yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
dumpling
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
Etymology: A folk word, first attested in c. 1600s, apparently from a Norfolk (East Anglian) dialect, of uncertain origin:
* perhaps from some Low German word (compare dümpeln (“bobbing up and down”)),
* or from the rare dialectal adjective dump (“lump, of the consistency of dough”) (first attested in the late 1800s), + -ling (diminutive suffix), although dumpling is recorded much earlier. However, compare dumpy (“short and stout”).
Affixes: -ling
Inflected forms:
form: dumplings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A ball of dough that is cooked and may have a filling and/or additional ingredients in the dough.
pos: noun
tags: UK
gloss: A ball of dough that is cooked and may have a filling and/or additional ingredients in the dough.
pos: noun
tags: US
gloss: A term of endearment.
pos: noun
tags: endearing
examples: My little dumpling.
gloss: A piece of excrement.
pos: noun
tags: mildly
vulgar
examples: 2018 Brent Butt as Brent Herbert Leroy, "Sasquatch Your Language", Corner Gas Animated
Wherever legitimate tracks are found there's always some fresh scat, y'know, poo, flop, dumplings.
Synonyms: dumpling
Related words: canederlo
gnocchi
dim sim
dim sum
empanada
har gow
pierogi
varenyky
pelmeni
quenelle
ravioli
shaomai
shumai
wonton
Derived words: apple dumpling
apple-dumpling shop
Chinese dumpling
clootie dumpling
crotch dumpling
dumpling-depot
dumpling squid
dumplingy
hump dumpling
Norfolk dumpling
North Dumpling Island
potato dumpling
raspberry dumpling
rice dumpling
soup dumpling
yeast dumpling
Translations:
alumnus
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin alumnus (“foster child, nourished one”).
Inflected forms:
form: alumni
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: alumnuses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A male pupil or student.
pos: noun
gloss: A male graduate.
pos: noun
gloss: A student of any gender.
pos: noun
gloss: A graduate of any gender.
pos: noun
Synonyms: alum
alumn
alumni
alumnx
Related words: alumnae
alumnæ
alum
alma mater
alimony
alimentary
Derived words: alumni association
Translations:
lang: Arabic
word: طَالِب
roman: ṭālib
lang: Arabic
word: طَالِبَة
roman: ṭāliba
lang: Arabic
word: طَلَبَة
roman: ṭalaba
lang: Arabic
word: طَالِبَات
roman: ṭālibāt
lang: Czech
word: student
lang: Czech
word: studentka
lang: Finnish
word: opiskelija
lang: French
word: étudiant
lang: French
word: étudiante
lang: Georgian
word: სტუდენტი
roman: sṭudenṭi
lang: German
word: Student
lang: Hindi
word: पूर्वछात्र
roman: pūrvachātra
lang: Portuguese
word: aluno
lang: Swedish
word: student
lang: Swedish
word: studenter
antenna
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
nautical
physical-sciences
transport
Etymology: From Latin antenna, antemna (“yard, sailyard; pole”). First used in this sense as a Latin word in the 15th century and as an English word by the end of the 17th century.
Inflected forms:
form: antennae
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: antennas
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: antennæ
pos: noun
tags: archaic
plural
Senses:
gloss: An appendage used for sensing on the head of an insect, crab, or other animal.
pos: noun
examples: The overall shape of most insect antennae is elongate and cylindrical, although elaborations into plumose, lamellate, or pectinate forms have arisen many times in different insect lineages.
He put his fingers over his head like two antennas, crossed his eyes, and waggled his tongue like some kind of insect.
In the same work, Brown uses antennae to refer to both aerials and feelers during more technical descriptions.
The basis of these relationships lies in the olfactory chemoreceptors of insect antennas...
gloss: An apparatus to receive or transmit electromagnetic waves and convert respectively to or from an electrical signal.
pos: noun
gloss: The faculty of intuitive astuteness.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
examples: Most nurses believe they are born with an antenna of sorts, which is able to guide them through clinical practice and help them determine what is right and what is not...
Obama is astute. He approaches things with the help of a sensitive antenna.
gloss: A fragment of an oligosaccharide
pos: noun
gloss: The spar to which a lateen sail is attached, which is then hoisted up the mast.
pos: noun
Derived words: antenna codlet
antenna complex
antennaed
Antennagate
antennal
antennaless
antennalike
antenna pigment
antenna protein
antenna switch
antennate
antennectomy
antenniferous
antennocular
antennogram
antennule
billboard antenna
cantenna
cheese antenna
dipole antenna
dish antenna
evolved antenna
fractal antenna
horn antenna
J antenna
J-pole antenna
loop antenna
multiantenna
nanoantenna
photoantenna
pillbox antenna
rectenna
superantenna
Yagi antenna
Yagi-Uda antenna
Zepp antenna
Translations:
appendix
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Latin appendixbor.
English appendix
Borrowed from Latin appendix.
Inflected forms:
form: appendices
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: appendixes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Something attached to something else; an attachment or accompaniment.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
obsolete
examples: Near-synonyms: ancillary, auxiliary
idleness is an appendix to nobility; they count it a disgrace to work, and spend all their days in sports, recreations, and pastimes […]
gloss: A text added to the end of a book or an article, containing additional information.
pos: noun
examples: Holonym: back matter
Near-synonyms: supplement (sometimes synonymous), addendum, codicil
gloss: The vermiform appendix.
pos: noun
gloss: Any process, prolongation, or projection.
pos: noun
Derived words: app.
appendectomy
appendical
appendicitis
appendicize
appendix auriculae
appendixless
epiploic appendix
hilar appendix
mesoappendix
subappendix
vermix
Translations:
trunk
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: business
communications
electrical-engineering
engineering
mining
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
telecommunications
Etymology: From Middle English tronke, trunke, from Old French tronc (“alms box, tree trunk, headless body”), from Latin truncus (“a stock, lopped tree trunk”), from truncus (“cut off, maimed, mutilated”). For the verb, compare French tronquer, and see truncate. Doublet of truncus and tronk.
Inflected forms:
form: trunks
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: trunking
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: trunked
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: trunked
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To lop off; to curtail; to truncate.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
transitive
examples: Large streames of bloud out of the truncked stocke / Forth gushed, like fresh water streame from riuen rocke.
gloss: To extract (ores) from the slimes in which they are contained, by means of a trunk.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To provide simultaneous network access to multiple clients by sharing a set of circuits, carriers, channels, or frequencies.
pos: verb
Translations:
bacterium
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
microbiology
natural-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Ancient Greek βακτηρία (baktēría)
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Ancient Greek -ῐος (-ĭos)?
Ancient Greek -ιον (-ion)
Ancient Greek βακτήριον (baktḗrion)bor.
New Latin bactēriumbor.
English bacterium
From New Latin bactērium, from Ancient Greek βακτήριον (baktḗrion, “small staff”), from βακτηρία (baktēría).
Inflected forms:
form: bacteria
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: bacteriums
pos: noun
tags: nonstandard
plural
possibly
uncommon
Senses:
gloss: A single-celled organism with cell walls but no nucleus or organelles.
pos: noun
examples: Plastics are energy-rich substances, which is why many of them burn so readily. Any organism that could unlock and use that energy would do well in the Anthropocene. Terrestrial bacteria and fungi which can manage this trick are already familiar to experts in the field.
Translations:
bureau
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *péh₂wr̥
Proto-Hellenic *pāwər
Ancient Greek πῦρ (pûr)
Proto-Indo-European *-rós
Proto-Hellenic *-rós
Ancient Greek -ρός (-rós)
Ancient Greek πῠρρός (pŭrrhós)bor.
Latin burrus
Latin burra
Old French *bure
Proto-Indo-European *-lós
Proto-Indo-European *-elós
Proto-Italic *-elos
Latin -lus
Latin -ellus
Old French -el
Old French burel
French bureauubor.
English bureau
Unadapted borrowing from French bureau, earlier "coarse cloth (as desk cover), baize", from Old French burel (“woolen cloth”), diminutive of *bure (compare Middle French bure (“coarse woolen cloth”), French bourre (“hair, fluff”)), from Late Latin burra (“wool, fluff, shaggy cloth, coarse fabric”); akin to Ancient Greek βερβέριον (berbérion, “shabby garment”). Doublet of burel and borrel, taken from Old French.
Inflected forms:
form: bureaus
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: bureaux
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An administrative unit of government; office.
pos: noun
examples: Ashley Johnson is an energy, trade and economics expert at the National Bureau of Asian Research, based in the United States.
gloss: An organization or office for collecting or providing information or news.
pos: noun
examples: a news bureau; a travel bureau; a service bureau; an employment bureau; the Citizens Advice Bureau
Newt Gingrich gives powerful testimony to the appeal of “the last word in content providership” — speakers’ bureaus.
gloss: An office (room where clerical or professional duties are performed).
pos: noun
examples: There was an eerie silence in the dorm [... in] the factory. [...] The lamp glowed in his bureau, warm and reassuring and, through the window, I could see his papers strewn across the desk. [...] I called his name again. A movement from his bureau. [...] I banged on his door until it opened a crack[. ...] He pushed me out onto the staircase. "Get out," he screamed. The door to his bureau slammed in my face.
Both my ability to comprehend what is being said [in French] and my ability to fake comprehension have improved expeditiously. Monsieur holds the door open for me as we step inside his bureau. No one looks up as we enter. He offers me a seat, and when I fail to take it he returns to my side of the desk [...].
Nick opened the bureau door and told Joan he was going to find Susan. He walked to the cafeteria, but it was empty. He went back to the bureau, and asked Joan to check the restrooms.
gloss: A desk, usually with a cover and compartments that are located above the level of the writing surface rather than underneath, and often used for storing papers.
pos: noun
tags: UK
gloss: A chest of drawers for clothes.
pos: noun
tags: Northeastern
US
Related words: bureaucracy
bureaucrat
bureaucratic
bureau de change
bureaugamy
bureau-ocracy
bureau plat
burel
Derived words: bu
bu.
bureaucrat
bureau de change
bureaugamous
bureausis
credit bureau
extrabureau
International Time Bureau
marriage bureau
multibureau
QSL bureau
subbureau
telebureau
Translations:
beau
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English beau, beu, bew, bewe, from Old French beau, from Latin bellus (“beautiful”). Doublet of bello and boo.
Inflected forms:
form: beaux
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: beaus
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: beaus
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: beauing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: beaued
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: beaued
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A man with a reputation for fine dress and etiquette; a dandy or fop.
pos: noun
tags: dated
examples: “[…]—I suppose your brother was quite a beau, Miss Dashwood, before he married, as he was so rich?”
“Upon my word,” replied Elinor, “I cannot tell you, for I do not perfectly comprehend the meaning of the word. But this I can say, that if he ever was a beau before he married, he is one still, for there is not the smallest alteration in him.”
“Oh! dear! one never thinks of married men’s being beaux—they have something else to do.”
[H]e could not but turn with ineffable contempt to the tawdry beaus and belles from the city, who presumed to mingle in the fashionable gala.
gloss: A male lover; a boyfriend.
pos: noun
tags: Canada
US
dated
examples: Hannah's beau takes all her time 'n' thought, and when she gits a husband her mother'll be out o' sight and out o' mind.
“I don’t see how. But anyhow, you’ll be rich some day—your Aunt Elizabeth will likely leave you all her money, Mother says. So I don’t care if you are living on charity—I love you and I’m going to stick up for you. Have you got a beau, Emily?”
“No,” cried Emily, blushing violently and quite scandalized at the idea. “Why, I’m only eleven.”
Kristin Davis has taken time out to enjoy the surf and sand with her Australian beau, photographer Russell James.
Reporters ask her about her love life—her current beau is rumored to be Conor Kennedy, a grandson of Robert F. Kennedy—even if they get nowhere.
gloss: A male escort.
pos: noun
gloss: A suitor of a lady.
pos: noun
gloss: To act as a beau (towards); to court or woo.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
examples: “[…] And now to think that Laura’s teaching school, and Almanzo Wilder’s beauing her home.”
”Oh, no! He isn’t!” Laura cried out. “It isn’t like that at all. He came for me as a favor to Pa.”
Everyone was feeling grandacious, as if getting dressed for a night of beauing.
Related words: beau geste
beau idéal
beau ideal
beau-ideal
beau joueur
beau monde
beau monde seasoning
beau sabreur
Derived words: beau-catcher
beauish
beauism
beauless
beauship
beautillion
unbeaued
Translations:
scenario
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *(s)ḱeh₃-der.
Ancient Greek σκηνή (skēnḗ)bor.
Latin scēnabor.
Italian scena
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Proto-Italic *-āzijos
Latin -ārius
Latin -āriumbor.
Italian -ario
Italian scenariobor.
English scenario
Borrowed from Italian scenario, from scena + -ario.
Inflected forms:
form: scenarios
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: scenari
pos: noun
tags: plural
rare
Senses:
gloss: An outline or model of an expected or supposed sequence of events.
pos: noun
examples: Hearts were keen to avoid a repeat of the scenario at this stage of last season's competition, when they found themselves two goals down inside the opening quarter of an hour.
The researchers believe there are two possible scenarios that have placed J1249+36 on its swift path.
gloss: An outline of the plot of a dramatic or literary work.
pos: noun
tags: dated
gloss: A screenplay itself, or an outline or a treatment of it.
pos: noun
tags: dated
Related words: scenaria
scenarii
Derived words: best-case scenario
economic scenario generator
happy day scenario
worst-case scenario
Translations:
shared
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Used by multiple entities or for multiple purposes or in multiple ways.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: "We are myth-killers, you and I, Moneo. That's the dream we share. I assure you from a God's Olympian perch that government is a shared myth. When the myth dies, the government dies."
It is tempting to speculate about the incentives or compulsions that might explain why anyone would take to the skies in [the] basket [of a balloon]: […]; […]; or perhaps to muse on the irrelevance of the borders that separate nation states and keep people from understanding their shared environment.
Translations:
truck
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *dʰregʰ-
Proto-Indo-European *drem-influ.
Ancient Greek τρέχω (trékhō)
Ancient Greek -ῐ́λος (-ĭ́los)
Ancient Greek τροχῐ́λος (trokhĭ́los)
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-i-eh₂
Proto-Hellenic *-íā
Ancient Greek -ία (-ía)
Ancient Greek -είᾱ (-eíā)
Ancient Greek τροχῐλείᾱ (trokhĭleíā)der.
Medieval Latin trochleader.
Anglo-Norman troclebor.
Middle English trokel
English truckle?
English truck
Perhaps a shortening of truckle, related to Latin trochus (“iron hoop, wheel”) from Ancient Greek τροχός (trokhós).
Inflected forms:
form: trucks
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: trucking
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: trucked
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: trucked
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To drive a truck.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: My father has been trucking for 20 years.
gloss: To convey by truck.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Last week, Cletus trucked 100 pounds of lumber up to Dubuque.
Colson was to truck the 'plane to Alice Springs, where it would be trained to Adelaide for repairs.
gloss: To travel, to proceed.
pos: verb
tags: US
intransitive
slang
examples: I want to tell you a story from 'way back: / Truck on down and gig me, jack / In eighteen hundred and sixty-five / A hep cat started some jive / He said, "Come on, gates, and jump with me / At the Juneteenth Jamboree."
I brought them around again, hard, and some fluff hit me in the face, cool and wet. . .and I laughed and trucked on down, a mad. fiddler dancing to my own music, happy and alone in my private white world.
Instead, when relatives heard that the right ship had docked, they trucked over to Ellis Island and waited desperately by the Kissing Post.
In November 1978, Hay and Starratt trucked on down toward the Classic City in a VW Van (of course), following the Grateful Dead's tour […]
gloss: To persist, to endure.
pos: verb
tags: Canada
US
intransitive
slang
examples: Keep on trucking!
It has been five months since I left Mt. Diablo , and I'm still trucking along gaining slowly and I'm just a few pounds from my goal healthy weight. I'm the happiest I've been in my life because through my experiences with anorexia I[…]
“What's ol' Harrison up to these days, Larry?” Grandpa asked. “Oh, he's still trucking along,” Uncle Larry replied.
gloss: To move a camera parallel to the movement of the subject.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To fight or otherwise physically engage with.
pos: verb
tags: slang
transitive
examples: Both deputies were big, made of dense flesh and tough experience. . . . I wouldn't have wanted to truck with either one of them.
gloss: To run over or through a tackler in American football.
pos: verb
tags: slang
transitive
Derived words: keep on trucking
trucker
trucking
Translations:
buyer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: business
commerce
manufacturing
retailing
Etymology: Etymology tree
English buy
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 buyer
From buy + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: buyers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person who makes one or more purchases.
pos: noun
examples: Every person who steps through the door is a potential buyer, so acknowledge their presence.
There is the ultrasystematic buyer and his twin, the careless buyer. The ultrasystematic buyer goes and checks and counts and touches every copy in the store before buying a new one.
As we covered in the last chapter, breaches of confidentiality can stop a sale dead in its tracks. To avoid this, our firm plays good cop–bad cop with buyers about confidentiality. The good cop nicely explains that breaching confidentiality is bad, because it will ruin the business they're buying before they’ve even bought it. The bad cop puts the fear of God into them, telling them that if they breach confidentiality, the seller could file a lawsuit against them, […]
gloss: A person who purchases items for resale in a retail establishment.
pos: noun
examples: The supermarket's new buyer decided to stock a larger range of vegetarian foods.
gloss: A person who purchases items consumed or used as components in the manufacture of products.
pos: noun
Synonyms: purchaser
vendee
Derived words: buyer beware
buyership
buyer's remorse
cattle-buyer
first-time buyer
gumbuyer
homebuyer
housebuyer
iBuyer
impulse buyer
let the buyer beware
multibuyer
nonbuyer
panic buyer
panic-buyer
straw buyer
Translations:
scanty
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From scant + -y.
Base: scant
Affixes: -y
Inflected forms:
form: scantier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: scantiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Somewhat less than is needed in amplitude or extent.
pos: adj
examples: A girl dressed in scanty clothing
To share, with ill-concealed disdain, / Of Scotland's pay the scanty gain.
[…]and we cannot but regret that the imperfect morality of those days, which saw glory in the valour of freemen, rebellion only in that of slaves, should have left us but frigid and scanty accounts of so obstinate a siege.
Present on the table, one scanty pot of tea, one scanty loaf, two scanty pats of butter, two scanty rashers of bacon, two pitiful eggs, and an abundance of handsome china bought a secondhand bargain.
His face was very truculent, grey and massive, with black cavernous nostrils and circled by a scanty white fur.
How scanty are the records of great men in India!
gloss: Sparing; niggardly; parsimonious; stingy.
pos: adj
examples: In illustrating a point of difficulty, be not too scanty of words.
Related words: meagre
scant
slender
insufficient
deficient
scarce
exiguous
Derived words: scanties
scantily
scantiness
unscanty
Translations:
flour
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Spelled (until about 1830) and meaning flower in the sense of flour being the "finest portion of ground grain" (compare French fleur de farine, fine fleur). Doublet of fleur, flor, and flower. Partially displaced native meal.
The U.S. standard of identity comes from 21CFR137.105.
Inflected forms:
form: flours
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: flouring
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: floured
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: floured
pos: verb
tags: past
form: flower
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: To apply flour to something; to cover with flour.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To reduce to flour.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To break up into fine globules of mercury in the amalgamation process.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
Derived words: reflour
unfloured
Translations:
curry
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: 1747 (as currey, first published recipe for the dish in English), from Tamil கறி (kaṟi), influenced by existing Middle English cury (“cooking”), from Middle French cuyre (“to cook”) (whence also cuisine), from Vulgar Latin cocere, from Latin coquere.
Earlier cury found in 1390 cookbook Forme of Cury (Forms of Cooking) by court chefs of Richard II of England.
Inflected forms:
form: curries
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: currey
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: currie
pos: noun
tags: alternative
archaic
form: curries
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: currying
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: curried
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: curried
pos: verb
tags: past
form: currey
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: currie
pos: verb
tags: alternative
archaic
Senses:
gloss: One of a family of dishes originating from Indian cuisine, flavored by a spiced sauce.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: beef curry
vegetarian curry
navy curry
Yokosuka curry
gloss: A spiced sauce or relish, especially one flavored with curry powder.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Curry powder.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A person of South Asian heritage.
pos: noun
tags: countable
derogatory
ethnic
slur
uncountable
examples: […] while another tells us that white women “are also THE most racist group of foids. they would rather put a bullet through their brain than date a curry or sandcel.”
For example, spicycurry says, “STOP THE COPE NOW. The only ones who should be complaining about race are us curries who are literally at the bottom of the pile.”
People get mixed up by thinking race is #1 because girls aren't going for asians and curries.
gloss: To cook or season with curry powder.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Related words: balti
bhaji
bhuna
biryani
chilli
chutney
dhansak
dopiaza
garam masala
herb
jalfrezi
karahi
korma
madras
makhani
makhonee
moglai
moghlai
Mughlai
naan
pakora
papadum
poppadum
paratha
pasanda
phall
piccalilli
rogan josh
samosa
spice
tandoor
tandoori
tikka masala
vindaloo
Derived words: curry bread
currycel
curry chip
currycomb
curry house
curry leaf
curryless
currylike
Curry Mile
curry muncher
curry-muncher
curry nigger
curry paste
curry plant
curry powder
curry puff
curry queen
curry roux
curry stuff
curry tree
currywhore
currywurst
cuzza
give curry
give someone curry
jungle curry
retort curry
Translations:
gab
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English gab, gabbe, from Old Norse gabb (“jest, mockery”) (whence also Old French gab, gap (“mockery, derision, scorn”)). Cognate with Icelandic gabb (“hoax”).
Inflected forms:
form: gabs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: gabs
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: gabbing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: gabbed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: gabbed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Idle chatter.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Ah, find some chirk in ye, lad. Now is the time for gab and chatter. Y’best be enjoying it. Come a fortnight and the brace of us’ll be wantin’ to be ever silent as the tomb. Even to clap eyes on each other... It’ll make y’hotter than hell!
gloss: The mouth or gob.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: One of the open-forked ends of rods controlling reversing in early steam engines.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Loose eccentric reversing gear gave way about 1836 to the early forms of gab motion. [...] In 1840 Stephenson evolved a motion in which the gabs were connected directly to the valve spindle.
gloss: To jest; to tell lies in jest; exaggerate; lie.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
obsolete
examples: He would chant his own doughty deeds, and “gab,” as the Norman word was, in painful earnest, while they gabbed only in sport, and outvied each other in impossible fanfaronades”
gloss: To talk or chatter a lot, usually on trivial subjects.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: "That Mrs. Mender gives a bloke the ear-ache; thinks a bloke's got all day to waste listening to her gab."
gloss: To speak or tell falsely.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
transitive
Derived words: bafflegab
begab
gabble
gabby
gabfest
gift of the gab
wide-gab
forgab
gabber
gabbing
Translations:
harpsichord
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
Etymology: Early 1600s, borrowed from French harpechord (“harp string”), from New Latin harpichordium, from harpa (“harp”) + chorda (“string”). Influenced by and possibly also borrowed from Italian arpicordo, producing variant spellings. The unetymological -s-, which predominates by the 1660s, is of unclear origin.
Inflected forms:
form: harpsichords
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: harpsicord
pos: noun
tags: alternative
dated
form: harpicord
pos: noun
tags: alternative
archaic
form: harpichord
pos: noun
tags: alternative
archaic
form: harpsicon
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: Cemb.
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Hpcd.
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Hpd.
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Hpsd.
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Hrpsd.
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A stringed musical instrument with a keyboard, the mechanical precusor to the fortepiano, in which each key causes a plectrum to pluck a corresponding tuned string, producing a bright, sharp tone similar to that of a harp.
pos: noun
Translations:
defunct
Part of speech: adj
verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: business
computing
engineering
human-sciences
linguistics
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin dēfunctus, past participle of dēfungor (“to finish, discharge”).
Inflected forms:
form: more defunct
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most defunct
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: defuncts
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: defuncting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: defuncted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: defuncted
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: No longer in use or active, nor expected to be again.
pos: adj
examples: [T]he engineer must solve the mysteries of boiler accidents by studying defunct structures of many different types.
gloss: No longer in use or active, nor expected to be again.
pos: adj
gloss: Specifically, of a process: having terminated but not having been reaped (by its parent or an inheritor), and thus still occupying a process slot. See also zombie, zombie process.
pos: adj
gloss: (of a language) No longer spoken.
pos: adj
examples: When a language dies members of the culture of which that language was once a part may attempt to hold on to their linguistic heritage, if not by the use of the defunct language itself, at least by the preservation of its script.
gloss: Deceased, dead.
pos: adj
tags: archaic
examples: The organs, though defunct and dead before, / Break up their drowsy grave and newly move
Morgante at a venture shot an arrow, / Which pierced a pig precisely in the ear, / And passed unto the other side quite through; / So that the boar, defunct, lay tripped up near.
gloss: To make defunct.
pos: verb
gloss: The dead person (referred to).
pos: noun
examples: A small tablet is fixt near the Altar, upon wᶜʰ the friends of yᵉ defunct lay their offerings in mony according to their own ability and the quality of the person deceased.
[…] he saw Robert Johnston, pannel, come out of the cott-house with the fork in his hand, and pass by Alexander Fall and the deponent; heard the pannell say, he had sticked the dog, and he would stick the whelps too; whereupon the pannell run after the defunct’s son with the fork in his hand, […]
Derived words: defunctness
Translations:
lang: Dutch
word: buiten gebruik
lang: Dutch
word: buiten werking
lang: German
word: erloschen
lang: German
word: gelöscht
lang: German
word: nicht mehr existierend
lang: German
word: tot
lang: Hungarian
word: megszűnt
lang: Māori
word: tūnguru
lang: Norwegian
word: lagt ned
lang: Norwegian
word: nedlagt
lang: Portuguese
word: inativo
lang: Russian
word: неде́йствующий
roman: nedéjstvujuščij
lang: Turkish
word: feshedilmiş
lang: Turkish
word: geçersiz
lang: Turkish
word: kullanılmayan
lang: Turkish
word: ölü
loo
Part of speech: noun
intj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Uncertain, although usually derived in some way from Waterloo, the site of Wellington's 1815 victory over Napoleon, likely via a pun based on water closet. Other suggested derivations include corruptions of French l'eau (“water”), lieu (“place”), lieux d'aisances (“'places of convenience': a lavatory”), lieu à l'anglaise (“'English place': a British-style lavatory”), bordalou (“a diminutive chamber pot”) or gardez l'eau (“'mind the water'”), via Scots gardyloo, formerly used in Edinburgh while emptying chamber pots out of windows; the supposed use of "Room 100" as the lavatory in Continental hotels; a popularisation of lew, a regional corruption of lee (“downwind”), in reference to shepherds' privies or the former use of beakheads on that side of the ship for urination and defecation; or a clipped form of the name of the unpopular 19th-century Countess of Lichfield Lady Harriett Georgiana Louisa Hamilton Anson, who was the subject of an 1867 prank whereby her bedroom's name-card was placed on the door to the lavatory, prompting the other guests to begin speaking of "going to Lady Louisa".
Inflected forms:
form: loos
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: 'loo
pos: intj
tags: alternative
form: lo
pos: intj
tags: alternative
form: lowe
pos: intj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A lavatory: a room used for urination and defecation.
pos: noun
tags: Commonwealth
Ireland
UK
examples: I suppose it is unreal because we have been expecting it [sc. World War II] for so long now, and have known that it must be got over before we can go on with our lives. Like in the night when you want to go to the loo and it is miles away down a freezing cold passage and yet you know you have to go down that passage before you can be happy and sleep again.
Ensure that the tents are well-sited and clean, rubbish bins empty, and that the loos have toilet paper.
gloss: A toilet: a fixture used for urination and defecation.
pos: noun
tags: Commonwealth
Ireland
UK
examples: The lack of running water in rural areas often makes Western-style loos hygienic disasters. Suddenly the noncontact squat toilet doesn′t look like such a bad option any more (as long as you roll up your trouser legs).
Waterless urinals are a great way of keeping the guys out of the cubicle toilets, keeping the urine separated from the solid waste (when using composting loos) and reducing water consumption if you have flush loos.
gloss: A cry to urge on hunting dogs.
pos: intj
examples: Edg. Pilicock sate on pelicocks hill, a lo lo lo.
Derived words: loo paper
loo roll
loo room
portaloo
superloo
Translations:
extragalactic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: astronomy
literature
media
natural-sciences
publishing
science-fiction
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰ
Proto-Indo-European *-s
Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰs
Proto-Indo-European *-teros
Proto-Indo-European *h₁eǵʰsteros
Proto-Italic *eksteros
Latin exter
Latin extrā
English extra-
English galactic
English extragalactic
From extra- + galactic.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Originating outside of the Milky Way galaxy.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Extragalactic astronomy is the study of things outside the Milky Way.
gloss: Originating outside of any galaxy.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Originating outside of the local galaxy.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Related words: extraplanetary
extrasolar
extraterrestrial
Galactic
galactic
galaxy
intergalactic
intragalactic
supergalactic
transgalactic
Derived words: extragalactic background light
Translations:
lang: Esperanto
word: ekstergalaksia
lang: French
word: extragalactique
lang: Irish
word: eachtar-réaltrach
lang: Italian
word: estragalattico
lang: Italian
word: extragalattico
lang: Persian
word: فراکهکشانی
roman: farâkahkešâni
lang: Polish
word: pozagalaktyczny
lang: Polish
word: ekstragalaktyczny
lang: Romanian
word: extragalactic
lang: Spanish
word: extragaláctico
follower
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English folwer, folwere, folewer, from Old English folgere (“follower; attendant; disciple”), equivalent to follow + -er. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Foulger, West Frisian folger, Dutch volger, German Folger, Swedish följare.
Base: follow
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: followers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who follows, comes after another.
pos: noun
tags: literally
gloss: Something that comes after another thing.
pos: noun
gloss: One who is a part of master's physical group, such as a servant or retainer.
pos: noun
gloss: One who follows mentally, adherer to the opinions, ideas or teachings of another, a movement etc.
pos: noun
gloss: An imitator, who follows another's example.
pos: noun
gloss: A pursuer.
pos: noun
gloss: An account holder who subscribes to see content from another account on a social media platform.
pos: noun
examples: I have over 50 followers on Twitter, but all my tweets only get 10 likes.
Talking bout these other rappers getting old is even getting old / Worrying about your followers, you need to get your dollars up
Shah won over the Nepali youth vote with his outsized social media presence. His Instagram account has over 1.2 million followers, while his Facebook page has 3.8 million.
gloss: A machine part receiving motion from another.
pos: noun
gloss: A machine part receiving motion from another.
pos: noun
gloss: A man courting a maidservant; a suitor.
pos: noun
gloss: Young cattle.
pos: noun
gloss: A metal piece placed at the top of a candle to keep the wax melting evenly.
pos: noun
gloss: Any of the three players (the ruckman, ruck rover, and rover) who usually follow the ball around the ground rather than occupying a fixed position.
pos: noun
gloss: A debt collector.
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
dated
gloss: A tool used to remove the core from a pin-tumbler lock without causing the driver pins and springs to fall out.
pos: noun
Antonyms: leader
precursor
Related words: following
Derived words: camp follower
Christfollower
cult follower
fast follower
followership
nonfollower
rule-follower
Translations:
foolishness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English folishnesse, follissnesse, equivalent to foolish + -ness.
Base: foolish
Affixes: -ness
Inflected forms:
form: foolishnesses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The state of being foolish.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: On page 297 [“Queens Not Balled Thru Robbers”], that quotation from a foreign bee-paper, about the foolishness of thinking that robber-bees ball a queen, is probably all right in the main. Robbers are indeed there for honey—not for reginacide—but perchance no one interferes, and after awhile the honey is gone, and the hive is filled with a miscellaneous crowd largely new comers, who are like a city mob, “the more part know not wherefore they are come together.”
gloss: A thing or event that is foolish, or an absurdity.
pos: noun
tags: countable
Synonyms: imprudence
folly
extravagance
irresponsibility
indiscretion
absurdity
ridiculousness
schmuckiness
stupidity
Antonyms: wisdom
Related words: fool
Translations:
knick-knack
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Reduplication of knack.
Inflected forms:
form: knick-knacks
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: knickknack
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: nick-nack
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: nicknack
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A small ornament or other object of minor value.
pos: noun
examples: Our Cutler, who had now a great Stock of things of his Handy-work, gave them some little Knick Knacks, as Plates of Silver and of Iron, cut Diamond Fashion, and cut into Hearts and into Rings, and they were mightily pleased.
But there was no hitch in the conversation, nevertheless; for one gentleman, who travelled in the perfumery line, exhibited an interesting nick-nack, in the way of a remarkable cake of shaving soap, which he had lately met with in Germany […]
The room was small, and densely filled with furniture; it gave an impression of faded silk and little statuettes which might totter if one moved. Rosier got up and wandered about with his careful tread, bending over the tables charged with knick-knacks and the cushions embossed with princely arms.
Is art anything that we have reason to value? Or is it a mere adornment of life which we can do without—a mere knick-knack for Dame Civilization to hang about her wrinkled neck in order to dazzle her neighbours?
1985, Herbert Kretzmer, "Master of the House" (song) in Les Misérables
Picking up their knick-knacks when they can't see straight
Translations:
ed
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Shortening.
Inflected forms:
form: eds
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: edition
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: editor
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: education (uncountable)
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Synonyms: educ.
Related words: come ed
Derived words: basic ed
Cath ed
co-ed
driver's ed
gen ed
op-ed
phys ed
special ed
voc-ed
Translations:
crapper
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From crap + -er, although possibly repopularized by barracks employing Thomas Crapper's plumbing fixtures used during the First World War. The occupational surname Crapper derives from a dialectal variant of cropper (“harvester of crops, farmer”).
Base: crap
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: crappers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A chamber pot or toilet, particularly (dated) a flush toilet by Thomas Crapper.
pos: noun
tags: mildly
slang
vulgar
gloss: A lavatory or outhouse.
pos: noun
tags: mildly
slang
vulgar
examples: I purchased your magazine for the first and last time. What the hell is it? (..) It wasn't even good reading material for the crapper.
Synonyms: shitter
toilet
and Thesaurus:bathroom
Translations:
nebula
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: astronomy
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin nebula (“little cloud, mist”). Akin to Ancient Greek νεφέλη (nephélē, “cloud”), German Nebel (“mist, nebula”), Old Norse nifl, Polish niebo (“sky, heaven”), Russian не́бо (nébo, “sky”).
Inflected forms:
form: nebulae
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: nebulas
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: nebulæ
pos: noun
tags: archaic
plural
Senses:
gloss: A cloud in outer space consisting of gas or dust (e.g. a cloud formed after a star explodes).
pos: noun
examples: Approximately 5 billion years ago, our solar nebula was formed as gravitational forces pulled interstellar gas and dust into a swirling mass around out newly formed sun.
gloss: A white spot or slight opacity of the cornea.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
gloss: A cloudy appearance in the urine.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
Related words: nebulosity
nebulous
nebular
plerion
nova remnant
supernova remnant
Herbig-Haro object
Bok globule
interstellar cloud
intergalactic cloud
high velocity cloud
Derived words: Crab Nebula
dark nebula
diffuse nebula
emission nebula
enormous Lyman-alpha nebula
nebulalike
nebulium
nebulization
planetary nebula
preplanetary nebula
protoplanetary nebula
pulsar wind nebula
reflection nebula
solar nebula
stellar nebula
supernebula
Translations:
dustbowl
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From dust + bowl.
Compound parts: dust
bowl
Inflected forms:
form: dustbowls
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: dust bowl
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: An area which abounds in dust and which is very dry.
pos: noun
examples: Concepts like reform, sanctions or KwaNatal indabas have little meaning in this dustbowl, which is host to more than a million people relocated from "white" farms and "black spots" in Natal, apart from the hundreds of thousands who lived there before the removals started here in the Sixties.
The moment they were unleashed the dogs reached the Hindu graveyard in quick time, and then reached the abandoned hockey playground, now a dustbowl, and from there they ran straight to Pandi's thatched hut and circled it twice.
Taking up space in the dustbowl of his bedroom was a Marshall JCM 800 bass amplifier.
gloss: The central region of the United States during the 1930s.
pos: noun
examples: Because of this general situation, namely, the factor that thousands of citizens in California because of evictions and suspension of income were forced to move into squatter camps, and that these squatter camps were to some extent used by the state and county for the purpose of segregating the destitute unemployed, many such communities were actually in existence in California by 1933 when the dustbowl influx began to make itself felt in this state.
It was not until the end of the decade that Hollywood could take a more detached look at the social consequences of the Depression in John Ford's 1940 film of John Steinbeck's dustbowl novel The Grapes of Wrath.
It's a long way from earlier circuits, such as Woody Guthrie's dustbowl odyssey and Pete Seeger's union halls.
When the dustbowl refugees from Arkansas and Oklahoma moved to California, job opportunities for the one million Mexicans who had crossed the border decreased, and about half of these workers returned to their country (Shotwell 1961:74).
gloss: The 1930s period.
pos: noun
Translations:
typhoon
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: climatology
meteorology
natural-sciences
Etymology: English texts mention typhon, tiphon as a Greek word for "whirlwind" since at least the 1550s, referring to Ancient Greek τυφῶν (tuphôn), τυφώς (tuphṓs, “whirlwind”) (the latter attested since Aeschylus), Τυφῶν (Tuphôn, “Typhon, father of the winds”). (French typhon (“whirlwind”) is said to be attested since 1504.)
However, the first use of it as an English word for a whirlwind or storm dates to 1588, in the spelling Touffon, in the specific sense "giant storm in the Pacific"; this sense first appears in Europe in the mid 16th century in Portuguese tufão (attested since at least 1560), whence it entered English. Portuguese sailors likely got the word from Arabic طُوفَان (ṭūfān) (compare Persian طوفان (tufân), Hindi तूफ़ान (tūfān)), and some spellings of the English word (like tufan) seem to derive from that Arabic word.
The Arabic word's origin is sometimes thought to be Sinitic 大風／大风 ("big wind", Mandarin dàfēng, Cantonese daai6 fung1 /taːi̯²² fʊŋ⁵⁵/, Hakka thai-fûng /tʰai̯⁵⁵ fuŋ²⁴/), and some English forms like tyfoong, tyfung are from or were modified based on Chinese. However, the Arabic word may be entirely Semitic from the native root ط و ف (ṭ w f) in the sense of the wind circling around, or it might derive from Greek. (Some sources even suggest the term originated in Greek and travelled via Arabic to Chinese before making its way back into Arabic and back to Europe.) Over time, the spelling of the word in English was influenced by the Greek word.
Inflected forms:
form: typhoons
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: touffon
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: tuffon
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: tufon
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: typhon
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: tuffoon
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: tiffoon
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: tifoon
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: tyfoon
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: tufan
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: toofan
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: touffan
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: tyfoong
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: ty-foong
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: tyfung
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: ty-fung
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: typhoons
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: typhooning
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: typhooned
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: typhooned
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A severe tropical cyclone; an intense, rotating storm.
pos: noun
gloss: A weather phenomenon in the northwestern Pacific that is precisely equivalent to a hurricane except for its geographical region, typically resulting in wind speeds of 64 knots (119 km/h) or above. Equivalent to a cyclone in the Indian Ocean and Indonesia and Australia.
pos: noun
examples: Near-synonyms: cyclone (narrow sense), hurricane
gloss: To swirl like a hurricane.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
Derived words: landphoon
supertyphoon
Typhoon Alley
typhoon chaser
typhoon fifth
typhoon hunter
typhoonic
typhoonlike
typhoonproof
typhoon shelter
Translations:
monsoon
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Portuguese monção and Dutch moesson, from Arabic مَوْسِم (mawsim, “season”), from وَسَمَ (wasama, “to mark, to brand”).
Inflected forms:
form: monsoons
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of a number of winds associated with regions where most rain falls during a particular season.
pos: noun
gloss: Tropical rainy season when the rain lasts for several months with few interruptions.
pos: noun
examples: Floods in northern India, mostly in the small state of Uttarakhand, have wrought disaster on an enormous scale. The early, intense onset of the monsoon on June 14th swelled rivers, washing away roads, bridges, hotels and even whole villages. Rock-filled torrents smashed vehicles and homes, burying victims under rubble and sludge.
gloss: The rains themselves.
pos: noun
gloss: Entire meteorological systems with such characteristics.
pos: noun
gloss: Any heavy rainstorm.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
Derived words: antimonsoon
east monsoon
intermonsoon
intermonsoonal
intramonsoon
intramonsoonal
monsoonal
monsoonally
monsoon bucket
monsoon forest
monsoonish
monsoonless
monsoonlike
monsoon rainforest
monsoon season
monsoony
northeast monsoon
northwest monsoon
palaeomonsoon
postmonsoon
postmonsoonal
premonsoon
premonsoonal
southeast monsoon
southwest monsoon
west monsoon
Translations:
lang: Arabic
word: الأمْطَار المَوْسِمِيَّة
lang: Finnish
word: monsuunisade
lang: French
word: mousson
lang: German
word: Monsunregen
lang: Hungarian
word: monszun
lang: Portuguese
word: monção
lang: Tamil
word: பருவமழை
roman: paruvamaḻai
lang: Turkish
word: muson yağmuru