yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
redbud
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From red + bud.
Compound parts: red
bud
Inflected forms:
form: redbuds
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of several small trees, of the genus Cercis, having purple-pink flowers that appear before the leaves; the Judas tree.
pos: noun
Translations:
trematode
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
Etymology: From translingual Trematoda, from Ancient Greek τρημᾰτώδης (trēmătṓdēs, “having a vent to the intestinal canal”), from τρῆμᾰ (trêmă, “perforation, aperture”) + -ώδης (-ṓdēs, “full of, -like”). See also -ode.
Base: τρῆμᾰ
Affixes: -ώδης
Inflected forms:
form: trematodes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: a parasitic flatworm of the class Trematoda
pos: noun
examples: He passed under the last of the bridges and around the bend in the river, through peaceful farmland, high fields tilted on the slopes and rich turned earth in patches of black corrugation among the greening purlieus and small cultivated orchards like scenes of plenitude from picturebooks suddenly pasted over the waste he was a familiar of, the river like a giant trematode curling down out of the city, welling heavy and septic past these fine homes on the north shore.
Translations:
reductionist
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English reduction
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 reductionist
From reduction + -ist.
Inflected forms:
form: more reductionist
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most reductionist
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: reductionists
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of, or relating to reductionism.
pos: adj
gloss: An advocate of reductionism.
pos: noun
Translations:
regulative
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English regulate
Proto-Indo-European *-wós
Proto-Indo-European *-iHwósder.
Latin -īvus
Old French -ifbor.
Middle English -yf
English -ive
English regulative
From regulate + -ive.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of or relating to regulation; having a regulatory function.
pos: adj
Translations:
reintroduction
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Italic *wre-
Latin re-der.
Old French re-bor.
Middle English re-
English re-
English introduction
English reintroduction
From re- + introduction.
Inflected forms:
form: reintroductions
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of introducing something again.
pos: noun
examples: On the passenger-carrying 1 ft. 11½ in.-gauge Vale of Rheidol branch from Aberystwyth to Devils Bridge, however, the 2-6-2 tank engines are to be named for the reintroduction of the train service for this summer on June 11.
gloss: The release of animals from captivity into the wild, especially, into an area where they have become extirpated or greatly reduced.
pos: noun
examples: Klopfer and Gamble (1966) gave 16 female goats (C. hircus) 5 min of contact with their young at parturition. Nine of the mothers had been temporarily rendered anosmic (could not smell) at parturition by spraying a 10% cocaine hydrogen chloride solution into their nostrils 20–90 min prior to parturition. […] Eight of the nine females who were anosmic at parturition but could smell at reintroduction accepted their own offspring, as well as alien young during reinstatement.
The IUCN (International Union for the Conservation of Nature), for example, restricts use of the word ʽreintroductionʼ to species that have become extinct locally or Europe-wide no more than 200 to 300 years ago.
A wildlife foundation called Elephant Havens, based at the edge of Botswana’s Okavango Delta, has developed a long-term reintroduction project.
gloss: An animal so released.
pos: noun
tags: countable
Related words: reintroduce
Translations:
rending
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: rendings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act by which something is rent, or torn.
pos: noun
examples: rendings of garments
Translations:
replenished
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more replenished
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most replenished
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Imbued, fully infused (with) some quality.
pos: adj
tags: archaic
gloss: Full, fully stocked (with), containing an abundance (of).
pos: adj
tags: obsolete
examples: This river also as the two former, is replenished with fish and foule.
gloss: That has been refilled; restored to capacity or fullness, full.
pos: adj
Translations:
Norn
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
Etymology: From Old Norse norn.
Inflected forms:
form: Norns
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of the three goddesses of fate or destiny.
pos: noun
tags: Norse
Translations:
salmeterol
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
Etymology: Probably from sal(butamol)[Term?] + -terol (“phenethylamine derivative”).
Base: salbutamol
Affixes: -terol
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A bronchodilator administered by oral inhalation in the form of a salt C₂₅H₃₇NO₄·C₁₁H₈O₃ to treat bronchospasm associated especially with asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. It acts as an agonist, binding to beta-receptors that mediate the relaxation of bronchial muscles.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
resettle
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Italic *wre-
Latin re-der.
Old French re-bor.
Middle English re-
English re-
English settle
English resettle
From re- + settle.
Inflected forms:
form: resettles
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: resettling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: resettled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: resettled
pos: verb
tags: past
form: re-settle
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: To settle in a different place.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To force someone to settle in a different place.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: And for entrepreneurial immigrants, the mayor's office partners with local organizations to offer business loans of between $5,000 and $50,000, said Ruben Chandrasekar, executive director for the International Rescue Committee, a nonprofit that resettles about 1,100 refugees and asylum seekers in Baltimore each year.
And so far just two member states, Malta and Finland, are on track to meet their resettling obligations.
Together with our partner in Pittsburgh, Jewish Family and Community Services, and others across the country, we’ve directly resettled more than 450,000 refugees in the US since 1980 when the USRAP was established, according to HIAS annual reports.
After the biggest military evacuation in history, the Biden administration will now resettle more than 60,000 Afghan refugees inside the US over the next several weeks.
Derived words: resettler
Translations:
retake
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Italic *wre-
Latin re-der.
Old French re-bor.
Middle English re-
English re-
English take
English retake
From re- + take.
Inflected forms:
form: retakes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: retaking
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: retook
pos: verb
tags: past
form: retaken
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: re-take
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: retakes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: re-take
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: To take something again.
pos: verb
gloss: To take something back.
pos: verb
gloss: To capture or occupy somewhere again.
pos: verb
examples: The army tried repeatedly to retake the fort they had been driven from.
gloss: To photograph or film again.
pos: verb
gloss: a scene that is filmed again, or a picture that is photographed again
pos: noun
gloss: an instance of resitting an examination
pos: noun
Derived words: retaker
Translations:
rheumy
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From rheum + -y (suffix forming adjectives meaning ‘having the quality of’).
Base: rheum
Affixes: -y
Inflected forms:
form: rheumier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: rheumiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of, relating to, or made of rheum (“thin or watery discharge of mucus or serum”); watery.
pos: adj
gloss: Producing rheum from the mucous membranes; (also figuratively) especially of the eyes: filled with rheum; watery.
pos: adj
examples: So, too-much Cold couers vvith hoary Fleece / The head of Age, his fleſh diminiſhes, / VVithers his face, hollovves his rheumy eyes, / And makes himſelf euen his ovvn ſelf deſpiſe; […]
The Northern Breath, that freezes Floods, he binds; / VVith all the race of Cloud-diſpelling VVinds: / […] / From his divided Beard tvvo Streams he pours, / His Head and rhumy Eyes diſtill in Shovvers.
But were it not curious to know how Sieyes, now in these days (for he is said to be still alive) looks out on all that Constitution masonry, through the rheumy soberness of extreme age?
Her lips were clammy, but in her rheumy eyes there still burned the light of a vague desire.
[…] Gately draws himself up to his full menacing height and shines his flashlight in the little homeowner’s rheumy eyes and addresses him the way menacing criminals speak in popular entertainment— […]
Awoke calm in the morning, clearheaded. Lungs rheumier than usual, though.
Her wizened face beneath straggling gray hair gathered in a bun, held the kindest, but rheumiest of faded blue eyes.
Eventually we'd find a date and we'd meet up, his eyes a little rheumier, his untrained eyebrows even more adventurous than last year.
gloss: Especially of the air: damp, moist.
pos: adj
tags: literary
obsolete
poetic
examples: And vvill he ſteale out of his vvholſome bed / To dare the vile contagion of the Night? / And tempt the Rhevvmy, and vnpurged Ayre, / To adde vnto hit^([sic – meaning his]) ſickneſſe?
The reumy vault vvill force your eyes to vveepe, / VVhilſt you behold true deſolation: […]
Avoiding observation as much as they conveniently could, the two sisters walked from the long wooden shed which formed the station here, into the rheumy air and along the road to the open country.
Related words: rheumatic
rheumatically
rheumatic fever
rheumaticky
rheumatism
rheumatismal
rheumatiz
rheumatize
rheumatoid
rheumatological
rheumatologist
rheumatology
rheumed
bleareyed
bleary-eyed
Derived words: rheumily
rheuminess
Translations:
richesse
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English richesse, from Old French richese, richece.
Inflected forms:
form: richesses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: wealth or riches
pos: noun
tags: archaic
uncountable
usually
gloss: A group of martens; the collective noun for martens.
pos: noun
tags: collective
countable
usually
Translations:
ridgepole
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From ridge + pole.
Compound parts: ridge
pole
Inflected forms:
form: ridgepoles
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: ridge pole
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A beam along the ridge of a roof to which the rafters are attached.
pos: noun
examples: In the middle of the floor was a pole of tough thornwood, to hold the end of the ridgepole.
gloss: A horizontal pole that supports the roof of a ridge tent .
pos: noun
Translations:
packager
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English package
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Proto-Italic *-āzijos
Latin -āriusnom.
Latin -āriusbor.
Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz
Proto-West Germanic *-ārī
Old English -ere
Middle English -ere
English -er
English packager
From package + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: packagers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person who packages.
pos: noun
gloss: A tool or machine used to package objects.
pos: noun
gloss: A company that hires writers and produces finished books to be sold on to publishers.
pos: noun
gloss: A comic book studio that produces content for comic book publishers on demand.
pos: noun
gloss: A program that groups objects or data into a single file.
pos: noun
Derived words: mortgage packager
universal packager
Translations:
topside
Part of speech: noun
adj
adv
Morphological type: compound
Topics: business
construction
manufacturing
nautical
transport
Etymology: From top + side.
Compound parts: top
side
Inflected forms:
form: topsides
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The side or part of something that is at the top.
pos: noun
examples: Yet the topside exerts significant control over the lower ionosphere and hence also has an indirect effect on long-range radio communications.
These sounders have produced a wealth of information not only about the distribution of electrons in the topside but also about the response of plasma when the transmitter is embedded in it.
The rotor underside also exhibits a higher coefficient of microscale friction than the rotor topside and stator, as shown in Table 50.6.
The composite filter system includes topside and backside light path with different filter[s]. The topside image of [the] weld pool is formed by the illumination from arc emission in the spectral window of 100-200 nm.
Place one cake layer on a serving plate, topside down; spread evenly with the pineapple filling. Top with the second cake layer, topside up.
gloss: The surface of a ship’s hull that is above the water line.
pos: noun
examples: We believe that the failure of Sun Ship to submit a bid for topside work had no effect on the price, quality, quantity or time of performance of any contract to be awarded for the combination of drydock and topside work covered in the firm′s bid for Lot III.
gloss: The structure and assembly of modules above the jacket or gravity base sub structure.
pos: noun
examples: Future plans are for tripod designs in up to 90m of water, supporting lightweight topsides and braced mono towers for marginal field developments.
gloss: The structure and assembly of modules on the deck of any floating installation.
pos: noun
gloss: The outer side of a round of beef.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
New-Zealand
UK
examples: To detach the round bone, the biggest muscle of the round, the topside, must first be removed. This is done by cutting down to the round bone in a layer of connective tissue which separates the topside from the nuggle.
Slow roasting is better for lean or not so tender cuts such as topside or whole bolar blade, which are not suitable to be cooked very pink.
It is removed from its attachment to the silverside along the natural seam, and from the topside by a straight cut along the line of the femur bone.
gloss: Abovedeck, such as on the weather deck or bridge.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Abovedeck, such as on the weather deck or bridge.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
Related words: bilge
silverside
Derived words: topside development
topside-turvy
Translations:
strongback
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: aerospace
business
carpentry
construction
engineering
manufacturing
natural-sciences
nautical
physical-sciences
space-science
transport
Etymology: From strong + back.
Compound parts: strong
back
Inflected forms:
form: strongbacks
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The fore-and-aft spar extending from stem to stern on a lifeboat and serving as a raised spreader for a boat cover. (FM 55-501)
pos: noun
gloss: A strong bar placed across a hatch opening to hold hatch boards or hatch covers. (FM 55-501)
pos: noun
gloss: A load-bearing post with a T-shaped cross-section, where the short T-tail prevents bowing of the long post.
pos: noun
gloss: A backing pole used to reinforce and stabilize vertically-oriented sculptures.
pos: noun
gloss: A vertical structure used to support and stabilize a rocket, often hosting fuel and power umbilical connections. Usually retracted immediately before launch.
pos: noun
Translations:
unpack
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: computing
engineering
human-sciences
linguistics
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: From Middle English unpakken, equivalent to un- + pack. Compare Saterland Frisian uutpakje (“to unpack”), West Frisian útpakke (“to unpack”), Dutch uitpakken (“to unpack”), German auspacken (“to unpack”).
Base: pack
Affixes: un-
Inflected forms:
form: unpacks
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: unpacking
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: unpacked
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: unpacked
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To remove from a package or container, particularly with respect to items that had previously been arranged closely and securely in a pack.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: They didn't have time to unpack their bags before going out to dinner.
gloss: To empty containers that had been packed.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: They didn't have time to unpack before going to dinner.
gloss: To analyze a concept or a text; to explain.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
transitive
examples: There may be another argument here, if we had time to unpack it, about modernism and the rise of the middle classes.
Yet few Americans — including the president — understand how global trade works, both how it can help our economy and how some can be left behind. Let’s try to unpack a few of the complexities.
From a gender reveal to a secret ceremony and rifts with other royal family members, there was a lot to unpack from the interview
gloss: To undergo separation of its features into distinct segments.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: The rounded vowels [y] and [œ/ə] in Russian seem to unpack as glide-vowel sequences in words borrowed from French and German, […]
Whereas the high vowels /ʏ, y/ unpack, the mid vowels /œ, ø/ are adapted as single segments in these languages (see examples in (36) for Vietnamese (Barker 1969) and (37) for Fon (Gbeto 2000)). […]
French /y/ → Vietnamese /wi/
accu [a'ky] → ac-quy [ak kwi]
The objective of these corpora was to check whether vowels other than nasal vowels systematically unpack in L1s that do not allow them.
gloss: To decompress (data).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Packages […] are often archived and compressed using the zip utility; you can unpack these with the unzip command[…]
Antonyms: pack
Translations:
cordwood
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From cord + wood.
Compound parts: cord
wood
Inflected forms:
form: cordwoods
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Wood suitable for use as firewood; firewood cut and split into conveniently sized pieces for easy stacking into cords.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The June rise used to be always luck for me; because as soon as that rise begins here comes cordwood floating down, and pieces of log rafts -- sometimes a dozen logs together; so all you have to do is to catch them and sell them to the wood-yards and the sawmill.
The barkeeper drew beer from two pumps immediately in front of him, and rinsed glasses in some sort of a sink under the edge of the bar. The centre of the room was occupied by a tremendous stove capable of burning whole logs of cordwood.
gloss: Split and cut wood as an economic commodity.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: In addition to being fuel, cordwood can also be used as a fairly pretty building material.
The price of the paper was two dollars a year, but he took in three subscriptions for half a dollar apiece on condition of them paying him in advance; they were going to pay in cordwood and onions as usual, but he said he had just bought the concern and knocked down the price as low as he could afford it, and was going to run it for cash.
In his earlier days he had been successful both as a small farmer and as a dealer in cordwood and hoop-poles; and many of his ventures in this line had sailed out of the tortuous rivers of South Jersey to Philadelphia, where the wood and the poles then found ready sale.
Translations:
corker
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English cork
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Proto-Italic *-āzijos
Latin -āriusnom.
Latin -āriusbor.
Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz
Proto-West Germanic *-ārī
Old English -ere
Middle English -ere
English -er
English corker
From cork + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: corkers
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: cauker
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: caulker
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: One who puts corks into bottles.
pos: noun
examples: Yes it is, Frank. Don't you see? Laertes is to take the best of care of his friends—his proved friends, on the same principle that a wine-corker takes the best of care of his proved bottles.
gloss: A person or thing that is exceptional or remarkable.
pos: noun
tags: informal
examples: Well, a body is bound to admit that for just a modest little one-line ad., it's a corker.
"As a matter of fact," explained the young man, "the present tenant is under our notice to leave."
"Unsatisfactory, eh?" said Carrados encouragingly.
"He's a corker," admitted the clerk, responding to the friendly tone. "Fifteen months and not a doit of rent have we had. That's why I should have liked——"
He had just had an absolute corker of an idea!
Translations:
carnelian
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: From cornelian, the red form named carneolus under the influence of Latin carneus (“fleshy”) because of its color.
Inflected forms:
form: carnelians
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A hard, reddish brown chalcedony used in jewelry.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
cornel
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English corneille, borrowed from Middle French corneille, from Vulgar Latin *cornicula, from Latin cornus (“the European cornel”).
Inflected forms:
form: cornels
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any tree or shrub of the dogwood subgenera, Cornus subg. Arctocrania (syn. Cornus subg. Chamaepericlymenum) or Cornus subg. Cornus, especially Cornus mas, the European cornel.
pos: noun
gloss: The cherry-like fruit of such plants, certain of which are edible.
pos: noun
examples: Cornels, and ſalvage Berries of the Wood, / And Roots and Herbs have been my meagre Food.
Meanwhile the goddess in disdain bestows / The mast and acorn, brutal food! and strows / The fruits and cornel, as their feast, around
Related words: dogwood
Derived words: Canadian dwarf cornel
cornelian cherry
dwarf cornel
European cornel
Japanese cornel
Japanese cornelian cherry
silky cornel
Translations:
Hereford
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English Hereford, from Old English Hereford, from Old English here (“army”) + ford (“ford”). Compare Herford, North Rhine-Westphalia.
Inflected forms:
form: Herefords
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A cow of the Hereford breed.
pos: noun
Translations:
gingerbread
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: architecture
cooking
food
lifestyle
Etymology: From Middle English gyngebred, gyngebrede, from Old French gingembras, gingimbrat (“preserved ginger”), from Medieval Latin *gingimbrātus (“gingered”, presumably referring to ginger that perhaps had a pharmaceutical use for some medicinal preparation), with the intrusive m added to gingiber, from Latin zingiber (“ginger”), of earlier Sanskrit origin, through Ancient Greek ζιγγίβερις (zingíberis). The third syllable was earlier confounded with bread, and the insertion of an r in the second syllable completed the semblance of a compound word: ginger + bread.
Compound parts: ginger
bread
Inflected forms:
form: gingerbreads
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: gingebred
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Scotland
Senses:
gloss: A type of cake whose main flavoring is ginger.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Something ersatz; something showy but insubstantial.
pos: noun
tags: countable
figuratively
obsolete
uncountable
gloss: A flamboyant Victorian-era architectural style.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: For a time modern architects took a starkly functional approach to the design of houses, emphasizing clean, uncluttered lines and rejecting most forms of wall ornamentation as dust-catching gingerbread.
Translations:
step-through
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: step-throughs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: step-thru
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: An open space in an otherwise solid object through which a person can step or walk.
pos: noun
tags: attributive
examples: A motor-scooter has a step-through frame, also known as an "open frame".
Antonyms: step-over
Translations:
cornice
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: architecture
furniture
geography
hobbies
lifestyle
mountaineering
natural-sciences
sports
Etymology: From Middle French corniche or Italian cornice, possibly from either (1) Latin cornīx (“crow”) or (2) Latin coronis (“curved line, flourish in writing”), from Ancient Greek κορωνίς (korōnís). See also corniche.
Inflected forms:
form: cornices
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: cornices
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: cornicing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: corniced
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: corniced
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A horizontal architectural element of a building, projecting forward from the main walls, originally used as a means of directing rainwater away from the building's walls.
pos: noun
examples: It is a large square structure, two and a half stories in height, with a hipped roof rising above a handsome cornice with prominent modillions and surmounted by a balustraded belvedere.
gloss: A decorative element applied at the topmost part of the wall of a room, as with a crown molding.
pos: noun
examples: That ceiling was covered with square compartments,[...] It was supported by a gilded cornice, carved into a thousand curious shapes and emblems, among which the horned wolf, the crest of the Avonleigh family, was conspicuous.
Challenger looked up at the cornice and round at the skirting.
The half-dozen pieces […] were painted white and carved with festoons of flowers, birds and cupids. […] The bed was the most extravagant piece. Its graceful cane halftester rose high towards the cornice and was so festooned in carved white wood that the effect was positively insecure, as if the great couch were trimmed with icing sugar.
gloss: A decorative element at the topmost portion of certain pieces of furniture, as with a highboy.
pos: noun
examples: And blood was on the roof, and great gouts of blood on the walls and on the cornice of my bed.
gloss: An overhanging edge of snow on a ridge or the crest of a mountain and along the sides of gullies.
pos: noun
examples: Looking to the east we could see Api and the mountains of west Nepal, shapely snow peaks in the distance, while in the immediate foreground, much lower but still dramatic, were the peaks of Panch Chuli IV and V (III was hidden by the lip of a huge cornice), Telkot and Nagling, all of them unclimbed, all steep and challenging.
gloss: To furnish or decorate with a cornice.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Related words: eaves
fascia
Derived words: cornice ring
cornicework
snow cornice
Translations:
lang: Danish
word: stuk
lang: German
word: Stuckleiste
lang: German
word: Fries
lang: German
word: Randleiste
rial
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Persian ریال (riyâl) (in the case of Iran) and a variant transliteration of Arabic رِيَال (riyāl) (in the case of Oman and Yemen), from Spanish real. Doublet of real, royal, and regal.
Inflected forms:
form: rials
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The official currencies of Iran, Oman, and Yemen.
pos: noun
examples: That year [2012], Iran was cut off from the Swift global payment system. The rial devalued, inflation soared, investment declined and Iranians felt worse off—the same ailments that have helped ignite the past two weeks of protests.
gloss: A former currency of Morocco and Tunisia
pos: noun
gloss: An old gold coin of England.
pos: noun
tags: historical
Related words: riyal
Translations:
corniche
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From French corniche (“ledge”). See also cornice.
Inflected forms:
form: corniches
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A road built on a ledge (cliff), especially along water (a river, sea, etc).
pos: noun
Translations:
silverside
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From silver + side.
Compound parts: silver
side
Inflected forms:
form: silversides
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of several small fish, mostly in families Atherinidae and Atherinopsidae, both in order Atheriniformes, that are characterized by bright, silvery scales.
pos: noun
gloss: Any of several small fish, mostly in families Atherinidae and Atherinopsidae, both in order Atheriniformes, that are characterized by bright, silvery scales.
pos: noun
gloss: The upper side of a round of beef.
pos: noun
tags: UK
gloss: The upper side of a round of beef.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
Ireland
New-Zealand
South-Africa
UK
informal
Related words: topside
silverback
Translations:
lang: Estonian
word: ateriinlane
lang: Finnish
word: hopeakylki
lang: German
word: Ährenfisch
lang: Spanish
word: pejerrey
lang: Spanish
word: tinícalo
lang: Swedish
word: prästfisk
lang: Tagalog
word: langaray-pako
lang: Tagalog
word: guno
stepfamily
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *(s)tew-
Proto-Germanic *steupa-
Proto-West Germanic *steupa-
Old English stēop-
Middle English step-
English step-
English family
English stepfamily
From step- + family.
Inflected forms:
form: stepfamilies
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: step family
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Any family having one or more stepchildren or stepparents.
pos: noun
examples: Researchers are finding that the incidence of violence and abuse is vastly greater in stepfamilies than in traditional families in which the children are biologically related to both parents and to one other.
Meanwhile, thanks to the huge number of second marriages, a third of all Americans are part of a stepfamily.
gloss: The family of one's stepfather or stepmother; those immediate family members not related by blood.
pos: noun
Related words: steprelative
Translations:
merveilleux
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From the French merveilleux. Doublet of marvellous.
Inflected forms:
form: merveilleux
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Merveilleux
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Contemporary names for an extravagantly dressed French fop or ‘fine lady’ of the period of the Directory (1795–1799), who affected a revival of the classical costume of Ancient Greece.
pos: noun
tags: historical
examples: The Ecrouelleux, the Inconcevables, the Merveilleux, with their chins sunk in their huge cravats.
Translations:
cordage
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: nautical
transport
Etymology: Etymology tree
French cordagebor.
English cordage
Borrowed from French cordage.
Inflected forms:
form: cordages
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Cord (of any type) when viewed as a mass or commodity.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: A set of ropes and cords, especially that used for a ship's rigging.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: So Juan stood, bewildered on the deck: / The wind sung, cordage strained, and sailors swore […]
[…] as the old craft deep dived into the green seas, and sent the shivering frost all over her, and the winds howled, and the cordage rang […]
Boatswain Marsham fell to work overhauling the bolts of sail-cloth and the hanks of cordage and the coils of rope, till he had found a new foresail and laid it under the hatch, and had placed great ropes and such cordage as headlines and marlines and sennets so that a man could lay hands on them in a time of haste and confusion.
A lone river wind sighed in the cordage of the ship.
gloss: An amount of wood measured in cords.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
Translations:
cottonwood
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From cotton + wood.
Compound parts: cotton
wood
Inflected forms:
form: cottonwoods
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A tree from one of number of species of tree in the genus Populus (poplars), typically growing along watercourses, with fluffy catkins.
pos: noun
examples: Between these canyons the river has a low but rather narrow flood plain, with cottonwood groves scattered here and there, and a chaparral of mesquite bearing beans and thorns.
[…] and through the middle of this forest, from wall to wall, ran a winding line of brilliant green which marked the course of cottonwoods and willows.
The leaves of a small bush echoed the yellow cottonwoods that are so characteristic of the Rio Grande Valley in late fall.
gloss: Populus sect. Aigeiros, a taxonomic section of the poplar genus
pos: noun
gloss: A cottonwood hibiscus (Talipariti tiliaceum, syn. Hibiscus tiliaceus), a flowering shrub or tree in the mallow family.
pos: noun
gloss: A tree of species Ceiba pentandra, native to the American tropics and west Africa; silk-cotton tree.
pos: noun
examples: There is no break in the trees. That is the wonder and the mystery of it. There where you see light-green rushes instead of dark-green undergrowth, there between the great cotton woods, that is my private gate into the unknown.
gloss: Several species of trees endemic to New Zealand.
pos: noun
Derived words: balsam cottonwood
black cottonwood
coastal cottonwood
coast cottonwood
cottonwood borer
cottonwood hibiscus
cottonwood leaf beetle
cottonwood leaf-mining beetle
eastern cottonwood
Fremont cottonwood
Great Plains cottonwood
green cottonwood
lanceleaf cottonwood
mountain cottonwood
narrowleaf cottonwood
northern cottonwood
plains cottonwood
river cottonwood
swamp cottonwood
willow cottonwood
Wislizenus's cottonwood
yellow cottonwood
Translations:
rehabilitation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle French réhabilitation, from Medieval Latin rehabilitatio.
Inflected forms:
form: rehabilitations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The process of rehabilitating somebody or something.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The working life span of a passenger carriage, on average, is between 30 and 35 years, so a steady replacement takes place quite naturally. The life span of a station, however, cannot be so easily reckoned, for it depends largely on the rehabilitation and upkeep of the existing structures.
Maybe now it should be clearer why Louis van Gaal has been telling anyone who cares to listen they should not be surprised if Manchester United’s rehabilitation takes longer than they would ideally like.
Translations:
piastre
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From French piastre, from Italian piastra (“plate of wood or metal; coin”), probably from Latin emplastra.
Inflected forms:
form: piastres
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: piaster
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: pyaster
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A coin and unit of currency, originally a Spanish or Spanish-American one worth eight real, later also used (with various values) in the Ottoman Empire and in Cyprus, in the French-speaking parts of Canada, and in French Indochina.
pos: noun
tags: historical
examples: The Silkes, Velvets, Cloth of gold, and Tissue, Pyasters, Chicqueenes and Sultanies, which is gold and silver, they unloaded in foure and twentie houres, was wonderfull [...].
gloss: A form of currency currently used as a subunit in the Middle Eastern and East African countries of Egypt, Jordan (partly including Palestine), Lebanon, South Sudan, Sudan, and Syria.
pos: noun
gloss: A dollar.
pos: noun
tags: Louisiana
Related words: ghurush
Translations:
nibbling
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English nibble
Middle English -ynge
English -ing
English nibbling
From nibble + -ing.
Inflected forms:
form: nibblings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act or sound of one who nibbles.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Minute nibblings and rustlings broke the silence.
gloss: A small adjustment or encroachment.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: I send you back the two last sheets, because you bid me. I reserve my nibblings and minutiae for another day.
Meantime the penetration of Shantung by means of railway discrimination, railway military guards, continual nibblings here and there, will be going on.
Translations:
rehabilitate
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: business
construction
criminology
human-sciences
law
manufacturing
medicine
sciences
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Medieval Latin rehabilitātus, perfect passive participle of Latin rehabilitō. See habilitate.
Inflected forms:
form: rehabilitates
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: rehabilitating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: rehabilitated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: rehabilitated
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To restore (someone) to their former state, reputation, possessions, status etc.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To vindicate; to restore the reputation or image of (a person, concept etc.).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To return (something) to its original condition.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To restore or repair (a vehicle, building); to make habitable or usable again.
pos: verb
tags: Canada
US
transitive
examples: Cumaratunga was so furious that he intensified his campaign for revitalizing the traditional practices of asweddumization, so that neglected arable land could be rehabilitated, and a degenerating economy restructured and rejuvenated.
Engineers are considering using the blowable insulation to rehabilitate residential buildings in Chicago under an Argonne partnership with Bethel New Life, a Chicago community economic initiative.
gloss: To restore to (a criminal etc.) the necessary training and education to allow for a successful reintegration into society; to retrain.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To return (someone) to good health after illness, addiction, etc.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Patty Wahlers, 40, is the founder and director of Horse of Connecticut, an organization situated on a 46-acre farm in Washington that rescues and rehabilitates neglected horses and puts them up for adoption.
gloss: To go through such a process; to recover.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Truman made us all feel welcome and relaxed as we shook hands with him. We sat around the desk, and he spoke very earnestly about the necessity of rehabilitating Europe and emphasized his concern that peaceful German production should be encouraged.
Derived words: rehab
rehabilitable
rehabilitant
rehabilitatable
rehabilitation
rehabilitative
rehabilitator
rehabilitee
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: реабилитирам
roman: reabilitiram
lang: Finnish
word: palauttaa kunnia
lang: German
word: verteidigen
lang: German
word: rehabilitieren
lang: German
word: reinwaschen
lang: Polish
word: rehabilitować
lang: Polish
word: zrehabilitować
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 回歸 /回归
roman: huíguī
lang: Finnish
word: kuntouttaa
lang: German
word: wiedereingliedern
lang: German
word: rehabilitieren
lang: German
word: resozialisieren
lang: German
word: wieder eingliedern
lang: Māori
word: whakanohonoho
lang: Māori
word: whakaauraki
lang: Swedish
word: rehabilitera
tostada
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Spanish tostada. Doublet of tostado.
Inflected forms:
form: tostadas
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: tostado
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A flat tortilla that has been fried or toasted, or a dish based on this, usually associated with the cuisine of Latin America.
pos: noun
tags: in-plural
often
examples: A platter of chicken and octopus tostadas and two ceviches arrived at the table[…].
gloss: A bowl-shaped tortilla that has been fried and filled with various ingredients.
pos: noun
tags: California
Southern
gloss: A Latin American toast (toasted bread).
pos: noun
examples: The Marina and Vicentino restaurants are good places for a coffee and tostada (toasted sandwich) for breakfast.
Tostada means any bread—tortillas or sliced loaves—that has been toasted. Any leftover bread or tostadas can be used in Torrijas (page 29) or ground into bread crumbs.
A normal urban breakfast typically consists of a cup of coffee - and there are many combinations - which will often be accompanied by a tostada. A tostada is a slice of fresh bread, toasted and covered with jam, or tomato, olive oil and garlic purée, or ham and cheese.
Derived words: bean tostada
Translations:
stranded
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: ball-games
cricket
games
grammar
hobbies
human-sciences
lifestyle
linguistics
nautical
sciences
sports
transport
Etymology: Etymology tree
English strand
English -ed
English stranded
From strand + -ed.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Abandoned or marooned.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: I found myself stranded, lunchless, on the sea-front[…]
The 9.17 a.m. diesel train from Fraserburgh to Aberdeen, Scottish Region, was blocked by a snow drift just north of Newmachar Station on January 19. The 57 passengers were stranded for 15 hours.
gloss: Run aground on a shore or reef.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Not having any expressed complement.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Made by combining or bundling thinner wires (into a strand).
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: That has become unrecoverable or difficult to recover.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: With utility deregulation, undepreciated equipment which is now redundant may have to be allocated as stranded costs.
gloss: Narrowly missing scoring a century or similar milestone because one's team's innings ends.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Having the specified number or kind of strands.
pos: adj
tags: in-compounds
not-comparable
examples: single-stranded, double-stranded, triple-stranded
Related words: strandable
stranding
unstrandable
Derived words: bistranded
intrastranded
multistranded
strandedness
Translations:
lang: Finnish
word: hylätty
lang: French
word: abandonné
lang: Georgian
word: გარიყული
roman: gariq̇uli
lang: Italian
word: abbandonato
lang: Spanish
word: abandonado
lang: Swedish
word: strandsatt
lang: Bulgarian
word: заседнал
roman: zasednal
lang: Dutch
word: gestrand
lang: Finnish
word: karilla
lang: French
word: échoué
lang: Hungarian
word: megfeneklett
lang: Italian
word: incagliato
lang: Old English
word: āseten
lang: Russian
word: сидящий на мели
roman: sidjaščij na meli
lang: Russian
word: выброшенный на берег
roman: vybrošennyj na bereg
lang: Slovak
word: uviaznutý
lang: Spanish
word: varado
lang: Swedish
word: strandad
sternpost
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: nautical
transport
Etymology: From stern + post.
Compound parts: stern
post
Inflected forms:
form: sternposts
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A timber or steel bar extending from the keel to the main deck at the stern of a vessel.
pos: noun
Translations:
phonetically
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English phonetic
Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.?
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālisbor.
Old French -albor.
▲
Latin -ālis
Old French -elbor.
▲
Latin -ālisbor.
Middle English -al
Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der.
Proto-Germanic *līkąder.
Proto-Germanic *-līkaz
Proto-Germanic *-ê
Proto-Germanic *-līkê
Proto-West Germanic *-līkē
Old English -līċe
Middle English -ly
Middle English -ally
English -ally
English phonetically
From phonetic + -ally.
Inflected forms:
form: more phonetically
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most phonetically
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In the way it sounds, particularly: written to describe the sound rather than the dictionary spelling.
pos: adv
examples: The hard words in the passage have been spelled phonetically.
Equipment on a warship set to be upgraded or disposed of was given the code AT-6, or phonetically “eighty-six”.
Translations:
ridiculously
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English ridiculous
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English ridiculously
From ridiculous + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more ridiculously
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most ridiculously
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a ridiculous manner. In a way that is funny, embarrassing or extremely implausible.
pos: adv
examples: From another point of view, it was a place without a soul. The well-to-do had hearts of stone; the rich were brutally bumptious; the Press, the Municipality, all the public men, were ridiculously, vaingloriously self-satisfied.
`I was with the ballet back home, but the money was ridiculously low.'
It's a shame; not only are nuts quite ridiculously nutritious but, as anyone who's ever shelled out (sorry) for a tiny glass of pistachios in a pub will know, they're a guaranteed crowd-pleaser. But although I happen to have a soft spot for nut roast – an option often preferable to the meat that emerged from the school kitchen – it seems I'm in a cranky minority. A request for recipe recommendations was met with a polite silence on Twitter: vegetarianism, apparently, has moved on a bit. You don't see Yotam Ottolenghi faffing about with nut roasts, do you? But I'm determined to revive the fortunes of this much-maligned classic. After all, Christmas isn't Christmas without a luxury nut selection.
gloss: extremely; very
pos: adv
examples: Thus, after eighteen months of fantastic and ruinous warfare, the companies had come to their senses and agreed to do what they might have done at the start; the only gainers were the passengers who had been carried at ridiculously uneconomic fares.
Translations:
referral
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English refer
Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.?
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālisbor.
Old French -albor.
▲
Latin -ālis
Old French -elbor.
▲
Latin -ālisbor.
Middle English -al
English -al
English referral
From refer + -al.
Inflected forms:
form: referrals
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act or process of transferring someone or something to another, of sending by reference, or referring.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The insurance company insists I get a referral from my regular doctor. I can't just go to the specialist; a GP has got to refer me.
gloss: A document used by schools detailing some form of a student's misbehavior and listing the actions taken before and after the student's receipt of the referral.
pos: noun
tags: countable
slang
uncountable
examples: After misbehaving in class, George was given a referral for disrupting class and sent to the office.
Related words: referent
referrer
Derived words: nonreferral
prereferral
referral marketing
referral spam
rereferral
Translations:
highboy
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: See high and lowboy.
Inflected forms:
form: highboys
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A tall chest of drawers that is raised up on high legs.
pos: noun
examples: mahogany highboys glittering with brass handles
[…] the well-known Pennsylvania "Highboy," which is only the English "Tallboy" double-chest elevated on cabriole legs […]
(US) National Gallery of Art
During the Queen Anne period in America, the highboy attained its characteristic form. … The cabriole leg was a distinctive feature developed in the Queen Anne period; its shape repeats the S-curve that dominated all Queen Anne design.
gloss: One who enjoys the high life.
pos: noun
tags: dated
gloss: A political highflier.
pos: noun
tags: dated
Translations: