yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
plenty
Part of speech: noun
pron
adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Anglo-Norman plent(é) + -y, from Middle English plentie, plentee, plente, from Anglo-Norman plenté, from Old French plenté, from Latin plēnitātem, accusative of plēnitās (“fullness”), from plenus (“complete, full”), from Proto-Indo-European *pl̥h₁nós (“full”), from which English full also comes, via Proto-Germanic. Related to the Latin derivatives replenish, plenary, complete, deplete, replete.
Affixes: -y#Etymology_3
Inflected forms:
form: plenties
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A more-than-adequate amount; plenitude.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: We are lucky to live in a land of peace and plenty.
During this season of distress, the discouragements to marriage, and the difficulty of rearing a family are so great that population is at a stand. In the mean time the cheapness of labour, the plenty of labourers, and the necessity of an increased industry amongst them, encourage cultivators to employ more labour upon their land, to turn up fresh soil, and to manure and improve more completely what is already in tillage
gloss: More than enough.
pos: pron
examples: Acquire one of these and you'll have plenty of car for your money.
gloss: More than sufficiently.
pos: adv
tags: Canada
US
not-comparable
examples: This office is plenty big enough for our needs.
For the likes of her, the down-at-heels support of Hoboken pier was plenty good enough.
gloss: Used as an intensifier, very.
pos: adv
tags: Canada
US
colloquial
not-comparable
examples: She was plenty mad at him.
Seeing clichés mimicked this skillfully is plenty hilarious.
Translations:
membership
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: human-sciences
linguistics
mathematics
sciences
social-science
sociolinguistics
sociology
Etymology: Etymology tree
English member
Proto-Germanic *skapjaną
Proto-Germanic *-skapiz
Proto-West Germanic *-skapi
Old English -sċiepe
Middle English -schipe
English -ship
English membership
From member + -ship.
Inflected forms:
form: memberships
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: memberships
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: membershipping
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: membershipped
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: membershipped
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: The state of being a member of a group or organization.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The terms of membership agreement were vague.
He has memberships in clubs in three cities.
But when Krystal McConnell and Ashley Flynn were named deep in the heart of the '80s the thing was cuteness, feminine delicacy raised to an aesthetic paradigm. --- And everyone named according to a particular version of the pedigree fantasy. Ashley : transplanted Southern privilege, a destiny lying in sorority mixers and a marriage of health club memberships, state-of-the-art appliances and night courses in nouvelle cuisine.
Hence there resulted a division of the membership of the brotherhood into two classes, the practical and theoretic, or, as they are more commonly called, the operative and speculative, or “domatic” and “geomatic."
gloss: The body of members of an organization.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The memberships of the state chapters elect delegates to the national convention.
gloss: The fact of being a member of a set.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: To classify (someone) as belonging to a certain group or community.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Whatever the topic of the conversation the speaker must ‘membership’ his listener, put him into one of two or more mutually exclusive boxes. Each time a topic changes the listener must be re-membershipped, and during a conversation the same person may be membershipped as a doctor, a rugby player, a liberal, a gardener, a bridge player.
Derived words: comembership
e-membership
membership card
membership function
membership marketing
nonmembership
party membership card
Translations:
member
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: computing
engineering
human-sciences
law
logic
mathematics
natural-sciences
philosophy
physical-sciences
sciences
set-theory
Etymology: From Middle English membre, from Old French membre, from Latin membrum (“limb, body part”), from Proto-Italic *memzrom, from Proto-Indo-European *mḗms, *mēms-rom (“flesh”). Akin to Gothic 𐌼𐌹𐌼𐌶 (mimz, “meat, flesh”), Crimean Gothic menus.
Coexists with native limb, from Old English lim (“limb, joint, main branch”). Mostly displaced lith (“limb, joint, member”), from Old English liþ (“limb, member, join, tip”), which still survives in British dialect.
Inflected forms:
form: members
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: membre
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: One who belongs to a group.
pos: noun
examples: “Were it not for the fancy French and Latin in it, I'd have swore it was the sort of thing I do not print as a rule, but being as how the order was from one of the members upstairs...”
gloss: A part of a whole.
pos: noun
examples: The I-beams were to become structural members of a pedestrian bridge.
The member intertongues and grades laterally with the lower sandstone member of the Pocahontas Formation of Early Pennslyvanian age
gloss: Part of an animal capable of performing a distinct office; an organ; a limb.
pos: noun
examples: For as we haue many members in one body, and all members haue not the same office:
gloss: The penis.
pos: noun
tags: euphemistic
examples: If your wife is old and your member is exhausted, eat onions in plenty.
gloss: One of the propositions making up a syllogism.
pos: noun
gloss: An element of a set.
pos: noun
gloss: the judge or adjudicator in a consumer court.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
gloss: A part of a discourse or of a period, sentence, or verse; a clause.
pos: noun
gloss: Either of the two parts of an algebraic equation, connected by the equality sign.
pos: noun
gloss: A file stored within an archive file.
pos: noun
examples: The zip file holding the source code of this application has 245 members.
gloss: A function or piece of data associated with each separate instance of a class.
pos: noun
Derived words: assemblymember
bandmember
board member
cardmember
castmember
charter member
comember
councilmember
cross-member
crossmember
data member
dismember
e-member
end member
end-member
endmember
Euro-member
ex-member
founder member
founding member
gang member
guildmember
gutter member
intermember
learned member
life member
member bank
member class
member country
member field
member for Barkshire
member function
memberless
memberlist
member of lower house
member of staff
member of the public
member of the tribe
member of upper house
member organisation
membership
member state
member variable
memberwise
membrification
mixed-member proportional
multimember
non-commissioned member
non-member
private member's bill
privy member
re-member
service member
servicemember
sitting member
submember
touring member
transmember
tribesmember
unmembern
virile member
Translations:
dysfunctional
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *dews-?
Proto-Indo-European *dus-
Proto-Hellenic *dus-
Ancient Greek δῠσ- (dŭs-)der.
New Latin dys-der.
English dys-
Old French fonction
Middle French functionbor.
English function
English dysfunction
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 dysfunctional
From dysfunction + -al.
Inflected forms:
form: more dysfunctional
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most dysfunctional
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Not performing its proper or intended function.
pos: adj
gloss: Functioning incorrectly or abnormally; especially, designating of a business, family or social group with harmful, aberrant, strange or abnormal behavior.
pos: adj
examples: Live dysfunctional, likely die dysfunctional; live eufunctional, likely die eufunctional.
Never trust in the partly unscrupulous and partly dysfunctional state apparatus.
A former chief of staff of the Israel Defence Forces said that Netanyahu should “resign now”, while a former intelligence official described the government as “dysfunctional”.
It is difficult to find the right words for what has happened in the five years since the May 2018 timetable changes exposed the very dysfunctional nature of the franchise system set up by the privatisation process of the 1990s.
Derived words: dysfunctionality
dysfunctionalization
dysfunctionally
nondysfunctional
Translations:
catamaran
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From Tamil கட்டுமரம் (kaṭṭumaram), from கட்டு (kaṭṭu, “to tie”) + மரம் (maram, “tree, wood”).
Compound parts: கட்டு
மரம்
Inflected forms:
form: catamarans
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A twin-hulled ship or boat.
pos: noun
examples: Swift over the seas the vessel drives; Madras appears in sight. The first object catching the eye, upon the anchor being cast, was an Indian upon his catamaran, who, making a sudden motion, sprung to the side of the ship, grappled there for a moment, and the next was on the deck.
gloss: A quarrelsome woman; a scold.
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
obsolete
rare
examples: She meddles with my prescriptions for your wife; she doctors the infant in private: you'll never have a quiet house or a quiet wife as long as that old Catamaran is here.
gloss: A raft of three pieces of wood lashed together, the middle piece being longer than the others, and serving as a keel on which the rower squats while paddling.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
examples: Three or four strange-looking things now came close to our boat, which I understood were called ‘catamarans’, consisting of nothing more than two or three large trees, the trunk part only strongly lashed together, upon which sat two men nearly in a state of nature […] .
gloss: An old kind of fireship.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
Related words: trimaran
Derived words: cat
cataraft
Translations:
trimaran
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: Blend of tri- + catamaran.
Compound parts: tri-
catamaran
Inflected forms:
form: trimarans
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A type of boat with three parallel hulls.
pos: noun
Translations:
sneer
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English sneren (“to mock, scoff at”), from Old English fnǣran (“to snort”), from Proto-West Germanic *fnāʀijan, from Proto-Germanic *fnesaną (“to pant, gasp”). Akin to North Frisian sneere (“to scorn”), Middle High German snerren (“to chatter; gossip”), Danish snerre (“to growl, snarl”).
Inflected forms:
form: sneers
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: sneering
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: sneered
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: sneered
pos: verb
tags: past
form: sneers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To raise a corner of the upper lip slightly, especially in scorn.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: So General Oakfield's friends taunted him with having been beaten, and Blackeston's friends sneered at him for not having called the general out. Blackeston, a studious and sensitive man, felt the taunts of his friends as only a student can.
gloss: To utter with a grimace or contemptuous expression; to say sneeringly.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to sneer fulsome lies at a person
There was a quick scuffle within the cabin. "Leave me alone, I say, and git!" cried the cook. "Can't I be friendly without you hollerin?" sneered the miner. "You wouldn't have been 'lowed to stay round here if it hadn't been for me."
gloss: A facial expression where one slightly raises one corner of the upper lip, generally indicating scorn.
pos: noun
examples: Near them, on the sand, / Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown, / And wrinked lip, and sneer of cold command, / Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
He supposed then (with a sneer—M. Paul could sneer supremely, curling his lip, opening his nostrils, contracting his eyelids)—he supposed there was but one form of appeal to which I would listen [...]
gloss: A display of contempt; scorn.
pos: noun
examples: And wordy attacks against slavery drew sneers from observers which were not altogether undeserved. The authors were compared to doctors who offered to a patient nothing more than invectives against the disease which consumed him.
It was a casual sneer, obviously one of a long line. There was hatred behind it, but of a quiet, chronic type, nothing new or unduly virulent, and he was taken aback by the flicker of amazed incredulity that passed over the younger man's ravaged face.
During [Tucker] Carlson’s keynote, he wedged sneers at his critics for crying “racist!” in between racist remarks about [Ilhan] Omar, jeremiads against the media (“I know there’s a bunch of reporters here, so . . . screw you”), and an attack on Elizabeth Warren and her donors (“She’s a tragedy, because she’s now obsessed with racism, which is why the finance world supports her”)—all to gleeful applause.
Synonyms: gird
jeer
jibe
laugh at
scoff
scorn
sneer
Antonyms: cheer
laugh with
Related words: bah
snarl
Derived words: sneerer
sneerful
sneeringly
sneerless
sneerocracy
sneer quote
sneery
unsneering
Translations:
taunt
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle French tanter (“to tempt, try, provoke”), variant of Old French tempter (“to try”). Doublet of tempt.
Inflected forms:
form: taunts
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: taunting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: taunted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: taunted
pos: verb
tags: past
form: taunts
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To make fun of (someone); to goad (a person) into responding, often in an aggressive manner.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: A scornful or mocking remark; a jeer or mockery.
pos: noun
examples: 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.
The attacks and the failure to catch the killer created an atmosphere of fear and dismay throughout Yorkshire, and provoked grim taunts to the police at Leeds United football matches such as “Ripper 10, Police nil”
Translations:
scold
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: The noun is from Middle English scold(e), skald(e), first attested in the 12th or 13th century (as scold, scolde, skolde, skald). The verb is from Middle English scolden, first attested in the late 1300s. Most dictionaries derive the verb from the noun and say the noun is probably from Old Norse skald (“poet”) (cognate with Icelandic skáld (“poet, scop”)), as skalds sometimes wrote insulting poems, though another view is that the Norse and English words are cognate to each other and to Old High German skeltan (whence Modern German schelten (“to scold, chide”)), Old Dutch skeldan (whence Modern Dutch schelden (“to scold, berate”)), all inherited from Proto-Germanic *skeldaną (“scold”).
Inflected forms:
form: scolds
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: scould
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: scolde
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A person who habitually scolds, in particular a troublesome and angry woman.
pos: noun
examples: A ſclaunderous tunge, a tunge of a ſkolde,
Worketh more miſchiefe than can be tolde;
That, if I wiſt not to be controlde,
Yet ſomwhat to ſay I dare well be bolde,
“Well, I won’t have it, and that’s enough.” She laughed, for her voice had a little been that of the professional scold.
Near the pond was the ducking-stool where many a village scold had her tongue temporarily stilled.
Consider the contrast with the United States, where deficit scolds dominated Beltway discourse in 2010–2011 but never managed to dictate the terms of political debate […]
Translations:
enthusiasm
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: First attested from 1603, from Middle French enthousiasme, from Late Latin enthusiasmus, from Ancient Greek ἐνθουσιασμός (enthousiasmós), from ἐν (en, “in”) + θεός (theós, “god”) + οὐσία (ousía, “essence”).
Inflected forms:
form: enthusiasms
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An intensity of feeling; an excited interest or eagerness.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Try to curb your enthusiasm.
They have a great enthusiasm for country music.
By the end of this period pupils are expected to be reading simple books independently and with enthusiasm.
gloss: Something in which one is keenly interested.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: My main enthusiasm is attending and seeing the progress and interest of collectors, to meet old friends, and hopefully to make new friends.
Other Adamsian enthusiasms included: fast cars; restaurants; Bach, the Beatles, Pink Floyd and Dire Straits; […]
gloss: Possession by a god; divine inspiration or frenzy.
pos: noun
tags: countable
historical
obsolete
uncountable
examples: The intoxication that they sought was that of ‘enthusiasm’, of union with the god.
Synonyms: ardor
alacrity
celerity
energy
enthusiasm
exuberance
exuberantness
fanaticism
fervor
gusto
purpose
verve
vigor
vim
zeal
zealousness
Antonyms: apathy
lethargy
Related words: enthuse
enthusiast
enthusiastic
enthusiastically
Derived words: counterenthusiasm
hyperenthusiasm
nonenthusiasm
overenthusiasm
penthusiasm
ultraenthusiasm
unenthusiasm
Translations:
numero
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin numerō, the ablative singular form of numerus (“number”).
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The sign ⟨ № ⟩.
pos: noun
Translations:
snot
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Germanic *snuttuzder.
Old English ġesnot
Middle English snot
English snot
From Middle English snot, snotte, from Old English ġesnot, *snott, from Proto-West Germanic *snott, *snutt, from Proto-Germanic *snuttuz (“nasal mucus”), from the same base as snout. Related also to snite.
Cognate with North Frisian snot (“snot”), Saterland Frisian Snotte (“snot”), West Frisian snotte (“snot”), Dutch snot (“snot”), German Low German Snött (“snot”), dialectal German Schnutz (“snot”), Danish snot (“snot”), Norwegian snott (“snot”).
Inflected forms:
form: snots
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: snots
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: snotting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: snotted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: snotted
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Mucus, especially mucus from the nose.
pos: noun
tags: informal
uncountable
examples: Once, I remember, the little fair-haired boy had a choking fit at dinner, and a stream of snot ran out of his nose on to his plate in a way horrible to see.
gloss: A contemptible child.
pos: noun
tags: countable
slang
examples: With no warning a gang of little snots — none larger or older than I was — threw me to the ground, pulled my knickers below my knees — without any explanation, and allowed me to get up.
gloss: A mean fellow.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
slang
uncountable
gloss: The flamed out wick of a candle.
pos: noun
tags: Northern-England
countable
dialectal
uncountable
gloss: To blow, wipe, or clear (the nose).
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
informal
gloss: To sniff or snivel; to produce snot, to have a runny nose.
pos: verb
tags: informal
intransitive
examples: I was snotting all into my mouth and having to eat it, silently shuddering.
Synonyms: booger
Derived words: bone-eating snot flower worm
bullsnot
cock snot
dick snot
eye-snot
eye snot
pecker snot
rock snot
sea snot
slick as snot
snarge
snotbag
snotball
snot block
snotbox
snotface
snot-green
snothead
snotlike
snotnose
snot-nosed
snot otter
snot rag
snotrag
snot rocket
snotsicle
snottie
snottite
Snottsdale
snotty
snot up
snotwad
the snot out of
Translations:
discussion
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
sciences
Etymology: From Old French discussion, from Late Latin discussiō, from Latin discutiō. By surface analysis, discuss + -ion.
Inflected forms:
form: discussions
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Conversation or debate concerning a particular topic.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: There was then a long discussion of whether to capitalize words like "east".
This topic is not open to discussion.
My discussion with the professor was very enlightening.
In the May 12 memo, Meta said it had previously allowed open discussion of abortion at work but later recognized that it had led to “significant disruptions in the workplace given unique legal complexities and the number of people affected by the issue.”
gloss: Text giving further detail on a subject.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Under each heading, you will find a discussion.
The question of the plausibility of the counter-factual is seen as key in all three discussions of allohistorical fiction (as it is in Demandt's and Ferguson's examinations of allohistory) (cf. Rodiek 25–26; Ritter 15–16; Helbig 32).
gloss: The dispersion of a tumour.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
Related words: discuss
discusser
Derived words: book discussion group
corridor discussion
discussional
discussionless
discussionlike
discussion room
e-discussion
end of discussion
metadiscussion
nondiscussion
overdiscussion
panel discussion
prediscussion
rediscussion
subdiscussion
Translations:
discuss
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: law
Etymology: From Middle English discussen, from Middle French and Anglo-Norman discusser (French discuter), from Latin discussus, past participle of discutiō (“to strike or shake apart, break up, scatter; examine, discuss”), from dis- (“apart”) + quatiō (“to shake”).
Inflected forms:
form: discusses
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: discussing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: discussed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: discussed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To converse or debate concerning a particular topic.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Let's sit down and discuss whether we should have a baby.
I don't wish to discuss this further.
gloss: To communicate, tell, or disclose (information, a message, etc.).
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
transitive
examples: Nym: I will discuss the humour of this love to Page.
Pistol: Discuss unto me; art thou officer? Or art thou base, common and popular?
gloss: To break to pieces; to shatter.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
transitive
gloss: To deal with, in eating or drinking; consume.
pos: verb
tags: colloquial
obsolete
transitive
examples: When the preparations were finished, he invited me with—“Now, sir, bring forward your chair.” And we all, including the rustic youth, drew round the table: an austere silence prevailing while we discussed our meal.
We sat quietly down and discussed a cold fowl that we had brought with us.
In the first room we entered, a soldier and a man, like a clerk or dominie, were discussing a bottle of red wine; they immediately sprang up and politely proffered us each a bumper.
gloss: To examine or search thoroughly; to exhaust a remedy against, as against a principal debtor before proceeding against the surety.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To drive away, disperse, shake off; said especially of tumors.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
transitive
examples: For she was giuen all to fleshly lust, / And poured forth in sensuall delight, / That all regard of shame she had discust, / And meet respect of honour put to flight […]
If too much milke be the cauſe, then the Nurſe ſhall not give the childe ſucke ſo often, nor in ſuch plenty: If it proceed from wind, and that doe cauſe the childe to be thus troubled, it ſhall be diſcuſſed with Fomentations applied to the belly and navell; and with Carminative Cliſters, which ſhall bee given him, […]
June 15, 1751, Samuel Johnson, letter in The Rambler
The softness of my hands was secured by medicated gloves, and my bosom rubbed with a pomade prepared by my mother, of virtue to discuss pimples, and clear discolourations.
Many arts were used to discuss the beginnings of new affliction.
Synonyms: bechat
confer
bespeak
betalk
chat
discuss
moot
talk about
talk over
treat
Related words: quash
argue
converse
Derived words: discussable
discuss about
discussant
discusser
discussible
discussion
discussive
discuss to death
discuss Uganda
overdiscuss
prediscuss
rediscuss
underdiscuss
Translations:
adduct
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: chemistry
medicine
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physiology
sciences
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin adductus, past participle of adduco. See adduce.
Inflected forms:
form: adducts
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: adducting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: adducted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: adducted
pos: verb
tags: past
form: adducts
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To draw towards a center or a middle line.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Coordinate term: circumduct
The therapist explained how certain muscles adduct the leg toward the body.
The patient was unable to adduct his thumb after the injury.
to adduct a limb
gloss: The product of an addition reaction.
pos: noun
Translations:
driving
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: golf
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Etymology: From Middle English dryvyng, drivende, from Old English drīfende, from Proto-Germanic *drībandz, present participle of Proto-Germanic *drībaną (“to drive”), equivalent to drive + -ing. Cognate with Saterland Frisian drieuwend, West Frisian driuwend, Dutch drijvend, German Low German drievend, German treibend, Swedish drivande.
Base: drive
Affixes: -ing
Inflected forms:
form: more driving
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most driving
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: drivings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: That drives (a mechanism or process).
pos: adj
examples: But the dull, cool, calculating effect given cumulatively through Stalin’s long career, the air of a great glacier moving slowly and by the easiest path to overwhelm some Alpine valley, is only part of the picture. At various times - and especially in his early career - the calm of his general manner was broken, and expression given to the driving emotions that possessed him.
gloss: That drives forcefully; strong; forceful; violent (of wind, rain, etc)
pos: adj
gloss: The action of the verb to drive in any sense.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: […] with all its drivings of cattle and all its tithe battles, and all the killings and maimings consequent upon those battles, […]
gloss: In particular, the action of operating a motor vehicle.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: There had been the whisky and Perrier in the morning but, in my ignorance of alcoholics then, I could not imagine one whisky harming anyone who was driving in an open car in the rain.
Risk is everywhere. From tabloid headlines insisting that coffee causes cancer (yesterday, of course, it cured it) to stern government warnings about alcohol and driving, the world is teeming with goblins.
gloss: The act of driving the ball; hitting the ball a long distance, especially from the tee to the putting green.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Heigh-ho! Sing heigh-ho! my Golf is most shocking; My driving is topping, my caddie's still mocking.
Ever since I started talking to myself with this new attitude toward my driving and my performance on the first tee and the first few holes, I have experienced consistently better performance with my driver.
There is no such being as a golfer uninterested in his driving.
Derived words: cabdriving
driving drunk
driving impaired
driving maul
driving while Mexican
ecodriving
screwdriving
sleepdriving
truckdriving
Translations:
initialism
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English initial
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)
Proto-Indo-European *-mos
Proto-Indo-European *-mós
Ancient Greek -μός (-mós)
Ancient Greek -ισμός (-ismós)der.
English -ism
English initialism
From initial + -ism.
Inflected forms:
form: initialisms
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A term formed from the initial letters of several words or parts of words, which is itself pronounced letter by letter.
pos: noun
examples: The term BBC is an initialism for the British Broadcasting Corporation.
gloss: The process of forming words or terms using initial letters of other words.
pos: noun
examples: The next most frequent source language was English, with neologistic compounds accounting for 15 etymologies, with 9 other English-based terms from a variety of word formation processes such as initialism and semantic extension.
Related words: abbreviation
abecedism
acronym
TLA
Derived words: orphan initialism
Translations:
cucumber
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English cucumer, cucumber, from Old French cocombre, ultimately from Latin cucumis, cucumerem (possibly through an Old Occitan intermediate). Probably of Pre-Italic substrate origin. First attested in the late 14c. Displaced native English earthapple (see which for more), which has since acquired other senses.
Inflected forms:
form: cucumbers
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: cuke
pos: noun
tags: alternative
colloquial
form: cumber
pos: noun
tags: alternative
colloquial
Senses:
gloss: A vine in the gourd family, Cucumis sativus.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: ASPARAGUS, cauliflowers, imperial Sileſia, royal and cabbage lettuces, burnet, purſlain, cucumbers, naſturtian flowers, peaſe and beans ſown in October, artichokes, ſcarlet ſtrawberries, and kidney beans.
gloss: The edible fruit of this plant, having a green rind and crisp white flesh.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: […]for it has been a common ſaying of phyſicians in England, that a cucumber ſhould be well ſliced, and dreſſed with pepper and vinegar, and then thrown out, as good for nothing.
"Why, pepper and salt your reasons!" cried Curl, forgetting to look at the door for a moment: "your pamphlet has talent; but talent is like a cucumber, nothing without the dressing. You must be more personal."
Probably on account of its phallic formation, the cucumber is often assumed to have aphrodisiac qualities.
To the bowl, add cucumber, cabbage and carrot.
gloss: A person who is calm and self-possessed.
pos: noun
tags: countable
figuratively
informal
uncountable
examples: The guy's a real cucumber.
That Wolf is one cool cucumber.
"You're smart," says Irv, pointing at her and nodding his head. "A smart cucumber."
Related words: cucumiform
Derived words: cucumberade
cucumber beetle
cucumber fish
cucumberfish
cucumberita
cucumber mosaic virus
cucumber time
cucumbertini
cucumber tree
Qcumber
Translations:
parsnip
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From 16th-century parsnepe, from Middle English passenep, a modification of Old French pasnaie by influence of Middle English nepe (“turnip”), from Latin pastināca (“parsnip, carrot”), from pastinum (“two-pronged fork”) as in pastināre (“to dig up the ground”).
Inflected forms:
form: parsnips
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A biennial plant, Pastinaca sativa, related to the carrot.
pos: noun
gloss: The root of the parsnip, when used as a vegetable.
pos: noun
Derived words: cow parsnip
cultivated parsnip
fine words butter no parsnips
giant cow parsnip
giant parsnip
golden meadow parsnip
meadow parsnip
parsnip chervil
parsniplike
parsnip moth
parsnippy
parsnip swallowtail
parsnip webworm
parsnipy
pig's parsnip
poison parsnip
rough parsnip)
sea parsnip
Victorian parsnip
water parsnip
wild parsnip
Translations:
GPS
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: GPSes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: GPSing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: GPSed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: GPSed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To locate something using a GPS system.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Translations:
VHS
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Initialism of Vertical Helical Scan, later reinterpreted as Video Home System.
Inflected forms:
form: VHSes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A type of videotape originally developed by the Japanese company JVC.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The curt take on VHS is that it is a dead format, a quaint and sham way to watch a movie. Regardless, to date, there are quantities of VHS titles not available on DVD, and that may never be.
There is, it turns out, much demand for these old VHS tapes, price tags notwithstanding, and despite post-2006 advancements in technology.
Translations:
Celt
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Latin Celtae (singular Celta) from Ancient Greek Κελτοί (Keltoí).
English Celts is from the 17th century. Until the mid 19th century, /sɛlt/ is the only recorded pronunciation. A consciously archaizing pronunciation /kɛlt/ was advocated during Irish and Welsh nationalism beginning in the 1850s.
Inflected forms:
form: Celts
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: more Celt
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most Celt
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: A member of one of the ancient peoples of Western Europe called Celtae by the Romans.
pos: noun
tags: historical
examples: The holiday evolved over centuries as it was observed by different groups, from the Celts to Germans to the Pennsylvania Dutch and eventually, by those in other parts of the US.
gloss: A member of any of the (modern, Celtic) peoples who speak Celtic languages.
pos: noun
gloss: Synonym of Celtic.
pos: adj
examples: In the thick of parties we become very Celt, disgusting the dull.
Like Pris, he took after their mother, more Celt than English, wild and dramatic and mercurially alive.
But his bitch queen was Saxon to the bone and her legacy showed in the sons that Vortigern bred off her. Katigern Minor might be young, but he has become what his grandfather never was – more Saxon than Celt.
She answered with a smile and a nod. The woman was more Celt than Arienh had thought, and had clearly been deprived of women too long.
Translations:
Celtic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
Etymology: Borrowed from French celtique or Latin celticus, equivalent to Celt + -ic. First attested in the 17th century.
Base: Celt
Affixes: -ic
Inflected forms:
form: more Celtic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most Celtic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: Keltic
pos: adj
tags: alternative
rare
Senses:
gloss: Of or relating to the Celts.
pos: adj
gloss: Of the languages spoken by Celts.
pos: adj
examples: Sanskrit, Greek, Slavonic, Germanic, and Celtic names were all of this type, but there are also shorter names formed from the compound ones; […].
Related words: Celt
Derived words: Anglo-Celtic
Celtic curse
Celtic knot
Celticness
Celtic punk
Celtic rock
Celtic Sea
Translations:
baseball
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *gʷem-
Proto-Indo-European *-tis
Proto-Indo-European *gʷémtis
Proto-Hellenic *gʷə́tis
Ancient Greek βᾰ́σῐς (bắsĭs)bor.
Latin basis
Old French basebor.
Middle English base
English base
Proto-Indo-European *bʰel-der.
Proto-Germanic *balluz
Old English *beall
Middle English bal
English ball
English baseball
From base + ball.
Inflected forms:
form: baseballs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: base ball
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: base-ball
pos: noun
tags: alternative
dated
Senses:
gloss: A sport common in North America, the Caribbean, and East Asia, in which the objective is to strike a ball so that one of a nine-person team can run counter-clockwise among four bases, resulting in the scoring of a run. The team with the most runs after termination of play, usually nine innings, wins.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: It was not very wonderful that Catherine, who had nothing heroic about her, should prefer cricket, base-ball, riding on horseback, and running about the country at the age of fourteen, to books.
“Your father was the best baseball player anyone had ever seen.” Excited but halting, her voice ran on past all obstacles. “We watched him play shortstop, and my father said he was the best, and my brothers too. The Cardinals sent a man down to talk to him about one of their teams.” Like an ancient marineress, she would not let go. She meant the St. Louis Cardinals’ farm teams.
gloss: The ball used to play the sport of baseball.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: The reason we have for so long been unaware that the universe evolves probabilistically is that for the relatively large, everyday objects we typically encounter -- baseballs, flowerpots, the Moon -- quantum mechanics shows that the probabilities become highly skewed, hugely favoring one outcome and effectively suppressing all others. […] With such a skewed probability, the quantum reasoning goes, we have long overlooked the tiny chance that the baseball can (and, on extraordinarily rare occasions, will) land somewhere completely different.
gloss: A variant of poker in which cards with baseball-related values have special significance.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Related words: rounders
softball
wiffleball
Derived words: antibaseball
baseball Annie
baseball bat
baseball cap
baseball card
baseball diamond
baseballdom
baseballer
baseballese
baseball field
baseball game
baseball glove
baseball hat
baseballing
baseballist
baseball mitt
baseball plant
baseball player
baseball rule
baseball stadium
baseball uniform
basebrawl
British baseball
fantasy baseball
indoor baseball
inside baseball
inside-baseball
insider baseball
nonbaseball
organized baseball
rotisserie baseball
scrub baseball
Welsh baseball
Translations:
inning
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: ball-games
baseball
billiards
games
hobbies
lifestyle
softball
sports
Etymology: Back-formation from innings, mistaken to be plural of the time period, not the entries of the batters/batsmen.
Inflected forms:
form: innings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A period of play in which members of a visiting baseball team attempt to hit a baseball pitched by the opposing home team until three players are called out, followed by a similar attempt by members of the home baseball team against the visiting team's pitching. There are nine or more innings in a regulation baseball game.
pos: noun
examples: It is a baseball tradition to sing "Take Me Out To the Ball Game" during the seventh inning stretch.
gloss: A similar period of play.
pos: noun
examples: We batted around in our half of the inning.
gloss: A player (or team)'s turn at the table to make shots until ended by a miss or a foul.
pos: noun
gloss: A chance or opportunity to perform some deed or act.
pos: noun
examples: We are in just the second inning of our quest to enter this new market.
gloss: The gathering of a crop; harvesting.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
examples: […] for the mowing, reaping, shering, getting or inning of corne, […]
gloss: Lands recovered from the sea.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
examples: One of the earliest ‘innings’ of Walland Marsh, after the Norman Conquest,‥has been ever since called Becket's Innings, as this Archbishop has the credit of promoting it.
Related words: first half of an inning
second half of an inning
Derived words: extra inning
ninth-inning
seventh inning stretch
Translations:
softball
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Etymology: 1926: soft + ball. Compare hardball.
Inflected forms:
form: softballs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A game similar to baseball but played with a larger and softer ball which can be thrown overhand or underhand.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: This will give you someone with whom you can trade softball complaints, which any veteran game-goer will tell you is the key to a good time.
gloss: The ball used to play the sport.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A question designed to be easy to answer.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: a softball interview
Each man got his share of softballs on Friday night. But for 90 minutes in a dressed-up basketball arena at Washington University, the two candidates were also forced to address the kind of questions they get rarely if ever on the campaign trail: from voters who doubted them and maybe did not even like them very much.
He [Ben Shapiro] wielded a particularly pointed arrow at Tucker Carlson, the former Fox News host, for engaging in what he said was “an act of moral imbecility,” by recently airing a softball interview with Nick Fuentes, an avowed antisemite.
Synonyms: diamond ball
indoor baseball
kittenball
mush ball
playground ball
pumpkin ball
town ball
Derived words: softballer
Translations:
rounders
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From round + -er + -s, presumably for the circuit that batters make around the field.
Base: round
Affixes: -er
-s
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A team sport played with bat and ball with one fielding side and one batting side. It is similar to softball and baseball.
pos: noun
tags: Ireland
UK
uncountable
Translations:
tonne
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From French tonne. Doublet of ton and tun.
Inflected forms:
form: tonnes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: t
pos: noun
tags: alternative
abbreviation
Senses:
gloss: A unit of mass equal to 1000 kilograms.
pos: noun
examples: Although loads of up to 900 tonnes could be handled by one of these locomotives, in practice the load is limited to 790 tonnes by drawgear.
The metric ton or 'tonne' is accepted as a synonym for the megagramme, and this form Is to be preferred on the grounds of brevity and familiarity in the industry. It may be as well to use the pronunciation 'tunnie' until the risk of confusion with the old ton has passed.
The British Steel Corporation, going metric but realising the possible confusion between a ton and a tonne (1,000 kilograms) has directed its staff to pronounce ‘tonne’ ‘tunnie’.
The tonne rhymes with con (perhaps not in North America!) to distinguish it from the non-SI unit of weight, the ton rhyming with bun.
Translations:
syncopated
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: entertainment
grammar
human-sciences
lifestyle
linguistics
music
sciences
Inflected forms:
form: more syncopated
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most syncopated
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: of a word, shortened by syncope
pos: adj
gloss: of a rhythm, modified by syncopation
pos: adj
examples: At one point, her spidery abstractions gave way to a series of abruptly syncopated hits, like a deranged allusion to the Thelonious Monk tune “Evidence.”
Derived words: nonsyncopated
unsyncopated
Translations:
syncopation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: entertainment
human-sciences
lifestyle
linguistics
music
phonology
sciences
Etymology: From syncopate + -ion. The phonological sense was first attested in English in the 1530's, the musical sense in the 1590's.
Base: syncopate
Affixes: -ion
Inflected forms:
form: syncopations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The contraction of a word by means of loss or omission of sounds or syllables in the middle thereof.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: The quality of a rhythm being somehow unexpected, in that it deviates from the strict succession of regularly spaced strong and weak beats in a meter.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
Related words: syncope
Derived words: syncopational
syncopationally
Translations:
pink-collar
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From pink + collar.
By analogy with various constructions ending in the word collar, especially blue-collar, and from the traditional conception of pink as a feminine color (with blue its masculine counterpart), a conception perhaps magnified in this case by the sometime popularity of pink blouses among women in the service industry.
Compound parts: pink
collar
Inflected forms:
form: more pink-collar
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most pink-collar
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: pink collar
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to employees in predominantly female service industries.
pos: adj
examples: Black men have tended to congregate in laborers' jobs and certain service occupations, young workers in trade and such service enterprises as gas stations (to a lesser extent also in laborers' jobs), and women in the so-called "pink collar" occupations in trade, the services, and clerical work in all industrial sectors.
Good examples of employees under hidden stress are the nation's pink-collar workers. This group includes secretaries, clerks, data processors, telephone operators, and others.
These days, girls and women of all ages are still reading them, particularly the blue collar or pink collar workers or wives of blue collar workers.
Translations:
stochastic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Ancient Greek στοχαστικός (stokhastikós), from στοχάζομαι (stokházomai, “aim at a target, guess”), from στόχος (stókhos, “an aim, a guess”).
Inflected forms:
form: more stochastic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most stochastic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Random, randomly determined.
pos: adj
examples: In the evening, while she bathed, waiting for him to enter the bathroom as she powdered her body, he crouched over the blueprints spread between the sofas in the lounge, calculating a stochastic analysis of the Pentagon car park.
Self-slaughter, as Hamlet always says, was certainly in the cards, unless one had been out here long enough to have contemplated the will of God, observed the stochastic whimsy of the day, learned when and when not to whisper “Insh'allah,” and understood how, as one perhaps might never have in England, to await, to depend upon, the ineluctable departure of what was most dear.
Translations: