yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
dubbin
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: dubbins
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: daubing
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: dubbing
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: dubbins
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: dubbining
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: dubbined
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: dubbined
pos: verb
tags: past
form: daubing
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: dubbing
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A mixture of tallow and oil used to soften leather, and make it waterproof.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: He brought me a pail and a stool, and held out the round tin of dubbin for me to grease the teats.
gloss: To apply dubbin to
pos: verb
Translations:
dubiously
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Latin dubiusbor.
English dubious
Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der.
Proto-Germanic *līkąder.
Proto-Germanic *-līkaz
Proto-Germanic *-ê
Proto-Germanic *-līkê
Proto-West Germanic *-līkē
Old English -līċe
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English dubiously
From dubious + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more dubiously
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most dubiously
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a dubious manner.
pos: adv
examples: They had perpetuated a dubiously holy union of Church and State that had refused for centuries to hear the cry of the poor and the oppressed.
But, this information is relegated to a footnote, and no examples of dubiously English words are provided.
gloss: Accompanied by doubt, or anxious uncertainty.
pos: adv
examples: She looked dubiously up the steep path to the vastness of dark wood on either side. “How far is it up to the top?”
Translations:
duckbill
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: firefighting
government
Etymology: From duck + bill.
Compound parts: duck
bill
Inflected forms:
form: duckbills
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: duck-bill
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The duck-billed platypus.
pos: noun
tags: informal
gloss: A hadrosaur.
pos: noun
tags: informal
gloss: A fish of the family Percophidae
pos: noun
gloss: A fish of the family Percophidae
pos: noun
gloss: Bull ray (Aetomylaeus bovinus, now Pteromylaeus bovinus).
pos: noun
gloss: A device used to force padlocks.
pos: noun
gloss: A check valve with two or more flaps, usually shaped like a duck's beak, commonly used in medical applications to prevent contamination due to backflow.
pos: noun
gloss: A kind of surgical mask with a trapezoid pouch-like design with shortened or absent side edges.
pos: noun
gloss: A modern and more streamlined and tighter fitting version of a flat cap.
pos: noun
gloss: Synonym of American paddlefish.
pos: noun
tags: US
Related words: duck-billed cat
duckbilled
duck-billed
Derived words: dockbill pugolovka
duckbill barracudina
duckbill cat
duckbill catfish
duckbill catfish
duckbill choke
duckbill conger
duckbill eagle-ray
duckbill eel
duckbill flathead
duckbill garfish
duckbill gar
duckbill grenadier
duckbill oceanic eel
duckbill ray
duckbill sleeper
duckbill whiptail
Translations:
duckpin
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From duck + pin.
Compound parts: duck
pin
Inflected forms:
form: duckpins
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A short, squat form of tenpin.
pos: noun
Translations:
ductless
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English duct
Proto-Indo-European *lewh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *lewHs-der.
Proto-Germanic *leusaną
Proto-Germanic *lausaz
Proto-Germanic *-lausaz
Proto-West Germanic *-laus
Old English -lēas
Middle English -les
English -less
English ductless
From duct + -less.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Having no duct.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
dueler
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English duel
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 dueler
From duel + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: duelers
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: dueller
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: a person who fights a duel
pos: noun
Translations:
duelist
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English duel
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)
Proto-Hellenic *-tās
Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs)
Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)bor.
Latin -istader.
Old French -istebor.
Middle English -ist
English -ist
English duelist
From duel + -ist.
Inflected forms:
form: duelists
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: duellist
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A person who fights a duel.
pos: noun
Translations:
dumbbell
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From dumb (“silent”) + bell (“a resonating instrument”). The term "dumbbell" originated in 16th-century England to describe silent exercise apparatus used in practicing the motions of ringing church bells noiselessly. To aid them in the practice of their physically demanding vocation, bellringers originally used weighted ropes on fixed pulleys to mimic the motion of ringing a church bell; since such apparatus made no noise while imitating the motion of ringing a swinging bell via a fixed pulley, they were called "dumb bells". Later, the rope-and-pulley weights evolved into simple hand-held weights used by ringers for strengthening the shoulder and back muscles heavily used in tower bellringing, and the term "'dumb bell'" evolved into the compound word "'dumbbell'".
Base: dumb
Inflected forms:
form: dumbbells
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: dumb-bell
pos: noun
tags: alternative
rare
form: dumbell
pos: noun
tags: alternative
rare
Senses:
gloss: A weight training implement consisting of a short bar with weight counterpoised on each end.
pos: noun
examples: He was exercising with the dumbbells in gym class today.
He also had a room strewn with the toys of the trade and what-have-you: ropes and ironmongery, buoyancy aid and bagpipes, fetid socks and half-eaten haggises, dumbbells and ski-instructor sweaters.
On the map Gansu is shaped like a dumbbell lying obliquely from east to west. Its best known city is Lanjhou, the capital, and also the gateway to the Silk Road. But we did not go there; we were heading for a relatively unknown city a few hundred miles away from Lanjhou, called Tianshuei.
Her eternal quest was for self-improvement, underscored also by the dumbbells she hoisted well before Jane Fonda made it fashionable.
gloss: A bell with no clapper, used as bell-striking practice or to strike as a form of physical exercise
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
gloss: A stupid person.
pos: noun
tags: derogatory
slang
examples: That's fool's gold, you dumbbell. Iron pyrite. Nobody would give you a dime for a ton of it.
Related words: barbell
kettlebell
Derived words: dumbbell curve
nanodumbbell
Translations:
dumbly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English dumb
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English dumbly
From dumb + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more dumbly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most dumbly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a silent way.
pos: adv
examples: On the flat behind the mill, dawn-rising Chinamen shogged with nimble bare feet under their yoke-linked watering-cans. These busy brethren, meeting sometimes on the same narrow track, would pause, ant-like, seemingly to dumbly regard one another and their burdens, then, still ant-like, pass silently to their work.
I handed it dumbly to my friend, who had the grace to giggle.
We both stared at it dumbly, wondering why she had done such a thing, when suddenly something remarkable began to happen.
gloss: In an unsmart way.
pos: adv
tags: derogatory
informal
Translations:
dumbness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English dombenesse, from Old English dumbnes; equivalent to dumb + -ness. Cognate with Old Frisian dumbnisse (“folly, dumbness”).
Base: dumb
Affixes: -ness
Inflected forms:
form: dumbnesses
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: dumbnesse
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The state of being mute: that is, of not communicating vocally, whether from selective mutism (refusal to speak) or from an inability to speak.
pos: noun
tags: dated
offensive
uncountable
usually
examples: He was a deaf-mute. His dumbness did not seem to matter when we were boys.
gloss: Muteness, silence; abstention from speech.
pos: noun
tags: dated
uncountable
usually
examples: There was speech in their dumbness.
gloss: Show or gesture without words; pantomime; dumb-show.
pos: noun
tags: dated
uncountable
usually
examples: To the dumbness of the gesture one might interpret.
gloss: The quality of being stupid or foolish.
pos: noun
tags: informal
uncountable
usually
Synonyms: dumbhood
Related words: dumb
dumb-show
Derived words: artificial dumbness
Translations:
inestimable
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle French inestimable, from Latin inaestimābilis, from in (“un-”, “not”) + aestimābilis (“estimable”). Equivalent to in- + estimable.
Base: estimable
Affixes: in-
Inflected forms:
form: inæstimable
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Not able to be estimated; not able to be calculated, computed or comprehended, as because of great scale, degree or magnitude.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The Voyager spacecraft explored the solar system and continued into the inestimable space beyond.
He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.
gloss: Venerable, great.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: On my arrival hither I found a letter from the inestimable Mr. Wythe, by which he informs me that in consequence of a late act of our general assembly he remains the sole judge of the high court of chancery.
Derived words: inestimableness
inestimably
Translations:
martyrology
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: Catholicism
Christianity
Roman-Catholicism
Etymology: From martyr + -ology or from Latin martyrologium.
Base: martyr
Affixes: -ology
Inflected forms:
form: martyrologies
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Mart.
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The study of martyrs and martyrdom; the names and stories of martyrs, particularly
pos: noun
examples: It needs further study for what it suggests of the gender dimension to martyrdom and martyrology.
gloss: The study of martyrs and martyrdom; the names and stories of martyrs, particularly
pos: noun
tags: capitalized
often
examples: ... we know that Augustine, a monk in the time of Gregory the Great, took with him into England the martyrology of the Roman Church.
gloss: The study of martyrs and martyrdom; the names and stories of martyrs, particularly
pos: noun
gloss: The study of martyrs and martyrdom; the names and stories of martyrs, particularly
pos: noun
tags: Judaism
capitalized
often
Synonyms: martyrologue
synaxarium
synaxarion
menologium
menologion
menology
menologe
Derived words: martyrologic
martyrological
martyrologist
Translations:
lang: Armenian
word: վկայաբանություն
roman: vkayabanutʻyun
lang: Catalan
word: martirologi
lang: Dutch
word: martyrologie
lang: Dutch
word: martyrologium
lang: Finnish
word: martyrologia
lang: Finnish
word: synaksarion
lang: French
word: martyrologie
lang: Georgian
word: მარტვილოლოგია
roman: marṭvilologia
lang: German
word: Martyrologium
lang: Greek
word: μαρτυρολόγιο
roman: martyrológio
lang: Italian
word: martirologio
lang: Latin
word: martyrologium
lang: Polish
word: martyrologia
lang: Portuguese
word: martirológio
lang: Romanian
word: martirologie
lang: Russian
word: мартироло́г
roman: martirológ
lang: Russian
word: мартироло́гий
roman: martirológij
lang: Spanish
word: martirologio
lang: Welsh
word: merthyradur
cannabidiol
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
medicine
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
pharmacology
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Ancient Greek κάνναβις (kánnabis)bor.
Latin cannabislbor.
English cannab(is)
Latin -i-bor.
English -i-
English di-
English -ol
English cannabidiol
From cannab(is) + -i- + di- + -ol.
Inflected forms:
form: cannabidiols
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: CBD
pos: noun
tags: abbreviation
Senses:
gloss: A nonintoxicating cannabinoid found in the hemp plant Cannabis sativa.
pos: noun
examples: We’re aware of the growing public interest in cannabis and cannabis-derived products, including cannabidiol (CBD). This increasing public interest in these products makes it even more important with the passage of this law for the FDA to clarify its regulatory authority over these products.
Translations:
dyscalculia
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
sciences
Etymology: From dys- (from Ancient Greek δυσ- (dus-, “bad”)) + calculate (from Latin calculare).
Base: calculate
Affixes: dys-
Inflected forms:
form: dyscalculias
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A learning disability characterized by significantly below average mathematical ability.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Some educators think requiring students with dyscalculia to study math in high school is a mistake because the dyscalculic students are unlikely to be capable of learning math.
Translations:
unweaned
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 weaned
English unweaned
From un- + weaned.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Not yet weaned; still being suckled.
pos: adj
tags: especially
not-comparable
gloss: Naive, wet behind the ears, green, inexperienced.
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
not-comparable
Translations:
phencyclidine
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
Etymology: Contraction of phenylcyclohexylpiperidine.
Inflected forms:
form: phencyclidines
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A synthetic compound derived from piperidine, used as a veterinary anesthetic and in hallucinogenic drugs such as angel dust.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
dumdum
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Dum Dum, a city in India where the type of bullet was developed, from Hindi दम दम (dam dam) (Bengali দমদম (domodom)), from Hindi दमदमा (damadmā, “tenaille, a raised mound or battery”).
Inflected forms:
form: dumdums
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: dum-dum
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: dum dum
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A soft-nosed bullet that expands on impact to cause a gaping wound.
pos: noun
examples: He related to us how the savages make bullets from the heart of a very hard wood cured by a special process. These bullets are only effectual when fired from a short range, and when they lodge in the flesh they explode like dumdum bullets.
Translations:
dunghill
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From dung + hill.
Compound parts: dung
hill
Inflected forms:
form: dunghills
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: dung-hill
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: dunghil
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A heap of dung, especially one for agricultural purposes.
pos: noun
gloss: Any wretchedly mean, dirty or loathsome place, situation or condition.
pos: noun
tags: derogatory
figuratively
examples: He raiſeth vp the poore out of the duſt: and lifteth the needie out of the dung-hill:
Derived words: dunghilly
Translations:
duodenal
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From duoden- + -al.
Base: duoden
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to the duodenum, the first part of the small intestine.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
duper
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English dupe
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 duper
From dupe + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: dupers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: a person who dupes another
pos: noun
Translations:
sandman
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: arts
folklore
history
human-sciences
literature
media
publishing
sciences
Etymology: From sand + -man. The mythological sense may be from German Sandmann, Sandmännchen, as it is apparently first attested in English in the context of E.T.A. Hoffmann’s novella The Sandman (1816). The German is attested in the relevant sense since at least the mid-18th century.
Base: sand
Affixes: -man
Inflected forms:
form: sandmen
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A figure that brings sleep and dreams by sprinkling magical sand into people's eyes.
pos: noun
examples: This then was the Sandman; but what was his occupation, and what was his purpose ? The nursery-maid being applied to, gave a nursery-maid's explanation, that the Sandman was a bad man, who flung sand in the eyes of little children who did not go to bed.
gloss: Used as a symbol of the passage of time toward death.
pos: noun
gloss: A seller of sand.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
examples: 1811, Arabian Nights' Entertainments, Consisting of One Thousand and One Stories, Told by the Sultaness of the Indies, Henry Mozley (publ.), page 114.
While I was out, a sandman, who sells scouring sand, which women use to clean the baths with, passed through our street, and called, Any sand ho !
Translations:
duplicator
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English duplicate
English -or
English duplicator
From duplicate + -or.
Inflected forms:
form: duplicators
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A device that reproduces something, such as printed documents or compact discs; a copier.
pos: noun
examples: Schools joining the cooperative were assessed an initial membership fee to purchase a high-speed tape duplicator and about 200 tapes.
Translations:
dustless
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English dust
Proto-Indo-European *lewh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *lewHs-der.
Proto-Germanic *leusaną
Proto-Germanic *lausaz
Proto-Germanic *-lausaz
Proto-West Germanic *-laus
Old English -lēas
Middle English -les
English -less
English dustless
From dust + -less.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Free of dust.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Now motor roads are dustless,
The latest steel is rustless,
Our tennis courts are sodless,
Our new religions, godless.
gloss: That does not generate dust.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Antonyms: dusty
Derived words: dustlessness
Translations:
dustpan
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From dust + pan.
Compound parts: dust
pan
Inflected forms:
form: dustpans
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A flat scoop with a handle, into which dust, dirt and other material is conveyed with a brush or broom.
pos: noun
examples: When she got downstairs, she would find the house tidy, but dirty. She could not rest until she had thoroughly cleaned; so she went down to the ash-pit with her dustpan.
Translations:
dutiable
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English duty
Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr
Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom
Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlis
Proto-Italic *-ðlis
Latin -bilis
Latin -ābilis
Old French -ablebor.
Middle English -able
English -able
English dutiable
From duty + -able.
Inflected forms:
form: dutiables
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: On which duty must be paid when imported or sold.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Flax handkerchiefs composed in chief value of edgings and insertings of cotton lace made on the Lever or Gothrough machine are properly dutiable at the rate of 70 per cent […]
gloss: Any dutiable item.
pos: noun
Translations:
duty-free
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English duty
Proto-Indo-European *preyH-
Proto-Indo-European *-ós
Proto-Indo-European *priHós
Proto-Germanic *frijaz
Proto-West Germanic *frī
Proto-West Germanic *-frī
Old English -frēo
Middle English -fre
English -free
English duty-free
From duty + -free.
Inflected forms:
form: duty-frees
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Exempt from duty, especially from customs duty.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: CBP told CNN it currently processes “nearly 4 million duty-free de minimis shipments a day.”
gloss: A duty-free article, especially part of the allowance of such goods allowed to be imported.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: We brought back so much duty-free we could hardly walk.
gloss: A shop where duty-free goods can be bought.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Have you been to Melbourne airport's duty-free?
Translations:
revue
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from French revue (literally “review”). Doublet of review, which it replaced in these senses.
Inflected forms:
form: revues
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A form of theatrical entertainment in which recent events, popular fads, etc., are parodied.
pos: noun
gloss: Any entertainment featuring skits, dances, and songs.
pos: noun
Derived words: revuette
revuist
Translations:
leatherman
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From leather + man. In the gay subculture sense, since the mid-twentieth century. In the leather dealer sense, since centuries earlier; archaic today.
Compound parts: leather
man
Inflected forms:
form: leathermen
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A member of a homosexual male subculture that grew out of male-only motorcycle clubs formed by homosexual veterans returning from World War II, stressing masculinity in contradiction to androgynous and effeminate gay stereotypes, characterized by a fetish for leather gear and clothing, a sense of hierarchy, and a fraternal, militaristic code of protocol and behavior, often involving BDSM practices.
pos: noun
gloss: A male leather dealer, leatherworker, or tanner.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
Translations:
giantess
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: fantasy
human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
Etymology: From Middle English geauntesse, geaunesse, from Old French; equivalent to giant + -ess.
Base: giant
Affixes: -ess
Inflected forms:
form: giantesses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A female giant.
pos: noun
examples: He spide far off a mighty Giauntesse / Fast flying, on a Courser dapled gray […]
In the corner lay against the wall a stringed instrument not unlike a dulcimer, which, as people believe, the Giantesses used to play on.
The giantess picked him up and gave him such a squeeze that he felt he was going to choke.
The giantesses lift arms like the trunks of sycamores, each finger tipped with an amaranthine talon.
Translations:
giddily
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English giddy
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English giddily
From giddy + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more giddily
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most giddily
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a giddy manner.
pos: adv
examples: `Little 'un snoozin'!' Jinny remarked, lurching giddily towards her to merrily twirl her fist in the snoozer.
When the wind is in the right direction, hang-gliders launch themselves giddily into space from the precipitous bank.
Translations:
gigantically
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English gigantic
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālisbor.
Old French -albor.
▲
Latin -ālis
Old French -elbor.
▲
Latin -ālisbor.
Middle English -al
Middle English -ly
Middle English -ally
English -ally
English gigantically
From gigantic + -ally.
Inflected forms:
form: more gigantically
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most gigantically
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a gigantic manner.
pos: adv
Translations:
girlishly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English girlish
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English girlishly
From girlish + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more girlishly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most girlishly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a girlish manner.
pos: adv
examples: Ganymede was once a girlishly handsome precocious youth. That one cannot for any considerable number of years go on being youthful, girlishly handsome, and precocious, seems on consideration to be a statement as worthy of credit as the famous syllogistic conclusion, "Socrates was mortal."
"What's worse, I suppose I girlishly trilled all this to him, and too often. […]"
Translations:
gift-wrap
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: gift-wraps
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: gift-wrapping
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: gift-wrapped
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: gift-wrapped
pos: verb
tags: past
form: gift-wraps
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To wrap (something) in decorative wrappings to prepare it for presentation as a gift.
pos: verb
gloss: Decorative wrappings for covering a gift.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
giggler
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English giggle
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 giggler
From giggle + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: gigglers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person who giggles, or an inanimate object that can emanate laughter.
pos: noun
examples: Band concert public square Nebraska city. Flowing and circling dresses, summer-white dresses. Faces, flesh tints flung like sprays of cherry blossoms. And gigglers, God knows, gigglers, rivaling the pony whinnies of the Livery Stable Blues.
She was not a giggler, despite her extreme youth, and she smiled the small slow smile that men brought to her face without knowing why.
Translations:
gilding
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: gildings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The art of applying gold leaf to a surface.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: Gold leaf.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: A coating of gold or gold-colored paint, etc.
pos: noun
tags: countable
Derived words: amalgam gilding
electrogilding
fire-gilding
fire gilding
gilding metal
mercury gilding
wash-gilding
water gilding
Translations:
gilt-edged
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: business
finance
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Having gilded edges.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Issued by the Bank of England.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Of the highest quality.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Then a disastrous back-pass from Christopher Samba presented Drogba with a gilt-edged chance but the Ivorian's shot was saved by Robinson with his legs.
Related words: copper-bottomed
Translations:
gimmickry
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English gimmick
English -ry
English gimmickry
From gimmick + -ry.
Inflected forms:
form: gimmickries
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Gimmicks collectively.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Then, at least, we shall be able to program consciousness in such wise that it cannot be numbed nor distracted by the Narcissus illusions of the entertainment world that beset mankind when he encounters himself extended in his own gimmickry.
gloss: The use of gimmicks.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The fundamental reason educators have become involved in this gimmickry is that they do not seem to understand that unless there is a master plan to cover housing, jobs, and health, every plan for the schools will fall on its face. No piecemeal strategy can work.
With colossal chambers filled with elaborately macabre pseudo-scientific devices and ironic pageantry celebrating horror with forced glee, the director takes extravagance for substance and gimmickry for style; the results are show-offy, tasteless, and empty.
Translations:
gimmicky
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English gimmick
Proto-Indo-European *-kos
Proto-Germanic *-gaz
Proto-West Germanic *-g
Old English -iġ
Middle English -y
English -y
English gimmicky
From gimmick + -y.
Inflected forms:
form: gimmickier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: gimmickiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Resembling, or characteristic of a gimmick.
pos: adj
gloss: Containing gimmicks.
pos: adj
examples: What isn't so gimmicky is the Aggro System, where you draw fire onto yourself by acting aggressive, while your partner sneaks off blindsiding distracted enemies. Aggro depends on how big your current weapon is and how often you act aggressive.
Derived words: gimmickily
gimmickiness
ungimmicky
Translations:
gingery
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Old Tamil 𑀇𑀜𑁆𑀘𑀺 (iñci)
Proto-Dravidian *wēr
Old Tamil 𑀯𑁂𑀭𑁆 (vēr)
Old Tamil 𑀇𑀜𑁆𑀘𑀺𑀯𑁂𑀭𑁆 (iñcivēr)bor.
Sauraseni Prakrit 𑀲𑀺𑀁𑀕𑀺𑀯𑁂𑀭 (siṃgivera)der.
Ancient Greek ζιγγίβερις (zingíberis)bor.
Late Latin zingiberi
Late Latin gingiberbor.
Proto-West Germanic *gingiberō
Old English gingifer
▲
Old French gingembreinflu.
Middle English gingivere
Middle English gingere
English ginger
Proto-Indo-European *-kos
Proto-Germanic *-gaz
Proto-West Germanic *-g
Old English -iġ
Middle English -y
English -y
English gingery
From ginger + -y.
Inflected forms:
form: more gingery
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most gingery
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Somewhat reddish or reddish-brown in colour (especially of hair or skin colouring).
pos: adj
examples: gingery hair / freckles; the gingery fur of a fox
The very learned gentleman […] has cooled the natural heat of his gingery complexion in pools and fountains of law […]
He was a small, thick man, with a great rounded, bald head and one thin border of gingery curls.
He had bright red hair, not just gingery like Andrew’s […]
gloss: Having reddish-brown hair. (of a person)
pos: adj
examples: The red-haired pilgrim was beside himself with the thought that at least this poor Kurtz had been properly revenged. […] He positively danced, the bloodthirsty little gingery beggar.
gloss: Having a flavour or aroma of the spice ginger; containing that spice.
pos: adj
examples: a gingery broth / stir-fry
Nostalgic, gingery hints of Spanish geranium wafted in her mother’s room […]
gloss: Energetic, vigorous, lively, peppy, zippy.
pos: adj
tags: dated
examples: The boys have made themselves very popular with the fans here, because a good, gingery gaffe is played all the time, regardless of the score.
The recent showing of the locals has been a big disappointment to the fans, the team playing loosely, and the gingery coaching and hustling of Hulswitt has been the only redeeming feature.
1912, P. R. Bennett, “Patience on a Throne” in Ducdame: A Book of Verses, London: Elliot Stock, p. 44,
The man who reads his history of any clime or age
Finds characters of potentates disfiguring each page,
So touchy and so gingery
That every little injury
Will send them flying off into a rage.
The door to the street opened and Nobby himself came striding in, all gingery action and alertness, like an Airedale after a dustman.
gloss: Ginger, inhibited, cautious.
pos: adj
tags: US
dated
examples: I walked slowly, and with an assumed air of careless indifference. I counterfeited the Comanche walk—not that bold free port—the magnificent and inimitable stride, so characteristic of Chippewa and Shawano, of Huron and Iroquois—but the shuffling gingery step of an English jockey; for such in reality is the gait of the Comanche Indian when afoot.
They are unanimously shy of Ade in their horn-books for sophomores, and they are gingery in their praise of him in their innumerable review articles.
Translations:
gingham
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Malay genggang (“ajar; apart”), or a corruption of French Guingamp, the name of a town in Brittany, France, where this cloth may have been made.
Inflected forms:
form: ginghams
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A cotton fabric made from dyed and white yarn woven in checks.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: And she found that she was not wearing a despised muslin frock! Her dress was gingham!—an adorable plaid with long sleeves, and a patch-pocket low down on the right side!
Aunt Elizabeth had produced a terrible gingham apron and an equally terrible gingham sunbonnet from somewhere in the New Moon garret, and made Emily put them on. The apron was a long sack-like garment, high in the neck, with sleeves.
Always, the relentless bass of hip-hop blasting in rooms of nautical-themed furnishings, faded driftwood, gingham upholstery, linen and chambray.
Tradwifedom, the meekly old-fashioned vision of domesticity served up on Instagram by a bunch of submissive influencers in aprons, is a gingham-lined trap visible from space […].
gloss: A dress made from that material.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: "We have put on the pale blue silks that we wore at Isabella's wedding; that, however, was Georgiana's thought," continued Helen; "she said it would be impossible to go to church in our pink ginghams."
gloss: An umbrella.
pos: noun
tags: UK
archaic
countable
slang
uncountable
examples: […] their ginghams stuck under their arms at right angles to their back-bones […]
Related words: seersucker
Derived words: ginghamed
Translations:
girlishness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English girlish
Proto-Germanic *-inōną
Proto-Indo-European *-dyé-
Proto-Germanic *-atjaną
Proto-Indo-European *-tus
Proto-Germanic *-þuz
Proto-Germanic *-assuz
Proto-Germanic *-inassuz
Proto-West Germanic *-nassī
Old English -nes
Middle English -nesse
English -ness
English girlishness
From girlish + -ness.
Inflected forms:
form: girlishnesses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The quality of being girlish.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Girlish behaviour.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
give-and-take
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: give and take
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The settling of differences through compromise and mutual concessions.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: A lively exchange of conversation.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: We believe that it is in this spoken world, where people engage in phatic communion and indulge in the give-and-take of interpersonal socialising and the negotiation of personality, identity, friendship and connection, largely unmindful of institutional goals or language policies and politics, that one can best get a view of language vitality.
Translations:
giveback
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
English give backdeverb.
English giveback
Deverbal from give back.
Inflected forms:
form: givebacks
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A rebate.
pos: noun
gloss: A reduction in pay or conditions as a result of unfavourable economic conditions.
pos: noun
Antonyms: takeback
Related words: giveaway
buyback
sellback
Translations:
teshuva
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Hebrew תְּשׁוּבָה (t'shuvá, literally “return”), from ש־ו־ב (“return”).
Inflected forms:
form: teshuba
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: teshubah
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: teshuvah
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The Jewish concept of penitence.
pos: noun
tags: Judaism
uncountable
examples: The message that through sincere teshuvah and resolution, light and gladness can be achieved by all, is most fitting for the opening of the Yom Kippur service.
gloss: A responsum.
pos: noun
tags: Judaism
uncountable
examples: As I maintained in my teshuvah about Kitniyot, just as the original custom of not eating Kitniyot related originally to all the Pilgrim Festivals but the prohibition ended up sticking to Pesaḥ, the same thing happened regarding Shabbat Hagadol.
Translations:
one-sidedness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English one-sided
Proto-Germanic *-inōną
Proto-Indo-European *-dyé-
Proto-Germanic *-atjaną
Proto-Indo-European *-tus
Proto-Germanic *-þuz
Proto-Germanic *-assuz
Proto-Germanic *-inassuz
Proto-West Germanic *-nassī
Old English -nes
Middle English -nesse
English -ness
English one-sidedness
From one-sided + -ness.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The state of being one-sided; partiality, bias.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: The Premier League leaders did what many people thought was beyond them in their last European excursion, at the home of Borussia Dortmund, and they made light work of overcoming Marseille on a night when the one-sidedness was not reflected by their inability to add to Jack Wilshere's two goals.
Living in Germany, I see it as my human responsibility to call it out for its one-sidedness, its hypocrisy and its acquiesence in the ethnic cleansing of Gaza.
Translations:
one-track
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: having a single set of lines so that trains can run only in one direction at a time; single-track
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: limited to one idea or thought
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Derived words: one-track mind
Translations:
famously
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English famous
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English famously
From famous + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more famously
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most famously
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a celebrated manner.
pos: adv
gloss: Indicates that the act, state, or occurrence described by the sentence is famous. In such a manner as to become famous or produce something that would become famous.
pos: adv
examples: President Roosevelt famously said "the only thing we have to fear is fear itself."
But even as religion was on the rise, the word "God" declined dramatically over the course of the eighteenth century. The word is famously absent from the Constitution, but it was also relatively absent from the printed texts of the decade in which the Constitution was drafted and adopted, and more broadly from the revolutionary period overall.
Just as Hillary Rodham Clinton famously put "18 million cracks in the glass ceiling" for women in high office, so there are a number of corporate executives who are doing the same for the lavender ceiling faced by lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender employees. It's just a matter of time before they are promoted to the top job.
She famously could not drive, but she introduced the breathalyser test to prosecute drunks who tried to.
gloss: Really well, having great rapport.
pos: adv
tags: informal
examples: The new roommates got on famously.
Translations:
onionskin
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From onion + skin; named for its resemblance to the skin of an onion (thin and crinkly).
Compound parts: onion
skin
Inflected forms:
form: onionskins
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: onion skin
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A thin, strong, light, translucent paper; used especially for making carbon copies.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: I heard the dry-leaf rustle of onionskin papers.
gloss: A kind of marble with swirls of color on the outside.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
subshell
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *upó
Proto-Italic *supo
Latin sub
Latin sub-der.
English sub-
Proto-Indo-European *(s)kelH-
Proto-Indo-European *skolH-yeh₂
Proto-Germanic *skaljō
Proto-West Germanic *skallju
Old English sċiell
Middle English schelle
English shell
English subshell
From sub- + shell.
Inflected forms:
form: subshells
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of the atomic orbitals for which the values of the n and l quantum numbers are the same, such as the three 2p or five 3d atomic orbitals.
pos: noun
gloss: A child process launched by a shell.
pos: noun
Translations:
onlooking
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English on-
English looking
English onlooking
From on- + looking.
Inflected forms:
form: more onlooking
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most onlooking
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: That is looking on; watching, observing.
pos: adj
examples: A second character dressed as a bishop, gesturing towards the onlooking Henry VII, compared him with the costumed deity […].
Translations:
on-ramp
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From on + ramp.
Compound parts: on
ramp
Inflected forms:
form: on-ramps
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: onramp
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: on-ramps
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: on-ramping
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: on-ramped
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: on-ramped
pos: verb
tags: past
form: onramp
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A segment of roadway that directs vehicular traffic from local roads onto a freeway.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
Canada
US
gloss: An introduction, an introductory course.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
gloss: To introduce (someone) to (something).
pos: verb
tags: US
ditransitive
idiomatic
Translations:
onrush
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From on- + rush. Compare Middle English onresen (“to rush upon; attack”), from Old English onrǣsan (“to rush, rush on”); Old English onrǣs (“an onrush, assault, attack”).
Base: rush
Affixes: on-
Inflected forms:
form: onrushes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: onrushes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: onrushing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: onrushed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: onrushed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A forceful rush or flow forward.
pos: noun
examples: The love within us and the love without
Are mixed, confounded; if we are loved or love,
We scarce distinguish. So, with other power.
Being acted on and acting seem the same:
In that first onrush of life’s chariot-wheels,
We know not if the forests move or we.
For a brief moment the onrush of the egwugwu [masked men representing ancestral spirits] was checked by the unexpected composure of the two men. But it was only a momentary check, like the tense silence between blasts of thunder. The second onrush was greater than the first. It swallowed up the two men.
So persistent is the onrush of new construction in New York that the first temptation for the architecture buff is to track down the latest things, be they good or bad […]
gloss: An aggressive assault.
pos: noun
examples: He caught Grendel's right hand, and still without rising from his bed, stopped the monster's onrush.
gloss: To rush or flow forward forcefully.
pos: verb
examples: Werner’s run had created the space and Havertz got there before the onrushing Ederson, catching a little break off the goalkeeper before rolling it into the empty net.
gloss: To assault aggressively.
pos: verb
Synonyms: onslaught
Translations:
onscreen
Part of speech: adj
adv
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From on + screen.
Compound parts: on
screen
Inflected forms:
form: on-screen
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: on-screen
pos: adv
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: As seen on a screen (as of television, film, or computer) rather than in real life.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The two actors had a very realistic onscreen romance, but in reality they couldn't stand each other.
gloss: Inside the frame of the cinema, television or computer screen.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: I leaned over her shoulder to see two cybergirls yanking out each other's hair. Katy was typing insults that appeared onscreen.
Think of them [task panes] as dialog boxes that enable you to type while they're onscreen.
And the best voice actors — their names known to fans and promoted by companies — can become celebrities despite never appearing onscreen.
Antonyms: offscreen
Translations:
onshore
Part of speech: adj
adv
verb
Morphological type: compound
Topics: management
Etymology: From on + shore.
Compound parts: on
shore
Inflected forms:
form: on-shore
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: more onshore
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most onshore
pos: adv
tags: superlative
form: on-shore
pos: adv
tags: alternative
form: onshores
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: onshoring
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: onshored
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: onshored
pos: verb
tags: past
form: on-shore
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Moving from the sea towards the land.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: an onshore breeze
gloss: Positioned on or near the shore.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Princeton University's Center for Environmental Studies recommended today that New Jersey minimize adverse impacts of offshore drilling by limiting to the Atlantic City area any onshore bases built to support and supply oil rigs in the ocean.
The second time La Suprema came into harbor, at the Port of Augusta, in the east of Sicily, I watched the police onshore grow impatient with a teenager who was scheduled to disembark.
gloss: Within the country; not overseas.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: By this measure, it was only the second largest onshore leak in the US last year, surpassed by one near San Antonio, Texas in March which discharged 147 tonnes of methane an hour.
gloss: From the sea towards the land.
pos: adv
examples: Like most storms, Hurricane Katrina weakened as it came onshore, and by Monday evening the National Hurricane Center had downgraded it to a tropical storm.
gloss: To relocate production, services or jobs to lower-cost locations in the same country.
pos: verb
examples: I don’t want to suggest that any attempt to onshore production will doom America to runaway costs, supply-chain catastrophes, and frayed global alliances. In many cases, I’m sure there are brilliant reasons to bring back more advanced manufacturing, clean-energy construction, and resource production.
Translations:
on-site
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From on + site.
Compound parts: on
site
Inflected forms:
form: onsite
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: On a particular site or in a particular building, as opposed to at a remote site or factory.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Our supplier offers on-site support.
Production has restarted at Derby Litchurch Lane, after Bombardier agreed new working practices with on-site trade union representatives.
Translations:
on-the-job
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Attributive form of on the job.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: obtained whilst working
pos: adj
tags: attributive
not-comparable
examples: on-the-job training
on-the-job learning
Of course, such training facilities do exist, and they perform a vital role, but there's no substitute for on-the-job training and gaining experience from a real railway system.
Translations: