fruition, might have had far-reaching effects. This was for the amalgamation of the Caledonian, the Edinburgh & Glasgow, and the Scottish Central Railways, for which a Bill was promoted, but rejected by the Parliamentary Committee on the grounds that the preamble was not proved.
The consultation preamble explains: "The planned timetable will be introduced in 2025 once we have completed the necessary steps required to ensure that we have enough resources to do so.
gloss: A syncword.
pos: noun
gloss: A precursor.
pos: noun
examples: High winds are often a preamble to a winter storm.
And lest any man should think her intent was to unnestle ill neighbours, and not to aid good neighbours, or that she was readier to restore what was invaded by others than to render what was in her own hands; see if the time provided not a new occasion afterwards, when through their own division, without the intermise of strangers, her forces were again sought and required; she forsook them not, prevailed so far as to be possessed of the castle of Edinburgh, the principal strength of that kingdom, with peace, incontinently, without cunctations or cavillations, the preambles of a wavering faith, she rendered with all honour and security; and his person to safe and faithful hands; and so ever after during his minority continued his principal guardian and protector.
gloss: To speak or write a preamble; to provide a preliminary statement or set of remarks.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: But these things being beside my main design, I will desist from preambling and come to the materials I have collected towards a history of the Baptists in this province.
Once I was young and had so much more orientation and could talk with nervous intelligence about everything and with clarity and without as much literary preambling as this; in other words this is the story of an unself-confident man, at the same time of an egomaniac.
So, what say we skip the preambling. Is it women? Money? Writer's block?
Related words: prelude
prefatory
Translations:
topless
Part of speech: adj
adv
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: automotive
transport
vehicles
Etymology: Etymology tree
English top
Proto-Indo-European *lewh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *lewHs-der.
Proto-Germanic *leusaną
Proto-Germanic *lausaz
Proto-Germanic *-lausaz
Proto-West Germanic *-laus
Old English -lēas
Middle English -les
English -less
English topless
From top + -less.
Inflected forms:
form: toplesses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Lacking a top.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The sight-seeing bus is topless to allow tourists a better view of the sights.
gloss: Very high; towering.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
poetic
examples: Was this the face that launch'd a thousand ships,
gloss: Not wearing a garment covering the top half of the body; naked from the waist up.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The council voted to allow topless swimmers on the beach.
gloss: Featuring women that are naked from the waist up, often strippers or dancers.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Only her closest friends knew that Jenny was working at a topless bar to help with college expenses.
Driving down your freeways / Midnight alleys roam / Cops in cars, the topless bars / Never saw a woman so alone
She was workin' in a topless place / And I stopped in for beer / I just kept lookin' at the side of her face / In the spotlight so clear.
gloss: Not wearing any clothes on the upper body.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: 'I saw her,' said Neptune, 'sunbaking topless.'
Fort Collins, Colorado has decided it's not worth the money to fight for its ordinance banning women from appearing topless in public.
gloss: A convertible car having the top retracted or otherwise open.
pos: noun
Derived words: topless dress
toplessly
topless meeting
toplessness
topless radio
Translations:
tinder
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English tinder, tunder, tender, tonder, from Old English tynder, from Proto-Germanic *tundrą, *tundrǭ (“tinder”). Compare Saterland Frisian Tunder (“tinder”), Dutch tonder (“tinder”), German Zunder (“tinder”), Swedish tända (“to light, to set on fire”). More at tind.
Inflected forms:
form: tinders
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: tinders
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: tindering
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: tindered
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: tindered
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Small dry sticks and finely-divided fibrous matter etc., used to help light a fire.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Strike on the Tinder, hoa: / Giue me a Taper: […]
gloss: To set fire to; torch.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Is heaven a murderer when its lightning strikes a would-be murderer in his bed, tindering sheets and skin together?
Translations:
sleepout
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From sleep out.
Inflected forms:
form: sleepouts
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A veranda or other outbuilding used as a sleeping area.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
New-Zealand
examples: She could see the dark bulk of the sleepout: no lights there either.
As I squeeze headfirst out of the sleepout, something invisible tugs at my legs.
gloss: an organised group of people sleeping in the open, often as a form of protest or to raise public awareness of an issue such as homelessness.
pos: noun
gloss: a holiday in Africa where travellers sleep away from their home, generally in an open air safari lodge, private home or guest house.
pos: noun
Translations:
unverified
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 verified
English unverified
From un- + verified.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Not yet confirmed; not verified.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The most salacious claims in the dossier are still unverified.
Republicans, though, have seized on the unverified material as part of their broader investigation into the Bidens.
Translations:
Effie
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: business
marketing
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰ
Proto-Indo-European *-s
Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰs
Proto-Italic *eks
Latin ex
Latin ef-
Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁k-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *dʰh₁kyéti
Proto-Italic *θakjō
Proto-Italic *fakjō
Latin faciō
Latin efficiō
Proto-Indo-European *-wós
Proto-Indo-European *-iHwósder.
Latin -īvus
Latin effectivusbor.
French effectifder.
English effective
Old English -iġ
Middle English -y
English -y
▲
Scots -ieinflu.
English -ie
English Effie
From effective + -ie.
Inflected forms:
form: Effies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An annual award given for effective marketing.
pos: noun
examples: Grey Advertising won gold Effies for General Foods' Dream Whip and Swift's Sizzlean, and a pair of gold Effies went to Ally & Gargano for MCI Telecommunications and Pentax.
Translations:
airship
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: compound
Topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
government
law-enforcement
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: From air + ship.
* (jocular British sense): is in imitation of worship "form of address for magistrates et al., possibly also an oblique reference to Colonel Blimp.
Compound parts: air
ship
Inflected forms:
form: airships
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: air-ship
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: air ship
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: airships
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: airshipping
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: airshipped
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: airshipped
pos: verb
tags: past
form: air-ship
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: air ship
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A lighter-than-air aircraft that can be propelled forward through the air as well as steered.
pos: noun
examples: Airships are posited to be cheaper to operate over time than fixed-wing aircraft, but as there are no large fleets, this is hard to prove in practice.
gloss: A police air unit, a police helicopter.
pos: noun
tags: US
gloss: Any aircraft.
pos: noun
tags: informal
examples: On weekends, I liked to spend my time at the airport watching the various airships take off and land.
gloss: A high ranking official of the RAF, viewed as arrogant and distant.
pos: noun
tags: UK
derogatory
in-plural
examples: I only make them to add perhaps a little weight to my view that, whether one thinks of Their Lordships of the Admiralty, or of Their Airships of the Air Ministry, or of Their Coalships of Lansdowne House, or of any other governing body, what is vastly more important than the precise theoretical form of the superstructure is the will—and the capacity—throughout the organisation to make the organisation work.
Then where does the Navy come in, since it is generally agreed that the primary role of the Navy is the protection of our merchant ships? It is obvious that neither their Lordships of the Admiralty nor their Airships of the Air Ministry will relinquish their power without a struggle.
And all the time, ever present but out of sight, "their Airships,” as they called the RAF top brass, were also watching, praying.
But their Airships insisted that we fly there.
Trespassing on superior ground was frowned upon, and although it was difficult to look serious, and infra dig to salute when wearing only swimming trunks, a deferential nod on passing their Airships was expected and its absence noted!
For the Air Council – 'their airships', in counterpoint to the Board of Admiralty – nuclear deterrence and the manned bomber were the overriding concerns of the postwar era.
"Their Airships back in London didn't give a bugger about Malta," he [Tom Neil] says
An advance party from No 1 Flight had travelled this route some days previously to wherever 'Their Airships' decreed.
Still, when their Airships said 'Jump', we minions invariably replied 'How high?'
gloss: To transport goods by aircraft.
pos: verb
Derived words: airship carrier
airship tender
vacuum airship
Translations:
airstrip
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Latin āēr
Old French airbor.
Middle English aire
English air
English strip
English airstrip
From air + strip.
Inflected forms:
form: airstrips
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An aircraft landing field, usually with one runway and only basic facilities.
pos: noun
examples: The outfitter deposited us at a small airstrip out in the bush, promising to pick us up again in a week's time.
Translations:
missa
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
Etymology: From Ecclesiastical Latin missa (“mass”).
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: a mass, in the sense of a composition setting several sung parts of the liturgical service (most often chosen from the ordinary parts Kyrie, Gloria, Credo, Agnus Dei and/or Sanctus) to music, notably when the text in Latin is used (as long universally prescribed by Rome)
pos: noun
Translations:
orbicular
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
Etymology: From the Late Latin orbiculāris, from Latin orbiculus, diminutive of orbis (“orb”).
Inflected forms:
form: more orbicular
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most orbicular
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Circular or spherical in shape; round.
pos: adj
examples: […] the Method used by Sailors when they mutiny, by signing their names in an orbicular manner, which they call a round Robin; […]
The whole covey of victims was thus netted; the household ruin was thus full and orbicular; and in that proportion the tendency of men and women, flutter as they might, would be helplessly and hopelessly to sink into the all-conquering hands of the mighty murderer.
gloss: Of a muscle, surrounding an opening; compare orbicularis.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Related words: orb
orbicularly
orbicularity
Derived words: hemiorbicular
orbicular stigma
semiorbicular
suborbicular
Translations:
changer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English chaungere, chaungeour (“moneychanger”); equivalent to change + -er.
Base: change
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: changers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Someone or something who changes things.
pos: noun
examples: She bought a coin changer for her pool bar.
gloss: Someone or something that changes or transforms itself.
pos: noun
gloss: A moneychanger; a person employed in changing or discounting money.
pos: noun
Derived words: autochanger
career changer
CD changer
channel changer
diaper changer
gamechanger
game changer
gender changer
money changer
multichanger
namechanger
nappy changer
no changer
record changer
shapechanger
tap changer
voice changer
Translations:
quackery
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: law
medicine
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Middle Dutch quacsalven
Dutch quacksalverbor.
English quacksalverclip.
English quack
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Proto-Italic *-āzijos
Latin -āriusnom.
Latin -ārius
Old French -ier
Proto-Indo-European *-yós
Proto-Italic *-ios
Old Latin -ios
Latin -ius
Latin -ia
Old French -ie
Old French -eriebor.
Middle English -erie
English -ery
English quackery
From quack + -ery.
Inflected forms:
form: quackeries
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The practice of fraudulent medicine, usually in order to make money or for ego gratification and power; health fraud.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: When no certain cure exists, quack remedies tend to proliferate and the history of quackery and secret cures is full of extraordinary forms of treatment for the various arthritic disorders.
gloss: An instance of practicing fraudulent medicine.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: […] the manifold and serpentine wiles and evasions, shufflings and fencings, deceits and dissimulations, he had practised —the bunkums and the quackeries, […]
Related words: quack
fraud
snake oil
Derived words: antiquackery
Translations:
bats
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more bats
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most bats
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Mad, insane.
pos: adj
tags: informal
examples: You must be bats to go out in the cold without a coat on.
"Don't be so bats, Binns! Why should anyone want to pinch just one boot?"
"He might have been a chap with only one leg."
Translations:
persuader
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: broadcasting
business
construction
engineering
manufacturing
mechanical-engineering
mechanics
media
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
printing
publishing
television
Etymology: Etymology tree
English persuade
English -er
English persuader
From persuade + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: persuaders
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who, or that which, persuades, literally or figuratively.
pos: noun
examples: […] purſued his vnneighbourly purpoſe in ſuch ſort: that hee being the ſtronger perſwader, and ſhe (belike) too credulous in beleeuing or elſe ouer-feeble in reſiſting, from priuate imparlance, they fell to action; and continued their cloſe fight a long while together, vnſeene and vvithout ſuſpition, no doubt to their equall ioy and contentment.
gloss: One who, or that which, persuades, literally or figuratively.
pos: noun
tags: euphemistic
informal
examples: It's true that a good worker doesn't misuse a hammer, and it's also true that a good worker knows that sometimes using a persuader to expedite a task is appropriate for efficiency.
gloss: One who, or that which, persuades, literally or figuratively.
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
historical
examples: Next fit the quoins, using the “persuader” to squeeze in the pages, and tap up all around.
gloss: One who, or that which, persuades, literally or figuratively.
pos: noun
examples: These electrons are guided to the second dynode by the resultant electric field of this dynode and the persuader.
gloss: One who, or that which, persuades, literally or figuratively.
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: He had very long legs, which he carried far back, and made most liberal use of his persuaders, so that what with his weight, and what with his style of riding, his horses were far from enjoying a sinecure.
The Squire laboured under a similar difficulty, and his persuaders were as busily at play as Jacob's. When, however, the horses had caught their second wind, they mended the places of their riders, and carried them closer to the flying chase.
Related words: persuadable
persuasion
unpersuadable
Translations:
dihedral
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
chemistry
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: From di- + -hedral.
Base: di
Inflected forms:
form: dihedrals
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An angle between two plane surfaces
pos: noun
gloss: The upward slope of an aircraft's wing
pos: noun
gloss: The angle between pairs of chemical bonds separated by a third bond
pos: noun
gloss: Consisting of, relating to or contained between two plane surfaces.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: dihedral angle
gloss: Having wings that form a dihedral angle, especially when the angle between the upper sides is less than 180°.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Of wing pairs, inclined at an upward angle to each other.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Antonyms: anhedral
Derived words: dihedral angle
dihedral group
nondihedral
pseudodihedral
semidihedral
Translations:
anhedral
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: aeronautics
aerospace
business
chemistry
engineering
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: From an- + -hedral.
Base: an
Inflected forms:
form: more anhedral
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most anhedral
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: anhedrals
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Lacking sharp, recognisable crystal faces.
pos: adj
gloss: the downward slope of an aircraft’s wing
pos: noun
Antonyms: euhedral
dihedral
Translations:
industrialize
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₁én
Proto-Indo-European *dó
univ.
Proto-Indo-European *h₁n̥dó
Old Latin endo
Latin indu
Proto-Indo-European *ster-
Proto-Indo-European *sterh₃-
Proto-Indo-European *strew-
Proto-Indo-European *-eti
Proto-Indo-European *stréweti
Proto-Italic *strowō
Latin struō
?
Latin industrius
Proto-Indo-European *-yós
Proto-Italic *-ios
Old Latin -ios
Latin -ius
Latin -ia
Latin industrialbor.
French industrie
French -iel
French industriel
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)bor.
Late Latin -izārebor.
Old French -iser
French -iser
French industrialiserbor.
English industrialize
Borrowed from French industrialiser.
Inflected forms:
form: industrializes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: industrializing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: industrialized
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: industrialized
pos: verb
tags: past
form: industrialise
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: To develop industry; to become industrial.
pos: verb
tags: British
English
Oxford
US
gloss: To organize along industrial lines.
pos: verb
tags: British
English
Oxford
US
Antonyms: deindustrialize
Derived words: agroindustrialize
industrializable
industrialization
industrializer
overindustrialize
reindustrialize
Translations:
acyl
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱ-
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁ti
Proto-Indo-European *-yeti
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁yeti
Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱéh₁yeti
Proto-Italic *akēō
Latin aceō
Proto-Indo-European *swel-der.?
Ancient Greek ῡ̔́λη (hū́lē)der.
Frenchder.
English -yl
English acyl
Ultimately from Latin ac(eō) + -yl.
Affixes: -yl
Inflected forms:
form: acyls
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of class of organic radicals, RCO-, formed by the removal of a hydroxyl group from a carboxylic acid.
pos: noun
examples: From ethyleneoxides or ethyleneimines carrying an acyl substituent, with hydrazine and its derivatives (Ch. 3. XV).
Translations:
anhydride
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *né
Proto-Indo-European *n̥-
Proto-Hellenic *ə-
Ancient Greek ᾰ̓- (ă-)
Ancient Greek ἀν- (an-)der.
English an-
Proto-Indo-European *wed-
Proto-Indo-European *-r̥
Proto-Indo-European *wódr̥
Proto-Hellenic *údōr
Ancient Greek ῡ̆̔́δωρ (hū̆́dōr)
Ancient Greek ῠ̔δρο- (hŭdro-)der.
English hydro-
Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-der.
Proto-Italic *-iðos
Latin -idusder.
English -ide
English hydride
English anhydride
From an- + hydride. Compare anhydrous and -ide.
Base: hydride
Affixes: an-
Inflected forms:
form: anhydrides
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any compound formally derived from another (or from others) by the loss of a water molecule, especially acid anhydrides.
pos: noun
Translations:
ionic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₁ey-
Proto-Indo-European *h₁éyti
Proto-Hellenic *éimi
Ancient Greek εἶμι (eîmi)der.
English ion
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Latin -icuslbor.
Old French -iquebor.
Middle English -ik
English -ic
English ionic
From ion + -ic.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: of, relating to, or containing ions
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
picked
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
entertainment
lifestyle
music
natural-sciences
zoology
Inflected forms:
form: more picked
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most picked
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Having a pick, or a particular number/type of pick (in any sense of the word)
pos: adj
tags: often
gloss: Chosen; selected.
pos: adj
examples: For instance, in the year 1582 Akbar, who was a philosopher and a humorist as well as a model ruler, sent an invitation to the 'wise men among the Franks' at Goa to journey to Agra, there to meet in public controversy before him a picked band of Mohammedan mullas and prove the superiority of their faith.
gloss: Played by picking the strings
pos: adj
gloss: Having a pike or spine on the back.
pos: adj
examples: the picked dogfish
gloss: fine; spruce; smart; precise; dainty
pos: adj
tags: obsolete
examples: He is too / picked, too spruce, too affected, too odd, as it were, / too peregrinate, as I may call it.
Why then I suck my teeth and catechize / My picked man of countries:
gloss: pointed; sharp
pos: adj
tags: obsolete
examples: […] an useful bow a skilful bowyer wrought, / Which picked and polished both the ends he hid with horns of gold.
A very good way to take them, is to drive a stake into the ground about four foot high above the surface of the earth: Let the stake be made picked at the top, that the jay may not settle on it.
Derived words: handpicked
hand-picked
pickedness
picked-strings
prepicked
Translations:
sibilant
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonetics
phonology
sciences
Etymology: From Latin sībilāns, present active participle of sībilō (“to hiss”).
Inflected forms:
form: more sibilant
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most sibilant
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: sibilants
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Characterized by a hissing or hushing sound such as the s or sh in sack or shack.
pos: adj
examples: She had a curious habit of prefacing everything she said with a soft sibilant sound.
"S-s-s Grace," she said, "it's just like I was telling Brother Hutson the other day. 'S-s-s Brother Hutson,' I said, 'looks like we're fighting a losing battle, a losing battle.' I said."
gloss: A consonant having a hissing or hushing sound such as the s or sh in sack or shack.
pos: noun
examples: Groove fricatives all have more or less of an [s]-like quality, and are for this reason sometimes called sibilants.
Translations:
yahoo
Part of speech: noun
intj
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
cryptozoology
natural-sciences
zoology
Etymology: From Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift, where Yahoo is the name of a race of brutes.
Inflected forms:
form: yahoos
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: yahoos
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: yahooing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: yahooed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: yahooed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A rough, coarse, loud or uncouth individual.
pos: noun
tags: derogatory
gloss: A humanoid cryptid said to exist in parts of eastern Australia, and also reported in the Bahamas.
pos: noun
examples: 1835, James Holman, Travels, quoted by Malcolm Smith, Bunyips and Bigfoots (Millennium Books, 1996, →ISBN), who notes that the Australian sense almost certainly derives from Gulliver's Travels, despite Holman's report
The natives are greatly terrrified by the sight of a person in a mask calling him "devil" or Yah-hoo, which signifies evil spirit.
gloss: Exclamation of joy or enjoyment.
pos: intj
examples: "Yahoooooo! Give her some stick!"
gloss: Battle cry.
pos: intj
gloss: To give a cry of yahoo.
pos: verb
tags: informal
intransitive
transitive
Derived words: Netanyahoo
Yahoo!
Translations:
implausible
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *né
Proto-Indo-European *n̥-
Proto-Italic *n̥-
Latin in-bor.
Middle English in-
English im-
English plausible
English implausible
From im- + plausible.
Inflected forms:
form: more implausible
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most implausible
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Not plausible; unlikely; dubious.
pos: adj
examples: Harper finds the idea that Latin developed into the modern Romance languages too implausible to believe.
Translations:
assertive
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Borrowed from Medieval Latin assertīvus. Synchronically analyzable as assert + -ive.
Base: assert
Affixes: -ive
Inflected forms:
form: more assertive
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most assertive
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Boldly self-assured; confident without being aggressive.
pos: adj
examples: Hence the ubiquity of Priapus himself as a sculptural representative of the generative principle, populated the Roman gardens, assertive in ithyphallic pose.
gloss: Pungent.
pos: adj
examples: an assertive taste or odor
Related words: assertative
Derived words: assertively
assertiveness
hyperassertive
nonassertive
overassertive
self-assertive
subassertive
unassertive
underassertive
Translations:
esky
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Esky (“brand name”), a brand name originally owned by Malley's Ltd, of Sydney, Australia, from 1952; since genericised. From Esk(imo) + -ie.
Base: Eskimo
Affixes: -ie
Inflected forms:
form: eskies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An insulated picnic cooler, using ice or refrigerated blocks to keep food and drinks cool.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
examples: The rear of the cab was stacked with boxes of soft drinks and ‘Eskis’.
Instructions followed for the package to be covered with clean ice in a six-pack esky (which should be big enough), and stored in a cool room at the hotel or the butcher shop, until the arrival of the mail plane.
Translations:
self-satisfied
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *swé?
Proto-Indo-European *selbʰ-der.
Proto-Germanic *selbaz
Old English self
Old English self-
Middle English self-
English self-
English satisfied
English self-satisfied
From self- + satisfied.
Inflected forms:
form: more self-satisfied
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most self-satisfied
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Satisfied with oneself, especially over-satisfied; smug; slightly arrogant.
pos: adj
examples: He stood back and looked at his project with a self-satisfied expression.
From another point of view, it was a place without a soul. The well-to-do had hearts of stone; the rich were brutally bumptious; the Press, the Municipality, all the public men, were ridiculously, vaingloriously self-satisfied.
And there he stood, as uncouth as ever, naked as the day he was born, but fatter and chinnier and even more self-satisfied […]
Translations:
anagnorisis
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek ἀναγνώρισις (anagnṓrisis), from ἀναγνωρίζειν (anagnōrízein, “to recognise, discover”).
Inflected forms:
form: anagnorises
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The moment in the plot of a drama in which the hero makes a discovery that explains previously unexplained events or situations; a denouement.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: His heroines never have a true anagnorisis because the moral fault is never in themselves, only in outside conspirators.
Translations:
zaftig
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Yiddish זאַפֿטיק (zaftik), cognate to German saftig (“juicy”). Doublet of sappy.
Inflected forms:
form: more zaftig
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most zaftig
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: zoftig
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: zaftige
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Having a plump and sexually attractive figure; voluptuous, well-proportioned; large.
pos: adj
tags: US
colloquial
examples: By his description the same broad. A zaftige piece too, in a mink stole.
Sportcasters are drawn from three different talent pools. Some are professional media people, others are ex-coaches and the most zaftig lot are ex-players.
Well, a certain zaftig coed told this on herself. She tried to give her all to Brainy in exchange for a passing grade in the general math course necessary to any degree on our campus. […] "Brainy" didn't accept, didn't refuse, wasn't offended, didn't seem to understand. He told her that she had better talk to her instructor about getting tutoring and a re-exam. Now Miss Zaftig is circulating the story that Prof "No Brain" must be a eunuch or a robot. Not even a homo. Totally sexless.
But I've been waiting for you just to say / The zoftig chick is mine / But all I know is you got no money / But that's got nothing to do with a good time
Mrs Stahlbaum, a much more zaftig figure than the Housekeeper, wears a strawberry blonde wig with bangs, her hair tied back in a bun.
1995 Clinton has his first sexual encounter with zaftig intern Lewinsky.
And being fatter at the outset meant you had more to offer; scrawnier mothers were consumed sooner than their more zaftig counterparts, which then meant that the young spiders were less likely to turn from their parent to an arguably even more unsavory occupation: eating each other.
Tor's “old lady,” Bari, is a warmer zaftig presence.
Translations:
ardor
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₂eHs-
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁ti
Proto-Indo-European *-yeti
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁yeti
Proto-Indo-European *h₂eHs-eh₁yeti
Proto-Italic *āzēō
Latin āreō
Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-der.
Proto-Italic *-iðos
Latin -idus
Latin āridus
Latin ārdus
▲
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁yeti
Proto-Italic *-ēō
Latin -eō
Latin ārdeō
Proto-Indo-European *-os
Proto-Indo-European *-s
Proto-Indo-European *-ōs
Proto-Italic *-ōs
Latin -or
Latin ārdorbor.
Old French ardur
Anglo-Norman ardourbor.
Middle English ardour
English ardor
From Middle English ardour, ardowr, ardure, from Anglo-Norman ardour, from Old French ardur, from Latin ardor, from ardere (“to burn”).
Inflected forms:
form: ardors
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: ardour
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Canada
UK
Senses:
gloss: Great warmth of feeling; fervor; passion.
pos: noun
tags: US
countable
uncountable
examples: I rushed towards her, and embraced her with ardour; but the deathly languor and coldness of the limbs told me, that what I now held in my arms had ceased to be the Elizabeth whom I had loved and cherished.
gloss: Spirit; enthusiasm; passion.
pos: noun
tags: US
countable
uncountable
gloss: Intense heat.
pos: noun
tags: US
countable
uncountable
Antonyms: apathy
Translations:
ardour
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: ardours
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: UK, Canada, and Australia spelling of ardor.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: I rushed towards her, and embraced her with ardour; but the deathly languor and coldness of the limbs told me, that what I now held in my arms had ceased to be the Elizabeth whom I had loved and cherished.
The purpose of my visit, and the frightful abnormalities it postulated struck at me all at once with a chill sensation that nearly over-balanced my ardour for strange delvings.
Translations:
baptize
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: Christianity
Etymology: From Middle English baptisen, baptizen, from Old French baptiser, batisier, from Ecclesiastical Latin, Late Latin baptizāre, from Ancient Greek βαπτίζω (baptízō, “to immerse, plunge, baptize”).
Inflected forms:
form: baptizes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: baptizing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: baptized
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: baptized
pos: verb
tags: past
form: baptise
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: To perform the sacrament of baptism by sprinkling or pouring water over someone or immersing them in water.
pos: verb
tags: British
English
Oxford
US
examples: I vvas baptized in thy Cordiall vvater, againſt Original ſinne, and I haue drunke of thy Cordiall Blood, for my recouerie, from actuall, and habituall ſinne, in the other Sacrament.
gloss: To Christianize.
pos: verb
tags: British
English
Oxford
US
figuratively
examples: Ample evidence for this transfer of divine imagery can be found in early Christian times, when the Mother of God took over the titles, shrines, iconography and power of the great mother goddess of the Mediterranean world. This "baptizing" of pagan imagery was a successful missionary strategy that allowed Christianity to attract peoples accustomed to female deities while still maintaining faith in God as Father, Son and Holy Spirit
gloss: To dedicate or christen.
pos: verb
tags: British
English
Oxford
US
gloss: Of rum, brandy, or any other spirits, to dilute with water.
pos: verb
tags: British
English
Oxford
US
archaic
slang
examples: There's a good tavern nearby where they don't baptize liquor!
In 1833 Charles Kingsley wrote of the Royal Victora Hall in the Waterloo Road as 'a licensed pit of darkness'. The darkness remained unrelieved until, in 1880, Miss Emma Cons took over the lease and baptized the drinks that were served at the bar and the songs that were sung on the stage.
The general practice in the West Indies was to baptize, add color, and otherwise adulterate rum to make it appear better.
gloss: To ensure proper burning of a joint by moistening the exterior with saliva.
pos: verb
tags: British
English
Oxford
US
slang
gloss: To extinguish the life of.
pos: verb
tags: British
English
Oxford
US
slang
examples: Nigga actin tough on the net, Imma baptize him, .223 shells and he’s shot like I am Mad Ryan
Put him in a coffin, hold him one year, he is no longer
Fucking on an opp nigger, bitch he sayin “go longer!”
I'm on frontstreet over them sides
Catch an opp lackin', leave him baptised
Bro up the Glock, don't freeze
Big rambo, inject with ease (Wet that)
Related words: anabaptize
baptism
baptist
baptistry
baptization
Derived words: baptizable
baptizand
baptizee
baptizement
baptizer
baptizing
debaptize
rebaptize
unbaptize
Translations: