yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
revetment
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From French revêtement, from Old French revestiment, from revestir (French revêtir), from Late Latin revestire (“to clothe again”), from Latin re- + vestire (“to clothe”).
Inflected forms:
form: revetments
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A layer of stone, concrete, or other hard material supporting the side of an embankment.
pos: noun
examples: Findlayson, C. E., sat in his trolley on a construction line that ran along one of the main revetments—the huge stone-faced banks that flared away north and south for three miles on either side of the river and permitted himself to think of the end.
A 200-ton rockfall recently blocked the Machynlleth sidings, trapping several locomotives; a rock-slip on the approach embankment to Talerddig required expensive revetting last year; and on the coastal section to Barmouth an 80 foot-high stone revetment was completed some time ago at Friog; [...].
gloss: An ornamental facing, as on a common masonry wall, of marble, face brick, tiles, etc.
pos: noun
gloss: An armoured building that provides protection against bombs.
pos: noun
Translations:
interval
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: ball-games
cricket
entertainment
games
hobbies
lifestyle
mathematics
music
sciences
sports
Etymology: From Middle English interval, intervalle, from Old French intervalle, entreval, from Latin intervallum (“space between, interval, distance, interval of time, pause, difference; literally, space between two palisades or walls”), from inter (“between”) + vallum (“palisade, wall”).
Compound parts: inter
vallum
Inflected forms:
form: intervals
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A distance in space.
pos: noun
examples: 'Twixt host and host but narrow space was left, / A dreadful interval.
[M]any attempts were made to prevent the spreading of it [the fire] by pulling down Houses, and making great Intervals, but all in vain, the Fire seizing upon the Timber and Rubbish, and so continuing it set even through those spaces […]
gloss: A period of time.
pos: noun
examples: the interval between contractions during childbirth
gloss: The difference (a ratio or logarithmic measure) in pitch between two notes, often referring to those two pitches themselves (otherwise known as a dyad).
pos: noun
gloss: A connected section of the real line which may be empty or have a length of zero.
pos: noun
gloss: An intermission.
pos: noun
tags: India
UK
gloss: half time, a scheduled intermission between the periods of play.
pos: noun
examples: Spain made three substitutions at the interval, sending on former Arsenal captain Fabregas, Chelsea's Juan Mata and Liverpool keeper Pepe Reina for Xavi, David Silva and Casillas.
gloss: Either of the two breaks, at lunch and tea, between the three sessions of a day's play.
pos: noun
Derived words: augmented interval
bit interval
Boutellier interval
compound interval
confidence interval
contour interval
devil's interval
diminished interval
equal-interval chord
even-interval
generic interval
high-intensity interval training
hyperinterval
interval class
interval cycle
intervaled
intervalize
intervallic
intervally
interval of time
intervalometer
interval time
interval training
interval transit time
interval variable
lucid interval
major interval
midinterval
minor interval
mixed-interval chord
musical interval
perfect interval
postmortem interval
punctured interval
QT interval
serial interval
superfluous interval
surface interval
time interval
unit interval
vertical interval
Wilson score interval
wolf interval
Translations:
lang: Finnish
word: erätauko
lang: Tamil
word: இடைவெளி
roman: iṭaiveḷi
dyad
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
chemistry
entertainment
human-sciences
lifestyle
mathematics
music
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
social-science
sociology
Etymology: From Ancient Greek δυάς (duás), δυάδ- (duád-) from δύο (dúo, “two”), from Proto-Indo-European *duwó, *duwéh₃ (*dwóh₁). The mathematics sense was coined by American scientist Josiah Willard Gibbs in 1884 in the second half of his book Elements of Vector Analysis.
Inflected forms:
form: dyads
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A set of two elements treated as one; a pair.
pos: noun
examples: […] positing a dyad and constructing the infinite out of great and small, instead of treating the infinite as one, is peculiar to him; […]
McNamee describes their grip on the company as “the most centralized decision-making structure I have ever encountered in a large company.” Their power dyad is possible only because Facebook’s “core platform,” as McNamee puts it, is relatively simple: It “consists of a product and a monetization scheme.”
gloss: Two persons in an ongoing relationship; a dyadic relationship.
pos: noun
examples: For each individual in a specific dyad (i.e., mother-offspring, offspring-father, sibling-sibling), […]
The southern relationship was a slaveholder-physician dyad, with the slave left outside, unconsulted, uninformed, and with no recourse if she or he was unsatisfied, injured, or killed—a medical nonentity.
gloss: The relationship or interaction itself in reference to a couple.
pos: noun
gloss: Any set of two different pitch classes.
pos: noun
gloss: An element, atom, or radical having a valence of or combining power of two.
pos: noun
gloss: A chromosome structure, usually X- or V-shaped, consisting of two condensed sister chromatids joined by a centromere.
pos: noun
gloss: A secondary unit of organisation consisting of an aggregate of monads.
pos: noun
gloss: A tensor of order two and rank one.
pos: noun
Related words: interval
trichord
hexachord
tetrachord
Derived words: dyadic
dyadwise
dyadically
dyadism
pseudodyad
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: двойка
roman: dvojka
lang: Bulgarian
word: чифт
roman: čift
lang: Finnish
word: pari
lang: French
word: duo
lang: Malay
word: bendua
lang: Malay
word: diad
lang: Polish
word: diada
lang: Polish
word: para
lang: Portuguese
word: díade
lang: Russian
word: диада
roman: diada
lang: Russian
word: пара
roman: para
lang: Russian
word: двойка
roman: dvojka
lang: Bulgarian
word: чифт
roman: čift
lang: Finnish
word: pari
lang: Finnish
word: kaksikko
gesticulate
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin gesticulātus, perfect active participle of gesticulor (“to gesticulate”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from gesticulus (“a mimic gesture”), diminutive of gestus (“gesture”), from gerō (“to bear, carry, perform”).
Affixes: -ate
Inflected forms:
form: gesticulates
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: gesticulating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: gesticulated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: gesticulated
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To make gestures or motions, as in speaking.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: A "Haka" is the native dance, answering to the corroboree of the Australian aboriginals, and we were anxious to see it. […] Later in the evening, however, the complaisant Herekiekie entertained a small and select party at a "Haka" in his "whare" or house (pronounced wharry). It was exactly what I expected. The performers, all male, stood in a row, one, slightly advanced, acting as fugleman. They shouted and gesticulated with the most hideous and revolting gestures, grimaces, and yells.
... groups of dancers were wheeling, plunging, and gesticulating while the ogre, more aphasic than before, mumbled at full strength ...
He's delusional, and obsessed with a girl named Claire, and he says such things as: "I know she loves me, she just doesn't know it yet." And he gesticulates wildly, as though he were a fop in the court of Louis XIV.
gloss: To say or express through gestures.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: […]the TV programme Friends is influencing not only the way Irish people speak but also how they gesticulate. Now almost every utterance is accompanied by arms outstretched and palms turned upwards."
Synonyms: gesture
gesticulate
Related words: gesticulation
gesticulative
gesture
gestural
emote
Derived words: gesticulatingly
gesticulatory
Translations:
cuticle
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
zoology
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin cutīcula (“cuticle, skin”). Doublet of cuticula.
Inflected forms:
form: cuticles
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The outermost layer of the skin of vertebrates; the epidermis.
pos: noun
gloss: The strip of hardened skin at the base and sides of a fingernail or toenail.
pos: noun
examples: By that time she has pushed back his cuticles, cleaned his nails and painted them with clear polish.
gloss: Dead or cornified epidermis.
pos: noun
gloss: A noncellular protective covering outside the epidermis of many invertebrates and plants.
pos: noun
gloss: A thin skin formed on the surface of a liquid.
pos: noun
gloss: A protective layer on the shell of a bird's egg.
pos: noun
Related words: nail
thumbnail
toenail
quick
Derived words: cuticleless
cuticular
endocuticle
epicuticle
exocuticle
mesocuticle
procuticle
subcuticle
Translations:
nun
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English nonne, nunne, from Old English nunne (“nun”), from Late Latin nonna (“nun, tutor”), originally (along with masculine form nonnus (“man”)) a term of address for elderly persons, perhaps from children's speech, reminiscent of nana, like papa etc. Doublet of nonna.
Inflected forms:
form: nuns
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A member of a Christian religious community of women who live by certain vows and usually wear a habit, (Roman Catholicism, specifically) those living together in a cloister.
pos: noun
examples: Thus, when the nuns came to the mission and we saw that instead of murmuring soft blessings and gliding seraphically over the grass in diaphanous habits, they wore smart blouses and skirts and walked, laughed and talked in low twanging tones very much like our own American missionaries did, we were very disappointed.
gloss: A member of a similar female community in other confessions.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
examples: a Buddhist nun
gloss: A prostitute.
pos: noun
tags: UK
archaic
slang
examples: Why laſt night, as Colonel Kill'em, Sir William Weezy, Lord Frederick Foretop, and I were careleſsly ſliding the Ranelagh round, picking our teeth, after a damn'd muzzy dinner at Boodle's, who ſhould trip by but an abbeſs, well known about town, with a ſmart little nun in her ſuite.
"I mean to inform you," answered the Oxonian, with a grin on his face, "that those three nymphs, who have so much dazzled your optics, are three nuns, and the plump female is Mother .... of great notoriety [...]"
gloss: A kind of pigeon with the feathers on its head like the hood of a nun.
pos: noun
Derived words: corporate nun
dry as a nun's cunt
dry as a nun's nasty
nunate
nunation
nunbird
nun buoy
nun-coloured
nunhood
nunless
nunlet
nunlike
nun-like
nunly
Nun Monkton
nun moth
nunnation
nunnery
nunnish
Nun of the Visitation
nunship
nunsploitation
nun's thread
unnun
Translations:
nunnery
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: Christianity
Etymology: From Middle English nonnery, nonnerie, equivalent to nun + -ery.
(brothel): Compare typologically Czech nevěstinec (< nevěstka < nevěsta).
Base: nun
Affixes: -ery
Inflected forms:
form: nunneries
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any convent (religious community) or the buildings thereof.
pos: noun
gloss: Any convent (religious community) or the buildings thereof.
pos: noun
examples: Get thee to a nunnery, why wouldst thou be a breeder of sinners?
gloss: Synonym of brothel.
pos: noun
tags: humorous
obsolete
slang
examples: [To] some one Gentleman generally acquainted, they giue... free priuiledge thenceforward in theyr Nunnery, to procure them frequentance...
To the antipapist Tudors nunnery was a slang term for a brothel.
Related words: abbess
cloister
convent
nun
Translations:
monasticism
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: lifestyle
religion
Etymology: Etymology tree
English monastic
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)
Proto-Indo-European *-mos
Proto-Indo-European *-mós
Ancient Greek -μός (-mós)
Ancient Greek -ισμός (-ismós)der.
English -ism
English monasticism
From monastic (“relating to monks”) + -ism.
Inflected forms:
form: monasticisms
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The practice of renouncing all worldly pursuits in order to fully devote one's life to spiritual work.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
bumblebee
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: 1520s from bumble + bee, replacing Middle English humbul-be. Merged with Middle English bombeln (“to boom, buzz”), in the late 14th century. The name of the drink is a semantic loan from Ukrainian джміль (džmilʹ).
Base: bumble
Inflected forms:
form: bumblebees
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: bumble-bee
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: bumble bee
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Any of several species of large bee in the genus Bombus.
pos: noun
examples: The bumblebee's mane glowed in the morning light—each hair sharp and distinct to Eragon—and its blurred wings generated a gentle bombilation, like a tattoo played on a drum. Pollen powdered the bristles on its legs.
gloss: A mid yellow, sometimes slightly orange.
pos: noun
gloss: A layered drink with ice whose main ingredients are orange juice and espresso coffee.
pos: noun
Derived words: American bumblebee
buff-tailed bumblebee
bumblebee bat
bumblebee catfish
bumblebee model
bumblebee moth
common eastern bumblebee
cuckoo-bumblebee
Cullum's bumblebee
early bumblebee
forest bumblebee
Franklin's bumblebee
garden bumblebee
great yellow bumblebee
heath bumblebee
large earth bumblebee
large garden bumblebee
red-tailed bumblebee
short-haired bumblebee
small garden bumblebee
Sonoran bumble bee
white-tailed bumblebee
Translations:
lang: Polish
word: kolor trzmielowy
ale
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₂elut-der.
Proto-Germanic *alu
Proto-West Germanic *alu
Old English ealu
Middle English ale
English ale
From Middle English ale, from Old English ealu, ealo, from Proto-West Germanic *alu, from Proto-Germanic *alu (compare Dutch aal, Icelandic and Swedish öl (“beer”), Danish, Faroese, Norwegian Bokmål, and Norwegian Nynorsk øl (“beer”)), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂elut- (“beer”), or *h₂elu- (“bitter”). Compare Russian ол (ol), Lithuanian alùs, Armenian օղի (ōġi); compare also Latin alum (“comfrey”), alūta (“tawed leather”), Ancient Greek ἀλύδοιμος (alúdoimos, “bitter”).
Inflected forms:
form: ales
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: eale
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: A beer made without hops.
pos: noun
tags: countable
dated
uncountable
gloss: A beer produced by so-called warm fermentation and not pressurized.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A festival in English country places, so called from the liquor drunk.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Related words: alehouse
bridal
Derived words: Adam's ale
alebench
ale-bench
ale bench
ale-blown
ale-bush
ale-conner
aleconner
ale conner
alecy
ale-draper
ale-drapery
ale gallon
ale-hoof
ale-house
alekeep
alekeeper
ale-knight
alelike
alemonger
ale pole
ale-pole
alepole
ale post
alepot
aleshop
ale silver
ale stake
ale-stake
alestake
ale-taster
aletaster
ale-washed
ale-wife
alewife
aley
alish
audit ale
bride-ale
brown ale
cakes and ale
church-ale
clerk-ale
cockale
cream ale
double India pale ale
English strong ale
four-ale
gill-ale
ginger ale
give ale
heather ale
imperial India pale ale
India pale ale
lamb-ale
mild ale
old ale
pale ale
pot ale
potale
real ale
red ale
scotale
session ale
small ale
soul-ale
Welsh ale
yard of ale
Translations:
alertness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English alert
Proto-Germanic *-inōną
Proto-Indo-European *-dyé-
Proto-Germanic *-atjaną
Proto-Indo-European *-tus
Proto-Germanic *-þuz
Proto-Germanic *-assuz
Proto-Germanic *-inassuz
Proto-West Germanic *-nassī
Old English -nes
Middle English -nesse
English -ness
English alertness
From alert + -ness.
Inflected forms:
form: alertnesses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The quality of being alert or on the alert.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: THE human body was meant to have a midafternoon nap, according to a new consensus among sleep researchers who are studying the biological rhythms of sleep and alertness.
Translations:
Alexandrian
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Alexandria + -n.
Base: Alexandria
Affixes: -n
Inflected forms:
form: more Alexandrian
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most Alexandrian
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: Alexandrians
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to Alexandria in Egypt.
pos: adj
examples: the Alexandrian library
gloss: A native or inhabitant of Alexandria.
pos: noun
gloss: A practitioner of Alexandrian Wicca.
pos: noun
Translations:
alias
Part of speech: adv
noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: computing
engineering
law
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
signal-processing
Etymology: From Latin alias (“at another time; at another place, elsewhere, under other circumstances, otherwise”). See else and alien.
Inflected forms:
form: aliases
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: aliases
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: aliasing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: aliased
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: aliased
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Otherwise; at another time; in other circumstances; otherwise called; also known as; formerly known as.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: Hitherto the commanding influence of Sir Robert Evelyn's character had sunk his own into insignificance—now he had no "rival near the throne," alias the bench of county magistrates.
When indeed a Popish monarch may fill our throne, and the successor of St. Peter shall be the spiritual head of our Church; then shall your “esoterics,” alias “Church principles,” be in the ascendant in our Universities, and Who shall say that we may not have a Thorp lecturer in each of our Colleges, Neale and Webb scholarships, Regii professores supplying the places of those who shall now be superannuated, all teaching, and empowered to confer degrees in the, symbolism of mystical divinity:—the professor of music, not dealing as he now must, with crotchets and quavers, but in the far higher branches of the sacramentality of sounds, with their correspondent colours, instruments, bearing, &c. &c., and so of others?
gloss: Used to connect the different names of a person who has gone by two or more, and whose true name is for any cause doubtful
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: Smith, alias Simpson.
gloss: Another name; especially, an assumed name.
pos: noun
gloss: A second or further writ which is issued after a first writ has expired without effect.
pos: noun
gloss: An abbreviation that replaces a string of commands and thereby reduces typing when performing routine actions or tasks.
pos: noun
gloss: An alternate name assigned to something, e.g. a database column to avoid ambiguity in a query.
pos: noun
gloss: A spurious signal generated as a technological artifact.
pos: noun
gloss: To assign an additional name to an entity, often a more user-friendly one.
pos: verb
gloss: To make or become indistinguishable.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
examples: When the signal frequency reaches half the sampling frequency, there are only two samples per cycle, which is the absolute minimum needed to record a waveform. A higher frequency would cause the digitization system to alias.
Finally, as it is a frequency detection technique, color Doppler US has the potential to alias
This technique can be used to alias the L1 and L2 bands of the GPS into the baseband
Synonyms: AKA
Derived words: aliasable
alias summons
antialias
unalias
Translations:
lang: French
word: alias
lang: Hungarian
word: alias
lang: Polish
word: alias
lang: Spanish
word: alias
lang: Swedish
word: alias
alibi
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: law
Etymology: From the 18th century, from Latin alibī (“elsewhere, at another place”, adverb). Probably after French alibi, which has this use since the late 14th century.
Inflected forms:
form: alibis
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: alibis
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: alibies
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: alibiing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: alibied
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: alibied
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: The plea or mode of defense under which a person on trial for a crime proves or attempts to prove being in another place when the alleged act was committed.
pos: noun
examples: to set up an alibi
to prove an alibi
The judge said, “Son, what is your alibi? If you were somewhere else, then you won’t have to die.”
Alibi is different from all of the other defenses . . . it is based upon the premise that the defendant is truly innocent.
gloss: An excuse, especially one used to avoid responsibility or blame.
pos: noun
tags: proscribed
sometimes
examples: That day in September, I'm sure you can remember / That's when all the stuff hit the fan (the stuff hit the fan) / You told me a lie, and you didn't have an alibi / But baby, yet I still cared
gloss: To provide an alibi for.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To provide an excuse for.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Derived words: alibi copy
Alibi Ike
alibiless
nonalibi
unalibied
Translations:
alkali
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: From French alcali, from Medieval Latin alcali, ultimately from Arabic اَلْقِلْي (al-qily, “alkali, ashes of the saltwort”), related to قَلَى (qalā, “to roast in a pan, fry”).
Inflected forms:
form: alkalis
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: alkalies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One of a class of caustic bases, such as soda, soda ash, caustic soda, potash, ammonia, and lithia, whose distinguishing characteristics are dissolving in alcohol and water, uniting with oils and fats to form soap, neutralizing and forming salts with acids, turning to brown several vegetable yellows, and changing reddened litmus to blue.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Alkalies may be defined as bodies which combine with acids so as to impair or neutralize their activity, and produce what are called salts. They are distinguished by properties the reverse of acids, and the two classes are generally looked upon as antagonist substances.
gloss: Soluble mineral matter, other than common salt, contained in soils of natural waters.
pos: noun
tags: US
Western
countable
uncountable
Synonyms: base
Antonyms: acid
Related words: alkalied
alkaloid
caustic
pH
Derived words: alkalaemia
alkalamide
alkalemia
alkalescent
alkali basalt
alkali bee
alkalibiont
alkalibiontic
alkalic
alkali cellulose
alkali feldspar
alkaliferous
alkali flat
alkali fly
alkalify
alkaligen
alkaligenous
alkaligrass
alkali grass
alkali green
alkali metal
alkalimeter
alkalimetric
alkalimetry
alkaline
alkalinogenic
alkalious
alkaliphile
alkaliproof
alkalization
alkalize
alkalosis
antalkali
bialkali
caustic alkali
caustic marine alkali
caustic volatile alkali
caustic wood alkali
chloralkali
haloalkaliphilic
milk-alkali syndrome
superalkali
Translations:
alkaloid
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
Etymology: From alkali + -oid. Compare French alcaloïde.
Base: alkali
Affixes: -oid
Inflected forms:
form: alkaloids
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: more alkaloid
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most alkaloid
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Any of many organic (often heterocyclic) bases that occur in nature and often have medicinal properties.
pos: noun
examples: The Aspidosperma alkaloids are the largest group of indole alkaloids.
Xanthosine, the initial substrate of purine alkaloid synthesis, is supplied by at least four different pathways […]
gloss: Relating to, resembling, or containing alkali.
pos: adj
Translations:
allay
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English alayen, aleyen, aleggen, from Old English āleċġan (“to put, place, lay down, lay aside, throw down, give up, cease from, abandon; put down, allay, suppress, abolish, conquer, destroy, overcome, refute; lay upon, inflict, impose upon; diminish, take away, refuse, lessen, withhold”), from Proto-Germanic *uzlagjaną (“to lay down”), equivalent to a- + lay. Cognate with German erlegen (“to impose, cause to succumb, kill”), Gothic 𐌿𐍃𐌻𐌰𐌲𐌾𐌰𐌽 (uslagjan, “to lay down”). In Middle English the word was identical to forms of allege and alloy, leading to much overlapping of senses.
Base: lay
Affixes: a-
Inflected forms:
form: allays
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: allaying
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: allayed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: allayed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: alay
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: allays
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: alay
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: To make quiet or put at rest; to pacify or appease; to quell; to calm.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to allay popular excitement
to allay the tumult of the passions
O love, be moderate, allay thy ecstacy, […]
They were forced to try to allay discontent by palliative measures.
He had to pretend to be drunk in order to allay the suspicions which might have been aroused by his appearance at the gate.
Kissinger was obviously doing his best to allay our government's growing apprehension in connection with Nixon's forthcoming trip to Peking.
The trade show’s organisers had attempted to allay concerns by announcing more stringent health and safety measures including a ban on handshakes, and taking attendees’ temperatures.
gloss: To alleviate; to abate; to mitigate.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to allay the severity of affliction or the bitterness of adversity
[…] and is the onlie laſt remedie for all debilities which haue long vexed the body through a hote diſtemper of the Lever, ſuch as a hote Gutte; it allayeth all Inflamations inward & outward.
gloss: To subside, abate, become peaceful.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
obsolete
examples: And the wynde alayed, and there folowed a greate calme: and he sayde unto them: why are ye fearfull?
For raging wind blows up incessant showers,
And when the rage allays the rain begins.
gloss: To mix (metals); to mix with a baser metal; to alloy; to deteriorate.
pos: verb
tags: archaic
gloss: To make worse by the introduction of inferior elements.
pos: verb
tags: archaic
broadly
examples: Yet far be it from us to condemn all their works to be dross, because debased and allayed with superstitious intents […]
gloss: Alleviation; abatement; check.
pos: noun
gloss: An alloy.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
Derived words: allayable
allayer
allayment
unallayed
Translations:
allied
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more allied
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most allied
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Joined as allies.
pos: adj
examples: The two countries became allied during the war.
Their companies are allied in a joint venture.
He felt allied with her in the fight for justice.
gloss: Related.
pos: adj
examples: bacteriology and allied subjects
Derived words: allied arts
allied health
interallied
misallied
nonallied
unallied
Translations:
allotment
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: law
Etymology: From Old French alotement (modern French allotement). By surface analysis, allot + -ment.
Inflected forms:
form: allotments
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of allotting.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: You will achieve more in designated sessions of quiet uninterrupted periods than in a longer allotment of time broken up by various activities.
The allotment of particular names to special ideas which gradually disengage themselves from a general idea is apparently determined by accident.
gloss: Something allotted; a share, part, or portion granted or distributed
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The history attached to it could not but recur to Emily as she passed, and her heart sank within her—not with fear, but at the thought, how much of misery there was in the world; and why should she be spared amid such general allotment?
Similar customs prevailed in a part of Friesland, the most notable of which was the ‘Jus Theelacticum,’ or custom of the Theel lands, doles, or allottable lands in East Friesland, not far from the mouth of the Ems. There an inherited allotment was indivisible; on the death of the father it passed intact to the youngest son, and on his death without issue it fell into the possession of the whole community
Though most interviews are aired in ten-minute segments, very often they are longer than that specific time allotment.
gloss: The allowance of a specific amount of money or other credit of a particular thing to a particular person.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Maynard used to help before he got sick, but there was no income except what I brought in my allotment.
gloss: A plot of land rented from the council for growing fruit and vegetables.
pos: noun
tags: UK
countable
uncountable
examples: The fallout of this unexpected turn of events was that it was Saturday morning, the first day of the Easter holidays, before the thought of my allotment even entered my head. Goodness only knew how big my carrots were going to be by the time I got round there!
Derived words: allotmenteer
misallotment
nonallotment
overallotment
underallotment
Translations:
allot
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English allotten, from Old French aloter (Modern French allotir). à + lot. By surface analysis, al- + lot.
Inflected forms:
form: allots
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: allotting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: allotted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: allotted
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To distribute or apportion by (or as if by) lot.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To assign or designate as a task or for a purpose.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Each candidate was allotted five minutes to make a presentation in front of the judges.
Derived words: allotment
allottable
allottee
allotter
allottery
allot upon
misallot
misallotted
nonallotted
preallot
preallotted
reallot
unallot
unallotted
Translations:
allude
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle French alluder, from Latin alludere (“to play with or allude”), from ad + ludere (“to play”). See also al-.
Affixes: al-#Etymology_2
Inflected forms:
form: alludes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: alluding
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: alluded
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: alluded
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To refer to something indirectly or by suggestion; to invoke it by implication rather than mention.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: First, she alluded to her husband as "the man at home looking after the children". Then she referred to him as "my George".
These speeches . . . do seem to allude unto such ministerial garments as were then in use.
It was aptly said by Newton that "whatever is not deduced from facts must be regarded as hypothesis," but hypothesis appears to us a title too honourable for the crude guessings to which we allude.
We live our lives in three dimensions for our threescore and ten allotted years. Yet every branch of contemporary science, from statistics to cosmology, alludes to processes that operate on scales outside of human experience: the millisecond and the nanometer, the eon and the light-year.
Translations:
alluring
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: By surface analysis, allure + -ing.
Inflected forms:
form: more alluring
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most alluring
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: allurings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Having the power to allure.
pos: adj
examples: Captain Edward Carlisle, soldier as he was, martinet as he was, felt a curious sensation of helplessness seize upon him as he met her steady gaze, her alluring smile ; he could not tell what this prisoner might do.
gloss: The act or habit of enticing or attracting in order to seek a benefit or advantage.
pos: noun
examples: Was this poor breast, from Love's allurings free, / Cruel to all, and gentle unto thee ?
For, as when the red-cheeked, dancing girls, April and May, trip home to the wintry, misanthropic woods; even the barest, ruggedest, most thunder-cloven old oak will at least send forth some few green sprouts, to welcome such glad-hearted visitants; so Ahab did, in the end, a little respond to the playful allurings of that girlish air.
Lookout heights and Smoky Mountains have allurings all their own.
Translations:
allure
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English aluren, from Old French aleurer, alurer, from a (“to, towards”) (Latin ad) + leurre (“lure”). By surface analysis, al- + lure.
Inflected forms:
form: allures
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: allures
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: alluring
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: allured
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: allured
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: The power to attract, entice; the quality causing attraction.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: To entice; to attract.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: [They retained] their ſweet skill in wonted melody; / Which euer after they abuſd to ill, / T’allure weake trueillers, whom gotten they did kill.
Injustice doth allure them; as the honour of their vertuous actions enticeth the good.
A tender voice his wondring ear allur'd.
Antonyms: bore
disgust
repel
Translations:
allusion
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd
Proto-Italic *ad
Proto-Italic *ad-
Latin ad-
Latin lūdō
Latin allūdō
Proto-Indo-European *-tis
Proto-Indo-European *-Hō
Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō
Proto-Italic *-tiō
Latin -tiō
Latin allūsiōlbor.
English allusion
From Latin allūsiōnem, accusative singular of allūsiō (“the act of playing with”), from allūdō (“play with; allude”), from al-, combining form of ad (“to”), + lūdō (“play”): compare French allusion.
Inflected forms:
form: allusions
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An indirect reference; a hint; a reference to something supposed to be known, but not explicitly mentioned.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: I remember, before the Dwarf left the Queen, he followed us one day into thoſe gardens, and my Nurſe having ſet me down, he and I being cloſe together, near ſome Dwarf Apple trees, I muſt need ſhew my Wit, by a ſilly Alluſion between him and the Trees, which happens to hold in their Language as it doth in ours.
We draw the conclusion then, that the very reason why the multitude, or the world, as they were designated by the Savior, did not receive an explanation upon his parables, was, because of unbelief. To you, he says, (speaking to his disciples) it is given to know the mysteries of the kingdom of God: and why? because of the faith and confidence which they had in him. This parable was spoken to demonstrate the effects that are produced by the preaching of the word; and we believe that it has an allusion directly, to the commencement, or the setting up of the kingdom in that age[…]
I shall reserve for my future work the discussion of these difficulties, and the tables themselves of the proportional numbers of the varying species. Dr. Hooker permits me to add, that after having carefully read my manuscript, and examined the tables, he thinks that the following statements are fairly well established. The whole subject, however, treated as it necessarily here is with much brevity, is rather perplexing, and allusions cannot be avoided to the “struggle for existence,” “divergence of character,” and other questions, hereafter to be discussed.
In order to understand some of the allusions readers must remember that the Autobiography was originally written in the form of "epistles addressed to Mr. Robert Riddell at London, by his friend and relative," to which, in their collected form, the author had given the title "Obscurities in Private Life Developed; or, Robinson Crusoe Untravelled."
The influence of Lucretius on Virgil was pervasive, especially in Virgil's Georgics; and it is in clear allusion to Lucretius that Virgil wrote, “Happy is the man who can read the causes of things.”
Translations:
almighty
Part of speech: adj
adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English almyghty, almighty, from Old English ælmihtiġ (“all-powerful”), from Proto-Germanic *alamahtīgaz, equivalent to al- + might + -y.
Base: might
Affixes: al-#Etymology_1
-y
Inflected forms:
form: more almighty
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most almighty
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: allmighty
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: all-mighty
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: allmighty
pos: adv
tags: alternative
form: all-mighty
pos: adv
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Unlimited in might; omnipotent; all-powerful
pos: adj
tags: postpositional
sometimes
examples: God almighty
The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], 1611, →OCLC, Genesis 17:1: “I am the Almightie God.”
gloss: Great; extreme; terrible.
pos: adj
tags: slang
examples: I heard an almighty crash and ran into the kitchen to see what had happened.
When Jonathan Trott and Kevin Pietersen both went cheaply inside the first hour on the fifth day, a further 134 were needed and there was a genuine sense that an almighty upset might just come off.
gloss: Having very great power, influence, etc.
pos: adj
tags: broadly
examples: The almighty press condemned him without trial.
gloss: Extremely; thoroughly.
pos: adv
tags: colloquial
not-comparable
slang
examples: Now that must have been almighty careless of someone, Wynn.
I stepped into the clear, rushing water. It was almighty cold!
Related words: might
mighty
Derived words: almightiful
almightily
almightiness
Almighty
almighty dollar
almightyship
Christ almighty
superalmighty
Translations:
almoner
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English aumener, aulmener, from Old French almosnier, from almosne (“alms”), from Latin eleemosyna. See alms, Almosen.
Inflected forms:
form: almoners
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person who distributes alms, especially the doles and alms of religious houses, almshouses.
pos: noun
gloss: A person who dispenses alms on behalf of another person.
pos: noun
examples: the almoner of a prince or bishop
Francesca, from where she stood, could hear the Queen giving a laughing account of the Due de Domville's attachment to Mademoiselle Menneville, the prettiest of her maids of honour, all of whom were pretty. "It is a passion of the good old time, and has already lasted some four years; but Madame la Duchesse de Vantadour, his mother, will not hear of it. Never before was a lover of fifty so put out, to think that he cannot yet have his own way. Not content with his own cares, when obliged to be absent he leaves his almoner to take charge of her. It is gallantry equally antediluvian and interminable; I suppose they will be married one day, and buried the next."
gloss: A purse or pouch
pos: noun
gloss: A hospital official responsible for patient welfare and aftercare.
pos: noun
tags: UK
Derived words: almonership
subalmoner
Translations:
apiarist
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English apiary
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 apiarist
From apiary + -ist.
Inflected forms:
form: apiarists
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: beekeeper
pos: noun
examples: Some late and very curious experiments, however, of M. Huber, one of the most celebrated apiarists in Europe, have shewn that the pollen has no share whatever in the formation of wax; but that this substance is produced indiscriminately from honey, sugar, or any other saccharine matter, which serves as food for the bees.
In addition to this there are, within the borders of the United States, thousands of good locations for the apiarist — forest, prairie, swamp, and mountain regions — where agriculture has not yet gained a foothold, either because of remoteness from markets or the uninviting character of soil or climate.
Reverend Lorenzo Langstroth, a nineteenth- century apiarist, teacher and clergyman who is considered to be the father of American beekeeping, first described this type of hive in 1853.
Translations:
beekeeper
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From bee + keeper.
Compound parts: bee
keeper
Inflected forms:
form: beekeepers
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: bee-keeper
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: bee keeper
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A person who maintains hives and keeps bees, especially for the production of honey.
pos: noun
Translations:
meerkat
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Afrikaans meerkat, transferred use of Dutch meerkat (“guenon [monkey]”), from Middle Dutch meercatte (literally “sea cat”), compare English mercat. Sometimes suggested to be influenced by or derived from an Indian source; compare Hindi मर्कट (markaṭ, “ape, monkey”) and Sanskrit मर्कट (markaṭa). Note however Old High German merikazza, so any influence from Indo-Aryan would have to be exceptionally early.
Inflected forms:
form: meerkats
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: meercat
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: mierkat
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Suricata suricatta, a small carnivorous mammal of the mongoose family, from the Kalahari Desert, known for its habit of standing on its hind legs.
pos: noun
Translations:
goose-step
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: compound
Topics: ball-games
games
government
hobbies
lifestyle
military
politics
rugby
sports
war
Etymology: From goose + step.
Compound parts: goose
step
Inflected forms:
form: goose-steps
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: goose-steps
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: goose-stepping
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: goose-stepped
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: goose-stepped
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A style of march in which the legs advance in turn without bending the knee, whether as a low quick march or a rigorous high slow march for ceremonial occasions; the various drills associated with these marches.
pos: noun
tags: derogatory
often
examples: The balance or goose-step introduced for their practice excites a fever of disgust.
The small boys had discovered the goose step, and it filled their little souls with amazement and delight. That human beings should consent to those ridiculous paces seemed to them almost incredibly funny.
The goose-step, for instance, is one of the most horrible sights in the world, far more terrifying than a dive-bomber. It is simply an affirmation of naked power; contained in it, quite consciously and intentionally, is the vision of a boot crashing down on a face.
gloss: A deceptive step that breaks the normal flow of running and allows a player to accelerate and/or change direction quickly while simultaneously confusing the defender.
pos: noun
gloss: To march with a goose-step.
pos: verb
Derived words: goose-stepper
Translations:
along
Part of speech: prep
adv
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₂ent-
Proto-Indo-European *-s
Proto-Indo-European *h₂éntsder.
Proto-Germanic *anda-
Proto-West Germanic *anda-
Old English and-
Proto-Indo-European *dlongʰos
Proto-Germanic *langaz
Proto-West Germanic *lang
Old English lang
Old English andlang
Middle English
English along
From Middle English, from Old English andlang, from prefix and- + lang (“long”). Doublet of endlong.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: By the length of; in a line with the length of; lengthwise next to.
pos: prep
examples: Water whished along the boat as we rowed upstream.
They were waiting for me in the drawing-room, which is a very large room, stretching along the entire front of the house, with three long windows reaching down to the floor
My hopes wa'n't disappointed. I never saw clams thicker than they was along them inshore flats. I filled my dreener in no time, and then it come to me that 'twouldn't be a bad idee to get a lot more, take 'em with me to Wellmouth, and peddle 'em out. Clams was fairly scarce over that side of the bay and ought to fetch a fair price.
The first 80 km section of the Hyesan to Kanggye link was opened on 22.12.88 to follow the Chinese border along the Amnok-gang river valley.
As we age, the major arteries of our bodies frequently become thickened with plaque, a fatty material with an oatmeal-like consistency that builds up along the inner lining of blood vessels.
gloss: In a line with, with a progressive motion on; onward on; forward on.
pos: prep
examples: The kine[…]went along the highway.
In the lightness of my heart I sang catches of songs as my horse gayly bore me along the well-remembered road.
Swiftly and silently he made his way along the track which ran through the meadows.
We tiptoed into the house, up the stairs and along the hall into the room where the Professor had been spending so much of his time.
gloss: In company; together.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: John played the piano and everyone sang along.
From The Best of You to The Pretender, their own material invariably came equipped with huge choruses designed to be bellowed along to; they covered Another One Bites the Dust and Under Pressure; they gave every impression of being willing to play all night were it not for the curfew.
gloss: Onward, forward, with progressive action.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: Don't stop here. Just move along.
I stumbled along through the young pines and huckleberry bushes. Pretty soon I struck into a sort of path that, I cal'lated, might lead to the road I was hunting for. It twisted and turned, and, the first thing I knew, made a sudden bend around a bunch of bayberry scrub and opened out into a big clear space like a lawn.
Synonyms: alongst
endlong
Translations:
alongside
Part of speech: adv
prep
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From along + side; compare alongsides.
Compound parts: along
side
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Along the side; by the side; side by side; abreast.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: Ahoy! Bring your boat alongside.
All of a sudden, another car drew up alongside.
gloss: Side by side with.
pos: prep
gloss: Together with or at the same time.
pos: prep
examples: The nurse worked alongside the doctor.
The Italian opted for Bolton's Cahill alongside captain John Terry - and his decision was rewarded with a goal after only 13 minutes. Bulgaria gave a hint of defensive frailties to come when they failed to clear Young's corner, and when Gareth Barry found Cahill in the box he applied the finish past Nikolay Mihaylov.
A “moving platform” scheme […] is more technologically ambitious than maglev trains even though it relies on conventional rails. Local trains would use side-by-side rails to roll alongside intercity trains and allow passengers to switch trains by stepping through docking bays.
Gatwick, on the other hand, is alongside the Brighton main line, with rail services both to the north (City and West End) and south.
Derived words: alongside of
free alongside
free alongside ship
free alongside ships
Translations: