yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
bulwark
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: nautical
transport
Etymology: From Middle English bulwerk, from Middle Dutch bolwerk, bolwerc and Middle Low German bolwerk, equivalent to bole (“tree trunk”) + work. Cognate with German Bollwerk, Danish bolværk, Swedish bålverk, Dutch bolwerk. Doublet of boulevard (from French boulevard, from Dutch); cognate with Portuguese and Spanish baluarte and Italian baluardo.
Base: bole
Inflected forms:
form: bulwarks
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: bulwarks
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: bulwarking
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: bulwarked
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: bulwarked
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A defensive wall or rampart.
pos: noun
examples: Let thouſands die, their ſlaughtered Carkaſſes
Shal ſerue for walles and bulwarkes to the reſt:
gloss: A defense or safeguard.
pos: noun
examples: The royal navy of England hath ever been its greatest defence, […] the floating bulwark of the island.
gloss: A breakwater.
pos: noun
gloss: The planking or plating along the sides of a nautical vessel above her gunwale that reduces the likelihood of seas washing over the gunwales and people being washed overboard.
pos: noun
examples: Entering that gable-ended Spouter-Inn, you found yourself in a wide, low, straggling entry with old-fashioned wainscots, reminding one of the bulwarks of some condemned old craft.
gloss: Any means of defence or security.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
examples: The party stalwarts constitute the bulwark that ensures the president's term of office.
Willing to upend the nation’s postwar role as a bulwark against authoritarianism, he promises to usher in a foreign policy rooted in “America First” transactionalism.
gloss: To fortify something with a wall or rampart.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To provide protection of defense for something.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Translations:
dragoman
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English dragman, from Old French drugeman, from Medieval Latin dragumannus, from Byzantine Greek δραγομάνος (dragomános), from Arabic تُرْجُمَان (turjumān), from Classical Syriac ܬܰܪܓܡܳܢܳܐ (targmānā), from Akkadian 𒅴𒁄 (targumannum, “interpreter”). With the plural form -men, through reinterpretation as suffixed with -man. Doublet of truchman.
Inflected forms:
form: dragomans
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: dragomen
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: drogman
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: druggerman
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: An interpreter, especially for the Arabic and Turkish languages.
pos: noun
tags: historical
examples: Engaging William Prime's (q.v.) dragoman, he visits the bazaars, mosques, and Pyramids before sailing in the dahabeeya Rip Van Winkle up the Nile.
Dragomans altered the pasha's language to put it in a form best suited to performing the act that the principal intended. […] Far from being ‘free’, the dragomans' reformulation of the words of the source expressed subservience to their principal's intention.
Translations:
sidereal
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
Etymology: From Latin sīdereus + -al (cf. Latin sīderālis), from sīdus (“star, constellation”), of unknown ultimate origin, likely a substrate language such as Pre-Greek.
Affixes: -al
Inflected forms:
form: sideral
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: sidaereal
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Of or relating to the stars.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: These fringes of lamplight, struggling up through smoke and thousandfold exhalation, some fathoms into the ancient reign of Night, what thinks Boötes of them, as he leads his Hunting-Dogs over the Zenith in their leash of sidereal fire?
The field of sidereal astronomy, therefore, was virtually untrodden when, shortly after the beginning of his telescopic work, Herschel began his first review of the heavens.
gloss: Relating to a measurement of time relative to the position of the stars.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Then, from a sufficient number of observations of synodic periods to give their mean, we obtain the sidereal period, or period with reference to the stars.
gloss: Relating to a measurement of time relative to the point of the vernal equinox.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Related words: consider
desire
Derived words: intersidereal
nonsidereal
sidereal astrology
sidereal clock
sidereal day
sidereal hour
sidereal hour angle
siderealize
sidereally
sidereal midnight
sidereal minute
sidereal month
sidereal noon
sidereal orbital period
sidereal period
sidereal pole
sidereal rotation period
sidereal second
sidereal table
sidereal time
sidereal year
Translations:
ghoul
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
Etymology: Borrowed from French goule, from Persian غول (ġul) from Arabic غُول (ḡūl).
Inflected forms:
form: ghouls
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: ghole
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A demon said to feed on corpses.
pos: noun
examples: The other chamber had shown a pack of ghouls and witches over-running the world of our forefathers, but this one brought the horror right into our own daily life!.
From my laboratory in the Castle east
To the master bedroom, where the vampires feast
The ghouls all came from their humble abodes
To get a jolt from my electrodes
They did the Mash
They did the Monster Mash.
“Yeah, Mum’s always wishing we had a house-elf to do the ironing,” said George. “But all we’ve got is a lousy old ghoul in the attic and gnomes all over the garden. [...]”
gloss: A graverobber.
pos: noun
examples: We would not say that under no circumstances ought a grave to be opened; but it ought to be opened like a grave and not like a burglar-proof safe. […] And some of us enter it, if not without knocking, certainly without taking our hats off. We should not so much mind these eminent persons being ghouls, if only they were modest and apologetic ghouls.
Police went to the cemetery at Trafalgar, near Yallourn, and discovered that a woman's body had been stolen from a grave. They were satisfied it was the same body found at Yallourn - but made no progress in running down the ghouls responsible for the outrage.
gloss: A person with an undue interest in death and corpses, or more generally in things that are revolting and repulsive.
pos: noun
gloss: A person with a callous or uncaring attitude to human life and suffering, particularly when prioritizing economic concerns.
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
derogatory
examples: Restored to bumptiousness, Peter arrived jauntily in the kitchen, to survey Mrs Dibble's body as a spectacle new to him, and remark, "So the old trout's done herself in properly this time, I'm told. About time she did, the way she's been going on here." "Shut up, you old ghoul, and help Dr Grimsby to carry her upstairs."
Related words: resurrection man
resurrectionist
body snatcher
jinn
jann
nasnas
shaitan
angel
Derived words: book-ghoul
ghoulery
Ghouliani
ghoulie
ghoulie-ghoul
ghoulie ghoul
ghoulification
ghoulish
ghoulism
Translations:
cataclysm
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
Etymology: From French cataclysme, from Latin cataclysmus, from Ancient Greek κατακλυσμός (kataklusmós, “deluge, flood”), from κατακλύζω (kataklúzō, “to dash over, flood, deluge, inundate”), from κατά (katá, “downwards, towards”) + κλύζω (klúzō, “to wash off, to wash away, to dash over”).
Inflected forms:
form: cataclysms
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A sudden, violent event.
pos: noun
examples: While the disaster capitalism complex does not deliberately scheme to create cataclysms on which it feeds (though Iraq may be a notable exception), there is plenty of evidence that its component industries work very hard indeed to make that current disastrous trends continue unchallenged.
Judging by the sedimentary composition of the crust, it appears that Altaaya once possessed an atmosphere thick enough to support some form of liquid. What cataclysm stripped the atmosphere and left the planet to freeze is not currently known.
gloss: A sudden and violent change in the earth's crust.
pos: noun
gloss: A great flood.
pos: noun
Related words: catastrophe
Derived words: cataclysmal
cataclysmic
cataclysmist
lunar cataclysm
Translations:
dent
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English dent, dente, dint (“a blow; strike; dent”), from Old English dynt (“blow, strike, the mark or noise of a blow”), from Proto-Germanic *duntiz (“a blow”). Akin to Old Norse dyntr (“dint”). Doublet of dint.
Inflected forms:
form: dents
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: dents
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: denting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: dented
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: dented
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A shallow deformation in the surface of an object, produced by an impact.
pos: noun
examples: The crash produced a dent in the left side of the car.
gloss: A minor effect made upon something.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
examples: to make a dent
"Case Of You" (#67, 1980), a single on the Scotti Brothers label, was Frank's first chart dent.
The transitoriness perhaps makes viral content the most representative form of culture in the twenty-first century: an era of vast quantities, deep specificity, and breakneck speed, where few individual artifacts, artworks, or conventions leave a dent in society or bend the curve of history.
gloss: A type of maize/corn with a relatively soft outer hull, and a soft type of starch that shrinks at maturity to leave an indentation in the surface of the kernel.
pos: noun
gloss: A sudden negative change, such as loss, damage, weakening, consumption or diminution, especially one produced by an external force, event or action
pos: noun
tags: broadly
informal
examples: That purchase put a bit of a dent in my wallet.
Andy Carroll's first goals since his £35m move to Liverpool put a dent in Manchester City's Champions League hopes as they were emphatically swept aside at Anfield.
gloss: To impact something, producing a dent.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To develop a dent or dents.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Copper is soft and dents easily.
Derived words: dent corn
indent
put a dent in the universe
scratch-and-dent
dedent
dentable
dentproof
Translations:
hypnotherapy
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From hypno- + therapy.
Base: therapy
Affixes: hypno-
Inflected forms:
form: hypnotherapies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Treatment of disease by means of hypnotism.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Hypnotherapy, the therapeutic use of hypnotism.
Direct persuasive suggestion under hypnosis was the type of hypnotherapy used by the old medical practitioners of hypnotism.
Scientific training is attempted in the...two-year Hypnotherapy Centre course.
Translations:
petcock
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: Apparently from pet + cock, because of its size.
Compound parts: pet
cock
Inflected forms:
form: petcocks
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A small valve, spout, or faucet operated by hand, usually used to release pressure or drain fluid.
pos: noun
examples: The doctor placed the rubber mask over her face and turned a dial and I watched Catherine breathing deeply and rapidly. Then she pushed the mask away. The doctor shut off the petcock.
The shutoff valve (petcock) is usually located on the gas pipe on the supply side of the meter.
Translations:
stan
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From Stan (“Stanley”), after the song "Stan" by Eminem (2000), a fictitious account of the rapper's encounter with an overly obsessive fan named Stan. Sometimes assumed to be a blend of stalker + fan, but perhaps simply chosen for the rhyme.
Compound parts: stalker
fan
Inflected forms:
form: stans
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Stan
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: stans
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: stanning
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: stanned
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: stanned
pos: verb
tags: past
form: Stan
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: An extremely obsessive fan of a person, group, character, or creative work, particularly one whose fixation is unhealthy or intrusive.
pos: noun
tags: Internet
derogatory
sometimes
examples: K-pop stan
I know the in-depth detailed life of a stan because I am one. I'm one of those Lady Gaga fans, […]
I am the biggest stan for Selena because she is my queen. She made Disney interesting and I have always watched her.
Incidents have occurred with stans showing up to pop stars' residences, as has happened with Madonna, Taylor Swift and others.
K-pop stans have been getting increasingly involved in American politics in recent months. After the Trump campaign solicited messages for the president’s birthday on June 8, K-pop stans submitted a stream of prank messages.
“Stans will literally go to any extent to defend anyone,” he said of Mr. Depp’s supporters, adding: “Amber Heard, she has not got that fan base.”
gloss: To act as a stan (for); to be an obsessive fan (of).
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
slang
transitive
examples: We stan a queen.
For quotations using this term, see Citations:stan.
Translations:
bullfighting
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From bull + fighting.
Compound parts: bull
fighting
Inflected forms:
form: bullfightings
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: bull-fighting
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A traditional spectacle, popular in Spain and many former Spanish colonies, in which a matador manipulates and ultimately kills a bull at close range.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: In Portugal, Spain, Southern France and some Latin American countries, bulls are used in the sport of bullfighting.
Translations:
teacher
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English techere, equivalent to teach + -er. More at teach.
Base: teach
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: teachers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person who teaches, especially one employed in a school; preceptor.
pos: noun
examples: One particularly damaging, but often ignored, effect of conflict on education is the proliferation of attacks on schools[…]as children, teachers or school buildings become the targets of attacks. Parents fear sending their children to school. Girls are particularly vulnerable to sexual violence.
gloss: The index finger; the forefinger.
pos: noun
gloss: An indication; a lesson.
pos: noun
examples: But if the last two years are a teacher, look for the bombastic tweets to resume before sunrise.
gloss: The second highest office in the Aaronic priesthood, held by priesthood holders of at least the age of 14.
pos: noun
tags: Mormonism
Derived words: co-teacher
coteacher
cyberteacher
e-teacher
experience is the best teacher
ex-teacher
exteacher
failure is the best teacher
head teacher
headteacher
home teacher
microteacher
nonteacher
parent-teacher association
parent-teacher organization
parent-teacher-student association
pastor-teacher
plant teacher
pupil teacher
relief teacher
school teacher
schoolteacher
student teacher
substitute teacher
subteacher
superteacher
supply teacher
teacherage
teacher bird
teacher-centered
teachercentric
teacherdom
teachered
teacherese
teacheress
teacherhood
teachering
teacherish
teacherless
teacherlike
teacherly
teacherness
teachership
teacher's pet
teacher work day
teacher workday
teachery
team teacher
teleteacher
underteacher
unteacher
Translations:
unique
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from French unique, from Latin unicus. Doublet of unic.
Inflected forms:
form: uniquer
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: more unique
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: uniquest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: most unique
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: uniques
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Being the only one of its kind; unequaled, unparalleled or unmatched.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Every person has a unique life, therefore every person has a unique journey.
Perhaps the reader will wonder why we have placed our " beings " on a sphere rather than on another closed surface. But this choice has its justification in the fact that, of all closed surfaces, the sphere is unique in possessing the property that all points on it are equivalent.
3. Both were written and published with the same unique chorus structure;
4. Both compositions were written and published with the same unique harmonic structure;
‘[…] There's every Staffordshire crime-piece ever made in this cabinet, and that's unique. The Van Hoyer Museum in New York hasn't that very rare second version of Maria Marten's Red Barn over there, nor the little Frederick George Manning—he was the criminal Dickens saw hanged on the roof of the gaol in Horsemonger Lane, by the way—’
Admiralty Island contains unique resources of scientific interest which need protection to assure continued opportunities for study.
A very interesting history of United Nations at war in Korea, done in an^([sic]) unique question and answer style.
GPS assigns a unique C/A code and a unique P code to each satellite.
gloss: Of a feature, such that only one holder has it.
pos: adj
gloss: Particular, characteristic.
pos: adj
gloss: Rare or unusual.
pos: adj
tags: often
proscribed
examples: And as I look back, it seems to me that we were fairly unique, the sixty of us, in that there wasn’t one good mixer in the bunch.
gloss: A thing without a like; something unequalled or unparallelled; one of a kind.
pos: noun
examples: The phoenix, the unique of birds.
[…] uniques of the game, Sauron and Morgoth, are found on levels 99 and 100 of the dungeon respectively, […]
Synonyms: alone
azygous
incomparable
matchless
nonpareil
only
peerless
singular
sui generis
unequaled
unique
unparalleled
unmatched
unrivalled
Antonyms: common
normal
Related words: unicity
one-of-a-kind
inimitable
first and last
ideal
nonesuch
one of a kind
one-off
paragon
snowflake
sole
solitary
strange
uniqueness
Derived words: non-unique
uniq fruit
unique factorization domain
unique factorization ring
unique-headed bug
unique identification number
unique identifier
unique key
uniquel
uniqueness
uniquify
uniquity
universally unique identifier
Translations:
para
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Serbo-Croatian pàra /па̀ра, from Ottoman Turkish پاره (pare, para), from Persian پاره (pâre).
Inflected forms:
form: paras
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: more para
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most para
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: A former subunit of currency in several countries in the Ottoman/Turkish and Yugoslav regions.
pos: noun
tags: historical
examples: She managed things with so much economy that she was enabled to save two paras every day, out of the piastre which he gave her.
gloss: Very drunk.
pos: adj
tags: Australia
UK
slang
Translations:
bocca
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian bocca (“mouth”). Doublet of bouche.
Inflected forms:
form: boccas
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The round hole in the furnace of a glassworks through which the fused glass is taken out.
pos: noun
examples: The second partition divides this from the leer or annealing furnace; through the boccas, or working holes,
Translations:
braccio
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian braccio. Doublet of brachium.
Inflected forms:
form: braccia
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An Italian measure of length, varying from half a yard to a yard.
pos: noun
Translations:
bravo
Part of speech: intj
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian bravo. Doublet of brave.
Inflected forms:
form: bravo!
pos: intj
tags: canonical
form: bravos
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: bravoes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: bravoing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: bravoed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: bravoed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Used to express acclaim, especially to a performer.
pos: intj
examples: Bravo, you have done a brilliant job!
gloss: To cheer or applaud, especially by saying bravo!
pos: verb
examples: "And my Sunbeam was bravoed, and encored, and crowned with flowers, was she not?"
Together they had bravoed the great tragedians, and together hopelessly worshipped the beautiful faces, enskied and sainted, of famous actresses.
Translations:
bere
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English bere (“barley”), from Old English bere (“barley”), from Proto-West Germanic *barī, from Proto-Germanic *baraz (“barley”). Compare Welsh bara (“bread”), Latin far (“emmer”), Serbo-Croatian бра̏шно/brȁšno (“flour”), Albanian bar (“grass”), Ancient Greek Φήρον (Phḗron, “plant deity”). See also: barley.
Inflected forms:
form: bear
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Barley, especially four-rowed barley or six-rowed barley.
pos: noun
tags: Scotland
uncountable
Translations:
bello
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Italian bello (“man; fella”). Doublet of beau.
Inflected forms:
form: bellos
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A young man; sweetheart.
pos: noun
Translations:
gelato
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian gelato (“ice cream”), from Latin gelātus, derived from gelū (“frost, chill”), ultimately from the Proto-Indo-European *gel- (“cold”).
Inflected forms:
form: gelati
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: gelatos
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: gelati
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Australia
Senses:
gloss: An Italian variant of ice cream made from milk and sugar, combined with other flavourings. The ingredients are supercooled while stirring to break up ice crystals as they form.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: Now the area has been remade in their image. Every other storefront seems to be a coffee shop, a gelato shop, or a med spa.
Translations:
sooner
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: rather.
pos: adv
examples: I would sooner die than marry you!
Sooner than have a problem later, I made sure the policy was in order.
Derived words: sooner or later
Translations:
io
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From New Latin, from Ancient Greek Ἰώ (Iṓ, “Io”).
Inflected forms:
form: ios
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A type of moth, the io moth.
pos: noun
examples: These lines appear to serve as roadways or guides to any stragglers that may have hung back for some reason known only to an io.
Translations:
zee
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Likely an alteration of zed (which see for more), by analogy with other letters such as bee, dee, tee and vee. Fell out of usage in England by the 17th century, and made standard in the U.S. in American Dictionary of English Language by Noah Webster in 1828, though usage varied for decades afterwards.
Inflected forms:
form: zees
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: zees
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: zeeing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: zeed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: zeed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: The name of the Latin script letter Z/z.
pos: noun
examples: Thus first C checks to see if ex and wye are equal. The resulting value of 1 or 0 (true or false) then is compared to the value of zee.
gloss: Something Z-shaped. Found in compounds.
pos: noun
examples: zee-bar.
gloss: Sleep.
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
plural-normally
examples: Time to get some zees.
gloss: To sleep or nap. (Compare zzz, catch some z's.)
pos: verb
tags: Newfoundland
US
informal
intransitive
gloss: To zigzag; to move with sharp alternating turns.
pos: verb
tags: Newfoundland
US
intransitive
rare
Synonyms: zed
izzard
uzzard
Related words: zeta
Derived words: A to Zee
oh zee
oh-zee
ohzee
o-zee
ozee
zee bar
Translations:
vice
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Latin vice (“in place of”), ablative form of vicis. Compare French fois (“time”) and Spanish vez (“time, turn”).
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: in place of; subordinate to; designating a person below another in rank
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: vice president
vice admiral
Translations:
anti-gay
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English anti-
English gay
English anti-gay
From anti- + gay (“homosexual”).
Inflected forms:
form: more anti-gay
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most anti-gay
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: antigay
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: anti-gays
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: antigay
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Against or opposed to gay people, or to rights for gay people.
pos: adj
gloss: One who is against or opposed to gay people, or to rights for gay people.
pos: noun
examples: Even now gay rights ordinances are in danger of being repealed by local and statewide initiatives. Indeed, San Francisco, the self proclaimed gay capital, is in the danger of falling prey to the anti-gays.
Antigays trash Latvia’s first pride parade
Antonyms: pro-gay
Translations:
agonist
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
medicine
microbiology
natural-sciences
pharmacology
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin agōnista, from Ancient Greek ἀγωνιστής (agōnistḗs, “combatant, champion”). By surface analysis, agon or agony + -ist.
Inflected forms:
form: agonists
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Someone involved in a contest or battle (as in an agon), protagonist.
pos: noun
gloss: The muscle that contracts while the other relaxes.
pos: noun
examples: When bending the elbow, the biceps is the agonist.
gloss: A molecule that can combine with a receptor on a cell to produce a physiological reaction.
pos: noun
examples: Acetylcholine is an agonist at the cholinergic receptor.
Derived words: agonistical
agonistics
antagonist
co-agonist
coagonist
deuteragonist
inverse agonist
protagonist
superagonist
tritagonist
Translations:
campfire
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From camp + fire.
Compound parts: camp
fire
Inflected forms:
form: campfires
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A fire at a campground or on a camping trip, often used for cooking, to provide light and heat, to drive away bugs, and as a focal point for sitting around in the evening and talking, telling stories, and singing.
pos: noun
examples: Come, stack arms, Men! Pile on the rails; stir up the campfire bright; no matter if the canteen fails, we'll make a roaring night. Here Shenandoah brawls along, there burly Blue Ridge echoes strong, to swell the Brigade's rousing song, of “Stonewall Jackson’s Way.”
We see him now — the old slouched hat cocked o’er his eye askew, the shrewd, dry smile, the speech so pat, so calm, so blunt, so true. The “Blue-Light Elder” knows ’em well; says he, “That’s Banks — he’s fond of shell; Lord save his soul! We’ll give him” — well, that’s “Stonewall Jackson’s Way.”
Silence! Ground arms! Kneel all! Caps off! Old Blue Light’s going to pray. Strangle the fool that dares to scoff: Attention! 'Tis his way. Appealing from his native sod in forma pauperis to God: “Lay bare thine arm, stretch forth thy rod! Amen!” That’s “Stonewall’s Way.”
He’s in the saddle now. Fall in! Steady, the whole brigade! Hill’s at the ford, cut off — we’ll win his way out, ball and blade! What matter if our shoes are worn? What matter if our feet are torn? “Quick step! We’re with him before the morn!” That’s “Stonewall Jackson’s Way.”
The sun’s bright lances rout the mists of morning, and by George! Here’s Longstreet struggling in the lists, hemmed in an ugly gorge. Pope and his Yankees, whipped before, “Bay’nets and grape!” hear Stonewall roar; “Charge, Stuart! Pay off Ashby’s score!” in “Stonewall Jackson’s Way.”
Ah! Maiden, wait and watch and yearn for news of Stonewall’s band! Ah! Widow read with eyes that burn that ring upon thy hand. Ah! Wife, sew on, pray on, hope on! Thy life shall not be all forlorn. The foe had better ne’er been born that gets in “Stonewall’s Way.”
Energy has seldom been found where we need it when we want it. Ancient nomads, wishing to ward off the evening chill and enjoy a meal around a campfire, had to collect wood and then spend time and effort coaxing the heat of friction out from between sticks to kindle a flame.
Translations:
cease
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English cesen, cessen, from Middle French cesser (“to cease”), from Latin cessō (“leave off”), frequentative of cēdō (“to leave off, go away”). Compare secede.
Inflected forms:
form: ceases
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: ceasing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: ceased
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: ceased
pos: verb
tags: past
form: no-table-tags
pos: verb
tags: table-tags
form: glossary
pos: verb
tags: inflection-template
form: cease
pos: verb
tags: infinitive
form: cease
pos: verb
tags: first-person
present
singular
form: ceased
pos: verb
tags: first-person
past
singular
form: cease
pos: verb
tags: present
second-person
singular
form: ceasest
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
second-person
singular
form: ceased
pos: verb
tags: past
second-person
singular
form: ceasedst
pos: verb
tags: archaic
past
second-person
singular
form: ceases
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: ceaseth
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
singular
third-person
form: ceased
pos: verb
tags: past
singular
third-person
form: cease
pos: verb
tags: plural
present
form: ceased
pos: verb
tags: past
plural
form: cease
pos: verb
tags: present
subjunctive
form: ceased
pos: verb
tags: past
subjunctive
form: cease
pos: verb
tags: imperative
present
form: -
pos: verb
tags: imperative
past
form: ceasing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: ceased
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
Senses:
gloss: To stop.
pos: verb
tags: formal
intransitive
examples: And with that, his twitching ceased.
After a short while, it ceased to rain.
gloss: To stop doing (something).
pos: verb
tags: formal
transitive
examples: And with that, he ceased twitching.
gloss: To be wanting; to fail; to pass away, perish.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
obsolete
examples: The poor shall never cease out of the land.
[...] wherefore ceaſe we then? / Say they who counſel Warr, we are decreed, / Reſerv'd and deſtin'd to Eternal woe;
’Twere best at once to sink to peace,
⁠Like birds the charming serpent draws,
⁠To drop head-foremost in the jaws
Of vacant darkness and to cease.
Related words: cede
cessation
secede
Derived words: cease and desist
ceasefire
ceaseless
ceaser
unceasable
unceased
unceasing
without cease
wonders never cease
Translations:
dell
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English delle, del, from Old English dell (“small dale”), from Proto-West Germanic *dalljā, from Proto-Germanic *daljō. Cognate to Proto-Slavic *dolъ (“below, down; valley, pit”), Welsh dôl (“meadow, dale”) and English dale.
Inflected forms:
form: dells
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A small, deep, and wooded valley or sunken area of ground, especially in the form of a natural hollow.
pos: noun
examples: To this day they dwell
In a lonely dell.
In dells and dales, conceal'd from human sight.
Translations:
efficacious
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Old French efficacieux, from Latin efficāx (“efficacious”) + -ous, from efficere (“to effect, to accomplish”); see effect.
Affixes: -ous
Inflected forms:
form: more efficacious
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most efficacious
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Effective; possessing efficacy.
pos: adj
tags: formal
examples: This medicine is efficacious.
For, that the ordure, which continually gathers on the skin, would ſoon ſtop the pores of it, if the ſweat were not furniſht with ſome efficacious diſſolvent to open and pierce them.
"I see," said he, with a smile, "that you, like myself, are trying the effect of this sweet evening for the headach. I have already found it very efficacious, and so, I think, have you,"—again smiling, as he noticed the deep blush which his sudden appearance had produced.
He would weep for hours together, and I verily believe that to the very end this spoilt child of life thought his weak tears in some way efficacious.
The unquenchable American moralism and the American faith in violence are not just twin symptoms of some character neurosis taking the form of a protracted adolescence, which presages an eventual maturity. They constitute a full-grown, firmly installed national psychosis, founded, as are all psychoses, on the efficacious denial of reality.
By the end of the tenth century, Edith's humility had inspired a cult of holy wells in Kent, Staffordshire, and Herefordshire. Their waters were deemed efficacious for eye conditions.
Translations:
elixir
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: alchemy
pseudoscience
Etymology: From Medieval Latin elixir (“philosopher's stone”), from Arabic اَلْإِكْسِير (al-ʔiksīr, “philosopher's stone”), from Ancient Greek ξηρίον (xēríon, “powder for drying wounds”), from ξηρός (xērós, “dry”).
Inflected forms:
form: elixirs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A liquid which converts lead to gold.
pos: noun
examples: For Chinese alchemists, gold held the key to the Elixir, the Eastern equivalent of the Philosopher's Stone.
gloss: A substance or liquid which is believed to cure all ills and give eternal life.
pos: noun
gloss: The alleged cure for all ailments; cure-all, panacea.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
examples: The silver-bullet cancer cures of yesterday’s newsmagazine covers, like interferon and angiogenesis inhibitors, disappointed the breathless expectations, as have elixirs such as antioxidants, Vioxx, and hormone replacement therapy.
gloss: A sweet flavored liquid (usually containing a small amount of alcohol) used in compounding medicines to be taken by mouth in order to mask an unpleasant taste.
pos: noun
examples: The subcommittee's report to the Council on Pharmacy and Chemistry shows that the action of somnos is practically identical with that of a 5 per cent elixir of hydrated chloral.
Derived words: elixiric
elixirist
elixirlike
elixir of life
elixir of vitriol
elixir proprietatis
elixir vitae
Translations:
lang: Afrikaans
word: elikser
lang: Arabic
word: إِكْسِير
roman: ʔiksīr
lang: Bulgarian
word: еликси́р
roman: eliksír
lang: Catalan
word: elixir
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 鍊金藥 /炼金药
roman: liànjīnyào
lang: Danish
word: eliksir
lang: Finnish
word: eliksiiri
lang: Georgian
word: ელექსირი
roman: eleksiri
lang: German
word: Elixier
lang: Greek
word: ελιξήριο
roman: elixírio
lang: Hungarian
word: elixír
lang: Italian
word: elisir
lang: Japanese
word: エリクサー
roman: erikusā
lang: Korean
word: 엘릭서
roman: ellikseo
lang: Lithuanian
word: eliksyras
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: eliksir
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: eliksir
lang: Portuguese
word: elixir
lang: Russian
word: эликси́р
roman: eliksír
lang: Spanish
word: elixir
lang: Spanish
word: elíxir
lang: Turkish
word: eliksir
amulet
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle French amulette, from Latin amuletum.
Inflected forms:
form: amulets
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: amulette
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A religious article, protective charm, or ornament, usually bearing cultural or magical symbols, worn for protection against ill will, negative influences, or evil spirits.
pos: noun
examples: The soldier wore an amulet for protection.
An ancient amulet was discovered in the ruins.
Translations:
ellen
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: lifestyle
religion
theology
Etymology: From Middle English elne, ellen, from Old English ellen (“zeal, strength, power, vigor, valor, courage, fortitude, strife, contention”), from Proto-West Germanic *alljan, from Proto-Germanic *aljaną (“zeal, power, courage”). Cognate with Middle High German ellen (“strength, manhood”), Middle Low German ellen (“strength, power, courage, vigor, bravery”), Icelandic elja (“endurance, energy”).
Inflected forms:
form: elne
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Zeal.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
uncountable
gloss: Strength; courage.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
uncountable
gloss: Strength vouchsafed; comfort; grace.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
woofer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English woof
English -er
English woofer
From woof + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: woofers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A loudspeaker that produces low-frequency sound.
pos: noun
gloss: A dog.
pos: noun
tags: Internet
Translations:
delete
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: games
gaming
Etymology: From Latin dēlētus, past participle of dēlēre (“destroy, blot out, efface”), from dēlēvī, originally perf. tense of dēlinere (“to daub, erase by smudging”), from dē- (“from, away”) + linere (“to smear, wipe”). Original sense first appears c. 1495. In common use for ordering the absence of features of products (such as automobiles) in the 1960s. The computing sense, including the noun form, first appears c. 1977 in Software: Practice & Experience. Not related to deleterious.
Doublet of delible and deleble.
Inflected forms:
form: deletes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: deleting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: deleted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: deleted
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To remove, get rid of or erase, especially written or printed material, or data on a computer or other device.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Early on in the model year [1968] Pontiac experienced some production problems [in producing polyurethane bumpers] regarding fit, matching paint color, and bonding the material to the base metal. As a result, 2,108 1968 GTOs left the factory with chrome bumpers borrowed from the LeMans. These cars had a special option on their order sheets called "Endura bumper delete." Everyone wanted the Endura bumpers and no one ordered that option of his or her own free will. As soon as Pontiac worked out the production problems the chrome bumpers disappeared for good and "Endura bumper delete" disappeared from the option list.
gloss: To defeat or dominate.
pos: verb
tags: Internet
slang
examples: Also I got deleted by a rogue and druid who were both invisible and just popped up and cleaned me.
gloss: To kill or murder.
pos: verb
tags: slang
transitive
examples: "Go find this guy, Alex," Conch had said. "And delete him."
"[…]The less we discover about him, the more we are convinced he needs to be deleted..."
[…]
"Yes. In other words I kill a terrorist, right?"
I'm a forty-something psychopath who thinks he has the right to delete anyone he sees fit.
She either felt pity for him and put him out of pain, a ridiculous, untrue solution for pity and sorrow are delusions, or she was part of his triangle had to delete him before he spoke again, he had to be silenced.
Synonyms: erase
clear
strike
terminate
remove
redact
rub out
strike out
obliterate
cancel
cross out
score
scrub
scrap
scratch
expunge
eliminate
blue-pencil
exclude
squelch
Antonyms: insert
maintain
Related words: delible
diminish
Derived words: autodelete
deletability
deletable
deletant
deletee
deleter
deletia
deletion
deletive
expletive deleted
nondeleting
redelete
self-delete
soft-delete
speedy delete
undelete
dirty delete
Translations:
dime
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: American-football
ball-games
basketball
football
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Etymology: From Middle English dime, from Anglo-Norman disme (“one tenth, tithe”) (modern French dîme), from Medieval Latin decima, from Latin decima (pars) (“tenth (part)”). Doublet of decim, decima, and decime.
Inflected forms:
form: dimes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: dimes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: diming
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: dimed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: dimed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A coin worth one-tenth of a dollar, that is, ten cents.
pos: noun
tags: Canada
US
examples: The San Francisco mint made about 2.5 million of these dimes, but fewer than 10 are still known to exist, according to Heritage. That’s because a financial crisis in 1893 killed demand for new coinage, and almost all the dimes were melted down.
gloss: A small amount of money.
pos: noun
tags: Canada
US
examples: She didn't spend a dime.
gloss: An assist.
pos: noun
tags: Philippines
US
gloss: A playing card with the rank of ten.
pos: noun
tags: slang
gloss: Ten dollars.
pos: noun
tags: slang
gloss: A thousand dollars.
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: At one point, Rob hit a dire losing streak. In a single week, he dropped a dime—$1,000.
gloss: A measure of illicit drugs (usually marijuana) sold in ten-dollar bags.
pos: noun
tags: slang
gloss: A ten-year prison sentence.
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: These deaths got him a dime in a minimum-security prison.
gloss: Payment responsibility.
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: Are you traveling on the company's dime?
gloss: A beautiful woman (10 on a 10-point scale).
pos: noun
tags: US
slang
examples: Make a couple of nuns a couple of dimes.
Wait in line for drinks, it’s another time out / Made out on the floor with a couple dimes
gloss: A defensive formation with six defensive backs, one of whom is a dimeback.
pos: noun
gloss: A particularly long or precise throw that ends with a catch.
pos: noun
tags: Canadian
gloss: To inform on, to turn in to the authorities, to rat on, especially anonymously.
pos: verb
tags: US
slang
examples: Somebody dimed on me and I got arrested for selling marijuana.
gloss: To operate an audio amplifier (especially an electric guitar amplifier) at level "10" (typically the highest amplification level).
pos: verb
tags: US
slang
examples: I get the best-sounding sustain and smooth harmonic distortion when I run the amp dimed.
Related words: buck
dollar
mill
nickel
quarter
Derived words: bet a dime to a dollar
bet a dollar to a dime
dime a dozen
dimeback
dime back
dime bag
dime-bag
dime-dropper
dime dropper
dimeless
dimelike
dime museum
dime novel
dime novelist
dime piece
dime store
dime's worth
drop a dime
five-and-dime
five and dime
half dime
Mercury dime
nickel-and-dime
nickel and dime
not worth a dime
on a dime
on someone's dime
on someone's own dime
Yankee dime
Translations:
origami
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 折(お)り紙(がみ) (origami), from 折(お)り (ori, “to fold”) + 紙(かみ) (kami, “paper”).
Inflected forms:
form: origamis
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: origamis
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: origamiing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: origamied
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: origamied
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: The Japanese art of paper folding.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: JongRak was a 10-year-old boy whose hands, eyes, and questions were all about origami: “Teacher, do you know how to fold a jumping frog?” With his deft little hands, he would teach me and the class how to fold a sunflower and a cicada. At some point, every kid’s little hands and pockets were filled with tiny origami models.
gloss: A piece of art made by folding paper.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: The production notes are folded like the funny origamis that I made in grammar school (only I used to write boy's names inside each section).
gloss: The materials science technology that applies the art of origami to products.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: The materials science that studies origami applications in various material.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: The mathematics field that studies folding two-dimensional surfaces into three-dimensional structures, using folds and creases akin to those in the art of origami.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: To construct by means of decorative paper folding.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: He snatched my serviette and swiftly origamied a swan.
Related words: chiyogami
kirigami
Derived words: aerogami
cablegami
microorigami
origamic
origamically
origami crane
origamilike
origamist
scorigami
thick origami
toilegami
weathergami
Translations:
zed
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English zed, zedde, zede, from Old French zede, from Late Latin zeta, from Ancient Greek ζῆτα (zêta), from Hebrew ז (zayin) with influence from βῆτα (bêta), ἦτα (êta) and θῆτα (thêta). The letter had a rare usage in Old English, such as in bezt, where it represented "ts" (compare the German, Italian, and Finnish pronunciation of Z). For the sleep sense, see zzz. The zombie sense comes from the initial letter. Doublet of zeta. Cognate to Spanish zeta, German Zett, French zède, Italian zeta, and perhaps Portuguese zê.
Inflected forms:
form: zeds
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: zeds
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: zedding
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: zedded
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: zedded
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: The name of the Latin script letter Z/z.
pos: noun
tags: Commonwealth
Ireland
examples: Zzz...With all those ʻzedsʼ I'll be sending you to sleep.
gloss: Something Z-shaped.
pos: noun
tags: Commonwealth
Ireland
in-compounds
examples: zed-bar
gloss: Sleep.
pos: noun
tags: Commonwealth
Ireland
colloquial
plural-normally
examples: I'm going to go get some zeds.
gloss: A zombie.
pos: noun
tags: Commonwealth
Ireland
slang
examples: A horde of zeds began to shuffle into the shopping mall.
gloss: To sleep or nap. (Compare zzz, catch some z's.)
pos: verb
tags: Commonwealth
Ireland
UK
informal
intransitive
examples: Zedding hogs. Sleep sippers and spitters. Look at 'em cooking in their own snoring heat. One nose after another.
I guess I must have zedded, for I find a police officer, the same one that nicked me, shaking me.
"Zedding away." "God, I was having the most awful dream. That you'd got lost by the sea and I couldn't find you and something was chasing me, me and Evie."
gloss: To zigzag; to move with sharp alternating turns.
pos: verb
tags: Commonwealth
Ireland
UK
intransitive
rare
examples: We were zedding hell-bells up the hill towards Cervione, with a bank of road metal and a precipice on our left...
Licking his lips, his hand zedded on my thigh and he commented, penetratingly, that it wasn't pussy, but that driving the unmade road wasn't at all bad.
Synonyms: zee
izzard
uzzard
Related words: zeta
Derived words: A to Zed
Generation Zed
Gen Zed
Gen Zedder
Gen-Zedder
Zed
zed-bed
Zed-car
zedsexual
Translations:
solitude
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English solitude, from Old French solitude, from Latin sōlitūdō. By surface analysis, sole + -itude.
Inflected forms:
form: solitudes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Aloneness; the state of being alone, solitary, or by oneself.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Now the New Year reviving old Desires,
The thoughtful Soul to Solitude retires,
Where the White Hand of Moses on the Bough
Puts out, and Jesus from the Ground suspires.
Cranks like Rousseau made solitude glamorous, but sensible people agreed that it was really terrible.
As much as I definitely enjoy solitude / I wouldn't mind perhaps / Spending little time with you
gloss: A lonely or deserted place.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Mark where his carnage and his conquests cease!
 He makes a solitude, and calls it — peace.
[S]uch an one […] recalls as a vision of Paradise the land he has learnt to love; he exaggerates the insalubrity of a northern climate; he bewails the wretched formality of our civilised life, and so, back to the distant solitudes flies his recollection like a dove to the wilderness.
Synonyms: aloneness
isolation
loneliness
loneness
onehead
oneship
onlyhood
onliness
seclusion
solitariness
solitude
Antonyms: closeness
intimacy
togetherness
Related words: sole
soliloquy
solitary
solitudinous
solitudinously
solo
loneliness
solitarily
by oneself
uniqueness
Derived words: solitudinal
solitudinarian
two solitudes
Translations: