yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
brethren
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Early Modern English brethren, plural of brother, from Middle English brethren, from Middle English brethere, brether + -en (plural ending). Ultimately from Old English brōþor, brōþru (“brothers, brethren”), influenced by Old English brēþer, dative singular of brōþor (“brother”). Equivalent to brother + -en (plural ending). Compare German Brüder (“brothers, brethren”). More at brother. The vowel change (from o to e) is called umlaut.
Base: brother
Affixes: -en
Inflected forms:
form: brethern
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: bretheren
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: more brethren
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most brethren
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: brethern
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: bretheren
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: kinsmen
pos: noun
tags: poetic
gloss: Of or akin to; related; like
pos: adj
examples: The principle still sounds good, but our astronomical knowledge is limited, and we haven't yet discovered any such brethren solar systems.
Derived words: blood brethren
bredrin
Brethren
brethren in arms
brethren-in-law
co-brethren
half brethren
half-brethren
lay brethren
Social Brethren
step-brethren
stepbrethren
United Brethren
uterine brethren
womb-brethren
Translations:
simplicity
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English simplicite, from Old French simplicite, from Latin simplicitās, from simplex (“simple”). See simple. Partially displaced native English onefoldness.
Inflected forms:
form: simplicities
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The state or quality of being simple
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: the simplicity of metals or of earths
gloss: The state or quality of being simple
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: the simplicity of a machine
2. Simplicity, with the least number of working parts, all readily visible and accessible.
gloss: The state or quality of being simple
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The state or quality of being simple
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: simplicity of dress, of style, or of language
simplicity of diet
simplicity of life
gloss: The state or quality of being simple
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: the simplicity of a doctrine
the simplicity of an explanation or a demonstration
gloss: The state or quality of being simple
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Economics is a messy discipline: too fluid to be a science, too rigorous to be an art. Perhaps it is fitting that economists’ most-used metric, gross domestic product (GDP), is a tangle too. GDP measures the total value of output in an economic territory. Its apparent simplicity explains why it is scrutinised down to tenths of a percentage point every month.
gloss: An act or instance of foolishness.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
countable
rare
uncountable
examples: speaking of the great simplicity we commit, in leaving yong children under the government and charge of their fathers and parents.
Synonyms: simpleness
Antonyms: complexity
complication
Related words: simple
Derived words: oversimplicity
semisimplicity
simplicity itself
supersimplicity
unsimplicity
Translations:
lang: Arabic
word: بَسَاطَة
roman: basāṭa
lang: Belarusian
word: прастата́
roman: prastatá
lang: Bulgarian
word: простота́
roman: prostotá
lang: Catalan
word: simplicitat
lang: Czech
word: jednoduchost
lang: Esperanto
word: simpleco
lang: French
word: simplicité
lang: Galician
word: simplicidade
lang: Georgian
word: სიმარტივე
roman: simarṭive
lang: Georgian
word: უბრალოება
roman: ubraloeba
lang: German
word: Einfachheit
lang: Greek
word: απλότητα
roman: aplótita
lang: Hungarian
word: egyszerűség
lang: Italian
word: semplicità
lang: Central Kurdish
word: ساکاری
roman: sakarî
lang: Macedonian
word: едноставност
roman: ednostavnost
lang: Old English
word: ānfealdnes
lang: Portuguese
word: simplicidade
lang: Russian
word: простота́
roman: prostotá
lang: Spanish
word: simplicidad
lang: Turkish
word: basitlik
earnestly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English ernestly, from Old English eornostlīċe (“earnestly, strictly”), equivalent to earnest + -ly.
Base: earnest
Affixes: -ly
Inflected forms:
form: more earnestly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most earnestly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In an earnest manner; being very sincere; putting forth genuine effort.
pos: adv
examples: The Scarecrow and the Tin Woodman and the Lion now thanked the Good Witch earnestly for her kindness, […]
One thing, however, I do most earnestly beg and entreat of you: […]
Before long, the unsuspecting salesman was earnestly pitching him "the quietest noisemaker on the market."
“This the only seat y’all got?” [Dank] Demoss, who also goes by Dajua Blanding, asks earnestly.
Translations:
procession
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: ball-games
cricket
ecclesiastical
games
hobbies
law
lifestyle
religion
sports
Etymology: From Middle English processioun, borrowed from Old French pourciession, from Latin prōcessiō (“a marching forward, an advance, in Late Latin a religious procession”), from prōcēdere, past participle prōcessus (“to move forward, advance, proceed”); see proceed.
Inflected forms:
form: processions
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: processions
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: processioning
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: processioned
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: processioned
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: The act of progressing or proceeding.
pos: noun
examples: From whence it came to pass in the primitive times , that the Latin fathers taught expressly the procession of the Spirit from the Father and the Son
Yet proof is here of men's unquenched desire / That the procession of their life might be / More equable majestic pure and free; […]
gloss: A group of people or things moving along in an orderly, stately, or solemn manner; a train of persons advancing in order; a retinue.
pos: noun
examples: a procession of mourners
the Lord Mayor's procession
Here comes the towneſ-men, on Proceſſion, / To preſent your Highneſſe with the man.
By reason of these things, then, the whaling voyage was welcome; the great flood-gates of the wonder-world swung open, and in the wild conceits that swayed me to my purpose, two and two there floated into my inmost soul, endless processions of the whale, and, mid most of them all, one grand hooded phantom, like a snow hill in the air.
The final fifty miles of the race was a procession with little change in the relative positions of the cars […]
gloss: A number of things happening in sequence (in space or in time).
pos: noun
gloss: Litanies said in procession and not kneeling.
pos: noun
tags: in-plural
obsolete
examples: In many a form I see thee oft
In myriad manners are thy praises told
In old processions carved on Grecian urns
gloss: The rapid dismissal of a series of batsmen.
pos: noun
examples: Before he closed and opened his eyes, the bails on the wicket behind Johnny Masih were shattered. That was the beginning of a procession. The second ball clean bowled the batsman. The third ball was a catch for the wicketkeeper.
Scotland moved nicely to 45 without loss before I took the first wicket and then it became a procession.
gloss: To take part in a procession.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To honour with a procession.
pos: verb
tags: dated
transitive
gloss: To ascertain, mark, and establish the boundary lines of (lands).
pos: verb
tags: US
transitive
examples: To procession the lands of such persons as desire it.
Synonyms: process
Related words: procedure
proceed
process
-cade
cavalcade
cortege
flypast
march-past
motorcade
parade
Derived words: double procession
eternal procession
funeral procession
processional
processionary
processioner
processionism
processionist
processionize
processionwise
single procession
Translations:
destined
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Confined to a predetermined fate or destiny; certain.
pos: adj
examples: He is sure he is destined for fame.
When Hape sauntered over for a try after only three minutes it looked as if England were destined for a comfortable victory, but Georgia are made of sterner stuff, as they showed when running Scotland close in Invercargill last week.
The furious reaction in Germany after 200,000 protective masks destined for Berlin mysteriously went missing in Thailand and were allegedly redirected to the US is a case in point. There is no solid proof Trump approved the heist. But it’s the sort of thing he would do – or so people believe.
Translations:
somehow
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From some + how.
Compound parts: some
how
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: In one way or another; in a way not yet known or explained; by some means
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: This problem has to be tackled somehow.
We don't know how he's still alive after the accident, but somehow he is.
December 1, 2016, Tom Donaghy writing in The New York Times, Tender Side of Edward Albee
It’s not by accident Edward wrote “The Goat,” “The Zoo Story” or “Seascape,” with its two lizards, Sarah and Leslie. In fact, in all of his plays the animal is pretty prominent, somehow or other.
Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers, of errand not wholly obvious to their fellows, yet of such sort as to call into query alike the nature of their errand and their own relations.
Have I not loathed to live again and said
It would have been far better to be dead,
 And yet somehow, I know not why,
Remained afraid to die!
Although youngest of the family, he has somehow or other got the entire management of all the others.
Translations:
bulbous
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
Etymology: From bulb + -ous or alteration of Latin bulbosus.
Base: bulb
Affixes: -ous
Inflected forms:
form: more bulbous
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most bulbous
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Having the shape of or resembling a bulb, bloated.
pos: adj
gloss: Overweight and round in shape.
pos: adj
examples: A neon cacophony hung only a few feet above their heads, the popping and buzzing of the lights only occasionally drowned out by the shouts of the barkers, bulbous men whose doughy fat strained at their sweat-stained t-shirts[…]
gloss: Growing from a bulb or producing bulbs.
pos: adj
Derived words: bulbous buttercup
bulbously
bulbousness
nonbulbous
pseudobulbous
Translations:
spooky
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English spook
English -y
English spooky
From spook + -y.
Inflected forms:
form: spookier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: spookiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Eerie, or suggestive of ghosts or the supernatural.
pos: adj
tags: informal
gloss: Spooked; afraid; frightened.
pos: adj
tags: informal
examples: I thought it was nice, though I found it very quiet, and whenever I was alone in it, I felt spooky.
gloss: Unpredictably excitable; skittish (used especially of horses).
pos: adj
tags: informal
Derived words: ooky-spooky
spookily
spookiness
Spooktober
spooky action at a distance
spooky-ass
spooky PAC
spooky season
spoopy
unspooky
Translations:
outfield
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: agriculture
ball-games
baseball
business
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
softball
sports
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *úd
Proto-Germanic *ūt
Proto-Germanic *ūt-
Old English ūt-
Middle English ut-
English out-
English field
English outfield
From out- + field.
Inflected forms:
form: outfields
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: outfields
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: outfielding
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: outfielded
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: outfielded
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: The region of the field between the infield and the outer fence.
pos: noun
examples: He hit a long fly ball to the outfield in the gap to left.
Topgolf's newest game, Sonic the Hedgehog™, brings the fun for everyone! Players aim at giant outfield targets to hit springs, collect rings and take down badniks in iconic virtual Sonic environments, designed with all skill levels in mind.
gloss: The region of the field roughly outside of the infield or the wicket-keeper, slips, gully, point, cover, mid off, mid on, midwicket and square leg.
pos: noun
gloss: The area outside a racetrack or running track.
pos: noun
gloss: Arable land continually cropped without being manured.
pos: noun
tags: Scotland
gloss: Any open field at a distance from the farmsteading.
pos: noun
tags: Scotland
gloss: To perform better in defense (fielding).
pos: verb
examples: A special dispatch sent to The Cincinnati Enquirer on the game stated that the Buckeyes outfielded and outplayed the Grays at every point, and that had the Bucks run for first base instead of watching the ball after they hit it, they would have increased the score.
Antonyms: infield
Derived words: outfielder
outfield player
outfieldsman
Translations:
flashing
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: business
construction
jewelry
lifestyle
manufacturing
roofing
Etymology: From flash + -ing.
* (weatherproofing): From original flashing material of copper or aluminum that reflects flashes of sunlight.
Base: flash
Affixes: -ing
Inflected forms:
form: flashings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A sudden blazing or bursting, as of fire or water.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Components used to weatherproof or seal roof system edges at perimeters, penetrations, walls, expansion joints, valleys, drains and other places where the roof covering is interrupted or terminated.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The process of getting rid of gaps on shelves by bringing products from the back of the shelf to the front to create a 'fuller' shelf.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The blinking of a light source, such as a light bulb or computer's cursor.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The incessant flashing of the neon sign kept the neighborhood awake.
There were tremblings, flashings, coruscatings of sparks which were dying as they were born.
gloss: The exposing of one's naked body, or part of it, in public briefly (the action of the verb to flash).
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The use of rhodium plating to temporarily enhance a ring's durability and shine.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Derived words: apron flashing
base flashing
cap flashing
channel flashing
chimney flashing
counterflashing
cyberflashing
cyber-flashing
flashing collar
flashing lane
skirt flashing
step flashing
Translations:
outfielder
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: ball-games
baseball
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Etymology: Etymology tree
English outfield
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 outfielder
From outfield + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: outfielders
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: OF
pos: noun
tags: alternative
abbreviation
form: OFer
pos: noun
tags: alternative
abbreviation
Senses:
gloss: A player that plays in the outfield, which is the outer portion of the field.
pos: noun
examples: The outfielder tracked down the long fly.
. I like to think that if I wasn't pitcher I could be an outfielder or a first baseman or something and play major league baseball anyway.
The Twins are known for their fascination with toolsy and athletic outfielders, but Hicks has the most talent of any Twins draft pick since Joe Mauer in 2002.
Translations:
infielder
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: ball-games
baseball
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *né
Proto-Indo-European *n̥-
Proto-Italic *n̥-
Latin in-bor.
Middle English in-
English in-
English field
English infield
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 infielder
From infield + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: infielders
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A player who plays in the infield, which is the inner portion of the field.
pos: noun
examples: The infielder run in to field the bunt.
Translations:
purview
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: law
Etymology: From Middle English purveu (“proviso”), from Anglo-Norman purveu est (“it is provided”), or purveu que (“provided that”) (statutory language), from Old French porveü (“provided”), past participle of porveoir (“to provide”), from Latin prōvideō (see provide). Influenced by view and its etymological antecedents.
Inflected forms:
form: purviews
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The enacting part of a statute.
pos: noun
gloss: The scope of a statute.
pos: noun
gloss: Scope or range of interest or control.
pos: noun
examples: Will it be said that the fundamental principles of the Confederation were not within the purview of the convention, and ought not to have been varied?
Rhetorical relations have truth conditional effects that contribute to meaning but lie outside the purview of compositional semantics.
Several air marshals have asked Congress to remove the program from T.S.A.’s purview and entrust it to a different agency, like Customs and Border Protection or the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
It was 2015 when Jain—whose purview includes commissioning new series, acquiring the rights to foreign hits, and publicly answering for any perceived misdeeds of ITV—set out to overhaul the tepidly received Celebrity Love Island, a 12-person British popularity contest and ostensible matchmaker that disappeared after two seasons.
gloss: Range of understanding.
pos: noun
examples: Our company were noisy, gay, quarrelsome, full of facile theories, with glib explanations of everything, persuaded that there is nothing they could not understand and no human destiny outside the purview of their system.
Related words: purvey
Translations:
panoply
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Ancient Greek πανοπλία (panoplía)bor.
English panoply
Borrowed from Ancient Greek πανοπλία (panoplía, “suit of armour”).
Inflected forms:
form: panoplies
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: panoplies
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: panoplying
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: panoplied
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: panoplied
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A splendid display of something.
pos: noun
examples: Even though we cannot affirm that the products of mimesis are invested in the panoply of existence.
To the south were the Varden and the men of Surda, entrenched behind multiple layers of defense, where they displayed a fine panoply of woven standards, ranks of proud tents, and the picketed horses of King Orrin's cavalry.
And you were waking / And day was breaking / A panoply of song / And summer comes to Springville Hill
gloss: A collection or display of weaponry.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
historical
gloss: Ceremonial garments, complete with all accessories.
pos: noun
gloss: A complete set of armour.
pos: noun
tags: historical
gloss: Something that covers and protects.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
examples: [I]n short, sneering and fleering at him in her cold barren way; all which, however, he, the man he was, could receive on thick enough panoply, or even rebound therefrom, and also go his way.
gloss: A broad or full range or complete set.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
examples: Near-synonyms: plenitude, plentitude, plenty, cornucopia
Indeed, for much of the Arab world, the Turkish term Seferberlik, which originally referred to conscription, has come to represent the panoply of civilian suffering in the Great War.
gloss: To fit out in a suit of armour
pos: verb
gloss: To array or bedeck
pos: verb
Related words: hoplite
Derived words: empanoply
panoplied
panoplist
Translations:
touchstone
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From touch + stone.
Compound parts: touch
stone
Inflected forms:
form: touchstones
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A stone used to verify the quality of gold alloys by rubbing them in order to leave a visible trace.
pos: noun
gloss: A standard of comparison or evaluation.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
figuratively
examples: Near-synonym: comparator
The foregoing doctrine affords us also a touchstone for the trial of spirits.
"Expectation of life" is an elastic term: the touchstone here is rather the aggregate amount of work that the locomotive does during its working life.
Although there has not been very much direct treatment of the Holocaust in analytic moral philosophy, the Nazis appear again and again as examples or touchstones in the construction of moral theories.
In the print firestorm that followed the publication of the royal couple's letters, the generalissima was one polemical touchstone. The Annotations to The Kings Cabinet Opened itself depicted the queen as an enemy to king and country: […]
Brokeback Mountain did take home three Oscars, including a prestigious best director prize for Ang Lee, and remains a beloved gay touchstone.
Related words: bellwether
benchmark
capstone
cornerstone
exemplar
keystone
model
norm
philosopher's stone
reference
tester
Translations:
fastball
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: compound
Topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Etymology: From fast (adjective) + ball.
Compound parts: fast
ball
Inflected forms:
form: fastballs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: fastballs
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: fastballing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: fastballed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: fastballed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A high-speed pitch of a baseball.
pos: noun
examples: Cam Smith bounced to shortstop on a 100 mph fastball, and Jacob Melton also grounded out on an 86.9 mph curveball.
gloss: A four-seam fastball, which is a backspin pitch thrown with a ball gripped in the direction to cause four of the seams of the ball to cross the flight path and released with roughly equal pressure by the index and middle fingers
pos: noun
tags: specifically
examples: The pitcher had a blazing fastball.
gloss: To throw (something) at a high speed.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Kevin pushed away from the desk and fastballed it into the other man’s chest.
Wyatt spurred his horse to the middle of the stones, reached into the corpse’s chest, yanked out the heart, and fastballed it at a vine-covered tree stump.
He targeted a man standing a bit taller than the others and fastballed the lock in his direction. The lock somehow managed to miss everyone below and clattered against the pavement.
Synonyms: cheese
fireball
gas
heat
hummer
Related words: Bugs Bunny change-up
change-up
curveball
cut fastball
gyroball
knuckleball
screwball
sinker
slider
spitball
split-finger fastball
two-seam fastball
Derived words: fastball count
fastballer
split-fingered fastball
Translations:
croquet
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: games
Etymology: Borrowed from Norman croquet (“hook”), from Old Northern French croquet. Doublet of crochet, crocket, and crotchet.
Inflected forms:
form: croquets
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: croquets
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: croqueting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: croqueted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: croqueted
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A game played on a lawn, in which players use mallets to drive balls through hoops (wickets).
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: A shot in this game in which the striker's ball and another ball are moved by hitting the striker's ball when they have been placed in contact following a roquet.
pos: noun
tags: countable
gloss: To play a shot in the game of croquet in which the striker's ball and another ball are moved by hitting the striker's ball when they have been placed in contact following a roquet.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Derived words: association croquet
croqueter
croquetlike
croquet mallet
golf croquet
roque
Translations:
slider
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: ball-games
baseball
computing
cricket
curling
engineering
games
graphical-user-interface
hobbies
lifestyle
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
skydiving
sports
Etymology: From slide + -er.
The meaning "small hamburger" was originally used to describe onion-steamed small burgers at White Castle restaurants, formerly spelt "Slyder".
Regarding the senses about control devices or widgets: physical sliders (potentiometers serving as rheostats) predate virtual ones (elements in graphical user interfaces), and the virtual ones are so named because their concept is the abstraction of the physical ones; if more explanation on that topic is needed, it is available in the Wikipedia articles on skeuomorphs, icons, and the desktop metaphor.
Base: slide
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: sliders
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Agent noun of slide: that which slides.
pos: noun
gloss: Agent noun of slide: that which slides.
pos: noun
examples: In the Vista Volume Mixer tool, when you move the speaker volume slider, the program sliders move along with it.
gloss: Agent noun of slide: that which slides.
pos: noun
examples: Woburn-NEW custom build 5 bedroom, 4 baths, lg. living room, lg. formal dining room, see thru fireplace, 2 sliders to two decks, 1 oversized garage […]
gloss: Agent noun of slide: that which slides.
pos: noun
examples: The closer had a wicked slider that was almost unhittable.
gloss: Agent noun of slide: that which slides.
pos: noun
gloss: Agent noun of slide: that which slides.
pos: noun
examples: We ordered five sliders.
gloss: Agent noun of slide: that which slides.
pos: noun
gloss: Agent noun of slide: that which slides.
pos: noun
gloss: Agent noun of slide: that which slides.
pos: noun
gloss: Agent noun of slide: that which slides.
pos: noun
gloss: Agent noun of slide: that which slides.
pos: noun
examples: Catch me up in snowin, in my sliders and my shorts
Chicks tryna get my brotha Flips to share his thoughts
gloss: Agent noun of slide: that which slides.
pos: noun
tags: US
dialectal
gloss: Agent noun of slide: that which slides.
pos: noun
gloss: Agent noun of slide: that which slides.
pos: noun
gloss: A slideshow on a web page.
pos: noun
tags: Internet
Related words: curveball
fastball
cut fastball
two-seam fastball
split finger fastball
sinker
screwball
knuckleball
Derived words: back door slider
Cumberland slider
D'Orbigny's slider
Perth slider
pond slider
ranchslider
ranch slider
red-eared slider
skeleton slider
slider phone
slider pump
slurve
yellow-bellied slider
yellowbelly slider
Translations:
curveball
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: compound
Topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Etymology: From curve + ball.
Compound parts: curve
ball
Inflected forms:
form: curveballs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: curveballs
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: curveballing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: curveballed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: curveballed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A forespin pitch thrown by rotating the index and middle fingers down and resulting in motion down "curve"
pos: noun
examples: He bit on a curveball in the dirt.
Caglianone ripped Miles Mikolas’ curveball into the right-field corner for an RBI double that scored Salvador Perez in the fourth inning of the first game of a doubleheader against the Cardinals.
Cam Smith bounced to shortstop on a 100 mph fastball, and Jacob Melton also grounded out on an 86.9 mph curveball.
gloss: An unexpected turn of events initiated by an opponent or chance; an exception or outlier.
pos: noun
tags: US
broadly
examples: Life has thrown him a few curveballs.
The season’s first episode, “Bart Gets an F,” got the highest ratings in its history, but “Treehouse of Horror” was the real curveball: a genre-busting effort that proudly punched above the show’s expectations.
There are two curveball nominations, one perhaps a popularity bid and the other a credibility bid. The popular one is Bieber’s Purpose.
But from time to time, June throws up a curveball, in the shape of unusual and hard to predict meteorological events.
And I think that’s an example of where faced with a seemingly intractable political reality, technology produces a solution that is a total curveball and not that imaginable a few decades ago.
gloss: To throw a curveball.
pos: verb
examples: Even though the haughty physics professors at the elite school ridiculed his declaration that he could make a baseball curve, Cummings just laughed it off and said, “I curveballed them to death,” according to Frederick Ivor-Campbell.
The news curveballed him. He'd been hamstrung and schizzed all the preceding weeks. He brooded in his den.
Related words: throw someone a curve
Derived words: curveballer
throw someone a curveball
Translations:
nog
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: business
carpentry
construction
manufacturing
mining
shipbuilding
Etymology: Variant of knag.
Inflected forms:
form: nogs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: nogs
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: nogging
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: nogged
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: nogged
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A wooden block, the size of a brick, built into a wall, as a hold for the nails of woodwork.
pos: noun
examples: Within a wall,[…], we find vertical studs, nogs or blocking, top and bottom plates, perhaps some form of diagonal braces, and many nailed and screwed connections.
gloss: One of the square logs of wood used in a pile to support the roof of a mine.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
examples: nogs and chocks are used to support the roof where waste material can not conveniently be obtained
gloss: A treenail to fasten the shores.
pos: noun
gloss: to fill in, as between scantling, with brickwork.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: to fasten, as shores, with treenails.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Translations:
sashay
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Verlan (or metathesis) form of French chassé, past participle of chasser (“chase”), from Latin captō, frequentative of capiō (“to take”).
Inflected forms:
form: sashays
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: sashays
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: sashaying
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: sashayed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: sashayed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A chassé.
pos: noun
gloss: A sequence of sideways steps in a circle in square dancing.
pos: noun
gloss: To walk casually, showily, or in a flirty manner; to strut, swagger or flounce.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: “Fresh guy,” explained Aileen, “last night as I was going home at Twenty-third and Sixth. Sashayed up, so he did, and made a break. I turned him down, cold, and he made a sneak; […]
Some time, when they shift some decent guards on us that will give us a peep at a newspaper, you get yourself thrown into the jacket, climb out of your body, and sashay down to little old ’Frisco.
… He got on Forty-second Street, and he was kinda fresh from the start. At Sixty-sixth he came sasshaying^([sic]) right down the car and said ‘Hello, patootie!’ Well, I drew myself up …
It does amuse to remember the fadeout road of Chaplin's silent days, the empty dusty vista down which, at the end of every adventure, the little bum recedingly sashayed, knapsack aboard.
Goldie pulled her skirts up in front of her, gave Elijah a look over her shoulder, and sashayed away.
“Hey-o, guy-o, glad you could come on such short notice. Sashay on in here. The meeting's started. Well, hey, all, looky what the me dragged in. Team, this here's Tiny Eagle's replacement, the Mighty Monarch. Mighty Monarch, meet the team. Dot Com, hack-stress extraordinaire.” “Hey.” “And to her lovely left is Tunnel Vision, our resident digger.” “Hey, there, chief.”
She sashayed into the villa as just another bombshell, but stole the show.
gloss: To chassé when dancing.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: "Hope I didn't put away too much fried chicken to sashay properly at the square dance," Bud remarked.
gloss: To move sideways.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Games can hinge on the sort of controversial decision made by Taylor in the 10th minute. After Rivière collected Gabriel Obertan’s pass and sashayed beyond Daley Blind he drew the United centre- half into a rash, clumsy challenge but, puzzlingly, Taylor detected no penalty.
Derived words: sashayer
Translations:
disjoint
Part of speech: adj
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: mathematics
sciences
set-theory
Etymology: From Middle English disjoynen, from Old French desjoindre (“disjoin”), from Latin disiungō, from dis- + iungō (“join”).
Inflected forms:
form: more disjoint
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most disjoint
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: disjoints
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: disjointing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: disjointed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: disjointed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Not smooth or continuous; disjointed.
pos: adj
examples: Azure, a chevron disjoint or broken in the head or - BROKMALE. Per fesse gules and sable , a chevron rompu counterchanged - ALLEN, Sheriff of London
gloss: Of two or more sets, having no members in common; having an intersection equal to the empty set.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: To render disjoint; to remove a connection, linkage, or intersection.
pos: verb
examples: Near-synonyms: unjoin; disassemble, take apart
to disjoint limbs; to disjoint bones; to disjoint poultry by carving
Are there not Poiſons, Racks, and Flames, and Swords; / That Emma thus muſt die by Henry’s Words? / Yet what could Swords or Poiſon, Racks or Flame, / But mangle and disjoint this brittle Frame? / More fatal Henry’s Words; they murder Emma’s Fame.
As over some half-ruined wall, / Disjointed and about to fall, / Fresh woodbines climb and interlace, / And keep the loosened stones in place.
gloss: To break the natural order and relations of; to make incoherent.
pos: verb
examples: a disjointed speech
gloss: To fall into pieces.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
examples: But let the frame of things dis-ioynt, / Both the Worlds ſuffer, / Ere we will eate our Meale in feare, and ſleepe / In the affliction of theſe terrible Dreames, / That ſhake vs Nightly : Better be with the dead, / Whom we, to gayne our peace, haue ſent to peace, / Then on the torture of the Minde to lye / In reſtleſſe extaſie.
Antonyms: non-disjoint
overlapping
Related words: disjunct
conjoint
unjointed
disjoin
Derived words: disjointly
disjointness
disjoint set
disjoint union
disjoint union topology
disjointure
nondisjoint
pairwise disjoint
Translations:
spinning
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: spinnings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The motion of something that spins.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: these uncontrollable spinnings of the head
gloss: The process of converting fibres into yarn or thread.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Indoor cycling on an exercise bicycle.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
cardioid
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
Etymology: By surface analysis, cardi- + -oid.
Inflected forms:
form: cardioids
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: more cardioid
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most cardioid
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: An epicycloid with exactly one cusp; the plane curve with polar equation ρ=1+ cos ,θ - approximately heart-shaped
pos: noun
gloss: Having this characteristic shape
pos: adj
gloss: sensitive in front, but not behind or at the sides
pos: adj
Derived words: cardioid catacaustic
cardioid condenser
cardioid coordinate
cardioid evolute
cardioid inverse curve
cardioid involute
cardioid microphone
hypercardioid
supercardioid
Translations:
belated
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more belated
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most belated
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Later in relation to the proper time something should have happened.
pos: adj
examples: Happy belated birthday!
England manager Roy Hodgson instantly restored Rooney after a two-match suspension in place of Andy Carroll with orders to make a belated mark on the campaign after sitting out the draw against France and victory against Sweden.
gloss: Lacking education or sophistication.
pos: adj
examples: The devil drives the world, whip in hand, — and oddly enough (considering that some belated folk still fancy there is a God somewhere) succeeds in managing his team with extraordinary ease!
Derived words: belated happy birthday
belatedly
belatedness
happy belated birthday
unbelated
Translations:
taskmaster
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From task + master.
Compound parts: task
master
Inflected forms:
form: taskmasters
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Someone who supervises workers, especially one who imposes hard or burdensome work.
pos: noun
examples: And the Lord said, I have surely seen the affliction of my people which are in Egypt, and have heard their cry by reason of their taskmasters; for I know their sorrows
gloss: A source of hard work or responsibility.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
examples: Everyone knows the enthusiasm is inauthentic and only for show, but artifice and inauthenticity are perfectly adequate for the politicization taskmasters. […] It all looked so easy when the competent were at the helm, but reality is a cruel taskmaster, and all the excuses that worked as an underling wear thin once the incompetent are in leadership roles.
Derived words: taskmasterly
taskmastership
Translations:
burdensome
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From burden + -some.
Base: burden
Affixes: -some
Inflected forms:
form: more burdensome
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most burdensome
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Characteristic of a burden; arduous or demanding
pos: adj
examples: . . . reap a pleasure from what, to the generality of mankind, may seem burdensome and laborious.
Finally, there are the commuter trains. Both companies operate these around the big cities and both find them burdensome, owing to the lack of off-peak travel.
Translations:
bat-pad
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Inflected forms:
form: bat-pads
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One of a pair of soft padded coverings that protect the legs of the person batting; a pad or batting pad.
pos: noun
tags: countable
gloss: A fielding position very close to the batsman, square on the leg side, designed to catch the ball from a misplaced defensive shot.
pos: noun
tags: informal
uncountable
gloss: A fielder in this position.
pos: noun
tags: countable
informal
Translations:
antithesis
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin antithesis, itself a borrowing from Ancient Greek ἀντίθεσις (antíthesis). By surface analysis, anti- + thesis.
Inflected forms:
form: antitheses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A proposition that is the diametric opposite of some other proposition.
pos: noun
examples: For if every condition of everything conditioned (according to its existence) is sensuous, and therefore belongs to the series, that series is again conditioned (as shown in the antithesis of the fourth antinomy).
Unless one final Schlafly paradox gets in the way. Before she died, the First Lady of the Conservative Movement endorsed Trump. That makes sense: Schlafly was a paleoconservative who was worried about immigration. But Trump has turned out to be the most unchivalrous candidate in living memory, the very antithesis of Schlafly’s ideal Christian standard.
On the night of the 2nd of March 2025, your actions were the antithesis of everything Paddington stands for.
gloss: A device by which two contrasting ideas are juxtaposed in parallel form; a figure of speech arranged in this manner
pos: noun
tags: rhetoric
examples: Antithesis, opposing things to things,
Oft from the contrast strength and beauty brings.
gloss: The second stage of a dialectical process in which the thesis is negated.
pos: noun
Synonyms: antithesis
contrary
converse
inverse
obverse
opposite
polar opposite
reverse
witherward
Antonyms: epitome
Derived words: antithesise
antithesize
antithet
antithetic
antithetical
antitheticality
antithetically
antitheticalness
Translations:
diaspora
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Ancient Greek διασπορᾱ́ (diasporā́, “dispersion”), from διασπείρω (diaspeírō, “to scatter”), from δια- (dia-, prefix indicating motion across or in all directions) + σπείρω (speírō, “to sow”).
Inflected forms:
form: diasporas
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: diasporae
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: diasporai
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Diaspora
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The dispersion of a group in a manner comparable to that of the Jews among the Gentiles after the Babylonian captivity (6th century BCE).
pos: noun
tags: collective
examples: The African diaspora caused a melding of cultures, both African cultures and Western ones, in many places.
This scattering abrode of the Iewes, as it were an heauenly sowing, fell out after their returne from the captiuitie of Babylon. Wherevpon both Acts. 2. and also 1. Pet. 1. and 1. Iam. ver. 1. [sic] they are called Diaspora, that is, a scattering or sowing abrode.
We're going to use her to train young people in the skills of maintaining these machines, and encourage the Indian diaspora in this country to get involved in our hobby of steam railways.
gloss: Jews outside of the land of Israel.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
informal
gloss: The regions where such a dispersed group (especially the Jews) resides, taken collectively.
pos: noun
examples: Jews in the diaspora often have a different perspective on anti-Semitism than Israeli Jews.
gloss: Any dispersion of an originally homogeneous entity, such as a language or culture.
pos: noun
examples: Small wonder that there should have been in recent years fresh talk of the diaspora of English into several mutually incomprehensible languages
Derived words: Afrodiaspora
diasporal
diasporan
diasporated
diasporation
diasporism
diasporite
Translations:
tenpin
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: ten + pin
Inflected forms:
form: tenpins
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: ten-pin
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Any of the bottle-shaped targets used in tenpin bowling.
pos: noun
tags: countable
gloss: The game of tenpin bowling.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Related words: skittle
Translations:
skittles
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: board-games
chess
games
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A pub game in which a ball is rolled down a wooden alley in order to knock down as many of the nine skittles as possible.
pos: noun
tags: British
uncountable
gloss: An informal form of chess played without a clock.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Related words: skittle alley
Derived words: beer and skittles
skiddles
skittles and beer
skittles party
Translations:
skittle
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Etymology: Origin unknown. Perhaps of North Germanic origin, from Old Norse skutill (“bolt, harpoon”), related to skjóta (“to shoot”), but the OED dismisses this connection as conjecture. The Old Norse word is related to Swedish and Danish skyttel (“shuttle, child's toy”). Compare also Old English sċytel (“a dart, bolt”). More at shuttle.
Inflected forms:
form: skittles
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: skittles
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: skittling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: skittled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: skittled
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: One of the wooden targets used in skittles.
pos: noun
examples: By the afternoon it seemed as if the storm had passed and that frost was setting in; but in the evening the wind rose to gale force, bringing telegraph poles down like skittles and tangling power and telephone lines.
gloss: To play skittles.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: (with down) To squander one's money.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: (sometimes with out) To rapidly bowl out a succession of batsmen.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: (sometimes with out) To rapidly bowl out a succession of batsmen.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
transitive
gloss: To knock down (skittles).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Related words: bowling
Derived words: skittle out
Translations:
forswear
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English forsweren, from Old English forswerian (“to swear falsely”). Cognate with Old Saxon farswerian, Old High German farsweren, German verschwören. More at for- + swear.
Base: swear
Affixes: for-
Inflected forms:
form: forswears
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: forswearing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: forswore
pos: verb
tags: past
form: forsworn
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: foreswear
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: To renounce or deny something, especially under oath.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: We forswear allegiance and support for the Economic Freedom Fighters.
Never to woo her more; but do forswear her.
Like Innocence, and as serenely bold / As Truth, how loudly He forswears thy Gold!.
Long since he had given up every intention of returning to civilization, and now he had decided to see no more his black friends of the Waziri. He had forsworn humanity forever. He had started life an ape—as an ape he would die.
Either forswear fucking others or the affair is over.
The sheer unimaginableness of coming into her mouth — of coming into anything other than the air or a tissue or a dirty sock — was an allurement too stupendous for a novice to forswear.
Over the past two years, Silicon Valley’s leaders and investors — many of whom had once forsworn involvement in weapons and war — have plunged headfirst into the military industrial complex.
gloss: To commit perjury; to break an oath.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
reflexive
Derived words: forswearer
Translations:
silently
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English silent
Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der.
Proto-Germanic *līkąder.
Proto-Germanic *-līkaz
Proto-Germanic *-ê
Proto-Germanic *-līkê
Proto-West Germanic *-līkē
Old English -līċe
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English silently
From silent + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more silently
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most silently
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a silent manner; making no noise.
pos: adv
examples: It often happens that the most important results in the natural world are brought about by causes which operate silently, if not imperceptibly.
Frederick, I presume, at this late hour of four, may be snatching a morsel of dinner; his orderlies are silently speeding, plans taken, orders given: […]
gloss: Of an edit or change to a text, without explicit acknowledgment.
pos: adv
examples: There never was an English-language text, either in 1561 or 1859. Yule and Burnell have silently provided a translation.
Related words: silent
silence
Derived words: yell silently
Translations:
sidespin
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From side + spin.
Compound parts: side
spin
Inflected forms:
form: sidespins
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Rotation around a vertical axis that makes a ball or other object curve in flight.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: When a right-handed golfer hits a ball with a clockwise sidespin (when viewed from the top), it is called a fade or if extreme a slice and the flight of the ball will curve to the right.
When a right-handed golfer hits a ball with an anticlockwise sidespin (when viewed from the top), it is called a draw or if extreme a hook and the flight of the ball will curve to the left.
Translations: