yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
jounce
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
Etymology: Unknown, possibly a portmanteau / blend of jolt + bounce.
Compound parts: jolt
bounce
Inflected forms:
form: jounces
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: jouncing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: jounced
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: jounced
pos: verb
tags: past
form: jounces
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To jolt; to shake, especially by rough riding or by driving over obstructions.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
examples: Send these nice, white, clean shipping cases of honey to a commission man, without any instruction whatever, and he will have the genius and liberality to slap them upon a dray, jounce them to his store, rub them around and over an old, dirty floor, sell a part of it for less than you expected, fail to pay for it until he sells the other part, which he will do after six months or a year, then he will remit, provided the debt has not yet got so old that it is outlawed or he does not "bust up" in business in the mean time.
So now, stimulated by some further experience with that world which does not care a tinker's damn whether a verb agrees with its subject in number and person or not, she permitted the taxicab to jounce her smile out of all semblance to anything calmly superior and into a very unschoolmarmish grin.
She felt herself swooping, then she was lying on the bed beside Gowan, on her back, jouncing to the dying chatter of the shucks.
The bed jounced when Mannie sat down on it where the medic had been sitting.
Hundreds of angry coal miners pushed toward the locked gate at Shaft 3, shouting and cursing as they neared the mine’s Chinese managers, who understood neither the English nor the Tonga words of the mob. As the workers butted up against the fence, the bosses grew more fearful and finally two fired their shotguns.
The Zambian miners scrambled in terror. Bodies pivoted, jounced and stumbled. Boston Munakazela did not know he was hit until he suddenly fell over and saw the blood on his chest and arms.
gloss: A movement, such as a jolt or a shake.
pos: noun
examples: 1966, Kathryn R. Schoonmaker vs. The State of New York, Claim No. 41795, State of New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division, Third Department
Well, I remember we were bouncing around, the car was tilting back and forth, and it seems like it was bouncing after we made this big jounce and went up over the driveway, it was bouncing and tilting back and forth.
When the drive axles have inner and outer joints, rear wheel camber change is minimized during wheel jounce and rebound.
gloss: The fourth derivative of the position vector with respect to time; the time derivative of jerk.
pos: noun
Related words: crackle
pop
Derived words: jouncy
jounce bumper
Translations:
jowl
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English jawle, chawl, chavel (“jaw, jawbone”), from Old English ċeafl (“jaw, cheek”), from Proto-West Germanic *kafl (“jaw, cheek”). The modern form (for expected chavel, chawl; still found dialectally) is influenced by jaw, which it is a partial doublet of.
Inflected forms:
form: jowls
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: jole
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: joll
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: The jaw, jawbone; especially one of the lateral parts of the mandible.
pos: noun
examples: I had lain, therefore, all that time, cheek by jowl with Blackbeard himself, with only a thin shell of tinder wood to keep him from me, and now had thrust my hand into his coffin and plucked away his beard.
And he smote Corinius on his shaven jowl with the dice box, calling him cheat and mangy rascal, whereupon Corinius drew forth a bodkin to smite him in the neck withal; […]
Translations:
jujube
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English jujube, from Medieval Latin jujuba or Old French jujube, perhaps via Old Occitan from Classical Latin zīzyphum, zīzyphus, from Ancient Greek ζίζυφον (zízuphon)․ First attested in the 14th century.
Inflected forms:
form: jujubes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The sweet and edible drupes (fruits) of several Mediterranean and African species of small trees.
pos: noun
gloss: A fruit-bearing tree, Ziziphus jujuba or Ziziphus zizyphus.
pos: noun
gloss: The fruit of this tree, fructus jujubae.
pos: noun
gloss: A fruit-bearing tree, Ziziphus mauritiana.
pos: noun
gloss: The fruit of this tree.
pos: noun
gloss: A type of candy; specific type varies by country.
pos: noun
tags: Canada
US
Synonyms: Chinee apple
Chinkee apple
Indian jujube
masau
Chinee apple
Chinkee apple
Indian jujube
masau
jujubean
juju bean
Related words: jojoba
Derived words: jube
juju
juju bean
jujubean
jujubelike
Translations:
lang: Catalan
word: ginjoler
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 印度棗 /印度枣
roman: Yìndù zǎo
lang: German
word: Indische Jujube
lang: Tamil
word: இலந்தை
roman: ilantai
lang: Vietnamese
word: cây táo ta
lang: Bengali
word: কুল
roman: kul
lang: Bengali
word: বরই
roman: boroi
lang: Catalan
word: gínjol
lang: Chinese Cantonese
word: 滇刺棗 /滇刺枣
lang: Chinese Cantonese
word: 印度棗 /印度枣
roman: jan³ dou⁶ zou²
lang: Chinese Cantonese
word: 青棗 /青枣
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 印度棗 /印度枣
roman: Yìndù zǎo
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 青棗 /青枣
roman: qīngzǎo
lang: Greek
word: ζίζιφο
roman: zízifo
lang: Tamil
word: இலந்தைக்காய்
roman: ilantaikkāy
lang: Tamil
word: இலந்தைப்பழம்
roman: ilantaippaḻam
lang: Vietnamese
word: quả táo ta
juke
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Gullah juke, jook, joog (“wicked, disorderly”) (compare Wolof and Bambara dzug (“unsavory”)).
Inflected forms:
form: jukes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: juking
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: juked
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: juked
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To play dance music, or to dance, in a juke.
pos: verb
examples: ‘Let's jouk’ is an invitation to dance, but ‘Let's go joukin’’ is a request for a date.
I want you to go juking with me... that's riding and stopping to drink and dance
Translations:
julep
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: medicine
sciences
Etymology: From Middle English, from Old French julep, from Medieval Latin julapium, via Arabic جُلَاب (julāb) from Persian گلاب (golâb, “rosewater”), from گل (“rose”) + آب (“water”).
Inflected forms:
form: juleps
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: julap
pos: noun
tags: alternative
dated
Senses:
gloss: A refreshing drink flavored with aromatic herbs, especially mint, and sometimes alcohol.
pos: noun
examples: He wouldnt even let old Wilkie touch it do you remember Gerald but always gathered it himself and made his own julep. He was as crochety about his julep as an old maid, measuring everything by a recipe in his head.
Yo, we be making mountains out of Cool Whip / Pass me the mint for the julep
In 1797 the American Museum described the Virginian who upon rising “drinks a julep made of rum, water, and sugar, but very strong.” The mint was added a few years later.
gloss: A pleasant-tasting liquid medicine in which other nauseous medicines are taken.
pos: noun
tags: historical
examples: Contraction of the left ventricular orifice, with hypertrophy of the corresponding ventricle; catarrh at the superior part of the right lung. (Julep; digital; aperit. oxymel scillit.)
Derived words: mint julep
Translations:
junco
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish junco (“reed, rush”), from Latin iuncus (“reed, rush”). Doublet of juncus and possibly junk.
Inflected forms:
form: juncos
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: juncoes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any bird of the genus Junco, which includes several species of North American sparrow.
pos: noun
examples: Among many others secured by him, I noticed the eggs and parent birds of the American Widgeon, the Black duck, Canvass-back duck, Spirit duck (Bucephala albeola); small Black-head duck (Fulix affinis); the Wax-wing, (Ampelis garrulus); the Kentucky warbler, the Trumpeter swan, the Duck hawk (Falco anatum), and two species of juncoes.
The juncos of this region were separated by Mr. L. M. Loomis and carry very striking characters, the most conspicuous being the bright rufous or reddish dorsal patch which is much more pronounced than in either oregonus or thurberi. These juncos are very common in the vicinity of Monterey during summer and during the breeding season are the only ones found there, but as foon as the young are fledged the birds wander.
The slate-coloured junco is an infrequently reported host; probably it is molested very slightly by the brown-headed cowbird. [...] Mills (1957, pp. 25–27) noted that E. C. Allen found a fledgling cowbird attended and fed by juncos near Halifax, Nova Scotia, on July 17, 1933.
gloss: The common reed bunting (Emberiza schoeniclus), a bird found in Europe and much of the Palearctic.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
examples: Junco, the Reed-Sparrow; a Bird.
Arundinaceus. Brown-ferruginous; beneath whitiſh-teſtaceous; with tail-feathers banded and reddiſh at the apex. The junco of Geſner [i.e., Conrad Gessner], Aldrovand [i.e., Ulisse Aldrovandi], [John] Ray, and [Francis] Willughby.
Related words: juncaceous
juncous
Derived words: dark-eyed junco
Translations:
junker
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from German Junker, from Middle High German juncherre (“young lord; not yet knighted nobleman”). Compare younker.
Inflected forms:
form: junkers
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Junker
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A young German noble or squire, especially a member of the aristocratic party in Prussia, stereotyped with narrow-minded militaristic and authoritarian attitudes.
pos: noun
examples: Professors of philosophy and science carrying high the patriotic banner of Kultur and culture gloried in the system of compulsory, universal, military service, first made in Germany exulted in the degrading, vicious process of training by which the individual is hypnotized into submission to a brutal organization of military junkers, hallowed by the name of state and Fatherland, it was the darkest period in the history of mankind.
The dice are, however, weighted against them, so long as the present generation of Junkers and officials survives.
Translations:
junta
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish junta (literally "a thing gathered or joined"), feminine form of junto, from Latin iunctus, perfect passive participle of iungō (“join”). Attested from 1623.
Inflected forms:
form: juntas
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The ruling council of a military dictatorship.
pos: noun
gloss: A council, convention, tribunal or assembly; especially, the grand council of state in Spain.
pos: noun
Derived words: antijunta
juntaism
juntocracy
Translations:
jute
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Bengali ঝুট (jhuṭ). Likely related to Ukrainian джгут (džhut) and Russian жгут (žgut).
Inflected forms:
form: jutes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The coarse, strong fibre of the East Indian plants, Corchorus olitorius and Corchorus capsularis, used to make mats, paper, gunny cloth etc.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The plants from which this fibre is obtained.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Derived words: Congo jute
jutelike
jute mallow
Juteopolis
nalta jute
tossa jute
Translations:
kabuki
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 歌舞伎 (kabuki).
Inflected forms:
form: Kabuki
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A form of Japanese theatre in which elaborately costumed male performers use stylized movements, dances, and songs in order to enact tragedies and comedies.
pos: noun
tags: capitalized
often
uncountable
examples: Despite its self-consciously assumed irreverence toward traditional practices, “Hokaibo” incorporates all the essential elements of classic Kabuki: the all-male company of actors, exaggerated makeup, the stomping dances, the arresting, cross-eyed poses at moments of high drama that are recognized and applauded.
Ichikawa, whose real name is Takahiko Kinoshi, made his kabuki debut in 1980 and went on to become one of the country’s most renowned performers.
gloss: A stylized, pretentious, and often hollow performance; (especially) political posturing.
pos: noun
tags: US
broadly
figuratively
uncountable
examples: The whole "weapons of mass destruction" concern was phony from the start, and the drama about inspections was just kabuki: going through the motions.
Health care reform recently brought Kabuki to mind for both Rush Limbaugh—“what you have here is ‘Kabuki theater’”—and New York Times columnist Frank Rich: “[I]f I were to place an incautious bet on which political event will prove the most significant of February 2010, I wouldn’t choose the kabuki health care summit.”
The boy tells her she will find iPhone chargers if she takes five steps back. Here the performance shifts from mere stiltedness to a kind of hateful Kabuki, an affected defiance of how people naturally act: She walks backward, counting her steps, then turns and slaps her forehead.
Derived words: kabuki brush
kabuki dance
kabukiesque
kabuki makeup syndrome
kabuki play
kabuki syndrome
kabuki theater
kabuki theatre
Translations:
kaolin
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From French kaolin, François Xavier d'Entrecolles's irregular romanization of the Mandarin pronunciation of Chinese 高嶺土 /高岭土 (gāolǐngtǔ, “Gaoling earth”), from 高嶺 /高岭 (Gāolǐng, “High Ridge”), a village in Fuliang County, Jingdezhen Prefecture, Jiangxi Province, that became Jingdezhen's primary source of this kind of clay during the early to mid-Qing dynasty.
Inflected forms:
form: kaolins
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: kaoline
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A fine clay, rich in kaolinite, used in ceramics, papermaking, etc.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The composition of the Eastern or proper China ware, according to accounts that have great marks of authenticity, is from two earths; one of which is, as was before mentioned, vitrescent, and is called Petunse; the other a refractory or apyrous earth; and called Kaolin.
Grind with strong arm, the circling chertz betwixt, / Your pure Ka-o-lins and Pe-tun-tses mixt […].
Translations:
kay
Part of speech: noun
intj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Latin kā.
Inflected forms:
form: kays
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: 'kay
pos: intj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The name of the Latin script letter K/k.
pos: noun
gloss: A kilometer.
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
gloss: A thousand of some unit (from kilo-).
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
gloss: Apheretic form of okay.
pos: intj
tags: colloquial
examples: Meanwhile, TMZ reports that Amanda and West are still dating and aren’t “sweating the chatter,” while insiders also confirm that West is “fully committed to Amanda[…]”—despite rumors that he’s been simultaneously dating other women. Per a source, it’s just “fan assumptions” and “innocent” chats that are being read into. Kay!
Derived words: kayo
okay
yookay
Translations:
kelp
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English *kelpe, culpe, *kilpe (Early Modern English kilpe), of unclear origin, though the attested forms point to Old English *cylp, possibly from Proto-West Germanic *kulpi, from Proto-Germanic *kulpiz (“lump, boll”, referencing the airsacks of species such as bladderwrack and knotweed), potentially a substrate term connected to Latin globus (“globe”) and Proto-Germanic *klumpô (“clump”).
If the above theory is accepted, cognate with Low German Kulp, Külp, Kulpe (“lump in the eye, ball, thick nose”), Norwegian Nynorsk kulp (“short tube”), and Swedish kulp (“stout person”); further compare Bavarian Kolpel (“lump of stone”), Icelandic kúlpa (“to protrude”), Low German kulpen, külpen (“to pile up”), Low German Kulpogen (“large eye”), and West Frisian kolpje (“to pout”).
Inflected forms:
form: kelps
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: kelps
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: kelping
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: kelped
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: kelped
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Any of several large brown algae seaweeds (especially of order Laminariales).
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Underneath the area demarcated by the buoys, Ms Puckett plants kelp—a type of seaweed—on long ropes that resemble washing lines.
gloss: The calcined ashes of seaweed, formerly used in glass and iodine manufacture.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: To gather kelp.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Just before we reached Seward the pilot got a radio message that a fishing boat in Thumb Cove had some kelp […] Neither of us had ever kelped before but there wasn't much to it, and we started bringing in full boxes back to Eads' barge.
Derived words: bladder kelp
bull kelp
feather boa kelp
giant kelp
golden kelp
kelp bass
kelp bed
kelp crab
kelpfish
kelp forest
kelp goose
kelp greenling
kelp gull
kelp pigeon
kelp salmon
kelpwort
stalked kelp
sugar kelp
kelper
Translations:
keno
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From French quine, with reference to a set of five winning lottery numbers.
Inflected forms:
form: keeno
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: quino
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A gambling game, a variety of lotto, played with balls or knobs, numbered, and cards also numbered.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Memories of this night are extremely hazy. All I have, for guide-pegs, is a pocketful of keno cards and cocktail napkins, all covered with scribbled notes.
Translations:
kern
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: media
publishing
typography
Etymology: From French carne (“corner; projecting angle; quill of a pen”), from Latin cardinem (“hinge”) or from Etymology 1. The verb is a back-formation from kerned, which is from the noun. Doublet of cardo.
Inflected forms:
form: kerns
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: kerning
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: kerned
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: kerned
pos: verb
tags: past
form: kerne
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: To adjust the horizontal space between selected pairs of letters (characters or glyphs); to perform such adjustments to a portion of text, according to preset rules.
pos: verb
examples: If you need to kern anything beyond the most commonly used pairs, you can use applications software such as Adobe PageMaker to customize pairs.
Especially consider kerning if you are printing on a relatively high-resolution printer, such as a 600-dpi (dots per inch) laser printer.
Remember, the goal of kerning is to make letter pairs look natural, not necessarily to minimize letterspaces.
You should kern letter pairs when spacing between characters is too wide or too narrow.
Translations:
ketone
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
German Ketonbor.
English ketone
From German Keton, from Aketon (“acetone”), from French acétone (“acetone”). See acetone.
Inflected forms:
form: ketones
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A homologous series of organic molecules whose functional group is an oxygen atom joined to a carbon atom—by a double bond—in a carbon-hydrogen based molecule.
pos: noun
examples: acetone R₁ = R₂ = CH₃
methyl ethyl ketone R₁ = CH₃, R₂ = C₂H₅
camphor C₁₀H₁₇O
Translations:
khan
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Via late Middle English can, chan from Old French chan, from Medieval Latin chanis, from Turkic *qan, contraction of *qaɣan. Cognate with Old Turkic 𐰴𐰍𐰣 (qaɣan), and Mongolian хаан (xaan), possibly from Rouran. Sense 1 (ruler in the Middle Ages) after Genghis Khan, from Middle Mongol ᠬᠠᠭᠠᠨ (qaɣan). Doublet of khagan.
Inflected forms:
form: khans
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A ruler over various Turkic and Mongol peoples in the Middle Ages.
pos: noun
tags: historical
gloss: An Ottoman sultan.
pos: noun
gloss: A noble or man of rank in various Muslim countries of Central Asia, including Afghanistan.
pos: noun
Synonyms: khakan
Related words: khanum
Derived words: khanate
khanship
Translations:
kibitz
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Yiddish קיבעצן (kibetsn), cognate to German kiebitzen (“to look on”), from German Kiebitz (“lapwing”), from Middle High German gibiz (“plover”), imitative of its cry. Compare peewit.
Inflected forms:
form: kibitzes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: kibitzing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: kibitzed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: kibitzed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: kibbitz
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: To make small talk or idle chatter.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Louise and I used to head down to the coffee shop and just sit for hours and kibitz.
His wife Karen listened as John and I kibitzed about our experiences at the University of Oklahoma some 40 years ago.
Okay, we kibitzed enough. What brings you?
Their owners lounge at the outdoor tables, kibitzing about cranksets, aero bars, local races or, when they can help it, anything other than cycling.
So how it’s gonna go is we’re gonna talk for about 45 minutes. We’re just gonna kibbitz here; that’s Yiddish for just kinda like […]
gloss: To give unsolicited or unwanted advice or make unhelpful or idle comments, especially to someone playing a game.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Quit kibitzing! You're giving away my hand!
gloss: To watch a card or board game.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
transitive
examples: […] stayed in the dorm, although she lived in Brooklyn Heights, and I frequently spent long hours with her, either in her room or at the student lounge, where we drank coffee and smoked cigarettes and kibitzed the never-ending bridge game.
When it was my turn to stay in the office until 11 pm. closing, I kibitzed on their poker games and heard some colorful tales.
Related words: armchair general
Derived words: kibitzer
Translations:
kirk
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Old Norse kirkjabor.?
Old English ċiriċe?
Northern Middle English kyrke
English kirk
Inherited from Northern Middle English kyrke, possibly borrowed from Old Norse kirkja, or possibly from Old English ċiriċe. Doublet of church.
Inflected forms:
form: kirks
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: kyrk
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: A church.
pos: noun
tags: Northern-England
Scotland
examples: The Ship was cheer'd, the Harbour clear'd— / Merrily did we drop / Below the Kirk, below the Hill, / Below the Light-house top.
When she sang in the kirk, folk have told me that they had a foretaste of the musick of the New Jerusalem, and when she came in by the village of Caulds old men stottered to their doors to look at her.
But long, long ago an enthusiastic reporter called it a "fairy palace," and the office building on the west side was once a church. Hence, in North British phraseology, to "gang tae the Kirk" meant to be had up on the carpet.
Translations:
kiva
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Hopi kívabor.
English kiva
Borrowed from Hopi kíva.
Inflected forms:
form: kivas
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A ceremonial underground chamber in a Pueblo village.
pos: noun
Translations:
klaxon
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From the trademark Klaxon, based on Ancient Greek κλάζω (klázō, “make a sharp sound; scream”). The word was coined by Franklyn Hallett Lovell Jr., the founder of the Lovell-McConnell Manufacturing Co. of Newark, New Jersey, USA, which in 1908 obtained a licence of the patent to the machine generating the sound from American inventor Miller Reese Hutchison (1876–1944).
Inflected forms:
form: klaxons
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: claxon
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: klaxons
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: klaxoning
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: klaxoned
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: klaxoned
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A loud electric alarm or horn, especially as used in automobiles in the early 20th century.
pos: noun
examples: And she went so swiftly that he could only follow her to the door. The large shape of the car swallowed her up; and the car twisted softly around the little drive and away to the London road. Minutes later he heard its Klaxon, just one sharp keen, like the harsh cry of a sea-bird. …
There was a motor car behind them now and it blasted into the truck noise and the dust with its klaxon again and again; then flashed on lights that showed the dust like a solid yellow cloud and surged past them in a whining rise of gears and a demanding, threatening, bludgeoning of klaxoning.
They could hear a lot more than they could see. But what they heard told them exactly nothing. There were the klaxons, which kept up their long, monotonous, insane growling protest all through the raid.
When the claxon sounded they immediately stopped what they were doing and uncovered the Oerlikon. Paddy, who was ammunition feeder, stood by while Jock trained the 20mm gun around.
Irenka was up front using the lavatory when the lights in the cabin went red and the klaxon sounded over the speakers.
gloss: To produce a loud, siren-like wail.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: He headed down the Embankment. It was noon precisely. Big Ben klaxoned the hour with blasts of servo whistle.
Suffering. It was like a great discordant symphony ringing out from the world; like a klaxoning of a million million cracked bells.
Century stops before an eel-ship, coiled in jewel-skinned splendor. Its great eye-ports are open, and Century signals with a hand; the eel extends a proboscis lined with diamond mesh and graphene plates like a ramp. Century leads Mere into the eel's body. Alarms klaxon in Mere's head—its escape is known.
Translations:
knurl
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From knur + -le (“diminutive”), from Middle English knarre (“knot in wood”), earlier sense “a stone”, likely influenced by Old Norse knǫrr.
gnarl is a later variant, from gnarled, via knurled.
Base: knur
Affixes: -le
Inflected forms:
form: knurls
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: knurls
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: knurling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: knurled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: knurled
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A contorted knot in wood.
pos: noun
gloss: A crossgrained protuberance; a nodule; a boss or projection.
pos: noun
gloss: A lined or crossgrained pattern of ridges or indentations rolled or pressed into a part for grip.
pos: noun
gloss: To roll or press a pattern of ridges or indentations into a part for grip.
pos: verb
Derived words: knurler
knurly
Translations:
kudzu
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
medicine
sciences
Etymology: From Japanese 葛(くず) (kuzu). The spelling kudzu (instead of kuzu) is due to the historical transliteration methods of Japanese into English (compare adzuki).
Inflected forms:
form: kudzus
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: kuzu
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: An Asian vine (several species in the genus Pueraria, but mostly Pueraria montana var. lobata, syn. Pueraria lobata in the US), grown as a root starch, and which is a notorious invasive weed in the United States.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: By 2020, droughts and other extreme weather will be commonplace. By 2040, the Sahara will be moving into Europe, and Berlin will be as hot as Baghdad. Atlanta will end up a kudzu jungle.
Walled off communities, private jets, private security details are spreading like kudzu around the world.
All the author’s familiar trademarks are here: […] shaggy-dog plotlines sprouting everywhere, like kudzu; […]
gloss: A starch extracted from the root that is used in traditional East Asian medicine and cuisine.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: Kudzu is available in natural food stores and Oriental markets; it is often sold in lumps that must be crushed in a mortar before measuring.
Kudzu, a starch extracted from the root of the kudzu plant, acts similarly to cornstarch or arrowroot but is preferable for bone health because it contains some calcium.
Derived words: kudzu bug
kudzued
kudzu powder
kudzu tea
Translations:
kulak
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: 1877. From Russian кула́к (kulák, “wealthy peasant; fist; tight-fisted person”), plural кулаки́ (kulakí). Compare also Russian раскула́чивание (raskuláčivanije, “dekulakization”), подкула́чник (podkuláčnik, “subkulak”).
Inflected forms:
form: kulaks
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: kulaki
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: koulak
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: kulack
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Kulak
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A prosperous peasant in the Russian Empire or the Soviet Union, who owned land and could hire workers.
pos: noun
tags: historical
examples: The “internal organs,” as the CHEKA and the GPU and the KGB used to style themselves, were asked to police the mind for heresy as much as to torture kulaks to relinquish the food they withheld from the cities.
We are the “upper middle class”, the new kulaks whose antisocial self-interest and lack of submission to the aims of the revolutionary vanguard must be extinguished.
Translations:
lac
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Portuguese laca, from Hindi लाख (lākh)/Urdu لاکھ (lākh) or cognates in other Indo-Aryan languages, from Sanskrit लाक्षा (lākṣā). Doublet of lacquer.
Inflected forms:
form: lacs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A resinous substance or lacquer produced mainly on the banyan tree by the female of Kerria lacca, a scale insect.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: At the turn of the century, the ever-expanding electrical industry was running low on shellac, a resin secreted by the female lac bug which could be used as an insulating material.
Translations:
lacuna
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: anatomy
human-sciences
linguistics
medicine
sciences
translation-studies
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin lacūna (“a ditch, pit; a hollow, cavity; a gap, defect”). Doublet of lacune and lagoon.
Inflected forms:
form: lacunae
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: lacunæ
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
plural
form: lacunas
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A small opening; a small pit or depression, especially in bone.
pos: noun
gloss: A small opening; a small pit or depression, especially in bone.
pos: noun
gloss: A small blank space; a gap or vacancy; a hiatus.
pos: noun
examples: "Our young friend makes up for many obvious mental lacunæ by some measure of primitive common sense," remarked Challenger.
gloss: A small blank space; a gap or vacancy; a hiatus.
pos: noun
examples: Long lacunae in this inscription make interpretation difficult.
gloss: A small blank space; a gap or vacancy; a hiatus.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
examples: For Beatrice Nutter, there will always be conspicuous lacunae in our mutual understanding, but after almost 30 years here, the anomalies now delight rather than confound her.
If the researcher cannot adequately hear a specific conversation due to its low volume or other acoustic interference, then this data point can be passed over with the understanding that such lacunae will be randomly distributed over the data collecting period.
gloss: A small blank space; a gap or vacancy; a hiatus.
pos: noun
Synonyms: gap
hiatus
Derived words: lacunal
lacunar
lacunary
lacunate
lacunose
Translations:
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 腔隙
roman: qiāngxì
lang: Czech
word: propust
lang: Finnish
word: aukko
lang: German
word: Spalt
lang: Ido
word: lakuno
lang: Indonesian
word: lakuna
lang: Northern Kurdish
word: kelên
lang: Latin
word: lacūna
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: lakune
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: lakune
lander
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: business
mining
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *lendʰ-
Proto-Indo-European *-om
Proto-Germanic *landą
Proto-West Germanic *land
Old English land
Middle English lond
English land
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Proto-Italic *-āzijos
Latin -āriusnom.
Latin -āriusbor.
Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz
Proto-West Germanic *-ārī
Old English -ere
Middle English -ere
English -er
English lander
From land (verb) + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: landers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who lands, or who lands something.
pos: noun
examples: The Faroese have been important landers of fish at Aberdeen for decades.
gloss: A spacecraft, particularly a probe, designed to set down on the surface of another celestial body.
pos: noun
gloss: A person who waits at the mouth of the shaft to receive the kibble of ore.
pos: noun
gloss: An illegal immigrant.
pos: noun
tags: slang
gloss: Synonym of landing page.
pos: noun
tags: Internet
Derived words: belandre
bilander
lunar lander
Translations:
lappet
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: anatomy
biology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
zoology
Etymology: Etymology tree
English lap
English -et
English lappet
From lap + -et.
Inflected forms:
form: lappets
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: lappets
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: lappeting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: lappeted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: lappeted
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A small decorative fold or flap, especially of lace or muslin, in a garment or headdress.
pos: noun
examples: Oout of hiz boozom drawn foorth a lappet of his napkin, edged with a blu la[c]e, and marked with a trulooue, a hart & a D, for Damian: for he waz but a bachelar yet.
[…] lifting up the Lappet of his Coat, he put me gently into it, and immediately ran along with me to his Master […]
[…] he was presently undrest, all to his shirt, the fore-lappet of which, as he lean’d languishingly on me, he smilingly pointed to me, to observe, as it bellied out, or rose, and fell, according to the unruly starts of the motion behind it:
He wears […] a white wig, the curls of which hang down like lappets over his shoulders, and form a good contrast with the plump, rosy, shining face beneath it.
Her rich, becoming dress fitted her perfect shape most admirably, and Fanchette had never arranged her coiffure to more advantage; the rich lappet of blonde, carelessly tied under the chin, hid all the "defeatures time had made," without hiding the long white throat, for which she had always been remarkable, and was a beauty which had descended to all her daughters, even to the stigmatized Isabella.
I have small breasts that lie flattened against the chest like lappets.
She raises her face to the light. ‘How do you think I look? What will you say of me when the king asks you? I have not seen myself in a mirror these many months.’ She pats her fur cap, pulls its lappets over her ears; laughs.
gloss: A wattle or flap-like structure on the face.
pos: noun
examples: Some vultures have lappets of bare flesh on the sides of the head.
Tompot blennies are distinguished by a pair of lappets above the eyes and dark stripes along the body.
gloss: A head-dress made with lappets for lace pendants.
pos: noun
gloss: A lobe (division of an organ).
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
examples: In the tender lappet of the eare is supposed to rest the seat of remembrance, which we vse to touch when we mean to take one to beare witnesse of an arrest or other thing done,
[…] he ran him in with the spit a little above the navel, towards the right flank, till he pierced the third lappet of his liver,
gloss: To decorate with, or as if with, lappets.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: I would fain merit your esteem, heedless of these pursy fellows from hulks and warehouses, with one ear lappetted by the pen behind it […]
Derived words: lappet-faced vulture
lappet moth
Translations:
lar
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin lār (“ancestral deity or spirit”) from Etruscan.
Inflected forms:
form: lars
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: lares
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A lar gibbon (Hylobates lar).
pos: noun
Translations:
lasher
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English lash
English -er
English lasher
From lash + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: lashers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who whips or lashes.
pos: noun
gloss: A piece of rope for binding or making fast one thing to another.
pos: noun
Derived words: father lasher
Translations:
laster
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English last
English -er
English laster
From last + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: lasters
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A workman whose business it is to shape boots or shoes, or place leather smoothly, on lasts.
pos: noun
gloss: A tool for stretching leather on a last.
pos: noun
gloss: That which lasts or endures.
pos: noun
examples: […] the Ambret; which Pear, though it neither grows to be so large in substance or size, as large Les Chasseries, yet bears more in number, comes sooner into bearing, tastes better in the mouth, and is commonly a long laster.
Translations:
lavabo
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: Christianity
architecture
Etymology: From the Christian ritual, which was traditionally accompanied in Catholicism by a recitation of Psalm 25:6 (Psalm 26:6, in the Hebrew and in most modern translations) which in Latin begins with the word lavābō (“I will wash”). The sense of "room with a toilet" developed under the influence of lavatory and lav.
Inflected forms:
form: lavabos
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: lavaboes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A ritual involving the washing of one's hands at a church's offertory before handling the Eucharist.
pos: noun
gloss: The small towel used to dry the priest's hands following the ritual.
pos: noun
examples: These small liturgical towels got […] the name of Lavabo cloths or Lavaboes.
gloss: A washbasin, particularly (Christianity) the one in a church used in the ritual.
pos: noun
examples: […] the […] pontiff, as he […] moved his hands […] at the Lavabo, or at the various benedictions […]
gloss: A trough used for washing at some medieval monasteries.
pos: noun
gloss: A lavatory: a room used for urination and defecation.
pos: noun
tags: euphemistic
humorous
examples: Mr. Pond fussed out and she heard the door of the little lavabo in the passage open with a loud creak.
Translations:
lawing
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *legʰ-der.
Proto-Germanic *lagą
Old Norse lag
Old Norse lǫgbor.
Old English lagu
Middle English lawe
English law
English -ing
English lawing
From law + -ing.
Inflected forms:
form: lawings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Going to law; litigation.
pos: noun
examples: And in this distresse and necessitie it had beene verie requisit and needfull that the souldiers should haue taken vp their weapons , serued against the enimie , and haue defended Lawing woorse the common state
gloss: Money owed for a service rendered.
pos: noun
tags: Scotland
UK
obsolete
examples: A shilling for breakfast, three shillings for dinner, including a pint of old port, eighteen-pence for a snug supper — such were the charges of the inn of Saint Ronan's under this landlady of the olden world, even after the nineteenth century had commenced ; and they were ever tendered with the pious recollection, that her good father never charged half so much, but these weary times rendered it impossible for her to make the lawing less.
Late at e'en, drinking the wine, And ere they paid the lawing, They set a combat them between, To fight it in the dawing.
A Spanish legend has it, that there was a cave at Salamanca, where he constantly maintained seven scholars, on condition that when they had finished their studies, the seventh should pay the lawing.
Translations:
lea
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English legh, lege, lei (“clearing, open ground”), from Old English lēah (“clearing in a forest”) from Proto-West Germanic *lauh (“meadow”), from Proto-Germanic *lauhaz (“meadow”), from Proto-Indo-European *lówkos (“field, meadow”).
Akin to Old Frisian lāch (“meadow”), Old Saxon lōh (“forest, grove”) (Middle Dutch loo (“forest, thicket”); Dutch -lo (“in placenames”)), Old High German lōh (“covered clearing, low bushes”), Old Norse lō (“clearing, meadow”).
Inflected forms:
form: leas
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: leigh
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: ley
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: lay
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: An open field, meadow, pasture.
pos: noun
examples: The curfew tolls the knell of parting day,
The lowing herd wind slowly o'er the lea,
The plowman homeward plods his weary way,
And leaves the world to darkness and to me.
19th century, Alfred Tennyson, Circumstance
Two children in two neighbor villages
Playing mad pranks along the heathy leas;
Translations:
leaser
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English lease
English -er
English leaser
From lease + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: leasers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who leases or gleans; lessor.
pos: noun
tags: nonstandard
examples: The owner of the property is the leaser when they rent it by lease to a lessee.
gloss: Leaseman.
pos: noun
Related words: sub-leaser
Derived words: subleaser
underleaser
Translations:
leaved
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
Etymology: From Middle English leuued, levyd, equivalent to leaf + -ed.
Base: leaf
Affixes: -ed
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Having a leaf, leaves or folds.
pos: adj
tags: in-compounds
not-comparable
sometimes
Translations:
legume
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
Etymology: Borrowed from French légume, from Latin legūmen (“bean”). Doublet of legumen.
Inflected forms:
form: legumes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The fruit or seed of leguminous plants (as peas or beans) used for food.
pos: noun
gloss: Any of a large family (Fabaceae, syn. Leguminosae) of dicotyledonous herbs, shrubs, and trees having fruits that are legumes or loments, bearing nodules on the roots that contain nitrogen-fixing bacteria, and including important food and forage plants (as peas, beans, or clovers).
pos: noun
gloss: A pod dehiscent into two pieces or valves, and having the seed attached at one suture, as that of the pea.
pos: noun
Synonyms: legumen
legume
Related words: legumen
leguminoid
leguminose
leguminous
Derived words: legumelin
legumey
legumin
legumine
nonlegume
Translations:
lessee
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Anglo-Norman lessié, past participle of lessier (“to permit, to let”).
Inflected forms:
form: lessees
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An individual or a corporation who has the right of use of something of value, gained through a lease agreement with the real owner of the property.
pos: noun
examples: These automobiles will be covered for the three excluded perils, if loss is caused by the lessee or the rentee.
gloss: The entity to whom a lease is given, or who takes an estate by lease.
pos: noun
gloss: Someone who is allowed to use a house, building, land etc. for a period of time in return for payment to the owner.
pos: noun
Synonyms: leasee
renter
tenant
Antonyms: lessor
landlord
Derived words: colessee
lesseeship
Translations:
levee
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From French levée, from lever (“to raise, rise”).
Inflected forms:
form: levees
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: levée
pos: noun
tags: alternative
uncommon
form: levees
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: leveeing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: leveed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: leveed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: levée
pos: verb
tags: alternative
uncommon
Senses:
gloss: An elevated ridge of deposited sediment on the banks of a river, formed by the river's overflow at times of high discharge.
pos: noun
gloss: An embankment to prevent inundation; as, the levees along the Mississippi.
pos: noun
gloss: The steep bank of a river.
pos: noun
tags: US
examples: The purchaser of a riparious estate under the words "front to the levee," does not acquire the alluvion or batture, when there is land susceptible of separate ownership beyond the levee.
gloss: The border of an irrigated field.
pos: noun
tags: US
gloss: A pier or other landing place on a river.
pos: noun
tags: US
gloss: To keep within a channel by means of levees.
pos: verb
tags: US
transitive
examples: to levee a river
Derived words: palaeolevee
paleolevee
Translations:
lien
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: law
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French lien, from Latin ligāmen (“a bond”), from ligō (“tie, bind”).
Inflected forms:
form: liens
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A tendon.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
gloss: A right to take possession of a debtor’s property as security until a debt or duty is discharged.
pos: noun
examples: […] every youth movement presents itself as loan to the future, and tries to call in its lien in advance, but when there is no future all loans are canceled.
Bodin deemed the king of France's power as absolute in the sense that the ruler was ‘absolved’ by divine sanction from legally binding liens and restrictions.
In fact, an 1847 state medical convention in Alambama issued a recommendation that doctors caring for slaves seek liens upon the human chattel if their bills were not paid.
Derived words: accountant's lien
agricultural lien
architect's lien
attorney's lien
banker's lien
blanket lien
lienable
liened
lienholder
lienholding
lienor
liensman
mechanic's lien
vendor's lien
Translations:
ligand
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
media
medicine
microbiology
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
pharmacology
physical-sciences
physiology
publishing
sciences
typography
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin ligandus, gerundive of ligo (“bind”).
Inflected forms:
form: ligands
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A molecule or moiety (ion, functional group, or radical) that binds to another chemical entity to form a larger complex; as, especially:
pos: noun
tags: physical
gloss: A molecule or moiety (ion, functional group, or radical) that binds to another chemical entity to form a larger complex; as, especially:
pos: noun
tags: physical
gloss: A letter that orthography requires or allows to be ligated with one or more other letters to form a ligature, such as a in æ or o in œ.
pos: noun
Related words: coordination compound
Derived words: backbonding ligand
bidentate ligand
biligand
bioligand
bisligand
bridging ligand
coligand
counterligand
glycoligand
heteroligand
homoligand
immunoligand
interligand
intraligand
ligandable
liganded
ligand field theory
ligandin
liganding
ligandless
ligandlike
ligandome
ligandomic
ligandomics
macroligand
monodentate ligand
multidentate ligand
multiligand
neuroligand
nonligand
phospholigand
postligand
proligand
pseudoligand
radioligand
sialoligand
unliganded
Translations:
lang: Arabic
word: ربيطة
roman: rabita
lang: Bengali
word: লিগ্যান্ড
roman: ligênḍ
lang: Catalan
word: lligand
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 配體 /配体
roman: pèitǐ
lang: Finnish
word: ligandi
lang: French
word: ligand
lang: Galician
word: ligando
lang: German
word: Ligand
lang: Hebrew
word: ליגנד
roman: ligánd
lang: Hungarian
word: ligandum
lang: Ido
word: ligando
lang: Indonesian
word: ligan
lang: Irish
word: liogann
lang: Italian
word: ligando
lang: Italian
word: legante
lang: Japanese
word: 配位子
roman: haiishi
lang: Japanese
word: リガンド
roman: rigando
lang: Kazakh
word: лиганд
roman: ligand
lang: Khmer
word: លីកង់
roman: liikɑng
lang: Korean
word: 리간드
roman: rigandeu
lang: Malay
word: ligan
lang: Persian
word: لیگاند
lang: Polish
word: ligand
lang: Polish
word: addend
lang: Portuguese
word: ligando
lang: Portuguese
word: ligante
lang: Russian
word: лига́нд
roman: ligánd
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: лига̀нди
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: ligàndi
lang: Spanish
word: ligando
lang: Swedish
word: ligand
lang: Tamil
word: ஈந்தணைவி
roman: īntaṇaivi
lang: Thai
word: ลิแกนด์
roman: lí-gaen
lang: Ukrainian
word: ліга́нд
roman: lihánd
lang: Vietnamese
word: phối tử