yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
chicanery
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From French chicanerie (“trickery”), from chicaner, from Middle French chicaner, borrowed from Middle Low German schicken, from Old Saxon *skikkian, from Proto-West Germanic *skikkijan (“to order, arrange”).
Related to German schicken (“to send, ship”), Middle English skekken (“to send forth, issue”).
Inflected forms:
form: chicaneries
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Deception by the use of trickery, quibbling, or subterfuge.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: They do not always find manors, got by rapine or chicanery, insensibly to melt away, as the poets will have it; or that all gold glides, like thawing snow, from the thief’s hand that grasps it.
He covered his tracks, he got that idiot at the copy shop to lie for him. You think this is something? You think this is bad? This? This chicanery? He's done worse. That billboard! Are you telling me that a man just happens to fall like that? No! He orchestrated it! Jimmy!
Having survived “The Long Night,” Daenerys will now be turning her attention back to the problem that originally vexed her: Cersei Lannister. It will be interesting to see how the show tries to raise the stakes of an internecine squabble between competing monarchs when compared to an existential threat to humanity’s very existence, but this series has always excelled when it goes deep on the machinations of political chicanery.
gloss: An individual act of trickery or deception.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: Stanford University's honor code dates to 1921, written by students to help guide them through the minefield of plagiarism, forbidden collaboration, copying and other chicaneries that have tempted undergraduates since they first arrived on college campuses.
gloss: The quality of being inclined to trickery or deceitfulness.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
uncountable
examples: He carried home with him all the knaviſh chicanery of the loweſt pettifogger, together with a wife whom he had purchſed of a drayman for twenty pounds; and he ſoon found means to obtain a Dedimus as an acting juſtice of peace.
Related words: chicane
Derived words: chicanerous
Translations:
counterfactual
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: human-sciences
linguistics
philosophy
sciences
Etymology: From counter- + factual.
Base: factual
Affixes: counter-
Inflected forms:
form: counterfactuals
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Contrary to known or agreed facts; untrue.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: a leaderless disinformation campaign, with claims leaping from conspiracy theorists to state propagandists to alternative-media outlets and back—an ecosystem I call the Counterfactual Community.
gloss: Of or in comparison to a hypothetical state of the world.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: What would have happened if those great Chinese voyages [by Zheng He] had continued? It's one of those questions in counter-factual history about which it is impossible to be sure.
The counterfactual 1982 of the novel plays variations on our historical record and contains clear allusions to the present.
gloss: A claim, hypothesis, or other belief that is contrary to the facts.
pos: noun
gloss: A hypothetical state of the world, used to assess the impact of an action.
pos: noun
examples: Just as counterfactuals employ too much imagination to qualify as historical works, alternate history often labors under too great a load of artificial "facts" to take flight as fiction.
We can spin out complicated counterfactuals that justify the Iraq invasion, and complicated counterfactuals that make it look even worse.
The implicit counterfactual — that these members would support gun control if not for the $1,000 they received from the NRA — seems unlikely to me.
Roese also says counterfactuals can serve emotional purposes. You can think about how things could have been worse, and so feel better about yourself, and grateful for where you are.
Imagine a counterfactual in which we started relaxing restrictions at an even earlier time, just as the cases began to trend downward.
gloss: A conditional statement in which the conditional clause is false.
pos: noun
Related words: alternate history
alternate universe
alternative fact
what if
what-if
Derived words: counterfactual conditional
counterfactualism
counterfactualist
counterfactuality
counterfactualize
counterfactually
counterfactualness
Translations:
heroine
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Latin hērōīna, from late Ancient Greek ἡρωΐνη (hērōḯnē) (2nd century), a feminine equivalent of ἥρως (hḗrōs, “hero, demigod”), equivalent to hero + -ine (suffix forming feminine nouns).
* English from 1587. The sense of "female lead character" is from 1715.
Base: hero
Affixes: -ine
Inflected forms:
form: heroines
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: heroin
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: A female hero.
pos: noun
gloss: A female lead character.
pos: noun
examples: Miss Phyllis Morgan, as the hapless heroine dressed in the shabbiest of clothes, appears in the midst of a gay and giddy throng; she apostrophises all and sundry there, including the villain, and has a magnificent scene which always brings down the house, and nightly adds to her histrionic laurels.
'I infer that you are the lady of the paragraph,' and the lifted hand indicated the open sheet of the Record lying nearby.
[…]
'Oh,' said Mr Carrados with an amused and deepening interest, 'so in addition to being the heroine of the adventure you wrote it up?'
Synonyms: shero
hera
Derived words: anti-heroine
antiheroine
Byronic heroine
heroinely
heroineship
heroinic
heroinism
heroinize
mother heroine
superheroine
tragic heroine
Translations:
heroin
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Since the 1890s, from German Heroin, originally a trademark, from Ancient Greek ἥρως (hḗrōs, “hero”) and the suffix -in (“-ine”). Said to have been called thus to evoke quick and sweeping effect as a painkiller and cough suppressant (its original uses). Alternatively explained as a reference to the heroic school of medicine.
Inflected forms:
form: heroins
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: heroine
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: A powerful and addictive drug derived from opium producing intense euphoria, classed as an illegal narcotic in most of the world.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Wow, that heroin is in my blood / And the blood is in my head / Yeah, thank God that I'm good as dead / Ooohhh, thank your God that I'm not aware / And thank God that I just don't care / And I guess I just don't know
I saw a real strange, weird object / Standing up talking to the people / And I found out it was heroin / That deadly drug that go in your veins
The reason why Jon & Kate Plus 8 is such a hot topic is because it might all be a sham. It’s been claimed that Jon has a string of mistresses, that Kate had an affair with her bodyguard and that Baby Number Six is actually a shaved Ewok with a catastrophic heroin addiction. Or something.
Fentanyl, which looks like heroin, is a powerful synthetic painkiller that has been laced into heroin but is increasingly being sold by itself — often without the user’s knowledge.
Yeah, it does, though, it does. Heroin works basically everywhere because it’s heroin. It’s not a cellphone. Heroin has full coverage.
Okay, wel-, I’ll tell you where it stops: somewhere! Anytime someone asks, “Where does it stop?”, the answer is always fucking somewhere! You might let your kid have Twizzlers, but not inject black tar heroin! You d-You don’t just go, “Well, after the Twizzlers, where does it stop?”!
That’s because the second thing to know about Games Workshop is, as Gillen says, that Warhammer was what middle-class nerds did instead of heroin. It was just as expensive, and probably no better for your social life.
Synonyms: brown sugar
dog food
dugee
henry
heroin
muck
mud
ron
scag
spider
sugar
whiteboy
white lady
Related words: China White
shit
Translations:
reiki
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: 1970s, from Japanese 霊気 (reiki, literally “spiritual chi/ki”).
Inflected forms:
form: reikis
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A Japanese form of pseudomedicine that involves transferring chi through one's palms.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Demonstrated by experienced professionals, the fair will provide the opportunity to learn about unique healing methods such as Chakra Healing, Sound Therapy, Reiki, Kinesiology and Crystal Healing.
Translations:
bashment
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
Etymology: Etymology tree
English bash
Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥
Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥tom
Proto-Italic *-mentom
Latin -mentum
Old French -mentbor.
Middle English -ment
English -ment
English bashment
From bash + -ment.
Inflected forms:
form: bashments
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A party or rave.
pos: noun
tags: Jamaican
countable
especially
slang
gloss: Dancehall music.
pos: noun
tags: Jamaican
especially
slang
uncountable
Translations:
thankful
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English thankful, from Old English þancful, þancfull (“thoughtful, pleasing, agreeable, pleasant, thankful, grateful”), equivalent to thank + -ful. Compare Old High German undankfol (“unthankful, ungrateful”).
Base: thank
Affixes: -ful
Inflected forms:
form: more thankful
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most thankful
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: thankefull
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: Showing appreciation or gratitude.
pos: adj
examples: I'm thankful that you helped me out today. How can I ever repay you?
gloss: Obtaining or deserving thanks; thankworthy.
pos: adj
tags: obsolete
Synonyms: grateful
appreciative
Antonyms: thankless
unthankful
Derived words: be thankful for small mercies
thankfully
thankfulness
Translations:
sorcery
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English sorcery, borrowed from Middle French sorcerie, ultimately derived from Latin sors (“fate”), from Proto-Indo-European *ser- (“to bind”). Cognate with serō, seriēs, sermō. Compare also French sorcier.
Inflected forms:
form: sorceries
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Magical power; the use of witchcraft or magic arts.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The tale is full of magic and sorcery.
In the Middle Ages, people were often accused of practicing sorcery.
gloss: Black magic.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Related words: sorcerer
sorceress
sort
Sorcery in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)
Derived words: countersorcery
sorcerous
sword and sorcery
Translations:
spectacular
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: advertising
business
marketing
Etymology: From Latin spectaculum (“a sight, show”) + -ar.
Inflected forms:
form: more spectacular
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most spectacular
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: spectaculars
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Amazing or worthy of special notice.
pos: adj
examples: The parachutists were spectacular.
A branch of rail transport that seems to been rather neglected by historians is that concerned with cliff railways, of which a fair number exist in Great Britain. This is probably because these lines are overshadowed by the more spectacular funicular railways in Switzerland and other mountainous regions; perhaps, too, because of the general habit of referring to them as "cliff lifts," which tends to associate them with the vertical indoor type.
Between 8 and 9 p.m., the recorder at a meteorological station at Harrow, Middlesex, picked up 1,470 lightning flashes within a radius of 10 to 15 miles, and observers at the station described the storm as "probably one of the most spectacular of the century."
gloss: Related to, or having the character of, a spectacle or entertainment.
pos: adj
tags: dated
examples: the merely spectacular
The like clamour, and outcry, the Rabble of the unbelieving Jews and Gentiles made againſt Polycarp Biſhop of Smyrna, at the time of his Martyrdom. crying out againſt him to the Governour, that he ſhould caſt him to the Lyons, and when he anſwered them he could not, becauſe the Spectacular ſports were concluded, then they cry’d out, Burn him, burn him, juſt as the Jews cryed out againſt Chriſt to Pilate, Crucify him, crucify him.
Those apparently insignificant events which really make history are seldom featured in the press; the merely spectacular too frequently crowds the essential out of the public sheets.
One of the more striking facets of these accounts of the Hell's Angels is the extent to which the defiant homosexual behavior they describe—especially the spectacular same-sex kissing—so closely mirrors the behavior of young women in the early twenty-first century.
gloss: Relating to spectacles, or glasses for the eyes.
pos: adj
gloss: A spectacular display.
pos: noun
examples: Though business has more or less held up so far, a series of drug-related spectaculars sparked an exodus of the city's upper class this summer.
gloss: A pop-up (folded paper element) in material sent by postal mail.
pos: noun
examples: Here are a few examples of "spectaculars," or three-dimensional pieces, including those which have won awards […]
Related words: spectacle
species
speculate
Derived words: Howell's spectacular thelypody
nonspectacular
sextacular
shitacular
speckie
spectabulous
spectacularism
spectacularity
spectacularize
spectacularly
spectacular mark
spectacularness
spooktacular
superspectacular
unspectacular
Translations:
chigger
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From chigoe, likely from a Cariban language term such as Kari'na siko (“chigoe”) (early recorded variant chico), from Proto-Cariban *tikô.
Inflected forms:
form: chiggers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A chigoe (Tunga penetrans), a kind of flea found in tropical climates.
pos: noun
gloss: A harvest mite (Trombiculidae spp.), a very small, red mite endemic to the Midwestern and Southeastern US, the infestation of which causes intense itching.
pos: noun
examples: Dr. Lareau, an emergency medicine physician at Carilion Franklin Memorial Hospital in Virginia, had seen these marks once or twice before on patients. She knew what had caused them. They were from chiggers, a species of tiny, reddish-brown mites able to leave bites that remain itchy for days or weeks.
Derived words: chigger weed
Translations:
boll
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English bolle (“pod; shell”) and Middle Dutch bolle (“round object”), from Frankish *bollo, all ultimately from Proto-Germanic *bullô (“round object; bowl”). More at bowl.
Inflected forms:
form: bolls
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: bolls
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: bolling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: bolled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: bolled
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: The rounded seed-bearing capsule of a cotton or flax plant.
pos: noun
examples: Sometimes the slave picks down one side of a row, and back upon the other, but more usually, there is one on either side, gathering all that has blossomed, leaving the unopened bolls for a succeeding picking.
The champion picker of the day before was the hero of the dawn. If he prophesied that the cotton in today’s field was going to be sparse and stick to the bolls like glue, every listener would grunt a hearty agreement.
gloss: A protuberance or excrescence growing on the trunks of some trees, a burl.
pos: noun
gloss: An old dry measure equal to six bushels.
pos: noun
tags: Scotland
examples: I ſowed on this Ground, without any Dung or Manure, a Lippy of Oats, from which I had a Boll wanting a Chopin.
The farmers ſervants who have families, and engage by the year, are called hinds, and receive 10 bolls oats, 2 bolls barley, and 1 boll peas, which two laſt articles are called hummel corn, […]
The waggons are deep and square; wider at the top than at the bottom, and are fast at all sides. The bottom has hinges, and can be let down to discharge the coals, of which these waggons contain about three bolls each.
gloss: To form a boll or seed vessel; to go to seed.
pos: verb
examples: The barley was in the ear, and the flax was bolled.
Derived words: boll weevil
bollworm
cotton boll
throat-boll
Translations:
flatboat
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From flat + boat.
Compound parts: flat
boat
Inflected forms:
form: flatboats
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A boxy, flat-bottomed boat used for carrying livestock, freight, and people on rivers.
pos: noun
Translations:
titmouse
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English titmose, compound of tit (“small bird”) and mose, from Old English māse (“titmouse”), from Proto-West Germanic *maisā, from Proto-Germanic *maisǭ (compare Dutch mees, German Meise, Old Norse meisingr, French mésange), from *maisaz (“tiny, puny”) (compare Norwegian meis (“skinny weakling”)). Spelling as well as the plural form in imitation of the otherwise unrelated mouse.
Inflected forms:
form: titmice
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: titmouses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any small passerine bird mostly of the genus Baeolophus, which are found in the woods of the Northern Hemisphere and of Africa.
pos: noun
Translations:
hickey
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: business
finance
media
printing
publishing
Etymology: Unknown.
Inflected forms:
form: hickeys
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: hicky
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: hickie
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A bruise-like mark made during petting by pressing the mouth to the skin on one’s partner’s body and sucking.
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: But Louis Vuitton bras all over your breasts / Got me wanting to put hickeys all over your chest
When it comes to hickeys, the best I can tell you is that a lot of girls cover them with makeup or a turtleneck shirt. But let me close with a final thought. Never be ashamed of your hickeys. Show them off proudly as badges of love.
gloss: A similar mark made by the pressure of a musical instrument such as a violin or viola against the neck.
pos: noun
gloss: A pimple.
pos: noun
tags: US
dialectal
examples: No, a pimple is not a small pimp. It is what they call a hickey in the country. Look up papules.
gloss: An object whose name is unknown or cannot be recalled.
pos: noun
tags: informal
slang
gloss: A printing defect caused by foreign matter on the printing surface resulting in a ring where the ink is missing, appearing as a spot of ink surrounded by a halo, or as an unprinted spot within a solid printed area.
pos: noun
gloss: A serif or other ornamentation on type.
pos: noun
tags: informal
examples: Years ago, there were internal company standards for dark center (ink color) hickeys and for white voids in solids/type.
It is generally believed, by those who study such things, that serif typefaces are easier to read when reading a lot of words. The hickeys (serifs) on each letter tend to push our eye toward the next letter.
gloss: Local swelling in a tissue area, especially skin, often due to injury.
pos: noun
gloss: A tool for making smooth, semicircular bends in conduit and pipe.
pos: noun
gloss: An unintended negative outcome or loss in regards to a deal or action.
pos: noun
tags: US
slang
examples: take a hickey
Farmer Jones took a hickey on his soybean crop when the flood washed the seeds away.
Derived words: doohickey
dohickey
Translations:
pony
Part of speech: verb
adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *pel-
Proto-Indo-European *pelh₂-
Proto-Indo-European *polH-on-
Proto-Italic *polnos?
Proto-Indo-European *peh₂w-?
Proto-Indo-European *put-der.?
Latin pullus
Late Latin pullanus
Old French poulenetder.?
Scots powny
English pony
From Scots powny, apparently from Middle French poulenet (“little foal”), ultimately from Late Latin pullanus (“young of an animal”), from pullus. First attested in 1659. Doublet of foal and pullus.
Sense “small serving of alcohol” from 19th century, both for small sizes generally and for a quarter pint specifically, from the small size.
Inflected forms:
form: ponies
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: ponying
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: ponied
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: ponied
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To lead (a horse) from another horse.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To use a crib or cheat-sheet in translating.
pos: verb
gloss: Synonym of crap: of little worth.
pos: adj
tags: Cockney
not-comparable
slang
Translations:
prioritize
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From priority + -ize. First attested in 1967 as U.S. government jargon, becoming more widespread through the 1970s and ’80s, but still denounced as officialese by purists into the 1990s.
Base: priority
Affixes: -ize
Inflected forms:
form: prioritizes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: prioritizing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: prioritized
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: prioritized
pos: verb
tags: past
form: prioritise
pos: verb
tags: alternative
UK
Senses:
gloss: To value, do, or choose something first, or before other things.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: When I don't have time to buy everything at the store, I prioritize fresh fruit and vegetables over foods like rice or noodles.
Boeing's article stressed prioritizing roll control during recovery from nose-down bank upsets unless the airplane was in a stall condition; if the airplane was stalled, Boeing recommended recovering from the stall before recovering from the upset. The article described the nose-down upset recovery technique as follows: "Reduce angle of attack. This unloads the wing, allows the airplane to accelerate, which reduces rudder deflection and improves lateral control ability. […]"
In 2005 Houston Methodist Hospital (HMH) established a Sepsis Care Management Performance Improvement (CMPI) committee and prioritized sepsis detection and management in its ICUs, using the approaches of the Surviving Sepsis Campaign.
Loretta's already designing the next smelter. She has some improvements in mind. The new one will prioritize silicon extraction and—
Skinimalism prioritizes skin health and lets your natural beauty shine through.
gloss: To arrange or list a group of things in order of priority or importance.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
transitive
gloss: To rank something as having high priority.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Antonyms: marginalize
disfocus
Related words: prioritization
Derived words: deprioritize
misprioritize
overprioritize
prioritizable
prioritizer
reprioritize
reprioritise
subprioritize
underprioritize
Translations:
LART
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: Acronym of luser attitude readjustment tool.
Inflected forms:
form: LARTs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: LARTs
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: LARTing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: LARTed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: LARTed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A luser attitude readjustment tool; something with which a clueless person is struck.
pos: noun
tags: slang
gloss: To strike with a LART.
pos: verb
tags: slang
transitive
Translations:
prioritization
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English prioritize
Proto-Indo-European *-tis
Proto-Indo-European *-Hō
Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō
Proto-Italic *-tiō
Latin -tiō
Latin -ātiōlbor.
Old French -ationbor.
Middle English -acioun
English -ation
English prioritization
From prioritize + -ation.
Inflected forms:
form: prioritizations
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: prioritisation
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The process of assigning priorities to things or tasks.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Many autistic individuals without a PTSD diagnosis may actually meet criteria for PTSD but have not received an official diagnosis, potentially due to stronger prioritization of the primary diagnosis of autism.
Translations:
eucharistic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: Catholicism
Christianity
Roman-Catholicism
Etymology: Etymology tree
English Eucharist
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Latin -icuslbor.
Old French -iquebor.
Middle English -ik
English -ic
English eucharistic
From Eucharist + -ic.
Inflected forms:
form: more eucharistic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most eucharistic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: Eucharistic
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Of or relating to the Eucharist.
pos: adj
examples: The eucharistic sacrament.
gloss: Giving thanks; expressing thankfulness; rejoicing.
pos: adj
tags: obsolete
examples: The eucharistical part of our daily devotions.
Derived words: eucharistically
Eucharistic Prayer
uneucharistic
Translations:
Xena
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: The lead character in the television series Xena: Warrior Princess (1995–2001) was the inspiration for the dwarf planet's nickname and for comparisons to the character.
Inflected forms:
form: Xenas
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A tough, physical, confident woman.
pos: noun
examples: I am raising a little Xena, a water warrior. Fierce, sure of herself.
How do I drill self-confidence into the illogical half of my brain. or train my logical half to become my inner Xena and shout it down?
"Okay, Xena," he said, taking the rope from Haley and tugging the branch toward the back door. "You push, and we'll get this outside."
She is a beautiful woman, the result of a family tree that includes African and Irish blood. But there's no getting around her five-eleven frame and muscular body. The rest of her staff calls her Xena. She likes that.
Julian shook his head at her brazenness. "That's okay, I believe you. You are a regular Xena."
Translations:
foster
Part of speech: adj
noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English foster, from Old English fōstor (“food, sustenance”), from Proto-West Germanic *fōstr, from Proto-Germanic *fōstrą (“nourishment, food”).
Cognate with Middle Dutch voester (“nursemaid”), Middle Low German vôster (“food”), Old Norse fóstr (“nurturing, education, alimony, child support”), Danish foster (“fetus”), Swedish foster (“fetus”).
Inflected forms:
form: fosters
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: fosters
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: fostering
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: fostered
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: fostered
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Providing parental care to children not related to oneself.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: foster parents
gloss: Receiving such care.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: a foster child
gloss: Related by such care.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: We are a foster family.
gloss: A foster parent.
pos: noun
tags: countable
informal
examples: Some fosters end up adopting.
gloss: The care given to another; guardianship.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: To nurture or bring up offspring, or to provide similar parental care to an unrelated child.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Some ſay that Rauens foſter forlorne children, / The whilſt their owne birds famiſh in their neſts: / Oh be to me though thy hard hart ſay no, / Nothing ſo kinde but ſomething pittiful.
gloss: To promote the development of something; to cultivate and grow a thing.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Our company fosters an appreciation for the arts.
⁠A flower beat with rain and wind,
Which once she foster’d up with care
And Time, which is the hound of Sish, devoured all things; and Sish sent up the ivy and fostered weeds, and dust fell from the hand of Sish and covered stately things.
Grimsby doesn't ever wound quite as devastatingly as Borat or Brüno, but it's a vital, lavish, venomously profane two fingers up at Benefits Street pity porn and the social division it fosters.
gloss: To nurse or cherish something.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To be nurtured or trained up together.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
obsolete
examples: There Florimell, in her first ages flowre,
And passing beautie did eftsoones reveale,
Was fostered by those Graces
Antonyms: hamper
Derived words: fosteress
fostership
cofostered
cross-foster
fosterable
fosterage
foster brother
foster care
foster-child
foster child
fosterer
foster fail
foster family
foster father
foster home
fosterhood
fostering
fosteringly
fosterling
fosterment
foster mother
foster parent
foster sibling
foster sister
foster up
nonfostered
unfostered
Translations:
flasher
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: automotive
transport
vehicles
Etymology: Etymology tree
English flash
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 flasher
From flash + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: flashers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Anything that flashes, especially a device that switches a light on and off.
pos: noun
gloss: An indicator or turn signal.
pos: noun
examples: Look here, look at this fire truck! It has flashers and sirens, and if you push the button at the bottom, it moves by itself.
gloss: Someone of great accomplishments, or brilliant appearance.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
examples: Mr Yorke of D'Affrenalli has been introduced to me as a Wit & a Flasher: it was supposed that we were to admire one another's Abilities,—but I fancy the Project failed on both Sides […].
gloss: Someone who exposes themselves indecently; someone who ‘flashes’ their genitals.
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: The only diversions I recall were a pair of Avocets flying over, and a young lady who regularly each afternoon furtively crept into the dunes [...] and crouched down for a clandestine wee! Either that, or she was a very shy flasher.
Synonyms: exhibitionist
Translations:
Sindhi
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Borrowed from Sindhi سِنْڌِي (sindhī). By surface analysis, Sindh + -i. Distant doublet of Hindi.
Inflected forms:
form: Sindhee
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: Sinde
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: Sindhis
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Sindhee
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Sinde
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to Sindh, the Sindhi language or the Sindhi people.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: A Sindhi-speaking person from or residing in Sindh.
pos: noun
Translations:
slog
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Etymology: Probably a variation of slug (“to hit very hard”) or slough.
Possibly related to slag, seen in the North Germanic languages, in association with the third verb and second noun definition.
Inflected forms:
form: slogs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: slogs
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: slogging
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: slogged
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: slogged
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A long, tedious walk or march.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
Canada
UK
countable
uncountable
gloss: A hard, persistent effort, session of work, or period.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
Canada
UK
broadly
countable
uncountable
examples: It is as if Mr. Faulks had bled his own prose white, draining it of emotion in order to capture the endless enervating slog of war.
England's experimental line-up will have realised early on that this would be a long, hard slog against the multi-talented Brazilians with great strength in their starting line-up and on the bench.
There, despite the long slog of the pandemic and all the distracting dramas at headquarters, the schools themselves have mostly kept it together.
Alsup wrote that Anthropic preferred to “steal” books to “avoid ‘legal/practice/business slog,’ as cofounder and CEO Dario Amodei put it.”
gloss: A book or other media that is difficult to get through due to dullness, density, or lack of narrative momentum.
pos: noun
tags: countable
gloss: An aggressive shot played with little skill.
pos: noun
tags: countable
gloss: To walk slowly or doggedly, encountering resistance.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: The leading engine was one of the Class Y6 2-8-8-2 compound articulateds, [...] The stack noise of one of these great brutes slogging up a grade was quite unforgettable.
2014, Paul Salopek, Blessed. Cursed. Claimed., National Geographic (December 2014)https://web.archive.org/web/20150212214621/http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2014/12/pilgrim-roads/salopek-text
A miraculous desert rain. We slog, dripping, into As Safi, Jordan. We drive the sodden mules through wet streets. To the town’s only landmark. To the “Museum at the Lowest Place on Earth.”
gloss: To work slowly and deliberately at a tedious task.
pos: verb
tags: broadly
intransitive
gloss: To strike something with a heavy blow, especially a ball with a bat.
pos: verb
examples: It was like being slogged by a heavyweight boxer.
Derived words: footslog
slog away
slogfest
slogger
sloggingly
sloggish
slog one's guts out
slog-sweep
Translations:
lithography
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From German Lithographie, from λίθος (líthos, “stone”) + γράφειν (gráphein, “to write”). Originally the printing surface was a flat piece of limestone that was treated with grease to form a surface that would selectively transfer ink to the paper; the stone has now been replaced, in general, with a metal plate. By surface analysis, litho- + -graphy.
Base: λίθος
Inflected forms:
form: lithographies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The process of printing an image by drawing the image with a water-repellent material onto a hard, flat surface (typically metal), then copying the surface by applying water and ink (or the equivalent) to it and pressing another material against it.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
kindred
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: lifestyle
paganism
religion
Etymology: From Middle English kyndrede, from older kynrede (“kindred”), from Old English *cynrēd, *cynrǣden (“kindred, family, stock”), from cynn (“kind, kin, lineage”) + -rǣden (“condition, state”). Equivalent to kin + -red, see these. The -d- is epenthetic between a nasal and a liquid (as e.g. in spindle).
Base: kin
Affixes: -red
Inflected forms:
form: kindreds
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: kinred
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: kinred
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: Distant and close relatives, collectively; kin.
pos: noun
tags: countable
often
plural
plural-only
uncountable
gloss: People of the same ethnic descent, not including speaker; brethren.
pos: noun
tags: countable
often
plural
plural-only
uncountable
examples: *Behold he commeth with clouds, and euery eye ſhal ſee him,and they alſo which pearced him: and all kinreds of the earth ſhall waıle becauſe of him: euen ſo. Amen.
gloss: A grouping of relatives.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: Cla. By heauen, I thinke there is no man ſecure / But the Queenes Kindred, and night-walking Heralds,[…]
gloss: Blood relationship.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: He that is in Distress tho' a stranger has a right to claim kindred with the wealthy—
gloss: Affinity, likeness.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: One who is kindred, literally or figuratively; a kin, kinsman.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: And what I wouldn't give to find a soulmate?/Someone else to catch this drift/And what I wouldn't give to meet a kindred?
gloss: A household or group following the modern pagan faith of Heathenry or Ásatrú.
pos: noun
tags: Germanic
countable
examples: We talked with Jonina about our kindred, Heathenry in the United States, Asatru in Iceland, and the details of our religious practice.[…]
Your chosen kindred or other group is a Venn circle that contains you, but it may not be the same circle as your family.
Not all, but many people believe that if you're not in a kindred, then you are not a real Norse Pagan or heathen.
gloss: Of the same nature, or of similar character.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: the kindred relationship between neuroscience and neurology
1924, Aristotle, Metaphysics, translated by W. D. Ross, Nashotah, Wisconsin, USA: The Classical Library, 2001, book 1, part 1.
We have said in the Ethics what the difference is between art and science and the other kindred faculties;
gloss: Connected, related, cognate, akin.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: kindred tongues
Derived words: kindredless
kindredly
kindredness
kindredship
kindred soul
kindred spirit
unkindred
Translations:
snowbird
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: government
military
politics
war
Etymology: From snow + bird.
Compound parts: snow
bird
Inflected forms:
form: snowbirds
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A bird, Junco hyemalis, the dark-eyed junco.
pos: noun
gloss: A migratory bird seen primarily in the winter time.
pos: noun
gloss: The snow bunting (Plectrophenax nivalis).
pos: noun
gloss: A person, usually one who is retired, who travels from a cold climate to a warmer one in the winter; one who overwinters elsewhere.
pos: noun
gloss: One who enlists in fall to desert after winter.
pos: noun
tags: US
slang
gloss: Someone who uses cocaine illicitly.
pos: noun
tags: slang
Related words: snowcock
Derived words: blue snowbird
snowbirding
Translations:
Oliver
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English Oliver, from Old French Olivier, by folk etymology derived from the Latin name Olīvārius, but probably representing an Old High German form of Old Norse Óleifr (“ancestral + relic”) (modern Danish Olaf and Swedish Olof), or Proto-Germanic *ala- (“all”) + *wēraz (“true”) (modern Swedish allvar). Name of a paladin of Charlemagne in medieval French romance.
Inflected forms:
form: more Oliver
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most Oliver
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Drunk, pissed.
pos: adj
tags: Cockney
slang
Translations:
papist
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: Christianity
Etymology: From Middle French papiste, from Latin pāpa (“pope”).
Inflected forms:
form: papists
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Papist
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: more papist
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most papist
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: Papist
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A Roman Catholic, especially one whose loyalties are seen to be with the papacy in Rome.
pos: noun
tags: slur
gloss: Roman Catholic.
pos: adj
tags: slur
examples: However, Menem promptly surprised many observers (and most of his voters) by forming an alliance with Alsogaray, and becoming more papist than the Pope in economic orthodoxy.
Translations:
patricide
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French patricide or Latin patricīdium. Equivalent to patri- + -cide.
Affixes: patri-
-cide
Inflected forms:
form: patricides
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The murder of one's father.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
ungulate
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Late Latin ungulātus, from Latin ungula (“hoof”), see -ate (adjective-forming suffix). The noun was substantivized from the adjective through the associated taxon's name (Ungulata), see -ate (noun-forming suffix).
Affixes: -ate
Inflected forms:
form: more ungulate
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most ungulate
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: ungulates
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Having hooves.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
usually
examples: When Owen wrote his description there was no evidence to determine the character of the extremities, whether they were ungulate, unguiculate, or pinnate, while the structure of the nostrils suggested
Unlike the serial manus and pes of the edentata the carpus and tarsus are here diplarthrous in structure or displaced upon each other. While the Condylarthra are ungulate with an unguiculate carpus and tarsus, […]
Like nearly all the land animals of Jupiter, as I was to learn later, they were ungulate, hoofs evidently being rendered necessary by the considerable areas of hardened lava on the surface of the planet, […]
gloss: Shaped like a hoof.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
usually
examples: […] areolet of only moderate size; first abscissa of the radius slightly more ungulate than in other varieties.
gloss: An ungulate animal; a hooved mammal of the clade Euungulata.
pos: noun
examples: The majority of large land mammals are ungulates.
gloss: A member of the now obsolete clade Ungulata.
pos: noun
tags: especially
Related words: biungulate
unguiculate
unguligrade
Derived words: even-toed ungulate
odd-toed ungulate
Translations:
equestrian
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Ultimately from Latin equester (“of or pertaining to equestrians/cavalry”) + -ianus (“-ian, related to”, adjective marker), from equus (“horse”).
Inflected forms:
form: more equestrian
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most equestrian
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: equestrians
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of horseback riding or horseback riders.
pos: adj
examples: They were an equestrian people.
After his death an equestrian statue was erected.
The society of colonial Spanish-America was one of the most equestrian in all history, and, to a very great extent, its existence depended on the adaptability of the Old World horse to New World conditions.
gloss: Of or relating to the ancient Roman class of equites.
pos: adj
tags: historical
gloss: One who rides a horse.
pos: noun
gloss: Synonym of eques.
pos: noun
tags: historical
Related words: equine
cavalry
horseback
Derived words: camelestrian
equestrianess
equestrianism
equestrianize
equestrianly
equestrianship
equestrian vaulting
nonequestrian
unequestrian
para-equestrian
Translations:
gondola
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian gondola, from Venetan góndoƚa. Possibly from Byzantine Greek κοντοῦρα (kontoûra, “cutter, kind of ship”).
Inflected forms:
form: gondolas
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: gondole
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: gondolas
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: gondolaing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: gondolaed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: gondolaed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A small long, narrow boat with a high prow and stern, propelled with a single oar, especially in Venice.
pos: noun
gloss: A hanging platform or car for transporting people or cargo.
pos: noun
gloss: A hanging platform or car for transporting people or cargo.
pos: noun
gloss: A hanging platform or car for transporting people or cargo.
pos: noun
gloss: A hanging platform or car for transporting people or cargo.
pos: noun
gloss: A type of open railway car with low sides, used to carry heavy freight such as crushed rock or steel.
pos: noun
tags: US
examples: The railroad track paralleled the road, and along the track we saw lines of burned-out gondolas and freight cars which had been fired and destroyed during the war.
gloss: A free-standing display unit in a supermarket or other retail store, where goods are shelved or hung on pegs or hooks for sale; An end bay; A parasite display.
pos: noun
gloss: To travel by gondola.
pos: verb
Synonyms: gondola car
gon
Related words: gondolier
Derived words: gondola lift
Translations:
viola
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
Etymology: From Latin viola (“violet”).
Inflected forms:
form: violas
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of several flowering plants, of the genus Viola, including the violets and pansies.
pos: noun
Translations:
Cheddar
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English [Term?], from Old English Ceodre, likely from the word ceodor (“cavity, pouch; ravine”), as there is a gorge near the town.
Inflected forms:
form: Cheddars
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Cheddar cheese.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
sagacious
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Coined between 1600 and 1610. Borrowed from Latin sagāx, + -ious.
Affixes: -ious
Inflected forms:
form: more sagacious
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most sagacious
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Having or showing keen discernment, sound judgment, and farsightedness; mentally shrewd.
pos: adj
examples: I resort, once again, to a sagacious adage from Justice Scalia […]
Translations:
unkempt
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From earlier unkembed, unkemmed, from Middle English unkempt (“uncombed”), equivalent to un- + kempt. Compare Old Norse úkembdr (uncombed; unkempt"; whence Icelandic ókembdur), German ungekämmt (“unkempt”), Dutch ongekamd. More at kemb.
Base: kempt
Affixes: un-
Inflected forms:
form: more unkempt
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most unkempt
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: uncompt
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: uncombed, dishevelled.
pos: adj
examples: He was a queer shoot, again, in his unkempt longish hair and slovenly clothes, a sort of very vulgar down-at-heel American in appearance.
Men on cycles, lean-faced, unkempt, scorched along every country lane, shouting of unhoped deliverance, shouting to gaunt, staring figures of despair.
Now, upon his whole person, from the crown of his unkempt head down to his broken, dusty boots, there yet clung that air of jaunty, devil-may-care rakishness.
gloss: Disorderly; untidy; messy; not kept up.
pos: adj
tags: broadly
figuratively
examples: unkempt bedroom
And his egotism and conceit were not to be borne; and then he was both tawdry and dirty in his person; more greasily, mattedly unkempt than even a really successful pianist has any right to be, even in the best society.
The Countess had liked Elsa from the first moment when she saw her, ragged, unkempt and forlorn, among the lowering, suspicious men-at-arms in the courtyard, and now that she knew the dangers and the privations the girl had braved for the sake of Wilhelm, the affectionate heart of Beatrix found ample room for the motherless Elsa.
gloss: Rough; unpolished.
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
Synonyms: bedraggled
blowsy
dishevelled
dowdy
dowdyish
down at heel
downgone
qualifier
draggle-tailed
draggled
frowsy
frumpy
grotty
grufty
grungy
hashy
mangy
mean
out at the heels
piggy
ragtag
ribby
schleppy
schlumpy
scratty
scrofulous
scroungy
scruffy
scrungy
seedy
shabby
slammocky
slatternly
slobbish
slobby
sloppy
slovenlike
slovenly
slummocky
sluttish
tacky
tore up
trampish
unfine
unkemmed
unkempt
unshaven
Antonyms: clean
foppish
neat
orderly
stylish
tidy
Related words: nitty
untidy person
ramshackle
unfashionable
Derived words: unkemptitude
unkemptness
Translations: