yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
googly
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Etymology: Unknown; perhaps derived from googie (“an egg, in reference to the unusual direction of bounce”). Though the delivery was perfected and made famous by English cricketer Bernard Bosanquet, circa 1900, the term is recorded earlier in Australian English (1896).
Inflected forms:
form: googlies
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: googlier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: googliest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: A ball, bowled by a leg-break bowler, that spins from off to leg (to a right-handed batsman), unlike a normal leg-break delivery.
pos: noun
examples: His weakness in batting is against googly.
He bowled a googly that sparked a shout for LBW.
To go the whole round of bowlers before, again putting, on either Copplestone or B. Goodwin was a mistake, I thought, and equally so were Molyneau's repeated attempts at bowling slow "googlies."
Pelham Warner says Bosanquet is really invaluable. He can bowl as badly as anyone in the world, but when he gets a length those slow googlies, as the Australian players call them, are apt to paralyse the greatest players.
gloss: Bulging.
pos: adj
examples: “A shtinker,” the bug-eyed man said more loudly. […]“B'seder, fine, a shtinker rabbi,” the googly-eyed man amended, rubbing his lower gut. “But can’t you tell he’s an informer?”
gloss: Appearing to be amorous, flirtatious.
pos: adj
tags: sometimes
usually
examples: ‘Torture my foot! You think it’s torture for a man to ask his wife for attention? God save me from stupid women!’ – my father limped downstairs to make googly eyes at Colaba girls.
“Attractive enough? You should see how the mothers here act around him.” She sighed. “Everyone goes all googly when he’s around.”
Related words: googly-eyed
googly eye
googly-moogly
Translations:
smeg
Part of speech: intj
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: A clipping of smegma, popularised by the British sitcom Red Dwarf.
Inflected forms:
form: smegs
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: smegging
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: smegged
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: smegged
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Used as a swear word.
pos: intj
tags: slang
gloss: To mess up.
pos: verb
tags: slang
examples: "Sorry I smegged up your face, man." Curry shrugged.
My finances are completely smegged.
I stood there, smegged to silence by the colour screen and mini camera watching me like a suspicious eye.
Translations:
lonely
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From lone + -ly, or from an apheretic shortening of alonely. See lone.
Base: lone
Affixes: -ly
Inflected forms:
form: lonelier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: loneliest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Unhappy due to feeling isolated from contact with other people.
pos: adj
examples: At last
My love has come along
My lonely days are over
And life is like a song
Well, since my baby left me,
Well, I found a new place to dwell.
Well, it's down at the end of Lonely Street
At Heartbreak Hotel.
Where I'll be, I'll be so lonely, baby
Well, I'm so lonely
I'll be so lonely, I could die.
LA is the loneliest and most brutal of American cities; New York gets god-awful cold in the winter but there’s a feeling of wacky comradeship somewhere in some streets. LA is a jungle.
You were lonely for a man
I said, "Take me as I am"
'Cause you might enjoy some madness for a while
From the ground, Colombo’s port does not look like much. Those entering it are greeted by wire fences, walls dating back to colonial times and security posts. For mariners leaving the port after lonely nights on the high seas, the delights of the B52 Night Club and Stallion Pub lie a stumble away.
gloss: Unfrequented by people; desolate.
pos: adj
examples: Only to those to whom in lonely passes in the night the gods have spoken, leaning through the stars, to those that have heard the voices of the gods above the morning or seen Their faces bending above the sea, only to those hath it been given to see Sardathrion, to stand where her pinnacles gathered together in the night fresh from the dreams of gods.
[…] San Sebastian Church was desolate in the courtyard; emptier, lonelier inside with its pews stretched out like fallen pylons varnished by dolorous residue. From each candlelit nook stared in stony despair one after another saint, regal and rueful: proffering forgiveness, peace, a todo.
gloss: Without companions; solitary.
pos: adj
examples: By a lone wall a lonelier column rears.
Synonyms: lonesome
Related words: lone
loneliness
Derived words: it's lonely at the top
lonelihood
lonelily
lonely-heart
lonely-hearted
lonelyhearted
lonely-hearts
nonlonely
plough a lonely furrow
unlonely
Translations:
intimation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle French intimation, from Latin intimatio.
Inflected forms:
form: intimations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of intimating.
pos: noun
gloss: The thing intimated.
pos: noun
gloss: Announcement; declaration.
pos: noun
examples: They made an edict with an intimation that whosoever killed a stork, should be banished.
gloss: A hint; an obscure or indirect suggestion or notice; a remote or ambiguous reference.
pos: noun
examples: Without mentioning the king of England, or giving the least intimation that he was sent by him.
At length, perchance, the immaterial heaven will appear as much higher to the American mind, and the intimations that star it as much brighter.
And actually I had important intimations to communicate as he faced the end. But intimations weren't much use.
Related words: intimacy
intimate
Derived words: preintimation
Translations:
plosive
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonetics
phonology
sciences
Etymology: Clipping of explosive.
Inflected forms:
form: plosives
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: more plosive
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: plosiver
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most plosive
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: plosivest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: A speech sound produced by opening a closed vocal tract.
pos: noun
gloss: Produced from opening a previously closed oral passage.
pos: adj
Translations:
bandana
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Hindi बंधन (bandhan, “the act of binding, a bond”), from Sanskrit बध्नाति (badhnāti, “he binds”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰendʰ- (“to bind, bond”). Related to Hindi बाँधना (bāndhnā, “to tie”). Doublet of bind.
Inflected forms:
form: bandanas
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: bandanna
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: bandanno
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: bandannoe
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: A large kerchief, usually colourful and used either as headgear or as a handkerchief, neckerchief, bikini, or sweatband.
pos: noun
examples: Neighbours now came hurrying in, and one after another missed some trifling article of property which the deceased was known to have possessed. There were three thin spoons, real silver, on which she greatly prided herself; they were gone. A large silver watch, together with a red silk shawl and a Bandana handkerchief, very regular parts of her Sunday attire, were also not to be found.
One cure for a headache involved binding the stalk of the herb crosswort to the head with a red bandana[.]
gloss: A style of calico printing, in which white or bright spots are produced upon cloth previously dyed a uniform red or dark colour, by discharging portions of the color by chemical means, while the rest of the cloth is under pressure.
pos: noun
Derived words: bandana code
bandanaed
bandana of the Everglades
bandana thrash
Translations:
hoopla
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Earlier houp-la, hoop la, first attested in c. 1877, probably from French houp-là, oup-là (“upsadaisy, upsy-daisy”), a cry to various animals close to humans like horses and dogs, of likely onomatopoeic origin (but see là). Compare interjections like whoop, ahoy, hoo.
Inflected forms:
form: hooplas
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A bustling to-do, excited speech or noise.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Say you don't know me, or recognize my face / Say you don't care who goes to that kind of place / Knee deep in the hoopla, sinking in your fight / Too many runaways eating up the night
Campers enjoyed all of the traditional camp hoopla: color wars, shared team games with other camps and young eager college students spending their summer as counselors.
Some astronomers dislike the whole supermoon hoopla. They point out that the term originated with astrology, not astronomy; that perigee full moons are not all that rare, coming an average of every 13 months; and that their apparently swollen dimensions are often as much a matter of optical illusion and wishful blinking as of relative lunar nearness.
gloss: A carnival game in which the player attempts to throw hoops around pegs.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
polyandry
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
zoology
Etymology: From poly- + -andry.
Base: poly
Inflected forms:
form: polyandries
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A form of polygamy where a woman is married to two or more husbands simultaneously.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: The mating pattern whereby a female copulates with plural males.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: Sexual relations with multiple males, by a female or a male, human or nonhuman, within or without marriage.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: The condition of having many stamens.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
Related words: polyandrist
concubine
seraglio
harem
Derived words: hyperpolyandry
polyandric
Translations:
vineyard
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: Equivalent to vine + yard; from Middle English vyneȝerd (circa 1300), following earlier Old English wīnġeard (“wine yard, vine yard”), with vine (from Old French vigne (“vine, vineyard”), from Latin vīnea) replacing native Old English wīn (“wine, vine”). The earlier wīnġeard may have had the sense of “vine” already, with /w/ → /v/ facilitated by common v-/w- interchange. Compare Dutch wijngaard (literally “wine garden”) and German Weingarten alongside contracted Wingert. (Dutch gaard, German Garten are cognate to English yard.)
Compound parts: vine
yard
Inflected forms:
form: vineyards
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: vinyard
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: A grape plantation, especially one used in the production of wine.
pos: noun
examples: The vineyard of Château Margaux stands as the producer of one of the world's greatest and most sought-after red wines.
A vineyard is flooded in Walnut Grove on January 4.
Translations:
speck
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English spekke, from Old English specca (“small spot, stain”), from the same ultimate source as Proto-Germanic *sprakô (“spark”). Cognate with Low German spaken (“to spot with wet”).
Inflected forms:
form: specks
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: specks
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: specking
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: specked
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: specked
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A tiny spot or particle, especially of dirt.
pos: noun
examples: a tiny speck of soot
Matvey was already holding up the shirt like a horse’s collar, and, blowing off some invisible speck, he slipped it with obvious pleasure over the well-groomed body of his master.
[Rural solar plant] schemes are of little help to industry or other heavy users of electricity. Nor is solar power yet as cheap as the grid. For all that, the rapid arrival of electric light to Indian villages is long overdue. When the national grid suffers its next huge outage, as it did in July 2012 when hundreds of millions were left in the dark, look for specks of light in the villages.
a. 1864, Walter Savage Landor, quoted in 1971, Ernest Dilworth, Walter Savage Landor, Twayne Publishers, page 88,
Onward, and many bright specks bubble up along the blue Aegean; islands, every one of which, if the songs and stories of the pilots are true, is the monument of a greater man than I am.
Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the Universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves.
gloss: A very small amount; a particle; a whit.
pos: noun
examples: He has not a speck of money.
not a speck of truth in her story.
gloss: A small etheostomoid fish, Etheostoma stigmaeum, common in the eastern United States.
pos: noun
gloss: To mark with specks; to speckle.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: paper specked by impurities in the water used in its manufacture
Each flower of slender stalk, whose head though gay / Carnation, purple, azure, or specked with gold, / Hung drooping unsustained, […]
Join'd to Theſe [birds], / Thouſands beſide, thick as the covering Leaves / VVhich ſpeck them o'er, their Modulations mix / Mellifluous.
Derived words: flyspeck
speckless
specklike
specky
Translations:
ritual
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Latin rītuālis (adjective), from rītus (“rite”) + -ālis. Displaced native Old English ġewuna and wuna.
Base: rītus
Affixes: -ālis
Inflected forms:
form: more ritual
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most ritual
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: rituall
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: rituals
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: rituall
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: Related to a rite or repeated set of actions.
pos: adj
examples: They performed the ritual lighting of the candles.
These verses are the basis for the practice of wearing a prayer shawl (tallit) with a ritual fringe (tzitzit) on each of its four corners
gloss: A rite; a repeated set of actions, especially in religious contexts.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The priests carried out the religious ritual carefully.
Despite their good intentions, family members who participate in OCD rituals help reinforce the problem.
Derived words: ritually
Translations:
consultation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle French consultation, from Latin consultatio. Morphologically consult + -ation.
Base: consult
Affixes: -ation
Inflected forms:
form: consultations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of consulting.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Plans were prepared under the auspices of the L.S.W.R. by W. R. Galbraith and R. F. Church, with J. F. Greathead in consultation, for a deep-level electric line on the tube principle, 1½ miles long, from a point under the main-line terminus at Waterloo to the eastern end of Queen Victoria Street, […].
Riled by a decision that went against him, Ziv kicked his displaced boot at the assistant referee and, after a short consultation between the officials, he was given his marching orders and the loudest cheer of the night.
gloss: A conference for the exchange of information and advice.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Last month I went to a "consultation" on racism and sexism sponsored by the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. It was the first of a series of five conferences designed to bring people together fighting racism and sexiam ^([sic]) to discuss […]
gloss: An appointment or meeting with a professional person, such as a doctor.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Derived words: consultational
interconsultation
postconsultation
preconsultation
reconsultation
teleconsultation
videoconsultation
Translations:
brinkmanship
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: government
politics
Etymology: From brink (“border, edge”) + -manship (suffix denoting expertise, involvement, or special status in an area).
Base: brink
Affixes: -manship
Inflected forms:
form: brinkmanships
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: brinksmanship
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The pursuit of an advantage by appearing to be willing to take a matter to the brink (for example, by risking a dangerous policy) rather than to concede a point.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: The diplomat accused the other nation’s leader of brinkmanship for refusing to redeploy the troops along their nations’ shared border.
They say that in ancient times the Romans used to take cold showers before deciding on important questions. Perhaps, this should be recommended to some excessively ardent supporters of the policy of brinkmanship.
We shall probably have several narrow escapes from Cuban-like brinkmanships, and although these will intensify the realisation of the need for a united world system, the inherent distrust and suspicion with which the present generation has been brought up, coupled with the too slow adaptation of politicians to new situations, will prove too great a hindrance.
Having said this much, perhaps I can ask you in return that these critics should recognize that the administration, which now bears responsibility for the conduct of our foreign affairs, does not admire force for its own sake, or brinkmanship of any sort.
It is high time to look back from the abyss where we are going to step in and give up the brinkmanship until the point of no return is reached.
The Prime Minister [Tony Blair] is in Belfast today, hoping to repeat his triumph of brinkmanship of last April, when he emerged from an apparent negotiating gridlock with the Good Friday peace agreement.
For three months, a battle of brinkmanship has been going on between the government of Alexis Tsipras and its European creditors over a cash-for-reforms plan that would give Greece the €7.2bn worth of rescue funds that it needs to meet its debt payments.
Debt ceiling brinkmanship in 2011 sent stocks tumbling, slowed economic growth and prompted analysts to downgrade the country’s credit rating for the first time.
It was an inept piece of brinkmanship from a politician who, while clearly a decent man, has not convincingly navigated his party through ever-choppier waters following the resignation of Nicola Sturgeon last February.
Translations:
intramural
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Latin intramuralis, from intra (“within”) + muralis (“of a wall”).
Inflected forms:
form: more intramural
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most intramural
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: intramurals
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Within the walls; within one institution, particularly a school.
pos: adj
examples: Intramural sports involve teams that are all within the same school.
gloss: Within the substance of the walls of an organ.
pos: adj
examples: intramural pregnancy
gloss: A (usually sports) competition between teams belonging to the same school.
pos: noun
Antonyms: extramural
Related words: immure
intra-
mural
Derived words: intramurally
Translations:
midway
Part of speech: noun
adj
adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English mydwaye, mydweye, from Old English midweġ (“midway”), equivalent to mid- + way. Cognate with Dutch midweg (“midway”), Middle Low German midwech (“midway”).
Base: way
Affixes: mid-
Inflected forms:
form: midways
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The middle; the midst.
pos: noun
gloss: A middle way or manner; a mean or middle path between extremes.
pos: noun
examples: Prayes, and distroyes the prayer, no midway
Twixt these extreames at all.
Paths indirect, or in the midway faint.
gloss: The part of a fair or circus where rides, entertainments, and booths are concentrated.
pos: noun
tags: US
gloss: The widest aisle in the middle of an industrial complex (such as railroad shops or a coach yard) along which various buildings are aligned.
pos: noun
tags: US
gloss: Being in the middle of the way or distance; middle.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: He told me to identify a good midway point at which I could pause the job.
A: Where's the ship at currently? B: It is midway.
gloss: Halfway; equidistant from either end point; in the middle between two points.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: He stopped me midway through the job and told me to put it on hold.
Originally scheduled to come up mid-way through the alphabetically-ordered agenda by being listed as "Lesbianism," the issue was pushed back to 23 (out of 26 resolutions) with the renaming of it as "Sexual Preference."
It shell-shocked the home crowd, who quickly demanded a response, which came midway through the half and in emphatic fashion.
Derived words: key to the midway
Midway
Translations:
creation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English creacion, creacioun, creation, from Old French creacion (French création), from Latin creātiō, creātiōnis; equivalent to create + -ion. Displaced native Old English ġesċeaft.
Base: create
Affixes: -ion
Inflected forms:
form: creations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Something created such as an invention or artwork.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: I think the manufacturer was so ashamed of its creation that it didn't put its name on it!
gloss: The act of creating something.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: The restructure resulted in the creation of a number of shared services.
the creation of passwords is done by a computer.
gloss: All which exists.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Let us pray to Christ, the King of all creation.
Related words: creatability
creatable
creatableness
create
creationally
creationarily
creationistic
creationistically
creative
creatively
creativeness
creativity
creator
Creator
creatorship
creatress
creatrix
creatural
creaturally
creature
creature comforts
creatureliness
creaturely
Derived words: autocreation
cocreation
co-creation
collaborative creation
creational
creationary
creationism
creationist
creationless
creation myth
creation science
creation scientist
creation story
decreation
iration
loan creation
miscreation
noncreation
recreation
re-creation
special creation
subcreation
transcreation
uncreation
Translations:
creative
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: mathematics
sciences
set-theory
Etymology: Borrowed from Late Latin creativus, from Latin creō. Equivalent to create + -ive. Displaced native Old English orþanclīċ.
Base: create
Affixes: -ive
Inflected forms:
form: more creative
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most creative
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: creatives
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Tending to create things, or having the ability to create; often, excellently, in a novel fashion, or any or all of these.
pos: adj
examples: a creative dramatist who avoids cliche
The future belongs to those aware enough to see the system, brave enough to reject it, and creative enough to build something better.
gloss: Original, expressive and imaginative.
pos: adj
examples: a creative new solution to an old problem
gloss: A type of set of natural numbers, related to mathematical logic.
pos: adj
examples: a creative set
gloss: Designed or executed to deceive or mislead.
pos: adj
examples: creative accounting
gloss: bad, unartistic, busy.
pos: adj
tags: euphemistic
gloss: A person directly involved in a creative marketing process.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: He is a visionary creative.
gloss: Artistic material used in advertising, e.g. photographs, drawings, or video.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: The design team has completed the creative for next month's multi-part ad campaign.
I've included in my portfolio all the creative I've completed in my five year design career.
Synonyms: inventive
original
Promethean
Antonyms: imitative
annihilative
Related words: create
creation
creationism
creationist
creator
Derived words: anticreative
cocreative
creatify
creative accounting
creative block
creative class
creative destruction
creative differences
creative energy
creativelike
creatively
creativeness
creative nonfiction
creative sentence
creative sentencing
creative set
creative spelling
creative work
creative writing
creativity
creativize
hypercreative
miscreative
noncreative
overcreative
precreative
pre-creative
semicreative
subcreative
uncreative
undercreative
Translations:
creationist
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *ḱer-der.
Latin creō
Proto-Indo-European *-tis
Proto-Indo-European *-Hō
Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō
Proto-Italic *-tiō
Latin -tiō
Latin creātiōnemlbor.
Old French creacionbor.
Middle English creacion
English creation
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)
Proto-Hellenic *-tās
Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs)
Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)bor.
Latin -istader.
Old French -istebor.
Middle English -ist
English -ist
English creationist
From creation + -ist.
Inflected forms:
form: creationists
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: more creationist
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most creationist
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: A proponent or supporter of creationism.
pos: noun
gloss: Of or relating to creationism.
pos: adj
Antonyms: evilutionist
evolutionist
evotard
Translations:
rat-tat-tat
Part of speech: intj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Onomatopoeic.
Inflected forms:
form: rat-tat-tat!
pos: intj
tags: canonical
form: rat-tat-tats
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The sound made by knocking on a door with a hard object (such as a door knocker).
pos: intj
gloss: The sound made by firing an automatic machine gun.
pos: intj
gloss: Such a sound.
pos: noun
examples: Then it grew louder and more distinct - it was a clear rat-tat-tat.
To the steady rat-tat-tat of machine guns and exploding bursts of smoke, amphibious tanks slice across a lake not far from the big green mountains that stand along the world’s most heavily armed border.
Translations:
seventy-eight
Part of speech: num
noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: seventy-eights
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The cardinal number immediately following seventy-seven and preceding seventy-nine.
pos: num
gloss: A gramophone record designed to be rotated at 78 revolutions per minute; a 78
pos: noun
Translations:
septet
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: communications
entertainment
journalism
lifestyle
literature
media
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Etymology: PIE word
 *septḿ̥
From Latin septem (“seven”).
Inflected forms:
form: septets
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: septette
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A group of seven, particularly
pos: noun
examples: The Lindsey Septet performs at Carnegie Hall this evening.
The K-pop septet BTS will return in spring 2026 with a new album and world tour.
gloss: A group of seven, particularly
pos: noun
examples: [W]hoso rhymes a sonnet pays a tax, / Who paints a landscape dips brush at his cost, / Who scores a septett true for strings and wind / Mulcted must be—else how should I impose / Properly, attitudinize aright, / Did such conflicting claims as these divert / Hohenstiel-Schwangau from observing me?
gloss: A group of seven, particularly
pos: noun
Synonyms: septuor
heptad
septuplet
heptastich
Related words: number
Translations:
lang: Finnish
word: septetti
lang: Finnish
word: seitsikko
lang: Hebrew
word: שִׁבְעַת
roman: Shiv'at
lang: Italian
word: settimino
lang: Māori
word: tokowhitu
lang: Northern Sami
word: čiežas
lang: Spanish
word: septeto
lang: Swedish
word: septett
snorkel
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: diving
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
underwater-diving
Etymology: Borrowed from German Schnorchel (“(submarine) snorkel”), related to schnarchen (“to snore”). Thus named because of the submarine snorkel's functional similarity to a nose and because of its noise when in use. The anglicized spelling was first recorded in 1945. See, for example, Mark S. Watson, "New Epoch in Sea War", The Baltimore Sun, December 31, 1945, p. 8: "The Germans' earlier quest of the last important objective, it will be remembered, had produced the Snorkel, a long exhaust tube whose vent reached above water and permitted a submerged vessel to discharge its Diesel fumes in open air."
Inflected forms:
form: snorkels
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: snorkels
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: snorkeling
pos: verb
tags: US
participle
present
form: snorkelling
pos: verb
tags: UK
participle
present
form: snorkeled
pos: verb
tags: US
participle
past
form: snorkeled
pos: verb
tags: US
past
form: snorkelled
pos: verb
tags: UK
participle
past
form: snorkelled
pos: verb
tags: UK
past
Senses:
gloss: A hollow tube, held in the mouth, or mounted on and opening into a diving mask, used by swimmers for breathing underwater.
pos: noun
examples: They wore snorkels while exploring the coral reef.
She used a snorkel to breathe while swimming underwater.
gloss: A retractable tube fitted in diesel-engine submarines to allow sufficient ventilation that the engines may be used at periscope depth.
pos: noun
gloss: A snorkel parka.
pos: noun
gloss: To use a snorkel.
pos: verb
examples: We spent the afternoon snorkeling in the clear blue waters.
Derived words: snuba
Translations:
Kerry
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: * As an English surname, from a personal name derived from Old Norse Kári.
* As an Irish surname, from Ó Ciardha (“descendant of Ciardha”), from ciar (“black”).
Inflected forms:
form: Kerries
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An animal belonging to a rare breed of dairy cattle, native to Ireland.
pos: noun
Translations:
grandaunt
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English grand-
English aunt
English grandaunt
From grand- + aunt.
Inflected forms:
form: grandaunts
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: grand aunt
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: grand-aunt
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of great-aunt.
pos: noun
Translations:
biotech
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Clipping of biotechnology. Analyzable as bio- (“biological”) + tech (“technology”) or as a clipped compound, bio(logical) tech(nology).
Base: tech
Affixes: bio-
Inflected forms:
form: biotechs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Biotechnology.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: I’m planning to work in biotech after college.
gloss: A company specializing in biotechnology, or stock in such a company.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: A lot of people invested in biotechs back in the ’90s.
Derived words: agribiotech
Translations:
apostle
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English apostle, from Old French apostle, from Late Latin apostolus, from Ancient Greek ἀπόστολος (apóstolos, “one sent forth, apostle”). Merged with Old English apostol, borrowing from the same Latin source.
Inflected forms:
form: apostles
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A missionary, or leader of a religious mission, especially one in the early Christian Church (but see Apostle).
pos: noun
gloss: A pioneer or early advocate of a particular cause, prophet of a belief.
pos: noun
examples: [W]e must remember what ruthless and utter destruction our own species has wrought, not only upon animals, such as the vanished bison and the dodo, but upon its own inferior races. The Tasmanians, in spite of their human likeness, were entirely swept out of existence in a war of extermination waged by European immigrants, in the space of fifty years. Are we such apostles of mercy as to complain if the Martians warred in the same spirit?
gloss: A top-ranking ecclesiastical official in the twelve seat administrative council of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
pos: noun
gloss: A person who is plucked, that is, refused an academic degree.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
Synonyms: disciple
Related words: apostolado
Derived words: apostlebird
apostlehood
apostle mistletoe
Apostles' Creed
apostleship
apostle spoon
apostless
apostolate
apostolic
apostolicity
apostolize
pseudoapostle
Translations:
electrocution
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Blend of electro- + execution. By surface analysis, electrocute + -ion.
Coined in the US around 1888, in relation to the introduction of the electric chair (see quotes).
Base: execution
Affixes: electro-
Inflected forms:
form: electrocutions
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Deliberate execution by electric shock, usually involving an electric chair.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: A correspondent of The American has taken exception to the use, in a recent paragraph in this column, of the word “electrocution.” The writer of the paragraph referred to is conscious that the word, like other etymological hybrids, lacks euphony and consistency; but during the formative period succeeding the introduction of a new idea not yet provided with a verbal exponent, the safest course is to follow general popular usage. The idea must be expressed, and the choice lies between a cumbrous word and a cumbrous sentence, the former of which seems the lesser evil. “Electrocution” has been widely used, even by scientific men, while the only plausible alternative thus far suggested—“electrothany”—though possessing the merit of unmixed ancestry, is inadequate in that it carries no penal signification.
Electrothanasia is the new word which is proposed as a substitute for the bungling word “electrocution,” which does not express what it is used for, while the word suggested in place of it, though of Greek origin, expresses exactly what we mean when death is produced by electric action. At the same time it is a very ancient word for modern people to use, and it is an open question whether it will be generally acceptable, should execution by electricity be commonly adopted.
gloss: The accidental death or suicide by electric shock.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The faulty wiring caused the unfortunate worker’s accidental electrocution.
gloss: A severe electric shock, whether fatal or not.
pos: noun
tags: countable
informal
proscribed
uncountable
Related words: execution
Derived words: electrocutioner
Translations:
porpoise
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English porpeys, purpeys, borrowed from Anglo-Norman porpeis, purpeis, Old French pourpois, porpois, pourpais, porpeis (“porpoise”), from Vulgar Latin *porcopiscis (“porpoise”, literally “hog-fish”), taken from Latin porcus (“hog, pig”) + piscis (“fish”). Compare (in transposed order) obsolete Italian pesce porco and Portuguese peixe porco; also Latin porcus marīnus (“sea hog”); akin in formation to Frankish *mariswīn (“porpoise, dolphin”) (whence German Meerschwein, English mereswine). Displaced native Middle English brunswyn. More at mereswine.
Inflected forms:
form: porpoises
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: porpoises
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: porpoising
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: porpoised
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: porpoised
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A small cetacean of the family Phocoenidae, related to dolphins and whales.
pos: noun
examples: Near-synonyms: sea hog, sea pig, seaswine, mereswine
They captured 25 porpoises and set them free back into the Yangtze after raising them for a month in Puqi County, Hubei.
gloss: Any small dolphin.
pos: noun
tags: Canada
US
broadly
gloss: Said of an air-breathing aquatic animal such as a porpoise or penguin: To repeatedly jump out of the water to take a breath and dive back in a continuous motion.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Urging them to join me, I raced in circles through the surging water, chased my tail for the children, blew spouts of foam through the sunfilled spray, porpoised to and fro across the river in shallow leaps that stitched the air and water into a table-lace of foam.
gloss: Said of an aircraft: to make a series of plunges when taking off or landing; or of a watercraft: to successively plunge up and down in the water.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
Related words: dolphin
killer whale
pod
seal
sea lion
whale
Derived words: Cape Porpoise
Dall's porpoise
finless porpoise
harbour porpoise
porpicide
porpoiselike
spectacled porpoise
sperm-whale porpoise
Translations:
Tigger
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: An alteration of tiger, coined by the English author Alan Alexander Milne (1882–1956) as the name of the tiger friend of Winnie-the-Pooh, who is introduced in The House at Pooh Corner (1928) and described as “a Very Bouncy Animal”.
Inflected forms:
form: Tiggers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An overly enthusiastic or energetic person, often characterized by bouncing.
pos: noun
examples: Whereas Olivier, particularly when first nights approached in which he was appearing, invited protectiveness from those around him, Hall was sometimes like a Tigger whom others wanted to unbounce.
Never again, I trust, will I hear the play's first word ("If") so underlined as if there is philosophically every reason to doubt that music be the food of love, and never again, I trust, will I be led to find myself thinking in the first scene of Orsino as an understudy rehearsing King Lear in his opening scene, or as a Tigger in an absolute frenzy to be even more bouncy than usual.
He was like a Tigger: he didn't walk; he bounced. He pissed some people off, too, with his lackadaisical, what's-a-schedule? unreliable ways.
Translations:
go-to
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: A univerbation of go + to.
Compare typologically convenient, Russian подходя́щий (podxodjáščij) (<~ ходи́ть (xodítʹ)).
Inflected forms:
form: go-tos
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Desired; desirable; of choice.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Cheesecake is my go-to food whenever I feel down.
The USA Network, let's face it, isn't anyone's go-to channel.
For Donna Cona, who has played it since before the Times acquisition, Wordle has become her go-to thing each morning.
When I was starting out, I was cast as nervous characters, because I was nervous in all my auditions. So the only roles I would get were ones where I was a nervous person. It’s kind of a default setting for me. Maybe I am the go-to nervous guy, who knows? But I’ve worked on it.
gloss: Reliable; likely to perform in difficult circumstances.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Smith is your go-to person if you want lasting results.
Trump resisted for many weeks. He called the Epstein story a “hoax,” his go-to move for maximally damaging accusations.
gloss: A person or thing that is one’s usual choice.
pos: noun
examples: Going for a drink after work is usually my go-to.
Translations:
intriguing
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more intriguing
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most intriguing
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Causing a desire to know more; mysterious.
pos: adj
examples: As a result, while the train was being shunted at Bombay, the buffers became locked, producing a situation most intriguing for the onlookers, but exasperating for the exalted passengers and the unhappy railway authorities.
gloss: Involving oneself in secret plots or schemes.
pos: adj
examples: A book that does not sell us the powerful, intriguing women of Rome simply as poisoners, schemers, and femmes fatales […]
gloss: Having clandestine or illicit intercourse.
pos: adj
tags: archaic
examples: […] few respectable women will now sit at a window, looking into the public street, or gaze at passengers in any large town or city; and no one does so at present, unless an innocent inexperienced, husband-hunting, flirtish, or intriguing person.
Synonyms: fascinating
interesting
attractive
Derived words: intriguingly
intriguingness
unintriguing
Translations:
mysterious
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English *misterius (implied in misteriusly), probably partly from Middle French mystérieux and partly from Latin mystērium + -ous. By surface analysis, mystery + -ous.
Affixes: -ous
Inflected forms:
form: more mysterious
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most mysterious
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of unknown origin.
pos: adj
examples: He received a mysterious phone call this morning.
gloss: Having unknown qualities.
pos: adj
examples: Our boss is a mysterious man who hardly ever meets with us.
God moves in a myſterious way, / His wonders to perform; / He plants his footſteps in the ſea, / And rides upon the ſtorm.
gloss: Difficult to understand.
pos: adj
examples: Why he left without saying goodbye is quite mysterious.
Buttressed by clothes, walls and objects, there was the bourgeois family, the most mysterious institution of the age.
gloss: Deliberately evasive or enigmatic.
pos: adj
examples: Stop being mysterious and just tell me what you want.
Synonyms: arcane
cryptic
enigmatic
ill-defined
inenubilable
mysterial
mysterioso
mysterious
mystic
runish
sibylline
systerious
uncertain
undefined
undetermined
Antonyms: known
unambiguous
unmysterious
well-defined
Related words: mystery
ambiguous
intriguing
vague
strange
Derived words: God works in mysterious ways
mysteriously
mysteriousness
the Lord works in mysterious ways
unmysterious
Translations:
tanzanite
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Tanzania + -ite (suffix forming nouns denoting minerals or rocks), coined by Henry B. Platt, a vice president of the American jeweler Tiffany & Co. when it first marketed the gem in 1968: see the October 3, 1968, quotation.
Base: Tanzania
Affixes: -ite
Inflected forms:
form: tanzanites
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A trichroic violet-blue variety of the mineral zoisite mined in Tanzania, used as a gemstone.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: For those to whom gems light the way, a brand new semi-precious stone will be seen for the first time. Called "Tanzanite," the stone was discovered recently in Tanzania. A blue, very much like sapphire, with a slight violet cast, it is exclusive with Tiffany.
Last February the new gem was spotted by Harry Platt. […] Just what happened to zoisite in one certain mine in Tanzania, near the Kenya border, nobody knows. Harry Platt bought as many of the freak stones as he could find and had them cut and polished especially for Tiffany. He named the stone tanzanite for its native country. […] None of the Tiffany tanzanites are the same color. They shade from the vivid marine blue of the 48-carat stone to the soft gray blue of a star sapphire. Characteristic of all of them are the purple or green flashes inside the tanzanites when they are held up to the light.
Although there are dozens of different types of gems, among the best known and most important are diamond, ruby and sapphire, emerald and other gem forms of the mineral beryl, chrysoberyl, tanzanite, tsavorite, topaz and jade.
Translations:
unrepentant
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *né
Proto-Indo-European *n̥-
Proto-Germanic *un-
Proto-West Germanic *un-
Old English un-
Middle English un-
English un-
English repentant
English unrepentant
From un- + repentant.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Feeling or showing no sorrow or regret for wrongdoing.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: TfL is unrepentant about the loss of car parking around the Grade 2-listed station, which is reduced to just 47 places, including 12 for the disabled.
Translations:
repentant
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English repentant, from Old French repentant, present participle of repentir. By surface analysis, repent + -ant.
Inflected forms:
form: more repentant
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most repentant
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: repentants
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Feeling or showing sorrow for wrongdoing.
pos: adj
examples: I cannot believe that God wants us to kill no matter if this man is a sinner. God’s greatest commandment is one of love, not hate and revenge. I believe that this man is repentant for his wrongdoings. He has asked for forgiveness.
gloss: One who repents; a penitent.
pos: noun
Translations:
terse
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Latin tersus (“clean, cleansed, rubbed or wiped off; neat, spruce; terse”), perfect passive participle of Latin tergeō, tergō (“to clean, cleanse, rub, wipe, wipe off”).
Inflected forms:
form: terser
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: tersest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of speech or style: brief, concise, to the point.
pos: adj
tags: broadly
examples: In eight terse lines has Phædrus told / (So frugal were the Bards of old) / A Tale of Goats; and clos'd with grace / Plan, Moral, all, in that ſhort space.
Your last series contains some of the neatest, tersest, and most unpretendingly original criticism, I have lately met with.
The book contains some happily done portrait touches of Napoleon, [...] and this and other aphoristical sentences scattered throughout this volume, [...] form as terse and trenchant a character-sketch of the Emperor as may be found almost anywhere.
Many protested that they had nothing to do with the fighting. At a word from the General the soldiers ripped off the men's shirts and examined the front of their shoulders. If they found bruises that might have been made from the butt of a gun when it had been fired—the terse order was, "Shoot him!" And many of the young men of Trujillo had disappeared.
[...] [Samuel] Beckett has become virtually mute, musewise, having progressed from marvellously constructed English sentences through terser and terser French ones to the unsyntactical, unpunctuated prose of Comment C'est and 'ultimately' to wordless mimes.
Mr SPEAKER: If the honourable member could be terse. / Mr O'Flynn: I shall be very terse. It may be my fault, Mr Speaker, but I doubt if you have quite appreciated the point.
Having attempted to identify a role for the society and its magazine, Quest, "for the next 40 years", the society chairman, Rhea Williams, decided it was time to close. She announced the group's demise in a terse message to members following the annual meeting, which just 22 people attended.
gloss: Of manner or speech: abruptly or brusquely short; curt.
pos: adj
tags: broadly
examples: 'Laura!' The voice halting her was terse. Brusque. She turned. [...] 'Before I go,' he said, and his voice was terse, tighter than ever. 'I want to ensure you understand something.'
My voice was terser than I intended, but what the hell. The night was turning out to be interesting in some ways and extremely frustrating in others.
gloss: Burnished, polished; fine, smooth; neat, spruce.
pos: adj
tags: obsolete
examples: By Phœbus, here's a moſt neate fine ſtreete; is't not? I proteſt to thee, I am enamord of this ſtreete now, more then of halfe the ſtreetes of Rome, againe; tis ſo polite, and terſe; [...]
Derived words: tersely
terseness
Translations: