yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
truncheon
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English tronchoun, from Old French tronchon (“thick stick”), from Late Latin *troncionem, from Latin truncus.
Inflected forms:
form: truncheons
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: truncheons
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: truncheoning
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: truncheoned
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: truncheoned
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A short staff, a club; a cudgel.
pos: noun
examples: with his troncheon he so rudely stroke / Cymochles twise
One is a large ball of iron, fastened with three chains to a strong truncheon or staff of about two feet long; the other is of mixed metal, in the form of a channelled melon, fastened also to a staff by a triple chain; these balls weigh eight pounds.
gloss: A baton, or military staff of command, now especially the stick carried by a police officer.
pos: noun
examples: Not the king's crown, nor the deputed sword / The marshal's truncheon, nor the judge's robe / Become them with one half so good a grace / As mercy does.
The imputed virtue of folios full of knockdown arguments is supposed to reside in them, just as some of the majesty of the British Empire dwells in the constable’s truncheon.
gloss: A fragment or piece broken off from something, especially a broken-off piece of a spear or lance.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
examples: Therewith asunder in the midst it brast, / And in his hand nought but the troncheon left[…].
gloss: The shaft of a spear.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
gloss: A stout stem, as of a tree, with the branches lopped off, to produce rapid growth.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
examples: Truncheons of seven or eight feet long, thrust two feet into the earth […] when once rooted, may be cut at six inches above ground
gloss: A penis.
pos: noun
tags: euphemistic
examples: Then, being on his knees between my legs, he drew up his shirt and bared all his hairy thighs, and stiff staring truncheon, red-topt and rooted into a thicket of curls
gloss: To strike with a truncheon.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: If captains were of my wind they would truncheon you out
Related words: bludgeon
Derived words: love truncheon
luncheon truncheon
truncheoneer
truncheoner
Translations:
glaive
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English gleyve (“lance, glaive”), from Old French glaive (“lance; sword”), from Late Latin glavus. The further etymology is uncertain; one possibility is that glavus reflects Latin gladius (“sword”) crossed with clāva (“club”); another is that it derives from a re-crossing of gladius with Proto-Celtic *kladiwos (“sword”); yet another is that it is a borrowing into Late Latin from Old Irish claideb. All of the aforementioned words derive ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kelh₂- (“to beat; to break”). The Oxford English Dictionary notes that none of these words had the oldest meaning of Old French glaive (“lance”). The English word is cognate with Middle Dutch glavie, glaye (“lance”); Middle High German glavîe, glævîn (“lance”), Swedish glaven (“lance”).
Inflected forms:
form: glaives
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: glave
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: gleave
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A light lance with a long, sharp-pointed head.
pos: noun
tags: historical
obsolete
examples: The lance, or glaive as it is often called, of the eleventh and twelfth centuries was quite straight and smooth; a vamplate was added in the fourteenth, small at first but larger later, for the protection of the right arm.
gloss: A weapon consisting of a pole with a large blade fixed on the end, the edge of which is on the outside curve.
pos: noun
tags: historical
examples: The Welch Glaive is a kind of bill, ſometimes reckoned among the pole axes. They were formerly much in uſe. [...] In the Britiſh Muſeum there is an entry of a warrant, granted to Nicholas Spicer, authoriſing him to impreſs ſmiths for making two thouſand Welch bills or glaives.
With the spear comes the use of the shield; yet the San Cristoval spearmen use no such defence, but turn off spears thrown at them with long curved glaives, and the shields in use in Florida are not made in that island.
At that moment Ilane swung the bladed staff—glaive, Kel remembered as it swung, they called it a glaive—in a wide side cut, slicing one pirate across the chest.
gloss: A sword, particularly a broadsword.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
broadly
poetic
examples: [T]he glaiue which he did wield / He gan forthwith t'auale, and way vnto me yield.
Wherefore do you ſo ill tranſlate yourſelf, / Out of the ſpeech of peace, that bears ſuch grace, / Into the harſh and boiſt'rous tongue of war? / Turning your books to glaives, your ink to blood, / Your pens to lances, and your tongue divine / To a loud trumpet, and a point of war?
Juſtice were cruel weakly to relent; / From Mercy’s Self ſhe got her ſacred Glaive: / Grace be to thoſe who can, and will, repent; / But Penance long, and dreary, to the Slave, / Who muſt in Floods of Fire his groſs ſoul Spirit lave.
Thus furth he drew his truſty glaive, / While thouſands all arround, / Drawn frae their ſheaths glanſt in the ſun, / And loud the bougills ſound.
Yea, that same awful angel with the glaive / Which in disparadising orbit swept / Lintel and pilaster and architrave
Related words: gladius
Derived words: glaived
Welsh glaive
Translations:
organization
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French organisation, from Medieval Latin organizātiō; by surface analysis, organize + -ation.
Inflected forms:
form: organizations
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: organisation
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Australia
Commonwealth
New-Zealand
UK
Senses:
gloss: The quality of being organized.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: This painting shows little organization at first glance, but little by little the structure becomes clear.
The yawning gap in neuroscientists’ understanding of their topic is in the intermediate scale of the brain’s anatomy. Science has a passable knowledge of how individual nerve cells, known as neurons, work. It also knows which visible lobes and ganglia of the brain do what. But how the neurons are organised in these lobes and ganglia remains obscure. Yet this is the level of organisation that does the actual thinking—and is, presumably, the seat of consciousness.
gloss: The way in which something is organized, such as a book or an article.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: The organization of the book is as follows.
gloss: A group of people or other legal entities with an explicit purpose and written rules.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: In response to the crisis, the nations in the region formed an organization. If you want to be part of this organization, you have to follow its rules.
gloss: A group of people consciously cooperating.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: Over time, the spontaneous movement had become an organization.
gloss: A major league club and all its farm teams.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: He's been in the Dodgers' organization since 2003.
Synonyms: organization/organisation
Related words: organize
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Derived words: antiorganization
articles of organization
charitable organization
counterorganization
cyberorganization
disorganization
dispute resolution organization
employers' organization
front organization
health maintenance organization
inorganization
international organization
interorganization
intraorganization
malorganization
merorganization
misorganization
multiorganization
mutual organization
non-governmental organization
nonorganization
organigram
organizational
organization chart
organization man
paper organization
parent-teacher organization
preorganization
reorganization
rubber stamp organization
self-organization
standards organization
suborganization
supraorganization
umbrella organization
underorganization
virtual organization
youth organization
zombie organization
Translations:
prose
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: Catholicism
Christianity
Roman-Catholicism
Etymology: From Middle English prose, from Old French prose, from Latin prōsa (“straightforward”) from the term prōsa ōrātiō (“a straightforward speech – i.e. without the ornaments of verse”).
further etymology and related terms
The term prōsa (“straightforward”), a colloquial form of prorsa (“straight forwards”), the feminine form prorsus (“straight forwards”), from Old Latin prōvorsus (“moving straight ahead”), from pro- (“forward”) + vorsus (“turned”), form of vertō (“to turn”). Compare verse.
Inflected forms:
form: proses
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: proses
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: prosing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: prosed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: prosed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Language, particularly written language, not intended as poetry.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: Though known mostly for her prose, she also produced a small body of excellent poems.
...Or if Sion Hill
Delight thee more, and Siloa's Brook that flow’d
Faft by the Oracle of God; I thence
Invoke thy aid to my adventrous Song,
That with no middle flight intends to soar
Above th’ Ionian Mounts while it pursues
Things unattempted yet in Prose or Rhime...
gloss: Language which evinces little imagination or animation; dull and commonplace discourse.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: ...the vehicle is plodding prose, but the effect is none the less poignant. And in regard to this I may say that in a hundred places in Trollope the extremity of pathos is reached by the homeliest means.
gloss: A hymn with no regular meter, sometimes introduced into the Mass.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: Proses are parts of the Office of the Mass which are sung just before the Gospel, upon great Festivals. The French also call those Rhythmical Hymns Proses, which are sung in their Offices in the Church of Rome, in which Rhime only, and not Quantity of Syllables, is observed.
gloss: To write or repeat in a dull, tedious, or prosy way.
pos: verb
examples: Pray, do not prose, good Ethelbert, but speak;
What is your purpose?
Already he felt himself near to being a celebrity. He had astonished Eton. That was a good beginning. Papa might prose, knowing, of course, nothing of the poetry of caricature, of the wild joys and the laurels that crown the whimsical. So while Mr. Lane hunted adjectives, and ran sad-sounding and damnatory substantives to earth, Eustace hugged himself, and secretly chuckled over his pilgrim's progress towards the pages of Vanity Fair.
Antonyms: poetry
verse
Related words: prosaic
prosody
Derived words: beige prose
beprose
prosal
Prose Edda
proselike
proseman
prose poem
prosewise
prosification
prosify
prosimetrical
prosist
purple prose
rhymeprose
technoprose
transprose
Translations:
sudden
Part of speech: adj
adv
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English sodeyn, sodain, from Anglo-Norman sodein, from Old French sodain, subdain (“immediate, sudden”), from Vulgar Latin *subitānus (“sudden”), from Latin subitāneus (“sudden”), from subitus (“sudden", literally, "that which has come stealthily”), originally the past participle of subīre (“to come or go stealthily”), from sub (“under”) + īre (“go”). Doublet of subitaneous. Displaced native Old English fǣrlīċ.
Inflected forms:
form: suddener
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: suddenest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: more sudden
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most sudden
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Occurring quickly with little or no warning or expectation; instantly.
pos: adj
examples: The sudden drop in temperature left everyone cold and confused.
From lightninges and tempeſtes, from plage, peſtilence, and famine, from battayle and murther, and from ſodayn death. / Good lord deliver us.
I stumbled along through the young pines and huckleberry bushes. Pretty soon I struck into a sort of path that, I cal'lated, might lead to the road I was hunting for. It twisted and turned, and, the first thing I knew, made a sudden bend around a bunch of bayberry scrub and opened out into a big clear space like a lawn.
gloss: Hastily prepared or employed; quick; rapid.
pos: adj
tags: obsolete
examples: Never was such a sudden scholar made.
Thus these pious flourishes and colours, examined thoroughly, are like the apples of Asphaltis, appearing goodly to the sudden eye; but look well upon them, or at least but touch them, and they turn into cinders.
And if along with these should come
⁠The man I held as half-divine;
⁠Should strike a sudden hand in mine,
And ask a thousand things of home; […]
I should not feel it to be strange.
gloss: Hasty; violent; rash; precipitate.
pos: adj
tags: obsolete
examples: I have no joy of this contract to-night: / It is too rash, too unadvised, too sudden;
gloss: Suddenly.
pos: adv
tags: poetic
examples: Herbs of every leaf that sudden flowered.
Synonyms: precipitous
subitaneous
impetuous
impulsive
precipitant
precipitate
spontaneous
sudden
suddent
Antonyms: gradual
unsudden
eventual
Related words: summary
unceremonious
immediately
speedy
Derived words: all of a sudden
all on a sudden
all the sudden
a quick drop and a sudden stop
a short drop and a sudden stop
sudden arrhythmic death syndrome
sudden death
sudden death syndrome
sudden fiction
sudden infant death syndrome
suddenism
suddenly
suddenness
sudden oak death
sudden sniffing death syndrome
sudden stratospheric warming
suddenty
sudden unexpected death syndrome
sudden unexplained death syndrome
sudden unexplained nocturnal death syndrome
sudden victory
suddenwoven
supersudden
Yunnan sudden death syndrome
Translations:
tray
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: business
computing
engineering
graphical-user-interface
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: From Middle English trey, from Old English trēġ, trīġ (“wooden board, tray”), from Proto-West Germanic *trauwi, from Proto-Germanic *trawją (“wooden vessel”), from Proto-Indo-European *drewo-, *dóru (“tree; wood”). Cognate with Old Norse treyja (“carrier”), Old Swedish trø (“wooden grain measure”), Low German Treechel (“dough trough”), Ancient Greek δροίτη (droítē, “tub, vat”), Sanskrit द्रोण (droṇa, “trough”). Related to trough and tree.
Inflected forms:
form: trays
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: trays
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: traying
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: trayed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: trayed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A small, typically rectangular or round, flat, and rigid object upon which things are carried.
pos: noun
examples: I carefully arranged the dishes on the tray and brought it upstairs.
Make sure that tray of eggs is properly loaded.
Now that she had rested and had fed from the luncheon tray Mrs. Broome had just removed, she had reverted to her normal gaiety. She looked cool in a grey tailored cotton dress with a terracotta scarf and shoes and her hair a black silk helmet.
gloss: The items on a full tray.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
examples: Before long they had consumed a whole tray of shrimp cocktails and sent for another.
gloss: A component of a device into which an item is placed for use in the device's operations.
pos: noun
examples: The CD tray will not open.
The loader is responsible for placing the work on the trays for the plating machines.
baking tray
gloss: A notification area used for icons and alerts.
pos: noun
tags: informal
examples: […]some developers try to use it that way for some reason (some applications inexplicably minimize to the tray rather than to the taskbar as they should).
gloss: A type of retail or wholesale packaging for CPUs where the processors are sold in bulk and/or with minimal packaging.
pos: noun
gloss: The platform of a truck that supports the load to be hauled.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
gloss: to place (items) on a tray
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Be sure to tray eggs with the large end up.
gloss: to slide down a snow-covered hill on a tray from a cafeteria.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Traying has provided collegiate fun and the occasional fatality for decades.
Derived words: ashtray
birth tray
book-tray
breakfast tray
cable tray
dishtray
eggtray
e-tray
filing tray
ice cube tray
ice tray
in-tray
litter tray
meat tray
out-tray
party tray
penny tray
shower tray
spoontray
tasktray
tea tray
traybake
traybaked
traybody
traycase
tray ceiling
traycloth
trayful
trayless
traylike
trayline
traymobile
traysful
tray-table
TV tray
undertray
washtray
waste tray
Translations:
maritime
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French maritime, from Latin maritimus.
Inflected forms:
form: more maritime
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most maritime
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Relating to or connected with the sea or its uses (as navigation, commerce, etc.).
pos: adj
examples: maritime law
maritime insurance
maritime risks
maritime museum
I enjoy maritime activities such as yachting and deep sea diving.
“I have visited my quarters, and find them very comfortable.[…]Steerage is like everything else maritime[…]vastly improved since Robert Louis Stevenson took his trip third class to New York.”
Mystic’s maritime history dates to its days as a shipbuilding center, a time well preserved at the Mystic Seaport Museum, the world’s leading and largest of its kind, home to the famed 1800s whaleship, Charles W. Morgan.
gloss: Bordering on the sea; living near the seacoast; coastal.
pos: adj
examples: the maritime states; a maritime people
gloss: Inhabiting the seashore; living coastwise; littoral. (distinguished from marine)
pos: adj
examples: a maritime bird or animal
On the coasts of South Carolina, Georgia, and northernmost Florida, maritime forests are dominated by live oaks (Quercus virginiana), and occur as large contiguous patches of forest on barrier islands, the immediate mainland, and as small patches (oak hammocks) scattered among coastal marshes.
gloss: Of or relating to a sailor or seaman; nautical.
pos: adj
Related words: marina
marinara
marinate
marine
mariner
fluvial
Derived words: maritimal
Maritime Alps
maritime archaeology
maritime archeology
maritime earwig
maritime empire
maritime hypothec
maritime law
maritime loan
maritimely
maritime pine
Maritime Province
Maritime provinces
maritime republic
Maritimes
maritimization
nonmaritime
submaritime
Translations:
concise
Part of speech: adj
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Latin concīsus (“cut short”), from concīdere (“cut to pieces”), from caedēre (“to cut, to strike down”).
Inflected forms:
form: more concise
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most concise
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: concises
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: concising
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: concised
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: concised
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Brief, yet including all important information.
pos: adj
gloss: Physically short or truncated.
pos: adj
tags: obsolete
examples: This, however, must refer solely to the length; unfortunately they were far too broad in proportion (the fault I have always observed in them). This directly gives a slightly hoofish look, as in the concise Chinese feet.
gloss: To make concise; to abridge or summarize.
pos: verb
tags: India
transitive
Synonyms: brief
concise
crisp
laconic
lapidary
short-winded
succinct
tight
to the point
taut
terse
Antonyms: verbose
Related words: taciturn
succinctness
Derived words: concisely
conciseness
concision
unconcise
Translations:
carder
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English card
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 carder
From card + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: carders
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person employed to card wool.
pos: noun
gloss: A carding machine.
pos: noun
gloss: A criminal who steals information from credit cards.
pos: noun
gloss: A person who distributes tart cards.
pos: noun
tags: slang
Derived words: carder bee
common carder bee
Translations:
yarder
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: business
forestry
Etymology: From yard (verb) + -er.
Base: yard
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: yarders
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A motor-driven logging machine which transports logs by means of a system of cables and winches.
pos: noun
Translations:
suddenly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English sodenly, sodeynly, sodeinliche, sodaynlyche; equivalent to sudden + -ly.
Base: sudden
Affixes: -ly
Inflected forms:
form: more suddenly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most suddenly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
form: sodeinly
pos: adv
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: Happening quickly and with little or no warning; in a sudden manner.
pos: adv
examples: Suddenly, the heavens opened and we all got drenched.
They've suddenly decided to sell the house.
The king before he would take his voyage, sent the Erle of Huntyngdon to ſerche and ſcowre the Seas, leaſt any Frenchmen lyeng in wayte for him might attrap him sodeinly, or he had any knowledge of their ſetting forward.
Shannon Spann had an infant, Jake, to care for and two stepdaughters to suddenly raise by herself.
But ever since the concept of "hamartia" recurred through Aristotle's Poetics, in an attempt to describe man's ingrained iniquity, our impulse has been to identify a telling defect in those brought suddenly and dramatically low.
Translations:
regarder
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English regard
English -er
English regarder
From regard + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: regarders
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An official responsible for monitoring woodlands and forest areas and reporting to the court of regard.
pos: noun
tags: UK
archaic
gloss: A person who regards something or someone.
pos: noun
Derived words: sneaking regarder
Translations:
carper
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English carp
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 carper
From carp + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: carpers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person who habitually carps, who talks too much and regularly finds fault.
pos: noun
examples: Shame not these woods, / By putting on the cunning of a carper.
Come, let my carper to his life now look,
And find there darker lines than in my book
He findeth any […]
He censures everything, this zealous carper.
What is this sort of piece going to do when confronted with row upon row of coldly sober carpers?
[…] Lady Tipper […] shook her head in wounded defiance of all the carpers and whiners.
Translations:
calver
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English calve
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 calver
From calve + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: calvers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A cow that produces young.
pos: noun
gloss: Of salmon: freshly caught.
pos: adj
examples: calver salmon
Translations:
hinged
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: The "not unhinged" sense was created as a back-formation from unhinged.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Affixed by a hinge, as a door.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: There are hinged side buffers, and the centre coupler also is hinged to enable the vehicles to work with ordinary stock.
gloss: Extremely high on drugs.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
slang
gloss: Of a stamp, affixed with a stamp hinge.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Sane; not unhinged.
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
not-comparable
slang
examples: […] we were able to used the creamer again in a slightly more hinged scenario, in our drip coffee from the coffee station.
Derived words: hinged-back tortoise
hingedly
hinged tortoise
nonhinged
unhinged
Translations:
hajji
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: Islam
lifestyle
religion
Etymology: From Ottoman Turkish حاجی (hacı), from Classical Persian حَاجِی (hājī), from Arabic حَاجّ (ḥājj, “person who has performed the pilgrimage to Mecca”).
Inflected forms:
form: hajjis
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: hadji
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: haji
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Hajji
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Hadji
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Haji
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: An honorific given to a Muslim who has participated in a hajj.
pos: noun
gloss: A person from the Middle East and North Africa.
pos: noun
tags: US
derogatory
ethnic
slang
slur
gloss: A Muslim.
pos: noun
tags: US
derogatory
slang
slur
Translations:
invention
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
Etymology: From Middle English invencion, invencioun, from Latin inventiō either directly or via Middle French invencion, from Latin invenīre (“to discover, find, invent”), from in- (“in-: in, into”) + venīre (“to come”). Doublet of inventio. By surface analysis, invent + -ion.
Displaced native Old English orþanc.
Inflected forms:
form: inventions
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Something invented.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: My new invention will let you alphabetize your matchbook collection in half the usual time.
I’m afraid there was no burglar. It was all the housekeeper’s invention.
Warren Sheffield is telephoning Rose long distance at half past six. […] Personally, I wouldn't marry a man who proposed to me over an invention.
British inventions have done more to influence the shape of the modern world than those of any other country. Many—football, the steam engine and Worcestershire sauce, to take a random selection—have spread pleasure, goodwill and prosperity. Others—the Maxim gun, the Shrapnel shell and jellied eels—have not.
gloss: The act of inventing.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The invention of the printing press was probably the most significant innovation of the medieval ages.
Invention, or the Genius of Hiſtoricizing and framing a Noble Idea upon the Subject one vvould Paint, is a particular Talent, not to be acquir'd by Study or Labour; but is properly a certain ardor exciting the Imagination, prompting and enabling it to Act.
Digging deeper, the invention of eyeglasses is an elaboration of the more fundamental development of optics technology. The ability of a segment of a glass sphere to magnify whatever is placed before it was known around the year 1000, when the spherical segment was called a reading stone,[…].
gloss: The capacity to invent.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: It took quite a bit of invention to come up with a plan, but we did it.
gloss: A small, self-contained composition, particularly those in J.S. Bach’s Two- and Three-part Inventions.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: I particularly like the inventions in C-minor.
INVENTION. A term used by J. S. Bach, and probably by him only, for small pianoforte pieces — 15 in 2 parts and 15 in 3 parts — each developing a single idea, and in some measure answering to the Impromptu of a later day.
gloss: The act of discovering or finding; the act of finding out; discovery.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
countable
uncountable
examples: That judicial method which serveth best for the invention of truth.
Synonyms: discovery
Related words: invent
invented
inventional
inventive
inventor
reinvent
Derived words: coinvention
innovention
inventioneer
inventionism
inventionist
Invention of the Cross
necessity is the mother of invention
preinvention
reinvention
uninvention
Translations:
flavour
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: flavours
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: flavor
pos: noun
tags: alternative
US
form: flavours
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: flavouring
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: flavoured
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: flavoured
pos: verb
tags: past
form: flavor
pos: verb
tags: alternative
US
Senses:
gloss: British standard spelling of flavor.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The flavour of this apple pie is delicious.
Flavour was added to the pudding.
What flavour of bubble gum do you enjoy?
The flavour of an experience.
Debian is one flavour of the Linux operating system.
Although surprisingly moist, thanks to the stock (indeed, the contrast between the crisp exterior and the squidgy middle is horribly moreish), the combination of parsley, garlic and breadcrumbs reminds me of a very fancy loaf of garlic bread – and all but overpowers the sweet flavour of the cashews. […] The nuts are reduced to a mere scattering of toasted cashews and flaked almonds and, although the combination of flavours is a good one, it's more of a warm salad than a nut roast – and not one that would be happy on the same plate as many of the usual Christmas accompaniments.
Ciaotou Sugar Factory
(橋頭糖廠, Qiáotóu Tángchǎng) Ciaotou consists of a defunct factory (which you can walk into, and explore the old mechanisms and vats) and an old village that retains most of its early-20th-century flavour.
The journey is worth an article in itself, but all I can give is a flavour of a railway which traverses a bleak but dramatic coastline that's regularly battered by the elements - especially around Parton, where the line is constantly threatened by the sea.
gloss: British standard spelling of flavor.
pos: verb
examples: Food writer Annie Bell goes in the opposite direction in her gorgeous Christmas book, presenting "an homage to nut roast" in the form of a large, flat cake of blanched spinach, flavoured with thyme and lemon juice, filled with goat's cheese, and topped with toasted breadcrumbs.
Translations:
kettle
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English ketel, also chetel, from Old English ċietel (“kettle, cauldron”) and in Middle English possibly influenced by Old Norse ketill and both from Proto-Germanic *katilaz (“kettle, bucket, vessel”), of uncertain origin and formation. Usually regarded as a borrowing of Late Latin catīllus (“small bowl”), diminutive of Latin catinus (“deep bowl, vessel for cooking up or serving food”), however, the word may be Germanic confused with the Latin: compare Old English cete (“cooking pot”), Old High German chezzi (“a kettle, dish, bowl”), Icelandic kati, ketla (“a small boat”). Cognate with West Frisian tsjettel (“kettle”), Dutch ketel (“kettle”), German Kessel (“kettle”), Swedish kittel (“cauldron, kettle”), Gothic 𐌺𐌰𐍄𐌹𐌻𐍃 (katils, “kettle”), Finnish kattila, Polish kocioł (“cauldron”), Czech kotel (“boiler”), Russian котёл (kotjól, “boiler, cauldron”).
(watch): Cockney rhyming slang from 'kettle and hob' to 'fob' (fob watch).
Inflected forms:
form: kettles
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: kettling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: kettled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: kettled
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To contain demonstrators in a confined area.
pos: verb
examples: Life for senior officers has been made much easier by the use of counter-terrorism powers, which enable them to contain demonstrators for hours in a confined spot. This tactic, known as kettling, is seen by some as an attempt to prevent people lawfully demonstrating.
A couple of the initial pepper spray incidents went viral on YouTube, one showing very young women screaming hysterically while penned—or is the term for this ‘kettled’?—by bright orange police mesh.
gloss: Of a boiler: to make a whistling sound like the boiling of a kettle, indicative of various types of fault.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
Translations:
teakettle
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From tea + kettle.
Compound parts: tea
kettle
Inflected forms:
form: teakettles
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: tea kettle
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: tea-kettle
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A vessel used to boil water for tea or other hot beverages.
pos: noun
examples: Phœbe and the fire that boiled the teakettle were equally bright, cheerful, and efficient, in their respective offices.
“Such a cunning teakettle and saucepan, and a tete-a-tete set, and lots of good things to eat. Do have toast for tea, Polly, and let me make it with the new toasting fork; it's such fun to play cook.”
Or when you leave the house and remember half an hour later that you left a teakettle going on the stove.
Translations:
limit
Part of speech: adj
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: card-games
mathematics
poker
sciences
Etymology: From Middle English limit, from Old French limit, from oblique stem of Latin līmes, līmit- (“a cross-path or balk between fields, hence a boundary, boundary line or wall, any path or road, border, limit”). Displaced native Old English ġemǣre. Doublet of limes.
Inflected forms:
form: limits
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: limiting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: limited
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: limited
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Being a fixed limit game.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: To restrict; to circumscribe; not to allow to go beyond a certain bound, to set boundaries.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: We need to limit the power of the executive.
I'm limiting myself to two drinks tonight.
[The Chinese government] has jailed environmental activists and is planning to limit the power of judicial oversight by handing a state-approved body a monopoly over bringing environmental lawsuits.
Beeching is more disparaging about suburban services beyond the capital, and I think here lies one of the most critical shortcomings in his analysis. By not considering the potential for these cities to grow, both on their own merits and in response to London's limitations, he failed to future-proof these types of service, limiting them in favour of long-distance services.
gloss: To have a limit in a particular set.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: The sequence limits on the point a.
gloss: To beg, or to exercise functions, within a certain limited region.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
examples: a limiting friar
Derived words: limitable
limit out
prelimit
self-limiting
Translations:
mixed
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From mix, equivalent to mix + -ed. Compare Middle English mixid (“mixed”, past participle), Old English miscode (“mixed”, preterite). More at mix.
In adjectival use, reinforced by French mixte and/or Latin mixtus, past participle of misceō (“mix”), from the same Indo-European root as mix.
Base: mix
Affixes: -ed
Inflected forms:
form: more mixed
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most mixed
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: mixt
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Having two or more separate aspects.
pos: adj
examples: I get a very mixed feeling from this puzzling painting.
The various studies produced mixed results.
gloss: Not completely pure, tainted or adulterated.
pos: adj
examples: My joy was somewhat mixed when my partner said she was pregnant: it's a lot of responsibility.
gloss: Including both male(s) and female(s).
pos: adj
examples: The tennis match was mixed, with a boy and a girl on each side.
My son attends a mixed school, my daughter an all-girl grammar school.
We were the first paper to involve large numbers of gay men and lesbians: today, we remain the only truly mixed periodical in our community.
gloss: Stemming from two or more races or breeds.
pos: adj
examples: The benefit dog show has both mixed and single-breed competitions.
Mixed blood can surprisingly produce inherited properties which neither parent showed
gloss: Polarizing; including both positive and negative feedback.
pos: adj
examples: The movie has received mixed reviews from movie critics.
Related words: mixer
mixture
Derived words: immixed
Jerusalem mixed grill
mixed alphabet
mixed astigmatism
mixed bag
mixed blessing
mixed-blood
mixed-breed
mixed bud
mixed case
mixed chalice
mixed climbing
mixed company
mixed conditional
mixed connective tissue disease
mixed declension
mixed doubles
mixed drink
mixed economic
mixed economy
mixed farming
mixed feelings
mixed foursome
mixed fraction
mixed gauge
mixed grill
mixed grip
mixed herbs
mixed heritage
mixed inhibition
mixed initiative
mixed-interval chord
mixed language
mixed larceny
mixedly
mixed manning
mixed marriage
mixed martial artist
mixed martial arts
mixed media
mixed-member proportional
mixed message
mixed metaphor
mixed methods
mixed monarchy
mixed mutation
mixedness
mixed number
mixed nuts
mixed origins
mixed oxide
mixed parentage
mixed perspective
mixed picture
mixed plate
mixed-race
mixed race
mixed raster content
mixed reaction
mixed reality
mixed salt
mixed-sex
mixed signal
mixed spice
mixed swap
mixed tape
mixed-traffic
mixed train
mixed-up
mixed-use
mixedwood
mixel
mixmer
ready-mixed
Translations:
owner
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: nautical
transport
Etymology: Etymology tree
English own
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 owner
From own + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: owners
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who owns something.
pos: noun
examples: The police recovered the stolen car and returned it to its owner.
The marina was filled with yachts and powerboats, sleek multihulls fitted with the latest satellite-navigation gear that would steer the owners painlessly towards similar luxury berths at Portofino and Bandol.
Sometimes the sound was close, as the owner of the voice was wandering just on the outside walls of his living quarters.
gloss: The captain of a ship.
pos: noun
tags: slang
Related words: own
Derived words: beneficial owner
boatowner
business owner
by owner
cabowner
coalowner
co-owner
dishowner
dogs have owners, cats have staff
farm owner
flockowner
gunowner
herdowner
homeowner
houseowner
landowner
laundryowner
millowner
mineowner
multi-owner
nonowner
owner-driver
owneress
ownerless
owner-occupier
owner-operator
ownership
owner-type jeepney
part-owner
product owner
rightsowner
shareowner
shipowner
shopowner
shop owner
slave owner
slaveowner
storeowner
straw owner
traditional owner
Translations:
studio
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Italian studio (“room for study”), from Latin studium.
Doublet of study and etude.
Inflected forms:
form: studios
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An artist’s or photographer’s workshop or the room in which an artist works.
pos: noun
examples: His studio was cramped when he began as an artist.
For artist Diana Al-Hadid, her studio is nothing less than "an extension of my mind." "I cannot really function unless I have a place to work," she says.
gloss: An establishment where an art is taught.
pos: noun
examples: As he gained a reputation, he took larger space and took students into his studio,
gloss: A place where radio or television programs, records or films are made.
pos: noun
examples: The recording studio had some slight echo, but was good enough to make a demo.
The studio was dark and cool, with thick cords running from one end to the other and huge cameras on either side, each primed to swivel and record what the lights from above illuminated.
gloss: A company or organization that makes films, records or other artistic works.
pos: noun
examples: The studios still make films, but they rely on the strength of their distribution.
gloss: A studio apartment.
pos: noun
examples: It’s a lovely little studio with almost a river view.
Derived words: album studio
animation studio
dance studio
megastudio
ministudio
nonstudio
poststudio
prestudio
recording studio
stindie
studio album
studio apartment
Studio City
studio flat
studioful
studioless
studiolike
studiomate
studio monitor
studio music
studio system
studio theatre
telestudio
Translations:
suggestion
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: human-sciences
law
psychology
sciences
Etymology: From Middle English suggestion, from Anglo-Norman suggestioun, sugestiun, from Latin suggestiō, from suggerō (“suggest”, verb), from Latin sub- (“from below, up”) + gerō (“to bring”). Equivalent to suggest + -ion. Related to English up-, cast.
Base: suggest
Affixes: -ion
Inflected forms:
form: suggestions
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Something suggested (with subsequent adposition being for)
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: make a suggestion
I have a small suggestion for fixing this: try lifting the left side up a bit.
Traffic signs seem to be more of a suggestion than an order.
gloss: The act of suggesting.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Suggestion often works better than explicit demand.
gloss: Something implied, which the mind is liable to take as fact.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: He’s somehow picked up the suggestion that I like peanuts.
gloss: The act of exercising control over a hypnotised subject by communicating some belief or impulse by means of words or gestures; the idea so suggested.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Information, insinuation, speculation, as opposed to a sworn testimony and evidence.
pos: noun
tags: countable
Related words: suggest
suggestive
Derived words: autosuggestion
auto-suggestion
countersuggestion
desuggestion
heterosuggestion
hypnotic suggestion
missuggestion
narcosuggestion
nonsuggestion
posthypnotic suggestion
power of suggestion
self-suggestion
serving suggestion
suggestional
suggestion box
suggestionism
suggestionist
Translations:
dogsbody
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From dog + -s- + body. 1818, British navy slang (dog's body), originally derogatory reference to unappetizing pease pudding (compare dog's breakfast), as if it were made of mashed dog meat. In 20th century applied to low-ranked sailors, thence menial servants in wider usage.
Base: dog
Affixes: -s-
Inflected forms:
form: dogsbodies
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: dogsbodying
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: dogsbodied
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: dogsbodied
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To act as a dogsbody, to do menial work
pos: verb
examples: Perhaps because, having been brought up in all those different countries and languages, and then studying economics of all things for just a year, followed by four years dogsbodying for a haulage company, he had never got any serious reading done.
Translations:
serendipity
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Serendip (“variant of Serendib: Ceylon, Sri Lanka”) + -ity. Coined by English writer and politician Horace Walpole in 1754 based on the Persian story of the Three Princes of Serendip, who (Walpole wrote to a friend) were “always making discoveries, by accidents and sagacity, of things which they were not in quest of”.
Base: Serendip
Affixes: -ity
Inflected forms:
form: serendipities
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The phenomenon of making an unplanned, fortunate discovery through a combination of unexpected circumstances and insightful recognition.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The most random serendipity brought the two of us together, and now, we are happily married! If I was just 15 seconds slower, I'd have never met her!
This discovery, indeed, is almost of that kind which I call Serendipity, a very expressive word, which, as I have nothing better to tell you, I shall endeavour to explain to you: you will understand it better by the derivation than by the definition. I once read a silly fairy tale, called "The Three Princes of Serendip;" as their Highnesses travelled, they were always making discoveries, by accidents and sagacity, of things which they were not in quest of: for instance, one of them discovered that a mule blind of the right eye had travelled the same road lately, because the grass was eaten only on the left side, where it was worse than on the right – now do you understand Serendipity? One of the most remarkable instances of this accidental Sagacity, (for you must observe that no discovery of a thing you are looking for comes under this description,) was of my Lord Shaftsbury, who, happening to dine at Lord Chancellor Clarendon's, found out the marriage of the Duke of York and Mrs. Hyde, by the respect with which her mother treated her at table.
After I got here, in the first lockdown, my mum suddenly passed. It was the week of my final interview with the Mayor. It is serendipity that I am here when my dad really needs me.
gloss: An unsought, unintended or unexpected, but fortunate, discovery or learning experience that occurs by accident.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: 2007, Erin McKean, speech at TED
Serendipity is when you find things you weren't looking for because finding what you are looking for is so damn difficult.
gloss: The occurrence and development of events by chance in a happy or beneficial way.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Derived words: serendipitist
serendipitous
serendipitously
serendipity berry
Translations:
luminance
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: engineering
natural-sciences
optics
physical-sciences
physics
Inflected forms:
form: luminances
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The quality of being luminous.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The amount of light that passes through, is emitted, or is reflected from a particular area, and falls within a given solid angle.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The luminous flux emitted in a given direction divided by the product of the projected area of the source element perpendicular to the direction and the solid angle containing that direction (i.e. luminous intensity divided by unit area), measured in stilbs or apostilbs.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Synonyms: photometric brightness
Related words: brightness
Derived words: bioluminance
chrominance
equiluminance
Translations:
brightness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English bryghtnes, brightnesse, from Old English beorhtnes (“brightness, splendor”), from Proto-West Germanic *berhtnassī, equivalent to bright + -ness. Cognate with Old High German berahtnessī, berahtnessi (“brightness”).
Base: bright
Affixes: -ness
Inflected forms:
form: brightnesses
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: brightnesse
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The quality of being bright.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: Here, in the transept and choir, where the service was being held, one was conscious every moment of an increasing brightness; colours glowing vividly beneath the circular chandeliers, and the rows of small lights on the choristers' desks flashed and sparkled in front of the boys' faces, deep linen collars, and red neckbands.
gloss: The perceived luminance of an object.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: Intelligence, cleverness.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
idiomatic
uncountable
usually
Derived words: apparent brightness
intrinsic brightness
Translations: