yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
wakizashi
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Japanese 脇差(わきざし) (wakizashi).
Inflected forms:
form: wakizashi
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: wakizashis
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A traditional Japanese shortsword, typically 30cm to 60cm (or nearly 12 inches to approx. 23.6 inches) in length, often used as a secondary weapon to a katana.
pos: noun
examples: Hiro shoves Reason back into the zodiac, jumps in, and starts the motor. He doesn’t have time to untie the boat from the pontoon, so he snaps through the line with his wakizashi and takes off.
Translations:
daisho
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: engineering
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
tools
war
weaponry
Etymology: From Japanese 大小(だいしょう) (daishō), from 大(だい) (dai, “large”) + 小(しょう) (shō, “small”), in reference to the comparative size of the swords.
Inflected forms:
form: daishos
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: daishou
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: daishoh
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: daisyou
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: daisyoh
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: daisyo
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: daishō
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A traditional Japanese pair of swords, consisting of the katana and wakizashi.
pos: noun
Translations:
tanto
Part of speech: noun
adv
Morphological type: simple
Topics: engineering
entertainment
government
lifestyle
military
music
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
tools
war
weaponry
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 短刀 (tantō), from Middle Chinese 短刀 (twan^X taw, “dagger”).
Inflected forms:
form: tanto
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: tantos
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: tantō
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: tantou
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A traditional Japanese small sword or knife; often used as a secondary weapon to a katana.
pos: noun
gloss: So much; too much.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
hilt
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English hilt, hilte, from Old English hilt, hilte, from Proto-Germanic *heltą, *heltǭ, *heltō, *hiltijō, (compare Old Norse hjalt, Old High German helza, Old Saxon helta), from Proto-Indo-European *kel- (“to strike, cut”) (see holt).
Inflected forms:
form: hilts
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: hilts
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: hilting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: hilted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: hilted
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: The handle of a sword, consisting of grip, guard, and pommel, designed to facilitate use of the blade and afford protection to the hand.
pos: noun
examples: A partial tang does not extend all the way through the hilt and is normally not more than half the width of the blade. The length of the tang and the width, particularly where it narrows before entering the pommel, vary from sword to sword.
gloss: The base of the penis.
pos: noun
examples: he draws it again, and just wetting it with spittle, re-enters, and with ease sheath'd it now up to the hilt
Joy saw stars as Malcolm's hard, thick cock pushed to his hilt, the reality shattering every fantasy about him she ever had. She opened her legs wider and bent her knees. As he pulled out, she tilted her pelvis for his next thrust. His cock ran against her clit hood barbell[…]
She jerked his hilt steadily as I rocked over the sensitive head of his cock. The more I worked him the more I felt my crotch dampen with lust.
gloss: To provide with a hilt.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Being lightly hilted, it was very heavy in the point and was useful only as an unscientific chopper, dangerous if it connected with a vital part of an adversary, ideal for cutting at defenceless infantry, but unsuitable for sabre to sabre action, especially against the French equivalent, a beautifully balanced weapon, which was so functional that it was still used by the French cavalry in 1918, while a copy was used by the Prussians in the war of 1870.
She took a ray of light from the moon, the lamp which stands on her adorning table, and fashioned it into a bright dagger. She hilted it with the turquoise of the morning sky, with some of the stars in it for better grip, and gave it to Gulsera, whispering in her ear.
Reconstructions of Type A and Type B swords weigh less than 500g, even when hilted.
By 1810 Clark and Rogers were New Orleans silversmiths, but this study has not revealed any products that they hilted.
gloss: To insert (a bodily extremity) as far as it can go into a sexual orifice so that it is impeded by the wider base to which it is attached (finger until palm, penis until pelvis).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: his fingers hilted inside
He hilted himself inside her.
Derived words: basket hilt
hiltless
sub-hilt
to the hilt
Translations:
shogun
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Japanese 将軍 (shōgun), itself the short form of 征夷大将軍 (seii taishōgun, literally “general who overcomes the barbarians”), ultimately from Middle Chinese. Doublet of jiangjun.
Inflected forms:
form: shoguns
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: shogun
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: shōgun
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: xogun
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The supreme generalissimo of feudal Japan.
pos: noun
examples: The third is the Shogun who reygneth at the preſent, and hath rayſed the perſecution (whereof this booke intreateth) againſt the Chriſtians, and he as it ſeemeth is acknowledged as Lord of all the threeſcore and ſix Kingdomes of Iaponia.
Translations:
generalissimo
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: government
military
politics
war
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian generalissimo, superlative of generale.
Inflected forms:
form: generalissimos
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: generalissimi
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A supreme commander of the armed forces of a country, especially one who is also a political leader.
pos: noun
examples: Where stands Marshal Chiang Kai-shek in this conflict of opinion concerning the tactics which China should adopt towards the aggressor? Chiang Kai-shek, according to officials who know his mind with whom I have talked, is all for resistance—as soon as he thinks he can win! “It is a fatal mistake for the Japanese to imagine that I will not fight under any circumstances,” he has said. But the Chinese Generalissimo is too well versed in the philosophy of his country not to recollect that it is foolish to fight with the certainty of defeat.
Translations:
san
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Ancient Greek σάν (sán), from a Semitic language.
Inflected forms:
form: sans
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An Ancient Greek letter representing /s/ (uppercase Ϻ, lowercase ϻ), originally used in some dialects instead of sigma.
pos: noun
Translations:
chan
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Clipping of channel.
Inflected forms:
form: chans
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An IRC channel.
pos: noun
tags: Internet
informal
examples: I tried, but I never get anyone in the chan! I don't know how/where to advertise... maybe we should set up a meeting time or something?
If you don't have your password set within a week I'll remove you from the userlist and I'll add you again next time I see you in the chan and make sure you set a pass.
Translations:
rin
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 厘(りん) (rin).
Inflected forms:
form: rin
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A coin worth ¹⁄₁₀₀₀ of a Japanese yen, no longer in circulation.
pos: noun
Translations:
bo
Part of speech: intj
noun
particle
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Imitative.
Inflected forms:
form: boh
pos: intj
tags: alternative
form: boo
pos: intj
tags: alternative
form: bos
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An exclamation used to startle or frighten.
pos: intj
examples: We may fairely cry bo-bo-boe; it may well make us hoarse, but it will nothing advaunce it.
gloss: Fellow, chap, boy.
pos: noun
tags: US
slang
examples: ‘Never heard of him,’ he smiled. ‘On your way, bo.’
gloss: Final interrogative particle, used to invite agreement.
pos: particle
tags: Singapore
Singlish
interrogative
examples: Swee bo?
gloss: Final interrogative particle, forming a yes-no question from a declarative statement.
pos: particle
tags: Singapore
Singlish
interrogative
Related words: tio bo
bo bian
bo chup
bo jio
bo liao
Translations:
dumbwaiter
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From dumb (“unable to speak”) + waiter, originally separate words and describing the portable table's inability to relate gossip after the meal. By the use of the term to describe small service elevators in American homes in the 1840s, it simply meant dumb as “mechanical”, “unable to speak at all”.
Compound parts: dumb
waiter
Inflected forms:
form: dumbwaiters
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: dumb waiter
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: dumb-waiter
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A small elevator used to move food etc. from one floor of a building to another.
pos: noun
examples: When writing he had a copyin machine: while he was a-writin he wouldn't suffer nobody to come in his room: had a dumb-waiter: when he wanted anything he had nothin to do but turn a crank and the dumb-waiter would bring him water or fruit on a plate or anything he wanted.
gloss: A table or set of trays on rollers used for serving food.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
examples: Sauces, wines, all the accessories we wanted, and all of the best, were given out by our host from his dumbwaiter; and when they had made the circuit of the table, he always put them back again.
gloss: A lazy Susan.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
Translations:
attachment
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: climatology
computing
engineering
law
mathematics
meteorology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: From French attachement. By surface analysis, attach + -ment.
Inflected forms:
form: attachments
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act or process of (physically or figuratively) attaching.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The “implantation window” is a short, specific phase during which attachment of the blastocyst occurs.
gloss: A strong bonding with or fondness for someone or something.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: I have such an attachment towards my fiancé!
gloss: A dependence, especially a strong one.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Through every other kind of drug experience, however, ran his attachment to alcohol.
gloss: A device attached to a piece of equipment or a tool.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Zimchenko's phone had a tape attachment, […]
gloss: The means by which something is physically attached.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: [The umbilical cord is] the attachment connecting the fetus with the placenta.
gloss: A file sent along with a message, usually an email.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Taking a person's property to satisfy a court-ordered debt.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: attachment of earnings
gloss: The act or process by which any (downward) leader connects to any available (upward) streamer in a lightning flash.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: 2009, Jakke Mäkelä, Eero Karvinen, Niko Porjo, Antti Mäkelä and Tapio Tuomi, Attachment of Natural Lightning Flashes to Trees: Preliminary Statistical Characteristics, published in the Journal of Lightning Research, volume 1
Derived words: aeolian attachment
attachment disorder
attachment of earnings
attachment parenting
attachment therapy
chemoattachment
cryoattachment
misattachment
nonattachment
non-attachment
overattachment
postattachment
preattachment
preferential attachment
reactive attachment disorder
reattachment
shower attachment
unattachment
writ of attachment
Translations:
Klingon
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: [Alt: Photograph of two people in Klingon costume]
c. 1960s, from the Star Trek franchise, purportedly by Gene Roddenberry, named for Lieutenant Wilbur Clingan of the Los Angeles Police Department. In-universe, the name was a transcription of Klingon tlhIngan.
Inflected forms:
form: Klingons
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A member of an alien warrior race in the Star Trek universe with distinctive forehead ridges and a culture based on the strict observance of honor, loyalty, and combat.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: SPOCK: Captain, we've reached the designated position for scanning the coded directive tape.
KIRK: Good. We've both guessed right. Negotiations with the Klingon Empire are on the verge of breaking down. Starfleet Command anticipates a surprise attack. We are to proceed to Organia and take whatever steps are necessary to prevent the Klingons from using it as a base.
Derived words: Klingonian
Translations:
chivalry
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: law
Etymology: From Middle English chivalerie, a late 13th century loan from Old French chevalerie (“knighthood, chivalry, nobility, cavalry”) (11th century), the -erie (“-ery”) abstract of chevaler (“knight, horseman”), from Medieval Latin caballarius (“horseman, knight”), from caballus (“horse”). Medieval Latin caballaria (“knighthood, status or fief of a knight”) dates to the 12th century. Doublet of cavalry.
Inflected forms:
form: chivalries
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: chyvalry
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: Cavalry; horsemen armed for battle.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
historical
uncountable
usually
examples: ‘Most of the lords who rode with Lord Renly to Storm's End have gone over banner-and-blade to Stannis, with all their chivalry.’
gloss: The fact or condition of being a knight; knightly skill, prowess.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
uncountable
usually
gloss: The ethical code of the knight prevalent in Medieval Europe, having such primary virtues as mercy towards the poor and oppressed, humility, honour, sacrifice, fear of God, faithfulness, courage and courtesy to ladies.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: Courtesy, respect and honourable conduct, as between opponents in wartime.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: He had seen the woman he craved—his woman—his mate—in the arms of another. There had been but one course open to him, according to the fierce jungle code that guided him in this other existence; but just before it had become too late the softer sentiments of his inherent chivalry had risen above the flaming fires of his passion and saved him. A thousand times he gave thanks that they had triumphed before his fingers had released that polished arrow.
gloss: Courteous behaviour, especially that of men towards women.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: A tenure of lands by knightly service.
pos: noun
tags: UK
historical
uncountable
usually
Related words: cavalier
chevalier
chivalresque
chivalrous
bushido
xiá
Derived words: chivalric
Translations:
broadsword
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: fantasy
history
human-sciences
sciences
Etymology: From broad + sword.
Compound parts: broad
sword
Inflected forms:
form: broadswords
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: broad sword
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A type of early modern sword that has a broad double-edged blade for cutting (as opposed to the more slender thrust-oriented rapier) and typically a basket hilt.
pos: noun
examples: The principal distinction between the broadsword and the rapier is, that the latter is formed only for thrusting, while the former is adapted for cutting also. Indeed, those who use the broadsword are, in my opinion, too apt to neglect the use of the point, and to give their attention almost exclusively to the cuts.
One version of the broadsword, the Highland broadsword, was adopted as the national sword of Scotland. Another, the schiavona, was Italy's version of the weapon.
gloss: A person armed with such a sword.
pos: noun
gloss: Synonym of longsword.
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
often
examples: The Brythunian's arm drew back; the ancient broadsword with its strange, clawed quillons arcked spinning through the air.
Henry carried a heavy broadsword with a cruciform hilt, and a decorated dagger on his hip known as a misericord because its blade could release souls. The English knights and men-at-arms carried broadswords, maces for smashing skulls and the murderous pole-axe, combining a spear with an axehead about five feet long.
gloss: A flat, rectangular bread made from corn (maize) and beans by the Cherokee, traditionally by boiling rather than baking it.
pos: noun
examples: Cherokee "broadswords" and "dog-heads," or Iroquois wedding breads (paired like dumbbells) might be eaten and described by visitors, but apparently were not adapted by colonial farmers other than a few intermarried pioneers.
These breads were noted by early English explorers of the East Coast and continue to be made as Cherokee broadswords, Navajo kneel-down bread, and other dishes. Tamale pie is one of a group of American foods invented outside the ethnic[…]
Then took two broadsword corn dumplings from the basket Mother left out on the porch last night. Ate them as I walked our line of rail fence after letting out the cows from the barn. The dumplings were delicious, and I wished I had[…]
Well, after awhile we just sat right down there on the ground by that fire beside the creek, and we ate some of those broadswords, hot and fresh, and I tell you, that was the best bean bread I ever ate.
Derived words: broadsworded
broadswordsman
broadswordsmanship
Translations:
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 闊劍 /阔剑
roman: kuòjiàn
lang: Czech
word: široký meč
lang: Finnish
word: leveämiekka
lang: French
word: estramaçon
lang: Ancient Greek
word: ῥομφαία
roman: rhomphaía
lang: Hungarian
word: pallos
lang: Irish
word: claíomh leathan
lang: Italian
word: spadone
lang: Japanese
word: ブロードソード
roman: burōdosōdo
lang: Latin
word: spatha
lang: Manx
word: cliwe daa laue
lang: Marathi
word: ब्रॉडसॉर्ड
roman: brŏḍsŏrḍa
lang: Russian
word: пала́ш
roman: paláš
lang: Swahili
word: upanga mpana
lang: Swedish
word: huggvärja
seep
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Variant of sipe, from Middle English *sipen, from Old English sipian, from Proto-Germanic *sipōną, derivative of *sīpaną, from Proto-Indo-European *seyb-, *sib- (“to pour out, drip, trickle”).
See also Middle Dutch sīpen (“to drip”), German Low German siepern (“to seep”), archaic German seifen (“to trickle blood”); also Latin sēbum (“suet, tallow”), Ancient Greek εἴβω (eíbō, “to drop, drip”)). See soap.
Inflected forms:
form: seeps
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: seeping
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: seeped
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: seeped
pos: verb
tags: past
form: seeps
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To ooze or pass slowly through pores or other small openings, and in overly small quantities; said of liquids, etc.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Water has seeped through the roof.
The water steadily seeped in through the thirl.
gloss: To enter or penetrate slowly; to spread or diffuse.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
intransitive
examples: Woe seeped through her heart thinking of what had befallen their ethnic group.
Fear began to seep into the local community over the contamination of their fishpond.
gloss: To diminish or wane away slowly.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
intransitive
examples: The resistance movement against the invaders had slowly seeped away.
gloss: (of a crack etc.) To allow a liquid to pass through, to leak.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The crack is seeping water.
If the crack is seeping water, the foam totally stops the leakage.
Just when I thought I was done checking it over, I smelled coolant....remove the engine cover and bam! 1 inch crack is seeping coolant!
gloss: To soak.
pos: verb
tags: Scotland
examples: wi' the weet / We're seepit to the skin
a young lad's mind, whilk had seeped in, for many a day, the rain of adversity
gloss: A small spring, pool, or other spot where liquid from the ground (e.g. water, petroleum or tar) has oozed to the surface; a place of seeping.
pos: noun
gloss: Moisture, liquid, gas, etc. that seeps out; a seepage.
pos: noun
gloss: The seeping away of a liquid, etc.
pos: noun
gloss: A seafloor vent.
pos: noun
examples: Another idea was that filamentous bacteria covering the hairs [of the Yeti crab] would either neutralize gases emitted from the vent or serve the crab directly as a food source. And this last idea received support when a second species of Yeti crab was discovered on cold seeps on the deep-sea floor near Costa Rica.
Synonyms: leak
Related words: sip
siphon
Derived words: seeper
seepweed
seepy
seep mudalia
Translations:
gaggle
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English gagelen (“to cackle; cackle like a goose”). Compare Dutch gaggelen (“to cackle”), Icelandic gagl (“small goose; gosling”), Norwegian Nynorsk gagl (“wild goose”).
Inflected forms:
form: gaggles
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: gaggling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: gaggled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: gaggled
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To make a noise like a goose; to cackle.
pos: verb
examples: Geese do gaggle
When a friend asked Socrates, how he could bear the scolding of his wife Xantippe? he retorted, and asked him, how he could bear the gaggling of his geese?
Translations:
paddling
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English padelynge, equivalent to paddle + -ing.
Base: paddle
Affixes: -ing
Inflected forms:
form: paddlings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of using a paddle.
pos: noun
gloss: An act of corporal punishment consisting of spanking the buttocks with a paddle.
pos: noun
gloss: A collective noun for ducks when they are on water.
pos: noun
Translations:
ese
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Mexican Spanish ése (“dude”).
Inflected forms:
form: eses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: dude, man. (Usually used vocatively).
pos: noun
tags: US
Translations:
washer
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English wasshere, wassher, equivalent to wash + -er. Cognate with Dutch wasser, German Wäscher.
Base: wash
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: washers
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: washers
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: washering
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: washered
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: washered
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Something that washes; especially an appliance such as a washing machine or dishwasher.
pos: noun
examples: A £1.2 million carriage washer has opened at Norwich Crown Point, enabling Greater Anglia to clean its 58 Stadler trains. It is one of two new washers (the other is for '720s' at Southend), […]
gloss: A person who washes (especially clothes) for a living; a washerman or washerwoman.
pos: noun
gloss: A person who washes their hands compulsively, as a symptom of obsessive-compulsive disorder.
pos: noun
gloss: A face cloth.
pos: noun
gloss: To fit (a mechanical device) with a washer.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Derived words: air washer
ball washer
carpet washer
chief cook and bottle washer
chief cook and bottle-washer
clothes washer
dishwasher
dish washer
eye washer
face washer
gas washer
gully washer
gully-washer
gullywasher
head cook and bottle washer
head cook and bottle-washer
log washer
pressure washer
pressure-washer
smoke-washer
spud washer
sweep-washer
tumbler-washer
washer-dryer
washer-upper
window washer
windscreen washer
windshield washer
Translations:
torque
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: engineering
mechanical-engineering
mechanics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin torqueō (“to twist”).
Inflected forms:
form: torques
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: torques
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: torquing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: torqueing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: torqued
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: torqued
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A rotational or twisting effect of a force; a moment of force, defined for measurement purposes as an equivalent straight line force multiplied by the distance from the axis of rotation (SI unit newton-metre or N·m; imperial unit pound-foot or lb·ft, not to be confused with the foot pound-force, commonly "foot-pound", a unit of work or energy)
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The relative strengths of the various torques will depend on both the spacecraft environment and the form and structure of the spacecraft itself.
The drillhead produces the drilling rotation and torque but also must slide out of position to allow the machine to manipulate the finisher drill steel and consumables.
gloss: To make something rotate about an axis by imparting torque to it.
pos: verb
Translations:
screwdriver
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: Compound of screw + driver.
Compound parts: screw
driver
Inflected forms:
form: screwdrivers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A hand tool or power tool which engages with the head of a screw and allows torque to be applied to turn the screw, thus driving it in or loosening it.
pos: noun
gloss: A cocktail made of vodka and orange juice.
pos: noun
examples: Celestial asked for a screwdriver and the bartender poured a good four fingers of Smirnoff into a flimsy cup before opening a can of juice.
Derived words: crosshead screwdriver
flat-blade screwdriver
flathead screwdriver
Phillips screwdriver
Yankee screwdriver
Translations:
crankshaft
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From crank + shaft.
Compound parts: crank
shaft
Inflected forms:
form: crankshafts
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: crank shaft
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: crankshafts
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: crankshafting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: crankshafted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: crankshafted
pos: verb
tags: past
form: crank shaft
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A rotating shaft with throws (parts that stick out) and which drives, is driven by (cranked by), or functions as a crank.
pos: noun
gloss: To deform in such a manner that part of the rod or bolt is displaced sideways, offset from the longitudinal axis of the part, but remains parallel with the part's main longitudinal axis, with the final shape somewhat resembling a crankshaft.
pos: verb
examples: The attachment of the inboard end of the gear beam was damaged but remained intact; the drag strut fuse pin had 'crankshafted' in a direction indicating that a load had been applied in tension but this had also remained intact.
Translations:
cylinder
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: automotive
computing
engineering
geometry
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
transport
vehicles
Etymology: From Middle French chilindre, cylindre, from Latin cylindrus, from Ancient Greek κύλινδρος (kúlindros), from κυλίνδω (kulíndō) "I roll or wallow" (intransitive). Doublet of calander and calender.
Inflected forms:
form: cylinders
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: cylinders
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: cylindering
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: cylindered
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: cylindered
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A surface created by projecting a closed two-dimensional curve along an axis intersecting the plane of the curve.
pos: noun
examples: When the two-dimensional curve is a circle, the cylinder is called a circular cylinder. When the axis is perpendicular to the plane of the curve, the cylinder is called a right cylinder. In non-mathematical usage, both right and circular are usually implied.
gloss: A solid figure bounded by a cylinder and two parallel planes intersecting the cylinder.
pos: noun
gloss: Any object in the form of a circular cylinder.
pos: noun
examples: A big greyish rounded bulk, the size, perhaps, of a bear, was rising slowly and painfully out of the cylinder.
gloss: A cylindrical cavity or chamber in a mechanism, such as the counterpart to a piston found in a piston-driven engine.
pos: noun
gloss: The space in which a piston travels inside a reciprocating engine or pump.
pos: noun
gloss: A container in the form of a cylinder with rounded ends for storing pressurized gas; a gas cylinder.
pos: noun
gloss: An early form of phonograph recording, made on a wax cylinder.
pos: noun
gloss: The part of a revolver that contains chambers for the cartridges.
pos: noun
gloss: The corresponding tracks on a vertical arrangement of disks in a disk drive considered as a unit of data capacity.
pos: noun
gloss: To calender; to press (paper, etc.) between rollers to make it glossy.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Derived words: axis cylinder
bicylinder
cylinderer
cylinder function
cylinder glass
cylinder head
cylinder-head-sector
cylinderlike
cylinder mower
cylindraceous
cylindric
cylindrical
cylindrification
cylindrify
cylindrite
cylindroma
demicylinder
diving cylinder
double cylinder
fire on all cylinders
graduated cylinder
hemicylinder
hypercylinder
inside-cylinder
master cylinder
measuring cylinder
microcylinder
multicylinder
nanocylinder
Nessler cylinder
noncylinder
O'Neill cylinder
opposed cylinder
opposed piston opposed cylinder
oxygen cylinder
penicylinder
relay cylinder
renal cylinder
reversing cylinder
roasting cylinder
semicylinder
slave cylinder
spherocylinder
subcylinder
Tipler cylinder
tricylinder
twisted cylinder
two-cylinder
Translations:
venturi
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: medicine
sciences
Etymology: After Giovanni Battista Venturi (1746-1822), an Italian physicist who studied air flow and water flow.
Inflected forms:
form: venturis
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: venturi
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A venturi tube.
pos: noun
gloss: The throat of a carburetor, which is shaped so as to produce depressurization and swirling of the incoming air, allowing drops of fuel to be atomized (aerosolized).
pos: noun
gloss: A constriction in the flow of air to lungs.
pos: noun
tags: rare
examples: He’s at the age where mucus is a daily companion, a culture of mucus among the old, mucus in a thousand manifestations, appearing in clots by total surprise on a friend’s tablecloth, rimming his breath-passages at night in hard venturi, enough to darken the outlines of dreams and send him awake, pleading.
Related words: venturi effect
venturi mask
venturi scrubber
venturi injector
Translations:
gearbox
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From gear + box.
Compound parts: gear
box
Inflected forms:
form: gearboxes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: gear box
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: gear-box
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: An enclosed gear train.
pos: noun
gloss: That part of a car's transmission containing the train of gears, and to which the gear lever is connected.
pos: noun
Derived words: crash gearbox
gearboxed
sequential manual gearbox
twin-clutch gearbox
Translations:
cardoon
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English cardoun, from Old French cardon, from Late Latin cardōnem, from Latin cardus, alternative form of carduus (“thistle”). Respelled on analogy of -oon nouns. Doublet of cardon and chard.
Base: -oon
Affixes: -
Inflected forms:
form: cardoons
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: cardon
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: chardon
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: chardoon
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Any of species Cynara cardunculus of prickly perennial plants which has leaf stalks eaten as a vegetable, related to the artichoke.
pos: noun
examples: Means: m. Void, and emptie places between beds in gardens, reserved for speciall hearbes; such are the spaces left for Cardoons betweene rowes of Onyons.
As I have already said, I nowhere saw the cardoon south of the Salado; but it is probable that in proportion as that country becomes inhabited, the cardoon will extend its limits.
In the sixteenth century, Ruellius speaks of the cardoon as a food that was appreciated as asparagus is today.
Translations:
artichoke
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Akkadian 𒅈𒋢𒌒𒁍 (arsuppu)bor.?
Middle Persian xār (hʾl)
Middle Persian čōp (cwp)
Middle Persian *xār-čōpbor.?
Arabic خُرْشُوف (ḵuršūf)
Andalusian Arabicbor.
Old Spanish alcarchofabor.
Occitan artichautbor.?
Lombard articiochbor.
English artichoke
From Lombard articioch (cf. articiocco), from Occitan artichaut, from Old Spanish alcarchofa, from Andalusian Arabic الْخَرْشُوف (al-ḵaršúf), from Arabic الْخُرْشُوف (al-ḵuršūf), definite form of خُرْشُوف (ḵuršūf).
Inflected forms:
form: artichokes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A plant related to the thistle with enlarged flower heads eaten as a vegetable while immature, Cynara cardunculus var. scolymus.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: At the greenmarket, it’s still mostly potatoes and apples. There are no tender greens, fava beans, peas, asparagus, artichokes, sorrel, rhubarb or early strawberries.
Those harbingers of the season are said to be full of chi, or qi, the Chinese word for life force. We’re craving them as we’re craving lighter, brighter-tasting meals, food that is greener and fresher.
gloss: A dull green colour, like that of an artichoke.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Synonyms: globe artichoke
cardoon
Cynara scolymus
Cynara cardunculus
Derived words: artichoke bottom
artichoke heart
artichokelike
artichoke thistle
artichokey
choke
French artichoke
green artichoke
Jerusalem artichoke
sunchoke
Translations:
hazelnut
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Equivalent to hazel + nut; from Middle English haselnote, from Old English hæselhnutu (“hazelnut”). Cognate with West Frisian hazzenút (“hazelnut”), Saterland Frisian Hoaselnuute (“hazelnut”), Dutch hazelnoot, German Haselnuss.
Base: hazel
Inflected forms:
form: hazelnuts
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: hazel nut
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The fruit of the hazel, especially of species Corylus avellana, which is grown commercially.
pos: noun
Translations:
mare
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English mare, meare, meir, mer, mere, meyre, mure, from Old English mīere (“female horse, mare”), from Proto-West Germanic *marhijā, from Proto-Germanic *marhijō (“female horse”), from *marhaz (“horse”), from Proto-Indo-European *márkos (“horse”).
Cognates
Cognate with Scots mere (“mare”), Saterland Frisian Märe (“mare”), West Frisian merje (“mare”), Dutch merrie (“mare”), German Mähre (“female horse”), Danish mær (“old mare”), Faroese mer (“mare”), Icelandic meri (“mare”), Norwegian Bokmål and Norwegian Nynorsk merr (“mare”), Swedish mæhr, mær, mähr, märr (“mare”); also Breton marc'h (“horse”), Cornish margh (“horse”), Irish and Scottish Gaelic marc (“horse”), Welsh march (“horse”).
Inflected forms:
form: mares
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: meare
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: An adult female horse.
pos: noun
examples: But then I had the [massive] flintlock by me for protection. ¶[…]The linen-press and a chest on the top of it formed, however, a very good gun-carriage; and, thus mounted, aim could be taken out of the window at the old mare feeding in the meadow below by the brook, and a 'bead' could be drawn upon Molly, the dairymaid, kissing the fogger behind the hedge,[…].
gloss: A foolish woman.
pos: noun
tags: Ireland
UK
derogatory
slang
examples: The silly mare phoned your mother, talking about applying for a mortgage, and we don't want that, do we?
Derived words: brood mare
flying mare
mare's fart
Mare's Fart
mare's leg
mare's milk
mare's nest
Mares Run
mare's tail
mare's teat
Premarin
ride the three-legged mare
seamare
shanks' mare
stud mare
the grey mare is the better horse
three-legged mare
Three-legged mare
two-legged mare
wooden mare
Translations:
mandarin
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *men-
Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr
Proto-Indo-European *-trom
Proto-Indo-Iranian *mántras
Sanskrit मन्त्र॑ (mántra)
Proto-Indo-Iranian *-in-
Sanskrit -इन् (-in)
Sanskrit म॒न्त्रिन् (mantrín)bor.
Malay menteribor.
Portuguese mandarimbor.
English mandarin
From Portuguese mandarim, mandarij, from Malay menteri, manteri, and its source, Sanskrit मन्त्रिन् (mantrin, “minister, councillor”), from मन्त्र (mantra, “counsel, maxim, mantra”) + -इन् (-in, an agent suffix).
Compound parts: मन्त्र
-इन्
Inflected forms:
form: more mandarin
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most mandarin
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Pertaining to or reminiscent of mandarins; deliberately superior or complex; esoteric, highbrow, obscurantist.
pos: adj
examples: A mandarin impassivity had descended over Smiley's face. The earlier emotion was quite gone.
[Anatole] Broyard's columns were suffused with both worldliness and high culture. Wry, mandarin, even self-amused at times, he wrote like a man about town, but one who just happened to have all of Western literature at his fingertips.
Though alert to riddles' strong roots in vernacular narrative, Cook's tastes are mandarin, and she gives a loving account of Wallace Stevens's meditations on the life of poetic images and simile […].
Translations:
foal
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: business
mining
Etymology: From Middle English ffoole, foale, fole, fool, foole, fowle, from Old English fola, from Proto-West Germanic *folō, from Proto-Germanic *fulô (“foal”), from pre-Germanic *pl̥Hon-, from Proto-Indo-European *pōlH- (“animal young”).
Cognates
Cognate with Saterland Frisian Foole (“foal”), West Frisian fôle (“foal”), Dutch veulen (“foal”), German Fohlen, Füllen (“foal”), Low German Fohl (“foal”), Vilamovian fyłn (“foal”), Danish føl (“foal”), Faroese fyl (“foal”), Icelandic foli, fyl (“foal”), Norwegian Bokmål fole, føll (“foal”), Norwegian Nynorsk fole, fyl, føl (“foal”), Swedish fåle, föl (“foal”); compare also Latin pullus (“young animal”), Greek πουλάρι (poulári, “foal”), Albanian pelë (“mare”), Armenian ուլ (ul, “kid, young of a goat”). Related to filly.
Inflected forms:
form: foals
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: foale
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: fole
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: foals
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: foaling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: foaled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: foaled
pos: verb
tags: past
form: foale
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: fole
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: A young horse or other equine, especially just after birth or less than a year old.
pos: noun
gloss: A young boy who assisted the headsman by pushing or pulling the tub.
pos: noun
tags: historical
gloss: To give birth to (a foal); to bear offspring.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
examples: All the time, our overfraught hearts are beating at a rate that would far outstrip the fastest gallop of the fastest horses ever foaled.
"Well," said John, "I don't believe there is a better pair of horses in the country, and right grieved I am to part with them, but they are not alike; the black one is the most perfect temper I ever knew; I suppose he has never known a hard word or a blow since he was foaled, and all his pleasure seems to be to do what you wish; […]
Derived words: dummy foal
foalfoot
foalhood
foal immunodeficiency syndrome
foalish
in-foal
lavender foal syndrome
warmblood fragile foal syndrome
with foal
Translations:
filly
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Old Norse fylja (whence Danish føl), related to foal. Cognate with Dutch veulen, German Fohlen.
Inflected forms:
form: fillies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A young female horse.
pos: noun
gloss: A young, attractive woman.
pos: noun
tags: dated
examples: Hey, Homer, get a load of the gams on that filly!
Betty Lou began to think of Bobby Jo. That feisty filly still brought up sexual connotations, even though the two had been going together for almost three weeks now.
Related words: colt
mare
stallion
gelding
fille
Derived words: fillock
Translations:
colt
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: ball-games
biblical
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
nautical
religion
sports
transport
Etymology: From Middle English colt, from Old English colt, from Proto-Germanic *kultaz (“plump; stump; thick shape, bulb”), from Proto-Indo-European *gelt- (“something round, pregnant belly, child in the womb”), from *gel- (“to ball up, amass”). Cognate with Faroese koltur (“colt, foal”) Norwegian kult (“treestump”), Swedish kult (“young boar, piglet, boy, lad”) / Swedish kulting (“piglet”). Related to child.
Inflected forms:
form: colts
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: colts
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: colting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: colted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: colted
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A young male horse.
pos: noun
examples: The petty vices of boys are like the innocent kicks of colts, as yet imperfectly broken.
gloss: A young crane (bird).
pos: noun
gloss: A youthful or inexperienced person; a novice.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
examples: Ay, that's a colt indeed, for he doth nothing but / talk of his horse, and he makes it a great appropriation to / his own good parts that he can shoe him himself.
gloss: A youthful or inexperienced person; a novice.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
slang
examples: The bowling is more promising in the colts than in the eleven.
gloss: A youthful or inexperienced person; a novice.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
obsolete
slang
gloss: A short piece of rope once used by petty officers as an instrument of punishment.
pos: noun
tags: historical
gloss: A weapon formed by slinging a small shot to the end of a somewhat stiff piece of rope.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
slang
gloss: A young camel or donkey.
pos: noun
gloss: To horse; to get with young.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
transitive
examples: Never talk on't: / She hath been colted by him.
gloss: To befool.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
transitive
examples: What a plague mean ye to colt me thus?
gloss: To frisk or frolic like a colt; to act licentiously or wantonly.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: They shook off their bridles and began to colt.
gloss: To haze (a new recruit), as by charging a new juryman a "fine" to be spent on alcoholic drink, or by striking the sole of his foot with a board, etc.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
slang
transitive
examples: We watched our opportunity, seized him, and, laying him across a chest, we colted him with a boot-jack until we nearly killed him, he at the time suffering from numerous boils in the nates; and for all this he obtained no redress!
[…] his first appearance the jury duly "colted" him.
Related words: stallion
mare
foal
filly
horseling
Derived words: catch colt
colt evil
colthood
coltish
coltlike
coltsfoot
coltskin
colt's tooth
hog colt
old-field colt
summer colt
uncolt
uncolted
woods colt
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: новак
roman: novak
lang: French
word: jeunot
lang: Portuguese
word: novato
lang: Portuguese
word: noviço
lang: Romanian
word: novice
lang: Romanian
word: începător
lang: Russian
word: линёк
roman: linjók
nozzle
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English noselle, equivalent to nose + -le (diminutive suffix).
Compare typologically Russian сопло (soplo) (<~ сопе́ть (sopétʹ), whence also сопа́тка (sopátka)).
Base: nose
Affixes: -le
Inflected forms:
form: nozzles
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: nosel
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: nosle
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: nozle
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: A short tube, usually tapering, forming the vent of a hose or pipe.
pos: noun
gloss: A short outlet or inlet pipe projecting from the end or side of a hollow vessel, as a steam-engine cylinder or a steam boiler.
pos: noun
gloss: The nose of an animal; muzzle.
pos: noun
examples: At length the acme of a typical Mexican scene was reached when the burros unceremoniously raised their nozzles and brayed loud and long.
gloss: The part of an earbud that accommodates eartips.
pos: noun
examples: The shape of the nozzle prevents the use of aftermarket eartips.
Derived words: Bresnan cellar nozzle
Bresnan nozzle
douche nozzle
micronozzle
monitor nozzle
multinozzle
nozzled
nozzleless
nozzleman
renozzle
snozzle
Translations:
settling
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: settlings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of one who, or that which, settles; the act of establishing oneself, of colonizing, subsiding, adjusting, etc.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The reckoning or settlement of accounts; the paying out of gambling winnings.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Dregs; sediment.
pos: noun
tags: countable
plural-normally
uncountable
Translations:
tracer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English trace
English -er
English tracer
From trace + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: tracers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A compound, element, or isotope used to track the progress or history of a natural process.
pos: noun
gloss: A round of ammunition for a firearm that contains magnesium or another flammable substance arranged such that it will burn and produce a visible trail when fired in the dark.
pos: noun
gloss: The act or state of tracking or investigating something.
pos: noun
examples: We have a five-man tracer on him now. He's heading for a Vorster cell on Michigan Boulevard, and he's drunk as a lord. Should we intercept him?
A surveyor typically conducts a tracer on his or her own and later meets up with the rest of the team to discuss findings.
Ain't never running but I'm a paper chasing
They gon catch up to me, they gon need a pacer
How they over-watching me without a tracer
gloss: A request to trace the movements of a person or an object, such as a shipment.
pos: noun
examples: The next morning when she awoke, she told Darcy what had happened, and Darcy agreed that she should go to the police and this time ask them if they could put a tracer on her incoming phone calls, just in case he called again.
gloss: A person who traces something.
pos: noun
gloss: A device or instrument used to assist in making tracings.
pos: noun
gloss: A process that traces something, such as the path of execution of a program during debugging.
pos: noun
Derived words: bead tracer
contact tracer
dye tracer
filtrate tracer
flow tracer
gas tracer
intrinsic tracer
nanotracer
neurotracer
packet tracer
path tracer
radioactive tracer
radiotracer
ray tracer
signal tracer
skip-tracer
skip tracer
tracer ammunition
tracer bullet
tracer element
tracer log
tracer round
tracer shell
Translations:
chemosynthesis
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰew-
Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥
Ancient Greek -μᾰ (-mă)
Ancient Greek χῠ́μᾰ (khŭ́mă)
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-i-eh₂
Proto-Hellenic *-íā
Ancient Greek -ία (-ía)
Ancient Greek χυμείᾱ (khumeíā)bor.
Arabic الْكِيمِيَاء (al-kīmiyāʔ)bor.
Medieval Latin alchēmia
▲
Ancient Greek χυμείᾱ (khumeíā)influ.
New Latin chēmīader.
English chemo-
English synthesis
English chemosynthesis
From chemo- + synthesis.
Inflected forms:
form: chemosyntheses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The production of carbohydrates and other compounds from simple compounds such as carbon dioxide, using the oxidation of chemical nutrients as a source of energy rather than sunlight; it is limited to certain bacteria and fungi.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
Translations: