yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
so-called
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English so
English called
English so-called
From so + called.
Inflected forms:
form: so called
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: socalled
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: So named; commonly called.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: the so-called Ising mode
About 200 guests were invited and entertained to lunch in the so-called booking hall at Waterloo; the contractors, Spiers & Pond Limited, were much praised for organising the repast, with attendant cloak room facilities, so well in such unfavourable surroundings.
Another Canadian example is that of the so-called Halfback Program initiated in the province of Ontario. With this scheme state lottery tickets with which no prizes are won retain 50% of the value of their initial cost […]
... I hadn't met any straight women at the gay bars — a few so called "fag hags" fraternizing with the boys, of course, but ...
The Central Intelligence Agency on Tuesday became the first major national security agency to offer so-called buyouts to its entire workforce, a CIA spokesperson and two other sources familiar with the offer said, part of President Donald Trump’s broad effort to shrink the federal government and shape it to his agenda.
gloss: commonly called by such a name, but false or unfitting.
pos: adj
tags: ironic
not-comparable
examples: These so-called "assistants" are making our jobs harder, not easier!
[…]dawdling away the hours in the Park as if all the world and its millions of honest hard workers were created solely for the casual diversion of the so-called 'upper' classes,[…]
So-called Orthodox synagogues who organized mixed dances in order to raise money for various causes.
Derived words: so-called dollar
Translations:
solitary
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
Etymology: From Middle English solitarie, borrowed from Latin sōlitārius. Doublet of solitaire.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Living or being by oneself; alone; having no companion present
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The solitary, lumbering trolls of Scandinavian mythology would sometimes be turned to stone by exposure to sunlight. Barack Obama is hoping that several measures announced on June 4th will have a similarly paralysing effect on their modern incarnation, the patent troll.
Though we don’t all reach nirvana when we swim, swimming may well be that last refuge from connectivity — and, for some, the only way to find the solitary self.
gloss: Performed, passed, or endured alone.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: a solitary journey
a solitary life
gloss: Not much visited or frequented; remote from society
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: a solitary residence or place
gloss: Not inhabited or occupied; without signs of inhabitants or occupation; desolate; deserted
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: the solitary desert
How doth the city sit solitary, that was full of people!
Eldridge closed the despatch-case with a snap and, rising briskly, walked down the corridor to his solitary table in the dining-car.
gloss: Gloomy; dismal, because of not being inhabited.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Single; individual; sole.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: a solitary example
On once more we swung, bumping uneasily along in the antique narrow-gauge coach, with gloomy woods and gathering night outside, shouts and songs (and quacks) inside—this was not at all the sort of train ordained by the logical strategists in Paris—then grinding to a stop at a mysterious halt which was no more than a nameboard in the pinewoods, without even a footpath leading to it, but nevertheless with a solitary passenger stolidly waiting.
That makes it almost half a season with just a solitary win, and Mark Hughes' side will reflect on a costly capitulation at the end of the first half after fine goals from Stuart Armstrong and Cedric Soares had seemingly put them in control.
gloss: Not associated with others of the same kind.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Derived words: nonsolitary
semisolitary
solitarily
solitariness
solitary confinement
solitary sandpiper
solitary snipe
solitary thrush
solitary tinamou
solitary vice
solitary wasp
solitary wave
soliton
unsolitary
Translations:
soubrette
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from French soubrette, from Occitan soubreta (“coy”) (feminine of soubret), from soubra (Provençal sobrar), from Latin superare (“be above”).
Inflected forms:
form: soubrettes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A female attendant or servant, especially one who is cheeky or mischievous, often featuring in theatrical comedies.
pos: noun
examples: At present I have only a soubrette's part, with an apron and pockets, and a ballad; but, as I said before, luck's all in this world, and I have every requisite for being lucky.
Greatly mystified, the curate turned to examine another picture, the cryptic title of which was, "The superintendent and the soubrette - our reporter puts a pornographic parson's pot on." In this the superintendent, distinguished by a clerical coat and a Methodistical brand of whisker, was delineated in the act of riotously drinking from a bottle labelled "champagne," having evidently accommodated the soubrette - a lady in extremely abbreviated skirts - with his only glass.
And then too it was exhilarating to see the baron come sailing in with a pair of soubrettes on his arm—each time a different pair.
This version of the fragile, yet touching story accents the romance and courtship of the schoolmaster, properly called Mr. Chipping, and the music hall soubrette he falls in love with while vacationing in Pompeii.
The servants in the hall tonight are whitely-wigged black slaves in livery of a certain grade of satin and refinement of lace,– black Major-domos and black Soubrettes.
Translations:
souse
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English souse (“to salt pickle”) also a noun (“liquid for pickling,” “pickled pig parts”), from Old French sous (“preserved in salt”), from Frankish *sultija (“saltwater, brine”), from Proto-Germanic *sultijō (“saltwater, brine”). Cognate with Old Saxon sultia (“saltwater”), Old High German sulza (“brine”).
Inflected forms:
form: souses
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: souses
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: sousing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: soused
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: soused
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Something kept or steeped in brine.
pos: noun
examples: And he that can rear up a pig in his house, / Hath cheaper his bacon, and sweeter his souse.
gloss: Something kept or steeped in brine.
pos: noun
tags: Appalachia
US
gloss: Something kept or steeped in brine.
pos: noun
tags: Caribbean
gloss: Something kept or steeped in brine.
pos: noun
gloss: Something kept or steeped in brine.
pos: noun
gloss: The act of sousing; a plunging into water.
pos: noun
gloss: A drunkard.
pos: noun
examples: "If there's any, giving in charge here I'll give you in charge for sneaking my beer, you slop-bellied old souse!" exclaimed Peter.
gloss: To immerse in liquid; to steep or drench.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: (Although I bee well soused in this showere,)
For then I viewd his body fall and ſowſe / Into the fomy maine, […]
As for my ſelf, they uſed to ſowſe me over head and ears in water when I was a boy
As she heard him sousing heartily in cold water, heard the eager scratch of the steel comb on the side of the bowl, as he wetted his hair, she closed her eyes in disgust.
gloss: To steep in brine; to pickle.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Synonyms: sot
suck-pint
Related words: brawn
budin
haggis
head cheese
pudding
sausage
scrapple
Derived words: soused
sousemeat
souser
unsoused
Translations:
spandrel
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: architecture
business
construction
manufacturing
Etymology: From a diminutive in -el of Anglo-Norman spaundre, of uncertain origin, perhaps from Old French espandre (“to expand, extend, spread”). More at spawn, expand.
In the field of biology first used by Stephen Jay Gould and Richard Lewontin.
Affixes: -le
Inflected forms:
form: spandrels
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: spandril
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The space (often more or less triangular) between the outer curve of an arch (the extrados) and a straight-sided figure that bounds it; the space between two contiguous arches and a straight feature above them.
pos: noun
examples: Usual practice then builds a wall above each curved end of the arch, known as a spandrel, which directly joins the bridge's sidewalls. […] With sidewalls and spandrels in place, you can fill the space between them with material up to the height of the bridge deck, and then place the road or railway on top.
gloss: Horizontal member between the windows of successive storeys of a tall building.
pos: noun
examples: 2002, Kerstin Lang, Seismic Vulnerability of Existing Buildings, vdf Hochschulverlag AG, page 25,
Due to the fact that the walls are joined by floors and spandrels, a coupling effect is produced. Depending on the extent of the spandrels, this coupling effect will be bigger or smaller.
gloss: The triangular space under a stair; the material that fills the space.
pos: noun
gloss: An oriental rug having a pattern of arches; the design in the corners of such a rug, especially in a prayer rug.
pos: noun
gloss: A phenotypic characteristic that evolved as a side effect of an adaptation in response to evolutionary pressure.
pos: noun
examples: Another type of theory emphasises the sometimes accidental nature of evolution. A spandrel is a structure arising as a by-product of some other architectural configuration. In evolutionary terms, a spandrel is some trait of an organism which emerges not through direct adaptionist or exaptationist means, but rather as a side effect of some other evolutionary development.
gloss: soffit (usually used to describe metal or corrugated plastic types of roof soffit)
pos: noun
tags: Philippines
Related words: exaptation
Derived words: spandrelled
Translations:
sparkle
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English sparkel, sparkle, sparcle, equivalent to spark + -le (diminutive suffix). In some modern uses deverbal from etymology 2 below.
Base: spark
Affixes: -le
Inflected forms:
form: sparkles
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: sparkles
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: sparkling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: sparkled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: sparkled
pos: verb
tags: past
form: sparckle
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: sparcle
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A little spark; a scintillation.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: As sparckles from the Anduile vse to fly, / When heauie hammers on the wedge are swaid
The lamp was shaded, and the fire was dim, when suddenly the log, which had burnt through, gave way; a shower of sparkles rose from the hearth, and a bright blaze illuminated the room, falling full on Francesca's face, as she bent over the patient.
The shock was sufficiently strong to strike out some sparkles of his fiery temper.
gloss: Brilliance; luster.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: the sparkle of a diamond
gloss: Liveliness; vivacity.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: the sparkle of his conversation over dinner
gloss: The quality of being sparkling or fizzy; effervescence.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: To emit sparks; to throw off ignited or incandescent particles
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: The wood was sparkling in the bonfire.
gloss: To shine as if throwing off sparks; to emit flashes of light; to scintillate; to twinkle
pos: verb
tags: broadly
examples: The stars sparkle in the sky.
Here, in the transept and choir, where the service was being held, one was conscious every moment of an increasing brightness; colours glowing vividly beneath the circular chandeliers, and the rows of small lights on the choristers' desks flashed and sparkled in front of the boys' faces, deep linen collars, and red neckbands.
gloss: To manifest itself by, or as if by, emitting sparks; to glisten; to flash.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: I see bright honour sparkle through your eyes.
gloss: To emit little bubbles, as certain kinds of liquors; to effervesce
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: sparkling wine
sparkling water
gloss: To emit in the form or likeness of sparks.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: That the bright glister of their beames cleare / Did sparckle forth great light, and glorious did appeare.
gloss: To disperse.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
transitive
gloss: To scatter on or over.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
transitive
Related words: ❇
❈
✨
Derived words: sea sparkle
sparkleberry
sparkledog
sparkleless
sparklemuffin
sparklepire
sparklewolf
sparkly
asparkle
outsparkle
sparkler
sparkle up
sparkling water
Translations:
spectacle
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
Etymology: From Middle English spectacle, from Middle French spectacle, from Latin spectāculum (“a show, spectacle”), from spectō (“to see, behold”), frequentative of speciō (“to see”). See species. Doublet of spectaculum.
Inflected forms:
form: spectacles
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An exciting or extraordinary scene, exhibition, performance etc.
pos: noun
examples: The horse race was a thrilling spectacle.
VVith ſcoffes and ſcornes, and contumelious taunts, / In open Market-place produc't they me, / To be a publique ſpectacle to all: / Here, ſayd they, is the Terror of the French, / The Scar-Crovv that affrights our Children ſo.
22 March 2012, Scott Tobias, AV Club The Hunger Gameshttp://www.avclub.com/articles/the-hunger-games,71293/
In movie terms, it suggests Paul Verhoeven in Robocop/Starship Troopers mode, an R-rated bloodbath where the grim spectacle of children murdering each other on television is bread-and-circuses for the age of reality TV, enforced by a totalitarian regime to keep the masses at bay.
gloss: An embarrassing or unedifying scene or situation.
pos: noun
examples: He made a spectacle out of himself.
gloss: The brille of a snake.
pos: noun
gloss: A frame with different coloured lenses on a semaphore signal through which light from a lamp shines at night, often a part of the signal arm.
pos: noun
Synonyms: glasses
eyeglasses
specs
Related words: species
spectacular
speculate
Derived words: bespectacled
counterspectacle
make a public spectacle of oneself
make a spectacle of oneself
minispectacle
spectacle case
spectacled
spectacleless
spectaclelike
spectaclemaker
spectaclemaking
spectacles, testicles, wallet and watch
superspectacle
Translations:
lang: Finnish
word: peili
lang: Finnish
word: silmälasit
spire
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: architecture
business
mining
Etymology: From Middle English spire, spyre, spier, spir, from Old English spīr, from Proto-Germanic *spīrō, *spīrǭ (“peak; point; tip; stalk”). Cognate with Dutch spier, German Low German Spier, German Spier, Spiere, Danish spir, Norwegian spir and spire, Swedish spira, Icelandic spíra.
Inflected forms:
form: spires
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: spires
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: spiring
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: spired
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: spired
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: The stalk or stem of a plant.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
gloss: A young shoot of a plant; a spear.
pos: noun
examples: Clara had pulled a button from a hollyhock spire, and was breaking it to get the seeds.
gloss: Any of various tall grasses, rushes, or sedges, such as the marram, the reed canary-grass, etc.
pos: noun
gloss: A sharp or tapering point.
pos: noun
examples: A beech wood with silver firs in it rolled down the face of the hill, and the maze of leafless twigs and dusky spires cut sharp against the soft blueness of the evening sky.
This park’s strange and beautiful rock formations were formed by the Yellowstone River and various streams that have cut through the rock over millions of years, carving out hoodoos, spires and caprocks. The name Makoshika comes from a Lakota word for badlands.
gloss: A tapering structure built on a roof or tower, especially as one of the central architectural features of a church or cathedral roof.
pos: noun
examples: The spire of the church rose high above the town.
gloss: The top, or uppermost point, of anything; the summit.
pos: noun
examples: the spire and top of praises
gloss: A tube or fuse for communicating fire to the charge in blasting.
pos: noun
gloss: to sprout, to send forth the early shoots of growth; to germinate.
pos: verb
examples: In gentle Ladies breste and bounteous race / Of woman kind it fayrest Flowre doth spyre, / And beareth fruit of honour and all chast desyre.
It is not so apt to spire up as the other sorts, being more inclined to branch into arms.
gloss: To grow upwards rather than develop horizontally.
pos: verb
gloss: To furnish with a spire.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Derived words: acrospire
broached spire
spireless
spirelet
spirelike
spireward
spirewise
spiry
Translations:
splendid
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *spln̥d-eh₁-der.
Latin splendeō
Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-der.
Proto-Italic *-iðos
Latin -idus
Latin splendidus
English splendid
From Latin splendidus, from splendere (“to shine”) + -idus (“adjective forming suffix”).
Base: splendere
Affixes: -idus
Inflected forms:
form: splendider
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: more splendid
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: splendidest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: most splendid
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Possessing or displaying splendor; shining; very bright.
pos: adj
examples: a splendid sun
It is distinguished from xanthocobaltic nitrate by its crystalline form, and by yielding a splendid cinnabarred precipitate with a solution of iodine in potassium iodide […]
gloss: Gorgeous; magnificent; sumptuous; of remarkable beauty.
pos: adj
examples: a splendid palace
a splendid procession
a splendid pageant
gloss: Brilliant, excellent, of a very high standard.
pos: adj
examples: "We've fallen on our feet and no mistake," said Peter. "This is going to be perfectly splendid. That old chap will let us do anything we like."
November 2 2014, Daniel Taylor, "Sergio Agüero strike wins derby for Manchester City against 10-man United," guardian.co.uk
Hart had to make two splendid saves as Van Persie and Di María took aim and Fellaini should really have done better with a headed chance.
Synonyms: great
magnificent
marvellous
Related words: resplend
resplendent
splendor
Derived words: splendid fairywren
splendid first strike
splendidiferous
splendidity
splendidly
splendidness
splendiloquent
splenditude
unsplendid
Translations:
splice
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: ball-games
biology
business
computing
cricket
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
energy
engineering
games
genetics
hobbies
lifestyle
mathematics
medicine
natural-sciences
nautical
physical-sciences
physics
sciences
software
sports
transport
Etymology: Circa 1525, borrowed from Middle Dutch splissen (Modern Dutch splitsen); akin to Middle Dutch splitten (“to split”), German spleißen (“to split, splice”), Spliss (“split ends, hair breakage”), French épisser (also from Dutch). The Dutch word originally referred only to the fraying of the ropes' ends but was then also used for the entire process of fraying and retying; hence the peculiar semantic development from “split” to “join”. The same development occurred in German.
Inflected forms:
form: splices
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: splices
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: splicing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: spliced
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: spliced
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A junction or joining of ropes made by splicing them together.
pos: noun
gloss: The electrical and mechanical connection between two pieces of wire or cable.
pos: noun
gloss: That part of a bat where the handle joins the blade.
pos: noun
examples: If the ball hits the splice, it is likely to dolly up for an easy catch.
gloss: Bonding or joining of overlapping materials.
pos: noun
gloss: The process of removing intron sequences from the pre-messenger RNA, and then joining together exons.
pos: noun
gloss: To unite, as two ropes, or parts of a rope, by a particular manner of interweaving the strands, the union being between two ends, or between an end and the body of a rope.
pos: verb
gloss: To unite, as spars, timbers, rails, etc., by lapping the two ends together, or by applying a piece which laps upon the two ends, and then binding, or in any way making fast.
pos: verb
gloss: To unite in marriage.
pos: verb
tags: slang
examples: But come, it's getting dreadful late, you had better be turning flukes--it's a nice bed; Sal and me slept in that ere bed the night we were spliced.
Ah! thinkin’ o’ gettin’ spliced, you two?
gloss: To unite as if splicing.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
examples: He argues against attempts to splice different genres or species of literature into a single composition.
gloss: To remove intron sequences from the pre-messenger RNA, and then join together exons.
pos: verb
gloss: To add, remove and/or replace several array/data elements in one operation.
pos: verb
Derived words: bent on a splice
comma splice
cunt splice
cut splice
eye splice
eyesplice
lineman splice
lineman's splice
mechanical splice
pig-tail splice
protosplice
pseudosplice
rat-tail splice
splice edit
splice form
splice grafting
spliceless
spliceopathy
spliceosome
spliceostatin
splice tape
splice variant
T-splice
twist splice
Western Union splice
intersplice
missplice
resplice
spliceable
splicer
splice the mainbrace
transplice
Translations:
splitter
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: ball-games
baseball
computing
engineering
games
geometry
graphical-user-interface
hobbies
lifestyle
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
sports
Etymology: Etymology tree
English split
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Proto-Italic *-āzijos
Latin -āriusnom.
Latin -āriusbor.
Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz
Proto-West Germanic *-ārī
Old English -ere
Middle English -ere
English -er
English splitter
From split + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: splitters
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person or a thing that splits.
pos: noun
gloss: A wedge used to cut logs down the middle.
pos: noun
gloss: A quarry worker who splits slate into sheets.
pos: noun
gloss: A scientist in one of various fields who prefers to split categories such as species or dialects up into smaller groups.
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
gloss: A split-finger fastball.
pos: noun
gloss: A draggable vertical or horizontal bar used to adjust the relative sizes of two adjacent windows.
pos: noun
gloss: A wheaten cake split and buttered when hot.
pos: noun
tags: US
gloss: One who splits hairs in argument, etc.
pos: noun
gloss: A device with two electrical plugs that plugs into an electrical outlet, effectively converting the electrical outlet into two; socket converter.
pos: noun
gloss: A line segment through one of the vertices of a triangle that bisects the perimeter of the triangle.
pos: noun
Antonyms: lumper
Derived words: beam splitter
hair-splitter
hairsplitter
log splitter
middle splitter
sidesplitter
splitter bus
splittercore
splitterism
Splitters Creek
thumb splitter
Y-splitter
Translations:
sprain
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: 1601, verb attested 1622. Possibly borrowed from Middle French espraindre (“to press out, to wring”), from Latin exprimere, in which case cognate to express.
Inflected forms:
form: sprains
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: spraining
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: sprained
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: sprained
pos: verb
tags: past
form: sprains
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To weaken, as a joint, ligament, or muscle, by sudden and excessive exertion, as by wrenching; to overstrain, or stretch injuriously, but without luxation
pos: verb
examples: He sprained his knee after falling off the bicycle.
Hi! I suppose you're expecting the Roadrunner! Well, he sprained a giblet cornering a sharp coive the other day, uh, so, uh, I'm standing in for him.
gloss: The act or result of spraining; lameness caused by spraining
pos: noun
examples: a bad sprain of the wrist
Translations:
spree
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Unknown. According to Douglas Harper’s Online Etymological Dictionary, “a word of uncertain origin. Perhaps [Barnhart] an alteration of French esprit (“lively wit”) (see esprit). According to Klein, Irish spré seems to be a loan-word from Old Norse sprakr. Watkins proposes a possible origin as an alteration of Scots spreath (“cattle raid”), from Gaelic sprédh, spré (“cattle; wealth”), from Middle Irish preit, preid (“booty”), ultimately from Latin praeda (“plunder, booty”)”.
Inflected forms:
form: sprees
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Uninhibited activity.
pos: noun
tags: in-compounds
examples: spending spree
Then all three major builders were called upon to deliver 105 Berkshires before the buying spree was over.
Twitter has been on a hiring spree, spending $630 million on stock-based compensation in 2021, a 33 percent increase from the previous year.
gloss: A merry frolic; especially, a drinking frolic.
pos: noun
tags: dated
examples: Tradition says she spent the last two years of her life in the strange den I have been speaking of, after having indulged herself in one final, triumphant and satisfying spree.
It would be a long time before he could be like the majority of these men of the road, who roamed until the hunger for drink and for women mastered them, and then went to work with a purpose in mind, and stopped when they had the price of a spree.
Derived words: killing spree
shooting spree
shopping spree
spending spree
spreeish
spree killer
Translations:
sprig
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English sprig, sprigge, of uncertain origin. Perhaps from Middle Low German sprik, spricke (“a dry, easily broken twig that has fallen from a tree; sprig”). Compare also dialectal English sprag (“sprig, twig”), English spray (“branch”), Old English spræc (“a shoot”), German Low German Spricke, Sprick (“dry branch, twig”).
Inflected forms:
form: sprigs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: sprigs
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: sprigging
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: sprigged
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: sprigged
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A small shoot or twig of a tree or other plant; a spray.
pos: noun
examples: a sprig of laurel or of parsley
[…] from this bush in the dooryard, / With delicate-color’d blossoms and heart-shaped leaves of rich green, / A sprig with its flower I break.
“Why, one sprig of nut grass can ruin a whole yard.[…]"
gloss: An ornament resembling a small shoot or twig.
pos: noun
gloss: One of the separate pieces of lace fastened on a ground in applique lace.
pos: noun
gloss: A youth; a lad.
pos: noun
tags: derogatory
humorous
mildly
sometimes
examples: a sprig whom I remember, with a whey-face and a satchel, not so many years ago
gloss: A brad, or nail without a head.
pos: noun
gloss: A small eyebolt ragged or barbed at the point.
pos: noun
gloss: A house sparrow.
pos: noun
gloss: To decorate with sprigs, or with representations of sprigs, as in embroidery or pottery.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To nail the sole onto a shoe.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Derived words: spriggy
spriglet
sprigtail
sprigger
Translations:
lang: Arabic
word: عَسْلُوج
roman: ʕaslūj
lang: Armenian
word: շիվ
roman: šiv
lang: Bulgarian
word: клонче
roman: klonče
lang: Bulgarian
word: вейка
roman: vejka
lang: Czech
word: snítka
lang: Czech
word: větvička
lang: Finnish
word: oksa
lang: Finnish
word: lehvä
lang: Finnish
word: verso
lang: Finnish
word: havu
lang: French
word: brin
lang: French
word: rameau
lang: German
word: Zweiglein
lang: German
word: Büschchen
lang: German
word: Büschel
lang: Hungarian
word: ágacska
lang: Italian
word: rametto
lang: Central Kurdish
word: تەڵ
roman: tell
lang: Māori
word: tākupu
lang: Norwegian
word: kvist
lang: Norwegian
word: dusk (of parsely)
lang: Norwegian
word: liten grein
lang: Norwegian
word: bukett
lang: Occitan
word: ramelet
lang: Polish
word: gałązka
lang: Russian
word: ве́точка
roman: vétočka
lang: Russian
word: побе́г
roman: pobég
lang: Spanish
word: ramita
lang: Swedish
word: kvist
lang: Telugu
word: రెమ్మ
roman: remma
sprite
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: art
arts
Etymology: From Middle English sprite, spryt, spreyte, from Old French esprit (“spirit”), from Latin spīritus. Doublet of spirit, spiritus, spirytus, spright, and esprit.
(computer graphics): First used by Danny Hillis at Texas Instruments in the late 1970s.
(meteorology): An acronym for Stratospheric Perturbations Resulting from Intense Thunderstorm Electrification.
Inflected forms:
form: sprites
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: spriting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: sprited
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: sprited
pos: verb
tags: past
form: spright
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: To draw a (specifically) pixel art sprite.
pos: verb
tags: informal
examples: sprited the new NPCs
Translations:
spry
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From British dialectal sprey, from Old Norse sprækr (“nimble, lively”) from Proto-Germanic *sprēkiz (“lively”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)preg- (“to strew, jerk, sprinkle, scatter”). Cognate with Icelandic sprækur (“lively, spry”), Norwegian sprek (“lively, healthy”), dialectal Swedish sprygg (“brisk, very active, skittish”). More at spark. Related to sprack, sprig, sprug, freckle.
Inflected forms:
form: sprier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: spriest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Having great power of leaping or running; nimble; active.
pos: adj
examples: What follows is a bunch of nonstop goofery involving chase sequences, dream sequences, fast-changing costumes and an improbable beard, a little musical help from Flight Of The Conchords, and ultimately a very physical confrontation with a surprisingly spry Victoria.
gloss: Vigorous; lively; cheerful; sprightly.
pos: adj
examples: "I'm not sure about whether I shall go. I am the most incurably lazy devil that ever stood in shoe leather—that is, when the fit is on me, for I can be spry enough at times."
The Captain folded his brow into a look of intense perplexity. 'You seem exceedingly spry for a man who demolished an entire bottle of brandy and better part of an ounce of shag in a single evening.'
'And very nice too,' said the tramp. 'Now as to breakfast?'
Derived words: spryly
spryness
Translations:
spurt
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From earlier spirt, sprit (“to sprout”), from Middle English sprytten, from Old English spryttan, from Proto-West Germanic *spruttjan, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)per- (“to strew, sow, sprinkle”).
Inflected forms:
form: spurts
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: spurting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: spurted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: spurted
pos: verb
tags: past
form: spirt
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: spurts
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: spirt
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: To cause to gush out suddenly or violently in a stream or jet.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To rush from a confined place in a small stream or jet.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Thus the small jet, which hasty hands unlock, / Spurts in the gardener's eyes who turns the cock.
With that he pulled open his shirt, and with his long sharp nails opened a vein in his breast. When the blood began to spurt out, he took my hands in one of his, holding them tight, and with the other seized my neck and pressed my mouth to the wound, so that I must either suffocate or swallow some to the . . . Oh, my God! My God! What have I done?
In the floor of the valley the line passes hills of fantastic shape, like sleeping camels and inverted washbasins, and you can see the beautiful lakes Naivasha and Elementeita; at Eburru jets of steam spurt out of the ground.
gloss: A brief gush, as of liquid spurting from an orifice or a cut/wound.
pos: noun
examples: a spurt of water; a spurt of blood
gloss: Ejaculation of semen.
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: "Clean all your spurt off me, man." And so I did.
gloss: A shoot; a bud.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
examples: The Garden Sperages[…]send out at first certaine greene spurts or buds peeping forth of the ground.
Synonyms: spout
Derived words: bespurt
outspurt
spurtingly
spurtive
upspurt
Translations:
squaw
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Massachusett squàw (“woman”), from Proto-Algonquian *eθkwe·wa (“(young) woman”). Cognate with Abenaki -skwa (“female, wife”), Mohegan-Pequot sqá, Cree iskwew / ᐃᐢᑫᐧᐤ (iskeyw, “woman”), Ojibwe ikwe (“woman”). In the 1970s, some non-linguists began to claim that the word originally meant vagina; this has been discredited.
The first English attestation of the word is found in a book called Mourt’s Relation: A Journey of the Pilgrims at Plymouth written in 1622, where the "squa sachim or Massachusets Queen" is mentioned in a journal entry from September 20, 1621.
Inflected forms:
form: squaws
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A woman, wife; especially a Native American woman.
pos: noun
tags: ethnic
offensive
slur
examples: The Indian maids, of course, turned out to be a few fat old squaws who knew all about white men.
Translations:
stadium
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
geography
natural-sciences
surveying
Etymology: From Latin stadium (“a measure of length, a race course”) (commonly one-eighth of a Roman mile; translated in early English Bibles by furlong), from Ancient Greek στάδιον (stádion, “a measure of length, a running track”), especially the track at Olympia, which was one stadium in length. The Greek word may literally mean "fixed standard of length" (from στάδιος (stádios, “firm, fixed”), from Proto-Indo-European *steh₂-, whence also stand and Latin stare). Doublet of stade, stadion, and estadio. Displaced native Old English spyrd.
Inflected forms:
form: stadiums
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: stadia
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A venue where sporting events are held.
pos: noun
examples: He is going for a cricket match at the stadium.
In a convulsion that has caught many in Brazil and beyond by surprise, waves of protesters denounced their leaders for dedicating so many resources to cultivating Brazil’s global image by building stadiums for international events, when basic services like education and health care remain woefully inadequate.
gloss: An Ancient Greek racecourse, especially, the Olympic course for foot races.
pos: noun
gloss: Synonym of stadion, a Greek unit of length equivalent to about 185 m.
pos: noun
tags: historical
examples: Dionysiodorus[…]sent a letter ad superos after he was dead, from the centre of the earth, to signify what distance the same centre was from the superficies of the same, viz. 42,000 stadiums […].
gloss: A kind of telemeter for measuring the distance of an object of known dimensions, by observing the angle it subtends.
pos: noun
gloss: A graduated rod used to measure the distance of the place where it stands from an instrument having a telescope, by observing the number of the graduations of the rod that are seen between certain parallel wires (stadia wires) in the field of view of the telescope.
pos: noun
gloss: A life stage of an organism.
pos: noun
Derived words: all-seater stadium
snackadium
stadia rod
stadia wire
stadimeter
stadiumful
stadium horn
stadiumlike
stadium mustard
stadium rock
stadium sailing
stadium trumpet
Translations:
stager
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English stage
English -er
English stager
From stage + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: stagers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An actor on the stage.
pos: noun
gloss: One who stages a theatrical performance.
pos: noun
examples: Here the principal stagers of saints' plays appear to have been the civic authorities, and guilds or confreries, and the popularity of this type of drama owed much to the cult of saints[…]
gloss: One who has long acted on the stage of life; a practitioner; a person of experience, or of skill derived from long experience.
pos: noun
gloss: A horse used in drawing a stagecoach.
pos: noun
Derived words: old stager
Translations:
staid
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From an obsolete spelling of stayed, the past participle of stay, used as an adjective.
Inflected forms:
form: staider
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: staidest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Not capricious or impulsive; sedate, serious, sober.
pos: adj
examples: Put thy ſelfe / Into a hauiour of leſſe feare, ere wildneſſe / Vanquiſh my ſtayder Senſes.
The hours of study, the hours of recreation, the sports, the pastimes, the casualties, which in the staider years of life pass without note or comment, alike are wrapped and muffled in the one roseate haze.
As for Peter, he was the happiest of the happy, and had sung and whistled so joyously while skating that the staidest passers-by had smiled as they listened.
He wondered what had become of the boys who were his companions: they were nearly thirty now; some would be dead, but others were married and had children; they were soldiers and parsons, doctors, lawyers; they were staid men who were beginning to put youth behind them. Had any of them made such a hash of life as he?
I was just thinking that it's sure been a long time since you've pulled one of your great practical jokes. You've gotten downright boring lately, Cody. Staid, even.
Meetings between Pakistani and American leaders are traditionally staid and predictable, although some Pakistanis are fond of recalling an apocryphal 1963 exchange between John F. Kennedy and Zulfikar Ali Bhutto – father of slain Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, to whom [Asif Ali] Zardari was married. Impressed by the then Foreign Minister, who would become Prime Minister before being deposed by a U.S.-backed military dictator in 1977 and later executed, Kennedy is alleged to have said, "If you were an American, you would be in my Cabinet." Bhutto is alleged to have answered, "Be careful, Mr. President. If I were an American, you would be in my Cabinet."
gloss: Always fixed in the same location; stationary.
pos: adj
tags: rare
examples: 'Tis not age or height alone / Can secure the staidest throne / From the reach of Change or Death,— […]
[I]n a common sailor's life sleep is not a regular thing as we have it on shore, and perhaps that staid glazy and sedate-looking eye, which a hard-worked seaman usually has, is really caused by broken slumber. He is never completely awake, but he is never entirely asleep.
Derived words: staidly
staidness
unstaid
Translations:
stang
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: Wicca
lifestyle
paganism
religion
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English stang, stong, from Old Norse stǫng, from Proto-Germanic *stangiz, *stangō (“bar, rod”), from Proto-Indo-European *stengʰ-, *stegʰ- (“to stick, sting, prick, be stiff”).
Inflected forms:
form: stangs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: stangs
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: stanging
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: stanged
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: stanged
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A forked ritual staff.
pos: noun
examples: The stang represents the horned god and the masculine force of nature. Much like the wand or athame, the stang is used for raising or directing power[…]
In more common (and private) Wiccan circles, the stang is replaced by the athame (black handled knife) and the cauldron replaced with the chalice but its^([sic]) pretty much /whatever works for you/.
These stangs can be used as natural altars in outdoor rituals or simply as walking staffs.
gloss: A long bar; a pole; a shaft; a stake.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
obsolete
examples: Gripping the stang, she peered / At ghostly trees. Bus stopped. Bus disappeared.
gloss: In land measure, a pole, rod, or perch.
pos: noun
tags: historical
obsolete
examples: These fields were intermingled with woods of half a stang,*... (with the corresponding footnote: "An old word for a perch, sixteen feet and a half. These small woods were therefore eight feet and a quarter.")
gloss: To shoot with pain, to sting.
pos: verb
tags: Scotland
intransitive
gloss: To spear; to sting.
pos: verb
tags: Scotland
transitive
Derived words: ride the stang
stang ball
Translations:
starch
Part of speech: noun
verb
adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English starche, sterche, from Old English *stierċe (“stiffness, rigidity, strength”), from Proto-West Germanic *starkī (“stiffness, rigidity, fortitude, strength”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *sterg- (“stiff, rigid”).
Cognate with dialectal Dutch sterk (“strong”), Middle Low German sterke (“strength”), German Stärke (“strength", also "starch”), Swedish stärkelse (“starch”), Icelandic sterkja (“starch”). Related to English stark (“stiff, strong, vigorous, powerful”).
Inflected forms:
form: starches
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: starches
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: starching
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: starched
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: starched
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A widely diffused vegetable substance, found in seeds, bulbs and tubers, as extracted (e.g. from potatoes, corn, rice, etc.) in the form of a white, glistening, granular or powdery substance, without taste or smell, and giving a very peculiar creaking sound when rubbed between the fingers. It is used as a food, in the production of commercial grape sugar, for stiffening linen in laundries, in making paste, etc.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Meronym: saccharide
The various elements found in food are the following: Starch, sugar, fats, albumen, mineral substances, indigestible substances.
gloss: Carbohydrates, as with grain and potato based foods.
pos: noun
tags: countable
gloss: A stiff, formal manner; formality.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: this Professor is to give the society their stiffening, and infuse into their manners that beautiful political starch, which may qualify them for Levées, Conferences, Visits
gloss: Fortitude.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: The thought of the gun in his back put some starch in him. He needed the handrail, and he limped step by step, but he ascended at his full height.
gloss: Any of various starch-like substances used as a laundry stiffener.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: You're the starch in my collar / You're the lace in my shoe / You will always be my necessity / I'd be lost without you
gloss: To apply or treat with laundry starch, in order to create a hard, smooth surface.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: She starched her blouses.
gloss: Stiff; precise; rigid.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: misrepresenting Sobriety as a Starch and Formal, and Vertue as a Laborious and Slavish thing
Derived words: animal starch
clearstarch
cornstarch
destarch
distarch
hydroxypropyl starch
hydroxypropyl starch glycerine
hydroxypropyl starch phosphate
maizestarch
modified starch
nitrostarch
nonstarch
pentastarch
potato starch
starch generator
starch hyacinth
starchless
starchlike
starchly
starchman
starch-root
starchworks
starchwort
starchy
tapioca starch
tetrastarch
tous-les-mois starch
unstarch
wheat starch
Translations:
startle
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English startlen, stertlen, stertyllen (“to rush, stumble along”), from Old English steartlian (“to kick with the foot, struggle, stumble”), equivalent to start + -le. Cognate with Old Norse stirtla (“to hobble, stagger”), Icelandic stirtla (“to straighten up, erect”). Compare also Middle English stertil (“hasty”). More at start.
Base: start
Affixes: -le
Inflected forms:
form: startles
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: startling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: startled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: startled
pos: verb
tags: past
form: startles
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To move suddenly, or be excited, on feeling alarm; to start.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: a horse that startles easily
Why shrinks the soul / Back on herself, and startles at destruction?
He felt, too, that he was acting unjustly by Ethel: he had allowed a fortnight to elapse—he startled when he numbered up the days; it is strange how we allow them to glide imperceptibly away.
gloss: To excite by sudden alarm, surprise, or apprehension; to frighten suddenly and not seriously; to alarm; to surprise.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The supposition, at least, that angels do sometimes assume bodies need not startle us.
Nothing could startle her, make her scold or make her cry. She did not complain, she did not rebel.
The high voice in the night air startled me. Without thinking, I started to run. Then stopped. I spun around, my heart heaving against my chest. And saw a boy. About my age.
gloss: To deter; to cause to deviate.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
transitive
examples: it would blast all their hopes, and startle all other princes from joining
As they turned into Hertford Street they startled a robin from the poet's head on a barren fountain, and he fled away with a cameo note.
gloss: A sudden motion or shock caused by an unexpected alarm, surprise, or apprehension of danger.
pos: noun
examples: The figure of a man heaving in sight amidst these wide solitudes, always causes a startle and thrill of expectation and doubt, similar to the feeling produced by the announcement of " a strange sail ahead" on shipboard, during a long voyage.
Derived words: startled
startlement
startle up
startling
upstartle
Translations: