yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
revulsion
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: medicine
sciences
Etymology: Partly from Middle French révulsion and partly from Latin revulsiō.
Inflected forms:
form: revulsions
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Abhorrence, a sense of loathing, intense aversion, repugnance, repulsion, horror.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: A sudden violent feeling of disgust.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: The treatment of one diseased area by acting elsewhere; counterirritation.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: A strong pulling or drawing back; withdrawal.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
uncountable
usually
examples: To run on in deſpight of the Revulſions and Pul-backs of ſuch Remora’s aggravates our tranſgreſſions.
The recent financial revulsion has revealed the feeble basis on which credit now stands, […]
gloss: A sudden reaction; a sudden and complete change of the feelings.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
uncountable
usually
examples: We resolve, and our resolutions melt away with a word and a look: we are the toys of an emotion. And yet I think Norbourne was right in his sudden revulsion in favour of his uncle. We are rarely wrong when we act from impulse.
A sudden and violent revulsion of feeling, both in the parliament and in the country, followed.
Related words: revulsive
Translations:
debit
Part of speech: noun
verb
adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French debet, from Latin debitum (“what is owed, a debt”), neuter of debitus, past participle of debere (“to owe”); Doublet of debt.
Inflected forms:
form: debits
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: debits
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: debiting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: debited
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: debited
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: In bookkeeping, an entry in the left hand column of an account.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: A cash sale is recorded as debit on the cash account and as credit on the sales account.
gloss: A sum of money taken out of a bank account. Thus called, because in bank's bookkeeping a cash withdrawal diminishes the amount of money held on the account, i.e. bank's debt to the customer.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: To make an entry on the debit side of an account.
pos: verb
examples: The economist also observed that some of the Victoria Line's cost should be debited to existing lines, as they would benefit from the rebuilding of their interchange stations with the new tube.
gloss: To record a receivable in the bookkeeping.
pos: verb
examples: We shall debit your account for the amount of the purchase.
We shall debit the amount of your purchase to your account.
gloss: of or relating to process of taking money from an account
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: of or relating to the debit card function of a debit card rather than its often available credit card function
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Antonyms: credit
Related words: debenture
debitor
debt
credit
Derived words: agency debit memo
debit account
debit balance
debit note
direct debit
on the debit side
debit card
debitable
redebit
Translations:
lopsided
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From lop (“to hang loosely”) + side + -ed.
Inflected forms:
form: more lopsided
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most lopsided
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: lop-sided
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Not even or balanced; not the same on one side as on the other.
pos: adj
examples: Carrying a heavy suitcase, he walked with a lopsided gait.
gloss: biased; not balanced between points of view
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
Related words: top-heavy
Derived words: lopsidedly
lopsidedness
Translations:
stokes
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: After George Gabriel Stokes
Inflected forms:
form: stokes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A unit of kinematic viscosity in the CGS system of units. 1 stokes = 1 cm²/s.
pos: noun
Translations:
converging
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: convergings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: approaching each other at a point; convergent.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: convergence
pos: noun
examples: the deeper convergings and divergings of our own natures
Translations:
fisheye
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From fish + eye.
Compound parts: fish
eye
Inflected forms:
form: fisheyes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: fisheyeing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: fisheying
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
rare
form: fisheyed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: fisheyed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: fish eye
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: fish-eye
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: To glance unfriendlily or suspiciously at.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: She fisheyed our entrycards, looking to see if we’d remagnetized them to untoward purpose.
The director fisheyed me—I strolled to the trailer, nonchalant.
My father with his Christmas-red vest and braggart’s moustache is boycotting the party. It must be Sunday or Saturday morning and he’s cold and sleepy fisheyeing his long-haired sons.
Translations:
bewitch
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English bewicchen, bewycchen, biwicchen, equivalent to be- + witch.
Base: witch
Affixes: be-
Inflected forms:
form: bewitches
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: bewitching
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: bewitched
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: bewitched
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To cast a spell upon.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: And further, this examinate saith, that she sent both her spirits to Stonesby, to one Willison, a husbandman, and Robert Williman, a husbandman's son, and bade the kitten go to Willison and bewitch him to death, and the moldiwarp to the other and bewitch him to death, which they did, and within ten days they died.
Afterwards Jim said the witches bewitched him and put him in a trance,[…]
But above all beware never to look the Fairy of the Dawn in the face, for she has eyes that will bewitch you, and glances that will befool you.
She so bewitched the whole princely race that six different princes, although each was married to a young wife, remained childless.
gloss: To fascinate or charm.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: I was bewitched by the sight of the girl dancing in the forest.
A Svveet diſorder in the dreſſe / Kindles in cloathes a vvantonneſſe: / […] / A Cuffe neglectfull, and thereby / Ribbands to flovv confuſedly: / […] / Do more bevvitch me, than vvhen Art / Is too preciſe in every part.
gloss: To astonish, amaze.
pos: verb
tags: rare
transitive
examples: Is it not a fact that the miners of this country are bewildered and bewitched and do not know what is to happen?
Derived words: bewitchable
bewitchedness
bewitchee
bewitcher
bewitchery
bewitchful
bewitching
bewitchingly
bewitchingness
bewitchment
unbewitch
Translations:
tramway
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *terh₂-?
Proto-Indo-European *ter-?
Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥
Proto-Indo-European *térmn̥
Proto-Germanic *drum
Middle Low German trame
Low German traambor.?
Scotsbor.
English tram
English way
English tramway
From tram + way.
Inflected forms:
form: tramways
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The track on which a tram (streetcar) runs.
pos: noun
tags: Ireland
UK
gloss: The system of cables that supports a cable car.
pos: noun
tags: US
gloss: A lane of a road or street, in which tram tracks are embedded, that is (in normal circumstances) for the exclusive use of trams and public buses.
pos: noun
tags: formal
Derived words: aerial tramway
cable tramway
tramwayman
Translations:
tranquilizer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English tranquilize
English -er
English tranquilizer
From tranquilize + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: tranquilizers
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: tranquiliser
pos: noun
tags: alternative
UK
form: tranquilliser
pos: noun
tags: alternative
UK
form: tranquillizer
pos: noun
tags: alternative
US
Senses:
gloss: That which tranquillizes or soothes.
pos: noun
gloss: A drug used to reduce anxiety or tension.
pos: noun
gloss: A drug used to reduce anxiety or tension.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
Synonyms: trank
tranq
Derived words: horse tranquilizer
trank
tranq
tranquilizer dart
tranx
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: лекарство за успокояване
roman: lekarstvo za uspokojavane
lang: Cebuano
word: ighuhupay
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 鎮靜劑 /镇静剂
roman: zhènjìngjì
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 鎮靜藥 /镇静药
roman: zhènjìngyào
lang: Esperanto
word: trankviligilo
lang: Finnish
word: rauhoittava
lang: Greek
word: ηρεμιστικό
roman: iremistikó
lang: Greek
word: αγχολυτικό
roman: ancholytikó
lang: Hebrew
word: תְּרוּפַת הַרְגָעָה
roman: trufàt hargaá
lang: Hebrew
word: כָּדוּר הַרְגָעָה
roman: kadùr hargaá
lang: Hungarian
word: nyugtató
lang: Hungarian
word: nyugtatószer
lang: Italian
word: ansiolitico
lang: Japanese
word: 精神安定剤
roman: seishin anteizai
lang: Japanese
word: 鎮静薬
roman: chinseiyaku
lang: Malay
word: penenteram
lang: Māori
word: rongoā whakamahuru
lang: Norman
word: trantchilisant
lang: Persian
word: آرامبخش
roman: ârâm-baxš
lang: Portuguese
word: tranquilizante
lang: Russian
word: транквилиза́тор
roman: trankvilizátor
lang: Russian
word: успокои́тельное
roman: uspokoítelʹnoje
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: транквилизатор
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: анксиолѝтик
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: trankvilizator
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: anksiolìtik
transcendentally
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English transcendental
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English transcendentally
From transcendental + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more transcendentally
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most transcendentally
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a transcendental manner.
pos: adv
Translations:
adventuring
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: adventurings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: adventure
pos: noun
examples: Shawna has grown up into a sort of Outward Bound explorer of the erotic wilderness, whose adventurings — recounted on a widely read blog — include a stint working at “the Lusty Lady, a peep show in North Beach that recently became the nation’s first worker-owned strip club.”
Translations:
scrump
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From a dialectal variation of scrimp, probably from Middle Dutch or Middle Low German schrimpen (“to shrivel up, shrink”), ultimately from Proto-Germanic *skrimpaną, *skrimbaną (“to shrink”), related to Old English sċrimman (“to shrink, draw up, contract”). Related to dialectal English skrammed (“benumbed, paralysed”), English shrimp.
Inflected forms:
form: scrumps
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: scrumping
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: scrumped
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: scrumped
pos: verb
tags: past
form: skrump
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: skrimp
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: To gather windfalls or small apples left on trees.
pos: verb
tags: dialectal
gloss: To steal fruit, especially apples, from a garden or orchard.
pos: verb
examples: (we've all seen trees, and arent Adam and Eve condemned for having gone scrumping?; interestingly a great philosopher recalled Saint Augustine spent a lot of his long life being racked with guilt for having gone scrumping for some pears when he was a boy! ...)
[I]t was something that every schoolboy of my generation almost `had' to do, as obligatory a proof of impending manliness as scrumping apples or pulling girls' pigtails.
I told myself I'd never scrump gooseberries again, or go scrumping apples with Huw and Moi ...
Scrumping itself is a mot juste of unusual economy. It doesn’t just mean stealing: it specifically means stealing apples and only apples.
gloss: To pinch, stint; to beat down in price.
pos: verb
tags: dialectal
gloss: To have sex.
pos: verb
tags: dated
slang
Related words: scrumpy
shrump
Derived words: scrump up
Translations:
foreman
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: law
management
Etymology: From Middle English foremon, forman. Compare West Frisian foarman, Dutch voorman, German Vormann, Danish formand, Swedish förman, Icelandic formaður. By surface analysis, fore- + man.
Inflected forms:
form: foremen
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: forman
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: A workplace leader.
pos: noun
examples: Since we’re getting too friendly, Ephraim Winslow, tell me, what’s a timber man want with being a wickie? Not enough quiet for ye up north? Sawdust itching yer nethers? Foreman found ye too high-tempered for carrying an axe?
gloss: A workplace leader.
pos: noun
examples: factory foreman
gloss: The member of a jury who presides over it and speaks on its behalf.
pos: noun
gloss: A slave assistant to the white overseer who managed field hands.
pos: noun
tags: US
historical
Related words: forepeople
foreperson
forewoman
Derived words: foremanship
subforeman
Translations:
bish
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Phonetic modification of bitch, based on black American speech.
Inflected forms:
form: bishes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A minced oath (as a term of abuse).
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: Kate McKinnon, playing Hillary Rodham Clinton, on a series of cue cards: I know you're an elector / And on December 19ᵗʰ... / You're supposed to vote for Donald Trump / But bish... / ...He crayhttps://www.sbs.com.au/news/but-bish-he-cray-snl-spoofs-love-actually-ahead-of-electoral-college-vote-to-confirm-president-trump
Translations:
diluted
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more diluted
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most diluted
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: That has had something added in order to dilute it.
pos: adj
examples: diluted orange juice
Antonyms: concentrated
Translations:
Hellenic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek Ἑλληνικός (Hellēnikós, “of or pertaining to Greece or Greeks”), from Ancient Greek Ἑλλάς (Hellás, “Greece”). By surface analysis, Hellen + -ic. First attested in c. 1640.
Inflected forms:
form: more Hellenic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most Hellenic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to the Ancient Greek culture and civilization before the Hellenistic period.
pos: adj
gloss: Of or pertaining to Hellas (Greece) or the Hellenes (Greeks).
pos: adj
gloss: Of or derived from Ancient Greek.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Synonyms: Grecian
Greek
Translations:
ecumenism
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English ecumene
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 ecumenism
From ecumene + -ism.
Inflected forms:
form: ecumenisms
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: œcumenism
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Ecumenical doctrines and practices, especially as manifested in the ecumenical movement.
pos: noun
Translations:
balls-up
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Balls in this sense refers to testicles. See also the verb, to balls up and go balls up.
Inflected forms:
form: balls-ups
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Something which becomes muddled or botched in some way.
pos: noun
tags: Commonwealth
Ireland
UK
slang
vulgar
examples: I was making a cake but when I added too much sugar, it became the balls-up of my cooking career.
Translations:
honors
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: honours
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: At an excelling level in academics.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: I'm taking honors math this year.
My son is an honors student.
Translations:
Gallic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Latin Gallicus (“of or related to Gaul”), from Gallia (“Gaul”) + -icus (“-ic: forming adj.”), used archaically in New Latin and English in reference to modern France.
Inflected forms:
form: more Gallic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most Gallic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: gallic
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Of or related to Gaul or the Gauls.
pos: adj
tags: historical
gloss: Synonym of Frankish, of or related to the medieval Frankish kingdom or the Franks.
pos: adj
tags: historical
gloss: Synonym of French, of or related to modern France or the French.
pos: adj
examples: This dislocation of gender roles in popular entertainment seems to have started with La Cage Aux Folles. This Gallic drag remake of You Can't Take It With You was a huge success at the box office while managing to present gay characters as comic though never foolish.
Translations:
humidified
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Modified by humidification
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
Nguni
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Zulu noun stem as in umNguni (“member of Nguni people”), isiNguni (“Nguni language group”).
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The group of Southern African peoples comprising the Zulu, Xhosa, Swazi, Mpondo and Ndebele nations.
pos: noun
tags: plural
plural-only
Translations:
homoerotic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English homo-
Proto-Indo-European *h₁rem-der.
Proto-Indo-European *h₁rém-e-tider.?
Pre-Greekder.?
Ancient Greek ἐράω (eráō)
Ancient Greek ἔρως (érōs)
Proto-Indo-European *-kos
Ancient Greek -κός (-kós)
Ancient Greek -ῐκός (-ĭkós)
Ancient Greek ἐρωτῐκός (erōtĭkós)der.
Latin erōticuslbor.
French érotiqueder.
English erotic
English homoerotic
From homo- + erotic.
Inflected forms:
form: more homoerotic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most homoerotic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Arousing a homosexual desire.
pos: adj
gloss: Pertaining to homosexual love or desire
pos: adj
gloss: homosexual
pos: adj
Antonyms: heteroerotic
Related words: homoromantic
bierotic
analloerotic
Derived words: homoerotically
homoeroticism
homoeroticist
nonhomoerotic
Translations:
lighthouse
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From light + house.
Compound parts: light
house
Inflected forms:
form: lighthouses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A tower or other structure exhibiting a light or lights to warn or guide sailors.
pos: noun
examples: In the history of lighthouses, English civil engineer John Smeaton made a significant contribution to the design of them.
Visitors to Maine, arriving with visions of lighthouses and lobsters, often bypass Portland on their way northeast to Acadia National Park or the many picturesque fishing villages of the state’s mid-coast. […] Don’t miss Portland Head Light, an iconic landmark and Maine’s oldest lighthouse, which sits on a rocky point some 5 miles south of Portland. The lighthouse dates to 1791 and was commissioned by George Washington.
Translations:
Khoisan
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From Khoi + San, from the pastoral Khoi tribe (formerly also called Hottentots) and the hunter-gatherer San (also known as Bushmen).
Coined by Isaac Schapera in 1930, in linguistic usage since the 1950s (following Joseph Greenberg, Studies in African Linguistic Classification, 1955).
Compound parts: Khoi
San
Inflected forms:
form: Khoisans
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Khoisan
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Khoi-San
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A member of the group of non-Bantu Southern African indigenous people: the Khoi or San people.
pos: noun
Translations:
forehand
Part of speech: noun
adj
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
surfing
Etymology: Etymology tree
English fore-
Proto-Germanic *handuz
Proto-West Germanic *handu
Old English hand
Middle English hond
English hand
English forehand
From fore- + hand.
Inflected forms:
form: forehands
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: forehands
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: forehanding
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: forehanded
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: forehanded
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A stroke in which the palm of the hand faces the direction of the stroke.
pos: noun
examples: the devastating speed of her forehand return
gloss: A throw similar to a sidearm throw in baseball, where the disc remains on the throwing-arm side of the body and is led by the middle finger.
pos: noun
gloss: All of the part of a horse which is before the rider.
pos: noun
examples: […]those horses which are of a chicke Forehand, short necked
gloss: The chief or most important part.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
examples: The great Achilles, whom opinion crowns / The sinew and the forehand of our host
gloss: Superiority; advantage; start; precedence.
pos: noun
examples: And, but for ceremony such a wretch,
Winding up days with toil and nights with sleep,
Had the forehand and vantage of a king
gloss: The hand towards the front of the board.
pos: noun
gloss: Beforehand; paid in advance.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: a forehand rent
gloss: To strike with a forehand stroke.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Antonyms: afterhand
Derived words: forehander
Translations:
baying
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: bayings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An instance of baying; a howl.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: 1877, Charles Cayley (translator), Homer Iliad, book XXI
Soon as he hears bayings, and is not alarm'd nor affrighted...
...the distressed bayings of his dogs, ...
And the thrill which their ill-omened bayings send through people at large is a measure of the state of tension in which the general mind is held.
When I had advanced some distance into the forest, I heard the notes of the bugle and the distant baying of hounds in full cry, which gradually ceased, till nothing but a faint echo of the bugle reached my ear.
1907, Frank Justus Miller (translator), Seneca, Hercules Furens Act III
Who, tossing back and forth his triple heads,/ With mighty bayings watches o'er the realm.
Translations:
ake
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Māori akebor.
English ake
Borrowed from Māori ake.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: forever
pos: adv
tags: New-Zealand
not-comparable
examples: The answer given was : — " Friends, this is the reply of the Maori : we shall fight on ake, ake, ake, for ever, for ever, for ever."
That was the time when the great wish grew in the heart of Maui, the wish to conquer his powerful enemy Hine-nui-te-po, that Night might die and man may live for ever: ake, ake, ake!—yes, it was his great wish.
"Ake, ake, ake," said Von Tempsky, weary over the camp-fire. "Has there been anything like it since the days of the old Greeks? What madness makes you kill such men when you may want them to fight for you some day?"
One day Maui visited his parents to tell them of his latest plan — he wished to conquer his powerful enemy Hine-nui-te-po so that the Night might die and man would live forever: ake, ake, ake!
Translations:
infiltrate
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: government
medicine
military
pathology
politics
sciences
war
Etymology: From Middle English infiltrate (adjective), from Medieval Latin infiltrātus, from infiltrō.
Inflected forms:
form: infiltrates
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: infiltrating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: infiltrated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: infiltrated
pos: verb
tags: past
form: infiltrates
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To surreptitiously penetrate, enter or gain access to.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
examples: The spy infiltrated the high-tech company and stole many secrets.
Caithness was infiltrated with a palpable sense of being underimagined.
gloss: To cause to penetrate in this way.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The agency infiltrated several spies into the company.
gloss: To pass through something by filtration.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
gloss: To cause (a liquid) to pass through something by filtration.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To invade or penetrate a tissue or organ.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
examples: High-grade tumors often infiltrate surrounding structures.
In certain conditions, immune cells may infiltrate into the cerebrospinal fluid.
Plesner et al. reported the nonbeta islet endocrine cell remodeling in diabetic NOD mice: that study suggested that infiltrating immune cells may restrict alpha-cell expansion in NOD mouse islet in the diabetic state [ 36 ].
gloss: To send (soldiers, spies, etc.) through gaps in the enemy line.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To move from a vein, remaining in the body.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: Any undesirable substance or group of cells that has made its way into part of the body.
pos: noun
examples: One critical distinction to make is whether a focal corneal infiltrate is infected with bacteria or is a sterile immunologic response.
Extensive lumpy infiltrates with a tendency to caseate and to form fistulas with purulent secretions appear, mainly in the anogenital region.
Common immunohistochemical markers of this lymphoma include CD2, CD56, CD3, and T-cell receptors. 7 Typically, the histology of these lymphomas are characterized by monomorphic inflammatory cellular infiltrates, which may be diffuse or show angiocentricity and angiodestruction as well as tissue destruction. 7 Lymphoid markers from the nasal mucosal biopsy from this patient were negative for CD56 and EBER.
Derived words: agroinfiltrate
agroinfiltrated
coinfiltrate
infiltratable
infiltration
infiltrative
infiltrator
infiltratrix
noninfiltrated
noninfiltrating
reinfiltrate
uninfiltrated
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: процеждам
roman: proceždam
lang: Bulgarian
word: просмуквам се
roman: prosmukvam se
lang: Catalan
word: infiltrar
lang: Finnish
word: suodattaa
lang: Irish
word: insíothlaigh
lang: Irish
word: síothlaigh isteach
lang: Italian
word: filtrare
lang: Japanese
word: 浸透させる
roman: shintō saseru
lang: Manx
word: yn-heel
lang: Sicilian
word: firtrari
lang: Spanish
word: infiltrar
lang: Turkish
word: süzmek
mashed
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more mashed
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most mashed
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Broken up into a pulpy state.
pos: adj
examples: mashed potatoes
gloss: intoxicated
pos: adj
tags: informal
Related words: mashed on
Derived words: mash potato
unmashed
Translations:
capsizing
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: capsizings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An overturning of a boat etc.
pos: noun
Translations:
reorganize
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Italic *wre-
Latin re-der.
Old French re-bor.
Middle English re-
English re-
Proto-Indo-European *werǵ-der.
Ancient Greek ὄργανον (órganon)bor.
Latin organum
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)bor.
Latin -izō
Medieval Latin organizārelbor.
Middle French organiserbor.
Middle English organizen
English organize
English reorganize
From re- + organize.
Inflected forms:
form: reorganizes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: reorganizing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: reorganized
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: reorganized
pos: verb
tags: past
form: re-organise
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: reorganise
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: re-organize
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: to organize something again, or in a different manner
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: to undergo a reorganization
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
Synonyms: revise
Derived words: reorganizability
reorganizable
reorganizer
Translations:
salon
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: art
arts
Etymology: Borrowed from French salon (“reception room”), from Middle French, from Italian salone (“large hall”), augmented form of sala (“hall”), from Lombardic sala (“room, house, entrance hall”), from Proto-Germanic *salą (“dwelling, house, hall”), from Proto-Indo-European *sel- (“human settlement, village, dwelling”). Cognate with Old High German sal (“room, house, entrance hall”), Old English sæl (“room, hall, castle”), Old Church Slavonic село (selo, “courtyard, village”), Lithuanian sala (“island”). Doublet of saloon.
Inflected forms:
form: salons
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A large room, especially one used to receive and entertain guests.
pos: noun
gloss: A gathering of people for a social or intellectual meeting.
pos: noun
gloss: An art gallery or exhibition; especially the Paris salon or autumn salon.
pos: noun
examples: Matisse showed in every autumn salon and every independent. He was beginning to have a considerable following. Picasso, on the contrary, never in all his life has shown in any salon. His pictures at that time could really only be seen at 27 rue de Fleurus.
gloss: A beauty salon or similar establishment.
pos: noun
Related words: salonnière
cabinet
Derived words: beauty salon
bridal salon
cybersalon
hairdressing salon
hair salon
literary salon
nail salon
pink salon
salonful
salonical
salonlike
salon music
tanning salon
Translations:
consul
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English consul, from Old English consul, from Latin cōnsul.
Inflected forms:
form: consuls
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Either of the two heads of government and state of the Roman Republic or the equivalent nominal post under the Roman and Byzantine Empires.
pos: noun
tags: historical
gloss: Any of the three heads of government and state of France between 1799 and 1804.
pos: noun
tags: historical
gloss: A count or earl.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
gloss: A councillor
pos: noun
tags: historical
obsolete
gloss: A councillor
pos: noun
tags: historical
obsolete
gloss: A councillor
pos: noun
tags: historical
obsolete
gloss: An official residing in major foreign towns to represent and protect the interests of the merchants and citizens of their country.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
gloss: A high government official, generally either a coruler himself or a counsellor directly under the ruler.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
examples: Both we will raigne as Conſuls of the earth,
And mightie kings ſhall be our Senators.
And many of the Conſuls, rais'd and met,
 Are at the Dukes already.
With kinges and conſules of the earth, which build themſelves ſolitarie places:
Synonyms: councillor
early modern councilmen of southern France and Catalonia
Related words: consular
consularity
consulary
consulate
ambassador
Derived words: coconsul
consulacy
consulage
consuless
consul general
consul-general
consuling
consulship
first consul
honorary consul
honourary consul
vice-consul
Translations:
polycythemia
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
Etymology: From poly- + -cyte + -emia, with /θ/ for euphony; akin to poly- + -cyte + hem- + -ia; morphologically parallel with erythrocythemia.
Base: poly
Affixes: -cyte
Inflected forms:
form: polycythemias
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: polycythaemia
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: polycythæmia
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A rare disorder in which the bone marrow produces an abnormally large amount of blood cells, often red blood cells.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
paternalism
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English paternal
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 paternalism
From paternal + -ism.
Inflected forms:
form: paternalisms
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The treatment of people in a fatherly manner, especially by caring for them and sometimes being stern with them.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Libertarian paternalism is the view that, because the way options are presented to citizens affects what they choose, society should present options in a way that “nudges” our intuitive selves to make choices that are more consistent with what our more deliberative selves would have chosen if they were in control.
gloss: The guiding of people in a manner that limits their autonomy in the name of their own well-being.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
wind-up
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: ball-games
baseball
broadcasting
games
hobbies
lifestyle
media
sports
television
Etymology: Etymology tree
English wind updeverb.
English wind-up
Deverbal from wind up.
Inflected forms:
form: wind-ups
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: windup
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: windup
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The end or conclusion of something.
pos: noun
examples: Everyone is invited to our end-of-term wind-up party.
The wind-up is, that the father becomes bankrupt; the wife and daughters town-traders; the sons Greeks, Fancy-swells, Conveyancers (pickpockets), or Cracksmen (house breakers), and the New Drop is the last drop they ever take.
After this long windup, Smith says, “Is there a question there, your honor?” He says it not in an evasive way, but with a smile.
gloss: The punch line of a joke or comedy routine.
pos: noun
gloss: A humorous attempt to fool somebody; a practical joke in which the victim is encouraged to believe something untrue.
pos: noun
tags: UK
examples: "Is this a wind-up, or what?" "No, no, it's true. He can really do it."
gloss: The phase of making a pitch where the pitcher moves his or her arm backwards before throwing the ball.
pos: noun
examples: He's into his wind-up. Here comes the pitch. Strike on the inside corner!
gloss: A circular hand gesture, supposed to represent the winding on of film, used to signal to a performer to finish quickly.
pos: noun
gloss: Of a machine, requiring winding up in order to function.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Maybe you could get a wind-up toy to distract him.
Related words: wind up
Derived words: wind-up merchant
wind-up radio
wind-up toy
Translations:
chowder
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Probably borrowed from French chaudière, from Late Latin caldāria (“cooking-pot”), derived from Latin caldus (“hot”). Related to English cauldron.
Possibly from older English jowter (“fish monger”).
Inflected forms:
form: chowders
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: chowdering
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: chowdered
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: chowdered
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To make (seafood, etc.) into chowder.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Translations:
skimpy
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English skimp
English -y
English skimpy
From skimp + -y.
Inflected forms:
form: skimpier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: skimpiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: skimpies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Small or inadequate; not generous; diminutive.
pos: adj
examples: They served a pretty skimpy portion of ice cream as the free birthday dessert.
He was of a pallid complexion, hair of a kind of dirty fairness, greyish eyes, and a skimpy, immature moustache under his peaked indeterminate nose.
You was a po' skimpy little boy no mo' than about fo'teen when you lef' home to come No'th; but I knowed you the minute I sot eyes on you.
[T]he driver was delayed there by a skimpy little woman with a thin piping voice practised in the art of defeating escape from it by a ceaseless stream of gabble.
Desert Hearts is one of the high spots in the skimpy history of gay movies — and probably the high spot in the even more barren history of lesbian films.
Food might be a tad skimpy in the portions.
gloss: Very small, light, or revealing.
pos: adj
examples: Have you ever seen such a skimpy bikini?
The long, skimpy soutane accentuated the tallness of his stature; he carried his powerful torso thrown forward; […]
Denis Breen in skimpy frockcoat and blue canvas shoes shuffled out of Harrison’s hugging two heavy tomes to his ribs.
His suit, the latest thing in Old Eli Togs, was skin-tight, with skimpy trousers to the tops of his glaring tan boots, a chorus-man waistline, pattern of an agitated check, and across the back a belt which belted nothing.
Chang the elderly butler entered, wearing only a pair of skimpy black underpants.
But he holds some hope that the skimpy brief is becoming more acceptable, especially given the attention that even young British men give to honing their bodies.
gloss: Wearing skimpy clothing; scantily clad.
pos: adj
gloss: A barmaid who wears little clothing.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
Western
examples: It's a curious mix: weatherworn miners, fresh faced bankers, and a couple of g-stringed skimpies.
For an anthropological experience, the front bar at the Exchange Hotel provides a window into some locals′ lives at all hours of the day, with skimpies, TV sports and mine workers chain-drinking.
‘[…]There are thirty-two hotels in Kalgoorlie, and only seven would have skimpies [scantily clad barmaids].’
Skimpy barmaids, or just “skimpies,” refers to female bar staff who wear a bikini or lingerie. They are a feature of working class pubs in industrial suburbs and mining towns, which often advertise skimpies during traditionally quieter times such as midweek lunch and dinner services in an effort to attract customers.
Derived words: skimpily
skimpiness
unskimpy
Translations:
doo-wop
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Coined by DJ Gus Gossert in the 1970s, referring to (mostly) white rock-and-roll groups of the late 1950s and early 1960s. The name is onomatopoeic, representing the nonlexical backing vocals of some songs of the genre.
Inflected forms:
form: doowop
pos: noun
tags: alternative
rare
form: doo wop
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: doo-wops
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: doo-wopping
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: doo-wopped
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: doo-wopped
pos: verb
tags: past
form: doowop
pos: verb
tags: alternative
rare
form: doo wop
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A style of vocal-based rhythm and blues music that was mostly popular within Black Americans of African descent in the mid-1950s to the early 1960s that is best characterized by nonsensical backing vocals with very little to no instrumentation.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: The R&B groups possessed a grittiness and soulful earnestness that was soon to be emulated by street-corner doo-wop groups, some of whom would achieve commercial success with instrumentally arranged hit records.
gloss: To perform music in this style.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
Translations:
airt
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Scots airt.
Inflected forms:
form: airts
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: airting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: airted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: airted
pos: verb
tags: past
form: airts
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To guide; to direct.
pos: verb
tags: Scotland
gloss: direction; quarter
pos: noun
tags: Northern-England
Scotland
examples: He looked the airt the rain was coming from, and he saw it was the airt the Sker flowed.
Translations:
crosstalk
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
Etymology: From cross- + talk.
Usage in reference to the Chinese comedic performance is probably a loose calque from Chinese 相聲／相声 (xiàngsheng).
Base: talk
Affixes: cross-
Inflected forms:
form: crosstalks
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: cross-talk
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: cross talk
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: crosstalks
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: crosstalking
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: crosstalked
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: crosstalked
pos: verb
tags: past
form: cross-talk
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: cross talk
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Undesirable signals from a neighbouring transmission circuit; undesired coupling between circuits.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The situation where one or more components of a signal transduction pathway affect another pathway.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Conversation that is incidental to the topic under discussion.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: I couldn't hear the opening address because of all the crosstalk around me.
gloss: A traditional Chinese comedic performance in the form of a dialogue.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Communication between parties who have extremely different perspectives.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Sharing resources for mutual benefit: crosstalk between disciplines deepns the understanding of mycorrhizal symbioses.
gloss: To hold an incidental conversation
pos: verb
Translations:
airlifted
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Having been the subject of an airlift.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
aiming
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: aimings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of one who aims.
pos: noun
examples: The aimings after the impossible, represented by the Uniformity Act of 1549, had failed […]
Translations:
aimed
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Directed towards a target.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
ailing
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: ailings
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: more ailing
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most ailing
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: An ailment.
pos: noun
examples: When you're well enough off so's you don't have to fret about anything but your heft or your diseases you begin to get queer, I suppose. And the queerer the cure for those ailings the bigger the attraction. A place like the Right Livers' Rest was bound to draw freaks, same as molasses draws flies.
gloss: Sickly; sick; ill; unwell.
pos: adj
examples: She cared for her ailing brother day in, day out.
Based on the successful Class 59 but with a much more modern engine, what was to become the Class 66 was designed to replace much of the company's elderly and ailing locomotive fleet.
Translations:
aiding
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: aidings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of one who aids or assists.
pos: noun
examples: aidings and abettings of every bad inclination in the popular mind
Translations:
confounding
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: epidemiology
medicine
sciences
Etymology: By surface analysis, confound + -ing.
Inflected forms:
form: confoundings
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: more confounding
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most confounding
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: The act by which things are confounded, or confused.
pos: noun
gloss: The process by which an apparent association between an exposure and an outcome is actually explained by another factor.
pos: noun
examples: Confounding is defined as the confusion or distortion of measures of association between exposure and outcome as a result of third (or more) variable(s).
gloss: Confusing, bewildering, baffling or perplexing.
pos: adj
examples: We have to with a Heart ſearching God, who will find out every unworthy Communicant to his utter Shame and Confuſion ; when God examins ſuch, his Queſtions will be Nonpluſſing and Confounding,[…]
But, Lord my God, help me so to remember that thou mayest forget them ; so to charge them upon myself, that thou mayest never lay them to my charge ; so to keep them before my eyes, to abase and humble my soul, that thou mayest hide thy face from my sins, and blot out all my iniquities ; especially those that are so confounding and terrible to my thought.
It is too suggestive and too confounding to be met but in the spirit of study.
Upon which Flora returned to take care of her, and hovered about her on a sofa, intermingling kind offices and incoherent scraps of conversation in a manner so confounding, that whether she pressed the Marshalsea to take a spoonful of unclaimed dividends, for it would do her good ;[…]
Theſe things are very confounding, and no Man can be prepar'd to debate with Men, that will thus go upon all manner of Poſſibilities.
There are thousands of species of seafood, each with its own characteristics of flavor and texture. Add to this an infinite number of preparation methods and sauces, and the wine choice becomes very confounding.
Infection affects many in this population, and it is very difficult particularly to define their status. Is what is given the right choice? In infection sometimes when therapy is given nothing happens and people say it doesn’t do anything. When we look at a number of studies, this is a very confounding factor making it difficult to compare them.
Translations:
clipped
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: clipt
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: clypt
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Having an end cut off; trimmed or cut back.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: With each word pronounced separately and distinctly.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Circumcised.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: After all, Jehovah had instituted the rite of circumcision in which the clipped penis became consecrated to him, […]
Derived words: nonclipped
overclipped
unclipped
Translations:
co-opt
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Latin cooptō (“to choose, elect”), from co(m)- + optō (“to opt”).
Inflected forms:
form: co-opts
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: co-opting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: co-opted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: co-opted
pos: verb
tags: past
form: coopt
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: coöpt
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: To elect as a fellow member of a group, such as a committee.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To commandeer, appropriate or take over.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Artists' engagement with bleeding-edge tech will always have the potential to critique its destructive civil and military applications, as well as the potential to be co-opted by them—as propaganda or R&D—as the rise of the so-called knowledge economy has amply demonstrated.
gloss: To absorb or assimilate into an established group, movement, category, etc.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: In the resolution between the culture and the counterculture, it is impossible to tell who co-opted whom, because in reality the bohemians and the bourgeois co-opted each other. They emerge from this process as bourgeois bohemians, or Bobos.
Its opening track, Mastermind, offers one possible answer to a theoretical question about what prog rock might have sounded like in the highly unlikely event that it had co-opted Giorgio Moroder’s brand of electronic disco: nearly seven meandering, episodic minutes of unlikely chord changes […]
Related words: recuperation
Derived words: co-optation
co-optative
co-option
co-optive
Translations: