yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
hopper
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: board-games
chess
entertainment
games
lifestyle
music
Etymology: From Middle English hoppere, alteration of *hoppe (found in grashoppe (“grasshopper”)), from Old English *hoppa (“one who hops, hopper”), equivalent to hop + -er. Cognate with Dutch hopper (“hopper”), Swedish hoppare (“hopper, jumper”), Icelandic hoppari (“hopper”).
Base: hop
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: hoppers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who or that which hops.
pos: noun
gloss: A temporary storage bin, filled from the top and emptied from the bottom, often funnel-shaped.
pos: noun
gloss: A funnel-shaped section at the top of a drainpipe used to collect water, from above, from one or more smaller drainpipes.
pos: noun
gloss: A bin or device that feeds material into a machine.
pos: noun
gloss: Any of various insects known for hopping, especially a grasshopper or locust, the immature form of a locust, or the larva of various flies and beetles.
pos: noun
examples: I went over and found the mealies and ground covered with large hoppers, about two weeks old.
“And the next year the hoppers came. The sky was so dark with them we had to light the lamps at midday.”
gloss: An artificial fishing lure.
pos: noun
examples: To catch a big fish, use a hopper that jumps across the pond surface.
gloss: A toilet.
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: The fresh-water container for the house was above the ceiling directly over the toilet. One day, I was comfortably seated on the hopper minding my own business, when a large portion of the ceiling came crashing down […]
gloss: An escapement lever in a piano.
pos: noun
gloss: The game of hopscotch.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
gloss: A window with hinges at the bottom, opened by tilting vertically.
pos: noun
gloss: A hopper car.
pos: noun
gloss: A fairy chess piece which moves only by jumping over another piece.
pos: noun
examples: The Leo, Pao (or Cannon, a piece from Chinese chess) and Vao (Z.Mach FCR 1940) are hybrid hoppers that move like a queen, rook or bishop and capture along these lines like a lion.
gloss: A person or machine that picks hops.
pos: noun
Derived words: ash-hopper
barhopper
bed-hopper
bellhopper
bell hopper
bunny hopper
clodhopper
club-hopper
Etho hopper clock
fence hopper
flaghopper
freighthopper
freight hopper
froghopper
froth-hopper
grasshopper
groundhopper
hedgehopper
hip-hopper
hopper boy
hopper car
hopper crystal
hopper wagon
in the hopper
job-hopper
landhopper
leaf-hopper
leaf hopper
mudhopper
planthopper
puddle hopper
rockhopper
sandhopper
space hopper
summit-hopper
swan hopper
table-hopper
train hopper
trainhopper
treehopper
Translations:
lang: Finnish
word: suppilo
impugn
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French impugner, from Latin impugnō, from im- + pugnō (“fight”), from pugnus (“fist”), as in English pugilism (“fighting with fists, boxing”).
Inflected forms:
form: impugns
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: impugning
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: impugned
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: impugned
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To assault, attack.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
transitive
gloss: To verbally assault, especially to argue against an opinion, motive, or action; to question the truth or validity of; cast doubt on.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:impugn.
[The fact] that Americans’ trust in government is at historic lows […] makes it easier for politicians to impugn the system – courts, parties, and institutions.
Derived words: impugnable
impugnation
impugner
impugnment
unimpugned
Translations:
blackleg
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: compound
Topics: agriculture
biology
business
lifestyle
medicine
natural-sciences
pathology
sciences
veterinary
zoology
Etymology: From black + leg.
Compound parts: black
leg
Inflected forms:
form: blacklegs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: blacklegs
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: blacklegging
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: blacklegged
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: blacklegged
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A fatal cattle disease caused by the soil-borne bacterium Clostridium chauvoei; symptomatic anthrax.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: A disease of potato crops caused by pectolytic bacteria, characterized by blackening and decay of the lower stem portion.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: A disease of brassicas caused by the fungus Leptosphaeria maculans
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: A person who cheats in a game; a cheater, especially a dishonest bookmaker.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: [H]ere, then, was a community of good taste and kind feeling, no sharpers, no black-legs, no wolves in sheep's clothing.
[Y]our friend Bloundell-Bloundell is a professional blackleg, and travels the Continent, where he picks up young gentlemen of fashion and fleeces them.
They have no regard for respectability like yours — nothing between a baron and a blackleg.
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.
gloss: A person who takes the place of striking workers.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: In the autumn there was a row at some cement works about the unskilled labour men. A union had just been started for them and all but a few joined. One of these blacklegs was laid for by a picket and knocked out of time.
It's in the evening after dark when the blackleg miner creeps to work. With his moleskin pants and his dirty shirt, there goes the blackleg miner.
There was some sympathy for the miners among the railway workers, members of the ASRS [Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants], but any who advocated sympathetic action in support of the miners were instantly dismissed. The company attempted to bring in blacklegs from outside the area under the auspices of the National Free Labour Association but ASRS members used various means to ‘persuade’ most of them to return whence they came. Very few strikebreakers and blacklegs succeeded in assisting the company and those who did could expect to be roughed up.
gloss: To continue working whilst fellow workers strike.
pos: verb
examples: Why was I there, munitioning, blacklegging, slaving as though my bread depended on it?
Derived words: blackleggery
blacklegging
blacklegism
Translations:
slammer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English slam
English -er
English slammer
From slam + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: slammers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who, or that which, slams.
pos: noun
examples: Margaret was also, by her own admission, a determined slammer of doors.
gloss: Jail, prison.
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: A man being sentenced for starving some horses chose 24 hours in the slammer with no food rather than seven days with the regular amenities.
gloss: A tequila cocktail that is slammed onto a surface to induce fizzing.
pos: noun
gloss: One who takes part in slam-dance.
pos: noun
gloss: One who competes in a poetry slam.
pos: noun
gloss: In the game of Pogs, the heavier piece used to strike the stack of counters.
pos: noun
examples: The basic modern 'Pog' game is played thus. Each child tosses a pog into the arena, face-up or face-down, as agreed. Each player in turn takes his slammer and pitches it hard onto the accumulated pile of pogs.
gloss: A slam-door train.
pos: noun
tags: UK
slang
examples: I was in Britain, wanting to take a train to Portsmouth, and I only needed a one-way ticket. I did love the English trains; we still had slammers then. A slammer is a train where you got to slam the door shut yourself.
gloss: A fraudster who carries out slamming (fraudulent changes to a customer's service).
pos: noun
Derived words: Alabama slammer
tequila slammer
Translations:
blunderbuss
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Dutch donderbus (“blunderbuss”, literally “thunder gun”), which was altered under the influence of blunder.
Inflected forms:
form: blunderbusses
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: blunderbusses
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: blunderbussing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: blunderbussed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: blunderbussed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: An old style of muzzleloading firearm and early form of shotgun with a distinctive short, large caliber barrel that is flared at the muzzle, therefore able to fire scattered quantities of nails, stones, shot, etc. at short range.
pos: noun
examples: We fired the blunderbuss several times by way of salute, and soon after landed at the bank near the village of the Mahahas, or Shoe Indians, and were received by a crowd of people, who came to welcome our return.
One of the most picturesque of the old flintlock guns is the blunderbuss, which was often carried by coach guards for protection against highwaymen.
The blunderbuss never gained great favor in the American colonies or early United States.
gloss: To shoot with a blunderbuss.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Translations:
gunpowder
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *gʷʰen-
Proto-Indo-European *-tis
Proto-Indo-European *gʷʰéntis
Proto-Germanic *gunþiz
Old Norse gunnr
Proto-Indo-European *kelh₂-der.
Proto-Indo-European *kelh₂tís
Proto-Germanic *hildiz
Old Norse hildr
Old Norse Gunnhildrder.
Middle English gunne
English gun
English powder
English gunpowder
From gun + powder.
Inflected forms:
form: gunpowders
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: gunpowdering
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: gunpowdered
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: gunpowdered
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To destroy with gunpowder.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: […] he was […] never getting into quarrels with his neighbors and gunpowdering them out of house and home. His subjects loved him.
Translations:
woggle
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: 1923, coined in Australia by Bill Shankley, from earlier American boondoggle. Popularized from 1929 by use in Scouting for Boys, 14th edition, by Baden-Powell.
Inflected forms:
form: woggles
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A Boy Scout's neckerchief clasp or slide, originally a loop or ring of leather.
pos: noun
Translations:
basta
Part of speech: intj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Italian bastabor.
English basta
Borrowed from Italian basta.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: (that's) enough; stop!
pos: intj
tags: literary
poetic
examples: Baſta, content thee: for I haue it full.
Translations:
endure
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Latin indūrō
Latin indūrāreder.
Old French endurerbor.
Middle English enduren
English endure
From Middle English enduren, from Old French endurer, from Latin indūrō (“to make hard”). Displaced Old English drēogan, which survives dialectally as dree. Doublet of dure.
Inflected forms:
form: endures
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: enduring
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: endured
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: endured
pos: verb
tags: past
form: enduer
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: indure
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: To continue or carry on, despite obstacles or hardships; to persist.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: The singer's popularity endured for decades.
[…] The life that almost dies in me:
That dies not, but endures with pain,
⁠And slowly forms the firmer mind,
⁠Treasuring the look it cannot find,
The words that are not heard again.
gloss: To tolerate or put up with something unpleasant.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To last.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Our love will endure forever.
He ſhall leane vpon his houſe, but it ſhall not ſtand: he ſhal hold it faſt, but it ſhall not endure.
gloss: To remain firm, as under trial or suffering; to suffer patiently or without yielding; to bear up under adversity; to hold out.
pos: verb
examples: Can thine heart indure, or can thine hands be ſtrong in the dayes that I ſhall deale with thee?
gloss: To suffer patiently.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: He endured years of pain.
Dirk Kuyt sandwiched a goal in between Carroll's double as City endured a night of total misery, with captain Carlos Tevez limping off early on with a hamstring strain that puts a serious question mark over his participation in Saturday's FA Cup semi-final against Manchester United at Wembley.
gloss: To indurate.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
Related words: endurance
enduring
enduro
duress
Derived words: co-endure
coendure
endurability
endurable
outendure
unendured
Translations:
unless
Part of speech: conj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English unlesse, earlier on lesse (modern on + less), from (not) on lesse (than) (“(not) on a less compelling condition (than)”). The quality of negation in the word and the lack of stress changed on to un-.
Inflected forms:
form: unlesse
pos: conj
tags: alternative
form: unlessen
pos: conj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Except on a specified condition; if not.
pos: conj
examples: I’m leaving unless I get a pay rise.
You can't go out unless it stops raining.
Unless part of the staff, you are not allowed beyond this point.
Secondly, When a body is once in motion it will continue to move forever, unless something stops it. When a ball is struck on the surface of the earth, the friction of the earth and the resistance of the air soon stop its motion.
Unless someone like you...cares a whole awful lot...nothing is going to get better...It's not.
gloss: If not; used with counterfactual conditionals.
pos: conj
examples: Who would know of Alexander or Caesar, or would respect the Stoics or the Peripatetics, unless they had been distinguished by the memorials of writers?
And Joab said, As God liveth, unless thou hadst spoken, surely then in the morning the people had gone up every one from following his brother.
Unless He were omnipotent, we could not be sure of His ability to bless us.
gloss: Except if; used with hypothetical conditionals.
pos: conj
examples: Q. If Lieutenant P. had given the word "Fire," would you have fired, and at what?—A. I should not have known, unless he had told me what to fire at.
Lie down and finish out the night, since you are here; but, for heaven's sake! don't repeat that horrid noise: nothing could excuse it, unless you were having your throat cut!
Suppose Breugel had done the whole painting with no legs. Then, titled as it is, it would be mystifying, unless someone were to say: the boy has fallen in the waters and they have closed over him, calm is restored, life goes on (as in The Israelites Crossing the Red Sea).
Antonyms: if
Derived words: precisely unless
unlesss
unless and until
until and unless
Translations:
role
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
Etymology: From French rôle, from Middle French rolle, from Old French role, from Medieval Latin rotulus. Doublet of roll and rotulus.
Inflected forms:
form: roles
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: rôle
pos: noun
tags: alternative
dated
Senses:
gloss: A character or part played by a performer or actor.
pos: noun
examples: My neighbor was the lead role in last year's village play.
Her dream was to get a role in a Hollywood movie, no matter how small.
gloss: The expected behaviour of an individual in a society.
pos: noun
examples: The role of women has changed significantly in the last century.
gloss: The function or position of something.
pos: noun
examples: Local volunteers played an important role in cleaning the beach after the oil spill.
What role does the wax in your earhole fulfill?
In plants, the ability to recognize self from nonself plays an important role in fertilization, because self-fertilization will result in less diverse offspring than fertilization with pollen from another individual.
gloss: Designation that denotes an associated set of responsibilities, knowledge, skills, or privileges
pos: noun
examples: The project manager role is responsible for ensuring that everyone on the team knows and executes his or her assigned tasks.
As students all over the United States knuckle down to learning, the rumble of war drums once more proclaims Mars high man in Europe. Discarding morbid curiosity, every student should consider it vitally necessary to get a general picture of the causes, movements, and possible effects of World War II. The average U. S. citizen's knowledge of World War II will probably decide his role in it.
I'm setting up a few roles that all have the same permissions but different cosmetics.
When I go to add a new role, the permissions are all turned off by default. Is there a way to have them default to the @everyone permissions?
gloss: The function of a word in a phrase.
pos: noun
examples: Examining these verbs one by one, what one finds is that Auxiliary Selection does correlate in the expected way with the two kinds of optional transitivity, confirming that with each predicate, one semantic role has a fixed link with initial 1-hood, another with initial 2-hood.
gloss: In the Raku programming language, a code element akin to an interface, used for composition of classes without adding to their inheritance chain.
pos: noun
Derived words: bit role
breeches role
gender role
gender-role
massively multiplayer online role-playing game
multirole
pants role
play a role
rerole
role activity diagram
role-based
role conflict
roled
roleless
role model
role-oriented
role-oriented language
roleplay
role-play
role player
role-player
roleplayer
role-playing
role-playing game
role playing game
role-playing video game
role reversal
thematic role
theta role
title role
trouser role
Translations:
woomera
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Dharug wumarabor.
English woomera
Borrowed from Dharug wumara.
Inflected forms:
form: woomeras
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: wamara
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: womera
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: wommera
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: woomerah
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: woomerang
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A traditional spearthrower, consisting of a stick with a hooked end, used by First Nations Australians.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
Translations:
multicellular
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
natural-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *mel-der.
Proto-Indo-European *ml̥tós?
Proto-Italic *moltos
Latin multus
Latin multīder.
Middle English multi-
English multi-
English cellular
English multicellular
From multi- + cellular.
Inflected forms:
form: multicellulars
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: That has many cells, often differentiated in function.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Such an organism
pos: noun
Antonyms: unicellular
monocellular
Translations:
dysfunction
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
sciences
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
From dys- + function.
Inflected forms:
form: dysfunctions
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: disfunction
pos: noun
tags: alternative
nonstandard
Senses:
gloss: A failure to function in an expected or complete manner. Usually refers to a disorder in a bodily organ (e.g. erectile dysfunction), a mental disorder, or the improper behavior of a social group.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Cerebellar dysfunction is characterized by truncal ataxia, a broad-based stance, dysmetria in which the limbs either overstep (hypermetria) or understep (hypometria), and tremor that is most pronounced when the animal attempts a goal-orientated movement (intention tremor).
We next consider the cognification of interpersonal dysfunctions in treating clinical depression.
Translations:
protist
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
microbiology
natural-sciences
Etymology: From translingual Protista, from Ancient Greek πρώτιστος (prṓtistos).
Inflected forms:
form: protists
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of the eukaryotic, usually unicellular organisms—including protozoans, slime molds and some algae—historically grouped into the kingdom Protista (or Protoctista), now distributed over several clades; any eukaryote that is not a plant, animal or fungus.
pos: noun
examples: Besides the hundreds or thousands of metres of fungal mycelium in a teaspoon of healthy soil, there are more bacteria, protists, insects and arthropods than the number of humans who have ever lived on Earth.
gloss: Any of the eukaryotic, usually unicellular organisms—including protozoans, slime molds and some algae—historically grouped into the kingdom Protista (or Protoctista), now distributed over several clades; any eukaryote that is not a plant, animal or fungus.
pos: noun
gloss: Any of the eukaryotic, usually unicellular organisms—including protozoans, slime molds and some algae—historically grouped into the kingdom Protista (or Protoctista), now distributed over several clades; any eukaryote that is not a plant, animal or fungus.
pos: noun
gloss: Any of the eukaryotic, usually unicellular organisms—including protozoans, slime molds and some algae—historically grouped into the kingdom Protista (or Protoctista), now distributed over several clades; any eukaryote that is not a plant, animal or fungus.
pos: noun
Related words: monoprotist
protistal
protistological
protistologist
protistology
Derived words: antiprotist
protistic
Translations:
lang: Armenian
word: պրոտիստ
roman: protist
lang: Bulgarian
word: протист
roman: protist
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 原生生物
roman: yuánshēng shēngwù
lang: Czech
word: protista
lang: Danish
word: protist
lang: Dutch
word: protist
lang: Esperanto
word: protisto
lang: Estonian
word: protist
lang: Finnish
word: alkueliö
lang: Finnish
word: protisti
lang: Finnish
word: protoktisti
lang: French
word: protiste
lang: Galician
word: protista
lang: Georgian
word: პროტისტი
roman: ṗroṭisṭi
lang: German
word: Protist
lang: Hungarian
word: protiszta
lang: Icelandic
word: frumvera
lang: Ido
word: protisto
lang: Irish
word: prótaisteach
lang: Italian
word: protista
lang: Japanese
word: 原生生物
roman: gensei seibutsu
lang: Korean
word: 원생생물
roman: wonsaengsaengmul
lang: Polish
word: protista
lang: Portuguese
word: protista
lang: Romanian
word: protist
lang: Russian
word: проти́ст
roman: protíst
lang: Spanish
word: protista
lang: Swedish
word: protist
lang: Turkish
word: protist
lang: Ukrainian
word: найпростіш
roman: najprostiš
lang: Vietnamese
word: sinh vật đơn bào
protoplasm
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
cytology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
Etymology: From German Protoplasma, coined by Czech physiologist Jan Evangelista Purkyně, from Ancient Greek πρῶτος (prôtos, “first”) + πλάσμα (plásma, “something molded”). By surface analysis, proto- + -plasm. Compare also protoplasma, used in Late Latin for the “first-created one” (i.e. Adam).
Inflected forms:
form: protoplasms
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The entire contents of a cell comprising the nucleus and the cytoplasm. It is a semi-fluid, transparent substance which is the living matter of plant and animal cells.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
cristal
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Relating to a crest.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
proportional
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: mathematics
sciences
Inflected forms:
form: more proportional
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most proportional
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: At a constant ratio (to). Two magnitudes (numbers) are said to be proportional if the second varies in a direct relation arithmetically to the first. Symbol: ∝.
pos: adj
examples: A vacuum-controlled straight air brake system is fitted, in which the driver's vacuum brake valve applies the train brake and makes a proportional application of the locomotive air brake.
For example, according to the gas laws, pressure is directly proportional to temperature: the quotient derived from pressure (numerator) and temperature (denominator) will be constant; however, pressure is inversely proportional to volume, meaning that the product between volume and pressure will be constant.
gloss: In proportion (to), proportionate.
pos: adj
tags: US
examples: This ensures consistency across your website design so that you don't end up with elements that are not adequately proportional with each other.
gloss: Of a typeface, having characters with natural (non-uniform) width (in contrast to monospace typefaces).
pos: adj
examples: A font is proportional if all characters in the font have different widths due to their various sizes.
Derived words: biproportional
directly proportional
disproportional
equiproportional
inversely proportional
mean proportional
multiproportional
nonproportional
overproportional
proportional analogy
proportionalism
proportionalist
proportionality
proportionalize
proportionally
proportional navigation
proportional representation
subproportional
unproportional
Translations:
flint
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English flynt, flint, from Old English flint, from Proto-West Germanic *flint, from Proto-Germanic *flintaz (compare Dutch vlint, flint (“flint, cobblestone”), German Flins, Flint (“flint, pebble”), Danish flint (“flint”)), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)plind- (“to split, cleave”) (compare Irish slinn (“slate, shingle”), Ancient Greek πλίνθος (plínthos)), from *(s)pley- (“to split”). More at split.
Inflected forms:
form: flints
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: flints
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: flinting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: flinted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: flinted
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A hard, fine-grained quartz that fractures conchoidally and generates sparks when struck against a material such as steel, because tiny chips of the steel are heated to incandescence and burn in air.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: He used flint to make a fire.
Some of the enormous fragments of chalk which are interstratified with drift have not only layers of undisturbed flints, but also sandpipes in the middle of them, or cylindrical cavities filled with sand and gravel […]
In a cornfield on one side flakings of flint are numerous.
gloss: A piece of flint, such as a gunflint, used to produce a spark by striking it with a firestriker.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: He used a flint to make a fire.
gloss: A small cylinder of some other material of the same function in a cigarette lighter, etc.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A variety of maize/corn with a hard outer hull.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Anything figuratively hard.
pos: noun
tags: countable
figuratively
uncountable
gloss: A tailor's employee who is paid by the day.
pos: noun
tags: UK
countable
obsolete
slang
uncountable
gloss: To furnish or decorate an object with flint.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: No schoolboys lingered round Bob Robertson's (yclept Roberson's) blacksmith's shop, for this sleepy day no lusty throat bellowed attention to the flaming tongues fanned from its bloodily blazing teeth; no luminous stars flinted from the clanking anvil.
No change from the primordial doth appear, / Within the earth’s rotation of the year, / Nor are ye heirless of her sane decree, / The problem is potentiality / Of Spring and Autumn, burdenful with Fate, / Upon the seeds of labour ye must wait, / Sowing the Consequence by which ye came, / Flinting the fire not to fire but flame, / With all the end of Destiny the same!
The sun had warmed the air to a balmy 45 degrees and sent sparks flinting off the bleachy white snow.
Related words: chert
ferrocerium
Derived words: eccentric flint
fix someone's flint
Flint
flint corn
flint disease
flint-eyed
flinthead
flint-hearted
flintify
flintiness
flintknapper
flintknapping
flintless
flintlike
flintlock
flint mill
flint paper
flintstone
flintware
flintwood
flintwork
flintworker
flinty
gunflint
iron flint
nonflint
semiflint
skin a flint
skinflint
Translations:
sandstone
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From Middle English sandston, from Old English *sandstān, from Proto-West Germanic *sandastain (“sandstone, chisel, gravel”), equivalent to sand + stone. Cognate with West Frisian sânstien (“sandstone”), Saterland Frisian Soundsteen (“sandstone”), Dutch zandsteen (“sandstone”), German Low German Sandsteen (“sandstone”), German Sandstein (“sandstone”), Danish sandsten (“sandstone”), Swedish sandsten (“sandstone”), Icelandic sandsteinn (“sandstone”).
Compound parts: sand
stone
Inflected forms:
form: sandstones
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A sedimentary rock produced by the consolidation and compaction of sand, cemented with clay etc.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: It spread slowly up from the sea-rim, a welling upwards of pure white light, ghosting the beach with silver and drawing the grey bastions of sandstone out of formless space.
Translations:
metallurgy
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From French métallurgie, from Ancient Greek μεταλλουργός (metallourgós, “miner”).
Inflected forms:
form: metallurgies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The science of metals; their extraction from ores, purification and alloying, heat treatment, and working.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: Fowler was also interested in metallurgy and the use of new materials that could withstand greater stresses, something he expounded on when giving his presidential address to the new Institution of Mechanical Engineers in 1927.
Translations:
pulley
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: From Middle English puly, poley, from Old French poulie, polie (“a pulley, windlass”), from Medieval Latin polidia, plural mistaken for the feminine of neuter polidium, from Ancient Greek πολίδιον (polídion, “little pivot”), diminutive of πόλος (pólos, “pivot, hinge, axis”), from Proto-Indo-European *kʷel- (“to turn”). Associated with pull (verb) by folk etymology.
Inflected forms:
form: pulleys
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: pullies
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
plural
form: pulleys
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: pulleying
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: pulleyed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: pulleyed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: One of the simple machines; a sheave, a wheel with a grooved rim, in which a pulled rope or chain lifts an object (more useful when two or more pulleys are used together, as in a block and tackle arrangement, such that a small force moving through a greater distance can exert a larger force through a smaller distance).
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: These pulleys […] placed collaterally.
Nine hundred of the ſtrongeſt Men were employed to draw up theſe Cords by many Pulleys faſtned on the Poles, and thus, in leſs than three Hours, I was raiſed and flung into the Engine, and there tyed faſt.
The steel haulage ropes have a breaking strain of 50 tons, and another pair passing around a pulley at the bottom connect the lower ends of the cars and act as tail or balance ropes.
gloss: Annular ligament of the finger.
pos: noun
gloss: To raise or lift by means of a pulley.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: [a mine]is digg'd out with ease, being soft, and is between a white Clay and Chalk at first; but being pulley'd up with the open Air, it receives a crusty kind of hardness
Derived words: micropulley
motor pulley
mule pulley
pulley block
pulley bone
pulleyless
pulleylike
pulley shell
rubbish pulley
speed pulley
Translations:
competitor
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French compétiteur, from Latin competitor.
Inflected forms:
form: competitors
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: competitour
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A person or organization against whom one is competing.
pos: noun
examples: Hitherto the river had given facilities to Kingston traders which their competitors elsewhere could not possess, but now the railway took the malt from distant towns to the London market at lower rates than the bargemasters.
gloss: A participant in a competition, especially in athletics.
pos: noun
gloss: Partner, associate, one working with another toward a common goal.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
examples: Ioine with me now in this my meane eſtate, […]
And when my name and honor ſhall be ſpread,
As far as Boreas claps his braſen wings,
Or faire Botëes ſends his cheerefull light.
Then ſhalt thou be Competitor with me,
And ſit with Tamburlaine in all his maieſtie.
Related words: compete
competition
competitive
Derived words: anticompetitor
archcompetitor
competitorship
competitress
coopetitor
intercompetitor
noncompetitor
supercompetitor
Translations:
autophagy
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
cytology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
Etymology: From auto- + -phagy.
Base: auto
Inflected forms:
form: autophagies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The process of self-digestion by a cell through the action of enzymes originating within the same cell, and often a defensive or self-preservation measure.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Near-synonym: autocytolysis
gloss: A type of programmed cell death accomplished through self-digestion.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Self-consumption; the act of eating oneself.
pos: noun
tags: countable
rare
uncountable
Related words: autophagal
autophagous
Derived words: antiautophagy
lipoautophagy
macroautophagy
microautophagy
mitophagy
Translations:
occur
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: sciences
Etymology: Originally "meet (in argument)", borrowed from Middle French occurrer, from Latin occurrō (“run to meet, run against, befall, present itself”) from prefix ob- (“against”) + verb currō (“run, hurry, move”).
Inflected forms:
form: occurs
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: occurring
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: occurred
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: occurred
pos: verb
tags: past
form: occurre
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: To happen or take place.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: The liftoff will occur in exactly twelve seconds.
And no use for anyone to tell Charles that this was because the Family was in mourning for Mr Granville Darracott […]: Charles might only have been second footman at Darracott Place for a couple of months when that disaster occurred, but no one could gammon him into thinking that my lord cared a spangle for his heir.
gloss: To present or offer itself.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: I will write if the opportunity occurs.
gloss: To come or be presented to the mind; to suggest itself.
pos: verb
tags: impersonal
examples: One little incident of my school days occurs to me as amusing.
It occurred to him to tell me of the problem.
Apparently it never occurs to them that you can't make rapid, drastic changes in the technology and the economy of a society without causing rapid changes in all other aspects of the society as well, […]
gloss: To be present or found.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: The chemical monofluoroacetate occurs in all parts of Dichapetalum cymosum, and is responsible for its toxic effects.
Synonyms: betide
betime
come to pass
happen
take place
Related words: occurrent
occurrence
Derived words: coöccur
co-occur
occurable
occurrable
reoccur
what's occurring
Translations:
galore
Part of speech: adj
adv
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: PIE word
 *ḱóm
Borrowed from Irish go leor and Scottish Gaelic gu leòr, gu leòir (“till sufficient, enough, plenty”) (compare Manx dy liooar), from Irish go, Scottish Gaelic gu (“to; till, until”) + Irish leor, Scottish Gaelic leòr (“ample, sufficient”); go, gu are derived from Old Irish co, cu (“with”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm (“beside, by; near; with”); while leor, leòr are from Old Irish leor, from lour (“enough, sufficient”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *leh₂w- (“to gain; to seize; a benefit; a prize”).
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: In abundance.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
postpositional
examples: After the shipwreck there was whisky galore to be had for the taking.
[…]But when I had bestridden the plank, quoth I to myself, "Thou deserveth all that betideth thee. All this is decreed to me of Allah (whose name be exalted!), to turn me from my greed of gain, whence ariseth all that I endure, for I have wealth galore."
I am the destroyer of mountains, the killer of kings, I always fly by yet I don't have wings. I can end basketball games or marriages with similar ease, and though I flow like a stream only water can freeze. I've murdered parents and children and house plants galore, yet, despite all this, you always want more. Who am I?
gloss: In abundance.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: "Nice stuff, water; eh, Nora?" he remarked, complying.
"Why don't you file it away a lot?" she demanded, pointing to the slight incision he had made. "I want to wallow in it galore."
Translations:
tucker
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From tuck + -er.
Base: tuck
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: tuckers
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: tuckering
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: tuckered
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: tuckered
pos: verb
tags: past
form: tuckers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To tire out or exhaust a person or animal.
pos: verb
tags: slang
examples: Man, I’m so tuckered from my run today.
gloss: One who or that which tucks.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: Discrimination. Firm, after having had a long controversy with its tuckers, laid off the whole tucking department for a week. Union maintained it was a clear case cf discrimination against the tuckers on account of the recent controversy.
Determination:
Complaint of the union was sustained. Tuckers were paid the amount of money they were deprived of through being discriminated against, $158.90.
gloss: Food; tuck.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
New-Zealand
colloquial
uncountable
examples: By the fire the billies were boiling, the tucker of both camps spread out on tarpaulins.
gloss: Work that scarcely yields a living wage.
pos: noun
tags: countable
dated
slang
uncountable
Related words: best bib and tucker
tucker fucker
Derived words: bush tucker
dog tucker
tuckerbag
tuckerbox
tucker claim
tucker fucker
tuckerless
tucker money
Translations:
bushranger
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From bush + ranger.
Compound parts: bush
ranger
Inflected forms:
form: bushrangers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A convict or outlaw who escapes to the bush to avoid capture; a roving bandit who lives in the bush.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
historical
examples: We each discharged a shot in the direction of the explosion by the bushrangers, for we had no other guide in aiming, owing to the night being so very dark, which was rendered denser by the mizzling rain which had been falling all day.
The retribution for those who failed to help bushrangers could be severe. Thomas Kenton was imprisoned in 1825, accused of having allowed Matthew Brady to escape, but was later murdered by the bushranger as an informer.²⁸
The live-and-let-live attitude hampered the police in tracking bushrangers. A few squatters like John Walsh gave the bushrangers active support, but the police were thwarted as much by the unwillingness of landowners generally to report what they knew about the bushrangers or to take any active steps against them.
gloss: A person skilled in bushcraft.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
obsolete
examples: 1824, The Australian, quoted in 1966, Sidney J. Baker, The Australian Language, 2nd edition, chapter II section 2, page 31,
Mr Hovell lacks all the qualities befitting a bushranger.
Translations:
drover
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English drove
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Proto-Italic *-āzijos
Latin -āriusnom.
Latin -āriusbor.
Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz
Proto-West Germanic *-ārī
Old English -ere
Middle English -ere
English -er
English drover
From drove + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: drovers
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: drovier
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A person who drives animals (which are on foot or on the hoof, walking to some destination), especially cattle or sheep, and especially over long distances.
pos: noun
examples: In the present day, we take it for granted that livestock are transported by truck or rail, but in past centuries, they were driven by drovers, and a herd might be met on any street, road, or highway.
Why, that's spoken like an honest drovier: so they sell bullocks.
Daily driven / (Wife as drover) / Ill you've thriven-- / Ne'er in clover.
Little is the modern-day Buchanon. In 2013 he oversaw the Brinkworth drive, taking 20,000 cattle owned by South Australian pastoralist Tom Brinkworth from western Queensland to southern NSW, separating them into smaller mobs and employing contract drovers to assist.
Translations:
deafness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English deefnesse; equivalent to deaf + -ness.
Base: deaf
Affixes: -ness
Inflected forms:
form: deafnesses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The condition of being deaf; the lack or loss of the ability to hear.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Paul wet his lips with his tongue, read: “ ‘Think you of I the fact that a deaf person cannot hear. Then, what deafness may we not all possess? What senses do we lack that we cannot see and cannot hear another world all around us? What is there around us that we cannot—’ ”
gloss: Lack of knowledge or refusal to admit a particular problem, issue, etc.
pos: noun
tags: countable
figuratively
uncountable
examples: their deafness to her cries
Related words: deaf
deafen
Derived words: albinism-deafness syndrome
cocktail party deafness
inattentional deafness
keratitis-ichthyosis-deafness syndrome
peri-lingual deafness
post-lingual deafness
stress deafness
Tietz albinism-deafness syndrome
tone-deafness
urticaria-deafness-amyloidosis syndrome
word-deafness
Translations:
deafen
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From deaf + -en (verbal suffix). Compare Middle English deven, deaven (“to make deaf”), Old English ādēafian (“to deafen”) and Old English ādȳfan, Dutch verdoven (“to stupefy, deafen”), German betäuben (“to stun, stupefy, deafen”).
Base: deaf
Affixes: -en
Inflected forms:
form: deafens
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: deafening
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: deafened
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: deafened
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To make deaf, either temporarily or permanently.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The head injury deafened her for life.
gloss: To make soundproof.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to deafen a wall or a floor
gloss: To stun, as with noise.
pos: verb
tags: dialectal
figuratively
rare
sometimes
transitive
examples: Racine left the ground […] deafened, dazzled and tired to death.
Derived words: bedeafen
deafener
undeafen
undeafened
Translations:
thinker
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English thinkere, equivalent to think + -er. Compare West Frisian tinker (“thinker”), Dutch denker (“thinker”), German Denker (“thinker”), Danish tænker (“thinker”), Swedish tänkare (“thinker”).
Base: think
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: thinkers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who spends time thinking, contemplating or meditating.
pos: noun
examples: The doer and the thinker
No allowance for the other.
gloss: An intellectual, such as a philosopher or theologian.
pos: noun
examples: From his studies of these thinkers and activists, Mr. Obama took what he called the “Niebuhrian” lesson that we can have “a cleareyed view of the world and the realities of cruelty and sin and greed and violence, and yet, still maintain a sense of hope and possibility, as an act of will and leap of faith.”
gloss: The brain; the mind.
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: "Well, I tried to do like you and grandfather say; don't use my thinker, use imagination."
gloss: A poser; a conundrum that requires some thinking.
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: HANK: The NRA is a Washington D.C. based organization. Are you telling me you support Washington D.C.?
DALE: That's a thinker.
Derived words: deep thinker
doublethinker
freethinker
groupthinker
lateral thinker
nonthinker
unthinker
wishful thinker
wrongthinker
Translations:
statesman
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From state + -s- + -man, modelled after French homme d'État.
Base: state
Affixes: -s-
-man
Inflected forms:
form: statesmen
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A man who is a leader in national or international affairs.
pos: noun
gloss: A male political leader who promotes the public good or who is recognized for probity, leadership, or the qualities necessary to govern a state.
pos: noun
gloss: A man who lives on a landed estate; a small landholder.
pos: noun
tags: dialectal
Synonyms: wealsman
Related words: statesmanship
stateswoman
statesperson
Derived words: elder statesman
statesmanlike
statesmanly
superstatesman
Translations:
wield
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English welden, from the merger of Old English wealdan (“to control, rule”) (strong class 7) and Old English wieldan (“to control, subdue”) (weak). Both verbs derive from Proto-West Germanic *waldan and *waldijan, respectively; and are ultimately from Proto-Germanic *waldaną (“to rule”).
The reason for the merger was that in Middle English the -d in the stem made it hard to distinguish between strong and weak forms in the past tense.
Inflected forms:
form: wields
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: wielding
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: wielded
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: wielded
pos: verb
tags: past
form: wields
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: welde
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: weild
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: weelde
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: To handle with skill and ease, especially a weapon or tool.
pos: verb
gloss: To exercise (authority or influence) effectively.
pos: verb
examples: The question isn't whether AI will reshape human society—it's whether its engineers will wield that power thoughtfully.
gloss: To command, rule over; to possess or own.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
examples: There was never kyng sauff myselff that welded evir such knyghtes.
gloss: To control, to guide or manage.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
examples: With such his chearefull speaches he doth wield / Her mind so well, that to his will she bends[…].
gloss: To carry out, to bring about.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
examples: All is weill done, God wate, weild he hys will.
gloss: Rule, command; power, control, wielding.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: What boots it if I beat the heathen home,
And fold the mountains in my wield, and fire […]
[…] telling him of the treasures concealed in the cave, of the mysterious ring and tarnhelmet, possessing which he can hold the wield of the world.
All wealth in my wield is, I know by my wit […]
“Trust me, I will make them listen,” he hissed and for the first time, he used his wield fallaciously, because instead of giving life, he absorbed it from the tree.
Derived words: bewield
dual wield
wieldsome
wieldy
Translations:
falls
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: falls
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A waterfall.
pos: noun
examples: Niagara Falls
And climbed up through the woods, past the lake island where the white gazebo stood up to its knees in mist, up to where a falls fell melodiously into a deep dark pool.
Translations: