yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
layout
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
gymnastics
hobbies
lifestyle
media
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
publishing
sports
Etymology: Etymology tree
English lay outdeverb.
English layout
Deverbal from lay out.
Inflected forms:
form: layouts
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: layouts
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: layouting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: layouted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: layouted
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A structured arrangement of items within certain limits.
pos: noun
examples: The garden’s layout was designed for easy access to all plants.
gloss: A plan for such arrangement.
pos: noun
examples: The architect presented the building’s floor layout.
The magazine changed its page layout to look more modern.
He admired the efficient layout of the new website.
gloss: The act of laying out something.
pos: noun
gloss: The process of arranging editorial content, advertising, graphics and other information.
pos: noun
examples: The magazine changed its page layout to look more modern.
gloss: A map or a drawing of a construction site showing the position of roads, buildings or other constructions.
pos: noun
gloss: A specification of an integrated circuit showing the position of the physical components that will implement the schematic in silicon.
pos: noun
gloss: The customizable features of a user's profile (such as profile picture, screen name, and bio) collectively.
pos: noun
tags: Internet
examples: He admired the efficient layout of the new website.
gloss: A fully stretched out position of the body, with toes pointed and legs straight.
pos: noun
gloss: to layout (plan for an arrangement)
pos: verb
tags: Philippines
Related words: buildout
loadout
setup
Derived words: keyboard layout
layouting
masonry layout
multilayout
sublayout
waterfall layout
Translations:
tied
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: archaeology
games
history
hobbies
human-sciences
lifestyle
philately
sciences
sports
Inflected forms:
form: more tied
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most tied
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Closely associated or connected.
pos: adj
examples: As a couple, they are strongly tied to one another.
It is financially too tied to West Germany to exist by itself, he explained .
The fact that we weren't tied together as a team last year cost us the championship. Houston was more tied together as a team than us."
One straightforward way of taking advantage of these similarities to provide more data for training the model parameters is to use the same Gaussian distributions to represent all the states of all models, with only the mixture weights being state-specific. Thus the distribution parameters are tied across the different states, and this type of model is often referred to as a tied mixture.
But this time -- because of the rare and dangerous threat of widespread price declines -- the anticipated rate cut is even more tied to mental mechanics.
Sen. Barack Obama said Wednesday that his chief rival, Sen. Hillary Clinton, was too closely tied to the Washington status quo to bring about change.
gloss: Restricted.
pos: adj
examples: The city has at times fogged the outside-ocala area, but the county claims its hands are too tied, legally and financially, for it to render much aid.
Unquestionably many persons, guilty as sin, will now go free because the policeman's hands are tied, even more tied than they were as the result of similar decisions over the last five years.
gloss: Conditional on other agreements being upheld.
pos: adj
examples: There are two distinct ways in which tied aid can undermine the value of aid to the recipient: overpricing and distorting the nature of aid.
gloss: Of a public house, bar, etc., obliged to sell beer from only one brewery, or alcoholic drinks from one pubco.
pos: adj
gloss: That resulted in a tie.
pos: adj
examples: That tied score will require a “sudden death” round where Barnes can deliver a finishing move on Daniel.
gloss: Provided for use by an employer for as long as one is employed, often with restrictions on the conditions of use.
pos: adj
examples: For generations farmers had argued that tied cottages were a perk and necessary to keep good workers, yet the reality for literally thousands was very different.
Traditionally, the vast majority of public houses were owned or controlled as brewers' tied estates, usually operated on a regional basis.
gloss: Having walls that are connected in a few places by a single stone overlapping from one wall to another.
pos: adj
gloss: A cover having a stamp where the postmark cancellation overlaps the stamp.
pos: adj
Derived words: cup-tied
fit to be tied
hand-tied
have one's hands tied
have one's tubes tied
non-tied
pretied
ready to be tied
tied house
tied island
tied oil
tied pub
tied up
tied-up
tied visa
tongue-tied
untied
with one arm tied behind one's back
with one hand tied behind one's back
Translations:
Hercules
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Latin Herculēs, from Etruscan 𐌇𐌄𐌓𐌂𐌋𐌄 (hercle), from Ancient Greek Ἡρακλῆς (Hēraklês), apparently cognate of Ἥρα (Hḗra, “Hera”) and, according to Haudry, from Proto-Indo-European *yóh₁r̥ (“year, season”) + κλέος (kléos, “glory”).
Inflected forms:
form: Hercules
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A Hercules beetle.
pos: noun
gloss: A man with Herculean attributes.
pos: noun
examples: For the immaculate gentleman her cries had lured to what was to have been his death had been suddenly metamorphosed into a demon of revenge. Instead of soft muscles and a weak resistance, she was looking upon a veritable Hercules gone mad.
Translations:
Hermes
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: art
arts
Etymology: From the Ancient Greek Ἑρμῆς (Hermês), itself of disputed meaning and origin, possibly of non-Indo-European substrate origin or from Proto-Indo-European *ser- (“to bind, put together”).
Inflected forms:
form: Hermae
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A head or bust on a square base, often double-faced.
pos: noun
Translations:
afro
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Afro-. In relation to the sense 2, see latino and anglo.
Inflected forms:
form: afros
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Afro
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A hairstyle characterized by tightly curled locks and a rounded shape.
pos: noun
examples: sheʼd been unmissable sitting in the front row of the lecture theatre with a crazy-ass afro and stunning face
gloss: A person of African ancestry.
pos: noun
examples: The Ghanaian government employed several Afros, as many of the expatriates called themselves, downplaying their Americanness, in ideological and infrastructure-building occupations.
At the height of the American civil rights agitation, a number of members of the Black Panther movement moved to Tanzania, and lived outside Arusha where they formed a community, calling themselves ‘’Afros.’’
Afrodescendants (or simply Afros) are the descendants of Africans who were dispersed.
Synonyms: 'fro
Related words: Jewfro
Derived words: Afro comb
afroed
afrolike
Afro pick
halfro
Translations:
portico
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Italian portico, from Latin porticus (“porch”), from porta (“gate”). Doublet of porch, portego, and porticus.
Inflected forms:
form: porticos
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: porticoes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: portici
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A porch, or a small space with a roof supported by columns, serving as the entrance to a building.
pos: noun
examples: The amphitheatre hath two portici as that at Niſmes.
The great house itself was a large, white, wooden building, with wings on three sides of it. In front, a large portico, extending the entire length of the building, and supported by a long range of columns, gave to the whole establishment an air of solemn grandeur.
The long-closed G.W.R. station alongside has a decidedly derelict-looking frontage, with eight gargoyles or figureheads still clinging to the portico.
[…] Porticus Milliaria (portico of the thousand paces) which was the longest, if not the most attractive, of the many portici of ancient Rome.
The portici enhance street life today, as they did when they were first constructed, not simply by providing protection from sun and rain, but by providing attractive public spaces for friends to meet, for business people to conduct business, for vendors to display their wares, for musicians to play their music and for beggars to beg. […] Most tours of Bologna begin in the Piazza Maggiore, on the site of the Roman forum, but it’s important to remember that the piazza didn’t begin to take its present shape till toward the end of the 13th century—after the age of medieval towers, after the citizens began to enjoy their portici.
These lines are possibly meant to represent two portici flanking the building on its long sides.
Translations:
bubbler
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English bubble
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 bubbler
From bubble + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: bubblers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Something that emits bubbles.
pos: noun
examples: In proof of this I can assert my success in extinguishing a youthful bubbler near Reykholt church.
gloss: An airstone for an aquarium.
pos: noun
gloss: A drinking fountain.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
examples: There are many types of fountain from which persons may drink by taking the nozzle of the bubbler into the mouth, and this practice is common; furthermore, there are many types in the use of which water from the lips of the consumer falls back onto the bubbler at the point of outlet.
1939 June, Ella Gardner, Short-Time Camps: A Manual for 4-H Leaders, United States Department of Agriculture, Miscellaneous Publication No. 346, page 11,
Plans for an inexpensive bubbler or drinking fountain that have been worked out by the 4-H Club department in Massachusetts are shown in figure 4.
1962 February, Repairs and Utilities: Refrigeration, Air Conditioning, Mechanical Ventilation, and Evaporative Cooling, United States Department of the Army, Technical Manual TM 5-670, page 82,
Small self-contained water coolers have a limited capacity of cooled water. They are equipped with one bubbler or drinking fountain and have a capacity of about 5 gallons of cooled water per hour or less.
gloss: A device used for smoking marijuana, similar to a cannabis pipe but with a section that holds water, like a bong
pos: noun
gloss: One who cheats.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
examples: ...above all the Jews, jobbers, bubblers, ſubſcribers, projectors, directors, governors, treaſurers, &c.
gloss: A freshwater drum (Aplodinotus grunniens), of central North America.
pos: noun
tags: US
Derived words: chubbler
spubbler
wubbler
Translations:
Diana
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Borrowed from Late Latin Diāna, short form of Latin Dīāna, derived by syncope from Old Latin Dīvāna, equivalent to dīvus + -āna; roughly akin to Proto-Italic *deiwā (“goddess”) + Proto-Indo-European *-néh₂.
Originally an Old Italic divinity of light and the moon; later identified as the Roman counterpart to Greek goddess Artemis. Cognate of Attic Greek Διώνη (Diṓnē), similarly syncopated from older Ancient Greek Διϝωνη (Diwōnē), whence via Latin Diōne is derived English Dione used in various ways across astronomy, chemistry, biology, and as a given name. From the same root Proto-Indo-European *dyúh₃onh₂- also potentially cognate to English June via Latin Jūnō.
Base: dīvus
Affixes: -āna
Inflected forms:
form: Dianas
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A Diana monkey.
pos: noun
gloss: A Diana fritillary.
pos: noun
Related words: Cynthia
Delia
Translations:
durable
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: economics
sciences
Etymology: From Middle English durable, from Old French durable, from Latin dūrābilis (“lasting, permanent”), from dūrō (“harden, make hard”).
Inflected forms:
form: more durable
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most durable
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: durables
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Able to resist wear or decay; lasting; enduring.
pos: adj
examples: Near-synonyms: persistent, long-lasting, lasting, hard-wearing; see also Thesaurus:lasting
durable batteries
I forged a durable relationship with my seatmate.
Researchers have developed a new gel they say is as durable as metal, has the flexibility of jello, and could revolutionize how our bodies heal and age.
gloss: A durable thing, one useful over more than one period, especially a year.
pos: noun
examples: In a frictionless world with perfect rental markets, there is an unambiguous cost associated with the use of a durable for a single period.
Antonyms: nondurable
Translations:
genitals
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of genitalia.
pos: noun
tags: plural
plural-only
examples: Small wonder that the old medieval paintings of Genesis emphasize the genitals by covering them with fig leaves. Genesis is the story of the genitals.
Translations:
puberty
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
Etymology: From Middle English puberte, from Old French puberté, from Latin pūbertās (“the age of maturity, manhood”).
Inflected forms:
form: puberties
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A developmental phase brought about by the action of hormones as part of the maturing process. For humans, there are three in total.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Girls undergoing puberty show an increase in the total output of cortisol, which is related to stress, while boys show little increase.
gloss: A developmental phase brought about by the action of hormones as part of the maturing process. For humans, there are three in total.
pos: noun
tags: common
countable
uncountable
gloss: The age at which a person is first capable of sexual reproduction.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: As shown in Figure 14.4 of the textbook, children reach puberty at different ages in different countries; within those nations, children living in cities tend to reach puberty earlier than those living in rural areas.
gloss: The period when a plant begins to flower.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Derived words: delayed puberty
impuberty
minipuberty
peripuberty
postpuberty
precocious puberty
prepuberty
pseudopuberty
puberty blocker
puberty inhibitor
second puberty
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: пуберте́т
roman: pubertét
lang: Bulgarian
word: ю́ношество
roman: júnošestvo
lang: German
word: Geschlechtsreifung
lang: German
word: Reifezeit
lang: German
word: Pubertät
puberulent
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From the Latin puberulentus, see puber (“downy, adult”), -ulentus (“abounding in”).
Inflected forms:
form: more puberulent
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most puberulent
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Covered in soft, downy hairs.
pos: adj
Translations:
pubescent
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
zoology
Etymology: From Middle French pubescent, from Latin pubescens (“to become hairy, downy, or an adult”).
Inflected forms:
form: more pubescent
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most pubescent
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: pubescents
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: At or just after the age of puberty.
pos: adj
examples: 2008, Lou Schuler, "Foreward", in Nate Green, Built for Show, page xi
[…] the pubescent male brain isn't noted for its consistent engagement with reality […]
The 18-year-old [Justin] Bieber can’t quite pull off the “adult” thing just yet: His voice may have dropped a bit since the days of “Baby,” but it still mostly registers as “angelic,” and veers toward a pubescent whine at times.
gloss: Covered with down or fine hairs.
pos: adj
gloss: A person going through puberty.
pos: noun
Synonyms: nuptial
pubescent
Antonyms: presexual
Related words: puberty
pubescence
impuberal
peripubescent
postpubescent
prepubescent
of age
teenager
estral
productive
Derived words: mid-pubescent
nonpubescent
peripubescent
postpubescent
prepubescent
pubescently
pubescent oak
subpubescent
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: полово съзряващ
roman: polovo sǎzrjavašt
lang: Catalan
word: púber
lang: Catalan
word: pubescent
lang: Danish
word: kønsmoden
lang: Dutch
word: puberaal
lang: Finnish
word: murrosikäinen
lang: French
word: pubère
lang: French
word: pubescent
lang: Galician
word: pubescente
lang: Galician
word: púbere
lang: German
word: geschlechtsreif
lang: Portuguese
word: pubescente
lang: Portuguese
word: púbere
lang: Romanian
word: pubescent
lang: Russian
word: половозре́лый
roman: polovozrélyj
lang: Spanish
word: pubescente
dumbshit
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From dumb + shit.
Compound parts: dumb
shit
Inflected forms:
form: dumbshits
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A stupid person.
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
derogatory
offensive
vulgar
examples: "You wanna be a dumbshit, I don't care."
gloss: (of a person) Stupid, or prone to making mistakes.
pos: adj
tags: colloquial
derogatory
not-comparable
offensive
vulgar
examples: "If you know me, perhaps you can tell me why I'm calling you?" "Would I be dumbshit enough to tell you? ...
Translations:
gnocchi
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Italian gnocchi, plural of gnocco (“dumpling”, literally “lump”), related to nocchio (“knot (in wood)”), a borrowing from Lombardic knohha (“knuckle, bone, knot”), from Proto-Germanic *knukô (“bone”), *kneukaz (“tuber, knuckle”), from Proto-Indo-European *gnew- (“knot, bundle”). Cognate with Middle High German knoche (“bone, knot”) (modern German Knochen), Middle Dutch knoke (“knuckle, knob, knot”), Swedish knoge (“knuckle”). More at knuckle.
Inflected forms:
form: gnocchi
pos: noun
tags: canonical
form: gnocchi
pos: noun
tags: canonical
plural
form: gnocchis
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: gnocco
pos: noun
tags: singular
Senses:
gloss: Italian pasta-like dumpling(s) made of potato or semolina.
pos: noun
tags: countable
plural-normally
uncountable
examples: Dip each gnocco into the flour, shaking off excess. Carefully lower the gnocchi, one at a time, into the simmering water. Cook a few at a time since they must not touch each other while cooking. The gnocchi will be cooked when they rise to the surface; this should take 2 to 3 minutes, depending on the gnocchi.
Test one gnocchi by placing it in a large pot of rapidly boiling lightly salted water.
Silky, feather-light and with an other-worldly texture, home-made gnocchi is one of the most spoiling things you can make for someone, yet it is surprisingly simple to put together, especially when just for two.
Translations:
doohickey
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: First attested 1914, of uncertain origin, probably from doodad + hickey.
Inflected forms:
form: doohickeys
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: dohickey
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: do-hickey
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: doo-hickey
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: do-hinky
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: doohinky
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A thing (used in a vague way to refer to something whose name one does not know or cannot recall)
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: What does this doohickey do?
Customers will ask for "gizmos" and "what-cha-ma-call-its" and "doohickeys," and make crude drawings on paper bags of what it is they think they need.
Besides, the show has invented a doohickey that makes it possible for Dr. Manhattan to exist as Calvin, a stable and supportive husband and father with no memory of his life as Jon Osterman, who can live out those 10 years as something close to a human being.
Translations:
scrunchie
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: By reanalysis as scrunch + -ie from the brand name of the originator product, Scünci, which was a marketing-department alteration of the earliest name, Scunci, after the inventor's dog; more in Wikipedia at scrunchie § History.
Base: scrunch
Affixes: -ie
Inflected forms:
form: scrunchies
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: scrunchy
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A small elasticated ring of fabric placed around long hair to hold it in place behind the head.
pos: noun
examples: Mr. Burns: Simpson! You'll rue the day you took a pie tin, made two holes for eyes, and tied a rubber band around the back! / Homer Simpson: It's not a rubber band, it's a Scrunchie!
When he had it all caught in one hand, he said, “What do I put around it?” “A scrunchie.” “A whatie?” “Scrunchie. Don't tell me you don't have a scrunchie.” “I don't even know what the hell a scrunchie is.” “It's what you use to hold up ponytails. Duh.”
The burgundy scrunchie that held her brown ponytail matched the trim of her Esprit socks.
Translations:
undeserving
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English un-
English deserving
English undeserving
From un- + deserving.
Inflected forms:
form: more undeserving
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most undeserving
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Considered unworthy of reward.
pos: adj
examples: the undeserving poor
I'm one of the undeserving poor: thats what I am. […] If theres anything going, and I put in for a bit of it, it's always the same story: "You're undeserving; so you cant have it." But my needs is as great as the most deserving widow's that ever got money out of six different charities in one week for the death of the same husband. I dont need less than a deserving man: I need more.
Translations:
stronger
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: human-sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
Etymology: From Middle English strongere, strengere (“stronger”), from Old English strongra, strengra (“stronger”), from Proto-Germanic *strangizô (“*stronger”), comparative of Proto-Germanic *strangaz (“strong”), equivalent to strong + -er. More at strong.
Base: strong
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Said of one proposition with respect to another one: that the former entails the latter, but the latter does not entail the former.
pos: adj
gloss: Better.
pos: adj
examples: Compared to the previous semester, my grades now are a lot stronger.
Antonyms: weaker
Translations:
entendre
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Extracted from double entendre, corresponding to French entendre (“to understand, to mean”); doublet of intend.
Inflected forms:
form: entendres
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A meaning, especially one that is implied rather than explicitly stated.
pos: noun
examples: Like Lon Chaney, this mind’s mummy lives—but beneath how many wrappings of multiple entendres?
“Come on baby let’s ride / slide on into your four-wheel-drive and ride,” the singer urges, conveying more entendres than two.
Still, in pursuit of said Phantom Nympho, much fun had been had – and more entendres doubled than you could shake a stick at.
Though he decries “egghead philosophers who try to tell us what we are,” even [Vince] McMahon notes a historical connection surrounding the evolution of WWF plot lines. In the 1980s, echoing the Cold War, it was mostly a matter of good guys versus bad guys. “Black and white, pretty simple,” he says. “But now we’re into more entendres, different shadings.”
[…] and double-, triple-, multiple-entendres of its very title already begin to dramatize, and with the effect of seeming to replicate the very miscarriage of ‘dialectic’ itself that is the crux of the book’s indictment of ‘enlightenment’.
Ono Komachi was a prominent and gifted poet in her day. She was able to weave emotional intensity, multiple entendres, and metaphors together to form elegant poetry.
Survivor had been developed as Survive by Charlie Parsons. When I’d talk to people about it, they thought it sounded like a military thing or an athletic test of skill and strength. But it’s really a psychological and social experiment. “Survivor” had more entendres.
Translations:
stillborn
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From English still + born. First attested in 1597.
Compound parts: still
born
Inflected forms:
form: still-born
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: stillborns
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: still-born
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Dead at birth.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Queen Anne, before Elizabeth, bore a still-born son.
1978, Holy Bible (New International Version), Job 3:16,
Or why was I not hidden in the ground like a stillborn child, like an infant who never saw the light of day?
gloss: Ignored, without influence, or unsuccessful from the outset; abortive.
pos: adj
tags: broadly
figuratively
not-comparable
examples: This, gentlemen, is a list of the joint-stock companies created last year. . . . Of these some were stillborn, but the majority hold the market.
His lips framed themselves to whistle the first bars of a popular song, but the sound died stillborn.
gloss: A baby that is born dead.
pos: noun
examples: About 35% of stillborns are discovered to have major structural anomalies by chromosomal studies and autopsy findings.
Translations:
infantry
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle French infanterie, from older Italian, possibly from Spanish infantería (“foot soldiers, force composed of those too inexperienced or low in rank for cavalry”), from infante (“foot soldier”), originally "a youth", either way from Latin īnfāns (“child”); see there for more.
Inflected forms:
form: infantries
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Soldiers who fight on foot (on land), as opposed to cavalry and other mounted units, regardless of external transport (e.g. airborne).
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The part of an army consisting of infantry soldiers, especially opposed to mounted and technical troops.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: A regiment of infantry.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Infants; children.
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
countable
humorous
uncountable
examples: The next summer there was a crop of blackberries in the woods. I took wife and babies, supplied with lunch and horse feed; […] Wife took command of the infantry and I of the transportation. We were both soon calling loudly for assistance.
Related words: infant
Derived words: infanteer
infantry fighting vehicle
infantryman
infantryperson
infantrywoman
light infantry
line infantry
marine infantry
mechanized infantry
motorized infantry
mounted infantry
naval infantry
noninfantry
Translations:
downtown
Part of speech: adj
adv
noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: ball-games
basketball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Etymology: From down + town.
Compound parts: down
town
Inflected forms:
form: further downtown
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: farther downtown
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: more downtown
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: furthest downtown
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: farthest downtown
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: most downtown
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: dahntahn
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: further downtown
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: farther downtown
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: more downtown
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: furthest downtown
pos: adv
tags: superlative
form: farthest downtown
pos: adv
tags: superlative
form: most downtown
pos: adv
tags: superlative
form: dahntahn
pos: adv
tags: alternative
form: downtowns
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: dahntahn
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Of, relating to, or situated in the central business district.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
usually
examples: John walked every day to his downtown job.
“Human flesh got stuck to me,” he recalls now, as we sit in the ambulance control centre in downtown Karachi.
The famed Farmers & Crafts Market on Main Street in downtown Las Cruces is a lively gathering of regional farmers, bakers, makers, jewelers, artists, food trucks and street musicians.
gloss: In or towards the central business district.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
usually
examples: You need to go downtown four blocks.
A storekeeper downtown was shot dead last evening.
When you're alone and life is making you lonely / You can always go downtown
gloss: Outside the three-point line, or generally far from the basket.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
usually
examples: That shot came from way downtown!
gloss: The main business part of a city or town, usually located at or near its center.
pos: noun
tags: Canada
US
gloss: The human genitalia.
pos: noun
tags: US
slang
gloss: Heroin.
pos: noun
tags: slang
Related words: old town
uptown
Derived words: go downtown
downtowner
Translations:
Rebecca
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: The Vulgate (Latin) form of biblical Rebekah, from Hebrew רִבְקָה (Rivka, “enchantingly beautiful, captivating, snare”).
Inflected forms:
form: Rebeccas
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Rebeccah
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Rebekah
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Rebekka
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: One who protested in the Rebecca Riots; a Rebeccaite.
pos: noun
tags: historical
examples: Colonel George Rice Trevor testified that the Rebeccas attacked poor-houses as well as tollgates.
Translations:
depredation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle French déprédation, from Latin depraedatio.
Inflected forms:
form: depredations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An act of consuming agricultural resources (crops, livestock), especially as plunder.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: An animal that produces only two to four young per year cannot suffer vast depredations on the adult population without drastic effects.
Depredation of cultivated crops by elephants is widespread in both Africa and Asia.
gloss: A raid or predatory attack.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Union Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman had long known that his fragile supply and communication lines through Tennessee were in serious jeopardy because of depredations by Forrest's cavalry raids. (Battle of Brice's Crossroads)
Despite losing its overall roof to the depredations of the Luftwaffe in the Second World War, the main building survives in all its Gothic glory.
Related words: predation
predator
prey
Translations:
furphy
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Furphy (a surname), from the firm of J[ohn] Furphy and Sons. An often-repeated etymology is that during World War I (1914–1918), Australian soldiers in Europe and the Middle East often stood around water carts manufactured by the firm and emblazoned with its name to talk and exchange news and rumours.
Alternatively, it has been suggested that the word derives from news and rumours spread by soldiers operating Furphy carts collecting garbage and human waste in the Broadmeadows Camp in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, in 1914, or shared between soldiers visiting latrines where such Furphy carts would often be seen.
Inflected forms:
form: furphies
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: furfie
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: An erroneous or improbable story; also, a rumour.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
slang
examples: I know wot I wus born fer now, an' soljerin's me game, / That's no furphy; but I never guessed it once; […]
‘Well, old boy, some other Top Persons have high-stepping wives who go to Nefertiti, and the furphy round the House is that they believe in the thing so solidly that they’ve convinced their husbands, and that’s what’s really at the back of it.’ / 'Now look, you two, sober up a minute. This is serious. I think Bill’s furphy’s right.[…]’
A number of the furphies and fads in relation to public-sector agricultural R&D relate to attempts to increase demand for farm products in various ways.
He's off his lolly. It's just bloody Buka talk. Another of their half-arsed furfies. And he knows it!
[Tim] Gartrell and [John] Faulkner also released Maurie Daly's letter, which was sent to us on Monday, to the media, putting the Liverpool furphies to rest.
Translations:
asp
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English aspe, from Old French aspe, from Latin aspis, aspidis (“asp, viper”), from Ancient Greek ἀσπίς (aspís, “shield; Egyptian cobra Naja haje”); compare Middle English aspide.
Inflected forms:
form: asps
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A water snake.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
gloss: A venomous viper native to southwestern Europe (Vipera aspis).
pos: noun
gloss: The Egyptian cobra (Naja haje).
pos: noun
gloss: An evil person; a snake.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
examples: 'Two thousand years ago did thou and I and that Egyptian asp rest therein, but since then have I not set foot here, nor any man, and perchance it has fallen,' and, followed by the rest of us, she passed up a vast flight of broken and ruined steps into the outer court, and looked round into the gloom.
gloss: A type of European fish (Aspius aspius).
pos: noun
gloss: The caterpillar of various types of flannel moths which induce an intense pain when their hair is touched.
pos: noun
tags: Southern-US
gloss: The caterpillar of various types of flannel moths which induce an intense pain when their hair is touched.
pos: noun
tags: Southern-US
broadly
Related words: aspis
Derived words: aspish
asplike
sand asp
Translations:
snigger
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: British variant pronunciation and spelling of snicker.
Inflected forms:
form: sniggers
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: snicker
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: sniggers
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: sniggering
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: sniggered
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: sniggered
pos: verb
tags: past
form: snicker
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A partly suppressed or broken laugh.
pos: noun
tags: Ireland
UK
examples: Here the unfeeling Toad broke into a snigger, and then pulled himself together and tried to look particularly solemn.
gloss: A sly or snide laugh.
pos: noun
tags: Ireland
UK
gloss: To emit a snigger.
pos: verb
tags: Ireland
UK
intransitive
examples: […]presently the Mole's spirits revived again, and he was even able to give some straight back-talk to a couple of moorhens who were sniggering to each other about his bedraggled appearance.
Peter, after the manner of man at the breakfast table, had allowed half his kedgeree to get cold and was sniggering over a letter. Sophia looked at him sharply. The only letter she had received was from her mother. Sophia's mother was not a humourist.
That said, I still find it hard not to snigger when I hear [Travis] Kelce described as being the Kansas City Chiefs' tight end.
Translations:
cupidity
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From French cupidité, from Latin cupiditās (“strong desire”), from cupidus (“keen, desirous”). Compare Cupid.
Inflected forms:
form: cupidities
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Extreme greed, especially for wealth.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: A bargain is a social evil; one man's loss, tempting another man's cupidity.
Now Jonah’s Captain, shipmates, was one whose discernment detects crime in any, but whose cupidity exposes it only in the penniless.
His affairs, however, were not allowed to subside thus quietly, and people were quite as much inclined to talk about the disinterested sacrifice he had made, as they had before been to upbraid him for his cupidity.
“I have tried, as I hinted, to enlist the co-operation of other capitalists, but experience has taught me that any appeal is futile that does not impinge directly upon cupidity. …”
Humanity had always been fascinated by the mystery of the falling dice, the turn of a card, the spin of the pointer. At its lowest level, this interest was based on mere cupidity—and that was an emotion that could have no place in a world where everyone possessed all that they could reasonably need.
To previous resentment of the wide acceptance socially of [George] Hudson was added the venom of those whose cupidity had led them astray.
It was easy to dissimulate and disperse these modest purchases in such a way as not to excite the cupidity of any passing patrols.
Translations:
culvert
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Origin obscure, with a number of possible etymologies suggested:
* a dialectal word,
* a word related to the name of the now-forgotten inventor,
* a derivation from French couvert (“covered”), although couvert is not used in this sense and the French translation of culvert is ponceau or buse de drainage,
* a derivation from an unrecorded Dutch word, possibly *coul-vaart, a combination of Dutch coul-, from French couler (“to flow”), and Dutch vaart (“a trip by boat, a canal”).
Inflected forms:
form: culverts
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: culverts
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: culverting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: culverted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: culverted
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A channel crossing under a road or railway for the draining of water.
pos: noun
examples: A raft of twigs stayed upon a stone, suddenly detached itself, and floated towards the culvert.
After she left, I ran away for a day, and hid myself, solitary, in a culvert under the railway lines.
It was on the leisurely upswing when, 16 years after we bought our house, a woman driving a fancy S.U.V. jumped the culvert, plowed through the hedge, jumped the culvert again and sped off.
gloss: To channel (a stream of water) through a culvert.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
transitive
examples: This led to a great deal of straightening and culverting, which in turn led to a massive loss of biodiversity.
Translations:
clasp
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Noun dated ca. 1300 and verb dated ca. 1400; from Middle English claspe (“metal catch or hook used to hold things together”), possible metathesis of clapse, which comes from or related to Old English clyppan (“clasp”) (also see clip (verb)). Related to English enclasp (“embrace, hold tightly in one's arms”). Compare hasp, of very similar meaning but older known provenance.
Inflected forms:
form: clasps
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: clasps
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: clasping
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: clasped
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: clasped
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A device with interlocking parts used for fastening things together, such as a fastener or a holder.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: I always have a hard time working the clasp on this necklace!
gloss: A bar or insignia on a medal ribbon, to either indicate an additional award of the medal, or the action or service for which it was awarded.
pos: noun
tags: countable
gloss: An embrace, a grasp, or handshake.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: He took her hand in a firm clasp.
How few! yet how they creep / Through my fingers to the deep, / While I weep—while I weep! / O God! can I not grasp / Them with a tighter clasp?
gloss: To take hold of; to grasp.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: They clasped hands and parted as friends.
And when the Boy dropped off to sleep, the Rabbit would snuggle down close under his little warm chin and dream, with the Boy's hands clasped close round him all night long.
The poor dear lady shivered, and I could see the tension of her nerves as she clasped her husband closer to her and bent her head lower and lower still on his breast.
gloss: To shut or fasten together with, or as if with, a clasp.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To cling.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
obsolete
rare
Synonyms: beclasp
grasp
grip
join
put together
Related words: enclasp
Derived words: clasp brake
claspin
clasp-knife
claspless
clasp lock
clasp locker
handclasp
tie clasp
clasper
reclasp
stem-clasping
unclasp
Translations:
tasteful
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From taste + -ful.
Base: taste
Affixes: -ful
Inflected forms:
form: more tasteful
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most tasteful
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Having or exhibiting good taste; aesthetically pleasing or conforming to expectations or ideals of what is appropriate.
pos: adj
examples: Her home was decorated with tasteful, classical furnishings.
gloss: Having a high relish; savoury.
pos: adj
examples: Not the fair fruit that on you branches glows / With that ripe red th' autumnal sun bestows; / Nor tasteful herbs that in these gardens rise, / Which the kind soil with milky sap supplies;
gloss: Gay; fashionable.
pos: adj
tags: colloquial
Synonyms: delectable
trendy
Antonyms: gaudy
garish
tasteless
distasteful
yucky
outmoded
untrendy
Related words: tastefully
tastefulness
untasteful
Derived words: semitasteful
Translations:
contaminant
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Borrowed from French contaminant, present participle of contaminer (“to contaminate”), from Latin contāmināre. By surface analysis, contaminate + -ant.
Inflected forms:
form: contaminants
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: That which contaminates; an impurity; foreign matter.
pos: noun
examples: Put the lid on the jar to keep contaminants out.
Antonyms: antipollutant
decontaminant
noncontaminant
nonpollutant
Translations:
contaminate
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: First attested in the early 15ᵗʰ century, in Middle English; from Middle English contaminaten (“to defile; to infect with desease”), from contaminat(e) (“sullied, defiled; infected with desease”, also used as the past participle of contaminaten) + -en (verb-forming suffix), from Latin contāminātus, the perfect passive participle of contāminō (“to touch together, blend, mingle, corrupt, defile”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), which see for further informations. More at taste, tax, and taxi.
Base: contaminat
Affixes: -en
Inflected forms:
form: contaminates
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: contaminating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: contaminated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: contaminated
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To make something dangerous or toxic by introducing impurities or foreign matter.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: This water is contaminated. It isn't safe to drink.
Bombs and munitions meanwhile contain toxic substances that contaminate soil, water, and vegetation.
gloss: To soil, stain, corrupt, or infect by contact or association.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Shall we now
 Contaminate our figures with base bribes?
I would neither have simplicity imposed upon, nor virtue contaminated.
[Martin] Heidegger's repellent political beliefs do not contaminate his philosophical work.
gloss: To make unfit for use by the introduction of unwholesome or undesirable elements.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Do not contaminate the peanut butter with the jelly.
gloss: To infect, usually of a deadly virus.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Related words: contaminable
contamination
contaminative
Derived words: biocontaminate
contaminator
cross-contaminate
decontaminate
noncontaminating
recontaminate
uncontaminate
Translations:
wash-leather
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: wash-leathers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Leather that has been treated so as to be very absorbent. Usually made of sheepskin treated with oil, and used for dusting or as an absorbent lining in pockets, gloves, etc.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: This combination shirt, of which the seat was made of wash-leather, protected the whole body down to the knees...
One of his waistcoat pockets was lined with wash-leather for the reception of his gold watch.
gloss: Buff leather for regimental belts.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Synonyms: chamois leather
Translations:
funky
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
Etymology: Etymology tree
English funk
Proto-Indo-European *-kos
Proto-Germanic *-gaz
Proto-West Germanic *-g
Old English -iġ
Middle English -y
English -y
English funky
From funk + -y.
Inflected forms:
form: funkier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: more funky
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: funkiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: most funky
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Offbeat, unconventional or eccentric.
pos: adj
tags: US
slang
gloss: Not quite right; of questionable quality; not appropriate to the context.
pos: adj
tags: US
slang
examples: By the tone of her voice I could tell she had a funky attitude, but I kept my head under the covers and didn't say shit.
gloss: Cool; great; excellent.
pos: adj
tags: UK
US
slang
examples: Eight-bit Arkanoid is a funky game — not as sexy as its 16-bit sister, but fun to spend time with. I'm hooked.
I love high heels, and these were totally funky! The coolest part: They actually let me take 'em home!
What every teenage driver desires: a fab, funky car and freedom!
gloss: Having a foul or unpleasant smell.
pos: adj
examples: They could scarcely bear their knowledge, nor could they have borne the sight of Rufus, but they knew why he was in the streets tonight, why he rode subways all night long, why his stomach growled, why his hair was nappy, his armpits funky, his pants and shoes too thin, and why he did not dare to stop and take a leak.
JAMES CARTER: You smell a little funky; I think you stepped in some rat shit.
My husband thinks I'm bathing them more, but I'm not, they just lost that funky smell.
gloss: Relating to or reminiscent of various genres of African American music, especially funk.
pos: adj
gloss: Relating to, or characterized by, great fear, or funking.
pos: adj
tags: UK
dated
slang
Related words: funk
funktastic
Derived words: funkily
funkiness
funky fresh
UK funky
ultrafunky
unfunky
Translations:
decadent
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From French décadent, a back-formation from décadence (see -ent), from Medieval Latin dēcadentia, from Late Latin dēcadēns, present participle of dēcadō, dēcidō (“sink, fall; perish”), from Latin dē- + cadō (“fall”).
Inflected forms:
form: more decadent
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most decadent
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: décadent
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: decadents
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: décadent
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Characterized by moral or cultural decline.
pos: adj
examples: As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests.
gloss: Luxuriously self-indulgent.
pos: adj
examples: 2003, Hedonismbot in the Futurama episode "The Devil's Hands Are Idle Playthings"
Surgery in an opera? How wonderfully decadent! And just as I was beginning to lose interest!
gloss: A person affected by moral decay.
pos: noun
examples: L. Douglas
He had the fastidiousness, the preciosity, the love of archaisms, of your true decadent.
Related words: decadence
Derived words: decadentism
decadently
nondecadent
undecadent
Translations:
truancy
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English truant
English -cy
English truancy
From truant + -cy.
Inflected forms:
form: truancies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of shirking from responsibilities and duties, especially from attending school.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations: