yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
fanned
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more fanned
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most fanned
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Having a fan-line appearance.
pos: adj
examples: Its head was rounder and larger, its tail more fanned.
The result is sometimes a very fanned, rough cutting surface [ 7 ] .
gloss: Brought into a more passionate or extreme state; invigorated.
pos: adj
examples: While high-status punishments have slowly driven out low-status treatment in Europe, harsh punishment became the ideal during the American Revolution that was more fanned by populism and puritan Christianity.
But anger on the contrary is much more fanned by what angry persons do.
In my early childhood I had been seized by the passion for reading and learning; through my intercourse with Elvira, poetess and daughter of a savant, it was still more fanned into flame, and never, under any circumstances, has it left me.
Derived words: outfanned
unfanned
Translations:
fanning
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: engineering
firearms
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
tools
war
weaponry
Inflected forms:
form: fannings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act by which something is fanned.
pos: noun
examples: Each shrub of shade, each tree of spreading root, / That woo the first glad fannings of the breeze.
gloss: The act by which something is fanned.
pos: noun
gloss: The act by which something is fanned.
pos: noun
gloss: A very small fragment of tea leaf.
pos: noun
examples: Generally orthodox teas have four grades, namely whole leaf, broken leaf, fannings and dust.
gloss: A beating.
pos: noun
tags: UK
archaic
slang
examples: […] he found himself facing these four grim coves, big as bull-beef, demanders by trade and ready to give him a fanning, which they did, advising him to keep out of the Professor's way in future and never to speak with any from Idle Jack's family again. Within fifteen minutes, Carmichael had three broken ribs, a broken arm, a cracked cheekbone, a badly swollen eye, and was minus five teeth.
Derived words: fanning mill
Translations:
stickup
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
English stick updeverb.
English stickup
Deverbal from stick up.
Inflected forms:
form: stickups
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: stick-up
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A robbery at gunpoint.
pos: noun
examples: He lived in a nice apartment. He had no reputation in the neighborhood as a stickup guy or a sexual predator.
The news came on. There was relative calm in the world that night. Channel Nine had a convenience-store stickup in Lakewood, an environmental protest in Fort Collins.
One night, Sylvio talked about why drug dealers resist drug robbers during a stickup.
gloss: A small-diameter tree branch or limb that extends out of the water in flooded or submerged timber, as in a lake or river.
pos: noun
gloss: A wing collar with white bow tie, worn with school dress by distinguished senior boys at Eton College.
pos: noun
tags: slang
Related words: stick up
Translations:
slapstick
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: comedy
entertainment
lifestyle
Etymology: From slap + stick, calque of Italian batacchio. The pair of sticks was used by the comic character Harlequin in the commedia dell'arte.
Compound parts: slap
stick
Inflected forms:
form: slapsticks
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: slap-stick
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A style of humor focusing on physical comedy, such as slipping on a banana peel, and with foolish characters who get into humiliating situations.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: A pair of sticks attached at one end and used to create a slapping sound effect, used especially in slapstick comedy; a type of clapper.
pos: noun
tags: countable
Synonyms: physical comedy
Derived words: slapsticker
slapstickery
slapstickish
slapsticky
splatstick
Translations:
haywire
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From hay + wire.
The original meaning of “likely to become tangled unpredictably or unusably, or fall apart”, as though only bound with the kind of soft, springy wire used to bind hay bales comes from usage in New England lumber camps circa 1905 where haywire outfit became the common term to refer to slap-dash collections of logging tools. To go haywire has since evolved to represent the act of falling apart or behaving unpredictably, as would wire spooled under tension springing into an unmanageable tangle once a piece had been removed from the factory spool, e.g., “he took off the back of his watch, removed a gear and the whole works went haywire.”
Compound parts: hay
wire
Inflected forms:
form: haywires
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: more haywire
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most haywire
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Wire used to bind bales of hay.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: MOWERS AND HAY RAKES, HAY PRESSES, HAY TIES AND HAY WIRE.
gloss: Roughly-made, unsophisticated, decrepit (from the use of haywire for temporary repairs).
pos: adj
gloss: Behaviorally erratic or uncontrollable, especially of a machine or mechanical process.
pos: adj
examples: It was working fine until it went haywire and wouldn't stop printing blank sheets.
Those kids go haywire when they don't get what they want.
The engineer who makes of his calling a burden, who sees nothing but the wrong, or imposition as he may term it, who fancies perhaps that the whole world has conspired against him, who commences to damn things as soon as he appears upon the scene of his labors, and continues to damn everything, including his train crew, the engine, the officers, and almost everything, animate and inanimate, while making the round trip, is working out his own destiny, and it is but charitable to say of such a man that he is not well, his digestion has gone " hay wire " as it were.
"I got phone orders at Tuolumne Meadows to pack up and come over Sunrise Trail. Started at sunrise. Everything haywire, including cranky pack horse which kept getting off trail. Phoned in at Vernal Falls station. Ordered to hurry down, help catch two auto thieves which broke jail just after breakfast. Assigned to guard Coulterville Road.
Temperatures soared—the seas warmed by as much as eighteen degrees—and the chemistry of the oceans went haywire, as if in an out-of-control aquarium.
Derived words: go haywire
haywireness
Translations:
menstruate
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From menstruum + -ate (verb-forming suffix); sense 2 (“to undergo menstruation”) is possibly a back-formation from menstruation.
Base: menstruum
Affixes: -ate
Inflected forms:
form: menstruates
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: menstruating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: menstruated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: menstruated
pos: verb
tags: past
form: menstrate
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: To stain with or as if with menses.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
rare
transitive
gloss: To undergo menstruation, to have a period.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: A woman may have every quality or attribute of marriageableness who menstruates irregularly, or rarely, or even who has never menstruated at all.
Among the ancient Iranians, the puerpera, like the menstruating woman, was regarded as "unclean".
Fortunately, there’s early signs of a “wokelash” from institutions that won’t cower to this nonsense. When staff at publisher Hachette threatened to down tools because they regarded JK Rowling as a toxic transphobe for a tweet mocking “people” who menstruate instead of “women”, management pushed back saying they couldn’t refuse to work on a book because they disagree with the author’s views.
Related words: menstrual
menstruation
menstruator
menstruous
Derived words: femstruate
menstruater
nonmenstruating
unmenstruating
Translations:
deadhead
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: compound
Topics: agriculture
business
horticulture
lifestyle
Etymology: From dead + head. Some senses are derived from theater jargon (originally spelled dead head) for audience members admitted without paying, which probably arose in analogy to dead weight or deadwood in reference to their lack of contribution to revenue or in reference to their unenthusiastic (dead) response to performances. Perhaps even from Latin caput mortuum, alchemy term for distillation residue. As Paul Quinion writes: Similarly, the term was applied to a dull or lazy person, one who contributes nothing to an enterprise, only in the early years of the twentieth century, well after the theatrical and transport senses had become well established.
Compound parts: dead
head
Inflected forms:
form: deadheads
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: deadheading
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: deadheaded
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: deadheaded
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To admit to a performance without charge.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: […] the "puffing" system in criticism, whereby newspaper people were deadheaded in exchange for complimentary notices.
gloss: To travel as a deadhead, or non-paying passenger.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To drive an empty vehicle.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
transitive
examples: Kit had fallen into conversation with a footplate man who was deadheading back out to Samarkand, where he lived with his wife and children.
gloss: To send (a person or message) for free.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Washington suggested that she get some old friend of the family to come with her, and said the Senator would “deadhead” him home again as soon as he had grown tired, of the sights of the capital.
He said that if the operator had taken $800 and sent the message at the regular rate, which was twenty-five cents, it would have been all right, as the Jew would be punished for trying to bribe a military operator; but when the operator took the $800 and then sent the message deadhead, he couldn't stand it, and he would never relent.
1934, Lester Dent (as Kenneth Robeson), Brand Of The Werewolf, A Doc Savage Adventure
“I'll deadhead the message for you, Mr. Savage. It won't cost a thing.”
gloss: (transitive) To remove spent or dead blossoms from a plant.
pos: verb
examples: If you deadhead your roses regularly, they will bloom all season.
Translations:
menstruation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From menstruum + -ation, modelled after Late Latin menstruatio. The word is a cognate with French menstruation, Spanish menstruación, which displaced Old English mōnaþblōd (literally “monthblood”).
Base: menstruum
Affixes: -ation
Inflected forms:
form: menstruations
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: menstration
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The periodic discharging of the menses, the flow of blood and cells from the lining of the uterus in unfertilized females of humans and other primates.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: It would seem that in Avebury, Stonehenge, and Malta the mystery cult of menstruation/mensuration reached its most consummate development.
[T]he release of semen from the penis predominantly symbolizes a forceful masculine operation, an orgasmic ‘rush’ – ejaculate refers to a sudden happening, an ejection – while the ‘loss’ of blood during menstruation is viewed as a more or less passive occurrence. Even the metaphors employed to depict these two aspects of corporeality serve to situate them on differently gendered poles. Man ‘spoofs off’ or ‘shoots his load’, while woman ‘gets her visitor’, ‘has got her monthly’.
gloss: An instance of menstruation, the part of each month during which a fertile woman menstruates.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Synonyms: menstruation
Aunt Flo
Aunt Frieda
Aunt Rose
blob
blood sports
Bloody Mary
blowjob week
breaching the beaver dam
catamenia
caught short
Charlie
closed for maintenance
come crook
country cousin
crimson tide
crimson wave
curse
curse of Eve
curse of Tom
dropping clots
entertaining the general
fallen to the Communists
fall off the roof
flowers
flashing the red flag
flying baker
flying the red flag
friend
grandma George
granny
granny grunts
have the painters in
have one's moons
have the rag on
high tide
holy week
illness
in the red tent
Jennie
lady problems
lady time
little sister
menstrual period
menstruation period
Monica
monthlies
monthly bill
monthly friend
monthly period
monthly visitor
mooncup time
moontime
mother nature
off games
old faithful
on
on a streak
OTB
on the blob
on the cloth
on the rag
out of order
paddling in scarlet waters
period
poorliness
ragging
red-headed aunt
red-letter day
red sails in the sunset
riding the cotton pony
riding the red river
Rita Red Pants
shark week
so
so-so
squiffy
surfing the crimson tide
surfing the crimson wave
surrendering to the red army
the captain is home
the cardinal is home
the flag is out
the flag is up
the Reds are playing at home
time for an oil change
time of the month
Tom
Tommy
up on blocks
woman's week
Related words: menarche
menopause
menstrual
menstrual cycle
menstruate
menstruous
PMT
tampon
sanitary towel
Derived words: femstruation
male menstruation
menstruation period
mismenstruation
nonmenstruation
premenstruation
Translations:
washroom
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From wash + room in reference to its sinks, but generally used euphemistically outside of Canada and the United States.
Compound parts: wash
room
Inflected forms:
form: washrooms
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A room intended to wash the face and hands.
pos: noun
examples: Bright, modern offices, washrooms and messrooms are located in the centre block.
gloss: A room with a toilet, particularly a public toilet.
pos: noun
tags: Canada
US
euphemistic
rare
Derived words: go to the washroom
use the washroom
Translations:
washstand
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: furniture
lifestyle
Etymology: From wash + stand.
Compound parts: wash
stand
Inflected forms:
form: washstands
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A table containing a basin and a pitcher of water for washing.
pos: noun
examples: The less quality the more saleable they were. An abhorrent-looking stained oak wash-stand with a marble top and inset tiles, or a sideboard with bevelled mirrors in the back, or an enamelled wardrobe with stamped wood panels were much preferred to comparatively innocuous examples of the same articles in plain wood.
gloss: In a stable or garage, a place in the floor prepared so that carriages or automobiles may be washed there and the water run off.
pos: noun
tags: dated
examples: Washstand in an Electric Garage. […] In a few garages arrangements are made for washing cars in any position on the storage floor, so that it is not necessary to move them on to and off the washrack.
Synonyms: washhand-stand
Related words: nightstand
Translations:
wastage
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: hobbies
hunting
lifestyle
Etymology: Etymology tree
English waste
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-tós
Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂tos
Proto-Italic *-ātos
Latin -ātus
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Latin -icus
Latin -āticus
Latin -āticum
Old French -agebor.
Middle English -age
English -age
English wastage
From waste + -age.
Inflected forms:
form: wastages
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The amount or proportion of something that is wasted or lost by deterioration or other natural process.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: The average wastage is 1.5% in the grocery department.
wastage from fruits and vegetables is estimated at 4.58%–15.88%
Likewise, the menopause market is obsessed with muscle wastage, and the possibility that if women don't eat enough protein after the age of 40 their minds will go doolally and their bones will turn to dust.
gloss: The periodical turnover of personnel in an organisation by death, retirement or resignation, as perceived by those aspiring to promotion or appointment in the organisation.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: Anything lost by wear or waste.
pos: noun
tags: countable
gloss: Goods that are damaged, out of date, reduced, or generally unsaleable, which are destined to be thrown away and which are written off as a loss.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: The act of abandoning animal carcasses or parts, usually illegal.
pos: noun
tags: countable
Derived words: natural wastage
Translations:
wasted
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: medicine
sciences
Inflected forms:
form: more wasted
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most wasted
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Not profitably used.
pos: adj
gloss: Ravaged or deteriorated.
pos: adj
gloss: Emaciated and haggard.
pos: adj
gloss: Exhausted.
pos: adj
tags: slang
examples: A brief steep ascent and then a more gradual ascent through snow. Bets probably had taken my water container by then. Mack asks how I'm doing. I manage the words — pretty wasted. She offers to take the tent.
gloss: Very drunk or stoned.
pos: adj
tags: slang
examples: Well I'm near the end and I just ain't got the time / And I'm wasted and I can't find my way home
I went to the minimart...It’s about a fifteen minute walk both ways. But I didn’t wanna drive cause I was really wasted.
gloss: Low weight-for-height (for a person).
pos: adj
Related words: stunted
Derived words: white boy wasted
white-girl wasted
Translations:
ascend
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
Etymology: From Middle English ascenden, borrowed from Old French ascendre, from Latin ascendō (“to go up, climb up to”), from ad (“to”) + scandō (“to climb”); see scan. Unrelated to accede other than common ad prefix.
Inflected forms:
form: ascends
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: ascending
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: ascended
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: ascended
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To move upward, to fly, to soar.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: He ascended to heaven upon a cloud.
gloss: To slope in an upward direction.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To go up.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: You ascend the stairs and take a right.
When a train has to ascend the incline, it first runs down, engine first, from the station about 60 or 70 yards. Then comes behind it the aforesaid truck, or one similar, which, being attached to an endless wire rope, a communication is made by means of the electric telegraph to the engineman at the top of the incline, when the fixed engine begins to work, and the train, partly pulled by the locomotive before, and partly pushed by the truck behind, rapidly ascends, taking somewhere about three minutes to get up.
gloss: To succeed a ruler on (the throne).
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
examples: She ascended the throne when her mother abdicated.
She ascended to the throne when her mother abdicated.
gloss: To rise; to become higher, more noble, etc.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
intransitive
gloss: To trace, search or go backwards temporally (e.g., through records, genealogies, routes, etc.).
pos: verb
examples: Our inquiries ascend to the remotest antiquity.
gloss: To become higher in pitch.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To cease being an incel, generally by losing one's virginity and engaging in sexual intercourse, or by forming a romantic relationship.
pos: verb
examples: Instead of using sexual conquest as an opportunity to “ascend,” these members advocated for pursuing internal self-improvement.
As such, race and class are not only factors in attractiveness (i.e. “Just Be White” and “job/career maxxing” are often used in the forums), but is also a factor when incels discuss ways for them to “ascend” and leave their incel status.
Many femcels take extreme measures to 'ascend from femceldom', and Laura describes how she is in the process of improving her looks and personality.
Antonyms: descend
Related words: ascendance
ascendancy
ascendency
ascendant
ascender
ascending
ascension
ascent
transcend
climb
Derived words: ascendible
ascendable
reascend
unascended
Translations:
agar
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: cellular-automata
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: From Malay agar (“jelly”) or agar-agar.
Inflected forms:
form: agars
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A gelatinous substance obtained from red algae, especially Gracilaria species, used as a bacterial culture medium, in electrophoresis and as a food additive.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A culture medium based on this material.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: An hour before, he had been in lab, removing from the incubator his boxes of agar plates.
gloss: A pattern that is periodic in both space and time covering the whole plane.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Derived words: agarase
agarized
agarofuran
agarolytic
agaropectin
agarophyte
agarose
MacConkey agar
oligoagar
phytoagar
Sabouraud's agar
trypticase soy agar
violet red bile agar
Translations:
maidenhead
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English maiden
English -head
English maidenhead
From maiden + -head.
Inflected forms:
form: maidenheads
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: maydenhead
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: The hymen.
pos: noun
tags: countable
literally
examples: Ay, the heads of the maids, or their maidenheads; take it in what sense thou wilt.
gloss: Virginity.
pos: noun
tags: metonymically
uncountable
examples: Put in but little Silver or Gold, for if you do, you quite spoil the Compoſition ; but inſtead thereof, add of Tradeſmens Bills for Cloaths, to the Value of 100 l. [¶] Laſtly, Take away the Girl's Maidenhead, and then the Compoſition is fit for Uſe.
Gallants, a bashful poet bids me say,
He's come to lose his maidenhead to-day.
Be not too fierce; for he's but green of age,
And ne'er, till now, debauch'd upon the stage.
My lord,[…]/ I brought you nothing else it may be said / But faith and nakedness and maidenhead.
She prayed to Pallas, and by her help escaped from him in the form of a crow, rejoicing more to keep her maidenhead white under the blackness of the feathers than to lose it and be adorned with the fairest pearls.
So the reference to the plucking of the ginger flower is again an indirect allusion to the taking of the girl's maidenhead .
The gender reversals that pervade this play continue mischievously in the man's maidenhead being the undisclosed secret.
“[…] He said that Katheryn told him he should have her maidenhead, though it be painful to her. I told him to be gone with his empty promises of marriage. But I doubt not that Mr. Mannox has known her intimately.”
[…] a young virgin makes an even trade of her maidenhead for a hat that she desires. She negotiates with the haberdasher, who originally stipulated for her maidenhead plus a crown […]
The penis imagery becomes apparent: the nails are 'blunt' and 'large', designed to push through the fair skin in body parts (feet, hands) that had earlier been described in erotically-charged language. As if losing his maidenhead, Christ's body 'bursts' when entered, bringing forth a gush of blood that mars his white (womanly) skin.
Almost immediately afterwards, Scanlan discovered that the marriage was legal; Ellie was his wife. He began to feel that he had paid an exceptionally high price for his maidenhead.
Related words: maidenliness
Translations:
wasteful
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English wastful; equivalent to waste + -ful.
Base: waste
Affixes: -ful
Inflected forms:
form: more wasteful
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most wasteful
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Inclined to waste or squander money or resources.
pos: adj
examples: As a narrative, competition of the type seen between the London Midland & Scottish Railway (LMS) and the London & North Eastern Railway (LNER) was seen as wasteful, with duplicate routes reflecting an unnecessary use of resources.
gloss: Uninhabited, desolate.
pos: adj
tags: obsolete
examples: Shortly vnto the vvaſtefull vvoods ſhe came, / VVhereas ſhe found the Goddeſſe vvith her crevv, […]
Derived words: wastefully
wastefulness
Translations:
wastefulness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English wastfulnes; equivalent to wasteful + -ness.
Base: wasteful
Affixes: -ness
Inflected forms:
form: wastefulnesses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: imprudent or excessive expenditure or the waste of resources
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Arsenal paid the price for that wastefulness when Chelsea took the lead after 14 minutes. Mata was afforded to much space by Santos and when the ponderous Per Mertesacker missed his cross Lampard timed his arrival perfectly to head past Wojciech Szczesny.
Translations:
wastepaper
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From waste + paper.
Compound parts: waste
paper
Inflected forms:
form: wastepapers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Unwanted paper that has been discarded.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
watcher
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: Christianity
government
politics
Etymology: From Middle English wacchere, wachere, wacher, equivalent to watch + -er.
Base: watch
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: watchers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Someone who watches or observes.
pos: noun
gloss: Someone who watches or observes.
pos: noun
tags: US
gloss: Someone who keeps vigil.
pos: noun
gloss: A guard.
pos: noun
examples: Near-synonyms: watchman, watchwoman
gloss: A kind of angel appointed to watch over the human realm, in particular one of those who became fallen angels and begot the Nephilim.
pos: noun
tags: Judaism
historical
examples: the Book of Watchers
Derived words: binge-watcher
bird watcher
chef watcher
China watcher
clock-watcher
clock watcher
firewatcher
hate-watcher
horse-watcher
shark watcher
starwatcher
weight-watcher
whale watcher
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: наблюдател
roman: nabljudatel
lang: Finnish
word: katsoja
lang: Finnish
word: tarkkailija
lang: Ancient Greek
word: σκοπός
roman: skopós
lang: Polish
word: obserwator
lang: Polish
word: obserwatorka
lang: Polish
word: widz
watchful
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English waccheful, equivalent to watch + -ful. Compare West Frisian waaks (“watchful”), Dutch waaks, waakzaam (“watchful”), German wachsam (“watchful”), Swedish vaksam (“watchful”).
Base: watch
Affixes: -ful
Inflected forms:
form: more watchful
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most watchful
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Fully observant, vigilant, or aware.
pos: adj
examples: The teacher kept a watchful eye on her pupils during the school trip.
But there was so much at stake that I had to take some risk—though even when I was far away there has never been a day when the Shire has not been guarded by watchful eyes.
Translations:
watchfulness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English watchful
Proto-Germanic *-inōną
Proto-Indo-European *-dyé-
Proto-Germanic *-atjaną
Proto-Indo-European *-tus
Proto-Germanic *-þuz
Proto-Germanic *-assuz
Proto-Germanic *-inassuz
Proto-West Germanic *-nassī
Old English -nes
Middle English -nesse
English -ness
English watchfulness
From watchful + -ness.
Inflected forms:
form: watchfulnesses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The state or quality of being watchful; alertness, vigilance or wakefulness.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Continuous watchfulness is maintained around the clock.
The first thing to be undertaken in this weighty work, is a watchfulness over the failings and an inlargement of the dominion, of the Senses.
1784, Samuel Johnson, letter addressed to Mr. Langton dated 25 August, 1784, cited in James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson, London: Charles Dilly, 1791, Volume 2, p. 545,
Nights of watchfulness produce torpid days […]
Every dark form in the dimness had its ominous quality, its peculiar suggestion of alert watchfulness.
The steady rhythm of the engines, the fact that he had been sleeping badly, the boredom of a flight that he had done so many times before and did not want to do again, the long humiliation and unhappiness that was always in the background of his mind, all fought against his watchfulness.
Translations:
watchmaker
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: human-sciences
lifestyle
philosophy
religion
sciences
Etymology: From watch + maker. Compare clockmaker.
Compound parts: watch
maker
Inflected forms:
form: watchmakers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A craftsperson or company who makes and/or maintains watches.
pos: noun
examples: The watchmakers of Switzerland were pioneers of screw machine technology.
gloss: God in His role as the creator according to the watchmaker analogy.
pos: noun
tags: capitalized
often
examples: Near-synonym: clockmaker
We have the great watchmaker to thank for these glorious sunrises and sunsets.
Related words: watchmaking
Translations:
watchman
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English waccheman. By surface analysis, watch + -man.
Inflected forms:
form: watchmen
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A man set to watch: a man who keeps guard, especially one who guards a building, or the streets of a city, by night; (loosely) any such person of any sex or gender.
pos: noun
examples: Near-synonyms: watcher, watchwoman
The visits of the watchman to that (then) obscure and ill-inhabited neighborhood were more regulated by his indolence than his duty; and Clarence knew that it would be in vain to listen for his cry or tarry for his assistance.
Well, it so happened that Stine and the cook were sitting in their room one evening, mending and darning their things; it was near bedtime, for the watchman had already sung out "Ten o'clock," but somehow the darning and the sewing went on very slowly indeed[.]
Watchmen are stationed continuously at each end of the bridge, and the main spans are patrolled twice during the night.
In 1972, a night watchman patrolling a hotel-office complex noticed that the basement garage door had been taped open and, attributing this to the carelessness of a maintenance worker earlier that day, peeled the tape off.
A black night watchman at a factory is accused of murdering a young white secretary who works at the factory, but it turns out the factory owner accidentally killed her when she refused his advances.
Translations:
watchword
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: government
military
politics
war
Etymology: From Middle English wacche word, wacchworde, morphologically as watch (“guard, sentinel, sentry”) + word.
Compound parts: watch
word
Inflected forms:
form: watchwords
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A word used as a motto, as expressive of a principle, belief, or rule of action; a rallying cry.
pos: noun
examples: "How this perpetual gaiety," exclaimed Louis, "jars upon the ear! Good Heaven! is farewell to be said so gladly? I sometimes start when I think upon the hollowness of all that surrounds me. I often wish my eye had the power of searching the inmost depths of the bosoms whose watchword is my name."
For-ward! be our watchword, Steps and voices joined; / Seek the things before us, Not a look behind.
Atrocities of the most vicious kind were justified by the watchwords: "This is war!" "Might is Right." "Necessity knows no law."
We can repay the debt which we owe to our God, to our dead, and to our children only by work — by ceaseless devotion to the responsibilities which lie ahead of us. If I could give you a single watchword for the coming months, that word is: work, work, and more work.
It's a peel out the watchword / Just peel out the watchword
The Esk Valley route to Whitby was a classic example: a basic four trains a day service has persisted for decades, with economy the watchword.
gloss: A prearranged reply to the challenge of a sentry or a guard; a password or signal by which friends can be known from enemies.
pos: noun
examples: a Watchword sufficient for him that is wiſe
Related words: watch
watcher
watchman
Translations:
watercress
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From Middle English water cresse, water-kresse, watercrasse, water cars, equivalent to water + cress. Cognate with West Frisian waterkers (“watercress”), Dutch waterkers (“watercress”), Swedish vattenkrasse (“watercress”).
Compound parts: water
cress
Inflected forms:
form: watercresses
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: water-cress
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: water cress
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A perennial European herb, Nasturtium officinale, that grows in freshwater streams; used in salads and as a garnish.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: A spring wells up in the centre of the village, and watercress beds lie beside the stream running alongside the main street.
gloss: A similar plant, Nasturtium microphyllum.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Derived words: fool's watercress
watercressed
watercressing
watercressy
Translations:
waterfront
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *wed-
Proto-Indo-European *-r̥
Proto-Indo-European *wódr̥
Proto-Germanic *watōr
Proto-West Germanic *watar
Old English wæter
Middle English water
English water
English front
English waterfront
From water + front.
Inflected forms:
form: waterfronts
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The land alongside a body of water.
pos: noun
examples: With just the turn of a shoulder she indicated the water front, where, at the end of the dock on which they stood, lay the good ship, Mount Vernon, river packet, the black smoke already pouring from her stacks.
The wide prospect up stream was grey and lowering, the long still-distant waterfront of Dundee, and the Fife shore were alike colourless, and there was ample evidence of rough weather not far ahead.
As I waited to meet with Jay Graber, the CEO of Bluesky, on the 25th floor of an office building in downtown Seattle, I stared out at the city’s waterfront and thought: God fucking damn it.
gloss: The land alongside a body of water.
pos: noun
Derived words: cover the waterfront
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: брегова линия
roman: bregova linija
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 沿岸
roman: yán'àn
lang: Finnish
word: vesiraja
lang: Finnish
word: ranta
lang: Georgian
word: პორტი
roman: ṗorṭi
lang: Hungarian
word: vízpart
lang: Italian
word: fronte mare
lang: Polish
word: wybrzeże
lang: Portuguese
word: beira-mar
lang: Portuguese
word: beira-rio
lang: Spanish
word: línea de costa
lang: Spanish
word: costanera
lang: Spanish
word: malecón
lang: Spanish
word: rambla
lang: Spanish
word: ribera
lang: Spanish
word: litoral
topple
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English top
English -le
English topple
From top + -le (frequentative verb suffix).
Inflected forms:
form: topples
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: toppling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: toppled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: toppled
pos: verb
tags: past
form: topples
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To push or throw over.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The massed crowds toppled the statue of the former dictator.
gloss: To overturn.
pos: verb
gloss: To overthrow something.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
examples: to topple one's rival
Barla Von: Most people think I deal in finances, but my real currency is knowledge. I trade information and it has made me very wealthy.
Barla Von: But the Shadow Broker is the true master. Every day, he buys and sells secrets that could topple governments, always giving them to the highest bidder.
He now confronts the daunting endeavor of toppling a former president whose belligerence and loyal base of support have discouraged most leading Republicans — including, up to now, Mr. DeSantis — from making frontal attacks against him.
gloss: To totter and fall, or to lean as if about to do so.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: The pile of pennies began to topple.
[…] yonder cloud
That rises upward always higher,
⁠And onward drags a labouring breast,
⁠And topples round the dreary west,
A looming bastion fringed with fire.
gloss: A fall (an instance of falling over).
pos: noun
tags: informal
gloss: A cascade of dominoes falling, such that each fall causes the next domino to topple.
pos: noun
Derived words: overtopple
topple over
toppler
topplesome
topply
untoppled
Translations:
overturn
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: law
Etymology: From Middle English overturnen, equivalent to over- + turn. Compare also Middle English overterven (“to overturn”), see terve.
Base: turn
Affixes: over-
Inflected forms:
form: overturns
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: overturning
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: overturned
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: overturned
pos: verb
tags: past
form: overturns
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To turn over, capsize or upset.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
examples: About three or four minutes later still an express freight on the up main line ran into the wreckage at about 35 m.p.h. Its engine also overturned and 15 more wagons were added to the mounting pile of wreckage.
We also found that the only emergency egress from the tram was by smashing the front or rear windscreens, and that emergency lighting had failed when the tram overturned.
gloss: To overthrow or destroy.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To reverse (a decision); to overrule or rescind.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: In a report for the Sun on Sunday, Barak claimed that Andrew is consulting lawyers about overturning that settlement.
Harvey was rightfully convicted. It’s unfortunate that the court has overturned his conviction. As a survivor, I am beyond disappointed.
gloss: To diminish the significance of a previous defeat by winning; to make a comeback from.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Villa spent most of the second period probing from wide areas and had a succession of corners but despite their profligacy they will be glad to overturn the 6-0 hammering they suffered at St James' Park in August following former boss Martin O'Neill's departure
There were so many heroes for Leicester on an evening when they played with tremendous courage and belief to overturn the 2-1 deficit from the first leg, yet it was hard to look beyond Kasper Schmeichel for the game’s outstanding performer.
gloss: To undergo a limnic eruption, where dissolved gas suddenly erupts from the depths.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: A turning over or upside-down; inversion.
pos: noun
gloss: The overturning or overthrow of some institution or state of affairs; ruin.
pos: noun
Derived words: overturnable
overturner
Translations:
one-upmanship
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From one-up + -manship, probably modelled after gamesmanship.
Base: one up
Affixes: -manship
Inflected forms:
form: one-upmanships
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: one-upsmanship
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: one-up-manship
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: oneupmanship
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The art or practice of successively outdoing a competitor.
pos: noun
examples: They are focused on one-upmanship, which is the essence of a competitive spirit.
[V]arious emirates wanted their own ‘international’ airport, then an ‘international’ harbour, then cement factories, then container ports, then petro-chemical plants, then skyscraper hotels and, most recently, ‘international’ trade centres. […] The impetus for these projects continues to be ‘one-upmanship’ and inter-emirate competition for commercial pre-eminence and regional prestige. […] Outsiders, anxious to win lucrative contracts, have consistently taken advantage of these features of competitive one-upmanship among the UAE member states.
Rather than indulge in historical oneupmanship – who knows, maybe the scratchings around the cave paintings were the first primitive hypertext links? – we will begin our brief overview of the history of hypertext in the same era as the birth of the technology which supports it.
gloss: A succession of instances of outdoing a competitor.
pos: noun
examples: I think all readers will be impressed by the manner in which Marwick places his own analysis in relation to previous studies both of sorcery and of conflict in general. His punctiliousness here contrasts sharply with the practice of some anthropologists who, in a contest of one-upmanship, score points either by ignoring earlier work or even by baldly asserting that it was all wrong.
Even these debates rarely constituted an exchange of ideas; they more resembled a contest of sectional champions, or a game of righteous, intellectual, and regional one-upsmanship.
Related words: one-downmanship
brinksmanship
dick-measuring contest
gamesmanship
one up
Derived words: one-upwomanship
Translations:
graham
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Named after Sylvester Graham.
Inflected forms:
form: grahams
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Flour made by grinding wheat berries including the bran.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: A graham cracker.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: These classic, wholesome grahams are sweetened only with honey and molasses, and contain no saturated fat.
Synonyms: graham flour
Related words: whole-wheat flour
Derived words: graham cracker
Translations:
killing
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English kyllyng; equivalent to kill + -ing.
Base: kill
Affixes: -ing
Inflected forms:
form: more killing
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most killing
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: killings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: That literally deprives of life; lethal, deadly, fatal.
pos: adj
gloss: Devastatingly attractive.
pos: adj
tags: dated
idiomatic
examples: Should true Proportion ev'ry Mortal grace, / And Semetry be seen in ev'ry Face: / Beauty no longer would be thought divine, / Nor would its Charms with half the Lustre shine: / No courtly Dame a killing Look could boast, / If once the Foils of Homeliness were lost.
He sprang to open the door for the ladies, when they retired, with the most killing grace […]
gloss: That makes one ‘die’ with laughter; very funny.
pos: adj
tags: idiomatic
informal
examples: Livia found her ‘killing’, and derived such amusement from her Martinique French that he was forced to enjoy her as well.
gloss: The act of killing.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: In fact, Tarzan had never killed for “pleasure,” nor to him was there pleasure in killing.
gloss: An instance of someone being killed.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The outrage over the brutal killings of peaceful demonstrators in Lhasa in March 1989 quickly faded after the massacres in Beijing in June.
A police officer in neighboring Mekit county told RFA he was informed that police were searching the houses for a suspect from Pichan (in Chinese, Shanshan) county in Xinjiang’s Turpan prefecture when the killings occurred.
But the split-screen nature of this moment in his presidency was underscored when Mr. Trump devoted the first nine minutes of his speech to the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis and the subsequent protests and riots unfolding in cities across the country.
A man shot dead 12 people in a rampage in a small town in Montenegro before dying from self-inflicted injuries early on Thursday, authorities said, in one of the tiny Balkan nation’s worst mass killings.
In the first year of her administration, ACLED data shows, Sheinbaum’s efforts to contain violence have generally coincided with a drop in attacks against civilians; since January, civilian killings have declined in nearly every Mexican state.
gloss: A large amount of money.
pos: noun
tags: countable
informal
uncountable
usually
examples: He made a killing on the stock market.
The result is, in the end, the superintendent agrees to hold up another race, and the victim arranges to obtain all the money he can get in order to bet it on a sure thing. When the great "killing" is made, and the stripped victim goes back to consult with the superintendent[…]
Synonyms: killing
Related words: death
kill
Derived words: killingly
killingness
antikilling
contract killing
counterkilling
honour killing
honor killing
killing bottle
killing frost
killing jar
killingry
ladykilling
make a killing
nonkilling
painkilling
photokilling
self-killing
semikilling
targeted killing
Terms derived from killing
thrill killing
time-killing
weedkilling
Translations:
situate
Part of speech: verb
adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
Etymology: Borrowed from Late Latin situātus, past participle of Medieval Latin situō (“to locate, place”), from Latin situs (“a site”).
Inflected forms:
form: situates
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: situating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: situated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: situated
pos: verb
tags: past
form: scituate
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: more situate
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most situate
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: scituate
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: To place on or into a physical location.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The statue is situated in a corner hardly visible to the public, except through a window from an outside maintenance area situated behind the building.
gloss: To place or put into an intangible place or position, such as social, ethical, fictional, etc.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
transitive
examples: The mayor is situated between probable censure and possible recall.
Other critiques have not focussed on the lexicography but rather have situated Hobson-Jobson within a larger postcolonialist critique of the British imperial project.
In the following sections, I situate my work more explicitly within several contemporary contexts.
gloss: Situated.
pos: adj
tags: archaic
examples: Wadley in Berkshire is situate in a vale, though not so fertile a soil as some vales afford […].
Pleasure situate in hill and dale.
[…] the farm Kafferskraal No. 62 is not situate within a released area and its acquisition by the South African Native Trust is consequently not contemplated.
gloss: Situated; located.
pos: adj
examples: [...] graunted unto ye sayd Arthure Herrys for his Creast on the heaulme a Stagges head losengy couppe siluer & gules horned gold situate on a wreathe gold & azure mantelled gules doubled siluer which togither w ye sayd ancient Armes viz[…] In the yere of our Lord God MCCCCClxxviij […]
The arms of the College of Surgeons in Endinburgh, I fancy, afford the only instance of what is presumably a corpse, the blazon being: "Azure, a man (human body) fesswise between a dexter hand having an eye on the palm issuing out of a cloud downward and a castle situate on a rock proper, within a bordure or charged with several instruments peculiar to the art (sic); on a canton of the first a saltire argent surmounted of a thistle vert, crowned of the third."
Related words: site
situation
Derived words: missituate
resituate
situatable
situative
Translations:
gamesmanship
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From game + -s- + -manship or gamesman + -ship.
Base: game
Affixes: -s-
-manship
Inflected forms:
form: gamesmanships
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The use of legal but unsporting tactics to gain an advantage over one’s opponent.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: They kept the other team waiting on the field until the last possible moment – that was a clear case of gamesmanship.
[Tina] Satter’s film, with its dramatization of the investigators’ formalized gamesmanship and [Reality] Winner’s strategic maneuvering, is fascinating but narrow, both regarding the protagonist and the law at large.
Translations: