yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
flit
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
Etymology: From Middle English flitten, flytten, from Old Norse flytja (“to move”), from Proto-Germanic *flutjaną, from Proto-Indo-European *plewd- (“to flow; run”).
Cognate Icelandic flytja, Swedish flytta, Danish flytte, Norwegian flytte, Faroese flyta. Compare also Saterland Frisian flitskje (“to rush; run quickly”).
Inflected forms:
form: flits
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: flits
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: flitting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: flitted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: flitted
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A fluttering or darting movement.
pos: noun
gloss: A sudden departure from a property.
pos: noun
examples: I did a flit, as the landlord was due to arrive to collect the rent.
let's do a moonlight flit, if the loanshark catches us here tomorrow without the money to pay our debts, he'll break our fingers.
gloss: A particular, unexpected, short lived change of state.
pos: noun
examples: My computer just had a flit.
gloss: A homosexual.
pos: noun
tags: dated
slang
examples: The other end of the bar was full of flits. They weren't too flitty-looking—I mean they didn't have their hair too long or anything—but you could tell they were flits anyway.
gloss: To move about rapidly and nimbly.
pos: verb
examples: A shadow flits before me, / Not thou, but like to thee; […]
There were many apes with faces similar to his own, and further over in the book he found, under "M," some little monkeys such as he saw daily flitting through the trees of his primeval forest. But nowhere was pictured any of his own people; in all the book was none that resembled Kerchak, or Tublat, or Kala.
gloss: To move quickly from one location to another.
pos: verb
examples: By their means it became a received opinion, that the souls of men departing this life, do flit out of one body into some other.
The chevalier's manner was now completely altered; and Francesca wondered within herself that he could be so amusing, as he exerted himself to describe the various visitors who flitted to and fro.
gloss: To unpredictably change state for short periods of time.
pos: verb
examples: My blender flits because the power cord is damaged.
gloss: To move house (sometimes a sudden move to avoid debts).
pos: verb
tags: UK
dialectal
examples: After this manner did the late Warden of Barchester Hospital accomplish his flitting, and change his residence.
[…] we can't give any one house-room just now, for every Christmas Eve such a pack of Trolls come down upon us that we are forced to flit, and haven't so much as a house over our own heads, to say nothing of lending one to any one else.
gloss: To move a tethered animal to a new grazing location.
pos: verb
gloss: To be unstable; to be easily or often moved.
pos: verb
examples: the free soul to flitting air resign'd
Related words: dart
dash
flick
flicker
flirt
lunge
Derived words: do a flit
do a moonlight flit
moonlight flit
Translations:
garth
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: lifestyle
paganism
religion
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *gʰerdʰ-
Proto-Indo-European *-os
Proto-Indo-European *gʰórdʰos
Proto-Germanic *gardaz
Old Norse garðrbor.
Middle English garth
English garth
Inherited from Middle English garth, from Old Norse garðr, from Proto-Germanic *gardaz, thus cognate with Old English ġeard, whence the English doublet yard, and also a doublet of garden.
Inflected forms:
form: garths
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A grassy quadrangle surrounded by cloisters.
pos: noun
gloss: A close; a yard; a croft; a garden.
pos: noun
examples: a cloister garth
A clapper clapping in a garth / To scare the fowl from fruit.
gloss: A clearing in the woods; as such, part of many placenames in Northern England
pos: noun
gloss: A group or a household dedicated to the pagan faith of Heathenry.
pos: noun
tags: Germanic
examples: The Candidate for membership of Hof, Garth or Hearth shall hold an Armill, or he may touch an unsheathed Sword throughout the ceremony.
gloss: A location or sacred space, in ritual and poetry in modern Heathenry.
pos: noun
tags: Germanic
gloss: A dam or weir for catching fish.
pos: noun
Related words: fishgarth
fish garth
gravegarth
kirkgarth
stackgarth
Translations:
gawk
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From a variant of gowk, from Middle English gowke, goke, from Old Norse gaukr (“cuckoo”), from Proto-Germanic *gaukaz (“cuckoo”). Cognate with Danish gøg, Swedish gök, German Gauch, Old English ġēac.
Compare also French gauche, and English gawky and gallock.
Base: gaw
Affixes: -k
Inflected forms:
form: gawks
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: gawks
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: gawking
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: gawked
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: gawked
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A cuckoo; (sometimes by extension) any gawky bird.
pos: noun
examples: His morning prey he craveth; So crowed the gawk of carrion⁶ […] (6) Gawk of carrion = [kenning for] raven.
Some sneakingly fly watching, as the hawk; Or, as a Cuckoo, grow to limb as a gawk.
I WONDER if you know the cuckoos. […] In Scotlad the popular name for the cuckoo is "the gawk," which means fool. […] But our American cuckoos are a long way from gawks. Indeed many farmers consider them fine weather prophets.
[…] threw into a market crate regretfully a somewhat gawky, long-legged youngster that was otherwise exceptionally fine. A neighbour rescued the gawk from the market crate and the two birds as cocks competed in a local show. The "gawk" won. Why? […] the gawk [appeared] of good station.
[…] cuckoos proper have fourteen cervical vertebrae and no feather crest. The ejection urge is well developed in them.
The gawks [:] There are three genera with thirteen species of gawks. A. THICK-BILLED CUCKOOS (Pachycoccyx) have only one species[…]
gloss: A fool; a simpleton; a stupid or clumsy person.
pos: noun
examples: A Duke of Weissenfels, for instance; foolish old gawk, whom Wilhehnina Princess Royal recollects for his distracted notions, — which were well shaken out of him by Wilhelmina's Brother afterwards.
gloss: To stare or gape stupidly.
pos: verb
gloss: To stare conspicuously.
pos: verb
gloss: To suck.
pos: verb
tags: colloquial
vulgar
Derived words: gawk-handed
gawky
gawkish
gawkling
gawksome
gawker
mopery with intent to gawk
Translations:
gust
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Apparently from an unrecorded Middle English *gust, from Old Norse gustr (“a gust, blast”), from Proto-Germanic *gustiz, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰew-. Cognate with Icelandic gustur (“gust of wind”). Related also to Old Norse gusa (“to gush forth”), Old High German gussa (“flood”), Middle English guschen (> English gush).
The English word was not recorded before Shakespeare.
Inflected forms:
form: gusts
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: gusts
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: gusting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: gusted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: gusted
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A strong, abrupt rush of wind.
pos: noun
examples: The maximum sustained winds recorded at Waglan Island, Tate’s Cairn and Cheung Chau Beach were 113, 101 and 97 kmh (70, 62, 60 mph) respectively, with maximum gusts 135, 154 and 130 kmh (84, 96, 81 mph)
gloss: Any rush or outburst (of water, emotion, etc.).
pos: noun
tags: broadly
examples: they are merely driven about by every sudden gust and impulse of the mind
The author is not speaking now of actual love-makings, of intrigues and devilish villany, either perpetrated or imagined; but rather of those passing gusts of short-lived and unfounded suspicion to which, as to other accidents, very well-regulated families may occasionally be liable.
gloss: To blow in gusts.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
transitive
examples: Do the dryers disperse bacteria and viruses through the restroom, like autumn breezes gusting leaves across a lawn?
Derived words: gust decay time
gust formation time
gust front
gustful
gustless
gust lock
gustnado
gusty
thundergust
thunder-gust
windgust
Translations:
multiplayer
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: games
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *mel-der.
Proto-Indo-European *ml̥tós?
Proto-Italic *moltos
Latin multus
Latin multīder.
Middle English multi-
English multi-
English player
English multiplayer
From multi- + player.
Inflected forms:
form: multi-player
pos: adj
tags: alternative
rare
form: multiplayers
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: multi-player
pos: noun
tags: alternative
rare
Senses:
gloss: Requiring or allowing multiple (or more than the usual two) players to play simultaneously.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: The feature of a video game where multiple human players play simultaneously.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: I just heard that the game will have multiplayer when it comes out!
He always loved to play multiplayer games with his friends.
Glu Mobile, who realigned its workforce towards centralized GaaS functions last year, announced earlier this month that it will shut down GameSpy Technology on May 31. The service provides multiplayer functionality for dozens of games on consoles, computers and mobile devices.
gloss: Video game players who play multiplayer games.
pos: noun
tags: countable
in-plural
uncountable
examples: The audio suggestions just mentioned would be advantageous when pairs are working together at a computer or multiplayers are collaborating or competing in online educational games and simulations.
After dinner, Isaac brought out his portable gaming console for multiplayers, and he and I began our car racing battle while the others unpacked and brought out the Japanese futons, duvets, and pillows.
Antonyms: singleplayer
solitaire
Translations:
infrastructure
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: mathematics
sciences
systems-theory
Etymology: Borrowed from French infrastructure, equivalent to infra- + structure.
Base: structure
Affixes: infra-
Inflected forms:
form: infrastructures
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An underlying base or foundation for a building, organization, or system.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Near-synonyms: understructure, underpinnings, underbuilding, underframework
The parasitic tyranny's infrastructure depends on secrecy in order to be effective.
gloss: The facilities, services and installations needed for the functioning of a community or society.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Meronyms: (literally, large objects and portions thereof) structures, substructures, understructures, superstructures
If we don't spend money to maintain our infrastructure, such as roads, bridges, water mains, sewers, and electrical grids, then it will begin to fail us.
Infrastructure: It's our roads, bridges, dams, levees, airports, power grids... basically, anything that can be destroyed in an action movie... The problem is, though, when our infrastructure is not being destroyed by robots and/or saved by Bruce Willis we tend to find it a bit boring.
About $7.4 billion will be allocated to states, tribes and territories for 2022 – the first-year allotment of nearly $44 billion in total SRF funding over the next five years from the infrastructure law, according to an EPA fact sheet.
Derived words: applistructure
cyberinfrastructure
e-infrastructure
infrastructural
infrastructured
non-infrastructure
noninfrastructure
Translations:
egotistic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English egotist
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Latin -icuslbor.
Old French -iquebor.
Middle English -ik
English -ic
English egotistic
From egotist + -ic.
Inflected forms:
form: more egotistic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most egotistic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Egotistical.
pos: adj
Translations:
ahoy
Part of speech: intj
verb
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: nautical
transport
Etymology: From a- + hoy (a nautical call used in hauling), from Middle English hoy (interjection), a greeting dating back to the fourteenth century. Compare Dutch hoi (“hi!, hello!”).
Base: hoy
Affixes: a-
Inflected forms:
form: a-hoy
pos: intj
tags: alternative
form: ahoys
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: ahoying
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: ahoyed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: ahoyed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: a-hoy
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: ahoys
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: a-hoy
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Used to hail a ship, a boat or a person, or to attract attention.
pos: intj
examples: While he was thus occupied, a voice, still more uncouth than the former, bawled aloud, ‘Ho! the house, a-hoy!’
I made a speaking trumpet of my hands and commenced to whoop “Ahoy!” and “Hello!” at the top of my lungs. […] The Colonel woke up, and, after asking what in brimstone was the matter, opened his mouth and roared “Hi!” and “Hello!” like the bull of Bashan.
“(grunts) Frankie put glass in the piccata and the restaurant comped us, so we got all these chips. Let's hit the casino.” “All right.” “Come on, Nadia. Let's go watch this Rat Pack show with the girls.” “Did you say "the Rat Pack"?” “Yeah, they're good.” “They're here?” “Yeah, yeah, it's the Rat Pack.” “Chips ahoy!”
gloss: Warning of something approaching or impending.
pos: intj
tags: humorous
examples: Lawsuits, ahoy! […] Towns can regulate use of their beaches. But what about the waters offshore?
Catalytic converters ahoy – Zeppelin's latest is one of those high-rev 3D driving games that simulates racing tracks from all over the world.
gloss: To hail with a cry of "ahoy".
pos: verb
gloss: An utterance of this interjection.
pos: noun
examples: There were many ahoys heard from the approaching ship.
Synonyms: yo
Derived words: ahoy-hoy
land ahoy
ship ahoy
Translations:
berm
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: business
mining
Etymology: From Dutch berm (“strip of roadside grass, verge”), probably via French berme, from Middle Dutch barm, baerm, barem (“verge, bank”), from Old Dutch *barm, from Proto-West Germanic *barm, from Proto-Germanic *barmaz (“edge, border, seam”).
Inflected forms:
form: berms
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: berms
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: berming
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: bermed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: bermed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A narrow ledge or shelf, as along the top or bottom of a slope.
pos: noun
gloss: A raised bank or path, especially the bank of a canal opposite the towpath.
pos: noun
examples: The big canals in Europe, in Holland, have a great big berm on the side of the canal several feet wide, which they leave there on purpose to plant reeds in, so as to get a reedy vegetation to protect their slope. Then, beyond that, there is an earthen slope that is grassed and sodded.
gloss: One of the flat terraces on the slope of an open-pit mine.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
gloss: A terrace or shelf of sand along a beach, formed above the high tide water level by wave action.
pos: noun
examples: On some beaches, the berm grows higher in summer and flattens out in the rougher winter seas.
gloss: A long mound or bank of earth, used especially as a barrier or to provide insulation.
pos: noun
examples: A berm separates the Moroccan-controlled and Polisario-controlled parts of Western Sahara.
gloss: A small wall along the edge of a bench of an open-pit mine, intended to prevent items falling over the crest.
pos: noun
tags: Canada
US
gloss: A ledge between the parapet and the moat in a fortification.
pos: noun
gloss: A strip of land between a street and sidewalk.
pos: noun
tags: New-Zealand
Pennsylvania
examples: The sun soaked our street in hot yellow, and the berms were gasping for water.
gloss: The edge of a road.
pos: noun
tags: Pennsylvania
Western
gloss: To provide something with a berm
pos: verb
Derived words: Cape Cod berm
Translations:
toubab
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: The most likely earliest derivation is from the Wolof word for Europe, "Tougal". In the same way that Wolof means the people of Jollof, Toubab means the people of Tougal.
Inflected forms:
form: toubabs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A white person.
pos: noun
tags: Africa
Central
West
examples: Jean-Baptiste was my only real white friend in the trench. He was the only Toubab who came to console me after the death of Mademba Diop.
Translations:
coleslaw
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Dutch koolsla (mentioned in English as the Dutch name by at least in 1794), from kool (“cabbage”) + sla (“salad”).
Inflected forms:
form: coleslaws
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: cole slaw
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A salad of finely shredded raw cabbage and sometimes shredded carrots, dressed with mayonnaise (white slaw) or a vinaigrette (red slaw).
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
Translations:
easel
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Dutch ezel (“donkey; easel”), from Middle Dutch esel (“donkey”), from Proto-West Germanic *asil, from Latin asellus (“young ass or small donkey”), diminutive of asinus (“ass, donkey”), ultimately from an unknown source in Asia Minor. Essentially, the stand that a painting is placed on is being likened to a donkey carrying a burden; compare horse (“a frame with legs used to support something”), as in clotheshorse and sawhorse.
Inflected forms:
form: easels
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An upright frame, typically on three legs, for displaying or supporting something, such as an artist's canvas.
pos: noun
examples: Chevalet, (chaſſis de bois ſur lequel les Peintres poſent leurs Tableaux quand ils travaillent) a Painter's Eaſel.
His [Raphael's] eaſel works ſtand in a lower degree of eſtimation; for though he continually, till the day of his death, embelliſhed his works more and more with the addition of theſe lower ornaments, which entirely make the merit of ſome; yet he never arrived at ſuch perfection as to make him an object of imitation.
[H]is constant advice to students was to copy nature, and if they wished to draw a tree well, to place their easels in a field, and copy the tree exactly as it stood before them.
[O]ur little craft [a canoe] carried several packs of Indian dresses and other articles, which I had purchased of the Indians; and also my canvass and easel, and our culinary articles, which were few and simple; […]
Three sons … three! And not one sees fit to throw in with the old man. No … we have an easel painter, a stuntman, and a … a …
It would also form part of a new carriage design, which had started out on Swindon drawing office easels two years earlier.
Translations:
gin
Part of speech: noun
verb
conj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: card-games
poker
Etymology: Abbreviation of geneva, alteration of Dutch genever (“juniper”) from Old French genevre (modern French genièvre), from Vulgar Latin ziniperus, from Latin iūniperus (“juniper”). Hence gin rummy (first attested 1941).
Inflected forms:
form: gins
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: gins
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: ginning
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: ginned
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: ginned
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A colourless non-aged alcoholic liquor made by distilling fermented grains such as barley, corn, oats or rye with juniper berries; the base for many cocktails.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Gin rummy.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: Drawing the best card or combination of cards.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Johnny Chan held jack-nine, and hit gin when a queen-ten-eight board was dealt out.
gloss: To remove the seeds from cotton with a cotton gin.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To trap something in a gin.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: If.
pos: conj
tags: Appalachia
Northern-England
Scotland
Southern-US
examples: […]for pronouncing according as one would ſay at London I would eat more cheeſe if I had it, the Northern man ſaith, Ay ſuld eat mare cheeſe gin ay hadet, and the Weſterne man ſaith Chud eat more cheeſe an chad it.
Gin the plough rests on the bank, / The loom, the nation, dies.
An' gin I'm weel and can keep sober / You may look for it in October.
He's get han' and siller, / Gin he fancies me.
yon felley at Barleigh has wrote farrantly (fairly) to my naunt; gin Robin could bur see ť letter he'd foind no fawt wi' me.
Wheeah, Ah thinks thee could, gin ye tried.
"Aw'd never ha slept i' mi bed gin that little un had bin dreawnded, an' me lookin' on loike a stump. Neay; that lass wur Bess, moi wench. We'n no notion wheer th' lad's mother is." Mr. Clough would have pressed the money upon him, but he put it back with a motion of his han.
[…] gin schoo sets off in a tantrum an' flaah's t'mistress wiv her blutherin […]
Related words: genever
juniper
Derived words: bathtub gin
Dutch gin
gin and French
Gin and Gospel Gazette
gin and Italian
gin and it
gin-and-It
gin and tonic
gin tonic
gin berry
gin blossom
gin bottle
gin bucket
gin-clear
gin fizz
ginhouse
gin joint
ginless
ginlike
gin mill
ginny
gin palace
gin pennant
ginshop
ginsoaked
gin spinner
gintini
macaroni gin
pink gin
Ramos gin fizz
sloe gin
square gin
tonic and gin
gin up
Translations:
frolic
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Dutch vrolijk (“cheerful”), from Middle Dutch vrolijc, from Old Dutch frōlīk, from Proto-Germanic *frawalīkaz. Compare German fröhlich (“blitheful, gaily, happy, merry”).
The first element, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *frawaz, is cognate with Middle English frow (“hasty”); the latter element, ultimately from *-līkaz, is cognate with -ly, -like.
Inflected forms:
form: frolics
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: frolicking
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: frolicked
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: frolicked
pos: verb
tags: past
form: frolick
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: frolics
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: frolick
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: To make merry; to have fun; to romp; to behave playfully and uninhibitedly.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: We saw the lambs frolicking in the meadow.
Fools on parade frolic and fuck about to make her gaze
Turn to a scribble on a page by a picture that holds her absence
But you're daft to think she'd care
“So, so beautiful. I'm gonna do one last roly-poly before we go. [snorting, squealing] At least I had one moment of joy in a life of drudgery. Where will the truffle hunt take us next?” “Nowhere. You're free, Jamebone. I'm releasing you from nose jail.” “Really? I can stay here in this paradise and prance and frolic?” “Just stick to frolicking.” “[emotional] Thank you, Mr. Bender. You're the kindest person I've ever met.” “Really? [crying] That's horrible.”
gloss: To cause to be merry.
pos: verb
tags: archaic
transitive
gloss: Gaiety; merriment.
pos: noun
examples: the annual jubilee […] filled the souls of old and young with visions of splendour, frolic and fun.
By the old-fashioned magnificence of this procession, it might worthily have included his Holiness in person, with a suite of attendant Cardinals, if those sacred dignitaries would kindly have lent their aid to heighten the frolic of the Carnival.
gloss: A playful antic.
pos: noun
examples: He would be at his frolic once again.
gloss: A social gathering.
pos: noun
tags: US
obsolete
examples: He came clattering up to the school door with an invitation to Ichabod to attend a merry-making or “quilting frolic,” to be held that evening at Mynheer Van Tassel’s
Related words: cavort
Derived words: rollick
frolicful
frolicker
frolicky
frolicly
frolicness
frolic of his own
frolic pad
frolicsome
milling frolic
turtle frolic
Translations:
furlough
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Dutch verlof (“furlough”), probably from Middle Low German verlōf (“furlough, permission”) (possibly via German Verlaub), from the verb verlōven (“to allow”), from Old Saxon far- + lōvian (“to trust, believe”). From Middle Low German also German Verlaub, Danish forlov. Doublet of leave.
Inflected forms:
form: furloughs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: furloughs
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: furloughing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: furloughed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: furloughed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A leave of absence or vacation.
pos: noun
tags: US
countable
uncountable
examples: And I had a lot of things on my mind and I pretty well forgot my promise to Mama until I got shipped home on a special furlough for her funeral.
gloss: A leave of absence or vacation.
pos: noun
tags: UK
countable
uncountable
gloss: The documents authorizing such leave.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A period of unpaid time off, used by an employer to reduce costs.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The state estimates the one-day-a-month furlough spread over the 18 months of the plan would amount to a 5 percent cut in pay.
gloss: To grant a furlough to (someone).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To have (an employee) not work in order to reduce costs; to send (someone) on furlough.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: This implies, for example, that firms should not revise their estimated production capacity downwards when furloughing workers, but should do so after laying off staff permanently.
Derived words: prefurlough
furlougher
unfurloughed
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: отпуск
roman: otpusk
lang: Czech
word: dovolenka
lang: Dutch
word: verlof
lang: Finnish
word: loma
lang: French
word: congé
lang: Galician
word: permiso
lang: Galician
word: licenza
lang: German
word: Urlaub
lang: German
word: Hafturlaub
lang: German
word: Ausgang
lang: German
word: Freigang
lang: Hungarian
word: eltávozási engedély
lang: Hungarian
word: szabadság
lang: Hungarian
word: eltávozás
lang: Hungarian
word: eltáv
lang: Irish
word: scor
lang: Italian
word: licenza
lang: Italian
word: congedo
lang: Polish
word: urlop
lang: Portuguese
word: licença
lang: Romanian
word: învoire
lang: Romanian
word: permisie
lang: Russian
word: о́тпуск
roman: ótpusk
lang: Russian
word: увольне́ние
roman: uvolʹnénije
lang: Russian
word: побы́вка
roman: pobývka
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: fòrladh
lang: Slovak
word: dovolenka
lang: Spanish
word: permiso
lang: Spanish
word: dispensa
lang: Spanish
word: licencia
lang: Swedish
word: permission
lang: Ottoman Turkish
word: رخصت
roman: ruhsat
lang: Ukrainian
word: зві́льнення
roman: zvílʹnennja
lang: Ukrainian
word: відпустка
roman: vidpustka
lang: Czech
word: propustka
lang: Finnish
word: lomalupa
lang: Hungarian
word: szabadságolási/távozási engedély
lang: Polish
word: przepustka
lang: Russian
word: увольни́тельная
roman: uvolʹnítelʹnaja
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: fòrladh
lang: Spanish
word: permiso de ausencia oficial
freebooter
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From free + booty + -er. Calque of Dutch vrijbuiter (literally “free booty-er”), from vrij (“free”) + buit (“booty”) + -er (occupational suffix). Doublet of filibuster.
Base: free
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: freebooters
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An adventurer who pillages, plunders, or thieves privately or for compensation; or wages ad-hoc war on other nations, similar to mercenary; also a "freeboot".
pos: noun
examples: The military aspect should, however, be carefully studied, as the result may be to dispel the time-honoured connection between forest and freebooter under modern conditions with long-range rifles.
gloss: One who rehosts online media without authorization, a form of intellectual property theft; one who freeboots.
pos: noun
Synonyms: pirate
mercenary
conquistador
filibuster
Related words: filibuster
Derived words: freebooting
Translations:
holster
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Dutch holster (“pistol-case, holster”), from Middle Low German holster, from Old Saxon *holster, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *hulastrą, *hulistrą (“hull, case, covering”).
Cognate with Old English heolstor (“a covering, veil, hiding-place”), Danish hylster (“pistol case, envelope”), Icelandic hulstur (“sheath”), Gothic 𐌷𐌿𐌻𐌹𐍃𐍄𐍂 (hulistr, “covering”). Compare German Halfter (“pistol case”). Related to hull, hele.
Inflected forms:
form: holsters
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: holsters
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: holstering
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: holstered
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: holstered
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A case for carrying a tool, particularly a gun, safely and accessibly.
pos: noun
examples: Goring, like himself, had sprang forwards, first snatching a pistol from his holsters, and discharging it at him who seemed to be the chief of the party,—the man reeled and fell; but his fall was instantly avenged.
Marion Wheeler took the seat, brushing the hem of her suit jacket aside to reveal a concealed holster. "You do know I carry a gun?"
gloss: A belt with loops or slots for carrying small tools or other equipment.
pos: noun
gloss: To put something in a holster.
pos: verb
Derived words: cock holster
Translations:
keelhaul
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: nautical
transport
Etymology: From Dutch kielhalen (“keelhaul”), from kiel (“keel”) + halen (“fetch; catch”).
Inflected forms:
form: keelhauls
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: keelhauling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: keelhauled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: keelhauled
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To punish by dragging under the keel of a ship with the intent of causing painful injuries.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: March 11 [1667].—Hermans Jans, boatswain; disobedience of orders and stabbing his captain; sentenced to be degraded to common seaman, to be thrice keelhauled, to be well flogged, to have the knife stuck through his hand, and to forfeit, pro fisco, 6 months' wages.
By degrees they became noisier and noisier, their conversation principally turning on that infernal naval lieutenant, as they were pleased to designate me, and what they intended to do with him. Some suggested “keelhauling” him; others, a dose of his favourite cat-o’nine tails; whilst many advised making a target of him for a little practice with that revolver which had previously so cowed them all.
To keelhaul is the cruelest and most dangerous of punishments and tortures ever devised for men aboard a ship. It involves trussing a man up with ropes, throwing him overboard, unable to swim, and hauling him under the boat's keel from one side to the other, or even from stem to stern. Most of those keelhauled under water are already dead when their punishment is over.
The Captain. They're going to keelhaul him. They have him tied to the yardarm. The crew have mutinied.
gloss: To rebuke harshly.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: I've done these inquiries myself, Col. The top people can always put up such a bloody fine brick wall for themselves that no outsider has a chance of getting over or seeing through. But the same wall may stop some nonentity making his getaway, and he's the one the inquiry keelhauls.
I've been asking myself the same question and there are two ways to answer it—yes and no. Yes, because he took on a responsibility no one else wanted—for the reasons we've all witnessed—and no because keelhauling him will be five percent about fixing what he may have done wrong and ninety-five percent about scapegoating.
Time keelhauls me and what happens meanwhile is: nothing. No more voice, no more orders.
Derived words: keelhauling
Translations:
measles
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
botany
espionage
government
medicine
military
natural-sciences
pathology
politics
sciences
veterinary
war
zoology
Etymology: Either from Middle Dutch masels (“blood blisters, measels”) or Middle Low German maselen (“red blemishes, measels”), both from Old High German masala (“blood blister, phlegmon”). Doublet of measlings. Cognate with mazer & mase and Middle Low German masele & māsel. Influenced in pronunciation and some senses by mesel (“leprous, leper”).
Inflected forms:
form: measle
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: the measles
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: measels
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: An acute and highly contagious disease which often afflicts children caused by the virus Measles morbillivirus and causing red rashes, fever, runny nose, coughing, and red eyes.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Maybe it's the 'measles. They say they're going around the neighborhood.
Olivia, my eldest daughter, caught measles when she was seven years old. As the illness took its usual course I can remember reading to her often in bed and not feeling particularly alarmed about it.
In the camps a case of measles is defined as a generalized rash of three or more days duration, with a fever of at least 38.8°C.., and any one of the following: cough, coryza or conjunctivitis.
Although the MMR vaccine was introduced in 1988, Britain offered separate measles injections until 1999.
gloss: Any disease causing red rashes.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
uncountable
gloss: Used as an intensifier.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
uncountable
examples: Why the meazills, should you stand heere, with your traine...
gloss: Synonym of cysticercosis: A disease of livestock or meat caused by the presence of tapeworm larvae.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: The Swyne dyed of the Measils.
Porcine measles, thought by classical writers to be leprosy, is actually the result of tapeworm cysts which cause ulcerations of the pig's tongue.
gloss: Any disease causing a tree's bark to become rough and irregular.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
uncountable
examples: Their fruit-trees are subject to two diseases, the Meazels... and lowsiness.
gloss: A discreet assassination made to look like death from any natural cause.
pos: noun
tags: US
jargon
uncountable
examples: […] they would prefer having him "die of the measles," as wags at the CIA put it, than be punished by legal means. If there is no convenient way of administering the "measles," they may even favor simply letting him go.
Such final solutions, sometimes referred to as termination with extreme prejudice, are known in the CIA as dying of the measles — that is, the death appears to be of natural causes.
Synonyms: the dickens
Related words: subacute sclerosing panencephalitis
SSPE
Derived words: 3-day measles
antimeasles
beef measles
black measles
blue measles
false measles
French measles
German measles
Liberty measles
measleslike
measles party
measly
porcine measles
postmeasles
sheep measles
three-day measles
Translations:
rove
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Probably from Middle English *roven, a Midlands variant of Northern Middle English raven (“to wander”), from Old Norse ráfa (“to rove; stray about”). Cognate with Icelandic ráfa (“to wander”), Scots rave (“to wander; stray; roam”).
Inflected forms:
form: roves
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: roving
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: roved
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: roved
pos: verb
tags: past
form: roves
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To shoot with arrows (at).
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
obsolete
examples: And thou […] that with thy cruell dart / At that good knight so cunningly didst roue […]
gloss: To roam, or wander about at random, especially over a wide area.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Now that he was in his prime, there was no simian in all the mighty forest through which he roved that dared contest his right to rule, nor did the other and larger animals molest him.
And a rovin’, a rovin’, a rovin’ I'll go / For a pair of brown eyes
gloss: To roam or wander through.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Roving the field, I chanced / A goodly tree far distant to behold.
The rein-deer, which in Scandinavia can scarcely exist to the south of the sixty-fifth parallel, descends, in consequence of the greater coldness of the climate, to the fiftieth degree, in Chinese Tartary, and often roves into a country of more southern latitude than any part of England.
gloss: To card wool or other fibres.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Although both [flax and wool] must be roved and spun upon similar principles, each requires peculiar modifications in its machinery.
gloss: To twist slightly; to bring together, as slivers of wool or cotton, and twist slightly before spinning.
pos: verb
gloss: To draw through an eye or aperture.
pos: verb
gloss: To plough into ridges by turning the earth of two furrows together.
pos: verb
gloss: To practice robbery on the seas; to voyage about on the seas as a pirate.
pos: verb
examples: pirates, roving up and downe the sea
gloss: A copper washer upon which the end of a nail is clinched in boatbuilding.
pos: noun
gloss: A roll or sliver of wool or cotton drawn out and lightly twisted, preparatory to further processing; a roving.
pos: noun
gloss: The act of wandering; a ramble.
pos: noun
examples: In thy nocturnal rove one moment halt.
Related words: reeve
Derived words: roved
rover
roving
unrove
rove beetle
Translations:
skipper
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: hobbies
lifestyle
nautical
sports
transport
Etymology: From Middle English skippere, skyppere, scippere, borrowed from Middle Dutch scipper, schipper, from Old Dutch *skipāri, from Proto-Germanic *skipārijaz. Piecewise doublet of shipper, from ship + -er.
Base: ship
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: skippers
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: skippers
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: skippering
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: skippered
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: skippered
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: The master of a ship.
pos: noun
examples: The skipper Mr. Cooke had hired at Far Harbor was a God-fearing man with a luke warm interest in his new billet and employer, and had only been prevailed upon to take charge of the yacht after the offer of an emolument equal to half a year's sea pay of an ensign in the navy.
It is standard practice for search and rescue authorities to ask other vessels in the area to assist. Usually, this is done. The weather on the night of 31 December was too atrocious, and when at 11pm the Coast Guard asked the crabber Ruff & Reddy to head to the scene, its skipper refused, as a skipper has a right to do if he believes conditions to be too treacherous.
gloss: A coach, director, or other leader.
pos: noun
gloss: The captain of a sports team such as football, cricket, rugby or curling.
pos: noun
examples: But even the return of skipper Steven Gerrard from a six-week injury layoff could not inspire Liverpool
gloss: To captain a ship or a sports team.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Tourist subs, which could once be skippered by anyone with a U.S. Coast Guard captain’s license
Derived words: skipperless
skipperly
skippership
Translations:
slurp
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle Dutch slurpen, slorpen (“to sip, slurp”), from Old Dutch *slurpan, from Proto-West Germanic *slurp- (“to sip, slurp”), perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *srebʰ-, *srobʰ- (“to sip, slurp, gulp”). Cognate with West Frisian sloarpe, sloarpje, slurvje (“to slurp”), German schlürfen (“to sip, slurp”), Swedish slurpa (“to slurp”), Norwegian slurpe (“to slurp”). Compare also Saterland Frisian slubberje (“to slurp”), German Low German slubbern (“to slurp”), Middle High German sluppern (“to slurp”), Swedish, Norwegian, and Icelandic slupra (“to slurp”), Middle High German sürfeln, sürpfeln (“to sip, slurp”), Latin sorbeō (“to suck up, imbibe, absorb”). Often treated as onomatopoeic in modern writing.
Inflected forms:
form: slurps
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: slurping
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: slurped
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: slurped
pos: verb
tags: past
form: shlurp
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: slorp
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: slurps
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: shlurp
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: slorp
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: To eat or drink noisily.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: They sat in the kitchen slurping their spaghetti.
As the crowd cackles and caws, a white-backed vulture snakes its head deep into the wildebeest’s eye socket and hurriedly slurps, with grooved tongue, whatever it can before being ripped from its place at the table.
gloss: To make a loud sucking noise.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: The mud slurped under our shoes.
gloss: A loud sucking noise, especially one made in eating or drinking.
pos: noun
gloss: A mouthful of liquid sucked up.
pos: noun
examples: I took another slurp of my soup.
Derived words: gurp
slurpability
slurpable
Slurpee
slurper
slurpingly
slurpsome
slurp up
slurpy
unslurped
Translations:
smelting
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: engineering
metallurgy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Inflected forms:
form: smeltings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The process of melting or fusion, especially to extract a metal from its ore.
pos: noun
examples: Buried within the Mediterranean littoral are some seventy to ninety million tons of slag from ancient smelting, about a third of it concentrated in Iberia. This ceaseless industrial fueling caused the deforestation of an estimated fifty to seventy million acres of woodlands.
Translations:
smuggle
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From earlier smuckle, either from Dutch smokkelen (“to smuggle”), a frequentative form of Middle Dutch smūken (“to act secretly, be sneaky”), from Old Dutch *smugan, or from Dutch Low Saxon or German Low German smuggeln; all are from Proto-West Germanic *smeugan (“to creep; slip through or into”).
cognates and related terms
Cognate with Saterland Frisian smuggelje (“to smuggle”), West Frisian smokkelje (“to smuggle”), German Low German smuggeln, smuckeln (“to move insidiously, smuggle”), German schmuggeln (“to smuggle”), Danish smugle (“to smuggle”), Swedish smuggla (“to smuggle”). Related also to Icelandic smjúga (“to creep, penetrate”), Swedish smyga (“to sneak, slip, crawl, lurk, steal”), German schmiegen (“to nestle, wrap, snuggle”), Old English smēogan, smūgan (“to creep, crawl, move gradually, penetrate”).
Inflected forms:
form: smuggles
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: smuggling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: smuggled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: smuggled
pos: verb
tags: past
form: smuckle
pos: verb
tags: alternative
dialectal
Senses:
gloss: To import or export, illicitly or by stealth, without paying lawful customs charges or duties
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
transitive
examples: A lorry driver who smuggled illegal immigrants into the UK in the back of his trailer has been jailed.
gloss: To bring in surreptitiously
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: 22 March 2012, Scott Tobias, AV Club The Hunger Gameshttp://www.avclub.com/articles/the-hunger-games,71293/
While Collins does include a love triangle, a coming-of-age story, and other YA-friendly elements in the mix, they serve as a Trojan horse to smuggle readers into a hopeless world where love becomes a stratagem and growing up is a matter of basic survival.
gloss: To fondle or cuddle.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
transitive
gloss: To thrash or be thrashed by a bear's claws, or to swipe at or be swiped at by a person's arms in a bearlike manner.
pos: verb
tags: slang
Derived words: smugglable
smuggle past
smuggler
smugglesome
smuggling
unsmuggled
Translations:
stoke
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English stoken, from Middle Dutch stoken (“to poke, thrust”) or Middle Low German stoken (“to poke, thrust”), from Old Dutch *stokon or Old Saxon *stokon, both from Proto-West Germanic *stokōn, from Proto-Germanic *stukōną (“to be stiff, push”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)tewg- (“to push, beat”).
Cognate with Middle High German stoken (“to pierce, jab”), Norwegian Nynorsk stauka (“to push, thrust”). Alternative etymology derives the Middle English word from Old French estoquer, estochier (“to thrust, strike”), from the same Germanic source. More at stock.
Inflected forms:
form: stokes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An act of poking, piercing, thrusting
pos: noun
Translations:
comatose
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: * perhaps from French comateux
* From Ancient Greek κῶμα (kôma, “deep sleep”) (genitive κώματος (kṓmatos)). Equivalent to coma + -ose (“full of”)
Base: coma
Affixes: -ose
Inflected forms:
form: more comatose
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most comatose
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a coma: unconscious.
pos: adj
examples: the patient was comatose for 2 weeks before finally passing away.
gloss: Drowsy or lethargic.
pos: adj
tags: informal
examples: Weary of big Sunday dinners that leave you feeling comatose (and result in your having to spend Sunday evening scrubbing the kitchen)?
The thought of food snapped her out of her comatose demeanor.
I felt comatose, passing time instead of living as passions went unfulfilled.
But most of all I'm sick of feeling comatose, like I'm walking through a fog.
gloss: Fast asleep.
pos: adj
tags: informal
examples: She was lying comatose on the sofa.
Related words: coma
braindead
vegetative
Derived words: comatoast
comatose fever
comatosely
comatoseness
comatose sleep
erotocomatose
precomatose
semicomatose
Translations:
avo
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Portuguese avobor.
English avo
Borrowed from Portuguese avo.
Inflected forms:
form: avos
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A subdivision of currency, equal to one hundredth of a Macanese pataca.
pos: noun
Translations:
bando
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Compare bandy.
Inflected forms:
form: bandos
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A Welsh team sport related to hockey, hurling, shinty, and bandy.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: The curve-ended stick used in this game.
pos: noun
tags: countable
Translations:
coloring
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: graph-theory
mathematics
sciences
Inflected forms:
form: more coloring
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most coloring
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: colouring
pos: adj
tags: alternative
UK
form: colorings
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: colouring
pos: noun
tags: alternative
UK
Senses:
gloss: That colors something.
pos: adj
gloss: That conveys or imparts color.
pos: adj
tags: also
figuratively
gloss: An act or process which applies color.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Any substance used to give color.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Our cookies contain no artificial flavorings or colorings.
The Department of Health and Human Services and the Food and Drug Administration announced on Tuesday a series of measures to phase out eight artificial food dyes and colorings from America's food supply by the end of next year. […] The proposal also outlined a commitment for companies to supply food for school lunches that does not include artificial dyes or coloring.
gloss: The appearance as to color.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The Rolands, both U.S.-educated lawyers with faculty positions in the national law school, are olive skinned, with the coloring of some Italians or Sephardic Jews.
gloss: A disguise or discoloration.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: An assignment of a color to each vertex of a graph, usually such that no two vertices connected by an edge are given the same color.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
colostomy
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
Etymology: From colo- + -stomy.
Affixes: colo-
-stomy
Inflected forms:
form: colostomies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An incision into the colon to allow for drainage.
pos: noun
gloss: The opening produced in such incision.
pos: noun
Derived words: colostomy bag
enterocolostomy
gastrocolostomy
jejunocolostomy
Translations: