yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
diner
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English dine
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Proto-Italic *-āzijos
Latin -āriusnom.
Latin -āriusbor.
Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz
Proto-West Germanic *-ārī
Old English -ere
Middle English -ere
English -er
English diner
From dine + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: diners
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Someone who dines.
pos: noun
examples: The most rapid and most seductive transition in all human nature is that which attends the palliation of a ravenous appetite.[…]Can those harmless but refined fellow-diners be the selfish cads whose gluttony and personal appearance so raised your contemptuous wrath on your arrival?
When it comes to Chinese food I have always operated under the policy that the less known about the preparation the better. A wise diner who is invited to visit the kitchen replies by saying, as politely as possible, that he has a pressing engagement elsewhere.
gloss: Someone who gives a dinner.
pos: noun
tags: rare
examples: In the noble science of gastronomy, likewise, he who can not afford to collect a cellar of wines, and accumulate the rarities of distant climes and seasons, will make but little progress, For, though the diner and the dinee, the host and the guest, have similar sources open to them, yet the most practised parasite can not attain to the same regular course of study, as the Amphitryon Millionaire.
f I was broke, we’d just hang out at his place or my place looking at videos. This was very new and very different for me. Like I said, I’d been used to being wined and dined, you know, being the “dinee”. Is that a word? Anyway, now, I’m the “diner”. Does that make any sense? You know what I’m trying to say, right?
The street outside was nearly empty, though it wouldn’t stay that way for long. The dinner crowds would be out soon, hawking their blood and other valuable living assets to the vitally challenged for tokens and textbooks and practical tips on how to pass Professor Boynya’s first alchemy exam. Both diners and dinees were waiting for the sun to slip behind the spindling brick façades of Pawn Row, but for now, Melee had the street to herself.
gloss: A car in a railroad train that serves meals.
pos: noun
examples: Pacific No. 60123, H. A. Ivatt, a Leeds engine with 12 corridors, but no diners, went by, however.
The diner is everybody's kitchen.
gloss: A typically small restaurant, historically modeled after a railroad dining car, that serves lower-class fare, normally having a counter with stools along one side and booths on the other.
pos: noun
tags: US
Related words: dinette
dining room
Derived words: dinerlike
diner lingo
diner-out
Joe's Diner
lounge diner
Translations:
conk
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Variant or figurative use of conch. Attested since the nineteenth century.
Inflected forms:
form: conks
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: conking
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: conked
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: conked
pos: verb
tags: past
form: konk
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: To hit, especially on the head.
pos: verb
tags: slang
examples: She came skipping to me just now, clapping her little hands and bleating about how very, very happy she was, dear Mrs Travers. The silly young geezer. I nearly conked her one with my trowel. I'd always thought her half-baked, but now I think they didn't even put her in the oven.
Translations:
hooter
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English hoot
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Proto-Italic *-āzijos
Latin -āriusnom.
Latin -āriusbor.
Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz
Proto-West Germanic *-ārī
Old English -ere
Middle English -ere
English -er
English hooter
From hoot + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: hooters
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person who hoots.
pos: noun
gloss: The horn in a motor vehicle.
pos: noun
gloss: A siren or steam whistle, especially one in a factory and used to indicate the beginning or the end of a working day or shift.
pos: noun
tags: UK
examples: Suddenly, far down and beyond the toun there came a screech as the morning grew, a screech like an hungered beast in pain. The hooters were blowing in the Segget Mills.
When the right-away was given, Driver Gibson would give a sonorous blast on Cardean's deep-toned hooter, and amid a flurry of swirling steam the train would move majestically out, with nearly half the city of Carlisle—or so it would appear—as onlookers on the platform.
A chime whistle, presented to the L.M.S.R. by American model railway enthusiasts in 1939, is installed now as a works hooter at Crewe Works, as its height precludes its use on a British locomotive.
gloss: A nose, especially a large one.
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: Aye, it may be a joke to you, but it's his nose. He can't help having a hideous great hooter! And his poor little head, trembling under the weight of it!
Shouldn't worry me, I thought, but sure enough, 20 seconds later the smell of wafting cigarette smoke drifts over the back of my seat and up my hooter.
Somebody yelled, ‘You bit off a bloke’s nose in Ireland.’ The story was that I’d amputated his hooter.
gloss: An owl.
pos: noun
gloss: A woman's breast.
pos: noun
tags: US
especially
plural-normally
slang
gloss: A penis.
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: There, nestled in one of her gloved palms was a massive, blue-veined hooter with a pus-filled bump on it the size of a pecan. It was his hooter and his pus-filled bump. ¶ “You ole rascal,” she said, and gently lowered his dick between his legs.
He called it “Hooterville,” mainly because he was such a fan of Petticoat Junction, and he really enjoyed getting his hooter worked on.
gloss: A large cannabis cigarette.
pos: noun
tags: slang
gloss: The tiniest amount; a whit or jot.
pos: noun
tags: dated
examples: G.G. understood that I meant the licence, and said he didn't care a hooter about failing his driving test.
Derived words: eight-hooter
jill-hooter
Translations:
greenhouse
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: climatology
government
medicine
military
natural-sciences
politics
sciences
war
Etymology: From green + house ("house for growing greens"), in reference to the produce grown within.
Base: green
Inflected forms:
form: greenhouses
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: greenhouses
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: greenhousing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: greenhoused
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: greenhoused
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A building used to grow plants, particularly one with large glass windows or plastic sheeting to trap heat from sunlight even in intemperate seasons or climates.
pos: noun
examples: The royal party had dined in the greenhouse, the coup d'œil of which was as striking as it was new. Vast stands of the most costly exotics reached to the glass roof, which was partly covered by a luxuriant vine, or by a small scarlet creeper.
gloss: The glass of a plane's cockpit.
pos: noun
tags: UK
dated
slang
examples: In the slang of the Royal Air Force man, the cockpit of his plane is the ‘pulpit’ or ‘office’, the glass covering over it the ‘greenhouse’.
gloss: A structure that shields the operating table to protect against bacteria.
pos: noun
examples: Figure 2.6 shows the diagram Charnley published of the airflow in the 'greenhouse'; it can be seen that reasonable downward unidirectional airflow was achieved close to the operating table.
The greenhouse system for providing a nearly bacteria-free operating environment consists of a 10 by 10-foot aluminum frame with plexiglass panes forming three sides and a polyvinyl curtain forming the fourth side. […] However, the greenhouse contains its own light supply, while this is an extra with the air curtain unit.
gloss: A hot state in global climate.
pos: noun
gloss: To place (plants) in a greenhouse.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To nurture in order to promote growth.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
transitive
examples: It's almost impossible to make judgements when you're being playful – as by definition it's spontaneous activity – so your baby ideas get nurtured and greenhoused better.
Related words: greengrocer
greens
microgreens
coldhouse
hothouse
icehouse
cloche
cold frame
growhouse
hotbed
hotbox
Derived words: greenhouse bug
greenhouse cockpit
greenhouse effect
greenhouse-friendly
greenhouse gas
greenhouselike
greenhouse slug
greenhouse warming
nongreenhouse
screenhouse
worldhouse
Translations:
vapour
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: vapours
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: vapours
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: vapouring
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: vapoured
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: vapoured
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: British standard spelling of vapor.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: British standard spelling of vapor.
pos: verb
Translations:
premiere
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From French première (“first”).
Inflected forms:
form: premieres
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: première
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: premieres
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: premiering
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: premiered
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: premiered
pos: verb
tags: past
form: première
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The first showing of a film, play or other form of entertainment, often held as a special event with celebrity guests.
pos: noun
gloss: The first episode of a television show or a particular season of that show.
pos: noun
gloss: In a series of narrative works, the installment that is chronologically set first.
pos: noun
gloss: The leading woman of a group, especially in a theatrical cast.
pos: noun
gloss: Of a film or play, to play for the first time.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: The new film premieres this weekend.
His two most recent films are last year's Greyhound, a Hanks-penned World War Two thriller in which he plays a naval commander, and now News of the World, a Western set in the years immediately following the close of the US Civil War, directed by Paul Greengrass, which is premiering around the world on Netflix tomorrow.
gloss: To present a film or play for the first time.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The local theatre will premiere its latest play this week.
Antonyms: finale
Related words: premier
Derived words: nonpremiere
postpremiere
prepremiere
Translations:
lang: Catalan
word: estrenar
lang: German
word: uraufführen
lang: Polish
word: premierować
lang: Polish
word: mieć premierę
lang: Portuguese
word: estrear
lang: Romanian
word: avea premiera
lang: Russian
word: выходи́ть
roman: vyxodítʹ
lang: Russian
word: вы́йти
roman: výjti
lang: Spanish
word: estrenar
lang: Swedish
word: ha premiär
lang: Vietnamese
word: khởi chiếu
lang: Polish
word: wystawiać premierę
lang: Polish
word: wystawić premierę
kumquat
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Cantonese 柑橘 (gam¹ gwat¹) or 金橘 (gam¹ gwat¹, literally “golden tangerine”). Related to loquat – same second character.
Inflected forms:
form: kumquats
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: cumquat
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: komquat
pos: noun
tags: alternative
nonstandard
Senses:
gloss: A small, orange citrus-like fruit which is native to Asia (Citrus japonica, syn. Fortunella japonica).
pos: noun
Translations:
superfluous
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English superfluous, from Latin superfluus (“superfluous”) + -ous, from superfluō (“overflow”), from super (“above, more than, over”) + fluō (“flow”). Compare mellifluous and fluid, also from Latin. Literally corresponds to overflow, which is from Germanic, rather than Latin.
Inflected forms:
form: more superfluous
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most superfluous
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In excess of what is required or sufficient.
pos: adj
examples: With a full rain suit, carrying an umbrella may be superfluous.
Then I began to play in timid fashion, venturing only twenty or thirty gulden at a time. Meanwhile, I observed and took notes. It seemed to me that calculation was superfluous, and by no means possessed of the importance which certain other players attached to it, even though they sat with ruled papers in their hands, whereon they set down the coups, calculated the chances, reckoned, staked, and—lost exactly as we more simple mortals did who played without any reckoning at all.
Translations:
orangery
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From French orangerie; equivalent to orange + -ery.
Base: orange
Affixes: -ery
Inflected forms:
form: orangeries
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: orangerie
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A greenhouse in which orange trees are grown.
pos: noun
gloss: A garden or plantation where orange trees are grown.
pos: noun
Related words: lemonary
Translations:
murex
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Latin murexbor.
English murex
Borrowed from Latin murex.
Inflected forms:
form: murexes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: murices
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of the genus Murex of marine gastropods.
pos: noun
examples: The bank of crushed murex shell that Professor Bosanquet found here, and again at Palaikastro, in company with a whole mass of Kamáres pottery, shows that the men of Sidon and Tyre were not the first to practise the dying of purple.
The murexes (family Muricidae) are one of the most beautiful and sought-after families by shell collectors.
Translations:
caltrop
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: engineering
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
tools
war
weaponry
Etymology: From Middle English calketrappe, from Old English calcatrippe, from Medieval Latin calcatrippa (“thistle”), from Latin calx or calcare (“to tread”) + trappa (“trap”).
Inflected forms:
form: caltrops
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A metal object, usually small, with spikes arranged so that, when thrown onto the ground, one always faces up as a threat to pedestrians, horses, and vehicles (also used as a heraldic charge).
pos: noun
examples: […] her father, the emperor Alexius, who reigned AD 1081-1118, ordered caltrops to be cast in front of his archers […]
By Sung times, several different types of caltrops had been developed. As in earlier times, both caltrops could be made from both wood and iron...
Caltrops, tetrahedrons, and similar devices are designed to puncture vehicle tires or limit foot traffic. The standard design has four points.
gloss: The starthistle, Centaurea calcitrapa, a plant with sharp thorns.
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
gloss: Any of a number of flowering plants in the family Zygophyllaceae, including several members of the genus Kallstroemia and the species Tribulus terrestris, native to warm temperate and tropical regions.
pos: noun
Derived words: water caltrop
Translations:
pundit
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Sanskrit पण्डा (paṇḍā)
Proto-Indo-European *-tós
Proto-Indo-Iranian *-tás
Sanskrit -इत (-ita)
Sanskrit पण्डित (paṇḍita)bor.
Hindi पंडित (paṇḍit)bor.
Urdu پَنْڈِٹ (panḍiṭ)bor.
English pundit
Borrowed from Hindi पंडित (paṇḍit) / Urdu پنڈت (panḍit), from Sanskrit पण्डित (paṇḍita, “scholar, learned man, teacher, philosopher”). Doublet of pandit.
Inflected forms:
form: pundits
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: pandit
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: An expert in a particular field, especially as called upon to provide comment or opinion in the media; a commentator, a critic.
pos: noun
examples: This week we introduce Jenny Walker, who will be The Observer's expert pundit for the duration of the World Cup.
gloss: A learned person in India; someone with knowledge of Sanskrit, philosophy, religion and law; a Hindu scholar.
pos: noun
examples: Pundits in black gowns, with spectacles on their noses and undigested wisdom in their insides; bearded headmen of the wards; [...] all these people and more also you might find in the white room.
gloss: A native surveyor in British India, trained to carry out clandestine surveillance beyond British borders.
pos: noun
tags: historical
examples: At every hundredth pace the Pundit would automatically slip one bead. Each complete circuit of the rosary thus represented ten thousand paces.
Related words: hafiz
hafez
influencer
pandit
qari'
Derived words: pundette
punditeer
pundithood
punditic
punditical
punditocracy
punditry
punditship
Translations:
hippocampus
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: anatomy
human-sciences
medicine
mysticism
mythology
neuroanatomy
neurology
neuroscience
philosophy
sciences
Etymology: From Late Latin hippocampus, from Ancient Greek ἱππόκαμπος (hippókampos, from ῐ̔́ππος (hĭ́ppos, “horse”) + κάμπος (kámpos, “sea-monster”)). The anatomy sense is so named from its resemblance to the seahorse. By surface analysis, hippo- + campus.
Base: ῐ̔́ππος
Inflected forms:
form: hippocampi
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: hippocampuses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A mythological creature with the front head and forelimbs of a horse and the rear of a fish.
pos: noun
gloss: A part of the brain located inside the temporal lobe, consisting mainly of grey matter. It is a component of the limbic system and plays a role in memory and emotion.
pos: noun
examples: Holonyms: limbic system < brain < central nervous system, CNS
The hippocampus is central to the laying down of memories.
Derived words: hippocampal
hippocampectomy
hippocampic
hippocampocortical
parahippocampus
Translations:
le
Part of speech: article
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from French le (“the”). Popularized especially by the expression le sigh.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: the
pos: article
tags: humorous
informal
examples: Le mew. Le purr.
Waiter: 'Bonjour! I am le waiter on this ship! [...] Ah! Le strong silent type!'
[…]upon arrival, le girlfriend realizes she has left her ID back at my house (a 1 1/2 hour roundtrip on the Metro), […]
And then le boyfriend perks up and names around 8 different brands (Stila, MAC, Becca, Nars etc..) - I was *SO* proud of him!! :)
That was always OUR song (me and le girlfriend of the time).
That's when Waitress Seductress Extraordinaire comes back and gets our order. […] "We're sharing an order of à la Appalachia, he says, handing over the menus and turning his focus back to me. Le waitress stomps off. I ask, "Why are they called that?" "Because when they've got the fries stacked up they're higher than a mountain range." I groan and touch my stomach. "You're funny," he says, his eyes twinkling.
Translations:
tedious
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: English tedi(um) + -ous, from Old French tedieus, from Late Latin taediōsus, from Latin taedium (“weariness, tedium”).
Base: tedium
Affixes: -ous
Inflected forms:
form: more tedious
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most tedious
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: tædious
pos: adj
tags: alternative
archaic
form: teedyus
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: Boring, monotonous, time-consuming, wearisome, livelong.
pos: adj
examples: But in the mean time […] it looks all ſo like ſubterfuge and inveagling; it is ſo nauſeating and teadious a task, that no man thinks he ovvs the Author ſo much ſervice as to find out the reaſon of his ovvn Categoricalneſs for him.
However, upon a ſtrict Review, I blotted out ſeveral Paſſages of leſs Moment which were in my firſt Copy, for fear of being cenſured as tedious and trifling, whereof Travellers are often, perhaps not without Juſtice, accuſed.
John Gilpin's ſpouse ſaid to her dear, / Though wedded we have been / Theſe twice ten tedious years, yet we / No holiday have ſeen.
[pages 24–25] The very fact that these commonplace authors are never more than half-conscious when they write, would be enough to account for their dulness of mind and the tedious things they produce. […] [page 26] The other kind of tediousness is only relative: a reader may find a work dull because he has no interest in the question treated of in it, and this means that his intellect is restricted. The best work may, therefore, be tedious subjectively, tedious, I mean, to this or that particular person; […]
Translations:
dracaena
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
Etymology: From the genus name Dracaena, from Latin dracaena, from Ancient Greek δράκαινᾰ (drákaină, “she-dragon”).
Inflected forms:
form: dracaenas
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of the genus Dracaena of liliaceous plants with woody stems and funnel-shaped flowers.
pos: noun
examples: “Again with this?” I groaned to the dracaenae. (“Talk to them!” numerous readers advised.) The plants chuckled and shook their heads. No they didn’t. They’re plants!
Translations:
clou
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From French clou. Doublet of clove.
Inflected forms:
form: clous
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Something which holds the greatest attention; the chief point of interest.
pos: noun
examples: But had he not refused her the wherewithal to remember him—the pearls she needed as the clou of her dear collection, the great relic among relics?
Partly because they were constructed of multiple shot-scenes and recorded exclusively in LS, their elaborate decors acquired an even more privileged role — as tableaux and clous of spectacle — much in the manner of late nineteenth-century French stage productions […]
Translations:
hooligan
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Probably a variant of the Irish surname Houlihan, 1890s.
Inflected forms:
form: hooligans
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: hooliganing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: hooliganed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: hooliganed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To act as a hooligan (etymology 1, noun sense 1).
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To treat (a person) roughly.
pos: verb
tags: broadly
transitive
Translations:
doux
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: beverages
food
lifestyle
oenology
wine
Etymology: Borrowed from French doux. Doublet of douce, dolce, and dulce.
Inflected forms:
form: more doux
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most doux
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Sweet.
pos: adj
Translations:
fou
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Scots fou. Compare full, a doublet.
Inflected forms:
form: more fou
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most fou
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Drunk.
pos: adj
tags: Scotland
examples: Shand's father had missed the whole thing — getting fou in the pub, more than likely—but his mum had been there, in her best green twinset, her court shoes polished to a shine as high as Shand's.
Translations:
anna
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Hindi अन्न (ann, “food, grain”), आना (ānā), from Sanskrit अन्न (anna).
Inflected forms:
form: annas
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: ana
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A former Indian coin.
pos: noun
tags: historical
Translations:
Hannah
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From previous romanizations of Hebrew חַנָּה (Ḥannâ), chiefly for the mother of Samuel, from חַנָּה (ḥannâ, “grace, gracious, graced with child”). As a Wren with the Royal Marines, after Hannah Snell (1723–1792) who disguised herself as a man to serve in the British military. Doublet of Ann, Anne, Anna, and Ana.
Inflected forms:
form: Hannahs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A Wren serving with the Royal Marines.
pos: noun
Translations:
ou
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Hawaiian ʻōʻū.
Inflected forms:
form: ous
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A probably extinct species of Hawaiian honeycreeper, Psittirostra psittacea.
pos: noun
Translations:
roux
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
French rouxbor.
English roux
Borrowed from French roux.
Inflected forms:
form: roux
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A mixture of fat (usually butter) and flour used to thicken sauces and stews.
pos: noun
Translations:
sue
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: falconry
hobbies
hunting
lifestyle
nautical
transport
Etymology: From Middle English seuen, sewen, siwen, borrowed from Anglo-Norman suer, siwer et al. and Old French sivre (“to follow after”) (modern French suivre), from Vulgar Latin *sequere (“to follow”), from Latin sequi. Cognate with Italian seguire and Spanish seguir. Doublet of segue. Related to suit.
Inflected forms:
form: sues
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: suing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: sued
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: sued
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To file a legal action against someone, generally a non-criminal (civil) action.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: sue someone for selling a faulty product
I plan to sue you for everything you have.
He was sued by the late Geo. Walpole Leake for slander, and after two trials, occupying eight days, he was mulcted in heavy damages and costs.
gloss: To seek by request; to make application; to petition; to entreat; to plead.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
examples: The king of Bimsa sued for peace after Nynal's armies overran his territory; he knew any further resistance would only harm the common people.
gloss: To clean (the beak, etc.).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To leave high and dry on shore.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to sue a ship
gloss: To court.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
transitive
gloss: To follow.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
transitive
examples: And the olde knyght seyde unto the yonge knyght, ‘Sir, swith me.’
though oft looking backward, well she vewd, / Her selfe freed from that foster insolent, / And that it was a knight, which now her sewd, / Yet she no lesse the knight feard, then that villein rude.
Related words: fig-sue
Derived words: countersue
nonsuing
resue
suability
sueable
sue for peace
sue me
sue one's livery
sue out
suingly
unsued
Translations:
trou
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From trousers.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Trousers.
pos: noun
tags: New-Zealand
US
uncountable
gloss: Rowing spandex shorts.
pos: noun
tags: US
uncountable
Related words: trou-de-loup
trou madame
Derived words: drop trou
Translations:
kegger
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English keg
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Proto-Italic *-āzijos
Latin -āriusnom.
Latin -āriusbor.
Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz
Proto-West Germanic *-ārī
Old English -ere
Middle English -ere
English -er
English kegger
From keg + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: keggers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of keg party.
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: raging kegger
In March, Bryan went to No. 1 on the Billboard 200 with Spring Break … Here to Party, a collection of songs about getting wasted at oceanside keggers.
Translations:
Londoner
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English Londonere, from Old English Lundenware, Lundenwaran pl (“Londoners”), from Lunden (“London”) + -ware pl (suffix denoting inhabitants), equivalent to London + -er (“inhabitant of”, demonymic suffix).
Base: London
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: Londoners
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Lunnoner
pos: noun
tags: alternative
pronunciation-spelling
Senses:
gloss: A person from, or an inhabitant of, London.
pos: noun
examples: But the raw material that the Underground had to work on - Londoners themselves - was possibly not of the best. In 1905 Charles Yerkes had said:
Londoners are the worst people to get a move on I ever knew. To see them board and get off a train one thinks they had a thousand years to do it in; still they are getting better, and in the end I shall work them down to an allowance of thirty seconds.
Khan countered this by alleging that 'unfair' conditions, such as raising council tax, are being attached to any new funding deal that would "punish Londoners" for the effect the pandemic has had on passenger numbers. He added: "These short-term deals are trapping TfL on life support rather than putting it on the path to long-term sustainability."
Translations:
hardcore
Part of speech: adj
noun
adv
Morphological type: compound
Topics: entertainment
lifestyle
media
music
pornography
sexuality
Etymology: From hard + core: hard to the core; 1936 (n.); 1951 (adj.)
Compound parts: hard
core
Inflected forms:
form: more hardcore
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most hardcore
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: hard-core
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: hard-core
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: hard-core
pos: adv
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Having an extreme dedication to a certain activity.
pos: adj
examples: He's a hardcore gamer.
gloss: So hard as to require extreme dedication to complete.
pos: adj
gloss: Particularly intense; thrillingly dangerous or erratic; desirably violent in appearance; pleasing or "cool" due to intensity or danger.
pos: adj
tags: colloquial
examples: That show was hardcore, dude.
gloss: Resistant to change.
pos: adj
gloss: Obscene or explicit.
pos: adj
gloss: Depicting penetration and abnormal sexual activity.
pos: adj
gloss: Faster or more intense than the regular style.
pos: adj
gloss: Broken bricks, stone and/or other aggregate used as foundations, especially in road and path laying.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: You need to excavate and remove the topsoil, line the subsoil with a geotextile, then lay and compact hardcore.
gloss: Several music genres, including:
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Fields began recording the hardcore punk bands in 1978 when few others would.
gloss: Several music genres, including:
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: Several music genres, including:
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: Several music genres, including:
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Always more multiracial than other post-Rave scenes, Hardcore got “blacker” as hiphop, Ragga, dub and Soul influences kicked in, and by 93 it had evolved into Jungle. By this point, Hardcore/Jungle (the terms remain interchangeable) was universally scorned by dance hipsters and banished from the media.
gloss: Several music genres, including:
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: In a hardcore manner; intensely or extremely.
pos: adv
tags: colloquial
not-comparable
Derived words: Christian hardcore
-core
digital hardcore
emocore
emotional hardcore
emotive hardcore
happy hardcore
hardcore breaks
hardcore porn
hardcore pornography
hardcore punk
hurtcore
melodic hardcore
nonhardcore
posthardcore
post-hardcore
trancecore
UK hardcore
Translations:
softcore
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From soft + core, by analogy with hardcore.
Base: soft
Inflected forms:
form: more softcore
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most softcore
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Pornography that does not contain depictions of explicit sexual penetration.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: Less intense, committed or aggressive than hardcore.
pos: adj
tags: slang
usually
examples: Distinct from hardcore punks, softcore punks expressed less commitment to punk values […]
Antonyms: hardcore
Translations:
Peter
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English Peter, from Old English Petrus, from Latin Petrus, from Ancient Greek Πέτρος (Pétros), from πέτρος (pétros, “stone, rock”). Doublet of Pedro, Piers, and Boutros.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: radiotelephony clear-code word for the letter P.
pos: noun
Translations:
cru
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from French cru (“growth”), from French crû, past participle of French croître (“grow”).
Inflected forms:
form: crus
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A vineyard or group of vineyards in France, especially one having a high reputation.
pos: noun
examples: Each cru has an official quality rating on a scale of 100: Grand cru vineyards all rate 100, and premier cru vineyards rank from 90 to 99 points.
Translations:
monde
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From French monde. Doublet of mondo.
Inflected forms:
form: mondes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A ball-like object, located near the top of a crown, symbolizing the globe.
pos: noun
examples: Jesus Christ is represented as a lad about twelve years old, in a tunic and robe of brocade, with a full, fair wig, a gold crown much larger than the head, and a monde in his hand.
Translations:
jus
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
Etymology: Borrowed from French jus (“juice”). Doublet of juice and ukha.
Inflected forms:
form: jus
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The juices given off as meat is cooked.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A lightly-reduced gravy or stock made from this.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Synonyms: au jus
Related words: au jus
premier jus
Translations:
fisc
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Partly from Middle French fisc and partly from its etymon, Latin fiscus (“basket, money-bag, public treasury”); see fiscal.
Inflected forms:
form: fiscs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The public treasury of Rome.
pos: noun
tags: Ancient-Rome
gloss: Any state treasury or exchequer.
pos: noun
examples: When they had resolved to appropriate to the Fisc, a certain portion of the landed property of their conquered country, it was their business to render their bank a real fund of credit […].
He did not mention that Trump is about as popular with the British public as drug-resistant syphilis and that it would be political suicide to bribe him with cash out of the public fisc.
Related words: confiscate
confiscation
fiscal
Translations:
lang: Spanish
word: fisco
mona
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Spanish mona (“monkey”).
Inflected forms:
form: monas
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Cercopithecus mona, a West African monkey.
pos: noun
Translations:
duce
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: fascism
government
human-sciences
ideology
philosophy
politics
sciences
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian duce. Doublet of doge, duc, duke, and dux.
Inflected forms:
form: duci
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An authoritarian leader, especially Benito Mussolini.
pos: noun
Translations:
ule
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Spanish hule, from Classical Nahuatl ōlli.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A Mexican and Central American tree (Castilla elastica), related to the breadfruit tree, whose milky juice contains caoutchouc.
pos: noun
Translations:
left-handed
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: human-sciences
mysticism
occult
philosophy
sciences
Etymology: From Middle English left handyd, lyfthonded, equivalent to left + handed.
Base: left
Inflected forms:
form: lefthanded
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: lefthanded
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Using one's left hand in preference to, or more skillfully than, one's right.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Intended to be worn on, or used by, the left hand.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Turning or spiraling from right to left; anticlockwise.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Awkward or maladroit.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Insincere or malicious.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The commendations of this people are not always […]left-handed and detractive.
gloss: Performed with the intention of doing harm or in transgression against convention or taboo; following the left-hand path
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: On the other hand, nearly all magic tends in time to the left-handed path; as being a devious means of attaining desires unobtainable by ordinary methods.
gloss: Of a coordinate system: not following the right-hand rule.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Left-handed people, taken as a whole.
pos: noun
tags: plural
plural-only
examples: Evidence contradicting this principle came from a study of epileptic patients by Penfield and Roberts (1959) who found that dysphasia following surgery on the right hemisphere was not significantly more frequent in the left-handed than in the right-handed.
Synonyms: sinistromanual
Antonyms: right-handed
Translations:
taxman
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From tax + man.
Compound parts: tax
man
Inflected forms:
form: taxmen
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: tacksman
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: A tax collector.
pos: noun
tags: derogatory
sometimes
examples: Andrew Houſtoun and Adam Muſhet, being Tackſmen of the Excize, did Imploy Thomas Rue to be their Collector, and gave him a Sallary of 30. pound Sterling for a year.
gloss: A tax-collecting organ, personified.
pos: noun
tags: derogatory
sometimes
examples: The taxman’s taken all my dough.
Left me in my stately home.
... a duty even more dreaded: to pay taxes. The taxman is primarily interested in those strong enough to create and lucky enough to sell.
The taxman is an especially hated presence. 'Let's just say that certain elements around these parts could live without their company,' observes one ...
The G8 leaders also called on multinationals to make a full disclosure to the taxman over how much tax they pay in different countries.
Synonyms: tax collector
Translations:
dough
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English dow, dogh, dagh, from Old English dāg, from Proto-Germanic *daigaz (“dough”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeyǵʰ- (“to knead, form, mold”).
Cognate with Scots daich, dauch, doach (“dough”), North Frisian dii, Jai (“dough”), West Frisian daai (“dough”), Dutch deeg (“dough”), German Teig (“dough”), Low German and Luxembourgish Deeg (“dough”), Vilamovian taag (“dough”), Yiddish טייג (teyg, “dough”), Danish dej (“dough”), Faroese deiggj (“dough”), Icelandic, Norwegian Bokmål, and Norwegian Nynorsk deig (“dough”), Swedish deg (“dough”), Gothic 𐌳𐌰𐌹𐌲𐍃 (daigs, “dough”).
The derivation of the second meaning (of money) is obscure, but dates to the mid 19th century.
Inflected forms:
form: doughs
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: doughing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: doughed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: doughed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: dow
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: doff
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: duff
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: To make into dough.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The flour was doughed with a suitable quantity of water.
Translations:
pancreatitis
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English pancreas
Proto-Indo-European *-tósder.
Ancient Greek -της (-tēs)der.
Ancient Greek -ῖτις (-îtis)lbor.
New Latin -itisder.
English -itis
English pancreatitis
From pancreas + -itis.
Inflected forms:
form: pancreatitises
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: pancreatitides
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Inflammation of the pancreas.
pos: noun
examples: Chronic pancreatitis is a condition in which the pancreas is inflamed or swells for an extended period.
Translations:
keck
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Imitative. Compare German köken (“to vomit”).
Inflected forms:
form: kecks
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: kecking
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: kecked
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: kecked
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To heave or retch as if to vomit.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: The faction (is it not notorious?) / Keck at the memory of Glorious [William III of England]: […]
Indeed Erskine never opened his mouth, in Watt's presence, except to eat, or belch, or cough, or keck, or muse, or sigh, or sing, or sneeze.
Translations:
gristmill
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From grist + mill.
Compound parts: grist
mill
Inflected forms:
form: gristmills
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A mill that grinds grain; especially, a small-scale local mill that grinds grain brought by a local farmer to be exchanged for the resulting flour (less a percentage).
pos: noun
examples: Near-synonyms: flourmill, feed mill
Next day after school, I drove over to the town hall and found out where Hay was building their dinky little shoebox of a house. It was out in the sticks, out past the old gristmill. I drove out there around dusk. The place was framed; the chimney was up. Overhead was a pockmarked moon.
Translations:
baked
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more baked
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most baked
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: That has been cooked by baking.
pos: adj
examples: SATURNINUS: Go fetch them hither to us presently.
TITUS: Why, there they are, both baked in that pie,
Whereof their mother daintily hath fed,
Eating the flesh that she herself hath bred.
gloss: Inebriated: drunk, high, or stoned.
pos: adj
tags: slang
gloss: Hungover.
pos: adj
gloss: Lastingly brain-damaged from drug use (either truly or allegedly).
pos: adj
examples: Don't bother talking to that guy — he's baked from all the coke he used to do.
gloss: Of a person: crazy, insane.
pos: adj
tags: derogatory
figuratively
slang
Derived words: baked Alaska
baked-apple
baked beans
baked good
baked-in
baked potato
dough-baked
half-baked
homebaked
nonbaked
stonebaked
traybaked
twice-baked bread
unbaked
well-baked
Translations:
baking
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English bakynge; equivalent to bake + -ing.
Base: bake
Affixes: -ing
Inflected forms:
form: bakings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: That bakes.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: baking bread; baking clay; baking dish
gloss: Of a person, an object, or the weather: very hot; boiling, broiling, roasting.
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
not-comparable
examples: I’m baking—could you open the window?
The car was baking after having been parked in the sun the whole afternoon.
gloss: An action in which something is baked.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: I’m going to do some baking this afternoon.
Upon these terms, after working hard all day for her mistress, she began her midnight bakings, assisted by her two oldest children.
gloss: The way in which something is baked.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: How often have we risen in the morning, after spending the night in this manner, with a feeling akin to that which we fancy would come from being knocked in the head with a sack of meal, then gently stewed, and all out of pure fraternal regard to supply any deficiencies in our original bakings.
Clissold’s work of cooking has fallen on Hooper and Lashly, and it is satisfactory to find that the various dishes and bread bakings maintain their excellence.
gloss: The production of a batch of baked product.
pos: noun
tags: countable
usually
Derived words: bakingly
baking pan
bakingware
nonbaking
procrastibaking
baking beans
baking board
baking chocolate
baking hot
baking mat
baking paper
baking parchment
baking powder
baking sheet
baking soda
baking stone
baking tin
baking tray
blind baking
pie-baking
pie baking
pre-baking
Translations:
globular
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
Etymology: From French globulaire or Medieval Latin globulāris.
Inflected forms:
form: more globular
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most globular
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: globulars
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Roughly spherical in shape; globe-shaped.
pos: adj
examples: "Nary a spot," interrupted E. R. Coglan, flippantly. "The terrestrial, globular, planetary hunk of matter, slightly flattened at the poles, and known as the Earth, is my abode.[…]"
Podson's globular stare assured any woman that the bargain was sacred. It was solemn, intent, opaque; it was also slightly mesmeric, which is to say that it gave out everything and took in nothing.
Globular lights, painted a dark green, hang from under the fancy iron eaves, unlit for centuries . . .
gloss: Comprising globules.
pos: adj
gloss: A globular cluster
pos: noun
Related words: globe
globose
globous
globule
Derived words: endoglobular
globularism
globularist
globularity
globular lightning
globularly
globularness
interglobular
microglobular
nonglobular
periglobular
postglobular
preglobular
semiglobular
subglobular
unglobular
uniglobular
Translations:
tumor
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: medicine
oncology
pathology
sciences
Etymology: From Middle English tumour, from Old French tumour, from Latin tumor (“swelling”), from tumeō (“bulge, swell”, verb), from Proto-Italic *tumēō, from Proto-Indo-European *tewh₂- (“to swell”). Related to English thumb.
Inflected forms:
form: tumors
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: tumour
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: An abnormal growth; differential diagnosis includes abscess, metaplasia, and neoplasia.
pos: noun
tags: US
examples: a benign tumor
a malignant tumor
brain tumor
identify tumor
pancreatic tumor
remove a tumor
take a tumor
stomach tumor
It’s possible that some microbes don’t just take up residence in tumors but help them grow. They may cloak the tumor from the immune system, neutralize drugs or help tumors spread through the body.
Translations:
doona
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Originally a product name, derived from Danish dyne /dyːnə/. Trademark owned by the Tontine Group.
Inflected forms:
form: doonas
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A padded blanket used as a cover in bed; a duvet.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
examples: He had put the doona on sideways. My feet were sticking out.
Well when I say it was cool, it was actually cold enough to freeze the nuts off a fruit cake and it took Dad half an hour [...] to get me from under the nice warm doona.
Lena pulled the doona over her head.
Doonas can be made of goose feathers, wool or synthetics. Wash them twice a year or even more if you sweat a lot. You can tell it′s time for a wash when the fibres are packed down and lumpy, or the doona smells.
Translations:
clan
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: anthropology
human-sciences
sciences
video-games
Etymology: Borrowed from Irish clann (“offspring, children of the family”) and Scottish Gaelic clann, both from Old Irish cland, borrowed from Old Welsh plant, itself borrowed from Latin planta (“shoot, offspring”). Doublet of plant and planta.
Inflected forms:
form: clans
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A group of people all descended from a common ancestor, in fact or belief, especially when the exact genealogies are not known.
pos: noun
gloss: A traditional social group of families in the Scottish Highlands having a common hereditary chieftain.
pos: noun
gloss: Any group defined by family ties with some sort of political unity.
pos: noun
examples: Holonym: nation
Near-synonym: canton (uncommon outside of certain dialects)
As a rule, you see, I'm not lugged into Family Rows. On the occasions when Aunt is calling to Aunt like mastodons bellowing across primeval swamps and Uncle James's letter about Cousin Mabel's peculiar behaviour is being shot round the family circle... the clan has a tendency to ignore me.
gloss: A group of players who habitually play on the same team in multiplayer games.
pos: noun
gloss: A badger colony.
pos: noun
Related words: clan lab
Derived words: clan control
clan endogamy
clanfellow
clanless
clan mate
clanmate
clannish
clannism
clannist
clanny
clansfolk
clanship
clansman
clanspeak
clansperson
clanswoman
interclan
intraclan
Klan
Ku Klux Klan
matriclan
multiclan
patriclan
subclan
Translations:
triskelion
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Ancient Greek τρισκέλιον (triskélion)bor.
English triskelion
Borrowed from Ancient Greek τρισκέλιον (triskélion).
Inflected forms:
form: triskelions
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: triskelia
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A figure composed of three interlocked spirals (or three bent human legs), with threefold rotational symmetry.
pos: noun
examples: Coordinate term: tetraskelion
Sicily and the Isle of Man use triskelia as their emblems.
Translations:
tora
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Amharic ቶራ (tora).
Inflected forms:
form: toras
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of tora hartebeest.
pos: noun
Translations: