yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
crump
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Onomatopoeic.
Inflected forms:
form: crumps
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: crumps
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: crumping
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: crumped
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: crumped
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: The sound of a muffled explosion.
pos: noun
examples: And there was another bit [of a hymn]: ‘To an inheritance incorruptible. … Through faith unto salvation, Ready to be revealèd at the last trump.’ For ‘trump’ we always used to sing ‘crump.’ ‘The last crump’ was the end of the war and would we ever hear it burst safely behind us?
Crump, crack! A shell exploded near them and the whole aircraft yawned to port as if somebody had punched it through the sky.
Above this grey skyline slowly lifting clouds of dirty smoke rose into the morning air as the salvoes of Japanese shells exploded with a delayed crump.
"Now you can see what life is like for us here," said Yakov Shoshani, raising his voice to make himself heard over the sound of a loud crump.
gloss: To produce such a sound.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: “Mortars crumped, and from the high ground to the east and south came the shriek of 88-millimeter shells, green fireballs that whizzed through the dunes at half a mile a second, trailing golden plumes of dust.”
Translations:
crux
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: climbing
government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
sports
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin crux (“cross, wooden frame for execution”), possibly from the Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to turn, to bend”). Doublet of cross and crouch (“cross”).
Inflected forms:
form: cruxes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: cruces
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The basic, central, or essential point or feature.
pos: noun
examples: The crux of her argument was that the roadways needed repair before anything else could be accomplished.
gloss: The critical or transitional moment or issue, a turning point.
pos: noun
examples: The mad certitude of the ogre, Abel Tiffauges, that he stands at the crux of history and that he will be able to raise Prussia "to a higher power" (p. 180), contrasts sharply with the anxiety and doubt attendant upon most modern literary dreams.
The movie hits its dramatic crux an hour in, when Reality [Winner], at work at the contractor’s facility in Georgia, discovers what she deems a tragic scandal.
gloss: A puzzle or difficulty.
pos: noun
examples: What I have advanced upon this species of verse will contribute to solve a poetical problem, thrown out by Dryden as a crux to his brethren
The perpetual crux of New Testament chronologists.
gloss: The hardest point of a climb.
pos: noun
examples: the real crux of the climb was encountered
The final half-mile was the crux of the climb.
Most pitches have a distinct crux, or tough spot; some have multiple cruxes. […] ¶ Climb efficiently on the "cruiser" sections to stay fresh for the cruxes.
Continue climbing the groove; the crux is passing some vegetation on the second pitch.
gloss: A cross on a coat of arms.
pos: noun
Related words: cross
crucial
crucible
crucifix
crucify
Derived words: crux ansata
crux decussata
crux gammata
crux ordinaria
crux simplex
cruxy
Translations:
cud
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English code, cudde, coude, quede, quide, from Old English cudu, cwidu, from Proto-West Germanic *kwidu, from Proto-Germanic *kweduz (“resin”). Doublet of quid (“material for chewing”).
Cognate with German Kitt and Sanskrit जतु (jatu, “lac, gum”).
Inflected forms:
form: cuds
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: cuds
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: cudding
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: cudded
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: cudded
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: The portion of food which is brought back into the mouth by ruminants from their rumen, to be chewed a second time.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: To bring back into the mouth and chew a second time.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Here were two ladies nearly fifty years old, throwing back their heads to sing love songs, nursery songs, hymns, God Save the Queen, Rule Britannia—songs that spilled over the drawing-room as easily as Small's cow songs spilled over the yard, only Small's songs were new, fresh grass snatched as the cow snatched pasture grass. The ladies’ songs were rechews—cudded fodder.
[…] although the wagon wheels perpetually flung up rivers of red sand, and she travelled in a column of whirling ruddy dust, the sweet perfumes of newly cudded grass mingled with it, mile after mile, as if the four-divided stomachs of the great oxen were filled with nothing but concentrated memories of hours of grazing along the water heavy vleis.
Translations:
cue
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English cu (used for half a farthing, from q as an abbreviation for Latin quadrāns (“quarter of an as”)), from Latin cū, kū. Compare French ku.
Inflected forms:
form: cues
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: kue
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: kew
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: que
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: cues
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: cueing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: cuing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: cued
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: cued
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: The name of the Latin script letter Q/q.
pos: noun
examples: "My name is Quinn," said Quinn. "Cue-you-eye-en-en."
gloss: A small portion of bread or beer; the quantity bought with a farthing or half farthing and noted with a q (for Latin quadrāns (“farthing”)) in the buttery books.
pos: noun
tags: UK
obsolete
gloss: To give someone a cue signal.
pos: verb
examples: Cue the cameraman, and action!
The episode also opens with an inspired bit of business for Homer, who blithely refuses to acquiesce to an elderly neighbor’s utterly reasonable request that he help make the process of selling her house easier by wearing pants when he gallivants about in front of windows, throw out his impressive collection of rotting Jack-O-Lanterns from previous Halloweens and take out his garbage, as it’s attracting wildlife (cue moose and Northern Exposure theme song).
gloss: To spark or provoke.
pos: verb
tags: broadly
examples: These techniques can cue an open dialogue with your interviewer.
The teenager, as beloved a full-back as any in these parts since Danny McGrain was tearing it up, cut in, shot and saw his attempt deflected in off Sterling's boot. Cue more pandemonium.
Derived words: mind one's pees and cues
miscue
postcue
precue
retrocue
cueable
cue in
cue off
cue up
Translations:
culler
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English cull
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 culler
From cull + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: cullers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who picks or chooses.
pos: noun
gloss: One who picks or chooses.
pos: noun
examples: Outside the usual occupational groups at risk for such diseases (farmers, veterinarians, animal handlers, cullers), anyone with regular animal contact, such as pet owners and those who keep livestock species near their home, may be at risk.
Translations:
culver
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English culver, from Old English culufre, culfre, culfer, possibly borrowed from Vulgar Latin *columbra, from Latin columbula (“little pigeon”), from Latin columba (“pigeon, dove”).
Inflected forms:
form: culvers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A dove or pigeon, now specifically of the species Columba palumbus.
pos: noun
tags: UK
examples: Had he ſo doen, he had him ſnatcht away, / More light then Culuer in the Faulcons fiſt.
The palsie plagues my pulses
when I prigg yoͬ: piggs or pullen
your culuers take, or matchles make
your Chanticleare or sullen
Then he walked on a little and came to a goodly cage, than which was no goodlier there, and in it a culver of the forest, that is to say, a wood-pigeon, the bird renowned among birds as the minstrel of love-longing, with a collar of jewels about its neck marvellous fine and fair.
Translations:
cupric
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: Ultimately from Latin cuprum (“copper”). See -ic.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of, pertaining to, or derived from, copper; containing copper.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Containing copper with an oxidation number of 2
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Related words: cupreo-
cupro-
cuprine
cuprous
Derived words: cupric acetate
cupric carbonate
cupric chloride
cupric oxide
cupric sulfate
cupric sulphate
cupric sulfide
cupric sulphide
mercurico-cupric
Translations:
lang: Catalan
word: cúpric
lang: French
word: cuprique
curia
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Latin curiabor.
English curia
Borrowed from Latin curia.
Inflected forms:
form: curias
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: curiae
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of the subdivisions of a tribe in ancient Rome
pos: noun
tags: historical
gloss: The Roman senate during the republic
pos: noun
tags: historical
gloss: Any of several medieval councils or courts of justice
pos: noun
tags: historical
Related words: Curia
curial
curiate
Translations:
curlew
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English curlew, from Old French courlieu (see French courlis), claimed to be imitative of the bird's cry but apparently assimilated with dialectal *corliu (“runner, messenger”), a variant of coureur (the bird is adept at running).
Inflected forms:
form: curlews
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of several migratory wading birds in the genus Numenius, remarkable for their long, slender, downcurved bills.
pos: noun
gloss: A stone curlew (Burhinidae spp.).
pos: noun
tags: Australia
examples: That quivering wail from the billabong lying murkily mystic towards the East was only the cry of the fearing curlew.
Related words: curlew sandpiper
stone curlew
Derived words: beach stone-curlew
bristle-thighed curlew
bush stone-curlew
curlewlike
eastern curlew
Eskimo curlew
Eurasian curlew
Eurasian stone-curlew
great stone-curlew
Hudsonian curlew
little curlew
long-billed curlew
northern curlew
slender-billed curlew
stone-curlew
Translations:
cusp
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: anatomy
architecture
astrology
dentistry
geometry
human-sciences
mathematics
medicine
mysticism
philosophy
sciences
Etymology: From Latin cuspis (“a point, spear, pointed end”); first used in astrology. Doublet of cuspid and cuspis.
Inflected forms:
form: cusps
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: cusps
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: cusping
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: cusped
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: cusped
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A sharp point or pointed end.
pos: noun
gloss: An important moment when a decision is made that will determine future events.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
examples: Newcastle were 11 points adrift of Spurs following their 5-0 mauling at the hands of the north London club in February.
But a sixth successive Premier League win puts them on the cusp of European football next season as they surged 15 points clear of seventh-placed Everton, who have five games left to play.
gloss: A point of a curve where the curve is continuous but has no derivative, but such that it has a derivative at every nearby point.
pos: noun
gloss: A point made by the intersection of two curved lines or curved structures, a common motif in Gothic architecture.
pos: noun
gloss: A boundary between zodiacal signs and houses.
pos: noun
gloss: Any of the pointed parts of a canine tooth or molar.
pos: noun
gloss: A flap of a valve of a heart or blood vessel.
pos: noun
gloss: A point of transition.
pos: noun
examples: I see freight returning in a big way. The 2016 reconnection of the Helwith Bridge quarries can produce up to three heavy trains a day. The nearby and much bigger Horton quarry is also on the cusp of rail reconnection.
gloss: To behave in a reckless or dangerous manner.
pos: verb
tags: slang
Related words: bicuspid
cusper
cuspid
tricuspid
Derived words: cuspal
cuspate
cuspation
cusped
cusp form
cuspless
cusplet
cusplike
cusp neighborhood
cusp neighbourhood
cuspule
cuspy
hypercusp
intercusp
monocusp
on the cusp
ossicusp
pseudocusp
Translations:
cyanic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
botany
chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English cyan
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Latin -icuslbor.
Old French -iquebor.
Middle English -ik
English -ic
English cyanic
From cyan + -ic.
Inflected forms:
form: more cyanic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most cyanic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of cyanogen or its derivatives
pos: adj
gloss: azure-blue
pos: adj
examples: The dark bank of the wall rode up. The deep cyanic sky.
gloss: Containing an anthocyanin
pos: adj
Antonyms: acyanic
Derived words: cyanate
cyanic acid
hydrocyanic
hydroferricyanic
isocyanic
thiocyanic
Translations:
cycad
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
Etymology: From translingual Cycas (“genus of tropical trees”).
Inflected forms:
form: cycads
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any plant of the division Cycadophyta, having a stout and woody trunk with a crown of large, hard and stiff, evergreen leaves.
pos: noun
examples: As has been already remarked, the occurrence of genuine Cycads in the Carboniferous vegetation has not been demonstrated, and the same holds good of all the Palaeozoic floras. True Cycads, therefore, so far as known, make their first appearance in the Trias, at the commencement of the Mesozoic period, where they are represented by the genera Pterophyllum, Zamites, and Podozamites.
Then, after incomputable years, he was no longer man but a man-like beast, roving in forests of giant fern and calamite, or building an uncouth nest in the boughs of mighty cycads.
I began to count the pools, each a flare of turquoise light lost behind the high walls of the villas with their screens of cycads and bougainvillaea.
Translations:
cyst
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *(s)kewH-?
Proto-Indo-European *ḱewh₁-der.?
Ancient Greek κύω (kúō)?
Ancient Greek κύστις (kústis)der.
Late Latin cystisder.
English cyst
From Late Latin cystis, from Ancient Greek κύστις (kústis, “anatomical sac”).
Inflected forms:
form: cysts
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A pouch or sac without opening, usually membranous and containing morbid matter, which develops in one of the natural cavities or in the substance of an organ.
pos: noun
Translations:
dactyl
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin dactylus, from Ancient Greek δάκτυλος (dáktulos, “finger”), three bones of the finger corresponding to three syllables. Doublet of dactylus and date.
Inflected forms:
form: dactyls
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: dactyle
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: dactile
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A metrical foot of three syllables (— ⏑ ⏑), one long followed by two short, or one accented followed by two unaccented.
pos: noun
examples: Now the Bard, glad to get an audience, […] / stuck fast with his first hexameter, / Not one of all whose gouty feet would stir. // But ere the spavin'd dactyls could be spurr'd / Into recitative, in great dismay / Both cherubim and seraphim were heard / To murmur loudly through their long array; […]
—My name is absurd too: Malachi Mulligan, two dactyls. But it has a Hellenic ring, hasn't it?
Translations:
dasher
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: hobbies
ice-hockey
lifestyle
skating
sports
Etymology: Etymology tree
English dash
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 dasher
From dash + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: dashers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person who dashes; a fast runner.
pos: noun
gloss: That which dashes or agitates.
pos: noun
examples: the dasher of a churn
gloss: A dashboard or splashboard.
pos: noun
tags: US
gloss: The lower boards around the edge of the rink.
pos: noun
gloss: One who makes an ostentatious parade or display.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
colloquial
Related words: dine-and-dasher
dash and dashing
Derived words: blue dasher
scrub dasher
Translations:
dauber
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English daubere, equivalent to daub + -er.
Base: daub
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: daubers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who, or that which, daubs; especially, a coarse, unskillful painter.
pos: noun
tags: derogatory
examples: After he had exerted all his powers to produce a masterpiece of art, the canons, upon viewing the picture, pronounced it a contemptible performance, and the artist a miserable dauber; and Vandyck could hardly obtain payment for his work.
I want to be great, or nothing. I won't be a common-place dauber, so I don't intend to try any more.
I'm not a good painter; I'm a dauber who can get a good likeness. Van Gogh or Cézanne would never have made it; I was given a bottle of Beaujolais and a set of directions.
gloss: A pad or ball of rags, covered with canvas, for inking plates.
pos: noun
gloss: A type of thick marker pen used to mark a bingo card.
pos: noun
examples: Said she wasn't going but she went still / Likes her gentlemen not to be gentle / Was it a Mecca dauber or a betting pencil?
gloss: A low and gross flatterer.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
gloss: The mud wasp; the mud dauber.
pos: noun
Derived words: dirt-dauber
Translations:
daunt
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Old French danterbor.
Latin domitō
Old French donterbor.
Middle English daunten
English daunt
From Middle English daunten, from Old French danter, donter (“to tame”), from Latin domitō (“tame”, verb), frequentative of Latin domō (“tame, conquer”, verb), from Proto-Italic *domaō, from Proto-Indo-European *demh₂- (“to domesticate, tame”). Doublet of dompt.
Inflected forms:
form: daunts
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: daunting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: daunted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: daunted
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To discourage, intimidate.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: [The English] valiantly, and with the ſlaughter of many, put backe the enemy: which was ſo farre from daunting the Normans, that by it they were more whetted to re-enforce themſelues vpon them[…]
Death I'll meet, my soul no terrors daunting,
Take the life for which thy heart is panting,
Spare not thou, though he spare, his life granting,
Or let death end us both at a blow.
No, I shall not disgrace the Cause, I shall not grieve my comrades by weak surrender! I will fight and struggle, and not be daunted by threat or torture.
Ah, I have changed, I do not know
Why lonely hours affect me so.
In days of yore, this were not wont,
No loneliness my soul could daunt.
gloss: To overwhelm.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Derived words: dauntable
daunted
daunter
daunting
dauntingly
dauntless
dauntsome
undauntable
undaunted
Translations:
davit
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: business
construction
manufacturing
nautical
transport
Etymology: The word davit is derived from Middle English and Old French daviot, which is a diminutive of David; thus it means "little David", maybe because those small cranes can handle a much bigger lifeboat.
Inflected forms:
form: davits
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A spar formerly used on board of ships, as a crane to hoist the flukes of the anchor to the top of the bow, without injuring the sides of the ship.
pos: noun
gloss: A crane, often working in pairs and usually made of steel, used to lower things over an edge of a long drop off, such as lowering a maintenance trapeze down a building or launching a lifeboat over the side of a ship.
pos: noun
examples: A solid, pyramid-like hummock of ice, left to starboard as the steamer ascended, and which projected close alongside the upper, or boat-deck, as she fell over, had caught, in succession, every pair of davits to starboard, bending and wrenching them, smashing boats, and snapping tackles and gripes, until, as the ship cleared herself, it capped the pile of wreckage strewing the ice in front of, and around it, with the end and broken stanchions of the bridge.
Translations:
decant
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
Etymology: From French décanter, from Medieval Latin dēcanthāre, from dē- + canthus (“beak of a cup or jug”).
Base: canthus
Affixes: dē-
Inflected forms:
form: decants
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: decanting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: decanted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: decanted
pos: verb
tags: past
form: decants
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To pour off (a liquid) gently, so as not to disturb the sediment.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: After washing, the insoluble lime soap is decomposed with hot dilute sulphuric acid. The melted fatty acids thus rise as an oil to the surface, when they are decanted.
gloss: To pour from its original vessel into one intended for a different use or appearance.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to decant wine
gloss: To flow.
pos: verb
tags: archaic
intransitive
examples: Swincombe, formerly Swan-combe, runs to the north of the ridge, and has the sources of its river in the Fox Tor mires and near Childe's Tomb. It runs north-east, and then abruptly passes north to decant into the West Dart.
gloss: To remove (a clone or other artificially-gestated baby) from its chamber, vat, or artificial womb.
pos: verb
examples: “We also predestine and condition. We decant our babies as socialized human beings, as Alphas or Epsilons, as future sewage workers or future …” He was going to say “future World controllers,” but correcting himself, said “future Directors of Hatcheries,” instead.
gloss: To rehouse people while their buildings are being refurbished or rebuilt.
pos: verb
gloss: A portion of perfume unofficially sold in a smaller bottle.
pos: noun
examples: In addition to decants, minis, and used bottles of vintage, perfume nips are a fun way to try out vintage, and they seem to be all over the Internet.
Related words: canthus
Derived words: decantable
decantation
decanter
double-decant
Translations:
delver
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English delvere, from Old English delfere (“a digger”), equivalent to delve + -er.
Base: delve
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: delvers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who digs or delves, as with a spade.
pos: noun
examples: Their armour and weapons were found at times, by delvers and dykers, for centuries after; are found at times unto this day, beneath the rich drained cornfields which now fill up that black half-mile[.]
Translations:
demit
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Latin dēmittō (“send or bring down, let fall”).
Inflected forms:
form: demits
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: demitting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: demitted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: demitted
pos: verb
tags: past
form: demits
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To let fall; to depress; to yield.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To relinquish an office, membership, authority, etc.; to resign, as from a Masonic lodge.
pos: verb
gloss: The act of demitting.
pos: noun
gloss: A document certifying that a person has (honourably) demitted, as from a Masonic lodge.
pos: noun
Related words: demise
demission
mission
Translations:
denude
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
Etymology: From Middle French dénuder, from Latin dēnūdāre, from dē- + nūdus (“bare”).
Inflected forms:
form: denudes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: denuding
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: denuded
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: denuded
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To divest of all covering; to make bare or naked; to strip.
pos: verb
examples: He denuded himself of his clothes.
Widespread deforestation has led to lands being denuded.
But King Piko had been long harassed with the thought, that the unobstructed and indefinite increase of his browsing subjects might eventually denude of herbage his portion of the island.
They not only visit adultery on the guilty man himself by beating him, but the men proceed en masse to the house of his parents and denude it of all furniture, stores of grain, and merchandise.
gloss: To remove (something or someone) of their possessions or assets.
pos: verb
examples: Their property was seized, denuded and confiscated.
The service was denuded of its capacity to deliver.
And Louisa, a niece of Pierre, claimed his inheritance on the death of Suzanne. Thus, in her cruel anger, she hoped to denude the Constable of the whole of the heritage of his dead wife.
gloss: To strip (a mountain, volcano, or other geological formation) by erosion of outer layers so as to lay bare the inner structure.
pos: verb
examples: The well-known hill of Arthur’s Seat, which overlooks the city of Edinburgh, and many castle-crowned crags of the Forth and Clyde valleys, are the worn and denuded relics of these small volcanoes.
Related words: denudation
denudatory
disrobe
uncover
Derived words: denudement
denuder
Translations:
derate
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *de
Proto-Indo-European *-h₁
Proto-Indo-European *déh₁
Proto-Italic *dē
Latin dē
Latin dē-der.
English de-
English rate
English derate
From de- + rate.
Inflected forms:
form: derates
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: derating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: derated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: derated
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To lower the rated capability of any rated equipment or material.
pos: verb
examples: The derated engine sold at a lower price, but had the same components as the standard model.
Translations:
detent
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From French détente, from Latin tendō (“to stretch”).
Inflected forms:
form: detents
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: detents
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: detenting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: detented
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: detented
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: That which locks or unlocks a movement; a catch (stopping mechanism), pawl, or dog; especially, in clockwork, the catch which locks and unlocks the wheelwork in striking.
pos: noun
examples: A UHF tuner having 70 detent positions with fine tuning capability at all locations. Coarse tuning is accomplished via a toothed, detented disk and a spirally-extending rim having a follower lever operable therewith.
gloss: The action of locking or unlocking movement by way of a detent mechanism
pos: verb
Translations:
Dewar
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Scottish Gaelic deòradh (“pilgrim, stranger”), an occupational surname for a custodian of holy relics. It could also be an habitational surname, from Dewar, Scottish Borders. The flask is named for James Dewar, who is credited with its invention.
Inflected forms:
form: Dewars
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: dewar
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A glass or metal double-walled flask for holding a liquid without much loss or gain of heat; a vacuum bottle or thermos. Generally used for scientific purposes and in particular for cryogenic work.
pos: noun
Translations:
dey
Part of speech: intj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Tamil டேய் (“hey!”).
Inflected forms:
form: deh
pos: intj
tags: alternative
form: dei
pos: intj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: An informal Tamil-language term of address used when trying to get someone's attention.
pos: intj
tags: Manglish
Singlish
examples: Dey! Did you press the lift button? What? You have pressed the button for the tenth time?
Dei, you think what, President’s Star Charity ah?
If a player makes a silly mistake, he doesn’t wail when told to “wake up lah, dey”.
Translations:
diatom
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From (deprecated) genus name Diatoma, from Ancient Greek διάτομος (diátomos, “cut through, cut in half”).
Inflected forms:
form: diatoms
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of a group of minute unicellular algae having a siliceous covering of great delicacy, now categorized as class Diatomophyceae or division Bacillariophyta.
pos: noun
examples: Diatoms are enclosed in two shells that fit together like a pillbox.
Diatoms are characterized by a cell wall called a fistula made of silica, which usually has two overlapping sections.
Translations:
dimer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: From di- + -mer.
Base: di
Inflected forms:
form: dimers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A molecule consisting of two identical halves, formed by joining two identical molecules, sometimes with a single atom acting as a bridge.
pos: noun
examples: Non-polymerized lamins are dimers and they can polymerize to structures such as head to tail or by unparallel dimers which aggregate in tetramers and polymerize to thick fibers.
Translations:
dint
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English dint, dent, dünt, from Old English dynt (“dint, blow, strike, stroke, bruise, stripe; the mark left by a blow; the sound or noise made by a blow, thud”), from Proto-Germanic *duntiz (“a blow”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰen- (“to strike, hit”). Cognate with Swedish dialectal dunt, Icelandic dyntr (“a dint”). Doublet of dent.
Inflected forms:
form: dints
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: dunt
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: dints
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: dinting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: dinted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: dinted
pos: verb
tags: past
form: dunt
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Especially in by dint of: force, power.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: O, now you weep; and, I perceive, you feel / The dint of pity
It was by dint of passing strength / That he moved the massy stone at length.
gloss: The mark left by a blow; an indentation or impression made by violence; a dent.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: [D]epe wͭ dynt the ſword enforced furſt / had ranſakt through his ribs ⁊ ſwete whyte breſt at once had burſt.
His hands had made a dint, and hurt his maid; / Explored her limb by limb, and feared to find / So rude a gripe had left a livid mark behind.
[A]nd read the naked shield, […] Of every dint a sword had beaten in it, / And every scratch a lance had made upon it
gloss: A blow, stroke, especially dealt in a fight.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
examples: Much daunted with that dint, her sence was dazd […]
Between them cross-bows stood, and engines wrought / To cast a stone, a quarry, or a dart, // From whence, like thunder's dint, or lightnings new, / Against the bulwarks stones and lances flew.
gloss: To dent.
pos: verb
examples: Your helmet was dinted in as if by a great shot.
And, in that moment came one, fierce and wild of aspect, in dinted casque and rusty mail who stood and watched--ah God!
Derived words: by dint of
dintless
Translations:
diode
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
Etymology: From di- (“two”) + -ode. Learned formation, coined by William Henry Eccles in 1919, after Ancient Greek δίοδος (díodos, “passage through”), which however is formed not with δι- (di-, “two”) but with δια- (dia-, “through”).
Base: di
Inflected forms:
form: diodes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An electronic device that allows current to flow in one direction only; used chiefly as a rectifier.
pos: noun
examples: I propose to give the name diode to a tube with two electrodes.
If a crystal or a diode is used, the amplifier-voltmeter combination may be used with an amplitude-modulated source; or with a c-w source, the detector may be connected to a microammeter or galvanometer as an indicating device.
In this circuit when the diode is forward biased, the voltage across the diode remains fairly close to the diode's barrier potential.
Translations:
dipole
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: broadcasting
chemistry
media
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
radio
Etymology: Etymology tree
English di-
English pole
English dipole
From di- + pole.
Inflected forms:
form: dipoles
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any object (such as a magnet, polar molecule or antenna) that is oppositely charged at two points (or poles).
pos: noun
gloss: Any molecule or radical that has delocalised positive and negative charges.
pos: noun
gloss: A dipole antenna.
pos: noun
Derived words: dipole moment
dipole wave
electric dipole
interdipole
macrodipole
microdipole
molecular dipole
nondipole
Translations:
distal
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: anatomy
dentistry
geography
geology
human-sciences
linguistics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁
Proto-Indo-European *d(w)is-
Proto-Italic *dis-
Latin dis-
Proto-Indo-European *steh₂-
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁ti
Proto-Indo-European *-yeti
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁yeti
Proto-Indo-European *sth₂éh₁yeti
Proto-Italic *staēōder.
Latin stō
Latin distō
Latin distānsder.
Old French distantbor.
Middle English distaunt
English distant
Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.?
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālisbor.
Old French -albor.
▲
Latin -ālis
Old French -elbor.
▲
Latin -ālisbor.
Middle English -al
English -al
English distal
From distant + -al.
Inflected forms:
form: more distal
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most distal
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Remote from the point of attachment or origin.
pos: adj
examples: the distal end of a bone or muscle
Among the hypothesized diagnoses was metastatic carcinoma. In metastatic cancer, metastases are most frequent in the axial skeleton and are rare in the distal parts of the appendicular skeleton[…].
gloss: Facing the wisdom tooth or temporomandibular joint on the same side of the jaw.
pos: adj
gloss: Far or farther from the speaker.
pos: adj
Antonyms: antonym(s) of “remote from the point
farther from the speaker”
mesial
Derived words: anterodistal
apicodistal
buccodistal
caudodistal
centralodistal
craniodistal
distal convoluted tubule
distal goal
distality
distalization
distally
distalmost
distal phalange
distal phalanx
distal radius
distalward
distomedial
dorsodistal
ectodistal
femorodistal
interdistal
labiodistal
laterodistal
linguodistal
mediodistal
mesodistal
naviculodistal
nondistal
palmarodistal
plantodistal
posterodistal
proximodistal
subdistal
ultradistal
ventrodistal
Translations:
dobbin
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Dobbin, a common name given to workhorses.
Inflected forms:
form: dobbins
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An old jaded horse.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Sea gravel mixed with sand.
pos: noun
tags: UK
dialectal
uncountable
gloss: Synonym of horse (illegitimate study aid)
pos: noun
tags: countable
dated
slang
uncountable
Translations:
doer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English doer, doar, doere, from Old English dōere (“a doer; worker”), equivalent to do + -er.
Base: do
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: doers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Someone who does, performs, or executes; an active person, an agent.
pos: noun
examples: a doer of good
By the wisdom proclaimed of old the doer must suffer.
The doer and the thinker
No allowance for the other.
Though his name was closely linked to that of Physiocrats, he was less an armchair intellectual like Quesnay or the elder Mirabeau than a doer in the vein of Bertin and Trudaine [...].
In schools, submission, not curiosity, was a highly valued virtue. Thinkers were out, doers were in.
Antonyms: patient
victim
do-nothing
do-naught
faineant
idler
layabout
lollygagger
scrounger
slacker
slugabed
Translations:
doge
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Partly from Middle French doge and partly from its etymon, Italian doge, from Venetan doxe, from Latin ducem, accusative of dux (“leader; commander; ruler”). Doublet of duc, duce, duke, and dux.
Inflected forms:
form: doges
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: dogi
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Doge
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The chief magistrate in the republics of Venice and Genoa.
pos: noun
tags: historical
examples: In the thirteenth century, a new method of appointing the doge, by the famous ballot of Venice, a complicated mixture of choice and chance, was adopted.
This reply was one of the first important pronouncements to be made by Antonio Grimani, who on 6 July had been elected seventy-fourth Doge of Venice in succession to Leonardo Loredan.
The doge and the Venetian Senate might still be the servants (douloi) of the emperor, but nonetheless they were able to fix the price of their naval aid.
Translations:
dogger
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Dutch, from dogger (“codfish”).
Inflected forms:
form: doggers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A two-masted fishing vessel, used by the Dutch until around the 18th century.
pos: noun
Translations:
dole
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English dol, from Old English dāl (“portion, share, division, allotment”), from Proto-Germanic *dailą (“part, deal”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰayl- (“part, watershed”). Cognate with Old Church Slavonic дѣлити (děliti, “divide”). More at deal.
Inflected forms:
form: doles
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: doling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: doled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: doled
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To distribute in small amounts; to share out small portions of a meager resource.
pos: verb
gloss: Money or other goods given as charity.
pos: noun
examples: So sure the dole, so ready at their call, / They stood prepar'd to see the manna fall.
Devereux […] was beholden, not only for his fun, but occasionally for his daily bread and even his liberty, to those benovolent^([sic]) doles.
gloss: Distribution; dealing; apportionment.
pos: noun
examples: c. 1650s, John Cleveland, Upon Phillis Walking in a Morning before Sun-rising
At her general dole, / Each receives his ancient soul.
Go not away, thou weary soul: / Heaven has in store a precious dole / Even on Bethsaida's cold and darksome height, [...]
gloss: Payment by the state to the unemployed; unemployment benefits.
pos: noun
tags: informal
examples: I get my dole paid twice a week.
I've been on the dole for two years now.
So, we are being fobbed off by second-rate American junk by smart aleck salesman from Pittsburgh while British factories stand empty and British workmen queue up for the dole.
From the ice age to the dole age / There is but one concern / I have just discovered
The men sit because they′re worn out from walking to the Labour Exchange every morning to sign for the dole, discussing the world’s problems and wondering what to do with the rest of the day.
The FY 1997/98 Commonwealth budget allocated funding of A$ 21.6 million to the Work for the Dole initiative for unemployed young people.
Sort your shit out, then roll / Sex, drugs, and on the dole / Some men rise, some men fall
gloss: A boundary; a landmark.
pos: noun
examples: Curſed be he which tranſlateth the bounds and dolles of his Neighbor.
gloss: A void space left in tillage.
pos: noun
tags: UK
dialectal
Derived words: dole bludger
dole bread
dole head
dolehead
doleite
dole meadow
dole merchant
dole queue
Translations:
dopant
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English dope
Proto-Indo-European *-onts
Latin -ns
Latin -āns
Old French -antbor.
Proto-Indo-European *-onts
Proto-Germanic *-ndz
Proto-West Germanic *-andī
Old English -ende
Middle English -ant
English -ant
English dopant
From dope + -ant.
Inflected forms:
form: dopants
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A substance added in small amounts to a pure material, such as semiconductor, to alter its original electrical or optical properties; a doping agent.
pos: noun
examples: It should be noted that even though both types of disorder can be annealed at temperatures well below those where diffusion of the dopant species occurs, there are still defects present.
Translations:
dor
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English dorre, dore, from Old English dora (“humming insect”), from Proto-West Germanic *dorō, from Proto-Germanic *durô (“bumblebee, humming insect”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰer-, *dʰreh₁n- (“bee, hornet, drone”). Related to Saterland Frisian Doarne (“hornet”), Middle Low German dorne (“bumblebee”), Middle Dutch dorne (“bumblebee”), Dutch dar (“drone”), Old English drān (“drone”). More at drone.
Inflected forms:
form: dors
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: dorr
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Any of species Geotrupes stercorarius of large European dung beetles that make a droning noise while flying.
pos: noun
gloss: Any flying insect which makes a loud humming noise, such as the June bug or a bumblebee.
pos: noun
Derived words: dorbeetle
dorbug
dorfly
dorrfly
dorhawk
dumbledore
dumble-dor
Translations:
lang: Czech
word: chrobák velký
lang: Dutch
word: gewone mestkever
lang: French
word: géotrupe du fumier
lang: Irish
word: priompallán
lang: Swedish
word: tordyvel
lang: Ottoman Turkish
word: بوق بوجكی
roman: bok böceği
lang: Ottoman Turkish
word: كستل
roman: küstel
dote
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: The verb is derived from Middle English doten, from Middle Low German doten (“to be foolish”) or Middle Dutch doten (“to be silly”). Doublet of doit (Scottish English).
The noun in the sense of "imbecile" is derived from Middle English dote (“simpleton”), itself from doten (see above). The noun in the sense of "darling" and "decay" is derived from the modern verb.
Inflected forms:
form: dotes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: doting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: doted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: doted
pos: verb
tags: past
form: doat
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: dotes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: doat
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: To be weakly or foolishly fond of somebody.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
stative
usually
with-on
examples: Little Bill's parents just keep doting on him.
Jules doted on Chris, spending hours while Chris was at school assembling vast cities out of microscopic Lego pieces to surprise him when he returned.
gloss: To act in a foolish manner; to be senile.
pos: verb
tags: archaic
intransitive
examples: He survived the use of his reason, grew infatuated, and doted long before he died.
Time has made you dote, and vainly tell / Of arms imagined in your lonely cell.
gloss: To rot, decay.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
obsolete
rare
gloss: A darling, a cutie.
pos: noun
tags: Ireland
countable
examples: But to be sure baby Boardman was as good as gold, a perfect little dote in his new fancy bib.
gloss: An imbecile; a dotard.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
examples: How did his death-bed make him a doate!
gloss: Decay in a tree.
pos: noun
tags: rare
uncountable
Synonyms: mimmerkin
Derived words: dotage
fordote
dodipole
dotary
dotel
dotery
dotish
doty
Translations:
druid
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: fantasy
Etymology: Borrowed from French druide, from Old French, via Latin Druidae, from Gaulish *druwits, from Proto-Celtic *druwits (literally either “oak-knower” or “firm knower, great sage”), from either Proto-Indo-European *dóru (“tree”) or *drew- (“solid, firm, hard”) and *weyd- (“to see, to have knowledge”) (whence also English wizard; Proto-Slavic *vědьma (> Russian ве́дьма (védʹma))).
The earliest record of the term in Latin is by Julius Caesar in the first century B.C. in his De Bello Gallico. The native Celtic word for "druid" is first attested in Latin texts as druides (plural) and other texts also employ the form druidae (akin to the Greek form). Cognate with the later insular Celtic words, Old Irish druí (“druid, sorcerer”) and early Welsh dryw (“seer”).
Inflected forms:
form: druids
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One of an order of priests among certain groups of Celts before the adoption of Abrahamic religions.
pos: noun
tags: historical
gloss: A priest or mage who uses magic based on nature or trees.
pos: noun
Derived words: archdruid
druidcraft
druidess
druidic
druidish
druidism
Druidry
neo-druid
Translations:
dubber
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English dub
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 dubber
From dub + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: dubbers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who dubs, or gives a name.
pos: noun
examples: […]thus to knight someone lacking in virtue dishonoured the dubber.
gloss: A person who records or adds a dubbed soundtrack to a film.
pos: noun
gloss: A person's mouth or tongue.
pos: noun
tags: UK
obsolete
slang
examples: "Well, Sal, you mum your dubber pretty generally, but when you do slacken your glib you may as well do it civilly."
"Shut your dubber. Think you're a regular duchess, you do, eh? I ain't answering no more questions."
Translations:
lang: Arabic
word: مُدَبْلِج
roman: Mudablij
lang: Arabic
word: مُدَبْلِجَة
roman: Mudablijah
lang: Czech
word: dabér
lang: French
word: doubleur
lang: French
word: doubleuse
lang: French
word: doubleurs
lang: French
word: doubleuses
lang: Italian
word: doppiatore
lang: Portuguese
word: dobrador
lang: Portuguese
word: dublador
ducker
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From duck + -er. Piecewise doublet of duiker.
Base: duck
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: duckers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who, or that which, ducks; a plunger; a diver.
pos: noun
Translations:
duffel
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Dutch duffel, named after Duffel, a town in Belgium, itself ultimately from Latin Dubrolocus, the first particle from Gaulish dubrum.
Inflected forms:
form: duffels
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: duffle
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: duffil
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: duffill
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A kind of coarse woolen cloth, having a thick nap or frieze.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Outfit or supplies, collectively; kit.
pos: noun
tags: US
colloquial
countable
uncountable
Derived words: duffel bag
duffel coat
Translations:
dulse
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Irish duileasc, Scottish Gaelic duileasg; compare Welsh delysg.
Inflected forms:
form: dulses
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: dilisk
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: dillisk
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: dilsk
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: dulce
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A seaweed of a reddish-brown color (Palmaria palmata) which is sometimes eaten, as in Scotland.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: Then Egil said, ‘That happens if you eat dulse, it makes you even thirstier.’
They worked together on their father's patch: desperately, hungrily, from dawn to nightfall; dragging up dulse from the shore to nourish the stones; [...] but nothing much grew except their own sense of separation.
Translations: