yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
acne
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
Etymology: From New Latin acnē, probably a corruption of Ancient Greek ἀκμή (akmḗ, “point, top”).
Inflected forms:
form: acnes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: acnae
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A skin condition, usually of the face, that is common in adolescents. It is characterised by red pimples, and is caused by the inflammation of sebaceous glands through bacterial infection; acne vulgaris.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: He struggled with severe acne during his teenage years.
The dermatologist prescribed a cream to treat her acne.
gloss: A pattern of blemishes in an area of skin resulting from the skin condition.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: Any of several other skin conditions that resemble acne vulgaris.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
Derived words: acne aestivalis
acne conglobata
acne cosmetica
acned
acne excoriée
acneform
acnegenic
acneic
acneiform
acne inversa
acne mallorca
acne mechanica
acne medicamentosa
acne neonatorum
acne rosacea
acne varioliformis
acne vulgaris
antiacne
assne
bacne
catne
chacne
chloracne
crackne
mask acne
maskne
picker's acne
sackne
shadow acne
Translations:
acock
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English a-
Proto-Germanic *kukkaz
Proto-West Germanic *kokk
Old English cocc
Middle English cok
English cock
English acock
From a- + cock.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: In a cocked or turned-up fashion.
pos: adv
examples: He gave a sharp whistle, the Bear stopped every move, and, as he stood with ears acock, the man fired at his head.
gloss: Defiantly.
pos: adv
Derived words: acockbill
Translations:
ginormous
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: Blend of gi(gantic) + (e)normous. Originally 1940s military slang.
Compound parts: gigantic
enormous
Inflected forms:
form: more ginormous
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most ginormous
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Very large.
pos: adj
tags: colloquial
examples: This is Jazz, a ginormous weird looking planet just showed up in the suburbs of Cybertron.
Walt Disney World is ginormous. Even after you’re on the property, you have to drive about fifteen minutes to get to different places.
“Neutron stars are as mysterious as they are fascinating. These city-sized objects are essentially ginormous atomic nuclei.”
Translations:
Moksha
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Moksha мокша (mokša, “a Moksha person”).
Inflected forms:
form: Mokshas
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A member of the people who speak this language.
pos: noun
Translations:
editor
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: broadcasting
cinematography
computing
engineering
film
mathematics
media
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
television
Etymology: Etymology tree
Medieval Latin ēdō
Proto-Indo-European *-tōr
Proto-Italic *-tōr
Medieval Latin -tor
Medieval Latin ēditorder.
English editor
From Medieval Latin ēditor, from Late Latin ēditor, from ēditus, perfect passive participle of ēdō (“give out, put forth, publish”).
Inflected forms:
form: editors
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: ed.
pos: noun
tags: alternative
abbreviation
form: edit.
pos: noun
tags: alternative
abbreviation
form: Ed.
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: editour
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
rare
Senses:
gloss: A person who edits or makes changes to documents.
pos: noun
examples: Eight days after Kamala Harris announced Tim Walz as her running mate, the Criticism section on Walz’s Wikipedia article was removed in its entirety. (The removal was made by an editor with administrator status who is in the top 100 list of editors by number of edits.)
gloss: A copy editor.
pos: noun
gloss: A person who edited a specific document.
pos: noun
examples: John Johnson wrote this term paper and the editor was Joan Johnson.
gloss: A person at a newspaper, publisher or similar institution who edits stories and/or decides which ones to publish.
pos: noun
examples: John is the city editor at the Daily Times.
gloss: A machine used for editing (cutting and splicing) movie film
pos: noun
gloss: A program for creating and making changes to files, especially text files.
pos: noun
examples: The TPU EVE editor is an excellent, extensible, programmable editor.
gloss: Someone who manipulates video footage and assembles it into the correct order etc for broadcast; a picture editor.
pos: noun
Derived words: chief editor
City editor
coeditor
commissioning editor
copy editor
deaditor
edit
editor-at-large
editorial
editorializing
editor in chief
editorless
editorlike
editorship
editress
Emacs
exchange editor
faned
flatbed editor
hex-editor
hex editor
idiotor
input method editor
intereditor
letter to the editor
linkage editor
link editor
logo editor
makeup editor
managing editor
noneditor
nonlinear editor
photo editor
posteditor
preditor
Redditor
script editor
stone editor
story editor
subeditor
subeeditor
yed
Translations:
kvetch
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Yiddish קוועטשן (kvetshn, literally “to squeeze, pinch”), from Middle High German quetschen (“crush, press”).
Inflected forms:
form: kvetches
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: kvetching
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: kvetched
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: kvetched
pos: verb
tags: past
form: kvitch
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: kvetches
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: kvitch
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: To whine or complain, often needlessly and incessantly.
pos: verb
examples: Is this truth I’m delivering up, or is it just plain kvetching? Or is kvetching for people like me a form of truth?
Make a commitment, Charlie. Go with life or go with death, but quit the kvetching. Don’t keep us all in suspense.
Celebrities often kvetch about the lack of privacy and being bothered by paparazzi, but these are not life-threatening problems and they get enormous advantage as they go through life.
“Long Story Short,” a new animated series from Raphael Bob-Waksberg with art by Lisa Hanawalt, trades the talking animals for kvetching humans.
gloss: A person who endlessly whines or complains; a person who finds fault with anything.
pos: noun
gloss: An instance of kvetching; a complaint or whine.
pos: noun
Translations:
neo-Nazi
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Originally from postwar French néonazi which first appears in 1952, equivalent to neo- + Nazi, and used to describe any number of movements, which saw themselves as believers of Nazi ideology or whose ideology had similar attributes. The term spread throughout the Western world acquiring a broader usage. However, its first use appears c. 1941 in the now-defunct Piqua Daily Call.
Base: Nazi
Affixes: neo-
Inflected forms:
form: neo-Nazis
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: more neo-Nazi
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most neo-Nazi
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: An adherent of neo-Nazism, any of various (far right, authoritarian, or bigoted) post-World War II Nazi ideologies.
pos: noun
examples: Andrew Anglin, head of the now defunct alt-right publication Daily Stormer, a Neo-Nazi, and friend of Richard Spencer claimed on his site that “the only thing in our movement that really matters [is] anti-Semitism […] Last but not least, President Trump himself was key in mainstreaming alt-right politics, referring to white supremacists and Neo-Nazis as “very fine people”, […]
Among his first moves, he dismantled Twitter's trust and safety infrastructure, laying off the vast majority of the staff responsible for things like taking down violent threats and hate speech. In their place, he welcomed neo-Nazis.
gloss: Of or pertaining to neo-Nazism or neo-Nazis.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
usually
examples: On the whole the Galicians have been at the more pitiful end of the spectrum, trading infantile political insults on the web, each trying desperately to appear more neo-Nazi than the other.
Wilson has tweeted the phrase “Ausländer Raus” at least four times, including the slogan, “Deutschland den Deutschen. Ausländer raus.” The phrase, which means, “Germany for Germans, foreigners out,” is explicitly considered to be an extremist slogan in Germany with neo-Nazi roots; in fact, a 1992 paper about its use among German skinheads is available on a Department of Justice website.
Translations:
removed
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more removed
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most removed
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Separated in time, space, or degree.
pos: adj
examples: Now that we are here one week removed...
gloss: Of a different generation, older or younger
pos: adj
examples: Steve is my second cousin once removed.
Derived words: far removed
nonremoved
once removed
removedness
thrice removed
twice removed
unremoved
Translations:
woolen
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English wollen, wullen, from Old English wyllen, from Proto-Germanic *wullīnaz (“woollen”), equivalent to wool + -en. Cognate with Scots wollin, wolne, wowne (“woollen”), Dutch wollen (“woollen”), German wollen (“woollen”), Danish uldne (“woollen”), Norwegian Bokmål ullen (“fuzzy; woolen”).
Base: wool
Affixes: -en
Inflected forms:
form: woollen
pos: adj
tags: alternative
UK
form: woolens
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: woollen
pos: noun
tags: alternative
UK
Senses:
gloss: Made of wool.
pos: adj
tags: US
not-comparable
examples: In a large bedroom upstairs, the window of which was thickly curtained with a great woollen shawl lately discarded by the landlady, Mrs. Rolliver, were gathered on this evening nearly a dozen persons, all seeking vinous bliss; all old inhabitants of the nearer end of Marlott, and frequenters of this retreat.
gloss: Of or relating to wool or woolen cloths.
pos: adj
tags: US
not-comparable
examples: woolen manufactures
a woolen mill
a woolen draper
Woolen threads were an occult means, according to the Roman poet Horace, of depriving a person of virility.
gloss: An item of clothing made from wool.
pos: noun
tags: US
examples: Put all the woolens in this basket.
American woolens could not compete with British fabrics when quality was important.
Related words: wooly
woolly
Derived words: wool
Translations:
cockerel
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English kokerel. By surface analysis, cock + -rel.
Inflected forms:
form: cockerels
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A young male chicken.
pos: noun
examples: “Mrs. Boast can’t have got all these from one hatching,” [Ma] said. “I do believe there’s not more than two cockerels among them.” “The Boasts have got such a head-start with chickens, likely they’re planning to eat friers this summer,” said Pa. “It may be she took a few cockerels out of this flock, looking on them as meat.”
He had made arrangements with the cockerel to call him three-quarters of an hour earlier in the mornings instead of half an hour.
Translations:
coppice
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English copies, from Old French copeiz (“a cut-over forest”), from presumed Vulgar Latin *colpaticium (“having the quality of being cut”), from *colpāre (“to cut, strike”), from *colpus (“a blow”), from Latin colaphus (“a cuff, box on the ear”), from Ancient Greek κόλαφος (kólaphos, “a blow, slap”).
Inflected forms:
form: coppices
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: coppis
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: coppices
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: coppicing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: coppiced
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: coppiced
pos: verb
tags: past
form: coppis
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: A grove of small growth; a thicket of brushwood; a wood cut at certain times for fuel or other purposes, typically managed to promote growth and ensure a reliable supply of timber. See copse.
pos: noun
examples: […]belts of thin white mist streaked the brown plough land in the hollow where Appleby could see the pale shine of a winding river. Across that in turn, meadow and coppice rolled away past the white walls of a village bowered in orchards,[…]
It was also enacted that all coppices or underwoods should be enclosed for periods from four to seven years after felling.
At the time of the Norman Conquest, any village with woodland had one or more coppices of about 80 acres. […] Coppice trees are periodically cut to a level just above the ground. […] Hazel forms most English coppices, but there are also coppices of alder, oak, wych elm and willow.
gloss: To manage (a wooded area) sustainably, as a coppice, by periodically cutting back woody plants to promote new growth.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Her plan to coppice the woods should keep her self-sufficient in fuel indefinitely.
gloss: To sprout from the stump.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Few conifer species can coppice.
Derived words: coppicer
recoppice
Translations:
storer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English store
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 storer
From store + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: storers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who lays up or forms a store.
pos: noun
examples: Offer the PCB waste to transporters, disposers, or commercial storers of PCB waste who have not received an EPA identification number.
Translations:
collier
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: nautical
transport
Etymology: From Middle English colier, colyer, alteration of earlier coler, collere (“one who makes or sells charcoal”), from Old English *colere (“collier”), equivalent to coal + -ier.
Base: coal
Affixes: -ier
Inflected forms:
form: colliers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person in the business or occupation of producing or distributing coal (any of several types of carbon fuel).
pos: noun
examples: The Black Dwarfs wear black jackets and caps, are not handsome like the others, but on the contrary are horridly ugly, with weeping eyes, like blacksmiths and colliers.
Near-synonyms: coalminer, coalworker; coalowner, mineowner
gloss: A person in the business or occupation of producing or distributing coal (any of several types of carbon fuel).
pos: noun
tags: dated
historical
examples: For this reason, the collier took constant care to keep the covering of earth in good order.
gloss: A vessel carrying a bulk cargo of coal.
pos: noun
examples: By 1830, more than two million tons of coal a year, principally from the North East, arrived in London by coastal collier, and that figure reached three million tons by the 1840s.
gloss: A sailor on such a vessel.
pos: noun
gloss: A non-traveller.
pos: noun
tags: slang
Related words: Collier Street
Colliers Wood
colliery
mineral coal
seacoal
collie
Derived words: grim-the-collier
Translations:
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 煤船員 /煤船员
lang: Polish
word: węglarz
gad
Part of speech: intj
verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Euphemistic alteration of God.
Inflected forms:
form: gads
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: gadding
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: gadded
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: gadded
pos: verb
tags: past
form: gads
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An exclamation roughly equivalent to by God, goodness gracious, for goodness' sake.
pos: intj
examples: The clasp slips free (gad, what lush kazooms) and she even helps him pull off the blouse that is now cuffing her at the elbows.
gloss: To move from one location to another in an apparently random and frivolous manner.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: This, I suppose, is the virgin who abideth still in the house with you. She is not given, I hope, to gadding overmuch, nor to vain and foolish decorations of her person with ear-rings and finger-rings, and crisping-pins: for such are unprofitable, yea, abominable.
So when he saw King Arthur he said: "Thou knave! Wherefore didst thou quit thy work to go a-gadding?"
But there is no telling the sacrament, seldom if in any case revealed to the gadding world, wherever under circumstances at all akin to those here attempted to be set forth, two of great Nature's nobler order embrace.
If you are on the board of governors of a school and have contracted to supply an orator for the great day of the year, you can be forgiven for feeling a trifle jumpy when you learn that the silver-tongued one has gadded off to the metropolis, leaving no word as to when he will be returning, if ever.
gloss: To run with the tail in the air, bent over the back, usually in an attempt to escape the warble fly.
pos: verb
gloss: One who roams about idly; a gadabout.
pos: noun
Derived words: gadabout
gaddishness
gadder
Translations:
finery
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: arts
crafts
hobbies
ironworking
lifestyle
Inflected forms:
form: fineries
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Fineness; beauty.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
gloss: Ornament; decoration; especially, excessive decoration; showy clothes; jewels.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: The city also shone through the luxury of the higher castes: in the fineries of their dress, the rich manner of their living, their many servants, silver table services, and showy furnishings.
gloss: fine point; minute characteristic
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: the translator should master the language he translates from as thoroughly as his mother tongue, knowing all its fineries
gloss: A charcoal hearth or furnace for the conversion of cast iron into wrought iron, or into iron suitable for puddling.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: In front of the finery hearth in which the sow is melted down again, the finer is working with a long iron bar called a ringer (from French 'ringard') with which he keeps the molten iron in motion by stirring, an essential stage in the process of refining.
Related words: fine
Derived words: superfinery
Translations:
woolly
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English wolly, equivalent to wool + -y. Cognate with Saterland Frisian wullich (“woolly”), Dutch wollig (“woolly”), German wollig (“woolly”), Swedish ullig (“woolly”).
Base: wool
Affixes: -y
Inflected forms:
form: woollier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: woolliest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: wooly
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: woollies
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: wooly
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Made of wool.
pos: adj
examples: Put on a woolly jumper and turn down the thermostat.
Sporting a woolly cardigan with four buttons on top of an Oxford smock without a collar, our man has a faintly folksy look about him, calling to mind a zingaro or a gypsy, a carny or a Mongol, but also (switching to a wholly distinct mythology and iconography) a hippy strumming his guitar in a barroom in Haight-Ashbury or at Big Sur or in Katmandu.
gloss: Having a thick, soft texture, as if made of wool.
pos: adj
examples: woolly hair
There was nothing left in the fruit bowl but a brown banana and a couple of woolly pears.
My skin is black / My arms are long / My hair is woolly / My back is strong
gloss: Unclear, fuzzy, hazy, cloudy.
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
examples: That's the sort of woolly thinking that causes wars to start.
To call David Lean's Dr Zhivago a translation of Pasternak's novel is not only to disregard the specificity of film art, but to make such woolly use of the word ‘translation’ as to fit it to refer to any kind of transformation. Knitting included.
gloss: Clothed in wool.
pos: adj
tags: obsolete
examples: woolly breeders
gloss: Cross; irritable.
pos: adj
tags: archaic
slang
examples: […] and don't get woolly because some of your little "deals" don't come off. You'd soon consider yourself the superior of God Almighty Himself if He didn't set you in your place once in a while.
gloss: A sweater or similar garment made of wool.
pos: noun
tags: informal
examples: `I've got a rotten cold and I'm not taking my woollies off until it's better.'
Being an innocent Australian abroad in a European winter, I had taken with me every winter woolly I could borrow or squeeze out of friends and associates.
gloss: A sheep not yet shorn.
pos: noun
tags: US
slang
gloss: A piece of woolwork.
pos: noun
Derived words: wild and woolly
woolly adelgid
woolly aphid
woollyback
woolly bear
woolly bear caterpillar
woolly bluecurls
woolly fringe moss
woolly-haired
woolly hat
woolly-head
woolly-headed
woolly hippopotamus
woollyish
woolly lemur
woolly mammoth
woolly marbles
woolly-minded
woolly monkey
woolly mouse
woolly mouse opossum
woolly nightshade
woolly opossum
woolly-pated
woolly pate
woolly-pate
woolly poison
woolly rhino
woolly rhinoceros
woolly woofter
woolly worm
Translations:
MPEG
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: computer-graphics
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Inflected forms:
form: MPEGs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of a group of computer file formats for the compression and storage of digital video and audio data.
pos: noun
gloss: A computer file (as of a movie) in an MPEG format.
pos: noun
Translations:
screenshot
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: compound
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: From screen + shot (“(photography) single unbroken sequence of photographic exposures”).
Compound parts: screen
shot
Inflected forms:
form: screenshots
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: screenshots
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: screenshotting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: screenshotted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: screenshotted
pos: verb
tags: past
form: screenshot
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
uncommon
form: screenshot
pos: verb
tags: past
uncommon
Senses:
gloss: An image of computer or smartphone screen output at a given moment in time.
pos: noun
examples: I grabbed a screenshot of my desktop.
gloss: To take a screenshot of something.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: To help to improve the software, make sure to screenshot any bugs you find.
Northern has made it harder for fraudsters to cheat checks on barcode season tickets. The operator has made it impossible for people to screenshot tickets from within the Northern app and then share the tickets for others to use.
It was one of the funnier, somewhat surprising screw-ups we’d seen from Gemini, which like all publicly available artificial intelligence tools is prone to what the tech industry calls “hallucinations.” He screenshot the answer so that we could have a laugh about it, and then scrolled down to find the first non-sponsored, non-AI search result: an entry from one of the most reliable places on the internet, Wikipedia.
Translations:
firefly
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: Endocentric compound of fire + fly, because the insects glow; whence also lightning bug. Compare glow fly, glowworm, and lanternfly.
Compare typologically Ancient Greek λαμπυρίς (lampurís, “glowworm”) (<+ πῦρ (pûr)).
Compound parts: fire
fly
Inflected forms:
form: fireflies
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: fire-fly
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Any beetle of the family Lampyridae, which exhibit bioluminescence during twilight.
pos: noun
tags: Florida
Northern-US
US
Western
examples: 2000, Exploring Life Science, 2: Bats—Cave Life, Marshall Cavendish, page 96,
Fireflies are the best-known insects that produce light. […] Many fireflies use their light to communicate, particularly at mating time when males and females have to get together.
The luciferins are different in different species and today both the luciferin and luciferase in the firefly are available in the crystalline form.
Various other luciferase genes, especially the firefly luciferase gene, are also used for the study of gene regulation.[…]The classic use of bioluminescence, however, is the use of a luciferin-luciferase mixture from fireflies as an assay for ATP.
Translations:
shite
Part of speech: noun
adj
intj
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From the Middle English shite, schite, scīte (“excrement”), cognate with Middle Low German schīte, Middle High German schīze, Dutch schijt. Compare Middle English shitel, scitel, scytel (“dung, excrement”), from Old English sċitel. More at shit. Doublet of scheisse.
Inflected forms:
form: shites
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: shiter
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: more shite
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: shitest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: most shite
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: shites
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: shiting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: shited
pos: verb
tags: past
form: shit
pos: verb
tags: past
form: shat
pos: verb
tags: past
form: shited
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: shit
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: shat
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: shitten
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
Senses:
gloss: Shit; trash; rubbish; nonsense.
pos: noun
tags: Ireland
UK
uncountable
usually
vulgar
examples: That’s a load of shite.
Look at all this shite.
“I had a visit from one of Colonel Datka’s people this afternoon. I don’t think it’s a coincidence.” / “Shite.” The brass-necked gears are turning behind his eyes. “What makes you say that?” […] “Coincidences happen.”
gloss: A foolish or deceitful person.
pos: noun
tags: Ireland
UK
countable
derogatory
uncommon
usually
vulgar
examples: He's a useless shite.
Pull yourself together. It’s not like he’s going to break in and rape you, is it? He’s just a nasty wee shite, as they say hereabouts, a misogynistic pick-up artist who’s too cheap to use a tissue.
gloss: Bad; awful; shit.
pos: adj
tags: Ireland
UK
vulgar
examples: That was a shite film.
In the end, you find yourself […] thinking about what the Gnome said about home brew. Shite beer, he’d said, unless you add a cofactor.
gloss: An expression of annoyance or dismay.
pos: intj
tags: Ireland
UK
vulgar
examples: Shite! I left my wallet at home.
Shite. It’s three o’fucking clock in the afternoon!
gloss: To defecate.
pos: verb
tags: Ireland
Scotland
UK
vulgar
examples: […] it still softened my heart to see a man hurt so badly he sobbed and shited on himself.
He would probably have a head full of locks. Who has time to be pretty when people are hurting? Crying. Shiting on themselves trying to beat heroin.
I have eaten a dishful of curds,
And I have shitten your mouth full of turds.
Derived words: beshite
bullshite
chat shite
give a shite
gobshite
hadaway and shite
load of shite
piece of shite
pile of shite
shitebag
shiteface
shitehawk
shitehead
shiteload
shitepoke
shitey
shity
shower of shite
talk shite
webshite
Translations:
eff
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From the name of the letter f (see etymology 1), the initial letter of fuck. Compare pee.
Inflected forms:
form: effs
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: effing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: effed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: effed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of fuck.
pos: verb
tags: euphemistic
slang
examples: Eff off!
And he kept saying, "Effing this, effing that."
“Holy moly. What the heck is happening here? Hey, hey! Let me out of here. Hey, you. Give me back control of my body.” “[scoffs] Nah, dude, this is my body. You already effed it up.” “No, it's not.” “Whatever, man. I don't take orders from a reflection. [chuckles]” “I'm not a reflection. Help! I think an anaphasic alien took over my body.”
“So what do you think?” “Am I supposed to eff him or, you know, what's the plan here?” “I mean, you can if you want, but, no, that's not why I brought him here.” “Well, why did you bring him here? PS: I probably will eff him. But more out of boredom than anything else. [sighs] Such is the plight of The Guide.”
Translations:
clusterfuck
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: compound
Topics: lifestyle
sexuality
Etymology: From cluster + fuck. Reportedly coined by Hippie poet Ed Sanders as Mongolian Cluster Fuck. First use appears c. 1965 in East Village Other.
Compound parts: cluster
fuck
Inflected forms:
form: clusterfucks
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: cluster fuck
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: cluster-fuck
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: clusterfucks
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: clusterfucking
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: clusterfucked
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: clusterfucked
pos: verb
tags: past
form: cluster fuck
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: cluster-fuck
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A chaotic situation where everything seems to go wrong, often caused by communication failure, a complex environment, or incompetence.
pos: noun
tags: idiomatic
slang
vulgar
examples: [Colonel Meyers:] That's for sure. What's your assessment of this exercise? [Highway:] It's a cluster fuck.
1989: P. J. O'Rourke, Holidays in Hell
"Mongolian Cluster Fuck" is the technical term journalists use for a preplanned, wholly scripted, news-free event.
They had a name for something like this in the army—a cluster fuck. Yes. Good name. ... He was sitting here in the middle of a great big cluster fuck
A simple sweep-and-clear turned into a total clusterfuck: T-Bird, trying to explain to Eric how the situation escalated on Devil's Night […]
Please note also my request that henceforth I wish to be reminded of the possibility of a clusterfuck in any contingency plan or operations proposal […]
My cousin was in the Army over here in '68. He says don't trust anybody to know what they're doing, calls it a cluster-fuck. Fucked-up-beyond-all-repair, FUBAR he says.
[…] and you will still only begin to get a sense of the constitutionally mandated clusterfuck that is the modern presidency.
It was a clusterfuck, a deadly clusterfuck. When the doughs finally got off the ground in some numbers and charged into the woods, the Krauts broke contact […]
[CIA-Superior:] Okay. Okay. If he wakes up we'll worry about it then. Jesus, what a clusterfuck.
2013: Barbara Kruger: What a ridiculous clusterfuck of totally uncool jokers. I make my work about this kind of sadly foolish farce. I’m waiting for all of them to sue me for copyright infringement in response to the Supreme v Married To The Mob battle
gloss: A sexual orgy.
pos: noun
tags: slang
uncommon
vulgar
gloss: To fuck (something) up, to make a total mess of.
pos: verb
tags: idiomatic
slang
transitive
vulgar
Synonyms: car crash
comedy of errors
debacle
dumpster fire
dysfunction
fiasco
FUBAR
goatfuck
goat rope
gong show
imbroglio
omnishambles
quagmire
SNAFU
train wreck
Derived words: CF
Charlie Foxtrot
cluster
clusterball
clusterbumble
clusterbùrach
clusterfucked
clusterfuckery
fustercluck
Translations:
significant
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: mathematics
sciences
statistics
Etymology: From Latin significans, present participle of significare, from signum (“sign”) + ficare (“do, make”), variant of facere.
Inflected forms:
form: more significant
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most significant
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: significants
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Signifying something; carrying meaning.
pos: adj
examples: a significant word or sound
a significant look
It was well said of Plotinus, that the stars were significant, but not efficient.
As evening came on, it grew prematurely dark and cloudy; while the waves acquired that dull indigo tint so significant of ugly weather.
gloss: Having a noticeable or major effect.
pos: adj
examples: That was a significant step in the right direction.
The First World War was a significant event.
The “little green men”—faces covered, wearing unmarked olive uniforms, speaking Russian and using Russian weapons—have played a significant role in both the occupation of Crimea and the civil war in eastern Ukraine.¹⁹⁶
gloss: Reasonably large in number or amount.
pos: adj
gloss: Having a covert or hidden meaning.
pos: adj
gloss: Having a low probability of occurring by chance (for example, having high correlation and thus likely to be related).
pos: adj
gloss: Of a digit or figure, see significant figure.
pos: adj
gloss: That which has significance; a sign; a token; a symbol.
pos: noun
examples: In dumb significants proclaim your thoughts.
And in my glass significants there are
Synonyms: important
Antonyms: insignificant
ignorable
negligible
slight
Related words: significance
significand
signify
Derived words: consignificant
hypersignificant
least significant bit
least significant byte
most significant bit
most significant byte
nonsignificant
significant digit
significant figure
significantly
significantness
significant other
significant wave height
statistically significant
subsignificant
unsignificant
Translations:
porter
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
computing
engineering
entomology
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: From Middle English porter, portere, portier, borrowed from Anglo-Norman portour and Old French porteor, from Late Latin portātor, from past participle of Latin portāre (“to carry”). By surface analysis, port (“to carry”) + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: porters
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: porters
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: portering
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: portered
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: portered
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A person who carries luggage and related objects.
pos: noun
examples: By the time I reached the train station I was exhausted, but fortunately there was a porter waiting.
Achilles! a drayman, a porter, a very camel.
the unsmotherable delight of all the porters and by - standers
The man who carries your luggage at the station is a "red cap", not a porter. The Canadian porter is the man who makes up the beds in the sleeping cars.
As soon as we had come to a stand in Kamina Station, a swarm of porters pushed their way into the compartment to get my luggage. I selected one, and ordered the others out, and then detrained.
Tips were an important part of porters' income, and at Christmas passengers felt there was extra pressure to give them - despite some perceiving the level of service to be poor.
gloss: An ant having the specialized role of carrying.
pos: noun
gloss: One who ports software (makes it usable on another platform).
pos: noun
examples: […] useful only if you are a Perl porter or implementor and you want to check the efficiency of the hashing algorithm.
gloss: To serve as a porter; to carry.
pos: verb
Derived words: Porterfield
porterless
porterlike
porterly
portress
rope porter
symporter
teleporter
underporter
uniporter
Translations:
fireplace
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From fire + place.
Compound parts: fire
place
Inflected forms:
form: fireplaces
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: fire-place
pos: noun
tags: alternative
archaic
Senses:
gloss: An open hearth for holding a fire at the base of a chimney.
pos: noun
examples: Sepia Delft tiles surrounded the fireplace, their crudely drawn Biblical scenes in faded cyclamen blending with the pinkish pine, while above them, instead of a mantelshelf, there was an archway high enough to form a balcony with slender balusters and a tapestry-hung wall behind.
Opposite the old church is a Tudor black-and-white cottage, flanked at one end by the Brocket Arms, a splendid 400-year-old pub with stone-flagged floors, a vast inglenook fireplace and a garden full of oak tables and benches for summer evening meditation.
Translations:
chimney
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: climbing
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Etymology: From Middle English chymeneye, chymneye, chymene, from Old French cheminee, from Late Latin camīnāta, from Latin camīnus, from Ancient Greek κάμῑνος (kámīnos, “furnace”). Doublet of chimenea.
Inflected forms:
form: chimneys
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: chimnies
pos: noun
tags: archaic
plural
form: chimley
pos: noun
tags: alternative
dialectal
form: chimbley
pos: noun
tags: alternative
dialectal
form: chimneys
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: chimneying
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: chimneyed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: chimneyed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: chimley
pos: verb
tags: alternative
dialectal
form: chimbley
pos: verb
tags: alternative
dialectal
Senses:
gloss: A vertical tube or hollow column used to emit environmentally polluting gaseous and solid matter (including but not limited to by-products of burning carbon- or hydrocarbon-based fuels); a flue.
pos: noun
examples: Our chimney was a square hole in the roof: it was but a little part of the smoke that found its way out, and the rest eddied about the house, and kept us coughing and piping the eye.
The external aspect of the oficina was not unlike that of a north-country coal or iron mine—tall chimneys and machinery, corrugated iron buildings, offices and houses, the shanties of workmen, a high bank of refuse.
Witches always anointed themselves with ointments before departing up the chimney to their Sabbaths.
gloss: The glass flue surrounding the flame of an oil lamp.
pos: noun
examples: By next winter he was spending every evening poring over the work of Théodore Agrippa d'Aubigné on the French Reformation by the light of a little oil lamp, with a tiny cistern the size of an orange and no chimney[.]
gloss: The smokestack of a steam locomotive.
pos: noun
tags: UK
gloss: A narrow cleft in a rock face; a narrow vertical cave passage.
pos: noun
gloss: A vagina.
pos: noun
tags: euphemistic
vulgar
gloss: A black eye; a shiner.
pos: noun
tags: Northern-Ireland
slang
gloss: To negotiate a chimney (narrow vertical cave passage) by pushing against the sides with back, feet, hands, etc.
pos: verb
Derived words: chimney balloon
chimney board
chimney breast
chimney-breast
chimney cake
chimney campanula
chimney can
chimney cap
chimney corner
chimney-corner
chimney-duty
chimney effect
chimney fire
chimney flashing
chimney flute
chimneyful
chimney-glass
chimney hook
chimneyless
chimneylike
chimney money
chimney-money
chimney piece
chimneypiece
chimney-piece
chimney pot
chimney-pot hat
Chimney Rock
chimneyscape
chimney stack
chimney stalk
chimney swallow
chimney-sweep
chimney sweep
chimney-sweeper
chimney sweeper
chimney sweep's cancer
chimney sweep's carcinoma
chimney swift
fairy chimney
pie chimney
smoke like a chimney
sweep-chimney
Welsh chimney
Translations:
descendant
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: astrology
biology
human-sciences
linguistics
mysticism
natural-sciences
philosophy
sciences
Etymology: From Middle English dessendaunte, borrowed from Middle French, from Latin dēscendēns, present participle of descendere, from dē + scandere (“to climb, ascend”).
Inflected forms:
form: descendent
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: descendants
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Descending; going down.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The elevator resumed its descendant trajectory.
Eagle descendant, or descending. See DESCENDANT, and Pl. 22, fig. 6. Eagle descendant, displayed. See Pl. 22, fig. 7. Eagle displayed, recursant. See DISPLAYED RECURSANT, and Pl. 22, […]
Azure, surmounting a cloud argent, an American eagle descendant, wings endorsed proper, between his beak four lightning streaks, […]
gloss: Descending from a biological ancestor.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Power in the kingdom is transferred in a descendant manner.
Pitiable sportster, / To choose thy prey so humbly, to seduce / A beggar wench who hath not the high pride / Descendant still from kingly ancestors, / To keep her royal place.
gloss: Proceeding from a figurative ancestor or source.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: One of the progeny of a specified person, at any distance of time or through any number of generations.
pos: noun
examples: Meronyms: issue, line, progeny; family; clan
The patriarch survived many descendants: five children, a dozen grandchildren, even a great grandchild.
gloss: A thing that derives directly from a given precursor or source.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
examples: This famous medieval manuscript has many descendants.
gloss: A later evolutionary type.
pos: noun
examples: Dogs evolved as descendants of early wolves.
gloss: A language that is descended from another.
pos: noun
examples: English and Scots are the descendants of Old English.
gloss: A word or form in one language that is descended from a counterpart in an ancestor language.
pos: noun
examples: The direct descendant of this form is the Slavic aorist: Sb.-Cr. nȍsī, dȍnosī.
gloss: The intersection of the western (setting) horizon and the ecliptic, its ecliptical longitude; the astrological sign it corresponds to.
pos: noun
Synonyms: offspring
scion
and see Thesaurus:child & relative
Antonyms: ascendant
ascendent
ascending
montant
ancestor
forebear
Related words: descendancy
offspring
offshoot
progeny
Derived words: Afrodescendant
descendantless
direct descendant
indirect descendant
nondescendant
Translations:
smokestack
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English smoke
English stack
English smokestack
From smoke + stack.
Inflected forms:
form: smokestacks
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A conduit or group of conduits atop a structure allowing smoke to flow out, as on a steam locomotive, ship, factory, or power plant using fossil fuels.
pos: noun
examples: With its long tapered cowcatcher, massive headlamp and enormous diamond smokestack behind, wagon-top boiler, high running-plate above the driving-wheels reached from a front door in the square side-window cab, cylinders with slide valves mounted on top, and double bogie tender, General in its present form is typical of much earlier American locomotive practice.
One of those areas can be found at the city’s northern edge, where the towering smokestacks of Wuhan Iron and Steel loom behind bent-backed farmers tending vegetable patches. Today Qingshan district is a patchwork of tiny fields, polluted streams and roadside markets selling building materials. But the city government is in the process of transforming this no-man’s-land into a sparkling new suburb. Between the steelworks and the mighty Yangtze River, demolished buildings and hoardings advertise a new logistics centre. Down the road, a giant railway station (Wuhan’s third) and a 6-kilometre bridge (the city’s fifth to cross the Yangtze) were completed in 2010.
Translations:
hearth
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: lifestyle
paganism
religion
Etymology: From Middle English herth, herthe, from Old English heorþ, from Proto-West Germanic *herþ, from Proto-Germanic *herþaz, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *kerh₃- (“heat; fire”). Cognate with West Frisian hurd, Dutch haard, German Herd, Swedish härd.
The modern spelling is from an Middle English/Early Modern English /hɛːrθ/, from earlier /heːrθ/, levelled from inflected forms with /rð/ where the vowel would have been lengthened. The reflex of this pronunciation was preserved in obsolete dialectal /ˈhɜɹθ/.
Inflected forms:
form: hearths
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The place in a home where a fire is or was traditionally kept for home heating and for cooking, usually constituted by at least a hearthstone and often enclosed to varying degrees by any combination of reredos, fireplace, oven, smoke hood, or chimney.
pos: noun
examples: For by the hearth the children sit
⁠Cold in that atmosphere of Death,
⁠And scarce endure to draw the breath,
Or like to noiseless phantoms flit: […]
gloss: A hearthstone, either as standalone or as the floor of an enclosed fireplace or oven.
pos: noun
examples: cooking on an open hearth
When the flames at last began to flicker and subside, his lids fluttered, then drooped ; but he had lost all reckoning of time when he opened them again to find Miss Erroll in furs kneeling on the hearth and heaping kindling on the coals, and her pretty little Alsatian maid beside her, laying a log across the andirons.
gloss: A fireplace: an open recess in a wall at the base of a chimney where a fire may be built.
pos: noun
gloss: The lowest part of a metallurgical furnace.
pos: noun
gloss: A brazier, chafing dish, or firebox.
pos: noun
gloss: Home or family life.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
examples: To put it simply, he seems to me to be starting out to harm the city, from its very hearth, by setting out to wrong you.
gloss: A household or group in some forms of the modern pagan faith Heathenry.
pos: noun
tags: Germanic
examples: Asatru is practised all over Northern Europe and also in North America. Like Druidry, it is organized into bodies with sub-groups, the hearths.
Smaller localized groups known as 'hearths' meet regularly, and are comparable, in size and function, with a Wiccan 'Coven' or Druidic 'Grove'.
Neopagan groups take many forms, from Wiccan covens to Druid groves, from Heathen hearths to magical lodges[…]
Derived words: forehearth
hearth and home
hearth board
hearthflame
hearthful
hearthless
hearthlike
hearth-penny
hearthplace
hearthrug
hearthside
hearthstead
hearthstone
hearth tax
hearthward
hearthwards
multihearth
open hearth
open-hearth
ore hearth
rivet hearth
Scotch hearth
Translations:
foyer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from French foyer (“hearth, lobby”), in turn from Vulgar Latin *focārium, from Late Latin focārius, from Latin focus (“hearth”). Cognate with Spanish hogar (“home”).
Inflected forms:
form: foyers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A lobby, corridor, or waiting room, used in a hotel, theater, etc.
pos: noun
examples: We had a drink in the foyer waiting for the play to start.
Now it's big black cars and Riviera views / And your lover in the foyer doesn't even know you / And your secrets end up splashed on the news front page
"He's been waiting to jump my brain-bones since I left R&E. I could feel him hammering on the door." She trotted to the nearest wall and knocked on it for emphasis. "But whatever it is that makes us remember the good old days, it also makes us impossible to possess now. That's why Willie and I both woke up, and why Noè never got taken out by Mukami. So all I had to do was open my mind up to the guy, invite him in, then... gas the foyer, as it were."
gloss: The crucible or basin in a furnace which receives the molten metal.
pos: noun
gloss: A hostel offering accommodation and work opportunities to homeless young people.
pos: noun
tags: UK
Derived words: foyered
foyerlike
lawyer foyer
Translations:
geta
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 下駄 (geta).
Inflected forms:
form: getas
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: geta
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A Japanese raised wooden clog, worn with traditional Japanese garments such as the kimono.
pos: noun
examples: Because of August he wears shorts and sandals, the Japanese geta sort called thongs.
The Japanese geta or wooden sandal is a superb, though little-utilized, tool for training in the martial arts.[…]The geta are flat, wooden sandals raised on vertical slats.
gloss: A technique for capturing stones by enclosing them in a “net” preventing them from escaping in any direction.
pos: noun
Related words: zori
Derived words: geta mark
Translations: