yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
statist
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *steh₂-
Proto-Italic *status
Latin statuslbor.
Old French estatbor.
Middle English stat
English state
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)
Proto-Hellenic *-tās
Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs)
Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)bor.
Latin -istader.
Old French -istebor.
Middle English -ist
English -ist
English statist
From state + -ist.
Inflected forms:
form: statists
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: more statist
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most statist
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: A supporter of statism.
pos: noun
gloss: A statistician.
pos: noun
tags: dated
gloss: A skilled politician or one with political power, knowledge or influence.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
examples: [O]ur Tympanouſe ſtatiſts / (In their affected grauitie of voice, / Sovverneſſe of countenance, maners crueltie, / Authoritie, vvealth, and all the ſpavvne of Fortune) / Thinke they beare all the kingdomes vvorth before them; […]
Statists and Politicians, unto whom Ragione di Stato is the first Considerable, as though it were their business to deceive the people, as a Maxim, do hold, that truth is to be concealed from them […].
gloss: Pertaining to statism.
pos: adj
examples: It was as if the Samizdat spirit, extended and intensified by the proliferation of do-it-yourself media, had rendered the centralised, statist tyrannies of the Soviet Union untenable.
By the early 1950s, however, the rising expectations for economic growth in the developing world were being dashed by the failure of foreign investment to materialize and by the declining terms of trade in these same raw materials, increasing the appeal of statist solutions.
Instead, he [Barack Obama] and [Gordon] Brown stand together, supposedly the representatives of Anglo-American turbocapitalism, struggling to push the statist French and Germans—and this is the bit that was in nobody's script—leftward.
This is why the Conservative programme for government is founded on such a radical revolt against the statist approach of the Big Government that always knows best.
Derived words: antistatist
Translations:
tantamount
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: First attested in English in 1628. Either inherited from an unattested Middle English borrowing from Anglo-Norman tant amount, from amunter, from tant (“as much”) amonter (“to amount to”) or borrowed in the early 17th century from Italian tanto montare (“to amount to as much”).
Inflected forms:
form: more tantamount
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most tantamount
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Equivalent in meaning or effect; amounting to the same thing in practical terms, even if being technically distinct.
pos: adj
examples: Every moment might bring the British cruisers in sight,—two important expeditions had already been baffled in that way,—and the absolute certainty, known to all parties alike, that delay, under these circumstances, was tantamount to ruin; […]
[…] expecting the woman to take her attacker into physical custody is tantamount to preventing the arrest. If she could handle him, she probably would not need to call the police in the first place.
In Bosnia, as in Rwanda, however, passive neutrality was tantamount to complicity with the perpetrators of “ethnic cleansing” and mass murder.
Russia has said that it considers the weapons and other increased military aid that Western governments are sending to Ukraine tantamount to war, and has implied that it might strike NATO convoys.
“Defendants’ representations to this Court that Mr. Musk is not running DOGE are tantamount to legal gaslighting,” CREW said.
Translations:
A-minor
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
Inflected forms:
form: A-minors
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: the minor key with A as its tonic
pos: noun
gloss: the minor chord with a root of A
pos: noun
Translations:
yaar
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Hindustani یار (yār) / यार (yār), from Classical Persian یار (yār).
Inflected forms:
form: yaars
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A friend, pal, or buddy.
pos: noun
tags: India
Pakistan
examples: Help me, yaar!
‘I'm going to make the most of my life now, yaar,’ he said.
gloss: A lover.
pos: noun
tags: India
Pakistan
examples: He was my yaar.
Related words: yaari
Translations:
redundant
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: communications
computing
engineering
journalism
literature
mathematics
media
natural-sciences
networking
physical-sciences
publishing
sciences
writing
Etymology: From Latin redundāns, present participle of redundō (“to overflow, redound”), from red- (“again, back”) + undō (“to surge, flood”), from unda (“a wave”).
Inflected forms:
form: more redundant
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most redundant
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Superfluous; exceeding what is necessary, no longer needed.
pos: adj
examples: It is allowed, that Senates and great Councils are often troubled with redundant, ebullient, and other peccant Humours, with many Diſeaſes of the Head and more of the Heart; […]
In the living state, the body is observed to receive aliment; to assimilate a part; to evacuate what is redundant or useless; […]
A key driver has been the approval of a new housing and employment development called Fawley Waterside, with 1,500 homes planned on the site of a redundant power station on the edge of Southampton Water.
Two entrants shared this award for their work on two quite different stations, but with the same purpose of bringing a redundant station building back into use for the benefit of the community, with the added result of conserving an historic building.
gloss: Repetitive or needlessly wordy.
pos: adj
gloss: Dismissed from employment because no longer needed.
pos: adj
tags: Australia
Ireland
New-Zealand
UK
examples: Four employees were made redundant.
gloss: Duplicating or able to duplicate the function of another component of a system, providing backup in the event the other component fails.
pos: adj
examples: The two lines are mainly used for redundant and therefore fault-tolerant message transmission, but they can also transmit different messages.
gloss: Containing duplicate pathways to send a message.
pos: adj
Synonyms: acervatim
adscititious
dropsical
duplicate
excessive
exorbitant
expletive
extra
extraneous
extravagant
gash
gorged
inessential
inordinate
lavish
needless
nonessential
overflowing
overmuch
overweening
plethoric
prodigal
profuse
repetitive
replete
spare
superabundant
supererogatory
superfluous
supernumerary
supersaturated
supervacaneous
surplus
surplusage
too many
too much
unnecessary
verbose
Antonyms: non-redundant
inadequate
lacking
needed
Related words: redound
redundance
redundancy
drenched
expendable
turgid
Derived words: georedundant
irredundant
nonredundant
redundant acronym syndrome
redundantant
redundant array of independent disks
redundant colon
redundantly
redundundant
reredundant
semiredundant
Translations:
polo
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Balti پولو (polo, “ball”). Cognate with Tibetan པོ་ལོ (po lo), ཕོ་ལོང (pho long), སྤོ་ལོ (spo lo, “ball”).
Inflected forms:
form: polos
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A ball game where two teams of players on horseback use long-handled mallets to propel the ball along the ground and into their opponent's goal.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: There were polo fields – sometimes green, sometimes brown – where in the old days, people had actually played that strange game that seems like a drunken bet about golf and horse riding.
gloss: The game of ice polo, one of the ancestors of ice hockey; a similar game played on the ice, or on a prepared floor, by players wearing skates.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: A polo shirt.
pos: noun
tags: countable
usually
examples: Then on the second floor there is the creepy boy’s section, which had little headless mannequins in premium polos ($39.50), rugby shirts ($49.50) and a precocious leather pilot jacket for $148.
Derived words: auto polo
canoe polo
cycle polo
elephant polo
ice polo
kayak polo
polocrosse
poloist
polo neck
polo-neck
polo neck sweater
polo player
polo pony
polo shirt
polo-stick
tennis polo
water polo
Translations:
statism
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From stat(e) + -ism. Doublet of etatism. First attested in c. 1600.
Base: state
Affixes: -ism
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of secularism: subservience of religious issues to political officials and expediency.
pos: noun
tags: derogatory
obsolete
uncountable
examples: Religion turned into Statisme, will soone prooue Atheisme.
gloss: Synonym of statecraft or statesmanship.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
uncountable
examples: My great Cousin hauing euermore
From my greene yeares accepted my aduise
In points of statisme...
gloss: Synonym of government or governance.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
uncountable
examples: [The Ten Commandments] have formed the basis of every system of statism adopted by the civilized communities of the earth.
gloss: The belief that most or all political power should be centralized in national governments.
pos: noun
tags: derogatory
often
uncountable
examples: Near-synonyms: big government, dirigisme
Bismarck... believes in State insurance in State activities, in place of individual action. But this is not Socialism. It is Statism.
Republican Senator Charles L. McNary concluded his Vice-Presidential campaign tonight with the charge the New Deal is ‘taking deeper and deeper refuge in paternalism and statism’.
As the economic derivative of libertarianism, laissez-faire capitalism is an economics of life, of rationality. […] And, like libertarianism, it is the only viable solution to the catastrophe of statism in the modern age.
[…]; social welfare policies reward parasitical living rather than risk-taking; a truly atavistic, sick attachment to the compulsion and non-meritocratic elitism of statism as a way of life; […] have all retarded and will continue to retard Europeans.
gloss: The belief that most or nearly all political power should be decentralized to provincial governments.
pos: noun
tags: derogatory
often
uncountable
examples: The joint note of Austria and Prussia... appears thus to have worked more good than moderation and good sense generally achieve over faction and petty-Statism.
To him... we owe that sentiment of nationalism prevailing over statism... without which the Union would have parted.
gloss: The belief that the state is a legitimate social institution.
pos: noun
tags: derogatory
often
uncountable
Related words: statocracy
Derived words: antistatism
nanny statism
statist
welfare statism
Translations:
womanish
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English wommanyssh. Equivalent to woman + -ish. The verb is from the adjective.
Base: woman
Affixes: -ish
Inflected forms:
form: more womanish
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most womanish
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: womannish
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: Characteristic of a woman; effeminate, feminine.
pos: adj
tags: derogatory
often
examples: […] Romans novv / Haue Thevves, and Limbes, like to their Anceſtors; / But vvoe the vvhile, our Fathers mindes are dead, / And vve are gouern'd vvith our Mothers ſpirits, / Our yoake, and ſufferance, ſhevv vs VVomaniſh.
The Fence was a proper Park paling in excellent condition; with clusters of fine Elms, or rows of old Thorns following its line almost every where.—Almost must be stipulated—for there were vacant spaces & through one of these, Charlotte as soon as they entered the Enclosure, caught a glimpse over the pales of something White & Womanish in the field on the other side;—it was a something which immediately brought Miss B. into her head—& stepping to the pales, she saw indeed—& very decidedly, in spite of the Mist; Miss B—seated, not far before her, at the foot of the bank which sloped down from the outside of the Paling & which a narrow Path seemed to skirt along;—Miss Brereton seated, apparently very composedly—& Sir E. D. by her side.
I don't very much wonder at her fright. We have met before; but I owe her no grudge, and we must not wait for womanish fear.
Friends are a comfort in misfortune, but one should not make them unhappy by seeking their sympathy, as is done by women and womanish men.
Perhaps he did too, for he turned scarlet and turned his face away to the wall, with a womanish gesture of shyness.
gloss: Carried out by or pertaining to a woman.
pos: adj
examples: And gan recomfort her in her rude vvyſe, / VVith vvomaniſh compaſſion of her plaint, / VViping the teares from her ſuffuſed eyes, […]
Related words: old-womanish
womanly
Translations:
pela
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From informal romanization of Chinese 白蠟 /白蜡 (báilà).
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of Chinese wax.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Thus we have the myrtle wax of America extracted from the berries of the myrica cerifera, and the pela of the Chinese.
Translations:
electromagnet
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
French électro-bor.
Ancient Greek ἤλεκτρον (ḗlektron)bor.
Latin ēlectrum
Latin electro-bor.
English electro-
Old French magnetebor.
Pre-Greekbor.?
Ancient Greek Μάγνης (Mágnēs)
Ancient Greek μᾰ́γνης (mắgnēs)bor.
Latin magnēsbor.
Middle English magnete
English magnet
English electromagnet
From electro- + magnet.
Inflected forms:
form: electromagnets
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: electro-magnet
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A magnet which attracts metals only when electrically activated.
pos: noun
examples: Hold the electromagnet near something made of iron and push the switch (S2). […] Large electromagnets are used to move things around at factories and junkyards.
Translations:
magnetism
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
Etymology: Etymology tree
Old French magnetebor.
Pre-Greekbor.?
Ancient Greek Μάγνης (Mágnēs)
Ancient Greek μᾰ́γνης (mắgnēs)bor.
Latin magnēsbor.
Middle English magnete
English magnet
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)
Proto-Indo-European *-mos
Proto-Indo-European *-mós
Ancient Greek -μός (-mós)
Ancient Greek -ισμός (-ismós)der.
English -ism
English magnetism
From magnet + -ism.
Inflected forms:
form: magnetisms
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The property of being magnetic.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Earth is surrounded by a magnetosphere — an invisible bubble of magnetism generated by the powerful churning of molten metals at Earth’s core.
gloss: The science which treats of magnetic phenomena.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Power of attraction; power to excite the feelings and to gain the affections.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Animal magnetism.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Mediums [...] should also realise that it is essential to lead a particularly abstinent life, and to conserve their magnetism.
Derived words: altermagnetism
animal magnetism
antiferromagnetism
archaeomagnetism
biomagnetism
chromomagnetism
diamagnetism
directional magnetism
electromagnetism
femtomagnetism
ferrimagnetism
ferromagnetism
galvanomagnetism
geomagnetism
gravitomagnetism
gyromagnetism
heliomagnetism
magnetism-based interaction capture
metamagnetism
micromagnetism
mictomagnetism
nanomagnetism
neuromagnetism
palaeomagnetism
paleomagnetism
paramagnetism
photomagnetism
phrenomagnetism
piezomagnetism
pyromagnetism
thermomagnetism
thermoremanent magnetism
zoomagnetism
Translations:
girlish
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English girl
Proto-Indo-European *-iskos
Proto-Germanic *-iskaz
Proto-West Germanic *-isk
Old English -isċ
Middle English -ish
English -ish
English girlish
From girl + -ish.
Inflected forms:
form: more girlish
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most girlish
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Like (that of) a girl; feminine.
pos: adj
examples: She saw her own face, glowing with girlish beauty, and illuminating all the interior of the dusky mirror in which she had been wont to gaze at it.
Three little maids from school are we, / Pert as a school-girl well can be, / Filled to the brim with girlish glee, / Three little maids from school!
April, April, / Laugh thy girlish laughter; / Then, the moment after, / Weep thy girlish tears!
gloss: Of or relating to girlhood.
pos: adj
tags: archaic
examples: 1602, Richard Carew, The Survey of Cornwall, London: E. Law, 1769, pp. 119-20, http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/9878/pg9878-images.html
This village was the birth-place of Thomasine Bonauenture, I know not, whether by descent, or euent, so called: for whiles in her girlish age she kept sheepe on the foreremembered moore, it chanced that a London merchant passing by, saw her […] .
Related words: schoolgirlish
boyish
womanish
Derived words: girlishly
girlishness
little-girlish
ungirlish
Translations:
sharpen
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English scharpenen, scharpnen, equivalent to sharp + -en.
Base: sharp
Affixes: -en
Inflected forms:
form: sharpens
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: sharpening
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: sharpened
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: sharpened
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To make sharp.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
sometimes
transitive
examples: to sharpen a pencil or a knife or a musical note
He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill.
The use of algorithms in policing is one example of their increasing influence on our lives.[…]who, if anyone, is policing their use. Such concerns were sharpened further by the continuing revelations about how the US National Security Agency (NSA) has been using algorithms to help it interpret the colossal amounts of data it has collected from its covert dragnet of international telecommunications.
gloss: To become sharp.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: The organizers said they had found themselves "more involved in the web of social convulsions and violence that is tormenting our country. The present economic crisis, the grave political instability and the rapidly sharpening violence have finally overtaken […] our wishes.
Synonyms: hone
whet
Antonyms: blunt
blur
Derived words: missharpen
oversharpen
presharpen
resharpen
sharpenable
sharpener
sharpen up
unsharpen
Translations:
sharpener
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English sharpen
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 sharpener
From sharpen + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: sharpeners
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A device for making things sharp.
pos: noun
examples: There was a pencil sharpener at the front of the classroom.
gloss: That which makes something sharp.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
examples: “Sir,” said the shepherd, “poverty is a great sharpener of the wits. […]
The snuff-box, knife, and chicken-bones were again in requisition, and a pen was successfully formed. The ink, or at least its substitute, was rather more difficult, but necessity is always a sharpener of intellect, and even this was accomplished.
gloss: An alcoholic drink taken at the start of the day, or just before a meal.
pos: noun
tags: informal
examples: The summery G&T somehow loses its clink-clink-fizz perfection as an after-work sharpener and just seems to rub our noses in the dank gloom ahead.
And the new daycap has little in common with the stiff gin of the old-fashioned sharpener. Instead, it revolves around “spritz culture, mood-based cocktails, and small serves that tap into the sweet treat economy”.
Related words: sharp
Derived words: pencil sharpener
Translations:
punta
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A Garifuna style of festive music and dance.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
debater
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English debate
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 debater
From debate + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: debaters
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who debates or participates in a debate; one who argues.
pos: noun
examples: William is a great debater.
Benjamin Disraeli, who was a pretty bright guy—a novelist, debater, and prime minister of England—tried to identify a person once and ended up exclaiming, "A Polish nobleman, a Count somebody; I never can remember their crack-jaw name."
Chief among the strategies exploiting this rule was "spreading" (a combination of "speed" and "reading"), where debaters would rattle off arguments at a blistering pace. Their speeches often exceeded 300 words per minute. (A conversational pace is about 60 per minute.)
Translations:
deceleration
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From de- + (ac)celeration.
Base: acceleration
Affixes: de-
Inflected forms:
form: decelerations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act or process of decelerating.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: The rocket is now in deceleration.
Comparing both Regions' 1959 services against those of 1939 an appreciable deceleration is evident. This was due to increased loadings, even though more trains were being run, while on the W.R. in particular the increased volume of freight traffic over the line shared the blame.
gloss: The amount by which a speed or velocity decreases (and so a scalar quantity or a vector quantity), an acceleration having a negative numerical value.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: The brakes produce a deceleration of 10 metres per second.
Antonyms: acceleration
Related words: decelerate
Derived words: cardiodeceleration
decelerational
decelerationism
decelerationist
equideceleration
Translations:
deduct
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin deductus, perfect passive participle of verb deducere (“lead from”).
Inflected forms:
form: deducts
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: deducting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: deducted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: deducted
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To take one thing from another; remove from; make smaller or less by some amount.
pos: verb
examples: I will deduct the cost of the can of peas from the money I owe you.
The player was deducted a point for violent conduct.
Translations:
lateen
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: nautical
transport
Etymology: From French latine (“Latin”).
Inflected forms:
form: lateens
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A triangular fore-and-aft sail set on a boom in such way that the tack is attached to the hull of the vessel and the free end of the boom lifts the sail.
pos: noun
examples: The shape of the lateen sail is triangular, or precisely that of a large fore-sail; it requires a long tapering yard to spread it, which will slightly bow or bend towards the middle when a stiff breeze fills the sail; a boom is used for some lateen sails, but not for all.
Not only is its supporting and controlling rigging best suited to that sail position but, even more important, the sail itself thus presents a rigid leading-edge: the mast, in the case of most modern sailboats, or the yardarm to which the sail is attached, in the case of the medieval Mediterranean lateen or the modern Sailfish.
Fore-and-aft rigs come in a variety of shapes, but the medieval Mediterranean lateen was triangular, and this too was an asset.
The lateen sail is triangular or a quadrilateral which is almost triangular, the former being the type used by the Byzantines.
1995, George F. Hourani, John Carswell, Arab Seafaring in the Indian Ocean in Ancient and Early Medieval Times, Princeton University Press, Expanded Edition, page 103,
The mere fact that this type of lateen no longer exists in the Mediterranean proves nothing; it is always possible that it might have originated there and later given way there to the still superior triangular form. But there are more substantial reasons for believing that the lateen came from the Indian Ocean to the Mediterranean. The earliest evidence of the existence of lateens in the Mediterranean is in Greek Byzantine manuscripts of the late ninth century, which show drawings of lateens (Plates 5 and 6).
Translations:
savant
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from French savant, from Latin sapiō. Doublet of sapient. Sense 3 is a clipping of idiot savant, literally ‘wise idiot’.
Inflected forms:
form: savants
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person of learning, especially one who is versed in literature or science.
pos: noun
gloss: A person who is considered eminent because of their achievements.
pos: noun
gloss: A person with or without significant mental disabilities who is very gifted in one area of activity, such as playing the piano or mental arithmetic.
pos: noun
Synonyms: erudite
expert
Related words: Homo sapiens
insipid
insipience
insipient
sapid
sapience
sapiens
sapient
savvy
Derived words: autistic savant
idiot savant
savantic
savantish
savantism
savant syndrome
Translations:
tosspot
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From toss + pot.
Compound parts: toss
pot
Inflected forms:
form: tosspots
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: toss-pot
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A drunkard, one who drinks alcohol frequently.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
colloquial
examples: The Muses shame to remember some fresh quaffers of Helicon; and which of the Graces or Virtues blusheth not to name some lusty tosspots of rhetoric?
We see our carowsing tospot German souldiers, when they are most plunged in their cups and as drunke as rats, to have perfect remembrance of their quarter, of the watchword, and of their files.
gloss: A fool, prat; an idiot.
pos: noun
tags: Ireland
UK
offensive
slang
examples: Well, that's one in the eye for the nay-sayers, the doubters, the cynics and assorted tosspots what make up the media and that.
Synonyms: reel-pot
squeeze-grape
Derived words: tosspottery
Translations:
phwoar
Part of speech: intj
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Imitative of the sound made, with the mouth initially partly closed and then opened wide.
Inflected forms:
form: phwoars
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: phwoaring
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: phwoared
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: phwoared
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Expresses sexual desire on seeing a person to whom one is attracted.
pos: intj
tags: UK
slang
examples: That Susan, phwoar!
For quotations using this term, see Citations:phwoar.
gloss: To express sexual desire upon seeing a person that one finds sexually attractive.
pos: verb
Translations:
catapult
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle French catapulte, from Latin catapulta, from Ancient Greek καταπέλτης (katapéltēs), from κατά (katá, “downwards, into, against”) + πάλλω (pállō, “to poise or sway a missile before it is thrown”). Doublet of catapulta.
Inflected forms:
form: catapults
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: catapults
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: catapulting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: catapulted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: catapulted
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A device or weapon for throwing or launching large objects.
pos: noun
gloss: A mechanical aid on aircraft carriers designed to help airplanes take off from the flight deck.
pos: noun
gloss: A slingshot.
pos: noun
tags: UK
gloss: An instance of firing a missile from a catapult.
pos: noun
gloss: An instance of firing something, as if from a catapult.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
examples: The visitors were given notice of what was to come when Huth headed wide from a Rory Delap long throw but failed to heed the warning, allowing the German defender to rise unmarked to meet another Delap catapult and plant his header into the net after 12 minutes.
gloss: To fire a missile from a catapult.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To fire or launch something, as if from a catapult.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To increase the status of something rapidly.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The candidate selection for running mate has catapulted her to the national scene.
I was catapulted without preparation into the most difficult job any mortal man can hold. My duties would not wait a week, or a day, or even an hour.
England will not be catapulted among the favourites for Euro 2012 as a result of this win, but no victory against Spain is earned easily and it is right they take great heart from their efforts as they now prepare to play Sweden at Wembley on Tuesday.
gloss: To be fired from a catapult or as if from a catapult.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To have one's status increased rapidly.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: She catapulted to the national scene following her selection by the candidate.
Related words: catapeltic
ballista
crossbow
onager
siege engine
trebuchet
trebucket
Derived words: catapultable
catapult effect
catapult fruit
catapultian
catapultic
catapultlike
hand catapult
Translations:
lang: Danish
word: katapultering
lang: Finnish
word: tykitys
centigrade
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *déḱm̥t
Proto-Indo-European *ḱm̥tóm
Proto-Italic *kəntom
Latin centum
Latin centi-bor.
French centi-bor.
English centi-
English grade
English centigrade
From centi- (“hundred”) + grade (“degree”).
Inflected forms:
form: centigrades
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Having 100 divisions between two fixed points.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Celsius.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: A centigrade scale for temperature having the freezing point of water defined as 0° and its boiling point defined as 100° at standard atmospheric pressure.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: all temperatures are expressed in centigrade unless otherwise noted
a temperature of 34 centigrade
Earth is one degree Centigrade hotter today than in pre-industrial times.
gloss: A single degree on this scale.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
countable
usually
examples: a temperature of 34 centigrades
gloss: The scale for angle measurement on which a gradian (a grad or gon) is the hundredth part of a quadrant.
pos: noun
tags: countable
usually
Related words: decigrade
Derived words: degree centigrade
Translations:
lang: Arabic
word: مِئَوِيّ
roman: miʔawiyy
lang: Catalan
word: centígrad
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 百分度的
roman: bǎifēndùde
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 攝氏溫度的 /摄氏温度的
roman: shèshìwēndùde
lang: Finnish
word: celsiusasteikko
lang: German
word: hundertgradig
lang: German
word: hundertteilig
lang: Māori
word: whakarautanga
lang: Māori
word: henekereti
lang: Māori
word: tohurau
lang: Polish
word: stopień Celsjusza
lang: Swahili
word: sentigredi
lang: Swedish
word: celsiusgrad
lang: Turkish
word: santigrat
lang: Ottoman Turkish
word: سانتیغراد
roman: santigrad
lang: Vietnamese
word: thang bách phân
phosphine
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: business
chemistry
dyeing
inorganic-chemistry
manufacturing
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
textiles
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂-
Proto-Indo-European *bʰéh₂os
Proto-Hellenic *pʰáwos
Ancient Greek φᾰ́ος (phắos)
Ancient Greek φῶς (phôs)
Proto-Indo-European *bʰer-
Proto-Indo-European *bʰéreti
Proto-Hellenic *pʰérō
Ancient Greek φέρω (phérō)
Proto-Indo-European *-os
Proto-Hellenic *-os
Ancient Greek -ος (-os)
Ancient Greek -φόρος (-phóros)
Ancient Greek φωσφόρος (phōsphóros)bor.
Latin phōsphorusbor.
English phosphorusclip.
English phosph-
Proto-Indo-European *-nós
Proto-Indo-European *-iHnos
Proto-Italic *-īnos
Latin -īnusder.
Old French -inbor.
Middle English -in
English -ine
English phosphine
From phosph- + -ine.
Inflected forms:
form: phosphines
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A toxic gas, chemical formula PH₃.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: Any alkyl or aryl derivative of this compound, PR₃ (where at least one R is not H),
pos: noun
tags: countable
gloss: Chrysaniline, often in the form of a salt.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Synonyms: phosphane
phosphorus hydride
phosphureted hydrogen
Related words: phosphazene
phosphazine
Derived words: acylphosphine
alkylphosphine
allenylphosphine
allylphosphine
aminodiphosphine
aminophosphine
arylphosphine
biphosphine
bisphosphine
carbamoylphosphine
chlorodimethylphosphine
chlorophosphine
cyclohexyldiphenylphosphine
dichlorophenylphosphine
dicyclohexylphenylphosphine
diethyl phosphine
diphosphine
ferrocenylphosphine
halophosphine
iminophosphine
monoethyl phosphine
organophosphine
oxaphosphine
phosphine imide
phosphine oxide
phosphine sulfide
phosphine sulphide
phosphinic
phosphinic acid
phosphinous
phosphinyl
primary phosphine
secondary phosphine
silylphosphine
tertiary phosphine
trialkylphosphine
triarylphosphine
tributylphosphine
tricyclohexylphosphine
triethyl phosphine
trimethylphosphine
trioctylphosphine
trivinylphosphine
vinylphosphine
Translations:
booty
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: nautical
transport
Etymology: From Middle English buty, botye, bottyne, from Old French butin, botin, from Middle Low German bǖte (“distribution, exchange, loot”), of obscure origin, but related to Middle High German biute, German Beute (“booty”). Possibly ultimately from Proto-Celtic *boudi (“profit, gains; victory”). Sense perhaps influenced by boot (as in to boot).
Inflected forms:
form: booties
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: bootyn
pos: noun
tags: alternative
archaic
form: bootyn
pos: adj
tags: alternative
archaic
Senses:
gloss: A form of prize which, when a ship was captured at sea, could be distributed at once.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Plunder taken from an enemy in time of war, or seized by piracy.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The soldier gets his booty ; the combatant his spoils ; the carnivorous animal his prey. Booty respects what is of personal service to the captor ; spoils whatever serves to designate his triumph ; prey includes whatever gratifies the appetite and is to be consumed.
Hungry for fame and the approval of rare-animal collector Queen Victoria (Imelda Staunton), Darwin deceives the Captain and his crew into believing they can get enough booty to win the pirate competition by entering Polly in a science fair. So the pirates journey to London in cheerful, blinkered defiance of the Queen, a hotheaded schemer whose royal crest reads simply “I hate pirates.”
gloss: Something that has been stolen or illegally, mischievously, or greedily obtained from elsewhere.
pos: noun
tags: countable
figuratively
uncountable
examples: After returning from their Halloween trick-or-treating, the kids settled down to enjoy their booty of candies.
[H]e ſtood ſtill till ſhe came to him, and then, ſpreading his arms in her way, caught her, loaded as ſhe was with the pieces of candles, with which ſhe had filled the forepart of her ſhift; for ſhe had, in her haste, forgot to bring any thing to carry them off. […] If ſhe ſpoke to refuſe him, ſhe knew her voice would betray her, and ſhe ſhould be exposed for ever, at the same time that the fear of loſing her booty prevented her letting go her hold to ſtruggle with him, and ſtrive to repel force by force.
Booty and prey are often used in an extended sense. Plunderers obtain a rich booty ; the diligent bee returns loaded with its booty.
“Aw yeah, I'm rich! So rich, I'll never have to work again. But you will. We'll come back every day 'til that snout of yours is worn to the bone.” “It doesn't have a bone. It's boneless.” “Well, worn to a stump then. Yeah, you know what I mean. Now come on! We need to haul this booty to the surface.”
gloss: Of low quality; bad.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
slang
vulgar
Synonyms: boodle
booty
fang
gizzit
haul
hot property
loot
pelf
pickings
pillage
plunder
prigging
sack
spoil
spoils
swag
Related words: boodle
manubial
fence
stauling-ken
swag bag
leave someone holding the bag
too hot to hold
Derived words: a fair booty makes many a thief
freebooter
play booty
Translations:
Islamism
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
French islamismebor.
English Islamism
Appearing in English in the 1740s, from French islamisme (1720s), paralleling the French christianisme and judaïsme. By surface analysis, Islam + -ism.
Base: Islam
Affixes: -ism
Inflected forms:
form: Islamisms
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Islamisme
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The religion of Muslims; Islam.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Muhammed [...] first manifested and obserued the Religion of Islamisme [...]
‘There is no God but God, and Mahommed is his prophet’. A confession of faith which is in itself a declaration of Islamism.
Those of Meshed further assured him, that at Candahar there are descendants of Simeon, also of Joseph (i. e. of Ephraim and Manasseh,) though they were outwardly conformed to Islamism;³ and he himself, when in Arabia, met with Israelites who declared themselves, and were believed by the Jews, to be of the tribe of Dan. Their usual residence was near Terim in Hatramawt.
They were the outposts and frontiers of Islamism.
The people of Matabello, like those of most of the Mahometan villages of East Ceram and Goram, amused me much by their strange ideas concerning the Russian war. They believe that the Russians were not only most thoroughly beaten by the Turks, but were absolutely conquered, and all converted to Islamism!
gloss: A popular reform movement advocating the reordering of government and society in accordance with laws prescribed by Islam.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Tibi makes an absolute distinction between Islamism, which he regards as a totalitarian political ideology resembling Nazism and communism, and Islam, the religion to which he adheres.
gloss: Islamic fundamentalism, especially the forms that promote violence, hostility, and persecution of non-believers.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
countable
uncountable
Translations:
tributary
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: anatomy
geography
hydrology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
Etymology: PIE word
 *tréyes
From Middle English tributarie (“paying tribute”), from Latin tribūtārius, from tribūtum (“tribute”).
Inflected forms:
form: tributaries
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A natural water stream that flows into a larger river or other body of water.
pos: noun
gloss: A vein which drains into another vein.
pos: noun
examples: The great saphenous vein is a tributary of the femoral vein.
gloss: A nation, state, or other entity that pays tribute.
pos: noun
examples: An earneſt Coniuration from the King, / As England was his faithfull Tributary
gloss: Related to the paying of tribute.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Subordinate; inferior.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: to grace his tributary gods
gloss: Yielding supplies of any kind; serving to form or make up, a greater object of the same kind, as a part, branch, etc.; contributing.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The Ohio has many tributary streams, and is itself tributary to the Mississippi.
Related words: distributary
tribute
Derived words: left tributary
right tributary
palaeotributary
tributaryless
nontributary
tributarily
tributariness
tributary load
tributary state
untributary
Translations:
bint
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Arabic بِنْت (bint, “girl, daughter”), from Proto-Semitic *bint-, used to denote a patronym.
The term entered the British lexicon during the occupation of Egypt at the end of the 19th century, where it was adopted by British soldiers to mean "girlfriend" or "bit on the side". Its register varies from that of the harsher bitch to being affectionate, the latter more commonly associated with the West Midlands. The term was used in British armed forces and the London area synonymously with bird in its slang usage (and sometimes brass) from at least the 1950s. (In the Tyneside shipping industry, particularly in Laygate, in South Shields, the term may have been adopted earlier, from the Yemeni community which had existed there since the 1890s.)
Inflected forms:
form: bints
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A woman, a girl.
pos: noun
tags: Commonwealth
Ireland
UK
derogatory
examples: Tell that bint to get herself in here now!
Don't you remember the Crimbo din-din we had with the grotty Scots bint?
If I went round saying I was an emperor just because some moistened bint had lobbed a scimitar at me, they'd put me away!
Translations:
specious
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English speciose, specious, from Anglo-Norman specious, Middle French specieux, and their etymon Latin speciōsus (“good-looking”).
Inflected forms:
form: more specious
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most specious
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Seemingly well-reasoned, plausible or true, but actually fallacious.
pos: adj
examples: This idea that we must see through what we have started is specious, however good it may sound.
now to the discourse itself, voluble enough, and full of sentence, but that, for the most part, either specious rather than solid, or to his cause nothing pertinent.
I have frequently amused myself both in public and private companies, with silently remarking, the specious errors of those who speak without reflecting.
“Number two is that for reasons which I regarded at the time as specious and insulting, the Americans objected to your husband's presence on that committee not three weeks after it met, and asked me to replace him with somebody more to their liking. Since Magnus was kingpin of the Czecho operation and of several other little shows in Eastern Europe besides, this was a totally unrealistic demand."
Feig’s Ghostbusters isn’t out until July 15, but since the project was announced in 2014 as a reboot of the hit 1984 film[…] a vocal minority of movie fans have come up with specious reasons to criticize it.
gloss: Employing fallacious but deceptively plausible arguments; deceitful.
pos: adj
examples: With early virtues plant your breaſt, / The ſpecious arts of vice deteſt.
But a third cause of the delusion is, that the Church of Rome has become more specious and deceitful than before the Reformation.
gloss: Having an attractive appearance intended to generate a favorable response; deceptively attractive.
pos: adj
examples: And could any thing be more ſpecious, or more equal, than that fair diſtribution of power and profit, which men called the NEW MODEL?
[T]he success of Trajan, however transient, was rapid and specious. The degenerate Parthians, broken by intestine discord, fled before his arms.
This argument, though specious, will not, upon examination, be found solid.
gloss: Beautiful, pleasing to look at.
pos: adj
tags: obsolete
Related words: speciosity
spurious
Derived words: speciously
speciousness
specious present
specious tiger
Translations:
dwarfism
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English dwarf
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)
Proto-Indo-European *-mos
Proto-Indo-European *-mós
Ancient Greek -μός (-mós)
Ancient Greek -ισμός (-ismós)der.
English -ism
English dwarfism
From dwarf + -ism.
Inflected forms:
form: dwarfisms
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The condition of being a dwarf (person of short stature).
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Studies of disproportionate dwarfisms in animals have revealed the importance of core proteins an sulfation in the development of cartilage.
They didn’t find out I had achondroplastic dwarfism until a few months later. “Achondroplasia” is a word that haunted me in my childhood. I never wanted to hear it. It wasn’t who I was. I was not different.
Sure enough, they are hard to miss. As a non-binary trans drag queen with dwarfism, [Tamm] Reynolds must be in a minority of one.
gloss: The quality of being puny or inferior.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Childish, childish to the core: that's why they're so good at nursing, they're arrested in a state of permanent intellectual dwarfism themselves!
Derived words: Amsterdam dwarfism
island dwarfism
Lenz-Majewski hyperostotic dwarfism
Russell-Silver dwarfism
semidwarfism
Silver-Russell dwarfism
Translations:
dwarfish
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English dwarf
Proto-Indo-European *-iskos
Proto-Germanic *-iskaz
Proto-West Germanic *-isk
Old English -isċ
Middle English -ish
English -ish
English dwarfish
From dwarf + -ish.
Inflected forms:
form: more dwarfish
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most dwarfish
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: dwarvish
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Like a dwarf; being especially small or stunted.
pos: adj
examples: […] now does he feel his title / Hang loose about him, like a giant's robe / Upon a dwarfish thief.
1757, Edmund Burke, A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful, Section XXIV, in The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, London: John C. Nimmo, 1887, Volume I, p. 242, http://www.gutenberg.org/files/15043/15043-h/15043-h.htm
Besides the extraordinary great in every species, the opposite to this, the dwarfish and diminutive, ought to be considered. Littleness, merely as such, has nothing contrary to the idea of beauty.
The vegetation, as might be supposed, is scant, or at least dwarfish.
Mr. Hyde was pale and dwarfish, he gave an impression of deformity without any nameable malformation […]
There were the Rougiers, for instance, an old, ragged, dwarfish couple who plied an extraordinary trade.
gloss: Of, pertaining to, or made by or for dwarves.
pos: adj
examples: Dwarfish axes are some of the finest weapons available.
Derived words: dwarfishly
dwarfishness
Translations:
achondroplasia
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
sciences
teratology
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *né
Proto-Indo-European *n̥-
Proto-Hellenic *ə-
Ancient Greek ἀ- (a-)der.
English a-
Proto-Indo-European *gʰrendʰ-der.?
Proto-Indo-European *-rósder.?
Ancient Greek χόνδρος (khóndros)der.
English chondro-
Proto-Hellenic *plátʰyō
Proto-Hellenic *pláťťō?
Ancient Greek πλάσσω (plássō)
Proto-Indo-European *-tis
Ancient Greek -τις (-tis)
Ancient Greek -σις (-sis)
Ancient Greek πλᾰ́σῐς (plắsĭs)der.
New Latin -plasiabor.
English -plasia
English achondroplasia
From a- (“not”) + chondro- (“cartilage”) + -plasia (“growth”).
Inflected forms:
form: achondroplasias
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A genetic disorder, the most common form of short limb dwarfism.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Amge, an actress and media personality born in India, has a bone growth disorder named achondroplasia that affects the arms and legs.
Translations: