yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
portcullis
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English portcolyse, from Old French porte colëice, from porte (“door”) + feminine of colëiz (“sliding”), ultimately from Latin colāre.
Inflected forms:
form: portcullises
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: portcullisses
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: portculli
pos: noun
tags: plural
rare
form: portscullis
pos: noun
tags: plural
rare
form: percullice
pos: noun
tags: alternative
archaic
form: portclose
pos: noun
tags: alternative
archaic
form: portculleis
pos: noun
tags: alternative
archaic
form: portculles
pos: noun
tags: alternative
archaic
form: port cullis
pos: noun
tags: alternative
archaic
form: port-cullis
pos: noun
tags: alternative
archaic
form: portcluse
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: portculis
pos: noun
tags: alternative
rare
form: portecullis
pos: noun
tags: alternative
rare
form: porte-cullis
pos: noun
tags: alternative
rare
form: portcullises
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: portcullisses
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: portcullising
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: portcullissing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: portcullised
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: portcullised
pos: verb
tags: past
form: portcullissed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: portcullissed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: percullice
pos: verb
tags: alternative
archaic
form: portclose
pos: verb
tags: alternative
archaic
form: portculleis
pos: verb
tags: alternative
archaic
form: portculles
pos: verb
tags: alternative
archaic
form: port cullis
pos: verb
tags: alternative
archaic
form: port-cullis
pos: verb
tags: alternative
archaic
form: portcluse
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: portculis
pos: verb
tags: alternative
rare
form: portecullis
pos: verb
tags: alternative
rare
form: porte-cullis
pos: verb
tags: alternative
rare
Senses:
gloss: A gate in the form of a grating which is lowered into place at the gateway of a castle, a fort, etc.
pos: noun
gloss: An old English coin from the reign of Elizabeth I, minted for the use of the East India Company, and bearing the picture of a portcullis on the reverse.
pos: noun
tags: historical
gloss: To obstruct with, or as with, a portcullis; to shut; to bar.
pos: verb
examples: […]Within my mouth you haue engaold my tongue, / Doubly portculliſt with my teeth and lippes[…]
Related words: barbican
Translations:
drawbridge
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English drawebrigge; by surface analysis, draw + bridge.
Inflected forms:
form: drawbridges
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A hinged bridge which can be raised (to prevent its being crossed, as across a moat, or to allow watercraft to travel beneath it).
pos: noun
examples: Near-synonym: bascule bridge
I might jump an open drawbridge, or Tarzan from a vine / 'Cause I'm the unknown stuntman that makes Eastwood look so fine
gloss: A tendency to provide only limited access.
pos: noun
tags: attributive
figuratively
examples: drawbridge mentality
I looked at her with wide eyes, and the drawbridge of her reserve fell instantly.
"Yeah, some people have a drawbridge mentality,” remarks Barry.“They move to an island and then they think that nobody else should be let in after them. […]
And He gave me the steps I needed to take to let down the drawbridge of my heart again.
They push against the drawbridge of my mind, shaking me to the core.
Derived words: drawbridged
drawbridge mentality
pull up the drawbridge
Translations:
obsession
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Latin obsessio (“a besieging”), from obsidere (“to besiege”); see obsess. Equivalent to obsess + -ion.
Base: obsess
Affixes: -ion
Inflected forms:
form: obsessions
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The quality of being obsessed; an unshakeable feeling that one topic or activity must be pursued above other interests.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: My obsession with rugby resulted in me spending years following the sport.
gloss: An idea that engenders a compulsive or irrational preoccupation, or the preoccupation thereby engendered.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: The downfall of the chairman is an obsession that consumes Laura's time.
gloss: An activity or entity that inspires a compulsive and potentially unhealthy fixation, or the fixation thereby inspired.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: Editing Wikipedia started as a hobby, but it's turned into a complete obsession of mine.
His current obsession is getting that law passed.
gloss: Influence or control by evil spirits without possession.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: if an evil spirit counterfeits the presence of God, and comes upon the man as an influence only, it may be described as obsession; but when a footing is gained in him, it is "possession," because the obsessing spirits have gained access, and possess the ground they hold, up to the extent of the ground given.
They should see that a perception of their identification with the Victor of Calvary is absolutely necessary if they are to constantly and victoriously resist the obsession of evil spirits.
It is true, that by the workings of the law of attraction, and the susceptibility of mortals to the influence of spirit powers, mortals may become obsessed by the spirits of evil—that is evil spirits of men who once lived on earth—and this obsession may become so complete and powerful that the living mortal may lose all power to resist this influence of the evil spirits...
Related words: obsess
obsessed
obsessional
obsessive
obsessively
Derived words: celebrity obsession disorder
obsessionism
obsessionist
self-obsession
Translations:
Oxbridge
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: Blend of Oxford + Cambridge.
Compound parts: Oxford
Cambridge
Inflected forms:
form: more Oxbridge
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most Oxbridge
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of or related to Oxbridge.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
usually
examples: The applicants are mostly Oxbridge, so you'd better watch out.
gloss: Evoking the idea of Oxbridge.
pos: adj
tags: comparable
not-comparable
usually
examples: We ate a formal dinner at high table after the service. It all felt very Oxbridge.
Translations:
vendor
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
software
Etymology: Borrowed from Anglo-Norman vendor (Old French vendeor), from Latin venditor (“seller”), from vendere (“to sell, cry up for sale, praise”), contraction of venundare, venumdare, also, as originally, two words venum dare (“to sell”), from venum (“sale, price”) + dare (“to give”).
Inflected forms:
form: vendors
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: vender
pos: noun
tags: alternative
dated
form: vendors
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: vendoring
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: vendored
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: vendored
pos: verb
tags: past
form: vender
pos: verb
tags: alternative
dated
Senses:
gloss: A person or a company that vends or sells.
pos: noun
examples: […] Tanee was accosted by certain good fellows, friends and boon companions, who condoled with him on his misfortunes—railed against the queen, and finally dragged him away to an illicit vender of spirits, in whose house the party got gloriously mellow.
Travel is enlivened not only by the mixed company of French, Berbers, Arabs, and descendants of the Mediterranean-Corsairs who sit together indiscriminately, but also by itinerant vendors of macaroons, sweetmeats and the like, who, as long as they have a travel ticket, ply their wares unhindered by the [ticket] collectors.
gloss: A vending machine.
pos: noun
examples: She left her duties guarding the cola vendor and brushed past Earl to the aisle with the creamed corn.
gloss: To bundle third-party dependencies with the source code for one's own program.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: I distributed my application with a vendored copy of Perl so that it wouldn't use the system copies of Perl where it is installed.
gloss: As the software vendor, to bundle one's own, possibly modified version of dependencies with a standard program.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Strawberry Perl contains vendored copies of some CPAN modules, designed to allow them to run on Windows.
Synonyms: merchant
seller
Related words: vend
vending machine
vendue
Derived words: ice cream vendor
vendor-agnostic
vendor bid
vendor locator
Translations:
nympha
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: anatomy
biology
entomology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
Etymology: From Latin nympha, from Ancient Greek νύμφη (númphē, “bride, nymph”). Doublet of nymph.
Inflected forms:
form: nymphae
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A nymph.
pos: noun
gloss: Each of the labia minora.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
gloss: Each of a pair of processes in certain bivalves, to which the ends of the external ligament are attached.
pos: noun
Derived words: nymphitis
Translations:
nymph
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
entomology
fishing
hobbies
human-sciences
lifestyle
mysticism
mythology
natural-sciences
philosophy
sciences
Etymology: From Middle English nimphe, from Old English nymphē and Old French nimphe, both from Latin nympha (“nymph, bride”), from Ancient Greek νύμφη (númphē, “bride”). Doublet of nympha.
Inflected forms:
form: nymphs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: nymphae
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: nymphe
pos: noun
tags: alternative
archaic
rare
form: nymphs
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: nymphing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: nymphed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: nymphed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: nymphe
pos: verb
tags: alternative
archaic
rare
Senses:
gloss: Any female nature spirit associated with water, forests, grotto, wind, etc.
pos: noun
tags: Greek
Roman
gloss: A young girl, especially one who is attractive, beautiful or graceful.
pos: noun
gloss: The larva of certain insects.
pos: noun
gloss: Any of various butterflies of the family Nymphalidae.
pos: noun
gloss: To fish using a nymph larva as bait.
pos: verb
examples: Kuster meanwhile nymphed the middle of the Snag. When I joined him, I threw my streamer between the main channel's flow and the skinnier side-channel flow, […]
Related words: lymph
nymphaeum
nympho
nymphomania
nymphomaniac
sylph
Derived words: deutonymph
flymph
jungle nymph
nymphal
nymphet
nymphette
nymphic
nymphicidal
nymphicide
nymphine
nymphiparous
nymphish
nymphlike
nymphly
nymph of darkness
nymph of the pavé
nymph of the pavement
nymphoid
nymphology
nymphosis
pronymph
protonymph
seminymph
tree nymph
tritonymph
water nymph
woodnymph
wood-nymph
Translations:
kleptomaniac
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Ancient Greek κλέπτω (kléptō, “I steal”) (from Proto-Hellenic *klépťō, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *klep-) + -maniac.
Affixes: -maniac
Inflected forms:
form: kleptomaniacs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: cleptomaniac
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: One who steals compulsively.
pos: noun
examples: “A kleptomaniac,” I said. “Which means, if the term is not familiar to you, a chap who flits hither and thither pinching everything he can lay his hands on. [...] And if ever a man needed to be constantly under an eye, it's the above kleptomaniac. [...] He pinches things. Everything that isn't nailed down is grist to his mill.”
The dear old room was just as I'd left it, nothing changed, and my first move, of course, was to procure another chair and give the top of the armoire the once-over. It was a set-back to find that the cow-creamer wasn't there. I suppose these kleptomaniacs know a thing or two and don't hide the loot in the obvious place.
Translations:
zloty
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰelh₃-
Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰólh₃-tom
Proto-Balto-Slavic *źálˀtader.
Proto-Slavic *zoltъ
Old Polish złoty
Polish złotybor.
English zloty
Borrowed from Polish złoty.
Inflected forms:
form: zloty
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: zlotys
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: zlote
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: zlotych
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: zloties
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: złoty
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The currency unit of Poland, divided into 100 groszy.
pos: noun
Translations:
theology
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: From Middle English theologie, from Middle French theologie, from Old French theologie, from Latin theologia, from Koine Greek θεολογία (theología), from θεολόγος (theológos, adjective), from θεός (theós) + λόγος (lógos). By surface analysis, theo- + -logy.
Inflected forms:
form: theologies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The study of God, a god, or gods; and of the truthfulness of religion in general.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: Synonym of religious studies.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: Theology is a study, but religion is an experience. Theology is the study of religion, and when we study theology we are studying religion.
On the other hand, theology is the study of religion. The word itself refers to the interpretation of the doctrines of God. But modern theology includes the study of various religions and such topics as church history, sacred writings, and the relationship between religion and human needs.
gloss: An organized method of interpreting spiritual works and beliefs into practical form.
pos: noun
tags: countable
usually
gloss: A particular belief within a religion.
pos: noun
tags: countable
usually
examples: In this context, one could conceivably hold onto the theology that baptism is essential for salvation.
Most Muslims reject the theology that Jesus died on a cross and was resurrected from the dead (though there is some ambiguity in the Qur'an on the matter), but they do hold that he ascended to heaven and will return again.
Another problem with the theology that Jews are chosen for a universal ethical mission is that one does not need to be Jewish to be a beacon of light.
gloss: Subjective marginal details.
pos: noun
tags: slang
uncountable
usually
examples: While those folks are caught up in theological arguments about LISP versus PROLOG, […]
Related words: thealogian
thealogy
theologoumenon
theurgy
Derived words: antitheology
atheology
biotheology
decision theology
dogmatic theology
dominion theology
ecotheology
macrotheology
Mercersburg theology
metatheology
microtheology
natural theology
negative theology
neurotheology
New England theology
New Haven theology
ontotheology
pectoral theology
physico-theology
physicotheology
pretheology
process theology
replacement theology
sacred theology
theologer
theologian
theologic
theological
theologically
theologician
theologise
theologist
theologize
xenotheology
Translations:
chickadee
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Apparent onomatopoeia from these birds' calls having a distinctive “chick-a-dee-dee-dee” sound, possibly influenced by chick or chicken.
Inflected forms:
form: chickadees
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of the small, mostly black and white North American songbirds of the genus Poecile of the family Paridae.
pos: noun
tags: Canada
US
examples: In Walden wood the chickadee / Runs round the pine and maple tree
gloss: Affectionate term of address.
pos: noun
examples: I got a date with a cute little chickadee in just a few, an' I don't wanna be late!
Derived words: Acadian chickadee
black-capped chickadee
boreal chickadee
Carolina chickadee
chestnut-backed chickadee
grey-headed chickadee
Mexican chickadee
mountain chickadee
Translations:
ixnay
Part of speech: intj
noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Pig Latin version of nix; possibly the only Pig Latin word to enter common American English besides amscray and igpay. Ixnay and amscray were used widely in The Three Stooges shorts and The Flintstones episodes, possibly the main sources of popularity for the words.
Inflected forms:
form: ix-nay
pos: intj
tags: alternative
form: ix-nay
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: ixnays
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: ixnaying
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: ixnayed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: ixnayed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: ix-nay
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: No.
pos: intj
tags: slang
gloss: Nothing; nix; often in the phrase "ixnay on ...", indicating something that must not be mentioned, often in Pig Latin
pos: noun
tags: slang
uncountable
examples: Ixnay on the "W-A-L-K" while the dogs can hear you.
Homer Simpson: Being a cop husband is one mighty sweet deal. This police radio entertains me with other people's miseries, we get a free funeral for Marge (god forbid), and I can run background checks on whomever I want . . . Mohammar.
Moe Szyslak: Homer, please, please! Ixnay on the ohammar-May!
"Ixnay on the ay-geth...way! I'm only 'out' to my closest friends! It can't get back to my family!"
Voice, ixnay on the estioning-quay of Iery-fay Ecretary-say!
gloss: To reject or cancel something; nix.
pos: verb
tags: slang
transitive
examples: If I wasn't so bored out of my mind, I would have ixnayed that idea.
Personally, I'd rather feel momentarily bummed when my agent ixnays a two-paragraph idea than totally crushed when she ixnays a 110-page screenplay it took six months to perfect.
You didn't want to ask for a handout—you have a vague memory of him ixnaying advances when you signed your contract—but you don't have much choice.
TRUMP'S MEDIA BUBBLE COLLAPSES: Fox News struggles to ixnay the Epsteinway.
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物騒
Translations:
expectorate
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Latin expectorātus, past participle of expectorō (“(only figurative) banish from the mind; (post-classical) expel from the breast)”), from ex (“out of”) + pectus (“the breast”).
Inflected forms:
form: expectorates
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: expectorating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: expectorated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: expectorated
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To cough up fluid from the lungs.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
examples: These rules are equally applicable to pneumonia and perhaps also to bronchitis. It will, therefore, be best to call them, not rules for consumptives, but for all persons who cough and expectorate .
…the gap in his upper row of teeth enabled him to expectorate in a new and admirable way.
gloss: To spit.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
Related words: expectorant
expectoration
sputum
Derived words: expectorative
expectorator
unexpectorated
Translations:
alma
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From colloquial Arabic عَالِمَة (ʕālima, “a singer”), originally a feminine adjective meaning learned, knowledgeable, from عَلِمَ (ʕalima, “to know”).
Inflected forms:
form: almas
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: alma
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: awalim
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: almah
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: An Egyptian female singer or dancing girl employed for entertainment or as a professional mourner.
pos: noun
Translations:
santo
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: art
arts
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *seh₂k-
Proto-Indo-European *-né-
Proto-Indo-European *sh₂néktider.
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-yeti
Proto-Italic *-jōder.
Proto-Italic *sankjō
Proto-Italic *sanktos
Latin sānctus
Old Spanish sancto
Old Spanish santo
Spanish santobor.
English santo
Borrowed from Spanish santo.
Inflected forms:
form: santos
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A wooden or ivory statue of a saint, angel or other religious figure, found in Spain and former Spanish colonies.
pos: noun
examples: A santo may get a new coat of paint on its feast day or at Christmas. Or sometimes, when a prayer has been granted, a Puerto Rican repays his santo with a fresh coat of paint.
Translations:
Santa
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: Santas
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: santa
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Santy
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Northumbria
Senses:
gloss: An instance of someone dressed up as Santa.
pos: noun
examples: They get some pretty fishy Santas in this mall. The one in the food court right now seems like he might be drunk.
gloss: An instance of any likeness of Santa.
pos: noun
examples: a plastic Santa waving in time to some music
They get some pretty nice chocolate Santas and chocolate Easter Bunnies in this mall. The ones in the food court right now are making me hungry just looking at them.
Derived words: Santarina
Translations:
tape
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English tape, tappe, from Old English tæppa, tæppe (“ribbon, tape”); further origin unclear. Probably akin to Old Frisian tapia (“to pull, rip, tear”), Middle Low German tappen, tāpen (“to grab, pull, rip, tear, snatch”), Middle High German zāfen, zāven (“to pull, tear”).
Inflected forms:
form: tapes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: taping
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: taped
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: taped
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To bind with adhesive tape.
pos: verb
examples: Be sure to tape your parcel securely before posting it.
The agent had to dead-drop the locker key to the PGU by some simple means, such as by taping it underneath a predesignated park bench, where it could be retrieved unobtrusively, usually by an officer under illegal cover.
gloss: To record, originally onto magnetic tape.
pos: verb
examples: You shouldn’t have said that. The microphone was on and we were taping.
The warmup guy — as I now know is common for live audiences in taped television performances — kept fluffing the crowd like they were preschoolers.
“Now what are you going to do when we introduce the first comedian?”
Wild cheers.
“C'mon, that's not good enough! Let's try it again! What are you going to do???”
gloss: To understand, figure out.
pos: verb
tags: informal
examples: I've finally got this thing taped.
Derived words: tape off
tape over
Translations:
confident
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle French confident, from Latin confidens (“confident, i.e. self-confident, in a good or bad sense, bold, daring, audacious, impudent”), present participle of confidere (“to trust fully, confide”). See confide.
Inflected forms:
form: more confident
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most confident
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Very sure of something; positive.
pos: adj
examples: I'm pretty confident that she's not lying, she's acting normally.
He was confident of success.
gloss: Self-assured, self-reliant, sure of oneself.
pos: adj
gloss: Forward, impudent.
pos: adj
tags: derogatory
obsolete
examples: I was rated as the most confident ruffian, for daring to approach her room at that hour of night.
Related words: confidant
confidante
confide
confidence
confidential
Derived words: confidently
confidentness
e-confident
hyperconfident
inconfident
misconfident
nonconfident
overconfident
self-confident
semiconfident
superconfident
ultraconfident
unconfident
underconfident
Translations:
bolide
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from French bolide, from Latin bolis, from Ancient Greek βολίς (bolís, “missile, arrow, javelin”). Doublet of bolis.
Inflected forms:
form: bolides
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An extremely bright meteor.
pos: noun
gloss: Any extraterrestrial body that collides with Earth.
pos: noun
examples: The smallest impactor that can penetrate the atmosphere deep enough to cause any damage on the ground is not much smaller than the "Tunguska" bolide that flattened a couple thousand square miles of Siberian forest in 1908.
gloss: A fireball.
pos: noun
Derived words: hyperbolide
superbolide
Translations:
accredited
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: * First attested in the 1630s.
Inflected forms:
form: more accredited
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most accredited
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Given official approval after meeting certain standards, as an accredited university; or as disease free cattle.
pos: adj
examples: The answer should give us the— But hallo! here are the accredited representatives of the law.
The task was more to Appleby's liking than the one he had anticipated, and it was necessary, since the smaller merchants in Cuba and also in parts of Peninsular Spain have no great confidence in bankers, and prefer a packet of golden onzas or a bag of pesetas to the best accredited cheque.
Can we use an accredited agent, or perhaps for a night-time incident it would be better to deploy in daylight hours, for example?
Translations:
barn
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: agriculture
ball-games
basketball
business
games
hobbies
ice-hockey
lifestyle
skating
sports
Etymology: From Middle English barn, bern, bærn, from Old English bearn, bern, contracted forms of Old English berern, bereærn (“barn, granary”), compound of bere (“barley”) and ærn, ræn (“dwelling, barn”), from Proto-West Germanic *raʀn, from Proto-Germanic *razną (compare Old Norse rann), from pre-Germanic *h₁rh̥₁-s-nó-, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁erh₁- (“to rest”).
More at rest and barley.
For the use as a unit of surface area, see w:Barn (unit) § Etymology.
Inflected forms:
form: barns
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: barns
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: barning
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: barned
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: barned
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A building, often found on a farm, used for storage or keeping animals such as cattle.
pos: noun
examples: One day I was out in the barn and he drifted in. I was currying the horse and he set down on the wheelbarrow and begun to ask questions.
gloss: A unit of surface area equal to 10⁻²⁸ square metres.
pos: noun
gloss: An arena.
pos: noun
tags: informal
examples: Maple Leaf Gardens was a grand old barn.
gloss: A warm and cozy place, especially a bedroom; a roost.
pos: noun
tags: slang
gloss: To lay up in a barn.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: But like still-pining Tantalus he sits / And useless barns the harvest of his wits
Hypocrites, in like manner, so act holiness that they pass for saints before men, whose censures often barn up the chaff, and burn up the grain.
Derived words: around Robin Hood's barn
attobarn
barnboard
barnburner
barn burner
Barnburner
barnburning
barn cat
barn coat
barn dance
barn dancing
barndominium
barndoor
barn door
barn doors
barn egg
barn find
barnfloor
barnful
barnless
barn-like
barnlike
barnmate
barn owl
barnraising
barn-raising
barn raising
barn red
Barns Green
barnstar
barn-star
barn star
barnstorm
barnstormer
barnstorming
barn swallow
barnwood
barnyard
Besses o' th' Barn
big as a barn
bit by a barn mouse
born in a barn
bus barn
carbarn
car barn
close the barn door after the horse has bolted
cowbarn
Dutch barn
embarn
femtobarn
fire barn
haybarn
horsebarn
housebarn
house-barn
house barn
imbarn
kilobarn
Long Barn
megabarn
microbarn
milking barn
millibarn
nanobarn
New Barn
not be able to hit the broad side of a barn
Pennsylvania barn
picobarn
playbarn
pole barn
pony in the barn
Pottery Barn rule
raised in a barn
show barn
smell the barn
the long way around the barn
tithebarn
tithe barn
zeptobarn
Translations:
acquaintance
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English aqueyntaunce, from Anglo-Norman aquaintaunce, aqueintance, Old French acointance (“friendship, familiarity”), from Old French acointier (“to acquaint”). Compare French accointance.
Morphologically acquaint + -ance.
Base: acquaint
Affixes: -ance
Inflected forms:
form: acquaintances
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A state of being acquainted with a person; originally indicating friendship, intimacy, but now suggesting a slight knowledge less deep than that of friendship; acquaintanceship.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: I know of the man; but have no acquaintance with him.
Contract no friendſhip, or even acquaintance, with a guileful man : he reſembles a coal, which when hot burneth the hand, and when cold blacketh it.
gloss: A person or persons with whom one is acquainted.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: Montgomery was an old acquaintance of Ferguson.
gloss: Such people collectively; one's circle of acquaintances (with plural concord).
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Having therefore conſulted with my Wife, and ſome of my Acquaintance, I determined to go again to Sea.
Their mother […] was busy in the mean time in keeping up her connections, as she termed a numerous acquaintance, lest her girls should want a proper introduction into the great world.
gloss: Personal knowledge (with a specific subject etc.).
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The words of these songs were either without meaning, or derived from an idiom with which Watt, a very fair linguist, had no acquaintance.
Synonyms: familiarity
fellowship
intimacy
knowledge
acquaintance
kith
Related words: acquaint
associate
friend
Derived words: acquaintanced
acquaintanceless
acquaintance rape
acquaintanceship
chance acquaintance
disacquaintance
inacquaintance
make someone's acquaintance
nodding acquaintance
nonacquaintance
preacquaintance
reacquaintance
renew acquaintances
scrape acquaintance
semiacquaintance
unacquaintance
Translations:
acquainted
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more acquainted
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most acquainted
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Personally known; familiar.
pos: adj
tags: often
examples: Suppoſe, therefore, a Perſon to have enjoy'd his Sight for thirty Years, and to have become perfectly well acquainted with Colours of all kinds, excepting one particular Shade of Blue, for Inſtance, which it never has been his Fortune to meet with.
I have been one acquainted with the night.
I have walked out in rain—and back in rain.
I have outwalked the furthest city light.
Translations:
acquiescence
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: law
Etymology: Etymology tree
French acquiescencebor.
English acquiescence
Borrowed from French acquiescence.
Inflected forms:
form: acquiescences
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A silent or passive assent or submission, or a submission with apparent consent, distinguished from avowed consent on the one hand, and on the other, from opposition or open discontent; quiet satisfaction.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: We were accustomed to prompt, if not always cheerful acquiescence to Atticus’s instructions, but from the way he stood Jem was not thinking of budging.
reluctant acquiescence
sign of acquiescence
in acquiescence with
She nodded in quiet acquiescence.
His acquiescence to their demands surprised everyone.
gloss: Inaction, passivity, or neglect to take legal action when it is called for in order to assert, preserve, or safeguard a right, and which inaction implies the abandonment of said right.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Synonyms: sufferance
Related words: acquiesce
Derived words: nonacquiescence
Translations:
acquired
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: medicine
sciences
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Developed after birth; not congenital.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
acquirement
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English acquire
Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥
Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥tom
Proto-Italic *-mentom
Latin -mentum
Old French -mentbor.
Middle English -ment
English -ment
English acquirement
From acquire + -ment.
Inflected forms:
form: acquirements
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Something that has been acquired; an attainment or accomplishment.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
countable
in-plural
uncountable
examples: […] his acquirements by industrie were […] enriched and enlarged by many excellent endowments of nature.
If she can think, that the part she has had in your education, and your own admirable talents and acquirements, are to be thrown away upon such a worthless creature as Solmes, I could heartily quarrel with her.
[…] there was a degree of deference in his deportment toward that young gentleman which seemed to indicate that he felt himself conscious of a slight inferiority in point of genius and professional acquirements.
gloss: The act or fact of acquiring something; acquisition.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: […] rules for the acquirement of a taste […]
One man's life or death were but a small price to pay for the acquirement of the knowledge which I sought […].
At best, a considerable time elapses between authorization and land acquirement, during which land values may vary impredictably.
Derived words: reacquirement
Translations:
acquittal
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: law
Etymology: Etymology tree
English acquit
Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.?
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālisbor.
Old French -albor.
▲
Latin -ālis
Old French -elbor.
▲
Latin -ālisbor.
Middle English -al
English -al
English acquittal
From acquit + -al.
Inflected forms:
form: acquittals
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: acquital
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: The act of fulfilling the duties (of a given role, obligation etc.).
pos: noun
tags: archaic
countable
uncountable
gloss: A legal decision that someone is not guilty with which they have been charged, or the formal dismissal of a charge by some other legal process.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: criminal acquittal
absolute acquittal
The jury returned a verdict of acquittal.
His unexpected acquittal shocked the public.
gloss: Payment of a debt or other obligation; reparations, amends.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The act of releasing someone from debt or other obligation; acquittance.
pos: noun
tags: countable
historical
uncountable
gloss: Avoidance of danger; deliverance.
pos: noun
tags: countable
rare
uncountable
Synonyms: absolution
acquittance
acquitment
acquittal
assoilment
compurgation
disculpation
exculpation
exoneration
not guilty
quittance
vindication
Antonyms: condemnation
conviction
nonacquittal
Related words: acquit
Derived words: nonacquittal
postacquittal
preacquittal
Translations:
lang: Danish
word: frikendelse
lang: Finnish
word: mitätöinti
lang: French
word: acquittement
lang: Polish
word: umorzenie
lang: Russian
word: освобожде́ние
roman: osvoboždénije
acquitted
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Having been acquitted; having gone through a trial that resulted in something other than a guilty verdict.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
acrid
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Latin ācris, from ācer (“sharp”); probably assimilated in form to acid. Compare eager.
Inflected forms:
form: acrider
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: more acrid
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: acridest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: most acrid
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Sharp and harsh, or bitter and not to the taste.
pos: adj
examples: At that instant, Eragon's back ruptured in an explosion of agony so intense, he experienced it with all five senses: as a deafening, crashing waterfall of sound; a metallic taste that coated his tongue; an acrid, eye-watering stench in his nostrils, redolent of vinegar; pulsing colors; and, above all, the feeling that Durza had just laid open his back.
Since the mid-1980s, when Indonesia first began to clear its bountiful forests on an industrial scale in favour of lucrative palm-oil plantations, “haze” has become an almost annual occurrence in South-East Asia. The cheapest way to clear logged woodland is to burn it, producing an acrid cloud of foul white smoke that, carried by the wind, can cover hundreds, or even thousands, of square miles.
gloss: Causing heat and irritation.
pos: adj
examples: The bombardier beetle sprays acrid secretions to defend itself.
gloss: Caustic; bitter; bitterly irritating.
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
examples: That man has an acrid temper.
In a chaotic, 90-minute back-and-forth, the two major party nominees expressed a level of acrid contempt for each other unheard-of in modern American politics.
Derived words: acridity
acridly
acridness
antacrid
nonacrid
subacrid
Translations:
acrobat
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱ-
Proto-Indo-European *-rós
Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱrós
Ancient Greek ἄκρος (ákros)
Proto-Indo-European *gʷem-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *gʷm̥yéti
Proto-Hellenic *gʷəňňō
Proto-Indo-European *gʷeh₂-der.
Proto-Hellenic *égʷēn
Ancient Greek βαίνω (baínō)
Proto-Indo-European *-tósder.
Ancient Greek -της (-tēs)
Ancient Greek ἀκροβάτης (akrobátēs)bor.
French acrobateder.
English acrobat
From French acrobate, from Ancient Greek ἀκροβάτης (akrobátēs, “walking on tiptoe, climbing aloft”), from ἀκροβατέω (akrobatéō, “to walk on tiptoe”), from ἄκρον (ákron, “highest or farthest point, mountain top, peak”) + βαίνω (baínō, “to walk, step”).
Inflected forms:
form: acrobats
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: acrobats
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: acrobating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: acrobated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: acrobated
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: An athlete who performs acts requiring skill, agility and coordination, often as part of a circus performance.
pos: noun
gloss: To practise acrobatics.
pos: verb
examples: Tumbling is different from posturing, and means throwing summersets and walking on your hands; and acrobating means the two together […]
They seem to think as clowning and acrobating is a downright paradise, and comes as naturally to anybody as the measles.
Mother was teaching me the tight-rope; I’d learned a bit of acrobating, too.
The others were fairly hulking teenagers in terrible costumes and makeup, who tapped, acrobated, sang, recited, played saxoophones, and did bad magic […]
gloss: To move like an acrobat (with agility, balance, long leaps, etc.).
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
examples: We have known […] veteran reporters, so dumbfounded and confounded by the first fire of Ralph, and his grand and lofty acrobating in elocution, that they up, seized their hat and paper, and sloped, horrified at the prospect of an attempt to “take down” Mr. Emerson.
[…] I laughed at the very idea of one of those heavy-pouched, blue-clad fellows catching hold of an agile fellow like I was, who had on more than one occasion acrobated from the engine’s tender back to the rear end of the caboose, by swinging and vaulting from truck to truck, underneath long freight trains running at top speed, with no member of the ever-alert train crew having discovered him.
He acrobated into a shirt, pulled up the pants of his good suit, arching to draw them high […]
Here [in the stage show] was all the paraphernalia I longed for—slit skirts, suntanned thighs, boleros, sequins, saucy looks, legs askew and whole bevies of girls acrobating gracefully while covering their more pertinent parts with fans or gigantic powder puffs.
the blood-red cardinal acrobating about in his holly bush
Translations:
acting
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: broadcasting
drama
dramaturgy
entertainment
film
law
lifestyle
media
television
theater
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₂eǵ-
Proto-Indo-European *-eti
Proto-Indo-European *h₂éǵeti
Proto-Italic *agō
Latin agō
Latin ācta
Old French actbor.
Middle English acte
English act
English -ing
English acting
From act + -ing.
Inflected forms:
form: actings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Temporarily assuming the duties or authority of another person when they are unable to do their job.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The Acting Minister must sign Executive Council documents in a Minister's absence.
The CEO is currently in a hospital. The CFO is acting CEO in the meantime.
Amy Gleason is the acting administrator of the US DOGE Service, the agency that houses the temporary Department of Government Efficiency, a White House official told CNN on Tuesday.
gloss: An action or deed.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
countable
examples: […] he does so much magnifie Nature and her Actings in all this material World, as he gives just cause of suspicion that he hath made her a kind of joynt Deess with God in the Affairs thereof;
[…] I desire this Account may pass with them, rather for a Direction to themselves to act by, than a History of my actings, seeing it may not be of one farthing value to them to note what became of me.
Boyle’s theory explains the whole range of God’s actings in the world, those things that injure man as well as those which advantage him.
gloss: Something done by a party—so called to avoid confusion with the legal senses of deed and action.
pos: noun
tags: countable
gloss: Pretending.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: The occupation of an actor.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Derived words: acting charades
voice acting
Translations:
buttock
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: nautical
transport
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English buttok, probably from Old English buttuc (“end; end piece”; also, “short piece of land”). Attested with its current anatomical meaning since 1300. A diminutive form of what is presumably the Old English precursor of butt + -ock (diminutive suffix).
Base: butt
Affixes: -ock
Inflected forms:
form: buttocks
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Each of the two large fleshy halves of the posterior part of the body between the base of the back, the perineum, and the top of the legs.
pos: noun
tags: plural-normally
examples: Run, run, come you hither / Novv, take all my Cuſhions dovvn and thvvack them ſoundly, / After my Feaſt of Millers: for their Buttocks / Have left a peck of flovver in them, beat them carefully […]
gloss: The convexity of a ship behind, under the stern.
pos: noun
examples: There came a blast of freezing wind that made Skell shrug himself against the oaken post on which the ship's buttock rested.
Related words: callipygian
callipygous
dasypygal
Derived words: buttock cleavage
buttock-clenching
buttocked
buttocker
buttockless
buttocklike
buttock line
buttock mail
buttocky
cross-buttock
fat-buttocked
mouse buttock
quakebuttock
Translations:
lira
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Italian lira, from Latin lībra (partly via Turkish lira, Arabic لِيرَة (līra), Maltese lira, Greek λίρα (líra), and Hebrew לִירָה (“lirá”), all of which are originally from the Italian). Doublet of arratel, libbra, Libra, libra, litra, litre, livre, and rottol.
Inflected forms:
form: lire
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: lira
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: liras
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The basic unit of currency in Turkey.
pos: noun
gloss: The currency of Lebanon (also pound), Syria (also pound), Jordan (also dinar)
pos: noun
gloss: The former currency of Italy, Malta, San Marino, Cyprus and the Vatican City, superseded by the euro
pos: noun
Translations:
scrabble
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle Dutch schrabbelen, frequentative of schrabben (“to scrape”), equivalent to scrab + -le. More at scrape.
Base: scrab
Affixes: -le
Inflected forms:
form: scrabbles
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: scrabbling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: scrabbled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: scrabbled
pos: verb
tags: past
form: scrabbles
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To scrape or scratch powerfully with hands or claws.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: […] there came no answer, except the echo of my own voice sounding hollow and far off down in the vault. So in despair I turned back to the earth wall below the slab, and scrabbled at it with my fingers, till my nails were broken and the blood ran out; having all the while a sure knowledge, like a cord twisted round my head, that no effort of mine could ever dislodge the great stone.
So he scraped and scratched and scrabbled and scrooged, then he scrooged again[.]
The lane had not been designed for ponderous trucks. In the narrower parts we had to push our way along it between bushes and brambles which scrabbled along the sides as though they tried to pull us back.
gloss: To gather hastily.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: “Oh. The perfect ending to the perfect-- [chuckles] I almost said evening. More like months, though, isn't it? Since we started scrabbling for coins because the damn government took away our-- every thing. They took everything. And the only thing that was left, you idiots either lost, gave away, ate, or just blew up and sank.”
gloss: To move with difficulty by making rapid movements back and forth with the hands or paws.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: She was on her hands and knees scrabbling in the mud, looking for her missing wedding ring.
gloss: To scribble.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: David […] scrabbled on the doors of the gate.
gloss: To mark with irregular lines or letters; to scribble on.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to scrabble paper
gloss: A scramble.
pos: noun
examples: a scrabble for dear life
Related words: scrab
scramble
scrap
scrape
scrapple
Derived words: hardscrabble
scrabbler
scrabbly
scribble-scrabble
Translations:
manu
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: diving
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Inflected forms:
form: manus
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A method of diving similar to a cannonball/bomb but with the lower back entering the water first, causing a large splash.
pos: noun
tags: New-Zealand
examples: For those that don't know what a manu is, you've got your standard bomb, which everyone does, where you curl up and enter the water feet first. But a manu is when you are in a v-shape and essentially your tailbone or lower back enters the water first while you hold that v-shape.
An area of the outdoor pool at Whakatāne Aquatic Centre has been set aside for manus (bombing) after a nine-year-old boy nearly drowned last month.
Translations: