yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
funk
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
Etymology: 1620, from French dialectal (Norman) funquer, funquier (“to smoke, reek”), from Old Northern French fungier (“to smoke”), from Vulgar Latin fūmicāre, alteration of Latin fūmigāre (“to smoke, fumigate”). Related to French dialect funkière (“smoke”). More at fumigate.
Inflected forms:
form: funks
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: funks
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: funking
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: funked
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: funked
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Foul or unpleasant smell, especially body odor.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: The foulest stench is in the air; the funk of 40,000 years and grizzly ghouls from every tomb are closing in to seal your doom.
gloss: A style of music derived from 1960s soul music, with elements of rock and other styles, characterized by a prominent bass guitar, dance-friendly sound, a strong emphasis on the downbeat, and much syncopation.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: To emit an offensive smell; to stink.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To envelop with an offensive smell or smoke.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: He funks Basketia and her son to death
Funking a cobbler – that is, blowing smoke into his stall; smoking cigars at divans and club houses; […]
gloss: To perform funk music.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: From the earliest part of this decade when he funked in relative obscurity to his days as a superstar with the release of his Batman soundtrack last summer, I could almost always count on Prince.
gloss: Fuck (the taboo swear word).
pos: verb
tags: euphemistic
slang
examples: Funk this!
Snow bunny, I pledge to funk you baby / You sexy lady, my only temptation […] Oh, I just want to funk you
Look, glittery tacos have their place. A date, business lunch, night out with besties, etc. But otherwise, paying almost 20 bucks for pizzazz between a few tortillas in Huntsville, funk that.
Synonyms: eff
f-bomb
Derived words: avant-funk
blue funk
deep funk
disco funk
drumfunk
dundy-funk
dundy funk
electro-funk
electrofunk
fake the funk
funkabilly
funkadelia
funkadelic
funk art
funkateer
funkcore
funk hole
funkification
funk-like
funklike
funkmaster
funk metal
funk-metal
funk money
funk out
funk rock
funk-rock
funksome
funkster
funkstick
funktastic
funky
future funk
G-funk
gunk
jazz-funk
neurofunk
technofunk
funk up
funk you
Translations:
odour
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: odours
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: UK standard spelling of odor.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: So after learning a great deal about iron founding and much more about pike fishing, one regretfully took leave of a shop full of kindly characters and proceeded to a worse lot of odours in the brass foundry.
Translations:
fibre
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
category-theory
computing
cytology
engineering
mathematics
medicine
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: From French fibre, from Old French, from Latin fibra.
Inflected forms:
form: fibres
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: fiber
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A single piece of a given material, elongated and roughly round in cross-section, often twisted with other fibres to form thread.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: The microscope showed several different fibres stuck to the sole of the shoe.
gloss: Material in the form of fibres.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: The cloth was made from strange, somewhat rough fibre.
gloss: Dietary fibre.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Fresh vegetables are a good source of fibre.
gloss: Moral strength and resolve.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The ordeal was a test of everyone’s fibre.
He was gentlemanly, steady, tractable, with a thorough knowledge of his duties; and in time, when yet very young, he became chief mate of a fine ship, without ever having been tested by those events of the sea that show in the light of day the inner worth of a man, the edge of his temper, and the fibre of his stuff; that reveal the quality of his resistance and the secret truth of his pretences, not only to others but also to himself.
gloss: The preimage of a given point in the range of a map.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Under this map, any two values in the fibre of a given point on the circle differ by 2π.
gloss: Said to be of a morphism over a global element: The pullback of the said morphism along the said global element.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A kind of lightweight thread of execution.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A long tubular cell found in bodily tissue.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: It is the deeper parts of such cells which give rise to delicate muscular fibres or networks of fibres, while the superficially placed body of the cell myoblast), the part which produces the above, performs other functions, and usually bears a cilium.
Related words: fibril
fibro-
fibroid
fibrosis
fibrositis
Derived words: biofibre
carbon fibre
chlorofibre
dark fibre
dentinal fibre
dietary fibre
fibreboard
fibre bundle
fibre cement
fibre clay
fibrecraft
fibred
fibre-faced
fibrefill
fibreglass
fibreise
fibreless
fibrelike
fibre-optic
fibre optic
fibre optics
fibre-optics
fibre-reinforced plastic
fibrescope
fibrewood
fibriform
fibrin
fibrise
fibrize
fibrisol
fibrous
fluorofibre
glass fibre
hollow-fibre
hollowfibre
interfibre
macrofibre
microfibre
milk fibre
moral fibre
multifibre
muscle fibre
myofibre
natural fibre
nerve fibre
optical fibre
Purkinje fibre
pycnofibre
Seifert fibre space
synthetic fibre
Tampico fibre
with every fibre of one's being
Translations:
nana
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: An apheretic form of banana.
Inflected forms:
form: nanas
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: 'nana
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: narna
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: narner
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A banana.
pos: noun
tags: informal
gloss: A foolish person.
pos: noun
tags: UK
slang
examples: You look a right nana dressed up like that.
Translations:
alcopop
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: Blend of alcohol + pop (“sweetened carbonated drink”).
Compound parts: alcohol
pop
Inflected forms:
form: alcopops
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An alcoholic drink that looks and tastes like a soft drink.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
Ireland
UK
uncountable
usually
examples: However, the media soon went too far in playing the story up, claiming that underage drinkers drank only alcopop (actually they preferred cheap cider).
The breweries began to develop alcopops with names and advertising drawn from drug culture.
Over on cheap flights from Prestwick and Stansted, these boys were often to be found floating trouserless in the Liffey at dawn, or staggering up Grafton Street, their T-shirts clinging to them with alcopops and spilled Sambuca.
Translations:
parka
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: business
clothing
fashion
lifestyle
manufacturing
textiles
Etymology: 1780, ultimately from Tundra Nenets парка (parka), via Aleut parka and Russian па́рка (párka). Perhaps from Proto-Uralic; see dialectal Finnish parka (“rag, swaddling clothes”), which may be a cognate from Proto-Uralic, or an early borrowing from another Uralic language.
Inflected forms:
form: parkas
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: parkee
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: parki
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A long jacket with a hood which protects the wearer against rain and wind.
pos: noun
examples: Basir tended to wear a beige suede parka over his shalwar kameez.
Translations:
must-have
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From must + have.
Compound parts: must
have
Inflected forms:
form: must-haves
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Essential to own.
pos: adj
examples: The must-have toy is the apotheosis of the marketing of toys as fashion accessories.
gloss: An item that one must own, or a feature that is essential to a service, etc.
pos: noun
examples: The selfie-stick is this year's must-have.
There's a huge gulf between “must-have” and “nice-to-have” products. If you sell a nice-to-have product, no one, not even your best friends, will use it long term. We all focus on must-haves.
Translations:
mushing
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: mushings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Action of the verb to mush (travel with a dog sled).
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: A race with a dog team.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
Related words: musher
Translations:
storey
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: media
publishing
typography
Etymology: From Middle English story, via Medieval Latin historia (“narrative, illustraton, frieze”) from Ancient Greek ἱστορίᾱ (historíā, “learning through research”). The current sense arose from narrative friezes on upper levels of medieval buildings, esp. churches. Doublet of story and history.
An alternative etymology derives Middle English story from Old French *estoree (“a thing built, building”), from estoree (“built”), feminine past participle of estorer (“to build”), from Latin instaurare (“to construct, build, erect”), but this seems unlikely since historia already had the meaning "storey of a building" in Anglo-Latin.
Inflected forms:
form: storeys
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: stories
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
plural
form: story
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Philippines
US
Senses:
gloss: A floor or level of a building or ship.
pos: noun
examples: For superstitious reasons, many buildings number their 13th storey as 14, bypassing 13 entirely.
a multi-storey car park
It was re-built in the year 1659, and conſiſts of two ſtories of aſhler work.—The loweſt, or ground flat, on each ſide of the main gate, is occupied by ſhops, and in the ſecond ſtorey, a range of large windows, with triangular pediments, give light to the Hall.
Let the ſtreet be 100 feet in breadth, from front to front; ſunk ſtorey, from front to paliſade, 10 feet; breadth of pavement, 8 feet; the height of the houſe 2 ſtories, 15 feet each, from floor to floor; […]
Each of the succeeding stories should be furnished in the same manner, with the platforms directly above one another, to afford protection against loose materials falling upon the man at the pump. If the water is wanted in the second storey, open the ejection pipe and cock below, shut the cock above, and direct the ejection pipe to where it is wanted.
This was the era of the polykatoikia, the apartment block built of unadorned concrete and typically five or six storeys high.
gloss: A vertical level in certain letters, such as a and g.
pos: noun
examples: The IPA symbol for a voiced velar stop is the single-storey , not the double-storey
gloss: A building; an edifice.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
Related words: Storey in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)
Derived words: midstorey
multi-storey
overstorey
second-storey man
second-storey worker
storeyed
two-storey a
two-storey g
upper storey
Translations:
smelly
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *smel-der.
Proto-West Germanic *smalljan
Old English *smiellan
Middle English smellen
English smell
English -y
English smelly
From smell + -y.
Inflected forms:
form: smellier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: smelliest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Having a bad smell.
pos: adj
examples: She was hesitant to remove her shoes, as her socks were rather smelly.
gloss: Having a quality that arouses suspicion.
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
examples: The detective read the documents and thought, "Something sure is smelly about this case."
gloss: Having signs that suggest a design problem; having a code smell.
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
slang
examples: That smelly code needs to be refactored.
Synonyms: foul-smelling
malodorous
rank
stinky
whiffy
Antonyms: aromatic
fragrant
sweet-smelling
above board
clean
Derived words: smellily
smelliness
smelly freckle
unsmelly
Translations:
tattletale
Part of speech: adj
noun
verb
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From tattle + tale.
Compound parts: tattle
tale
Inflected forms:
form: tattletales
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: tattletales
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: tattletaling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: tattletaled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: tattletaled
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: telltale; giveaway
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: One who tattles (reports others' wrongdoings), often a child seeking attention.
pos: noun
tags: childish
colloquial
gloss: One who gossips, often for the sake of attention.
pos: noun
tags: childish
colloquial
gloss: To act as a tattletale; to tell on; to give away, reveal, or expose.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
childish
colloquial
Translations:
toledo
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Toledo.
Inflected forms:
form: toledos
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A sword or sword blade made at Toledo in Spain, a city famous in the 16th and 17th centuries for the excellence of its weapons.
pos: noun
examples: Peregrine's weapon entering a kind of net work in the shell of Godfrey's sword, the blade snapped in two, and left him at the mercy of the soldier, who, far from making an insolent use of the victory he had gained, put up his Toledo with great deliberation […].
A long toledo, vvith a hilt of filigrained ſteel, length of the blade three feet nine inches, finely tapering to a point.
‘Fair Neophyte, beautiful Christian,’ answered the stranger, with a diabolical sneer, ‘be it known to you that I regard bolts, and bars, and walls, as much as I did the breakers and rocks of your Indian isle—that I can go where, and retire when I please, without leave asked or taken of your brother’s mastiffs, or Toledos, or spring-guns, and in utter defiance of your mother’s advanced guard of duennas, armed in spectacles, and flanked with a double ammunition of rosaries, with beads as large as—’
Translations:
confine
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle French confiner, from confins, from Medieval Latin confines, from Latin confinium, from confīnis.
Inflected forms:
form: confines
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: confining
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: confined
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: confined
pos: verb
tags: past
form: confines
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To have a common boundary with; to border on.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
examples: Where your gloomy bounds / Confine with heaven
Betwixt heaven and earth and skies there stands a place / Confining on all three.
‘Why, Sir, to be sure, such parts of Sclavonia as confine with Germany, will borrow German words; and such parts as confine with Tartary will borrow Tartar words.’
gloss: To restrict (someone or something) to a particular scope or area; to keep in or within certain bounds.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Now let not nature's hand / Keep the wild flood confined! let order die!
1680, John Dryden, Ovid’s Epistles translated by several hands, London: Jacob Tonson, Preface,
He is to confine himself to the compass of numbers and the slavery of rhyme.
Here perhaps one of you might interrupt me and say, 'But what is it that you do, Socrates? How is it that you have been misrepresented like this? Surely all this talk and gossip about you would never have arisen if you had confined yourself to ordinary activities, but only if your behaviour was abnormal. Give us the explanation, if you do not want us to draw our own conclusions.'
gloss: A boundary or limit.
pos: noun
tags: in-plural
gloss: Confinement, imprisonment.
pos: noun
tags: poetic
examples: She says for you to bring her a slice of cake,
A bottle of the best wine,
And not to forget the fair young lady
That did release you from close confine.
Derived words: confinable
confination
confinee
confine oneself
deconfine
reconfine
unconfine
confineless
Translations:
bayonet
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: engineering
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
war
Etymology: Etymology tree
French Bayonne
Proto-Indo-European *-tós
Proto-Italic *-tosder.?
Late Latin -ittus
Old French -et
Middle French -et
French -etder.
French -ette
French baïonnetteder.
English bayonet
From French baïonnette, named after the French town of Bayonne, where the plug bayonet was invented.
Inflected forms:
form: bayonets
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: bayonets
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: bayoneting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: bayonetting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: bayoneted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: bayoneted
pos: verb
tags: past
form: bayonetted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: bayonetted
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A blade mounted to the end of a long gun, originally with a handle inserted into the bore, now usually attached underbarrel.
pos: noun
examples: Fig. 3. Its bayonet, to be fixed by sticking the handle into the muzzle of the musquet.
“Well, the proper way to kill a man with a bayonet is this: First you thrust it in under the ribs—here.”
gloss: A pin which plays in and out of holes made to receive it, and which thus serves to engage or disengage parts of the machinery.
pos: noun
gloss: To stab with a bayonet.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To compel or drive by the bayonet.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to bayonet us into a submission
Related words: knife
spear
sword
Derived words: bayonet charge
bayonet clutch
Bayonet Constitution
bayoneteer
bayonet joint
bayonetlike
beef bayonet
knife bayonet
Spanish bayonet
spike bayonet
sword bayonet
Translations:
musket
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: falconry
hobbies
hunting
lifestyle
Etymology: First attested around 1210 as a surname, and later in the 1400s as a word for the sparrowhawk (Middle English forms: musket, muskett, muskete (“sparrow hawk”)), from Middle French mousquet, from Old Italian moschetto (a diminutive of mosca (“fly”), from Latin musca) used to refer initially to a sparrowhawk (given its small size or speckled appearance) and then a crossbow arrow. The name was subsequently adopted for a heavier, shoulder-fired version of an arquebus, adhering to a pattern of naming firearms and cannons after birds of prey and similar creatures (compare falcon, falconet), a sense which was also borrowed into French and then (around 1580) into English. Cognate to Spanish mosquete, Portuguese mosquete. Smoothbore firearms continued to be called muskets even as they switched from using matchlocks to flintlocks to percussion locks, but with the advent of rifled muskets, the word was finally displaced by rifle.
Inflected forms:
form: muskets
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: musquet
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: A kind of firearm formerly carried by the infantry of an army, originally fired by means of a match, or matchlock, for which several mechanical appliances (including the flintlock, and finally the percussion lock) were successively substituted; ultimately superseded by the rifle.
pos: noun
examples: Soldier, soldier, won't you marry me, with your musket, fife and drum.
Sam, Sam, pick up thy musket.
[…] you may be assured, had they known the terrour of Muskets, Caliuers and Piſtols, they would haue vſed the leſſe Bowes, Speares and Bills; […]
The Souldier having his Musket ſhoulder'd, muſt ſtand ſtraight upon his Limbs, hold up his Head, and look always to the commanding Officer, […]
The whole of the tumultuous scene vanished from the senses of Lionel at the flash of the musket of this man, and he sunk beneath the feet of the combatants, insensible of further triumph, and of every danger.
Probably, rifling evolved from the early observation of the feathers on an arrow-and from the practical results of cutting channels in a musket, originally to reduce fouling, then because it was found to improve accuracy of the shot.
gloss: A male Eurasian sparrowhawk (Accipiter nisus).
pos: noun
Related words: musketeer
musketoon
Derived words: musket ball
musketed
musketless
musketlike
musketproof
musketry
Tower musket
Translations:
pulchritude
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English pulcritude, from Latin pulchritūdō, from pulcher (“beautiful”).
Inflected forms:
form: pulchritudes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Physical beauty.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: 1978, Charles D. Benson and William Barnaby Faherty, Moonport: A History of Apollo Launch Facilities and Operations, NASA Special Publication 4204, 1978, ch. 4 https://web.archive.org/web/20061020074600/http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/SP-4204/ch4-8.html
One participant recalls arriving at his Cocoa Beach motel on a Saturday evening with the Miss Universe contest on TV. To his wife's amazement, his interest in feminine pulchritude gave way to fatigue, and he was asleep before the final selection.
Do you know why a woman of such pulchritude is married to me? 'Cause I make a comfortable living.
Translations:
expulsion
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English expulsioun, from Old French expulsion, from Latin expulsio, expulsionem.
Inflected forms:
form: expulsions
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of expelling or the state of being expelled.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The scandal involved every member of the high school's football team, resulting in a flurry of expulsions, starting with the quarterback.
Antonyms: impulsion
Translations:
lance
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: engineering
fishing
government
hobbies
lifestyle
medicine
metallurgy
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
sciences
war
Etymology: From Middle English launce, from Old French lance, from Latin lancea.
Inflected forms:
form: lances
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: lances
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: lancing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: lanced
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: lanced
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A weapon of war, consisting of a long shaft or handle and a steel blade or head; a spear carried by horsemen.
pos: noun
examples: Thy brother’s blood the thirsty earth hath drunk, Broach’d with the steely point of Clifford’s lance[…]
The head of the lance was commonly of the leaf form, and sometimes approached that of the lozenge; it was very seldom barbed, although this variety, together with the others, appears upon the Bayeux Tapestry.
gloss: A wooden spear, sometimes hollow, used in jousting or tilting, designed to shatter on impact with the opposing knight’s armour.
pos: noun
examples: What will you do, good greybeard? Break a lance, And run a-tilt at Death within a chair?
gloss: A spear or harpoon used by whalers and fishermen.
pos: noun
gloss: A soldier armed with a lance; a lancer.
pos: noun
gloss: An instrument which conveys the charge of a piece of ordnance and forces it home.
pos: noun
gloss: A small iron rod which suspends the core of the mold in casting a shell.
pos: noun
gloss: One of the small paper cases filled with combustible composition, which mark the outlines of a figure.
pos: noun
gloss: A lancet.
pos: noun
gloss: A piece in the game of shogi that can move directly forward any number of squares.
pos: noun
gloss: To pierce with a lance, or with any similar weapon.
pos: verb
examples: Seiz'd the due Victim, and with Fury lanch'd Her Back
gloss: To open with a lancet; to prick or cut open with a sharp instrument; to pierce.
pos: verb
examples: to lance a vein or an abscess
gloss: To throw in the manner of a lance; to lanch.
pos: verb
gloss: to steal or swipe
pos: verb
tags: informal
examples: He lanced my drink and spiked it!
gloss: To move suddenly and quickly.
pos: verb
Related words: lancet
javelin
pike
spear
Derived words: break a lance
break one's lance
demilance
fer-de-lance
fire lance
freelance
hand lance
hand-lance
lancebill
lance bombardier
lance bucket
lance corporal
lance-corporal
lancefish
lance fish
lancehead
lance-jack
lance knight
lance-knight
lanceless
lancelike
lanceman
lance-ovate
lancepod
lancer
lance rest
lance sergeant
lance skink
lance snake
lancewood
lanciform
microlance
oxygen lance
oxylance
sand lance
stink-fire lance
thermal lance
thermic lance
the tongue wounds more than a lance
lanceable
outlance
Translations:
hermaphrodite
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
government
military
natural-sciences
nautical
politics
transport
war
Etymology: From Hermaphroditus, the mythical son of Hermes and Aphrodite, who merged bodies with a naiad, thereafter having both male and female qualities.
Inflected forms:
form: hermaphrodites
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person possessing ambiguous sexual organs or characteristics.
pos: noun
tags: dated
offensive
gloss: Cosexual: an organism possessing both types of gonads; a flower possessing both stamens and pistils.
pos: noun
examples: An earthworm is a hermaphrodite.
gloss: Dichogamous: an organism which begins its life as one sex and changes its sex over its life cycle.
pos: noun
examples: Comb jellies are sequential hermaphrodites.
gloss: A person or thing possessing two opposing qualities.
pos: noun
gloss: A hermaphrodite brig.
pos: noun
gloss: A farm wagon convertible to multiple purposes.
pos: noun
gloss: An armoured fighting vehicle having features of both male tanks and female tanks.
pos: noun
tags: World-War-I
historical
gloss: Having ambiguous sexual organs or characteristics.
pos: adj
tags: dated
not-comparable
offensive
gloss: Having both ovaries and testes or both stamens and pistils.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Combining two opposing qualities.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Synonyms: maphrodite
morphodite
mophrodite
androgyne
gynandromorph
dichogamous
cosexual
intersex
androgynous
hermaphroditic
ambisexual
Related words: berdache
two-spirit
genderqueer
Derived words: androhermaphrodite
euhermaphrodite
false hermaphrodite
hermaphrodism
hermaphroditish
hermaphroditism
hermaphroditize
herm
pseudohermaphrodite
Translations:
fusil
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
Etymology: From Middle English fusill, from Old French fusel, fuisel, from a late Latin diminutive of Latin fūsus (“spindle”).
Inflected forms:
form: fusils
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A bearing of a rhomboidal figure, originally representing a spindle in shape, longer than a heraldic lozenge.
pos: noun
Translations:
fiber
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
business
category-theory
computing
cytology
engineering
manufacturing
mathematics
medicine
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
textiles
Etymology: From French fibre, from Old French fibre, from Latin fibra.
Inflected forms:
form: fibers
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: fibre
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A single elongated piece of a given material, roughly round in cross-section, often twisted with other fibers to form thread.
pos: noun
tags: US
countable
examples: The microscope showed a single blue fiber stuck to the sole of the shoe.
gloss: A material in the form of fibers.
pos: noun
tags: US
uncountable
examples: The cloth is made from strange, somewhat rough fiber.
gloss: A material whose length is at least 1000 times its width.
pos: noun
tags: US
countable
uncountable
examples: Please use polyester fiber for this shirt.
gloss: Dietary fiber.
pos: noun
tags: US
countable
uncountable
examples: Fresh vegetables are a good source of fiber.
gloss: Moral strength and resolve.
pos: noun
tags: US
countable
figuratively
uncountable
examples: The ordeal was a test of everyone's fiber.
gloss: The preimage of a given point in the range of a map.
pos: noun
tags: US
countable
uncountable
examples: Under this map, any two values in the fiber of a given point on the circle differ by 2π.
gloss: The pullback of a morphism along a global element (called the fiber of the morphism over the global element).
pos: noun
tags: US
countable
uncountable
gloss: A kind of lightweight thread of execution.
pos: noun
tags: US
countable
uncountable
examples: We've seen how to create a new fiber and convert the current thread into a fiber (which continues to run after the conversion), but we have yet to focus on how to schedule a new fiber onto the current thread.
gloss: A long tubular cell found in bodily tissue.
pos: noun
tags: US
countable
uncountable
Related words: fibril
fibrilar
fibro-
fibroblast
fibrocyte
fibroid
fibroma
fibrosis
fibrositis
fibrovascular
Derived words: acrylic fiber
biofiber
carbon fiber
C fiber
cofiber
dark fiber
defiber
dentinal fiber
dietary fiber
elastic fiber
fiber art
fiberboard
fiber bundle
fiber-clay
fiber clay
fibered
fiberfill
fiberglass
fiber gun
fiberise
fiberize
fiberless
fiberlike
fiberoptic
fiber-optic
fiber optic
fiber-optics
fiber optics
fiber plant
fiberscope
fibershed
fiberwise
fibery
fibrin
fibrinous
fibrinogen
fibrinolysin
fibrous
glass fiber
glass fiber insulation
high-fiber
hollowfiber
hollow-fiber
interfiber
macrofiber
man-made fiber
microfiber
milk fiber
moral fiber
multifiber
muscle fiber
myofiber
nanofiber
natural fiber
nerve fiber
neurofiber
optical fiber
protofiber
Purkinje fiber
Remak fiber
Seifert fiber space
synthetic fiber
Tampico fiber
with every fiber of one's being
Translations:
A-flat
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
Inflected forms:
form: A-flats
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: A flat
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: a-flat
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: a flat
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: A♭
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A tone one semitone below A, between G and A, denoted A♭.
pos: noun
examples: The bassoon came in on a low A-flat.
gloss: A key or other mechanism for producing an A-flat.
pos: noun
examples: I had to take it to the shop because the A-flat was stuck.
gloss: The key of A-flat major.
pos: noun
examples: We will now hear the third sonata, in A-flat.
Derived words: A-flat major
A-flat minor
Translations:
A-sharp
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
Inflected forms:
form: A-sharps
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: a-sharp
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: A sharp
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: a sharp
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A tone one semitone higher than A, denoted A♯.
pos: noun
examples: The counterpoint began on a low A-sharp.
gloss: The key of A sharp major
pos: noun
examples: Here the passage modulates into A-sharp and becomes very difficult to read.
Translations:
perspicacity
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From
From perspicac(ious) + -ity, from Middle French perspicacité, from Latin perspicācitās (“sharpsightedness, discrimination”), from perspicio, from per- + specio, "see through (something)".
Base: perspicacious
Affixes: -ity
Inflected forms:
form: perspicacities
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Acute discernment or understanding; insight.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: "I understand," I said. "The fact is that you have the money." His face brightened. He seemed pleased at my perspicacity.
The citizens chose a university. They reasoned, with considerable perspicacity, that taxes come and go in response to political considerations, but a university, once established, is a permanent benefit to a city and a nation.
McEwan certainly has a flair for unusual points of view. Adam, like the baby-in-waiting who narrates Nutshell, is an extraordinarily smart, well-informed, and unorthodox character who catches his supposed caretakers off-guard with his perspicacity.
gloss: The human faculty or power to mentally grasp or understand clearly.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: His very veneration for his father-in-law, combined as it is with a total want of the most ordinary perspicacity, is an additional disqualification.
As the former consists in the transmission of psychic states inappreciable to the normal perspicacity or senses, the transfer cannot pass through the medium of intelligence.
gloss: Keen eyesight.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
uncountable
usually
examples: Attentive consideration of the phenomena of vision has led to the invention of artificial aids by which the sight may be wonderfully strengthened and preserved, and man endowed at once with the perspicacity of the eagle or the minute scrutiny of the insect.
Related words: perspicacious
perspicaciousness
perspicuity
Translations:
biome
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From bio- + -ome.
Base: bio
Inflected forms:
form: biomes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any major regional biological community such as that of forest or desert.
pos: noun
gloss: All the genomes of such a community.
pos: noun
Derived words: agrobiome
anthropobiome
bathome
enterobiome
glycobiome
holobiome
macrobiome
metabiome
microbiome
mycobiome
nanobiome
necrobiome
pathobiome
pedobiome
phytobiome
psychobiome
rhizobiome
urobiome
zonobiome
Translations:
sleaze
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Back-formation from sleazy, originally used to describe the thinness and low quality of cloth.
Inflected forms:
form: sleazes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: sleazes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: sleazing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: sleazed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: sleazed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Low moral standards.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: The level of sleaze in this city seems to have been rising rapidly in recent years.
gloss: Political corruption.
pos: noun
tags: Ireland
UK
uncountable
examples: ministerial sleaze and mendacity
While no-one accused Major of corruption, it rebounded to his disadvantage because he was unable to stamp it out, and contradictory reports appeared in the Press as to whether senior Conservatives really supported those accused of sleaze, or whether they were furious and wanted them to stand down immediately.
Reform UK leader Nigel Farage is facing an investigation by the Commons sleaze watchdog over a £5m (€5.7m) gift from a party donor.
gloss: A person of low moral standards.
pos: noun
tags: countable
informal
examples: She knew that sleaze Hakido would do something to stick the knife in and twist it to the hilt.
gloss: A man who is sexually aggressive or forward with women to the point of causing disgust.
pos: noun
tags: countable
informal
examples: 1989, Weekly World News, "My hubby robbed the cradle and left me with the baby", 7 November, p. 42.
I'll bet you dollars to doughnuts that sleaze slept with your boss and I wouldn't take it lying down.
Mother, he's such a sleaze! The way he looked at you!
gloss: Sleazy material or publications.
pos: noun
tags: informal
uncountable
examples: a tabloid newspaper full of sleaze
gloss: To act or progress in a sleazy manner.
pos: verb
examples: He sleazed his way over to the women at the bar.
gloss: To slander.
pos: verb
Derived words: mainsleaze
sleazebag
sleazeball
sleazebucket
sleazecore
sleaze factor
sleazehole
sleaze-merchant
sleazemonger
sleaze-ridden
sleazewad
sleazo
sleazoid
sleazy
Translations:
blimp
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
broadcasting
business
engineering
film
media
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
television
Etymology: Origin not entirely certain. However, most historians believe that it is onomatopoeia for the sound a blimp makes when thumped. Although there is some disagreement among historians, credit for coining the term is usually given to Lt. A. D. Cunningham of the British Royal Navy in 1915.
There is an often repeated, but false, alternative explanation for the term. The erroneous story is that at some time in the early 20th century, the United States military had two classes for airships: Type A-rigid and Type B-limp, hence “blimp”. In fact, A. D. Topping reports on the “Etymology of ‘Blimp’”, in the AAHS Journal, Winter 1963, that:
: “there was no American ‘A-class’ of airships as such—all military aircraft, heavier or lighter-than-air were designated with ‘A’ until the appearance of B-class airships in May 1917. There was an American B airship—but there seems to be no record of any official designation of non-rigids as ‘limp’. Further, according to the Oxford Dictionary, the first appearance of the word in print was in 1916, in England, a year before the first B-class airship.”
Inflected forms:
form: blimps
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: blimps
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: blimping
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: blimped
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: blimped
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: An airship constructed with a non-rigid lifting agent container.
pos: noun
examples: 2004 February 16&23, The New Yorker
gloss: Any large airborne inflatable.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
examples: a 6 meter high blimp made by a professional inflatables company, to be flown in the skies
gloss: An obese person.
pos: noun
tags: slang
gloss: A person similar to the cartoon character Colonel Blimp; a pompous, reactionary British man.
pos: noun
gloss: A soundproof cover for a video camera.
pos: noun
examples: You can create your own blimp or barney with anything that will deaden the camera noise, such as a changing bag, foam rubber, […]
gloss: To expand like a blimp or balloon; to become fat.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
slang
examples: After college, she started blimping and could no longer wear her favorite little black dress.
Over a few years the software had blimped into typical bloatware.
gloss: To fit (a video camera) with a soundproof cover.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Synonyms: barrage balloon
Gossage
nonrigid
blimp out
blimp up
Related words: airship
balloon
dirigible
zeppelin
Zeppelin
Derived words: Blimp
blimpish
blimplike
blimpy
sound blimp
self-blimped
Translations:
dace
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Old variant of earlier darse, from Late Middle English darse (also as dace already), from Old French darz, oblique plural form of dart (“spear; javelin”).
For a similar loss of r, compare bass, while for the pronunciation with /eɪ/, see scarce.
Inflected forms:
form: dace
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: daces
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A shoal-forming fish of species Leuciscus leuciscus, common to swift rivers in England and Wales and in Europe.
pos: noun
examples: Somewhere near at hand, though out of sight, there was a clear, slow-moving stream where dace were swimming in the pools under the willow trees.
gloss: Any of various related small fish of the family Cyprinidae that live in freshwater and are native to North America.
pos: noun
tags: US
Synonyms: dare
dart
Derived words: dacelike
honed dace
Japanese dace
sea dace
Translations:
Burman
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English Burma
Middle English -n
English -n
English Burman
From Burma + -n.
Inflected forms:
form: Burmans
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of or relating to the principal, Burmese-speaking ethnic group of Myanmar.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Of or relating to Myanmar; Burmese.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: A member of the principal, Burmese-speaking ethnic group of Myanmar, especially as distinguished from the Shan, Karen, and other minority peoples.
pos: noun
gloss: A native or inhabitant of Myanmar; a Burmese.
pos: noun
Translations:
euphonium
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Ancient Greek εὔφωνος (eúphōnos, “sweet-voiced”) + -ium.
Affixes: -ium
Inflected forms:
form: euphoniums
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A valved brass instrument with conical tubing similar in appearance to a tuba but of higher pitch.
pos: noun
examples: [T]hey could easily have been wearing euphoniums and woad for all the notice their quarry would have taken of them.
Translations:
glockenspiel
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
Etymology: From German Glockenspiel (literally “bells-set”).
Inflected forms:
form: glockenspiels
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A musical instrument of the percussion idiophone family of instruments. Like the xylophone, it has tuned bars arranged like the keys on a piano. It is smaller in size and higher in pitch than the xylophone, and the bars are made of metal instead of wood.
pos: noun
Translations:
minutia
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin minutia, from minūtus (“small, little”), from minuō (“make smaller”). By surface analysis, minute + -ia.
Inflected forms:
form: minutiae
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: minutiæ
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
plural
Senses:
gloss: A minor detail, often of negligible importance.
pos: noun
examples: They spent all their time on minutiae, never making real progress.
I think I can ſee the preciſe and diſtinguiſhing marks of national characters more in theſe nonſenſical minutiæ, than in the moſt important matters of ſtate ; where great men of all nations talk and ſtalk ſo much alike, that I would not give ninepence to chuſe amongſt them.
gloss: Any of the point features on fingerprints used for matching, usually endings and bifurcations of ridges.
pos: noun
Translations:
collectible
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English collect
Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr
Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom
Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlis
Proto-Italic *-ðlis
Latin -bilis
Latin -ibilis
Old French -ibleder.
Middle English -ible
English -ible
English collectible
From collect + -ible.
Inflected forms:
form: more collectible
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most collectible
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: collectable
pos: adj
tags: alternative
UK
form: collectibles
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: collectable
pos: noun
tags: alternative
UK
Senses:
gloss: Worthy or suitable for collecting on historical/financial grounds, or for meeting a personal aesthetic.
pos: adj
examples: collectible stamps, collectible china, collectible Beatles memorabilia
With the lifting of his “depression,” he’d developed a new interest, hobbylike in its intensity, in framable and collectible railroad memorabilia, and he could happily have spent the whole day—the whole week!—pursuing it. . .
gloss: Rightfully subject to payment.
pos: adj
examples: a collectible bill
gloss: That is likely to be paid.
pos: adj
examples: He's owed it to us for six months, but it doesn't look very collectible to me.
gloss: An object which someone might want to collect.
pos: noun
examples: Topps[…] has signed the Clique Girlz as commercial spokeswomen for Baby Bottle Pop, one of the Top 10 nonchocolate candy brands.
Derived words: collectibility
cryptocollectible
noncollectible
uncollectible
Translations:
fiddler
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: nautical
transport
Etymology: From Middle English fithelere, from Old English fiþelere, from *fiþele. By surface analysis, fiddl(e) + -er.
* (capstan-house): So called because the fiddle would sometimes be played to cheer the sailors working there.
Inflected forms:
form: fiddlers
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: fiddlah
pos: noun
tags: alternative
pronunciation-spelling
form: fiddluh
pos: noun
tags: alternative
pronunciation-spelling
Senses:
gloss: One who plays the fiddle.
pos: noun
gloss: One who fiddles; a cheat.
pos: noun
examples: We were the self-controlled, cautious, nifty merchants, decorous fiddlers of accounts, hoarders of wealth, excellent bribers, family and community creatures governed by manners.
gloss: One who fiddles or tweaks.
pos: noun
examples: The community of radio amateurs—trespassing fiddlers on the cutting edge of technological possibilities—prefigured the geek community that was to inhabit Silicon Valley 50 years later.
gloss: A burrowing crab of the genus Gelasimus, of many species. The male has one claw very much enlarged, and often holds it in a position similar to that in which a musician holds a fiddle.
pos: noun
gloss: The common European sandpiper (Actitis hypoleucos); so called because it habitually wags its tail up and down resembling the back and forth movement of a fiddler.
pos: noun
gloss: A large species of cicada, Macrotristria angularis, of eastern Australia; cherry nose.
pos: noun
gloss: A coin of little value: a sixpence or a farthing.
pos: noun
tags: UK
obsolete
slang
gloss: The capstan-house on a steamer.
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: Whereupon you shake hands with him […] and make room for him by your side in the "Fiddler," when the pleasant time of night is come, and the stewardess is tucking up the ladies, and putting oranges and other goodies under their pillows, and the menfolk assemble in the capstan house to smoke their last cigar.
Synonyms: fiddlist
fiddleist
Derived words: bass fiddler
bull fiddler
drunk as a fiddler
fiddler crab
Fiddler on the Roof
Fiddler's Ferry
Hardanger fiddler
kiddy fiddler
pay the fiddler
Translations:
phonetic
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin phōnēticus, from Ancient Greek φωνητῐκός (phōnētĭkós). By surface analysis, phone + -etic.
Inflected forms:
form: phonetics
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Relating to the sounds of spoken language.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Relating to phones (as opposed to phonemes).
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Relating to the spoken rather than written form of a word or name, as opposed to orthographic.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: All unfamiliar names have been transcribed in phonetic spelling.
gloss: In such writing systems as the Chinese writing system, the portion of a phono-semantic character that provides an indication of its pronunciation; contrasted with semantic (which is usually the radical).
pos: noun
examples: I suspect that 田 dien is the original character and true phonetic of the whole group.
In the first case the character is pronounced identically, even as to tone, as the phonetic.
Or, the semantic may wrap around the phonetic, or position within the phonetic.
Related words: fauxnetic
phone
phoneme
phonemic
phonetics
phonology
semiphonetic
Derived words: antiphonetic
dysphonetic
ideophonetic
international phonetic alphabet
morphophonetic
NATO phonetic alphabet
nonphonetic
phonetical
phonetically
phonetic alphabet
phonetic determinative
phonetic erosion
phoneticism
phoneticist
phoneticize
phonetic name
phonetic spelling alphabet
phonetic symbol
phonetic symbolism
prephonetic
psychophonetic
sociophonetic
unphonetic
Translations:
lepper
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: leppers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A horse that jumps well.
pos: noun
examples: He's the king of all the leppers that was ever seen to lep,
A five-foot fence -- he'd clear it in a hop!
gloss: A type of Texas Longhorn, a subgroup of Butler cattle.
pos: noun
Translations: