yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
barge
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: nautical
transport
Etymology: From Middle English barge, borrowed from Old French barge (“boat”), from Vulgar Latin *barga, a variant of Late Latin barca, a regular syncope of Vulgar Latin *barica, from Classical Latin bāris, from Ancient Greek βᾶρις (bâris, “Egyptian boat”), from Coptic ⲃⲁⲁⲣⲉ (baare, “small boat”), from Demotic Egyptian br, from Egyptian bꜣjrb-bA-A-y:r*Z1-P1 (“transport ship”). Doublet of bark, barque and baris.
Inflected forms:
form: barges
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: barges
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: barging
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: barged
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: barged
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A large flat-bottomed towed or self-propelled boat used mainly for river and canal transport of heavy goods or bulk cargo.
pos: noun
examples: Not far from the station can be seen one of the old barges of the Nar Navigation Company which has become so much a part of the bank it has a tree growing in it.
gloss: A richly decorated ceremonial state vessel propelled by rowers for river processions.
pos: noun
gloss: A large flat-bottomed coastal trading vessel having a large spritsail and jib-headed topsail, a fore staysail and a very small mizen, and having leeboards instead of a keel.
pos: noun
gloss: One of the boats of a warship having fourteen oars
pos: noun
gloss: The wooden disk in which bread or biscuit is placed on a mess table.
pos: noun
gloss: A double-decked passenger or freight vessel, towed by a steamboat.
pos: noun
tags: US
gloss: A large bus used for excursions.
pos: noun
tags: US
dated
dialectal
historical
gloss: To intrude or break through, particularly in an unwelcome or clumsy manner.
pos: verb
examples: I mean I couldn't sit there on that desk for the rest of my life, and besides, I was afraid my parents might barge in on me all of a sudden and I wanted to at least say hello to her before they did.
In making this extension, the Metropolitan also built a connection from Farringdon Street towards an overground railway that had just barged its way into the City from Kent. This railway was the London, Chatham & Dover.
gloss: To push someone.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The home side were professionally going about their business and were denied a spot-kick when Dunne clumsily barged Nani off the ball.
Synonyms: lighter
Derived words: barge board
barge cruise
bargee
bargeful
barge in
bargelike
bargeman
bargemaster
barge master
barge pole
barger
bargewoman
billet barge
bread-barge
bunker barge
dumb barge
honey barge
hoverbarge
monkey barge
solar barge
sun barge
Thames barge
Thames sailing barge
shoulder-barge
barge into
Translations:
dik-dik
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Imitative of the sound made by the animal when alarmed.
Inflected forms:
form: dik-diks
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: dik-dik
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A small antelope of the genus Madoqua, native to southern and eastern Africa, having an elongated snout, a brown or grey/gray coat with a white belly, and an upright tuft on the crown.
pos: noun
Translations:
kudu
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Ultimately Khoekhoe kudu-b, through Afrikaans koedoe and French koudou.
Inflected forms:
form: kudus
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: kudu
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: koodoo
pos: noun
tags: alternative
dated
form: koudou
pos: noun
tags: alternative
dated
Senses:
gloss: A large, striped, African antelope of the species Tragelaphus imberbis (lesser kudu) or Tragelaphus strepsiceros (greater kudu).
pos: noun
examples: Martha, on a hot, wet, steamy afternoon, had spent two hours wriggling on her stomach through the undergrowth to reach a point where she might shoot a big koodoo that was grazing in a corner of the Hundred Acres.
I watched from a distance as rangers left a kudu carcass to entice the lions to walk through the gates.
Translations:
springbok
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Afrikaans springbok, from Dutch springbok, from springen (“to jump, spring”) + bok (“buck, billy goat, antelope”).
Inflected forms:
form: springbok
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: springboks
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: springbuck
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A small, fast antelope native to southern Africa, Antidorcas marsupialis.
pos: noun
Translations:
bittern
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English bitour, botor, from Old French butor, from Gallo-Roman *butitaurus, a blend of Latin būtiō (“bittern”) and taurus (“bull, ox”).
Inflected forms:
form: bitterns
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Several bird species in the Botaurinae subfamily of the heron family Ardeidae.
pos: noun
examples: It is a great rock or cliff on the loneliest part of the mountains, and […] is known by the name of the Garden Rock. Near the foot of it is a small lake, the haunt of the solitary bittern, with water-snakes basking in the sun on the leaves of the pond-lilies which lie on the surface.
Translations:
Sodom
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Partially from Old English Sodome, Sodoma, partially from Ancient Greek Σόδομα (Sódoma), from the Biblical Hebrew סְדֹם (s'dóm).
(Wadham College): Chosen for the rhyme.
Inflected forms:
form: Sodoms
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A city or place full of sin and vice.
pos: noun
examples: Take all idea of retribution and punishment out of the hearts and minds of men, and it would not be long before Brooklyn and New York and Boston and Charleston and Chicago became Sodoms.
Translations:
burke
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Eponymous, from William Burke.
Inflected forms:
form: burkes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: burking
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: burked
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: burked
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To murder by suffocation.
pos: verb
tags: Australia
Ireland
New-Zealand
UK
slang
examples: As soon as the executioner proceeded to his duty, the cries of ‘Burke him, Burke him—give him no rope’... were vociferated... ‘Burke Hare too!’
gloss: To murder for the same purpose as Burke, to kill in order to have a body to sell to anatomists, surgeons, etc.
pos: verb
tags: Australia
Ireland
New-Zealand
UK
historical
slang
examples: "I don’t know that," interrupted the landlady; "Williams is a good hanging name: there was Williams who murdered the Marr's family, and Williams who burked all those poor dear children; I dare say he is some relation of theirs; but to think of his coming to the White Hart—it's no place for his doings, I can tell him: he sha'n't poison his wife in my house; out he goes this very night—I'll take the letter to him myself."
Perhaps he is Burked, and his body sold for nine pounds.
‘You don’t mean to say he was burked, Sam?’ said Mr. Pickwick, looking hastily round.
gloss: To smother; to conceal, hush up, suppress.
pos: verb
tags: Australia
Ireland
New-Zealand
UK
slang
examples: The reporters left it out... Those who spoke in favour of the poor men, were what the reporters call burked.
He put away—burked—the Directors' letter, and went in to talk to Riley
Socrates and Plato burked the issue.
Related words: bishop
Derived words: burker
Translations:
diameter
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: geometry
graph-theory
mathematics
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁
Proto-Indo-European *dwísder.
Ancient Greek διά (diá)
Ancient Greek δῐᾰ- (dĭă-)
Proto-Indo-European *meh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr
Proto-Indo-European *-trom
Proto-Hellenic *-tron
Ancient Greek -τρον (-tron)
Ancient Greek μέτρον (métron)
Ancient Greek διάμετρος (diámetros)bor.
Latin diametros
Old French diametre
English diameter
From Old French diametre (French diamètre), from Latin diametros, from Ancient Greek διάμετρος (diámetros) (γραμμή (grammḗ)) (diametros grammē, “line measuring across”), from διά (diá, “across”) + μέτρον (métron, “measure”). By surface analysis, dia- + -meter.
Inflected forms:
form: diameters
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: diametre
pos: noun
tags: alternative
dated
nonstandard
form: ⌀
pos: noun
tags: alternative
abbreviation
Senses:
gloss: Any straight line between two points on the circumference of a circle that passes through the center of the circle; a chord that passes through the center of the circle.
pos: noun
gloss: The length of such a line.
pos: noun
examples: In cases without good face contact, the diameter of the toolholder at the front of the flange or the tool itself should not be any larger than the gage diameter of the toolholder shank from a bending stiffness viewpoint.
Viable non-malformed singleton pregnancies were selected for cerebellar measurements; transcerebellar diameter, (TCD), left and right cerebellar diameters (LCD, RCD).
gloss: The maximum distance between any two points in a metric space.
pos: noun
gloss: The maximum eccentricity over all vertices in a graph.
pos: noun
Related words: diametric
diametrically
semidiameter
circumference
radius
Derived words: aerodiameter
circumdiameter
diameterwise
inner diameter
inside diameter
internal diameter
major diameter
minor diameter
multidiameter
tactical diameter
Translations:
bilabial
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonetics
phonology
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁
Proto-Indo-European *dwi-
Proto-Italic *dwi-
Latin bi-bor.
English bi-
English labial
English bilabial
From bi- + labial.
Inflected forms:
form: bilabials
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Articulated with both lips.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: "Oh, yes. He talks a lot about phonemes and semantemes and bilabial fricatives. He has a van with recording apparatus in it. He's a good chap."
gloss: A speech sound articulated with both lips.
pos: noun
Translations:
bacitracin
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
Etymology: From translingual Baci(llus subtilis) + Tracy + -in. Named after American child Margaret Tracy (1936–1994), in whose leg infection the compound was first found.
Base: Bacillus subtilis
Affixes: -in
Inflected forms:
form: bacitracins
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A nonprescription polypeptide antibiotic isolated from a bacillus (Bacillus subtilis or Bacillus licheniformis), usually provided in topical ointment form especially against gram-positive bacteria.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
finch
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *(s)ping-
Proto-Germanic *finkiz
Proto-Indo-European *(s)ping-
Proto-Germanic *finkô
Old English finċ
Middle English fynch
English finch
From Middle English fynch, from Old English finċ, from Proto-West Germanic *finki, from Proto-Germanic *finkiz (compare Dutch vink, German Fink), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)pingos (“chaffinch”). Compare Welsh pinc (“finch”), Ancient Greek σπίγγος (spíngos, “chaffinch”), Russian пе́нка (pénka, “wren”), Sanskrit फिङ्गक (phiṅgaka, “drongo, shrike”).
Inflected forms:
form: finches
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: finches
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: finching
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: finched
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: finched
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Any Eurasian goldfinch (of species Carduelis carduelis, syn. Fringilla carduelis).
pos: noun
gloss: Any bird of the family Fringillidae, seed-eating passerine birds, native chiefly to the Northern Hemisphere and usually having a conical beak.
pos: noun
gloss: Any bird of other families of similar appearance to members of family Fringillidae.
pos: noun
gloss: A woman.
pos: noun
tags: UK
dated
slang
examples: "Well, she could have put it across me for that matter if Dodger, who'd seen her up there, didn't happen to call round to do with the business," admitted George simply. "All these finches seem to get themselves up in the same way nowadays, till I can't tell one sort of tart from another. But I suppose there's something you go by."
gloss: To hunt for finches, to go finching.
pos: verb
Related words: aberdevine
amadavat
avadavat
brambling
canary
crossbill
euphonia
redpoll
serin
siskin
Derived words: Abert's finch
Baltimore finch
Bengalese finch
blue finch
bramble finch
brambling finch
brushfinch
bullfinch
canary finch
Cassin finch
Cassin's finch
chaffinch
cherry finch
citril finch
Cocos finch
cold-finch
copper finch
Corsican finch
cowfinch
crimson-browed finch
crimson finch
crimson-winged finch
cuckoo-finch
cut-throat finch
Darwin's finch
desert finch
double-barred finch
estrilid finch
European finch
fallowfinch
fallow finch
finchbill
finchery
finchlike
fire finch
firefinch
Galapagos finch
goldfinch
gold-naped finch
golden-naped finch
Gough finch
Gouldian finch
Gould's finch
Lady Gouldian finch
greenfinch
ground finch
hawfinch
house finch
koa finch
masked finch
melba finch
mountain finch
oriole finch
owl finch
painted finch
parrotfinch
pinefinch
Przewalski's finch
purple finch
rainbow finch
red-browed finch
redfinch
rockfinch
rosefinch
rosy finch
scarlet finch
sharp-beaked ground finch
snowfinch
society finch
spectacled finch
spice finch
star finch
stormfinch
thistlefinch
trumpeter finch
vampire ground finch
warbler-finch
weaver finch
widow finch
yellow-rumped finch
zebra finch
Translations:
herbivore
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From French herbivore, from Latin herbivorus. By surface analysis, herb (“herbage”) + -i- + -vore.
Inflected forms:
form: herbivores
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An organism that feeds chiefly on plants; an animal that feeds on herbage or vegetation as the main part of its diet.
pos: noun
examples: It is unlikely that any member of the hominin clade was either an obligate herbivore or an obligate carnivore
Translations:
marsupial
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
Etymology: From Latin marsupium, marsuppium (“pouch, purse”), from Ancient Greek μαρσύπιον (marsúpion) or μαρσύππιον (marsúppion), variants of μαρσίππιον (marsíppion), diminutive of μάρσιππος (mársippos, “bag, pouch”); with English -al.
Inflected forms:
form: marsupials
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: more marsupial
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most marsupial
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: A mammal of the infraclass Marsupialia, including those where the female has a pouch in which it rears the young through early infancy, such as kangaroos, koalas, wombats and opossums, as well as the pouchless shrew opossums.
pos: noun
gloss: Of or pertaining to a marsupial.
pos: adj
examples: Showing that this animal is marsupial, consists of the following characters.
It seemed to me, meandering around Earls Court, that motors should be more marsupial.
But there's this pouch just below my belly button, very marsupial, where the kangaroo lives.
gloss: Of or relating to a marsupium.
pos: adj
examples: the marsupial bones
Translations:
osprey
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Late Middle English ospray, from Anglo-Norman ospriet, from Medieval Latin avis praedae (“bird of prey”), a generic term apparently confused with this specific bird in Old French on its similarity to ossifrage.
Inflected forms:
form: ospreys
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: ospray
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: A bird of prey of genus Pandion that feeds on fish and has white underparts and long, narrow wings each ending in four finger-like extensions.
pos: noun
examples: 1594, George Peele (attributed), The Battle of Alcazar
I will provide thee of a princely osprey.
But (oh Jove!) your actions, / Soon as they move, as ospreys do the fish, / Subdue before they touch.
A pair of ospreys bred at a confidential nesting site in Co. Fermanagh in what has been described as like finding long-lost treasure.
gloss: Aigrette (ornamental feather).
pos: noun
Synonyms: fish eagle
fish hawk
orfray
ossifrage
osspringer
Derived words: eastern osprey
western osprey
Translations:
chappy
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English chap
English -y
English chappy
From chap + -y.
Inflected forms:
form: chappies
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: more chappy
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most chappy
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: A chap; a fellow.
pos: noun
tags: UK
informal
gloss: Full of chaps; cleft; gaping; open.
pos: adj
gloss: Chapped, dry.
pos: adj
tags: rare
examples: The application was followed at once by terrible pain in the wound; furthermore, there appeared a dry and chappy tongue, intolerable thirst, colics, cramplike contractions of the legs and back, and a weak and irregular pulse.
Translations:
crappy
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Old Dutch krappender.
Old French crappe
Middle French crapebor.
Middle English crappe
English crap
Proto-Indo-European *-kos
Proto-Germanic *-gaz
Proto-West Germanic *-g
Old English -iġ
Middle English -y
English -y
English crappy
From crap + -y.
Inflected forms:
form: crappier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: crappiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: crap
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Of very poor quality; unpleasant; distasteful.
pos: adj
tags: Canada
US
colloquial
mildly
vulgar
examples: That is such a crappy car.
The referee just made a really crappy call.
The food there used to be good but now it's crappy.
Think of the content mill as a modern-day literary sweatshop—writers hunkering down at hot keyboards, plowing away at 3,000 word articles for, literally, pennies. Content mills were born because someone figured out that by targeting popular search result terms, they could commission an army of crappy posts catering to these terms and dominate Google's results.
She took a leap in 2019 and bought an investment property, a duplex in Missoula, Mont., intending to live in one unit and rent the other. “It was the crappiest house on the block,” she said.
“Many scientists and historians think we’re entering into a new epoch — one where things are simply … well, crappier,” declares the opening voice-over in a thick northern English accent (regularly used in Britain to indicate no-nonsense, tongue-in-cheek pragmatism).
gloss: Bad, sick, or depressed.
pos: adj
tags: Canada
US
colloquial
especially
mildly
vulgar
examples: I'm feeling really crappy - I think I need some fresh air.
gloss: Covered in crap (faeces/feces).
pos: adj
tags: Canada
US
colloquial
mildly
vulgar
examples: Put the crappy diapers in the brown pail and the wet ones in the yellow pail.
Derived words: crappily
crappiness
craptop
Translations:
nappy
Part of speech: noun
verb
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: A diminutive in -y. The base is probably napkin but possibly French nappe directly (note that napkin is already a diminutive).
Inflected forms:
form: nappies
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: nappies
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: nappying
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: nappied
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: nappied
pos: verb
tags: past
form: nappier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: nappiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: An absorbent garment worn by a baby or toddler who does not yet have voluntary control of their bladder and bowels or by someone who is incontinent; a diaper.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
Ireland
New-Zealand
South-Africa
UK
examples: You will notice that disposable nappies are sold in boy and girl versions. They vary in where the thickest padding is provided.
Other equipment required was soap for hand washing and washing of nappies, a washing line for the drying of nappies,[…].
You could burn disposable nappies (not a very practical option); otherwise, it′s probably best to take a supply of large plastic bags or nappy sacks with you and to dispose of them as thoughtfully as you can.
In response we mailed hundreds of nappies to students in halls. On the nappy was a simple message, IT'S A LOT EASIER TO PUT ON A CONDOM.
gloss: To put a nappy on.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The mother nappied the baby.
gloss: Having a nap (of cloth etc.); downy; shaggy.
pos: adj
examples: 1950, US District Courts, US Court of Claims, US Court of Customs and Patent Appeals, Federal Supplement, Volume 89, page 438,
The original accused device, as was the patented device, was made of cotton flannel with a nappy surface on each side, […] .
gloss: Of hair: tightly curled or twisted; frizzy (often specifically in reference to Afro textured hair)
pos: adj
tags: US
informal
offensive
sometimes
examples: They could scarcely bear their knowledge, nor could they have borne the sight of Rufus, but they knew why he was in the streets tonight, why he rode subways all night long, why his stomach growled, why his hair was nappy, his armpits funky, his pants and shoes too thin, and why he did not dare to stop and take a leak.
We would talk about each other′s ugly, big lips and flat noses. We would call each other pickaninnies and nappy-haired so-and-so′s.
For example, some Black people′s corporeal zones include nappy hair texture, wide noses, thick lips, and darker-than-white skin complexion, all of which come into play when an individual is interacting with a cultural “Other.”
She had decided to just cover her hair with a scarf because Aunt Bell was “old school” and Zollar did not want to have to explain why she had nappy hair.
gloss: Inclined to sleep; sleepy.
pos: adj
tags: rare
examples: After supper I felt nappy and dropped right off to sleep.
Derived words: nappiness
nappyhead
naptural
Translations:
yappy
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English yap
English -y
English yappy
From yap + -y.
Inflected forms:
form: yappier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: yappiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of a dog, yapping in an annoying manner.
pos: adj
examples: yappy puppy
gloss: Very talkative; talking foolishly or at length.
pos: adj
Derived words: yappily
yappiness
Translations:
yap
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Probably of imitative origin. Alternatively, from dialectal yap, yaup, yalp (“to yap, yelp”). More at yelp.
Inflected forms:
form: yaps
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: yaps
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: yapping
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: yapped
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: yapped
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: The high-pitched bark of a small dog, or similar.
pos: noun
tags: countable
gloss: Casual talk; chatter.
pos: noun
tags: slang
uncountable
examples: Had I taken his accusations seriously I might have recommended a change in my under-managership, but I never could translate our jammy products into gas or explosives or even poison. Still yap, at least as concerned Beldite's.
They couldn’t rise above their calls for peace. Those who weren’t “defenders of the fatherland” were incapable of anything except yap and blather about “stopping the war.”
gloss: The mouth, which produces speech.
pos: noun
tags: countable
derogatory
slang
examples: Shut your yap!
gloss: A badly behaved person, especially a child.
pos: noun
tags: Geordie
countable
gloss: A fool.
pos: noun
tags: countable
dated
slang
uncountable
gloss: Of a small dog, to bark.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To talk, especially excessively; to chatter.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
slang
examples: You’re always yapping, I wish you’d shut up.
gloss: To rob or steal from (someone).
pos: verb
tags: slang
transitive
examples: Ante up! Yap that fool!
Derived words: yapaholic
Yapanese
yappatron
yapper
yappily
yappuccino
yappy
Translations:
shortening
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
Inflected forms:
form: shortenings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Fat that is solid at room temperature, especially hydrogenated vegetable oil (known as vegetable shortening), used to make shortcrust pastry and in deep fat frying.
pos: noun
tags: US
countable
uncountable
Derived words: shortening time
stretch shortening cycle
vegetable shortening
Translations:
necessary
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English necessarye, from Old French necessaire, from Latin necessārius (“unavoidable, inevitable, required”), variant of necesse (“unavoidable, inevitable”), probably from ne or non cessum, from the perfect passive participle of cēdō (“yield; avoid, withdraw”); see cede.
Older use as a noun in reference to an outhouse or lavatory under the influence of English and Latin necessārium, a medieval term for the place for monks’ “unavoidable” business, usually located behind or attached to monastic dormitories.
Inflected forms:
form: necessarier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: more necessary
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: necessariest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: most necessary
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Required, essential, whether logically inescapable or needed in order to achieve a desired result or avoid some penalty.
pos: adj
examples: Although I wished to think that all was false, it was yet necessary that I, who thus thought, must in some sense exist.
It is absolutely necessary that you call and confirm your appointment.
1.Sen. ...The faults Bloody:
'Tis necessary he should dye:
Nothing imboldens sinne so much, as Mercy.
gloss: Unavoidable, inevitable.
pos: adj
examples: If it is absolutely necessary to use public computers, you should plan ahead and forward your e-mail to a temporary, disposable account.
Cæs. Cowards dye many times before their deaths,
The valiant neuer taste of death but once:
Of all the Wonders that I yet haue heard,
It seemes to me most strange that men should feare,
Seeing that death, a necessary end
Will come, when it will come.
gloss: Determined, involuntary: acting from compulsion rather than free will.
pos: adj
tags: obsolete
examples: But that a necessary being should give birth to a being with any amount, however limited, of moral freedom, is infinitely less conceivable than that parents of the insect or fish type should give birth to a perfect mammal.
Related words: necessariness
necessitate
necessitation
necessitousness
necessitude
necessity
Derived words: equinecessary
innecessary
necessarian
necessarily
necessary condition
necessary evil
necessary room
necessary woman
nonnecessary
seminecessary
socially necessary labour time
Translations:
sorbitol
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: From earlier sorbite (from sorb + -ite) + -ol. By surface analysis, sorb + -itol.
Inflected forms:
form: sorbitols
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A faintly sweet alcohol C₆H₁₄O₆ that occurs in some fruits, is made synthetically, and is used especially as a humectant and softener and in making ascorbic acid.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
crayfish
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Alteration (by folk etymological influence of fish) of Middle English crevis (whence modern dialectal crevis), from Old French crevice ("crayfish"; > Modern French: écrevisse), from Frankish *krebitja (“crayfish”), diminutive of Frankish *krebit (“crab”), from Proto-Germanic *krabitaz (“crab, cancer”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *gerbʰ-, *grebʰ- (“to scratch, crawl”), or from a substrate word folk-etymologically influenced by this root.
Akin to Old High German krebiz (Modern German Krebs (“crustacean, crab, crayfish”)), Middle Low German krēvet (“crab, crayfish”), Dutch kreeft (“crayfish, lobster”), Old English crabba (“crab”). More at crab.
Doublet of crevette, crevis, and Krebs.
Inflected forms:
form: crayfishes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: crayfish
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: crawfish
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: craifish
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: crafish
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: crefish
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: crevis
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: crevyssh
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Any of numerous freshwater decapod crustaceans in superfamily Astacoidea or Parastacoidea, resembling the related lobster but usually much smaller.
pos: noun
gloss: Any of numerous freshwater decapod crustaceans in superfamily Astacoidea or Parastacoidea, resembling the related lobster but usually much smaller.
pos: noun
tags: New-England
Pennsylvania
gloss: A rock lobster (family Palinuridae).
pos: noun
tags: Australia
New-Zealand
South-Africa
gloss: A freshwater crayfish (family Parastacidae), such as the gilgie, marron, or yabby.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
gloss: The species Thenus orientalis of the slipper lobster family (Scyllaridae).
pos: noun
tags: Singapore
Synonyms: crawdad
crawldad
crawfish
crawlfish
mudbug
yabby
Derived words: crayfishery
crayfish plague
crayfish snake
marbled crayfish
sea-crayfish
sea crayfish
signal crayfish
Translations:
herein
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English here-inne, her-in, her-inne, hier-ine, from Old English hērinne, from Proto-West Germanic *hērinna, from Proto-Germanic *hē₂rinna, equivalent to here + in. Cognate with West Frisian hjiryn (“herein”), Dutch hierin (“herein”), German hierin (“herein”), Danish heri (“herein”), Swedish häri (“herein”), Icelandic hér í (“herein”).
Base: here
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: In this; within this content, context, or thing.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: […] that if he be not fully satisfied herein, or doubt that the rest of the associates shall not like of the delivery of them to her Majesty in this good manner […]
I also claim making the touguing hand-plane in such a manner as to enable the workman to make therewith tongues of various thicknesses, substantially, in the manner herein set forth, whereby I prevent the necessity of providing different tools to tongue planks of different thicknesses.
The equational theories developed herein are ordinary conditional equational theories.
Were you a party to any suit terminated within the year immediately preceding the filing of the original petition herein?
Translations:
within
Part of speech: prep
adv
adj
Morphological type: compound
Topics: law
Etymology: From Middle English withinne, withinnen, from Old English wiþinnan; equivalent to with + in.
Compound parts: with
in
Inflected forms:
form: w/i
pos: prep
tags: alternative
abbreviation
form: w/in
pos: prep
tags: alternative
abbreviation
form: w/i
pos: adv
tags: alternative
abbreviation
form: w/in
pos: adv
tags: alternative
abbreviation
form: w/i
pos: adj
tags: alternative
abbreviation
form: w/in
pos: adj
tags: alternative
abbreviation
Senses:
gloss: In the inner part, spatially; physically inside.
pos: prep
examples: within her studio
O God! can I not save / One from the pitiless wave? / Is all that we see or seem / But a dream within a dream?
The Rat[…] lightly stepped into a little boat which the Mole had not observed. It was painted blue outside and white within, and was just the size for two animals; and the Mole's whole heart went out to it at once[…].
gloss: In the scope or range of.
pos: prep
examples: within his hearing; her within five seconds of breaking the record; within an inch of falling overboard
England struck back with a fine try from Ben Foden and closed to within seven points with three minutes left when Mark Cueto capitalised on a break from replacement Matt Banahan.
gloss: Before the specified duration ends.
pos: prep
examples: Leave here within three days.
On October 6, 1927, Warner Bros. released The Jazz Singer, the first sound-synched feature film, prompting a technological shift of unprecedented speed and unstoppable force. Within two years, nearly every studio release was a talkie.
And Netherlands, backed by a typically noisy and colourful travelling support, started the second period in blistering fashion and could have had four goals within 10 minutes
gloss: In or into the interior; inside.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: If you would hear it with all these about you, I am ready to speak. Or do we go within?
gloss: In the context of which the present document or ruling is made.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: the within appeal
As part of the within appeal the appellants brought a fresh evidence motion. Although the court did not specifically address the motion in its oral reasons dismissing the appeal, that motion was rejected by the court for the following reasons.
Antonyms: outside
outwith
without
Derived words: live within oneself
state within a state
stay within the lines
traitor within the gates
wheel within a wheel
within a bull's roar
within ames ace
within an ace of
within an inch of one's life
within an inch of one's skin
within arm's reach
within a whisker of
within call
within cry
within doors
within-doors
within living memory
within one sigma
within one's means
within one's rights
within reach
within reason
within-subjects
within the agreed time
within the four seas
within the pale
within touching distance
Translations:
stepchild
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English stepchild, stepchyld, from Old English stēopċild (“stepchild”), equivalent to step- + child. Compare Dutch stiefkind (“stepchild”), German Stiefkind (“stepchild”), Swedish styvbarn (“stepchild”).
Base: child
Affixes: step-
Inflected forms:
form: stepchildren
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: step-child
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The child of one's spouse from a previous relationship.
pos: noun
examples: On Monday, Vice President Kamala Harris appeared on “The Drew Barrymore Show,” and in a lighthearted moment, explained — as she did during the last presidential election cycle — that in her blended family, her stepchildren affectionately call her Momala.
Calculating the growth in stepfamilies isn’t simple, but a demographic analysis published last year estimated that about 16 percent of Americans over age 70 have at least one stepchild. […] Overall, stepchildren provide less care to older adults
gloss: A bereaved child; one who has lost father or mother.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
Antonyms: stepparent
Related words: half-sibling
half-brother
half-sister
step-grandchild
step-grandson
step-granddaughter
step-niece
step-nephew
step-cousin
Derived words: red-headed stepchild
stepchildhood
Translations:
kopje
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From (South African) Dutch kopje, diminutive of kop (“head”).
Inflected forms:
form: kopjes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: koppie
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A small hill or mound, especially on the African veld.
pos: noun
tags: South-Africa
examples: In one spot only was the solemn monotony of the plain broken. Near the center a small solitary “kopje” rose. Alone it lay there, a heap of round ironstones piled one upon the other, as over some giant’s grave.
We selected a lichenous kopje perhaps fifteen yards away, and landed neatly on its summit one after the other.
It was nearly noon when he reached the great bowlder at the top of which terminated the secret passage to the pits beneath the city. Like a cat he scaled the precipitous sides of the frowning granite kopje.
Martha looked over a mile or so of bush to a strip of pink ploughed land; […] and then, ridge after ridge, fold after fold, the bush stretched to a line of blue kopjes.
On the koppie behind the village, the unsightly red-and-white skeleton of an FM tower.
Translations:
redeem
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: business
finance
Etymology: From Middle English redemen, modified from Old French redimer, from Latin redimō (“release; obviate; atone for”), itself from red- (“back; again”) + emō (“buy; gain, take, procure”).
Inflected forms:
form: redeems
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: redeeming
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: redeemed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: redeemed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To recover ownership of something by buying it back.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To liberate by payment of a ransom.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To set free by force.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Your Highneſſe needs not doubt but in ſhort time,
He will with Tamburlaines deſtruction
Redeeme you from this deadly ſeruitude.
Wherefore say unto the children of Israel, I am the Lord, and I will bring you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians, and I will rid you out of their bondage, and I will redeem you with a stretched out arm, and with great judgments ...
gloss: To save, rescue.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To clear, release from debt or blame.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To expiate, atone (for).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To convert (some bond or security) into cash.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To save from a state of sin (and from its consequences).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To repair, restore.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To reform, change (for the better).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To restore the honour, worth, or reputation of oneself or something.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To reclaim.
pos: verb
tags: archaic
transitive
Antonyms: abandon
Related words: redemption
redemptioner
redemptor
Redemptorist
redemptory
Derived words: coredeem
misredeem
redeemability
redeemable
redeemably
redeemer
redeemless
redeem oneself
redeem the time
unredeem
unredeemable
unredeemably
unredeemed
Translations:
lang: Finnish
word: palauttaa kunnia
lang: French
word: racheter
lang: German
word: (Ruf) wiederherstellen
lang: Japanese
word: 回復する
roman: kaifuku-suru
lang: Portuguese
word: redimir
lang: Russian
word: обеля́ть
roman: obeljátʹ
lang: Russian
word: обели́ть
roman: obelítʹ
lang: Spanish
word: redimir
lang: Turkish
word: aklamak
lang: Turkish
word: temize çıkarmak
perturbation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French perturbation, from Old French perturbacion, from Latin perturbatio.
Inflected forms:
form: perturbations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Agitation; the state of being perturbed.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Reſtore your ſelues, vnto your temper, Fathers; / And, vvithout perturbation, heare me ſpeake: […]
But her mind had never been in such perturbation; and it needed a very strong effort to appear attentive and cheerful till the usual hour of separating allowed her the relief of quiet reflection.
gloss: A small change in a physical system, or more broadly any definable system (such as a biological or economic system).
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: Natures that haue much Heat, and great and violent deſires and Perturbations, are not ripe for Action, till they haue paſſed the Meridian of their yeares: As it was with Iulius Cæſar, and Septimius Seuerus.
gloss: Variation in an orbit due to the influence of external bodies.
pos: noun
tags: countable
Related words: perturb
perturbatory
Derived words: cosmological perturbation theory
perturbational
perturbation theory
photoperturbation
preperturbation
reperturbation
subperturbation
Translations:
database
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *deh₃-redup.
Proto-Indo-European *-ti
Proto-Indo-European *dédeh₃ti
Proto-Italic *didō
Latin dō
Latin datusnom.
Latin datumbor.
English data
Proto-Indo-European *gʷem-
Proto-Indo-European *-tis
Proto-Indo-European *gʷémtis
Proto-Hellenic *gʷə́tis
Ancient Greek βᾰ́σῐς (bắsĭs)bor.
Latin basis
Old French basebor.
Middle English base
English base
English database
From data + base.
Inflected forms:
form: databases
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: data base
pos: noun
tags: alternative
dated
form: data-base
pos: noun
tags: alternative
dated
form: databases
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: databasing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: databased
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: databased
pos: verb
tags: past
form: data base
pos: verb
tags: alternative
dated
form: data-base
pos: verb
tags: alternative
dated
Senses:
gloss: A collection of (usually) organized information in a regular structure, usually but not necessarily in a machine-readable format accessible by a computer.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
examples: I have a database of all my contacts in my personal organizer.
gloss: A set of tables and other objects (queries, reports, forms) in the form of a structured data set.
pos: noun
examples: The "books" database will have three tables, and the "customers" database will have two tables.
gloss: A software program (application) for storing, retrieving and manipulating such a structured data set.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
metonymically
examples: Which database do you use: MySQL or Oracle?
gloss: A combination of such data sets and the programs for using them.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
metonymically
gloss: To enter (data) into a database.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The resulting citation collection was databased and coded for meaning, etymon, and date range (earliest and latest occurrence found).
Synonyms: DB
database management system
Antonyms: nondatabase
Derived words: database administrator
database analyst
database engine
database-first
database key
databaselike
database management system
database model
database publishing
database transaction
hyperbase
tablebase
termbase
textbase
Translations:
deaf
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English def, deef, from Old English dēaf, from Proto-West Germanic *daub, from Proto-Germanic *daubaz, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰewbʰ- (“to whisk, smoke, darken, obscure”). Cognate with Ancient Greek τυφλός (tuphlós, “blind”). See also dumb. Doublet of daff, dof, and dowf.
Cognate with Dutch doof, German taub, Danish and Norwegian Bokmål døv, Norwegian Nynorsk dauv, Swedish döv, Faroese deyvur, Icelandic daufur.
Inflected forms:
form: deafer
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: deafest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Unable (or partially able) to hear.
pos: adj
examples: My brother has been deaf since sustaining injuries in the war.
It's important for TV shows to provide closed captioning for the deaf.
Come on my right hand, for this ear is deaf.
Deaf vvith the noyſe I took my haſty flight.
gloss: Unwilling to listen or be persuaded; determinedly inattentive.
pos: adj
examples: Those people are deaf to reason.
O, that men's ears should be / To counsel deaf, but not to flattery!
The curioſity of the lady was highly inflamed, to know the hiſtory of the parrot's tranſmigration, which ſhe intreated the bird with all her eloquence to relate; but he preſented a deaf ear to her importunity, and, like a painted nightingale, remained ſilent.
gloss: Of or relating to the community of deaf people.
pos: adj
examples: The best place to fight Hollywood deafism is in our deaf schools. If we give our children understanding and appreciation of our rich culture and sign language, the students will gain a deaf heritage and become more creative, more aware, and more assertive global deaf citizens.
gloss: Obscurely heard; stifled; deadened.
pos: adj
tags: obsolete
examples: A deaf murmur through the squadron went.
gloss: Decayed; tasteless; useless.
pos: adj
tags: UK
dialectal
obsolete
examples: a deaf nut; deaf corn
If the season be unkindly and intemperate, they [peppers] will catch a blast; and then the seeds will be deafe, void, light, and naught.
Synonyms: hard of hearing
hearing-impaired
Related words: inaudible
Derived words: are you deaf
beat-deaf
cock a deaf 'un
Deaf
deaf adder
deaf aid
deaf and dumb
deaf as a doorknob
deaf as a doornail
deaf as a doorpost
deaf as a post
deafblind
deaf-blind
deaf-blindness
deafen
deafie
deafish
deafism
deafly
Deaflympian
Deaflympic
Deaflympics
deaf-mute
deaf-muteness
deafness
deafo
Deaf Smith County
deaf waddler
dip hop
fall on deaf ears
I'm deaf
inattentionally deaf
nondeaf
nose deaf
preach to deaf ears
semideaf
stone-deaf
stone deaf
tone-deaf
turn a deaf ear
undeaf
Translations:
dang
Part of speech: verb
intj
adj
adv
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: First attested in c. 1797, a minced oath of damn.
Inflected forms:
form: dangs
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: danging
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: danged
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: danged
pos: verb
tags: past
form: dangs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Damn.
pos: verb
tags: euphemistic
gloss: Damn.
pos: intj
tags: euphemistic
gloss: Damn.
pos: adj
tags: euphemistic
not-comparable
gloss: Damn.
pos: adv
tags: euphemistic
not-comparable
examples: Draining your pasta water (and reserving a bit for your pasta sauce recipe) is so dang easy with this clip-on strainer. Plus, it wastes waaay less cabinet space than a traditional colander.
gloss: A damn, a negligible quantity, minimal consideration.
pos: noun
tags: euphemistic
examples: I don't give a dang.
gloss: A dam (structure placed around a body of water), used because of the homophony between dam and damn.
pos: noun
tags: humorous
rare
examples: I don't often yell at my players or officials--I've never once thrown a chair, the best I ever did was a clipboard--and I never curse. People like to joke that I once went on vacation to the Hoover Dang.
“Momma, Keisha says we have to call it the 'Hoover Dang'.” Monique laughed, and it felt good. “No, honey. You don't have to call it that.[…]
Translations:
nowt
Part of speech: pron
noun
adv
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Dialectal pronunciation of naught. Akin to West Frisian neat (“nothing”), German nichts (“nothing”).
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Naught, nothing.
pos: pron
tags: Northern-England
examples: Today I have achieved absolutely nowt / In just being out of the house, I've lost out
gloss: Naught, nothing.
pos: noun
tags: Northern-England
uncountable
gloss: A person of no importance; a worthless person; a ne'er-do-well.
pos: noun
tags: Yorkshire
uncountable
examples: Bud yah're a nowt, and it's no use talking - yah'll niver mend o'yer ill ways, but goa raight to t' divil, like yer mother afore ye!
... and great hectoring nowts like yond' Irish Peter, Helstone's curate.
A ornery beggar, a nowt, a rapscallion, a shop egg, a devvle from yed to foot, at some time or other were applied to him.
gloss: Naught, nothing.
pos: adv
tags: Northern-England
not-comparable
Antonyms: owt
Derived words: shy bairns get nowt
there's nowt so queer as folk
you don't get owt for nowt
Translations: