yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
ladybird
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From lady + bird. Lady here refers to the Virgin Mary, the mother of Jesus. Compare German Marienkäfer (literally “Mary beetle or bug”), Danish mariehøne, Latvian mārīte, Macedonian бубамара (bubamara) and Spanish mariquita. Also compare damselfly.
Compound parts: lady
bird
Inflected forms:
form: ladybirds
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: lady-bird
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Any of the Coccinellidae family of beetles, typically having a round shape and red or yellow spotted elytra.
pos: noun
examples: 1914, Entomological Society of America, Annals of the Entomological Society of America, Volume 7, page 81,
During this time, they eat about 825 Toxoptera per ladybird, making an average of about twenty-five per day to each ladybird.
1927, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Edward Everett Hale, and William Byron Forbush (editors), Childhood′s Favorites and Fairy Stories: The Young Folks Treasury, Volume 1, Gutenberg eBook #19993,
Lady-bird, lady-bird, fly away home, / Thy house is on fire, thy children all gone: / All but one whose name is Ann, / And she crept under the pudding-pan.
1976 September 30, Denis Owen, Ladybird, ladybird, fly away home, New Scientist, page 686,
Ladybirds, unlike most beetles, enjoy considerable popularity: they are attractive to look at and are well-known as useful predators of aphids—the greenfly and blackfly that destroy garden plants and crops.
2008, John L. Capinera, Encyclopedia of Entomology, Springer-Verlag New York, 2nd Edition, page 2130,
Perhaps it was a sense of lack of effectiveness of native ladybirds in rapid and complete control of aphid infestations that led to attempts to import additional aphid-feeding ladybird species into North America.
A huge group of ladybirds has caused weather experts in San Diego, USA, to be very confused.
Translations:
sauna
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Finnish sauna. Doublet of stack.
Inflected forms:
form: saunas
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: saunas
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: saunaing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: saunaed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: saunaed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A room or a house designed for heat sessions.
pos: noun
examples: The hotel has a sauna in the basement.
Of course, it will never get -100 here like it does in Antarctica, but a 300-degree swing was still theoretically possible on a record-cold Minnesota morning–if we got the sauna hot enough.
As health-conscious Americans have jumped headfirst into saunas, some Europeans have at times also found themselves a little baffled by their fellow steam lovers’ behavior, worried a millennia-old tradition is being warped by American wellness culture.
gloss: The act of using a sauna.
pos: noun
examples: John had a sauna after his swim.
Joanne went for a sauna after her swim.
One of my favorite saunas was just one go and thirteen minutes long, including clean up time.
gloss: In some countries, a business with bath-like facilities that is actually a brothel or a place for (non-commercial) sexual encounters; a bathhouse or massage parlour.
pos: noun
examples: McPhail ran Maitland's brothels—knocking-shops in Maryhill, Riddrie, Dennistoun, and the more upscale saunas in the West End and city centre.
gloss: A very hot place or room.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
informal
gloss: To use a sauna.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: “I find it disgusting,” she said. “It would be a total no-no to go to a sauna in Austria with your bathing suit, and an insult to wear workout clothes.” She now saunas at home.
Synonyms: firebath
Related words: banya
bathhouse
hammam
spa
steam bath
sudatorium
sudatory
sweat lodge
Turkish bath
Derived words: barrel sauna
cryosauna
malt sauna
sauna blanket
sauna hat
saunalike
sauna pillow
sauna stool
sauna suit
sauna water
smoke sauna
Translations:
siege
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: government
military
politics
war
Etymology: From Middle English sege, from Old French sege, siege, seige (modern French siège), from Vulgar Latin *sēdicum, from Latin sēdicŭlum, sēdēcula (“small seat”), from Latin sēdēs (“seat”).
Inflected forms:
form: sieges
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: syege
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Military action.
pos: noun
examples: The Peloponnesian war is a proper subject for history, the siege of Athens for an epic poem, and the death of Alcibiades for a tragedy.
Liu Pang's general Han Hsin won the strategic city of Hsing-yang for him, but Hsiang-Yü put Liu Pang under siege there.
gloss: Military action.
pos: noun
tags: US
gloss: Military action.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
examples: But once again Hodgson's men found a way to get the result they required and there is a real air of respectability about their campaign even though they had to survive a first-half siege from a Ukraine side desperate for the win they needed to progress.
gloss: A seat.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
examples: Now Merlyn said kyng Arthur / goo thow and aspye me in al this land l knyghtes whiche ben of most prowesse & worship / within short tyme merlyn had founde suche knyȝtes[…]Thenne the Bisshop of Caunterbury was fette and he blessid the syeges with grete Royalte and deuoycyon / and there sette the viij and xx knyghtes in her syeges
To th'vpper part, where was aduaunced hye / A stately siege of soueraigne maiestye; / And thereon sat a woman gorgeous gay[…].
gloss: A seat.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
gloss: A seat.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
gloss: A seat.
pos: noun
gloss: A seat.
pos: noun
gloss: A seat.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
gloss: A seat.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
examples: Another ground were certain holes or cavities observable about the siege; which being perceived in males, made some conceive there might be also a feminine nature in them.
gloss: A seat.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
examples: Thou art very Trinculo indeed! How cam'st thou / to be the siege of this moon-calf? Can he vent Trinculos?
gloss: A seat.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
examples: I fetch my life and being / From men of royal siege.
gloss: A seat.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
gloss: A place with a toilet seat: an outhouse; a lavatory.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
Synonyms: bathroom
Derived words: assiege
besiege
countersiege
ensiege
lay siege
siegecraft
siege engine
siegehouse
siegeless
siegelike
siege mentality
Siege Perilous
siege piece
sieger
siege tower
siege train
siege warfare
siege weapon
siegework
state of siege
Translations:
poof
Part of speech: intj
verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Onomatopoeic. See also puff.
Inflected forms:
form: pouf
pos: intj
tags: alternative
form: poofs
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: poofing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: poofed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: poofed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: pouf
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: poofs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: pouf
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Onomatopoeia indicating a small explosion with a cloud of smoke; as caused by a deflating object, or a magical disappearance.
pos: intj
examples: Poof, he was gone.
Even now, in the spring, the river softly cries, 'Menthol, Menthol, you are one wazoo. One day I'm the elf next door and the poof I'm a river.'
The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist. And like that, poof. He's gone.
What makes Atlantis so interesting is that its people built a utopian society and then mysteriously disappeared. One day it was there, then poof! Gone without a trace.
gloss: To vanish or disappear.
pos: verb
examples: He poofed into thin air.
He's a figment of your subconscious Eric, not mine, so I tapped into Ultimate Reality and poofed him out.
gloss: To break wind; to fart.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: The product of flatulence, or the sound of breaking wind.
pos: noun
Derived words: floof
Translations:
effeminate
Part of speech: adj
verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English effeminat, effemynat, from Latin effēminātus, past participle of effēminō, from fēmina (“woman”).
Inflected forms:
form: more effeminate
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most effeminate
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: effæminate
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: effeminat
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: effœminat
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: effœminate
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: effeminates
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: effeminating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: effeminated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: effeminated
pos: verb
tags: past
form: effæminate
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: effeminat
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: effœminat
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: effœminate
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: effeminates
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: effæminate
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: effeminat
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: effœminat
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: effœminate
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: Of a boy or man, exhibiting behavior or mannerisms considered typical of a woman or unmasculine.
pos: adj
tags: derogatory
often
examples: An effeminate and unmanly foppery.
The Comte d'Artois had neither the dignified nor the manly air of his brother—he rather appeared like a pretty-looking girl, so effeminate was he and fair.
gloss: Womanly; tender, affectionate, caring.
pos: adj
tags: obsolete
examples: Gentle, kind, effeminate remorse.
gloss: To make womanly; to unman.
pos: verb
tags: archaic
nonstandard
transitive
examples: the studie of sciences doth more weaken and effeminate mens minds, than corroborate and adapt them to warre.
It will not corrupt or effeminate their [children's] minds.
I mean the represenstation of gay men on The Simpsons is getting more one-dimensional. For several years Smithers was quite masculine, yet the writers have effeminated him gradually (collecting Barbies, for instance), now he's rollerblading down the street with rainbow hotpants on?
gloss: To become womanly.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: An effeminate person.
pos: noun
examples: The effeminates are males with obviously recognizable traits and mannerisms; […]
Synonyms: camp
swish
epicene
effete
feminine
unmanly
Antonyms: uneffeminate
noneffeminate
non-effeminate
immasculate
Derived words: effeminately
effeminateness
effeminist
Translations:
effeminacy
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English effeminate
English -cy
English effeminacy
From effeminate + -cy.
Inflected forms:
form: effeminacies
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: effæminacy
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: effeminacie
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: effœminacy
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: effœminacie
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: The quality of being effeminate.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: It is an argument that cannot proceed but from a low Iudgment, or a ſpirit ſoothed with its owne Effeminaty, to ſay, He is Noble, he is a Courtier, he is a man of State, His quality tyeth him not to perfection, His vertue must be meaſured by the ell of the world, If he were ouer vertuous, the exceſſe of his Sanctity would be preiudiciall to his fortune.
Certainly, though I dare not antedate the ſorrowes of our Syon, or raiſe a feare or iealouſie without a ground; yet when I doe but ſeriouſly and cordially ſuruay, that intollerable pride; that aboundance of idleneſſe; that fulneſſe of bread; that luſting after ſtrange fleſh (the ſinnes that drew downe fire and brimſtone vpon Sodome long agoe;) thoſe monſtrous habites, faſhions and attires: that exceſſiue vanity, Atheiſme and prophaneneſſe: that execrable and frequent banning, ſwearing, curſing and blaſpheming: that greedie couetouſneſſe, extortion and oppreſſion; that fearefull murther and bloudſhed; that ſcurrility, effæminacie, wantonneſſe, fornication, whoredome, adulterie and vncleaneneſſe: that generall neglect, contempt and hatred of God, of grace, of goodneſſe, and the Goſpell: that ſtupified and ſenceleſſe ſecurity, and hardneſſe of heart, in the middeſt of feares and dangers: that degenerating and growing worſe and worſe, not withſtanding all Gods iudgements, which ſtill encreaſe vpon vs, becauſe our ſinnes encreaſe: that diſſoluteneſſe, that drunkenneſſe, deboiſtneſſe, and exceſſe of Healthes; together with thoſe other troopes of ſundry ſinnes, which walke ſo bold and thick among vs, in deſpite of all thoſe meanes which GOD hath vſed to reclaime vs from them: I cannot but conclude as others doe: that theſe abominations and ſinnes of ours (eſpecially in theſe times of feare and danger, which cry and call for true repentance) prognoſticate no victory, no good, no bleſſing, nor ſucceſſe: but vndoubted ruine and deſtruction to vs, vnleſſe we ſpeedily repent vs of them.
I yielded, and unlock'd her all my heart, / Who with a grain of manhood well reſolv'd / Might eaſily have ſhook off all her ſnares: / But foul effeminacy held me yok't / Her Bond-ſlave; […]
Salmacis: A fountain in ancient Greece whose waters were reputed to produce effeminacy.
Translations:
skilful
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more skilful
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most skilful
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Commonwealth and Irish form standard spelling of skillful
pos: adj
examples: More than once have I spoken to willing listeners because of some one who had come under skilful kindly treatment in the hospital at Taiwan-fu.
Translations:
motorcar
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
Etymology: From motor + car.
Compound parts: motor
car
Inflected forms:
form: motorcars
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: motor car
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: An enclosed passenger motor vehicle: a car (automobile).
pos: noun
tags: dated
gloss: A self-propelled railway vehicle.
pos: noun
tags: US
Derived words: mogas
Translations:
val
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Shortening of Valium.
Inflected forms:
form: vals
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Valium.
pos: noun
tags: countable
informal
uncountable
examples: and i must be on that list of people that need to get knocked over with a hammer 'cause vicodin and val don't knock me out.
I would think though that whatever the reason for a panic attack valium would be great. I know that if my house was on fire and I was on 15mg of val It^([sic]) would take a lot more energy than I had, to panic. ;^)
I'm a medic and phenobarb is the primary drug for true seizures, but the OP states the cat presents seizure like behavior at the sound of her voice. I don't know where any of you are from, but we don't treat seizures with val.
Translations:
lycanthropy
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
Etymology: Borrowed from Ancient Greek λῠκᾰνθρωπῐ́ᾱ (lŭkănthrōpĭ́ā), from λῠκᾰ́νθρωπος (lŭkắnthrōpos, “wolfman”). By surface analysis, lycanthrope + -y (abstract noun suffix).
Inflected forms:
form: lycanthropies
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: lycanthropia
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The state of being a lycanthrope (or werewolf), a person who can shapeshift between the form of a human being and a wolf, often said to happen involuntarily during a full moon; werewolfdom.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: The state of being a person who can shapeshift between the form of a human being and an animal, whether or not it is a wolf.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
uncountable
usually
examples: On one hand, Jacques is quite glad that he doesn’t have classic lycanthropy. Turning into a squirrel tends to cause fewer problems than turning into a wolf.
gloss: A delusion in which one believes oneself to be a wolf or other wild animal.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
Related words: lycanthrope
shapeshift
werewolf
Derived words: lycanthropist
Translations:
lang: Catalan
word: licantropia
lang: Finnish
word: lykantropia
lang: French
word: lycanthropie
lang: Middle French
word: lycanthropie
lang: Galician
word: licantropía
lang: German
word: Lykanthropie
lang: Greek
word: λυκανθρωπία
roman: lykanthropía
lang: Ancient Greek
word: λῠκᾰνθρωπῐ́ᾱ
roman: lŭkănthrōpĭ́ā
lang: Hungarian
word: likantrópia
lang: Malay
word: likantropi
lang: Polish
word: likantropia
lang: Portuguese
word: licantropia
lang: Russian
word: ликантро́пия
roman: likantrópija
lang: Spanish
word: licantropía
lang: Turkish
word: likantropi
lang: Ukrainian
word: лікантропі́я
roman: likantropíja
lang: Volapük
word: lükantrop
tra
Part of speech: noun
intj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Vietnamese (cá) tra, from Khmer ប្រា (praa, “certain Pangasius species”).
Inflected forms:
form: tra
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of iridescent shark (“a shark catfish of species Pangasianodon hypophthalmus”).
pos: noun
gloss: A meaningless syllable used when singing a tune.
pos: intj
Translations:
fra
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: PIE word
 *bʰréh₂tēr
From Italian frate. See friar.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A title of a friar or monk: brother.
pos: noun
examples: You have at Naples your Fra Bernardino; / And I at Fondi have my Fra Bastiano, / The famous artist, who has come from Rome / To paint my portrait.
The writer has spoken to his two companions, Fathers Eliseus and Elias, desiring them to go, if only to gather intelligence about those parts; but both are of one mind that the basis of operations, as laid down by Fra Simon, is not substantiated […]
"She is in the hands of Mrs. Coulter," said Fra Pavel.
Translations:
chauffeur
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: firefighting
government
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *ḱelh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁ti
Proto-Indo-European *ḱl̥h₁éh₁ti
Proto-Italic *kalēō
Classical Latin caleō
Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁k-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *dʰh₁kyéti
Proto-Italic *θakjō
Proto-Italic *fakjō
Classical Latin faciō
Classical Latin calefaciō
Classical Latin calfaciō
Vulgar Latin *calfō
Old French chaufer
Middle French chauffer
French chauffer
French -eur
French chauffeurbor.
English chauffeur
Borrowed from French chauffeur.
Inflected forms:
form: chauffeurs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: chauffeurs
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: chauffeuring
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: chauffeured
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: chauffeured
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A person employed to drive a private motor car or a hired car of executive or luxury class (like a limousine).
pos: noun
examples: He fell into a reverie, a most dangerous state of mind for a chauffeur, since a fall into reverie on the part of a driver may mean a fall into a ravine on the part of the machine.
Super Nintendo, Sega Genesis
When I was dead broke, man, I couldn't picture this
50-inch screen, money-green leather sofa
Got two rides, a limousine with a chauffeur
I can make money from the comfort of my sofa / So much drive, now I gotta get a chauffeur
gloss: The driver of a fire truck.
pos: noun
gloss: To be, or act as, a chauffeur (driver of a motor car).
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: "Old Pearson. He did gardening for us, and chauffeuring for my father. Such a dear old man - I've know him all my life."
gloss: To transport (someone) in a motor vehicle.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Derived words: chauffeur driver
chauffeuress
chauffeurless
chauffeurship
Translations:
camp
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Unknown. Suggested origins include the 17th century French word camper (“to put oneself in a pose”), an assumed dialectal English word *camp or *kemp (“rough, uncouth”) and a derivation from camp (n.) Believed to be from Polari, otherwise obscure.
Inflected forms:
form: camper
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: campest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Theatrical; making exaggerated gestures.
pos: adj
gloss: Ostentatiously flamboyant or effeminate.
pos: adj
examples: More recently the word has become colloquial English for either implying that someone is a homosexual (‘he's very camp’), or for describing rather outre behaviour[…]
And to be honest, in the illustration Mr Tumnus does look as camp as fuck with his little scarf tied jauntily around his neck. I suppose it isn't outside the realms of possibility that he'd just been off cottaging with some centaurs in the forest. God.
gloss: Intentionally tasteless or vulgar; self-parodying.
pos: adj
examples: In Saturday Night Live, Madonna also unsurprisingly played Princess Diana, Marilyn Monroe, and a Joan Collins clone, all in a very camp way. As John Dean writes: “U.S. rock has a ruling camp queen with Madonna.”
Here is Eurovision from a time before anyone watched it for camp value – you can’t imagine any gay bar in 1974 clearing its schedules to screen this; a Eurovision that takes itself rather seriously, a brief appearance by the Wombles notwithstanding.
Synonyms: campy
campish
Antonyms: uncamp
uncampy
Derived words: uncamp
camp as a row of tents
campish
camp it up
camply
campness
campy
Translations:
mechanic
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: gambling
games
video-games
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *megʰ-der.?
Ancient Greek μηχανή (mēkhanḗ)
Proto-Indo-European *-kos
Ancient Greek -κός (-kós)
Ancient Greek -ικός (-ikós)
Ancient Greek μηχανικός (mēkhanikós)bor.
Latin mēchanicusder.
Old French mecaniquebor.
Middle English mekanyk
English mechanic
From Middle English mekanyk (“mechanical”), from Old French mecanique, from Latin mechanicus (“of or belonging to machines or mechanics, inventive”), from Ancient Greek μηχανικός (mēkhanikós, “pertaining to machines or contrivance, mechanic, ingenious, inventive”), from μηχανή (mēkhanḗ, “a machine, contrivance”); see machine.
Inflected forms:
form: mechanics
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: mechanick
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: A manual worker; a labourer or artisan.
pos: noun
tags: historical
examples: His noble earnestness, his fidelity, his gallant shielding of her, his generous conquest of his own wrong and his own pride for her sake, are simply honourable, manly, and true. Nothing less worthy can be seen through the lustre of such qualities in the commonest mechanic, nothing less worthy can be seen in the best-born gentleman.
The lower orders were freer than they had ever been – free […] to choose their own lay preachers, mechanics like the rest of the congregation.
gloss: Someone who builds or repairs machinery, a technician; now specifically, someone who works with and repairs the mechanical parts of a motor vehicle, aircraft or similar.
pos: noun
gloss: A device, method or means; a function.
pos: noun
gloss: A device, method or means; a function.
pos: noun
examples: This game has a mechanic where if you run toward a ledge you automatically jump off rather than just falling.
gloss: A hitman.
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: And from then on, his bag was silence. Silence and killing. Overnight he became the best grunt we had, a real killer, a mechanic.
gloss: A cheat who manipulates the cards or dice.
pos: noun
examples: I can do other things beside burglarizing. I'm a first-class crap dealer, I'm a pretty good card mechanic, pretty good dice mechanic.
It was so obvious. I mean, all of Nicky's half-assed mechanics, they were real signal happy.
Related words: mechanical
mechanically
mechanics
mechanism
mechanistic
mechanization
mechanize
Derived words: mechanic arts
aeromechanic
auto mechanic
card mechanic
chancre mechanic
dice mechanic
Mechanic Falls
mechanic's grip
mechanic's lien
Mechanicville
shade tree mechanic
Translations:
shrine
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English shryne, from Old English scrīn (“reliquary, ark of the covenant”), from Medieval Latin scrīnium (“reliquary”), “case or chest for books or papers” in Classical Latin. Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to turn, bend”). Compare Old Norse skrín, Old High German skrīni (German Schrein).
Inflected forms:
form: shrines
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: shrines
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: shrining
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: shrined
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: shrined
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A holy or sacred place dedicated to a specific deity, ancestor, hero, martyr, saint, or similar figure of awe and respect, at which said figure is venerated or worshipped.
pos: noun
examples: Entering the tunnel, we pass a small shrine above our heads which contains a statue of St Barbara, the patron saint of tunnellers. It is traditional to have such shrines on every tunnel site.
gloss: A case, box, or receptacle, especially one in which are deposited sacred relics, as the bones of a saint.
pos: noun
gloss: A place or object hallowed from its history or associations.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
examples: a shrine of art
gloss: To enshrine; to place reverently, as if in a shrine.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Shrined in his sanctuary.
Derived words: ancestral shrine
enshrine
shrinal
shrine-goer
shrinegoer
shrinekeeper
shrineless
shrinelet
shrinelike
Shriner
unshrined
Translations:
apostate
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: Catholicism
Christianity
Roman-Catholicism
lifestyle
religion
Etymology: From Late Latin apostata, from Ancient Greek ἀποστάτης (apostátēs, “rebel”), from ἀφίστημι (aphístēmi, “to withdraw, revolt”), from ἀπό (apó, “from”) + ἵστημι (hístēmi, “to stand”).
Inflected forms:
form: apostates
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Guilty of apostasy.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: We must punish this apostate priest.
VVho can impair thee, mighty King, or bound / Thy Empire? eaſily the proud attempt / Of Spirits apoſtat and thir Counſels vaine / Thou haſt repeld, vvhile impiouſly they thought / Thee to diminiſh, and from thee vvithdravv / The number of thy vvorſhippers.
a wretched and apostate state
An enormous number of monks and priests gave themselves up to sorcery, and there was no lack of apostate priests to perform the ceremonies of the Black Mass.
gloss: A person who has renounced a religion or faith.
pos: noun
tags: countable
gloss: One who, after having received sacred orders, renounces his clerical profession.
pos: noun
gloss: One who has renounced a political party, a cause, etc.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
examples: But the most politically damaging blow came from a late-breaking apostate: Mr. Clooney, who just weeks earlier had spent time with Mr. Biden and helped deliver $28 million to his campaign at a Los Angeles fund-raiser.
Related words: apostasy
apostatic
apostatical
apostatically
apostatise
apostatize
heresy
heretic
heretical
Translations:
zoologist
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English zoology
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)
Proto-Hellenic *-tās
Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs)
Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)bor.
Latin -istader.
Old French -istebor.
Middle English -ist
English -ist
English zoologist
From zoology + -ist.
Inflected forms:
form: zoologists
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: zoölogist
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: One who studies or practices zoology.
pos: noun
Translations:
murderer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English murderere; equivalent to murder + -er.
Base: murder
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: murderers
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: murtherer
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A person who commits murder.
pos: noun
examples: Neither does a great nation […] debate, with drivelling tears, and diabolical sympathies, whether it ought not piously to save, and nursingly cherish, the lives of its murderers.
It was two o'clock when she came to herself and called for the police. The murderer was gone long ago; but there lay his victim in the middle of the lane, incredibly mangled. The stick with which the deed had been done, although it was of some rare and very tough and heavy wood, had broken in the middle under the stress of this insensate cruelty; […]
I had never defrauded a man of a farthing, nor called him knave behind his back. But now the last rag that covered my nakedness had been torn from me. I was branded a blackleg, card-sharper, and murderer.
“Every murderer is probably somebody’s old friend,” observed Poirot philosophically. “You cannot mix up sentiment and reason.”
Translations:
diocese
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: Christianity
Etymology: From Middle English diocise, from Old French diocese, from Late Latin diocēsis, from Latin dioecēsis (“district under a governor”), from Ancient Greek διοίκησις (dioíkēsis, “internal administration”).
Inflected forms:
form: dioceses
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: diœcese
pos: noun
tags: alternative
archaic
form: diocesse
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: An administrative division of the later Roman Empire, established by the Herodian tetrarchy.
pos: noun
tags: historical
gloss: An ecclesiastical territory administered by a bishop.
pos: noun
Related words: archdiocesan
diocesan
diocesian
nullius diœcesis
parish
Derived words: undiocesed
Translations:
morgue
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from French morgue. The second sense developed from the first, via "a prison examination room", probably with reference to the haughty attitude of the jailers.
Inflected forms:
form: morgues
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A supercilious or haughty attitude; arrogance.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
examples: They being newcomers, free from the western morgue so soon caught by Oriental Europeans, were particularly civil to me, even wishing to mix me a strong draught; but I was not so fortunate with all on board.
gloss: A building or room where dead bodies are kept before their proper burial or cremation, (now) particularly in legal and law enforcement contexts.
pos: noun
gloss: The archive and background information division of a newspaper.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
examples: Librarian Talks of Newspaper Morgue
Shand: get down to the Record and the Trib. See what they've got on Elliot in their morgues.
Derived words: Baltimorgue
morguelike
Translations:
godfather
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: Christianity
Etymology: From Middle English godfader, from Old English godfæder (“godfather”), equivalent to god- + father. Cognate with Old Saxon godfadar (“godfather”), Middle Dutch godvader (“godfather”), Danish gudfader, gudfar (“godfather”), Swedish gudfader, gudfar (“godfather”), Icelandic guðfaðir (“godfather”).
Base: father
Affixes: god-
Inflected forms:
form: godfathers
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: godfathers
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: godfathering
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: godfathered
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: godfathered
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A man present at the christening of a baby who promises to help raise the child in a Christian manner; a male godparent who sponsors the baptism of a child.
pos: noun
gloss: Someone who plays a key role in fostering the development of something.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
examples: The man often touted as the godfather of AI has quit Google, citing concerns over the flood of misinformation, the possibility for AI to upend the job market, and the “existential risk” posed by the creation of a true digital intelligence.
“They are trying to kill the messenger with the bad news, it’s crazy,” said Dr James Hansen, known as the godfather of climate science and previously director of Giss for more than 30 years.
[…]recalls Henrik Stiesdal, sometimes known as the “godfather” of the wind industry for his influential turbine inventions […].
gloss: A mafia leader.
pos: noun
gloss: A small post which is used in repairing a fence. For instance attached to and supporting an existing broken fence post.
pos: noun
gloss: To act as godfather or guardian to.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
often
transitive
examples: Hull objected violently that aid had not been used to extract commitments on postwar economic policy; the joint chiefs had wanted bases; others in the military still wanted Britain to play only a minor, if any, role in the Pacific; and they were all apparently angry at the Treasury for godfathering the Quebec Agreement.
But months before, he'd agreed to godfather the premiere of The Godfather.
The grave site, humble as it is, reflects something more than a hometown’s determination to honor a fallen son, something that seems irreducible in the politics of Iraq: the refusal of the Sunni minority, who ruled Iraq for centuries until Mr. Hussein’s overthrow, to reconcile themselves to the assumption of power by the Shiite majority who won elections godfathered by the American occupation authority.
Related words: godchild
goddaughter
godmother
godparent
godsib
godson
Derived words: fairy godfather
godfatherhood
godfatherism
godfatherless
godfatherlike
godfatherly
godfathership
twelve godfathers
Translations:
vara
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish and Portuguese vara (“rod”), from Latin vāra (“fork”).
Inflected forms:
form: varas
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A traditional Spanish unit of length, equivalent to about 83.7 cm.
pos: noun
tags: historical
gloss: A traditional Portuguese unit of length, equivalent to about 1.1 m.
pos: noun
tags: historical
gloss: A traditional Spanish unit of area, equivalent to about 0.7 m².
pos: noun
tags: historical
Related words: coxa vara
tibia vara
Translations:
clitic
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
Etymology: From Ancient Greek κλιτικός (klitikós, “inflexional”).
Inflected forms:
form: clitics
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A morpheme that functions like a word, but never appears as an independent word, instead being always attached to a following or preceding word (or, in some cases, within a surrounding word).
pos: noun
examples: In fact, even within the northern Italian dialects, subject clitics do not constitute a syntactically uniform class, as has been convincingly argued in Poletto's work.
In Macedonian, clitic-doubling is a fully-fledged phenomenon. The Macedonian Dat and Acc pronominal clitics, which originate in agreement phrases and move to preverbal position,¹⁰ where they cluster with other clausal clitics, are on their way to becoming mere case markers, which formally distinguish direct and indirect objects from subjects.
Here, we will see that they also have problems with overt pronouns, especially object clitics, whose emergence is more delayed than in typically developing children.
Translations:
enclitic
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
Etymology: From Late Latin encliticus, from Ancient Greek ἐγκλιτικός (enklitikós, “inclined towards”), from ἐγκλίνειν (enklínein, “lean on”), from ἐν (en, “upon”) + κλίνειν (klínein, “to lean, incline”).
Inflected forms:
form: enclitics
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A clitic that joins with the preceding word phonetically, graphically, or both.
pos: noun
examples: The English possessive 's is an enclitic.
gloss: Affixed phonetically.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
proclitic
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
Etymology: From Ancient Greek προκλίνω (proklínō, “to lean forward”). By surface analysis, from pro- + clitic.
Base: clitic
Affixes: pro-
Inflected forms:
form: proclitics
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A clitic that joins with the following word phonetically, graphically, or both.
pos: noun
examples: In dialectal or poetic English, the article the or preposition to can become the proclitic t'.
Translations:
carapace
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
substrateder.?
Spanish carapachobor.
French carapacebor.
English carapace
Borrowed from French carapace (“tortoise shell”), from Spanish carapacho, of unknown origin, but likely from an extinct Ibero-Mediterranean substrate language.
Compare Catalan carabassa, Ancient Greek κάραβος (kárabos, “beetle”), Latin scarabaeus (the source of scarab); also Spanish galápago (“kind of turtle”). Doublet of calipash.
Inflected forms:
form: carapaces
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A hard protective covering of bone or chitin, especially one which covers the dorsal portion of an animal.
pos: noun
gloss: That which protects.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
examples: So, little by little, youth loosens the hard carapace of confining custom their elders have built over the human heart.
This is all a massive failure of science to pierce the carapace of public ignorance.
Related words: exoskeleton
Derived words: carapaced
carapacelike
carapaceous
carapacial
carapacic
pseudocarapace
Translations:
casque
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
Etymology: Borrowed from French casque. Doublet of casco and cask.
Inflected forms:
form: casques
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A helmet.
pos: noun
examples: He beheld his child dashed to pieces, and almost buried under an enormous helmet, an hundred times more large than any casque ever made for human being, and shaded with a proportionable quantity of black feathers.
gloss: A hard structure on the head of some birds, such as cassowaries, some hornbills and guineafowl, and some reptiles such as chameleons and basilisks.
pos: noun
examples: Helmeted Hornbill, Rhinoplax vigil (CR): Restricted to the Thai-Malay Peninsula, Sumatra and Borneo, this is the only hornbill species whose casque is solid keratin and therefore carvable.
Smooth Casque-headed Basilisk – Cutete Policía . . . A flat-topped cephalic casque projects over the neck in this species. The posterior edge of this casque is smooth without projecting spines. . . Its vernacular name, cutete policía, is in allusion to the flat casque, said by some to resemble the service cap worn by Guatemalan police.
. . . the Southern Cassowary . . . has a double red wattle that hangs from its blue-skinned neck, while a horn-like casque adorns its head. Although it is often described as horny or bony, the casque has a core of firm foamy material, riddled with cells and canals, and covered by a spongy layer and a tough, keratinous, outer sheath. Its purpose is unknown, but one possibility is that it is for sexual attraction. Another is that it protects the skull as the bird bashes its way, head lowered, through the bush when running. Other suggestions are that it is used as a weapon in dominance disputes, or as a tool to push aside leaf litter during foraging. Observations of behaviour lend little support to any of these proposals.
gloss: Synonym of galea.
pos: noun
Derived words: casqued
casqueless
uncasque
Translations:
godmother
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English godmoder, from Old English godmōdor (“godmother”), equivalent to god- + mother. Cognate with Old High German gotmuoter (“godmother”), Old Norse guðmóðir (“godmother”), Icelandic guðmóður (“godmother”), Swedish gudmoder (“godmother”), Danish gudmor (“godmother”).
Base: mother
Affixes: god-
Inflected forms:
form: godmothers
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: godmothers
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: godmothering
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: godmothered
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: godmothered
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A woman present at the christening of a baby who promises to help raise the child in a Christian manner; a female godparent who sponsors the baptism of a child.
pos: noun
gloss: To act as godmother to.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The servants took to her – as they say – she godmothered three Susans during her rule, the coachman's, the gardener's and the Up Hill gamekeeper's.
Translations:
godson
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English godsone, gossone, from Old English godsunu (“godson”), equivalent to god- + son. Cognate with Danish gudsøn (“godson”), Swedish gudson (“godson”), Icelandic guðsonur (“godson”).
Base: son
Affixes: god-
Inflected forms:
form: godsons
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A male child whose baptism is sponsored by a godparent.
pos: noun
Translations:
goddaughter
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English goddoghter, goddoȝter, from Old English goddohtor (“goddaughter”), equivalent to god- + daughter. Cognate with Danish guddatter (“goddaughter”), Swedish guddotter (“goddaughter”), Icelandic guðdóttir (“goddaughter”).
Base: daughter
Affixes: god-
Inflected forms:
form: goddaughters
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A female child whose baptism is sponsored by a godparent.
pos: noun
Translations:
godchild
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From god- + child.
Base: child
Affixes: god-
Inflected forms:
form: godchildren
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A child whose baptism is sponsored by a godparent. In some cases the relationship is maintained indefinitely, with the godchild being treated much like a niece or nephew.
pos: noun
examples: Mary stood as godmother for little Emily, her godchild.
Translations:
gents
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: A clipped form of gentlemen. As a room, via misspelling of gents', a clipped form of gentlemen's room.
Inflected forms:
form: Gents
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Men's: intended for use by men.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
mathematics
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: 1580s; From mathematic (noun) + -ics, from Middle English mathematique, methametik, matematik, matamatik, from Old French mathematique, from Latin mathēmatica (“mathematics”), from Ancient Greek μαθηματικός (mathēmatikós, “on the matter of that which is learned”), from μάθημα (máthēma, “knowledge, study, learning”). Displaced native Old English rīmcræft.
Base: mathematic
Affixes: -ics
Inflected forms:
form: mathematicks
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: An abstract representational system studying numbers, shapes, structures, quantitative change and relationships between them.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Next to Mathematics, the study of natural philosophy tends to have anti-aphrodisiac effects.
Looking at the Leibniz series, you feel the independence of mathematics from human culture. Surely, on any world that knows pi the Leibniz series will also be known... Nilakantha, an astronomer, grammarian, and mathematician who lived on the Kerala coast of India, described the formula in Sanskrit poetry around the year 1500.
The answer is 'yes', and the mathematics needed is the theory of probability and its applied cousin, statistics.
gloss: A person's ability to count, calculate, and use different systems of mathematics at differing levels.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: My mathematics is always improving.
Synonyms: maths
math
mathematics
Related words: mathematical
mathematically
mathematician
mathematicist
polymath
set
relation
function
operation
mapping
definition
axiom
theorem
lemma
proposition
conjecture
proof
number
point
shape
polygon
triangle
angle
vector
vector space
metric
graph
node
edge
probability distribution
integral
derivation
state
define
prove
reduce
count
add
subtract
multiply
divide
exponentiate
:Category:Mathematics
T:arithmetic operations
Derived words: applied mathematics
astromathematics
biomathematics
discrete mathematics
ethnomathematics
fuzzy mathematics
geomathematics
iatromathematics
math
mathematese
mathlete
maths
metamathematics
physicomathematics
pseudomathematics
pure mathematics
recreational mathematics
reform mathematics
reverse mathematics
Translations:
puisne
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: law
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *pós
Proto-Indo-European *-ti
Proto-Indo-European *pósti
Proto-Italic *posti
Old Latin poste
Latin post
Proto-Indo-European *íh₂
Latin ea
Latin posteā
Vulgar Latin *postius
Old French puis
Proto-Indo-European *ǵenh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *-tós
Proto-Indo-European *ǵn̥h₁tós
Proto-Italic *gnātos
Latin gnātus
Latin nātus
Old French né
Old French puisné
Middle French puisnébor.
English puisne
 PIE word
 *pós
From Anglo-Norman puisné (“later, more recent; junior; weakly”) [and other forms] and Middle French puisné (“born after (a specified person); younger, youngest; one who is born after (a specified person)”) (modern French puîné (“cadet (born after a sibling); a cadet (someone born after a sibling)”)), from puis (“after; since”) + né (“born”). Puis is derived from Old French pois (“after; since”), from Vulgar Latin *postius (“afterward”), from Latin posteā (“afterwards; hereafter; thereafter; next, then”), from post (“after; since”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pós (“afterwards”)) + ea (“these (things)”); and né from Latin nātus (“born”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ǵenh₁- (“to beget; to give birth; to produce”).
Inflected forms:
form: more puisne
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most puisne
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: puny
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: puisnes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Younger; junior.
pos: adj
tags: obsolete
gloss: Insignificant, petty; ineffectual.
pos: adj
tags: obsolete
examples: it is not conceptible that in an infinite , or indeed in a very long period of Revolutions of Mankind , those or any things of this kind discoverable would have been of so late a puiſne a discovery
But this intrigue of the ancient is a piece of private history, the truth of which my beloved cares not to own, and indeed, affects to disbelieve. As she does also some puisne gallantries of her foolish brother […].
gloss: Inferior in rank, as designation of any justice, judge etc. other than the most senior.
pos: adj
examples: the puisne barons of the Court of Exchequer
gloss: Coming later in time; subsequent, secondary.
pos: adj
examples: a puisne date to eternity
gloss: A person of puisne rank.
pos: noun
Translations:
fem
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Clipping of feminine.
Inflected forms:
form: fems
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: more fem
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most fem
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of femme.
pos: noun
tags: uncommon
examples: Oral history gave them an opportunity to share their vision of the world across generations, while giving us a chance to imagine the pleasure and pain of daily life for butches and fems in an earlier period.
gloss: A feminine or effeminate person.
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
derogatory
sometimes
examples: Versatile, but love to bottom … No divas or fems. Not homophobic at all, just my personal preference.
[...] chasers looking for silver daddies, exec types for college jocks, straights for gays, fems for mascs, smooths for hairies, huskies for slims, blacks for Latinos, whites for Asians, straights for gays, white collars for blue collars, ...
gloss: Feminine, effeminate.
pos: adj
tags: colloquial
gloss: Synonym of femme.
pos: adj
examples: Dozens of queers, including female to male/male to female transsexuals, leathers, bears and bisexuals, butch and fem lesbians, […]
Derived words: factfem
Fem&M's
femboy
fem lib
Femlock
FemShep
femslash
femspeak
meanfem
nicefem
rudefem
Translations:
nia
Part of speech: particle
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Hokkien 爾／尔 (niā, “only”).
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Only, merely, that's all; used at the end of a sentence to emphasize that something is trivial, small or undemanding.
pos: particle
tags: Singlish
examples: Don’t so kiam siap can anot? That one only $3 nia.
Translations:
tio
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Hokkien 著 (tio̍h).
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: To get, receive, experience, suffer or be affected by.
pos: verb
tags: Singlish
invariable
transitive
examples: He tio virus
She tio money
gloss: To win a game, especially a game of chance.
pos: verb
tags: Singlish
intransitive
invariable
examples: She play lottery and tio
gloss: Used before a verb to indicate the passive voice.
pos: verb
tags: Singlish
auxiliary
invariable
rare
examples: I tio banned
Translations: