yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
bowling
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A game played by rolling a ball down an alley and trying to knock over a triangular group of ten pins; tenpin bowling/fivepin bowling
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: Candlepin bowling.
pos: noun
tags: New-England
uncountable
gloss: Any of several similar games played indoors or outdoors.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: The action of propelling the ball towards the batsman.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: A particular style of walking associated with urban street culture.
pos: noun
tags: slang
uncountable
gloss: The action of the verb bowl.
pos: noun
tags: gerund
uncountable
gloss: Road bowling.
pos: noun
tags: Ireland
uncountable
Related words: bowl
bowler
bowls
lawn bowls
boules
crown green bowling
ninepins
skittles
🎳
Derived words: bowling alley
Bowling Alley Point
bowling alone thesis
bowling average
bowling bag
bowling ball
bowling club
bowling crease
bowling figures
bowling-green
bowling green
Bowling Green
bowling shirt
bowling shoe
bowlliards
buffet bowling
cafeteria bowling
candlepin bowling
carpet bowling
collar the bowling
cosmic bowling
declaration bowling
fast bowling
fivepin bowling
lawn bowling
pace bowling
sharp as a bowling ball
sport bowling
ten-pin bowling
turkey bowling
Translations:
parson
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English persoun, from Anglo-Norman, Old French persone (“parson, person”), from Medieval Latin persona (“parson, person”), from Latin persona (“person”). Doublet of person and persona.
Inflected forms:
form: parsons
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An Anglican cleric having full legal control of a parish under ecclesiastical law.
pos: noun
gloss: A Protestant minister.
pos: noun
gloss: A Roman Catholic priest of an independent parish church.
pos: noun
tags: historical
examples: a lewde curate,
A parson benyfyced
But nothynge well advysed.
Derived words: Fleet parson
hedge parson
hunting parson
parsonage
parsonarchy
parson bird
parsondom
Parson Drove
parsoned
parsoness
parsonhood
parsonic
parsonical
parson imparsonee
parson-in-the-pulpit
parsonish
parsonlike
parsonly
Parson Russell
Parsons Green
Parson's Heath
parsonship
parson's nose
Parson Trulliber
squarson
Translations:
intelligible
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle French intelligible, from Old French, from Latin intelligibilis.
Inflected forms:
form: more intelligible
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most intelligible
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Capable of being understood; clear to the mind.
pos: adj
examples: Italian and Spanish are partially mutually intelligible languages.
That comment seemed to anger Ingraham, who called James’ view a “barely intelligible, not to mention ungrammatical take on President Trump.”
Antonyms: unintelligible
Translations:
unintelligible
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *né
Proto-Indo-European *n̥-
Proto-Germanic *un-
Proto-West Germanic *un-
Old English un-
Middle English un-
English un-
English intelligible
English unintelligible
From un- + intelligible.
Inflected forms:
form: more unintelligible
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most unintelligible
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Not intelligible; unable to be understood.
pos: adj
examples: And indeed, my lord, there are so many passages in your writing in this controversy with me, which for their construction, as well as otherwise, are so unintelligible to me, that if I should be so unmannerly as to measure your understanding by mine, I should not know what to think of them.
They have ſwallowed and digeſted all the Fathers, the Codes, Provincials, Decretals, Pandects, Councils, Canons ; are Maſters of all the Schoolmen, not to fill their Heads and ſtuff their Writings with Quiddities and Quoddities, and far-fetched unintelligible Diſtinctions, but to be able to reaſon cloſely, to argue ſolidly, to rebuke, to confute, to reply, to rejoind, to ſyllogize, to criticize, to apologize, to advertize, to ſermonize, to decypherize, to――
The curious feature of the art was that "horse-whisperers" actually talked to the animal, usually from mouth to ear, in an unintelligible tongue; which, however, the horses appeared to understand.
Unintelligible announcements on station loudspeakers are both irritating and confusing.
Lately, a study was made of oracle-bone inscriptions excavated in 1899 in the T'ang-yin county, 湯陰縣, of Honan Province and amounting to several thousand pieces, having unintelligible inscriptions whose dates nobody could determine.
Antonyms: intelligible
Translations:
trainee
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *dʰregʰ-der.?
Latin trahere
Vulgar Latin *tragīnāre
Old French traïnerder.
Old French trainder.
Middle English trayne
English train
English -ee
English trainee
From train + -ee.
Inflected forms:
form: trainees
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Someone who is still in the process of being formally trained in a workplace.
pos: noun
gloss: A juvenile inmate being trained and (re)educated in a reformatory school.
pos: noun
Synonyms: orientee
Related words: apprentice
buddy
intern
work shadowing
Derived words: cookee
traineeship
Translations:
idiolect
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
Etymology: From idio- + -lect.
Inflected forms:
form: idiolects
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The language variant used by a specific individual.
pos: noun
examples: She perfected the fictional idiolect, fashioning habits of speaking for even minor characters that rendered them utterly singular.
Translations:
malevolent
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English *malevolent (suggested by Middle English malevolence), from Old French malivolent and Latin malevolentem, from male (“badly, wrongly”) + volens (“willing, wishing”), from velle (“to wish”).
Inflected forms:
form: more malevolent
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most malevolent
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Having or displaying ill will; wishing harm on others.
pos: adj
examples: In Iraq the bullying continued. After she witnessed the death of a colleague, Manning felt how “with enough grief, adrenaline and fear”, war can turn anyone “amoral, even malevolent”.
gloss: Having an evil or harmful influence.
pos: adj
examples: Vela, Javier Hernández and Lozano switched positions with a thrillingly malevolent sense of purpose.
Related words: malevolence
Derived words: malevolently
omnimalevolent
unmalevolent
Translations:
photocopier
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂-
Proto-Indo-European *bʰéh₂os
Proto-Hellenic *pʰáwos
Ancient Greek φᾰ́ος (phắos)
Ancient Greek φῶς (phôs)
Ancient Greek φωτο- (phōto-)der.
English photo-
English copy
English photocopy
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Proto-Italic *-āzijos
Latin -āriusnom.
Latin -āriusbor.
Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz
Proto-West Germanic *-ārī
Old English -ere
Middle English -ere
English -er
English photocopier
From photocopy + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: photocopiers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A machine which reproduces documents by photographing the original over a glass plate and printing duplicates.
pos: noun
examples: Near-synonyms: (all broadly synonymous) xerox machine, xerographer, xerox, photostat, laser copier
Now the chintzy nameplate is all that distinguishes his work space from those of the photocopier repairperson, diet food company, and kitchen designer down the hall.
Translations:
ingredient
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle French ingredient, from Latin ingrediens, present participle of ingredior (“to go or enter into or onto”).
Inflected forms:
form: ingredients
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One of the substances present in a mixture, especially food.
pos: noun
examples: Holonyms: mixture; whole
Near-synonyms: constituent, component
The ingredients of a Spanish omelette are potatoes, eggs, onion, and a little salt.
By way of analysis we may proceed from compounds to ingredients.
Water is the chief ingredient in all the animal fluids and solids.
gloss: A necessary element to achieve a certain goal; a component.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
examples: Holonym: end result
Innovation is just one ingredient for continued growth.
Patience and understanding are key ingredients for a long-lasting marriage.
Related words: ingress
foodstuff
Derived words: active ingredient
bioingredient
inactive ingredient
ingredient deck
microingredient
Translations:
dependant
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: dependants
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: UK and Commonwealth standard spelling of dependent.
pos: noun
Translations:
bluejacket
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: nautical
transport
Etymology: From blue + jacket.
Compound parts: blue
jacket
Inflected forms:
form: bluejackets
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A seaman of a British warship
pos: noun
examples: It never entered his mind that here was a matter which from its extreme questionableness, it was his duty as a loyal blue-jacket to report in the proper quarter.
‘[…] I’m not sure’, she continued, ‘that I won’t throw myself overboard, for the mere pleasure of being rescued by a blue-jacket […]’
The Navy and the Indian tribes up and down the Coast took part in the races, the Navy rowing their heavy ship's boats round from Esquimalt Harbour, manned by blue-jackets, while smart little pinnaces “pip-pipped” along commanded by young midshipmen.
gloss: An enlisted man in the US Navy.
pos: noun
examples: […] drift like tear-starting smoke across these exciting pages written by a bluejacket of the U.S. Navy.
gloss: A uniformed policeman.
pos: noun
examples: He told me that Buster took her face 'bout right off. Said there's guts and hair everyplace. There's a platoon or so of Payton's bluejackets up there on the View now.
gloss: An Ohio spiderwort (Tradescantia ohiensis).
pos: noun
Translations:
bench-warmer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Inflected forms:
form: bench-warmers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A player who rarely or never gets to play in the games or matches, and is most often a substitute.
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
Translations:
warmer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Germanic *warmaz
Proto-Indo-European *-yeti
Proto-Indo-European *-éyeti
Proto-Germanic *-janą
Proto-Germanic *warmijaną
Proto-West Germanic *warmijan
Old English wierman
Proto-West Germanic *warmōn
Old English wearmian
Middle English warmen
English warm
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Proto-Italic *-āzijos
Latin -āriusnom.
Latin -āriusbor.
Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz
Proto-West Germanic *-ārī
Old English -ere
Middle English -ere
English -er
English warmer
From warm + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: warmers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Something that warms (something else) by providing some small amount of heat, such as a hot water bottle or a soup.
pos: noun
examples: […] tortillas are kept warm and moist in an electric warmer […]
gloss: A piece of clothing for warmth via insulation of body heat.
pos: noun
gloss: An introductory activity, for example in a lesson, to stimulate interest in a topic.
pos: noun
Derived words: bench-warmer
bottle warmer
diaper warmer
footwarmer
handwarmer
heart-warmer
leg-warmer
nappy warmer
neckwarmer
peg warmer
spoon warmer
triple warmer
tyre warmer
warmer-upper
willy warmer
winter warmer
wipe warmer
Translations:
disconsolate
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Medieval Latin discōnsōlātus (“comfortless”), from dis- (“away”) + cōnsōlātus (“consoled”).
Base: cōnsōlātus
Affixes: dis-
Inflected forms:
form: more disconsolate
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most disconsolate
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Cheerless, dreary.
pos: adj
examples: I opened my eyes to this disconsolate day.
a farther paſſion feeds my thoughts, / With ceaſeleſſe and diſconſolate conceits, / Which dies my lookes so liueleſſe as they are, / And might, if my extreames had ful euents, / Make me the gaſtly counterfeit of death.
But vvhat a vvretched, and diſconſolate Hermitage is that Houſe, vvhich is not viſited by thee [God], and vvhat a VVayue, and Stray is that Man, that hath not thy Markes vpon him?
Loud from its rocky caverns, the deep-voiced neighbouring ocean
Speaks, and in accents disconsolate answers the wail of the forest.
[S]itting close beside it, taking the air with an infinite sadness of mien, like some disconsolate prisoner, Utterson saw Dr. Jekyll.
1897, W.S.Maugham, Liza of Lambeth, chapter 1.
Worst off of all were the very young children, for there had been no rain for weeks, and the street was as dry and clean as a covered court, and, in the lack of mud to wallow in, they sat about the road, disconsolate as poets.
Özil looked a little disconsolate when he was substituted late on, though he did set up Wilshere's second with a lovely pass off the outside of his left boot.
gloss: Seemingly beyond consolation; inconsolable.
pos: adj
examples: For weeks after the death of her cat she was disconsolate.
overwhelmed with disconsolate sorrow
Derived words: disconsolately
disconsolation
disconsolateness
Translations:
trudge
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Mid-16th century. Original meaning was somewhat idiomatic, meaning "to walk using snowshoes." Probably of Scandinavian origin, compare Icelandic þrúga (“snowshoe”), Norwegian truga (“snowshoe”) and dialectal Swedish trudja (“snowshoe”).
Inflected forms:
form: trudges
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: trudges
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: trudging
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: trudged
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: trudged
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A tramp, i.e. a long and tiring walk.
pos: noun
examples: The morning after the landslip, with rain still pouring down, it was an unpleasant trudge through deep mud to get there.
gloss: To walk wearily with heavy, slow steps.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: 2014, Paul Salopek, Blessed. Cursed. Claimed., National Geographic (December 2014)https://web.archive.org/web/20150212214621/http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2014/12/pilgrim-roads/salopek-text
This famous archaeological site marks the farthest limit of human migration out of Africa in the middle Stone Age—the outer edge of our knowledge of the cosmos. I trudge to the caves in a squall.
gloss: To trudge along or over a route etc.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Derived words: trudger
Translations:
sale-proof
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English sale
English -proof
English sale-proof
From sale + -proof.
Inflected forms:
form: more sale-proof
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most sale-proof
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Nearly impossible to sell to others.
pos: adj
tags: colloquial
examples: That used car has one thing going for it: it is sale-proof.
Translations:
napalm
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Formed from na(phthenic) palm(itic) acid, the two original components of the substance.
Inflected forms:
form: napalms
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: napalms
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: napalming
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: napalmed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: napalmed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A highly flammable, viscous substance, designed to stick to the body while burning, used in warfare as an incendiary especially in wooded areas.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: A trio of needle-nosed silver Phantom jets descended from the clouds and dropped a colossal load of napalm on the jungle. Flames turned the screen red and orange. Silence followed.
“You smell that?” Kilgore said, almost to himself. Then, louder, “You smell that?” Lance, the champion surfer, asked “What?” Kilgore, lit by the glow of burning trees, retorted, “Napalm, son—nothing else in the world smells like that. I love the smell of napalm in the morning. You know, one time we had a hill bombed for 12 hours, and when it was all over I walked up; we didn’t find one of ’em … not one stinking dink body. But the smell—you know, that gasoline smell—the whole hill—it smelled like … victory.”
gloss: Anything very incendiary; dynamite.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
uncountable
usually
examples: When leaked, the controversial documents proved to be political napalm.
sexual napalm
gloss: To spray or attack with napalm.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Derived words: antinapalm
napalmer
napalmlike
Translations:
unconscious
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: hobbies
human-sciences
lifestyle
psychology
sciences
sports
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *né
Proto-Indo-European *n̥-
Proto-Germanic *un-
Proto-West Germanic *un-
Old English un-
Middle English un-
English un-
English conscious
English unconscious
From un- + conscious.
Inflected forms:
form: more unconscious
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most unconscious
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: unconsciouses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Not awake; having no awareness (usually as the result of a head injury).
pos: adj
examples: After the anesthetist administered the general anesthetic the patient was unconscious.
The firefighters put on breathing apparatus and managed to find the injured. In one case, they were almost too late - one of the bystanders who had helped with the initial rescue attempts had been reported missing. They were later found unconscious, having been overcome by the fumes.
gloss: Without directed thought or awareness.
pos: adj
examples: My sudden fright was an unconscious response.
It was intolerable, he felt, to sit and eat in presence of that silent figure partly turned away from him, jotting down the different amounts on a bit of paper, and absorbed in that occupation as if unconscious of his presence.
Reshaping [of British Railways] was far from perfect. It was tainted by statistical overreach, the unconscious biases of its author, and by the political demands being placed upon the BRB by government.
gloss: engaged in skilled performance without conscious control.
pos: adj
examples: Sam is unconscious, filling it, drilling it from every conceivable angle. Lem is awful and Cooper seems confused. Josh shoots too often.
"I was unconscious," the basketball player gushes. "It seemed like everything I threw up toward the basket went straight in."
Someone who has reeled off a string of baskets will say, "I was unconscious," as if he were following the Zen injunction to be mindful while suspending thought.
gloss: That part of mind that is not consciously perceived.
pos: noun
examples: Because the unconscious is outside time, it can perceive transformations beyond the limits of the ego.
Derived words: he's unconscious
she's unconscious
unconsciousness
Translations:
latrine
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From French latrine (“latrine”), from Latin lātrīna.
Inflected forms:
form: latrines
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An open trench or pit used for urination and defecation.
pos: noun
gloss: Any facility or device used for urination or defecation, whether toilet, lavatory, or outhouse.
pos: noun
tags: India
gloss: A chamber pot.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
Synonyms: privy
bathroom
and Thesaurus:chamber pot
Derived words: latrinal
latrinalia
Latrino
lats
Translations:
rasp
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English raspen, from Old French rasper, from Frankish *hraspōn, from Proto-Germanic *hraspōną, related to Proto-Germanic *hrespaną (“to tear”). Compare Old High German raspōn (“to gather, rake”), Old English ġehrespan (“to tear”).
The noun is from Middle French raspe.
Inflected forms:
form: rasps
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: rasps
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: rasping
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: rasped
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: rasped
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A coarse file or filelike tool, on which the cutting prominences are distinct points raised by the oblique stroke of a sharp punch, instead of lines raised by a chisel, as on the true file.
pos: noun
gloss: The sound made by this tool when used, or any similar sound.
pos: noun
examples: the rasp of her perpetual cough
gloss: To use a rasp.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To make a noise similar to the one a rasp makes in use; to utter rasps.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To say in a raspy voice.
pos: verb
examples: “No. I am going to feed you to the children,” rasped Burt, his laugh rattling around his throat, prising Dad’s fingers one by one off his apron.
gloss: To work something with a rasp.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to rasp wood to make it smooth
to rasp bones to powder
gloss: To grate harshly upon; to offend by coarse or rough treatment or language.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
figuratively
examples: Some sounds rasp the ear.
His insults rasped my temper.
Derived words: rasp coral
rasp-house
raspish
rasplike
rasp palm
Translations:
disfranchise
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁
Proto-Indo-European *d(w)is-
Proto-Italic *dis-
Latin dis-
Old French des-bor.
▲
Latin dis-bor.
Middle English dis-
English dis-
English franchise
English disfranchise
From dis- + franchise.
Inflected forms:
form: disfranchises
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: disfranchising
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: disfranchised
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: disfranchised
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To deprive someone of some privilege, especially the right to vote; to disenfranchise.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Jewish culture, the product of a small, oppressed, and disfranchised dwindling and scattered minority.
Translations:
dwelling
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English dwellynge, dwellyng (“delay, continuance, abode”), equivalent to dwell + -ing. More at dwell.
Base: dwell
Affixes: -ing
Inflected forms:
form: dwellings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A house or place in which a person lives; a habitation, a home.
pos: noun
examples: The old house served as a dwelling for Albert.
For Philip's dwelling fronted on the street, / The latest house to landward; but behind, / With one small gate that open'd on the waste, / Flourish'd a little garden square and wall'd; [...]
The place had the empty and musty feel and smell usual to a dwelling no longer inhabited. Everywhere was a thick litter of discarded and ragged garments, old sea-boots, leaky oilskins -- all the worthless forecastle dunnage of a long voyage.
He turned back to the scene before him and the enormous new block of council dwellings. The design was some way after Corbusier but the block was built up on plinths and resembled an Atlantic liner swimming diagonally across the site.
I was so thrilled to see a live bedbug, I showed it off to every graduate student I ran into that day: Cimex lectularius[,] a small, flat, wingless, brown ectoparasite that hides in cracks and crevices in human dwellings and emerges under cover of darkness to feast on human blood.
Translations:
amenity
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: cartography
geography
natural-sciences
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English amenite, amenyte, partly from Middle French amenité and partly from its etymon, Latin amoenitās (“pleasantness, delightfulness”), from amoenus (“pleasant, delightful”), of unknown origin.
Inflected forms:
form: amenities
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: amœnity
pos: noun
tags: alternative
archaic
Senses:
gloss: Pleasantness.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: We especially enjoyed the amenity of the climate on our last holiday.
The harbor of Port Royal, rendered gloomy by recollections of misery, was avoided; and after searching the coast and discovering places, which were so full of amenity, that melancholy itself could not but change its humor, as it gazed, the followers of Calvin planted themselves on the banks of the river May.
gloss: A thing or circumstance that is welcome and makes life a little easier or more pleasant; a public facility.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: All the little amenities the hotel provided made our stay very enjoyable.
The complex includes the usual (public) utilities (such as gas and electricity) and amenities like wifi and a gym (its toilets with toiletries included too).
The Castle is an antique extent of ground, which now they call Marsfield, and would have ben a fitting area to have plac’d the Ducal palace in. The suburbs are large, the prospects sweete, with other amenities, not omitting the flower gardens, in which all the inhabitants excel.
gloss: Convenience.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A unit pertaining to the infrastructure of a community, such as a public toilet, a postbox, a library, etc.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Suburbia was the prescribed antidote to the dreariness of the hypertrophied industrial city—and most American cities had never been anything but that. They were short on amenity, overcrowded, and artless. Americans were sick of them and saw no way to improve them.
Related words: amene
Derived words: amenities
amenity block
amenity fee
amenity tree
civic amenity site
communal amenity
disamenity
public amenity
Translations:
gourmand
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English gourmaunt, gormond, gromonde, from Old French gormant (“a glutton”, noun), from gormant (“gluttonous”, adjective), of uncertain origin.
Inflected forms:
form: gourmands
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: gormand
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A person given to excess in the consumption of food and drink; a greedy or ravenous eater.
pos: noun
examples: I knew him, at Caivs trencher, when for hyre, / He proſtituted his abuſed body / To that great gourmond, fat Apicivs;
The colonel and his sponsor made a queer contrast: Greystone [the sponsor] long and stringy, with a face that seemed as if a cold wind was eternally playing on it. […] But there was not a more lascivious reprobate and gourmand in all London than this same Greystone.
gloss: A person who appreciates good food.
pos: noun
examples: The third key was the number of demands from different patrons or groups for their own specialized cuisines. Such patrons included the court, rich households, and scholar-gourmands. Buddhists and Muslims also elaborated their own cuisines (sucai 素菜 and qingzhen 清真).
Synonyms: trencherman
foodie
Related words: gourmet
Derived words: gourmandise
gourmandism
gourmand syndrome
Translations:
pressurize
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English pressure
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 pressurize
From pressure + -ize.
Inflected forms:
form: pressurizes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: pressurizing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: pressurized
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: pressurized
pos: verb
tags: past
form: pressurise
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: To put (physical) pressure on; to put under pressure.
pos: verb
gloss: To coerce, put under duress; to pressure.
pos: verb
tags: rare
examples: These men were indignant concerning the press coverage of the case and were careful to point out that Osborne did not pressurize them into sex or invade their privacy in any way.
Derived words: overpressurize
pressurizable
pressurizer
repressurize
underpressurize
Translations:
constraint
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: computing
databases
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: From Middle English constreynt, constreynte, from Old French constreinte, past participle of constreindre (“to constrain”), from Latin cōnstringō (corresponding to the past participle cōnstrictus).
Inflected forms:
form: constraints
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Something that constrains; a restriction.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: An engineer must recognize the difference between a constraint (to work within) and a problem (to be eliminated via resolution).
Today’s electricity demand (65 EJ/a) is well covered by the range, but constraints may occur in the long run locally. Amongst large countries, Nigeria and India may need imports to meet electricity demand.
gloss: An irresistible force or compulsion.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: They confessed, but only under severe constraint.
gloss: The repression of one's feelings.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Although his blood so rose against this man, and his wrath so stirred within him, that he could have struck him dead, he put such fierce constraint upon himself that he passed him without a word or look. Yes, and he would have gone on, and not turned, though to resist the Devil who poured such hot temptation in his brain, required an effort scarcely to be achieved, if this man had not himself summoned him to stop
gloss: A condition that a solution to an optimization problem must satisfy.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A linkage or other restriction that maintains database integrity.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Related words: constrain
constrict
restraint
Derived words: budget constraint
constraint cluster
constrainted
constraintive
constraintless
constraint logic programming
constraint satisfaction
Hamiltonian constraint
holonomic constraint
integrity constraint
liquidity constraint
markedness constraint
metaconstraint
multiconstraint
nonconstraint
subconstraint
theory of constraints
time constraint
unconstraint
unconstrainted
Translations:
dika
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Native West African name.
Inflected forms:
form: dikas
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of African mango (Irvingia gabonensis)
pos: noun
tags: countable
gloss: A West African food made from the almond-like seeds of Irvingia gabonensis.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Derived words: dika bread
Translations:
mesmerize
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Back-formation from mesmerism, thus mesmerism + -ize; first attested in 1829.
Base: mesmerism
Affixes: -ize
Inflected forms:
form: mesmerizes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: mesmerizing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: mesmerized
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: mesmerized
pos: verb
tags: past
form: mesmerise
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: To exercise mesmerism on; to affect another person, such as to heal or soothe, through the use of animal magnetism.
pos: verb
examples: Mesmer had about a hundred people whom he had instructed as magnetisers, some of whom belonged to the nobility, who also "mesmerised" people by making passes over the affected parts of the body.
gloss: To spellbind; to enthrall.
pos: verb
examples: She mesmerized the audience with her tricks
Then he commenced to talk, really talk, and inside of two flaps of a herring’s fin he had me mesmerized, like Eben Holt’s boy at the town hall show. He talked about the ills of humanity, and the glories of health and Nature and service and land knows what all.
Related words: hypnotize
Derived words: demesmerize
mesmeree
mesmerizable
mesmerization
mesmerizer
unmesmerize
Translations:
mesmerism
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From French mesmérisme, analysable as Mesmer + -ism; so called after Franz Anton Mesmer (1734–1815), a German physician who developed the animal magnetism theory.
Base: Mesmer
Affixes: -ism
Inflected forms:
form: mesmerisms
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The method or power of gaining control over someone's personality or actions, as in hypnosis or suggestion.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: What is the secret mesmerism which friendship possesses, and under the operation of which a person ordinarily sluggish, or cold, or timid, becomes wise, active, and resolute, in another's behalf?
gloss: The state induced by hypnotic methods (especially that of Mesmer himself).
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: ...the fact stood proven that I had seen it in my vision. Lawks! ...When the magician's engagement closed there was but one person in the village who did not believe in mesmerism, and I was the one. All the others were converted, but I was to remain an implacable and unpersuadable disbeliever in mesmerism and hypnotism for close upon fifty years.
Related words: hypnosis
somnolism
Derived words: mesmeric
phrenomesmerism
mesmerist
mesmerize
mesmerized
mesmerizing
Translations:
lang: Finnish
word: mesmerismi
lang: Galician
word: mesmerismo
lang: German
word: Mesmerismus
lang: Hindi
word: मेस्मरिज्म
roman: mesmarijma
lang: Korean
word: 메스머주의
roman: meseumeojuui
lang: Portuguese
word: mesmerismo
lang: Spanish
word: mesmerismo
lang: Swedish
word: mesmerism
tard
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Apheretic form of retard.
Inflected forms:
form: tards
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: 'tard
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A person with mental retardation.
pos: noun
tags: derogatory
offensive
slang
gloss: A person who acts stupidly.
pos: noun
tags: derogatory
offensive
slang
Related words: /b/tard
celebutard
chantard
flattard
fucktard
globetard
libertard
libtard
spamtard
tard guard
tard wrangler
tard wrangle
Twitard
Derived words: cuntard
tardbrain
tardface
tardish
tardlet
tardling
Translations:
racket
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Etymology: From Middle English raket, of uncertain origin.
Possibly cognate with Middle French rachette, requette (“palm of the hand”). From Arabic رَاحَةْ اَلْيَد (rāḥat al-yad, “palm of the hand”).
Alternatively, the term might be derived from Dutch raketsen instead, from Middle French rachasser (“to strike (the ball) back”).
Inflected forms:
form: rackets
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: racquet
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Commonwealth
form: racketeering
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: rackets
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: racketing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: racketed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: racketed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: racquet
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Commonwealth
form: racketeering
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: An implement with a handle connected to a round frame strung with wire, sinew, or plastic cords, and used to hit a ball, such as in tennis or a shuttlecock in badminton.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: He bought a new tennis racket two days ago.
Ivor had acquired more than a mile of fishing rights with the house ; he was not at all a good fisherman, but one must do something ; one generally, however, banged a ball with a squash-racket against a wall.
gloss: A snowshoe formed of cords stretched across a long and narrow frame of light wood.
pos: noun
tags: Canada
gloss: A broad wooden shoe or patten for a man or horse, to allow walking on marshy or soft ground.
pos: noun
gloss: To strike with, or as if with, a racket.
pos: verb
examples: Poor man [is] racketed from one temptation to another.
Derived words: badminton racket
ladies' rackets
racket abuse
racketball
racket sport
racket-tail
squash racket
tennis racket
racketlike
Translations:
ruckus
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: Recorded since 1890; probably a blend of ruction (“disturbance”) + rumpus (“disturbance, fracas”) - potentially with influence from raucous (“rowdy, hoarse”), from Latin raucus (“rough, hoarse”).
Compound parts: ruction
rumpus
Inflected forms:
form: ruckuses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A raucous disturbance and/or commotion.
pos: noun
examples: “Hey, hey, hey, what's the ruckus? I'm trying to conduct important business back there.” “We finished with the tile. And now we're trying to move the pool table back.” “All right, all right, all right. Have you done the urinal? Because the urinal, you flush it, and it sprays all over the place.”
gloss: A row, fight.
pos: noun
Synonyms: ruction
rumpus
uproar
Related words: raucous
Derived words: ruckus juice
ruckus room
ruckusy
Translations:
manhandle
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: nautical
transport
Etymology: From Middle English manne-handlen, man handelen, equivalent to man (“male person”) + handle.
Base: man
Inflected forms:
form: manhandles
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: manhandling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: manhandled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: manhandled
pos: verb
tags: past
form: man-handle
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: To move something heavy by force of men, without aid of levers, pulleys, machine, or tackles.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: I see him—Tom—on horse-block standing,
Trumpet at mouth, thrown up all amain,
An elephant's bugle, vociferous demanding
Of topmen aloft in the hurricane of rain,
"Letting that sail there your faces flog?
Manhandle it, men, and you'll get the good grog!"
gloss: To assault or beat up a person.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The polls were guarded by bullies who did not hesitate at command to manhandle any decent citizen indicated by the local leaders.
gloss: To mishandle; to handle roughly; to mangle.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: She yells at people who manhandle the tomatoes or break the beans.
Britain’s most senior police chief defied pressure to resign as she dismissed “armchair” critics amid widespread outrage over officers manhandling women who were mourning the killing of Sarah Everard.
gloss: To control (a machine, vehicle, situation, etc.) by means of physical strength.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Riders who succeed on this terrain are able to manhandle their bike as it rattles over the bumps.
Antonyms: womanhandle
Derived words: manhandler
unmanhandled
Translations:
frustrate
Part of speech: verb
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English frustraten (“to prevent, disappoint, render useless”), from Latin frūstrātus, perfect passive participle of frūstrō (“to deceive”), see -ate (verb-forming suffix). Compare French frustrer.
Affixes: -ate
Inflected forms:
form: frustrates
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: frustrating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: frustrated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: frustrated
pos: verb
tags: past
form: more frustrate
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most frustrate
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: To disappoint or defeat; to vex by depriving of something expected or desired.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: It frustrates me to do all this work and then lose it all.
gloss: To hinder or thwart.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: My clumsy fingers frustrate my typing efforts.
Perhaps it was the too-tooing of the youth on the coach horn which frustrated the proposal, and made it appear ludicrous rather than insultive to her ears.
With its far larger population, China’s economy will inevitably come to eclipse ours, but that is hardly a mortal threat. In climate change, the world faces a huge collective-action problem that will require global cooperation. According to this view, treating China like an adversary will only frustrate our own long-term goals.
gloss: To cause stress or annoyance.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: This test frustrates me because if I fail, it'll destroy my grade.
gloss: ineffectual; useless; fruitless.
pos: adj
examples: Our frustrate search.
In all eternity I had one chance
One few years' term of gracious human life
[…]
And this sole chance was frustrate from my birth
A mockery, a delusion; […]
Synonyms: confound
Derived words: frustratable
frustratee
frustrately
frustrater
frustrative
refrustrate
Translations:
sidestep
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *seh₁-der.
Proto-Germanic *sīdaz
Proto-Germanic *sīdǭ
Old English sīde
Middle English side
English side
Proto-Germanic *stapjaną
Proto-West Germanic *stappjan
Old English stæppan
Middle English steppen
English step
English sidestep
From side + step.
Inflected forms:
form: sidesteps
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: sidesteps
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: sidestepping
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: sidestepped
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: sidestepped
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A step to the side.
pos: noun
gloss: A physical motion or metaphorical act to avoid or dodge something.
pos: noun
gloss: To step to the side.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: I […] knocked and waited. […] He sidestepped, and I went in.
Kilmarnock ought to have taken the lead on the stroke of half-time when Hefferman set up Kroca and, although the defender neatly sidestepped his marker, he fired straight into the chest of Enckelman.
gloss: To avoid or dodge.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
transitive
examples: They sidestepped the issue.
It was noticeable that he sidestepped questions about continuation south of Crewe, on the grounds that he must await the report of Sir Ivan Stedeford's Advisory Group.
Adams repeatedly sidestepped questions about whether the Justice Department is taking specific steps to seize assets belonging to Putin but suggested that prosecutors have mapped out how the Russian President and wealthy kleptocrats are attempting to hide their money.
Derived words: sidestepper
Translations:
no-frills
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: no frills
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Basic or simple; providing only what is necessary, without anything extra or fancy.
pos: adj
tags: idiomatic
informal
not-comparable
examples: He rented a no-frills apartment and cooked his own meals.
Another friend […] gathered a group to go to […] a no-frills comfort food restaurant, with a vast menu of classics sold at extraordinarily low prices: the only item in the 11-page menu over 1,000 forints was a bottle of sparkling wine, a reasonable 1,190 forints for 0.7 liters.
Although it is a pain whenever I want to double a consonant before a suffix, per New Yorker style, and the spell-check prefers the no-frills version—“mislabeled,” say, instead of “mislabelled”—and I have to go back and poke in the extra letter and then put up with a disapproving red line under the word, I would never disable spell-check.
Other stops retain no-frills brick-built shelters, although local community rail groups do their best to improve the ambience with planting, posters and artwork.
Translations:
boondoggle
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: government
politics
Etymology: Coined by American scout leader Robert H. Link in 1929; alternatively “boon doggle”. Compare woggle of similar sense, which is attested in the same period. In the sense of a “wasteful government program”, popularized in 1935 by The New York Times, in reference to New Deal programs which were claimed to feature people making such braids.
Inflected forms:
form: boondoggles
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: boondoggles
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: boondoggling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: boondoggled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: boondoggled
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A braided ring to hold a neckerchief.
pos: noun
gloss: A waste of time or money; a pointless activity.
pos: noun
tags: Canada
US
figuratively
usually
examples: Opponents consider this another billion-dollar government boondoggle.
Senator John Stennis […] has been active and effective for so long as a member of the Armed Services Committee that he knows as well as any man can where the bodies are buried in the Pentagon and the boondoggles are buried in the defense budget.
“Oh, for the-- how much did you waste on that little boondoggle?” “Well, it's not that so much as--” “Krieger.” “Well, I needed ballast, and what better to simulate bricks of cocaine than, you know, bricks of cocaine.”
Klein dismantles the boondoggle that is cap and trade.
For cynics, it is a boondoggle plagued by delays (it began in 2007 and was supposed to begin experiments in 2016, but this will not now happen until 2025), questionable management and ballooning costs (double the original estimate).
gloss: A trip or journey, especially a recreational or otherwise desirable one.
pos: noun
examples: By its strictest definition, a boondoggle is a recreational trip out of town, but it has been blurred by threadbare jokes to mean any trip that is desirable, whether for work or not.
I could die on this boondoggle too, naturally, as the world has become something of a horror show of late. In any case, I trust that anybody following in my footsteps and reading these additional words will have the presence of mind to pursue the same basic strategy.
gloss: A trip or journey, especially a recreational or otherwise desirable one.
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: A non-work excursion away from the station in US Antarctic English is a “boondoggle”, or a “jolly” for the Britons.
gloss: To waste time on a pointless activity.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: These days the astronaut job title has been split into two categories. (Three, counting payload specialist, the category into which teachers, boondoggling senators, and junketing Saudi princes fall.)
Derived words: boondoggler
moondoggle
Translations:
rehydrate
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 *wed-
Proto-Indo-European *-r̥
Proto-Indo-European *wódr̥
Proto-Hellenic *údōr
Ancient Greek ῡ̆̔́δωρ (hū̆́dōr)
Ancient Greek ὑδρο- (hudro-)lbor.
French hydr-
French -ate
French hydratebor.
English hydrate
English rehydrate
From re- + hydrate.
Inflected forms:
form: rehydrates
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: rehydrating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: rehydrated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: rehydrated
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To resupply with water that has been removed or lost; to moisten something that has dried.
pos: verb
Translations: