yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
yacht
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: nautical
transport
Etymology: Circa 1557; variant of yaught, earlier yeaghe (“light, fast-sailing ship”), from Dutch jacht (“yacht; hunt”), in older spelling jaght(e), short for jaghtschip (“light sailing vessel, fast pirate ship”, literally “pursuit ship”), compound of jacht and schip (“ship”).
In the 16th century the Dutch built light, fast ships to chase the ships of pirates and smugglers from the coast. The ship was introduced to England in 1660 when the Dutch East India Company presented one to King Charles II, who used it as a pleasure boat, after which it was copied by British shipbuilders as a pleasure craft for wealthy gentlemen.
Inflected forms:
form: yachts
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: yachts
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: yachting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: yachted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: yachted
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A slick and light ship for making pleasure trips or racing on water, having sails but often motor-powered. At times used as a residence offshore on a dock.
pos: noun
examples: Would you like to go sailing on my uncle’s yacht?
You are a true yachtsman! Are you a member of the local yacht club?
The skipper Mr. Cooke had hired at Far Harbor was a God-fearing man with a luke warm interest in his new billet and employer, and had only been prevailed upon to take charge of the yacht after the offer of an emolument equal to half a year's sea pay of an ensign in the navy.
gloss: Any vessel used for private, noncommercial purposes.
pos: noun
examples: “I don’t mean all of your friends—only a small proportion—which, however, connects your circle with that deadly, idle, brainless bunch—the insolent chatterers at the opera,[…], the chlorotic squatters on huge yachts,[…], the neurotic victims of mental cirrhosis, the jewelled animals whose moral code is the code of the barnyard—!"
The megayacht concept is equipped with its own port with enough space for a second yacht measuring up to 30 meters, as well as three swimming pools. […] The market is projected to reach a value of $10.2 billion by 2025 as an increasing amount of yachts measuring longer than 24 meters are ordered, and designers are going all out to ensure their concepts are bigger and better than the competition.
gloss: To sail, voyage, or race in a yacht.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
Derived words: aeroyacht
gigayacht
ice yacht
land yacht
maxi yacht
megayacht
miniyacht
motor yacht
motoryacht
MY
sailing yacht
steam yacht
SY
sand yacht
superyacht
yachtboard
yacht club
yachtdom
yachtee
yachter
yachtful
yachtie
yachting
yachtist
yachtless
yachtlike
yachtman
yachtperson
yacht person
yacht rock
yachtsfolk
yachtsman
yachtsperson
yachtswoman
yachtwear
yachty
Translations:
xylophone
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
Etymology: From xylo- (“of wood”) + -phone (“sound”).
Base: xylo
Inflected forms:
form: xylophones
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: xylophones
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: xylophoning
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: xylophoned
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: xylophoned
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Any musical instrument (percussion idiophone) made of wooden slats graduated so as to make the sounds of the scale when struck with a small drumstick-like mallet; the standard Western concert xylophone or one of its derivatives.
pos: noun
examples: All I know how to play on my xylophone is "Mary Had a Little Lamb". Would you like to hear it?
gloss: To play a xylophone or to play something else as though it was a xylophone.
pos: verb
gloss: To move above a ridged surface or series of surfaces so as to hit every ridge, in a manner similar to playing quickly and sequentially on a xylophone.
pos: verb
examples: my eager fingers xylophoning over the memories
Like a cat, I arch into the back of the bench, my spine xylophoning along the slats while the tension of the day slowly drains out of me. I'm totally chill and mellow.
The others waged active war, claws xylophoning across Jack's pinwheeling swords.
His right hand, the good one, found one of Glass's ankles, pulled. Glass fell, her ulna, clavicle, pevis, and kneecap xylophoning along stair edges.
Translations:
wombat
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Dharug wumbatbor.
English wombat
Borrowed from Dharug wumbat.
Inflected forms:
form: wombats
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: whom-batt
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: A herbivorous, burrowing marsupial of the family Vombatidae, mainly found in southern and eastern Australia.
pos: noun
examples: An American tourist who was reportedly filmed picking up and running off with a wild baby wombat fled Australia after officials threatened to cancel her visa in a firestorm of criticism over the incident. […] It’s not clear when the video was shot, nor the location, but it was at night on what appears to be a country road somewhere in southeastern Australia, where most wombats reside.
gloss: A slow and stupid person; a dullard.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
slang
Synonyms: vombatid
Derived words: bare-nosed wombat
northern hairy-nosed wombat
southern hairy-nosed wombat
wombat crossing
wombat-headed
wombatish
wombatlike
wombat trail
Translations:
koala
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Dharug gula or gulawany.
Inflected forms:
form: koalas
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A tree-dwelling marsupial, Phascolarctos cinereus, that resembles a small bear with a broad head, large ears and sharp claws, mainly found in eastern Australia.
pos: noun
Translations:
wiki
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Polynesian *witi
Hawaiian wiki
Hawaiian wikiwikider.
English wiki
First appearance in 1995 in PC Week. Abbreviated from WikiWikiWeb, from Hawaiian wikiwiki (“quick”) + English web.
Inflected forms:
form: wikis
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: wikis
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: wikiing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: wikied
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: wikied
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A collaborative website which can be directly edited merely by using a web browser, often by anyone who has access to it.
pos: noun
examples: He spent time editing articles on the wiki.
gloss: To research on Wikipedia or some similar wiki.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
transitive
examples: To get an understanding of the topics, he quickly went online and wikied each one.
I tore through his collection wikiing any plot points that I missed learning the importance of the players of the DC universe
Her English is no better than my Portuguese, but I wikied 'influenza' in Portuguese and it came up with 'gripe'
I did research on the internet and found out so. I “wikied” it.
gloss: To contribute to a wiki.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Blogging, wiki-ing, coding are all activities that generate authorial product.
The best way to start wiki-ing is to find an existing wiki (that is, a hosted wiki) and start adding to it.
For example, blog and wiki software can be used to support all sorts of activities that are not commonly associated with the activities of “blogging” or “wikiing.” This includes activities like sharing syllabi, publishing announcements
gloss: To participate in the wiki-based production of.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The history of wikied novels isn't pretty (Penguin Books never published the gobbledygook that was "A Million Penguins"), and no one has dared wiki a jazz song.
Related words: .wiki
sukuma wiki
Translations:
U-turn
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From U + turn, from the similarity to the shape of the letter U.
Base: U
Inflected forms:
form: U-turns
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: u-turn
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: U-turns
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: U-turning
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: U-turned
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: U-turned
pos: verb
tags: past
form: u-turn
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A turn in a vehicle carried out by driving in a semicircle in order to travel in the opposite direction.
pos: noun
examples: What's disappointing about all this doom and gloom is that the franchise has made the kind of whiplashing U-turn you might see in its car-chase sequences.
gloss: A reversal of policy or opinion.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
examples: The government have done a U-turn and are now supporting greater European integration instead of opposing it.
Rishi Sunak, the UK prime minister, announced a major U-turn on the government’s climate commitments last month, pushing back the deadline for selling new petrol and diesel cars and the phasing out of gas boilers.
gloss: To turn a vehicle in a semicircle so as to face the opposite direction (∩)).
pos: verb
gloss: To shift from one opinion or decision to its opposite.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: She made the case for cutting taxes as “the right thing to do morally and economically”, despite having just U-turned over her decision to abolish the 45p top rate of income tax.
Translations:
cooee
Part of speech: noun
verb
intj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Dharug guuu-wi, adopted into English by white settlers in Australia from 1790.
Inflected forms:
form: cooees
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: cooey
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: coo-ee
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: cooees
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: cooeeing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: cooeed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: cooeed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: cooey
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: coo-ee
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: cooey
pos: intj
tags: alternative
form: coo-ee
pos: intj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A long, loud call used to attract attention when at a distance, mainly done in the Australian bush.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
informal
onomatopoeic
examples: Then they heard in the distance the "coo-ee" of a white man, which was instantly answered by another "coo-ee".
I call out, “Coo-ee” with long Coo and short ee like whip-bird call. Everybody in my mob know my cooee. Any one of my mob hear that, they give me cooee back.
I listen.
No cooee come back.
2006, Saskia Beudel, Walking: West MacDonnell Ranges 2002, in Drusilla Modjeska, The Best Australian Essays 2006, page 309,
Just as I was preparing to write in my exercise book, I heard a cooee. Cooees were not part of the code.
gloss: A short distance; hailing distance.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
also
figuratively
informal
examples: That is not within cooee of 10 per cent; it is much closer to six per cent.
We were carless, in the dark, and no one to help within cooee.
gloss: To make such a call.
pos: verb
tags: Australia
informal
intransitive
examples: ‘Look out for snakes,’ said Long Charlie, flourishing his lantern. ‘And don′t all of us be coo-eeing all the time, or when the little chap sings out we shan't be able to hear him.’
Slipping out of the tail of the dray, I cooeed as loud as I could which was answered.
2006, Saskia Beudel, Walking: West MacDonnell Ranges 2002, in Drusilla Modjeska, The Best Australian Essays 2006, page 310,
I cooeed back. Another cooee came in what seemed to be a reply. I cooeed again.
gloss: Used to attract someone's attention.
pos: intj
tags: Australia
UK
informal
examples: Cooee! I'm over here!
Then, raising her hands to her lips she utters a long, loud, piercing " Cooee ! "
" Coo — ee ! " comes back over the black waters.
2001, June E. Barker, First Platypus, Gaygar—The Little Mother Duck, in Helen F. McKay (editor), Pauline E. McLeod, Francis Firebrace Jones, June E. Barker, Gadi Mirrabooka: Australian Aboriginal Tales from the Dreaming, page 58,
Gaygar could hear her people cooee out to her, "COOEE, GAYGAR! COOEE, GAYGAR!" they would cry.
Translations:
feat
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English [Term?], from Anglo-Norman fet (“action, deed”), from Old French fait, from Latin factum, from facere (“to do, to make”). Doublet of fact.
Inflected forms:
form: feats
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A relatively rare or difficult accomplishment.
pos: noun
examples: I consider scaling Mount Blanc the greatest physical feat of my life.
Raising six children who all went on to be doctors was a tough feat for us.
Indeed, this discovery of meaning in symbols may be the most astounding intellectual feat that any human being ever performs—and most humans perform it before they are seven years old!
Bradford may have lost on the night but they stubbornly protected a 3-1 first-leg advantage to emulate a feat last achieved by Rochdale in 1962.
Translations:
tree
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *drew-
Proto-Indo-European *-om
Proto-Germanic *trewą
Proto-West Germanic *treu
Old English trēow
Middle English tre
English tree
 PIE word
 *dóru
From Middle English trau, tre, tree, treo, treou, trew, trewe, troe, trouȝh, trouȝgh, trow, trowe, from Old English trēo, trēow, trēu, trīo, trīow, trȳw (“tree; wood; forest; beam, cudgel, log; cross”), from Proto-West Germanic *treu, from Proto-Germanic *trewą (“tree”), from pre-Germanic *dréwom, thematic e-grade derivative of Proto-Indo-European *dóru (“tree”). Related to tar, true.
Cognates
Cognate with Dutch teer (“tree”), Danish, Faroese, and Scanian træ (“tree; timber, wood”), Elfdalian trai (“tree; timber, wood”), Icelandic tré (“tree; wood”), Norwegian Bokmål and Norwegian Nynorsk tre (“tree; wood”), Swedish trä (“wood; tree”), träd (“tree”), Gothic 𐍄𐍂𐌹𐌿 (triu, “piece of wood”); also Breton derv (“oak”), Cornish dar (“oak”), Irish dair (“oak”), Manx darragh (“oak; oaken”), Scottish Gaelic darach (“oak”), Welsh dâr (“oak”), Ancient Greek δόρυ (dóru, “tree; wood; spear”) (whence Greek δόρυ (dóry, “pike, spear”)), Albanian dru (“tree; wood”), Latvian darva (“tar”), Lithuanian derva (“tar; resin”), Belarusian дзе́рава (dzjérava, “tree”), дрэ́ва (dréva, “tree; wood”), Czech drvo, dřevo (“wood”), Polish drzewo (“tree; wood”), Russian де́рево (dérevo), дре́во (drévo, “tree; wood”), Serbo-Croatian др̏во, drȇvo, drijȇvo, drȋvo, dȑvo (“tree; wood”), Slovak and Slovene drevo (“tree; wood”), Ukrainian де́рево (dérevo, “tree; wood”), Armenian տարր (tarr, “element; component”), Avestan 𐬛𐬁𐬎𐬭𐬎 (dāᵘru, “wood”), Central Kurdish and Persian دار (dâr, “tree; wood”), Northern Kurdish dar (“tree”), Zazaki dare (“tree”), Hittite 𒋫𒊒 (taru), 𒋫𒀀𒊒 (táru, “tree; wood”), Luwian 𒋫𒀀𒊒 (tāru, “wood”), Tocharian A and Tocharian B or (“wood”), Sanskrit दारु (dāru, “timber, wood”).
Replaced alternative Middle English beem, from Old English bēam (see beam) and eclipsed non-native Middle English arbre, borrowed from Old French arbre.
Inflected forms:
form: trees
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: treeing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: treed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: treed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: tre
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: To chase (an animal or person) up a tree.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The dog treed the cat.
When hunted it [the jaguar] takes refuge in trees, and this habit is well known to hunters, who pursue it with dogs and pot it when treed.
"And our dogs used to tree the cats on our property here, and we'd dispatch them."
gloss: To place in a tree.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Black bears can tree their cubs for protection, but grizzly bears cannot.
gloss: To place upon a shoe tree; to fit with a shoe tree; to stretch upon a shoe tree.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to tree a boot
Two suits and an overcoat hung in the closet over three pairs of carefully treed shoes.
gloss: To take refuge in a tree.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
Translations:
ate
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Tagalog ate (“elder sister”), from Hokkien 阿姊 (á-ché, “eldest sister”).
Inflected forms:
form: ates
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: et
pos: noun
tags: alternative
informal
pronunciation-spelling
Senses:
gloss: An elder sister
pos: noun
tags: Philippines
gloss: A respectful title or form of address for an older woman.
pos: noun
tags: Philippines
Translations:
bongo
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Spanish bongo.
Inflected forms:
form: bongos
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: bongos
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: bongoing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: bongoed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: bongoed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A striped bovine mammal found in Africa, Tragelaphus eurycerus.
pos: noun
gloss: To play the bongo drums.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: Of the heart, etc.: to beat with an irregular rhythm.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To hit something rhythmically with the hands.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Related words: bingo bango bongo
Bongo Bongo Land
bongo mag
Translations:
impala
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Bantu *mpàdá
Zulu ímpalabor.
English impala
Borrowed from Zulu ímpala, from Proto-Bantu *mpàdá.
Inflected forms:
form: impalas
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: impala
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: impalla
pos: noun
tags: alternative
dated
Senses:
gloss: An African antelope, Aepyceros melampus, noted for its leaping ability; the male has ridged, curved horns.
pos: noun
Translations:
cockroach
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Spanish cucaracha, from cuca (“butterfly caterpillars”), of onomatopoeic origin; see also Greek κόκκυξ (kókkux) and Late Latin cucus. Influenced, by means of folk etymology, by cock and roach. Doublet of cucaracha.
Inflected forms:
form: cockroaches
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any black or brown straight-winged insect of the order Blattodea that is not a termite.
pos: noun
examples: Then there were cockroach hunts; we chased them out of their haunts, where at night they busily devoured currants, jam, and sugar; in fact their diet was far more varied than ours, for they made plentiful meals off our boots, the coverings of our books, and any stray pieces of flannel that came in their way.
gloss: Term of abuse.
pos: noun
tags: derogatory
slang
examples: I want a divorce, you cockroach!
gloss: A person or a member of a group of people regarded as undesirable and rapidly procreating.
pos: noun
tags: derogatory
offensive
slang
examples: During the Rwandan genocide, Hutu genocidaires labelled Tutsis as cockroaches and called for their extermination.
gloss: A person from New South Wales.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
derogatory
especially
humorous
slang
gloss: A hard lump of brown sugar.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
obsolete
slang
Derived words: amber forest cockroach
amber wood cockroach
American cockroach
Asiatic cockroach
Australian cockroach
Australian wood cockroach
brown-banded cockroach
brown cockroach
cockroachicide
cockroachlike
cockroach of the sea
cockroach taxi
cockroach theory
cockroach wasp
cockroachy
death's head cockroach
emerald cockroach wasp
Florida woods cockroach
German cockroach
giant burrowing cockroach
giant cockroach
Gisborne cockroach
greenhouse cockroach
hissing cockroach
Japanese cockroach
kikeroach
Madagascar hissing cockroach
Madeira cockroach
oriental cockroach
Pennsylvanian cockroach
Pennsylvania wood cockroach
red runner cockroach
rhinoceros cockroach
roach
rusty red cockroach
smokybrown cockroach
Surinam cockroach
Turkestan cockroach
Turkroach
Translations:
millipede
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Latin mīllipeda (“wood louse”), from mīlle (“thousand”) + pēs, pedis (“foot”), equivalent to milli- + -pede.
Affixes: milli-
-pede
Inflected forms:
form: millipedes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: millepede
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: milleped
pos: noun
tags: alternative
dated
form: milliped
pos: noun
tags: alternative
dated
Senses:
gloss: Any of many elongated arthropods, of the class Diplopoda, with cylindrical bodies that have two pairs of legs for each one of their 20 to 100 or more body segments.
pos: noun
examples: The ſaid leaves alſo ſtamped with honey and brought to the forme of a cataplaſme, cure the bloudie-falls or night-blains: but tempered with wine, they heale the bitings of dogs, as alſo of the Millepeed, which the Greeks call Seps, a long worm with hairie feet, doing much harme to cattaile eſpecially; for looke where it biteth, the place preſently ſwelleth and putrifieth.
With one or two exceptions, male millipedes make direct contact with the female and transfer sperm via a pair of modified front legs (gonopods) which have been charged with semen from the genitalia situated towards the rear of the body.
When alive, millipedes maintain tension in these^([intersegmental]) muscles and are therefore difficult to straighten out when coiled.
Soil millipedes (Diplopoda) possess a specific gut microbiota that differs from microbial communities in soil and leaf litter.
Working with her colleague Henrik Enghoff, the two discovered several specimens of the same fungus on North American millipedes right there in the Natural History Museum’s collection.
An entomologist named a new species of millipede Nannaria swiftae after pop star Taylor Swift.
Translations:
indicative
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
Etymology: From Middle French indicatif, from Late Latin indicātīvus. By surface analysis, indicate + -ive.
Inflected forms:
form: more indicative
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most indicative
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: ind.
pos: adj
tags: alternative
abbreviation
form: indicatives
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: ind.
pos: noun
tags: alternative
abbreviation
Senses:
gloss: Serving as a sign, indication or suggestion of something.
pos: adj
examples: He had pains indicative of a heart attack.
Although it may be convenient within the case study publication format to cover the topic of pseudopathology in the discussion of differential diagnosis, this is not indicative of how this stage of work slots into the diagnostic process in the laboratory.
gloss: Of, or relating to the indicative mood.
pos: adj
gloss: The indicative mood.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: A term in the indicative mood.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: The fact that imperative forms were taken into English as indicatives suggests that the English speakers using the Hindustani verbs were most familiar (in some cases perhaps only familiar) with the imperative form.
Derived words: bioindicative
contraindicative
indicative conditional
indicatively
indicativeness
indicative planning
indicative vote
nonindicative
unindicative
imperfect indicative
present indicative
Translations:
subjunctive
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
Etymology: From Latin subjunctīvus (“serving to join, connecting, in grammar applies to the subjunctive mode”), from subjungere (“to add, join, subjoin”), from sub (“under”) + jungere (“to join, yoke”). See join.
Inflected forms:
form: subj.
pos: adj
tags: alternative
abbreviation
Senses:
gloss: Inflected to indicate that an act or state of being is possible, contingent or hypothetical, and not a fact.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
centipede
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From French centipède, from Latin centipeda, centipēs, from centi- (“hundred”) + pēs (“foot”); equivalent to centi- + -pede.
Base: centi
Inflected forms:
form: centipedes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: centiped
pos: noun
tags: alternative
dated
Senses:
gloss: Any arthropod of class Chilopoda, which have a segmented body with one pair of legs per segment and from about 20 to 300 legs in total.
pos: noun
examples: Centipedes differ from millipedes by having a single pair of legs on each body segment.
The existence of millipedes, centipedes, insects, and spiders along-side the first tetrapods sustained a robust ecosystem in which most animals were predators or scavengers.
All centipedes (Chilopoda) and spiders (Aranea) are predatory and although they are often found on corpses their impact on the other fauna is not known.
gloss: A many-oared Chinese smuggling boat.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
Related words: millipede
myriapod
Derived words: centipedal
centipede-eater
centipede game
centipede grass
garden centipede
house centipede
pseudocentipede
sea centipede
soil centipede
stone centipede
Translations:
antecedent
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
Etymology: From Middle English antecedent, borrowed from Old French antecedent, from Latin antecēdēns (“going before”), from antecēdō (“to precede; excel; surpass”).
Inflected forms:
form: antecedents
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Earlier, either in time or in order.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: an antecedent cause
an event antecedent to the Biblical Flood
gloss: Presumptive.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: an antecedent improbability
gloss: Any thing that precedes another thing, especially the cause of the second thing.
pos: noun
gloss: An ancestor.
pos: noun
examples: The Boston agent added that this clerk was a young man of wholly unquestioned veracity and reliability, of known antecedents and long with the company.
gloss: A word, phrase or clause referred to by a pronoun or other pro-form.
pos: noun
examples: [W]hereas it might seem orderly that, as who is appropriated to persons, so that should have been appropriated to things […] the antecedent of that is often personal
One such condition can be formulated in terms of the c-command relation defined in (9) above: the relevant condition is given in (16) below:
(16) C-COMMAND CONDITION ON ANAPHORS
An anaphor must have an appropriate c-commanding antecedent
gloss: The conditional part of a hypothetical proposition, i.e. p→q, where p is the antecedent, and q is the consequent.
pos: noun
gloss: The first of two subsets of a sequent, consisting of all the sequent's formulae which are valuated as true.
pos: noun
gloss: The first term of a ratio, i.e. the term a in the ratio a:b, the other being the consequent.
pos: noun
gloss: Previous principles, conduct, history, etc.
pos: noun
tags: in-plural
Antonyms: consequent
succedent
anaphor
Related words: antecede
antecedence
precedence
juxtaposition
Derived words: antecedently
antecedent phrase
last antecedent rule
Translations:
adjunct
Part of speech: adj
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Latin adiunctus, perfect passive participle of adiungō (“join to”), from ad + iungō (“join”). Doublet of adjoint.
Inflected forms:
form: more adjunct
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most adjunct
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: adjuncts
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: adjuncting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: adjuncted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: adjuncted
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Connected in a subordinate function.
pos: adj
examples: Though that my death were adiunct to my Act,
By heauen I would doe it.
gloss: Added to a faculty or staff in a secondary position.
pos: adj
gloss: To work as an adjunct professor.
pos: verb
tags: informal
intransitive
examples: I also nannied through the first part of graduate school. I had friends who bartended or worked at a wine store and also adjuncted. A lot of people would package these jobs together.
A sudden fantasy emerges of Adam adjuncting at Hannah's college, a sweet Mr. Mom to Paul-Louis' (Riz Ahmed) baby while Hannah becomes a professor slash internet celeb -- but there I go writing fanfiction.
In Want, out this month, Strong homes in on those themes. In this novel, her second, narrator Elizabeth is raising two small children with her husband, a carpenter, in New York City, while going through a bankruptcy and teaching low-income students at a charter school and adjuncting at a prestigious university.
I wish I had a cut and dry answer to this question. When I adjunct at the University of Baltimore, I get asked a similar question by my students every semester.
Derived words: adjunctification
adjunctly
nonadjunct
Translations:
affirmative
Part of speech: adj
noun
intj
Morphological type: simple
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logic
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Etymology: From Middle English affirmative, affirmatyve, from Old French affirmatif, from Latin affirmativus, from affirmare (“to assert”).
Inflected forms:
form: more affirmative
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most affirmative
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: affirmatives
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: pertaining to truth; asserting that something is; affirming
pos: adj
examples: an affirmative answer
gloss: pertaining to any assertion or active confirmation that favors a particular result
pos: adj
gloss: positive
pos: adj
examples: an affirmative vote
gloss: Confirmative; ratifying.
pos: adj
examples: an act affirmative of common law
gloss: Dogmatic.
pos: adj
examples: Lyſicles vvas a little diſconcerted by the affirmative air of Crito; but after a ſhort pauſe replied briskly, […]
gloss: Expressing the agreement of the two terms of a proposition.
pos: adj
gloss: positive; not negative
pos: adj
gloss: Yes; an answer that shows agreement or acceptance.
pos: noun
examples: That’s an affirmative Houston, the space shuttle has lost the secondary thrusters.
10-4 good buddy. That’s an affirmative—the tractor trailer is in the ditch at the side of the highway.
gloss: An answer that shows agreement or acceptance.
pos: noun
gloss: An assertion.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
examples: that every hare is both male and female, beside the vulgar opinion, was the affirmative of Archelaus, of Plutarch, Philostratus, and many more.
gloss: Yes.
pos: intj
gloss: Yes; true; correct.
pos: intj
tags: especially
Related words: affirmative sentence
Derived words: affirmative action
affirmative defense
affirmatively
affirmativeness
affirmative pregnant
affirmative resolution
affirmative waste
affirmativism
affirmativist
affirmativity
apefirmative action
disaffirmative
nonaffirmative
trans-affirmative
Translations:
his
Part of speech: det
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English hes, from Old English his (“his; its”), from Proto-Germanic *hes (“of this”), genitive of Proto-Germanic *hiz (“this, this one”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱe-, *ḱey- (“this”). Cognate with Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, Icelandic hans (“his”). More at he; see also its.
Inflected forms:
form: His
pos: det
tags: alternative
honorific
Senses:
gloss: Belonging to him.
pos: det
examples: With that he put his ſpurres vnto his ſteed,
 With ſpeare in reſt, and toward him did fare,
 Like ſhaft out of a bow preuenting ſpeed.
No matter how early I came down, I would find him on the veranda, smoking cigarettes, or otherwise his man would be there with a message to say that his master would shortly join me if I would kindly wait.
In his first televised address since the siege in Abidjan began this week, Ouattara said he would focus on returning the country to normal to ease the plight of civilians.
gloss: Belonging to a person of unspecified gender.
pos: det
tags: dated
sometimes
examples: On the contrary, those other passions, commonly denominated selfish, both produce different sentiments in each individual, according to his particular situation […]
It is our conviction that piecemeal critiques of nontheisms will not suffice. The theist must enter the arena with a positive and comprehensive case of his own.
gloss: Its; belonging to it. (Now only when implying personification.)
pos: det
tags: obsolete
examples: In ſo moche that if any verbe be of the thyꝛde coniugation
 I ſet out all his rotes and tenſes[…]
My ſtomacke could not well reach ſo farre: it is very much troubled to come to an end of that which it takes for his neede.
Yee are the ſalt of the earth: But if the ſalt haue loſt his ſauour, wherewith ſhall it bee ſalted?
gloss: Used as a genitive marker in place of ’s after a noun, especially a masculine noun ending in -s, to express the possessive case.
pos: det
tags: archaic
examples: Ahab his mark
Sejanus his Fall
Derived words: His Highness
His Serene Highness
Hislam
his nibs
his nabs
Translations:
their
Part of speech: det
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Old Norse þeirra. Replaced native Old English heora.
Inflected forms:
form: deir
pos: det
tags: alternative
pronunciation-spelling
form: thair
pos: det
tags: alternative
archaic
form: theire
pos: det
tags: alternative
archaic
form: theyr
pos: det
tags: alternative
archaic
form: theyre
pos: det
tags: alternative
archaic
form: thir
pos: det
tags: alternative
archaic
Senses:
gloss: Belonging to, from, of, or relating to, them (plural).
pos: det
examples: they will meet tomorrow at their convenience
this is probably their cat
For all things, even Celestial Luminaries, much more atmospheric meteors, have their rise, their culmination, their decline.
For Liverpool, their season will now be regarded as a relative disappointment after failure to add the FA Cup to the Carling Cup and not mounting a challenge to reach the Champions League places.
Since the launch early last year of […] two Silicon Valley start-ups offering free education through MOOCs, massive open online courses, the ivory towers of academia have been shaken to their foundations. University brands built in some cases over centuries have been forced to contemplate the possibility that information technology will rapidly make their existing business model obsolete.
Proponents of adding a gender-neutral option to state identification documents say it would remove a form of discrimination against nonbinary people by providing them with the means to carry identification that matches their identity.
gloss: Belonging to someone (one person, singular), or occasionally to something.
pos: det
examples: There's not a man I meet but doth salute me
As if I were their well-acquainted friend […]
Place the casualty on their back with feet and legs raised—this is called the shock position. [emphasis in original] Once the casualty is positioned, cover them to preserve body heat, but do not overheat.
I prefer to think that birds have a sufficiently developed sense of humour to enjoy the spectacle of a human being hunched beneath a bush kissing the back of their hand.
‘I mean ... if somebody made a mistake,’ Harry went on, ‘and let something slip, I know they didn’t mean to do it. It’s not their fault,’ he repeated, again a little louder than he would usually have spoken.
The only object ... showing the signature of N₂ in their spectra is Sedna.
Related words: they
them
theirs
Derived words: everybody and their cousin
everyone and their cousin
everybody and their dog
everyone and their dog
everybody and their grandma
everyone and their grandma
everybody and their mother
everyone and their mother
everybody and their uncle
everyone and their uncle
their ABC
theirself
theirselves
Translations:
dative
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: grammar
human-sciences
law
linguistics
mathematics
sciences
Etymology: From Latin datīvus (“appropriate for giving”), itself from datus (the past participle of dō (“to give”)) + -īvus (“-ive”).
Inflected forms:
form: datives
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Denoting the case of a noun which expresses the remoter or indirect object, generally indicated in English by to or for with the objective.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: In one’s gift; capable of being disposed of at will and pleasure, as an office or other privilege.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
obsolete
gloss: Removable, as distinguished from perpetual; — said of an officer.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
obsolete
gloss: Given by a judge, as distinguished from being cast upon a party by the law itself.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
obsolete
gloss: Formed by two electrons contributed by one atom; see dative bond.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Given in advance; not needed to be calculated.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
obsolete
gloss: The dative case.
pos: noun
gloss: A word inflected in the dative case.
pos: noun
Derived words: dative alternation
dative bond
dative case
dative executor
datively
dative of purpose
dative shift
dative sickness
dativization
dativize
nondative
dative absolute
double dative
ethical dative
ethic dative
partitive dative
personal dative
Translations:
lang: Catalan
word: datiu
lang: Dutch
word: datief
lang: Portuguese
word: dativo
imperative
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: computing
computing-theory
engineering
grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₁én
Proto-Italic *en
Proto-Italic *en-
Latin in-
Proto-Indo-European *perh₃-der.
Latin parō
Latin imperō
Proto-Indo-European *-wós
Proto-Indo-European *-iHwósder.
Latin īvus
Latin imperātīvusbor.
English imperative
Borrowed from Latin imperātīvus.
Inflected forms:
form: more imperative
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most imperative
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: imp.
pos: adj
tags: alternative
abbreviation
form: imper.
pos: adj
tags: alternative
abbreviation
form: imperatives
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: imp.
pos: noun
tags: alternative
abbreviation
form: imper.
pos: noun
tags: alternative
abbreviation
Senses:
gloss: Essential; crucial; extremely important.
pos: adj
examples: That you come here right now is imperative.
Meantime, alterations at King William Street had become imperative, and by December 22, 1895, the station had been remodelled, as at Stockwell, to provide an island platform with lines each side, and a scissors crossing.
Give this document to Ozzy. It's imperative that he reads and understands it. Got it?
gloss: Of, or relating to the imperative mood.
pos: adj
gloss: Having semantics that incorporates mutable variables.
pos: adj
gloss: Expressing a command; authoritatively or absolutely directive.
pos: adj
examples: imperative orders
The suits of kings are imperative.
gloss: The grammatical mood expressing an order (see jussive). In English, the imperative form of a verb is the same as that of the bare infinitive.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: The verbs in sentences like "Do it!" and "Say what you like!" are in the imperative.
gloss: A verb in the imperative mood.
pos: noun
tags: countable
gloss: An essential action, a must: something which is imperative.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: Visiting Berlin is an imperative.
Anything grandiose or historically based tends to sound flat and banal when it reaches English, partly because translators get stuck between contradictory imperatives: juggling fidelity to the original sense with what is vocally viable, they tend to resort to a genteel fustian which lacks either poetic resonance or demotic realism, adding to a sense of artificiality rather than enhancing credibility.
The new imperative for investment is the Government's objective to secure carbon-neutral transport emissions by 2040.
Synonyms: required
Related words: jussive
volitive
Derived words: imperatival
imperative language
imperative mandate
imperativeness
imperative programming
imperativist
nonimperative
postimperative
unimperative
whimperative
biological imperative
categorical imperative
compound imperative
first imperative
hypothetical imperative
moral imperative
second imperative
Translations:
infinitive
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
Etymology: From Middle English infenitife (“without end, in perpetuity”), from Late Latin īnfīnītīvus (“unlimited, indefinite”), from Latin īnfīnītus (“unlimited, infinite”). By surface analysis, infinite + -ive.
Inflected forms:
form: infinitives
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The infinitive mood or mode (a grammatical mood).
pos: noun
examples: The MANNERS of acting, in grammar called modes or moods, are four; Infinitive, Imperative, Indicative, Subjunctive or Conjunctive.
There are four moods, the Infinitive, Imperative, Indicative, and Subjunctive. [...] the Infinitive is used to express a thing in a general manner.
gloss: A non-finite verb form considered neutral with respect to inflection; depending on language variously found used with auxiliary verbs, in subordinate clauses, or acting as a gerund, and often as the dictionary form.
pos: noun
gloss: A verbal noun formed from the infinitive of a verb.
pos: noun
gloss: Formed with the infinitive.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: INFINITIVE MOOD or MANNER.
To Have, Avoir.
In English there are four moods:–1. The Infinitive Mood. 2. The Indicative Mood. 3. the Imperative Mood. 4. The Subjunctive Mood.
gloss: Unlimited; not bounded or restricted; undefined.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: […] to search out in some higher region of infinitive space a spot where it was impossible for defilement to follow them […]
Related words: gerund
supine
lemma
verb
Derived words: bare infinitive
full infinitive
infinitival
infinitive marker
infinitive of purpose
perfect infinitive
split an infinitive
split infinitive
to-infinitive
zu-infinitive
infinitively
Translations:
vowel
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: communications
human-sciences
journalism
linguistics
literature
media
orthography
phonetics
phonology
publishing
sciences
writing
Etymology: From Middle English vowel, from Old French vouel, a variant of voyeul (whence French voyelle), from Latin vōcālis (“voiced”), itself a semantic loan of Koine Greek φωνῆεν (phōnêen). Doublet of vocal and vocalis.
Inflected forms:
form: vowels
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: vowels
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: voweling
pos: verb
tags: US
participle
present
form: vowelling
pos: verb
tags: UK
participle
present
form: voweled
pos: verb
tags: US
participle
past
form: voweled
pos: verb
tags: US
past
form: vowelled
pos: verb
tags: UK
participle
past
form: vowelled
pos: verb
tags: UK
past
Senses:
gloss: A sound produced by the vocal cords with relatively little restriction of the oral cavity, forming the prominent sound of a syllable.
pos: noun
examples: Hawaiian has either five or twenty-five vowels, depending on how they are counted.
gloss: A letter or diacritic representing the sound of a vowel; in English, the vowels are a, e, i, o, u, y (sometimes), and w (rarely).
pos: noun
examples: The word facetiously is spelled with all six vowels in alphabetical order.
The word cwm, borrowed from Welsh, is an example of the letter w serving as a vowel in English.
gloss: To add vowel points to a consonantal script (e.g. niqqud in Hebrew or harakat in Arabic).
pos: verb
examples: However it should be vowelled – perhaps ‘Almaqah’ – his name seems to be composed of ‘Il’, the general name of the paramount Semitic deity […], plus another element that is possibly from the Sabaic verb wqh, ‘to command’ […].
Related words: intervocalic
postvocalic
prevocalic
vocalic
vocalization
Types of vowels:
front
central
back
rounded
unrounded
close
near-close
close-mid
mid
open-mid
near-open
open
Other categories of sounds:
consonant
liquid
Derived words: back vowel
cardinal vowel
dark vowel
disemvowel
echo vowel
front vowel
full vowel
gliding vowel
half-long vowel
happy vowel
inherent vowel
lax vowel
linking vowel
long vowel
long-vowel mark
nasal vowel
natural vowel
neutral vowel
oral vowel
overlong vowel
prop vowel
R-coloured vowel
R-colored vowel
reduced vowel
rhotacized vowel
rounded vowel
semi-vowel
semivowel
short vowel
tense vowel
thematic vowel
unrounded vowel
vowel harmony
vowelization
vowelisation
vowelize
vowelise
vowel killer
vowelless
vowelling
vowel lowering
vowel mutation
vowel point
vowel pointing
vowel quantity
vowel reduction
vowel rhyme
vowel sign
weak vowel merger
Translations:
article
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English article, from Old French article, from Latin articulus (“a joint, limb, member, part, division, the article in grammar, a point of time”), from Latin artus, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂értus (“that which is fit together; juncture, ordering”), from the root *h₂er- (“to join, fit (together)”). Doublet of articulus.
Inflected forms:
form: articles
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: articling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: articled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: articled
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To bind by articles of apprenticeship.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to article an apprentice to a mechanic
When the boy left school at Liskeard, he was articled to a lawyer, Mr. Jacobson, at Plymouth, a wealthy man in good practice, first cousin to his mother; but this sort of profession did not at all approve itself to Robert's taste, and he only remained with Mr. Jacobson a few months.
After educational training at Hayes Grammar School and Hayes College, Mr. Nokes was articled to a Surveyor and Land Agent in 1885, and, at the expiration of his articles, became a partner in the firm.
gloss: To accuse or charge by an exhibition of articles or accusations.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
examples: At noon dined alone with Sir W. Batten, where great discourse of Sir W. Pen, Sir W. Batten being, I perceive, quite out of love with him, thinking him too great and too high, and began to talk that the world do question his courage, upon which I told him plainly I have been told that he was articled against for it, and that Sir H. Vane was his great friend therein.
[…] if the Captain of any Merchant ship under convoy shall wilfully disobey Signals […] he shall be liable to be articled against in the High Court of Admiralty […]
gloss: To formulate in articles; to set forth in distinct particulars.
pos: verb
examples: If […]all his errors and follies were articled against him, the man would seem vicious and miserable.
Derived words: articled clerk
Translations:
consonant
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: entertainment
human-sciences
lifestyle
linguistics
music
phonetics
phonology
sciences
Etymology: From Middle English consonant or consonaunt, from Old French consonant, from Latin cōnsonāns (“sounding with”), from the prefix con- (“with”) + the present participle sonāns (“sounding”), from sonāre (“to sound”). The Latin is a calque of Ancient Greek σύμφωνον (súmphōnon).
Inflected forms:
form: consonants
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: more consonant
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most consonant
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: A sound that results from the passage of air through restrictions of the oral cavity; any sound that is not the dominant sound of a syllable, the dominant sound generally being a vowel.
pos: noun
gloss: A letter representing the sound of a consonant.
pos: noun
examples: Thus, when he drew up instructions in lawyer language, he expressed the important words by an initial, a medial, or a final consonant, and made scratches for all the words between; his clerks, however, understood him very well.
“Tell me, has right anything to do with the law?” I asked. “You have used the wrong initial consonant,” he smiled in answer. “Might?” I queried; and he nodded his head.
gloss: Consistent, harmonious, compatible, or in agreement.
pos: adj
examples: Each one pretends that his opinion […] is consonant to the words there used.
Cheerfulness, even gaiety, is consonant with every species of virtue and practice of religion, and I think it inconsistent only with impiety and vice.
This essential right of the courts to be free of intimidation and coercion was held to be consonant with a recognition that freedom of the press must be allowed in the broadest scope compatible with the supremacy of order.
gloss: Having the same sound.
pos: adj
examples: 1645-1650, James Howell, Epistolae Ho-Elianae
consonant words and syllables
gloss: Harmonizing together; accordant.
pos: adj
examples: consonant tones; consonant chords
gloss: Of or relating to consonants; made up of, or containing many, consonants.
pos: adj
examples: No Russian whose dissonant consonant name / Almost shatters to fragments the trumpet of fame.
Antonyms: disconsonant
dissonant
discordant
Related words: consonance
consonantal
vowel
semivowel
Derived words: consonantal
consonantary
consonant cluster
consonant gradation
consonant harmony
consonanthood
consonantic
consonantism
consonantize
consonantless
consonantly
consonantness
consonant rhyme
consonant stem
contoid
inconsonant
linking consonant
nasal consonant
nonconsonant
semiconsonant
unconsonant
Translations: