yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
spigot
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English spigot (“wooden stopper”). Probably ultimately from Latin spīca via Old Occitan espiga and Middle French espigeot.
Inflected forms:
form: spigots
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: spicket
pos: noun
tags: alternative
dialectal
form: spigots
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: spigoting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: spigotting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: spigoted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: spigoted
pos: verb
tags: past
form: spigotted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: spigotted
pos: verb
tags: past
form: spicket
pos: verb
tags: alternative
dialectal
Senses:
gloss: A pin or peg used to stop the vent in a cask.
pos: noun
gloss: The plug of a faucet, tap or cock.
pos: noun
gloss: A water tap: a faucet or sillcock.
pos: noun
tags: Appalachia
US
especially
examples: I went to the sink and turned the spigot, feeling the cold rush of water upon my hand.
gloss: To block with a spigot.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Once a beach has been formed, spigoting would focus on directing the reclaim water pool toward the reclaim barge pumps.
gloss: To insert (a spigot).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Location of the cylinders is, of course, effected by spigoting their lower ends into the holes in the crankcase. Similarly, the cylinder heads are located by spigoting the upper ends of the cylinders into them.
Derived words: knight of the spigot
lick-spigot
spigot algorithm
Translations:
spitz
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From German Spitz, from spitz (“pointed”); so called from the tapering shape of its muzzle.
Inflected forms:
form: spitzes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of several Nordic breeds of dog such as the Pomeranian or Samoyed.
pos: noun
Translations:
spline
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: arts
business
carpentry
computing
construction
crafts
engineering
hobbies
lifestyle
manufacturing
mathematics
mechanical-engineering
mechanics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
woodworking
Etymology: Mid-1700s East Anglian dialect. Origin uncertain but perhaps from Old Danish splind or North Frisian splinj and ultimately related to the root of splinter.
Inflected forms:
form: splines
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: splines
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: splining
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: splined
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: splined
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A long, thin piece of metal or wood.
pos: noun
gloss: A strip of wood or other material inserted into grooves in each of two pieces of wood to provide additional surface for gluing.
pos: noun
gloss: A flexible strip of metal or other material, that may be bent into a curve and used in a similar manner to a ruler to draw smooth curves between points.
pos: noun
gloss: Any of a number of smooth curves used to join points.
pos: noun
examples: However, it should be possible to give more sophisticated spherical spline curves based on the de Castaljau method that are computed using multiple slerps between pairs of points and which work well for arbitrary knot positions (indeed, knot insertion methods for spline curves should suffice for this, cf Farin [1993])
These conditions provide a framework which encompasses some notable approximation kernels including splines, so-called cardinal functions, and many radial basis functions such as the Gaussians and general multiquadrics.
gloss: A ridge or tooth on a drive shaft that meshes with a corresponding groove in a mating piece and transfers torque to it, maintaining the angular correspondence between the pieces; either the ridge or the groove, as part of a set of both (splines); the whole set of ridges and grooves.
pos: noun
gloss: A rectangular piece that fits grooves like key seats in a hub and a shaft, so that while the one may slide endwise on the other, both must revolve together.
pos: noun
examples: Near-synonym: feather
gloss: To smooth (a curve or surface) by means of a spline.
pos: verb
gloss: To fit with a spline.
pos: verb
examples: Machining a straight spline with a lathe. Sometimes the task of splining a shaft comes up during a repair. Instead of sending out the job, use this setup to mill the splines on a lathe.
gloss: To fasten to or together with a spline.
pos: verb
examples: Engineers did not think two crankshafts could be synchronized. Wood, by splining the shafts in each gear box, proved it could be done.
These packs can be holding or driving devices, depending on what they are splined to.
Splined bars are a big recent trend. Originally used in racing, the idea is to have a straight torsion bar with the ends splined like an axle and separate arms that fit on each end to mount the end links
Related words: French curve
Derived words: basis spline
B-spline
Catmull-Rom spline
cubic spline
Kochanek-Bartels spline
multispline
splinal
splined
splineway
Translations:
sprue
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: medicine
sciences
Etymology: From Dutch spruw, sprouw. First described by William Hillary.
Inflected forms:
form: sprues
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: sprues
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: sprueing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: spruing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: sprued
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: sprued
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A tropical disease causing a sore throat and tongue, and disturbed digestion; psilosis.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: To remove the sprues (material left in feed channels) from a cast piece.
pos: verb
examples: In the brass spruing room is what is known as a Todd water tumbler, used for brass castings.
The method adopted for sprueing the wax pattern is much more important to the success of the inlay than is generally realized.
The pattern is completed in its final contour, is then sprued, invested and burned out of the investment, and the gold alloy is cast in the same manner as when the indirect technique is utilized
If we are to cast a simple pattern like a small ball we have at least three methods of sprueing the wax pattern (Fig. 6).
To provide for constructing and sprueing the wax sculpture, as described in Chapters 1 and 2, we must obviously have a wax working area, which in a foundry may also be referred to as the patternmaking area.
Translations:
squill
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From French scille, from Latin scilla. Doublet of scilla.
Inflected forms:
form: squills
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A European bulbous liliaceous plant, of the genus Scilla, used in medicine for its acrid, expectorant, diuretic, and emetic properties
pos: noun
gloss: A sea onion (Drimia maritima)
pos: noun
gloss: A mantis shrimp, Squilla mantis, from the Mediterranean
pos: noun
Synonyms: squilla
Related words: squill-gee
Derived words: Portuguese squill
red squill
sea squill
Translations:
staph
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Shortening of staphylococcus.
Inflected forms:
form: staphs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Staphylococcus bacteria and the infection it causes.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
stasis
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: literature
media
medicine
pathology
publishing
science-fiction
sciences
Etymology: From New Latin stasis, from Ancient Greek στάσις (stásis). See the doublet stead.
Inflected forms:
form: stases
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A slackening or arrest of the blood current, due not to a lessening of the heart’s beat, but to some abnormal resistance of the capillary walls.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: Inactivity; a freezing, or state of motionlessness.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
uncountable
usually
examples: His company was sized for growth, not stasis.
Boredom is an instrument of social control. Power is the power to impose boredom, to command stasis, to combine this stasis with anguish.
Or will Americans remain hunkered forever—as confused and anxious and paralyzed as we were before 2020—descend into digital feudalism, and retreat back into our cocoons of nostalgia and cultural stasis, providing the illusion that nothing much is changing or ever can change?
gloss: A technology allowing something to be artificially frozen in time, so that it does not age or change.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: I was in stasis for forty years before I woke up orbiting this poxy planet!
gloss: One of the sections of a cathisma or portion of the psalter.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
Related words: static
Derived words: adipostasis
angiostasis
bacteriostasis
bilirubinostasis
biostasis
chemostasis
ciliostasis
cryostasis
cytostasis
enterostasis
glucostasis
hemostasis
leukostasis
mesostasis
metallostasis
morphostasis
mucostasis
oostasis
orthostasis
photostasis
stasimorphy
stasis lock
stasis papillomatosis
venous stasis
Translations:
stater
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Ancient Greek στατήρ (statḗr).
Inflected forms:
form: staters
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A gold, silver or electrum coin of ancient Greece.
pos: noun
Translations:
stator
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From stationary or static by analogy with rotor; alternatively from a hypothetical Latin stātor (literally “stander”); all ultimately from stāre (“to stand”).
Inflected forms:
form: stators
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The stationary part of a motor or other machine.
pos: noun
Translations:
steeve
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: nautical
transport
Inflected forms:
form: steeves
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: steeves
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: steeving
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: steeved
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: steeved
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: The angle that a bowsprit makes with the horizon, or with the line of the vessel's keel.
pos: noun
gloss: A spar, with a block at one end, used in stowing cotton bales and similar cargo needing to be packed tightly.
pos: noun
gloss: To project upward, or make an angle with the horizon or with the line of a vessel's keel; said of the bowsprit, etc.
pos: verb
tags: archaic
gloss: To stow, as bales in a vessel's hold, by means of a steeve.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: "They are all alike to me." And indeed to a landsman, the nodding schooners around seemed run from the same mold.
"They ain't, though. That yaller, dirty packet with her bowsprit steeved that way, she's the Hope of Prague. Nick Brady's her skipper, the meanest man on the Banks. […]"
Translations:
stoled
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English stole
English -ed
English stoled
From stole + -ed.
Inflected forms:
form: stold
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Having or wearing a stole.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
stooge
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: comedy
entertainment
human-sciences
lifestyle
psychology
sciences
Etymology: Perhaps an abbreviation of Russian студе́нт (studént) [stʊˈdʲent]; the original meaning was “stage assistant, actor who assists a comedian”. It may have been a Yiddish vaudeville term.
Inflected forms:
form: stooges
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: stooges
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: stooging
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: stooged
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: stooged
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: One who knowingly allows himself or herself to be used for another's profit; a dupe.
pos: noun
examples: I'd like to show you what a wipeout looks like from the board. I'm pretty good at getting wiped out, so I'll be the stooge.
gloss: A magician's assistant who pretends to be a member of the audience.
pos: noun
gloss: A straight man.
pos: noun
gloss: A secret informant for police.
pos: noun
gloss: A confederate; a person who is secretly working for the researcher, unknown to the study participant.
pos: noun
gloss: To act as a straight man.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
Translations:
stover
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Anglo-Norman estovers (“necessities”) via Middle English estover (“allowance”), ultimately from Latin est opus (“there is need”). Compare estover.
Inflected forms:
form: stovers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Fodder for cattle, especially straw or coarse hay.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Thy turfy mountains, where live nibbling sheep,
And flat meads thatch'd with stover, them to keep; […]
gloss: Stalks and leaves, not including grain, of certain forages
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Even second-generation biofuels, made from crop wastes or wood, are an environmental disaster, either extending the cultivated area or removing the straw and stovers which protect the soil from erosion and keep carbon and nutrients in the ground.
Translations:
strop
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: nautical
transport
Etymology: Same as strap (which see); recorded in English since 1702. The verb sense referring to honing a sharp edge is recorded since 1842.
Inflected forms:
form: strops
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: strops
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: stropping
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: stropped
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: stropped
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A strap; more specifically a piece of leather or a substitute (notably canvas), or strip of wood covered with a suitable material, for honing a razor.
pos: noun
examples: Cheap razors are a mistake, as they soon lose their edge. A good razor requires no strop. It has been suggested as an excellent plan to have a case of seven razors—one for each day in the week—so that they are all equally used.
gloss: A piece of rope spliced into a circular wreath, and put round a block for hanging it.
pos: noun
gloss: To hone (a razor or knife) with a strop.
pos: verb
examples: One should strop the razor before each shave.
The barber—a round, bustling fellow—stropped his razor and prattled gossip.
gloss: To strap.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
Derived words: razor strop
Translations:
stymie
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: golf
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Etymology: From the meaning in golf (where the stymie ball blocks the other ball from "seeing" the hole), perhaps from Scots stymie, stimie (“person with poor eyesight”), from Scots stime (“the least bit”). Or from Scots styme (“tiny bit, glimmer”) as in se nocht ane styme (“not to see a glimmer (of something)”). If so, it is a doublet of stime.
Inflected forms:
form: stymies
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: stimie
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: stimy
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: stymy
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: stymies
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: stymieing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: stymying
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: stymied
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: stymied
pos: verb
tags: past
form: stimie
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: stimy
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: stymy
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A situation where an opponent's ball is directly in the way of one's own ball and the hole, on the putting green (abolished 1952).
pos: noun
gloss: An obstacle or obstruction.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
examples: Mary, will you be mine? Shall we go round together? Will you fix up a match with me on the links of life which shall end only when the Grim Reaper lays us both a stymie?
gloss: To thwart or stump; to cause to fail or to leave hopelessly puzzled, confused, or stuck.
pos: verb
examples: They had lost the key, and the lock stymied the first three locksmiths they called.
If writing dates has you stymied at times, it is probably for one of two reasons. https://www.grammarly.com/blog/how-to-write-dates/
It constrained governments, businesses and labour unions to collaborate in planning increased rates of output and the conditions likely to facilitate them. And above all, it blocked any return to the temptations that had so stymied the inter-war economy: under-production, mutually destructive protectionism, and a collapse of trade.
I was making such a drama in my head it was stymieing me.
In populations that have “burst” and “path” structures, for example, individuals can never occupy positions in the graph that their ancestors held. Those structures stymie evolution by denying advantageous mutations any chance to take over a population.
For all his faults and grandstanding, however, Prescott genuinely cared - and his ambitious plans for tram schemes and railway extensions were stymied by lack of support from Downing Street.
Since Israel’s ground war began in Gaza over a year and a half ago, it has followed a consistent pattern of raiding key militant strongholds and then withdrawing forces, alongside periodic stymieing of food aid.
gloss: To bring into the position of, or impede by, a stymie.
pos: verb
Derived words: unstymied
Translations:
sulfa
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: sulpha
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: sulfas
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: sulpha
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Of or containing sulfonamide or sulfanilamide.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: But my osteo plagued me throughout the rest of my stay at the HNOH, and for several years even after leaving the Home. It wasn't until the discovery of penicillin and the sulfa drugs that I finally beat that condition.
gloss: A sulfonamide or sulfanilamide.
pos: noun
Translations:
surtax
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: law
Etymology: From French surtaxe.
Inflected forms:
form: surtaxes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: surtaxes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: surtaxing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: surtaxed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: surtaxed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: An additional or extra tax.
pos: noun
gloss: To impose a surtax upon.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Translations:
swag
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English *swaggen, swagen, swoggen, probably from Old Norse sveggja (“to swing, sway”), from Proto-Germanic *swinganą (“to swing”). Compare dialectal Norwegian svaga (“to sway, swing, stagger”).
Inflected forms:
form: swags
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: swagging
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: swagged
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: swagged
pos: verb
tags: past
form: swags
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To (cause to) sway.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
examples: 1790, William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, The Argument, p. 1,
Hungry clouds swag on the deep
Soap/soak the mop into the mop bucket, squeeze it out slightly, swag it back and forth across the piss stained concrete, mop it dry.
gloss: To droop; to sag.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: so laid, they are more apt in swagging down, to pierce with their points, then in the jacent Posture
I swagge as a fatte persos belly swaggeth as he goth.
gloss: To decorate (something) with loops of draped fabric.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Dior wouldn’t be Dior without the swagged ball gown[…].
gloss: To install (a ceiling fan or light fixture) by means of a long cord running from the ceiling to an outlet, and suspended by hooks or similar.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Hooks come with screws for use in plaster or wood and toggles for use in wallboard. One hook should be sufficient to swag a lamp from a ceiling outlet.
gloss: A loop of draped fabric.
pos: noun
examples: He looked in bewilderment at number 24, the final house with its regalia of stucco swags and bows.
gloss: Something that droops like a swag.
pos: noun
examples: Detective Inspector Douglas Browne, the flesh of whose cheeks hung in swags, had the friendly aspect of a large brown-eyed dog.
gloss: A low point or depression in land; especially:
pos: noun
examples: Whenever the muddy water would accumulate in the swag the water from the well in question would become muddy[…] After the water in the swag had all disappeared through the sink-hole the well water would again become clear.
This peach tree is th' big tree that allus bore so many peaches. It's th' one in th' low swag by th' old rotted white oak stump.
gloss: A low point or depression in land; especially:
pos: noun
examples: […] the Stoll household were hoeing corn high up on a bench or "swag" of the mountain facing the home, where there was newer and richer ground than in the abandoned fields in its rear.
Finally he managed to grab hold of [the turkey's] legs, but as he did so, the turkey "riz" up into the air and carried him across a "swag" (gap) to the next mountain and courteously dropped him.
We dropped our packs in the low swag and began ascending the steep sides of the "puzzle" mountain.
Sometimes men would get on either side of a gap or swag, set the dogs loose, and let them drive the deer through between them. Another way was for one man to take the dogs and drive the ridge. Other men would go to gaps or stands at[…]
Derived words: swagbelly
swag light
swag-shop
swagger
swaggy
swaglike
swagwoman
Translations:
swage
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English swage, from Old French souage (“decorative groove”), from soue (“rope”), from Vulgar Latin *soca, from Gaulish *souca (“cord”), from Proto-Celtic *soukā, from Proto-Indo-European *sew- (“to twist, bend”).
Inflected forms:
form: swages
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: swages
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: swaging
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: swaged
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: swaged
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A tool, used by blacksmiths and other metalworkers, for shaping of a metal item.
pos: noun
examples: "I made a swage and hammered out the test bars to the required .615 inch plus or minus .003, the thickness of a sheet of paper. […]
If he were making round or square-sectioned nails, the blacksmith also kept a "swage" near the anvil. If different sizes, shapes, and heads were required, the nailor had a number of swages or a number of holes in the one swage.
[…] The blacksmith let me help out, hold the horse while he was putting the shoe on, turn the hand forge, clean up the shop. And after awhile he taught me names of everything. He'd say, 'Boy, hand me the three-inch swage,' and I had to know just what he wanted. I learned that way."
gloss: To bend or shape through use of a swage.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Translations:
swami
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Hindi स्वामी (svāmī), from Sanskrit स्वामिन् (svāmín).
Inflected forms:
form: swamis
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: swamee
pos: noun
tags: alternative
dated
form: swammy
pos: noun
tags: alternative
dated
form: swamy
pos: noun
tags: alternative
dated
Senses:
gloss: A Hindu ascetic or religious teacher.
pos: noun
tags: often
gloss: A Hindu religious idol.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
Translations:
synod
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: Christianity
astronomy
natural-sciences
Etymology: From Ancient Greek σύνοδος (súnodos, “assembly, meeting”) – from σύν (sún, “with”) (English syn-) + ὁδός (hodós, “way, path”).
Compare also with the term סַנְהֶדְרִין (“sanhedrin”) common throughout Hebrew Talmudic literature.
Inflected forms:
form: synods
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An ecclesiastic council or meeting to consult on church matters.
pos: noun
examples: Addressing a number of previously taboo topics, this synod could result in several liberalizing reforms, though there is no guarantee that it will produce anything at all.
gloss: An administrative division of churches, either the entire denomination, as in the Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod, or a mid-level division (middle judicatory, district) as in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America
pos: noun
gloss: An assembly or council having civil authority (formal); a legislative body.
pos: noun
examples: It hath in solemn synods been decreed.
A third part of the Gods, in synod met / Their deities to assert; who, while they feel / Vigour divine within them, can allow / Omnipotence to none.
Parent of Gods and Men, propitious Jove! / And you bright ſynod of the Pow'rs above; / On this my ſon your gracious gifts beſtow; / Grant him to live, and great in arms to grow, [...]
gloss: A conjunction of two or more of the heavenly bodies.
pos: noun
Derived words: antisynod
countersynod
general synod
holy synod
synodal
synodality
synodic
synodist
Translations:
tabooed
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more tabooed
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most tabooed
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Forbidden; prohibited.
pos: adj
Translations:
tad
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: 1877, ‘young or small child’, probably a shortened form of tadpole. The extended meaning ‘small amount’ is first recorded 1915.
Inflected forms:
form: tads
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A small amount; a little bit.
pos: noun
tags: informal
examples: Could you lean the picture to the left just a tad more?
gloss: A street boy; an urchin.
pos: noun
tags: US
dated
slang
Derived words: a tad
Translations:
talc
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle French talc, from Arabic طَلْق (ṭalq), from Persian تلک (talk), from Middle Persian [Term?] (“medicament”).
Inflected forms:
form: talcs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: talcs
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: talcing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: talced
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: talced
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Originally a large range of transparent or glistening foliated minerals. Examples include mica, selenite and the hydrated magnesium silicate that the term talc generally has referred to in modern times (see below). Also an item made of such a mineral and depending for its function on the special nature of the mineral (see next). Medieval writers adopted the term from the Arabic.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
gloss: A microscope slide made of a plate of mica, generally in use from the start of modern microscopy until the early nineteenth century, after which glass slides became the standard medium.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
examples: M. [Antonie van] Leeuwenhoek fixed his objects, if they were ſolid, to the foregoing point with glue; if they were fluid, he fitted them on a little plate of talc, or exceeding thin blown glaſs, which he afterwards glued to the needle, in the ſame manner as his other objects.
gloss: A soft mineral, composed of hydrated magnesium silicate, that has a soapy feel and a greenish, whitish, or grayish color, and usually occurs in foliated masses.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The abeer is often mixed with powdered talc to make it glitter, and then, if it gets into the eyes, it causes a good deal of pain.
With this background and experience we feel justified in stating that not all talcs contain, or are associated with, asbestos.
For example, Montana talcs approximate the theoretical composition, while California talcs often contain calcite (CaCO₃) and dolomite (CaCO₃ • MgCO₃).
Micronized talcs and, to an even higher degree, submicrometer talcs significantly influence the processing parameters.
gloss: Talcum powder.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: To apply talc to.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: "Generous talcing" is applied not only to the naked bale, but to the inside of the wrapper, and after stenciling, to the interior of the package. This talcing is repeated, "if necessary, dependent upon the number of handlings up to and into stores for steamer loading."
Three manufacturers have now produced separate designs for talcing boxes; one uses conventional techniques of brushing and vibrators, one is a fluidised bed and the third is an electrostatic applicator.
Then he talced his hands, slipped on a new pair of rubber gloves, went to the shapeless thing at the other end of the table, and began to work.
Derived words: oil of talc
talcite
talclike
talcoid
talcomicaceous
talcosis
talcous
Talcville
Venice talc
Translations:
talus
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *teh₂g-
Proto-Indo-European *téh₂g-s-los?
Proto-Italic *tākslos
Latin tālusbor.
English talus
Borrowed from Latin tālus.
Inflected forms:
form: tali
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: tallus
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The bone of the ankle.
pos: noun
Translations:
tannin
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: From French tannin, from Latin tannum (“oak bark”), from Gaulish *tannos (“oak”). Related to tan. By surface analysis, tann- + -in.
Inflected forms:
form: tannins
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Tannic acid or any of its derivatives.
pos: noun
examples: Various substances act by entering into combination, and the divellent tendencies of the affinities of the constituents of those substances are overcome, among those are corrosive sublimate, copperas, tannin, wood, vinegar and creosotte.
Translations:
tapa
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: ]
Borrowed from Tongan tapa.
Inflected forms:
form: tapas
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: tappa
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A kind of cloth prepared by the Polynesians from the inner bark of the paper mulberry.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: For many of these cultures, clothing — or at least coverings for basic modesty such as loincloths and G-strings — is the main use of tapa.
Translations:
tapir
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from French tapir, from Old Tupi tapi'ira.
Inflected forms:
form: tapirs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An odd-toed ungulate of the genus Tapirus with a long prehensile upper lip.
pos: noun
examples: Once a dark, clumsy tapir stared at us from a gap in the bushes, and then lumbered away through the forest; once, too, the yellow, sinuous form of a great puma whisked amid the brushwood, and its green, baleful eyes glared hatred at us over its tawny shoulder.
Translations:
tapis
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From French, from Old French tapiz, from Vulgar Latin *tapēs, from Ancient Greek τάπης (tápēs), from an Iranian source.
Inflected forms:
form: tapises
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A tapestry.
pos: noun
examples: The tapises and blankets woven in Bontoc are similar in color and design to those of northern Lepanto where the method of weaving them probably originated.
gloss: Carpeting.
pos: noun
gloss: The cover of a council table.
pos: noun
tags: historical
Derived words: on the tapis
upon the tapis
tapissed
Translations:
tappet
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From tap + -et, possibly influenced by homophony with "tap it."
Base: tap
Affixes: -et
Inflected forms:
form: tappets
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A lever or projection which is moved by some other piece, as a cam, or intended to tap or touch something else, in order to produce change or regulate motion.
pos: noun
Translations:
taring
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: tarings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A common tern (Sterna hirundo).
pos: noun
Translations:
tarpon
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Compare Dutch tarpoen. Suggestions that the term derives from a Native American term are unlikely.
Inflected forms:
form: tarpons
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: tarpon
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of several fishes of the family Elopidae or Megalopidae, especially a large silvery game fish.
pos: noun
examples: You're a lucky guy to be eating anything right now. Instead you might easily be feeding the tunny fish and tarpon, to say nothing of the astronesthes and myctophids--
Donald Trump didn’t struggle to win the Florida town of Longboat Key in 2024. With a median age of 71.5 — only 6% of its residents are under 50 — it’s the sort of retirement community that built up his margin statewide. Think The Villages, but with better tarpon fishing.
Translations:
taster
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
Etymology: From Middle English taster; equivalent to taste + -er.
Base: taste
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: tasters
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An object in which, or by which, food or drink is tasted, such as a small cup.
pos: noun
examples: A flight of tasters was served to the people who would vote on the next soda flavor to be released.
gloss: Someone who tastes something; especially, either (1) to check its quality (in food science, winemaking, etc.) or (2) as a security measure to prevent assassination of a protectee.
pos: noun
examples: Big companies such as P&G or Kraft Heinz employ or contract with professional tasters who help with product development.
Being a cook for protectees also entails being a taster for them.
Thy tutor be thy taster, ere thou eat
Several tasters noted the “overly sweet” coconut aroma, carrying through to a “too sweet” flavour and “too chewy” mouthfeel. One taster said that masticating the biscuit felt like “an intense workout”.
gloss: A kind of zooid situated on the polyp-stem of certain Siphonophorae, resembling the feeding zooids, but destitute of mouths.
pos: noun
gloss: A sample of something bigger or grander intended for future use.
pos: noun
examples: The Kraft Heinz exhibit at the trade fair was a taster of new snack products set to hit the market soon.
The Samsung exhibit at the trade fair was a taster of new consumer electronic products set to hit the market soon.
gloss: A person who is, by genetic makeup, able to taste phenylthiocarbamide.
pos: noun
Related words: tastebuds
tasting
winetasting
Derived words: aletaster
ale-taster
foretaster
hypertaster
supertaster
winetaster
Translations:
tat
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Hindi टाट (ṭāṭ, “thick canvas”).
Inflected forms:
form: tats
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: tats
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: tatting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: tatted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: tatted
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Cheap and vulgar tastelessness; sleaze.
pos: noun
tags: UK
uncountable
gloss: Cheap, tasteless, useless goods; trinkets.
pos: noun
tags: UK
uncountable
examples: tourist tat
And it agreed with the editorial cartoon which featured a newsman doing a live report in front of a smouldering building and saying, "And it seems millions of pounds of meaningless tat has been lost to the nation for ever."
gloss: Gunny cloth made from the fibre of the Corchorus olitorius (jute).
pos: noun
tags: India
countable
gloss: To make (something by) tatting.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
transitive
Translations:
teasel
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English tasel, tesel, from Old English tǣsel, tǣsl, from Proto-West Germanic *taisilu.
Inflected forms:
form: teasels
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: teazel
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: teasle
pos: noun
tags: alternative
archaic
form: teazle
pos: noun
tags: alternative
archaic
form: tazel
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: Any of several plants of the genus Dipsacus.
pos: noun
gloss: The dried fruiting head of the fuller's teasel, Dipsacus sativa, used for teasing or carding cloth.
pos: noun
gloss: Any contrivance intended as a substitute for teasels in dressing cloth.
pos: noun
Derived words: teaseler
teasel gourd
teasellike
wild teasel
Translations:
tedder
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: agriculture
business
lifestyle
Etymology: From Middle English teddere; equivalent to ted + -er.
Base: ted
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: tedders
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A machine for stirring and spreading hay, to speed up its drying.
pos: noun
Translations:
teethe
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English tethen, from Old English tēþan (“to teethe”), from Proto-West Germanic *tanþijan, from Proto-Germanic *tanþijaną (“to teethe”), from Proto-Germanic *tanþs (“tooth”). Cognate with German zähnen (“to provide with teeth”).
Inflected forms:
form: teethes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: teething
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: teethed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: teethed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: teeth
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: To grow teeth.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Babies typically start teething at about six months.
gloss: To bite on something to relieve discomfort caused by growing teeth.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: She'll teethe on anything that she can get into her mouth.
Derived words: teether
teething ring
unteethed
Translations:
telex
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From genericization of Telex Printergram and Telex, derived as a blend of tele- (“telegraph, teletype, teleprinter, etc.”) + exchange.
Compound parts: tele-
exchange
Inflected forms:
form: telexes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Telex
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: telexes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: telexing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: telexed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: telexed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: Telex
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A network of teletypes.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A teletype message sent through such a network.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A teletype device connected to such a network.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: To send a message over a telex network.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Translations:
lang: Arabic
word: تِلِكْس
roman: tiliks
lang: Arabic
word: تِلِكْس
roman: teliks
lang: Belarusian
word: тэ́лекс
roman: téljeks
lang: Bulgarian
word: те́лекс
roman: téleks
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 電傳 /电传
roman: diànchuán
lang: Danish
word: telex
lang: Dutch
word: telex
lang: French
word: télex
lang: German
word: Telex
lang: Greek
word: τέλεξ
roman: télex
lang: Indonesian
word: teleks
lang: Italian
word: telex
lang: Japanese
word: テレックス
roman: terekkusu
lang: Japanese
word: 加入電信
roman: kanyū denshin
lang: Kazakh
word: телекс
roman: teleks
lang: Korean
word: 텔렉스
roman: tellekseu
lang: Korean
word: 가입전신
roman: gaipjeonsin
lang: Macedonian
word: телекс
roman: teleks
lang: Persian
word: تلکس
roman: teleks
lang: Polish
word: teleks
lang: Romanian
word: telex
lang: Russian
word: те́лекс
roman: téleks
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: тѐлекс
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: tèleks
lang: Swedish
word: telex
lang: Turkish
word: teleks
lang: Ukrainian
word: те́лекс
roman: téleks
lang: Vietnamese
word: viễn tín
tenner
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: broadcasting
film
media
television
Etymology: Etymology tree
English ten
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 tenner
From ten + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: tenners
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A monetary note (bill) whose face value is ten basic units of currency. Originally, a ten-shilling (half pound) note.
pos: noun
tags: Ireland
UK
informal
examples: [...] or, if you're feeling brave, a tenner. Tell your child they have a chance to win the fiver if they can [...]
The more a shop looks as though it trades in farthings and ha’pennies, the more tenners and twenties you can expect to hand over at the till.
I’ve visited Eton, there’s loads of places like it, and if that’s all you know, then you’ve definitely not had to worry about pulling a tenner out of the bank…
gloss: A kind of 10-kilowatt lamp.
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: The basic 10K, known as a tenner or studio 10K, has a 20-inch fresnel. The big daddy of the group is the Big Eye tenner, which has a 24-inch lens.
gloss: A tennis shoe.
pos: noun
Related words: fiver
Translations:
tenon
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English tenoun, tenown, tenon, from Anglo-Norman tenoun, from Old French tenon.
Inflected forms:
form: tenons
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: tenons
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: tenoning
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: tenoned
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: tenoned
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A projecting member left by cutting away the wood around it, and made to insert into a mortise, and in this way secure together the parts of a frame.
pos: noun
examples: A keyed mortise-and-tenon joint is constructed the same as a doweled mortise and tenon joint except that the tenon projects far enough through the mortise to admit the insertion of a tapering key which draws the mortised piece firmly against the shoulder of the tenon.
One soon learned, however, that it was no easy thing to make wood do exactly as one required it. It looked quite easy in the masterly hands of the experienced pattern-maker, but the mysteries of dowelling and mortice and tenon were not uncovered in a week or two.
If there is much gauging for the same size mortise and tenon to be done, and if a mortise gauge is not handy, a simple improvised gauge for the purpose can easily be made with two pieces of wood and four or five steel sprigs…
gloss: To make into a tenon.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: First we'll tenon this part, then we'll make a mortise that will fit it on that part.
gloss: To fit with tenons.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Translations:
tensor
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: anatomy
computing
engineering
linear-algebra
mathematics
medicine
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
sciences
Etymology: Borrowed from New Latin tensor (“that which stretches”), equivalent to tense + -or. Anatomical sense from 1704.
Introduced in the 1840s by William Rowan Hamilton as an algebraic quantity unrelated to the modern notion of tensor.
The contemporary mathematical meaning was introduced (as German Tensor) by Woldemar Voigt (1898) and adopted in English from 1915 (in the context of general relativity), obscuring the earlier Hamiltonian sense. The mathematical object is so named because an early application of tensors was the study of materials stretching under tension. (See, for example, Cauchy stress tensor on Wikipedia.Wikipedia )
Base: tense
Affixes: -or
Inflected forms:
form: tensors
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: tensores
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: tensors
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: tensoring
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: tensored
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: tensored
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A muscle that tightens or stretches a part, or renders it tense.
pos: noun
gloss: A mathematical object that describes linear relations on scalars, vectors, matrices and other algebraic objects, and is represented as a multidimensional array.
pos: noun
examples: The tensor #92;alpha#95;#123;ij#125; should really be called a “tensor of second rank,” because it has two indexes. A vector—with one index—is a tensor of the first rank, and a scalar—with no index—is a tensor of zero rank.
gloss: A mathematical object that describes linear relations on scalars, vectors, matrices and other algebraic objects, and is represented as a multidimensional array.
pos: noun
gloss: A norm operation on the quaternion algebra.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
gloss: To compute the tensor product of two tensors or algebraic structures.
pos: verb
Derived words: bitensor
tensor algebra
tensor field
tensorial
tensor operator
tensor product
tonic tensor tympani syndrome
Translations:
lang: Arabic
word: مُوتَر
roman: mūtar
lang: Bulgarian
word: тензор
roman: tenzor
lang: Finnish
word: tensori
lang: German
word: Tensor
lang: Greek
word: τανυστής
roman: tanystís
lang: Italian
word: tensore
lang: Kazakh
word: тензор
roman: tenzor
lang: Norwegian
word: tensor
lang: Polish
word: tensor
lang: Russian
word: те́нзор
roman: ténzor
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: tenzor
lang: Swedish
word: tensor
lang: Tagalog
word: katuganhan
lang: Tagalog
word: katuganuhan
lang: Turkish
word: tensör
tenter
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: Via Old French, perhaps from Latin tentorium.
Inflected forms:
form: tenters
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: tenters
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: tentering
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: tentered
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: tentered
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A framework upon which cloth is stretched and dried.
pos: noun
gloss: One who takes care of, or tends, machines in a factory; a kind of assistant foreman.
pos: noun
gloss: A kind of governor, or regulating device.
pos: noun
gloss: To stretch cloth on such a framework.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To admit extension; to be stretchable.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Woollen cloth will tenter, linen scarcely.
Derived words: tenterground
tenterbelly
tenterer
tenterhook
untentered
Translations:
termer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: law
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *terh₂-?
Proto-Indo-European *ter-?
Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥
Proto-Indo-European *térmn̥
Proto-Italic *termn̥
Proto-Indo-European *-nós
Proto-Italic *-nos
Proto-Italic *term(e)nos
Latin terminus
Old French termebor.
Middle English terme
English term
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 termer
From term + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: termers
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: termor
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Someone who is in a certain term
pos: noun
examples: first-termer
gloss: One who has an estate for a term of years or for life.
pos: noun
gloss: One who resorted to London during the law term only, in order to practise tricks, to carry on intrigues, or the like.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
examples: For termers, or some clerklike serving-man,
Who scarce can spell th' hard names
Derived words: life-termer
long-termer
short-termer
Translations:
theist
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *-s
Proto-Indo-European *dʰéh₁s
Proto-Hellenic *tʰehós
Ancient Greek θεός (theós)
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)
Proto-Hellenic *-tās
Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs)
Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)bor.
Latin -istader.
Old French -istebor.
Middle English -ist
English -ist
English theist
From Ancient Greek θεός (theós, “god”) + English -ist.
Inflected forms:
form: theists
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who believes in the existence of a god or gods.
pos: noun
examples: The term stands in contradistinction to theism which, in its widest sense, means belief in a personal god, goddess, gods and /or goddesses.
The theist is a man firmly persuaded of the existence of a Supreme Being as good as He is powerful, who has formed all beings with extension, vegetating, sentient and reflecting; who perpetuates their species, who punishes crimes without cruelty, and rewards virtuous actions with kindness.
[…] and I call him a theist who believes in any God.
No one is to be called a Theist, who does not believe in a Personal God, whatever difficulty there may be in defining the word "Personal."
Antonyms: atheist
Translations: