yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
lawman
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: law
Etymology: From Middle English laweman, laȝaman (as a man's name, Laȝamon, Layamon), from Old English lahmann, borrowed from Old Norse lǫgmaðr. In present use as a law-enforcement officer, law + -man.
Base: law
Affixes: -man
Inflected forms:
form: lawmen
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A lawspeaker: a declarer of the law.
pos: noun
tags: historical
gloss: One of 12 magistrates in certain Danish boroughs of England empowered with soc and sac over their own households.
pos: noun
tags: historical
gloss: The presiding justice of the supreme court.
pos: noun
tags: Orkney
Shetland
examples: From the twelfth century Shetland had been administered directly by the Norwegian crown through the 'foud', rather than forming part of the patrimony of a great aristocratic estate. The foud appointed 'underfouds' and the Shetlands evolved their own elected officers, a 'lawman' and parish 'lawrightmen', who adjudicated and negotiated the collection of customary taxes and fines on behalf of the local population.
gloss: A man of the law: a lawyer.
pos: noun
tags: rare
gloss: An officer of the law: a law-enforcement officer.
pos: noun
tags: informal
examples: "Fill your hand, you sonuvabitch," the old lawman cries, clamping the reins of his horse between his teeth and filling his own hands with six-gun and repeater.
The two lawmen punched his ticket with four well-aimed rifle shots.
Translations:
lang: Latin
word: lagemannus
lineament
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle French linéament, from Latin lineamentum, from linea (“line”).
Inflected forms:
form: lineaments
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any distinctive shape or line, etc.
pos: noun
examples: In consequence, many places never saw an engine or train of unaccustomed hue or lineaments, except on such special occasions as the movement of troops or lines being blocked.
East-trending lineaments, some as long as 400 miles, are clearly discernible on the aeromagnetic maps. These lineaments may be associated with large fractures in the earth's crust.
The presence of lineaments is significant in site evaluation for waste disposal, because some lineaments may be faults or fracture zones with the potential to be ground-water conductors.
gloss: A distinctive feature that characterizes something, especially the parts of a person’s face.
pos: noun
examples: Fortune reigns in gifts of the world, not in the lineaments of Nature.
[…] onely remember, that so soone as thy eyelids be unglewd, thy first exercise must be (either sitting upright on thy pillow, or rarely loling at thy bodies whole length) to yawne, to stretch, and to gape wider then any oyster-wife : for thereby thou doest not onely send out the lively spirits (like vaunt-curers) to fortifie and make good the uttermost borders of the body ; but also (as a cunning painter) thy goodly lineaments are drawne out in their fairest proportion.
VVho is this vve muſt learn, for man he ſeems / In all his lineaments, though in his face / The glimpſes of his Fathers glory ſhine.
[…] a mask of iron on his face hid the lineaments / Of ancient Kings, and the frown of the eternal lion was hid from the oppressed earth.
But she could not wipe out the king's majesty with that sponge nor alter one lineament of the portrait she had taken ten years to limn.
A pig with a pasty face, so I had said, / Squealing for cookies, kinned by poor pretense / With a noble house. But the little man quite dead, / I see the forbears' antique lineaments.
As I stared at Culley's schematic tables, it gradually dawned on me that he had made a discovery without realizing it. For what his table of parallels and variations actually reveal are the lineaments of a purposefully deployed literary convention.
Derived words: lineamental
Translations:
layette
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: government
military
politics
war
Etymology: From French layette.
Inflected forms:
form: layettes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A complete set of clothing, bedding and toilet articles for a new baby.
pos: noun
gloss: A tray for carrying the powder in a powder mill.
pos: noun
gloss: A bin for storing equipment parts prior to their use.
pos: noun
tags: US
Translations:
loathsome
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English lothsum, from Old English *lāþsum, from Proto-West Germanic *laiþasam, equivalent to loath + -some. Cognate with Middle Low German lêtsam (“arduous”), German leidsam (“sad, sorry”).
Base: loath
Affixes: -some
Inflected forms:
form: more loathsome
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most loathsome
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: loathesome
pos: adj
tags: alternative
misspelling
form: lothsome
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: Highly offensive; abominable, sickening.
pos: adj
examples: Come on my Lords the better foot before, / Straight vvill I bring you to the lothſome pit, / VVhere I eſpied the Panther faſt a ſleepe.
That grave but yesterday received one who was to have been his bride—his betrothed from childhood for whose sake he had been to far lands and gathered much wealth, but who had pined in his absence and died. He flung himself on the loathsome place, and the night-wind bore around the ravings of his despair.
Lying on the floor was a dead man, in evening dress, with a knife in his heart. He was withered, wrinkled, and loathsome of visage. It was not till they had examined the rings that they recognized who it was.
Translations:
lecher
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English lechour, from Old French lecheor (“glutton, sensualist, libertine”) , from Old French lecher, lechier, lekier, lescher (“to lick, live in gluttony or sensuality”), from Old Frankish *likkōn (“to lick”), from Proto-Germanic *likkōną (“to lick”), from Proto-Indo-European *leyǵʰ- (“to lick”). More at lick.
Inflected forms:
form: lechers
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: leachour
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: leacher
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: lechers
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: lechering
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: lechered
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: lechered
pos: verb
tags: past
form: leachour
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: leacher
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: A lecherous person: someone given to excessive sexual activity or debauchery.
pos: noun
examples: The comedies work in very obvious ways to feminize this socially-ominous triad of young fops, old lechers, and greedy businessmen.
gloss: To practice lewdness.
pos: verb
Translations:
looped
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more looped
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most looped
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: having loops
pos: adj
gloss: formed into a loop
pos: adj
gloss: whorled
pos: adj
gloss: drunk
pos: adj
tags: slang
Derived words: nonlooped
unlooped
Translations:
lobbyist
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English lobby
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)
Proto-Hellenic *-tās
Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs)
Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)bor.
Latin -istader.
Old French -istebor.
Middle English -ist
English -ist
English lobbyist
From lobby + -ist.
Inflected forms:
form: lobbyists
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person who is paid to lobby politicians and encourage them to vote a certain way or otherwise use their office to effect a desired result.
pos: noun
examples: Banning President Trump from Twitter didn't just cut his personal communications channel but curbed a cottage industry of lobbyists and consultants who monetized their ability to get clients into his Twitterverse. […] One lobbyist told Axios his firm paid another consulting shop to generate earned media for clients, including tweets from prominent MAGA personalities such as Charlie Kirk, the founder of the pro-Trump student group Turning Point USA.
Translations:
lovebird
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From love + bird.
Compound parts: love
bird
Inflected forms:
form: lovebirds
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: love bird
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: love-bird
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: lovebirds
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: lovebirding
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: lovebirded
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: lovebirded
pos: verb
tags: past
form: love bird
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: love-bird
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Any small parrot from one of the nine species within the genus Agapornis. Sometimes they are kept as cage birds and are noted for their affection towards each other.
pos: noun
gloss: One of the members of an openly affectionate couple.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
plural-normally
examples: Okay, all right, whew! What do you say we all clear out of here and let these two lovebirds get back down to business?
gloss: To express romantic affection openly.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
Translations:
lectern
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: 15th century partial re-Latinization of early 14th century Middle English lettorne, lettron, from Old French leitrun, from Medieval Latin lectrinum, from Late Latin lectrum, from lectus (from whence also lecture), form of Latin legō (“to read”).
Inflected forms:
form: lecterns
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: lettern
pos: noun
tags: alternative
archaic
Senses:
gloss: A stand with a slanted top used to support a Bible from which passages are read during a church service.
pos: noun
gloss: A similar stand to support a lecturer's notes.
pos: noun
Synonyms: podium
pulpit
Related words: lection
lecture
lector
lesson
Translations:
liberating
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more liberating
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most liberating
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: That serves to liberate, especially to free the mind to accept new ideas.
pos: adj
examples: a liberating experience
gloss: The act of liberating; liberation.
pos: noun
Translations:
localism
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English local
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)
Proto-Indo-European *-mos
Proto-Indo-European *-mós
Ancient Greek -μός (-mós)
Ancient Greek -ισμός (-ismós)der.
English -ism
English localism
From local + -ism.
Inflected forms:
form: localisms
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Attachment to a particular local place; feelings or policies which emphasize local phenomena.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Localism may strengthen not just the selfless (eg, people who want to build a village hall) but also the selfish (who want to stop any new building in their backyard).
these faux-traditional shops, harking back to an era of localism and pretty clockwork high streets, can help cleave a neighbourhood in two, making very clear the difference in means of those who live nearby.
gloss: A linguistic feature that is unique to a locality.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: These documents contain occasional localism, typically references to other operating systems.
gloss: The belief that language functions are localized to various parts of the brain.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: An approach to understanding expressions in terms of position and movement (sometimes abstract, e.g. one who is hungry is in a notional "space" of hunger).
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Other theoretical approaches that stress the primacy of space or spatial meaning in language with respect to other domains or meanings are localism and case grammar. In localism, spatial expressions are considered the most important category in the lexicon and in grammar.
Related words: localist
localistic
Translations:
dumbfounded
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more dumbfounded
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most dumbfounded
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Shocked and speechless.
pos: adj
Translations:
lifespan
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: biology
natural-sciences
Etymology: From life + span.
Compound parts: life
span
Inflected forms:
form: lifespans
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: life span
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The length of time for which an organism lives.
pos: noun
examples: Meronym: healthspan
Some clams have lifespans far longer than those of human beings.
What the devil happened to my year? Another little digit on my lifespan, what a bore.
Last spring, the periodical cicadas emerged across eastern North America. Their vast numbers and short above-ground life spans inspired awe and irritation in humans—and made for good meals for birds and small mammals.
Asari Cultural VI: Due to our lifespan-sometimes reaching 1,000 years of age-we are patient in our decisions, and prefer long-term solutions over short-term gains.
gloss: The length of time for which something exists or is current, valid, or usable.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
examples: The virtual enterprise forum developed several "classical" management functions for which resources were available throughout its lifespan.
The reactor, located in the city of Fuqing city in China’s southeastern Fujian province, was designed to have a 60-year lifespan, with its core equipment domestically produced.
Related words: for life
lifelong
Translations:
lang: Chinese Cantonese
word: 壽命 /寿命
roman: sau⁶ ming⁶
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 壽命 /寿命
roman: shòumìng
lang: French
word: durée de vie
lang: German
word: Lebensdauer
lang: Hungarian
word: élettartam
lang: Malayalam
word: കാലാവധി
roman: kālāvadhi
lang: Spanish
word: vida útil
lang: Spanish
word: vida
lang: Tamil
word: ஆயுட்காலம்
roman: āyuṭkālam
lang: Tamil
word: அகவை
roman: akavai
ligature
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: entertainment
lifestyle
media
medicine
music
publishing
sciences
surgery
typography
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *leyǵ-der.
Latin ligō
Proto-Indo-European *-tew-?
Proto-Indo-European *-r-eh₂?
Latin -tūra
Late Latin ligātūrabor.
Middle French ligaturebor.
Middle English ligature
English ligature
From Middle English ligature, from Middle French ligature, from Late Latin ligātūra, from Latin ligātus, past participle of ligāre (“to tie, bind”).
Inflected forms:
form: ligatures
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: ligatures
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: ligaturing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: ligatured
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: ligatured
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: The act of tying or binding something.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: A cord or similar thing used to tie something; especially the thread used in surgery to close a vessel or duct.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: anti-ligature clothing
I likewiſe felt ſeveral ſlender Ligatures acroſs my Body, from my Armpits to my Thighs. I could only look upwards, the Sun began to grow hot, and the Light offended mine Eyes.
He hid shoelaces or rope under cushions to use as ligatures.
gloss: A thread or wire used to remove tumours, etc.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The state of being bound or stiffened; stiffness.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: the ligature of a joint
gloss: A character that visually combines multiple letters, such as æ, œ, ß or ĳ; also logotype. Sometimes called a typographic ligature.
pos: noun
tags: countable
gloss: A group of notes played as a phrase, or the curved line that indicates such a phrase.
pos: noun
tags: countable
gloss: A curve or line connecting notes; a slur.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A piece used to hold a reed to the mouthpiece on woodwind instruments.
pos: noun
tags: countable
gloss: Any binding, uniting, or restraining principle or agency.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A spell or charm that induces sexual impotence.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The Roman epic poet Vergil refers to the incapacitating effects of ligatures, while Ovid, the erotic poet, admits the power of such spell-bindings.
gloss: To ligate; to tie.
pos: verb
Related words: liaison
ligate
ligation
Derived words: ligature point
ligatureless
Translations:
tying
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: business
mining
Etymology: From Middle English tiȝing, teing, from Old English *tīgung, tīging (“connection”), from Proto-Germanic *taugungō, from *taugijaną from Proto-Indo-European *dewk- (“to tug, draw”). Equivalent to tie + -ing. Present participle from Old English tīgende, from tīgan, tīegan.
Base: tie
Affixes: -ing
Inflected forms:
form: tyings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Action of the verb to tie; ligature.
pos: noun
examples: It cost us several tyings and untyings before her ladyship was pleased with her own foot.
gloss: The act or process of washing ores in a buddle.
pos: noun
Derived words: tube tying
Translations:
lightness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English lightnes, lightnesse, from Old English līhtnes, lȳhtnys (“enlightening, illumination”), from Proto-West Germanic *liuhtinassī; equivalent to light (“to make bright, illuminate”, verb) + -ness (suffix forming nouns). Cognate with Old High German liuhtnissi (“illumination, enlightening”).
Base: light
Affixes: -ness
Inflected forms:
form: lightnesses
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: lightnesse
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: the condition of being illuminated
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Well, darkness has a hunger that's insatiable
and lightness has a call that's hard to hear.
gloss: the relative whiteness or transparency of a colour
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: The product of being illuminated.
pos: noun
tags: countable
Translations:
ligneous
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
Etymology: From Latin ligneus; compare Latin lignōsus; equivalent to lign- + -eous.
Base: lign
Inflected forms:
form: more ligneous
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most ligneous
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: lignous
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Of, or resembling wood; woody.
pos: adj
gloss: Containing lignin or xylem.
pos: adj
Derived words: ligneous conjunctivitis
pyroligneous
semiligneous
Translations:
lignin
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
Etymology: From Latin lignum (“wood”) + -in.
Affixes: -in
Inflected forms:
form: lignins
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A complex non-carbohydrate aromatic polymer present in all wood.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
Translations:
logographic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English logo-
English graph
English logograph
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Latin -icuslbor.
Old French -iquebor.
Middle English -ik
English -ic
English logographic
From logograph + -ic.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of, related to, or composed of logographs.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
logogram
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From logo- + -gram.
Base: logo
Inflected forms:
form: logograms
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A character or symbol (usually nonalphanumeric) that represents a word or phrase.
pos: noun
examples: Near-synonyms: (polysemic, sometimes synonymous) lexigram; lexigraph
gloss: A kind of word puzzle: a logogriph.
pos: noun
Related words: logographic
logographical
logographically
logography
logotype
Derived words: logogrammic
Translations:
love-in
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From love + -in, modelled after sit-in.
Base: love
Affixes: -in
Inflected forms:
form: love-ins
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An activists' social gathering to promote love and feelings of well-being.
pos: noun
examples: Sara Davidson traces the varying paths she and two friends followed from their undergraduate years at Berkeley through sit-ins and love-ins; grass and acid; the Kennedys and the Beatles; the sexual revolution and the woman's movement.
gloss: A situation characterized by (possibly insincere) friendship and affection.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
colloquial
examples: The summer in between wasn't a total love-in of hugs and sweet family times, for us and other families.
Related words: be-in
laugh-in
sit-in
Translations:
lumpenproletariat
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from German Lumpenproletariat.
Inflected forms:
form: lumpenproletariats
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The lowest stratum of the proletariat, whose mental and physical health, mores and morale have deteriorated, through exploitation by the bourgeoisie, to a degree where they cannot build class consciousness and hence cannot be mobilized for the revolution.
pos: noun
tags: Marxism
examples: I hadn't quite figured her out yet: rude snob or lumpenproletariat?
gloss: A social underclass; the riffraff.
pos: noun
Related words: lumpenbourgeoisie
lumpenintelligentsia
lumpenprole
Translations:
Playboy
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: Playboys
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: more Playboy
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most Playboy
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: A Playboy magazine.
pos: noun
gloss: Pertaining to a hedonistic philosophy and idealized women with exaggerated sexual characteristics.
pos: adj
examples: "More Playboy than us." Salli giggled. "I know. Only joking. I've been on Playboy's cover three times. They adore me." She giggled again.
And when you take a Playboy interview, where they pump sound bites into the media, it all sounds much harsher than you intended.
And ready to do something for the state too. / Do what? / Lead it, says Shade. / He couldn't lead a frat house across the street to the Playboy mansion.
There is more history of New York City in a Playboy centerfold than in the entire Encyclopedia of New York or any other academic study of the place.
Translations:
kore
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: art
arts
Etymology: From Ancient Greek κόρη (kórē, “girl, maiden”).
Inflected forms:
form: korai
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An Ancient Greek statue of a woman, portrayed standing, usually clothed, painted in bright colours and having an elaborate hairstyle.
pos: noun
examples: Mus. No 685: Archaic kore of island marble (500-490 B. C.) 4 ft high. Attic work. This kore is not wearing the Ionian smile, but a look of solemn gravity. She does not gather up her robes with the left hand like the other kores,[…].
Ducat believes that all the kore plastic vessels wearing transverse himatia ending in stepped folds over the abdomen originate in Rhodes (1966: 72).
Inscribed dedications often took the form of korai (singular: kore): statues, usually life-size or larger of female figures, generally goddesses.
Translations:
mountains
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: mountain range
pos: noun
Translations:
facts
Part of speech: intj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: fax
pos: intj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Used to express agreement.
pos: intj
tags: Internet
Translations:
debase
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From de- + base, from Old French bas, from Latin bassus. Cognate with Spanish debajo (“under, beneath, below”). Compare abase.
Base: base
Affixes: de-
Inflected forms:
form: debases
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: debasing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: debased
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: debased
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To lower in character, quality, or value; to degrade.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: And just as history will decide whether the leaders of today's world employed the atom to destroy the world or rebuild it for mankind's benefit, so will history decide whether today's broadcasters employed their powerful voice to enrich the people or to debase them.
gloss: To lower in position or rank.
pos: verb
tags: archaic
transitive
gloss: To lower the value of (a currency) by reducing the amount of valuable metal in the coins.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Synonyms: abase
avile
debase
debauch
degrade
depreciate
devalue
devaluate
dirty
elevate
vitiate
Antonyms: enhance
enrich
Derived words: debased
debasedness
debasement
debaser
debasingly
undebased
Translations:
debarment
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: law
Etymology: Etymology tree
English debar
Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥
Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥tom
Proto-Italic *-mentom
Latin -mentum
Old French -mentbor.
Middle English -ment
English -ment
English debarment
From debar + -ment.
Inflected forms:
form: debarments
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act or an instance of debarring.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: In the United States Food and Drugs Act, a penalty imposed on persons or companies that commit crimes in connection with applications for approval of drugs, in which such persons are barred from submitting or assisting in the submission of such an application.
pos: noun
tags: US
countable
uncountable
Translations:
debar
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: law
Etymology: From Anglo-Norman debarrer.
Inflected forms:
form: debars
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: debarring
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: debarred
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: debarred
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To exclude or shut out; to bar.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: As for the guides, they were debarred from the pleasure of discourse, the one being placed in the van, and the other obliged to bring up the rear.
The Minister of Transport has debarred BR workshops from seeking orders for private owners' wagons like this [...].
gloss: To hinder or prevent.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: How can I then return in happy plight,
That am debarr'd the benefit of rest?
She had also been so long debarred from any interchange of feelings and sentiments—so surrounded by strangers, that it was a true enjoyment to meet with one, who, if she did not enter into many of the emotions connected with it, was yet able and ready to talk of the past.
"Circumstances have arisen—circumstances beyond my control," he said and paused, "which will debar me from completing the course I had designed. It would seem, gentlemen, if I may put the thing clearly and briefly, that—Man has lived in vain."
gloss: To prohibit (a person or company that has been convicted of criminal acts in connection with a government program) from future participation in that program.
pos: verb
tags: US
transitive
Derived words: debarment
undebarred
Translations:
fink
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Unknown; first attested in 1894. A connection to Yiddish as some propose is unlikely.
Suggested origins include:
* German Fink (“finch; frivolous or dissolute person; informer”) as finches are notoriously chatty birds in groups. If so, then Doublet of finch. Compare canary (“informer”).
* Partly from the German theory, a fanciful association by students with the freedom of wild birds as opposed to caged ones.
* The slang name pink for Pinkerton agents and their use as strikebreakers in the 1892 Homestead strike. If the term is from the corporate name, then it is of Scots origin, Pinkerton being from a place near Dunbar, which is from an unrecognized first element (possibly ultimately pre-Celtic substrate) and Old English tūn (“enclosure, homestead, etc.”).
Inflected forms:
form: finks
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: finks
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: finking
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: finked
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: finked
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A contemptible person.
pos: noun
tags: US
slang
examples: Near-synonyms: see Thesaurus:jerk, Thesaurus:idiot
gloss: An informer.
pos: noun
tags: US
slang
gloss: A strikebreaker.
pos: noun
tags: US
slang
gloss: To betray a trust; to inform on.
pos: verb
tags: US
slang
examples: “I move that we determine through a thorough investigation whether the new worker is a fink or no; and if he is a fink, let us discover who heʼs finking for!”
Derived words: ratfink
Translations:
moonraker
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: nautical
transport
Etymology: From moon + raker.
(someone from Wiltshire): After a story in which some Wiltshire peasants, seeing the reflection of the moon in a shallow pool, tried to rake it out.
Compound parts: moon
raker
Inflected forms:
form: moonrakers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Someone from Wiltshire.
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
gloss: A small, light sail located high on a mast (above the skysail) and used for speed.
pos: noun
Related words: moonraking
Translations:
lich
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: fantasy
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der.
Proto-Germanic *līką
Proto-West Germanic *līk
Old English līċ
Middle English lich
English lich
Inherited from Middle English lich, from Old English līċ, from Proto-West Germanic *līk, from Proto-Germanic *līką, from Proto-Indo-European *leyg-.
Inflected forms:
form: liches
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: lichs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: lych
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: lytch
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: litch
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: lyke
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A reanimated corpse or undead being; particularly an intelligent, undead spellcaster.
pos: noun
examples: It was a lich’s face – desiccated flesh tight over its skull.
gloss: A corpse or dead body.
pos: noun
tags: UK
archaic
examples: […] and that, as the chronicle states, a lich-way would be made through then, assembled his servants, and attempted to stop its progress as it was carried over a bridge. A scuffle ensued, and the body was thrown into the water. The lich-way as not made ; but the Bishop of Exeter amply revenged himself for the proceedings.
She saw him again that eventide, but then he was a reddened lich.
Derived words: demilich
lich-field
lich field
lichfield
lichgate
lich-gate
lich gate
lich-house
lich king
lich-king
lich lord
lichlord
lich-lord
lich-wake
lich way
lichway
lich-way
lichwort
lichyard
lych-gate
Translations:
Lycian
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English Lycia
Proto-Indo-European *-nós
Proto-Italic *-nos
Latin -nus
Latin -ānus
Old French -ainder.
Middle English -an
English -an
English Lycian
From Lycia + -an.
Inflected forms:
form: Lycians
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A native or inhabitant of ancient Lycia.
pos: noun
examples: From the 4th Century BCE onwards, the Lycians built rock-hewn "house" tombs – often funeral chambers carved into cliffs, with the rock face around the doorway cut to imitate the façade of a wooden Lycian house, complete with "timbers" and protruding "joists".
gloss: Of, or relating to Lycia, or its people, language or culture.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Formed in the 2nd Century BCE and composed of 23 city-states, the Lycian League was the world's first democratic union, a model of a strong confederacy based on popular and proportional representation.
Translations:
leitmotif
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
Etymology: From German Leitmotiv (“leading motif”), from leiten (“to lead”) + Motiv (“motif”), originally used to describe Wagnerian opera. The spelling was influenced by motif.
Inflected forms:
form: leitmotifs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: leitmotiv
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: leit-motif
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A melodic theme associated with a particular character, place, thing or idea in an opera.
pos: noun
examples: In Wagner's operas, especially his cycle of four operas known collectively as the Ring cycle, the leitmotif did not simply label or point to one particular character or object but rather conjured up a realm of ideas.
gloss: A recurring theme.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
examples: People have pointed out the influence of Wagner’s music on my work. Certainly I do not disclaim this influence. In particular, I followed Wagner in the use of the leitmotif, which I carried over into the work of language.
If one looks for a pattern in the political life of John Connally, one finds a leitmotif of scandals which threatened but never destroyed his career.
Mann's adaptation of Wagner's technique and its development throughout his writing is analysed, including how Mann uses the leitmotif in a naturalistic, characterising and mechanical sense in Buddenbrooks, attaching it to persons and situations as etiquettes.
Such language about an American president from a European ally would have been unthinkable before Mr. Trump made outrage the leitmotif of his presidency, along with an assault on truth.
Translations:
limned
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English limn
English -ed
English limned
From limn + -ed.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: described or represented in a lifelike manner
pos: adj
Translations:
longitudinal
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: anatomy
medicine
rail-transport
railways
sciences
transport
Etymology: From Latin longitūdin- + -al, from oblique stem of Latin longitūdō, from longus + -tūdō. By surface analysis, longitude + -al.
Base: -al
Affixes: -
Inflected forms:
form: longitudinals
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Running across a set direction of an object.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The motion about the longitudinal axis of an airplane is called roll.
gloss: Running across a set direction of an object.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The units have transverse seats, two and three astride the passageway with single or double longitudinal seats alongside the two entrance vestibules in each car.
The third rotation is about the longitudinal axis of the thigh.
Unlike the older trains, the new units have walk-through carriages and longitudinal rather than transverse seating.
gloss: Relating to the geographical longitude.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The longitudinal position of a ship refers to its angular distance east or west from the prime meridian.
gloss: Of a study, sampling data over time rather than merely once.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: longitudinal studies
Examining national longitudinal data, Mossakowski has found that people who were unemployed for long periods in their teens or early 20s are far more likely to develop a habit of heavy drinking (five or more drinks in one sitting) by the time they approach middle age.
gloss: Any longitudinal piece, as in shipbuilding etc.
pos: noun
gloss: A railway sleeper lying parallel with the rail.
pos: noun
Derived words: dorsolongitudinal
heliolongitudinal
longitudinal aberration
longitudinal fissure
longitudinally
longitudinal recording
longitudinal relaxation time
longitudinal system
longitudinal wave
medial longitudinal fasciculus
nonlongitudinal
palaeolongitudinal
paleolongitudinal
pseudolongitudinal
Translations:
fossilize
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English fossil
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)bor.
Late Latin -izōder.
Middle French -iserbor.
Middle English -isen
English -ize
English fossilize
From fossil + -ize.
Inflected forms:
form: fossilizes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: fossilizing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: fossilized
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: fossilized
pos: verb
tags: past
form: fossilise
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: To make into a fossil.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Most of the booths had been scooped clean by the scalpel-sharp corner of the glacier in the crash. Three remained. Two of them were punctured and, inside, the once-human occupants had been fossilized into the walls by centuries upon centuries of patient ice.
gloss: To become a fossil.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To become inflexible or outmoded.
pos: verb
tags: broadly
figuratively
intransitive
examples: I was getting fossilised myself, but of late my stock of ideas has been very much enlarged.
gloss: To make antiquated, rigid, or fixed; to deaden.
pos: verb
tags: broadly
figuratively
transitive
examples: Ten layers of birthdays on a woman's head / Are apt to fossilize her girlish mirth.
I'll meet you again
Blanketed in soil
Fossilized in photographs
Related words: fossilization
Derived words: fossilizable
fossilizer
Translations:
neuronal
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English neuron
Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.?
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālisbor.
Old French -albor.
▲
Latin -ālis
Old French -elbor.
▲
Latin -ālisbor.
Middle English -al
English -al
English neuronal
From neuron + -al.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of, or relating to a neuron.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Nicotine, a stimulant found in tobacco, long used by Native Americans, taught scientists about the existence of our own nicotinic receptors, which influence neuronal excitement.
Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) measures local blood flow related to neuronal firing: When cells fire, they use up oxygen and glucose, and new, oxygen-rich blood then comes in to replenish these resources. These influxes of blood are what fMRI measures.
Translations:
Nisei
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 二世 (“second generation”).
Inflected forms:
form: Nisei
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: a person born outside of Japan of parents who were born in Japan
pos: noun
Translations:
nisei
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 二世 (にせい, nisei), from 二 (ni-, “second”) + 世 (sei, “generation”).
Inflected forms:
form: niseis
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: nisei
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One whose parents were Japanese immigrants, especially to North or South America.
pos: noun
examples: Born and brought tip mostly in South America, the United States (particularly Hawaii) and Canada, the nisei and sansei have Japanese features but often speak the language imperfectly, if at all.
The Nisei, on the other hand, are more inclined to view the hyphenated Japanese Canadian identity with positive implications.
Decrypts fly out of a line printer on the other end and are taken off to another hut where American nisei, and some white men trained in Nipponese, translate them.
Translations:
nighttime
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From Middle English nyght tyme, nyȝttyme, equivalent to night + time. Compare Dutch nachttijd, German Nachtzeit, Danish nattetid, Swedish nattetid. Compare also Middle English nyȝter tyme (“nighttime”), from Old Norse náttartími, nætrtími (“nighttime”).
Compound parts: night
time
Inflected forms:
form: nighttimes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: night time
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: night-time
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: night time
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: night-time
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The hours of darkness between sunset and sunrise; the night.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Nighttime fell like the opening / In the final act of the beginning of time
Smith Barney, for example, goes so far as to shift the hours during which taxi rides home are expensable as nighttime lengthens and shortens, says Moszkowski.
gloss: Pertaining to nighttime; appropriate to the night.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Happening during the night.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Discourage nighttime prowlers by installing motion-sensitive lights.
Antonyms: day
daytime
diurnal
Translations:
novelty
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: board-games
chess
games
Etymology: From Middle English novelte, from Old French novelté (Modern French nouveauté), from the adjective novel, ultimately from Latin novellus. By surface analysis, novel + -ty.
Inflected forms:
form: novelties
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The state of being new or novel; newness.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: It was by no means pleasant to realize that there was an unknown number of menaces up there over your head, quietly circling and circling until someone should arrange for them to drop - and that there was nothing to be done about them. Still, life has to go on - and novelty is a wonderfully short-lived thing. One became used to the idea perforce.
Men In Black 3 lacks the novelty of the first film, and its take on the late ’60s feels an awful lot like a psychedelic dress-up party, all broad caricatures and groovy vibes.
gloss: A new product; an innovation.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Reconciling profound enquiry with clearness, and truth with novelty.
gloss: A small mass-produced trinket.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: One released image shows Trump with six women with leis whose faces were redacted by committee members, while another depicts what appears to be a bowl of novelty condoms with a caricature of Trump’s face with the text, “I’m HUUUUGE!” The condoms – shown in a bowl with a “Trump condom $4.50” sign – were produced by a novelty shop in New York City named Fishs Eddy.
gloss: In novelty theory, newness, density of complexification, and dynamic change as opposed to static habituation.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: An opening move played for the first time ever (in high-level chess).
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Topalov has unveiled some interesting novelties lately, but there was nothing unusual in his opening here. Sasikiran played the Nimzo-Indian, and Topalov replied with probably the most classical continuation.
It's not often a novelty comes as early as move seven nowadays, but in the latest round of the German Bundesliga, a recently discovered seventh move was employed to win a lovely game.
The Russian champion still did very well. Nepomniachtchi was only a wildcard, yet played with full force including an interesting novelty in the much analysed Berlin Wall Ruy Lopez.
gloss: In the design of a common household item, often impractically large, and meant primarily for display rather than functional use.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: My novelty calculator works fine but it hurts my hands to press the keys.
Translations:
chanson
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From French chanson f (“song”), from Latin cantio f. Doublet of cantion and canzone.
Inflected forms:
form: chansons
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any song with French words, but more specifically a classic, lyric-driven French song.
pos: noun
gloss: A religious song.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
Translations:
robinet
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From robin.
Inflected forms:
form: robinets
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The chaffinch, or roberd.
pos: noun
gloss: The European robin.
pos: noun
Translations:
catamite
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Latin catamītus (“boy kept as a sexual partner”), from Catamītus, from Etruscan 𐌂𐌀𐌕𐌌𐌉𐌕𐌄 (catmite), from Ancient Greek Γανυμήδης (Ganumḗdēs, “Ganymede”), an attractive Trojan boy supposedly abducted to Mount Olympus by the god Zeus to become his cupbearer and lover. Doublet of Ganymede.
Inflected forms:
form: catamites
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: catamites
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: catamiting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: catamited
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: catamited
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A boy or younger man in a homoerotic relationship with an older man.
pos: noun
examples: It was the afternoon of my eighty-first birthday, and I was in bed with my catamite when Ali announced that the archbishop had come to see me.
And what about your brother? – Is he to be a catamite?
gloss: To engage in a homoerotic relationship involving a boy and an older man.
pos: verb
Translations:
noontide
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From Middle English non-tyde, from Old English nōntīd (“noontide”), equivalent to noon + tide.
Compound parts: noon
tide
Inflected forms:
form: noontides
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Midday, noon.
pos: noun
tags: literary
examples: […] I haue bedymn'd / The Noone tide Sun, call'd forth the mutenous windes, / And twixt the greene Sea, and the azur'd vault / Set roaring warre: […]
The favorite noontide mess of the Andalusian peasantry; consisting of cucumbers shred fine, bread-crumbs, oil, vinegar, and water fresh from the spring.
Around them all, Negroes carried gunboats of mashed potatoes, spinach, shrimp, zucchini, pot roast, to the long, glittering steam tables, preparing to feed a noontide invasion of Yoyodyne workers.
gloss: Climax; high point.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
examples: Yet there are noble passages in his later poems: and even the latest have their own peculiar charm of serenity and kindliness,—a tranquil sunset, as it were, succeeding not unmeetly to the fiery splendours of his noontide course.
Translations:
sheng
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Mandarin 笙 (shēng).
Inflected forms:
form: shengs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A Chinese wind instrument, a free-reed mouth organ consisting of 13 or more bamboo pipes of various lengths, which are fixed at their bases in a wind chest made from a dried gourd (or, more recently, wood or chrome-plated brass).
pos: noun
examples: The appearance of a sheng in Paris at the end of the eighteenth century inspired the development of free reed instruments in Western Europe, including the harmonica, accordion, and symphonium (see next page).
Translations: