yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
oche
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: darts
games
Etymology: Possibly from Middle French oche (“notch”), from Old French ocher, ochier (“to make a notch in; to notch”), which, according to Partridge, could be related to French hocher and English nick (“small cut, notch”).
Inflected forms:
form: oches
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: hockey
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A line behind which a player's front foot must be placed when throwing a dart.
pos: noun
examples: As has been mentioned, Darts of to-day is essentially a "public-house game," and in pretty nearly every inn, club, or institute where it has a footing (and in which has it not!) will be found minor variations in play and often games that are peculiar to the locality or even to the "school" itself. […] And in this domestic circle, at all events, it is thought that this set of Rules will prove a useful guide when taken in conjunction with what has already been said as regards the board, its position, the hockey-line, etc.
Henry Lewis's body was tense, taut, his toes against the hockey, his right arm raised, his left eye half-closed. With grim intensity, backed by years of practice and experience, he sighted along the steel point, drew his arm back—and let the dart fly.
Small bars would tend to produce short hockeys; the tiny fishing pubs of Yarmouth gave rise to 6ft marks […]
When top players are aiming to maximize their total with three darts, their average score can exceed 100; they also expect to hit the closing double with their first or second attempt. Reaching the target within 15 darts (i.e. five visits to the oche, to slip into the vernacular) is not unusual; […]
The pièce de résistance was the bar where I had over a dozen dart boards with pop-up oches. It was a massive success.
Whether a player is a bullshitter, adept at hitting bullseyes, or a chucker, who throws the darts willy-nilly and hopes for the best, the pull of the oche is the same.
And it's because something of the mundanely manual still adheres to darts that the players' heroic walk of honour from the green room to the oche is so incongruous. The fanfare begins, the strobes go wild, the crowds roar, hostesses wearing the sort of tinsel dresses that drove me crazy when I was eighteen escort the gladiator into the arena, only he's not a gladiator, he's a plumber.
Translations:
decelerate
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Late 19th c., from de- + (ac)celerate. Compare deaccelerate.
Base: accelerate
Affixes: de-
Inflected forms:
form: decelerates
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: decelerating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: decelerated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: decelerated
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To reduce the velocity of something.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: In May, for example, the Illinois Central RR. introduced the long-expected streamline version of the Panama Limited, with diesel haulage, cutting the time over the 921 miles between Chicago and New Orleans by 2hr. to 18hr. each way—the fastest on record—but decelerated other trains over the same route.
The S.D.R. [Somerset & Dorset Railway] could not adhere to this schedule, and had to decelerate the service, but the original timings were restored when the M.R. and L.S.W.R. leased the S.D.R.
gloss: To reduce the rate of advancement of something, such as a disease.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To go slower.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: One of the disadvantages of increasing intermediate stops is that, as we have pointed out already, certain prestige trains have to suffer, notably the "Cornish Riviera Express", slowed 15min to Plymouth by stops at Taunton and Exeter; the "Torbay Express", decelerated 18min by stops at Reading, Westbury, Taunton and Newton Abbot; and the "Bristolian", which adds 14min in order to allow for a Bath stop and an increased load.
Synonyms: slow down
slow
Antonyms: accelerate
Derived words: deceleratingly
deceleration
decelerationism
decelerative
decelerator
deceleron
undecelerated
Translations:
spokesman
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From spoke (“past participle of speak”) + -s- + man.
Base: spoke
Affixes: -s-
Inflected forms:
form: spokesmen
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who speaks as the voice of another person or a group of people.
pos: noun
examples: One study of popular escapistic communications indicates that the recipients regarded the heroes and spokesmen as "trustworthy models and guides."
Libyan war planes on Sunday sank one ship and attacked a second vessel near the eastern city of Benghazi, military spokesmen for the country's internationally recognized government said on Monday.
President Moon Jae-in proposed the plan this week during a meeting with government officials, his spokesman said.
Toyota spokesman Paul Hogard said the automaker wants speedometers to be easy to read, so there’s value in placing the typical operating speed of American cars, 45 mph to 70 mph, he said, at the top of the speedometer, which is the easiest place on the speedometer for the driver to read.
Translations:
spokeswoman
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From spoke (“past participle of speak”) + -s- + woman.
Base: spoke
Affixes: -s-
Inflected forms:
form: spokeswomen
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A woman who speaks as the voice of a group of people.
pos: noun
examples: Topps[…] has signed the Clique Girlz as commercial spokeswomen for Baby Bottle Pop, one of the Top 10 nonchocolate candy brands.
“As communicated to members of Congress multiple times, these children are not ‘lost,’” said HHS spokeswoman Caitlin Oakley.
A Chiltern spokeswoman told RAIL: "We have an excellent safety record and are working with the Rail Accident Investigation Branch to understand the causes of this incident."
Translations:
retie
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 tie
English retie
From re- + tie.
Inflected forms:
form: reties
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: retying
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: retied
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: retied
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To tie again; to tie something that has already been tied or was tied before.
pos: verb
examples: She stopped walking for a moment to retie her shoe.
Translations:
kimchi
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Korean 김치 (gimchi), ultimately composed within Korea of Chinese-derived morphemes 沉 (MC drim, “submerged, soaked”) and 菜 (MC tshojH, “vegetable”), i.e. "fermented vegetable". Doublet of kimuchi.
Inflected forms:
form: kimchis
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: kimchee
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: kim chee
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: gimchee
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: gimchi
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A Korean dish made of vegetables, such as cabbage or radishes, that are salted, seasoned, and stored in sealed containers to undergo lactic acid fermentation.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: "Yeah." He gestured to the kimchi. "Well, get it in ya, then."
"It's better hot." she said.
Despite the stew’s debt to kimchi, you know it has come into its own when it’s served with kimchi as a side dish.
gloss: A Korean person.
pos: noun
tags: countable
derogatory
ethnic
slang
slur
usually
examples: How did I know the kimchis were trying to smuggle the crate out of Japan?
In the United States, Germans are sometimes called "krauts" ... Koreans "kimchis," and poor white Southerners "crackers"...
... he doesn't know the difference between Ping-Pongs and Kimchis.
Derived words: kimchi-jjigae
kimslaw
Translations:
lang: Arabic
word: كِمْتْشي
roman: kimtši
lang: Armenian
word: կիմչի
roman: kimčʻi
lang: Bulgarian
word: ки́мчи
roman: kímči
lang: Chinese Cantonese
word: 泡菜
roman: paau³ coi³
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 韓式泡菜 /韩式泡菜
roman: Hánshì pàocài
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 韓國泡菜 /韩国泡菜
roman: Hánguó pàocài
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 辛奇
roman: xīnqí
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 泡菜
roman: pàocài
lang: Czech
word: kimči
lang: Esperanto
word: kimĉio
lang: Finnish
word: kimchi
lang: French
word: kimchi
lang: German
word: Kimchi
lang: Hebrew
word: קִימְצִ׳י
roman: kimchí
lang: Indonesian
word: kimci
lang: Italian
word: kimchi
lang: Japanese
word: キムチ
roman: kimuchi
lang: Khmer
word: គីមឈី
roman: kiimchii
lang: Korean
word: 김치
roman: gimchi
lang: Korean
word: 짠지
roman: jjanji
lang: Korean
word: 짐치
roman: jimchi
lang: Latvian
word: kimči
lang: Macedonian
word: ки́мчи
roman: kímči
lang: Navajo
word: gímchi
lang: Polish
word: kimchi
lang: Portuguese
word: kimchi
lang: Russian
word: кимчхи́
roman: kimčxí
lang: Russian
word: кимчи́
roman: kimčí
lang: Spanish
word: kimchi
lang: Swedish
word: kimchi
lang: Thai
word: กิมจิ
roman: gim-jì
lang: Vietnamese
word: kim chi
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 高麗棒子 /高丽棒子
roman: Gāolí bàngzi
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 韓棒子 /韩棒子
roman: Hánbàngzi
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 棒子
roman: bàngzi
lang: Esperanto
word: koreaĉo
lang: Japanese
word: チョン
roman: chon
lang: Korean
word: 김치남
roman: gimchinam
lang: Korean
word: 김치녀
roman: gimchinyeo
lang: Polish
word: Koreaniec
lang: Polish
word: skośnooki
lang: Polish
word: Korejczyk
lang: Thai
word: เกาหี
roman: gao-hǐi
lang: Thai
word: เกาเหลา
roman: gao-lǎo
chromaticism
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English chromatic
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 chromaticism
From chromatic + -ism.
Inflected forms:
form: chromaticisms
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: the quality or state of being chromatic
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: the act or action of chromaticizing: the use of chromatic notes or tones (contrasted with diatonicism)
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: excessive chromaticism means excessive increase in harmonic tension -- Mosco Carner
Translations:
nixie
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From German Nixe, feminine of Nix, from Middle High German nickes, from Old High German nihhus (“water-elf, crocodile”), from Proto-Germanic *nikwus, *nikwis, perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *neygʷ- (“to wash”).
Cognate with Old English nicor (“water-elf, hippopotamus, walrus”), English nicker.
Inflected forms:
form: nixies
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: nixe
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: nixy
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A female nix, a water-spirit.
pos: noun
examples: The beautiful Nix or Nixie who allures the young fisher or hunter to seek her embraces in the wave which brings his death, the Neck who seizes upon and drowns the maidens who sport upon his banks, the river-spirit who still yearly in some parts of Germany demands tribute of human life, are all forms of the ancient Nicor[.]
The place seems to have been fashioned as a dwelling for dryads and hamadryads, for nixies and pixies, and all the fabled spirits of forest and stream.
Bare from her garters up her flesh appears under the sapphire a nixie’s green.
In medieval times, the image of the double fish tailed siren was called a nixie or evil water spirit. Yet, the nixies were more likely daughters of the primordial goddess named Nyx or mother night, who hovered over ancient waters, rather than evil spirits.
Translations:
clobber
Part of speech: verb
noun
intj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: British slang from 1941; possibly onomatopoeic of the sound of detonated bombs in the distance.
Inflected forms:
form: clobbers
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: clobbering
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: clobbered
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: clobbered
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To hit or bash severely; to seriously harm or damage.
pos: verb
tags: slang
transitive
examples: So the temptation to clobber was always there, and it was sometimes more difficult not to strike than it would have been to strike, and the consequences be damned.
2000 November 30, Kenya National Assembly Official Record (Hansard), page 3034,
Mr. Speaker, Sir, in the East African Standard newspaper we saw a picture of a man being carried away after being clobbered. We also saw women being clobbered by well-built policemen using big clubs. They were clobbering women who had already fallen on the ground.
Most of the job of the UNIX Oracle DBA is keeping the database running, and it does not come as a surprise when they see how easy it is to clobber a server.
The following script cripples the UNIX server by an implosion of incoming jobs. This is known as a denial of service (DOS) attack[…].
gloss: To overwrite (data) or override (an assignment of a value), often unintentionally or unexpectedly.
pos: verb
tags: slang
transitive
examples: It is therefore clear that the system itself must be truly "clobber proof"; that is, no user may be capable of changing anyone else's program or tying up the system in any way that would disrupt normal service to other users.
In the slang of computer programmers, the second re-entry address is likely to "clobber" the machine's memory of the original re-entry address.
Inferences made in accordance with this reason are defeated by finding that the merged plan clobbers one of the causal-links in one of the constituent plans.
The cp command does one thing as it clobbers a file; mv and ln do another.
These functions collide, and we can see in Figure 7-1 that the debug() function for SexyWidgets clobbers the developer′s debug() function. The last function declared with the same name in the same scope will silently clobber the earlier function definition.
If you create your own mood instance attribute without being aware of the name clash, you will clobber the mood attribute used by the methods inherited from Dog.
gloss: A beating.
pos: noun
tags: slang
uncountable
examples: Near-synonyms: clobbering, clubbing, thumping
He should have stepped back and given Hemi room to chat and see where the women^([sic]) was going, yet he found himself drawn over to them. His friend would probably give him a clobber later on for his stupidity […]
gloss: A bash on say the head, typically with a tool or object rather than with fists.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
pos: intj
tags: no-gloss
Derived words: clobberer
clobber passage
clobber text
clobber verse
Translations:
creamy
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: arts
hobbies
lifestyle
photography
Etymology: From Middle English cremy, equivalent to cream + -y. Piecewise doublet of cremey.
Base: cream
Affixes: -y
Inflected forms:
form: creamier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: creamiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: creamies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Containing cream.
pos: adj
examples: creamy milk
gloss: Of food or drink, having the rich taste or thick, smooth texture of cream, whether or not it actually contains cream.
pos: adj
examples: creamy chocolate
gloss: Of any liquid, having the thick texture of cream.
pos: adj
examples: a creamy lotion
gloss: Having the colour of cream.
pos: adj
examples: The Altamaha-ha, as the serpent has been named, is said to be from twelve to twenty feet long, about two feet in diameter, and gunmetal gray on top with a creamy underside. Most descriptions suggest a creature that is part eel, part alligator, ...
Rutland (and some of the bordering ‘Notswolds’ counties of Lincolnshire, Leicestershire and Northamptonshire) have the same mellow, creamy limestone as the Cotswolds and boast beguiling market towns and villages that are every bit as attractive, but without the tourists or hefty prices.
gloss: Characterised by a gentle transition between sharp and out-of-focus areas.
pos: adj
examples: The lens is liked by Nikon users for the way it renders smooth and creamy bokeh with impressive levels of sharpness at the centre.
gloss: Sexually aroused and thus having the vulva moistened with vaginal secretions.
pos: adj
tags: slang
vulgar
examples: There she was in the steam room after our workout, steam covering her body, drops rolling down her gorgeous breasts. I would stare and stare. (I'm getting creamy just thinking about her again.)
gloss: A horse with a cream-coloured coat.
pos: noun
Derived words: creamily
creaminess
creamy crack
creamy layer
creamy snuff
Translations:
nystagmus
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
Etymology: First attested in 1798. From New Latin nystagmus, from Ancient Greek νυσταγμός (nustagmós, “nodding, drowsiness”), from νυστάζω (nustázō, “nod, be sleepy”).
Inflected forms:
form: nystagmuses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Rapid and excessive involuntary eye movement, usually lateral.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: For months Travis had seen his solitary figure, shoulders hunched inside the flying jacket, in more and more newsreels, as an extra in war films, and then as a patient in an elegant ophthalmic film on nystagmus
Translations:
timeworn
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From time + worn.
Compound parts: time
worn
Inflected forms:
form: more timeworn
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most timeworn
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: time-worn
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Showing the effects of wear due to long use.
pos: adj
examples: The roofs of these time-worn habitations are full of holes, and have been patched here and there with laths; […]
After walking the timeworn horizons out of Africa, I have entered a corrugated maze, a knotted crossroad of the world where landscape is read like sacrament, a labyrinth of echoing faiths called the Middle East.
gloss: Banal or trite; hackneyed or overused.
pos: adj
Translations:
oestrus
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
natural-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₁eysh₂-der.
Ancient Greek οἶστρος (oîstros)der.
Latin oestrusbor.
English oestrus
Borrowed from Latin oestrus (“gadfly, sting, frenzy”), from Ancient Greek οἶστρος (oîstros), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁eys-, used to form words denoting passion; see also Latin īra (“anger”), Lithuanian aistra (“violent passion”), Avestan 𐬀𐬈𐬯𐬨𐬀 (aesma, “anger”).
Inflected forms:
form: oestruses
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: oestri
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: œstrus
pos: noun
tags: alternative
archaic
form: estrus
pos: noun
tags: alternative
US
Senses:
gloss: A biting fly of the genus Oestrus; a botfly.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: […] and which is produced by the larvae of oestri and particularly of Oestrus hemorrhoidalis.
If this is inseparable from the oeconomy of nature, it necessarily follows that man must be subject to the depredations of oestri, ichneumons, . . . and perhaps, thousands of others, which the senses, aided by the directions of a correct understanding, may be able to trace in a way that will fall very little short of absolute demonstration.
gloss: A bite or sting.
pos: noun
tags: countable
gloss: A passion or frenzy.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
countable
gloss: A female animal's readiness to mate.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: In those monoestrous species in which the male is capable all the year round, it is found that the oestri of individual females come at different seasons.
A vasectomized Philippine carabao bull was used as a teaser to determine the occurrence and recurrence of oestri.
An evaluation was carried out so that the mean number of oestri per one animal was calculated for 14 days in the three periods: […]
Intervals between oestri and between ovulations in dairy cows within 100 days post partum
It’s the supremely human act, freely to fuck, not because you are on heat, or in oestrus, like an animal, but to give and receive pleasure.
The substantial genital swelling of [female chimpanzees] during oestrus may facilitate transmission of viruses by making the mucosa more fragile.
Derived words: dioestrus
interoestrus
oestrin
oestrogen
perioestrus
postoestrus
Translations:
stupidly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Latin stupidusder.
Middle French stupideder.
English stupid
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English stupidly
From stupid + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more stupidly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most stupidly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a stupid manner.
pos: adv
examples: She gazed stupidly after him.
She was so modest, so expressive, she had looked so soft in her thin white gown that he felt he had acted stupidly.
"Don't we behave just as stupidly in our pursuit of happiness - don't we?" Simpson nodded dejectedly.
As I write this, drivers' union ASLEF has announced yet another series of one-day strikes, because ministers are stupidly insisting that the modest below-inflation pay rise they have offered drivers still comes with strings attached over working conditions.
gloss: To an extreme or excessive degree; absurdly.
pos: adv
examples: He is so—so proud of his money, and thinks every one ought to be as stupidly rich as he is himself.
As well as being stupidly hungry I had a raging thirst.
Synonyms: ridiculously
extremely
Translations:
oka
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Italian oca, from French oque, from Ottoman Turkish اوقه (okka). Doublet of ounce, inch, uncia, ouguiya, and awqiyyah.
Inflected forms:
form: okas
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: oke
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: okka
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A former Turkish, Egyptian, Hungarian, and Romanian unit of weight, usually of a little more than a kilogram.
pos: noun
tags: historical
examples: At Constantinople, the cantaro, or quintal, contains 44 okes, or 100 rottoli; and the cantaro weighs about 123¾ lbs. avoirdupois, the oke 2lbs. 13 oz., and the rottolo 19⁴⁄₅ oz., and the chequee 11¼ oz. avoirdupois... At Smyrna, the cantaro, or kintal, contains 45 okes, or 100 rottoli. The batman is 6 okes, or 2400 drachms; and the oke is 400 drachms, and the rottolo = 180 drachms. The cantaro of 45 okes weighs 123 lbs. 4 oz. avoirdupois; and, therefore, the oke is = 2 lbs. 11 oz. 13 drs. avoirdupois...
Dram (49·5 grains), 100=chequi, 4=oka (2·8286 ℔); dram (49·5 grains), 180=rotl, 100=kintal or kantar (127·29 ℔).
gloss: A unit of volume in Egypt (and formerly Turkey) corresponding to about 1.2 litres.
pos: noun
Translations:
zip-front
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of a garment worn on the upper body, fastened by a zip fastener that runs the full length of the garment.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
snowfall
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From snow + fall.
Compound parts: snow
fall
Inflected forms:
form: snowfalls
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: snow-fall
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: An instance of falling of snow.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: There has been snowfall every day this week.
gloss: The amount of snow that falls on one occasion.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: London recorded a snowfall of 10 centimetres last night.
Related words: flurry
Derived words: Northeast Snowfall Impact Scale
Translations:
orgone
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: Blend of organism + hormone, after German Orgon.
Compound parts: organism
hormone
Inflected forms:
form: orgones
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: In the psychoanalytic theory of Wilhelm Reich, a form of sexual energy or life force distributed throughout the universe and available for collection, storage, and further use.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: In the present report I shall describe the methods of quantitative measurement of the orgone by means of the electroscope and the thermometer.
So, boys, when those hot licks play over your balls and prick and dart up your ass like an invisible blue blow torch of orgones, in the words of T. J. Watson, Think.
Translations:
oriflamme
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Old French oriflambe, oriflamme, from Medieval Latin auriflamma (“golden flame”), from Latin aurum (“gold”) + flamma (“flame”).
Inflected forms:
form: oriflammes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: auriflamme
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: oriflamb
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The red silk banner of St Denis, which the abbot of St Denis gave to French kings as they rode to war in the Middle Ages.
pos: noun
tags: historical
examples: The white banner with the golden lilies of France has been unfurled. The oriflamme has been presented to the virginal bride who stands before the altar in the forest chapel.
gloss: Any banner, idea or principle which serves as a rallying point for those involved in a struggle.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
examples: And be your oriflamme to-day the helmet of Navarre.
Please remember that the vocabulary of our readers isn’t very extensive, so don’t go using words like ‘oriflamme’ or ‘inelectable’.
gloss: Something resembling the banner of St Denis; a bright, shining object.
pos: noun
tags: literary
examples: This is that famed Martial law, with its Red Flag, its 'Drapeau Rouge:' in virtue of which Mayor Bailly, or any Mayor, has but henceforth to hang out that new Oriflamme of his; then to read or mumble something about the King's peace; and, after certain pauses, serve any undispersing Assemblage with musket-shot....
On the other side Mailey's yellow beard flamed like an oriflamme.
Lucette trotted into the room with a child's pink, stiff-bagged butterfly-net in her little fist, like an oriflamme.
Open spaces made visible the approach to almost every one of them, or else a splendid mass of foliage stood out before it like an oriflamme.
Translations:
bushwhacking
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: bushwhackings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Travelling through thick wooded country, cutting away scrub to make progress.
pos: noun
gloss: Fighting as a guerrilla, especially in wooded country.
pos: noun
gloss: Criticizing on policies and stances by George W. Bush.
pos: noun
Related words: bushwhack
bushwhacker
Translations:
orpiment
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English orpyment, from Old French orpiment, from Latin auripigmentum (“orpiment”), from aurum (“gold”) + pigmentum (“pigment”).
Inflected forms:
form: orpiments
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: auripigment
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Arsenic trisulphide, occurring naturally in crystals or massive deposits, formerly used as a dye or pigment.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Jeremiah found himself indoors, perfecting his Draftsmanship, bending all day over the work-table, grinding and mixing his own Inks,— siftings and splashes ev'rywhere of King's Yellow, Azure, red Orpiment, Indian lake, Verdigris, Indigo, and Umber.
Translations:
orrery
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Named after Charles Boyle, 4th Earl of Orrery (1676–1731), for whom such a device was made. The placename is from Irish Orbhraighe, originally the name of a tribe (Orbh-raighe (“Orb's people”)), and then of a territory and a barony.
Inflected forms:
form: orreries
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A clockwork model of any given solar system.
pos: noun
examples: In the mean time I have another trouble to give you, if you will oblige me in it; and that is to get me a sight of the famous Orrery, which I have heard you and others so often speak of; and which I think was made by Mr. Rowley, the famous Mathematical Instrument-Maker.
To conclude; the Candor and Forgiveness of the Reader is here entreated for Errors or Imperfections he possibly may discover in the following pages, as they are the production of one, whose engagements in business will admit but a small portion of time for an endeavor to explain the most conspicuous, and interesting phenomena of the Heavenly Bodies, by his new portable Orrey.
To which his answer was: why, that God is eternal motion, Lacy. This is his first orrery.
Ethelmer for a split second is gazing straight up into her nostrils, one of which now flares into pink illumination as Pitt’s Taper sets alight the central Lanthorn of the Orrery, representing the Sun. The other Planets wait, all but humming, taut within their spidery Linkages back to the Crank-Shaft and the Crank, held in the didactic Grasp of the Revd Cherrycoke.
gloss: A conceptual model of someone's worldview.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
examples: This book is the result of fourteen thousand miles in the saddle and four years in the library. It describes the lives of the inhabitants of France – wherever possible, through their own eyes – and the exploration and colonization of their land by foreigners and natives, from the late seventeenth century to the early twentieth. It follows a roughly chronological route, from the end of the reign of Louis XIV to the outbreak of the First World War, with occasional detours through pre-Roman Gaul and present-day France. Part One describes the populations of France, their languages, beliefs and daily lives, their travels and discoveries, and the other creatures with whom they shared the land. In Part Two, the land is mapped, colonized by rulers and tourists, refashioned politically and physically, and turned into a modern state. The difference between the two parts, broadly speaking, is the difference between ethnology and history: the world that was always the same and the world that was always changing. I have tried to give a sense of the orrery of disparate, concurrent spheres, to show a land in which mule trains coincided with railway trains, and where witches and explorers were still gainfully employed when Gustave Eiffel was changing the skyline of Paris.
Related words: clockmaker
clockwork universe
Ptolemaic system
watchmaker
Translations:
ort
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English orte, from Old English *oreta (“that which is left after eating”, literally “out-eat”); for more, see Old English or-, English eat. Cognate with Middle Low German orte (“refuse of food”), Middle Dutch ooraete, ooreete, Low German ort (“ort”), Middle High German urez, German Uräß and also German Ort (“quarter (of a thaler, etc)”). As the term for a coin, probably borrowed from the central European languages which used it: German Ort (“quarter (of a thaler)”), Polish ort (“coin”), etc.
Inflected forms:
form: orts
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A fragment; a scrap of leftover food; any remainder; a piece of refuse.
pos: noun
tags: plural-normally
examples: […]the rich ate and drank freely, and accepted gout and apoplexy as things that ran mysteriously in respectable families, and the poor thought that the rich were entirely in the right of it to lead a jolly life; besides, their feasting caused a multiplication of orts, which were the heirlooms of the poor.
Come, Kinch, you have eaten all we left. Ay, I will serve you your orts and offals.
Peace, Grandam,– reclaim thy Ort. The Learnèd One has yet to sink quite that low.
gloss: A small coin, formerly used in central Europe.
pos: noun
tags: historical
examples: ORT (French), the gross weight; garbage or refuse; a Norwegian coin of 24 skillings, also called a mark, and equal to 9 1/2 d.; an Hungarian coin, containing 12 kreutzers; in Poland, 5 orts make a rix-dollar; also a Swedish money equal to 2 farthings, sometimes called a runstick.
The coins of Sigismund III. range in value from […] the solidus, denarius, half gros, gros, 1 1/2 gros, 3 crucifer, 3 gros, 6 gros, quarter crown or thaler, (ort); half crown, crown, double crown, ducat, […] These coins are the solidus, 3 gros, 6 gros, ort (quarter thaler), thaler (crown); […]
Synonyms: chip
residue
rubbish
Translations:
grungy
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: Probably a blend of grunt + dingy, influenced by grimy.
Compound parts: grunt
dingy
Inflected forms:
form: grungier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: grungiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Dirty; shabby; in disrepair.
pos: adj
gloss: Of or relating to grunge music.
pos: adj
Synonyms: grungelike
Derived words: grungily
grunginess
Translations:
forceps
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
entomology
natural-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Latin forcepslbor.
English forceps
Learned borrowing from Latin forceps.
Inflected forms:
form: forceps
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: forcipes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: forcepses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An instrument used in surgery or medical procedures for grasping and holding objects, similar to tongs or pincers.
pos: noun
gloss: A pair of appendages on the abdomen of some insects, such as earwigs, resembling the medical instrument.
pos: noun
Synonyms: pair of forceps
Derived words: dressing forceps
eyelash forceps
forceps delivery
forceps-like
forcepslike
forcepstail
gonoforceps
microforceps
midforceps
Translations:
dredger
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: nautical
transport
Etymology: Etymology tree
English dredge
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 dredger
From dredge + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: dredgers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A vessel equipped for the removal of sand or sediment from the seabed.
pos: noun
examples: The section includes also combination bucket and suction dredges, true suction dredgers, the Friihling dredge, the reclamation dredge, the longshoot dredge, the hopper barge, the self-propelling hopper, and the rock cutter.
gloss: One who fishes with a dredge.
pos: noun
gloss: A dredging machine.
pos: noun
gloss: A container with a perforated lid, used to sprinkle sugar or flour.
pos: noun
examples: In the kitchen Mrs. Piper was busy with a flour dredger, a rolling pin, and a basin of dough.
Related words: dredge
dredging
Derived words: dredgerman
Translations:
overexertion
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *úp
Proto-Indo-European *-er
Proto-Indo-European *upér
Proto-Germanic *uber
Old English ofer-
Middle English over-
English over-
English exertion
English overexertion
From over- + exertion.
Inflected forms:
form: overexertions
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: excessive exertion; so much exertion that discomfort or injury results
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
spokesperson
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From spoke (“past participle of speak”) + -s- + person.
Base: spoke
Affixes: -s-
Inflected forms:
form: spokespersons
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: spokespeople
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person who acts as the voice of another person or a group of people.
pos: noun
examples: News subsidies thus include making spokespersons available, producing press releases or staging pseudo-events designed to suit the media's production needs and attract the media's attention […]
Biden and his spokespeople have proudly touted his signature COVID relief bill as a major stimulus for policing in a national context already characterized by globally unparalleled police spending.
A Police Scotland spokesperson said: “We were made aware of concern for a group of three hillwalkers who had not returned from the Aonach Eagach ridge in Glen Coe shortly after 9.05pm on Saturday 5 August.
Translations:
tinfoil
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From tin + foil.
Compound parts: tin
foil
Inflected forms:
form: tinfoils
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: tinfoils
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: tinfoiling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: tinfoiled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: tinfoiled
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A thin, pliable sheet of tin or an alloy of tin and lead, used as a protective wrapping.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Aluminium foil.
pos: noun
tags: countable
informal
uncountable
gloss: To cover in tinfoil.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Related words: tin can
Derived words: tinfoil hat
tinfoily
Translations:
lang: Chinese Cantonese
word: 錫紙 /锡纸
roman: sek³ zi²
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 錫箔 /锡箔
roman: xībó
lang: Czech
word: staniol
lang: Danish
word: stanniol
lang: Danish
word: sølvpapir
lang: Faroese
word: silvurpappír
lang: Faroese
word: súllpappír
lang: Finnish
word: lehtitina
lang: Finnish
word: stannioli
lang: Finnish
word: tinafolio
lang: French
word: papier d'étain
lang: French
word: papier d’aluminium
lang: German
word: Alufolie
lang: Greek
word: αλουμινόχαρτο
roman: alouminócharto
lang: Icelandic
word: álpappír
lang: Japanese
word: 錫箔
roman: suzuhaku
lang: Korean
word: 석박
roman: seokbak
lang: Macedonian
word: станиол
roman: staniol
lang: Polish
word: cynfolia
lang: Polish
word: staniol
lang: Portuguese
word: papel-alumínio
lang: Russian
word: станиоль
roman: staniolʹ
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: sgragall
lang: Spanish
word: papel de estaño
lang: Spanish
word: papel aluminio
lang: Spanish
word: papel de plata
lang: Spanish
word: papel estaño
lang: Spanish
word: papel metálico m albal
lang: Spanish
word: papel albal
lang: Swedish
word: stanniol
lang: Tagalog
word: palara
lang: Vietnamese
word: giấy bạc
lang: Yiddish
word: זילבערפּאַפּיר
roman: zilberpapir
tingling
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more tingling
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most tingling
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: tinglings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: That tingles
pos: adj
examples: tingling sensation in one's wrists
tingling sound in the ears
gloss: A tingling sensation; pins and needles.
pos: noun
Translations:
tinkerer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English tinker
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 tinkerer
From tinker + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: tinkerers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A meddler.
pos: noun
Translations:
tinkling
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: tinklings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A tinkle; a tinkling sound.
pos: noun
examples: The merry piano tinklings were gone.
gloss: The Greater Antillean Grackle, Quiscalus niger.
pos: noun
tags: Jamaica
gloss: The action of the verb to tinkle
pos: noun
gloss: That tinkles.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: A tinkling piano in the next apartment, / Those stumbling words that told you what my heart meant, / A fairground's painted swings... / These foolish things remind me of you.
American Christians, you may master the intricacies of the English language and you may possess the eloquence of articulate speech; but even though you speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not love, you are like sounding brass or a tinkling cymbal.
gloss: That works as a tinker
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
obsolete
Derived words: tinklingly
Translations:
tin-plate
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: tin-plates
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: tin-plating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: tin-plated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: tin-plated
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To coat (something, especially steel sheet) with tin, either by dipping or electroplating.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Translations:
tin-plating
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The process of applying a protective layer of tin, especially to steel sheet.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
respite
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: law
Etymology: From Anglo-Norman and Old French respit (“rest”), from Latin respectus. Doublet of respect.
Inflected forms:
form: respites
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: respites
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: respiting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: respited
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: respited
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A brief interval of rest or relief.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: I crave but four day's respite.
Some pause and respite only I require.
It was a joy to snatch some brief respite, and find himself in the rectory drawing–room. Listening here was as pleasant as talking; just to watch was pleasant. The young priests who lived here wore cassocks and birettas; their faces were fine and mild, yet really strong, like the rector's face; and in their intercourse with him and his wife they seemed to be brothers.
Mr. Cameron had a respite Thursday from the negative chatter swirling around him when he appeared outside 10 Downing Street to denounce the murder a day before of a British soldier on a London street.
The American escort carriers reach the first in a series of rain squalls, and Japanese fire drops off significantly, as their optical systems are unable to see through the rain. At this point in time, almost any other major navy would simply have used their radar to keep spotting and firing, as Duke of York had done to Scharnhorst almost a year ago and as the battleships of the Seventh Fleet had done to the Yamashiro mere hours earlier. But, since only one ship in the Center Force has gunnery radar, the American ships gain some respite.
gloss: A reprieve, especially from a sentence of death.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Thenne spake sir gawayn and sayd my lord Arthur I wold counceylle yow not to be ouer hasty but that ye wold putte it in respyte this Iugement of my lady the quene for many causes.
"Then spake Sir Gawaine, and said: My lord Arthur, I would counsel you not to be over-hasty, but that ye would put it in respite, this judgment of my lady the queen, for many causes."
The PACC Act [Post-Appeal Applications in Capital Cases Act] also amends the CPC [Criminal Procedure Code] to provide that a capital sentence may be carried out unless:[…]The President has ordered a respite.
gloss: The delay of appearance at court granted to a jury beyond the proper term.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A short period of spoken dialogue in an otherwise sung-through musical.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: To delay or postpone (an event).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To allow (a person) extra time to fulfil some obligation.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Derived words: respite care
respiteless
Translations:
tire-pressure
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: tire-pressures
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: tyre-pressure
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: the pressure of the air in a vehicle tire
pos: noun
tags: Canada
US
Translations:
tittle
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: media
publishing
typography
Etymology: From Middle English tytle, titel, titele, from Anglo-Norman titil, titule and Medieval Latin titulus (“small stroke, diacritical mark, accent”), from Latin titulus (“title”). Doublet of tilde, titer/titre, title, titlo, and titulus.
Inflected forms:
form: tittles
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: tittles
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: tittling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: tittled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: tittled
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Any small dot, stroke, or diacritical mark, especially if part of a letter, or of a letter-like abbreviation; in particular, the dots over the Latin letters i and j.
pos: noun
examples: The foure pricks or tittles are these. The first is a full prick or period. The second is a comma or crooked tittle.
The words "jot" and "tittle" in this passage refer to diacritic marks, that is, dashes, dots, or commas added to a letter to accentuate the pronunciation.
(the page calls both "a superscript sign (hooklike)" and also a diacritical abbreviation of "er" (er) "tittles")
A tittle is more or less the same thing (the dot over an i, for instance), except that it can be traced back to Medieval Latin for a little mark over or under a letter, such as an accent ague or a cedilla. I don't know whether an umlaut is one or two tittles. Maybe it's a jot and a tittle side by side.
gloss: A small, insignificant amount (of something); a modicum or speck.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
examples: I am living fast to see the time when a book that misses its tide shall be neglected, as the moon by day, or like mackerel a week after the season. No man has more nicely observed our climate than the bookseller who bought the copy of this work; he knows to a tittle what subjects will best go off in a dry year, and which it is proper to expose foremost when the weather-glass is fallen to much rain.
gloss: To chatter.
pos: verb
tags: Scotland
Related words: iota
tilde
titer
titre
title
titlo
titulus
Derived words: jot and tittle
tittle-tattler
tittle-tattling
to a tittle
Translations:
tittle-tattle
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Reduplication of tattle.
Inflected forms:
form: tittle-tattles
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: tittle-tattles
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: tittle-tattling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: tittle-tattled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: tittle-tattled
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Petty, idle gossip.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Every idle Tittle-tattle that went about, Jack was always ſuſpected for the author of it: […]
She has trouble enough on her hands, with the affairs of that silly young scapegrace, without being pestered by the tittle-tattle of this place. It is all an invention of that fool, Fribsby.
And, when rumours about him surfaced in the form of insinuating magazine articles demanding to know why he hadn’t found a wife yet, his wily agent Henry Willson made sure that none of them stuck, even if it meant leaking tittle-tattle about other clients instead.
gloss: An idle, trifling talker; a gossip.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: If I can once extirpate the race of solid and substantial humdrums, I hope by my wholesome and repeated advices, quickly to reduce the insignificant tittle-tattles and matter-of-fact-men that abound in every quarter of this great city.
gloss: To engage in gossip.
pos: verb
examples: ‘I hope you two have been mewed in with that old pussy long enough. While you’ve been tittle-tattling I’ve been doing, — listen to what this bobby’s got to say.’
gloss: To spread gossip.
pos: verb
Derived words: tittle-tattler
Translations:
barfly
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From bar + fly.
Compound parts: bar
fly
Inflected forms:
form: barflies
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: bar fly
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A person who spends much time in a bar or similar drinking establishment
pos: noun
tags: derogatory
slang
gloss: A promiscuous person, especially a woman, who frequents bars hoping to find sexual partners
pos: noun
tags: derogatory
slang
Synonyms: drunkard
Related words: barfly jumping
bar star
prop up the bar
Translations:
pachuco
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Mexican Spanish pachuco (“flashily dressed”).
Inflected forms:
form: pachucos
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A Mexican American, especially a juvenile delinquent in the Los Angeles area.
pos: noun
tags: US
countable
examples: Now they saw that Terry was Mexican, a Pachuco wildcat; and that her boy was worse than that.
I moved farther and farther into the Chicano community. I took Spanish in school and found willing tutors among my friends, who taught me a real-life version of the standard textbook language. I began to dress and comb my hair in the pachuco style of the day. I acquired the social customs and mannerisms of those around me.
They asked him if he was a pachuco. He said all the pachucos he knew of lived in El Paso. He told em he didn’t know any Mexican pachucos.
gloss: An argot spoken by that group, sometimes known as caló.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Like the zoot suit, the Pachuco caló was adopted by a large part of the Chicano youth who did not, in essence, identify themselves as Pachucos.
Derived words: chuke
Translations: