yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
twang
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: entertainment
human-sciences
lifestyle
linguistics
music
phonetics
phonology
sciences
Etymology: Onomatopoeic. Compare Middle English twengen (“to pinch, tweak”) (whence modern English twinge), from Old English twenġan (“to pinch, twinge”); Middle English twingen (“to afflict, torment, oppress”), from Old Norse þvinga (“to weigh down, oppress”); Old English twingan (“to force, press”).
Inflected forms:
form: twangs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: twangs
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: twanging
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: twanged
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: twanged
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: The sharp, quick sound of a vibrating tight string, for example, of a bow or a musical instrument.
pos: noun
examples: Let me give you in rude recitation, with here and there a twang and a caper of the guitar-strings, my vision of the Cid's sally from his besieged castle of Alcocer—the first outburst of that Spanish deluge that never receded till it rose over the dead body of the last Moor.
gloss: A particular sharp vibrating sound characteristic of electric guitars.
pos: noun
gloss: A trace of a regional or foreign accent in someone's voice.
pos: noun
examples: Despite having lived in Canada for 20 years, he still has that Eastern European twang in his voice.
A few insinuated that the American was not first-rate in Shakespeare, and one or two snidely detected a twang of the backwoods in his accent; […]
Judging by the new voice over the PA, we've had a crew change in Plymouth - the warning about masks and the apology for lack of catering is made in a chirpy Cockney twang rather than a West Country burr.
gloss: The sound quality that appears in the human voice when the epilaryngeal tube is narrowed.
pos: noun
examples: Near-synonym: nasality
nasal twang
gloss: A sharp, pungent taste or flavor; sometimes, a disagreeable one specifically.
pos: noun
examples: spicy twang
Buttermilk also tastes different today. What do people do when they make buttermilk for the public that gives buttermilk that twang taste? Do these people put milk in an aging tank to mature like wine in a place where air and germs can't get to it?
gloss: An annoying or stupid person; especially, a recalcitrant.
pos: noun
tags: slang
vulgar
gloss: To produce or cause to produce a sharp vibrating sound, like a tense string pulled and suddenly let go.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
gloss: To have a nasal sound.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To have a trace of a regional or foreign accent.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To play a stringed musical instrument by plucking and snapping.
pos: verb
Derived words: twanger
twangy
twanging
twangingly
twangle
twangster
Translations:
lang: Czech
word: huhňání
drawl
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From a modern frequentative form of draw, equivalent to draw + -le. Compare draggle. Compare also Dutch dralen (“to drag out, delay, linger, tarry, dawdle”), Old Danish dravle (“to linger, loiter”), Icelandic dralla (“to loiter, linger”).
Base: draw
Affixes: -le
Inflected forms:
form: drawls
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: drawling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: drawled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: drawled
pos: verb
tags: past
form: drawls
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To drag on slowly and heavily; to dawdle or while away time indolently.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To utter or pronounce in a dull, spiritless tone, as if by dragging out the utterance.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To move slowly and heavily; to move in a dull, slow, lazy manner.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Tush, tush, Tarleton, Kemp, nor Singer, nor all the litter of Fooles that now come drawling behinde them, neuer plaid the Clownes more naturally then the arrantest Sot of you all, shall, if hee will but boyle my Instructions in his brainepan.
Looke what leysure the old bearded Bawd takes / How softly she goes / How one leg comes drawling after another / Now she has her money, her armes are broken.
gloss: To speak with a slow, spiritless utterance, as from affectation, laziness, or lack of interest.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: talk sometimes a pestilence , and sometimes a hero , mostly in a drawling and dreaming way about it
gloss: A way of speaking slowly while lengthening vowel sounds and running words together, characteristic of some Southern US accents, as well as Broad Australian, Broad New Zealand, and Scots.
pos: noun
Derived words: drawler
drawlingly
drawlingness
Translations:
kek
Part of speech: intj
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: video-games
Etymology: Borrowed from Korean ㅋㅋㅋ (keukeukeu, “haha”, representation of laughter). Since this is often used in StarCraft matches, Blizzard, StarCraft’s developers, decided to reference it in World of Warcraft: when a player of the Horde faction types "lol" using the /say messaging command, members of the opposing faction see it as "kek". Not related to "kik", a typo of "lol".
Inflected forms:
form: keks
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: kekking
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: keking
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: kekked
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: kekked
pos: verb
tags: past
form: keked
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: keked
pos: verb
tags: past
form: kek'd
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: kek'd
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Used to indicate laughter or humour.
pos: intj
tags: Internet
examples: Now Freakie boy, for a tasty doggie biscuit, can you try saying that again without any grammatical error?
kek kek kek kek kek
Top kek.
I can't believe Apple would derp like THAT, at least the Apple of the mid-1980s.
> "an hour or two a day" "chasing old Checkmate posts."
>
>kek
gloss: To laugh.
pos: verb
tags: Internet
Translations:
acorn
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
natural-sciences
nautical
transport
zoology
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₂ógr̥der.?
Proto-Germanic *akraną
Proto-West Germanic *akarn
Old English æcern
Middle English corninflu.
Middle English acorn
English acorn
Inherited from Middle English acorn, an alteration (after corn) of earlier *akern, from Old English æcern (“acorn, oak-mast”), from Proto-West Germanic *akarn, from Proto-Germanic *akraną (“fruit; acorn, nut”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂égrō (“berry”).
Cognates
Cognate with Scots aicorn (“acorn”), Dutch aker (“acorn”), German Ecker (“acorn”), Danish agern (“acorn”), Faroese and Icelandic akarn (“acorn”), Norwegian Nynorsk åkorn (“acorn”), Gothic 𐌰𐌺𐍂𐌰𐌽 (akran, “fruit”); Irish airne (“sloe”), Welsh aeron (“berries; small fruits”), eirin (“plums”), Latgalian ūga (“berry”), Latvian oga (“berry”), Lithuanian uoga (“berry”), Belarusian я́гада (jáhada, “berry”), Bulgarian, Russian, and Ukrainian я́года (jáhoda, “berry”), Czech and Slovak jahoda (“strawberry”), Macedonian ја́года (jágoda, “strawberry”), Polish and Slovene jagoda (“berry”), Serbo-Croatian ја̏года, jȁgoda (“strawberry”), Tocharian A and Tocharian B oko (“fruit”). Not related to Old English āc (“oak”), corn (“corn, seed”) or Middle English acquerne.
Inflected forms:
form: acorns
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: achorn
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The fruit of the oak, being an oval nut growing in a woody cup or cupule.
pos: noun
gloss: A cone-shaped piece of wood on the point of the spindle above the vane, on the mast-head.
pos: noun
gloss: See acorn-shell.
pos: noun
gloss: The glans penis.
pos: noun
tags: informal
examples: The Romans, likewise, represented the uncouth Priapus—the god of rustic fertility and sexual assault—as comically well endowed, with his acorn showing.
gloss: A testicle.
pos: noun
tags: plural-normally
slang
Derived words: acorn barnacle
acorn cup
acorn disease
acorned
acornlike
acorn moth
acorn nut
acorn squash
acorn sugar
acorn weevil
acorn woodpecker
acorn worm
acorny
eggcorn
even a blind pig can find an acorn
even a blind pig can find an acorn once in a while
even a blind squirrel finds an acorn every now and then
even a blind squirrel finds an acorn every once in a while
mount a horse foaled by an acorn
ride a horse foaled by an acorn
ride a horse foaled of an acorn
sea acorn
Translations:
acolyte
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: Christianity
Etymology: From Middle English acolite, acolit, from Old French acolyt and Late Latin acolythus, from Ancient Greek ἀκόλουθος (akólouthos, “follower, attendant”).
Inflected forms:
form: acolytes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who has received the highest of the four minor orders in the Catholic Church, being ordained to carry the wine, water and lights at Mass.
pos: noun
gloss: An altar server.
pos: noun
examples: The kneeling acolyte chimed a sacring-bell, and the congregation bent and swayed like a wheat-field swept scross by sudden wind.
gloss: An attendant, assistant, or follower.
pos: noun
examples: “Apparently, one of Milius's acolytes spends a lot of time at the top of that huge, dangerous mountain. Better get climbing.” “(groans) Oh.”
Derived words: acolytate
acolyteship
Macolyte
Translations:
acoustics
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱ-
Proto-Indo-European *h₂ew-
Proto-Indo-European *-s
Proto-Indo-European *h₂ṓws
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *h₂ḱh₂owsyéti
Proto-Hellenic *akóuhō
Ancient Greek ἀκούω (akoúō)
Proto-Indo-European *-kos
Ancient Greek -κός (-kós)
Ancient Greek -ῐκός (-ĭkós)
Ancient Greek ᾰ̓κουστῐκός (ăkoustĭkós)bor.
Medieval Latin acousticusbor.
English acoustic
Old English -as
Middle English -es
English -s
English acoustics
From acoustic + -s.
Inflected forms:
form: acoustics See
pos: noun
tags: canonical
form: acousticks
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: The science of sounds, teaching their nature, phenomena and laws.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: "Acoustics, then, or the science of sound, is a very consderable branch of physics, and one which has been cultivated from the earliest ages.
gloss: The properties of a space that affect how sound carries.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: The acoustics in the opera house gave the whole concert a spooky sound.
Related words: acoustic
Derived words: aeroacoustics
archaeoacoustics
bioacoustics
ecoacoustics
electroacoustics
hydroacoustics
ionoacoustics
magnetoacoustics
microacoustics
noraconitine
otoacoustics
photoacoustics
phytoacoustics
polyacoustics
psychoacoustics
quantum acoustics
radioacoustics
thermoacoustics
Translations:
acoustically
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: manner
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱ-
Proto-Indo-European *h₂ew-
Proto-Indo-European *-s
Proto-Indo-European *h₂ṓws
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *h₂ḱh₂owsyéti
Proto-Hellenic *akóuhō
Ancient Greek ἀκούω (akoúō)
Proto-Indo-European *-kos
Ancient Greek -κός (-kós)
Ancient Greek -ῐκός (-ĭkós)
Ancient Greek ᾰ̓κουστῐκός (ăkoustĭkós)bor.
Medieval Latin acousticusbor.
English acoustic
Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.?
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālisbor.
Old French -albor.
▲
Latin -ālis
Old French -elbor.
▲
Latin -ālisbor.
Middle English -al
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
Middle English -ally
English -ally
▲
English acoustic
▲
Middle English -al
English -al
English acoustical
▲
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English acoustically
From acoustic + -ally, or from acoustical + -ly.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: In an acoustic manner, or using an acoustic musical instrument.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: Very little research has, however, directly examined the limitations of native perception, especially for contrasts that are only minimally differentiated acoustically and articulatorily.
gloss: From the perspective of acoustics.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
acoustical
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱ-
Proto-Indo-European *h₂ew-
Proto-Indo-European *-s
Proto-Indo-European *h₂ṓws
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *h₂ḱh₂owsyéti
Proto-Hellenic *akóuhō
Ancient Greek ἀκούω (akoúō)
Proto-Indo-European *-kos
Ancient Greek -κός (-kós)
Ancient Greek -ῐκός (-ĭkós)
Ancient Greek ᾰ̓κουστῐκός (ăkoustĭkós)bor.
Medieval Latin acousticusbor.
English acoustic
Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.?
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālisbor.
Old French -albor.
▲
Latin -ālis
Old French -elbor.
▲
Latin -ālisbor.
Middle English -al
English -al
English acoustical
From acoustic + -al.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to hearing or acoustics.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
kanji
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 漢字(かんじ) (kanji, “Chinese characters”), from Middle Chinese 漢 (MC xanH, “Han dynasty, China”) + Middle Chinese 字 (MC dziH, “[written] character”) (Compare Korean 한자 (hanja), Mandarin 漢字 /汉字 (hànzì), Vietnamese Hán tự, Hokkien 漢字 /汉字 (hàn-jī / hàn-lī), Cantonese 漢字 /汉字 (hon³ zi⁶)). Doublet of hanja and Hanzi.
Inflected forms:
form: kanji
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: kanjis
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Kanji
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The system of writing Japanese using Chinese characters.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Japanese is written in a mixture of kanji and kana.
gloss: Any individual Chinese character as used in the Japanese language.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: I know about a thousand kanji.
Related words: Hanzi
hanja
Hán tự
kana
hiragana
katakana
kyūjitai
romaji
shinjitai
Derived words: jōyō kanji
kanjify
Translations:
bol
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Clipping of bolognese.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: bolognese
pos: noun
tags: informal
uncountable
Translations:
recession
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: economics
medicine
sciences
surgery
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin recessiō, from recēdō (“recede, retreat”), from re- (“back”) + cēdō (“to go”). By surface analysis, recess + -ion.
Inflected forms:
form: recessions
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act or an instance of receding or withdrawing.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: […]that light may break forth from the deepest enclosures of darkness, and mercy may rejoice upon the recessions of justice, and grace may triumph upon the ruin of sin, and God may be glorified in the miracles of our conversion, and the wonders of our preservation and glories of our being saved.
gloss: A period of low temperatures that causes a reduction in species; ice age.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Eastward in Bosnia, while the central European clime prevails, the thermic gradient does not follow the recession in the north latitude, but the elevation of the terrain.
Had this climate recession not occurred, the settlements might have provided the first real bridgehead into the continent of America, rather than being rediscovered by Columbus and later by Cabot.
The climatic recession which produced Britain's last glaciers came rapidly to an end about 10,000 bp, as temperatures rose during the end of the protocratic phase of the present interglacial.
gloss: A period of reduced economic activity.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Statisticians often define a recession as negative real GDP growth during two consecutive quarters.
In past recessions, drugstores were virtually immune from a turndown.
Partly because of the heavy burden of government debt built up during his stewardship, and the uncurbed recklessness of the country’s banks, Britain’s recession is already the harshest in Western Europe.
This is not necessarily surprising; employers often use recessions to pay new workers less because they have such a large pool of potential applicants to choose from, says Ruth Milkman, the Labor Studies Chair at the City University of New York’s School of Labor and Urban Studies.
gloss: The ceremonial filing out of clergy and/or choir at the end of a church service.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The act of ceding something back.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A procedure in which an extraocular muscle is detached from the globe of the eye and reattached posteriorly.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Bilateral medial rectus muscle recession when angle is stable. Controversy exists regarding optimal timing of surgery. If greater than 40 prism diopter esotropia, some recommend bimedial recession with resection of one lateral rectus muscle.
Derived words: antirecession
L-shaped recession
mancession
megarecession
minirecession
nonrecession
pancession
postrecession
prerecession
recessional
recessionary
recession hair
recessionist
recessionista
recessionitis
recessionlike
recession pop
recessionproof
shecession
Trumpcession
U-shaped recession
vibecession
W-shaped recession
Translations:
drawer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: computing
engineering
graphical-user-interface
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: From draw (“to move by pulling”) + -er; compare French tiroir. Attested from the 16th century.
Base: draw
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: drawers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An open-topped box that can be slid in and out of the cabinet that contains it, used for storing clothing or other articles.
pos: noun
examples: He knelt down and began shoving the drawer into the slot; the rail was misaligned so he banged it with the heel of his hand. It stuck.
gloss: A side panel containing supplementary content.
pos: noun
Derived words: chest of drawers
codrawer
desk drawer
Dirichlet's drawer principle
drawered
drawerful
drawerknob
drawerless
drawerlike
hewers of wood and drawers of water
kitchen drawer
knick-knack drawer
not the sharpest knife in the drawer
second-drawer
tidy one's sock drawer
top drawer
warming drawer
Translations:
violin
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
Etymology: Etymology tree
Medieval Latin *vitulader.
Old Occitan violabor.?
Italian viola
Proto-Indo-European *-nós
Proto-Indo-European *-iHnos
Proto-Italic *-īnos
Latin -īnus
Italian -ino
Italian violinoder.
English violin
Derived from Italian violino (“little viola”), from viola + -ino.
Inflected forms:
form: violins
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: violins
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: violining
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: violined
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: violined
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A small unfretted stringed instrument with four strings tuned (lowest to highest) G-D-A-E, usually held against the chin and played with a bow.
pos: noun
examples: When I play it like this, it's a fiddle; when I play it like this, it's a violin.
She was looking more like Sherlock Holmes than ever. Slap a dressing-gown on her and give her a violin, and she could have walked straight into Baker Street and no questions asked.
gloss: Any instrument of the violin family, always inclusive of violins, violas and cellos, and sometimes further including the double bass.
pos: noun
tags: proscribed
sometimes
examples: The string quartet, one of the most popular groupings in chamber music, is composed entirely of violins: two violins proper, one viola, and one cello.
gloss: A violinist in an orchestra or group.
pos: noun
tags: metonymically
examples: The violins are seated with sufficient elbow room.
She is first violin in the London Symphony Orchestra.
gloss: To play on, or as if on, a violin.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
Synonyms: fiddle
crowd
Related words: viol
violoncello
viola
Derived words: bass violin
Chinese violin
electric violin
false violin spider
first violin
horn violin
horn-violin
kit violin
kit-violin
nail violin
piano-violin
play someone like a violin
second violin
Stroh violin
violinist
violin maker
violin plot
violin spider
world's smallest violin
world's tiniest violin
Translations:
guitar
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
Etymology: Etymology tree
Ancient Greek κῐθᾰ́ρᾱ (kĭthắrā)bor.
Aramaic קיתראbor.
Arabic قِيثَارَة (qīṯāra)bor.
Old Spanish guitarra
Spanish guitarrabor.
English guitar
From Spanish guitarra, from Arabic قِيثَارَة (qīṯāra), from Ancient Greek κῐθᾰ́ρᾱ (kĭthắrā). Doublet of cithara, cither, and zither.
Inflected forms:
form: guitars
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: guittar
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: gittar
pos: noun
tags: alternative
pronunciation-spelling
form: guitars
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: guitaring
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: guitared
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: guitared
pos: verb
tags: past
form: guittar
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: gittar
pos: verb
tags: alternative
pronunciation-spelling
Senses:
gloss: A stringed musical instrument, of European origin, usually with a fretted fingerboard and six strings, played with the fingers or a plectrum (guitar pick).
pos: noun
examples: Learning to strum the guitar rhythmically is essential.
She was carrying her guitar in a fancily-decorated case.
The band is looking for a new guitar player.
gloss: Any type of musical instrument of the lute family, characterized by a flat back, along with a neck whose upper surface is in the same plane as the soundboard, with strings along the neck and parallel to the soundboard.
pos: noun
gloss: To play the guitar.
pos: verb
tags: informal
examples: We guitared and drummed and head banged and pianoed.
Synonyms: axe
gat
guitar
Related words: capo
capotasto
plectrum
pick
Derived words: acoustic guitar
air guitar
armónico guitar
banjitar
baritone guitar
Baroque guitar
bass guitar
bottleneck guitar
bowed guitar
cigar-box guitar
cigar box guitar
classical guitar
clitar
console steel guitar
contraguitar
eight-string guitar
electric guitar
flamenco guitar
four-string guitar
guitalele
guitalin
guitar cello
guitar-cello
guitar fiddle
guitarfish
guitar hero
guitarist
guitaristic
guitarless
guitarlike
guitarmony
guitar pick
guitar-player
guitar pop
guitarscape
guitar string
guitarwork
guitary
guitjo
harp guitar
harp-guitar
Hawaiian guitar
keytar
lap steel guitar
lead guitar
lutar
lute-guitar
lute guitar
lyre-guitar
moon guitar
nylon-string guitar
palm wine guitar
parlor guitar
parlour guitar
pedal steel guitar
Portuguese guitar
resonator guitar
rhythm guitar
romantic guitar
Russian guitar
Schrammel guitar
Selmer guitar
seven-string guitar
slide guitar
Spanish guitar
steel guitar
steel string guitar
steel-string guitar
sympitar
table steel guitar
tenor guitar
twelve-stringed guitar
Translations:
piano
Part of speech: noun
verb
adv
adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
Etymology: Clipping of pianoforte, from Italian pianoforte, from piano (“soft”) + forte (“strong”). So named because it could produce a wide range of varied volumes note-by-note, in contrast to older keyboard instruments, notably the harpsichord. Doublet of llano, plain, and plane.
Inflected forms:
form: pianos
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: pianoes
pos: noun
tags: archaic
plural
form: pianos
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: pianoing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: pianoed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: pianoed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: more piano
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most piano
pos: adv
tags: superlative
form: more piano
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most piano
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: A percussive keyboard musical instrument, usually ranging over seven octaves, with white and black colored keys, played by pressing these keys, causing hammers to strike strings.
pos: noun
examples: The piano in his house takes up a lot of space.
She has been taking lessons for many years and now plays piano very well.
gloss: To play the piano.
pos: verb
examples: Anyhow I pianoed to my own ear, and had no thought at that time for an audience.
Who comforted me with Madeleines and lime tea, with whipped cream in my cocoa in far off Ann Arbor while others selfishly fiddled, bassooned, pianoed only for their own ugly self-advancement!
John Ashbery, Kenneth Koch, Arnold Weinstein, and others came to the house, taping their poems as I pianoed and zithered and drummed away.
We guitared and drummed and head banged and pianoed.
gloss: To move (the fingers) up and down on, similar to the motions of a pianist playing the piano.
pos: verb
examples: He just stared at her, leaned back in his chair and pianoed his fingers along the tablecloth.
“Jean, it ain't right how you separated those two,” he said, and pianoed the little coffin with his fingers, tapping out his grievance.
The superintendent pianoed his fingers on the surface of a nearby desk.
Holly pianoed her fingers over her throat.
gloss: To equip with a piano.
pos: verb
examples: Other buildings will also be erected and pianoed by the same architect.
A tabernacle has been built, burnt, rebuilt, electric lighted, organed, pianoed, and frequently filled — all during the last two years.
gloss: Softly, as a dynamic in a piece of music.
pos: adv
examples: (abbreviation) p
gloss: Soft, quiet.
pos: adj
gloss: Gentle, soft, subdued.
pos: adj
examples: “Oh! yes, yes, there is not a word to be said against James Benwick[…]that soft sort of manner does not do him justice.”[…]
“Well, well, ladies are the best judges; but James Benwick is rather too piano for me[…]”
‘Tradecraft, Chris,’ Enderby put in, who liked his bit of jargon, and Martindale, still piano, shot him a glance of admiration.
Translations:
bankrupt
Part of speech: adj
verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: business
card-games
finance
games
law
Etymology: Partial calque of Italian bancarotta (literally “a broken bench”), from banca (“bank”, literally “bench”) + rotta (“broken, rupted”), which refers to an out-of-business bank, having its bench physically broken, signifying that the working moneylender was insolvent.
Inflected forms:
form: more bankrupt
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most bankrupt
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: bankrupts
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: bankrupting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: bankrupted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: bankrupted
pos: verb
tags: past
form: bankrupts
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: In a condition of bankruptcy; unable to pay outstanding debts or meet financial obligations; specifically, having been legally declared insolvent.
pos: adj
tags: usually
examples: a bankrupt merchant
"How did you go bankrupt?" Bill asked. "Two ways," Mike said. "Gradually and then suddenly."
gloss: Destitute of, or wholly lacking a good quality, value, etc. one should possess or once possessed.
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
examples: a morally bankrupt politician
a creatively bankrupt endeavor
O Julia! I am bankrupt in gratitude! but the time is ſo preſſing, it calls on you for ſo haſty a reſolution.
gloss: To force into bankruptcy.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The cost of the Mendip line had, however, bankrupted the S.D.R. [Somerset & Dorset Railway], and it was leased to the two larger companies for 999 years in 1875, and named the Somerset & Dorset Joint Railway.
gloss: to get placed last in Tycoon with the bankruptcy rule
pos: verb
gloss: One who becomes unable to pay his or her debts; an insolvent person; a bankruptee.
pos: noun
gloss: A trader who secretes himself, or does certain other acts tending to defraud his creditors.
pos: noun
tags: UK
obsolete
Related words: defunct
illiquid
insolvent
Derived words: bankrupt cart
bankruptcy
bankruptee
bankrupter
bankruptism
bankruptlike
bankruptly
bankruptness
bankruptship
bankrupt worm
go bankrupt
morally bankrupt
nonbankrupt
rebankrupt
unbankrupt
unbankrupted
wankrupt
Translations:
bankruptcy
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: business
card-games
finance
games
law
Etymology: From bankrupt + -cy, replacing earlier bankruptship.
Base: bankrupt
Affixes: -cy
Inflected forms:
form: bankruptcies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A legally declared or recognized condition of insolvency of a person or organization.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The company ended up filing for bankruptcy.
He declared that these drastic steps would undoubtedly inconvenience a good many people, but the alternative was bankruptcy of the Ulster Transport Authority and the breakdown of public transport services.
[T]he form of and redress for defamation are, for the most part, gendered. Imputations of bankruptcy, for example, which could have damaged a merchant and thus were actionable for a man, would probably have had little effect if directed toward a woman. In contrast, allegations of whoredom—which, while occasionally leveled at men, were not usually thought to injure male reputations—were overwhelmingly cited by women in the slander suits they brought.
gloss: A rule in Tycoon where if the top player does not get first place that round, they instantly get last place
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Related words: depression
economic downturn
financial crisis
insolvency
insolvent
receivership
recession
broke
bust
belly up
go broke
go bust
go belly up
Derived words: bankr.
bankruptcy order
email bankruptcy
moral bankruptcy
nonbankruptcy
postbankruptcy
prebankruptcy
pre-packaged bankruptcy
quick bankruptcy
Translations:
following
Part of speech: adj
prep
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: By surface analysis, follow + -ing.
Inflected forms:
form: followings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Coming next, either in sequence or in time.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: See the following section.
Towards the following morning, the thermometer fell to 5°; and at daylight, there was not an atom of water to be seen in any direction.
gloss: About to be specified.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The following words have no definition[…]
gloss: Blowing in the direction of travel, as opposed to headwind; downwind.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The following wind sped us on our way.
gloss: After, subsequent to.
pos: prep
tags: proscribed
sometimes
examples: Following the meeting, we all had a chat.
We published our findings following a thorough review of others' earlier reports.
gloss: In accordance with; as per.
pos: prep
examples: Following all relevant safety instructions, administer a dose of the corticosteroid.
Administer a dose of the corticosteroid, following all relevant safety instructions.
gloss: A group of followers, attendants or admirers; an entourage.
pos: noun
examples: He had a loyal following.
And White Hart Lane was stunned when Rovers scored just five minutes after the restart in front of their away following.
Mikayla has 14.4 million followers on TikTok and it is growing every day, and she has accumulated over one billion likes on the app. She also has 2.5 million followers on Instagram. Both her followings accumulate to an impressive 16.9, almost 17 million followers.
Move Forward, which has built a strong following among young people, appeared to have outperformed expectations.
gloss: Vocation; business; profession.
pos: noun
gloss: A thing or things to be mentioned immediately after.
pos: noun
tags: with-definite-article
examples: The following is a recommendation letter from the president.
The following are the three most important questions.
gloss: An account which is followed.
pos: noun
examples: When a new user joins Weibo, he should register Weibo and get a unique ID, and then he takes some existing users as his followings and waits for others to follow him.
A follower can follow any other users and receive any kind of tweets from his or her followings.
She scrolled through her [Chloe’s] page and liked a few of her pictures that were like candy to her eyes before thoroughly checking her followings. She then checked Chloe’s followers, which was well over a thousand followers.
Derived words: following along
followingly
cult following
Translations:
demonym
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From demo- + -onym, from Ancient Greek δῆμος (dêmos, “people”) + ὄνυμα (ónuma, “name”). Possibly revived in 1997 by Paul Dickson of Merriam-Webster.
Affixes: demo-
-onym
Inflected forms:
form: demonyms
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A name for an inhabitant or native of a specific place, usually derived from the name of the place.
pos: noun
examples: Why is it that people from the United States use American as their demonym?
gloss: A pseudonym formed of an adjective.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
examples: The Logophile has my favourite demonym; I would write under it if he didn't.
Synonyms: gentilic
Derived words: demonymal
demonymic
demonymics
demonymy
Translations:
testicle
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin testiculus, diminutive of testis.
Inflected forms:
form: testicles
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A testis: the male sex and endocrine gland, found in most types of animals, that produces sperm and male sex hormones, including the steroid testosterone.
pos: noun
examples: In France, Mme. de Pompadour was induced by Louis XV to eat such testicles in order to break down her frigidity.
Despite your jogging and the hairiness of your legs, the shoe of aging is beginning to pinch. Soon you'll regret all that sun-tanning. Your face will look like a testicle.
gloss: Either half of the structure that contains the testes: one side of the scrotum and its contents, considered as one object (one half of the ballsack, including its ball).
pos: noun
Synonyms: testicles
Related words: test
testament
testicond
testiculate
testify
testimony
scrotum
bulla
bull
bullock
Derived words: breasticle
chesticle
chesticles
have the world by the testicles
neuticles
spectacles, testicles, wallet and watch
testiclectomy
testicled
testicleless
testicular
testiculo-
trans-testicle
untesticled
Translations:
falcon
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: falconry
hobbies
hunting
lifestyle
Etymology: From Middle English faucoun, falcon, faulcon, from Old French falcun, from Late Latin falcō (“falcon”), of Germanic origin, probably via Frankish *falkō (“falcon, hawk”), from Proto-Germanic *falkô (“falcon”), from Proto-Indo-European *pol̑- (“pale”), from *pel- (“fallow”).
Cognates
Cognate with Old English *fealca, fealcen (“falcon”), Dutch valk (“falcon, hawk”), German Falke (“falcon, hawk”), Norwegian and Swedish falk (“falcon”), Icelandic fálki (“falcon”), French faucon (“falcon”), Italian falco (“falcon”), Spanish halcón (“falcon”), Portuguese falcão (“falcon”), Latin falco (“falcon”), Lithuanian pálšas (“pale”), Latvian bāls (“pale”), Latgalian buolgs (“pale”). More at fallow.
Inflected forms:
form: falcons
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: faulcon
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: faucon
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: falcons
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: falconing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: falconed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: falconed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: faulcon
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: faucon
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: Any bird of the genus Falco, all of which are birds of prey.
pos: noun
gloss: Any bird of prey of the subfamilies Falconinae and Herpetotherinae.
pos: noun
gloss: A female such bird, a male being a tiercel.
pos: noun
gloss: A light cannon used from the 15th to the 17th century.
pos: noun
tags: historical
gloss: To hunt with a falcon or falcons.
pos: verb
examples: He rode astride while hawking; she falconed in the ladylike position of sidesaddle.
Related words: Falco
Falconer
falconer
falconet
falcon-gentil
falcon-gentle
falconine
falconry
gerfalcon
gyrfalcon
Derived words: Amur falcon
aplomado falcon
Barbary falcon
Berigora falcon
black falcon
blue falcon
brown falcon
Eleonora's falcon
falcon-eyed
falconish
falconlike
falconologist
forest falcon
golden falcon name
gray falcon
grey falcon
lanner falcon
laughing falcon
New Zealand falcon
Peale's falcon
peregrine falcon
prairie falcon
pygmy falcon
red-footed falcon
Saker falcon
shaheen falcon
stone falcon
Translations:
kestrel
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English castrel (“staniel, bird of prey”), from Middle French cresserelle, crecerelle (“bird of prey”), usually assumed to be from crecelle (“rattle, wooden reel”) (modern crécelle), of obscure origin.
Cognates possibly include: Medieval Latin clisterella f, French crécerelle f and cristel m, Neapolitan castariello m and crestariello m, all sharing the same meaning.
Derivation from the assumed Vulgar Latin *crepicella, *crepitacillum, a diminutive of crepitāculum, from crepitāre (“to crackle”) is difficult to explain from a morphological point of view.
Instead, possibly from a root *krek-, *krak- (“to crack, rattle, creak, emit a bird cry”), from Middle Dutch crāken (“to creak, crack”), from Old Dutch *krakōn (“to crack, creak, emit a cry”), from Proto-West Germanic *krakōn (“to emit a cry, shout”), from Proto-Indo-European *gerg- (“to shout”). Cognate with Old High German krahhōn (“to make a sound, crash”), Old English cracian (“to resound”), French craquer (“to emit a repeated cry, used of birds”). More at creak, crack.
Inflected forms:
form: kestrels
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of various small falcons of the genus Falco that hover while hunting.
pos: noun
examples: When she was musing she was a kestrel, which hangs in the air by an invisible motion of its wings.
Up on the downs the red-eyed kestrels hover,
Eyeing the grass.
The field mouse flits like a shadow into cover
As their shadows pass.
gloss: A common kestrel (Falco tinnunculus).
pos: noun
Derived words: American kestrel
banded kestrel
common kestrel
Dickinson's kestrel
fox kestrel
greater kestrel
grey kestrel
lesser kestrel
Malagasy kestrel
Mauritius kestrel
Nankeen kestrel
Seychelles kestrel
spotted kestrel
Translations:
rooster
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From roost + -er. In the regions where it is used, displaced cock through taboo avoidance.
Compare typologically Russian насе́дка (nasédka) (akin to наси́живать (nasíživatʹ), also akin to насе́ст (nasést)).
Base: roost
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: roosters
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: roo
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A male domestic chicken (Gallus gallus domesticus) or other gallinaceous bird.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
Canada
Kent
New-Zealand
US
countable
uncountable
examples: Their other dish […] contain'd a number of roast fowls—half a dozen, we suppose, & all roosters at this season no doubt.
The produce of two hens and a cock, or rooster, as the Yankees term that bird.
Chalk a circle for a rooster.
gloss: A bird or bat which roosts or is roosting.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The more leisured flight of the roosters [sc. starlings] was in contrast to the steady procession of the migrants.
Ground roosters like Northern Harriers may be subject to predation by Great-horned Owls […] but still larger perchers like herons and Ospreys use snags or posts in conspicuous places but are large enough to escape aerial predators.
gloss: An informer.
pos: noun
tags: countable
figuratively
obsolete
slang
uncountable
gloss: A violent or disorderly person.
pos: noun
tags: countable
figuratively
obsolete
slang
uncountable
gloss: A powerful, prideful, or pompous person.
pos: noun
tags: countable
figuratively
uncountable
gloss: A man.
pos: noun
tags: New-Zealand
countable
figuratively
uncountable
gloss: A wild violet, when used in a children's game based on cockfighting.
pos: noun
tags: US
countable
historical
regional
uncountable
examples: In April they played Hens and Roosters, yoking their wild white and blue violets to see which would get its head pulled off.
gloss: Legislation solely devised to benefit the legislators proposing it.
pos: noun
tags: US
obsolete
slang
uncountable
examples: American demoralisation... has carried rooster into the halls of republican legislation, where it indicates a bill or proposed law which will remunerate the legislators.
Related words: roost
cock-a-doodle-doo
Derived words: cock rooster
rooster booster
roosterfish
roosterhood
roosterish
roosterless
roosterlike
roosterly
roosterness
rooster sauce
roostership
roostertail
rooster-tail
Translations:
vulture
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed into Middle English from Anglo-Norman vultur, from Old French voutoir, voutre, from Latin vultur, voltur. Displaced native Old English ūf.
Inflected forms:
form: vultures
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: vultures
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: vulturing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: vultured
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: vultured
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Any of several carrion-eating birds of the families Accipitridae and Cathartidae.
pos: noun
examples: The outer third of the wing of a vulture consists of the wing tips. The inner two-thirds of the wing are cambered (when the wing is extended), and are concerned with lifting effort in unsoarable air and with lifting and tractive effort in soarable air.
In clusters on the plain, like cowlless monks at matins, sat the vultures that had settled on the corpse of the hyena impaled by the female rhino […]
gloss: A person who profits from the suffering of others.
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
figuratively
examples: Within ten minutes of the accident, the vultures appeared and were organizing lawsuits.
gloss: To circle around one's target as if one were a vulture.
pos: verb
tags: colloquial
figuratively
examples: Rudy vultured when asking the girl out.
Derived words: culture vulture
Pondicherry vulture
red-headed vulture
vulture bee
vulture capitalism
vulture capitalist
vulture culture
vulture fund
vulture hock
vulturelike
vulturine
vulturish
vulturous
white scavenger vulture
Translations:
gull
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English gulle, from a Brythonic language (compare Breton gouelan, Welsh gwylan, and Cornish golan), from Proto-Brythonic *gwuɨlann, from Proto-Celtic *weilannā (“seagull”).
Cognate with Old Irish foílenn, Scottish Gaelic faoileag. Compare French goéland, a borrowing from Breton. Eclipsed Middle English lare (borrowed from Latin larus) and Middle English mewe (from Old English mæw).
Inflected forms:
form: gulls
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: gulls
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: gulling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: gulled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: gulled
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A seabird of the genus Larus or of the subfamily Larinae.
pos: noun
examples: The tide was out, and we drew up amid the strong bracing smell of seaweed, with gulls screeching, wheeling around, and gliding on the wind.
Most gulls don’t bother to learn more than the simplest facts of flight—how to get from shore to food and back again.[…]For this gull, though, it was not eating that mattered, but flight.
gloss: Any of various pierid butterflies of the genus Cepora.
pos: noun
gloss: To deceive or cheat.
pos: verb
examples: O, but to ha' gulled him / Had been a mastery.
The vulgar, gulled into rebellion, armed.
And is all this Cabala too, and only to be uſed vvhen People are to be gulled vvith noiſy Nothings? i.e. vvith empty Pleroma's, and ſilent Thunderclaps.
I'm not gulling him for the emperor's service.
[S]peak your curses out / Against me, who would sooner crush and grind / A brace of toads, than league with them to oppress / An innocent lady, gull an Emperor […]
She has done these things before and remembers now that she is good at them, often steadier than the men. In Berlin when Jack needed a spare girl Mary had kept watch, gulled room keys out of concierges, replaced stolen documents in dangerous desks, driven scared Joes to safe flats.
gloss: To mislead.
pos: verb
tags: US
slang
gloss: To trick and defraud.
pos: verb
tags: US
slang
gloss: To flatter, wheedle.
pos: verb
tags: dialectal
Derived words: as the gull flies
Audouin's gull
black-backed gull
black-headed gull
Bonaparte's gull
Caspian gull
common gull
Dominican gull
European herring gull
flood gull
Franklin's gull
glaucous gull
great black-backed gull
greater black-backed gull
gull-billed tern
gull chaser
gullfeed
gull-wing
gullwing
Heermann's gull
herring gull
Iceland gull
ivory gull
kelp gull
land gull
laughing gull
lesser black-backed gull
little gull
Mediterranean gull
mew gull
Pacific gull
Pallas's gull
red-billed gull
ring-billed gull
robber gull
Ross's gull
Sabine's gull
sea-gull
seagull
shark-gull
silver gull
slaty-backed gull
slender-billed gull
white-eyed gull
yellow-legged gull
gullable
gullcatcher
guller
gullery
gullible → gullibility
gullibly
gullish
Translations:
nightingale
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English nyghtyngale, nightingale, niȝtingale, alteration (with intrusive n) of nyghtgale, nightegale, from Old English nihtegala, nihtegale (“nightingale; night-raven”, literally “night-singer”), from Proto-West Germanic *nahtigalā (“nightingale”), equivalent to a compound of night + gale. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Noachtegoal (“nightingale”), Dutch nachtegaal (“nightingale”), German Low German Nachtigall (“nightingale”), German Nachtigall (“nightingale”), Danish nattergal (“thrush nightingale”), Swedish näktergal (“nightingale”), Icelandic næturgali (“nightingale”).
Inflected forms:
form: nightingales
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A Eurasian and African songbird, Luscinia megarhynchos, family Muscicapidae, famed for its beautiful singing at night; a common nightingale.
pos: noun
examples: Wilt thou be gone? It is not yet neere day: / It was the Nightingale, and not the Larke, / That pier'ſt the fearefull hollow of thine eare
Some admired the external beauties of the objects they beheld, like the nightingale in love with the roſe.
The oaks around were the home of a tribe of nightingales.
And David's Lips are lock't; but in divine
High piping Péhlevi, with "Wine! Wine! Wine!
Red Wine!" — the Nightingale cries to the Rose
That yellow Cheek of her's to'incarnadine.
The air, too, was heavy with perfume, and a nightingale, high in the heavens, gave out a cheery song of welcome.
Translations: