yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
dee
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Variant of do.
Inflected forms:
form: diz
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: deein
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: dyun
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: dyun
pos: verb
tags: past
form: de
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: dees
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: de
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: To do.
pos: verb
tags: Northumbria
examples: What are ye deein man!
My au'd father did it. But it's sae mony years syne, it must be wore out by now, and I shall have to dee it again.
gloss: The name of the Latin script letter D/d.
pos: noun
examples: I have drunk en-ee-cee-tee-ay-ar from the ef-ell-oh-doubleyou-ee-ar-ess in his gee-ay-ar-dee-ee-en many a time.
IED [is spoken] as "eye-ee-dee" instead of "I SPELL India Echo Delta Romeo".
gloss: Something shaped like the letter D, such as a dee lock.
pos: noun
examples: the pommel is furnished with dees.
gloss: A police detective.
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: The dees are about.
The second day he was beaten up by the cops / For telling a dee his house was not in order […].
Related words: Tweedle-dee
whoop-dee-do
whoop-dee-doo
whoop dee doo
zip-a-dee-doo-dah
Derived words: deejay
ecks dee
Translations:
lang: Arabic
word: دِي
roman: dī
lang: Asturian
word: de
lang: Bengali
word: ডি
roman: ḍi
lang: Bulgarian
word: де
roman: de
lang: Burmese
word: ဒီ
roman: di
lang: Catalan
word: de
lang: Chinese Cantonese
word: dog (dok¹)
lang: Esperanto
word: do
lang: Finnish
word: dee
lang: French
word: dé
lang: Galician
word: de
lang: Greek
word: ντι
roman: nti
lang: Hawaiian
word: dē
lang: Hindi
word: डी
roman: ḍī
lang: Icelandic
word: dé
lang: Ido
word: de
lang: Irish
word: dé
lang: Irish
word: dair
lang: Japanese
word: ディー
roman: dī
lang: Korean
word: 디
roman: di
lang: Latin
word: dē
lang: Malay
word: di
lang: Marathi
word: डी
roman: ḍī
lang: Occitan
word: de
lang: Persian
word: د
roman: de
lang: Persian
word: دی
roman: english
lang: Portuguese
word: dê
lang: Russian
word: ди
roman: di
lang: Russian
word: дэ
roman: dɛ
lang: Spanish
word: de
lang: Thai
word: ดี
roman: dii
lang: Turkish
word: de
lang: Vietnamese
word: dê
lang: Vietnamese
word: dờ
lang: Welsh
word: di
bordello
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Italian bordello. Distantly related to brothel, through Proto-Indo-European *bʰer- (“to carve, cut, split, rub”). Doublet of bordel. By surface analysis, Latin borda + Italian -ello (“diminutive”).
Inflected forms:
form: bordellos
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: bordelloes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A brothel.
pos: noun
examples: “You know, this house does have a belfry filled with local bats. Maybe Laszlo went up there.” “Oh, so like my darling perverted husband, to sniff out the local bordello immediately upon arrival. [chuckles] Could you take me to the belfry?”
Translations:
barbarous
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Late Middle English, from Latin barbarus (“foreigner, savage”), from Ancient Greek βάρβαρος (bárbaros, “foreign, strange”).
Inflected forms:
form: more barbarous
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most barbarous
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: barbarouse
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Not classical or pure.
pos: adj
examples: He, that would write exactly, muſt avoid a Barbarous Pronunciation, and conſider for facility, or thorow miſtake, many words are not ſounded after the beſt dialect. Such as […] Wun, one.
The original Turkish tongue was somewhat barbarous, but extremely forcible and concise when spoken.
gloss: Uncivilized, uncultured.
pos: adj
examples: [T]he poticaries and barbarus wryters call it [the iris] Irios in the genetiue caſe.
It is the remark of an ingenious writer, should a barbarous Indian, who had never seen a palace or a ship, view their separate and disjointed parts, and observe the pillars, doors, windows, cornices and turrets of the one, or the prow and stern, the ribs and masts, the ropes and shrouds, the sails and tackle of the other, he would be able to form but a very lame and dark idea of either of those excellent and useful inventions.
I felt vaguely he was a sneak, and remained quite unmollified by advances on his side, which, in a boy's barbarous fashion, unless it suited me to be magnanimous, I haughtily ignored.
gloss: Mercilessly or impudently violent or cruel, savage.
pos: adj
examples: Direct my weapon to his barbarous heart, / That thus oppoſeth him againſt the Gods, / And ſcornes the Powers that gouerne Perſea.
gloss: Like a barbarian, especially in sound; noisy, dissonant.
pos: adj
examples: I did but prompt the age to quit their cloggs / By the known rules of antient libertie, / When strait a barbarous noise environs me / Of Owles and Cuckoes, Asses, Apes and Doggs
Related words: barbarian
barbaric
Derived words: barbarously
barbarousness
hyperbarbarous
nonbarbarous
semibarbarous
unbarbarous
Translations:
euphemistic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English euphemism
Proto-Indo-European *-tis
Ancient Greek -τις (-tis)
Ancient Greek -σῐς (-sĭs)
Proto-Indo-European *-kos
Ancient Greek -κός (-kós)
?
Proto-Indo-European *-tós
Proto-Hellenic *-tós
Ancient Greek -τος (-tos)
▲
Ancient Greek -κός (-kós)
?
Ancient Greek -τῐκός (-tĭkós)bor.
English -tic
English euphemistic
From euphemism + -tic.
Inflected forms:
form: more euphemistic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most euphemistic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to euphemism.
pos: adj
examples: Taking these cues, I rewrote and rewrote the proposal couching my problem in the bland, euphemistic language that I was rapidly learning is the lingua franca of the corporate world.
Translations:
solicitor
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle French soliciteur. By surface analysis, solicit + -or.
Inflected forms:
form: solicitors
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: solicitour
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: One who solicits.
pos: noun
examples: “I beg, Mr Allworthy,” answered Sophia, “you will not insist on my reasons;—[…] Your nephew, sir, hath many virtues—he hath great virtues, Mr Allworthy. I question not but he will do you honour in the world, and make you happy.”—“I wish I could make him so, madam,” replied Allworthy; “but that I am convinced is only in your power. It is that conviction which hath made me so earnest a solicitor in his favour.”
[…] sex workers are regarded as born to be punished; the solicitors of their services are not.
gloss: In many common law jurisdictions, a type of lawyer whose traditional role is to offer legal services to clients apart from acting as their advocate in court. A solicitor instructs barristers to act as an advocate for their client in court, although rights of audience for solicitors vary according to jurisdiction.
pos: noun
gloss: In English Canada and in parts of Australia, a type of lawyer who historically held the same role as above, but whose role has in modern times been merged with that of a barrister.
pos: noun
gloss: In parts of the U.S., the chief legal officer of a city, town or other jurisdiction.
pos: noun
gloss: A person soliciting sales, especially door to door.
pos: noun
tags: Canada
US
Related words: advocate
attorney
barrister
counse
counselor
lawyer
Derived words: duty solicitor
solicitor-client privilege
solicitor general
solicitorship
solicitress
solicitrix
Translations:
ginkgo
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Japanese 銀杏 (ginkyō), from Chinese 銀杏／银杏 (yínxìng, “silver apricot”). Ginkgo is the name that is printed in Amoenitatum exoticarum politico-physico-medicarum Fasciculi V … (1712) authored by Engelbert Kaempfer, the first Westerner to see the species. In his way of transcription ginkyo would have been Ginkjo or Ginkio but was printed as Ginkgo. This was read by Carl Linnaeus, and the misspelling stuck.
Inflected forms:
form: ginkgos
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: ginkgoes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: gingko
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Any trees native to China with small, fan-shaped leaves and edible seeds.
pos: noun
examples: Like cycads — their gymnosperm relatives — and ferns, the ginkgo produces motile sperm. […] In fact, the tree was originally thought to be extinct in the wild until two populations were located in China. Such native ginkgos remain rare, with a preference for rich, streamside habitats.
gloss: The seed of a ginkgo tree.
pos: noun
examples: I swear the gingko's working in reverse
Synonyms: maidenhair tree
Derived words: ginkgo nut
ginkgophyte
ginkgo-toothed beaked whale
ginkgotoxin
Translations:
dependency
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: From dependent + -cy or dependence + -y or depend + -ency.
Base: dependent
Affixes: -cy
Inflected forms:
form: dependencies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A state of dependence; a refusal to exercise initiative.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Frank's sullen dependency was driving his father nuts.
gloss: Something dependent on, or subordinate to, something else
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: In the United States' governmental structure, the military is conceived as a dependency under the executive branch.
gloss: The status of being a legal dependent; the relationship between a dependent and their provider.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: In discussing this dependency, the Board said that there was clearly such a relationship. Charles Glassman, Donovan's attorney, said "Finnerty [worked] as deputy district attorney and Donovan lived off [Finnerty's] salary."
The rules for dependency require that the person claiming the dependency provide more than half of the children's support for the year. Length of time spent with the child is not a consideration. Since your parents probably paid more, they get to claim the dependencies.
gloss: A colony, or a territory subject to rule by an external power.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: ‘I have a little theory which you Messieurs who go out there must help me to prove. This is my share in the advantages my country shall reap from the possession of such a magnificent dependency.’
gloss: A dependence on a habit-forming substance such as a drug or alcohol.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Reliance on the functionality provided by some other, external component.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: This library has dependencies on a lot of other libraries. We have to compile all of those other libraries first.
gloss: An external component whose functionality is relied on.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: One of this library's dependencies is very finicky. It can be hard to get it to compile on some systems.
Related words: dependee
depender
dependence
Derived words: autodependency
British Crown dependency
chemical dependency
chemidependency
codependency
Crown dependency
crown dependency
dependency culture
dependency grammar
dependency hell
dependency injection
dependency inversion principle
dependency ratio
dependency theory
engineered dependency
environmental dependency syndrome
functional dependency
high dependency unit
interdependency
overdependency
partial dependency
path dependency
Ross Dependency
technodependency
thermodependency
transitive dependency
trivial functional dependency
Translations:
detectorist
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English detector
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)
Proto-Hellenic *-tās
Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs)
Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)bor.
Latin -istader.
Old French -istebor.
Middle English -ist
English -ist
English detectorist
From detector + -ist.
Inflected forms:
form: detectorists
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person whose hobby is the use of a metal detector to search for buried coins, etc.
pos: noun
examples: Detectorists may also carry headphones, a metal detecting shovel, hand tools such as a hori-hori (a serrated, steel hand shovel), a “finds pouch,” and a hand-held precision detector called a pinpointer.
Translations:
Galen
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English Galen, from Latin Galēnus, from Ancient Greek Γαληνός (Galēnós), from γαλήνη (galḗnē, “calm, tranquillity”).
Inflected forms:
form: Galens
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A physician.
pos: noun
examples: It has been computed, that by intrusting a well-concocted and tolerably interesting lie, in strictest confidence, to two fashionable Galens, in full practice, and four determined morning visitors or levee haunters, the story will reach 7,963 individuals in the course of four-and-twenty hours,—[…]
It was well known at Barchester, and very well known to Dr. Fillgrave, […] the Barchester Galen, that the great railway contractor was ill.
Translations:
theophany
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Late Latin theophania, corresponding to theo- + -phany, from θεός (theós, “God”) + φαίνω (phaínō, “to shine, appear”).
Affixes: theo-
-phany
Inflected forms:
form: theophanies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A manifestation of a deity to a person.
pos: noun
examples: It was a bewildering theophany, since it was impossible to make out anything clearly in the stormy obscurity of thunder, lightning, smoke and wind.
Translations:
rivalry
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: economics
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English rival
Middle English -re,-ri,-rie,-ry,-rye
English -ry
English rivalry
From rival + -ry.
Inflected forms:
form: rivalries
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An ongoing relationship between (usually two) rivals who compete for superiority.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The Boston Bruins have a longstanding rivalry with the Montreal Canadiens.
James and Polly have a bitter rivalry due to the latter's inclusion in the Tea Time Teaser.
gloss: The characteristic of being a rivalrous good, such that it can be consumed or used by only one person at a time.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Common goods are those which are rivalrous in consumption but non-excludable
gloss: Any competition between two or more things or factors.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Binocular rivalry is a visual phenomenon in which perception alternates between different images presented to each eye.
Derived words: archrivalry
non-rivalry
nonrivalry
sibling rivalry
Translations:
bloodbath
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: business
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Etymology: From blood + bath, the latter used referring to a metaphorical deluge. Compare West Frisian bloedbad (“bloodbath”), Dutch bloedbad (“bloodbath”), German Blutbad (“bloodbath”), Danish blodbad (“bloodbath”), Norwegian Bokmål blodbad (“bloodbath”), Swedish blodbad (“bloodbath”), Icelandic blóðbad (“bloodbath”).
Compound parts: blood
bath
Inflected forms:
form: bloodbaths
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: blood bath
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Indiscriminate killing or slaughter; a massacre.
pos: noun
examples: There lay the steed; here lay the man; Gude friends that day did twin: They leuch na a' to the feast that cam Whan the het bluid-bath was done.
He made a "Stockholm BLUTBAD" still famed in History (kind of open, ordered or permitted, Massacre of eighty or a hundred of his chief enemies there), "Bloodbath," so they name it; in Stockholm, where indeed he was lawful King, and not without unlawful enemies, had a bloodbath been the way to deal with them.
In movie terms, it suggests Paul Verhoeven in Robocop/Starship Troopers mode, an R-rated bloodbath where the grim spectacle of children murdering each other on television is bread-and-circuses for the age of reality TV, enforced by a totalitarian regime to keep the masses at bay.
gloss: An aggressive or very violent contest or confrontation.
pos: noun
examples: Although the Hampden Park blood bath of '94 caused Yale and Harvard to break off football relations for the next two years, they kept close watch on each other.
gloss: An upset (as of a game with unexpected results, or a national presidential convention) or heavy defeat.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
examples: Robert Halfon, a senior Tory backbencher, warned that a general election now would be a “bloodbath” for his party.
gloss: A large financial loss or massive layoff brought about by negative economic conditions.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
examples: In an interview after the victory, Daley sought to assure Blacks that there would be no personnel bloodbath at City Hall.
The point is, Amodei is a salesman, and it’s in his interest to make his product appear inevitable and so powerful it’s scary. Axios framed Amodei’s economic prediction as a “white-collar bloodbath.”
gloss: A bath taken in warm blood used as a restorative or medical treatment.
pos: noun
tags: literally
examples: On Blood-Baths: An Historical Notice. By Dr. Hecker. According to a dark tradition which is incidentally mentioned by Pliny, the ancient kings of Egypt used to bathe in human blood when they were seized with leprosy.
Translations:
jingoism
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English jingo
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)
Proto-Indo-European *-mos
Proto-Indo-European *-mós
Ancient Greek -μός (-mós)
Ancient Greek -ισμός (-ismós)der.
English -ism
English jingoism
From jingo + -ism.
Inflected forms:
form: jingoisms
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Excessive patriotism or aggressive nationalism, especially with regards to foreign policy.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Soviet reports today on the British victory in the Falkland Islands said a “new flare-up of jingoism” in Britain obscured the fact that the problem was far from solved.
“When you see several dots on a page you begin to get a line of trajectory. These things mean something,” he said of the repeated displays of jingoism. “And I think what they mean is that China is back, it is powerful and it is not to be trifled with.”
gloss: A jingoistic attitude, comment, etc.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: Americans are now too overstimulated and spoiled by choices to be properly manipulated by the old rallies that used to boil nationalistic fervor—billowing flags, unctuous marching band music, and a white man in a dark suit speaking in comforting Judeo-Christian jingoisms.
At a time when the leaders of the “free” world can run systems in an authoritarian manner, replete with their jingoisms and subtexts of internal colonialism, it is rather urgent that we demystify democratism, […]
gloss: Chauvinism.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Synonyms: chauvinism
flagwaving
Related words: jingoist
jingoistic
jingoistically
by jingo
jingo
hawkism
ethnonationalism
ultranationalism
wrap in the flag
Translations:
hankering
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: hankerings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A strong, restless desire, longing, or mental inclination.
pos: noun
tags: often
examples: I found that he had dipped a little in chimerical studies and had a hankering after astrology and alchymy.
Mr. Hall thinks he has no personal hatred of Moore; he says he even likes to talk to him, and run after him, but he has a hankering that he should be made an example of.
But there was one yet - the biggest, the most blank, so to speak - that I had a hankering after.
"Some people are fond of a stay-at-home life, but I always had a hankering after adventures."
“It looks wrong to me. But I have a hankering to work the thing out on my own. […]”
In other words, some species of human ancestor […] not only had a hankering for meat, which scientists had not expected, but used tools to get it.
Translations:
blurry
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English blur
Proto-Indo-European *-kos
Proto-Germanic *-gaz
Proto-West Germanic *-g
Old English -iġ
Middle English -y
English -y
English blurry
From blur + -y.
Inflected forms:
form: blurrier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: blurriest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Not clear, crisp, or focused; having fuzzy edges.
pos: adj
examples: If I take off my glasses, everything close up looks blurry.
CNN spoke recently with several Conyers residents who said they still have blurry vision, shortness of breath, throat irritation or chronic headaches since the chemical plant fire.
gloss: Not clear; lacking well-defined boundaries.
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
examples: It would seem that the line between flirting and sexual harassment has become quite blurry.
when it comes to the future of war, the line between science fiction and industrial fact is often blurry.
Derived words: blurrily
blurriness
nonblurry
unblurry
Translations:
Bengal
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: American-football
ball-games
football
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Etymology: Borrowed from Portuguese Bengala, from Classical Persian بَنْگَالَه (bangāla), from Middle Bengali বাঙ্গালা (baṅgala), said to be from the Vanga Kingdom, of uncertain ultimate origin. Vangalam has been attested in medieval South India. Doublet of Bangla.
Inflected forms:
form: Bengals
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: more Bengal
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most Bengal
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: A short-haired domestic cat of a particular breed that originated in the United States.
pos: noun
gloss: A player on the team The Cincinnati Bengals.
pos: noun
examples: Jones became a Bengal in a trade for Smith.
gloss: A Bengal tiger.
pos: noun
gloss: Of or pertaining to the Bengal region.
pos: adj
Translations:
dido
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Unknown. The "trick" sense might come from the trick of Dido, queen of Carthage, who, having bought as much land as a hide would cover, is said to have cut it into thin strips long enough to enclose a spot for a citadel.
Inflected forms:
form: didos
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: didoes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A fuss, a row.
pos: noun
tags: regional
slang
examples: … she always had strong physical attraction for me … that time I kissed her … one reason I’ve steered clear since … take no chances on emotional didos …
I remember Raymond telling me years later how when he lived at home, if his mother heard he had been seen as much as talking to a girl, she would kick up a dido.
gloss: A shrewd trick; an antic; a caper.
pos: noun
examples: Young people," interposed a passing official, "if you keep a cutting didoes, I must talk to you both like a Dutch uncle.
Our youngest uncle, Billy, was not old enough to join in their didoes. One of their more flamboyant escapades has become a proud family legend.
Translations:
danish
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
English Danish pastry
English danish
Ellipsis of Danish pastry.
Inflected forms:
form: danishes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Danish
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Danish pastry, light sweet yeast-raised roll usually filled with fruit or cheese.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Get me a coffee and a cheese danish.
Allen Gregory DeLongpre: Uh-oh, Principal Gottlieb. Looks like somebody forgot their danish, huh?
Judith Gottlieb: Aw, crap.
Allen Gregory: Three, two, one, and there's the money shot.
Translations:
colorado
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Spanish coloradobor.
English colorado
Borrowed from Spanish colorado.
Inflected forms:
form: colorados
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A cigar of medium color and strength.
pos: noun
gloss: A fish of the species Lutjanus colorado, the Colorado snapper.
pos: noun
Translations:
dutch
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Clipping of duchess.
Inflected forms:
form: dutches
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: wife
pos: noun
tags: slang
Translations:
easter
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Old English eastera, eastra. Compare norther, souther, wester.
Inflected forms:
form: easters
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: easters
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: eastering
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: eastered
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: eastered
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: An easterly wind (a wind blowing from the east); especially, a strong one; a storm of such winds.
pos: noun
examples: A northeaster in one place may be an easter, a norther, or a souther in some other locality.
gloss: To move toward the east.
pos: verb
examples: Off Tilbury the Alcyone's topsail-yard was carried away just forward of the slings; she set a jib-headed one; at Thames Haven the wind eastered ...
At 5 the wind eastered and came E. by N., that we went 2 knots […] .
Translations:
adenoidectomy
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
Etymology: Etymology tree
English adenoid
Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰ
Proto-Indo-European *-s
Proto-Indo-European *h₁eǵʰs
Proto-Hellenic *eks
Ancient Greek ἐκ (ek)
Ancient Greek ἐκ- (ek-)
Proto-Indo-European *temh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *-né-
Ancient Greek τέμνω (témnō)
Ancient Greek ἐκτέμνω (ektémnō)
Ancient Greek -ᾱ (-ā)
Ancient Greek -η (-ē)
Ancient Greek ἐκτομή (ektomḗ)der.
English -ectomy
English adenoidectomy
From adenoid + -ectomy.
Inflected forms:
form: adenoidectomies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Surgical removal of the adenoids, or of adenoid growths in the nasopharynx; commonly performed along with tonsillectomy.
pos: noun
Translations:
cupid
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Cupid.
Inflected forms:
form: cupids
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A putto carrying a bow and arrow, representing Cupid or love.
pos: noun
examples: The half-dozen pieces […] were painted white and carved with festoons of flowers, birds and cupids. To display them the walls had been tinted a vivid blue which had now faded, but the carpet, which had evidently been stored and recently relaid, retained its original turquoise.
gloss: Any of various lycaenid butterflies of the genera Chilades, Cupido and Everes.
pos: noun
Translations:
bronchus
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Late Latin bronchus, from Ancient Greek βρόγχος (brónkhos, “trachea, throat”).
Inflected forms:
form: bronchi
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Either of two airways, which are primary branches of the trachea, leading directly into the lungs.
pos: noun
examples: I've watched the summer evenings pass by / I've heard the rattle in my bronchi.
Translations:
off-the-cuff
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From the prepositional phrase off the cuff.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Extemporaneous; without prior preparation; spontaneous; impromptu.
pos: adj
tags: idiomatic
not-comparable
examples: He made a few off-the-cuff remarks before launching into his prepared speech.
Off-the-Cuff Obama Line Put U.S. in Bind on Syria [title]
Trump’s Off-the-Cuff Tweets Strain Foreign Ties [title]
Even when people are trying to sell you something, their messages seem off-the-cuff, like trustworthy recommendations rather than sponsored shilling.
Translations:
ecru
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
French é-
French cru
French écrubor.
English ecru
Borrowed from French écru (“raw, unbleached”).
Inflected forms:
form: ecrus
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: écru
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: écru
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A beige colour.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: We have descended Tian Shan and entered the Taklamakan Desert, a barren landscape painted in ecru—no shrubs, no grass, only waves upon waves of naked ridges the color of buff, the highest few spotted with white specks of snow.
gloss: Of a beige colour.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Miriam fell in love with a tulle-and-lace gown, but Judy returned to the first one they'd looked at, an ecru satin bridal gown...
I might rethink my cream suit, I say. “Do you really have a cream suit?” she sighs. “Is it cream or is it ecru?” With that, I learn a new word.
Translations:
chavvy
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English chav
Proto-Indo-European *-kos
Proto-Germanic *-gaz
Proto-West Germanic *-g
Old English -iġ
Middle English -y
English -y
English chavvy
From chav + -y.
Inflected forms:
form: chavvier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: chavviest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to a chav or something that a chav might do or use.
pos: adj
examples: Look at that chavvy top she's wearing! It's dreadful!
You and your boys came round and thought you could fold me / I'm from a city, not Holby / Who's this chavvy looking brere? He looks like Jan Mølby
Translations:
unilateral
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: business
finance
law
medicine
physiology
sciences
Etymology: A modern creation (circa 1802), from New Latin ūnilaterālis (“one-sided”), from Latin ūnus (“one”) + laterālis (“sided, lateral”), equivalent to uni- + lateral.
Base: lateral
Affixes: uni-
Inflected forms:
form: more unilateral
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most unilateral
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Done by one side only.
pos: adj
examples: For purposes of evaluating monopsony cases from the standpoint of economic efficiency, it makes sense to adopt a "purpose"-oriented classification system. After all, all monopsony cases can be reduced to either a unilateral or collusive use of buying power in order to promote the interests of the buyer.
gloss: Affecting only one side of the body.
pos: adj
gloss: Binding or affecting one party only.
pos: adj
Synonyms: one-sided
Related words: one-sidedly
unilateralism
unilaterally
Derived words: nonunilateral
unilateral contract
unilateralism
unilateralist
unilateralistic
unilaterality
unilaterally
unilateralness
Translations:
piedmont
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Piedmont, ultimately from Italian piemonte (“foot of a mountain”); cognate with French piémont.
Inflected forms:
form: piedmonts
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any region of foothills of a mountain range.
pos: noun
gloss: Formed or lying at the foot of a mountain range.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
coterminous
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: geography
law
natural-sciences
Etymology: From Latin conterminus, from con- (“with”) + terminus (“border, end”), equivalent to co- + terminous. The spelling with co- instead of con- is probably influenced by the related prefix co-.
Base: terminous
Affixes: co-
Inflected forms:
form: conterminous
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Meeting end to end or at the ends.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Having matching boundaries; or, adjoining and sharing a boundary.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: New York's borough of Brooklyn and Kings County are coterminous.
To get a building warrant he had to show the plans to "coterminous proprietors", neighbours with whom his property shared a boundary.
It has been the close vicinity of slave-owners to each other, the fact that their lands have been coterminous, that theirs was especially a cotton district, which has tempted them to secession.
These eighty-two parishes were roughly coterminous with the existing seigneuries, but not always so.
The village of Kiryas Joel, coterminous with the town of Palm Tree, is a well-known Hasidic Orthodox Jewish community.
gloss: Having the same scope, range of meaning, or extent in time.
pos: adj
tags: broadly
not-comparable
examples: But it is purely fantastic unless we bear in mind that the governing class has been continually compelled to enlarge itself, and that its tendency is reluctantly to go on doing so until in the end it will be coterminous with the "governed class."
From this it follows at once that language and thought are not strictly coterminous.
The elision of moral and moralising arguments is common, but the two aren't coterminous.
gloss: Said of linked or related property leases that expire together.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Related words: coextensive
contiguous
Derived words: coterminously
Translations:
lamia
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
Etymology: From Latin lamia, from Ancient Greek Λάμια (Lámia).
Inflected forms:
form: lamias
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: lamiae
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A monster preying upon human beings, who sucked the blood of children, often described as having the head and breasts of a woman and the lower half of a serpent.
pos: noun
tags: Greek
examples: Coordinate term: naga
Apollonius […] by some probable conjectures, found her out to be a serpent, a lamia, and that all her furniture was like Tantalus' gold described by Homer, no substance, but mere illusions.
Translations:
aloneness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English alonnesse; equivalent to alone + -ness.
Base: alone
Affixes: -ness
Inflected forms:
form: alonenesses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The state of being alone; solitude, isolation.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Suddenly, [...] he saw all this as romantic — the last legionary, his aloneness, the lost cause really lost — and instinctively he pulled in his paunch, stroked down his hair to cover the naked part of the scalp, and wiped the sweat off his cheeks.
Translations:
flemish
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: nautical
transport
Etymology: The noun is an ellipsis of Flemish coil, so called because the technique of coiling rope in this manner began with sailors from Flanders.
The verb is from Flemish (“of or relating to Flanders”, adjective), from Flemish coil.
Inflected forms:
form: flemishes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: flemishing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: flemished
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: flemished
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Often followed by down: to arrange (a rope) into a neat, flat spiral coil.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: In about twenty minutes, after the messenger had been stowed away, the cables coiled in the tiers, and the ropes flemished down on deck, the captain made his appearance, and directed the first-lieutenant to send aft the newly impressed men.
When great neatness is desired a line is flemished down. Successive circles of the line are wrapped about each other with the free end at the center. When it is finished it looks like a mat and with an old piece of line can be used as one. […] If a line is flemished down and left on a deck for some time it will mark the deck as well as remain wet on the under side, and therefore deteriorate. On small boats lines are usually either coiled down or flemished down.
The two Swedish sailors on deck, lounging and spitting into the water, seemed not to have been kept up to their duties, for paint work and bright work were far from brilliant, and the ropes were badly pointed and flemished.
Translations:
bronchitis
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Late Latin bronchus, from Ancient Greek βρόγχος (brónkhos, “windpipe”) + -itis.
Affixes: -itis
Inflected forms:
form: bronchitises
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: bronchitides
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An inflammation of the bronchi of the lungs, that causes the cilia of the bronchial epithelial cells to stop functioning.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Histological examination showed neutrophilic or pleocellular proliferative necrotizing bronchitis and bronchiolitis in all (6 out of 6) infected steers.
gloss: An occurrence of, a case (patient) of, or a type of bronchitis.
pos: noun
tags: countable
Related words: bronchiolitis
Derived words: bronchitic
bronchitically
chronic bronchitis
laryngotracheobronchitis
parabronchitis
peribronchitis
purulent bronchitis
tracheobronchitis
Translations:
electric-blue
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of a bright, metallic blue colour (electric blue).
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
aging
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: gerontology
medicine
sciences
Etymology: By surface analysis, age + -ing.
Inflected forms:
form: agings
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: ageing
pos: noun
tags: alternative
UK
form: more aging
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most aging
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: ageing
pos: adj
tags: alternative
UK
Senses:
gloss: The process of becoming older or more mature.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The deliberate process of making something (such as an antique) appear (or, in science fiction, become) older than it is.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The accumulation of damage to macromolecules, cells, tissues and organs with the passage of time; the progressing loss of health, mobility, vibrancy and body functionality, resulting in biological death.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Wear; wear and tear.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Becoming elderly.
pos: adj
tags: Canada
US
examples: The aging artist could no longer steadily hold the brush.
Derived words: accelerated aging
antiaging
anti-aging
inflammaging
maraging
photoaging
Translations:
spellbound
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From spell + bound.
Compound parts: spell
bound
Inflected forms:
form: more spellbound
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most spellbound
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: spell-bound
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Under the influence of a magical spell; enchanted, bewitched, or supernaturally constrained.
pos: adj
examples: At once he sniffed the smell of man. At once he feared his hidden lair had been looted while he slept. How had a man dared to come so close? He must have trod next to the dragon's head so as not to be spellbound.
gloss: Fascinated by something; entranced as if by a spell; captivated.
pos: adj
examples: The story left the children spellbound.
Related words: spellbind
Translations:
arpeggio
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian arpeggio, from arpeggiare (“to play a harp”).
Inflected forms:
form: arpeggios
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: arpeggi
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: arpeggios
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: arpeggioing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: arpeggioed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: arpeggioed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: The notes of a chord played individually instead of simultaneously, usually moving from lowest to highest.
pos: noun
examples: He struck the opening chords of the passage; but this time Irene's voice was silent. Victor stopped in the middle of an arpeggio.
gloss: To play (a chord) as an arpeggio; to play (a piece of music) with arpeggios.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: 1819, Abraham Rees (ed.), The Cyclopædia, London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown, Volume 14, entry “Fingering on Keyed Instruments,”
In practising quick passages, the fingers should be lifted up with a spring, and not allowed to hang on the keys, till wanted again, unless in arpeggioing chords, or in passages of expression.
[…] I could see a man with his head buried forward towards a key-board, and his body swaying from side to side amid the storm of huge arpeggioed harmonies that came crashing overhead and round.
[…] having finished her piano-forte practice, touched her harp twice, and arpeggioed the Spanish Fandango on her guitar, Miss Betty read two paragraphs of “Gilbert” […]
When his fingers touched the piano, he formed a D7 chord, arpeggioed it up the inversions, then started singing and playing the “Happy Birthday” song.
gloss: To produce arpeggios; to produce sounds resembling arpeggios.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Herr Schlitz seated himself on the piano chair, pushed it a little back, drew it a little forward to the original place, looked under the piano at the pedals, took out his handkerchief and wiped his face and hands, and after arpeggioing up and down the keyboard, swung into a waltz of Chopin’s […]
The soaring sound [of the whistling] rippled and trilled and arpeggioed as the songs of wild birds do not;
The accordion player arpeggioed through a chord […]
gloss: To move (the hand or fingers) against a surface as if playing arpeggios on a keyboard; to touch different points in succession along a surface.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
figuratively
examples: Her hand was still arpeggioing softly on his arm.
the prickle of horripilation which arpeggioed my spine as I came barrelling down the hill from that ghost house
While we thanked him for having us and told him the car was packed, and so on, he arpeggioed his stumpy fingers across his scarlet blanket.
Translations:
indiscriminately
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English indiscriminate
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English indiscriminately
From indiscriminate + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more indiscriminately
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most indiscriminately
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In an indiscriminate manner.
pos: adv
examples: Travel is enlivened not only by the mixed company of French, Berbers, Arabs, and descendants of the Mediterranean-Corsairs who sit together indiscriminately, but also by itinerant vendors of macaroons, sweetmeats and the like, who, as long as they have a travel ticket, ply their wares unhindered by the [ticket] collectors.
It was a very private thing, they felt, and not to be tossed indiscriminately about.
Translations:
usurper
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English usurper, usurpour, usurpur, from Middle French usurpeur; equivalent to usurp + -er.
Base: usurp
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: usurpers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who usurps.
pos: noun
examples: The fact that the Yongle emperor was therefore a usurper, regicide and nepoticide (nephew-killer) made compiling the Veritable Record – or official history – of his reign a most dangerous scholarly post. The official given this ticklish task managed to survive several drafts, finally producing one that pleased his master as it omitted the dead nephew's reign altogether.
Translations:
grass-green
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From Middle English grasgrene, from Old English græsgrēne, from Proto-West Germanic *grasagrōnī, from Proto-Germanic *grasagrōniz, equivalent to grass + green.
Compound parts: grass
green
Inflected forms:
form: grass-greens
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A bright green color, like that of grass.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Of a bright green color, like that of grass.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
homesick
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Back-formation from homesickness, equivalent to home + sick.
Base: home
Inflected forms:
form: more homesick
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most homesick
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Missing one's home and family very much when away; nostalgic.
pos: adj
tags: often
examples: She felt terribly homesick during her first month abroad.
The camp counselors tried to comfort the homesick children.
feel homesick
become homesick
deeply homesick
Translations:
homesickness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Calque of German Heimweh (“homesickness”, literally “home-woe”), equivalent to home + sickness.
Base: home
Inflected forms:
form: homesicknesses
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: home-sickness
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The characteristic of being homesick; a strong, sad feeling of missing one's home (and often left-behind loved ones, such as family and friends) when physically away.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
iridology
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: alternative-medicine
medicine
sciences
Etymology: From irido- + -logy.
Base: irido
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A form of alternative medicine involving the diagnosis of body ailments through the examination of the iris of the human eye.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
magnolia
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Borrowed from translingual Magnolia, from French Magnol + -ia. Named after French botanist Pierre Magnol (1638–1715). The surname is a form of the male given name Magne, from Latin magnus, which in turn from Proto-Italic *magnos, from Proto-Indo-European *m̥ǵh₂nós, from *méǵh₂s (“great”).
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Base: Magnol
Affixes: -ia
Inflected forms:
form: magnolias
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A tree or shrub in any species of the genus Magnolia, many with large flowers and simple leaves.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: There are clusters of magnolias that are so tall and green and glossy, they are impossible to climb, and the air around them always smells like peaches.
gloss: The flower of a magnolia tree.
pos: noun
tags: countable
gloss: A native or resident of the American state of Mississippi.
pos: noun
tags: countable
gloss: A creamy white colour, like that of some magnolia flowers.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Of a creamy white colour, like that of some magnolia flowers.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Derived words: bigleaf magnolia
Chinese evergreen magnolia
magnolia berry
magnolia vine
magnolia warbler
magnolid
magnoliid
magnolol
moonlight-and-magnolia
southern magnolia
star magnolia
steel magnolia
sweetbay magnolia
Translations:
settler
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English settle
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 settler
From settle + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: settlers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Someone who settles in a new location; especially one who takes up residence in a previously uninhabited place.
pos: noun
examples: the first settlers of New England
The law, which let settlers stay on private land if they had built there without knowing the property belonged to Palestinians or had done so at the state’s direction, was backed by Israel’s most right-wing governing coalition to date.
It was the racist, settler colonialism that created whiteness, that created blackness, half-caste, quarter-caste, octoroon, that saw mixed-race people as a third race. […] This belief was one of the drivers of the ‘protection’ laws that led to the settler government’s theft of children.
gloss: Someone who decides or settles something, such as a dispute.
pos: noun
gloss: That which settles or finishes, such as a blow that decides a contest.
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
gloss: The person in a betting shop who calculates the winnings.
pos: noun
tags: UK
gloss: A drink which settles the stomach, especially a bitter drink, often a nightcap.
pos: noun
examples: [H]aving got out the rum bottle for a quiet “settler” just as the victim of his fascinations glided through the carefully adjusted door, he had been persuaded to go on drinking.
gloss: A vessel, such as a tub, in which something, such as pulverized ore suspended in a liquid, is allowed to settle.
pos: noun
examples: First, there will be little reaction in the settler so that the concentrations of soluble constituents in the recycle stream are the same as those in the bioreactor.
Related words: settlement
Derived words: antisettler
backsettler
cosettler
informal settler
mixer-settler
nonsettler
outsettler
Settla
settler colonialism
settlerdom
settlerhood
settlerism
settlerist
tomahawk settler
Translations: