yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
venture
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Clipping of adventure.
Inflected forms:
form: ventures
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: ventures
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: venturing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: ventured
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: ventured
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A risky or daring undertaking or journey.
pos: noun
examples: My heart was beating finely when we two set forth in the cold night upon this dangerous venture.
Other jobs which the governor entrusted to Ch'ao-tung dealt with the economic exploitation of the newly won mountain areas. In the Miao-li region, Ch'ao-tung headed an office for developing the petroleum resources discovered there.³⁸ Without much success during his tenure, the venture was later turned over to private entrepreneurs.
gloss: An event that is not, or cannot be, foreseen.
pos: noun
examples: A certain man drew a bow at a venture and smote the king of Israel between the joints of the harness.
gloss: The thing risked; especially, something sent to sea in trade.
pos: noun
examples: My ventures are not in one bottom trusted.
gloss: To undertake a risky or daring journey.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: who freights a ship to venture on the seas
A hero ventures forth from the world of common day into a region of supernatural wonder: […]
gloss: To risk or offer.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to venture funds
to venture a guess
Nothing ventured, nothing gained.
I am afraid; and yet I'll venture it.
Till then they had only exchanged glances of the most casual but now under the brim of her new hat she ventured a look at him and the face that met her gaze there in the twilight, wan and strangely drawn, seemed to her the saddest she had ever seen.
[...] Mrs. Bray [...] expressed amazement at the speed with which the station was completed, and ventured the opinion that private contractors could still learn something from the railway companies.
gloss: To dare to engage in; to attempt without any certainty of success.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To put or send on a venture or chance.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to venture a horse to the West Indies
gloss: To confide in; to rely on; to trust.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: A man would be well enough pleased to buy silks of one whom he would not venture to feel his pulse.
gloss: To say something; to offer an opinion.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: “Unctuous is probably quite a good description, but there's a sweetness, too, and a mouthfeel,” ventures Heston Blumenthal, chef at the Fat Duck at Bray.
Related words: venturesome
venturous
Derived words: at a venture
e-venture
venture capitalism
venture capitalist
venture capital
Translations:
Bakelite
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Patented July 1907 by its inventor, Leo Hendrik Baekeland. See -ite.
Inflected forms:
form: bakelite
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A heat-resisting chemically inert phenol formaldehyde resin (an early thermosetting plastic).
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
folk
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: architecture
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Germanic *fulkazder.
Proto-Germanic *fulką
Proto-West Germanic *folk
Old English folc
Middle English folk
English folk
From Middle English folk, from Old English folc, from Proto-West Germanic *folk, from Proto-Germanic *fulką, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *pl̥h₁-gós, from *pleh₁- (“to fill”).
Cognate with German Volk, Dutch volk, Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish folk, Icelandic fólk. Doublet of volk.
Inflected forms:
form: vok
pos: adj
tags: alternative
dialectal
form: volk
pos: adj
tags: alternative
dialectal
form: volge
pos: adj
tags: alternative
dialectal
form: volke
pos: adj
tags: alternative
dialectal
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to the inhabitants of a land, their culture, tradition, or history.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Of or pertaining to common people as opposed to ruling classes or elites.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Of or related to local building materials and styles.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Believed or transmitted by the common people; not academically or ideologically correct or rigorous.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: folk psychology; folk linguistics
Americans are not libertarians in the Cato Institute sense of the word, but they are folk libertarians in this sense of impulsive behaviour, which is a feature of American life that anyone who wants to govern the United States, Democratic or Republican, has to be aware of.
Derived words: folk etymology
folk medicine
Translations:
validity
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: Christianity
lifestyle
religion
theology
Etymology: From valid + -ity, borrowed from Middle French validité, from Late Latin validitas.
Base: valid
Affixes: -ity
Inflected forms:
form: validities
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The state of being valid, authentic or genuine.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: State of having legal force.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A quality of a measurement indicating the degree to which the measure reflects the underlying construct, that is, whether it measures what it purports to measure (see reliability).
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The genuinity, as distinguished from the efficacity or the regularity, of a sacrament as a result of some formal dispositions being fulfilled.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Derived words: face validity
formal validity
Translations:
blowhard
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Essentially deverbal in nature, albeit not from a unitary phrasal verb; from blow hard.
Inflected forms:
form: blowhards
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: blow-hard
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A person who talks too much or too loudly, especially in a boastful or self-important manner.
pos: noun
tags: Canada
US
derogatory
examples: The merchants are the most ultra Secessionists, one of the secret springs of action among this class being the heavy indebtedness owing to Eastern creditors. Some men of Northern origin were the most rabid. A "blow-hard," named JAMES PATTERSON, of Augusta, Jackson County, was originally from Pennsylvania. He stumped the county and was elected to the Convention, and cast his vote for secession.
[T]he loud-mouthed blowhard seemed just the man to flinch when real danger confronted him; […]
Oh, this bellowing, blatant, bellicose, belligerent, bombastic blowhard […]
In my profession, I have seen more than my share of blowhards who use volume to intimidate the weak, fool the feeble-minded, or control the insecure or lazy who would just as soon have someone do their thinking for them anyway.
David Davis, Liam Fox, Boris Johnson and the other Brexit blowhards know they have no chance of achieving their stated aims, such as a £350m weekly NHS payback.
Translations:
braggart
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle French bragard (“bragging, flaunting, vain", also "a showy, arrogant individual”), from braguer (“to boast, brag”). No firm relation to English brag has been established.
Inflected forms:
form: braggarts
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: braggard
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: more braggart
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most braggart
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Someone who constantly brags or boasts.
pos: noun
examples: O I could play the woman with mine eyes, / And Braggart with my tongue.
Shallow water gives a great splash, and so a braggart has ever been contemptible in my eyes.
A very good resolve to make and keep, if you would also keep any friends you make, is never to speak of anyone without, in imagination, having them overhear what you say. One often hears the exclamation “I would say it to her face!” At least be very sure that this is true, and not a braggart’s phrase and then—nine times out of ten think better of it and refrain.
gloss: Characterized by boasting; boastful.
pos: adj
examples: O my fair Mistress, Truth! Shall I quit thee, / For huffing, braggart, puft Nobility?
Captain [Benjamin] Bonneville was delighted with the game look of these cavaliers of the mountains, welcomed them heartily to his camp, and ordered a free allowance of grog to regale them, which soon put them in the most braggart spirits.
He took him on the long walks of which he was fond, and made him in some sort his humble confidant, talking to him of himself and his plans with large and braggart vagueness.
Translations:
forked
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: forkt
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: That splits into two or more directions, or parts.
pos: adj
examples: It's a forked road. Turn left at the fork.
A baidarka has a forked bow.
gloss: Having forks (parts into which anything is furcated or divided).
pos: adj
examples: A three-forked trident.
Synonyms: forken
Related words: fork
forked lightning
forked riceflower
forked sundew
forked tongue
graft the forked tree
speak with a forked tongue
three-forked
Derived words: biforked
forkedly
forkedness
Forked River
multiforked
twiforked
unforked
Translations:
orienteering
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Etymology: Borrowed from Swedish orientering, from orientera (“orient, orientate”) + -ing.
Base: orientera
Affixes: -ing
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The act of racing across unfamiliar place using a map and compass.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
plebeian
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Latin plēbēius (“a commoner; common”) + -an (adjective-forming suffix), from Latin plēbēs + -ius (adjective-forming suffix), possibly under the influence of Middle French plebeyen, plebein, plebien (“a commoner”) and plebeien (“concerning the common people”). Cf. Medieval Latin plēbēiānus (“a commoner”), from plēbēius + -ānus.
Inflected forms:
form: plebeians
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: plebian
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: plebeyan
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: plebean
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: plebeane
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: plebien
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: more plebeian
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most plebeian
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: plebian
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: plebeyan
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: plebean
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: plebeane
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: plebien
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: A member of the plebs, the common citizens of ancient Rome.
pos: noun
tags: Ancient-Rome
historical
examples: Na plebeane will tak þe dochter of ane patriciane but hir consent.
The cognomen was first used in patrician families, who were distinguished from the plebeians by their three names.
gloss: A commoner, particularly (derogatory) a low, vulgar person.
pos: noun
examples: There blude... vald hef na bettir cullour nor the blude of ane plebien or of ane mecanik craftis man.
The feelings of our heart, the agitation of our passions, the vehemence of our affections, dissipate all its conclusions, and reduce the profound philosopher to a mere plebeian.
gloss: Of or concerning the plebs, the common citizens of ancient Rome.
pos: adj
tags: historical
examples: To what purpose be the plebeian Magistrates ordeined?
gloss: Of or concerning the common people.
pos: adj
examples: ...priuate person or plebian multitude...
gloss: Common, particularly (derogatory) vulgar, crude, coarse, uncultured.
pos: adj
examples: For to plebeyan wits, it is as good,
As to be silent, as not vnderstood.
[…] told me love was too plebeian / told me you were through with me
Completely absent was any mention of the Apple Watch Edition branding, which Apple used last year to launch a pair of $10,000-and-up Apple Watches that worked the same way as the cheap ones but were made out of actual gold instead of workaday, plebeian metals.
Synonyms: of
pertaining to the common people
Antonyms: noble
aristocratic
Related words: plebe
plebs
plebeiance
plebeianism
plebeity
plebeiate
Derived words: pleb
plebeianization
plebeianize
plebeianly
plebeianness
Translations:
futile
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French futile, from Latin fūtilis.
Inflected forms:
form: more futile
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most futile
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Incapable of producing results, useless; doomed not to be successful; not worth attempting.
pos: adj
examples: But Bathsheba, though she could feel, was not much given to futile dreaming, and her musings under this head were short and entirely confined to the times when Troy’s neglect was more than ordinarily evident.
He seemed hitherto to have been living by proxy, in a vision, in reflection—to have been an echo, a shadow, a futile attempt;[…]
No matter how early I came down, I would find him on the veranda, smoking cigarettes, or[…]. And at last I began to realize in my harassed soul that all elusion was futile, and to take such holidays as I could get, when he was off with a girl, in a spirit of thankfulness.
There is an hour or two, after the passengers have embarked, which is disquieting and fussy.[…]Stewards, carrying cabin trunks, swarm in the corridors. Passengers wander restlessly about or hurry, with futile energy, from place to place.
He wished he had not been saddled with Whippham's rather futile son as his chaplain.
Goals from Steven Pienaar, Andros Townsend, Jermain Defoe and Harry Kane sealed the win, but Rubin Kazan's 1-1 draw against PAOK Salonika rendered Spurs' efforts futile.
gloss: Insignificant; frivolous.
pos: adj
examples: Of its history little is recorded, and that little futile.
This idiosyncrasy is brought out by social pressure, while in a state of nature it might have betrayed itself only in trivial and futile ways, as it does among barbarians.
Synonyms: useless
bootless
barren
futile
fruitless
gainless
idle
inane
ineffectual
inefficacious
inutile
no good
otiose
pointless
profitless
purposeless
tired
unavailing
unprofitable
unuseful
unutilizable
vain
void
Antonyms: effectual
effective
fruitful
worthwhile
gainful
profitable
productive
purposeful
useful
utilizable
Related words: futilely
futility
futilitarian
Derived words: futileness
unfutile
Translations:
futility
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Latin fūtilitās (“worthlessness, futility”). By surface analysis, futile + -ity.
Inflected forms:
form: futilities
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The quality of being futile or useless.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: an exercise of futility
His taking the bar exam for a third time was pure futility.
“Has my dad come?” he asked.
“You can see he hasn’t,” said Mrs. Morel, cross with the futility of the question.
gloss: Something, especially an act, that is futile.
pos: noun
tags: countable
usually
examples: But fashion and authority apart, and bringing Plato to the test of reason, take from him, his sophisms, futilities, and incomprehensibilities, and what remains?
No man oppresses thee, can bid thee fetch or carry, come or go, without reason shewn. […] No man, wiser, unwiser, can make thee come or go: but thy own futilities, bewilderments, thy false appetites for Money, Windsor Georges and such like?
An excessive solicitude to shield those others from one's own trials and hardships, to preserve the exact quality of the revelation, for example, had been the fruitful cause of crippling errors, spiritual tyrannies, dogmatisms, dissensions, and futilities.
But men will chatter and you and I will still shout our futilities to each other across the stage until the last silly curtain falls plump! upon our bobbing heads.
There are moments of profound existential angst, howls of despair at the absurd futilities of war and a sneering disgust at the soul-destroying wastage of human potential.
gloss: Unimportance.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: Her empty chatter, her futility, her childish coquetry and frivolity—such light wares could hardly be the whole substance of any woman’s being; […]
Derived words: exercise in futility
futilitarian
Translations:
porker
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From pork + -er.
* (obese person; police officer): Carried over from the same senses of pig.
* (a lie): Extension of the rhyming slang pork pie.
Base: pork
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: porkers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A pig, especially a castrated male, being fattened and raised for slaughter.
pos: noun
examples: Jerry Lynch, a pig's head pickled. Term usually applied to the long Irish heads which are sent over here for sale in the poorer districts of London, and which are vastly different from the heads of “dairy-fed” porkers.
In every vacant space new houses are being built, and all sorts of odd little cooking-sheds are erected against the old ones, while in some out-of-the-way corners, massive log pigsties are tenanted by growing porkers; for how can the Chinamen exist six months without one feast of pig?
Again, when Harold was locked up in his room all day, for assault and battery upon a neighbour's pig, - an action he would have scorned, being indeed on the friendliest terms with the porker in question, - there was no handsome expression of regret on the discovery of the real culprit.
All the other male pigs on the farm were porkers.
gloss: An obese person.
pos: noun
tags: derogatory
slang
gloss: A lie.
pos: noun
tags: Cockney
UK
slang
gloss: A police officer.
pos: noun
tags: US
derogatory
slang
Translations:
un-American
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-
Proto-Indo-European *h₃emh₃-
Proto-Germanic *amalą
Proto-Indo-European *h₃reǵ-
Proto-Indo-European *-s
Proto-Indo-European *h₃rḗǵs
Proto-Celtic *rīxsbor.
Proto-Germanic *rīks
Proto-Germanic *Amalarīksder.
Proto-Indo-European *ḱey-
Proto-Indo-European *-mos
Proto-Indo-European *ḱóymos
Proto-Indo-European *tḱóymos
Proto-Germanic *haimaz
▲
Proto-Germanic *rīks
Proto-Germanic *Haimarīksder.?
Italian Amerigoder.
New Latin Americalbor.
English America
Middle English -n
English -n
English American
English un-American
From un- + American.
Inflected forms:
form: more un-American
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most un-American
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: unamerican
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Contrary to the principles, institutions or interests of the United States; anti-American.
pos: adj
examples: Besides, how can you talk about church politics? It would certainly be anti-Catholic and might easily become un-American.
In 1959 ex-President Truman, never one to mince words, called the Committee the “most un-American thing in the country today.” Mr. Goodman strongly disagrees: “…unless one is prepared to blank out large and significant patches of our history, there is nothing un-American about the Un-American Activities Committee.”
Surely there is nothing strange or new or threatening about such a platform. It will distress only those who have the essentially un-American view that change itself is frightening and should be avoided at all costs.
"What was done to our country was wrong and unpatriotic and un-American and nobody has been held to account," he later told the Guardian. "There is a real patriotism underneath the best of my music but it is a critical, questioning and often angry patriotism."
It is an awful fact that the most powerful man in America may also represent the worst of America. In a way, Trump is the un-American president.
“As an American, I was disgusted,” she said. “It was unpatriotic. It was un-American. We were watching the Capitol building get defaced over a lie.”
Mr. Ramaswamy assailed the idea as a “blood and soil” conception of citizenship, one that is “un-American at its core” and “about as loony as anything the woke left has actually put up.”
gloss: Incivil, immoral.
pos: adj
tags: US
informal
gloss: Unrelated to America or the U.S.; untypical of U.S. mores or habits; non-American, not American.
pos: adj
examples: [About British filmmaker Alfred Hitchcock:] It’s not often addressed in criticism, but Hitchcock was un-American enough to dwell on the uneasiness or the unreliability of heroes.
Derived words: HUAC
un-Americanness
Translations:
extend
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: government
law
military
politics
war
Etymology: From Middle English extenden, from Anglo-Norman extendre, estendre, from Latin extendō (“to stretch out”).
Inflected forms:
form: extends
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: extending
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: extended
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: extended
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To increase in extent.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To possess a certain extent; to cover an amount of space.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: The desert extended for miles in all directions.
Szechuan extends from the Wushan Mountains in the east to the Chinsha River — the upper reaches of the Yangtse — in the west.
gloss: To cause to increase in extent.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To cause to last for a longer period of time.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To straighten (a limb).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To bestow; to offer; to impart; to apply.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to extend sympathy to the suffering
to extend credit to a valued customer
gloss: To increase in quantity by weakening or adulterating additions.
pos: verb
examples: There's little stew left, but we can always extend it by adding more potatoes.
The skim milk and middlings should be mixed in a tub or barrel, and, if the supply of milk is short , it may be extended with water.
[…] the exalted morality of those virtuous brethren in the trade who, with consciences as weak as their own "extended" liquors, sought to convince him that to reduce the drink was a mercy to the poor deluded toper.
gloss: To value, as lands taken by a writ of extent in satisfaction of a debt; to assign by writ of extent.
pos: verb
tags: UK
gloss: Of a class: to be an extension or subtype of, or to be based on, a prototype or a more abstract class.
pos: verb
examples: The classes Person and Dog extend the class Animal.
gloss: To reenlist for a further period.
pos: verb
tags: US
intransitive
examples: Two years later, back to amtracs, this time at Camp Schwab, Okinawa, and I liked it so much I extended.
Synonyms: enlarge
expand
increase
lengthen
stretch
widen
Related words: extendible
extensible
extension
extensive
extent
Derived words: coextend
extendability
extendable
extend a hand
extender
extend one's hand
hyperextend
misextend
overextend
re-extend
underextend
Translations:
tolerate
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin tolerātus, the perfect passive participle of tolerō (“to endure”), see -ate (verb-forming suffix). Cognate with Old English þolian (“to tolerate, suffer, bear”) and French tolérer. More at thole.
Affixes: -ate
Inflected forms:
form: tolerates
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: tolerating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: tolerated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: tolerated
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To allow or permit without explicit approval, usually if it is perceived as negative.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The party tolerated corruption within its ranks.
gloss: To bear, withstand.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: I can tolerate working on Saturday, but not Sunday.
The elevator can tolerate up to 360 kilograms.
Synonyms: countenance
have
abear
abide
aby
accept
allow
bear
bide
brook
dree
endure
forbear
go along with
live with
pass
pocket
pouch
put up with
stand
stick
stomach
suffer
swallow
take
take sitting down
thole
tolerate
undergang
undergo
Antonyms: chafe
discriminate
lose one's temper
prohibit
rage
snap
Related words: tolerability
tolerable
tolerance
tolerant
toleration
Derived words: toleratable
tolerative
tolerator
Translations:
Dresden
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from German Dresden (“Dresden”) in the 1730s, from Middle High German Dresden, from a Sorbian source akin to Lower Sorbian Drježdźany, ultimately from Proto-Slavic *dręzga, of which the locative case is *dręzdzě.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A variety of china, originally manufactured in the city, but manufactured in Meissen from the 18th century.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
aura
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: medicine
parapsychology
pathology
pseudoscience
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₂ews-
Proto-Indo-European *h₂ewsér
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Ancient Greek αὔρα (aúra)bor.
Latin aurabor.
English aura
Borrowed from Latin aura (“a breeze, a breath of air, the air”), from Ancient Greek αὔρα (aúra, “breeze, soft wind”), from ἀήρ (aḗr, “air”). Doublet of east, auster, air, and aria. The slang sense originated in the early 2020s and was popularized on TikTok around May 2024.
Inflected forms:
form: aurae
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: auræ
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: auras
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A subtle emanation or exhalation of any substance, such as an aroma or odour.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A distinctive atmosphere or quality surrounding or associated with something or someone.
pos: noun
tags: countable
figuratively
uncountable
examples: This place has an aura of 19th century Paris.
His latest successes have endued him with an aura of invincibility.
gloss: A supposed emanation from and surrounding a living person or thing, regarded by mystics as consisting of the essence of the individual.
pos: noun
tags: also
countable
uncountable
gloss: The charisma or suave excellence of a person, especially implying their vibe or energy.
pos: noun
tags: Internet
uncountable
examples: Near-synonym: rizz
He has insane aura.
Tht Nigga [Adolf Hitler] has no aura He dress like a medieval Queer
how can he still have aura even without showing his face
this genuinely shocked me omfg his aura is insane 😭
My fav aura losses are rm exposing Taehyun Infront^([sic]) of jongkook, Yeonjun hugging the air while coi leray was hugging Beomgyu, huening doing that one dance in front of the ladies and everyone at the GDA(correct me if I'm wrong)lol
A clip of Kim stoically shooting at a competition in May spread exponentially online after her Olympic appearance, with posts citing her “aura,” current slang for an aspirational level of cool.
gloss: A subjective sensation experienced at the onset of a neurological condition, especially a migraine headache or epileptic seizure.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A surrounding.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: It was not the kind of face he had expected to see at all. It was young, smooth-skinned, heart-shaped, surrounded by an aura of vivid titian hair that coiled luxuriantly.
gloss: A gentle breeze, a zephyr.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
Derived words: angel aura
aqua aura
auraed
aura farm
aura farming
auraful
auraless
auralike
auratic
auric
flame aura
hype moments and aura
opal aura
pearl aura
Translations:
eulogy
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English wloge (“commendation of the virtues of a deceased person”), from Latin eulogium, apparently from a confusion between ēlogium (whence English elogium, elogy) and eulogia (from Ancient Greek εὐλογία (eulogía, “praise”), whence English eulogia); equivalent to eu- + logia ("good words"). Doublet of eulogium.
Inflected forms:
form: eulogies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An oration to honor a deceased person, usually at a funeral.
pos: noun
gloss: Speaking highly of someone or something; the act of praising or commending someone or something.
pos: noun
examples: It was the prettiest and most luxurious little sitting-room I had ever seen; and I admired it with the warmest enthusiasm. The solemn servant was far too highly trained to betray the slightest satisfaction. He bowed with icy deference when my terms of eulogy were all exhausted, and silently opened the door for me to go out into the passage again.
The Southampton striker, who also struck a post late on, was being serenaded by the Wembley crowd before the end and should probably brace himself for some Lambert-mania over the coming days but, amid the eulogies, it should not overlook the deficiencies that were evident in another stodgy England performance.
Synonyms: panegyric
elogy
eulogium
Antonyms: criticism
dyslogy
Related words: eulogia
Derived words: eulogise
eulogize
eulogism
eulogist
eulogistic
eulogomania
paneulogism
Translations:
eulogist
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English eulogy
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 eulogist
From eulogy + -ist.
Inflected forms:
form: eulogists
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A speaker who delivers a funeral oration (eulogy) for a deceased person.
pos: noun
gloss: A person who praises another person or thing.
pos: noun
examples: I consider, that so far as what is called military renown is concerned, the American Navy needs no eulogist but History.
I am his eulogist; but I am not in love with him. If he were to ask me to be his wife to-morrow, I should be distressed, and should refuse him.
Translations:
convulse
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Latin convulsus, past participle of convellere (“to pluck up, dislocate, convulse”), from com- (“together”) + vellere (“to pluck, pull”). Doublet of convel.
Inflected forms:
form: convulses
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: convulsing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: convulsed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: convulsed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To suffer violent involuntary contractions of the muscles, causing one's body to contort.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: He realized she was crying. He could feel her body convulsing with little sobs and her cheek was wet where it brushed his.
gloss: To be beset by political or social upheaval.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
intransitive
examples: The Persian Empire was convulsing with intrigue, revolt, and civil war.
gloss: To cause (someone) to suffer such contractions, especially as a result of making them laugh heartily.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: But while he was convulsing all London with laughter, he was fast falling a victim to consumption.
gloss: To cause disruption to.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: For Lucifer, as Lord of Fire, was thought to suffer the most terrible pangs whenever the element of fire, over which he presided, was convulsed or agitated.
Related words: convulsant
convulsible
convulsion
convulsive
Derived words: unconvulsed
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: треса се
roman: tresa se
lang: Bulgarian
word: получавам конвулсии
roman: polučavam konvulsii
lang: Chinese Cantonese
word: 劇烈震動 /剧烈震动
roman: kek⁶ lit⁶ zan³ dung⁶
lang: Finnish
word: sätkiä
lang: French
word: convulser
lang: German
word: erschüttern
lang: Japanese
word: 振動させる
roman: shindō-saseru
lang: Manx
word: co-leayst
lang: Portuguese
word: convulsionar
lang: Portuguese
word: convelir
lang: Quechua
word: arqhepay
lang: Spanish
word: convulsionar
lang: Spanish
word: crispar
lang: Swedish
word: skaka
lang: Swedish
word: kikna
lang: Turkish
word: sarsmak
coolie
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Hindustani (Hindi क़ुली (qulī) / Urdu قلی (qulī, “hired laborer”)), possibly from Ottoman Turkish قول (kul, “servant”). Another theory says that it is named after Gujarati કોળી (koḷī), a Gujarati tribe or caste. Other forms occur in Bengali কুলি (kuli) and Tamil கூலி (kūli, “daily hire”). Possibly also influenced by Hindustani (कोली (kolī) / کولی (kolī, “weaver; low-class”)). In Kurdish Koile (کۆیلە) and Quli (قولى): Slave, Servant. Kawli (Keweli): Low-Class, Gypsy.
Mandarin 苦力 (kǔlì, “hard labor”) may also have been influenced by cognates of the above Hindi word in other languages and may have further influenced English.
Inflected forms:
form: coolies
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: coolee
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: cooly
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: kuli
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: quli
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: koelie
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: An unskilled Asian worker, usually of Chinese or Indian descent; a labourer; a porter. Coolies were frequently transported to other countries in the 19th and early 20th centuries as indentured labourers.
pos: noun
examples: One day when the Man's Wife and the Tertium Quid had just arrived in the Cemetery, they saw some coolies breaking ground.
From Hui-li-chou northwards I was escorted by real soldiers, quite of the new service. They looked rather shipshape in khaki suits and puttees, and their guns were of a good model, but they handled them in careless fashion at first, belabouring laden ponies and even coolies who were slow in getting out of the way of my chair.
Outside, beyond the sun-baked station yard, a rice mill chugged away in the distance, and sweating coolies unloaded bags of rice from creaking bullock carts.
Coolie-identity is as much the product of self-perception as it is the construction of a category by those who did not belong to it. It is these constructions that historically constituted a coolie in the matrix of power relations which this essay seeks to partially comprehend.
Community histories did not necessarily feature the coolie, partly due to the fact that “coolie” is a classed term. Asian coolies were regarded as lowly laborers.
gloss: An Indian or a person of Indian descent.
pos: noun
tags: Caribbean
Guyana
Jamaica
Trinidad-and-Tobago
ethnic
slur
examples: Well, he and his troops had shown the koefietjies-the little coolies-how quickly and how easily Afrikaner explosive shells could knock it down.
Even a coolie would have been better.
Related words: koolie
Derived words: Coolie Christmas
coolie hat
coolieism
coolie orange
coolitude
Translations:
catalepsy
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
Etymology: From Ancient Greek κατάληψις (katálēpsis, “act of seizing”), from καταλαμβάνω (katalambánō, “to seize”), from κατά (katá, “against”) + λαμβάνω (lambánō, “to take”). By surface analysis, cata- + -lepsy.
Compound parts: κατά
λαμβάνω
Inflected forms:
form: catalepsies
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: catalepsis
pos: noun
tags: alternative
dated
Senses:
gloss: A severe bodily condition, described in psychiatric pathology, marked by sudden rigidity, fixation of posture, and loss of contact with environmental conditions.
pos: noun
examples: "But they could not have been asleep!" cried Lord John. "Dash it all, Challenger, you don't mean to believe that those folk were asleep with their staring eyes and stiff limbs and that awful death grin on their faces!" "It can only have been the condition that is called catalepsy," said Challenger.
I was furious with Edgar Allan Poe for writing so accurately about this. His tales of catalepsy and live burial poisoned my childhood, and still killed me.
Translations:
pizzle
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Dutch Low Saxon pesel or West Flemish pezel, diminutive of Middle Dutch pese (“a sinew, tendon, string, pizzle”), from Old Dutch *pisa (“sinew, string, fibre”), possibly ultimately related to vezel (“fiber”), from Proto-West Germanic *fas-il-, from Proto-Indo-European *pē̆s- (“to blow”) (see Old High German faso (“fiber”)); in which case this alternation *pes- / *fes- may indicate a repeated borrowing from a (non-Indo-European?) substrate language.
Cognate with Dutch pees, Middle Low German pese (“tendon, bowstring”), Dutch pees (“sinew, tendon”), German Low German Peserick, Pesel (“pizzle”), dialectal German Pisel (“penis”).
Inflected forms:
form: pizzles
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: pizzel
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: pizzell
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: pisle
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The penis of an animal.
pos: noun
examples: Although, if in the lion the position of the pizzle be proper, and that the natural situation, it will be hard to make out their retrocopulation, or their coupling and pissing backward, according to the determination of Aristotle [...].
gloss: The penis of an animal.
pos: noun
gloss: The penis of an animal.
pos: noun
gloss: A baton made from the penis of an ox, once used to beat men and animals.
pos: noun
Derived words: pizzle rot
pizzled
pizzling
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: пенис на животно
roman: penis na životno
lang: Chinese Cantonese
word: 鞭
roman: bin¹
lang: Chinese
word: 鞭
roman: zh-min-nan
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 鞭
roman: biān
lang: Galician
word: verga
lang: Galician
word: vergallo
lang: German
word: Penis
lang: German
word: Fiesel
lang: German
word: Ziemer
lang: German
word: Ochsenziemer
lang: German
word: Rute
lang: German
word: Tierpenis
lang: German
word: Bullenpenis
lang: German
word: Bullenziemer
lang: German
word: Pferdepenis
lang: German
word: Hengstpenis
lang: German
word: Hundepenis
lang: Hungarian
word: bikacsök
lang: Manggarai
word: laso
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: red
lang: Welsh
word: dwsel
lang: Welsh
word: gwialen
debunk
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From de- (“away”) + bunk (“nonsense”) (from bunkum, from Buncombe County) 1923.
Base: bunk
Affixes: de-
Inflected forms:
form: debunks
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: debunking
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: debunked
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: debunked
pos: verb
tags: past
form: debunks
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To discredit, or expose to ridicule the falsehood or the exaggerated claims of something; to refute.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The explosion story was thoroughly debunked on National Public Radio in November 1999.
debunk a theory
We began to debunk, with the aid of such Bowdlerisations of Freud as now trickled though, human motive, and learned to diagnose our mental discomforts as repressions and inhibitions—an accomplishment which gave me a good deal of relief.
This is what I mean by saying that the pseudoskeptics aren't actually skeptics in a genuine sense; they're believers in some other system, out to attack and debunk what they don't believe in while trying to appear open minded and scientific, even though they're not.
I am reading Nick Sousanis’ PhD dissertation-as-a-comic Unflattening. It debunks the primacy of word over image in Western culture and suggests that the two are equal partners in meaning-making.
For many of the Capitol rioters and others who believe Mr. Trump won, it was not a large leap to “Stop the Steal” from a pathway of conspiratorial steppingstones that included the “Pizzagate” claim of 2016 that Democrats were running a child sex ring in the back of a popular Washington pizza parlor, the debunked allegation that a low-level Democratic National Committee aide was murdered for leaking Hillary Clinton’s emails and many more.
Another of my favourite themes has been debunking promises of new technology. Over the years, I have enjoyed watching the lack of progress on driverless cars, drone deliveries, hyperloop, and maglev.
gloss: A debunking; the act by which something is debunked.
pos: noun
tags: informal
Translations:
vibraphone
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English vibra(to)
Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂-der.
Proto-Hellenic *pʰōnā́
Ancient Greek φωνή (phōnḗ)der.
English -phone
English vibraphone
From vibra(to) + -phone.
Inflected forms:
form: vibraphones
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A percussion instrument with a double row of tuned metal bars, each above a tubular resonator containing a motor-driven rotating vane, giving a vibrato effect.
pos: noun
Translations:
journal
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: accounting
business
computing
engineering
finance
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: From Middle English journal, from Anglo-Norman jurnal (“daily”), from Old French jornel (“day”) (whence modern French journal), from Latin diurnālis, from diurnus (“of the day”). Doublet of diurnal and the journal from French.
Inflected forms:
form: journals
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: journall
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: journals
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: journaling
pos: verb
tags: US
participle
present
form: journalling
pos: verb
tags: UK
participle
present
form: journaled
pos: verb
tags: US
participle
past
form: journaled
pos: verb
tags: US
past
form: journalled
pos: verb
tags: UK
participle
past
form: journalled
pos: verb
tags: UK
past
form: journall
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: A diary or daily record of a person, organization, vessel etc.; daybook.
pos: noun
gloss: A newspaper or magazine dealing with a particular subject.
pos: noun
examples: The university's biology department subscribes to half a dozen academic journals.
gloss: A chronological record of payments or receipts.
pos: noun
gloss: A general journal.
pos: noun
gloss: A chronological record of changes made to a database or other system; along with a backup or image copy that allows recovery after a failure or reinstatement to a previous time; a log.
pos: noun
gloss: To archive or record something.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To scrapbook.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
transitive
examples: Coffee shops-cum-meeting-spots dotted across the city are teeming (Equator, Blue Bottle and Saint Frank). Caffeine-fuelled, lactose-intolerant, macadamia milk latte-drinking young folk are journalling, manifesting, coding, ChatGPT-ing and pitching their ideas.
Derived words: after image journal
art journal
before image journal
bullet journal
conversational journal
cyberjournal
e-journal
item journal
journalese
journalise
journalism
journalist
journalistic
journalization
journalize
journal tape
medical journal
megajournal
mirror server journal
peer-reviewed journal
photojournal
predatory journal
pseudojournal
purchase journal
sale journal
symptom journal
trade journal
transaction journal
Translations:
uzi
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Named after Uziel Gal (1923–2002), the Israeli army officer who designed it.
Inflected forms:
form: uzis
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: UZI
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Uzi
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A type of compact submachine gun, having a caliber of 9 millimeters with ammunition housed in the grip of the weapon.
pos: noun
Translations:
bifurcate
Part of speech: verb
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Medieval Latin bifurcātus. Surface Analysis bi- + furcate.
Base: furcate
Affixes: bi-
Inflected forms:
form: bifurcates
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: bifurcating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: bifurcated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: bifurcated
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To divide or fork into two channels or branches.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: A considerable switch is to take place between Charing Cross and Cannon Street as termini for existing trains, in order to develop parallel working over the flat junction at Borough Market, where the two routes bifurcate (four tracks to Cannon Street and two to Charing Cross), as many as 20 times in the maximum hour, when the junction will handle 104 trains in all.
gloss: To cause to bifurcate.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The forces that reduce two people to a Goodreads recommendation have bifurcated us politically, and that day we saw the virtual, intangible dangers of this attention economy turn very real: thousands of violent rioters, radicalised online, seemingly brainwashed, fighting with guns for a lie.
gloss: Divided or forked into two; bifurcated.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Having bifurcations.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Synonyms: branch
fork
biforked
Related words: confurcate
furcate
quadfurcated
trifurcate
Derived words: bifurcated
bifurcation
bifurcative
bifurcator
nonbifurcating
rebifurcate
bifurcately
Translations:
tritium
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
Etymology: Borrowed from New Latin tritium, from Ancient Greek τρίτος (trítos, “third”) + New Latin -ium. By surface analysis, trit- + -ium.
Inflected forms:
form: tritiums
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A radioactive isotope of the element hydrogen (symbol T, ³H or 31H) having one proton and two neutrons.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: An atom of this isotope.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Electrochemical polymerization of the 1,2-tritiated monomer produced a polymer in which all of the tritiums were eliminated except for those located at the ends of the chains
Related words: triton
Derived words: antitritium
tritigenic
tritium oxide
Translations:
isotope
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: mathematics
sciences
topology
Etymology: From iso- (“equal”) + -tope (“place”), because the different isotopes of an element always occupy the same place in the periodic table. The term was coined by Scottish doctor Margaret Todd in 1909 and first used publicly on February 27, 1913 by English chemist Frederick Soddy.
Base: iso
Inflected forms:
form: isotopes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: isotopes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: isotoping
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: isotoped
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: isotoped
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Any of two or more forms of an element where the atoms have the same number of protons, but a different number of neutrons within their nuclei. Thus, isotopes have the same atomic number but a different mass number.
pos: noun
gloss: To define or demonstrate an isotopy of (one map with another).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Translations:
radioactive
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Coined by Pierre Curie and Marie Curie in 1898 as French radio-actif, equivalent to English radio- + active.
Base: active
Affixes: radio-
Inflected forms:
form: more radioactive
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most radioactive
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: radio-active
pos: adj
tags: alternative
dated
form: radioactives
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: radio-active
pos: noun
tags: alternative
dated
Senses:
gloss: Exhibiting radioactivity.
pos: adj
examples: As a matter of fact many of our best drinking waters have all sorts of unspecified qualities. Burton water, for example, is radioactive by Beetham's standards up to the ninth degree.
Today, no one would intentionally smear radioactive materials on their face, but in 1933, the dangers of radioactivity were not yet fully understood.
gloss: Dangerous and disgusting, particularly of people or ideas.
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
rare
examples: Even sleazy tactics and his radioactive mouth may not be able to contain this debacle.
It was as though he was possessed of an invisible aura repelling incoming bodies. ‘Look. No one wants to be associated with him now. He’s become radioactive.’
And while Biden’s other nominees have done little to provoke Republican backlash thus far, [Neera] Tanden is “radioactive,” as Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) put it.
If, by some miracle, Democrats hang on to one or both houses of Congress this November, it will be because of Cawthorn, Paul Gosar, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Lauren Boebert and other would-be G.O.P. candidates trying to be just like them — the Radioactive Republicans.
gloss: Any radioactive substance.
pos: noun
examples: Any ship nearby will receive a lethal dose of gamma rays, neutrons, and other radioactives.
Derived words: nonradioactive
radioactivate
radioactive dating
radioactive decay
radioactive disintegration
radioactive equilibrium
radioactive fallout
radioactively
radioactive tracer
radioactive waste
radioactivity
Translations: