yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
brainy
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English brayny; equivalent to brain + -y.
Base: brain
Affixes: -y
Inflected forms:
form: brainier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: brainiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Very intellectually capable.
pos: adj
tags: informal
examples: She's brainy as well as pretty.
gloss: Of or relating to the brain.
pos: adj
tags: rare
examples: You shal vnderstande that there springeth of the brayny substaunce of his for*most Ventrikles, two senewes, […]
There is a hammer and an anuile [within the ear]: whereof the hammer, ſtricking vpon the anuile, muſt of neceſſity beate off ſuch litle partes of the brainy ſteames, as flying about do light and ſticke vpon the toppe of the anuile: […]
The Blood, being by the Syſtole or Conſtriction of the Heart Driven out of it in a Fœtus, by it’s Appetite to the Expanſive hovers upon the Baſis, whither the Contractive Force Purſues and Surrounds it, and as the Blood is ſtill Pulſed forwards and Expands it ſelf, and the Nervous or Brainy Subſtance by it’s Contractive Incloſes and Inveſts it, The Beginning of the Arteria Pulmonaris and the Canalis Arterioſus is Formed, and after that, the Aorta with it’s ſeveral Aſcending and Deſcending Branches; […]
The two white threads, which in reuniting have ſtill left ſome ſpace between them, incloſe five little bags, which are the brainy ſubſtance, and the ſpinal marrow, which goes through to its extremity.
It is most worthy of observation, that throughout the centre of this flexible spinal column exists a somewhat three-sided tube, for the purpose of containing the portion of the nervous system, improperly denominated the spinal marrow, a nervous or brainy production, on which the sensation and motion of the body and limbs depend, and which is connected superiorly with the greater brain before, and the lesser behind.
Besides this, the dislocation of the vertebræ lost me the power of revolving the head or of knowing exactly where my perforations were being made. The first I made did not answer, for I found I could not from it reach the brain. Another, accordingly, was made higher up, and from it a little brainy substance was brought out on the perforator.
If the fish is a large one, say, over three pounds, you must break open the skull from the inside to dig out the white brainy substance, filling the cavity with cotton wadding well mixed with saltpetre, powdered fine.
Could a fellow with such a bulge of brainy matter really fail to understand even one of these three simple terms?
Derived words: brainiac
brainily
braininess
Translations:
bruising
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English bruise
English -ing
English bruising
From bruise + -ing.
Inflected forms:
form: more bruising
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most bruising
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: bruisings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: That bruises.
pos: adj
gloss: Wearisome, arduous.
pos: adj
examples: Instead England produced something that felt a little transgressive in this most controlled of stages, tightening their grip in a bruising first half, before freewheeling downhill in the second with their feet up on the handlebars.
gloss: A violent physical attack on a person.
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: You'd better shut up or you'll get a bruising.
gloss: Bruises on a person's skin.
pos: noun
examples: […] on October 29, 1888, the Russian imperial train was derailed at Borki by defective track, and twenty-one persons were killed. Although these did not include the Emperor Alexander III, who escaped with a bruising, a footman serving coffee to him at the critical moment, and his dog, which was lying on the floor beside him, were both killed on the spot.
Of the nine staff in the third coach, most had been having a break, drinking tea or reading. One suffered a fractured skull, another a fractured shoulder. All were either thrown along or across the coach, sustaining cuts, bruising and whiplash injuries.
Derived words: bruisingly
cruising for a bruising
Translations:
medieval
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From French médiéval (“medieval”), from Latin medium (“middle”) + aevum (“age”).
Base: medium
Inflected forms:
form: more medieval
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most medieval
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: mediaeval
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Commonwealth
form: mediæval
pos: adj
tags: alternative
archaic
form: medievals
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: mediaeval
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Commonwealth
form: mediæval
pos: noun
tags: alternative
archaic
Senses:
gloss: Of or relating to the Middle Ages, the period from approximately 500 to 1500 AD.
pos: adj
examples: The book significantly extends on Rosenstein’s monumental 1990 work, “The Unbroken Chain,” which focused on the genealogies of the major Ashkenazi rabbinic dynasties from medieval times to the present.
gloss: Having characteristics associated with the Middle Ages in popular, modern cultural perception:
pos: adj
gloss: Having characteristics associated with the Middle Ages in popular, modern cultural perception:
pos: adj
examples: Brute force can get you into any apartment if you want to get medieval about it.
"Oh, what a nifty idea," Collins said dryly. "Get a bunch of angry brothers with a blowtorch and some pliers and get medieval on his ass."
gloss: Someone living in the Middle Ages.
pos: noun
gloss: A medieval example (of something aforementioned or understood from context).
pos: noun
examples: Thank God for modern remedies: the medievals were often useless or even harmful.
Derived words: antimedieval
get medieval
Medieval Climate Anomaly
Medieval Climate Optimum
medievaldom
medieval embroidery
medievalesque
medieval guipure
medievalish
medievalism
medievalist
medievalistic
medievalistics
medievality
medievalize
Medieval Latin
medieval literature
medievally
medievalness
medievaloid
medieval studies
medieval synthesis
Medieval Warm Period
medievistics
medireview
neomedieval
nonmedieval
post-medieval
postmedieval
premedieval
pseudomedieval
unmedieval
Translations:
buxom
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English buxom, also ibucsum, ibuhsum (“bendsome, flexible, pliant, obedient”), from Old English bōcsum, *būhsum, *ġebūhsum (“bendsome, pliant, obedient”), from Proto-West Germanic *beuhsam, *beugsam, equivalent to bow (“to bend, bow at the waist”) + -some or buck (“to bend, buckle, kick”) + -some.
Cognate with Scots bowsome (“compliant”), West Frisian bûgsum (“flexible, bendy”), Dutch buigzaam (“flexible, pliant”), German biegsam (“flexible, pliant”).
Base: bow
Affixes: -some
Inflected forms:
form: buxomer
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: more buxom
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: buxomest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: most buxom
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: bucksome
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Having a full, voluptuous figure, especially possessing large breasts.
pos: adj
examples: Aarfy's buxom trollop had vanished with her smutty cameo ring, and Nurse Duckett was ashamed of him because he had refused to fly more combat missions and would cause a scandal.
DIED. Robert Brooks, 69, canny businessman who, as chairman of Hooters, turned the bar-restaurant chain, famed for buxom waitresses in orange hot pants, into an international success.
gloss: Full of health, vigour, and good temper.
pos: adj
tags: dated
examples: There on Beds of Violets blew, / And freſh-blown Roſes waſht in dew, / Fill'd her with thee a daughter fair, / So buckſom, blith, and debonair.
Claypole, the buxom novelist,...[his] bubbling utterances....
So heated and impassioned, indeed, would they become, that the lady hardly felt herself safe in their company at such times, notwithstanding that she was a brave and buxom damsel, not easily put out, and with a daring spirit of humour in her composition.
He had not seen Zilla since Paul had shot her, and he still pictured her as buxom, high-colored, lively, and a little blowsy.
gloss: Physically flexible or unresisting.
pos: adj
tags: obsolete
examples: Their substance is of a middle Nature betwixt bones and gristles moderately hard, the better to beare the violence of outward iniures, flexible or buxome that they should not breake but giue way to violence, pellucide or transparant and therefore they are either red or liuid according to their flesh vnder them.
gloss: Morally pliant; obedient and easily yielding to pressure.
pos: adj
tags: broadly
obsolete
examples: They downe him hold, and fast with cords do bynde, / Till they him force the buxome yoke to beare […].
You will certainly be rewarded for this improvement in your conduct by a notable increase of tranquillity and cheerfulness in your view both of the past and of the future; and in the hope that you will be buxom and good, I conclude by New Year's lecture.
Derived words: buxomly
buxomness
unbuxom
Translations:
discriminant
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: algebra
geometry
mathematics
sciences
Inflected forms:
form: discriminants
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: more discriminant
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most discriminant
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: An expression that gives information about the roots of a polynomial; for example, the expression D = b² - 4ac determines whether the roots of the quadratic equation ax² + bx + c = 0 are real and distinct (D > 0), real and equal (D = 0) or complex (D < 0).
pos: noun
gloss: The invariant (on the vector space of forms of degree d in n variables) that vanishes exactly when the corresponding hypersurface in Pⁿ⁻¹ is singular.
pos: noun
gloss: Serving to discriminate.
pos: adj
Derived words: discriminantal
discriminant function
discriminantly
multidiscriminant
nondiscriminant
Translations:
asymptote
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: mathematical-analysis
mathematics
sciences
Etymology: circa 1650, from Ancient Greek ἀσύμπτωτη (asúmptōtē), the feminine of Apollonius Pergaeus' (circa 200 BC) Ancient Greek adjective ἀσύμπτωτος (asúmptōtos, “not falling together”), from ἀ- (a-, “not”) + συν- (sun-, “together”) + πτωτός (ptōtós, “fallen”). See also a-, syn-, -ote.
Base: πτωτός
Affixes: ἀ-
συν-
Inflected forms:
form: asymptotes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: asymptotes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: asymptoting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: asymptoted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: asymptoted
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A straight line which a curve approaches arbitrarily closely as it goes to infinity. The limit of the curve; its tangent "at infinity".
pos: noun
examples: The King rushed forward with all his cruel coordinates and mean values, stumbled into a dark forest of roots and logarithms, had to backtrack, then encountered the beast on a field of irrational numbers (F₁) and smote it so grievously that it fell two decimal places and lost an epsilon, but the beast slid around an asymptote and hid in an n-dimensional orthogonal phase space, underwent expansion and came out, fuming factorially, and fell upon the King and hurt him passing sore.
gloss: Anything which comes near to but never meets something else.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
figuratively
examples: Language, in relation to thought, must ever be regarded as an asymptote.
gloss: To approach, but never quite touch, a straight line, as something goes to infinity.
pos: verb
examples: 2006: Neil deGrasse Tyson, The Perimeter of Ignorance
As you become more scientific, yes, the religiosity drops off, but it asymptotes.
Derived words: asymptotia
asymptotic
asymptotical
asymptotically
asymptotics
Translations:
goatee
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From goat + -ee (diminutive suffix), referring to the tuft of hair on the chin of many domestic goats.
Base: goat
Affixes: -ee
Inflected forms:
form: goatees
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A beard trimmed to grow only at the center of the chin.
pos: noun
examples: One person sports a goatee, the hair refusing to grow on the sides of his physiognomy; the chin of another is as smooth as a baby's cheek,—he contents himself with a modest moustache and a faint attempt at an imperial; while a few of the upper classes rejoice in all the varieties.
The terrorist, as he called himself, was old and bald, with a narrow, snow-white wisp of a goatee hanging limply from his chin.
"Yes, sir, behind you. He is a man of middle size, rather inclined to shortness. He is old, over sixty, with white hair, curved nose and a white, small beard of the variety that is called goatee."
Translations:
triumvir
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin triumvir. Compare Middle English triumvir (“committee of three magistrates”).
Inflected forms:
form: triumviri
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: triumvirs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One member of a triumvirate.
pos: noun
Translations:
feudalism
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English feudal
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)
Proto-Indo-European *-mos
Proto-Indo-European *-mós
Ancient Greek -μός (-mós)
Ancient Greek -ισμός (-ismós)der.
English -ism
English feudalism
From feudal + -ism.
Inflected forms:
form: feudalisms
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A social system based on personal ownership of resources and personal fealty between a suzerain (lord) and a vassal (subject). Defining characteristics are direct ownership of resources, personal loyalty, and a hierarchical social structure reinforced by religion.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: It was the beginning of a feudalism of the range, a barony rude enough, but a glorious one, albeit it began, like all feudalism, in large-handed theft and generous murdering.
The re-emergence of empire was thwarted by immense topographical variety, coastal confolutions, and wide-openness to the east, which made Christendom difficult to organize and defend as a whole from Viking, barbarian and Islamic attacks round its perimeter; by natural temperateness, which rendered large-scale disasters needing widespread rescue of populations rare (Jones 1981); and by the very devolved political system represented by feudalism, which encouraged the fissipation of whatever larger units did develop.
Translations:
yew
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English ew, from Old English īw, ēow, [both cognates of Welsh yw (“yews”), Irish eo, Old Irish eó respectively]; although the Old English form was conjectured to be from Proto-West Germanic *īhu, from Proto-Germanic *īhwaz (compare Icelandic ýr), masculine variant of *īwō (compare Dutch ijf, German Eibe), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁eyHw-.
See also Hittite 𒄑𒂊𒅀𒀭 (eyan, “type of evergreen”), Latgalian īva (“bird cherry”), Lithuanian ievà (“bird cherry”), Russian и́ва (íva, “willow”).
Inflected forms:
form: yews
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: ew
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: ew
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: A species of coniferous tree, Taxus baccata, with dark-green flat needle-like leaves and seeds bearing red arils, native to western, central and southern Europe, northwest Africa, northern Iran and southwest Asia.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: Old Yew, which graspest at the stones
⁠That name the under-lying dead,
⁠Thy fibres net the dreamless head,
Thy roots are wrapt about the bones.
Have a tree or two the witches particularly like, such as the alder, larch, cypress and hemlock; then, to counteract any possible evil effects, there must be a holly, yew, hazel, elder, mountain ash or juniper.
At Darley Dale, in Derbyshire, there is another yew about 1,000 years younger with a 32 ft girth, while a mighty yew at Goudhurst, Kent, has a bench seating 12 in its hollow trunk.
gloss: Any tree or shrub of the genus Taxus.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
countable
gloss: Other conifers resembling plants in genus Taxus:
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Other conifers resembling plants in genus Taxus:
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The wood of such trees.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: To prevent a too great conſumption of yew, bowyers were directed to make four bows of witch-haſel, aſh or elm, to one of yew, and no perſon under ſeventeen years of age, unleſs poſſeſſed of moveables worth forty marks, or the ſon of parents having an eſtate of ten pounds per annum might ſhoot in an yew bow, under a penalty of 6s. 8d.
English soldiers handled sturdy bows of yew, ash, or elm, which could propel an iron-tipped arrow as far as a hundred yards.
gloss: A bow for archery, made of yew wood.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Made from the wood of the yew tree.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Derived words: Anglojap yew
Canadian yew
catkin yew
Chinese yewcommon yew
Eubank
Ewbank
European yew
Florida yew
Himalayan yew
Japanese yew
Mexican yew
New Caledonian yew
southern yew
nutmeg yew
Pacific yew
plum yew
plum-yew
Prince Albert's yew
self-yew
Sumatran yew
western yew
white-berry yew
yew pine
Translations:
Trotskyism
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English Trotsky
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)
Proto-Indo-European *-mos
Proto-Indo-European *-mós
Ancient Greek -μός (-mós)
Ancient Greek -ισμός (-ismós)der.
English -ism
English Trotskyism
From Trotsky + -ism.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The left-wing political philosophy named after and based on the ideas of Leon Trotsky that is characterized by international socialism, opposition to Stalinism, the theory of permanent revolution and the theory of the vanguard party.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
rufous
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Latin rūfus (“red”).
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: of a reddish colour
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
reis
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Ottoman Turkish رئیس, from Arabic رَئِيس (raʔīs, “head, chief, leader”)
Inflected forms:
form: reises
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: rais
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: ras
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The holder of an Ottoman military rank akin to that of naval captain.
pos: noun
tags: historical
Translations:
Mercurius
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A homeopathic remedy involving mercury.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
serene
Part of speech: adj
verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English, borrowed from Latin serēnus (“clear, cloudless, untroubled”).
Inflected forms:
form: more serene
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: serener
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most serene
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: serenest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: serenes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: serening
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: serened
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: serened
pos: verb
tags: past
form: serenes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Calm, peaceful, unruffled.
pos: adj
examples: She looked at her students with joviality and a serene mentality.
Serene, smiling, enigmatic, she faced him with no fear whatever showing in her dark eyes. The clear light of the bright autumn morning had no terrors for youth and health like hers.
gloss: Without worry or anxiety; unaffected by disturbance.
pos: adj
examples: I took train and reached Wichita, where my active partner was awaiting me. He had just returned from the Medicine River, and reported everything serene.
gloss: Fair and unclouded (as of the sky); clear; unobscured.
pos: adj
tags: archaic
examples: Now ſleeping flocks on their ſoft fleeces lie, / The moon, ſerene in glory, mounts the sky, […]
Full many a gem of pureſt ray ſerene / The dark unfathom'd caves of ocean bear: […]
A serene sky and verdant fields filled me with ecstasy.
gloss: Used as part of certain titles, originally to indicate sovereignty or independence.
pos: adj
examples: Her Serene Highness
gloss: To make serene.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The Hoary Froſts, and Northern Blaſts take care / Thy muddy Bev'rage to ſerene, and drive / Præcipitant the baſer, ropy Lees.
When heaven and earth, as if contending, vye / To raiſe his being, and ſerene his ſoul.
gloss: Serenity; clearness; calmness.
pos: noun
tags: poetic
examples: the serene of heaven
To their master is denied / To share their sweet serene.
Derived words: all serene
drop serene
Her Serene Highness
His Serene Highness
sereneness
serenify
serenity
serenize
unserene
Your Serene Highness
Translations:
cavy
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From obsolete Portuguese çavia (“the spiny rat, Makalata armate, Echimys armata”) (modern saviá, sauiá), from Old Tupi saujá.
Inflected forms:
form: cavies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of domestic guinea pig.
pos: noun
gloss: Any rodent in the Caviidae.
pos: noun
Derived words: acrobatic cavy
caviary
mountain cavy
musk cavy
Patagonian cavy
restless cavy
rock cavy
water cavy
yellow-toothed cavy
Translations:
chimpanzee
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: The first recorded use of the name chimpanzee dates to 1738.
The name is derived from an unspecified Bantu language of Angola (compare Vili ci-mpenzi), probably brought to the English language via French chimpanzé.
Inflected forms:
form: chimpanzees
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: japanzee
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: Pan troglodytes, a species of great ape native to the savannas and forests of Africa, and believed by biologists to be the closest extant relative to humans along with the bonobo.
pos: noun
gloss: An ape of the genus Pan, including the bonobo which was formerly known as the pygmy chimpanzee.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
Derived words: antichimpanzee
central chimpanzee
ChHV
chimp
Chimpanese
chimpanzee fire
chimpanzeelike
chimpanzoid
chuman
dwarf chimpanzee
humanzee
manpanzee
pygmy chimpanzee
Trumpanzee
Translations:
lang: Polish
word: szympans
lang: Polish
word: szympans zwyczajny
daff
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English daf, daffe (“fool, idiot”), from Old Norse daufr (“deaf, stupid”), from Proto-Germanic *daubaz (“deaf, stunned”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰewbʰ- (“to whisk, whirl, smoke, be obscure”). Doublet of deaf, dof, and dowf. Cognate with Swedish döv (“deaf”), Danish døv (“deaf, stupid”). More at deaf.
Inflected forms:
form: daffs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: daffs
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: daffing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: daffed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: daffed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A fool; an idiot; a blockhead.
pos: noun
gloss: To be foolish; make sport; play; toy.
pos: verb
tags: Scotland
intransitive
examples: We'll hauld our court mid the roaring lins, And daff in the lashan' tide
They admired and loved each other—enjoyed easy circumstances—had duties to discharge which they did not neglect; and, clear in conscience as light of heart, laughed, sung, danced, daffed the world aside, and bid it pass.
Left thus for long spaces in the company of Betty and the child, that daffed and croddled about her, and even became warmly friendly with me for the sake of my Paris watch and my glittering waistcoat buttons, I made many gallant attempts to get on my old easy footing.
As the afternoon progressed, we become 'daffed' out.
gloss: To daunt.
pos: verb
tags: UK
dialectal
obsolete
examples: Young Tam came up and eyed me quick With reddened cheek—Braw Tam was daffed like a chick—He could na speak—Ah Marie they are all gane hame
I made out—to put it clearly—that the Sultan had been far gone in his cups when Kiamil appeared before him; that he had called the Basha such 'daffing' names as 'renegade dog,' 'toothless old hound,' 'hound without scent, that could not smell out an intrigue under his nose;' which agreeable epithets doubtless were flung about because Lorimer, and not he, had got wind of the conspiracy of the notables.
"Perhaps, most Elysian of fair ladies, it would be, as one might say, more seemly if I, as a justice of the peace—" Brilliana daffed him down.
Derived words: daffing
daffle
Translations:
David
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English David, Davyd, Davyde, from Old English Dauid, David, from Late Latin Dāvīd, from Koine Greek Δαυῑ̈́δ (Dauī̈́d), from Biblical Hebrew דָּוִד (dāwiḏ, literally “beloved”).
Inflected forms:
form: Davids
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person or group considered unlikely to prevail; an underdog.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
examples: Coordinate term: Goliath
But the essential forces were the American immigrant, the American missionary, the Declaration of Independence, and the ox-team. Those were the champions of America. They were the Davids against the Goliaths of British monopoly.
Will Microsoft rule the alternative to the mass media, the Net? Or, as always before in history, will local Davids arise to challenge the global Goliaths?
In their quest for a villain, the media were assisted by politicians who wanted to avoid being put into the slot themselves. On the contrary, they wanted to be portrayed as the underdogs, the democratic Davids fighting the valiant but ultimately hopeless battle against the financial Goliaths.
Our strategy to engage eBay in a war of words had created a lot of media buzz within China. Positioning ourselves as a local David fighting the US Goliath, we intended to educate the market about e-commerce and attract people to Taobao to give consumer e-commerce a chance.
Translations:
BRB
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: brb
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The state of being away from one's device while meaning to come back soon.
pos: adj
tags: Internet
examples: Oh, he can't message you right now. He's BRB.
Translations:
des
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: medicine
sciences
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Desflurane.
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
Translations:
granny
Part of speech: adj
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English gran(nam)
Old English -iġ
Middle English -y
English -y
English granny
From gran(nam) + -y.
Inflected forms:
form: grammy
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: grannies
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: grannying
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: grannied
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: grannied
pos: verb
tags: past
form: grammy
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Typically or stereotypically old-fashioned, especially in clothing and accessories worn by or associated with elderly women.
pos: adj
tags: informal
not-comparable
examples: granny dress; granny glasses
1965, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure
Long brown fluffy hair, slightly curled on the ends, black coat, gold buttons, belt around the middle, bare legs, no socks, granny heels, also black, shoulder bag, black, transistor radio.
gloss: To be a grandmother.
pos: verb
tags: informal
intransitive
gloss: To act like a stereotypical grandmother; to fuss.
pos: verb
tags: informal
intransitive
Derived words: granny panties
Translations:
tranny
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: automotive
hobbies
lifestyle
skateboarding
skiing
sports
transport
vehicles
Etymology: All are shortened forms of the indicated terms (most of which start with the prefix trans-) + -y.
Affixes: -y
Inflected forms:
form: trannies
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: trannie
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A transgender person, especially a trans woman, or (especially historically) anyone who cross-dresses, especially MTF: a transvestite, drag queen, transgender person, etc.
pos: noun
tags: countable
derogatory
offensive
slang
uncountable
examples: "This is the boys' corner – this block and the next," he says. "Everybody has their territory: males, females, queens, trannies (transvestites) [...]
When I spoke with lesbians, most would tell me, “I don't date trannies. […]
gloss: A transistor radio.
pos: noun
tags: Commonwealth
colloquial
countable
uncountable
examples: He spent most of his time in his darkened storeroom with a tranny and an earplug while his kid ran riot in the classroom.
We talk, and I listen to Radio Luxembourg on my tranny – I have a little earplug, so if any teachers come in they won't hear it.
gloss: A vehicle's transmission.
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
countable
uncountable
examples: Other incidents where the tranny suddenly locks up in high gear and requires that the car be restarted to return to normal.
gloss: An electrical transformer.
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
countable
uncountable
gloss: A transition between moves.
pos: noun
tags: countable
slang
gloss: A style of skateboarding based on transitioning from one move to the next.
pos: noun
tags: slang
uncountable
gloss: A Ford Transit (type of van).
pos: noun
tags: Northern-England
countable
slang
uncountable
examples: Oooh! Gotta go. Jenson Button's just streaked past in a white tranny. I think he's trying to smash the land speed record, bless him. And he's got a tail-light out. I think I might give him a tug.
Derived words: roidtranny
tranime
trannoid
tranny chaser
trannydom
trannyism
troid
Translations:
comprehensive
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from late Middle French compréhensif, from Late Latin comprehēnsīvus, from Latin comprehendō.
Inflected forms:
form: more comprehensive
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most comprehensive
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: comprehensives
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Broadly or completely covering; including a large proportion of something.
pos: adj
examples: When there are diametrically opposing views on a big issue that concerns millions of people, doing comprehensive research just makes sense.
Nevertheless, the comprehensive comparative analysis of pumpkin viromes across various geographic regions by NGS remains deficient.
So what is it that makes SBB (Swiss national railways) tick? In my humble opinion, two things. Firstly, a comprehensive and set-in-stone integrated timetable (incorporating trains, ferries, cable cars and buses, including the world-famous yellow 'post-autos'), compiled four years in advance and which gets tested twice before it becomes operational.
gloss: A comprehensive school.
pos: noun
tags: UK
examples: Imagine a country where children do nothing but play until they start compulsory schooling at age seven. Then, without exception, they attend comprehensives until the age of 16. Charging school fees is illegal, and so is sorting pupils into ability groups by streaming or setting.
Antonyms: incomprehensive
focused
limited
Translations:
nancy
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Nancy, pet form of the female given names Agnes and Anne, under influence from earlier nan (“serving girl, maid; male homosexual”), itself from Nan, another pet form of the same names. Compare Mary.
Inflected forms:
form: nancies
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: nancys
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Nancy
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: An effeminate man, especially a homosexual.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
Ireland
New-Zealand
UK
US
derogatory
offensive
slang
examples: The wonderful Stephen Tobolowsky returns as Sandy [Ryerson], the flaming former glee club director who’s now the shop teacher, and warns that “you are going to have a school full of nancys unless you get some hot wood in those teenagers’ hands.”
Translations:
hypnotherapist
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English hypno-
English therapist
English hypnotherapist
From hypno- + therapist.
Inflected forms:
form: hypnotherapists
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A practitioner of hypnotherapy.
pos: noun
Translations:
rectitude
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English rectitude, from Middle French rectitude, from Late Latin rectitūdō (“straightness, uprightness”), from Latin rectus (“straight”), perfect passive participle of regō (“regulate, guide”).
Inflected forms:
form: rectitudes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Straightness; the state or quality of having a constant direction and not being crooked or bent.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The fact or quality of being right or correct; correctness of opinion or judgement.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
countable
uncountable
examples: A consciousness of rectitude can be a terrible thing, and in those days I didn't just think that I was right: I thought that “we” (our group of International Socialists in particular) were being damn well proved right.
gloss: Conformity to the rules prescribed for moral conduct; (moral) uprightness, virtue.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: We, therefore, the Repreſentatives of the united States of America, in General Congreſs, Aſsembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of theſe Colonies, ſolemnly publiſh and declare, That theſe United Colonies are, and of right ought to be Free and Independent States[…]
“Sit with her all night if we have to,” Syd affirms with strenuous rectitude.
Derived words: rectitudinal
rectitudinarian
rectitudinous
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: правилност
roman: pravilnost
lang: Catalan
word: rectitud
lang: Dutch
word: rechtlijnigheid
lang: Finnish
word: rehtiys
lang: Finnish
word: vilpittömyys
lang: French
word: rectitude
lang: French
word: droiture
lang: French
word: rigueur
lang: Hindi
word: नायकी
roman: nāykī
lang: Hindi
word: नाइकी
roman: nāikī
lang: Italian
word: rettitudine
lang: Italian
word: dirittura
lang: Kashmiri
word: رٲستی
roman: rạ̄stī
lang: Latin
word: rectitūdō
lang: Persian
word: نیکوکاری
roman: nikukâri
lang: Polish
word: prawość
lang: Portuguese
word: retidão
lang: Romanian
word: rectitudine
lang: Romanian
word: echitate
lang: Romanian
word: rigoare
lang: Russian
word: правота́
roman: pravotá
lang: Russian
word: пра́вильность
roman: právilʹnostʹ
lang: Spanish
word: rectitud
lang: Spanish
word: derechura
lang: Urdu
word: نیکی
roman: nēkī
discombobulate
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: 1834 US, fanciful variant of discompose, discomfit, etc., originally discombobricate. The -bob- interfix may come from bobbery, meaning “commotion, noise”.
Inflected forms:
form: discombobulates
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: discombobulating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: discombobulated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: discombobulated
pos: verb
tags: past
form: discomboberate
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: discombulate
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: discombobricate
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: discombooberate
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: To throw into a state of confusion; to befuddle or perplex.
pos: verb
tags: humorous
transitive
examples: Can't you and I pretend to quarrel? A personal assault by you on me will wake these people up and discombobulate Goldsmith. Say the word—only don't hit too hard.
The notes zigzag in his pieces and discombobulate the ear, just as in 12-tone works.
First, distract target. Then block his blind jab. Counter with cross to left cheek. Discombobulate. Dazed, he'll attempt wild haymaker. Employ elbow block.
Antonyms: combobulate
recombobulate
Translations:
composure
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English compose
English -ure
English composure
From compose + -ure.
Inflected forms:
form: composures
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Calmness of mind or temperament.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: That all may see who hate us, how we seek
Peace and composure […]
It would be also of great Use to us to form our deliberate Judgments of Persons and Things in the calmest and serenest Hours of Life, when the Passions of Nature are all silent, and the Mind enjoys its most perfect Composure […]
“Did you want anything, ma’am?” I enquired, still preserving my external composure, in spite of her ghastly countenance and strange exaggerated manner.
He began to lose his composure, and made mistakes, his cards got mixed up, and his scoring was wild.
Montenegro's early composure was shaken by that set-back and a visibly buoyed Wales nearly added a second goal when Bale broke past two defenders and fired a long-range shot that Bozovic tipped over
gloss: The act of composing
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
examples: 1818, John Evelyn, Memoirs, edited by William Bray, London: Henry Colburn, 2nd edition, Volume I, entry for 10 March, 1685, p. 592,
[…] Signʳ Pietro […] had an admirable way both of composure [in music] and teaching.
gloss: Something which is composed; a composition.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
gloss: Orderly adjustment; disposition.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
examples: […] from the various Composures and Combinations of these Corpusoles together, happen all the Varieties of the Bodies formed out of them […]
gloss: Frame; make; temperament.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
examples: […] his composure must be rare indeed
Whom these things can not blemish […]
gloss: A combination; a union; a bond.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
examples: […] their fraction is more our wish than their faction: but it was a strong composure a fool could disunite.
Derived words: discomposure
noncomposure
Translations:
spouse
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English spous, spouse, from Anglo-Norman espus m, espuse f and Old French espos m, espose f and by aphesis from Latin spōnsus m (“bridegroom”), spōnsa f (“bride”), from spondeō (“to vow, pledge”), from Proto-Indo-European *spend-. Displaced native Old English ġemaca.
Related to espouse and sponsor.
Inflected forms:
form: spouses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person in a marriage or marital relationship.
pos: noun
examples: People should treat their spouses with respect.
At last such grace I found, and meanes I wrought, / That I that Ladie to my spouse had wonne
But mama got wise to the game / The youngest of five kids, hon here it is / After ten years without no spouse / Mama's gettin married in the house
Translations:
dilettantism
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English dilettante
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)
Proto-Indo-European *-mos
Proto-Indo-European *-mós
Ancient Greek -μός (-mós)
Ancient Greek -ισμός (-ismós)der.
English -ism
English dilettantism
From dilettante + -ism.
Inflected forms:
form: dilettantisms
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of behaving like a dilettante, of being an amateur or "dabbler", sometimes in the arts. Also the act of enjoying the arts, being a connoisseur.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The brawny craftsman finds it no child's play to mould his unpliant rugged masses; neither is guidance of men a dilettantism: what it becomes when treated as a dilettantism, we may see!
As Erasmus would find, the king and his advisers had a hard-edged attitude to scholarship that was worlds away from the enquiring dilettantism of Eltham.
Translations:
exploit
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
video-games
Etymology: From Old French esploit (noun), esploitier (verb).
Inflected forms:
form: exploits
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: exploits
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: exploiting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: exploited
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: exploited
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A heroic or extraordinary deed.
pos: noun
examples: Hieronimo, it greatly pleaſeth vs, / That in our victorie thou haue a ſhare, / By vertue of thy vvorthy Sonnes exployt.
gloss: An achievement.
pos: noun
examples: The first trek to the summit of Mount Everest was a stunning exploit.
gloss: A program or technique that takes advantage of a vulnerability in other software.
pos: noun
examples: One of the more publicized cases that involved a zero-day exploit concerned the compromise of some U.S. military web servers. The attack involved exploiting a buffer overflow vulnerability in a core Windows component; […]
For example, you can create PE files that are valid PDF exploits or valid ZIP files, valid JPG files, and so on.
gloss: An action or technique that takes advantage of the conditions of a video game to gain an advantage, or to disadvantage others.
pos: noun
tags: Internet
broadly
gloss: To use (something) to someone's advantage, such as one's own benefit or a society's benefit.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to exploit natural resources in a sustainable way
However, exploiting their 110mph capability will initially only be possible north of Bedford, pending an upgrade of the overhead wires between Bedford and St Pancras by Network Rail to make them suitable for use by electric trains at over 100mph.
The protests have alarmed authorities, and on Thursday night, they shut off internet and mobile access in the country, cutting the Iranian people off from the rest of the world. Rights groups have accused the government of exploiting the media blackout to carry out a brutal crackdown against protesters.
gloss: To make unfair use of someone else's labor, person, or property to one's own advantage.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Materialistic people who exploit others will come to a bad end.
Derived words: anti-exploit
sexploit
counterexploit
exploitability
exploitee
exploitive
exploiture
misexploit
nonexploited
overexploit
superexploit
underexploit
underexploited
unexploited
Translations:
utilize
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From French utiliser, from Italian utilizzare, from utile (“useful”), from Latin ūtilis, from ūtī (“use”).
Inflected forms:
form: utilizes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: utilizing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: utilized
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: utilized
pos: verb
tags: past
form: utilise
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: US, Canada, and Oxford British English standard spelling of utilise.
pos: verb
examples: The scientists utilized advanced technology in their research.
We must utilize our resources more efficiently.
The program can be utilized for educational purposes.
Translations:
deflate
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: computing
economics
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: From de- + (in)flate. Coined in 1891, in reference to balloons. Equivalent to Latin dē- (“away, from”) + Latin flō (“blow”) + -ate (verb-forming suffix).
Base: inflate
Affixes: de-
Inflected forms:
form: deflates
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: deflating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: deflated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: deflated
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To remove air or some other gas from within an elastic container, e.g. a balloon or tyre.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To cause an object to decrease or become smaller in some parameter, e.g. to shrink
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To reduce the amount of available currency or credit and thus lower prices.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To become deflated.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To let (someone) down, disappoint them, or put them in their place.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: deflate someone's ego
Scotland's first match at a men's major finals in 23 years ended in anguish after Patrik Schick's incredible halfway-line goal helped the Czech Republic inflict a deflating opening Euro 2020 defeat at Hampden.
gloss: To compress (data) according to a particular algorithm.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Never had a problem, guess I've never had to deflate multiple files!
gloss: To belch or flatulate
pos: verb
tags: slang
Antonyms: inflate
Derived words: deflatable
Deflategate
deflater
deflatingly
deflation
deflator
Translations:
loogie
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Unknown; possibly from Luger, Lou, Lue or Louie; possibly from the name of the baseball player Lou Gehrig (from the habit of baseball players of spitting); possible variant of booger.
Inflected forms:
form: loogies
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: loogy
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A thick quantity of sputum, usually containing phlegm.
pos: noun
tags: US
slang
examples: to hock a loogie
I steal doobies, spit loogies when I puff on it
gloss: Any thick, disgusting liquid.
pos: noun
tags: US
slang
Translations:
agouti
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From French agouti, from Old Tupi akuti. The name of the acouchi is probably from the same source.
Inflected forms:
form: agoutis
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A rodent of the genus Dasyprocta, similar in appearance to a guinea pig but having longer legs, mainly native to Central and South America.
pos: noun
examples: Akin looked around to be certain he was unobserved, then went out to watch the agouti. He had not seen one close up before. Lilith claimed they looked like a cross between deer and rats.
gloss: A fur containing a pattern of pigmentation in which individual hairs have several bands of light and dark pigment with black tips; any of several genes responsible for this pigmentation.
pos: noun
Derived words: nonagouti
Orinoco agouti
pseudoagouti
Translations:
amphibian
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin amphibius [from Ancient Greek ἀμφίβιος (amphíbios), from ἀμφίς (amphís, “of both kinds”) + βίος (bíos, “life”)] + -an.
Affixes: -an
Inflected forms:
form: amphibians
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of or relating to the class Amphibia.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Capable of operating on both land and water; amphibious.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Having two natures.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
obsolete
gloss: An animal of the Amphibia; any vertebrate that does not have amniotic eggs, living both on land and in water.
pos: noun
gloss: A vehicle which can operate on both land and water.
pos: noun
gloss: A person with two distinct characters, qualities or identities.
pos: noun
tags: uncommon
examples: The prime exemplar of such a cast of mind must be Johann Ladislas Pyrker, a definite amphibian and ‘Austro-Hungarian’ in his literary and in his public life. The son of another estate bailiff in Transdanubia, Pyrker became successively a Hungarian official, an Austrian monk and at length a fairly worldly abbot at Lilienfeld, then a bishop in Hungary, patriarch of Venice, and archbishop in Hungary again.
Synonyms: amphibian
Related words: amphi-
Amphibia
amphibiology
amphibiotic
amphibious
amphibius
bio-
amphibole
amphibology
amphiboly
batrachology
herpetology
:Category:Amphibians
Derived words: amphibian helicopter
amphibian species
amphibian tank
Memphibian
amphibiankind
amphibianlike
amphibicide
nonamphibian
triphibian
Translations: