yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
finale
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: human-sciences
linguistics
narratology
sciences
Etymology: From Italian finale (“ending”), from Late Latin fīnālis, from Latin fīnis (“end; boundary, limit”). Doublet of final.
Inflected forms:
form: finales
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The grand end of something, especially of a show or piece of music.
pos: noun
examples: Andre Santos equalised and the outstanding Theo Walcott put Arsenal ahead for the first time before Juan Mata's spectacular strike set up the finale for an enthralling encounter.
gloss: The chronological conclusion of a series of narrative works.
pos: noun
Antonyms: premiere
Derived words: grand finale
nonfinale
season finale
series finale
Translations:
maul
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: ball-games
biology
botany
games
hobbies
lifestyle
natural-sciences
rugby
sex
sexuality
sports
Etymology: From Middle English malle (“mace, maul”), from Anglo-Norman mail, from Old French mail, from Latin malleus (“hammer”). Doublet of malleus.
Inflected forms:
form: mauls
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: mauls
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: mauling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: mauled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: mauled
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A heavy long-handled hammer, used for splitting logs by driving a wedge into them, or in combat.
pos: noun
gloss: A situation where the player carrying the ball, who must be on his feet, is held by one or more opponents, and one or more of the ball carrier's team mates bind onto the ball carrier.
pos: noun
gloss: The fruit of the Washingtonia species.
pos: noun
gloss: To handle someone or something in a rough way.
pos: verb
gloss: To savage; to cause serious physical wounds.
pos: verb
tags: usually
examples: The bear mauled him in a terrible way.
The embattled heavy cruiser is not in immediate danger of sinking, but is being badly mauled.
A tiger handler who had acquired some of his tigers from the zoo owner known as Joe Exotic was fatally mauled on Saturday by a tiger at his family-run zoo in southeastern Oklahoma, the authorities said.
gloss: To criticise harshly.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
examples: The latest film by the Cohen brothers was mauled by the press, and was a box-office flop to boot.
gloss: To beat with a maul.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To play rough, to fondle intensively.
pos: verb
tags: slang
examples: 28 year old big, burly, bearded grizzly looking for other bears to maul me! Facial/body hair, brains a plus!
Related words: ruck
scrum
mall
mallet
Derived words: driving maul
maul oak
bemaul
maulee
mauler
unmauled
Translations:
kerosene
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Ancient Greek κηρός (kērós, “wax”) + -ene; a name trademarked in 1854.
An older term for kerosene was carbon oil.
Base: κηρός
Affixes: -ene
Inflected forms:
form: kerosenes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: kerosine
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A thin, often colorless or blue or straw-colored petroleum-based fuel, heavier than gasoline/petrol or naphtha but lighter than diesel, used primarily as jet fuel but also for heating and lighting in some remote or impoverished areas.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The kerosene lasted all winter, so the furnace kept us always warm.
The dawn of the oil age was fairly recent. Although the stuff was used to waterproof boats in the Middle East 6,000 years ago, extracting it in earnest began only in 1859 after an oil strike in Pennsylvania.[…]It was used to make kerosene, the main fuel for artificial lighting after overfishing led to a shortage of whale blubber. Other liquids produced in the refining process, too unstable or smoky for lamplight, were burned or dumped.
Translations:
martyr
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English martir, from Old English martyr, itself a borrowing from Ecclesiastical Latin martyr, from Ancient Greek μάρτυρ (mártur), later form of μάρτυς (mártus, “witness”).
Inflected forms:
form: martyrs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: martyrs
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: martyring
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: martyred
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: martyred
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: One who willingly accepts being put to death or willingly accepts challenging and exposing iniquity done to oneself for adhering openly to one's religious beliefs; notably, saints canonized after red martyrdom.
pos: noun
examples: The apostle Stephen was the first Christian martyr.
Fr. Felipe Císcar Puig was a Valencian priest who is also also considered a martyr of the sacramental seal because he was martyred after keeping confessions secret during the religious persecution of the Spanish Civil War.
gloss: One who sacrifices their life, station, or something of great personal value, for the sake of principle or to sustain a cause.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
gloss: One who suffers greatly or constantly, even involuntarily.
pos: noun
examples: Stan is a martyr to arthritis, Chris a martyr to Stan's endless moaning about it.
He'd been a martyr to asthma all his life.
J.Q. Murder wears sandpaper suits
Broken glass in pocket, barbed wire boots
Not because he's mean, but because he's a martyr
He makes Jackie Collins look like Jean-Paul Sartre
gloss: Someone who exaggerates their pain and suffering in order to gain sympathy.
pos: noun
tags: derogatory
examples: You have a great life! Stop trying to play the martyr!
gloss: To make someone into a martyr by putting them to death for adhering to, or acting in accordance with, some belief, especially religious; to sacrifice on account of faith or profession.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Fr. Felipe Císcar Puig was a Valencian priest who is also also considered a martyr of the sacramental seal because he was martyred after keeping confessions secret during the religious persecution of the Spanish Civil War.
gloss: To persecute.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Some religious and other minorities were martyred until extinction.
gloss: To torment; to torture.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Hark, wretches, how I mean to martyr you.
This one hand yet is left to cut your throats,
Whiles that Lavinia ’tween her stumps doth hold
The basin that receives your guilty blood.
[…]The louely Amoret, whoſe gentle hart
Thou martyreſt with ſorow and with ſmart,[…]
Synonyms: martyrize
Antonyms: apostate
confessor
Related words: martyrion
martyrium
martyrologe
martyrologue
martyrology
martyry
Derived words: antimartyr
cybermartyr
great martyr
hieromartyr
martyr complex
martyrdom
martyress
martyrial
martyrisation
martyrish
martyrism
martyrizate
martyrization
martyrize
martyrizer
martyrless
martyrlike
martyrly
martyrolatry
martyrship
martyrsome
megalomartyr
metric martyr
pro-martyr
protomartyr
pseudomartyr
martyrer
unmartyred
Translations:
fuchsia
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From New Latin, after the genus Fuchsia, itself named after German botanist Leonhart Fuchs (1501–1566).
Inflected forms:
form: fuchsias
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A popular garden plant, of the genus Fuchsia, of the Onagraceae family, shrubs with red, pink or purple flowers.
pos: noun
examples: Drenched were the cold fuchsias, round pearls of dew lay on the flat nasturtium leaves
gloss: A purplish-red colour, the color of fuchsin, an aniline dye.
pos: noun
examples: She tilted a hand topped with long rectangular nails in furious fuchsia towards her cheeks and fluttered the fingers, fanning.
Born in the mid-2010s, the concept of the girlboss promised a utopia where women could bulldoze into workplaces, pull up a seat at male-dominated tables and become a celebrated CEO on the Forbes 30 Under 30 List by the ripe age of 23 (and do it all, of course, wearing a fuchsia blazer and a balayage hairdo).
gloss: Having a purplish-red colour.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Derived words: California fuchsia
fuchsia eucalyptus
fuchsia gum
fuchsialike
fuchsia mallee
fuchsine
native fuchsia
Translations:
available
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: law
Etymology: From Middle English available, avayllable, avayleable, equivalent of avail + -able.
Base: avail
Affixes: -able
Inflected forms:
form: more available
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most available
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Such as one may avail oneself of; capable of being used for the accomplishment of a purpose.
pos: adj
examples: We have an available candidate.
For this scene, a large number of supers are engaged, and in order to further swell the crowd, practically all the available stage hands have to ‘walk on’ dressed in various coloured dominoes, and all wearing masks.
gloss: Readily obtainable.
pos: adj
examples: The list shows the available products in the store.
gloss: Valid.
pos: adj
examples: This is an available plea.
gloss: Having sufficient power, force, or efficacy to achieve the purpose; availing, effective.
pos: adj
tags: archaic
examples: One thing however, I finally settled upon—and that was, if I ever did meet him that I would shoot him precisely as I would shoot a mad dog. In order to make this plan available, I had […] armed myself with a revolver.
The different navigations she had to pass through for this purpose were such that only an independent method of propulsion would be available.
gloss: Free to meet someone, speak on the telephone, enter a romantic relationship, or the like.
pos: adj
examples: I have a question for you when you're available.
Hi, this is Mark Smith calling. Is your mother available?
I asked her if she was available, but she said she had a boyfriend.
Van de Velde did not make himself available to journalists. “He wants to rest his mind,” Immers explained.
Antonyms: unavailable
taken
Derived words: availability
availableness
availably
bioavailable
bio-available
geoavailable
inavailable
interavailable
nonavailable
phytoavailable
reavailable
re-available
unavailable
Translations:
homophone
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
semantics
Etymology: From French homophone; equivalent to homo- (“same”) + -phone (“sound”).
Base: homo
Inflected forms:
form: homophones
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A word which is pronounced the same as another word but differs in spelling or meaning or origin.
pos: noun
gloss: A letter or group of letters which are pronounced the same as another letter or group of letters.
pos: noun
Related words: homophonous
homophony
near-homophone
identical
same
homophone & homograph
different
homophone & heterograph
alternative spelling
homonym
synonym
heterophone & heterograph
heteronym
heterophone & homograph
alternative pronunciation
distinct
Derived words: homophonic
pseudohomophone
Translations:
lang: Afrikaans
word: homofoon
lang: Arabic
word: لَفْظَة مُتَجَانِسَة
roman: lafẓa mutajānisa
lang: Armenian
word: նույնահնչյուն բառ
roman: nuynahnčʻyun baṙ
lang: Bulgarian
word: омофо́н
roman: omofón
lang: Catalan
word: homòfon
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 同音詞 /同音词
roman: tóngyīncí
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 同音字
roman: tóngyīnzì
lang: Czech
word: homofon
lang: Czech
word: homofonum
lang: Danish
word: homofon
lang: Dutch
word: homofoon
lang: Esperanto
word: homofono
lang: Estonian
word: homofoon
lang: Finnish
word: homofoni
lang: French
word: homophone
lang: Friulian
word: omofon
lang: Georgian
word: ომოფონი
roman: omoponi
lang: German
word: Homophon
lang: Greek
word: ομόφωνος
roman: omófonos
lang: Hindi
word: समध्वनि
roman: samdhvani
lang: Hungarian
word: homofon (not infrequently spelled homofón)
lang: Icelandic
word: samhljóma orð
lang: Ido
word: homofono
lang: Indonesian
word: homofon
lang: Irish
word: homafón
lang: Irish
word: téarma comhfhuaimneach
lang: Italian
word: omofono
lang: Japanese
word: 同音語
roman: dōongo
lang: Kashmiri
word: ہَم آوٲزؠ
roman: ham āvạ̄z'
lang: Kazakh
word: омофон
roman: omofon
lang: Khmer
word: សូរដូច
roman: soo dooc
lang: Khmer
word: កល្បសព្ទ
roman: kɑlpa’sap
lang: Korean
word: 동음이의어
roman: dong'eumiuieo
lang: Northern Kurdish
word: hevdeng
lang: Northern Kurdish
word: homofon
lang: Lithuanian
word: homofonas
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: homofon
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: homofon
lang: Polish
word: homofon
lang: Portuguese
word: homófono
lang: Romanian
word: omofon
lang: Russian
word: омофо́н
roman: omofón
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: homofon
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: istozvučnica
lang: Slovene
word: enakoglasnica
lang: Slovene
word: homofon
lang: Spanish
word: homófono
lang: Spanish
word: homófona
lang: Swedish
word: homofon
lang: Thai
word: คำพ้องเสียง
roman: kam-pɔ́ɔng-sǐiang
lang: Turkish
word: sesteş kelime
lang: Turkish
word: sesteş
lang: Vietnamese
word: từ đồng âm
lang: Welsh
word: cyfunsain
lang: Welsh
word: homoffon
bergamot
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From French bergamote, from Italian bergamotta, from Ottoman Turkish بك آرمودی (beg armudu, literally “a lord's pear”), denoting a fattish kind of pear. The European word developed the sense of a fruit of a certain citrus cultivar in the late 17th century.
Inflected forms:
form: bergamots
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A tree of the orange family (Citrus × limon, syn. Citrus bergamia), having a roundish or pear-shaped fruit, from the rind of which an essential oil of delicious odor is extracted, much prized as a perfume.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The fruit from the bergamot tree.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The essence or perfume made from the fruit.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A variety of snuff perfumed with bergamot.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The better hand […] gives the nose its bergamot.
gloss: Either of two plants of the mint family noted for their bergamot-like scent:
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Either of two plants of the mint family noted for their bergamot-like scent:
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A variety of pear.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: One of my Neighbours has a Bergamot Pear Tree, that was brought from England in a Box , about the Year 1643
Related words: Earl Grey
Derived words: bergamot mint
bergamottin
wild bergamot
Translations:
lang: Chinese Cantonese
word: 香檸檬 /香柠檬
lang: Chinese Cantonese
word: 香柑
roman: hoeng¹ gam¹
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 香檸檬 /香柠檬
roman: xiāng níngméng
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 香柑
roman: xiānggān
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 香檸檬橙 /香柠檬橙
roman: xiāngníngméng-chéng
lang: Finnish
word: bergamotti
lang: French
word: bergamote
lang: Greek
word: περγαμόντο
roman: pergamónto
lang: Irish
word: beirgeamat
lang: Italian
word: bergamotto
lang: North Frisian
word: Piarkemot
lang: Polish
word: bergamota
lang: Polish
word: bergamotka
lang: Portuguese
word: bergamota
lang: Romanian
word: bergamotă
lang: Russian
word: бергамот
roman: bergamot
lang: Saterland Frisian
word: Bagganiepere
lang: Turkish
word: bergamot
handcuffs
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: 1775, from hand + cuff (“end of shirtsleeve”).
Possibly influenced by Old English handcops, from hand + cops (“fetter, chains”), but due to lack of continuity (centuries between Old English and modern term), generally analyzed as a re-invention.
Compound parts: hand
cuff
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A fastening consisting of two metal rings, designed to go around a person's wrists, and connected by a chain or hinge.
pos: noun
tags: plural
plural-only
examples: It was the sergeant who had spoken to me, and he was now looking round at the company, with his handcuffs invitingly extended towards them in his right hand, and his left on my shoulder.
Security is tight inside and outside the building, guarded by a bewildering collection of soldiers, policemen and gendarmes. Relatives watch as prisoners in handcuffs and leg irons shuffle past.
gloss: Any abstract constraint, such as rules, regulations, or lack of resources.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
plural
plural-only
examples: They complained that their rules of engagement were handcuffs that guaranteed counterproductivity.
Synonyms: manacles
shackles
Related words: handcuff
Derived words: Chinese handcuffs
digital handcuffs
golden handcuffs
velvet handcuffs
Translations:
rat
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English raat, rat, ratt, ratte, rotte, from Old English ræt, rætt, from Proto-West Germanic *ratt, from Proto-Germanic *rattaz, *rattō (“rat”), of uncertain origin, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *Hreh₃d- (“to gnaw, scrape, scratch”). However, the rat may have been unknown in Northern Europe in antiquity, and the Proto-Germanic word may have referred to a different animal; see *rattaz for more. Attestation of this family of words begins in the 12th century.
Cognates
Cognate with North Frisian root (“rat”), Saterland Frisian Rotte (“rat”), West Frisian rôt (“rat”), Dutch rat, rot (“rat”), German Ratte (“rat”), Luxembourgish Rat (“rat”), Vilamovian rot, rott (“rat”), Yiddish ראַץ (rats, “rat”), Danish and Norwegian Bokmål rotte (“rat”), Faroese and Icelandic rotta (“rat”), Norwegian Nynorsk rotta, rotte, røtte (“rat”), Swedish råtta (“rat”), Latin rattus, ratus (“rat”) (whence Asturian ratu (“mouse”), Catalan rata (“rat”), French rat (“rat”), Italian ratto (“rat”), Portuguese rato (“rat”), Spanish rata (“rat”), rato (“male rat”)); also Latin rōdō (“to bite, gnaw, nibble; to backbite, disparage, slander”), Sanskrit रदति (radati, “to scrape, scratch; to cut path, pave; to lead river into a channel; to bestow, convey”).
Some of the Germanic cognates show considerable consonant variation, e.g. Middle Low German ratte, radde; Middle High German rate, ratte, ratze. The irregularity may be symptomatic of a late dispersal of the word, although Kroonen accounts for it with a Proto-Germanic stem *raþō nom., *ruttaz gen., showing both ablaut and a Kluge's law alternation, with the variation arising from varying remodellings in the descendants. Kroonen states that this requires a Proto-Indo-European etymon in final *t and is incompatible with the usual derivation from Proto-Indo-European *Hreh₃d- (“to scrape, scratch, gnaw”).
Inflected forms:
form: rats
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: ratting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: ratted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: ratted
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To hunt or kill rats.
pos: verb
tags: usually
gloss: To betray a political party, cause or principle; to betray someone, to desert a person or thing.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To work as a scab, going against trade union policies.
pos: verb
tags: informal
intransitive
gloss: To backcomb (hair).
pos: verb
tags: US
examples: In 1962, the higher a girl's hair was ratted the more available she was, it was simply understood.
gloss: To inform on someone; to betray someone to the police or authorities.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: He ratted on his coworker.
He is going to rat us out!
Synonyms: tell on
to finger
put the finger on
bewray
Translations:
navy
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: government
military
politics
war
Etymology: From Middle English nave, navye, from Anglo-Norman, Old French navie, from Latin nāvigia < nāvigium, from Latin nāvigō, nāvis (“boat”), from Proto-Indo-European *néh₂us. Compare Ancient Greek ναῦς (naûs, “ship”), Persian ناو (nâv, “boat, warship”), Sanskrit नाव (nāva, “ship”), Old English nōwend (“mariner, sailor”). By surface analysis, Latin nav- + -y.
Displaced native Old English sċiphere (literally “ship army”).
Inflected forms:
form: navies
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: more navy
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most navy
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: A country's entire maritime military force, including ships and personnel.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: The skipper Mr. Cooke had hired at Far Harbor was a God-fearing man with a luke warm interest in his new billet and employer, and had only been prevailed upon to take charge of the yacht after the offer of an emolument equal to half a year's sea pay of an ensign in the navy.
People who get seasick easily shouldn't join the navy.
gloss: A governmental department in charge of a country's maritime military force.
pos: noun
tags: countable
gloss: Any fleet of maritime vessels, and especially the entire fleet of any particular nationality, including vessels that are commercial, military, or both.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
countable
gloss: A dark blue colour, usually called navy blue.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Having the dark blue colour of navy blue.
pos: adj
examples: The cover is as navy as a bruise.
The morning shadow on his chin was almost as navy as his heavy-lidded eyes, his cheekbones exquisitely sculptured in his haughty face.
gloss: Belonging to the navy; typical of the navy.
pos: adj
examples: […] there are chess ships and checker ships and those where acey-deucey is almost the only game, the sailors' own improved version of backgammon. Fliers from the seacoast of Iowa, anxious to be as navy as the rest, are usually the first to pick it up.
Lieutenant Lindquist is navy through and through. I know she doesn't want to get out. Now, I know there's no way you can assign her to a navy ship, but there has to be something the navy can give her to keep her in space.
It was not what you would picture as a typical meeting with a naval officer. In fact, it was about as navy as an Abbott and Costello movie.
He was navy through and through; no-nonsense, humorless, and all spit and polish—every hair in its place, every thought gleaned from the manual compiled by brilliant sea dogs of long ago.
Goodwin was navy through and through.
Related words: fleet
Annapolis
bluejacket
captain
chief petty officer
commodore
ensign
erk
Fleet Air Arm
gob
gunroom
marine
Seabee
silent service
Derived words: antinavy
internavy
navarch
navyish
navyless
navyspeak
pronavy
Translations:
maroon
Part of speech: noun
adj
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From French marron (“feral; fugitive”, adjective), from Spanish cimarrón (“fugitive, wild, feral”); see that entry for more.
Inflected forms:
form: maroons
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Maroon
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: maroons
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: marooning
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: marooned
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: marooned
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: An escaped black slave of the Caribbean and the Americas or a descendant of such a person.
pos: noun
examples: Further north a Maroon community in the Bahoruco Mountains thrived for eighty-five years, until the French proposed a truce under the terms of which the Maroons would be permitted to form an independent clan.
Joining others who had escaped before them, they formed communities of Maroons in which many traditional African customs and social mores were preserved.
gloss: A castaway; a person who has been marooned (abandoned).
pos: noun
gloss: Associated with Maroon culture, communities or peoples.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: In her discussion of Michelle Cliff's Abeng, a novel that historicizes maroon culture and the Jamaican warrior heroine Nanny of the Maroons, Francoise Lionnet examines linguistic “metissage” […]
gloss: To abandon in a remote, desolate place, as on a desert island.
pos: verb
examples: Hard-hit by the Arctic winter, the Waverley route was completely closed from January 6-9, when an avalanche between Whitrope and Riccarton marooned Class A2 4-6-2 No. 60535 Hornet's Beauty.
After the harrowing stories of being marooned at sea and stranded in the frozen wastelands of Alaska and the Poles, one would think that survival on dry land would be easier […]
The Trump administration’s argument, that no court could order it to retrieve Abrego Garcia despite his being deported by mistake, has broader implications: It means that the administration could similarly maroon U.S. citizens abroad “by mistake” and abandon them.
Derived words: maroonage
Translations:
lob
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Etymology: First attested late 16th c. in the sense "allow or cause to dangle, hang," from sense 2.
Inflected forms:
form: lobs
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: lobbing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: lobbed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: lobbed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: lobs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To throw or hit a ball into the air in a high arc.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The guard lobbed a pass just over the defender.
The tennis player lobbed the ball, which was a costly mistake.
gloss: To throw.
pos: verb
tags: colloquial
transitive
examples: In the months leading up to the election, government representatives took up a cybercrime case against Thanathorn for criticising the government on a Facebook Live video... They also lobbed more legal cases at his party for allegedly spreading false information.
I'm sure the Brunel-designed stone-built structure would have had a hatstand for his trademark stovepipe. I can picture him rocking up there of a morning and lobbing it nonchalantly onto the hatstand.
gloss: To put, place.
pos: verb
tags: colloquial
transitive
examples: Lob the bacon in the pot.
gloss: To hit, kick, or throw a ball over another player in a game.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Wigan took the lead when Hugo Rodallega lobbed David Stockdale from close range having earlier headed against the post.
gloss: To let fall heavily or lazily.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
transitive
examples: And their poor jades / Lob down their heads.
gloss: To reach or arrive at (a place).
pos: verb
tags: Australia
informal
intransitive
examples: So with great trepidation we lobbed at the theatre and were escorted to our seats[.]
gloss: A pass or stroke which arcs high into the air.
pos: noun
examples: The guard launched a desperate lob over the outstretched arms of the defender.
Peter Lovenkrands went close for the Magpies, hitting the bar with a fine lob after he had been played in by the excellent Jose Enrique on the left.
Translations:
sombrero
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: bowling
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish sombrero (“hat”), from sombra (“shadow, shade”) + -ero, literally, "shade-maker". The drink was named after the hat.
Inflected forms:
form: sombreros
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A kind of hat with a high conical or cylindrical crown and a saucer-shaped brim, highly embroidered, made of plush felt.
pos: noun
examples: Beatrice looked up and saw a man standing before her; the huge sombrero overshadowed his face, but the light of the lamp shone on a large and glittering knife in his girdle.
`Hey listen Pancho, take your hands off me or I'll stick your sombrero up your Khyber.'
gloss: A mixed drink with coffee liqueur and cream.
pos: noun
gloss: A series of four consecutive strikes.
pos: noun
gloss: An umbrella.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
Derived words: golden sombrero
platinum sombrero
sombreroed
titanium sombrero
Translations:
benzoic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Arabic لُبَان (lubān)
Proto-Indo-European *yew-
Proto-Indo-European *-os
Proto-Indo-European *yéwos
Proto-Indo-Iranian *yáwas
Sanskrit यव (yava)bor.?
Proto-Austronesian *zawa
Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *zawabor.?
Old Javanese jawa
Old Javanese -i
Old Javanese Jawi
Javanese ꦗꦮꦶ (jawi)der.
Arabic جَاوَة (jāwa)
Arabic ـِيّ (-iyy)
Arabic جَاوِيّ (jāwiyy)
Arabic لُبَان جَاوِيّ (lubān jāwiyy)bor.
Catalan benjuíder.
Middle French benjoinder.
English benzoin
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Latin -icuslbor.
Old French -iquebor.
Middle English -ik
English -ic
English benzoic
From benzoin + -ic. Compare French benzoïque.
Base: benzoin
Affixes: -ic
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Pertaining to, or obtained from, benzoin.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Derived from benzoic acid or its derivatives.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Related words: benzaldehyde
benzoate
benzocaine
benzofuran
benzol
benzoyl
Derived words: alkylbenzoic
aminobenzoic
benzoate
benzoic acid
benzoic anhydride
bromobenzoic
dihydroxybenzoic
halobenzoic
hydroxybenzoic
iodoxybenzoic
nitrobenzoic
oxybenzoic
perchlorobenzoic
thiobenzoic
trihydroxybenzoic
Translations:
sorbet
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Arabic شَرِبَ (šariba)der.
Arabic شَرْبَة (šarba)bor.
Classical Persian شَرْبَت (šarbat)bor.
Ottoman Turkish شربت (şerbet)bor.
Italian sorbettobor.
Middle French sorbetbor.
English sorbet
Borrowed from Middle French sorbet, borrowed from Italian sorbetto, borrowed from Ottoman Turkish شربت (şerbet), borrowed from Classical Persian شَرْبَت (šarbat), borrowed from Arabic شَرْبَة (šarba), from شَرِبَ (šariba).
Doublet of sherbet and sharbat, related to syrup.
Inflected forms:
form: sorbets
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Frozen fruit juice, sometimes mixed with egg whites, eaten as dessert or between courses of a meal.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: After dinner we had an orange sorbet that was very refreshing.
Translations:
tamale
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Back-formation from the plural tamales, derived from Latin American Spanish tamales, plural of tamal, derived from Nahuatl tamalli (“wrapped”), derived from Proto-Uto-Aztecan *tïmaL-. Compare O'odham cemait (“tortilla”), Hopi tuma (“stone griddle for cooking corn flatbread”), Ute tʉ'ma- (“to roast under ashes”).
Inflected forms:
form: tamales
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A Mexican dish of cornmeal dough shell filled with various ingredients (e.g. chopped beef, pork, sweet filling) then steamed in corn husks.
pos: noun
examples: She would peel back the husk, ladle over the salsa verde, stab a plastic fork straight down into the heart of the masa, and hand the tamale over to me.
Translations:
tutu
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from French tutu, from cucu (“bum, bottom”), playful reduplication of cul (“arse”).
Inflected forms:
form: tutus
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: tutus
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: tutuing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: tutued
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: tutued
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A ballet skirt made of layered stiff but light netting.
pos: noun
examples: The ballet dancer representing the swan wore a white tutu.
gloss: to fiddle or mess around with something.
pos: verb
tags: New-Zealand
childish
examples: "There were seven dudes here for a week just showing me how to use it and I just wanted them to leave so I could start tutuing with it."
Translations:
hut
Part of speech: noun
intj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: American-football
agriculture
ball-games
business
football
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Etymology: From Middle English *hutte, hotte, from both Old English hōd and Old English hȳdan (“to hide”) and influenced by Anglo-Norman hute or hutte, from Middle French hutte, from Old French hute (“hut”), hute (“cottage”), from Old High German hutta (“hut, cottage”), from Proto-Germanic *hudjǭ, *hudjō (“hut”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kewt- (“to deck; cover; covering; skin”).
Cognate with German Hütte (“hut”), Dutch hut (“hut”), West Frisian hutte (“hut”), Saterland Frisian Hutte (“hut”), Danish hytte (“hut”), Norwegian Bokmål hytte (“hut”), Swedish hydda (“hut”). Related to hide.
Inflected forms:
form: huts
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A small, simple one-storey dwelling or shelter, often with just one room, and generally built of readily available local materials.
pos: noun
examples: a thatched hut; a mud hut; a shepherd’s hut
And in his Hut, when hee to rest doth take him,
Hee sleeps, till Drums or deadlie Pellets wake him.
1751, Samuel Johnson, The Rambler, No. 186, 28 December, 1751, Volume 6, London: J. Payne and J. Bouquet, 1752, pp. 108-109,
[…] love, that extends his dominion wherever humanity can be found, perhaps exerts the same power in the Greenlander’s hut, as in the palaces of eastern monarchs.
[…] I was a hired-out shepherd in a solitary hut, not seeing no faces but faces of sheep till I half forgot wot men’s and women’s faces wos like,
There was an oil lamp in all the four huts on Okonkwo’s compound, and each hut seen from the others looked like a soft eye of yellow half-light set in the solid massiveness of night.
gloss: A small wooden shed.
pos: noun
examples: a groundsman’s hut
gloss: A small stack of grain.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
gloss: Called by the quarterback to prepare the team for a play.
pos: intj
Related words: cabin
cottage
shack
shanty
Derived words: bathing hut
beach hut
booby hut
hut circle
hutkeeper
hutless
hutlet
hutlike
hutmaster
hutment
hut tax
hutting
Iris hut
nipa hut
Nissen hut
observation hut
outhut
palaver hut
Quonset hut
Romney hut
slab hut
Translations:
pupa
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
entomology
natural-sciences
Etymology: Borrowed from New Latin, from a special use of Latin pūpa (“little girl; doll, puppet”). Doublet of pupe; compare also puppet, puppy.
Inflected forms:
form: pupae
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: pupas
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: pupæ
pos: noun
tags: archaic
plural
Senses:
gloss: An insect in the development stage between larva and adult.
pos: noun
examples: The public is the pupae of the purposely purblind […]
Translations:
vertebra
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
Etymology: Borrowing from Latin vertebra (“a joint”), from vertō (“to turn”) + -bra (instrumental nominal suffix). Having multiple vertebrae (plural of vertebra) in one's backbone instead of having a single bone or solid spine, allows for the movement of the body with bends and turns. Hence meaning 1.
Base: vertō
Affixes: -bra
Inflected forms:
form: vertebrae
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: vertebræ
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
plural
form: vertebras
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of the bony or cartilaginous segments which make up the backbone, consisting in some lower vertebrates of several distinct elements which never become united, and in higher vertebrates having a short more or less cylindrical body whose ends articulate by pads of elastic or cartilaginous tissue with those of adjacent vertebrae and a bony arch that encloses the spinal cord.
pos: noun
examples: Already I seemed to hear the water rippling against the desiccated bones and rattling them together, rolling my skull against Mahomed's, and his against mine, till at last Mahomed's stood straight up upon its vertebræ, and glared at me through its empty eyeholes, and cursed me with its grinning jaws, because I, a dog of a Christian, disturbed the last sleep of a true believer.
Translations:
backbone
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From Middle English bakbon, bakebon, bac-bon; equivalent to back + bone. Compare the semantically analogous English ridgebone.
Compound parts: back
bone
Inflected forms:
form: backbones
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: back bone
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The series of vertebrae, separated by disks, that encloses and protects the spinal cord, and runs down the middle of the back in vertebrate animals.
pos: noun
tags: countable
gloss: Any fundamental support, structure, or infrastructure.
pos: noun
tags: countable
figuratively
examples: Before automobiles, railroads were a backbone of commerce.
Undoubtedly it can be said that the humble 0-6-0 has been the backbone for general service, or general utility on British railways right from their earliest days, and is likely to remain so.
With little regular employment available in East Kent the backbone of the Kent Coast passenger traffic is therefore the commuters, the not inconsiderable numbers of people who travel each day to their work in Faversham, Sittingbourne, the Medway Towns and most of all, London.
East [Street] and West Street form a single thoroughfare running as a backbone through the village, flanked by neat, painted cottages of predominantly 18th-century brick.
The San Francisco AIDS Foundation (SFAF) and other community-based organizations that "provide backbone and leadership" in AIDS services are "reeling under the impact of growing case loads," said Pat Christen, SFAF's new director.
The backbone of our research is an extensive corpus of contemporary spoken Esperanto.
When operating on customer MAC (C-MAC) and service MAC (S-MAC) addresses, PBB uses a new backbone MAC (B-MAC) address. The B-MAC address is added at the edge of the PBB network, that is administered by a carrier VPN or a carrier-of-carriers VPN.
gloss: Courage, fortitude, or strength.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
uncountable
examples: He would make a good manager, if he had a little more backbone.
His appearance was certainly that of a hairdresser's dummy; but in the great demoralization of the land he kept up his appearance. That's backbone. His starched collars and got-up shirt-fronts were achievements of character. He had been out nearly three years; and, later, I could not help asking him how he managed to sport such linen.
[Indiana:] I hate snakes, Jock! I hate 'em! [Jock:] Come on! Show a little backbone, will ya!
Synonyms: spine
spinal column
vertebral column
backbone
Derived words: backboned
backboneless
Bustamante backbone
devil's backbone
to the backbone
Translations:
uppish
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *upó
Proto-Germanic *ub
Proto-Germanic *upp
Proto-West Germanic *upp
Old English upp
Middle English up
English up
Proto-Indo-European *-iskos
Proto-Germanic *-iskaz
Proto-West Germanic *-isk
Old English -isċ
Middle English -ish
English -ish
English uppish
From up + -ish.
Inflected forms:
form: more uppish
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most uppish
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Having plenty of money.
pos: adj
examples: 1699, B.E., A New Dictionary of the Canting Crew in its Several Tribes of Gypsies, Beggers, Thieves, Cheats &c., London: W. Hawes et al.,
Uppish, rampant, crowing, full of Money. He is very Uppish, well lined in the Fob […]
gloss: proud; arrogant; assuming
pos: adj
tags: colloquial
examples: “Heah that John is livenin’ things up at the darky school,” volunteered the postmaster, after a pause.
“What now?” asked the Judge, sharply.
“Oh, nothin’ in particulah,—just his almighty air and uppish ways. […]”
When the other animals came back to luncheon, very boisterous and breezy after a morning on the river, the Mole, whose conscience had been pricking him, looked doubtfully at Toad, expecting to find him sulky or depressed. Instead, he was so uppish and inflated that the Mole began to suspect something; while the Rat and the Badger exchanged significant glances.
Family prayers were uppish with big words on Sunday—reverend Awe-full words that only God and Father understood.
gloss: In which the ball is hit into the air, with the chance of being caught.
pos: adj
examples: Six runs were still required, and an uppish stroke by the new arrival secured two of them.
All the coaching he had received had been aimed at keeping the ball down. An ‘uppish’ stroke was to be deplored. But everything had to be uppish on this pitch.
Derived words: uppishly
uppishness
Translations:
antler
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English auntelere, hauntelere, from Old French antoillier (“antler, horn”), from ante- (“in front of”) + oillier (oil (“eye”) + -ier (a suffix indicating location)), possibly from an unattested Latin *anteocularis (“before the eye”).
Base: oillier
Affixes: ante-
Inflected forms:
form: antlers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A deciduous branching and bony structure on the head of deer (Cervidae), normally in pairs, grown and shed each year.
pos: noun
examples: While hiking in the woods, I found an antler from a deer.
Translations:
comet
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
Etymology: From Middle English comete, partly from Old English comēta and partly from Old French comete, both from Latin comētēs, from Ancient Greek κομήτης (komḗtēs, “longhaired”), short for ἀστὴρ κομήτης ([astēr] komētēs, "longhaired [star])" and referring to the tail of a comet, from κόμη (kómē, “hair”). Compare English faxed star and Latin crīnīta stēlla (“comet”, literally “(long) haired star”).
Inflected forms:
form: comets
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A small Solar System body consisting mainly of volatile ice, dust and particles of rock whose very eccentric solar orbit periodically brings it close enough to the Sun that the ice vaporises to form an atmosphere, or coma, which may be blown by the solar wind to produce a visible tail.
pos: noun
examples: And They made by the lifting of Their hands, each god according to his sign, the Bright One with the flaring tail to seek from the end of the Worlds to the end of them again, to return again after a hundred years. Man, when thou seest the comet, know that another seeketh besides thee nor ever findeth out.
gloss: A celestial phenomenon with the appearance of such a body.
pos: noun
examples: Upon his browes was pourtraid vgly death,
And in his eies the furies of his heart,
That ſhine as Comets, menacing reueng,
And caſts a pale complexion on his cheeks.
gloss: Any of several species of hummingbird found in the Andes.
pos: noun
Synonyms: ☄
faxed star
Derived words: Biela's Comet
cometarium
cometary
comet darner
cometesimal
comet-finder
cometic
cometless
cometlike
Comet Neowise
cometocentric
cometographer
cometography
cometoid
cometology
comet-seeker
comet star
comet tail
cometwise
dead comet
exocomet
great comet
Halley's Comet
Halley's comet
interstellar comet
near-Earth comet
parabolic comet
periodical comet
periodic comet
short period comet
short-period comet
supercomet
vomit comet
Translations:
hobby
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: equestrianism
hobbies
horses
lifestyle
pets
sports
Etymology: Shortened from hobby-horse, from Middle English hoby, hobyn, hobin (“small horse, pony”), from Old French hobi, *haubi, haubby, hobin ("a nag, hobby"; > Modern French aubin, Italian ubino), of Germanic origin: from Old French hober, ober (“to stir, move”), from Old Dutch hobben (“to toss, move up and down”); or from North Germanic origin related to Danish hoppe (“a mare”), Old Swedish hoppa (“a young mare”), North Frisian hoppe (“horse”); both ultimately from Proto-Germanic *huppōną (“to hop”), from Proto-Indo-European *kewb- (“to bend; a bend, joint”). More at hop, hobble.
The meaning of hobby-horse shifted from "small horse, pony" to "child's toy riding horse" to "favorite pastime or avocation" with the connecting notion being "activity that doesn't go anywhere". Possibly originally from a proper name for a horse, a diminutive of Robert or Robin (compare dobbin).
Inflected forms:
form: hobbies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An activity that one enjoys doing in one's spare time.
pos: noun
examples: I like to collect stamps from different countries as a hobby.
take up a hobby
give up your hobby
gloss: An extinct breed of horse native to the British Isles, also known as the Irish Hobby.
pos: noun
examples: I was out a-hunting to-day, and I got away to a place in the wood I’d never seen before. And there was an old chalk-pit. And I heard a kind of a sort of humming. So I got off my hobby, and I went right quiet to the pit, and I looked down.
gloss: Synonym of hobby horse (“a favorite topic”).
pos: noun
examples: "Well, I think East is right," said Arthur; "I can't see but what it's right to do the best you can, though it mayn't be the best absolutely. Every man isn't born to be a martyr."
"Of course, of course," said East; "but he's on one of his pet hobbies. — How often have I told you, Tom, that you must drive a nail where it'll go."
Synonyms: pastime
amusement
diversion
divertisement
fancy
hobby
kill-time
pursuit
sport
Antonyms: work
Related words: hobbyhorse
hobelar
hobeler
dilettantism
game
Derived words: hobby bobby
hobbycraft
hobby desk
hobby farm
hobby fuse
hobby horse
hobbyism
hobbyist
hobby knife
hobbyless
hobbylike
hobby table
Irish hobby
Irish Hobby
ride a hobby
Translations:
pajamas
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Etymology: Borrowed from Hindustani (Hindi पाजामा (pājāmā) / Urdu پاجامہ (pājāma)), from Classical Persian پَاجَامَه (pājāma, “trousers, drawers”), from پَا (pā, “leg”) + جَامَه (jāma, “garment”).
Inflected forms:
form: pajama
pos: noun
tags: attributive
form: pyjamas
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Clothes for wearing to bed and sleeping in, usually consisting of a loose-fitting shirt and pants/trousers.
pos: noun
tags: plural
plural-only
examples: She put on a coat over her new pair of pajamas.
But I'm not two hundred years old. Why can't I sleep in pajamas?
gloss: Loose-fitting trousers worn by both sexes in various southern Asian countries including India.
pos: noun
tags: plural
plural-only
gloss: The coloured uniform worn by players in professional limited overs matches.
pos: noun
tags: plural
plural-only
slang
Related words: nightie
nightshirt
Derived words: dayjamas
jammies
llama's pajamas
pajama
pajamahadeen
pj's
PJs
the cat's pyjamas
Translations:
ebony
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From earlier heben, hebeny, from Middle English ebenif, hebenyf (influenced by Late Latin hebeninus), from Ecclesiastical Latin ebenius (“of ebony”), from Latin hebenus (“ebon tree”), from Ancient Greek ἔβενος (ébenos), from Egyptian hbnj, U13:n-Z4:M3
Inflected forms:
form: ebonies
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: more ebony
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most ebony
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: A hard, dense, deep black wood from various subtropical and tropical trees, especially of the genus Diospyros.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: A tree that yields such wood.
pos: noun
tags: countable
usually
examples: “You live up the road past the ebony tree, right?” he asked, looking past me.
gloss: A deep, dark black colour.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
usually
examples: Near-synonyms: onyx, raven
gloss: Dark skin colour.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: At dawn the hunters were off. There were fifty sleek, black warriors, and in their midst, lithe and active as a young forest god, strode Tarzan of the Apes, his brown skin contrasting oddly with the ebony of his companions. Except for color he was one of them.
gloss: A black key on a piano or other keyboard instrument (as opposed to ivory).
pos: noun
tags: countable
usually
examples: Ebony and ivory / Live together in perfect harmony / Side by side on my piano keyboard / Oh lord, why don't we?
Tony had gone into the storage room and gotten two more standing lamps, one placed near the ebonies and ivories.
gloss: Made of ebony wood.
pos: adj
gloss: A deep, dark black colour.
pos: adj
examples: Near-synonyms: onyx, raven
Seats are trimmed in a grey and blue moquette and tables are finished with grey Vyanide tops, gilt edging and ebony legs.
gloss: Dark-skinned; black; especially in reference to African-Americans.
pos: adj
examples: He called the ebony mistress of the establishment to him, and speaking to her kindly and winningly, as any dutiful husband should, told her to make the change, which she did.
No attempt was made in her new home to discontinue or even to conceal the presence of an ebony mistress and a thriving family of little mulattoes...
Want to watch my gorgeous ebony friend, Almond Joy, naked and online 24/7? She recently ended a long-term relationship and is now fully enjoying being a 25 year-old single gal in Beverly Hills.
Related words: ebon
Ebonics
ebonise
ebonite
calamander
cocuswood
tendu
Derived words: Ceylon ebony
ebonify
ebonist
ebonize
ebony boghaunter
ebony bug
ebonylike
green ebony
India ebony
Jamaican ebony
macassar ebony
mun ebony
Samoan ebony
Texas ebony
West Indian ebony
ebony spleenwort
Translations: