yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
ravenous
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English ravenous, ravynous, from Old French ravineus. By surface analysis, ravin + -ous. As seen at raven and ravin, the word comes from a root referring to predation, not from the root referring to ravens (corvid birds); but folk etymology notes that the latter hypothesis seems plausible because ravens can often seem ravenous (especially as nestlings).
Inflected forms:
form: more ravenous
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most ravenous
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Very hungry.
pos: adj
examples: The most rapid and most seductive transition in all human nature is that which attends the palliation of a ravenous appetite. There is something humiliating about it.
You must remember no one had eaten a thing for several days. They were ravenous. So for a while there was no conversation at all. There was only the sound of crunching and chewing as the animals attacked the succulent food.
Biotics possess extraordinary abilities, but they must live with minor inconveniences. The most obvious issue is getting adequate nutrition. Creating biotic mass effects takes such a toll on metabolism that active biotics develop ravenous appetites. The standard Alliance combat ration for a soldier is 3000 calories per day; biotics are given 4500, as well as a canteen of potent energy drink for quick refreshment after hard combat.
Ravenous, I order one more wine and a selection of cheese and biscuits.
gloss: Greedy, characterized by strong desires.
pos: adj
examples: Supply-and-demand? One begins to be weary of such work. Leave all to egoism, to ravenous greed of money, of pleasure, of applause: — it is the Gospel of Despair!
Mrs. Michael turned out to be a ravenous, fast-fading woman in a slashed skirt and a low blouse over an unappetising chest. While her husband did things in his shed, where he appeared to live, Pym inexpertly mixed the Yorkshire pudding and fought off her embraces...
Tilling my own grave to keep me level
Jam another dragon down the hole
Digging to the rhythm and the echo of a solitary siren
One that pushes me along and leaves me so
Desperate and ravenous
I'm so weak and powerless
Over you
Synonyms: starving
Related words: voracious
Derived words: ravenously
ravenousness
ravenous hunger
Translations:
capsize
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: nautical
transport
Etymology: Attested since 1788. Origin unknown. Possibly related to Spanish chapuzar (“to sink by the head”).
Inflected forms:
form: capsizes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: capsizing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: capsized
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: capsized
pos: verb
tags: past
form: capsise
pos: verb
tags: alternative
hypercorrect
form: capsizes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: capsise
pos: noun
tags: alternative
hypercorrect
Senses:
gloss: To overturn.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Baby, I think I'm capsizing / The waves are rising and rising
gloss: To cause (a ship) to overturn.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: But what if carrying sail capsize the boat?
gloss: To deform under stress.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: There are even cases where a totally different knot may result when carelessly pulled. Tie the Granny Knot around any object and pull one end, and it will capsize into Two Half Hitches.
gloss: The act of, or occurrence of capsizing or overturning.
pos: noun
Derived words: capsizable
capsizal
capsizee
capsizer
uncapsize
uncapsized
Translations:
lang: Alabama
word: ɬipìili
lang: Belarusian
word: перакульваць
roman: pjerakulʹvacʹ
lang: Belarusian
word: перакуліць
roman: pjerakulicʹ
lang: Bulgarian
word: прекатурвам
roman: prekaturvam
lang: Bulgarian
word: преобръщам
roman: preobrǎštam
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 使傾覆 /使倾覆
roman: shǐ qīngfù
lang: Dutch
word: doen kapseizen
lang: Finnish
word: kaataa
lang: French
word: faire chavirer
lang: French
word: chavirer
lang: German
word: zum Kentern bringen
lang: Ancient Greek
word: ἀνατρέπω
roman: anatrépō
lang: Hebrew
word: הָפַךְ
roman: hafakh
lang: Hungarian
word: felborít
lang: Hungarian
word: felfordít
lang: Italian
word: ribaltare
lang: Italian
word: capovolgere
lang: Japanese
word: 転覆させる
roman: tenpuku saseru
lang: Korean
word: 뒤집히다
roman: dwijiphida
lang: Mongolian
word: хөмрүүлэх
roman: xömrüülex
lang: Polish
word: wywracać
lang: Polish
word: wywrócić
lang: Polish
word: przewracać
lang: Polish
word: przewrócić
lang: Portuguese
word: soçobrar
lang: Russian
word: опроки́дывать
roman: oprokídyvatʹ
lang: Russian
word: опроки́нуть
roman: oprokínutʹ
lang: Russian
word: перевора́чивать
roman: perevoráčivatʹ
lang: Russian
word: переверну́ть
roman: perevernútʹ
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: cuir thairis
lang: Spanish
word: hacer volcar
lang: Spanish
word: zozobrar
lingerie
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from French lingerie (“linen closet”). The irregular pronunciation is a hyperforeignism; it may derive from the frequent shift of /ɛ̃/ (which is this word's first vowel in standard French) toward /ɑ̃/ or [æ̃] in European French, which also tends to be drifted towards /ɔ̃/.
Inflected forms:
form: lingeries
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Underwear or nightclothes (typically women's), especially when lacy or designed to be seductive.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: Linen goods collectively.
pos: noun
tags: dated
uncountable
usually
examples: Empire matinees in lingerie stuffs with trimmings of lace and embroidery are shown in great variety.
Related words: linen
crotchless
negligee
nightie
nighty
Derived words: lingeried
lingerie party
lingerie shower
lingerie tape
Translations:
strum
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Variant of thrum.
Inflected forms:
form: strums
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: strumming
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: strummed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: strummed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: strums
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To play (a guitar or other stringed instrument) by plucking various strings simultaneously.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
gloss: The sound made by playing various strings of a stringed instrument simultaneously.
pos: noun
examples: hear the strum of a guitar
gloss: The act of strumming.
pos: noun
examples: give the banjo a little strum
Derived words: strum box
Translations:
ivy
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English ivi, from Old English īfiġ, from Proto-West Germanic *ibig, *ibag, *ibah, from Proto-Germanic *ibahs (compare West Flemish iefte, Low German Eiloov, Ieloof, German Efeu), from Proto-Indo-European *(h₁)ebʰ- (compare Welsh efwr (“black elder”), Ancient Greek ἴφυον (íphuon, “spike-lavender, Lavandula Spica”)).
Inflected forms:
form: ivies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of several woody, climbing, or trailing evergreen plants of the genus Hedera.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Hidden timber elements, lintels and roof tiles have also been replaced, in addition to gaining a new paint job and guttering drainage, and the removal of ivy that was damaging the exterior.
gloss: Any similar plant of any genus.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
countable
uncountable
Translations:
speedboat
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From speed + boat.
Compound parts: speed
boat
Inflected forms:
form: speedboats
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: speedboats
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: speedboating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: speedboated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: speedboated
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A fast boat, usually small (for 1-8 people).
pos: noun
gloss: A boat designed and built for racing.
pos: noun
gloss: A boat used for waterskiing.
pos: noun
gloss: To travel by speedboat.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
Derived words: speedboater
speedboatman
Translations:
various
Part of speech: det
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French varieux, from Latin varius (“manifold, diverse, various, parti-colored, variegated, also changing, changeable, fickle, etc.”). By surface analysis, vary + -ous.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: More than one (of an indeterminate set of things).
pos: det
examples: Various books have been taken.
There are various ways to fix the problem.
You have broken various of the rules.
gloss: Having a broad range (of different elements).
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The reasons are various.
For this scene, a large number of supers are engaged, and in order to further swell the crowd, practically all the available stage hands have to ‘walk on’ dressed in various coloured dominoes, and all wearing masks.
The penalty for the breach of various contracts is scourging with stripes[…]
gloss: That varies or differs from others; variant; different, sundry.
pos: adj
tags: dated
not-comparable
examples: a various reading of a Biblical text
Synonyms: diverse
manifold
miscellaneous
motley
multifarious
sundry
Antonyms: monotonous
Related words: variant
variation
variegate
variety
variously
vary
Derived words: many and various
various and sundry
variously
various reading
Translations:
perilous
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English perilous, from Old French perilleus, equivalent to peril + -ous, from the noun peril, or from Latin perīculōsus. Doublet of periculous.
Base: peril
Affixes: -ous
Inflected forms:
form: more perilous
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most perilous
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: perelles
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: perillous
pos: adj
tags: alternative
archaic
form: perlous
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: per'lous
pos: adj
tags: alternative
poetic
Senses:
gloss: Dangerous, full of peril.
pos: adj
examples: Three miles or more to our starboard is a low dim line. It is the Eastern shore of Central Africa. We are running to the southward, before the North East Monsoon, between the mainland and the reef that for hundreds of miles fringes this perilous coast.
The effects are already being felt. Gamma radiation is flooding through the gaps; the quick-breeding viruses are mutating through half the world, faster than the Medical Art can control them, so that millions of us are sneezing and choking—and dying, too, for lack of antibiotics and proper care. Air travel is a perilous thing; just today, a stratosphere roc crashed head-on into a fragment of the sky and was killed with all its passengers.
Translations:
threshold
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: From Middle English threschwolde, threscholde, from Old English þresċold, þerxold, þrexwold (“doorsill, entryway”), from Proto-Germanic *þreskudlaz, *þreskūþlijaz, *þreskwaþluz, from Proto-Germanic *þreskaną, *þreskwaną (“to thresh, (originally) to tread”), from Proto-Indo-European *terh₁- (“to rub, turn”).
Cognate with Low German Drüssel (“threshold”), dialectal German Drischaufel, Drissufle, Trüschübel (“threshold”), Danish tærskel (“threshold”), Norwegian terskel (“threshold”), Swedish tröskel (“threshold”), dialectal Swedish träskvald (“threshold”), Icelandic þröskuldur (“threshold”).
Pronunciations such as “thresh-hold” are un-etymological and result from analogy with hold.
Inflected forms:
form: thresholds
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The lowermost part of a doorway that one crosses to enter; a sill.
pos: noun
gloss: An entrance; the door or gate of a house.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
examples: Shy. You that did voide your rume vpon my beard, / And foote me as you ſpurne a ſtranger curre / Ouer your threſhold, […]
gloss: Any end or boundary.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
gloss: The outset of something; the point of entry, or the beginning of an action.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
examples: on the threshold of maturity
I arrived at last, did obeisance to my uncle, and told him everything. He thought it over and said: ' […] At the threshold of death, how dare I give you permission to go to England, to cross the seas? But I will not stand in your way. It is your mother's permission which really matters. If she permit you, then godspeed! Tell her I will not interfere. You will go with my blessings.'
The first half of this century has been referred to as the golden age of medicine. To me it seems more probable that we are on the threshold of a much greater age.
gloss: The start of the landing area of a runway.
pos: noun
gloss: The quantitative point at which an action is triggered, especially a lower limit.
pos: noun
gloss: The wage or salary at which income tax becomes due.
pos: noun
gloss: The point where one is mentally or physically vulnerable in response to a provocation or to other nuisances.
pos: noun
Antonyms: lintel
Derived words: bithreshold
infrathreshold
perithreshold
photothreshold
stereothreshold
subthreshold
superthreshold
suprathreshold
thresholded
thresholder
thresholding
thresholdless
thresholdlike
underthreshold
Translations:
inventor
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin inventor. By surface analysis, invent + -or.
Inflected forms:
form: inventors
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: inventour
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: One who invents, either as a hobby or as an occupation.
pos: noun
examples: Thomas Edison was the inventor of the phonograph.
The young inventor received a patent for her design.
Translations:
emotion
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰ
Proto-Indo-European *-s
Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰs
Proto-Italic *eks
Latin ex
Latin ex-
Proto-Indo-European *m(y)ewh₁-der.
Proto-Italic *moweō
Latin moveō
Latin ēmoveō
Vulgar Latin *exmovēre
Old French esmovoir
Middle French esmouvoir
Middle French emotionbor.
English emotion
Borrowed from Middle French emotion (modern French émotion), from émouvoir (“excite”), based on Latin ēmōtus, past participle of ēmoveō (“to move out, move away, remove, stir up, irritate”), from ē- (“out”) (variant of ex-), and moveō (“move”).
Inflected forms:
form: emotions
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Movement; agitation.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
examples: and the water continuing in the caverns[…]caused the emotion or earthquake
gloss: A person's internal state of being and involuntary physiological response to an object or a situation, based on or tied to physical state and sensory data.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: He was thinking; but the glory of the song, the swell from the great organ, the clustered lights, […], the height and vastness of this noble fane, its antiquity and its strength—all these things seemed to have their part as causes of the thrilling emotion that accompanied his thoughts.
“Just think about the last big decision you made. How much of it was based in emotion and how much was based in intellect? Most all big decisions are based in both.” […] Historically, placing weight on emotions has been dismissed. “What’s remarkable is that for so many years, people didn’t see emotions as conveying important messages,” he says.
gloss: A reaction by a non-human organism with behavioral and physiological elements similar to a person's response.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Synonyms: emotion
kibun
sensation
sentiment
senniment
touch
Related words: :Category:Emotions
Derived words: appeal to emotion
counteremotion
ememe
emotag
emoticon
emotionable
emotional
emotioned
emotionful
emotioning
emotionize
emotionless
emotionlike
emotionology
expressed emotion
metaemotion
nonemotion
proto-emotion
unemotioned
Translations:
persona
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: business
human-sciences
marketing
psychology
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Latin persōnabor.
English persona
Borrowed from Latin persōna (“mask; character”), of uncertain origin. Suggested to be from Etruscan 𐌘𐌄𐌓𐌔𐌖 (φersu, “mask; masked individual; actor”), which could be a loan from Ancient Greek πρόσωπον (prósōpon, “face; appearance; mask used in ancient theatre to denote a character or, more generally, a social role”). Doublet of person and parson.
Inflected forms:
form: personas
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: personae
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: personæ
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A social role.
pos: noun
examples: I've maintained a very public persona.
gloss: A character played by an actor.
pos: noun
gloss: The mask or appearance one presents to the world.
pos: noun
examples: He keeps his online persona completely separate from his real-world one.
The latest in a long line of dirty dating tactics to emerge is “wokefishing,” a term coined by writer Serena Smith. “People masquerade as holding progressive political views to ensnare potential partners,” Smith told Vice. Wokefishermen can be thought of like catfishers — those who use fake online personas to defraud victims — but only for sex instead of money.
gloss: An imaginary person representing a particular type of client or customer, considered when designing products and services that will appeal to them.
pos: noun
examples: To do so, your organization should create nuanced buyer personas for all relevant market segments or buyer groups that demonstrate affinity to your brand. These buyer personas should include standard demographic information […]
Related words: dramatis persona
in propria persona
persona grata
persona muta
persona non grata
alter ego
moniker
Derived words: fursona
objectsona
personify
worksona
Translations:
undersea
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₁én
Proto-Indo-European *h₁entér
Proto-Indo-European *(H)n̥dʰí
Proto-Indo-European *-ér
Proto-Indo-European *(H)n̥dʰér
Proto-Germanic *under
Proto-West Germanic *undar
Old English under-
Middle English under-
English under-
English sea
English undersea
From under- + sea.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Existing, relating to, or made for use beneath the sea.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: It is not known just what action will be taken against the captain of the undersea boat.
"You're right!" she cried. "I'm sure you are." Twenty reasons come back. An undersea tunnel to the little island.
The Sediment (SNAP-7E) Density Meter (an underwater rocket) has been developed to investigate to an ocean-bottom depth of 11 sedimentary feet. Sea Lab I, the Navy’s new undersea laboratory, complete with observation porch and garage, should become safe to operate at the 200 foot level.
The bull kelp forests off Northern California are sometimes spoken of as the redwoods of the sea. And like the redwoods, these forests are in danger. In less than a decade, these otherworldly undersea landscapes, lush with life, have all but disappeared along 200 miles of coast north of San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge.
The Channel Tunnel is the longest undersea tunnel in the world, with this section being 38km (23.6 miles) long.
Translations:
incubate
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: First attested in 1641; borrowed from Latin incubātus, an alternative to incubitus, perfect passive participle of incubō (“to hatch”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (adjective-forming suffix)), from in- (“in”) + cubō (“to lie”).
Affixes: -ate
Inflected forms:
form: incubates
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: incubating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: incubated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: incubated
pos: verb
tags: past
form: incubates
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To brood, raise, or maintain eggs, organisms, or living tissue through the provision of ideal environmental conditions.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The places where the birds are nesting are interesting spots to visit. Both parents incubate and the scene is animated as the birds fly about in all directions.
Part of our problem in praying for our children, he suggested, is the time lage, the necessary slow maturation of our prayers. But that's the way of God's rhythm in nature. For instance, the hen must patiently sit on her eggs to incubate them before the baby chicks hatch.
The mother dead these fourteen years did incubate in her own bosom the creature who would carry her off.
The female cichlid fish are called "mouth breeders," which means they incubate eggs in their mouth.
gloss: To incubate metaphorically; to ponder an idea slowly and deliberately as if in preparation for hatching it.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
transitive
examples: It was a habit he developed, of incubating and maturing his thought upon a subject, and of then rushing into the type-writer with it.
When you've got your theme–let the concept incubate. Walk around with it, sleep on it.
gloss: A preparation, or material, that has been incubated.
pos: noun
Derived words: coincubate
incubatee
incubation
incubative
incubator
nonincubated
preincubate
reincubate
unincubated
Translations:
prescriptivism
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English prescriptive
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)
Proto-Indo-European *-mos
Proto-Indo-European *-mós
Ancient Greek -μός (-mós)
Ancient Greek -ισμός (-ismós)der.
English -ism
English prescriptivism
From prescriptive + -ism.
Inflected forms:
form: prescriptivisms
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The practice of prescribing idealistic norms, as opposed to describing realistic forms, of linguistic usage.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
greeting
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: By surface analysis, greet + -ing.
Inflected forms:
form: greetings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A conventional phrase used to start a letter or conversation or otherwise to acknowledge a person's arrival or presence.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: It's polite to begin a letter with a greeting, but this practice is less common in email.
Thank you to everyone who sent me birthday greetings.
Send my greetings to your family.
gloss: The action of the verb to greet.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: I had occasion […] to make a somewhat long business trip to Chicago, and on my return […] I found Farrar awaiting me in the railway station. He smiled his wonted fraction by way of greeting, […], and finally leading me to his buggy, turned and drove out of town.
Synonyms: accost
address
greeting
hail
salutation
Antonyms: farewell
valediction
Related words: greet
hello
salutation
Derived words: greeting card
greetingless
greetingly
greetings card
nongreeting
season's greetings
Translations:
bridesmaid
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: entertainment
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Etymology: From bride + -s- + maid. In the sports and entertainment sense: in reference to the saying always a bridesmaid, never a bride.
Base: bride
Affixes: -s-
Inflected forms:
form: bridesmaids
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: bridemaid
pos: noun
tags: alternative
archaic
form: bride's maid
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: bridesmaids
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: bridesmaiding
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: bridesmaided
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: bridesmaided
pos: verb
tags: past
form: bridemaid
pos: verb
tags: alternative
archaic
form: bride's maid
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A woman who attends a bride during her wedding ceremony, as part of the main wedding party.
pos: noun
examples: I'd love to be your bridesmaid at the wedding.
I was promised sex. Everybody said it. You'll be a bridesmaid, you'll get sex, you'll be fighting 'em off. But not so much as a tongue in sight.
gloss: A person or team that perennially finishes well, but never first.
pos: noun
examples: He had taken her for a dogsbody, a beta fish, a bridesmaid, a ride-along; he had looked right past her, as likely many people did.
gloss: To act as a bridesmaid for; to attend a bride during her wedding ceremony.
pos: verb
examples: "No, Trichy; I won't be Augusta's bridesmaid; I'll bide my time for bridesmaiding."
And what's this? that isn't Herbie Frost with you in the canoe ; why he was best man when I bridesmaided Corinne.
"It's in my Data-fax, right here! December Bride: and I'm supposed to bridesmaid!"
After ten years of friendship and just six months of lackluster bridesmaiding, the women did not even get an invitation to the wedding.
Still they bridesmaided for her.
Related words: bridesmaiden
bridesmatron
maid of honor
bridesmaids
Derived words: always a bridesmaid, never a bride
brosmaid
junior bridesmaid
Translations:
howdy
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Clipping of howdy-do, from how-d'ye-do (“how do you do”).
Inflected forms:
form: howdies
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: howdying
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: howdied
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: howdied
pos: verb
tags: past
form: howdie
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: howdies
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: howdie
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: To greet informally, especially by saying "howdy"
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: I stood up for the kid and it got ugly, with accusations being thrown in both directions. So the sheriff and I weren't exactly on howdying terms when that fire happened.
gloss: A wife.
pos: noun
tags: Scotland
gloss: A midwife.
pos: noun
tags: Scotland
Translations:
wassup
Part of speech: intj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: wassap
pos: intj
tags: alternative
form: whassup
pos: intj
tags: alternative
form: wazzup
pos: intj
tags: alternative
form: wazup
pos: intj
tags: alternative
form: whazzup
pos: intj
tags: alternative
form: wasup
pos: intj
tags: alternative
form: whasup
pos: intj
tags: alternative
form: whazup
pos: intj
tags: alternative
form: wuddup
pos: intj
tags: alternative
form: whuddup
pos: intj
tags: alternative
form: wazzap
pos: intj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: what's up? (as a greeting)
pos: intj
tags: US
slang
Translations:
fugue
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: entertainment
human-sciences
lifestyle
medicine
music
psychiatry
psychology
sciences
Etymology: Borrowed from French fugue, from Italian fuga (“flight, ardor”), from Latin fuga (“act of fleeing”), from fugiō (“to flee”); compare Ancient Greek φυγή (phugḗ). Apparently from the metaphor that the first part starts alone on its course, and is pursued by later parts. Doublet of fuga.
Inflected forms:
form: fugues
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: fugues
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: fuguing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: fugued
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: fugued
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A contrapuntal piece of music wherein a particular melody is played in a number of voices, each voice introduced in turn by playing the melody.
pos: noun
gloss: Anything in literature, poetry, film, painting, etc., that resembles a fugue in structure or in its elaborate complexity and formality.
pos: noun
examples: Jacobsen's theory about the empty storehouse is still valid, for a myth never has one meaning only; a myth is a polyphonic fugue of many voices.
gloss: A fugue state.
pos: noun
gloss: To improvise, in singing, by introducing vocal ornamentation to fill gaps etc.
pos: verb
gloss: To spend time in a dissociative fugue state.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: And most of them women, and these only stayed in a fugue state for a relatively short time, like a couple of hours or a couple of days. As far as we know Malenov fugued for close to twenty years.
Fugue states can have phases—it's possible she fugued from the start, and only woke to what was happening on that bus.
Related words: fugacious
fugue state
Derived words: counterfugue
double fugue
fugal
fuguelike
fuguist
mirror fugue
Translations:
bottle-o
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Latin buttis
Proto-Indo-European *-lós
Proto-Indo-European *-elós
Proto-Italic *-elos
Proto-Italic *-kelos
Latin -culus
Late Latin butticula
Old French boteillebor.
Middle English botel
English bottle
English -o
English bottle-o
From bottle + -o (diminutive suffix).
Inflected forms:
form: bottle-os
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: bottlo
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: bottle-oh
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A bottle shop.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
New-Zealand
informal
gloss: A door-to-door trader in used bottles.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
informal
obsolete
examples: For travellers have to carry bags, / And swagmen have to hump their swags / Like bottle-ohs or ragmen.
a. 1922, Henry Lawson, 1984, Leonard Cronin (editor), A Fantasy of Man: Henry Lawson Complete Works, 1901-1922, Part 2, page 546,
Time was when my old friend, Benno the bottle-o, drew his turn-out into the shade of the big old fig-trees under the church at the top of the hill, and went back and thrashed the most notoriously brutal driver well and good.
And Pa, that bottle-o, drunk once on misery.
the bottle-oh with the cleft tongue rode his wagon wrapped tight in an old grey blanket and had his battle-oh cries blown westwards before the icy gusts of wind.
Another character was the bottle-o man. He would come around on weekends down the lane standing on a dray driven by an old horse while he cried out: “booooddle-o, any old rags and boddles? Booooddle-o”.
When Kate was a girl living in Albert Park, a lifetime before she met Rex, her bottle-o had some sort of motor truck. Some of us can remember the horse and cart used by the bottle-o, the milk-o, the ice-man, and especially the woodman.
Translations:
paradiddle
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
Etymology: Imitative. May be related to [Attic] Greek, παραδίδωμι (paradídōmi) 1) to give into the hands (of another) 2) to give over into (one's) power or use 2a) to deliver to one something to keep, use, take care of, manage
Inflected forms:
form: paradiddles
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: paradiddles
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: paradiddling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: paradiddled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: paradiddled
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A percussive exercise (one of 26 drum rudiments per the National Association of Rudimental Drummers or one of 40 per the Percussive Arts Society) which involves playing four even strokes in the order ‘right left right right’ or ‘left right left left.’
pos: noun
examples: I mean, as a drummer, you're sitting at a practice pad for hours on end, doing paradiddles and all the exercises you learn for your craft.
gloss: To produce percussive sounds of this kind.
pos: verb
Translations:
megrim
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French migraigne, semi-learned borrowing from Late Latin hēmicrānia (“pain in one half of the head”), from Ancient Greek ἡμικρᾱνίᾰ (hēmikrāníă), from ἡμι- (hēmi-, “hemi-, half”) + κρανίον (kraníon, “skull”) (whence also English cranium). Doublet of migraine and hemicrania.
Inflected forms:
form: megrims
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A headache; a migraine.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
gloss: A fancy, a whim, a caprice.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
gloss: See megrims (“depression; any of various diseases of animals”).
pos: noun
tags: in-plural
examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:megrim.
Related words: hemicrania
migraine
Derived words: megrimish
Translations:
fasten
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English fastenen, from Old English fæstnian, from Proto-West Germanic *fastinōn (“to secure, fasten”). Equivalent to fast + -en.
Base: fast
Affixes: -en
Inflected forms:
form: fastens
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: fastening
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: fastened
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: fastened
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To attach or connect in a secure manner.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
examples: The sailor fastened the boat to the dock with a half-hitch.
Fasten your seat belts!
Can you fasten these boards together with some nails?
The words Whig and Tory have been pressed to the service of many successions of parties, with very different ideas fastened to them.
gloss: To cause to take close effect; to make to tell; to land.
pos: verb
examples: to fasten a blow
if I can fasten but one cup upon him
Related words: do up
Derived words: bedfast
breastfast
colorfast
copperfasten
cragfast
fast
fastenable
fasten down
fastener
fastening
fasten up
handfast
headfast
holdfast
makefast
misfasten
refasten
shamefast
sitfast
soothfast
steadfast
unfasten
Translations:
podium
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: anatomy
biology
botany
hobbies
lifestyle
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
sports
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin podium, from Ancient Greek πόδιον (pódion, “base”), a diminutive of πούς (poús, “foot”). Doublet of pew.
Inflected forms:
form: podia
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: podiums
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: podiums
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: podiuming
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: podiumed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: podiumed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A platform on which to stand, as when conducting an orchestra or preaching at a pulpit; any low platform or dais.
pos: noun
gloss: A stand used to hold notes when speaking publicly.
pos: noun
tags: proscribed
sometimes
gloss: A steepled platform upon which the three competitors with the best results may stand when being handed their medals or prize.
pos: noun
gloss: A result amongst the best three at a competition.
pos: noun
examples: Red Bull's Thai-British driver Alex Albon took a maiden podium in third.
gloss: A low wall, serving as a foundation, a substructure, or a terrace wall.
pos: noun
gloss: A low wall, serving as a foundation, a substructure, or a terrace wall.
pos: noun
gloss: The lower portion of a high-rise building, typically of several storeys tall and acts as a foundation to the tower(s) above it.
pos: noun
gloss: A foot or footstalk.
pos: noun
gloss: To finish in the top three at an event or competition.
pos: verb
tags: colloquial
intransitive
examples: The swimmer podiumed three times at the Olympics.
Vocab-wise, medalling and PB-ing are now totally part-and-parcelled, and most experts in South Korea believe podiumed, finalled and all-comered are not far off lexiconing.
Derived words: acropodium
hypopodium
monopodium
podium position
podium sweep
Translations:
lang: Arabic
word: مِنَصَّة
roman: minaṣṣa
lang: Catalan
word: pòdium
lang: Catalan
word: podi
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 講壇 /讲坛
roman: jiǎngtán
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 講臺 /讲台
roman: jiǎngtái
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 講台
roman: jiǎngtái
lang: Czech
word: pódium
lang: Dutch
word: podium
lang: Dutch
word: spreekgestoelte
lang: Esperanto
word: podio
lang: Finnish
word: koroke
lang: French
word: podium
lang: Georgian
word: პოდიუმი
roman: ṗodiumi
lang: German
word: Podium
lang: Ancient Greek
word: βῆμα
roman: bêma
lang: Hungarian
word: pódium
lang: Ido
word: estrado
lang: Irish
word: póidiam
lang: Javanese
word: podhium
lang: Māori
word: pourangi
lang: Polish
word: podium
lang: Polish
word: podest
lang: Portuguese
word: pódio
lang: Romanian
word: podium
lang: Russian
word: по́диум
roman: pódium
lang: Russian
word: платфо́рма
roman: platfórma
lang: Russian
word: возвыше́ние
roman: vozvyšénije
lang: Spanish
word: podio
lang: Spanish
word: pódium
lang: Spanish
word: podium
lang: Swedish
word: podium
childbirth
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English childbyrth [and other forms], perhaps a partial calque of Old Norse barnburðr (“childbearing, childbirth”, literally “bairn birth”); equivalent to child + birth. Compare Swedish barnsbörd (“childbirth”), Icelandic barnsburður (“childbirth”).
Base: child
Inflected forms:
form: childbirths
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: child-birth
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The fact or action of giving birth to a child, as the culmination of pregnancy; the process by which it happens.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: Near-synonyms: labour, delivery (the moment of emergence)
The preference for tightness during intercourse is so well known in Western culture that U.S. obstetricians even have a term for the extra stitch they often perform when doing episiotomy repairs following childbirth: the "husband's stitch." The husband's stitch is intended to produce a smaller vaginal opening, to counteract the natural stretching of the tissues from sexual activity and childbirth and even to make the opening more constricted than it might have been before.
Translations:
sideburns
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Reformed from burnside, named after American Army general Ambrose Burnside (1824–1881), noted for his unusual facial hair.
Inflected forms:
form: sideburn
pos: noun
tags: singular
Senses:
gloss: Facial hair reaching from the top of the head down the side of the face to the side of the chin.
pos: noun
tags: plural
plural-normally
Translations:
podgy
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English podge
English -y
English podgy
From podge + -y.
Inflected forms:
form: podgier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: podgiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Slightly fat.
pos: adj
tags: informal
gloss: Stodgy.
pos: adj
tags: archaic
examples: When you have got him [the horse] clean from all soft podgy food, you must be particular that none but what is clean and wholesome is served to him.
Related words: podge
pudgy
Derived words: podgily
podginess
Translations:
forefather
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English forefader, forfader, vorvader, from Old English forefæder (“forefather”), but possibly also merged with Old Norse forfaðir. Equivalent to fore- + father. Compare Dutch voorvader (“forefather”), German Vorvater, Vorfahr (“forefather”), Danish forfader (“forefather”), Swedish förfader (“forefather”).
Base: father
Affixes: fore-
Inflected forms:
form: forefathers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An ancestor.
pos: noun
examples: His forefathers had been, as a rule, professional men—physicians and lawyers; his grandfather died under the walls of Chapultepec Castle while twisting a tourniquet for a cursing dragoon; an uncle remained indefinitely at Malvern Hill; an only brother at Montauk Point having sickened in the trenches before Santiago.
gloss: A cultural ancestor; one who originated an idea or tradition.
pos: noun
Related words: foresister
Derived words: forefatherly
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: предтеча
roman: predteča
lang: Czech
word: praotec
lang: Khiamniungan Naga
word: pàusǜpòu
lang: Polish
word: przodek
flinch
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle French flenchir (“to bend”), of Germanic origin. Compare Middle High German lenken (“to bend”). Attested in English since the 16th century.
Inflected forms:
form: flinches
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: flinches
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: flinching
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: flinched
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: flinched
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A reflexive jerking away.
pos: noun
examples: My eye doctor hates the flinch I have every time he tries to get near my eyes.
gloss: The slipping of the foot from a ball, when attempting to give a tight croquet.
pos: noun
gloss: To make a sudden, involuntary movement in response to a (usually negative) stimulus; to cringe; to blench.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: A child, by a constant course of kindness, may be accustomed to bear very rough usage without flinching or complaining.
gloss: To dodge (a question), to avoid an unpleasant task or duty
pos: verb
gloss: To let the foot slip from a ball, when attempting to give a tight croquet.
pos: verb
Related words: cringe
Derived words: flincher
flinchless
flinchy
two for flinching
Translations:
footbridge
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From Middle English fot-brigge, equivalent to foot + bridge.
Compound parts: foot
bridge
Inflected forms:
form: footbridges
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A bridge over a road, railway, river, etc for pedestrians.
pos: noun
examples: The girder bridge at the head of the pass is used as a footbridge, and is roughly decked.
Translations:
hardly
Part of speech: adv
intj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: manner
Etymology: From Middle English hardely, hardliche, from Old English heardlīċe (“boldly; hardily; without ease; in a way that causes pain; not easily; only by degrees”), equivalent to hard + -ly. Compare Dutch hardelijk, German härtlich.
Base: hard
Affixes: -ly
Inflected forms:
form: hardlier
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: more hardly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: hardliest
pos: adv
tags: superlative
form: most hardly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Barely, only just, almost not.
pos: adv
examples: They hardly ever watch television.
It's hardly possible he could lose the election.
Hardly did I arrive when he left.
I could hardly have managed it in less time.
How lonely they looked as they lay there, and how ill assorted! That little heap had been for two thousand years the wisest, loveliest, proudest creature - I can hardly call her woman - in the whole universe.
gloss: Certainly not; not at all.
pos: adv
examples: I hardly think they'll come in this bad weather!
With this the second of three games in seven days for Stoke, it was hardly surprising to see nine changes from the side that started against Newcastle in the Premier League on Monday.
Investors face a quandary. Cash offers a return of virtually zero in many developed countries; government-bond yields may have risen in recent weeks but they are still unattractive. Equities have suffered two big bear markets since 2000 and are wobbling again. It is hardly surprising that pension funds, insurers and endowments are searching for new sources of return.
gloss: With difficulty.
pos: adv
tags: archaic
examples: And what gentle flame soever doth warme the heart of young virgins, yet are they hardly drawne to leave and forgoe their mothers, to betake them to their husbands […].
While in Chelsea, Anne Smiley pined, taking very hardly to her unaccustomed role of wife abandoned.
gloss: Harshly, severely; in a hard manner.
pos: adv
tags: dated
examples: I was a fool when I married him; and I am so far an incurable fool on that subject, that, for the sake of what I once believed him to be, I wouldn’t have even this shadow of my idle fancy hardly dealt with.
"Mr. Cholmondeley, the young men out here are much too hardly worked to allow them time for paying impertinent compliments."
Only I wasn't at all pleased with that; I saw that he was simply sorry for me because I was so hardly treated by grandmother, and that was all.
The War pressed hardly upon imaginative men in responsible positions.
gloss: Firmly, vigorously, with strength or exertion.
pos: adv
tags: obsolete
examples: Let him hardly be possest with an honest curiositie to search out the nature and causes of all things […].
Sometimes my pulse beat so quickly and hardly, that I felt the palpitation of every artery; at others, I nearly sank to the ground through languor and extreme weakness.
gloss: Not really.
pos: intj
examples: I think the Beatles are a really overrated band. ― Hardly!
Derived words: I hardly even know her
I hardly know her
not hardly
working hard or hardly working
Translations:
rudder
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: aeronautics
aerospace
business
engineering
natural-sciences
nautical
physical-sciences
transport
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₁reh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *h₁roh₁-(ye-)-tider.
Proto-Germanic *rōaną
Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr
Proto-Indo-European *-trom
Proto-Germanic *-þrą
Proto-Germanic *rōþrą
Proto-West Germanic *rōþr
Old English rōþor
Middle English rother
English rudder
From Middle English rodder, rother, ruder, from Old English rōþor (“oar, rudder”), from Proto-West Germanic *rōþr, from Proto-Germanic *rōþrą (“oar, rudder”) (compare Dutch and West Frisian roer, German Ruder), from Proto-Germanic *rōaną, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁reh₁- (“to row”) + Proto-Germanic *-þrą, *-þraz, instrumental suffix. Akin to Old English rōwan (“to row”). More at rōwan, -þor.
Inflected forms:
form: rudders
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An underwater vane used to steer a vessel. The rudder is controlled by means of a wheel, tiller or other apparatus (modern vessels can be controlled even with a joystick or an autopilot).
pos: noun
gloss: A control surface on the vertical stabilizer of a fixed-wing aircraft or an autogyro. On some craft, the entire vertical stabilizer comprises the rudder. The rudder is controlled by foot-operated control pedals.
pos: noun
gloss: A riddle or sieve.
pos: noun
gloss: That which resembles a rudder as a guide or governor; that which guides or governs the course.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
examples: For rhyme the rudder is of verses,/With which, like ships, they steer their courses.
gloss: The tail of an otter.
pos: noun
examples: He sniffed Tarka’s hair from rudder to neck, and his nose remained at the neck. It was a strange smell, and he sniffed carefully, not wanting to touch the fur with his nostrils.
Related words: tiller
Derived words: balance rudder
bow rudder
drop rudder
Dutch rudder
rudder authority
rudder blade
rudder chain
rudder coat
ruddered
rudderfish
rudderhead
rudderhole
rudderless
rudderlike
rudderon
rudder pendants
rudderpost
rudder roll
rudderstock
rudder stock
ruddervator
Translations:
snapdragon
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: (1570s) From snap + dragon, from a fancied resemblance, especially by playing children that the flower is a dragon that opens its "mouth" when squeezed on the sides. Compare for this sense the etymology of Dutch leeuwenbek (“snapdragon”, literally “lion's mouth”) and German Löwenmaul. An ancient name was Old English hundeshéafod (literally “dog's head”). For the parlour game sense, the 1704 Swift quotation is apparently the earliest appearance in print.
Other animal-based names for the flower are common; compare Greek σκυλάκι (skyláki, literally “puppy”) and Finnish leijonankita (literally “lion's mouth”).
Compound parts: snap
dragon
Inflected forms:
form: snapdragons
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: snap dragon
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: snap-dragon
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Any plant of the genus Antirrhinum, with showy yellow, white or red flowers.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: […]of kitchen-gardens, and straight herb-borders, and warm snap-dragon beset by bees;
Snapdragon leaves are asymmetrical with respect to dorsal-ventral surfaces (Fig. 6.6A).
2000, Margaret Roberts, Edible & Medicinal Flowers, New Africa Books (The Spearhead Press), page 72,
The snapdragon is indigenous to Europe and has been a much loved garden plant since before the Middle Ages, when it was considered an antidote against witchcraft.
Modern snapdragons aren't usually grown for their scent, although some do smell slightly spicy.
gloss: A game in which raisins are snatched from a vessel containing burning brandy, and eaten; the substance snatched and eaten during the playing of the game; the vessel used for the game.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: He bore a ſtrange kind of Appetite to Snap-dragon, and to the livid Snuffs of a burning Candle, which he would catch and ſwallow with an Agility, wonderful to conceive; [...]
"And now for snap-dragon," said Marian.
"Exactly as you predicted, Mr. Graham," said Madeline; "blind-man's buff at a quarter past three, and snap-dragon at five."
From the 16th to 19th centuries, no Christmas Eve celebration was complete without a hearty game of Snapdragon in the parlor.
2014, Sabrina Jeffries, When Sparks Fly, Simon & Schuster (Pocket Star Books), unnumbered page,
"I hope we play snapdragon," eight-year-old Timothy Metcalf said.
"I wish we could," Ellie said, "but I doubt Papa will allow it. He'll say snatching raisins from a burning bowl of brandy is too dangerous."
"But snapdragon is a Christmas tradition!" protested Percy.
Derived words: common snapdragon
Mediterranean snapdragon
snapdragon double
summer snapdragon
Translations: