yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
rondo
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: ball-games
entertainment
games
hobbies
lifestyle
music
soccer
sports
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Italian rondò, itself an unadapted borrowing of French rondeau. Doublet of rondeau; see there for further etymology.
Inflected forms:
form: rondos
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A musical composition, commonly of a lively, cheerful character, in which the first strain recurs after each of the other strains.
pos: noun
tags: countable
gloss: A small, disk-shaped piece of food, especially a single-serving dessert or small piece of candy.
pos: noun
tags: countable
gloss: A dark-skinned grape, a hybrid of Vitis vinifera with Vitis amurensis and others.
pos: noun
tags: countable
gloss: A game resembling keep-away, used to train soccer players: one group is tasked with completing a number of passes while the other smaller group tries to take possession of the ball.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: And four years after Pep from Catalonia first clapped eyes on Phil from Stockport across a crowded rondo, here finally was the consummation.
gloss: A gambling game played with small balls on a table.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
uncountable
Translations:
lang: French
word: rondo
lang: Galician
word: rondo
lang: German
word: Rondo
lang: Italian
word: torello
lang: Portuguese
word: bobinho
lang: Portuguese
word: roda de bobinho
lang: Portuguese
word: rodinha de bobo
lang: Spanish
word: rondo
rooky
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English rook
English -y
English rooky
From rook + -y.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: full of rooks.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: misty; gloomy.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: rascally, rakish, scampish.
pos: adj
tags: UK
not-comparable
obsolete
slang
Translations:
rouser
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English rouse
English -er
English rouser
From rouse + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: rousers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Something very exciting or stimulating.
pos: noun
gloss: One who rouses another from sleep.
pos: noun
gloss: A stirrer in a copper for boiling wort.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
colloquial
gloss: A roustabout.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
examples: They are all shearers, or at least they say they are. Some might be only ‘rousers.’
The shearers threw some blankets in / To make another swag, / The rousers gave a billycan / And brand new tucker bag; […]
The aim of the rouser is eventually to become a shearer via the medium of the learner’s pen, and in fact the rousie is really an apprentice shearer; but there is certainly a great gulf between the accomplished prince of the board and the miserable rouseabout in the strange new world of his first shed.
Derived words: rabble rouser
Translations:
rube
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Generic use of the name Rube. See hey rube for more.
Inflected forms:
form: rubes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Reub
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A person of rural heritage; a yokel.
pos: noun
tags: Canada
US
informal
examples: "Same time," said Babbitt, "no sense excusing these rube burgs too easy. Fellow's own fault if he doesn't show the initiative to up and beat it to the city, like we done—did. […]"
You know what you look like to me, with your good bag and your cheap shoes? You look like a rube. A well scrubbed, hustling rube with a little taste.
gloss: An uninformed, unsophisticated, or unintelligent person.
pos: noun
tags: derogatory
Derived words: hey rube
rubelike
rubish
Translations:
rugger
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From rugby (“Rugby football”) + -er (Oxford “-er”). Compare contemporary soccer, from Association football. Both words seem to have originated at the University of Oxford during the 1880s. See Oxford -er.
Base: rugby
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: ruggers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: rugby
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: That . . . . . . may for once put a full Rugger team in the field
Golf is perhaps seven or eight years old in Oxford, ... football, seu Rugger, sive Soccer, not more than sixteen or seventeen.
Rugger (schools), the Rugby game at football
It was clear to me that I was dealing with a lunatic, so I thought it well before I went any further in the matter to call upon my friend Malone, whom I had known since the old days when we both played Rugger for Richmond.
To complete the picture of the main line passenger workings, mention must be made of the excursions for International rugger and soccer matches. [...] For the rugger matches especially, a dozen or so packed trains from West Wales are put on [...]
gloss: rugby player
pos: noun
tags: US
countable
uncountable
examples: Some people refer to a Dropped Goal as if it were a misfortune rather than the perfection of football ... Genuine "Ruggers" will, of course, scoff at this
To this day ruggers belittle soccer, and they will tell anyone who expresses the slightest interest in their game that rugby is "a ruffian's game played by gentlemen," while soccer is "a gentleman's game played by ruffians."
When you put sixty ruggers and their friends and lovers in a bar, you've really got something going.
Some of the world's most talented ruggers had come to New York for the weekend to play for fun. "What's football — just an Americanization of rugby," exclaimed one fan at the 38th Annual New York Sevens Tournament. … Brian Corcoran, who in 1990 played for Team USA for free, distinguished ruggers from "the spoiled, arrogant professionals you're dealing with in other sports."
After the game, the teams adjourned to the Dolphins’ usual after-match location, O’Brien’s Irish Pub on Main Street, where they enjoyed a spirited social together: songs were sung, speeches and presentations were made, and mutual admiration was expressed, particularly toward the soldier-ruggers of the 7th for their sacrifice and dedication.
Synonyms: sport
Related words: soccer
Derived words: rugger bugger
Translations:
rummer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Partly from Dutch roemer, rummer (West Flanders); partly from Middle Low German römer; partly from German Römer (“Roman person or thing”), named because it was made in glassworks dating from the Roman era. See also roemer; and for the etymology compare Romeware.
Inflected forms:
form: rummers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A large drinking-glass for alcoholic drinks, chiefly wine, typically with a short or heavy stem.
pos: noun
examples: I won, and regaled myself with cold roast beef and rummers of punch.
Translations:
rumpus
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Unknown. First use appears c. 1745. The OED indicates: "perhaps an arbitrary formation". Possibly an alteration of rumbustical or rumbustious (“boisterous, noisy”) + Latin -us (“nominative suffix”). The use of the verbal form first appears c. 1839.
Inflected forms:
form: rumpuses
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: rumpuses
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: rumpusing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: rumpused
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: rumpused
pos: verb
tags: past
form: rumpussed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: rumpussed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A noisy, sometimes violent disturbance; noise and confusion; a noisy quarrel or brawl.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: "I'd like to know how on earth we are going to finish the case with all this umptydoodle rumpus going on."
But as his rumpus with Mr. Christie entered its second and third rounds, Mr. Rubio appeared to abandon that game plan.
I get up, I get down, and I'm jumping around / And the rumpus and ruckus are comfortable now / Been a hell of a ride, but I'm thinking it's time to grow / Bang! Bang! Bang!
gloss: A rumpus room.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
Canada
New-Zealand
countable
uncountable
gloss: To cause a noisy disturbance or commotion.
pos: verb
tags: informal
intransitive
examples: All night, as wide awake as gnats, The terriers rumpused after rats, Or, just for practice, taught their brats, To worry cast-off shoes and hats.
... and Marie routed up Mammy nights, and rumpussed and scolded, with more energy than ever, all day, on the strength of this new misery.
She had been rumpusing with the poker and tongs during the dialogue between the guests, and she enforced her order by thrusting the poker towards the distant corner where the girl sat, as she spoke.
Instead she rumpuses about waving her legs in the air and spinning her feet doing three exercises she dubs "Tumbleweed, Clothespin, and Wind Farm."
Translations:
rusk
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish or Portuguese rosca (“a twist or roll of bread”)
Inflected forms:
form: rusks
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A rectangular, hard, dry biscuit.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: […] he brought a large basket of rusk or biscuit, and three jars of fresh water, into the boat.
gloss: A twice-baked bread, slices of bread baked until they are hard and crisp; zwieback.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: A newly-arrived couple at the next table […] admitted that “this was more like” and that if the Alpenrose could also produce a proper cup of tea it would be just like home. Bill Andreyef, who was eating a lightly-boiled egg and a rusk, regarded the other diners with resentment.
gloss: A weaning food for children.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A cereal binder used in meat product manufacture.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Synonyms: Brussels biscuit
twice-baked bread
zwieback
Derived words: rusked
Translations:
rut
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
lifestyle
natural-sciences
zoology
Etymology: From Middle English rutte (noun) and rutten (verb), from Old French rut (“noise, roar, bellowing”), from Latin rugītus, from rugīre (“to roar”).
Inflected forms:
form: ruts
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: ruts
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: rutting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: rutted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: rutted
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Sexual desire in any of many mammals, often specific to mating season.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The noise made by deer during sexual excitement.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Near-synonyms: grunt, roar
gloss: Roaring, as of waves breaking upon the shore; rote.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: In omegaverse fiction, the intense biological urge of an alpha to mate, typically triggered by proximity to an omega in heat.
pos: noun
tags: countable
slang
uncountable
examples: Proximity to an omega in heat can sometimes cause alphas go into rut, an aggressive need for sexual intercourse usually triggered by the scent of an omega in heat.
All the characters in this story pressure Dean to help Castiel through his rut, and clearly consider Dean’s resistance to be immature and an overreaction.
Early in Wicked Game, Steve goes into his first-ever rut.
gloss: To be in the annual rut or mating season.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To have sexual intercourse.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: “Well, Mayella was raisin‘ this holy racket so I dropped m’load and run as fast as I could but I run into th’ fence, but when I got distangled I run up to th‘ window and I seen—” Mr. Ewell’s face grew scarlet. He stood up and pointed his finger at Tom Robinson. “—I seen that black nigger yonder ruttin’ on my Mayella!”
gloss: To have sexual intercourse with.
pos: verb
tags: rare
transitive
examples: “Alfred,” Ragnar continued scathingly. “All he cares about is rutting girls, which is good![…]”
VVhat Piety forbids the luſty Ram / Or more ſalacious Goat, to rut their Dam?
gloss: To rub the genitals against something for physical stimulation.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
slang
examples: Near-synonym: hump
We have just rescued a dog from a shelter; she has a great personality, except the one problem with her is that she ocassionally^([sic]) likes to "rut" against my husband's leg or arm !
I'd bend over and wait...and wait...and wait... finally turning around to see him rutting against a table leg.
Related words: heat
Derived words: ruttish
rutty
Translations:
rutile
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: From Latin rutilus (“red”) because of its common color, named in 1803.
Inflected forms:
form: rutiles
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The most frequent of the three polymorphs of titanium dioxide, crystalizing in the tetragonal system, TiO₂.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
rutty
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English rut
English -y
English rutty
From rut + -y.
Inflected forms:
form: ruttier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: ruttiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Imprinted with ruts.
pos: adj
examples: a rutty country road
But I’m oblig’d each day to roam
Many a furlong from my home,
And cry, good luck, whene’er I pick
From off the ground a single stick;
Or, in some long and rutty lane,
I find by chance a single grain.
[…] old acquaintances separated by long rutty distances, or cooled acquaintances separated by misunderstandings concerning runaway calves […]
We drove way out to the desert the other side of town and turned on a rutty dirt road that made the car bounce as never before.
gloss: In a rut (dull routine).
pos: adj
tags: US
dated
examples: Constantly vary your way of doing things; avoid humdrum, rutty, and monotonous ways.
Everywhere we see men who have gone to seed early, become rutty and uninteresting, because they worked too much and played too little.
We get lazy, then the church becomes rutty.
gloss: Related to a rut; being in a state of sexual arousal.
pos: adj
examples: I am lying here stifling in the rutty goat smell
You may even get picked up by a German soldier. They’re a rutty bunch now that they’re away from their fat frauleins and meeting some real French women.
Derived words: ruttily
ruttiness
Translations:
sachem
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: government
politics
Etymology: Borrowed from Narragansett sachem; compare Mi'kmaq saqamaw (“chief”) and Unami sakima (“chief”), all ultimately from Proto-Algonquian *sa·kima·wa. Doublet of sagamore.
Inflected forms:
form: sachems
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A chief of one or several Native American tribe(s), especially of the Algonquians; a sagamore.
pos: noun
tags: US
historical
examples: Planted with their broad ends on the deck, a circle of these slabs laced together, mutually sloped towards each other, and at the apex united in a tufted point, where the loose hairy fibres waved to and fro like the top-knot on some old Pottowottamie Sachem’s head.
If a sachem was too harsh, a tribesman might leave and join another tribe.
gloss: A boss, a leader.
pos: noun
tags: US
historical
informal
gloss: An eminent member of a group, or an eminent person in society; a sagamore.
pos: noun
tags: US
archaic
historical
informal
gloss: A high-ranking officer of the Tammany Hall political organization.
pos: noun
tags: US
historical
examples: The society elects annually thirteen sachems, which represent the original thirteen States. […] The other officers of the society are a Secretary, Treasurer, Sagamore, and Wiskinkie.
Aboriginal titles were adopted and the head of each tribe was called a sachem. […] Its proprietor, Abraham Martling, was elected a sachem on several occasions and members of Tammany were often called Martling Men.
gloss: A butterfly of the Americas, Atalopedes campestris.
pos: noun
tags: US
historical
Related words: sagamore
sagamoreship
Derived words: sachemdom
sachemic
sachemship
Translations:
sadist
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From the name of the Marquis de Sade; see sadism.
Inflected forms:
form: sadists
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who derives pleasure through cruelty or pain to others.
pos: noun
gloss: One who enjoys teasing others.
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
slang
Related words: sadism
sadomasochist
masochist
mysoped
Derived words: anal sadist
necrosadist
nonsadist
sadistic
zoosadist
Translations:
sage
Part of speech: adj
noun
intj
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English sage, from Old French sage (11th century), from Vulgar Latin *sapium, from Latin sapere (“to taste, to discern, to be wise”).
The noun meaning "man of profound wisdom" is recorded from circa 1300. Originally applied to the Seven Sages of Greece.
Inflected forms:
form: sager
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: sagest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: sages
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: sages
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: saging
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: saged
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: saged
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Wise.
pos: adj
examples: Harry the fift is crownd, vp vanitie, / Downe royall ſtate, all you ſage counſailers, hence, / And to the Engliſh Court aſſemble now / From euery region, apes of idleneſſe: […]
Howbeit the Caledonians with great preparation, and by rumor, as of things unknown much greater, taking Armes, and of thir own accord begining Warr by the aſſault of ſundry Caſtles, ſent back ſome of thir fear to the Romans themſelves: and there were of the Commanders, who cloaking thir fear under ſhew of ſage advice, counſel’d the General to retreat back on this ſide Bodotria.
CHAPTER VII. In which Jack makes some very sage reflections, and comes to a very unwise decision.
gloss: Grave; serious; solemn.
pos: adj
tags: obsolete
gloss: A very wise person or spiritual teacher; someone of gravity and wisdom, especially, a teacher venerable for years, and of sound judgment and prudence; a grave or stoic philosopher.
pos: noun
examples: ’Tis certain, that, while we aſpire to the magnanimous Firmneſs of the philoſophic Sage, and endeavour to confine our Pleaſures altogether within our own Minds, we may, at laſt, render our Philoſophy, like that of Epictetus and other Stoics, only a more refin’d Syſtem of Selfiſhneſs, and reaſon ourſelves out of all Virtue, as well as ſocial Enjoyment.
All sages and physicians agree in saying that the ills which afflict man originate with the abuse of coition.
gloss: Word used in the email field of imageboards to prevent a bump of the post. Used as an option rather than a word in some imageboard software.
pos: intj
tags: Internet
examples: sage in all fields
gloss: The act of using the word or option sage in the email field or a checkbox of an imageboard when posting a reply.
pos: verb
tags: Internet
examples: Reminder to sage and report.
Synonyms: loremaster
oracle
philosopher
sage
savant
Antonyms: fool
Related words: sagacious
sagacity
genius
Derived words: sagely
sageness
unsage
Translations:
sago
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Malay sagu, via Portuguese sagu or Dutch sago.
Inflected forms:
form: sagos
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: sagoes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A powdered starch obtained from certain palms (Metroxylon spp., esp. Metroxylon sagu), used as a flour and food thickener and for sizing textiles.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A similar starch obtained from palm-like cycad, especially Cycas revoluta.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Any of the palms and cycads from which sago starch is extracted.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Related words: sago palm
Derived words: Portland sago
sagolike
sago palm
sago pudding
sago spleen
Translations:
saker
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English sacre, from Middle French sacre, from Old Spanish sacro, from Arabic صَقْر (ṣaqr).
Inflected forms:
form: sakers
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: sacar
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: sacker
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A falcon (Falco cherrug) native of Southern Europe and Asia.
pos: noun
gloss: A medium cannon slightly smaller than a culverin developed during the early 17th century.
pos: noun
examples: This place of strength vvas furnished of sixe great peeces, demi-Culuerins, and Sakers, vvhich shot directlie in front vpon vs as vve approched.
Let Sacars, Culuerings, and Cannons ſound / In honour of their bones, and rock the ground / With all your deafning terrors: for behold / The Balſum for your wounds, are rich mens gold, / Powder the world with wonder, and thus crie, / The Camel now may paſſe the needles eie.
Of warlike engines he was author, / Devised for quick despatch of slaughter: / The cannon, blunderbuss, and saker, / He was th' inventor of, and maker: […]
Translations:
salina
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Latin salīna.
Inflected forms:
form: salinas
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A salt marsh, or salt pond, enclosed from the sea.
pos: noun
Translations:
salvor
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: salvors
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who salvages; especially, one who voluntarily assists in saving a distressed ship or its goods at sea.
pos: noun
examples: A salvor is a risktaker. […] The shores of Europe were littered with wrecks from the First World War. Sorima [la Società Ricuperi Marittimi] collected "no cure, no pay" (the equivalent of "no win, no fee") contracts from governments and insurers, seeking to recoup their losses.
Translations:
samba
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: dance
dancing
entertainment
hobbies
lifestyle
music
sports
Etymology: Borrowed from Brazilian Portuguese samba, from a Bantu language. Doublet of semba.
Inflected forms:
form: sambas
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: sambas
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: sambaing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: sambaed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: sambaed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A Brazilian ballroom dance or dance style.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A Brazilian musical genre, to which the aforementioned dance is danced, which has its roots in West Africa via the slave trade.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: And when the samba played, the sun would set so high / Ring through my ears and sting my eyes, your Spanish lullaby
They thought of, I don’t know, monkeys and caipirinhas and samba.”
Slavery was abolished in Brazil in 1888; until then, Bahia had been a major hub of the country’s slave trade. Samba started there for a reason—a fact that Veloso has returned to, obsessively, throughout his career. […] “A samba parade had turned into a brawl,” a reviewer wrote in the Times, adding that the music “suggested a more cool-headed, grown-up epilogue to the shocks of Tropicália.”
gloss: To dance the samba.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: In front of an audience, he tends to have a freer conversation with himself. The right conditions turn him into an extrovert. He sambas, in the Santo Amaro style.
Related words: sambista
Derived words: sambadrome
samba school
samba whistle
Translations:
sambar
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
Etymology: Borrowed from Hindi सांभर (sāmbhar), साँभर (sāmbhar), from Sanskrit शम्बर (śambara, “a kind of deer”).
Inflected forms:
form: sambars
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: sambhar
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: sambhur
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: sambur
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: sambre
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: A Southeast Asian deer (Rusa unicolor).
pos: noun
Translations:
sapper
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French sappeur (French sapeur). By surface analysis, sap + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: sappers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A combat engineer; an engineer or a soldier engaged in attacking, destroying, and circumventing or building fortifications, bridges, and roads; a military engineer active in a combat zone.
pos: noun
examples: his knowledge of Arabic and freedom from the theories of the ordinary sapper-school enabled him to teach the art of demolition to unlettered Beduin in a quick and ready way.
A vast minefield trapped Ukrainian troops for weeks as infantry sappers slowly cleared an assault route on foot.
gloss: An officer or private of the Royal Engineers.
pos: noun
tags: UK
colloquial
examples: By a remarkable piece of railway reconstruction work on the part of the Allied Forces—mainly South African railway construction troops—mines laid along the track by the retreating enemy were removed by sappers, and the German damage made good, within 7 days.
Billinge, from St Austell, was one of the first soldiers to land on 'Gold' beach on June 6 1944. He was a sapper attached to the 44 Royal Engineer Commandos and was one of only four to survive from his unit.
gloss: a person generally engaged in digging requiring a level of professionalism
pos: noun
examples: Let no Bank consider itself safe from the skill and daring of such sappers and miners.
Translations:
saran
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From a trade name coined by the Dow Chemical Co. for a number of monomers and polymers made from vinylidene chloride (especially polyvinylidene chloride).
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A plastic resin used to make packaging films.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
scat
Part of speech: noun
verb
intj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
Etymology: From Middle English scet, schat, from Old English sċeatt (“property, goods”) and Old Norse skattr (“wealth, treaure”); both from Proto-Germanic *skattaz (“cattle, kine, wealth”), from Proto-Indo-European *skatn-, *skat- (“to jump, skip, splash out”).
Cognate with Scots scat (“tax, levy, charge, payment, bribe”), West Frisian skat (“treasure, darling”), Dutch schat (“treasure, hoard, darling, sweetheart”), German Schatz (“treasure, hoard, wealth, store, darling, sweetheart”), Swedish skatt (“treasure, tax, duty”), Icelandic skattur (“tax, tribute”), Latin scateō (“gush, team, bubble forth, abound”).
Inflected forms:
form: scats
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: scatt
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: skatt
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: scats
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: scatting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: scatted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: scatted
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A tax; tribute.
pos: noun
gloss: A land-tax paid in the Shetland Islands.
pos: noun
tags: Shetland
gloss: To sing an improvised melodic solo using nonsense syllables, often onomatopoeic or imitative of musical instruments.
pos: verb
gloss: An imperative demand to leave, often understood by speaker and listener as impertinent.
pos: intj
tags: colloquial
examples: Scat! Go on! Get out of here!
Scat! Shoo! Scat! Geet up! Geet on! Nobody's sick in this house! Nobody wants you here!
“Scat! Shoo bird!” The bird merely stared, its dark eyes glinting.
'Scat! Go on, scat!' she called, trying to shoo it away.
Derived words: churchscot
churchset
scathead
scathold
scatland
Translations:
schema
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: Christianity
computing
databases
engineering
human-sciences
logic
mathematics
natural-sciences
philosophy
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Latin schēma, from Ancient Greek σχῆμα (skhêma, “form, shape”). Doublet of scheme.
Inflected forms:
form: schemata
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: schemas
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An outline or image universally applicable to a general conception, under which it is likely to be presented to the mind (for example, a body schema).
pos: noun
gloss: A formal description of the structure of a database: the names of the tables, the names of the columns of each table, and the data type and other attributes of each column.
pos: noun
examples: The database schema defines how the tables are organized.
gloss: A formal description of data, data types, and data file structures, such as XML schemas for XML files.
pos: noun
gloss: A formula in the metalanguage of an axiomatic system, in which one or more schematic variables appear, which stand for any term or subformula of the system, which may or may not be required to satisfy certain conditions.
pos: noun
gloss: A monastic habit in the Greek Orthodox Church.
pos: noun
Synonyms: schemat
axiom schema
schemat
Related words: schematic(al)(ly)
schematism
schematist
schematization
schematize
schematologetically
schematomancy
scheme
Derived words: baby schema
chameleon schema
conceptual schema
image schema
logical schema
physical schema
snowflake schema
star schema
Translations:
schist
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From French schiste, from Latin schistos lapis (“the stone that is easy to split”), from Ancient Greek σχιστός (skhistós, “splittable”), from σχίζω (skhízō, “to split”).
Inflected forms:
form: schists
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of a variety of coarse-grained crystalline metamorphic rocks with a foliated structure that allows easy division into slabs or slates.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Although it shows under the microscope traces of the original gabbro structure and of the original gabbro minerals, no one would hesitate from a microscopical examination to class it with the schists.
1915, Charles Will Wright, Geology and Ore Deposits of Copper Mountain and Kasaan Peninsula, Alaska, US Geological Survey, Professional Paper 87, page 29,
Narrow bands of schist are interstratified with these limestones, and in turn narrow beds of limestone are interstratified with the schists.
Millions of years ago the mica schists surrounding the old Brandberg West Mine became folded and concertinaed by enormous horizontal pressures.
Translations:
scoria
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: engineering
geography
geology
metallurgy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English, from Latin scōria, from Ancient Greek σκωρία (skōría), from σκῶρ (skôr, “dung”).
Inflected forms:
form: scoriae
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: scorias
pos: noun
tags: nonstandard
plural
rare
Senses:
gloss: The slag or dross that remains after the smelting of metal from an ore.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The like stuff is in Anacharsis: hot metal; full of scoriae, which should and could have been smelted out, but which will not.
gloss: Rough masses of rock formed by solidified lava, and which can be found around a volcano's crater.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: To the south lay broken shapes of scoria in a lava bed as far as the eye could see.
An excellent guidebook by Drs Kilburn and McGuire of University College London reveals that these unpromising pieces of debris are scoria and lithic fragments of the March 1944 eruption.
Derived words: scoria brick
scoriac
scoriaceous
scoriated
scoriation
scorification
scorified
scorifier
scoriform
scorify
Translations:
scoter
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Uncertain.
Inflected forms:
form: scoters
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: scooter
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Any one of several species of northern sea ducks of the genus Melanitta.
pos: noun
examples: When I went birdwatching, I saw lots of scoters.
Translations:
scrim
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: arts
entertainment
hobbies
lifestyle
photography
theater
Etymology: Attested since the end of the 18th century. Origin unknown.
In one of the earliest mentions, "The Statistical Account of Scotland", 1793, by John Sinclair, page 593, we read in a paragraph devoted to weavers: "Besides these, they are now much employed in working a thin kind of coarse linen called Silesias, vulgarly Scrims, whereof each piece is 27 or 30 inches broad".
Inflected forms:
form: scrims
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: scrims
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: scrimming
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: scrimmed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: scrimmed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A kind of light cotton or linen fabric, often woven in openwork patterns, used for curtains, etc,.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A large military scarf, usually camouflage coloured and used for concealment when not used as a scarf.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A woven, nonwoven or knitted fabric composed of continuous strands of material used for reinforcing or strengthening membranes.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A theater drop that appears opaque when a scene in front is lighted and transparent or translucent when a scene in back is lighted.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Mummified mannequins dangling above the set, illuminated from within, were a heavy-handed touch, but the designer George Tsypin’s translucent scrims and painted drops beautifully conveyed the passage of sun-blasted days and bone-chilling nights on the edge of civilization.
gloss: A sheet of gauze etc. used to reduce the intensity of light.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Thin canvas glued on the inside of panels to prevent shrinking, checking, etc.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: To use a scrim.
pos: verb
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: мрежа
roman: mreža
scutum
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: anatomy
biology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
zoology
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin scūtum (“shield”). Doublet of escudo, scudo, scute, and écu.
Inflected forms:
form: scuta
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: scutums
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An oblong shield made of boards or wickerwork covered with leather, with sometimes an iron rim; carried chiefly by the heavily armed infantry of the Roman army.
pos: noun
tags: Roman
historical
gloss: A scute.
pos: noun
gloss: A shield-like protection, such as the scutum protecting the back of a hard tick (cf. alloscutum, conscutum).
pos: noun
examples: A tick's eye, if present, is a mere roundish lucent area at the margin of the scutum about opposite the second coxa.
gloss: One of the two lower valves of the operculum of a barnacle.
pos: noun
gloss: The kneecap.
pos: noun
Synonyms: scuta
Translations:
secant
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
trigonometry
Etymology: From Latin secāns, present participle of secō (“to cut”).
Inflected forms:
form: secants
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A straight line that intersects a curve at two or more points.
pos: noun
gloss: In a right triangle, the reciprocal of the cosine of an angle. Symbol: sec
pos: noun
gloss: That cuts or divides.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Related words: cosecant
section
sector
Derived words: arcsecant
bisecant
hyperbolic secant
quadrisecant
secant method
Translations:
sen
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From a syncopation of Middle English selven, selfen, variants of selfe, self. More at self.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Self.
pos: noun
tags: East-Midlands
Yorkshire
examples: "Hear all, see all, say nowt. Eyt all, sup all, pay nowt. An if ivver tha does owt fer nowt, mek sure tha does it fer thi sen."
Translations:
sepal
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
Etymology: From French sépale, from New Latin sepalum.
Inflected forms:
form: sepals
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One of the component parts of the calyx, particularly when such components are not fused into a single structure.
pos: noun
examples: When the sepals are distinct, or separate from each other, the calyx is said to be polysepalous.
The sepal and the petal are essentially leaf-like in form and anatomy but generally simpler in detailed structure than a foliage leaf.
In tomato, for example, the first sepal primordium is formed as an outgrowth at the periphery of the apex and the subsequent sepal primordia are initiated in a helical fashion at an angle of approximately 137° from the previous one.
Translations:
sepoy
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: government
military
politics
war
Etymology: From Portuguese sipae, from Urdu سِپاہی (sipāhī) / Hindi सिपाही (sipāhī), from Classical Persian سِپَاهِی (sipāhī, “soldier, horseman”), from سِپَاه (sipāh, “army”). Doublet of spahi and sipahi.
Inflected forms:
form: sepoys
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A native soldier of the East Indies, employed in the service of a European colonial power, notably the British India army (first under the British-chartered East India Company, later in the crown colony), but also France and Portugal.
pos: noun
tags: historical
examples: If our door were in the hands of the Sepoys the place must fall, and the women and children be treated as they were in Cawnpore.
They proved to be the wives of a body of sepoys, also from the 5th Regiment of Bombay Native Infantry; the sepoys had perished, and their families been enslaved, when their pattamar had been captured by the Qawasim some months before.
gloss: The holder of an infantry enlisted rank equivalent to private in other countries.
pos: noun
tags: India
Nepal
Pakistan
Translations:
septic
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: medicine
sciences
Etymology: From Ancient Greek σηπτικός (sēptikós, “characterized by putridity”), from σηπτός (sēptós), from σήπω (sḗpō).
Inflected forms:
form: more septic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most septic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: septick
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: septics
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: septick
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to sepsis.
pos: adj
gloss: Causing sepsis or putrefaction.
pos: adj
gloss: Of or pertaining to sewage or the disposal of sewage.
pos: adj
examples: septic tank
a septic system
gloss: A substance that causes sepsis or putrefaction.
pos: noun
examples: 1750, John Pringle, Further Experiments on Substances Resisting Putrefaction, in 1809, Charles Hutton, George Shaw, Richard Pearson (editors), The Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Volume X: 1750—1755, page 86,
But, in the prosecution of this subject, he had met with very few real septics; and found many substances, commonly accounted such, of a quite opposite nature.
gloss: A person who has sepsis.
pos: noun
tags: dated
examples: Acid-base balance data revealed moderately abnormal metabolic balance for both septics and nonseptics (in either direction) with normal respiratory balance or mild alkalosis.
gloss: A septic tank; a system for the disposal of sewage into a septic tank, a septic system.
pos: noun
examples: The question is whether there are any spatial differences in how septics impact water quality, and whether these spatial variations should be considered when regulating septic improvement or removal.
Related words: antiseptic
asepsis
aseptic
sepsis
septicemia
septicity
septic shock
septic tank
Derived words: nonseptic
septage
septic abortion
septically
septic fever
subseptic
Translations:
serine
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Old Chinese 絲 (*sə)der.?
Ancient Greek σήρ (sḗr)
Proto-Indo-European *-kos
Ancient Greek -κός (-kós)
Ancient Greek -ῐκός (-ĭkós)
Ancient Greek σηρῐκός (sērĭkós)bor.
Latin sēricusder.
English serine
From Latin sericus (“silken”). The compound was first obtained from silk protein, a particularly rich source, in 1865. See also serge.
Inflected forms:
form: serines
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A nonessential amino acid, CH₂OH.CH(NH₂)COOH, found in most animal proteins, notably silk.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
servo
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Clipping of servomotor.
Inflected forms:
form: servos
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: servos
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: servoing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: servoed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: servoed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A servomechanism.
pos: noun
examples: A Lockheed Type 6 remote servo adds a 1.9 multiplier to the pedal pressures and, at about £140, is rather cheaper than all the Girling single line remote servos I′ve seen advertised.
If you are using Futaba servos with the application, make sure that you change the data values accordingly.
The servo is an autonomic element of a control system: Setting a desired value of an output parameter makes a servo do its job independently of other factors as long as the specified value remains constant.
gloss: A servomechanism.
pos: noun
gloss: To control by means of servocontrol
pos: verb
Derived words: servo drive
servocontrol
servocontroller
servo-driven
servosystem
Translations:
shad
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English shadde, from Old English sceadd, possibly from Celtic (compare Scottish Gaelic sgadan (“herring”), Welsh ysgadan) or from Scandinavian/North Germanic (compare dialectal Norwegian skadd (“small whitefish”), Old Norse skata (“kind of fish”)), but the order of borrowing is unclear and the ultimate origin of these words is obscure.
Inflected forms:
form: shad
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: shads
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any one of several species of food fishes that make up the genus Alosa in the family Clupeidae, to which the herrings also belong; river herring.
pos: noun
examples: Each river had its village and its iron bridge that the train crossed with a blast of its whistle, and the girls bathing in the icy water leaped like shad as it passed, unsettling travelers with their fleeting breasts.
gloss: Any bluefish of the species Pomatomus saltatrix.
pos: noun
tags: South-Africa
Related words: shad cab
Derived words: Agrakhan shad
Alabama shad
allis shad
American shad
Astrabad shad
Azov shad
Black Sea shad
Caspian anadromous shad
Caspian marine shad
Caspian shad
Enzeli shad
European shad
gizzard shad
hickory shad
Killarney shad
Kura shad
Laotian shad
Macedonia shad
North African shad
Pontic shad
Reeves' shad
river shad
Saposhnikovi shad
shad-bellied
shadbelly
shadberry
shadbird
shadbush
shad bush
shadflower
shadfly
shad frog
shad-spirit
shad-waiter
skipjack shad
Thracian shad
Toli shad
twait shad
twaite shad
Volga shad
Translations:
shalom
Part of speech: intj
noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Hebrew שָׁלוֹם (šālóm, “peace, well-being; Hello, good-bye”). Doublet of salaam, the same word via Arabic.
Inflected forms:
form: shaloms
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: shaloms
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: shaloming
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: shalomed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: shalomed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A traditional Jewish greeting or farewell.
pos: intj
tags: Judaism
gloss: The traditional Jewish greeting of "shalom".
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: He exchanged shaloms with a group of young people coming out of the synagogue and turned left toward a corner.
gloss: Peace.
pos: noun
tags: Judaism
uncountable
examples: In Hebrew, bonai shalom means “builders of peace,” and the congregation welcomes both Jews and non-Jews to participate in all aspects of the community.
gloss: To greet somebody with "shalom".
pos: verb
Translations:
shaw
Part of speech: noun
intj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: lifestyle
Etymology: From Old English sċeaga, scaga. Cognate with Old Norse skógr (“forest, wood”), whence Danish skov (“forest”). Doublet of scaw.
Inflected forms:
form: shaws
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: shawe
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: shawe
pos: intj
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: A thicket; a small wood or grove.
pos: noun
tags: dated
dialectal
examples: All this herd sire Lamorak / and on the morne sir lamorak took his hors and rode vnto the forest / and there he mette with two knyghtes houynge vnder the wood shawe
Thenne said sire kay I requyre you lete vs preue this aduenture / I shal not fayle you said sir Gaherys / and soo they rode that tyme tyl a lake / that was that tyme called the peryllous lake / And there they abode vnder the shawe of the wood
The snows are fled away, leaves on the shaws, / And grasses in the mead renew their birth,
gloss: The leaves and tops of vegetables, especially potatoes and turnips.
pos: noun
tags: Scotland
examples: Up here the hills were brave with the beauty and the heat of it, but the hayfield was still all a crackling dryness and in the potato park beyond the biggings the shaws drooped red and rusty already.
gloss: A kind of battle cry or warning.
pos: intj
tags: slang
gloss: Censored spelling of shit.
pos: intj
Derived words: Bradshaw
fernshaw
Grimshaw
Kershaw
Robertshaw
Shaw
Shaw Bridge
Shawbridge
Translations:
sheave
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English, from a Germanic base akin to German Scheibe, late Old Norse skífa (“slice”), all ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *skey- (“to split”). For more see shive.
Inflected forms:
form: sheaves
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: sheaves
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: sheaving
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: sheaved
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: sheaved
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A wheel having a groove in the rim for a rope to work in, and set in a block, mast, or similar; the wheel of a pulley.
pos: noun
examples: To an exceptional degree the duties on these inclines have been passed on from father to son; many a boy has begun his working life in oiling the sheaves and, after passing through every grade, has reached the age of retirement in the responsible position of brakesman.
gloss: A sliding scutcheon for covering a keyhole.
pos: noun
gloss: To gather and bind into a sheaf.
pos: verb
examples: From him did forty million serfs (...) receive
Rich freeborn lifelong land, whereon to sheave
Their country's harvest.
Derived words: sheaveless
Translations:
shim
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: Unknown; from Kent. Originally a piece of iron attached to a plow; sense of “thin piece of wood” from 1723, sense of “thin piece of material used for alignment or support” from 1860.
Inflected forms:
form: shims
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: shims
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: shimming
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: shimmed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: shimmed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A wedge.
pos: noun
gloss: A thin piece of material, sometimes tapered, used for alignment or support.
pos: noun
examples: Near-synonym: shimstock (uncountable)
The second adjustment [to a door that keeps swinging open] will require the screws to be loosened, and a shim or packing piece pushed behind the hinge to bring it into line.
gloss: A small library that transparently intercepts and modifies calls to an API, usually for compatibility purposes.
pos: noun
examples: Shims intercept Win32 API calls from legacy applications, as defined by system administrators, and then modify the call before passing the code to Windows for execution.
gloss: A kind of shallowly cutting plow used in tillage to break the ground and clear it of weeds.
pos: noun
gloss: A small metal device used to pick open a lock.
pos: noun
gloss: A thin device inserted into a card reader by a criminal to facilitate fraud.
pos: noun
gloss: To fit one or more shims to a piece of machinery or other assembly; to adjust (something) by using shims.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
gloss: To adjust the homogeneity of a magnetic field (after the mechanical devices once used for the purpose).
pos: verb
gloss: To intercept and modify calls to (an API), usually for compatibility purposes.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To attack a point-of-sale card reader with a shim.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
Derived words: shimless
shimmable
shimmer
shimming
Translations: