yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
plonk
Part of speech: intj
noun
verb
adv
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Onomatopoeic. Compare plunk.
Inflected forms:
form: plonks
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: plonks
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: plonking
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: plonked
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: plonked
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: The sound made by something solid landing.
pos: intj
gloss: The supposed sound of adding a user to one's kill file.
pos: intj
tags: Internet
gloss: The sound of something solid landing.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: I just heard a plonk – did something fall down in the kitchen?
gloss: To set or toss (something) down carelessly.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: When you’ve finished with the sponge, just plonk it back in the sink.
We sat alfresco on the edge of a “square,” in reality a pond of cobbly mud with a plinth plonked in its navel […]
gloss: To sit down heavily and without ceremony.
pos: verb
tags: reflexive
examples: Using a tractor fan, shock absorbers, PVC pipes, a bicycle frame and anything else he could lay his hands on, he then built a rudimentary wooden tower, plonked his home-made generator on the top, and eventually got one, and then four bulbs to light up.
Changing trains at Hereford, I catch the West Midlands Class 170 that is waiting for me at Platform 1. Plonking myself in a table bay, I settle in to enjoy the trip on what is another quiet train - well, until Ledbury, where a couple of dozen people are waiting.
gloss: To automatically ignore a particular poster.
pos: verb
tags: Internet
transitive
examples: I got tired of his trolling and ad hominem attacks, so I plonked him.
gloss: Precisely and forcefully.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: He dropped his bag of tools plonk in the middle of the table.
Derived words: plonkable
plonkee
unplonk
plonker
Translations:
spammer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English spam
English -er
English spammer
From spam + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: spammers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Someone who sends spam.
pos: noun
tags: Internet
Translations:
oseltamivir
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
Etymology: From oselt- (of unknown origin) + -amivir (“neuraminidase inhibitor”).
Affixes: oselt-
-amivir
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: An antiviral drug that is taken orally in the form of its phosphate C₁₆H₂₈N₂O₄·H₃PO₄ and is a neuraminidase inhibitor used in the treatment and prevention of influenza. It is a derivative of shikimic acid, and is marketed as Tamiflu.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
chintzy
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From chintz + -y, from Hindi छींट (chī̃ṭ).
Base: chintz
Affixes: -y
Inflected forms:
form: chintzier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: chintziest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of or decorated with chintz.
pos: adj
examples: This time she showed him into her living room instead of the kitchen. It was a little chintzier than it would have been if she'd actually owned the place, but he seemed to like it and sank comfortably into a loose-covered, old-fashioned, square-cornered sofa.
Wanting to get out of the house, he descended toward the large living room with its chintzy curtains and stuffy lamps and pictures. His least favorite room.
My parents had a dormer and two impossibly small twin beds with the world's chintziest chest between them.
Well—there always were for instance chintzy flower patterns [for curtains] and imitation Turkey or Persian rugs. They have none of that gate-crashing quality[.] They keep in their place as a quiet accompaniment to your lives. I don't think anybody has ever really got tired of them. Only of course they are not very [lively] either. And while you certainly don't want the jazzy sort of [liveliness] every day—I said that before—you may want something else which the chintzy curtains or the Oriental rug don't give you.
gloss: Tastelessly showy; cheap, gaudy, or tacky.
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
examples: "Tea!" she said in a tiny voice. / "Wake up! It's nearly five." / Oh! Chintzy, chintzy cheeriness, / Half dead and half alive.
Now even [Fred] Silverman was grim. "It looks chintzy," he said, "even with all the money we're spending."
Willington had seen disco for what it was – the great Muzaking of rock and roll via a chintzy chorus, chintzy rotating mirror balls, and chintzy Arthur Murray twirling.
I don't know, maybe they loved each other at one time, but it was also quite possible that she only married him because she wanted to live in that chintzy house of hers, and wear her chintzy rings, and lunch with her chintzy friends at the chintzy fucking country club.
When the proliferation of turkeys in the theaters began to sap her energy […], and there are only so many observations to be made about how easily the young audiences are tumbling for chintzier and chintzier pictures, she searches for a new style: brisker, more shorthand.
Related words: chintz
chintzware
Derived words: chintzily
chintziness
unchintzy
Translations:
giblet
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: See giblets.
Inflected forms:
form: giblets
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The edible viscera of a bird.
pos: noun
tags: plural-normally
examples: To make a Giblet Pie. Take two pair of giblets nicely cleaned, put all but the livers into a sauce-pan […]
Translations:
rotund
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin rotundus (“round”), from Latin rota (“wheel”), from Proto-Indo-European *Hreth₂- (“to run, to roll”). Doublet of round.
Inflected forms:
form: rotunder
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: rotundest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Having a round, spherical or curved shape; circular; orbicular.
pos: adj
examples: He was a plump little man and we had been walking uphill at a pace—set by him—far too rapid for his short legs. He breathed stertorously, and half the drops which glimmered on his rotund face were not rain but sweat.
Convex preferences may have indifference curves that exhibit “flat spots,” while strictly convex preferences have indifference curves that are strictly rotund.
gloss: Having a round body shape; portly or pudgy; obese.
pos: adj
gloss: Full and rich; orotund; sonorous; full-toned.
pos: adj
Synonyms: tubby
resounding
Derived words: obrotund
rotundation
rotunded
rotundity
rotundly
rotundness
rotundous
semirotund
subrotund
unrotund
Translations:
Gilbertese
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Gilbert + -ese. See Gilbertese language § Name on Wikipedia.
Base: Gilbert
Affixes: -ese
Inflected forms:
form: Gilbertese
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person from the Gilbert Islands in Kiribati.
pos: noun
tags: in-plural
examples: If each Gilbertese passes on land to his or her children, not very many generations will pass before the land plots become relatively fragmented. This was and is the case. Many land plots are small,[…]
Translations:
restaurateur
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Latin restaurārebor.
Old French restorer
French restaurer
Proto-Indo-European *-tōr
Proto-Italic *-tōr
Latin -tor
Latin -ātōremlbor.
French -ateur
French restaurateurbor.
English restaurateur
Borrowed from French restaurateur.
Inflected forms:
form: restaurateurs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: restauranteur
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The owner of a restaurant.
pos: noun
Translations:
outro
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
Etymology: Blend of out + intro, an analogy using out as the opposite of in. First attested in the title of the song The Intro and the Outro (1967), by the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band, and written by Vivian Stanshall.
Compound parts: out
intro
Inflected forms:
form: outros
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A portion of music at the end of a song.
pos: noun
tags: informal
examples: […] talking over the intro of a record and off the outro, weaving back and forth between two records spinning […]
Find the spot in the script where you want the outro to start fading up.
2009, 24 September, Jude Rogers in The Guardian, The trouble with remastered records
But then something happens on I Want You (She's So Heavy), two minutes into the song's intense outro, when a cloud of white noise comes in, […]
gloss: The closing sequence at the end of a film, television program, video game, etc.
pos: noun
tags: informal
examples: Having gone through the intro and stopped, the next click plays the outro of the current section and then hits the following script at the end of the outro animation:
Translations:
outliner
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English outline
English -er
English outliner
From outline + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: outliners
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who or that which draws an outline.
pos: noun
gloss: A software system for organizing text into a hierarchy.
pos: noun
Translations:
reactivity
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English react
Proto-Indo-European *-wós
Proto-Indo-European *-iHwósder.
Latin -īvus
Old French -ifbor.
Middle English -yf
English -ive
English reactive
Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-ts
Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ts
Latin -itāsder.
Old French -itebor.
Middle English -ite
English -ity
English reactivity
From reactive + -ity.
Inflected forms:
form: reactivities
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: responsiveness to stimulation
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: relative susceptibility to chemical reaction
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Derived words: alloreactivity
autoreactivity
bioreactivity
bronchoreactivity
cross-reactivity
hyperreactivity
hyporeactivity
immunoreactivity
nonreactivity
overreactivity
photoreactivity
polyreactivity
radioreactivity
seroreactivity
unreactivity
vasoreactivity
xenoreactivity
Translations:
nymphet
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From nymph + -et (“diminutive”), first attested 1612. The second sense was popularized by Vladimir Nabokov's 1955 novel Lolita.
Base: nymph
Affixes: -et
Inflected forms:
form: nymphets
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: nymphette
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A small nymph.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
examples: Of the nymphets sporting there In Wyrrall, and in Delamere.
gloss: A sexually attractive girl or young woman.
pos: noun
examples: […] the fey grace, the elusive, shifty, soul-shattering, insidious charm that separates the nymphet from such coevals of hers […]
Synonyms: jailbait
lolita
nymph
Derived words: nymphetry
Translations:
tisane
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Anglo-Norman tysanne, Middle French ptisane, tisane (“barley water, medicinal drink”), and their source, Latin tisana, variant of ptisana, from Ancient Greek πτισάνη (ptisánē, “peeled barley, barley gruel”), from πτίσσειν (ptíssein, “to peel, to crush”).
Inflected forms:
form: tisanes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: ptisan
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: ptisane
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: tisan
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A medicinal drink, originally made from barley soaked in water.
pos: noun
examples: Ptisan. A diluent drink which makes a great figure in the dietetic precepts of the ancients.
Towards the end of the week the girls complained of violent headaches and restless nights; and before Monday it was very obvious that they were all in a high fever. Tuesday Isabella was delirious, and Mademoiselle Virginie sent the maid to Covent Garden to buy some herbs, which, she said, would form a sovereign tisane.
“Neither,” said Poirot, “I shall go to bed and take a tisane. The expected has happened […].”
The sick people would take away also some herbs for their ptisan, some wine and other comforts […].
As soon as he had opened the door he worked his way back to his high-backed Queen Anne armchair, where he picked up his bone-china cup and took a sip of a rarefied tisane.
Translations:
continuum
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: entertainment
lifestyle
mathematics
music
sciences
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin continuum, neuter form of continuus, from contineō (“contain, enclose”).
Inflected forms:
form: continuums
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: continua
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A continuous series or whole, no part of which is noticeably different from its adjacent parts, although the ends or extremes of it are very different from each other.
pos: noun
examples: Near-synonym: spectrum
So, the white line implies Blacklessness and the black background implies Whitelessness – that is, once the white line, a continuum, has emerged from blackness, also a continuum, and the two continua engage in an “inter-penetrative” (Buddhist term) process.
In fact, the influence of signage in a certain area may exist anywhere on a continuum from profoundly effective to utterly trivial or completely insignificant, irrespective of the intent motivating the signs.
gloss: A continuous extent.
pos: noun
examples: A doorknob of whatever roundish shape is effectively a continuum of levers, with the axis of the latching mechanism—known as the spindle—being the fulcrum about which the turning takes place.
gloss: The nondenumerable set of real numbers; more generally, any compact connected metric space.
pos: noun
gloss: A touch-sensitive strip, similar to an electronic standard musical keyboard, except that the note steps are ¹⁄₁₀₀ of a semitone, and so are not separately marked.
pos: noun
Related words: continuous
Derived words: anticontinuum
continuum hypothesis
continuumlike
continuum mechanics
continuum theory
dialect continuum
discontinuum
generalized continuum hypothesis
hypercontinuum
language continuum
post-creole continuum
quasicontinuum
subcontinuum
supercontinuum
Translations:
customization
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: customizations
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: customisation
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The act of customizing something.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
electorate
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: government
politics
Etymology: From elector (“person eligible to vote in an election; German prince entitled to elect the emperor of the Holy Roman Empire”) + -ate (forms nouns denoting a rank or office, the concrete charge of it).
Base: elector
Affixes: -ate
Inflected forms:
form: electorates
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The collective people of a country, state, or electoral district who are entitled to vote.
pos: noun
examples: The votes have been counted and the electorate has spoken.
Incoming governments normally announce that they will seek to serve the whole electorate. Now, playing out in triplicate across the UK is a "divide and rule" approach to leadership, straight from Donald Trump's playbook: each faction consolidating its base, choosing an enemy and accusing opponents of treason in the hope that in a multiparty system they can win with a minority of votes.
His cerebral candidacy, inspired by European and North American political and economic philosophers, and his very appearance, with his light-colored skin, trim physique and penchant for preppy sweaters, contrasted with an electorate largely made up of impoverished Quechua-speaking people and Spanish-speaking mestizos.
gloss: The office, or area of dominion, of an Elector (“a German prince entitled to elect the emperor of the Holy Roman Empire”); an electorship.
pos: noun
tags: historical
examples: [I]n case Hanover should be attacked on the ground of a German quarrel, unconnected with English politics, we were not bound to defend her; yet, if a power at war with England should think fit to consider that electorate as part of the king's dominions, which perhaps according to the law of nations might be done, our honour must require that it should be defended against such an attack.
The line of demarcation [between Protestantism and Roman Catholicism] ran, as it still runs, through the midst of the Netherlands, of Germany, and of Switzerland, dividing province from province, electorate from electorate, and canton from canton.
[…] Brandenburg, emerging around what would become Berlin, acquired distinct status as an electorate in the mid-fourteenth century.
gloss: A geographical area represented by one or more elected officials; a constituency, an electoral district.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
New-Zealand
examples: The electorate of Finchley borders on the electorate of Much-Binding-in-the-Marsh, splitting the new housing estate of Royal Cupolas.
Related words: elect
electable
electant
elected
electee
electing
election
electional
electionary
electioneer
electioneering
elective
electively
elector
Elector
electoral
electoral district
electorally
electorial
Derived words: Electorate of the Palatinate
selectorate
subelectorate
Translations:
emulsification
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: emulsifications
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The process by which an emulsion is formed.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Mayonnaise is made by the emulsification of oil and vinegar.
The oil bath, which is a feature of the original locomotives, has led to an excessive use of oil and also corrosion of the steel motion details because of the entry of water, causing emulsification. The oil bath has thus been dispensed with, and the motion and valve gear of the inside cylinder are no longer completely enclosed, enabling the various working parts to be readily examined.
Translations:
oenology
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From oeno- + -logy.
Inflected forms:
form: enology
pos: noun
tags: alternative
US
form: œnology
pos: noun
tags: alternative
dated
form: oinology
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The scientific study of wines and winemaking.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
viticulture
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *weh₁y-
Proto-Indo-European *-tis
Proto-Indo-European *wéh₁itis
Proto-Italic *wītis
Latin vītisder.
English viti-
Proto-Indo-European *kʷelh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *kʷélh₁-e-ti
Proto-Italic *kʷelō
Latin colō
Proto-Indo-European *-tew-?
Proto-Indo-European *-r-eh₂?
Latin -tūra
Latin cultūrader.
Middle French cultureder.
English culture
English viticulture
From viti- + culture, from Latin vītis + cultūra (“cultivation of the vine, vine-growing”). Compare agriculture.
Base: culture
Affixes: viti-
Inflected forms:
form: viticultures
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The agricultural practice of growing vines, particularly grape vines.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: The old French farmer practiced viticulture and raised some of the best grapes in the world.
He is knowledgeable in viticulture.
Translations:
autoethnographic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English auto-
Ancient Greek ἔθνος (éthnos)der.
English ethno-
Proto-Indo-European *gerbʰ-
Proto-Hellenic *grə́pʰō
Ancient Greek γρᾰ́φω (grắphō)
Ancient Greek -ᾱ (-ā)
Ancient Greek -η (-ē)
Ancient Greek γραφή (graphḗ)
Ancient Greek -γραφίᾱ (-graphíā)bor.
French -graphieder.
English -graphy
English ethnography
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Latin -icuslbor.
Old French -iquebor.
Middle English -ik
English -ic
English ethnographic
English autoethnographic
From auto- + ethnographic.
Inflected forms:
form: more autoethnographic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most autoethnographic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Using ethnographic techniques to describe one's own life, or events in which one is a participant.
pos: adj
examples: If ethnographic texts are a means by which Europeans represent to themselves their (usually subjugated) others, autoethnographic texts are those the others construct in response to or in dialogue with those metropolitan representations.
At the same time it often resorts to free indirect speech rather than dialogue, frequently using an autoethnographic point of view, suggesting a more personalized mode of shared ethnographic documentation.
Translations:
autoethnography
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English auto-
English ethnography
English autoethnography
From auto- + ethnography.
Inflected forms:
form: autoethnographies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An ethnographic study drawing on one's own anecdotal or personal experience, or an approach to conducting research in which anecdotal or personal experience is foregrounded.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The aborigine's autobiography was also an autoethnography. It told much about the culture he grew up in.
Translations:
ins
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: insert
pos: verb
Translations:
endian
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: From end + -ian (suffix meaning ‘one from, belonging to, like, or relating to’ forming nouns, and meaning ‘from, like, or related to’ forming adjectives), originally in the noun Big-Endian coined by the Anglo-Irish author Jonathan Swift (1667–1745) in his novel Gulliver’s Travels (1726). Swift wrote of an emperor of Lilliput who, after his son cuts his finger when opening an egg at the large end, commands his subjects to open them at the small end; those who rebel by opening their eggs at the large end are called “Big-Endians”.
The term was applied in the computing context by the Israeli-American computer scientist Danny Cohen (1937–2019) in 1980.
Base: end
Affixes: -ian
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Preceded by a qualifying word: of a computer: storing multibyte numbers with the most significant byte at a particular memory address; for example, at the smallest address (big-endian) or the largest address (little-endian).
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: endian-neutral code
In Ken Turkowski's article on the big and little endian addressing used on the 68020 he commented that Motorola's approach "proved" that a machine with consistant^([sic]) bit addressing (e.g., all little or big endian) was impossible. I assume that he was joking.
Translations:
ethnogenesis
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From ethno- + -genesis. While attested incidentally before the twentieth century, it gained currency particularly in the postwar era as a scholarly concept.
Affixes: ethno-
-genesis
Inflected forms:
form: ethnogeneses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The emergence of a distinct, recognizable, ethnic identity.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
recoup
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: law
Etymology: From French recouper (“cut short”).
Inflected forms:
form: recoups
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: recouping
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: recouped
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: recouped
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To make back (an investment or similar).
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
transitive
examples: He barely managed to recoup his money. He sold out for just what he had invested.
to recoup losses made at the gaming table
In July British Railways installed train-operated red-and-white level crossing half-barriers of a new design at 11 places, […] The cost is given at £800 a pair, which can be readily recouped on savings in the cost of manning ordinary gated crossings.
And when it fails to recoup? Well, maybe you just haven't earned it yet, baby
gloss: To recover from an error.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To keep back rightfully (a part), as if by cutting off, so as to diminish a sum due; to take off (a part) from damages; to deduct.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: A landlord recouped the rent of premises from damages awarded to the plaintiff for eviction.
gloss: To reimburse; to indemnify; often used reflexively and in the passive voice.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Elizabeth had lost her venture; but if she was bold, she might recoup herself at Philip's cost.
Industry is sometimes recouped for a small price by extensive custom.
Derived words: recoupable
recoupment
unrecouped
Translations:
big-endian
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
networking
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: See the etymology for endian.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Storing the most significant byte of a multibyte number at a lower address than the least significant byte; that is, "big end" first.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Most big Unix machines are big-endian, but Intel x86 machines and older Digital machines are little-endian.
gloss: Transmitting the most significant byte of a multibyte number before transmitting the least significant byte; that is, "big end" first.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The network octet order for all protocols in the TCP/IP protocol suite is big-endian. A big-endian computer system need not perform any conversion in building TCP/IP protocol headers from integers stored in its memory.
Synonyms: network byte-order
Antonyms: little-endian
Related words: endianness
endianless
Translations:
lang: Esperanto
word: pezkomenca
lang: Polish
word: grubokońcowość
little-endian
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: See the etymology for endian.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Storing the most significant byte of a multibyte number at a higher address than the least significant byte; that is, "little end" first.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Most big Unix machines are big-endian, but Intel x86 machines and older Digital machines are little-endian.
Antonyms: big-endian
Translations:
asexuality
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From a- (“lacking, without”) + sexuality, equivalent to asexual + -ity.
Base: sexuality
Affixes: a-
Inflected forms:
form: asexualities
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The state or quality of being asexual:
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: The state or quality of being asexual:
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: The same holds for Vincentius Victor in his discussion of the asexuality of the corporeal form of the soul. In Lactantius, who emphasizes the uncertainty concerning the sex of the phoenix, and in Zeno of Verona, who says that the phoenix is for itself both sexes, the background is again formed by the inferred asexuality of the phoenix.
gloss: The state or quality of being asexual:
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: The asexuality of insects is, in almost all cases, known to be a derived condition. That is, their evolution was contingent on the sexuality of their ancestral forms.
While interpreted as supporting the asexuality of bdelloids, …
Derived words: gray asexuality
Translations:
lang: Albanian
word: aseksualitet
lang: Arabic
word: لَاجِنْسِيَّة
roman: lā-jinsiyya
lang: Azerbaijani
word: aseksuallıq
lang: Azerbaijani
word: aseksualizm
lang: Basque
word: asexualtasun
lang: Bulgarian
word: асексуа́лност
roman: aseksuálnost
lang: Catalan
word: asexualitat
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 無性戀 /无性恋
roman: wúxìngliàn
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 無性向 /无性向
roman: wúxìngxiàng
lang: Czech
word: asexualita
lang: Danish
word: aseksualitet
lang: Dutch
word: aseksualiteit
lang: Esperanto
word: neseksemo
lang: Estonian
word: aseksuaalsus
lang: Finnish
word: aseksuaalisuus
lang: French
word: asexualité
lang: Georgian
word: ასექსუალობა
roman: aseksualoba
lang: German
word: Asexualität
lang: Greek
word: ασεξουαλικότητα
roman: asexoualikótita
lang: Gujarati
word: અલિંગતા
roman: aliṅgtā
lang: Hindi
word: अलैंगिकता
roman: alaiṅgiktā
lang: Hungarian
word: aszexualitás
lang: Icelandic
word: ókynhneigð
lang: Indonesian
word: aseksualitas
lang: Italian
word: asessualità
lang: Japanese
word: 非性愛
roman: hiseiai
lang: Kazakh
word: асексуалдылық
roman: aseksualdylyq
lang: Korean
word: 무성애
roman: museong'ae
lang: Lao
word: ໄຮ້ເພດ
roman: hai phēt
lang: Latvian
word: aseksualitāte
lang: Maltese
word: asesswalità
lang: Marathi
word: अलिंगता
roman: aliṅgtā
lang: Persian
word: بیجنسگرایی
roman: bi-jens-garâyi
lang: Polish
word: aseksualizm
lang: Polish
word: aseksualność
lang: Portuguese
word: assexualidade
lang: Romanian
word: asexualitate
lang: Russian
word: асексуа́льность
roman: aseksuálʹnostʹ
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: асексуалност
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: aseksualnost
lang: Slovak
word: asexualita
lang: Spanish
word: asexualidad
lang: Swedish
word: asexualitet
lang: Tagalog
word: aseksuwalidad
lang: Tamil
word: அபாலீர்ப்பு
roman: apālīrppu
lang: Turkish
word: aseksüellik
lang: Ukrainian
word: асексуальні́сть
roman: aseksualʹnístʹ
lang: Uzbek
word: aseksuallik
lang: Vietnamese
word: vô tính
lang: Welsh
word: anrhywioldeb
dapple
Part of speech: noun
adj
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Uncertain. The adjective is first attested circa 1550 though the first element is already attested in dapple-grey as early as 1386, in Middle English, and later as dappled circa 1400; the OED suggests either:
* a back-formation from dapple-grey, itself a variant of apple-grey, compare possible cognates all said of horses: Old Norse apalgrár (whence Norwegian abildgrå and Swedish apel-grå), German apfelgrau. Compare also French pommelé (“dappled”), from pomme (“an apple”); or,
* a relation with Icelandic depill (“a dot, spot”).
The noun and verb are both later attested likely as back-formations.
Inflected forms:
form: dapples
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: more dapple
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most dapple
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: dapples
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: dappling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: dappled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: dappled
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A mottled marking, usually in clusters.
pos: noun
gloss: An animal with a mottled or spotted skin or coat.
pos: noun
examples: “My brother,” said he, “do not ride to–day / The dapple, as you’re wont; but mount the horse / Which I have chosen for thee.
A Sarronnese officer whom he did not know was leading a riderless horse, a dapple.
2004, D Caroline Coile, http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&vid=ISBN0764126733&id=vmTgPakg8nUC&pg=PA21&lpg=PA21&sig=5r0UWTYWxGcZayQlGiP4v3b1ajU
Some well-intentioned breeders inadvertently breed two dapples together because occasionally a dapple will have so few patches of mottled coloration it appears undappled.
gloss: Having a mottled or spotted skin or coat, dappled.
pos: adj
examples: Some dapple mists still floated along the peaks.
I was on a running Morgan that could leave anything in six counties behind, and all she had was that short-hocked dapple pony.
gloss: To mark or become marked with mottling or spots.
pos: verb
examples: Jt ſeemes it is in faſhion vvith you to ſugar your papers vvith Carnation phraſes, and dapple your ſpeeches vvith nevv quodled vvords.
dappling black on white with uneven strokes
Kris awoke with a start. Sweat dappled his forehead, and he brushed it away.
Translations:
farrier
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French ferrier, from Old French ferrier, from Latin ferrārius, from ferrum (“iron”).
Inflected forms:
form: farriers
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: farriers
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: farriering
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: farriered
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: farriered
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A person who maintains the health and balance of horses' feet through the trimming of the hoofs and fitting of horseshoes.
pos: noun
gloss: To practise as a farrier; to carry on the trade of a farrier.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: though there are many Pretenders to the Art of Farriering and Cow-leeching , yet many of them are very ignorant , especially in the Countrie
Translations:
gymkhana
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: equestrianism
hobbies
horses
lifestyle
motor-racing
pets
racing
sports
Etymology: From Hindustani گیند خانہ (gendxānā) / गेंदख़ाना (gendxānā, “racquet court”), from گیند / गेंद (gend, “ball”) + خانہ / ख़ाना (xānā, “court”). Influenced by gymnastics and gymnasium.
Inflected forms:
form: gymkhanas
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A competition where riders and horses display a range of skills and aptitudes.
pos: noun
examples: In the afternoon the British held athletic sports, an impromptu military tournament, and a gymkhana, all of which caused much merriment and diversion, and the Boers profited by the cessation of the shell fire to shovel away at their trenches.
gloss: A place of public resort for athletic games, etc.
pos: noun
tags: India
Myanmar
dated
examples: These privileged gentlemen have a fine club on the Fateh Maidan, a suburb of Hyderabad city, and they enjoy sports and races at the local gymkhana, in fact, they have a very good time, if one may judge by their appearance.
gloss: A meeting for such sports.
pos: noun
tags: India
Myanmar
dated
gloss: Synonym of motorkhana.
pos: noun
gloss: Any event, situation, etc., with a broad array of elements.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
examples: There was argument, public, private, and bar-parlor, with heated championship of one term or another on near-scientific, quasi-etymological, and a number of other grounds, but gradually one term began to dominate this philological gymkhana.
Derived words: icekhana
motorkhana
Translations:
sobbing
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: sobbings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Act of one who sobs; a crying or weeping.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: That or who sobs.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: a sobbing child
Moſs is to be rubb'd and ſcrap'd off with ſome fit inſtrument of Wood, which may not excorticate the Tree, or with a piece of Hair-cloth after a ſobbing Rain: [...]
Translations:
slipping
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: slippings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of something that slips; a slip; a skidding or sudden loosening motion.
pos: noun
examples: slippings and slidings
Experiments on steep inclines in the United States showed that washing the rails with a detergent to remove oil and grease resulted in a marked improvement; but conditioning the rails with a special neutralising chemical completely eliminated slipping on a bank on which it was so common as to necessitate restriction of trainloads.
The "King" responded well to this treatment and would have maintained 60 m.p.h. up the steepest part had it not been for a brief bout of slipping, which was quickly corrected by Driver Bailes ("Autumn leaves", he remarked laconically).
Translations:
contortion
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *ḱe?
Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm
Proto-Italic *kom
Proto-Italic *kom-
Latin con-
Proto-Indo-European *terkʷ-
Proto-Italic *torkʷeō
Latin torqueō
Latin contorqueō
Latin contortus
Proto-Indo-European *-tis
Proto-Indo-European *-Hō
Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō
Proto-Italic *-tiō
Latin -tiō
Latin contortiōder.
Middle French contortionder.
English contortion
Derived from Middle French contortion, from Latin contortiō.
Inflected forms:
form: contortions
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act or result of contorting; the state of being contorted: the twisting of something, especially oneself.
pos: noun
tags: countable
gloss: A performance art involving the dramatic bending and flexing of the body, showcasing extreme physical flexibility.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Derived words: contortional
contortionate
contortionism
contortionist
Translations:
vocalic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
French vocal
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Latin -icuslbor.
Old French -ique
Middle French -ique
French -ique
French vocaliquebor.
English vocalic
Borrowed from French vocalique, from vocal + -ique.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Pertaining to a vowel.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
chickenshit
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: government
military
politics
war
Etymology: From chicken + shit.
Compound parts: chicken
shit
Inflected forms:
form: more chickenshit
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most chickenshit
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: chicken-shit
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: chicken shit
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: chickenshits
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: chicken-shit
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: chicken shit
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Petty; contemptibly unimportant. (Compare bullshit.)
pos: adj
tags: slang
vulgar
gloss: Cowardly.
pos: adj
tags: slang
vulgar
examples: How chickenshit of that girl to just stand there and do nothing.
"How chickenshit do you have to be to go after an old man in a wheelchair?"
gloss: A petty and contemptible thing or things.
pos: noun
tags: countable
slang
uncountable
vulgar
examples: Don't waste your time on that chickenshit.
I went to see Lyndon Johnson, and I was telling him I wanted to run for Senate. And he said, "The difference between the Senate and the House is the difference between chicken salad and chicken shit." Johnson was amazing.
gloss: A coward.
pos: noun
tags: countable
slang
uncountable
vulgar
examples: I told him I wasn't having his insults, and he just backed right down. What a chickenshit.
gloss: A low-ranking officer who lords over and needlessly makes life miserable for his underlings; a petty, abusive martinet.
pos: noun
tags: countable
slang
uncountable
vulgar
examples: That chickenshit drove his men nearly to mutiny.
gloss: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see chicken, shit: chicken manure.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Synonyms: chicken
pussy
wuss
shithouse
crap
bullcrap
bullshit
junk
trash
dogshit
Irish bull
horseshit
Translations:
monomyth
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
Etymology: From mono- + myth. Borrowed by Joseph Campbell from Finnegans Wake.
Base: myth
Affixes: mono-
Inflected forms:
form: monomyths
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A cyclical journey or quest undertaken by a mythical hero.
pos: noun
examples: Most male epics follow Joseph Campbell's monomyth pretty neatly; can we expect Barrett Browning to do the same? Is the monomyth a male construct, the “male-myth” rather than the unified myth that speaks for all, […]
Translations:
yoohoo
Part of speech: intj
verb
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: yoo-hoo
pos: intj
tags: alternative
form: yoo hoo
pos: intj
tags: alternative
form: yoohoos
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: yoohooing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: yoohooed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: yoohooed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: yoo-hoo
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: yoo hoo
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Used to get attention.
pos: intj
examples: Yoohoo! I think you dropped this.
Xavier's Father: Son, it was you who killed me.
Xavier (Vernon Chatman): What kind of stupid name is "Yoohoo"? Well, when I find that demon, I shall slay him -- to death! Yoohoo! Yoohoo!
gloss: To give a cry of "yoohoo".
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
Translations:
run-in
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: communications
editing
engineering
journalism
literature
mechanical
mechanical-engineering
media
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
publishing
typography
writing
Etymology: Derived from the verb run into.
For the meaning "end-phase", it presumably comes a marathon race, where in the final part the runners run into the stadium and complete a lap.
Inflected forms:
form: run-ins
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: more run-in
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most run-in
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: An encounter; a scrape or brush, especially one involving trouble or difficulty.
pos: noun
examples: During that time he had two more run-ins with the law. One involved the sale of stolen property. The other was for a series of hot checks.
gloss: The end-phase of a competition etc.
pos: noun
examples: Yahoo Sport's Leicester City blogger Helen Nutter gets ready for the Premier League run-in knowing her side - incredibly - still have a great chance of being crowned champions
But despite its plague of tunnels, the run-in on this route is of unusual interest to the locomotive enthusiast: besides the hordes of self-important saddle-tanks shunting in the extensive yards, there was at one time the chance of seeing those slender little North London engines, with their large outside cylinders and no visible storage place for coal, and also an occasional South Eastern locomotive sporting a lot of polished brass.
gloss: A sudden compression between two coupled railcars when the hinder one is moving faster than the fore one.
pos: noun
examples: Brake pipe pressure reduction rates of over 30 psi/sec lasting for about 15 milliseconds were created by harsh slack run-ins.
Researchers noted no unusual events (e.g., knuckle breaks) or notable instances of significant slack action or run-ins/run-outs at the lead locomotive during the test.
gloss: (not comparable) Having been run in before or behind previous text.
pos: adj
tags: adjective
error-misspelling
not-comparable
participle
usually
examples: These headings are of the run-in type because a free-hanging style would just be a waste of column inches.
gloss: (sometimes comparable) Having been run in to seat the parts.
pos: adj
tags: adjective
error-misspelling
not-comparable
participle
usually
examples: A well run-in engine is likelier to consume less crankcase oil over the course of its working life.
Translations:
old-timer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: old-timers
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: old timer
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: oldtimer
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: One who has been around for a long time or has a great deal of experience.
pos: noun
examples: A: Hey, how's it going, old-timer?   B: Ha ha, nice try — you're even older than I am!   A: It takes one to know one, after all.
gloss: One who has been around for a long time or has a great deal of experience.
pos: noun
examples: Some of the old-timers around here might be able to tell you how it all began.
It’s plain that older Americans have become a more important and reliable part of the audience that goes to movie theatres. Yet a few years ago, the Academy gave up on honouring old-timers in the show – because they wanted kids to be watching?
Translations:
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 老前輩 /老前辈
roman: lǎoqiánbèi
lang: Finnish
word: veteraani
lang: French
word: vétéran
lang: German
word: alter Hase
lang: Māori
word: pūtoetoe
lang: Persian
word: قدیمی
roman: qadimi
lang: Polish
word: weteran
lang: Polish
word: weteranka
lang: Portuguese
word: veterano
lang: Romanian
word: veteran
lang: Romanian
word: vechi locuitor băștinaș
lang: Russian
word: старожи́л
roman: starožíl
lang: Russian
word: ветера́н
roman: veterán
timer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *deh₂-der.
Proto-Indo-European *deh₂y-
Proto-Indo-European *-mṓ
Proto-Indo-European *dh₂i-mon-
Proto-Germanic *tīmô
Proto-West Germanic *tīmō
Old English tīma
Middle English tyme
English time
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 timer
From time (verb) + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: timers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Agent noun of time: someone or something that times.
pos: noun
examples: start the timer when you hear the gunshot
gloss: Agent noun of time: someone or something that times.
pos: noun
gloss: Agent noun of time: someone or something that times.
pos: noun
Related words: all-timer
two-timer
programmable
stopwatch
time switch
Derived words: autotimer
chess timer
eggtimer
egg timer
egg-timer
kitchen timer
sand timer
self timer
sprinkler timer
teletimer
watchdog timer
Translations:
old-time
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English old
Proto-Indo-European *deh₂-der.
Proto-Indo-European *deh₂y-
Proto-Indo-European *-mṓ
Proto-Indo-European *dh₂i-mon-
Proto-Germanic *tīmô
Proto-West Germanic *tīmō
Old English tīma
Middle English tyme
English time
English old-time
From old + time.
Inflected forms:
form: more old-time
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most old-time
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: From or reminiscent of an earlier time or era; old-fashioned.
pos: adj
examples: He likes to listen to old-time music.
gloss: Ancient; persisting since ancient times.
pos: adj
examples: Had a pterodactyl swooped down from those old-time crags, it would hardly have been out of place.
Derived words: old-time country
old-timely
old-timer
old-timey
old-timy
Translations:
prophetic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French prophétique, from Latin prophēticus, from Ancient Greek προφητικός (prophētikós), equivalent to prophet + -ic.
Base: prophet
Affixes: -ic
Inflected forms:
form: prophetical
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: prophetick
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: Having the ability to prophesize; prescient.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: [Ghost] But know thou noble Youth: he that did sting / Thy fathers heart, now weares his Crowne. / Ham. O my prophetike soule, my uncle! my uncle!
gloss: Of, or relating to a prophecy or a prophet.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Predicted, as by a prophecy.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: And fears are oft prophetic of the event.
Derived words: antiprophetic
historicoprophetic
nonprophetic
preprophetic
prophetically
propheticism
propheticness
prophetic week
prophetic year
pseudoprophetic
unprophetic
Translations:
all-powerful
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.?
Proto-Indo-European *h₂elnós
Proto-Germanic *allaz
Proto-Germanic *ala-
Proto-West Germanic *ala-
Old English æl-
Middle English all-
English all-
English powerful
English all-powerful
From all- + powerful.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Having unlimited power; omnipotent.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Imagination is faithful when it is all-powerful.
The friendless Italian was a much safer person than the niece of the all-powerful minister, whose ambition would not stop but at the throne. Francesca might be allowed to detach him from Mademoiselle Mancini, and could then be easily flung aside.
"Why, dost thou believe that I, who am all-powerful, I, whose loveliness is more than the loveliness of the Grecian Helen, of whom they used to sing, and whose wisdom is wider, ay, far more wide and deep than the wisdom of Solomon the Wise [...] why, I say, oh stranger, dost thou think that I herd here with barbarians lower than the beasts?"
The desirable Miss Moneypenny, M's all-powerful private secretary, gave him an encouraging smile and he walked through the double doors.
But in his 1996 novel, Holy Fire, [Bruce] Sterling imagines a rather different future: a world ruled by an all-powerful gerontocracy, which appropriates most of the world's wealth to pay for ever more costly life-extension techniques.
Translations: