yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
rockbound
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From rock + bound.
Compound parts: rock
bound
Inflected forms:
form: more rockbound
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most rockbound
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: rock-bound
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Surrounded by rocks.
pos: adj
examples: The Atlantic coast of the United States from the mouth of the Chesapeake Bay to Key Biscayne, Florida, is low and sandy compared to the rock-bound coast of New England.
gloss: Limited in frequency because of a limited supply of crystals.
pos: adj
Translations:
tiss
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: tisses
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: tissing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: tissed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: tissed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To make a hissing sound.
pos: verb
tags: nonce-word
examples: He ran along the edge, quickening at the shout of the kennel-boy, and had almost reached the island’s tail when Bite’m pinned him in the shoulder. Tissing through his open mouth, Tarka rolled and fought with the terriers.
His psalms were sung to the tissing larch, his hymns to the purple heath.
Translations:
radiating
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more radiating
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most radiating
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
pos: adj
tags: no-gloss
Translations:
downed
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: That has been brought down, usually by force.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The pilot escaped from the downed plane.
A dog was sent to fetch the downed birds for the hunters.
The power outage was caused by a downed tree.
Translations:
tondo
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Italian tondo, from ritondo, rotondo (“round”), from Latin rotundus. Doublet of round.
Inflected forms:
form: tondos
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: tondi
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A round picture or other work of art.
pos: noun
examples: As the ellipse becomes longer and flatter, it takes on the qualities of the rectangle. Even more than the tondo, the oval is a playful shape, prescribed by the demands of the setting it bedecks rather than those of the composition it encloses.
In the tondo of a cup in the Louvre we see a young slave, a pais, dip an oenochoe into a garlanded krater; he is holding a cup in the other hand and is about to serve drinks (fig. 20).” By isolating this detail, the painter implies all the aspects of a […]
Translations:
rockfall
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From rock + fall.
Compound parts: rock
fall
Inflected forms:
form: rockfalls
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: rock fall
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A quantity of rocks that has fallen from a cliff etc.
pos: noun
examples: A 200-ton rockfall recently blocked the Machynlleth sidings, trapping several locomotives; a rock-slip on the approach embankment to Talerddig required expensive revetting last year; and on the coastal section to Barmouth an 80 foot-high stone revetment was completed some time ago at Friog; [...].
Design work is now complete on the Parsons Tunnel North programme, which envisages a 209-metre rockfall shelter built from a jack-up barge as there is no road access.
Translations:
rock-ribbed
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more rock-ribbed
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most rock-ribbed
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Having rocky cliffs or outcroppings
pos: adj
gloss: Obstinately firm and unyielding in one's opinions
pos: adj
Translations:
rock-steady
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Absolutely or completely steady.
pos: adj
examples: In successful snapshotting the camera must be held rock steady.
gloss: Consistent and dependable in one's behaviour or performance.
pos: adj
examples: She's so rock steady (bam-ba-lam) / And she's always ready (bam-ba-lam).
Now we've found a rock-steady beat / Now all we need is a melody / And words that mean something and nothing
Related words: rocksteady
rock steady
steady as a rock
Translations:
rocksteady
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
Etymology: From rock + steady.
Compound parts: rock
steady
Inflected forms:
form: rock steady
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A genre of Jamaican music somewhat slower than ska.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: “Maelcum a rude boy, Case. Garvey Maelcum boat.” His gloved hand slapped a panel and the bass-heavy rocksteady of Zion dub came pulsing from the tug's speakers.
Translations:
roguery
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English rogue
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Proto-Italic *-āzijos
Latin -āriusnom.
Latin -ārius
Old French -ier
Latin -ia
Old French -ie
Old French -eriebor.
Middle English -erie
English -ery
English roguery
From rogue + -ery.
Inflected forms:
form: rogueries
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: malicious or reckless behaviour
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Sincerely I begin to wish I had never made such a Point of gaining so very good a character, for it has led me into so many curst Rogueries that I doubt I shall be exposed at last.
gloss: mischievous behaviour
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
roguishly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English roguish
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English roguishly
From roguish + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more roguishly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most roguishly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a roguish manner.
pos: adv
examples: [H]e besought one of the young men domiciled with Marheyo for the loan of his spear. But he was refused; the youth roguishly telling him that the weapon was very good for him (the Typee), but that a white man could fight much better with his fists.
"Well, it's never too late to mend," said Anne roguishly.
Translations:
rosily
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English rosy
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English rosily
From rosy + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more rosily
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most rosily
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a rosy manner; optimistically.
pos: adv
Translations:
rollicking
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: rollickings
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: rollocking
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: more rollicking
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most rollicking
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: rollocking
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A scolding, a bollocking.
pos: noun
tags: UK
examples: Thanks for explaining the situation. I'm going to give him the rollicking of his life.
He can give someone a right rollicking but it comes over as advice.
That night, back at the billet, Corporal Banks summoned me to his room and there I stood to attention, whilst he gave me a roasting for getting him a rollicking from the sergeant.
gloss: carefree, merry and boisterous
pos: adj
examples: Tin Maung gave an order and in due course the head-waiter arrived, a rollicking Shan with shining bald head and Manchu moustaches, carrying a dish heaped with scrawny chickens' limbs, jaundiced with curry, a bowl of rice and a couple of aluminium plates.
The episode’s unwillingness to fully commit to the pathos of the Bart-and-Laura subplot is all the more frustrating considering its laugh quota is more than filled by a rollicking B-story that finds Homer, he of the iron stomach and insatiable appetite, filing a lawsuit against The Frying Dutchman when he’s hauled out of the eatery against his will after consuming all of the restaurant’s shrimp (plus two plastic lobsters).
Translations:
roll-top
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: rolltop
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Having a top that rolls away when not needed.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
romanticist
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Latin Rōma
Proto-Indo-European *-nós
Proto-Italic *-nos
Latin -nus
Latin -ānus
Latin Rōmānus
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Latin -icus
Latin rōmānicus
Latin -ē
Vulgar Latin rōmānicē
Old French romanz
Old French romauntder.
English romant
▲
Latin -icuslbor.
Old French -iquebor.
Middle English -ik
English -ic
English romantic
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)
Proto-Hellenic *-tās
Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs)
Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)bor.
Latin -istader.
Old French -istebor.
Middle English -ist
English -ist
English romanticist
From romantic + -ist.
Inflected forms:
form: romanticists
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An advocate or follower of romanticism.
pos: noun
Translations:
romanticize
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Latin Rōma
Proto-Indo-European *-nós
Proto-Italic *-nos
Latin -nus
Latin -ānus
Latin Rōmānus
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Latin -icus
Latin rōmānicus
Latin -ē
Vulgar Latin rōmānicē
Old French romanz
Old French romauntder.
English romant
▲
Latin -icuslbor.
Old French -iquebor.
Middle English -ik
English -ic
English romantic
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)bor.
Late Latin -izōder.
Middle French -iserbor.
Middle English -isen
English -ize
English romanticize
From romantic + -ize.
Inflected forms:
form: romanticizes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: romanticizing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: romanticized
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: romanticized
pos: verb
tags: past
form: romanticise
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: To interpret, view, or portray something in a romantic (unrealistic, idealized) manner.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: While we might have a tendency to romanticize the past, the reality is that cooking was often a monotonous, arduous, thankless task required to keep the family fed.
gloss: To think or act in a romantic manner.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
Derived words: deromanticize
overromanticize
romanticizable
romanticizer
unromanticizing
Translations:
lang: Catalan
word: romantitzar
lang: Catalan
word: idealitzar
lang: Dutch
word: romantiseren
lang: Finnish
word: romantisoida
lang: French
word: romantiser
lang: German
word: romantisieren
lang: Italian
word: romanzare
lang: Korean
word: 미화(美化)하다
roman: mihwa-hada
lang: Spanish
word: romantizar
lang: Swedish
word: romantisera
rooftop
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English roof
English top
English rooftop
From roof + top.
Inflected forms:
form: rooftops
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The area atop a roof.
pos: noun
tags: formal
examples: In love, however, women are brave. How many clamber over rooftops of houses and palaces, and are still doing it, when their lovers await them!
Why do you think the rooftop of their apartment building is called "tar beach"? (Answers may vary.)
Riding the District west of Hammersmith, you immediately know something exciting is coming up, because at Ravenscourt Park you are level with the rooftops.
Its old town rises out of the Aegean Sea towards a clifftop Venetian castle in a jumble of white-washed narrow streets, flat rooftops and balconies that provide a perfect, obstacle-filled arena for parkour.
gloss: The top layer of a roof; the material covering or composing a roof.
pos: noun
examples: The house itself was a mound of red baked bricks and a tin rooftop.
Related words: desktop
hilltop
housetop
mountaintop
tabletop
treetop
Derived words: cry from the rooftop
foldable rooftop
folding rooftop
retractable rooftop
retracting rooftop
Rooftop of the World
rooftopper
rooftopping
shout from the rooftops
snow on the rooftop
there may be snow on the rooftop but there is fire in the furnace
Translations:
roomette
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *Hrew-?
Proto-Indo-European *(H)rewH-der.
Proto-Germanic *rūmą
Proto-West Germanic *rūm
Old English rūm
Middle English roum
English room
English -ette
English roomette
From room + -ette.
Inflected forms:
form: roomettes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A small private compartment, for one person, in a railroad sleeping car.
pos: noun
tags: US
examples: Although many luxurious single-room sleepers are in service, the demand for sleeping accommodation on long journeys is so great that vehicles less weighty in proportion to their passenger accommodation, and therefore less expensive for the traveller, have become a paramount need, which is largely solved by the roomette car.
The 20-hr. rail journey was, I think the most unusual and comfortable that I have ever made, because I travelled in a "roomette," a small private room for one person.
For most of its journey it is made up to about fourteen cars, of which a large proportion provide the better type of sleeping accommodation (bedrooms, roomettes, etc.).
Translations:
roomful
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From room + -ful.
Base: room
Affixes: -ful
Inflected forms:
form: roomfuls
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: roomsful
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: more roomful
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most roomful
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: The amount that a room can hold, especially the number of people that can fit into a room.
pos: noun
examples: Bengston doing a roomful of painting is like Joe Willie Namath doing a gameful of curl patterns, Jason Robards doing an eveningful of O'Neill, Tina Turner doing a concertful of. . . . and so on.
gloss: The people in a room, considered as a group.
pos: noun
gloss: Abounding with room or rooms; roomy.
pos: adj
examples: A roomful house.
Translations:
roominess
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English roomy
Proto-Germanic *-inōną
Proto-Indo-European *-dyé-
Proto-Germanic *-atjaną
Proto-Indo-European *-tus
Proto-Germanic *-þuz
Proto-Germanic *-assuz
Proto-Germanic *-inassuz
Proto-West Germanic *-nassī
Old English -nes
Middle English -nesse
English -ness
English roominess
From roomy + -ness.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The quality of being roomy
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
rose-coloured
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From rose + coloured.
Compound parts: rose
coloured
Inflected forms:
form: more rose-coloured
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most rose-coloured
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: rose-colored
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Having a pink colour suggestive of that of a pink rose.
pos: adj
examples: That had never happened yet; and now her imagination, instead of retracing the past, was busy fashioning what would happen to-morrow—whereabout in the Chase she should see him coming towards her, how she should put her new rose-coloured ribbon on, which he had never seen, and what he would say to her to make her return his glance—a glance which she would be living through in her memory, over and over again, all the rest of the day.
The room was still overpowerfully rose-coloured though the last of the sunshine glimmered amber at the windows, catching Mirabel’s long thin legs and turning them golden-brown.
gloss: Cheerfully optimistic.
pos: adj
tags: idiomatic
Synonyms: rose-hued
rose-tinted
Related words: couleur de rose
rose red
Derived words: rose-coloured glasses
Translations:
rosiness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English rosy
Proto-Germanic *-inōną
Proto-Indo-European *-dyé-
Proto-Germanic *-atjaną
Proto-Indo-European *-tus
Proto-Germanic *-þuz
Proto-Germanic *-assuz
Proto-Germanic *-inassuz
Proto-West Germanic *-nassī
Old English -nes
Middle English -nesse
English -ness
English rosiness
From rosy + -ness.
Inflected forms:
form: rosinesses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The quality of being rosy.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: And they will let me hold with my caresses
Their dim delights and trembling rosinesses.
Translations:
rotisserie
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From French rôtisserie, from rôtir ‘to roast’. Doublet of rosticceria and roastery.
Inflected forms:
form: rotisseries
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: rotisserieing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: rotisseried
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: rotisseried
pos: verb
tags: past
form: rôtisserie
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: To cook on a rotisserie.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Translations:
rototiller
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From a trade name, from rotary tiller.
Inflected forms:
form: rototillers
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: roto-tiller
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: a motorized cultivator having rotating blades
pos: noun
tags: US
Translations:
rottenness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English rotennesse; equivalent to rotten + -ness.
Base: rotten
Affixes: -ness
Inflected forms:
form: rottennesses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The quality of being rotten.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The track was further weakened by the too wide spacing of the sleepers, most of which "were in the last stage of rottenness."
Slowly Matilda sat down. Oh, the rottenness of it all! The unfairness! How dare they expel her for something she hadn't done!
Translations:
rotundity
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From rotund + -ity, from Latin rotunditas.
Base: rotund
Affixes: -ity
Inflected forms:
form: rotundities
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The quality of being rotund.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The captain, `Papa Viggo,´ as he is called among the islands, is a fair-haired man, rather under average height, and with a tendency towards rotundity.
Translations:
roughage
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: agriculture
business
lifestyle
Etymology: From rough (“not smooth; crude, unrefined”) + -age (suffix forming nouns with the sense of appurtenance or collection).
Base: rough
Affixes: -age
Inflected forms:
form: roughages
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: ruffage
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Originally (archaic), garbage, rubbish, or waste; later (agriculture) the portions of a crop which are discarded, such as husks, stalks, etc.; also, agricultural waste such as weeds.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Coarse or rough plant material such as hay and silage used as animal fodder.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Substances, generally of plant origin, consisting mostly of complex carbohydrates which are undigested when eaten by humans, and which therefore help the passage of food and waste through the alimentary tract; dietary fibre.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: I keep telling her not to eat all that roughage for brekky; prunes, bran, and baked beans.
Derived words: nonroughage
Translations:
rough-hew
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From rough + hew.
Compound parts: rough
hew
Inflected forms:
form: rough-hews
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: rough-hewing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: rough-hewed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: rough-hewn
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
Senses:
gloss: To cut or shape something roughly without finishing or tidying the surface.
pos: verb
examples: Our indiscretion sometimes serues vs well, / When our deare plots do paule, and that should teach vs, / There's a Diuinity that shapes our ends, / Rough-hew them how we will.
It seems to me, then, that one must either be a ‘marinist’ […], or be a sub-äerialist, and believe that in Pre-Permian times the sea rough-hewed a block of country which the atmosphere has ever since been carving into its now complex and beautiful form.
Its erosion is a constant process of alternate rough hewing and planing.
Translations:
rough-hewn
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Hewn roughly without a neat finish.
pos: adj
examples: A huge piece of rough-hewn Shap granite stands in the centre of the village as a memorial to Adam Sedgwick.
Translations:
roughhouse
Part of speech: adj
noun
verb
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From rough + house.
Compound parts: rough
house
Inflected forms:
form: more roughhouse
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most roughhouse
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: rough house
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: rough-house
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: rough house
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: rough-house
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: roughhouses
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: roughhousing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: roughhoused
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: roughhoused
pos: verb
tags: past
form: rough house
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: rough-house
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Of behavior, rowdy, boisterous, or fighting.
pos: adj
tags: idiomatic
examples: The film presents Gia as a roughhouse girl plopped down in the world of instant fame, sex, money, and drugs.
gloss: Rowdy behavior.
pos: noun
tags: idiomatic
uncountable
gloss: To behave rowdily or violently.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Out in the street, some delinquents were roughhousing, until the police drove by.
gloss: To behave rowdily or violently.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Out in the street, some delinquents were roughhousing, until the police drove by.
gloss: To treat (someone or something) roughly or violently.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Out in the street, some delinquents were roughhousing a victim, until the police drove by.
Derived words: roughhouser
Translations:
roundelay
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
Etymology: From Middle French rondelet, diminutive of Old French rondel (French: rondeau). Ending -lay either from lay (“ballad or sung poem”), or from virelay.
Inflected forms:
form: roundelays
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: rondelay
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A poem or song having a line or phrase repeated at regular intervals.
pos: noun
examples: It fell upon a holly eve,
Hey ho, hollidaye!
When holly fathers wont to shrieve,
Now gynneth this roundelay.
When merry milkmaids click the latch
And rarely smells the new-mown hay,
And the cock hath sung beneath the thatch
Twice or thrice his roundelay,
Twice or thrice his roundelay;
Alone and warming his five wits,
The white owl in the belfry sits.
"Ay, fool," said Tristram, "but 'tis eating dry
To dance without a catch, a roundelay
To dance to." Then he twangled on his harp,
And while he twangled little Dagonet stood
Quiet as any water-sodden log
Stay'd in the wandering warble of a brook;[…]
For then the little birds do sing their sweetest song, all joining in one joyous medley, whereof one may scarce tell one note from another, so multitudinous is that pretty roundelay;[…]
"Instead of being a rollicking bull-necked quarterstaff player with an eye for a wench and a good but untutored voice for roaring a roundelay, he's nothing but a weasel-faced herring-gutted wowser deliberately stuck in a cell to mislead travellers."
gloss: A dance in a circle.
pos: noun
gloss: Anything having a round form; a roundel.
pos: noun
Related words: rondeau
roundel
Translations:
inline
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
software-compilation
web-design
Inflected forms:
form: inlines
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: inlining
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: inlined
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: inlined
pos: verb
tags: past
form: inlines
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To optimize using in-line expansion.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Some compilers will allow statics to be inlined, but then incorrectly create multiple instances of the inlined variable at run-time.
Because functions that contain references to this cannot be inlined, the Compiler's ability to devirtualize prototype methods is even more important in terms of reducing the size of compiled code. By devirtualizing methods and removing references to this, more methods become functions that are candidates for inlining.
gloss: An element that occurs within the flow of the text.
pos: noun
examples: Bold and italic tags are inline elements.
Translations:
backgrounder
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From background + -er (agent noun suffix) or + -er (occupational suffix).
Base: background
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: backgrounders
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A briefing or document typically provided prior to a meeting or other event that gives basic details on subjects that are likely to be mentioned.
pos: noun
tags: US
examples: One of the President's aides gave us a ten-minute backgrounder on the dairy industry before the meeting.
gloss: A person employed to draw backgrounds for a comic or cartoon.
pos: noun
examples: […] backgrounders paint static background scenes, and then the animation components are layered on top […]
gloss: A cattle farmer or rancher who runs a backgrounding operation.
pos: noun
Translations:
ballsy
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English balls
Proto-Indo-European *-kos
Proto-Germanic *-gaz
Proto-West Germanic *-g
Old English -iġ
Middle English -y
English -y
English ballsy
From balls (“courage”) + -y.
Inflected forms:
form: ballsier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: ballsiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Tough and courageous; having balls.
pos: adj
tags: colloquial
vulgar
examples: On a movie like this, I don’t mind doing [the scene] as written, but I do do a lot of improv. I’m sort of a rapid-fire ballsy talker, and so I bring that to the character whenever it’s appropriate to the scene. That never makes it in.
Translations:
bait-and-switch
Part of speech: adj
verb
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: bait-and-switches
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: bait-and-switching
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: bait-and-switched
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: bait-and-switched
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Relating to use of bait and switch (offering one attractive exchange initially, but not honoring the offer) in business, politics, and elsewhere.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Despite Healy's argument that the Liberty Fund would go to worthwhile causes, many felt the Red Cross had deliberately misled donors by using September 11th in a bait-and-switch ploy.
The FTC commissioner, Rohit Chopra, called AT&T’s actions a “massive fraud”. “AT&T’s bait-and-switch scam is a good window into the many harms that result from dominant companies operating without the discipline of meaningful competition,” Chopra said in a statement.
gloss: To exploit using bait and switch.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Perhaps the most baffling and frustrating feature of the mortgage mess is that, to my knowledge, the House Financial Services Committee never held public hearings in which bait-and-switched homeowners testified as to how their mortgage payments doubled in just a few years[…]
To my surprise, even shock, both of them spent the entire trip sputtering and whining—about being bait-and-switched when their employee-ownership shares of United Airlines had been evaporated by its recent bankruptcy, […]
Translations:
bandbox
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From band + box.
Compound parts: band
box
Inflected forms:
form: bandboxes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: band-box
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A box of lightweight construction (e.g. cardboard, thin wood) for carrying hats or other apparel items.
pos: noun
examples: There is a dangerous freshness in the hues / Of the new bonnets which that day produces / Bright from the bandbox, be they greens or blues; / The aspect of a new pelisse conduces / To gazings which the gazer often rues.
On the evening of Easter Sunday the gypsies of Southern Europe take a wooden vessel like a band-box, which rests cradle-wise on two cross pieces of wood.
gloss: A small baseball park conducive to scoring home runs.
pos: noun
Derived words: bandboxical
bandboxy
Translations:
bandmaster
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
Etymology: From band + master.
Compound parts: band
master
Inflected forms:
form: bandmasters
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The conductor of a musical ensemble, especially a brass or military band.
pos: noun
Translations:
bandolier
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From earlier form bandollier, from Middle French bandoulliere, from Catalan bandolera, feminine derivative of bandoler (“member of a band of men”), from Catalan bàndol (“band, faction, party”), from Old Spanish bando.
Inflected forms:
form: bandoliers
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: bandoleer
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: bandelier
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: bandileer
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: An ammunition belt, worn over the shoulder, having loops or pockets for cartridges.
pos: noun
examples: The vivid, untrammeled life appealed to him[…]; but he was wise and knew that once peace was established there would be no room in Cuba for the Sin Verguenza.
 “None better to face peril or adversity with, but a change is coming, and one cannot always wear the bandolier,” he said.
We had each bandoliers of cartridges.
[…] with the casual but combative look of the urban photographer, black T-shirt and baseball boots, twenty-pocketed waistcoat and bandolier of film.
Translations:
bandsman
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: business
entertainment
government
lifestyle
military
mining
music
politics
war
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *bʰendʰ-der.
Proto-Germanic *bandiz
Old English bend
Middle English band
English band
English -s-
English -man
English bandsman
From band + -s- + -man.
Inflected forms:
form: bandsmen
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A player in a musical band, especially a military or brass band.
pos: noun
examples: If the reader finds a certain monotony in the words chosen by the translator I hope he will realize that the bandsman has to operate within the limits of his instrument.
It was military bandsmen, their uniform coats unbuttoned, who supplied the merry tune, from a clarinet, a tuba, a fife.
‘Honourable’ bandsman Thomas James will feature in display at National Army Museum highlighting service of black soldiers in Napoleonic wars[.]
gloss: A labourer (loader) working with a band of men.
pos: noun
tags: historical
Translations:
bankable
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English bank
Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr
Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom
Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlis
Proto-Italic *-ðlis
Latin -bilis
Latin -ābilis
Old French -ablebor.
Middle English -able
English -able
English bankable
From bank + -able.
Inflected forms:
form: more bankable
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most bankable
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Acceptable to a bank.
pos: adj
examples: a bankable check
gloss: Certain to bring profit and success, especially in the entertainment industry.
pos: adj
examples: a bankable film star
The literary life evidently suits [Laura] Conrad, who for five years has lived in a fabulous truth-illusion netherworld as MTV’s most bankable reality-and-tabloid personality.
Three of them—Sarah Palin, Mike Huckabee, and Newt Gingrich—had contracts with Fox News that paid them handsomely to say outrageous and thus bankable things on a regular basis.
gloss: Reliable.
pos: adj
Derived words: bankability
nonbankable
unbankable
Translations:
bankbook
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *bʰeg-der.
Proto-Germanic *bankiz
Proto-West Germanic *banki
Lombardic bankbor.
Italian bancabor.
Middle French banqueder.
English bank
Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂ǵosder.?
Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂g-der.?
Proto-Germanic *bōks
Proto-West Germanic *bōk
Old English bōc
Middle English bok
English book
English bankbook
From bank + book.
Inflected forms:
form: bankbooks
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: bank-book
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: bank book
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: wealth
pos: noun
examples: Her folks, they said, our lives together
Sure was gonna be rough
They never did like Mama's homemade dress
Papa's bankbook wasn't big enough.
Translations:
bantamweight
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: boxing
government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
war
Etymology: From bantam + weight.
Compound parts: bantam
weight
Inflected forms:
form: bantamweights
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A weight class in boxing and other sports, intermediate between flyweight and featherweight. In boxing it ranges from 112 to 118 pounds (51 to 54 kg).
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: A boxer or other competitor of this weight.
pos: noun
tags: countable
Translations:
barberry
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English berberie, from Medieval Latin berberis (on which see Arabic بَرْبَارِيس (barbārīs)), influenced by berie (“berry”). Doublet of berberis and related to Berber.
Inflected forms:
form: barberries
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of the thorny shrubs of genus Berberis, which bear yellow flowers and red or blue-black berries.
pos: noun
examples: BOlvs in Engliſh is called a morſell. It is a medicine laxatiue, in forme & faſhion it is meanely whole, & it is ſwallowed by litle gobbets. […] ℞. medulla caſiæ fiſtulæ newly drawen. ℥. j. or ʒ. x. the graines (that is the kernelles) of barbaries. ℈. ß. and with ſugar roſet [sugar compounded with rose petals] make a bole.
gloss: The edible fruit of these shrubs.
pos: noun
Derived words: California barberry
common barberry
creeping barberry
holly barberry
holly-leaved barberry
Japanese barberry
Magellan barberry
Translations:
barroom
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From bar + room.
Compound parts: bar
room
Inflected forms:
form: barrooms
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: bar room
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A room where alcoholic drinks are served over a counter.
pos: noun
tags: Canada
US
examples: Sporting a woolly cardigan with four buttons on top of an Oxford smock without a collar, our man has a faintly folksy look about him, calling to mind a zingaro or a gypsy, a carny or a Mongol, but also (switching to a wholly distinct mythology and iconography) a hippy strumming his guitar in a barroom in Haight-Ashbury or at Big Sur or in Katmandu.
Translations:
baronage
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English barnage, from Old French (and Anglo-Norman) barnage, from baron + -age, with the loss of a syllable.
Inflected forms:
form: baronages
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: barons or nobles collectively
pos: noun
examples: the baronage of the kingdom
gloss: an annotated list of barons or peers
pos: noun
gloss: barony, the dignity or rank of a baron
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
gloss: barony, the land which gives title to a baron
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
Translations:
baronetcy
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English baronet
English -cy
English baronetcy
From baronet + -cy.
Inflected forms:
form: baronetcies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The rank of a baronet.
pos: noun
Translations:
baronial
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more baronial
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most baronial
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Belonging or relating to a baron or barons.
pos: adj
gloss: Suitable for a baron.
pos: adj
gloss: Impressive in appearance; stately; imposing
pos: adj
Related words: comital
ducal
kingly
margravial
noble
princely
regal
royal
vicontiel
viscomital
Derived words: baronially
nonbaronial
Scottish Baronial
semibaronial
Translations:
basketwork
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Celtic *baskis
Proto-Brythonicder.
Late Latin bascauda
Anglo-Norman bascatbor.
Middle English basket
English basket
English -work
English basketwork
From basket + -work.
Inflected forms:
form: basketworks
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: basket work
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: basket-work
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Material woven in the style of a basket.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: 1671, John Burbury, A Relation of the Journey of the Right Honourable My Lord Henry Howard from London to Vienna, and thence to Constantinople, London: T. Collins et al., p. 172,
The Village Walls resemble those in Hungary, but are something worse, being only long Stakes thrust into the Ground, and crossed through like Basket-work, and so dawbed all over on both sides with Mud and Dirt.
[T]he smoke, having no means to escape but through a hole in the roof, eddied round the rafters of the cottage, and hung in sable folds at the height of about five feet from the floor. The space beneath was kept pretty clear, by innumerable currents of air which rushed towards the fire from the broken pannel of basket-work which served as a door, [...]
Once a week each of the girls, since there were seven of them, took a drive with the mother in the old basketwork chaise drawn by a very fat, very lumbering pony.
Once again he leaned forward, his hands grasping the basket-work rim of his chair.
gloss: The craft of making such material.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: In one of his letters to Mrs [Madge] Kendal, Joseph [Merrick] mentioned that he hoped one day to be able to learn basket work. She promptly arranged for an instructor to teach him the craft.
Translations:
basswood
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From bass (“fibrous inner bark”) + wood.
Compound parts: bass
wood
Inflected forms:
form: basswoods
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of several trees of the genus Tilia; the lindens, especially Tilia americana, the American basswood.
pos: noun
tags: US
Translations:
bathhouse
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English bathhous, bathous, from Old English bæþhūs (“bathhouse”), equivalent to bath + house. Cognate with Dutch badhuis (“bathhouse”), German Badehaus (“bathhouse”), German Low German Baadhuus, Boodhuus (“bathhouse”), Danish badehus (“bathhouse”), Norwegian Bokmål badehus (“bathhouse”), Norwegian Nynorsk badehus (“bathhouse”), Swedish badhus (“bathhouse”).
Base: bath
Inflected forms:
form: bathhouses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A building with baths for communal use.
pos: noun
examples: […] a plethora of taverns, victuals, brew houses, hostelries, bathhouses, brothels, bearbaiting and bullbaiting arenas jostled for space with shops of stockfishmongers, garlicmongers, and bakemongers.
The landslide hit Xiangning county in Shanxi province early Friday evening, provincial authorities said. Two residential buildings, home to a total of 14 households, and a public bathhouse collapsed under the weight of the falling earth.
gloss: A building where swimmers can change clothes.
pos: noun
gloss: A business with bath-like facilities, which chiefly serves as a place for sexual encounters, especially among men.
pos: noun
Derived words: Bathhouse Barry
Translations:
battledore
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English batildore, batylledore, batildure, batyldoure, batyndore, probably as a blend of Middle English betel (“bat, club”) and Old Occitan batedor (“beater, bat”).
Inflected forms:
form: battledores
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: battledoor
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A game played with a shuttlecock and rackets (properly battledore and shuttlecock); a forerunner of badminton.
pos: noun
gloss: The racket used in this game.
pos: noun
examples: Seven or eight of them, standing in a circle, were engaged in a game of shittlecock. They had in their hands no battledores. They did not employ the hand or arm, any way, in striking it. But, after taking a short race, and springing from the floor, they met the descending shittlecock with the sole of the foot, and drove it up again, with force, high into the air.
There were nights when it seemed to me that our position could be stormed by twenty Boy Scouts armed with airguns, or twenty Girl Guides armed with battledores, for that matter.
gloss: A child's hornbook for learning the alphabet.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
examples: You will also pardon the errors of the Work, for you know I was not bred to letters; but, that the battledore, at an age not exceeding six, was the last book I used at school.
gloss: A wooden paddle-shaped bat or beetle used to wash clothes by beating, stirring, or smoothing them.
pos: noun
tags: historical
examples: There is a large basin near the fountain, where numbers of women may be seen every day, kneeling at the edge of the water, and beating the clothes with heavy pieces of wood in the shape of battledores.
The laundry process of the time [1665] consisted of boiling textiles with lye or soap and then beating them with a battledore, a rustic version of a cricket bat.
Derived words: know B from a battledore
know a B from a battledore
Translations:
battlefront
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From battle + front.
Compound parts: battle
front
Inflected forms:
form: battlefronts
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The region or line along which opposing armies engage in combat.
pos: noun
gloss: The area in which opponents or opposing ideas meet.
pos: noun
Translations:
clothier
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English clothyer, an alteration of earlier clother, clothere (“a maker or seller of cloth”); equivalent to cloth + -ier.
Base: cloth
Affixes: -ier
Inflected forms:
form: clothiers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person who makes or sells cloth or clothing.
pos: noun
examples: ‘I think she should come out of black. Let me help dress her. I know the Italian clothiers.’
Translations:
bayberry
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Germanic *bazją
Proto-West Germanic *baʀi
Old English berġe?
Old English beġerclip.?
Old English *beġ
Latin bācader.
Old French baieder.
Middle English baye
English bay
Middle English berye
English berry
English bayberry
From bay + berry.
Inflected forms:
form: bayberries
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The fruit of the wax myrtle shrub; or the plant itself (Morella cerifera), with aromatic, leathery leaves and waxy berries.
pos: noun
tags: Canada
US
examples: It twisted and turned, and, the first thing I knew, made a sudden bend around a bunch of bayberry scrub and opened out into a big clear space like a lawn.
gloss: The fruit of the wax myrtle shrub; or the plant itself (Morella cerifera), with aromatic, leathery leaves and waxy berries.
pos: noun
tags: Canada
US
examples: The two North American genera are Myrica (bayberry) and Comptonia (sweet-fern).
gloss: The fruit of the bay laurel (Laurus nobilis).
pos: noun
examples: [T]heir shape was much like a Figg, but very much smaller, some being about the bigness of a Bay-berry, others, and the biggest, of a Hazel-Nut.
gloss: West Indian bay tree (Pimenta racemosa), a tropical American shrub with aromatic leaves that are used in the preparation of bay rum.
pos: noun
Synonyms: wax myrtle
Derived words: Asian bayberry
bayberry tallow
bayberry waxtree
bayberry willow
California bayberry
Chinese bayberry
faya bayberry
Japanese bayberry
northern bayberry
red bayberry
scentless bayberry
Sierra bayberry
southern bayberry
Translations:
beachwear
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *bʰeg-der.
Proto-Germanic *bakiz
Proto-West Germanic *baki
Old English bæċ
Middle English bache
English beach
Proto-Indo-European *wes-
Proto-Indo-European *-yeti
Proto-Indo-European *-éyeti
Proto-Indo-European *woséyeti
Proto-Germanic *wazjaną
Proto-West Germanic *waʀjan
Old English werian
Middle English weren
English wear
English -wear
English beachwear
From beach + -wear.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Clothing suitable for wearing on the beach, though not necessarily for swimming in.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
beading
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: architecture
Inflected forms:
form: beadings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A decorative, ornamental molding often used to conceal a joint.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: beadwork
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The beads or bead-forming quality of certain liquors.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: the beading of a brand of whisky
gloss: A Samburu ceremony in which a father gives a necklace to his daughter.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
beady
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English bead
Proto-Indo-European *-kos
Proto-Germanic *-gaz
Proto-West Germanic *-g
Old English -iġ
Middle English -y
English -y
English beady
From bead + -y.
Inflected forms:
form: beadier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: more beady
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: beadiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: most beady
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Resembling beads; small, round, and gleaming.
pos: adj
examples: seeing Mrs. Bute's beady eyes
I shivered in every limb, and a cold beady dew sprang out on my temples as I stood with eyes riveted on the spectral figure before me.
gloss: Bright and penetrating. (of eyes or a look)
pos: adj
examples: Cracked eggs, dead birds, scream as they fight for life / I can feel death, can see its beady eyes
gloss: Covered or ornamented with, or as if with, beads.
pos: adj
gloss: Characterized by beads.
pos: adj
examples: beady liquor
Related words: beady-eyed
beadies
Derived words: beadily
beadiness
beady eye
Translations:
beanstalk
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
Etymology: From bean + stalk.
Compound parts: bean
stalk
Inflected forms:
form: beanstalks
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: bean-stalk
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The stem of a bean plant, proverbially fast-growing and tall.
pos: noun
gloss: A tall, slim person.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
colloquial
figuratively
gloss: A space elevator.
pos: noun
examples: If we don't build a Beanstalk, somebody else will—and once one is working, the number of rocket launches will drop to zero. That's the source of more than half our income.
I have never liked riding the Beanstalk. My distaste was full-blown even before the disaster to the Quito Skyhook. A cable that goes up into the sky with nothing to hold it up smells too much of magic.
Space elevators proposed for the Earth require novel high-strength materials and a substantial counterweight for their implementation. The problem becomes easier for Mars. There is no available "counterweight" for a synchronous "beanstalk" but Phobos proves a substantial anchor in non-synchronous orbit. A tether extending 1456 km from Phobos could release objects into an orbit just entering the Martian atmosphere, providing a launch and recovery device for Mars Excursion Modules. Extending the "beanstalk" to a length of 5832 km would place the end at the fringes of the Martian atmosphere.
Translations: